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astercontrol · 11 months ago

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One more thing I love about the 1982 TRON movie (yes, yet another thing!) is how subtle some details are.

This is, of course, in addition to all the parts that feel genuinely unfinished and not-well-thought-out, or are unintended side effects of some technicality in filming. I mean, I love those parts too! I love trying to figure out exactly where in between scenes Flynn could have asked Ram about Tron, since we see Ram claiming he did, even though he clearly didn't during either of the two times he was in the cell with Ram (because the part where he did ask him was cut from the script)...

...I love theorizing about the program Sark defeated in the lightcycle battle of the first scene, and whether he really reappears as a warrior-elite lightcyclist in the scene where Flynn breaks out of the game grid? (The same actor seems to reappear, probably because of limited cast. But, in-universe, does that mean he's a different program by the same User? Or did Sark spare his life on the condition that he'd defect to the MCP?)...

... And I love trying to come up with a reason why blue is the Bad-Guy color for lightcycles, despite being the Good-Guy color for armor circuitry (the out-of-universe reason is they decided on Blue=Good after all the computer animation on the lightcycles was done already, but... couldn't there be a reason within the story as well?)

My pattern-recognition-program brain loves all of that-- to me it's just a bunch of neat puzzles to solve!

And in addition to those accidental puzzles, there are also plenty of details that clearly had thought put into them, but in return also require some thought from the viewer.

Ram's User is one example of that. Even though he's just credited as "Popcorn Coworker" at that point, it must have been intentional that he's played by the same actor as Ram and is also cubicle neighbors with Alan, in a "mirroring" of their programs being cellmates. But in the original movie, this goes by in a brief, easily-missed scene, and wasn't made any clearer until Legacy and The Next Day came out. Audiences in the '80s could have figured it out, paying enough attention, but it'd take effort.

There are plenty of other examples of stuff like this, many of them just in the props and scenery-- Alan's "Gort Klaatu Barada Nikto" cubicle sign; Yori's name appearing on the monitor when the laser activates, and so on.

And the Bit thinking that Flynn is its program, with the reason implied by the unspoken fact that Clu was its program and they look the same. The scene of Flynn absorbing circuit-color from a guard, clearly without meaning to or understanding how it works-- but it makes perfect sense when you realize he probably intended to steal a uniform for disguise, and his User-Power acted on his intent to disguise himself and simply transferred the red color to him. It's a beautiful goldmine of puzzles!

And then... then there are the social subtleties; the puzzles of emotion and intention, half-concealed within the acting.

Now, as someone who's spent a lot of my life struggling with social challenges and unspoken, unclear social rules, that sort of subtlety is... not always my friend.

But, in a movie like this... a beautifully complex film that's already such a wealth of half-hidden mysteries... I can, on occasion, enjoy the emotional subtlety, seeing it as just another puzzle to figure out.

There are so many cases of a character expressing something, on the surface, that may not be quite what he's feeling deep down. For instance...

Flynn and Lora are amicable exes, seeming to harbor no resentment about their breakup. When Lora brings her new guy, Alan, to visit Flynn at the arcade, Flynn is all laughs and smiles, showing nothing but happiness...

And yet, later, we see that laughs and smiles from Flynn don't always mean happiness.

After seeing him use a cheerful face to cover up whatever anger, fear and despair he must be feeling about Dillinger and the MCP, we start to wonder... how many of the darker feelings about his past with Lora might be covered up in the same way?

Tron, too, is a master of repression. Honestly, sometimes I think he took the directive "Secure and Protect the System, Stop Bad Things from getting through the Walls!" and applied it disproportionately to the walls of his own dingus self.

Look at him speedrun a dozen stages of bottling-up-the-grief, upon learning that Ram didn't survive:

And then, look how calm and cheerful he seems to be, when faced with the potentially faith-shattering revelation that the gods don't know WTF they're doing.

Now, I personally think this isn't a case of emotional repression; it's a case of "Tron does not actually believe that for a second." He is not, at this point, at all convinced that Flynn really is a User.

His choice to say "Stranger and stranger!" instead of "Bullshit!" is the only repression here, and, in my opinion, it's an act of diplomacy on Tron's part. Tron knows that whoever this guy is, he's gonna have to keep working together with him for at least a while, so he decided not to start any unnecessary conflicts over whether he believes the User thing.

Here's another subtlety, at the end, when Tron and Yori are reunited.

Now, I don't mean Yori's explanation of what happened to Flynn, which is unusually non-subtle here. With so many details of the film's plot so expertly revealed through Showing rather than Telling, it's a surprise to see Yori explain in such clear detail just what Flynn did, and just how it helped Tron defeat the MCP... when we, as the audience, already saw all that happen, and could figure it out as well as we could figure out any of the other, more subtle bits of the plot that aren't outright explained to us.

No, the subtlety here is in Tron's reaction. He's happy to see Yori, yes-- but when she starts talking about how great Flynn was, he gets a stone-faced, tight-jawed look to him, like he's... really not all that happy to see his partner fangirling so hard over that doofus.

He looks like he might be giving some very critical thought to just where Yori might've learned that "kissing" thing she just taught him, and struggling with some... complicated feelings about that.

Really I think there is lots of evidence that the Programs (Tron, Yori and Ram) all have complicated feelings about Flynn. To me it seems clear that even when they don't realize he's a User, all three feel the pull of his User-power, perhaps to the point of overwhelming their better judgment.

All three have scenes where they seem irresistibly attracted to him. Though of course Yori's the only one who actually went through with the kiss that... all three of them seemed to be gearing up for.

But just because Tron understands what it feels like to lose control a little, getting swept away in the attraction of a User's energy...

well, that doesn't mean he's happy about it happening to Yori.

Personally I don't see it as jealousy, in the traditional monogamous User-world sense. I see it as more of:

"you do realize that guy is kind of a dumpster fire of a person, even if he is a User? I know what his energy does to you, I felt it too, and that is why I'm... concerned. He has God Powers, but by his own admission he does not really have a clue what he's even doing with them, so... well, I don't know if he's gonna come back here again, but if he does, please please be careful around him, okay?"

I swear. This movie has infinite subtext to explore. I am gonna keep finding things for YEARS.

#tron #tronblr #tron 1982 #ram tron #kevin flynn #yori

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dilfartist · 2 years ago

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Yandere Supernatural Adult trio headcanons

TW: kidnapping, NSFW mentioned, dark themes, yandere, cult mentioned, some religious themes.

Notes; I’ll be writing phantom troupe monster hc’s sometime later.

Warlock Chrollo

A man who professes or is supposed to practice magic or sorcery; a male witch; sorcerer. a fortuneteller or conjurer.

Warlock Chrollo is mortal at the beginning of his life. Later in his teenage years, he finds the Devil’s book and starts his eternal life as a warlock.

Warlock Chrollo lives in solitude in the abandoned woods behind the village where he grew up, where there is never-ending snow.

He spends his days collecting items for the numerous incantations he’s embezzled from other warlocks and witches. As well as lurking through the woods and finding lost individuals and travelers.

Lucky people who have survived sighting the man, report seeing him clad in a dark purple coat that drags against the snow. His presence alone has frightened people enough for him to become a part of the folklore surrounding the area.

For many years Chrollo roamed the earth, and no one dared to disturb him. People knew better than to aggravate the witch of the abandoned forest; until recently.

As the internet became prevalent, so did ghost investigations and challenges.

Ghost investigators would be a weekly occurrence for Chrollo. Majority of their visits, Chrollo wouldn’t indulge in humoring them. Showing evidence of his existence would only evolve the number of people coming to his woods.

But when he wanted to have some fun, he’d confirm they didn't have any cameras or break them beyond repair, then scare the life out of them. He’ll whisper in their ears and make them believe they're going crazy. Sometimes he makes his words echo. Other times he’ll act like a traveler and have a conversation with his victim, then when he gets bored kill them and use them for later. Or, if he’s feeling generous, he’ll allow them to leave.

The cross on his forehead is his trademark. There are plenty of posts on the internet that connect to the symbol and the forest.

Similar to the original, Warlock Chrollo is the leader of the phantom troupe. The phantom troupe in his universe is various types of monsters as a group terrorizing mortals.

His coat is extended due to the cold region he lives in, He still slicks his hair back but sometimes wears it down for his disguise.

Using his sorcery, Chrollo changes into various disguises, a handful of them used to lure his victims. Sometimes he’ll change into an animal: a wolf, cat, ram, owl, or fox, and the fur stays the same raven color. Other times he’s a handsome lone wolf who happens to live in the woods, luring in female victims that yearn for his adoration. And his last disguise is a lost child; an act he has perfected.

Now, let's talk about Warlock Chrollo falling in love.

Warlock Chrollo’s darling would most likely be someone who was lost or sought for him. He’d find them interesting enough to mess with for a while.

Once he takes a liking to them and decides he wants to keep them, he’ll create a spell that forces his darling to stay inside the forest. Each time they try running out of the forest, they’ll end up back at his cabin.

Refuses to put a spell on his darling. He likes his darling willing and abit unpredictable. He wants to know their beliefs, not what he believes.

Tracks his darling with a spell, so if they somehow manage to escape, Chrollo’s members will be on their tail immediately.

Overall, Warlock chrollo is the same as his original counterpart aside from the things listed.

Vampire illumi

A corpse supposed, in European folklore, to leave its grave at night to drink the blood of the living by biting their necks with long pointed canine teeth.

Born to a family of notorious vampires, Vampire Illumi lives his eternity in his family's castle.

Out of all the vampire families, the Zoldyck name has stricken dread into mortals and immortals. The family trains to dominate the others, to be known as number one.

All Zoldyck’s are born fully undead, meaning the head vampire mistress gave birth to a child of darkness. Illumi is no different; Since he was the firstborn in the new Zoldyck generation, Kikyo made sure to consume as much mortal blood to ensure Illumi would be powerful.

Instead of assassinating people for money, Vampire Illumi hunts humans to bring home to the family.

The family creates contracts with humans. Aside from hunting, Illumi gives them out to victims he thinks are strong enough to uphold the title of a Zoldyck butler. If they trust a mortal enough as their butler they’ll have the honor of transforming into a vampire.

Vampire Illumi would be about 124 years old, still young in vampire years but old enough to be the same age as his original self.

Once bitten by Illumi, he can control the body, or manipulate the person into whatever he pleases. A person could be ordering coffee at a local shop and all of a sudden it’s silent, and their surrounding is a pitch-black void. Illumi will command the person to act to his command. His monotone voice will be heard clearly and loudly, reverberating slightly. You’d have to be nearly deaf not to hear him. Next thing you know, the person is in the middle of traffic with a car racing toward them.

Vampire Illumi isn't too far from his original design. Vampire Illumi still has his signature long black hair and golden pins. The difference depends on where he is. His casual wear is what vampires in media are seen to wear; for instance Lestat from interview with the vampire but green with his pins buttoning his poet shirt.

When he’s out and about, Illumi wears a black cordobes hat that shields his face from the sun and a black business suit with a green turtle neck underneath.

Speaking of the sun. It is common knowledge that vampires avoid sunlight for the reasons of certain death. But for Vampire Illumi all he needs is sunscreen, the worst to happen is his skin is aggravated. When it is, it looks like hives.

The Zoldyck family has diverse sets of fangs. Vampire Illumi has double fangs, Killua has small fangs, Kikyo’s fangs grow when she's angry, and Silva has double-set fangs and shaped caps.

Two parts of Vampire Illumi are clues to his true identity as a vampire: His pointed ears and glass fingernails.

Now onto romance with Vampire Illumi.

Most likely, illumi’s darling is a human or a butler at his mansion. Of course, they could be a vampire, but he really doesn't talk to others unless it’s about business or a battle.

Human darling will be bit as soon as Illumi realizes he wants to procreate. A weak wife equals a weak progeny.

