#one of the side characters is partially mutated/a half monster

[raiiny-bay]

monster boyz... documentary...

[herbs-and-poultices]

A few nights ago I had a random thought, and it accidentally spawned a ficlet. Oops?

Fandom: RE2-ish? (I only know these characters and their stories from the h/c fanfiction and a cursory glance through the fanwiki, but they keep sticking in my brain)

Efforts towards accuracy of any kind (canonical, medical, realistic, etc) were minimal

A little hospital bedside vigil. Very soft, mostly comfort, because that's what I've been needing lately.

CW: child pov

“Alright,” Claire murmurs, voice muted to match the efficient quiet of the post-surgical ward. “I'll be there in twenty.” She closes the phone with a click, then looks down at Sherry. 

“Its about my brother. I have to go for a few hours. But you can stay here, if you'd like.” As she speaks she leads Sherry through the door and into the hospital room. Sherry unconsciously sticks to the mahogany-haired college student at the same distance of two plastic chair armrests that over the past hours has come to feel natural - or as natural as anything has lately - as they step around the bed towards the chairs beside the curtained window.

Side by side, Claire wraps an arm over her shoulder and gives a gentle squeeze. Sherry looks up into her warm, sad smile. “You could come with me if you’d rather, but I'm afraid you'd mostly be sitting alone in the office reception. There's a vending machine and a coffee machine and a couple decade-old magazines, but not much else.” Sherry leans in a little bit closer. Of all the things she could want right now, what she least wants is to be alone. Alone with the lumbering hordes of zombies, ghastly imitations of the men and women they had once been; alone with the masses of misshapen flesh that mutated before her eyes into grotesque monsters beyond her wildest nightmares; alone with the terrible shrieks and snarls, the rasps and moans, the sickening squish and menacing shuffle of footsteps that haunted their every movement through the shell of the city she once called home. “The doctor said Leon should be waking up in an hour or so. I'm sure he would appreciate having some company.” 

Leon, Claire calls him familiarly. Leon S. Kennedy, RPD, at your service, he introduced himself to her when they first met; his voice and half-smile were wry, but the nod he gave her was solemn as an oath. All the grown-ups Sherry knows, aside from Mommy and Daddy, are “Doctor”s or “Professor”s or “Mister”s or “Misses”s. She’s probably heard some of their first names in passing, overhearing her parents chatting casually with their colleagues or teachers greeting one another in the halls, but in her mind first names are only for kids, playmates. Even college students like Claire are pushing it. Adults have important grown-up titles for their important grown-up business. So to her, he is Officer Kennedy.

Outside the partly closed door, there is a soft click-clack as a nurse rolls a cart past, followed by a knock and a cheery greeting at a door across the hall. A bird chirps in the tree outside the window. She swallows and bobs her head in a nod. Not really alone, here.

“Good.” Claire pats her shoulder, then releases their partial embrace to back her into one of the thinly-padded chairs. “I'll be back before the end of visiting hours.” On her way she pauses at the bedside, tucking the thin blanket up a little higher and smoothing it out, leaning in to murmur something inaudible; then with a whisper of air from the doorway she is gone.

The flat faux-leather cushioning would be an improvement on the bare hard plastic of the waiting room furniture, if everything didn't feel cold and menacing. The clean sweatshirt Claire found for Sherry is soft and pleasantly dry against her skin; any other contact, other than the hands of her new friends, still feels as though it could dissolve into a hunk of gelatinous writhing flesh or sprout razor-sharp fangs or explode in a spray of gore under her touch. Curling away from the chair back, she pulls her feet up onto the seat and wraps her arms over her knees, resting her cheek in the crook of her elbow. 

Her view is a narrow window between her forearms and blonde bangs. Blurred reflections of blue and teal and lilac slide under the door, keeping time with brisk steps. Now and again another cart goes by with a whirr. Nurses. Doctors. Regular people. Sherry tilts her head to glance around the little room, stopping at the monitor by the bed. On the black screen, colorful lines trace out neat rows of mountains and valleys, up, down, up and down. She doesn't understand the numbers that blink beside them, but the steady dance of the lines is soothing.

After a time, it could have been minutes or it could have been an hour, her eyes start to roam again, tracing the loops in cords and wires coiled behind the screen. Most of them end in empty plugs dangling in the air. A few seem to lead into the wall out of sight. The last one she traces down, down, eventually running alongside a clear plastic tube from another nearby machine with some bags of liquid, over the heap of blankets, and finds herself for the first time properly taking in the figure on the bed.

The cord from the monitor ends in a sensor taped to one finger of his right hand where it lies open at the edge of the mattress; the clear plastic line disappears under the back of his hand. Officer Kennedy is laid on his right side to keep pressure off his injury, one knee bent, right arm stretched out at an angle, face tipped slightly towards his chest as he has unconsciously curled in on himself. His left arm is immobilized at a right angle in a sling strapped over his good shoulder and around his back. The black padded fabric is stark against the cream-colored blanket, the robin-egg blue of the hospital gown, the washed-out tones of his skin. The white edge of a surgical dressing is visible where the strap tugs at the neckline of his gown.

A head taller than Claire, at his full height he towered above Sherry; his squared shoulders and firmly-planted feet stood between her and so many blood-crazed hollow-eyed zombies and horribly mutated monsters, wicked claws and gnashing teeth and slashing knives that would have torn her in two. He was a grown-up, the only one in their little band of survivors, a person who knew things and did things, full of decisiveness and the weight of responsibility. And with the heavy tac vest and duty belt that added bulk to his frame, the gun that fit so naturally in his hands, and his once-sharp uniform emblazoned with the insignia of the Raccoon City Police Department, he was more than that. He was the arm of the law, he was Order and Protection personified. She never felt so small before as she did during those terrible days, and Officer Kennedy was larger than life.

