#its a whole AU at this point... it would be silli if i continued on this

[svrlobotony]

context: i theorized that the whole “side order” thing was going in eight's head

so i thought enemies were coral bleached characters

and they were all distorted because eights mind couldn't recreate every details correctly

this pic is supposed to be a showcase of one of the enemies you fight

which is an octoling but has few inkling features (pointy ears face mask)

[in-som-niyah]

"Its so lonely in my mansion"

a/n: ok so i found this in my drafts and its just a little wip for an au where Jason takes advantage of reader's loveless marriage because he finds her in such a pitiful situation that de decides to 'help her out' ;)

Warnings: dark-ish!Jason, manipulative!Jason, cheating reader

side piece!jason who climbs through your window at first to hide from someone, he was about to leave until he caught your figure in the bathroom mirror’s reflection. you were married, but where was your husband? he’s looked into your window too many times and hasn’t seen you with him yet. It’s coincidence really, your luxury apartment is just such a good vantage point, it’s not his fault he can hear your whimpers of defeat when you can’t get yourself off on your own. Jason is in the business of helping people. so he’s going to help you.

It starts off easy, running into you randomly, showing up at your law office as a “client”, getting you flowers (sent to your house of course) and gifts. If he sees your eyes linger on an item in a store (that he’s definitely not spying on you from) it’ll end up in your doorstep.

He waits for some kind of pushback from you, any respectable man who actively takes care of his wife would be offended if another man were to step in and do his job for him. If his wife was happy, she wouldn’t want any other man to take care of her. But here we are: a windy gotham night ruffles the petals of your latest bouquet from him, Jason’s ears delightfully plagued by your silent pleas into a sleepless night.

Slowly, he works his way into your comfort zone and is invited over, of course he’s a respectful gentleman but Jason can’t help but fist his cock in his car because the blouse you were wearing was just a little too low in the neckline.

His perversions continue, coffee after consultations, giving you rides home, showing up at your house to give you cookies

His resolve is snapped when you kiss him goodbye one night, after too many glasses of wine and a conversation about your husband being on constant business trips while you collected dust. It was refreshing to have someone in your corner, someone who doesn’t see all the money that he gives you and tells you to just enjoy it.

Jason loses his mind, drives home and doesn’t even bother to take his keys out of his door. His mind is consumed with how well your lips meld together, how your tongue moves against his, how you playfully bit his bottom lip just to tease him.

He hasn’t felt this insane since forever, and he loves every second of it. Ropes of cum paint his fist for the third time that week, all from thinking about how beautifully damned was a caged bird like you. Just waiting for someone to snatch her up and swallow her whole.

Weeks go by of him showing up randomly with a new story about how his day had the most interesting turn of events. Phone calls carrying into all hours of the night, talking about any and everything, building your trust. You mention that your husband was never interested in the frivolities of your firm, or the silly stories of the weird people you saw on your way to work. It felt so good to have someone that actually listened to you and took account of the things you said.

In the back of your mind, you knew it was wrong. You were married for fucks sake. Your husband paid for the best life anyone could ask for, but wasn't that enough? As much as the ethics of the situation spun your head, were you really going to go back to another night of frustration without him?

[mystycalypso]

HELLOOO

I love your swap au sm! Your literally the only blog i check daily lol. Ik your working on something, so you don't have to answer right away, but (if you haven't answered this already) how does laser and K.O find out about epictia actually being Carol?

Thats all, I'ma just explode now

AAAA, y'all are too nice seriously. I can't say it enough, I'm glad y'all like this storyline so much, especially since I didn't expect this to go past the initial designs when I posted them jytgjgtyyjgg, speaking of,

Technically, I did make screenshot redraws for Big Reveal way back when, but uh, that was before the redesign, which means it's noncanonical now and and it's time to update!

He continued to enjoy his morning, looking at some old photos from his P.O.I.N.T. days, feeling a weight off his chest, it felt nice getting to tell his son about the wonderful woman his mother had been, and to see the amazement it brought him, it all went better than he could've ever hoped. Who knows, maybe K.O. would even give those supervillains an extra strong whooping just for her.

That is, until he heard K.O. screaming, good cob there's not much of a better way to bring a dad directly to your location to destroy you than hurting his sweet baby boy like that.

He burst through the ceiling, slamming Epictia to the ground.

"No one's ruining my son's miss-" he stopped as she lifts her arms to block his strike. "How dare you! Those cuffs belonged to Silverspark!"

He grabbed her wrists to yank them off as K.O. interrupted. "Daddy wait! That IS Silverspark."

He looked back at K.O. "What are you talking about pumpkin?" He looks back at her "This is professooorrrrr..." it seems to click in his brain, the bleach blond streak, the heart shaped face.

"Caroline?"

She grins, laughing, "How've you been, pretty boy?"

"You're- you're back-!"

She pulls a vial from her jacket, "I never left." slamming it against the catwalk a purple smokescreen erupts, causing Laser and K.O. to start coughing.

"You- that witch!" He yelled, before K.O. pointed beneath the catwalk

"Daddy, down there"

"Oh no, you don't you- you deadbeat!" He tackled her to the ground again.

"Where were you?! Did you think it'd be funny to run away from us all these years?!"

Epictia cackles, slithering out of his grip, evading his hits and jabbing the end of her tail into his side.

"I thought you were destroyed! Or shrunk or teleported or-!" He grunted. "Have you been here this whole dang time?! Did you even think about us once?!" She doesn't answer, only laughing further, enjoying watching his attacks become less cordinated.

Until he managed to grab her sweater.

"Enough!

"Answer me! Or this time you really will be destroyed!"

"Fine... but you're not gonna like the truth any more than this, pretty boy."

"Ugh." He shoved her back and onto the ground

(Jumping a lot here since Epictia's backstory could and probably should have its own post)

"How dare you ask something that stupid after everything you did! Do you really think we want anything to do with you after-!" he paused, small purple sparks unyeilding until he noticed K.O. walk forward. "What are you doing?!"

"She's the worst evil I've ever fought, but- if she really is my mom, than that means there's some of her in me. And maybe learning from her about that part of me will help me learn about TKO too, I, I think I need to do this."

"Kaio-"

"So can I go, Daddy? Please, please, please?"

He rubbed his arm. "Uh...well-...alright pumpkin. I'll support you."

(After the whole, it's tuesday thing)

"Hey, you okay, K.O.?"

"Yknow, I really never expected to have- villain blood in me..."

"Aw, kiddo... it's not silly things like that that make you good or bad." He reached across his lap and poked his chest. "It's about the choices you make in here." K.O. smiled, "Well, I chose to be a hero!"

"That's my boy." He gave a small smile back, and silence fell between them for a moment.

"...Dad?"

"Yeah?"

"Are you okay?" Laser smiled again, rubbing his arm. "...I will be. Because I've got an incredible hero in my corner." He fluffed K.O.'s hair. "And y'know what heroes get?" K.O.'s eyes lit up.

"Ooh, ooh, what do they get?"

"Ice cream at Weiner Kabob!"

