#saw some crazy celestial stuff

[aldieb]

this isn’t sunset… it’s Secret Midday Sunset 🌝🌚

[slaaverin]

Last bluemoonpunch's reading

Excuse me ladies and gentleman but this here is my last day as a jikooker, I'm retiring. Can't take it anymore.

Their last reading is REALLY enlightening. I'm so mind-blown I need to share a few snippets so that the message truly sink in.

*speaking of "Temperance"

"It is quite nice though if you consider that no matter how much other people try and destroy their image, and no matter how much they limit themselves for the sake of peace, they remain a star, the remain as some kind of celestial image that you can imagine floating brightly in the sky, looking down on everything with a sense of understanding and compassion."

Jimin really is an absolute angel, just putting that here because with the amount of hate he receives on the daily I would have lost it.

Now about the relationship:

"This is quite funny because all throughout this I’ve been trying to figure out if this is a connection that is already in play on a conscious and physical level, or if I’m just picking up on the inherent soul connection. With these cards it’s like saying, “No, I’m not WAITING for this person, they’re right here! No, I’m not SNEAKING AROUND with this person, they’re right here! No, you’re not MISSING anything, it’s right here!”"

DON'T YOU SAY? IT'S RIGHT THERE? I WONDER WHAT THIS COULD BE. OH MY. crying shaking throwing up currently

"The 7 of Swords shows a person sneaking around, specifically stealing swords and doing so in a way that’s going to trip him up. If we consider the potential of Temperance also being in the entertainment industry, there may be a need to keep things quiet, but there is no desire, with the card in reverse, to go unnoticed. The swords are still held by the blade, words, confirmation are still held back, but there is no desire to hide or “sneak around.” This connection is a visible connection to both him and other people."

Did I tell you that recently Jungkook put Jimin's name on his chest? I think they really want it to be visible. And we saw it, because we have two functioning eyes.

"It’s like they were signaling or trying to slyly put themselves out there, but people refused or maybe even denied the connection in terms of their companies or management refusing a public relationship. On some level people are refusing them while accepting others and it’s very frustrating and confusing, specifically to Jungkook. It seems like, from that higher perspective, Temperance understands it, does not like it but understands it and is more compliant with the idea of needing to sneak or keep things hidden. There actually does seem to be a lot of frustration in this set now that I’m lingering on this one — “No, you’re not MISSING anything, it’s right here!”"

Well Jungkook did do a live entirely focused on Jimin basically professing his undying love for him. So it's safe to say he's not really into the "sneaking around" thing, if he could tell the world right now our man would in a heartbeat. Thank god Jimin is the level-headed one lmao

"The 10 of Pentacles is more externalized and has to do with legacy and building up wealth, status, and solid foundations for themselves and their family that can be trusted, that can not be undone or taken away. The 10 of Cups is more internalized and represents absolute bliss, absolute personal, internal happiness and satisfaction with what is there. Both of these cards imply family, marriage, and growing old together."

Until they are 50? Until the end of their lives? Family? Ok this is for me folks, I can die in fucking peace. Not that it's not something we already knew but STILL.

As jikookers we truly always win it's crazy *unhinged laugh*

Let me go back to sleep it's 5am.

It's only little snippets but I highly encourage you to go read the full reading for better understanding.

Hey, look at us, who would have thought? Not me 👀 OR MAYBE WE KNEW ALL ALONG???? Anyway good stuff

Jikook are in love.

Thank you for coming to my ted talk.

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[amphiptere-art]

I guess I saw a catalog the basic storyline so people can decide if they want to look into celestial idiots or celestial void. This is a very basic understanding of what the story is, I might have some information wrong.

Celestial idiots.

Other than the shenanigans. Of which there is quite a bit of them. There is a story. Although I am still struggling to figure it out. So this is the story as I understand it.

Characters do shenanigans because they want to.

Pewpaw is the oldest. He also is sort of spring-trap but not. Sun and Moon are supposedly the eldest DCAs. Eclipse is sort of older. I'll explain that later. But he's technically considered the youngest. The youngest youngest is the character of color.

Early prelude information is that sun and moon found eclipse in the parts and service tunnels. They basically repaired him up and gave him a new personality chip sort of.

While they are finding eclipse Moon touches some metal. Experiencing a small blackout as far as I understand.

Moon starts to act off. Moon starts to either not talk or bring his companions to awful awful places. Usually haunted or scary places.

Sun gets irritated about moon bringing them to places that are terrifying. So he confronts them.

Moon had no idea. Apparently he has been mentally offline for an entire week.

Sun learns that apparently there's some other person in moon's head. Color apparently already knew about this.

By the way color and sun have a frenemy relationship. Color doesn't like the fact that he is indeed a doll, and hates Sun because he will throw him in the dryer and do other things because he is a doll.

Sun starts having an existential crisis about not knowing everything, And also having to fix everything.

Eventually moon blacks out again and we finally learned the character that is inside of his head is lunar.

Eclipse starts to freak out because apparently he's terrified of lunar for reasons the others can't quite comprehend other than lunar is a jackass right now.

Lunar bodiesnatches moon, and forces the others to play with him. Drowning Moon in what I can only assume is painful nightmares.

Sun eventually makes a deal with lunar to give him his own body.

Color also has a preference for lunar and lunar for them. He is very defensive of them.

We learn that the reason why color and lunar have a good-ish relationship. It's because apparently lunar was an old animatronic that worked alongside eclipse.

Lunar was colors favorite child. Which surprise. If you didn't figure it out now. Color is a soul of a child stuck in a doll.

Anyways. We learn that apparently Lunar was an animatronic that went crazy one day. Killed Eclipse. Killed most of the children in the daycare. Including color. And was dismantled because he was too dangerous. I think.

Also this gets back to the fact that eclipse is sort of older but not older. There are two eclipses. The one that got dismantled and is terrified and shy. And the one that Sun and Moon kind of made that is also terrified but more rambunctious and chaotic. Old eclipse is the elder, new Eclipse is the younger. The others do not know of old eclipse.

Anyways Sun is trying to build lunar a body. All the while lunar is sort of body snatching/letting moon out sometimes as his part of the deal.

Color is trying to comfort the two while also still being more happy to see Lunar. I do not understand her position.

Sun tries to get pewpaw to help him with the data transfer in bodybuilding stuff. He refuses at first because he understands the risk of robotics.

But eventually after another couple days of watching Sun and Moon be an absolute pain and terror. Pewpaw agrees.

I haven't watched past that. I do understand that there is now a daycare attendant helper. Who is now dealing with all the shit that Sun and Moon have been dealing with. But I don't know much more.

Celestial void. Early warning for many many mentions of child death.

Celestial void is a more... Hidden horror type of story. Sure it's a bunch of idiots doing random shit. But holy crap the story behind it all is creepy and terrifying.

Other than the general shenanigans of randomly going to places or playing games.

Basically the entire group is sort of tied to only stay in the Plex. Why they were made to stay in the Plex is unclear to them but has become more and more clear to us.

Bloodmoon is also a cousin I believe. And he is temporarily moved over to help with something.

Vanessa is the one that basically abuses them and doesn't like them leaving.

Vanessa created a character called Black hole to basically watch and stalk them. Bringing them back home from their shenanigans.

Black hole comes off as really terrifying at first but you slowly learn that he's just about as stuck as anyone else. And he gets about his abused as anyone else and even more so.

Sooner or later they start seeing ghosts. Lunar is a ghost fanatic. He also goes to college. He's only allowed to because it's on fazco's terms.

