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slugbeaker · 11 months ago

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Hey if you’re doing that ship thing….. Justin Hammer and Emil (or) Emil and Jen

Oooooh I will do both lol!

Justin and Emil

Ship It

1. I have complex feelings for this ship bc I also really like them as just platonic shitty best friends but when I do ship them I think they're very cute together in a lowkey toxic way. 😂 What made me ship them was thinking that they're essentially the evil version of the science bros ship (Bruce and Tony) and how funny it would be at how horrified Bruce and Tony would be if these two dumbasses who are both convinced they're Bruce and Tony's arch rivals started dating. And then I actually got attached to the ship, it started off as mainly crack 😂. Another big attractor was chatting with you about your Justin and Emil bc they've got some wonderful chemistry going on in your rewrite 🤧

2. My favorite thing about the ship is how opposites attract it is lol. Since we've got smarmy, fancy, CEO asshole meeting super soldier actual (reformed) nutcase who mutated himself into a monster for fun. The opposites but then also the similarities bc at the end of the day they're both wildly insecure with enormous egos and they're both sluts for money and attention. Like I feel they'd be 10/10 conmen together once they're both out of jail 💀 But those similarities also can allow for some softer parts in the relationship too bc they understand each other better than anyone else what it means to throw your life away for a revenge fueled whim and wind up taking the fall for even the stuff that WASN'T their fault. Also definitely still not being over the people that drove them to such lengths in the first place. Like they def talk mad shit about Tony and Bruce together. It's healing 🤗

3. Unpopular opinion is probably just shipping them in general agssgshdhfhf, neither of them are very popular lmao but that's why i like them. The rare pairs are always the best 😭

Jen and Emil

Ship It

1. These two make me feral, I love them so much. 😭 The She Hulk show made me ship them bc I really enjoyed how much these two genuinely seemed to grow attached to each other. Emil seems so appreciative of Jen helping him and then at the end there's the moment he protects her from the Intelligencia guys. 🥲🥲 And then Jen similarly becomes attached to him, she takes him up on his offer to come back to his ranch anytime if she feels she needs a break from the real world and then she is legit hurt that mans has been violating his parole behind her back. 🤧 I think she wants him to be better than he is willing to currently try to be, he's working on things still 💀, which just adds another layer to their relationship. I like to think if Emil has any shot at being actually redeemed in the MCU it's going to be through how he cares about Jen which just warms my heart so much. And while mans can be an asshole he's always been nothing but kind to Jen and she absolutely deserves a guy who's going to treat her well 🥲🥲🥲

2. My favorite things about the ship are how soft it allows them both to be. And also the angle of how Bruce is gonna handle it bc him being okay with Jen defending Blonsky in court is a lot different than this dude dating his cousin 😒😒😒 🤣 But mainly for Emil and Jen I just really love the idea of a more romantic relationship being a very good thing for them both. I think IF there is a person Emil will be less selfish for in canon it's probably going to be her (unless Nadia winds up being introduced in the MCU) and I think Jen would do well with being with someone that's going to move heaven and earth for her bc in She Hulk currently she's still pretty insecure when it comes to dating due to prior shitty experiences. I want her to be loved fr fr 🥲🥲 And then again, also the funnier side of things where there's the possibility of them being a couple but on opposite sides bc there's a lot of shenanigans that could ensue from that, like at some point mans will need to get a new lawyer if he doesn't shape up 😂.

3. Unpopular opinions uhhhh probably considered so by anyone who thinks that Jen can do better than Emil, which she definitely can lmfao but again, I've not seen many people also ship this, only a handful and most people who ship it seem just as in it for the vibes as I am so I'm not sure if I have any unpopular opinions for it 😂

Thank you for the ask!! Sorry for going off on a whole ass rant 🤣❤️

#ask game #emil blonsky #abomination #justin hammer #jennifer walters #she hulk #she hulk attorney at law #iron man 2 #marvel #mcu

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pawgliacci · 9 months ago

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OOOOOH HEAVEN IS A PLACE ON EARTH

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ilikelookingatthings · 6 months ago

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oooooh I LIKE this one.

Though the thing I wouldn't understand is God not forgiving Adam.....like arguably if Adam is in heaven that means he earned his place... so that means God DID forgive Adam. I feel like God not forgiving him feels weird I guess? Since it wouldn't really add or take away a issue for adam in the situation.

And I think its objectively more unsettling if Adam was forgiven and it's suppoused to be his great rest and relaxation where he's accepted back in but they don't know what to do with him anyways.

I also think maybe add a bit more to the angels reasoning... like sure lucifer was the main one incharge of interacting with the humans and most angels have their own separate job so might not know how to treat him but Adam also lived to be around 900 on earth in some translations right? Shouldn't the angels have time to prepare? Or did him appearing in heaven surprise them a bit like sir pentious did?

Were the angels just always in their biblically accurate unsettling forms they must remind humans(adam) to not be afraid of since the only ones around angels were angels at that point? After all Adam had to get used to being afraid and survival and being cautious because creatures who used to be his friends in eden would try to kill him and his family which creates a survival instinct on what to be afraid of....would that have kicked in for Adam around the angels if the angels weren't actively trying to look non-threatening or familar?

Something they probably got the hang of after more humans appeared by might have forgot to do for Adam since he was the first.

Like sometimes it easier to interact with someone when you visit them but get weird when they live with you or the normals rules don't apply anymore...like seeing someone you've only ever seen in school suddenly appear out of that setting.

Would some of the angels feel weird about going near Adam because from our perspective lucifer led humans astray but maybe part of the angels worry that getting too near humans might cause them to fall if it even cause God's favorite lucifer to fall? After all there do end up being other fallen angels.

Would the angels just have a different understanding of time compared to Adam? After all unlike angels.... humans actually grow, change and could die and don't last THAT long compared to how angels don't really grow or age? Especially when time is a odd concept in heaven and hell vs earth.

So they don't actually think they've been leaving Adam alone for that long? Along with being busy checking in on all the alive humans who can actually change and affect things...maybe they just thought Adam woukd be fine?

Would they be worried because they might not have detailed answers to any questions he might have? Like where is Abel? Will Caine be okay? Eden was destroyed sorry you can't see it anymore even if this is heaven? Woukd they assume other angels were dealing with Adam? Would Adam be nervious in heaven to ask questions or anything because what if he messed something up again?

Like adam has never TRULY been alone on earth for long and he always had something to DO. Name the animals, protect eve and his kids, work the fields or hunt so they can survive....worry about everyone ect. And things you did could affect things....but he can't really affect anything now that he's dead....

I wonder if the lack of stimulation was a issue? For Adam going from survival and working hard everyday to living where he didn't have to worry about anyone like that anymore....where there was nothing to hurt him. Would it be like he couldn't REALLY relax because he wasn't use to peace anymore? Would he even HAVE food in heaven at first if you can't starve? If you don't really need food anymore?

Since a major thing adam in the show brings up is entertainment?

Would he have been able to see his kids or decedants from heaven? Would he have faced they could see him after he died? Would he go through his past memories to think about what ge coukd have done differently? Would he have tried watching his kids from heaven or grandkids? Assuming it probably took a while to tell him how he could look.

If Abel was missing would he have tried looking for him? Woukd adam just be waiting by the gates for his family?

I REALLY like the idea that to cope Adam might retreat into his memories and faze out....or just talk to others like they're his family?

Do you think adam got better as masking it in heaven(no pun intended)? Like if he projected a family member on a angel on purpose to make them easier to talk to? Or purposefully imagine family members like imaginary friends which would baffle angels even if he WAS more aware since humans will create connections with inanimate objects sometimes? At least compared to the times it woukd happen without him realizing it?

Would they think it was a old person thing at first since sometimes old humans would retreat into their memories at times? Or would they be confused since that's generally due to the body failing/dying and once your in heaven you SHOULD be okay?

After all Adam would be the first old man right?

Was it also a issue for Adam because the way he looked when he died was different than what he looked like in heaven?

Do you think Adam would try to do thinks to get heaven ready for his family showing up just to have something to do?

Would adam get better at blending when it would happen so the angels wouldn't notice or pretend like it was a joke?

I really like the implication that Adam would just disassociate at times...I wonder if that's why lute was around him so much....someone to keep adam feeling social would probably lessen the times it would happen.

Is that why it got triggered in hell more? Because adam was feeling isolated and not getting to talk to people much which brought out the coping mechanism?

Though the fact Vaggie was one of the best angels in the excorcists that he recognized and she had no idea about this aspect of Adam at all is REALLY interesting.

Considering Vaggie has that 'she judges everyone and everything because she hates herself' thing going on and she was strait up grinning when Adam got stabbed. Vaggie getting impatient due to seeing Charlie upset/disapointed feels very incharacter and the implication she was in heaven...one of his top angels and she had no idea...that she misinterpreted his disassociation as him just being above people or that he just ignores people's words....ooooh the implications are FASCINATING.

Like he was the first soul in heaven so he's kindof how heaven fjrst tests how to handle souls in heaven. Like how long would it take them to realize how he was reacting wasn't normal? But then the implications that gets been around so long that alot of people and angels just have no idea about his disassociation...even the people around him the most?

Vaggie is on board with Charlie's redemption plan because how Charlie made her feel but Vaggie not even realizing this about Adam her commander? Like angels are suppoused to care for souls in heaven as well as defend them and help guide them. And finding out heaven half assed helping the first one? That apparently in heaven there weren't ways to just instantly fix issues? That maybe it could have be caused or at least wasn't adresses by the angels if they don't just assume it's a old man thing?

And Adam isn't even one to really lie purposefully much so he probably would have been honest if anyone noticed or asked. Has any of the other angels asked? Will vaggie wonder if everyone up there knew but just didn't bring it up and she was the only one who didn't notice? I mean....humans ARE the ones who invented therapy after a LONG trial and error period.

