#like the guy's talking big and all of that about how he's technically a zombie and idk trying to kinda 'scare' Q

[fernlessbastard]

One of my favourite concepts for a comedic tnt duo situation is Wilbur trying to be edgy and joke about being a zombie and eating people just to be hit with the information that Quackity has in fact canonically consumed human flesh

[veespee]

okay i have no idea how i haven't done this yet, but here are my HABIT headcanons:3 enjoy!

HABIT headcanons

-He would blast romantic old jazz music while killing his victims. Which I know technically ISN'T his music taste (except for the fact that he likes Frank Sinatra) but i just have a vision of him cutting a person up while singing ‘Coney Island Baby’ very casually. (hence why i put the song hehe)

-Eats like a rabid dog. Straight up, his head moving back and forth as he tears his food up with his teeth. Only with meat though, with every other food he eats like a person, which would be pretty jarring.

-Really enjoys watching horror films (big surprise wow) but mostly snuff films. He's a little freak so of course in his twisted mind the fake gore horror movies use is boring, so he watches snuff films. Also i think he'd enjoy historical documentaries, mostly about dictators (i wonder which one) or in general just,,, bad events in history. Also true crime documentaries, especially if it's people he has possessed before just for the thrill.

-Also, I think he'd be one of those killers that taunt the police. Like the Zodiac Killer, he will leave creepy notes or clues around the police stations. Of course, they can't find an actual person named ‘HABIT’ existing, but HABIT would keep the facade that he was just a regular human serial killer taunting them. Thus, in literally every place he would start a spree, there would speculation. “Maybe ‘HABIT’ is multiple people? I mean, it can't be one person, how can they move around so quickly? Or maybe it's a satanist cult, sacrificing people. No, no, maybe it's a mafia taking people out.” And of course, he'd eat the hysteria and confusion up.

-Names all of his weapons. Of course we have Rex the Chainsaw, but I think he'd also name every single weapon. And it'd be some silly shit like his hunting knife would be called Betty.

-He talks to Vinnie about historical figures like he knew them personally. Like randomly, he'll just be on the couch, then start reminiscing about John F. Kennedy. "Poor Johnny didn't deserve that bullet through his head, shame." Also I think he would just,,, randomly lie about shit. Like "yeah i used to drink beer with Rob Zombie, he's a chill guy." and Vinnie just knows he's lying but doesn't dare question it.

[furrysmp]

decided to go sunbringer designs for once. I have so many words oh my god

so. uh,

I am so normal about sunbringer joel smallishbeans so normal I swear. he's planning to throw the o from his name at scott btw.

... he and scar are related but I'm not explaining further until the actual fic about it comes out because there's so much plot significance in the smallishbeans.

... grian. has a book. that he borrowed from the Library. it's very relevant I swear the concept of the library is a plot point.

Also grians eyes are technically green! With a bit of purple and just. a layer of Dark over them to make them less neon green. its not in his genetics to have neon eyes. unlike scar and I swear their eye colors are relevant but like in a weird queerplatonic scarian dl based bit in the grian chapter of the fic

Mumbo is a long cat and being held by me specifically those hands are how I draw my mc skin. I wanted to draw him as this meme since 2021 but he's very hard for me to draw so I took the one time I'll ever draw him and did this.

Jimmy is. a creature. that has bird features but also cod features bc again half of the plot of sunbringer is based on empires 1. Also the bird he's holding is singing. And joel is stealing the song bc he has music type magic.

Scott! Is the one guy I can talk about! Because he already appeared in the fic. He's part ender dragon and like. a child of stars? I have a lot of times I drew him before I think but idk how much of it I uploaded before so yeah. Please ask me about sunbringer scott smajor he's one of the only ones I can talk about and he has so much lore going for him he's so dear to me

impulse is. technically part ender dragon too? the specifics will be explained in his chapter of yhiwu (alongside. a lot of magic lore. like a lot. I have half that speech written already it's basically looking the empires fic in the eyes and going "fight me uwu")

And because impulse is aligned to shadows skizz gets to be some form of light dragon descendant? Like light isn't directly an element in the magic of this universe but it does have an equivalent in the element of Life, which connects to truth and love, whereas shadows and theatrics (and storytelling in general) is always aligned to whatever element is considered dark; in this magic system, being Void.

Tango is looking up at mumbo. thats all. I don't have a lot of notes because my tango is just a little guy.

(Etho is checking smth on his smartwatch and also doing his best to ignore bdubs rn bc bdubs is in his villain arc/hj)

... ngl the only note I have on the bdubs design is that it's accidentally inspired by my human design for the main character in the show I'm writing. Bracelets and sparkly eyes and a t-shirt and. Crimes.

also not much on the cleo design she was just fun to draw but the implications of her existence are spoilers and also not really visually indicative bc idk what a "zombie hybrid" would look like so she just looks. funky. her background is all stitched together btw I finally had a use for the dashed lines brush :D

martyn and ren are. BIG spoilers. But only to like chapter 5 of the current fic. I will say I highly enjoy their existence tho. Also my ren designs always have hawaiian patterned shirts its a personality trait he seems to possess. Also his glasses are like. a hologram? bc his ears are Dog so he cant have normal glasses w like. the things that go behind ur ears.

lizzie is. also very important. she gets the two animals thing like jimmy bc axolotl and cat were her empires animals. also her buns are heart shaped I saw some fanart of that and its really cute so I also have that. and she's also looking at the long mumbo! very confused.

bigb. scares me. like yeah secret life really be mans villain arc. I tried to reflect that by actually straight up mirroring his eyes and having him be. the only guy looking straight at u. he can see u. u can run but u cant hide. also he gets cookies. also also drawing facial hair is hard he's the only time I ever managed to make facial hair look. normal. ever. wont happen again.

gem is being adorable and also definitely a deer hybrid dont mind the magic or stuff its fine (her chapter is. third in the roster. I literally just need to finish the impulse chapter to convince myself that its ok to upload her immediately after ch2).

and pearl! who we know bc she gets first chapter of the fic and thats already out. her eyes are a bit like moons btw. also she's doing magic back at gem which is cute I think. idk.

also half of them have fancy hair shines. like joel having beans that get progressively smaller. or pearl having moons. :D

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OH MY GOD

THE ZOMBIE AU

*Snarls ferally, but respectively*

MORE

*rattles the bars of my cage... Also respectfully*

So like..... 👀 I JUST WANT MORE. OMG PLEASE, THATS TOO GOOD 😭❤️❤️❤️

THANK U TGANK U THANK U i also want more fr.

Also you can rattle disrespectfully idm

IM GLAD U LIKED IT THO !! I'm always thinkin of AUs but so rarely do they spawn an actual creation like that journal entry

Uhmmm a lot of my thoughts on this got lost to the sauce in the big ghoap server, but here are some things I remember/just came up with:

- Ghost totally eats people too. He's not infected he's just a freak and a ride or die. If Soap is eating human flesh he is too. If he could get bit without compromising his ability to care for Soap by God he would be bit by now. Unfortunately he needs the fine motor control so he'll just keep LARPing as a zombie instead.

- Soap isn't dead TECHNICALLY. His heart stopped and restarted at some point but he does breathe and bleed and eat. I haven't decided exactly how the zombies work but if you've ever read the contaminated series by Em Garner, I'm thinkin it's something like that.

- that being said Soap can also talk. Not very WELL he doesn't have a great grasp of words anymore or very precise control of his lips/tongue but he CAN. Can also clearly still understand some things but draws complete blanks on others. Yes he knows what formation he's being asked to fall into but no he doesn't know how to hold that gun (not that anyone would want to hand him a gun)

- one more note about the zombies: Soap isn't the only "nonviolent" one (He's plenty violent just not without reason) but he is part of the minority and my boy is HUNGRY. Most other zombies have the hunger and VERY little else so they're just hangry and they can't eat ANYTHING because suddenly they can't keep anything down except raw meat and while that isn't limited to humans it definitely doesn't exclude them lol. Soap got to keep a fair amount of his auuhh (forgetting the word I want to use so—) cognition(?). He recognizes that he's hungry but doesn't lose control of himself about it yk.

