#maya hunter edit

[flawless-imperfections]

ɴᴏᴡ ɪ ᴛʜɪɴᴋ ɪ ɢᴇᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴀᴜꜱᴇ ᴏꜰ ɪᴛ - ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴇʀᴇ ʜᴏʟᴅɪɴɢ ᴏᴜᴛ ᴛᴏ ꜰɪɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴏᴘᴘᴏꜱɪᴛᴇ

[song: opposite — Sabrina Carpenter]

[sabrinannlyncarpenter]

she is just so ❄️❄️❄️✨✨✨🤍🤍🤍

[bean-pole-art]

for this year's pride month I have decided to do icons of canon and my personal LGBTA headcanons for the blands characters. here are the aces 🖤🤍💜

please be respectful towards my hcs. feel free to use these as ur icons! credit is appreciated but not needed

some specifics under the cut!

headcanon for greyace Mordecai

and aroaces headcanons - Maya, Octavio, Tyreen and Zarpedon

[zayadriancas]

#NoFilter

“It’s just a bunch of crap. You don’t wanna know how we feel. Cause when people ask you to “express your feelings” they don’t mean your actual feelings, they mean the feelings that they want you to have. Cause people can’t deal with dark, or scary, or weird.”

[lands-of-fantasy]

MCU Poster Ladies

2021 Edition (Phase 4 Part 1)

Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch

Kathryn Hahn as Agatha Harkness

Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau

Kat Dennings as Darcy Lewis

Emily VanCamp as Sharon Carter

Florence Kasumba as Ayo

Erin Kellyman as Karli Morgenthau

Sophia Di Martino as Sylvie

Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Ravonna Renslayer

Wunmi Mosaku as Hunter B-15

Rachel Weisz as Melina Vostokoff

Olga Kurylenko as Taskmaster

Scarlett Johansson as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow

Florence Pugh as Yelena Belova

Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter / Captain Carter in What If...?

Lake Bell as Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow in What If…?

Cynthia McWilliams as Gamora in What If…?

Meng'er Zhang as Xu Xialing

Awkwafina as Katy

Fala Chen as Ying Li

Michelle Yeoh as Ying Nan

Gemma Chan as Sersi

Salma Hayek as Ajak

Lauren Ridloff as Makkari

Angelina Jolie as Thena

Lia McHugh as Sprite

Hailee Steinfeld as Kate Bishop

Alaqua Cox as Maya Lopez

Vera Farmiga as Eleanor Bishop

[dontgetcaughtbyhimdipper]

-`,✎ heyy!! i havent been here for a couple of years except for opening this account last year, so i don't know almost anybody and i would like to know new people!

here's a quick little (not so little) intro:

my online alias is ashley and ash i go by both of them so feel free to call me whichever you like. i use they/them pronouns currently but im genderfluid so i will update this part depending on how i feel at that moment. my birthday is january 12th and im 19 rn! im omni (women pref). i have adhd and probably autism. i LOVE yapping about my favorite things (such as gravity falls, stranger things, hunter x hunter etc.) to people. i've been editing for almost 8 years atp and i love writing even though i don't share them that much i still enjoy writing for myself, but i plan on post some on here. i listen to pretty much everything i dont have an exact music type, one day you can see me listening to pop and the other that i will be listening to turkish rap. oh also im a huge dipper pines and killua zoldyck kinnie, i also kin robin buckley. im an intp and my enneagram is 6w5. also i dont shut up about steve harrington, robin buckley and steddie so sorry (not sorry) about that <3

my sociasls: spotify, instagram, tiktok (personal), tiktok (edit)

DNI: as long as you aren't problematic (lgbtphobic, pedo, zoo, etc.) you're good

BYF: the way i act/talk to you depends on how you act/talk, i swear sometimes, i might nag you for mathing pfps or stuff even if we just met