Yandere Illumi and Yandere Vampire Illumi are just the same. Unlike Chrollo, they have slight difference.

Incubus Hisoka

An incubus is a demon in male form in folklore that seeks to have sexual intercourse with sleeping women; the corresponding spirit in female form is called a succubus.

No one knows how Incubus Hisoka began to exist; not even himself.

One night Incubus Hisoka invaded a woman’s dream and then the next day he began to terrorize everyone.

Twitter, 4chan, youtube, and Facebook, and many more have users conversating on the strange, sexy magician they all see in their wet dreams. There’s artwork and sketches of him. One person recorded themself talking in their slep, and if you listen close enough you can hear him speak back.

One post you will find explains what happens when you meet him in full detail.

You’ll find yourself in a bar, empty besides the few bartenders drying cleaned shot glasses. The bar is nice and homey. Like a private bar. Sweet is how the air smells; mixes of cheery, pineapple, mango, and diverse fresh fruits fill the air.

Suddenly the man will appear by your side, sitting on the bar stool next to you. His eye is seductive and you feel yourself melting in your chair when he finally speaks to you.

Somehow, he finds a way to sleep with you. You won’t even remember how he succeeds in winning you over. Your mind is mush, he’s turned you on to the point you can barely think. And he hasn't even touched you yet. You’ll wake up with stains in your underwear, and they aren't just yours.

Incubus Hisoka searches for his victims through what he likes to call the hallway of dreams. It’s basically what the name describes.

Incubus Hisoka wears a suit and his hair down. But he’ll change his image to whatever his victim is attracted to most.

While Canon Hisoka enjoys strong individuals, Incubus Hisoka doesn't really care, as long as they give him the nutrients to live he doesn't care for their physical strength.

Loves to mess with Warlock Chrollo all the time. When he’s sleeping Hisoka loves to invade his dreams and requests to battle him. He's gained so much strength from all the nutrients sucked out of the multiple women he’s killed. Why not try it out?

Uses nutrients as a life source and to fight other creatures.

Romance with Incubus Hisoka.

I think he’d enjoy messing with a weak darling who is easily frightened. He’d love to scare the everliving fear out of them. Fear and arousal mixed together are heaven for him.

If Incubus Hisoka kidnaps his darling, she’ll be locked away in another dimension. A dimension where only incubus live.

Compared to the original more chill.

#yandere #yandere tendencies #dark theme #yandere hisoka #incubus hisoka #warlock chrollo #yandere chrollo #yandere hxh #yandere hunter x hunter #vampire illumi #illumi headcanons #illumi x reader #chrollo x reader #hisoka x reader #hisoka headcanons #chrollo headcanons

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play-on-skinners-box · 1 year ago

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SPOILERS FOR CHAPTER FIVE OF RAINCODE(And a LARGE amount of text)

I wanted to do more Raincode furries cause they're honestly so fun and are really good practice because I'm kinda rusty in general. I only did Yuma and Makoto this time just cause it's a more manageable workload and they are some of the last ones I'm especially passionate about.

OKAY, BUCKLE UP BABY, THESE CHOICES HAVE LAYERS TO THEM. L A Y E R S

OKAY SO, at some point scrolling on tumblr I saw this post by Nadox showcasing a piece of Yuma's concept art, and in the art he was depicted with long hair. They theorized that this was what Number One originally looked like and he sheared his hair into that wimpy fresh almost bowl cut so he could pass as a trainee, AND I L O V E THAT. I herby declare it as correct on the grounds of I said so.

Going along with this idea, Yuma is a young wolf that has a lame haircut so everyone THINKS he's just a dog. I know a wolf in real life would be a lot harder to reasonably pass as a dog, so this requires a bit of anime logic tomfuckery, but I'm fine with that because Raincode already deals in its fair share of logic jank. I am simply being true to game in that regard! The way I drew him already isn't super wolf-like cause I made him all squishy looking like human Yuma, and made the veerrryyyy tips of the ears flop over because the pointy ones just didn't feel quite right. I know real wolf ears are only ever depicted as pointy but it was for the VIBE. Yeaahhh in hindsight I might have taken a few too many liberties. I suppose to make it a little more sensible you could say he's a wolfdog and not full wolf or something. Other than the logic I really like this choice because everyone would naturally assume Yuma's just a pathetic little puppy dog when his real identity is hiding in plain sight!

I went back and forth on alot of the fur aspects. How smooth is too smooth? How much of it should just look like blunt cuts? Should I even give him his human hair? Usually I don't like giving my furries human hair in general because I want them looking a lot more like animals rather than people, but for Yuma his hair is such an important part of his design that I ultimately decided to keep it on both him and Makoto.

MAKOTO IS A WOLF IN SHEEPS CLOTHING AND THAT IS SO FUN, SO SILLY, SO GOOFY, HOOOORAY(Specifically a dall sheep cause they have those big curly horns). In theory, the hardest part of choosing an animal for Yuma is that whatever his animal is needs to tie into Makoto, and also be able to be implemented in a way where their connection isn't obvious. Makoto having a mask helps of course, but if you pick a really distinctive animal for Yuma you'll have to come up with better ways to hide it. Others have gotten a lot more creative with how Makoto hides his species, but I didn't do that and went in the full direction of just giving him a disguise. Its a littlllleeeeee lazy but I'm too smitten with the idea to care. I was a little confused on what to do with the tail. I considered just chopping off the majority of it to make it look like a short little sheep tail and put the justification for it in his suuuuppper tragic past(Though I honestly don't know if homunculi can regenerate like lizards). Luckily, the pose makes it so you can't see it anyway so I don't have to grapple with the responsibly of weather or not I need to brutally amputate one of Makoto's body parts. I consider this a win.

Disregarding his actual animal, I think the sheep is also weirdly fitting because of some of their associations. When I met Makoto I wasn't sure what to make of him besides being cautiously optimistic about him not letting Yuma die(What a fool I was), and sheep/lambs/rams and animals in that ballpark can vary wildly in their depictions from literaly the devil to good little fluffy guys!

For his actual look I wanted the sheep parts to look costumey sort of. I was going for a similar effect as the blood in chapter 0, where it's very noticeable but you write off the weird things about it because it's not immediately relevant. So, the mask has fake horns attached. The hand hooves are just little caps over the paw fingers, and there are two gold and silver caps to mimic his rings and point to their artificiality. The feet are also fake and are suppose to look a little clunky like Makoto's actual shoes. His hair is also much more full looking, a little less limp; because his actual ears need some place to get tucked away. I think the main problem with this design is it'd make for a really awkward reveal, cause when he dramatically gets the mask taken off then he'd just be a canine with hooves.

For both of them I think wolf works very well in terms of their characters and their shared forte. Yuma spends most of the game struggling with needing to rely on others, and Makoto has been carrying the weight of Kanai Wards secret on his shoulders alone for like three years. They also both have the Coalescence forte, which by it's very nature requires the help of other people, and at the end of the day being with others and working together is what brings them farther then they could do alone(even if some of the themes get muddled at the end and arn't really as clear as I'd personally like I find that Kodaka's games can have some not so rock solid theming with shakey conclusions but this is what I chose to take away from it)

These aspects of their characters fit perfectly with the stereotypical idea of a strong and stoic lone wolf in contrast to real wolves being pack animals that work together to survive!

I thought I'd like Yuma's design more by a landside cause I've grown really fond of his human design, but I actually really love this version of Makoto. I guess any designs with horns or hooves just appeals to me in a way that paws don't. Still really happy with these two. They could most certainly be worse! I think they're both cute little guys though and I learned a lot about how to like, render from this so that's a bonus!

#raincode #rain code #yuma kokohead #makoto kagutsuchi

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fryingpan1234567 · 2 years ago

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That Hermitcraft hero AU list I promised

yeah. here you go (:

edit: no art for y’all lol if you saw the original post congrats, but if you happened to have aphantasia or are just not good at visualizing, sorry! no art, it doesn’t go over well lmao

happy reading!

Impulse: SV

powers: electricity + thunder

info: he’s really good with press lol he usually goes on missions with kids because they all love him- during the day, the iDimpy factory ‘bought’ the Hermit Compound and ‘converted it to a chocolate factory’ and Impulse runs it lol (dw it’s still for superheroes, the bottom couple levels were just edited a bit HE MAKES REALLY GOOD CANDY)

appearance: MR. IMPULSE AS WILLY WONKA MY BELOVED (his super suit is metal like Iron Man and has a glowing yellow i in the middle)

Zed: Worm Man

powers: sheep [: (NO HIS NAME DOESN’T MAKE SENSE IT’S FOR THE MEME)

info: fs a mad scientist- he teaches middle school science during the day XD

appearance: blond, blue eyes, ram horns that he tells his students is just a headband, lab coat + goggles even when not in the lab lol- his super suit is just. Worm Man. you know

Tango: Blaze

powers: fire + can change back and forth between super form and civilian

info: he’s super funny lol

appearance: yellow hair that looks like fire (it is actually on fire in super form), red eyes, sharp teeth in super form, if you’ve seen @lunarcrown ‘s Tango art that’s the fit style I’m thinking for the super suit

Keralis: Cyclopes

powers: siren Keralis my beloved

info: he loves kids but has kind of a spooky look to him- don’t worry, they warm up to him eventually and even call him Papa K!!

appearance: larger than average eyes but is otherwise basically normal lol his super fit is just like Aquaman style yk lots of scales

Bdubs: Apollo

powers: photokinesis

info: shreepy boi, moss hoodie, short (don’t tell him)

appearance: floofy brown hair held back w/ a red bandana, Latino, super fit is just a Greek chiton lol (he’s glowing bright enough you can’t even see him most of the time)

Ren: Red King

powers: werewolf

info: he can control which form and how he acts in said forms pretty much always- scary wolf hulk for bad guys and fluffy puppy for kids

appearance: in human form he has ears and a tail :DD

• Doc: 77

powers: let’s imagine a cross between the Hulk, the Winter Soldier, and a creeper

info: he is very good at fighting (: he’s cyborg and has green in super form

appearance: literally like seven feet tall

Scar: the Wizard

powers: telekinesis, magic

info: he is actually disabled, he just uses telekinesis to walk around as a super lol (HE HAS A MASSIVE MAGIC CAT THAT HE DISGUISES AS A NORMAL ONE DURING THE DAY)

appearance: covered in scars (obvi), bright green eyes, suit is Hot Guy fit

Cub: Bear

powers: Vex wings, skulk

info: he’s very friendly, but his super state is, uh… possessed. by the Deep Dark. I’m sure it’s fine

appearance: dark curly hair, galaxy eyes in super form but otherwise normal blue, super fit is just him covered in skulk- I’m thinking Venom vibes (SO EXCITED ABOUT THIS CONCEPT)

Grian: Evo

powers: BIGASS PARROT WINGS (and advanced sight)

info: pesky bird boy lmao he does the Jurassic Park claw tap thing when he’s hunting + on stealth missions

appearance: yeah he’s got bird feet lol he doesn’t leave the compound very much bc he can’t really disguise or lie about that

Pearl: Moth

powers: moth wings + antennae

info: she is in fact an alien but it’s okay she’s very nice unless she’s hunting with her dogs

appearance: again wings and antennae, brown hair with lighter streaks, purple eyes, super fit is like Storm/ Starfire

Gem: Dawn

powers: fire but in sunset yellow/ orange/ red/ purple colors lol

info: she’s actually descended from Gaelic royalty lmao

appearance: deer horns, orange hair which in super form turns to a fire ombré like Starfire, suit has pink honeycomb patterns

• Cleo: Medusa

powers: necromancy and turning people to stone (:

info: she died in Ancient Greece and rose as a zombie after Hades, who fell in love with her, granted her “life”. she is immortal

appearance: a zombie lol (but a hot one I promise you) with orange snakes for hair

