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Fireclaw Backstory number no idea

Summary: "Do you believe Sinestro is capable of becoming a hero again?"

Hal lowers his gaze to the ground for a moment, thinking, while Fireclaw stands and silently approaches the tribe again. As Hal raises his head, looks to Sinestro, and says "I want to believe it." Fireclaw follows quickly up with a hoarse "He already is."

Warnings: Green Lantern 2011 (comics) Issues #10 & #11 spoilers, canon typical violence

Characters: Hal Jordan, Thaal Sinestro, Topaz Fireclaw

Wordcount: 6,792

"What's going on?!" the Korugarian yells, facing a hoard of bloodthirsty offline indigo lanterns. Beside him, Hal Jordan grabs his shoulder and pulls him along, while a frightened yet still battle ready Fireclaw is unable to stand still, bouncing from paw to paw while waiting for the two more experienced lanterns to make a decision. "I'm saving your ass." Sinestro hears Hal say as he's pulled along, the offline indigo lanterns yelling "Get them!" and "Kill the Green Lanterns!" As the two take off into the forest, Fireclaw close behind.

The trio dashes into the surrounding forest as a storm brews and threatens to break overhead, thunder rumbling and putting Sinestro's newest protégé more on edge. Oddly, Sinestro notices, he's quiet, eyes focused ahead of him, a hint of anger in his eyes under the fear of the situation and the determination to survive. Beside him, leading the trio, drawing his attention, Hal calls out to someone Sinestro has never heard of nor seen before.

"Natromo?!" Hal calls out into the forest, after the keeper of the indigo light. "Natromo, wait!" He still had a hand on Sinestro's shoulder, still pulling the Korugarian along with him. He didn't need to, but he did anyway. "What's going on, Jordan?" the human hears Sinestro ask again, irritation clear in his voice. "Your ring's drained, mine's running on fumes, and Fireclaw's useless." The human felt the glare from both Sinestro and Fireclaw, and he'd heard a dismissive chuff from the cat. "Can't fly," he continues. "No force fields. And we're being chased by a tribe of space monks, who in reality are a legion of lunatics."

"The tribe tried to brainwash me." Sinestro focuses on, instead of the insult the human threw at Fireclaw. Hal's finally removed his hand from Sinestro's shoulder, and the human is the first to walk out onto the log ahead. Sinestro follows as Hal explains what happened, and the Korugarian glances back a moment to make sure Fireclaw is able to keep up. He notices the cat's ears are low, as is his head, glaring at the ground. Sinestro swore he saw tears in the Levanixian's eyes, which he in all honesty was not surprised to see. Not after what Jordan had said.

"They did brainwash you, Sinestro." Hal tells Sinestro as he crosses the ravine. "Or the indigo ring managed to. But with the lantern shattered, you're off-line like the rest of them." Lightning cracks across the sky as rain begins to pour down, and Jordan can hear the frightened mrrow and the following agitated hiss from Fireclaw in response to the weather. The human gets the sense that Sinestro is no longer following, and as he turns around he sees that Sinestro has turned to face the offline lanterns, and Fireclaw is lingering beside him, also turning to face them.

Angered, offended, Sinestro turns and faces the indigo tribe. If looks could kill, Sinestro would not need his ring at the moment. "Rings or no rings, they are as good as dead." Sinestro starts, voice cold. "Sinestro does not forget." Lightning cracks across the sky again as Sinestro raises his ring to the tribe. "Sinestro does not forgive." The Korugarian manages to get his ring to work, the green light blazing to weakened life. In front of him, crouched down, fur soaking wet, tail flicking in agitation and aggression, Fireclaw gives voice to a low growl. But then he hears Jordan call out above the rain and thunder, and he feels a construct form around him.

"Come on, tough guy. You can mouth off about how badass you are after we've got these freaks back under their indigo spell." Hal had cast a simple construct around Sinestro; a harness on a leash. The human reasoned, if Sinestro planned to act like a child or an untrained animal, lashing out despite the clear insane disadvantage, he'll treat him like one. Despite Sinestro's angered protest of "Stop! Release me, Jordan!" Hal pulled on the construct.

Angered himself now, Hal leans back as he pulls on the construct, trying to pull Sinestro out of the fight he'd surely lose. "Do you want me to get you off this planet or not?" He snaps, and Sinestro shoots back an "I don't need your help." With a strong, firm yank on the leash in his burst of anger, alongside yelling "You don't need my help?!" Hal sends Sinestro flying backwards above him, into the forest behind them all.

Jordan turns to face Sinestro as Fireclaw dashes past the human to get on solid ground and away from the indigo tribe. "Then why the hell did you give me this ring in the first place?!" Hal all but screams at Sinestro, who now lay on his back in the remains of a tree he'd been so harshly thrown into. "If you don't need help, why the hell is he here?!" Jordan now points at Fireclaw, dragging the already irritated cat into a fight that did not fully concern him. "He's more at risk of being killed out here than we are! He's untrained, too [fucking] scared to wield the ring, and he's too much like you for his own damn good!" Much to Jordan's already extreme irritation, his dying ring censors him, unable to translate one of his curses.

Sinestro lays where he landed, even though he was in pain, and takes whatever Hal yells at him. The Korugarian feels anger rise inside him as Hal brings Fireclaw into the fight, and a glance at the tomcat tells Sinestro all he needs to know about how the feline feels about the situation. The Korugarian feels guilt replace that anger he felt, and as Hal walks away, Sinestro begins to pick himself up off the ground. As Sinestro gets ready to stand up, Fireclaw approaches. Closer, able to get a better look, the Korugarian can see the pain in Fireclaw's eyes, the tears in his eyes that blend into the rain that soaks his fur.

He looks near broken, and for a moment Sinestro regrets his decision to give Fireclaw a ring. He's made so many mistakes in Fireclaw's training that he had never made with any other protégé he's had, and the new lantern had gained unnecessary scars because of it, both mental and physical. Gently, Sinestro puts a reassuring hand on the side of Fireclaw's face, gently scratching behind the tom's ear before standing up as Hal creates a new construct.

"I was ready to get my life back together. I was ready to let the ring go." Hal rants as he drives the construct jeep through the forest, Sinestro riding shotgun and Fireclaw hidden from the two in the back seat, forepaws covering his ears in an attempt to avoid the fighting and try and get control over his emotions. "But you just had to pull me into your damn mess! And now that I know the guardians are about to dismantle the corps for reasons I'm guessing aren't benevolent, I have to put my life on hold all over again."

The Korugarian sits and listens as Jordan yells at him, not phased by his words in the slightest. He's used to it by now, if he were to be honest. But, what did bother him was the unsteady breathing coming from the back seat. He couldn't quite tell if it was crying or anger, or both. "You are a Green Lantern, Jordan," Sinestro starts. "This is your life." And, as he expected, his answer, though true, agitates Hal.

"You're going to that old trope?" Sinestro hears Hal ask, and Sinestro turns his head to look at the human. "Because I'm right."

"You're always right, huh?" Hal asks, looking at Sinestro instead of the path in front of him. The next line of events were a blur for the human, as he noticed a low growl from the back seat rise in volume while Sinestro spoke. Fireclaw finally broke and gave a loud, angered roar of "Enough!" as he quickly rose from the back seat, eyes clearly irritated from crying. "I'm sick of hearing you two-" Hal heard Fireclaw start, looking at the Levanixian in shock before Sinestro's startled "Look out!" had caught his attention.

Hal dismissed the construct, sending the three lanterns tumbling to the ground. But just as quickly as he had dismissed the jeep, he created a cage construct around who he'd almost hit. "Natromo!" Hal called, and the indigo light's keeper grabbed the bars of the cage. "Let me be! I want to say goodbye to my family!" The keeper begged, and Hal gently set the cage on the ground and slowly dismissed it. As Sinestro strode over with anger and Fireclaw picked himself up off the ground, Hal and Natromo went back and forth.

"Stop panicking!" Hal told the keeper. "We need to piece that lantern back together and get these maniacs under control!"

