#it makes her change of heart

[mswyrr]

The G Willow Wilson and Marcio Takara Poison Ivy comics are so damn good, but especially the panel she discusses at length here.

[wusnus]

I love mabel and bill and i want to see them being bffs but i cannot see an interaction between them going any way other than this

[mohntilyet]

illario as the grandchild that is most like caterina is something i'm loving to chew on. the grandson that took her lessons to heart the most. kill anyone who sees your face and knows your name, "we are not revolutionaries", the first out of the two to prioritise the contract. power at any cost, and the only one to lean into the unnecessary abuse that their grandmother told them was tradition. why is anyone surprised he allied with the venatori? and then there's illario's considerable skill in infiltration and manipulating any mark, he has always had the charisma that lucanis lacked. illario isn't attached, he has/can/will use someone and immediately drop them; "that does free me from promises i don't intend to keep". he can lie about how much he cares so well that he fools a magister into believing he loves her. he kills zara without hesitation to cover his own tracks, meanwhile lucanis blindly promises a young girl in the middle of a siege that he will help her find her father. even the lessons about family stick with him, and in this entire messy power struggle, he never actually orders anyone to directly kill caterina or lucanis, not until he's backed into a corner.

and even after all that. despite even lucanis believing illario should be first talon, lucanis is still the better killer. illario is not strong enough to be the brutal assassin caterina needs him to be. so when lucanis seems to fill the role his mother left, grief and love for her dead heir apparent remains, and any of the other qualities caterina needs in her next talon doesn't matter. whatever his mother was, lucanis has to be. what illario does doesn't matter, because he will always be second best to caterina's memory of her favored daughter.

[mageknife]

hey does anyone else ever think about archon!dorian and lose their minds

[meamiki]

mira !!! :]

[introspectivememories]

thinking bout 14yr finnick winning the games and thinking about the victors+effie looking at this child and going "fuuuuck!!! guess we're co-parenting now"

[c6jpg]

Well? Have I convinced you yet?

[hybbat]

Ms. Blazing Fire's entire career as a, presumably very competent, Hero X collapsing through no fault of her own but because Mr. Matchstick screwed up and got caught having an affair. (whether it's a nice/moon situation where it's all a show and he alone dropped the ball or they really were together and an personal issue of hers god dragged out into being everyone else's business and tanked her career on top of being betrayed because her rep is dependent on his) Being in a time where she was reliant on working with a man and being his love interest in order to get to that possition at all. Seemingly being the main hero of the pair but their names implying (matchstick and blazing fire) she's reliant on him. Using "ms." instead of "mrs." and having separate names despite being sold as a pair and couple, maybe to try and separate herself from him but also just as likely just to make her seem more youthful as women often are forced to be. This, too, is part of the feminist commentary...

[pushing500]

Dani is making the most of her newfound ability to walk by hosting plush-toy dinosaur tea parties in the "book-nook" corner of the throne room.

I like to imagine Jut is an indulgent papa who joins his toddler's tea parties whenever she asks because he doesn't have it in him to tell her 'no'.

With three skilled mechanitors and an army of construction mechs, Flapjack's new bedroom is finished, and he is making the most of it. He needs lots of beauty sleep to keep that magnificent beard looking so luscious! He's the only facial hair representation in the colony, and I'm sure the weight of such a vital role weighs heavily on his shoulders.

We're bored. We're gonna poke the void with a metaphorical stick to see if it does anything interesting, led by Head Gardener Tupelo because apparently she's the most psychically sensitive colonist.

Dark Scholar Beau is probably very impressed with our new ritual room and with Tupelo's surprisingly edgy void-provoking skills. I'm sure Tokori is still a little wary of all these new people, but he can't judge too harshly. He is a necromancer, after all.

Hopefully we get something interesting out of this!! 🤞

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[fluffydeoxys]

OC stuff is dangerous wdym you just think about that guy and you feel things. You made that thing and it’s come such a long way like they’ve grown and fleshed out and you’re proud of them. And there’s an indescribable feeling of pride and tenderness and passion and fondness. That ☝️thingie is My Thing and I love them

[sunshine-zenith]

AU where in between leaving the (near) perfect world and making it back home, Ekko visits a few other universes. He doesn’t stay as long in them as he does the first one, doesn’t let himself linger over lost loved ones and possibilities, but he does notice a trend, something he doesn’t dare name until he finds a world that breaks it

