#its probably a little spoilery

[spiraling-stardust]

Me when I see a hellspawn of a character and my immediate reaction is to give it the creature disease

Go. Cause problems. Be a menace. But do it in a way that’s vaguely catlike

[biichama]

Holy shit was The Tomb of Dragons a fucking ride. I read the entire book within twelve hours of it being deposited onto my e-reader app and the only reason it took that long was because I had to bathe and sleep in between. Like, it is going to be a massive disruption to the fandom and its shipping and it's jossed pretty much every fic written in the aftermath of Grief of Stones, but it is good and gripping and it manages to tie up loose ends that I hadn't really realized were loose. I really, really liked it.

I have additional spoilery thoughts on why I think certain things happened in the book, which I'll put after the read more.

So I ended up getting spoiled on a very certain plot point last week when I checked to see if there were any pre-release reviews from people who'd been given an ARC and like, while I definitely get how people are going to be upset that Cehelar and Pel-Thenhior did not, actually, get together, I was actually pleasantly surprised by their dynamic in the book? Like maybe it's just because I was already spoiled that the ship wasn't happening, so I had come to terms and was able to accept what Katherine Addison gave us, but it is exceedingly clear that just because they're not in romantic love doesn't mean they don't love each other because it is really fucking clear that they do. Iäna is Thara's truest goddamn friend in the world, even more than Anora, and their friendship burns clear and intense and bright. I really love all their scenes together. Forgive me for being Homestuck on main, but they're moirails, y'all.

Also, I really did enjoy Captain Olgarezh as a character and Thara's slow burn crush on him, culminating in the thee-ing, hand-holding, and given-naming in the last scene. I'm really looking forward to seeing what comes next for them, both in fanfic and (hopefully!) in further books to come, which it does seem like Katherine Addison has laid the groundwork for. And honestly, given the direction that it looks like she's taking Thara and the way it ends with Thara on the road again, making Hanu the love interest instead of Iäna makes a world of sense. Because we all love Iäna but he's not leaving Amalo, not when he has his opera house and his community, and it would strain credulity for the archprelate to be able to endlessly find new short term jobs in Amalo for Thara to do now that Tomasaran has his old one.

(Like it says in the acknowledgments that Tomb of Dragons was a hard book to write and I get that. In some ways Katherine Addison wrote herself into a corner with Grief of Stones in terms of being able to continue telling the kind of stories she wanted to with Thara and Tomb of Dragons was her way of writing him out of that corner. Like the way Grief of Stones ends, you can see the character arc she probably initially intended for Thara, where he mentors Tomasaran through her first cases and eventually comes to fully accept the loss of his gift and ends up retiring to stay in Amalo with Pel-Thenhior—but I suspect she had trouble making that actually work with Thara in a way that felt true to his character, probably because he would rather die than retire. Hence her making sure that he can't stay in Amalo or even go back to visit for now and creating Hanu as someone who can go on the road with him. And hence him being able to get his gift back.)

Anyway, apart from all that, I was so fucking pleased to see Maia and Csevet show up again and get all those little glimpses of him coming into his own as an emperor after a year on the throne. I hope that we do get another book where Thara and Hanu reach the Untheileneise Court and we see even more Maia and also hopefully Csethiro too. And that eventually all Thara's friends from Amalo show back up again, because they're all great and he really does need to get better at accepting people care about him. Get loved, idiot.

[winterinhimring]

Mending An Old Mistake

More Terrafell fic! Extremely spoilery, sorry Bri. For the rest of y'all, this is some speculation on how certain abilities of Morwen's might be used...

@scleroticstatue @kanerallels @sunflowergardens-world @awwyeah-rambles @sweetcardamom

Arcturus flung himself backwards as the charybdis' jaws snapped closed. They missed him by mere inches. "Gavrel!" he shouted, desperately, no longer expecting a response.

He'd made a mistake. He'd made a horrible mistake, but he didn't know where he'd gone wrong; Gavrel had lived in the town for decades and there have never been any indication that he was capable of this. But here Arcturus was, and here the charybdis was, and here Gavrel was not. He'd been abandoned. He was going to die.

Oh, gods, he was going to die, and Atticus was barely thirteen and only beginning to unwind from the tightly-wound knot of pain and grief and trauma...and the charybdis opened its mouth again. He was bleeding, exhausted, and on the verge of Numenosis. Arcturus braced for death.

A hand seized his shoulder out of nowhere and yanked. Arcturus landed hard on his rear and blinked in the sudden sunlight, trying to orient himself.

A portal by his feet snapped shut. "YES!" shouted a short Asterian woman, pumping her fist and doing some kind of victory dance.

"Oh, gods, that worked. It worked. I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," came Gavrel's voice, and Arcturus twisted to look at him in bafflement.

Judging by where Gavrel was standing, he must have been the one to pull Arcturus through the portal. But before he could get out, "Sorry for what?" (since he apparently hadn't been abandoned, though how Gavrel had gotten here – when 'here' was apparently the Labyrinth – was an unanswered question), he locked eyes with a young man who looked strikingly like Atticus.

"Arcturus?" the youth asked, sounding like he'd just been stabbed.

Red eyes, white hair, pale complexion – this didn't just look like Atticus, this was Atticus. But, if Arcturus was right, Atticus at around seventeen. Atticus as an adult. "Atticus?"

The youth nodded, tears silently overflowing. A moment later Arcturus had an armful of his apparently now grown student, who was shaking. The asterian was drawing Gavrel away by the hand, presumably to give them some privacy – and now that he looked more closely, Gavrel looked different than when Arcturus had last seen him, too. His gear had gone from worn-in to battered, and his face had lost a little of its youthful roundness. And yet, there was something oddly lighter about him, too. He looked both younger and older.

Still with most of his attention on comforting Atticus, but sparing half an eye for any dangers, since he had just come out of combat, Arcturus continued to look around in bewilderment. This was definitely the Labyrinth. There was an adolescent kitsune standing a few yards away, apparently keeping watch, and Arcturus wondered what she was doing with a party of the High Races...and...that was a dhampir.

He startled to his feet, instinctively stepping between Atticus and the monster – though this Atticus was humming with power and probably didn't need Arcturus' protection any longer – spell already forming by instinct. A grey-haired man, or what seemed to be a man, gave a shout of warning and hurried towards them. Arcturus prepared to cast the spell. The dhampir raised his open hands, no spell forming, and that was strange…

The asterian caught Arcturus by the arm, interposing herself between him and the dhampir. "Sorry, we probably should have warned you," she said. "He's a friendly. Yes, I am aware of what he is. No, he's not going to kill anyone. We've been travelling with him for weeks, just ask Atticus."

The kitsune rolled her eyes. "Someday, you're going to get killed doing that."

The asterian raised a weary eyebrow in her direction. "Arcturus isn't going to kill me," she said confidently.

"I'm not," Arcturus confirmed, still very confused by the entire situation. "But I'd like an explanation. Not just about him. And perhaps some introductions?"

"Ah. Yeah." The asterian reached up to rub at her nose. "I'm Morwen, this is Gavrel, whom you already know, Count Peles" – she gestured to the dhampir, who bowed – "Casimir" – to the healer – "and Kaera" – to the kitsune. "And...there's really no easy way to explain this...I pulled you forward in time."

"What?"

