#protectors

[whereifindsanity]

Maremma Sheepdog wearing traditional anti-wolf spiked collar, known as vreccale.

[justanothersyscourse]

Petals of a Rose

An accurate depiction of DID

This is an incredible little video ❤️

It's about a woman trying to date while living with DID, and it really did feel accurate to me. Clever use of cuts really helps portray what it's like to switch in the middle of tasks and how... Loud things can get inside your head. It feels... More real and respectful and than anything else I've ever seen, and it approaches relationships in such a... Well, accurate way.

There are two versions-- a full version, which contains a scene with sexual content and a flashback that some may find triggering, and a redacted version with those scenes cut out. I've watched both and can confirm that you can watch the redacted version without missing anything (it was just so well done).

[adventuremaker21]

PROTECTORS AU PART 1: THE MAIN 5

Pics is by my good friend @novastar134 please support her

TLDR: Basically it’s when the team formed early after the events of Heroes Day AND after Mayura made he first appearance (so no S3 and beyond). While the villain Papillon gained a new ally, the duo gained 3 new teammates, alongside the foreign friends (more later). Because of this, the adventures grow bigger as more things change, but they do stay the same.

And so, here’s our the heroes changed in this new timeline:

Ladybug

-You know her name and know her stories, so she’s basically the same

-despite the fact that she kind of went behind Fu’s back and made more heroes without his permission (blame chat noir for that)

-anxious about the concequences, but Star tells her that that’ll come later. Now’s the time to have fun

-Helps teach the foreigners about what the Miraculouses are and their limits

Chat Noir

-The trusty partner to everyone’s favorite spotty heroine

-More of a talker then her partner

-Was the one that made Alya, Nino, and Chloe full time and talked Marinette into letting it happen

-filled with hope and possitivity

-more vocal about his father’s behavior

-does not like being called “cat noir”

Rena Rouge

-The first of the new heroes

-People thought she was gonna disrupt the dynamic, but made it better

-Won’t have time for anyone’s behavior, and will be blunt

-Ladybug’s best friend

Carapace

-The second of the new heroes

-Has zero merch, which upsets him

-AmazIng taste in music and will use it to cheer people up

-Great with tech, but not as great as Wukong (later)

-Chat Noir’s best friend

Queen Bee

-Third and last of the new heroes

-Everyone knows she’s Chloe Bourgeois, the nasty daughter of the mayor, but is working on being less nasty to everyone

-Is a hero to save herself and save everyone along the way

-People slowly accept she’s trying to change and does support her

-has a social media following, which works in the heroes favor due to her influential words of cheering people up

-Pollen, Steven, Sabrina, and Mabel (missing) are 4 of the most important people of her road to redemption

-Apologizes to the people she badmouthed one by one, faces some punishment from them but is forgiven.

-Her main villain is Mayura

So yea, this is the main 5 Miraculous Heroes of the Protectors. All 5 knows who eachother is, and so is the 7 foreigners that help make up the Protectors

Leave me an ask about what you want to know about this timeline

[etinceelle]

Another worl building sheet for Gris and Fauve's story, this time focused on Fauve's origins !

So Fauve is as it was shown previously not human, or at least no totally. She's actually mixed with humans and spirits.

When the disasters happened, the spirits (who were only believed to be from legends and stories) appareared physically to protect the world and the environment.

Fauve's tribe, her ancestors who survived this catastrophy, developped a strong bond with the spirits. Together they became guardians to protect nature.

The spirits gave to Fauve's ancestors the ability to turn into spirit forms too, which gave them some visible changes on their human bodies as well. They were no longer humans anymore but a new kind.

Every spirit is different. The spirit forms doesn't appear from the start, Fauve never turned into her spirit form for example. (the one I drew isn't hers, it's just a beast I liked to draw as an example-)

They all live in a huuge tree (no they don't drink tea there :]]] )

[baylardian-1]

im sorry but the janeway tag is riddled with baby content lately and its making me ACT UNWISE

ummmmmmmmmm anywayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy the thought I'd had was that in Protectors after Kathryn stops panicking and CALMS DOWN about her situation (being stuck on Earth with an uncertain future and getting unwanted counseling and AU pregnant lmao) and lets things run its course I think she'd take up a dumb knitting project for NOTHING IN PARTICULAR ;;;;;;;;;;;;)

[marveltournaments]

[madcat-world]

Oketra - Richard Wright

[system-hottakes]

Hot take: Some persecutors are just bad people. Not all persecutors are misguided protectors.

definitely. Some alters are just bad people in general. They don't even have to be persecutors. Like we have a anger holder that's a pretty shitty guy. He's not misguided. He knows what he's doing, he just doesn't care. We also have a protector that's a horrible person who tries to fight everyone. Not to protect us, no, he wants to fight people just because he likes fighting.

[beelzebubsbois]

ARE WE SURE SANDER SIDES ISNT RELATED TO OSDDID? BECAUSE FOR SOMETHING NOT RELATED TO OSDDID IT DOES AN AMAZING JOB AT SHOWING DID SYSPTOMS AND SYSTEM SHIT.

