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Okay so a bunch of you are definitely familiar with fun little FT in TWST AU stuff, and with all the enabling, I feel like it's something of a group effort at this point.
So riddle me this
I've figured out the other dorms, but Savanaclaw was giving me a pause, because it's the dorm for repression, so I got options. (Though my first instinct was to give Loke the whole housewarden treatment, lol. He's definitely a contender.)
Though I also haven't fully developed everyone's in-story backstories yet so how emotionally messed up they are is up in the air. So I have some biases but without divulging any of my thoughts just yet, I want to know who y'all think is the most likely to snap.
What is an overblot?
(For those are watching me spin in my chair and are here for the FT portion.) Long story short it is characterized by:
—having a large supply of magic and being a good mage —having years worth of emotional stress and/or trauma, built up and ready to burst —a suitable impetus that forces all that emotional stress out in the open, usually in a dramatic way, and usually while using way too much magic —and then it is a matter of getting overrun by the icky stuff and gaining a super-powered evil form and then almost dying in the most dramatic way possible, usually while inflicting unspeakable AoE violence
#fairy tail x twisted wonderland#crossover au#polls#fairy tail#overblot#I have my own shortlist but honestly I just wanna see#it's possible I do my own thing anyway but also I'm not treating this au as absolute or anything#anyone of these guys could be stressed enough potentially#or i'll spruce up their backstory and make it so lmao#and while two of these guys definitely come prepacked with a superpowered evil form#or one mostly because i don't subscribe to the evil end thing personally#it is unreasonably fun to design phantoms#the essence of their fears but also that shadow lurking behind them#i've mostly just been playing with Jellal's thus far but still#it's challenging but so fascinating#also technically I threw Nakia in as a 4th year but she won't be around#I just figured out I could be nice for once to this snek family XD
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Laois from Dungeon Meshi legit feels like someone said the generic blond main character guy in a fantasy story can never actually be an interesting character in his own right and Ryoko Kui went, “Oh, bet?”
#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#laios touden#I first saw him and thought oh no generic blond Everyman#this is usually the most boring character#and wow Laois is anything BUT boring like I started watching for Senshi#but by the end Laois is one of the most fascinating characters#which is a major feat for a character who has to be the hero and carry the plot to pull off#just speaking as a writer often your hero is stuck Doing the Plot so doesn’t get as many interesting quirks#but Laois just shows that making even the hero be weird as hell and want something is always a winning formula#imo the creator of the story saw it as a challenge to make him actually interesting and SUCCEEDED
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mithrun + almost a tragic hero
#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#dunmeshi#mithrun#mithrun of the house of kerensil#dungeon meshi spoilers#web weaving#web weave#cave scribbles#poetry#this was a challenge but i really enjoyed it#it was fun to sort of map out how he changed#anyway. mithrun's arc follows the traditional trajectory of a tragedy but subverts it at the very last moment#which is so fascinating to me#he's so very picture of dorian grey and hamlet to me#long post
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whatever. go my scarab
ive been watching scruffys pikmin 4 playthrough (go check it out!!!!)
#specifically referencing ep11 for anyone curious but i dont wanna spoil anything.. youll know it when you see it lol#ive never played pikmin and i already know for a fact id suck ass at it bc i can only do one thing at a time. i have zero dandori#actually i have zero interest in the dandori challenges bc im more focused on the creatures and areas. id be cooked#but its still fascinating to watch how the planning and strategy works in real time and goes so well with exploring#and if youre like me and has shown little interest in pikmin games his videos are a nice warm hug for looking into it#scruffy has a nice voice and explains everything like pointing out which enemies are from prev pikmin games and how they work#and pays special attention to the adaptive music cues which pikmin is known for and its really cool to see it dissected#his other videos also pick apart sound design in other video games i highly recommend his fnaf ones. theyre excellent#scruffy youtube#myart#my art#doodles#pikmin#pikmin 4#flying pikmin
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I really love that gale can actually Do It. He can actually become a god. Mortals seeking to become gods usually fail which makes it easy to write them off as over ambitious and consumed by hubris, to say that of course they were never going to succeed, they never had a chance. Icarus flying too close to the sun and all that. But Gale does it. He succeeds. And how do we interpret that? How do we read icarus's story without the fall? Can we really call it hubris, call it excessive pride and self confidence, when it works in the end? After all, it's not bragging if you can back it up
#gale dekarios#bg3#Idk god gale is such an interesting ending#What remains and what doesn't#I think its presence and his success reshapes the narrative even if you choose a different ending#I just think there's something fascinating about a human clawing their way into the divine with grit and talent#“It's arrogance to think you can challenge the gods and their laws you'll never succeed!” well he just did so now what#Mortals have clawed their way into heaven and there's no putting that genie back in the bottle#(a little bit of a gortash parallel there I think)
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Sam + Human Sacrifice 1/? | 3.12, 3.15, 4.22, 7.03, 9.03, 10.19, 10.23, 11.01
#it's so crunchy. delicious#there's a lot of adjacent momence I did not include here but it's soooo fascinating 2 me personally#sams moral compass#3.12#3.15#4.22#7.03#9.03#10.19#10.23#11.01#good gifs with free tools challenge#sam + human sacrifice#sam and human sacrifice#sam the family man
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I could definitely see Till getting angry at Ivan for what happened during Round 6 and choking him as some sort of payback.