"Look, Gavrel didn't know how Rebirths worked for people who lived in Terrafell when he first Partied with you," she said hastily. "He thought you'd come back no matter what, but he had limited lives. He...found out that was wrong the hard way. And I apparently have the power to open portals across time as well as space, so…" she gestured awkwardly. "You seemed like a good man, and Atticus deserves to have you back, and I need allies anyway. I might have been able to just pull you out of the Dungeon and leave you in your own time, or go back myself, but playing with time is dangerous; there are too many variables. So I decided to leave your time untouched, and just pull you forward. For now, anyway. It's not like I can't put you back, if we decide that's the best decision, but disturbing the timeline that much is risky."

Arcturus processed this. He turned to Atticus, who was nodding even as their eyes met. "It's true."

"How long has it been?" Arcturus asked, horrified.

"Five years."

"Gods, I'm sorry," Arcturus said, pulling him into an embrace, where Atticus held tightly to him.

Now he had an inkling of what Gavrel had been apologising for. If he'd been left to die, originally – or thought to have been left to die, which would amount to much the same thing for the timeline – he didn't even want to think of what it must have done to Atticus, or the Guild, or the balance of Guild power.

The rest of the decidedly queer party gave them their privacy until Atticus let go, wiping his eyes. "Now," Arcturus said, firmly. "I have more questions."

"Naturally," said Morwen, with a wry smile.

"Starting with you," he said, softening his voice a bit. "And how in the five civilisations you did...this."

The smile turned lopsided. "That is a question," Morwen said. "You might want to sit down."

An hour later, caught up on Morwen's Titles, position, and future plans, Arcturus decided that, while he had sat down, he hadn't sat down enough. What would have constituted sitting down enough for the...everything, he wasn't sure, but he hadn't done it. But, on the other hand, he was alive. Gavrel had apologised to him so many times that he'd actually told the young man it was alright just to get him to stop. (It wasn't alright, but...they might get to alright, someday, if what Morwen had said was true.) Atticus was the Guild Master and Arcturus was so proud of him he thought he might explode. Atticus also had a girlfriend, Kaera the very irritable kitsune, which was a definite mental adjustment. The world appeared to have gone mad in the five years he'd been gone, in short. But he was alive to see the madness, and for that, Arcturus was very grateful.

[campbyler]

are we ever going to get a little bit of silly (very silly!! the silliest!!!!! nothing problematic or toxic or anything like that!!!! jesus) jealous mike perhaps? hehehehe🤭🫣🤭🫣🤭🫣 this is just me being curious by the way, if thats not happening or if this is spoilery in any way, then its fine to say no or to not answer, just trying my luck (if i have any) here!! hope y'all are doing great and thanks for all the hard work ❤️❤️

i would say you are probably not going to see any jealous mike within the mainline acswy fic, buuuuuuut. you might see him grace a local ao3 near you very soon 😌

[the-exiled-comic]

OH what do you think would’ve happened if one of the other rebellion members survived instead of Firespots? Would they have different ideas than him?

interesting question, i have thought about this with fallensnow before and came up with a complicated au (lot of roleswapping and stuff lol its a bad end au tho)

fallensnow is much less worked up over and is better at killing than firespots is so... it wouldn't end well for oceanclan if he survived and had plans for revenge. which i just don't see him not having, fallensnow wants crowstar dead really bad in canon and probably wouldn't have cared at all about what firespots is doing if he didnt kill whisperleaf. if he lived and encountered fishpaw, he would have killed her on the spot to keep himself secret :(

rosemask... i think rosemask would eventually get over it. she would probably want to interact with oceanclan still, her son and his family is there and she would want to check in on them. perhaps she could work out a secret way to meet up with them and the protagonist in this story would be like honey or newt. i don't think rosemask would succumb to outright villainy but i could see her doing shady stuff with the intent of making oceanclan safer

and then wavecrash... i really don't think she would be effective at anything she attempted so sadly (or luckily?) she would be pretty powerless as an enemy. she's not really a fighter she would be in a similar situation that firespots is in, poor mental state, very angry, would rather be dead, really upset that fishpaw is suffering abuse in oceanclan (the cycle continues despite you losing everything in an effort to stop it!) she would probably resort to trying to convince fishwhisker to tear it down, gradually becoming more and more unstable as time goes on. to me, she'd be a lot more tragic as a villain than firespots as she would just be losing her mind and herself but without the murdering part. firespots as the starclan cat in this scenario is. aaahh... it's a lot to think about. perhaps i will make a little roleswap au with this one day, it would be way closer to canon than the fallensnow one though, so it would be a little too spoilery to talk too much about for now

[magspieart]

First off (if not too spoilery) does humanity become a member/vassle species of the Alien au boys empire?

Second off, does Y/N get fancy ceremonial clothes as the royal(Imperial?) consorts of The DCA boys? And if so, pics pls? (Again, if not too spoilery)

I don't think any of this would be considered TOO spoiler-y, so I'll try my best to answer

The structure of the government is probably most similar to an English Monarch or sovereignty. You have the King as the eldest of the children, with a small government beneath them. While the King does have a final say on everything, the 'parliament' also has power and can make decisions.

Beneath them is the nobles, and then peasants. Earth and other colonies are (unfortunately) not very high up the chain. Though, it's definitely not as bad as you might think. For a capitalist it's a nightmare though.

Workers days are usually around 5-6 hours under Eclipse, and health care is very affordable and accessible. But, you're not likely to be climbing up the chain anytime soon.

As for the reader, if they did hypothetically become their consort...

Clothes are usually quite boxy in shape and dull in colours. Blue is a significant colour here as it shows devotion in their culture (Moon being devoted to the God's but that will be touched on at a later point.) I was mostly inspired by clothes such as the Korean Hanbok when designing these.

Depending on where you are is what you'd be wearing. For example, being in public you'd have a veil covering your face, as its believed that a consort's beauty should be kept to their beloved. (This does not apply to a singular gender though, as this species is very fluid with gender and sexuality).

If you're alone, the clothes would be a little less boxy and more comfortable. You're face can be shown and you're allowed to wear something more bright or flashy.

[moghedien]

anyway, thoughts after seeing Wicked again that are more focused on spoilery thoughts regarding things that occur in Part 2 so WATCH OUT:

definitely worth hyperfocusing on Glinda's face in No One Mourns the Wicked. when the first "No one mourns the wicked" comes, she looks devastated. The balance between having to decide how good of an actor Glinda is vs not wanting to give away too much to new audiences is always interesting and I think there's a lot going on with her fucking face here.

someone needs to win a reward for Fiyero's choreography in Dancing Through Life. I straight up did not catch what it looks like the first time, but once I saw it I was blown away. I would like to see side by side comparisons of that scene with certain scenes from the Wizard of Oz.

the scoring of the movie is great and they added so much to a lot of songs that work so well. Dancing through Life is a great example of just exponentially improving the song, but the big brassy womps at the end of Popular really just hit soooooo well for me. also obsessed with the little bits of Ding Dong the Witch is dead in No One Mourns the Wicked.

Overall, the music in the movie sounds better than the soundtrack. Like way better. I wish they'd just straight up pulled the audio from the movie as is for the soundtrack but unfortunately they did not.

