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tvdversefanfiction · 4 years ago

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The Originals 30 Day Challenge, Done in 1 day.

I love all of these 30 day challenge pics/posts/quests but I never have the patience to do it over 30 whole days, so instead I do them in one sitting, one go.

MY TVD 30 DAY CHALLENGE HERE

Feel free to comment your own opinions about The Vampire Diaries spin-off The Originals, whether it’s your favorite show within the TVDverse like myself or whether you just love it as much as I also love the other two shows TVD and Legacies, Legacies will have its own 30 day challenge soon enough too...

Feel free to answer these too, copy, paste it, like I have and do it for yourself...

1 - If you follow this post, or read any of my TO fanfiction it will come as no surprise to anyone that I’m in love with and very obssesed with Klaus Mikaelson, he will always be my king.

2 - Rebekah Mikaelson, she’s so badass yet has this softness that makes her so compelling at the same time, I worship this queen and often wonder what this show would have looked like if she remained a main star for all of its five season run.

3 - Making me choose between the love of my life Klaus, and the icon that is Rebekah is hard...so hard but I have to go with Rebekah on the grounds that when he hurts Rebekah in any way I’m always mad like no, not my Rebekah, whereas when its the other way around I’m normally like yeah he deserved that from her...Rebekah is the fictional bestfriend of my life and Klaus is the husband, and friends always come before men - side not this very answer will later be used on record when I find myself in an asylum one day lol

4 - I’d have to go with either Marcellus or Inadu, although Marcel is beyond irritating to me throughout most of his run I can’t argue his reasons for being annoying are somewhat justifiable especially after Davina’s death in season 3 :( so I’d say I hated Inadu the most, purely because the character in itself was so wasted, so stale, and a dud to be honest...I was hoping for more with the hollow arc but I’ll get to that later on no doubt.

5 - Season 1 Episode 16, Farewell to Storyville, Season 1 in general was one of the strongest debut seasons for any shows I’ve ever watched, if not the strongest! I loved Rebekah and Klaus’ bond most out of the siblings and although Klaus spends most of the episode trying to kill her and it involves Rebekah leaving as a main character...this has got to be the juiciest exploration of their relationship - also side note young Elijah should have left young Rebekah kill Mikael, just saying...

6 - I could put the entirety of Season 5 in here, minus all the epicness of all the Klaroline scenes and Hayley’s badass death...but to pick one episode out it would have to be the finale “When the saints go marching in” because it just felt like they had spent that season killing off characters who were least likely to appear in Legacies (which pissed me off), also I wanted Klaroline to be endgame and Julie Plec’s response to not doing that because of Steroline, a ship that always felt like Caroline was second place and that queen should be always be 1st.

I did not like that Klaus and Elijah died, which reminded me visually of that Avengers scene, which made no sense as we have seen originals die before and not once did it go down like that!

And even if I could forgive them for that I was rather pissed we saw no after life, even a Elijah and Hayley dance in the afterlife would have been appreciated...

I’m also always a little bittersweet when folk from the pilot don’t show up in the last episode, would have loved to seen more of Davina in general over seasons 4 and 5. (Rant over)

7 - Try not to pick a Klaroline scene...never mind, when Caroline first appears, pinning Klaus up against the wall and saying something along the lines of try picking on someone your own size, or the swoony moment in Mystic Falls where she tells him he was never the villain in his story, or again the swoony moment when their road tripping and trying to find Hope... but non Klaroline scenes which were epic, Davina going up against Klaus with the harvest power inside of her, Lucien going upgraded original and taking them all on, Dahlia’s entire arc, the finales of 1,2, 3, and 4 and last but definitely not least kid Hope’s entire arc, what a magnificent actress Summer Fontana is, a star in the making *

8 - “ We are the strongest creatures in the world, and yet we're damaged beyond repair. We lived without hope, but we will never die. We are the definition of cursed, always and forever.” said by Rebekah Mikaelson, all of the Mikaelson’s had epic quotes, this show, and it’s predecessor TVD have so many amazing quotes <3

9 - Klaus handing baby Hope over to Rebekah, trusting her above all others, and any scenes where Klaus, Hayley, Rebekah, Elijah and Kol have with baby Hope as well as kid hope - broody moments lol

10 - Josh’s death, I had feared his death every goddamn season especially knowing Julie Plec wanted him killed in the very first season :( however after being made a regular in the finale season I had hopes for him making it out alive and perhaps showing up in Legacies in a more prominent role as a teacher for the vamp kids or something...but no that woman just had to finish off her hit...nothing breaks me more than his death! Although, reuniting with Aiden in the afterlife gives me small comfort, Aiden’s was another’s death that was so sad!

11 - Kid Hope putting people in their place like Marcel, and even Davina (who I worship), I just loved this little badass kid going about like a little queen from the get go...Danielle Rose Russell had and still has very big shoes to fill IMO

12 - Freya and Elijah condemning Davina to the ancestors, or Elijah who was supposed to love Marcel like a son ripping out Marcel’s heart. A lot of season 4 Elijah annoyed me tbh, 50% of Hayley scenes ticked me off too and Marcel was a solid 90% throughout the entire run.

13 - Hmmm....Klaus meeting his real father then killing him in order to protect Hope as he just could not risk trusting his father :( that broke me, other shocking moments when Gia died, Hayley’s first and second death...

14 - Friendship as in friends but not family? friendship within family would be Rebekah and Klaus always, friendship outside of family bonds I would definitely say either Davina and Josh or Rebekah and Hayley.

15 - Klaroline, although I put myself out here considering they only kissed once in this show...I never shipped Haylijah but never hated it, I despised Camille and the Klamille ship and always will, I enjoyed Elijah and Gia but doubt it run its course well I think, I always thought Rebekah deserved more than Marcel and still do...so I’m going with Kolvina, even though Kol killed Davina, thanks to those damn ancestors, their romance was super sweet, I loved how Kol loved her and their marriage, though briefly seen, was everything! We should have got a flashback of their wedding god damn it! But I’ll settle for them being two of the few who got happy endings...and could appear in Legacies ;) fingers crossed!

16 - I loved Marcel singing How You Like Me Now, I wish Charles Michael Davis had a few more musical numbers within this show, he’s a really talented actor, singer, director...

17 - Joseph Morgan hands down, loved him from his first scene in TVD and loved his other work in Hex and Brave New World, to name a few...

18 - Claire Holt, she’s just wonderful as Rebekah and the actress herself, she seems like such a genuine sweetheart in real life and you can really see her love for the character of Rebekah too, I also liked her other work in A Violent Separation, 47 Meters Down and no I’ve never seen H20...yet

19 - The Originals hands down, although so far TVD is in second place, with Legacies in third place but with Legacies still going I have high hopes for that climbing...all are fabulous shows in their own rights <3

20 - Okay I wouldn’t be me if I did not answer this future episode question without a link to a fanfic season 6 of mines... Origins of Magic and my alternative season 5 Bad Blood

21 - Off the top of my head? Davina and Kol teaching at Salvatore Boarding School, giving Hope some family connections that she severely lacks in Legacies and how awesome would they be as teachers? I’d also like to see a cousin whether it be Freya and Keelin’s son Nik or Rebekah and Marcel adopt a child (creature) that also ends up in Legacies. Side note - may put this in my possible fanfic ideas board...

22 - I don’t think I could claim to be most like any one individual, I’d say I was definitely a little dorky like Josh but nowhere near as adorable, I have a lot of hurt inside of me like Davina and protect my friends as much as I can, I’ve definitely got a bit of paranoia like Klaus from being screwed over many times like him and also like them it was mostly by family members, I’m definitely as curious and of a quiz like nature as Camille, love a little too easy like Rebekah and get my hear broken too often like her too, can be a little bit twistedly playful like Kol although I’ve not killed half as many people ; I’d love to one day be as elegant as Elijah, or as brave as Hayley and who would not want to be a Tribrid like Hope?

23 - How is this any different to 4? Although I’ll just answer Inadu purely because of the waste of potential and how not one single time did I give a damn about her, although I despised that vampire bitch who killed Hayley!!!

24 - I definitely relate to Klaus, Rebekah, Josh and Davina the most which is why they are my favorites no doubt.

25 - Klaus Mikaelson, any day, any time, anywhere, unless of course him and Caroline make it work I love their love more than I love my love for Klaus so I’d be happy just watching them being happy as a stalker lurking in the bushes within the back garden of their marital home - side not another statement that could be put on record for my eventful visit to the asylum..

26 - The family bonds, I love how it’s not all about romances like it is in TVD and so far Legacies, but still has romances at the same time. I love the complicated bonds between Klaus and his siblings Rebekah, Elijah, and Kol (in that order) and I love the little homemade family of Marcel with Davina and Josh (also in that order) and Marcel’s complicated father/son relationship with Klaus.

I also love how we watch Hope from being in Hayley’s womb, to a baby, toddler, child and then teenager and the powers she shows even from as young as being a baby and stopping the car she was in with Cami (even if that did save Cami’s life for a little longer) sorry not sorry we all got to hate on somebody and I did compliment her in 22 sort of lol

27 - The fact that its finale season served more like a prequel to Legacies than a fitting ending to a show I had been invested in since before it even began airing, as most fans were, we have loved these characters since their inception in TVD and it did kind of feel like Julie kind of started the finale season with a hit list in mind killing off anyone she’d think would not cameo in Legacies at some stage which I guess is why there is so much ill will from TO fans for Legacies, which I did feel for a while.

I mean I still blame Hope for Klaus and Hayley’s deaths, also Elijah for Hayley’s death and Marcel for Josh’s but I do not blame the characters have as much as I blame Plec.

28 - Season 5 lol, Season 4 although at the time I did not want it to be its end, would have served as a better ending for TO and they could have still made Legacies work without any ill will of making TO’s finale season pitch Legacies.

29 - The Hollow turning out to be Henrik, or the original witch, or anything other than what is was, also the werewolf origins should’ve have been a bit more epic like the vampires origins were.

30 - I do love Joseph Morgan and Daniel Gillies in interviews, Daniel Gillies is one of the funniest actors behind the scenes and has great bromances with Joseph, Paul Wesley and many others within the TVD verse. I also love Claire Holt’s and Phoebe Tonkin’s friendship and how that’s been a thing since they starred in H20 together (which I want to watch purely because of those two)

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missblogging · 6 years ago

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B R O...

MA H DUD ES...

YOU KNOW HOW EVERYONES LIKE-

“HOW OLD IS ALL MIGHT ANYWAY?”

AND THEY’RE NOT EXACTLY SURE HOW OLD?

I THINK I FIGURED IT OUT!!!!

FUCKING DAVID SHIELD HELPED ME OUT!!!

First thing’s first, I am so sorry about my last post, I was on my last brain cell when I posted it, and I was too excited to do anything other than eat shit... (I mean metaphorically of course)

ANYWAY!!! THIS IS MY REDEMPTION AND APOLOGY!!!

SO! Look VERY carefully at this picture!

Yah see that? That’s All Might’s Data, now before you say, “But it’s future bullshit! How are we supposed to understand their technology if they’re from 20XX?”

YOUR WRONG!!!!

This right here is his, like what it says on the top left corner, “Vital Logs,” Which all scientists/doctors take for normal check-ups or just to see any significant changes! For example, from top right to bottom right, All Mights RR also known as, Respiratory Rate, since he was using a mask to breathe in, states that he takes in 18.4 breathes each minute, the SPO2, or his Oxygen Rate, is a perfect 99.4, and his ECG/EKG, or Electrocardiogram, is 61.5/m.

Basically, All Might is as healthy as a horse with cancer... I mean- yeah his vital’s are something that any doctor or medical student can dream of- but who wants eternal bleeding and the removal of their internal organs? NOT THIS STUDENT!!!

And O O F that’s just the beginning my friends!!

This isn’t exactly that important? But at the same time, it is?? OKOKOK let me explain the relevance to THIS picture here.

Alright so, we’ve got the Whole Protein and the Albumin; and before you google search what the hell Albumin is unless you know how the body works, don’t bother cause that’s just gonna lead you to a hell of a headache.

So here goes nothing, The Albumin is the main type of Blood Plasma Protein that the body produces, mainly the liver’s job. While the Whole Protein is just how much protein is in his system. However, All Might had to have some internal organs removed because they were damaged beyond repair no matter how many healing quirks there are in the world.

Now, let me tell you the results of the Whole protein levels, first of all.

4.8 g/dl meaning 4.8 grams per deciliter. Which is really, REALLY bad, like, bro All Might are you ok??? This kind of also proves my “All Might has a quirk besides One for All” theory, but not by much to be honest, since he’s at this point of the story, unable to go back to his All Might form without vomiting blood, if anything, he could have been practicing using the “mystery quirk” the entire time, but NOPE!!! BODY MASS!!! MUST DEFEAT ALL FOR ONE!!! AVENGE MY SUCCESSOR!!! Ahem, anyway, back on track here- The normal levels for whole protein are supposed to be 6-8.3 g/dl. Which is exactly why I am questioning if All Might is ok- like fam yah need more beef or some shit like that...

The next thing I need to also confirm is the Albumin Levels. Which are 2.7 g/dl. The normal rate for that is 3.5-5.5 g/dl. So he’s... ok? Not really, he’s obviously below the rating, but not as bad as the whole protein levels were.

Fun fact about your’s truly: I’m actually not supposed to learn about these said levels unless I choose the Phlebotomy course at my school. I was planning on doing phlebotomy any way cause it was the most interesting course out of the six courses my school lets us choose, but my parents made me change my course options so instead of Pleb. as my first while Optomology is my second. It was downgraded while Opto was upgraded. So... I guess I’ll try getting my certification another way instead of the school providing it form me???

AND FINALLY THE MOMENT I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR!!!! THE THING THAT I’VE BEEN WANTING TO TALK TO Y’ALL ABOUT THE MOST!!!

ALL MIGHTS TRUE AGE!!!

LOOK CAREFULLY AT THIS PICTURE!!!! IT’S EVEN IN ENGLISH LIKE THE REST OF THE CHART!!!! IT’S THE REAL-DEAL!!!!

YOU KNOW HOW ALL MIGHT HIMSELF SAID THAT HE HASN’T EVEN TOLD DAVID AND MELISSA ABOUT ONE FOR ALL?? WELL, YOU’RE GOSH-DARN RIGHT HE HASN’T!!!

TOP LEFT CORNER: S-POW ACTIVITY: ALL MIGHT HAD BEEN CALLING HIS QUIRK SUPER POWER, A CLASSIC NAME FOR A QUIRK LIKE HIS.

CENTER OF THE IMAGE HAS A CLOSE UP TO THE CHART WITH A GREEN FLAG THAT SAYS SIX YEARS AGO, AFTER THAT, THE ACTIVITY BEGINS TO DEPLETE, INDICATING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALL MIGHTS QUIRK.

THERE’S EVEN A CLOSE UP OF THE DATA!!!

But what we’re going to REALLY look at is the dotted graph!!