And vaggie just shouted and assumed this guy was purposefully not getting involved all this time but this is just the first time they've really tried confronting him about it....they have no way to know if he's just been keeping to himself or if he's been dissasociating this WHOLE TIME that he's been sitting away from them. That they could have caught it earlier if they tried approaching him more. Like the implication of the mask takes a new meaning if it was to hide sone of the signs...and him talking about himself? Could it be to ground himself in the present potentially(though let's not go crazy makes excuses for his entire personality of course).

I mean hell is for punishments so it makes sense Charlie's therapy is very bare bones so far as redemption isn't a main part of the plan but heaven not knowing how to handle adam even at this point....I mean some of the issues were made in heaven no doubt at this point but if he had any issues from the living world the lack of proper socialization wouldn't help.

I can't tell what what would be worse....

Adam apologizing cuz he thought the disassociation went away and apologizing after genuinely being confused by everyone's reactions.....

Or if Adam was genuinely casual about it because for him it's the norm cuz as the first soul he sets the standard. Like how would they have reacted if he really was super casual about it not being a big deal. Like angel dust can be or Susan. Just all casual that it happens sometimes...just ignore it, it'll go away or sort itself out eventually.

I mean. This is hell so how woukd they know this ISN'T the norm to some degree?

Like you kindof baffled apologetic adam hits HARD. But I'm somehow more intrigued if Adam was seriously casual about it that he's confused why it would cause this much alarm. Or him having no idea him sitting to the side was bothering them so much so thinks they should be taking it less personally now that they know that it wasn't like he was actively ignoring them.

Or would he think maybe he should get a bit more involved since he forgot has more social interaction is suppoused to help lesson the symptoms....

Do you think he didn't talk about it much since Angels are suppoused to have their shit together and them messing up how they handled afam was their practice run to help work out the kinks for the rest of humanity to follow adam going to heaven? He didn't want the decdants who followed him to heaven to get too worried?

Though lucifer? Are you really one to talk about normal when you've only ever see the souls that end up in hell and you and the other fallen angels have your own issues to deal with?

Like adam is giving them a opening to try to adress this kindif but if he was blunter and more casual about it just being a thing with him....makes me wonder what woukd happen if he gave them no openings to adress it? Like charlie let's slide a series cannibal as normal by this point.

Like imagine adam just thinking they are being ridiculous over thinking it when it's not like he is hurting anyone during this.

Lowket makes me imagine prilla from neverfairies and the quest for the egg with the phasing out to something that brings comfort.

Like is it a secert in heaven or did adam just thinks most angels kindof knew by now since its not like he was actively hiding it when he was in heaven at the begining for so long. Like maybe he thought it would have at least been brought up....I wonder if sera agreed to the extermination idea that maybe stimulation of life abd death and him having as job might help focus hjm(you know aside from how it wad a convient solution for Sara's sinner over population problem).

Though the DANGER adam could have been in during battle where he could have died in hell at any point if his dissassociation kicked in at a bad time?

Do you think lilith knows? Lucifer didn't seem aware til now but lucifer has his own probably and he never actually gets to hang with Adam.

and Charlie's gonna have a interesting time with this. It's not like she's a actual licensed therapist and if they figure out how alone adam was in heaven before their was alot to occupy the mind...like will hell residents have a easier time figuring out that's a torture technique?

Is it better or worse that it might have been a accident? And by now woukd adam have figured out to some degree how he had been affected due to what happens to other humans on earth? Would he just be resigned that the affects just aren't going away at this point?

Though the idea he thought maybe it would go away wigh having become a sinner....does increase the idea the disassociating started only in heaven....thw fact he hadn't noticed despite thinking he was talking to his kids....though seeing how he really tex kindly to his kids while doing so...would that give the residents a new look at adam who hasn't opened his heart to them yet?

Like how we softened to adam when he gave that smile to lute. I weirdly want to see him react to nifty while like this considering tge size difference.

And the lore drop potential depending on how he reacts and who he sees and which residents have to deal with it. Adam not even expecting any different treatment cuz he never really got it in heaven and to him nothing has changed at all cuz he's always been like this?

The train of thought is chew chewing like a everlasting gobstopper!

And alistor being petty trying to act like Adam's crazy just for adam qho beat his ass before to roast him to not brushing his teeth with the color. Getting the other residents to enjoy that holy burn...even lucifer with Charlie going more in defense mode. XD genuinely fun

Ok. Hear me out- just- a minute of your time please.

I don't know if this counts as a headcanon or just being a part of my main au (not the unrequited love one) but-

I feel like Adam probably disassociates a lot. Like he was the first human soul in heaven and we don't know when the next human soul arrived after him so he was just in heaven for hundreds of thousands of years (in my au it's closer to two million which makes it even worse) and he's got no one to talk to. I mean yeah he has the angels but they don't really know how to interact with a human - because that's what Lucifer's job was- so they don't really socialize with him like another human would. And God is still extremely upset with Adam.

This cause Adam to disassociate after some time of basically just being by himself, alone. So when he does slip away into his mind it's back to when he was alive, when he was with his family. Most times it just causes him to stare off into space but other times especially when others are around he talks to them like their his family.

This causes the angels to worry at first and even try to help (Raphael) but it doesn't work. After a while (a couple centuries) they get used to it, they just chalk it up to him previously being human. It's only once more human souls make it to heaven does it become clear that what Adam does isn't that normal.

So I imagine that it would carry over when he becomes a Sinner and he has an episode in front of Charlie and the others and just causes them to be kinda worried. It would go kinda like this:

Everyone is in the lobby, it's a bit late in the morning, close to noon. Charlie like usual, was leading the group in one of her redemption exercises. The activity for the day was to try and recall a funny accident that happened in this life or even when you were still alive. Alastor had told the story of his own death, something he thought was rather funny in hindsight especially considering his appearance as a demon. Everything was going well, except there was one person who refused to join.

That person was Adam, he sat at the bar, back turned to everyone with a bottle in his hand. He had been here for a couple months now but still refused to participate. Charlie had been understanding at first, she could see why he wouldn't want to socialize the people responsible for his death and why everyone else would want to steer clear of Adam. Everyone else eventually just ignored the man and his snide remarks until eventually he didn't even make them, but that's not what Charlie wanted, she wanted him to be apart of the group activities and she wanted everyone to get along.

The only problem was, the last time Charlie tried to get Adam to join ended with him and her Dad fighting, which wasn't pretty.

Vaggie, sensing her girlfriend's growing frustration and worry finally decided to speak out to Adam who was just staring off into nothing.

Vaggie: Why even come down here if you're just gonna sit in your fat ass the whole time?!

Charlie: Vaggie, you don't-

Vaggie: No Charlie, I'm sick of him acting like he's too good for this, like he's better than us.

Charlie: I'm sure Adam doesn't feel like that? Right, Adam?

Adam didn't respond and continued to stare at the glass bottles on the wall. Vaggie got up in a fit of anger and stormed over to Adam who still didn't acknowledge anyone.

Vaggie: He's always been like this! Blocking people out when he doesn't get his way!

She growled and shoved the man in an attempt to push him off his stool, he didn't move much but he did seem to be brought out of his trance and looked down at Vaggie with look before it morphed into a gentle smile.

Adam: Oh, it's you. Don't scare me like that, kid.

Vaggie: Don't call me kid, Adam.

Adam: You're angry? Is it still about what happened?

Vaggie: Of course I'm still angry about that but that isn't-

Adam cut her off by placing a large hand in top of his former soldier's head and ruffling her hair gently. The action left Vaggie speechless and left everyone else confused.

Adam: Don't worry Able, your brother doesn't hate you. I'll make sure Cain says sorry, okay little lion?

Vaggie: ....Huh?

Adam smiled again and got up and stretched, placing the bottle of wine in the table.

Adam: Now where's your mother? Eve?!

He called out to his late wife, walking out of the room.

Vaggie: What...the hell just happened?

Angel: Seems like someones gone a little nuts-o.

Husk: He definitely ain't wrapped too tight.

Alastor: Tragic what a fall from grace will do someone.

Lucifer watched Adam leave with a worried look, one that Charlie shared.

They tried to continue but the atmosphere felt off after the whole incident. It was half an hour later that Adam reentered the room, his normal frown on his face.

Adam: What's with you losers?

Angel: What's with us?

Vaggie: What's with you?!

Adam: I didn't even do anything!

Husk: No shame in being a loony, a lot of people down here are.

Adam: What? Are you calling me crazy? What the hell?

Vaggie: You're the one who called me Able.

Adam:....Wha-....no I didn't.

Charlie: You did call Vaggie Able, you even mentioned Cain.

She said calmly, talk sofly like if she was too loud it would spook the former angel.

Adam: I...shit..

Lucifer: Do you have something to tell us?

Adam had a pained expression on his face, wings pulled close to his sides as fingers anxiously combed through his wings.

Adam: I didn't mean to- I mean..back in heaven I used to black out a lot, say stupid shit, I just thought it had went away after I died again.

Charlie: What do you mean black out?

Adam: Sera said I've been doing it for a while, it started the first couple of thousand years I was in heaven. Look I don't wanna talk about 'kay? Everyone else ignored it.

Lucife: What do mean they ignored it?

Adam: I mean, the angels didn't really know how to deal with it and Dad was still angry with me ...Sera said it happened less once other humans got to heaven. No big deal, just leave me alone when I get all spacey.

Alastor: It seems like you suffer from bouts of disassociation. Who would have thought the first man would belong in the cuckoo's nest?

Adam: Yeah? And you belong in a dentists office with all that plaque in your busted teeth

Angel: Oh my fucking- pfft hahahaha!

Husk covered his mouth and Alastor glared at Adam with the closest he had ever been to a grown on his face.

Lucifer: I thought that was just the color of his teeth! That would explain his bad breath....

Adam: Smells like deer ass.

Lucifer: Swamp balls

Adam: Shit eater!

Lucifer: Shit eater!

Charlie: Stop picking on Alastor!

Vaggie: Shit eater...

Charlie: Vaggie, not you too!

