#she is not doing well out of prison
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
Voltober 15. The Ones Who've Hurt You - From Dust to Ashes
Author's notes: Welcome to me playing with a man's trauma for all of our enjoyment!
Challenges Masterlist - Voltober 14
Content: human whumpee, traumatized whumpee, fear, seeing whumper in public, caretaker protecc!
@voltober
Seeing Whumper on the Street | âThis is for __â | Whumper Turned Whumpee
Kyle allowed himself to be cajoled out to the store with Joseph more and more these days. It was getting bad for his wallet and he had no idea how Joseph managed to keep up his own funds, but he wasnât too upset about it. He had finished his degree and had a good position in anthropology circles. He could always find a place willing to pay him to speak if he needed some extra cash.
Joseph was chatting at him as they pulled up to the grocery store and Kyle checked his shopping list to see if he needed anything. He had already bought everything he needed on Monday, so this would mostly just be a snack run for him.
âAnd Iâm thinking of doing this whole roast like my grandma used to do. Thing is, Muir doesnât really like beef, but I think there will be plenty of sides to keep him happy, and if heâs still hungry he can make himself a sandwich because Iâm getting my roast dang it! Would you like to join us for that?â
âSure,â Kyle said, putting his phone away.
They got out of the car and walked toward the store, Joseph planning out loud what they would need.
They got inside and Joseph was immediately distracted in the juice section.
Kyle looked around, feeling a little out of his body. He had spent all day reading a book written by an ancient vampire about life and the things she had seen and was still feeling a little unreal as Joseph had stirred him out of his book very suddenly before whisking him off to the store.
He tried too bring his mind to the present, shaking his head a little and murmuring to Joseph that he was going to look at the snacks.
The store was pretty quiet as it was a bit too late in the evening for humans to want to be going to the store but still too bright and warm for most vampires to want to be out and about either. Not that Joseph cared either way.
Kyle walked into the snack aisle, looking over the cookies and candies the story had to offer.
He picked out a couple packs and then paused and put one back. He should probably find a healthier snack. Maybe baby carrots?
He left the aisle and rounded a corner to the vegetable and fruits section, glancing over the crowd.
His chest gave an involuntary pang where he had been shot about three years ago and he rubbed at it nonchalantly until he realized what had brought the memory back.
There was a woman, her hair much shorter than it once was, older, sadder, and wearing baggy clothing picking through the fruit.
Joanna. Joanna was standing there in the same store as Kyle. The woman who had shot him was OUT OF JAIL! He knew that she had gotten a light sentencing because people didnât take the pain of vampires that seriously so they didnât really punish her much for what she did to Esial, but sheâd also shot him! And Kyle was human. Why was she out so soon? Why hadnât he been notified? Had she escaped from prison? There was no way sheâd be here just looking through the apples if sheâd escaped prison. Was there?
She looked up and her eyes locked with Kyleâs wide ones.
Kyle didnât even see her reaction to him, turning and bolting, dropping the cookies he had grabbed in his desperate search for Joseph. Joseph had the keys. They needed to get out and drive away very very fast. He needed to get away from here and call the police.
He awkwardly tried to get his phone out of his back pocket while sprinting through the store. He found Joseph and practically crashed into him, grabbing his arm. âWe have to get out of here,â he gasped, shaky fingers trying to dial 911.
âWoah, calm down! Whatâs going on-â
âJoanna!â Kyle croaked. âSheâs here!â
âHere?â Joseph asked, a rare look of rage darkened his face. âYouâre sure?â
âI am! Letâs go please!â
Joseph nodded and, after a regretful look at his cart, abandoned it. Kyle felt rather touched by the gesture. Joseph would never abandon his cart for anything he didnât consider serious.
Joseph and Kyle made their way toward the entrance, pausing only to apologize to an employee for abandoning the cart, before they made it to the exit.
The only issue was Joanna had the same thought.
The three froze and Kyle stood stunned as Joseph got in front of him, baring his fangs at Joanna. âWhat are you doing here!?â
The people nearby froze, surprised by the sudden aggression from a vampire in public.
Joanna put her hands up quickly. âIâm leaving.â
âArenât you supposed to be in jail?â Joseph snarled, drawing the attention of more customers. Security would likely be there soon.
âIâm out on probation for good behavior,â she said quickly. âIâm leaving. Iâm going. Iâm sorry.â
âYou should be!â Joseph practically spat.
He watched as she darted out and he relaxed with a sigh.
He turned to Kyle and put a hand on his arm. âAre you alright?â
Kyle nodded numbly as security got there.
Joseph explained the situation to the men and was given the permission to keep shopping so they wouldnât have to go out and maybe see Joanna in the parking lot.
As they returned to the cart, Kyle stared at the items Joseph had collected inside for a long moment before he asked, âDo you think Muir would be annoyed if I stay the night at your guysâ place?â
âNo, not at all. Especially after all that,â Joseph said, annoyance in his tone for the situation, not at Kyle.
Kyle relaxed a little and nodded. âIâm not sure if Iâll get much sleep.â
Josephâs expression softened and he stepped around the cart, pulling Kyle into a hug.
Kyle hesitantly hugged him back, embarrassed about doing so in public, but relieved nonetheless.