Counting up all of the data needed, you can confirm that All Might is 43 years old at this time! BUT!!! THAT’S WHERE SOMETHING CLICKED!! NOT ONLY DOES THE MANGA CONFIRM THAT ALL MIGHT MET DAVID IN AMERICA! BUT, THE CHAPTER WITH ALL MIGHTS HISTORY AND BIO IS REVEALED!! ALSO REVEALING THE INFO THAT HE WENT TO AMERICA TWO YEARS AFTER THE INCIDENT WITH HIS MASTER!!! Blessings to Nana Shimura...

I’m going to use Midoriya’s & Melissa’s age as a reference as I have to be positively sure!!

The only reason for doing so is because of the amount of data on the chart, which I realized after rechecking the data and realizing that it said 6 YEARS ago- not 23 XD SO! Double checking this again!

Ok, Midoriya is I’m going to say 15 during the I-Island incident. Before any of the shit that goes on during the recent chapters. So by getting rid of 6 years off of Mido’s life, he’s 9 (10 if he’s actually 16 during the incident but I highly doubt it). So let’s use the data above as our reference (like what we’ve been doing for the last few paragraphs). There is also the confirmation thanks to the paragraph that All Might was 18 when Nana had to leave him from this world. (I'm guessing that Gran was at least in his mid-30′s when this incident occurred).

So let’s use 20 as the starting age!!! All Might is 20 years Old at that time, which is also around the time that he meets David! Of course, I’m going to guess that the machine that All Might was hooked onto when they were checking vitals was probably made a year after meeting each other, so that’s 21 at the time. David is probably the same age as All Might, maybe a month or two younger/older. Now! Using Melissa’s current age and of course, getting rid of 6 years of her age, she’s 11. Using that as the number of years that pass by with All Might and David, that takes us to him being 31 years old by that time.

Of course, he’s been back in Japan by that time trying to hunt down All for One, so he��s probably missed Melissa when she hits 11 herself. And Midoriya’s hit 9 by that time as well. So we’re going to use his age at this time and on! All Might finally meet Mido at 14. So that’s adding 5 years onto the age chart. Making him 37. And of course, adding 2 more years if you want to get the exact amount since Midoriya is technically 16 by the time the exam with 1A and 1B hit (damn how many years is it just to finish their first year??? Isn’t that weird? I mean I understand Melissa since this all occurs in the US where, by the time you're a third year, your like 16-17 years old, I feel yah boo) makes him 39.

Of course, that's where I had his a roadblock, cause that didn't sound right. At all, so I decided to go back a bit and using the 9-year difference between the birth of Melissa and his age of 21. I had gotten him right at 30. THAT'S when I had added the 11 years, which had gotten me 41 years old. Then, using the years with Izuku (which is 5 years later), I had gotten him at 46. And that's just Izuku at 14! Adding the 2 years he now has, that gets our #1 hero at 48

All Might, the symbol of peace, is 48 years old. Let that sink in.

Sweet Jesus Lord... I feel so brain dead after all of that, do you know how much research I had to do?? Not that much lol I had actually watched the Movie for the first time yesterday at like- Ass O' Clock. No joke, it was almost one by the time I had finished, then after that, I began my research and went to bed to finish, which I got to finish today after a few disturbances!!

Wow, is this what it feels like to be Midoriya for a day? It- it actually feels a little cool tbh, it's like I just had the freedom to word vomit all over Tumblr...

ANYWAY!! IF YOU MADE IT THIS FAR INTO THE THEORY THAT COULD BE TRUE!! I THANK YOU AND HOPE THIS ACTUALLY MADE AT LEAST A LITTLE BIT OF SENSE!!!

I... I think I need to make some kind of chart or something for this... eh- thats for me of tomorrow...

Anyway, later!!!

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mattoyaki · 4 years ago

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⚔️ Pokemon Sword Nuzlocke (Part 4) ⚔️

Parts One, Two, and Three are here

My roommate tested positive for Covid, still waiting on my results...what a life. Let’s get our 5th gym badge shall we?

Gym Challenge 5 - Opal

This gym challenge is really dumb imo. It asks very easy questions with a few not so trick questions and it gives you boost in battle just for getting them right? I guess they tried to make it creative...

The battle itself was easy, BeardBro handled it all himself. Very easy....so uh...yeah. I got the Fairy Badge with minimal efffort. Let’s move forward!

Hammerlocke

The scene with Opal and Bede is probably the only interesting cutscene in the entire game...

More dialogue with Sonia and Leon with an explosion but don’t worry just continue your gym challenge that’s the most important thing!

Before moving forward I’m gonna head back to the wild area to catch some more Pokémon! I box BeardBro now that GurrenLagann knows heavy slam and bring Stuff’n back to the team.

Wild Area - Dusty Bowl

I run into the grass and encounter...an Applin?Definitely wasn’t expecting that but I’ll take it!

Turns out Applin is basically useless until it evolves, which isn’t exactly easy. According to google the only guaranteed to way to get a Tart Apple is to give your Applin away to an NPC...and the odds of me catching another one are slim. I’ll check out the Battle Cafes in Motostoke and Hammerlocke to see if I can’t get one as a reward.

Hammerlocke is a dud. Let’s try Motostoke...

No luck at Motostoke either, sorry Wormy, looks like it wasn’t meant to be. 😭 Apparently I can farm for one in Axew’s Eye after getting the bike upgrade so maybe it’ll work out later Wormy! Boxing him for now.

Continuing on my catching/training montage...

Wild Area - Giants Mirror

I catch a Dottler here which just doesn’t hit the same as Applin...

Dotty (Dottler) Lv 29

Rash Nature; It’s very finnicky

As I train Stuff’n evolves into Bewear.

A little more training and now onto Route 7 to contribute to Hop’s depression!

Route 7

Once again I demolish Hop and GurrenLagann evolves from the battle.

Side note: I feel like Galarian Golurk was a huge missed opportunity....but that’s just me.

Liepard immediately attacked me upon reaching the grassy area, welcome to the team Pusé

Pusé - (Liepard) Lv. 37

Lax Nature; Proud of it’s power

Route 7 isn’t nearly long enough to be considered a route imo.

Route 8

Route 8 kinda makes up for how short 7 was..

Togedemaru is my first encounter here, but Sombra lands a critical hit and knocks it out. I’m not too tore up about it.

Lots of Gurdurr here and too tight of corners to evade them. I had a close call when one landed a Dynamic Punch on Sombra.

Oooof, I lost my first Pokémon....to sandstorm no less. In a double battle Perrserker managed to get off 5 fury swipes leaving TootieFruity with 4 HP, leaving her in sandstorm range before I had a chance to heal her. RIP TootieFruity, you served me well!

I’ll be replacing TootieFruity with Microdose for the time being.

Part two of Route 8...does this count as a new area?? I’m gonna say no and continue onto Circhester.

Circhester

The music in this town is a vibe. After chilling for a while listening I head to the gym!

Gym Challenge 6 - Gordie

I love this gym design, gives me Sootopolis vibes and Toph Beifong would appreciate it.

Gordie didn’t stand a chance against Microdose and Sombra. Microdose took care of Barbacle and put Shuckle to sleep with Spore, allowing Sombra to come in for the sweep. And with that, I now own the Rock badge. Meaning I can now evolve my pokemon a second time!

After the gym there’s some more dialogue with Sonia, yay.

Ya know the story of this game has a lot of potential but the narrative style that’s always like “oh but don’t worry, just finish your gym challenge!” really gets in the way of it. With the lore of the Galar region I feel an evil team like Team Plasma could’ve helped a lot. But no...let’s focus on the gym challenge and make the villains a group of fan boys 🤷‍♂️

Hop challenges me to a battle cause he’s a secret masochist and we’re teleported to Route 8 cause making a city background on the switch is hard :/

Stuff’n and GurrenLagann have great synergy together, though Corviknight did pose a bit of a problem cause the threat of Drill Peck wouldn’t allow a safe switch into SpicyNoodle.

Sorry Hop, not today.

Now on to my absolute least favorite part of the game....Spikemuth.

Route 9

My first encounter here is one of my favorite Pokémon, Mareanie! I named him Spike and boxed him for now.

Spike - ( Mareanie ) Lv. 41

Sassy Nature; It’s very finicky!

Sombra evolves into Inteleon, finally at level 52!

More team yell shenanigans....did gamefreak really not make enough models they had to make the guy that fixes your bike a Doctor? Wack.

Now that I have the bike upgrade I’m returning to the wild area to check out a few areas i haven’t had access to.

Wild Area - Lake of Outrage

Learned the hard way this area is still too high level, but I managed to take down a Turtonator with GurrenLagann.

Did more training and Witch Bitch evolved into Hatterene!

Wild Area - Axew’s Eye

I checked the tree in the Axew’s Eye for Tart Apple and wouldn’t you know, there is one! Swapping out Microdose for Wormy and evolving him!

Gonna train up my new team a bit and call it a night!

Part 4 Recap

Current Team:

Sombra (Inteleon) Lv. 53, SpicyNoodle (Centiskorch) Lv. 50, Wormy (Flapple) Lv. 49, Stuff’n (Bewear) Lv. 47, Witch Bitch (Hatterene) GurrenLagann (Golurk) Lv. 48

Boxed:

Graveyard:

TootieFruity (Steenee) Lv. 41

Final Note:

One casualty but still feel pretty mehh about the difficulty. Even with the restrictions and challenges I placed on myself like gym badges and evolving ive found this game is still very easy. The shared experience is definitely an undermine to the classic Nuzlocke run. Either way I’m enjoying the run and it’s getting down to the nitty gritty. I’ll pick it back up tomorrow, and possibly finish?

#pokemon #pokemon swsh #pokemon sword #pokemon sword nuzlocke #nuzlocke #long post

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starr-fall-knight-rise · 6 years ago

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Humans are Weird “Slang”

Ok guys, this really, really hurt me to write, but by request, I have done it. Just a reminder before we begin that if some of these words appear to be used wrong, just remember that this around to 3000 or 4000s so language would have changed a lot during this time, and most subcultures meshed with each other at one time or another creating this sort of thing. So I probably did what I did quite intentionally.

They ghosted into the city at 500 miles per hour. Sunny had her face pressed against the window looking up towards the sky in awe at the ethereal city of white arches and colorful flying cars rising in hundreds of multilevel platforms thousands of feet into the sky. The forest rolled directly up to the outskirts of the city, a city that reached upwards into the sky rather than sprawling outwards like cities had done in the distant past. Captain Vir leaned back in his seat eyes half closed as the rocket maglev rolled up towards the city. The captain said that maglevs used to be nearly as loud as jet engines, but sound dampening technology along the side of the rails had reduced the sound to almost nothing.

And the people, the humans were so odd compared to the Captain and the humans and Sunny had known. They were outrageously dressed brightly colored. Their hair was died, their skin was died, some of them wore massive clothing that billowed outward feet while others were barely wearing anything at all. A woman walked past as the train was beginning to slow, and, standing next to them, Sunny took sight of an intricate tattoo of a dragon winding up and down her arm in repeated arcs and spirals.

Outside the train windows a tunnel sucked them into darkness lines of lights rolling past the windows. They slowed, and came to the stop.

Please watch your step as you exit the train.

Captain Vir stood up and made his way off of the train with Sunny and Krill following behind him onto the underground platform of dark stone and thick, squat pillars. Bright holographic kiosks lit up the station with blue purple and warm red light. Lines of people walked up and down the terminal passing their wrists under microchip scanners.

They passed through a set of scanners, and Sunny watched in shock as an alien face stared at her from behind the security desk. A humanoid face but of metal and plastic. They moved from there stepping forward, and onto a purple symbol on the ground. Sunny nearly had a heart attack as they were pushed into the air rising up through tunnels in the ground and out into the blinding sunlight and the white city.

A massive holograph bust into light above them.

Welcome to Los Angeles the city of angels. The hologram burst apart and into a set of massive wings which flapped once and then exploded once again sending pixels out across the sky like a daytime firework. The pixels reformed themselves into a large screen a massive add for two people. The new fashion trend from Apple. The clothing was in grey white and black short sleeved, high collared, shirts that hung long about the knees. The look was very clean and organic, the humans depicted were the best of their species. Feed your fashion with Apple.

A few of the humans passing them turned to look on in curiosity at the strange alien visitors, an occurrence that wasn’t particularly common yet. They looked up at sunny, some with interest, some with worry, and others with….. with something that made Sunny rather uncomfortable. She sped up to catch the captain as he stepped onto a light rail, which send them rocketing across the city on a pocket of blue light. They landed at a central terminal, and the captain motioned them to follow passing through hundreds of tall and imposing shops before ducking into a tight alley. The bright white lights of the soaring city broke down as they made they tunneled their way into the city’s bones. The stark white walls of the soaring buildings and skywalks broke down into thick beams and burbling pipes: veins and innards creeping their way through the bones.

They slipped through another doorway and down a set of metals stairs into darkness. Even in the light of day, this part of the city was dark. They took another turn and cut outwards into another alley. The sound of voices spilled over them as they stepped into the city, and a dark marketplace. Sunny stepped a little closer to the captain eyes passing over the booths bathed in deep red lighting. From behind their stalls eyes peered out at her in interest. The one thing all these humans had in common….. well…. They weren’t totally human. Robotic legs, robotic arms, robotic eyes.

They called at the captain as he passed in words that Sunny didn’t understand. The Captain paused and pulled up his pant leg, flashing the dark metal of his prosthetic leg as the men who went silent and waved him on.

“Captain.” Krill wondered quietly, “Where are we going?”

The man gave him a nonchalant wave as they passed down another line of booths. Prosthetic legs and arms hung from hooks on every side next to glass cases of various, shiny robotic upgrades, “I have a guy who owes me a favor. Thought if we were going to stay in the city that we might as well stay with friends.” He took another corner walking them onto a wider, more inviting thoroughfare. Bright neon lights blinked above them. Music thrummed form the dark cavernous openings beneath the lights. Inside lights throbbed and beat.

The captain stopped before one of the doors, “Alright guys….. now Rocket is a friend of mine, but the guys he runs with are pretty weird. They’re called slangers, so don’t feel bad if you can’t understand them.”

“What’s a slanger?” Krill wondered.

“You’ll see.” The Captain grinned, before turning around, shoving open the door and stepping inside. Music thrummed and throbbed outwards

*I've been to the year 3000, not much has changed, but they lived underwater*

“C’mon dude y’an’t smak on these beats when they still rel’. Sunny turned her head thinking that her translator had just had a stroke. And when she looked, she was sure that her eyes had gone into stroke as well. This particular human had bright turquoise hair, numerous metal rods through his face, wore only a vest, and a set of massively flared jeans. The man next to him was nothing if not more ridiculous with odd white hair, ruffled collar, and enormous pants with buckled shoes to match.

“Tis you doth not know the truest meaning of art. Shakespeare would be caught weeping at this terrible violation of the ears.” Down to her side Sunny watched Krill as he shook his head fiddling with the translation mechanism as all the humans turned to look at them. Distant lights flashed in the other room with the beat of the song. A large mirrored ball hung in the air. The dress code was non-existent.