Now, though, his face is nearly level with hers, his medium height not so imposing lying down. In the thin hospital gown and light blanket, without his tac vest and holster and belt, his frame is strong but lean, not quite so unshakably solid as a brick wall the way she remembers it from just early this morning. With his sharp eyes closed and his features relaxed in rest, there could almost be traces of teenage boyishness in the curve of his jaw, the cant of his head, the mop of tousled hair falling across his face. A handful of years back, and she might have imagined him at the local highschool, next to the middle school she attended, shooting hoops on the shared multi-purpose courts during his free periods, waiting on the curb for the 5 o'clock bus with a heavy backpack slung over his shoulder by one precarious strap. And she wonders, for a strange moment, if he might have felt… scared.

A flicker of movement catches her eye, and the outlandish thoughts are gone like a leaf on the breeze: a twitch of eyebrows, followed by a few slow flutters of eyelashes. She waits, nearly holding her breath. For several minutes all is still again, and she wonders if she imagined it. But then his brow wrinkles again and he opens his eyes halfway. His gaze is cloudy and unfocused at first, slits of gray-blue flicking about the room - to the window, over the bed, in the general direction of the door out of sight diagonally behind him, then around again, and yet again more deliberately as though it requires effort to take it all in.

Finally his eyes come to rest on her, fully open now, gaze sharpening into focus.

“O- Officer Kennedy.” Her breath comes out in a rush.

Leon, he mouths a correction. 

She can't bring herself to say anything more around the hard lump growing in her throat. 

He curls the fingers of his outstretched right hand, inviting. His lips move again, this time accompanied by broken fragments of a whisper, rough and painful-sounding but kindly. “C’mere, Sherry.” She stands and crossed the few steps to the bed, shaky on half-asleep legs. Atop the blanket, she tucks herself cautiously into the space between his arm and bent knee, wrapping her arms back around her folded legs. A grunt escapes his throat when her sweatshirt catches momentarily on the velcro of the sling immobilizing his left arm, but when her gaze snaps to his face the wide-eyed look he shoots her is so horrified and apologetic, like he startled a sleeping fawn, that she freezes where she had started pulling back and forces a shaky smile instead of the apology brimming on her lips. His expression relaxes, bit by bit, as she settles herself onto the mattress. She tips her head into her knees and closes her eyes, feeling the subtle warmth from his body inches from her own wrap around her like a shield.

Officer Kennedy's hand traces along her back to rub small soothing circles over her shoulder blade. His chin comes to rest on the top of her head, breaths stirring her hair in even, regular huffs. Tension drips out of her muscles, and a soft sigh worms its way out of her lungs. Her cheek sink to the mattress, and she slowly, carefully, lets herself relax into his chest. If she holds her breath, she can hear the steady beating of his heart.

He hums softly, and the vibrations brush her skin where she leans against him. “You're safe now, kid.”

Safe.

[outerspace-iiinnerspace]

11, 13, 14, 25!

11. Hmm... I’d love to see the 1.0 versions of Smoky Quartz and Sunstone! Or a Steven/Lars fusion, just to see how pink it would be. I’m not sure about voices though? If Terry Farrell does voicework I can maybe see her as Smoky.

13. Ooh boy!

Pearl- When she was newly made on homeworld she looked up to Yellow and Blue Pearls a lot. They were the older, wiser, (comparatively) more experienced ones and she hung onto every word they said. In Blue’s case, it wasn’t much, but Yellow was really into the attention and would tell her stuff like “I went to a colony with Yellow Diamond and it wasn’t completely terraformed and it rained, which is when liquids fall out of the sky, it was terrifying” and our Pearl is quaking in her boots like wow, omg, you’re so brave for facing that. And in the present the tables have turned and she loves it.

All the Pearls get together and complain about stuff to blow off steam every so often and it usually stays lighthearted but occasionally they’ll get serious and then you maybe don’t wanna be in the room because there’s throwing things and crying and screaming all those great curse words they learned at Little Homeschool. It’s very cathartic.

She’s got some kind of impostor syndrome because of being the *Terrifying Renegade* and the kinda poster girl for the rebellion, despite not technically actually running away or anything. By the time the fake shattering happened, she’s mostly accepted that she’s really a rebel even if she’s doing it with Rose but even to the present day it’s one the things that really fucks her up. I dunno if there were other Pearls in the rebellion but she’d probably be half admiring/ half awkward around the real runaways.

Oof these are all sad... let’s say that she uses her holograms to learn stuff! When she sees someone doing something and she decides she wants to do that too then she records and plays it back later and tries to imitate what happens on the recording. Which leads to little idiosyncrasies, like she plays the violin in a particular way (I don’t know anything about violins so I can’t get specific) because the musician she copied 300 years ago or something played it just a little bit off.

Garnet- It took her too long to figure out how her future vision worked when she first started using it. Like, she’d know how to activate it and tell the difference between visions and reality, but at first didn’t actually understand that she could change the outcomes. She would see the visions and think “Hmm, there are twelve different outcomes but which one will happen? No idea, just got to wait and see.” When she realized that her actions would affect the futures she saw she was so excited. Like, wow, the coolest thing!

