#lu zero escape

[whatvioletdoes-blog]

Welp, it's already Halloween over here, so have our little Halloween fanart: Axe Ending Four from our LU Zero Escape AU! (999 spoilers I guess? So also AU spoilers but like, everything's been a spoiler lol)

With and without filter XD his design sheet will be coming at some point, but I couldn't wait to draw him, this needed to be done for Halloween!

I'm really happy with the way we managed to fit his colors into it XD big fan of the result of the skirt but honestly I love all of it

[gayometer]

Hi! Sooo, I was browsing the # of snv/ror x reader and found your blog. - I loved! I was wondering if I could get some headcanons for Gods and Humans w/ a strong personality y/n? Like the idfg y/n, pls. Sorry for my bad english & kisses from Brazil! ^ - ^ [ btw, could you please tag me if you do? My Tumblr aren't showing me notifications those days T v T ]

Not tired, just doesn't care

Glad you like my blog! Your english is fine! Kisses from P.R. ❤

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POSEIDON who tries his best to not show his frustration, how dare a mere human like you be so casual about him? It takes him a while to understand it's not disrespect it's friendship and you just have a strong personality, tough love if you will.

HADES who sees so many similarities between you two yet so many differences, you're not mean you can be pretty caring. But the way you so casually talk and even slap gods is amusing to him.

ADAMAS who tried to be all angry and grumpy with you but ended up being the biggest puppy. He comes to you when Hades isn't available, he doesn't know what it is but you kinda remind him of his big brother.

ZEUS who pokes fun at you just cause he knows you won't do anything, he doesn't try to "break" your facade and annoys you the same way he does Odin....by making you babysit him and essentially give him scary dog privileges.

APHRODITE who tries to get any reaction out of you, she isn't used to someone looking at her and not at least smiling.

HERMES who pokes you just for fun, he says it's to get a reaction out of you but we all know he does it for the funsies.

HERACLES who rants to you about anything that comes to his mind, he likes your strong personality and how you so casually talk to him, it's a breathe of fresh air.

ARES who started off with seeing you as a disrespecting mortal to then come to the conclusion that you're a glorified babysitter taking care of beings much older then yourself, including him.

LOKI who bugs you on a daily to try and get a reaction out of you, he obviously fails miserably but at least give him points for effort. He hasn't had this much trouble with a mortal since Jack bamboozled him about tea.

THOR who doesn't pay much attention to you, he doesn't mind your "attitude", high chance it's Forseti causing more noise about respect then Thor himself.

ODIN who much like Thor doesn't mind all that much about hoe indifferent you are however, unlike Thor he has limits. His crows are still the ones causing way too much noise about respect and shit, but if he does eventually get bothered by the "disrespect" he'll just get up and leave. He's not a child and can leave places if he feels like it, so shut up you two bird brains.

SHIVA who can and will make you join him and Rudra dance. He also tries to break your facade but that doesn't work. Shiva is pretty chill about most things but is still slightly irked that you have absolutely no reaction to being face to face with a god that uses the earth as his animal crossing island.

BUDDHA who just vibes under a tree with you, you both don't talk and just enjoy being close to each other.

ZERO who is basically your unofficial child, he's the only one who can make you break away from the tough love and "indifference" just by being himself.

BEELZEBUB who tries to keep his distance from you since he's afraid he'll get attached. He doesn't hate you, he just doesn't want to kill his new friend.

SASAKI who's normal cheery and laid-back attitude made you gravitate to him. His grandpa vibes give you more then enough comfort.

QIN who is adamant in making you his friend, no you can't escape him and the power of friendship shall be blasted upon thou.

ADAM who has the same nature and therefore doesn't mind, you're his child and that's that.

TESLA who took your silence as the greenlight to go on a rant about science and his latest inventions, you two have an odd friendship, he rants and you listen.

LU BU who normally wouldn't go out of his way to befriend some, but he hasn't had someone who doesn't run or worship him immediately in a while. Can you fight? Cause he wants to fight you.

RAIDEN who takes his time to stare at you, he yaps your ear off but he's also staring at you without blinking to make sure you don't "make a cute face" without him seeing....apparently it's not fair Thrud can see you crack a smile or giggle.

JACK who would normally stick to himself will try to socialize with you, he ended up enjoying you silent company and is one of the few who managed to get a smile and full sentence out of you.

[layraket]

Day 7 - Only for Emergencies

Character(s): Hyrule (LU)

Words: 1096

Summary: Thunder is a powerful and expensive spell. Even with all that, will be enough?

Whump scale: 2 (see the full scale here)

Warnings: Injuries and burns

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In fights the ones that stay in front are Time, Sky and Warriors. Wild, Wind and Four play support. Twilight, Legend and Hyrule attack the ones that try to get away.

Usually this method works very well, until it doesn’t.

There were reports of an army of monsters going around the edge of the forest in Warriors’ era, and they needed to get rid of them.

It would be easy, if only these weren’t overpowered monsters. The locals weren’t lying when they called it a whole army.

Soon it was clear that their normal formation wouldn’t work here, Four being the first to be outnumbered and get a hit in the shoulder.

Hyrule wasn’t sure where to go. They didn’t discuss the tactic here with this number of enemies, so he ran to the first one that he saw.

“Wild!” When usually the champion was on top of a tree he was fighting with all the ferocity that gave away his title. There were at least 15 monsters around him trying to land a fatal hit.

The traveler made his way through the horde and took down a good amount of the enemies. More were coming, now trying to close any gap or chance for escape.

It was clear that in no time they will be again cornered. This seems to be the last ones at least, but that didn’t make it easier.

Then the roar was heard.

A lynel, maybe from Wild’s era, came running to aid the rest of the small army.

The fact that it had a golden fur with black spots didn’t give Hyrule any positive thoughts.

“Golden Lynel!” Wild shouted from behind him. “They’re fast, try to stay away from its way when running!”

He had zero plans of staying in front of it, don’t worry.

The first one to go for it was Wild, obviously for being the most familiar with these monsters, the rest of them kept the other enemies from going after him. The champion has fought bigger ones, he could handle this.

Hyrule was now with Legend, defending the corners where the fight with the lynel was taking place. They were the most coordinated when fighting, it came natural with their skills.

Another roar made him stop a second, maybe Wild landed a decent hit.

Then the world was on fire.

“BACK UP! NOW!!” The warning came a little late, fire was already too close to do almost anything.

He heard Wind’s scream, and looked around to find him with his arm burned. Warriors was already next to him with a potion, taking him temporally away from the fight.

Hyrule scanned the surroundings, Time seems to be okay with Four next to him, Sky was supporting Twilight who seemed that had gotten a decent 2nd grade burn on his arm and leg.

Legend was safe next to him, that were eight of them… And Wild?

His silent question was answered seconds later, the sound of a weapon breaking coming to his ears after the sound of things burning ceased.

The champion was throwing a lot of his arsenal to the lynel, blue light coming from his hip non-stop with the weapons appearing in his hands. If he continued with this he will not have any way to attack.

“That fucking idiot!” Legend hissed behind him, the false venom hiding that worry in his tone for the champion.

“We need to do something.” The monsters were still too many to move around without getting into a fight, at this rate they will get killed.

He needs to kill them all, now.

Plan made he ran, leaving his place next to the veteran, ignoring his yell of warning.

He needed to get to the center, from there he will get the most of them. And if he wants to really help, kill that lynel.

When he arrived to where was the main fight, Wild was just avoiding getting hit with only a simple sword on his hands. He was already out of weapons.

Ignoring how the champion looked alarmed with how he sprinted towards the lynel he used his magic to jump and get to its back. Grabbing with all the strength he had its mane he called.

Electricity ran through his fingers, exploding with a strong charge and burning anything that came in contact with it.

He concentrated in no hurting his brothers, only focusing on the cursed blood of the monsters to channel all the energy.

Screams and roars from the enemies didn’t came to his ears, silent by the sound of all the powerful energy coming from his hands.

The spell dissipated and colors aside from white and hints of blue came to his vision, together with the sound around him.

Most of the monsters were already dead, burned down by the lighting and only a few being taken care of by his brothers.