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Yeah that ended up being longer than I planned. But I feel like it would cause some interesting interactions, especially when it comes to Charlie trying to help Adam get better and them bonding. Also this isn't the unrequited love AU, that's something completely different.

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kathyprior4200 · 2 years ago

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Adam and Lute meet C.H.E.R.U.B.

Adam: "You pastel singing sheep are pathetic! You really think saving sinners and human lives on Earth will stop them from going to Hell? Where I can slay them all?"

Collin: "I'm surprised that you, a former human, is able to break the "thou shall not kill," rule."

Adam: "It's only part of my divine duty."

Lute: "You sheep servants know better than to talk to Lord Adam like that."

Collin: "The only Lord I know is our Heavenly Father."

Adam: "The one who made me who I am! Supreme commander of the Exorcists! And who did He make you three? Subservient sheep reduced to babysitting reckless naked apes!" (laughs)

Keenie: "In case you're wondering, "Lord" Adam, we hate those shitty dead people as much as you do. Which is why saving them on Earth where they have the chance to redeem themselves..."

Adam: "Yeah, like only 1% of the humans get to go to paradise, anyway. The rest never will. And now I get to rip out their guts every year and watch you babies cry about it. Amusing."

Collin: "Is bloodshed really necessary? We're supposed to be a land of light and love."

Cletus: "Yeah. Why not just kill the full-blood demons instead of your own fucking descendants?"

Adam: "Because sinners outnumber the full-blood demons and it's because of them and my former wives Lilith and Eve that Hell was created in the first place."

Cletus: "And not Lucifer, before?"

Adam: "Lucifer and the fallen rule Hell and are powerful enough. If we fought them directly, we'd cause another Heaven-Hell war. Might as well remind them of their transgressions by killing their own kind!"

Collin: "B-but the humans, they're your family!"

Adam: "Not anymore! And don't call me a mere mortal! I am a god...a sexy god at that." (winks at Lute who chuckles). (Cletus and Collin stick out their tongues in disgust).

Adam: "Look what you bitches do! You're the riffraff of Heaven, reduced to babysitting mortals for free! And here I am, pampered by all my little soldier sluts!"

Keenie: (shakes her head) "Lust, murder and pride in one angel. Perhaps you're living in the wrong place."

Adam: "Some words coming from a frilly prude, a periwinkle wimp and a ginger baby who got themselves banished and ass-kicked by imps."

Lute: "Oooooh! Nice one, Adam, sir!" (Harp, Lyre and other Exorcists cackle in the background).

Collin: "Y-you're still the first man..."

Adam: "And the best..."

Collin: "You ate the apple and fell with Eve! You're still a sinner, but just won't admit it! You're not even Heavenborn!"

(Silence)

Adam: (leans close) "No one calls me that. Ever. Perhaps I'll be nice and NOT have lambchops for dinner." (reveals sharp yellow fangs, making Collin shudder and hide behind Keenie, who pushes him off.)

Adam: Besides, I made new rules that will privilege all the Heavenborn over the former mortals...putting me at the top of course! I'm God's right-hand man!"

Cletus: "Yeah, right!"

Adam: "And rules to ensure that no sheep peeps step out of line."

Cletus: "We're not sacred of you, Adam! All you and Lute ever do is abuse your own women-in arms whenever they falter! Adam is surrounded by assassin whores!"

Keenie: "We tried to save that human inventor but it was an accident! But we don't sin like you! No one else is bothering to notice!"

Adam: "Oh? And little Collin doesn't feel the same about you guys? Being the sacrificial lamb in all your little missions?"

Collin: "I do an awful lot of paperwork, Keenie!"

Keenie: "Just do your job, wimp!"

Adam: "Anyway, while you are off stuck on Earth and getting your asses kicked by imps, I'll be off to destroy that princesses' trashy hotel. What a joke to think she can actually redeem irredeemable sinners! Lucifer has really lost his marbles. Maybe Lilith still has the hots for me."

Cletus: (scoffs) "Good luck with that."

Adam: (laughs) "That naive fool? She won't see what's coming!"

Keenie: "Hey, can you at least kill those imps when you get a chance?"

Adam: "Imps?"

Cletus: "Those imps who go to Earth to illegally kill shitty humans and ruin our job?"

Adam: "Makes my job easier."

Cletus: "Not if it makes them sacred and sends them to Hell before they can repent and go to Heaven to help our world thrive!"

Adam: "Again, it's a win-win for me. The sinner humans taste my blades and the good humans get to adore me and the Exorcists. The demons stay in line, I get praised and all is well."

Keenie: "But shouldn't those imps get killed before they encourage humans to rebel? They'll cause chaos on Earth!"

Adam: "There is already chaos on Earth. God wanted to make a paradise, one where I was head of all life. It didn't work and now the cycle will continue until the Earth ends, there are no sinners left and I get to be an eternal hero with my angel warriors!"

Cletus: "A hero! What nerve!"

Keenie: "Sounds like laziness to me! You don't even care about God's divine creations! Those imps ruined our job and now we want revenge!"

Adam: "Then go get it! Find a way to redeem yourselves, go back to Heaven and help ensure that sinners don't enter our world."

Cletus: "That is our same goal, at least! We can surely work together, can't we?"

Adam: "Eh. Maybe someday."

Keenie: "Kill I.M.P.!"

Adam: "Killing sinners is more fun!"

Collin: "They made Deerie banish us!"

Adam: "Not my problem. Unless you can help make sure those sinners and demons stay fearful and in line, I don't need you, Except perhaps to feed me grapes."

Keenie: "You're unbelievable! Fucking every female that moves! So inappropriate!"

Adam: "Jealous, prude? Or maybe you don't want anyone to know about your side-show with Cletus?"

(Keenie and Cletus fume and blush a bit).

Cletus: "Look, Adam! Just un-banish us, kill those imps, kill the sinners if it's for the greater good and we won't stand in your way!"

Collin: "Do you think the princess' hotel can help redeem us?"

Cletus and Keenie; "Shut it, Collin!"

Collin: "What if her plan works? We can return home, Hell will have less sinners..."

Adam: "And me be out of a job and Heaven becomes full of sinner scum? No way." (Cletus and Keenie nod).

Adam: "I'll help you three kill demons, but if you three go to Hell...better watch your back."

(Cletus, Collin and Keenie shudder).

Adam: "Lute! Time for me to be on top!"

Lute: "As you wish, my Lord!"

Adam: "By the way, C.H.E.R.U.B.? Your jingle is so fucking cheesy!" (Strums his rock guitar). (Collin bawls, Keenie fumes and Cletus stares agape). (Lute cackles again).

Cletus: "And I though Deerie was an asshole."

Deerie: "Yeah....no....uhh, yeahhh, I heard that."

Cletus: "Uh oh..."

Deerie: "Go back to Earth, worthless things..."

"Fuuuuccckkk!"

(Three cherubs scream as they fall back to Earth)

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crymeariveronceagain · 3 years ago

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If you could describe all the kotlc kids with a poem. What would it be? I read your stories w Biana/Alvar and poetry so now I'm kinda curious-

oooooh what a fun askkkk!!!

Sophie Foster: "Ozymandias", by Percy Bysshe Shelley.

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.

Keefe Sencen: "The Fool's Prayer", by Edward Roland Sill.

’T is not by guilt the onward sweep Of truth and right, O Lord, we stay; ’T is by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away.

Fitz Vacker: "Genius Child" by Langston Hughes.

Can you love an eagle, Tame or wild? Can you love an eagle, Wild or tame? Can you love a monster Of frightening name?

Nobody loves a genius child.

Kill him - and let his soul run wild.

Biana Vacker: Henry The Fifth's Monologue in Act Four, Scene One, by William Shakespeare.

What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree and form, Creating awe and fear in other men? Wherein thou art less happy being fear'd Than they in fearing. What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poison'd flattery? O, be sick, great greatness, And bid thy ceremony give thee cure!

Tam Song: "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost.

Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out And to whom I was like to give offense. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.’ I could say ‘Elves’ to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself.

Linh Song: "Sea-Fever", by John Masefield.

I must go down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied; And all I ask is a windy day with the white clouds flying, And the flung spray and the blown spume, and the sea-gulls crying.

Marella Redek: "We Real Cool", by Gwendolyn Brooks.

We real cool. We Left school. We

Lurk late. We Strike straight. We

Sing sin. We Thin gin. We

Jazz June. We Die soon.

Dex Dizznee: "The Owl-Critic", by James Thomas Fields.

Anatomy teaches, Ornithology preaches, An owl has a toe That can't turn out so! I've made the white owl my study for years, And to see such a job almost moves me to tears! Mr. Brown, I'm amazed You should be so gone crazed As to put up a bird In that posture absurd! To look at that owl really brings on a dizziness; The man who stuffed him don't half know his business!" And the barber kept shaving.

Stina Heks: "Marriage", by Marrianne Moore.

She loves herself so much, she cannot see herself enough -- a statuette of ivory on ivory, the logical last touch to an expansive splendor earned as wages for work done:

Maruca Chebota: "Crossing The Brooklyn Ferry", by Walt Whitman.

It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall, The dark threw its patches down upon me also, The best I had done seem’d to me blank and suspicious, My great thoughts as I supposed them, were they not in reality meagre?

Glimmer(because I love the idea of her I've created in my mind): "There's A Certain Slant Of Light" by Emily Dickinson.

Heavenly Hurt, it gives us – We can find no scar, But internal difference – Where the Meanings, are –

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singswan-springswan · 1 year ago

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oooooh~ thanks @accidental-spice for the tag!

I'll do my OC Colton from my original story! He's an awful horrible person but he's the foil to my self-insert character so he holds a special place in my heart <3

Questions:

What is their favorite movie? I'm going to say Cinderella from I think 1950 whatever year the original came out. He's really into fairytales and stuff though he will deny it, he's always reading up on the lore and cultural history and stuff because he finds the whole thing very fun and captivating. The original Cinderella from Disney is his favorite telling of the story with the happiest ending and before he became such a cynic he had a heart for wonder and romance

What is their favorite season? He prefers winter, since he rarely wears short-sleeves and easily overheats. Living in near Miami means it's not a huge difference in temperature, but winter is usually more comfortable.

