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(I'm working on character busts for my Courier's TH profile! [which is a big WIP btw pls ignore the mess] I wanted to wait to post them all in bulk but i also cant control myself, here's cass)
#fallout#fallout new vegas#rose of sharon cassidy#fallout companions#fnv#fnv fanart#sorry i randomly deleted the last one i noticed a TON of mistakes that i didnt notice before lol#but they r fixed#also she's 37??? slay#she looks 28 max in the game but like#so does everyone else who isn't jason nash so#/j#also in the first drawing i made her eyes green bc i couldnt figure out what her eye color was#then i booted up the game#turned tf around#and there was Cass with blue eyes clear as day#my head was in my hands#my art
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Gen Z
pairing: Max Verstappen x Reader
summary: everyone seems to forget that Max is 26
a/n: not my favorite, but it’s something i’ve been working on for a while there will be no part two
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Breaking up with Kelly was extremely difficult for Max to do. Despite not being in love with her anymore, he was very aware of what would happen to P. Max knew it was better to break up than stay just because of P, so he bit the bullet. The next few months were lonely, having to readjust to being alone in Monaco with just his cats.
That’s when you came barreling into his life. Only two years younger than Max, you were a breath of fresh air for him. He really didn’t expect to fall for you, not so quick anyway.
You knew a bit about Formula One, but it was more to the extent that your home hosted a race, some drivers lived in the city, and your hairdresser’s son was a driver. It didn’t phase you when Max told you about his career and fame, you just thought the Dutchman was cute.
“Men who own cats are major green flags,” you told him over text when you first started dating. That might’ve been what really made Max fall for you. You made him feel young, understandably so. He was 19 when he first met Kelly, and she was 28.
Max taught you about the races, you helped him connect with his inner Gen Z. He taught you Dutch and how to game, you taught him slang and pop culture. The two of you were sitting on the couch a month before the Monaco GP, watching Cars of course, when Max asked you to join him at the race.
“Of course, anything for Lightning McQueen,” you squeeze his hand. You knew from TikTok that Charles, your boyfriend’s work husband, was Lightning McQueen, but how could that not be Max.
“Kachow,” Max says causing you to laugh. He has been watching the TikToks and reels you send him, usually something formula one or cars related.
Max is watching Cars 2 with you when he points out each driver in the movie. You store the knowledge in the back of your mind for when you watch classic races and Max explains things to you. You feel sufficiently ready for Monaco.
“Lewis, this is my girlfriend, Y/n,” Max introduces you to the Mercedes driver. You look at him, star stuck.
“I loved you in Cars,” you blurt out, causing Lewis to laugh and Max to hide his face in embarrassment. Max isn’t surprised, but he can’t believe this is how your first interaction is going. Lewis is just happy you aren’t with Max because he is a driver.
“Thank you, how old are you?” Lewis asks, ready to feel old.
“24, two years younger than Maxie,” you smile lovingly at your boyfriend.
“I forgot how young you actually are,” Lewis’s unspoken words hang in the air between him and Max. Now that you are dating someone closer to your own age.
Lewis’s statement seemed to be the general consensus when everyone saw you with him. Max looked and acted like he was 26. He was using slang you taught him, he was making pop culture references that he likely wouldn’t have known otherwise. He was getting to experience his twenty’s like he should have been, not as if he was much older than he was.
Lando was the most excited to meet you, not only were you his age, but you brought out Max’s inner child that Lando never could.
“I’m stealing your girlfriend,” Lando tells Max, wanting to claim you as his best friend.
“No,” Max deadpans.
“What if Lando is my bestie?” you ask Max, who can’t say no to you.
“Then I guess that’s okay,” Max kisses your temple.
“OMG, McLaren is doing another hide and seek video, you two should join,” Lando proposes.
“That actually sounds fun,” Max says, looking at you for confirmation.
“I’m in,” you smile, letting Lando lead the way.
The video is a hit, the fans are loving this version of Max. Max is loving this version of him too, for once he doesn’t feel like he has to grow up faster than he should.
“Stay away from her, she’s no good for you. Act like a grown up,” you overhear Jos tell Max as you come back to the garage from hospitality. You have yet to meet Jos, Max made it very clear that he doesn’t want you near his dad. The memes the two of you send back and forth are a good enough reason why, so you hang back.
“What do you mean? I am. I’m 26, why should I act like I’m 40? I am happier with her than I was with Kelly,” Max argues back, you hold yourself back.
“World Champions are serious, mature. Quit acting like Lando Norris and more like an adult,” Jos is seething.
“Ask Max to come back here, say the team needs him or something,” you as an engineer when you notice Jos getting angrier.
���Then why am I leading by a heavy margin already. You just can’t handle that I am putting myself first. What would you even know about being a champion? You never won a race!” Max yells. The engineer quickly cuts in and leads Max to you.
“You gagged him, baby. Are you okay?” Max hugs you, you just rub his back as he regulates his breathing.
“He’s an opp, for real,” Max mutters into your shoulder, causing you to snort with laughter.
“God, I love you,” you can’t contain the laughter. Max joins in, your smile is infectious.
“I did use it right, no?” Max asks between the laughter.
“You did, I just wasn’t expecting it,” you take a deep breath, calming down.
“No cap?”
“Alright, you are using too much. Where is old man Max, this is freaky,” you take a step back, the smile that remains on your face betrays your words.
“You got me into my gen z era, you get the consequences,” Max pulls you back into him as you groan in annoyance.
“I love you too,” he laughs, peppering your face with kisses.
And when a journalist is brave enough to ask about the shift in Max? He’s always eager to talk about you.
“My girlfriend forced me to watch hours of YouTube compilations about formula one memes. We are always sending different memes to each other, she definitely helps me remember to laugh more,” Max gushes.
“I guess we all forget that you aren’t nearly forty,” the journalist nods. Max answers a few more questions before finding you in his drivers room. He lays down on the couch, his head on your lap.
“What’s on your mind?” you run your hand through Max’s hair.
“Have I changed that much?” he asks, his blue eyes looking up at you.
“I don’t think so, I think you’ve just started being yourself around more people. You are still the same Max that I first met and fell in love with, everyone else is just seeing that Max,” you are confused about the question, but answer him. Max doesn’t reply, he just nuzzles closer to you.
“I like this version of me,” he says into your shirt a few minutes later, you keep playing with his hair.
“I’m glad, but I like every version of you, Max. Even old man Max,” you smile as he sits up.
“Old man? How about I show you how far from true that is,” there is a look in his eye that tells you that you just started something.
“And how will you do that?” you decide to entertain him as he slips his hands under your shirt.
“I don’t think I need to tell you.”
#f1 imagines#f1 x reader#f1 imagine#f1 grid#max verstappen#max verstappen imagines#max verstappen imagine#max verstappen x reader
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who the fUCK is that in the new LIS trailer bc thats not the max i know 😭 why does she look so different help
maybe its bc arcadia bay was known for its warm hues and this just feels completely different but even the art style was changed to look more generic :((
The main reason: they made Double Exposure Max more conventionally attractive. Ironically, while Max's redesign in Double Exposure tries to make her face more unique, it winds up making her more generically pretty.
LiS1 Max was deliberately designed to look like a young, plain and mousy teenage girl. She dressed simply and safely so as to not stand out. It conveyed her shyness, awkwardness, and indecisive nature and was an example of Dontnod's eye for character design.
This Max is... I dunno. Her design doesn't say anything. I'm not even that bothered that her hairstyle changed, but it's literally Steph's hairstyle on Max's head and doesn't communicate much about Max's personality as an adult. Same goes for her clothing-- as a teen, her graphic tees and plain gray hoodie immediately depicted her as a shy, youthful wallflower in an eclectic private art school. In Double Exposure, her wardrobe is indistinguishable from any other young working professional her age: a yellow beanie, a green peacoat, blue jeans, red and blue cardigans with feminine necklines.
As for the rest of her appearance, somehow her face shape has completely changed to become more slender, especially her jawline.
LiS1 Max, with her square jaw, distinct from her chin, and dark circles.
DE Max, who suddenly has filled out cheeks, with a softer jaw that blends into her chin.
In LiS1, Max had asymmetrical lips, with the bottom lip fuller than the top lip. In Double Exposure, her lips are fuller, rounder, and perfectly symmetrical. Her nose is also more symmetrical: wider, rounder, softer, and less pointed (especially between her nostrils) than her nose in LiS1. All of this serves to soften and feminize her appearance.
While freckles can fade naturally with age, in Double Exposure, Max's freckles are barely visible in most shots. She has flawless skin with an even more realistic skin texture than the models in True Colors (which looks uncanny to me, in my opinion).
But the main thing is her eye color. In LiS1, Max had medium blue eyes that did not particularly stand out against her skintone and hair color. During the warmly lit scenes like golden hour, her eyes are desaturated even further.
But in Double Exposure, Max's eyes are suddenly ice blue, unnaturally bright and piercing. Even in dark scenes, her eyes have a sparkle to them. Unfortunately, her eye design seems to be carried over from the "anime-fied" eyes in the remaster, which were larger, shinier, and brighter than the original game. The difference is truly astounding:
LiS1 Max's eyes, which had the same texture as the rest of her model. Her irises appear dark blue with little depth.