The captain ignored the eyes and raised his voice over the crowd, “Yo, Rocket where you posted! said you’d be here if I came slidin’!”

The actual hell was that supposed to mean?

While they were waiting for a reply, one of the human females from the right lifted her head, half shaved half long, one half died black the other purple, “Sweet bod dawg, totally tubular you dig, pred.” Sunny looked around not sure who the human was speaking to.

“Are you talking to me?” Sunny wondered.

The girl tilted her head again, “Yeah, who else?”

Sunny shuffled her feet on the floor pointing to the UV translator, “I…. don’t understand.”

The human rolled their eyes, “Peeps discriminating against the script…..” She paused, “You look cool, kid, you and your Et friend.” She said motioning down to krill who looked 110% confused.

“Erm, thanks....” The girl settled back into her seat and closed her eyes. Krill and Sunny exchanged a look as the blue lights flashed ad flickered over them. It didn’t take long before a short-dark human slipped from the crowd. He was wearing soemthing that resembled a suit, but it was powder blue and came with a matching hat, and an odd cut. He grinned wide as he saw Vir standing there.

“Bro! Looking tight in the 2000s duds didn’t think the burbs were so lit.” The two of them embraced, “How you hanging, got jarred when I caught that you’re still kicking it with the flyboys.”

“Yeah, I uh…..” The Captain sighed and gave up, “I got promoted, have my own ship and everything.”

Sunny leaned down to Krill, “What is he saying?”

“Absolutely no idea, I’m not entirely sure they’re speaking human. Most of those words aren’t even words, and when they are words, they aren’t used in context”

“Radical, just gotta nab a squeeze eh.” He elbowed the captain in the ribs, but the man went white.

“I don’t know about that.” The captain said hesitantly nervously rubbing his arm as the man walked them further into the place passing the room with all the flashing lights. The mirrored ball sent pinpricks of light across the room. The floor flashed with multiple colored squares.

“Still getting’ G-locked around chicks.” The guy wondered thoughtfully passing through a curtain of beads.

“G-locked?” The captain wondered, “Can’t say I’ve heard that one. I’m assuming it doesn’t mean what it’s supposed to mean.”

“Coined it for you. Means to be a chicken around chicks.” He threw an arm around the captain’s shoulders, “You just gotta keep it liquid bro or you’re fixin’ to get juiced. Just be chill keep it basic, you know unless she’s really high octave than even I’d be freaked. You snipe.”

The captain closed his eyes and rubbed the back of his head, “Damn, Rocket. I can barely understand you these days, but staying “liquid” Isn’t so easy.”

A loud clatter broke through their conversation from across the room, “GET LOCKED you candy-ass Bieber, keep your crotch rot over there.” And suddenly there was a sudden burst of limbs and fists, and a group of other humans ran to break up the fight. Rocket stood with his hands on hips as the fight was broken up motioning one of the humans towards the door

“What was that all about?” The Captain wondered.

“Well Steevie can be a real creeper, been tweaking, and you know I’m chill with the fam blazin’ but getting iced is bad mojo. Got himself wrapped up with a hit last week and then nearly got trunked when the candy man didn’t get his doe. And Candy man been kicking it with the Ice-Queen. Steevie’s shit ain’t cool for my rep. Tryna keep it clean.”

The Captain snorted, and quickly stopped throwing an arm in front of Sunny.

“YEET!” A spray of objects went flying past them, and a group of humans followed dressed surprisingly similar to the Captain, who sunny was beginning to learn, dressed in a rather outdated style.

They stepped from one room and into a back room. The music was just a soft thudding now. Rocket took a seat at his desk throwing his feet up onto the desk.

“So, to what do I owe this slide, you here to throw shade or you need bailed out.”

“We were actually looking for a place to crash.” The captain said motioning to Sunny and Krill who stood by the door looking confused. Sunny could see that Krill was close to blowing a fuse. He looked at Sunny gesticulating angrily with one of his arms. He clearly didn’t understand why the human would talk in a way SPECIFICALLY designed to be confusing. Sunny kind of understood the sentiment.

“Tight, sweet crew got yourself an Et and a Pred.” He leaned in a little bit close, “You’re not into a bit of that Pred tail, are you, Spine?”

The captain just looked at the man, “The F*** kind of question is that?”

Rocket just leaned back in his chair, “Cool your jets, ace you playin’ like I’m giving you the third degree. Just asking, no shame in whatever you’re sweet on.”

The captain rolled his eyes ignoring the question, “Rocket this is Krill, he’s my ships chief medical officer, and one Vrul surgical staff, and this is Sunny, my primary weapons specialist.”

“Sup fam, any squad of Adam’s is a crew of mine.”

Krill crossed his arms, and sunny rubbed the back of her head, “Thanks…. I think….. do you mind me asking why you all, talk funny?”

“Well sheila-“

“In English, please.”

The man sat back in his seat with a raised eyebrow, “A’ait, have it your way. I will lower myself to the common tongue to converse with you. We.” He motioned to himself and the club around him, “Are Slangers, schooled in the specific are and complete use of slang words in communication. Slang if you do not know is a very informal way of speaking where words are used in different contexts and are usually specific to a certain type of group. This type of language evolves very rapidly, and is difficult to keep up with.” He patted himself on the chest, “I have coined a few terms myself in the past. Including and not limited to G- lock, Locked, and Spine, however all forms and uses of slang words are accepted here. We have specialists in 1900s 2000s 3000s and so on.”

The captain turned to Krill and Sunny, “You see, humans have this thing called counter-culture, where a specific group of people do things contrary to popular culture because maybe they feel like they don’t fit in. Humans need groups, so it works out pretty well for everyone. Rocket is sort of a leading figure in counter culture these days, and some of it has sort of bled over into mainstream popularity. Like the army TOD tattoo.”

“The what?” Krill wondered

The captain pulled down the front of his shirt where a small dark tattoo sat just above his heart. The tattoo changed every few moments counting through earth time, “It’s a bio power tattoo the army started using in place of dog tags. The ink takes a bit of excess power from the body and uses it to work. When the body dies, the time stops giving you an accurate time of death.”

Rocket was nodding, “I think we hittin’ the same octave yarrn’t crashing in a hood where you could get trunked or jacked. Honest, some pads can be real jank ‘round here. I tell yah, one of my crew got clowned taking the tube back from burbs.”

Sunny just stood there confused. She was 100% sure they weren’t hittin’ the same octave, whatever that meant.

As they were lead off to a quieter side room, Krill tugged on the captain’s pants, “Captain, what’s a clown?”

The man looked at them and shrugged, “Some kind of demon that wears face paint…. I think.”

Thank you @ma-tsu-the-male-goddess and @taliaxlatia for helping me come up with the futuristic slang words. You have hurt my soul very deeply :)

#humans are weird #humans are space orcs #humans are space oddities #humans are space australians #earth is space australia

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RWBY 7.3 and 7.4 thoughts

Didn’t really have time to do last week’s episode so this post I’ll do both (spoilers for non-FIRST members):

7.3:

- So RWBY and JNR have finally gotten their new duds and ‘do’s and I have opinions on each of them: Jaune’s new weapons, great. Hair, WTF? Lie Ren and Qrow’s outfits look more serious than their previous ones. I almost want to say emo considering both of their histories. Nora’s got less fanservice with her new outfit, while Yang has more (name one other female character with visible cleavage, I dare you!). Both Weiss’s hair and her new outfit make her look bulkier. 50-50 on Blake’s hair and outfit. Ruby’s new hair is probably my favorite of the bunch.

- Leaving Oscar alone with the relic? Something tells me that’s gonna bite them all in the ass later on.

- Already got RWBY and JNR fangirling over the Ace Ops.

- Qrow and Clover seem like they’re deliberately being pushed towards each other. Qrow lost his team, Clover has his, Qrow’s semblance is bad luck, Clover’s is good luck. Qrow looks completely in awe when he finds this out.

- Not to compare the two again, but I got serious Kingdom Hearts vibes with the Ace Ops vs. Geist battle. TELL me no one else sees a giant Heartless with that upgraded/custom form the Geist has?

- Oh hey, look, that guy from the prison ship got a ride home...

- WTF Tyrian, popping out like that Psycho shit?

- RIP prison man...

7.4:

- I keep forgetting the SDC owned all the mines down at Mantle. Took a good second for it to click.

- Yeah, you’re right Qrow, Ironwood’s political critics being dead really isn’t a good look for him or Atlas. Though frankly I care more for the former than the latter.

- Ahhhhh here comes the ‘We’re not friends, just teammates” lingo from the Ace Ops, and here comes the sudden depression from Team RWBY. Seems like the Apathy all over again.

- But, but...why NOT take Marrow, Ironwood? He seems like he would be the guy to liven up a mood.

- Oh goody. Fuckface Jacques is back. Please someone rip him a new one, one second in and he reminds me why he’s scum.

- Ba-BAM! The MINUTE Jacques gets confrontational with Weiss, Ironwood goes into daddy mode. And I really hope Weiss telling him the teammates she left everything for aren’t friends but “family” knocked his ego down a peg. Probably didn’t, but one can hope.

- RWBY and JNR aren’t the only ones who forgot it all started with them trying to study to become Huntsman...I completely flashed back to Beacon when they knew nothing about Salem or the Relics and were just trying to do their studies.

- Vine and Ren are peas in a pod. Nuff said.

- Still awkward hearing Qrow’s new voice for so long in one period of time, but at least we got some good info on Summer; a mission she died on that was a ‘Summer secret’ and not an Ozpin one? Something tells me she may not have fallen to any Grimm...

- Taking a peek in Jacques’ study and oh goody...the OTHER fuckface little shit is back. And he brought a friend...

- ...who by the way is Dr. Watts. Jacques addressing him by first name implies more history than just living in the same kingdom, but since he’s apparently believed to be dead, it’s kinda raising some questions for me about how Watts went from a disgraced scientist to Salem’s lackey.

#rwby #rwby7 #rwby volume 7 #ruby rose #weiss schnee #blake belladonna #yang xiao long #jaune arc #lie ren #nora valkyrie #whitley schnee #jacques schnee #winter schnee #james ironwood #qrow branwen #ace ops #penny polendina #arthur watts #Tyrian Callows

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buffster · 5 years ago

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Primeval (BTVS 4.21)

This is part of my ongoing Buffyverse Project, where I write notes/meta for every episode in an attempt to better understand the characters and themes of the shows. You can find the BTVS list here and the ATS list here. Gifs are not mine.

Restless may technically be the season finale of season four, but it feels more like a special than what we’re used to seeing at the end of the season. For that we have Primeval. I consider a great season finale to be the culmination of season-long arcs and themes, so how did this one play out?

Season four was about the struggle to grow up and figure out who you are and what your place in the world is. The divergent paths of adulthood also left our core group feeling a little disconnected from one another. It could have been a relatively light season that was remembered fondly. Instead it stands out as a hiccup between two superior seasons, and we all know why: The Initiative arc was a dud.

It actually took some thought before I realized Adam was set up to provide an evil metaphor for this time of adulthood. He really is that bad in the role. He gives a couple of speeches about trying to figure out his identity and purpose. And perhaps his biggest sin is that he’s boring. But I consider this season to be one of the worst Buffy has to offer, better perhaps than season one but without the excuse of being the first.

Here’s my pitch for the season: we have a newly turned vampire decide he wants to unite the vampires into a greater purpose. It provides a nice metaphor as the new vampire tries to figure out his place in the world while our newly-graduated heroines do the same. They start to fall apart just as he unites demons in a terrible purpose. There’s more emphasis on tension between our core group and the struggle to find their way back to each other. I don’t think this would have been the most epic villain or season, but it would have matched the lighter tone and themes the writers were going for better.

Instead we got the government.

Humans finally getting involved in the supernatural could be a major antagonist (like end-of-the-series level antagonist). They become species-ist and discriminate against every single creature and our heroes struggle to find their place in a war between humans and supernatural creatures. Instead that entire issue gets shoved aside and never revisited and we’re left with Adam, who felt like a mere soldier in an entire war we needed to fight.

Adam was so boring, and that feels especially sad because the concept of combining everything Willow, Xander, and Giles brings to the table into Buffy was very cool. I loved that we were finally placing some value on our non-Buffy Scooby Gang members (especially after the “at the end of the day it’s always just Buffy” messages) but teaming up to take down Adam was a lame way to execute the idea. Adam was made using technology and it felt odd that the Scoobies had to use this spiritual connection to take down a soldier. He just didn’t feel worthy of the honor.

So I didn’t love the Big Bad arc of the season and I wish it had gone differently. Now that I’ve spent half a post on that, let’s move on to the season finale itself.

Spike: So it's chips all 'round, is it? Someone must've bought the party-pak.

The episode opens on Riley and Adam in another moment of Buffy subverting our expectations. We expected Riley to run off and take on Adam in his grief even though he had no chance (like Giles in season two) but Riley was actually forced there.

In another off moment, the writers change direction and decide Adam doesn’t want to unite the demons. They’re unworthy and he wants Riley instead. We see that Professor Walsh and Forrest have been reanimated. It wasn’t clear whether Forrest was being altered by Adam or was just genuinely cool with his “upgrade”. His character was really underdeveloped. My fix for that is to have him really in to Riley (who’s just a normal guy) and get turned by the aforementioned vampire. Then he’s on a mission to get Riley turned as well.

Buffy: That's where it all came from. The stuff we said the other night.

Giles: Of course. Let's move on.

Xander: I'm moving.

Willow: Me too.

Buffy: Good. Great.

Despite the later exchange in the Initiative, this is kind of where they leave things with the Scooby tension. They give hugs but don’t really get into their feelings, which Buffy is not about. There’s no deeper discussion of Giles feeling useless, Xander feeling unworthy, Willow feeling weird, or Buffy feeling alone.

So Adam’s big plan is to bring a bunch of demons into the Initiative, get Buffy down there, and basically kill as many demons he can to use as parts for his new super race. Riley is to be his second-in-command.

Xander says something that inspires Giles to come up with a plan to combine Willow (spirit), Xander (heart), Giles (mind), and Buffy (hand) to take down Adam. I think if I remember correctly next episode is our explanation for why this can never be used again. It works. Adam is defeated, unfortunately for Spike before he can ditch his chip.

Ward: This was an experiment. The Initiative represented the government's interest in not only controlling the Otherworldly Menace, but in harnessing its power for our own military purposes. It is the considered opinion of this council that the experiment has failed.

They decide to burn down the Initiative and all attempts to get involved with the supernatural (for now).

Well, that was...ok, I guess.

Character Notes:

Anya Jenkins: She admits her love for Xander but he barely reacts.

Tara Maclay: Tara calls Willow’s computer skills “a different kind of magic” which is so sweet watching post-season six. She always saw Willow as magical.