Natromo shook his head. "With Abin Sur dead, there's no reason to. All is lost! The guardians of the universe will destroy us all! It is time for prayers and whipshaw feasts!"

Interrupting the two, irritated, Sinestro harshly grabbed the back of Natromo's neck, holding a sharpened broken stick to the light keeper's neck. "Enough whining." Sinestro growled. "Repair the lantern or die."

"What the hell are you doing?! Let him go!" Hal yells at Sinestro, and the Korugarian calmly and coldly replies "We have no time. I can hear them coming. He'll live if he agrees to fix the lantern." Fireclaw shakes the rain from his fur before approaching the situation before him. "I can hear them too, but-"

Hal cuts Fireclaw off, angered. "You think threatening Natromo is going to work, Sinestro?! He already thinks this is the end! Fear isn't the answer, you're not right this time." Hal tells Sinestro, and Fireclaw growls with a lash of his tail and a glare at Hal. The cat's attention is back on Sinestro, and his voice is more stern than he intended as he speaks. "If he doesn't agree to fix the lantern and you kill him, there isn't anyone else here who can fix the lantern, so we'll be stuck here fighting for our lives." The Levanixian tries to reason, appealing more to logic and the future consequences of an action than trying to be right about something like Hal is. "He's extremely useful to us, we need him. We can't kill him."

Sinestro stands still, sharpened stick still held to Natromo's throat for a moment longer, gaze drifting between Hal and Fireclaw. He sighs as his eyes land on Fireclaw again, and the Korugarian drops the makeshift weapon and sets Natromo down with a defeated "Okay."

Sinestro can see Fireclaw relax, but knows the Levanixian will tense up again as the Korugarian turns and looks into the surrounding forest. "Okay?" Sinestro hears Hal ask, genuine surprise and confusion in his voice. "You're not just saying that, are you?"

"Just do whatever you're going to do, Jordan!" Sinestro says simply, moving deeper into the forest. He hears steps behind him, light and almost soundless on the soaked forest floor. He knows Fireclaw is now following him. "I'll go hold them off!" Sinestro calls back to Hal, and Sinestro hears Hal shout back at him "With a powerless ring?!"

"It's what you would do," Sinestro says to himself, eyes scanning the forest. He catches sight of a pair of green glowing eyes in the surrounding brush, and as they disappear he spots vibrant orange fur that quickly cuts to black. He'd remembered to turn his suit black.

As Sinestro moves to strike from the front, Fireclaw had turned the green of his suit black like he had learned on Korugar and stalked through the brush, positioning himself to strike the offline lanterns from behind. The Levanixian only leapt out from hiding when Sinestro did. And while Sinestro had announced his attack with "It's been a while since I had a real fight. Please don't disappoint me." Fireclaw kept silent, only giving voice to a vicious growl as he landed on one of the indigo tribe members and had sunk his claws into their flesh.

This fight had definitely gone way better than the one on Korugar, ring or no ring. Fireclaw held his own better than before, and during his time working with Sinestro, he'd learned to judge when the Korugarian needed help and when he didn't. The Levanixian swapped between fighting styles he'd learned at random, keeping his foes on edge and uncertain what the feline would do next. Sometimes, he'd use moves he'd learned by watching Sinestro, or learned from him directly. Other times, he'd fight like himself, using his claws and his teeth instead of throwing punches or striking with his elbow.

"Now it's a fight! Come on!" Fireclaw heard Sinestro taunt. Curious and checking in, Fireclaw turned to look at Sinestro just in time to see him give the creature that had its tentacles wrapped around his neck a solid punch to their face. From there on, the fight seemed to go just as well as before, until Fireclaw was pinned down. As long as Sinestro still stood, he would be fine. That's what the Levanixian told himself, and he believed it. That was, until he heard Sinestro grunt and heard a rough thump on the ground. Panicked, Fireclaw looks, and in terror watches as one of the indigo tribe members raises a boulder above his head, eyes locked on Sinestro.

The tomcat gave voice to a furious yowl, growling and snarling as he thrashed about in an attempt to free himself so he could free Sinestro. Though, just as quickly as the fight had started, it ended in an indigo flash. Fireclaw froze, eyes wide as he watched the indigo tribe come online again, hearing their rings ding and a quiet voice from each one, overlapping each other, listing the lantern's name and status. The one Fireclaw locked on to and was able to pick out of the crowd was-

THAAL SINESTRO ON-LINE.

Fireclaw feels the now online indigo tribe members release him, and, chest heaving, backs away, paws scrambling on the soaked ground. His previous confidence is gone now that the fight's over and Sinestro is once again no longer himself. As Sinestro approaches him, eyes glossed over and reading emotionless to the tom, Fireclaw backs away and slightly shakes his head. Sinestro simply stops in his tracks and stares a moment, unblinking, at Fireclaw before indigo light consumes them all.

Fireclaw's mind is swimming when he lands on solid ground again, somewhere dry. Once the world has settled for him, he stands and shakes the rain from his fur and suit, cutting off Hal and promptly getting yelled at for it.

"Oh, come on!" Hal yells, both at Fireclaw and Sinestro. The human fully shifts his focus onto the tribe, dismissing the clearly worn out and now cold Levanixian who is now sitting pitifully on the floor. "Let Sinestro go!" Jordan tells the tribe. "If you have any sense of the mission Abin Sur really created you for, you'll let him go!" he continues, then turns. "Natromo?"

The keeper of the indigo light shakes his head. "I cannot release him." He tells Jordan. "Only they can." And to that, Hal sighs and turns back to the tribe.

"I know it's crazy, but you need to let Sinestro loose. I need him to find out what the guardians' next move is." The human tells Iroque, Indigo-1.

"We will release him if you give us your word that he can find redemption without one of our rings." Iroque replies, prompting a "What?" from Hal and Fireclaw to raise his head and look at the tribe. "It's a simple question, Green Lantern," the indigo lantern starts. "Do you believe Sinestro is capable of becoming a hero again?"

Fireclaw's words got a curious look from Iroque and a stunned look from Jordan. "What do you mean "He already is," Fireclaw?!" Hal yells, more in shock than anger. The ginger Levanixian ignores the human for now, as Iroque gives a curious tilt of her head. "Elaborate." was her simple, rather gentle but still authoritative command.

Fireclaw raised his head as he took a deep breath, trying to get a little confidence. "Ever since I met Sinestro, all he's done is help me-'' Hal shakes his head and can't help a small laugh with a hushed "You've gotta be kidding me." To which Fireclaw snaps his attention from Iroque to Jordan. His voice is firm, cold when he speaks. "Something on your mind, Jordan?"

"You're joking." The human simply starts. "Sinestro doesn't care about us, he's using us. Or, he's at least using you." Fireclaw stares blankly at Hal while the human talks, the end of the Levanixian's tail flicking back and forth in agitation, giving away his true feelings. "He's playing you for all you're worth."

Fireclaw remains silent for a moment, breath slightly shaking. Iroque remains silent, watching the ensuing argument and paying attention to every word said by the two green lanterns. When finally Fireclaw speaks, his quiet yet angered tone surprises her.

"If Sinestro didn't care," he starts, ears turning to lay flat against his head, his back slightly arching, and tail lashing at times. Clear signs of aggression. "He wouldn't have given me a ring." Fireclaw steps forward, starting to slowly approach and circle around Hal. "If Sinestro didn't care, he wouldn't be training me." The cat's approach makes Jordan take a step back. "If Sinestro didn't care, I wouldn't be here right now! The fight with the Indigo Tribe while they were offline would've killed me- the fight with the Sinestro Corps on Korugar would've killed me if Sinestro didn't step in and get me back in the fight!"

"You shouldn't have been in those fights in the first place!" Hal yells. "You shouldn't have a ring! You don't have what it takes to be a Green Lantern!" That made Fireclaw back off a step, pain clear in the tom's eyes. Though, Hal didn't relent. "How many times have you gotten hurt because of it?! Because of a situation that heartless monster put you in?!"