Stress: Monster

powers: flower queennn

info: she doesn’t like dark/ stealth missions as much, but she’s all for patrol whenever

appearance: always has a flower crown for some reason?? eyes glow pink when she uses her powers and the suit is like that one fanart of Isabella from Encanto as Spider-Man

Iskall: Doom

powers: lmao they’re just a cyborg

info: a very nice person, they just can’t seem to say hello correctly

appearance: brown hair, cyber eye, tol, they pretty much wear the suit everywhere and tells people it’s cosplay and they’re their own biggest fan

Etho: Kitsune

powers: snow/ ice/ illusion mist

info: he may have accidentally adopted the New York Governer lmao whoops (he hates kids except for this one)

appearance: white hair, mask to cover scars, one red eye damaged by redstone, really tall, white fox ears and nine tails in super form

xB: Crafted

powers: Black Widow style with a big white wolf (he and Jellie get along I promise)

info: we love him but he’s an antisocial dork

appearance: black hair, blue eyes, literally just. a guy. he’s a guy. he wears fins behind his ears so people think he’s more dangerous lol

Hypno: Memorizd

powers: memory wipe + telepathy

info: he’s the main one who deals with civilians lol especially if they saw something they weren’t supposed to

appearance: aaaalways wears the black bandana over their hair, tol, emo /j- the suit is like a ninja

Wels: the Knight

powers: lmao he’s a knight idk what to tell you

info: he’s a knight with standard knight principles, but he’s chill about it. he likes theater but makes fun of the fact that he likes theater lol

appearance: blond, blue eyes, tol, he fights in a modern-looking suit of armor that keeps most of its medieval design

• Jevin: Slimer

powers: slime boi (like Frozone x Honey Lemon but slime yk)

info: he’s in the same boat as Grian- there’s really no disguising being made entirely of slime

appearance: teal slime lol (it runs in the family) supposedly he’s got a way to turn more human-looking but he hasn’t quite figured it out yet

Xisuma: Void

powers: time, space, and interdimensional portals!!

info: he and his twin are the leaders of their own groups, and they’re actually from another dimension and can’t breathe oxygen

appearance: that’s why he always wears a helmet! it’s his bones suit :DD

False

powers: superstrength, but she doesn’t use it very often

info: she’s like the Hermits’ resident suit maker that’s what she does lol

appearance: blonde choppy hair held back with welding goggles, brown eyes, covered in freckles

Mumbo

powers: none unless you count exceptional redstone skills

info: tech guy!! when someone busts something, they go straight to Mumbo

appearance: black hair, mustache (because of course), tol??, suit. always. Mumbo what

Joe

powers: none

info: the medic, because lord knows they need one

appearance: green hair lol

Beef

powers: none, but he’s really good with knives

info: he makes the food and potions, but the Hermits keep telling him not to wear that bloodstained apron around everywhere. it’s suspicious

