#is it even the same rinz????

[betasuppe]

072481 TRON-JA-307020 data recovery in progress....

Please wait... system proccessing...

[rinzler-smoocher]

Ok but like. What if I'm a little obsessed imagining Rinz initiating the first kiss with Flint & NOT the other way around.

With Rinz carefully covering his hand over Flint's eyes, so he can remove his own helmet without fear of judgment, & with Flint trusting Rinz's intentions are good, not shying away as the program's sickle claws trace lightly over his cheek.

Claws Flint's personally seen maim & mangle, now shockingly nimble for such dangerous impliments...

Flint isn't sure where this is going, but his heartbeat surely spikes as Rinz takes another step toward him, his other hand gently - so gently, it's like it's not even there - hovering at Flint's back, only ever so slightly grasping onto Flint's cape as he forces himself forward to close the distance between user & program.

Flint nearly yelps out at the unexpected movement - having anticipated /something/ was coming, but not a KISS over anything else - but it comes out more like a /moan/, surprising himself even more by just how much he didn't even realize he NEEDED this from Rinz alone.

Claws & hands grasping tightly at one another, a stray jolt of electricity between the two sends Rinz's hand covering Flint's closed eyes curling, cutting a small knick over the swell of Flint's reddened cheek.

It takes just a glance at his user to notice the red liquid gathering along the thin line his claw created that forces Rinz to animalistically act on his impulse, his hunger, his desire, without another thought.

Mind completely empty, just repeating the command of /more more MORE/, Rinz breathlessly pulls away from Flint before immediately delves closer to the user and carefully runs his tongue over the fresh red blood bubbling to the surface of the small incision. In Rinz's desperate hunger for affection, he accidentally lets off a small spark as he repeats the motion, swiping his tongue over Flint's flesh, at once sending chills up & down the user's body & his dyed hair standing sharply on edge.

& all Flint can do is let out a soft "wow" as Rinz's surprisingly gentle lips find his way back to the user's, & willingly allowing himself to be drawn into the monster's hold. All while that electronic purring from deep inside Rinz's core rumbles through both of them, their entire existences shifting in that moment, changing their code & very reason for being. Moving together from survival mode to something so much more...

[riinzler]

Has the being unable to remove his own helmet ever caused issues? Like him being injured and needing access to his face to repair it or the like.

yes nothing super major in his day to day but he can’t like. itch his nose or something which is obvs super annoying. it has caused him problems with his own view of himself since living your whole life with no idea what you look like is a bit psychologically messed up for a guy who already has self image problems

the biggest problem that came from his helmet in terms of injury was the same event that made clu decide that rinz’ face had to be covered even under the helmet which is that once his helmet was shattered by a program trying to get revenge and so they not only saw that rinz was tron but the shards temporally blinded rinzler

generally tho rinzler isn’t the one to repair his own injuries - he doesn’t have to clearance to do that which sucks for him

[astercontrol]

OMG just ONE more crossover i swear

"So, you're the new security program, I hear."

"Yes I am, mister… Rinz… what was it again?"

"Oh, nevermind what. I just… I just really need all this extremely dangerous coding cleared OUT of me, sir..."

"Not exactly my job. SIR. I can recommend a debugging program, if you like."

"Oh, thanks! Sure! No worries. Sorry, officer, I didn't mean to bother you specifically, you just happened to be here…"

"Indeed I did, mister Rinz. So, what's dangerous about the coding, if I may ask?"

"…Everything! I don't even know what exactly it was written to do, but, officer, it has taken over my actions, again and again, and made me do things I promise I'd never ever actually want to do-- things I don't think I even physically COULD have done on my own-- it has caused SO much destruction you can't even imagine--"

"Virus made you do it, eh? I can't say I haven't heard that as an excuse before. You got a criminal background I could glance through, for reference?… Never mind, I'm already pulling it up from your energy signature… Oh…. Oh my."

"I swear it's not my fault that coding is there…"

"You didn't, perhaps, make the genuine mistake of choosing to go someplace you had good reason to suspect you COULD pick up a dangerous packet of data like this?"

"Please, I didn't choose THIS! Can you get it out of me, or not?"

"…I know a fellow who can. One of the IGORithms... I'll send you to him straightaway, mister Rinz. I've looked through your rap sheet and… well, it's impressive, I can tell you that, but I have to admit, I agree that it smacks less of malice aforethought, and more of incompetence not-thought-at-all. I'll let you off for now. Keeping an eye on you though."

"Thanks so much, officer. Um… where's the debugger fellow you're going to refer me to?"

"I'll take your disk to him myself."

"… Take my disk?"

"You know. Just so you don't leave town."

"Ugghhh. …All right. It's not like I've much choice, have I. Here you go."

"Hmm! Interesting piece of hardware, my good chap. Is that… a sea-turtle engraved on it?"

"It… it came with that decoration, sir…"

"Not a User-believer, then, eh. A Turtle-believer."

"I don't really believe in much of anything, sir, except something that has it out for me… I can't even remember anymore, I've been through so much…"

"Never mind that. I think we're done here. I'll just take this for now, mister Rinz… ah! here it is. Rinz-wind."

"Yes, officer… what's your name again?"

"Not important. All security programs do the same job, in the end…. I'll see you around, mister Wind. I've got my eye on you."

[helloblobbyblobfish]

Rinz-care

Synopsis: From the journal of System Monitor Dyson: New System Monitor Rinzler is proving himself to be the perfect weapon for the luminary’s regime. However, he has an unexplained habit of taking random Programs under his wing. Clu is still unable to find out how to stop him.

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Haven’t been on Tumblr much since at least two months and did not post my A03 fics on it since even longer... sorry, folks.

Now, as to this fic, it’s the first doc I have found of an ENTIRE series of un-connected one-shots about Rinzler getting a bunch of mini-zlers (most often Beck) when trying to cross-post the slew of stuff I have done since last time. hope you enjoy it ^ ^!!!!