[tiredsmashbros]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NEO !!!!

all what blud is pondering + yapping bout smh @neo91502 🍔💛

credits to nxva on the tsmg4 fanart LMAO

this is my bday gift to the blue canine with wings nothing crazy underneath nooooo nope nope nopity nope :) shhhh

and now for my essay speech bc that's becoming my trademark now other than being comic ceo of smg34 apparently LMAO

neo, you already got my lil emotional yap thru dms bout ur "loyal lettuce" role, but ong i'm boutta give another sappy essay for you to use ur big pikmin brain to read: once again, thank you, for wanting to talk to me, hang out with me, and just yap about shared interests. it takes a lot for me to open my shell due to past experiences with folks its hard to even open myself to making friends at times,,, yet never did i expect anyone to know or like EPIC: the musical as much as i did nor even WANT to go forth the idea of a smg4 au for fun. i'll admit i was very nervous being invited to the private dms to yap bout it and a part of me from bad habits wanted to run away, but your understanding and providing ways to help so i didn't feel excluded made me feel so relieved and welcomed. as i already told you, it's been a VERY long time i got to really yap my love for musicals in this way in depth and getting to know even more folks from that outburst {lookin at you knightmare and lore 💛} has genuinely made me so much happy. i love musicals in a very deep level and finally getting that opportunity to talk to others just has been the greatest ever /gen /srs.

other than musicals, FINALLY i have met someone who loves isaacwhy too hELLO????? like i've gotten very few people irl to show them clips but none have either really stuck into watching or liking them as much as me. so getting that opportunity to watch LTLVC with you and nova was SO FUN {despite my stream quality was laggy and slow} i enjoyed it so much and finally i can reference the jokes so much BC GOD I USED TO DO THEM SM IRL U HAVE NO IDEA HAHAHAHHAHAH TYUFGHEDCSXYUIGJHEFDC

another big factor was just being so surprised and shock you had a fursona!!! neo!!!! it just made me so happy GENUINELY bringing me back to my furry home adobe and knowing the fact i could draw other's fursonas and even my own and being welcomed about that idea just made me explode /pos. even more when i got to watch you DRAW TOMMY.... like at that point i finally got over my fear and confidently pressed that follow.

you are such an awesome guy neo. you're really fun to yap with and never once had i had any second doubts other than being afraid i would embarrass myself ITYGJHFCDSX i still remember almost vividly the first time we aCTUALLY talked when i was doing thumbnail sketches of my final comic assignment, with the "typer" joke YOU CHOCKED FROM LAUGHTER HAHAHAY89IUTGYFUEHJDSX TO THE NEXT DAY ANDER AND I TALKED BOUT IT AGAIN HAHAHAHA still one of my fav vc's ever. thank you so much for being a fan, joining my server, and joining vc to us being friends. you mean so much to me, thank you for being your silly self, i srsly look forward to yapping to you every day.

and good gOD i will continue that binge on getting into the pikmin lore TRUST..... 💛🍔

BTW, THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO ATTENDED NEO'S BIRTHDAY PARTY EVENT IN THE TSB SERVER !!!! whether it was just for a bit or the whole event, THANK YOU. /gen

i don't plan on doing much birthday vc events unfortunately, but i def wanted to do one {and using neo as a guinea pig once again} since this silly man had impacted me so much i wanted to give him the best bday he could have. even if it got really chaotic several times YOU GUYS ARE CRAZY OH MY FUKIN GOD HAHAHHAHAA and no im not sorry for being absent the first 40 mins my stephen king fixiation is a priority /j

[just-a-carrot]

I'm not really in the mood to make a festive Happy New Year's post. So instead I'll just say... we made it. I made it. You made it. The year is over and we're still here. And that is enough.

It's no real secret by this point but 2024 has been one of the worst years of my life. From constant anxiety and panic attacks over job stability in the spring, to losing two family members, to the depressive spiral I entered after finishing OW, to the second spiral in the fall just when I thought maybe I was finally doing a bit better and everything came crashing back down, my mental health has been worse than it's ever been. And I've spent a lot more nights than I'd like to admit wishing I wouldn't wake up in the morning. (And downed a lot more sleeping pills than I'd like to admit because it's the only OTC thing I can get to mildly decrease my anxiety and help numb me a bit LOL)

I just want... this year to be over. Even though I have no hope for 2025 either and mostly just feel anxious and hopeless about it. But I will continue trying. Continuing grappling for the bits of joy that can keep me going. And maybe I finally will get a little bit of calm and peace. Who can say. I guess we'll see what 2025 decides to bring. I just really want to feel a bit better finally. And I hope that 2025 might take pity on me and allow me some mental respite.

2024 did have its moments of joy. Despite it sending me into the spiral, I am ofc glad that I finished OW finally this year. I consider it one of my greatest accomplishments. And I still can't believe that I put 3 whole years of work into this thing and just how much of my soul went into it. Even if my depression keeps trying to convince me that it (and me) are worthless.

I feel like I grew a lot in my art over the year. Trying new and more complex things. Getting better at composition and poses. Which led into my starting Broomtail, which gave me really the first renewed spark of creative joy since releasing the finale and actually made me excited to work on something again.

Speaking of joy amidst melancholy, DD2 was released this year, and it became the one thing that could keep me going at times. It brought me so much joy and inspiration when nothing else would. And it still holds my heart captive in its grip. From all the DD2 art I did, to the O2A2 game, to my silly tragic music video, to a very self-indulgent fanfic, it gave me so much creative energy, and I want to do more art for it in 2025 too! (And I'm still waiting for that DLC, Capcom...) I can't think of another game ever that's had this much of a hold on me before. Though I do attribute much of that to the fact that in my head it's mostly an OW AU since I could make Iggy and Genzou and play out their tragic love story and it was so beautiful and Genzou was so so sweet and cute GUH. Yeah... that helped a lot.

I think my main goal for 2025 is just to keep trying. To keep surviving. To keep trying to find hope and joy where I can. To believe that I can feel better and things can be better. Even when it's hard. And that hopefully... hopefully I will be able to find some peace in there finally.

I do have various projects I'd like to work on too. Like finishing the remaster, continuing Broomtail, maybe working on another game later on. But I'd rather just think of those as things I'd like to do for myself and because they bring me joy, rather than as any kind of goal or pressure. Especially since I never want to make any promises given the instability of my mental health.

I'm just so tired always. And I hate feeling scared and worthless all the time. I hate feeling trapped. Even if I know it's my own life choices and debilitating fear of change that has led to a lot of this. So it's my own fault in the end. But I hope I can find some solace. And I hope you can, too. I hope 2025 will be a kind year to everyone. And even if it's not, that we can find some joy and hope to help us through it.

Sorry this felt a bit morose LOL I guess I wanted to just take this opportunity to reflect back on the year a bit for some catharsis. I shall now sleep for 24 hours to recover from my flight hahaha.

if you saw this post a day ago for a few seconds i'm sorry -- i was working on it in my drafts and must have accidentally clicked post instead of save(??) somehow(???) idk but it posted and i panicked and deleted it and then had to rewrite it from scratch LOL

[ecoustsaintmein]

covet, part i of ???

part ii here | part iii here | part iv here | part v here

pairing: paddy x eoin; rating T (so far), slow burn.

based on this tumblr post by @cloudyfacewithjam:

"Canon Divergence AU: Paddy gave the Claddagh ring to Eoin as a friendship gift back in Ireland, and Eoin kept it during and after the war despite their falling out (because they were both stupid and emotionally compromised). They eventually reconcile, but after a while, Paddy notices that the ring has changed its placement - and he promptly loses his mind, while Eoin is stoically silent about it."

he's often wondered what would come after.

the war's over and he's now allegedly some kind of hero, but he doesn't feel like one. not after the amount of people he's killed in cold blood. they call him a warrior and put medals on his chest, but at the end of the day they're just tin. the adulation and praise is not why he did what he did. it unnerves him, the way people talk about him now. as if ghq hadn't tried to fuck him over (and fuck the sas over), again and again. and again, after the vc fuck up. not that he cared, although everyone else around him seemed riled up enough on his behalf. public opinion is a fickle thing and all he wants to do is--

--is what?

return to mother ireland?

marinate behind a desk?

