#lore n story ideas for em now so

[oh-no-its-bird]

recently, i've started to see things where tobirama is reincarnated as sakura or is sakura's "inner", which is really interesting. could i get your take on this?

Unfortunatley I don't actually know much ab Sakura's inner! I learned naruto lore via fanfiction (never actually touched any canon media, oops) and have only actually read like 3 Sakura centric ones, I straight up didn't even know Sakura had a multiple personality(?) thing going for her till a few months ago (and boy wasn't that a surprise)

I think Tobirama being reincarnated as her could be p fun!! But also I think I'd be more interested in telling a story where he just straight up reincarnated as someone not existing in canon, if only bc then he could also interact WITH Sakura instead of just being her

I find that a lot of stories that try to give Sakura agency just kind of toss her entire character out the window and start from scratch, which is fun and valid! But it's more fun for me to make direct, uncomfortable eyecontact w canon her and find increasingly stupid or chaotic ways to fast track that whole "character development" thing or at least find ways to explain why she's Like That(tm)

So yeah I don't have toooo much interest in Tobirama reincarnating as specifically Sakura or her inner, but I could be into a story where he just reincarnates in proximity to her and then see how they bounce off of eachother. Maybe as a sibling? That could be cool

If he's born a girl we can zap em with the trans beam on top of the body dismorphia of suddenly being a whole child, that could be interesting. The blatant sexism of naruto canon could also make for an interesting plotline if we want to actually get into that

I kind of like the idea of him not actually remembering his previous life, at least not in full. Maybe he has weird dreams sometimes, maybe he looks at photos of the Nidaime and gets weird feelings of dejavu.

I suddenly have a very specific mental image of him getting a scar on his cheek, where one of his tattoos used to be, and just staring in a mirror afterwards at this super weird feeling of dejavu mixed w a sensation of it not being right mixed w just general body dismorphia and aw fuck why does he feel like he's both a little more right and further from himself than he's ever been?

Anyways would he be born younger or older than Sakura? Older brother him is just super overprotective, often suffering from nightmares of sensing as Sakura and some unnamed "other sibling" of his dies. It could also mean he can interact with Itachi actually, maybe they can be emotionally stunted baby genius friends or smthn

But younger sibling him could make for a surprisingly compelling parallel with Sakura and Hashirama! Especially w how Sakura later goes on to train with Tsunade n stuff

Part of me wants to say he's still names Tobirama for simplicitys sake, he can just be named after the Nidaime or smthn. But also that feels a bit cheap even if it is easier, so at least for now we'll name him Tora

Him and cat Tora can square off for name rights idk

Tora speaking oddly formally for a civilian, and having the kind of respect for your elders that come from being a second son in an elder run clan in ancient Japan. He has an awful time trying to form emotional attachments with people, including but especially his parents, who for some reason never really felt like his

But also him having a super easy time being attached to his new little sister Sakura, who he refuses to see anything bad happen to ever

So Tora and Sakura's parents being like suuper traditional, which is why Sakura is Like That when it comes to boys (she's constantly being told she needs to find a man to take care of her) Tora acts as a good figure and role model in her life, so while she's still interested in romance like canon she isn't AS boy crazy and can do a bit of thinking for herself.

And then we can get some fun conflict between Tora and his parents, who unfortunatley don't get the whole trans thing and constantly insist he needs to either drop the shinobi thing and find a husband, or if he does keep going at the shinobi thing, use it to find a husband there then drop it

Yeah he's not doing either of those things.

(they find out he's friends w the Uchiha clan heir and immediatley get weird about it, all glowing with pride that he's "attracting such good potential husbands" n stuff (Tora is PISSED))

Anyways Tora being just alarmingly good at literally any jutsu Tobirama invented. Like, ALARMINGLY good. He has that first life muscle memory, which unfortunatley is NOT a valid alibi and he's about to get his ass beat for seeming to have reverse engineered secret jutsus he shouldn't be able to know.

It isn't HIS fault that just glancing at the flying thunder god technique that one time was apparently enough for him to instinctively understand how to use it!!! Maybe this "Tobirama" guy should have just been better at making his jutsu harder to understand, this is clearly not his fault

He manages to help avoid the Uchiha massacre by being friends with Itachi, the two of them both graduating early and at the same ages, joining the same team and then ANBU together and so on.

Tora being really strong and graduating early and all that only further motivating Sakura to be a super strong shinobi, just like her big brother! Maybe she and Sasuke can even bond or have met earlier through Itachi and Tora's friendship.

Sakura and Sasuke childhood friends agreeing to try and graduate early together just like their older siblings. Not really into sasusaku but Ill say Sakura can keep her crush on him but be actually normal about it via exposure plus maybe some boy advice from Tora (he's a shinobi, so if you really want to charm him, you'll have to beat him first)

She can maybe lose it with time (and exposure to him being a dumb cringe fail kid w his brother still around) and maybe go kiss Ino idk

Anyways, Tora and Itachi friendship. Shisui is also there!! (Love that guy)

They're dynamic is just emotionally suppressed bastard (thinks hes better than you) + emotionally suppressed bastard (knows hes better than you) + upbeat guy smiling at you as he holds a gun to your head

Shisui and Tora take turns driving the car as Itachi sits in the back seat peacefully eating some applesauce (he's just happy to be here)

They're gonna blow up the hokage tower for the good of the people 👍

They're on an ANBU team w Kakashi and Tenzo and forget about going grey, they're gonna make Kakashi's hair straight up fall out from the stress

Maybe Tora can move out of his parents house the first chance he gets, and then whatever place he manages to find can be a little safe place for Itachi. Itachi accidentally ends up almost moving in w him as things at home get worse and worse w the coup. He just stays over more and more and doesn't want to return home

Circling back to the "Tora instinctivley knows how to navigate Tobirama's seals/techniques" the most terrifying point of the story is when he sees Naruto's jinchuriki seal and realizes he knows how to mess with it

Uh oh!! Shouldn't have that information!!

Anyways take some doodles

(Danzo is "that jackass who won't let me look at the nidaime's old research" and Tora has a GRUDGE.)

[luckyshotwrites]

Part 2 - Are you sure you've done this before?

Contents (Warnings/Mild spoilers): Cliff trying to persuade Cassie into the better form of payment. (g/t, vore mentions, goofiness, light tasting, and lore dips)

Wordcount: 2,400+

Tune for this Chapter: None to report

Side note: None to report

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Cassie

Never let a Kuna see you. 

She broke rule one. Cliff had clearly seen her. 

If they see you, run away, don’t engage, and don't let them catch you. 

Cassie had spoken to Cliff and she trusted him to catch her. And now he stood between her and the exit.

If they do catch you, don’t go back home until you know you’re free of them. 

For the first time since Cassie had gone to and from her town, she had been caught. Not that she was an expert—this was the farthest she had ever been from home.

A puzzled and slightly perturbed smile crept up on her face. She didn't believe his proposition. He’s kidding. She waited for him to laugh it off. 

He spoke after a minute of silence, “Well?”

“WELL!?” She calmed her raised voice and took a breath. 

“You want me to...” She brushed her curled bangs back, speechless. He’s not kidding. He’s being serious. Why is he being serious? 

“Have you never been eaten before?” Cliff asked.

“No," she blinked in disbelief. "Are you saying you've eaten Stunted like me before?”

"N-yes," Cliff corrected. "Plenty of Stunted, plenty of times." 

He’s lying. “You’re bluffing.”

He doubled down. “Am not, little miss Cassie.” He pointed at her. “And if anything, I ain't buying your 'never been eaten' story.” 

She crossed her eyes for a second to look at his finger in front of her. His hands are big, aren’t they? Then again, his whole body was. “Pointing is rude,” she remarked.

“Tsk,” he moved his hand onto his thigh again. “My point still stands.” 

She felt a puff of offense in her throat. “Why would you assume I’ve been eaten before?”

“I’ve only seen Stunted in areas like this when they're accompanied by us,” Cliff tittered, rocking on the balls of his feet. 

“To eat?” 

“Yes.”

That would mean some of the people in town that claimed they had been eaten before weren't lying. There had been a few individuals in her town that claimed to have been eaten by Kuna, then let go after. Is something like that seriously possible?

Cassie cleared her throat. “Are you sure you don’t want me to pay you when I get into town?” 

The exterminator gave a shake of his head, “I doubt you’d get enough to pay me and you said it yourself, those outlaws most likely sold all your precious goods.” She felt his judgmental stare. “So, are you tellin’ me you're going to steal em' back from a merchant and pawn 'em off to me?”

Desperado!  She crossed her arms over her chest. He steered her away from the mounts stable he offered with his cocksure grin.

Is there a way I could persuade him not to eat me? What would normally get rid of someone's interest? The idea popped into her head. She smiled and looked back. “Well, regardless of how eager I am to try something new—" I'm not. "—I haven’t showered in a day and they robbed me of any cleansing pods.” Her eyes drifted past him and to the only exit again. 

As there was a lot of glass between them and the door. I’m glad I kept my sandals on. 

Cliff's eyelids dropped. He narrowed them and spoke with a half cocked smile. “You think that’s gonna stop me?”

YES. She expected him to be off-put by it, not take it as a challenge. “Do you really want to eat someone who's covered in grime and sticky with sweat?”

Their eyes interlocked and neither of them blinked. 

Cassie wasn't making her situation up. Cliff could see she had been through quite the journey. Her once white shirt was a darker brown, tattered by the slew of vines, thorns, and struggles with other animals she had encountered on her way here. It was the same with her skirt that wasn't long enough to keep her legs covered—her ankles and lower calves also heavily scabbed over with scratches.

Plus, her sandals looked like they were on their last legs. They wouldn’t survive the journey back. 

Cliff's eyes shut, making him blink first. "Damn it." 

She cheered in her head. 

He touched his belt, about to get up and then stopped. His smirk returned, which worried Cassie.