Angered, tears welling up in his eyes, Fireclaw snaps. "I would rather face death a thousand times over than never have had a ring!" the Levanixian roars, tears soaking into his already damp fur. "You sound just like my mother, saying I can't do something that I can clearly do! That I don't have what it takes when I do! That I shouldn't get into fights that I have the skill, or can learn the skill, to survive and win!" His tail lashes, his breath shakes. "If Sinestro was a "heartless monster" like you claim, he wouldn't have shown any concern about Korugar! He rushed into a fight, threw his own plan out the window, all because someone he cared about was in danger! He wouldn't have shown any concern about me, either! And he wouldn't have listened to us about Natromo!"

Fireclaw turns and relaxes his posture as he turns to Iroque, ears low as he looks up. His voice shakes as he speaks. "I don't know what Sinestro has done in the past to warrant any of this, he's definitely not compassionless to me," he starts, dismissing Hal's muttering behind him. "But to me, it seems like he's trying to make up for whatever he's done. He's already a hero for me; it's a start of what you want, isn't it?"

Iroque stares a moment, thinking, before nodding.

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It's a quick teleportation back to the Indigo base, and the cleansing process didn't take as long as Hal thought. Though, the fight about who would control the on/off switch for Fireclaw's ring took a while. Ultimately, Natromo gave control of Fireclaw's ring to Sinestro while she was reprogramming the rings and changing the hierarchy. While the indigo light was being removed from Sinestro's system, Iroque had Fireclaw taken to be dried off and warmed up before he caught his death. When he joins Jordan and Sinestro, the Korugarian is dazed but wearing green again.

"What... What happened?" Fireclaw hears Sinestro ask, and the tom picks up a brisk trot towards the two green lanterns as Hal explains. "The Indigo Tribe's released you into my custody." The human tells Sinestro, and Sinestro echoes "Your custody?" with a slightly confused tone. "They refueled our rings," Hal continued. "And Natromo, the Indigo Guardian, helped change the bond between mine and yours."

As Sinestro asked what that meant, taking a slightly defensive posture, Fireclaw slowed down to a stop as Hal explained. "It means the ring you constructed for me does whatever I will it now." Hal raised his ring, bright, strong green light flaring up from it. Hal saw Sinestro glance to the side, a glance to Fireclaw who stood frozen with wide eyes as Hal shot at Sinestro with a simple "Including affecting you."

Sinestro hit the ground with a pained grunt, rolling over before settling. Slowly, he picked himself up off the ground, wiping blood from a cut on his lip with his wrist as Jordan approached with a smile on his face and a clearly unapologetic "Sorry" and a "I wanted to make sure it worked."

"Wanted to make sure it worked?" Fireclaw echoed, shock and anger in his voice and in his eyes. As Sinestro stood up, he'd given Fireclaw an order. Fireclaw ignored what Sinestro told him to do, opting instead to throw himself at Hal with an angered yowl.

Quickly, Sinestro intervened. "Fireclaw! Jordan! That is enough!" The Korugarian yelled as he gripped Hal's arm in one hand and the scruff of Fireclaw's neck in the other, pulling the two apart and separating them. He roughly pushed Hal away and tossed Fireclaw away from him, making the Levanixian land with his back to the two green lanterns. Though quickly, Sinestro watched as Fireclaw turned to face Hal again. "Drop it, Fireclaw." Sinestro ordered. "This can be dealt with later. There's a glaring problem before us."

"You mean besides-" Fireclaw started, but fell silent when Sinestro snapped a firm "Later" at him. "Jordan," The Korugarian started, shifting his focus. "Where's Black Hand?"

"He was here." Jordan says, and Sinestro crosses his arms, looking down at the dark colored splatters on the rock. "And now he's not." He sighs and shakes his head before speaking again. "You idiot." Sinestro starts. "Why worry about me when Black Hand was still out there? I could've gotten free from the indigo ring myself. My will would have eventually broken through." The Korugarian continues, looking at Jordan. Beside Sinestro, Fireclaw stands on all four paws, back arched, fur standing on end, and ears low, looking down at the splattered liquid on the ground. He's shifting from paw to paw, clearly frightened by the sight before him.

"No one can keep me--" Sinestro starts, but is cut off by Hal's "This isn't about you, Sinestro."

The Korugarian watched as Jordan looked up, explaining that "There's only one way Black Hand could get down here if his ring was offline. He jumped." Sinestro felt Fireclaw lightly bump into his leg, likely by accident, and Sinestro lowered a hand to gently tap the Levanixian's shoulder to get his attention. "Relax, we've faced Black Hand before." He whispers to the tom before turning his attention back to Jordan. "So Black Hand would rather die than be enslaved like this tribe." Sinestro says, and Hal crouches down as he shakes his head.

"I'm not sure dying was the end game." Hal tells Sinestro, investigating the splatters on the ground. "This isn't all blood. This is the same slime that made up the black lanterns." Jordan stands, and then looks at Fireclaw. "You did say you would rather face death than never have had that ring, didn't you?"

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"Thanks for the lift, Indigo." Hal says as the four lanterns settle on Korugar, Fireclaw already looking around.

"My tribe will finish forging the rings alongside Natromo. We will wait for your command." Iroque tells the Green Lanterns, and Sinestro rolls his eyes when he hears Hal and Iroque's next words.

"Let's hope your indigo rings do some magic when we slip them on their little blue fingers." The human tells the indigo lantern.

"The ring changed me, Green Lantern," Iroque starts. "And if I can be changed, if a child killer can now feel things even without the indigo ring, then the guardians can be saved."

"Please." Sinestro starts, cold. "The guardians are beyond saving."

"That is what we believe about you," Iroque starts, and notices that protective, challenging look in Fireclaw's eyes as he glares at her from where he stood behind Sinestro, ears pricked forward and head low. "You are fortunate that Topaz Fireclaw and Hal Jordan believe something else." she continues, glancing behind Sinestro at Fireclaw, seeing how he relaxed slightly. "Do not waste this opportunity. Or we shall return."

"If you try this again," Sinestro starts, tone dangerous. "I will kill every single member of your tribe without hesitation." It wasn't just a threat, it wasn't just a warning, it was a promise, and Sinestro intended to follow through with it if the time came.

"When that time comes... It will be an interesting battle." Iroque agrees with a nod as she prepares a teleport. "Nok."

"You shouldn't threaten Indigo or her tribe." Hal tells Sinestro as they walk through tunnels deep under Korugarian streets. Fireclaw follows behind, standing up on his hind legs for once, and simply listens as Sinestro and Hal go back and forth. "They're on our side."

"Which is why they kidnapped me?" Sinestro asks with a raise of a brow.

Hal rolls his eyes. "Okay, my side."

"So you want me as brainwashed as them?" Sinestro asks, giving Hal a questioning glance.

"If I did, I would've left you on Nok. They asked me if you--" Sinestro was quick to cut Hal off with a dismissive wave of his hand.

"I don't need to hear it and I don't want to hear it, Jordan." Sinestro dismisses. "My threat stands. And if we ever get in a situation like this again, you worry about me second and Black Hand first." Sinestro pauses a moment, and looks back over his shoulder out of the corner of his eye. "Both of you."

"Have you ever said "Thank you?"" Hal asks, so which Sinestro calmly replies with a serious tone; "There is no translation of that on Korugar." It causes Hal to pause a moment, before smiling. "Did you just make a joke? You did, didn't you?"

"Take a guess." Came Sinestro's reply, calm yet with a tone of being completely done. This got a small laugh and a smile out of Fireclaw.

After a few minutes of traveling in silence, Hal finally asks; "So, why are we moving through the sewers?"

"Because we need to stay out of sight." Sinestro explains. "Korugar deserves some peace after what I put everyone through. They see me... They could assume the worst." He continues. "But the worst is yet to come." Sinestro could tell Fireclaw had become curious, feeling the Levanixian's presence beside him instead of far behind him.