There's this very weird moment right after the "Looks like the artichock is steamed" comment where people are laughing and Galinda and Elphaba make eye contant and Galinda makes a little "calm down" gesture at her and smiles in a genuinely sweet kind of way and then Elphaba just barely smiles, and its genuinely driving me insane. Because it happens after What is This Feeling and before the Ozdust Ballroom scene, they are not friends yet, as evidenced by Galinda just saying this very cruel thing to Elphaba. And yet its almost like she didn't want to and she immediately tries to calm Elphaba down while everyone else is distracted in a much nicer way and Elphaba seems to actually take that in? Its like Galinda almost feels like she needs to be mean to Elphaba in order to keep up appearances with the rest of their classmates. I'm gnawing on the drywall over these like five seconds fr

Kristen and Idina's roles were 100% self indulgent but I don't care it was great and I love that for them and also did actually add to the story but mostly just love that for them.

I'll probably remember more thoughts later so i'll just take them on as they come

[tyttetardis]

Macbeth Q&A 18th Jan 2024 Part 1

Was lucky enough to get a ticket for the Member's Event at the Donmar Warehouse that took place on the 18th...with the price of the patronages I sure never thought I'd have gotten the chance, but luckily, they also let in some non-members 🥹❤️

The brilliant performance of Macbeth was followed by a very quick cleaning of the stage - thought for sure it would've taken them longer to remove the blood than like 5 minutes - followed by a lovely, little Q&A session.

The Q&A was led by Craig Gilbert (Literary manager) who talked to Annie Grace and Alasdair Macrae (Musicians and part of the acting ensemble) as well as Cush Jumbo and David Tennant.

Anyway, just gonna write down some of the stuff they talked about :) sorry if it's a bit messy! Might be spoilery if you haven't seen it yet but are going to!

To begin with Craig remarked that he didn't think he'd ever seen that many people staying behind for a Q&A before (While I was just wondering why some people even left!? Stressful!).

David introduced himself with "My real name is David "Thane of Paisely" Tennant - while Cush introduced herself with "I´m Cush Jumbo - there's only one of me".

First question was Craig asking them what it was that brought them to the Donmar to do Macbeth - to which David pretty much just replied that 1. It's the Donmar! 2. It's Macbeth! One of the greatest plays of all time in an amazingly intimate space - and that the theatre is famous for its quality of work. So he found it quite hard to think of a reason not to do it!

Cush said she'd worked there before and loves the theatre, how it's so intimate but also a great workspace. Followed by her saying she said yes because David asked her. She talked about how important it was for this play to do it together with the right actor playing opposite you.

David says Max Webster asked him about a year ago if he wanted to do the play - he gave him the dates - and since there weren't any obstacles in the way, David didn't have any excuse not to do it.

He then said that he had slightly avoided Macbeth - there sorta being the assumption that if you're Scottish and has done some Shakespeare plays before you have to do Macbeth. Which he joked was a bit odd since it's not like every Italian has to play Romeo. Then he mentioned that Macbeth is probably a bit more of a jock than he is - that it seemed more like a part for big, burly actors.

Max had laid out his initial ideas to David, a lot of which are in the final production, and David thought he seemed lovely, bright and clever and inventive plus it being the Donmar Warehouse! To which joked that he had last worked there 20 years ago - when he was 8 years old! "It's just one of those spaces" - friendly and epic at the same time where it's such a pleasure to be on the stage.

When Craig asked his next question concerning the sound of the play someone asked him to speak louder as she couldn't hear them - to which David joked that they've gotten so used to whispering. But also said sorry, and that they would!

Alasdair explained a bit about the process of the binaural sound - bit I find it a bit difficult to decipher it all correctly, sorry. He did say that a interesting part of it is that it allows them a controlled environment where they can put all the musicians (and even the bagpipes!) behind the soundproof box so "Poor David and Cush" doesn't have to shout over all the racket.

Craig asked David and Cush what their reaction was when they heard about the concept of the binaural soundscape - to which David replied that it didn't quite exist when they first came onboard - Cush joking they were tricked into it. Then she talked about her and David going on a workshop with Max to get a feeling of how it would all work - and get a sense of how it would sound to the audience, as this was one of the few times, they got to hear that side of it. Their experience of the play being completely different to the experience the audience has.

Cush said they can hear some of the sound - like she can hear some of the animal sounds and David can hear some of the stuff from the glass box - but most of their cues and information comes from timing with each other. She said they won't be able to ever hear what the audience hears - to which David joked "We're busy".

It felt like mixing medias - as it all went quite against their natural stagecraft instinct - but Cush found that in the long run it made things very interesting - like they don't have to worry about getting something whispered to each other - as the audience will hear it anyway.

David said the odd thing is that they don't really know what the experience truly is like. He mentioned that to the sides of the stage there's a speaker for them where they will get any cues that they need to hear. Like they can hear the witches - but they can't hear where they are "positioned" - so they have to learn how to place themselves to fit with what the audience hears. They don't hear everything, though. And the audio they hear is quite quiet, so it doesn't disturb what comes through the headphones.

He thinks it's been exciting - that it's a bit like a mix between film and theatre. It's happening live - but it's also like post-production is happening between them and the audience as it's going on. They just have to trust that the audience is hearing what they are supposed to for it all to make sense.

Cush said she thinks in 10 - 20 years, as these technologies has developed, doing theatre like this will feel a lot more normal - not that they will do it ALL the time, but that they will be doing it - whereas now it's still like an experiment. What Cush really like about the concept is that if was done in a much bigger theatre - then people in the cheapest seats would be able to have an experience much more similar to those in the most expensive seats - they'd be a lot more immersed into the action.

David then talks about how it feels extremely counterintuitive to not go on stage and speak loud enough that the people in the back row can also hear you. And usually, if they can't hear you, you aren't doing your job right! But then it felt very liberating. He loves it.

Cush then talked about how it felt odd waiting in the wings for a cue you can't hear - where you traditionally wait backstage and you can hear your cues, you can hear the rythm and know when it's your turn - so it was quite disconcerting to hear silence. So it's basically down to them now knowing the show and each other's timings - like if David is standing at a certain point, she knows how long she has before she needs to say/do something. So you have to watch each other more closely and really focus on what the others are doing.

David asked the musicians if they can hear everything inside the box, to which Annie replied that they get everything except some extra bits in the soundscape. But they can hear the actors on stage. Annie said it's actually a bit of a mystery to all of them what the audience actually experiences - how the big pictures actually look like - they just have to trust that it's there "Is it there?!".

Someone asked if they had had any adverse reactions from audiences to having to wear the headphones. Quite a bit of laughter all around :P then David said "There's the odd person" and something about if someone hadn't gotten the memo before turning up...but not sure how he ended the line. Then once again says that yes, there's the odd person who doesn't like it and that's fair enough.

The same audience member then said he could see the advantage of it in a big theatre where the distance is big, but not in a small place like the Donmar - to which David very quickly, rather passionately replied that it's not about projection, it's about being able to do things you wouldn't normally be able to do live - where they can speak so quietly that they can't even hear each other when standing next to each other. So even in such a small place, people wouldn't be able to hear that. It's about creating a different play - which isn't to everyone's taste and that's fair enough. But for a play that's been done a hundred and seven million times he thinks it's very valid to try and find a new way into the play - even if it's not for everyone.