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!! FANDOMS LIST › 〉 🤍 .ೃ

shows: Gravity Falls, Stranger Things, Hunter x Hunter, My Little Pony, X-Men, Orange, Gossip Girl, MCU, Marauders, Tokyo Ghoul, Mirai Nikki, Miraculous, 13 Reasons Why, Ginny & Georgia, The Walking Dead

games: FNAF, Doki Doki Literature Club (i don't play that much games anymore)

musicians: Skillet, DJO, Taylor Swift, Şanışer, Sokrat St, The Pretty Reckless, Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, Gracie Abrams, Set It Off, Girl in Red, Maya Hawke, Halsey

actors/actresses: Joe Keery, Robert Downey Jr, Katie Douglas, James Mcavoy, Maya Hawke, Sadie Sink, Brandon Flynn, Penn Badgley, Elizabeth Lail

will be updated!

[wittness]

What kinda MLP horse would you be and if you have any ideas for other borderlands verse ppl please share

i’ve thought about this so much before omg.. i’ll give the most “important” folks aside from me and angel.

i’d be an alicorn, but not a true one. an attribute would probably be created, but i could see it be horn or wings. i fight with myself on it though. OH!! fun thought. pegasus, then gained a horn after the vault on elpis, so i end up being an alicorn instead. i mean yknow, thas a lotta magic! probably would’ve hidden the horn in my hair at first.

angel could be any to be honest, but maybe an earth pony, but gained the wings and horn when becoming a siren. alternative she starts as a unicorn.. the wings def wouldn’t be physical though, they’d be more like sunny’s i recon.

rhys could be a pegasus. vaughn an earth pony. yvette maybe a unicorn. ( wow, just like the cutie mark crusaders ). fiona and sasha maybe an earth ponies, but they could also be pegasus and unicorn respectively.

blake ( skrunkly ) would honestly probably be an earth pony, if he was anything else probably a pegasus. loaders would depend on the models but! normal ones are earth, ions as unicorns and jets as pegasi.

torgue could be a unicorn but could also entirely be an earth pony, pfft. wainwright could either an earth pony or a pegasus i think. kata guy jr uhhh unicorn maybe.

lilith probably would have the same thing happen as angel, maya too but maya would be a unicorn before i think.

moxxi, brick, marcus, scooter and ellie would be an earth pony. hammerlock could be either an earth pony or a unicorn, mordecai, earl and tina a unicorn. roland could be a pegasus or an earth pony.

not important but if you’re looking for preseqel stuff then assiter would be a hoity toity unicorn bitch. zarpe-nuts as either a unicorn or pegasus.

edit: i forgot the other vault hunters. LMAO.

axton could be pegasus or unicorn, salvador earth pony or unicorn, zer0 is unknown as is natural. athena unicorn, wilhelm earth pony, nisha earth pony, tim earth pony who gets fake wings and then horn ( limited magic ) later on.

and just for athena, janey as an earth pony or maybe pegasus. clay would fo sho be an earth pony.

[weeb-polls-with-pip]

Here is an updated list of competitors in need of fresh pieces of propaganda for their next round.

Remember, you can submit propaganda for any character still in the competition—these just happen to be the ones who only have 1 or 2 submissions currently, and I’d like to avoid reusing propaganda as much as I can (though I know I won’t be able to do this for everyone).

I’ll order them according to how soon propaganda is needed and bold the ones I feel are especially lacking currently.

Edit: I've crossed out characters who have since received propaganda. You can still send more for them if you'd like though. Full list and link to form are below the cut.