"The guardians have decided to discard the Green Lantern Corps like they did the Manhunters. And they'll destroy us all. Unless we destroy them first." The Korugarian knew Fireclaw had questions, and signaled to the Levanixian that he'll talk to him about everything later with a simple hand gesture while Hal started talking.

"Ganthet's a shining example of the potential the guardians have." Hal pointed out. "If one of them can be something other than a cold, unfeeling dwarf, then they all can."

"You believe there's something good in them?" Sinestro asked, a curious tilt of his head.

"In everyone, Sinestro." Hal agrees.

"Even Black Hand?" Sinestro challenges, making Hal pause with a "Well..."

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As the three lanterns approached a door, Fireclaw pinned his ears at Hal and stepped in front of him, between him and Sinestro, glaring at the human while Sinestro unlocked the door. No longer forced to walk on two legs, Fireclaw dropped down onto all four paws as he stepped onto dry ground and started down the stairs, head right by Sinestro's side.

"The last time Black Hand rose from the dead, he was a herald to the living embodiment of nothingness-- Nekron." Sinestro explained, really more for Fireclaw than Hal. "He could be on a mission to bring Nekron back. Or worse, a mission we know nothing about. Black Hand's as great a threat as the guardians themselves. And now, because of-" Sinestro was cut off by an angered and clearly pained yowl from Fireclaw, stopping and turning to watch as Fireclaw lashed out at Jordan. Claws unsheathed, teeth bared, ears pinned, fur standing on end. "Fireclaw." Sinestro starts, and it's more an order than a way to get the cat's attention.

"He stepped on my tail." Fireclaw growls as he returns to Sinestro's side, glaring back at Hal. Sinestro sighs.

"Walk ahead of me." he tells Fireclaw, and Fireclaw listens to Sinestro's order. He even ignores Jordan's "Hey! It's not my fault he didn't pick up his tail!" because Sinestro promptly responds with "It's not that hard to watch where you're going, Jordan."

As the trio reaches the bottom of the stairs, and Sinestro had finished explaining where he'd put the Book of The Black, Fireclaw hears Hal ask; "So this is your Batcave?" What the fuck was a Batcave?

"How big is this place?" Hal asks, and Sinestro replies quickly. Fireclaw is too busy looking around to pay much attention to the conversation Hal and Sinestro are having, in awe of everything Sinestro has in this place. Two power batteries catch his eye, one yellow and one green. He lingers a moment, glancing at the picture that hung behind the power batteries, ears lowering.

It was of Sinestro and someone Fireclaw didn't recognize. The Levanixian quickly turned to catch up to Sinestro, nearly running into Hal on the way. Though, the tomcat gave a swift kick with a hind paw to the human's shin as he passed, cutting Hal off just as he began to pry into Sinestro's past.

"Ow!" Hal snapped, stumbling and glaring at the cat. "What was that for?!" Jordan glared at Sinestro when the Korugarian had turned to see what the commotion was, only to find Fireclaw looking rather annoyed and Hal standing on one leg while he rubbed the other.

"We're not entitled to his past." Fireclaw says, turning back to look at Hal, and the human growls as he lowers his slightly aching leg back to the ground.

"It's a harmless question," Hal defends as Fireclaw turns to carry on walking, following Sinestro. "I should step on your tail again for that."

Both Fireclaw and Sinestro pause, and both turn around at the same time, though with different expressions. "So it was on purpose!" Fireclaw snaps, rage clear on his face, while Sinestro remains silent and stunned, eyes wide. As Fireclaw moves to stalk around Hal, Sinestro moves to properly face the two lanterns, hands behind his back. He'll surely step in if this fight gets too ugly, but he's confident it won't.

"Yeah, it was," Hal agrees with hostility. "What are you going to do? Kick me like you kicked me for asking a harmless-"

Fireclaw cut Jordan off quickly, repeating what he'd said earlier; "We are not entitled to Sinestro's past!" The Levanixian changes the direction he was stalking around Hal quickly, a way for him to control his frustration.

"You were looking at the picture too! Surely you wanted to ask-" Fireclaw again cut Jordan off mid sentence, tail lashing as he yelled "It doesn't matter if I looked at the picture or not! That has nothing to do with my point! Neither of us are entitled to know anything about Sinestro's past! Even if we ask! I never asked you about that construct you made on Korugar, because even if I was curious, it wasn't my [cazzo] business!" Fireclaw looks down at his ring, offended, as if it had made the same offense as Hal had. Though his attention was quickly back on Hal as the human laughed, for once witnessing someone besides himself or Guy being hit with the ring's censor.

"Shut up!" Fireclaw snapped. "Ever since the fight with the Sinestro Corps, you've been nothing but an asshole to me! And not once have I ever seen you show any sort of kindness towards Sinestro, even though he's busting his ass trying to do right by you and that ring he wears!"

"Oh, you mean the same fight where you refused to help me try and break out of the holding cell?!" Hal snaps back. "And by busting his ass you mean threatening Indigo and her tribe?! Threatening Natromo?!" Fireclaw has a low growl in his chest now, lips twitching. Sinestro can tell, Hal's pushing his luck here. "Yeah, he's doing real good by me." Jordan's voice was heavy with sarcasm.

"Oh, you mean the same cell I was thrown into after being branded?! The same cell an experienced Green Lantern couldn't break out of?!" Fireclaw mocked, stepping towards Hal. "What the hell would me wasting power and putting myself in more pain have done to break us out if even you couldn't dent the door alone?!" Hal had opened his mouth to speak, but Fireclaw quickly cut him off. "Nothing! It would've done nothing! My back felt like it was on fire, I was in excruciating pain, and you expect me to still stand up and help you break down a door when it was my first time with any ring?!" Silence falls for a moment, Sinestro can see Fireclaw shaking, holding back. Though, the Korugarian knew that this verbal fight would turn physical very soon. It's just how fights with Hal Jordan went, in his experience.

When Fireclaw next spoke, his voice shook. "Sinestro's threat to Natromo was wrong, I agree. And it scared me, as stupid as it sounds for a [fottuta] Green Lantern to feel fear- because I was told we aren't supposed to feel fear!" Fireclaw's voice and volume raises towards the end, tears welling up in his eyes, blurring his vision slightly. "Sinestro's threat to Indigo and her tribe is justified! They tortured him!"

Again, Hal opened his mouth to speak just after Fireclaw took a breath, but Fireclaw cut him off. "Don't you dare tell me they didn't, because they did! I heard it! I [cazzo] heard his screams! -And don't you dare say I didn't because I know what I heard! If I were put through the same shit Sinestro was put through, I'd make the same threat!"

"Then you don't deserve that ring, real or a duplicate." Hal says simply. "You're so much like Sinestro it's not funny."

"I'd rather be like Sinestro than like you!" Fireclaw snaps, tears finally falling down his face. "If you're the kind of person the Green Lantern Corps prefers, I don't want a real ring! I don't want any part of it!" Fireclaw turns away from Hal and walks, trying to find some sort of relief for a moment because he doesn't really want to get into a physical fight with Hal Jordan. But he turns to face the human, rage still present, and continues. "You're so much like my mother it's not funny!" Fireclaw mocks Hal again. "Always telling me I'm wrong, telling me I don't know what I'm talking about, that I don't know what I'm doing- I feel like if I breathe wrong you'll get pissed off and yell at me for it!"

"You don't know what you're doing, and you don't know what you're talking about," Hal agrees. "You have no idea how to u-"

"Don't. You. Dare-" The Levanixian's aura flares to life around him, green light sparking from his ring and flecking off his back as if it were a fire. "-Say I don't know how to use this ring!" Fireclaw snarls.

Watching the conflict, Sinestro thought Fireclaw would be the first to strike, being the one of the two that was the most visibly upset and ready to battle, but it was Hal. The human summoned a construct in response to Fireclaw's aura, starting the physical part of the fight. He'd created some sort of rocket, which Fireclaw had created a construct around his tail ending in a blade of some sort to counter. The Korugarian watched as the feline leapt, using the blade to slice cleanly through Jordan's constructs. If Sinestro had any place to get involved in this fight, this is where he would praise Fireclaw's strength.

