#oough. so many possibilities

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

sleepim.... on da couch. with all the chrismas lights on....

[jellyloveru]

ough....half-life...black mesa...people...........

[ask-the-totally-real-peppino]

(Hey just gonna call myself a shy theorist to differentiate from the other anons)

So based on what we currently know of Pep's possible past and the newly added content warnings, here's my theory. (That might as well be it's own story. I did not realize that I would write this much. Feel free to idk screen shot or copy this ask and put it under a read more)

So, Bruno, he's an anxious Italian man who runs his own pizzeria with his spouse. He's pretty content with life, his business is doing okay and he's in a pretty good relationship. Life was good.

Then came Pizza Head.

So Pizza Head comes and he goes on about striking a deal or whatever to get the place for himself. Bruno refuses, it's their passion. It's both of their dreams to own and run a pizzeria. They would never do it.

Pizza Head (to everyones surprise) leaves.

And for a while nothing much happens, except one day his spouse goes missing.

He's just straight up panicking, there's no note, no anything. Why would they leave him?

Days, weeks, maybe even months pass, but even after the authorities are called and he's spent many long hours searching, he couldn't find them.

His thoughts at that point are... well let's just say they're not exactly good. Part of him blames himself for it. The other part suspects Pizza Head, but it's not like he can find him.

His pizzeria is pretty much in shambles, he hasn't been taking care of himself, and he's... close to giving up.

So perfect time for Pizza Head to come right back.

He makes a different deal. Tells Bruno that he knows where his spouse is and would lead him exactly to where they are only if Bruno gives him his pizzeria.

He agrees.

He goes to this strange tower with him. Up an elevator. To find... an exact replica of his pizzeria in this tower?

At that point he's uneasy, but still reluctantly follows him into the pizzeria.

He sees their silhouette and runs to them.

Only to realize a bit too late that he's been tricked. Lied to.

They've been dead this whole time.

And he's too shocked with grief to realize what happens next.

Pizza Head kills him.

...

Well, he can't say it wasn't worth it. The business was pretty good while it lasted, but there's competition.

Some other Italian guy opened up a place close to his tower.

And maybe you're asking why he doesn't just do the same thing? Maybe even just kill the guy, no giant lazer required.

Look, doing the same thing to this guy would be pretty boring.

So he decides to have some fun.

Besides, he needs a use for that body and that whole pizzeria in the fourth floor.

They surprisingly have a lot in common. Maybe he can play around with that.

Good thing most of his body's intact.

(So yeah Pizza Head makes a copy of Peppino using Bruno's body as a base of sorts, which explains the memories and stuff)

(So Pep is mostly Bruno's body with a mix of different animals' DNA, mostly because he kinda ran out of stuff and had to substitute a bit.)

(Everything else in his brain was taught to him, the backwards speech is there mostly as a precaution because if the clone somehow has the original's memories then he'll be in huge trouble, so making him unable to be understood would keep him from telling, plus the added bonus of backwards speech being creepy in general helps in making him even scarier.)

(Oough, that's so sad!!! Loosing everything he's got and then some!!!

Once again, I do not confirm or deny anything, but oh boy, you guys are so talented with these!!

Sorry I don't have much to add or doodles this time, but thank you for sharing!!!)

[doctortonytchopper]

My current theory is that gear 5 luffy is powered relative to the number of people in proximity who believe in him, and the strength of that belief: a loosely assembled collection of thoughts

When Nika awakened, it was while the land of wano was praying specifically for a savior to liberate them but ESPECIALLY while Nami was saying that she believed so strongly in luffy, and that he wasn't dead, and convincing Tama to believe in him as well

He hasn't been gaining followers to command; he's been gaining disciples. Like Jesus didn't command his disciples but they followed him and learned how to live by his principles which for luffy is like...be friends. Help each other out

Kuma recognized himself (a religious man who believed in Nika) in zoro (a man who was following his captain with an arguably religious dedication and self-sacrifice) (turns out that was also nika. Who knew!)

Luffy was prayed to both on skypeia and dressrosa as well as wano. Connecting this to point 2 as well as mihawk's "he has this quality to him that make people want to help him" which would be - help him achieve his goals, which for a god of liberation would be what he wants; people to join his quest to free everyone

Also "a god is powered by the amount of belief people have in them" is like an incredibly frequent idea in god-based fiction. Isn't that what American Gods is about?

Luffy fighting kizaru went OK but he did very much not have the level of strength he does now during this fight against Saturn. Notably, while he was all fucked up (hungry) on the floor, Bonnie was losing or had lost faith in him. Also that seemed like a much shorter fight than like the one w kaido, i was surprised and worried abt how fast he got tired out, though I guess it was his 2nd g5 in as many...minutes? Hours? Anyways.

Now Bonnie believes in him and he is devastatingly powerful in a way I would argue he just wasn't before against only kizaru. I mean maybe he was holding back but I also think the other notable change was Bonnie's belief reigniting...which also. HER ABILITY is literally BASED ON BELIEF. Her nika transformation didn't work when SHE DIDNT BELIEVE IN HIM

Oough there are a lot of other thoughts I'm forgetting

Also side note but I'm still on the shit from last night and I am Thinking about how Saturn's eyes look like that painting "Saturn devouring his son" like people are pointing out

And hey I'm just saying that maybe it's a bit more literal than just a metaphor for the old eating the young

I mean if they feel SOOOOO betrayed by joyboy - nika -

I mean is it at all possible he was literally blood related to the elders? Esp if they're not DF users, like if they're literally creatures...and/or if they're satellites of Imu. Like if Imu was the parent and the five elders are de facto inheriting that grudge based on just being extensions of Imu's will and stuff

But that ones a lot of ifs

Im just saying that luffy powering up through the series isn't NOT correlated to the number of people who believe in him and the strength of that belief. But also that might mean nothing.