(Group 1 – currently competing)

Ayumu Kasuga (Azumanga Daioh)

Constanze Amalie von Braunschbank-Albrechtsberger (Little Witch Academia)

Athena Cykes (Ace Attorney)

(Group 2 – will be the week after above^)

Nico Niiyama (Kiznaiver)

Nagisa Furukawa (Clannad)

Nagisa Momoe (Madoka Magica: Rebellion)

Yellow (Pokémon Adventures)

Kuriko Saiki (The Disastrous Life of Saiki K)

Himiko Yumeno (Danganronpa)

Yuuko Aioi (Nichijou)

Tsubomi Takane (Mob Psycho 100) (her current propaganda is really strong lol, but she just has the one piece)

Maya Fey (Ace Attorney)

Usagi Tsukino (Sailor Moon)

Don Quixote (Limbus Company)

Miho Nosaka (Yugioh)

Ringo Andou (Puyo Puyo)

Alluka Zoldyck (Hunter x Hunter)

Izutsumi (Dungeon Meshi)

Sorawo Kamikoshi (Otherside Picnic)

Satsuki Minazuki (Liar Satsuki Can See Death)

Anri Sonohara (Durarara!!)

Nico Yazawa (Love Live!)

Ahiru Arima/Duck (Princess Tutu)

Miriel (Fire Emblem Awakening) (also has strong current propaganda, just needs more of it)

Yuri (Doki Doki Literature Club)

Biscuit Krueger (Hunter x Hunter)

Maria Inomata (School Babysitters)

Mai Minakami (Nichijou)

Ai Mie (The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses)

Nausicaä (Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind)

Sumireko Usami (Touhou Project)

Shizuku Murasaki (Hunter x Hunter)

Marcille Donato (Dungeon Meshi)

Anisphia Wynn Palletia (The Magical Revolution Of The Reincarnated Princess and The Genius Young Lady)

(Group 3 – will be the week after above^)

Kaoru Seta (BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!)

Kanna Makino (Tamako Market)

Chouko Shizuhata (Oddman 11)

Hikari Kagura (Revue Starlight)

Nafra Ampsey (Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun)

Sana Futaba (Magia Record)

Valerie (Pokémon)

Akashi (The Tatami Galaxy)

Miku Hatsune (Vocaloid)

Sayaka Kanamori (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!)

Richeh (Witch Hat Atelier)

Saki Hanajima (Fruits Basket)

Konata Izumi (Lucky Star)

Ran-Mao (Black Butler)

Tsubame Mizusaki (Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!)

Franziska von Karma (Ace Attorney) (currently has 1 piece of strong propaganda)

Nico Robin (One Piece)

Penny (Pokémon Scarlet and Violet)

Sora Kajiwara (Sketchbook: Full Color’s)

Sucy Manbavaran (Little Witch Academia)

Kiyoko Shimizu (Haikyuu!!)

Mai Mishou/Cure Egret/Cure Windy (Futari wa Pretty Cure Splash Star)

Omoharu Nakanaka (Komi Can’t Communicate)

Yor Forger (Spy x Family)

Kirie Motoba (Himouto! Umaru-chan) (currently has 1 piece of strong propaganda)

Riza Hawkeye (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Miae Hwang (After School Lessons For Unripe Apples)

Lotte Jansson (Little Witch Academia)

Bulma (Dragon Ball) (currently has 1 piece of strong propaganda)

Power (Chainsaw Man)

Tooru Taki (Natsume’s Book of Friends)

Suzuno Kamazuki/Crestia Bell (The Devil is a Part-Timer!)

Submit new propaganda below.

[fortheflock]

A list of things to correctly make a maximum ride series into a visual media ( movie) 2024 edition

- make it a series ( a three season series)

Some of the chapters are such " fade to black moments and the plot of the first book is very split up for most of it, a movie would be harder to get to know the characters and the plot.

Also with a series they can grow the backstories of the flock and rewrite / expand on the books ideas in a way a movie couldn't .

- take it seriously but it's also okay if it's camp.

A huge problem I had with the original movie was lack of care that felt like went into it.

I would absolutely love a max ride show like the 100 or really any out there supernatural show ( like supernatural) . They have wings for fucksake it's going to be a little silly. Lean into that Sci-fi shit . The more similar to X-Men /stranger things the BETTER.

- Call it something other then "Maximum ride". No offense to my beloved main character but it's a bad name that kinda sound like a porno and make my embarrassed to say the name out loud.

"The angel experiment" on the other hand is something that could hold a wider interest.