"I'll show you I know how to use this ring!" Sinestro hears Fireclaw mutter as the tomcat summons what seems to be his signature construct; a protective construct around his forepaws with added longer claws. He uses them to protect himself as he approaches Jordan, the experienced lantern having summoned some sort of earthen weapon. And Fireclaw uses his construct to protect himself still as he grabs onto Jordan's construct with one hand, and draws the other back. At first, it looked like Fireclaw planned to use his claws to deal damage, but last second closed his hand and threw what would have been a strong punch at Jordan, had the human not stepped to the side while throwing a net construct over Fireclaw and pushing the cat forward to tumble to the ground.

Fireclaw struggles, getting his claws stuck in the net. For a beat he panics, and his eyes meet Sinestro's. He could see something clicked in the tom's head, and back to fighting the cat went. Though, this time Sinestro, and even Hal, could tell there's a plan behind Fireclaw's struggling. With his forepaws trapped, Fireclaw uses his hind claws to hook into the net, intentionally tangling them up as well. But, close to his forepaws.

With the determination not to lose this fight fueling his willpower, thus fueling his strength, Fireclaw pushes against the net with his hind paws, while pulling against that pressure with his forepaws. After the first few threads break, the rest of the construct collapses and Fireclaw is quick to stand to his full height. ...Which, compared to Hal and Sinestro isn't intimidating at all, but Sinestro does have to admit that the look suits Fireclaw. The confidence, the determination. One day, with enough training, he's sure that Fireclaw will always have some strong level of confidence and determination like he has now.

Sinestro continued to watch silently as the two clashed again and again, Fireclaw using every trick he knew as he fought, and Sinestro noticed new tricks that he hadn't taught Fireclaw show up. He also noticed that Fireclaw began to use Jordan's own tricks against him. It was when the two lanterns had hit the ground at the same time, after both had sent attacks at each other and struck, that Sinestro knew the fight was over. He just had to see who willed themselves to stand first for him to personally decide the winner. Surprisingly, both had actually remained on the floor a few moments, chests heaving.

Hal was the first to try to stand, rolling over and getting up onto his knees with a pained groan. Fireclaw was quick to follow, clearly taking it as a challenge. Though, while the Levanixian's will was strong, he'd exhausted himself. Jordan was the first to stand.

"I believe the two of you are done." Sinestro says as he walks to Fireclaw, offering a hand to help the Levanixian up. A moment longer of catching his breath, Fireclaw accepts Sinestro's offer, and the Korugarian pulls the cat to his feet. "For your first real fight against Hal Jordan of all lanterns, you did very well." Sinestro whispers to the Levanixian after turning his back to Hal. He gently pats Fireclaw's shoulder before continuing on with their prior mission, getting Jordan refocused on it with a simple "You wanted the Book of The Black, Jordan?" To which Hal quickly said yes.

Sinestro left Fireclaw standing there, stunned, and as Hal passed the shocked feline he gave one last taunt; "Sure, you fight well, but you'll never truly be a Green Lantern."

#DC Comics #DC OC #DC #⭑🛠⭑ Hyperfixation est. 2015 { DC Comics }#⭑🛠⭑ baby’s first sona that ACTUALLY STAYED hey look at that { Fireclaw }#⭑🛠⭑ Hey what are words again I forgor { My Writing }#⭑🛠⭑ A sadness runs through him { Thaal Sinestro }#still very proud of this one too #not gonna rewrite this bc I'm super happy with how it is now #just gotta..... get around to writing the rest of the events of Fireclaw's backstory some time

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girlfromthecrypt · 7 months ago

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I finally got to read the update!! Don't mind me rambling a bit about everything I loved about it...

I really enjoyed the beginning of this chapter. Being playful with Basil in the van is super cute. It was interesting to see Reem and Basil not getting along a little bit, it makes me intrigued about if there will be any cracks in our little friend group's foundation that might start to show. And if so what that might mean when things start going bad.

Also, Anita is adorable!! It had me giggling when she called everyone attractive--I loved getting to tease her about it afterwards. I chose to room with her and the siblings--though the thought of Basil sleeping alone makes me nervous for the future...

Definitely Looking at Anita's comment about how your sanity starts slipping when you go without sleep. I'm SO eager to reach the horror. Though the slightly slower, cheerful beginning is so great. I love getting to know everyone and seeing them happy and bonding, knowing that there's horror on the horizon...

Javier talking about his mom marrying his dad straight up made me snort laugh. I work with kids and they truly do say the most out of pocket things. It's very true to life. And ooooh, Basil and Gabriel just...staring at the woods got me so hyped. Reading that scene gave me a proper thrill, that little 'heart-pounding-faster' feeling that makes me love horror so so much.

Hell yes at getting to tell the kids a scary story!! I remember being a kid and hearing classics like Don't Turn on the Light and being scared out of my socks. It's sooo fun to be able to play at passing that on to a whole new generation!! I'm 100% in to romance Basil, but this update makes me want to do a run where I romance Anita. She's so so cute. And the siblings both are great in their own ways... I'm sensing that I'll end up doing runs for each of the ROs, you've made such fun and sweet characters!

Aaah that ending!!!! Genuinely terrifying, and made me so anxious about the kids!! I KNOW my MC is going to be hard-pressed to keep them all safe. I can't wait to see what comes next!! I love how you write characters, they're all so likable and distinct!! This was such a good update, it makes me really eager for more.

HI (omg it's that cool person) HIIII <3

Thank you so much for this. I'll have you know I reread this ask like three times and I'm probably gonna read it all over again tomorrow bc it gives me life. I can't express how happy I am that you cared to write such a long ask bc of my IF if all things. Thank you, it made my day.

Basil and Anita's on-the-road scenes in the van were my favorite to write!! And yes, there's certainly a bit of tension in the group. MCs with high sociability or perception will be able to pick up on this, also on George's fondness for a certain colleague--- but don't worry, no one's at each other's throats. Yet.

And yay, some Anita appreciation!! Cut her some slack, she's not used to being around hot people and between a possibly cute MC and the FUCKING MALAKS of all people... yeah. It's not easy for her.

Ok so you know that you can also sleep in the van with Basil if your relationship stat/his approval of you is strong enough? I hope that was clear from the dialogue options and you just chose the cabin despite of it, bc if not, I might have to rewrite the choice. Furthermore, while I can see why you'd be worried for him, I'd be more concerned for an MC who chooses to sleep alone ;) [yes, this is me hinting at a future horror scenario possibly unique to that route].

Ah yes, Javier, my son <3 lol. Nahhh I don't favor any of the campers. Though, if I had to pick which one I liked to write the most, it'd probably be him.

Now I feel bad haha. Ok but srsly, kids can be VERY outspoken, and Javier especially has noooo social filter. You might notice that some of the campers' traits specifically correspond to some of the ROs' characteristics... Looking at Gabriel and Basil here.

Both campfire stories are also really close to my own heart, so I jumped at the chance to include them. As for the ROs, I do hope you'll do a run for each of them! I'm trying quite hard to make it difficult to choose between them ;)

I love that the ending hit the way it was supposed to. If you want to know what's up next, I have one word for you: confusion. Lots of confusion.

See, I need to give this story a slow, slice-of-life start, bc purely from a narrative standpoint, it wouldn't make sense for the horror to come out guns blazing. That's why the MC will at first be the only one to experience the horrors and for the horrors to (seemingly) originate from one of the kids, bc if it was more dramatic and the threat was to come from an exterior source, everyone would just pack up and flee and then the story would be over. That's what I figure.

Anyhow, I'm so glad I still got you hooked with this project. Thanks so much for this super long message.