She only realized Rose was the reason she couldn’t ask questions after the Pink Diamond reveal. Until then, she thought it was a weird fusion thing that wasn’t anyone’s fault. It’s not that she never put it together with “No more questions, you already are the answer,” but she assumed it was some kind of subliminal thing because she was so new and confused that it just got lodged in her subconscious and stuck. Which doesn’t make much sense but hey, what else was she supposed to guess?

It is canon that her shades are prescription, but my headcanon is that Bismuth made them! Ruby was always nearsighted but never knew it until after she and Sapphire fused because Sapph brought it up once like, “Hey, why is Garnet’s eyesight so blurry?” and Ruby was like “That’s just how eyes are.” They didn’t unfuse enough for it to be worth getting Ruby her own glasses, but since it looks like they’re unfusing regularly in SUF she might get some now! Also, all three eyes have different prescriptions, with the purple (middle) one having the best vision and the blue one the weakest.

Amethyst- Her poofing most often isn’t just because she takes the most risks, it’s because of her shapeshifting skill. Her form is more ‘elastic’ than average, which may or may not be because she was overcooked, but it means she has more control over her shapeshifted form with the downside that it’s a little more fragile. She probably gets checked out by the gem equivalent of a doctor at some point and is officially told this.

Her Little Homeschool classes (other than doing whatever you want 101 and 201) are Eating Food, Advanced Eating Food, one about human socializing, one about sleeping, and one about being rude (why, when, how, and the textbook is a very long list of curse words, some of which people don’t even use anymore until gems start bringing them back) (oops)

Gems in general don’t have a sense of taste but Amethyst is so good at shapeshifting that she can make taste buds that are actually pretty functional. She doesn’t do it often, though, because the stuff she likes to eat doesn’t taste very good. It’s all about the texture for her. Like motor oil (smooth), a whole watermelon (crunchy, wet inside), charcoal (crumbles and dust gets everywhere).

General gem headcanon- Homeworld was never laidback and lovey-dovey but it was way more accepting of off-colors and other weirdos before Era 2. After the rebellion, there was a huge crackdown and things got way stricter and worse. This was part of Lapis’s culture shock when she went back briefly.

Lars’s crew (Flourite, Rhodonite, Padparascha, the Rutiles) are all Era 2. Rutiles are supposed to be painters, like wall painters, not like artist painters. They have to work with Bismuths a lot. (That last comes partially from a discussion in a discord I’m in but I really like it)

Sort of running off what I said about Ruby, it’s depressingly common for gems to have vision problems and not know about it. There’s technically a system where gems can apply to get corrective lenses issued to them but it barely gets used because there’s no vision testing otherwise so everyone goes around thinking the world is naturally blurred. 

Oh yeah, and Onion is just a normal kid. He’s not evil or scary or secretly a living plant. He’s nonverbal and has food issues and okay, he tried to bury the city in toy capsules once but like, I would have done that in elementary school if I had the chance. I just want people to stop being like “oooh what a scary terrifying nonhuman kid!!1!”

14. I love the Zoo arc because it’s the first real glimpse of non CG gem society and because I find the Zumans incredibly fascinating. Obviously, their whole thing couldn’t be more different from the Crystal Gems but like... a small group of humans living surrounded by gems, with a culture completely different than humans on Earth vs a small group of gems living surrounded by humans, with a culture completely different than gems on Homeworld. Makes you think. Or not.

Honorable mentions go to the Sardonyx arc and the Pink Diamond murder mystery.

25. I’m honestly not that big a fan of AUs. I’ve found a few I’m into (b-sides, and this one fic which you mightve written?? I’m gonna check. yep, that one 90s appalachian au where Pearl’s a wanted criminal and Rose has no boundaries) but generally not my thing. I guess I get attached to characters as they are, so it’s hard for me to keep that connection when all of a sudden they’re horse breeders in the 1200s or whatever. Sorry that sounded harsh but unfortunately it’s the truth.

Aaaaaand this makes me a huge hypocrite but I have created an AU! It began when I started listening to this song, got annoyed that I couldn’t properly daydream about Pearl to it, and starting constructing an elaborate series of events that has mutated to the point where it has nothing to do with the song anymore. The short version is that at some point after the flashback portion of We Need To Talk, Pearl gives Rose an “Either Greg Leaves Or I Do” ultimatum. Rose thinks she’s joking. She’s not. Pearl then walks out of the temple, does her damnedest to make herself absolutely uncontactable, and spends the next two decades hitchhiking, fighting gem monsters, and generally screwing around (not literally). Eventually, she returns and things are more or less “Hey guys, I’m back! Where’s Rose? What’s this kid doing in the temple?” and I don’t even know what happens after that. Chaos, probably, Crying, yelling, confused baby Steven who has no idea who Pearl is. Who knows!

There’s also a Flight Rising AU but that has no plot: it is solely an excuse to draw gems as dragons, and I have barely even done that. I’ve only created mental images of gems as dragons and then not drawn them. I should get around to that

[yamagache]

Black Cat on an Enchanted Coffin at Midnight.

Ok! Finally had the time to answer this ask! 😁

Black Cat: Favorite Urban Legend.

Hmm. I’ll have to agree with you on this one Jykell. The way the internet (mostly tumblr) treats the Moth Man in such a wholesome good boy™️, And the way Griffin Mcelroy describes his take on him. I’m very partial to the cuteness that is Moth Man.

Who wouldn’t want a fuzzy creature of the night complimenting your outdoor light fixtures while he clumsily bumps into them. Transfixed to the point you might find it to be perhaps a sexual urge that drives him? Maybe? Anyways he’s not hurting anyone and isn’t too much of a handful when he does visit. So I say let the man love his lights. ☺️

Enchanted - What fictional character scares you most?