What do they find annoying? Humans. He thinks they're the scum of the earth and will constantly be rolling his eyes in their presence. Humans that are overly excitable (Ellana) especially drive him up a wall. Also in general he's pretty serious and has a dry sense of humor so any especially carefree or flippant vibes will get on his nerves

How would they like to spend their Christmas or equivalent holiday? Quietly, with family. He doesn't like big groups of people unless it's family, whom he adores more than anything. He'll be something of a homebody around the holiday, not really bustling around doing every little activity but just enjoying the presence of the people he loves and being able to spend time with them

Do they play an instrument? If so, what? How good are they at it? No, he doesn't play any instruments. He's more of a visually artistic person. His sisters however are all musically inclined and deeply enjoy music while he couldn't much care less, but he does faithfully drive them to their concerts and make video recordings

What's their favorite meal to eat? Bro loves a good pepperoni pizza, but in the event that one is not available, he will settle for a cheeseburger.

Do they have a favorite video game or board game? Not really, but his friends do force him to play UNO pretty often (every other day) so he's developed some wicked tricks and skills

Do they celebrate their birthday? His birthday is the 21st of December, so he doesn't make a big deal of it since Christmas is right there, but his family always makes an effort to do a soft celebration, something small and personal since he doesn't like getting attention. There's usually a chocolate cake and a handful of unconventional gifts since, again, Christmas is right around the corner. Sometimes his sisters will perform music for him, or his parents might give a speech, or they might all go on an adventure to the movies or something

What's their bedtime routine? Bro just brushes his teeth. Occassionally will put on some jammies if he's feeling fancy, but his sleep schedule is kriffed to high heaven so he's lucky if he even goes to bed at all

What's an OC (or canon character) they like to spend time around? What do they tend to do together? He spends a lot of time with my OC Ellana for some reason, despite not liking her much (she on the other hand thinks he's the bee's knees and is on a constant mission to be his friend). Sometimes she'll pepper him with questions on random topics, sometimes they'll go out for drinks with their other friends, sometimes they'll just sit together and draw. He definitely appreciates her presence even if he doesn't like her a lot (at first). She's always there for him and can be fun to hang out with on the occasion. He likes not being alone all the time

Npt: @kanerallels @kanerallels @kanerallels @kazoosandfannypacks @jessicas-pi @seleneisrising @loth-creatures @better-call-mau1

And anyone else who wants to participate!

OC Mundane Tag Game

Thanks for the tag @musewrangler !!

Rules: Pick an oc you'd like to talk about and answer the questions for them! Then tag ten people, or as many as you can. 'Underdeveloped character I adopted' is fine, too! Absolutely no pressure to play, though.

Also, if some of it can't apply to your ocs, just answer what would be the answer - like if they're in a historical setting, they likely can't watch movies, but what is a movie they'd like?

(Also, most people have many ocs, so feel free to retag people and answer as many times as you get tagged! Or get really wild and just answer for as many ocs as you'd like! :D)

Questions:

What is their favorite movie? I'm gonna answer this one for my OCs Jay and Leila, for they are a package deal. Jay's favorite movie is The Mummy (1999)! Leila accuses him of having a crush on Evie, which he staunchly denies, like a liar. He also names his ship The Wrong Side of The River, so he can say he's on the wrong side of the river (if ya know, ya know). I think Leila's favorite might be The Princess Diaries, but she has a hard time picking a favorite! Joe reminds her of Jay

What is their favorite season? Jay loves winter. He likes cold weather, and the snow!! Plus, it brings back good memories of snowball fights with his sister and parents. Leila prefers summer, as she has very low cold tolerance. Plus, she loves swimming

What do they find annoying? *snorts* so much. Jay finds a LOT annoying, especially... people. His bottom three, so to speak, are humidity, people who waste his time, and his mom's brother. Leila would immediately answer Jay. But she'd be mostly joking. Mostly

How would they like to spend their Christmas or equivalent holiday? Jay likes to spend the time with his sister and parents, and his cousins. Later in life, Leila joins that circle, too. She, however, will be going to several parties. And probably dragging Jay with to at least one. She LOVES Secret Santa and White Elephant, and likes to go out and admire everyone's Christmas lights!!

Do they play an instrument? If so, what? How good are they at it? Jay does not. He likes music, though! Leila might have rudimentary piano or harmonica skills, though! Emphasis on rudimentary, though

What's their favorite meal to eat? Jay likes mac and cheese! The baked homemade kind, with bacon pieces in it. His dad made it special, and Leila learns how while they work together, and makes it for him! Leila's favorite food probably varies wildly depending on the day/month/season/mood she's in. But she LOVES a good BLT, or any kind of sandwich. She likes to put the most random ingredients together, which Jay thinks is madness, though he reluctantly admits they're usually pretty good. Usually

Do they have a favorite video game or board game? Mmmm, I think Jay would enjoy Splendor. It's big on strategy, which he'd like. And he'd definitely love Mafia/One Night/Resistance/Coup. Spy games like that! Leila would also love the spy type games, but she'd also LOVE Galaga!!

Do they celebrate their birthday? Jay wouldn't make a big deal out of it, but the women in his life will NEVER let him get away with that. His sister, Ro, will ALWAYS bake him something and show up with it, no matter where in the galaxy he's at, and Leila would make him his favorite meal, let him choose what they watch without arguing with him over it for 15 minutes, and get him some small present! She, on the other hand, REFUSES to work on her birthday, and buys herself at least one present. Jay's not the best at gift getting, but he'd make an effort for her

What's their bedtime routine? Jay's just gonna brush his teeth, and get in bed. Then he'll probably read for a few minutes before he goes to sleep, either work stuff or whatever book he's currently reading. Leila will brush her teeth, wash her face, and then probably has some skin care regime I would not know the details of. Then, approximately five minutes after they've both gone to bed, Leila will message Jay some random weird question like, are lobsters mermaids for crabs, and Jay will respond with GO TO SLEEP LEILA. Once they're married, she's finally able to ask them in real time, and he's finally able to throw a pillow at her

What's an OC (or canon character) they like to spend time around? What do they tend to do together? I mean, there's obviously each other! And what DON'T they do together? They're travelling the galaxy on a ship together, fighting the Empire, so they work together a lot, plan for missions. They'll cook together, eat together, and watch shows together when they can. And of course, they do missions together. This usually involves a lot of Leila talking over earpieces and Jay being like, Leila. We are currently incognito, I cannot talk to you right now

Tagging @laughingphoenixleader @jessicas-pi @flickeringflame216 @mrgartist @singswan-springswan @kanerallels @o-lei-o-lai-o-lord @misscrazyfangirl321 @christian-latte-anon @ceterisparibus116

#tag game #my ocs #Oc tag game

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sorritalasorra · 4 years ago

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Oooooh! Can you do a Viking! Asahi x reader fluff where reader is scared as shit at first but then sees that poor asahi is actually a big teddy bear?

Viking! Asahi x gender neutral reader

Warning: Warning: Mentions of killing (but lightly touches the subject)

Word count: 749

Back ground: You’re a young traveler on the seven sea’s living out life but what happens when you get captured by Vikings that all seem dangerous, except for one?

(First person POV) Nothing was better then the bright blue sea, wind blowing through my hair, and the smell of freedom from the salt water. No worries what so ever, closing my eyes I drift off to a enjoyable slumber...

I couldn’t have even been 2 hours after I had fell asleep when I heard the voices of men screaming...Vikings screaming. If there’s one thing I was told before I set out to see was “always avoid the Vikings, they’re out for revenge”. Scrambling to my feet I go in search for my weapon, by the time I had reached it, it was already too late, the Vikings came through my door stealing everything in my possession and taking me hostage as their prisoner.

From my cell below the deck I could hear them discussing my fate, “should we kill them?”, “we could sell em for gold?”, “what about making them our new cook?”. Ideas were thrown back and forth until I heard who I presume was the captain, “since y’all can’t decide why don’t we let our deaf second in command decide”. From the sound of cheers and hearing foot steps on getting closer I could tell they all loved the idea. Not knowing what’s to come tears prick at the corner of my eyes, I had barely begun life and had so much more to live for. I was broken out of thought when the door revealed a tall man I could faintly see, with large shoulders and scars all over his body, if looks could kill I’d be dead for sure.

As the second in command got closer and closer I could feel my cries become louder and louder. “DONT KILL ME PLEASE I HAVENT DONE ANYTHING TO YOU, LET ME GO AND I WONT SAY A WORD!”. My words seem to have no effect on him as he kept walking closer, I lower my head down knowing this is most likely the end. After a few moments of silence a hear a faint voice, “I’m not going to kill you”, looking up with watery eyes I see this man who doesn’t seem sure of the decision he should make, he tries to step closer but I cry in fear shaking, which makes his face drop. The strange man proceeds to sit where he stands looking at me with sorrow. From his coat he pulls out a few pieces of fruit, then walks to my cell and placed them in front of me, returning back to his spot. The extreme pain of hunger took over me and I decided to take his offer, the fruit tasted like heaven and from the corner of my eye I saw him smile, one that looked full of kindness.

Without thinking I proceeded to ask what his name was, and to my surprise he responded, “Asahi...Asahi Azumane”, “f/n l/n” I returned just as calm. And with that began the strange friendship between a traveler and Viking. Within a few days I was allowed to roam the ship because of my new friend, some of the crew mates even considered me as one of their kind. Asahi would show me the different oceans on maps and the stars at night. The smile on his face was genuine and one I could trust. He was always by my side and I was always by his. Within a few days I was already fond of him, each day my love for him grew like a fire with unlimited oxygen...