--

he's said this as much, to eoin. he's a major now, too. like it matters anymore, when they return to civvy street and ranks don't count.

eoin, who's always been by his side through the war, through thick and thin. eoin, who's been bound to him -- first by fate, then by his own free will (and for the life of paddy he still had no idea why eoin would follow him to the ends of the earth). paddy wouldn't think that he'd even have joined the sas if not for eoin, he wouldn't have felt at home here, with the sas boys, if eoin hadn't been with him.

eoin, who's kept the silly claddagh ring paddy's gifted him, way back when; when they were bright young things in ballymena. when war was just an intangible word instead of something they'd survived together.

eoin, who's been wearing the silly claddagh ring that paddy's gifted him. eoin, who'd kept the ring on a chain around his neck, if not on his right hand with the heart pointing away from him. as if to say, yes, my heart is free.

even if eoin talks about girls and writes about them. paddy doesn't ask him directly, but he has eyes.

his eyes can see.

but that was when the war was still on. eoin would follow him to the ends of the earth, then.

but now they've been demobbed and paddy's got fuck all to do. so paddy, being a chancer (or a dreamer, eoin once said), asked him if he'd still want to come with. the way he'd asked eoin if he'd like to come to burma, and eoin's said, yeah, fuck it. with no hesitation.

except: not this time.

paddy's taken it for granted that eoin's been with him, beside him, all this time, reassured that eoin will always be his better half.

paddy's asked, here, do you want to come to the ends of the earth with me? to antarctica?

eoin's hesitated.

(that was the first blow).

then eoin said no.

sorry, paddy. i can't, he said.

(that, paddy thinks, was the knockout punch).

--

in antarctica, 1946:

paddy finds himself with a whole new set of officers. he doesn't have trouble adjusting -- there's no one to fight here but the elements.

there's no one to fight here but himself.

at night he'll read about shackleton and the endurance. he's read about worsley and the rest of the endurance crew and thought, if he had been born fifty years earlier, would he have gone-a-exploring? or would he have enlisted in the great war, instead?

but these hypotheticals remain hypothetical. he's here on the falklands, going south, south, south. blinded by the snow instead of the sun. burnt by the cold instead of the scorching heat.

but he's always been a man of extremes.

he still gets letters from ambrose, and eoin, from time to time. eoin's gone off to continue his law studies, just like ambrose did, (just like paddy did too). eoin's written, my mam wanted me home. paddy's replied, i understand.

he does, really. he does. (does he?)

then ambrose, in a separate letter, is saying how eoin's become close with a fair-haired maiden in dublin. their mam knows her mam, ambrose writes. it's nice to see that eoin's close to someone, ambrose continues -- as if eoin's never been close to paddy and paddy doesn't count --

he crumples that letter and throws it to the dogs.

--

the bloody sledge dogs.

they howl into the night, but it's bright and the sun is high and paddy can't sleep. it's as if paddy's in the deserts again. but the men with him now aren't stirling or sadler. or bill or johnny or reg.

or eoin.

the letters get less frequent. maybe it's eoin, who could read paddy's foul moods through his written words and decides it's not worth replying. maybe it's paddy, who keeps himself busy with his work.

and the drink.

it's to ease his pain, he thinks. not heartache, no. not loneliness, never.

and the days turn into weeks turn into months.

the back pain gets worse, but he perseveres. he says nothing of this to ambrose or eoin. there's nothing they could do, anyways. they're on the other side of the world and all they would do is worry.

the last thing paddy wants is pity.

so he ignores the unfinished letters on his desk, the one that says 'my dearest eoin' scratched out to say 'dear eoin' (scratched out again) and then just 'to eoin'. he reaches into his bottom drawer, instead.

where the rum bottle lives.

--

even bending down for menial tasks (like reaching into his bottom drawer for a bottle of rum) makes him scream, now. and he screams again, not out of pain but out of frustration, out of anger, out of regret.

is this what it's going to be like, for the rest of his life?

--

and the days turn into weeks turn into months.

paddy wakes up from his back operation feeling brand new.

(brand new, in the sense that -- it's a brand new pain that he's got, now, and nothing else, and the scars are all he's got to show for it).

in the hospital, there are at least three angry letters from eoin, demanding answers. 'i am so upset that you didn't tell me about how much you've been suffering.'

'what is this i'm hearing about you undergoing a spinal surgery? in buenos aires??? why am i always the last to know?'

'paddy, i hope the letters are finding you well. i worry for you. please let me know how you're doing. ma and ambrose -- they keep you in their prayers, always. i keep you mine. please.'

please, eoin's written.

please.

please what? paddy wonders.

--

paddy doesn't reply.

--

ambrose writes, eoin's concerned about you.

in the same letter, ambrose writes, siobhan and eoin are getting closer every day.

--

paddy doesn't reply.

--

tbc

part ii here

[zuzuelectricbugaloo]

I don’t get why some fans of Yugo get mad or annoyed at him for disliking his own Sans. He’s been dealing with nonstop fans for years who only focus on the memes surrounding Epic!Sans. Yugo has even expressed regret over making his Sans just a walking meme in the past, and of course, that would take a toll on his mental state and how he feels about the character. When people say he should stop talking about it, they don’t seem to understand that others constantly bring it up to him. It’s his character, and he has every right to vent about it however he wants.

You’re absolutely right, Epic is Yugo’s character, and he has every right to do as he pleases in how he uses said character and feels about it. I don’t condone harassment, and am firmly against attacking a creator simply because you passionately dislike or like a character of theirs.

One of my qualms with Yugo about Epic is how they blamed all of their mistakes and “cringe” of Epictale as a whole and projected it onto Epic and claimed the character’s death and celebration of his end meant that Yugo was absolved of any discomforting behaviors or jokes.

When he still continues to do so, even with characters from Epictale he likes.

Silly and goofy memes, might not be everyone’s preferred taste but there’s nothing inherently wrong with that. Memes are supposed to be silly and fun.

But then Yugo having to be convinced by their fans not to do NSFW commissions involving minors?

No no sorry, that’s not fair. Of course anyone who is broke would be desperate, and they’re just fictional characters, right? Whats the harm? No way does fiction impact reality in anyway.

Doesn’t that reasoning sound familiar?

And anyway, Yugo rejected it in the end. Of course that should be ignored then and any criticism of it is unwarranted.

My mistake. It’s still not fair. At least with Epic dead and gone, Epictale is free from anymore cringe and problematic anime tropes!

Again, I don't mean this as an attack on you or Yugo. It's a criticism, and one where my overall point is that my biggest gripe with Yugo isn't that I love his character and he doesn't. It's that Yugo seemed to absolve himself of all his shortcomings by projecting them onto Epic and therefore is free from error or criticism now.

Disliking that Red/Lara and Mettaton are in love with Papyrus who is seventeen makes you a hater. SEVENTEEN. They are literally centuries of years old, even in the remake. I know in reality, the age of consent varies per state in the USA and especially varies depending on country, with minors able to be married in some with their parents or guardians' consent, but still. It's uncomfortable. It's unnecessary. Papyrus could be shipped with Lara and Mettaton as an adult, as he is in Undertale by the fandom and in other AUs. But now with the context that Lara and Mettaton knew Papyrus since he was a child, it's disconcerting to imagine romance with any of them. Look, it's understandable for a creator to feel a certain way about their work and how it's interpreted. Especially in what they choose to do with their creations, in revamping or remaking things, and how they feel about it and choose to get rid of some things entirely.