- Ghost did not actually break out of quarantine, Gaz let him out & Price knows it, but can't blame him. Soap was looking real rough because he was starving, Ghost was only barely eating and so when Ghost started working at the door Gaz was like "Man. The degree to which this sucks is untenable. Yall may be batshit but you are my team" and he just opened the door. And they ARE team and so Ghost obv didn't kill HIM for food. And Soap wasn't going to either bc that's Gaz. Gaz is friend, not food.

- Price, as much as he can logically be like "Gaz disobeyed a direct order and put us all in danger. Ghost has lost his mind and Soap could snap at any moment" he doesn't have the heart to actually DO anything those are his boys!!! Not like anyone's keeping a super close eye on them anyway bc who has the time to give the stinkeye to a single task force when the world's on fucking fire. AND WHOS GONNA TATTLE ON THE GUY WITH A PET ZOMBIE?? NOT ME!! Live ur best life man.

Ran out of thoughts ty for asking I super appreciate it <3

[beatcroc]

E-117 Sigma for the character bingo if possible.... I like seeing people talk about this guy

SIGMA MY GOAT....

If u can believe it when I was first reading scrapnik as it was coming out sigma was actually my fave character. I distinctly remember being like "yeah its awesome they brought mecha sonic back after so long but this guy is just way too fucking fun." obviously i have since become turbo fucking insane about mecha, but that doesn't mean I love sigma any less than i did then!

'so mean' is only half marked because like no one is mean to sigma but i do think he is EXTREMELY overlooked and like i cant entirely blame people since he's a strictly passive/support role in an otherwise pretty dynamic story, but like he's so subtly cool and awesome and there is so much about him that i think is absolutely fucking genius as a pull for a character. like im not even joking or exaggerating when i say sigma is probably the best thing they could have done for that sort of role. gamma was a widely beloved character and the first Big Deal of an eggman bot going off to do its own thing, and he also set a precedent for e-100's specifically being particularly observant and prone to developing their own line of thinking to become kinder. i think it's so so awesome of them to use sigma to follow in the footsetps of that. like it just feels like a natural thing an e-100 would wind up doing yknow. and aside from thematic stuff it's also just a natural pull to be like "hey yeah there were like 15 more of those guys we just never saw, there's one of just sitting around somewhere we can still use i'm sure.", especially since the egg carrier is also a feature on scrapnik. lastly also i do just enjoy having an early e-100 in the series again..... theyre such strange and charismatic designs.

i do also love him in a more general sense of like. they introduce mecha sonic as a big scary dude like twice the size of the average sonic character, and then on top of that they turn around and introduce a guy another two feet larger still as a bonafide gentle giant. 1000/10 no notes theyre the smartest people in the world. Anyway all the scrapniks have awesome designs and it's just a kickass aesthetic in general that is so very incredibly My Shit but to highlight a specific point on sigma, I did recently notice that the hole on his left side is directly over where his serial number would be. Very interesting little detail wrt to the themes of identity of course. been rotating in my head a bit.

"so many headcanons" is a bit misleading because i'm sincerely just not a headcanons guy, but with sigma in particular my interpretations of him are a good bit more....arbitrary, than i usually work with. its mostly just stuff playing him up as more of a Force than the comic really suggests because i like him. sigma is a deeply modest character and he plays that vibe very well but i feel like if you can look past how cheery and well-adjusted he is he very quickly becomes quite the freak of nature...or, robotics, i guess in this case, and i intend to make a point of this.

i do like to believe he's like an actual literal zombie. we know the e-100's are animal-powered. there is no fucking way any animal in him is still alive. the sonic series has provided practically no other explanations as to what powers eggman bots, but i feel like most any of them would have gone to shit with the condition he was in when he arrived on scrapnik. i do not know how the hell he is alive and it is frankly way more fun to just not try and define it. i don't think he knows either and hes never thought to pay it any mind in the first place. dont worry about it

i genuinely think he has a level of technical prowess basically on par with tails and eggman. tails is always talking about how eggtech is weird and hard to work with, and while sigma obviously has a more innate understanding of how it all works, his being able to reprogram everybody is like, slightly insane i think. tails & co had to use motobud as a base to get any shot at nonaggressive badniks but sigma is out there doing it completely from scratch for like a bajillion different models. and even just physically that's a lot of different types of bot to work with and maintain!

somewhat tying back to the first point, i would count him as perhaps freakishly durable. he might not have been the first guy to wash up on the island, but he was the first one to wash up alive. that and also yknow he had no issue recovering a pretty solid hit from m.knux. i've been replaying sa1 a bit recently and gamma evidently has some kind of "auto-recovery system" which is on one hand is definitely kind of just some horseshit technobabble...but....yknow. maybe that has something to do with it.

i am saying these to say: sigma is weird. ok. he is Weird. he's a simple dude and his friendliness makes him come off as eccentric at most but he is kind of a deeply strange guy. it takes a strange type of guy to just wake up and be like okay ^_^ yay ^_^ and start doing robot necromancy. i'm sure it's mostly just out of wanting to give others the same second chance that he had, but still. scrapnik as a project is kind of a crazy undertaking that stems from an equally crazy sort of logic. i need everyone to appreciate how weird sigma is with me. ok.

beast unleashed has a ? Because I'm not..... quite sure what that means? But I'm taking it in a general 'he's doing something to me sense bc oh boy is he doing something to me. [by proxy of mecha of course but.... man. Man.]

and then @ 'i will cry', sigma [and all the scrapniks] are some of the most guys ever for being in that place of "these guys have literally never bothered anybody, he is just a little old man who wants to help people why would you EVER", like to the point there is a significant part of me that DOESN'T want them to show back up or be relevant in mainline comic stuff because bringing them in contact with the rest of the cast will necessarily mean bringing them into the crossfire of actual plot conflicts. i just want them to have their happy ending. those dudes have already well and been through it. Please.

[littleeyesofpallas]

Bleach’s Issue with Queer characters (1/3)

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So, someone recently(when i started this draft anyway) left a kind of incoherent rant on one of my posts.  It wasn’t actually related to anything I’d said in the post, and just came across as disjointed babble, so it didn’t warrant a direct reply at the time.  But it did bring up a subject I would actually like to talk about:

How Kubo handles gender queer characters.

I think it’s a little easy to look at the most glaring cases, come to the conclusion that he doesn’t handle representation well, and leave it at that.  That’s valid.  And he’s clearly not well versed or tactful in how he portrays these characters, and it’s really not that unreasonable to judge him for it.  But I also think there’s more going on with it than that really accounts for, so let’s pick at it a little...

By and large what Kubo does is some pretty by-the-books queer-coding villains, and what amounts to casting effeminate men in adversarial roles.  In the big picture, it’s not a good trope to be falling back on: it comes from a bad place historically, and even if Kubo doesn’t mean anything bad by it (and I’ll get into why I think he genuinely doesn’t) it contributes to the momentum already behind it that other, less well intentioned creators and readers inevitably stand to do more direct harm with.

The earliest case of this is actually from Zombie Powder.  Very early episodic villain, Ranewater Calder is a youthful and even girlish looking man who is actually an old man sustained by a youth restoring drug.  He’s a villain of the week type, so the fact that he’s pretty and evil is literally all there is to him.  Moreover, his fixation on youth, his vanity, and his deception (he pretends to be a frail, dainty victim at first) all link directly to his moral character.  Although Calder is himself never made out to be gay, the archetype he's clearly based on is a pretty classically homophobic characterization at face value

But even here it’s not totally black and white...  

There’s a snag in that Kubo’s not writing some 1950s American pulp novel where the perils of homosexuality spell self-destruction or divine/dramatic irony on the loathesome villain; he’s writing a shounen action manga, and it operates on the Rule-of-Cool first and foremost.  Calder isn’t a vehicle for moral preaching by religious conservatives, he’s a highlight character taking up valuable print space in a popular comic.  He’s attractive, he has a cool name, he has a cool weapon with a unique fighting style, and even his vanity and deception aren’t there to make him unappealing, they’re there to make him compelling.

And herein lies the root of Kubo’s problem.  He just likes having cool characters, and he crams them in where ever he can fit them, and that often means in villain roles.  Moreover, although some characters get more vilified than others, even within the scope of villain roles, not all of them get to stick around long enough to be developed as either something other than queer and villainous, or to get the full turn around.  After all...

