#rocket skate boots

[happy-harleys-house-of-humor]

Harley, if you could buy anything in the world, even if it's something you can't buy, what would it be?

Wow wow wow! What a fantastic question!

Okay so if the sky is the limit, I want a house that looks exactly like PeeWee’s Playhouse!!!

Can you imagine?? It would be so much fun! With a Chairy and Jambi and maybe even Cowboy Curtis would stop by!!!

Before I might have said boots that turn into rocket powered roller skates! But now my dream is coming true🎶

♦️🖤

[ohfugecannada]

Omg, I just realised something while watching;

Blackjack isn’t using a jet pack like Rocket is, he actually has rockets on his heels.

…which look identical to Rocket’s rocket skates in the 1985 Rocket Raccoon comics!!

Not only does Blackjack try to one up Rocket in the race of this episode, he straight up stole his look/tech from him to do it! That is cold!

Rocket and Groot - The Space Race.

[therealsinnohdawn]

“air shoes” “rocket skates” call them jet boots you cowards

[lornagrimm]

Darcy Donovan Lookbook

I was watching the music videos from the 'Adrenaline' album and then I made her.

Hairstyle / Eyebrow, Nose and Lip Piercings / Adamant Earrings / Tattoos on Legs and Torso / Tattoos on Arms / Body Freckles / More Body Freckles / Face Details / Face Details #2 / Skin Overlay /

Portrait - Butterfly Top / Necklace

Necklace / Hilary Tank top / Pants / Shoes

2. Necklace / Acc. Leather Jacket / Shirt / Skirt / Socks / Sandals

3. Tank top / Shorts / Sandals

4. Fur Coat / Tank Top / Angela Skirt V2 / Tights / Heels

5. Top / Bubble Skirt / White Stockings / Heels

6. Spiked Cuff / Bracelets / Favriel Dress [ no link. Creator is Serenity-cc] / Tights / Boots

Thank you to all of the amazing creators!

@pralinesims, @reevaly, peachyfaerie, @demondare-sims, @peachibunnii, @okruee, @pyxiidis, @joliebean, @savage-sims, @darte77, @simandy, @sentate, @magicbot, @bluecravingcc, SMSims, @wotunciba, @happylifesims, @helsoseira, @1-800-cuupid, Bed and Musae, @plazasims, @148dazed, @serenity-cc, @kamiiri, @dansimsfantasy, @billsims-cc, @aharris00britney, @trillyke

[amakumos]

kiss and cry — yang jungwon. (teaser)

kiss and cry is out now! read here.

synopsis. At the age of 22, Yang Jungwon wants to retire. The ice, which was what he considered his second home, does not seem as welcoming as it used to be. Figure skating is no longer fun - the sport that he devoted his entire childhood to seems more of a chore, rather than a passion. He claims that this season will be his last as a competitive figure skater - that is, until he meets you, who somehow makes him fall in love with the ice (and you) again.

genre. fluff, angst, friends to lovers, figure skating au.

pairing. figure skater! jungwon x figure skater fem! reader

warnings. swearing, mentions of injury and unhealthy training habits, jungwon is 22, reader is 21. set during the 2025/2026 figure skating season. (please pretend a walk in the skies by joe hisaishi is long enough to fit the criteria of the length of a short program)

word count. est. 20k+ (teaser is 1.3k words)

author’s note. haven’t written in a while, so i guess here’s my comeback to blr ^_^ thought i’d release a winter / icy (?) themed fic for the season! this fic is scheduled to be released around 26th ~ 27th, so keep an eye peeled if u happen to be interested hehe

You feel nothing but excitement when you enter the Taereung International Skating Rink, and you hear the sound of blades across ice that brings a smile to your lips. You see Irene, standing rinkside with her arms crossed, and skating on the rink, is Yang Jungwon.

Yang Jungwon’s made quite a name for himself in the last few years. 6th at the 2022 Olympics, a great finish for someone who was only 18 at the time. He also just won Worlds, and was a five-time national champion.

Yang Jungwon is an incredible skater. His movements on the ice are as fluid and soft as water, but when he jumps, he’s incredibly powerful, like a rocket taking off. You’ve seen many people say that Jungwon’s one of the few ‘complete skaters’ — those who can combine artistry with jumping seem to be extremely rare nowadays.

He’s one of those skaters that can get you mesmerised the second he steps onto the ice, and when he finishes his program, loud applause resounds throughout the arena, with tons of people throwing cat plushies onto the ice.

Jungwon is incredibly talented. Thinking about the fact that you two are going to be training mates brings a smile to your face — all the conversations you’ve had with Jungwon went quite well. You remember his pleasant voice and his kind smile, the one where his eyes crinkle into crescents and could make anyone swoon.

You make your way over to Irene, who turns her head and greets you with a kind smile when she sees you. “(Name)!” she beams, wrapping you in a hug. “Nice to see you.”

“It’s nice to see you too, Irene!” you say, and she smiles at you. “I’m excited to be working with you.” she tells you, and her words just fill you up with joy.