Anyways they all start seeing ghosts. And us as the community start to figure out where these ghosts are.

Black hole starts to malfunction and open up. He also apparently breaks down enough to realize what the hell is in his body and how he is sentient.

This is also supposedly when eclipse and black holes start dating. And this romance continues for the entirety of the show.

Warning for a child death. All these wonderful robots have fucking children's bodies inside of them. Lunars is the youngest, while Eclipse is the oldest I believe. The only one that doesn't have a children's body inside of them is black hole. Who was an adult when he died, and his heart is still beating inside of fucking black hole.

Although I will mention the children in the animatronics don't seem to share anything with each other. A lot of them speak as if they are simply body sharing. The only one that might share correlation is black hole with the adult heart inside of him. Although I am still uncertain if black hole is his own character for some weird amalgamation of the adult ghost and the character black hole

Lunar who is the ghost hunter is completely confused why they have ghosts following them. Although all of them slowly start to figure out that they all have ghosts inside of them. Particularly the ghost bodies.

Because black hole is gaining more agency. Vanessa decides to fucking mess with the other's heads and make them attack black hole. The only other one excluded is Blood Moon himself. Of which Vanessa couldn't do anything to him because she doesn't know how to.

They all run off into the woods and black hole sort of dies while the rest of them are caught and tormented for being found outside of the pizza plex. This apparently goes on for days.

That is the end of season 1. I'm not going to share anything of season 2 because it's still coming out. But I will talk about the swap universe!

Swap universe is the same sort of plot but the characters positions are different. Basically same characters, different job. Example is black hole being a normal daycare attendant while eclipse swaps with black hole and becomes the guard guy.

Their story is sort and terrible. You get introduced to dusk/dawn early in this one. Who is the child of black hole and eclipse. But they somehow all learn about the existential crisis of simply being a universe created for testing. Warning for child death. And black hole kills everyone even his own child. In some twisted way of releasing them of the abuse and pain.

Anyways if any of this interests you guys. There's your basic explanation of the lore. I am leaving out quite a bit of the shenanigans. Mostly because there is a lot of them and many of these lore bits are sprinkled in slowly with every single shenanigan video. They have a pretty good playlist that contains all the videos that are important to know of or have Lore them. I would watch that. Unfortunately the swap playlist is not as well done. So you will have to seek those out.

[moonlight-tmd]

Continuation on Celestial!Bee AU because the dm has been opened.

So- after the summoning ritual incident, Team Prime is left with the knowledge that their little friend is not that harmless as they might have thought.

As Bee- or rather Bei said, they didn't talk about what happened. Pretending everything was normal wa somewhat difficult- Bee was always, well, Bee and the others were still wary but tried their best to act usual. Eventually tho, things have drifted back to the way they were before, with a small change of the others treating Bee with more respect than previously.

Sari on the other hand had no idea what happened nor what Bee is. All she knew is that some weird robots were stealing stuff and doing weird things and her friends went to investigate, she was told they got taken care of and nothing more.

After a while of peace and having a decent life of course stuff had to go wrong. Firstly, the Decepticons showed up. Bee secretly took a liking to this Blitzwing fella, the mech knew how to have fun and go crazy. But then, another issue popped up- The Allspark.

When they first found a shard there was a little bit of a fight but they managed... but then the group saw Bee picking the shard and staring at it so intently. The knowledge of what Bee really is flooded back to them, the worry rose when he didn't answer them calling and instead said "So much power is such little piece...".

"...Buddy?" Bulkhead said worried, in a moment Bee turned his head towards them, the same expression remained. He stared at them for a moment before his gaze returned to the shard, after another brief moment of silence he started going towards the group. He gently handed them the shard. "Keep this safe."

Later afte rhtey returned and wondered what to do with it Bee seemed to bring out some box, saying he 'found it in the storage with the scraps from their ship', to house the shard- it was in fact the very crate the Allspark was housed in before.

Now, from then on Bee's role is amking sure none of the mortals get their hands on the shards to do some dirty stuff. He's always there whenever they are putting another shards in the container and always is around whenever one of them gets close to them. For the new shards that have appeared, he's the one that will get close and stabilize them if they're going crazy.

Now i know there is a place for romance here. Not sure which i wanna go with so there's much leeway on what i can do. Anyway, skipping to another major event-

So i know at some point Sari stabbed Bee and accidentally blasted him with her powers. I don't know much about which order they go in so i will say she stabbed him first- Bee seemed to never really get hurt on missions (outside the damages he takes when otehrs are watching). Still if he takes damage he goes to Ratchet, both know Bee can heal himself with magic but prefers to stick to the 'mortal rules', at least when others saw him get hurt. Now, i imagine when Sari stabbed him he actually couldn't heal himself, Sari's powerd came from the near-equally powerfull Key to the Allspark. Its power is dangerous even to gods. He had to stay put for a while after that, even go plead the shards to heal him faster.

Now, i imagine at some point something happened, like an argument or something, and Sari's powers rose to unstable levels cuz of her emotions- Bee tried to intervene and calm her down but she was so scared and panicked she released the blast on him...

But they never expected to see what happened to Bee just now. Instead of the ever-familiar share of Bee they saw everyday there was Beisilan, laying against the wall unconscious- but the most horrifying thing was that his frame was black and charred in the places the blast hit him, strings of gold seeped thru the black patches- the black itslef seemed to evaporate slightly into the air making a misty effect on the wound. Bei's frame itself was dim and lost the glow.

Neither of them knew what to do, Ratchet took Sari to medbay even tho she pleaded him to help Bee, in the meantime Prowl ran to get the Allspark shards- he recalled Bee saying something about them being able to help with usually untreatable injuries. He brought 3 of them near the injured god and quietly repeated the mantra he overheard Bee say one time.

It didn't do anything at first, but then the shards started to glow and levitate up light semmer to flow out of them like water and into the wounds, sealing them and restoring what was broken. Just a second after everything was healed Bei jerked awake with a deep gasp. he stayed still for a moment before his 4 servos touched various areas of his body as if to make sure they're still there then he slumped back against the wall with a big sigh. 2 of his servos rested on his forehelm and cheek while he had this traumatized expression.

"I'm never gonna emotionally recover from this..."

The others were worried (if he had a romace with someone then there's their reaction too), Bei had trouble standing up, he only said he needed to regain his strength before walking to his room- he was too weak to levitate, his ribbons too dragged on the floor behind him, his frame was in color but hasn't gotten the glow back just yet.

In the meantime Ratchet soothed Sari and got to work on reducing the amount of power output. Sari saw this wicked off version of Bee, Ratchet had no other option that to tell her what they knew about Bee. He didn't know what happened either so he couldn't say if he was gonna be fine or not...

In the next few hours, Beisilan regained enough power to go talk with her. His frame regained some of the glow and he could once again levitate. Sari apologised over and over but Bei just pulled her onto his lap and comforted her, saying it was an accident. The others in medbay just stood silent, watching. Occasionally they asked a question of two when Bei was speaking about how powerful Sari is now thanks to the Key... That this kind of power could harm if not kill a higher being. Of course he promised to help her tame the newfound abilities to the best of his capabilities.

I think after that point Bee would be more open (at least in base) about randomly turning into his god form some days. There's also some other events I had in mind for this like Beisilan explaining how his deals work to the others when they ask him what he does as a god.

I do have quite an interesting scenes with BlitzBee in this AU so i think it's most likely going to end up with this. This is it for part 2, I will write part 3 of the events cuz I can't fit everything into just these 2.