"If only we had somewhere pure to clean you off..." His beguiling tone told Cassie that she wasn't getting out of this. "Well, wait just a minute!" he said, mockingly looking around the confines of the ruined shrine. "Shrines always have purification springs." 

Cassie tried to counter him. “There was a Yokai-”

“I checked the spring water before coming in here, it's not corrupted yet.” 

Of course it isn't. She tugged at her collar. “I’m not getting undressed in the middle of nowhere in front of a stranger.”

“You’d be wearin’ your clothes,” Cliff said. 

“They’d get all wet,” I don’t want to be like a cat after a thunderstorm. 

Cliff looked down at his abdomen, “I’m pretty sure the inside of my body isn’t dry." He flicked his gaze back up. "They’d get all wet anyway." 

Her head fell in defeat. “Right…”

Cliff bounced up in his own victory. “Glad to hear we’re in agreement then, little miss Cassie.”

Cliff twisted to turn around and after his first step, his legs buckled. He toppled into the wall next to the paper door and groaned slightly. 

He massaged his thighs while keeping his back against the scratched wooden walls. "I held that squattin' position too long."

Cassie slowly moved to the door, trying to act casually. Once she got close enough, feeling the broken vases poking under her sandals, she ran.

"Hey-!" Cliff called. 

Once outside she put a plan in her head. But she lost the will to run once she saw the beast he tamed. 

Its ocean-blue eyes sharpened after they opened. It held the face of a hound, snout and all, except its yawn showed the wide split its jaw was capable of. The double rows of teeth, eight long ones like a viper’s, awaited to release their venom. Its front legs stretched—it had less fur and more scaled muscle, which was more apparent in its stretch. 

Cassie felt less and less confident seeing how effortlessly its six multi-clawed toes slid into the soil. That's a vipkey. It lost interest in her when she stopped running. Its once wagging, bludgeoning mace of a tail plopped back into the ground like a dead weight. 

With it guarding those steps, I’d be torn in two within seconds. 

Cliff's voice pittered down like rain onto her ears from above. "You're poorly provin' that you would have upheld that 'I'll get you money later,' deal.”

Her head tilted back and followed up his soot covered pants and to his looming form overtaking her shadow. 

What am I supposed to do? "I was eager for some fresh air." Cassie replied, quietly. He stepped around her heading to the springs. 

"Were ya?" He teased her. "In that case, little miss Cassie, why don't you come get some of that fresh air over here."

I can’t run from him and I’m afraid of telling him no. So what can I do? She inspected her hand as she marched. Hope that I’m gross?  

The small, light tan girl got to the edge. She pressed up her glasses and peered into the clear water. Below its depths was polished gray stone. Not a fish or speck in sight. 

She took off her sandals—the warm rocks surrounding the spring felt nice under her soles. She placed her glasses down on top of her footwear. 

She continued to stare at the water, pinching her shirt. 

"Do I really have to dive in?" The spring itself was deep—deep enough to fully submerge Cliff if he was twice his height. 

“You said it yourself, you’re all sweaty.” Cliff shrugged, he leaned over, lowering his hand behind her. "Do ya need a push?"

Cassie denied his gesture, she stumbled away from his hand. "No, no-don't worr-" She tripped on a rock and stumbled back, "eeEEeeEeE-"

SPLASH.

The water rushed and consumed her in an instant with its cold jaws. She panicked from the rush of sudden cold and frantically paddled to the top. 

A hand burst into the water after her, and got her by her shirt and arm. It yanked her up. 

She gasped upon breaking the surface. Air had never felt so fresh. The hand brought her to shore and she dropped down to sit, coughing up some of the excess water she swallowed in her surprise. 

"You alright?" Cliff asked. 

She nodded, holding up a hand. 

She finally got a hold of herself and sat up. "Thank you." 

A snicker rode up his face when she looked up at him. 

"What?"

“You're lookin’ like a wet puppy dog."

Cassie pushed her embarrassment aside and looked at her clothes, back to their bright white. These springs do work wonders, don't they? Cassie knew normal shrine owners wouldn't allow someone to bathe in their springs. 

"All cleaned up too," Cliff commented. 

Cassie wrung out what she could of her shirt when she stood up, and put her glasses back on to look at him properly. She watched him put his arm brace back on. It looked to be made of iron plates, with several rune letters along the inside. She figured it was for protection against magic or other weapons. 

"How do I know what you're going to do is safe?"

Cliff clicked the brace back together and traced her body with his eyes. "If I was plannin' on hurtin' ya, little miss Cassie, don't you think I would have done so already?" 

He has a point. "You could be giving me a false sense of security." 

Cliff nodded along and caught on after. "Hey, wait." He sighed and took a few seconds to think before replying. "I'd estimate if you walked alone with nothing on your person through this forest, it'd take 8 to 12 hours." He pushed his hat up, "and that's supposin' you don't run into any critters."

I don’t even have any of my scrolls to defend myself.

“I ain't luring you into anything. If I was, I would have thrown you some more charm,” Cliff said. "I'm simply offering you an easier form of payment and a ride into town."

A “ride”. 

She scanned over the rather confident Exterminator. His eyes held honesty, at least. “Fine.” How is he supposed to even do this? His jaw doesn’t look big enough. 

Cliff lowered himself to as close as he could get to her height again.

She sensed his hesitation.

“I’m pretty sure your saddle can fit us both.” Cassie tried to direct his attention to the arguably better, currently resting, alternative.

“No deal, little missy,” Cliff said, lifting a hand to her. "I was just thinkin' I should try ya first." His smile wavered. 

He's nervous. "Are you sure you've done this before?" Cassie asked, cautiously keeping track of his movements. 

Cliff encompassed the arm she gave to him. He didn't answer her, like he needed to prove himself. 

He crouched closer and opened his mouth. 

He showed Cassie the glistening inside, with teeth so well taken care of that she felt like they reflected her fear better than most mirrors. 

She couldn’t look anymore. She forced her eyes to stare at the water instead. 

Her nerves jumped when her hand came in contact with the plush, warm, wetness of his tongue. His full lips closed around her wrist. It allowed his tongue to stroke her flesh easier.

Cassie squeezed her eyes tight, realizing she did indeed taste quite palatable to Cliff. 

…

Cliff

He'd lied to her.

I've never ate a Stunted before. The idea never even crossed his mind until he had one standing before him. But I can't tell her that. 

And now, he was crouching down in front of her, expected to eat her without knowing how to. How did those other folks do it? She caught his hesitation. She'll catch on if I keep thinkin' like this.

"I was just thinkin' I should try ya first," he said, covering up his lie.

Cliff closed his fist around her arm. How could something so small live in a world like this?

The Exterminator leaned in. Cliff, this might be the dumbest thing you've ever done. He closed his lips after opening them, pursing them together.  She wasn't watching, which relieved him. He took a deep breath once more and went for it. 

He didn't want to tug her arm, so he put his other hand on the ground to support his encroaching body. 

He let his tongue cautiously meet her hand. He tasted the tang of the water at first. He wasn't that big of a fan, not until the taste changed. 

Cliff's lips closed and he shut his own eyes, savoring it. This is not what I expected at all. He prepared himself for a salty taste—like when he'd lick off the sweat that fell onto his lips.

This. This was not that. 

He had very few encounters with red meat. He didn’t often get the chance to indulge in the finer pleasures in life, unless he made it big with reward. And he couldn't tell whether it was due to his hunger or not, but Cassie tasted like those higher rated meals—fit for the richer, higher class people. 

Cliff's stomach whined, much louder, while he was lost in the enchanting flavor she possessed. 

He snapped out of it when she tugged her hand free. 

“I think you’ve had enough time to get your taste,” Cassie barely parted her lips to speak. 

Cliff moved his tongue around the inside and put his fist to his mouth. He attempted to muffle his gulp and enjoyment. “Right. Yeah…you taste adequate." He exhaled and smiled, "I’ve definitely had better. But, you’ll do.”

Cassie still didn't look him in the eyes. “You made it sound like I was better than adequate with your humming…" 

Cliff’s shoulders leaped like a ghost spooked him. 

His cheeks puffed out with some heat. “It's just because I hadn't eaten in a day or two.” 

“Are you certain I'd live if you’re starving then?”

I've seen a few with the same Stunted walking around like nothing happened after they ate em'. Cliff nodded, “Yep." He calmed himself down. "So, are you ready, little miss Cassie?”

Her face was stricken with apprehensiveness. “I don’t have much of a choice, do I?”

“Not much, no.” 

“Then," she squeaked behind closed lips before opening them to reply, "go ahead.”

Great. The same thought entered his head when he crouched close enough to pick her up. Okay, Cliff, time to figure out how the hell I even do this. 

...

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# — wait, don't go! give my brother back!

i'm back ladiess, with a genshin au!! lets goo. it's pretty minor since i have no patience n just wanted to post. next one would be game-wise so look out! (also the headers are based on their regions) who: all what: genshin! au type: hc? idk mayn

Lore-wise Ranking —

Strength: Draco, Gold, Lunar, Funneh, Rainbow

Agility (Attack Speed + Sprint): Rainbow, Funneh, Draco, Gold, Lunar

Intelligence (Street smart + Academic): Lunar, Draco, Funneh, Gold, Rainbow

Rainbow

"Oh my god! Are you okay? Let me help you up, you sure you're alright?" 

A pickpocket born from impoverished soil. She is forever grateful for whatever she has, had, and will have. The woman roams Teyvat's seven Regions. She despises the wealthy businessmen and women, cursing them for not sharing with the less fortunate. Quick at her feet, Rainbow was never caught as she uses her skills to take from the wealthy and give to the unfortunate. She will forgive but never forget. Especially not what they did to her hometown.

Quality |  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Weapon |  Sword Element |  Pyro Body Type |  Tall Female

Voice-Overs/ Story & Combat

Chat: Memories |  Look, it's my favourite shop to get perfume! Ah. The perfume recipe for this old timer never changes... Still reminds me of Mum.

