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descentintosiblingcon · 2 years ago

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Chapter 6

Hotaru sends Shugo an email stating that she appreciates his help, Pikey is fine and she looks forward to coming on the Japanese server again.

(Time to know how to ban a contact, Shugo...)

Balmung and Reki are planning a new event and Reki thinks Balmung might be trolling too close to the sun this time. Balmung brushes him off and refuses to host the event itself, wanting to see it from the player's point of view (He's basically Jigsaw in the first Saw movie, so to speak.). He looks at bamboo leaves and thinks of a random chick...

Speaking of chicks, Rena, Mirielle, Ouka and Hotaru (Damn it, Shugo) are in kimonos writing wishes on the back of bamboo sticks. Shugo is having trouble thinking of his own wish so he spies on the others' wishes (Bad form). Mireille wants a rare life experience, Ouka wants to fight strong enemies and Hotaru wishes for world peace and no more fighting. Yeah, I agree with Shugo's assessment: their wishes suck. They're all platinum compared to Kamiya's wish though: he wants Rena's white socks (On a public server? Have you no shame, man?). What did Rena wish for? Well---

FUCK HER, THE EVENT IS ABOUT TO BEGIN! It's the fight for the Weaving Maiden and it's called Tanabata De Myudan (According to a translator note, it's a metaphor and has almost the same pronunciation as Tanabata, which means to take something without working for it.). Nobody likes the event name and Reki takes the heat for it (even though Balmung came up with it.). So what great event will entice all the players? First, a weaving maiden is chosen! The grand prize for the event is a night with the weaving maiden!

...

...Did Balmung just...prostitute a random player in this MMORPG?

If you think I'm reading too much into things, one of the encouragements is that the person can possibly build a romantic relationship with the weaving maiden in the real world. Is any of this legal? Who cares?! It's a VR game! No one cares! Shugo thinks the event is interesting. Rena is pissed and, even though she's pissed for the wrong reasons, for once, I'm on her side.

In the most disgusting karmic twist I've seen in a while, Rena is picked as the Weaving Maiden. Rena is pressured to talk about herself and, to the adoration of the attendants, reveals that she's 13 years old. Welp, she's a minor. We gotta pick someone else now considering that she's not even legal---

Fuck this manga.

(A guy in the crowd calls her experienced. Let's hope someone electrocutes him with his own laptop.)

Shugo now suddenly has a problem with a woman being treated as a prize when his sister is on the line, the other crowd member uncaring to his hypocritical plight. Anyway, off to the special area. At the Broad and Blue River, everyone participating has to play the part of the cowherd and rush over to see the Weaving Maiden on the other side of a large river. Shugo is intimidated (Shocker) but his sister needs him (not really) so he gears up to cross. Balmung shows up to participate and Shugo somehow recognizes him, declaring he won't let him get his hands on his sister. Mireille, Ouka and Hotaru decline to participate (because why bother giving somebody non-horny minded to root for?) and the race starts.

The river is deep and competition is fierce. Balmung smugly reveals he got top marks in PE and somehow, that matters in a personal environment. Also, there are sharks. Good. Everyone involved in this deserves to die. Mireille and Ouka watching, upon seeing a shark devour someone before their eyes, marvel over the rarity (Mireille) and the power (Ouka) of the shark. They jump in to fight and Shugo leaves them to it. Kamiya rides his giant Pikey through the water to give himself an edge while mocking everyone. Remembering Kamiya's gross-ass wish, Shugo punches his Pikey in the ass causing it to buck him off into the water, allowing Shugo to swim ahead. There are still at least three guys ahead of him though.

Meanwhile, Rena is waiting on her brother to rescue her (Come on...I mean, he is frighteningly enough the best option but there is no universe, situation or event where your best option is "get chosen for a date by my brother"). Rena complains about being singled out but Reki assures that they pick randomly. Rena lets it go, certain that Shugo will win. Reki quietly notes that they really do pick at random but Rena being picked out of all the girls just proves she is the chosen one.

Shugo is out of healing potions and douchey pervs (pervier than him anyway...somehow) are trying to kill him for his sister's hands. He fights them all off. A shark comes for him and he's doomed...until Balmung saves him. Shugo (again, understandably) won't thank him for helping but Balmung doesn't care. In fact, he helps him further by asking if he can't fight off a shark, how can he possibly hope to protect his sister? Shugo is pissed, all according to plan. He speeds off, resolve renewed, and...manages to tie with Balmung, who Rena fawns over. It turns out Shugo wins by a hat but Rena no longer cares. Having arrived and raised hell, Balmung leaves.

Back to the bamboo forest, Shugo is bummed and Rena tries to cheer him up (now that Balmung is gone, she's stuck with the incestuous booby prize). At least he knows what he wants to wish for now: he wishes to be strong. And now we know what Rena wishes for: she wishes for Shugo to be a warrior. Aura is watching as Shugo silently wishes to also see her again...

The chapter ends with Hotaru being pinched by a crab. Chapter saved.

THOUGHTS

OI, drop the incest angle already. And if you're commit to it, don't make Rena such a freaking hypocrite about her feelings concerning Shugo's libido. Portray them as normal siblings or make them a likable couple! Can't believe this is the kind of complaints I gotta make for a .hack manga. God, this is a dumb manga.

#.hack #.hack//legend of the twilight #good incest ships should twist your stomach in horror #not because it's forced #not because there's nothing there #but because the family members are portrayed as actual family #and there is something for everyone to read into #you guys are a long way away from elsanna #and homestuck could stomp the writers of this manga in a minute #look at this #this is the type of whining i have to do about this comment #this is all that's worth talking about #are you happy tatsuya #is this moe enough for you?#tw: incest

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thanksjro · 4 years ago

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More Than Meets the Eye #33: In Which I Write the Word ‘Quantum‘ 19 Times

Dang, I forgot what happened at the end of the last issue. It was pretty important, too, but I don’t have time to reread. Maybe the establishing shot can help me out?

Oh, that’s right, Rewind happened!

Everyone’s pretty jazzed that Rewind is here, non-exploded, and supposedly alive. Megatron carries this ridiculously small man over to a table, while Skids is busy admonishing Nightbeat for trying to put the pieces of this mystery together.

That’s one of the two first canonically, openly gay Transformers, Megatron. You bet your ass he’s important.

Nightbeat’s dragged Nautica over to look at that poster for Crosscut’s play they saw last issue. Together, they discover something interesting, and it’s not that Nightbeat’s chin has elongated to the point of absurdity. On this future ship, the play was completed and produced a mere few weeks after the initial launch of the Lost Light.

While this is going on, Rewind wakes up and asks Skids what the hell is going on. Skids, likely not wanting to poke at farm-fresh trauma, glosses over the fact that everyone on this ship was violently murdered, and that they found Rewind blacked out inside the hollowed torso of his brother-in-law.

…This is a dark story line.

You see, the joke here is that “Dark Cybertron” sucked major chrome.

Megatron reminds everyone that they’re still in grave danger every moment they stay aboard this ship, but Skids is more concerned with Rewind’s mental health. Which is sweet, but maybe not the thing to prioritize in such a precarious situation.

Rewind takes the fact that Megatron is an Autobot now pretty friggin’ well, as well as the introduction of gender into his species. That is, until Nightbeat, the king of social graces, saunters up to the scene to ask Rewind what the hell happened to the ship. He does get his answers, despite Rewind being horrified to the point of speechlessness.

Over at the hole in the wall, Nautica and Riptide are taking a gander at the quantum drums, which house the quantum foam for the quantum engines so quantum jumps can happen.

As Nautica explains the process by which quantum travel works, she realizes that the answer to what happened to everyone who disappeared was right in front of them this whole time.

Quantum, quantum, quantum- doesn’t even sound like a word anymore, does it?

The data slug Rewind made corroborates this theory, showing a series of events that definitely didn’t happen to the Lost Light we’ve been following throughout this story so far. The data slug contains this Rewind’s version of dead Rewind’s “Little Victories”, the travelogue that was never completed, where the question “are you happy?” revealed just how emotionally unhealthy most of the crew is. I’d like to imagine this Rewind’s film is called “Small Achievements”, or perhaps “Dear Fucking Lord, We’ve Been on this Trip for Three Hours and the Captain Has Been Killed by a Goddamned Soul-Vampire”, or maybe even “Where the FUCK is Our Therapist”.

The DJD came into the equation by way of someone having led them to the Lost Light. We get a flashback panel of the gorefest, in which Tarn appears to have learned how to fly, given the angle he’s coming from.

Because Rewind’s big thing in this series is being the guy who records stuff, the DJD take the opportunity to make some movies of their visit to the space yacht.

James, why do you keep getting Rewind involved with snuff films? I’m starting to get concerned.

Now, the thing about Rewind is that he’s almost always accompanied by his other half. Where is Chromedome, anyway?

He’s dead, that’s where.

Turns out, when you tell the DJD that you won’t do the thing they want you to do, they have a habit of doing nasty things in retaliation. Chromedome got stabbed in the friggin’ visor with his own finger needles, because Vos enjoys ironic deaths, I suppose. There’s some other stuff that’s implied to have happened, but we’ll get to that once we learn a little more about the DJD themselves.

While Rewind recounts the grisly tale of his husband’s demise, Riptide notes that the quantum foam has begun to spread at a remarkable rate. This is a bad thing, because that shit can and will explode, given half the chance, and this wreck is floating right above a potentially-inhabited planet.

Though I could have sworn we established that this planet was a Smartplanet, and therefore very much populated by students and staff. I don’t know. Maybe we conveniently forgot that, so we could make this a learning moment for Megatron.

Jiminy Christmas, Megs, do you even listen to yourself?

Skids, who has had a very long day of finding corpses and learning about quantum theory, snaps at Megatron, telling him that in order to actually be an Autobot, you have to have a little frickin’ compassion for those outside of your peer group.

Which is sort of contradictory to the Aequitas trials, the Killswitch debacle, the POW situation back on Cybertron, and whatever the fuck Prowl’s whole deal is, but maybe Skids is speaking about his own, personal relationship with being an Autobot. Hopefully so, otherwise he needs a class on critical thinking, STAT.

Never mind all of that though, because the problem just got a lot worse- the quantum foam has expanded to a point where any holes in the stuff are too small for the Rod Pod to get through. We’re going to have to get creative if we want to save the day.

Luckily, we’ve got a quantum duplicate of just about the tiniest little dude in the franchise here to do the job. Now we just need another, equally tiny little man, so the quantum drums can be shut off at the same time. Nautica commits more microaggressions, and this gives Getaway inspiration for a witty quip, which in turn gives Skids a brilliant idea.

The gang heads down to Brainstorm’s lab, to look for the mass displacement gun that was used for treating Ultra Magnus’s nanocon infestation back in the 2012 Annual. While they search, Nautica explains just why the hell the Lost Light disappeared in the first place. You see, quantum duplication acts on the Cain Instinct— it’s fine, as long as the duplicates don’t perceive each other. However, the moment contact is made, it says “oh man, guess I’m gonna have to end you” to one of the duplicates. The contact in this case happened when the Coffin Rodimus was brought aboard the ship.

Anything that wasn’t aboard the Lost Light at the point of the takeoff/explosion was never duplicated, and thus wasn’t erased from reality once shit started going to hell. This is why the Rod Pod is still around, and why the remaining cast are— well, the remaining cast.

While this conversation is going on, Nautica and Nightbeat uncover yet another dead body; it’s Brainstorm, and he’s a little underdressed.

…Someone run a paternity test, I think Cyclonus might be the father.

Also, Brainstorm’s a double agent.

Fucked up.

Getaway is furious that a Decepticon has been living on the same ship as him for the last six months, right under his proverbial nose. Even Megatron’s surprised, stating that Brainstorm isn’t usually who the recruiters aim for.

So, no mass displacement gun, and now they’re aware of the fact that there’s a traitor on the ship who’s had access to a LOT of weapon tech. It’s at this point that Megatron decides to stop lying by omission and tells everyone that he can mass-displace, since he used to turn into a handgun.

Smashcut to Megatron and Rewind floating out in space, the former now not much taller than the latter, as they traverse the web of quantum foam to get to the drums. Nautica instructs them from the Rod Pod. If this works, anything produced or connected to the quantum engine will be neutralized, and maybe we’ll even get the other Lost Light back! YAAAAAY!!!

Y’all really let this man go out there to fuckin’ kill himself for the greater good, didn’t you?

Rewind is honestly pretty chill with ceasing to be, seeing as he watched 200/+ people die today, including his long-time spouse.

Jesus. I’d say get him a therapist, but in order to do that, we’re going to have to wipe him off the map anyway.

Rewind asks Megatron if the Chromedome that isn’t his and his duplicate are still together. And I mean…

Luckily, Megatron has the good sense to lie.

With that, they flip the switches, and deactivate the drums.

And that’s a series wrap on Rewind! Congrats to Mr. James Roberts for the esteemed honor of burying the same gay twice!

Later on, everyone is back inside the Rod Pod, as their disappeared shipmates return from being nonexistent. Chromedome pops back in, and Skids is on him like a shark, telling him to go on the roof. Skids doesn’t even try to explain why. Which, fair. How the hell do you explain to someone that their dead husband’s quantum duplicate survived both a terrorist splinter cell attack, and the laws of quantum sci-fi bullshit crashing down on his tiny, tiny body, and that he’s right there on the roof waiting for them?

Welp, there goes the Chromedome/Dominus endgame. Shame, that.

Looks like Chromedome finally hit the threshold for having earned Roberts’ pity, and won’t be directly targeted by the plot for a little while. This isn’t something you see very often, so let’s really soak this in.

…Someone had to have told Rewind what happened to the other Rewind, right? I wonder what that conversation was like.

Back inside the ship, Blaster gets word that the Lost Light has reappeared. As they navigate towards it, Megatron requests that an encrypted call be made to Rodimus, to discuss the Brainstorm problem.

In the interim, Ravage is offered the opportunity to be a part of the crew, so he doesn’t have to keep skulking around in the shadows. We don’t get an answer from him, as our focus shifts over to Nightbeat and Nautica.

Nightbeaaaaaaaaaat, stop stating the themes of the comic verbatim! People are going to start thinking you’re a shonen anime protagonist!

Nightbeat’s somehow managed to keep ahold of the briefcase that they found on the other Lost Light. Unless Brainstorm’s boyfriend is in there, I don’t think this one was the work of Huey Lewis and the News’ hit single from the Back to the Future soundtrack.

Over on the Lost Light, specifically in Swerve’s, Brainstorm’s making his way through the crowd, briefcase held gentle like hamburger as he goes. He makes it to the bar, where Atomizer tells him he can’t have his briefcase in here. Brainstorm has what most would accept to be a healthy response to being told “no.”

It’s what I would do.

#transformers #jro #MTMTE #slaughterhouse #issue 33 #maccadam #Hannzreads #text post #long post #comic script writing

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t0t4lly-n0t-z4hw4 · 2 years ago

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He's in THAT mood~

Summary : Jendralkhan & The Great White Shark was in charged of watching over Zahwa, Spike, Twitch, & Bella while Paddle Pop, Liona, & Magus were on the mission (AZ pinkself ain't even know how in the world did they manage to get The Great White Shark to also watch over the kids-). The Great White Shark was a little bit suspicious of the way Jendralkhan was acting, maybe it's bc Jendralkhan has a little bit of some pink-ish hue on his cheeks, Jendralkhan always jump when he was barely been touched, Jendralkhan covering his mouth, and finally, Jendralkhan always avoiding eye-contact with the kids, and the elder shark. The elder shark asked the kid's if they knew anything abt the way Jendralkhan was lately acting, but instead of just a simple answer, the kids explained the concept of "Lee-Mood" and exposing Jendralkhan...

Another day, another Lee!Jendralkhan contents from your favorite Jendralkhan Simp! /HJ

Yes, I PLATONICALLY simp for Jendralkhan. He ma fav shawk UWUWUWUWUWUUUWUWUWUWWUWUWUWW

Welp- uhh...- Idk what else to say, but hope you enjoy!

Casts/Characters :

Lee : Jendralkhan.

Ler : Great White Shark.

Baground : Spike, Twitch, Bella, AZ, Paddle Pop, Magus & Liona.