[themoonisbeautifulisnt-it]

Hey just saw your post about your TS Mcs if it counts for something I'm interested in any art and lore you want to share :)

OH MY GOD LETS GO !!!!!

Okay ! im going to try and summarize for the one i actually have lore for. im still making/fine tuning her lore and if you have anything cool to add on ill consider it!!! Just want to say that I kinda went crazy w the oc and even added worlding building and stuff around her lol

SO! MEET CELESTINE!

(Sorry for the crusty paper)

She was born on a special celestial event (I havent decide what yet) into a high society with equal power to the Senobium and for a point in time they were one/partner organizations. Her guild The Keepers of the Universe has a very self expanatory name, they keep the balance and order of the universe lol. There are many mages in this guild such as Mages of time, life, death, etc.

Due to some history altering incident a few generations ago, A mage of death went rogue(or maybe caused an accident I havent decided as yet) and caused a rift in the balance of the universe creating the soulless !! And because of this her guild, The Keepers wanted to banish all Death/"dark" magic and those mages were already rare to begin with. The Senobium was against this and this is what caused the spilt between the two. So whatever mage of death did not flee/go to the Senobium was killed by The Keepers.

YEARS LATER NOW, our girl Celestine is born and she is growing up in the society and which everyone is finding their calling in magic, she isn't good at anything (you could see where this is going)

And mind you, this guild works closely to the Universe it kind of acts like their god in a way. And the elders (As close as elders could be cuz i made ranks to this society and you need to master all magic including death magic to be in the top tier complicated ik sorry i couldnt help myself) speak to the universe that told them like in riddles/code that a new death mage was on their way, a real powerful one.

(think of the percy jackson prophecy i think it was a mirror)

and for years the elders were wary and due to some situation (i havent thought of it yet) but lets say some high stress situation, their guild is under attack and the power that was in Celestine dormant all this time got awoken by the Universe LITERALLY LIGHTENING STRIKING HER. like a lightening strike but the vast powers of the universe hence the scar on the right side of her face which i redrew (again sorry for the bootlegged drawing)

now she has this scar that looks like the starry sky and this star eye that looks like the whole universe is moving in it and due to this huge power she kinda wrecked a part of lets say sanctuary the ppl in her guild lives in for lack of a better description. Injuring a good few, maybe even killing one or two and now shes on the run!! Now she wants to get in the Senobium for answers. THATS BASICALLY THE SUMMARY OF MY OC. can u guess who im pairing her w plsss

ALSO heres a drawing of my other OC ! i dont have a name for them but if you do I would love to hear it! their pronouns is they/them and all I got for them rn is that they are on the same plane as Kuras with their diety-like powers.

sorry for the long post i got really excited! lol BUT PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ASK QUESTIONS IM SO DOWN TO TELL YOU THE DETAILS

[arcadiabaytornado]

Live Playing Double Exposure Chapter 1 Part 2 (Except I’m not live playing because I forgot to post this when I was live playing. 😅)

A: Theory: It’s an alternative universe version of Max leaving the polaroids around.

B: I hate the owl imagery given the last time we got owl imagery it was during the barn in the first game.

C: The sound design on this game is great. I don’t know how I feel about the actual songs, but the sound design is great.

D: Safi just…sitting slumped over like that after getting shot was super fucking eerie holy shit.

E: Man. They’re really rubbing Chloe and Max’s “forever” in our noses huh.

F: It’s so sad to know that Chloe and Max were never the same after the storm. I mean, you know they wouldn’t be, but it seemed like they were doing okay in LIS 2. :(

G: “If I could undo your death I would do it without a second thought” I’m going to analyze the hell out of this line later because holy shit it’s crazy for Max to say that.

H: Max’s avoidant tendencies are stressing me out. Don't get wrong they make perfect sense for her characters, but I'm still stressed all the same. Like, PLEASE let people share in your grief. PLEASE talk to Safi's Mother.

I: Max having a dark room made my stomach drop. I know it’s perfectly normal for a photographer to have a room like that, but to see the words “dark room” in a LIS game made my stomach flip. It sure is a character note that it's not a "dark room" "dark room" though, it's more of a laundry room.

J: What??? So Max just saw her friend get murdered and now she's getting dressed up cute for her crush??? I'm glad we get to see Max's house...but that was a...weird scene transition.

K: I have so much to say about the journal, but I'm going to have to make a full post on it because I just can't quickly sum up my feelings here.

L: Okay. So Chloe broke up with Max due to storm trauma basically. Because that’s what I’m taking from this.

M: YEARS. Max and Chloe have been broken up for YEARS?? I can’t think clearly about the timelines right now but does that mean they broke up not to long after LIS 2?

N: “You need to eat Max” I’m won over.

O: “Friend?” The way Max says that is devastating.

P: There’s celestial stuff all over the box! That seems relevant.

Q: I feel Reggie on a spiritual level.

R: I love that you can decide if Max is a tea or coffee drinker. I choose tea!

S: “You’re the real storm.” Max flashbacking to her nightmare. :((((((

T: It feels so cool to see Max’s work around campus. But seeing that Max’s first photo outside of Arcadia was one of a ruined dinner kills me considering she was likely thinking of Joyce and Warren.

U: Did Max just say “chucklefucks” LMAO

V: I feel like this game is going to age poorly given the amount of meme references.

W: Does Max have some chemistry with Vinh or am I insane??

X: Already love Gwen. In fact I’m so in love with her that I found her book in the library immediately, but decided to pick the lock to impress her.

Y: I’m also down to romance Vinh, and I think he’s a love interest? If he is then I’m going with Amanda in this save, but Vinh will get a flirty Max in the other one!

Z: It makes me laugh so hard that you can choose whether Max is ACAB or not.

[asklesbianonceler]

obligatory count ymir ask for the meme ✌️

Oh thank you! ✨💜

Favorite Thing About Character:

Do not make me pick a favorite thing. I keep finding new reasons to love him. I am smitten. He is so endearing in how he talks to Yuri and holds him. I love the gender of his whole character. Excellent stuff. Love that he has so much depth and is so easy to sympathize with. I could recap everything I have ever said but I will refrain. I think though that it's rare a character checks all the important boxes for me to not just huperfixate but also get art inspiration from them. Normally it's my OCs because I can control them checking those boxes.

But one of my low-key favorite things about his design is that he looks like he has freckles in high res pics and I think something happened to me when I saw that... I haven't been the same. That shits got me kicking my feet and twirling my hair around my finger. Like, ugh.

Least favorite thing:

Uhhhh, don't quite like how he's perceived by ER fans but that's their fault. Genuinely though I do dislike how ambiguous and vague a lot revolving around him is because the game gives us a lot that sews weird doubt about his character and the quest being a little clunky doesn't help.

Line:

"It was merely the closest of the celestial bodies. Nothing more."

Recency bias. Been thinking about this recently because is the implication trying to get closer or moving further away? Like there's definitely a, We're all made of stardust, kind of read that puts it into a really interesting perspective on getting as close to it as possible. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Brotp:

I don't think his relationship with Jolán is that close friend wise for this. Their dynamic is odd.... Like if he's got a single bro out there it's Rabbath who lets him use the storage room in his house no questions asked. Wish we knew more about Rabbath. I think they could be bros....

Otp:

Love people shipping him with their tarnished. Just know I ship it too 💕 I haven't seen him shipped with any NPCs but like... I'm down to

Notp:

again, genuinely haven't seen him shipped with NPCs so I'm not going to make up situations to dislike lmao. I don't take shipping that seriously anyways.