Only for Till to be horrified by the realization that Ivan would just let him do it…
#till: ‘‘i’m so angry i want to kill you’’#ivan: ‘‘that’s fine with me as long as it’s you’’#till: wtf???#the power dynamic would be fascinating to see#till has had power/control over very little in his life#what would he think after learning how much influence he has over ivan? how would he act?#would he be disgusted (because he’d be no better than the alien owners)?#would he be honored (that someone cares and trusts him that much)?#would he be scared (a life is such a heavy responsibility)?#at the same time ivan is not without his own power#he knows till better than anyone#he knows how to push his buttons and get under his skin and get the reactions he wants#he knows that till is emotional and that the weight of ivan’s feelings might crush him if he confesses#oughhgh#i’ve once again failed to be normal about these two#ivan is still alive btw#this is not up for debate#alien stage#alnst#alien stage ivan#alnst ivan#alien stage till#alnst till#alien stage round 6#alnst round 6#alien stage ivantill#alnst ivantill#ivantill#ivanttakethis shut up about ivan challenge: impossible#ivanttakethis talks too much
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this is such an obvious take but if orym doesn’t get a “the gods took everything from you…and you took everything from me” moment,,,
#because it can go so many ways!!!#‘where does that leave us?’ just challenging the thought process but not diametrically opposed#vs ‘so how are you justified?’ and digging his heels in further#these are the big two ways I see it going but I’m sure it’ll be fascinating no matter what happens#orym of the air ashari
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OLNF Week Day 5: Sci-fi
this was heavily inspired by those alien cat memes. in this au, i like to think nadine and cheyomi would be siblings. they were hatched from an egg or something. incubator buddies?? :3c
wyd if two aliens pull up to golden grove in a space shuttle?? @olnfweek2024
these two are on their first mission on earth to conduct research on the local environment. they’re not supposed to interact with the humans but they’re just so fascinating. they can’t help it if they watch the locals from afar (especially two particularly interesting individuals) and are incidentally spotted…. oops.
nadine and cheyomi panic at first thinking they blew their mission but to their surprise, the two humans approach them. they declare a new side mission! observe (befriend) the two humans!
#olnf week 2024#nadine and cheyomi try to stop getting distracted from the mission by qiu and tamarack challenge: impossible#me when im an alien coming to earth for the first time and the local human neighbors catch me collecting worms in their backyard (nadine)#cheyomi is mesmerized by birds btw. she finds them so fascinating. i like to think she gets seen by tamarack as she was in some tree#observing the birds up close and personal#then both chey and nadine are like…oh man….how are we gonna explain this to the overlords…#but then also….oh my gnarp#humans are soooo cute#haha what if….we touched phalanges…. with the human neighbors jkjk#unless??#our life now and forever#our life#tamarack baumann#qiu lin#our life mc#cheyomi hayashi#nadine espinoza#my art <3#my ocs <3#oc x canon
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#sundry watches so you don't have to#squid game the challenge#spoilers#this is the darkest timeline etc but the character study is really fascinating.#bees
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#putting this in the tags because my notifications are already nonsense enough#and I'm not interested in directing harassment anyone's way#and so#my good dudes#please learn how to read#I've been accused of 'piss poor reading comprehension' multiple times because I quoted the article saying 'outage'#and then described the attitude of the article toward the library closures as 'outrage'#and apparently the only reason I could come to this conclusion is by misreading 'outage' as 'outrage'#which.#just.#please learn how to read more than the literal meaning of words#reading the literal words is good 101 reading comprehension#please strive to reach 102#and some 'oh i did a a pd clinic in law school and then was advised not to pursue it b/c i'm just *so virtuous* and *so moral* asshole'#who is responding to my post about the IA's justification post insisting that I'm apparently insisting that law = morality#and#which#just#please#dear god#learn to read#but also#it's kind of fascinating#how the criticism of the IA's actions that people are responding to#(aside from saying I'm misreading their outrage toward library closures)#is primarily the idea that their 'emergency library' stole from authors & that such stealing was wrong#and in particular#nothing at all about how IA recklessly completely destroyed themselves by so obviously violating the law#(literally - it's all just been 'but the law was bad')#(and I guess if they see someone saying 'this is a stupid way to challenge the law' they can only read that as meaning 'this law is good'??