#primeval #David Fury #buffy summers #willow rosenberg #xander harris #anya jenkins #tara maclay #rupert giles #adam #riley finn #spike #maggie walsh #forrest gates #Buffy/Riley #xander/anya #willow/tara

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shadows-twilight · 5 years ago

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RWBY Volume 7 Chapter 3

My thoughts and opinions on Chapter 3 of RWBY Volume 3, "Ace-Operatives"

SPOILERS BELOW:

Man, that snow looks so good. Honestly, the precipitation alone seems to be a good indication of how far CRWBY has come. I mean, was there even any rain or snow in Volume 1-3? So proud of their progress.

Hmm, seems like there was a slight timeskip in between last episode and this one, since Pietro mentioned "holding onto [there] weapons for so long". That being said, UPGRADE TIME!!!

Hmm, were those three soldiers Huntsmen or just plain military (or is there a difference). They showed up at the same time Clover mentioned other Huntsmen, but three different people with the same uniform and the same weapon doesn't seem very Huntsman-y to me.

Interesting. The holo-board that Clover is giving his briefing on says that RWBY and JNR have active License statuses. Did they become official during that timeskip? Also, the icons showed them with their new updated looks, but then immediately panned over to show Jaune and Ruby in their Mantle looks. Just felt like pointing that out.

Wow. Couldn't resist with those Pyrrha feels, could you? frikkin' bastards.

Let the fashion show begin! Everyone has their new duds and they are looking GREAT!

Ooh, new song! It seems really lighthearted and fluffy. I love it and can't wait to hear it in full.

So what kind of accent does Elm have, anyway? I didn't catch it last episode and I can't really place it.

Ok, now that we've seen it properly outside of a single promo image and the quick glance in the opening, I am fully on board with Jaune's new haircut. It took a while, but we got there.

Ooh. The new hard light additions double as a glider. Very Breath of the Wild-y. I like it.

Aaww, Bumbleby flirting scene, right out of Legend of Korra. So cute ^-^

Hmm, this feels like the first time they've confirmed that Aura can protect from temperature related perils. Good to know for future fanfic material.

Oh good, they are indeed talking about them lying to Ironwood, particularly the part where Oscar compares it to Ozpin's actions. I mean, I don't particularly see them as being in the wrong, but I'm glad they pointed out the parallels.

Wow. Qrow and Clover are definitely giving me some sitcom "chipper one meets emo one" pairing vibes. Take that as you will.

I wonder what's up with Ren giving Nora the cold shoulder all of a sudden. Kinda thought we were past the "will they won't they" point with them, but I guess we'll see.

Ooooh, was this the mine Ilia's parents died in. That would be interesting.

I must say, there's was something I liked about Marrow's little talk about the Faunus. He didn't really say it straight out, but it felt like he was trying to tell Weiss to not put too much blame on her family (and by extension herself) as that's just how society is, sucky as it is.

My my, Floyd. You've grown so big since we last seen you.

Ooh, so Harriet's weapon is a pair of Jax arms? Me likey a lot. I want to see a bit more of the Ace-Ops before I say for certain, but I think she just might be my favorite of the bunch.

All these new Grimm are so cool!

Upgrade display time! Yang seems to now have explosives (Argent is suddenly feeling a lot less original as an OC now), and the head of Crescent Rose can now rotate.

Bahaha, they are really leaning into Marrow's dog attributes. Not only can his weapon come back to him when thrown (he can play fetch with himself!) but his semblance allows him to make other things 'stay' (which, for the record, is a really cool semblance)

Meanwhile, Harriet's semblance seems to be some good old-fashioned, Flash-style superspeed. She's even got the lightning trails and everything. Simple, but never dull, especially when it leans into her allusion so well.

Vine and Elm have some pretty swanky semblances of their own. Vine seems to have energy-projection stretchy arms while Elm's literally roots her to the ground. Very fitting to their allusions as well (which I did not catch last episode because for some reason I never happened upon The Elm and the Vine when trying to look them up. Oh well)

Ooh, did Jaune get gravity dust infused into his shield as well? Man, that thing is becoming versatile!

Hehe, Ren's blades are now grappling hooks. There upgrades are AWESOME!!!

Geeky Ruby is my favorite Ruby.

Going back to my OC's suddenly feeling a lot less original, one of the ideas I had in forming River's weapon was that it basically took Sly Cooper's cane and turned it into a giant fishing hook. Guess RT wanted to be a lot less subtle about it. Oh well. It's really cool getting to see the Gigas form like that. I mean, it's cool enough to see once it's formed, but there's a certain fun to seeing standard objects actually become components of the whole.

Huh, so Clover's semblance is indeed good luck to counter Qrow's bad. Do the romantic implications ever cease (especially when Clover goes so far as to wink at him?) ... ... ...Oh god, Clover's going to be evil, isn't he?

Hmm, since not letting the agitated gravity dust hit the floor seems to be such a major element in this Ace-Op showcase action scene, I can't help but wonder what a bunch of gravity dust going off would look like. Would it just be a giant concussive blast, or would it turn everything into an M.C. Escher drawing for a while.

And, yes, I did have to look up the artists name to make that joke.

Hmm. Harriet's comment intrigues me. If Ruby's semblance isn't straight up superspeed, then what is it?

Ruby riding on Elm's shoulder is one of the cutest things I've seen. This episode is giving us a lot of great interactions.

I swear, they are doing their damnedest to make Tyrian creepier and creepier with each volume, and by god they are succeeding.

Huh. Figured Forest would be a little more important than that. Rest in peace, #FRWBY.

Oh my gawd, they actually label Marrow’s tail in his concept art as a “doggo tail”. That is amazing and I love it.

This is so far the best episode this volume (not that it has a lot of competition yet, but still) I am really liking the direction this volume is going and I can't wait to see where it goes from here.

#rwby #rwby volume 7 #rwby spoilers #rooster teeth animation

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asidian · 5 years ago

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Mind whispers

January 15, 2038

“You got it, captain,” says Jacob. “All over it.”

He’s moving before all the words have even left his mouth, wheeling away from the pulsing invader high above him in the air, its massive form blotting out half the sky. He sets into the harbingers instead, as ordered – comes at the creatures like a force of nature, movement without thought, an endless blur of slashing blades and glinting metal.

They go down in pairs, in trios, in a whole half-dozen when they think to take him out in a wave and he spins, drawing a wide arc with his blades that sends them twitching to the pavement far below.

He’s hard at work on his orders, jetting up higher to cut off a thick knot of roiling monstrosity moving to intercept the rest of the team, when the thought strikes him.

It should have been you.

It’s out of nowhere, really. Like someone else’s thought – only it’s not. It’s his, one of the ones that come in the night sometimes, when there’s nothing to distract him but the ceiling tiles and his own traitor mind won’t shut up.

The thought’s so sudden he pauses mid-stroke, a stutter in the middle of constant motion. And he would have recovered in time – really, he would have – except the world bursts red and hot and immediate right beside him just then.

It’s Eidolon, finally, sniping from cover. And he should have been expecting it, should have known he wouldn’t see it coming, but that runaway thought snuck in, and between the two, he’s almost not fast enough.

Jacob twists at just the right moment, so the harbinger’s claw catches him on the shoulder instead of across the chest.

The blow’s enough to knock him flying anyway. Hurricane’s a lot of things, but his suit just doesn’t have Nemesis’ bulk or shields. His upgrades are all about speed and agility and precision, and some good that does him right now.

He hits a wall, careens off a stop sign, and goes down hard on the pavement of what was probably an outdoor café before the sky started leaking things out of a Lovecraft novel.

Third time’s the charm, Jakey. But I guess we’re on four now, right?

Christ, he thinks, and shoves himself back up. Are we really doing this now? Right now? Like, in the middle of a pitched battle, in the middle of an alien invasion, and here’s Jacob, dragging out can’t-get-to-sleep nightmare fuel?

His lip’s bleeding. He thinks he bit straight through it, when he hit his head on the landing. But he’s on his feet again, and then he’s off the ground, and that’s – better. That’s better.

Is it really? You could just stay down.

“I’m up, guys,” he says into the comms. “No big.”

Then he bites into the split lip, hard, and takes off again to jump back onto the interference train.

Like hell he’s staying down. Like hell he’s scrapping this suit, and all the hours of training they poured into this, and his ma’s long nights at the kitchen table staring at schematics trying to get Tennō back up off the ground. His HUD’s showing Hurricane’s got a scrape down one shoulder and a dent in the back, minor aesthetic damage, but that’s nothing. That’s nothing.

He’s all over the harbingers now, like some kind of avenging god. Like the plagues of Egypt, raining down locusts or something.

Jacob twists, and slips sideways, and buries a blade right between one of the creature’s eyes, and he thinks: locusts aren’t the right plague for this. Since when do aliens care about bugs?

What the hell are the other plagues, again? Flies? That’s more bugs. Maybe he’d better stick with the river of blood one.

Nothing’s been better for a long time, has it?

River of blood, he thinks, determinedly, and slices down one, two, three, four, all before he takes the time to blink. Blood, and maybe that storm. What was it, hail and fire?

He’s definitely not thinking about alien monstrosities that play games with people’s minds. He’s just not. He’s thinking about flame and ice, and the way Hurricane cuts through claws and wings and rotting flesh like they were thin-spun silk. He’s thinking about that bunker down there, the one he’s not going to let the harbingers touch, and his teammates, halfway to the invader in the sky.

He’s supposed to be a distraction right now.

Well. Jacob can do distractions.

He’s good at them.

He’s not the only one, it sounds like. “Blondie, you’re on baby duty,” says Xia’s voice over the comms, and Jacob smiles, the shape of it pulling at the tear in his lip. That sounds like the intro to one of Xia’s showier moves, if he’s ever heard one.

“Baby duty, huh?” He drives one of his blades into an alien stomach, then shakes the thing off when it gets lodged for a second, still flailing. “Don't worry, dude, I won't let the kids eat candy after midnight.”

He half-turns in midair, elbows a creature that’s mostly eyes in the face with solid titanium, and angles himself so that he can watch the show while he plays exterminator. The harbingers are down to the dregs, and he wants a look at whatever Xia’s planning on pulling out of her hat.

What he’s not expecting is to see Nemesis go barreling fists first into a pulsing mass of space monstrosity that's bigger than some skyscrapers.

“Holy shit,” he manages, eloquently, and barely remembers to get his blade up in time to cut the wings off the next harbinger in line.

He waits for the grand re-exit. Any second now, a grenade’s going to punch a wet, black hole in that thing’s side.

Any second now.

Should have stayed down when you had the chance. Now you’ve got to watch this play out.

A second stretches into two, then into ten. “Nemesis?” Jacob says into the comm. “Hey – Xia?”

But still there’s nothing, and Jacob taps at the controls on his wrist. He zeroes in on the invader up above, watches as his HUD calculates the distance. It’s far, but he can make it. Hurricane’s all about speed. Screw watching it play out. If he really guns it, he can be there in –

His thoughts are split neatly in two by the thin line of light that breaks across the sky, toward their medic.

Jacob’s eyes narrow; he whips back around in time to catch one final glimpse of a suit in grey and black, just before it shimmers out of view and disappears.

Well hell. There's what's left of Chroma.

And now she’s gunning for you. Way to go, Jakey.

Over the comms, Ari’s sounding borderline hysterical. "I know it’s a lot to ask," he says. "but please. Please. It's not her. Just don’t kill her!"

It's a big ask. Half of Chroma's dead, at the end of Black Whisper's sniper rifle. HQ's been briefing them over the comms since they deployed: she's armed and extremely dangerous, and if the last half hour's any indication, she won't hesitate to end everyone on the field.

Jacob's talked to her a couple times before. She's a sweet girl.

“Hey,” Jacob calls into the comms, switching to team-only. “Don’t worry. I got Whisper. Can someone go fishing and pull Nemesis out?”

It’s not what he wants to say. Not what he wants to do.

He oughta be rocketing across the sky, on his way to cut Xia free. But Aisha’s right next to her; she’ll have it covered. And if he takes off now, Will’s stuck on ground level, alone with Chroma's rogue sniper. Probably not the best call – Xia left him on baby duty, after all.

So Jacob taps his wrist again, toggling targets, then pulls a U-turn to jet back toward earth. He needs to get a read on Mami before she does something they’ll all regret.

There’s one really easy way to slow her down.

Jacob shoves that thought away so hard it almost gives him whiplash, wrenching his mind back on-task. His HUD’s flashing at him – target: none – and he wonders why the engineers who worked on Whisper’s cloaking tech made it effective against other Tennō suits. That’s about to make his job a lot harder.

The last thing he wants is a long-distance fight. Mami’s a crack shot, and there’s a reason Jacob likes to get up close and personal. He came up last in target practice during training every time, but put him in hand-to-hand range and he can wipe the floor with just about anything.

So. He’s got to find her, then lock on before she gets her cloaking back up, then get in close enough to pin her on his own terms. Ideally before she puts a laser through anyone on Team Phoenix.

He’s just thinking that he’s got his work cut out for him when the second shot zips up through the space between buildings like a dud firework, a straight line of brightness without any of the showy payoff. Hurricane’s off like rocket, low to the ground, darting through the streets between buildings with breakneck speed.

#the way the world ends #my ocs #jacob cross #Xia Igarashi

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I wonder what Dirk turns out to have in store for Rose. My idea was a soulbot of some kind, but I don't think she'd want to trade in her body for one. Perhaps there's a way to temporarily transfer her consciousness, like in a dreambubble dream, while Dirk prepares her body for the transition. Or maybe I'm just looking for ways to have a post-victory adult join John in the Furthest Ring. :p

Dirk claimed to have completed the process already but that seems like a presumptuous state of mind. I wonder if an ultimate self, a true one, not a sprite squared, might even be tangible? If it isn't, though, then who are even going to feature in Homestuck 2.0, if not the humans of Earth C...

What's also of interest, is whether the post-victory selves will in any way be able to access the memories of the selves that John is currently leading, since their timeline is far from being finished, unlike all those doomed timelines that were discarded!

I also thought of something regarding Dirk's scheming: he seems to be juggling both the solution to Rose's problems with Jane's run for president, as if they're at least of equal importance to him.

Anyway, we're probably going to be seeing the story from John's POV again.

---

I do wonder if when he finds about Vriska, what he'll do. He didn't consider her a friend anymore I think, after how he saw (Vriska) acting towards her friends. But still, for Terezi he might be inclined to go save her.

As it is now, though, things can be summarized à la Craigslist: Missed connection: you, exiting from captivity in the midst of a battlefield. Me: being sucked into a black hole, screaming.

---

"> John: Fight Lord English." OH BOY. He's actually doing it. I do wonder how this boss battle will even go, with how in parallel, on Earth C things only seem to get started. But with the monster's end form being on the same battlefield as a black hole, I'm reminded of Problem Sleuth and its glacier-paced endgame boss battle. :p Things might happen in stages, or perhaps they'll have to escape oblivion first and return with ACTUAL things that can hurt LE, not red herrings.

"Meenah’s ghost army claws at the borders of Paradox Space. Wait, that is her army, right?" No, John, obviously it's that other ghost army. :P I take it to mean he's talking about who's leading the army, more than anything.

