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princesscolumbia · 1 year ago

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tl;dr - I put ponies in another fic, but only for a few chapters

So, real quick, minor confession...this fic is actually one of my oldest, and it's not on this site.

Hey, easy, easy, let me explain.

So way back in 2005, I had a flash of inspiration. See, back in the 90s and carrying into the 00s, we didn't really go on forums or (even older) newsgroups if we wanted to avoid spam in our all the everything, we got on mailing lists. The Big One for fanfiction was the good ol' FFML, or "Fan Fiction Mailing List." What fanfiction? Yes. Which fandom? Yes. There was no division of franchises here. You were just as likely to encounter Trek as Xena, everything from Ah, Megami-sama! to Zoids. There was also no curation. The crap was flowing, and caught in the stream would be the occasional diamond, and it was up to YOU to determine which was which. And we called our porn "lemons." If the fic was leaning toward spicy we had a citrus scale. Orange was a little eechi, Lime was "there's plot, but expect to need some 'private time' later on." And so VERY much of it was anime-centric. (Sidebar: The late, lamented MythrilMoth and I first encountered each other while active on FFML)

One of the biggest fandoms in the FFML was Ranma 1/2, with Sailor Moon being a solid second place, though still trailing by quite a margin. It's not a stretch to say that, at the time, Ranma 1/2 was the largest single fandom active in the US-centric portions of the Internet (which, thanks to the heavy hand the USA had in creating the Internet, was a pretty sizeable portion of it). This was objectively provable, too. Not only was there the Penultimate Ranma 1/2 Fanfic Index, something none of the other fandoms needed, let alone had, you could go to fanfiction.net and show a list of ALL the fandoms sorted by number of fics, and the one having more works than any other by a LOOOOONG margin was Ranma 1/2.

So the fandom started curation, which is necessary when you have that many fics. (and the War of the Churches, which is one of the earliest online shipping wars, which is like talking about the Punic Wars when the subject of world wars comes up...and The Bet, which the less said about that, the better) There were so many fics that we had to split them into multiple meta-categories, some of which you'll easily recognize:

Continuation

Divergence

Crossover

Fusion

Lemon

Spamfic

There was obviously some mixing between them, but relevant to this is the Crossover and the Fusion.

Crossovers are kinda obvious, and introduced one of the most enjoyable, if WAY overdone, tropes of the FFML: The Fukufic. Take some Ranma 1/2, add some Sailor Moon, and viola, one fukufic. The catch was, they were all crossovers (except for one notable exception...which I really should dig up again sometime, it's a fun one), simply because direct fusions would dilute too much of either Ranma 1/2 or Sailor Moon.

Now, not that anyone saw this as a problem, mind, we just kinda shrugged if the subject came up and moved on.

Until one day, I was pondering this. (I mean, c'mon, you know me by now) "Fusion is where you take two properties and 'fuse' them together in new but recognizable ways," ponders I, "...so what would fission look like in this context?"

Naturally, my mind locked onto the fukufic, and the fanfic Fission was born.

Fission

Ranma is having A Day. The usual wacky relationship hijinks wind up with him tripping while running from his self-declared love interests (it has to do with martial arts, several foreign laws, and an okonomiyaki cart...long story) and falling off a roof (...again, long story) to pass through a stream of water from a broken pipe, triggering the magic that cursed him to turn into a girl with a splash of cold water. But today the wacky cranked right up into the weird when he DIDN'T collide with the other person who also happens to be standing in the spray of water. Usagi is having a pleasant day, actually. She's spending time with her boyfriend, taking in parts of Tokyo she doesn't normally get to, and in all enjoying herself when she gets a call about a monster attack. She ducks into an alley and starts to transform into Sailor Moon when a pipe bursts and sprays her with water right as someone...doesn't collide with her falling from the roof above. The destiny of both Ranma and Usagi has been altered by a random accident that nobody could have planned for or anticipated. Nobody around them is even remotely prepared.

The principal conceit is this: In the most unlikely of unlikely events, both Ranma and Usagi's respective magics to turn them into their other half are active at the same time when they collide. This "splits" their respective destinies, spinning off events and introducing characters that would completely rewrite their lives going forward. Ranma would get a Senshi team and their own "silver crystal" artifact and royal destiny, and Usagi would get a gender-swapping curse and a whole slew of romantic entanglements. Making this happen has been an incredibly fun challenge.

Plans and Schemes

I did not, I promise, intend for there to be a hiatus of any sort for Fission. I had, in fact, encountered a MASSIVE PILE of inspiration and jotted down a HUGE amount of notes for nine books worth of material about this new world in which there would be time travel shenanigans, a Xenomorph on an abandoned Mercury research base, and a look at the world of the Silver Millenium 1,000 years into the future.

But, as happens so often with me and in a recognizable pattern I wouldn't know about at the time because this was the first time it happened, I burned myself out. A move was involved, my marriage was experiencing challenges, and we were trying for a baby. This doesn't even factor in my career obligations, church activity, or social interactions which...yeah, most of it I wouldn't have chosen and only did because...okay, stopping there, this isn't a rant about my failed marriage.

I tried over the years, up to and including putting out a new chapter here and there, but I kept running into various forms of burnout.

Then the divorce happened.

Needing some sort of outlet, I started writing Double Trixie Trouble, and while it was just silly fluff, it was relatively easy to squirt out a chapter or three and just toss 'em up, but then the whole thing started getting complicated, and I started burning out again. By that time, though, I'd started writing Lost Little Wolf as a catharsis piece, and that wound up even more popular than DTT. And suddenly I couldn't not write LLW, it was metaphorically draining the ugly, puss-filled blisters that were my severely maladapted responses to the divorce.

On the plus side (and yeah, there's lots of plus sides), I did land on my soon-to-be-legally-changed new name of Chrystal Amber from the writing of it.

Then I went through my homeless period, and I've written about that quite a bit during the author's notes for My Empire of Dirt, as well as the severe injury I sustained during that time and the long road to recovery.

And during that period of time, I began to get nearly itchy to write more for Fission.

Outlines and Brainstorming

Fission has always, from day one, looked like this:

Pluto takes a vacation, this is widely considered to be a mistake

Ranma and Usagi 'collide' in a freak accident that could only happen to them. Owing to their already crazy lives, they don't realize how big a deal it is and promptly forget about it

Ranma and Usagi both start experiencing some "bleedover" from the other person, but since it's very minor and still within the realms of "crazy shit I have to deal with," they still don't think much of it.

Ranma turns into a new, not quite mirror version of Sailor Moon and gets her first senshi, Mercury, who winds up being Konatsu, the "Genius Kunoichi" as a not-quite-mirror to Ami's "Genius." Meanwhile Usagi gets her first suitor

Mars appears, additional bleed happens between the two "sides," Usagi experiences her first gender swap

Venus appears, more bleed, Usagi encounters another rival

Jupiter appears, Usagi can't hide her changes from the rest anymore, plans are made to meet

Ranma's "Inners" unite as a team, Usagi gains a new suitor

The two groups of Inners meet, the meeting is sabotaged by the BBEG but they wind up fighting along side each other and start to compare notes

Shampoo encounters Hotaru, offers to train her, coincidentally becomes the new Saturn

Ryoga receives a package promising to cure him of his curse. It changes his cursed form to a girl and becomes the new Uranus

Ranma receives a package with a key and a cryptic note saying he/she will know who it goes to

Akari initially rejects Ryoga's new cursed form, prompting Ryoga to go on a suicide mission. Trying to rescue new-Uranus, new-Moon realizes that only Akari can save Ryoga and the key is for Akari. They rescue Ryoga and Akari admits she still loves Ryoga, no matter the form

Ami advises the BBEG that's been after both teams is The Doom Star, named Nemesis by some consipiracy theorists in the 70s

They split into teams, do a three pronged assault, find Nemesis has a senshi, crack the Dark Planet, big space battle scene, huge martial arts, much wow

The day is saved, the teams start interacting, epilogue

This has been, from day one of writing the first words on the screen of the job I was holding at the time, the way things were going to go. I knew even then pretty much exactly what I wanted to do with this story.

Let's drill down a bit (I'm going somewhere with this, I promise):

Jupiter appears, Usagi can't hide her changes from the rest anymore, plans are made to meet

As with everything else, waaaay back in 2005 when I first started this monster, I had a specific idea how Ukyo would be introduced as Sailor Jupiter:

Ranma's team gets an invite to a concert in Jubaan

Three youma disguised as human pop stars reveal they've been siphoning energy for the entire concert tour, they get the upper hand on the senshi

Three members of the audience step up to do a counter-song to the youma

Ukyo turns into Jupiter, tipping the scales

Senshi win, headlines next day are about the Senshi openly appearing on video, but they aren't the usual senshi

Like I said, this has always been the plan, all the way back in 2005-2006.

Another Fandom Enters the Chat

My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic entered the scene in 2010, and you all will know that part of the story.

But sometime around the time I started coming out of my trauma haze from being homeless and injured, I started re-reading my old fics and starting to figure out next-steps to continue the stories.

And I'm looking at the three monsters that are set to appear as energy draining singers at a concert... ...waaaaait a minute!

It was...PERFECT! I just needed three kids to step up, and heeeey...

Of course, if you know me at all then research will be involved. Thanks to pony names being, for the most part, based on nouns, this wound up being cake. I will say the names for the Sirens were more of a challenge, simply because the modern Japanese music scene uses a LOT of loan words from English and so I had to really dig to find the actual Japanese words for "Adagio," "Aria," and "Sonata," but I did find them.

Oh yeah? Fine! *conforms your gender*

2005 was...a different time for the queer community. It legitimately felt like we were on the verge of fracturing off the gender presentation parts of the community from the sexual attraction parts, and asexuality wasn't a thing most of us even heard about. (I wouldn't for another 2-ish years after that) Compounding that is the fact that my fanfic is built on a foundation from the 1980s, and yes, everything you've heard about how bad it was worldwide for queer folk is true. We barely made it out of that decade. Ranma 1/2 is a product of its time, but even for that it's VERY subversive. The whole thing is practically a study of teenage gender issues and nonconformity, by the end of the anime Ranma basically declares they're NB using the language available at the time, and Konatsu is known to be AMAB, but is treated as a woman. Any time the NWC tries to make Ko-chan 'act like a man,' it's shown just how very bad at it she is.

When I was writing Fission back in the mid-2000s, it wasn't a big deal to have Ranma be a guy who turns into a girl and back and that was that. There was no "they/them" we could use without looking like absolute weirdos. Konatsu was a pre-op transexual at best, so when writing for the ninja, you used he/him, end of story. If you review the chapters I wrote prior to my unplanned hiatus, you'll note that while Konatsu is in "civilian" guise, I use he/him. When a senshi, I had to do freakin vocabulary and grammar acrobatics to not use a pronoun at all. I wanted it to be clear that being a senshi in this universe is pretty much the ultimate form of femininity. Yes, they can crack a planet on accident and one of 'em can sneeze at the wrong time and alter history, but they're girls who are feminine and can kick your ass.

On this side of a transition, being where Konatsu would want to go if she could do so and afford it in the 1980s, I just couldn't bring myself to continue with the joke. It's ultimately kinda mean and I didn't feel comfortable with it. This "chapter" (consisting of chapters 10-12 on AO3) was me taking steps to address this in a plot-conforming, in-universe way and not break the flow of what I'd already written.

You're still here?!

Go read the fic!