The. Bear. From. The. Movie. Annihilation.

My mom and I decided to watch this movie on a Friday night after watching 30 seconds of the trailer. (We don’t like watching more than we need to to get hooked so we don’t spoil ourselves of the whole movie)

The plot was innocent enough. A comet hits the earth and the radiation from it creates a sort of field around a large portion of the earth changing the chemistry of all living life inside the “dome”. Our main character is a female scientist that decides to go in when her husband comes back from his military trip inside, half dead. Believing if she got inside, she could understand what’s happening and save her significant other. Good plot. Interesting premise. We decide to watch it.

First it’s not to bad. The trees and plants have grown expenentially and the flowers have all changed and started to grow in wierd patterns. The most danger so far is an alligator the size of a small boat with more rows of theeth than it should have almost killing her and her party. And finding the missing team her husband was apart of all dead and a video camera documenting there decent into madness and turning on each other.

But then there’s this bear.

They hear a noise of what sounds to be a fellow human in distress and some of her party go to look for them only to find out it’s a mutated bear that mimics the speech of a person in distress to lure its prey to it. The voice is of a female and it’s so chilling. It’s got no flesh in its face part and I’m pretty sure the girl it ate merged with it’s body cause it has another face on the side of its own face.

This scary as shit monster came the fuck out of knowhere and torments them not once but on multiple occasions with each visit being more horrifying than the last.

I’m genuinely freightened of this thing. And I’m pretty sure it because it uses the sound of a woman in distress to lure other humans into its maw. Plus it’s a smart and hungry bear that eats people.

Coffin - Have you ever had a paranormal experience?

Yes. And to this day I still can’t explain it.

So I don’t know if everyone had to do this when in school, but we had those stupid catalogs with the stuff you had to sell and a tier list of prizes for how much you ended up selling.

My sister and I decided to go around our neighborhood and that’s it cause we didn’t really like knocking on people’s doors and bothering people to buy our wares.

There’s a street close to ours that’s no different than any other street. We make our way door to door doing our thing until we get to this white duplex with one apartment on the bottom and one on top.

We decide to just do the bottom cause it’s getting late.

My sitter knocks on the door while I peek through the window and it’s a standard old people living room with a bunch of Jesus statues. The old lady opens the door and is happy for the company letting us inside so she can better look through the catalog.

That when I get a better view of just how many crucifiction statues of Jesus there are in the house. It’s absolutely littered with them. Hanging on the walls, the shelves and on the table and nightstands next to the couch. I clearly remember seeing one of those dollar store lava lamp plug in the socket lights because of how far removed it was from all the religious decor. Even her tv was playing some sorta sermon.

It was all very wierd. But the lady was very kind and offered us water which we declined cause (she’s a stranger and walking into her house was already a no no) she decided to purchase a humming bird decoration for those old ceiling lamps with the pull chains. Which coincidently she had that type of ceiling lamp in the very living room we were standing in. She paid. We thanked her. And left.

Weeks later when we got all the products and were making our way around the neighborhood once agin, giving people what they bought. We finally made our way back to the duplex.

We knocked on the door. Nobody came. We knocked again. Still nothing. We double checked the adress to make sure we were at the right place. We were.

We decided to knock one more time a little harder thinking the old lady might of been asleep. Only for the tenant who lived upstairs come out on the balcony looking at us in confusion. Asking what we were doing. We explained the situation. And her reply still haunts me.

She told us that know one had lived down there for years. I had the humming bird in our house for a few years but at some point my mother threw it away. I’ll never forget this experience cause I can’t explain it.

Midnight - Last horror movie I watched.

That would be IT Chapter Two.

Fantastic movie. They did such a great job finding actors to play the counterparts to their younger selves! Everyone was spot on!! I think I might like the second more than the first! It’s a fun movie.

I didn’t go into this movie having read the book. Nor was I expecting anything. So it probably why I liked it more than others.

I think my only gripe was the gay couple in the beginning getting beaten by the homophobic ass holes only to then get eaten by the clown. I felt it was a little too much. They could have just been eaten but no. First they had to be beaten cause they’re gay and then eaten by the clown. And I think I feel this way cause I like the couple so much I hated seeing them go through not one violence but two!

Other than that I loved everything else. The guy who plays the stuttering kid was my fave next to the closeted gay.

Thanks for the asks as always Jykel! 💚 ☺️

[zak-helling]

Big Hero 6 Theory: Liv’s Next Mutation

Even though it’s not the main focus of my blog, it’s no secret that I love Big Hero 6: the series. I love the characters, I love the animation, I love the stories, and I, of course, love the mysteries. The show keeps you guessing as to what’s going to happen next, but the tragic thing is that, despite being popular enough to warrant a renewal for a third season before season 2 premiered, there doesn’t seem to be much of a fan community online. Unless you tag your fan art, theories, quotes, etc. it’s unlikely a piece of fan art will drift across your dash like it does for shows like Steven Universe, Star vs. The Forces of Evil, She-Ra, etc. I’m hoping that changes soon, but I digress.

Also, this theory is going to contain spoilers for season 2, so I’ll go ahead and tuck it under “Read More”.