The lynel was still alive, though.

It tried to get free from the uninvited passenger on its back, jumping even with sudden spams came through its limbs.

This thing wasn’t dying easily. Hyrule wasn’t either.

He called again for his magic, he still had enough to cast lighting again. This time, he used a little more of energy.

The buzzing came again with the blinding light, now concentrating all that in one objective. The spell stopped and the damn thing was still alive.

He was about to just grab his sword and try to stab it multiple times, but now seeing how it was running towards Wild made him act on instinct.

Lighting hit again the beast, stopping it on its tracks and giving the champion time to move. It was still alive. What did this lynel eat when growing up?!

His magic was running low, he only had a little of his normal reserve and the one for emergencies.

It was running towards the wounded of the group, now not paying attention to who was on its back. This was an emergency.

The traveler, with all the strength he had left, grabbed big amounts of the lynel’s mane, filling his lungs with air, and then lighting exploded.

It was almost like a big boom around; the world being covered in a blinding white and the only noise that came to his ears was the buzzing of electricity.

It stopped, his magic maybe now completely empty and leaving his fingers. His hands couldn’t keep grabbing the mane and he let go.

Falling from its back he heard a distant call for his name, at least the lynel was falling together with him.

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This will have a continuation! (not on whumptober tho)

[far-side-skies]

How would you rewrite Atmos most wanted?🤔🤔🤔

Oh this is a good one. Anyone who's been in the discord for a while will know more or less my ideas for this one.

Unlike Energy Crisis, I have actual grievances with this episode, and they are as follows:

The Raptors' disguises were just… why? I know why, it's because Storm Hawks is a kid's show, but surely you can give your audience a bit more credit than that. It's Dark Ace in Velocity all over again. I forgive it for the most part because it's a cartoon, but Nerd Corps is on thin ice XD

The people who are on the war path after the Hawks makes no bloody sense for when the episode happens in relation to the rest of the show. Yes, the show has episodic writing but by AMW, the Rex Guardians, Absolute Zeroes and Rebel Ducks all have an established history with the Hawks. If anything, more people than just Dove should've been trying to help them clear their names.

The crimes and items stolen is just nonsensical. There was no end goal for the Raptors here, they were just being evil for the sake of it and as a result the stakes were depressingly low. We deserved a bigger threat than what we got.

With those problems established, let's go over how I'd fix them, starting with the teams who think the Storm Hawks robbed them.

This episode would've been a great opportunity to introduce some squadrons we don't know very well. Perhaps the Buff Buzzards and the Screaming Queens, both teams we've seen in passing during Velocity, but that never got much development.

As for the teams we do know better. All of them felt like they were being written terribly out of character, excluding Wren. Wren can stay the crazy accusing old man he originally was. This man almost yeeted these kids into the Wastelands on their first meeting because he refused to believe that they weren't Cyclonians until Radarr bit him.

So we have Wren on the war path making false accusations again. How about the rest of the Rebel Ducks are following him to make sure he doesn't give himself an aneurism. Meanwhile Harrier and Suzy Lu are trying to get to the bottom of these thefts before pinning it on the Hawks. These kids surely wouldn't steal such valuable and even dangerous items, would they?

Now what is actually being stolen? And why?

The Cheese Stone is funny but ultimately useless. Let's replace it with a box of high-grade explosives, because one of my headcanons for the Rebel Ducks is that blowing things up is their favourite way to get shit done. Nobody makes a bomb like a Galeman can.

The snow blaster is… ok, I guess? One of the few instances of gun weapons being seen in Storm Hawks. But let's make it a bit more specific and have it that one of Suzy-Lu's frost crystals was stolen. An extremely rare one that's capable of freezing metal to the point where it shatters.

The Rex Guardians always seemed to me like one of the most influential squadrons in the Free Atmos, so as well as old Sky Knight relics they probably have archives of current and recent goings-on in the war, maybe even things that let them access high-security locations such as prisons.

If anyone can see where I'm going with this, you can have a cookie.

Stealing the Aurora Stone pieces is a brave move, and I'm sure anyone's attention would be grabbed by an attempt at such a crime.

So we have some new antagonists, and a running theme for the items that have been stolen. What can these things be used for? What goal shall we give the thieves of this rewrite?

How about a prison break?

The Atmosia Stockade is a high-security prison that houses Carver, and no doubt numerous other prisoners of war, such as high ranking Talons, turncoat Sky Knights, powerful Murk Raiders, the list goes on. The Free Atmos would stand to lose a lot if so many dangerous individuals escaped. Imagine the chaos!

And if that wasn't enough, I have one last major change to bring out.

The Raptors aren't the thieves in this. Not the main ones anyway. Perhaps they were hired as distractions, perhaps they did help with a couple of the thefts, but they're not the primary culprits. It's the Storm Hawks Reserve team.

This ties into other rewrite ideas I've got lined up, specifically Talon Academy. I decided a while back that several members of the Reserves that Aerrow suggested in TA and that never got mentioned again what the hell were in fact Cyclonian double agents. People with a huge motivation to break people out of the Stockade. And it'd explain why the likes of Wren are so sure that it was the Storm Hawks who robbed them. They have the right uniforms, the right insignia, and they are not a pack of giant lizards in paper masks.

...Sorry, I'm a bit salty.

I want the Storm Hawks to fail in this episode. It would've been interesting to see how they handle a loss like this, and I think it would make things incredibly interesting for the lead-up to Cyclonia Rising. Imagine all the new threats we could've gotten.

So that's my extensive ideas for how I'd rewrite Atmos's Most Wanted. Maybe one day I'll do a fanfic or even an audio drama based on this rewrite, because apparently recording my attempts at voice acting is something I want to so. I hope you enjoyed my ramblings!

[theunholybastard]

Kinktober: October 24th - Threesome (Papa Emeritus IV x Cumulus x Female!Reader)

Tags: Porn With No Plot, Threesome F/F/M, Praise, Restraints, Cunilingus, Creampie, Cum Eating, 1st Person POV

Cumulus tugs at the ropes binding my wrists, tightening them. "Is that good, baby?" She asks, sickeningly sweet. I nod nervously, mentally preparing myself for what activities will soon ensue. We were both already completely naked and exposed. Cumulus' body is that of a goddess, sculpted by Venus herself. I'm intimidated, quite frankly, despite her soft and safe demeanour. The only one not fully naked yet was Copia, still clad in his tight pants. That, and his socks, which he was not planning on taking off.

"How are my beautiful ladies doing, eh?" Copia grins, coming up behind Cumulus and running his hands up her waist, grasping at her plump skin. "Good, Papa." She purrs, shivering at his touch. A hand comes up to pinch at her nipple, a little moan escaping her. "And you, cara mia?" He turns his focus to me, his gaze fogged with lust, looking at me as if I was his prey he was stalking.

"I'm okay, Papa." I shudder, the temperature in the room too cold to remain nude and untouched for much longer. "Just c-chilly..." Copia nods sympathetically, his hands now coming to rub up my leg. "Poor thing. We must show you some attention now, shouldn't we?" He coos. "Or perhaps, you'd like it if we put on a show for you first?" As much as I'd like to watch Cumulus fall apart on Copia, or vice-versa, my cunt is aching for some sort of attention, for a release.

"Please just fuck me." I mutter. The two smile excitedly, Copia starting to undo the laces of his confining pants. "Of course. Cumulus, would you be a doll and warm her up for me? I'll make it worth your while." Cumulus grins ear to ear, fangs shining in the candle light filling the room. She dips her body down, hot breath zeroed in on my cunt. I don't even have the time to take a deep breath before her tongue is lapping violently at my clit, sucking on me like she wants to get to my centre.

Copia gets behind her once he frees himself from the confines of his pants, lining himself up with her entrance. He pushes in, her copious amounts of slick making it extremely easy to slide in. I could practically hear the squishing sound of her wetness enveloping him. She moans against my folds, the vibration feeling fucking incredible against my swollen clit. The pleasure he was giving her only encouraged her further to suck and lick at my pussy, devouring me frantically like I was her favorite meal.