#ranma #bishojo senshi sailor moon #ranma x akane #ranma saotome #ranma 1/2 #usagi tsukino #sailor moon #fanfic #fanfiction

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sanctus-ingenium · 2 years ago

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artist ask meme answers

i deleted the reblog to keep my space uncluttered but for reference the meme is here

3. What ideas come from when you were little?

The main characters in the Mez/medieval mech setting - the two knights and two smiths - are all characters from my first writing project. Which didn't resemble Mez at all, it was an alt Earth in which people had powers, and each of the characters I mentioned lived in different parallel dimensions. The story was about "first contact" between parallel dimensions. I started writing that in 2008 (age 14) and finished in 2015. The setting had a lot of technical problems (unsurprisingly) but I couldn't abandon those characters and felt they deserved better than what I had given them

4. Fav character/subject that’s a bitch to draw

Human faces in general. There's a reason I keep blanking out people's features and it's not because I want to be mysterious. I'm highly face blind and have immense trouble even looking at photos of human faces lmao

7. A medium of art you don’t work in but appreciate

I was gonna say physical block printing but actually I do that now (did my first prints yesterday lol). Second place is definitely sculpture, I adore sculptures but it was always my least favourite medium to try myself

12. Easiest part of body to draw

Torso for animals, legs for humans

21. Art styles nothing like your own but you like anyways

One of my favourite artists on tumblr is @mech-monster .. I've admired their work for years and as a lover of biomechanical art and aeroplanes it's right up my alley. I think their style is pretty emblematic of "art styles nothing like my own" lol but it's so wonderfully precise and technical. Love it

4. Fav character/subject that’s a bitch to draw

I mentioned faces in general but for a character I find challenging, I really struggle with drawing Pantera!

how could i possibly have known what I was setting myself up for when I made this design. A lot has changed true but its visor helmet thing is a key part of what Pantera is to me, so I can't get rid of it. But drawing that thing head-on is nightmarish

14. Any favorite motifs

I draw a lot of fleur de lises in the Mez setting because I like the design and think it's a nice visual shorthand for the time period. But each knight has their own motif - Victory's flames, Heaven's rounded more floral designs, etc. These reflect Pantera and Leun's primary weapons respectively.

One motif I'm sure everyone has spotted is the barley pattern that accompanies Pascal (modern inver setting), and one or more of his eyes are usually visible in the bg of any art of him (behind his body)

3. What ideas come from when you were little?

Another idea - honestly, the holy beasts (the mechs) in general. I was a massive zoids fan as a kid and I used to collect and build them. I was always fascinated by the setting, particularly the contrast between "ancient" advanced mech technology and the humans' relatively low-tech society (in the original anime/toy line). I wanted to make something like that. I still really enjoy contrasts like these. I mean the holy beasts WERE sort of just.. dug up out of the ground, exactly the same as zoids were

7. A medium of art you don’t work in but appreciate

Hrm honestly traditional painting. It's been years since I did it and I don't have the space or time to pick it up (i chose block printing instead) but I love it

11. Do you listen to anything while drawing? If so, what

If I REALLY want to listen to a certain podcast, I'll often start drawing just so that I'll be able to focus on the podcast and have something to do with my hands at the same time. A lot of my art comes from me just wanting to get through an episode of whatever. In early 2021 that was the magnus archives, these days I'm getting through Candlelit Tales Irish Mythology podcast which i SUPER recommend if you're interested in that kinda thing. It's on spotify

But generally I listen to music. I have a playlist for each setting, and each character in those settings. So if I'm drawing Pascal I'm listening to his playlist which is largely disco these days. Gets me in the mood

anomalydetection asked sanctus-ingenium: 30, 19, 25

30.What piece of yours do you think is underrated

Finbarr & the Moon tarot card!

This is from before I aged up Finbarr from early 20s to mid 40s lol but you could say this is just him as a kid I suppose. But I really like it and all the details I managed to sneak in, and it was what got me started wanting to draw watery scenes more

19. Favorite inanimate objects to draw (food, nature, etc.)

Armour!!!! Who doesn't like armour. I also really enjoy drawing clothing from historical eras. Modern clothing and most futuristic/sci-fi ish takes on clothing are solidly boring to me though.

25. Something your art has been compared to that you were NOT inspired by

ohhh god where do I start. I got an ask comparing it to dangan ronpa recently lmao. Bluecifer. Disco Elysium. The Last Unicorn. Nope (2022 movie). I have nothing against any of them and I enjoyed those last three a lot but my art was not inspired by them and has nothing to do with them.

Also western/cowboy stuff in general. A LOT of people tag my horse art with #cowboy or related tags. I don't mind it but it is something that is not on my cultural radar, and not ever at the forefront of my mind when I draw horse things

3. What ideas come from when you were little

Round 3! Most of the Inver setting is very new (relatively, I mean it has no legacy characters from earlier stuff and I made it all within the past few years) but the decision to use the Púca as the main supernatural entity to base the story on did come from my childhood. My mother used to use Púca interchangeably with Taibhse so there was a lot of talk about him around hallowe'en in general when I was very young. I didn't realise that Púca and Taibhse meant different things until I was older lol but I still associate the Púca with hallowe'en and going out as a kid dressed in a black binbag (I was a scary witch). Because it had this nostalgic connection with my childhood and an era where I believed in scary ghosts and faeries around every corner, it was a very easy decision to make for my Inver setting, where there are in fact scary faeries around every corner

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jeeperso · 2 years ago

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D&D Quotes Without Context

Ravenloft Edition, Invidia Arc part 3

You hear a loud knocking on the front door of the main hall. "YOO HOO! I KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE!” "NO YOU DON’T!”

“Eddie, get into the maid outfit the tower of flesh had and tell him no one’s home.”

And suddenly, Poom is hiding.

“Hey. He’s having fun being whatever the fuck a chinchilla is.”

“Ominous giggling. The giggling of danger!”

"Can you prove that?” Marshal looks out the window, sees the guard who'd admitted them reduced to a grisly jack-in-the-box. ”Not anymore…"

Jonni spends several seconds feeling around. “S’okay. Fun bits are intact. They’re just felt now.”

"Time to follow the dominos. Stay on the path, no telling what mad toys lay off of it.” “There could be Zoids. Or even pogs.”

Poom: "I'm starting to get the feeling this should have been that domain where parents leave their kids in the woods.”

At this point the sweater becomes angry. "WEAR ME YOU LITTLE SHIT!"

"I have a humorous toy dagger, and I am not afraid to make squeaky noises with it!”

OOC: Hot pocket formation, proofed vs charmed.

Jonni casts create campfire 187 times.

“That fire is my girlfriend!”

You blast the councilor, which causes her to shift forms into a large humanoid dog with four arms, two smaller human like arms, and two massive pincers. Poom: "Huh, looks my Great Uncle Tendon-Flayer.” Nyx: "Remind me to avoid your family reunions.” As he makes his announcement, marshal's helm is swapped out between frames, resembling instead a bone-hued mask. [insert Jason gif] Poom: "And now Marshal is Cousin Gruntsalot.”

Jonni: “Oh, when New Eddie goes full Anakin, that’s fine. But Jonni wants to kill just one…” Nyx: ”These aren't kids, Jonni. They are disguised demons.” Irost: ”Aren't all kids..?” Nyx: ”Hey, I was a little angel as a kid.” Poom: "I'm half gnoll, so I am literally a little demon."

"Remember kids. Never play with ice.”

“Hey! There were kids present! No using the black speech of Mordor!”

Gorbash: “The cursed words of Carlin the critical? Wait no that was seven words. Maybe he added to the list.”

"Puss bleeding Hell!” Poom: "Yup, just like Gruncle Tendon.”

Jonni: “Your mother gets off to my centerfold in hell!” Gorbash: “Is that an insult or a boast?” Jonni: “Yes!”

Marshal rocks back and forth in his frozen state, manages to move a finger enough to flip it off.

"YOU AREN'T GETTING ANY S’MORES." Gorbash: “WHAT! How Dare! It's on now B----!” The Glaberu holds up a perfectly made s’more, then throws it in a waste paper basket and kicks it away. Gorbash goes over to the trash bin and fishes the S’more out. "Please it'll take more than that to dissuade me. OMNOMNOM!”

"I'll save a spot for Ape-Jonni. Just incase.”

Jonni: “Hey! Who wants to see puppet titties!?!” Poom: "Let me temporarily blind myself first.”

"I can appreciate that. However, my information does not come freely.” Jonni sighs and starts unbuttoning her shirt. "Not that.”

Your former chieftain draws his sword, "Do you remember w hat I said I would do if you ever returned?” Jonni: “I couldn’t hear over your daughter hanging on to you crying that she loved me and not to hurt me.” He growls. “DIE." Jonni: “Plus that mammoth I stole was super noisy.”

He manages to thumb wrestle his way out of your big hand.

"If you seek the Tiger, then you will find him at the top of Candy mountain." "Is this... a BIG rock candy mountain, or a regular?”

Gorbash: “Right watch out for unicorns. they'll still your organs.”

OOC: Everyone is a puppet, save Poom who is a regular house cat and Nyx who is a GI Joe figure.

OOC: Shame. If it was a strangler, it could've spent the session failing to kill Marshal. OOC2: But then he'd look preppy, with a sweater tied around his neck.

Poom: "Aka, Mythos Daycare.” OOC: Mythos Babies, they make nightmares seem tame.

#dungeons & dragons #dnd 5e #quotes with context #ravenloft

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l0dric · 3 years ago

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Gundam Seed Review

Our long national nightmare is over; That’s right Gundam Seed is finished.

This is the worst Gundam show I’ve seen. Flat out. It’s bad. Do not recommend it’s very very boring and stupid. It’s also the 2nd or 3rd most popular Gundam show.

2002 is a weird place for anime. Computer animation is here and being widely used. Even non CG is being digitally drawn now. Everything looks like shit. Naruto is the biggest show in the world and Sunrise (the company behind Gundam) has decided we need cool anime boys who can fuck whoever they want. So meet Kira Yamato

and Athrun Zala

2 boys who are simply ambrosia to every woman they meet regardless of age or beliefs.

Most Gundam shows are then about something outside of just being a cool guy. First Gundam is about nuclear war and trauma bound orphans, Gundam X is about the horrors of searching for the next form of humanity, Gundam Wing is about joining the hitler youth and how cool it is….Turn A is about the history of violence and humans urge to continue it. Gundam Seed then is about…..Genetics….and genocide and how the genetically modified people are the racist ones actually. But then it’s not even about that because the bad guy forgets that that’s a thing 3/4ths of the way through the show.

Anyway it’s bad. I can’t wait to watch the sequel show Seed Destiny in 6 months. All I know about that show is that it’s like 3 years later and all the people that LOVE Seed, HATE Destiny and that’s enough to make me excited.

Suits:

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#1 Mebius Zero the canisters come off on wires and can shoot from any direction. It’s cool as shit.

#2 Blitz Gundam. I don't know man none of the suits here are GREAT but this one is A okay by me. I like this wing thing with the giant needles.

#3 BuCUE isn’t actually good but I like that they’re going for something. I wish I liked Zoids but I just do not.

#4 Freedom Gundam. It’s called the Freedom. That’s dumb. It looks kind of dumb but I kind of like all the wings. It never does anything remotely cool though.

#5 Aegis Gundam. This guy is a total mess but he does one cool thing.

