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ape-apocalypse · 5 months ago

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can you reccomend some of the documentaries you watched about apes?

Funny enough, I've been planning on making a list of documentaries so thanks for the push! I’ve watched a bunch to hype up for Kingdom and I’ll keep watching as we wait for POTA news. These are what I've been able to find with my various subscription services and internet access in the USA so their availability may vary for you. Also a warning that, due to these being non-fiction documentaries there is very real footage of animal injuries and death (from both humans and natural circumstances).

Monkey Business (Amazon Prime) - A long running show (9 seasons) about a primate rescue center in the UK. I really loved this one because you got to follow apes of the course of years. I even cried when one ape who had been there from the first season passed away in the final season. The show mostly focuses on chimps and orangutans but also features lemurs, woolly monkeys, gibbons and other species. The center focuses on giving the animals in their care the most natural life they can in captivity, and also assists in breeding programs for several endangered species. Jane Goodall even comes out in one episode to present them with an award for excellent enclosure construction. The theme song is very loud and distinctive, the point that my roommate asked how long this series was because she could hear the theme song coming from my room for weeks as I went through all 9 seasons. Highly recommend this one because the personalities of the apes really stand out when you spend literal years with them; it's worth the time commitment, I loved it.

(Also in making sure I had all the details about this show right, I learned there was a follow up show called Monkey Life that featured Andy Serkis himself narrating the first season and they seem to all be available on YouTube for free so I have a new multi-season show to watch now, thank you!!!)

Orangutan Jungle School (YouTube) - Rescue group dedicated to teaching young orangutans how to survive in the wild so they can be released when they're older. Only the first two episodes of this show are available on YouTube for free but I also devoured any clips I could find. I found this show particularly hilarious because the baby orangs are adorable. They cry when they don't get their cups of milk fast enough or when they can't figure out how to crack into a coconut. I always see adult orangutans as slow moving, so the activity and demanding personalities of the babies delighted me. If nothing else, watch these two clips because I have watched the clips of the babies screaming and the humans overreacting to fake snakes on repeat for ages.

Chimp Empire (Netflix) - Two chimpanzee groups in Uganda's Ngogo forest face off over territory and food, while each group faces their own struggles from within. This one is about wild chimps and it is fascinating to see their natural ways outside of rescue centers. The cinematography is gorgeous; I'd love to know how they got all these shots without disturbing the chimps. It's only 4 episodes; I wish it was longer but it packs a lot into its short run time.

Meet The Chimps (Disney+) - A one season show focusing on chimps living in a rescue center in Louisiana. A single season show so you don't get a lot of time with the chimps but it's got a much smaller number of chimps to get to know than Monkey Business. Also the troops are housed near each other so it's interested to see the dominance displays, even through a fence. My favorite part was near the end with the mystery of who was the father of an accidental baby. I guessed wrong!

Kingdom Of The Apes: Battle Lines (Disney+) - Two separate ape groups, one of chimps and the other of gorillas, sort out fights for dominance and leadership of the troop in their own ways. Personally I didn't like this one. Jumping back and forth between gorillas and chimps in a documentary less than an hour didn't leave me very invested, but I thought I'd add it if anyone was interested.

I'll throw in a couple podcasts too, should be free on your preferred podcast app:

Ologies, one episode on primatology and a separate episode on gorillaology

National Park After Dark, a two-part episode on the life, work, and murder of Dian Fossey, a primatologist who worked with gorillas and wrote the book 'Gorillas In the Mist'

The Wild With Chris Morgan, an episode on orangutans called People Of The Forest

There are a lot more documentaries I want to watch, especially several for free on YouTube. I hope this list is of interest to you and I welcome recommendations from anyone else.

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sweetish-original-story · 2 months ago

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CH23 (tw comical use of strong language)

"-SO STRIKE A POSE!" Bobbin screamed at the top of her lungs, thankfully quieter by the primitive sound editing. "YES, ALWAYS! STRIKE A POSE JUST LIKE THAT AND YOU WILL SEE! NOTHING CAN CUT YOU DOWN! POWER AND GRACE COMES FROM YOUR HEART, SO BE COLURFUL AND FREE! HAIR...CLOTHES...THEY ARE JUST AN ACCESSORY! YOU ARE THE ART! THE TRUE HAIR PEICE-" she spun around in a circle on her blue ballet shoes, showing off her 2D sparkling cerulean tutu, before gracefully leaping in slow motion from the stage to the very end of the catwalk, spinning once again, spotlight shimmering against her bald and glittery head, before landing backwards with one leg in the air and making a heart with her fingres. "IS LOOOOOOOOOVE!"

And everyone started Vogueing.

"I don't get it." Dulce said flatly, putting down his wine glass. Sammy turned to him so fast her own hair could have sliced him in half. "WHAT." Sammy took a deep breath. "Don't. You. Get???? :)"

"I mean..." he continued, "What was the point of trying to find the scissor thingy-"

"OBSIDIAN FIRST SHEAR." Sammy corrected with all the venom she could muster.

"OBSIDEEN FOWRST SHEEW-" He mocked. "-If all they were going to do with it was give it give it back to them? They could have literally made any outfit, any material, they could have taken all that power and use it to make their lives perfect! Heck, half their freinds are dead, they should have gotten revenge! Tore the whole thing into fibers and made sure no one could ever use it again."

Samuella was exhausted at this point. "Uggghh nooo this is like the whole Ruffy and Megaprep fight from 12 seasons agoooo! They already proved to everyone that even though phonk can be used for evil, it SHOULD be used for good! Yin and yang! The people wont support the music industry if their music is souless and its the same thing here! They are beautiful BECAUSE they are willing to change their brand not in spite of it. Also-"

"Now hold on, what about the enslaved elves in the silk plantations? What do they just walk away like nothing happened? We just pretend that was okay?"

"I told you it was IMPLIED that they were going to go back in the FUTURE..." Sammy retorted "But you were busy making those meaty seed buns and trying to trick me into burning a hole through my gut." She held her stomach as if she would have another choking fit from breathing in her own firey burps again.

"Whats the point in spending thousands on spices if you arent going to eat em? Its good for you, makes you strong." He seemed very proud of being able to give his cousins advice to someone he cared for.

"Whats the point of ordering 12 pairs of HiHi Birdy print oven mitts if your hands are indestructible?" Sammy let a small smirk grow across her face as his smug grin sligshotted right back into eberrassment and false rage.

"THOSE ARE DIFFERENT." He growled hypocritically. "You HiHi Birdiy's name out of your SLIMY FILTHY mouth." He was standing now. "At least I'm not into SLAVERY. Bitch."

Sammy was taken aback by his full confidence in even being able to SAY that, let alone joke about it, especially considering what he went through.

"How very DARE you SIR. YOU are the one who wants to MAIM a literal child 'Mr. CALM and COLLECTED.'"

"A trillion year old EVIL child who eats the suffering of slaves which YOU like. Bitch." He repeated louder, so she can hear it

Now SHE was standing, with her hands on her knees in order to insult his height."You want to sleep with the monkey aliens of Waterplanet 3 from the Dairy cream galaxy so that makes you a child murderer and AND a zoophile." She made sure to look him straight in the eye for that last word.

"They're CUTE!" He whined "They are like little pink pig monkeys with tiny eyes and no hair-"

Sammy was losing control of her volume now. "THEY CAME FROME CHIMPS THATS DISCUSTING YOU KISS CHIMPS!"

So was Dulce. "NO. SILENC" He still couldn't get that word quite right. He can't even get THIS language down, and hed nearly lost most of his last one. "SHUT UP. RACIST BITSCH." Once more for good measure.

"Say bitch one more time." Oh she HEARD it alright. Dulce let out a maniacal smile at the invitation.

"Slut."

The next moment he was surrounded by a tornado of red, slowly being crushed to death with every heavy fabric and pillow in the mansion. He couldnt even scream for help. His bird-son was already fast asleep, and if the weight didnt get him, the heat would bake him like a marshmallow. As a final insult, when the tornado was over Samuella took a big heavy sit at the top of the pile. Her tactics were strong, but he was stronger.

It all went flying, including Samuella. She flipped around twice before her instincts let her land on the commonroom table, after which she grabbed a large scented terrycloth towel out of the air and whipped it against the air to make a loud and intimidating thunderclap as a warning.

"So it's like THAT huh? Chosen like a true OVERSEER." Dulce mocked. This time there was a drop of menace in his words. He picked up a pair of green pillows and stuffed them onto his hands. "I dont really need a weapon, but..." He cracked his neck before turning to her and preparing to use her own wreckless momentum against her. "-I don't wanna break you TOO quick tonight."

The proceeded to ruin the her entire side of the mansion. If fists and fabric weren't flying, then insults were, mixed in with the occasional "COME ON KEEP UP HOE!" or unusual "Oh I KNOW you can hit a little harder than THAT".

And somewhere in the southern quarters, a maid is getting a dreadful, sinking feeling in her gut.

#sweetish #original story #original character #original writing #sweetish original #sweetish upload #romance #SoundCloud

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abandonedprogram · 7 months ago

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monkey for nothing and your chimps for free

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ragunath12 · 2 years ago

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Justin Bieber bought an NFT for more than 1 million dollars. Now it’s only worth $69,000

Bieber overpaid for his Bored Ape NFT, and instead of regretting it, he bought another one a month later.

Now they’ve lost their value

Earlier this year the Bored Ape craze was at its peak , and pop star Justin Bieber paid a ridiculous $ 1.29 million for it . a receipt saying that he owns a jpg image of an ugly cartoon monkey .

However, as Decrypt reports , it’s not just the crypto and NFT marketplace development that have crashed in recent months; but even the Bored Apes, once the flagship mascots of this fashion, have been affected. The “floor” price for these jpgs , which is the lowest price you can buy in a collection, hit $ 429,000 in April.

But last Monday, after the FTX crash wreaked havoc on the crypto market (and its NFTs ), that price floor fell below $ 60,000 . For NFT buyers, that’s very bad news; What is less serious for them is that in the following days that “value” has risen slightly again, to settle at $ 69,000 .