Also I'm really really really soft on this cause it seems like the mystery of Toki's speech, to quote Dave Strider, can be chalked the fuck up to the solved column, but like was it? is there any chance Toki's speech about how "the dawn will cast nine shadows" has any relevance to Luffy being the sun, and from like day fucking one saying he wanted 9 crew members? He did say "9 or 10" but like it is interesting that Oden had 9 followers and so does luffy, as soon as Jinbe showed up literally right before the raid. Nine people fighting for freedom standing with a literal sun backing them is indeed a thing that would cast nine shadows on the land. And the akazaya nine didn't even all make it to the raid did they? Was Oden one of the nine? Fuck a duck I have to go back and read all of that I can't remember a damn thing all of the sudden

[shslskaterboy]

it's enabling time!!! i'm gonna be gutsy and ask u about komahina and hinata (standalone)

Oough I have so many answers, so I’m going to try to keep this as reasonable as possible I promise

Hajime my beloved 🥰

Hairline Fracture, Rumours of My Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated, Dancing For Rain - Rise Against

This is How I Disappear, Give ‘Em Hell Kid - MCR

Klee - Sakanaction

Red Flag, The Dead Can’t Testify, Don’t Count On The Wicked, Definition of Destiny - Billy Talent

(All in keeping with the hc that he’s a closet emo punk because I’m right)

❤️ Komahina is arguably the one I think of most so I have to try to be so so normal about this ❤️

Swing Life Away, Methadone, The Black Market, Midnight Hands, The Good Left Undone, Wait For Me, From Heads Unworthy - Rise Against

Cemetery Drive, Famous Last Words - MCR

Stand Up And Run, Surrender - Billy Talent

Tabun Kaze, Hasu no Hana, Eureka - Sakanaction

Sweet Sun - Milky Chance

Enjoy the Silence, Shake the Disease, and But Not Tonight - Depeche Mode

Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

Your Love - the Outfield

Just Like Heaven - the Cure

Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money

[jojolustnotes]

Help Berry I'm thinking hard about slow, passionate love making with the hubby!

Missionary of course because it lets us be as physically close as possible to one another! Holding hands while he slowly but semi roughly rolls his hips in and out of me with my legs bent at each of Okuyasu's sides!

His face is buried deep in the nook of my shoulder, usually deep and gravely voice all breathless and shakey and just WEAK! Meanwhile I'm just moaning and crying because he's hitting inside of me at every seemingly possible perfect angle and its all just so good and sweet and soft and romantic!

There's just SO many ways to tell one another how much we love each other but we're both DEFINITELY all about this manner of it!

Oooh! Slow, passionate love making is always so great to think about it. It’s the perfect amount of horny but also very romantic too. 

Oough... That’s a lovely thought. I’m sure he takes his time with you because he wants to make sure you can feel all of his passion and love for you. 

But yes, absolutely! He makes sure to show you how much in love with you he is every time y’all are intimate together!

[primamchorus]

How easy do you find it to write (or otherwise portray) non-sexual affection between characters? This might include terms of endearment, "pet-names", descriptions of cuddling or stroking the other's head in their lap etc.

Hiiii, Mimble, thank you for the ask! ♥♥

Ship and OC Relationship Creative Process Ask List.

It is as easy as drinking water to me to portray non-sexual relationships (speaking of: hydrate).

Like, I get it, kinky shit is good sometimes...but there's something so special about intimacy and being close to one another that I love in writing.

The way a character's breath stutters or catches when they see the person they love, or are sharing a heartfelt moment. The soft caress and touches ships give to one another. The vulnerability and trust. Like...I...love...when a relationship is more than just sex.

Actually have a moment I'm super proud of from a preliminary writing that I did where the two characters are still people who see each other platonically (for the time being). And it's just...I love the hurt / comfort and vulnerability in it. How these characters trust one another. How one wants to be there for the other.

Little affections. Heartfelt words. Oough...

Writing under cut to keep your dash clean.

[...] Primam slowly turned her head back toward Prompto, bangs falling over her face somewhat. Her eyes searched his for a moment, and she gave a slow nod. “I’ve…I’ve always been able to see you, Prompto… M-Maybe…not the parts of you that you hide… But I can see you. I see you now. You’re real… I…I know you are.” The dam broke, and Prompto brought the back of his hand up to his eyes to wipe away the tears that formed before staggering forward and throwing his arms around Primam. She had actually said the words he wanted to hear. The words he needed to hear. All the while, Primam could feel how his arms and body shook. It broke her heart, creating this painful pit within her chest as she wrapped her arms around Prompto in kind with no amount of hesitation. The feeling of Primam’s arms around him was more than enough to break the dam completely as Prompto sank into her. He buckled again, pulling her to the ground with him. His breath hitched and he buried his head into her shoulder, holding her close as he choked back those sobs he had been holding in this entire time. All the pain was finally coming out, and Primam, in that moment, was a lifeline keeping all of him as together as possible.