Show Rankings:

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Turn A Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam

Mobile Suit ZZ Gundam

0080 War in the Pocket

Gundam X

Mobile Suit Victory

Gundam Char’s Counter Attack

08th MS Team

F91 Gundam

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

Mobile Suit Gundam Wing

0083 Stardust Memory

G-Saviour

G Gundam

Gundam Seed

#gundam #mobile suit gundam #gundam seed #seed #ggp #Great Gundam Project

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dragonfoxstardesigns · 3 years ago

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Part Three: Fates Intertwined

The last installment of this series! Edit: Added three more parts with a sixth one on the way! Thank you all to those that have continued to read about my zoids ocs! Feel free to let me know via comments if you’d like to see more of Jack Hunter and Riley Foxx, and as always please like and reblog!

Also, this is not for anyone under the age of 18! Minors and ageless blogs will be blocked! You’ve been warned!

This part starts off SFW but will hit NSFW pretty quickly! Hope you enjoy! <3

The next morning…

Sirens went off at first light. Apparently something had triggered the alarm in the zoids hangar.

Jack awoke with a start frustrated that, to his dismay, either Riley tried to escape while still recovering from her concussion. That, or someone or something was causing mayhem in his zoids hanger. He knew that Vulpes and Wolfe were with the blade liger and command wolf resting. Nothing should have made the security system malfunction or turn on without reason. Unfortunately, when turning on the monitor, the security cameras didn't show anything out of the ordinary so there was nothing to be done but actually going in person to see what all the commotion was about.

He sighed getting up out of bed and quickly threw on his robe since the owner of the estate was only in his boxers after what had hoped to be a good rest since getting nearly killed at the ancient ruin site with his arch nemesis. Jack cautiously looked into the hallway before peering to the adjacent room where Riley was sleeping the night before. His heart secretly hoped that she was either still asleep or at least there rather than trying to escape. After all the hospitality Jack gave there wouldn't be a reason to quickly leave. Least not without being given a fair warning, right?

But just as Jack was about to knock on her door, the guest room door was already open with a sleepy bed-headed Riley looking stunned in only her robe and slippers. Jack doing his outright best not to imagine if she was wearing anything under there- wait not the right place he stopped himself from that nagging instinct letting himself breathe an inside sigh of relief to see that she was okay and had not escaped out of his estate. However, that left a question that was quickly asked by Riley as his arch rival opened her mouth after a drowsy yawn had passed.

"Mmm, what on Planet Zi is going on, Jack? Don't tell me you get burglars here in your own estate?" She grumbled rubbing sleep from her eyes and trying her best not to stifle another yawn. Her head felt better after taking medications for her headache, but other than her body forcing rest Riley didn't feel that much refreshed with the abrupt alarm going off first thing in the morning.

"Looks like someone or something triggered the alarm in the hangar which may or may not have been Vulpes and or Wolfe since they are the only beings that were asleep in the hangar with our zoids last night. Let's go see for ourselves just to make sure...I'm deeply sorry for disturbing your sleep, Riley." Jack could barely muster himself to be cruel at a time like this. He found himself shockingly calm around her. Maybe it was due to having met her several times beforehand or the fact that he was Riley's host. Either way, the owner of the estate got to business and without another word went quickly towards the zoids hangar not bothering to see if Riley had joined him or not. It was her decision whether she wanted to come and see who the intruder in the hangar was.

"Mmm, gotcha. I'll follow you in case it is Vulpes. She's highly protective and probably did cause havoc down there. Probably wondering where I am since she was too tired to do anything yesterday after what we had all experienced." Riley followed close behind Jack seeing that as usual the poor guy couldn't bare without leaving his red visor nor making her body do somersaults at the sight of him in just a robe like her. It left her body wanting a raw instinct, but she couldn't let that get between herself and her rival. There was still a lot that Riley wanted to know about Jack before those thoughts would even come to play. Right now she was more worried about Vulpes and hoped that the fox organoid didn't destroy her host's hangar. That would be unfortunate and another thing to add on to mishaps with the leader of the unknown organization slash archaeologist.

"Vulpes, huh? I highly doubt she would have such a ruckus. To be honest, Wolfe may be partially to blame as well if that was his doing. If he sees an intruder in this place or anywhere where I live...well the organoid is territorial. Almost like an alpha in a pack of wolves for example. This is not going to be good if they both butt heads, Riley. We need to stop them if they are the cause for the sirens going off due to a hangar breech."

Riley nodded with dismay that Jack could actually be right about that. Two organoids in the same room as each other without their partners could pose a threat including property damage if in close proximity. She'd hoped that they both could get Vulpes and Wolfe to act civil before things worsened. After several minutes though, she stopped right as Jack Hunter opened the hangar door to see a strange sight. Both organoids have in fact both been territorial and protective, but not in the way that would harm the hangar itself. Instead, Vulpes and Wolfe were almost certain, doing a courtship of sorts. Not mating like the animals on Planet Zi, but definitely natural instincts, only organoids showed rarely though certainly none before had been witnessed until now.

"Well...I guess this mystery has been solved. Let's leave them be, shall we?" Jack stepped back from the view of the hangar. His throat dry, swallowing thick at the display Wolfe was doing to Vulpes. He was obviously showing off his strength and agility to the fox organoid while in turn Vulpes watched with intent and awe. However, as soon as Vulpes and Wolfe spotted the two intruders, the courtship abruptly halted, and both went up to their companions as if nothing had changed.

"Hi Vulpes! Oh I'm so glad you are okay and doing well. I see you made a special friend, hmm?" Riley knelt down to hug her fox organoid, hearing pleased sounds from Vulpes. Wolfe had also wagged his tail at Jack and rumbled excitedly, nuzzling into his partner's leg. "Hey Wolfe. Good morning to you too. Looks like Vulpes is a keeper, hmm?" He chuckled, patting his organoid on the head before gesturing everyone to come in for breakfast since they were all already up.

After a great breakfast meal in the kitchen with their organoids going over to the living room area to lounge, Riley excused herself upstairs to get her clothes from the laundry room while Jack got up to take the dirty dishes over to the dishwasher to have cleaned later on. Himself mentally at the verge of wanting to go and join her, but Jack decided against that as it would have been rude as a host to barge in on his guest's privacy. He secretly wondered if perhaps Vulpes and Wolfe were experiencing the urge that their partners were feeling too. After all, both him and Riley had a strong bond with their organoids so it wasn't entirely impossible. However, with the data and research, Jack was going to have to observe their behavior some more before finalizing his hypothesis. Just seeing their courtship was a rare treat to watch.

"Jack? Could you come up and bring my clothes? I had left them by the bed without thinking while getting into the shower. Also could you help me with something too?" Came Riley's voice while Jack was just coming up the stairs. He wasn't hallucinating right...? She needed his help, but oddly enough the host felt nervous about what would happen from then on. Did she secretly want him to join her in the shower? It seemed a bit odd for her to ask him for help, but he supposed she didn't want to make her injuries more severe than necessary. Least that's what the owner of the estate presumed as he walked into the guest room seeing her clothes neatly folded on the bed.

"Yeah, I suppose I have some time to help you beforehand." He silently gulped, picking up the clothes with care before walking into what felt like a sauna. Steam engulfing the wash area and sounds of soft humming from the shower. "Good. Figured you could join me in the shower now? I'd like some help from behind if you would be so kind Jack," Riley mused while sighing happily as hot water from the shower was hitting that spot on her back just right. However, nothing could compare to the strong urge between her legs. Heat from her cheeks making it hard to concentrate.

"Well, don't just stand there. Don't want the water to get cold, no?" She asked, already hearing the robe slide to the ground and then shortly after kicking off his boxers just before the shower door moved open. Of course, by this point she had turned to wash her front letting him see her front behind so that Riley could give him privacy unaware of what Jack looked like behind his red visor and under that robe of his.

"Here, let me get your back for you." Jack reached over gently brushing his hand against hers briefly in contact with the soap and rag. He tried his best to avert his good eye from looking inappropriately at her while helping to scrub her back. However, the host wasn't aware of his cock having risen and started to get hard. The tip jutted out just a bit to where it came in contact with Riley's butt crack.

"Oh~" A moan escaped Riley's lips feeling something hard pressed against her that she knew wasn't his hand or the cloth rag that was scrubbing expertly on her back. "That feels good. Keep going please," She mused almost in a purr making him think she wasn't aware of his now erect cock prodding her anus.

"Y-yes. I mean of course, Riley. How's your head injury? Did the medicine the doctor gave you help any?" Jack swallowed thickly feeling his heart pound against his chest and ears ringing while trying to sway the topic away from the desperate need that was evident between them.

"It's much better now. A little throbbing every now and then, but not like before. Thank you for rescuing me back there. I appreciate your kindness, Jack. Oh, lower mmm~" She loved how his hands gently worked about her back. She almost shivered as his hand with the rag went lower. It was then that Riley felt his hand move away. A pause that made her want to look back.

"Something the matter, Jack? I can take turns if you want?" She tried her best not to make another moan, though accidentally moved a bit back as Riley slightly turned her body. His cock still hardened and pressed against her.

"No, I mean. There is but you don't need to turn around unless well...this is just my unfortunate luck. I'm sorry, Riley." He sighed, seeing with his good eye that his cock was flushed between her ass cheeks, throbbing for more direct contact.

"There's no need to be embarrassed. I can help with that if you'd let me," Riley leaned back against him as his cock pressed between her folds. "This isn't the first time, you know. Let your guard down for once. Relax and let me help, okay?" She looked up at him, seeing for the first time his face without the red visor on. At first she was surprised, but then her hand gently caressed his cheek. "To be honest, I want you too, Jack. It has been a long time since we first met. You are indeed handsome, don't you know that? That red visor kept me from seeing your beautiful face. Scarred or not," She could see Jack hesitate but was taken aback to see him still standing there as if he was afraid to leave her.

"I...I have always loved you too Riley. Even when we playfully bickered with one another back then until now. I suppose I couldn't control myself or my needs now that I've answered yours." Jack pressed his cheek against her hand in response before kissing it. His hips are now grinding slowly against her, wanting more. That primal need building with each intoxicating pace. Her thick thighs squeezed his shaft with each thrust.

"Well, yeah. And same. Now then...where do you want me?" Riley moaned knowing full well her lower lips were already swollen and wet for him.

"Ah, you really want me here in the shower? Why don't we pleasure ourselves on the bed so that there's less chance of the both of us getting injured in the shower, hmm?" Jack chuckled ringing out the soggy rag before those very hands tenderly caressed her hips, spearing himself against those swollen lips of hers.

"Mmm, please and now would be ideal. I don't know if I can hold on much longer, Jack." Riley could feel his erection pulsing as well, knowing he wasn't far behind either. But before she could break free did her host turn off the shower easing himself from behind her and, handing a soft towel to Riley, dried off just enough despite his cock erect. The tip oozing pre-cum that beaded til it streamed down his shaft to his flushed balls.

"You really do need help. Let me," Riley giggled softly dropping down to her knees on the soft rug before taking her lips to suckle the tip of his cock. Her ears caught wind of eliciting moans coming from him. She never really liked doing blow jobs, but in this case Riley figured it was ideal considering that she hadn't paid him back for saving her life. It was only fair in her own mind.

"Zi...that feels good, Riley don't stop-" Jack moaned, thrusting as carefully as he could without making Riley gag. The tip of his cock edged against her throat at times though she seemed like a natural taking all of him with such care. The owner of the estate barely could warn his rival, only giving a few more thrusts before emptying his seed. Eyes closed shut and hands gripped firm but not too hard. Riley staggered, eyes open wide, taking as much of his semen before letting the rest dribble down her chin. She never knew a man could ejaculate so much, especially Jack.