He bucked into her at a slow pace, wanting to save some stamina for me too. She growls impatiently, rocking her hips harshly against his, causing him to cry out. His grip on her hips is almost bruising, desperately trying to contain himself. "F-fuck, 'Lus. You're so tight..." He gasps, bucking faster, her tongue only flicking faster in return. She smiles cheekily against my sex, a light blush on her cheeks. Her growing cockiness encourages her to add two fingers inside my hole, pumping and curling in order to hit the spot. Thank Lucifer she trimmed her claws beforehand like I told her to.

Her mouth attacking the most sensitive part of me, all while I was forced to watch her body jiggle deliciously as he fucked into her, was too much to handle, practically screaming from the overwhelming pleasure and extreme arousal I was experiencing. The recoil of her ass and tits bouncing and swaying from the force, and the tip of her tongue flicking in a rapid succession, I was tipping over, close to reaching the precipice.

I clench around her fingers, and throw my head back, letting out a choked moan at the feeling of it washing over me. My body felt like it was completely factory resetting, like a bucket of cold water was dumped all over me, and simultaneously, my cunt was on fire. My thighs cramped firmly around her ears, and though they weren't nearly as luscious and life-ending as hers were, I couldn't help but worry I hurt her. My body couldn't control itself however, bucking against her face, my hips rolling with each wave that crashed upon me.

When she was finally able to pull away, she did so very hesitantly, as if she wanted to live down there for the rest of her days. She licked her lips seductively, licking her fingers clean as well. "You taste so fucking good, darling." She huffs, Copias thrusts perfectly timed in between each word. "Do you think shes ready for my cock?" Copia asked, out of breath from how hard he was fucking into the curvaceous Ghoulette. She nods enthusiastically, popping herself off of his dick and shuffling her body upwards. She hovers over my face, her dripping pussy in full view.

"Do you need me to hover, or can you take it all?" Cumulus purrs, stroking my cheek. I can feel Copia's cock rubbing against my sensitive folds, not yet pushing in until I answer her. "Make me take it. Please." I plead, needy and desperate to feel her whole weight crush me. She beamed, explained to me how all I needed to do to get her to stop was tap twice against the bedframe, and finally plopped down. Her cunt tasted incredible, and I slurped her up with equal intensity that she did to me. I could only hope I was doing half as well as she did.

Copia pushed in, giving it his all as he fucked into me. The stretch felt incredible, his cock a lot bigger than I had anticipated. "Brava ragazza." Copia praised. "Take it like a good girl. Take the both of us." I could barely breathe, and the way I was constricting around Copia, he could barely breathe either. It was so fucking worth it. I would die happily drowned in Cumulus' liquids, and Copia would gladly let his heart give out if it meant pulling another orgasm from me.

"You're so big." My words are barely coherent, severely muffled by the wet pussy suffocating me. He seemed to understand just fine, his hand coming to press on my lower stomach. "Am I now?" He huffs. "I understand how you feel that way. I can feel myself reaching all the way up here. I feel my cock bucking into your fucking stomach. Isn't that incredible, amore mio?" His words make me feel lightheaded, or maybe it was the lack of oxygen. Probably both. I still won't let up, not until her cum covers my face will I grant myself permission to breathe.

All of his thrusts met my cervix each time, an involuntary scream erupting from my throat each time. Cumulus seemed to appreciate my vocalizations, no doubt feeling amazing against her perky clit. Her hips rocked on their own accord over my face, and I welcomed it. I loved that she was so lost in the pleasure I was making her receive that she didn't even notice. She looked so beautiful above me, looking down at me with half-lidded eyes, lips parted sensually.

She came very soon, shaking and back arching, only further pressing her mound into my face. I lapped up all her exquisite juices, like a runner after a marathon. It was warm and salty, running down my throat seamlessly. Her voice sounded so beautiful when she cried out my name, a sense of pride filling me. I did that. The excitement alone was enough to send me over the edge once more, shattering against Copia, legs kicking aggressively.

Like a chain reaction, it wasn't long before he followed suit, cumming from the sheer force of me clamping down on his cock. He painted my walls white, deep as possible as he fills me with his seed. Catching our breaths, Cumulus sits up as to not kill me, leaning over to press a kiss to my raw lips. "Did such a good job. Such a pretty girl, honey. So perfect for us..." I soaked up the praise like a sponge, her soft, caring voice filling me with a fuzzy warmth. Copia pulled out, stumbling forward to untie my wrists.

"Can I clean you up, darling?" Cumulus cooed. I nodded thoughtlessly, mind focused on the overwhelming pleasure, and the stinging on my poor wrists. Copia rubbed a soothing ointment on them, kissing and caressing my rope burned wounds. He sang praises to me as Cumulus went down a second time, eating Copia's spend from my leaking hole. I almost feared I would cum a third time, till she finished after what felt like forever, swallowing the last drop of Copias semen.

Copia smiles in satisfaction, waving Cumulus over while pulling me in for an embrace, providing comfort after all the exertion. "Come. I want to hold my two favorite girls." His voice rumbles in his chest. My heart flutters, the noises around me slowly fading as I succumb to sweet sleep. Sweaty, exhausted, and completely at peace in the arms of both of my compassionate lovers.

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[thedevilrisen]

Hello! Big Congrats in your celly.......

I'm so bloody happy we met on here 💛

I like the prompt "Not everyone is going to hurt you.” “I want to believe you, I do." For maybe some Nova/Luke Hughes action if your feeling it?

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Thank you my love! The feeling is mutual! 🫶🏻

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After her reconciliation with her father, Nova cut ties with all of her old 'friends.' She knew there was only really one way to get herself back on track and that was to take herself away from any and all bad influences. No flower did not count, he was a good-bad influence. Or at least a dad approved one.

This action however means she faced a severe amount of scrutiny, particularly from the popular kids. She often got mocked and bullied, ridiculed for going from hero to zero.

She went from having everyone love her to everyone around her possessing malicious intentions. Re-making friends became a nightmare, everyone wanted to hurt her. Some people were her friends before the popular girls told them what happened and they became cold and distant, shutting her out, other's pretended to be her friend before embarrassing Nova in front of everyone.

Eventually after many nights spent crying in her dad's arm begging him to take her out of school, but Sidney refusing until she finished the year as much as it pained him to see her tormented by her peers, they decided as a small family that's what would be in their best interests for Nova to finish high school online.

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"I can't do this Lu." Nova murrmed, digging her heals in slightly as they approached the restaurant.

"Novs." Luke looked his girlfriend in the eye, or tried to as her eyes scatted all over, scanning her surroundings. "It's going to be alright!"

"Lu, what if they know? What if they pretend, becau-" Nova was rambling now, breaths coming fast, looking at him with frantic eyes.

She was meeting his friends for the first time and after the debacle that was meeting his brothers she was terrified. Quinn and Jack thought she was already a horrid influence on Luke, what if his friends thought the same. She thought off handedly about how his friends could do what her 'friends' did to her and then Luke wouldn't want to date her anymore.

"Not everyone is going to hurt you." Luke mumbled as he pulled the brunette into his arms, brushing her hair out of her face and rocking the two of them gently side to side.

"I want to believe you, I do." Nova mumbled, twisting the ring on his right hand, "My prior experience tells me otherwise."

Luke let out a sigh, he knew that this would be an arduous task but in his eyes, every second he spent helping or being with Nova was worth it. “How about if we go for ten minutes and if you are uncomfortable I will suddenly come down with crippling food poisoning from some bad shrimp we had for lunch.”

Nova stood there and contemplated weather or not that’s would suffice, deciding that not much could go wrong in ten minutes she nodded to herself, took a deep breath.

“Let’s do this. You better be a good actor as well.”

“Don’t worry Novs, I bullshited my brothers my whole life, a little food poisoning won’t be hard to fake.”

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HI! This took forever and I’m still not happy with it but I’m using this as an escape because of you know what! Enjoy!

[lumisnowy]

Hello my beautiful people

How are you? I hope you are well and that you are taking care of yourself. Drink enough and do something good for yourself. The current time is hard at the moment, the world is permanently changing, I hope you can cope with it. You deserve to be heard, you deserve to be loved. You deserve the world.