About Us: Fairytales |  ...The end. Let me tuck you in now, it's getting late. Another story? Hmm... Ugh, you're lucky we have some spare time. Okay, just one more! Then you have to take your nap, got it? Alright, here goes.

When the Sun Is Out |  Ugh, the sun makes the area too bright! Someone'll surely notice me. How frustrating.

Feelings About Ascension: Conclusion (Ascension Phase 6) |  Holy, that's a lot of money. You really shouldn't have! *sighs* Thank you. Really.

Fallen |  Thank you... for everything.

Gold

"You must be the Traveler I've been hearing of! Say, you are always referred to as 'Traveler'. What's your name—your real name?"

A runway fashion designer, she holds the title of the sweetest and kindest fashion designer out there. She came home to Sumeru and brought the idea of modern designs and her idea of slow fashion. Many youngsters admire her environmental sustainability and understanding of their style choices, unlike their elders who claim it "useless" to care for the environment through clothing. Nevertheless, she will continue to push her agenda to the public and open their eyes to the truth of fast fashion.

Quality |  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Weapon |  Bow Element |  Geo Body Type |  Medium Female

Voice-Overs/ Story & Combat

Chat: Bothering Your Mind |  Alright, I recognise those eyes. What's the matter? Do you want to talk about it? ...Stubborn as always. Come find me if you need me, I'm always free for a talk.

Character Idles |  Let's get a move on! We could be shopping or getting a bite.

Receiving a Gift: III |  Oh my god, ergh! Oh. You, made this? ...Um, it is alright, I suppose. Excuse me. *coughs* I'm gonna puke.

Heavy Hit Taken |  Ow, my arm! What the heck was that for?

Joining Party |  Oh! I just baked some pizza, want to try some? Nice and crispy, just how you like it.

Funneh

"What the heck, dude? HEY! You damn-! Stop that thief!"

The bubbly ninja of the Shuumatsuban, she is loyal and grateful to them. She was previously known as Yawane, named by staff in the Shuumatsuban. She renamed herself, finding individuality in creating her own sense of self-identity with a brand new name. She lives to prove herself worth, always being put down for her loud and fun personality which is unlike a quiet, stealthy ninja. While Sayu was the epitome of sleep, Funneh was the embodiment of wake. 

Quality |  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Weapon |  Claymore Element |  Hydro Body Type |  Medium Female

Voice-Overs/ Story & Combat

Chat: Work |  The pay's good, what more can I say? ...Um, the staff are nice? Well, at least half of 'em are.

More About Funneh: I |  To be honest, I prefer taijutsu much more than ninjutsu. Thus, many thought I couldn't do ninjutsu. It is wayyy less complicated, which is why it's my primary fighting style! Don't underestimate how easy it seems, though. I spent hours of training to have enough stamina and energy to use it daily!

Elemental Skill |  Get back here~!

Deploying Wind Glider |  Woohoo! I could get used to this. (Not recorded in Profile)

Low HP |  Someone's getting fired up... And that ain't you, trust me.

Lunar

A self-taught witch, she used to travel to Sumeru to eavesdrop on lectures given at the Akademiya. Due to her colourblindness, she almost thought she was given a Hydro vision and she would rather die due to how badly she wanted an Electro one. Lunar was so ever grateful to see that logo of the one and only Electro element, thanking the gods for getting the element.

Quality |  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Weapon |  Catalyst Element |  Electro Model Type |  Tall Female

Voice-Overs/ Story & Combat

Something to Share: Games |  I don't play games often but I really do enjoy them! Just need someone to play with me, that's all. I can't blame them though, a twenty-year-old scholar wanting to play hide-and-seek? Who am I kidding?

Lunar's Hobbies |  I do quite like drawing and doodling. Though, is it really a hobby if that is what I do all the time, besides work of course.

When It Rains |  Ahh, to just be able to lay back and draw while listening to some jazz. I envy those with flexible timing in their job. Why did I even choose such an unforgiving jobscope?

Opening Treasure Chest |  A new potion, maybe?

Sprint Start |  I'm not a fast runner, okay!

Draco

"In all my years, I have never found someone else who enjoys roaming Windwail Highland, in the night."

The man himself, the supposed Head of the Sakai clan. He fled from Inazuma ever since his father's death, refusing to face the consequences of seeing any of his indirect family. Draco wiped his old name and last name, heading to Mondtstadt to find peace. He even switched his weapon from sword to polearm. His body, mind and soul may be tenacious, but his heart still roams that forsaken mansion.

Quality |  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Weapon |  Polearm Element |  Dendro Model Type |  Tall Male

Voice-Overs/ Story & Combat

Chat: Invitation |  Hey! You're the one who was out in Windwail that night. Would you mind joining me tonight? We could head somewhere else if you wish.

Chat: Hair |  My blonde hair? I know, hideous, right? Don't tell anyone, but my natural hair colour is black. What is it? You're making it seem obvious that everyone knew that. Am I that bad at hiding-? *coughs* Whatever... I should change it back? Well, since it is coming from you, I will certainly keep it in mind.

Ally at Low HP |  Watch it! Let me take over.

Heavy Hit Taken |  Urgh! You'll regret that.

Joining Party |  Fate has brought us together again, it seems.

[spotsupstuff]

whats your opinion on the games scugs?

(monk, arti, enot, etc.)

which ones are your favorite lore wise / gameplay wise?

i don't have much of opinions! as one could... probably tell from my excessive iterator posting and extreme lack of scug posting

lore wise i will forever stick with my ultimate fav scug, Hunter. being a pre-Downpour fan has conditioned me into thinkin of the vanilla scugs the most and i'm most attached to them as well. Hunter is my fav of the three because of how unique they are compared to the other two, the amount of special lore and explanations their campaign offers to us. also i fucking love NSH endlessly so those two are a combo to open up my heart. they are actually the reason why i ended up hyperfixating on RW the first time around!

Survivor at the end of the day is the most basic scug, no matter what people say that's just a factual truth with her bein the first lil bugger peeps usually try out, but i've had a lot of fun playing with her characterization and my absolutely favorite thing to do is pair her up with Pebbles. Survivor is Five Pebbles' Cat to me. from the olden days

still up to present

even with Arti around now these two get to me emotionally more still. my old ass is cursed </3

i don't have much to say about Monk except the fact that i'm still quietly laughing about how on THEIR campaign i got more pissed than anywhere fuckin else except Gourmand i think. like this peaceful little sunshine parading around in the world and then there's me behind the screen cursing up a fuckin Storm truly embracing my inner Bitch... i had fun with that..... either way, the fact that he can see traces of Survivor in the shelters is So Fucking and the possible parallels between vanilla scug sibs n Pebs n Moons are eating my brain alive whenever i dedicate a braincell to the slugcats

the Downpour scugs are more in the bg to me and also offer a sort of like... not exactly completely 100% continuation of the game, but one of the possible canonical paths the story could've taken n i ain't gon lie i often forget or ignore some Downpour facts because of my ass bein so stuck with the vanilla game

either way, Arti's maul ability is the best thing invented for this game, Gour is Neat and i really gotta go and explore OE better with Surv cuz that place is Very interesting from the lore stand point (also that map Pebs flashes when openin the gate is SUPER cool). Spearmaster is prolly my favorite of all the scugs cuz of their mechanics n the whole uncollapsed LTTM structure is a delicious world-building, along with the first hint towards the climate, the shit with Seven Red Son-of-a-bitches and the broadcasts at large. i'm affectionate for Spear. that lil fella can climb up with the vanilla scugs i shall allow it. Riv was... the most notable things to me about them was The Rot/Pebbles condition/his last words and then their crack cocaine eyes. love headcanoning UI made 'em like that with actual crackies. the ending with Moon didn't... really hit me for some reason- but still, i'd rank the coolness of their lore on the third place because of The Rot kush

now Saint... Saint is a though nut to crack to me because of Two ✌ reasons. 1. i still haven't fucking finished playing this asshole. 2. there is a lot of room for interpretations. which is a GOOD thing, i Like when that happens, but it makes talking about the lore of the rat harder. ultimately without any brainstorming, Saint's lore is a confusing outta-nowhere mess that is so extremely far from the original ideas and themes of the vanilla game that my head spins. at first i legit thought that the lore of the thing would break what vanilla has already laid out, but thankfully i'm a person who likes to shrug so i shrugged and let it be n started figuring out my own interpretation of it all which has been a lot of fun. what i have going on for Saint in my stuff i adore all SO so so much n ofc shout out to shkiki's interpretation for being one of the coolest i've seen too

n Sain't mechanics have. made me stupidly daring with death jumps i don't know what's happening but that tongue has made me basically jump off a ledge without any preparation before that Sky Islands/Chimney karma gate n i didn't even flinch about it cuz the.. tongue... i don't fucking know what happened to me there but it was bizarre n i like bizarre in this game so i'm givin that shit 4 pats out of 5 you-tried stars. i also got fucking BULLIED BY A SCAVENGER IN FRONT OF A SHELTER FOR TEN MINUTES THATS GETTING A 5 MINUTE FROWN OUT OF GODDAMMIT THIS GAME

[theviolethourau]

Introduction: TVH Blog Rundown

Hey everyone! It's me, Em, better known as @peachesandthings on wattpad. I never really understood why I picked that as my username way back when but then I started promotion The Violet Hour in tiktok comment sections saying "Have you read The Violet Hour by Peachesandthings", and now I can't go back.

Anywho. I think i've been disappointing you all with the lack of content vs what I promised. The sequel completely flopped tbh, I have a really hard time with the idea of anything being as good as the original fic and I had been using Second Planet From The Sun to ease up my writer's block but lets be honest guys, how often have I updated that??? Lmao...