Mentioned : Prof. Higgabottom, Remora, & Shadow Master.

TW : Tickles, Self-Insert, Platonic shipping/pairing, Mentions of b4ckst4bb1ng, & Possibly typos➡.

Another day, another crowd of fishes in the Dewan Laut, discussing something...

But today, the Dewan Laut's crowd & discussion wasn't the important case, because...

"Guys, will you promise me to watch over them?" Paddle Pop asked to the Ocean's toughest Knight, & The Great White Shark.

The Great White Shark was at Dewan Laut!? Wow! How rare! He visited Dewan Laut!? But, why is he watching over the kids?

"Do not need to worry, Paddle Pop," The White Shark assured Paddle Pop, "We could watch over them," The King continued, "Plus, I might as well watch over them, I've got nothing to do anyways" The King added.

So, The King decided to watch over the kids because he had nothing to do!? Well, that's a one way for a king to fill up his schedule, AND also cure his boredom-

"Don't worry, Paddle Pop," Jendralkhan reassured the Lion King (Pun definitely NOT intended ;)). FOR THE 150TH TIME. "We could watch over these tadpoles" Jendralkhan said, joking a little-

"Why did you call them Tadpoles?" Paddle Pop asked, a bit confused of Jendralkhan's nickname for the Kid's whole group.

"Cuz their TINY! Duh!" Jendralkhan answered, "Their height wasn't even tall enough to reach my waist..." Jendralkhan continued, in As-The-Matter-Of-Factly tone.

"Hahah! That's true!" Paddle Pop agreed.

"Now, now, we shouldn't waste anymore time! We need to go to the Phoenix Ship, Magus is waiting for us!" Liona said.

"Oh, right! We need to go now, bye!" Paddle Pop said, waving at the Ocean's Strongest Knight. "We'll see you guys when we get back!" Paddle Pop added while he walked swimmed his way out the drowned building & entered the Ship.

"Byee!" The knight & the king replied at the same time.

"Hmm, I hope they finished their mission successfully!" The king hoped for Paddle Pop & his friends.

"Now, Jendralkhan," The king turned around just for a second, "Wh-" The King's question was cut when he realized that; Jendralkhan somehow wasn't there anymore.

"What!? Where did he go!?" The king turned his head left & right to look for the younger knight. The king SWORE the younger knight was right NEXT to him just a few seconds before the king turned around!

Then, the king heard giggles from one of the rooms. The king entered the room, and saw the kid's sitting on the floor, talking abt something.

"H- hey guys, have you guys seen Jendralkhan by anychance?" The King asked, stuttering a bit.

"HWAA!" AZ screamed, not expecting the King to suddenly come into the room out of nowhere-

"Hm? Oh, uh, sorry, I didn't see him" Spike replied, apoligizing.

"I didn't see him either" Twitch also replied.

"I didn't see him. I was talking with Twitch, Spike, & AZ in this room the whole time!" Bella replied.

"I was at the halls next to this room to get a drink, then is saw Jendralkhan heading to the library," AZ answered, pointing to the direction where Jendralkhan went. "But if he wasn't there, then I don't know where else he went. I only saw him heading to the library" AZ added. "Also, sorry for suddenly screaming, I wasn't expecting you to suddenly enter this room" AZ apologized.

"It's ok!" The Great White Shark replied, "Also, thank you for the answers!" The king added before heading to the room Jendralkhan headed to.

"You're welcome!" The kid's replied, all at once.

"Now, where were we?" Twitch asked, wanting to continue the conversations he had with his friends.

Meanwhile, with the Great White Shark & Jendralkhan...

As the king almost swimmed past the library, he saw Jendralkhan sitting near the window, looking out the window.

At first, the king thought that nothing was wrong, but he lost that thought after he saw a glimpse of Jendralkhan's face. The king saw... A BLUSH on Jendralkhan's cheeks!?

The Great White Shark's eyes widened a bit, then it hit him.

'Jendralkhan has been acting weird today...' The king thought to himself, 'Him avoiding eye-contact with me, him BLUSHING, him suddenly jumping when I slightly touching him, and him covering his mouth,' The king continued his thought. 'Could it be...' The king thought, feeling a bit concerned. 'Naah, he might just had a bad mood today' The king thought, thinking that Jendralkhan had a reason why he was acting rather wierder than usually.

A few minutes later...

It's 08:30 now, Jendralkhan still hasn't acting like how he acted the last day the King saw him.

'Hmm, Jendralkhan is still acting weird...' The King thought, the King's concern about Jendralkhan's actions got bigger & BIGGER.

'You know what? The kid's were a lot more closer to Jendralkhan then I am,' The King thought of an idea, 'Why don't I ask them?' The King thought once again, heading to the room the Kid's was in last time he saw them.

"Hey guys," The king greeted the kid's.

"Hello!" The kid's said, turning their heads to the Great White Shark.

"Hello" AZ replied, holding her phone with 2 books, a pen, & a pencil case in front of her.

"How are you guys doing?" The king asked the kids.

"Me, Spike & Bella were just talking!" Twitch replied.

"Really?" The king asked again, "What were you guys talking about?"

There was a silence for a bit, and the 3 other kid's exchange looks before the kid's said "We forgot what we were talking about" at the same time.

"Huh? How come?" The king asked again, wanting to know how in the world did they even forget what they were talking about!

"We talked about quite a lot of things the past minutes" Bella replied.

Welp, that made sense-

"And Zahwa? What are you doing?" The king asked.

"Doing homework" Zahwa said, typing something on her phone.

"Well, if you had homework, do it now!" The king said, "Don't play with your phone when your homework isn't done" The king continued.

"I got quite a lot of homework to do," Zahwa replied, "I'm done with the ones on the book, just needed to send it to the teacher." Zahwa continued. "I also got a pop quiz homework, it's on my phone, and I'm doing it right now..." Zahwa added. "Thank goodness the homework & the quiz wasn't Math-" Zahwa added again.

"Well then, good luck with your homework!" The king said.

"Thanks!" Zahwa said.

"Now, do you guys happened to know why Jendralkhan has been acting weird lately?" The king asked, getting to talk about the thing he came to the kid's room for.

"Weird like what?" Bella asked.

"Finished!" Zahwa suddenly yelled, standing up and tidying up the pile of school stuffs on the floor & putting it on her school backpack.

After that, Zahwa sat next to Bella and asked "Now what did I miss?".

"Anyways," The king said, after Zahwa sat next to Bella, "Jendralkhan was acting weird because he avoided eye-contact with me, somehow blushing for no reason, he covers his mouth, & he jumps when I slightly touched him," The king explained the whole thing, "I don't think he acts like that the last time I met him, do any of you guys know what happened to him?" The king asked.

"Well, he did avoid eye-contact with us," Bella said.

"But I think I remember I saw a bit of a pink-ish hue on Jendralkhan's cheeks," Spike continued Bella's sentence,

"And he indeed jumps when I touched his sides to get his attention," Twitch continued Spike's continuation.

"And he's covering his mouth..." Zahwa said, holding her phone.

"Could it be..." The 3 other kid's said at the same time.

"He's on THAT mood?" Zahwa answered-ish the 3 other kid's question, still holding her phone, typing something.

"Oooooooh... OOOOOOOH WAIT, That made sense-" Twitch said, realizing that THAT mood might be the reason why Jendralkhan has been acting weird today.

"What mood?" The Great White Shark asked, he couldn't process what does the kid's meant by THAT mood.

"The Lee Mood!" Spike & Bella said at the same time.

"Lee... Mood?" The king said, confusingly.

"Oh goodness, now I have to explain it..." Zahwa said, seemingly embarrassed to explain what was "Lee!Mood".

"What is a Lee Mood?" The king asked, not even understanding what does that word means.

"Ok, first off, the word Lee stand for Ticklee, and Ticklees are a person who enjoy or are being tickled," Zahwa explained, "And the word Ler stands for Ticklers, and Ticklers are a person who enjoys or are tickling a person." Zahwa continued, "And the word Switch means that a person who enjoys both tickling someone, and being tickled. And that means I'm a switch-" Zahwa continued again, "And second of all, to answer your question; Lee Mood is a mood where you wanted to be tickled, but a Ler Mood is a mood where you wanna tickle someone," Zahwa answered the King's question.

"Oh... So that means..." The Great White Shark said, in a questioning tone.

"Jendralkhan WANTED to be TICKLED? Yeah, he definitely does-" Zahwa continued the King's sentence.

"Wait- is Jendralkhan even ticklish HIMSELF?" The king asked.

"Trust us, he is INDEED ticklish," Zahwa answered the King's question, kinda turning off her phone. "Don't believe us? I recommend you to tickle him yourself" Zahwa recommended.

"But, what if it won't work?" The king stuttered.

"Trust us! It WILL work!" Bella said, reassuring the king.

"Ok..." The king stuttered, finally agreeing to the kids. "But will you guys help me?" The king asked.

"Help you to actually tickle him? Nahh" Zahwa said.

"Watch YOU tickle him? Yass!" Bella said, continuing what Zahwa said.

"Help you by telling you which spot to get next? Yeah!" Spike said, continuing what Zahwa & Bella said.

"Record the whole time when you tickle Jendralkhan? Yeah!" Twitch said, continuing what Zahwa, Bella, & Spike said.

"What!? Y- you're gonna record me tickling Jendralkhan!?" The king asked, not expecting what Twitch said.

"Yeah, duh!" Twitch replied, "It's our tradition to record ppl that was being tickled!" Twitch explained.

"But first of all-" Zahwa said.

Later...

"-Got it?" Zahwa asked, making sure that the Great White Shark remembered wich spot to get.

"Ok, I got it!" The king replied, "Wow, Jendralkhan was surprisingly ticklish for a tough knight like him!" The king exclaimed.

Meanwhile, with Jendralkhan & The Great White Shark...

"Hey, Jendralkhan," The king greeted as he entered the room Jendralkhan was currently in.

"Oh, hey there, your highness," Jendralkhan greeted back, with a rather tired tone. Jendralkhan wasn't actually tired tho.

"Are you ok?" The king asked with a concerned tone, "You've been acting weird today, is everything alright?" The king continued, rubbing the knight's back.

"Y...- Yes! E- everything's alright! Heh..." Jendralkhan stuttered, looking away & covering his mouth with a wobbly smile.

"Hm? Are you sure?" The king asked.

"If you are indeed alright, you wouldn't acted-..." The king said, "Weird like today..." The king continued as he started tracing Jendralkhan's back.

"Gyahk!" The knight slightly screamed as he arched his back when he felt the sensations.

"I- I dohon't know what you're- hmhm- talking about!" Jendralkhan said, letting out a few giggles & is still covering his mouth.

The Great White Shark widened both his eyes & smile after he heard Jendralkhan's giggles, then said "You have such a cute laugh!" The king complimented, "I'd love to hear more of it!" The king said as his eyes were half-closed into a set of mischievous eyes...

Jendralkhan widened his eyes in horror, and the next thing the young knight knew; The elder shark grabbed his staff/trident, and cast a spell to grab Jendralkhan's arms, held them up, and held them against the walls, pinning the knight to the walls.

Incase if you're wondering what did the Great White Shark did to his trident after he casted that spell : The king also cast a spell that maked his trident magically stands up while is not being held by someone, and just let go of his trident and focusses more on his tickliah prey...

Welp, Jendralkhan's DOOMED now.

"Now, Jendralkhan," The King said, "Do you happened to be..." The King cut his sentence, then placing his hands to Jendralkhan's sides after continuing his words "Ticklish..?". The King earned a small muffled giggle as soon as he placed his hand onto the younger knight's sides.

Jendralkhan gasped whisperingly & widening his eyes upon hearing The Great White Shark's question.

"N- no!" Jendralkhan answered with the WRONG answer, "W- why would I even be ticklish?" Jendralkhan questioned back.

"Really..?" The King said questioningly, squeezing the younger knight's sides after asking "If you're not ticklish, then why did you react when I do that?" To Jendralkhan, clearly pointing to the King squeezing Jendralkhan's sides.

"Gah! Hmhmhm! Noho!" Jendralkhan verbally fought back.

""No"? "No" what?" The King asked.

"No tickling!" Jendralkhan grunted as he said it.

""No tickling" you say?" The King asked, "But it's a "Yes tickling" for me!" The King teased.

"NOOOOOHOHOHOHOHO!!" Jendralkhan both protested & laughed upon hearing the King's words, closing both his eyes shut.

FINALLY!!! JENDRALKHAN BROKE!!!

"Jeez, no need to shout! I'm right in front of you!" The King joked, smiling widely. Clearly, the King's enjoying tickling Jendralkhan. (AZ : Me too, your Highness. Me too.)

"Gahahahahaha! Hohow dihihid yohou knohohohow!?" Jendralkhan asked, demanding to know how in the WORLD did The Great White Shark knew that Jendralkhan was ticklish!

"Simple! The kid's told me about it!" The king chirped out an answer.

"WHAHAHAT!?" Jendralkhan said, not expecting the king's answer.

"I noticed that you were acting weird today, i got a bit concerned about you acting that way, so i asked the kids about it!" The king said, "And instead if them only giving a simple answer, they just thought me a whole new lesson about the concept of "Lee mood"..." The king added in a teasy tone.

"Screhehehew yohohou kihihiHIHIHIHIDS!!" Jendralkhan nearly SCREAMED as the king traced on Jendralkhan's stomach.

"Jeeheez, Jendralkhan! You're so sensihitive!" The king teased, laughing at Jendralkhan's laugh suddenly went up an octive!

"Oh, and also; If you want me to genuinely stop, just say "Oyster", ok?" The King said, giving a save word.

"Ohohokahahay!" Jendralkhan replied, feeling glad that he was given a save word.

The Great White Shark smiled upon hearing Jendralkhan's laughs. The king had NEVER seen a knight as redicilously ticklish as Jendralkhan! And Jendralkhan had NEVER laughed this hard & loud ever since the day that Remora decieved Jendralkhan to be evil.

"Now, Jendralkhan, i have a favour to ask you," The king asked Jendralkhan to do his favour, "Do you think you could do that?"

"Suhuhure, ihif you let me gohohohoho!" Jendralkhan replied.

"You don't need to be let go for doing my favour, because..." The King said as he grabbed a green, fluffy, & soft feather that Twitch definitely didn't tickle Prof. Higgabottom to gave a feather straight from his wings, and just gave it away to The Great White Shark, then continuing "I want you to laugh harder, and louder!".

'Uh oh... I'm doomed...' Jendralkhan thought to himself upon hearing the King's last sentence.

And the next thing he know, The King traced Jendralkhan's stomach with the green feather, and Jendralkhan absolutely lost it!

"GYAAAAHAHAHAHAHA! AHAHAHAHAHAHA! " Jendralkhan laughed out loud, Jendralkhan cannot take the feathers tracing his stomach.

The Great White Shark laughed along Jendralkhan as soon as the king saw Jendralkhan's reactions then said "Ahaw! You're so cute when you laugh like that! You should laughe more, kid! Your laugh could make a sad oerson happy from just hearing your laugh! That definitely worked on me!" The king exclaimed and complimented.

Jendralkhan only laughed more, not replying to the king's comment. (In reality, he just doesn't know what to say or react to the king's comment. Plus, he's being tickked to bits! Jendralkhan could barely say a single word without laughing)

The king stopped tickling Jendralkhan with the feather and asked "Now, are you ticklish here?" Before squeezing Jendralkhan's underarms.

"Aahahahahaha! Thahat's ahalot mohohore behehetteheher!" Jendralkhan laughed, his laugh got more calmer when the king stopped with the feathers.

"I'll take that as a "Yes"!" The king replied.

Then, the king started scratch Jendralkhan's armpits, earning a loud growly scream from Jendralkhan.

"GRRAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! GYAHAHAHAAA! NAHAHAHAHA!! NOHOHOHOHOT THEHEHEHEHER!" Jendralkhan screamed out loud.

""Not there"? Why not? Is it because it's too ticklish?" The king said in a teasy tone, smiling widely, half-closing his eyes, and raising an unexisting eyebrow.

"YEHEHEHEHEHEHESS!! NOW STAHAHAHAHAHAHAPH!" Jendralkhan complained.