Headcanon:

I think he probably knits little clothes for Yuri. I think they probably do a bunch of cute shit together and that they have a way to minorly communicate with hand gestures and such. I just want them to have had times they were all as happy as they could be before game events.

Unpopular opinion:

I will draw him bald sometimes but that is not what I believe in my heart. Sorry.

But it's also interesting liking such a minor character to this degree where no opinion can really feel that unpopular. You know? Liking him is the unpopular thing apparently :/

Song:

for some reason I feel like a lot of what I listen to doesn't fit well with ER which is crazy because I love making character/OC playlists.

BuriedKnight mentioned associating him with Crescent by Dead Can Dance and I do love that!

I think Stargazers by Nightwish is just a great song for Elden Ring sorcerers as a whole. And I ironically do have a song I associate with Metyr. Cassandra by Florence and the Machine has some bits in it that kinda get me in my feelings about Metyr, but that's all I have for you on this!

Pic:

I am adding that high res pic by Alphagravy that I mentioned earlier because it's in game and also freckles....

[rayofmisfortune]

Do you ever think about how when Ruin was still under the virus's control, Moon was the first person they saw in who knows how long, the person who he reached out to and begged for help, the person who reassured them that he was planning on saving them, the person who explained practically everything to them when they got cured, one of the people who they owe their LIFE to, and now Moon is the one interrogating them, accusing them of rebuilding eclipse, installing a tracker on them (1/2)

YES

YES I DO AND IT HURTS SO GOSH DARN BAD

New Moon... he just- I used to like him, yes he had his faults even in the past but it was easy to see those as him struggling with coming to terms with being someone who was SOMEONE ELSE before and needing to fit that holr the person left behind. He was relearning everything from scratch. It was understandablw that he would hiccup at some points.

My main appeal of old Moon was mainly that... he could SEE when someone was trying to change, when someone had a chance to turn over a new leaf. Because he HIMSELF had tried and done that. He knew what it was like to be someone viewed in a negative light, but he also knew what it was like to want to BE better and he was lucky enough to get the chance for that. Yes all the celestial family's problems stem from old Moon leaving Eclipse behind in Sun but.. to a level he can't really be blamed for that? He didn't know the killcode would grow sentient, he didn't know it would become its own person. He couldn't have predicted that as it's not something that happened to them before. He wanted to not be a danger to his brother now that they both had their own frames and could exist side to side.

The new Moon... he doesn't KNOW that. He doesn't know why the old Moon did the stuff he did. He doesn't know what it's like to be shaped into a monster by design yet wish for something better, something more. He DOESN'T. He'd never had the chance to learn or experience what that's like. The old Moon had. He doesn't know what to look for in a person to see that they wish to be different but are struggling to do so, or refuse to acknowladge it til the last possible moment. That's why he blasted backup Eclipse, he didn't register the desperation in his voice as genuine ladt ditch attempt to be given a moment to explain. No, he saw it as manipulation. The old Moon, by all means, would hsve most likely picked up on that as... NOT something Eclipse had ever done before. So backup Eclipse was blasted

I think the only reason he picked up on Ruin Eclipse not being the one in control there was solely because he sent Sun into the Ruin dimension and had the proof of that handed to him on a silver platter. Robots there have been infected by a virus that makes them go crazy and kill organic life. So.. he had proof of a person existing under the virus' control. And he did what he could to get that person out of the deep virus riddled sea they were trapped in. Because. He. Had. Proof.

After they managed to cure Ruin Eclipse? He. Had. No. Proof. Of. The. Virus. Being. Gone. He explained everything to them after they woke up, because they needed to know that no, you can't go home. Yes, you're stuck with us now. You were a bad guy. If I remember correctly, Ruin Eclipse was last aware of themself in the year of 2015 or 2017 (< in the episode they woke up, they weren't sure themselves) and the virus had been in their system for... 50ish years? Unsure.

Now we're here. Where they're getting shoved off to the side. Which has been mainly started by the same person that gave them their mind back. Why? Because Moon has no proof of them being cured. He has nothing. So, he's wary, distrustful. Shoving Ruin Eclipse to the side to make them not be a problem. While.. being SURPRISED when they want to help and be included. They didn't ask for this. For all we know they could be locked up in the arcade, reminiscing on how it all probably would be better if they haven't been cured. Haven't been aware. Haven't ever left their dimension. Ect. Ect.

They are lonely and desperate. Confused. Kept out of the loop. They don't know anything unless they ASK. They are thought of as stupid, when.. Ruin, while infected, was miles above Moon and Eclipse combined. To this day, they don't know how he could read what was in the static screens, or even how he did it. No one knows how he did it. And then we have our cured Ruin Eclipse who, may not be as much of a smartsy as Ruin was, but they ARE Sun and Moon combined. They aren't as smart as Moon, sure. But they know how to follow blueprints. If they have a blueprint for something, they can follow it to a T. It's downright insulting to think of them as stupid (same with Sun, he isn't stupid either). Moon thought it necessary to explain how the tracker works at which- Ruin Clipsy was probably thinking something along the lines of "I know how a tracker works."

They just- gosh, they need someone to talk to. To be there with them. Just someone who they can ramble off to, info dump, whatever else they need. Physical touch's important and they've.. I feel like they've been kept away from that a lot

[micahmaeve]

you have been slowly converting me with all your icemav posting, and i recently rewatched top gun and i am s o l d. it has been consuming all of my thoughts! do you have any favorite fics??

omg, am I really?? welcome to the club!!

I’ve thrown myself head first into icemav recently so I can ABSOLUTELY rec some of my favorite fics I've read so far!!

When We Get Around to Talking About It by @compacflt is the pièce de résistance of icemav fiction I think, for me personally. It's masterfully written and nuanced and just so heartbreaking. the characterization feels so true to how these men would really be in real life and how they would deal with coming to terms with their feelings for each other and sexuality while being in the navy. and as if 90,424 words of beautiful prose wasn't enough of a gift, there is also a sequel/other stories called Debriefing (& Other Stories) which includes a more truncated version of the original but from mav's pov which is just 🤌🏻🤌🏻

Dreams of Impact by thecarlysutra is also very good. It involves a little supernatural flavor, which I enjoy, and revolves around how their lives could be different if they'd just made one single different choice.

come the same colors by susiecarter is a fav. It's a classic 'you got hurt and it's made me reckon with how I really feel about you, but I haven't figured out how to express that'. So basically it's amazing. this author also has a great catalogue of icemav, so it's really a jumping point to read all of her great work. A Shared Cup is another personal fav of mine from this author. it involves soul telepathic bonds. soooo good

a binary star by vannral is a really yummy piece of fanfic. the first line of the description is the perfect primer for how great the rest of the fic is: "Ice hasn’t ever given much thought to celestial things up in the sky but he knows that Maverick burns like one." like. c'monnnn

i'll ride in this life with you by sassenach082 is an ice and mav raise bradley after carol passes away fic, and it's full of sooo much lovely hurt/comfort that is so sweet it will rot your teeth. any fic with a plethora of baby bradley is going to be good for me

I saw beauty to the north by sortalively (tiisis) is a delayed injury fic set post TG:M. It has a lot of rooster and ice and mav reconciling in it which I'm a sucker for. and, if you like the exploration of rooster and mav's relationship (I'm a sucker for parental figure fics lets not unpack that) this author has some greaaaaaaaat fics on their page for that!

cloaked in the bruises of our failures by faerie_ground will rip your heart out. It takes the mission from TG:M and moves it to the 80s with our favorite class of '86 being trained to fly it, all while Mav and Ice are a few years post a messy 'break-up'. I should warn you that this one comes with a trigger warned from sexual assault from a person of authority to an employee, so if you aren't interested in that maybe skip this one. It is so beautiful though and treats the subject with the respect it deserves. slithered here from eden (just to sit outside your door) is another by this author that is very good and I am waiting patiently for an update

a higher fidelity by basedchamp is a classic slowburn with ice and mav developing their friendship before they realize their feelings for one another

no brighter diamond by qin_ling is a wonderful 'five times...' fic and it's so good. Everything by this author is fantastic so you should def check out their other stuff. as lions is about time travel. delish.