I am not doing well at the moment. I am empty. My energy is now at zero percent. Everything feels heavy, so damn heavy. As if the little boat on which I sail through my life is sinking. It is a feeling of heaviness and emptiness. Do you understand what I mean?

A dark hole, from which I actually already wanted to escape. But again and again my arms pull me down into this hole. I try to deal with it. But… it is not easy.

I wish I had a person who would sincerely listen to me. I am always the person who listens and gives advice. I give a lot. I give so much of myself that sometimes I lose myself.

That's how it feels. Like I've lost my own self. I hope this feeling ends soon.

Love, Lu

[utopianparadoxist]

Prince English POV @ Dirk, mostly. Jake is in bold. Dirk is in italics. Overlaps are in both. Complete song under the cut so as not to stretch the dash too much.

(And I can't look up and I can't look down When the whole wide world reveals its death And I can't take a breath 'cause I haven't escaped And I haven't escaped because I can't take a breath)

Oh zookeeper, we're gonna help each other through Zookeeper, I don't trust anyone but you Leave the enclosure, lower our gaze Brace for the crush, here it comes, brace for the CRAZE!

(And I can't buy into the world that's sold But I can't afford to buy a ticket out And I can't reply to anything I'm told But they say they're just telling me to open my mouth And I can't shake the feeling there was something else There was something I believed in that got me here But I'm afraid to go back and find what it was Because the only belief that I held was fear)

Oh zookeeper, all my life through Zookeeper, it's been only me and you We govern the jungle, we scuttle the ark There go the cameras, here comes the darkHere comes the dark!

(And will you leave me behind because I cry too much? Well if you do then you know I'll cry and cry Or are you leaving 'cause you've never known another touch And you wonder what it's like on the other side? And the further you go, the less I care And the less I care, then the further you go And the smarter I get, the more I want to learn But the more that I learn, the less I realize I know)

'Cause there's There's nobody left There's nobody left There's nobody left There's nobody left but you and me

There's nobody left There's nobody left There's nobody left But you and me

(And everything that's new decays to something old And "new" is just a word, just an adjective And every part of speech that I conceive afresh Will do nothing to change the fact that it's live Or die, the two, the irreducible pair And it's yes or no, and it's you or me And it's stay or go, and it's earth or air And it's fast or slow, or it's in between)

Oh zookeeper, d'ya think we'll pull through? Zookeeper, and do we really have to? We could've stayed, we could still pretend But here come the birds of prey Here comes the end Here comes the end

(And it's up or down, and it's zero or one And we're made of ghosts, who're all keeping score It's all in the past or it's still to come And I feel like I'm the only one who cries for more 'Cause time is just one way, and a circle's closed And everyone I know retains a name Still I can't look up and I can't look down And for all the change, it's all the same)

And there's, There's nobody left There's nobody left There's nobody left There's nobody left but you and me!

There's nobody left There's nobody left There's nobody left But you and me!

There's nobody left There's nobody left There's nobody left There's nobody left but you and me!

(And if I stride into the heart of a factory Walking tall and fast so that no one asks Could I lay my head down on the iron press? And could I push the green button and end it fast? There's a black hole spiral with no inside Where nothing escapes and death is just a flash But to the bear in the cage is there a slowing of time? Does the split second noise just last and last?)

There's nobody left in the world In the place of predator and prey and boys and girls There's nobody left in the wild Ain't got no use for words like "animal" or "child"

(And does the lion grow love like wings of milk? And does the meat of my bones rise up and sing? And does my soul take flight into calcium dust? And does the map of the world blow apart in the wind? And does the boat on the water dissolve in tears? And does clearing in the forest mate intention with math? Is the emergence of a tumor just a god who tries To break into our world by the shortest path?)

Zookeeper Come on, open your heart up, open my cage Here comes the future Here comes the RAGE!

(And does the flailing of my body on the foundry floor Give a scent of honey and a scent of luck So that the workers and overseer can't ignore The little moonglow breeze by which they're struck? And will we meet in the morning on the day we die? Will we chase our shadows like we never grew up? And will we laugh to the comedy of nuclei? And will we drink ourselves deep into the holy cup? And your very first word was your very last choice If your daughter doesn't get you then the government will I'm just hanging onto life for the sake of my cats And if I were their size, they would probably kill me too)

[eimaremia]

Birthdays

✨ Multifandom Edition ✨

Ai: The Somnium Files

Date Kaname: August 3rd

Alien Stage

Sua: December 22nd

Till: June 21st

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Yue: March 15th

Banana Fish

Ash Lynx: August 12th

Boku no Hero Academia

Aizawa Shouta: November 8th

Bakugou Katsuki: April 20th

Hagakure Tooru: June 16th

Kamihara Shinya: February 22nd

Takami Keigo: December 28th

Danganronpa

Tanaka Gundam: December 14th

Dragalia Lost

Fritz: November 30th

Harle:

Hildegarde: May 4th

Haikyuu!!

Kozume Kenma: October 16th

Hourou Musuko

Nitori Lily: January 10th

Kimetsu no Yaiba

Iguro Obanai: September 15th

The Legend of Zelda

Link: September 1st

“Oshi no Ko”

Hoshino Aquamarine:

Pokémon

N:

Natsume: January 20th

Shiguang Dailiren

Lu Guang: October 24th

Shiki

Koide Natsuno: December 15th

Shingeki no Kyojin

Eren Jaeger: March 30th

Uta no☆Prince-sama♪

Mikaze Ai: March 1st

Zero Escape

Light Field:

[tiredsp7]

Okay. Since the zero escape trigger warning list is being shared around. I wanna see about another game I like, to advise people who want to get into it. So

Is there a trigger warning list for raging loop anywhere? If there is not. Would anybody like to help me make one?

[quazartranslates]

Welcome to the Nightmare Game II - CH48

**This is an edited machine translation. For more information, please [click here]**

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Chapter 48: Star Death Reality Show (XXXI) {cw: misgendering}

"Will Qi Leren be alright?" Dr. Lu, who had already run away, looked at Du Yue behind him in a panic and murmured in a low voice, "I have a bad feeling."

"Qianbei will be fine," Du Yue said confidently.

"No, let's go down and have a look. If he’s in trouble, we can help," Dr. Lu said.

"Okay, let's go." Du Yue was fine with it.

The two people studied the route to find the safest passage. Dr. Lu's sense of direction was bad, and Du Yue wasn’t much better. Two headless flies wandered around the institute and accidentally found intermittent blood on the ground.

The two walked along the blood trail, and finally found the injured Lara in a hidden room. Her injury wasn’t serious, but her spirit was not good. After seeing Du Yue and Dr. Lu, she was silent for a long time, and her voice was hoarse as she asked: "Have you seen Jing Siyu and Jing Sixue?"

The two shook their heads, and Lara sighed: "I'm afraid they’re in danger."

Lara told them what had happened after they ran away. Jing Siyu and Jing Sixue disappeared quickly, but Janet, Alex and Lara were together. They’d had an argument because Francis had been parasitized by an octopus. Janet strongly suspected that Lara was parasitized, and Lara would naturally not admit to such false accusations. During the argument, they met Leviathan, who had been thrown off by Qi Leren once before.

Janet, who was the closest to Leviathan, was the first to be killed. Alex tried to escape, but Leviathan jumped up again. Alex, who was eager to get rid of it, tried to push Lara out, and even stabbed Lara with a dagger. However, Lara had a strong will to survive. She took the dagger regardless of her injury and stabbed Alex’s vitals with a knife. She hid in a room, locked the door, and crawled away from the vents.

After that, Lara tenaciously fled the whole way, and finally came here and met Du Yue and Dr. Lu.

"We also met the monster, and Qi Leren led it away. Here's the thing..." Dr. Lu plainly told the story again, and finally asked, "We’re going to find Qi Leren. Would you like to join us?"

Lara touched the wound on her hand and nodded firmly: "Let's go."

This time, all three people were in a heavy mood. Especially after seeing the incomplete bodies of Jing Siyu and Jing Sixue, Lara cried sadly and asked aloud, "Are we the only ones left? Is Qi still alive?"