"Here, let me help." Jack replied almost out of breath, getting a nearby wash cloth to clean the mess. However, it didn't seem like Riley needed help as she caught most of it and cleaned herself off by licking the remaining fluids off her pursed lips. "You really didn't hold back, did you?" She smiled standing up with a helping hand from Jack before walking over to the bedroom to place a clean towel over her side of the bed. Riley laid a clean towel over the majority of the bed before laying back against the pillows making sure her head was protected from the headboard as well as comfortably posed on the bed for Jack.

"I don't think you would have let me even if I tried," The owner of the estate chuckled making sure his hair was taken care of before walking out of the bathroom to witness such a breathtaking sight. His good eye stared, lips parted slightly, seeing Riley poised like a goddess on the guest bed. Her body displayed beautifully against the color of the duvet and matching sheets. "You're gorgeous- I mean...shouldn't we take it slow? You're still recovering from yesterday's fall. Not that I wouldn't mind continuing..." He swallowed thickly, soon joining her on the bed.

"Thanks, and I'm sure about it. My head is pretty cushioned with all these lovely pillows. If at any point I'm in pain, I'll let you know and we can stop. But, I- I really want you, Jack." Riley smiled softly demonstrating what she wanted by gently opening her folds, letting him see how wet she was.

"Well if you insist. I've waited what feels like a lifetime for this moment, but I don't mind if you feel up to another round," Jack mused as he sat back before leaning down between the apex of her thighs to get a closer view. His hand gently took hers, kissing the palm of her hand before licking the residue from her finger. She tasted good already and he could tell that Riley wanted him too. His good eye looked up to her waiting on her permission before suckling her clit with his mouth. A free hand that wasn't holding on to hers coming up to gently ease a finger inside her already wet entrance.

"Jack, please...yes, there~" Riley mused, almost earnestly loving how tentative Jack was to her needs. His finger, then two along with his mouth, working her every so expertly over the edge. Never before did she imagine her arch rival would be pleasuring her much less even more skillfully than any other man she'd come in contact with. Jack cared about her needs above his own even to the point of cushioning her fall and having sent her to his own estate to have a private doctor come to treat her, and then now here he was eating her out. She couldn't help the lewd moans that came from her lips. Her back arching and legs crossed over his shoulders pulling him closer as Riley's climax drew closer.

Jack intently went to work letting his tongue circle her sensitive clit while his two fingers moved in rhythm to her hips. Fingers crooked just a bit to give more pleasure. He could already feel her walls clenching knowing full well that Riley's climax was drawing closer. Her lustful moans were music to his ears as he kept up the pace. His good eye looks up, watching her closely.

"Jack- I-I'm gonna come..." Riley nearly cried out as a wave of ecstasy crashed feeling like her soul had left her body. Jack being the innocent, or not so innocent, victim chasing after his rival's movements until she was spent. Her body heaving slowly came down from cloud nine. She tried her best to look down, watching with flushed cheeks as her rival's lower face was covered with her fluids.

Jack nearly choked but sat up smirking almost devilishly as he licked his lips of her fluid. Some still visible along his chin, but he didn't care, only watching Riley now basking in her afterglow. The owner of the estate chuckled softly as he lined himself up to her. "Had enough or are you ready for the main course, Riley?" He mused leaning down to kiss her softly on the lips. His hand came up to caress her cheek while doing so.

"Mmm...I've never came that hard before in my life..give me a minute and we can continue, Jack." Riley smiled softly after kissing him in return. Her heart is still pounding though yearning more for him. She couldn't remember the last time she'd ever had fallen for anyone much less had probably the best sex she's ever had. Riley reached up to gently trace the scar along Jack's face, seeing him wince a bit at the tender gesture. "I'm ready now, Jack. Take me all the way, please. I want all of you," The mercenary spoke, arching her hips and spreading her legs further so that he could enter her fully.

"I will, Riley. I promise," Jack smiled, taking his time to stretch her open until he was every inch inside her womanhood. "You're so beautiful, tight and warm too," He mused, pulling out almost all the way before plunging back into the depths of her walls until his balls fit snug against her. "Tell me if it's too much, okay Riley?" The owner of the estate looked over to her before going in a slightly faster pace now that his cock was coated with her fluids making it easier to chase her euphoria.

"Mmm, I will. Please go faster and deeper," Riley took his face in her hands kissing him fully on the lips this time while her hips rolled to keep up with his own pace. Eventually the rhythm was perfect once they found a position they both liked. The feeling of his cock buried inside her sent thrills down her spine. They were completely one in spirit and flesh chasing each other until both their peaks finally tumbled over. Moans of ecstasy came from them both as they continued even after they both were spent.

It wasn't until many minutes later that they both came to. Jack slowly got up. His cock softened, finally able to retract though longingly not wanting to leave the warmth of her walls. He watched with his good eye as some of their combined fluids escaped from her folds landing on the towel that Riley had previously laid down on the bed. They clearly made quite a mess it seemed.

"Riley? Are you alright?" He looked up, noticing she was worn out from their love making. Perhaps Jack had pushed Riley to her limit seeing as his guest smiled softly up at him.

"I'm fine. Well, a bit sore I'm sure but my head is still intact, Jack. Thank you for asking though," Riley smiled, patting the unused side of the bed next to her for him to lay next to her.

"Good, and I'll join you in a bit. Let me clean us both up. Least I could do after all," Jack leaned over, kissing her sweetly on the forehead before getting up reluctantly off the bed to clean off the sticky substance from their combined fluids. He still couldn't believe that they both had feelings for each other, and that they shared a bed together. It all had felt like a dream, but in the end it all turned out to be real. Their love for one another blossomed beyond their rivalry.

"Mmm, that would be wonderful. Thank goodness for putting the towel on the bed. We really made a mess, didn't we?" Riley mused moving on to her side as she also watched him walk to get clean wash rags from the bathroom. A nice view with his cute bum and back side displayed just for her. It didn't take long until he returned. Jack takes his time cleaning them both before joining Riley back into bed. Himself spooning her until they both fell to sleep. Both the owner of the estate and the mercenary passed out from their love making and finally getting rest from their early morning wake up call. Speaking of which...where were the organoids while they were upstairs?

Well, as it turned out, Vulpes and Wolfe knew their companions were spending quality time together. And as such, both organoids took that time to explore and discover each other too. Wolfe gladly humping Vulpes until their strange mechanical bodies flushed together as one. Their mating ritual was finally caught on camera in the living room as entangled blankets plus pillows were displaced everywhere. The two finally coming down from their mating gently grooming each other afterwards before too falling asleep in front of the fireplace cuddled together asleep.

It wouldn't be much later until their companions woke up to find they weren't the only ones wrapped up in their own affairs. All four were unaware that life as they knew it was going to get much more complicated than they have ever experienced so far. Will they overcome these challenges and make amends, or will they regret this moment that they’ve shared together?

#zoids #zoids oc #my writing #drabble #lemon #jack hunter #riley foxx #part three

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Chapter Seven: Way Down To Wonderland

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Rated: PG

~Hey Alice, is it greener here Or does it seem like dirt? Does it feel the same, can you say that you Are happy to be home?

The rabbit seems to call your name You're late, so it's time to move Oh Alice, you know it's your fate Tick, tock. No time to lose

Hey Alice, time is running short This can't take too long Make a choice now. On which side of the door Do you feel you belong?~

Did I know it was a bad idea?

Yes. Yes, I did.

Did I do it anyway?

Yup.

Was I going to regret it?

Yeah, probably.

Did that thought stop me?

Absolutely not.

I was going with Jack. I was going to leave that freezing nothing-in-nowhere place behind me and I was going to be free. With the Winchesters protecting me, I would never have to be afraid of anything ever again.

At least until they found out the truth. But I could keep them fooled for long enough, right? I mean, Jack seemed to like me. I wasn't sure in what way exactly, but he did seem to like me. That was something wasn't it? It had to be.

Me and Jack just sat and talked while Sam and Dean burned the bones and covered the body back up. The only reason I knew the body was there was because I had found this place three years ago, though as to the corpse's identity I had no clue. I was just making crap up.

When the job was finally done it was around midnight and the hunters wanted to go back to their motel. They also wanted me to come with them.

"But where would you sleep?" I argued.

"Oh, I don't sleep that much." Jack simply shrugged. I chewed on my lip, for every excuse I could come up with, Jack had a solution.

"Look Jack, I've spent a long time here and I've got, like, this 'secret hideout' where I always sleep- er, slept, and I just wanna go back there, collect my stuff and say goodbye, ya’ know? I'll meet you outside your motel bright and early tomorrow morning. Alright?" Maybe the slight truth would work where excuses had failed miserably. Jack sighed.

"You promise you'll come?" He asked.

"Cross my heart," I said, doing the motion.

"Good cause' if you don't show, Cas will know where you went," Sam said, his voice was friendly but it sounded like a threat. I guessed he was suspicious. Sam got in the car.

"That is true," Castiel said, following him. Yeah, they were both suspicious of me.

"Oh. Uh, nice." There went all hopes of running away from this. "Well where are you guys staying? Just so I know where to go," I asked.

"It’s called North Sea Motel, or something like that." Jack paused for a moment. "Uh, I think." I smiled with a shake of my head.

"I think you mean North Port Motel," I corrected him. Jack smiled.

"Yeah, that one!"

"Okay, well, I'll see ya there!" I started to dismount from where I sat, perched in a different tree, but Dean's voice stopped me.

"Say, where is this little ' secret hideout' of yours? We could drive you, just tell us where. Then you could get your stuff and come to the motel with us, you might even get a good night's sleep," Dean offered. I turned him down with a shake of my head.

"Nah, you boys get some sleep. Besides, if I told you where it was, it wouldn't be my 'secret hideout' now would it? Also, it’s not exactly accessible by car anyway, but don't worry, it’s not far." That was a lie. It was all the way across town, but I might need to use it to hide from these guys one day so telling them the location wouldn't be smart.

"Alright well, see ya’ tomorrow, kid." Dean climbed into his car and revved the engine, waiting for Jack before driving off.

"Well, I'll see you tomorrow!" Jack smiled at me. His smile was sort of strange as his mouth curved up on one side and down on the other at the same time. I liked it.

"See ya’ tomorrow Jack-Jack." I winked at him from where I sat, perched in a different tree. Then in the blink of an eye, Jack was beside me, pulling me in for a hug. I was surprised but hugged him back. I took a deep, breath through my nose.

'Holy zoodles, you smell amazing!' I thought to myself. For a split second the thought entered my mind. For a split second I considered what it might be like.

But that wasn't going to win out.

I pulled away from the hug and Jack smiled his crooked smile and he disappeared, and I waved as the Black Impala drove off. I sighed.

"Whatever you're gonna say, you can go ahead and say it!" I said to the air.

No reply.

No Isaac.

Nothing.

"Ugh! You're so dramatic! If you wanna talk then talk, ya friggn' weirdo!" I shouted to no one.

Isaac still didn't appear. I hopped off my branch and began to sprint through the snowy woods at top speed. Mocking all the way.

"Oh I'm Isaac and I'm so superior to everyone and I'm a stinkin' drama queen who has to be all cryptic about my USELESS OPINIONS!"

I shouted the last bit before climbing the rope into the tree house. I had made it in under five minutes. When I hauled my sorry butt inside the tree house, Isaac stood there, waiting. He had his arms crossed and his shoulders square and his face was a mask of barely controlled rage. I copied his stance and stared back at him. He remained silent. I could only do it for so long.

"What?" I asked, giving in. Apparently that question was all it took for Isaac to explode.