And now, DE Max's eyes, which have a distinct "glassy" texture compared to her skin and hair. Her irises are suddenly ice blue and the pupil is larger with a very bright reflection.
I know that D9 wants to show off a new "grown up Max" who has grown into her confidence and femininity with a more cleaned-up appearance. But Max was already done with puberty in the first game, so she wouldn't suddenly be sporting a softer jawline and filled out cheeks at 28 years old. This was a huge missed opportunity to instead depict the effects of accelerated aging due to stress and trauma on Max's face: sunken cheeks, dark circles, acne, skin discoloration, and forehead wrinkles. Instead, Max Caulfield got the Hollywood beauty treatment.
#my post#answered asks#max caulfield#lis#lisde#life is strange#life is strange double exposure#it wouldn't be a blog post from me if it wasn't a mini essay right?
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Hi ! For the kink game, for lestappen/leztappen please : 24 and 28 thank you and have a good day 👋
soooo sorry for the wait beloveds, works been killing me dead. anyway, here's leztappen being in love and shit. pushing my any prns for max and girl penis agenda one pwp at a time!!!! (kink meme here)
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The cat ears feel heavy atop Charles’ curls, in spite of how light the material is meant to be. They’re cheap things, something she bought from a Halloween store in London as a joke, something that was meant to be worn once, and then thrown away and forgotten. Except, here she is, with the stupid cat ears on, stupider fucking tail plug buried in her ass, and the ugliest blue collar wrapped tight around her neck.
All because of a stupid fucking bet.
A bet Charles should have known better than to take part in, especially when Max had that knowing light in her eyes, a look that should have made it obvious that Charles was bound to lose. But still, she played, like the stupid goddamn fucking idiot that she was.
She bet that she would not burn their dinner, that for once in her life she could cook, not get distracted and, subsequently, turn their chicken into charcoal. But then, stupid Max Verstappen had to go and change into her stupid skin-tight shirt as soon as she got home from her workout session. And Charles was just… supposed to act normal about it? As if that’s possible when her gorgeous lover is walking around dressed like she’d just walked straight out of one of Charles’ fantasies.
So she burned the chicken. Turned it into something beyond human comprehension, so black and charred that they had to throw the pan away.
Which is why she’s here now, dressed like a cat.
A fucking cat! Her! When she obviously is a puppy, she said so countless interviews too! And Max knows it, she knows that Charles prefers to act like a dog when… when– She’s not a cat, no matter how much Max tries to convince her otherwise.
Charles huffs, fixing Max with a glare as the woman simply grins at her, perched on top of their bed, legs slightly parted so that her hard-on is obvious in her ugly gray shorts. Charles is feeling lightheaded.
“You’ll pay for this,” she settles on saying as she climbs next to her lover, taking her rightful seat in her lover’s lap. His thighs are hot and thick under Charles’ ass, underneath her soaking pussy. It’s not her fault that Max spent ages with her face between Charles’ legs, eating her cunt and ass to get her ready for their cock and the fucking plug.
She’s desperate for it.
Max simply continues to smile, as if they don’t believe a single word that Charles is saying. And they don’t, because Charles knows her lover like the back of her hand and she is well aware of how far her threats can go. Spoiler: they don’t go anywhere; absolutely useless.
“Come here, kitty,” Max urges her, hand held out, like a peace offering. If Charles could, she’d bite it off. But she doesn’t want to be punished today, the kitten play is punishment enough. “C’mon, kitten. Don’t be a bad girl now.”
Charles will bite her. Preferably starting off with her cock; maybe even her tits. She’s not picky about what part of Max she gets to chew on.
Instead, she huffs and takes the offered hand, letting her lover guide her so that she is properly seated atop her lap, the head of her cock just barely pressing against Charles. She could sit on it now, slide right down until Max is buried to the hilt in her warm, tight pussy, but she knows she can do better than that.
She can be good for her daddy, even when her daddy is being a bully and forcing her to wear the ugly cat ears.
Because she may not be a cat, but she is a good girl.
With a deep breath, Charles leans forward, placing her hands over Max's shoulders and digging her fingernails into the flesh of her neck. It's a warning. Don't push your luck, Charles thinks as she brings her lips to Max's, kissing her. Her tongue slides against the seam of Max's lips, the other woman opening her mouth with a soft moan, letting Charles take the lead.
"Kitten," Max whispers, bringing her hand up to the back of Charles' neck, pulling her in closer, deepening the kiss. "Kitten, you're so pretty, so fucking beautiful."
"Yeah?" Charles asks, grinding her pussy against the base of Max's cock, biting her lip as the movement causes the plug inside of her to move. It's uncomfortable and weird, and Charles isn't sure if she likes it. But the look on Max's face when they first slid the tail in was more than worth it.
Max nods, hands moving down to grab onto Charles' ass, squeezing it, pulling her open. "Yeah, so pretty for daddy. You're so good, kitten, such a good girl."
Charles whines, leaning her forehead against Max's, panting softly. "Please, daddy. Please, please, I need you to fuck me. Please?"
Max kisses her again, swallowing Charles' whines as she lifts her off her cock and sets her on her back. She moves in between her thighs, pushing them wide open, fingers ghosting against her soaked pussy, tracing her wetness. Charles is embarrassed to find that her tail is soaked, that she's dripping.
"Daddy," she whimpers, trying to pull her tail out, wanting the pressure of Max's cock to take its place. "Please, fuck me."
"Okay, okay, baby," Max soothes her, hand rubbing her thigh. "I'm gonna make sure it catches this time, alright?"
Charles nods, tears pricking the corners of her eyes. She's been on the verge of crying ever since Max had first slid the stupid fucking plug into her ass. "Okay," she breathes, watching as her lover lines the head of his cock with her entrance, teasing her by rubbing his cock against her clit, pushing just the tip into her entrance.
It's the worst form of torture.
Max pushes her cock inside of her in one smooth thrust, making her gasp, her nails clawing at Max's arm. "Oh my god," Charles moans, trying to wrap her legs around their waist, trying to get them deeper, to feel every inch of them inside. "Max."
"Good girl, kitten," Max says, bending over her, pressing kisses along her jaw. "My perfect little kitten. Fuck, I'm gonna–"
Charles cuts her off with a kiss, licking into her mouth. "Move, please."
Max does, she pulls out of her before snapping her hips forward, her cock sinking back inside. It makes Charles dizzy. She feels like she's going to float away.Her lover keeps her pace slow, her thrusts short, making sure to brush her cock against the sweet spot inside of her. "Fuck," Max grunts, "kitten, you're so good, you're always so good for daddy. I love you."
"Love you," Charles breathes, reaching her hands up to grab onto Max's shoulders. She digs her fingernails into her skin, making her hiss and fuck into her harder. "Max, please, more."
Max, because he obviously hates his lover and wants Charles to hate them just as much, smirks at her. “Are you gonna meow for me, kitty?”
Charles doesn't even think before she leans upwards, sinking her teeth into the side of Max’s neck.
"I'm gonna come, kitten," Max tells her, her thrusts getting harder, deeper, hitting Charles just right, sending her into a frenzy.
"Yeah," Charles nods, feeling her own orgasm building in the pit of her stomach. "Yeah, come, daddy, fill me up. I want it, please."
Max moans, dropping her head onto Charles' shoulder, panting.
Charles cries out as she comes, her body tensing as her orgasm takes over her, leaving her feeling dizzy and blurry around the edges. She's gasping, her chest heaving, as Max continues to fuck her through her own orgasm, clearly uncaring that Charles’ body is shaking with each thrust.
"Stop, stop, Max, I can't," she says, slapping Max's arm. "Can't take anymore."
Max laughs, collapsing on top of her, pressing a kiss to the side of her neck. "That was really good."
Charles hums, closing her eyes. She's exhausted. "Mmhm."
"Are you okay?"
"Yeah," Charles murmurs, her head lolling to the side as she presses a kiss to Max's temple. "Yeah, just tired."
"Wanna shower, kitten?"
Charles shakes her head. "Nah. I wanna stay here. With you. Like this."
"Okay, kitten," Max smiles, wrapping her arms around her and holding her close. "I love you."
"Love you more.”
They stay like that, wrapped around each other, until Charles speaks again: “And I'm burning the ears.”
Max laughs, but she doesn't argue against it.
#guys i promise im better at pet play writing but i think charles would hiss and scratch if max called her kitten#that is a puppy if ive ever seen one!!!!!#leztappen#max verstappen#lestappen#charles leclerc#moth answers#silly kink writing game#my writing
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girl shut up
I'm going to assume this is about Life is Strange because that's what I've been talking about the most in the last 2 months and I don't think any of my other fandoms would be bother by my posts.
So here are some hot take ideas for LIS posts I've never made because I thought it might upset some fans, but maybe I shouldn't be so quiet about it after all.
Pricefield vs DE
It seems like everything in Double Exposure was deliberately written to justify Chloe breaking up with Max.
Chloe showed that she was paranoid that Max may be using her powers to manipulate the relationship to make it work and that's exactly what Max did to Amanda and got call out for it in the end.
She also expressed how Max is unable to let go of the past and is haunt by it. So most of the game we see Max (and the player) holding on to it and struggling to move on until the very end. Some fans still can't do it and doesn't want Max to do it, but that's exactly why Chloe left.
