#scarlett could

[redheadarcher]

There was so much to take in—the forest, which, even though Scarlett wasn’t the biggest fan of, was a pleasant and beautiful setting. The breathtaking waterfall. The fact that Illyana wasn’t wearing anything. And the old, strange book she was reading, that with Scarlett’s curiosity, could lead to some questions later.

But even with all of that going on, the sword was still the thing that caught Scarlett’s attention the most. Her weapon of choice was the bow, sure, but swords had always fascinated her–she had some experience with it, but by no means was she the best swordswoman around–the same way. And the Soul Sword? She’d never seen anything like it up close.

“Right...” she nodded slightly, a few questions forming in her mind but taking a backseat for the moment.

The explanation only made her want to get closer, but Scarlett held herself back. Partly because it felt a bit disrespectful of sorts to touch the blade now that she knew the it was made from Illyana’s soul. And of course, there was still the threat that she could turn to dust, something she wanted to avoid at all costs. The best thing was to keep her hands away from the sword.

“The coolest things are always the most dangerous. Makes sense.” she remarked with a slight grin on her face. “So only you can wield it? Kinda like Thor's hammer. That's interesting.”

     It was a wonder how the daughter of Clint Barton and Natasha Romanova had managed to track down the Queen of Limbo . . . but perhaps when your parents were super assassins ? You shouldn't put it passed someone like Scarlett to figure it out .

     Now realizing she wasn't alone in the secluded woods overlooking a breathtaking waterfall , the bare woman would shut the ancient tome she had been reading ; turning to face the other as the question was posed , ❝ It's the truth .❞ . Illyana was now rising to her feet , approaching the blade in question and hoisting it from the soil it had once penetrated , ❝ The sword is fabricated out of my soul . . . once stolen from me by my ex-husband . ❞

     Belasco . . . that Ублюдок . . . ❝ So if someone besides me even so much as graze a finger tip across it ? Well , пыль на ветру . ❞

[fraudulent-cheese]

Total Drama, but it's funny tags i got from @/dear-ao3

[batcavescolony]

I see a lot of people upset about William Kaplan being dead and no one mourning him cus Billy stole his body and I just don't see it that way. The kid in Wanda Vision is Billy Maximoff, The teenager at the Bar Mitzvah is William Kaplan, the Teen that got taken to the hospital after the wreck is neither and both Billy Maximoff and William Kaplan. That Teen went home with the abilities of Billy Maximoff, to the home of William Kaplan, with memories of neither and lived there for three years. He cares about Rebecca and Jeff, he lied to the to protect them from pain, they are his parents. He wants to find Tommy, he has magical powers, he wants to know who he is. All of these things are true. I wouldn't say William Kaplan is dead he just doesn't remember, like Agatha wasn't dead when he was Agnes, she just didn't remember.

[milliemuus]

Hey guys before y'all play Mochi Mayhem can y'all watch my son

(Original by c1trusshark on twitter)

[mudwerks]

(via Lawyers say OpenAI could be in real trouble with Scarlett Johansson - The Verge)

let’s hope they are in REAL TROUBLE with this one

[melaclintbartoncorner]

I‘m not crying you are!

[endversewinchester]

One of the funniest bits of Caraval is Scarlett gets taken to this magical island, enters a notebook, dies for a day, sees people get stabbed, hears someone getting tortured on a secret underground passage (seriously, what was that), sees a mangled corpse AND her fianceé rip up her boyfriend's face leaving a permanent scar and then at the end of it all when she asks Julian if that is really his name he's OFFENDED

"pfffff what? No, that would be too far."

My brother in christ read the room.

[l-dvna-l]

This is probably a big stretch but like—to me they are the same ship in another universe

[theosconfessions]

if youd like to read the stephens from the beginning you can over here :)

if youd like to read the stephens continued you can over here:)