""Stop"? Didn't i told you to say "Oyster" if you want me to genuinely stop?" The King said, pointing out the fact that he gave Jendralkhan a saveword.

"Or, perhaps..." The king cut, "The kid's told the truth about you enjoying being tickled?" The king said in a teasy tone.

"NAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! NAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAT TRUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUE!! IHIHI HAHAHATE TIHIHIHIHICKLEHEHEHEHES!!" Jendralkhan complained through is loud laughter.

""Not true"? If that's not true, then why didn't you use the saveword i gave you?" The king asked.

"I'll give you 5 seconds for you answer, and i'll stop!" The king said, as he moved to Jendralkhan's underarms.

"Ihihihihin your dreheheheheheheams!" Jendralkhan barked.

"Your funeral" Is all the Great White Shark say before he grabbed an electric brush that Zahwa definitely didn't grab off her father's office and gave it away to the Great White Shark.

The elder shark turned on the electric brush, and let Jendralkhan heard the buzzing sound the brush made.

The brisstles of the brush was vibrating like crazy that it even made buzzing noise.

As soon as Jendralkhan heard the buzzing noises, Jendralkhan widened his eyes in happiness fear.

And then, it happened. The electric brush made contact with Jendralkhan's stomach. And i also think it's save for me to consider that Jendralkhan absolutely LOST it.

"GYAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! NAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA- NAHAHAT THAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAT!" Jendralkhan laughed, smiling widely.

"STAHAHAHAHAHAHA- STAHAHAHAHAP!!" Jendralkhan barked.

"Remember Jendralkhan, i gave you a save word, and i also give 5 seconds for you to to answer my question" The king said in a rather teasy tone.

"AHAHALRIHIGHT, AHAHAHAHALRIIIHIHIHIHIGHT! I'LL TEHELL, IHIHIHIHI'LL TEHEHEHEHEHEHELL!!" Jendralkhan laughed, FINALLY giving up!

The Great White Shark smiled, turning off the electric brush, took his trident and took the spell away he casted on Jendralkhan, and turning back to Jendralkhan.

"So, was it tr-" The king said, but was interrupted by Jendralkhan.

"Yes. It is indeed true that i ejoyed being... T- tickled" Jendralkhan stuttered, and Jendralkhan's blush got deeper and deeper as soon as Kendralkhan said the word 'Tickle'.

"I- i'm just trying to hide that mood, but the more days gone by, the more bigger that mood gets!" Jendralkhan exclaimed.

"Why were you trying to hide that mood, if i may ask?" The king asked.

"I... I thought others might think i'm weird..." Jendralkhan answered, "I'm a knight, and knights weren't suppose to enjoy tickles, weren't they?".

"I'm a king, and kings weren't suppose to be incharge of watching over kids and teenagers, or tickling others, weren't they?" The king exclaimed.

Jendralkhan just stared at the Great White Shark for a second or 2, then looked back down the floor.

The king sighed, then said "Jendralkhan, i understand that you enjoy tickles and you being a knight. But knights could and have the right to enjoy ANYTHING they want, including being tickled".

"I'm a king, but i enjoy hanging out with kids and play with them. I could do it for hours if i want to" The king said, "I know kings like me wasn't suppose to enjoy that, but i also know that everyone, including me and you, still had the right to enjoy things we want or like. Wether their a knight, a king, or a villager, they still had the right to enjoy things they want, even if they wasn't suppose to enjoy them" The king continued.

At that sentence, Jendralkhan could only smile and said "Thank you so much your highness," Hugging the king, "I really needed that".

At the response, the King wasn't actually expecting Jendralkhan to hug him, but the king just hugged Jendralkhan back and said "You're always welcome, dear".

"It's been so long since the last time i was ticklee mercilessly like that, thank you" Jendralkhan thanked the king.

"When was the last time you've got tickled before, if i may ask?" The king asked.

"I- i don't remember..." Jendralkhan answered, "But, i still remember the last time i was tickled by my bestfriend Remora. And that day stoppee when Remora decided to backstab me, and left me to be Shadow Master's servant".

The Great White Shark gasoed in shock & disbelief, then said "I apoligize, but he's such a horrible friend! I bet Paddle Pop would've been a better best friend for you".

"It's ok, and i also proved the fact that Paddle Pop would've been a greater friend for me myself" Jendralkhan replied.

They smiled for awhile, then hugged eachother.

"Thank you so much, your highness, for everything!" Jendralkhan said, thanking the king.

"You're welcome, dear" The king replied.

"Now, i think you needed some time alone after i tickled you, so i'll be leaving now" The king said.

"W- wait!" Jendralkhan said.

"Hmm? What's wrong?" The king asked...

"Well, if you don't mind..." Jendralkhan stuttered, "I... I haven't said "Oyster", didn't i?" Jendralkhan 'Asked'.

"Oh?" The king said before smiling mischievously and said "I'll gladly continue it".

"Thank you" Jendralkhan said.

"No need to thank me, kiddo" The king replied, "You've thanked me for quite alot of times before, and plus; Don't you remember of what i told you today?" The king said.

Jendralkhan only smiled in reply.

Then, the Great White Shark reclaimed his trident, re-cast the spell he used to pin Jendralkhan, then went back to tickling Jendralkhan.

A little while later...

"PPPBBRTHHH!!"

"AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!"

The king raspberried Jendralkhan's stomach, and by that point, the word 'Oyster' would've been the oerfect word to say.

"GYAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! OHOHOHOHAHAHAHAHA! OHOHOYSTEHEHER!! OHOHOYSTEHEHEHEHER!" Jendralkhan said, he got just a bit tired from the tickles.

The Great White Shark noticed this, and stopped his attacks.

"I'm sorry, but i just have to know if what the kid's say was the truth..." The king said as he started to scratch Jendralkhan's chin.

"Hmhmhmhmhmhmhm! *Purr~" Jendralkhan giggled. And PURRED.

The king widened his eyes & smile, then said "Ahaww! That's adorable! They are indeed telling the truth about you purring when your chin is scratched!" Whilst laughing along Jendralkhan.

After a minute or 2, the Great White Shark stopped attacking Jendralkhan's chin and took away the pinning spell.

Jendralkhan was left breathless, untill the king decided to attact Jendralkhan's chin wich helped Jendralkhan calmed down a bit.

"Told ya he'd purr!" Someone said at the doorway.

The 2 sharks looked towards the doorway the sound was coming from, and saw the kid's leaning at the door! But, in Zahwa's grasps, there was a camera with a flickeeing red light!

And that only means 1 thing... And that is...

"What!? What are you guys doing there!?" Jendralkhan asked in a shocked tone.

"Remember what i said?" Twitch asked, with his eyes were mostly set on the Great White Shark, "We would record you tickling Jendralkhan!".

"But didn't you said, Twitch would be the one recording me tickling Jendralkhan?" The king asked.

"Well, i would if we could use our phones" Twitch said.

"But if we our phones to record you, it would took alot of our phone's storage space" Zahwa explained.

"And plus, Zahwa haven't even thought us on how to use the camera she was holding anyways" Spike said.

"Hmm, that ma-" The king's sentence were cut off.

"Guys! We're back!" Paddle Pop said as he enter the drowned building with Liona.

The kid's gasped and smiled as soon as they heard Paddle Pop's iconic voice.

"PADDLE POP!!" The kid's screamed and ran swam away towards the enterance of the Dewan Laut. And ofcourse Zahwa turned off the camera before she swam away.

And ofcourse the 2 others sharks went to the enterance way to greet the land & sea heroes.

The kid's & the 2 other sharks met Paddle Pop & Liona at the enterance of Dewan Laut and greeted them.

"Hello Paddle Pop!" The kid's greeted.

"Welcome back Paddle Pop!" Jendralkhan greeted too.

"Welcome back" The king also greeted too, "How'd the mission go?" The king asked.

"It went very good!" Liona answered.

"How about you guys?" Paddle Pop asked, "How's everyone doing?".

"We had an amazing day today!" Bella said happily.

"But i bet the Great White Shark & Jendralkhan enjoyed this day much more than us does~" Twitch said in a very teasy tone.

The Great White Shark only giggled at what Twitch said, then the king said "Yeah! I actually do!" Happily, "But what about you Jendralkhan?" The king asked.

"I had the best day of my life!" Jendrakkhan responded happily, "And i thank you for that, your highness" Jendralkhan said to the Great White Shark.

"You are and will always be welcomed, dear" The king replied.

Paddle Pop & Liona was left in visible confusion, and Zahwa realized this.

"Oh, if you 2 didn't get what actually happened; Just check the security cameras" Zahwa said calmly.

"HUH!? WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT!?" Jendralkhan asked.

"Didn't you remember? I helped Dewan Laut improve their security system by setting up security cameras in every single room this place has!" Zahwa explained, "There's even a camera in the room they're in while they had alot of fun~!".

Paddle Pop & Liona got even more visibly confused, so they got to the security room of the Dewan Laut.

After they did, they were in AWE of Jendralkhan being tickked to bits! And they were also in AWE that the coldest king could be so supportive, and soft!

And eversince that day, Jendralkhan no longer had fear of showing, doing, or talking about things he enjoyed and liked.

We had the rights to like, enjoy, or talk about things we liked, no matter if we weren't suppose to, or were suppose to.

There might be alot of people who seemed strong on the outside, could be weak on the inside. Just like Jendralkhan.

And there are might also be alot of people who seemed cold on the ouside, but is warm on the inside. Just like The Great White Shark.

Fin~

#Zahwa's Stories #Paddle Pop #Paddle Pop : Atlantos 2 #Paddle Pop Tickles #Ps; Jendralkhan purrs when his chin is scratched Fight me (ง ͠° ͟ل͜ ͡°)ง #SFW Tickle Community #SFW #Tickle Community

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stars-over-new-jersey · 2 years ago

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Knight Rider 4x01 & 4x02: "Knight of the Juggernaut"

Welp, I think I've found Knight Rider's shark-jump moment, unfortunately. I knew that it was canceled without an ending, so I was kind of hoping to go out on a high point but it doesn't look like that's going to happen.

"Super Pursuit Mode" is, most definitely, the most ridiculous thing I've seen on this show. And worse, it looks cheap and janky. Before, KITT looked better than he had any right to, given the budget of the show. But with Super Pursuit Mode engaged, it just makes KITT look cheap and silly.

RC3 is cool though. His introduction might have been a little bit over the top, but I like the way he works together with the rest of the characters a lot.

Frankly, they should have just stuck to adding in RC3 and the convertible mode and called it a day on spicing things up.

I really only had one problem with the actual plot, and that was how the villains went about neutralizing KITT's shell. They were able to cook up a solvent to destroy it way too quickly after getting the information from Devon. Also, I would expect a chemical strong enough to destroy KITT's shell to be caustic and/or smelly - either of which I would expect KITT or Michael to notice.

(I think too hard about dumb stuff.)

The rest of the plot was pretty good. I really appreciated the scene where Michael got left on his own to defend the existence of the Foundation against Jennifer. Hasselhoff put in a really good performance on that scene. The part where Michael finally recognizes the Devon impostor by his willingness to write off KITT for dead and tests him to be sure was also a high point of the episode.

And on another positive note, Hasselhoff got a mulletectomy between season 3 and season 4. I think I might prefer his season 2 hair, but overall it's a pretty good look. Plus, Michael's slutty black shirt put in an appearance in this episode.

I just want to know how the writers managed to make each time that KITT gets destroyed worse than the last. This time it was the last glow of the scanner fading out that really got me. JUST RUB IT IN A LITTLE HARDER, WHY DON'T YOU.

Sort of makes me fear what they might have cooked up for season 5 if that had happened...

Ratings (out of 5):

Cheese Level: 🧀🧀🧀 Cringe Level: 😬 Michael Knight Hotness: 🔥🔥🔥 Vehicular Shenanigans: 🚘🚘🚘🚘 Overall Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

#knight rider #kitt #david hasselhoff #stars over new jersey watches stuff #stars over new jersey watches knight rider #knight rider season 4 #plz let me hug kitt #michael knight's slutty black shirt

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teenyfish · 4 years ago

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Marine Biology Story of the Day #9

Welcome back to the blog—hello new followers!

So what does a marine biologist actually do for work? Is it always adventure on the high seas?

Well, it’s not always adventure on the high seas—you see, science isn’t exactly super well funded these days, and you need money to do that kind of stuff, AND that money usually comes from shareholders that want you to research things that may be beneficial to them. In addition, as a biologist, you have to spend long periods of time on shore in your office and lab, analyzing data and writing peer reviewed journals in the hopes that they’ll be published. That’s the price you pay for the cool fun times.

So what do I actually do for a living?

Welp, a big chunk of my research is working as a shrimp disease researcher and a shrimp ecologist.

Really, Jillian? You say, What about the sharks? What about the deep sea?

Well, here’s the thing—big charismatic animals are cool and all, but my tumblr handle is teenyfish, and that is because what I like to research are the tiny animals that are much lower on the food chain. Why? Because in many ways, they are the most important, and the most diagnostic when it comes to determining the health of an ecosystem.

How’d I get into shrimp disease?

Well, I used to work for the Virginia Institute of Marine Science Trawl Survey.

Basically, we went out on the Chesapeake Bay and would catch all species of fish to determine how fish populations were doing in the Bay from year to year. I began noticing that all the penaeid shrimp we caught began showing signs of blackened gills.

(gradient of black gill infection on left, close up of black gills on right)

I informed one of our P.I.’s (principal investigators) and our Black Gill Disease survey was born.

What is Black Gill Disease? Well, the blackened gills are actually an immune response that a variety of marine invertebrates (crabs, shrimp, lobsters) have in response to foreign invaders (bacteria, viral disease, parasites). In penaeid shrimp (aka the shrimp we like to eat—think bubba gump shrimp), its caused by Hyalophysa lynni, a parasitic ciliate that embeds itself into the gills of the shrimp. Ciliates are microscopic single celled organisms that propel themselves around with little “hairs”

(H. lynni, picture from Frischer et al. 2019)

Once the ciliate bites down on those shrimp gills, the shrimp release melanin that surround the ciliate and begin releasing chemicals that break it down. Unfortunately though, the chemicals also cause tissue death in the surrounding gill tissues, so they start not being able to breath as well. It’s kind of like when you get the flu (or COVID-19—lets be topical) and your body responds by giving you a fever that makes you super duper weak. Gets rid of the problem, but you feel like shit.

(closeup of healthy shrimp gills (A) vs. black gill damaged shrimp gills (B), from Landers et al. 2020)

So, this means the shrimp are weaker, slower, and about 2-3x more susceptible to predation. Which means THEY IN DANGER GIRRRLLL.

This disease was first “discovered” in Georgia and North Carolina in the late 90’s, so it’s actually relative new and completely understudied. Which means once I jumped on this project my career ABSOLUTELY BLEW UP (in a good way).

I got a job as a biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife’s Coastal Fisheries Division about two years ago, mostly because of the shrimp disease research I was doing in Virginia. Since moving down to Texas, I’ve been in charge of two major shrimp disease monitoring projects across the entire Texas gulf coast (It takes 8 hours to drive the full length from Louisiana to Mexico). We go out and collect samples from 7 major bays in Texas (Sabine Lake, Galveston Bay, East and West Matagorda Bay, Corpus Christi Bay, and Upper and Lower Laguna Madre)

I rely pretty heavily on our fisheries techs to collect samples for me since our coast is so expansive, but I do go out often on our local bay with my husband (he works at another local TPWD lab).

Once we get shrimp, I isolate DNA from shrimp gill tissue, and then I use a really cool DNA fragment tissue sequencing method to see if the shrimp have H. lynni DNA or not. DNA sequencing is just a matter of using DNA primers to go in and select a certain part of the ciliate genome that is unique and differentiated from shrimp DNA. DNA is just a sequence of proteins--adenine (A), thymine (T), guanine (G) and cytosine (C), and each species of animal/plant/bacteria have parts of their genome that have a unique ATGC pattern—that’s how we can differentiate species!

Once I know which shrimp are positive for black gill, we can determine if temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, location, or time of year have an effect on how much black gill we see in shrimp populations coast wide.