Today Asahi asked me to have lunch with him, he set up this beautiful picnic that look like something out of a romantic movie, there he told me he needed to tell me something important. There by the beautiful sunset he confessed that he would want to spend the rest of his life with me, he described the love and admiration he felt towards me. Hold his breath waiting for a response I have a small smile and replied with “I’d love to do the same”... its been 2 months since that magical day and I’m treated like the most precious thing on earth. I couldn’t believe that I had fallen for someone described as a danger to society, but I didn’t matter at all, for I have won at life with this kind and amazing man.

Authors note: Ehem can I just say THANK YOU FOR BEING MY FIRST OFFICIAL REQUEST, this means the world to me and I can thank you enough! (Hopefully this fits your request) I’ve been extremely busy with the end of the school year but will still try to get pieces out. Thank you everyone for the love and support, enjoy this reading! :)

#anime #haikyuu x reader #haikyuu!!#asahi x y/n #asahi x you #asahi headcannon #asahi azumane #asahi azumane x y/n #asahi azumane x reader

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pxisonoak · 5 years ago

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oooooh heaven is a place on earth

#i didn't know they made san junipero funkos #their heads are so heavy idk how they'll fit on my shelf but...... i am EXCITE #san junipero #personal

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1thelonelywolf · 4 years ago

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1, 9, 11, 20, 23, and 28 for the truth and dare ask :D

Thank you so much for asking me! I’ll be honest, I was very very excited to do this hahaha

Okay, here we go:

1. (Dare) Put your music player on shuffle and post the first five songs.

1. You’re Gonna Go Far Kid ~ The Offspring 2. You’re Going Down ~ Sick Puppies 3. Daddy Issues ~ The Neighbourhood 4. And the Snakes Start to Sing ~ Bring Me To Horizon 5. Empty Streets ~ Midnight Choir (that’s my shower playlist. As you can see, I haven’t got a steady mood hahaha)

9. (truth) How did you meet your best friend?

Oooooh that’s just a lovely question! So, I didn’t know her until I was 15 and then I met her in highschool through a mutual friend/classmate. There’s no funny/exciting story behind it, I just remember that at one point we started hanging out daily. Our friendship developed extremely smooth. If I can recall the first memory I have of us talking, except the casual ‘’goodmornings’’, it would be of one sunny autumn day that we were basically sitting our during a break enjoying the sun. She was talking with our mutual friend about a previous crush she had on a boy with whom she had a one month relationship or so - the kind of relationship you can have when being 13-14- and I had heard about this guy, so I just couldn’t hold my tongue -as always- and I said out loud ‘’For God’s sake, Katie, if you’re into the bad boys, better choose the fictional ones.’’. And basically, yes, that’s was pretty much the first real conversation we had hahaha

11. (dare) Pick up the closest book to you. Turn to page 39 and copy down line 7.

I was very tempted to grab my university notes (I have them right beside me) but then I thought ‘’Dep, take it seriously’’, so I went for a real book hahaha. Here you go:

Still, the youngster should have enough respect to let her know when he left the country.

That’s, ironically, a perfect line to sum up ‘’Let the Night Begin’’ of Kathryn Smith.

20. (truth) What does your bedroom look like?

No picture for you because I’m too lazy to make it presentable at the moment hahaha So, I have a single bed on the center (if you want my advice, don’t ever place your bed on the center. Too much needed space lost...) and on each side I have a desk -yep, two desks- and also a big set of drawers. On one desk (which is below the window and beside the drawer set) I have most of my artistic things (the coffee cans I use to paint, the colored pencils, some drawings etc) while on the other, I have my laptop, a small tv screen (used to be my computed screen) and beside the desk, I have a white printed. I also have three shelves (which are small) on which I have electric candles and three bottles, two big ones that I cleaned and placed lights in and one small that I also cleaned and put on some butterfly stickers. Oh and I also have two posters on the walls, one of Nikki Sixx (my musician crush) and one picture of my boyfriend, my niece and me.

23: (truth) What are your three biggest turn ons, and your three biggest turn offs?

Biggest turn ons:

A passionate man. When I say passionate, I mean eyes-glowing-excitedly-when-talking-about-something, driven to succeed in what he loves etc. I don’t know, it’s just such a big turn on to see the determination and the passion in his eyes!

Beards (I’m a sucker for beards, no kidding)

Deep/hoarse voice

Biggest turn offs:

Swearing too much or unnecessarily (I suppose swearing is bad in general but some men or even women really don’t know how to stop. Is it just Greeks?)

Lazy/sleepy eyes. I’m referring to those people whose eyes are just so... uninterested. I know, this is just the way their eyes are made but I can’t help it, I’m sorry :(

Shaved legs (seriously, why do men shave them? Maybe I’m just weird but I just can’t stand a man’s leg being just as smooth and bare as mine hahaha)

28. (truth) How do you take your coffee?

Ι so expected this question from you hahahaha I’m really sorry to disappoint you but I’m not really a coffee addict myself - more of a juice person. Actually, I haven’t had coffee since I was studying for my entry exams -that will soon change given the cold weather. So, basically I only drink coffee on autumn and winter and on some very rare occasions. When I do, I have cappuchino semisweet with some cinnamon on top. Seriously, it has me licking my lips, the taste is just PERFECT! It’s the only time I can understand those who claim that coffee is heaven on earth!

Thank you so much sweetie once again for asking me these, it was real fun! Feel free to do it again if you want! <3

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whirlybirdwhat · 5 years ago

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Happy

Prompt answer for anon who requested

“may I ask for a Gin/Sanji that's happy? I loved how super sad it was in the au but I would really like Gin meeting the crew/Luffy without it being so horribly sad. (also sanji going "hey so this is my bf" amuses me)”

SO ENJOY THE SANGIN I wrote this in a possessed haze last night.

Also @junemel this has elements from that one conversation that we had about gin meeting Duval its not close to it but I was this close to putting gin smacking the ever living shit out of Duval in it - this close

Anyway, enjoy! Sorry it took so long anon! Its a lil angsty but its very happy after that lol

Also on Ao3!

Six months after Gin’s life was changed by a hot meal and cigarette smoke on the Baratie of all places, he’s out on the Grand Line, chasing his dream – to escape from the life Krieg built, and create one better, one that is a true pirate’s life.

And six months after Gin last saw him, he sees Sanji’s grey blue eyes again… in the most hideous wanted poster he’s ever seen.

He promptly spits out his coffee when his first mate gives the paper with it to him at breakfast.

“What the fuck-“

Kinzo has the patience of a saint as he speaks while washing the coffee from his face (how the hell is the man not screaming from the hot liquid?)

“Straw Hat Luffy and crew razed Ennies Lobby to the ground eight days ago while seizing Devil Child Nico Robin from custody. All crew members received bounties and escaped Vice Admiral Garp on their way out of Water Seven, and are currently at large. Isn’t…” And here, a small smile breaks out on Kinzo’s face. “Sanji on that crew? It appears he has a bounty higher than yours’s now captain. 77,000,000 Belli?”

“That’s not Sanji.”

It can’t be.

The wanted poster is hand drawn, but the artist must be blind because there is no way Sanji’s nose looks like that, or his lips, and his eyes are sea blue not whatever that is.

The only thing they got right even slightly is his eyebrow, but even that could take some criticism.

“You sure captain?” Hashi asks from his corner of the galley. “Seems like he fits the description – blue eyes, blond hair, smoker, weird eye brow.”

“That’s NOT Sanji! It’s – its- “ Gin can’t even finish his sentence. It’s only been six months, surely Sanji hasn’t changed that much? Getting stronger he can picture (The paper is vague, doesn’t tell a lot, damn marine supporters, but isn’t Ennies Lobby the supposed home of CP9?) but this? No.

“It’s a stranger? Doesn’t have heaven made food?”

“Smile sent from heaven?”

“Eyes like the sea?”

“Super soft hands?”

“The kindest voice on earth?”

“SHUT UP! How do you even know all that?” His face is red. Man Demon Gin has never been so humiliated.

“You talk about him a lot when you’re… inebriated.” Kinzo states, taking a sip of his own coffee (is it boiling? Its boiling. Does his first mate have secret devil fruit powers or does he have no pain receptors?) to avoid continuing.

“CAPTAIN HAS A CRUSH!~” He is going to toss Hashi overboard, devil fruit or not.

“OOOOOH!”

“LIKE IT WAS A SECRET!”

“EVERYONE SHUT UP!” Gin slaps a hand to his head. “Breakfast is over, I do not have a crush, and that is not what Sanji looks like – and do you really want to insult a man who is worth twice all of your bounties and just smacked CP9 into the ground?”

Finally, his crew shuts up.

“Like I thought. Get to your stations – weather looks dark outside, might be a storm.”

And the Silver Horn Pirates rush to do as their captain orders – but not without a few passing remarks.

“Captain and Sanji Kissing in a tree – K – I – S – S –“

Splash.

“SHUT UP!”

Another two months go by, full of teasing and laughter from his crew about Sanji, but it’s been quiet for the most part. The Straw hats haven’t made any big news officially, but there are rumors that Moira’s been kicked out of his position, and there’s only one crew crazy enough to do that unintentionally, so Gin’s sure that their doing all right.

Then the newspaper flops in his lap. It’s Kinzo again, and Sanji half expects it to be another Sanji poster – he likes to give him them, as if whoever on that poster can take the place of Sanji, but something in his face tells Gin otherwise.

He sets his cup down, and opens the paper.

STRAW-HAT LUFFY ATTACKS CELESTIAL DRAGON – CREW DISAPPEARS AFTER RESPONSE FROM WARLORD KUMA

Oh no – Sanji. Luffy. The rest of them – oh no.

There’s an odd note in his voice as he looks up at Kinzo. “Tell the crew to prepare to set sail. We head for Sabaody in three hours.”

Kinzo only nods – they’re five islands away, possible more because this is the Grand Line of all places, but half the crew is from Don Krieg’s armada.

They were at the Baratie when Luffy saved them, when Sanji gave them food. They know what’s at stake – they have to help the Straw Hats.