But I genuinely think about the fic all the time. I miss Venus, I miss Peter. And there is a WHOLE world of lore that you guys don't even know because it resides in lost instagram chats with Ziggy who helped me develop and dream up the book. Like the extent to which we daydreamed up is crazy. We went all the way to a crossover with Wandavision and what roles TVH characters would have in that as well as plotting out where Venus is for EVERY single x-men movie and if she isn't there, Sylvia definitely was. The lore is extensive.

So I have this blog. And I am thinking of writing little blurbs instead of a whole other fic. Who knows, I might find the strength to return to the sequel but in the meantime, I feel like giving you odd little glimpses of TVH in short-story, one-shot form might be worth something, might be a little fun n silly. I miss Venus and Peter and I know some of you do as well.

I do want to warn you that I do plan on writing a few things that might be M-rated, so if that isn't your thing, I will have ways for you to detect and avoid that sort of content.

I love you all, thank you to anyone who drops by to this blog and I hope we can get things up and running soon. MWAH!

-Em

[aspenmissing]

𝙿𝚛𝚘𝚟𝚎𝚗𝚊𝚗𝚌𝚎 (𝙿𝚝 𝟸)

Sam is back inside the Impala.

"I don't understand, Guys, we burned that damn thing."

"Yeah, thank you Captain Obvious. All right, we just need to figure out another way to get rid of it. Any ideas?" Dean asks.

"Okay, all right. Well, um, in almost all the lore about haunted paintings it's always the painting's subject that haunts 'em."

"Yeah. So, we just need to figure out everything there is to know about that creepy-ass family and that creepy-ass painting. What were their names again?" Y/N asks.

==

The three are at a second-hand book shop.

"You said the Isaiah Merchant family, right?"

"Yeah, that's right," Dean approaches, smiling and flicking an old book with pictures of guns.

"You're still a child," Y/N mutters.

"I dug up every scrap of local history I could find. So, are you three crim buffs?" The man asks, laying a huge book of newspaper clippings on the table.

"Kinda. Yeah. Why do you ask?" Y/N asks.

"Well..." He holds up a newspaper article. The lead story on the front page is "New Titanic Sinks, 1304 People Go to Watery Graves: Only 866 saved from 2,170 Aboard Liner Which Collides with Iceberg. Disaster Proves to Be the Greatest in Marine History of the World." He points at a side article. It reads 'Father Slaughters Family, Kills Himself.'

"Yes. Yeah, that sounds about right."

"The whole family was killed?"

"It seems this Isaiah, he slits his kids' throats, then his wife, then himself. Now he was a barbed by trade. Used a straight razor."

"Why'd he do it?" Sam asks.

"Let's look. Ahh..." The man starts to read. "People who knew him describe Isaiah as having a stern and harsh temperament. Controlled his family with an iron fist. Wife, uh, two sons, adopted daughter..." He skims on. "Yeah, yeah, yeah...There were whispers that the wife was gonna take the kids and leave." Which of course you know in that day and age, um ...so instead, old man Isaiah...well he gave them all a shave." He draws his hand across his throat with appropriate noises, laughing. Dean joins in but stops when Sam gives him a bitchface, not noticing Y/N smirking.

"Does it say what happened to the bodies?" Y/N asks.

"Just that they were all cremated."

"Anything else?"

"Yeah. Actually, I found a picture of the family. It's right here...somewhere. Right-here it is." He hands Sam the book with the picture.

"Hey, could we get a copy of this please?" He asks.

"Sure.

Time Skip

Sam, Dean, and Y/N sit at the table in their motel room.

"I'm telling you guys, I'm sure of it. The painting at the auction house, Dad is looking down. Painting here, Dad's looking out. The painting has changed, Guys."

"All right, so you think that Daddy dearest is trapped in the painting and is handing out Columbia neckties like he did with his family?"

"Well yeah, it seems like it. But if his bones are already dusted then how are we gonna stop him?"

"All right, well, if Isaiah's position changed then maybe some other things in the painting changed as well. You know it could give us some clues," Y/N says.

"What, like a Da Vinci Code deal?"

"I don't.... know. uhh...I'm still waiting for the movie on that one. Anyway, we gotta get back in and see that painting," She replies, giving Sam a totally blank look. Dean rises and moves across to the bed, throwing himself onto his back and crossing his arms.

"Which is a good thing cause you can get some time to crush on your girlfriend."

"Dude. Enough already," Y/N snickers.

"What?" Dean asks.

"What? Ever since we got here, you two have been trying to pimp me out to Sarah. Just back off, all right?"

"Well, you like her, don't you?" Dean says. Sam raises his arms and eye to the ceiling. "All right, you like her, she likes you, you're both consenting adults..." Sam gets frustrated and his voice rises.

"What's the point, Dean? We'll just leave. We already leave."

"Well, I'm not talking about marriage, Sam," Sam gets agitated.

"You know, I don't get it. What do you care if I hook up?"

"'Cause then maybe you wouldn't be so cranky all the time," Dean says, calmly. Sam stares at him, then huffs out a breath and looks away. Dean sits up from the bed.

"You know, seriously Sam, this isn't about just hooking up, okay? I mean, I, I think that this Sarah girl could be good for you," Sam sighs and scratches his head and Y/N watches closely.

"And... I don't mean any disrespect but I'm sure this is about Jessica, right? Now I don't know what it's like to lose somebody like that...but...I would think that she would want you to be happy," she says, placing her hand on top of Sam's. Sam is quite and listening now, tears in his eyes. She moves her hands to his face and wipes his tears. He leans into her touch. "God forbid have fun once in a while. Wouldn't she?"

"Yeah, I know she would," Sam says softly. He gives a half smile, then sighs heavily, pulling Y/N's hand off his cheek then holding it in his hand. "Yeah you're right. Part of this is about Jessica. But not the main part."

"What's it about?" Dean asks. Sam refuses to answer. "Yeah alright," He lied back again and crosses his arms. "Well, we still gotta see that painting, which means you still gotta call Sarah, so..." Sam lets go of Y/N's hand and picks up the phone, clearing his throat. Dean shakes his head and closes his eyes, setting in.

"Sarah, hey, it's Sam," He pauses. "Hey, hi," He pauses again. "Good. Good, yeah. Umm. What about you?" Dean opens one eye slightly, watching his brother. Y/N turns to look away, suppressing her laughter.

"Yeah good, good, really good," Sam repeats himself.

"Smooth..." Y/N whispers, Dean chuckles.

"So, ah, so listen. Me, my brother and my sister, were...uh...thinking that maybe we'd like to come back in and look at the painting. I..." Dean once more shakes his head and closes his eyes. "I think maybe we are interested in buying it," He pauses. "What?" At Sam's tone Dean and Y/N snap to attention. Sam stands up. "Who'd you sell it to?" Dean rises up, listen closely and Y/N leans closer. "Sarah I need an address right now."

==

The Impala roars up and the three jump out. Sarah appears from the car waiting in the driveway.

"Sam what's happening?" Sam runs past her.

"I told you, you shouldn't have come," Dean and Y/N join Sam and they run up the stairs to the front porch. Dean starts banging on the door.

"Hello, anyone home?"

"You said Evelyn might be in danger, what sort of danger?"

"I can't knock this sucker down. You gotta pick it," Dean says, looking at Y/N. She starts to pick the lock as Sam bangs on the window, which is covered with metal security bars.

"What are you guys, burglars?"

"I wish it was that simple. Look you really should wait in the car. It's for your own good," Y/N gets the door open and Sam and Dean quickly follow her inside.

"The hell I will. Evelyn's a friend," Sarah runs in after them. "Evelyn?"

"Evelyn," Dean says. They enter the lounge; Evelyn sits half turned away from them.

"Evelyn? It's Sarah Blake...Are you all, right?" Sarah asks. She reaches to touch Evelyn's shoulder.

"Sarah don't. Sarah!" Sam says urgently. Evelyn's head tips back, exposing that her slashed throat. Sarah screams.

"Oh my God. Oh my God!!" Sam puts his arm around her and shepherds her out of the room.

==

Back in their motel room, Dean sits at the bar with the laptop, Y/N beside him and Sam paces. There is a knock on the door. Sam opens it and Sarah storms past him.

"Hey. You all, right?" Sam asks.

"No, actually, I just lied to the cops and told them I went to Evelyn's, alone, and found her like that," Dean smirks while Sam and Y/N look relieved.

"Thank you."

"Don't thank me, I'm about to call them right back if you don't tell me what the hell's going on. Who's killing these people?" Sarah asks. Sam looks at Dean and Y/N, who raise their eyebrows.

"What?"

"What?" Sarah asks.

"It's not 'who'. It's 'what' is killing those people," Sarah looks at Sam like he's insane. He sighs. "Sarah, you saw that painting move." Sarah gets agitated.

"No...no I was...I was seeing things. It's impossible."

"Yeah well, welcome to our world," Dean says.

"Sarah, I know this sounds crazy...but we think that the painting is haunted."

"You're joking," Sarah says, sniggering but with tears in her eyes. She looks from one to the other and to the other of them. The three just stare at her. "You're not joking. God, the guys I got out with."

"Sarah, think about it. Evelyn, the Telesca's , they both had the painting. And there have been others before that. Wherever this thing goes people die. And we're just trying to stop it. And that's the truth," Sarah takes a deep breath.

"Then I guess you'd better show me. I'm coming with you."

"What? No. Sarah no, you should just go home. This stuff can get dangerous and...and I don't want you to get hurt."

"Look, you guys are probably crazy, but if you're right about this? Well, me and my dad sold that painting that might have got these people killed. Look I'm not saying I'm not scared because I am scared as hell but...I'm not going to run and hide either," Sarah strides to the door. She turns back. "So are we going or what?" She walks out.

"Sam?" Dean says, Sam looks across to where Dean and Y/N are sitting. Dean points out the door after Sarah. "Marry that girl."

==

The four head back to Evelyn's house. Sam is picking the lock.

"Ahhh...isn't this a crime scene?"