Many people didn't realize it, but Max was struggling to establish herself as a real photographer in the years she was with Chloe, but quick became famous and recognized in the years after they broke up.
To me that's the game trying to sell the idea that they are better off without each other.
Chaseprice
Victoria and Chloe's posts in DE don't show anything explicitly romantic, it could just be friendship, but the intention to make it look like something more is pretty clear to me.
The writers chose sentences like "can you handle it, Chase?" and "I'll buy you a beer" on purpose and know exactly what the players will think of it.
Besides Victoria shows a desire in going from wherever she lives to see Chloe, and then Chloe makes plans to do a little detour to go see Victoria. Whatever this relationship is, they're making it work long distance with effort on both sides. Mutual interest.
I wouldn't be surprised if in the sequel we see one post or two subtly hinting that they're actually together. A picture on Crosstalk, maybe a comment from someone else on their posts.
Hell, I can even imagine an art gallery event of some sort where Max is invited and can bring her chosen love interest and Victoria is there with Chloe as her date... And that's how the devs manage to have a natural last conversation between Max and Chloe in person to give closure to their relationship.
And I kind of expect Victoria to come to them at some point, a little jealous or just proud of her girlfriend.
Langfield
Some people keep saying that Max wouldn't be interested in Vinh... But that's wrong.
The reality is that it was the first game's choices and Max's journey is what makes them fit together so well.
Yes, okay, maybe 18-year-old Max wouldn't like this emotionally dry 28-year-old Vinh. Maybe 18-year-old Max would have liked way more to know the enthusiastic drama student 18-year-old Vinh, who dreamed of being an actor.
Now this 28-year-old Max, full of traumas and complexes knows enough about life to see through 28-year-old Vinh's walls and realize that he is not dry, but afloat and barely keeping himself together. That's why she can really connect with him, as a friend or more.
It was the traumas and secrets that made her interesting to Vinh, just like his traumas and regrets are what make Max interested in him.
They fit together because they share some similar emotional experiences and they know how the other might be feeling in certain situations. And when they are together, they can laugh about it, have fun and be themselves, even if just for a moment.
Amberprice
Honestly I left this fandom years ago without shipping Pricefield or Amberprice, because of some reservations about Chloe's character. But now I'm back because of DE and I decided to finish Before the Storm... I can't get Rachel out of my head!
Seriously, what's this magic in their scenes and why can't I stop watching them on loop?
I always thought I had a crush on Max, but I actually have a crush on Rachel Amber of all characters. Maybe I am Chloe Price all along 😂
You know a ship is good when it changes your perception of the characters.
#max caulfield#chloe price#victoria chase#rachel amber#vinh lang#life is strange#langfield#chaseprice#amberprice#pricefield#life is strange double exposure#ask
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Breaking the media
Chapter 8- debut
Training over the next few days flew by as all you could think of the idea of your Barcelona debut the head coaches has been hinting at it due to playing a team that we were sure to beat with flying colours. Realistically you knew you would only average 10 to 15 minutes max game time but even still to play for barca was an honour to you considering you grew up in a concil estate in a small town in North east England where the local street garage was the goal and the fences created the lines for the pitch.
Alexia had drove you to the stadium where you were greeted by the staff "bon dia ms putellas" they said acknowledging the queen of Barcelona, if a city could be pictured as a person Barcelona was alexia everywhere you went it was alexia, from her shirt to even murals of her it was like the city was encapsulated by her presence and yet she was encapsulated by your presence and no matter how much she cared about football you managed to be above it. "Bon dia" she replied waving and ushering you into the stadium guiding you to the changing rooms. She swung the door open and as usual due to her being captain you two had been the first ones there and as you looked around the room you had seen your shirt your last name printed on in white and underneath the number 28 it was almost like a fever dream you couldn't believe it. "Come on pequeña stop staring and get changed" she said as she took her coat and bag off and put them on to her area of the changing room.
After 20 minutes the changing room was full and all the girls had arrived. You had been informed of being on the 6 there was still a chance of you being subbed on to play, but it just depended on the score line and how the team was playing. The match had begun, and Caroline had made light work of the defence to swing one into the top corner just 10 minutes into the game. Next, it was aitana to dribble through the centre halfs and volley the ball into the bottom corner as it skimmed the keepers fingers at 30 minutes. The half-time whistle came quicker than expected as you chatted to vicky and pina on the bench. The first half had finished at 3-0 with caro scoring another goal in stoppage time. While the majority of the girls went into the tunnel, you had been instructed to warm up on the pitch, which had got your hopes up more than it should have. You watched as the girls made there way back on the pitch so you returned to your seat on the bench it was in the back corner as although you liked to see what was happening you weren't gonna get on the pitch so might aswell not inconvenience the other girls who would have to scramble over your lap.
It was the 75th minute when the refs whistle had blew you had looked over your seat to see lucy down on the floor. 'Y/n go warm up just in case, " jona instructed you as you made your way to warm up on the side line of the pitch, keeping your eye on lucy. Thats when the medics came on the pitch and you were called back up to jona "y/n your going on take your bib off and get ready" jona said as soon as the words you were practically throwing the bib off and over your head. Lucy was up again, so luckily, it wasn't that serious, but she hobbled her way off the pitch and sent a small smile to you as the official held up the sign for you to be subbed on. As you ran on the pitch the crowd erupted in applause you clapped as you made your way to the position but before zoning into focus on the game you soaked up the fans reaction the way the club had welcomed you. It felt like home the pitch became quiet and all you could hear was your teamates and the sound of the ball it was like no one else was there it was just you and the ball and it was perfect.
As the winger came sprinting with the ball down your side of the pitch doing step overs trying to throw you off the ball you used all the energy in your legs and launched your foot at the ball in front of her feet and watch as you succeed in winning the ball as it goes rolling out of play hitting the advertising boards. As you stand up, mapi pats you on the back. "Good one, now come one 5 minutes left, keep the pace," she said to you, marking up the levante striker in the box. They didnt make it near the keeper as it came rolling out of the goal line and cata was awarded a goal kick however she rolled the ball out to you to cross it over to frido who was on the far side of the pitch. As the ball left your feet you watched as it flew over the players and landed at fridos feet but as she was making her way to the box the final whistle blew and there it was your debut was over. You shook hands with the opposition, then here came the hugs and celebrations from your teamates as they congratulated you. Then it was alexia who walked over to you and wrapped you into a hug "im so proud of you pequeña i really am" she said to you a smile on her face "thank you ale i really appreciate everything you have done for me" you respond as never had you been told that someone was proud of you so you tried to blink away the tears that formed in your eyes.
You made your way back to the changing rooms and jona did a speech congratulating the team and you for your debut and to know that lucy is okay and would miss 2 games due to a minor muscle injury. As you changed back into your tracksuit you wanted to keep your debut shirt but didn't know how to ask so you glanced either side to see if anyone was paying attention to you and you stuffed the shirt into your bag hoping no one saw you. "You ready to go?" alexia asked you "yes definitely im ready for sleep and some food," you said, putting the bag on your back. And that's exactly what happened. You ate dinner with alexia and then clambered into bed after showering because the showers at the ground aren't the best, so you just waited till getting back to the apartment. Then, right as you were drifting off alexia opened the door to your room holding the shirt you had stuffed into your bag "y/n why did i find your shirt in your bag?" She questioned holding the shirt infront of her "oh ermm i must have accidentally put it in there" you responded lying out of your teeth "y/n i know you're lying" she said "ugh sorry i wanted to keep my debut shirt but i didn't know how to ask or who to ask so i just shoved it into my bag im sorry alexia" you responded upset at the fact you probably have disappointed alexia "ohh pequeña its okay but next time ask please but sleep well" she responded and placed the shirt on your nightstand and walked out closing the door and 5 minutes later you drifted off to sleep enjoying a very good day and one to remember.
#alexia x reader#barca femeni#woso#woso x reader#mapi leon#wsl#woso imagines#ingrid engen#lucy bronze
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The “Hughes” War
October 1st, 2021
annabellehugh
Go stream “That Way” on all platforms right now and- oh ya my new album “think later” at 6pm EST!
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@quinnhughes - EXCUSE ME?!
→ did i not tell you?
→ @jhughes - YOU DIDNT TELL ANYONE!
→ @annabellehug woops
→ @user27 - she’s so unbothered I love it
@jhughes - I’m so proud of you! Even if you eat all my cereal
@Annabellehug - your a millionaire buy your own goddamn cereal
@zoebormet - AHHHH SHES BACK AT IT
→ @annabellehug 😉💗
@cariganprice - ON REPEAT! IM SO SERIOUS
→ @annabellehug - I LOVE YOU
@lhughes_06 - wow okay
@lhughes_06 -this is insane
Her first single after her first album, that came out in 2020 just after graduating, before her gap year. Most of the songs were about her ex, max and so are some of the songs on her new album, while one of them is about mark.. but so is the single but one just happens to mention something about her relationship with Jack and she wasn’t even sure if she should use it but all her friends who she told about it said she should, so she is going to.
Which she shouldn’t have, or he shouldn’t have had the reaction he did.
6:12 pm
There was a set of knocks on the door of her dorm room, but the certain sequence of knocks only belongs to the knuckles of one person. “Come in mark” she says and puts her phone down. He looked out of breath, afraid almost, Like he was running from something.