“Thank you so much,” you beam. “I’m excited to be coached by you.” A smile graces Irene’s lips at your words. “Jungwon’s on the ice right now, with Taemin. He’s just learning the last part of his choreography for his short program for next season.” she tells you, and you nod.

“Jiwon’s gone for lunch break, and Eunchae and Jongseob should be somewhere around here… you can go meet with them and say hi later.”

“Sounds good.”

“Irene!” Taemin, the choreographer, calls out to her. “Jungwon’s got this. He’ll absolutely kill it.”

You notice how Irene and Taemin’s smiles seem wider than Jungwon’s when Taemin says that. The smile plastered on Jungwon’s lips barely reaches his eyes.

“Why don’t you go lace up your skates? You and Jungwon can share the rink.” Irene suggests to you, and you nod. You find a seat, pulling out your skates from your skate bag as you take your regular sports shoes off, slipping into your skating boots. You tie the laces incredibly quickly — after all, you have been doing this for years.

You take off your skate guards, leaving them on the bench as you skate onto the rink, skating laps to warm yourself up as you put your gloves on.

Somewhere along the way, you find yourself accompanied by Jungwon, who catches up to you. “Hey,” he says. “Heard that Irene’s coaching you now.”

“Yeah,” you beam. “We’ll be training mates from now on, huh?” you say, and Jungwon nods. “Saw you practicing your short program for next season… you’ve started quite early. Howl’s Moving Castle soundtrack?”

“Mhm,” Jungwon says. “I like to get started earlier, so I’m more familiar with it when it’s time to compete. Do you have any ideas for the music you might skate to?”

“Oh, I’ve got no idea. My friend told me to skate to Bolero, though.” you say, and you see Jungwon grimace at your words. You let out a loud laugh that makes Jungwon chuckle. “Bolero? Really?” he asks.

“Riki knows nothing about figure skating, but I think he goes on Twitter to find what music people hate seeing skaters skate to the most… Bolero is definitely one of them, which is probably why he recommended it to me.” you laugh. “Once he even asked me if I could do a ‘triple double camel spin axel’. Like what in the world is that?”

Your words make Jungwon burst into laughter, and you think it’s one of the prettiest sounds you’ve ever heard.

“A triple double camel spin axel? Your friend might just have invented a new jump.” he quips, and you nod. “You ready for the Olympics next year?” he asks you, and you shake your head.

“Who says I’ll make it?”

“Of course you’ll make it. Your skating’s great.” Jungwon says, and you thank him. “You’ll definitely make it. To next year and the one after. You’ll probably make it to the one in 2034 too.”

“Hah, that’s funny. But no, I won’t be making it to the 2030 or the 2034 one. It’s probably nice to think about, though.” Jungwon replies.

You furrow your eyebrows in confusion. “What? Why? I mean... maybe 2034 is a bit of a stretch, but surely the 2030 one.”

“I’m retiring after this season.”

Your eyes nearly pop out of their sockets at his words. Yang Jungwon was going to retire? At the age of 22? Was he joking?

You almost can’t believe it.

“What? Why?”

“I don’t like skating anymore.” he hums, and he says it so casually. “It’s more of a chore now, rather than something I love. I guess I fell out of love with the ice.”

You can somewhat understand how he feels. You had burnout too, but you never got to the point where you wanted to quit. You just wanted to take a break, to refresh your mind and to take care of your health and body.

But Jungwon sounds like he’s determined to quit. As if nothing will get him to change his mind.

“What would it take for you to fall back in love with it?” you ask.

Jungwon shrugs. “I don���t know. I don’t think anything would be able to change my mind at this point. Skating is just so incredibly… draining. I want to enjoy it as much as I used to, but I just don’t think I can continue competing.”

He sounds like he’s truly given up hope on finding love for the sport again, and it makes your heart ache. Yang Jungwon is undoubtedly one of the best figure skaters you’ve ever seen, and to see him possibly end his career because he just simply ran out of love for the sport saddens you.

And for some reason, you want to try and get him to fall back in love with the ice again.

So with a sudden burst of confidence and determination, you decide to ask him: “Are you free any time next week?”

Jungwon looks at you, puzzled. “Yes?”

“I’m going to try and get you to fall back in love with the ice.”

“(Name), I’ve made up my mind—”

“That’s fine. I just want you to enjoy skating again. No competition, just having fun. You know, I was in the audience the day you won the Grand Prix final two years ago. You looked so, so, incredibly happy — I want you to feel the same feeling you felt when you were skating on that ice.”

Jungwon looks at you hesitantly. “You’d do that for me?”

You nod. “We can get to know each other better too. What do you say?”

Jungwon pauses for a moment to think.

“Sure.”

You beam at him. “Cool. I’ll give you my number after practice and we can make arrangements.”

Jungwon nods, and you two end your conversation there, focusing on training instead.

As you land a clean triple salchow-triple toeloop on the ice, you add a new goal to your bucket list.

Get Yang Jungwon to fall in love with figure skating again.

[freshie44]

Episode 8 Spoilers

Cut Off

Welcome to HEEL CITY Y'ALL

As you probably noticed I didn't do one last episode, and the reason was that there wasn't much to say that I haven't already said. I'll talk about last episode elimination at the end but moving on to the new tiers. I order them by the idea that if you told me you came from the future and told me they won the season what my reaction be.