Bieber’s jumpsuit, Collection Number 3001 (image above ), was purchased in January. It is one of the apes currently “ valued” at that minimum price of $ 69,000 . This is a pretty drastic drop , around 95%! But his free fall is not entirely because the market fell. Bieber’s own impulses contributed, because even then, at the height of these Bored Apes , other collectors knew that he had overpaid just to get in on this fad:

If you thought that after considering it for a day or two, Bieber may have regretted his purchase, the following month he bought a second Bored Ape, this time for $ 440,000 , which is now also “worth” the price . minimal price.

If you’re a fan (of the musician , not the apes ) and you’re worried about his mistakes, don’t cry for Bieber; the singer is worth over 200 million dollars and could spend $ 1.3 million on an NFT marketplace platform development like you or I would buy a 10 dollar game in a steam sale.

NFTs , also called Non -Fungible Tokens , were sold as the new 2.0. revolution.

Considered unique pieces of digital art , they generated billions of dollars in 2021 , becoming the most applauded, sold and bought items by big stars. In this new speculative fever , Brie Larson , Seth Green or Justin Bieber fell quickly, buying or selling unique digital items. Presently, with the fall of digital forms of money and the analysis of Bill Entryways , many stars of the star systemthey start to perceive how their ventures start to have no worth. Among them, Bieber’s Exhausted Chimp , which arrived at its top toward the start of the year and which the pop star purchased for more than 1.29 million bucks . At this moment, after the monetary breakdown of the computerized market, they are worth close to nothing in correlation.

Justin Bieber’s exhausting jumpsuits are worth close to nothing and the NFT market declines

As verified in Decode , the cryptographic money and NFT marketplace development service is in clear decay. The Exhausted Chimp, who experienced a huge hack a couple of months prior , have gone from being viewed as the leading figures of this computerized framework to being the object of mocking for some clients. They caught on, with people and celebrities paying for them, at their lowest price, for more than $429,000 in April. After the cryptocurrency market crash, all NFT marketplace development service values were affected, and what once cost more than $1.30 million is now worth just $60,000.

Bieber bought the jumpsuit with the collection number 3001, which the article illustrates, and acquired it last January. Now, with a value that has fallen by 95%, the volatility of the system is becoming increasingly clear , an aspect that has led to the ruin of hundreds of thousands of small investors. In some media they point out that it was Bieber’s impulses that also contributed to this speculative and passing fever , because he began to pay excessively for these objects only to enter into this fashion and play financially with these digital pieces. The singer, whose fortune is valued at more than 200 million dollars, has not communicated anything about it.

visit : https://www.blockchainx.tech/nft-marketplace-development

#justin bieber #justin bieber bought an nfts #nft marketplace development #nft marketplace development company #nft marketplace development service #nft marketplace platform development

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parasprite · 2 years ago

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Baby Chimps

Recently I've been thinking about Baby Chimps. Do you ever feel like a baby chimp? I sometimes do.

Here are my thoughts on baby chimps.

Back in high school I read an article about baby chimps in English class. The article was about how rich families keep baby chimps as pets. You've probably seen a picture or video at some point of a baby chimp wearing human clothes or a nappy in some spacious playroom somewhere - that sort of thing.

Here's what I learned from the article: to many in the upper classes, baby chimps make great pets. They're cute and intelligent; you can train them and teach them tricks, and they learn fast. There are self-proclaimed "monkey moms" out there who care for baby chimps as if they were their own.

But if young chimps are such excellent companions, why are they not more popular as pets? Well... because they grow up. As a chimp reaches sexual maturity, it stops caring about any routines or habits tought to it by humans; it forgets its tricks; it loses any human standard of decorum. Its wild instincts take over and the chimp becomes aggressive and territorial. It loses any cuteness the owner once saw in it. And it becomes clear that the best thing you can do for the chimp is to stop making it live in your house, and to let it go and live with its own kind.

I've been thinking about that article quite a bit recently as I've contemplated my own situation in life.

Many of us want to hold on to childhood. Many of us are in a situation where an extended childhood is forced upon us by our parents, like we're adolescent chimps with naïve owners who want to keep us young and sweet forever. Our sexuality is denied, our maturity is dismissed, and when we set boundaries, we're punished.

When I read the article as a young teen, this story about the loss of innocence scared me. I was scared of growing up, of losing my cuteness and intelligence. I was scared of adults and of becoming one. But over the years I've come to realise that sexual maturity, adulthood, is a blessing. Coming into your own, turning into a wild, free, uncontrollable person, feels really good. Breaking away from domineering people who try to control us and moving away to be with our own kind is nothing but beautiful. Forgetting old, useless tricks feels wonderful, and you realise you're not really losing anything important. Because a mature chimp in a human house is not aggressive and territorial - it's a wild animal with its own personality and it's not gonna put up with any more bullshit.

So over the years, as I've aged into my twenties, I've come to realise that there's nothing bad or scary about a chimp growing up. And no matter how close a chimp and its monkey mom are, that chimp will always be better off in a wide open sanctuary, and the monkey mom can still visit, but she must keep a safe and respectful distance, and leave at the end of the day.

And that's the lesson I learned from the baby chimps.

#baby chimps #essay #teds long posts

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bogsbet · 3 years ago

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The Jeweler

"UGHHHH WHY IS THIS SO HARD?!?!"

Y'know, it's not easy looking for a gift, especially if it's for your mentor and his former enemy, who is now his lover.

Yup, the gifts he's looking for are for the great sage of heaven and the shadow demon themselves, Monkey King and Six-eared Macaque. Shocking, ain't it?

They both started dating again after MK and the gang rescued him from Lady Bone Demon, following her defeat. After finally talking and admitting their mistakes, they both slowly became allies, to friends, to best friends, to lovers.

And finally, After a few years of dating, The great sage finally popped the question when they were on a date by the waterfall, and the demon said yes. After they announced to the gang their engagement, obviously they're happy for them, especially MK, he wished them nothing but happiness for both of them.

Even though the wedding was planned for next year, MK is already looking for gifts for them. But what? He wants the gifts to be perfect for the two monkeys. Which leads him to the situation you're seeing right now.

"Ugh, this is harder than I thought!" MK exclaimed while walking with Mei by his side. "Well it was never easy to begin with, MK" She said while comforting the successor. "But I know you will find the perfect gift for them. Oh! What about the one I showed you?" She looked at him as MK looked up to her with the 'are you serious' look. "First of all, no, Second, they looked too way cliche, and third, If my wallet dies, you're paying for the funeral."

"Oh come on, I find them cute" Mei pouts, disagreeing with MK's statement. After walking around town with no luck, they both decided to called it a day and just try again the next day. "I gotta go pick something up first, it might take a while so don't wait for me and just do whatever you want. I'll be back, MK!" The small dragon waved at her monkey friend before leaving. MK waved back and sighed before he started to walk around again in defeat.

What could be the perfect gift for Monkey King and Macaque? It needs to be nice and perfect, and does not make the wallet cry. MK kept thinking before hearing a small giggled passed by. MK turned to see who it was and saw the figure dropped something on the ground. MK picked it up to what it seemed to be some kind of bracelet. The way it looked is quite beautiful, despite it looking so simple.

"Hey, you dropped this!" He ran after the figure. He had a bit of a difficulty due to so many people blocking the way but he managed luckily. He followed the stranger to a alley. He notice the figure wasn't in the alley. That's odd, he could've sworn the figure was here.

"Hello, my dear~" MK yelped by the sudden voice and felled on his butt. He looked up to see it was the stranger from before, the stranger giggled a bit before lending out his hand, offering to help him up. "I'm sorry for startling you, sweetie. Are you okay?" MK stared at the figure for a bit, the stranger appears to have a hat, covering half of his face, and seemed to be wearing some kind of cloak. The only thing he could make out is the gentle smile across his face. Mk glared at the figure before shooking his head, accepting his help and got up, patting the dust off of him.

"Sorry about that, I was going to give this back to you and-" MK cut off when he noticed the stranger isn't in front of him until he looked down...the stranger..is actually shorter than him. "Ah-OH! I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T SEE YOU, I MEAN, I MEAN I DID BUT-!" MK panicked and tries not to be awkward until the figure suddenly laughs at him. "It's okay, sweetheart. I'm used to it. And I see you got my bracelet." "Oh! Right! The bracelet, I was just gonna bring it to you since you dropped it."

MK gave the bracelet to the stranger. "You know, the bracelet is really pretty, where did you get it?" MK questioned, thinking he might help him for the gift. "I made it." The stranger replied. "Woah, really?! That's some talent you got there." The stranger smiled by his compliment. "You know, I heard you were looking for a gift for someone, I can be of help." "R-Really?! Can you really help me?!" MK eyes filled with hope while looking at the stranger. "Anything for the Monkie kid."

"Oh, you've heard of me?" "My child, if you lived in a society where piece is no longer the option, you got to know your information. Like, how you fought the demon bull king and nearly buried him with half of a building." "Oh...well I guess you know since it's all over the news." MK chuckled as he scratch the back of his head. "Or, what about the time where you squash the spider queen despite your fear of spiders." "Wait, wha-" How did he know that? There's no way other people know that. "Or maybe that one time where you finally gave the Lady bone demon her dreadful fate.." "..H-How did you know that..?" MK looked at the stranger with a shocked and confused look, there's no way this guy knows what happened. The stranger chuckled before tilting his hat up. "I have my ways, my dear."

The stranger revealed himself to be a monkey just like Wukong and Macaque, except he's shorter, has black and brown fur with markings on his face and pale yellow green eyes. This doesn't surprised MK since he met a few monkeys like him before but he kept his guard up. Knowing what happened before, once he trust someone he's not familiar with, things go wrong. "I heard you're looking for a gift, yes?” "Y-Yeah...For my mentor and his fiance.." "I see, well, if it's jewelry you're looking for, why not wedding rings?" The monkey questioned the mortal.

"Wedding rings?" MK looked at him with confusion. "Why wedding rings?" "Why not? Everyone has courtship bracelets so why not wedding rings? It's a good gift and they don't have to go to get them." The stranger smiled as his tail gently sway a bit. "I mean, I guess so....Okay, well go with that." MK agree to the idea, however he knows that everything is not for free.

"However, they don't come free, my darling" Of course they don't, well there's no going back now MK thought. "Just get on with it, please, just tell me what you want." The stranger chuckled by his response.

"What I want."

Oh god..

"Is.."

Here it comes..

"Chocolate"

....What?

"I-I'm sorry, what?" MK asked. "I wanted some chocolate." "C-Chocolate?" "Yes, chocolate" "Chocolate.." "Mhm" "....Chocolate..?" "Did I stuttered, dear?" He looked at MK while smiling. "Oh no no no no! That's not it!" MK denied while shooking his head and hands. "It's just....that's it?" "Mhm" "That's all you wanted..?" "Yes" "Just chocolate?" "That's right" "No money, or blood sacrifice or anything?!" asked the confused MK as the monkey laugh by his confusion. "Oh you mortals are so adorable with your imagination. But no, that is all I wanted. No money, no blood sacrifice, no offering of your sweet soul. Just some simple chocolate that you can find in a candy store. Can you do that, my dear?" The monkey looked up at the confused successor.

"I mean- I can, it's just...why chocolate..?" Asked the successor before hearing the monkey giggled. "My sweet little chimp, is it a sin to crave for something so sweet and irresistible? The moment you bite into it, the sweet creaminess mixed with the cacao really just filled your mouth with flavor~" The monkey giggled while thinking about it as MK just stood there, silently.

"Now do we have a deal?" The monkey looked at MK, offering him a handshake. MK looked at the monkey's hand, having second thoughts and doubts about this.. Should he really trust this monkey? He doesn't want to repeat the same mistake again.. But since the monkey looked harmless and does not seem to be some kind of threat.. I guess he can give him trust. "Deal." The Monkie kid shook his hand, accepting the deal as the monkey give out a small grin. "Good, now, I'll be on my way to get the materials, I already have ideas on my head. Meet me back here after a few days, okay?"

"O-Okay...Oh! I haven't got your name yet!" said MK as he looked at him, the monkey give him a gentle smile before replying. "Just call me Bogs, dear" The monkey smiled as MK waved at him and was about to leave. But before he leaved he turned to see and notice the short monkey is gone. MK got quiet before he left the alley and went to his best friend. And just as he left, Bogs was just standing on the roof and looked up at the sky. "So you finally did it, Sunny? Heh...I hope you and Moonlight are happy together.." Bogs smiled before walking off. o wow i actually did it, holy smokes, was this okay? idk, its my first time and i kinda did good? im sorry if it looks confusing, i just dont know how to do this thing, uhh hope u like it?

#monkie kid #lego monkie kid #lego monkie kid oc #lmk #lmk oc #lmk mk #mk #lmk mei #mei #small bit of shadowpeach #bogs' introduction #its my first time writing a story okay?

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hazelsmazecave · 3 years ago

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Monkeys for nothing, chimps for free

#arachnologue

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0poole · 4 years ago

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Bloons

Honestly the entire Bloons series has been some of my favorite flash/other-than-flash games out there, and I feel like it’s worth bringing it up since I just crossed the 365 day threshold for BTD6. Maybe in the past, but nowadays I definitely don’t feel like I ever play a game daily for a year straight. Chances are it was a little desperate when I first started playing, but as of now literally every single day I open the game up and play the daily challenge just for the sake of it. Plus, since the chest technically resets every 9 hours or so instead of 24, I could’ve cheesed it a bit, but I didn’t. That’s a pure 365 days of playing the game.

And even apart from that, the entire Bloons series has been in my mind since the first one and my middle/elementary school Coolmath Games days. Even though the puzzle, pure form of Bloons wasn’t as much in my interest, the staying power of the Tower Defense version is crazy. Flash Tower Defense games are plenty, and yet the one with the stupid monkeys throwing darts at balloons was the best.

I went back semi-recently and played a round of each BTD, and I gotta say, it was fun seeing where everything came from. 1 is absolute garbage, forcing you to just spam Super Monkeys if you want to get anywhere, but a good starting point obviously. I honestly know nothing about the people creating these games, but obviously it wasn’t made by a AAA crew, so you can’t expect everything to be put in place in the first iteration. 2 and 3 feel much better, but obviously not much after being so used to the modern stuff, and 4 and 5 are the ones that really shine the most, apart from 6 obviously.

I definitely was one of the types of people who initially reacted poorly to the artstyle change of 5 and 6, but I’ve definitely turned over. I don’t know if the whole BTD community rioted at that point, but I at least was like “ew, they’re cute now” when I first saw it. Thankfully I turned over, and realized the current designs are the absolute best out of the entire franchise. Also, I love their cuteness, as I love cuteness in general, so basically just call it character growth. Even though 2D art always is more interesting for games than 3D in general, the entire art direction of 6 is genuinely really good, being so bright and cartoony (at least before the fifth stages of upgrades) really fits the cartoony idea of monkeys popping bloons. 5, and the entire franchise before it, really is proof enough how horrible a pure top-down perspective is. On the title screen, you can see what the monkeys are supposed to look like, but in-game they literally look like weird blobby scorpions. Even though in the back of my mind I knew what they were supposed to look like, the pure top-down perspective completely ruined the image. Not to mention the OG designs for the monkeys was really weird and bad anyway. Even if you wanted a goofy fat kind of monkey, there are a million better ways to achieve that than how it used to be. Again, of course, they weren’t exactly AAA game-level quality, so you can’t expect such perfect character design.

But, oh my god. One of the things about this game that must’ve kept me through 6 was the character designs. If you know anything about me, it’s that I love a good character design, and 6 is full of them. It’s so interesting to see how they extrapolate the main concepts of each tower into their three different paths. The generic Superman-based monkey can turn into a Batman-based monkey, a Terminator-based monkey, and a fucking ancient god of the sun. The seemingly chill Druid can smite people with the power of Zeus, become the much more expected forest-based type, but also turn into this completely out-there being of pure wrath. I could go on and on about that, but needless to say for so many of them look and are designed so great. I think the tower with the coolest level 5s of the game is the Ninja. It’s hard to explain, but they all just look really cool while also not deviating too much from the cartoony-cute art style. I think my all-time favorite level 5 is the top path of the Wizard, mostly just because he looks really cool, but also because the parts of the path before it show him aging and growing out his beard. I also have to say the 2-0-3/4 Wizard also looks exactly my style, with the dark purply-ness and gold rims. Also, if you haven’t noticed, the Magic monkeys are my favorite type, and not just because their signature color is purple. That’s part of it though. Magic is also just cool in general. My main RPG-class of choice is almost always a mage/wizard.

Also, the heroes are also really fun. As someone who often creates species of aliens/monsters, I always feel like I want to create a dedicated character out of them no matter what, so I feel like the heroes are basically just that. And, of course they have good designs too, and of course as you can probably guess my favorite is Adora, basically being the same thing as the 5-0-0 Wizard with the Sun God aesthetic. Since she has her own stage and a special interaction with the True Sun God/Vengeful Monkey, I think she’s a pretty big deal anyway. I will say that I highly slept on Gwen, but then for Easter they gave her the Harlegwen skin and I fell in love. It’s insanely good stuff. Apart from looks, it does feel nice to have some sort of interchangeable tower that you basically just place and forget about, aside from using their powers. Plus, it makes a really easy type of thing to periodically add to the game to keep things fresh, even with the skins in general. It definitely is much better than the stuff they had in 5, where you had to use Monkey Money to buy each one, and you could only use them once per stage. Obviously 6 has the extra powers to help you out, but they feel much more optional and cheaper than the heroes of 5. Since I barely buy anything with Monkey Money to begin with, and since I’ve obviously had 365 chest openings, and AND since I barely use them to begin with, I’m completely stocked up. I only ever use the farmer and sometimes the tech bot if I get lazy. I did use the portable lake I got from my 365th chest opening after I got it, just for the sake of celebration. That’s literally how my mind goes.

6 does have the slight tinge of a mobile game artstyle, but in this case it’s really just better. I’m not into mobile games, and especially not the generic artstyle they have, but it is really pleasing to look at anyway. It did chase me off before I converted, though. That, and the fact you had to buy it now. Like a true gamer, I was put off by the fact that something that was once expected to be free now has to be paid for. But, then, I realized that the entire franchise has provided much more than 10$ worth of entertainment to me throughout time, so it was extremely fair to pay that. It is still kinda weird how 5 has to be paid for for mobile, when it is just free online, though. However, unlike a true gamer I think the microtransactions of the game are extremely fair. Considering they just give you things that you don’t need, and can get for free otherwise, I think it’s completely fine to have them. It sounds bad on the surface to have to pay for the game and have there still be microtransactions in it, but since they’re completely optional there’s no good reason to hate it. I think people assume that means that you have to pay for the game, and pay extra for different major parts of the game, and that sours their opinion on everything. Gamers are a strange, irrationally angry breed. I do hate using my phone for pretty much anything, though, so once I bought 6 on Steam I haven’t played it on my phone since. It’s just so much better in every single way...

I bought the game around the time of one of my family’s semi-annual trips to England because I thought it’d help when we were traveling between wi-fi spots, and it really did wonders for me then. Probably looked like some asshole teen to strangers who don’t know I barely ever use my phone for anything, since I was playing it so much. My sister even saw me playing it and bought it for herself, although I don’t know how much she’s played since then.

For the sake of stats, I have 235 hours played of it on Steam alone, and in game I’m level 115. My most complete map is Monkey Meadow with all medals except CHIMPS, which I put the effort in because it’s the default map, and definitely not because it’s an easy/good map because it’s just kinda bad compared to so many other ones. My Dart monkey has a total of 4 million XP, and the only towers that haven’t crossed a million are the Ice, Heli, Alchemist, Druid, and Spike factory monkeys/tower. I think the farthest I’ve actually gotten round-wise is 200 once or twice, but I don’t remember if I’ve actually beaten that level and continued on or lost there. I think I might’ve gotten past it once, but just sort of lost interest in micro-managing my powers and let myself lose. I probably got there once after that and lost on it. As someone who didn’t look up the optimal strategies for things until very recently, I think that’s pretty good. It definitely feels like the kind of game where if you know the best strategies, you can literally just replicate that over and over and win really easily, but that just sounds kinda boring. Since I pretty much only do daily challenges nowadays, it forces me to use a limited amount of towers, so I either go much farther because it forces me to build up less towers more, or it makes sure I can’t even pass round 90 because it just was made to get you to round 40 and that’s it. When I have the full range of towers to use, I feel like I try to get the instant satisfaction of getting a new tower to increase DPS instead of making the few towers I have/need reach their full potential, which seems to be the better option. I also don’t really sell anything when I don’t have a limited number of monkeys to place, which I think is also a good strategy if you can eliminate the major money loss in it, since it can give you a massive boost in cash to get you the better upgrades quicker. I may or may not try to learn the strategies to wipe the rest of the game clean eventually, but right now I’m fine with just doing the dailies.

But yeah, that’s like the whole thing with Bloons Tower Defense and me. Something something reject modernity, embrace monke, or whatever the kids these days are saying.

I will say that if I didn’t have so many OCs to work with and could just pump out animated shorts on the reg, I’d love to do some sort of Bloons shorts. They’d all lean into the ridiculousness of it all. Like, the first one could do the 2001 thing with the monkeys learning to use sticks, and as the main one is bashing the ground with one or whatever and throws it up, an ancient, leathery patchwork bloon flies overhead and accidentally bumps the stick such that it lands back on the main monkey’s head, knocking him out. Cue the monkeys around him to go berserk and start throwing other sticks at the ancient bloon, and once they pop it using a sharp stick, they realize what they must do. Cue a long montage of the different stages of war and invention using the monkeys finding better ways to fend off the bloons, with the whole idea being that the monkeys are getting irrationally angry at the bloons, who are just sort of around and not actually sentient, even though they assume they’re malicious because of their history and upbringing. Absolutely no political message in there whatsoever. Just comedy.

Other short ideas could include, for the start of the modern time story, it could be the backstory of some sort of chiseled veteran main character, which would involve a bloon floating into his town, and from the people’s panic someone knocks over a lamp post that sets his town ablaze, only for him and his people to blame the carnage on the bloon, causing his classic edgy character motives for fighting against the bloons. Another, much more golden idea, would be an interrogation scene, where a bunch of monkeys capture a bunch of bloons for interrogation purposes. They’d obviously do the whole “Silent treatment, eh? Well, we have ways of making you talk...” thing, except the “way to make them talk” is to strap them to a wall with one dart guy on one side to systematically pop them to try and extract info. But, of course, it would look and play out exactly like the classic Bloons puzzle game. That’d be the fun part. If not that, then it could be like the classic carnival game that likely inspired the idea of using darts to pop balloons. I really just think this weird world of monkeys and bloons is perfect for some good comedic content. Watching the monkeys severely overreact to the bloons sounds extremely fun, and I’d love to see someone do something with it some day.

#bloons tower defense #btd #6 #poole #rant #rambling #opinions #bloons #ninja kiwi #nk #flash

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mirkwoodshewolf · 5 years ago

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Epilogue to Bad Wolf/Mother Wolf Raksha

*Author’s note*

Well this is it guys. The time when all good things must come to an end. This will be the last update for my Bad Wolf series. I want to thank all of you who have stuck with me through this update, any new readers that came my way, I’m glad you found this series and started to like it. Now I’ve once again provided some videos for you all to watch so I HIGHLY REQUIRE YOU ALL TO LISTEN BECAUSE IT REALLY SETS THE MOOD.

Taglist:

@plethora-of-things

@psychosupernatural

@ixchel-9275

@waddles03

@platawnic

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*My POV*

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After meeting back with my people, I told them to gather around because I had found a new home for all of us. A place where no humans could try and contact us, a place that was a sanctuary and could fit all of us.

We soon came into a wet forest. The clouds were dark as rain fell from the sky. All the chimeras looked around confused and that’s when Dean spoke up.

“Uhh (y/n), where are we?” I walked along the familiar forest trail just a few feet ahead of them and knelt down before the same trail my mother and I ran when we were escaping the Hydra soldiers over 10 years ago.

“This Dean Winchester was once the home of the Aniwaya tribe. Led by the great chief at the time, Chief Waya. This cowboy—was my home.”

“So….this is where you lived?” asked Mitchell.

“Yes. My parents came here to escape all the pressures of the city life. Chief Waya welcomed my parents with open arms and allowed them to become a part of the tribe.” I walked on ahead and they all followed behind me.

None of them spoke a word as we continued to walk along the woods, deeper and deeper until we reached a tall rock formation that almost resembled a mountain but unlike the mountains here, there wasn’t any trees or falling rivers and creeks.

This spot was once home to the wolf pack that once lived here. They called this mountain rock their den and this is where my parents would take photos of the wolf pack here in their natural habitat, and the place where Little Grey and I once played together.

“After Hydra attacked my home; the government hardly did anything to it. Since there were hardly any Cherokee Indians left, they didn’t surrender it to those who were still struggling to find homes. So it was basically open ground for real-estate developers or business owners. Then of course when Thanos came along Mother nature took back what was hers to some of the buildings that are already built here.”

I then took out the deed to my homeland and there I saw Tony’s signature at the bottom.

“Now it’s back where it belongs.” I held the deed close to my heart and then walked up towards the old wolf’s den.

As the rain continued to pour, I hopped up from the rock formations that hung along the rock mountain before finally reaching the top ramp-like structure in my wolf form. I walked up towards the point of it, feeling the rain drip down along my black and grey fur.

As I stood at the end of the ramp, I closed my eyes and felt the earth all around me, connecting back to my birthplace after so long. All around me I felt the earth, the water, the trees, everything that my grandfather once taught me.

‘You choose who you are, depending on the wolf you feed.’ I heard his voice ring in my head.

‘You’re a good She-wolf (y/n).’ Nat’s voice said after that.

‘One day you can be a great leader kid. Stick to your guns, and you’ll go far.’ Tony’s voice said. I opened my eyes as they flashed and I let out a mighty howl.

Telling all far and wide that this land has been taken back by the last of the Aniwaya tribe, and it would forever be home to the Aniwaya tribe, the new Aniwaya tribe. The Chimeras.

As the weeks went by; thanks to my pack we cleared out the homes that once stood and used the left over rubble as a wall to let all know no land could be developed from here, because here lies sacred grounds.

To those who wanted man-made homes, we used whatever rubble was useable along with Mother nature herself to build new homes. But we kept the homes far from where my village once stood and onward towards the old wolf pack den.

As the sun was now shining upon the land, all the chimeras were gathered at the old wolf’s den all in their animal forms to praise a new settling. Standing along one of the rock formations that stuck out were Sam and his wife Gen in their lion forms.

Gen nuzzled her husband and he nuzzled her back while playfully whacking against his head, Dean and Danneel who were in their bear forms playfully huffed at them. Soon flying in onto the rock formation above Dean and Dani, was Maria and delicately in her talons she held her boyfriend Mitchell who was in his dog form.

Soon coming out of the den and walking along the ramp were myself and Rauri in our wolf forms. As we walked towards the end of the ramp to look down at our pack, Rauri and I looked to each other and he lovingly licked the top of my head.

Our people cheering below as they bowed before us. We turned to our betas and the six of them bowed respectfully and Rauri and I turned to each other once more.

Then together, the two of us howled as one. Signaling that we were now home.

*3rd Person POV*

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Two months after the reunion, the funeral and life changing events to some of the Avengers and every superhero involved with the defeat of Thanos, there was grater news to be hold.

As the sun rose over the Cherokee reserve in Oklahoma, the chimeras who were out in the fields or in their homes took one sniff of the air and knew something was different. Nothing bad but—pure.

The Winchester family all peaked out from their hand-made home. Caesar and some of the chimp guards came down from the trees and could feel that something was different in the air.

Mitchell and Maria stood on top of the hill as the sun rose higher into the sky. The couple looked at each other before Maria turned into her mighty eagle form and Mitchell mounted onto her back and she took off flying.

Soon all the bird chimeras flew into the sky calling out to all high and low that something had happened, something had arrived.

The deer and wild mustang clan were all galloping and skipping onward cause they too noticed that something wonderful had just come to their new home.

“You—you don’t think?” asked Dean.

“I think so.” Answered his brother.

“Well stop standing there gawking you two, let’s go!” Sam’s wife Gen stated and soon the four of them took off running in their chosen animal forms to catch up with the rest of the chimera pack.

Elephants, monkeys and apes, dogs, big cats and every other animal in-between came from far and wide until they all gathered to the old wolf’s den. And in his large black wolf form was Rauri.

Maria and Mitchell came flying overhead of all the animals before she landed right before Rauri on top of the rock. Mitchell dismounted her and he phased into his dog form. The two spoke not a word to their Alpha but just bowed before him. Rauri’s amber yellow eyes softened and he bowed graciously back.

Of course the animals weren’t the only ones informed of this day. Soon appearing through various parts of the chimera crowd were yellow portals. The first one to step out came from the New York Sanctum and walking through it was Morowa.

From the other portals; Wanda had come out from what appeared to be back in Edinburgh. Clint from his farm. T’Challa and his sister along with Okoye from Wakanda. Sam and Bucky from their current residence in Brooklynn.

Pepper, Happy, Rhodes and little Morgan from the lake house. Valkyrie, Bruce came from New Asgard home in Norway. Even Peter Parker got an invitation to come along should he have free time, to which he did.

Rauri, seeing the family in law coming to see their old member once again warmed his heart and made his tail wag. Morowa then created a circular lift for those who didn’t have a way to climb up onto the rock formation.

So Clint, Sam, Bucky, Shuri, Pepper and Morgan went up on the lift while the rest used their enhanced powers or strength to jump from rock to rock or just simply fly up to the top to meet with Rauri.

When all of them stood before the mighty Alpha male of the chimeras, Morowa was the first to approach him and the two stared into each other before she stroked through the sides of his face and touched foreheads with him. Rauri submitted to her touch by having his ears bent backwards and his tail wagging softly.

He then turned toward Maria and Mitchell who were standing before a den that was covered with two door sheets. He walked towards them and nodded signaling them to show everyone what they had came to see.

Maria and Mitchell took each flap of the sheets and pulled them back like a curtain to reveal (y/n) in her wolf form, but she wasn’t alone.

There sleeping and softly whimpering about by her stomach were two wolf pups that were the size of full grown cats. A boy and a girl.

Everyone couldn’t help but awe at the adorable sight of the two little puppies that sat before them. (Y/n)’s tail wagged at seeing her friends and family there. Morowa was the first to step forward and kneel down beside her daughter.

She stroked her head before turning her attention to the pups. She then revealed her old Cherokee pouch that she had kept and pulled out a couple of things.

One was an old spiritual rattle, she took it out and gave it a gentle shake above the two pups who just kept whimpering and squirming around trying to figure out where they were.

This method was used to bless the newborn of the tribe with good fortune and long eternal life.

Once that was done, she took out some old paintings as well as a water bottle. She poured the water into the tube of paint and mixed it up with her fingers making the paint go from dry to wet.

Then just like their mother was blessed with the mark of her tribe on her birthday, Morowa gave her children the very same mark as she spoke in ancient Cherokee.

“Bless these two new lives. Now and forever.” She then took some of the dirt from the cave and gently sprinkled it on top of the puppies heads. They both sneezed which caused everyone to gush and awe while Rauri and (y/n) nuzzled each other lovingly.

Morowa then turned to T’Challa for assistance. He nodded and proceeded towards the two alpha wolves. Waiting for their acceptance, the two wolves nodded and T’Challa took the male wolf pup while Morowa grabbed the female and the two Wakandans walked towards the edge of the mountain cliff.

From below, all the chimeras waited anxiously to get their first look at the new pups. T’Challa and Morowa stood side by side of each other along the edge of the cliff, before finally raising the two pups high over their head.

When the pups were finally lifted in the air, the chimeras all roared with applause in their animal forms. The elephants trumpeted in celebration, the monkeys and apes all jumped and cried out excitedly either flipping around or beating on their chests.

The stallions and deer let out a cry as they stamped their hooves and reared up onto their back legs. While the big cats and bears roared in rejoice.

From high above, the two small pups gently started opening their eyes thanks to the enhancement from both their parents and they looked down to the crowd of animals cheering for them.

Almost as if by magic or some force beyond mortal understanding, the clouds broke apart allowing the sun’s rays to shin down upon the two pups giving them a spotlight so that all could see them from far and wide.

At that point all the chimeras bowed before the next generation of Alphas. While sitting on the sidelines with the parents, the Avengers all watched with awe as they got to experience this wonderful event.

The birth of a new generation growing up in a world that was less threatening than before.

*My POV*

After the ceremony; now that I was in my human form holding my daughter in my arms.

“So…..do we have any names for them?” asked Bruce. I looked to Rauri and he softly smiled.

“Well this wasn’t a contest nor argument. After everything that’s happened there were two names that I felt were best for my two kids. For my first born daughter; I’d like you all to meet Natasha Romanoff Williams.”

“And for our son here, Anthony Steven Williams.” At hearing those two names, everyone was overwhelmed with emotion. Clint was the first one to walk up to me and as he stroked my daughter’s auburn fur he said.

“She would’ve loved it. And finally stop complaining of Nathaniel being a traitor.” Everyone softly chuckled and that’s when Pepper spoke up.

“And Tony’s ego would’ve probably gotten bigger after having a kid named after him.”

“Not to mention Steve.” Stated Sam.

“Alright, I propose a toast. To the new parents. Welcome to the joys of parenthood. And may both your children grow up to be happy and healthy. To the Williams.” My mom proclaimed as she raised her glass of wine in the air.

“To the Williams.” Everyone choired out. Rauri stood by my side and he leaned down at kissed my forehead.

In the years to come; my children grew up to be just that. Happy and healthy. By the time they were 2 years old, we trained them on how to turn into their human forms, and it turns out that in human form my son definitely takes after his father from his raven black curly hair, to the tip of his nose, even his father’s eye color.

While Nat resembled me to a T. From my hair, eyes, even facial structure was practically identical.

As they grew older, I told them my story and every night when we would go out and look up at the stars. I would tell them the story of the two bravest Avengers I had ever known and of how I had given them their names because of their bravery and sacrifice to save the entire universe.

I hope that one day, my children can learn to be just as brave, selfless and courageous as Tony and Nat were. I also kept my promise, I fully retired from the hero work to help raise my family, but I did keep one promise; should there ever be a time when I am truly needed, if whomever is left on the team should need the extra Ace on their side.

You can sure as hell bet that when you turn towards the moon or the rising sun, and hear the sounds of a wolf’s howl echoing in the distance.

It’s Mother Wolf Raksha coming to protect her pack.

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tf-guru · 5 years ago

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Ryan was happy to live in Calaforinia. The nearby beach, the nearby city life. It was perfect. One day he was walking the boardwalk near his apartment and came upon a stand.

It appeared to be one of this gimmicky vintage photo stands that would dress you up as a civil war soldier and give you a fake rifle. Ryan approached as he was always happy to contribute to local shops and such. As he approached a man with a thin mustache wearing a bolar hat and an old fashioned suit said

"Welcome! Welcome! What is your name sir!"

"Ryan" replied Ryan, ready to see what this guy was about.

"Welcome to my stand! Would you like a free fortune reading? Free of charge to first time customers." The man expressed.

"Uh yeah- I mean sure why not!" Ryan declared unsure of this man. The man started typing something into the vintage cash register in front of him

"Wonderful! Let me see... young man, brown hair, What is your age, and occupation?"

Ryan informed, "Oh, I'm 26, and I do web design"

"Interesting, interesting! Well, here you go young man"

A card spat out of the machine and Ryan took it. He read it outloud

"Banana for you, banana for me

What do you see atop the tree?

Your new life awaiting

Your pleasures its sating"

"What the?" Ryan continued. He looked up but the man and the entire stand was gone.

"What the hell? I-I hmmm." Ryan decided to put the guy behind him and just go home.

--Later that evening--

Ryan is getting ready for bed. He enters the bathroom and starts to brush his teeth. Suddenly, his arm feels very itchy. He scratches it repeatedly but to no avail. He heads back to his room and starts to get undressed.

Getting in bed he notices his arm is more hairy than usual.

"What the fuck? How did my hair grow this much in just one day?"

He heads back to the bathroom and looks in the mirror.

"Strange" he thinks "I feel almost... shorter." He looks at his arm again and sees both his arms are very hairy. He inspects himself further seeing the same extra hair on all parts of his body. His legs, armpits, and pubes.

"I should probably go to the doctor tomorrow, what in the hell."

Deciding there's nothing more he can do he heads back to bed and falls asleep. Ryan dreams of climbing trees and swinging on vines like a monkey.

The next morning Ryan gets up and heads to the bathroom. He definitely is shorter than he was yesterday. The normally 6'2" Ryan is now only 5'10". Ryan also checks his arms and legs and sees his hair is even thicker now.

"Holy shit!" He exclaims "I have to go to the doctor tonight."

Ryan grabs his phone and calls his doctor's office. As he dials it he absentmindedly scratches his head and arms.

"Hello Dr. Richstad? Yes its Ryan Andrews. I'd like to book an appointment. I um uh am seaming to have grown hair very fast. Would it be possible to book for tonight? ...Oh, I see. I understand... next Wednesday? Okay see you then"

Ryan opens his fridge and his eyes instantly go to the bananas. He grabs the entire bundle and sits down at his table. Once again absentmindedly he eats them one by one until there's none left.

"Wow, must have been hungry"

Ryan grabs a winter coat and puts it on. He heads down the door and to the nearby cafe.

Ryan approaches the counter and says

"Um... I'll have a banana smoothie with extra banana please"

Soon after he gets his smoothie and sits at a table eating it while browsing Twitter. Unbeknownst to him hair starts to push out on his face. Suddenly he feels a pain on his lower back and exclaims

"Oo oo ah ah... what the hell was that" he feels around his lower back and feels his tailbone sticking out about a half inch further than it should be. Throwing his smoothie down he runs into the bathroom and pulls down his pants.

Inspecting his lower back he looks at his tailbone and sees it is sticking out a half inch more than it should. Not only that, but thick brown fur is covering his tailbone and some of his lower back.

"Oo oo? What the fuck is this!?" He starts to massage it and it starts to grow in his hand to one inch and then two quickly suprasing four and settling at eight inches.

"What the actual hell is that?." Quickly he tucks it under his coat and runs out of the shop. As he runs back home he cam feel the tail grow to be 15 inches long. As he runs past he feels the tail slip out from under his coat. Before he grabs it he shockingly finds out he can move the tail on his own.

"Oh dear god. What the fuck. Oo Oo!"

Opening his apartment door he rushes inside and quickly takes off everything and heads to the bathroom. He looks in the mirror and sees a very hairy face. He examines the rest of his body and sees that fifty percent of it is covered in this thick brown fur.

Suddenly, he gets a pain in his face like a headache but in his face. He looks in the mirror and sees his mouth push out into a simian jaw. His ears become circular like a chimps.

"Oh fuck I don't want to be a monkey!" As he looks in the mirror he starts to see his height start dropping. From 5'10" to 5'6" then to 5' and the all the way down to 3'. He climbs up to the sink and examines his hands. They start to shrink with the nails becoming black.

He feels his feet elongate into hand like appendages. He tries to call out and

"Oo! Oo oo ah ah!" Nothing but monkey noises.

"Oh god I'm a fucking monkey" he thinks as he hears his apartment door open. He hears someone open the bathroom door. Ryan looks up and sees the man from the boardwalk.

"Hello Ryan. I see you've gotten into some monkey business while I was gone." He laughs "come on. We've got work to do"

Ryan starts to protest but the man just looks at him with a smirk.

"No one can understand you Ryan. No matter what you do. Banana?"

"No" Ryan thinks "I don't want a banana. I wanna be a fucking human! I'll never eat a banana again!" He looks at the banana again and feels drawn to it.

"I don't- I don't. I want a ban- No! I'm not a monkey!" He starts to itch himself without knowing.

--Later--

The man has taken Ryan to the local zoo. On the way there he put Ryan in a cage. Ryan sees a woman behind a counter and hear the man and the woman talk.

"Hello, I found this little guy clambering around near my house. Could you take him?" The man siad

"Well we don't just take walk ins and how did y-" the woman is cut off

The man waves his hand

"I'd be happy to take him! Since you brought him in, would you like to name him?"

"I'd love to!" The man says "how about... Ryan. Ryan the monkey"

"Perfect! I'll just take Ryan and you can be on your marry way!"

Ryan tries to make one last fleeting attempt to speak but realizes its fruitless. He is placed in a large cage with the other monkeys. He scratches himself as children run up to gawk.

--two years later--

A man with a bowler hat walks into a room and approaches a plaque

"Ryan, Ryan the monkey"

Ryan is eating a banana when suddenly he sees the man at the glass. He jumps at him yelling and screaming.

"Ssh Ryan, just go back to your monkey business"

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thebigpapilio · 5 years ago

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Alternate Miraculous Wielder Name Ideas

Here are some ideas for Miraculous wielders’ aliases or words to use in them.

Some of these I’ve used before in my fics. Despite this, feel free to take these for fics, and if you could tell me so I can read them, that would be great!

Here we go!

Female names are Italicized. Male & Nonbinary names have nothing. Some might be repeated if they work for said groups.

Ladybug:

Sir Scarlet

Sir Spots/Spot

Coccinea

Coccineus

Latin for Scarlet

Vedalia

Black Cat:

Mr. Fortune

Mx. Fortune (if fitting)

(Miss Fortune has long been used)

Bombay

Bobtail

Fox:

Renard V

Rena V

The V stands for Vulpine/Vulpis (Latin for Fox)

Trickster

Could be good for a villain

Astutia

Adstus

Latin for Cunning

Turtle:

Do something with Emerald or Peridot instead of Jade

For a bulkier Turtle, do Plastron

Clypeus

Zaratan

Blackshell

Bee:

King Comb

Beeline

For a villain’s minion/assistant, try Drone

Such could be good for Nathalie...

Negaueris

Prophetess

Moth:

For a villain, consider Dark Dagger

Death’s Head

Bogong

Black or White Witch

Mothwoman

Imperialis

Latin for Imperial

Peafowl:

Cock

ONLY IF MALE AND ACTIVATED AT THE SAME TIME AS A MALE OX USER NAMED BULL

Princess Plume/Plumage

Prince Plume/Plumage

For younger wielders

For a villain, consider some pun with Fowl

La Paonne

Le Paon is for a peaCOCK

Henway

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Dog:

Boxer

Phalène

Prince Puppy

Princess Puppy

For younger wielders

For a villain go for Terrier Terror

Updog

Snake:

Anaconda

Basilisk

Sir Pent

Python

For a villain (?), consider (Boa?) Constrictor

Mamba

Taipan

Miss Hiss

Mister Hiss? It Hissn’t as good, huh...

Kingsnake

Jormugandr

Sassmaster

Horse:

Miss Tang

Mister Mustang

Prince Pony

Princess Pony

For younger wielders

For a villain, try Speed Demon

Speed Demoness

Stripes

Maybe as a nickname like with the canonical Chaton & Bugaboo

Ox:

Look at Peafowl for one idea

Bull Power

Minotaur

Longhorn

Goat:

For a villain, Gruff could work

Ibex

Bighorn

The Kid

For younger wielders

Zigzag

Dragon:

Fireball

Draconica

Wyvern

Bakunawa

Knucker

Mouse:

Rat Racer

Mousetrap

Ratatoskr

Rat King

Rat Queen

Mus

Murmur

Maybe as a nickname like with the canonical Chaton & Bugaboo

Rooster:

Chicken Runner

Sunshine/Sunspot/some Sun pun

Morning Crow

For younger wielders

You could replace the first Peafowl one under the same circumstances

Henway

Monkey:

King Kong

Champ Chimp/Champanzee

Nope (they shout it when their disrupting banana hits)

Mono

Wukong

Monkey Man

For a villain, consider Mischief

Pig:

Hogwash

Boar Boy

Younger wielders

Piglet

Younger wielders

For a villain, try Warthog

Tiger:

Tigress

For a villain, maybe do Shere Khan or Tigre Fonce (I used that once for a Cat wielder)

Tigre Naranjado

Tigre Naranjada

Portokáli

Rabbit:

Hoppins (hope you get the reference pun)

Herr Hare/Herr Hase

Lièvre

Le Lapin

La Lapine

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For Fusions (NOT DOING ALL OF THESE ANYTIME SOON):

Snake & Moth = Diamondback

Any younger wielder’s fusion of Peafowl, Snake, & Rooster - Egghead/Eggman/Eggwoman

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iamwhelmed · 5 years ago

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Homesick: Chapter 7

Aaaand it’s finally here! Sorry this took so long, ladies and gents!

Summary: Raven finds herself carrying Beast Boy's child and struggles with the fear of losing him and the impending responsibility of being a mother; Starfire finds Robin in a precarious position with another woman. The two leave the tower to live on their own for awhile, just to figure things out. Beast Boy and Robin may be losing their minds, and Cyborg tries to keep everyone together.

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Her brain was splitting before she opened her eyes, like the darkness she was accustomed to taking comfort in had taken instead to hammering at her head with Robin's bo staff. She winced and raised one hand to her head, only to have it meet some resistance. She cracked an eye open and found an IV taped to her hand. She glanced at the bag, hoping against all hope that those weren't painkillers because no, had Starfire not told them she was pregnant? Then again, she hadn't remembered it being Starfire who'd handed her off, though she recalled the light consoling brush of her fingers, sweeping the hair out of her eyes. Actually, she didn't remember much at all of the trip to the hospital. Red X attacked, she ran to tell a guard (so the guard could call on the Titans, neither her nor Starfire were fit to fight), and she'd come back to hoist Red X off of the compromising position she'd found him in with Starfire. There'd been a sharp, yet dull pain, like a jagged knife grazing the inside of her womb, and then she'd passed out.

Dread, thick and heavy and so very, very there, lurched in her as she shot upward, one hand at her swollen stomach. Oh Azar, please oh please have let the baby make it, please tell her she hadn't-

"The baby's okay."

Her hand dropped from her stomach; Happy sang in her mind for the first time in months. She turned to see Beast Boy, standing at the door, one hand awkwardly rubbing at his other behind his back. He smiled shyly at her, one pointed tooth jutting out at the corner of his lip. Her mouth fell open despite her inability to speak. Something, probably a cheap flower vase, exploded behind her on the windowsill. Beast Boy laughed, not his usual laugh, something lower. "Yeah, Doctor said you shouldn't do that anymore, at least until you have the baby."

"B-Beast Boy I- I-"

"Raven," He raised one hand, approaching her slowly, considerately... He was still smiling, and Affection tittered at the sight. "Why didn't you tell me?" Ah, of course he wanted to know. Why wouldn't he? She tried to grimace, but she wasn't very convincing, so she turned her head to her lap and folded her hands silently in front of her. Beast Boy drew closer. "Why'd you have to do all of this? Why'd you hide it from me?"

"Because you weren't ready to be a father."

He gripped her wrist, she looked at him. His lips were a straight thin line, but there wasn't anger in his eyes, not in the way his brows furrowed or the drop of his eyes. No, he looked sad. She'd made him sad. "Rae, we both know that's a lie."

She blinked, turned her head to her lap again and prayed that the tears firing against her eyes wouldn't fall. "Beast Boy… I grew up knowing I was nothing to my father, nothing but a portal for him to destroy my world- my friends. I tried…" she choked, and she loathed how weak she felt "so hard… to make him care about me, to be his daughter. But I never got there. I'd never known support and trust and everything else Robin and Starfire are always going on about. I'd never felt…" Raven grit her teeth as the first tear slithered down her cheek "...loved." She raised her other hand to her stomach, rubbing the swell back and forth. She breathed in, then the breath shuddered out. "I didn't want that for my child."

There was a warm hand on hers, and the thumb trailed her stomach, tracing her path. "Our child, Raven. You're not doing this alone." He sounded confused, but it wasn't a question; she just knew he wanted to ask a million of them.

"Beast Boy, I-" She whimpered. Azar, she hated herself right now, hissed internally for Reason to rein Sorrow and Affection in, but she didn't. She didn't have that power anymore. Beast Boy had changed Nevermore, maybe permanently, maybe for the better, but at the moment it felt for the worse. "I can't ask you to do that."

"You might be asking. I'm not."

She opened her eyes again and looked at Beast Boy, and he stood there the same as he had before, though he'd moved to hold her and their maturing child between his arms. He looked back at her, and she didn't need her empathic ability to tell his version of Affection was well in control, that the Reason of his mind, though monumentally weaker than her own, had taken a backseat to sentimentality. It made her heart swing; Happy was dancing on her strings and Affection gifted her the song. But Reason had returned, nagging at them with a stern finger- He feels this way now, but what of Terra? He can father our child and love another woman.

Sorrow tripped Happy off her feet, and Affection's music grew to a hush. "Beast Boy, I don't want you to think that because I'm giving you a child that it means you have to…" she trailed off, but Beast Boy pressed on.

"Doesn't mean I have to what, Rae?"

She breathed in, and breathed out "... You don't have to stay with me if there's somebody else."

He recoiled, and immediately she missed the heat. Doubt crept in, like she had been, constantly, for months- Why'd you have to remind him? We could have stayed like that, now he's changed his mind-

"Okay, you're gonna have to catch me up here, 'cause I'm suuuper confused."

Raven nearly smiled. He was such an idiot, and Azar she loved him. "You talk in your sleep sometimes, ya know."

"Huh?"

Raven shifted, and she could feel him watching her. He wasn't sure what to do with his hands. "You said her name, Beast Boy. You were calling for her, and I just couldn't…" play her role. "I didn't want to place that responsibility on you, make you feel trapped. You'd just end up hating me and" she rubbed her stomach "resenting them. That's why I hid. I had to-"

"Wait wait wait- hold on a second here!" She looked at him and, true to his nature, he looked lost. The kind of lost he was trying to make the connection between video game sequels. His eyes bulged as his hands spoke for him, though it was a different language, and not even he understood it. "Who are we talking about? What does this have to do with our kid?" He ran his hands down his face. "I'm so confused!" He tugged at his hair, making more of a mess of it than it already had been. "It feels like alien monkeys are in my brain and they're trying to make it explode!"

She raised an eyebrow. "I sincerely doubt foreign chimps have anything to do with your brain malfunctioning." She was almost proud of the usual dry monotone she'd managed, but it faded. "Terra, Beast Boy. You were calling out for Terra." She saw him pause with his back turned, going stiff at the mention. Sorrow had taken a pickaxe to her heart now, she could feel her chiseling away. "And I know she's back. I wouldn't want to get in the way of that." You weren't meant for me, Beast Boy. I accepted that a long time ago. It's time I set you free, you weren't supposed to be in my cage to begin with.

He turned to her, but she looked away so she couldn't see his face. She wasn't sure she wanted to. He got closer again, and she forced herself to look out the window, where she could only see his outline in the mugginess of morning dew, squeezing her eyes shut because even the shadow of him was too much right then. She couldn't, wouldn't look for reassurance. She was too scared she'd find nothing, or worse, trick herself into seeing something that wasn't there. Her hands turned to fists in her blankets. "Raven…"

"Don't."

He grew quiet, and that must have meant that he'd processed what she'd said, understood, accepted it. Her heart sank.

He moved, brushed against her arm, trespassed into her personal bubble. "Ya know, you talk in your sleep, too." She hadn't meant to turn her head, and she hadn't even thought about opening her eyes, but his fingers were under her chin, and emerald green as big as his heart was peering into her with such abandon that it must have brushed off. She gasped, she didn't even mean to. His eyes shifted from playful to sultry, and part of her stomach (probably not the baby, though relating to the baby as it'd been made) flipped. "You said some things about Aqualad like a year ago, and I didn't freak out."

He leaned in and kissed her, and all at once Nevermore rejoiced. The pain that'd lingered in her stomach, the faint nausea she'd felt, it dissipated in a snap of a finger. His lips pressed gently to hers, no demand or desperation, but he once again was not asking. She shut her eyes, leaned in, fingers reaching up and dancing across his chest before they twisted around the fabric of his suit and tugged, pulling him closer. He followed, cupping her jaw in his hands, cradling her head to him like a treasure, thumbs brushing over her cheeks. It felt like the first time, all anticipation, joy, uncertainty, but she pulled away and he followed and she knew there was nothing left to be uncertain about. They didn't part until he had to come back for air, and even then he moved so shortly that her lips still tasted the air he breathed, and their noses brushed as two sets of heavy-lidded eyes stared back at each other. His lips brushed hers again, light as a feather, there and yet not, and she huffed. "I was never in love with Aqualad."

"And I've never loved anyone the way I love you," he grinned. "So we're even." She huffed again, but it was more of a laugh. His eyes got bright. "See? I will spend the rest of my life trying to get you to make that sound, wet dreams about exes or not." She smacked him, and he yelped, but snickered and rubbed his sore head nevertheless.

The door slammed open again, and both jumped to see Starfire, alight with her feet off the ground, followed closely by the rest of the team. Her green eyes grew three sizes. "Raven! You are awake!" She dove into her arms, and Raven grunted at the impact. Starfire leaped up and down and squeezed her, giggling with a smile as wide as her eyes. "Oh, thank goodness! I was so worried! You and the snarglpref are both unharmed!"

"We won't be if you keep this up."

Starfire released her, pulling away with orange-tinted cheeks. "Hee hee! Apologies!"

Raven glanced up and down, eyebrow raising. She mumbled to Starfire so that the rest of the room couldn't hear (aside from Beast Boy, but she'd explain everything to him later). "You got your powers back?"

Starfire blinked, as if only now realizing that she'd regained flight before she slowly eased herself to the ground, eyes becoming bashful. "I was relieved that you and your child were all right." She wanted to ask more, but Starfire shook her head. Not here.

Starfire stepped to the side to stand next to Beast Boy, and Robin stepped into the room, the other three following. She and Terra made eye-contact, and Terra gave her a smile and waved. Raven blinked, but smiled back after a moment. She turned to Robin, who looked just as concerned as she would have imagined he'd have been had she and Starfire actually woken him up the night they left. He understood her like few others did, and she'd felt his comfort's absence. "Raven, why did you hide that you were pregnant from us?"

"Yeah!" Cyborg piped up. "I woulda made a killer nursery!"

Starfire's eyes lit up, and her flight had returned to her once more as she squeezed her hands at her chest, as if barely containing her excitement. "Oh! Raven, I had almost forgotten the tradition of the showering of the infant! This will be marvelous!" Robin acknowledged her with his signature half-smirk.

Raven winced, a bead of sweat seeping down her head. "Uhh, maybe we could wait until I'm a little further along to do that?" She pressed a hand to her stomach. "After tonight, I think I need to watch how much excitement I'm involved in."

"Oh don't worry," Robin crossed his arms, still grinning, just at her now. "I'm confining you to three week's bedrest. We can't risk a repeat of what happened tonight."

"Doctor says you're fine, though," Cyborg approached the bed then, holding his arm out for her to see the test results on his arm. She leaned over, into his shoulder, and all at once felt like a little sister to a very concerned, capable big brother. He smiled at her, the way only Cyborg smiled, the way he always had, the way she'd missed. "What set you off was using your powers too near to full capacity. It's not just your mind that takes a toll, your body does, too."

"So…" She raised an eyebrow and glanced at the room full of titans, each smiling at her in some variation. "I'm benched for six months, aren't I?" They all nodded, and she groaned.

Beast Boy and Cyborg had taken Raven home the next morning, after Doctor Thompkins signed the papers, of course. Beast Boy had offered her an arm, and Raven had taken it with a small smile on her lips, though she'd have denied it had any of them asked. Robin asked Starfire where they'd been hiding, offered to follow her back to the motel to collect their things (because they weren't staying another night outside of the tower, he wasn't having it, it was an order). Starfire had smiled at him, waved him off, said, as politely as she could: "I would prefer if Friend Terra assisted me instead."

That'd hurt, Terra could tell, but he'd let her go.

He and Batgirl returned to the tower on his R-Cycle, leaving Starfire and Terra to walk their way back to the motel. Both could fly faster than the T-car could drive, it was fine, but he'd argued that he could send Batgirl back on his bike alone- it didn't work, she refused his help; it upset Starfire more that he'd been willing to let this other woman ride his bike when he never let any of them touch it. He'd waved to them, and Starfire and Terra waved back as they sped off (he'd seen Starfire's face as Batgirl's arms wrapped around his waist, as her head rested on his shoulder. He tried to erase the way her eyes dimmed in his mind, but the more he buried it, the deeper the hole in the pit of him dug).

Starfire and Terra passed the motel's front door, Starfire offering a quick wave to the grumpy waddling man who owned the place, who brushed her off with a disgruntled hand and a sigh. He rolled around at his front desk, rolling chair looking pressed to keep him upright as he leaned back. Terra followed Starfire to the sliding door on the other side of the room, glancing back at the old man with a cocked eyebrow. They set their sights on the rows and rows of motel rooms, and Terra gestured to the lot of them. "So, which one's yours?"

Starfire shrugged at one on the third floor, to which Terra grumbled ("of course it's that one").

They climbed the stairs, spirals, thin and so claustrophobic they had to walk in line and not together. Odd men peered at them from the windows of their dens, between blinds and smoky rooms. Terra pretended not to see them, but she wondered how Raven and Starfire had managed, if they'd ever had any problems here. They could handle themselves, she knew that, but she had a feeling Robin would wanna do a background check on the shady characters on the other side of those blinds; he'd probably find something for the JCPD.

"So this is the place you've been staying?"

"Yes, it is not to your liking?"

Terra took one look at the dirty window and the air conditioning unit attached that was falling apart, then shrugged. "Better than the caves I used t' crash in."

The room was tidy, for the most part, aside from shopping bags that were haphazardly thrown at the end of either bed. Terra could see bras peeking out of the corner of it- dark, purple, lacey. She hadn't pegged Raven as the lace type, but hey, she hadn't known Raven when she was actively having sex! She felt a shiver run down her grossed-out spine, and decided to table the thought for awhile, maybe forever. There were some stray feathers on the floor, as if somebody had torn a pillow in half and cleaned it up, but had missed a few stragglers. A broken lamp sat between the beds in a trashcan; Terra looked to Starfire, then back at it. "Uhh, what happened?"

Starfire paused in her raid of the nightstand drawer, stuffing anything that had been theirs into one of the tote bags she'd bought on a whim. She glanced at the mess of glass and, to Terra's surprise, didn't have much of a response. "Oh, towards the beginning of her pregnancy, Friend Raven had the mood swing, and loss of control over her powers caused her to-"

"- to break your lamp."

"Yes."

Terra stared at it.

"Yeah, I'm gonna give BB a heads up when we get back."

The two continued to pick up belongings- purses, clothing (Starfire took care of the dirty laundry), soaps, and especially the jar labeled "Savings" filled with dollar bills and coins. Terra asked what they were saving up for, and Starfire giggled and said she'd planned on getting a puppy. Terra asked if that's what Raven was saving for, to which Starfire answered: "I do not know." They'd assume the baby.

Starfire had taken to making the beds ("You spent WHAT on this room? We better clean up here, we are NOT paying extra!") and Terra had taken to tossing the food from the mini fridge into a plastic bag. She pulled out some mustard, some rice in a tupperware container, a leftover smoothie… she tossed it all into the plastic bag and wrapped it up. "All right, Star, I think we're good to go."

Starfire nodded.

They grabbed the bags, full to the zipper with everything, everything that had made this space their own for three long months, and carried it to the door. Starfire pulled the key out of her wallet- not something she'd carried before, key nor pocketbook- and took one final look at the room. It looked clean, empty, the way it had been when she and Raven first opened the door at six in the morning one terrible, godforsaken night. She and Raven had warmed it up, thrown blankets over the cheap and thin comforters, filled the drawers with their clothes and underwear and socks, even took the shower curtain down and replaced it with one they'd both settled on. Anything had been better than the semi-transparency of the other curtain. She could still see the smudges from where she'd leave little notes on the fogged up bathroom mirror for Raven before she'd head off to work, and she wondered if she could continue a similar tradition in the tower's bathroom; there'd just be more people to see it, now.

"Uh...Star?" Terra awkwardly shifted from foot to foot, hands not quite sure what to do or where to go. She winced, and set a slow hand on Starfire's shoulder.

Starfire blinked, and Terra drew her hand back, face heavy with concern despite her clumsy comfort. "Sorry, didn't mean to… Starfire, why are you crying?"

Was she? Starfire raised one hand to her cheek. Sure enough, her fingers came away slick, and she frowned. "Apologies," she wiped her eyes with her arm "I am… the correct term is feeling nostalgic, yes?"

Terra smiled at her, set a warm hand on her shoulder. "Yeah, Star, that's right. Do you need a few more minutes?"

Starfire glanced back to the empty room, and she could see everything despite the lights having already been turned off because the sun was rising, and the light was creeping into the shadows of the place Starfire had learned to call home. Or rather, a home away from home. Raven was at their old home, their new home, and they would face whatever came after this together; this motel room, with all its cheap idiosyncrasies and poor plumbing, was a testament to that. She need not fear the next day, because they'd seen plenty together and tackled each like the one before.

Starfire shook her head and smiled, really smiled. "No, Terra, I am quite ready."

They shut the door and locked it, and set forth to return the key.

#Teen Titans #RobStar #BBRae #Robin #Starfire #Beast Boy #Raven #Cyborg #Terra #barbara gordon #Batgirl #DickBabs #Dick Grayson

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ick25 · 5 years ago

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Rockman.Exe Episode 54 Review.

Let’s play “What is Mahajarama holding?”

A stuffed big foot/chimp plush?

The episode opens with an advertisement for some noodle restaurant with a Navi name Sanukiman.

For the ad he makes a simple dance that Netto, Meiru and Tohru copy for fun.

Netto asks Meiru about Dekao who wasn’t in school and she tells him that Dekao’s younger brother Chisao has come to visit him from Ameroupe. Netto is curious about what he would look like since he has a poorly drawn image of a mini Dekao in his head, but after the tittle card, everyone is suspicious that Chisao looks nothing like him.

WOW, Meiru.... Dekao is standing right there! o_o

Tohru asks Chisao why he doesn’t live with his brother in Akihara. Chisao tells them that he lives with his dad who works in Ameroupe where he attends a special kinder garden for “Genius” kids, according to Yaito.

Again? We are being very mean today, not just against Dekao, because Chisao tells them how his brother told him in his e-mails that they are his worthless and stupid pupils.

This angers everyone secretly because they remember that Dekao begged them to pretend that he is the best Net battler in the city and that they were all ex-gangsters in fourth grade that he reformed, just so Chisao could respect him.

In the next scene we see a long line in front of a restaurant, then the same ad with Sanukiman’s dance with everyone imitating him again.

This silly dance is gonna be important later on.

Looks like Chisao’s welcome party is gonna be in a new Udon restaurant called Heineken that just opened, conveniently, next to the Ex-WWW’s curry shop, which looks completely deserted. Netto and friends mention that they have reservations at the restaurant but the WWW suddenly appear to scold Netto for betraying them or something.

“And besides, you guys have tried to kill me in multiple occasions, I don’t owe you anything!”

The Ex-WWW proceed to insult the Udon shop and this infuriates the owner named Kotaro Saburou who starts to argue with Mahajarama.

He has a point.

To spite him even further, Mahajarama steals Netto and his friends by offering them free curry, something he later regrets when they leave various stacks of empty plates.

Hey, Gulping Netto is back!

In another scene, we see Saburou contemplating a bowl of Udon noodles and then spying on the curry restaurant through two peep holes on the wall located in a menu along with a new code!

Which is the code for shrinking the “Collect” program, that is also the most expensive item in the menu.

After eating almost all of the curry in the shop, Chisao tells Dekao that he wants to see him and Gutsman in a Net Battle, so Dekao asks for permission to use the net (I’m guessing free Wi-fi was not a thing here yet) and everyone plugs in their Navis.

Just like Dekao, Gutsman is pretending to be a super powerful Navi and tells the others to attack, unfortunately for him, Rockman forgets about their arrangement for a second and shoots at him leading to probably my favorite scene from this episode.

I just love how Gutsman is scared to death of Rockman’s buster shots. XD

Anyway, Roll reminds Rockman what he was suppose to do and Dekao orders Gutsman to attack.

That dramatic pain shot followed by Rockman softly landing on his back is so funny.

Then he proceeds to attack the rest of the Navis, including Rush.

I don’t know about that, Rush seems to be enjoying himself.

After seeing Gutsman in action, Chisao gets excited and asks to operate him, and just out of nowhere, makes a perfect PROGRAM ADVANCE!

Yeap, apparently the whole “Navi and operator must be in perfect sync” is just something Miyuki made up, because if a preschooler can make Gutsman summon a Beta Sword while he is in shock, then episode 15 was just a huge waste of time... Or Netto was just really dumb.

And not only does Gutsman copy the steps like Rockman, but when Chisao sends the Sword he does the same reaction Rockman did in the Planetman episode.

You can’t fool me anime!

Legendary technique my butt.

Everyone is amazed after seeing Chisao use a program Advance that almost hits Rockman, but after he says how he wants to be as strong as his brother, Dekao feels guilty and takes the PET away from him.

If anyone should be pissed here it should be Netto, that kid just did what he took many episodes to perfect in only two minutes!

After this, we see Chisao sitting all alone somewhere in town when a disguised stranger, who is totally not Saburou, gives him a PET with a Navi to help him fight some alien spice monsters he just made up. That night, while Dekao is sleeping, Chisao sees his new Navi, at first he is disappointed when he sees it, but turns out the Navi can shape shift into anything he wants.

Right after this, Netto gets a called from a worried Gutsman telling him that Chisao has gone missing.

Then we go to the Curry shop where we see Mahajarama in his pajamas and his stuffed monkey discovering that everything in the shop is out of control. The other WWW operators believed it was the work of the Udon shop and sent their Navis to deal with them, but Heatman and the others were captured by a Navi that looks just like Gutsman named Nuggetsman AKA Kutzman.

After commercials, Netto and the others split up to look for Chisao while he stays with a very worried Dekao. And I like this shot because it looks like Netto just hit Dekao.

“That’s what you get for calling me your stupid pupil!”

Back in the curry computer, Mahajarama sends Magicman to save the other WWW Navis, but Kutzman uses them as a shield to block his Magic Fire attack.

What’s worse is that Kutzman’s noodle like tentacles prevents the WWW operators to plug out their Navis.

Chisao attacks Magicman by sending a made up chip that doesn’t exist in the game called “Hi-Guts Beam”, and it looks like something Masa-san would have.

ITS A TUNA THAT FIRES A LASER!

This defeats Magicman and creates more damage to the curry shop. Dekao and Netto see smoke coming out of the store and go in to investigate, where a very angry WWW is telling Dekao to stop Chisao.

After hearing this, Netto and Dekao send their Navis into the computer where Rockman frees the WWW Navis by shooting at the tentacles and allowing them to log-out.

They are surprised to see that the Navi looks like Gutsman and that Chisao is the operator. Not-Saburo tells Chisao that Dekao and Netto are fakes, and Chisao believes him because he tells Dekao that he is weak after Gutsman and Rockman receive a hit from two more laser tuna chips.

Ouch.

Netto tells Dekao that he is being fooled by someone and they both fight back to destroy the tunas.

Now I have shots of Rockman and Gutsman killing tunas.

They proceed to attack Kutzman as well but he repels them with his noodle tentacles. Rockman tries to fire his buster, but Gutsman stops him and says that it is Dekao who should save his brother. After this, Kutzman uses a titus gun that looks like a Vulcan chip and shoots... Fried dough, I think?

I guess the dub doesn’t need to cut this shot because it is not firing anything potentially dangerous.

The WWW searches for Chisao inside the store with no luck, and all seems lost until Kutzman suddenly does something stupid that gives away his identity.

Yeap! That stupid dance from the noodle ad revealed to everyone that Kutzman is actually Sanukiman, the mascot for the Heineken Udon shop.

So immediately after, Dekao kicks down the door of the Udon shop and tells Chisao that he’s been fooled. Chisao doesn’t believe him until Dekao does something that forced the dub to skip it, pull down his pants and show him his birthmark.

I am not gonna take a screenshot of that, so trust me when I say that we don’t actually see the birthmark, I even had to open my eyes just to make sure. And now I will never get that image of Dekao’s butt crack out of my head T T.

Gutsman reveals Sanukiman’s true form with his Guts Hammer while Dekao and Netto scold Saburo for what he did.

Saburo orders Sanukiman to attack Gutsman but Rockman protects him with his Buster. Then we get this unusual scene that I like for some reason.

I needed this so bad after what I saw, DON’T JUDGE ME!

Dekao sends Gutsman a Gold Fist Battle chip (which sounds familiar), he defeats Sanukiman, Chisao and Dekao celebrate and Saburo surrenders.

Now I remember! Nobody returned the Battle Chips Yaito stole from Higure’s counter in episode 33?! Then Netto did kept that meteor chip! O0O

The next morning, Hinouken threatens Saburo, Netto asks why so much hate and the WWW say that Udon and Curry can’t go together (Like they are suddenly so obsessed with curry). Netto reminds them that there is a dish called Curry Udon and Mahajarama gets an epiphany, with the same code for shrinking Collect in the background.

In case you didn’t see the code in the menu.

With tears in their eyes, both parties make peace and look forward to a brilliant new future for their stores. Even Chisao finds Netto’s argument inspiring, Netto tries to give credit to Dekao but he grabs him to talk in private.

And he does...

Okay, I think the writers wanted this to be just a joke for this episode, but in the later seasons they needed an excuse for Dekao to leave Japan for some reason.

I’m saying this because the next scene morning, we see the Udon stor closed and Dekao feeding Netto a noodle from a udon curry he did and then eates the rest in front of him.

And the episode ends with Netto yelling at Dekao for only feeding him one noodle and eating the rest, with a heart closing in on chisao.

My thoughts?

First of all, Udon is a type of noodle that is commonly used in Japanese cuisine, and Sanuki is a special type of udon. I had no idea there were different types of noodles.

I’m not a fish expert like Masa, but I did some research and it looks like the fish in the High Guts beam chip is a Skipjack tuna, a tuna that is used very often in Japanese cuisine which is known as Katsu or Katsubushi, so I think there was a pun in here somewhere.

Dekao and Chisao’s names are puns, with Dekao meaning “Big Guy” and Chisao meaning “Little Guy”.

You might have noticed that Chisao says “-chu” all the time. I think that’s a way of saying that he is so little that he sounds like a mouse, since Chu is the sound a mouse makes.

So, this episode introduces Chisao who will, for some reason, appear unnecessarily often in future seasons, and in that regard, the episode also gives a tiny hint of what will happen to Dekao too. As I mentioned before, I think that it was originally just a joke for the end of this episode since it is not brought up again until the next season. I don’t know if they were already planning Axess, but let’s not think about that for now.

Who knows what happened after Saburou and the WWW make peace because we don’t see him or Sanukiman ever again.

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