“Make what’s-” she stands up keeping pressure off her knee, but she doesn’t need the crutches anymore.
“Is it about me” he whispers and walks closer.
Her eyebrows raise a little bit, in shock on how this conversation could go either way.
“I… um… what” she says quietly, but a little louder then he was before.
“Is it about me” he asks again, she swallows harshly but nods slowly which he then pulls her into a tight hug.
“I’m sorry Belle- I’m so sorry I didnt mean to make you feel like that I like you I like you a lot. So much it almost hurts and makes me afraid of my own feelings” he admits and they both have small, light, tears in their eyes.
“Do you really?” She asks.
He runs his hand up and down her back before pulling back to look at her.
“So much”
They stare at each other for what seems like hours and just as he is about to ask her, a phone rings. It’s Luke, calling mark.
“Whats up” he asks. “Yea I’m with her, okay, bye”
“Wanna for a drive?” He asks and the two head out the door.
Jacks POV
6:15pm
I knew she liked to sing, but how did I not ever realize she liked to write and perform and produce her music, I didn’t even know she could play the guitar. So if I didn’t feel like shit before I do now. As the 9th song plays, my brain freezes.
“Same fears, same dreams, still trying to get my brother to like me”
Does she really think that?
I would call Luke, but the chances of them being together right now are high so Quinn it is.
“What’s up J-“
“Does she hate me or something?!” I exclaim.
“Woah dude- who are you talking about” he asks.
“Annabelle, fuck, have you listened to Calgary”
“No, I’m just leaving the gym, what’s going on”
“The lyric is *Same fears, same dreams, still trying to get my brother to like me.* Does she think I hate her”Tears are threatening from my eyes while my knuckles are turning white against my steering wheel.
“Jack I’m sure it’s not what you think-”
“What else could it be! I’m the only one she argues with- remember my rookie year when we wouldn’t talk for like.. weeks because of how busy we both were but she would always talk to you two”
“And you always talked to us, Jack I don’t know what’s going on with you two but you need to talk it out, when was the last time you spoke to her”
“When I left? I think maybe the night of that game she somehow came too”
“The day after her surgery- Jack that was like 2 weeks ago- okay you need to call her later tonight she’s out right now. Got it?”
“Ok” I take a breath I didn’t realize I was holding, then hung up.
(Back to 3rd person)
8:28 pm
“Can we talk about what happened earlier” she asks mark as they sit in his car in-front of their building.
“Yea, Uhm, I guess what I was saying is, I do, like you a lot, more then a friend” he admits quietly and she smiles back at him.
“Feelings are mutual, if you couldn’t tell” he chuckles and reaches for her hand, then holds it for a minute.
Meanwhile, Jack was flooding her phone with so many messages along the lines of “I’m mad at you” and “do you hate me”.
“You know you didn’t have to write a song to get me to realize I liked you”
“Yea well clearly I had to write one about Jack being a dick for him to realize he was one”
“Oh Calgary, yes I was waiting for that one. Are you okay?”
“Mhm, I’ll just… call him later I guess. Do you wanna stay with me?” She asks and he nods his head, then the two get out of the car and walk hand in hand to her dorm room.
“Oh I forgot my phone In The car I’ll be up in a second” he says and she heads up while he goes back to car, in the mean time, Anna sits at her desk while she receives a lovely call from Jack.
“Anna what the fuck, do you realize what you did” he says as soon as she answers.
“Did what Jack. Release a song” she sighs.
“No, your stomping on mine. Did you not think that your fans will hate me because of that line”
She didn’t even think about the fan part of it.
“No I didn’t Jack, because I don’t make decisions for myself based of you or fans”
“That’s not what I meant- what I meant was-”
“no I know what you meant Jack, you think everything’s about you and everything is always my fault” she challenges but hangs up. Tossing her phone onto the carpet below her and putting her hands over her face.
“Belle, what happened?” Mark asks as he enters the room, while tears are brimming her eyes.
“Jack called me, he’s so mad I didn’t think he would care” she whispers and stands up, while he pulls her into a hug.
“It’s okay, he’ll come around alright? I’ll get Luke to talk to him”
“Thank you” she sighs and the two lay down on her bed.
“I liked your album, a lot, but I need a name and address of the whoever running for the hills is about because holy, that was rough to listen to”
“his name is max, but he lives in England now” she responds and he huffs, but the two eventually fall asleep.
#hockey#luke hughes#jack hughes#new jersey devils#umich hockey#quinn hughes#ethan edwards#jh86#me94#angels like you
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Life is strange but I like it.
A new game of Life is Strange franchise was a big surprise. I love first game so much (played it 3 times and never could change my final choice). This game is definitely different and I’ll try to write about its pros and cons.
Let’s start with something positive. The first things you notice (since first trailers I’m sure) are graphics and facial animations. Characters look like real people; you can see when they are puzzled or surprised, and it’s amazing! Voice actors and actresses did a great job; you feel this chemistry between characters when listen to them (Max and Vinh are just brilliant).
The list of negative things will be definitely longer and I’m upset writing that.
The greatest problem is the plot. Probably I shouldn’t have bought an early access because after finishing Chapter 2 I had some high expectations and also read some stupid spoilers on reddit (which I definitely wasn’t looking for). So my high expectations and some cool ideas which appeared in my head played a cruel joke on me. Probably Chapters 3 and 4 were kind of good but Chapter 5… and ending was so disappointing. I had a feeling like a scriptwriter just gave up right in the middle of the story, and even didn’t try to make it a bit complicated. Come on, gamers aren’t stupid, we like good stories, cool twists and heartbreaking endings. But it’s not about LiS:DE.
The second problem – characters. Some of them are just good or bad, there is nothing in the middle. Amanda is cute, hard-working and has a big family. That’s all I can tell about her. You even can’t understand why Max like her. She is just an ordinary girl, a typical green flag for Max and it’s cool to have relationship with some good person in real life but such characters in games are just super boring.
That’s why I like Vinh (yeah I like him), because he seems real, he did something stupid in the past and he isn’t proud about it, and it makes him real.
Tbh I don’t know what to say about Safi without spoilers, so maybe it’s better to skip this part.
The rest of characters are like a background for the main story, not sure if you remember any of them in a week or so.
And the third part – length of the story. Yeah, when you play it for the first time you are too curious and just want to move further and further. But even when you start playing the second time and you look for all photos and other collectables, chapters are still so short.
I wish we all got some cool DLC which isn’t about cat or extra clothes. But dreams, sweet dream. Deck 9, plz, can you guys make something really funny for fans, maybe a date for Max (she deserves it).
And the last problem – there is no Chloe. She was annoying in the first game but she is a person Max needs and in my game Max sacrificed Arcadia Bay for her. I just can’t believe Chloe could leave her so easily. Btw Max’s trauma after these events is shown really well, and it helps to see how deep her character is. Sad that’s other characters aren’t so well-written.
In conclusion I still want to recommend this game. No matter if you are the fan or not, it worth playing and it won’t take lots of time to finish it. Max is still Max even being 28 she can say some cringy stuff and that’s why I like her.
#life is strange#life is strange double exposure#maxine caulfield#review#my opinion#chloe price#pricefield
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Fine Line – Kesha for this Ask Game
I've been hiding my anger, but bitch look at me now
I'm at the top of the mountain, with a gun to my head
Am I bigger than Jesus, or better off dead?
There's a fine line between genius and crazy
There's a fine line between broken and breaking
Spent my whole life tryna to change what they're saying about me
Sick of walking that fine line
Ficlet:
Just like the water balloon Will had overfilled last summer, El feels like she’s ready to pop. It’s like, she’s a balloon. She’s always been a balloon. In the lab, it’d been easy. Papa told her what to fill herself with, told her when to persevere, and when to pop.
Now? Everyone tells her everything all the time. In California, Jonathan had been disappointed when she’d smacked that bully in the face. But when Hopper had found out, he’d clapped her on the back and laughed, liked he was proud.
Who is right?
She hopes it’ll be easier, back in Hawkins. And it is. Max whacks ankles with her cane if anyone so much as scoffs at her, and she has Mike, and all her other friends. But math still turns to mush in her brain, and she still spends long days trying to sit still in quiet classrooms that remind her far too much of locked playrooms.
Now that the Upside-Down is gone, it’s like something in her has atrophied. Will’s flourishing without the Mind Flayer tethering him down. Like, every gate closing has awoken something in him where the shadows used to be – something talkative and confident and happy. El is happy, too. For him.
But where does that leave her? The unwilling weapon. The one to save their lives when all the chips are down. What’s the point of sitting quietly in a droll classroom compared to saving her own little corner of the world?
Hopper tells her that it will settle down within her. He rubs her shorn head roughly and tells her that thing inside her that’s always waiting to fight will grow dormant. El doesn’t believe him.
Everyone is surprised when all the windows shatter, seemingly without provocation, one day in Mrs. Click’s class while El is being reprimanded for her poor performance on a test. El’s not surprised. She’s an overfilled balloon, of course she’d burst.
Dustin gives her a look, wide eyed and panicked as everyone else begins shrieking. She pointedly doesn’t meet his gaze. There’s nothing really to say.
But word travels fast around the party. It’s not Joyce who picks her up after school – it’s Steve.