"You've already lied to the cops. What's another infraction?" Y/N asks. Once inside Sam lifts the painting down from the wall and they examine it.

"Aren't you worried that it's...gonna kill us?"

"Nah, it seems to do its thing at night. I think we're all right in the daylight," Dean compares the picture in the book with the painting.

"Sam, Y/N, check it out. The razor, it's closed in this one but it's open in that one."

"What are you guys looking for?"

"Well If the spirit's changing aspects of the painting, then it's doing so for a reason."

"Hey, hey look at this. The painting in the painting."

"Looks like a crypt, or a mausoleum or something," Y/N looks around, grabs a thick glass ashtray and uses it as a magnifying glass. "Merchant," Y/N reads the name on the Mausoleum.

==

Sam, Y/N, Dean, and Sarah walk through the graves.

"This is the third boneyard we've checked. I think this ghost is jerking us around."

"So, this is what you guys do for a living?" Sarah asks.

"Not exactly. We don't get paid."

"Well, Mazel tov."

"Over there," Dean says, spying the mausoleum. Dean breaks the lock and they enter, pushing aside the cobwebs. There is a number of name plates as well as four urns in front of little glass fronted boxes. Sarah looks into one of the cases at a doll.

"Okay, that right there-is the creepiest thing I've ever seen."

"It was a... sort of tradition at the time. Whenever a child died sometimes, they'd preserve the kid's favourite toy in a glass case, put it next to the headstone or crypt," Sam says.

"Notice anything strange here?" Dean asks.

"Ah...where do I start?" Sam sniggers, looking at her.

"No, that's not what I mean. Look at the urns."

"Yeah. There are only four."

"Yeah, Mom and the three kids. Daddy dearest isn't here."

"So where is he?" Y/N asks.

==

Sam and Sarah sit on a small wall outside an office building, waiting.

"So, what exactly is your brother and sister doing in there?" Sarah asks.

"Searching county death certificates trying to find out what happened to Isaiah's body."

"How'd they even get in the door?"

"Lying and subterfuge mostly."

"You have a...uh...you have an eyelash on your right...no...uh...you know wha-t" Sarah reaches, but has no idea where it is. Sam laughs.

"Do you mind if I-get it?"

"No," Sam reaches for it and holds it on his finger.

"Okay, I got it. Make a wish." Laughing, Sarah does so, and blow it away.

"Sam, can I ask you something?"

"Yeah, sure."

"I don't mean to be forward, but a girl could wait here forever. Is there something, here, between us? Or am I delusional?"

"You're not delusional."

"But there's a but coming."

"But...I don't think this would be a good idea."

"Can I ask why?" Sarah asks.

"'Cause I like you."

"Wait. You lost me."

"Wait. You lost me." They both laugh.

"Look, it's hard to explain. Ah-It's just when people are around me-I don't know, they get hurt."

"What do you mean?" She asks.

"I mean like physically hurt. With what me and my siblings do, it's....” Sam breaths out before looking Sarah in the eyes. “Sarah, I had a girlfriend. And she died. And my mom died too. I don't know, it's like, it's like I'm cursed or something. Like death just follows me around. Look, I'm not scared of much, but if I let myself have feelings for anybody..."

"You're scared they'd get hurt too," Sam looks down. "That's very sweet. And very archaic," Sam looks back up.

"Sorry?"

"Look I'm a big girl Sam, it's not your job to make decisions for me. There's always a chance of getting hurt."

"I'm not talking about a broken heart and a tub of Haagen Dazs. I'm talking about life and death."

"And tomorrow I could get hit by a bus. That's what life is. Look, I know losing somebody you love-it's terrible. You shut yourself off. Believe me, I know. But when you shut out pain, you shut out everything else too."

"Sarah, you don't understand. The pain that I went through...I can't go through it again. I can't," Y/N and Dean suddenly appear.

"Are we interrupting something?" He asks.

"No."

"Not at all," Y/N looks between them.

"Huh. Apparently."

"So, what'd you two get?"

"Paydirt. Apparently, the surviving relatives of the Merchant family were so ashamed of Isaiah that they didn't want him interred with the rest of the family. So, they handed him over to the county, the county gave him a pauper's funeral. Economy style. Turns out he wasn't cremated; he was buried in a pine box."

"So, there are bones to burn."

"There are bones to burn," Dean says.

"Tell me you know where," Dean and Y/N look at each other, nodding.

[askuemki]

Lady Gaga was a childhood of mine, but I never really knew too much of her songs then and now. Though I do enjoy whatever of hers comes up here and there!!

I also find myself loosing earrings, there were these owl earrings I have… and I lost one of em and it’s kinda been bumming me out a little

A bat??? Man that would be in my wildest dreams

I saw those fennec foxes and I was always so fascinated by them + fenneckin(?) from Pokémon, child me always wanted one as a pet

Rats are really cute animals!! But I would never personally own one, the social maintenance is a bit much for me

I’ll lore dump abt my pfp character here a little :)

Technically, you’re not wrong she IS a bit of a villain!! She’s a (half)dragon though, not a vampire

Her name is Akemi (though I’ll just call her Em for short), she’s some knight for a floating (corrupted) kingdom

My main story is basically a witch-hunt for this other girl (committed murder, public disturbance, though she has this uncontrollable curse), and Em is basically chasing after her w/ another gal who committed some crimes (“property damage”, tress passing — she was forced to help her lol)

But over time she changed in later acts (there’s like 3) where she learns to live a little and eventually gets with mc :)

She was kind of an apathetic bitch tho ngl

Anyways!!

The horror idea sounds really interesting, it would be fun exploring biblically accurate creatures and making them terrifying as shit (could turn into a love story, falling in love with a demon from hell)

I remember being into MHA for a short time, but I was never interested in the actual story, I just liked making my own characters lol

The main two that stuck with me is Ayaka (I just call her Yaka) and Aoki!! Theyre both a neat little duo, with Ayaka having a type of (meat-eating) monarch generation quirk, and Aoki being like that dude who’s made out of wood, but it’s just her hair

They have a cute little love story ish, but think Yaka suffers from her quirk from time to time and Aoki helps her out here and there

Ngl I always see “reader”/ y/n as their own character, I could never exactly put myself into the story lol (and why I struggle to write more sensual things, from time to time)

procrastinating here!! Don't mind me if i bug your inbox random confession, I had my hair cut for like a few months now (it's in a boyish type of cut) It's kind of rare but I always enjoy when people go like "wtf is that a guy??" and then they're like "oh shit no, it's a woman" I don't think Ill ever go back to long hair man, it's too hard to take care of (props to the people who can and do)

It's six in the afternoon and I just woke up and I'm shaking like a crackhead because it's been too many hours without drinking water or eating, helppppp.

I love when I see very androgynous people and I don't know if they are women, men or neither <33333 I think it's cool

And yessss, my hair goes past my hips and I love it but it is a job to take care of it and it's especially uncomfortable because it is very hot in my country.

[zrllosyn-art]

Its Seaborn oc. A proper ref this time.

(i also need to give em a name)

[cosmic-nopedog]

Hiya! I read visions of Gideon bc of your techno art of it and I adore it so I was wondering if you've got more suggestions? Or just an ao3 where I can rifle through your bookmarks?

I DO have an ao3 but am not sharing it lmao

BUT FOR FIC RECS I GOT SOME!!!!

Tommyinnit clinic fic is ofc going to be the first thing i recc cus i finished it just recently lo

This Is About A Stuffed Bird is one am currently reading and its quite good! I really love horror fics so that's the thing this fic rec section is going 2 b most abt lol

Devil Town is SO GOOD you have NO IDEA HOLY FUCK ITS SO GOOD!!!! like!!!! its EXACTLY the type of story i fuckin ADORE

That One Time I Wished For A Change is a osmp!ranboo fic and god... GOD.... It is my main inspo for any of the lore I make with like my BANG! animatic n stuff

Theres something wrong with boatem hole is a GREAT series!!!! it has fuckin eldritch scar in it and its GOOD and I REALLY LIKE IT SM

Rewind is an absolute classic for me and the One timetravel fic I've ever read in my entire life cus normally I don't like em too much but This one is an Outlier

The Haunting of Momento Manor is the one fic so I'm seriously MAD isn't longer like!!!!! tumblr user b1rdza made such a GREAT STORY WITH LIKE A VERY COMPELLING LIKE GHOST AND AND IM SITTING HERE LIKE I WANNA KNOW MORE

Halfway Alive is one of THE ghost fics for me, like!!!!! WAHHH!!! i cannot describe with words how much i love it and how sad i am i think its never going to get finished

Ghouliday is ANOTHER fic I'm EXTREMELY sad I think is never going to get finished LIKE!!! it EVEN was left on a little bit of a cliffhanger and im sitting here like WAAAHHH

AND WHILE I DO HAVE SO MANY MORE FICS TO SHARE I must end this with As The Universe Shifts cus its a fuckin POGGERS fic man!!!! LOVE the watcher Lore and its so very good and I'm so sad i didn't find it when it was popular cus now i feel like am late to the party o(-(

[amyisherenowitsokay]

Ooh, another one came to me when I sent the technology one.

In going back and reviewing the original MHNY trilogy plot, story, everything built between characters etc, what did you do? What did you decide to scrap, to keep, or to repurpose? You said you're aiming to branch away from 2 and 3 with something different, and disliked how you kept yourself to following the plot beats of the original first, right?

What does that clean slate look like? What pieces in Re:1 act as the catalyst to those further down in Re:2&3? The largest ones are obvious, (obviously) the big glaring plot changes. Are there more subtle ones? (don't have to say if you want to keep em a secret.)

Or, just, what things thru all three stories made you die inside and scream why did you write that? (I feel like you have a list.)

I'm gonna answer with spoilers because I'm having a good time answering these. These are HEAVY spoilers for the direction of the fic. As Re:MHNY2 is currently aiming at a Spring release date, I feel more lax about it's secrets, but still. If you don't want to know, don't look.