Top 2

Ashley & Alec: I am a firm believer that in this season early plays matter and should be REWARDED! I almost view this season through the lenses of a blow off PPV like Wrestlemania. We are building the story blocks that will be the foundation of the finale. These two got the best narrative. A girl who was an early boot 1st season and a man who got tricked out of the finale. Both have seem to learn from their first outing. Both run their respective teams and will be the faces of the FACE vs HEEL forces. No matter who wins between these two no one goes home feel the other didn't deserve the prize just as much as their favorite.

Backups

Aiden and Tess: They are in the ire of a fresh heel and are not in the most stable of standings in the game. But have focus and a good rival to feud with that could create some magic in the narrative. Jake v. Aiden & Tess v. Gabby. Jake gone heel and is being a brat, Aiden been putting up with it and seeing him retaliate will make good head vs head to see who stays and who goes. While Tess has a more philosophical feud with Gabby , she'll want to be friends and she probably not going to be able to stop an enrage Gabby with just words. Could be another fun match for survival.

Ok, but really? Jake - I know people like Jake I understand the appeal. I think the heel turn will be good for him. But he a brat! I don't like petty! Maybe that the reason you like him and I agree it going to be fun. But I'm backing Aiden any day of the week and not just because I'm bias because trans.

Grett_ I'm not opposed to it, could be fun seeing her rising over her terrible ex. But where the foundation? Where the focus? How does she turn this minor feud into a game winner? Yes I want her to destroy Yul but I don't think she the main eventer. She in the mid card not the blow out match. Maybe that because Yul doesn't make sense to me as the main event feud but that the lot for now.

Ally - she got something foundation wise, but like really? We wrote that Ally and Hunter fallout and looked at that and said yeah this is good opener to her rise to the top. No, no it isn't. She'll need much more in my opinion to take that prize.

Gabby- Look Gabby fans I get it, you been on crumbs for 7 episodes and now you all been present a feast. I'm happy for you. But those 7 episodes happened. She doesn't get to skate by on nothing and get rocketed to the moon. She going to have to work for it, should she flourish yes, but you got to address the fact the foundation not there before she gets that title shot.

Excuse me?!

Tom - Tom fans like do any you think he going to win the big one, like honestly? Like he playing nothing but himself. He got carried here by feud with Jake for drama points. He the face for the heels to chew up and spit out.

Riya - Doesn't feel like a finale villain.

Yul - X-PAC heat, aka GO AWAY HEAT

Eliminaitons

Ellie had this one coming, revival maybe, but since it heel city I think they'll bring back heroes not villains.

Fiore kind of lame elimination. Kind of felt she was just here on fame, she had some good moments but kind of a middling exit.

Last Episode | Next Episode

[speedyeatsdirtva]

MEET MY SONIC OC, GEM!

Created as an ai backup of Shadow the Hedgehog in case the organic one didn’t work out, Gem spent most of his time as kind of a computer assistant to Professor Gerald Robotnik. All went well, until G.U.N’s attack on the ARK. Gem desperately attempted to aid Gerald as Shadow and Maria tried to find their own means of escape, however was helpless as he watched the doctor be taken into custody. He cursed himself, however kept moving forward to find where Shadow and Maria were. While exploring, he heard a gunshot and dashed from screen to screen to find Maria’s lifeless body and Shadows pod about to be dropped down into earth. He quickly transported himself into one of the pods many small screens, and made the journey with shadow to their new home.

After they landed, Gem went his separate way from Shadow, finding Ivory, a strange looking bat who seemed to be asleep. He decided to take him in, two cosmic space animals are better than one, right? Now, they go on their own adventures, occasionally tagging along with sonic and the gang.

Gem is a chaotic little dick, always acting recklessly and never thinking twice. Ivory usually serves as his moral compass.

Gems accents are blue.

His boots have tiny rockets in them that propel him forwards in the air, as well as a large slit in the sole that servers for creating small air currents for him to skate on above the ground. He can’t go high up in the sky, his boots only allowing him to lift up a couple centimeters into the air. He leans forward a lot more than shadow does when skating, and he moves his legs faster too.

His relationship with his organic brother is strange. He loves shadow like any brother would, but challenges him to fights daily for really no apparent reason.

With the help of a chaos emerald, he can have his own organic body! He likes the purple one mostly cause he thinks it looks good with his blue accents. He hides it in his chest fluff a lot.

IVORY BELONGS TO @cyrusthemagician!

[grizzlyofthesea]

Dumb Vocaloid Headcanons Part 1: Internet Co.

All

Andriods/robots of various levels of human resemblance

Voicebank upgrades correspond to hardware upgrades.

Primarily made for music, but they also have combat skills.

Each one has a unique music-related weapon/ability, which I'll elaborate on in another post. (I got this idea from the manga Megu Megu Singer Song Fighter. It's...an experience. Kinda chaotic, and the translation I found isn't always the clearest, but it's cute, harmless fun focused on the first few Internet Co. Vocaloids. If you want to see himbo Gackpo in a fundoshi, this is the manga for you.)