Their are a couple series that change their titles for their series ,( shadow hunter and his dark materials) it's been done before and it's not hard .

- change the fucking stupid ending.

If Game of thrones can do it (poorly but it at least finished) sure as shit this little series could..

Or alternatively just do the first three books as God intended there to be .

- on-top of that getting rid of /adding characters that suit the overall story. No Total you don't get to come along. But the Director should come in earlier and just be the final big bad.

- the Voice!!! Make that a consistent character. Make it Jeb or angel or Maya for fuck sake. The voice is such a present cool concept that just gets steam rolled every book.

I still feel like this after over ten years story deserves more and that it could be really fun to see brought to life . I'll be adding more ideas as I think of them.

I went to bed thinking about it and haven't stopped all day .

Someone hire me to make this

[eclipian]

Fox x Wolf x Coyote

pt: fox x wolf x coyote

reminder beings will almost definitely not turn out exactly as described, and these can be edited and changed as needed.

[extended with titles and maybe personality description, & pref no emoji pronouns. ]

divider credit + divider credit

Name: Blaze , Hunter , Amber , Rusty , Apollo , Ember , Copper , Cooper , Clover , Willow , Robin , Daisy

Age: 18 yo

Pronouns: They/Them , Kit/Kits , Vix/Vixs , Vi/Vix , Ze/Zer , Vu/Vulp , Pou/Poun , Ru/Russ , Pup/Pups , Fox/Foxs , Cub/Cubs , Red/Reds , Sly/Slys , Trick/Tricks , Tail/Tails , Hunt/Hunts

Titles: The Fox , The Trickster , The Yipping One / The One Who Yips , [pronoun] Who Yips , The Trickster / The One Who Tricks , [pronoun] Who Tricks , The One With Red Fur , [pronoun] With Red Fur , [pronoun] Who Cause The Most Mischeif

Gender: Vulpisgender , Foxentiyian , Foxstar , Foxemojic , Foxloser , Foxfreak , Foxlexic

Orientation: Pansexual , Queer

Other IDs: Fox-blooded , Fox/Kit/Kitsune Omninoun , Foxperspesque , Vesifox , Assigned Fox at Birth

Role(s): Academic , Role Taker , Battery

Species: Fox

Origins/Modifiers: Vulpgenic

Aesthetic(s): Bastardcore , Chaotic Academia , Autumn

Interests/likes: Hunting , Birds , Bird Watching , Play fighting , Autumn , The night

Dislikes: Loud noises , Water / Getting wet , Garlic , Bright lights

Name: Asena , Ash , Luna , Fang , Lexi , Maple , Ares , Maya , Lup , Lupus , Ovais , Owen

Age: 23 yo

Pronouns: He/Him , Hy/Hym , Grr/Grrs , Growl/Growls , Wolf/Wolfs , Woof/Woofs , Howl/Howls , Moon/Moons , Pup/Pups , Awoo/Awoos , Hou/Houn , Ba/Bark , Bork/Borks

Titles: The Wolf , [pronoun] Who Howls at the Moon , The Pack Hunter , [name] the Wolf , The Beast Of Midnight , The Beast Of The Moon

Gender: Agender Man , Wolfgender , Wolfmestic , Wolfmoonbodiement , Wolflexic

Orientation: Bisexual Arospec , Wolfpackim Attraction

Other IDs: Wolfxper , Wolf Omninoun , Wolfvesi , Lupinevior

Role(s): Protector , Confidence Holder , Wolfroleic

Species: Wolf

Origins/Modifiers: Faunagenic

Aesthetic(s): Meatcore , Cottagegore , Forestpunk

Interests/likes: Hunting , The moon , Night , Swimming

Dislikes: Light , Loud noises

Name: Eclipse , Orion , Blaze , Mai , Savio , Caleb , Caesar , Ronen , Aria

Age: 20 yo

Pronouns: It/Its , Grr/Grrs , Co/Yot , Yip/Yips , Bark/Barks , Howl/Howls , Paw/Paws , Pup/Pups , Arf/Arfs , Mutt/Mutts , Fur/Furs