Part 2

[yuukei-yikes]

do u have any more info on harutaka kid and shinaya kid? i care them

if u ever ask "do u have more info on (kagepro hc)" the answer is yes. and if it isnt i can make shit up on the spot. however for this is a Huge yes. here's doodles.

i've got more but they're somehow spoilery to my comics so LMAO. anyways. 1 million headcanons under the cut.

ok so. something funny. i made them be really into baseball. and it's funny cause ive gotten kagefuture compared to falsettos like 3 times and the kid in that musical plays baseball too BUT THAT WASN'T WHY. i just think ayame (shinaya kid) is really sporty and generally into all team sports but i was like ok i'll choose one to be Her thing. and i knew baseball is really popular in japan so i was between that and football (soccer for the americans but im not calling it that) but idk football is so The Basic Sport ever. so i went for baseball. so she's very intensely into baseball and breaks windows constantly at home. probably on an ongoing fight with ayano abt it

konoha (harutaka kid) (he named himself they wouldn't name him that) is also in the team with her because ayame dragged him along but he's not... suuuper into it and he's Reeeallly bad at it so he's always struggling with self confidence. Another funny thing. i thought of these hcs before the pixar series win or lose came out. ive only seen episode 1 since its free on youtube but when i watched it i was like omfg. that kid being upset playing softball is basically my konoha kid hc. like he's not having a good time and comes back from games really upset. haruka and takane would really want him to quit LOL so that's a point of discussion for the 3 of them

i think he refuses to quit cause he doesn't see it as an option+ayame has a very overbearing personality and is The decider. a little bit of a controlling best friend situation. ayame's the youngest of 4 and has a big age diff with her siblings and that has its cons (not taken seriously) and pros (gets whatever she wants). the cons result in her projecting very intensely in her friendship w konoha who is pretty meek and generally needs a lesson on learning to say no. EVENTUALLY konoha would obviously quit and focus his time in whatever introvert stuff he's into. maybe videogames like haruka and takane and they can be a lame gamer family

btw haruka and ayano are the ones going to see them play and they're rly intense abt it. shintaro and takane are NOT into that shit. konoha doesnt care takane doesnt go cause he sucks anyway and is embarrassed haruka is even there but ayame's bugging shintaro like CRAZY to go see her. shinaya point of discussion GO SEE UR DAMN KID PLAY HER GAME

also i think ayame is really smart and not cause she got the crazy high iq from shintaro but instead i think he'd really get into tutoring her and teaching her big words when she's small LOL so she's got a big vocabulary but she's also a kid so sometimes she talks like. dude that match had me totes discombobulated like seriously. and ayano's like wtf is ur dad saying to u.

shintaro w but he doesn't talk to ayame like she's stupid and just speaks like he would with anyone else and just explains it if he says a word she doesn't know. idk. i think it's cute if he got all into The Brain Development and Abstract Conceptualizations just to know what word of the week to give his kid. its CUTE ALRIGHT. jin would've made this guy a teacher. he can do that here. shintaro being good with kids and finding out he really likes them. is this a hot take. is this ooc. have i lost the plot too much

also ayano works with children so in college she probably studied up all that stuff too so they'd be on the same page and be having weirdass conversations abt ayame's developmental stage or some shit and haruka and takane are like wtf are u guys Talking about.

ummm UMM what else. well kano and ayame is its whole thing bc their relationship really depends on the outcome of kagefuture that i haven't even decided.

in a shinaya situation kano's different from her other uncles/aunts who treat her like best princess girl ever, kano is more distant and he's not like letting her stay over at his place like everyone else etc. like he's more difficult and she's stubborn and likes a challenge so she WOULD be a little annoying about it bc she's curious about him. and i think kido and seto who try so hard to be the best ever are so mad bc they're like this is just like ayano playing favorites with kano (i hc they think that) except now it's our niece prefering him! and kano isnt even awesome to her like we are!! WHY IS HE ALWAYS THE FAVORITE!!!

but their relationship in a kanoshin situation would be super different. he still wouldn't be treating her like best princess girl ever but he Would coddle her a lot more. because i mean i guess kano and shintaro would (INSANELY ENOUGH) be in a stable relationship and living together. so kano would inadvertently be a parent figure to her too cause they live together. but that thought freaks him out so much so instead they're always arguing like siblings lol. if she's staying with ayano she beefs with her siblings and if she's with shintaro she beefs with kano. but i guess kano will side with ayame if it gets on shintaro's nerves. which probably happens often. i think in a kanoshin situation it'd be funny for ayame to be sleeping between them and kicking nonstop and kano's like why did i sign up for this again.

either way, ayame takes joy from riling him up. kind of like shintaro does. this is kano's karma for always messing with everybody so badly. congrats ur niece is just as annoying as ur ex bf/lame husband.

btw it feels silly to clarify but ayame and konoha wouldn't be together romantically. cause i feel pairing up fankids is really common so that's why i say it. they're more like family

haruka and takane have no siblings and both have 1 person as caregivers (and haruka's is kinda not awesome) so like. their family IS the mekakushi dan. and shintaro and ayano are their best friends theyre always hanging out so their kids are like. kind of like cousins. the cousin ur actual friends with and u go to the same school just different grades. that's their vibe hehe

[ladykailitha]

Well Met By Moonlight Part 13

Hey, guys do you all remember that period of time when I was working on this story but refused to show you snippets of it on WIP Wednesdays? Yeah, this is that chapter. (I'm pretty sure, anyway. Because this shit was super spoilery.)

We finally get what happened to Steve and why he didn't grow up as Pack. This chapter does get a little dark in its themes so be careful when you read and if you need specifics, DM me and I'll fill you in.

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Eddie and Wayne landed in front of their trailer with a deft touch. Eddie still wasn’t over the joy of being able to fucking fly. Like sure when he was younger, Wayne would take him for flights occasionally, but nothing beat banking on a breeze as the wind lifted him higher and higher.

“Your boy’s got a mouth on him,” Wayne said gruffly as he walked up the stairs to their trailer.

Eddie chuckled. “Always had. Even in school.”

Wayne huffed out a laugh. “True enough.”

As soon as they were safe inside, Eddie asked, “Hey, do you remember that couple who took Stevie in when his parents died?”

Wayne frowned. “You mean the Franklins?” he asked, tilting his head to the side.

Eddie snapped his fingers. “Yeah, them. Why was Steve placed with them? And not, I don’t know, the pack?”

“Ah.”

Wayne went to the kitchen and pulled out a six pack of beers. “That’s a bit of story. Drink up, you’ll need it for this.”

Eddie opened up a can of beer and settled in for story time.

Wayne downed an entire beer and wiped his mouth off with his sleeve.

“Hopper had gotten bad,” Wayne began. “Like real bad.”

“You’ve mentioned that before. That was around the time I came to live with you, right?”

Wayne nodded. “It wasn’t just drinking. It was drugs, too. And not just weed, either. I’m talking the heavy stuff.”

Eddie nodded. He had sold said heavy stuff to Hopper just before he cleaned up with El coming into his life. When Wayne asked him why, Eddie told him that he had no idea what he was doing with it and honestly didn’t care.

Knowing what Eddie did now, he regretted it, but he was so close to being able to afford his Warlock that that was all he cared about at the time.

“Steve’s dad Clint Harrington was getting ready to challenge Hopper for the position of alpha,” Wayne continued. “He knew that he might kill Hopper, but at that point it probably would have been a mercy.”

Eddie nodded solemnly. Maybe if Clint Harrington had lived, lived to be the alpha, the town wouldn’t be experiencing the troubles it was now.