Original author’s note:

Amongst the ideas on what to do for a Rinzler story, I had wanted to see how Rinzler and Beck!zler would react to meeting Anon. (I like Anon and rectified!Beck. Why not combine them? 😌)

But now, I have plenty of programs with unexplained fates. So Rinzler declared he would not go bug Alan until he adopted them all, Pokemon-style.

Also, am I the only one annoyed that there doesn’t seem to be an official term for Clu 2.0’s regime besides “the occupation”? If there is, I can’t remember it/haven’t found it by going over wiki pages.

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Extracts from the personal diary of System Monitor Dyson:

TC 1002, 35 mTC 16 nanocycle, 

Since the… derezzing of the traitor Tron and his apprentice the Renegade, I am proud to declare the introduction of no less than 5 new System Monitors under my command. Rinzler, Gyrox, Turing, Dellaert and Fogel.

While they all deserve many awards that they voiced no interest in receiving, being entirely dedicated to the creation of the perfect System, I have to talk about Rinzler. A perfect weapon of both eradication of the Uprising and of Propaganda, he is the hero of the masses that come see him in the arena. He is deadly, unfeeling, better than Tron ever was. But I have to comment on one strange dynamic he started.

Sentry T-126, originally named Lightman by Kevin Flynn, was a System Monitor rezzed in TC152. He was remarked for stopping an attempt at destroying the Grid Power supply and became an important member of the Monitors. Unfortunately, he refused to join the rebellion against the Users, and was repurposed. For reasons unknown, as soon as Rinzler saw the face of sentry T-126, Rinzler started to hang with the sentry. Despite multiple... reprimands from the Luminary, Rinzler has continued to sneak out to follow the sentry.

I personally don’t see what Rinzler sees in sentry T-126. As an early subject of reprogramming, there is no personality left inside that Program. As an early sentry, T-126 simply patrols the streets of Tron City. Having the winner of The Games following a common sentry around and trying to get him to rest when T-126 was involved in a fight is ridiculous!

I will propose to Clu to change sentry T-126’s tasks to instead follow Rinzler. If Rinzler wants that blank string of code, he can have it, as long as the population doesn’t comment on it anymore!

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TC 1048, 41 mTC 12 nanocycles

I can’t believe Rinzler found another sentry he wants to follow around. I must admit that the skills T-126 shows now that Rinzler decided to train him, but when the Luminary was showing us some of the early results for repurposing, Rinzler immediately zoomed in on E-3. 

Seeing how Clu seems to be especially annoyed that Rinzler chose this specific Program as a new pet to keep around, I looked at his story. Beta was a gaming Program created in TC 102 by Flynn. Defeated Clu in tank battle and was the winner of the first Grid Games tournament. Was already missing by TC 249. The coup against Flynn only took place in TC 301. Hummm….

In any case, E-3 is now living in the same suite as T-126. I once tried to enter, but Rinzler came out of nowhere, jumping on me and growling while holding a disc to my throat. I wa s not afraid. But. he reminded me of Tron in that instant. And our first meeting in Argos City.

It appears Tr-Rinzler trained Beta to participate in the first Grid Games. Me and our leader are currently going through our files, making sure that Rinzler doesn’t meet anymore of his former protégés. 

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TC 1103, 11 mTC, 18 nanocycles

Rinzler… found Anon, the System Monitor who derezzed the ISO virus Abraxas. Apparently, no one wants to stay derezzed on The Grid, given the recent sightings of that User-follower, The Renegade.

Unfortunately, while the return of Anon brings us...  joy, Rinzler was insistent on Anon joining his makeshift, quote-on-quote, "unit". Seeing two...  heroes of The Grid together somehow appeared to be a good idea to the Luminary.

Now, everytime I meet this group of four faceless, mute Programs in the corridor of Clu's tower, I feel like I am to be a prey in a game they are about to play. Their silent communication, so acclaimed by Jarvis, makes it so easy for them to gang up on someone they don't like.

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TC 1175, 43 mTC, 02 nanocycles

I learned that The Renegade had been captured and... derezzed when I realized there was a new member of Rinzler's crew. Beck, a mechanic from the city of Argos. Apparently, he was of great help to permanently stop the Uprising in this city.

I suppose I should have taken the job of cleaning Argos even  if I didn’t want it, but I thought Rinzler needed to be reminded of… I shouldn’t say. But the fact that I wasn’t told of this earlier. It feels like Clu is putting me and Rinzler on the same level.

NO!!!

Rinzler is supposed to be under my command too, not solely the Luminary’s!

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TC 1568, 33 mTC, 05 nanocycles

There was, sigh, an update to the repurposing process.

Now, they are all speaking. Rinzler’s band of merry Programs. So many babblers…

They stayed in the arena or away on missions, I was working on the Luminary’s secret projects, we could make it work.

But now. Now?? Beck has decided to create a chat group for the sentries. He can talk for hours on it without interruption. And he is constantly insulting me! Rinzler doesn’t seem to care, but our leader finds it hilarious. A mechanic is destroying my reputation, and he finds me to be the absurd one!

What? Does he think nothing Beck could do would matter? I’m supposed to call him System Monitor Beck, for User’s sake!

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TC 1569, 39 mTC, 01 nanocycles

System Monitor Cyrus was stopped from commiting a suicide attack against The Luminary’s ship by, urgh. System Monitor Beta.

E-3 then threw System Monitor Cyrus in the repurposing chamber without my or the System Administrator’s permission. I need to convince the Luminary that System Monitor Rinzler is a threat to the regime!

System Monitor Beta is maybe the way to go. The Luminary doesn’t like how he is becoming the masses’ favorite vehicle player in the Grid Games…

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TC 1643, 08 mTC, 12 nanocycles

Not only was I forced to leave Tron City, one of my best agents, System Monitor Reeves, was given to Rinzler. I had made sure they never met, but Clu decided that he should be given a recompense for kicking a more competent second-in-command kicked out of the High Command. I will have my revenge and prove how incompetent Rinzler truly is as a leader.