Titles: The Coyote , [pronoun] Who Is Cunning , [pronoun] Who Tricks , The Trickster , The Trickster Coyote , The Duality of Nature , The Duality of Nature [Prnself]

Gender: Genderfluid , Caninemestic

Orientation: Omnisexual Acespec

Other IDs: Vesicanine

Role(s): Comedian , Black Sheep , Chaosnaut

Species: Coyote

Origins/Modifiers: Faunagenic

Aesthetic(s): Vulture Culture , Salvagepunk , Coffinwood

Interests/likes: Skulls , Collecting things , Late nights , Being with friends

Dislikes: Pepper , Bright/Flashing lights , Being wet

[flawless-imperfections]

this took me 3 hours😭

[song: labour — Paris Paloma]

[sabrinannlyncarpenter]

sabrina carpenter aka my marshmallow

[zayadriancas]

Give Me One Reason

“As long as we’re together, what could possibly go wrong?”

[rlyc00l]

Decepti0n, Chapter 3 on Fanfiction.net

(For some reason tumblr won't let me link to fanfiction.net the normal way anymore? WELP)

Zer0's an ass, Rhys's entire life is ruined forever, Rhys maybe has a virus, Rhys almost dies again—but hey, he does do one kind of cool thing.

EDIT: Chapter is also under the break :)

———— “Look, I appreciate the extra sleep,” Maya said. Her hair was tousled, she combed it out as she spoke. “But we agreed you’d take first watch and then wake me up.”  

“I didn’t need to.” Zer0 had their storage deck holoscreen up. They scrolled through their guns rather than face Maya. Rhys couldn’t help but notice they had two pistols besides the one they’d stolen from him. “I kept watch throughout the night. / And nothing attacked.” 

“That’s beside the point. We need everyone rested. If Jack figured out that we survived, he might send another ambush–” 

“I require less sleep.” They closed the holoscreen. Unlike the others, they had no camp to pack up, and they’d declined breakfast. The fact they hadn’t gone on alone put their air of self-assurance in question, at least in Rhys’s eyes. “And I am more observant / Than the rest of you.” 

The measured smile on Maya’s face fell. “You understand why I can’t take your word for that?”  “Yeah, I like to think I’m pretty damn observant,” Axton put in as he rolled up his bedroll. “Though, I don’t mind sleeping through the night, thanks, Zer0.” 

“The point is, if we’re going to work as a team, we need to communicate better,” she said.   “I’m not on your team. / We’re traveling the same way. / For the time being.” 

“If that’s the case, why stick around?” 

“Because I need that,” They pointed to the Claptrap, “If I want off this glacier. / Or so I’ve been told.” 

“Then work with us! We have the same goal.” A light went through her tattoos. Rhys was getting the sense that this wasn’t the first time they’d butted heads. He hadn’t paid much mind to the other bandit’s interactions, having assumed they were all in this together from the start. 

“You wanted guarding. / I guarded. What’s the problem? / You are still alive.” 

Whatever Maya was about to say was drowned out by her ECHO device. 

“Hey, kiddos.” The voice was unmistakable. Rhys straightened up on instinct. “Jack here–President of Hyperion. Lemme explain how things work here: Vault Hunters show up. Vault Hunters look for the new Vault. Vault Hunters get killed. By me. You seeing the problem here? You’re still alive. So, if you—hold on, wait, wait wait wait, do you seriously have one of my employees with you? How the hell’d he get down there?” 

And that was it. Rhys was completely, one hundred percent, ruined. He’d be branded a traitor, he could never return to Helios, and if Pandora didn’t kill him, Handsome Jack would.

“Well, okay. Rhys Strongfork. From Security Propaganda? That’s weird.” Jack laughed. “Rogue employee going Vault hunter? That’s a new one. Let me know how it turns out. Anyway, I was gonna just tell you all to kill yourselves but, Rhysie? I really wanna see what happens to a traitorous little code monkey on Pandora.” The comm ended with a click. 