“So what happened?” he asked gravely.

“Allison’s father died out in New York,” Wayne said. “The timing of it was so suspect, Ed. Like, you know I hate conspiracies with every fiber of my being, because there rarely is one. But this smelled rank from the get go.”

“You think whoever had the Harringtons killed,” Eddie said, “you think also popped off Granpappy, too, don’t you?”

Wayne glared at him, but conceded the point. “Whatever happened to the Harringtons was bad, boy. Like their bodies were savaged–”

He stopped and his eyes went wide. “It was exactly like this morning. I couldn’t tell the scent then, just like I couldn’t now.”

Eddie nodded. “As near as I could tell, there wasn’t a scent to be had. Whatever it was who killed the Harringtons and attacked Patrick, didn’t leave behind a scent.”

“There are very few things in this world that leave a scent so minuscule I could barely detect it,” Wayne said.

Eddie nodded. “So what happened with Steve after they died?” He was interested in the other thing, but he was really worried about his boyfriend.

“The old mayor, Larry Kline and I,” Wayne said amused, “made the decision that the pack wasn’t safe for Steve. But despite what Steve thinks the Franklins weren’t human.”

Eddie frowned. “They weren’t?”

“They were Were too,” he said with wary tilt of his head. “Were-bat. We figured that with them being at least Weres would be able to teach him how to shift and how to shift back comfortably.”

“So what went wrong?” Eddie asked, moving closer to Wayne on the sofa. “Because holy hell, pops, if Steve had been human CPS would have been called and fast.”

Wayne drank more of his beer and then rubbed one eye with the other hand. “I don’t know. I honestly don’t. There were no indications that Steve was anything other than a kid who’s parents died and was adjusting to it. Yeah, he wasn’t exactly happy, but we didn’t expect him to be, you know?”

“So what changed?”

Wayne drank the last of his beer and set it on the coffee table. “They were away on a trip and I don’t know if they forgot, didn’t care, or planned it... but Steve wolfed out for the first in his entire life when he was eighteen.”

“What?!”

Weres were supposed to shift for the first time when they hit puberty. Early teens for most of them. But to not shift until you were eighteen was just begging for the Were to go insane.

“Fucking hell, Uncle Wayne,” Eddie groaned. “Whoever this is is playing a long ass game. Jesus Christ. They were hoping he would go crazy, ending the Harrington line for good. So what happened?”

Wayne licked his lips. “Steve ran to me. He was frightened. Terrified out of his mind. Old Mack nearly shot the poor bastard as he came tearing through the trailer park.”

“Jesus H. Christ...” Eddie whispered.

Wayne chuckled. “It wouldn’ve done shit, it was just a regular bullet, it wouldn’ve even slowed him down.”

Eddie breathed a sigh of relief. “So what stayed Mack’s hand then?”

“You’ve seen your boy in wolf form,” Wayne said, “can you imagine how beautiful he looked then? The cream of his under belly blending with the warm brown of his back and face as he tore down the gravel pavement?”

Eddie could imagine it in fact. Steve was gorgeous as a human, but as a werewolf? He was exquisite. It came from his mixed breeding of being born from another born werewolf and his turned wife. Born werewolves tended to be more timber wolf in their appearance. Almost dire wolf-esque. Big, with course fur and fierce. Bitten werewolves tended toward the smaller red wolves. Quick, slender, and cunning as hell.

Steve was a mix of these two breeds and it made him the most beautiful thing on four legs Eddie have ever scene.

“To fire at something so majestic would have been a travesty,” Wayne was saying when Eddie came back from his revery. “So Mack just stood there, rifle in hand as Steve made straight for my door.”

Eddie frowned. “Where was I? I don’t remember this.”

“You and your friends had gone to Indy for some concert or another,” Wayne said. “I don’t rightly recall.”

Eddie’s frown got deeper, he’d only gone to one concert with his friends in Indy because one of the ‘85 Hellfire Club members had gotten tickets for graduation and had taken all of them.

“Is that why you weren’t home when I got back into Hawkins?” he asked. “You were dealing with Steve?”

Wayne nodded and popped open another bottle of beer. He held one up to Eddie, but he shook his head. Eddie held up his still mostly full can. Wayne licked his lips.

“You’ll want to drink more of that,” he muttered.

Eddie did as he was told and it took the edge off of his anxiety but settled sour in his stomach.

“After I got Steve sedated,” Wayne said, “and yes it was fucked up I even had to in the first place, I went a paid the Franklins a visit.”

“That sounds ominous,” Eddie said flatly.

Wayne grinned. “They tried to tell me that they were frightened of Steve. That as a wolf he was much bigger than they were as bats. That all it would take was one snap of his giant jaw and they would be but a morsel to the boy.”

Eddie blinked at his uncle in confusion. “What now? His first change would have been a literal puppy. He wouldn’t have even been able toddle after them, let alone get within biting distance.”

Wayne huffed. “Right in one, boy. And if they had been teaching him from his first change on, he wouldn’t have thought of them as prey at all. Not even on moon nights.”

Eddie rolled his eyes and shook his head.

“And then they tried to attack me,” Wayne continued.

“They did what?” Eddie squawked.

“They probably would have succeeded, too,” he said, “but apparently Steve is a hard wolf to keep down and followed me like a lost puppy. When he saw Dick Franklin raise a fucking yew stake to stab me in the back, Steve leapt on him.”

“Where the fuck did they get a yew stake?”

Wayne just shook his head. “The hell if I know, kid. But in comes this wolf and just snatches the damn thing out of Dick’s hand. He runs off with it Ella Franklin hot on his heels in bat form. Bats are fast and she catches up quickly. The problem is that in or out of bat form she knows she no match for Steve, so she tries to blind him by going for his eyes.”

Eddie’s hand covered his mouth as he listened to him go on about this horrible night.

“But despite what a lot of people think,” Wayne continued, “your boy ain’t dumb. He keeps his head down and makes right for the Creel House. He tosses the thrall on duty the stake and suddenly a werebat is face to face with Tammy Thompson, now holding a yew stake as Steve just continues running past the Coven.”

Eddie blinked. “I didn’t realize that Tammy’s family were thralls.”

“Just like the Perkins, Buckleys, and Hagans are hereditary keepers,” Wayne said with a nod, “the Thompsons, Carmichaels, and Bensons have always been hereditary thralls.”

Eddie was starting to think that he really should have paid closer attention to the hierarchies in school, they were a lot more important than he knew.

“Anywho,” Wayne said with a shake of his head. “Ella flies back to their house to find me beating the hell out of Dick. She manages to distract me long enough for Dick to get on his feet, but now it’s two against one and they’re still strong in their human forms, but wicked fast. I was able to take out Dick, the coward that he was, but Ella was proving to be too fast. She was going to get away.”

Eddie drank the rest of his beer and popped open another one. He leaned forward so that he was on the edge of the sofa, and his knee began to shake.

Wayne put his hand his knee to settle it, but Eddie stared at him wild eyed.

“I don’t have to finish if this bothering, Ed,” he said warmly. “I can give you the Cliffnotes.”

Eddie shook his head. “What happened next?”

“Just as she took flight, the thing they had always feared happened,” he said softly. “Steve’s jaws came down on her with a sickening crunch. Dick started spewing all sorts of curse words and things I didn’t understand. Something about how werewolves were a plague among the Weres and that they had to be exterminated and how if Steve hadn’t had my protection they would have drowned the bastard in the bathtub.”