appearance: again with the apron, and he’s scarily buff. kids are scared of him but he’s very nice really

~~~~~

Impulse had known for a very long time that he wasn’t exactly… normal.

Which isn’t a bad thing! But, the static shock people got when they touched him while he didn’t feel a thing, storms brewing when he had less-than-ideal days, and really mostly the fact that his phone never died when he held it- the charge almost seemed to be going up- all that did not seem ordinary.

So when he was recruited for a hero team because everyone at his school had apparently reported his strangeness, he wasn’t exactly surprised. But he was definitely ready to make a difference.

So Zed was some kind of sheep/ human hybrid. Did that make life a lot more difficult? In some ways, yes, but mostly no.

See, he had really good hearing. And he never had to worry about riding his skateboard, because his balance was always perfect and his skull was uncrackable. Plus he can jump like five feet on solid ground, which is pretty sick.

But people still thought he was weird. They all knew he’d grow up to be a hero… or a villain. So there was always a thin line of separation from the rest of the world, like they wanted to treat him like a fragile thing that could potentially attempt to end the world in the near future.

He would never, of course. But the only place he could really find contentment was with the Hermits.

Tango had discovered his powers in a… less pleasant manner.

Basically all he remembered was yelling. It was scary, he was seven years old, and… something just broke.

Then there was fire.

His parents, as far from that title as they were, did not make it out. Somehow, he managed to escape unscathed. Physically, anyways.

Foster care was pretty lame, but it was better than his old home life. Still, the only people he views as family are his team.

Keralis had loved singing for as long as he could remember. Especially because everyone loved to listen!

His mother had come from the sea, and his father was a fisherman. Keralis liked that his parents were sort of like a fairy tale. His mother taught him how to sing when he was young, but especially to control what he sang. She said he could really hurt people, and while at the time he didn’t know what that meant, he went along with it.

Until one day at a summer camp, they had a screaming contest (they were middle schoolers, don’t question it). Every window in the camp shattered, and six kids had to go home with ruptured eardrums.

He was immediately handed over to the American Hero Monitoring compound. There, he met X and Bdubs, and they didn’t mind his voice. Plus his parents visited on weekends! The only thing he loves more than singing is being a hero.

Bdubs and his brother had learned early on that not everyone likes heroes.

Maybe they shouldn’t have shown people that the two of them could play catch with a ball made of actual light, because they were then immediately accused of witchcraft. Witchcraft, really? Is this the sixteenth century?

Their family was forced to move to New York, and the AHM got ahold of both boys not long after. Because they bragged once, to a bunch of classmates in a small-town school that they’d been going to their entire lives. Bdubs opted to be a hero; show people that he can be good, but Puncenge wasn’t quite ready to forgive them all. He promised he wouldn’t ever use his powers for bad, but when he broke out of the compound with X’s twin, Bdubs didn’t go with.

The rest of the Hermits would probably kill him if they found out he was still in contact with one of America’s biggest supervillains.

There was a famous werewolf cryptid in Britain, and a lot of people were after him.

The original Hermit Initiative Program, with only Keralis, Xisuma, Tango, and Bdubs- well, their first mission was to capture him. Luckily, it wasn’t all that difficult.

See, Ren was not a monster. Most of the time he lived in town and was just… a normal dude. On the days where he was too sore or lazy to put a hat on and hide his tail somewhere inconvenient, he just let people believe he was a furry, because he couldn’t give less of a fuck.

So tracking down a guy with literal wolf ears and a tail wasn’t difficult, especially when he wasn’t doing much to hide. Ren was more than happy to get away from the hunters and to a place where he could just live and be normal.

Doc was the result of several government experiments- none of them good.

When scientists had discovered a new species of what looked like furry green things that walked on three legs and looked sad all the time, they figured whatever it was should be kept hidden from the public.

Especially after one of them blew a crater in the side of a mountain and killed three people.

A recently convicted scientist himself was selected to be, uh… tested on. It was a lot of blood and pain, but hey, that’s not a bad exchange for immortality and infinite explosive material.

Scar lost mobility in his legs thanks to a particularly risky mission in his rookie days- he got every civilian out, but there was definitely a cost.

It’s okay though!! His telekinesis allows him to move freely when he’s super-ing, and he has a big magical cat to keep him company at home. He was more than thrilled when there was an offer extended to him to be a Hermit, although he found it funny that it took them so long to locate him (a disabled person could never be a hero! *cough* Daredevil haters *cough*)

Cub was a scientist who… may have flown a little too close to the sun. See, he wanted powers, and he was successfully able to give himself wings! Unfortunately for him, he was too curious to stop there.

See, he’d found something called skulk deep, deep underground, in a buried city he and his team were excavating. Something big and very, very loud kept killing them whenever they took more than a few steps in, though, so the site was declared off-limits to everyone.

But Cub snuck in by himself, all the way to the center of the city. There was a portal there, and when he stepped through it… well, he either met God or Satan. Either way, now he’s basically Venom but with a much better color scheme, and he can no longer die! The only catch is that he’s a little bit possessed when using his powers, but the Hermits are there to look out for him.

Grian learned how to hunt very quickly and very suddenly, on the day superheroes were made illegal around the world.

Because, well, the best of the best were after him.

A bird boy! And a pesky one at that! Who used to be a hero! Everyone wanted to get their hands on Evo, and unfortunately, Grian was forced into hiding. Not that it was difficult- he had wings and razor sharp talons, so it wasn’t like anyone non-super could really get to him, but that didn’t stop people from trying.

He’s all for staying in the Hermit compound all day. It means he can lay out pranks while all the normal people are at work.

So maybe Pearl was born in Area 51. That didn’t exactly make her an alien. Maybe. Probably.

Listen. She has wings and antennae, plus a big pretty spaceship DNA-encoded to her, but did that mean she wasn’t from Earth? Of course not! There are plenty of weird people there. Plus, her ancestors were worshiped by the people of Sanctuary. It’s like… fine.

She’s happy to be a hero, of course. When she got an in on the most prestigious hero group in America (Australia was totally dominated by some clown who looked like a gingerbread man), she was absolutely all in. Hermits are better than some lazer beam, anyways.

When Gem transitioned, she didn’t think it would come with fire powers. But hey, bonus.

She kept her antlers, but she actually liked that part. Her people didn’t see her as any less of a princess or priestess, if anything they loved her more for bringing that kind of power to their city, Dawn, which she took for her hero alias.

She had two groups she was a part of, actually, plus with the business of being Gaelic royalty to a group of people previously thought to be extinct, she had a full schedule. But she of course wouldn’t trade it for the world.

Cleo lived in Locri, Italy, way back in Ancient Greek times. She loved her patron goddess, Persephone, and didn’t actually mind Hades. She worked in the city’s mausoleum and crypt, so she got used to death pretty quick.

Well, Hades took a particular interest in her. Not that he could do anything, of course, she was a priestess of both him and his wife. But he harbored a crush of sorts all the way through her life.

She did die. She was mortal, after all. But she was so gorgeous, Hades couldn’t bear that loss, so… he granted her eternal ‘life’. She was green and missing a few pieces and was messily sewn together, plus her fiery orange hair had turned to snakes like Medusa’s, but she walked the earth again.

She never died again. She can’t, which makes her the ideal hero, although she won’t hesitate to paralyze you for a comment about her hourglass shape-

Honestly, Stress didn’t even want to be a hero, mostly. She owned a flower shop and she’d gotten there with the help of exactly zero men, and she didn’t have an interest in changing the world or anything.

Only problem- she had superpowers, and they were sort of hard to contain. Whenever she got antsy, cacti started to grow out of her carpet under her feet, and after getting those stupid invisible thorns stuck between her toes one too many times, she decided to get out and do things with her powers.

The Hermits were happy to have her, and she’s happy to report that she and the other girls are almost their own little team within the big group- and they’re fine-tuned to perfection.

Iskall’s modifications were actually their choice. There was an offer by some mysterious guy in a suit to be rich and powerful beyond belief, and since they were sick of living on the street, they took it.

So they ripped an arm and an eye out. Was it worth it? Definitely.

No one makes fun of them anymore, for being NB or anything else, and they did pay them a lot. The only catch was singing onto a government sanctioned hero organization, and they were happy to go with their girlfriend to the Hermits. She slapped them for being an idiot and allowing themself to be experimented on, but she was happy to have them along.

If you don’t know what a Kitsune is, it’s a Japanese mythical creature that has two forms: fox and human (usually female). They’re kind of like sirens, and they’re absolutely stunning, but very manipulative and usually malicious.

Etho picked the name for the fact that he’s like half fox lol not that he’s evil; his ears and nine tails match the color of his hair. He is in fact immortal, but he doesn’t find that out until someone tries to off him and it just… doesn’t work. He can scar and be wounded, yeah, but death can never catch him.

There are a number of ways to become an assassin. Maybe you were raised since you were a kid. Maybe you were drafted by the government to cut back your sentence Suicide Squad-style. xB signed on in high school for extra credit.

Yeah, his history teacher was secretly a hitman, and students could sign a contract of silence to go on missions for extra credit. Sounds sketch, but it wasn’t terrible. He learned how to kill a man in over a hundred ways just with his hands and didn’t have to learn a thing about the Cold War through all of high school.

He decided just killing people was sort of immoral… although mostly that if he got good enough heroes would start to notice him. He figured if he couldn’t outrun them, he’d better join. And it was a good thing he did- he got his car-sized dog because of it.

Hypno was the most popular kid in his school for one reason: he had control over people’s memories. When someone asked him to make their teacher forget a due date, it magically happened. If an admin found out and tried to stop him, he wiped that as well.

Maybe he got a little carried away. He panicked one day and used it on his parents, only he put in too much effort in his lack of control, and… next thing he knew they were asking who he was and why he was in their house.

He hid from the AHM for as long as he could, thinking he’d be arrested. When they finally did track him down, they agreed to not throw him in a cell on one condition: join the Hermits. Honestly, not a bad deal.

In high school, Wels was… a huge nerd.

Yeah, he was on the varsity football team. But all his real passion went into theater and larping.

He and his twin brother, who was in the same boat, were exploring an abandoned excavation site behind their house one night, when the floor caved and they fell into the depths of what looked like an old buried building.

There were voices. The boys were knighted by ghosts and gifted unbreakable suits of armor. They left that site and had to pretend like everything was normal and fine with their lives. It came with a dope sword though, so who’s complaining?

Being made entirely of slime was cool because you couldn’t really be injured, but not as great because of how plain weird that made you.

Jevin and his cousin Charlie, who was also a hero, were in fact made of slime, as is their whole family. It’s just a weird gene that no one will specify on, but Jev doesn’t really mind.

The thing is, he’s resistant/ immune to pretty much everything. Extreme temperatures just sort of make him slower, and everything else goes through him or gets stuck in him. Not all that convenient, but it’s a nice perk when saving people. He doesn’t have to worry about himself.

Xisuma and his twin are the most powerful beings to ever exist.

Both of them can open portals through space, time, and other dimensions. They’re the only recorded people with that kind of power, ever. It makes them good leaders, but when one is constantly trying to destroy the world while the other is always trying to stop that from happening, scales balance out. If they were on the same side, there would be zero crime anywhere. Ever.

False started her business building little robots to make people’s lives easier, like a Roomba modified for carpet or a drone that pathfinds from your fridge to your living room to deliver drinks, and then it evolved from there.

When it started to get a bit too big to handle, that’s when she conveniently met Mumbo.

The two of them had been working on something highly illegal- a weaponized drone in the shape of a person to be piloted around like a dummy hero- when Evo and Medusa fell right through their warehouse roof, singed around the edges and badly hurt.

Mumbo and False’s service was so highly rated, the Hermits decided to officially adopt them into their team.

Joe and Beef share a kitchen/ lab, which is a good thing, because they’re kind of in the same field. Beef makes potions and food, and Joe is the healer. They’ve always been Hermits, as in assigned by the AHM always.

When various Hermits come in to steal food Beef usually throws either the nearest piece of fruit or a knife, whichever is closest to his hand. Everyone knows you don’t touch the cookies until you have express permission.

And Joe has patched up so many burns, bullet wounds, and stabs, that stitches are literally a no-brainer and he can be watching a movie in the background without a problem. It’s much more fun when heroes are made legal again so he can actually repair real damage made by supervillains.

The Hermits love them, don’t worry, no matter how many needles or knives are pointed their way.

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so! there you go! please, PLEASE ask me to write stuff for this au, because I’m more than happy to do any hero scenario you can think of! if you want a villain list I’m sure that can be achieved, and although they’re mostly just Helsmits, it’s a fun concept.

so you know, think up a mission and send it my way. I’m so ready. what did you think?

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princess-of-the-corner · 11 months ago