Now, I got asked to be on TPWD’s PBS show—so here’s a small segment to kind of streamline what I do. Watch me be awkward on television.

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I’m just going to point out, I do not do lab work CSI style, in the dark.

So in addition to black gill, I’m beginning to look at other common shrimp diseases too (like the aforementioned White Spot Disease in the video). Because of this, I got to go to a shrimp disease pathology course at the University of Arizona. Why is a marine disease lab in Arizona you ask? Because Arizona is not near any body of water, so they do not risk contamination. Also, they tell me the Arizona sun is pretty good at disinfecting aquarium equipment. I got to learn new DNA sequencing methods and dip my toe into histology, which is basically sectioning shrimp samples and dying organs so you can see what is going on with an organism’s body.

(cross section of a healthy shrimp gill)

Because of this, my TPWD coworkers and I are hopefully going to hop onto a big disease study with the University of Arizona and South Carolina’s Department of Natural Resources—but we are still waiting to hear back from the USDA to see if our study is going to be funded. Fingers crossed.

In addition to the University of Arizona study, I’m working with Texas SeaGrant and commercial shrimpers to collect more samples in the Gulf of Mexico (think WAAAAAYYYY offshore, 70-100 miles offshore). This is where all the big adult shrimp are, and I want to collect samples to see if adult shrimp are passing the disease to their offspring as their babies move inshore. And from the looks of it, the adults have it to.

(one of my boat captains, who is out on the Gulf right now, sent me this picture. Note the dark gills)

I’m sure I’ll have some more information for you all in the future as my studies progress, but for now, I’ll leave you with this: The Texas Gulf Coast shrimp populations are infected with H. lynni—and at some of the highest levels in the country. In the summer, upwards of 80% of shrimp can be infected in coastal Texas regions. In addition, low salinity and high temperatures tend to increase disease prevalence as well, and this might be tied to climate change and warming waters, as well as salinity changes due to increased precipitation (due to climate change) and the rerouting of river flow.

(percentage of black gill positive shrimp across the Texas gulf coast from 2019--from a WIP manuscript of mine)

Thanks for reading ya’ll, and as always, PLEASE do not hesitate to ask questions about my research.

#marine biology #marine biologist #marine biology story of the day #ocean stories #ocean biology #shrimp biology #disease pathology #shrimp disease pathology #parasite biology #real science #texas gulf coast #texas biology #gulf of mexico #penaeid shrimp #shrimp

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casserole-of-disaster · 3 years ago

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“Into It!”- Oreo Limited Edition Apple Cider Donut

Welp, I almost feel like Charlie Brown and Linus leaning on a brick wall, reminiscing over another Halloween gone. I had so many plans for this season and life just took over. But are we going down like that? Hell no! I still have almost two (one-ish) weeks left and damnit, I am going to reclaim every second.

Today, we start with the limited time only Fall Oreo flavor, “Apple Cider Donut”. Yes, I know Oreo has a tendency to jump the shark with flavors such as “watermelon” and “fruit punch” (barf) but this one makes sense. In a world full of pumpkin spice, pumpkin candles, pumpkin Cheerios, pumpkin lip gloss, pumpkin beer, pumpkin pumpkin, it’s nice to see something for those of us on Team Cider. I swear, how has the market ignored the cider movement? It feels like a Tesla vs Edison repeat.

As we start with any “Into It” review, it all begins with the packaging and man they rocked this one. I love the bright yellow background with the bushel of apples perfectly accompanied by donuts. It immediate brings to vision a cool Autumn morning with a hot cup of cider, looking approvingly over the torture/death macabre Halloween scene I erected in the front yard back in early September whist waving at the disgusted neighbors across the street. Or maybe just a simple hayride.

The taste, however, leaves something to be desired. I don’t know what I was expecting in an Oreo cookie but to me these where a bit too sweet. I know that is a stupid take on an already insulin-spiking dessert but these were really over the top sweet. I also couldn’t discern the cider from the overbearing cinnamon. It was just a donut cookie. Hm.

On an already down trajectory, 1/3 of the bag came sans filling. I don’t know whose job it was to cream the cookie, but they really didn’t have their head in the game that day. That didn’t come out right. Never mind.

Anyway, go try them for yourself while you have the chance. They weren’t my favorite but they might be pretty good to you.

I give them a solid C or 3 out of 4 severed thumbs.

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lord-rosenth0rne · 5 years ago

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... Well, I’ll be damned... It really is ‘Professor’. Sincere thanks to @fucksplosion for doing some serious digging to find this gem cuz I found zero mention of it in researching Professor Membrane (those who know me know I’m a stickler for canon with my writings and character creation). The trading game itself must be so obscure now, there’s no mention of it, though I did find some ‘cards’ from an MLB/Nicktoon Mashup that apparently was a thing. It just means more images for the folder for Membrane that may or may not exist >w> <w<. (Look, I’ve been severely depressed lately and grieving Dad sucks ass, I need this distraction)

I know Nick advertised some weird things in between cartoons but a lot of it was online and I didn’t exactly have access to a computer then, not without walking to the library to use theirs (but then it was exclusively to play Runescape XD). I was mostly working with basic cable and various secondhand gaming consoles to pass the time.

Welp, it’s not like I was going to use ‘Cornelius’ religiously, anyway. It was only going to be a name that someone close to him was going to use if it wasn’t just ‘Membrane’. The name might pop up once in a while, maybe as a middle name so I can use it for a unique tag. Maybe he’d flinch if someone used “Professor Cornelius Membrane” as if he’s about to be in a world of trouble.

His parents must’ve had HIGH ASS HOPES for him when they named him. Though, it’s a good thing I grew up with the Powerpuff Girls. They never really called Professor Utonium ‘Dad’.

ALSO, LOOK WHAT I FOUND WHILE LOOKING UP THE CARD GAME! Considering how fast people jumped on the Wooloo train, I thought it would be the same for Membrane but not much else has shown up. I’ll probably end up making my own stuff to commemorate the return of an old obsession. I don’t even care that the pin has his new legs but not his arms. It’s ‘pre-shark’ Membrane to me.

#Invader Zim #Professor Membrane #I'm still genuinely curious #I love obscure things #In fact #my youtube history is filled with vids calling back to buried media and toys #... And true crime stories #And creepy stories #You know what #I'm just weird let's leave it at that

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courage-a-word-of-justice · 4 years ago

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HypMic 7 - 9 | Maou-jou 5 - 6 | Akudama Drive 6 - 8 | I7 s2 6 - 9 | Taiso Samurai 5 - 6

HypMic 7

I will never not laugh at the content advisory, haha.

I like Kazuha already. Too bad he’s probably evil…

Oh, is it the day of the DRB in the series already…? Or maybe, because it’s the qualifiers, BB and MTC’s match is on a different day to FP and MTR’s.

Oh? Does Tom know Jakurai well enough to call him “Jakurai-sensei”? (<- middle ground between “Jinguji-sensei/Sensei” and “Jakurai”) Also, Tom uses “ore”.

Ooh, Iris is a motorbike rider, eh? Interesting. I thought they (<- not sure if Iris is a “she” or “he” with a really weird name) were more of a Saburo-type and didn’t bother with things like that, based on their appearance. Update: Someone on Yahoo Answers said based on Iris’s watashi, she is a woman.

Typo fixed! Good job, anime staff! Update: I’m referring to “…darkest hour is just before the down” (sic).

…bukkorosu = “f***in’ slaughter ‘em”. It’s not wrong…it’s just the subbers really like to abuse the F word for MTC. But you knew that already if you got this far…right?

LOL, Ramuda wants to “scratch [Rex’s] back” (figuratively) to…get SNS views? Hahaha.

This Studio Alita is probably a reference to Shinjuku Alta.

Yotsutsuji!!! That was the one big spoiler I got before watching the episode today and I’m so happy I got to see him animated!

(One of) Irihatoma and Degarashi refer to Jakurai as “Jakurai-sensei” as well. Hmm, I never noticed. Update: That’s Degarashi, because Irihatoma speaks to Jakurai alone later this ep.

There’s 50% chance I’m getting this wrong, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say Kazuha is voiced by a veteran VA…one I already know about.

Doppo calls Kazuha by his first name…That upgrade means their relationship escalated quickly (or this is a quirk of HypMic in general, since I noticed most characters are on first name basis with each other). Also, it’s cute Doppo finally has someone in his corner. No other part of the franchise has one, to my memory. Update: It might actually be “Kazuha-kun”…but I’m still surprised though. Update 2: It’s both, actually.

I’ve listened to the phrase “some random guy” several times from Hifumi’s mouth and all I can figure out is the “yatsu” at the end. (Doesn’t help my ears blocked themselves up again, although it’s less than it used to be.)

Harumi Wharf.

R? On a helicopter landing pad?

…uh oh. I was right when I thought Kazuha was going to be evil. Also, Doppler shift/effect. Update: “Doppler” is clearly a pun on “Doppo”.

Hmm? “Hey, Doppo” from “yaa”…it doesn’t have a name referred in there. It’s a small but odd thing to do. (I remember a professional translator was complaining that people with intermediate Japanese were giving them flak for translating things “wrong”, but what I do here is analysis for my future and edificiation. I’m not here to knock down pro translators’ doors and demand a refund, because I’m trying to go pro to atone for my sins as a scanlator.)

The soundtrack’s slightly sinister tone, plus the fact I figured the culprit well before Doppo did, makes me slightly scared…for MTR.

I realised they skimped on the budget…this “hot off the car chase” line seems more like an MTC line, doesn’t it…?...Yeah, it’s almost word for word for MTC in DRB+. Maybe the subbers rushed and used this translation (this link I put here) rather than their actual lyrics…? I will have to get to the bottom of this. Update: Turns out the translation is slightly different, but…yes, there is reference to a car chase in the start of Shinjuku Style. (Sorry, I don’t know every lyrics of every song off the top of my head.)

…wow, this got really Doppo-centric. I’ve never seen the leader relinquish their position when it comes to “leading into battle” before. It just goes to show the staff really do pay attention to how popular Doppo is.

Note “Doppo” means “walk alone”, roughly speaking, hence the “solitary” line.

This song is very, very faithful to its original lyrics, because I was trying to look at Hifumi’s “mixing paint” line and it pretty much matches.

Hifumi’s “my men”, LOL.

Kazuha = “one leaf”, hence the “leaves” in one of Jakurai’s lines.

I cringe every time I hear screaming coming from this episode, y’know…?

…oh dear. MTC’s plot actually bled into MTR’s.

I already knew from browsing Twitter earlier today that Kizuna was going to become FP’s today, but hearing it is another matter entirely.

Kosuke Miyoshi is Kazuha. Apparently, this guy also voiced Mashirao Ojiro (the tail guy) from BnHA, but that’s his only major role…so I was right in that I knew him, but wrong in that he was, again, a relative rookie in comparison to most.

Apparently FP’s sign is a peace sign sideways to represent an F, but…it’s just a sideways peace sign to me…

…how is Dice’s bead ornament attached to him? Is it on his hair, on his ear, on the skin behind his ear…? I was trying to replicate his outfit and got stuck on how to represent it, so I ended up opting for trying (and failing) to do a small braid on the right side.

IWGP shows up this season…it’s the song with the “hoo!” noise BB perform in this episode.

LOL, “Dead men tell no tales” is a perfect saying for MTC.

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Is there a movie called “Brother”…? There’s apparently one that’s the plural of that, but not that itself.

If HypMic likes the F bomb, then Akudama like the S word.

I-Is it just me or is the choreography sped up at some points in this episode…? It’s a bit disorienting to come back to.

I thought the kid was a robot…but close enough.

Oh no! Why does the teacher always have to die for the student to become stronger???

Kairaku/shugi -> pleasure/doctrine (if I didn’t somehow misunderstand the shark’s kanji combo),

The part after the ED looks a little too long…keep watching.

The Japanese says “Lost Children”, but the English says “The City of Lost Children”, probably referring to this French sci-fi film.

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I like how Gaku is taking special offence to Yamato’s comments about him being a playboy.

Re:vale-san. I never noticed until now.

“I’m already looking forward to it.” That’s how I would translate Tsumugi’s “I’m already excited”.

“…who could possibly complain?” – I think Mitsuki might.

The pun in the MEZZO show is that tai (group/squad) sounds the same as tai (want to ~). Rabbinsta is obviously Instagram + Rabbit (Chat?).

Oh my gosh! It’s the Yotsuba sister!

Mitsuki’s shopping trip OST is nice, man. This piano.

This episode has a really great sense of danger and foreboding for the future.

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Perfection Gimmick. Never heard it in the anime before.

Even the ramen house’s name is a play on “Idolish7”.

LOL, Yamato sure turned that comment around.

The sign talking about beer says something about coupons below it. (It went by too fast and my CR app’s kinda fiddly, so I can’t really go back…)

Kimi to Ai na Night (pun on Idolish7, aka “AiNana”, again).

Mitsuki, no one hates you! You’re just imagining it all!

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Momo hugely resembles Sasara, right down to the highlights on the hair…

“…you’re so handsome…” – I’m dying on the inside here, people! *laps up the BL pandering with a derpy smile on my face*

Banri and Tsumugi haven’t been focussed on lately…they’re clearly doing something regarding Banri’s ties with Re:vale, but I can’t quite figure out what that “something” is.

Why is there a basketball and a football in the back of the Takanashi office…?

Please don’t run in heels, Tsumugi…

“I love Idolish7!” - Ah, despite my quibbles, Tsumugi is good after all.

“making one’s best exertions” – Why do those words on the cup worry me a bit…?

Isn’t “I’m watching you” a creepy statement…?

Apparently Tamaki’s symbol is mp (mezzo pianissimo), hence Sougo’s words.

…my gosh! Aya’s foster father is Kujou?!

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If I heard it right, Tenn’s line was “I can be your idol”, not “your prince”.

“Older Izumi” - …ah, poor Mitsuki.

“Damn you, sexy beast…” – LOL!

…aw, I think this is the first time my heart has been lightened by Tsunashi’s laugh. He’s a good boy.

The chibis…I’m still trying to get used to them…

As a song once said, “You can’t please everyone so you just gotta please yourself.” (Blah blah blah, something about garden parties…)

Takao what now???...okay, Takao Dayuu.

…You’re lucky that wasn’t Tenn doing Takao Dayuu. It would’ve been very “Gentaro does his courtesan voice” if it was.

Nagi doesn’t overpronounce things as much in this season. It’s…pleasant, actually. Give me more of that.

Nagi’s “Oh my god!” was hilarious.

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Ra (ら) and ro (ろ) look kinda similar in hiragana.

Even without the audio, I can guess the words were “yarubeki koto” (things you should do) -> shachihoko.

The texts are written in gyaru-moji. Gyaru-moji is basically indecipherable to anyone who doesn’t know how it works – kind of like the common teen vernacular, to be honest (LOL…?) – and so the subs actually kind of ruin the confusingness of it all, but they did slightly better when they went “UR”.

Movie shiritori! But…has it really been half a year since Leo started? I feel slightly robbed about that plotline with the Men in Black right now…(then again, HypMic is just as bad about important plotlines, if not worse, so…I’m going to be patient and not complain.)

July 5th…Rei is a Cancer…?

They’re…finally moving on this Men in Black plotline! I only complained two points ago! Thank you, staff, for listening to my complaints (…?).

Moon Land finished recently, so I wonder if I’ll lose interest in this anime from here on out…? There was a Pommel Horse Prince in that.

Moon Land taught me that gymnastics has a lot of skills named after their creators, much like the Aragaki previously. The score is out of 10 for both D (difficulty) and E (execution), meaning a 20 is the best you can do, but the judges can get really picky...

The word for “vault” literally means “leaping/jumping horse”…makes sense.

Some of these names are names I’m familiar with from Moon Land already…but I never remember what the skills look like.

…welp, Leo just proved he really is a ninja after all.

Dr Stone’s s2 had its ED announced to be “Koe?” by Hatena and “Yume?” here really makes a theme…does Hatena give all their song titles question marks on the end?

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Colour gangs? Like in IWGP?

It’s nice to see they’re (Jotaro and Rei) communicating properly for the first time in possibly this entire anime.

On the wall, that thing is an evacuation map…of some sort.

…I’ve always wondered: if a bird eats chicken, does that count as cannibalism?