Generally get along well with the Cryptonloids

One huge, generally happy family

Camui Gackpo (Gackpoid)

The most robotic/android-like of the bunch in terms of physical structure, but good gosh, does he have feelings

His "bodysuit" is just what his body looks like (he can morph it into a more human-looking appearance, though), and that weird glowy spot on his chest is his power core.

Can change his eye and power core colors at will

Has a whole army of eggplant horses

A chivalrous gentleman, but he has his goofy moments

An expert in hair care

Cishet ally

Dating/in love with GUMI

GUMI (Megpoid)

Huge science and sci-fi nerd

Has a visible battery gauge on each of her designs, which takes the form of a red jewel. It blinks when her battery is running low. (another idea from Megu Megu Singer Song Fighter)

BFFs with Miku, Luka, Lily, and CUL

Owns a carrot rocket equipped with missiles

Her goggles have several functions, including night vision, tracking, and looking cool.

Lives for the aesthetics of the 1960s-1980s

A little bit scatterbrained, but she tries

Hoping that everyone else (or at least Gackpo and Una) joins her on VOCALOID6 and gets an AI voicebank

Bisexual

Dating/in love with Gackpo

Lily

Beta/production name was Yuripoid (not actually, but in my headcanon). This didn't stick for multiple reasons.

Her tattoo doubles as a battery meter, "draining" from top to bottom as her power depletes.

Likes lollipops (yet another idea from Megu Megu Singer Song Fighter)

The "cool older sister" of the group

Infamous for speeding on her motorcycle

Keeps a couple of beehives, from which she harvests honey

Demi/heteroromantic asexual

Exchanges makeup tips with Gackpo

Ryuto (Gachapoid)

Obsessed with dinosaurs, to the point where he has memorized every species

Basically GUMI's little brother

His arm warmers serve to make his elbow joints slightly less obvious; his shoes do the same thing for his ankles.

Favorite meal is dino nuggies with waffle fries

Friends with Yuki and Oliver

Really wants a pet puppy

Favorite holiday is Halloween

Big fan of FNAF, even if it scares him sometimes

A little bit self-conscious about his buck teeth

Always carries a notebook and markers with him in his backpack

CUL

Huge Madoka Magica fan; cried at Sayaka's death

Doesn't always get along with her sisters, but she loves them all dearly

Gets into arguments with Gackpo over who "stole" the other's hairstyle

Her eyes double as cameras

Favorite foods are Pocky and tempura shrimp

Shops exclusively at thrift stores and Hot Topic

Knows all the jokes about her name's meaning in French; not amused at all

Lesbian; has a bit of a crush on flower

Secretly collects porcelain dolls

galaco

Huge space nerd

Loves to nerd out over space with GUMI

Has always wanted to be a princess

Has jet boots; can use them to float in place or skate around

The first one to lack any visibly robotic traits

BFFs with MAYU

Loves listening to video game soundtracks

Aroace

Plays a lot of TF2 in her spare time; mains Demoman

kokone

Kind of shy, especially around new people

Huge book nerd; favorite genre is fantasy

LOVES animals

Favorite food is raindrop cake

Surprisingly big fan of horror movies

Gets cold easily

Likes to do prank phone calls with GUMI; they switch places periodically, pretending to be the same person

Trans girl (pronouns are she/her); polysexual

Wants to write and illustrate her own manga series

Rana

Technically developed by We've Inc. as a collab with Internet Co., but since she's the only one from We've Inc, the Internet Co. crew includes her as one of their own.

Really wants to be a magical girl; has designed her own weapon and transformation device

Has a massive collection of teddy bears

Practically lives in her hoodie

Feels a bit weird about being literally 0 years old, but tries to ignore it

Sugar cookies make her life worth living

Carries a variety of glitter with her at all times

Chika

The mom friend

Has regular lunch outings with Mew and MEIKO

A talented tailor

Lives for vintage clothing

Has an entire cupboard full of various herbal teas

A little bit disappointed about her unpopularity, but she has mostly accepted it at this point

Tends a butterfly garden

Cishet ally

Really good at cooking and baking

Otomachi Una

Her hat is alive.

Views Rana as a rival; Rana doesn't really care

Looks up to GUMI

Can hold her breath for ten minutes

Tends a koi pond

Loves to experiment with different hair dyes

Sometimes wears fake glasses for the sake of fashion

Owns a swimmable mermaid tail (fades from indigo to lime green, then cotton candy pink); loves showing it off

Just beginning to question her sexuality

Will eat every piece of cheesecake in a five mile radius

ROSA

A CeVIO/upcoming SynthV vocal rather than a Vocaloid, but since she was made in collaboration with Internet Co. and CUL is her older sister, she hangs out with the Internet Co. crew often

Gets along well with Gackpo for their shared love of traditional Japanese culture

Insists that she "was born in the wrong generation"

Loves rose-flavored macarons, but her favorite food is salmon nigiri

Gets picked on by some of her older sisters, so she has learned to be a bit sassy as a defense mechanism

Genderfaer (pronouns are she/her and occasionally they/them); pansexual

In the process of collecting all of the Vocaloid Nendoroids (except the Miku ones; there are way too many)

[tf2workbench]

Boots with the rockets

The B.A.S.E. Jumper is a wonderfully designed weapon, giving you and your enemies a more interesting game experience. This isn’t that, but it’s kind of similar.