[...] “Can…I ask you a question?” Prompto spoke after several more moments of silence. “Anything.” “... Why have you always been nice to me?” Prompto asked, his question searching for…something. Primam’s expression softened, and she leaned her chin on Prompto’s shoulder, rubbing a hand along his back as a form of comfort. “Because you’ve always been nice to me… Why would I want to be anything other than kind to you in turn when all you’ve ever shown me was kindness?” Primam gently replied, sincere with her words. Another part of her heart broke at that moment. She wanted to tell him so many little things that weighed on her mind. But…she kept the rest of her heart hidden away, simply choosing to close her eyes and allow the moment to linger as long as necessary. “You should hate me…” Prompto choked. Despite his words, his hold on Primam tightened. “You should all hate me.” Primam reaffirmed her hold on Prompto, nestling her head in the crook between his neck and shoulder. “I don’t have a reason to hate you. I have every reason to love you for everything you’ve ever done for me.” “Even if I’m the enemy?” Prompto’s voice was barely a whisper. He spoke like he wanted the faint mechanical hum of the very building to drown out his voice. Silence lingered in the air between them. Primam tried to piece together what Prompto meant by that. Instead of pulling away, she sighed and remained. When she finally had the words, she continued to speak in her gentle manner: “If you’re the enemy, then you have me in quite the vulnerable spot, don’t you think? I would be a fool to trust you like this…and yet, I feel no knife at my back. If you’re the enemy, then prove it.” Prompto’s breath stuttered again, and he curled his face back into Primam’s shoulder. “... No… Don’t make me…” “The choice is yours.” A moment passed, and Prompto withdrew his head from Primam’s tear-stained jacket. He looked at her, eyes red. Yet, there was this look of realization on his face that was a result of her words. The choice is yours. “... Thank you…” Prompto said, another stuttered breath drawn as he closed his eyes and pressed his forehead against Primam’s.

Full preliminary writing for 'The Choice is Yours' here.

[absolute-decay]

I don’t have the game so I haven’t played it yet, but Legion and Amanda from Saw (don’t know her DBD killer name) look like fun.

Also, if you could pick any creepypasta character to be represented in DBD, who would you pick?

Legion is actually the killer I'm most interested in Unlocking, funnily enough.

OOugh. Don't do this to me Star. Don't make me choose just one.

I feel like the most obvious answer is Slenderman. He's just so iconic and there's so much lore and mythos to pull from, the possibilities are endless for him.

But like!!! There are so many options!! Jeff is far from the best creepypasta but he's certainly the most Iconic, and if we're just theory crafting he could fit right into dbd! The same could go for characters like Eyeless Jack or other Slasher-Esque characters.

I even have a whole idea in mind for Sonic.Exe where we play as a faceless robed member of The Cult of X and different Consoles and devices scattered around the map can give different attributes depending on whichever Exe is associated/haunting it. Classic X would be based on Speed and Chasing Survivors, Lord X would involve Map Control and easy tracking of Survivors, EYX would be brute strength and easy downs or punishing survivors heavily for getting hit, Faker would involve Stealth and stalking survivors, ect. It's never gonna happen but it's a fun idea.

[after-nine-at-the-oasis]

Oh noo honey D':

No guys, I think we should take the arm :'(((

It sucks but-

Oough

OOUFGH

Y'all this monologue 😭😭😭😭💔

AWWW 🥺🥺🥺🥺❤️

He's like "I'm talking about me" xD nahh

AUOAGHHH THE END OF THAT MONOLOGUE 😭😭😭😭😭💔💔💔🥺❤️ THE A C T I N G BROOO

Awww 🥺🥺🥺🥺❤️😭😭 yeah :'(( <33

Aww hey guys :'))

Yeahh he does 😭😭❤️❤️ :')

Awww guys <333

Well yeah it hasn't been long xdd

But also, he doesn't have long :'((

He'll never be prepared honey :')) no child ever could be :'( <333

YESSS exactly Lea 😭😭😭😭🥺🥺❤️

Awww the I love you :'))) 😭😭❤️❤️🥺🥰🥰

Y'all I love seeing how their relationship has changed :')))

UAOGHHH yes you saved him so many times Glassy 😭😭😭❤️❤️🥺

<3333

Awww Claire :'(((

It'll be okay honey <33

This must be rough for them too :((

LOL barns xD

Well she can talk while doing that xdd

A slaughterhouse XDD

Yeahh honey you don't wanna shut him out :'((

No it's not wrong, exactly Lea <333

Yeah make a plan for being there, for preparing as much as possible :'((( 😭😭😭❤️❤️

Awww honeys :'(((

AUGHHHH WAIT HE DIDN'T GO 😭😭😭❤️💔

NOOOOO SHE BETTER BE FINEE 😭😭😭💔❤️❤️

NOOO Y'ALLLL I'M NOT OKAY

Honeyy :'((((

I'm gonna lose it guys 😭😭😭

[madameocotillo]

Oough I have so many Important Things to get taken care of asap BUT i'm feeling so jittery today that I think I might need to Garden or Die. like. no joke the weather is beautiful and yet I am lurking inside in the dark beside (1) single open window staring wistfully out at my potentially lovely backyard, like. We can do better than this, girl.

Also I have spotted a number of interesting, possibly native, flowering plants that I Want, growing in vacant lots that i've spotted and made note of on my recent Depression-Lightening Drives (IYKYK), so maybe while I am out buying dirt I will bring supplies and go snag a couple of those as well

[galaxy-minecart]

Grian, Mumbo, Martyn, Tango?

Grian - Top three of your own works?

I haven't really posted any of my actual fics or art, but i do really like my posts here, here, and here!

Mumbo - Favorite interpretation of a famous scene (“we can still be friends”, “you can kill me”, “he loves me”, etc.)?

I don't have any post or fic art I can link to for this one in particular because I haven't saved a whole lot (I am a fool) but I really like the interpretations of the "we can still be friends" that include Grian laughing rather than crying, which I've seen more. Like... sure, maybe there are tears in his eyes, but he's not sobbing. That's strained, maniacal laughter.

Martyn - Favorite fic/art about your favorite character?

I literally could not pick a favorite. it is not possible. rejoice, awesome art be upon ye!

[Cool mumbo design from @risingroseart]

[Winner Scott art from @/weatheredcopper]

[Ren was just picking apples :( from @/ghosted-jazz]

[Red shadow tower etho make brain go brrrr from @/c0ff50]

i have more where this comes from, god i love all the art i see it’s so incredible!! These were some of my recent faves but theres so much more.... also I can’t wait to get more into fics if anyone has any recommendations 👀

Tango - Your favorite sad art/fic?