The others were all looking at him. He tried to put on a brave face, cracking a smile. “So uh, we’re definitely killing that guy, yeah?” 

Dunno if it’s a ‘we’, Strongfork.” Axton clapped Rhys on the back. “But hey, I’ll give you front-row seats to my badass Jack kill.” 

Rhys shot him a glare, even as he tried to work out a way to convince Jack he was only a prisoner. Would Jack accept that lie, even if he believed it? The man wasn’t known for tolerating failure. 

“He’ll die by my blade,” Zer0 said simply. An “uwu” projected from their visor. 

“No! I will crack the fingers in my teeth!” Krieg twitched as he yelled, smacking the side of his head a few times. 

“If any of us are going to kill Jack, we need to get off this glacier first,” Maya said before anyone else could make their claim. “I suggest we get moving.” 

She’d apparently taken up leadership of the group, and the others accepted that, aside from Zer0. With a few final preparations, they were on the road again. 

It was still freezing, of course, and Rhys was more sore than he’d ever been in his life, but the walking had become easier. They’d moved past the deeper, loose snow. Now Rhys’s feet only went two inches through the icy crust. And the sun was out. None of that made Rhys any happier about his current situation, but at least it wasn’t worse. 

He tried to ignore the sound of Gaige taking long strides to catch up with him as he walked. Maybe if he didn’t look at her, she wouldn’t try to talk to him. She could not possibly have anything good to say. 

His efforts failed. “So, Jack didn’t set you up to be killed, huh?” 

“What?” 

“Before you were all ‘Jack tried to blow me up! I was subtly undermining Jack! He didn’t want to martyr me!’” She did a voice that must have meant to be Rhys’s, but did not remotely sound like him. “But obviously, Jack didn’t know you were here until, like, literally just now. So?”

Was he being interrogated? “You hear the part where he called me a ‘traitorous code monkey’?”

“Yeah, but like, did you actually do anything cool? Try to smash the system?” 

“I did what I said I did,” Rhys snapped. It was suddenly very important to him that this teenager thought he was cool and not a liar. “Maybe Jack–Maybe he didn’t personally set that up for me, but someone up there wanted me dead for it. There–there’s an entire organizational hierarchy up there, Jack doesn’t handle everything himself.” “Fine, geez. I was just wondering…”

“Well, I’m glad to appease your curiosity, or whatever.” He noticed her eyeing his right arm. “Can I help you with anything else?” “Nope. I’m good.” Gaige said, looking down at her own cybernetic arm like she was comparing the two. It was a good thing hers was on the left, he would not put it past bandits to steal a man’s arm. Of course, maybe he was still in some danger from her. She had to be unstable, to end up here. 

He was about to ask her to stop staring at him like a piece of machinery when a sharp pain struck him. His ECHOeye port seemed to explode into little needles as his vision blurred and flickered. He let out a cry. A dark-haired, pale young woman appeared in front of him, just for an instant, and he fell. Distantly, he heard Salvador’s “I think Hyperion guy died.” before things went dark.  

The next thing Rhys was aware of was snow moving rhythmically below him as he passed over it. Someone’s hand grasped his forearm, another on the back of his thigh. He was being carried, he realized. Groaning, he lifted his head. He made brief eye contact with Salvador, who laughed, shaking his head. “Hey, Axton, the princess is up.” 

“Wha…?” Rhys blinked, rubbing his head. The pain from before had turned into a soft ache. “Let…Let me down…” 

“You gonna pass out again?” Axton asked. 

“No? I don’t think so?” 

Axton slid him off his shoulders and onto the ground. He felt dizzy, but got his bearings after a few stumbled steps. 

“What happened?” He asked. For a second time, he was being stared at. He caught Zer0, once again far from the others, watching him with a “LOL” projected from their helm.

“You went all twitchy and blinky and then fainted.” It was Gaige who answered. 