Rocket Boots Soldier secondary (+) While airborne: hold your jump key to hover midair for up to 5 seconds. [You keep any horizontal velocity you had when you activated the boots.] (+) +75% air strafe control while blast jumping (-) Cannot reactivate boots if deactivated before landing (-) No held weapon

If you choose to hover, you can skate around on the air, extending the distance covered by your rocket jump and gaining benefits from weapons like the Air Strike and Market Gardener. At the same time, you’ll be much easier to hit and will take mini-crits from opposing Direct Hit or Reserve Shooter users.

...Actually, that’s a pretty accurate description of the B.A.S.E. Jumper, too. Maneuverability and extended rocket jump bonuses versus being easier to hit. It’s just that the physics are different.

Not that that’s a bad thing! The B.A.S.E. Jumper is a wonderful item. It’s just that it already has that niche. Let’s move away a little.

Hoverboard Scout secondary (+)  While airborne: hold your jump key to hover midair for up to 5 seconds. [You keep any horizontal velocity you had when you activated the boots.] (+) +150% air strafe control while hovering (-) Cannot reactivate hoverboard if deactivated before landing (-) No held weapon

Having a hovering option for the Scout is interesting, but how much use would it see? For one, you have to use your double-jump to be able to hover, so it’s not quite as intuitive as the rocket boots. For another, skating on air is fundamentally predictable, which is a very dangerous thing to be. The double-jump is so very powerful because it lets the Scout change directions instantly, but you can’t do that while hovering.

On the other hand, improving your mobility can be a great way to flank enemies from every corner of the map. And even if you can’t change direction very well midair, suddenly letting yourself fall can throw off opponents’ aim.

This is one of those ideas that I’m not really sure of, not because it’s a dull item, but because I’m worried about its possible utility. But sometimes, an interesting item that isn’t very strong is better than a dull-but-useful weapon.

[starsinshadows]

RPC Dev Tea Room ++ Winter Rush

Day 3 :: ice skating in the park when you see a figure sneaking off into the trees

     When Steve had gone from some popular jock kid without a care to being alert, aware of potential dangers in an environment and tired, he wasn't entirely sure, but he was willing to blame part of it on his 'babysitter' status and the rest on the very big change to his lifestyle that had come with the lycanthropy. Whatever it really was, it meant that the idea of the kids playing on the ice around the lake or even skating on it worried him more than he wanted to admit.      Somehow, he'd still agreed to take them and the afternoon had been a good time with no accidents involving children falling through the ice, there were two new snowmen standing guard by the lake edge, everyone had been pretty cold and drenched by the end of the day and there had been no more than 5 ice ball related snowball fight fouls. Steve himself had taken one of those particular hits to the shoulder and he wasn't sure exactly who had thrown it, considering he'd straightened up with a shout to try figuring out the culprit and immediately got hit in the face with another snowball - this time fortunately without the ice. He'd let it go with only a blanket warning to the group. No ice!      Yeah, like that worked. He was pretty sure Max packed one specifically for him right after, but he couldn't prove it and even Eddie had shouted from his spot on the other team when Steve got pelted with the thing. The bruise wouldn't last, but that had definitely been a great reason to call that particular game before someone ended up in the ER. Damn monster hunting kids were too ruthless for play fights.      Steve couldn't pretend that he wasn't worn out by the end and extremely grateful that there were parents picking up their respective kids, if only for the fact that his car was spared all of their wet clothes and the snow crusted boots that would have been dragged through the entire thing worse than they already did all winter. Theoretically, he could drive himself home and get a nice, hot shower before relaxing the rest of the night, and he should have been more tired, but he had about a week and a half before the next moon, so it felt nice to shed some excess energy. He wasn't sure how Eddie felt about it all, considering it sounded like the guy had been dragged into the day's activities by the combined efforts of Dustin, Mike and Lucas and it was probably more concentrated time outside than the guy had endured in at least a year, but he'd seemed to be high energy and spirits all day.      For not quite obvious reasons, Steve had actually been surprised by Eddie's presence. He'd seen the guy in school so he obviously knew Munson could come out during the day, but he hadn't been entirely sure and he still wasn't quite certain if the theory he and Robin had been cooking up had any merit. He knew Munson smelled off, that his body temperature didn't feel warm enough and that there was a scent of blood added onto his already confusing smell often. Vampire, Robin had guessed, and yeah, it seemed totally possible after fighting and being turned by werewolves, but Steve was still cautiously waiting to figure it out.      For that reason among others, he absolutely noticed that Eddie's van was still parked nearby and glanced around after shipping the last child off, apparently just in time to watch a dark figure disappear into the woods alongside the frozen lake that looked suspiciously like Eddie Munson. It was only natural to follow, and even on two legs, he was fast and quieter than was likely expected. It meant that he appeared about ten feet back from Eddie in time to watch a failed grab for a rabbit that darted away like a little furry rocket, and cleared his throat a little more loudly, just to be sure he was noticed before speaking.      "You, uh, need a hand?" he asked, making every effort possible to ignore the fact that Eddie had just taken a face full of more snow than even the kids had managed in the snowball fights that had broken out over the course of the day in a spectacular dive, and he wasn't so sure the bush that had been the rabbit's previous cover would survive any better than Munson's dignity.