OOUGH THERES SO MANY but the campfire art from @/3lsmp is living in my mind rent free right now

[faunusrights]

‘AFTER THE FALL’ - LIVEREAD II

Part I (prologue to chapter three) here!

According to other people reading this alongside me, I have yet to even see the true extent of how, um... interesting some of the characterisations are? So, we can only do one thing: keep reading, even though I’m relatively sure the corpse of a sizeable moth was batted onto my copy :I

We’ve reached chapter three, and only now do I realise what a considerable chunk of the book that is? Blimey.

CHAPTER THREE

/gets six lines in /shuts the book

Look, I said I wasn’t gonna say it because we know I hate it but ughghghgh I hate canon Velvet soooooo muuuuuuuuuuch she’s SO boring I’m SO sorry but GOD--

Okay. Okay. Moving on. Yatsu is our narrator now so let’s hear how he sounds!

“Ash started crying and crying and crying--”

I know it’s inevitable that most names I picked for OCs will crop up elsewhere but... Ash? You tryna take Ash “Bottom Energy” Scarlatina away from me now? Can’t I have anything?

So, it was mentioned that apparently a recurring thing I’ll be seeing in this novel is Yatsu and Velvet being hitched together on the character development front, and honestly, I can see it happening here. They’re being made into one sort of unit and Yatsu keeps calling attention to that, which isn’t... great, ‘cause I’m kinda hoping we’ll see more individual development? But the current consensus is that It Ain’t Happening, so we’ll See, I Guess,

Okay, I love that Velvet makes spreadsheets on her Scroll. I deeply enjoy her making chats to keep track of stuff, because honestly what a mood that is.

‘Yatsuhashi whirled around in confusion, but Velvet was gone. He didn’t like losing sight of her; what kind of trouble was she getting up to now?’

Predictably, I don’t like Velvet being babies in any sense of the word, but I do like that Yatsu’s first worry is what trouble can she possibly fucking cause now? Velvet and her high chaos energy, whomst I Adore,

Also what the fuck is a breadfruit.

‘Professor Greene’s Stealth and Security class--’

UGH I wish we knew more about the classes they took in Beacon. Do you know how hard it is to write an AU in which the Fall of Beacon never happened and having to pull classes outta your ass? It’s HARD, Y’ALL,

Yatsu’s Semblance is... making people forget things? That’s. Weird but alright??? Sure??? Whatever???

Me, every time Velvet snaps: why is it I only get the Velvet I’m after when she’s being such a bi-- oh wait I have a type sorry continue as you were,

But actually God I miss chibi!Velvet pour one out for the cancellation y’all

“This is bad,” Yatsu said sadly.

Me to myself: I know it’s not good writing I know and you know but don’t say anything just move on--

Okay before I move on, I’m definitely seeing a lot of that Yatsu/Velvet hitching, and makes me Nervous because I love Yatsu and I love Velvet but I also love them separately so I’m holding out hope that they get split up at Some Point because they really have been written together pretty much the whole way, huh? 

CHAPTER FOUR

OKAY CHAPTER FOUR LET’S GO LET’S GO

It’s Fox time, and we’ve got an introduction to Copper, Fox’s mentor (someone mentioned it’s totally a 'The Fox and The Hound’ reference). And-- ah, he’s dead. That was quick.

‘Velvet sometimes let her feelings get the best of her, Fox thought.’

You think that’s bad? You should meet murpverse!Velvet, that bitch has never held a thought in her head for more than five seconds.

I’ll confess I’m now reading pretty far ahead before I have any commentary of note. I’m enjoying Fox’s narration far more than anyone else’s by a pretty considerable margin, and it’s probably ‘cause Fox -- despite saying literally nothing in canon -- saw a lot of people reach the same conclusion to his character? So this one is much easier to settle into. Also, maybe it’s ‘cause he was such a blank slate that the writing works better for him. I dunno.

Story-wise: Edward is-- okay, actually, side-tangent: Edward? We seem to really jump in and out of the colour scheme, huh? Anyway, Edward’s a shady mfer and LET VELVET DO SHIT ON HER OWN!!!!!! LET HER BE A DUMBASS OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!

‘That was the last time he;s underestimate [Velvet].’

Told ya, dipshitte.

Ooh, everyone’s Angery about Everything. Seems like the Mood Bombs are also more passively AOE than just being a Sudden Boom, because everyone’s got a MUCH shorter temper? Then again, mine would be Non-Existent in a desert to begin with, so maybe they’ve all got sand up their butts. Also, Gus is to blame for the Mood Bombs anyway! That’s a big F, kiddo.

CHAPTER FIVE

Flashback to the dance!

Awh, Ruby made her own outfit and cape. Li’l seamstress! Oh, dang, do you think Summer taught her? Or, at least, showed her how her cape was made? Aaaaa--

Lien remains... weird. I thought it’d be closer to a currency rate like Yen to the dollar (so thousands are worth much less), but the implication here is that twenty Lien is more like $20? The currency here is very weird and even I’m at fault for flip-flopping on it, but I honestly expected it to be more like Yen. Huh.

Coco likes Ruby’s outfit look at that senpai GO.

Oh, okay, so they met at the dance? For some reason, I thought they’d already been acquainted? I thought they mentioned that team CFVY were away in the show (and therefore knew them at least in passing) but apparently not.

Okay, so Coco’s dialogue is... weird? I’m not totally down for the voice the author’s chosen to give her, and the more I see of it the more I’m starting to notice it. That said, I can’t believe Coco has reeled off Ozpin’s whole speech for Ruby. I’d have forgotten three words in.