âWeâre always going to have your back, man. Donât be afraid to ask,â Joseph told him before leaning back and smiling up at him. âNow, do you want to help me with my list?â
Kyle sighed, smiling shakily. âYeah. Iâd love to.â
VTB Part 16
FDTA Masterlist
From Dust to Ashes Taglist: @whumpsday @honeycollectswhump @writereleaserepeat @tragedyinblue @hyrules-sleepiest-knightÂ
@why-not-ask-me-a-better-question @thecyrulik @gt-daboss @currentlyinthespiral @pigeonwhumps @not-a-space-alien
#whump#whump writing#human whumpee#traumatized whumpee#fear#seeing whumper in public#protective caretaker#voltober#from dust to ashes#joseph#kyle#I love them so much#joanna#we hate her though#feeling violent about her always#she is not doing well out of prison#and we're happy about it#vtb-no.15
11 notes
·
View notes
Text
Iâll never forget when I was arguing with a person in favor of total prison abolition and I asked them âwhat about violent offenders?â And they said âWell, in a world where prisons have been abolished, weâll have leveled the playing field and everyone will have their basic needs met, and crime wonât be as much of an issue.â And then I was like âokay. ButâŠno. Because rich people also rape and murder, so it isnât just a poor person thing. So what will we do about that?â And I donât think they answered me after that. Iâm ashamed to say I continued to think that the problem was that I simply didnât understand prison abolitionists enough and that their point was right in front of me, and it would click once I finally let myself understand it. It took me a long time to realize that if something is going to make sense, it needs to make sense. If you want to turn theory into Praxis (Iâm using that word right donât correct me Iâll vomit) everyone needs to be on board, which mean it all needs to click and it needs to click fast and fucking clear. You need to turn a complex idea into something both digestible and flexible enough to be expanded upon. Every time I ask a prison abolitionist what they actually intend to do about violent crime, I get directed to a summer reading list and a BreadTuber. Itâs like a sleight-of-hand trick. Whereâs the answer to my question. There it is. No wait, there it is. Itâs under this cup. No it isnât. âThereâs theory that can explain this better than I can.â As if most theory isnât just a collection of essays meant to be absorbed and discussed by academics, not the average skeptic. âRead this book.â And the book wonât even answer the question. The book tells you to go ask someone else. âOh, watch this so-and-so, she totally explains it better than me.â Why canât you explain it at all? Why did you even bring it up if you were going to point me to someone else to give me the basics that you should probably already know? Maybe Iâm just one of those crazy people who thinks that some people need to be kept away from the public for everyoneâs good. Maybe that just makes me insane. Maybe not believing that pervasive systemic misogyny could be solved with a UBI and a prayer circle makes me a bad guy. But itâs not like womenâs safety is a priority anyway. Itâs not like there is an objective claim to be made that re-releasing violent offenders or simply not locking them up is deadly.
#Iâm sorry#there are just people out here who need punishment and to be contained and rehabilitation will not work#like Iâm one of the more insane people who thinks that you can rehabilitate anyone if they want to change and learn from their behavior#ANYONE#but there are people out here who do not and will not ever want it#and those people shouldnât get a pass because you read incomplete abolitionist theory once#and now you think that a UBI would solve everything#thatâs the thing about most abolitionists that Iâve noticed#once you press them on the hard shit#they go#well there are some good books on the subject#there are some other creators#okay#and what have those other books and creators said?#Tee Noir once started off a video telling people not to ask her to defend her defense of prison abolition#they should just âGoogle itâ she said (or something like that)#now I donât watch Tee Noir#gothra#feminism#social justice#prison abolition#criminal justice#prison reform#tw vomit
924 notes
·
View notes
Text
I'm so sad
I didn't want to fight Cocoa cause she cute.
Now I don't want to fight her cause she's kicking my ass. (ÂŽăïŒżăïœ)
#nu carnival#Sasuga head maid#She takes no prisoners#She is slapping the shit out of me#Ive gone through three teams already#Cocoa please have mercy /(ăoă)/~~#I wont do anything bad#Well maybe touch Dante chest#And get smacked by Olivine#But not try to get the cafe closed down#I promise Ë( ° âœă° )
10 notes
·
View notes
Text
I am loathe to say itâs the Devilâs taste.
Finally got around to redesigning my PC Tatyana. Sheâs my main character, but as mentioned, I havenât gotten to play Demetria in campaign for a bit because sheâs been sealed up in Ravenloft with another PC. Iâve said it before but my DM had every one of their players make two characters right off the bat in case of death. So far, I think everyone except one has had to play their backup because of temporary/permanent death or incapacitation. Smart move, then! I love playing Emilia but I miss Dima!
#curse of strahd#dnd#dungeons and dragons#dnd fanart#whatâs happened to her since I last updated uhhhh#oh dima got bodied because strahd found out she brought back Leo. and by that I mean bitten.#She released a prisoner in Ravenloft and no one knows except Escher who she convinced to do it#mostly itâs been a tortured and gothic existence#dnd character#dungeons and dragons art#cos pc#CoS PC: Demetria#I redesigned Dima to better match what was in my head#and because I saw someone had tagged a piece of art of her (by a friend) as Ireena#I really didnât want Ireena to be tagged as a hwite woman#even as a different character#it sort of fundamentally bugged me for weeks.#so I figured I might as well make the change Iâve wanted to since she was revealed as being the taty soul holder#not that every pc ireena/tatyana has to do this. just my personal cup o tea!#so uh yeah thatâs it!!!!