@firelightfables​ can Eddie come out to play?

[maloosh-baloosh64]

agh these are so good i want to come up with voicelines for them!

fem Soldier dominating fem Scout: "THIS IS NOT THE GROCERY STORE, THIS IS THE BATTLEFIELD, MY BATTLEFIELD!"

"PRETTY LIL FLOWERS LIKE YOU WILL GET TRAMPLED BY MY BOOTS OF VICTORY!"

"DOMINATED YOU AFFAIR-HAVING GOSSIPER"

"THOSE SKATES COULDN'T OUTRUN MY FIREWORKS"

"MAYBE THIS'LL WHIP YOUR WIMPY SON INTO SHAPE"

fem Scout generic domination lines: "Daww I'll let you win next time sweetie!"

"Oh i'm so sorry did that hurt?"

"C'mon pal just try to keep up with me!"

"Maybe you should be playing a different game."

"and not a scratch on my nails."

fem Spy Dominating fem Heavy: "How's THAT for extreme prejudice?"

"Your rocket man couldn't save you muscle head!"

"Tell me, do you also sleep with your guns?"

"Whoops is seems you mistook my knife for your sandwich! HAHAHAHAHAHA *Snort*"

Fem Heavy generic domination lines: "You mess with big guns coward!"

"Your ear will make fine addition to my necklace!"

"Sasha hungers for more blood!"

"No one can outsmart boolet! Brother told me!"

"You fight like baby! Let mommy Heavy put you in cradle of the dead!"

"Such freakishly small people sent to fight me? Such cruelty!"

That's all I could come up with so far teehee sorry for the long post im just very autistic about team fortress and this post had such good designs I wanted to capture what they would maybe sound like in-game

I am so normal

Refs for the fem fortress designs I threw around in this post!! Because I am a big fan of woman and also a little bit insane abt this little idea

tldr for anyone who doesn’t want to check out the og post: I wanted to make a counterpart team to the og mercs that was all girls but also like. Vaguely genderbend-adjacent? Genderbending but cooler. Some of these characters resemble genderbends more than others but they’re all their own characters that exist somewhere within the universe (a couple are even canon characters because I think Zhanna Deserves a Gun!) why are they also a RED team? I don’t know! And I’m too tired to try and bullshit some canon-sounding excuse for it. The administrator wanted to fuck with the og mercs or smth for fun

I probably have more to say about them but I’ll save anyone reading this from what would probably end up being multiple paragraphs of personality and relationship descriptions ! Enjoy a bunch of women with traced weapons (bc you’re insane if you think I was gonna draw them freehanded)

[kiranfmp2024]

Character Walk animation

For my walk animation I am following this tutorial here

Starting from this position, I used photoshop to erase the characters left leg and started drawing it out so it would be bent. After I finished I realized that I did the whole thing wrong and messed up dramatically.

I did the wrong leg. I knew I would make a mistake as I always have struggled with walking animation in pixel art. More commonly I just make the legs move up and down, for a character like this, I am unable to do this as the legs are more detailed than my previous work. To combat this I am playing with the idea of putting rockets on the characters feet that only appear when the character tries to walk.

Above is the character I drew but with the front leg bent forward slightly.

Above is a character named Astro Boy. what I had in mind at first but I figured that the feet turning to rockets didn't suit the characters style. Although I do really like the iron man style it has. It unfortunately doesn't work with what I had in mind.

After I looked at Astro Boy, I looked at Sojourn from Overwatch. I really like the style of this and think that having boosters attached to the calf of the robot would be amazing until I realize that they would be sliding while walking, the character would be in a walking position meaning that the boosters would push the character into the ground.

Above is inspector Gadget. A show about a robotic inspector with many gadgets attached to their body. Making them useful in most if not all situations. The character uses its gadgets to solve mysteries. What intrigued me into his character is the rocket shoes the character has that are attached to roller skates. I really really love this idea and want to include this into my character.

Above is my attempt at the rocket boots I made in Photoshop. This has taken me arounf 10 minutes of adjusting. I still don't like how they came out. To me they look more like flowers than rockets. I am going to try different variations until I find something I like.

Above is my rocket animation for my character. I made he character also crouch down and move his head down to resemble stability when the character is gliding. The only thing this causes is that the character would need a trail behind them.

[unknownjpegs]

the plan

“I need your help.”

The Shadow looks up at her with giant, surprised eyes. He’s eating by himself, a plate of mess in front of him and even more shoved into his mouth; cheeks fat with how much of a bite he’s scooped in. A noodle hangs limply out his lips as he continues to stare at her. Finally, he sucks it back in, chews, wipes his mouth with a napkin and then says, of all things, “Me?” with a finger pointed at his own chest.