Janet and Alex had undoubtedly died by Leviathan's mouth, as well as Jing Siyu and Jing Siyue. Francis, Annie, Mark and Xue Jiahui were all parasitized. He Yi became Leviathan’s host. Only four of them had survived, and among them, Qi Leren’s life and death were still uncertain.

"Of course he’s still alive!" Dr. Lu said firmly. "He must still be alive!"

　　&&&

In the vast underground ice palace.

"Prophet, are you awake?" A blindfolded woman stood up from the chair of carved ice and respectfully saluted him. The ice and snow maids who were responsible for guarding the underground ice palace also bent over in salute.

"Soothsayer? Is it your rotation today?" asked the Prophet.

"It should have been the Iillusionist’s turn, but he had something to do, so we changed it," the Soothsayer replied.

"How is that boy recently?" When it came to the Illusionist, the Prophet's tone was clearly casual.

"Not bad, I heard that he made an interesting new friend, and he played tricks on others all day long." The Soothsayer smiled and asked again, "This time, you slept for a much shorter time than expected. Is something wrong?"

"It's not an accident." The Prophet frowned and looked up at the dome of ice and snow, but his line of sight seemed to pass through the thick layer of ice and look at the vast universe.

The blindfolded Soothsayer could not see his expression at the moment, but she could feel his inner unrest.

"Someone has discovered their original force, and that force is biased towards us," said the Prophet.

The Soothsayer breathed a sigh of relief, smiled, and said, "Isn't this a good thing? Although it’s only the first step, it’s always ahead of the other sentient beings on the starting line. Maybe it will eventually condense a half-field or even a field."

It was only the first step to discover one's original force, and it would take some difficult self-testing to condense a half-field, but this already meant that this person was about to embark on a road different from ordinary players. Any master at the field level started from this first step. Although most people would fall in the long road of experience, everyone who had reached the field level had terrible strength.

The Prophet sighed faintly: "It’s too early to talk about field condensation... Although I’m optimistic about him, I didn’t expect it to be so fast. This may not be a good thing for him. There are still too many problems in his body that have not been solved."

The Soothsayer asked curiously, "Do you know that man? What is his original force?"

The Prophet sensed the new force full of vigor and hope, and gently spoke the answer:

"Rebirth."

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In the deep underground glacier wrapped in eternal cold, the temperature was 60 degrees below zero. When human beings were exposed to this environment, it only took a few minutes for the blood in the nose and ears to be unable to maintain circulation because of the cold, and the cells would quickly die.

This underground world without light seemed destined to be forgotten in the cold.

Crushed skull, whole body fracture, ruptured organs, internal and external bleeding... Worse than that, when falling from that height, the speed would return to zero at the moment of contact with the ground, and the body would be deformed instantly under the huge force of the impact. Even the space alien Leviathan, whose vitality was extremely terrible, was seriously injured after falling and fell into a deep sleep.

To say nothing of a human being.

Death was the only outcome.

But suddenly, something moved in the ruinous "tomb" created from broken ice.

And then moved again.

Qi Leren felt as if he was in an icy hell. Every time he breathed, thousands of ice needles punctured his internal organs crazily, which made him feel miserable. He couldn't even think of why he felt so painful and cold, or where he was.

Under this inhuman pain, he only felt that he didn't want to live any longer, but he couldn't even die.

Breathing returned, heartbeat returned, he still couldn't open his eyes, he could only move with all his might. The stones and ice blocks on his arms also moved and collapsed violently, and his sound echoed in the lifeless darkness.

Qi Leren's consciousness gradually returned, and he remembered who he was, but he still didn't realize where he was. He complained crazily in his mind that the air conditioner in his room was too cold, and that he had even accidentally fallen from the bed, and now he couldn't move.

But how could it hurt so much? It was like all his bones were broken.

Qi Leren's confused thinking leaped illogically. He saw many things, and the broken pictures rampaged in front of his eyes, but they just passed away. All he remembered was that he saw a pair of blue eyes.

Blue eyes.

Ning Zhou.

The name suddenly appeared in Qi Leren’s, which was like a spell to unlock the seal on his memories. Countless heavy memories were bearing down, which were more painful than the rose thorn stuck in his heart.

He was going to find Ning Zhou, and he was going to bring him back.

Qi Leren finally recalled his mission, and he began to struggle, struggling to get up from the tomb built from broken ice. Just turning over exhausted his strength, and he had to lie prone on the ground and breathe for a while, only to recover his strength slowly.

He noticed the time. It has been twenty hours since he’d fallen from the ice cliff. It was ten o'clock on the fifth night. The fifth day’s Best of the Day had already been announced, but he didn't know who it was. At the same time, his privacy time has been reset with the new day day, and he had another ten hours.

If you fell from such a high place, the tracking camera should be damaged. If not, the low temperature here should make it unable to work normally. But just to be on the safe side, turn it off.

"Turn off the camera." Qi Leren squeezed his voice out of his dry throat, and coughed wildly as soon as he finished speaking. His mouth was full of the fishy sweetness of blood, which made Qi Leren feel queasy.

Suddenly there was a light sound in the dark, as if a stone had been pushed down.

Qi Leren immediately took out a flashlight from the item bar and shone it in the direction of the sound.

Not far away, there is a mound of rocks and crushed ice, and a tentacle was slowly sticking out from the inside, which was extremely slow and seems to be seriously injured.

That thing wasn't dead yet? Or did it sense the breath of the living again and wake up from hibernation?

Qi Leren struggled from the ground. Although he was mysteriously resurrected, his left hand, which was bitten off by Leviathan, still didn't grow back. If he tried this again, he would only die.

But fortunately, he had a key item that had cooled down.

When the Prophet's Heart was used again, Qi Leren felt subtly different from the last time. The phantom angel falling from the sky came to him and took him away from the terrible world to the carefree Garden of Eden. Under the cover of God's grace, he didn't need to worry, and he didn't feel fear. The world was like sand in his hand, and he could easily knead it into the shape he wanted.

Heavy rocks and ice were pushed away with a flick, exposing Leviathan lying on the ground dying. This horrible monster had a red eye, and this huge eyeball was full of ferocious madness.

There was an invisible giant clock behind him, and the pointer walked quickly. As long as it finished three laps, the power he borrowed would be like the chime of midnight, dissipating all magic.

He had to hurry.

Qi Leren held out his hand and raised his palm in the void. Leviathan floated and began to roar and struggle, but this degree of resistance had no effect before the original force. Moving the palm of his hand slowly, Qi Leren felt that he could easily knead it into pieces, just like what he did to Mark's octopus.

But this was not the only way. Qi Leren felt the mystery of time and carefully explored its secret. A mysterious feeling emerged in his heart. He rubbed his fingers and the sands of time slowly flowed down in his hands.

Leviathan floating in the air as if it had been cast in magic. Its shell was rapidly aging, coated with a layer of rust, and finally it seems to be petrified. Its body was full of cracks, and finally it turned into powder like beach sand, which sprinkled to the ground slowly, leaving a golden treasure chest and a round sphere.

Qi Leren waved his hand, and these two things fell into his hands. The treasure chest was opened, which was an item.

[Lucky Revolver: There are six slots in this gun’s chamber, one of which is loaded with a bullet. Shooting at one's own temple can give one minute of absolute defense within a radius of 500 meters around the locked target, but the absolute defense is invalid for this bullet. Even if you are lucky, God will only give you five minutes. If you are not afraid of death, you can continue for another minute. Locked target: not set.]

Qi Leren immediately decided that this was of no use to him, because he would blow his head off with the first shot, and unless it was matched with S/L, it was a waste.

Disappointed, he looked at the other object, which was an eyeball as big as a bowl. The scarlet pupil seemed familiar. It was called [Leviathan's Eyeball].

What was this thing? There wasn’t even a brief introductory description, which reminded Qi Leren of another prop without a brief introduction, namely, the "Scepter of Hell", which Maria had entrusted him to give to the Prophet.

Time was running out, and the clock representing his time limit only had half a rotation left. The translucent wings behind the Qi Leren lifted him, flying over the deep underground glacier, crossing the collapsed ice tunnel, flying all the way along the coming road, and returning to the iron door at the entrance before time ran out.