85 notes
·
View notes
Text
so⊠in the additional media of stranger things (specifically the comics iâm mentioning), it was initially brennerâs idea/plan to kill off the other test subjects because they werenât performing as well as eleven was. it was his best solution because that way, all the resources, time, and money could instead be placed only to her. and i justâŠ. sure henry is a fine character and the massacre makes a lot of sense to me, but i think i am once again gonna change up my canon to actually fit this potential narrative instead.
i genuinely think the comic canon of the lab and brenner is far more intriguing than the show. everything with 9/9.5, ricky, and francine. eleven being the only one who grew up completely in the lab. those other kids were either volunteers, well into their teens, or had some semblance of a home life. eleven was the only one practically moulded from the womb. and they all had such a range of interesting powers. i firmly stand with the idea that jane is the only one who can contact the void.
brennerâs entire point of view on the lab subjects changed the second he found out terry was pregnant. he discovered he could steal this baby and make her his own. there would be no convincing the child because itâs all she would have ever known. because of this, i would not put it past a man like brenner to kill the other subjects for the sake of the âgreater goodâ in this case, eleven.
elevenâs gifts just continue thriving beyond his wildest expectations. brenner would never dare assume that having moulded her from the womb, she would still be able to grow into her own person, her own mind, and one day be able to see him for exactly who he was.
back before season four aired, it was obvious there were other test subjects because jane was 011. so there were at least ten kids before her. but i always liked the idea/assumed that she was the last experiment because she was the most successful. that they didnât need anyone after her because she was fulfilling everything they set out for her to do. with flying colours.
i just think the whole rainbow room idea, pitting the kids against each other thing⊠been there, done that. boring and predictable. i think at this point my portrayal of her time in hawkins lab really stems from the complete isolation she endured. where having the rainbow room, although eleven was obviously the most isolated out of the kids, brings that sense of community and sister/brotherhood. albeit extremely warped and toxic. knowing that she wasnât alone in that experience just. doesnât sit well with me. i think itâs important to note that she was alone, physically and mentally. which is why kali is also so important to her growth. i thought a lot of the flashbacks of her time in the lab during season four was really boring, repetitive, and just very predictable. although peter becoming vecna was a surprise to me, and was a nice little twist, the idea of her having an ally on the inside was really interesting.
maybe they did get as far as they do in canon, peter ballad was telling the truth about everything, about some of the workers there being prisoners like him, and he really wanted to get her out and to safety. but before they can escape through the pipes, theyâre caught. peter is shot on the spot, and eleven is put into the isolation room for a few days as punishment. in this timeline, henry would be vecna, but henry would not be peter ballad.
when eleven turned seven, and was already showing extreme promise, where the other children were average at best, brenner had the eight children killed. kali had already escaped. this was the main cause for peter to gain elevenâs trust and try to get her out. because if brenner could murder his âchildrenâ in cold blood, thereâs no way eleven was safe even in spite of her power.
when eleven is allowed out of the isolation room, her testing becomes more rigorous in attempt to distance and make her forget about what she attempted to do with peter. brenner begins gaslighting her, saying that there was never a peter, that she must have been dreaming. eleven does ask âpapaâ about âmamaâ, given peter told her of the day terry broke in the lab, but brenner is convincing enough to make eleven believe it was all in her head. say she is around eight years old, meaning the same timeline of season fours canon flashbacks.
i still do wanna keep the henry creel canon, and keep him as 001. brenner didnât have him killed alongside the other test subjects, because who knows, one day he could become an even better asset than 011. brenner definitely wants to be able to control henry, but keeps the chip in him because, for the moment, doesnât know how. killing him would be too big of a loss.
when eleven is ten years old, henryâs concealed powers break free and he manages to get the chip out himself, and unleashes hell onto hawkins lab. he almost kills brenner by snapping his bones, but eleven manages to stop him. her extreme abilities are unleashed, and she sends henry to the upside down. she does fall into a coma due to the extremity of the situation, but she does not forget what happened. brenner believes sheâs the perfect weapon as she stepped in to save him without a second thought, was able to defeat henry, and opened a door to something he never thought possible. eleven is rewarded for her efforts. although she remembers the entire battle / confrontation, her memories regarding the portal are very hazy.
brenner decides not to focus on the portal straight away, instead gets her training harder and harder to see what else she can accomplish. also loved the idea of brenner sending her into the void to âlook for himâ so that will definitely be kept.
by the time she escapes and season one begins, her knowledge of the upside down is basically what we see in canon. because she passed out the moment after she sent henry away, she was once again gaslighted into believing she merely threw him through the glass and killed him. for two years she believed this, until making contact with the demogorgan, and those memories return completely.
due to her saving brennerâs life, (it was pure instinct. she happened to be there. saw her âpapaâ hurt and knew she had to make him better.) brenner constantly thanks her. but in a very condescending way. tells her: âyou saved me so i can continue saving you.â aka, harness your abilities and see what else i can achieve from you. despite the fact that she saved his life, these words and phrases make her feel indebted to him. that she owes him something further.
i don't realistically see her thriving with her speech improvement until she's well into her twenties at least. her slowed development, sensory and social deprivation causes a serious delay in language. surrounded by other children she would have overheard conversations, some would have spoken to her. her conveniently forgetting her upbringing pre the battle with henry just isn't good enough for me anymore. it makes more sense for her to have been raised alone.
it also helps indicate why she gravitated towards the boys when they found her in the woods. they would have been the first people her age she ever remembered seeing. as far as she knew, during the lab there was no one like her. everyone was much older, they were adults-- although she stayed with benny, i'm not sure if she would have stuck around very long. where she followed the boys home without thought.
also it's important to note that after time, jane does understand that peter ballad was a real person, and was truly the first person (aside from terry) who wanted the best for her. when she remembers him, knows that brenner was lying, she deals with immense guilt regarding his death. he was shot right in front of her eyes, because he was trying to help her. this is another catalyst as to why after season two, jane never refers to brenner as papa. she does not give him that sort of credit.