Getting back on topic, one of the biggest mysteries thus far in season 2 is the monsters and who is making them. We know Liv Amara is the culprit, but as of episode 10, “Lie Detector,” it becomes less clear what’s going on. Who’s the real Liv Amara? Why is one Liv in what appears to be cryosleep? Why is the other Liv making these monsters? How long has this apparent clone been running amok? Have we only known this clone the entire time? Does the sleeping Liv know what’s going on? There are so many questions, but not a whole lot of answers. Seeing as it’s been a few weeks since the last new episode, we might not know for some time. All we know is that the active Liv Amara is turning old villains into monsters for some kind of fee and, at the moment, no known benefit for the villains. Well, yeah, the villains become stronger, faster, and meaner, but as we saw with High Voltage, the process kind of interferes with living their best lives. We don’t know why they want this or why Liv is doing it. All we really know is that Liv is turning humans into monsters and turning them loose in the streets, sometimes being the one to take them down and look like a hero, other times letting Big Hero 6 do the dirty work.

So now let’s take a look at what we know about Liv’s monsters. I’ll bold the important stuff, as most of this will just be recap:

The first one, introduced in season 1 although we don’t know the full story yet, is Orso Knox, the Shakespeare fan turned whale mixed with a dinosaur and some hair, put into a blender, frozen, and then partially thawed. He spends the episode rampaging through the streets of San Fransokyo, attending his meetings, destroying offices, and speaking cryptically. We later learn that he wasn’t trying to hurt anyone, but is more beast than man, and was only trying to get help the best he could. Had it not been for Karmi reversing his mutation in the episode “Prey Date,” Liv probably would have kept Knox as a monster for even longer, potentially pulling him further and further from his humanity.

The second one is Momakase, who can be best described as turning into a werewolf from Skyrim (although her appearance is likely based on Lady Deathstrike, another Marvel villain). Momakase has always been strong, but she is heightened way beyond her normal abilities. Her nails are deadly claws that can cut through anything, she can escape the trap Big Hero 6 creates her and escape into the night, and has so far not been seen again since the episode “The Seventh Wheel.”

Third and fourth is the mother-daughter duo High Voltage. When they make their season 2 debut in “Something’s Fishy,” they discuss wanting to go straight with Liv, telling her that their crime days are over and even trying to lead normal lives after doing Liv’s dirty work. Unfortunately, once they mutate, those dreams are crushed, and they end up being kept in a tank until Liv needs them again in the episode “Lie Detector.” Barb and Juniper even end up turning back over their new leaf after an entire song and dance number about wanting to be normal, which, suggests to me at least, that Liv’s mutation process also messes with free will. Is it possible the two really did just learn they love crime that much? Sure, but I’m not convinced.

The fifth, arguably, is Nega-Globby, a destructive blob made from Globby’s already mutated DNA, introduced in the episode “Nega-Globby”. Side note, I love this episode. Globby makes such a sacrifice in the name of goodness and, I’d say, has been pretty thoroughly redeemed. While our Globby is victorious by the end of the episode, Nega-Globby is still part of him, suggesting that it’s not easy to undo one of Liv’s mutations.

The sixth is the Hibagon in the episode “Muira-Horror!”, the mutated Ned Ludd, back again for more action. Unlike all the other mutations before, Ned’s mutation leaves him a mindless killing machine, further supporting the idea that Liv has the power to interrupt or even override free will. Even Orso Knox had the ability to quote The Tempest, but Ned doesn’t say a word. He comes out of his mutation dazed and confused, with no recollection of what happened.

Mutant number seven is Mr. Sparkles, who is made into a fluffy green monster in the aptly titled episode, “Something Fluffy.” Also introduced in this episode are the Mayoi, adorable, fluffy fungus creatures created by Liv that grow into towering kaijus that can be controlled by Mr. Sparkles. Basically, Liv can create hive minds, or at the very least can put one mind in charge of many. She’s the one to save the day at the end of the episode, boosting her appearance and making Big Hero 6 look inept. After Hiro learns the police already don’t much care for the superhero team in the episode “Something’s Fishy”, this event creates more tension between them and the people they protect, possibly setting up the conflict for the rest of the season, or maybe even the main conflict of season 3.

Finally, we have the big Bessie Bear from the latest episode, “Lie Detector.” This mutation shows us that Liv can essentially give life to inanimate objects, as all she needed was a lock of grizzly bear hair to create the technology cancelling beast. This shows that all Liv needs to make a monster is the tiniest amount of DNA.

So now we know/remember what Liv can do with her technology. We know she poses a threat to Big Hero 6. Seeing as she has only done experiments on past antagonists (as well as Orso Knox and, as is implied, her Chris-sistant, although we don’t know enough about him for him to make the recap), why would she experiment on Big Hero 6? In my mind, the answer is simple: to break them apart. If she mutates one of the characters, crime fighting will be a lot harder. Public perception of the team will plummet. And, if she works her magic with tampering with free will, she can even have another henchman on her side. In short, there’s no way Liv loses in this scenario. Now that we know her motivation, who’s on the chopping block?

The first person who comes to mind isn’t a person at all. We know that Liv can make monsters with a frame and just a bit of DNA, so in theory, she could mutate Baymax. This doesn’t seem likely though, as it would be much easier to just unplug him. Plus, he was part of a super villain grand scheme last season, so it might be repetitive. It could be Hiro. He’s the main character, and having him mutated would force him to hide more things from Aunt Cass, force him to go to Karmi for help, and would give us more insight into the lives of the mutated villains. Although, because he’s the main character, I can’t see him switching sides. Fred is already pretty animalistic, as reflected in his costumes and behaviors while wearing them. But, I don’t know how much mileage we can get considering how Fred is still very much a comic relief character. Wasabi is probably the least developed character on the team, so a mutation could push things for him in a new direction, but that would probably come at the show’s detriment. Honey Lemon’s chem purse already puts her in harm’s way of suffering the same mutation as Globby, making her an easy target, but that would just be repetitive at this point. And so, we are left with one person, the character who I think this is most likely to happen to:

Go Go Tomago.