#if: wip #interactive fiction #choicescript game #dashingdon wip #if demo #romanceable characters #ro asks #if: such happy campers

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breathplayed · 1 year ago

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17, 29, 48, & 55 😁🫖

oh u GOT me got me lets go

(17) what is your favorite line you’ve ever written? babe plz this one is too hard..... there's too many...... I HAVE 920K WORDS ON AO3 AND ~50K INCOMING I DONT EVEN REMEMBER THEM ALL......... uuhhhhhhhh ok ok ill try to narrow a few down. it's all gonna be recent tho bc that's what i remember most + i have rly been indulging myself stylistically as of late lmao

for just ~pretty language~ my favorites rn are

"Jimin is almost too pretty to mar with mortal hands, but Jungkook finds desecration is half the fun when his hands slip lower" (folie à trois)

"Some floodgate inside him has broken, the last bastion of resistance crumbled, and now he’s a drowning man in the dead waters" (folie à trois)

“I love you,” he whimpers into Taehyung’s kiss like a prayer. Too devout; Taehyung’s hands and lips pause. Jimin’s own lip is already trembling, caught, so he lets the confessional spill like it’s the last Sunday he’ll ever see." (the losing game ch17)

"[Taehyung] used to dream, sometimes, after Jimin was gone, that he was holding him again, that he could crack open Jimin's ribcage and crawl inside to make a home beside his heart before they burned together." (the losing game ch5)

"Sometimes—in his darkest moments, on his worst nights—Jimin dreams about Taehyung carving over each and every one of his scars. Creating clean new edges to each of them, prying fingers in the wound to be as close as possible, rewriting their memories and meanings with a jagged, almost unbearable intimacy." (the losing game ch17)

"The graves we dig ourselves are often the deepest." (the graves we dig..... now thats a real throwback huh)

there's too much i could say for dialogue but.... i'm super fond of the hurtful conversations present!vmin have in tlg (especially ch14, i reread that a lot), ignite the stars ch5 (also reread that a lot), and also i love pretty much everything that comes out of taehyung's mouth in folie à trois lol

(29) give us a spoiler for one of your stories. answered here, but since this one could be answered multiple times i'll bite......... my queue tag ("i'm glad it was queue") is a play on one of my favorite lines in all of tlg that i have been excited about getting to for yeaaaarrrssss. no one but me knows the line yet (or how hurtful its context is) bc it's in one of the final chapters hehehe but it's "i'm glad it was you" ..... :')

(48) do you reread your own stories? the answer to this used to be a strong NO!!!! but that has actually changed in the last two years! i don't rly reread anything older (my writing style has changed so much + there's things i'd change about older fics esp <2020 so it's not an enjoyable experience to me, i'd just fret over editing it) but there's some newer fics i reread bc they are So written to my own taste. i think i really improved a lot getting to write a bunch in lockdown lol + started caring less about whether ppl liked the fic and just wrote for ✨Me✨ so several of those recent fics i'm happy with and do reread sometimes like a stupid idiot narcissus

The ones i've reread the most are "sit, stay" + "sea legs" + favorite parts of "ignite the stars" and my favorite parts of "the losing game". the other scattered pwp's since 2020 have gotten reread about twice each. and i recently reread WBIO for the first time since writing it in early 2020!!! mixed feelings on that one bc i felt like i would change some parts of it if i wrote it today but that's a sign ur growing and improving i suppose

(55) do you have any abandoned WIP’s? What made you abandon them? oh i have so fucking many 'WIPs' it's not even funny. there's probably like ~12 completely bullet point outlined medium length / longfics in my docs down to exact dialogue i'd write, and dozens more fic attempts that have a whole plot and ending. bc as soon as i come up with an idea i already immediately know how i want it to end. which gives me way too many Plot Bunnies that are viable to be turned into fics!!!!! two years ago i made a list of every idea i thought should at least see the light of day in threadfic form if not an actual fic and it came out to 30 fics lol (and that was cutting it down to the essentials)

the thing is, very few of my WIPs are ever 'abandoned' in my mind, it's more like... i put them in my mental freezer. on hold / on ice. and some of them are closer to the front and get taken out and rotated around and worked on more often, while others are shoved to the far back of the freezer as i say "i'll make that someday" and forget it exists til the next time im reminded of it. there's only a few that i'd actually toss in the trash (aka truly abandon and never work on again).

the ones that are definitely abandoned in that i know i dont Want to write them are all on the more domestic romcom side (think like 'meaner than mean' or 'i like us like this') i know people like those but they're the hardest thing for me to write, those were the most annoyed i've ever felt while writing, i would literally groan out loud working on them, i am rly only happy writing conflict/angst or pwp lol

tbh, if i were to be realistic with myself, i'd say most of these wip's are 'abandoned' in that i probably will never get around to finishing them. but i dont want to call them abandoned because i do like the plots, and think ppl would like them, and want to share them!!! i just think they would suck / not be fun to write. Maybe Someday i will do an archival effort and work on translating as many of them as i can into threadfic form so they see the light of day in some format and are no longer abandoned to rot in my docs... bc there's no way that most of them are ever going to be written the way i wish i could do them justice :') and then i can abandon them knowing that ppl at least got to read a vague outline of what could have been

fun fact: i opened the aforementioned list of all these ideas to count and on one of them, a fic i've been poking at since 2018, i have the note "finish this or die" next to it. guess i know which one i've picked atp 🪦

#ask game

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narrators-journal · 1 year ago

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Hi ٩(｡•́‿•̀｡)۶ Can your write a Persona 5 x F!reader with this idea?

So reader workers together with Akechi in both the metaverse and detective work and since she works with Akechi and goes on tv with him a bunch of his fans ship them together and Akechi actually has a big crush on her but she doesn't have a crush on him because she's also part of the thieves and has a crush on Joker so Akechi is super jealous of Joker because Akechi can see how much reader likes Joker, she works at crossroads and is friends with Ohya and also works through Shido too and Shido also sees her like a daughter and doesn't know that she's joined the thieves in Kaneshiro's palace.

She joined in Kaneshiro's palace because Kaneshiro is actually her dad and figure out he had a daughter after he hired a hitman to kill reader's mom because she used to be one of the girls he used to have around him but reader didn't know how bad he was until she heard from Ohya that Joker was looking into Kaneshiro so she went and talked to Joker and convinced him to let her join them in the metaverse and is surprised that she already has a metaverse outfit but she just is trust worthy so the thieves welcome her abord because she gets them into the palace, she also has 2 personas Aphrodite and Peresphone and because she has Aphrodite everyone thinks she is super beautiful and she;s also super powerful because she has two personas she can use at the same time. She also inheirates also all of Kaneshiro's wealth after Kaneshiro changes his heart so she can also pay for all the things that the thieves want which makes them trust her even more. Also Haru has a crush on her because reader saved her dad by pleading with Akechi to not kill him so Okumara has a change of heart actually.

When Akechi joins he gets even more jealous of Joker because reader and Joker are really close and she's basically Joker's right hand woman and helps with all the plans and Joker notices how jealous is Akechi but he doesn't say anything because reader already told them all about Akechi's plan to kill Joker because she doesn't want to betray the thieves and she ends up pleading with Akechi to not kill Joker so when Akechi comes in in the interrogation room he doesn't shoot Joker but actually helps him out because he just wants to help reader that much and reader vouches for him so that the theives don't hate him then they start working on Shido's palace and reader helps them get in and gets them all the letters that they need because Shido sees her like a daughter so she just has to ask. Then when Yaldobath takes over she helps Joker get everyone out of the velvet room because Yaldobath didn't break her spirit and then in the final battle reader gets a third persona who is Nyx and she and Satanael take down Yaldobath together and every one is saved.

How do you think the thieves would think of her?? Would any of them have crushes on her other than Akechi and Joker? 🥺 I would like a oneshot but headcanons are also ok I love your writing!! I'M SO SORRY THIS IS SO LONG THANK YOU 😊

I know you wanted a one shot, but your ask seems to be requesting a big ol' rewrite of the entire p5 plot, which, even without Royal's additions, is a massive game. So, I instead encourage you to write out your own fic! I'm sure it'll be quite the fun read if you do!