He’s left lying in the dirt, mask cracked down the middle leaving his face exposed, staring up at both Vi and Jinx. Both of them have pinkish-eyes and unhealthily pale skin, a clear sign of Shimmer, and when they drag him half unconscious to their base, he watches in horror as they both great Silco warmly. Jinx gives him an exaggerated side hug, flopping against him with a laugh, and Vi rolls her eyes but doesn’t shrug off his hand when he squeezes her shoulder. He listens to the sisters bicker and make jokes that he can never even come close to understanding, watches as Silco, perhaps still thinking him unconscious, even gives them a half smile before telling them to tie him up somewhere and to get ready for dinner

He realizes that, as casual and confident as she is in his universe, this Vi is happier and more relaxed than he’s ever seen her. He can’t help but notice that while she still has bags under her eyes, eyes that still flint around the room towards things he can’t see or hear, this Jinx smiles and laughs like the Powder he knew as a child. He has no idea what could’ve happened to make Vi join Silco (she makes comments about Vander being a coward when she sees he’s awake, face twisted with disgust as she points to their left eyes — the side of his face that Silco has scars, Ekko realizes — and he knows that if he makes one more comment to defend him she’ll punch him hard enough he’ll never wake up, information on the Firelights be damned), but it’s clear that what he’s looking at is, as fucked up and blood soaked as it is, a loving family

He and this Jinx were still friends at one point, and she still holds affection for him, even reluctantly. It’s probably the main reason he’s just being tied up and interrogated with threats instead of actually being killed. She makes sure to be gentle as she ties his hands behind his back. He wonders if this Ekko has to fight his own beating heart every time he looks at her. She tells him she’s happy, that while she still wholeheartedly thinks of herself as a curse, a fuckup, she’s still the luckiest Jinx out there, and hey, he thinks, she might actually be right

When he escapes, he overhears Silco speaking to a couple Enforcers. He’s clearly got them in his back pocket, holding all the power here, and Ekko isn’t surprised in the slightest to see the Enforcers being bought out, but then he watches as Silco dismisses one — a man a decade or so older than him, who leaves with clenched fists and an ashamed look on his face — but has the other stay. She turns, and Ekko realizes she’s the girl his Vi had with her.

Silco tells Caitlyn to treat his precious Violet to a nice dinner, reminding her that if she truly loves Vi she needs to prove it to him. He makes it clear that while Vi has blood on her hands, she won’t need to worry about bruising her knuckles if Caitlyn hurts her. After all, he won’t let anyone get away with breaking his daughter’s heart.

Ekko leaves this universe, swallowing down anger because no matter what, it seems none of them can be completely happy without strings attached. Vi and Jinx are murderers here, addicted to something that only exacerbates their mental health issues and could eventually kill them, and he knows this Ekko will have to eventually kill them all, the last remaining people from his family, or let them kill the Undercity out of pride, but this Vi clearly hasn’t lost her remaining childhood to being locked up in Stillwater, this Jinx has safely rails in her makeshift lab, and how can he not feel his heart crack a little more knowing this might be the only world where the sisters get to grow up together

[discordiansamba]

realized the other day that D.N.Angel (the manga) actually ended a few years back after coming back off hiatus so I've spent the past two days binge reading it and. it got me thinking about an aoex phantom thief AU that borrows influences from both D.N.Angel and Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne. featuring:

rin and yukio as a phantom thief duo, in which yukio works behind the scenes making the plans and gathering information and rin being the one doing the actual heists. this is all a scheme to track down information about their missing father and their dead mother.

shiro raised them by himself, but a year ago he vanished, leaving the two of them behind in the church. they've never known their mother, not even her name. the only thing they know about her is that she was an artist. she made the decorative sword that has been on display in their living room since they could remember. it has no blade. it's just a sheath and a hilt.

ever since he was born, yukio could sometimes hear whispers coming from artwork. he's grown used to it, and has learned how to tune it out since they don't seem to be malicious... usually. but recently he's noticed that the whispers seem to be changing.

something something demons have possessed pieces of artwork and are using them to manipulate human hearts to gain strength.

i think it's cute if the exwires are all still in their last year of middle school in this AU instead of their first year of high school.

rin, yukio, and shiemi are all childhood friends- and rin and shiemi have just started dating. rin thinks he's turning over a new chapter in his life, but doesn't realize how new until he passes out at home and wakes up a short while later with a different body.

yukio comes home from school to find a stranger with white hair, horns and a tail claiming that he's his twin brother.

yukio: if you're rin, tell me something only he would know.

rin: (proceeds to ramble on about all of yukio's embarrassing secrets)

yukio: ...well either you're rin or i need to kill him. one of the two.

rin realizes that he can hear the same voices yukio can all of a sudden, except he can sense an energy behind them.