Yumichika was a villain at first.

And you’ll noticed I hesitated just now at calling it a “turn around” and not a “redemption” or “turning over a new leaf” because frankly, the Shinigami never actually changed alignment.  They were circumstantially the villains of the Soul Society Arc until Aizen turned on them to be the bigger "real” villain.  Technically it was Ichigo & co. that changed alignments from fighting against the Gotei13 to fighting with them.  But relatively aside, Yumichika became a good guy and his favorable portrayal got to outweigh his villainous introduction.

Speaking of which, there’s not a whole lot to go over with it, but Yumichika’s original appearance pretty closely mirrored the profile of Ranewater Calder’s bit in Zombie Powder: a kind of “sissy” prettyboy is obsessed with his looks, and other than just being a guy with a sword pointed at the established heroes making him a villain, that vanity and narcissism make them mean, judgy and vindictive.

But Yumichika came back, and stuck around, and frankly became something of a fan favorite.  And I think this particular development says a lot about how Kubo looks at these situations.  You’ll notice, he didn’t actually have to change Yumichika’s character much to shift him from villain to hero.  Yumichika gets a little less prickly, but he’s still vain and it’s not even something that anyone ever frames as a problem he needs to work on.  In fact, the introduction of his shikai brought into play a new facet of his vanity: Deception.  So we’re back to that Ranewater Calder framework, where the prettyboy has something to hide with his looks, but in Yumichika’s case it’s shown as an almost endearing quality.  He hides his sword’s powers, a reflection of his true self, to fit in.  But this isn’t shown to be a thing to pity, his willingness to sacrifice a part of his own identity is portrayed as a kind of noble restraint.

Now, granted, I don’t think those elements all play nicely together. (In fact, the nobility of his self-restraint is a very dangerous thing to uphold as a virtue) But when it comes to trying to draw a line between message and intent, I think the most pertinent thing to consider as context isn’t actually the villain or hero dichotomy, or even your own personal feelings about the themes in play, it’s the attitude ("attitude" as different from “intent,” mind you) of the creator towards his creations: Kubo seemed to enjoy making Yumichika.

He had fun with his design (the feathers and the weird sweater collar thing) He had fun with the sword, with giving him a secret power.  He had fun writing his vanity rants.  He didn’t have to have Yumichika, he didn’t have to bring him back, and he didn’t have to add to his character, but he did.  He invested his own time and effort and space on the page to him and to making him interesting to have around.

But like I said, Yumichika’s the lucky one.  He came in early, got to have a comeback, and had time to stick around.  But consider that when Kubo was floundering around trying to figure out how to salvage the mess that was the late TYBW arc, he didn’t need to bring back Arrancar, and he didn’t need to bring back the ones he did. (in fact, only the Privaron even make sense in-world, Luppi and Charlotte weren’t convenient choices, they were just Kubo’s personal picks.)  And when he did finally get around to cleaning up the Sternritter?  Bazz-B was an obvious choice to keep, sure (following that Renji/Grimmjow mold of the hotblodded rival who bucks his own organizations rules) but Giselle and Lilttoto?  That was Kubo playing favorites.

Luppi was so short lived, it’s hard to really say anything about him.  He was basically just reusing notes from Yumichika’s first appearance, which again also refer back to Ranewater Calder in Zombie Powder for basic aesthetic and demeanor.  (It’s actually kind of weird that Yumichika never really had any kind of dynamic with Luppi when they fought.)

Side note here, but Kubo really loves to build some of his recurring character types around a certain kind of scene or dynamic.  Byakuya and Ulquiorra both do this thing where they’re supposed to be the stoic unflinching types, but they actually get shocked and surprised almost constantly.  Kubo seems to be going into it with the mentality that he thinks it’s cool when the character who predicts everything and always has everything under control, can’t predict something and doesn’t have it under control, and just reverse engineers a stoic person for the purpose of having them “break character” later.  In this vein Kubo seems to have a real love of very pretty characters shifting into a kind of sinister “ugly mode.”  It wouldn’t serve his purpose to just have them ugly or obviously meanspirited all the time, the ugliness has to be served up in its reveal as that “breaking character” moment, even though that “breaking” moment is itself the core of the character.

Not to get too heady about this little observation, but it honestly feels like something that applies even to Kubo’s broader writing habits; wanting the payoff of a twist, and planning said twist first but then reverse engineering the supporting ruse only as a matter of course.  Just a silly little thought...

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[frizzle-mcshizzle]

the rest of the kotlc books i read summarized in the most unhinged way possible

part one

Lodestar: Sir Mommy Issues™️ is apart of the neverseen and blows. up. his. SCHOOL. the council make everyone go to prison school lesssons, btw y’all can blow up flesh and bone, what?!, oh nothing, girl blows up rock with mind, ✨Slumber Party✨ MARRIED PEOPLE 💕KISS💕 BECAUSE THEY LOVE AND FORGIVE EACH OTHER, daily check-in with double agent friend, he makes a poem about his bootie!!, they meet on a island?? and talk about stuff??? young man gets kidnapped and 🔥tortured🔥, the mirror that the girl was allergic to is actually a ✨secret portal✨, and it leads to another ✨secret portal✨,it takes them to a evil bad gut hideout (it’s empty btw), (they accidentally trap their friend in the secret wall hole), 13 year old is asked to attend peace talks because that’s where a child should be, this just in: having a peace talks on top of a underground prison is a horrible idea™️ who would have thought, the building collapses on top of everyone because foreshadowing, man who murdered his fiancé gets smooshed by a R O C K, the mentor guy gets stabbed and slowly bleeds out as his creation watches helplessly (this will definitely not effect her forever) oh no the bad guys have another bad guy!! oh know the girls human parents get kidnapped!! but her sister is ok!! she suddenly remembers who her sister is! THE END so much happens in this book what the hell

Nightfall: Human girl thinks elves names are weird, man drugs a group of children and takes them to a second location (his ex best friends apartment), the ex best friend fosters the human girl along with his “not legally” ex-wife, main character goes into zombie mode because her human parents are being tortured, strange lady takes children on a field trip with a man who’s just a blurry blob and not any character we knows older brother, 🎶young man, fight the ogre king, i say young man, rip that jewel, off, his, ear🎶 a princess becomes a body gaurd and immediately booby traps her charges bed, he’s supposed to be on bed rest because he got almost gutted by the Ogre king aka her dad, surprise girl can control 🔥FIRE🔥, secret message decoding, and technically not cousin kissing,they find the evil big brother™️ and he gets slammed into the walls by his sister, there’s a secret torture chamber under the under water city, parents are stuck inside fake 🔥fire🔥, they get the parents out, dad mid controls a psychopath AND a genetically modified murder creature that shouldn’t even exist (kinda like the main character but with less murder), girl decides to take on a murderer, without emotions, who’s been in jail for a millennia on her own and gets TOSSED THROUGH A MIRROR (A+ for effort baby girl), she’s completely shredded and to this day i don’t understand how they even found her body or how she found the evil lady, the human parents gets their minds wiped AGAIN (you will cry at what the mother says), evil big brother completely forgot who he is THE END

Flashback: Evil big brother who had his mind completely wiped is living at home again, because the council and his parents don’t think he’s evil anymore because he forgot all his memories, the younger siblings are NOT happy™️, the younger brother AKA the Burnette hot guy is EXTRA not happy™️, he works out in the desert doing hand stand push up that the main character definitely doesn’t find hot, OH NO! the bad guys attack with shadow powers!!!, the two guys the series keeps forgetting about save the day with a 🌈rainbow sword🌈 (and Explosives!!!🔥local children almost die for the eleventeth time, their in comas, their poor parents, girl wakes up, her arm is goopy and there’s a monster in her brain that is not a metaphor for PTSD, the boy is still in a coma, 🩷😊✨happy shadow thoughts✨😊🩷, girl says she misses the boy and he wakes up through the power of 💕love💕 (probably), they’re hospitalized for two months aka half the book, the blonde hot boy walks in on the Burnett hot guy had feeding the main character candy, he leaves like a sad puppy in the rain, they get out of the hospital, but the Burnett guy is still on crutches, ❤️boy x chandelier the love story for the ages❤️, main character gets not 1 not 2 but 4 new body guards, one is married to the princess, they hate each other, self-defense training and bodyguards shenanigans, the ballad of Bo and Ro is written, local horse girl almost gets kissed by a guy who’s basically royalty, the horse girls horse goes into labor and the horse girl teleports to her rescue, the bald girl from book one helps save the horse’s life with her mom and dad, a troll takes advantage of the fact that the baby horses need to be incubated and gets the horse girl make an alliance with the entire horse species without any other adult input, they take the babies to some hidden tower and create an illusion that will definitely protect them, surprise Evil brother is still evil, he release secret gmo murder troll newborns who wreck havoc, EVIL LADY GETS CRUSHED BY D O O R, little brother almost kills his brother not once but twice, one of those times he trapped him in a baby troll capsule, when it started to fill with goop. he. stopped. pressing. buttons. evil brother escapes definitely won’t be relevant later, evil mom lady threatens to kill the baby horses if he doesn’t get to steal a child, he agrees to be stolen, she knocks him out anyway, the baby horses are born and they are ok, then the horse girl goes to get her eugenics lists because that’s what you do when your friend is kidnapped.