CW// Mentions of sexual themes, explicit themes, the briefest of mentions of non-con as a theme

This is a really fun question in particular, because it was really something I wrestled with just in the conception of this fic series so many months ago, going back and forth with "do I want to do a rewrite? and if I do, knowing I had a second chance, what would I fix?"

I'll fully admit there are people who remember my fics better than I do (I am looking respectfully at @rllybritrlly whenever literally anything about From Your Memory gets brought up). That meant I really needed to reread my original fics to even remember all the details, what I wrote about them, read my cringe tween A/N's, etc. As Re:1 was the baby that started it all, I really wanted to pay as much homage as possible to it. Also, even so many years later, I still liked the overall plot, even if I felt the details could've been better executed, and I could've done without the various problematic themes. I think I've given the lengthy answer before, somewhere, but the short of it is mostly these major points:

I didn't like the weird sexually exploitative relationship between Zim/Gaz with the kissing/touching. Additionally, I knew I could make the inevitable ZAGR kiss way more dramatic if it was roped into the climax instead of just randomly thrown in the mix in problematic ways from the mid-arc. I LOVED writing the kiss in the rewrite, and it was actually one of the first scenes I rewrote, even before officially announcing/confirming the rewrite.

I didn't like Gaz and Dib's relationship. I love cruel, troubled Gaz, but I don't think it benefited the story to make her so constantly dismissive of Dib, to the point where he was sometimes written like an afterthought. I think IZ as a whole benefits from the complex relationships the characters have with one another, and the Re:MHNY series could benefit from developing those changing relationships rather than stagnating on them.

I had no idea when writing the original MHNY that I was ever going to do a sequel, or the direction of the finale. It was originally a one-and-done until I think the second-to-last chapter, when I decided I had more to write, and liked my readership too much to give it all up with a one-hit-wonder. Now that I know where the finale goes, I really wanted the opportunity to drop more lore, hints, and foreshadowing. The biggest example is Tak, whose name I basically borrowed as recognizable since I was too lazy to make a one-off OC, and only after-the-fact found a way to reweave her back into the third installment. Tak's fate is not going to be the same as it was in the original, and also, in the first rewritten fic, we got more insight into her personality. Not a lot, granted, but enough where the reader would be able to notice changes later on.

Discerning readers may have noticed that I kept the same amount of chapters in the rewrite as I did the original. If you compare chapters 1:1, a lot of the bigger themes parallel one another. Gaz is still ensnared by alien parasitic technology in chapter 1 of the rewrite as she was in the original, albeit in much bloodier circumstances. Zim's motorcycle/car chase in the original in chapter 6 is paralleled by the chase in chapter 6's rewrite, even though the circumstances are vastly different. Zim feigning a long-term, committed relationship in chapter 17 of the rewrite is a big nod to the original, in which Zim bartered for Gaz's life on the premise that they were more together than they really were, even with the kissing/touching premise they had with one another. Additionally, the theme of 'Zim hacks the Valkian ship' stays, even if it's once again executed under different circumstances. The details change, yes, but ultimately the Valkians are still slaughtered. That dedication I made towards keeping Re:MHNY1 as 1:1 as possible was a fun challenge in its way, but it's not going to happen in the sequels.

Regarding Re:mhny2 and Re:mhny3, I will only be borrowing the most basic of premises. As announced earlier this year, Iggins is still in the next fic. However, his differences are major, and a closely guarded secret I have only really shared with I think my internet bestie and my boyfriend. Again, anyone not looking for spoilers may want to skip this ask.

Some sneaky secrets are how I left whether or not Gaz went back to finish the tournament ambiguous. Additionally, that unlike the finale of the original MHNY, Gaz and Dib do not ever have another 'on-screen' discussion after she's rescued. Zim and Dib do, yes, but Gaz and Dib do not. There's a joke in Ch 20 about Zim showing up in his living room with cocoa, but the nature of any sibling conversations, if any even occurred, are also left deliberately absent and/or ambiguous. It's noted that they spent the majority of the aftermath resting, and really not a lot else. The most screen time Dib gets is being thrown out of the operating room in the flashback.

Unlike the original, where Tak was originally just used as a throwaway name-drop when I was too lazy to make an Irken OC or find another way to justify why someone might call to warn Zim about the Valkians, or even know who he was, I currently know Tak's fate in the rewrite, and I knew it when I wrote it, too, which means I got to sneak in that little ominous line of the Tallest when hearing her report in Ch 20.

“Now,” he said, doing his best to shrug off the strain of morning. “Go get that she-Irk again.”

A discerning reader might also have noticed Professor Membrane is not brought home, and never told what actually happened. Aside from some angsty pining from the Membrane siblings, his personal involvement ends when Dib abandons him at his conference and comes home for Gaz. That being said, there's also an interesting few paragraphs that have been brought up and pointed out to me individually before on Discord, and that other readers may have picked up on as well from Ch 18 that are going to be important to the sequels.

She hated this. She hated hiding herself behind veils of cynical wit and aloofness just to survive—to barely endure while she festered inside. She hated her father, drilling into her how uncomfortable people could be around her. That scaring people was wrong. That friends and admiration from peers were so very important. Don’t be angry, Gazlene. Be motivated! Don’t be frightened of change! Embrace it!

Zim had never demanded change. Zim had only ever ripped out the honesty, the worst parts of Gaz that she had buried under years of practiced apathy, and embraced them with open fascination. Sick. Accepting. Conniving.

You killed an Elite, his voice whispered, a caress on trembling limbs.

She had. She remembered every vivid detail like a flash bomb. The fear. The rage. The burning resentment. The same theme over and over. That she never should’ve been there. She never should’ve been here . That something had tried to take her life over nothing . That she had every right to fear for her life. 

The flashbacks that left her breathless. The fear, genuine, and yet underlied with something she dared not admit to even herself. Years of her fathers conditioning cushioning the awful truth of his daughter. She was just a teenage girl—once a child—who should never have been formed this way.

His son had inherited his father’s bravery and passion to learn, and twisted it into a dangerous recklessness. A need for pursuit and answers at all costs.

His daughter had inherited her father’s calculating practicality, and it had mutated into a vicious willingness to do the very worst thing for the necessary reason.

You killed an Elite, she heard once more. 

But this time, a loathsome truth followed. 

And you want to do it again.

As trademark as Gaz's viciousness is throughout the IZ series in general, and in this fic, her strict restraint being pinned on her father's discipline may seem out of place with only this fic to go off of. While it can definitely be read as a standalone, it does (deliberately) give the reader pause. Professor Membrane praises Gaz in the series for being his favorite child, not for being a menace to society as a whole, so where's this coming from? Why are Zim and Professor Membrane playing devil-and-angel-on-her-shoulder in her (concussed) brain? And notably, if that's their assigned role, where Membrane is the voice of restraint, and Zim the voice of rationality, then it should be noted that Zim's voice won. This should leave you asking why that is, and if that's always going to be the case.

A funner teaser is some foreshadowing I dropped throughout the story about what mating is going to look like in this fic. I wrote a lot of what I wrote about sex, love, and marriage under a heavy veil of religious indoctrination, which distorted and I think damaged the potential creativity of my writing. Virginity-cultural stigma somehow shoe-horned its way into my fic, and I don't really want that to happen again, which means there's going to be a lot more lewd scenes leading up to a sexual relationship. We're not just gonna have our characters go from making out to full penetrative sex. That's skipping quite a few bases. I've expanded behind the scenes a lot more information about Irken culture/mating, and while penetrative sex has been established as off-limits until such a time as our two heroes may deign to bind themselves to one another for eternity, I am not going to leave you hanging in the meantime. Some hints however about what mating looks like in the rewrite have been dropped, such as this nibble in Ch 9.

As he'd briefly gone over with the human girl, irken rituals of courtship were far different than any found on Earth. There was no religious entity or documentation, and the ceremony required complete isolation for at least three days.

and

He could never have that with Gaz. For one thing, she had no PAK. Well, she did, but it didn't actually count. Any attempt to encode the PAK was pointless, and furthermore, the PAK wasn't integrated to her brain the way it was to Zim's, or any other Irken's. It held no influence, and no significance to her decisions. While Zim's PAK may bind him for eternity, the human wouldn't be bound by anything other than the whims of her fleeting, mortal affection.

I outright name the ceremony in Re:mhny2, and also plan on further establishing teasers here and there about what's in store.

Skoodge is also a big teaser in himself! Skoodge is a competent invader and a traitor to the Empire, whom Zim has explicitly expressed allyship towards. He is definitely going to be important later on.

Regarding what a clean slate looks like for the sequels, I'll go ahead and name some big ones off the bat. Again, spoilers.

In Re:mhny2, Iggins is ultimately the antagonist, but whether or not he's the or even a villain is going to be something I look forward to watching readers debate about. That's what I mean by clean slate. Iggins was inarguably the bad guy and a major shithead in the original sequel. In the rewrite, Iggins may be a shithead, but what I really disliked about the original was how one-dimensional he was. Additionally, I think it's a more interesting story not for the protagonists to overcome the antagonist in a linear journey, but for the antagonist to grab the protag's by the neck and drag them into the mud with them. What if the hero's journey isn't upward, but one where simply keeping afloat equates success? What if not drowning is the victory? Metaphorically speaking, Re:mhny2 is going to start with fearless characters and end with characters who never look at the ocean the same way again, and are wizened for it.

Whereas the original was just kind of 'watch these characters be badass and mercilessly inflict pain on a bad guy' Re:mhny2 is basically going to be a lot of character self-reflection. I love the IZ characters for their flaws, but we're not going to get real, raw growth out of them if they're not forced to take on their own misdeeds and mistakes by metaphorical knifepoint. Re:mhny2 is going to be about them and the knife. And by them, I mean all 3 of the main cast, plus Iggins.