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TC 1843, 41 mTC, 17 nanocycles

I am so happy. The. Luminary. Allowed. System Monitor Rinzler. To show me. Perfection.

There. Was. An. Error. During the process. But I can’t fault. System Monitor Cyrus.

All my fellows. System Monitors. Are. Programs. I am happy to serve with and. Under.

System Monitor. Beck is telling me. Stories. Of how wonderful System Monitor Rinzler. Is. I hope I shall see. His Perfection.

Maybe not to the. Extent of. System. Monitor. Cyrus. System Monitor Cyrus. Would do. Anything for. System Monitor Rinzler. Including. Leading a rebellion. Against. Clu.

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TC 2043, 21 mTC, 03 nanocycles

Prisoner Clu and System Monitor Beck have finally managed to clean System Monitor Tron of any remnants of his repurposing. He cried of joy. Not as much as when he saw what he did to System Monitor Anon, Lightmann, Beck, Beta, and to The Grid in general. This is why I love so much to work for System Monitor... Tron.

I will need some tweaking to accept the change of Superior officer. But they need it more. They are the ones System Monitor Tron cares about the most. System Monitor Beck especially. I would destroy The Grid to make System Monitor Tron’s wishes come true.

Sigh. I will probably be de-repurposed too. Then, System Monitor Tron will have to arrest me for what I did willingly. I think I am regretting what I did more than the quote-on-quote true System Monitor Dyson ever will.

But he has such a strong group of System Monitors that will remain loyal to him even once cured that I am not worried for him.

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I just couldn't find *any* resume for Evolution, DS edition. The only let’s play I found was abandoned, and the only review I found had the critic admit that he didn’t read the story through because he found it was too much info-dumps and skipped the dialogues. I had to guess the plot from fragmentary sources.

[betasuppe]

I realize Yori introduced Tron to kissing by way of Flynn but...

I doubt anyone ever taught Rinzler directly how to take part in the human custom & I guess Flint has to teach him at some point hmmmmmmm...........

[systemadministratorclu]

"I've BEEN awake. Worrying about you. So I'm going to ask you the same thing Tesler asked me when he sent a picture of you. Are you out of your fragging MIND!?" The worst part, though, was that Clu didn't look mad or angry. He just looked.....hurt.

"How long has this been going on? How many times have you left with the possibility you might not come back, and me not even knowing it?" He sighed. He didn't ask why, he knew why. And knowing that, and upset as he was, he didn't want to give Rinzler the wrong idea. That would've been wrong and unfair to Rinzler.

"I'm not mad at what you did, Rinz. I'm not even actually mad. I'm hurt. Because you didn't even say anything. You let me think you were okay, or that I was helping with your.....boredom, I guess....somehow." He didn't yell at Rinzler, and he wouldn't. But this......Did Rinzler think he couldn't handle being in the fight?

Clu hated the Games anymore. Hated having to watch his people killing each other, and no one caring about so much death. It hurt him inside, and he always felt sick afterward. As soon as he could, he ran from the sky box, his cape fluttering behind him. Not that anyone would care, the event was over. He could leave.

But he also wanted to be alone. He didn't really know where he was going, but he ducked into a dimly lit room and shut the door behind him. They wouldn't search for him for a while he knew.

A sound made him freeze where he stood. He was not alone in here.

"H-Hello?" He called softly into the near darkness.

The enforcer's broken purr was the only sound in the room, something he couldn't stifle or hide, constantly rattling in his chest. He'd just come from the games himself, though of course he'd been on the other side, the architect of the death Clu was so hesitant to witness. Not that he had any choice. Rinzler rose fluidly to his feet, unsure why Clu was there but bowing slightly to the admin anyway, his posture cowed. His body was shaking slightly, though, just barely noticeable in the dark. It wasn't often anyone so much as touched Rinzler in the games; he was far more skilled than any of the strays and nobodies the Occupation threw at him for execution. But this time they'd tossed in a captured member of the resistance, and something about them had made Rinzler hesitate. A flicker of recognition, maybe, and it was just enough for them to land a blow before Rinzler derezzed them, too. He was injured, but even after the match was over they never healed him - just left him to figure it out.

[rinzler-smoocher]

ALSO ok so in every happy ending where Flint ends up with BOTH parts of his darling of Tron AND Rinzler, I imagine it's a rough start to their poly relationship since

TWO OF THEM ARE NOT INTERESTED IN SHARING THEIR BELOVED USER WITH THE OTHER AT ALL lol

So, there's jealousy when Flint spends more time with one or the other, but eventually the two meet to bash their heads together and figure out a way they can BOTH share their user without otherwise demanding every waking hour of Flint's life is split between them &

It's then they realize after Tron forcing himself to calm, that Rinzler visibly relaxes at once... that's when they clue in that because in some odd ways, they're still connected even if they register as totally separate programs now. If Tron gets jealous of Rinzler cuddling up to Flint to rest or if Rinzler starts bubbling up in anger as Tron pulls Flint into a playful hug and kisses it impacts BOTH of them. & because one starts feeling jealous just because the other does too???

No wonder they got themselves in this rough predicament lol.

So, they reason out as well that if one of them feels loved and happy with Flint, as long as they both cool their jets a bit and focus on being happy and seeing their shared user smile and blush at their sides, that's more important than anything.

So, it turns out when they're now focused off of being jealous lil kids fighting over the same toy, when Flint slides up behind Tron and wraps him in a tight embrace or if Flint at some point brushes the bangs out of Rinzler's eyes and presses a few kisses over the scar cutting over his face, the other program in turn feels overwhelmed in love and happiness just because the other was happy too.