“What. The. Fuck?” Eddie asked, can crumpling in his fist as it tightened on it.

“It didn’t mean anything until the events going on now,” Wayne said with a heavy sigh. He crumpled his can one handed and stared at the twisted mass. “But I think whoever it is who is trying to tear this community apart is getting desperate. They’re starting to make mistakes. And I think one day soon, this is all going to blow up in our faces.”

Eddie gulped, but nodded.

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[stygiansun-totaleclipse]

AGHHHH😭😭 ran out of money for the patreon subscription the SECOND you dropped the siblings poll and parim lineart💀 horrible timing for me to go broke fr

AAYAHAOSSBSOSNSO KIERAN IS SO.🫶 Can’t wait to meet them!! Can already see potential tension in any sparring scenes you may write w them, lol.

Not to be a freak on main or anything (😔😔 ) but would you mind if I asked the RO’s reactions to MC walking in on, accidentally catching them doing some TLC (aka masterbating, because I’m a little pussy and I feel like a harlot when I say the word💀💀) ? ALSO YOUR STORY IS SO AMAZING AGGHHH

Figured I’d give shooting you an ask a try because A(tumblr will probably eat it anyways, and B(I’ve kind of lurker and contemplated sending an ask this whole time but been too scared too and you seem really nice‼️‼️

Agh 💀 sorry lol but I’ll still post a public preview of Parim when he’s finished! 🙏 Working on coloring/rendering rn but also no pressure on the Patreon sub at all I get it—take care of yourself first!! ❤️

I definitely have many plans for sparring scenes with Kieran and mc 👀 Crossing swords will be a conversation of its own

( • ̀ω•́ )✧⚔️

And thank you, I’m glad you’ve enjoyed the story!! And thanks so much for sharing your thoughts, I love hearing them! <3 I answered the rest of your ask under the cut:

(assuming pre-relationship; Also some elements of this could potentially be spoilery depending on what exactly they were doing so I’m gonna also assume they are mostly dressed and those that wear gloves are still wearing them)

Kieran: Just fucking kill them. That would honestly be better than this. Might get mad and harshly scold mc for barging in without knocking afterwards if only to try to save some dignity at having been caught in such a vulnerable/intimate position but their flush gives away their mortification. Would prefer to never speak of it again but now for a long time every interaction with mc is tinged by this, even if only in the back of their mind. Also they feel especially ashamed if mc seemed really uncomfortable tho they won’t speak of it. If mc teases them about it, they’ll flush and snap at mc.

Nihm: Horribly flustered and even if they tried to act casual about things afterwards in an attempt to pretend nothing ever happened they aren’t going to be able to forget for a long while and will probably resort to avoiding mc out of embarrassment. Also this means any further sessions of TLC are going to now be tinged by thoughts of mc, however guilty they feel about that.

Lilith/Lucien: Not ashamed but is only as uncomfortable as far as mc is. If mc seems really uncomfortable having walked in on this, they’ll apologize as if it were their fault and would endeavor to try to smooth things over as they’d rather not mc be uncomfortable or tense around them. If mc seems more fixated despite themself or just plain interested, then they might be tempted to escalate things—like inviting mc to watch or perhaps participate.

Samira: Pre-relationship, she’s horribly embarrassed and ashamed as she really respects/reveres mc as a friend, as her patron, and as royalty. She feels it’s only prudent to keep some degree of distance between them considering their stations and being caught in such a vulnerable and intimate position crosses that line. She’s too mortified to resort to scolding mc for not knocking and instead is apologetic as though it were entirely her own fault this happened and would probably end up compensating by acting much more formal around mc than usual—more appropriate to the distance between an acolyte/patron royal than between friends.

Aurynn: Not embarrassed but would stop and casually cover up. Pretty nonchalant about it and probably would just ask if mc needed something etc. Afterwards, depends on how mc reacts—if they seem really mortified and want to forget it happened then he’ll play along and won’t ever bring it up and would act casual like nothing ever happened, but if mc seems to be more fixated on it/interested despite themself or even just unabashedly then he’ll mercilessly tease.

[rencatuive]

i thought itd be fun to document my reactions to the prologue on notes so this is just a copypaste of that. dont expect anything detailed at all mostly just 'ooh this character is cute' and. itll be that for all of them cause i dont dislike any characters at all:

[Student X]

airi feels extremely traumatised already

god bless student 4 is so real

ah shit student 6 intro is so cool with the student 1 connections

student 9 has good vibes i like em

STUDENT 11 <3 [manami]

i feel like student 12 is the type of character to have an *interesting* fanbase /neu

TAMBA THATS THE ONE I LIKED shes sweet omg

[Interviews]

isono is so cute i love the butterfly vibes. also i like the more mysterious vibe change near the end, its intruiging! i see her as the type to put on a strong/overly positive façade but i guess thats a pretty surface level observation

uh oh i think im just gonna call all these characters cute. harada is very cute. i love animal likers. not much more to say

(sidenote, it kinda sucks being willingly spoiled on a media youre not into. and then you decide to get into it, and you recognise these things you know play a part in the story. totally my fault lol)

chiba has the biggest 'probably have gone through the Horrors' energy to me just cause like. child star. she really intrigues me personality wise though. (oh maybe she is 17 ?? theres a lot of mystery here already which i like - she has a doctor too) fun!

ooh i was looking at designs and i liked kamimura too a lot. (side note is the interviewer straight up The Mastermind that would be neat i think) I like his voice a lot btw!! i like the energy

hayashi is so cool omg thats it . genuinely its nice to someone actually this defiant like Yeah fuck em up

oh wada is the guy whos i guess a fan of isono! probably too much of a fan! wonder about their interactions for sure... hes actually really cute. also this interviews getting deep.

sasaki is so cutr omg my type is glasses. the studious archetype is really cool and... dies early a lot of the time?? so uh good luck !!

aww childrens book illustrator <3 i really like ojima he seems nice!!

oh yeah okazaki had a cool asf design. ive. heard like One spoilery comment about her but its okay no i didnt. i really likw the intonation of 'im an open book'. (also i like how most of this cast have "no phobias" which i guess could be true?? but yeah no im not spilling that either) i like her vibes a lot rn though :D

demonologist?????? okay dude. this guy is interesting! /pos

oh oh im gonna like tsuno a Lot. and could i assume a lot more than other people? just based off how energetic she is. she has a lil fang :D hope shes not dead

i really like the vocal perforamance in hiroakis one btw. oh wait dude people ship hirojima. thats The ship in this fandom right. i love his energy btw. he dgaf (until the character development hits) also i assume youre not meant to see that little strip of glasses shading as eyes but i totally do and it makes him 100x goofier i love it

Tamba is the character I put as my favourite pre-reaction so i remember her [Student X]. loving the contrast of attitudes between them(understandably) and i do actually like her a lot here!!!! tamba nation!!!!

theres a few shyboys in this cast and i think at least one of them has to be evil or generally has a personality change or something. right? But right now theyre all cuties <3 including hasagawa

firedancer is a cool talent. lotta cool talents in this one actually. she also has fangs yippee!! watari having an unconventional talent seems to be bringing her a lot of stress though, makes sense. love the vibes

fancy boy. i thought he and tamba could be related or something at first bc. omg light blonde hair!!!! if a character mentions another cjaracter in this ill assume theyre a ship. uhhhh sasanagi

okay so right now im a big Tsuno enjoyer shes a real cutie. still liking tamba a lot!! okazaki is my favourite design. as for the boys i like harada and hiroaki for totally different reasons. and i think i want to learn the most about chiba right now :D

the voice acting in this is great btw and im really looking forward to the rest!!