[mzhydes-funtimes]

Alright i went through and looked up all the new cards revealed so far so SPOILERS but first a little background with the set

Like the cowboy set it has multiple characters from different planes in it but the most it really does with this is the cards are mainly from Amonkhet and Kaladesh (which has been renamed) with references to other planes mainly in the form of lands but its a vehicle centric set but i think it does it pretty well the teased 1 cost 13/13 vehicle is NOT worth crewing til the late game or else it just dies as soon as its crewed so it not that big a deal anyway onto major spoilers below the cut!

So i save the pics of the cards i found the most interesting and heres the cards i think will be problematic or just cool:

Starting with the red green card i HOPE the "exhast" mechanic requires you to attack with a vehicle FIRST because even tho it costs 12 to use that ability thats... extremely good, i would say broken (but then again thats all theyve really been making hasnt it)

Anyway The Aetherspark also looks really cool and i dotn think will be too much of a problem besides that 'lifelink in the form of loyalty' ability but what im ACTUALLY upset about with this card is: WHY ISNT KARN AN ARTIFACT PLANESWALKER??????

Anyway the next card the ward on ALL artifacts (you control) is stupid and while in commander its fine and yeah its technically better than hexproof and shroud, if your playing an artifact deck (which is most of what this card is going into) a lot of those artifacts will be nigh impossible to remove without a boardwipe

4th is... well itll probably be really good considering the last time they did this with Roaming Throne but hey! Now any tribal deck can become a vehicle deck as well! Which think is really fun, might do this for pirates lol bc that makes the most sense

Basri is what i was talking about like bruh :( hes the soldier boi not the cat boi thats ajani :'(

Oh then cool lore thing THERES NEW AMONKHET GODS i believe when i read the article bc i was confused about amonkhet they said theyre introducing 2 new gods or something so to recap we have: Bontu, Oketra, Hazoret, Kefnet, Rhonas (as the primary 5 colors) the three corrupted gods who we dhould get a core set that goes back in time and shows us what they used to look like of The Locust, Scarab, and Scorpion gods, and now we have (thats confirmed so far): Sab-Sunen then a god we dont have his card of yet: Ketramose (according to the wizards article)

Oh and we got white zombies for amonkhet coming back with some legends for them too so thats fun can build a black and white zombie deck with a leader now (thats how i built my old decks picked a creature as the main guy, a legendary creature if i could and built around it altho i dont play much now but i have a few commander decks i did this with and am building a few more that dont have this philosophy bc i ran out of legends aka i lost a bunch of them somehow)

[stunticonbreakdown]

not sure if you've answered a question like this before but can u say a little bit about some of ur favorite iterations of breakdown? i assume ur favorite is g1 but i'd like to hear ur thoughts on as many as u care to talk about! :)

AH! I think the only question like this I've been sent was design-wise, and yes yes yes absolutely I will.

So, yes, my favourite is G1! He wasn't actually the first one I was a fan of, that was actually TFP, but he's the most relatable and has so much going on with him (combiners, very detailed personality and facts about him available, more toys, etc.) so my brain's stuck to him the most. There's always more information about this dude and I love it so much. It's also nice going into his story more in depth than G1 ever would- this kid is a child soldier (basically) growing up with psychosis and no professional help available who shared a mind with 5 other guys. The effects of that are so interesting to look into for me. I also cannot stop making headcanons for this lad someone stop me.

WFC Breakdown is another favourite of mine- he used to be top favourite Breakdown because he's got my favourite design, actually! As much as I adore G1 Breakdown's design visually, as an artist I feel like I'm losing years off my life trying to figure out how his helmet and his joints work. Because Oh My God. But WFC being a video game and all, he's a 3D model with joints that have to work and he's also very visually appealing to me. I love his big bug eyes. I miss his personality from that game, too, considering he's canonically also Prime Breakdown (I know a lot of people pretend WFC/FoC aren't the same continuity, but they still are canonically). He's very vain and so energetic he seems like he's having so much fun despite complaining so often. Like you can tell he loves the Decepticons. Zombie War Breakdown is included in this paragraph because they act similar enough and, once again, are technically the same guy.

I feel like next favourite would be TFA! And no! He's not cartoony Prime Breakdown!!! I honestly love TFA Breakdown so much. He's not in... Anything outside of the Stunti-Con Job comic & script reading, but he's super fun nonetheless. He's the only Breakdown with a low courage stat, fun fact, and he's an actor/stunt-man with his acting group the Stunticons. His colours are really nice in TFA- he's mainly cool-toned and he's got more purple than red, so he looks very soft lol. He was meant to be voiced by Jack Angel, the man who voiced Breakdown in his first episode of G1 (all lines past that were Alan Oppenheimer), but he wasn't able to and the YouTuber Vangelus did it instead, and his voice fits this version so well. He seems so sweet and like he does not want to be there at all. Like the group was a bunch of friends and three of them wanted to do stage plays, but Drag Strip and Breakdown were dragged along anyways. I actually got a commissioned drawing of TFA Breakdown because I thought I'd never be able to get a toy of him, but I did, so now I've got both!

AGH I feel like I'm missing something but whatever. Breakdowng,,,...

[ratgingi]

Imagin me crash landing directly into your inbox. Climbing out the still smoking crater to point at you and ask. Ur amoungus ocs!!!! Can u tell me abt them

GRABS YOU BOTH BY THW SHOULDERS. BOY CAN I

okay so the crew members who currently have information are orange, black, lime, white, coral, and pink

lime is this really upbeat and cheerful crewmate, they're super friendly and their favorite pass time is making little buttons and pins to decorate their suit and give to their crewmates. the members-dropping-like-flies thing greatly stresses them out and makes them really antsy so they spend a whole lot of time in crowded areas to feel better, the crew members they consider their bestest friends are orange, black, coral, yellow, and blue. they are always one of the first ones to greet new members and despite being deeply upset about the deaths have not been spotted outwardly expressing it once, they always keep up a positive face when around their crew members repress anything other than positivity as hard as they can since they believe it won't help the situation. they're a bit of a bean pole (like 5'10) and very huggy. they're also one of the ones who likes to decorate orange's helmet with stickers for fun <3

black (who also likes to be called teddy) is one of three impostors, and is a big [6'4"] shy dude who gets really easily attached to his fellow crewmembers and falls in love with them Super quickly, resulting in him following them around like a puppy and protecting them from the others. he can be described as very soft hearted and nervous, he has an anxious stutter and is Incredibly Bad with words, often resulting in whoever he's currently pairing up the most with having to talk for him/defend him in meetings. the issue comes in when he finally gets it in him to tell his partner that he loves them, in which if they reject them he will become Furious and murder them in a blind rage . he then tends to dump the body in the trash and spend an hour or so bawling about it after. he's a big soft teddy bear please trust him i swear it's fine