As for the ask, I feel like you're lowkey asking for an OC ask, but I can't be sure if you just want a really specific reader, or if you have an OC with this story. So, I just took your ending question and am gonna just do some headcanons or thoughts off of it.

Now, this isn't meant to be 'mean' or anything personal, I'm just taking from what I know of the canon personalities. Which, I admit is probably not completely accurate, but I tried my best. I also can't go through all of the confidants bc I know NOTHING of them, but ye! I hope this makes you happy, and if this was meant to be a big one shot request with an oc, I don't take OC asks. Tho, I do encourage you to have fun and try your hand at writing it for yourself in that case!

Akira: Akira's the hardest to guestimate a personality from. I know for a fact that Akira would be confused and lost at a reader with two different persona, but In canon, he's left kinda blank so that the player can choose the options they like and basically paint him however they want, so beyond that shock, I don't know. But in my head, Akira's a very friendly person when you give him a chance, but isn't trusting. He's been backstabbed by the law system, he's not a very trusting person. So, I do think Akira'd hang onto a shred of suspicion for the reader if they had a metaverse outfit already without a story like Akechi had. And even then, I don't think the thieves exactly trusted Akechi despite needing to work with him. So the reader would fall into a same issue for a good while. It'd be slow going. Especially for being a target's kid while being so eager to help.

Akechi: I. Know very little of Akechi's in-game personality, but from what I know from my boyfriend who's played the game a lot, he's even less social and approachable than Akira. So, outside of using them and maintaining power, Akechi doesn't like anybody. He doesn't like Akira, he doesn't like the thieves, he arguably likes Sae? But he doesn't seem to gt close to anyone since his goal is to take down shido no matter the cost. As for the multiple persona, Akechi would hate the reader like he hates Akira for that. Akira's already a threat to his self esteem as a person, but at least Akechi would feel he has the upper hand with loki. Another person with multiple personas would anger him further.

Yusuke: Yusuke is the first one that would have a reaction beyond shock or rage at a reader with two personas. He'd likely be confused, but his initial reaction would probably be in admiring their beauty and form, likely wanting to draw them. Beyond that, he'd probably go off of Morgana and Akira's judgement for that reveal. He'd likely play devil's advocate for the reader, but they've got a lot of explaining to do. As a person though, so long as the reader is pretty, Yusuke's not going to be an asshole. He's a rather nice guy, if a bit awkward, so he'd be easy to befriend, especially if you let him draw you. Of all the people in the thieves, Yusuke would be one that is likely to crush on the reader if they're artistically appealing at all.

Ryuji: Unlike Yusuke, Ryuji'd be a bit hostile and distrusting from the start. A stray persona user with an outfit already and two different persona? That's a little suspect. However, unlike Akira, Ryuji'd be easier to convince. He's easy going, so with a good enough explanation, he'd be okay with the reader. As for if he'd crush on a reader, maybe. He might crush a bit at the start like he did with Ann, but as time goes on and the reader works more with them, They'd probably go the route of Ann too. Be seen too much as a baby sister or brother, not a romantic option. Plus, he wants to know how you get multiple persona, so he's gonna want to know.

Ann: The reader being a girl would help a lot with befriending Ann. She'd be a little suspiscious, and shocked to find out the reader has multiple persona and is their target's kid, but otherwise she's pretty nice, she'd give the benefit of the doubt. I don't know a lot of Ann's in-game personality, so I can't really go in-depth, but she'd in general try to give the reader the benefit of the doubt and be the first to extend some trust to them.

Morgana: Morgana is admittedly far worse than Akira on the not trusting angle of things with the reader. Not exactly because of them having a costume and awakening so randomly, but moreso because of the dual persona. That's a wildcard-specific thing, normal users do not have more than one persona in his knowledge, so them having more than one would put him firmly on edge. He'd be not very nice to the reader with the whole context of their person. The odd awakening, the multiple persona, and her being their target's kid? I++t would just rub him the wrong way.

Makoto: Makoto would be SO suspicious of a user just wandering around like you. She'd downright interrogate the reader on their awakening and motives, why they have two persona, all of it. She wouldn't quite be astounded or upset at you having more than one persona, Akira has one, so it's not unreasonable. her biggest concern is the reader's connection to Kaneshiro and her help being a trap, not the personas.

Futaba: Taba would be super interested in reader-chan when they meet! Two persona? Yet you're not like Akira at all? She'd definitely hack into the metaverse to investigate. Since she comes after Kaneshiro, she wouldn't really have the instant distrust the others would get. So, she'd be easier to befriend then the others. Though, the reader being Kaneshiro's daughter would be a little sketchy to her, just because Kaneshiro is sketchy.

Haru: Kaneshiro being the reader's dad would actually win some points with Haru. Not that it isn't sketchy and a bit odd, but she's got her own daddy issues. Granted, hers isn't a sleazy, womanizing pimp, but still, there's something to bond over. This would slightly win the reader a benefit of the doubt on their lack of an awakening, especially since Haru's own awakening was odd. She has no stance on the persona though, unable to choose if that's a bad sign or not, but she'd likely go off of Morgana's vibes about it, so she'd keep an eye on the reader. But! She'd also gladly be friends with her as well, maybe just date a little, y'know?

All around, the group would be fairly suspicious and unnerved by the reader and her connections and oddities, but most would give her a chance, and her standing with them is very open to change as time goes on, so I can't say anyone, except maybe Akech's insecure ass, would outright hate reader-chan.

#Persona 5 #Phantom thieves #fem!Reader #headcanons #ask #persona #thoughts

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poptartmochi · 2 years ago

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OC QUESTION TIME!!! 2, 14, 25, 29, 39, and 50!

OHHHHHOHOHOH, YOU'RE APPROACHING ME!!!! i am not the jonker babey but i AM the rambler so! i'm preemptively putting this below a readmore :']< thank you for the ask sky!!! 😄😄😄💙

here's the prompt!

2. Do you have a personal favourite among your OCs?

So. 😐😳😳🙈🙈 right now I think the uncontested favorite is Gioia! she's just so girlie of all time... I think the different stages of her character are what keep pulling me back to her- I don't have many characters like that and it's really fun to brainstorm the bridges between each of her eras. Another favorite is Lana, my YGO GX oc and also. my first one ever <3 Gioia has in-universe eras but Lana... lana has had so many rewrites and reincarnations to get to where she is now. working on her feels like honoring baby sarah so I am very partial to Ms. Lana too 🥰

14. Introduce an OC with a tragic backstory

ouuuuug I have SO many with tragic backstories.. i was one of those kids growing up that was obsessed with putting my characters through the most harrowing shit ever 😆 i say that like it's in the past.. i am still on this madness n mania! I think one the most tragic backstories I have is that of my Dragon Ball Xenoverse protagonist... Goten! 🤓🤠🤪🤪🤪🤓🤓😳

truthfully in retrospect I cannot tell you WHY I decided to play as Goten, beyond the fact that Xeno Trunks doesn't have his bestie + seemed a bit lonely.. i said by god I'm gonna help you trunks!! 😭😭 I don't remember how or why I ended up where I did, but I decided that this specific iteration of Goten would be from a version of the timeline (and there is. a lot of lore I wrote to explain this 🆘🆘) where Frieza did end up succeeding in defeating Goku and conquering the Earth, falling in line with the Frieza Planet #80 thing that happens in one of the games (I never played it, but I read about this on the wiki and went hahahahahaha). I'm answering this question last so I won't talk too deeply about The Tragedies that happen in his timeline prior to Xenoverse, but :( he ofc never got to meet his dad, and he loses Gohan and Chichi back to back.. I'm going through my notes again- even Piccolo dies?! 😭 Anyways, Goten grows up in a world where everyone is faced with a power so intense that struggling against it is futile. Despite knowing this, the remaining Z Fighters struggle anyways... Without any intervention, the future is very bleak.