"you’re pretty sure this is the army you, Meenah, Vriska, and the other Serket were trying to raise." Ah yes, Aranea was there at the inception of the ghost army idea. Funny how the (Vriska) he's thinking about is also an "other Serket" than the Vriska that is (was) leading the army now.

"Every screaming body pitches down and goes white the closer it gets to the black hole above you." That's presumably due to the distortion of the particles that make up the ghosts as they're sucked in. But it reminds me of how the dreambubble hologram selves (aka the representation of alive people that are sleeping) also glowed as they woke up! Also, how dream selves went white as the dreamer awoke.

"They’re locked in place, an eight ball in each socket. You briefly wonder what that means" Yeah, I wonder if they'll do something pool-related in their efforts to kill the monster.

"The laser show tears its way through a squadron of ghosts led by... is that... Tavros?" Yup! The very same dead Tavros he last saw in the bubbles, in his spunky Pupa Pan outfit! Guess he might reminiscence about them both fighting over Vriska, before he got turned off on the whole idea.

"Seems like an awful choice to lead an army, but what do you know." This is Tavros' ultimate Fiduspawn battle.

"Wasn’t Vriska supposed to be leading the charge? Where is she, anyway?" Yoooouuuu just missed her on her way out. :|

"> Listen." Is he... going to hear the echo of Vriska's scream? ... I just got a Legend of Zelda thing to reference. "Hey, listen!" ... That was an annoying firefly fairy guide, much like Vriska profiles herself.

"She’s probably somewhere around here, biding her time, waiting to execute her masterstroke and finish English off at just the right moment" No, John, not this time, you won't be able to rely on her tricks or her powers, I'm afraid. Plus, she's already made a sort of killsteal before in the story: this won't turn into a repeat of the Black King battle.

"You’re becoming enraptured by the sound surrounding you. Not a sound... a sensation. A subharmonic symphony that you can only hear in your bones." I wonder if that's part of his Breath powers, because I remember him feeling the wind skimming his home too, in the reunion scene a few pages back.

"This is it: the end of Paradox Space." If you mean, the end of the part of the Furthest Ring that the Green Sun's lifespan encompassed, then yes, I do think so.

"Behind you the juju disappears, sucked out of reality with a POP." And that's the last thing anyone saw of that? Maybe? Hopefully? (I wonder if he still has his retcon powers.)

"You move your arms in a dumb little motion, sort of like jazz hands, and summon up a wisp of wind to keep your cracked glasses in place." Oooh, cool, yeah, that would have been awkward fighting for him without being able to see right. Good thinking John! It shows his Breath powers have still grown! For practical purposes, they eclipse the retcon powers.

"You then pull one of your sickest hammers out of your strife deck." AWESOME! He a) still has his hammers, and b) still has his strife deck! That wasn't really a given, since they were supposed to be living in a paradise on Earth C! (Maybe spring cleaning isn't just something for John. Plus, his Dad wouldn't have approved of him discarding such a well-earned strife modus. :P)

"You cast a glance back over your shoulder at them. They all look pretty cool. Rose knitting light around her with the Quills of Echidna, Dave with his sword Caledfwlch at the ready, trailing time distortions behind him that look, if you don’t squint, a lot like JPEG artifacts. Jade’s got her favorite gun cocked and ready, with her ears perked up." Everyone, pose as a team! Wow, I'd really like to see this moment as a drawing. Could it be that John's weapon is the Warhammer of Zillyhoo? In spite of it being overclassed by the Vrillyhoo hammer, if Jade took out Ahab's Crosshairs, the kids are wielding the same weapons the bunny had. ... Okay granted, the bunny had the Royal Deringer, not Caledfwlch, so in fact Vrillyhoo as an upgraded version would not be far out. Also, so time distortions resemble JPEG artifacts as long as you DON'T squint? So, what does squinting do, sharpen them for the eye of the beholder? :p

"ROSE: Don’t get overconfident. ROSE: We have to do it exactly like we discussed. First..." I don't think their plans will be that easily executed. Plus, they were planning on taking on Caliborn, not his adult self! ... Okay yeah, they will have had time to make new plans while inside the juju.

"But Rose doesn’t get to finish what she was trying to say. Lord English’s mouth roars open and a wave of energy blasts through your group. Rose is the only one caught in it. She dissolves in slow motion." WHATTHEFFFFFFFFFF--- Rose! Is the group going to fall apart this soon??? ... Unless LE can't overwrite the just/heroic judgment, Rose just died permanently! ... Maybe Dave can rollback time? Or John, retcon this?? I. Don't know what to think.

"You can see the outline of her body in shadow." :((( Just like how Kanaya died in Game Over. Fucking Hell. And I hope that doesn't incite rage in someone, provoking them into getting closer to get run through...

"One arm thrown up over her eyes, shoulders pulled up defensively, cape billowing out behind her." Her pose reminds me of another scene... Like how she looked when peering up into LOFAF when she was drunk, maybe?

"She leaves an afterimage of shimmering light in her wake and then dissipates, drifting apart like a handful of salt tossed out to sea." :( almost anti-climactic.

"You can almost hear the cosmic clock counting down, tick tock, and a chime to accompany her fate: Heroic." Dear god. Well, at LEAST she still gets a judgment, not an insta-double death. ... Actually, come to think of it. She'll reappear right there as a ghost, won't she? :( Still in risk of a double death.

"JADE: rose!!!! no!!!!!!!!" Oh boy, Jade... Don't get drawn in, he'll want that and you won't be able to escape. John has ONE ring of life to give away, not two or even three!

But I think the chances are low that Jade and Dave will survive the rest of the battle, if this was any indication. (Blaperile has a theory Davepeta might come and take Dave's place, taking up Caledfwlch in his stead.) Unless they outright planned for this eventuality, things might continue falling apart. ... John is not going to have to pull an Aradia, is he? Continuing to retcon this moment until there's an army of him swarming LE, ensuring the others have enough time to actually DO things?

"Space splinters open around her so loudly it drowns out the fire from her rifle. Lord English raises one of his giant, fuck-off hands to deflect her anomaly-powered bullets" I don't know which rifle it is, but it seems she can now shoot bullets that run on space distortion, which reminds me of Becquerel teleporting her bullets (and themselves) during their Strife.

"It’s a wonder how such a big man can move so fast." And there he goes. the big man... HAS the speed. That's the first time we know he can move so fast right. Well, aside from being already here. Oh, right, and his moves during Collide, I forgot.

"Jade inspects her rifle, and tosses it aside. What is she doing? With all the powers of a Witch of Space at her command, combined with the infinite abilities of a First Guardian, she’s still messing around with basic firearms?" Well, yeah, it's what she was trained to do. She didn't any tutoring in First Guardian powers, so it might be risky to start using them here? I mean, I'm fairly sure her powers won't be a dud? Well, okay, the end of the Green Sun should have removed Doc Scratch' immortality granted to LE, and hopefully his First Guardian powers too, but... Well, it would suck if Jade were to try them out now and come up empty.

"Nothing. No crackle of electricity. No licks of chartreuse flame. She searches within, realizes her power source is completely unavailable to her. Then she looks up, and it dawns on her." Wwwelp. Hey, but the Black Hole was a Space-instigated object, can't she do something with that, though?

"Jade opens her mouth to scream for help, but she’s cut off." Oh shit.

"A razor-sharp fragment of reality slams into her back. It skewers her, exiting right through the center of the space symbol on her hoodie." ... Seems to me that John might have taken the people out of the doomed timeline, but he couldn't take the doom out of the people's timeline.

What is it with Homestuck and stabbing people through the back and torso?

"> Get in there!" ... This must be paralyzing to John, it's all happening so fast, faster than he can react, if he's seen what happened to Jade at all.

"Lord English struggles to emerge from the wind-prison you just whipped up." Wow, John's powers are actually capable of (at least) stalling LE, that's good news. Too bad of all the horrible news we've already had.

"Tavros has pulled himself to his feet and, recognizing English’s temporary state of vulnerability, directs the ghosts on his side to attack. No one is paying attention to him." I take that to mean, neither Lord English nor Dave nor John. Hopefully the ghosts still listen. But still, I'm afraid this battle is doomed.

"Jade is floating away from you." The clock is going to sound any second now...

Wait a minute. If my theory about John retconning this battle (if he can) to form an army is realized... Will there be ghosts of his friends that just died as well?

Hmm, Blaperile has a point, maybe Jade is also getting sucked into the Black Hole right now, I took it to meaning gravity was just a personal illusion in the Furthest Ring, and now that Jade's dead her body started hovering.

"You stare directly down the dark barrel of his throat, which readies another terrible laser shot. There’s not much time to react." ... Dave is not about to jump in front of the blast to save him, is he?? :(

"> Make a decision." Zapping out of there? Or, yeah, deciding what of the four things to keep a grip on. ... He might let go of Jade and the hammer, if he chooses the battle. But will it even be enough? But I don't think he'd bring her body with him if he zaps away, that'd be gory.

"But releasing her has created enough separation, just as you hoped. The laser breath passes between you, narrowly missing you both." Wow, he actually did it? But, like, she won't last long with her torso skewered, right? What is even his plan?

"You reel back like you’ve just been punched. Your control over the storm goes haywire for a second, long enough for Lord English to free his gaudy gold peg leg from it and, more catastrophically, for you to drop your already broken glasses." Well, that's three steps back for one step forward, now, ain't it.

"You whirl around and swing your hammer to bop his horrible, deadly skull back into your storm. You can’t really see what’s going on, but you hear a gigantic CRUNCH. And then another. And another. It sounds like a cereal commercial is playing outside the periphery of your vision." ... Either John accidentally hit Dave, or LE was able to get Dave while John is incapacitated. :( ... I don't think it's Terezi watching the battle from the sideline, eating Dorito chips.

"JOHN: dave!

DAVE: what

JOHN: is lord english... eating my hammer?

DAVE: yeah dude he totally is" Oh dear god. How totally OP can a bloke even be? Kind of a mood whiplash in the middle of this otherwise heartclenching scene.

"This isn’t going to work, waging battle without your glasses. Lord English has just eaten one of your sickest hammers due to your blind folly." ... Is he going to retcon back somewhere and steal his own glasses?

"You take a deep breath and dive down, right into the sea of ghosts. You land clumsily, palms first, and do an accidental handspring right into a bunch of alternate timeline trolls you don’t recognize." Or, yeah, maybe steal a troll's glasses? Though I guess only Eridan's might work, and does he even have the same prescription? :p ... Or maybe there's still a doomed John somewhere in there. Alternative, he might steal glasses from a Beforus troll, since he doesn't recognizes the trolls he's jumped in the middle of. ... Though that can still apply to Eridan. Or maybe Kronus wears lenses?

"JOHN: uh, hey guys. anyone see a pair of glasses down here? it’s pretty important." Ah, okay, they're still in one piece then. His windy spell wasn't broken. Welp, good luck finding your pair in a sea of trolls. The longer John's away, the riskier it gets for Dave...

"Ghosts scatter like bowling pins, many flying into the cracks in space." Eesh, yeah, that must be as doubledeathly as his lasers or the Black Hole.

"Before the leg hits you, a troll leaps into action and blocks the blow. Her trident makes a satisfying ring off the round of the peg and sends it skidding backward." Ah, I was wondering where Meenah got to! Waiting for a moment to shine, of course. Good to see her fighting efforts are definitely not in vain!

"JOHN: have you seen a pair of glasses down here? TAVROS: uH, aRE THESE WHAT YOU’RE LOOKING FOR?" Oh cool, he's joined them! I do hope Tavros isn't going to try and hog the glasses in a fit of spite for John hogging the ring. :p There are higher stakes in play!

"Also, Tavros suddenly is leading an admirable charge of about six ghosts to attack Lord English’s flesh foot. You wince, because you can see what’s coming before it happens." Noble undertaking, but a small party to try and handle even the foot of this monster. I just hope (Tavros) makes it out!

"English raises his knee and stomps three ghosts into oblivion. The other four, Tavros included, get vaporized in a beam." Aw... NO! Tavros!!

Gee...

He's made it this far, and now... Just like that...

I...

I mean, this hit harder than Rose and Jade's deaths, actually. I guess I still thought of (Tavros) as the main Tavros, after all this time. I mean, I GUESS John could still retcon this moment, but it's getting increasingly unlikely.

Actually, I'm starting to wonder, given the size of the page, that this is it. This is where LE gets offed, at one of the steepest prices.

"The ghost army seems to be thinning out pretty badly by now. Most of the ones remaining are either fleeing or getting sucked into the hole." The window to kill him is closing though, and if LE gets out of here, who knows what he'll do next?

"You whip out another hammer. A classic this time, the Wrinklefucker. Its boinging pair of irons are hot, hissing, and ready for action." ... That IS a classic, wow! Long time no see. But uh, it's severely underpowered versus the rest of his hammers, though given his high god tier, it might not matter all that much.

Guess we know what pose John struck here as he took out the hammer.

"Dave is slicing papercuts into English’s torso with glancing nicks from his blade, but the monster is spry as ever, making him a difficult target." Dave is lasting surprisingly long, though! It might all be a red herring, of course.

"He chomps down hard and shatters the hammer’s head, gobbling down the broken pieces." ... Isn't there anything Lord English can break his teeth on???

... Quick, John! Alchemize SPIDERHAMMER OF VRILLYHOO && CALIBORN'S LEG!!

"You look at the handle of your tragically masticated Wrinklefucker, shrug, and toss it into the hole." Well, he SHOULD be able to alchemize more of them, if he still has the code.

"Glancing back down toward your foe, you notice Meenah still appears to be hanging on, clinging to his left suspender." Pfff, so epic.

MEENAH: yo hold on

MEENAH: goin in for the krill" Fuck, Meenah's going to bite the dust now, too???

"She raises her trident and jams it into the back of Lord English’s neck. English reacts as if he’s been stung by a bee." Not the effectiveness she was hoping for, I imagine.

"He howls and rears up, throwing Meenah off his back with a force that sends her hurtling out into space. You can’t track her into the void with your eyes, she’s flung so far and so fast. You can only assume the worst." Sure, say 'they could not have survived that', that will ensure we'll see her again, hopefully.

"He has Dave pinned under his big green foot and is applying pressure." Shit, he's got him in mortal danger.

"English quickly whips his head in the direction of the sailing hammer, and swallows it whole." Must've been one of his smaller ones. (We can only hope.)

"DAVE: john i need a little...

Dave ducks a wide blow from English’s swinging fist. He backs up nervously, holding his sword out in front of him with two shaking hands." Jegus. Dave's holding up admirably! Guess Bro's lessons have at least served to save his life her, at least a few times.

"DAVE: anything

DAVE: i need a little anything right now

DAVE: literally any stupid fucking thing you can do

JOHN: i’m on it!"

... What will John even do now? Take out a cake from his sylladex and throw it in LE's face?

"With another flick of your wrist you spin them around you so fast they form a perfectly impenetrable barrier of pure Shitty Hammer." As far as endgame moves go, I like John's style.