together they learn that a.) rin's transformation seems to be caused by his feelings for shiemi (changing him between his normal form and his white haired form whenever his heart starts to pound).

b.) there are artworks possessed by demons that seem to have some kind of connection to their father's disappearance.

c.) rin seems to have the ability to burn these demons right out of the artwork without destroying them. together they concoct a scheme to steal them and return them after they've exorcised them.

point a is terrible news for rin who doesn't want shiemi to find out about this, especially after another version of himself awakens and he learns through him that he's actually a demon. somehow. it turns out this other self, who calls himself rinka, doesn't know much either.

turns out rinka likes shiemi too. he's just a lot more aggressive about it. much more aggressive about a lot of things, really. for the most part he just chills in rin's subconscious, but when rin is in a pinch he comes out... or just when he feels like messing around.

when in rinka's form, rin appears to be an older teenager and finally gets to be taller than yukio. he's done it. he can finally use his baby brother as a headrest.

(rinka does this too, to yukio's annoyance. ugh. you really are a version of my brother.)

suguro, konekomaru and shima are their classmates and friends. suguro decides it's his personal mission to catch the phantom thief rinka after he overhears someone speculate that he looks a little like rin. it pisses him off, so he's going to catch the guy to clear rin's name.

rin: thanks. but also. stop that.

izumo is a rival phantom thief/exorcist and transfer student who figures out that rin is rinka very quickly, but gets the wrong idea that rin is being possessed. which rinka seems very offended by. excuse you. he's not possessing anyone.

rin: so what are you exactly?

rinka: no idea. but i'm not possessing you.

rin: hmmm. sounds true to me, i guess.

yukio: nii-san, maybe you shouldn't take the demon at his word?

rinka: wow. my little brother is so rude.

yukio: i don't remember *you* being my brother.

(something something the very distinct possibility that of the three of them it's rin that knows more than he's letting on.)

kuro is a cat statue that was originally possessed by a demon that gained sentience and physical form after being exorcised by rin, and ends up becoming rin's steadfast companion.

yukio does some digging and finds out that all of the artwork that's been possessed by demons so far were all made my members of the same family- but the more he digs into the egin family, the less he can find. it's all so mysterious.

(and that's before he starts to see the figure of a woman in his dreams...)

[possamble]

Do you have any headcanons or thoughts about Falin having a crush on Marcille pre-canon? Especially during her later years at the school/the years she was with Laios.

Just full on "awkward and slightly gnc teenage lesbian has a massive crush on the touchy-feely girly girl straight best friend" tropes everywhere. Even better bc it's the "best friend is also the popular girl while lesbian is the slightly ostracized quiet one" dynamic in school. Falin gets so so so good at not having a heart attack every time Marcille gets in her personal space. But she's so resigned to never saying anything bc why would a girl as blinding as Marcille ever like her back. She also doesn't make an effort to get over it either, she's just content to be trapped in that stable dynamic of silently being in love with Marcille while getting to enjoy CLEARLY being Marcille's favourite person. She gets so used to it that it's almost just background noise most of the time-- it would have to be, unless she wanted to be freaking out 24/7 bc Marcille is so goddamn affectionate.

Her feelings also definitely change throughout the time that they're in school together-- at first it was this "whooaaah pretty older girl" puppy crush that you can clearly see developing in the flashbacks we get (I think she doesn't even like... realize her fixation on Marcille is romantic at all until years after it starts, when she's 12-14 ish and all the other girls around her are talking about crushes). But then they get closer, over the years Marcille starts getting really attached and letting down her guard, and Falin gets to see the ridiculous side of her. She gets to calm her down from her tantrums when experiments don't work out, or help her clean up when something explodes in her face. I feel like the progression of her feelings from "schoolgirl infatuation" to "unrequited love" probably almost exactly corresponds to how slowly Marcille goes from trying to keep Falin at a polite but friendly distance (like she does with everyone else) to her facade completely eroding as she becomes her cheerful and ridiculous self again for the first time since her father died.

That's probably the saddest part: Falin knows that she's clearly Marcille's favourite person on the surface level, but she doesn't quite fully grasp the enormity of what that means to Marcille. She doesn't get that she's the person who made the world colorful again for Marcille, that she is the first person outside of Marcille's family to really and truly make her laugh. She just thinks she's the beloved but dinky little short-lived sidekick, one of many that Marcille has had and will have.