This is like thw Makkachin incident all over again (in YoI).

“…there’s no reason for you to grin and bear it.”

…Leo and Jotaro, both are so dense! Boys *shakes head*.

BB? More like ET (LOL)!

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…I didn’t even notice the cast was all dudes bar the princess at this point.

Tatakau Onnatachi. It could mean “fighting women” or “female warriors”.

I’m still vaguely pissed that Kirito is here under my nose…darn Demon King!!!

One of the harpy’s recent worries was that she wanted to become friends with the princess…That’s kinda cute…

Didn’t Syalis already get the coffin that one time? Or did it get confiscated?

*eyes sparkle* Cloud…I’d like to sleep on a cloud…*dreamy look on face* Cloud.

This is basically Princess, ‘Tis Time for Torture in reverse.

Is it “make do” or “make due”…?

I don’t think I need to explain the joke where the harpy is happy.

Gendo pose!

I wonder if the bed or the sheets will talk to her (Syalis) someday?

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The New Gearbolt’s quote is “guruguru dokkan”, which is just a bunch of sound effects. It would translate to something like “whir-whir-thud”.

Underwear episodes are some of the worst episodes ever…they’re so juvenile…I dropped at least one series based on the underwear episode alone.

Ah! The seal on the ice monster’s shoulder! Too cute!

How can a mechanical princess mecha (…thing?) have worries?

LOL, never underestimate the hilarity of the teddy demons ganging up on the Demon King.

I like how the Japanese pointed out the demons only moved the princess.

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I thought the robberies were Kazuha’s doing…? Or is this a separate case?

Samatoki answering his phone with his feet up…LOL, there’s just something funny about it. It shows he’s just so badass, he can get away with it.

Riou’s hacking (?) skills come to the fore again. (Or is that listening to enemy intel?)

Ooh, Iris is sassy. I love her already.

…er, Samatoki? Blowing cigarette smoke into Jyuto’s face is just rude…

“…don’t hang up your gloves.” – Considering Jyuto has his red gloves…LOL.

What the heck is that backing track when the 2nd car moved out? That’s a cool track.

Ah! Iris is a Saburo-type…LOL, Saburo’s fake identity.

“a cop who’s in with the yakuza” - Wow, way to diss your own teammate, Samatoki.

For a guy who was only just in the water, Riou doesn’t even look wet.

“2 DIE 4” – Hmm? So did the anime staff know what Riou’s 2nd round song title was at the time…? Update: Judging by the name “Requiem” dropped in the next episode, I would say yes.

“…f*** the police…” - Wow, way to diss your own teammate, Samatoki. X2

Hmm? In Riou’s rap bit near the end, he goes “mad warrior” and that rhymes (in a very loose way of speaking) with “Mad Trigger”. The English didn’t keep that.

I remember seeing a spoiler which said that line (the one about slaves)…but seriously, Jyuto is such a “sexy revenge cop” (as someone once said – I think it might be Slug, or an anon to Slug) that literally nothing else seems to matter about him.

Why do they subtitle the laughing??? I still have no idea.

“Sgt. Iruma”? The guy just says “Iruma-san”. Is he a sergant or some other rank? Update: Yes. (As in, he is a sergant.)

I’ve never actually seen Ramuda sleep in a bed before, come to think of it. Does he not have a bed?

I would assume Gentaro is going…but he said he won’t be going, then negated that and then negated it again. Unless the 2nd time was him admitting it was a lie the first time…is he going or not???

“shinsetsu no human” – (Spoilers for later on/manga)…Yes, that’s actually what Ramuda says. It’s as if Ramuda subtly admits, right there, he isn’t human.

Nodo = throat…If this were translated more literally, it would sound pretty clunky.

“…rappa no inochi…paa!” – Yep, the subbers got the gist of the joke there.

Dice is basically a worm at this point…He’s squirming like one, anyway.

That “number of pips facing up” thing has got to be foreshadowing for something, y’know? Nothing in a story ever goes to waste. Also, it’s likely the dice are weighted or something…

…yep, there you go.

That voice Gentaro used for “I despise lies” was amusing…because it’s so different to his normal voice, and because Gentaro is a serial liar.

The 2nd song…which I already know is called “JACKPOT” from browsing Twitter earlier today…was a bunch of fun.

Udagawacho.

Hmm…emphasis on the candy. I wonder what that means? (<- already knows, I just want to keep it a secret from you, dear reader, if you don’t know it too)

ANIME SHOP is so clearly a pun on Animate, including the colours, that I can’t even…LOL.

FP’s Kizuna sounds distinctly different to the others…probably because of Ramuda. It’s mostly Ramuda carrying the tune there.

“Life is what you make it.” – Hmm, an interesting quote for sure.

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…welp, they don’t call it Fling Posse for nothin’.

I didn’t believe my ears, so I went and listened to it again. Sure enough, Ichiro calls Jakurai -san, not -sensei.

Ramuda’s normal voice! Things are getting serious~!

“Hifuming”? Is that a deliberate choice on the translators’ part? Or is it a mishearing?

…I’m laughing at how Samatoki called Ichiro a “hypocritical piece of s***”. I know the “s***” part is correct at minimum from the audio.

I believe Samatoki said -san, not -sama when he asked for an honorific. Hmm, interesting.

I knew this would get animated, but…I still can’t believe I’m watching it! Amazing…absolutely amazing.

If you’re wondering…yes, that long thing is her entire title and name. It’s said the name “Kadenokouji” is the longest Japanese surname in existence.

I remember reading a tweet earlier today that said somebody wanted “Altercation! Altercation! Altercation!” as a song title…and now I LOL, because the subbers made Gentaro say the exact same word.

Hmm…I only just noticed BB are the only ones with bags. They probably came last, but who took the others’ bags into Chuoku…? Update: Some of the others did have bags, I just never spotted them. For instance, Riou is carrying a large black rectangular bag, but Samatoki and Jyuto don’t have any. Jakurai has the bag from his TDD days.

The 2nd DRB brackets got announced today. BB vs DH, MTR vs BAT, FP vs MTC, rolling out across Japan (and Japan only due to COVID) in 2021.

“What happened between you and him?” - I was going “who?” in Cantonese (as I sometimes do), but turns out they’re just referring to Samatoki.

This is exactly as it played out in the drama tracks and manga…exactly what I was waiting for all this time! So good, dangit!

LOL, in the future, we will have camera drones working our concerts like they do in the DRBs…I think (?)

I wonder what Dice is thinking right now, seeing Otome on the screen…hmm…

…gah! Airhorn! Airhorn to the ears! *tilts to side due to sound*

I still kind of remember Slug’s take on the final battle…”The popo? More like the poopoo!” (or something like that). *sniggers*

The little barking bit after Jiro’s verse was…kinda cute, actually.

…ow, these are some burn-ass words. See? This is the power of the DRB!

…eh? Riou’s mic has his MC name on it. Don’t think I’ve seen that in any other part of the series.

Hoh, Riou even made references to Saburo’s character songs.

You can see “Hc” on Samatoki’s mic too…probably another case of his MC name, but partially obscured by his hand.

Aw, “Samatoki no sabaku toki” is a good lyric. Why couldn’t you try to keep that, instead of translating it literally to “judgement day for Samatoki”?

You can hear a thumping beat in the background when Samatoki prepares himself. That seems to be a similar way to how ARB treats this stuff.

“I’m THE Samatoki” – “Samatoki-sama da”.

I think it was really cool to show Samatoki handing the song over to Riou, but it also indicates there’s a disjunct in the lyrics that would cause such a thing. From this, maybe Riou is MTC’s weak link…?

Skeletons with katanas! Is that not cool?!?

…hey, that joined words thing Ichiro does…I would assume that’s what Rhyme Strike looks like in the HypMic universe?

Notice Samatoki took the word “signal” from Ichiro’s part and put it into his own one.

“Today is a good day to die.” – *eyes bulge* Oh…gosh. What a quote. Update: Someone theorised Ichijiku wrote these titles (the last 2), but someone else – like me – theorised this quote was what FP and M fans thought for this battle.

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…that’s one twisted kid.

Never threaten to kill a kid who can regenerate far better than you, Hoodlum.

Brawler is still in the OP…it’s kind of saddening to see him now.

I noticed a certain character appears on the Executioners’ hands if you pause at the right moment in the OP. It’s the first character in shori (management).

Bunny: set meal/Shark: roasted meat (yakiniku)

…This sounds a heck of a lot like the genbaku dome (Hiroshima Peace Park).

Bunny and Shark’s shirts together: Idiot -> Shark: Bone

Actually, this also reminds me of the Osaka Expo held in 1970. I loved writing about that event – it was just so fun to write about.

This anime is like Appare-Ranman’s sequel, except without the racing and crazy racial stereotypes (although there are still crazy stereotypes).

…whoa! This scene is going on the end of year list for sure. Just…have to remember this scene, where all the children disappeared, exists.

…”The City of Lost Children” is an apt title for this episode.

(HypMic spoilers!) I wonder if they’ll reveal that Ramuda is a clone in what’s left of the HypMic anime?

…oof, Doctor’s a filthy traitor!

Rule number 1 of fighting: never yell out “Smokescreen!” when the smokescreen is meant to cover you.

…LOL, dark censorship bar. Please wait for the Blu-Rays to see this scene uncensored.

What the heck?! The countdown went from 7 to 0 so fast!

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Black Rain, huh? *checks* It’s a movie about a pair of New York policemen who have to save a Japanese gangster from his death.

…don’t jinx it, Swindler!

Your brother isn’t on the moon, Sister. It’s just your dreams on there.

Notice “Neo Lake Biwa” actually has “Reiku” in its name, as opposed to, say, “mizuumi” or “ike” (the Japanese equivalent).

You can still see where Doctor stitched herself up.

What did Doctor “hold on to”?

Way to monologue through the whole morality thing… (<- not as satisfied as they would like from this scene)

I wonder if the seal is electronically tracked…

Tsubo = pot, vase…*thinks about drugs* (Not that pot.)

“…I’ll make you into a real man.” – More like a eunuch, LOL. (partially sarcastic)

I recall from Sarazanmai that “pair look” is the term for “twinsies” in Japanese.

Oh! Swindler kind of looks like the Executioner Boss now.

…I find it ironic that Swindler had long hair up until not too long ago.

Can to the eye! Ouch! That’s gotta be worse than a lightsaber…er, jitte to the eye!

This makes me wonder…was Courier a rich kid once…?

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Original Story - J & O - Chapter 1

I wrote an original story... well part one of it. Dunno if it any good, but imma posting anyway.

A defeated and resigned Pumpkin Man gets a visit from his old “friend” which causes him a lot of trouble.

Far away from all civilization, in a dimension between life and death stands a small house. Hidden from prying eyes of humans and other creatures alike, this house belongs to a certain being. He who once struck fear into the hearts of men, yet now resides here. Alone, detached from everything. He who once commanded the entire might of Underworld, the Lord of Pumpkins himself... Jack'O.

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Returning home with groceries was usually the best part of the "shopping day". Though of course, it's not like Jack'O actually bought stuff. It was more akin to stealing, though he preferred to call it "borrowing without giving back". After all, the only place he ventured to from his pocket dimension is the human world. Buying stuff is quite challenging(impossible) when you have a giant pumpkin for a head. Besides, he did not have any money anyway.

As he crossed over from the usual dirty alley into the dimension his home was in, Jack'O let out a sigh of relief. Navigating human cities always gave him anxiety, even if he does it after dark. Now that he stood at his front porch however, everything was peachy. He snapped his fingers in order to close the dimensional gateway and without even turning back he opened the door with his right foot. There was no need to lock them ever. No one could get into this dimension without him allowing it anyway. Humming to himself Jack'O entered the house, unaware that the gateway did not close completely. A small hole remained through which some sort of black liquid slowly poured in. After couple of minutes it stopped, and the hole closed itself. As if it was alive, the huge pool of black goo began to move towards the house.

After putting away everything he bought, Jack'O sat down down in his favorite(only) armchair by the fireplace and sighed in relief. Reaching out with his right hand towards the table, he took a dart out of a cup full of them and set his aim on the dartboard hanging above the fireplace. This particular one is a custom, which Jack'O made in the image of the creature he despised the most. The dartboard itself had the shape of a demon's head with crudely painted details, such as a shark-teeth smile and an eye patch.

Before he had a chance to throw the dart, a loud knocking noise came from the front door.

- What the...

Jack'O got up from his chair, taken aback by this impossible situation. He simply stood there as the sound continued.

- Who's there?!

The knocking stopped for a couple of seconds, only to resume again at a faster pace. Losing his patience, he decided that the only right course of action is to open the door and face whoever or whatever it is. After arming himself with a frying pan he slowly approached the door and in one swift move opened it. But there was no one there. He stepped out into the porch but he found no signs of anyone or anything.

- Maybe it was the wind. Or maybe I just need more sleep.

With that said, Jack'O returned inside the house and shut the door behind him. Once back inside however he noticed someone is sitting in his armchair.

- Cozy house you got here, Jacky. Mind if I crash here for awhile?

A long time has passed since he last heard this voice. Voice of the repulsing demon who betrayed him and because of whom he became a literal nobody.

- You...

- Indeed. Me.

The entire house shook to its foundations when Jack'O fired a giant beam of dark matter energy from both of his hands. His poor and trusty armchair exploded into nothing in an instant taking the table and darts with itself. Laying on the floor near the fireplace was a demon woman. Long black hair, pale skin, all white Gothic-like coat, a huge eye patch over the right eye and of course a pair of pointy horns. The look on her face was a mix between shock and genuine confusion.

- How dare you show your face to me, you foul carcass of the abyss?!

Jack'O began preparing another attack. Within his hollow eyes burned a fire, one which hasn't burned for long years.

- Look, Jacky. I know last time we saw each other, we had a bit of an uh... scuffle, you and me but...

The Lord of Pumpkins roared like a crazy beast and fired another shot, this one destroyed the fireplace along with the rest of the wall. The woman avoided the blast at the last second by jumping towards the kitchen then rolling into it like a ball. She stopped by hitting the sink so hard the faucet almost came loose. Now laying on the back with legs over her head she watched as the furious Jack'O towered over her like some sort of murderous madman with a vengeance.

- Okay, could you please stop trying to kill me, Jacky? I'm not here to fight you, and besides, I have had enough of a roller coaster ride today as it is.

- Then why are you here?

- Look, if you'll stop destroying your house and we just sit down like civilized Underworlders, I'll tell you everything.

The Lord of Pumpkins' fire seemed to have been instantly extinguished the moment he realized he just destroyed a wall, an armchair and a table. After short overlooking of the rotten fruits of his carnage he turned to the demoness on the floor.

- This better be good, Ovelia.

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Another day, another load of paperwork done. Although she would never admit it in front of anybody, the amount of dumb requests citizens of the Underworld make is astronomically high. For instance, just today she had to deny thirty different pleas from Underworlders who wanted cleaner air. Like, what is she supposed to do about it?

Yawning, she got up from her chair and looked outside the giant window of the office. Thanks to her efforts the once horribly medieval Underworld became a technological juggernaut. Combining magic and technology yielded results surpassing those of humans. So what if the air is not as clean as it used to be? Everyone(who is a first or second class citizen at least) gets free cable TV and all the wondrous perks of magic and technology at the same time. It's a win-win all around, unless you're a complete failure and can't even afford shoes. In which case, oh well.

Taking out a small mirror out of the pocket in her coat, Ovelia took a look at her eye patch, and seeing that it is crooked she fixed it up.

- Well, nothing wrong with indulging myself a bit.

Back at her desk, she pressed the button four on her intercom. After two beeps a tired voice answered the call.

- Yes, miss Ovelia?

- Hans, if I have any appointments today then I want you to cancel them. In fact, tell everyone I am out and about doing charity or whatever it is.

- You want to watch "Funnies in the Family", right?

There was a brief but tense silence.

- Shut up.

She pressed the button again to terminate the call. Now that all of the "chorepointments" were null and void, she could enjoy the luxury of her favorite sitcom... or so she believed, because the lights went out, and the reinforced glass window behind her simply shattered.

- What. - She mumbled, quite confused.