And so they will.

Three weeks later, Fire Fist Ace and Whitebeard are dead, and Straw Hat has reappeared at Marineford to ring in a new era.

Gin has tears in his eyes when he learns that Straw Hat is okay, because if he knows anyone, he knows that Straw Hat will never leave his nakama behind, and Sanji is nakama.

Sanji is alive.

(And the other straw hats, but forgive Gin for being biases, alright?)

Now he just has to find him.

On Sabaody, he does not meet Sanji – instead, he finds the face on the wanted poster, protecting Sanji’s ship.

“Duval?” Gin asks dubiously, as the man before him grins and attempts to wink, showing off his new face with the old wanted poster as comparison.

“In the handsome flesh! Are you friends of the Straw hats?”

“Yeah… One moment please?”

“Certainly!”

Gin turns to his crew with the most shit-eating grin.

“I told you it wasn’t Sanji.”

He turns back to Duval, not without catching a glimpse of resignation from his crew. He was right.

“So Duval –“

“Yes?”

“You know when the Straw Hats are going to meet back up?” Gin wasn’t stupid. He’s seen the face of a king, and Sanji was on that King’s crew. There was no way they would be down for long.

Duval looks sad, or at least as sad as he can get with that face. “No, we do not… We don’t even know if they are coming back all.”

Again, Gin’s not stupid. Or maybe he is, he just has unwavering faith in a captain that isn’t his and a cook he’d only met once.

“But we will protect their beloved ship! Whatever it takes!” There’s a fire in Duval’s eyes, one Gin’s sure is matched on his own face.

“Of course – but do you have any idea where they are now?”

“Well…”

Duval doesn’t have an answer, but he does have a rumor, and that rumor is that the Straw Hats were scattered to the winds with a swipe of a paw, more literal than the papers stated.

Gin figured it would go like this. The Straw Hats went at their own pace (their own world-toppling, war declaring, impossible pace that no one else could keep up with-) and it was unlikely that they would be seen before they wanted to be seen.

Likely in an international incident.

That doesn’t mean Gin won’t stop searching and training for the day he meets Sanji again.

He doesn’t know what the other is doing, but it has something to do with Straw Hat’s message – and Gin doesn’t think Sanji would take the death of his captain’s brother lying down.

Sanji’s getting stronger out there somewhere on the grand line, and like hell if Gin is falling behind.

It takes two and a half years to find him, but at least by then he can show his crew an actual picture of Sanji’s face – if in that stupid caricature he gets around girls.

Kinzo smiles at it, hands deep in boiling water as he washes the plates after dinner, and asks genteelly “That your man Captain?”

Gin blushes very, very hard before changing the topic entirely. “Yeah – but I’m wondering about the Only Alive bit – what do you think it means?”

“No clue – but its no surprise the bounty went up – Sabaody’s a wreck from what I here, and Fish Man Island’s got a new protectorate.”

“Rumors say Straw Hat ticked off Big Mom.”

“Only one Island in in the New World and this is what they do? Damn.”

“We better catch up then, aye Kinzo?” Gin grins.

“Aye Captain.”

“MEN! SET SAIL FOR THE NEW WORLD!”

“AYE!”

Vinsmoke Sanji, the papers say, and Gin thinks back to the flowing restaurant in the East Blue and crosses it out. In its place is Black Leg, stark and true, and it’s a much better fit.

Black Leg Sanji’s Captain better get him back or Gin’s going to have to fight an Emperor and he and his crew are all going to die because Sanji went to go get married.

A week later, and Luffy had apparently plotted to assassinate Big Mom and ended up defeated two of her Sweet Commanders.

Sanji has a new bounty, and Gin doesn’t know why he even bothered to worry.

When he pictured meeting Sanji again, he imagined it in battle, showing off his new skills and he and Sanji fighting back to back.

He did not picture it in the back alley of some bar in the New World, where he was taking a break from the commotion inside.

Apparently, someone had died in the middle of eating and then rose again. Gin doesn’t want to know, so he goes out to smoke a bit.

“Damnit” he mutters, realizing he doesn’t have his lighter on him.

“Need a light?”

“Yea actually, Tha-” Gin stops dead, and stares at the face in front of him that’s gently smiling beneath a mop of blond hair.

The eyebrows are as distinct as ever, if on a different side, and the blue of his eyes stands out even now. (Privately, Gin thinks they might be the color of the All Blue that mythic ocean that Sanji plans to find – he has no doubt he will.) There’s a goatee beneath his lips, quirked up in a smile while biting on an unlit cigarette. The suit and tie is a fashion statement few wear so well on the Grand Line and that just means the person standing in front of him is none other than –

“Sanji,” Gin breathes and feels his heart swell.

“Hey Gin – long time no see.” A hand reaches out to light the cigarette between Gin’s teeth and then his own, and Sanji is almost as tall as him now, and smiling, and strong and –

A giant dork.

They found a cafe two streets over from the bar where they are now currently sitting, eating something other than greasy bar food and probably poisoned drinks.

According to Sanji, it was his Captain who had collapsed in his food and caused the commotion.

“He’s fine,” Sanji tells Gin carelessly, a smile on his face still – he hasn’t stopped smiling since he met Gin again, something Gin is not so secretly proud of – “Shitty rubber captain just does that sometimes. You get used to it. Chopper’s trying to work something out though –“

“Chopper? Isn’t he your pet?”

Sanji laughs, bright and bold, and he’s so much more than he ever was on the Baratie. “I forgot! You haven’t seen us since the Baratie have you? We have a lot more people on our crew –“

“Are they anything like their wanted posters? I’ve been trying to find you by them and it hasn’t been working out so well…”

Heck. He just admitted he had been trying to find Sanji. Way to go you dumb shit.

But Sanji just dusts the ashes off his cigarette and nods to him. “I knew you’d find us. You promised, didn’t you?”

I’ll grow stronger, without Don Krieg, and meet you all on the Grand Line!

He had, hadn’t he? And the Straw Hats put a lot of faith in promises.

“I guess I did – I definitely grew stronger too. And I have my own crew – though they aren’t as weird as yours.”

“Gin. We have a walking, talking, shitting skeleton pop star on our crew and our doctor is a reindeer. Nothing’s weirder than our crew.”

“You have a what for your doctor?” Oh god, he’s missed so much. He hates the newspaper.

Eventually, Sanji convinces Gin to introduce him to his crew after learning that Gin became his own pirate captain.

“No one can order you around, now, right?” There’s an innuendo in there somewhere, but frankly, Gin’s too nervous to care.

His crew always takes great joy in embarrassing him, and introducing him to Sanji, where most of the teasing stems from, is going to be hell.

Whatever. He’ll have proved them wrong at least. – and the rest of the crew who had only gotten glimpses of Sanji at the Baratie when he was smacking down the rest of the crew, will get the chance to meet him.

He entertains the thought of reaching for Sanji’s hand, but settles for brushing his knuckles and shoulders with him instead.

At the Baratie, he hadn’t known this man long – not long enough – and now, he’s endlessly curious to know more.

(What’s his favorite food? His favorite color? Memory? Place? What does he think of me? He thinks, casting glances at the man beside him as they talk about anything and everything down the streets, fitting like two puzzle pieces with frayed ends – perfectly matching but too old to quite click perfectly immediately.

He wonders, too, what Sanji will think of the crew.)

Eventually, they reach the Silver Serpent (sue him – he like’s the silver motif, its better than the demon one at any rate. (There are too many demons on this wretched sea anyway.)), its masts. Reaching high into the sky with the skull waving in the breeze. Sanji smiles at the engravings on the side (waves with metal inlays – Gin wanted this ship to carry them for years, and its grand enough to do so.)

“Nice ship,” He compliments and Gin grins in return.

“Wait till you see the crew.” He cups his mouth and prepares to shout. “MEN! THERE’S SOMEONE YOU NEED TO MEET!”

Heads pop up all over the ship, peering at Gin before wild expressions cross their faces.

“Holy Shit-“

“Is that who I think it is?”

“Captains brought a guy home!”

“Is that him?”

“Black-leg?”

“Kinzo – Kinzo wake up you need to see this” Hashi nudges the first mate awake before pointing at the plank that Sanji and Gin are climbing up. “It’s him.”

Sanji looks positively bewildered, more so when Gin offers a meager explanation. “I, uh, may have talked about you. A lot, actually. Maybe?”

Sanji snickers, and goes to introduce himself to the crew, leaving Gin to contemplate his life decisions.

“Hello everyone, the name’s Sanji – though I hear you already know that?”

“Damn right we do – Captain won’t shut up about you.” Kinzo answers for the entirety of the crew. “I’m Kinzo, the Silver Horn Pirate’s first mate.”

“Nice to meet you then.”

“And I’m Hashi! Cook aboard this ship! Tell me your secrets!”

“Wha-“

“Hashi, stop, damn it you can get cooking lessons later.”

“Actually,” Sanji interjects, before Gin can direct his crew to bring out food and such, “You can have them now. Luffy will want to meet all of you, and that means a party.”

In true pirate fashion, the deck explodes with joy.

“PARTY! AYE!”

“On the Sunny of course – I’ve been wanting to show you it.” And doesn’t that send butterflies down Gin’s spine. “Follow me!”

And the crew charges after the man who saved Gin’s life, leaving him to catch up.

Gin’s seen the Sunny before, not that Sanji knows, but seeing her with her crew aboard is something entirely different. The Soul King’s providing music, and there is a reindeer with chopsticks up his nose while a cyborg with two extra arms cheers him on. The owner of those arms is chuckling as she watches Sanji and a green haired swordsman – still wrapped in as many bandages as he had been at the Baratie – fight with fire and steel.

That’s nothing on the captain of the crew, whose downing ten-times his body weight in meat alone who. Laughs hysterically with the story telling sniper as the navigator punches Zoro and Sanji on the head to get them to stop.

The effect is instantaneous as Zoro. Immediately grumbles about witches and Sanji becomes pliant to her demands.