"Qi Leren? You’re still alive? That’s great!" "Qianbei! Are you alright? Qianbei! How did you grow wings!" "Qi, are you alright?" The three people wandering around the door with flashlights rushed up in surprise at the sight of Qi Leren.

Prophet's Heart’s time was up, and Qi Leren landed on the ground. After the sacred power retreated, he sat down weakly and walked out of the underground ice cave with the help of the three panicking people.

"It's okay, it's all taken care of. Just in case, we should quickly leave here, seal the exits, and wait for rescue." Although Qi Leren was still in the aftershocks of coming back from the dead, his mind was clear, and he clearly commanded the three people. He was worried about whether there were any octopuses hatching in the research institute, but he was afraid to say it now, for fear that after his mouth moved, his good luck would run out.

Du Yue had great strength, and single handedly carried Qi Leren, who had lost his arm, on his back. He listened to the three people say what had happened after they’d split up, learning that after discovering that the other people had become Leviathan's food, the three people had come to the bottom of the institute to look for Qi Leren. They went in several times, but the temperature inside was horribly low. Unlike Qi Leren who had been blessed by the holy light, they finally had to retreat, worried that Qi Leren was dead.

Qi Leren didn't say that he and Leviathan had fallen off the ice cliff together, only that Leviathan had fallen off, and that he was injured and unconscious for a long time but didn't die. Finally, God blessed him and gave him strength to return to them.

Dr. Lu and Du Yue were very embarrassed, but Lara was very moved. She took Qi Leren's remaining right hand and sincerely said, "When we go back, introduce me to your teachings. I’m willing to be baptized."

Qi Leren, who had no intention of preaching at all, was in a distressing situation. One atheist has destroyed the worldviews of another atheist through acting skills and unscientific miracles—maybe more than one. Should he be sealed as a saint or something?

They left the underground research institute, blocked the exit, left the basement, and returned to the surface. The night was bright and the whole land was covered with white snow and ice. Lara, who was the first to leave the room, pointed to the sky in surprise and shouted: "Look, what is that!"

The three people raised their heads and looked at the approaching black spots.

"Is it... Is the rescue coming?" Dr. Lu was excited.

"Great." Qi Leren also breathed a sigh of relief. The copy was coming to an end, and they could return to the Nightmare World soon.

The spacecraft was getting closer and closer, and before long, they would be able to board the spacecraft safely and leave, but the spacecraft was slow to land. The four people waited anxiously, just like waiting for a late plane.

"It seems like something’s wrong." Lara stood up and looked at more and more spacecrafts that had no intention of landing. "What are they waiting for?"

A thought flashed through Qi Leren's mind: "Are they a civilian spacecrafts?"

"No, these are..." Lara said, her voice stopping abruptly.

A beam more dazzling than sunlight converged on the muzzle of the spacecraft, and the terrible energy was aimed at this planet!

Stunned, the four people watched the devastating attack on the plane beneath their feet, and they couldn't help feeling shocked. They had never thought that, after escaping death from a horrible space alien, they would finally die at the hands of their own people. In order to prevent the octopus from spreading, the army gave up the idea of a rescue landing and blasted the whole planet to pieces at a safe distance, where there was no risk of contact.

At the last second in this copy world, Qi Leren and the others were judged to have completed the task requirement of "surviving until the army arrived", and left the world in the light of the blast.

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Editor’s Notes: Obviously those items can only have positive results, right?

As a bonus for the end of this arc, BMBL wrote a collection of the program audience’s reactions on her Weibo. They’re posted as images so I can’t easily throw them into an mtl, but here’s the link for anyone who wants to take a stab at it: https://weibo.com/1741082525/F4b6D7Upr

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[afolderfullofstories]

Day 21: Countdown

"-ther!"

Luigi opened his eyes blearily. "What the-" Where the hell were they? He was sitting on a chair; his hands handcuffed behind him. "What's going on?"

"I don't know. I just woke up too."

Carmela. He forced his head to turn and she was tied up behind him. Pavi was next to her. "Fag, wake the fuck up!"

Pavi stirred. "Fratello?"

Luigi pulled at the handcuffs once more. They were tight.

"Does anyone remember anything?"

Press conference at the other side of town. They were heading back then nothing. 

"Fratello." Pavi's voice was wary.

"What is it?" He growled.

"The Pavi is-a no expert but the Pavi thinks that it's a bomb."

That's when Luigi heard it; the quiet ticking. "How long?"

"10 minutes."

"Fuck." Luigi pulled at the chains once more. They had to get out. They had to find a way out.

Pavi let out a curse of pain.

Luigi turned to see but could only see him from the corner of his eye. His brow furrowed as his brother stood.

"Brother?"

"8 minutes." Pavi muttered. He ran out of the room.

"Brother!"

Luigi fumbled with the handcuffs more. If his idiot brother could get out...

"He...he left us."

Luigi pushed down the hurt in his chest. At least that asshole got out. Maybe he would be able to get help in time. No fuck that. He needed to concentrate on getting out. The handcuffs were too tight around his wrist. There was no way he could slid his hand out.

"Lu..."

"It's going to be fine, Carmela." If he fell backwards and tried to break the chair... no his hands would still be behind his back. He still wouldn't be able to do anything.

"5 minutes." Amber choked out.

Luigi froze. He looked around desperately. There had to be something that could help them. There had to be something.

"Brother, I..."

"We'll get out of this, Carmela."

"Liar." Amber's voice shook. Her breath grew faster as she started panicking.

"Carmela, look at me."

"I can't."

Luigi dragged his chair forcing it to turn towards her. He spotted the timer at the corner of his eye. 4 minutes. "It's going to be ok, Carmela."

She turned her head towards him. Fear decorated her features. "Lu."

"I'm here." He locked eyes with her. "It's going to be ok."

She shook her head. "It's not." She choked out. “I’m scared.”

“I’m right here, Carmela. It won’t hurt. I promise.”  

"Lu, I- Pavi!"

No. Luigi forced himself to turn more. His idiot brother ran back into the room.

"There's nothing here."

Luigi glanced at the time. 2 minutes. "Get the fuck out of here now."

He had pliers in his right hand. His left hand was deformed. "It's all I was able to find." He headed towards the bomb.

"Pavi, you have no fucking idea how to disarm that thing. Get the fuck out of here."

Pavi stared at the wires. 

There were too many wires. There were too many fucking wires. "Paviche, get out of here. You'll just set it off."

"Brother, please."

Pavi looked at them and then back at the bomb. "I have to try."

"Paviche, don't be a fucking idiot." 1.5 minutes.

He placed the pliers on the black wire.

"Paviche, there's no sense in all 3 of us dying. Get out of here and find the bastards who did this."

The pliers shook in Pavi's hand. "I won't...I won't leave you."

"Brother, please."

1 minute. "There's still time, Paviche. Get the fuck out."

"No." Pavi snipped the black wire.

Luigi flinched but nothing happened. The timer was still counting down. "It's not going to work, Paviche. They won't make it so easy. Get the fuck out." 45 seconds.

Pavi placed the pliers at the red wire. "One of these have to work."

"Or you'll fucking set it off." 30 seconds.

"Brother, it's ok. It's ok."

Pavi looked at them once more; pain on his features. His face hardened. "I'm not going anywhere."

"Paviche, don't!"

Pavi snipped the red wire. The timer froze for a second, then turned to zero. Pavi's eyes widened.

Amber flinched back.

Pavi threw himself onto the bomb.

"No!" barely escaped Luigi's lips before a loud explosion threw him backwards against the ground. A loud crack. Then nothing.

[brightbeautifulthings]

Wildcard by Marie Lu

"That's the difference between the real and the virtual. Reality is where you can lose the ones you love. Reality is the place where you can feel the cracks in your heart."

Year Read: 2022

Rating: 3/5

About: There are spoilers ahead for Warcross. Emika has escaped the Warcross Championships with her life, but it's only a matter of time until Hideo's NeuroLink algorithm goes live in the beta lenses, putting almost the entire world under his control. Emi and the Phoenix Riders are determined to stop him, with offered help from Zero and his Darkweb group, the Blackcoats, but even after discovering his real identity, she isn't sure she can trust him. The NeuroLink is a dangerous weapon in the wrong hands, and there are people who would kill to get control of it. Trigger warnings: character death (on-page), parent/child/sibling death, abduction, captivity, explosions, violence, guns, brain-washing, severe illness.