With multiple pieces of glass now lodged in her back, Ovelia turned into black liquid and then swiftly reshaped back. Now free of the pieces, she took a look around her office which had shards of the window everywhere.

- This is going to be a witch to clean up. Welp, good thing it is not going to be me.

She pressed button four on the intercom couple of times, until it hit her that it wasn't just the lights that went out.

- Drat. Now I'll have to walk.

- Excuse me! Can you finally turn around for scariness' sake?!

Ovelia sighed and turned around towards the raspy voice. What her eyes beheld, could be simply explained as black floating rags, some chains and a bag of bones with barely any meat on them.

- By the seven pits... who let you in here, you filthy hobo?!

- What? I'm not...

- Yeah, yeah. Sure. You probably prefer to be called a "jobless individual". What? Cannot find any work for a fellow of your education?

The bag of bones and rags laughed like a maniac who smoked one cigarette too many in his life.

- Well, you see. I'm not going to be jobless for much longer, Abyss Demon!

- Indeed. That is me.

- Because I'll be taking your seat at the top of the Underworld!

With that said the bag'o'rags laughed again. Ovelia smiled wryly in response.

- Okay, that was cute and all. Now get your tattered bones out of here before I'll have to remove you myself.

- You... you don't remember me, do you?

She raised an eyebrow.

- Should I?

The hobo shrugged and took out a book from behind his ragged cloak. Upon opening it, and quickly skimming through a couple of pages, he began reading a passage in a language most ancient. A magical circle appeared under Ovelia's feet.

- I think I have had enough of your wacky hijinks. Get... out!

Usually at this stage she would make a very scary face, the air would tense up and the intruder would have been knocked out of her office, in pieces at that. Instead, she just lost her balance and fell face-flat onto the floor.

- Buh-wha? - She mumbled, spitting out a shard of glass from her mouth. The raspy laugh resounded again.

- It worked! It worked! Bless your dark heart, Abysswalker!

- What just happened?

Ovelia got up slowly and arrived at the conclusion that she feels much less powerful than usual. It was almost as if she had no crazy broken powers at all anymore.

- This spell was made specifically to deal with you, Ovelia! To be more precise, it seals most of your great power!

Before she could even process this information the raggedy hobo grabbed her by the hair and dangled outside of the window.

- It's a long way down, little abyss runt.

- Who in the seven pits of hell do you think you are?! You will not get away with this!

- Who? Why, I am... The Boogeyman!

With that said, he let go of her hair and in accordance with the laws of gravity, Ovelia plummeted down. In the brief moments during her fall she could hear the raspy, yet roaring laughter of victory. Then, there was only darkness and silence.

* * *

- Hold up. Boogeyman? The same Boogeyman we trashed completely and threw down into the Sea of Gehenna?! That Boogeyman?

- Well, considering he seems to kinda hate me, I think so.

Jack'O sighed.

- Look, if he hates me, then he hates you as well, Jacky.

- He only went after you because you were the top dog in the Underworld. Now that you were thrown away like yesterday's trash I'm sure he has more important things to do than go after me. Besides, he can't find me anyway, secret dimension, no?

- Uhh...

Jack'O sent Ovelia a cold piercing gaze.

- Which brings me to my next point. How did you find me?

- After Boogeyboy noticed I am not dead, he sent multiple assassins after me. I high-tailed it to the human world to lose them. After I wandered a bit, I noticed you going about in the dark with your bags of merchandise. I knew I could hide inside your dimension if I followed you. It was a pretty lucky coincidence, I must say.

- Mhm. - He shrugged. - Alright.

Jack'O turned around towards the kitchen, only to quickly turn back and punched Ovelia right in the gut. The might of the hit sent her flying right into a bookshelf. It immediately collapsed right on top of her. He carefully watched her turn into liquid then reform back into regular form next to him.

- What was that for?! - She asked, pouting.

- You tell me. While I would be otherwise inclined to believe in our "lucky" and "coincidental" meeting, I just simply can't. You said you "knew" about my dimension. From where? Who else knows?

- Uhhh...

Jack'O cracked his knuckles.

- Alrighty! Fine! I kept spying on you after you left, so I could laugh at you! I had special cameras installed at almost every place you visit! That way I always had a fresh stream of your misery!

They both stood there in complete silence for a bit.

- I can't believe this. I need a drink.

With that said, the Lord of Pumpkins simply went into the kitchen and returned with two cups filled with vodka. After staring at puzzled Ovelia for a couple of seconds, he poured both cups down his throat, one after the other.

- So... can I stay here?

- No.

As if on cue, the sky of the dimension split open with a loud and terrible noise and through the crack flew in a giant dragon. Alongside him a four armed being, whose head seemed to be composed of flames, descended upon the house.

- I have found you at last, wretch of the abyss! By the order of the almighty Boogeyman, I, Pyreman - Lord of Fire and Ashes, will cast burning judgment upon you and your comrade!

Upon finishing his speech, he threw a bunch of fireballs down onto the house and laughed proudly as everything around quickly went ablaze.

#original story #spooks #well kinda spooks #jack'o lantern #ovelia

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yrpspiritsintheshadows · 4 years ago

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A Strange Arrangement

Hideki sighed in content as he watched the whipped cream he was making double in size in the stand mixer.

There really wasn’t anything quite like the feeling of success at seeing a technique work out just like you practiced it.

“Alright, soon as this is whipped, I’ll get it into the cake and-”

There was a tugging on his apron, causing him to jump. He looked down to see Ken was giving him a puppy eyed look, tugging again on it.

“What’s up, Shark Pup?”

Ken smiled, jumping back.

“Can you make me a lunch?”

“Like, to eat here or a bento? And for that matter, why? I thought you already ate.”

Ken sighed, giving him a kicked look.

“I shared my lunch with my friends. I’m gonna be hungry real soon… Pleeeaaase?”

Hideki glanced at his mixer, checking the consistency of the whipped cream. Fluffy and nearly coming out of the bowl, just how he liked it.

“Maybe later. I need to finish my roll cake. If you’re patient, I’ll put a piece in there.”

Ken perked up, letting out a little gasp.

“Really? Can you put two?”

Hideki gave him a curious look, getting his roll cake set out on the counter and spreading the filling out atop it.

“This is really rich. It’s chocolate with strawberries and I’m gonna cover it with a ganache before freezing it. You’ll get a tummy ache on two.”

“I won’t! The other piece isn’t for me.” Ken put both his hands together, giving another pout… throwing in a whimper for effect. “Pleeeaaase?”

Hideki flinched, trying not to make eye contact. He knew that look. He had become very accustomed to it.

“Ken, please don’t make that face.”

“Pretty please?”

“Ken, who are you even hanging out with? You know you can’t feed chocolate to the dog.”

Okami, as if understanding this, let out a loud whine. Hideki rolled his eyes.

“She’s a really good friend of mine from school.” It wasn’t a lie, Ayami was waiting for him outside and he wanted to share a snack with her. “We’re going on a big hike.”

“I don’t remember hearing you talk about this friend before. Which one?”

“Her name’s Ayami.”

Hideki hummed in thought. He remembered seeing a few kids playing with Ken during park trips but never anyone by that name.

“Ayami, huh?”

He nodded, bouncing on his heels a little, leaning up to watch his big brother work. Hideki’s hands were fast as always, rolling the cake up carefully but securely before sliding it into the fridge. He moved to the stove, starting to melt chocolate together with heavy cream.

“So, can I have it? Please?”

“How long are you gonna be gone? Did you tell Dad or Mom?”

“I’ll tell them in a bit, but Mommy would just go “You have food at home, you two can eat here.” and… they don’t know Ayami’s mommy.” Ken pouted.

Hidei nodded, very familiar with that rule. He grew up with it from Aika and Daisuke. Before the age of ten, no friends were allowed in the house unless they talked to their parents first.

“Well, why not ask her to bring her mom over then? She’s gotta anyways if she’s being dropped off, right?”

Ken went very quiet at this, biting his lip.

“... Ken?” Hideki narrowed his eyes. “I’m not helping you keep a secret.”

“But it’s an important one…” Ken looked down at his shoes. “I promised.”

Hideki sighed a little. He knew that all too well. He wasn’t comfortable keeping secrets like this though. Especially if it went against their parents’ rules.

Sure, he’d gladly sneak the kid an extra cookie or stay up an hour later than he said because his favorite show was on… but when it came to going off alone, or rather, anything involving Ken’s well being after the nightmare incident, he wasn’t comfortable with that.

“Ken…” He looked up from his cooking, meeting his eyes. “I want to respect your wishes but I’m not gonna keep secrets from Mom and Dad. That’s not my thing.”

Ken looked down, breaking eye contact.

“Ayami’s not normal though.”

“Is she like you? Or like me?”

“.... She’s…” Ken mumbled something, looking away from Hideki. The teenager frowned, raising an eyebrow.

“Pardon?”

Ken smiled sheepishly, guilt in his eyes.

“She’s a ghost.”

Hideki’s eyes widened before he put a hand to his face.

“Keeennny, why didn’t you just start with that!?”

“Ehehe?” Ken kicked at the floor a little. “She’s not like a regular one though. She’s a Ghost Guardian… You know what those are, right?”

“Yeah, of course. Ghost kids who stay behind and work under Lady Phantova as her warriors against the undead.” Hideki took his pot off the stove, pouring it over the cake before shoving the entire thing into the freezer. “So, that’s who your little friend is, huh?”

“Ahuh… You see why I can’t just go “Bring your mom over.” since her mom is y’know...a GODDESS!?”

Hideki nodded, wincing a little.

“Yeah… I can imagine. At least tell Dad since I think he’d be more okay with this.”

“I’ll tell him later, Ayami’s waitin’ and I can’t cook.”

Hideki sighed, lowering his head.

“Okay, but just this once. I mean it bub.” He gave Ken a stern look. “And if you don’t tell, I will. This is not gonna be like your bad dreams. Okay?”

Ken nodded.

Hideki sighed before getting started on a relatively simple lunch, making sure there was enough for two.

“And if she offers you ghost fruit, you don’t eat it until you tell the folks. Alright?”

“Okay. Why?”

“I heard it doesn’t wear off that fast and you don’t wanna scare them with thinking you died and came back to pretend all was normal.”

Ken’s eyes widened before he nodded.

“Got it…. And Hideki?”

“Hm?”

Ken hugged him tightly.

“I love you.”

Hideki smiled softly.

“Love you too, Shark Pup.”

Things just keep getting interesting don’t they?

Honestly though, might be just the thing he needs to practice those gifts. He’s gonna see worse things than making a friend out of a dead kid.

It wasn’t long before Hideki saw Ken off, the little boy running off as he joined Ayami’s side. The ghost girl looked over her shoulder at him, giving him a thumbs up.

“Be careful.” He looked down at Okami, the dog giving a huff of annoyance. “What’s her issue?”

“It’s hard for her to keep up.” Ken frowned a little. “Okami, stay-”

The large dog bolted to his side, whining.

“Alright, alright. C’mon!”

“Be safe you two.” He waved, before the kids started to walk off… Only to jump when Hideki let out a yelp.

They looked back, seeing Eiji was standing right behind Hideki. The man raised an eyebrow, motioning with his finger for them to come back.

“... Uh oh.”

Ken gulped, hurrying back over, as Eiji knelt to his level.

“Am I in trouble?”

Eiji held up a finger, taking off his reading glasses.

“Not yet.” He gave a firm look. “First, I heard about half of what was going on in the kitchen. I was grading papers in the living room.”

Hideki winced.

“Frick…”

“You’re not in trouble. Like I said - not yet.” He gave Ken in particular a stern look. “Ken, can I finally meet your friend properly?”

“You knew!?” Ken yelped.

Eiji shrugged a little.

“I played with Ghost Guardians when I was little too. Kind of not a surprise to me, that you’d make friends with them too.” He was nostalgic as he looked Ayami over, nodding as he recognized the armor style. “Yup, the real deal… Which is why I’m not mad. But Ken, you should never be worried about this stuff, like I told you before - you can tell us anything and we won’t be mad.”

“Even if I tried to keep another secret?”

Ayami hurried over.

“It was my fault.” She insisted. “Please don’t be mad at Ken.”

Eiji looked at her, giving her a gentle look.

“I’m not mad. Like I said, I just want to know what my kids are getting up to. The woods aren’t entirely safe but if he’s got a friend like you, I think I can trust he’ll be alright… but I do want to at some point meet with your mother. Is that alright?”

Ayami nodded quickly.

“Frannie wouldn’t mind. If you played with us Ghost Guardians before then you’d know her too, right?”

“Yeah but it’s been about twenty years, give or take.” Eiji patted their heads. “But, no more of these little secrets, okay?”

“Okay!”

“Good… and Ken?”

“Huh?”

Eiji kissed his head.

“Be good and be safe.”

Ken smiled, hugging him tightly, relieved he wasn’t in trouble.

“Thank you, Daddy. I love you!” He grabbed Ayami’s hand as they ran off, Okami chasing after the children. “C’mon Aya!”

“Eep!”

Hideki and Eiji watched them go, before Eiji sighed a little.

“She’s so tiny…”

Hideki looked up at him.

“How young do you think she was?”

“Given I’ve seen Ken playing with someone I couldn’t see since he was about 4? I’d imagine she was five. She’s presenting herself as six right now but she’s still learning. Could be awhile before she decides her final age so to speak.” Eiji sighed. “Makes me just sad for her parents, if they were good ones.”

Hideki looked back to where they had gone.

“If they were anything like mine, they’d just be happy she has a life somewhere. Even if it’s just her afterlife.”

“Yeah… Welp, guess this means we might have a deity dropping in on us.” Eiji headed back inside. “I’m gonna go back sure I swept.”

“... So wait, that’s it? If Titan just showed up here, you’d be this nonchalant about it?”

“Kind of?” Eiji shrugged. “Honestly, this is just par for the course for me. I remember meeting her once when I was Ken’s age but that was twenty years ago. She probably doesn’t remember me.”

“Aww… Who could forget you?”

Eiji ruffled his hair.

“Aww shucks… Now… How about that cake eh?”

“Oh, you’re gonna love it. C’mon!”

Hideki hurried back inside, calling out for Hikaru and Carmen. Eiji looked back towards the forest, as the wind picked up around him.

The more things change… the more they stay the same.

oooooo

Ken and Okami were keeping up at a decent pace with Ayami, who was flying above them. The kids were relieved they hadn’t been in any actual trouble.

“Hey, my big brother packed a big snack enough for two people. Do you wanna share it with me?”

“Sure! When we get to a good rest spot.” She did a flip through the trees above them. “Wee!”

Ken saw a large boulder coming up. He picked up the pace, before leaping over it, forcing himself into a flip before he kept running.

“Oooo nice! You learn that recently?” She clapped a bit.

Ken grinned. The extra lessons while practicing with Chase and Eiji were paying off.

“Ahuh! Just can’t do it often.”

“Got ya…” She came to a stop, standing on a high tree branch looking around the forest. “Let’s see… Where to go…”

Ken looked around, Okami whining a bit as she nudged him along.

“Oof! Hey.”

Ayami looked down, raising an eyebrow.

“What’s up with her?”

“She smells something she doesn’t like.” Ken moved along, knowing very well that trying to go anywhere Okami deemed “danger” was a bad idea.

Ayami narrowed her eyes, looking around them, focusing on the energy of the forest.

Something was nearby but… it didn’t feel like a threat. Still, she swooped down, pulling Ken up, flying at a pace to keep up with how fast Okami was sprinting away from it.

“Oof! Hey!”

“I don’t think it’s bad but we’re not alone. Let’s not tick something off.”

“Right.” He looked behind them… He saw a bush rustle. “... Let’s get far away. Fast!”

Ayami looked behind them before using her strength to grab onto the scruff of Okami’s neck, lifting them both up.

“ARROOOOOOO!” Okami howled in alarm. She smelled it… It was close but she smelled it.

And she didn’t want it anywhere near her pup or the strange, not living pup.

“Um, Aya what are you-EEP!”

She phased them through a large brush of trees, before stopping at a large rock that had a relatively smooth surface, enough for all three of them to lay across.

“We’ll just stay here a bit.” She gave a salute. “I’ll go investigate.”

Ken frowned.