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Okay so, first of all, the Brothers Light and Dark each have an animal feature apiece. Light has antlers like a deer, while Dark has horns like a ram. Light prefers subtle displays of power, simply WILLING or SPEAKING things into happening (transforming in a flash of light when swapping between his humanoid and Eastern Dragon forms), while Dark is more theatrical, GESTURING and PUNCTUATING his divine acts with body language (twisting and contorting his body into a recognizably human shape when emerging from the pools of Destruction and also visibly morphing his body into a more draconic shape when swapping between his humanoid and Western Dragon forms). Light prefers that everything remain ordered and controlled, whereas Dark just wants to be loved.

In "The Shallow Sea" a shapeshifting god of animals becomes lonely and travels the face of Remnant in various guises, finding companionship among the outcasts of various communities. They bring their followers together on a ship and sail to an island on a shallow sea. The wilderness is as bountiful as it is treacherous. The god dives into the water and swims through the shallow sea surrounding the island, and emerges on the shore with the curved horns of a ram, the tail of a monkey, wings, and claws. Some of the god's followers swim after them, becoming the world's first Faunus as they receive animal features that reflect their true selves, while the others on the ship are horrified by the transformations they witness and become the first anti-Faunus bigots. One day, the god of animals got bored and left, while the Faunus were still outcasts in a world that would never accept them.

In, "The Judgement of the Faunus" humans and animals are at war with one another. The god of animals appears before them in a fog to find out why. The humans believe this god is on their side because they have a vaguely humanoid form, while the animals believe the god is on their side because they have antlers. The animals hate that humans enslave them and slaughter them for food, while the humans hate that animals steal their food and don't have to worry about the Grimm. The god can understand both sides, and both sides can understand the god, but neither side can speak the other's language. The god promises to fix this, and both sides agree (each believing the god's judgement will favor one of them). The god vanishes, the fog clears, and now all the combatants are Faunus, each side a little more like the other. After helping each other get used to their new bodies (the animals especially due to having to get used to a whole new shape), they are almost immediately beset by Grimm who were drawn to the recent battle. The former animals never needed any dwellings to shield them from the Grimm (as Grimm only go after humans), so after just barely surviving the attack, all the Faunus flee to the village the former-humans came from. Unfortunately, the human villagers turn the Faunus away out of fear, believing them to be in-league with the Grimm, forcing the former enemies to work together to survive in a world that refuses to accept them.

Both of these myths are spread down through oral tradition among Faunus, but Ozpin believes there's a bit of truth in both. As such, I think Dark may have originally created the Faunus after Light created the first generation of humanity, via disguising himself as a human and seeking companionship among the outcasts, and then gave each one multiple animal traits to help them survive on a little island in the corner of the world.

These first generation Faunus wouldn't have needed to fear the Grimm, as the Grimm wouldn't go after their creator's own creations. They were specifically created to destroy Light's creations, after all. When the Faunus went to war with humanity, Light went down to Remnant, made the deal seen in the second creation myth, and removed his brother's "touch" from all Faunus, while turning all of the combatants into the modern idea of Faunus. Descendents of the OG Faunus have night vision, while descendents of the humans who became Second Generation Faunus lack it, explaining why only SOME Faunus have night vision in ADDITION to their pre-existing animal trait.

(Also, the animated adaptation has both of these creation myths back-to-back in the same episode, as opposed to the "One Fairy Tale per Episode" formula the rest of the series follows, and the Faunus leaders from the second fairy tale are based off of Blake's parents, with the human woman gaining MULTIPLE animal features to distinguish her as a wolf Faunus post-transformation, as opposed to every other Faunus only having one animal feature.)

Fascinating but also fuck the Light God.

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ofhouseadama · 2 years ago

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Bella Adama ??? — November 24, 2022

Bella, thirteen to possibly fourteen years of age, passed at home on Thanksgiving night. Originally from parts unknown and returned to the pound no fewer than three times, she lived the best life a goblin disguised as a dog could ask for after being rehomed to the nanny (Leah) in the aftermath of a divorce. She is survived by her caretakers and moms, Leah and Emily Adama, in addition to her sister Lady Adama, her beloved Not-Mom Not-Dog, Mira Adama, her favorite auntie and dogsitter, Layla, her begrudging grandfather, Lou, and doting grandmother/insurance agent Jody. She is predeceased by her grandmother, Sharon, her sister, Luna, and the many birds that she hunted and killed over the course of her lifetime.

Rumored to have been a criminal turned into a dog as punishment for misdeeds, Bella never completed the requisite number of good deeds to turn back into a human. Instead, she extended her sentence as a mutt through endless garbage crimes, destruction of property, numerous instances of tearing curtains off the wall and placemats off of tables, and more than one noise complaint from the neighbors. On one notable occasion, she rammed her stubby little body repeatedly into an HVAC duct under the house, tearing it from its fittings and sending it crashing to the ground. She escaped the backyard more times than anyone may ever know. She was a bully and a terror, opinionated and forceful, and made sure no one in the house ever missed a meal. Her mothers regret never getting her DNA tested to see what mix of breeds would result in such demonic behavior. She was the worst.

Over the course of the eleven documented years of her life, Bella never met anyone she didn’t want to make into a friend. This included every PetSmart employee, vet techs, contractors, neighbors, visitors, and the mail carrier. Unfortunately, Bella never developed a single manner or sign of good breeding. But those who could tolerate her absolutely unhinged idea of affection could rely on her to headbutt them repeatedly should they dare stop petting her before she was done. By February 2019, she was fed up with only having one mom to give her attention, and threw herself into Emily’s lap during her first visit to South Carolina and acted like a normal dog one whole time. Leah was so shocked at the sight that she immediately called her father. Leah and Emily would wed later that year, Emily being successfully suckered by Bella’s con.

The last few years of Bella’s life, she enjoyed constant snacks and affection. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, both Leah and Emily started working from home. The conditions of the pandemic brought her precious Not-Mom Not-Dog into the home as well, and between the various insomnia episodes and wfh schedules of Leah, Emily, and Mira, Bella was never without a human to accost into giving into her will.

In the end, despite facing many health scares (many eaten and vomited up socks and plastic grocery bags, garbage heists, containment breaches, a chronic pancreatitis diagnosis, possible liver cancer, and one notable incident with an entire roll of Christmas ribbon which resulted in surgery) over the yawning chasm of a decade of chaos and bad behavior, death came as a friend. She spent her last weeks pampered at home, and passed in the laps of those who loved her the most.

There will never be another dog as perfect as she was.

In lieu of cards or flowers, please make a donation to your local humane society or give your dog a piece of cheese.

#death cw #pet death cw

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Arcee and Wheeljack better go back to Cybertron to get the Dinobots. We have a Shockwave problem!

Grimlock: Why should I follow you to protect some weak orga-

Arcee: Shockwave is there.

Grimlock: WHATAREWEWAITINGFORLETSGO!

*Grimlock continues to scream "let's go" until they arrive on the AOT world and bites off Shockwave's head*

"Where the fuck were you three months ago?!" Jean shouted.

But again, Grimlock wasn't in the show, and I don't think his location was confirmed before RID2015. I know the Grimlock in RID2015 is a different person, but RID2015 is not canon in AOP.

However, in regards to Wheeljack and Arcee turning around to go back to Cybertron...it would actually take too long. Bit of a spoiler for Attack on Prime, the two Autobots have been on their trip for over a year. It took them a year, with stops, to get to the Attack on Titan world. So turning around, while Shockwave is there, isn't the brightest idea because they don't know how much damage he can cause.

But because Arcee and Wheeljack leaving Cybertron wouldn't be affected because of Shockwave leaving, they'd still arrive there. So what happens?

Arcee and Wheeljack arrive because they get the signal from the neutral ship. However, they pick up another, strange, energy signature on the mainland and decide to go and check that out first. They investigate their surroundings and are mortified to find everything in ruin and desolation. They go out of the Jackhammer to try and find any survivors, but before they can process the fact that the victims are humans (Because this planet is already strangely similar to Earth), a bunch of humans come out of hiding for an ambush with their weapons. They both have to take shelter and have to quickly explain that they don’t mean any harm, lamenting that they didn’t do the ‘Robots in Disguise’ bit. But then they hear the humans accusing them of being aligned with Shockwave and their understandable reaction is:

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Shockwave is here?! The two Autobots have to quickly explain NO! They hate that guy! He’s tried to kill them! Multiple times! They need to get themselves and the humans out of there now! The humans are still, understandably, cautious of these two titans and don’t want to go with them. Before any can make a choice, they all here the familiar screeches of the teal and golden Predacon coming towards them. Arcee grabs the shield generator (that originally belonged to Ultra Magnus but he decided to let her keep it along with the sphere weapon she used in Season 3 episode 7, Again, Spoilers for Attack on Prime), and shields the humans from the dragon fire, saving all of them. Wheeljack fires his heat-seeking missiles at the Predacon and yells at the humans to get on the Jackhammer, which they do not question twice. They run on with Arcee last to board to make sure all the humans were accounted for and they just fly.

Arcee and Wheeljack think they are in the clear, but suddenly take a hit and realize that the Predacon is not dead, even though Wheeljack fired two lethal missiles at it! Wheeljack shouts at her to use the grenades and Arcee grabs two before opening the hatch to the top of the Jackhammer. Arcee has to hang on for dear life while Wheeljack is maneuvering around every possible fire attack the Predacon is throwing at them. They are now flying directly above water, trajectory is towards the island, and before Arcee can try to aim the grenade at the Predacon’s throat and fire at it to blow it up, a jet mode flies right past them and rams into the Predacons, throwing it off-course. Arcee has to blink twice because she’s seen that jet mode before. It loops around and drops a human woman who slices her hand open and transforms into a humanoid Sharkticon that tackles the Predacon and begins to drown it underwater, the jet mode quickly following after the human. Both Autobots don’t question it and just book it for the island.

They get to the island and Arcee stumbles from atop of the ship to the ground, exhausted beyond belief. She doesn’t know how long she’s been lying there, but heavy footsteps come towards her, and she looks up in horror to see Megatron 2.0 staring down at her with crossed arms. Arcee pulls out her blaster, only for the Sharkticon to pin her to the ground and say “Don’t try it.”

Wheeljack tries to help, but a massive titan with no lips jumps him and pins him by the neck to the ground. They take a look around and see an army of humans with strange devices on their hips aiming spears at them. It’s a tense standoff until Megatron notices the humans on the ship and orders everyone to stand down and get the humans on the ship some first aid. The Survey Corps take notice and quickly offer their help to the humans, guiding them off the ship and to a safer place. Megatron tells Eren and Ymir to step off. Ymir complies, but not before a warning shove into the ground before following the rest still in titan form. Eren, does not. He’s clearly not trusting of these two new comers.

“If he’s still alive, he will not take kindly to you trying to kill one of his own,” Megatron warns him.

Eren then sees the Autobot symbol on Wheeljack’s chest and slowly let’s him go. Wheeljack scrambles to his feet as Eren walks away. Megatron whispers something to him, and Arcee is surprised to find this creature listening to Megatron, before he continues following the Survey Corps. Megatron walks up to the two Autobots and asks if they can have a civil conversation. To which Arcee and Wheeljack, appropriately react:

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(Or at least to that degree)

And Megatron, tired Megatron, gives a long explanation about the titans, Shockwave being here, the whole Marley and Eldia debacle (cause they need to be prepared for the discrimination they see), Oh! and Optimus being alive but he’s been captured by Shockwave.

Arcee has to down the high grade energon she got in one go in order to process. Wheeljack trying to process why the hell he’s here and helping out the humans. Megatron replies that it’s him trying to fix his mistakes. Wheeljack downs his high grade only half-way because he’s decided he definitely needs to replicate that shit.

So Arcee and Wheeljack see the humans on the island, and it’s a bit of a mess because it’s a bunch of different people on the same plot of land with their own belief systems, arguing, and/or trying to help one another. Megatron introduces them to the military, both Marley, Eldia, and the Survey Corps, and there’s understandable tension. Because everyone on the island is just so tired and hardened to the point where it looks like they can’t crack a smile at all. And Megatron straight up says that they need their help in order to stop Shockwave and save Optimus or else he’s going to destroy the world. Arcee and Wheeljack agree, but...they just need some time to process all that happened in the last two hours!

After they take some time to process and cope with all this new information, they provide their assistance. They still, understandably, don’t trust Megatron, but they are shocked to see him and the humans working together, and quite well, they might add. Megatron is actually patient with giving out orders and the humans follow with minimal complaint.

Because after Optimus got captured, Megatron was essentially forced into a leadership position because he’s the only who had any idea on how to handle Shockwave. The humans are looking to him for help, and Megatron had to prepare them. Megatron didn’t want to do that in the beginning because he was terrible at leading in the past, he doesn’t want to get drunk off of power again, and he’s still iffy on the humans. Unexpectedly, Levi is the one to talk to Megatron about this, despite the fact that they hate each other. But the talk gives the both of them and understanding of one another. Levi admits he only followed Megatron’s orders to book it, because the expression of mortification he’d seen on his face was one he’d seen on Erwin’s too many times. So Megatron...reluctantly agrees. However, this ends up putting Megatron in a position where he better understands how humans work and why Optimus wants to protect them so bad. He builds connections with them, he trains them into becoming better fighters, but he also learns to show restraint and patience. Eren and Megatron’s relationship improves. They get along so much better now!