"DO YOU THINK THIS IS A FRIKIN' GAME?!" He shouted. I couldn't help but stumble back a few paces. Isaac never yelled, not at me. Isaac yelled at everyone else, but never, ever, me. I blinked a few times, trying to discourage the tears.

"N-no! I-I-I just-"

"DO YOU HAVE A DEATH WISH?!"

"NO! But I-"

"REALLY? BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE! BECAUSE THAT'S HOW YOU'RE ACTING! WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!" Isaac took a menacing step, and it took a lot of will to stand my ground.

"I don't know! I wasn't-"

"THAT'S RIGHT! YOU WERN'T!" I looked away, blinking furiously to dispel my tears. Isaac sucked in a breath, trying to calm himself.

"I was just trying to save our butts! I didn't think they would take it like that and try to adopt me on the spot!"

"Why didn't you just say no?!"

"Because that would have looked suspicious!"

"Then just run! They'll move on without you! They'll keep going with their lives! They don't care about you!" Isaac insisted. His words hurt. Why? Why did they hurt?!

"That's not true! They said they'd search for me!" I tried, but it was a weak response, and I knew it. Isaac laughed, it was bitter and without humor.

"What? Is it that Half-Angel freak?" He snorted. I lowered my head.

"He's not a freak," I mumbled.

"Sorry, could you say that a little louder? I couldn't hear you over all your stupidity!" Isaac sneered. My head snapped up and my teeth and fists clenched.

"Jack. Is. Not. A. Freak!" I growled. Isaac's eyebrows shot up.

"Wait, you don't- No. No, you're not really-" I knew what he was asking, and I simply glared at him.

"What?"

"Do you like him?" Isaac asked, disgust prevalent in his tone. I looked at the floor, grinding my teeth.

"No."

"OH COME ON! REALLY MARTY? YOU GOT A CRUSH ON THAT FREAK-A-ZOID!? ARE YOU KIDDING ME?" Isaac roared, "HE'S A FRIGGIN' TWO-YEAR-OLD FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!" I couldn't take it anymore.

"SHUT UP ISAAC!!!" I screeched, my pitch rising with my anger. I took a deep breath and stared him in his cold, dead eyes. "If Jack is a freak then so am I!"

"No, you are what you are. That kid, if you can even call him that, is trying to be two things at once! He's more powerful then the actual angel! Couldn't you feel it? That thing could probably kill you without even trying!" I rolled my eyes, my fists clenching tighter. I could feel my nails cutting into my hands, but I didn't care.

"Jack wouldn't hurt me. He's not like other hunters, Isaac! He's not doing this out of hate!" I insisted. Isaac's face twisted into a snarl. He walked over and looked down on me.

"And when he finds out that you've been lying? What do you think he'll do then? What do you think they'll all do? Do you think they'll just shower you with hugs?" He questioned, mockingly.

"No."

"They'll never except you. Once they find out the truth, and they will find out, they'll never love you. You know why?"

"Stop." I ground out through clenched teeth.

"Because they are not your family, Marty. They never will be," Isaac hissed.

"I don't need them to be. Besides, I can always talk them into it." Isaac stepped away now and started pacing the floor of our hideout.

"But you won't. You know why? Because it will never be real. That's what you want, isn't it?" He jeered.

"I just want to be safe! I don't wanna run anymore!" I protested, even though he was right. Isaac shook his finger at me.

"No, you want it to be real. You want it so desperately, don't you? That's what this is all about, isn't it? Deep down it's all about Jack, and you know it."

"You don't know what you're talking about, Isaac," I seethed. He turned to me with a quizzical yet mocking expression.

"This little crush you have on the hybrid freak, do you really think you have a chance?" Isaac flicked his finger against my skull. "I know you're all grown up in there, but out here you're still fourteen! And you heard it right out of his mouth, he may be grown up on the outside but he's still only two-years-old! I don't care which side you look at it from, that's pedophilia either way!" I wished I could punch Isaac in the face, much more than I usually did.

"It's not like that! You can't stop me Isaac! This isn't your decision to make!" I shouted at him.

"I'm not letting you go with them. If that means murdering all of them in their beds, then so be it! I'm not going to let them hurt you!" Isaac barked.

"What is wrong with you?! This is my decision! Why do you keep trying to control my life?!" I demanded.

"BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO WATCH MY SISTER DIE!"

I blinked. I couldn't speak. What could I even say? We stood across from each other, the anger draining away into heartbreak.

"I just want a friend, Isaac. Is that really so wrong of me?" I demanded in a whisper. A rain of emotion was beginning to sizzle out the fire of my fury. My spectral companion stopped in his tracks.

"A friend? What am I, chopped-liver?" Isaac asked, sarcastically. Though his tone was mordant, I could sense the hurt that sapped through.

"Isaac, that's not what I meant," I tried to back-track, but it was useless. Isaac's lip curled and his eyes narrowed.

"I've spent five years stuck in the veil, not being able to talk or be seen by anybody but you. All of that just so your sorry ass wouldn't be so friggin' lonely! I put off going to heaven and this is what I get for it?! What? Am I suddenly not good enough for you anymore? Is that it?!" He spat.

"Of course not, Isaac! You're my brother! You're my best friend and you always will be!" My voice came as a stressed whisper as I strived to explain, "It's just that-"

"That what? What makes him better than me? What makes any of them better than me?! What does that Nephilim freak have that I don't, huh?" He challenged, his voice like burning acid. I couldn't take it anymore.

"YOU'RE DEAD, ISAAC!!!" I screamed, tears gushing down my face like salt-water rivers. I couldn't stop them. "YOU'RE DEAD AND IT'S ALL MY FAULT!" Isaac blinked, speechless. "Mom and Dad and Jackie and Bree and Jazz; they're gone! They're all gone and it's all my fault!"

"Marty-"

"No, Isaac! You're gone and I can't have you back, not for real. I can't high-five you when we laugh, I can't punch your shoulder when you're annoying me, and when I'm upset you can't wrap your arm's around me and hold me until the tears run dry! You can't do that, and I don't blame you, but you can't!" I took a deep breath and looked at the rough wooden floorboards as I tried to mop up my tear-stained cheeks, but it didn't work. All the sadness from the last five years was escaping now.

"I don't-" Isaac started but I wasn't finished just yet.

"I need someone who can do that, Isaac. It's been exactly five years, eleven months, and twenty-two days since somebody hugged me! I didn't realize how much I needed it until now, and I don't think I can go on like this any longer! Isaac, I am all alone," I lamented.

"You have me, Marty," He whispered. I hadn't realized that ghosts could get choked up.

"Isaac, you're not really here," I whispered, painfully. "I know you're all I have; but I don't have you, not really. I don't want you to go, but every single day, this figment of you reminds me that you're never coming back," I sniffed, still trying to keep it under control, but the look in Isaac's eyes made that impossible.

"Oh, Marty... I-I'm sorry." I rubbed at my eyes, wishing once again that I could lay my head on his shoulder and just cry like I wanted to, but I couldn't.

"I just want you back!" I sobbed, my ragged breaths scraping at my dry, tender throat. Isaac reached out but his arms passed right through me, just like always. I looked to him in despair before moving to sit on the mattress. "Why did you have to die?" I whispered.

"I don't know."

"Just let me go with them, Isaac. I can't do this anymore."

"If you're going then I'm coming with you. Through thick and thin, remember?"

"Through thick and thin," I agreed. Isaac smiled at me weakly.

"Well, get your stuff together, we're goin' on an adventure," He said. I nodded and strode over to the backpack in the corner. Reaching to the very bottom of the bag, I grabbed hold of the two objects I hated the most.

Two bags filled with a pint each of human blood. The label bore the name: Aspirus Keweenaw Hospital. It was the only hospital anywhere near Copper Harbor, though it was more than twenty miles away. It was a long way to go by foot but now I would never need to go again. I just hoped that wherever these hunters lived there was a hospital nearby. I weighed the bags in my hands and considered the possibility of smuggling them past the hunters. The odds were pretty bad.

"Just wondering, how do you plan to keep this a secret while under the watch of four hunters?" Isaac asked from behind me. I inhaled deeply before turning back to him.

"No idea! But as for right now―" I ripped open a small hole in one of the bags and raised it into the air the way you would raise a toast― "Drink up me hearties, yo ho!"

I think you can figure out what I did after that.

-2 hours and 56 minutes later-

I finished packing all of my belongings into my backpack and a few extra things I stuffed in my violin case. Then, I saluted the now abandoned tree house farewell and tromped off through the snow to say goodbye to the one person in this town that I actually considered a friend.

The bell dinged as I pushed open the door to the pharmacy. I smiled at the shapeshifter behind the counter and waved. Dan-the-Dope-Man, regardless of anyone's opinion about his behavior, was the closest thing to a friend as I had made in these past five years. He may not have been the best person, but I owed him a lot and now this was the only way I could repay him.

"Marty! I thought you died! When I watched you go with those hunters, I didn't know what to do! Are you okay?" There was no one else in the store, so the man with the face of a forty-year-old hopped over the counter and rushed over to me, enveloping me in a hug. In this form, he didn't have his Brooklyn accent.

"I'm fine, Danny but, uh, I gotta tell you something." Dan released me and held me at arm’s length.

"What? What's wrong?" He worried.

"Nothing's wrong," I told him, shaking my head, "But I'm leaving."

"What? Why?" Dan exclaimed.

"Those hunters, they asked me to come with them, they said they're gonna protect me." Dan's brows pulled together and he looked at me with concern.

"Marty, they're hunters. Protecting things like us, vampires and shapeshifters, isn't exactly what they do!”

"They don't know what I am, and I plan to keep it that way. But these guys, they're different. They're gonna protect me, and maybe they'll help me find Felix!" I said, gently.

"That's a dangerous game."

"Let's hope I'm good at it."

"You're really gonna do this?"

"Yeah." Dan sighed.

"Well in that case, I'm gonna miss ya, Marty." He wrapped his arms around me, and I hugged him back.

"I'm gonna miss you too, Danny!" Apparently, my eyes hadn't rid themselves of tears completely. A few salty droplets dripped down my cheeks.

"Take care of yourself, sweetie. Remember, if you ever need a place to go, my door is always open." He said, patting my back.

"Thank you, man. For everything. I owe you a lot." I wiped my cheeks and gasped a breath as I pulled away.

"Eh, don't worry about any o' that. Stay alive, Marty. That's all the payment I want," Dan smiled.

"I can do better than that," I promised, smirking.

"Whattdya' mean?"

"If any hunter ever comes to check this place out again, I'm gonna give you a head's up. Sound good?" Dan grinned.

"Sounds great, Marty." He hugged me again and when he pulled away, he had an idea.

"Before you go, here, take these," He said, grabbing several items from different shelves and stuffing them in a bag which he gave to me. I peeked into the bag, inside were several boxes of chocolate truffles, four Hershey's bars, and one of those little solar powered flowers that waves when you place it in the sun. "It's not much, but it’s something to remember me by."

"I'll savor every chocolate, Dan. I'm gonna miss ya, have an awesome life buddy!" I waved as I pushed my way out the door, "I hope you get your daughter back!"

"Thank you, Marty! Take care of yourself! I hope things get better for you!" Dan waved back and I left the pharmacy behind, muttering to myself as I walked down the street to the motel.

"I hope things get better too."

~Hey Alice, do you want to play? The Queen's great (or so it's been said) Hey Alice, can you play croquet? If you're good, you can keep your head

Hey Alice, are you here or there Or somewhere in between? Hey Alice, would you ever dare To go back through where you've been?