Re:mhny3 is similar. I'm excited to write about Iggins, but I am ecstatic to get another shot about a Zim-pocalypse. Enter the Florpus gave me so much new source material about what Zim successfully taking over the Earth, even for a short while, would look like, and I'm grateful for its contributions to the finale's development. Zim is still going to take over the Earth. Why, how, and under what circumstances is drastically different, and since its release is much farther out than the sequel, I will restrain myself to only give you this single, but eye-opening question when I talk about major, complete deviations from the plot. I have always regretted my impatience with MHNY3 for many things, but mostly one:

Wouldn't it have been a much more interesting story if Gaz really didn't know what was going on?

I'll just leave that thereeeeee.

For your last question, and one that makes me laugh to even look at, I do have a mental list. I'm pretty sure this'll be the first time I've ever written it down though.

Here are my top ten cringe moments from the original series as a whole, from cringiest to least:

The entirety of every sex scene I ever wrote

Ever writing the phrase "And they hadn't even done anything yet!" during a sex scene -- this is so ingrained in my cringe that I can, even now, tell you exactly where it is in the fic, the context, and wrote it without even needing to reference the phrasing

Implying Iggins would SA Gaz while she was under his thrall, and incapable of consenting (for concerned readers, non-con is not going to pop up in my stories again, and I apologize in hindsight for any discomfort caused)

Zim and Gaz's sexually transactional relationship, especially while Gaz was 14

Gaz getting married when she was only 18 (Gaz is already going to be 18 in the sequel, and will probably be in here early-to-mid twenties in the finale)

Dib being used as a punching bag for Zim and Gaz to be cruel to for cheap gags

Making the Tallests simps for Zim for really no reason other than that I was a simp for Zim and wanted to give him nice things lmao

Tak just sort of popping up out of nowhere as a maid, and blatantly borrowing the themes of servants being 'furniture' from the anime When Seagulls Cry/Umineko

That fucking weird ass segment where I had Gaz have prophetic nightmares (?) in the third one, and wander around a castle like some sort of haunted Victorian child. Really the whole castle scenes themselves were cringe. Get rid of the castle. Wipe it from your minds.

Making Gaz and Zim essentially infallible, unbeatable, and just boring in how completely dominant they inevitably were to any problem that arose. It just sucked the tension out of every situation because I got too bored or impatient with scenes that otherwise could've been much more interesting than they were.

This ended up a lot longer than I anticipated, but I hope I answered everything sufficiently!

[the-unknown-void]

Dysfunctional Shephard Siblings (Heavy Headcanoning)

I love them, Mitchell(HDTF), Adrian, and Alice(OC) They all kinda want to kill each other, uh- Mainly Mitchell I mean, yeah it’s really just Mitchell they want to kill.

Mitchell(He/Him): Struggles with lacking sympathy/empathy, he often can’t conceptualize the effects of his actions which leads to making quite a few stupid decisions or doing bad things and being confused when people are upset with him. He was hella homophobic when he was younger, main issue- He is gay, so actually he was just hating himself. He still hates himself to this day but for way more and bigger reasons. Nick is literally the one thing keeping him in one piece these days. I can literally never decide whether he’s younger, older, or twin of Adrian

Alice(She/They): Was the favorite child, thought her older brothers died when they never came back again. She made the choice to join Civil Protection to live slightly above bare-minimum. Unfortunately this made even her parents turn away from her and she became isolated for her actions. Eventually becoming a total shell of her former self as years went on. She was mostly guard around Nova Prospekt until Mitchell made the deal with the Combine, then ended up on his ship. And she hates it there, and she thinks Mitchell is an annoying asshole.

Adrian(He/They): Used to be pretty rambunctious as a kid, he and Mitchell liked to rough-house even though he would always kick Mitchell’s ass. (He got more chill as he got older) He started seeing the G-Man somewhere around when training for the H.E.C.U started, and let me tell you- He does NOT take being watched too well, he becomes paranoid from it and.. it just gets worse from there, the guy already had bad mental issues but now he’s just slowly going insane, and THEN the Black Mesa incident happens and uh,, Yeah he becomes sort of unhinged and a loose cannon at this point. He’s taken in by lesbian scientists tho(Gina and Colette) so that’s good. Oh yeah his gas mask basically became a comfort item to him because I said so

Apparently my idea of Adrian isn’t far off based on what I’ve heard about Marines being kind of unhinged.. And if you couldn’t tell, I yeeted Mitchell’s original��“childhood story” from HDTF cuz 1. Didn’t like it, and mostly 2. I already had headcanons for Adrian’s family/homelife and I didn’t wanna change them.

Mitchell do be hella committed to things he sets his mind to no matter how long it takes which like dude,, you’ve gotta give em some credit, that’s something I could never do, how do you keep a commitment to a goal for 20 fucking years!!??

I have so many little tiny headcanons for these guys, like things that are totally meaningless and have 0 weight on ANY story But here’s a silly n cute one: When Adrian and Mitchell got bored enough in the house, they would sometimes sit down with their little sister as she watched like MLP or something. They know the MLP lore because of it lmao

Sorry I just kinda wanted to talk about these fellas, I tried not to get too deep into them, just wanted to ramble a lil’ bit.

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@bettertwin1 @bettertwin9000 @chaotic-batter ::)

101 notes - Posted September 25, 2022

#4

23: stories

i need to catch up on rottmntober TTwTT lol

ask blog brainrott ::> ( @bettertwin1 @hamatored)

i feel bad for always making art n stuff all the time ||:w:

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18: movie

IVE BEEN STUCK ON THAT PROMPT FOR SO LONG YOU DONT EVEN KNOW

i finnally figured smthing out!!!! Y E S S S S! now i can go back to being productive on the other- FOUR PORMPTS damn- im behind

got inspiered but the better twin + ask blogs (i say plus cuz theres more but i dont wannu list em all TTwTT) so i turned it into a movie poster esque drawing

comming in theaters and blueray + DVD

wanted to add everyone but i didnt know how so tahts why theres tiny rat + smol robo drone ||:w:, didnt know what to do for draxum TTwTT)

( @bettertwin1 @bettertwin9000 @chaotic-batter @mystic-mikey)

127 notes - Posted October 22, 2022

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birdles :sparkles:.

i just had the idea so i put it into digital art ::>, the AU is very funn

au by @mobiitez

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My #1 post of 2022

@pmseymourva i liked cosmic wonders and found pario and ainanis's lore very interesting and cool, so i turned it into an animatic. i hope u like it :w:

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[bunny-rambles]

Dw about it rest is more important nodnod

Imma join you on the news for rioting if that happens

Signora had a lot of background lore going for her and the death was just so sudden that it wasn’t fulfilling enough for the story in my opinion. Mhy could’ve done so much more with her and let us uncover a bit more of her backstory with the main story but apparently not- Justice for all our villainous angels and Teppei

Give em all the headpats and kisses, hold their face in your hands and tell them you’re holding the world in your hands, shower them with love and affection and drown them in it—

- 🔒

Now back to our regular rambling because hooooo man I have a lot to say about Signora’s death and Inazuma’s writing as a whole.

Her death was entirely for shock value. There was no real reason for her to die, at all. And it felt like after she died, it was just swept up under the rug and it wasn’t brought it up again after the arc ended. And that’s what annoyed me the most.

There is no consequence for what happened in the Inazuma arc. Raiden wasn’t given any repercussions, in fact she was given a date with us for her story quest. What? What? No. No there was just nothing, we treated Raiden like nothing happened and we were all friendly when her country was falling apart because of a vision hunt decree she issued. And you can argue that the fatui had a part in it, but Ei has been proven to not be stupid, she at least had some idea of what was going on. She might have an innocent disposition, but at the end of the day, she is an archon and a god and if she fell for the fatui’s tricks then I’m sorry but it just proves she’s not a very good character to begin with. What was it with Inazuma women being written to be smart but then proving to be the exact opposite?

Because Kokomi did the same thing. She was supposed to be this master strategist but she didn’t question her soldiers buying random weapons from an unknown source? The writing was such a mess. It felt like two different teams were working on it, had different ideas, but they rushed it and meshed it all together, and most of it just does not work. I don’t like Raiden as a written character and it’s the same with Kokomi. With the next patch that might change but I’m not that hopeful. Both of them were extremely promising characters but ultimately was let down by poor writing, and it’s disappointing. Inazuma wasn’t all bad, I thought the act when we face Raiden for the first time was,,, really really good. And Kazuha, Beidou, Gorou and Kokomi’s appearance was a really good moment. But after that, it falls apart and the only good memorable moment for me was Kazuha’s friends vision lighting up again.

By the way, if you disagree with me, that’s completely fine this is just my opinion, so don’t worry if you have opposing opinions !! But for me, the last act of Inazuma, Kokomi and Raiden were all extremely disappointing and I think it was all rushed and it showed. They just didn’t know what to do,,,

But it’s so confusing because Albedo’s limited time event was probably some of the best writing in the game so far? Maybe not the best, but for Genshin it was up there. I’m glad that event happened because I was suffering from burn out bad with Inazuma,,, and Rubedo was an interesting character and I think both he n Bedo fed the simps well hehe >:)

And as for Scara,,, I just hope they treat him better than Signora. Such a compelling character, I don’t want MHY to just,,, waste that, you know?

oh wow sorry this was so long but this has been waiting to come out for a while !!