Things only change when Goten gets into an attack ship to leave Earth (I think this was originally to go somewhere that he could become powerful without drawing Frieza's attention? but then it kinda fridges the rest of the Z Fighters so i'm not super keen on it anymore..) He's beamed into the prologue of Xenoverse, and the plot unfurls pretty normally from there. Despite the headache he gets trying to understand everything, he's pretty happy to be in the Time Patrol because it does help him become more powerful! plus he gets to learn more about his father + also how to defeat Frieza! I don't think I ever properly circled around to his original narrative, before Xenoverse, but I think that arc should conclude with him realizing Frieza is on some fucked up time sauce and that they Actually Shouldn't be as powerful as they are.. shenanigans ensue, it takes Goten WITH all of the Xenoverse experience, the Z Fighters, and a surprise betrayal from Vegeta to defeat him. :]

Even though his original business with the Time Patrol is finished at that point, I think he stayed with them because he was curious about How his timeline got so fucked up from the original one... this loops into Xenoverse 2, I imagine. Anyways, he has one foot in the Time Patrol and one foot in his own world- iirc they are able to revive everyone who died during Frieza's conquest of Earth bc Gohan has a romance with Videl in their timeline? but I think Goku stays dead bc he'd died twice at that point??

anyways this concluded with xenoverse pan swag, at least one xeno gotenks moment where he uses TWO SWORDS YAHH (Goten uses either Yajirobe's katana or Yamcha's Azure Dragon Sword.. i forget which though 😭😭😭), and a smidge of truten 🥺🥺🥺 to top it all off. his and trunks' relationship here drives me INSANE because like. Trunks doesn't exist in Goten's timeline and Goten doesn't exist in Trunks' timeline, and yet here they are!!! i think they're able to relate on a lot of things too, but primarily the melancholy of fixing issues with the Main Timeline, where everything is good and right, where Goku and Gohan are alive. 🥺 now that I think of it, the one event where your character is supposed to stop Trunks from yeehawing into the sunset with Future Gohan is probably. very difficult for Goten because he'd probably disappear with his suddenly-alive brother too, if given the chance! but anyways thanks to these kinds of things they have a lot of trust in each other + a lot of synchronization between each other.. I think that makes xenoverse 2 a lot more dramatic too mwahahaha

(i answered this one last bc i was worried i'd go overboard with it... the prophecy came true, girl help!! 😱🤪🤪)

25. The OC that resembles you the most (same hobby, height, shared like/dislike for something etc?)

This one... it is very funny to me... so as I said above, Lana was my first OC ever.. when I first made her at the age of 6 or 7, she was really just a modpodge of things I thought were cool: France 😞, fashion, mysterious green blood that was from another universe....??? When Lana was created, she barely had a personality and well.. since I was an isolated child living on the internet, we really didn't have anything in common.

I rewatched YGO GX during the first COVID lockdown with my sister and girl it woke something UP in me. In her current iteration, there are.. a lot of similarities... like baby me, she was pretty isolated as a kid but Also Thought Nothing of It; she had a fish out of water moment when she finally did get to be around people her own age normally; she had a lot of anxiety about underperforming when compared to her older sibling (this birthed my favorite thing ever for Lana... the Syrus brotherhood of steel.. i thought syrus SUCKED as a kid so this is personally hysterical)... Once she settles into school, she really does fine in her own regard! but that doesn't stop her from having a Senior Year Disillusionment Moment <3, and it takes her many a few years to get back on her feet after graduation...

i'm looking at Lana like 👀👀👀👀 if you can bounce back so can i!!! so can i bitch!!! 👀👀👀👀

29. Which one of your OCs would go investigate an abandoned house at night without telling anyone they’re going?

so considering Gioia literally abandons her entire life to run away with some mystery man and quintessentially go explore some haunted house, without telling anyone... it is Gioia hands down, easy peasy 🤓🤓🤓🤓

I could also see Asa, Thee Primordial Skyrim OC, doing this because she just gets up to this kind of shit accidentally </3 Another OC who would actually do it on purpose would be two of my many Dragon's Dogma OCs: Seveste and Samara! they are twins your honor :] Seveste would do it in pursuit of cool treasure.. Samara would do it to convene with the spirits that haunt the house 😫

39. Introduce any character you want

so I Was going to tell you all about my Dragon's Dogma OCs because they marked the beginning of an Era for my OC creation, and tbh I don't think I'd've gotten to Gioia if not for them, but... I barely have any notes about them and tbh I don't remember the lore enough to actually go into detail about them </3

SO.

I will instead tell you of one of my favorite DD memories and give you a little more info on the aforementioned Mister Seveste! first.. I made him and his sister when I was 15, so. </3 keep this in mind. When I first made him, I wanted to really lean into the thief king idea But I couldn't come up with a name for him.. so I asked my sister for help naming him and she was like Oh! Heinz! because he does Heinous Things!

..............

as u can tell, I Did Not Name Him Heinz. it's funny in retrospect because my first thought back then was Heinz Doofenshmirtz and I was like, NO!!! HE IS SERIOUS!! >:[ but now, he kind of is a doofenshmirtz-esque character..

This Doofenshmirtz aura stems HEAVILY from one very iconic moment in his playthrough. You can romance basically any character in Dragon's Dogma (my first playthrough iirc i Accidentally Romanced the innkeeper or quest-giver without knowing it bc i talked to them frequently. girl help!!), so for Seveste's playthrough I decided to properly romance Aelinore, the young wife of the duke, who is. Much Older Than Her :( iirc this romance was written pretty nicely, although I think you do get thrown in prison and whipped for cucking the duke 🥺🥺 It's all worth it because, in the end, you do get Aelinore out of her situation!!

So, Aelinore romance arc concluded! I carried on with the plot, which eventually meant I had to fight the Now Super Aged Duke in his bedchambers.. Important note here, Seveste is a magick archer and iirc he could shoot flaming arrows? And there were many pots of oil in the bedchambers.. so I remember either pouring these pots out all over the floor or just setting them up maybe? all while the old and feeble duke is trying to get a few punches in on mister Seveste.. it was a time

I got it all set up though, and so the most iconic moment of my entire life unfolded... I had Seveste ready a flaming arrow, and then I yelled at this poor old dying fuck, "FIRST I STOLE YOUR WIFE... NOW I STEAL YOUR LIFE!!!" And then I shot the arrow and he blew the FUCK UP <3

My younger sister and I were like OUHHHHHHH!!!!! It's one of my fondest memories to this day XD Whenever I think back on it now, my brain applies a Doofenshmirtz voice to the quote which makes it even more potent!

50. Give me the good ol’ OC talk here. Talk about anything you want

all of this has made me want to play Dragon's Dogma again... the second game is coming out soon so maybe I should!! beyond that, MAN.. Something I've realized lately is that I honestly need to start reading more and taking more media in.

Growing up, most of my OCs were basically dolls with enough personality and story to make go mwah mwah with the canon characters in whatever thing I was watching. That, or they were my fucked up little meow meows that I used to RP the Hunger Games or what have you... Between Dragon's Dogma and now, I think they've gained a stronger sense of narrative BUT. Something I've noticed between my more recent major OCs like Lana, Thalis, and Gioia is that they're all a reflection of myself in one way or another. Which is partially fine, everything I ever create will have a bit of me in it somehow yk. But I think they're a little repetitive and I want to branch out more with their personalities and stories.. everyone kind of has a depressed girl era that they crawl out of, which I've written to give myself hope in a personally dark time but.. their depressed girl eras can be Richer! them crawling out of the hole can have more depth!

I want to revamp a lot of the OCs I made in my youth and rewrite their stories, but I think I will expand my own horizons before I do so!

#long post #i wrote this many nights ago but it was too late to post.. just remembered to bring it outta the drafts! :3 #the original prompt post is from nov 30th but. my blog was like hi <3 this post was from a week ago and so for a solid three minutes i #thought i had delineated from the fabric of time and space yk! but it's all good now teehee :3c #anyhow. many ramblings aside!!! thank you for the ask sky!!! :D it is so much fun getting to talk about the blorbos of my mind ;w; <3 #sriracha ask game

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