#studyâ in my dreams it's all real and my heart has so much to reveal.#THINKING THOUGHTS. i have had this concept in mind for a while but i THINK iâve fleshed it out properly now.#will write this up properly one day (never).#although henry offering eleven a place at his side wouldnât be canon#he would definitely still look at her as an enemy for basically stopping his revenge.#AND the whole speech between he and jane never sat right with me.#saying brenner made him what he was / that it wasnt his fault etc. Like. No? henry was a sociopath. he killed his family.#brenner didnât do anything to make him who he is. so jane always saw him for exactly what he was#and thereâs absolutely no sympathy there.#and then regarding my season four canon as her regaining her powers by remembering the massacre/the fight. i am changing that to her#regaining her powers by simply confronting her past. understanding what she went through. finding ways to cope with it physically and#mentally. getting coping mechanisms from her therapist. seeking help. not needing to know WHY this happened to her (because there is not.#and will never be a reason.) but finding ways to accept it and move on. how to move on from eleven and become janessa ives.#also just because in this case henry doesnât massacre a bunch of kids? It doesnât make him any less evil. in this instance i am following#the idea that some of the workers were prisoners there in hawkins lab. and henry killed a bunch of the workers. so would definitely have#killed some innocent people.#just because i am separating peter from henry. does NOT mean i am excusing anything from henry/vecna.#in this case they are two completely different people. although i highkey wanna use jcb as peter because he just did the role SO WELL and#was SO BELIEVABLE iâm not sure about it yet. because i donât want anyone to get the impression that iâm making excuses for henry.#BUT YES.#this be the new canon. <3#idc brenner is such a good fuckin villain heâs disgusting but so intriguing.
15 notes
·
View notes
Text
The thought of Krolia taking over Shiro's role on the Kerberos mission is so funny to me. All she wants to do is a.) figure out a way to get back to her own body and b.) spend time with her son in the meantime, but the human who she has swapped with has obligations that are important to his people's development and more importantly, are very important to the human himself, so it's not like she can just shuck it off on someone else. That would be very rude. This Shiro sounds like he has a very strong sense of responsibility, and she would certainly hate to make the reputation of the man who has been looking after her son take a dive.
Krolia getting a crash course on Earth's space faring technology. She crashes the sim twice while learning the controls, but she gets the hang of it pretty quickly. Krolia pouring over all the details of the Kerberos mission with only like, two months to get a grasp on the whole thing. Thankfully she is an extremely quick study, and if anyone asks, she just claims she's 'reviewing the mission parameters again to make sure she has everything down'. But also Adam having to drag this woman to bed because she is unused to having a human sleep cycle. It's 3 AM Krolia, go the fuck to sleep.
(She also has to get a crash course on how to treat Shiro's disease. She thinks she understands just a little, his drive to get out there and do something great by the standards of his people.)
Also she has to do this all while putting up with Admiral Sanda. She does not like this woman. Adam tells her that she cannot challenge her to combat for her role. Shame. It would make things much simpler. At least the two humans who are to accompany her on this mission are pleasant company, even if she's quite certain she's not entirely fooling Commander Holt. Good thing the truth is so outlandish that no one would ever possibly guess that she is an alien lifeform who has unintentionally taken over this human's body.
(Does she try and push Matt and Keith to become friends? Yes. Absolutely. She gets Adam's full backing on that one.)
Then when she gets to Kerberos, she and the two humans get abducted. By the Galra Empire. She just stares up at the ship for a good few seconds with an incredibly are you fucking kidding me expression on her face.
Sigh. These are not the ideal conditions in which to plan an escape from a Galra cruiser, but she supposes she will have to make do. Thankfully she has not skimped on her training in this body.
#parental figure bodyswap au#krolia forgets for a minute that she can't use any galra tech at the moment#sighs. goes back to rip the arm off the sentry she just took out. this will have to do#and then she runs into herself during their prison break.#oh. well. that will make this easier.#shiro and krolia's awkward and deeply weird chat with each other in the shuttle of their stolen pod
27 notes
·
View notes
Text
no i dont care whatever "data books" have to say about Karin and her loyalty to Orochimaru
she's loyal to him, there's no fucking way she would return to working with him so quickly and easily if she wasnt.
#taking a break // ooc#;; there no reason for her to break out of prison and then continue to follow orochimaru during the last part of the war#;; when sasuke clearly moved on alone and theres no guarantee that shed catch back up with him#;; like#;; why else would she willingly go back and work with them#;; and follow orochimaru around during that final battle#;; it makes legit no sense#;; unless like its weird stochholm syndrome???#;; but its less romantic love and more 'well i have nothing else'#;; but like also doesnt feel like it fits karin since she was doing fine while in prison#;; its not like konoha was treating her poorly in prison#;; she easily could manipulate them as shown by how she can play up her annoying personality to get what she wants#;; 'she holds no loyalty to orochimaru' my fucking ass#;; where the fuck this data book get that she even knew sasuke was taken by orochimaru before the timeskip
5 notes
·
View notes
Note
Hello lovely!
I'd love to read more of the prison AU âšđ€
A group of inmates is trying to push Thena around and a guard with bad intentions is helping her. He grabs her afterwards and pushes her into a corner, wanting something spicy in return for his help. Thena declines and is trying to get away, without success. Sweet Gilgamesh is coming to rescue her.
đ€âšHugs and Love!!âšđ€
"What's going on in here?!"
Thena grunted as she was tossed against the wall again. They had already shoved her around plenty by this point of course. But fighting back against them was a surefire way to get herself penalised.
"Nothing," the other inmate who had done the most pushing and shoving turned with a smile.
Thena blinked as the guard came down the hall and barked at them to keep moving. There was no lingering in unsupervised areas. She stood, dusting off her uniform.
"You okay?"
"Fine," she muttered. She knew which guard this was. She didn't have to talk to each of them, but she knew each of their rotations, which were off weeks and which were on. It kept her mind occupied.