In a way, season 2 has been Go Go’s season. She’s had more development than the rest of the cast, maybe even more than Hiro. “The Fate of the Roommates” shows her emotionally vulnerable and opening up about her feelings for the first time, developing her as a character and her relationship with Honey Lemon. The very next episode, “Muira-Horror!” shows her learning to let go of some of her stubbornness to trust in Krei’s judgement. The episode “Supersonic Sue” shows her crisis as she fails to prevent an old criminal fresh out of retirement from escaping a crime scene, an old criminal who, as it turns out, was inspired by Go Go to go back to crime. Basically, Go Go has been on an emotional roller coaster this season. We see her get angry, we see her get sad, we see her challenged in ways we hadn’t before. These episodes gave her highs, but they also gave her lows. In fact, “Supersonic Sue” didn’t even give her time to get over what happened, nor does she get a chance to redeem herself from her failure. Right now, Go Go has the most to lose and would likely be the hardest to fall. If anyone on the team is going to get mutated, I’m betting it’s her.

As of right now, we don’t know if the show is going in this direction. For all we know, the mutations stopped at Bessie and the rest of the season will be rounding up the mutants and returning them to normal. But the season is only half-over. I feel like we have plenty of time to play around with the status quo and shake things up a bit. If they do go this route, I doubt it will be permanent, but it could be fun and heart-wrenching at the same time. We’ll see, when Disney finally airs those new episodes.

[linkspooky]

I agree with your post on Akira, but since tumblr won't let me quote entire paragraphs for an ask, I'll just say, "Akira isn’t somehow immune to the world bearing down on the rest of her, she can’t abstain from the conflict to take a personal self help journey."

That’s my same stance too. I don’t really have a good word for this so I’m going to make one up, there’s this kind of assumed “human privilege” that some humans are innocent and get to choose whether to abstain from the fight or not.

It’s something we see Touka halfway acknowledge, but then not make the full connection when speaking of her and Akira’s fathers. That Mado had a choice, he could have simply chose not to fight against ghouls. She compares this to her own father, but that’s always struck me as off. Arata perhaps could have chosen not to work so hard to grow a kakuja, to defend himself so viciously against CCG officers, but even if he had chosen that he and his children still would have been hunted by the CCG and lived under that pressure their entire lives. 

That option to live in peace is simply not available for ghouls. What the manga presents us with are several half measures that all become flawed in the end. Anteiku which is an organization that pacified most of the twentieth ward, is brought down by the CCG in the name of “peace” and their practice of trying to feed ghouls using only suicide victims is replaced with rumors that ghouls would eat and prey on the human customers that came inside. Torso who lived entirely outside society in a tent grows up without empathy or understanding that other people exist and feel as people. Miza and her crew tunneled underneath the earth to try to avoid humans, and it left them weak, inbred and mutated. Goat’s forces while pacifistic in their attempts to fight the CCG and literally escaping underground to hide from Furuta’s oppression find themselves slowly starving out. 

There is no option for ghouls to to pull themselves out of this conflict, and partially it is because yes, no matter how sympathetic and how nice a ghoul may seem, no mater how psychologically similiar they are to a human they are still going to need to eat human flesh at some point in order to continue living. 

However, this manga is going to great lengths to show us that this isn’t as simple a relationship as predator and prey, just as it’s not as simple as oppressor and oppressed. Even if humans aren’t bid to become obligate people eaters like ghouls are, they are the ones benefiting from this conflict and oppression of ghouls. 

Which I think in part is starting to be acknowledged. by the narrative as well. Look at what Juuzou says, at the end of what is an existential worry about what his place would be in a world where the CCG is no longer required to exterminate ghouls. Where therefore, he as somebody whose only real skills are being really good at murder, is no longer given an outlet where the state allow and encourages this side of him. If the system is no longer telling him it’s okay for him to be a killer, and that’s all Juuzou believes he’s capable of, he’ll just become a killer that the system doesn’t approve of. Ie: A ghoul. 

Juuzou says something interesting, that Shinohara was never really fighting with the expectation of killing all ghouls. Something which Furuta claims later in the chapter. That’s because to them, to the old boy’s club of the CCG, and then to a much larger extent to the Washuu it was a livelihood. They needed ghouls around. They benefited from this arrangement of only being able to pick off a few key targets and letting the rest of the ghouls live in squalor and fear of hunting, because as long as there were still ghouls around their livelihood would remain. It’s exactly what Juuzou worries about, what would he somebody who has been raised for most of his rehabilitation to only be a ghoul investigator, whose power and place in the world comes from that, be if there were no ghouls?

It’s also why he says that he’d be fine with things staying the way they were before Furuta came, with the uneasy stalemate between humans and ghouls because in that case, in a world where he continually fights ghouls but never defeats all of them he’d have a place to belong until he died. 

The oggai is, two deaths. That is death to humans and death to ghouls as well. When all the ghouls are gone, humans will no longer be able to enjoy the peace and privilege they had by uniting together to focus on ghouls as the same enemy. As Hakatori pointed out in the same chapter, people are perfectly capable of fighting amongst themselves. 

Furuta when talking about bringing an end to the useless pointless squabbles, his talks of peace sound more and more like a double suicide. He’s seeking instead of coexistence, a simple end to all conflict. His coming peace is always juxtaposed to corpses. 