@ohsosims

blake- im just saying shes obsessed with me and you need to talk to her. get her to stop. all im hearing is shit from the guys now..instead of football its like hey did you bang her too. its a whole thing

river-goddamnit youre so cute,ted

blake- riv ! are you hearing anything im saying

river: i am but im having a hard time sympathizing with it to be honest,man

blake - we were broken up man

river: i know. im not faulting you for having a fling with someone. the issue isnt that. i did it too. the problem is it was SID. and you knew that was her boyfriend

blake- you dontknow the whole story man. it was more on the level than you think

river- i dont want to know the whole story. because its probably going to make you look like an asshole.and we're in a good place now,right? we have teddie.we are getting a new house finally. we're in a good place

blake: i know but its just irritating me that she has this way to speak what she said happened and i dont

river- i may be pulling a my dad here but i do not want to know if it was anything more than what she saying. you did something shitty. youre owning it now. leave it where it lies, man seriously. like just take the hit. you did something shitty because of who it was with . she has the right to be upset about it no matter how 'on the level ' it was. like just man up blake . we're 22 years old. like grow the fuck up. im putting him to bed

blake- riv

river- dude if you followed me in here to fight..no

blake-i followed you in here to say youre right. i was kinda like makign excuses for the things ive done and i dont want to do that. i dont want to be another version of your dad so youre right. and ill just.. keep my mouth shut.

river- im not saying keep your mouth shut. but probably..possibly..maybe find it in yourself to maybe apologize to scarlett. you literally have never done it

blake- theres no way she'll give me the time of day man. shes hard to talk to . as soon as i walk in the room she walks out

river- well again, you slept with her boyfriend. id do the same. HELL i do the same whenever im at your games and that prick comes up to me. text her. just apologize. youre going to be in eachothers lives even if i divorce you

blake- [laughs] looking into the future

river: [winks] little bit. now get out so i can put ted to bed

[aashiyancha]

After many many moons, I have finished rf5's act 2 plot summary ( totally canon ;])

If you haven't had the chance yet (or just down to read it again) here's the link to the act 1 summary

[tanizakissillyactingcareer]

[scarlettjskipper]

Guys. Guys.

Genshin Asougi held Klint van Zieks' will (and testament) in his soul (Karuma).

[noahtally-famous]

can't believe this hasn't been said before but unhinged!scarlett and unhinged!dave would be an iconic duo. shame pi didn't get a second season bc these two in an alliance would basically succeed in destroying the island, they'd wipe everyone out

the fact that they're both versions of the nerd character so they're already smart in their own ways, the fact that they have absolutely zero fucks to give anymore, their individual darker sides have come out (whether it was hidden consciously (scarlett) or unconsciously (dave)), and they've each attempted to kill/seriously injure one or more contestant(s) (and mess up the island in the process) just to reach their end goal. imagine if these two found a common goal somehow, literally nothing could get in their paths (except possibly each other)

[theofficialuriel]

as much as I hate the Joe Chill’s daughter x Bruce thing being canonized… it would make some good fanfic content. Specifically, fics where the Batfam is convinced Bruce is going through a mental breakdown (he is) and try to end their relationship (they succeed)

[randomnameless]

Artbook stuff !

Albion people under the cut ft Baltro !

Given how Albion received less development and screentime than the other regions because of, I suppose, issues that had VW speed the release date, the characters from that place are memorable, even if they have, as said above, less screentime, and less rapport convos.

Raenys, despite sharing her name with what characters from a certain verse, is one of the feathered people, a captain of Albion's guard (or a soldier?) and she's introduced as someone who's leading a resistance force against Zenoira, but she's overnumbered, and the church (BaD) where her allies are recovering is under assault.

I can't say anything about her looking like a "mansion maid" or a "widow", but it sure makes her different and stand out from the other feathered.

Kuddos for Raenys to cheer up Sanation in their rapport convo, as in, she's one who tells him that despite the people of Albion hating him and thinking he colluded willfully with Zenoira, he actually had his hands tied : she understands it and tells him that in that situation, whatever he did had been for the best.

As a unit...

Feathered units can't kill things on their own (save with specific builds) but they are top tier support units and damn nuisances to fight against - Feather bows, like Raenys, can put a "blind" status on foes to make them miss their next strike, even if it was supposed to be a true strike. And given how that "blind status" is an AoE move, basically, if you don't have anti-blindness stuff slapped on your units, it's basically one free turn for them when your units are sitting ducks.

Ummels!

She's the same class as Ochlys, the feathered sword we got way back in Cornia.