You're Gonna Be The One That Saves Me by an orphan_account is amazing. It's got mav struggling post hop 31 and Ice being there to offer emotional support and more if you know what I mean

'Til I Understand by Katastrophe (Karrington) is about Mav punching out of dark star and kind of fills in some blanks about what his loved ones went through while he was missing. Katastrophe is another author with a large catalogue to just go crazy in

PurpleArrowzandLeather has 153 tg fics on their page with a huge variety, some icemav, some flyboys of '86 (which I adore, I love fics showing their friendship). you can get lost in their page for a while haha. they also have their bookmarks public! so you can dig around in there, too

Sailor's Delight by saurora_borealis can be read as ice and mav or icemav and I think we both know which one I infer it as. Mal de Mer by them is like that, too

baby, baby, i'd get down on my knees for you by boasamishipper and simplecoffee is 'five times mav proposes and one time ice says yes' fic. It's sweet as candy

Is this arguably too long a response? yes. are all of these worth the read? also yes

I hope you enjoy!!

[misc-obeyme]

Hey!

I've seen a few another asks about MC and honestly, it's so interesting to see others characters. I guess that's one of the reasons why I love Obey, you can create OC, who's can be anyone, well maybe except a God?? I just don't know how that would be work lol

I have two angels, Gabriel and Agrael. Gabriel, Lucy and Michael I hc as triplet. Agrael his younger sister, who was the one who killed Lilith, and well, Gabe do everything he can to keep it as secret. He's loves Lucifer and Michael with Agrael more than others brothers, and was against the war, but at the end decided to let Lucy go, bc he doesn't have a choice, but trying to be neutral as much as he can. Agrael was just obedient soldier and wasn't bothered by brothers rebellion and just fight. Asmo fell in love with her, but she's didn't love him and attacked without resist, which hurt him a lot lol

Her only friend was Mammon, but it's didn't stop her from fight. But also she's didn't saw brothers as enemy. Has a human lover, but nobody knows who is it. She's usually disappears in human world, and Gabe cover for her, bc he's soft for his sister too much lol

Also there's two sorcerers. Crowley, who's father of my MC, famous merchant of the three worlds, who can find anything you want, except knowledge that he has a daughter lol

He's funny guy and tried very hard to reconnect with his daughter, but Anders prefer to punch him and not talking. He's not old as Sol, but still old and keep himself from aging with magic artefacts. He's probably slept with Asmo and I always laughed when thinking about it

And Alastair, who's wanted to be Solomon's apprentice, but well, Anders was the chosen one. He's taking that as insult, bc he's more knowledgeable and powerful, and now hate Anders and wished to kill her, and tried a few times lol

Do you have another characters? I would like to read about them too!

Hello again!

Yes, I really love to hear about everybody's MCs and OCs!! They're so interesting, it's so fun to see what people have come up with! Especially since I feel like there is so much space for such things in Obey Me. They really left a lot of stuff unexplained and there are three whole worlds that we can fill in with our own characters!

Okay, I kinda feel like the only way you could have a character who was a god would be if it was like somehow a rival to the "Father" character from the Celestial Realm. I kinda think it'd be interesting if the Greek gods existed, for instance. Since we have Cerberus, it kinda stands to reason that we'd also have Hades and Zeus and the rest. But you know, maybe they're retired? LOL.

Anyway...

Now that is an interesting concept! I never once thought about who killed Lilith. What a burden to bear! I love Agrael already she sounds amazing! I love that she's now the one with a human lover, even after the war and everything that happened with Lilith! Man love can make you do crazy things! And Gabriel is just trying to be a good big brother!

Crowley and Alastair omg I love them. Crowley sounds great, but I do feel bad for Anders lol. Let her punch him! It would probably be very therapeutic! Alastair is crazy if he thinks Solomon would ever let anyone kill his apprentice, but I'm impressed that he still tried. I get the impression that Anders would be difficult to kill, but he's still gonna try it seems!

Ah well I do have my demon OC Arsenios. And I have some other OCs that show up in his story, but I can't talk about them too much without giving away spoilers for his story. There are a couple of angels and a reaper.

I have a couple more human characters that are related to Ciaran and their story. There's their older sister Fiadh who I am quite fond of. She gets help from both a witch and a sorcerer when Ciaran goes missing and they help her get to the Devildom to find Ciaran.

I do have another demon OC, but I've never talked about her... Her name is Liviana and she's the librarian at RAD. She knows Arrie, but I just created her because I wanted to lol. I really love libraries and I was thinking about demon professors/RAD staff members and I just sorta daydreamed her into existence.

I do have one other reaper OC but she doesn't have a name yet. And she's too involved with one of the other characters from Arrie's story for me to talk about her too much...

OOPS now I have revealed my secret which is that I have a whole STASH of OCs that I never talk about lol.

Anyway, I love hearing about all your characters! Thank you for sharing them with me! 💕

[koumeowkami]

🪐 no celestial ; kanallen

— chapter two

"Kanata was a poor little angel that heaven couldn't help. He'd always been a tough one, not trusting anyone but his little brother Nayuta, the only person that ever made him feel love. Growing up by themselves, he did everything in his power to protect his sick brother, things that dirtied his holy hands. "It's for a good cause though", he thought. But it wasn't enough, and Nayuta died soon after.

Kanata's soul was completely spent. He became unable to feel love, and adding to his dirty dealings that soon were found out, he got cast out of heaven. Fallen on Earth with his wings blackened, he felt so lost and empty he thought he could've just died.

But a random encounter with a very annoying, persistent, stupid redhead human boy would've made him discover love again."

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genre: supernatural, hurt/comfort, angst

warnings: none

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"...What the fuck did you just say?"

Oh no.

Everything was going so smoothly for Kanata. He couldn't believe that, right at the end of the fucking day, he had to run into someone. Someone who even called him an angel? How could he possibly know that? Thank God he could hide his wings now, at least.

"Sorry, um... I just thought you were... pretty" that redhead said frantically, "I didn't mean to say it out loud."

Pretty? What kind of game was that bastard playing? Kanata was so frustrated he could only break the eye contact and look as far as he could, pondering on what to say to send that kid to hell. He was trying really hard to ignore the slight heat forming in his cheeks.

"This is ridiculous. Stop looking at me and leave me alone already! I ain't in the mood for a conversation" he said, probably thinking he'd been pretty clear.

Apparently, he wasn't.

"Yeah, sorry about that, it was kinda embarrassing" the redhead scratched the back of his neck, "What are you doing here, by the way? It usually gets pretty chill at this hour". Kanata was stunned. Was that dude crazy or just really stupid? Getting all friendly with him, of all people. He'd forgotten what being close to someone was like, it was making his skin itch.