[meiguicha]

Dulcet Embers - Recuerdos

Boothill x Reader

A melody found in the rubble of the past, reminiscing is often the bane of the survivor

//Very very short thing while I work on a really long yan fic that is not only sucking my soul out rn but probably going to flop/j. Definitely spoilery and has stuff from the leaks (also a rewrite because I hated it). Lyric excerpts from Huellas by Adolescent's Orquestra.

Y pasó y pasó, y tu vientre palpitó

‿︵‿︵‿୨ ୧‿︵‿︵‿

As the sun lowered ever more in the horizon and bathed the world in warmth, you hitched your daughter onto the crook of your arm to sit as her wide eyes stared in awe. Her tufty hair wild as a pudgy hand holding onto your finger, you hummed a familiar tune, swaying along with the melody. The warm wind breezed past and kissed the tender skin of her ears, eliciting a mirthful giggle that sung just as sweetly.

“Síntomas de amor, no es una ilusión,” You cood, lightly bouncing her on your hip. The words fell off your tongue easily, years and years of learned experience making it more than familiar. She brought your thumb to her nose, pressing the appendage against it as she inhaled. Smiling, you continued crooning, “Así te conocí.”

From behind you, a familiar set of spurs clicked as a voice, slightly raspy and drawling, finished the melody. Just as gentle, if not more, he sang, “Me enamoré de ti.”

You did not even have to turn to know who had come up behind, and when a hand rested at your hip while the other patted down your daughter’s hair, your smile only deepened. He brings your forms closer so that he may rest his chin atop your head. As the sun waved its final goodbye, she rested her head against your shoulder, still holding onto your thumb with great adoration.

With her clear fatigue from the afternoon, you kept your voice low. 

“I didn’t think you’d still remember the lyrics,” Murmuring, you adjusted the position you hold her so that she may rest against you more comfortably. 

He took a while to respond, the whistle of the wind filling the silence as your ears picked up the slight hitch of his breath. When he finally answered, it was quiet, whispered, “ ‘s not hard to when you keep singing it to her.”

You could only let a strain tinge your smile, your eyes softening as you let him continue holding the two of you. This song was one you had somehow remembered, somehow dug out from the depths of your childhood, he remembers. Though you had not the musicality your partner did, he sure knows you didn’t, such a sweet child was hard to not adore. You always sang to her at all hours of the time, though he was not wrong when he said that song was all you sang to her. He didn’t know why, he still doesn’t know. 

“Music is good for children, stimulates their brain.” As you said that, her little features furrow as a soft whine escaped her. 

Behind the attempt at annoyance, he still couldn’t fault you, “It doesn’t mean you gotta sing the same song to her all the time.”

Quietly, you had only insisted, “It's a good song.”

He remembers at that time, he had been still making that small guitar for her. Before she learned to walk, before he had screeched for you to come over and see. 

As though to distract him, you asked him, “And how’s the guitar coming along?” 

“Good, just gotta sand down some parts,” He notes, a little hesitant and seeking some kind approval. “You think she’ll like it?”

“I’m sure you could give her a lock of your hair and she’d still like it,” You murmur, nuzzling your head into his shoulder as he rests his onto yours. 

When you met his gaze, he remembers your affectionate gleam, your eyes filled and seeping with nothing but adoration. Pray tell, he may not be the best with his words but he can’t deny that when the world grew quiet and all that was left were the two of you, singing and swaying with no worries to be had, it was nothing but joy that swelled in his heart.

“You’re right,” He hummed, that lopsided grin pulling across his handsome face once more. 

You respond with one of your own, your voice louder in the sands of time, “Of course I am.”

With nothing but the memory of you, he could only smile bitterly as that song played through his head once more. If he could even have a lock of hair, he is certain that at the very least, he wouldn’t be left with only that song.  

“You always were.”

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Y pasó y pasó, siempre tu recuerdo me entristece

[vespidclan]

More ooc/irl stuff questions, wondering but are you still playing the save, just a few moons ahead. Or did you play it in full/until you were satisfied, and therefore know how the story will end? : 0c

And this is probably some sort of spoilers right now, but once the comic end, will you explain how you did the "404 resetting the moons until she gets what she wants" and other coding shenanigans she did? Like, did you immediatly get Icicle succumbing in the medic den, and turned it into 404's reset shenanigans for the story. Or did you actively "roleplay" as her by resetting until you got what 404 would have wanted? Same for stuff like the bloodthirsty/loyal coding thing etc : 0c

1: I know how it will end because I played the entire save already. Though that was technically a lie, because I played 100 moons in, but I want the story to have 109 moons (hehe reference). The rest of the 9 moons I want to be a surprise for me but aside from that I have an idea for the ending

2: The stuff 404 does was just little additions I made to the story and not actual coding work I did myself. While I was playing the save I never once had the idea of making it meta and that was just something I added later on when I wanted the story to be more than casual, since crazy things do happen and it worked out well enough!

The idea of where I got 404 was funny actually. Only after I finished the story was when I wanted an antagonist but there wasn’t any cat in the game that would’ve been a good fit, and I wanted this antagonist to be ‘inhuman’ and ‘driven by hate’ who ‘messed with the files’ since I was inspired by IHNMAIMS. This was super weird of me to do and I don’t recommend doing it but I just… kept clicking at ‘new clan’ to see if there were any randomly generated cats that were interesting enough to choose and boom! Moththorn!

This is the part where it gets kinda spoilery?? Nothing related to WTTG it’s kinda just background lore lol. I miiiight implement this later in the comics so I’ll put it under the cut

Me making Moththorn into the game was kinda like me dooming her from the start? from the first moment she was in Pineclan she was always meant to become self-aware since that’s what I always planned it to be. She’ll know she’s self aware but she’ll never know that she was specifically programmed to be self aware if that makes sense. Her being added into the game later is also why the gorls ages are so weird and not realistic. cuz they weren’t supposed to be her kids in the first place.

…It’s sorta why she had a close attachment to the game once she went into Out Of Bounds. It’s basically the holder of all things, the ‘god’ of the world and she was relieved to find it since that was what she was after; the truth. The game didn’t kick her out of Out Of Bounds either, mostly out of interest, and it gave her the power to control the Out Of Bounds since having a ‘happy and carefree life’ was what she truly wanted.