Still jumping back and forth on Coco’s dialogue. I’m not sure if I like it. Moving on.

Weiss is Big Bitch Supreme, I see. This flashback is striking me all wrong for some reason, but I cannot for my life of me say why.That said, Weiss unironically saying besties is the funniest thing I’ve read all week, so there’s that.

UGHHHHHHHHHHHH TIME FOR VELVET AND RACISM UGHGHHGHGHHHHGHGH IM GONNA GO GET LUNCH FIRST--

WAIT BLAKE’S THERE

WAIT NO I’M GETTING FOOD FIRST EVEN IF BLACK VELVET IS RIGHT THERE--

Okay I ate too many calories and walked my dog let’s do this before I have to take said dog to the groomer. On that note, I’m like halfway through the book already? This really is short as heck.

“You had something to say to me?” Velvet asked. The boy clamped his mouth shut.

Do ya? Bihh.

Also I LOVE that highlights from the initiation are playing so that Blake literally looks a thousand times more intimidating. I wish we’d seen more of that kinda thing in the show, with RWBY being the new hotshots and the dynamic they had with Beacon as a whole. But that would have involved not blowing Beacon up to fuck and then having the writers go ‘uh, what do we do now?’ so what the hell do I know.

OOUGH THIS BLACK VELVET,,, HHH,,,, MURPHY’S OTP IS HERE,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

“What should we do with him?” [Blake] looked at Velvet.

Kill him... and then... kiss....................................

“I don’t believe in fighting prejudice with violence,” Velvet said.

I wish y’all could have heard the sound I made at that. Canon Velvet you’re just so... soggy bread about this.

Blake shook her head. “that’s not how we deal with people like him where I come from.”

Blake yr so HOT... hey you should teach Velvet how you deal with people like him and then kiss. That said, are they talking about Menagerie there? Or the Fang? If it’s Menagerie, that’s even funnier because I love the idea of an idiot running their mouth and then having five families and a baby wail on them.

Blake hates dog-ears in their books. Bad news, asshole, it’s the BEST way to mark PAGES bookmarks are for the UPPER CLASSES who don’t realise BOOKS are TOOLS of EDUCATION--

Anyway. Moving on-- YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANG.

Yang beat the assholes up anyway I love her!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE HER!!!!!!!!!

CHAPTER SIX

Back with Velvet. Blessing or curse? Who knows.

Edward and Gus make for an. Interesting duo. This plot hasn’t captured my interest crazy well, and if I didn’t know this was RWBY and such I’d probably pass on it ‘cause it’s pretty... eh, but I do like their Semblances and this could’ve been a pretty decent side-plot thing in the show! Such as in My Hero Academia with, uh, whats-his-name... Eraserhead. I dunno. I’m thinking this was a good idea that hasn’t had enough space to breathe.

Emotions are Flying High and Whomst will be the first to crack like Egg? I am liking the method of raising tempers because everything’s a little sloppier and unpredictable! Also, that’s the end of chapter si-- what? Wait, chapter six was only ten pages? Yeesh.

For all in-tents and porpoises, I am tryna keep track of OOC moments, but having everyone be out-of-sorts is making is pretty hard to track. Rip.

CHAPTER SEVEN, I GUESS?

We’re with Yatsu again, and he’s talking about his Semblance to... make people forget shit! I still don’t know why this is his Semblance, or the use of it anyway, but whatever! I’m in this cart and the horse ain’t stopping until M+K says so!

I’m with Velvet here; why is she constantly being relegated to the backseat? Coco needs to fuckin’ get her shitte together on this front. Even Fox said earlier than he has to stop underestimating her, but they’re still doing it now.

OH MY GOD THERE’S A GRIMM JACKALOPE??? Holy shit I’m losing all of my marbles shouldn’t these guys have, like, other names????????????? No??? Okay!!!!

Battle scene. I’m not hot on combat in writing because I find it. Kinda boring. But it is what it is so I’m speed-running it.

And so ends chapter seven. I’m gonna stop here because. I want to! I feel like this story is very short and it could’ve already had more to it than this faffery in the desert, but that’s just me!!!!!! I guess!!!!!!!!!!! Next time: another flashback to the goddamn dance.

[doctortonytchopper]

But see the thing is -

If that was the mushroom the 20 MDs were looking for -- maybe Blackbeard went to Drum because they were researching devil fruits.

Because there is a clear distinction of science in the setup of the story - the robotic style, and the medical style. Arguably Chopper is just as advanced of a scientist as Franky is, but their knowledge has barely any overlap. And it seems like generally - medical knowledge seems maybe a bit more frequently disseminated.

I mean at least - where Queen was a top scientist in both those areas. He was competing with Judge and working with Vegapunk, but he was also fucking around with diseases. If the assumption is that he was about as good at both - Franky maybe could compete with him in the field of robotics, maybe even best him, but that's not something I would feel confident asserting one way or another without a more deep dive.

But chopper utterly FUCKED him, I mean absolutely destroyed his "super advanced" disease AND THEN SOME, in like 20 mins with his Chopperphage. I mean lbr inventing a disease isn't even half as hard as inventing a cure, and Chopper did that in a way that our world's medicine is barely starting to figure out how to do.

So say the 20 MDs were like, just about as good at medicine as Kureha and Chopper, and Chopper's a fucking BEAST at medical science probs at least on par with if not surpassing Franky in his own field (im biased bc uhh check the url. Im sorry...i own up to it at least lol) and Franky's keeping up with Vegapunk enough to be using his ideas and inventions. So the 20 MDs are probably doing some crazy stuff.

"So who cares? I thought Vegapunk was doing all the most advanced devil fruit stuff?"

Yes...in the realm of robotics. What about the medical science realm?