This guard was in his late 50s, recently divorced, had two kids who sounded very reluctant to have him in their lives, judging by how he was always saying he had games of theirs to go see and then would be working that night anyway.
"You sure?" he stepped closer, hands on his utility belt. "You look a little roughed up."
"I'm fine," she repeated. She tried to step around him but he moved into her path again.
"Y'know," he began, and she should have known. He leaned against the wall, his arm up against it, in the way of her head. "I can step in and protect you like this any time. Although I would wanna know that you're, uh, grateful, if you catch my drift."
She avoided his eyes as well. Looking people in the eyes only ever riled them up in here. "No, thank you."
He scoffed, "no thank you?--that what you said?"
"Yes," she muttered at the ground. She knew very well that he enjoyed the sense of humiliation he could get off some of the inmates in here. "Excuse me."
"You're excused when I excuse you."
Thena eyed the arm of his in her way. This hallways was already isolated enough for the other women to know it was good roughing up territory. A guard like him could get away with any number of things down here.
"So," the guard grinned at her, "you got a smile for me, gen-pop?"
Thena backed up against the wall again, but he followed her. His hand moved to her shirt, "don't."
She'd claw his face off if she really had to, longer sentence be damned.
"What the hell do you think you're doing?!"
Her eyes raised again, and they met his before she could help it. But she knew this guard, too. This was the one who made sandwiches at home and brought them in to work. It was Gilgamesh.
"Just making sure this one gets back to her pen."
Gilgamesh didn't even pretend to believe it. He marched over to them, wearing the same uniform as the other guard but taller, and twice as strong. "Don't give me that shit, I have eyes on it and everything."
The other guard just shrugged, "I kept a fight from breaking out is all. She offered to, uh, y'know."
Thena kept her expression passive. This creep could say whatever he wanted about her, she didn't care. And she didn't care if Gilgamesh believed him or not.
"Don't give me that bullshit either," Gilgamesh growled in the face of his fellow guard. "No one's offering to suck your broken old dick, especially not this one. So are you gonna walk away with a shred of dignity or do I need to bring this footage to the warden?"
Thena looked up as Gilgamesh gathered the front of the shirt of the other guard and tossed him aside. She remained where she was, but Gilgamesh's shoulder partially came between them just by its natural width.
"Fuck you," the other guard picked himself up and stalked off, surely to abuse his power elsewhere, "ass kisser."
"No one's offering you that either," Gilgamesh shouted after him to get one last dig in at him. "Old creep."
"Thanks," Thena muttered down at the ground.
"Hey." For such a big guy, in such a stressful work environment, he sure had a gentle voice. "You okay?"
"I'm fine."
"I was checking the cameras when I saw him leaning over you," Gilgamesh said gently, taking a step away from her until she had the amount of space to which she was accustomed. "What happened?"
She sighed, still looking down at her regulation nonslip shoes. "The three with the smuggling business left me my share of lunch today, but I think they were expecting something in return from me. I didn't have it, so they figured they would try and shake me down for it."
"Oh really," he frowned.
"He came along and," she shrugged, "what he wanted in exchange was more tangible, I suppose."
"I've reported him before but it never seems to go anywhere," Gil scowled in the direction their little friend had scurried. "Maybe if I have something like this, I can finally get him at least transferred to different work, or something."
"One could hope." She tried to drag herself back to her cell again but once again found herself blocked. She looked up, though, finding the deep brown eyes of Mister Gilgamesh. "What?"
He sighed, maybe getting the hint that even if he could do something about it - which he couldn't - it didn't mean she wanted him to. His shoulders wilted and he got this sad puppy look on his face, "nothing, I guess. Just...I'm around, you know. If anything..."
"Are you offering to come to my aid?" she asked him, letting him know how unimpressed she was with the offer.
"Yeah, I guess I am," he offered a jovial and sheepish smile. "I know I must sound like any old asshole. But I mean it--no strings attached."
She gave him a smirk as he began walking her back to her cell, "you don't want a little something?--not even a peek on shower day?"
He blushed. The massive bear of a guard blushed and averted his eyes from her, "okay, okay."
"Sorry," she snickered to herself, "this place has turned me deviant."
He shrugged, "you're tough, you adapted to survive. The ones who don't, don't tend to last. But you're smart enough to figure that out, huh?"
She most certainly was.
"Also, as far as those other three are concerned, if I see them withholding food I'm not gonna just leave it."
"Do as you please," she muttered. What he did while on the job wasn't any of her concern. All she had to do was keep her head down and not do anything to get her sentence lengthened.
"I know you said you had lunch, but," Gil rustled something in his pocket, "was it the burnt corner piece again?"
Thena looked down at the sandwich he flashed at her from his side cargo pocket, like they were exchanging the most dangerous of goods. Well, contraband was contraband. But he did make really good sandwiches. "What is it today?"
"Chicken katsu with curry mayo."
God, he really was a good cook. And just because she'd had lunch didn't mean it was really the freshest serving anyway. And Druig did comment that he was worried about how much weight she had lost (even claiming he didn't think she had any to spare, anyway).
When crossing the doorway Thena snatched the sandwich from him, slipping it under her uniform top and crossing her arms around it. "Thanks."
Gilgamesh smiled, his eyes meeting hers, "any time, really."