So anyways, I'm at the end of a long work day and little sleep, so if this makes no sense SORRY but

Imagining Flint happily lying in a Tron & Rinz sandwich all together being in perfect bliss makes my heart melt like warm chocolate uauuauauuauau♡

[divinelyindulgent]

⇢ B a s i c I n f or m a t i on;

↠ ғᴜʟʟ ɴᴀᴍᴇ; aoife carins ↠ ᴘʀᴏɴᴜɴᴄɪᴀᴛɪᴏɴ; ee-fa | kah-rinz ↠ sᴘᴇᴄɪᴇs; obscuirs, a specialty of necromancy ↠ ᴏᴄᴄᴜᴘᴀᴛɪᴏɴ; Current | Former supplier for biltmore black market |  executioner for the treharne coven ↠ ʜᴏᴍᴇᴛᴏᴡɴ; yaculvania, notra { iceland } ↠ ʀᴇsɪᴅᴇɴᴄʏ; newly built carins manor surrounded by tall trees and a tall iron gate with her brother. ↠ ᴍᴀʀɪᴛᴀʟ ᴀғғɪʟɪᴀᴛɪᴏɴ; unattached, male and female leaning

↠  ᴇʏᴇ ᴄᴏʟᴏʀ; chocolate brown ↠ ʜᴀɪʀ ᴄᴏʟᴏʀ; brunette ↠ ɴᴏᴛᴀʙʟᴇ ᴘʜʏsɪᴄᴀʟ ᴛʀᴀɪᴛs; pale complexion almost vampirelike, wolfish facial structure, thin almost disappearing scars on the palm from a knife ↠ ᴀғғɪʟɪᴀᴛɪᴏɴ | ᴀʟɪɢɴᴍᴇɴᴛ; herself, the obscuirs | chaotic neutral; although they promote the ideals of freedom, it is their own freedom that comes first. a chaotic Neutral does not have to be an aimless wanderer, they may have a specific goal in mind, but their methods of achieving said goal are often disorganized, unorthodox, or entirely unpredictable ↠ ᴅɪsᴘᴏsɪᴛɪᴏɴ { positive };  persuasive, meticulous, protective ↠ ᴅɪsᴘᴏsɪᴛɪᴏɴ { negative };  enigmatic, deceptive, resolute

F a m i l y T i e s & C o n n e c t i o n s; 

ᴅᴀᴍᴇ; laurie carins  { Inlumis witch, deceased } sɪʀᴇ; sivar kane { human, deceased } sɪʙʟɪɴɢs; koldur carins { Inlumis witch, deceased } alasdair carins { unknown witch, alive } ᴄᴏᴜsɪɴs & ᴜɴᴄʟᴇs | ᴀᴜɴᴛs; aderyn treharne { obscuirs witch, deceased } ᴏғғsᴘʀɪɴɢ;  jericho carins { Inlumis witch, alive } vikander carins { obscuirs witch, alive } eurus carins { human, alive }

tw; death, tw; murder, tw; blood, tw; infanticide 

✘ born to a human man and a woman with witch blood but nonpracticing, her grandmother was the one whom had the witch gene and it did not pass to her mother who was an only child but after aoife was born, the child developed magic at the age of thirteen. she had two brothers who were twins, one of which was a late bloomer to his magic so it had yet to show itself and the other was a sickly boy everyone around them thought wouldn’t last long enough. despite laurie’s praying and fierce determination that her son would live a healthy and happy life. she blamed this misfortune on her mother and the atrocities she’d committed by her side.

✘ the grandmother placed a blood curse on her own line starting with her firstborn child which was why a pregnant laurie left the coven, ran off with her lover, sivar, and gotten married far from the influence of ‘her’. The blood curse, however, would drive one mad, insane until they spilled the blood of either their bloodline or the blood of another. as the woman craved any power she could to make sure her bloodline was the best.

✘ aoife’s mother was a kind and gentle woman who was plagued by paranoia over the idea of her mother, titled resnik for her true name was lost to the ages, figuring out her granddaughter had magic, for the grandmother was a dark witch and her mother had escaped their coven which meant there was no heir.

✘ aoife’s mother died once the girl reached sixteen of insanity and her father didn’t know of the magical heritage his daughter had inherited due to his wife’s secrecy on the subject. He moved them to a new village for the gossip was too much for him to handle considering her mad ravings around town then her imprisonment in their home and sudden end. he was good and just, never once did he attack his children or go looking for a woman or a drink, one could say the three had been a product of ‘true love’.

✘ her father then decided to move them a second time after several incidents involving nights where the grandmother would visit the children after nightfall, teaching them magic in the hopes that they would join the dark yet koldur was frightened, spilled the information to their father whom decided that they had to leave. it was far enough from the previous village that the gossip would take longer to reach. low and behold the grandmother had secretly followed them there. 

✘ one day she attacked, several of her coven members going with her to the house. she killed aoife’s father as well as detaining the two boys, she told Aoife the only way to get a true grasp on her magic was to kill someone of her own bloodline and had said that one of her brothers will do for now. Aoife, already starting to get a taste of the power trip and wanting more, was now appalled that she had to do such a thing, her grandmother either forces her hand or Aoife does it herself. the rumors vary of that dreadful night. yet the end result was the same. one of her brothers dies by her hand and the other has resentment blooming in his chest. ✘ alasdair , the one with magic, gets killed or at least everyone thinks so due to him knowing too much about the coven’s whereabouts and was stabbed and left in the ruins of their home, but in actuality, he is alive and has pretty much vowed to kill aoife and not use his magic at all after disappearing. 

✘ during that time of serving her grandmother, aoife met a male by the name of da hwan-jae, a primis vampire and an event only known to them occurring causing her to curse his love with a life of hybridization, an endless hunger, her  “ gift  “ to jae and soojin in a moment of rage after her shadowhound was murdered the insanity from her family line somehow transferring to it instead.  ✘ finds him in their later years of life in an asylum in a near unresponsive state, the shock of everything becoming too much for his mind to handle and it nearly broke. after his ex-wife admits him there but even then he still wants to kill aoife for what she has done. blames her for the loss of his twin and his own family admitting him to the asylum after trying to murder his son due to the curse placed that drove him mad.