orange is a guy who Was human probably at least once. we think. anyway his body is infected with a plant-like parasite that destroyed his brain and tanked his motor skills and intelligence Massively, he is still technically sentient and can think for himself but functions at a pretty much zombie-like level. his body is stuck inside the suit and basically rotting (his hands, the only part of skin visible because he can't wear gloves due to claws that might just be sharpened bone sprouting from his fingertips, are greying really badly. and he smells like death 24/7.) despite all this, he is completely docile. he has made no attempts to hurt the rest of the crew in any way and in fact INSISTS he is 100% human and even gets distressed and sad when someone says he isnt. since he doesn't bother anybody he is allowed to stay aboard and the more friendly/brave crewmates like to decorate his cracked visor with stickers. it's unknown how his parasite spreads so no one is allowed to touch the plants on him. he is also massive [6'7"] but it's unknown how much of that is due to whatever he has goin on

white is. a fuckin cockass he sucks so hard forever. he's not an impostor but behaves incredibly sus and is greatly disliked by the rest of the crew, the only reason he had avoided being voted off thus far is because he always has a solid alibi (he's known for forcing other crewmates to pair up with him to ensure this). he's Super full of himself and thinks he is above the rest of the crew, willing to throw anyone and everyone under the bus for any reason. he is also known for going out of his way to cause problems within the crew just to make things more interesting to himself. think similar to fuckin. byakuya frm dangan. also he has two amogus babies who he named Child 1 and Child 2 and when in the presence of other crewmates he appears super neglectful to them but is real doting and caring in private. Child 1 is really curious and friendly and Child 2 is really shy and anxious. the main reason he neglects them around others is because he automatically assumes other crewmates will just. take care of them for him. [coral does usually]

coral is a really sweet single mother aboard with her one son who she's named peach (her fav fruit <3 also he taped a plant to the top of her helmet bc it makes her look like a peach and she's just never taken it off), she's sort of the resident doctor and tends to the other crewmembers in any way they need her to. she is also the main one when it comes to investigating murders aboard the ship as she is determined to keep the place safe for peach. she and yellow have kind of a gay thing going on <3

pink is another impostor, who is an alien taking the shape of a crewmate that was originally just here to observe and learn about humans and their behaviors. however, after once witnessing black killing a crewmate, she kinda went :AYO: and decided that looked far more fun, and has spent her time since perfecting her skills in taking out the rest of the crew. she is a bit of a cocky bastard and likes watching the others try and figure out who the culprit is. also she's technically genderless, when she was brought aboard the ship the crewmate who was greeting her was a lady and was like btw what's ur pronouns? :-) and she was kinda like . um . what's urs and when the other was like oh mine are she/her she kinda just went Those Ones. Me Also

as a bonus for reading all that you get a sneak peak at the first 4 because they have images ready

[gavindna]

Uhh here’s a list of my favorite men in order from undead unluck I guess

Spoilers ahead or something

(Billy and tella have been omitted because I’m not a homewrecker like that)

1. Void volks

I know controversial opinion but my number one is not Andrew the undead, I just think void is really really hot and as the sluttyness ranker person put it Andrew is oversaturating his nudity, void’s tendency to be shirtless is hot to me or something. I like his hair and muscles too (duh)

Honorable mentions!!

Burn any phase and spoil phase one are both really hot but unfortunately it’s a Billy tella homewrecker thing except they’re not actually in a relationship just yet so it wouldn’t technically be homewrecking but they’d be happier with each other than me. I also don’t wanna burn to death and/or get turned into a zombie mid sex so yeah.

2. Spring

Spring my beloved <<<3333 only reason why he’s not number one is that he is a UMA and I don’t want god to take over his body to kill me because I feel like that would make spring really sad (I mean I would die too but I’m more worried about springs happiness) I also feel like spring, being a UMA is in general unattainable. I feel like there’s a 75% of me turning into a cherry blossom tree and I’m not really into that the adventure zone bury your gays ass shit.

3. Creed

Woah hit famous tumblr user GavinDNA Andy isn’t even in your top three or honorable mentions?? How could you?? I apologize but creed is just very hot to me. As king cope on the UUcord put it I feel like undecrease could be VERY fun in bed. He’s also really big and I find that hot + scars are awesome

4. Sean (100th loop)

Controversial to put Sean (especially first loop version) above Andrew I know but like. The third eye kinda does things for me. I feel like some very fun consensual stuff could be done with unseen and I’m down for it

Honorable mentions!! (This time of humans lmfao)

Victor, Nico, Feng, enjin, and shen are all way too in love with their wives (except for feng, who’s way too obsessed with Fuuko to acknowledge my existence(yes I am counting ramen as enjin’s wife)) and are therefore all way too unattainable. If they weren’t Nico would probably go between Sean and creed, victor would go between spring and void, 100th loop feng would go between spring and creed, and 101st loop feng wouldn’t go anywhere because we’re both bottoms and it would just be an embarrassing experience for all involved. Shen wouldn’t go anywhere either because I don’t think there’s a universe where he and mui aren’t in love and I really don’t want mui to kill me. I just don’t really dig enjin so he’s not going anywhere.

All I’m gonna say about the hypothetical placements is that apparently old men are IN this season.

5. Andy

Buff, hung, hot, great personality, prone to risk, what more could a girl want?? I could maybe hypothetically date him before he and Fuuko meet but after I have absolutely no chance, like, at all. Once again I love his hairstyle and his scar is hot. For some reason the card just sticking out of his forehead does something to me too, and the way his left eye is always slightly more closed than his right eye… ough.

6. Hair down Andy

Just Andy with a slightly worse hairstyle. Still a good hair style and still hot, I just don’t really like how it hides his scar.

(Dis)honorable mentions

Rip is unattainable because he won’t let himself get over leila even though leila tried to get him and Latla together, just an ick of a guy. Also his eyepatch is HIDEOUS and you guys don’t talk about that fact enough

Ruin is for sure into some freaky shit and I’m not gonna kink shame him as long as it’s all consensual and nobody gets hurt but I just don’t dig that. There’s also the fact that he’s 1.) probably gonna be like “I’ve devoted my body to god, die” If you ask to hit that, and 2.) he’s almost definitely a bottom so it would just be awkward for the two of us. He cute tho, I dig the hair and tats

[gosecretscribbles]

Rise August 2024 Day 9: Purple Dragons

Summary: April, Leo, and Raph go explore a haunted office building. It's not haunted. It was a trap for Donnie. That's okay - the Purple Dragons are still ready to play with their prey.

Trigger warning for death threats.

April burst through the ceiling of the lair and slid perfectly down the skate ramp. “GUYS GUYS GUYS! Guess what I – hey, where’s Donnie and Mikey?”

Raph looked up. He’d been sitting on the sofa, knitting something soft and pink. Leo was lying next to him with his head on Raph’s thigh, reading from a stack of comics. Raph shrugged. “Todd’s, I think?”

Leo waved a hand. “Donnie mentioned something about a Hidden City adoption event.”

“And you’re missing it?” she asked incredulously, mostly at Raph.

He winced. “Raph scares most of the puppies.”

Leo reached backwards to pat his leg. “Don’t worry, big guy. We like your brand of scary.”

“Well, prepare to meet something even scarier!” April whipped a blueprint out of her backpack. “Tada! The most recently haunted building in a two-mile radius: Industrial Parks! Seven stories of tear-your-hair-out terror! I did some digging and it sounds totally legit!” She wiggled her fingers, grinning. “People reported cold spots and having multiple shadows that didn’t match their own outline, and several minutes of poltergeist footage!”

Raph frowned. “But it’s two in the afternoon. Don’t ghosts usually come out at night?”

“Duh! I want to get there early to scope the place out and find good spots to plant cameras! I printed blueprints from the city and marked all the spots where everything happened. I’ve also got cameras, water, microphones, chalk, salt, and six pairs of flashlights.”

Leo looked vaguely interested. “That’s a pretty decent inventory. Roll for persuasion.”

April’s grin widened. She whipped out her lucky 20-sided die (bright purple and glittery, courtesy of Donnie). She flicked her wrist. The die bounced off Raph’s head and skittered across the floor. She let out a whoop.

“Eighteen! YES!”

Raph sighed and put down his knitting. “Alright, let’s go bust some ghosts.”

“No such thing,” Leo intoned.

“Mikey literally talked to Gram-Gram three days ago.”

“Those are ancestors. Totally different.”

“Whatever, come on!” April grabbed their wrists and dragged them off the couch.