"In your hands is a weapon you haven’t thought about in a long time: the Pop-a-matic Vrillyhoo." Oooh! There it is!!!! Will it's Luck-based powers be relevant here? Will John hit a 8^8 roll????

"However, you’re interrupted by a voice screaming out from behind you. It’s half familiar," ... Vriska??? Don't tell me she's interrupting to shout 'that's mine'?

"half... cat?" PFFFFFF. NO. HELL. NO. ... Well, at least Reload Rose's memories might be living on in there somewhere, maybe.

"DAVEPETASPRITE^2: B33 < waaaaaaaaaaaait" NEVER MIND I WAS THINKING ABOUT JASPROSESPRITE FOR WHATEVER REASON!!! OF COURSE!

Davepetasprite^2 still was around! They'll likely want to take over from John, thinking they're the ones destined to kill LE. ... Will... Will Davepeta and Dave TEAM UP though??? THAT WOULD ROCK SO HARD!!!

"You whip your head around just in time to see a bolt of orange-and-green energy racing by you like a bullet. It slams into Lord English and sends him stumbling." Odds are, John doesn't even know about Davesprite getting prototyped into Nepetasprite, so his reaction will probably he hilarious. And yeah, Davepeta seemed convinced her persona was something LE was weak towards. It didn't show during Collide, but at least they survived the Undertale attack there. :P

"DAVEPETASPRITE^2: B33 < im back" BOOM! Fifteen minutes late with Starbucks, but they're here now! Hopefully this time it'll go better! It's still weird to think, that this kind-of-ultimate-Dave and a regular-Dave are going to be working together. In a way though, it's a fitting end to Dave's arc. Also, it's a homage to Davesprite's team-up with Bro vs. Jackspers Noirlecrow.

Dave stands there with his sword, absolutely agog, his expression perfectly reflecting a blend of horror and the total inability to process who or what he is looking at." YES. PERFECT DAVE REACTION. 'who the devil are you' wouldn't even suffice! If this were a cartoon, Dave's shades would have dropped to his lips by now.

"DAVEPETASPRITE^2: B33 < we purrmenantly merged forms and worked out all our shit!

DAVE: oh

DAVE: well that sounds fucked up but ok" Dave's like: eh, there are worse sprites I could have had. :p (*coughCALSPRITEcough*)

Davepeta spreads their wings, sending waves of warm light through the battlefield. The light feels comforting, somehow, when it hits you." Like an angel. :P Or yeah, like Blaperile points out, regular sprite healing.

"Above the bedlam, Davepeta is finishing up an inspiring speech. You realize you tuned most of it out due to the surrounding chaos." Welp! Well, John mustn't have missed much, lots of furry puns probably. ;)

DAVEPETASPRITE^2: B33 < i know it looks pawful right now but we can do it

DAVEPETASPRITE^2: B33 < in fact were literally the only ones who can do it

DAVEPETASPRITE^2: B33 < after all

DAVEPETASPRITE^2: B33 < it is our destiny B33" Ah, okay, the speech was mostly aimed towards Dave, I suppose. Unless they know stuff about John's destiny. :P

"You and Dave exchange a look that silently says all that needs to be said right now." Like how Rose 'n Roxy exchanged looks. Guess part of why we didn't see their conversations was because they didn't matter all that much. Unless Rose returns through the Ring of Life, and Jade turns out to not have been killed... (And Tavros was... just another version of himself that got killed?)

"Davepeta is right. You three are the only ones left, and there’s no room for failure." Eesh, okay, so all the ghosts have been doublekilled.

"> Final Round." HERE WE GOOOOOO

"Perhaps a well-oiled machine careening down a steep hill toward the edge of a cliff, but well-oiled nonetheless." It's a step up from most teamups in Homestuck, right?

"The butts of the hammers hit him over and over again, like racking up points in a slot machine." 777

"Dave manages to carve a red line up Lord English’s side, drawing real blood this time. The slash snaps one of his suspenders in half, and must sever something else too, because the sword makes a gristly, meaty squelch when he pulls it out." Awesome! First REAL wound and... Hold on. Is the prophecy about "the tyrant less an arm and an eye" going to come in play again!!

"You realize you seem to be stuck in a cycle and are in serious danger of running out of hammers." I'm surprised he had this much of them to begin with. Guess he spent a lot of time alchemizing hammers out of boredom, perhaps even still on Earth C.

"Davepeta scrapes their cool Wolverine claws up Lord English’s back, and then kicks him in the back of the head. You time it perfectly and complete the combo with a well-placed Vrillyhoo undercut to his jaw." Awesome combo!

"Which is why you refuse to let the handle go when English wraps his tongue around it and unhinges his jaw with a sick, wet pop." At some point, a man has to take a stand and defend their property. :P John: Extract hammer from jaw like the sword from the stone. You can do it, you're the chosen one! Will John hit the 8^8 right in LE's mouth?? It would be something if he can dislocate his jaw, and tear it off!

"Your heel slips on some drool, and your whole leg skids straight into his mouth.

You twist, off balance, and fail to catch yourself. You only let go of the hammer when you feel the walls of his throat constrict around your ankles. The pressure sucks you in up to the knees with one gulp." Dear god. His throat is also a black hole!! ... Oh no, Blaperile points something out. I joked about Caliborn's leg. I hope John isn't going to lose his!

"Vrillyhoo is in his stomach, and you’re following it down quicker than you can even process. Is this the end? No, you think. This is such an unfairly stupid fucking way to die!" John. John are you going to retco- No. He's going to blow LE up from the inside, maybe?! With windy powers??

Davepeta reacts quickly, shoving their claws between his molars. You can hear them growling as they slowly twist their arm to pry the massive jaw open." Wow, Davepeta rescued John, two times in quick succession! And they are ridiculously strong if they can pry his jaw open!

You’re not dead yet, but Lord English definitely got a big, sharp tooth in you. Your vision reels and goes blurry, then patchy, then dark, then—" Don't pass out don't pass out don't pass out don't pass out. There's no happy ending down that road.

"> Don't fucking die." Best. Command. Ever. Wish I could get Super Mario to respond to that when I mistime a jump.

DAVEPETASPRITE^2: B33 < wrow you almost got vored to death

JOHN: what?" Don't google it kids. I'm not even sure if it's Dave or Nepeta that made a reference to vore here. Don't want to know, either.

DAVEPETASPRITE^2: B33 < im afuraid to say that you look like total shit my dude" my dude is what Arquiusprite would say.

"DAVEPETASPRITE^2: B33 < purromeows me you wont move

JOHN: i... purromeows?" The puns. It's a wonder John can read through them.

... Oh, he couldn't.

"DAVEPETASPRITE^2: B33 < you should stay here while we wind this bitch down" Are they going to tire him for John to land the killing blow?

"You’re woozy and don’t have the energy to stop yourself from drifting. There’s blood floating up around you, dilute and bubbly in the air like cooking oil in water. It’s yours.

> Examine wound" Wow, it's reminding me of Problem Sleuth, who got so mortally wounded as well before Demonhead Mobster Kingpin was finally killed for good.

"You lift your chin and see it: Lord English’s gold tooth cracked off at the base and embedded in your chest." Oh, wow. So that tooth was the only 'vulnerable' one in the jaw, then. Since it wasn't real. Will he do something with it against LE, once he regains his strength?

"Dave finds his moment. He rams Caledfwlch into Lord English’s chest, all the way up to the hilt. It penetrates his flesh like nothing else has to this point. The wound around the blade sizzles slightly. The weapon—the unusual material it’s made out of—is poison to English." Cueball meets pool ball. Hah, eat shit!

"He cries out in a cracked, broken staccato. It’s an earsplitting wail that cleaves the last of the Furthest Ring apart. Reality falls away from the mooring of the all-surrounding white light like a peeled eggshell." ... Wow. The entirety of the Furthest Ring is evaporated around them!! Or well, definitely the part LE cracked. But what's the dimension 'behind'? Blankspace, or something else?

"Dave’s trying to get his sword free but he’s stuck. English’s shriek morphs into a sinister, predatory rattle as his jaw creaks open. His mouth envelops Dave’s head and snaps shut. He twists once, then twice, then again with a CRACK. A disaster of blood instantly coats his skull and upper torso." I-WUH. NOW? OF ALL TIMES?? JUST AS THEY'RE- FUCKING. HELL MAN. WHAT A MURDER DINOSAUR OF A BASTARD SON.

... My only, ONLY hope now is that through ultimate self means, at least hopefully the victory selves will be able to remember. Well, that, and that John will survive the next part. Maybe Davepeta will take the sword out now.

"Your limbs feel like lead. You consult your strife deck, but you’ve got nothing left. No hammers, no nothing." Eesh. Not even fistkind? Maybe?

"It’s up to Davepeta, who appears to have plenty left. If not in the strife deck per se, then in the heart." Maybe that last Dave dying... empowered them somehow, too.

I wonder though... Dave could never pull Caledfwlch out before, can Davepetasprite^2? John might be able to though! If Davesprite was to be believed, confetti would have popped out together with the sword if John had tried it. If he can just muster the strength now...

"Davepeta stands twenty paces behind him, crouches low to the ground, wiggles their behind, and pounces. " Now. Now of all times, the pouncegreet makes its return.

"They cling to English’s back, wrap their legs around his midriff, draw back their arms, and plunge their claws deep into the behemoth’s armpits." Hah, classic Wolverine.

"Davepeta then spreads their wings in an awe-inspiring display. An unwitting spectator viewing Lord English from the front might suspect the garish orange-green wings belonged to English himself." Pffff, just like an adult cherub WOULD have looked like. Blaperile just- WITH THE SWORD THROUGH HIS TORSO, LORD ENGLISH NOW ALMOST EXACTLY MIRRORS BEC NOIR!!!!!

Only thing left is for him to lose an arm and an eye, maybe!!! The tyrant will definitely die today, though.

"Davepeta then, with all their might, lifts Lord English into the air and flies toward the black hole, trailing ribbons of blood and neon." TIME FOR DAVEPETA TO FLY UP INTO THE FUCKING [s]SUN[/s] BLACK HOLE LIKE AN IDIOT. And now, finally, that SBaHJ strip has finally been seen realized.

"English resists fiercely, but they’re both already locked into the gravity well, beyond any threshold of escape." Wow. It's really going to be his undoing. But the Hole would have never been enough, it was the combination of the sword and Davepeta that brought him to the brink.

Now, the main thing is... Will John survive? ... Rose did seem to have had a vision that had her smile... sadly, perhaps. :(((

"This victory, this final sacrifice, has always been the destiny of Davepeta, as they have sensed from the moment they were created. And to die on this day, in this way, has always been the destiny of Lord English." Wooow. WWWWWWOOOOOOWWWW. It's really happening.

I wonder how conscious Lord English still is, whether something remains of that bratty Caliborn to bask in this defeat.

I do hope he truly can't escape it, not through some shitty timeline duplication or anything. Not even stuck as Caliborn as Lord of Time with cueball powers.

"The black hole—the gaping, implacable, cosmic embodiment of the dead cherub, his long-departed sister—finally welcomes Lord English home." Yeah, that was part of their mating ritual, one partner leading the other home to a black hole near their old home. LE is going to be the ultimate Homestuck.

"English and Davepeta are sucked in with a subatomic whimper. The reunion sends shock waves across the pitiful remains of Paradox Space. And then everything is wholly, utterly, and categorically silent. It’s over. Lord English is dead." Wow. 'Reunion', yeah. Because this represents Lord English becoming 'whole', reunited with his sister's embodiment!

Davepeta made the ultimate sacrifice. I hope post-victory Dave can cherish the memories. But... Yeah. Nepeta and Equius, the parts of them present in Davepeta and Arquius... Are gone for ever. And Nepeta and Equius are united, for ever.

And now.

I hope... I hope John won't succumb. I hope he can be safed. But I fear that it's not going to be as easy as the B2 kids finding them and Jane healing him.

Also, the Candy path, I'm getting more and more the feeling it might contain conversations that are the 'fluffier' counterpart to this path. That maybe it just shows Calliope 'n Roxy as they eat the candy. And then we get a lot of conversations that were cut out of the Meat part but still happen in the same timeline.

"But it doesn’t feel over, somehow. You don’t feel like you’ve won." I know, right?

"You can barely feel anything, actually. Eesh, John, stay with us!

"All you can think about, for now, is...

Davepeta. How they were so unfettered and brave. How they sacrificed themselves by flying right into the black hole like...

Like a fucking piece of garbage, you can almost hear Dave saying. May God rest his soul." Reference, locked and secured.

"You’ve convinced yourself of this truth well enough to allow yourself to exhale. Enough to allow yourself to suddenly acknowledge the agony coursing through your body, emanating from the gold tooth lodged in your chest. Enough to allow yourself to succumb to the overwhelming urge to sleep." Don't. Don't you dare succumb to unfathomable sleeplust. That's not going to end well. In spite of Jane, I'd settle for Meenah, but Thief of Life doesn't seem like a healer class.

"> Close your eyes." ... It ends here. The fucking end battle. Is over.

Wow. That was SO intense. So chaotic, but then that's always been the case with battles in Homestuck, all plans for naught.

... Will John be able to survive curtousy of the Ring of Life? But then he'd have to have it put on, first.

... On the other hand, if he were to... die, would he have even spawned a ghost? That goes for Dave and Rose, and perhaps Jade, as well. I mean, the reason for the dreambubbles is gone, and their makers, the Horrorterrors themselves, perhaps, too.

But man, I am pleased with the fact that we've had a conclusion to Lord English' arc, and the battle of the Furthest Ring.

It's way past my bedtime, so I'm going to log off now. Going to be digesting this.

#homestuck #upd8 #homestuck epilogues #homestuck liveblog #reaction #spoiler alert #lord english #davepetasprite^2 #john egbert #dave strider #tavros nitram #meenah peixes

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forthewoolfy · 5 years ago

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well i'm already hooked and loving it. i can't tell if the person will turn out to be the hero or the villain but i found that short part hilarious, especially with his (perfectly reasonable) panic over 'breaking time.' that was great.

Thanks! Dallas is sorta the villain, but for reasons he’s TRYING to just be a normal citizen, but he struggles a bit with the grey area. I’ll put up the second chapter and some pics I drew below

Chapter Two - Cyrus

Dammit, he was late! He couldnow control time and he was stillsomehow going to be late! Cyrus ranahead, more concerned with staring at his watch than at where he was going.3:46pm.

Why couldn’t time just stayfrozen?

He glanced around, doublechecking he was in the right place. It was a decent neighbourhood, perhaps alittle more on the bad side of town than most would have liked, but he had abudget to keep. Maybe with his new job he’d have a better income, but he hadn’treally talked with his new employers about it.

How much did a superheroget paid?

Right, Cyrus was nowtechnically a superhero! It had been a bit of a mix-up, but he’d promised to dohis best and it’s not like they could takeaway his new magical time powers…Well, the time powers would be more usefulif he could actually get time to remainstopped.

He tried again, clapping hishands together forcefully while screwing up his face in concentration. Theenergy whipped through him like a hurricane, leaving him temporarilybreathless, and when Cyrus opened his eyes again the world was frozen.