Hey Alice, time is running short This can't take too long Make a choice now. On which side of the door Do you feel you belong?~

Lyrics from: Hey Alice by Rachel Rose Mitchell

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derangedhyena-zoids · 4 years ago

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I guess now that I featured The Kids in something I can elaborate on them and everything related slightly without seeming completely insane. BIG HEADCANON BLATHER TIME: Raven and Ryss had 2 kids, both boys.

Ryss wasn’t a terribly good mother. She loved her kids but was a little panicked about them at all times, and didn’t really like the distraction they were. Specula was a good mother and did the majority of keeping them out of trouble.

They were also psychic as fuck, but that didn’t show up until they were hitting puberty. I’m sure that was an entire Time.

Ryss literally didn’t think she could get pregnant by Raven. She based this off of both what she’d been taught by Hiltz (humans=/=Zoidians) and the fact that Fiona had never been pregnant despite sleeping with Van for years*. So, once Ryss figured out she was pregnant**, telling Raven was a bit of an event because Raven was under the impression that such a thing wasn’t possible. He also had little interest in being a parent. Ryss also had no idea what pregnancy even entailed for a Zoidian, and neither did Fiona. Again, all she knew was what she’d learned from Hiltz, and it wasn’t as if he went out of his way to teach her the finer points of anything. (Knowledge is power after all, and he wanted wanted to hold as much power over her as possible. What she didn’t know to begin with, she couldn’t know was being withheld. All she knew from Hiltz on the topic was Zoidian pregnancies are of a greater duration than human pregnancies - mainly because he’d irritably snapped about how ‘the vermin’ reproduce faster.) Raven’s main reluctance about parenting had to do with... you know, his massive unresolved parental trauma. Which after some extreme stress he and Ryss managed to work through, largely because they had a lot in common in this department. Afterwards Raven warmed up to the idea of being a father, and was... well, Okay.jpg at it. Let’s just say he had Shadow helping Specula with the kids a lot. ...the kids were raised by Organoids. SO.

An attempt was made to keep track of Ryss and her offspring, especially after Raven’s death and she began to make herself scarce. But nobody expected the kids to be psychic af, and they quickly sussed out that something was up and followed their mom’s lead, making themselves and their families impossible to find. ....

The Guardian Force pretty quickly lost tabs on them, but did know what to “look for”, so to speak.

However, this attempt was never linked up with the information the Empire had on Ryss, mainly because too much time had passed and no one knew to bridge the info.

Anyways. All three Zoidians were aware there were differences between themselves and humans, Hiltz more than most. Hiltz was the only one of them that had an adult level of knowledge from Zoidian times. Fiona and Ryss were literal children and were only ever, at best, taught the very basics about things. Part and parcel of subscribing wholesale to the we’re-the-best group’s newsletter, Hiltz also a keen interest in biology/related, obviously interested in scholars of that group’s discussion on what amounted to Zoidian eugenics. ‘we’re the best, and here’s why.’ Hiltz didn’t even remotely consider that humans and Zoidians could hybridize, nor was he interested in finding out. (though he had well-established to Prozen and the Imperial scientists his “ownership” of Ryss and the fact she was not to be messed with, I’m sure he had to mindfuck and/or sic Ambient on a swath of folks to get them to stop bothering him about jizzing in a cup.)***

Joke’s on him because he fathered *at least* these three:

while living in the small colony with the scholar.

because he, Hiltz, the weird guy, was hot, amazing in bed, and quite DTF. scholar: ... Hiltz: (ツ) scholar: ... Hiltz: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ scholar: ...sure, whatever, what could it hurt anyways ^^^THESE FOLKS HAD A TIME. Unlike with Ryss’s kids, who at least had a slight understanding they were different and some guidance on the situation, any and all of Hiltz’s offspring HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS GOING ON. And not that any of the fertility restrictions were enacted at this point in time (there’s wars, you live in the wild west, please have kids), but the addition of Zoidian into the mix fucks the inbuilt population-control-genetic-engineering-bullshit straight up, which resulted later in a lot of confusing surprises for people annnnnd is part of why miscarriages became common later down the line.

Nobody expected the spanish inquisition weird side-species fuckery. Nobody even knows to look! By NC0 times there’s just starting to be coherent, unified inquiry into the various vanilla-human mutations running around.

WHOOPS THO: Backdraft & Co have been at this shit for a while and already know a lot about this. Because they have a hard-on for the Empire and a lot of OG Backdraft are basically really rich, bitter offspring from Imperial families who think they’re better in just about every way. Including genetically. When Backdraft became predominantly a moneymaking, black-market, illegal-battling underground enterprise, a rift began and never stopped growing. Backdraft has a strong preference for recruiting folks of Guylos descent (hi, Bit), but in recent memory had stopped turning people away for not being so. Because money. It did kinda... go in peoples’ file though. In the game of historical telephone, Ryss (and Raven’s) bloodline were more or less demoted to the same: ‘from Guylos.’ Alteil was in range of figuring a few important things out. Unfortunately, HE DED. His successor with this information is Layon. Surely nothing can go wrong there. ANYWAYS. A massive and valid concern Ryss had was what would happen with hybrid offspring, since to her knowledge her kid would be the first. Hiltz’s were already adults, they were fine. They were better than fine, they just needed a lot more water and salt than everyone else. So, as we all know, Hiltz uh, actually succeeded in removing a sizable chunk of the human population on Zi. Once everyone had scraped semi-functional society back together, the powers that-were-to-be basically prioritized secure settlements and making everyone feel safe so... you know, they’d have kids. Important for the whole rebuilding society thing. The Zoidian offspring became slightly more statistically relevant during this time, because them and potentially even their kids had all been scared shitless and fled into the hills from the Death Stinger bullshit long before anyone else had. Once there they were good at Not Dying In General, because they had a variety of inexplicable abilities and were just WELL I’M A FREAK BUT I’M ALIVE SO, YOU KNOW, WE’RE COOL.

Greater than zero chance that someone started a cult. Very, very obviously: these folks knew to keep to themselves. Though the original offspring and their mother had NO idea what was going on, over time any kids at least had fair warning, and knew to keep oddity to themselves. When the most blatant expressions of things were bred out, only the subtle but strongly expressed items remained, discussion of familial strangeness subsided. Then you’re left with people like Brad who can basically see in the dark, but thinks everyone can see in the dark, it’s no big deal right? RELATED, BUT NOT: This is technically a spoiler, but not really, because I’m not sure this actually “plays into the plot” so much as it is just “a fact of the plot” annnnnd I sort of want/need to explain this a little because it’s related to all of this. In this hc, the Zoid Eve is a metaphorical hyper-simplification of ‘resources.’

Back in Zoidian times, some scholars - namely those aligned with the group(s) Hiltz was eventually born into - theorized that the Zoid Eve’s power was not an infinite resource as many believed, but actually an incredibly finite one. Not in the sense of it being used up, but the sense of “there are only ‘100′ of these, there will only ever be ‘100′ of these, we cannot add to or take away from this” (sidenote: I subscribe to the idea that the Zoid Eve was some kind of supernaturally-occurring power source that the Zoidians shaped into what everyone now calls the Zoid Eve. They did this so long ago that its origins became unclear; beliefs from various groups ran the gamut from “LITERALLY GOD” to “it was built by us”) The power of it gave life and longevity not only to all Zoids but them too. And it seemed that the more individuals there were, the smaller the “slice of the pie” they received. They began to project apocalyptic futures in which the “slices” were so small that death ran rampant, and Big War would be inevitable. Obviously, nobody wanted this. But unfortunately the group who theorized this also started a huge, lengthy campaign to reduce the population, which - after many years, a lot of societal sabotage and and many smaller conflicts between groups - eventually culminated in ongoing, wholesale slaughter, which led to the big Zoidian-apocalypse nonsense that we’re all familiar with. Cool story bro, right? Well, y’see, those ancient scholars weren’t wrong, though. To an extent that’s actually what led to the hyper-concentration of strength in the DSaurer/DScorpion battle, and why Zero and One are functionally god-tier Organoids. But what this means in modern times, is that the remaining Zoidians - and to a proportionately-relevant extent, the hybrid offspring - are the only remaining folks (besides the Organoids and Zoids) benefiting from the pie anymore. Ryss is the last Zoidian; she’s basically non-aging at this point.

First-gen hybrids? Aging at a complete snail’s pace. Second gen? Still having a very strange time. So on and so forth... Can they die? Absolutely, but it’s pretty hard to kill them. Basically only complete destruction of vital parts works. Does this also apply to Organoids and Zoids? Absolutely. “then why’s Fiona dead” Because the double-bond with Zeke seriously fucked her up. Van dragged her down, hard. “but-” Zeke could’ve pulled away from her at any time and she would’ve lived. Been a nutcase probably, but lived. She suspected it, Zeke was outright in denial; she never called him on it because she cared about him too much and didn’t want him blaming himself for whatever happened. This is what Ryss suspected/understood as well, and likewise didn’t want to break Zeke. “wait, what about zeke?” HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM IN CLOSING: I don’t have names for any of the offspring discussed here, but I have thought about the appearances/other stuff. Obviously. I’ve never specified how many original offspring(s) were running around. But it couldn’t have been too many. So anyone in NC0 times related to either Ryss or Hiltz can trace back to ^^^the folks pictured above, most likely. I actually have no idea how to properly calculate the amount of population vs how much impact a handful of reproducing individuals would have over x generations. So please excuse vagueness there, as I’m both open to adjusting that number when/if it becomes feasible to do so, and also don’t think it’s terribly necessary to have this information nailed down because let’s be real nobody cares and that’s a lot of work. Also as I’ve mentioned before, there’s several serious confounding factors here: -these people can LIVE A LONG TIME. The original hybrids and their kids ARE POTENTIALLY STILL ALIVE. They mature relatively rapidly, but then coast into a very slow aging process. That means that - especially the males - could still technically be producing offspring. -that makes my head hurt and makes figuring out lineages stupid nightmare mode. so don’t expect me to actually do that because I’m not sure how to. The main Facts(tm) you need are: Sara is 4th gen. Vega is 5th gen x2. Brad is 5th gen. Stoller is 7th gen.

that’s the important part, okay. (*’s from earlier: ) *tl;dr the bizarre situation they’d inadvertently created with Zeke wreaked havoc on Fiona’s ability to reproduce. Conversely, Raven and Ryss *almost* had a ‘proper’ setup, so Ryss was fine. Nobody knew this. **Ryss figured this out with Fiona’s help - and who did they both go to, to ask in confidence?

Yep. ”isn’t he-” YEP. ***The Empire knows next to nothing about Hiltz. The Republic, however has AN OBSCENE AMOUNT of information about him. Difficulty level? The data was both classified, and never really tied back to him. Because Hiltz murdered the scholar and burned down his house/lab, the connecting information was all lost. The scholar had moved the material to his house in secret, due to fears of an Imperial spy in their research facility - he was telling Hiltz the truth. The most that the Empire ever learned at that time was that the Republic had “captured” a Zoidian (Hiltz), and that was about it. This drove the fervor which led to them grabbing at the Republic’s continued excavations - eg what happened with Shadow, and presumably them attacking (and IMO, overpowering) the Republic group that’d also seized Ryss. Before Hiltz became involved, Imperial scientists gleaned a lot about Ryss, but as I’ve mentioned before, she wasn’t treated anywhere nearly as poorly as Hiltz had been. She also had Specula, which helped a lot. So, the Empire knew nothing of Hiltz, but a lot about Ryss. Thanks to Alteil and his predecessor’s longstanding obsession with the Imperial military, Backdraft has almost all of the Imperial military’s data from the past few centuries. Ergo...

