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🦀 CRAB SUPERHELL 🦀

[xxsky-shockxx]

THEY KNOW HES A WATCHER AND THEY WANT REVENGE

HE PUTS THEM THROUGH PAIN SO THEYRE GOING TO PUT HIM THROUGH EVEN MORE PAIN

[nightwanderers12081]

imagine shadow and sonic are forced to play it takes two together

just imagine

it would be chaos

[rocketqueen1989x]

i wanna feel his serpentine

[scramratz]

Definite banners and possible bumper stickers for the shop

[sunderwight]

Shen Yuan who glitches in his transmigration, but the original Shen Qingqiu still dies of a qi deviation.

So the System still needs someone with narrative relevance to throw Luo Binghe into the Abyss. In a fit of desperation, it contrives circumstances after Shen Qingqiu's death to move Luo Binghe to An Ding Peak (not that difficult), and then the System makes Shang Qinghua be Luo Binghe's new scum master who casts him down.

Airplane's thrilled, really. Cultivators aren't supposed to get ulcers but damned if he doesn't come close to one anyway. Between Shen Qingqiu and then just a while later Liu Qingge both dying from qi deviations, and Shang Qinghua looking like a stiff breeze could take him out any day now, poor Mu Qingfang is also just about at his wits' end.

But it's not all bad news! On An Ding Peak, Luo Binghe actually finds himself surrounded by the kinds of people who are accustomed to being bullied by the rest of the sect. So they're pretty sympathetic to him, and it's easier for someone with basic laboring skills to advance on that peak too. His chores don't decrease too much, but he actually gets rewarded for doing them well, and no one tries to kick him out of the dorms or anything. Shang Qinghua doesn't either go out of his way to bully or praise Luo Binghe, correctly reasoning that his best shot at not getting a gruesome death is to just be a more forgettable bad guy than an abusive dirtbag or a heart-wrenching betrayal. He doesn't sabotage Luo Binghe's cultivation (no point, and it would just farm resentment later) but he also doesn't go out of his way to help him improve (not gonna arm his inevitable maybe-probably-murderer with better weapons!), so Luo Binghe's situation sees an overall improvement but not the zero-to-hero treatment he'd have got with Shen Yuan either.

When Shang Qinghua shoves Luo Binghe into the Abyss (he just full on picks him up and tosses him like a sack of beans, better to rip it off quick like a bandage), LBH is upset, but he's not especially surprised or dismayed about Shang Qinghua's part in it. Later on he'll be kind of confused, because he just assumed that of course the righteous sect cultivator would abhor the demon, but it turns out Shang Qinghua has been working for a demon since before Luo Binghe even came to the sect? But then it still kind of makes sense because a Heavenly Demon would definitely pose a risk to Mobei Jun and to Mobei Jun's rule. Shang Qinghua, he supposes, is just really loyal to his specific demon.

Luo Binghe's subsequent revenge quest is also somewhat mitigated by the Abyss actually not being that bad.

The Abyss is not actually that bad thanks to the glitched out Shen Yuan having been camping there for several years now.

So when Shen Yuan's transmigration failed it failed because he "woke up" during the process, realized where the System intended to put him, was like no way in goddamn hell am I being that guy about it, and actually kind of won the ensuing tug-of-war. The System couldn't put him in Shen Qingqiu but Shen Yuan didn't want to go back to his dead body either, so he ended up stuck in the nearest available space for lost interdimensional beings. Which was the Endless Abyss.

Luckily Shen Yuan's quasi-transmigrated imparted an equivalent cultivation level as Shen Jiu's to him, and the glitch made him able to sense and manipulate certain extra-dimensional energies, so he manifested as this weird godlike being able to manipulate and control aspects of the Abyss. So he set about transforming Airplane's Torment Nexus into a viable ecosystem (the current version would not be anything approaching sustainable were it not for divine/narrative intervention, and is constantly on the verge of destabilizing into unlivable ruin that would only be fit for some particularly hardy microorganisms).

It's still like, a monster land full of demonic creatures and terrifying phenomenon, but with Shen Yuan's assistance it becomes something more like a demonic wildlife reserve than a dimensional horror plane. Though it is still a dimensional horror plane, and Shen Yuan is its chief dimensional horror. He treats it sort of like those dungeon building or wildlife park sims, figuring out how to keep everything in balance while still preserving all the interesting parts. A lot of the extreme survival issues of the Abyss are more of a result of it being environmentally unstable than a result of its actual denizens, and once he smooths out a lot of the messy dimensional edges and creates stable vents for the fluctuating energy run-off, the demonic inhabits start behaving less like horror movie monsters and more like animals. They're still wild and dangerous and prone to killing one another, but also more cautious, and able to access enough stable resources that they can even start to be picky about what they pursue.

Turns out that a lot of creatures in the Abyss actually don't like fighting and dying and being brutally injured on a regular basis, even if they can heal from it!

Shen Yuan has even discovered that some like chin scritches (he's not terribly worried about habituating them to people, given how rarely any people actually access the Abyss, but also because he's not really all that people-ish himself these days).