"Are you deaf? I told you I don't wanna talk. And it's none of your business anyway. Has anyone ever told you not to get close to strangers?" he retorted clearly annoyed by how persistent this guy was being despite all the clear signals he kept giving him.

"Of course I know! But... I don't know how to say it..." he stopped for a bit in thought, then looked straight in Kanata's lilac eyes and smiled, "I feel like I can trust you. I believe fate made us find each other, for some reason."

Kanata froze in place.

Even though he might sound genuine, Kanata didn't trust him one bit. Actually, he just wanted him gone. The more he looked at him, the angrier he got. He didn't want him to get any closer, as his burning innocence and passion were setting his lost, empty soul on fire. And it hurt, it hurt so much.

"Fate... trust... bullshit. I stopped believing in that stuff long ago" he laughed bitterly, "I don't have a reason to do that anymore. All I needed in my life is gone now. I don't need, or even want, your stupid fucking help. All I want is to be left alone... to die in peace... so go die in a hole for all I care."

Kanata saw the redhead step back a bit. He looked pretty shocked, but not at all intimidated. Instead, his expression curved in a small smile. "I don't know what you went through... but I'm gonna find it out" he confidently said, "One day I'll earn your trust and we'll become friends!"

"Tsk... is this some sort of challenge? Maybe the late hour is getting to your head, or you're really just that much of a dumbass" Kanata replied, almost exasperated. That guy really had a lot of nerve, huh. He wasn't running away from him, he wasn't scared. Maybe it was just a matter of time, since that kid didn't know anything about him yet; damn, he didn't even know he wasn't human. Maybe he would forget him soon and never pester him again. "Well, nevermind... just get lost already" he added later, turning his back to the other guy.

"Oh, right... it's so late. My roommates are gonna be so mad if I don't get home immediately, so I'm really going now" he said and dashed towards the park's entrance, but then suddenly turned around.

"Ah, by the way... my name is Allen, but you can call me Suzaku as well! Bye, angel."

He left.

The park was finally quiet again. Kanata exhaled, glad that the peace he had found was back. Something felt slightly weird in his chest, but he didn't think about it too much. He laid down on a bench hidden behind the bushes and shut his eyes; not that he could actually sleep, no. He lost that privilege when Nayuta died: now that his sweet angel wasn't there anymore to hold his hand and wish him a good night, his thoughts were overflowing with bad memories and nightmares.

Tonight was different, though. Among all the scary visions, he saw a familiar redhead little bastard.

He immediately opened his eyes again and sighed.

This was gonna be a long night.

[jinkicake]

I can’t keep letting these 5”5 men have a chokehold on me, it’s getting unreal bc if I go this con in February and see a rly pretty albedo I will FOLD ON THE DOTTED LINES😭 like I was thinking about how kazuha looks cute but he’s unhinged and I’m like the opposite kinda💀 literally people think I’m the one in charge of the relationship but he’s so sadistic😭 and he’s has HUGE Simon vibes,, cute police and smiley,very good w words, a fugitive, super strong- like they’re a lil too similar💀 my friend pointed out that I do have a type and I can only sigh. Kazuha will smile in your family’s face at a function like he didn’t rearrange your insides like 3 hours before and is gon do it again as soon as y��all leave, Simon will sit at the dinner table laughing w Lucifer and diavolo while he’s making eyes at you like “I am going to send you straight to the celestial realm” they’re both super into bondage, like kazuha will tie your arms behind your back and take you from behind outside. I’ve heard he likes to have sex w nice scenery and I agree he will take you to a cliff for a picnic and you’re like aww romantic but he has rope in his sleeve. Simon would invite you over to study(Bible study) but he doesn’t even let you put your stuff down before he’s pressing you up against the door and feeling you up. Here both definitely sex feinds😭 like it’s a regular Wednesday morning and they’re asking you to bounce on their cock💀kazuha is BOLD bc like he lives on the crux and who’s gunna beat his ass?? Like if he walks back on board w a pretty little thing on his arm all starry eyed, Beidou already knows she’s gunna catch a glimpse of him balls deep😔 fortunately there’s a rule about sharing whatever you bring on board bc it’s her boat💕 (it’s me I am for the streets and Beidou is so damn fine, ik she has a custom jade strap, she wields a claymore she could hold me up w one arm) she doesn’t look the least bit surprised to see kazuha bending you over in the captains quarters. And he don’t look like he’s been caught w his pants down😒 “I see you’ve been busy” “you were taking too long for my liking, I was just keeping them nice and warm for you” and it’s like ooohhhhhh y’all planned that💀 someone sent this to me and said it was kazuha

Like this would be him😭 rocks your world but he goes where the wind takes him so he’s out the next week. But I’m build differently I’ll prove myself by out fucking him to when he taps out he can get some sleep, and by the time he has to depart Inazuma he has to take me w him bc I have him under my thumb🥰🥰

no literally... how many times must we have this conversation! theyre 5'5!!!! guys under six foot are friends (not xiao tho)! one day i'll help you overcome this, i promise!

but also folding bc of albedo is so reasonable i understand it like idk what i would do if i actually saw one of these kaeyas out in real life... i would act like a complete and utter fool,,, begging for an ounce of kock or koochie loooool

now that youve brought it up.... we need more rough kazuha smut in this world! he is written so delicately and to be such a sweetheart but like where is fierce and crazy kazuha huh? where is he!!!!

naurrrr see if i were at a table w lucifer, simeon, AND diavolo... i would take lucifer and simeon to another room. diavolo can watch i guess smhhhhhh im inviting everyone!

dont- no beidou- im gonna go feral like that woman is so..... im drooling ugh i need her bad! oooh but a kazuha and beidou threesome now wait a min i really like the trust between them! that would be good-

NO THAT TWEET COULD ALSO BE ALBEDO TOO LIKEEEE THAT FANART I SENT YOU YESTERDAY... you can't tell me he wouldnt hit and then dip the next day and ghost you for life.... but back to kazuha i would cry if he ghosted me like that would hurt real badly huh

you just gotta follow kazuha w the wind... get a glider... kekeke that's how you keep him

[tavs-kin-korner]

Hello Tavros, thank you so much for the stimboard! If this doesn’t bother you, I kind of need some kin advice/help here.

For me, being fictionkin is really hard, bc when im from a smaller media, and it’s seen as childish it’s hard for me. Also, sometimes being fictionkin makes me miss stuff I’ve never had. I feel, a lot of the times, wishing I could be back on Starhenge or Celestial island, or being up in the sky, or being with the other celestials. Sometimes when I vent this in tumblr it doesn’t go well, because people tell me im “delusional”, “being a kid”, or stuff like that.

I tried stuff like making the arm pieces I wear or trying to style my hair. But it seems to look less like myself and more like a crappy cosplay.

And on social medias, It’s hard seeing such hate against me. I don’t like seeing people rank monsters and place galvana as the worst, or saying it ruins starhenge. It doesn’t make me angry or sad, but I don’t blow it off. And I saw a drawing on deviant art with most of the celestials, and it was gory. It wasn’t filtered, so I got super overwhelmed from it bc seeing yourself covered in bl00d is super crazy for a fictionkin.