✘ aoife figured a new start for the two would repair their relationship despite the cracks already bleeding heavily and so a move was the perfect choice to rebuild, away from the coven and their grandmother who at this point neither one knows is already dead. a new leader taking place but Aoife finds herself already embedded in the life she has now to care much for that past, buried in her heart. all that matters is the proper guardianship of her brother and the upkeep of the Biltmore Market.

[otoroll]

And at the end of the year, here’s my current status in mobage. (Feel free to compare to the beginning of the year!)

A3!: by far and away my most played game this year, I can’t believe I went up 112 levels... I won’t lie, there were times I considered spending money on this game in these past twelve months - haven’t yet, but sometimes I think I’m breaking. Rank 246, featuring Fushimi Omi.

Stand My Heroes: In contrast, I totally stopped playing Sutamai towards the end of the year. The UI changes got finalized early on this year, and we got the introduction of Seo Labs to the cast, with my new favorites. At the very least, I can definitely say I like Ikuto as opposed to being vaguely into Sosei. I do want to get back into this game, honestly; Match-3 are easy time sucks. Featuring Saotome Ikuto.

On Air!: The new coly game of the year, where the popularity and longevity of Sutamai meant they could make a move onto the same territory as A3! and Enstars. I give it grief given that I didn’t really play it much, but I did like my time with it. Also has a teacher character, and I’m Hot for Teacher type, so I’d like to give it a little more attention in the new year. Rank 6, featuring Kokuyou Mamoru.

Granblue Fantasy: The mobage king. I have a Mobage account (two even), so the best part about this game is that I’m never losing my data. The English is nice and convenient but I still skip stories, so my representative “favorite,” Holy Saber (female player avatar) Djeeta, is more “This is who I’m leveling right now.” This game feeds the part of the brain that likes numbers going up, in a traditional fantasy setting, and the collab events have me paying more attention to this one than A3! at times. Rank 58, featuring female Holy Saber.

SINoALICE: My other major game this year; it’s been a toss between A3!, GBF, and SINoALICE for which game has held my attention at any given time. If GBF feeds the numbers-go-up part of the brain, SINoALICE does the same in its sadistic fairytale bent. I guess my major gripe, if anything, is that all the jobs are so pretty that I want everything. Rank 106, featuring Invader Three Little Pigs.

THE iDOLM@STER SideM LIVE on ST@GE!: iM@S block! There were times I got really focused on events this year, then the grinding got to me until it came back with a vengeance for the Christmas event. BEST IDOL JIRO summoned, okay. P-Level 33, featuring Yamashita Jiro.

THE iDOLM@STER Million Live Theater Days: The way Mirishita’s home screen is set up, oshi units aren’t really a thing, because the idea is that you’re in the 765 office and you’ll run across the girls. But I love basically all my 765 daughters so picking a favorite is just too hard. That’s a lie. Mizuki. It’s Mizuki. Unlike MSte, the bulk of Mirishita’s event play definitely focuses more on the rhythm game side, so I’ve practically dropped it; but I swear I’m clinging to the daily login ritual just because there’s nowhere else for me to find these babies now. Level 54, featuring Yabuki Kana & Julia.

THE iDOLM@STER Shiny Colors: The new kid on iM@S block started up this past June? Ish? And after we all got freed from the hurdle of overseas players needing VPNs, has kept true to iM@S style with gorgeous character art and “idol production” gameplay. Shanimasu is more like traditional iM@S games than all the phone games, with zero rhythm element - the flip side is this is a game that needs babysitting, and so I just can’t deal with the attention it needs. Featuring Morino Rinze.

Shinen Resist: Or what I unfairly call “Apocalypse A3!” - Shinen Resist is honestly a pretty good game in its own right, with nice graphics, a level-up system, and a battle system that actually feels like your participation is valid. (But if you’re like me, you can still totally auto it if you want to.) Rank 9, featuring Volker.

World End Heroes: And yet another attempt from Squeenix to hit the otome mobage market this past year (after iFan), Wahiro’s biggest contribution to mobage is bringing Ogata Megumi on for a role. It’s got a lot of kinks to work out that it won’t ever because it’s a quick cash grab from Square Enix to see what will stick, but I played one event and hit a higher rank than I did for one event in Shinen Resist, and you can draw your own conclusions. Rank 23, featuring Hisamori Akito.

2018′s been a crazy year for mobage, with a lot of new games starting up; some being postponed (Palette Parade...) and others being revamped (Otome Yuusha); and a number of losses. Cocktail Prince, they still have yet to fill your niche. (And also Wiz;Alice, which ended just two months after it started...? Even though an English version was touted? Damn.)

But there’s already some stuff to look forward to in 2019, so here’s to more mobage amazement!

[measlyscrapofseafood]

before i start none of this is canon all based on my personal hcs etc etc also not proof read at all

okay so off the bat here’s THE rinzler and clu song evil angel by breaking benjamin

“Hold it together

Birds of a feather

Nothing but lies and crooked wings”

refers to how rinzler was lied to by Clu about his past and directives

“I have the answer

Spreading the cancer

You are the faith inside me”

refers to rinzler knowing something is up with w what he’s been told but is loyal to clu regardless b/c of his programming

“No

Don't leave me to die here

Help me survive here alone

Don't remember

Remember”

this goes over rinzlers repurposing, how he was near death several times during it but Clu ‘intervened’, making him seem like a hero to rinzler. the ‘don’t remember’ part is self explanatory for rinz

“I'm a believer

Nothing could be worse

All these imaginary friends”

talking about the few vague memories rinzler has of his past and how they they conflict with his present

“Hiding betrayal

Driving the nail

Hoping to find a savior”

this is double meaning for both tron and rinz, ‘hiding betrayal’ referring to both clu’s coup and rinzlers secret resentment of clu ‘driving the nail hoping to find a savior’ is talking about trons repurposing hoping that flynn or alan would somehow help him and for rinzler it’s in reference to the suppression of the grids citizens and how he believes things would be so mush easier for them if they’d just submit to clu’s rule

“No

Don't leave me to die here

Help me survive here alone

Don't surrender

Surrender”

about trons repurposing again, trying not to give in even though it would make everything stop

“Put me to sleep evil angel

Open your wings evil angel

Fly over me evil angel

Why can't I breathe evil angel?