Wheeljack merely comments on Megatron’s change in demeanor with “Only on this world you get slag like this.”

However they do notice Megatron’s brutality when he trains the Warriors, because he does not hold back with any of them. He goes full force. Arcee and Wheeljack try to intervene, but Eren merely holds out his hand and tells them not to get involved as his wounds are regenerating. He spits out his tooth and gets into a fighting stance, causing Megatron to keep going. Arcee and Wheeljack see Eren, Lara, Annie, Ymir, and Reiner for this training session. One as humans, one as titans. They haven’t beaten Megatron, but they improve substaintially combative wise. Lara becomes better with a hammer and sword. Annie refines her skill. Eren shows the most improvement, and Reiner learns to take a much harder punch without folding. But the Autobots don’t see Zeke. The islanders don’t bring him up. (That’ll be addressed in another ask).

Also, seeing the titan shifters in human and titan form is a shock for the duo.

Arcee ends up helping out the humans better improve their aim, while flying around the 3D gear and she bonds really well with them, especially Sasha. Sasha is grieving over the loss of Connie. The loss of her friend, her brother, and Arcee understands where she’s coming from. She talks to her about Tailgate and Cliffjumper. She tells her that it’s okay for her to feel angry and upset, but it was in no way her fault. But they were going to do right by him by stopping Shockwave.

Meanwhile, Wheeljack helps Hanji improve in technology, and that reignites her will to fight. After Optimus’ captures, Hanji was furious. She was angry at Levi for pulling her away and not grabbing Optimus. She didn’t talk to him for weeks. She calls Megatron a coward and spits in his face, telling him that he was pathetic. Most of all she hated herself for not being strong enough to save him. Hanji thinks about forgoing emotions, being like Shockwave and doing what it took to survive, but she begrudgingly relents to not do it. She was still human; she was going to hold on to what’s left of it.

One day as Hanji’s making modifications to the 3D gear, Wheeljack makes an off-handed comment about adding thrusters to make the user go faster, and Hanji is immediately in his face, demanding he explain himself. Wheeljack does and Hanji immediately employs his help. They furiously work on the 3D model all night, and the Survey Corps end up seeing a smile of genuine pride on Hanji’s face as they managed to finish the product.

The Survey Corps and Marley do ask about tracking Shockwave’s location, and in turn, Optimus, but Wheeljack and Arcee explain the concepts of cloaking and shielding. They can’t track Shockwave’s ship while Shockwave has his own software set up to block it. Someone would have to disable it from the inside. One day, Wheeljack’s ship picks up an signal from high in the clouds over Marley.

(RESCUE TIME in the dark timeline!!!!! Also it’s interesting that I’m introducing the Arrival/interaction of Arcee and Wheeljack in an AU instead of the main timeline. LOL.)

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fishfactsfriday · 2 years ago

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Fish Facts #13 The Arapaima

If a battering ram was a fish, we would have an arapaima. A missile of pure muscle.

Known locally by pirarucu* or paiche, the arapaima are native to Brazil, Peru, and Guyana but have been introduced in places such as Malaysia, Thailand, Cuba, China, the Philippines, and Singapore. They mainly live in the floodplains off of the amazon river in slower moving water.

(*Pirarucu is a word that comes from the Tupi language, spoken by the indigenous peoples of Brazil that roughly translates to “red fish”, referring to their vivid tails.)

The remote flooded lakes and swamps in which the arapaima lives in contain more dead vegetation than alive, causing the oxygen levels to be very low. Surprisingly, this does not mean anything to the arapaima as they breathe air! It’s gills have become so small that it simply uses its modified swim bladder as a lung and uses the air for its oxygen. Because of this it can only stay submerged underwater for 10-20 minutes at a time however it can survive for an entire day on land!

Arapaima eat mostly fish but have been known to eat fruits, seeds, insects, and even some birds and mammals that can be found on the surface!

In order to eat the arapaima has implemented the ‘gulper’ feeing strategy, by opening their mouths quickly they essentially vacuum and suck in whatever is in front of them. They also can attack with bursts of speed to knock into potential prey, stunning it or hitting it out of the water. They have a bone in their tongue which keeps a tight grip on its food which it can also press up against the teeth they have on the top of their mouths, their palates. Arapaima can be picky eaters and can hold onto their food for several minutes before spitting it out.

Arapaima are considered one of the largest freshwater fish, maxing at 450 cm (about 14.8 feet) and 200.0 kg (about 440 lbs) but usually generally average around sizes of 200 pounds (90.7 kilograms) and 7 to 8 feet (2.2 to 2.4 meters).

Arapaima are long and slender, covered black scales with a lightish underbelly. They have a dorsal fin that runs along the backside of their body, the end of their tail is covered in thick red scales. They have broad and bony heads that are a greenish copper in color, with mouths that are upturned.

Arapaima breeding happens at the same time as flooding and dry seasons. During a drought a female arapaima will dig a dest with a mate, this nest is about 20 inches wide by 8 inches deep and is dug into the soft mud. There, the female deposits up to 50,000 eggs, which the male then fertilizes.

When the young are born, the male arapaima raises them in his mouth. The arapaima fry are a dark color, so the male’s head turns dark to disguise and camouflage them. In order to keep them close, the maile arapaima releases a pheromone from his head that attracts the offspring and keeps them close. Meanwhile, the female swims nearby and guards the young against predators.

Because the eggs are laid in the dry season, the offspring hatch and are able to flourish during the floodwaters of the rainy season. Both parents help aerate the water for them, as young arapaima still breathe will gills. These gills slowly cease to function as they age.

Originally created July 9, 2021

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rainofdauwuand0w0 · 2 years ago

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[Original post date on twitter: 12/15/21] Smissmass Resurgence

Scout:

Light Bulber

on hit: bleed for 4 seconds +50% bleed damage +25% range compared to grenade launcher Fires like grenade launcher, still deals base scattergun level damage -50% direct damage

Momma's Cocoa

Upon drinking: Gives 50% resistance to slows of any kind for 8 seconds -75% recharge rate -75% consumption speed

Snow Scooper

flat 25 damage dealt -25% swing speed

+75% faster recharge rate Flat 10 damage on hit from rock-filled snowball projectile

Soldier:

Snow Lobber

+35% direct damage Enemies hit by splash or direct damage get slowed by 15% Your projectiles have an arc -75% clip size -65% splash damage -30% reload speed

That Christmas Greed

On wearer: +45% movement speed +65% melee resistance +25% projectile damge taken from projectiles -65% resistance to slows

Dealmaker

On hit: enemies will take 50% more damage from everything for 5 seconds While deployed: you yourself take 50% damage from everything

Pyro:

Seasonal Waker

(In comparison to dragon fury) +35% range +25% max ammo capacity +10% faster repressurization rate overall -10% projectile speed

Alt-fire on allies give them a speed boost and makes them "wet" via the coffee (enemies only become wet)

Heated Whipper

You don't need to reload before shooting again +50% fire rate +50% max secondary ammo +20% splash radius On hit: 5% slow for 5 seconds(timer can be restarted on hit and go up 5%, up to 15%) -40% damage -30% range

Chef's Choice

+20% damage +35% more damage to burning targets -30% holster and deploy speed

Demoknight:

Snower's Boot's

On wearer: immunity to all slows +10% movement speed

Holiday Fear

On wearer: a huo-long heater-like aura that is 35% bigger in radius(aura slows enemies by 15%) +25% damage to slowed enemies

+10% shield ram damage While charging: increase aura radius by 65% -75% recharge rate

Frost King's Blade

On hit: causes enemies to be "frosted" (-25% fire rate and -25% swing speed) for 5 seconds On kill: leave an ice statue of that person(even when taunt killed!) -30% swing speed

Heavy:

Siberian frost

On hit: enemies frosted for 2.5 seconds(hits reset timer) +10% damage +25% fire rate +50% max ammo On kill: freeze the enemy to a ice statue Fires ice bullet projectiles -30% projectile speed(compares to arrow)

Curated Cooler

On wearer: +50% fire resistance +15 hp -10% movement speed +10% damage taken from explosives

Frosty Claws

On hit: slows enemies by 30% movement speed for 5 seconds(effect must end before able to reapply) -25% damage -65% holster and deploy speed

Engineer:

Rapid Resupplier

+55% fire rate Fires large ammo packs that cost -20 metal per shot anyone can pick up the ammo packs -25% range

Gift Maker's Utensil

On wearer: +60 max metal +50% build speed Buildings act like their sapped when out of supplies -15% sentry turn speed

Brighter Wishing

Brighter wishing +60% faster redeploy speed You have festive themed buildings (Cryo-thrower sentry, snowman dispenser, and chimney dispenser) -20 up on wearer

Cryo-sentry Lvl 1:1 damage per tick, flame thrower range, slows by 5% on hiy Lvl 2:3 damage per tick, 5% range increase,slows by 10% on hit Lvl 3:5 damage per tick, another 5% range increase, slows by 15% on hit

Snowman Dispenser: Lvl 1:mini-cryo aura that slows enemies by 5%,-15% dispense rate Lvl 2:boosted slow to 10%, -10% dispense rate Lvl 3: boosted slow to 15%, -5% dispense rate

Chimney teleporter: Main feature: no trail left by allies yet puffs a big thing of smoke into the air whenever an ally (or disguised spy) uses the teleporter

Medic:

Healer's Headpiece

On wearer: Immunity to slow effects +50% health gained from lunch box items

Nostalgischermacher

+75% heal beam range -30% heal rate

Winter's warmth("uber"):the longer you stay attached to an ally,the bigger buffs they gain,every 1% to the bar is +1% to every stat they have on their weapon, max of 100%,disconnecting your beam rapidly decays the "uber"

Krampus's Punisher

+100% melee range On hit: knockback enemy Damage ramps up as the further the person is Whip-like hitbox -35% damage

Sniper:

The Distant Lighter

On headshot: target gives off a huo-long heatmaker circle that it is big as the charge of the rifle's percent On hit:burn enemy for 5 seconds +50% burn damage Leaves a flaming trail from where it is shot -30% damage Cannot shoot when submerged like flamethrower

Australian Christmas

On wearer: +25% movement speed in water While wet: +60% damage resistance While wet: -50% crit resistance

The Big Whiff

+150% holster and deploy speed While deployed: give off a "scent", this scent causes enemy attacks to have a 50% chance to miss (akin to bonk) -85% damage

Spy:

The Haronem

on kill: gain a flame,each flame increases accuracy by percent per each flame(max 5 flames) +20% range +30% damage -20% accuracy -15% clip size -15% ammo capacity

The Gingerbread Stab

Alt-fire: eat your knife to regain 50 hp(regain knife 50% faster then spycicle in general)

-80% damage while taking damage when this weapon is deployed, it has a 1/1000 chance to break

Portable Freezer

Upon destroying a building: instead leaves an ice statue, leaving no metal dropped 1 shot by wrenches -60% sapper damage

The Cold Alarm

upon cloaking, leave behind a ice statue, this statue cannot be walked through by enemies, and the statue disappears when you uncloak, poofing away in snow particles -30% cloak shimmer -20% fire resistance while cloaked

#TF2 #team fortress 2 #tf2 weapon ideas

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blueikeproductions · 2 years ago

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Besides JD, I had thoughts about Kurt and Ram as they survive in this universe, and I was inspired by various fan animatics. In the AU, they’re two boys who are directionless and gravitated towards those who would offer direction. They came under the wing of the current football star, nicknamed Thrash, who personifies their crass behavior from the movie and musical but cranked up.

The two boys start to mimic this behavior, and coupled with expectations of what men should be like from their “traditionally manly” dads created a conflict. Deep down it didn’t feel right to either of them, their jerkish behavior and antagonism to those they were originally friends with, but the reputation was already there and they weren’t sure what else to do because of high school norms and expectations.

To complicate matters, the two also started to realize they have a romantic, “forbidden” thing for each other, but they overcompensated on trying to be with girls, even forcing themselves on girls in an attempt to feel “normal”, but it never felt right.

They persist in this beer guzzling, jock asshole mentality until Dan and JD come along. They see Dan hugging JD, and wrongfully conclude they’re boyfriends and needle Dan about it, the “no fags bit” in the movie, which Dan effortlessly turns it around on them by saying “Looks to me like you’re breaking your own rules.” A flustered Kurt and Ram, horrified this weirdo may have actually figured them out, try to fight, but get whaled on by JD, who had been observing from a far and blindly reacted to his “friendly acquaintance” being threatened.

This starts a pivot where the two start to reevaluate their lot in life, …but not at first. They attempt to needle Dan again, but he’s still not budging despite not having JD to ambush them this time, and they demand to know why he isn’t bothered by them or the Heathers’ attempts at destroying him.

Dan: I’m happy with who I am. I love comics, I love animation. I love these bricks. -holds up Quickswitch- I’m not hurting anyone by liking what I like, and I’m not going to let people who think otherwise bother me.

Kurt: …It’s that easy for you?

Dan: -shrugs- I’m not making it hard on myself otherwise. Not after what happened in Hawkins.

Ram: Hawkins? Hawkins, Indiana? Dan: Uh… forgot I said that. Point is, I’m content to like what I do. I’m wearing an ALF shirt and nobody’s gonna stop me~

The two boys start to think that maybe this isn’t such a bad direction to go, and wanting to avoid JD’s fists again, they start backing down on the “jock asshole” mentality, and being friendlier to other students to their surprise.

They are very clear however, they still want beer though, which a confused Dan is like “Uh ok… I never said you couldn’t have Miller Time.”

The trio start to form a friendship from here. Dan picks up on their directionless nature, and tries to subtly encourage them to think more for themselves more, doing what they love and enjoy without shame. The jocks slowly start indulging in their “nerdy” interests more, Kurt likes to collect He-Man figures (a gag involves Dan at a toy shop looking for a Transformer, and finds Kurt wearing a poor disguise still while thumbing the MOTU aisle), while Ram had an interest in video games like Mario and the TMNT games.