Why was Blackbeard on Drum Island? Why was he there immediately after getting the dark dark fruit, with Ace on his tail? It was just a couple of months before the strawhats land. Then they grab chopper and carry on, and meet up with Ace in Alabasta a few days later.

A few days after that, Ace catches up to Blackbeard - who is already planning to capture Luffy and turn him in so he can become a warlord.

And I'm starting to understand what the fuck Wapol is doing back in the story, why his Wapometal has been interwoven so much throughout the story.

Wapol specialized in consuming two things, and then combining them without destroying either, making the resultant thing a stronger, more durable, more versatile combination of both things. Using his devil fruit.

And say his team of 20 highly expert scientists were furiously dedicated to a single focus: devil fruits; specifically one that could "cure all diseases", which Kureha helps us understand is only possible by being a doctor good enough to be able to know *many* different skills and be able to apply them as needed; and say these doctors got a chance to study how Wapol's fruit worked. And say they used that chance to see if there was a way to combine devil fruits - to give someone versatile skills to use when needed.

And say someone stole that research, as of yet untested, and tried it out on themself. What was it Shiryu said at Marineford while Blackbeard was under that cloth with Whitebeard's body? "What happens if this doesn't work? Do we disband?"

And I mean. Why is Wapol where he is right now? He's literally in the PERFECT narrative location to be able to give us exposition on all of this, I mean he's literally in big news Morgan's blimp with fuckin vivi. Cmon. His presence is BEGGING to be asked about it. An accidental overhearing some news about BB and a like "oh oough that guy that stole my devil fruit combo research >:(" from Wapol and then a "HE FUCKING WHAT?? YOUR FUCKING WHAT??????" from literally anyone in proximity and we're off to the fucking races, just SAYING

And what was it Luffy to Sanji said while carrying Nami up the mountain? "I heard at a bar in my hometown that people from snowy places don't sleep". Obviously Teach was rumored not to sleep since at least that time when Oden joined the Roger pirates. But Hiriluk saw his cherry tree around the time of the God Valley incident, so I don't think it's impossible that there was some sort of connection there.

Idk man I was just tossing jokes out abt this arc but I'm buggin out about drum arc more and more every time I think about it or watch it lmfao

[shslskaterboy]

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🍭 what’s a headcanon/theory? Oough very good question because with dr there are so many possibilities, but let’s go with the one that allows me to think that v3 is part of the rest of the canon world

Basically there are two ways I’ve thought about this going, one being that games 1 and 2 really did happen and that Tsumugi was a fanatic influenced by Junko, and wanted to create her own killing game in a different part of the world. Granted this one is a bit of a stretch given the amount of resources she would’ve needed, but I still stand by it because the entire concept of THH is a stretch by that same logic

The second way I think it could go is that v3 happens in the future well after the events of the tragedy, and the world is long since healed from it. In this idea p much everything Tsumugi says about the world being bored because there’s no conflict or wars or whatever is true, and therefore the idea of a killing game comprised of consenting participants is appealing for them- that way they get their fix of action, but no one is forced against their will. Of course the fact that this takes place in a post-tragedy world is where the idea for the Junko style killing game comes from, and I think the first couple of seasons were meant to be a reenactment as an homage to the people who actually died fighting for hope. After those first seasons were a hit, the show takes off, and eventually we get to the point where season 53 takes place, and society has been severely warped by their obsession with the game.

Mind you I do also subscribe to the hc that if you die in the game you do NOT die for real because I need all my little blorbos to wake up safe (if not traumatized) post game in a hospital or something, and that Tsumugi was neglecting to mention that detail for the ✨drama✨ of it all.

Pretty much this idea allows me to enjoy replaying v3 without having to completely ignore the ending, because I NEED all my little guys to have truly existed, and that the things they went through weren’t just fabricated, and I need everyone to have existed in the same world. Can you tell I’ve thought about this a lot?

[fisherrprince]

HOOOOOOO I love those two concepts for brain…… the idea that someone could look too hard into the possibility of achieving godhood, something which is probably not possible to do by yourself on purpose, and create one. Or just be so tenacious that it’s given to him anyways, and it’ll never happen again— agjdhkdgks I Love the gods need belief to exist thing I love rise of the guardians rules

HMMMMM I have to wonder if there would even be any sort of festivals or rituals at all, since they can’t be more than… they’re probably newer. They can’t be more than a hundred years old, seeing as it’s a semi-frontier setting… I bet they’re kind of like. Terrifying anomalies that people have just figured out, maybe they’re the second generation after the old gods all died out or something… though I bet there are superstitions to keep them Out, or in. Like, putting an iron horseshoe above your door will ward away thieves and collectors, because it’s like a neon sign for Skuld (or so it’s thought). Or giving birth in a storm is good luck, but owl-like scarecrows tend to keep ven away (they also keep hawks and vultures away most of the time, go figure). Blaine will sometimes be interested in particularly complicated games, so there’s one story of a bunch of kids inventing a crazy Calvinball-esque tiddlywinks game and he joined a few rounds. It didn’t happen again, even if the board games in town get increasingly complicated on principle, but.