Put me to sleep evil angel

Open your wings evil angel

Fly over me evil angel

Why can't I breathe evil angel?”

this is THE part of the song that rlly helps explain my rinzler clu dynamic. rinzler views clu practically as a saint who saved his life that he’s eternally grateful for and indebted to but at the same time he knows how clu treats him is wrong but he can’t do anything about it.

what if i annotated my rinzler playlist

[a-shell-of-light]

Shortly after the Second World War, Lyckele de Jong from Oudeschoot in the Dutch province of Friesland migrates to New Zealand to build a new life for himself. As he is leaving, his father slips a pair of Fenland speed skates into his bag: if there are streams in that distant country ot stretches of flooded land it starts to freeze, he says, you’ll go cray if you don’t have any skates. One sunday in July, in the middle of the New zealand winter, Lyckele wakes up to a frozen world. The sago palms are covered in hoar frost. Temperatures clearly got down to well below zero overnight. It is Lyckele’s first day off after months of slaving away at the Roxburgh dam. He rents a horse, takes a bag of oats with him and some sandwiches, and heads off between the flanks of the inhospitable Otago Mountains. After riding for several hours he sees a bluish sheen in the valley below him. He makes his way down. Before long he is standing next to a lake as big as Tjeukemeer. He looks around, stamps on the ice here and there, determines that it is at least five inches thick and puts on his skates. At first he stays close to the shore, accompanied by the monious cracking and booming of untrodden ice, before finally letting himself go, hands at his back, gliding across the endless surface. Then something happens that Lyckele still regards as a miracle even half a century later. At the far end of the lake, there in the middle of nowhere, he sees a couple of dots moving. He skates towards them and soon finds himself shaking hands with three men, a farm labourer from Akmaryp, a builder from Huizum and a butcher’s boy from Sneek. All are using traditional skates from Friesland, designed for speed and distance. At the other end of the world they spend the rest of the afternoon skimming across the lake in formation. We are familiar with vicarious embarrasment. Is there such a thing as vicarious nostalgia? Because nostalgia is what I feel every time I read this story. More than anything it comes from those brief snatches of ‘home’ that pop up now and then in this far-off life of Lyckele’s. First of all those skates, of course, slipped into his bad by his father. But there is also the home that resonates in 'as big as the Tjeukemeer’, in place names like Sneek and Akmaryp, in the booming of the virgin ice and the style of skating, with hands clasped at the small of the back. If nostalgia reside in movement, in the sensation of freezing wind on your skin, the hardness of ice, the hoarse scrape of the blades, the unexpected company of other men from Friesland, then what Lyckele felt on that lake was nostalgia. His story was written up by Hylke Speerstra in 'Cruel Paradise’. Speerstra travelled to meet emigrants who left the Netherlands shortly after the Second World War. Boarding ship in Rotterdam, they took long sea voyages to destinations chosen for them by the three main emigration agencies, each of which was allied to one of the church denominations in which they had grown up: Calvinists went westwards to Canada and the United states (mostlyy to Michigan), Catholics went to New Zealang and Australia, and members of the Dutch Reformed Church went to South Africa. By the time the great tide of emigration began to ebb in the mid-1960’s, half a million Dutch people had emigrated. Sometimes, because of that same division by denomination, they ended up in small communities of fellow believers, but more often they lived in an unfamiliar environment, coping with an uprooted existence that was no less tarnished by poverty than the life they had left behind. For work and housing they depended on the people who had always lived there, or on earlier emigrants. There was hardly anything in the way of a social safety net. Often the man of the family would leave first, and only after he had a roof over his head and a secure job could his Fiancée, wife, or children follow him out. Intergration with the local population was not a matter of rights or duties but of simple necessity, learning the language a question of survival. Forenames that had been passed down from generation to Generation, representing family tes with ancestors and nephews and nieces, were exchanged for names that sounded similar but where easier to use. Jeen became James, Sytske became Sally, Rinze became Ray, and, in Brazil, Foppe, rather small in stature, went through life from then on as Fopinho. Many of their stories have a special flow from having been told by people older than the parents who watched them leave. Lyckele - now called Nick - succeeded in building a good life for himself. After a year he was able to bring over his fiancée, Aly ten boom, who found a job in the fruit-growing trade. They bought a run-down farm, almost went under as the result of a rabbit plague, recovered by shooting rabbits for the bounty, managed to withstand the vicissitudes of fate, produced three strapping sons and now, fifty years later, have retired to a large farm in the mild climate of northern New Zealang. Aly says that in the first few years her husband sometimes felt homesick; Lyckele himself prefers to say that he took a while to adjust. In those days he might suddenly wake in the middle of the night having dreamed that he was back home: "Sometimes I'd be up to my ears in that terribly cold winter during the war, and then I'd find myself on the old Church Lane tramping back to town. My hands would be so cold that I'd be all bent over. I must've been about twelve when, at the end of the path where there are all kinds of factories now, I met Gabe Westra. He saw me shivering and hollered: 'Hey, aren't you one of the kids of Lyckele and Jantsje? You may hold my warm pipe for a while. That'll warm your hands in no time.'" Aly concluded from this: 'Young emigrants dream about their childhood, old immigrants about the early years of their new life. That way you dream two lives.'