#headcanon #long post #spoilers kinda?#in this house everything is a MESS

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keyofjetwolf · 4 years ago

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Pitch Me your thing!

HELLO HELLO MY SUNBEAMS. For most every category, there was an impressive turn-out for pitches, so I thought we’d utilize the weirdness of this year’s GIFTENING to give something new a try. The popular vote winner for each category will happen on the first day, but on the second, the winner will be chosen from YOUR PITCHES. Mostly those pitches will be to me. The exception is in Miscellaneous, where you’ll be pitching to my family, because what I want to do and what is most entertaining isn’t necessarily the same thing.

So! How will we do this thing? GLAD YOU ASKED. I’ll link you to a form in a minute with space for one pitch. Once you fill it out, you’ll be asked if you want to do another. There’s no limit to the number of pitches you can send in! But remember that if you submit multiple entries for the same category, you’ll basically be competing against yourself.

NOW WE’VE GOT SOME RULES FOR DOING THIS (which I mostly stole from Holligay, because I have no creativity this year). Please read them carefully! I’ll toss pitches that break any of these, and I’d rather your hard work not go to waste.

Pitch Me is open for your submissions from RIGHT NOW (22 December) through the very last day of this hellyear (31 December) at 11:59pm MT.

The thing you pitch must have come from what was nominated for THE GIFTENING 2020. (Full list of those nominations in every category below the cut on this post.)

Entries must be unsigned! I’m looking to chose based on the pitch alone, regardless of who submitted it.

The pitch itself must be 100 words or less. HAVE PITY ON ME I CAN ONLY CONSUME SO MUCH.

If you’d like to get some help, ideas, feedback, all that good stuff, the Discord is a FANTASTIC resource I encourage you to use.

HERE IS YOUR PITCH SUBMISSION LINK

And, as promised, below the cut you’ll find the list of all the nominees in every category you guys sent in this year. IT’S A LONG LIST HAVE FUN WITH THAT

Anime

A Place Further Than The Universe/Sora Yori mo Toi Basho Ace Attorney (Gyakuten Saiban) Action Heroine Cheer Fruits Aggretsuko Aho Girl Air Master Akuma No Riddle Alien Nine Angel Beats! Angelic Layer Appare-Ranman Aria Aria the Animation Arrietty/ The Secret World of Arrietty (Ghibli film) Ascendance of a Bookworm Azumamga Daioh Baccano! Beastars Black Cat Blood + (the series) Bloom Into You Blue Drop/Tenshitachino Gikyoku Bodacious Space Pirates (starting right where you left off) BOFURI: I Don't Want to Get Hurt, so I'll Max Out My Defense Boku no hero academia Bubblegum Crisis Card Captor Sakura: Clear Card Cardcaptor Sakura Castlevania the Animated Series Cells at Work Chaos; Head Chihayafuru Code Geass cowboy Bebop Cyborg 009 Death Note Death Parade Deca-Dence Demon Girl Next Door Demon Slayer (Kimetsu no Yaiba) Diebuster: Aim For the Top 2 Dog Days dorohedoro Dot Hack//SIGN Dr. Stone Elfen Lied Erased (Boku Dake Ga Inai Machi) Escaflowne Excel Saga Fantastic Children Fate/Zero Flip Flappers Fresh Precure Fruits Basket 2019 Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood Ga rei Zero GaoGaiGar gekkan shoujo nozaki-kun Ghost in the Shell: Standalone Complex Ghost Stories (dubbed) Girls' Last Tour Great Pretender Hoseki no Kuni/ Land of the Lustrous House of Five Leaves/ Saraiya Goyou Inari konkon koi iroha Interviews with Monster Girls Inuyasha Isekai Izakaya "Nobu" Jellyfish Princess/ Kuragehime JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 4: Diamond is Unbreakable Kaguya-sama Love Is War Kaleido Star Kannazuki no Miko Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! Kemono Friends Kiki's Delivery Service Kimi ni Todoke: From Me To You Kino's Journey/Kino no Tabi (2003) Land of the Lustrous (Houseki no Kuni) Little Witch Academia Lord El-Melloi II's Case Files EP0 {"A Grave Keeper") Love is Hard for an Otaku Love Live! Sunshine!! lupin the 3rd part 4 Madoka: The Rebellion Movie Magic knight rayearth Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha March Comes in Like a Lion Mardock Scramble Master of Martial Hearts Mawaru Penguindrum Megalobox Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid Mob Psycho 100 Mobile Suit Gundam (1979) Monster Mushishi My Bride is a Mermaid (Seto No Hanayome) My Love Story!!! My Neighbor Totoro My Next Life As A Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom My Roommate is a Cat NANA Naruto Natsume’s Book of Friends Neon Genesis Evangelion (hateblog) New Cutey Honey Nichijou Ōban Star-Racers One Piece Ouran High school Host club Outlaw Star Paranoia Agent Perfect Blue Please Save My Earth Pop Team Epic Pretty Cure Fresh Princess Jellyfish/ Kuragehime Princess Mononoke Princess Principal Princess Tutu Project A-Ko promised neverland (/yakusoku no neverland) Psycho-Pass Ranma 1/2 Re: Cutie Honey Re:Creators Read or Die (OAV) Red Garden relife Revolutionalry Girl Utena Rose of Versailles Ruroni Kenshin Sailor Moon Sailor Moon (viz dub) Samurai Champloo (english dub) Sarazanmai School Days School-Live! Scum's Wish Senki Zesshou Symphogear (listed as just "Symphogear" on Crunchyroll.) Serei no Moribito (Guardian of the Spirit) Shin Sekai Yori (From The New World) Shirobako Shoujo Kageki Revue Starlight Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle Smile Pretty Cure (Japanese original)/ Glitter Force (english adaptation) Snow White with the Red Hair Sound Euphonium Strawberry Panic (yuri) Sweetness and Lightning The Devil is a Part-timer The Devil Lady The disasterous life of saiki k (saiki kusuo no Sai Nan) The End of Evangelion (movie) the Promised Neverland The Twelve Kingdoms Tiger & Bunny Tokimeki Tonight ToraDora Tsubasa Chronicle Umineko When They Cry Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid Vinland Saga Violet Evergarden Whispered Words (Sasameki Koto) With a Dog AND a Cat, Every Day is Fun Yona of the Dawn Yu Yu Hakusho Yugioh Duel Monster Yuki Yuna is a Hero Yuri Kuma Arashi Yuri On Ice!!! Zoids: Chaotic Century Zombie Land Saga

Non-Anime Animated

Adventure Time Amphibia Animainiacs (Original) Animaniacs (Reboot) Archie's Weird Mysteries As Told By Ginger Barbie Life in The Dreamhouse Batman the Animated Series Big Guy and Rusty the Boy Robot Big Mouth Bob's Burgers Bojack Horseman Bravest Warriors Captain N: the Game Master Carmen Sandiego (1994) Carmen Sandiego (2019) Castlevania (Netflix) Cats Don't Dance Coco Courage the Cowardly Dog Craig of the Creek Cyber Six Daria Darkwing Duck Dragon Booster Dragons: Riders of Berk DuckTales (2017) Exo-Squad Fern Gully Fillmore! Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends Futurama Gargoyles Glitch Techs Godzilla: The Animated Series Green Lantern the Animated Series Hedgehog in the Fog (Ёжик в тумане) Hey Arnold Hilda Infinity Train Iron Giant JEM Kim Possible Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts Legend of Zelda animated series (1989) Legion of Super-Heroes Liberty Kids Magical Girl Friendship Squad Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart The Legend of Korra Moominvalley Motorcity My Little Pony (Classic, NOT FiM) My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks Onyx Equinox Over the Garden Wall Over the Moon (2020 film) Owl House Primal Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure Redwall Rise of the TMNT Roco's Modern Life Rugrats RWBY Samurai Jack Seis Manos She-Ra (1985) She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018) Sonic Boom Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse Star vs. the Forces of Evil Strange Magic Super Mario Brothers Super Show Superman: The Animated Series Teen Titans The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo The Animals of Farthing Wood The Dragon Prince The Hollow The Legend of Tarzan (TV series) The Magic School Bus (1994) The Mysterious Cities of Gold The Pirate Fairy (Disney Fairies) The Powerpuff Girls (1998) The Real Ghostbusters Thundercats (1985) Thundercats (2011) Transformers: Prime Tuca and Bertie Twelve Forever Undone Venture Bros Wakko's Wish Wakfu Wander Over Yonder We Bare Bears (TV) Winx Club Wreck-It Ralph (2012) X-Men Evolution X-Men: The Animated Series Xiaolin Showdown

Live Action

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Zoids Saga Fuzors

Go to the Zoids Research Facility, and take the Core Active Ion Small from the left Chest, and the Hellcat Data from the right Chest. Go to the Item and Weapon Shop, and take the Emergency Retreat.

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Zoids Saga Fuzors for Nintendo Gameboy Advance/GBA is a RPG game published by Tomy.

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Zoids Saga III: Fuzors (sometimes just 'Zoids Saga III' or 'Zoids Saga: Fuzors'), is set in the Zoids: Fuzors fictional world, and follows the actions of 'Will'. A good portion of the storyline parallels the Zoids: Fuzors anime. Similar to Zoids Saga there is one city (Blue City) which the player returns to after each segment of the story.

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Premiered:Fall 2004

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Genres:AdventureAdventure, MechaMecha, Sci-FiSci-Fi, ShounenShounen

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slax(All reviews)