#Thenamesh Inmate AU#have I mentioned I really like this AU?#I may not know what it's like to be in prison#but I did watch the season of criminal minds when Reid is in jail#so there's that#Thena hoards the sandwich to herself and eats it during lights out#someone's like I can hear you eating#she says mind your fuckin' business#next time Druig sees her he goes hey you look a little better#are they feeding you better?#'Cause if they're not I swear to fucking-#she says yes she's eating better it's fine#Druig is like okay well whatever you're doing keep it up#when it's over he stands back and watches her get led out#there's this big guard at the edge of the room and he sees him...talk to Thena?#and he sees Thena talk to him???#Druig is suspicious but he's all but shoved out the door#next time he comes in he asks Thena all about him because he has cyber stalked poor Gilgamesh for talking to his big sister
13 notes
·
View notes
Photo
oh ok
#succession#tomgreg#OH MY GOD THE SCENE IS THIS CLOSE AFTER?!?? i thought i had some time !!! i jqqqqqqq#man. man. mn!!!!aman!!!!man!!!!!!!!!!!!!! man.#matt johnson you would love tomgreg#what the fuck is this scene though i want to die i PHYSICally want to di e Eeeeeeeeeee#he........i .........fkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkmmmmmmmmmmmm#ok. okok. ok . novel tags ok i can think through my absolute fucking grief. ok so basically.#tom giving greg advice about prison. and then greg like basically begs to have tom take the rap for him. but not directly.#he can never say things directly. but tom translates. and it doesn't take him long to say fine. load me up. you piece of shit.#but he doesn't even mean the latter statement he's too sad. and he won't fight. the fight is all gone out of him.#so much for greg being expendable though huh?#look me in the eyes and tell me tom isn't in love with greg at least a little. yall telling me you'd take the rap for someone and go to jail#for them if you didn't love them? ok bestie you do you#i kind of like as well the comparison of the conversation between them and him and shiv like. it's very similar in that him and greg are#saying sentences that are parts of different conversations like him and shiv's convo ALTHOUGH it is still related bc it's to do with jail#she wouldn't even talk about that subject at all. and then it correlates to the whole. nero and sporus thing right. and the dressing up/ring#ALSO THE FACT HE DIDNT WANNA SLEEP WITH HER AND HES OUT LATE AT A DINER WITH GREG I GET IT G IS HIS MISTRESS#but anyway.#and the WAYYYYYYY greg's voice breaks and the way he looks at tom with pleading eyes and it looks like he's about to cry#that's what does it for tom i think. that's what breaks him. he can't bear the thought of greg suffering for months.#which makes me believe that that is why he was so sad earlier when greg was asking for advice. he doesn't like greg to suffer#by other hands of course. if it's by his hands that's another matter BUT THATS ANOTHER CAN OF WORMS#LIKE I KNOW ITS KIND OF AN ASSHOLE MOVE OF GREG BUT AT THE SAME TIME HES LIKE. idk early 20s. 26ish latest???#and i would be fucking terrified i'm 30 and i still don't know what the fuck is going on i don't know how i am still alive so i get it.#and if you have someone who has been taking care of you and has in the past flexed their power and money to give you food and parties#and move you up in a company and give you opportunities you most likely would never get. you kinda. latch. and fall into a pattern.#you assume he has a way out for you#has help. i mean greg probably assumed he wouldn't say yes in the first place so he kinda Has to be an asshole for any chance at all tbh.#he even said quid pro quo. but tom didn't even want anything in return. i mean idk what greg could even give him [lol] but still.
39 notes
·
View notes
Text
the prisoner
#slay the princess#i drew this queen and scribbled on her for fun#do i have an art tag#i should make one.......................#the prisoner#i should draw her headless#prisoner is one of my favorite princesses#if ya couldnt tell#tbh tho theyre all my favorites#and shes just beautiful and a little mean#and we get to work together......................#she was the last princess on my first run through the game#i was deliberately trying to be nice for shifty bc i wanted the last one to be special#and i had already gotten damsel so i brought the knife#knowing i could probably still save her#so i guess she has an air of finality to me...#esp bc the ending i ended up getting was the one where you end up in chains next to her#just like in the larger context of the game................#well anyways i felt horribly guilty about that#until#of course#i saw her. in her full self. crawling out of it desperately#looking at me desperately#speaking of permanence and impermanence and suffering#and feeling like i misunderstood her entirely#well. i agreed to go with the shifting mound in the first ending i got.#not even making it through the fight#i love you prisoner#soup shut up challenge#burntsoupart
16 notes
·
View notes
Text
my therapist is so bad with lgbt stuff but ughhh it's so hard to find a decent therapist
#oxbow.txt#I need a girl I can talk to about my internalized bullshit#like me sitting around terrified by the knowledge that I am in a prison of my own design#it's like that story about the well#trapped in the dark out of fear that I'd fail in my escape#one time I explained to my therapist why I found being assigned a gender painful and she had nothing to say aside from a look of horror#I just. What if someone told you that you would become something new and think thoughts you find abhorrent and there is no escape.#Now what if you had to wake up every morning and answer to a stranger's name and wear a stranger's clothes and pretend to love it#every day it feels like I'm being buried alive but the worst part is that I'm doing it to myself in a way#I am being erased and overwritten and one day I will scream and no one will hear me#sometimes I wish I could just silently mercy kill the actual me in a way such that no one outside would notice. just keep the facade.#then I wouldn't be scratching at the lid of my metaphorical coffin. then it would be quiet.