Douwe Draaisma, The Nostalgia Factory; Memory, Time and Aging

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AO3: Siver

There are some pretty big groups here, so there’s just a mix of things I like and prompts if you want them. As long as the DNWs are avoided it’s all good. Really can’t go wrong taking anything from my Likes list. A lot of found family vibes happening in this batch so anything in that vein in particular is great.

All requests are for fic or art. Art: Interactions of some sort: emoting at each other, talking, sharing some activity, taking a walk, hugs are always welcome, soft things, whatever suits the pair/group

Likes: fluff, hurt/comfort, comfort, missing scenes, friendships, long-term friendships, close relationships of any sort whether romantic or platonic, familial bonds, found family, sickfic, AUs, fandom crossovers or fusions, angst with a happy end, bonding, cuddling/hugs/holding, banter, mutual care and support, emotional bonding, loyalty, pre-canon, post-canon, reuniting, slice of life

DNW: NSFW, non-con, dub-con, underage relationships, unrequested ships, infidelity, virus things

Thank you!

Ghost Trick

Group: Alma/Cabanela Group: Alma/Jowd Group: Alma/Jowd & Cabanela Group: Alma/Jowd/Cabanela Group: Cabanela/Jowd Group: Cabanela & Pigeon Man Alma Cabanela Jowd Missile Sissel Group: Emma & Pigeon Man: What even happens here? Just such a bizarre and unexpected combo it had to happen.

I love this game, its characters and pretty much everything about it, so whatever you want to do will be great I am sure. New timeline mysteries and dealing with missing memories are always welcome where it makes sense. Alternate timelines and what-ifs are cool to explore. Fluff, comfort, family found or otherwise and friendships are always a go. Sissel and Missile involvements and tricks are always good. Any combination of these characters is more than welcome too! 

I only request that for various configurations of Alma, Jowd and Cabanela there is no infidelity. If it’s Cabanela/Jowd or Cabanela/Alma please let the third party be absent for whatever reason or dead... if a Cabanela/Jowd situation in game or a no reset timeline. But Alma’s absence should still be felt. Otherwise I love the trio so much and always love to see more.

Trails in the Sky

Group: Cassius Bright & Estelle Bright & Joshua Bright & Renne Bright: Family family family! Renne adjusting to a new life with them .

Group: Celeste D. Auslese & Renne Hayworth: What might they discuss in the Hermit’s Garden? What might Renne have to ask her?

Group: Estelle Bright & Kloe Rinz | Klaudia von Auslese & Tita Russell: Sisters and best friend time!

Group: Julia Schwarz & Kloe Rinz | Klaudia von Auslese: Mooore sister times

Group: Kloe Rinz & Celeste D. Auslese: Her ancestor... Kloe must have so many questions...

Group: Kloe Rinz | Klaudia von Auslese & Olivier Lenheim | Olivert Reise Arnor: Royals unite! They have a good allyship now going now it’d be cool to see them interact more

Group: Mayor Maybelle/Lila: they’re just sweet okay. Let Maybelle rest. Lila, also rest. Go on a vacation you two

Group: Olivier Lenheim | Olivert Reise Arnor & Mueller Vander: Exasperated but oh so caring Mueller always...

Group: Olivier Lenheim/Mueller Vander: Same as above but more romantic

Group: Ries Argent/Kevin Graham: Affectionate exasperation

Olivier Lenheim | Olivert Reise Arnor: Just. Olivier. 

Missing scenes, scene extensions, travel along the roads, airship travel times, etc. Post Sky also welcome and at some points necessary. Ample opportunity for anything in the Garden in 3rd. I love these characters, their world, and their relationships.

Trails from Zero/Trails to Azure

Alex Dudley Elie MacDowell KeA Lloyd Bannings Randy Orlando Sergei Lou Tio Plato Zeit Group: Rixia Mao/Ilya Platiere Group: Sonya Baelz & Sergei Lou

These games hit my found family buttons hard. Anything portraying some kind of familial relationship among these characters is awesome. I love our SSS family (Dudley included, you’re an honorary part too, just the way it is). Any combination of these characters is more than welcome!

KeA winning Dudley over because no one can resist her? Always down for KeA and “Uncle” Sergei too. Randy and Tio sibling like times? An outing for our core four, Lloyd, Elie, Tio and Randy, possibly dragging Sergei with for a change? Dudley and Lloyd connecting over something whether the past with Guy or something else entirely? Zeit in any capacity is a very good boy. Sky’s the limit.

Please no shipping aside from the Rixia/Ilya.

Dragon Quest XI

Group: Marutina | Jade & Rou | Rab Group: Sena | Serena & Veronica Group: Sylvia | Sylvando & Dave Group: Sylvia | Sylvando & Graig | Hendrik Marutina | Jade Sylvia | Sylvando

While I wish there were a few more dynamics among the party outside of certain pairs I do love what there is and down for more.

I’d be interested in seeing more Jade and Rab grandfather adopted granddaughter moments. Could be something during the journey or something before they joined the party. Or something after it’s all over. Jade can return to her father in Heliodor but that’s a bond that won’t break.

Any kind of sister time for Serena and Veronica at any time. Can go angsty given Veronica’s situation as well.

I didn’t give Dave a lot of attention until playing the definitive edition and I loved how he was there for Sylv and was able to snap him out of his gloom. More interactions and them supporting each other would be great. Anything during the parade gathering is also great, or Dave’s search for him and Sylv’s recovery.

I love Hendrik and Sylvando’s dynamic. They have that shared history but they’re so different and Hendrik’s reactions are always a joy. But what are some other ways they can support each other?

Game did Jade dirty. Let her shine. Maybe overly ambitious but an AU where she kicks Booga’s ass and liberates Octagonia herself would be cool and she can look after it in a similar fashion to the Last Bastion. But overall anyway, just some attention for Jade.

Just. Sylvando. I love him. Sylv being Sylv can’t go wrong.