Leo and Raph put on a jacket and sweatpants each, then followed April out of the sewers. Raph’s tonfas were strapped to his belt. Leo kept his swords strapped to his shell, over the jacket. April’s bat was slung over one shoulder. They probably didn’t need it to whack some non-existent ghosts, but none of them felt comfortable leaving the lair unarmed.

Not that Leo was particularly on edge. The weather was decent and the streets stank of gasoline and pizza grease. Pretty good for New York. Normally, Leo would have enjoyed the walk, but he was still sore from yesterday’s training with Draxum. He kept his hands in his pockets, yawning.

April broke off talking with Raph to wave a hand in front of his face. “Yo, earth to Leo? You’re already green, I can’t tell if you’re a zombie.”

“’M fine.” He yawned again. “Mikey dragged me to Draxum’s yesterday for mystic training. I’m tired in magical muscles I don’t even have.”

“That’s because you never use them,” Raph said wisely. “You gotta exercise every day. Like a boss!”

“I do practice!”

“Getting sodas from the fridge doesn’t count.”

“Then how about this?” April asked, as they rounded the corner. The street was moderately empty, mostly parking lots and half-finished construction sites. The Industrial Parks building stood between two other office buildings towards the end of the block. “Boom! You wanna portal us inside? Technically we wouldn’t be breaking and entering!”

“Ugh, fine.” Leo unsheathed a sword and opened a portal underneath them.

Suddenly all three of them were free-falling through a dimension of bright yellow sky and giant sunfish the size of airplanes. The sky contracted and a giant sticky tongue shot out like a cosmic chameleon. They screamed and Raph grabbed them just as Leo opened another portal.

This time the three of them crashed Raph-first through the Industrial Park front doors, screeching across the fake linoleum until Raph’s shell spikes brought them to a skidding halt.

“Sorry,” Leo panted. “Just – wanted some action on this ultra-lame ghost hunt.”

April let out a shaky laugh.

Okay, so. Maybe Leo should practice more.

Raph picked them both up like kittens and carried them further into the building, away from the mess. April took out her blueprints.

“Okay, so we’re on the ground floor. There are two subterranean floors connected to an underground parking garage. Most of the activity occurred in the floors below us.”

“Okay, hang on.” Leo made a T-shape with his hands. “Before we go down into the spooky basement, we need some horror movie ground rules.”

“Smash whatever moves,” Raph said firmly.

April flicked him in the forehead. “Uh, no! Stay together, bring flashlights, and don’t move if you get lost.”

“And no smashing support beams,” Leo adds. “Are we forgetting anything?”

“Probably. Let’s go!”

They used the blueprints to figure out where the stairs were. The front lobby was pretty spacious, but all the offices around it were arranged in a convoluted U-shaped maze that felt designed to isolate and suffocate all its unfortunate worker drones. The staircase was just as bad, and surprisingly ill-kept for such a recently constructed office building. And yet…

“Does this feel weird to you?” Leo asked, as they reached the lower level.

“Raph doesn’t feel a cold spot.”

“No, I mean the stairs. The railing’s loose, but the cheap black paint isn’t worn. Human hands have grease, right? It should at least be dull and not shiny.”

April shrugged. “There’s an out-of-order elevator. Plus no one in New York actually touches the hand rail.”

“Okay, but what about the outlets?”

She frowned. “What outlets?”

“Exactly! Look!” He swept an arm around them. Level 1 Basement was just as mazelike as the ground floor, which meant there wasn’t a whole lot of wall available and most of it was sectioned into cubicles. But the cubicles had no outlets. Anywhere. They moved forward slowly until they reached the middle of the room.

“That is weird,” April said slowly. “I mean, there are no computers or anything, but they would’ve had to plug something in. A printer. A phone. Something.”

Raph leaned to look over April’s shoulder. Then he glanced behind them and frowned. “Hey, I thought we were in the basement.”

“It is!”

“Well then why does the sign by the stairs say we could go down to floor five?

“Wouldn’t you like to know.”

The voice echoed all around them like an audible smirk. The three of them stepped back as several ceiling tiles retracted and a giant TV lowered from the ceiling. Kendra, Jase, and What’s-His-Face stared down at them, grinning like cheshire cats (and just as painfully purple).

April groaned. “Kendra? Seriously?! Is every haunted building in New York actually just an emotionally stunted evil genius?”

“It might be a coincidence?” Raph offered.

Kendra rolled her eyes. “No, that was us, you nitwit. Cold spots? Bad air vents. Shadows? Retractable light bulbs. Poltergeists? All the furniture had magnets. Oh, and to top it off, we’ve got EMP dampers to keep any electronic signal from getting out. Those we installed just this morning. We were supposed to hook Miss Weirdo here” – she flicked a thumb at April – “and Donnie by extension, but whatever. You’ll do for now.”

Leo drew his sword. “Yeah, no, I’m not playing games with a bunch of Apple Genius wannabes.” He slashed the air. A portal appeared in front of them. The lobby waited on the other side. Before any of them could move toward it, the whole building shook and the entire lobby disappeared, moving sideways in a grind of rotating walls until the exit was completely blocked.

“What the heck?!” Leo yelped.

“Like it?” Kendra purred. “The entire building is modular. Every wall, brick, and cubicle can fold and refold into whatever shape we want.”

“A-are we really going to kill them?” Jase asked nervously.

“We sicced a mechabot on them, Jase. Grow up and shut up.”

What’s-His-Face sneered at them. “By the way, we’re recording the whole thing. Do you think Von Ryan would prefer to see you crushed, electrocuted, or choking on smoke? Or bear traps! Who knew low tech could be so much fun?”

“Riiiight,” Leo said slowly. “I hate to point out the obvious, but this feels like a classic villain plot hole. Why use so many death traps where one will do?”

“We’re bored,” Kendra said, shrugging. “We can’t access actual computers for another six months.”

April gave the TV a dubious look. “I thought it was thirty years.”

“I’m rich, it’s six months. We’ve got nothing better to do than play with our food.” Her grin widened. “You might not be Othello, but I bet he wouldn’t like it if we squished his pet weirdo.”

The walls began to move. Leo immediately portal-dropped them all back at the stairs. He would’ve dropped them at the stairs, or better yet at the lobby doors, but he was mystically exhausted and his powers worked best when it was a place he could see or had mentally tagged. He didn’t trust his portals not to accidentally drop them through another dimension or a wall. Sure enough, when he opened the door to the stairs, they’d all been retracted and left a nice dark hole dropping straight down.

Raph punched a cubicle that had been about to pin them against the wall. “We’re not on the ground floor. I can’t just punch our way outside!”

“So get bigger and smash through the ceiling!”

“Wait!” Leo called, too late. Raph’s ninpo was already doubling and tripling. He pulled back and his elbow smashed a support beam. Before the structure could cave on them, the floor under Raph pulled back and he fell waist-deep in a hole. The edges of the whole grew blades and began grinding away at the ninpo construct. Leo portal-chopped Raph back out – just as the floor beneath him dropped, too. He heard April and Raph call out as he went plummeting into the dark.

@sariphantom

[boghermit]

1, 2, 9, 14 & 23 for your Durge!

Heads up for Dark Urge spoilers here and there!

1. Tell us about your Tav! Name, class and subclass, race, pronouns. Do you have a headcanon for where they're from? Their family? Are they a Dark Urge? Or did you choose an Origin Character? Was it an easy decision?

The Dark Urge (or Salem, but I just call him Durge most of the time.) He’s a half-drow bard, College of Lore subclass, he/him. (He was originally a half wood elf, but his face type causes seaming problems with high and wood half elves for some reason.) It took me HOURS to settle on a character. Technically this guy is a recycled OC, but I think he fits nicely in the D&D world. I actually have….no idea how old he’d be. He’s at least in his 30s? Maybe? Not sure how well that’d mesh with the Dark Urge’s canon and the timeline of the series.

I’m still cooking up his backstory in my head because there’s a lot to juggle between his canon Dark Urge lore and what I’d like his pre-cult backstory to be. He’s probably from Baldur’s Gate, and doesn’t remember his “parents” well enough to have much of an opinion of them. Before I learned a bit more about the Dark Urge backstory, a headcanoned him as having been a transient with a list of mostly non-supernatural mental problems and no knowledge of how to address them. So he gets chucked into an asylum (do they even have those in Faerun?) or prison, later finds his way out somehow or is recruited by the cult, and makes his way to the Undercity when he realizes what he is. As far as I can tell, there might actually be room in the Dark Urge’s canon for that backstory. They let you have a bit of freedom with your Dark Urge character since they have amnesia, and I’m 200% here for that.