For the most part, I enjoy Epictale and have read his brief Neutral!Frisk storyline. Yugo is a talented artist, and I adore Epictale and the characters and the great potential they all have and what can be expanded on it.

The old Epictale bore the same errs as many AUs within the UTMV fandom in its early years. Fantastic AUs with amazing concepts often had something problematic about them and this was sadly normalized. From the past Cream comics portraying SA as romantic or silly, to PJ's Daycare and the like also joking about minors/adults, SA and r*pe, SH, etc. Or it could be problematic with Frans or Fontcest, either in canon within the AU or played around with as concept. Epictale wasn't worst of them, nor was it the outlier in one of its characters joking about or portraying these problematic things.

Here's a big one: Underlust. It's not a masterpiece, and like many AUs, has so much potential. Unfortunately, there's so much that detracted from it that a remake or dismissal of most of its canon is needed if you want to find any enjoyment from it at all.

Same thing with the past Cream comics. At that point, the blog itself caused too much for its creators and they deleted it and made it non-canon entirely. I don't know what happened to the UL creator, but I assume something similar happened.

Sorry, back to Lust. I was not active in the fandom in its early years, I only witnessed glimpses of it and when I wanted to get into something, like Cream, it upset me too much and I left the fandom. In particular with Underlust, it makes me so sad because I was introduced to him through fanon first, where someone had an SA experience and used Lust as an expression of what it was like to go through something like that in his line of work. And it felt cathartic. Comforting. A character who could understand how I felt, who was was unconventional in their self-expression and yet happy and at peace with who they are, would be able to heal and find happiness regardless of what happened to them. But then I found the parts of his canon with Fontcest. And it turned out Lust had nothing like his fanon and it hurt. I could no longer enjoy the AU and ignored it entirely from then on. But Lust, today, is still so dear to me because of what he could be.

Yugo wants to move on from the past and be a better person. I think that's a noble endeavor. Anyone can be a better person and change. That doesn't make it easy, and it certainly doesn't mean that everyone will try.

And for the most part, Yugo seemed to make progress. Epictale in and out of its comics doesn't make any more jokes about sexual harassment as far as I'm aware. There are no harmful slurs used in a joking manner. For the most part, it seems Yugo made good on their word and is trying to move on from his past mistakes. Many creators of UTMV's past seem to do something similar, and I wish them all peace and commend them for trying to move on and be better. However, when Yugo crucifies Epic as the source of all his problems, and uses him as the symbol for burying the past and amending his mistakes, only to then make similar ones (far less severe than the ones he used to do, admittedly, but still concerning nonetheless) instead of using Epic's potential to make him be as Epic as his namesake, it doesn't piss me off, at Yugo or his fans. Fans won't always focus on what a creator originally wanted them to focus on. That's simply the nature of fandom. And memes are one of the most popular enjoyments of fans and is the most unifying act among them. But there would also be fans who love things besides the memes, who will work to enjoy and create what they can gleam from canon and expand on it, in art or fiction, with other characters in the story. So long as fans don't attack the creator, harass them, insult or demand they do more with their preferred character(s), I don't see anything wrong with this. It sounds like a regular community to me. No. It just makes me sad. But as you pointed out, it's Yugo's character and his right to do as he pleases. So, respectfully, Yugo wishes to have nothing to do with Epic anymore; I am all too happy to love him along with the fandom. Because to truly move on from the past, you need to accept accountability. I know Epic used to have problematic characteristics, be it in the noncanon comics or art, but it was a part of his character. I acknowledge that. And I want to move on. Remove the parts of the past that are bad, and instead of ignoring it, use it as a reference of what not to do, as a reference to be better and do better. I want to build on his potential and love him. Because Epic makes me happy, and I know he makes others happy too. Why not heal and work together to create something everyone can enjoy?

[viktorarcanedeservesbetter]

Jayvik and Timebomb Pottery Date

AU: Somewhere happier.

@jaybegirl

Pepper doesn't usually run the adult pottery class. She prefers the kids classes, the parties and the school groups that come in, the semester-long clubs that meet every Thursday afternoon. She's doing this for Joey, who took her Friday night shift for her so she could go to a concert.

She wishes she would have simply bit the bullet and left right after work.

These couples are so....odd.

There's a ordinary older couple, probably mid-fifties. The man looks like he was dragged here, the woman looks like she dragged him here.

A teenage couple, both probably eighteen, continuously share kisses every three seconds. They'll likely do that the whole time and make absolutely nothing for $65. Great.

A couple in their thirties, two women, make it a point to do active listening-that is, they stare directly at her every time she opens her mouth-and nod at every suggestion and direction.

Still, none of them are as odd as two couples in the back.

Two men, and then two people who are probably in their early twenties. One of the men is quite big, he looks a little silly sitting on the stool in front of the pottery wheel, his braced leg hitting the metal of the stand. The other man is much smaller, in height and size, with his own brace knocking against the other's leg.

Both are sitting flush with each other, not in the lap, but definitely close.

The other couple is a dark-skinned man with bright white hair, just as white as the girl next to him, with long dual blue braids pinned up in two buns on top of her head. They're grinning at each other as they mess with the clay, and exchange jokes with the couple next to them.

So they know each other, it seems.

Anyways.

Both couples are...not that great at pottery, it seems. The girl spins her wheel so fast it sends clay into the others nearby, the smaller man and who Pepper assumes is her boyfriend. It doesn't seem to bother either one.

Her boyfriend is probably the best of the four, seems to be making a vase of some sort, but his end goal of making it as tall as possible keeps making it end up caving in on itself at the end for being too thin.

The largest man is making...a piggy bank? A creature? Pepper can tell it's supposed to be an animal, but beyond four legs and a head, she can't tell what it is.

The smallest man? Pepper has no clue. It seems to be a bowl with legs, but then he adds a glob of clay right in the center, and Pepper has lost any idea of what it could be. The others seem to know, all going "ooo" next to him.

Perhaps an inside joke.

"Jayce!" The girl says, leaning over the thinner man's wheel and poking at the clay creation of the one she's calling, "You should add wings."

"To a cat?" He asks back, slightly confused, but also seemingly considering the idea. "What kind of wings?"

"Dragon," the girl says.

"Eagle," her boyfriend offers.

"Butterfly," his own date says. That one seems to be the winner, and the man called Jayce smiles, leaning over to kiss his partner.

"Good idea, Vik!" Jayce tells him, getting the man to blush.

Okay, two names down. Vik and Jayce.

"Ugh, always listens to the boyfriend," the girl says, slumping back in her chair. "Should have guessed."

"Add dragon wings to yours, Jinx," her date says, poking at her creation, which Pepper still seems to think its just a lump of clay. "It can be a dragon coming out of an egg!"

The girl, Jinx-Janna, what a name-grins, standing up and grabbing a handful of clay from the top of her pile, mixing it in her hands, and falling back down into her seat in a quick (and impressive) crossed leg position.

"Ekko, you are truly a genius," she says, kissing his head. "Boy savior strikes again."

Alright, then. Ekko, Jinx, Vik, Jayce.

What an odd group.

"Oh, and I listen to my boyfriend too much," Jayce says from the other end. "You fold just as easy."