“It can’t hurt you can it?”

“Naaah. I’m already dead!” She boasted. “Nothing can hurt me!”

“Okay…”

Ayami gave a salute, before hurrying off, turning invisible. She came back to the path they had been on before, peering through the bushes and trees…

Whatever it was she had sensed and what scared Okami, was long gone now. She couldn't pick up a trace of it.

Weird… Maybe a forest spirit?

Ayami shook her head. No, that wasn’t right. It hadn’t felt dead.

The presence was alive… very much alive.

Maybe it was nothing. Probably a fox.

Still, she made note to keep close to Ken during more of these excursions if she didn’t have training.

Ayami hurried back to where Ken was waiting for her, already setting out their snack.

“Well?” He looked up, worried.

Ayami frowned.

“I couldn’t find it. It’s gone.”

“That’s good… right?”

“I think so but I’ll keep around more.” She sat on the edge of the rock, picking up a sandwich, taking a large bite out of it. “Mmm! Oooh that’s yummy! What’s in it?”

“Hideki makes this yummy sandwich spread, with veggies and cream cheese. It’s really good.” Ken smiled a little. “Aya, don’t worry, okay? I know you got my back.”

“And I intend to keep doing that.” She offered him a fist bump. “Ghost friends?”

“Not secret friends.” He nodded, bumping his fist with hers. He looked out over the forest, closing his eyes.

The forest’s energy was the same as ever but… his gut told him something else was around. He wasn’t entirely sure what it meant yet…

But he hoped it was nothing scary.

Just don’t let it hurt my family.

#Spirits in the Shadows #Ken Miyamoto #Ayami #Ghost Guardians #Original work #original writing #literature #paranormal #web series #yellow rose productions #Storm Arashi

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incorrectsmashbrosquotes · 5 years ago

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Total Drama Smash Bros: Episode 2, Part 2 Something Fishy This Way Comes...

*Wario wanders around a dark and fog-filled campground by a lake, looking in vain for the tell-tale signs of the Camp in question, unfortunately it seems like he's in the wrong place*

Wario: Welp, that's it, I'm lost. Sakurai damn it! What's a guy got to do to steal a measley twenty-million around here!?

*An unknown 1st Person POV shot begins tracking Wario through the abandoned campground while breathing heavilly*

Wario: Dammit Ganondorf! You couldn't of hidden your summer camp of torture somewhere more accessible?! And what's this shit about not inviting me to help in your revenge fetish story?! And what the hell is up with this place?! Camp Crystal Lake?! What kind of bullshit name for a camp is that?! You might as well name it Camp Super Happy and be done with it! Why I outghta-

*Wario is interrupted from his rant by the 1st Person POV approaching behind him. Wario turns to see a massive mountain of a man in ragged clothes wearing a hockey mask and wielding a machete.*

Wario: Oh, hey there buddy. You okay? You're breathing kind of heavy. You need a cough drop or something?

*The man does not respond, merely continues breathing heavily and glaring at Wario*

Wario: Hey, buddy! I'm talkin' to ya! *More silence* Look buddy, you're kind of violating Wairo's personal space, so I'm gonna have to ask you to back off.

*The man does not respond, merely lifting up his mask and allowing Wario to see his face before replacing it*

Wario: Woah! Buddy, that's one hell of a condition! I've got some skin cream in my bag, here let me get it for ya. *The masked man raises his machete as Wario fishes through his pack.*

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Back at the Fishing Grounds

*The boats have shoved off and the teams have departed. Some are doing well! Others are doing... not so well.*

(Erdrick and Robyn's boat)

Erdrick: I got one! We're eating good tonight!*Begins reeling in his line*

Robyn: Wow. That was fast.

Erdrick: Almost here... almost here...! *he reels it in revealing it to be... an old boot* Aw, tartar sauce. *he glumly throws the boot into the boat*

(Roy and Samus' boat)

Samus: Jeez, how do you use this thing? It's so primitive!

Roy: Well, how do you usually go fishing?

Samus: I get on a aqua terrain suit, load up my spear-gun, and take the offensive. None of this waiting around crap.

Roy: Right, future, forgot. *sighs* Here, let me show you.

Samus: Right. So, where's the prime interface so I can load up the targeting system?

*Roy facepalms*

(Link and Bonny Janet)

Link: *staring at the water thoughtfully, surveying the whole area*

Bonny Janet: Oi! Elfy! Ya goona let ma in oon tha' big secret?

Link: Just determining the best place to fish. Have to take into account water currents, sunshine, and a whole bunch of other- fuck it. *Link jumps into the water and reemerges a minute later with a Spotted buck-Salmon clenched between his jaws*

Bonny Janet: BLOODY HELL! Do ya always fish like thaat?

Link, spitting the fish into the boat: My ancestors used fishing rods, but Mipha taught me to fish like a Zora. Lots more efficient.

Bonny Janet thinks for a moment before an evil grin comes over her face: Oi. Ya think ya could get moore tha' way? We git moore, oone fer each oof our team... an' wee've goot a good chance o' winnin'!

Link, pulling himself into the boat: Huh. Good idea Bonny.

*The two look over to see Marth struggling to thread a fishing line through a hook and Joker shooting into the water with his gun, trying to hit one of the fish.*

Bonny Janet: Oi! Princey! Witch-son! *Bonny throws the fish Link caught at their boat, smacking Marth in the face, knocking him down*

Joker, picking up the fish from an unconscious Marth: Thanks Bonny!

*Link and Bonny Janet give a thumbs up which Peach sees and grows frustrated*

Confessional

Peach: This is bad. Link and the imp working together?! This is seriously bad news.

(With Erdrick and Robyn again)

Erdrick: Ooh! Ooh! I know I got one this time!

*Erdrick reels in his catch only to be another boot.*

Erdrick: Gods dammit! *tosses it beside the other boot*

(With Lucina and Dark Pit)

*The two are sitting in silence together*

Lucina: Hey, DP, you want some? *holds up a bag of chocolate covered peanuts*

Dark Pit: Sure, hand 'em over.

*Lucina gives DP some*

Confessional

Dark Pit: I appreciate Lucina. She's knows that sometimes people just don't want to talk.

*Lucina suddenly gets a bite on her line*

Lucina: Shit! It's a big one! *Lucina does her best to reel in the catch. Dark Pit comes up behind her and helps her haul up on the line* Almost! There!

*The catch finally breeches the surface and they see that they have hooked a massive shark. All three simply stare at each other for a long moment before Dark Pit slowly reaches forward and cuts the line. The shark disappears beneath the waves and Lucina slowly puts down her line, curling into a ball*

(With Peach, Zelda, and Pit's boat)

*Peach, Zelda, and Pit have carefully followed Link and Bonny Janet as they've fished up a small pile of their prey to distribute to their team.*

Peach: Okay Zelda, now's your chance. Drive the wedge! Drive it!

*Zelda looks reluctnant but nods*

Peach: And Pit. I need you to sneak over and steal all those fish while they're distracted!

Confessional

Peach: I hated to drive Zelda and Pit like that, but I need this prize money! Bowser's conctant kidnapping of me, destroying my kingdom over and over, and the subsequent repairs and reparations have left the royal coffers practically empty! The Mushroom Kingdom needs the financial boost.

Confessional

Pit: I'm not sure I like how Peach is running this alliance. I want to win too, but Link and Bonny seem to be finally making friends. I know I'm not very smart, that's why I let Peach and Zelda call most of the shots... but I don't know about this.

Zelda: Oh, Link! You're real good at this!

Link: Thanks Zelda! It's good to know we're still friends even though we're on different teams

Zelda, looking even more guilty now, continues: You probably could have caught more if Bonny had contributed more.

Bonny Janet: Oi! Where do ya get oof ya pastel pint! Ah've helped more than ye've helped yer team!

Link: Hey! Lay off Zelda! She's not used to doing stuff like this.

Bonny Janet: Ooo ya! She joost sits in 'er castle 'an let's folk like ye do all the werk! Didn' know ye were soocha doormat Elfy!

Link: Zelda's done lots to help Hyrule! And I'm not a doormat.

Bonny Janet: Soonds lake soomethin' a doormat would say!

*As they argue neither notice Pit surfacing from the water beside their boat*

Red: Hey!

*Bonny and Link turn to see that Red and Leaf have come up near them*

Leaf: Both of you, cut it out! You're on the same team! You can tear each other apart AFTER we win. You're teammates aren't you? Act like it!

*Both Link and Bonny shift uncomfortably*

Bonny: Aye. Ah' suppose ah' woos a wee bit harsh.

Link: And I think I spoke rashly.

Bonny: Aye... peace? *she offers her hand*

Link: Yeah, pea- HEY!

*Both turn and see Pit swimming away with their catch*

Bonny Janet: YOU DIRTY THIEF!

Link: Dammit!

Red: Sorry guys.

Bonny Janet: Oi! Elfy! Can ye catch more?!

Link, frowning: I don't know... maybe?

*Peach, meanwhile, grabs her team's bucket of bait, a load of chum, and hurls it into the water around Link and Bonny's boat*

Link: Oooh, that's not good.

*Instantly over a dozen sharks surface around them with evil grins on their faces*

(With Erdrick and Robyn)

Erdrick: Oh boy! Finally!

Robyn: If it's another damn boot.

Erdrick: No way! It's way too big to be a boot! *Begins to reel it in* We're... guaranteed... to win! *Erdrick hauls up his catch... only to find it a massive crate full of boots*

Robyn: I don't know why I expected any different.

*A massive whistle suddenly sounds out and they all turn to see Ganondorf on the shore*

Ganondorf: And that's it kiddies! Time's up!

Corrine: Time's up! But you- You- uggh. I'm not even going to bother.

Ganondorf: Good call! Now haul in and let's see what you've caught!

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*The Campers are all assembled. The Koopas all hold fish distributed to them by Peach's team's ill gotten gains. Link and Bonny, bruised and beaten from their shark attack, glare at the three offenders. Pit and Zelda look down guiltily.*

Ganondorf: What a fishing trip that was! Way better than I thought it was gonna be.

Red: Yeah. *Glaring daggers at Peach and company* A lot more theivery than I expected too.

Ganondorf: True, but not against the rules. *Ganondorf takes in the teams* Now, only Marth and Joker managed to bring in a fish... but it's the biggest one! Goombas take this one!

*There's a bit of shocked silence before the Goombas start cheering and the Koopas look on in shock and anger*

Peach: But! B-but-

Ganondorf: If you'll recall, I said only that the team “with the biggest fish wins”. Not how many. Quality over quantity.

Bonny Janet: Boo yeah!

Link: Hell yeah! *the two high five each other*

Ganondorf: That mean that the Goombas will have the advantage in part two of today's challenge. We'll be right back with the exciting conclusion of Episode 2... of Total, Drama, Smash Bros!

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a-roomba · 6 years ago

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Tiny Anti

Schneepelstein was used to a lot of weirdness. He had to be, living at the Septic house. They had an actual zombie under the same roof as an honest-to-god superhero, after all. That being said, for the most part, things were a lot more...chilled than you'd expect. Aside from the occasional Anti sighting, nobody was at each other's throats the same way he knew a lot of the Ipliers were. So despite the bizarre combination of people at home, Henrik never really found himself at a complete loss as to how to handle them.

That being said, Marvin was very adept at surprises. His most recent being the glitching child hanging off his arm and glaring at both of them like he absolutely would kill them, if only he was allowed near sharp things. Henrik just stared at the child for a moment.

“How...ze hell...did you-”

Marvin tangled his free hand into his long hair, looking slightly panicked. “I didn't mean to! He was being a butt, so I thought this might teach him a lesson! I didn't realize you can't undo it right away!”

“Marvin, you turned Anti into a child.”

“I know! Just...It wears off at the end of the day, so help me look after him until then?” Anti was already trying to tug his hand away from Marvin's to get away. Had he been his normal size, he would have no problem getting away. But right now, he looked more like a skinny seven-year-old.

Henrik sighed. “Anti, please stop pulling his arm off.”

As soon as he heard it, Anti stopped pulling to glare at him. When he actually saw Henrik, though, Anti went pink and ducked into Marvin's cape, hiding behind the magician. It was oddly cute. Certainly not normal for the brash glitch they all knew and...tolerated. He would probably tell Henrik to 'go away’, in less pleasant terms. So of course Marvin wanted to tease him.

He pulled his cape away from Anti, trying to get him out. “Ooh, someone's got a crush on Schneep! Don't you wanna say hi, An- OW FUCK!” Marvin yelped, pulling his arm forward so it was away from Anti. “Did you freaking bite me? Did you actually just bite me? With your teeth?”

Tiny Anti stuck his tongue out with a grin. Yikes. Kept the fangs, then.

“Marvin, please don't tease ze patient. Zhis is still Anti. No matter how cute he looks now.”

“Yeah, ya think? Freaking shark more like…”

“I see that. Vhy don't you let everyone else know about the situation? I'll look after Anti.”

Marvin nodded before scowling at the very smug kid. He then made for the door, skirting two feet around Anti on his way. “You're never gonna hear the end of this, kid!”

And with that, he was gone, leaving Anti and Henrik alone. “...Vell zhen. How are you feeling?”

“...”

“Anything hurt? Feeling different?”

Anti glared at him. Stupid question, really.

“Look, Anti, you need to vork vith me here. You're going to be like zis for a while, so we may as well make ze best of it. Right?”

He huffed but nodded, crossing his arms, waiting for Schneep to keep talking. Could he...not? Or maybe just didn't want to? His voice probably sounded different. Would it still glitch? Anti's actual body was still glitchy, so maybe? Regardless, he needed to-

“OH MY GOD HE REALLY DID IT! GUYS, COME LOOK!” Jackie's voice got quieter as he ran back to fetch the other egos. “GUYS YOU HAVE TO SEE ANTI!”

Less than thirty seconds later, the rest of the Septics had gathered, all staring at Anti.

“Now now, let's not crowd him-”

“Ant...look...diffent?”

“He's so tiny!”

“Kinda reminds me of Junior, huh Chase?”

“Now you've said it, yeah, they do kinda look alike!”

“Seriously, step back people.” Ignoring him completely, Jackie and Chase came to the front, Jackie going so far as to poke Anti in the face. A bad idea, as he would know if he listened to Henrik.

“Aw, who's a cute little- FRICK!” He jumped back, holding his finger and grimacing.

“He bites. Listen to me next time.”

Anti grinned evilly at Jackie. Most of the others stepped back, although Robbie had to slowly shuffle, leaving him the closest to the threat as Anti approached. Oh dear.

Then Anti did something unexpected. He jumped onto Robbie for a hug.

“The fuck? Why does he get hugs? 'Stead of bites?”

“He hangs around Robbie a whole bunch normally, right?” Chase looked at them, trying to figure out what the deal was. “Maybe if he already likes you, he's chill? In which case...Jamie?”

Jameson stepped forward with a polite wave. Chase pulled him a little closer, almost using him as a human shield as he approached Anti. “He probably likes you, right?”

'I suppose. Hard to tell,’ Jameson signed out.

“Welp, only one way to find out!” With that, Chase pushed Jamie lightly towards the danger zone. Everyone watched as Anti grabbed Jameson's sleeve and tugged him into the hug as well, face hidden in Robbie's stomach.

“Hm. Suppose zhat's zhat, zhen. Ve have our babysitters.”

“Ant...small? Protec...Ant?”

‘I believe we'll be looking after Anti until he's back on top form, old chap.’

Robbie beamed. “Will...keep...Ant...safe!”

With that sorted, most of the egos trickled out of Henrik's office. The initial surprise had faded a little, and nobody wanted to risk their fingers, thank you very much. How much childcare knowledge did Anti's babysitters actually have, though? After a second of thinking, Henrik poked his head out the door.

“Chase? Can you come back, please?”

Sure enough, Chase whipped around and walked back to the office. “Sup, Hen?”

“You're the only one here with any knowledge about caring for children. Keep an eye on the three of them.”

Chase shook his head. “Dude, Anti like...hates me! No way, Jose. Not happening. Nev-” He glanced down at the feeling of something tugging his shirt. Anti was pulling at the hem, and once he had Chase's attention, he held his arms up, hopping up and down slightly on the spot. Aka, 'pick me up right now or there will be hell to pay’.