“Real elegant pose too, ass straight up in the air.” Axton grinned. 

“Great to know, thanks.” At least they hadn’t left him behind. They weren’t complete savages. 

He brought his hand up to his ECHOport, half expecting it to be bleeding or loose. Nothing out of place. Both eyes were functioning. His right arm moved as well as the left. He seemed okay, aside from the residual soreness from yesterday’s bullymong attack. 

Surreptitiously, he felt for his wallet. It was still in his front pocket, only thinner than it had been. Yep, that’s about what he’d expect. Fair enough. Only later, once they started moving again, did he get some real concern, from Maya. “Is something broken? I’m…Inexperienced with cybernetics, but I imagine they were the cause. Your eye was blinking.”

“I must have hit my head harder than I realized, knocked a part loose? It…It should be fine.” He had no idea if that was true, but you weren’t supposed to show weakness around these types, a rule he’d already broken too many times. Maya might seem reasonable, but there had to be a good reason Jack wanted her dead. “I can fix it, once we get somewhere with a mirror and some tools.” He didn’t relish the thought of poking around in his own head. Maybe it was one of those one-off things, some sort of glitch that he wouldn’t run into again. Maybe he could ignore it. 

“Gaige seems to be an experienced mechanic. You could ask her for help.” 

Rhys just looked at her. 

She shrugged. “Understandable. Still, try not to faint again, if possible. Claptrap’s claiming that Knuckle Dragger’s lair isn’t much further. Supposedly, he leads a sizable pack.”

————

They came to the lair nearly an hour later. It was up on a short ridge. The only way up was through a misaimed moonshot shipping container, both ends opened. 

Rhys let the Claptrap and Vault hunters go ahead of him. He knew he’d be useless in this fight, or worse, an outright burden. Better to stand around down here until the shooting ended. 

The Claptrap started screaming immediately, and the first shots were fired. He heard roaring, more cries from the Claptrap, something large slamming into the earth. Strangely, this was starting to feel routine. 

He leaned back against the side of the container and activated his arm’s holographic interface. Should he take this chance to shoot a message to Vaughn and Yvette, let them know he wasn’t dead, or would communicating with them implicate them as traitors? Best not to risk it. There were rumors of Jack airlocking an entire R&D team when he suspected one of betraying him. 

Still, it was strange, even if they’d thought Rhys had died down here, wouldn’t they at least think to ECHO him? Unless something had happened… Vasquez wouldn’t try to off them, too, would he? His throat got tight, thinking about it. 

Something landed on the shipping container above him with a heavy clunk. He looked up to find a bullymong staring back down at him. It was four times the size of the others he’d seen. Fresh bullet wounds covered its pelt. It wore a glowing blue sphere around its neck.

Nearby, he could still hear shooting. 

Slowly, he turned to face it. Just stay calm. Back away. Don’t do anything to upset it. It’ll be more interested in the people who shot it. He grabbed the stun rod, not taking his eyes off of it. 

It was staring at the glow of the hand interface. He deactivated it. Wrong move, the bullymong—Knuckle Dragger, he realized—roared and leapt at him. Scampering to the side, he jabbed out at it, just like last time. Unlike last time, this one swiped the rod out of his grasp, sending it flying.

Rhys turned and ran. 

Knuckle Dragger followed.

He sprinted in a wide circle, bullymong close behind. There was no way he’d outrun it for long. His only chance was the shipping container. Knuckle Dragger was too large to fit through the opening. 

With every stride he was sure he’d be caught, up until he finally leapt into the container. He slipped on the icy metal, fell forward, and felt himself being pulled back out. The bullymong had his shoe. Yelping, Rhys wriggled his foot free. He dragged himself out of reach, into the open on the other side.  

Chaos lay before him. He couldn’t begin to count the bullymong, alive or dead. A sharp-clawed robot—Gaige’s, he realized—raked open one’s chest a few feet in front of him. Somewhere, Salvador was yelling incomprehensibly. Axton was reloading his gun, covered by a turret next to him. He thought he saw Krieg dash past as he got to his feet.  “Help?!” he heard himself cry, to no response. The crate behind him echoed as the bullymong climbed over it. Rhys did the only thing he could think to do: he darted straight through the battlefield, hoping Knuckle Dragger would turn its attention to someone else. 