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Ok, I'm a big Zoids fan, and as such, this review focuses on the differences between the styles of this and the preceding series, rather than an more general overview (I won't use Genesis as an example since that is of a vastly different style). Unfortunately, it is very negative. Firstly, let me start with the Story: Fuzors basically has no story whatsoever for the vast majority of the series. In the final few episodes, a backstory gets fleshed out and some continuity established, but as this only happens very late-on, it feels more like a justification for why the series occurred in the way it did, rather than an actual plot that naturally developed. Furthermore, the story it does eventually manage to establish is rushed, this, along with the generally poor translations, makes it difficult to draw any praise from the story. Now, this brings me to draw parallels with Zoids Zero, which also had a very skimpy plot at best. However, the biggest difference with the two series is that Zero is built around battles and comedy, and as such tries to give the viewer fluid fights and funny lines rather than a deep plot. Fuzors does not, and as such has no excuse for the lack of story. To continue with the story theme, I'll next discuss the Characters: While Zoids shows are not renowned for their characters, the development of the cast is not handled well in Fuzors at all. For instance, in the first episode, the character 'Amy' walks in to Mach Storm's headquarters and appears to anger some of the main characters. What the show doesn't tell you is that Amy is actually a member of Mach Storm herself. This fact makes it very confusing (to say the least) when she shows up unannounced in later episodes. This is probably the best way of describing the problem with the characters in Fuzors, it simply assumes you know who/what everyone/thing is -rather than actually take the time introduce them. This is especially true for the Zoids themselves. Many of the Zoids, such as Arosaurers and Gorhecks are totally new Zoids that fans of the previous series would not know anything about -and yet they appear on screen without any kind of introduction at all. To make matters worse, old Zoids that fans would be familiar with from other series are changed abruptly and without reason. For example, the Blade Liger is depicted in the other series as a very rare (if not unique) Zoid. In the first episode of Fuzors, three of them are shown. Another prominent example is the Fuzors variant of Gunsniper, which are all customised to be the same as Leena's heavily modified (and thus unique) Zoid featured in Zero. No explanation for either of these is ever given. This kind of 'thrust the viewer into the show' serves to confuse new watchers and disenfranchise fans, and is a great detriment to the series. Toward the end of the series, some of the cast's backstory is explained, however this is done in a very rushed manner and fails to justify the terrible job done in the first three-quarters of the series. Next up is the artwork. Well, the most important aspect of a Zoids show is the Zoids themselves, so I'll start with them. The models are all done in 3D, but the style is different to the previous series. The models themselves are very detailed, and try to stick closely to the real toy range, with small things like feathers and antennae being included. While such attention to detail may sound good, this is actually a detriment, as it severs to clutter the screen with needless 'wriggly bits' that only serve to distract the viewer. Furthermore, the models are all done in a very bland color scheme, with everything appearing 'cloudy' and dull when compared to the crisp, bright, colors of the previous series. Compounding this is the fact that most of these included features are simply never used. For example, the Liger Zero Phoenix never fires the bomb or guns that it has on it's back, instead RD usually uses his claws to attack from a distance, which is a big departure from the realism the highly detailed models try to emulate. While this might be excusable if everything in the series were done in the same style of graphics, this is simply not the case. Bullets and explosions are done in conventional anime style and as such stick out like a sore thumb. They just do not blend at all with the Zoids they are fired from or hit. But the most noticeable feature of the animation is the movement of the Zoids. The Zoids move in a very awkward and robotic fashion. All of the Zoids featured are extremely rigid and inflexible, thus their movements seem entirely unnatural and unrealistic. This is especially prevalent when the Zoids 'fall over', wherein they appear to do a backflip on the spot rather than actually collapse or stagger. This is easily the biggest complaint I have with the series, especially when comparing with the extraordinarily fluid animations of Zero. The backgrounds are bland and uninteresting, with very little stand-out features, and as such, the only positive thing I have to say about Fuzor's artwork is the character's design. However, considering that the characters are very unimportant (as they are usually obscured from view inside Zoids) this is largely a moot point. Finally, is the sound. Almost all weapons have high-pitched sounds, regardless of what they are actually shooting. As any mech fan could well appreciate, it sounds a bit ridiculous when super-heavy artillery makes a 'pew' sound. Furthermore, RD's voice actor has a very high-pitched voice, as do most of the supporting cast (such as Sigma and Sweet). As the viewer's ears are bombarded constantly by all these high-pitched sounds, it honestly gets annoying. Other: Well, there is no section for this, but the quality of translation is very poor. The names of Zoids are often mispronounced or downright wrong. Overall: Quite simply Fuzors is a very poorly made anime when taken from the viewpoint of a Zoids fan. The animation is awkward, robotic and dull, the sound effects are annoying and inappropriate, the translations are poor and the story only picks up toward the end of the series, but this simply come along far too late to salvage the series.

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This might sound like a harsh thing to say, but this is one of the worst series I've ever seen. The plot is terrible, and the voice actors are outstandingly bad. The fights are poorly strung together and are terrible to look at. This series was cancelled from US airways for good reason. Although it does get better in the latter half, it's not enough to recover from the terrible first half.

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Zoids fuzors, just like Zoids new century, have teams who uses Zoids to battle each other for entertainment purposes in my opinion. It has been a good series especially when their Zoids combine with each other. Unfortunately, the story is a bit cliche. Teams battling each other for no explained reason(I might have missed it in the series though). I have only watched the English dub so far and the voice actors are good. Animation is a bit different from previous Zoids series but then impressive when they combine. All in all, it was a good series.

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He is standing on a doorstep in...where is he? Westview. Oh right, he’s on a doorstep in Westview, the best little small town in the world! When you’re here, you’re home, so why would anyone want to be anywhere else?

He is standing on a doorstep in Westview, ringing a doorbell at a house he has never been to. How did he get here? Where was he before? A woman is opening the door to the house and it’s...it’s...

It’s Wanda!

He has never met this woman.

It’s your sister Wanda!

He does have a sister. Her name is Wanda. This is not Wanda.

Hey, don’t you remember Wanda?

He does not know this woman’s face.

C’mon, you know Wanda!

The voice in his head is friendly and it’s telling him all sorts of Fun Facts™ about him and his life and his family. It confirms this sudden rush of memories about his sister that are all definitely real. But they’re not the right memories are they? Like, he has them, so they must be his, right? He can describe them in perfect minute detail. He was there, he knows, he has memories of it.

But he also has memories of a completely different life that contradicts almost every memory he has of her. Of his sister. Of Wanda.

Like, ok, he remembers babysitting Wanda while mom went to work but, like, he also remembers Wanda and him walking to school together for their first day of kindergarten.

And he remembers moving into an orphanage in some Eastern Bloc leftover after their parents died. But the orphanage in his memories looks a little like the boarding school from The Facts of Life and a lot like a house in the suburbs outside of DC. And for some reason his mom is there and also his estranged father is on the TV.

And sometimes he remembers running around an old house in upstate New York but there never was a house and he was never in New York, he was running in Sokovia, almost always Sokovia, running with Wanda. And one time there were robots. At first they were friends with the robots and then they realized that the robots were trying to destroy the planet and so they were fighting the robots. Him and Wanda. Fighting robots with their powers. And then --

No. That part he can’t remember. He knows he died, on a street he’s never been on, 100 miles in the air, saving the life of a man whose face he recognizes but who he’s certain he’s never met before. But he can’t remember actually dying. And how could he be dead when he’s very much alive and talking to his sister? His Wanda. His twin sister Wanda. He has a twin sister named Wanda, and don’t you forget it!

I have a twin sister named Wanda, he thinks, and you can’t argue with the facts when they’re standing in front of you and calling you by your name - Peter? Pietro. Peter. No, it’s Pietro, she’s calling Pietro, that is your name. Your name is Pietro.

He is in the kitchen holding a can of cola. How did he get here? He has no memory of walking into this kitchen and finding a glass and filling that glass with cola and standing at just this angle, the better to showcase this Kane Cola from a can. Who is he showing it to? The boys are not in the kitchen with him. Wanda and Vision are not in the kitchen with him. It is important he shows off this can of cola while he is in the kitchen. He takes a long thirsty sip, and then, to the empty kitchen he says, “What’s better than the refreshing taste of a cold Kane Cola?” and honestly he can’t think of anything better, that must be it, that must be why he said it out loud.

Everything feels slower here. He’s running, he’s running faster than everyone else, but it’s slow. It feels slow. He feels slow. Maybe it’s all the memories from someone else. Some other past that’s not his. But it is his. He was there. He knows because he remembers. He lived them. The memories. Like getting shot in Sokovia. No, he got shot at the Pentagon. No, he stopped people getting shot at the Pentagon. When was he at the Pentagon? No, maybe he stopped the bullets in Sokovia. But then, how could he be dead if he stopped the bullets? But then again, he’s not dead so maybe he didn’t.

He’s teaching his nephews how to shotgun a can of Kane Cola. What’s better than the refreshing taste of a cold Kane Cola? He puts this question to the twins. He likes the twins. He likes kids. That’s why he works at a school. They all remind him of his little sister Wanda, just a little bit. But Wanda’s his twin. He doesn’t have a little sister. And he never worked at a school, he died in Sokovia. Right after he’d decided to turn his life around, too. That’s a real bummer.

But hey! Now he’s not dead. No, he’s very much alive, and he’s visiting with his sister, his twin sister, his Wanda. And she’s married! To a Robot! Er, a Synthazoid. Who is also Not Dead! There’s a lot of that going around. Him and the 'zoid are basically brothers since they both got their powers from the stone in Viz's forehead. The stone from that time that him and his sister, his twin sister (Wanda), volunteered to be lab rats. You know, for some quality twin bonding time. And maybe some light vengeance. So why does he remember pocketing candy in a convenience store and running from a shop clerk at age 10? Running blocks and blocks and crossing the city line from downtown to his home in Virginia in a matter of seconds. Blocks on a street in DC, with American flags and US postal service boxes. But thinking about those blocks makes his head hurt and then the post boxes are evenly spaced in the middle of a crumbling Sokovian warzone.

He cracks open another Kane Cola. So smooth, so refreshing. Is there anything better than a cold Kane Cola?

It’s Halloween. He doesn’t remember it being October but he doesn’t really remember life before Westview, so he’s not that worried about it. He’s very excited to take the kids trick-or-treating. He has to take the kids trick-or-treating. It’s very important that he takes the kids trick-or-treating. Afterall, he has to help out his sister, Wanda. She’s fighting with her manbot and he has to keep them from fighting because if she fights with the manbot one or both of them could destroy the fragile fantasy world that they are all currently inhabiting, innocent bystanders and all, and what kind of brother would he be if he let that happen? Just one of those twin things.

The kids are having a great time. Tommy’s obviously superior and not just because Billy doesn’t seem to trust or like him. These kids also came from Wanda and that’s one helluva mystery since, by the sounds of it, she was only pregnant for about 48 hours but who is he to judge anyone for speeding things up? He takes the kids to steal candy. And smash pumpkins. And spray silly string on all the trick-or-treaters. He hopes the audience likes the shenanigans. They better or else they won’t pick the show up for a season 2. Then what will Wanda do?

But now it’s time for Real Talk. Wanda’s in trouble and what’s a big brother to do? Sorry, a twin brother to do?

“How’d you do it?” he hears himself asking and although he knows, factually, what he means, he does not understand, literally, what it is that she has done or why he is asking about it. He guesses that’s why he asked.

She tells him she doesn’t know and he believes her. Or maybe he doesn’t because he keeps pressing her for answers.

“Where were you hiding these kids up 'till now?” And he looks around at the children in the square and wonders, again, what he means. “I assume they were sleeping peacefully in their beds. No need to traumatize beyond the occasional holiday episode cameo, right?” He’s not sure what that means either. “Hey, I'm not some stranger and I'm not your husband. You can talk to me.” That’s nice, he’s glad he’s said that to her. But then he forgets her face. He forgets that he’s known her all his life. He is sitting on a hay bale saying these words he doesn’t understand to a woman he’s never seen before in his life. But that’s silly. He’s known her all his life. They’re twins. This is his twin. His sister. Wanda.

And then it looks like she’ll answer these questions. She is thinking hard and there’s a glint of revelation in her eyes, as if she is on the verge of understanding these answers herself.

But then the kids break in.

“Mom! I hear Dad in my head. He's in trouble!” It’s the suspicious one, it’s Billy. He suddenly doesn’t like Billy all that much. Which is ridiculous cuz he likes all kids, doesn’t he?

“Hey, don't sweat it, sis. It's not like your dead husband can die twice.” He hears himself saying these words and they don’t really feel like his, but they’re coming out of his mouth so they must be, right? But honestly there’s no time to process what he’s said or why because Wanda’s anger, her fury, is palpable. It’s a physical force that he can see and taste and it burns inside him, like the anger is his now. He can feel it, like really feel it, like it is literally smacking him in the face so hard he is launched across the town square and into some hay bales and fake headstones.

But it is this, this moment, the force of it, that shakes loose the dream he’s been living in. This playacting he’s been a part of - no, not playacting. He’s not an actor, he’s a puppet. A puppet whose strings are pulled by a walking Nervous Breakdown who thinks he’s her brother. She manipulated him, she’s manipulating this whole world, into living out every sitcom trope she’s ever seen and he was just a single bit player in a larger than life television production. But now? Now he’s clear. Now he remembers - his life, his past, where he was before Westview. Best small town in the world my ass. The clouds in his mind are lifted for the first time in what feels like a long time and now he knows who he is.

He is Ralph Boehner.

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