I feel like people WOULD look at someone who encountered a scarf ghost like they were crazy, IF NOT for the fact that OTHER people have encountered the scarf ghost. People outside of town probably think it’s strange and a little freaky, but people in town are like hushed whispers what happened??? They’re cryptids to see in full, and not just one of their envoys or animals, but it happens. People who have TALKED to them though…… occasionally they’ll be blessed. Occasionally they’ll be super duper cursed. Most of the time, I think, it’s just one of those experiences that leaves you shaky and in disbelief, and it will never happen again. Some people don’t believe that you actually heard them speak, you liar, but… I think some people are like whoa….. that’s insane…………

HMMMM I DUNNO about the becoming one — I feel like it’s impossible to do by yourself. I mentioned old gods earlier, but maybe it’s like a rotg moon situation, where some unthinking thing just. Makes it so. Maybe when Skuld was on her last vestiges, a small fox walked up to the bars and stuck its nose in and spoke, and then disappeared in the next blink before she started pulling at the iron. Maybe trying to become one is kind of blasphemous? Like why would you want to, anyways. Orrrr… maybe it’s like vision rules from genshin, where the old gods aren’t gone they just aren’t here, and sometimes they give “gifts”. Or maybe it just. Happens. And those who try it never get anywhere, because there are no leads aside from two near-death experiences, one overwhelming bout of grief, one “desert just decided to one day”, and one “blaine controls the knowledge of how he came to be therefore it’s Nowhere and he won’t tell anyone”. No matter how many rabbits you follow into the rocks and end up with a trinket of some kind. Maybe he’s just leaving those to mess with you and they’re not meant to be clues….

AH IMAGE AND A COUPLE ASKS BELOW THE CUT

heheh i just got fascinated with the idea of a caw noise. You made them laugh!

WOULDNT THAT BE A STORY…… would they believe you? Maybe not. But you’d probably get some incredulous looks and great street cred for a few days. Hello grandmother. Hello Ethereal Being Of The Wastes.

oough… the idea that ephemer‘s bells sound like water makes me 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 he is a little representative of respite, but also, since theres Not Rivers, the absence motif…. Auuuoough

Kip the desert god KHUX art is literally the coolest thing!! Is it okay if like...I poke you for more info about it? Like--they're all supposed to have good and bad traits, so what good ones correlate to which character? Are there any stories about how they came to be? What kind of superstitions are there surrounding them? UH, I'm trying to think of actual questions, but mostly I'm just flailing excitedly. (I also don't know if you have answers, so uh...feel free to ignore if you don't.)

YOU TWO....... COME CLOSER, COME PLAY IN THE SPACE COME INTO MY HOUSE

i am mostly infodumping here as a proposition, and kind of just for fun, soooo!! feel free to counter or disagree but this is what my brain has been turning for a few hours now. YES to All

i think they each are legends in their own right but really. them together. they're like a known phenomenon that talk to each other, occasionally spotted on a cliff chatting. but they also really specifically are over things, in a less greek god way and more of a. demigod put in charge way...???

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Skuld — vengeance, justice, coyotes, horses, debt, freedom, breath

- There are unkind things said about those which must have made Her like this. No one’s quite sure about the process of making a godling, or turning someone into one, but she definitely seems to have a grudge. Some say the chains she wields are old rusted things from the day she turned. Some say that she made em from the iron in her assailers’ pistols, forged clean with their blood. An iffy rumor states that she was in debt, and her collectors refused to give her an extra week and threw her to the dogs, though that one gets confused with one about her freeing a bunch of wild dogs? Horses in some versions. And there’s another one asserting she was wrongly imprisoned and then forgotten, and after she clawed her way out she hunted the jailer down for months, never sleeping. Accounts tend to get exaggerated out of fear, but to be honest, she only gets really pissed at the target of some good old fashioned righteous violence, so it’s not surprising some people remember the dirty, scratched and clawed hands before they remember her voice. She’ll sing, sometimes, out in the open desert, mostly gentle things about endless possibilities. She’s known more for her good in desolate spheres, and more for her anger in prosperous ones. She’s the reason there ain’t a jailhouse in Daybreak Town. She’s the reason you can’t catch a coyote in a bear trap. She’s the reason running through an empty field as far and fast as you can feels so good. She’s the reason at night when you’re thinking dark thoughts to yourself there’s an extra voice that whispers let the hunt begin.

- She has a “horse”. She also wears a blindfold! For the aesthetic and for the justice is blind pun. I think there would be some superstition surrounding her… but I’m not sure what! I think hearing a big BOONNGGG bell when there’s No Bells is very uh oh

- She Lauriam and Ven make up the trio that were ascended After brain and ephemer. All three of them are a little less wistful ghosty mysterious and a little more scary, they all tend to work together bc of how they… work. So like, it wouldn’t be strange to see a hawk and a coyote in the background when talking to Death. Or a vulture and a lizard staring at you for way too long. She is good friends with ephy and their domains overlap a little :] everyone’s domains overlap just a bit.

- Cute note: she’s also very attached to the herd/pack mentality, and is usually the one keeping tabs on everyone else.

Lauriam — death, rot, love, grief, bones, lizards/dragons, coins, heat

- DO NOT go into the desert at night. You might find him. Or more accurately, he’ll find you. I think the concept that during the day he’s a lot more somber and gentle, while during the night he is a little terrifying is good bc things like death get scarier and more intense at night. It’s the lack of light that kinda drives him to be ruthless, and the cold, and the reminder of what he lost. Also his scythe is a guaranteed one hit kill pop your soul out, so they say... I don’t know if there are many debated stories about his origin. There might be some debate as to if he was always over death or if he just became like this because of his sister, but… there sure is a bit of a superstition about those who choose to live in a desert that killed the one in charge of harvest and prosperity and such. Points at rosie-kairi points at lauriam’s grief motif points at

- He tends to do the mononoke forest spirit thing. Sprouts flowers where he walks, immediately they wither and die. Since the desert is so hot (and, so it’s said, the insect/soil godling isn’t here) dead things tend to wither and get eaten and such rather than like, sink into the dirt. Things that are actually rotting are a bit cursed. He carries carved bones.

- There PROBABLY aren’t any actual dragons in the desert. Probably. There are lizards (did you know they’re scavengers sometimes?). If there WERE though or if one was sleeping underneath the ground or in that giant bare canyon and that’s why hardly anything grows down there? That would be his dragon.