I get the devs gave her "droopy" eyes and a rounder hairstyle to differentiate her from Ochlys, but imo that design was translated in the writing about this character : Ummels's droppy eyes can mean that she's looking down/is upset/depressed because, in the game, she fights for Zenoira since they took her younger brother hostage! And the "round" and soft hairstyle could serve as a contrast with how she used to be Scarlett's best friend back when they were kids and, in general, a soft/kind person (which makes Scarlett notice something's wrong with her supposed allegeance to Zenoira).

Unit wise, Feather Swords are less impressive than the other Feathered units, but they're the only ones who can reliably dish out damage, based on the number of bonuses they have.

Being a winged units means they have an advantage against ponies, and when they use their shields to parry, they don't die to the first truestrike arrow thrown in their direction.

Speaking about shields...

Feathershields!

We only have one playable and named unit in this class (but we can recruit generics!) and... I understand why lol.

They are basically a res tank who can deflect magic to return it against the casters (especially funny against witches who have their 'quick cast + blizzard' combo that is supposed to freeze your party at the start of battle), they have more def than other flying units, they can recover their passive points very easily and can even deflect status!

Thing is, they can't attack for shit, unlike the werebears.

I'd say the human version of the "shield unit", the Hoplite can protect a row of allies, is unkillable by physical units (save for breakers!) and can't kill anyone even if they try - the bestral version trades some defence and "protect allies" against reasonable (and ridiculous) damage - the feathered version, unlike the other two, laughs at magic and magic users, can protect allies (but not entire rows!) and has reasonable def, but much like the Hoplite, they can't kill anything.

As for Fodoquir (Fodoquia?) as an unit...

With the limited screentime he got, we learn, mostly in his paralogue, that he didn't accept the Zenoiran conquest and led his city in a resistance movement... only for his own people to be fed up with the fighting, because food shortages and, well, there was no end in sight, so to "convince" him to surrender, they "offered" Fodoquia's own son to the Zenoirans, and to kill his spirit, they were the ones who ultimately killed him.

As expected, Fodoquia abandonned the fight, and took his resentment on his people, basically telling Alain, who comes with his army in tow to "liberate" the city from Zenoira, that the people here don't want to be liberated - when we know it's not true anymore since, surprisingly, after killing a kid, Zenoirans still invaded the city and treated its people like shit.

Fodoquia wants to die to join his son wherever he is, but ultimately accepts to go on living again, and to help the Liberation Army.

As for the dev notes... I couldn't understand a thing lol, save for the fact they tried to make him different from the other male characters from the cast, but given how the feathershields are shaped (inverted triangles) I'd say that even with a less square face, Fodoquir'd still be unique enough.

Jerome is a knight, aka the same class as Clive, Renault and Adel.

Interestingly, he is the only named non Cornian knight we can recruit, and is apparently in charge of a city.

The devs designed him as a "what should I do, join the LA or continue siding with Zenoira, what about the people, maybe I should bake a pie" character which can look frivolous - and was mostly designed as such, to bring some comic relief to the otherwise heavy Albion arc.

However, given how the pies are baked for his people, who love him for this, maybe I'm pulling strings but Jerome's basically wondering what he should do, and settles on "doing things for my people/helping them", ultimately accepting his execution at Alain's hands... until one of his subordinates (Lotti iirc!) and the town's people he cares so much about, tell the LA that while Jerome has accepted the Zenoiran conquest, he did it quite fast, so Zenoira would have had no reason to bring the fight to the city/target the city and its people.

It's the... complete inverse of the situation Fodoquia was in, and I miss the lack of rapport convo between the two, or a convo between him and Clive.

His rapport convos have him be quite cautious, and in the Alain one, he basically keeps on worrying about his city.

Nigel and his dong armor!

(don't mind the flash)

Apparently the devs are happy to have designed his armor with fake pectoral muscles, and the armor was actually something Arant took from the Sanctuary and gave him when Zenoira invaded?

The timeline/actions of what happened in Albion is a bit muddy though, but at least it means Arant didn't gave up as I first thought and wanted to fight against Zenoira, before realising that he was going to lose (then he had Nigel in his black armor take Scarlett away?).

I've already wrote a bit about the Albion plot and the role both Nigel and Sanation play which feels, uh, really convoluted, especially regarding Scarlett's involvment, to make the party fight in Albion - but bar that, Nigel's mostly a serious knight who wants to protect the Orthodoxy, who's popular with the people of Albion (both knights and randoms).