Thoughts: This is fun, but I didn't enjoy it as much as Warcross. Partly, I think it's just that questions are typically more interesting than answers. I wasn't all that invested in how Sasuke had become Zero, and the more it was explained to me, the less interested I got. The first half of the book flounders around in this mystery/conspiracy, and as weird as it sounds coming from me, I wanted to get back to the video games. Warcross and the virtual reality world were some of my favorite parts of the first book, and they're not as well-utilized here.

I'd also hoped that Emika would have more page-time working with her teammates, but there isn't much of that either until the final confrontation. I just wasn't as interested in the newer characters, the Blackcoats, or what turns out to be a rather lukewarm villain. In terms of development, Emi and Hideo's relationship takes some interesting turns, but on a solo level, it seems like she's doing all the same things she did in the first book (having, apparently, learned nothing from those mistakes). I like where it ends, but all in all, I'd hoped for more.

[300iqprower]

At least Musashi has the honor of escaping the Sakurai trend. She doesn't talk about love, romance and relationships 24/7.

Almost certanly because she was designed by Nasu. All of Sakurai's characters that don't have an obsession with one of those three things were characters handed off to her. She can write those things well when we get lucky, see Lb2 Bryn and Sigurd (and Napoleon is a fantastic character fight me), but she's so fcking one note with the characters she comes up with. For the longest time Jing Ke's one character trait was getting drunk. Not because of anything to do with their character, but because it was the one detail we had for them as someone with ZERO personality because all the septem characters who werent about romance just instead had no personality at all. The only exception was Caesar, really.

Like I wanna emphasize that Sakurai can totally write well. She just....so often doesn't. She wrote Septem Caesar. She came up with ROMA's character. She designed Caligula and how his madness is handled. She wrote Lu Bu's valentine. She wrote Opehlia and Surtr's everything. She fixed Bryn and made Sigurd works as his own thing seperate from Siegfried. She made Napoleon work brilliantly depsite having every reason for it to fail. She wrote Archer of Inferno's breakdown.

Sakurai can write, she has written some of my favorite scenes in the entire franchise. But she has SO much ground she has to make up for as a result of getting her position when she wasn't experienced enough to handle it and nuking those first multiple rounds of characters as a direct result (because of Nasu's nepotism, that's the only word for when you hand off so much material to someone on the ground of "they really like it" like he did with Nero and co.) And part of that is we see amateur levels of one-note characterization from her CONSTANTLY. And that's not even getting into things that cant be chalked up to inexperience, like how she actively ruined both Caesar and Cleopatra as characters. Cleopatra's interlude in particular is nothing less than total character assassination that made me hate BOTH of them....

[dragonrajafanfiction]

Genji Heavy Industries (Part 8) Laser Pointer

Hahahahahahhaahahahhaha....

*deep inhale*

Hahahahahahahahahaha

The three men leaned against the shrine panting heavily. You helped Caesar and Chu Zihang load bullets as fast as you could. While Chisei looked out at the flames in the hall. The corpse guard specimen at the end of the hall had burned down like a wax candle to reveal a dark golden skeleton.

“What happened to you?” Caesar asked.

“I was called to another elevator. When I got in, it lost power and took me down to the lowest floor basement.” You were so tired that your hands moved automatically while your eyes unfocused. You shake your head to clear your vision and that sends pain shooting through the middle of your skull. You squeeze one eye shut against the pain and keep going.

“You’re hurt?”

“No… it’s just sequelae. From using my Soul Skill earlier.” You wave him away.

“Where’s Lu Mingfei?” Caesar asks.

“I don’t know. I thought he would have made it through the elevator with you.”

“The earthquake stopped the elevator.” Chu Zihang stood up, holding his Uzi, and looking down at you with his golden gaze. “Was that you?”

“Yeah.” You brace yourself on Caesar’s shoulder and stand too. 

Caesar whistles long and low through his teeth.

“Reports are coming in saying it was 6.5 magnitude.”

“Oh… I was going for 7.0.” You smirk. “Pretty close.”

"How many C4 explosives do you have?" Chisei suddenly asked. 

"Fifteen pounds, but the explosion doesn't seem to seriously injure them. If C4 explosives can't hurt them, then 'Royal Flame' can't do it either." Chu Zihang said. 

"The shockwave of the explosion can't hurt them, but the flames could be fatal to them. Look at that corpse guard. Mermaid oil is very flammable. They can be their own best fuel." 

Chu Zihang was stunned: "But they didn't burn immediately in the explosion just now." 

"That's because they're alive and the corpse guards are dead. The corpse guards are dehydrated. The sphinxes still have a lot of water in their bodies. They have to be in the fire for a long time before they burn up! The Mural Hall is a completely enclosed space, and this is the best place for a fire!" Chisei exclaimed.

"Smothering the sphinxes? Not a bad idea. But they could escape. If they can get in through the elevator doors, they can get out through them." Caesar said. 

Chisei pointed above the elevator door: "Above this kind of door must be a steel bar supporting it, we put a piece of C4 explosive there, powerful enough to blow that steel bar, the wall will collapse down, they have no way to escape." 

Chu Zihang calculated: "We can use a delayed fuse. One that can explode in twenty seconds. That would be enough time for us to enter the elevator shaft and hide outside the explosion range." 

Caesar thought about it: "Then we have to lure the group of them deep into the hall. The more concentrated they are, the better the burning effect." 

"No problem, I'll act as bait." Chisei said. 

“Bait?” You looked to Caesar for answers.

“The blood of Chisei is extremely attractive to them. When he dripped it down the elevator shaft, that’s what brought them down here.”

You nod, understanding.

“What brought you here by the way?” Caesar was leading you away to the armory room. 

“Someone threw a flare. All the other elevator doors were closed. I figured this had to be the only one that was open.”

“Ah.”

Caesar shut the door of the armory. “Alright, suit up. This will be the big push.”

Chu Zihang and Caesar moved between the rows of shelves. You stay behind to lean against the wall. “Give me a minute.”

It occurred to you that this might be the point where you died and whenever your life was in danger, you felt a deep appreciation of your own body. You remembered this feeling of fatigue when you pulled a sledge full of wood through feet of snow. You walked until your thoughts faded away, ignoring the pain and hunger and thirst, one foot after the other. Your body carried you. And thanks to your dragon blood, you recovered quickly to get up the next day.  So you knew this body was tired. But as soon as it ate and drank and got a nice rest it would perk up again.

But the one thing you could give it now was oxygen. You take slow deep breaths, filling your lungs completely, holding it a bit, and then emptying them completely. Your lungs would take that oxygen and revive your muscles for the fight.

Already, you could feel yourself reviving and stretched your arms over your head, feeling the rush of blood to your tissues. You rolled your shoulder and remembered lying on the floor looking up into the eyes of Z.

Z made you break that tank for a reason. You doubted it was to kill you and that gave you hope.

Caesar moved to the door and leaned against it to rest, running his hand over two rifles. 

 The bone-chilling, eerie sound of a giant python sliding against the ground came from behind the door. The group of sphinxes has invaded the mural hall. The only thing separating you from them is a layer of carved wooden doors. With strength like theirs, breaking such a door was no  effort, but this group of low IQ beasts has not yet noticed this room. After mutating, some Death Servitors will gain superb vision, hearing or smell, but the snake versions don’t get significant enhancements to their senses. Their golden pupils look hideous but they actually have weak vision. They have a sharp sense of smell but they’re intoxicated by the smell of blood in the hot air of the mural hall. As for hearing, these have basically zero. They’re more attuned to ground vibrations. As long as you stay still, they will have a hard time finding your hiding place. 

"What's their approximate number?" Chu Zihang asked in a low voice. 

Caesar’s eyes flared golden and the Scythe Itachi went out.

"More than a hundred. All of them have entered the mural hall and the elevator shaft has been cleared. They're eating the dead. I can hear them chewing away at the muscles, disgusting." Caesar said softly, "What's your assessment of the combat power of these snake-like dead men?" 