Bug Fables

Group: Elizant II & Leif Group: Kabbu & Vi & Leif Group: Prof. Honeycomb & Doctor H.B. Kabbu Leif Vi

My new love and I love the group dynamics! Party fun times while they’re travelling would be good. Really interested in more with Leif’s situation because that is a Lot and open to more introspection and dealing--Kabbu support go? Attempted Vi support go?

There’s also an interesting connection between Elizant II and Leif I’d be interested in seeing more. Leif’s out of time but holds memories of Elizant I. Elizant II is a more direct connection he’s otherwise lacking and it’s nice to see how his opinion of her shifts and grows.

Professor Honeycomb and Doctor H.B.: older cranky lady bees in science! I have no specific ideas, but exploring more of their rivalry would be fun. Hawk and long-suffering Crow involvement are A-okay too.

Final Fantasy VI

Cyan Celes Group: Edgar Roni Figaro & Macías "Mash" Rene Figaro | Sabin Rene Figaro Relm Arrowny

Any combination of any of these tags. Any kind of characters interaction among the party is great. Celes and Relm. Attempted reconciliation between Celes and Cyan. Edgar and Sabin having some sort of interaction with the spunky Relm--she probably trolling them in some way no doubt. Or perhaps something sweeter. Etc

Edgar & Sabin: Moments visiting Figaro during their journey. Or post-game trying to bond again and get to know each other after Sabin’s long absence without doom hanging over their heads. Something to do with or some fallout from the whole Gerad situation?

Celes: Her thoughts on having to sing at the opera? Or what she might be doing post-game. More exploration of her thoughts and feelings after she wakes up on the island? So much room for more expansion on Celes moments. Travelling with Sabin after finding him in the World of Ruin?

Relm: Lean on the magic of her paintings? Or post-game Relm dealing with the loss her powers and/or just trying to live normally again after all that?

Mutazione

Group: Bopek & Jell-A Group: Dennis & Nonno Group: Kai & Karoo Group: Kai & Semenya Group: Miu & Yoké Group: Nonno & Spike Group: Spike/Claire Group: Yoké & Claire Group: Yoké & Karoo Miu Yoké 

I don’t have any specific ideas for Mutazione but all these groups are cool. I enjoyed playing this game so much I’d love to dive back into this world. Leaning hard on its warmth, care and found family is most welcome. And plants! And music! I’m particularly fond of Yoké, but as said these are all great pairs and characters. 

Pyre

Group: Volfred Sandalwood & Ti'zo Group: Volfred Sandalwood/Tariq | The Lone Minstrel Volfred Sandalwood Ti’Zo

Found family joys. Daily activities while they travel? Wagon shenanigans. Post Peaceful revolution activities? Any combo here is great. Soft moments in configurations of Volfred, Tariq and Oralech, pre, post or in-game.   Snakes doing snake things. Imps doing imp things.

Volfred Sandalwood & Ti'zo: Tree and Imp, Tree and Imp! And who knew each other before so something relating to that would be cool. But honestly tree and imp...

Volfred Sandalwood/Tariq | The Lone Minstrel: Something gentle for the tree and the moon who somehow fell for him, any time period

[evecolourshock]

Definitely can't draw him the same way twice, even with exactly the same pose and caption as a different sticky Rinz in this post.

Little purrder gremlin, I love him so much 💜

It is. A Rinz.

Doodle at work because everything seems to hate me, was going to give him to a colleague but I think I'm going to keep him.

@alanbradleyofficial thank you for writing him cute and constantly confused

[pinkvilla]

Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham’s young Poo, Malvika Raaj, bags a role with Danny Denzongpa’s son Rinzing; read on

Kareena Kapoor Khan as Poo in Kabhie Khushi Kabhie Gham is pretty iconic but do you remember Malvika Raaj, the actor who played the role of young Poo in the Karan Johar directorial? Well, our young Poo is all set to star as a lead opposite Danny Denzongpa’s son Rinzing in an action-thriller titled Squad. 

Also Read: Taapsee Pannu: I can pick up the phone and tell Anurag Kashyap & Sujoy Ghosh to take me in their films

The film to be directed by Jyoti Kapur Das goes on floors in April. Malvika, who is also the niece of veteran actress Anita Raaj, in a statement, said that she is very excited about the project. Calling K3G a special movie to her heart, Malvika spoke to Mumbai Mirror about Squad.  She plays the role of a sniper in the movie. Speaking about it, she told, “She’s very knowledgeable about weapons which is important to the storyline. There’s a lot of action and a little bit of romance with Rinzing." 

About working with director Jyoti, Malvika added, "I am glad that we are breaking from stereotypical thinking that a woman can’t direct an action film. These days there is no gender differentiation and I am pretty sure my director will nail it." Malvika shares a great rapport with Rinzing as they were close friends in school. “We were in the same school and grew up in the same social circle. When we were young, we even attended each other’s birthday parties so now sharing the screen with him is going to be a lot of fun," Malvika shared. 

[betasuppe]

I feel like the bad vibes are eating me alive & no! This is not how I want to end this year! I want to leave this damn year behind with all these bad thoughts & I don't want to start a new year fucking wallowing in another bout of depression!!!

Here, you know what, for my unofficial end of year post, I've fallen deep back into my long term love for T/ron & I'm having fun & don't want to ruin this for myself.

Flint & Rinz bring me a lot of joy & u just want to fucking STRANGLE myself for making me even think about setting it all aside to not be annoying or disturb anyone else.

Fuck this part of me. I want to have fun & this shit isn't going to stop me, I fucking just WON'T allow it!!!! I'm tired of who I am half the time because THAT nok sucks & makes my life miserable.

Im fucking forcing myself to smile & have fun today at work, but I'm doing it just the same.

I'm gonna have fun & force myself through this.

Hope you guys have a nice end of this god awful year. I'll post something more later. Until then♡