#mechanic!nat

[sweet--escape17]

Anon request here

[beguilingcorpse]

alright not to get all kingdom hearts on your asses over here but i've had an alecto the ninth theory cooking for a while now. which is that the gideon that narrates the end of htn is almost entirely disconnected from the kiriona that we see in ntn.

obviously there are the distinct name and personality differences, but there's also the big implication that harrow took something from gideon via the lyctoral process - something she absorbed - that kiriona currently lacks. i've seen some people kick around the idea of this being kiriona's "heart" because of the chussy (and the romantic implications), and i think that's a good a thing to call it as any.

if you aren't familiar with kingdom hearts, there are two creatures that can come from the same person: a heartless, which is literally a person's corrupted or stolen heart, and a nobody, which is the body (still possessed by a soul) that a heartless leaves behind. nobodies are their own functioning person, but can go through physical and behavioral changes and are usually pretty emotionless or bitter.

i'm trying not to Kingdom Hearts Lore Dump, but this sounds a LOT like what's happening with our girl kiriona. and i'm just saying that there are a lot of parallels between gideon's heart being out of her body/with harrow, but kiriona continuing to "live" (heavy scare quotes) while maintaining most of her soul because of the lobotomy and stalling of the lyctoral process. i'm just SAYING that when you put it like that, it sounds an awful lot like kingdom hearts. I'M JUST SAYING

and do i have any direct evidence for this? not currently, no. but based on what i know about muir and her knowledge of early 00s fandom and pop culture, i'm more than willing to bet that a kingdom hearts reference would not be outside of her wheelhouse. weirder shit has been referenced in the locked tomb.

if i had to extrapolate further, this all seems to point to some kind of reunion of gideon's heart and kiriona's body. harrow and gideon('s body) are in the same place again for the first time in two books. it kind of seems to me that either gideon will get her heart back, or she really won't - i.e., gideon's heart is gone forever (absorbed too completely?) and kiriona must either continue to exist in a state of incomplete megadeadness or cease being. which creates its own separate set of problems that i'm personally choosing not to think about. we can burn that bridge when we get there.

[fullscoreshenanigans]

What sort of occupation do you think Norman would like?

Because I 100% agree he should not be a CEO

[Offshoot of this post]

I'm very biased by @officersnickers and @salsae and either see him as a doctor of some sort (default to pediatrician) or a university professor/researcher. Something that can incorporate his affinity for mathematics and science, provide him with mental stimulation and challenges, and allow him to achieve recognition on a global stage if he so desires without throwing away his empathy and humanity.

(Chapter 85 Bonus Comic | Mystic Code Book Chapter 7 Q&A)

I feel like that last element is a big thing for a lot of people given what he went through at Lambda. The worst year and some odds month of his life had him isolated away from his family in a cage, alone, and he suffered greatly for it.

It's an idea that's illustrated so poignantly in the chapter 128 cover art. Ray has become so much warmer and devoted to his friends and family after being afforded the chance to hope "for a future that is like a dream" and to care for them openly under Emma's tutelage, heart a wellspring of love and empathy. They're all shaping each other while he's left to wither, and the cunning and ruthlessness that save him almost lead him to a point irrevocable (by the narrative's standards; for some, he passes it).

(Chapter 181.4)

It's hard to ascertain what capacity a CEO operates in in this future, what ethical standards there are and what boundaries he sets for himself on top of the vast range of industries they dabble in, but that he's tied up in it at all with all the negative connotations surrounding the role and potential exploitation involved after overturning fate itself and restructuring a world order leaves a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths, even with the simplicity and flexibility it affords in explaining away financial woes.

With a doctor, teacher, or any career without that level of baggage, there's the opportunity for him to incorporate his interests and be met with engaging challenges while simultaneously tempering that ruthlessness via establishing interpersonal relationships and working toward a collective, communal good. The possibilities for him are endless, but that's what I like for him since he holds Emma as his guiding star.

(Chapter 14)

For Emma, I've seen multiple instances of her being a teacher, especially one who works with young children due to how wonderful she is at understanding and empathizing with people, but she also has the tenacity to become a political activist or some other role of leadership.

(salsae's to have and to hold and these hands could hold the world)

Like Norman, anything that gets her actively involved in the wider world for a communal or societal good and allows her to flourish works for me.

For Ray, I have such a big soft spot for him being a librarian and rekindling his childhood love of reading under kinder circumstances and sharing it with future generations, but with his aptitude for science that Shirai mentions in the mystic code book and we see crop up throughout the story

(Chapter 140)

there's a lot of possibilities for him too, though out of the trio I feel he'd be the least likely one to entertain the spotlight.

(Chapter 181.4)

But maybe an architect who blends art and science together to construct a community given one of the things he wanted to do in the human world with his family was see the Sagrada Família (another one influenced by Snickers).