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I can't stop thinking about Art and Patrick as yin and yang (respectively), two halves of one whole without which the other would not exist, meaning Tashi will never be able to get all of what she needs from either of them regardless of an injury & how that implies they really ARE a package deal because they balance each other out in ways all THREE of them need.
I can't stop thinking about Tashi, Art, & Patrick as the three-body problem, Tashi being the third object in their orbit that throws that yin-yang balance off entirely which in turn renders them chaotic and unpredictable, impossible to quantify yet wholly reliant on one another's gravitational pull to keep them grounded (all the while knowing any tiny variable change can and will send them spiraling).
I can't stop thinking about Tashi and tennis as star-crossed lovers, fated yet doomed from the start by a momentary lapse in judgment, by a would-have-been that rejected the only love language she values most, by a star that loves her too much and it not enough, soulmates forced apart by all of this like some kind of cosmic punishment.
#challengers#challengers 2024#tashi duncan#art donaldson#patrick zweig#*insert grabbing you until you bleed.jpg*#the dynamic is SO fascinating and tragic and beautifully depicted i'll be thinking about this film forever#rambles#and i could go on about tashi & patrick/tashi & art but these are the Ones for me
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Found myself reading some old Inception fic and felt the urge to poke at an AU idea—I know ST fandom skews a little young, so I genuinely don’t know how many people will even get this. If there are Inception primers out there, I haven’t bothered to find them, so…you’re on your own, kids.
“Absolutely not. I do my own forges.” Eddie sweeps the file off the table and directly into the trashcan; admittedly, it’s not the most mature thing he’s ever done, but Henderson’s getting on his last goddamned nerve.
The little twerp has the fucking audacity to roll his eyes and groan, like Eddie’s the one being unreasonable. “I know this guy, don’t be a dick. He can do it. Don’t you wanna focus on your super special architect stuff?”
“What you and every other dumbass dilettante drowser don’t seem to grasp is that my architecture is alive, and I breathe life into it via my meticulously crafted characters. I create richly textured worlds, Henderson, and I populate them myself. That’s why I’m the best in the fucking business: because I understand that the people and the setting are one and the same, and I can handle both.”
“Eddie.” Henderson crouches to grab the file out of the trash, and smacks it back down on the table. “I’m running this team, and I’m saying I don’t want anything like what happened in Munich to ever happen again. Okay?”
“Low blow, kid,” snaps Eddie. “Munich wasn’t on me.”
“I know, jeez. I just…” Henderson takes a second to tap the loose sheets in the file back into place, then stands there with his lips pressed together like he’s keeping something in. After a moment, he just says, “This isn’t going to be Munich. Because Steve’s going to be here.”
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It’s not Munich. It’s not Munich at all. It is the furthest fucking thing from Munich possible.
Eddie’s never had a job go that smoothly—and it’s not down to Henderson’s obsessive prep, because it should’ve been a slippery one. The kind of job that twisted partway through into something frustratingly unexpected, forcing them to improvise and take whatever half-win they could squeeze out of the mark’s subconscious while dodging completely unexpected security.
Instead, it’s so incredibly not-Munich that the client gives them a fucking bonus, and when was the last time that happened? The bonus is generous enough that Eddie’s share can cover a whole new safehouse in Melbourne, which should have been great news, something to celebrate, except for the absolutely unholy amount of smugness now radiating from Henderson.