This had the domino effect of Dan not hanging out as much with JD (the later having grown accustomed to Dan being there and started having something of a codependency on him and Veronica as his mental health began to deteriorate), and Thrash being agitated his two star protégés were relapsing into the “goddamn” geeks he found.

There’s a bit where the jocks hanging out with Dan watching TMNT and ALF, and Kurt tries offering him a beer instead of New Coke. Dan declines, saying he’s allergic to the ingredients, which he found out the hard way when his throat swelled shut when he tried some at a party before.

Dan: I’m happy with New Coke. -takes a swig- Kurt: -looks grossed out- How can you drink that piss? Dan: Everyone’s got their poison I s’pose.

(There’s a 4-Koma version where Ram doesn’t buy the allergy excuse, and puts a bit of beer in the coke, and then suddenly they’re at the hospital with Ram apologizing profusely and JD going “Danny boy you dingus, you know you can’t drink beer!” Dan: An honest communication error, that’s all, bleh…)

Later, at the funeral of Heather, a fed up Thrash starts to terrorize Dan, Martha (like the musical, Ram and Martha had grown apart, but Ram had decided to try to revive their friendship to her joy), Kurt and Ram in an inversion of the same scene in the movie.

Kurt and Ram are hesitant to do anything at first, meekly telling Thrash to stop, but when Trash starts to attack Dan and attempts to break his arm to prove a point, they start to see what they used to be and the two punch Thrash in the face. JD had already left so he didn’t see this change in heart in the jocks, but he DOES become more aware of Thrash when he overhears Dan got into an altercation, and his anger erupts when Veronica became a target of Thrash (a version of the sword fight scene, where the surviving Heathers went on a date with Thrash and another buddy of his), which spelled the poor sod’s doom at JD and Veronica’s hands.

At Thrash’s funeral, there’s a meta joke where the two boys are looking at Thrash’s body, remarking how it feels weird and that if things hadn’t changed that could be them in the casket instead…

Martha expresses an interest in wanting to date Ram, reliving her Kindergarten boyfriend days, but Ram decides, with much hesitation, to be honest and admit he’s not interested in her that way and that he’s seeing someone else, awkwardly sideeyeing at Kurt hoping she’ll understand. Martha is understandably surprised and a little sad, but was still happy Ram was making the effort to restore their friendship and found Kurt and Ram’s “whatever this is” to be very progressive. Kurt tries to encourage Martha to talk to Dan about dating, as Dan had admitted to having a crush on her after being playfully needled.

Dan wasn’t present at that moment, as he became worried about JD and went to investigate what was going on with him. Reluctantly, Kurt and Ram also follow, wondering what’s happening, and help in dealing with the thermals and bombs JD had rigged up.

#Heathers #heathers fanart #heathers the musical #heathers fanfic #kurt and ram #BlueIke #blueike productions #heathers au #kurt and ram heathers #heathers OC

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toonatic92 · 4 months ago

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(TW/CW: Blood, insects, nudity, body horror.)

[Image description: A colour picture of the demon personifications of the 7 deadly sins from my fantasy story, Truth Seekers. 1. Lucifer, a naked giant with long curly black hair and white skin, covered in vein-like grey scars. His eyes are hollow and leak black fluid and he has one black feathered wing. The other wing has broken off, exposing the bone, and he is also missing a horn, an arm and a leg. He has manacles around his wrist and ankle, tethered to the ground by thick chains. 2. Satan, a red demon with short black hair and cross-shaped pupils. She is wearing a lilac waistcoat and dark purple athletic leggings. She is wielding a flaming sword inscribed with demonic runes. Her arms are encrusted with blood and her veins are standing out. 3. Leviathan, a large green serpent with glowing eyes. He is wearing the ruins of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon with several fruit trees on his body. He is staring at Lucifer with his mouth wide open, ready to bite him. 4. Asmodeus, a pink fleshy centipede with multiple faces, one human, one ram, one bull and one lioness. They are wrapped around Satan, veiny and blushing, with their massive tongue slobbering down Satan's cleavage. 5. Beelzebub, a yellowed skeletal corpse with one missing eye and an unhinged jaw with several rows of sharp teeth. She is covered in patches of green rot and riddled with maggots and flies. 6. Mammon, a demon with curly blond hair, mirror eyes and sharp gold teeth. He is wearing a golden laurel crown and the skins of a sheep and a wolf stitched together. He is clutching a large bag of stolen items to his chest. 7. Belphegor, a piebald goat demon with long curly blonde hair and watery, heavy-lidded eyes. He is wearing a sheer orange fabric and golden grape vines, both draped around his body. He is laying outstretched on Lucifer's leg. The background is fleshy and covered in pus-filled boils and veins. The floor is red rock with cracks in it, showing the boiling magma underneath.]

In the Truth Seekers world, all gods exist and so do related beings, like demons and angels. Hell is a vast underground bureaucratic torture chamber with a strict hierarchy and these seven demons are at the very top of it. They're really more like figureheads, with most of the actual running of the circles of Hell done by Satan and the demons under them. Except for Lucifer, they spend most of their time on the surface disguised as humans, tempting mortals into whatever vice they personify.

(Clockwise from top: Lucifer, Leviathan, Asmodeus, Satan, Beelzebub, Mammon, Belphegor.)

Lucifer - Pride. The original fallen angel whose pride led him to try and supplant God. When he was cast down from Heaven, his body and mind suffered a lot of injuries. He and his followers built Hell from the ground up, mostly out of spite, but as time went on, the endless tempting and torturing of mortals got too much for him. He realised that his pride and obsessive desire for revenge was making him hurt an endless amount of people that had nothing to do with his original grudge. He threw a violent tantrum, trying to destroy what he had built, but the corporation that Hell had become was determined to survive, with or without him. They threw him to the bottom circle of Hell and chained him there for all eternity. He now sits alone in that desolate place, stewing in bitterness and regret, as much a tortured prisoner as the souls he personally led astray.

Satan - Wrath. Satan is the vicious corporate face of Hell's operations and the main tempter of humans. She is literally the embodiment of Lucifer's wrath, emerging from his body when he started to doubt himself and taking charge of operations in his stead. When Lucifer tried to destroy Hell, she was the one who cast him down and chained him up. She is determined to carry out Lucifer's revenge against God, even if she has to go through him to do it. She even wields the flaming sword he once guarded the gates of Eden with, but because of her commitment to her job, she’s not able to do much more than discipline her fellow demons with it.

Leviathan - Envy. The serpent who tempted Eve with the fruit of knowledge. He was created by God, like all the animals of Eden but unlike them, he envied his creator’s power from birth. Eve was just a useful pawn in his plans to usurp Them. He poured poison in her ear, sowing distrust and rebellion in her, but he didn’t count on her feeling guilty enough to confess what she’d done to God. After he was cursed to forever crawl on his belly, his spite and envy deepened against the being that had humiliated him. But, luckily for him, he soon found a new pawn to use, the angel guarding the gates of Eden. The lonely angel thought he had found a friend, a trust that Leviathan soon abused. Preying on the angel’s pride and ego, Leviathan incited him to rebel, just as he had done with Eve. When the rebellion failed, he was tossed into the pits of Hell with his ‘friend’ Lucifer, and soon got to work fanning the flames of his friend’s anger and spite to build an empire to make God envious. When Lucifer realised the futility of his revenge, the first thing he did, before trying to destroy Hell, was to throw his false friend into a vast boiling sea. Leviathan’s rage and jealousy transformed him into a massive sea serpent and he nearly killed Lucifer in his rampage, until Satan violently stopped them both. Lucifer was imprisoned, but Satan knew that she could reason with Leviathan, making him a king of Hell. That should have been enough for him, but being the personification of envy, he’d never be satisfied being anything less than the ruler of Hell, Heaven and everything in between. All he has to do is bide his time and wait for a powerful and suggestible enough pawn to be sent down…

Asmodeus - Lust. Asmodeus is a complete mystery and a very annoying one at that. No one is quite sure if they’re a fallen angel, a nephilim, a jinn or just a regular Hell-born demon. What they are sure of is that Asmodeus is an annoying sex pest, constantly crawling around and slobbering over everyone with their massive tongue. No one likes them or wants them anywhere near them, but that doesn’t seem to deter them. Asmodeus is only tolerated because they do so well tempting mortals on the surface and because they’re easy to boss around and intimidate. Satan is the one holding their leash most of the time. They’re engaged in a toxic sadomasochistic relationship that mostly involves Satan violently disciplining them and treating them like the worm they are. This arrangement makes it much easier for everyone else to get on with their jobs, but it’s still not very pleasant for the other demons to witness, because they insist on doing it loudly and in public.

Beelzebub - Gluttony. Long ago, God was making plans for the end of the world. They decided to create four harbingers of the apocalypse out of fallen angels that were about to be sent down to Hell. Their reasoning was that only the fallen could do the grim and grisly duty of hastening the end of the world. It very quickly backfired. They selected an angel who had engaged in cannibalism to be Famine, but her hunger was impossible to control and she quickly ate the other candidates, except for her brother, Conquest. God decided to dispose of these two mistakes by throwing them down into Hell, where they should have gone in the first place. Beelzebub landed first and her brother Mammon soon followed. Beel felt a flash of anger at being rejected, but unlike her fellow Kings, instantly realised why she’d been sent down. She felt extremely guilty, both for what she had done and for getting her brother sent down with her. Unfortunately, her hunger was still impossible to control, so she couldn’t help but hunt other demons to feed herself and her brother. Then one day, Beel’s desperate hunger backfired. In the course of her foraging, she found a nest of Hell-born flies and unthinkingly swallowed it. Her body was taken over by them, becoming a rotting hive for them. The flies consumed everything she ate, leaving her starving and forcing her to kill more and more demons to sate her hunger. The loss of a significant number of demons alerted Satan, and she sought Beel out. Satan made a deal with her: “Stop killing demons and I’ll make you one of our deadly sins, so you can tempt humans on the surface and eat them when they die. Continue hunting demons, and I will kill your brother.” Beel had no choice but to accept her offer, for the sake of her brother. She’s still hungry and that will never change, no matter how many sinners she eats…

Mammon - Greed. Mammon was once a greedy little kleptomaniac angel, who God chose to make into one of the Four Horsemen. He was made into Conquest, the symbol of lust for power consuming everything in its wake. He was a bit too eager to start the apocalypse, so he could hoard everything that was left, and tried to escape so many times that he became a liability. His sister eating the other Horsemen was the perfect excuse for God to get rid of them both. When he fell, he got caught on several jagged rocks that ripped his skin apart. His sister hunted and skinned a wolf demon and a sheep demon, and gave him a crude patchwork of their skins to wear. Losing his skin just made his fanatical greed even worse, making him afraid to lose anything else. As his sister ate her way through Hell and cared for him, he took anything he could carry when she wasn’t looking. This became a lot easier once Satan approached his sister and made the deal, because the nice lady gave him a bottomless bag, so he could keep all of his treasures!!! He was oblivious to the fact that his life was on the line if his sister ever broke the deal. He’s mostly a feral gremlin in Hell, kept in line by his sister. But on the surface, he becomes a terrifyingly competent executive bro, sliding into people’s companies and encouraging their greed and corruption. This is probably his old personality as Conquest reasserting itself as an alter, but no one’s sure how or why that happened and Mammon himself is completely unaware of the change. His greed consumes him and leaves little time for the kind of self-reflection that weighs his sister down.

Belphegor - Sloth. Belle stands out from the rest of the Kings, being a demon born in Hell, instead of a fallen angel like the others. He just sort of showed up at headquarters one day after some hardcore partying and wouldn’t leave. Satan got sick of him lounging around, smoking weed and bothering the workers with far-fetched business ideas, and decided to make him Sloth to get rid of him. But unfortunately for Satan, Belle is the least successful at tempting humans, because all he does is party at the wild ragers thrown by the office worker demons on the surface. This means that he still hangs around Hell a lot, mostly to sleep off his hangovers. This is barely tolerated by the other Kings, who tend to pick on him and push him around whenever they can wake him up. Satan especially hates him, but can’t fire or kill him because of how popular he is with the ordinary demons. Belle is seen as the most approachable King by them, and sometimes they do more than just approach him. Because of that, he has a massive amount of children, all by different partners. One of his daughters, Herexia, is going to be an irritating obstacle for the protagonists, Ama and Mickey, during a murder at one of the aforementioned parties.

(Sorry about the clumsy censorship, but I wasn’t sure if Lucifer’s full-frontal nudity was too much for Tumblr or not.)

Medium:

Markers and gouache pen on Bristol board.

Links to other versions:

DeviantART

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#my art #traditional art #fantasy art #demons #hell #lucifer #satan #fallen angel #serpent #marker drawing #anthro character #nonbinary character #disabled character

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ocscreaming · 4 months ago

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I have some more niche ocs this blog will be used for but uhhh these are my main ones (under the cut) just so yall know the characters n stuff better. Mels not gonna be includdd cuz he’s got his own blog over at @wingedmel

UNIVERSE 1:

#amor - cult leader, drag queen, bacchanalian spirit, you name it. Still keeps around his boyfriend from before he became what he is, even though he doesn’t have feelings for him anymore.

#osiris - shadowy guy who is tasked with helping plants grow in the dingy and abandoned city he lives in. Amors boyfriend, and still likes him despite what he’s become.

#helios - spirit of the sunrise and the sun, was originally a deer a very long time ago. In a relationship with janus that has lasted almost as long as his human form has. Cowboy, on account of the fact that he has a way with cattle.

#janus - spirit of the sunset and stars, was originally a ram a very long time ago. Shepherd, for lesser star spirits in the form of sheep.