2. Was there something about the character creator that just couldn't capture your Character? Please tell us about their hair, facial hair, tattoos, piercings, disabilities, their trans or intersex body, or anything else you're comfortable sharing.

His original design has a very specific long braided style that the CC didn’t have, but it ended up working out. Maybe he chopped it off? Or maybe Orin did before she started digging around in his head? He also has very faint facial hair on his jawlines, and his mustache wasn’t originally that big at all. I think he would have FTM chest surgery scars and some tattoos related to his life before the main story. This is a quick doodle of how I imagined him looking before I made him in the CC.

This is how he looks in the game. The mustache kind of grew on me. (And him too I suppose🤓)

9. Do you have a favorite member of the Tiefling Refugees? Is it the same as your Character's?

MATTIS my ragamuffin… I think Salem would agree. He respects that swindling pick-pocket street urchin grind.

14. Do you have another NPC you loved from a faction not mentioned above? What about your Character?

Okay if we’re just talking about Act 1. And I know he’s a shit but...I love Sceleritas Fel. I love his creepy zombie imp (goblin?) design. I love his voice acting. I want to drop kick him but at the same time I felt kind of bad when he got turned into a kabob.

Salem fully hates him though. Understandable.

23. What are your Character's thoughts on the dream visitor?

Oh he really liked her for awhile, although he didn’t entirely trust her. They aren’t on the best of terms right now, but hopefully it’ll blow over. (I’m in Act 3)

[frosteee-variation]

man, i suck at coming up with questions. uhhhh. tell me about one of your ocs

anon you don’t know what you unleashed with that comment and that comment alone /lh /j

ALSO SORRY THIS TOOK A HOT SEC I. AM GOING TO WRITE A LOT. YOU ASKED FOR ONE BUT CHANCES ARE I MIGHT MAKE A FOLLOW UP POST TALKING ABOUT THE OTHER ONE BECAUSE THEY’RE BOTH TIED TOGETHER STORY-WISE

okay okay okay okay. so. so. technically the closest thing i’ve got to “true” ocs and the ones who i haven’t talked about enough on here are the sacares. cinis and vindi sacare. and dear god do they have a lot going on with them. holy SHIT do they have a lot going on with them.

so so so so SO for context as well they’re being used in a roleplay thing I’ve got going on with some friends where it’s like pretty much an isekai ig but a) I’m not that versed in anime and b) everyone’s from different universes and they’re all fucked in one way or another so spoiler alert they both die but we’ll get to that

So the Sacares. Like, as a whole. The Sacares were this family/order of paladins, right? Monster hunters. Their whole deal was serving the goddess of luck by maintaining the natural sort of “balance” of their plane by taking out unnatural threats that were kind of like invasive species almost. The undead. The eldritch. Demons. Things like that! Sort of things that would bring misfortune in one way or another.

Anyways, the Sacares were pretty damn renowned. Like, high-status. Near-noble. Which figures! They have a reputation! They’re very strict with training and such!!

So Cinis Sacare was one of the newer generation. And combat-wise? He was pretty good! He used a greatsword and was pretty unwieldy, but he had grit and charm and ended up becoming something of a figurehead for the Sacares socially. He was the guy who you saw in the street and recognized, and it usually meant good fortune when you did. I mean, there could be monsters abound, but also he could have just been going for a walk. He was a chill guy overall, y’know? Devout paladin, but also just sort of a goofy fella and that made him a pretty great conversationalist.

So one day the Sacares got word of this eldritch plant-thing going and taking over a town’s crops. Like, TAKING OVER. Imagine like invasive kudzu but if it had vines as thick as a redwood’s roots and was both spined and also had hints of Audrey II from Little Shop of Horrors. Not fun. Luckily though, they’ve dealt with these types of things before and go in a group to face it. They go and observe the place for a while, try their best not to disturb anything or trigger any sort of reaction out of the plant. And they do pretty well!

unnnnntil cinis, having been told his entire life that he’s pretty much The Guy of All Time™ and is virtually unstoppable, decides that it would be a GREAT idea to just cut to the chase and start striking the thing.

Cinis realizes way too late that he is! VERY unprepared!! And he dies!!! The first time, at least. Stay with me for a second.

You know cordyceps, yeah? Zombie ant fungus? You know how useful it would be for a big eldritch carnivorous plant to have a part of itself walking around that could actually kill things without having to wait for them to come to it first? Especially something with a massive cleaver of a weapon, training, and armor? Pretty useful!!

So Cinis gets zombified. Ish? I don’t know where that one post is about necrobotany using plants and such to fill in for muscles and such but that’s what happens. He’s still left with his sentience, though. It repairs him and pretty much holds him to “kill things and feed them to me or die for good/kill us both” sort of deal, and he’s stuck in that situation now. He tries to go to the Sacares and go “hey guys I’m alive actually” but he immediately gets exiled so now it’s just sort of a bad situation all around. He revokes his weapon, picks up an old woodcutter’s axe in its stead, and heads off to wander for a while.

Now, being held together by bone and bark are uh. Not. Really good. For the state of you. Not wanting to bring harm to others, he mostly sticks to the woods and outskirts, still fighting monsters because it’s a) all that he really knows and b) he still wants to help people despite everything that happened. And I mean, it’s a compromise? The plant’s fed, he’s not eating people, it’s alright for the time being. He dons a cloak to hide his identity alongside the slow decay and starts being seen as this sort of “monster in the woods” legend. He doesn’t mind it, though. (he actually kind of does it’s just that he’s of the mind that he’d be the same way if he was faced with himself and instead internalizes the whole thing while continuing to try his best)

Anyways, this goes on for. A while. A good amount of years. He gets a reputation, but nobody ever bothers to actually get to know the guy. Because. Y’know. Flesh-eating plant zombie. Most of him more vine than human at this point, to the point where he’s like 7 feet tall because a) the sacares are pretty fucking tall in the first place (like 6 feet) and b) it’s a little hard to keep human proportions when you’re. y’know. again. a monstrous plant.

So one day he walks into a village. He’s started doing this on occasion, just rarely. Just to trade things and check up on people on all that because he still cares. More jaded, less sociable, definitely more intimidating, but it’s not like anyone would recognize him as the dead Cinis Sacare, yeah? And it’s not like anyone’s going to bother him if they worry that he can maul them, so we’re good.

But actually!! Just kidding! Someone caught word of his presence in the woods because he lingers around those areas for a few weeks in general and gathers an angry mob to take him down! Specifically, a Sacare does it! So everything’s kind of fucked and he can’t really get out of that situation and he dies a second time!!

Andddd that’s where the whole roleplay bit comes in so he’s back but like. Somewhere else. And everyone’s also just as fucked and wholly unfamiliar with his world’s deal so they’re just sort of chill with him because to them he’s this weirdly tall dude who may or may not be made of plants who also said one time that if they wanted to see what was at the bottom of a mountain that he could “probably make that” with no explanation whatsoever.

He’s still a little goofy. He’s still pretty compassionate! He’s just. Ough. Man’s seen all of The Horrors. But it’s fine probably because we’re all doing this for character arcs with our OCs and hopefully we can find a solution to. All of that.

either way i love cinis sacare he’s so so so silly to me <3

[that-one-guy-who-does-the-thing]

i hope we get a new intro sometime this season

ok so this is OUR steven in this melon baby i believe

LAPIIIS oh my GOD THE MELONS ARE FEEDING M..malecite? MALEKITE DREAM STEVENS

STEVEN WE LOVE YOU AAAAAAAAGH I LOVE YOU STEVEEEEN oh wait jasper is down in the crack of the earth im sure that wont come back to bite steven and peridot anytime soon

unrelated kinda but ive been singing along to the intro and i think just once they should replace "we'll always find a way" with "we'll do it anyway" idk i just think it would be cool if it was more thematically relevant

steven: yknow i actually kinda feel bad for the zombies

uh ohhhh steven is psychic and feels the gem shards dying

the big bubble/.....................................

i love you green thing

nooo... lapis lazuli from mindcraft....... come back...... again...