While claiming to fight for the benefit of humans and the extermination of ghouls, his modus operandi relies entirely on revealing to other humans that they are not immune from this conflict as they think they are. By dragging the conflicts even to the streets, right in front of their daily lives, and making the entirety of Tokyo Ghoul the equivalent of a war zone all the while claiming this is in the name of peace. 

Think of Furuta’s plan to mix humans amongst the clowns forces. He proves exactly what happens when you fight indiscrimminately, when you see ghouls only as targets for elimination. That in that kind of fighting, innocents get swept up in them easily However, the ghoul investigators do not blame their own style of fighting, but Furuta himself for having placed them there. While this is true, perhaps if the ghoul investigators looked upon their enemies as more than just monsters to be slain they might have noticed earlier the erratic behavior of a few were not acting like enemy ghouls but rather scared humans. 

It’s the same kind of situation that unfolds in the dark knight. Batman is able to save the regular people that are dressed up as clowns, because from the start he was never going to kill the enemies. His morality and code when it came to fighting is able to surpass the villain’s plan, and he’s not dragged down to their level. 

The point being that I think the manga is trying to nudge us in this direction, to show us this nuance that humans aren’t as guilt free and innocent in this conflict as they appear to be, even if they have a valid reason to fear ghouls. 

[double-atari]

Concerning The Rat

As anyone familiar with this particular project may know, the characters in the story encounter (and one violently dispatches) creatures described as "rats" or "giant rats". This is the description used in the short story, which is written in first-person from the perspective of the human character. As may or may not be evident in the short story, this character is...well, he starts off as kind of an asshole. In actuality, there is a whole other side to this guy that I won't even begin to get into now; suffice to say, he's not a very good person and by the end of this, he's....at least a little bit better. Probably because he can't ever remember being the jerk from before the story starts.

Now this character sees a large, semi-aquatic mammal with a hairless tail, calls it "a rat", and that's as far as his analysis goes. The short film adaptation would be able to show the critters as they were intended: much more "mutant dog" than rodent.

It was brought to my attention that using "rats" as a monstrous, alien presence could be taken as ---

-- yes, I know, I'm getting to it! It could be taken as contributing to a negative perception of a real-life animal that is anything but monstrous or alien.

Here is a rat, for example:

and another one, being monstrous:

Although the word "rat" has always been used (in the short story and in the notes for the film) to indicate the creatures scurrying outside the boat, the actual, original idea of them was much more dog-like and was, in all honestly, partially informed by the silly-yet-somehow-still-terrifying creatures from the film Attack of The Killer Shrews:

When they weren't toothy hand-puppets, they were simply dogs in poorly-made costumes. And they moved as such. Now just like describing the critters in this story as "rats", ��Attack of The Killer Shrews” made monsters out of what actually looks like this:

So my initial reaction when asked "why demonize rats?" was "Well, they're not really rats! They're like mutant dogs!" So sure, fair enough, mutant dogs and not rats -- but that brought up another, deeper problem. The creatures outside the light of the boat, which are dangerous and hunted, are like mutant dogs.....which is an entirely original idea.

Nothing like "mutant dog" has been used in recent horror/fantasy.

It's an inspired and visionary creation that no audience has seen the likes of.

People will be shocked by the revolutionary concept of the "mutant dog-like creature".

Only that's NOT TRUE AT ALL!

This concept is not only unoriginal, but has been run well past "trope" territory and into "Already Half-Expected Cliche Land". I had inadvertently committed one of the most grievous crimes I can think of in storytelling: Using a cliche and expecting it to seem original. Ugh....Pfffthth.....

So....although I can honestly say that term “rat” in the story (which is actually never spoken once in the short film) is a misnomer and does a poor job of describing the mammalian critters in the dark, even the actual visual concept of the creatures is a tired trope that would likely inspire nothing but boredom, or, at best, a feeling of familiarity.

NO. GOOD.

So....Let it be known, that friends of real-world, non-monstrous rats (like, say, @spoonriverrat, and I’m just pulling letters at random here) can rest assured that not only are no rats being portrayed as horrid beasts, but that even pausing to question it brought the realization that the “semi-aquatic threatening mammals” in the story needed a rework. So that’s in the pipeline.

They still won’t be rodents, but will hopefully be a bit more original and surprising than what I was blindly willing to put on the screen. And to preserve said surprise, I will not be sharing their design or build once completed. Where would the fun in that be?

Until next time, be well, and don’t write stories that involve mutated canids. It’s played out.

[kayawagner]