4 notes
·
View notes
Text
My druid has "fuckboy" written all over her
#speculation nation#shes a druid but she does Not look it. nor does she act like it really.#druid stuff exists to beef myself up as a front liner (spores druid ftw)#and to act as an excuse like 'whaaaat why r u so suspicious of me im a druid đ„șđ„șđ„ș i just want what's best for nature đ„șđ„șđ„ș'#meanwhile here i am hogging ALL the worms we manage to find (or. well. most of them.)#bc im going full ham into my powers lol theyre so useful#this is a game of pressing Every button and seeing what happens. yet still going along the lines of good? approximately?#it very much does feel like the kind of thing a druid drow would do. willing to consort with the darkness#but still ultimately striving for peace and order.#i am just perhaps a little bug-brained to accomplish this :3#ive been playing a Lot of bg3. progressing well through act 2. everything is so very scary and i am just 1 druid đ„ș#(i say as if i havent killed literally every single enemy ive come across. im so fucking good at this game.)#the house of healing was by far my least favorite part (so far). that boss battle was TERRIBLE but i managed to get through it.#according to my friends they just talked their way out of it. not me tho. i saw that guy strapped to the table and i was just like#'GET FUCKED BRO' *casts moonbeam* *proceeds to get the shit stabbed outta me*#holy shit he did so much damage. and he was focused ONLY ON ME.......#took me and shadowheart both healing to keep up with the damage he was doing (while astarion and karlach did most of the attacking)#but i did it! hes gone! but holy shit poking around his stuff has been so. eugh.#im in the towers now. so scary. just barely started them tho. gonna look for the prisoners and then proceed from there.#that ketheric dude is fucking terrifying. so big scared about him. but All Men Die The Same đ#.....well maybe not exactly the same given his 'immortality' thing đ but i'll figure it out.#anyways yea check out taltana im going for a mixed feminine and masculine kinda vibes with her. and enjoying it very much.#bg3 spoilers/
11 notes
·
View notes
Note
Itâs hilarious to imagine Eda grumbling while Raine waits to hear how it went.
Eda: Sheâs not⊠too bad
Raine: I TOLD YOU SO. Now help me break her out of there. Also add the blight kid and the golden guard to the mix
Eda: âŠwhy do I like you
KLDKFJSLKD. TRULY TRULY TRULY
eda's like "she's..... nice. i don't like that she's nice" and raine is like "you're telling me. i've never met a kid who needs to go more apeshit in my Life,"
#raine like look i can't bust her out of her self-imposed prison without her freaking the fuck out#can you Please let her relax and play around with magic and be a kid out here.#and eda like. well i don't WANT to i am queen of negligent parenting and you can't wrap me back up in your shit#you broke up with me!! remember!! i don't have to still care about you!!#raine: ....but you do like luz. don't you. you do Want to let her play out here. don't you.#eda who is almost yowling with frustration: I WISH I DIDNTTTT#replies#toh#princess luz au#the ever-growing cadre of adults who care about luz is so funny.#she is surrounded on all sides by concerned guardians while going 'i am alone. i am an isolated tyrant. i am the darkness'#like yes sweetie you sure are. let raine tuck you and hunter into bed or whatever. please for the love of god
16 notes
·
View notes
Text
So I may have used my playthrough of The Outer Worlds to indulge in my desire to see some even darker AUs for G Gundam (since there is no shortage of opportunities).
Spoilers for a 30 year old anime and a 4 year old video game to follow, obviously.
My excuse for why anyone from G Gundam is in fucking Halcyon relies on two things changing:
the presence of an exodus into other star systems in G's setting (not that weird given the tech levels)
Domon actually succeeding at apprehending his brother without finding out the truth (maybe justifiable assuming he actually landed where he was supposed to and stumbled upon the Devil Gundam right when Master Asia moved it to Shinjuku).
Given these assumptions, my thought is that there is no way Ulube actually keeps his end of the deal re: letting Domon's dad, Dr Kasshu, out of cryo sleep. It's possible that in the show his plan was to blackmail the man into silence but that's still a witness AND victim running around being a liability to him, and he already has his accomplice Mikamura to worry about.
As a result, I think Ulube would JUMP on the opportunity to get rid of not only the witnesses to/victims of the Devil Gundam Incident, but also both his witting and unwitting accomplices by shipping them all off to another star system.
He'd probably immediately shove Kyoji into cryo to shut him up. Then, he'd move the goalposts for Domon by making something up about how Difficult It Is Getting An Acquittal In This Country, and that Domon would probably be older than his dad by the time he actually gets to see him again (a lie which, if Neo Japan's legal system is anything like the criticisms to its IRL counterpart, would have a grain of truth to it).
Naturally, Domon would be pretty upset by this. He'd probably accuse Ulube of lying to him and going back on his promise (true). Ulube would then play the sympathy card, claim he wants nothing more than to help given the service Domon has provided, etc. etc. etc, and then once Domon is at peak desperation Ulube brings up an alternative.
Instead of potentially waiting years or decades to see his family again while the legal system grinds its gears, Ulube offers to arrange a deal with a program meant to colonize other star systems. If Domon signs the necessary paperwork in his father and brother's absence, Ulube can secure them all a place on an interstellar transport called the Hope. Domon and his family all spend only 10y in cryo, and see each other immediately when they're all woken up at their destination.
Ulube probably gives Domon a few moments to think, and then pushes him further. Mikamura's also going (Ulube has plenty with which to threaten him) and his daughter, Rain has decided to come with. If Domon stays in the Neo Japan colony or on Earth, he never sees several of the people he's close to again, and has to wait for a non-guaranteed chance to see the rest.
Boarding the Hope would mean Domon never sees his teacher, Master Asia again, but Ulube's summary of the situation makes it sound more and more like the better option. Domon writes his master a letter saying goodbye and signs the paperwork.
Things going as planned for the Hope would mean it would take 20 years for anyone on it to make it back to Earth to question Ulube's report of what happened, and that's if the Kasshus turned around and came back as soon as they all woke up.
Per the opening of The Outer Worlds, things don't go as planned. After 70 years, Ulube has almost definitely died of old age. He's won.