“Are you fuckin’ with me?” Nomi snaps out, her hands clenching and unclenching around the strap to her laptop bag. It’s the only thing keeping her shoulders from shaking, staring at this man.

“What?”

“Yes, you.” The operator blinks again. He has big, pale blue eyes that would be pretty if they didn’t keep darting all over her in disbelief. His skin is pale too, not that Nomi has any room to judge, but in combination with the eyes, he looks so washed out. Especially against the black of his casual uniform. Like a little ghost. Nomi can’t tell if he’s handsome. Her brain had never categorized people that way before—and anyway, it doesn’t matter. “You’re one of Wolffe’s aren’t you?”

“Huh,” he leans back from the table a little. “When you pluralize it, should it be Wolvve’s?” She stares at him, trying to gage if he’s being serious, but he only smiles at her, like something he’d said was real clever.

“Are you mental?” When he goes to answer, Nomi shoots her hand off her bag and holds it up to cut him off. She ignores that her long, slim fingers are trembling. “Doesn’t matter. You’re one of his. So you’re not all bad, yeah?” His eyes skate back and forth, like he’s looking for someone to pop out and tell him he’s being filmed for an elaborate and confusing British prank show.

“Are other extraction units bad?”

“Tch, I think you’re proper perfect for what I need. Come with me.” She swivels around, shoulders hunched a little because having her back to him makes her immediately anxious. Her hands tighten back into her laptop bag’s strap and she’s walked a far bit before she glances over her shoulder and sees him still sitting. “Hello?” She points at him, then herself and he immediately rockets out the chair. Long legs carry him toward her and his face looks decidedly pleased.

—

“This is kinda weird,” Benny says. His name is Joseph, but he tells her very quickly no one calls him either Joseph, Joe or Joey. Ever. He’s preferred Benny since his Air Force days, which have long since passed, but he still clings to them a little. Nomi doesn’t necessarily like knowing details about him, because that makes him distractingly human. And even the way he’s sitting is so human.

She’d put him in her office chair, because she disliked how tall he was. He sits with his legs tucked slightly under the chair, toes dragging on the ground as he spins it back and forth like a little kid. He’s slouched, arms folded over the chair with his hands dangling in his lap. He stares at her with those ice blue eyes. Nomi thinks he needs a shower, or maybe his hair always looks so messed up.

She’d had to stop him from immediately trying to kiss her when they’d gotten to her office, because he apparently thought (for God knows what horrible reason) that she’d meant sex was what she needed help with. Typical and terrifying. But he’d backed off quick, let her shove him down into that chair and hadn’t gotten up since.

“But do you think it’ll work?” Nomi has one hand cupping her elbow, the other at her mouth as she gnaws down her thumbnail.

“Uh,” Benny swings the chair around again, the toes of his boots scratching across the tiled floor. He has to nudge himself, because the kinetic energy hadn’t actually pulled him into a three sixty. It’s a couple seconds until he’s facing her again. “Sure, but—people a-are going to think, hah, that we like, yunno.” His hands fold over his stomach and he raises and lowers his eyebrows at her a few times.

“Yes, that’s the point.”

“Well, we could—we could just actually, you know.”

“Absolutely not,” Nomi replies, her nose wrinkling. “But they should think we have, yeah. I watch the security cameras. People don’t—” She pauses, finds herself talking a little too much around this awkward, ghosty operator. Maybe he just looked so earnestly harmless for some reason. Sitting like that, looking up at her a little wounded like. Easy to forget what he looks like in all that tactical gear. Easy to forget those fidgeting hands were responsible for people’s lives ending. “They don’t try to bother Matilda—‘cause of Lark, yeah?”

“Well, sure. Lark’s scarier than me, though.”

“Exactly!” She points at him then, stepping forward. “Yes. You are—are—” Nomi tries to find a word for him that fits all this. His knees are close to hers as she stands there, looking at him. He’s got light blue veins in his wrists. They are oddly delicate looking. He is simply blue and white all over. “Well. I want to be the scary one, s’all. It’ll work?”

Benny gives her a big, twitchy smile.

—

“You fuckin’ daft loser!”

It’s loud enough to call attention to some Shadows down the hall. They swing their heads around, like they’re all part of some filthy hive mind. Connected by rotting, deep roots—attention called to the sound of a woman yelling.

“Aw, c’mon,” Benny is playing his part easily—might be natural for him, which makes her instantly a little too into her part too. Because he scares her. He’s tall and he’s hovering over her, a hand on the wall to trap her in. Which is how she’d posed him, how she’d asked him to be, but it didn’t stop the way her heart split open and screamed. “Don’t be like that.” He has an American accent—New York maybe, and it makes his words drawl in a strange way.

They have to have a bit of a back and forth then. Something for the other operators to watch and enjoy—little rumors have to spread about them. Benny had joked, so you want a Shadow boyfriend? And Nomi had told him, I want them to think I’m not fuckin’ worth the trouble. So when he slides a hand over her hip to try and badger her into attention, Nomi wraps fingers around his wrist. She feels a coil of dark, primal and real fear for a moment.