A WHOLE NEW WORLD

oug is this another hologram backstory i smell??? :D

steven: you WILL become sister number 5...... or... 7..?

steven universe how to draw anime artstyle.................

steven: you WILL be friends

oh my god the rubies are so cute

nice falling episode. reminded me kind of of season 1 stuff. a bit. we've been doing so much continuity it's nice to have just a falling episode

who is this old man DEAD BEAT DAD?????? OF COURSE THE TITLE OF THE EPISODE

this old man looks like his breath smells really bad but always points his mouth at your nose when he talks

ADS NOOO FUCK OFF oh onion you are a Weirdo

HES NOT THE STEPDAD HES THE DAD WHO FUCKING STEPPED. UP.

holy fuck greg

if i really wanted to i could analyze the lyrics of that ending song that seems to be playing a different part of a full song every episode but unfortunately my first ever ex who i had a terrible ending with used to sing it and also im just not that into songs like that in the first place they make my heart and sinus areas weird so ill just not

yknow im just realizing it's cool seeing the difference between pearl and greg's interactions with steven -- particularly in the "this is a different person than rose quartz" department. greg has consistently seen steven as his own son for the entire time, but pearl has in the past fixated on steven technically being rose. fun.

THEYRE GOING TO EMPIRE CITY FROM SONIC UNLEASHED..... AND BRINGING PEARL YAY MORE CHARACTERS WHO ORIGINALLY DIDNT GETTING ALONG LEARNING TO BE FRIENDS!!!!!! wow that sure does happen a lot on this show huh. well, i'm not complaining, i love seeing people be friends :O)

oh... this ep is gonna end with greg spending all of his money

"it's over isn't it why can't i move on" all being sung on the same note is such a good little uh, uh, uh, whatever it's called. symbolism? whatever singing the same note over again is like not moving on an instrument

STEVEN CAN PLAY PIANO

yay theyre friends ! :D

GREEN THING BACK AT THE HOUSE and shes a DOOOORRRRKK !!!!!!! :D

oh christ not this guy again ok let's see it. any character development gonna stick this time?

oh no oh no oh no oh no please get out of lars now

ok lars switched was not very painful to watch for the most part because steven is just awesome

GREG IS THAT GUY THAT WANTED TO FUCK HIS CAR FROM THAT ONE TV SHOW

cgi car spotted cgi car spotted oh FUCK ITS THAT LOSER FROM THE DANCE

i love them.. yea i was thinking we hadnt seen connie in a while

food

hi onion

PSYCHIC STEVEN EPISODE

i love rose's portrait being super scrunched up because the camera is looking at it from a weird angle

man ben shapiro would really hate this show wouldnt he

something about this shot on the beach with the cheese in the water and the water on the horizon is super familiar to me for some reason

i love you garnet

gee i hope they. get around to the whole curing all the corrupted gems thing instead of just leaving them bubbled for the entire show.... say, come to think of it, that sounds like a plot thread that could be spun out into an episode about "dont just sit around at a place you're stuck at because if you do nothing then nothing gets better"

LAPIS IS BAAACK

JASPER IS BAAAACK ohhh shes an allegory for abusive relationships ..oh wow that was short

oh hey rose

CONNIE EPISODE LETS GOOOOOOO

jasper is acting... weird

oh thats why ok then

CONNIE EPISOOODE

oh. oh no amethyst is un-character developing. steven is outgrowing the gems because he has connie also.

ohhh its the plot of the next episode...

yknow pearl's hair reminds me of duster mother 3. i know i always say that about hair that goes backwards but shes also got the sideburns

theyre always overcoming differences and resolving interpersonal conflict super fast... or maybe i just avoid interpersonal conflict so much that i dont know how it's supposed to work?? or maybe because the runtime is 11 minutes.., oh well it's cool to see people be happy with each other

oh! an old friend!

bismuth seems cool :o)

oh,,, she did NOT get the good ending in undertale...

ROSE LORE ROSE FORESHADOWING

LAPIS AND GREEN ONE

I THINK JASPER IS HERE

oh no no no it's not jasper its her dogsWAIT NO IT IS JASPER

ANOTHER STEVEN FUSION UEEAAAAAAHHH

jasper's perverted fusion motif is kinda ,idk the word but im noticing it. noticeable? kinda cool? interesting? idk

omg are they gonna do that thing that one episode of adventure time did where they did a bmo centric episode where finn and jake were gone all day but then a season or two later they went back and showed finn and jake's side of the story

"hey you guys wanna be prisoners too?" thats fucked up amethyst haha

i love the rubies i hope they become our friends

STEVEN IN SPACE?????

:( mom stopped at the neutral ending in under tale

oh! thats it for the season? ok woah ok then ., uhhh ok so full disclosure i think i already know about the twist with pink diamond but i could also just be making shit up

watching steven universe for the first time. still on season 1. im noticing over half of the episodes are like... it's like regular show in that the first like half of the episode is relatively normal and kind of slice of life??? or at the very least just kind of stuff happening, and then after that shit picks up to a thousand, but unlike regular show it's taken super seriously and oftentimes what feels like act 3 movie character development happens out of nowhere. like idk some of these episodes have moments that would feel more deserved if there was more buildup or if it was part of like a multi-part special or something.

but other episodes are more like early adventure time. i cannot explain why

[yonemurishiroku]

Hades and Nico’s father-son relationship is my religion

Ok but like we don’t talk enough about Hades and Nico’s relationship (except for that user who spills hc about young Bianca and Nico and Hades god bless your soul thank you).

i’m not so sure about Dyonysus and with the exception of Apollo who was forced to join the demigods for the quests, but i’m strongly convinced that the Underworld ones had the closest father-son connection. 

technically speaking.

- He acknowledges him (that’s a big point provided Hades is one of the B3)

- He gave Nico instructions (ab the prophecy) and warnings (Lycaon and the wolves) and blessings (”I want (hope?) you to be happy”) GUYS GUYSSSSSSS I LITERALLY CRY EVERYTIME I RECALL THIS

- actually the statement above is enough to prove the bonding alr.

- Hades told Nico about Camp Jupiter and trusted him not to share the information until the time is right. That shows respect and pride.

- He forbids Nico to enter Tartarus again. which implies that 1) Hades cares about Nico and wishes to keep him from harm and 2) Nico actually told/ seeked consultation from his father regarding the matter (which may or may not include talking about his mental strugglings, too. and lemme tell you, with all their bitter history and daddy issue, that’s a whole freaking GIANT step)

- They see each other regurlaly (’on a daily basis’ in a demigod’s standards, really). and they are the ONLY pair who manage that??? i don’t recall Percy visit his father often? and let’s just skip Zeus. 

-He even has his own room in Hades’ palace, which Hades specifically mentioned in canon?? I’m pretty sure it’s not fanon. And how many demigods get a place to stay with their parents? None. Except Nico. It’s also canon that Nico spends a fair share of time in Underworld too.

- which is a fucking HUGE point btw.

- Nico refers to Persephone as stepmother. which heavily implies he actually sees Hades as his father, ofc.

- Nico has the title Ambassador of Pluto. He is literally working for his father. I’m not sure about the whole errands thing bc i might have read too many fanfics but again, does Percy have a title regarding his father? No. (Does Jason have a title regarding his father? No bc worst father of the decade Jupiter does not deserves him) The whole ‘son/ daughter of bla bla’ thing is automatically given to you provided your lineage, but no Nico has a freaking title and can speak on behalf of/ represent the Lord of the Underworld himself.

- Hades gives Nico a zombie chaffeur as a birthday present, yall.

- and he did it bc he was aware that mortal parents drive their children around but he couldn’t. a freaking GOD attempted to be a little mortal-like solely to warm up with his son. we all know how big a god’s ego can be, yet Hades is literally there trying to be a normal father for Nico. if this is not love i don’t know what is.

- Also it implies that he would if he could. WHICH means he actually makes effort. WHICH MEANS HE TRULY LOVES AND TREASURES HIS SON and i refuse to belive the otherwise, okay??!!!!

- and please don’t forget Hades did intend to hide the children along with their mother in the underworld to protect them. He is protective no you can’t change my mind. And in his defense the whole neglect and mistreat thing after that is bc he was mourning Maria.