What really bothered him wasthe silence. He’d never realised just how noisy the world was until that day.It was so quiet he could hear his own heartbeat, thumping noisily against hisribcage. He continued to run, trying to hunt down the apartment complex fromthe small sheet of paper he’d ripped off the noticeboard a week ago.

Finally he recognised the signon a graffitied wall and knew he was in the right place, just as time resumed ofits own accord. Cyrus bit his lip. Why did it keep doing that? Had they givenhim dud powers? Was he accidentally restarting time himself? Or could it be…Him?

Yes, Him…The reason the scientists had needed a superhero with timepowers. Chronos was a feared villain across the town. No store was protected.No bank was secure. No wallet was safe.

Cyrus pulled his winter jacketclose as he shivered. Right, being a superhero meant having to face him…That was the entire reason they’dcreated his power. Now, if only Cyrus hadn’t been a moron and given that guya lift, he wouldn’t have such a horrible confrontation lurking in his future.

“I have superpowers,” hemumbled to himself, “and I can’t even be happy about them…Why’d I even use mypowers? Now that guy knows I exist! So much for the element of surprise.”

Cyrus noticed an empty shoppingtrolley beside the apartment complex and he immediately crinkled his nose. Whowould steal a trolley and then just abandon it like that?

The front door suddenly opened.

A man stormed out, beeliningfor the trolley, but he stopped as he locked eyes with Cyrus.

He was an older man, maybemid-thirties. His raven hair was shiny with gel, slicked originally to the sideyet with the appearance of being recently dishevelled. The man’s face washandsome, if stern and tired, with a beauty spot just beneath his lips. His piercingblue eyes seemed to dance with murderous intent…wait…

“You,” growled the stranger,his face screwed with annoyance.

Cyrus blinked. He pointed athimself, “Me?”

The man looked pissed and heforgot about the trolley entirely as he turned on him instead. “Do you realisewhat time it is? You are Cyrus,right?”

Cyrus just wanted to rewindtime, but he had no idea how. “You must be Mr. Hall,” he said with a forcedsmile as he held up the flyer stub with the address on. “We talked on thephone.”

Mr. Hall did not look impressed. He checked hiswatch, “You were supposed to be here at 3pm, Mr. Robinson. Do you know whattime it is now?” Cyrus made a move to check his phone, but before he could theman waved his watch in front of his eyes. “It’s nearly four!”

Cyrus held up his hands, “I’msorry! I got held up at work!”

“Why didn’t you call me?”

Cyrus froze. Oh dammit, whyhadn’t he? The thought had never even crossed his mind after the day he’d justhad! He wasn’t supposed to worry about being late ever again! Not that he coulduse it as an excuse with the mad bull in front of him. He’d probably throw him ina crazy house if he started talking about time powers!

“I ran out of credit,” he lied.

Much to his surprise, the manpaused. He looked Cyrus over and let out a strained sigh as he said, “If youdon’t have enough for phone credit, will you be able to pay rent?”

Oh damn, now the guy was goingto think he was a charity case! “I’ve budgeted everything, Mr. Hall! I swearI’ll get rent to you on time, even if I have to skip meals!”

Mr. Hall finally relaxed. He lookedeven handsomer when it didn’t look like he was mentally gutting you. “First youshould check the place out. It’s pretty small, and it might not be what you’relooking for… Call me Dallas.”

“Like the city?”

Dallas looked glum. “If I had adollar for every time someone said that I’d have enough money to change my name…”

“Well all my buds call me Cy!”

The older man raised his noseand led him into the building. “I think I’ll stick to-” Dallas was cut off by adefault ringtone. He pulled a phone from his front pocket, checked the callerID and shot him an apologetic look. “I’ll show you up, but I have to takethis.”

“Don’t let me stop you.”

Dallas answered the phone.Cyrus thought the voice on the other end was female, but aside from that hecouldn’t understand what she was saying. Did he have a girlfriend? “Now’sreally not the best time, Elizabeth. Is this important? No, I’m showing apossible tenant around the apartment. Don’t you dare.” His pace on thestairs sped up and Cyrus hurried up to match. “You do not, I already told you never to- I did. No, if I get up there and find you raiding my pantry againI’ll-”

He pulled the phone away and ared icon on the screen made it clear the woman had hung up. They reached the 5thfloor and Dallas finally stopped and turned to him. Cyrus was still trying tocatch his breath from the stairs. Didn’t this place have an elevator?

“Sorry, I have an unexpectedguest,” said Dallas, clearly embittered. “I hope you don’t mind.”

“Is she like a clingyex-girlfriend or something?”

For a moment, the older manactually looked amused, but then he recalled his predicament. “Something likethat.”

Cyrus couldn’t help but feel alittle disheartened. An ex-girlfriend didn’t bode well for him, but then againmaybe it wouldn’t be a good idea to romance his potential roommate, especiallyafter the horrible first impression he’d given. Maybe with his powers he couldrewind and redo everything, but he was still struggling just to pause time andhe didn’t need any butterfly-effect-shit on his conscience right now.

Dallas led him to a door marked5-14. “So,” said Cyrus, “when will she be over?”

In answer, the door flew open.Standing in the way was a small woman with short hair that had been extensivelydyed pink. Her clothes could be described entirely with the word ‘punk’, with aleather vest and fingerless gloves and a tattoo of a star under her left eye.“You took your sweet time!” she said with a toothy grin. Chocolate was smearedaround her mouth, and as they watched she devoured a chocolate-chip cookie. Inher hand was an entire box, already half empty.

“Elizabeth!” called Dallas ashe stormed inside his own apartment. “That better not be mine. I just did thegroceries!”

“Really?” she asked as shedevoured another cookie. “You forgot to get cereal.”

Cyrus stepped inside as well,and although he was brimming with questions he kept them to himself. Questionslike, how had the woman who’d supposedly called less than a minute ago reachedthe apartment before them, or why did she still have a key to the place if shewas an ex, or perhaps the question that most burned inside him: how the hellwas this tough woman the ex-girlfriend of such a straight-laced guy?

Perhaps there was a wild sideto Dallas he couldn’t even begin to imagine!

Elizabeth finally noticed him.“Oh, he’s cute!” She waltzed over and sized him up as she ate two more cookies.“I’m Liz. Dally and I go way back.” The small woman offered him herclean hand and Cyrus went to take it automatically, but Dallas quickly grabbedhim by the wrist and pulled his hand away before he could.

The younger man was takenaback, but Dallas was glaring at the woman. “Why’re you here, Elizabeth?”

The ends of her mouth curled upin a peculiar smile and she slunk away and fell down on the couch. Right, hewas there to check out the apartment, but it was difficult to concentrate whenDallas was still holding his wrist. He had large hands and damn was this aninappropriate time to notice that. “I, ah,” weakly started Cyrus, “need to usethe bathroom.”

Dallas released him at last andpointed to the back of the room. “Through that door, last door on the left.Feel free to have a look around while I get rid of this pest.”

Liz smiled wryly. “Pest? I’vebeen upgraded!”

Dallas shot her a warning lookand Cyrus didn’t look back as he beelined for the distraction. This was anargument he wanted no part in!

Liz is one of Dallas’ villain friends. Guys should NEVER shake her hand =‘D

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celticheartedfangirl · 7 years ago

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25 Fucking Stupid Writing Choices OUAT Made

This post is a snarky response to Adam and Eddy’s little humble brag article that came out today:

http://ew.com/tv/2018/05/14/once-upon-time-crazy-storylines/

This is meant to be snarky and critical and if you don’t like that -- don’t read it. (MY post, not the link above.)

Look, I am a OUAT fan an there are many things I love about the show. But there are many I just DON’T LOVE and I think they’re worth discussing. If you don’t like criticism, you won’t like this post. That’s fine.

Thank you for all the suggestions! I think I got quite a bit crammed in here.

Under the cut for length and so as not to upset those who only want to ‘think lovely thoughts’ . . . . .

25. Here’s a magic doohickey thingy we’ve never heard of before but NOW we’re using this thing.

Look, I’m not gonna list all the MacGuffins this show has used, I’d be here all day and there are worse things they’ve done, and this IS a show about magic after all.

But there’s also such a thing as overkill. And there was too much MacGuffin use that we didn’t know about before in this show. It was far too convenient and usually used as a cop out in lieu of – you know – actual STORY TELLING. THAT is my MacGuffin issue. Don’t use it to replace character development. We’re not here for that.

24. The Lost Boys/The Untold Stories and Other Dropped Plots

So the Lost Boys -- Did they get homes? Did they grow up? I don’t know! Do you? Of course not – we’ll never know!

What about all those Untold Stories folks? Weren’t there a bunch of them? Are they still meandering around in Storybrooke?

Edited to add: Maleficent and Lily. SO SORRY I forgot to initially include you in this one. My bad. You are missed, ladies!

Edited once more to add: Poor Gideon. Both parents dead and his extended family doesn’t give a shit about him. Or at least I assume so because we don’t know where he is. The child of Beauty and the Beast -- treated like a disposable plot device. Nice.

OUAT is great with creating and LOUSY with follow through. I know there are many others. But there shouldn’t be. There shouldn’t be that many dropped plots on this show. If you’re not going to follow through with a story line, why add the characters AT ALL? Speaking of that . . .

23. JFC, how many new characters do we NEED on this show???

Especially since you still haven’t figured out what to do with some of the ones that are CONTRACT PLAYERS on your show! Hey, didn’t Archie and Ruby used to be those? (Waves hi to Belle! Also the Charmings post S4. More on that later.)

22. You know – Rumple is Henry’s GRANDFATHER

He is! Really!

You’d never fucking KNOW IT, would you? The erasure of any sort of familial relationship with Henry/Rumple was a damned shame. And much of that, I believe, was because if they acknowledged THAT, they’d have to mention the character they want us to forget. More on that later.

21. The Shattered Sight Hype

Remember what a BIG DEAL the whole Shattered Sight thing was gonna be in S4? OMG people say what they REALLY FEEL about each other! It’s gonna be EPIC!!!

And then it – wasn’t. We basically got some Snowing/Evil Queen snark, Henry bitching at Hook, and Belle – well, Belle was asleep – what else is new?

I think of all the things that were PROMOTED as something amazing for this show – this is the one that was a big old dud and a whole lot of NOTHING.

20. Belle’s mom/Belle is written out of her own storyline in S6

In Family Business we met Belle’s Mom for about two minutes. Then she was dead. And Belle didn’t remember what happened. And then – we never heard about it again.

I don’t know about you, but I wanted to know what happened there. Why didn’t Belle remember? Did Moe get a roofie magic thingy from Arthur? Did Belle’s mom turn into an ogre and she killed her and blocked it out?

SO MANY possibilities there. But hey – it’s just Belle. Why write a story for HER?

In the same regard -- whatever your thoughts are on Rumbelle in S6 (MHO – it was garbage and an OOC shit fest, but that’s just me) – what happened with Gideon – Belle’s SON – was because of HER CHOICE. Choices have consequences. And in GOOD WRITING – the person that MADE the choice that caused the mess is supposed to be the person to help CLEAN IT UP.

But apparently – it was a better thing for ZELENA of all people to be the one to do that. And Emma and Hook too. Because why the hell not, right? That makes all the sense.

Yes, Rumple played his part too in the whole Gideon mess. And he did get to take part in the resolution. But that was something they should have done TOGETHER (what a concept!), and overall Belle was just – not part of it. Even in the last two minutes they sidelined her with a sprained ankle. Absolutely ridiculous. Which leads me to . . . .

19. Belle being sidelined since Season Two.

OUAT brought the lovely Emilie de Ravin onto the show as a regular cast member in Season Two, and had no fucking idea what to do with her character. So she gets fridged. She gets stuck in the hospital, left behind while the rest go to Neverland, she’s very fond of naps, she’s forgotten about in Camelot, not cared about while in a sleeping curse because the “heroes” care more about “stopping” her “evil” hubby (see #17) and written out of her own damn storyline in 6B (see #20) – and then she’s dead. (More on that later.)

I love Belle. I love Rumbelle. And I will forever be resentful that for the bulk of her time on the show, the character of Belle, one of my fictional heroes, was written as nothing but a plot device. She deserved so much better.

18. The Musical Episode

I mean – if this nonsense (and it WAS nonsense) had moved the story forward, I could maybe – MAYBE – let this one slide. But it didn’t. It just rehashed the same shit that we had been talking about for 6 seasons. And then Hook married Emma and her Stepford Wife conversion therapy was complete. (More on that later.) This episode WILL NOT HOLD UP in the future. Future generations will be “WTF-ing” all over the place with this one, mark my words.

17. Rumple is a Hero – no he’s a Villain – No wait he’s a hero, nope a villain, make up your DAMN MIND WRITERS!!!!!

I got whiplash trying to follow the trajectory of Rumple’s story, as many times as they changed his characterization. He’s a villain – then in 3A he’s a hero. Then he’s the victim of a molester and kidnapper and show doesn’t address that AT ALL. Oops he’s evil again. Except now he’s not – his heart is PURE! He pulled Excalibur out of the rock, he’s a HERO! Nah – he’s dark again. Bad Rumple! Oooh now he’s REALLY DARK and his fetus with no brain stem hates him and his wife is living on a boat with his sworn ENEMY while pregnant, so he traps here there (!!!!!) and he’s macking on the Evil Queen . . . come ON. Enough already.

Rumple is a complex character. You can’t just flip/flop willy nilly with a complex character. You have to know how to write them as nuanced, and CONSISTENLY complex but never falling fully into one camp or the other of ‘good’ or ‘evil.’

Rumple is played by Robert Carlyle, one of the best actors around. And the ONLY saving grace from the horrible writing of this character over the years is the fact that Bobby knew how to play him most of the time – even when the writers didn’t know how to WRITE HIM. Which was almost ALL the time.

16. Hook is a Dark One/Resurrecting Dead Hook/Hook the Gary Stu

I toyed with ranking the dark one higher on the list and as its own thing because really, this reveal caused the biggest MID EPISODE ratings drop in the history of the show up to that point. Nobody liked it. Nobody wanted it. And it ended up being a setup to the ‘Save Hook’ trajectory because of COURSE of all the characters in the history of the show, HE was the one that deserved saving THE MOST. But I think all of these things tie together.

What this moment did was solidify the fact that Hook was officially a “Stu” character. He definitely had Gary Stu tendencies up to this point, and was basically an irritant to anyone but CS/Hook fans, but from here on? That’s pretty much all he was and all he’d ever be until he was replaced (or should I say upgraded?) by his doppelganger.

I combined the DO/Save Hook/Stu thing because it was in the Underworld that Hook’s full Stu-pification took place. There wasn’t a line of people he had murdered wanting a word with him – as there SHOULD HAVE BEEN.

And Hook still got to keep all his murder trinkets when he got resurrected and made out with his girlfriend over Robin’s grave. What a guy.