"Boy savior here is the best of us," Jinx tells them. "He's the only one making the assignment."

The three turn, looking at the boy-named-Ekko's creation.

Pepper did say to create anything, even if she just demonstrated a vase.

She kind of wished the three of those four listened. She's not looking forward to firing those creations in the kiln. Especially what Vik seems to be creating (A giant half-avocado with legs?) and Jinx has been making (a melting dragon?).

She sighs, sinking into her seat as they all laugh and joke with each other. Cute, but their creations are certain to be a problem. Pepper watches until time runes out, promising them all by the next week, their creations will be fired and ready to paint.

The couples leave together, Jinx wrapped around Ekko's back, as Vik and Jayce walk out arm in arm, the larger man careful of their braces moving in tandem. She even spots a sweet kiss-smiles, then frowns as Jinx tosses some wet clay at them.

How did she even sneak that out?

---

Later, she's glad she fired their four clay...creations....separately from the groups, because of of theirs explodes (likely Jinx's, who didn't listen to making sure all the air was out) and the only survivor is Vik's....a bowl. Of some sort.

Oh well.

They'll be Joey's problem, by then.

[walnutcookie]

I'm sorry but for your Gen2 au (which is very silly might I add, pls make more for me to feast upon /silly) all I can imagine is the OG's pulling up and everyone being in utter shock as the toon people from 20 yrs ago most likely assumed to be fucking dead just showing up randomly. I feel as though this would be terrifying for the employees and saddening to the old toons who just randomly found out they were not only abandoned but fuckin replaced bro </3 Erm anyways, sorry for my dumb little ramble in ur inbox </3 -🎩⭐

GAVAJSVJSA THIS IS TRUE. Honestly though for one i dont think that the employees would notice immediately...

kind of a scuffed explanation, i may scrap it because its a bit of a stretch (to me at least) but heres the thing: the new toons arent made of real ichor, BUT for now im going to say that gardenview still wanted to continue pulling ichor from underground and also from their old facility in hopes that they can slowly build up their supply and recreate their success one day. the gen2 toons are made of false ichor which is highly inefficient (more on that in another post) so they dont use it for the toons i think theyre just stockpiling it

HOWEVER since the old facility is flooded with the stuff and thats where they were getting ichor to begin with they made a reaaaally long tunnel (since they had to distance themselves from the original location) from the old gardenview to the new one... Intended just for pipes and some poor unlucky employee whos hired to do routine matenince on said pipes. a few golf carts on both ends to speed things up and extras in case any of them broke down so that employees wouldnt get trapped in there and have to walk. Almost everything was done underground around the facility itself since they wanted to minimize all risk of more people getting killed by the gen1 toons who were still all twisted,, the few enterances they had to make into the building were done very carefully, disguised with the surroundings, and locked so that no twisted would get through.

When they did finally get un-twisted (AGH again i will elaborate in another post because i have ideas on this now) the gen1 toons had their minds cleared and thus they realized that some parts of the facility looked a little fishy and wound up finding the enterances to the new gardenview. Split everyone up on a few golf carts, one person holding the wheel and one on the pedal because theyre short with everyone else clinging on for dear life and theyre OUTTA THERE!!!

If they were to be spotted by the company at any point, theyd be killed. If they even knew the gen1 toons were ALIVE itd be dangerous. the gen1 toons dont know this as theyre escaping ofc but i needed to find a way where they wouldnt get immediately screwed because a crowd of 20 brightly colored cartoon characters walking through new york isnt exactly discreet LOL

ANYWAYS all thats to say once they finally get to the new facility, yes, the gen2 toons are shocked, but they didnt even know they werent the first ones (except maybe watson because hes a nosy little bugger but even then its probably just something he heard briefly mentioned and it never got elaborated upon). They all still realized "Oh Shit if we dont do anything gardenviews gonna fucking kill them" so they did their best to help the gen1ers hide from the employees GVDLFNGLG

There was once or twice where an employee caught one of the gen1 toons but also the company spent WAY too much time and money keeping that whole incident under wraps and trying to wipe the entire old facility's existence off the face of the planet sooo a lot of the employees dont even recognize the toons. Weren't born in that generation or just never heard of them. they just see this funny looking fish bowl and think "huh when did they make another one"

that almost hurts even more though </3 not only were they replaced but they werent missed. Nobody is remembering them fondly, wondering where they are, worrying for them, wishing they were back... theyve just been replaced with all these seemingly perfect toons and they almost died 20 times each just to see that theres new people living their lives and living them Better

TYSM ANON!!!! <333 Never worry about rambling in my askbox i enjoy it X] (especially when its about my own au. yknow GBXKFBFK)

[dayoldbaguette]

re: arcane season 2 finale

Long summary of my viewing experience under the cut:

A summary:

They really dropped the ball on the whole social issues plot and theme, in like, everyone's stories, huh. rip Sevika, I knew the end was near when they gave you that terrible hair cut (fr, zaun needs better barbers on top of everything else). There was no point where it feels like Piltover was forced to reckon with its actions towards Zaun in a major way. There was no uprising, no recognition that maybe we shouldn't have retaliated like this post council chamber explosion. guess the oppression continues as usual (or okay, small incremental changes through sevika on the council I guess but like, narratively this feels deeply unsatisfying). Zaun should've pressured Piltover into giving them independence or smth during the attack. But no. Turns out Piltover can oppress Zaun all they like and only tear down the barricades when they need more meat for the war meat grinder.

wow. they really ruined caitvi huh. yeah. who went 'i'm the dirt under your nails' would be cute and similarly, who said 'oh yeah this sex scene in A JAIL CELL, right after your sister heavily implied she's about to go off herself, with your ex who has not quit oppressing the city you're from or even apologized for all she's said/done' is about true love and not, you know, reeking of desperation that in another show I would assume would be reflective of like, having such incredibly low-self esteem this would be rock bottom. Grow a backbone Vi, your girlfriend thinks you're an animal and has yet to apologize for it.

magic is boring and I feel nothing now. I liked it more when magic was basically a metaphor for technology in unequal societies. Viktor was more interesting then, and this 'humanity is a weakness' conflict is much less interesting than the social issues conflict we had in the first season. I'm not a jayvik shipper, thoroughly ambivalent towards them, I just. Could not manage to care about that plotline at all basically.

Episode 7 is the only good part. they really teleported into a coffee shop AU/everybody* (except Vi) lives fanfic of their own show. can someone write a season 2 that had episode 7's energy. (and I don't mean I want it to be perfect reality I just want that sort of episode, focused on like, 1-2 events with lots of character work back. It's by no means perfect, but I at least feel something positive about it without feeling hollow so)

visuals and artsy montages are cool but they are not an excuse for literally skipping character development. they literally just. did not give any character development to cait between ep 3 and 4 and just hoped we'd be fine with it. what. last episode she hated these people so much she wanted to gas them and become dictator, next episode post time skip she's gotten what, bored?