She hasn’t spent much time with Steve, but she’s heard stories. Dustin especially admires the boy, but even Mike has a little bit of admiration tucked away for him. It’s Max’s opinion that makes her get in the car, though.
Max, who’s sullen and euphoric in waves now that she’s at half-sight and half-mobility. Friends and parents have dropped out of her life in the strain, but Steve’s name falls out of Max’s mouth every other sentence. Steve, who lets her stay at his house sometimes. Steve, who goes grocery shopping with her, who helped her clean her house. Who roughhouses with Max the way no one else will anymore.
El gets in the car.
There’s upbeat music playing quietly from the speakers. He bops his head to it as he pulls away from the school.
“What’s up, Supergirl?” he asks, hands on the wheel, eyeing her from his sideways vantage point.
No one calls her Supergirl anymore. There’s nothing left to save.
“You picked me up,” El says, sullen and euphoric in waves.
Steve laughs, barking and ugly. It makes El smile down at her shoes. “Dustin called me, you know,” he says. El’s smile curls down as something pit-like sinks into her stomach.
She watches the fractals of evening light bounce around on her legs, waiting to be reprimanded. It doesn’t come. The song changes, something more droning and somber as El looks up from her feet.
Steve’s staring out the windshield, still smiling. “I still sleep with my bat under my bed, you know.” She nods, doesn’t know what to say. “And I drive around sometimes, making sure all you kids are safe.”
El feels her brow furrow as she looks at Steve. She doesn’t know him well enough to read his expression. “The Upside-Down is gone,” she says, echoing Hoper and Joyce, and Mike, and almost all her friends.
Steve laughs again, but El doesn’t think he actually finds it funny. “I know!” Steve says, still smiling. “Robin’s been saying that same thing to me, but you know what?”
Lucas had taught her about rhetorical questions, so she waits a while before realizing she should answer. “No, I don’t know what.”
He glances over at her. “I don’t feel like it’s over,” he says quietly, like it’s a secret between the two of them, before bursting out a drawn-out sigh. “Everyone’s acting like it’s all over so we should move on, but how do I do that?”
El analyzes his profile. His eyebrows are pinched but he’s still smiling. She thinks he looks sad. “I miss it,” El whispers.
Steve pulls over and turns the key in the ignition. He turns his whole body to look over at her. “The Upside-Down?” he asks.
She shakes her head. “Being Supergirl.”
His lip quirks back up, small and just on one side as he looks up at her growing-out hair before looking back down to meet her gaze. “You’ll always be Supergirl,” he says, talking through her scoff. “But it’s gotta be tough going from saving the world to flunking algebra.”
El scoffs. “I am not flunking!” she says, indignant. “I have a C!”
“Hell yeah, Supergirl!” he says, beaming as he reaches over the console to slap his hand against hers.
“Max has helped.”
Steve hums, sits, and waits to see if she has anything else to say, but she’s a water balloon, recently emptied, so she stays quiet.
He starts the car and drives.
It isn’t until he’s pulling up to her house, Hopper standing on the porch with crossed arms and a glare on his face that she speaks. “It is hard,” she says.
Steve nods, staring out into the dark woods like he’s expecting something to come barreling out of it. “I know,” he says. “Walkie me if you want me to kidnap you to go beat the shit out of the trees with me or something.”
El smiles, feels the way it stretches her cheeks almost painfully with the force of it. “Thank you, Steve,” she says, hopping out of his car with a wave.
She walks up to her house, ready now, to meet her destiny; even if her destiny is being yelled at by an overprotective Father and grounded for three weeks.
It’s still hard, but it’s a little easier when it’s shared with a friend.
#thank you. definitely got carried away!!!#ended up a character study bc I've never written el before#jane hopper#my fic#asks#Spotify wrapped fanfic ask game
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Pirate101 ask Meme!!!
Questions 1, 2, 4, 5, 6,7, 9, 10, 12, 18,27, 28, 34, 38, and 41!!!
oh man that's a lot of questions, ok lets go
1 - Favorite crew member/companion?
bonnie anne my beloved. she’s so cool I wish foxes were real.
2 - Favorite world?
marleybone. the aesthetics and music go hard and the story peaks here
4 - What is your favorite class to play as and why?
musketeer for soloing cause it's the easiest imo and also the most fun, privateer for group play cause I like playing support
5 - What are the backstories for your Pirate? (Parents' death, where were they trained, Etc.)
Esmee: armada/skull island. Grew up among the rats in the sewers, having to steal what she could to get by, leading to her being quite adept at sneaking and using daggers. Strongly despises the Armada since she lost her parents to them, so she tends to be a lot more reckless whenever in a battle against clockworks.
Remmy: storm/marleybone. Was aboard a ship with his parents and sister, Maeve, when a storm struck. His parents died in the storm while he and Maeve where separated. After which, he was found by a Marleybonian ship and the dogs took him in. He grew up in Marleybone training to be a privateer but eventually found ranged weapons to be more to his liking. Was aboard a cargo ship tranporting weapons to Port Regal when he got captured in ambush by the Armada, and met Esmee that way.
Brynn: lost/marleybone. AU character of my ice wiz Brynn, just thought it would be fun to have her as a pirate so yeah no backstory.
Flint: mutiny/mooshu. haven't really worked out a backstory for him, this is just what it says in game. Will likely be change once I develope him more.
Maeve: squid/krokotopia. As mentioned earlier, she is Remmy's sister who was seperated in a storm (that a squid may or may have not been present in idk yet). Ended up in Krok where she learned magic.
6 - Who is your LEAST favorite crew member/companion and why?
wing chun, his voice and personality is a bit grating. idk I don’t really hate any of the mainline companions, and most of the non-story ones aren’t memorable and are lackluster combat-wise so they all meld together, so again I don’t have strong negative feelings towards any one in particular.
7 - How many Pirates do you have?
six, have five maxed out, the sixth was actually my first pirate I made, a musketeer named Ingrid, but I didn't make it that far into the tutorial before stopping. Later I made Esmee and it was then I got super into the game. I don't plan on questing with Ingrid anytime but I don't really feel like deleting her so she's just kinda there
9 - Any headcanons for your crew?
uuuuhhhheeeeuguh i got nothing sorry
10 - What does your flag look like? What are your crew colors?
Esmee
Remmy
Brynn
Flint
Maeve (hopefully I stay settled on this one instead of changing it a fifty more times)
12 - Do you headcanon anyone as LGBTQIA+? If so, who?
yeah I got a few. Bonnie: Lesbian, Ratbeard: gay, Toro: bi, Gracie: aro/ace, Sarah: lesbian. I would include Catbeard but that's canon now so.
as for my pirates, Esmee: ace, Remmy: bi, Brynn: pan, Maeve: trans mtf.
Flint is the token straight who's on thin ice
18 - Opinions on Cool Ranch?
love Cool Ranch. Visually it's gorgeous and the music absolutely slaps, however some parts of it drag and I don't like having to choose between wearing something culturally offensive or having shitty stats for my witchdoctor.
27 - Is there anything you wish was in the game? (Crafting? Fishing?)
tbh I find crafting really annoying in wiz so I hope it never comes to pirate. But I would love to see events akin to wiz's lost pages/five boxes. Especially five boxes I would love to see pirate get its own version of that.
28 - How long have you been playing Pirate101?
at least 3 years, can't remember exactly when I started
34 - What are the hardest and easiest parts of the game to play for you?
easiest is pretty much everything up until Cool Ranch, which is where the difficulty starts to ramp up. hardest is definitely the new updates, Tartarus and Wheeler especially.
38 - Is there anything you hope for in a future update(s)? What would you like to see?
would really love to go to Albion sometime. as for features, pretty much stuff we already have in wiz like character name/appearance changing, option to hide quests, and setting a minimum player requirement for team up, and please for the love of all that is holy give us the option to trash doubloons
41 - How did you first discover Pirate101? (Commercial, a friend, fanart, etc.) What inspired you to play?
kind of always knew about it through wiz, wasn't until around 2020/2021ish that I got interested in playing
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Game caterers
Seems like lots of agencies did this show. SM's turn now.
Ep 1, Ep2, Ep3
Part 1
One thing many people are not good at is combining assorted moments and facts into one picture. It is easy to see with fans who know their bias has such and such character traits or demonstrated this and that, and yet forgetting about it in an instant and believing a new contradicting piece of behaviour.
Case in point: shy Doyoung. Yes, he is a shy introvert in general, however, he is very much capable of acting boldly when it is required of him. He was the trainee who came close to the SM judges during weekly evaluations of trainees for them to hear him better, he is the neo who films sasaengs and he was the one who didn't flinch in the fruit throwing game on James Gordon's show. And yet, every time Doyoung purposefuly plays a super shy and hesitant person for variety, fans believe his charade.
2:28 - Case in point. Two idols had already danced, so it would have been a repetition to enter the same way. Do opted for a usual act for variety hosts of being slightly incompetent in a cute way (forgot the dance, was super awkward with collegues, covered his face with his jacket).
Aside from Do doing everything over the top, you can tell how fake he was by his confident relaxed posture during Seulgi's dance (3:19).
Btw, I don't know her variety skills, but her doing the best dance after SM rookies (who also played it shy as Korean idols often do) and a lame hoobae was also a good choice. She looked even brighter after Do.