So of course, Chase picked him up, holding Anti against his side. Anti grinned and nuzzled Chase's shoulder, settling down with a smile.

“You know what? Sure.”

#antisepticeye #fluff #septicegos #jacksepticeye #henrik von schneeplestein #chase bro average #marvin the magnificent #marvin the magician #jackieboy man #robbie the zombie #jameson jackson

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Erroneously Heroic

Prologue | 1 | A Friendly Chat

Emmet wakes up with a LOT of questions. Some of them are from him, some are directed at him.

When the Cops arrived, Good saw the vigilantes leaping off into distance. No one was there except one, lying in the dirt just by one of the buildings going up. Good sighed. There was no reason to go after them; they would just vanish once again, somehow.

Good signaled one of his policemen to pick up the downed criminal. He was in heavy armor, with purple decals all over, but it seemed like he was passed out deeply enough to not do anything. They'd take the armor off at another location.

He heard a murmur from the crowd that was left, a dull roar with repeated words: "new hero," "the Special," "gotta post this"...

He groaned in unison with Bad in the back of his head. This was going to be a lot of debriefing, especially if there was a new "hero."

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Emmet groaned as he awoke. "No, Mom, I wanna sleep in, tell Cora to turn down the cartoons..." he muttered, hearing the sound of voices and strange sound effects.

Then he remembered he'd moved out to his own apartment years ago, and the only other one there would have been Planty.

He tried to jump up, and fell over, tangled in something. Had he been kidnapped?? Tied up?! He struggled to remember, his headache not helping. And he couldn't even remember any dreams that might have given him some hint.

"He's awake!" an overly cheerful voice called. "Oh, shoot, he got tangled in the blankets. That's not good!"

"Here ye go," a louder, deeper voice grumbled, and Emmet was suddenly lifted by his bonds. He hung for a moment, panicking, and then spun until he dropped. He struggled for a moment, but realized he was free now, and scrambled into sitting position.

He sat up, only to see he was staring at a group of people; he recognized most of them, they were the vigilantes from earlier. He shrieked. He stopped only a moment later when they all winced, and he whispered, "Sorry."

"Ar, ye be loud fer a hero who was so quiet during the fight," the pirate robot complained, dropping the sheets he was holding (had he been the one to pick Emmet up?) to rub at one of his ears. Emmet realized the robot had a shark attached to the back of one his hands. Granted, robot didn't seem like the best descriptor anymore, because those scars on his face looked perfectly real. Maybe a cyborg?

"Ha! You're one to talk, Metalbeard! You yell all the time!" a man in blue retorted with a grin on his face. Emmet realized that this was the one who had been flying earlier, despite his feet firmly on the ground now. He was also missing his helmet, showing off short cropped red hair and a scar on his lip. He was... a lot less terrifying when he wasn't just a shadow behind a broken visor.

"Spaceman, you're just as loud. Now go get Vitruvius, he should know the Special's awake," another voice ordered. The man in blue gave a casual salute, and floated away. Emmet was still trying to figure out what was going on, and he turned to the voice that apparently carried the authority in the room.

She was beautiful. She had dark hair, swept up into a small, high side ponytail, and her bangs were streaked with pink and blue. Her eyes were intense, staring at him like she was trying to determine the best way to pull out his shoulder if he tried to attack her. Even if she hadn't had that look in her eyes, she looked ready for battle, a crossbow strapped to the back of a dark outfit, and industrial, red tinted goggles on top of her head. Emmet realized she was the driver of the four wheeler, seeing those goggles. This was what she looked like under the hood.

Emmet went to rub his eyes, having not blinked for fear of being jumped. But, his knuckles hit a hard, cool surface, and he winced as his attention was brought back to the bruising he'd suffered when he'd accidentally hit that villain in the face.

"Oh no! Sorry, let me take care of that!" a cheerful voice suddenly popped up, pulled Emmet from his thoughts. Suddenly, there was a sharp horn in his face.

He nearly shrieked again, but was distracted by what the horn was attached to. It was the strange cat-horse thing, but much smaller. And pinker. And wearing a sweater. And in fact, looking much more like a human than before. They were smiling at him, and it was almost enough to calm him from the unnerving sense of something being wrong, because as he looked more and more alarms were going off in his head, like her eyes being too big, her blush being too bright, her fingers being too short. She was adorable and unnerving at the same time.

They took his hands and leaned leaned forward, letting the tip of their very sharp horn rest just above his hands. The horn glowed, sparkling and bright, and Emmet had to gasp. Moments later, the horn drifted up, and hovered a moment directly in front of his eyes, and then dimmed as the person sat back. "There!" they declared, matter of fact. "All better!" Emmet took his hands back and realized that yes, in fact, his knuckles were no longer bruised and scraped. And a headache he hadn't even realized was there had gone, as well.

"H-how'd you do that?" he asked, and then winced. His first real words to one of the vigilates, and none of them were let me go.

The cat-horse-person just gave a bright, sharp toothed grin. "I'm magic!"

"Unikitty's the team healer," Metalbeard explained, as if he was talking about how the weather was a bit nippy.

"That's Princess Unikitty," Unikitty huffed, but suddenly floated up to hug Metalbeard. "But that's ok, silly!"

Metalbeard grumbled. "Well then, it's Captain Metalbeard to you." But he hugged them back anyway, as best as he could with a cannon for an arm.

"But yeah, sorry I didn't heal you earlier. I can only tell when someone's unhappy when they're awake! And that's how I can tell if you're injured!" Unikitty explained, sweeping their arm as if gesturing to an entire medical facility, instead of a room that looked like warehouse storage. "And then I use magic to make you happy again!"

Emmet blinked. "You couldn't tell I had bruised knuckles by looking at them...?" he asked under his breath, but stopped. He didn't want to make the person who just healed him mad. Instead, he just went to rub his eyes again, with uninjured knuckles this time, and tapped the hard surface again. Feeling at it, he realized he was still wearing the helmet from earlier.

"We didn't want to reveal your identity," the woman said when she noticed him fiddling with it. Her arms were folded and her eyes were still boring into him. "We know how much that matters to people like us."

Now Emmet was confused by her. "People like us...? What are you talking about?"

She blinked, and suddenly seemed slightly more defensive. "People like us. Superheroes."

Emmet felt himself go pale under the helmet. "Nnnno. No no no. I was just eating lunch. I'm not a superhero."

"What?!" The woman dropped her arms and fell into a fighting stance, looking confused and angry. "But you defeated that villain!"

Emmet shook his head. "That was an accident." He started tugging on the helmet, hoping to have it off as soon as possible. He still did not like small, tight spaces, especially around his head. "His helmet fell onto my head, and I couldn't see."

"But you're the SPECIAL!" Unikitty protested.

"The Prophecy said--" Metalbeard interjected.

"I can't believe this--" the woman said, and everyone started muttering to themselves, about the prophecy and what could this mean.

Emmet glared at them all from under the helmet, a rare look for him. "You vigilantes are the ones who assumed that. I'm no special anything." He paused, suddenly sad. "I'm not special at all."

Well. That was a bit of a lie, with his dreams. But the vigilantes didn't ask about that, did they? And he was otherwise totally uninteresting.

The woman with the crossbow scrunched up her face. "Welp. I guess I revealed my face for nothing."

Emmet shrugged, trying again to remove the helmet, which seemed to be stuck on well. "I mean, I don't even know your name, so you're--" He froze. Oh. "Lucy."

Suddenly, the crossbow was pointed at his face. "How do you know that name?" the woman hissed, and Emmet froze in fear. The others didn't even step up to help, but they looked confused themselves.

"I-- I didn't! That was just something I remembered!" he protested, waving his hands around in the universal signal for no, stop. "I swear!"

"How can ye remember somethin' ye've never been told?" Metalbeard asked, sounding suspicious. He was even beginning to pull his sword. Which, Emmet groaned, made sense.

"I-- ok, can you not point the weapons at me? I don't even know how to throw a punch," he protested. "Like I said, the villain thing was an accident."

Unikitty pressed Metalbeard's hand until the cutlass clicked back into its scabbard, but the crossbow didn't move from where it was leveled in front of his nose. Emmet decided to take what he could, and started struggling with his helmet again.

This time, it popped off, with an amusing sound that Emmet might have laughed at it if wasn't such a relief to have his head out of the small space. "Aaah, that's better," he sighed.

"Ah, you trust us enough to take off your mask. Thank you, Special. It's an honor."

Emmet turned to protest at the newest voice, to insist that he just said there was no way he was special, but the words died on his tongue.

Standing before him was a man, ancient looking by the whiteness of his hair and beard, and the wrinkles of his skin. He looked like he'd spent his youth hiking through sunny mountains, what with how his hair was tied back and he held a beautiful staff, maybe made out of sycamore? which was topped with a bright green shard of an enormous gem. He word long white robes that trailed behind him as he walked forward, occasionally redirected by the flying vigilante. The Spaceman, Emmet remembered. However, none of this was what made Emmet falter, not even the presence the man seemed to exude. It was the glowing eyes, unseeing but seemingly still staring into his soul.

"I, uh. I'm. Not the Special," Emmet stammered, but it was a token protest. This person, despite the slightly humorous way he kept bumping into things, seemed to radiate authority.

"Ah, but you must be. You're the hero in blue that appeared, and had to be rescued, but will help lead us into a better world," the man explained. "We already figured out it wasn't Spaceman. Excuse my rudeness. I'm Vitruvius. I'll excuse yours, as well. Our little game involves so many secrets."

Emmet started. "Oh! Sorry. I'm Emmet, Emmet Brickowski. Not the Special."

Everyone in the room looked a little shaken. "Matey, ye gave out yer nam a mite easily. That's a bit concernin'," Metalbeard warned.

"Yeah! I don't even have a secret identity, and I know that!" Unikitty added. "Did I miss some brain damage there?"

"Hey, I resemble that remark!" Benny joked from Vitruvius's side. Or at least, Emmet thought he was joking.

"Benny, stay outta this," Metalbeard grumbled. Then he seemed to realize what he'd just said, but it was too late.

"Oooh no! Look at Mr. "Secret Identities are Important" now!" Spaceman-- Benny, apparently-- scolded. "Jeez, seriously, chill out!"

"But--"

"No butts except in seats! He's new, he had one slip up that even a seasoned old Captain like you can make, as demonstrated, and I'm pretty sure he thought we kidnapped him!" he yelled, and then turned to Emmet. "Sorry. None of us are properly socialized, not even Wyldstyle."

"Hey!" the woman shouted. Emmet make a note of the name, Wyldstyle, so that she wouldn't shoot her crossbow at him because he said Lucy to her.

"What? It's true!" he snarked. Then he started giggling. "Oh man, I'm sorry. Ha ha I-- oops." He floated away, giggling. Everyone seemed to just kind of... accept it.

"I'll take this moment to explain things," Vitruvius said, gently letting himself back into the conversation. "Wyldstyle, please. Put down the crossbow. This is a civilized conversation."

Wyldstyle-- or was it Lucy? No, definitely Wyldstyle, that seemed to make her the least angry-- hesitated, but slowly lowered her crossbow. She finally stepped back, seemingly fiddling with the weapon, but Emmet realized she was just destringing the bolt so it didn't accidentally go off.

"Emmet," Vitruvius said, bringing all attention back to him. "You must be the special. It is in the prophecy."

"What prophecy?" Emmet blurted. "Seriously, why have I never heard of this?"

Vitruvius had been stroking his beard, looking contemplative, and his eyes now snapped open, revealing those glowing eyes again. The seemed to contain secrets, and Emmet had a sudden sense that they had knowledge in them that he previously had only seen in dreams.

"One day a hero in blue

Will appear to lead your crew

With Piece of Resistance power bestowed,

Your villain will reap what he has sowed.

They will need a rescue,

But they will do the same for you.

This Special hero will appear in time.

Don't worry, I know, because I made it rhyme."

There was a long beat of silence. Wyldstyle had her head bowed, and a small smile was on her face, as if remembering something fondly.

"Or, at the very least, that's a variation of it that I told Wyldstyle a few years ago," Vitruvius added, breaking the awed silence.

"You-- did you make that prophecy?" Emmet asked.

"Yes. I occasionally prophesy things. It's my power," Vitruvius answered casually.

"And... have other people who can see the future confirmed it?" Emmet knew he sounded a little desperate, but he was. This couldn't be happening.

"Well, yes, but none I've spoken to directly. Seers are so far and few between, especially one of my caliber. I only know for sure that this is true because it has appeared in my visions more than once." Vitruvius seemed satisfied with that answer.

Emmet wasn't. "Than why haven't I ever heard of it before?" he shouted, making everyone jump back a foot and Unikitty's fur poof out like she'd been shocked. Wyldstyle's crossbow was back up.

Vitruvius looked unperturbed. "Well, if you truly are no hero, then you may have fallen under all the propaganda that the citizens see every day. There's no information put out my Lord Business about the prophesy, too likely for someone to try and make it a reality--"

"I mean, why haven't I seen it in my dreams?!" Emmet panted for a moment, feeling a bit less stressed out after shouting. And then he clapped his hands over his mouth, knowing that what he'd done was bad.

He'd just revealed his ability.

Everyone stared at him. "What do you..." Unikitty began to ask, then gasped. "Oh my gosh! You have the same powers as Vitruvius!"

Suddenly, Emmet was being crowded with people, all asking questions.

"Did ye see that we were gonna rescue you?"

"How could you not know about the prophesy?"

"Do you think you're as powerful as Vitruvius?"

"Can you see us doing anything cool soon??"

"What do you see in your visions?"

"Why didn't you just say you had powers?"

"Man, this is super special! Why did you say you weren't?"

"Hhhhh," Emmet whined, curling in on himself. He nearly backed into the bed frame he was sitting in front of, trying to get away from everyone.

"Enough!" Suddenly, a gust of wind tumbled everyone, even Metalbeard, away from Emmet. Vitruvius walked through where he'd parted the group, his staff still glowing with power as a breeze swept through the room, rustling his robes and hair.

"Emmet." He was being very definitive now. He held out a hand, just close enough for Emmet to take it, even if Vitruvius was looking a bit over his shoulder. After a moment's hesitation, he took it. Vitruvius pulled him up with a strength Emmet hadn't realized he had, and he nearly stumbled into the older man. "Emmet Brickowski, you may consider yourself utterly uninteresting, unimportant, and not great at all. But so far, with your defeat of a villain and apparent abilities, you seem to have the makings of a great hero. You should use this opportunity for good." Still not looking quite at him, but still somehow directly at him, Vitruvius added, quieter, "Or, you may never know what could have been."

Emmet stared, awestruck. "I--" He paused. "I, um. I totally heard all of that, but just in case, could you repeat that from Emmet?"

Everyone groaned. "You didn't hear a word of that?!" Wyldstyle shouted. Emmet was glad she wasn't pointing the crossbow at him anymore, but it still make him nervous.

"I'm sorry!" he shouted, "I'm a little stressed right now!"

"Why don't you use that vision power of yours to see what he just said?" she retorted, rolling her eyes.

"Wha-- that's-- that's not how it works," Emmet protested, feeling very tired and confused. He just wanted to go home, and forget about all of this mess.

"Whatever!" she shouted, and stormed off. Emmet winced as he heard a distant door slamming, and could see that some dust had been shaken from the ceiling.

"Don't mind her," Vitruvius waved her off. "She's just obsessed with the prophecy and you've pretty much ruined it for her."

"Oh..." Emmet was quiet now, and actually felt bad about how he'd been acting earlier. "I just... I really don't think I'm the special."

Suddenly, someone was patting him on the shoulder, making him jump. It was Benny, who had a bit of an awkward grin on his face. "Don't worry about it, man," he said. "Sometimes, you just gotta have a little faith in yourself about it."

"Wise words, Ben," Metalbeard rumbled, and Benny grinned at him.

"So! Who's gonna get to train Emmet?" Unikitty suddenly shouted.

Emmet blinked. "Wait. Training?"

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#erroneously heroic #lego #lego movie #lego superhero au #chapter 3 #fluiditywrites #emmet brickowski #tag later #sup!!!#tumblr version up!!#i'll be posting a new chapter probably later today or tomorrow OvO

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