Chu Zihang thought for a moment. "A grade. Speed exceeds that of a zebra, tearing power is close to that of a lion. Strong cellular activity, so wounds heal quickly. The most vulnerable parts are the heart, head and nervous system. Severed limbs are nothing to them.” 

Caesar nodded: "I also think it is A-class. One on one with them, we’d have a disadvantage.”

You finally move to go arm yourself. “They’re dumb as hell, though. So there’s that.” You say.

The two men fall silent. “Did you fight them?” Caesar asked.

“Yeah.” You wrap a new belt that will fit multiple weapons onto your waist and cinch it up. These belts were made for men, so you have to use a knife to make a hole for the buckle. “Well… technically no. I made them fight each other.”

“How is that possible? You’re not even hurt!” Caesar looked you up and down. “And you still had plenty of rounds.”

“Well… I used my C4 detonator.” You tilt your head, unsure of what he wanted you to say. “I mean if they want to eat each other, I’m not going to get in the way of that.”

“Perhaps an S-ranked hybrid could take them on.” Chu Zihang said, thoughtfully.

It wasn’t like you were unprepared to fight those beasts. But how could you tell them that the ghost of your dead boyfriend appeared in an elevator to Hell and you went on a date with them in front of the big holding tank? The whole thing sounded silly. You knew how to fight them because Z had shown you how. But there was no way to communicate that.

"Do you trust that Japanese guy? He wouldn't have run away by now, would he?" Caesar asked in a low voice. 

"Since I chose to cooperate, I can only trust him, right?" Chu Zihang shrugged.

"It's rare for such a gullible character to have survived to this day." Caesar shrugged back, "He is something that bleeds dragon blood. Dragons are creatures without feelings. If their strength overwhelms you, they will definitely devour you." 

Chu Zihang did not speak again. 

"Okay, okay, I have no intention of figuring that girl out. To say the least, I quite liked her. She was so pretty ...... But it's best not to trust something that bleeds dragon blood." Caesar took a deep breath. 

You let out a breath. In a way, you agreed with Caesar. Z’s yellow eyes gave you a mix of fear and fascination. His kiss made your heart race. You always knew he was scheming something, but you never knew if it was good or bad or had nothing to do with you. And yet you couldn’t help but love it when he laughed. Was what you felt love? Whatever it was, it sure felt good. HIs hands in your hair in front of the holding tank. It felt good.

Your eyes suddenly went wide. “Bait.”

The memory of Z playing with the beasts using a laser pointer flashes through your mind and your face breaks out into a smile. You start pacing the shelves, looking up and down. “Did you guys see a laser sight anywhere in here?”

“What do you need that for? You’re a good shot.” Caesar asked.

“Yes, I need it for something else.”

“There should be one on an AK-47…” Chu Zihang said.

“I found it.” The name AK-47 stood for Avtomat Kalashnikova. It was a Soviet rifle and one you were familiar with, but this specimen looked like it was taken right from your childhood. It was aged, worn and a little rusted. Just like the one you used to use. You picked it up reverently, staring at it in silence while your heart filled with a strange warmth, like the sun coming up for the first time after a long winter night. Your hands caress the laser sight tenderly.

While many women were moved by cards, roses, jewelry and sweets, what moved your heart was the sight of this laser on a Kalashnikov. With this laser, you could live. You unscrew it and hold it to your heart with a smile coming over your face.

You turn to Caesar and Zihang who are eyeing you warily. But you can’t stop smiling. “Okay, I’m going to mark one of them with the Anesthesia bullet dye okay? Don’t kill that one.”

Z. He was a genius… You chuckle and join the boys at the door.

"Are you ready?" Caesar sighs softly.

You nod. You’re smiling as you load a single Frigga bullet into your empty pistol.  “Remember, don’t kill the one I mark!”

"Then let’s start!" Caesar slapped the button to open the door and stepped out in a big way. 

A Deadpool was lying on the overhang in front of the weapons hall door. Reflex speed multiplied after the snake mutation, so it immediately struck at the back of Caesar's neck. But Caesar had already determined its position through the use of Scythe Itachi and fired upward with his shotgun. The Deadpool Sphinx fell to its back.

The shotgun was extremely powerful but not penetrating enough. After the wounded creature landed, it rolled to get up and recoiled to strike again. Chu Zihang's crossbow penetrates its abdomen to pin it to the ground, and the two Sten submachine guns fired into its forehead until the two cartridges were empty. 

"No wonder everyone in the academy says you're a killer. I really like your kind of execution style." Caesar dropped the shotgun and pulled out two Sten submachine guns from the carry pouch behind Chu Zihang. 

"I'm not interested in bloodshed, but I know that showing mercy to something like this will only get us killed." Chu Zihang's right hand drew up another gun from the backpack Caesar carried. Chu Zihang carried Caesar’s guns and vice versa. It was a nice way to keep efficiently armed.  Chu Zihang looked at you in curiosity.

You weren’t using the laser sight to aim, but wiggled it against the ground as though fishing, whispering to yourself. “Heeere, Kitty, Kitty. Come here… I know you’re here…”

One of the deadpool that looked female with an ample golden chest and pretty eyes saw the red dot and opened her jaw ninety degrees to scream bloody-murder. Her eyes were as big as dinner plates. She slid her snake tail vigorously, physically pushing other beasts out of the way and leaving long gashes on them.

“There you are! Gotcha!” You fire a single anesthesia bullet. The red dye smashes between her eyes and paints her face crimson, clearly marking her. She covers her face with her claws in annoyance and wails in fury, associating the red dot with getting hit with a paintball.

You wiggle the dot in a zigzag pattern and she pounces on it with the anger of seven devils. Once you were sure you had her hooked, you scroll the red dot on the face of one of the deadpools who blinks once against the blinding laser light before its head is bitten clean in half by the female.

The spectacular result sends a burst of laughter from you. You loved him. You didn’t care if it wasn’t really love as others defined it. You loved Z. This was fun. This was fantastic!

You wiggled the point of light until she saw it again. She paused in confusion for a moment, her eyes burning brighter and brighter, then she was off again, galloping after the red dot and smashing into another of her own kind. The red dot danced on the back of her poor victim who had no idea that the attack was coming. The female deadpool with the red-dyed face tore through scales, muscle tissue and bone like a woodchipper.

Your laughter filled the whole burning temple. They were stupid! They were so stupid!

You had turned the female deadpool into a terror of her own kind. As she mowed through the crowded mural hall like a living blender, she left a trail of wounded behind her. The Deadpool, who were too cannibalistic and mindless to remember why they were there, immediately started to tear each other apart as soon as one smelled the blood of the other. 

It was an absolute bloodbath and you had only fired one non-lethal shot.

Caesar and Chu Zihang looked at you in stunned amazement. You looked back at them, crying with laughter. You didn’t have a birthday, but this was like a present, the best present you’d ever received. Z had buried this little Easter egg in the ground, hoping you’d find it. It was for you. No one else would get the joke!

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♡ Headcanon

✨ Multifandom Edition ✨

Ai: The Somnium Files

Date Kaname: het

Alien Stage

Sua: lesbian

Till: bi

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Yue: het

Banana Fish

Ash Lynx: bi

Boku no Hero Academia

Aizawa Shouta: bi

Bakugou Katsuki: bi

Hagakure Tooru: het

Kamihara Shinya:

Takami Keigo: bi

Danganronpa

Tanaka Gundam: het

Dragalia Lost

Fritz: bi

Harle: bi

Hildegarde: het

Haikyuu!!

Kozume Kenma: bi

Hourou Musuko

Nitori Lily: pan

Kimetsu no Yaiba

Iguro Obanai: het

The Legend of Zelda

Link: het

“Oshi no Ko”

Hoshino Aquamarine: het

Pokémon

N: het

Natsume: het

Shiguang Dailiren

Lu Guang:

Shiki

Koide Natsuno: gay

Shingeki no Kyojin

Eren Jaeger: bi

Uta no☆Prince-sama♪

Mikaze Ai: ace

Zero Escape

Light Field: