#muse: nemesis

[freewillacquired]

"Matt- Are you alright? What's happened to you?"

(for second mutation Nemmy?)

They'd been on the run now for weeks, and it seemed like maybe they had finally gotten to the point where they weren't being pursued anymore. They were wrong. Ambushed one morning where they'd hidden to sleep, Nemesis quickly made short work of the soldiers that had tried to apprehend them... but not before one of them had hit him with an accelerant and lit him on fire.

It hurt badly, but Nemesis didn't feel like it hurt as much as it should. If I'd been human still, this would've been a million times worse. Even so, after he'd killed the last of the soldiers, engulfed in flames as he did, Nemesis bounded into a nearby river to extinguish himself. The cold water felt amazing, and he could feel his body healing and regenerating itself rapidly. But that's not all it was doing...

When he emerged from the water, crawling up onto the riverbank, Nemesis... had nearly tripled in size. He was hunched over now, on all fours, most of his leather outfit torn to shreds where his body had grown sharp spikes and armored plates on his back, shoulders, and neck. There were even spikes down the backs of his arms and legs now too. His hands were now monstrous claws with curved, thick talons, and his tentacles undulated off his back and shoulders like snakes.

Hearing Wanda's question, Nemesis looked himself over as best he could. "I... I don't know!" he said, clearly upset by these new... developments. His voice was even more monstrous now, deep and resonating. "I don't think... the thirus... liked... the thire," he supposed. No sir, it didn't like fire at all. And when challenged with it, it had responded by causing Nemesis to evolve into an even more durable and protected creature...

[blood-starved-beast]

It's interesting how in Hades the First Zagreus hung around the less "problematic" kids of Nyx and dated Megaera the Fury, who isn't as unhinged as her sisters.

Then in Hades II, Melinoe is surrounded by Nyx's more chaotic brood. Nemesis, Eris, even Moros (though he is a sweetie, he has admitted to messing with people's Fates alongside his sisters just for the fun of it). Hypnos is there too but he's asleep and exists to have Mel have a parasocial relationship with.

[iamnmbr3]

i love how draco spends a whole summer talking about how much he "hates" harry potter and harry thinks of draco as his "nemesis" and several times has thoughts about some fate or other being too terrible for anyone "except maybe malfoy" but then any time either of them is actually in any danger they both are absolutely ready to just throw every other priority out the window to save each other. without fail. every single time. some "rivalry" huh...

[kyliafanfiction]

Dreadnought was fun. A bit rushed, honestly, but fun. Greywitch felt a bit like a caricature, but... people with Greywitch's opinions often feel like caricatures in real life, so that wasn't too bad. The Legion felt under developed in general, and the final ending of it all was definitely rushed, but I'm glad Utopia wasn't actually like, secretly misunderstood and trying to save the world, but genuinely batshit insane.

But Danny was a good MC, with a solid arc as she manages to find out how to be a hero and how to be herself and fight back. The bit was David was unfortunate but rang true. Calamity was a fun character, presented some perspectives that I'm glad the story explored but didn't fully endorse. Doc Impossible was all kinds of fun. The fight scene with the mechs was a high point as Danny gets to really kick some ass.

Glad I bought it, glad I read it, wish I hadn't let it sit on my TBR pile for like 2 years, but it's good. 4.3/5 Stars, easily.

Good book. If you like Queer superhero stories, I recommend it.

[capn-twitchery]

thinking bout twitch's red honey situation. thought too much and now i'm wondering stuff,,,in nemesis Especially, it says that the pain of the honey being consumed comes from the feeling of someone being inside your memories when you can feel they're not supposed to be,,,so

if twitch has absolutely no recollection of their past memories, would it still hurt if people ate the honey harvested from them?? i'd guess it would but they'd have no idea why??

if twitch's ""memories"" were sourced from red honey made of other people's memories. does it cause the original victims pain anytime twitch "recalls" it?? they're technically not supposed to be in those memories....they got into them via red honey, and just never left?? which has horrifying implications maybe. oh god

[messywitch]

i had some free time from college so i went ahead and made more user boxes! someone in the tags mentioned that their deity was underrepresented and don't worry, i've got you. i made boxes for deities i don't see much rep of in the tag!! feel free to use them with credit!

i'm open to making these under request, just send me an ask with the deity you'd like a box for!! please be nice, too.

gods in this post: Asclepius, Iris, Eris, Hebe, Harmonia, Nemesis, Nike, Pan, Psyche, Phobos & Deimos, Themis, Tyche & Gaia.

[detective-and-dreamer]

something that just occurred to me: if there are any existing photographs of Nora and Lucien together as children, they can no longer be shown to anyone. people would wonder why they appear to be the same age. all of that sort of stuff has to be carefully hidden away now.

[freewillacquired]

The moment the creature responded to his attempt at calling a name familiar to him, Nemesis felt happy that, apparently, it really was Eight. How on earth had they gotten right here, right now, in the middle of the entire city going to hell? Had they been deployed, or had they escaped yet again? Nemesis had so many questions, and he was glad to see that Eight was still alive.

However, a bit of terror set in as it suddenly dawned on him that Eight might not be the same anymore. If Nemesis had been changed into... whatever the hell he was supposed to be now, then what had been done to Eight? Were they still of sound mind? Or was he about to be jumped and torn apart by a creature who probably outmatched him?

But then... God, to hear them say his name back... Nemesis could have jumped right out of his own mutated skin in joy in that moment, for all the relief he felt. "Yesss!" he responded. "It's ne!" He took a couple steps closer as well. "Are you... o-kay?" he asked, first and foremost being concerned for the friend he'd made under such dire circumstances that night in the Hive.

@freewillacquired - continued from here

At the sound of their name, Eight cocked their head - their body still rigid and poised for a fight - yet... it was clear they were listening. Something was different about him compared to everything else that prowled the streets, though what it was, they couldn't tell. It was more than just his ability to speak and his intelligence. That alone made it clear he was more than just another monster, but they couldn't recall Umbrella having once used any for their experiments.

Wait.

Slowly, Eight uncoiled the tension from their body as they cautiously eased their stance, and lifted their head as breathed in his scent deeply. He smelled like everything else in the damned city, but... now that they were looking for something that made him different, they caught it.

He smelled human beneath everything else.

They stared at him, unable to ignore the flare of hope in their chest. {Matt?} they said, though their electrolarynx crackled from damage caused by recent skirmishes. Now more curious, although still just as cautious, Eight took a few slow steps forward with the thought of a fight far from their mind. Was it Matt? They had lost him trying to escape... however long ago that was, now. But Umbrella had been experimenting on him. Was... was his form the result of it?

{You are familiar.} They clicked their teeth together - a lighter sound compared to the earlier snapping. {Is it you?}

[walkingstackofbooks]

my toxic trait is watching an excellent episode of Star Trek and thinking "that was great (but I wish it had happened to Julian)" 😅

[freewillacquired]

"are we family?"

@mould-girl

@mould-girl

Nemesis looked down at the odd girl, his single blue eye blinking. Did... did this child think he was somehow related to her? That was both sad and confusing. His head canted. "No..." he replied. "I don't... think so. Are you... lost?" he asked. "What's... your nane?"

[tinystepsforward]

like a lot of articulate autists who aren't conflict-averse, i have had many a one-sided nemesis in my life. 99% of those situations were clown car level convoluted drama that revolved around a white queer person getting mad at the uppity brown bitch who dared to speak authoritatively in a space that now is ~unsafe~ bc someone brought up race (and was right to do so tyvm) and decided to devote way too much time to ruining my life, sometimes without me noticing for years

[blood-starved-beast]

Do you think Nemesis fantasizes about being the Knight to Melinoe's Princess and being quest-given to fight Chronos for her or something. Then she sees Melinoe out on the Run somewhere covered in blood and bruises and such and it fills her with unfathomable rage.

[apollos-boyfriend]

as the person who sent the original mcytblr confession as a joke after being a captainsparklez viewer for a decade and knowing damn well he got himself fixed like a shelter dog: lmao

[kyliafanfiction]

It is somewhat surreal to have just started Dreadnought by April Daniels, and also still be neck-deep in Worm, because while both stories engage with superhero tropes in an original world but one that is obviously and even incredibly referential to and in conversation with their source media...

They do it in very different ways, and my god the tone is so different. Worm is good, for all that I have a lot of complaints about it, but it has a very specific flavor, and Dreadnought... Dreadnought does not have that flavor. At all.

[serendipizzy79]

Love this line.

Nemesis wonders why she didn't just use the token. Oh yeah. Beautiful disaster.

Astarion sees our escort through the shadows.

In the darkest depths of Mordor... I met a girl so fair...

Nemesis tried to compliment Kar'niss. It didn't go down well.

Nemesis and her boys. Astarion is standing on a boulder or something - they're all the same height 🤣

I am so taken with this version of Gortash.

They said he was mad! But this line is actually spookily accurate innit.

More favourite screenshots. Yay to playing BG3 instead of doing housework huh.

We saw Minty again. But she was too busy to talk to her erstwhile girlfriend.

Nemesis has some vague memories return in Moonrise. I don't think they are good ones somehow.

[detective-and-dreamer]

trying to decide what's going to happen with Lucien in general, but now with all the parabola and memory talk I'm definitely thinking about that. I wonder if his memories would still exist there but be incomprehensible to him? will it feel like seeing something that happened to a different person, with a few little hints of familiarity? will some of it be wiped out completely, leaving chunks of weirdly barren landscape? things to consider 🤔