Thousand Sunny is so much more livelier now, with her crew filling up the empty space on deck and lanterns strung about the rigging. There’s platters of food and music and life and joy, things Gin had experienced before but never quite to this magnitude.

And according to Usopp, this is a small-scale party.

Bonfires on Sky Islands, parties at the Ryugu Palace, dancing with former zombies on a floating island ship in the middle of the Floridian triangle-

This crew has been everywhere.

(And, Gin knows, they are going to the end – to Raftel – and if he knows anything, they will find a way to go beyond that as well.)

“So,” Sanji startles him, now broken away from the mosshead, “What do you think?” And there’s something in his eyes that says I want you to like them but also They are mine and I won’t care if don’t. Gin understands the feeling.

“They’re wild.” Gin grins – he’s been doing that a lot today, hasn’t he? More than usual? “I like them.”

“Good!” They are close enough that Gin can smell the alcohol on Sanji’s breath, and he can see the droplets that have spattered on his impeccable suit and tie – loose now, that the party is in full swing, but still giving him an air of I know what the fuck I’m doing.

Sanji’s just like that, he guesses.

Suddenly, Sanji blinks around, noticing the crew and how Luffy has been distracted from the food by now by the swordsman’s cheering of ‘Sogeking’s theme’.

“Come on,” He says, hauling Gin to his feet, “I want to show you something.”

Gin thinks about making a dick joke, but decides to follow Sanji instead.

They go to the back of the Sunny, where the party’s music is only a mute faded sound, and the water lapping on the edge of the boat in their harmony. The sun has just set, so there’s still pink in the sky, but the moon is already casting light upon the quiet waves of this tropical port town cove.

It’s nice as they lean arms crossed over the railing.

(It’s a good place for a confession.)

Sanji offers Gin a smoke and when he declines, shrugs and lights one for himself.

“Your crew tells me you were talking about me?”

Sanji’s trying to be suave again. Its working. Gin is so screwed.

“Maybe. What about it?” He deflects.

Sanji flicks some ashes out to the water. “Just wanted to know if it was true. If you really thought I was all that.”

“Why?” Sanji’s quiet after this.

Gin doesn’t speak up to offer an explanation, to say yes I do think you’re the most amazing cook I ever met, and that time where we held hands on the Baratie was the best in my life, and every other island we go to I hear about how kind you were, and who couldn’t think you were all that?

Because Gin doesn’t really speak in waxing poetry unless he’s had a few to many drinks, and he’s only had two tonight, shoved into his hands by the man next to him himself.

He does, however, hope Sanji understands all that.

By the look that he’s giving Gin, he does. And finally, he speaks. “Cause it depends if I want to do this or not.”

As he says that enunciated this, he reaches over and grabs Gin’s hand where its gripping the railing.

Here’s the thing. Sanji and Gin knew each other for five days before Don Krieg was defeated. In that time, Sanji cooked Gin the best meal he had ever had in his life, and shared a room with him as Giin washed dishes to work off the debt.

(Someone had to, as the new chore boy kept dropping them instead of washing them.)

On the last day, Gin had left and brought his former captain on to the Baratie, feeling so sick about what he was doing, and then left the Baratie freed and ready to create his own crew.

Before that, Gin and Sanji talked, and held hands, and it felt like a cheesy teen romance but somehow Gin had found his other half, in a way.

It’s a small history, and history that has not gone away despite the many ports they’ve visited.

Gin’s thankful for that, because it means he can smile as he grabs Sanji’s hands back, and say “Yeah. I meant it.”

And Sanji’s smile as he leans in for a kiss means everything to him.

He tastes like smoke and alcohol and the aftermath of a Straw Hat party, and something explodes in Gin’s chests.

Hell, he’s happy.

Of course, that isn’t the end of it. After a couple more heated kisses and quiet moments, Sanji jumps up and drags Gin back to the party.

“HEY!” He shouts, loud and clear from the upper deck. “HEY EVERYONE! LOOK!”

Everyone looks.

“THIS IS MY BOYFRIEND NOW!” And he holds Gin’s hand up in the air, because maybe they snuck into the kitchen before coming out here and stole drinks from Zoro’s stash, because he doesn’t think Sanji would want to raise Gin’s hand like it was a wrestling champion winner.

There’s a moment of silence after the announcement, before the deck explodes into motion and raucous cheering.

“ABOUT TIME SHITTY COOK!”

“FINALLY!”

“HELL YEAH CAPTAIN!”

“WOOHOO! YAY! SANJI!” Gin doesn’t care though, not now, and not next morning when he has the worst headache of his life and the most handsome man in the world at his side.

Sanji smiles at him, and he smiles back.

Happy, with the man he searched for at last.

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Boots reads Homestuck Epilogue part... one..??

Alright, let’s do this. As I’ve said, the page after this one is all I’ve seen, I’m diving in unspoiled. Also I gather from some of the non-spoilery chatter I’ve heard from my friends -- one of which warned me this sort of thing was coming a couple weeks ago, and I believed them (but didn’t want to) -- that this first epilogue-upd8 may not be the only epilogue-upd8, which isn’t surprising either given how Andrew works.

Alright, let’s go. Hope my stomach can take it!

So, Page 1, the mock-AO3 page that’s the only thing I’ve seen before posting this. The content warning is EXCELLENT, and gives me hope that this will be the usual Hussie-caliber and more humorous than heartwrenching. :)

It also makes some serious sense that there would be multiple epilogues; from the sound of the summary, this one might focus more on John and then leave ample opportunity to discuss the others.

Let’s click page 2 -- oh, or contents: “Prologue”, this being a chapter list for this is another way to do it. Clicking Prologue.......

Okay wow, this is novel format for the moment. Good chance it won’t stay that way.

These first two paragraphs are well-written and ominous, sure -- describing stuff we pretty much already knew was happening, in different words -- but even though the writing isn’t really pretentious, there’s still a good chance Andrew *views* it as pretentious enough to find cutting away to art-style instead hilarious. Onto the third paragraph...

Music and Calliopes the other Calliope is conducting, yeah... Oh, there’s a garbage disposal reference. In regards to a black hole. Like the one I kind of pointed to during Dave’s intro sequence in the Third Scratch theory and stuff in all those big theories. The ones I was, er, wrong about... ahem. Moving on.

“Your name is John Egbert, and you have just had a terrible, deeply pretentious nightmare.”

Pfffffffff :D

I love you Andrew Hussie. Reading on...

YES I see chat colors. Chat colors!!! I need chat colors. Reading reading reading let me get down to them let me

Absolutely nothing of note has ever happened here in the entire history of the planet, which you would know, because you created it.

Baahahahahah. :D

Okay yes I’m at the phone-sterlog.

Uh oh.

I am reading elevated levels of angst compared to usual pesterlogs in this log. Which is to say, virtually any at all, really. THAT doesn’t bode well for the outcome/overall tone of this epilogue. :X --Not to say it isn’t *appropriate*, given they still haven’t fixed/resewn Paradox Space together, but... yeah, *future feels* are popping up on the radar, that’s what I’m worried about. I loved the tone of the snapchats and the feeling that everything was going to be fine, especially given how the ending “not being what I expected” shook me a fair bit, but to look forward to when that may end... D:

Yeah, Rose having some serious visions about some unfinished business they need to get around to instead of just fucking around and living their lives makes sense. :X --or at least some timeline version of them. I’m imagining they’re living varied, excellent lives in a whole TON of timelines of promise that commit our imaginings of their potential futures to virtual canon, really, with the main thread that ties off Caliborn’s stage play almost irrelevant in comparison... that was kind of the whole point of the Ending of homestuck earlier, of that final anime flash, the fact that the victory and planet and *lives* they won meant a whole lot more than whatever Lord English’s irrelevant machinations were.

So... returning to the tail end of that main thread and seeing how *serious* it might be....... yeah. Kinda mildly panic-inducing. :XXX

You move the phone away from your ear and assume an expression you haven’t practiced in years. It is the look of a man who actually has something to do.

Okay that was good.

Ah, he’s twenty-three now!

Let’s click the next link. ==>

Fuck let’s not recount Rose’s substance abuse.

Oh, cool. Er, “cool”. Rose is getting some of Rosejaspersprite^2′s awareness of all her alternate-timeline doomed selves and their lives. No wonder she’s worried about the substance abuse she technically mostly *avoided* in this timeline.

Light explicitly relating to knowledge, good. That’s a nice aspect tidbit to have reiterated.

ROSE: There’s a different scale I’ve come to understand. Another dichotomy that’s less... emotional, I guess? ROSE: Consider, instead of the word “good,” using the word “essential.” ROSE: And what exists at the opposite polarity from essential is... ROSE: Something that is best not to contemplate.

ooh. oooooh. holy shit.

okay NO, BOOTS/BKEW. DON’T GET FUCKING EXCITED.

DON’T get excited.

It only SOUNDS like she’s learned to recontextualize the whole adventure in the rich context of the classpect system, that’s just your wild fanfic-y theoryimagination talking. Shoosh. (Even though she IS very, very, *very* clearly referencing the Light/Void dichotomy with the above quote.) Just... tamp down your hopes, Boots. Leave it at MILD hope. Like cool porridge.

Reading on.

Alright, yeah, this universe exists beyond the timespan of the Green Sun’s influence. Unsurprising, since it was heavily implied. And she doesn’t have access to her expanded Green Sun powerset while *in* such a universe, which was also heavily implied by alt!Calliope or her denizen or I forget the exact conversation where it said she’d have to make the final journey without Green Sun powers or whatever. That’s cool. (Though having it spelled out more explicitly than usual does make it more awkward to have her use her powers for humorous purposes on MXRP in the future.)

OOOH DAVE KARKAT AND JADE ARE IN A PERPLEXING SOCIAL ARRANGEMENT YESSSSS :D

Best news. Okay reading on.

ROSE: You will need to travel back into canon and defeat Lord English.