3:23 - Do's glee conductor's ass can't even not point out to Seulgi the correct chair to sit. As if she doesn't know and it's not self-evident. It's just a habit to move everyone to places and micromanage. Keep an eye on the correct order of things.
3:51 - Do was evidently tired during the show (he was preparing for his concert back then), he thought the sitting people won't be shown, so didn't demonstrate any reactions. He was on and off, focused and not focused during the filming.
Key is the one of the most experienced showmen among the assembled, and he showed how a joke is done on the go. He later did the most heavylifting by creating a conversational flow and connecting topics.
4:48 - Leeteuk also broke the flow. Do is a graduate of his school of MCing afterall, heh.
5:22 - Look at Do's face, haha. He is friends with Changmin, so he knows he can be this way (not show a hoobae's deference). I didn't catch if Max was signalling to the rest to stand up or not. Do stood up first, but Seulgi and Key didn't look at him to follow his example, they stood up on their own.
5:32-5:35 - That was funny. Do perked up remembering he was before cameras after calmly observing Changmin.
7:26 - Karina was sitting very poised, Wonbin did the same (as the youngest and most inexperienced, it comes off as polite), and then there was Doyoung, forgetting decorum as usual when he is tired, haha.
12:25 - Don't mention Kyuhyun, he is not with SM anymore, haha. Older gen always joke about the company in this manner.
24:34 - You still don't believe my Karina and Doyoung are cousins agenda?
25:04 - Another man wants attention of a very busy Doyoung. Do's harem is endless, but he exists in one copy.
25:14 - An example of a very natural face expression. Do wanted to say sorry, but Changmin did a grimace of "what are you even talking about you are barely standing on your feet, you are so busy and tired".
25:33 - A national IT girl, a live AI frolicking cutely before Do's eyes and not even a glance. And someone wanted to persuade me he is bi, lol.
Part 2
4:02 - I wonder if Doyoung thought here or acted on a habit with his arm turning motion (it what he does with Tae)? He almost threw Key over, which wasn't the goal of this "how could you!" spectacle.
6:00 - Ah, the times SK bought Western hits and released them as their own. The original. A song in Romanian, a Moldavian group.
7:53 - Doyoung "Yes, I'm out! I can zone out on the back". LIsten to his sharp "I don't know" and how he pulled Key by the arm forward.
Key is Gongmyung's friend. And Taeyeon's bestie. Key and Do are not close publicly (Key always names Ten, Renjun and Chenle(?)), but this interaction answered my question whether they meet bts. Do was too familiar with Key, he knew the boundaries, whether Key will play along or be offended. He acted as a noisy little brother of a friend who grew up before your eyes.
(Do MCed with Key on MCountdown, and now they are on the panel of "I live alone", but such things don't nessesary lead to this level of familiarity).
(Also, don't forget Key and Do's masterpiece "Cool")
I don't watch aespa variety and on shows, but I know Karina is everywhere, she is pushed as a host on shows as she is quick-minded and gets along with older people well. She is not just there to sit and look pretty how it is often with young female idols.
9:10 - Kangta and Doyoung became drank together once, Do can tap a CEO of SM on the shoulder, heh. Do was zonning out a lot but still kept the conversation in check and caught on the importance of time periods for different members.
9:57 - Another song from Kangta bagged.
12:33 - You see the vision?
16:42 - Lol. Do acted on Key's command here. He was surprised by the shouting though, heh.
19:10 - Changmin is also a comedian, I didn't know. He keeps the game of judging others (for betraying SM or his team).
Wonbin reminded me Riku here (and D&G HK Do reminded Riku as well).
TBC
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Chapter 4
Steve Harrington is an artificial lifeform created by his two "parents," Dr. Don Harrington and Dr. Caroline Harrington in the spring of 1966. His objective is to learn through experience and prove his creators hypotheses about neutral networks correct. In 1983, he decides to start adding his own objectives.
Teaser under the cut
The kids' voices were gaining volume as they began arguing with each other. As far as Steve could tell, they were planning a suicide mission. From Steve's risk analysis calculations, a potential winning outcome for them was abysmal.
"Yeah, and then we all die," Steve said as the kids paused long enough for him to say something.
"That's one point of view," Dustin said.
"No, that's not a point of view, Dustin. It's a fact," Steve said. There were too many variables and too many unknowns. What he knew about—for example, the demodogs—was nothing the kids could face alone. Even Steve couldn't face them all by himself. Not more than two or maybe three at a time, like at the junkyard. Even then, he didn't know how well he would have done against the creatures if the hivemind hadn't called them off.
Of course, they ignored him.
Mike moved around the house, the kids following him as he laid out his newest plan. Steve followed them, hoping any of them would do the same risk analysis Steve had already done. Weren't these kids all supposed to be smart? This was basic statistics.
"Maybe if we set this on fire," Mike said, gesturing to the crayon drawings covering the floor.
"Yeah, that's a no," Steve said, throwing the dish towel over his shoulder.
Predictably, at this point, the rest of the kids joined in, talking over Steve as if he'd never spoken at all.
"Hey," he said, and they kept talking. "Hey," he interjected again to no avail. "Hey, hey, hey," he clapped his hands and finally got their attention long enough to say, "This is not happening. No, no, no buts. I promised I'd keep you shitheads safe, and that's exactly what I plan on doing. We're staying here, on the bench, and we're waiting here for the starting players to do their jobs. Does everybody understand that?"
"This isn't a stupid sports game," Mike complained.
"I said does everybody understand that?" They rolled their eyes at him. "I need a yes."
Into the silence of their obstinance came the roar of an engine. Max's demeanor shifted from stubborn to dawning fear before she jogged over to the window. "It's my brother." She told Lucas, who followed behind her. "He can't know I'm here. He'll kill me." She looked at Lucas. "He'll kill us."
Steve wasn't sure who her brother was until he heard the engine rev. He knew that engine, and he knew the driver. That was the blue Camero—a 1979 Chevrolet Camaro Z/28, to be exact. Only the new kid, Billy Hargrove, drove that car in Hawkins.
Steve thought for a moment. He couldn't let anyone die. Or any of these kids get hurt. Not just because Hopper told him to but because the alternative was not something Steve could tolerate.
Steve thought about last year. When he changed or updated his original programming. He could do it again. He could add to the changes he'd already started last year. His first addendum hadn't been enough to keep him from still being bullshit in the eyes of the woman he loved, but maybe, if he changed enough, he could be good enough for her one day.
First objective: learn through experience. Surely, everything happening with the Upside Down fell outside typical human experience, but he wouldn't abandon these people now.
Self-given sub-parameters: don't be an asshole. It was a work in progress. It was more difficult than expected to do the right thing. Nancy telling him everything about him was bullshit was proof enough of that.
He reached deep within himself and updated his code once again. There inside himself was his sparkling new self-given sub-parameter (addendum A): keep the kids alive no matter what.
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Top 5 Video Game Foods
The recent Watcher Top 5 Beatdown had me racking my brain and googling lots of pixel food images, love the different aesthetic, experience, and curiosity factors that went in to their lists. Though I'd share my own & would love to hear yours!
5. Sweetroll (Skyrim)
4. Lantern Fruit (Subnautica)
3. Creamy Heart Soup (Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild)
2. Peach Pie (Animal Crossing: New Horizons)
1. Brewster's Coffee (Animal Crossing: Wild World)
Reasoning & honorable mentions below ^.^
5. I got into Skyrim late to the game, but my first character started as a Jean Valjean-inspired petty thief in the pursuit bread and cheese. Nothing looked quite as appetizing as those little sweetrolls. One of the many delightful discoveries I came across going in blind to an iconic game.
4. Red, plump, slightly bioluminescent - super versatile as either a food source or bioreactor fuel, but most of all a gorgeous addition to any base. Returning to base and taking a bite of a fresh lantern fruit was more just for roleplay than anything lol, but man do I want to have a taste in real life.
3. Figuring out recipes was one of my favorite parts of the unlimited exploration in the open-world Breath of the Wild, and nothing seemed tastier than the Creamy Heart Soup. I can just imagine how revitalizing it would be to slurp it down mid-battle. Something about video games making imaginary fruits just looks so tantalizing, and I'm always a slut for a good soup.
2. The craftable food update in New Horizons is what kept me around for nearly a 1,000-hour island. Something about how they would steam after you cooked and placed them just looked so good. The cute aesthetics of the food items could warrant its own top-10 list for me, and the Peach Pie was as good as it got. I got the Switch game in 2022 well after the pandemic peak. Neither me nor my friends had peaches on their islands, and I was not about to pay to trade with someone - I never actually attained this beauty. My island had lined fields of crops and a farmers market with baked breads and jarred goods, she would have been my star centerpiece.
1. This is mainly an experience-based choice for me, but I imagine the taste would be phenomenal as well. 10-year-old me was unaware of changing DS settings to play different dates, so the once-per-day cup of coffee was a cherished moment. At the time I did not even know what coffee tasted like lol. The thought of drinking a scalding hot beverage scared me but I did not want to disappoint Brewster by letting it cool past its peak flavor. And Saturday nights when KK Slider was there?? Highlight of my week. Honestly that whole atmosphere of having a tasty little drink and watching a local live performance is exactly the vibe a look for as 28-year-old still. I wish I could go back and see how many hours I put into Wild World, I literally COMPLETED that game before I had access to the internet to look up how to find things - it was my cozy place.