Interestingly, I've yet to stumble across any fanfics or headcanons where he becomes a professional chef, and I wonder how much of that is a shared sentiment of viewing cooking as part of his love language that he'd rather stay personal, something he only does for his friends and family rather than making a career out of it.

(banana_slug_army's The Language of Cooking)

While also unlearning bit by bit the idea etched into his psyche after years as Isabella's spy that love is always transactional.

[seraphinitegames]

I HAD TO REVIVE MY OLD ACCOUNT TO ASK THIS OMGGG! HII I just played book two and three using Nate's route (I usually ALWAYS do Mason remixes) and my heart! is in pieces! and i'm so happy!! And now I saw your trailer and saw the "Massacre at Queen's Sabre" part, and realized I never got to that part! Nate only told me about getting turned on the ship and I didn't see any actual dialogue like that. Is that line in the book or just for the trailer?? THANK YOU I LOVE YOUR WORK

It's actually revealed if you snoop on N when given the choice when the MC is sat at their computer :D

But then you also may risk the chance of N finding out if you did snoop or not...

Hope that helps! Thank you so much for the ask :)

[gayestcowboy]

help. i just killed orin solo in the duel. no slayer form required. the monk is unstoppable

[haveihitanerve]

Hi, hello hi sorry good day hi 😊

I see a bunch of people discussing the avengers switching costumes for a day or smth, and that is all lovely, but i would like to put out there that either Tony or Thor have to wear the Black Widow suit. 

That is all, thank you. 

[goldiipond]

man i really really love exploring ray's relationship with singing. it's obviously something very personal to him because we only ever see him do it as a sort of coping mechanism in extremely stressful situations, and i love thinking about him eventually feeling comfortable enough to share such a vulnerable part of him with his family y'know?

idk if he would continue to sing isabella's lullaby specifically with how much. emotional baggage the song carries, and i definitely think he might want to distance himself from it as he processes the abuse he experienced, and i also love the idea of ray making new songs to share with his family as he grows and heals. yeah i think about ray singing a lot

[otrtbs]

i am back in texas for a bit and i love it and it’s very great and cool and fun but i did not account for the fact that @motswolo is not here w me in texas and i am wilting and withering like a little flower without her :((

[elizabeth-mitchells]

I owe you a black eye and two kisses - LottieNat

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Yellowjackets (TV) Rating: Explicit Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Lottie Matthews/Natalie Scatorccio Characters: Natalie Scatorccio, Lottie Matthews, Taissa Turner, Vanessa "Van" Palmer, Shauna Shipman, Misty Quigley Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Missing Scene, Adult Timeline (Yellowjackets), Episode: s02e07 Burial (Yellowjackets), Lesbian Lottie Matthews, Getting Together, Smut, Porn with Feelings, not beta read we die like we pulled the queen of hearts card

Summary:

“Natalie can stay in my room for one night,” Lottie said. It was a statement. But, ever the mastermind, she had the delicacy of turning her head toward Natalie and asking, “If that’s okay with you?”

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or, after all of them reunite at Lottie's cult/wellness center, of course Lottie would invite Natalie to her room eventually.

[batllethinker]

Can you do a moodboard with Karen Wanda and mechanic Nat 👀

Had such a hard time deciding on which era to use but I love this dynamic :]

[selfdiagnosedeyemotif]

last week i missed mentopolis for one day and found out that they made dan fucks the mayor. this week i missed mentopolis for one day and found out about the 59 sharp vs. 1 sturdy roll. truly wild.

[justletmeon12]

Holy shit, that eye mechanic is not intuitive.

[bragganhyl]

ngl i wasn't really vibing with the way the whole "let's convince sedóhart to spare nájtszong" thing played out, it gave me the vibe that it was written around the game mechanics rather than written as an important character story moment supported by the game mechanics if that makes sense

[talietikasero]

i'm like 40 away from getting all 200 aloha links and i cannot get over how one of the dogs you can befriend is a very good girl named justice

[seawitchkaraoke]

Gorgug was so important in this battle but not bc he did a shit ton of damage but just bc he did not stay down, Porter wasted soooo many attacks on putting him down again and again but guess what oh he's down? Relentless endurance. Oh down again? Kristen will heal him. Down again? Healing word from squeem. Down again? Nat 20 on a death save

And Porter hates him so much, he absolutely cannot take this student having been right about his stupid multiclass, he just really really wants to kill him when like. Mechanically? Maybe should've focused some more on Adaine and her brain worm

And then when Adaine does use the brain worm it only works because Gorgug is conscious, Porter spends the entire time trying to kill Gorgug and the moment where it matters, the moment Gorgug does have a crucial reaction that he couldn't do if he was down, he's in fact awake and can throw a flashbang in Porter's face

Porter tried to do one thing this entire battle and he couldn't even do that right

Loser says what?

[terramythos]

Ok I killed 1 of the 2 optional bosses in the first zone now I need to figure out. The Spider. And not dying to that