Part of it is that, despite Marcille becoming such a clingy and affectionate best friend, I think her initial demeanour already did its damage. You see Falin being super adventurous and weird at first, bringing Marcille berries and other stuff, only to be rebuffed by Marcille exasperatedly saying she's working or looking kind of put off by it. And by the time you see her a little older, shes already quieter and better at masking -- and I'm not saying that that's entirely Marcille's fault (being the weird girl at an all girls academy for almost the entirety of her teenhood must have been brutal, my god) but she definitely learned that she's a potential nuisance to Marcille if she doesn't tone herself down. She learned that Marcille most likely sees her as a weird little kid following her around bc she has no other friends. And for the most part, she was never given any reason to unlearn any of that.

And that all very very smoothly transitions into Marcille being her "first love that was never meant to be anyway" when she leaves the academy. Chapter closed in her mind: she loved and pined from a distance and that was that. Every now and then she'll see another woman with Marcille's build or her shade of hair and be like ":( I miss her..." But then just kinda move on with her day. Same with when she's going through her own spellbook and finds a note that Marcille left her/correction that she made-- she'll smile fondly and reminisce about how much Marcille doted on her, and then move on.

Sometimes she thinks about contacting Marcille but convinces herself that it's too late (she spent too many months focusing on getting Laios healthy again and didn't mean to go no contact, but ah well). It's only when she has a practical reason to be reaching out that would also benefit Marcille ("Marcille is studying dungeons and we need a trustworthy mage to go with us to the dungeons") that she feels like she's allowed/that it wouldn't just be 100% a nuisance.

I almost think she didn't expect Marcille to reply at all, only to get a telegraph (or some in-universe equivalent of express mail, maybe magical pigeon carrier) that's like. EN ROUTE TO ISLAND. LETTER TO FOLLOW. and she freaks out like AAAA LAIOS SHE SAID YES WE HAVE TO CLEAN UP NOW.

I do think getting a response accidentally sparks a little hope in her, judging by the way she acts in the chp 57 flashback-- she's pouty that Marcille sees her as a kid, gets really worked up about being presentable, and then tries to play it cool when she actually meets Marcille (as if she didn't freak out and force Laios to shave while rambling a mile a minute about Marcille). She's an adult now, really and truly, and she's seen and survived things that her 18 yr old self would have never even imagined-- then all of a sudden, the person she was in love with since she was ten years old appears, and she's so desperate to be seen as mature and competent. She's trying soooo hard to impress Marcille with her newfound combat and dungeoneering experience...

Only to fall right back into their old dynamic. RIP. At least she gets the girl eventually, even if it takes dying twice and being the core catalyst behind an almost-apocalypse.

[empyrealen]

My Little Kingdom? Friendship is Power??

Destiny Trio edition!!

[screechingfromthevoid]

So I'm using Exandria as a campaign setting. And my players don't know shit about any of the gods. So I made a fake "alter to all the gods" where asmodeus tricks people (my players) into following him because they think they're following a prime deity.

All that to say I made the false symbols and they won't appreciate the work I put into it so I'm posting them here

[vaguely-concerned]

you know it is hard to not feel for caterina a little in my worldstate. she loses sight of lucanis for a couple of months while her other grandson has her in jail for grandmother time-out, and by the time she sees him again he is in full undying devotion mode for the guy she sent to get him back. her grandson finally brought someone home, and it's a fairly low-level elven mortalitasi whose family background is 'idk we found this baby in a crypt and liked their vibes' who will not be giving her any biological grandchildren. not even one of the politically well-connected scheming mortalitasi, which could at least have been useful (nevarra is a bustling market for the crows! twenty contracts on the king alone and still going strong! still a payday baby let the good times roll!), but one of the dutybound earnest little freaks they keep down in the necropolis to wrangle skeletons and write esoteric papers and who frankly don't care that much about murder b/c death comes to us all in its own time anyway trust us on this one. lucanis looks at him like he hung the moon, the sun, every celestial object and glittering star in the sky, like he's the only real thing in the world. and in caterina vision she sees this weird little slip of a goth mage guy wearing too much kohl who cracks jokes at strange times and is so hard to read but also gives her the unmistakable flinty 'I'll try to keep this civil if you do the same. If.' eye contact over lucanis' shoulder sometimes, with the utter grave calm that only someone who's a speaker to the dead (and the dead are savage) and who has killed several gods and wouldn't back down from second deicide if necessary could bring to bear. she sucks and deserves this and more but she also does have a whole Situation on her hands here

(I love that rye's relationship to lucanis' family is basically 'I met some of the most insufferable people. but, they also met me'. he tangoed with the god of lies and betrayal so he could waltz his way through a dellamorte family dinner relatively unscathed)