I had too much fun putting this together lol honorable mentions has no cap idc, also no proofreading we die like men!
Honorable mentions: Yeto's Soup (Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess) - it took so long to make it must be the heartiest soup ever, Rare Candy (Pokemon) - if it can make my pokemon level up imagine ME, Lobster Thermador (Sims 2) - max level cooking meal I didn't think was real lol, Goopy Carbonara (Sims 3) - what's so goopy about it?, Crab and Egg Chinese Style (Cooking Mama) - a food I want to try and cook myself, Dubious Food (Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) - what flavor is 'dubious' exactly?, Cheesy Meat Bowl (Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom) - food that could instantly cure a hangover, Golden Apple (Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild) - does it even taste different?, Perfect Cherry (Animal Crossing: New Horizons) - I am allergic to cherries but I would risk it, Pink Cake (Stardew Valley) - so cute I NEED a taste, Light Faerie Sundae (Neopets) - faerie food looked tasty af the light sundae looked the best, Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Beans (HP & The Chamber of Secrets PS2) - Harry seemed so excited to find those beans I need to know why, 'Johnny Silverhand' Cocktail (Cyberpunk 2077) - beer + chili + tequila sounds awful I want a taste, Big Bang Burger (Persona 5 Royal) - I want to taste of Okumura's finest, NukaCola (Fallout) - if it doesn't taste like Diet Coke nuclear apocalypse isn't worth it, Klawf al Ajillo & Pickled Toedscool (Pokeomon Scarlet/Violet) - I want to taste the forbidden meat o.O
#watcher#top 5 beatdown#skyrim#animal crossing#subnautica#legend of zelda#this was probably the first beatdown i had strong opinions#always respect the list but mine is better sorry
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Spider Socorro + curse of obedience?? <3
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28. Curse of Obedience + Spider Socorro
A/N: This is short but I hope you like it anyway! Content warnings for child neglect.
At first everyone thinks Spider is just a really good kid. He never has to be told to do anything more than once.
“Spider, finish all your vegetables,” the McCoskers order him at dinner, and he does without complaint.
“Spider, stop running in the labs!” Max calls after him, and he skids to a stop so fast he almost trips over his feet.
“Don’t climb in the link beds!”
“Quit crying!”
“Stay away from Grace’s amino tank.”
The commands are endless, and Spider obeys each and every one. It's a gift to have such a well behaved child, everyone tells the McCoskers. They must be such good parents.
Except one night, when Mary is putting Spider to bed, he fights her. He kicks the blankets away, whines and cries to be allowed to stay up a little longer, struggles against her hands when they push him down onto the bed.
“For fuck's sake, Spider, just go to sleep!” Mary yells.
And, miraculously, Spider does. He goes limp on the bed, his eyes close, and his breathing evens out. It should be more concerning, but Mary is just so exhausted and grateful that she only shuts the lights off and leaves the bedroom.
The next morning comes around, and Spider sleeps right through it. The McCoskers go to work, and when they come back, Spider stubbornly stays curled up in his bed. He ignores them when they call his name, doesn’t even stir when Mary opens his bedroom door and asks if he's mad at her.
“The silent treatment, huh?” Mary says. No response. Spider snores away in his bed even as eclipse draws near. Or, he pretends to.
She comes over to his bedside and shakes him by the shoulder. “Come on. You can't stay in bed all day, you know.”
Still, Spider does not wake. His eyes remain stubbornly closed, face slack with sleep, until Mary orders with concern creeping into her tone, “Spider, wake up.”
And he does.
Spider's eyes blink open instantaneously, and he sits up and looks at Mary without a single inkling of sleepiness.
“Is it morning?” He asks her.
And he says it so innocently, so genuinely curious and not at all like a normal fussy five year old would after pulling a prank on somebody. It’s a ridiculous thought Mary has next, but she says it out loud anyway.
“Spider, do ten jumping jacks.”
She expects him to ask why. Maybe argue a little that he's only just woken up, that it's too early to exercise. But he doesn’t. Instead he gets out of bed and does ten jumping jacks. And Mary feels cold all over.
She calls Norm. They run brain scans and draw blood. When Spider whines fearfully Norm tells him not to be scared. Spider stops whining.
When the tests come up with nothing, when no machines tell the scientists anything about what could possibly be happening, they call Jake Sully. Jake Sully comes to Hell's Gate with the Omaticaya's Tsahìk on his tail. Everyone knows that something serious has happened when they see Mo'at's regal figure duck in through the airlock of the labs.
“There are stories,” Mo'at tells them, “passed down from generations about a child with a gift that allows him to do anything he is told to do. Stxeli lek.”
“The gift of obedience,” Jake says, his expression somber.
“Yes. It is said that this child has great skills, and can do many great things.”
Mary lets out a nervous little laugh. “That’s good, then, right? He won't ever be a hassle.”
Mo'at's grim face shuts her right up.
“This gift is very rare. Very powerful. The stories serve as a warning not to misuse the child's power. Many see this gift as a curse. The child could hurt himself, or hurt others.”
For the first time during the entire meeting, Nash speaks up. He shrugs and says, “Sounds like a gift to me. Maybe we can order him not to become a genocidal maniac like his father.”
Norm glares at him and objects, “Spider would never hurt anybody!”
They all turn at once to look at the boy in question through a small window that looks into an observation room. It used to be to interrogate enemies back when Hell's Hate was RDA property. Now it's been transformed into a classroom for Spider, equipped with soft mats to sit on and educational toys to play with. When Jake visits with his two children, it doubles as a playroom for all of them. Now, they all watch as Jake's daughter sits on the floor and braids Spider's hair with clumsy fingers while he chatters away. The room is soundproof, so they can't hear what he’s saying. But whatever it is makes Kiri laugh.
Mo'at hums in consideration. “Perhaps not. But if someone wished it so, he would not have a choice.”
#my writing#answered asks#avatar the way of water#miles spider socorro#jake sully#norm spellman#mary mccosker#nash mccosker#writing prompt
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Taking Flight, Chapter 28: All Sneaky Deaky Like.
The bandit stronghold is buzzing like a beehive as the night drudges on. The fields outside the outer walls are littered with all sorts of vehicles and haphazardly constructed war machines. Over on the cliffside overlooking the stronghold, Meggy is scanning the area through her scope while Pomni watches her six.
Meggy: This is Overwatch to Bluejay, do you copy?
Over to the East we see Tari, Uzi, and Jax hiding amongst the supply crates. They're all wearing the standard "TF2 Default Sniper" fit and some Gummy Bear Masks. Tari is currently speaking with Meggy on the walkie-talkie.
Tari: Bluejay to Overwatch, we read you.
Meggy: Okay. Once you're inside the walls, keep your eyes and ears open for any info on what they're planning. According to Gummigoo's info, you'll find Chewmaw's war room in that fort at the center of the stronghold.
Gummigoo also chimes in. He's in the trailer of the War Rig and is currently in a game of cards with Max, Chad, and the Mario Bros.
Gummigoo: The big bastard himself will likely be sitting around on that throne of his. Ya can't miss him. He's as big as a mountain. Also, he may sound as sharp as a bowling ball, but his wits could split a man in two. Don't let your guard down.
Tari: Roger that.
She readies her Gummy Bear mask and looks to the team.
Tari: Alright. Follow me.
The trio makes their move. So far, nobody is paying them any mind as they weave between the tankers and approach the main gate. A pair of gunmen stand guard and stops the three from entering.
Guard 1: Hold up. You know the drill. Speak the flavor of the day.
Jax: Sunday.
The guards exchange glances before opening the door and letting them through. Uzi and Tari are awestruck at how quickly he figured it out.
Jax: What? Caine gives us riddles like that all the time.
The three make their way towards the central fort, where they see one of those Cultists entering through the front door. Seeing their opening, they slink their way into the building. Inside they see a surprisingly lavish throneroom, the roof held aloft with massive pillars adorned with banners bearing the insignia of a Shark's skull. The trio sneaks behind the pillars as the hooded figure advances towards a formittable Rock Candy Throne, upon which sits a slumbering Blue and Purple Gummy Shark adorned in candied scrap armor. His right arm is a formittable vice-like claw, and a cherry red scope sits atop his right eye.
Cultist: Greetings, Lord Chewmaw.
The Cultist's raspy voice rouses the Warlord from his slumber.
Chewmaw: Nnngh......... there better be a good reason you decided to interrupt my beauty sleep.
The three continue to sneak between the pillars as Chewmaw converses with the Cultist.
Cultist: Well, you should know that we found the remnants of Gummigoo's war band out on the Rocky Roads. There were few survivors. Gummigoo and his brothers were nowhere to be seen, and we have yet to find his Tanker.
Tari peaks out from behind a pillar and sees Chewmaw gritting his teeth in frustration.
Cultist: Rest assured, though. Your current stockpile is far more than what we'll need. Final preparations on our side are progressing nicely, and we'll be ready to proceed by morning.
Chewmaw: And you're certain this will work?
Cultist: I swear on my mortal soul, all goes well and the Sweetlands will be yours to rule.
A toothy grin creeps across Chewmaw's face. He rises from his throne and marches towards the door.
Chewmaw: Then let's get this shindig started. I hope you appreciate the effort I had to spare for all this.