But yes, smother villainous angels with love, they deserve it, idc if they’re sociopaths they’re getting a kiss mwah

[ratcandy]

OKAY. could you do the character ask thing for CC n the Subconites . Plea. If two isn't too much,, (also. permhaps Snartcher)

I'm going to combine all 3 this is going to be a very long post

First impression

CC: Look at this funny cat in the rafters why is she southern

Subconites: Hey funny little guy.... why are you running. why are you r- [gets captured by their dad] ah fuck

Snatcher: I'd seen this guy before I played! Didn't know a lot about him though. Just though he'd be a main antagonist or something. Startled me when I first met him, then I was like "hey hang on a second why's this fool talk like me I don't like that"

Impression now

CC: My girldad, if you will. I love her I love her I love her I want to only write her dialogue ever in NS as far as I'm concerned that fic is actually about her and has nothing to do with Mafia Boss. Cookie is the only character that matters actually. Mu can take second place I was going to make a post earlier actually about the fact that CC is literally the only one that doesn't try to hurt Hat Kid (save for the nomads & the goats, the latter is accidental so I don't count them) and I feel so ROBBED by her lack of motherly interactions with HK because because. She's on the ship the WHOLE time, GFB. You couldn't utilize her for more than funny stove dialogue? I'm so mad they've underutilized the best character. Look at this mother and tell me she's not the only thing that matters

Subconites: my children. My gaggle of tiny little bastards. I adopt every single one of these. All of them. And the dwellers. They're all mine. I'm giving them all crayons.

Snatcher: So I went from "aw man! I'm kinning this thing!" because of his backstory revelation - as boy that do also be hitting in ways that are a little too close to home - to just a general "haha funny little demon ghost thing." He's a silley petty guy that I like to mess around with lore-wise and explore everyone's diverse headcanons of em, but I wouldn't call him my favorite anymore :,0 Just a funky dude!! Fun to draw!! I should draw him more

Favorite moment

CC: The moment where Hat Kid calls her mom and she gets so happy. What do you mean this didn't happen. It did. It totally did. Play the game again. You'll see

Subconites: "since when was being spooky a crime?!"

Snatcher: the whole vanessa's curse dlc. don't even talk to me he's being a petty bastard and stealing his ex's shit and I love that for him. that or the "did you know you can unlock a luigi if you complete every death wish on the first attempt" because HELP me

Idea for a story

CC: I'm writing this thing you might've heard of it it's called nothing spectacular and she's struggling not to smash the mafia boss into a thousand pieces all over the floor for like 20 chapters. It's epic. I want more fics of her being a mom. I want to write that idea of her saving HK from the nyakuza. I want t

Subconites: PURELY SELF-INDULGENT I would write that thing with my oc thomson adopting all these bastards unwillingly. thanks

Snatcher: um um um. So I had a fic idea that's still lying around. Might write at some point. That'd just be my takes on the whole situation between him and Vanessa. Nothing really new and interesting, honestly, just my perspective on how that all went down. Won't say much because I might still write it someday >:)

Unpopular opinion

CC: is there any unpopular opinions about Cooking Cat?? Is wanting her to be hat kid's mom an unpopular opinion???

Subconites: uhhhhhhhhh

Snatcher: Hrmgn. My feelings on Snatcher have grown more complicated the more I think about him. More specifically in any found fambly sense with Hat Kid. Because while I'm weak as hell for that, and I LOVE the idea, I feel like. Hrgn. There was not. Enough growth. To. Make it feel. Right. The death wishes were kinda the nail in the coffin for me as I thought about it longer. I have one brush-it-under-the-rug excuse that I dabble in any time I want to just ignore Snatcher being a Bad Person(tm) and indulge in found fambly trope, but. e. I feel like more interpretations of him should acknowledge that he Does In Fact do really awful things to Hat Kid!! Cool tragic backstory still attempted child murder (on multiple accounts if death wish is included). i dunno. a

Favorite relationship

CC: The made up rivalry I have between her and Mafia Boss because writing their bickering is so so fun for me

Subconites: they are loooking at snatcher and going "you are my dad! you're my dad! boogey woogey woogey"

Snatcher: listen his relationship with Vanessa is not good by any means but it's interesting and for that fact alone I'm putting that here. He's like one of the few characters that gets deep and intriguing lore and it's because of her. so. wa

Favorite headcanon

CC: have I made it clear yet that she adopts Hat Kid and becomes her mom. Also funny headcanons of her potential past relationship with Empress. I am not immune to lesbians

Subconites: Literally anything pertaining to them acting like the stupid little undead children that they are

Snatcher: He's getting progressively more creachure as he's like this!! because I want to draw him as an eldritch horror and YOU cannot stop me

[nulltune]

now that you're back,when can zarina twirls hakuno around in a dance and sweep her off her feet. when can zarina do it to hakuno please respond

MEEEEE WHEN I GET AN ASK FROM REN <3 AND!!!!! ME AS I READ THIS ASK BC MAN OH MAN MAN JUST THINKING ABT ZARINA WITH THAT SMILE(TM) OF HERS DANCING UNDER THE MOONLIGHT IS MAKING ME SWOON SO HARDDD!!!! i am absolutely adding this to my wishlist rn thank u 🙏🙏 and may i also ask of u--- zarina teaching hakuno how to dance :clownpensive: I WOULD ABSOLUTELY DIE FOR THAT IMAGE OKAYYYY idk idk just the thought of them doing anything together is making me vibrate at 200mph 🏃‍♂️💨💨 and i'm also laughing bc as you know, hakuno is so :| and stoic and the Densest Ever, anything that even the best flirt in the whole world tries would simply fly over her head methinks but if zarina sweeps her off her feet?? literally?? SHE WOULD BE BLUSHING SO HARD AGFKSHGHEJFJDJ (not so secret fact: moon girls are weak to bridal carries) and i love that image honestly bc just the idea of these two lovely ladies being like the Epitome of grace and beauty as they dance together but them being so goofy in the next second (me imagining gremlin zarina and a huffy pouty andstillblushing hakuno sgfjhs) is SO CUTEEE

ALSO-- I STILL HAVE UR STARTER SITTIN IN MY DRAFTS, HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN OFC ! and ngl I RLLY RLLY WANT 2 THROW HAKUNO AT ZARINA'S WORLD!!!! WANT HER TO EXPERIENCE THAT WORLD AND LEARN MORE THINGS THRU ZARINA (MAYHAPS⁉️⁉️) because oh my gosh can i just say i am so in love with the story u've crafted for her.... mad respect 2 u ren!!! it's been a while tho n my memory's so bad so i def need a reread (and a lil sidenote here-- but pls know that when i first read ur docs for zarina i was actually thinking i'll get to reading all the files with dem story lore some other time but nope! ENDED UP READING EM ALL IN ONE GO BABYYYY falling in luv with miss sokolova at 2am hits different i tell u) BUT YES I'M JUST 😭😭😭🥺🥺 VERY EXCITED FOR THESE TWO IN GENERAL!!!!! i feel like there is sooooooo much potential for just whaddahell kinda dynamic neutral good hakuno n neutral good zarina could have and i'm super excited to explore it!!!! ESPECIALLY WHEN IT'S WITH A WRITER AS WONDERFUL AS URSELF WEHEHE 💖💖

[shoezuki]

also there so many lore streams happening, i miss it when Tommy would just play bedwars and talk. the vibes there a pr great and rn it's just

"hi hi hello you want some good sweet plot with character development? I have just the thing for you! Torture! It's the best deal in the market for that sweet sweet angst content! Trust me, you'll see the character development in the long term wink wink!"

c!Dream and c!Tommy are such integrated characters in the story, any decisions they make causes a ripple effect that can affect many other characters stories and they really need to get communication in check with the people who play the characters in DSMP.

The other characters literally had to speed run sadness, grieving and funerals.

Like, you know, kudos to them for trying to tell the story, they were doing a pretty alright job and it's wasn't that bad of a flow and pace imo but now I'm simply watching quick fire scene hop.

(there was, so much, missed chances honestly. like they could've built up Tubbo's -corruption- arc a little better with the Butcher Army, Philza and Tommy's relationship could've been more solid and specific just to cause less confusion with the dynamics and be used in the future instead of it being constantly "oh it's Tommy v Techno / Tommy v Dream - in regards to big conflicts that are very constantly in the spotlight", these two are used so often as antagonists in Tommy's story, which, I understand, but it can become quite bland after a while and I think it's obvious with how a lot of us are like "oh Tommy is going after Techno again? Seriously?"

**they honestly had the like, time to do it you know? Sprinkle in some conversations, a small scene or a few, and if done well, can really bring Phil's character to a whole new level. Like I love Phil, lots of potential, but he's so go with the flow it kind of, leaves a lot of unsolved dynamics / plot lines behind. How he turned from kind of "ah yeah I'll help rebuild" to "I'm blowing this shit up fuck yeah" could've been , fleshed out just a little bit more imo? Yk, it was good, but a little more could've hit the target harder.

And didn't Tommy like -kind of apologize- to Techno before he fought Dream? That stuff is up in the air rn. where is it going? Idk, it's just, floating there mid air. There was potential for perhaps some reconciliation, a new ally/one less enemy/neutral terms and POSSIBLE CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT OF perhaps. admitting that he has his faults and techno does too you know, talk it out, actually listening to the other, instead of poking metal sticks at each other. every. single. time. they. interact. And if Techno doesn't want to reconcile with Tommy, remain enemies. Understandable. It works for his character, and it is in character. How the story goes after that? No idea. Why? Because that shit is long over for like , a month, and is there a way to resurface it in the plot/story? Possibly, but its quite a low chance though.)

-curry. (sorry for the long rant in the asks- if you want me to split stuff like this into two parts next time it's g :D)

NO WORRIES CURRY POP OFF U HIT EVERYTHIN I BE THINKIN YES.

like. i have Nothing to add but you reminded me bout it but YES before the whole prison thing during the hotel building tommy was goin to ppl n givin em like Invites to the Opening of the hotel and had given em to phil and techno and. IT. WAS SOME FUCKING GOOD POTENTIAL!!!!!!!!!!!!

like 90% of dream and tommy Lore n Writing just feels like. what i enjoy out of it almost Always is just what COULD have been. i see art n fics n theories that are Better than what is canon. like many many times that something Develops theres ppl like. oh maybe this can lead to character development! maybe we get insight into dream’s character! maybe there will be healing and forgiveness and reconciliation! but then its just disappointing instead.