Hm, he’s got slim wrists, is a very strange thought that slinks across her frontal lobe as she moves. He’d let her practice a few times in her office, with maybe more enthusiasm than she would have liked. Useful, though, because this was proper fucking awkward. Nomi has never, in her entire life, handled another human being like this—but she spins him around. He assists, naturally, because even if he’s bird like, Nomi isn’t strong. She just has to look strong.

His body slams up against the wall and for a moment, Nomi is dazed. She’s got his arm tucked the way he’d told her too. Wrist wrenched till his knuckles are practically brushing between his shoulder blades. He has a tattoo that slinks from under his collar up his neck—she’d not noticed it before. It is dark against that skin that has never known real daylight. Her mouth is dry and she shoves harder, eliciting a strange noise from him.

“Stop fuckin’ botherin me, Benny—I will kill you.” She’s pulling something out of her in that moment. Something real that actually makes her drop his wrist. It’s red from how hard she’d been holding it, finger printed with her touch. Nomi is accessing something inside her brain that seems dust covered and untouched, small but with room for growth. His back heaves a little, breathing hard as his head tilts back over his shoulder to look at her. One ghost pale blue eye. I will kill you had felt so good to say—enough that it makes her hand slap over her mouth.

“Aw, Nomi, baby—” When he turns, the hand across her mouth slips off, comes up and arcs through the air.

Yeah, whatever, just pretend and I’ll move my head to the side. How hard could a fake slap really be?

The sound of her palm cracking against his cheek is thunderous in that long Shadow base hallway. Her hand flares in instant and white hot pain—she wants to howl with that feeling, but instead is rooted to the spot. The force of it had shoved Benny’s head to the side, his body half tilted with it, his eyes wide with peeled back eyelids. His white cheek is turning red, just like his wrist, indented with her touch.

Whatever else was supposed to follow is lost immediately as she swivels around. The group of Shadows are still staring at her. They are, unfortunately, in her way to the technicians department on base. They look like a group of weird, black seaweed stalks all grouped together like that, wavering in the current as she walks forward. Something inside Nomi is quivering, but when they step to the side, she passes by them without looking at any of their faces.

—

“Do you think it worked?” Benny’s ice pack is sitting on her palm, which she had cried over when she got back to her office. He’d held it and prodded at it with strangely experienced fingers before declaring nothing broken.

Not that I’m a medic, he’d joked, giving her palm a few squeezes. But, uh, p-people don’t usually break hands over slaps. Well, operators maybe. She’d never slapped anyone in her entire life. She’d never even punched anyone—which he’d immediately reminded her if she ever did, to not tuck her thumb into her fist. That—that’s a broken finger for you, he’d quipped, slipping his ice pack over her red, sore palm.

He has a little bit of a bruise on his cheekbone, which stands out in stark contrast.

“Yes,” he raises a thumbs up and the two stare at each other for a moment. “People definitely think we’re fucking—and they definitely think you’re a little crazy.”

Nomi breathes out with her head tilted to the ceiling. She could work with this. They fall into a bit of silence before she feels the ice pack move from her hand. She tilts her head down, and he’s standing there, a pale slip in his Shadow black uniform. He’s smiling.

“Do—Do you wanna slap me again, just for fun?”

Her foot connects with his hip, making him stumble back laughing.

[crazyskatesthingsus]

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[gourde]

Wingnut, being a robot, has a lot of fun extras like rocket boots, a laser gun, roller skates, extendable limbs, and missiles all built in. But that's just regular robot stuff. Her true coolest power is the infinite space inside her! Eggman somehow made a technology that compresses any object within a space, allowing near infinite objects to fit inside her body. This was originally meant to be used to hold weapons, but now Wingnut just collects stuff. In fact, she's collected so much she has no idea what's lurking inside her, and will pull out several random objects before grabbing the one she wants. Like cartoon logic. This does mean she can pull out a comically large anvil to drop on enemies, or squash them with a giant wooden hammer.

SOCS 2 QUESTION OF THE DAY!

Does your OC have any special powers/abilities? If so, how do they use them? If not, how do they feel about not having them? Do they excel in something else to compensate?

Feel free to add your response to a reblog of this post!

[littleaipom]

19 and 28 for Trench and Marina? 👀

Thanks for the ask! :D

19: If they could meet a character from any other media, who would they get along with the best?

(oh shoot this is a hard question haha)

Trench-- you know what. i have no idea if they would actually get along, but she is partially modeled on Lelouch vi britannia from code geass, and i think they would have a lot of mutual respect for one another.

Mariana--I am surprisingly lacking a specific answer.. maybe jessie from team rocket? this one makes enough sense, i'm going for it.

28: Something you, their creator, like the most about them?

(the shared answer has to be the fact that i named them Trench and Mariana, and how mariana is two letters longer than maria(who she is a parallel/foil for))

if I had to pick something for each.. Trench's insanely large ice skate blades. her personality and backstory are neat and all but those BLADES. when they retract they shouldn't be fitting in her boots at ALL. and yet the power of cartoons allows it.

and for Mariana i love how selfish she is in such a bubbly and vain way. she may be an antagonist, but it's not at all cold and calculated. she gets emotional, she gets petty. it's fun!