Cultist: Oh, it is GREATLY appreciated. Of that I am sure.
The cultist takes one last look around the throne room before following Chewmaw. The trio peak from the left staircase as the two head out the front door. With the coast clear, they head upstairs and find the war room.
Tari: Overwatch, we're in.
Meggy: Copy that, Bluejay. See if you can find anything.
The trio splits up and searches the room. While Uzi flips through the papers on the war table and Jax admires the weapon racks adorning the walls, Tari walks over to examine............ a sculpture. A monolith of stratified minerals twisted into a shape akin to a knight's Chess piece. She inches closer and places a hand on the polished crystaline surface. Her reflection was distorted, twisted into something unrecognizable. That's when she heard something.
Tari: Did....... did somebody say something?
Jax: No. Why?
Uzi is still preoccupied with examining the table. Tari listens for the noise again, which turns her attention back to the sculpture. She is compelled to place her ear up to it and listen closely. There's the sound, faint and illegible. It was like something inside the sculpture was trying to speak from within the crystaline mass. A sense of dread began to coil around her heart as she looked to her robotic hand.
Clench: I don't like this.............
Against her better judgement, she takes a deep breath, closes her eyes, and hesitantly places her robotic hand on the sculpture. She opens her eyes and she is elsewhere. The sculpture in front of her was now one of many, lining the walls of a cathedral-like chamber. At the far end of the chamber was a yawning opening overlooking a vast chasm of pitch black nothing. In the middle of the chamber was a slab of black lustrous metal and polished stone, circled by various containers........... with something laying on top. Tari cautiously walks over to the slab. Whatever laid on top the slab was swaddled in fine silks and bound in golden rosaries. A faint glow can be seen beneath the wrappings, throbbing like a heartbeat. The voice is here. Tari works up the courage to speak.
Tari: Hello?
The whispers cease for a moment. An oppressive silence fills the air as the coils of dread pull tighter. Then came the whisper.
????: Rap. Tap. Tap.
Tari gasps as something yanks her backwards. Tari's heart is racing, her breath short as she looks around and sees she's back in the war room. It looks like Uzi yanked her away from the sculpture.
Uzi: Hey! Snap out of it, will ya!?
Tari's heart was still racing. She takes a moment to catch her breath.
Tari: I......... what happened?
Jax: Hell if I know. You were the one Blair Witching in front of that creepy rock.
Tari: I...... I was somewhere else. There was something there, something........ awful........ like.........
That's when Meggy chimes in on the walkie-talkie.
Meggy: Overwatch to Bluejay, come in! Do you read, over?
Tari: Um, yeah. I hear you.
Meggy: I just spotted Chewmaw departing with a caravan of tankers. Did you find out when they're planning to attack Sugar Canyon?
Tari tries to answer, but a splitting headache prompts her to hand the walkie-talkie to Uzi.
Uzi: Yeah, that's not their plan. It turns out Chewmaw has been helping these cultists with some kind of......... ritual. They're heading for some place called the Fudge Pits.
Meggy: Wait wait wait, a ritual? A ritual for what?
Uzi: Haven't deciphered that yet, but it has something to do with the "Fifth Scholar of Zalgo." We'll go over it later. Right now, we need to get out of here.
Meggy: Alright. We'll meet back up at the rig.
Jax: You good, Blue?
Tari: Yeah. Much better now.
Back on the rig, Gummigoo just won his fifth game in a row, much to the bemusement of Mario.
Mario: This game sucks!
Chad: The boss always did have that gambler's luck.
In the driver's cabin, Kinger is zoning out when he hears Jax calling in on the radio.
Jax: Hey! Whoever's behind that wheel, please respond.
Kinger: Jax?! How did you get in there?
Jax: Hoo-hah, good. We got what we need and we're ready to split. Get behind that wheel and floor it over here, would ya?
Kinger: Affirmative, captain. Be there in a rook.
Just then, the war room door opens and we see a bandit walking in on the trio.
Bandit: Hey boss, you in here? I was kinda hoping I could get the day off for my daughter's birthda-
His head is swiftly blown off by Uzi's shotgun pistol. She then grabs as many notes as she can and stuffs them into a dufflebag.
Uzi: Let's get going.
Several bandits gather outside the building after hearing the gunshot. They all aim their guns at the door, ready to spray down whoever comes through that door. That's when they hear something busting out of the second floor wall as the trio leap down from the hole. Jax lands right on top of one of them and gets to clobbering while Uzi lays down suppressing fire. One manages to sneak up behind her, but is quickly cut down by Tari's glaive.
Tari: Y'know, we could've just gotten out of here quietly!
Jax: Eh, easy is no fun anyways.
The blair of a very suspicious horn echoes through the air as the war rig comes crashing through the outer wall like a bowling ball through Styrofoam. Several more bandits are flattened while the turrets take care of the stragglers.
Kinger: All aboard going aboard.
The trio hop into the trailer as the war rig kicks it into high gear, splattering even more poor saps before busting out of the stronghold as gracefully as it came in. Meggy sees the whole thing going down from the ridge as Pomni looks on with mild concern.
Pomni: Uh, couldn't they have just snuck out quietly? I think that would've been a bit easier.
Meggy: Eh, so long as it works.
She holsters her gun and the two set off.
Meggy: Besides, easy is no fun anyways.
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28 & 5 for vivka / 32 & 18 for rhea in the ask gamee :33
oc asks! about my ocs in max durden's adventuring party!
putting this under a read more because it got. so long :3
vivka vileshade -
28. how do they show that they care about someone? how do they express that they don't like someone?
vivka tends to express her feelings through action and acts of service. she will kill someone for you if she likes you, no questions asked. unfortunately, in elmville that's usually not the vibe so she'd had to adjust a bit. she has a deep sense of loyalty and cares deeply for her adventuring party, and the way she showed that was by creating pendants with their hair and gifting it to them, kind of like victorian mourning jewelry but i imagine it's like a fucked up baronies version of friendship bracelets. and she may or may not have snuck into everyone's homes and stolen a lock of their hair while they were sleeping but that's beside the point.
again, killing people isn't the vibe in elmville, so she's trying to get over the habit of killing people as a way of signaling her distaste for them (and her adventuring party has done a good job of stepping in and reminding her that she can't). but with hate she's also an action-oriented person. if you find a dead rat on your pillow it might be because you pissed off vivka. but most of the time she's rather keep her feelings lowkey until she can strike at the optimal moment, it's just in her rogue nature.
5. how do they typically dress? does their wardrobe lean more towards practicality or aesthetics?
this is such a fun question for vivka thank youuu for asking it. she's from the baronies, so a lot of what i've imagined her wearing is definitely inspired by historical fashion. a lot of vivka's style has been inspired by edwardian sensibilities. she wears a lot of lace inspired by the kind of flowy, relaxed gibson girl look, but also definitely also enjoys more structured dresses with waistcoats that were equally popular in the early 1900s (of course, these aren't real cultural ideas/time periods in the world of spyre, but they're more of a guide and inspiration for me when thinking about her style).
she's definitely dressed well a lot of the time, but never so impractically that her clothes would get in the way of any potential sneaking or murdering that needs to happen.
i imagine her hairstyles taking more inspiration from renaissance styles, with braids and pearled cauls holding her hair out of the way. she's got these long black curls that i think are really suited to hairstyles inspired by that time period.
rhea hollowstone -
32. do they have any habits that aren't particularly self-destructive, just maybe odd?
rhea's biggest self-destructive habit is definitely picking fights. whenever she needs to really feel out what she's feeling about something, she'll just decide to get into a screaming match with whoever about it. she doesn't always even mind which side of the argument she comes down on, she's just trying to figure how she feels by verbally sparring.
it's definitely one of those things that makes her come across as pretty abrasive to most people, and different members of her party handle it differently. max is always happy to argue right back; it helps that she and max are old friends and kind of get that about each other. ficus, for example, is on the other end of the spectrum and will very much just walk away the minute it seems like she's looking for a fight.
18. their opinion on lying, stealing, and killing?
rhea grew up being best friends with max durden, so she's not gonna judge someone for stealing and she's definitely lied to cover for his ass on more than one occasion. she's pretty into the idea of moral relativism, which is probably also a consequence of being friends with max. generally she's concerned with utilitarian questions about morals--who is being hurt? is this for the greater good? what are the power dynamics? if she catches max stealing from local businesses she slaps his hand because she's of the opinion that that energy should be saved for big corporations, but she's not gonna judge him harshly for it.
killing is a bit more complicated, especially going to aguefort where wanton violence isn't exactly discouraged. her goddess, njalla, is a giantkin goddess of spring and rebirth; a goddess who honors maidens in a similar way to the bacchae in ancient greece. so she's not opposed to violence for the most part, given that it feels deserved. so, killing on a quest is fine for her, but she's also usually one of the party members trying to talk vivka down from killing random aguefort students for minor social slights
#thank youuuu for the ask sabs as always you are looking out for my girls fr fr#just in case anyone's wondering the giantkin goddess is also made up by yours truly#i'm just. world building around max like my life depends on it what can i say#vivka vileshade#rhea hollowstone#max durden adventuring party#max durden#not me realizing that ficus doesn't have a last name...#ficus d20#figs sillies#fantasy high ocs#ask tag
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