This means that one of Luo Binghe's first encounters with the horrible creatures of the Abyss, is in fact a pack of wolf-like monsters thoroughly avoiding an actual fight with him. In fact most of the denizens of the Abyss just avoid him. They can smell the Heavenly Demon energy rolling off of him, and given the current abundance of alternatives to dealing with that, virtually none of the monsters actually choose to challenge him. There are still a few that will go after anything that's bleeding, but that problem stops once Luo Binghe's physiology heals his wounds, which takes like... a couple hours, max.

Despite the stories he's heard, Luo Binghe is relieved to find that the Abyss is not quite so terrible as all that. Normal survival skills suffice for seeing him through much of it. He's able to hunt for food, scavenge for tools, and even finds potable water fairly easily. After a few weeks, he also comes across a ruin which seems to be inhabited.

The being inhabiting it is plainly a god, although he demurs and refutes such assertions whenever Binghe is too frank. He's a strange being, at turns looking like some queer approximation of a human, at other times blinking and winking in and out of existence, in patterns of strange lights and oddly geometrical fire. But he's surprisingly not hostile, letting Binghe rest in his residence, and even directing him towards points of interest. Accompanying him, too, though he seems to think that Binghe doesn't notice the odd almost spiderweb-like patterns that appear on things which he's influencing. The god calls himself The Peerless One, or at least that's what Luo Binghe infers from some writings on the ruin. The Peerless One offers instruction, seemingly without thinking about it, and gets flustered at being addressed by title, so Binghe also begins to refer to him as Shizun after a while.

[pinkiepig]

Baal and Aym for the soul

[xxsky-shockxx]

*shakes everyone by the shoulders* what if, hear me out, they know he's a watcher and they're trying to get revenge on the watchers

"They're trying to kill you dude"

"I know they're trying to kill me-"

"I mean everyone's trying to kill you!"

"What?!"

The Grian Scapegoat arc this season is driving me absolutely insane /pos.

Impulse tells Gem and Joel that Grian stole his cows (technically true, though where's the mention of martyn?)

Impulse continues on- Grian made Ren kill him (a lie ren told to absolve himself and his allies)

Ren gathers a group, Grian made the series anyways, he deserves whatever they do to him for that alone, in a way.

Jimmy throws a tnt minecart on his head. Hadn't they agreed to work on the trap together?

Scar shoots him off a ledge. Grian wouldn't have minded it if Scar hadn't promised not to take a cheap kill.

Even Grian's own team doesn't give him a break from it, Mumbo requesting a sacrifice of lives from Grian, and reminding him a number of times that everything is his fault for creating the series.

I will never be normal about this. Grian hasn't been an angel this season, but he's also no worse than normal, no worse than you could expect. And yet repeatedly he's used- as someone to blame, as a sacrifice for the gain of others. A way for others to sustain themselves, to wash the blood off their own hands, or to give an excuse for the anger that otherwise wouldn't have such a convenient outlet.

Are you guys hearing me? Do you see the vision? There's so much Grian Angst Potential right now guys.

[lara-cairncross]

some quick notes about Mikey :D

The quality and quantity of the light in his environment can have different effects on him!

I exaggerated the emotions a bit here, but lighting *does* have an impact on his mood. It’s typically not a super extreme effect— more so just, like, overcast days will make him moodier than usual or slightly more fatigued— but he’s still a lot more sensitive to the light in his environment than other light-talent fairies :]

im debating making refs for each of the boys which some little notes about their appearance/powers, but that might take a while lol

[manyrepulsivethoughts]

that one post comparing ruin's and LN2 endings altered my brain chemistry so now have this

[cup-o-stars]

Originally I was gonna draw her in my favorite outfits she's worn, but with barely any digging I realized she consistently has the best looks- as well as the most- and it will take way too long to pick through them. So I just drew her.

[xxsky-shockxx]

IVE BEEN THINKING THAT, WHAT IF THEY KBOW HES A WATCHER AND THEYRE TRYING TO GET REVENGE ON THE WATCHERS SO THEY TAKE IT OUT ON HIM

Soo uh Ren actively said that Grian should be everyone's target because he's the one that is making them suffer and anguish every week. Is anyone going to incorporate it into Watcher Grian lore?

[kksanartist]

"Another Bug Friend?" A fan sketch of Nate AKA Dewi's Dad and Bug!Dewi by @lilybug-02

Love both of them and I did asked about Nate meeting Bug!Dewi but in the end, I just draw it myself instead lol.

[xxsky-shockxx]

So they know grian is the one making all these wild cards

And they can't like *actually* hurt the watchers so they use grian to show their hatred for them

Almost all of the server wants him dead, so they all gang together against him in hopes it angers the watchers

I do not, however, know much of the watcher lore, so yeah

[finnbin]

have this because I'm in love with those "powerless bill is stuck in the mystery shack to be reintroduced into society" aus

original under cut:

thank you to @millenianthemums for the idea >:))