[dreamdropsystem]

protectors need to stim too

[coolcomicbookcovers]

[adventuremaker21]

Thanks to the incredible @emdoddles, Zoe Lee-Bourgeois is now taking up the mantle of Nightflight, the Bat hero of Location!!

Armed with her trusty knife, and has the powers of Sonar (shouts real loud and can “see” everything within a certain radius) and Echo (can locate a specific person or thing within the Sonar range), she’s ready to stand by Queen Bee and the rest of the Protectors against those who’d harm those who can’t defend themselves

[resistance-squad]

[baylardian-1]

kirsten beyer give me more Kathryn And Chakotay Being Flirty And In Love And Hiding It Badly From Their Crew please challenge

[marveltournaments]

[coldgoldlazarus]

So, for a while now, I've been kinda entertaining the idea of more-or-less wholesale porting the G2 Protectors into a G1 AU. (Or at least, a more G1-derived setting, depending on how loose I feel like I want to play with things at a given moment.)

Because one thing that struck me as genuinely interesting about G2's approach, was how the protectors simultaneously fulfilled a very similar and yet very distinct role from the Turaga.

Both are leaders of villages, with greater elemental power than the Matoran/villagers, yet considerably less than a full Toa. Yet while the general conception of the Turaga as old and decrepit is perhaps overstated in fanon, there is still a noticeable difference between their demeanor, build, and general presentation, than the way the Protectors came across in G2's smattering of story content.

Particularly notable is the attention drawn to this difference in one of the early animations, where Narmoto is initially presented as a hunchbacked, cloaked figure, only to fairly dramatically throw aside the cloak and reveal his barrel chest, shoulder-mounted minigun, and those flame whip/sword/things. Like, that felt intentional, to draw the parallel with the Turaga and then subvert it. In addition to that, there is the second Ryder Wyndham book, where the Protectors go on their own adventure in parallel to the Toa venturing through the city, which also paints them as acting in a more proactive manner. So despite the similarities, the Protectors fit a unique niche, coming across as more proactive and powerful in a direct sense, while perhaps lacking some of the same level of subtlety and wisdom as a Turaga.

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So basically, my idea is to essentially slot them in as an additional, optional stage in the life cycle, an intermediary state between being a Matoran and being a Toa.

The benefit to this is having someone there who can partially fulfill both the duties associated with a Toa or Turaga as needed, but in a more flexible way, without the power investment of the former or the time investment of the latter. Again, they may not be as capable of the same kind of feats as a Toa, or have the same depth of wisdom as a Turaga, but they can still fill in the gaps as needed, and lead and defend their people in a way most Matoran would still struggle to. Depending on regional tradition and whether circumstances allow, it could also serve as a good way to gain experience on the way to becoming full Toa, rather than being thrust directly into the role and forced to sink or swim like the Toa Metru were.

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Also, with @outofgloom 's input, I think I've finally settled on a name for them, since "Protector" obviously doesn't quite fit into the setting or language: Vaaki, as derived from Va-Aki; "Lesser Valor", befitting their intermediary status as lesser Toa.

(I was initially less inclined to go with that since it sounded too similar to Vahki, but in hindsight I like it for exactly that reason. Assuming Vaaki are like, not a common practice but at least a known-of one, then Nuparu naming his creations to sound similar, despite the different derivation, would be an intentional choice. A nod to the similarities between the role of a Vaaki and the original, perhaps overly optimistic, intention for the Vahki to serve... and extra bitter irony when the latter ultimately wound up being tools of oppression instead. So yeah, rather than detracting, the resemblance could add additional interesting context and history.)

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The matter of how they are made, mechanically speaking, I'm a bit more uncertain of, but at least for now the idea is still continuing literally with that idea of them as essentially half-Toa. Basically, there would be some way to control the process of transformation from a Toa Stone, only partially releasing the stored power and conserving the rest, which in turn results in a partial transformation. One side-effect of this could be some odd body/limb proportions like Narmoto and Izotor in G2 had. And then later, if it is felt that a Toa is needed more, then the remainder of that power could be used to complete the transformation, and grant the full strength of form and elemental power.

In essence, this approach would be a way to utilize the Metru toa stones on Mata Nui, aside from summoning the Toa Mata; in my version of the island where there are multiple villages per Wahi, those toa stones would have been used to make some of the Matoran into Vaaki to run the additional settlements, alongside the Turaga Metru still leading the primary ones.

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On the other hand, part of me prefers the idea of Vaaki as a full and distinct additional step, rather than just "half-baked" Toa. Particularly in a more loose take on things, such as my G3 concept from a few months back, where adding this additional stage of things is easier to smoothly incorporate, it feels like it makes more sense that way. The issue there being, if a Toa Stone is still how a Vaaki becomes a Toa, by what other means would a Matoran become a Vaaki in the first place? To that, I'm not yet sure.