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Little Orc Wars: Dwarf Soldiery (Cardstock CharactersTM) Regular price: $1.99 Bundle price: $0.99 Format: PDF This set of downloadable Cardstock CharactersTM miniatures contains three variations on five different figures, a Champion, Infantryman, Crossbowman, Goat Rider, and War Goat. These figures were designed initially for both the tabletop and video versions of the H.G. Wells' Little Orc Wars miniatures game but are the ideal addition to any sort of tabletop fantasy RPG or wargame. They can be used to enhance encounters or even serve as the basis for them and the different variations can also be used to easily reflect different levels and capabilities. One of the factions even has blank shields that can easily be customized.  We hope you and your players will enjoy battling with them! ... Little Orc Wars: Human Troopers (Cardstock CharactersTM) Regular price: $1.99 Bundle price: $0.99 Format: PDF This set of downloadable Cardstock CharactersTM miniatures contains three variations on five different figures, a Champion, Infantryman, Archer, Cavalryman, and War Dog. They are the ideal addition to any sort of tabletop fantasy RPG or wargame and can be used to enhance encounters or even serve as the basis for them. The different variations can also be used to easily reflect different levels and capabilities and they have been given colors that can also make them especially suitable as royal or imperial guards. One of the factions also has plain shields that can easily be customized if desired.  These miniatures were designed specifically for both the tabletop and video versions of the H.G. Wells' Little Orc Wars miniatures game. We hope you and your players will e... Little Orc Wars: Lizardfolk Warriors (Cardstock CharactersTM) Regular price: $1.99 Bundle price: $0.99 Format: PDF This set of downloadable Cardstock CharactersTM miniatures contains three variations on five different figures, a Champion, Infantryman, Slinger, Raptor Rider, and War Raptor. These figures were designed initially for both the tabletop and video versions of the H.G. Wells' Little Orc Wars miniatures game but are the ideal addition to any sort of tabletop fantasy RPG or wargame. They can be used to enhance encounters or even serve as the basis for them and the different variations can also be used to easily reflect different levels and capabilities. One of the factions even has blank shields that can easily be customized.  We hope you and your players will enjoy battling with them! ... Little Orc Wars: Orc Raiders (Cardstock CharactersTM) Regular price: $1.99 Bundle price: $0.99 Format: Watermarked PDF This set of downloadable Cardstock CharactersTM miniatures contains three variations on five different figures, a Champion, Infantryman, Javelineer, Boar Rider, and War Boar. They are the ideal addition to any sort of tabletop fantasy RPG or wargame and can be used to enhance encounters or even serve as the basis for them. The different variations can also be used to easily reflect different levels and capabilities and one of the factions has blank shields that can easily be customized.  These miniatures were designed specifically for both the tabletop and video versions of the H.G. Wells' Little Orc Wars miniatures game. We hope you and your players will enjoy battling with them! ... Men and Monsters of Ethiopia (Cardstock CharactersTM) Regular price: $2.99 Bundle price: $1.51 Format: PDF This title contains 44 full-color miniatures by artist Amanda Kahl representing men, monsters, and animals that might be found in a fantasy campaign setting wholly or partially based on or inspired by the history, folklore, and mythology of Ethiopia (and to some extent Egypt). Almost all of these creatures also fit well in any sort of a fantasy campaign setting, of course, and these miniatures are therefore a good fit for role-playing games set in many different milieux and can be used in a wide variety of scenarios and situations.  All of the creatures presented here are also fully stat’ed in Skirmisher Publishing LLC’s Men & Monsters of Ethiopia sourcebook for 5th Edition Dungeons & Dragons. Brief descriptions excerpted from that book of the vari... MILFS 2: Monsters I’d Like to F*** (Cardstock Characters) Regular price: $1.99 Bundle price: $0.99 Format: PDF Have you ever looked at a particularly alluring female monster your party was facing and thought: "Man, I'd like to roll d20 to hit that!" Well, now you can! MILFs are the monsters you would most like to have a random encounter with. This set of full-color paper miniatures is designed to be compatible with other 25/30mm figures and contains nine different creatures, all scaled to be approximately man-sized. Furthermore, four of these have also been scaled for use as giant-sized creatures. Miniatures in this set include: * One alluring Satyress * One two-headed, quadruple-D babe that has also been scaled for use as an Ettin  * One sexy Snake Demoness scaled at both human and giant sizes * One eye-catching busty Beholder, provided in both medium and large ... MILFS: Monsters I’d Like to F*** (Cardstock Characters™) Regular price: $1.99 Bundle price: $0.99 Format: PDF Have you ever looked at a female monster your party was up against and thought: "Man, I'd like to roll d20 to hit that!" Well, now you can! MILFs are the monsters you would most like to have a random encounter with. This set of full-color paper miniatures is designed to be compatible with other 25/30mm figures and contains nine different creatures, all scaled to be approximately man-sized. Furthermore, four of these have also been scaled for use as giant-sized creatures and one of them has been provided with a variant that can be used to show her in flight. Miniatures in this set include: * One slinky Dark Elf * One Centipede Woman * One sexy Fire Elemental * One heavily-armed she-Satyr * One Cyclops chick that has also been scaled for use as a one-eyed gia... Morlocks (Cardstock Characters™) Regular price: $2.99 Bundle price: $1.51 Format: PDF Before there were Orcs there were Morlocks, the original cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers created by science fiction genius H.G. Wells! These grim humanoids first appeared in the post-apocalyptic classic The Time Machine. This set of miniatures follows the author's characterization of these creatures as cannibals, slavers, and the custodians of subterranean machinery and includes nine man-sized Morlocks, four juvenile Morlocks, and two large Morlock monstrosities, along with 10 weapon and equipment counters. These miniatures are designed to be compatible with other 25/30mm figures and can be printed out and assembled, as many times as desired. Two versions of each miniature are provided, one in full color and the other in black-and-white. H.G. Wells' Morlocks Sex Cult of Cthulhu (Cardstock Characters™) Regular price: $2.99 Bundle price: $1.51 Format: PDF Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn! Inspired by the fevered imagination of H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos tradition he began, this set of 15 paper miniatures includes eight different alluring female cultists, three delectable victims in varying states of undress, an idol (in two sizes), and a magic circle (also in two sizes). These miniatures are designed to be compatible with other 25/30mm figures and can be printed out and assembled, as many times as desired. Two versions of each miniature are provided, one in full color and the other in black-and-white. The Sex Cult of Cthulhu is part of Skirmisher's Cardstock CharactersTM line of figures that can be downloaded, printed out, and used in a variety of different sorts of games. Other currently-available sets include...

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