Eddie avoids the I-told-you-so conversation as long as he can, but he can’t run forever.
“I told you so,” says Henderson, flopping unceremoniously into the dark wooden chair next to Eddie.
“This is a library, dude. Keep your fuckin’ voice down,” says Eddie, without much hope. He’d heard Henderson was supposed to be meeting up with Sinclair in Lima this week; so much for that intel.
Henderson waves a dismissive hand, gesturing vaguely at the domed skylight high overhead. “It’s not like a library library. It’s basically a museum.”
“The goddamn State Library of Victoria is absolutely one hundred percent a library library, genius. See all the books? But also, do you think people go around yelling in museums?”
“Maybe they should! What we should be focusing on now, though, is that I was right about Steve, and I think it’s important for our working relationship that you acknowledge I was right.”
“I don’t have to acknowledge shit,” says Eddie, slumping down and ignoring the glares they’re starting to get from everyone in the atrium. “Anyone ever tell you you’re an egomaniac, kid? I don’t even get why you’re so hot on the guy, anyway. He’s like—the least imaginative forger I’ve ever met.”
It comes out a little harsher than he’d meant it. It’s just that forgers, as a people, tend to be easily swept into flights of fancy.
Eddie’s always sort of thought it was a requirement of the profession: when he’s inhabiting a character, part of his mind is always working to generate the little details that make them feel like a whole person. Their secret fears and even more secret hopes. How they deal with boredom or anger, what their gut reactions are. The small gaps between how they see themselves and how others see them. That’s where Eddie thrives, and he thinks that if he were less hooked on the magic of spinning up entire worlds for marks to wander through, he might forge full-time, just for the thrill of riding that uncertainty. It’s how he was taught, but clearly, Steve learned something different.
What Steve does isn’t really classical forging—not in the way Eddie thinks about it, usually. Steve just…walks into a situation, says some stuff, maybe gives the mark a smile all warm and private like a whispered secret. And then the mark folds. It’s maddening how easy Steve makes it look. Oh, he’ll pull on the right costumes and tweak his physicality a little, but it’s always still just Steve underneath.
Maybe that’s the trick. Eddie’s forges work because he crafts lavishly detailed lies; Steve’s forges work because there’s some kind of real, solid honesty at the core.
“I’m going to ignore the hurtful thing you just said because I know you hate to admit it when I’m right and you’re wrong,” Henderson informs him. “You really gotta work on that. More importantly, I’ve got a lead on a new job, and Steve already said yes.”
It’s not like Eddie needs the money. Henderson’s a nightmare to work with. And there’s the, y’know. The Steve Harrington of it all. Eddie has a million reasons to say no.
“Yeah, whatever,” he says instead. “When do we start?”
#not the start of a new thing! just a napkin scribble!#weirdly I think the most challenging part of writing this was shifting my core concept of the boys away from Just Some Guy#personally I'm not super drawn to rockstar or royalty AUs for them bc they're so intensely Just Some Guy to me#more specifically I find it fascinating how they deal with the absence of social validation in different ways#Inception AU
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More toxic yuri Hornblower/Barbara be upon ye, I redrew them because the last picture didn't get the vibes that I wanted
#i have A Brand apparently. this was not intentional i swear i just think they're fascinating#doing this without lineart was a fun and interesting challenge i'd like to do more of that#this *is* intentionally vaguely in the style of lawrence alma-tadema#why? not sure but if you notice the similarity that was in fact intentional#i do think barbara comparisons to greek statues are fun though. i do think they are a huge part of her vibe to me#so something something that and also regency fashion bringing back classical styles etc etc#anyways. given how many times this has already happened it will probably happen again#perce rambles#hornblower#scribblings & such
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make your choice
Digory didn’t think much on making choices. The whole world would be over when his mother died anyhow.
Of course, this didn’t keep him from being curious or adventurous. It was exciting to meet new people, exciting to go exploring and to speculate about whatever mischief his Uncle Andrew was up to. Being a lively young boy was perhaps the best distraction from being a boy about to lose his mother.
Going after Polly was so obviously right that it might as well not have been a choice at all. What else could he do? It was easy to be righteous in the face of an evil old magician who said things like "Ours is a high and lonely destiny."
Yet once they were there in that rich, in-between place, with all the worlds there were splayed out before them— ((Make your choice, adventurous stranger)) Well. What sort of lively young boy would he be if he turned back now?