It didn’t. And once again it was closing in. He came to a sheer ice wall with the thing bearing down on him. To his left was a large pile of remains: an assortment of bone, cloth, and metal. He grabbed at a piece of metal in desperation, pulling it free. It was the twisted remains of a Jakobs rifle. A crude blade was affixed to one end. 

He dodged a blow from the bullymong’s massive fist–and blindly thrust upward with all of his strength. 

The bayonet passed between the detached lower mandibles and stuck fast in the roof of its mouth. Knuckle Dragger pulled away with a choked cry, yanking the makeshift spear out of Rhys’s grasp. Blood flowed down the blade, spattering the ice beneath it. Enraged, it reared up, fists balled. 

Rhys shielded himself against a blow that never came. 

Instead, there was a pitiful groan. Knuckle Dragger stumbled, swayed a little, and fell forward, narrowly missing Rhys. 

 Perched on its back was Zer0, their sword buried between its shoulder blades. They freed their blade, hopped off, and yanked the makeshift Claptrap eye necklace from Knuckle Dragger’s neck. 

“I…Erm…I…” Rhys stammered out, his heart still pounding in his chest. 

They glanced at him, drew a pistol from their digi-holster, and tossed it to him. He fumbled as he caught it. Zer0 was gone again by the time he recognized the gun.  

[emotionalsupportkelpie]

We have a cover, y'all!

The World As It Should Be is available for PRE-ORDER as a Kindle eBook on Amazon here!

PLEASE NOTE: There WILL also be a print edition, but it's not quite available for preorder yet. If you prefer a physical copy, I'll share the link for that order as soon as it's ready! (Of course, you could always order both a Kindle edition AND a physical copy. ;p)

Thank you so much to Maya Preisler, the wonderful cover artist, and to Mocha Memoirs Press, for making this debut author's dreams come true!

What would you sacrifice to change the world?

*Content warnings: suicidal ideation, supernatural horror, gore

Synopsis: Charity Olmstead wants to die. Despite being raised by two self-proclaimed psychics, she isn’t cut out for life in the new magic-ravaged world. When she meets a kelpie on a riverbank in Salem, she believes she’s found her exit. But it turns out the monster is hungry for more than a meal. Sensing Charity’s unawakened magic, he enlists her help in a quest for revenge against the hunters who slaughtered his mate, and in return he promises to grant Charity a swift, painless death once their job is done. As they track the hunters to their base, Charity and the kelpie uncover a terrifying truth: Salem’s corrupt mayor has joined a war that has been brewing for centuries, a battle for magical control that drove Salem's most powerful witch out of her mind and ended the world. Charity must take up the mantle of this fight, grow into her powers, and find a renewed will to live. But the war is not won yet, and its weight may prove too much to bear.

[nyaagolor]

Ooooh, I love this Yokai AU! We need MOAR pls!

(Also, while probably isn't the correct idea, I can bet that Maya is a Zashiki Warashi or similar...)

Imma be honest I didn’t think thru the yokai AU much. I’m playing investigations 2 so I may add or edit things, but the gist of what I have now is that Edgeworth is a demon Hunter— and by Hunter I mean he goes around trying to catch yokai criminals instead of using a sword like a normal person. He’s not about to cut someone down with his blade but he WILL cut down their testimony in the court of law

Anyway, when Kay says she’s the Yatagarasu she’s being extremely literal, her and her dad are crow yokai. Byrne is able to sneak into corporations because he can turn into a crow and just fly in there to look around but otherwise appears human. Kay can do the same, but she’s worse at transforming and in times of emotional distress like her dad’s trial will just kinda get stuck halfway between. Idk whether I’ll extend it beyond this or the investigations games but it’s a start