Unlike Hermann who has the same play time as he does, Nigel, despite being a NPC, is inserted in the artbook with the playable characters, even if he doesn't have any rapport conversation.

Unit wise, Nigel's dark marquess' variant uses a lot of fire and inflicts burns as a status, but unlike Eligor, when he protects his allies, he doesn't penalise them, instead, he gets another free action.

Sanatio is the boss of the Albion arc, thanks to, again, what I feel is the most convoluted story arc written to "have a boss".

His class, feather staff, cannot resurrect people unlike human clerics, but he can heal a lot of HP and even "overheal", aka give more HP than an unit's HP bar. There are also fun stuff like "preventive healing", aka healing an unit before it takes any damage, but given how late he joins, I didn't have a lot of occasions to use him.

As a character, he wants to apologise and atone for having been deceived by Baltro and turned against Scarlett (even if, again, that plot was... something) and basically becomes the unit to reveal that Alain's the saviour (of Albion or of Fevrith?) which, again, brought the "chosen one" plot to a table that definitely didn't need it.

Lack of diversity in his rapport convos hurt him a lot, save for the Ochlys one where it basically becomes a "childish" contest and the random Melisandre one, it's often centered of him feeling like shit after the Albion arc, and wanting to atone.

Maybe because his most important relationship is with Nigel, who cannot have any rapports? IDK.

FWIW though, I really wanted to like using him, but poor character availability and too few interesting rapport convos at first made me meh, until I noticed some part of the fandom's vitriol against the guy which made me laugh a bit.

Baltro is UO's version of FE's "Gharnef archetype", aka an evil sorcerer who plots behind the "Red Emperor's" back to fulfill his own goals, even if, according to the devs, Baltro's movitations are "for the lols" + "for science" + "why not".

His role as a necromancer is only put to the forefront in the Elheim arc when he revives elves to have them fight for him, but imo, it was teased in the Cornian/Drakengard ones with the "mysterious plagues" he brought there.

(maybe they are the ones protecting him or attacking in his animations?)

I guess the reveal that he was going to betray Zenoira/Galvius was foreshadowed in Elheim when we first fight him, because he doesn't have Zenoira's banner! Much like Alcina, Baltro's in this situation for his own goals, he doesn't have any allegeance to Zenoira himself.

Design wise, I like how eery he feels compared to the other characters, even his animations feel "odd", but I'm glad I noticed in my first playthrough how his "dying" animation is actually his lantern's glow growing more and more dim, until it's finally gone.

[midnightsun-if]

What are the thoughts of the ros after meeting mc for the first time? This will be fun to return to once they get into the deep romance 👀

Koda: He thinks you’re interesting, he was tasked with helping you find the dorm and will definitely offer to carry some of your bags with him. He’d like to be friends with you, but doesn’t want to come off too extreme.

Scarlett: The actual first time? You met Scarlett when you were human, and Scarlett tends to veer away from them. Of course, the customary greetings needed to happen and Scarlett was nothing but cordial. However, she thought you were foolish for knowingly going into the belly of the beast.

Cyrus/Cyra: They’re so flustered the first time that they meet you that they don’t truly have a first reaction— other than being completely apologetic. They do note how cool your skin feels against their natural warmth though.

Quinn: They’re intrigued. You’re the person they’ve heard so much about? You’re not at all like they imagined, and they’re interested in finding out more. For now? They’ll just simply wait to see what happens.

Caden: They didn’t really have any strong first impression thoughts— they just associated you with being their employer and that’s about it. They did think you had a nice smile though.

Sloane: They want you to get the fuck away from them, they’re fine without having some vamp mess with them, and even more fine with not having a whole ass entourage come too, but they realize they have to begrudgingly come with you because you’re headed to the dorm too.

Blake: It was your eyes, something in your eyes told them that they could trust you, and that’s the first thought that they had. That you had kind eyes, even with everything going on around you, and they wanted to stick around and have that gaze be on them.

Reginald/Regina: They’re mainly thinking— holy shit I’m talking to an actual vampire right now. They’re sort of looking you over to see if vampires are like what the myths say or if they’re different— growing more and more curious with each moment that passes.