#colibri - essentially a magical girl, took over the role of spirit of the moon despite not technically being a spirit. Used to be a hitman, but quit due to stress.

#adam - bounty hunter and son of the mayor of the town. In love with aalto, but can’t openly show it due to his being tasked with hunting aalto.

#aalto - spirit of the sea and predatory fish. Loves Adam, and is open about it. He also makes music at the local punk pub under the name “sockeye”.

#ward - domesticated dog spirit, serves Adam and his dad. Often used as entertainment and hunting practice, due to being unable to die through violent means. Has a close relationship with Adam, who doesn’t hurt him or know about how he’s used, but his love is unrequited.

UNIVERSE 2:

#lab - unnamed man experiment gone wrong. Treated lovingly by the scientists and is a very helpful assistant. Likes drag and fighting.

#alan - tired scientists living off of caffeine. Her wife seems to be the only reason she hasn’t quit.

#kiara - mad scientist stereotype to a T, considers lab a family member due to helping create him. Married to Alan.

#lovey - sentient computer program, doesn’t like violence but is fine with blood and guts, as she serves as the medical database. Known for using up file space by pirating magical girl animes, and she changed her form to resemble the characters from said cartoons. Dating Molo.

#molo - mysteriously showed up one day. Resembles a human, despite being green. Is allegedly an alien. She goes about her normal life despite this. She also has an interest in drag, but doesn’t actively do it. Dating lovey.

#one - creator of lovey, changed his name for unknown reasons. Interested in lab, but doesn’t show it.

CURRENTLY UNIVERSELESS OR FROM ASSORTED CAMPAIGNS:

#shun - royal family member…technically. A lycanthrope whose lover was killed through a revolution gone sour, and is learning to live as a human again.

#sleazy guy - a businessman who sells just about anything, including himself, but his main business is selling watered down medicine to the terminally ill

#sev - a death god who was treated as a circus attraction for the first several years of his life. His abusive boss has him do everyone’s paperwork, and he misses his ex girlfriend to death

#melik - a tiger bit disguised as a girl, has an unrequited crush on a living tin man named Hector, supported by the gods and still learning etiquette

#tanak - an axolotl person who explores and logs cave systems. Learning to accept love again after his somewhat crazy ex died

NEW CHARACTERS MAY BE ADDED, AS I OFTEN MAKE NEW THINGS OR BRING BACK OLD CHARACTERS SO CHECK IN AGAIN ANYTIME IF YOY SEE A NEW TAG

#intro post #original character

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aashiqeddiediaz · 3 years ago

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of braids and bonds

just pushing more girldad!Eddie content at y’all, no biggie. This is part of a series, and you can read the origin on AO3.

Chris is 15, Vera is 3 in this fic.

[AO3 Link]

Word Count: 2356 words

He hears the tornado before it hits.

“Daddy!”

Wood flooring can’t disguise the fast pitter-patter of approaching footsteps as their daughter runs into the living room, and Eddie barely has two seconds to brace himself before Vera collides with his legs, running straight into him without stepping on the brakes.

His breath leaves him in a whoosh as her head rams into his stomach, but he goes with the movement, heaving her up into his arms. “Now where are you off to, Miss Fast and Furious?”

“Daddy, braid,” she demands, holding out her hairbrush and a tattered ponytail holder. The r sounds more like a w and the vowels stretch a little as she gets used to the new word. Eddie has to hold back a smile at how cute she sounds.

“I don’t know how to, kiddo. You think you can wait until tonight so Aunt Maddie can do it for you? Like last time?” As he says the words, he can already see the stubborn set of her mouth forming, the one that Eddie will forever deny comes from him.

“No, you do it,” she says, thrusting the hairbrush at him again insistently. Her eyes slant in the way Buck’s do when he’s determined, and Eddie’s always been a sucker for that look, and it’s even worse when it’s on their daughter, so he caves.

Eddie sighs but swings her back and forth as he takes a seat on the floor in front of the couch, eliciting joyful shrieks from her that bounce off the ceiling. He sits cross-legged, plants Vera in front of him and pulls his phone out.

The first three articles for how to do a braid come up with some intricately-looped hairstyles that Eddie has no chance of getting right without tearing chunks out of his daughter’s hair. The fourth one has a whole list of braids, but none of them are just the simple hairstyle.

Vera doesn’t even have as much hair as some of these hairstyles would need, and Eddie’s one-hundred percent sure they don’t own bobby pins because those are a choking hazard.

Christopher comes into the room just as Eddie finally finds a tutorial that looks easy enough to follow — explicitly labeled for beginners and for kids. He takes one look at Vera vibrating with excitement and Eddie hunched over his phone, and bursts out laughing. “Dad, what are you doing?”

“He’s braiding my hair,” Vera tells him, wiggling as soon as she catches sight of her brother.

“Stay still, Vera,” Eddie instructs as he picks up the hairbrush. Chris takes a seat on the couch, turning the TV onto one of the many, many cartoon programs they’ve acquired over the past three years.

If Eddie never saw a dancing melon ever again, it would be too soon, but it stills her, so he’ll take it.

Eddie’s the de facto in-charge of doing Vera’s hair, because Buck can’t get the clips to stay properly, or make his fingers twist the ponytail holder onto her hair. He’s mastered ponytails — he knows how to comb the hair so there aren’t little mountain ranges on her head, and knows how to pull it just enough so her hair doesn’t hurt her but just tight enough so it doesn’t come undone, either. He’s tried virtually every ponytail hairstyle he can manage — half up-half down, high ponytail, low ponytail, two ponytails — but braids are a whole different ball game.

The idea of accidentally knotting the strands of her hair terrifies him, because it’ll hurt her when he goes to untangle it later. He thinks after years of combing her hair, he should be used to it by now but every time he accidentally snags on a knot, tears well up in his eyes.

But Vera wants him to try, so he will.

It can’t be that different from tying knots in ropes, Eddie decides as he starts brushing the tangles out of the hair from the bottom up.

Her dark hair ranges somewhere between Buck and Chris’s curls and Eddie’s straighter hair depending on the day — waves that sometimes curl just right to turn her into a mini-Buck. Right now, it’s in soft waves that easily come free under the teeth of the hairbrush, much like Eddie’s own.

Vera only dramatically shouts twice in the process, but manages to give Eddie a heart attack both times and he slows his pace until it’s practically glacial by the time he reaches her scalp.

“Oh, come on, she’s lying , Dad,” Chris exclaims after the second time, pulling another riot of giggles out of his sister. “Drama queen.”

Vera laughs hysterically when Eddie tickles her sides. “Are you making fun of me?”

“No, Daddy,” she giggles, obediently settling down enough that Eddie can finish brushing her hair back.

“Split the hair into three equal parts,” Eddie reads out loud, carefully dividing the thick strands into three and valiantly trying to keep them separated as he peers down at the next instruction.

It’s just his luck that the garage door opens just as Eddie’s trying to figure out if he wants to cross each individual section over or under.

Buck comes into view just as Eddie grasps the leftmost section and the rightmost section, prepared to cross it over the middle.

“Eddie, babe, what are you doing?”

It’s also just his luck that his daughter catches sight of her other dad and immediately jerks out of his hold, forcing Eddie to let go of her hair so it doesn’t get caught in his fingers. “Papa!”

Buck swings her up into his arms, blowing a raspberry on her cheek and ruining all of Eddie’s hard work at untangling her hair. “Hey, sweetheart. Are you troubling Daddy?”

“We’re learning new things,” Eddie says. Despite being begrudged at the thought of Vera’s hair all mussed up again, he can't help but soften at the sight of his husband with their kids as Buck crosses over to place a kiss on Chris’ curls, Vera happily perched on his hip.

Chris is slower to affection these days, but he never denies it when Buck and Eddie reach out, and true to it, all he does is raise a fist for Buck to bump before going back to his game.

Sometimes, it feels like that very first day after the earthquake, where seven-year-old Christopher had determinedly walked up to Buck and thanked him for driving Eddie there. Buck had tossed Eddie an amused glance, but had talked to Chris like an adult, the two of them chattering away like old friends as Buck navigated them through the earthquake-stricken streets.

The sight of Buck with Chris has always made something in Eddie feel like softened wax, but the sight of him with both Chris and Vera makes Eddie feel like he’s made of nothing but the three slices of his heart.

Chris is fifteen now, it’s been eight years of being Buck’s partner, and they’re married and have another kid but it always, always feels like that very first time — if not even more.

“We’re struggling,” Christopher comments from where he’s flicking through his phone, lounging on the far couch.

Eddie doesn’t see the we in this.

“ I’m trying my best,” he corrects, sparing a minute to glare at his oldest before gesturing for Buck to put Vera down. His husband looks reluctant to part with her but deposits their daughter in front of him.

Eddie picks up the hairbrush and runs it through Vera’s messy hair, carefully making sure all the knots are out before he sections her hair again.

Buck plops down on the couch behind him, leaning in to press a kiss to Eddie’s cheek. He shoos him off, concentrating hard on making each of the three parts as equal as he can manage. “At least say hi to me.”

“Yeah, hi Buck,” he says distractedly, committing the instructions to memory. Eddie mutters the pattern under his breath as he goes, holding each strand at the bottom as he crosses them, over and over until he gets to the bottom of Vera’s hair.

It’s…something.

Eddie cocks his head as he stares at the hypothetical braid in his hand. It’s wonky, to put it lightly, with random bumps of hair sticking out from everywhere. He’s pretty sure her hair wasn’t supposed to fall away from his hands like that, and right now, it looks like a glorified rope.

He undoes it.

“What? Why? That was good!” Buck protests.

Eddie snorts. “Buck, I love you, but you’re the worst liar.”

“Lying is bad, Papa,” Vera scolds, about to turn her head before Eddie directs her towards the TV again.

Eddie studies the pictures in the article closely, and sees that the person is holding each section at the top to keep each one stable as they braid them together, only moving their hand down when they need to.

“Oh,” he says to himself as he brushes Vera’s hair and tries again. “That makes more sense.”

The second time comes out so much better than the first. The braid’s crisscross pattern is actually visible, but it’s too loose, and falls apart at her head almost immediately, shorter strands slipping through.

Buck’s foot comes to rest on his knee and Eddie smacks it away as he tries to concentrate.

“Come on, Diaz, you can do this,” Eddie mutters to himself as he runs the brush through his daughter’s hair yet another time.

“Uh, excuse me, Buckley-Diaz,” Buck pipes from behind him. Eddie ignores him.

Vera’s a champ throughout, too fixated on the cartoon animals running across the screen to pay much attention to her dad struggling, but Christopher occasionally looks over at them with exasperation clear on his face.

“Dad, remember Tangled? When those girls in the square braid Rapunzel's hair together? Do it like that,” he suggests. For once, the suggestion is actually helpful, because they've seen��Tangled too many times to count, and Eddie has the movie practically memorized.

(Vera’s obsessed with Maximus, but personally, Eddie thinks Pascal’s great.)

The third time is better than the others in that the braid is right in the middle of her back this time. Her loose hair normally reaches a little past her shoulders, but tied up like this, it’s just about shoulder-length.

It takes no less than three more tries for Eddie to finally be satisfied as he ties off the braid with the ponytail holder, making sure none of the stands are going to yank on her scalp. He smooths a few errant strands away from her ears, but leaves the baby hairs that are too short to do anything about. “There. Good?”

Vera tries to pull it over her shoulder and cranes her neck valiantly to look, but finds it too short. “I can’t see.”

“Wait,” Buck stops her, turning her around so he can take a picture and show her. “Here.”

He’s sorely reminded of the reason his world rests in the three people in this room when Vera’s little face lights up and a wide smile crosses her face.

“I love it!” she screams, falling right into Eddie’s chest with her small arms flinging around his neck. His heart swells about a million times too big in his chest as he holds her little body close, breathing in the familiar scent of baby shampoo, Buck, Chris and home . “Thank you, Daddy!”

“You’re welcome, baby,” he says warmly. Vera pulls back from him, placing a sloppy kiss on his cheek before she runs over to Chris, showing him her new hairstyle and chattering happily away.

Buck’s hand settles on his shoulder, as if he knows that there’s a lump in Eddie’s throat the size of Texas and Eddie uses that hand to pull his husband down next to him.

“We did good,” Eddie murmurs to him as he finally kisses him, the two hours away being far too long to go without touching him. “You get everything you needed at the store?”

“Nah, they didn’t have Vera’s cereal, and I only grabbed one carton of juice boxes. Chris likes bottled apple juice more, so I got that for him. Chim asked me to grab extra paper plates, so I got those, too.”

Eddie nods along, twisting Buck’s ring around as they watch Vera climb into Christopher’s side and snuggle down there. To his credit, Chris doesn’t even look up from his phone, just safely secures her near the back of the couch and goes back to whatever he’s doing.

“You look really hot when you’re doing our kids’ bidding, by the way,” Buck mumbles in his ear, showing him a video of Eddie struggling to cross each section over each other. Vera’s humming happily, moving along to the song playing on TV and Christopher is lounging in the background.

Eddie laughs at his husband, and turns to kiss him again. “Is that what gets you going these days?”

“Oh, yeah,” Buck says, turning to tip his forehead against Eddie’s temple. “Absolutely. Has since day one.”

Eddie shakes his head but holds him close as he watches yet another watermelon bounce across the screen. Vera isn’t even watching the TV anymore, too engrossed in whatever Christopher’s showing her on the phone.

He presses back into Buck and holds tightly to the feeling of his home around him.

Buck secretly snaps yet another picture, looking down at it and smiling at their kids before showing Eddie. “Yeah, we did great.”

(At the dinner party that night, Vera runs up to everyone to show them the braid Eddie had painstakingly weaved for her, now a little disheveled from the chaos of getting ready.

He gets a few awed looks and a couple comments about how cute that is. Bobby looks impressed, Maddie high-fives him, Chim asks for his secret and Hen, May and Albert take about a million selfies with Vera, but none of that holds a light to the bright grin on Vera’s face when she holds her arms out to be held by him again.

He resolves to figure out what a Dutch braid is next.)

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