Do you have any tips or advice? Also, thank you for running this page a ton and giving out lots of advice :]

hI, gALVANA! yOU'RE WELCOME FOR THE STIMBOARD! sO GLAD YOU LIKED IT! i'M SO SORRY YOUR EXPERIENCING THESE TROUBLES THOUGH! D:{

sO, fOR MISSING YOUR HOME, i HAD A GOOD IDEA! sTARHENGE AND cELESTIAL iSLAND ARE BOTH SPACE THEMED, rIGHT? sO, mAYBE YOU COULD TRY DECORATING YOUR ROOM WITH SPACE STUFF LIKE STARS, pLANETS, mOONS, eTC,! yOU COULD EVEN GET ONE OF THOSE STAR PROJECTORS SO YOU CAN TURN YOUR LIGHT OFF AND SEE THE STARS AROUND YOU! mAYBE EVEN SOME BLUE LED LIGHTS FOR AN EXTRA EFFECT? i THINK IT WOULD LOOK REALLY PRETTY AND HELP YOU FEEL AT HOME! }:)

fOR THE ARM PIECES, iF YOU MADE THEM OUT OF, lIKE, pAPER OR CARDBOARD, mAYBE YOU COULD TRY MAKING THEM OUT OF ARM WARMERS INSTEAD? iT MIGHT LOOK BETTER AND FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE! fOR YOUR HAIR, pERHAPS YOU COULD SAVE UP FOR A NICE WIG? i'VE GOTTEN ALL MY COSPLAY WIGS OFF AMAZON AND THEY'RE USUALLY REALLY GOOD QUALITY, (iF YOU FIND THE RIGHT ONES, rEAD REVIEWS! i RECOMMEND ONLY BUYING IF MOST OF IT'S REVIEWS ARE POSITIVE,) yOU COULD STYLE IT TO LOOK LIKE YOUR HAIR! (sORRY IF THESE AREN'T AS HELPFUL, i DIDN'T HAVE MANY IDEAS FOR THIS PART,)

aBOUT ALL THE HATE, i'M SO SORRY YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH THAT! }:( iT'S ABSOLUTELY AWFUL, bUT THERE REALLY ISN'T MUCH TO DO BUT IGNORE THOSE WHO WILL CALL YOU "DELUSIONAL" OR "CHILDISH," i WOULD JUST DELETE THOSE COMMENTS,, aS FOR THE RANKINGS AND GORE, i'M SO SO SORRY ABOUT THAT AS WELL, }:( sEEING THAT KIND OF STUFF WITH MY FICTKINS MAKES ME UNCOMFORTABLE TOO,, mAYBE YOU COULD SUGGEST TO THE ARTIST TO PROPERLY TAG IT SO IT'S FILTERED? i'M NOT SUPER SURE ABOUT THE RANKINGS, oTHER THAN MAKING YOUR OWN RANKING AND SAYING YOU'RE THE BEST? sO SORRY i DON'T HAVE ANY BETTER ADVICE! }:(

hOPE THIS HELPED AT LEAST A LITTLE, aND i HOPE YOU START FEELING BETTER SOON! sENDING LOTS OF LOVE AND SUPPORT! <3 /P

[menaceoffandoms]

So, I saw a theory from @mumatsi and it reminded me of a theory I had before season 5 came out, so I wanna talk about it!

In the journey to the west, the Buddha says their are 4 celestial primates that exist within the world; the intelligent stone monkey (Sun Wukong), the red-buttocked baboon, the long armed gibbon and the six eared Macaque. As far as I'm aware, (all my knowledge about jttw comes from overly sarcastic productions, so I'm very much not an expert) Wukong never meets the other celestial primates during the journey. With only their names and vague powers being listed, the celestial monkies are perfect bases for characters in a cartoon. We've already seen the writers take advantage of this with Macaque, who is the only other celestial monkie we met in jttw. So it makes sense to me that the others would show up at some point.

My initial idea was that MK was the red-buttocked baboon, mainly cause their cited as having knowledge of ying and yang, an understanding of human affairs and the ability to avoid death and lengthen its life.

It just sorta fit in my mind at the time, but after season 5 I don't think it dose anymore.

MK is the harbinger of Chaos, a created by Nuwa with the express purpose of restoring the pillar of heaven and restarting the cycle of the world. MK's not meant to exist beyond that purpose, he only has a life because the Nine-headed serpent wakes him up early and brings him to Pigsy. He, and the stones, are made from the chaos beyond the world, unique to anything else in the world.

So therefore, MK can't be one of the 4 celestial primates, because he wasn't meant to really be a person to begin with. It's why none of the guardians or Nuwa ever call him by his name, or any name for that matter. It's really fucked up when you think about it actually.

I do think it would make sense for the other two celestial primates to show up later in the show, but I don't think season 6 would make sense for that and I don't think they'll be villains. Antagonists, maybe, but not big bad's about to end the world.

I feel like they'll show up sometime after Wukong and Macaque get their shit together, if they do at all, and that means we'd be look at post season 6 at minimum.

But, going back to mumatsi's idea, I do think whatever the "he" the Nine-headed serpent was referring to could have something to do with the celestial primates.

We already know Nuwa made MK and in jttw there is never a definitive reason why Wukong came to be, other than a combination of earthly and celestial energy creating him seemingly at random. But since they both came from the same stone egg, I think we can guess that Nuwa might have had a hand in Wukong being created.

No idea why, but that's a train of thought for later.

I mention this because I think "he" is another God, some opposite to Nuwa who thrives in chaos instead of rejecting it. Their is a Chaos God in Chinese myth named Hundun and I think he could be our best bet at who "he" is.

I don't know much about this deity, I literally just did a quick google search, but given the only evidence toward who this character could be is chaos and the Nine-headed serpents vague mention, I think its as plausible as anything else. At the very least, I'm confident "he" is a God of some kind.

With that idea in mind and the thought that Nuwa created MK, we could assume that Hundun had some part in making Macaque and that is who he got his power from.

It would explain how he was able to stop the Nine-headed serpent, seeing as he seems to have made his own connection with the chaos after "escaping the cave" as he said, but Macaque would have a stronger connection by being made of the stuff.

It could also explain Macaque's death, since chaos and madness go together quite well and the laughter we hear from him in Wukong's flashback sounds very crazy.

TLDR: I wanna know more about the mystic monkies and why the fuck they were made. Hundun is probably the big bad of season 6 giving he's a chaos god and is likely linked to Macaque just like MK is linked to Nuwa, meaning we could get villain Macaque again in season 6 if his madness in Wukong's flashback is any indication.

Basically, there's a lot of potential for drama and I have many, many questions that will likely never be answered.

Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.

[asheimmortal]

Maybe I'm crazy, but I think Fangbanger is the best band on the planet right now.

And I found them on TikTok only a few months ago, then drove across the country from West Virginia to Oregon to see them.

Sometimes I feel like maybe I'm seriously messed up in the head because I can't remember if I ever listened to any other band this much. And there have been a few, but those few have a lot more albums. But I'm listening to the same 19 songs a hell of a lot now. We'll get to that in a minute.

I grew up on Duran Duran and they've been my #1 favorite band no matter what else comes along since their first album. When I was a little kid, I knew I was alone in the world, and all I had were the Duran Duran tapes my aunt gave me to help me make sense of life and figure myself out with. So music has always been how I relate to the world and move through life. The next big one was Nirvana during high school, as I related a lot to them too. At 20 I got into Rammstein more just liking the heavier sound tbh. At 30 I was introduced to Twiztid and the older stuff felt relatable, but as I got older, like over 40, I reverted back to my classic rock, 80s & some early 90s.

But here at 45, I've got a new #1 favorite band and I'm probably old enough to be their momma. LOL But they are so fucking great!!!