15. Regina/The Evil Queen Stay Split

I’m just saying – wouldn’t it have been better character growth for Regina to have to live with her ‘evil’ half than to split it off? And no, the ‘heart mixing’ thing doesn’t count. I get that the whole thing was really fan service to the Outlaw Queen fandom. But that doesn’t make it good writing.

14. The Wish Realm

Oh, I could write a whole post about this (and I may do that at some point) but there are so many damn holes in the whole Wish Realm mess I wouldn’t even know where to start. But so many things about it just DO NOT line up in a sensible way. And even if you find one that DOES, it’ll create three things that DON’T line up.

I’d have bought a ‘parallel universe’ over the ‘wish realm’ stuff. They could have gone with that and it would have made much more sense. But you know – they wanted dead Belle, dead Baelfire, dead Snowing, no Emma and old Hook so – Wish realm it was. I just got to a point where I didn’t care anymore. But that doesn’t negate the stupid.

13. The Timeline

The timeline in OUAT made sense – and then it didn’t. And then they just stopped trying. And I stopped caring. But for paid, professional writers – just not cool. DO YOUR JOB!!!!!

12. Will Scarlett

Do I really need to say any more here? No? Didn’t think so. Moving on.

11. Neal’s Apartment in New York City

Have you ever been to NYC? Places of residence are at a premium there. There is no way in hell that an abandoned apartment wouldn’t have been emptied and taken over by a new resident in that much time. And I’m sorry, but odds are Neal did NOT pre-pay his rent for TWO YEARS out.

10. Belle and Hook – Best Friends Forever!*

You know – no woman with a brain in her head would befriend a man who straight up tried to murder her FOUR TIMES. So, either Belle doesn’t have a brain in her head, or that’s some crap writing right there. (My vote is with the latter if you’re wondering.)

It was bad enough when Belle was just handing over the dagger to “Hook” in S4 (yes, I know it was Rumple but details shmetails, Belle didn’t know that), but a PREGNANT BELLE going to live on a boat with Hook to be ‘safe’ – come on. Who does that? I get that Adam and Eddy wanted to wave the middle finger at the Rumbelle fandom, but they could have found a way to do that without making Belle look STUPID.

*Honorable mention to Belle/Zelena being friends which was equally as stupid

9. Zelena is Marian

Come ON – they pulled that one out of their asses halfway through S4 because they wanted to find a way to bring back Bex. There was NO INDICATION of that until the reveal. Because it didn’t EXIST until the reveal. Ridiculous.

8. Making the Charmings Supporting Players

Starting with S4, Snow and David basically became secondary characters. They had MOMENTS, but overall they were on the backburner and if they left the show at any point – would it have made a difference to ANY of the trajectory they were playing out? I’d say no.

I mean – how the hell did that happen? How do you run out of ideas with the couple that you touted as THE ‘main couple’ after only three seasons? I don’t get it.

7. Golden Queen

Just no. There was never anything romantic between these two characters. It was stupid and out of character for both of them. No.

6. Queer baiting 101

If you gender-swapped either Emma or Regina – made one of them a man – they’d be banging by S2 and by the end of the series they’d be married with at least two more kids and three break-ups/reunions between them. (Hey, I watch soaps, I know how this shit works.)

The chemistry between the actors is there. They share a kid. But they’re both women. And you know – family show -- #nohomo and all. Sure.

The writers KNEW that Swan Queen was popular. Now okay – if ABC didn’t want to go there, fine. I don’t agree with that, but fine.

But don’t keep freaking queer baiting your fans every chance you get! It never stopped. In fact, it got progressively WORSE as the show went on! That’s just bullshit right there. Either do it or drop it. Because what OUAT did with Emma and Regina and the baiting of their fans was just flat out shitty.

And if that weren’t bad enough, we got the whole queer baiting with Mulan/Aurora, and THEN in S5 we’re handed Dorothy/Ruby as a token olive branch to the LGBT community and then – we never see them again!

Okay, in S7 they got on the right track with Alice and Robin. I will give them that. But after six years of baiting, it kind of rang hollow for many, and rightly so.

5. Hey, Here’s a Person of Color – Let’s Kill Them!

One of the first warnings I give to any new OUAT is ‘don’t get attached to any POC’ and with good reason. They don’t last long on OUAT.

Now I don’t want to assume or accuse any of the OUAT writers of flat out racism but . . .. . you’ve gotta admit – they don’t have the best track record there.

It’s especially obvious when they bring on a character that is compelling and portrayed by a charismatic actor that the audience enjoys. Lancelot, Merlin, and Facilier are the three best examples of that. Okay, so Lance was resurrected but – where’d he go? Is he still trying to undo dead-Arthur’s roofie on Guinevere?

And then we have an amazing hero and a compelling villain in Merlin and Facilier, respectively. Both of these characters – and their actors – were bright spots in the show. So naturally – they needed to die. Without their storylines resolved.

But it was just a coincidence that they weren’t white. Of course it was.

4. The Death of Belle

Yeah, yeah, I know, Beauty was a beautifully written episode and Bobby and Emilie loved it and we got some great moments, blah blah blah . . . . . . but was it NECESSARY? Did they REALLY NEED to kill off Belle? You’re telling me that there’s absolutely, positively, not one plausible scenario for S7 wherein Belle is in Hyperion Heights and Rumple can find a way to rid himself of the darkness WITH HER THERE???? Really? They couldn’t write even one lousy full season of Rumbelle (hello BEAUTY AND THE BEAST) happy and in love with struggles but still beating the darkness in the end? Really??? There weren’t any options for that scenario AT ALL???? Give me a break.

3. The Stepford Swan

Over the course of seven years, many of the OUAT characters suffered with out- of-character moments. It’s not uncommon and I would even venture to say that this happens on occasion on MOST television shows. But on OUAT, it was a common occurrence from Season Four onward. And NONE of the characters experienced as much of an out of character de-evolution as Emma Swan.

When we first met Emma Swan she was a badass, intelligent, independent woman. Yes, she had her issues and her inner demons and we saw her work past those as the series progressed.

And then . . . . she got a boyfriend. And he became the center of her universe. And Emma – changed. The writers (and Jennifer Morrison) will swear up and down that it was an ‘evolution’ but I’m sorry – a character that starts OUT like this:

Does not END UP like this:

That’s not evolution. That’s a shell of a woman dependent on a man for her self-worth. That’s NOT who Emma Swan is. This was THE worst character assassination on the show, and I’d say it’d be up (down?) there in the top 10 (er, bottom 10?) of worst character assassinations in all of television. What a shame.

2. Rapists – rapists everywhere!

Once Upon a Time has always been marketed as a family show. For a family show – there’s sure a heck of a lot of rape in it.

The first CANON rapist we have is Regina and her 28+ year imprisonment and repeated sexual assault of Graham. Regina came a long way as a character in the show’s 7-year run – but it would have done great service to her if this had been addressed somehow. Now, I know that Jamie Dornan is all famous and off making money playing Christian Grey but – you know, in this particular case – I’d have been good with either a recast or at the VERY least an apologetic mention. But we never got that.

And that’s the problem with every rapey issue on this show – it’s never addressed for what it is. In fact – it’s really not addressed at all. Hook’s rape jokes in S2 are treated like ‘playful banter’ by the writers, cast, and viewers alike. Zelena’s ‘Hester the Molester’ stuff with Rumple in S3 doesn’t even warrant a discussion. Hook’s rapey innuendo in the CS movie is also waved off. Then we have Zelena raping Robin in S4, Arthur magic roofie-ing Guinevere and probably raping her in S5 (Is she still roofied? Who knows!), and Mother Gothel raping Nook in S7.

That’s a hell of a lot of rape for a “family show.” And aside from the off-handed comment from Robin about lack of consent with Zelena, none of it is addressed for what it is – RAPE.

1. The Death of Baelfire/Neal Cassidy

In Season One there were three main story line arcs driving the series: Regina’s war with Snow White, Emma as The Savior, and Rumpelstiltskin’s quest to reunite with his son, Baelfire. All three stories intertwined, and it only made sense that the trajectory of the show would be that in the end, all of these characters would somehow come together, as they all were tied to one character: Henry.

Unfortunately, the writers made the foolish decision in Season Three to execute one of the main (if not THE main) driving forces on the show. Baelfire/Neal was connected to all of the aforementioned people, and his loss was a blow to everyone. At least it should have been. But that’s not what we saw.

Not only was Neal/Baelfire killed off – he was flat out ERASED from the show. His name from the point of his death on was rarely brought up. We didn’t get to see anyone truly mourn or grieve him. (Okay Rumple, but BARELY – and anyone who has lost a child understands that it’s quite possibly the deepest type of grief imaginable. I’m told you never get over it.) As the show moved forward, you could literally spot the times when the writers made deliberate dialogue choices to avoid saying the name Neal/Baelfire in places where it not only made sense, it was WARRANTED.

Let’s be REAL here – we all know the “reason” Bae/Neal was written off the show. I don’t care what the writers say. I’m not an idiot and neither are you. And I’m sorry, but if the ONLY WAY you can think of to make a “romance” happen on a show is to kill off a character that would be forever “in the way” of said romance – you’re not a skilled enough writer to be writing a television show for a major network. I mean – it works in spiteful fanfic (which I am more than guilty of writing). But for a television show? The viewers deserve better than that. NEAL/BAELFIRE and every character that ever loved him deserved better than that.

I know I probably missed a bunch but I really did try to hit the highlights and put them in the order they deserved.

Thoughts? Comments? If you think I’m missing a tag for this (I’m doing my best) let me know and I’ll add it.

#ouat criticism #anti ouat writers #anti hook #anti cs #anti stepford swan #tw: rape #anti zelena #anti golden queen

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My Hero Academia Chapter 214 Review

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After the last chapter that got the fans uproar, we go back to the last battle, because the show must go on. The wound may be present, but at least there’s some joy from this chapter. It’s due to other characters that receive their moment, whether it’s silly or sentimental. With that said there are issues that continue to question its future and the effect from last time resume here.

Aizawa didn’t want to stop the battle because Shinso, Deku, and others still have burning passion to win. Besides, the problem with Deku has ended, so there’s no need to worry about it. It’s not the best explanation, but it will do. It’s just a reason to continue for the sake of Deku testing out his newfound power, even though it’s done in a training, which is something I realized. Usually, a meaningful power-up happens in the course of a serious situation, but I digress. At least the other teachers acknowledge the oddity of his decision. Of course, there’s a little more to it, but it’s reserved for later.

Deku is still conflicted with his One for All quirk because it can harm his friends like earlier. It doesn’t have so much weight to that line since it hardly did any damage to any of them. Maybe if it did or even earlier than here, I would understand his fear. Ochako thought it’s a good time to escape, but he refuses for he sees it as the only chance to win. He’s going to challenge Shinso head-on without his quirk. That sounds like an interesting idea, but will it really happen?

I find the scene with Mineta and Mina amusing, though it varies for some. As they are up against Shoda and the two girls, they are outnumbered and having a tough time to outmaneuver them. This asks for Mineta to come in play. One double impact attack aims for Mina, but Mineta blocks it with his Grape Buckler. This is his ultimate plan and surprisingly it works, in more ways than one.

He builds up the anticipation for what he has in mind. It sounds like something he is so proud of. He has grapes planted elsewhere as well. What could this masterful plan be? It begins with him crashing to Mina’s chest. If anything, this is probably enough to say “best plan ever” for him. Funny, because I remember reading a post about him no longer being a pervert, insinuating Kohei has developed his character naturally, but here we are. Gave him too much credit there, fellow. Anyway, Mina got ticked off and uses Acid Layback to toss Mineta so fast, he bounces off his grapes since they repel him and form a Jumping Mineta. I got to say, that’s some combo.

It works out since it blocks the three from doing anything else. Essentially, Mineta is Gran Torino. Man, does everyone has to surpass the old man like that? The girls are useless and Shoda has to protect them with his close combat; in other words, they’re trapped. That takes care of one problem; now there’s two remaining.

After what happened earlier in the battle, I find the scene with Monoma pretty disappointing for more reasons than one. It’s kind of neat that he resume the ideology on the supporting character’s role. It’s one of the moments that felt like it has depth to the character. He’s up against Deku and Ochako in what could have been a really cool clash if done right, especially when Monoma copies One for All. That’s right. The old age question will finally have the answer. Can he really copy it? The answer is yes…and maybe no.

It appears that he has copied the quirk; the problem is it didn’t activate it. Basically, he copied it, only to be locked because it’s sacred. That or it could be at its base form. That’s a shame. What’s also a shame is the conflict ended before you know it. Ochako just rush in and basically got lucky that the quirk was a dud. That’s the end of Monoma. Really weak. He has an interesting ideals on heroism, yet he’s taken down so quick and lackluster. He’s treated like a joke.

Also, Ochako’s Slam has gotten really old. Is this her only arsenal? And you thought Rasengan from Naruto was bad. She’s like a wild Pokemon that has one attack, Slam. Like Trinity’s kick from The Matrix Trilogy, it’s really old. Enough references; the point is the lack of update to her arsenal is strikingly disappointing. It also appears her time is done since she got Monoma pinned down. What an upgrade…

Shinso continues to shine the most in this arc, though this is technically his arc, so it’s no surprise. Shame that it’s this arc. Anyway, it’s time for him and Deku to finally get their rematch, even though Deku got a new move literally on the spot, but whatever. The flashback explains the time where he begins to use the Eraser. It took Aizawa five years to master it, but it was self-taught. They share a similarity as they have the knack of wanting to be useful in heroism, so they will do whatever it takes to make them helpful.

It’s probably why Aizawa really didn’t want to end this battle. He wants to see him shine and show his hard work pays off. It’s time for Shinso to take on Deku to earn his victory. It’s a nice scene and good to see a bonding moment with those two. Shinso is about to go all out with the Eraser, carrying the pipes with ease unlike before. Now, Deku must fight him quirkless, which gives him a great challenge. If only…

Deku is about to get crushed, no chance to run or dodge. He goes back to the moment when Hellboy told him One for All is evolving and he can master them with his emotions. It’s up to Deku now. Because of Hellboy shares similar traits as All Might, you can say he was easily influenced. No longer in fear or at least no longer running away with a bad mindset, he is now calm and begin to use the Black Whip, stopping the pipes. The fear of fans from the last chapter is about to go critical.

It’s a shame that the effect of the climax is watered down because Deku just got a new quirk in the midst of battle. It would have been interesting if it was just, oh I don’t know, the old concept of One for All. It would have been like seeing Aizawa versus All Might, but I guess we are going to witness the battle of whipping tools. If it’s a showcase for Deku’s new quirk, then it will be awful for Shinso to lose. We’ll see.

Overall, it’s definitely not controversial as the last chapter; nowhere near. It was a decent chapter, though it’s due to other characters outside of the protagonist. Some characters get the fair treatment like Mineta and Shinso; some are left to be desired like Ochako and Monoma. As for Deku, well, he needs something to work with, so I guess multiple quirks is one. Still not a fan, but what can you do. The effect still harms it though. I just hope the next chapter is the end. I am so ready to depart.

#boku no hero academia #my hero academia #chapter 214 #review #spoilers

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