- Most people respect him. It’s death. You can’t uh— you can’t just be mean to death you’ll die. It’s the natural end of everything. I think the proper thing to do is leave a few good coins behind if you kill someone. It represents the cost and shows that you understand what you’re doing so death doesn’t send anyone after you.

- Sweet note: I wonder if he’ll sometimes appear in graveyards to give the unmourned flowers….

(Strelitzia (gone)? — war, cycles, courage, life, insects, flowers, harvest)

- not much known I bet! Anything growing in the desert is a good sign, and a sign of healing. Not much grows.

Ventus — destruction, disaster, birth, vultures, hawks, self-identity, storms

- That one… no matter how much he wears to cover it, those claws click and drag on wood like iron boots. encountering that one ain’t so much a problem. It’s when he encounters you that there’s trouble. Mostly because half the time if he ever talks to you, you’re in the middle of a storm and he’s wondering why you’re still here. Lightning tends to hit things close to him. Bit of bad luck to be too close.

- Also terrible omen to see a hawk flying in a storm, especially a tornado. That’s probably him and it’s PROBABLY angry

- Rumors about how he came about ain’t ...that bad. There’s a rumor he survived a hurricane that ripped everything from the ground, and earned the right to be reborn as a demigod just by refusing to die. There’s a different rumor about an old burned down barn wwwwaaay out in the nothingness. it used to be something awful, unsaveable, screams would echo at night, and one day he just snapped and the earth did with him, so thoroughly is it ground into charcoal now that no one knows what it used to be — just that it’s now barren, and some seeds are sprouting there since the fire. There’s one that kind of explains the bird feet, where lightning struck a house through a vulture and he was just born with them, but that does absolutely zero explaining.

- It’s a bit weird to have a deity of destruction also be your deity of like, healthy baby sheep, but if you think about it, there’s a calm before and after a storm. He can be very sweet, especially with kids, but he isn’t social. Most of the time, people see him like an absol, a figure in the distance standing in the middle of chaos that’s ripping fences out of the ground. That cloak can turn into wings and launch him into the wind. Probably. So goes the rumor.

- He’s not as respected as death is. Mostly because destruction is kind of wanton and “unnecessary” — except for the fact that sometimes it is. So the image here is Lauriam and Skuld standing in front of him and going EXCUSE ME!!!!! he ask for NO pickles

- Silly note: he makes chirps and squawks when he’s startled I think. Hehehe. but also on that note. starlings and ravens and crows. they talk. Hooooooo nonononono. “danger! danger! dear, see what that noiseisss. dearsee. danger! caw!” NooooNONOhoho. sometimes he talks like that nononono

Ephemer — absence, wandering, protection, vastness, sleep, water, ghosts

- he was the first, so I think the most accepted versions of the story are either he was lost and the desert wanted a friend forever, or the desert MADE a friend. He’s practically a ghost, so not physical at all — which is honestly what helped him befriend the others… not responding to being attacked is useful in his case. He mostly resides in the giant canyon you DO NOT GO INTO, because you’ll get trapped and lost and wander forever and die. There’s dangerous things down there. His domain is all very ethereal, very let-your-mind-wander… a lot of weird dreams and feeling strangely lonely at 3 am and sitting down to look at the stars and getting struck by the fact that you are a person, on earth, one of so so many, you are touching dirt, you are breathing, you are thinking, the world is so big, oh no—

- With that comes protection. If you’re running, the vastness of the desert confuses and deters your pursuers. The sky is like a huge blanket. A fog will come over your mind if your decision is a particularly stupid one. You will always find something in the huge nothingness.

- Water is a weird one to be over because it means like, OCEAN. His domain is an ocean, not a puddle or rain. But there’s rumors the canyon used to be an ocean. Not sure if they’re to be believed.

- He wears a very large scarf decorated in tiny bells. Big bell is scary vengeance, tinkling bells is just this guy. He’s also much more benevolent to encounter! Like, usually he’s giving advice and warnings, and not following them is what gets you in big trouble. You’re always supposed to be very polite to him (all of them sorta) because it’s like. fae rules a little. Disrespect can get you on their bad side. Is that true? Aye….. who knows. It’s not worth it to be on the receiving end of his anger, even if it’s rare. The world expanding, your mind drifting into quiet, you slowly forget to move…

- Note: he likes to talk to people if you do it right. He seems very lonely. It is very, very difficult to encounter him, ever -- one wonders if its his domains, or the desert keeping him.

Blaine — knowledge, luck, snakes, hares, mirage

- Not predictable, not seen very often, and therefore probably the scariest to encounter, but most of the time what ends up happening is he tells you something freaky and lets you leave. Like………. if Bruno madrigal didn’t have anxiety and sat at the only campsite in 50 miles (abandoned except this guy by the way) and made conversation about your life even though you have Never met him. You don’t see his eyes. Probably because they claim he has a lot of them. Never has quite the same fingernails, skin color, smile, hair… twice.

- LOVES games. Not gambles, necessarily, but the guy cannot resist a chance to play cards against you. Even casually. You can probably leverage this somehow. He actually doesn’t cheat — but he sure knows if you do.

- Not sure about his origin… all of this lore stuff can be crowdsourced, I like to work together on things if you have ideas that are cool :D

- He wears a ton of layers. What’s under there? Uhhhhhhhhhhh probably nothing you want to know about!

- Going SEARCHING for him is hard. You can do it, though — just be prepared to come back with an answer you may not like, or an answer and something that’ll haunt you forever.

- HARES. that’s how he knows everything, so says a handful of people. The hares. They watch.

hhhhghh.... the aesthetic. is very impo- the Aesthetic is good. so long as they're mysterious and haunting the world... yeah thats theg ood stuff ok THANKS FOR COMING TO MY TED TALK