Of course then the system begins to start breaking down because this cat is controlling a part of itself. It is trying to stop her but still wanting to keep its status as ‘perfect’ so there isn’t much done to stop it… That’s where we left off at WTTG anyways. I think we’ll get 1 or 2 more parts depending on how much I add hehe

[3koboldsinahoodie]

When would you say Wade started having feelings for Logan? :) ignore this if u want too lol

Ok ok ok

So I should probably not answer cause spoilers for Wade pov - but also who tf am i, marvel? its fanfic and i have no self control

I will however try to learn how tumblr works and put the spoilers below the line in case anyone wants to go into the wade pov blind

So yknow how Logan basically has a crush from the start, but its like a slow gentle build until he realises he's in love with Wade? And hes like huh well fuck, but also is like probably in hindsight I've been in love a little while. Kinda just puts his head in his hands and is like well this is something I now have to deal with

Wade's not quite like that

Wade has a crush from the start as well (in fact had a crush on Wolverine before he got to know Logan) and he's aware of it and wants to see where it goes, but after Vanessa he is initially not trying to rush into anything. So for a while he just kinda enjoys the crush - which is romantic feelings I guess, its not just "wow he's hot", and Wade is intending for it to maybe go somewhere, but he's also pretty detirmined at first not to put pressure on it. For a while he's like "yeah I have a crush and I'd like to see where this goes but I'm not like... gonna die if this doesn't work out"

And then comes the point (the exact moment of which I will keep secret to make more fun when the pov is out) where he falls in love/realises he's in love with Logan. And the idea of "just seeing where this goes" is out the window immediatly, because it hits him *hard* to a point where its almost terrifying, and it really does suddenly feel like he *will* die if he fucks this up and Logan leaves

So yeah sorry this doesnt actually answer the question entirely. To actually answer it somewhat, the love realisation will come around a similar point in the timeline to Logan's, but again, wanna keep the exact moment secret for now hehehehe

thanks for the ask i hope this is the right balance of spoilery vs not ruining it hehehe

[deadzonedenizen]

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN

RAMBLING ABOUT OCS: GIBBY EDITION

BASIC CONCEPT IDEA:

Before we start with the rambling, we first need to start with the JTTW character she is based on.

According to this article, there are four monkeys of havoc, Wukong and Macaque making up half of them. Horse Monkey will be a ramble for another time. Right now, we're putting our focus on the gibbon.

Lots of space-themes going on with this little guy. When I first read this bit, you know the first character that came into mind?

Now you know the reason behind Gibby's Halloween costume. So anyways, that collector inspiration already gave me a basic idea of what I wanted Gibby to be as a character. Bouncy little kid that has too much power for her own good.

Other inspirations for her character include Mebh from Wolfwalkers, Young Eda from The Owl House, Spinel from Steven Universe, and later on Kingsley from Yaelokre. The first two especially influenced Gibby's hair design, the third tracks with her ability to stretch her arms, and the last with a good chunk of her personality.

DESIGN:

Probably the first thing you'd notice from Gibby design-wise is her giant hair. I've decided to give her that hair to give her a sort of silhouette that resembles a shooting star. With Gibby herself, she is somewhere around two-three lego heads tall. I mean- gibbons are already teeny, and especially the young by default, so of course Gibby's gonna be fun-sized.

With her color palette, I chose colors from the more pastel-y side to emphasize that childlike wonder that's basically associated with her. Fun fact, her hair is a reference to how she was born ;)

Her clothes, I wanted it to look like something you'd find a FFM monkey demon wearing, while still referencing Gibby's former job as the Jade Court's jester by adding what's basically a faded version of the Celestial Realm's signature turquoise and gold, and putting jester-like design bits like the little bells and mismatched colors. I also want the outfit to look like something she made herself.

NOTES FURTHER INTO DEVELOPMENT:

I can't really say too much without spoiling some bits of Ship In A Bottle, so I'll try to avoid anything that borders too close to that. Instead, I'll list each of the details from the JTTW Gibbon's description + how it's applied to Gibby.

'Seize the sun and moon'

Okay, so she can't literally manipulate celestial bodies all over the place. Instead, it's reflected on her flutes. Yes, Bell's flutes are actually hers, and are just meant to serve as Bell's training wheels with his powers. The flutes have a second form that resembles sunwheels (Though it would be appropriate to call the moon flute's wheel form a moonwheel).

Usually only one flute can be used in this form at a time. Which of the flutes can be used in its wheel form depends on whether it's day and night (moonwheel only for night, sunwheel only for day). The only time both can be used in their wheel forms is during an eclipse, or if the flutes are being used by two people. (Something I need to update in Ship In A Bottle 💀)

I haven't designed the wheel forms yet, but the sunwheel has its rays more emphasized, and the moonwheel's appearance depends on the moon's current phase. The sunwheel also resembles a suncatcher, while the moonwheel resembles a dreamcatcher with magpie feathers (for Ship In A Bottle readers, no you can't make oaths with them).

'Shorten a thousand mountains'

Ooooohhh boy, this is one of the more spoilery bits. All I need to say is...there was a reason they had to trap Gibby in the calabash. Gibby's abilities that aren't mentioned anywhere else here fall under this category. That's how you know these are her more...unstable abilities. Thankfully she'd need a good supply of power to source the energy needed for all of that. Otherwise it'd be really...disastrous. An ability I can safely mention without spoilers tho, is her ability to...literally shorten mountains. And by that, I mean cause chunks of land to break off from the ground and remain floating in air. A lot of floating islands can be contributed to her.

'Distinguish the auspicious from the inauspicious'

Or in Gibby terms, her gut feelings. AKA her intuition. There is a small legend about her, where if she appears in your dreams, it's a sign of that dream possibly foretelling a future event. So she's basically an omen, good or bad depending on the dream. Being a dream-hopper, she tends to be more attracted to dreams that likelier to be a sign about the future.

Another small legend basically makes her a wishing star-like figure. If you wish upon a star, you're inviting Gibby to visit your dream (dream, as in your wish in this context).

In the waking world, her gut feelings are a bit weaker. Simply put, the closer that specific event is to happening, the stronger her gut feeling is. For an event that could happen maybe a year into the future, Gibby would only get a slight gut feeling that she could easily just wave off. For an event that's a second from happening, Gibby gets literal vision flashes before they actually happen. This makes her a really good dodger, making her difficult to attack.

'Manipulate planets and stars'

Again she can't just play pinball with celestial bodies whenever she wanted (and believe me, she does). The planet bit is less referenced compared to the star bit (for a reason involving another oc).

Reading this far into my rambling, you already see a lot of star motifs with Gibby. Well another is her ability to manipulate stardust, which can put people to sleep if she's not careful. She generates stardust using her flutes, and the stardust is how she makes clones of herself, and even other people. The stardust can act like pixie dust too. Sprinkle a bit of it on something, and that's how you make that something float (remember the floating islands?). Yes, she can manipulate normal sand too (also a reference to her birth).

Stars and other celestial bodies also make up a good chunk of how she can tell if her gut feelings are a false alarm or not, since the position of celestial bodies can predict someone's d*stiny in Chinese astrology.

Gibby as a celestial primate

Whereas Wukong is the sun and Macaque is the moon, Gibby is the stars. Whereas Wukong is the hero and Macaque is the warrior, Gibby is the jester. I like to think that there's this sort of duality when it comes to pairs of celestial primates.

Wukong represents the unchanging sun, and the fact that it never stops shining. You just can't help but notice him, but even dare to make eye contact, and you might mark yourself as an enemy.

Macaque represents the ever-changing moon, its different phases reflecting in how Macaque is better able to adjust to different situations. You don't always notice him. Sometimes he shines brightly with a dramatic display, and sometimes he's blended with the shadows of the night.

Gibby represents the playful stars. Her head is in the clouds and she's almost always literally floating. She embodies the whimsies of childhood, the curiosity of youth, and the world through the lens of a child.

So you already have a bit of a hint about down-to-earth Mandrill's character, hint hint nudge nudge ;)