This is silly but I don't like jinx's hair in the final scenes. i like the multiple dyes, but she went too short in the back. it's giving witness era katy perry a little bit. and her outfit without the hood to make it cool is just not it.

they really did my girl dirty. justice for jinx, give her the redemption she deserves. by this I mean 1) isha felt like a stock character there to flip jinx's switch from happy to suicidal, felt like a cheap manipulative trick and 2) making her die/fake her death is uhhh, dumb. no, I refuse, she deserves the chance to work to make zaun and piltover better, just like she deserves to finally have a good relationship with her sister

Justice for my boy ekko. give him a seat on the council, why does he end the series alone and mourning a girl who prob isn't dead

the ending feels hollow tbh. the social issue aspect of it is secondary to well, the arcane, and ironically arcane to me was never about 'the arcane', but about everything surrounding it. It's not about magic, but the people it affects. without issues that we face irl to ground a story about magic, it becomes hollow. a pretty dream or thought experiment. what part of 'my friend has become jesus and is now convinced he needs to destroy emotions because they make us flawed' is relatable. wish the resolution to the series was you know, something that felt like a puzzle coming together, a resolution that involves all the characters, not literally just a 'I know you're somewhere in there' fight between Jayce and Viktor, one which Ekko is the only one to contribute to, and this by just, chucking his machine at Vik's head. what. what does that mean other than. if you encounter a magical problem throw a magic machine at it. cool. great story. I love investing my time in this. what thrilling character driven storytelling. don't you feel like all of the character development has been leading to this pivotal drive chucking scene??? Aren't you impressed by our wit and clever writing???

honestly, they should've given us less ambessa and mel drama. all felt very disconnected from the rest of the plotlines

we never get time to linger, we never get time for character development, it's like we have a list of beats to hit with no regard for how we get there. 'evolution has a destination' indeed, victor, and the destination is apparently all this season cared about, who cares about the journey and characters on it, right?

ugh. it's 3 am. I want to go to sleep.

[year2000electronics]

I was thinking about this for a little bit but what would happen if Reverse Mabel (especially post-weirdmageddon) meets Anti-Mabel.

Seeing some call Reverse Mabel "evil" I feel this would be a very intresting interaction, Reverse Mabel may see her as someone she could of easily become.

ahh, the "anti" dimension. i ruminated on the concept a LOT back when lost legends first released! i think theres an amateurish fic i wrote somewhere in my files of anti-mabel getting basically-adopted by a one of us au ford BUT I CANT FIND IT.

excuse the opportunity im taking to rant about the idea of anti mabel as a whole lol, but... [continued under cut!]

her dimension is a little confusing to think about sometimes, because the story she comes from, don't dimension it, i think a lot of us can widely agree was almost too much of a "pivot" in a direction we didnt really need to go? it's focusing on addressing mabel's "selfishness", especially in the wake of that flood of mabel hate that started picking up steam, but i feel like the version of mabel that exists in don't dimension it is just... not very true or accurate to the actual character. it feels like a very extended "sorry we had mabel make a rash decision in the heat of the moment that the characters forgave her for because they understand and love her. we will now proceed to have a dimension of all mabels where theyre portrayed as so self-absorbed that theyre all stuck on that dimension with no hope of returning home." excuse my dramatic wording but i swear to god that's what it feels like! and that's what it READS like!

mabel got "caught up in her own mabelness"? she gets distracted with crafts and cats like a SQUIRREL?? the idea of her neglecting those around her being put directly next to her going "i caused an entire apocalypse just to get one more day of summer?" SHE WAS GOING TO LOSE TOUCH WITH HER BROTHER. SHE WAS GETTING LIED TO AND TRICKED BY A GUY WHO HAS LITERALLY BEEN TRYING TO START THE APOCALYPSE FOR BILLIONS OF YEARS NOW. its really ridiculous and it doesnt play well at ALL. this kind of thing really shows to me how trying to please bad-faith critics will literally only make the end product worse.

"but what does that have to do with anti mabel though?" well, anti-mabel's "evil" kinda gets affected by the moral of this story, don't you think? if they arent getting mabel right, then what is this ultimate "anti-mabel" really going to be? not really a reflection of any mabel i know. that's for sure.

but that aside, looking at everything that we know about anti-mabel, her dimension is kinda... played off as a joke? she feels a lot more like a joke character to me more than anything at this point lol

not that i really needed that much development from a one-off antagonist from a silly gravity falls comic but like. how is anti-mabel literally SUPERVILLAIN-TIER EVIL? what? where is she getting the resources for this?? and then you have the rest of her family who are all just like, chill? and its like WHAT IS EVEN GOING ON ANYMORE.

anyways. back to trying to answer the question i was literally asked. i think post-weirdmageddon mabel would see anti-mabel in a different light, thats for sure. anti-mabel's family is nothing like her! maybe she's just lonely. rev mabel knows you can't just get away with doing evil stuff, at least she's learning that, but i think some part of her would sympathize with her deep down

[thatbiblob]

I’m so completely normal- have i told yall that?? Anyways, I was watching oosmp and the no way out cmv and it got me thinking about how heyhay and sherb play their characters and how star and i play our characters. There’s a pattern to each one. Like each character is vaguely similar or they’re polar opposites

Before you continue; tw for mentions of death and violence :3

and the reason i use star and myself is due to corruptions. mostly the relationship and similarities between bee and ic and rae and kier . bee and ic both were fond of potions and were more focused on the fighting aspect of things as where kier and rae seemed to stray away from fighting (unless necessary) and were both anxious nearly 24/7 (but that’s probably just a coincidence) . [ Ik kier was an ass at first but he didn’t like being the one to draw his weapon first . He’s all bark no bite ]

my main point is i really want to see how acting styles would merge in a scenario with different characters from different worlds. specifically; md!kier , corr!bee , icarixus, and harper. they each come from different stories with their own goals and morals but more importantly is that they all went through different lives and i would love to see how they would all come together and interact.

starting off with harper bc I just finished oosmp lore . I can’t go too into depth with them since I’ve only one episode to go off of right now but they were definitely an intriguing character. She’s a bit more abrasive than i was first expecting. She was quick to make comments on how run down Juno’s grandmothers house was, the outhouse, the pumpkin men. Especially while her and Juno were exploring, they were very iffy on all the creatures they found while Juno was nothing but excited. The ghosts were met with fear snd confusion and the pumpkin men disinterest. Even tho she seems quick to judge, it’s clear she’s incredibly loyal to her girlfriend (fiancé? wife? I’m not 100% sure- kinda zoned out a few times) and will do anything as long as its for Juno’s betterment.

icarixus, my blorbo. my silly sad guy . Icarixus is my main pick for the sherb of this imaginary cross over au in my head due to what they’ve all been through and how that left the impact that it did. especially now that they’re quixus, they’re left with the memories of their family and friends and loved ones that they can’t see anymore. Also at the point in time they’d be dragged into this au, they would have been alone for a while, so they’d have built up more longing for other human interaction. plus with bee- the two being from different versions of the same universe ( FableSMP and Corruptions ) , they’d have similar memories with similar people but at season 2 that’s where It’d split . Icarixus would have the memories of the mirror and the warden, figuring out quixus’ name, more about the gods. and bee would remember [ spoilers :p ] ( ^ but it’s not exactly that )

now for bee. ⟟ can’t say toooo much bc star and i are still working on corruptions, but they don’t go through all sunshine and rainbows. they start out with little memories, the ones they do have are horrid. Then, they meet “not-so-human humans” and eventually build some friendships. Corruptions follows the actual canon of Fable to a point until season 2. season 2 is when it really does its own thing and it becomes the major point that isn’t following the actual lore of fsmp. That being said- bee would have vastly different memories of the same people that icarixus would and they’d have different opinions of the same people. Gonna use Rae as an example here; they’d both still have a positive view of him in a certain way, but there’s a major event that happens to bee with Rae that it’s still hard to shake off.

kier. there is a reason i picked mystic duo kier instead of corruptions kier; it’s for his experiences. The whole point of this is that they all went through things different. Be it different with no similarities or something similar that changes direction at some point. Md kier ( or artemis ) would have gone from world to world, dying over and over again, losing and gaining friends and abilities all before he could even drive- and that messes with someone. by the time he’d be yoinked; it’d be way past what i have written now but it’d be right before the third to last fic Chris and i have planned. He’d have gotten a grip on his powers and he’d have established his found family with the rest of the star squad ( Chris , Lauren , Scott , Aubry , and MVP ) . He’d have the memories of Chris and him being raised in empires and all the things that meeting Mumza in the void led to afterwards.

they’d all have vastly different memories and experiences, and I can only imagine how they’d interact.