And the Hope is adrift in the outer rim of the Halcyon system. Halcyon's technology is insufficient to safely revive anyone who has been in cryo for more than a decade or two. The only person who has tried is a wanted criminal.
(Which, admittedly, is something of a plot hole if we combine the two settings because the way G Gundam uses cryo definitely implies that Earth can revive people who have been in cryo for extended periods... but on the other hand Halcyon *is* run by buffoons and the original techs who revived the Groundbreaker might not have had that knowledge. Or died in the interim. Or the colony lost that particular bit of knowledge in any number of ways because there is extensive evidence of a widespread habit of not maintaining systems until they fail, cover your ass rather than admit to ever making any mistakes, etc, etc.
We can fill that hole with screwups similar to what we actually see in the game. When the Hope is found almost 30 years after it was supposed to arrive, someone went to look up how to revive people and oh shit the database is corrupted. Shit. Where's the senior cryo tech from Groundbreaker? They got pink slipped 20 years ago. Maybe we can ask Earth- no that would involve admitting we fucked our databases up. Up until now the ship was missing so it's just going to stay that way.)
So at the beginning of The Outer Worlds we have Dr. Phineas Welles sneaking onboard and looking through a manifest for a candidate to attempt to revive. He's pretty sure he's figured out how to do it this time, and this might be the last attempt he can make because he's out of one of the key chemicals he needs. But he's not certain. Welles needs someone he can be fairly confident will help him, but wants someone more a little bit more expendable than the brightest minds on the ship.
Welles hits pay dirt when he finds a group of passengers with the same last name and a promising history.
Two of them were exiled from Earth due to criminal charges, and have extensive knowledge of biology, robotics, and terraforming. Hell, he's pretty sure he's read some of their papers.
Welles briefly considers reviving either scientist. It would be nice to have someone he could relate to around, and surely they would understand his goals. Having family on the ship would be a strong motivator to rescue the other passengers, and hey! the criminal record implies (to Welles at least) a healthy disdain for authority that would motivate them to throw in with another fugitive!
But no, he doesn't revive Raizo or Kyoji Kasshu. Welles does not want to risk dissolving anyone he thinks is brilliant enough to actually save the colony. He also considers and decides against reviving Rain Mikamura, a talented engineer and medical doctor, for similar reasons.
Instead he goes for Domon Kasshu. A man who, according to his report, had already gone to great lengths in attempt to save the same people Welles has his eye on. A hand-to-hand combatant in peak physical condition would be unlikely to die should the revival succeed, and this one would be easily led (Welles thinks it lucky that he got to him before the Board did).
Domon doesn't yell at Welles as soon as he wakes up, but it's close. Right about when Welles slams the door to some kind of pod in Domon's face, Domon's fist connects with the door, and Welles is met with a volley of questions.
"Where's my dad? Who are you? What do you mean bad news!??"
Domon isn't familiar with all of the terminology Welles is using but is deeply disturbed by the concept of exploding or being liquefied, and continues to bang on the door.
And now the old man is asking for his help. Domon's family and his best friend are still frozen on that ship.
It feels like the Gundam Fight all over again.
Except the person asking him for help this time is (proudly) waving a Wanted poster in his face.
#I might reblog this at some point and add some of the actual game and what I think he'd do. But this is already long.#ignore Morg#video games#fanfiction#The Outer Worlds#crossover#G Gundam#Domon Kasshu#hahaha yeah. Domon/Rain might be at the bottom of my G Gundam ship tierlist#but I certainly can still enjoy it. especially when it's painful. Look. I like angst.#I imagine Rain meeting Ellie after the conclusion of the events of the game and getting jealous for about 0.3 seconds#before Ellie just starts viciously teasing Domon in front of her for having picked out a ~~~~Ring for his GirlFriend~~~~#and saving up a big stockpile of ~~~GUNS and JEWELRY just for HER~~~ for when she wakes up from cryo~~~#and just generally being an ass.#and Rain's like oh. I know what kind of relationship leads to this behavior. I've seen this before. this woman is NOT a threat.#Kyoji meets her later and joins in on the teasing.#People who have played TOW might recognize where I tried to work in some of Phineas's character creation comments.#Said people could probably guess some of my choices as to Domon's build.#I did also give him minimum temperament because Welles' comment of#''Oh dear. Did you really punch out your anger counselor?'' felt very fitting for Domon.#there's also an AU I keep coming back to thinking about#where Domon doesn't get out of prison at the end of episode 4.#because the show suggests he was largely only able to do it because of the weather.#it doesn't go well for anyone.
4 notes
·
View notes
Text
the riddles no good very bad bus ride
#âïž#she goes hey did you just get out of prison and he goes yeah and she goes do you wanna kill everyone on this bus with me#and he goes well yhats a pretty major crime and she goes ok we start now
3 notes
·
View notes
Text
very wild how earlier this week i was feeling good about things done so far this summer (submitted another article to a different journal, made progress on the conference paper i'm giving later this month), and then my "mentor" emailed me asking whether i'd finished two other, separate things and could send them to her for review, and now i feel like i'm actually wasting everyone's time including my own đ
#postdoc life#welcome to academia#last time we met she told me i should prioritize publications and try to get more lines on my CV#i feel like i'm being asked to do a lot of things All At Once to a standard i can't define#and these kinds of ''check-ins'' feel less like motivation for continual progress#and more like. well. prison.#in the foucaultian sense...i.e. i'm being watched for the purpose of punishment at infraction#and like if i'm gonna be left with minimal help can i actually be left alone?#can i not have to do these monthly reports where i argue for my value?#at this point idk that i'm saying anything useful in which case can we let me crawl around out back to die in peace
2 notes
·
View notes