Digory could feel the bell’s magic ((strike the bell and bide the danger)) beginning to work on him. There was no use in resisting. He felt tendrils of magic sinking deep beneath his skin, laying claim to any free will he’d ever had. He said as much to Polly, but she wasn’t listening.
Polly said ((or wonder till it drives you mad)) that he looked exactly like his uncle when he said that.
Jadis’s whole world had ended. Everyone had died, and she’d just gone to sleep. She might have stayed sleeping forever if he hadn’t woken her. Sitting outside his mother’s sickroom, Digory wondered ((what would have followed if you had)) if that was really so shocking. Hadn’t he been preparing for just such an end? Were Charn and Mabel Kirke so different?
Narnia was not an end. It was a beginning.
And face to face with the Lion, Digory was forced to admit that the bell had not been magic. Nothing had caused him to strike it. Make your choice, the writing had said. Digory had chosen.
I’ve spoiled everything. There’s no chance of getting anything for mother now.
The enormous Lion asked him, "Son of Adam, are you ready to undo the wrong that you have done?" and Digory sputtered his maybes.
"I asked, are you ready?" the Lion said again.
At that very moment, an ultimatum flashed through Digory’s mind. If I salvage your beginning, will you prevent my end? If make amends, will you save my mother? He thought of refusing, of holding his choice hostage until his future was secure. Could the Lion be bargained with? Could Digory twist his arm, as he'd twisted Polly's?
But what Digory said was, "Yes."
Jadis conjured such lovely visions of the future. His mother's face would lose its gray sheen and she would say, Why, I'm beginning to feel stronger. There would be no more morphia, no more of the terrible drawn look about her when she slept. She would rise from her sickbed, vibrant and whole ((Come in by the gold gates or not at all)) rise and walk to the door and fling it open and then Digory would go running into her arms.
He gasped as though he'd been mortally wounded. Perhaps he had been in a way. After all, had the gate not said ((take my fruit for others or forbear))?
Jadis ((for those who steal and those who climb my wall)) called Digory the Lion's slave. Years later, he would think back over all that those words implied. The Witch seemed to think that Digory had no will, if he was willing to subordinate himself to Aslan.
But was it not Aslan who made Digory realize his own culpability ((shall find their heart's desire and find despair)), and in the same breath gave him a way to repair it? Had not Aslan given his will back to him?
And at the foot of the tree, Aslan gave Digory his future back as well.
He was old, but now he is young again, watching as the stars fall headlong across the black of the world-that-was. The world is ending at last, but Digory does not fear such things any longer.
#'let's get some half-finished stuff done and posted before the Inklings Challenge' challenge#i'm not 100% satisfied with this but I quite like all the concepts. we'll see#i actually have a bunch of these type of character study things from back in the day that i'd like to keep revisiting#anyway. i have always always always been fascinated by the writing on the bell#curiosity would totally be MY fatal flaw in a fairytale/myth so i can absolutely see where Digory is coming from#like of course he has to strike the bell. of course#but the way it gets frames in relation to Choice and Will and Responsibility is just really cool#a neat counterpoint to all the stories of those overcome by curiosity whom the narrative justifies#it was your fault. you need to own that#curiosity for its own sake is not inherantly a good thing#and then of course i can't write about Digory without pulling in the dymanic with his mom's impending death#that is by far the most compelling aspect of MN it is the linchpin of the whole thing#so yeah#founded in song#the magician's nephew no longer#narnia#leah stories#pontifications and creations
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You want Ivan to live for IvanTill.
I want Ivan to live for Ivan.
We are NOT the same!!!
#saw a post about this on twitter but i don’t associate with fandoms on my twitter so i’m responding here lol#‘‘you just want ivan to be alive so he can end up with till—’’ *incorrect buzzer noise*#WRONG#like i know i get on here and have my little giggles about ivantill stuff but i’m an ivan fan first and foremost#i want ivan to live because he’s such a fascinating character to me#and i genuinely would like to see how he would react and grow/adapt as a person after being free of a place he knew he would die in#the plot opportunities are endless#especially considering ivan doesn’t think he has much of a sense of self to being with#who is ivan without alien stage? i’d love to know#anyways end rant#alien stage#alnst#alien stage ivan#alnst ivan#ivanttakethis shut up about ivan challenge: impossible#ivanttakethis talks too much
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