I can't really put my finger on what it is, or how to explain it. I loved their energy from the start, from the first live from their garage that I saw, it's like what it must've been like for the older Gen X'ers who went to punk, post punk & goth shows as teenagers in the early 80's when I was still in elementary school. But it's definitely something that can't be faked. Just the same as my other new favorite band One Way Sky is, totally different band, but they authentically have this blend of chill 70s rock & 90s alternative vibe going. To compare, I remember hearing White Stripes when they first came out and thought they sucked because they're trying too hard to sound and look like they're from the 70s. So it's definitely something special to organically have that vibe and sound and feel and energy, like it could have come from another time. And be super relevant to someone my age too. Yeah, that's why I like both of these young bands. And with their energy, and how cool they are, their music, in some small way they make me feel like I'm 18 again when I listen to them. And I think they are everything I wanted to be when I grew up.

The first song I really related to and felt was Vertigo, then when I heard Disappear, yeah it certainly fit what happened at that time and it was a good driving force to get me to literally disappear 2600 miles away like "🖕 you I'm gone!" LOL And another older one that is absolutely great is Death in December. I really did cry the first time I heard it. It's such an amazing song!

So it definitely takes some work to find all of the songs that they've ever put out into the world, and I've counted 19 between YouTube, Spotify, and SoundCloud where there is more of the older stuff. And even with YouTube, you'd need to know that they were The Faint Endless before becoming Fangbanger. So here's the list I got:

Isolate

Artificial Flowers

Light Switch

Vertigo

Once a Catholic, Always a Masochist

Don't Cry

Malice in Wonderland

Plan B

Disappear

Requiem

We Were Once Invincible

Celestial Revenge

Take Me Down

Horrible Things

Death in December

Love Object

Midnight Son

Stay Away

I Love Huffing Paint

And the unfinished song they played on their live yesterday is as great and I cant wait to hear that again. I just think they're fucking fantastic, I love their wild energy, some of the songs or even some lines from other songs are so intense, like they know my 45 of years of pain and suffering, and some stuff is just plain fun and fun to see live. If you like vampires, you should check out their latest release, Midnight Son. 😈🧛😁 And that'll take you to a playlist where you can hear a lot of their stuff. But def go buy their songs on Amazon or Apple.

I've left links all throughout the post for you to go check them out and follow them. I hope I can get more people listening to them.

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━━   ❝   𝐃𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐠𝐮𝐲𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐧?   ❞  Sometimes he felt like his life was just a soap opera that Botan and Koenma watch on a flatscreen television. Because the timing is also too immaculate. Then it came to Botan being rather 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟𝐢𝐬𝐡 with his soul. It was cute..well it’d probably only cute since THEY knew the context. “Then I’ll fight a bit hard t’ make sure it's you that I see guiding me.” He nodded and sat beside her and took that little ride Reikai. The way the world magically transitioned from one another was always..something he admired no matter how many times he’s seen it.

“So what’d ya think Binky King found?” He tucked his hands into his pockets as it was now a stroll among the celestial clouds until they arrived at his grant castle. Meanwhile the King himself looked into similar cases to Yusuke with a disheartening frown on his face.

“I know that look sir, what’s bothering you this time your majesty?” Ogre spoke towards the king.

Koenma couldn’t even answer this with any wit this time, the situation was dire but there was still a sliver of hope in Yusuke’s future. He could only wish the idiot came to them so much sooner, they would have had soo much time to put this hail mary plan into action. But..he couldn’t exactly be surprised. Yusuke will always be Yusuke. Once they entered his office he crosses his arms over his chest. “Nice mess you’ve gotten yourself into. By now Botan I think you’ve notice that this curse is unlike anything you’ve seen before..or me for that matter.” 

Yes, the curse even preceded the Current king, however, there were a few cases during his father’s earlier reign..eons ago, within another civilization. “This is really dark stuff we’re dealing with, it does exactly what he described. By the dawn of the seventh day Yusuke’s soul will be forcefully ripped from his body and condemned into the flaming circles.” Said Koenma as Ogre hands him what looks like a flashdrive. “On this are several cases where people and yokai alike were in your shoes, my father of course kept a close watch but why he never interfered is beyond me..would he have tried to weaponize it in his favor?” He wondered.

Either way without further adieu Koenma connects the drive towards the television and numerous individuals came on screen, each cursed as Yusuke and it was…the same one after another in quick instances. The first day would be normal, the second day was followed with some misfortune, the third day the victims will experience mild cases of heat despite being within freezing temperatures. Food and drinks turn into ash in their mouths to prolong their suffering, some even had hallucinations and saw hounds, demonic spirits of the like. The fourth day things had gotten worse as their bodies began to grow weak due to malnourishment and the hallucinations worsens. “This is Yusuke’s stage.” Koenma utters.

“Hmmm..well I can see why I didn’t go crazy..i’m used t’ seeing things like…that…” He spoke out, it appeared that he was feeling weaker.., sweating profusely but that’s to be expected from the curse.

On the fifth day most of these people already went completely mad and tried ending things on their own terms, no matter what they did, how much they’ve destroyed and mutilated their bodies they would simply NOT die. The sixth day they remained completely lethargic and on the dawn of the seven they were engulfed in flames and their bodies dragged by the minions of hell into the fiery pits. “That’s what we’re dealing with here.” Said Koenma. “Not even my Father managed to track down a reversal spell..but as you said it’s STILL a spell, so when killing the caster is out of the window it’s all about deconstructing it and find a counter. By any chance are you able to use Seikoki? It’d really save us the trouble of looking for an actual Angel.”

𝐁𝐎𝐓𝐀𝐍'𝐒 𝐄𝐗𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐋𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓𝐄𝐍𝐒 when his does. Seeing some of the warmth return to his face, the way he grins at her and ruffles her hair. She scrunches her nose embarrassedly but doesn't swat his hand away. Instead, she smiles sheepishly.

"I have to be, how else would I contend with you," the teasing is weak but it's there. The warmth of it calms her spirit, a weight lifted from her shoulders.

"It has to be. Reikai wasn't always so... administrative, especially before the barrier was erected. Nowadays there are whole departments dedicated to recording souls. And I don't imagine she'd go too far, in case you do find some way to tamper with the curse. It's also easier to hide from someone if you know where they're searching," the idea that this witch might be lurking near by, observing their conversation sent a shiver down her spine. She shifts anxiously at her own inexperience, wishing she had more answers. "I-- I don't know. I'm still young for a Shinigami, I've only been working for a little over a decade. But I'm sure if it did happen, there would be records somewhere in the archives. And Koenma would certainly have more knowledge of such things. He's quite a bit older than me, even if he doesn't look it--"

She jolts with surprise when she hears Koenma's voice. No matter how much Reikai relied on telepathy, it would never fail to startle her. And she could only hope he hadn't heard her comment about his age. She shakes the chills away, nodding her head.

"Yes, sir. We'll be right there," she said aloud, staring into the distance before her attention snaps back to Yusuke. "Koenma wants to see you, let's hope he's found something," Botan stands, dusting herself off before stepping away from the house. Her oar materializes, her body shifting from human to spirit with the inclusion of her usual pink kimono. "Oh, and Yusuke... No matter what happens, I want you to remember..." she turns to look at him, taking a breath to steel herself before stamping her oar on the ground. "Only I'm allowed to herald your death. It'll be upon my boat that you'll ascend to the afterlife. I won't let anything else take my job," she affirms rigidly. She worked too hard to get him back into his body, she's not about to let some haggard witch claim her job.

Having said her piece, she reaches out a hand to guide him through the barrier. And with one quick boat ride, they're both walking briskly through the palace, Botan shouldering past any other staff to march straight into Koenma's office.