Now some “ground rules” for this crossover

-they’d only have vague memories and the more prominent ones would be people closest to them ( icarixus : rae, bee : kier, kier : chris, harper : juno)

-they’d all look slightly different ; Icarixus would have their pure gold wings but no visible signs of being quixus , they’d also be in clothes they wore at home with the spilt dye coat ( only it’s be plain with no pins or accessories what so ever ) . harper would have her roots peaking out through her hair, she’d have a different outfit on (listen she’s the only one with non-fantasy elements on her that i can’t change. let her have her roots peaking out) . Bee’s wings would be pure back and their ender mouth would be gone, he’d still have his tail, but he’d opt to hide it, as much of his identity he could hide; he would . kier’s hair would be longer and the purple more of a plum than bright purple, his vitiligo would be more of a natural color than the ender skin that it normally is, he wouldn’t wear his tiara; and his wings would just be white and purple instead of white purple and pink.

-there’s no contact home .

That’s all I got honestly. This idea really hit me out of nowhere and now has a death grip on my mind. we’ll hope you enjoyed my ramble :p

[cybershock24601]

your baby bard tab au

first, I love it, especially tav and astarian being biological siblings, either full or half

second, I imagine that once orin learns about tav and realizes that durge has adopted tav as their little sister/handler, orin is going to utterly and completely despise baby bard tav, possibly to the point of not even being able to properly replace any of the companions, once orin registers the sibling thief it'll probably be on sight

I'm so glad you like this silly little au! Tav and Astarion being secret siblings is just too fun to pass up too. It's especially funny since they got along pretty well before the reveal and then when they found out they both full body cringed and shot each other near identical disgusted expressions that had everyone wondering why they didn't see the resemblance before that.

As for Orin, I had been planning to make a post about that myself but was having trouble condensing all my insane Durge-Orin relationship lore. The shortest summary I can give is that my Durge is a lot older than she looks and had a repeated pattern of getting close to people before the Urge would take over and she'd slaughter them until she eventually broke, went half mad, and assumed her position as Bhaal's Chosen and title as High Primistress of His temple.

Well when Durge got to the temple, that was about the time Orin was born and Durge's specific trauma had her latching onto baby Orin. She was a very doting maternal figure in Orin's life and the two were very close. The whole incident with Helena was the first crack in their relationship as it made Orin rather distrustful of Durge and gave her major mommy issues.

Saverok also started taking an interest in Orin after that and planted seeds of jealously and resentment towards Durge that grew over the years. It was not helped by the fact that Durge found Orin's early assassinations attempts cute and continued to treat her like a child. (Durge had much high Int and Wis scores before the lobotomy and knew most of this was a result of Saverok and temple politics so never bore a grudge against Orin for being a pawn in her (grand)father's games)

Then Gortash enters the picture and becomes the second safe person for Durge to show any sort of fondness for without having to worry about the Urge taking over and killing him. Their relationship was fucked up, toxic, and full of insane power plays and manipulation and they both knew it but Durge was so desperate for any sort of affection and to feel loved that she just went along with it. It really says a lot about Durge that Gortash was her least complicated relationship which is why she started favoring spending time with him over Orin which also made their relationship worse. Honestly whatever the fuck was going on between Durge and Gortash deserves its own post because it was messy and deranged.

Combined with the way Orin and Durge clashed on doctrine and how best to serve Bhaal (Orin was making very obvious messes that conflicted with their need to be discreet and also Durge knows that Bhaal doesn't care for how the murder is done and that Orin's attempts to gain his favor like that would just lead to her being disappointed) things just started spiraling out of control between them. The final straw was Orin finding Durge's prayer for forgiveness where Durge spoke about Gortash being the last person she would kill before herself to fulfill Bhaal's plans because Durge had always said that it would be she and Orin that would be the last two left alive and then they would duel to the death like proper Bhaalspawn. Durge crossed a line with that and Orin would make sure she paid for it.

TL;DR, Orin didn't like that her sister's new kinda bf was stealing her away and decided that murder was the best option to deal with the problem.

So when Orin sees Durge doting on Tav who's about the same age as Orin was when things really started going wrong between them absolutely made Orin lose it. She kidnapped Tav and spent way longer than just a short conversation disguised as her to fuck with Durge though Orin would never admit it to herself, it was mostly to recapture the easy affection that once existed between. Orin also spent a lot of time ranting to a captive Tav that was very confused about what the hell Orin was going on about in her unhinged, deranged rantings.

[pr0blematic-h0unds]

I am just again glad that I didn’t accidentally offend you— I’m like fairly certain I accidentally either offended/overshared on anon not once but TWICE to my favorite author in a previous fandom when I was TRYING to be complimentary/silly and I will just never be the same—

Are these long asks okay though?? I don’t mind if the responses take a while ya’know take ur time no pressure, but do I need to stop replying period after this?? Or am I fine??

I found FTFO a couple of months or so before I joined Tumblr, so I just found it through scrolling Ao3 filters, and I was SO CLOSE to passing it up bc the previous fic I tried to read that was Ink-centric was not appealing to me at all— But I clicked on it anyway AND I WAS SO GLAD I DID LIKE— OBSESSED— like yeah seriously it WAS intense that hold it had on me was crazy

I don’t know if this would match up with the ways you like to see Ink portrayed or not but like— if I personally was writing a ‘villain’ Ink, one of the ways I’d wanna do it is make him attached to something/someone that he’s ‘not supposed’ to favor above all else since he’s ‘meant’ to love/protect everything in the multiverse equally. And I’d wanna see this attachment come at the expense of these au’s he’s starting to see as lesser instead of equal—more expendable than HIS thing—due to this attachment. He’s becoming more and more willing to ignore other aus as they burn as to divert the fire from this ONE thing. Like a ‘selfish’ fall from his once ‘benevolent and shielding’ grace. So yes, he’s the ‘villain’ now, in the public’s eyes. He’s hated. He used to protect everything, whereas now he only defends this one, but is Ink really that bad now? He wouldn’t think so. He’s aware of the harm he’s letting befall the multiverse, but how could that possibly cancel out the centuries of protection he’s provided them with up until this point? They’ll survive, always have, always will. The multiverse is resilient. He deserves to be selfish, to take a break, to enjoy the things he never properly is ‘allowed’ to, he thinks. If that enjoyment is at the expense of others’, well, they’ve come to owe him a lot over the centuries, haven’t they? If they repay his labor in death, so be it.