Yeah I guess.

Again, the way the ending sort of put it was that..... our heroes did have to defeat Lord English eventually? Or set right some prior stuff like doing the stage play? But that part of the point of this whole story -- the Ultimate Reward -- was that it didn’t really matter, because they had earned nigh-infinite branching timelines of promise in a brand new universe where they could go YEARS AND YEARS living their lives in many of the ways they wished, richly enjoying themselves and starting civilizations that would last billions of years, loving and living and experiencing, only “needing” to go finally check off these other responsibilities in a single timeline of promise at the end of an extended period of vacation they chose with no particular urgency. Branching years-and-years of essentially heaven as long as they EVENTUALLY fulfilled that particular endpoint, and they knew it. More or less.

Rose phrases it pretty explicitly, though. John’s powers are the only thing that can warp people through canon like that without restriction, so he was always to be involved, but... *he* needs to defeat him? Does that mean alone?

JOHN: yeah, i had a feeling that was going to come up again someday. ROSE: I’m sure we all did. That is, even those of us without visions. JOHN: i was doing my best not to think about it. i guess we can’t put it off any longer then? ROSE: Now is the time. We are rapidly approaching a point of no return. If the decision isn’t made soon, it will be too late. The issue will no longer matter. JOHN: when exactly is the point of no return? ROSE: Today. JOHN: wow. JOHN: ok then.

Ouch.

That’s slightly more abrupt than the picture of branching bliss I just painted.

JOHN: fine? ROSE: Of course everything is fine here. ROSE: We’re outside of canon now. JOHN: yeah, i know. what does that actually MEAN though? JOHN: are you saying this isn’t really happening? ROSE: Of course it’s happening. ROSE: Just because certain events take place outside of canon, it doesn’t mean those events are non-canon. JOHN: oh. ROSE: In other words, there is an important distinction between events which can be considered to occur inside canon, outside canon, and those which are not canon at all. ROSE: The day we went through that door and claimed our reward, we passed a threshold between continua marked by differing degrees of relevance, truth, and essentiality.

Well okay then. I was wondering why she used the word “canon”. They literally DID escape the narrative literally as *well* as figuratively with that Juju, then, Neverending Story style.

Also, Light being highly tied to canon and Rose having spent so much time outside of it... yeah, I can understand the headaches more, too.

Alright, reading on, it seems Andrew is using Rose to more explicitly explain how he intends all the non-canon stuff he’s presented to us to “matter”, for those who didn’t quite get or fully believe the implied explanation from context towards the end of the story.

Heh, so the idea is that the urgency comes from “it’s been too fucking long since the story ended, and this epilogue needs to come out when an epilogue would still matter to anyone”. That’s kind of brilliant.

ROSE: As long as we live outside canon, everything that happens will technically be “real,” but only conditionally. ROSE: There are certain crucial events inside canon which must happen in order to continue to prop up the legitimacy of events here on Earth C. ROSE: And you specifically, John, have a responsibility to make sure those events take place.

Closing threads closing threads CLOSING THREADS :D !!!!!!

FUCK is this epilogue going to be mostly devoted to TYING UP LOOSE ENDS and clarifying stuff??? :D Like the HUNDREDS OF LOOSE ENDS that were left unanswered because the ending tried to paint it all as sidelined/irrelevant regardless of the fact that they hadn’t been answered/fulfilled, which had previously pretty much traumatized me around Homestuck’s end because I was (1) so used to Andrew expertly tying up almost every loose end eventually and (2) was a theorycrafter with explicit investment in the idea that Classes, Aspects, and most of these loose ends actually DID matter??? :D

Sign me the fuck up!!! :DDDD

...I know it’s doubtfully going to be anything close to all I hoped for, but still. Answers, contextualization, and John tying up loose threads. Like that final frog warped in front of Jade as a child. That’s good, that’s VERY good. I’m excited instead of nauseous. :D

--and yeah, reading on, Rose makes more explicit what I said earlier that the justification Andrew’s painting for this is “we have to wrap up all these loose ends before everyone forgets about Homestuck.” That is hilarious.

Okay, so the juju is a big plothole. Heheh. We’ve heard it called that earlier.

...Oh. Oh huh.

Rose is pretty much explicitly talking about the stage play consisting of a bunch of non-canon ALTERNATE VERSIONS of themselves that mean the original versions of them living happily in the new universe won’t actually die. Holy shit. I mean we theorized that for a TIME with some of them but THOSE loose ends (like Roxy still having her mask on) were closed up toward the end... So instead, having it put THIS way (preserving our ideas of them living full lives post-victory), and not only that but having John DO all this stuff RIGHT NOW to fix things retroactively with some really well-written contextual clarification we’re bound to get to help with the closure... god DAMN. This is really good. This is going to make a LOT of people feel a whole lot better about Homestuck. Like me. :D

...Pff, some other girl is getting punched by John in the face again. :D Don’t worry, Rose isn’t saying that this is the Vriska punch at the beginning of the whole Retcon arc and that this epilogue somehow happened in the middle. (I hope.)

...Yeah Rose implies heavily that John is gonna die his heroic death if he does this? Or it’s meant to make us THINK she’s implying that. Yeah. And she feels pretty fucking horrible about what she’s asking John to go through regardless, so. (Yeah, everyone looked pretty genuinely dead but a few at the end of the stage play, but it was pretty uncertain.) Either way, she’s acting like John isn’t going to “come back”, even if he lives through this.

Stupid feels.

Clicking the next link. ==>

Hiiii roxy and callie!!! :D

Yes how polite of them.

“Ultimate self”? Yeah, a sort of synthesizing of all the offshoots of her Heart and Mind, pulling it all together and realizing the full person she is and sum of her whole experience across all timelines, pasts and futures. Yeesh. Pretty uncomfortable for someone who ain’t a hypersprite.

...Roxy and Rose aren’t as close? Is it because of the substance abuse, because of the Light/Void dichotomy literally-or-metaphorically distancing them (with how disparaging Rose just was about anything that isn’t relevant), or something else?

Ah, Kanaya hogged her until she got “sick”, that explains some of it too.

A bell tower? (DOOONNNNGGG)

Fffff interpersonal relationship mildangst. Fuck

You and all your friends have dispositions affected by your classes and aspects. You think you know what that means in your case. But what about her? You can only speculate. Void is a place where things sink and disappear. Where they linger forever, but cease to exist. You aren’t actually sure if your feelings for Roxy ever really faded, or if they just grew numb with time and distance. Is it the same for her?

Holy fucking shit. What a big middle finger to everyone who told me aspects didn’t matter to their personalities. :D

...Though, I think he has it kind of backwards, since he still doesn’t totally understand all this business. It’s easy for those in canon, introduced to this subject, to think that the classes and aspects affect their dispositions, to an extent where the reality (at least I contend) is that it was their natural dispositions in the first place that the classes and aspects were actually describing. The power that was latent in their very personalities and tendencies to action all along.

Reading... Ah, yeah, a choice. Was pretty sure this terminology would be important earlier. It depends on what SORT of choice this is though... see, so far, Rose hasn’t given John a lot of really EXPLICIT motivation to go through with this, other than some mumbo-jumbo that would supposedly be “bad”. And it doesn’t even address the black hole in his nightmares. And here, we have Roxy and others explicitly encouraging him with regard to the fact that he can choose NOT to do this if he wants to.

The main question it brings up (to the future of this epilogue, how it’s going to be considered afterward, etc) is if this is the sort of Choice that John would always say yes to -- in which case it’s more canon than anything else -- or if he will end up being on the fence enough for a Terezi-style Mind-split. Because this would be the PERFECT out to have him “die” in canon. See, if he’s on the fence ENOUGH about going, then he creates two timelines that even both potentially have promise within the confines of this universe (since universes hold more than one timeline of promise, according to one of the Calliopes I think)-- One where he lives here, happily ever after with everyone, and another where he completes his Heroic death in canon to fix everything. It would let Andrew kill John in this epilogue while still letting him live out eternity with everyone else outside “canon”.

He’d get to have his John-death and keep him too! Seems plausible enough.

Anyway. Reading... it looks like they know more about this decision that Rose has told them, including the consequences Rose might have been dreading. And likely know that IF John might die doing this, that it won’t be in a way that he regrets.

Oh wow, that whole Meat or Candy sequence is GREAT. Silly to the core, and yet perfectly emphasizing the debate that... well, I mean, think about what Andrew’s been telling us all along.

He keeps TRYING to tell us that non-canon stuff is fine. Trying to use that huge ending sequence of Homestuck to try and tell us that the fact that everyone is FREE from this story and its confines, free for everyone to imagine COUNTLESS ways things played out afterward for ALL these lovable characters in carefree futures, is almost MORE important than any of these stupid loose ends. But some of us were really cut by that ending, the insistence that the actual final battle “didn’t matter” and that this escaped-from-canon existence was the true victory. But if Andrew just upped and drew a bunch of bonus pages to start explaining more story, THAT would cheapen the escape-from-canon ending he wanted even as it satisfied those of us who wanted ends tied up, who wanted questions answered. He had to find a very careful, very well done way to give us BOTH. To write out the real “ending” of “canon” for those of us who needed it, without compromising the ESCAPE from the very necessity of it that was the essential point he WANTED to make with Homestuck’s story from the very beginning. To carefully keep the endless branches of post-victory possibility and play intact while still, separately and with explicit hedging and qualifications, give us the potential results of one last canon thread to tie up the lingering questions that he so dearly wants us to recognize still “don’t matter” as much in the vast scheme of things.

And he’s doing it. And it’s WORKING.

Holy SHIT.

I am excited for Homestuck. I am excited for Homestuck for the first time in years, and my nausea is gone.

I’m not going to start theorizing again; that’s over. But I’m definitely going to keep reading as the new Epilogue chapters come out, and do so with a spring in my step.

To Be Continued. :D

#Homestuck #Homestuck Epilogue #Homestuck Liveblog #bladekindeyewear #blastyoboots

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