Idk lmao, there’s a million ways to do villain Ink, and that’d be moreso him kinda abandoning the whole creator/protector thing than using it as his reasoning behind being a ‘villain,’ but that’s my personal take no clue if you’ll like that interpretation tho—

I still don’t have EVERYTHING figured out but— I can ramble about some half fleshed-out lore sections if it’s cool that I keep responding? I personally thought I had really cool ideas for what I’m doing with the whole parasite lore/designs things— But idk ┐(´ー｀)┌

Canon is simply a bucket in the sandbox to shape the foundation of the castle. The bucket has done its job. Very pretty nice good foundation you have made there bucket. MY TURN TO BE THE BUCKET AND MESS THIS CASTLE UP. /silly

What does /nn mean— I’m sorry but google won’t tell me—

—Icebreaker Anon

Its okay I get it! Trust me I've done the same thing so many times and it has absolutely crushed me 💔💔💔

Also yeah these ling asks are okay! Perfectly fine actually, I like answering them. It just takes me awhile bc I have a procrastination addiction and am usually too tired to type a lot and think abt what I say 💔💔 (aka what I'm saying is you're 100% okay to continue with the long asks idm!)

I found FTFO by tumblr fanart and stuff and It seemed so cool from the fanart and how people would excitedly talk abt it in a way that fascinated me. When I latched onto FTFO I BINGE read that stuff, like in just a two in a half weeks I sped through it and died when it was over.

ALSO OH MY GOD?? Dude, I fucking love how you wrote that, holy shit. If that was an actual fanfic or smth of the lines I would absolutely be invested bc that seems so cool and honestly I'd love to see smth like it.

Also also, I'd love to hear you ramble!!! I love listening / watching ppl ramble, it brings me so much joy to see people get excited over smth. So please by all means ramble!!! I love the bucket thingy :3 very lovely mold indeed bucket but unfortunately you must shoo shoo a bit for my sillies to interact properly in the way my brain demands 💔💔

/nn means not negative!!! (It took me so long to find what it ment out too dw)

[greythroat]

May I ask you to share any Mephisto-related thoughts you have?

Bold of you to assume I have thoughts that aren’t related to him

I not only don’t care about his evil actions and vile personality, they are why I like him. I don’t care if people hate him, it pisses me off when people LIE about him. Now you all know my feelings about this already 💀 so I’ll stay quiet… mostly

I really like how he’s voiced in the anime but I can’t find the CN voiced version so I can’t listen to that one I need a link so bad

LOOK AT HIM‼️ I laugh at his face in every anime scene he’s in they are prime reaction image material

The exclusion of him calling Talulah his sister in EN was a microaggression. My feelings about this duo are also known

I am for hcing characters without shark teeth as having shark teeth (Mephisto and Furina). Not the little side fang the entire mouth

Another silly headcanon he would turn red so fast in hot sun and the Reunion randoms peanut gallery would laugh at him behind his back

His beta design clearly has some relationship to FrostNova’s design and I’ll die on this conspiracy theory

Random Mephisto moments not related to the story that haunt me: the UwU cat, this cat plushie photo, this AS moment, Liduke saying “gay is on my side” about him and Faust, Lowlight buying a print of that Liduke fanart

He’s fucking ugly 💀 Not a hc, just a fact and if you disagree you should be ashamed 💀

Fun fact: Mephisto and Faust’s birthdays are 2 days apart and their heights (at least the original ones, it might have changed) are 2 cm apart

And no for once I didn’t send this ask to myself 😌 all the ones where I don’t confess to it are organic asks

Obligatory fanfic plug:

^ I got fanart for this one :))

Future Mephisto fanfics:

Working on a fanfic that I consider the ultimate betrayal because Amiya and Mephisto aren’t completely awful to each other in it. If you don’t know, I derive great amusement from their dynamic as enemies. Normal people AU but I can’t ever stop myself from writing Mephisto as annoying and mean because he is too emotionally immature and lacking in morals to just play nice. At this point every character I write acting rude and self centered to each other just happens on its own.

As for fanfics where they are just awful to each other, I feel kinda bad for abandoning my long fic and I will come back to it after finishing the above one. It was made when I was starting to write fanfics and I didn’t know how to tell the story I envisioned. So it became impossible to continue as it was. I have most of a new chapter hidden away, but I honestly want to restructure the whole thing and tell a tighter story.

I have a WIP sequel for Halo Effect linked above that is even more angsty and tragic.

[scarafrisbee]

–and they ask, is he your boyfriend? -> thoma x gn!celeb!reader

syn: you're a famous celebrity on the red carpet, signing for fans until you encounter a certain someone...

/ cute stuff, fluff???, kisses (ish), modern au, lower case intended, not proof read, pet names? (angel, love)

/ i'm back (like anybody cares) (the last time i posted a fic was almost a year ago) (idek what happened to me nd my crush) (lol not rlly they gave me a love letter earlier today) (valentines special??? lol)

the lights are bright enough to blur your vision; if you were new to this industry that is. walking on the red carpet, the fans scream your name and all eyes are on you. you're all too familiar, really. and of course, with fame comes with its own hurdles— like people prying into your personal life, invading general privacy or trying to figure out who the hell you may or may not be dating.

of no surprises, there's fans and other people on the barricades sticking out arms with items for you to sign. plenty of people screaming you, your name and whatever they can to catch your attention. nobody in particular catches your eye as you approached and signed their items with a smile, until you see him.

his endearing green eyes, charming smile— and who else would it be, none other than thoma? you adore him like nothing and nobody more. he's like the honey to your bitter tea, making everything better.

at this point, you've signed plenty of things. books, posters, even some people's phone cases or something. fans will always find a way to make your brain spin, don't they?

thoma smiles right at you, his hand out with a simple novel. "angel!" he blurts out with a silly lovestruck grin, "how have you been?" thoma asks, succeeding at painting a silly grin on your lips.

— he's your rock, staying with you all times. through now, then and every second he can in the counting future.

thoma looks at you with equal adoration, his eyes crinkling into a smile. "better," you responded with a quiet chuckle.

with the marker you held and signed a plenty of items with, you took the novel and signed it. thoma acts as though he was a regular fan, and not like your boyfriend.

looking upon the book before giving it back, it was one of those silly romance-centric works. cute little rom-com with no hopes and dreams crushed! wow. you could describe your dearest thoma that way, no? unapologetically loving, and all too generous.

very generous. and very sappy.

much so as he pulls you in with a smile, your heart fluttering upon a simple kiss on the amidst the flashing lights. cameras everywhere catch the moment as you shimmy off thoma with a laugh— "hey love, hey- not here!" you said in a whispery tone, gently rubbing your cheek.

your attention goes on elsewhere; you continue down the scarlet path, and like all events, reach the entrance to disappear into the depths of these rich companies and their events. you bid goodbye to those who border the barricades, walking in within the walls of many could only dream of coming inside.

all the while you enjoy your party and wine that would cost the regular person a lung, you encounter more people. interviewers, people with practically hearts in their eyes and the soft chatter of other around you.

the night is relatively peaceful after that, thankfully. nothing irregular could happen after, surely.

— what a ruckus you have made.

peace or chaos, whatever it is, it's basically a whole phenomena the day tomorrow. you wake up to posts about you and thoma, and that little cheek kiss he gave you the previous few hours before.

no wonder your phone's been blowing up all night and day. what is happening to the world?

"love? did you check twitter?" you asked thoma later that day, tilting your head in slight confusion. you're not exactly sure what's going on in the internet as of current...

"yeah, i said i was your boyfriend." thoma continued as he chuckled, "your fans just need you to confirm it."

note;; wowowow after a decade (10 months) and a difficult period in my life (i was just too busy) i finally post smth !!! wow. aaaaaa this was js to my get writing going again, i hope to post moree