#solar eclipses kick ass

[missd476]

This was a commission from another site involving Mario and Geno sharing a Triple Move with Vivian. I call it Fiery Eclipse. It deals massive damage and gives enemies a burn status effect.

[aiixen]

aixen !! hi !! hru??? :>

HI ART !! I’m okay!! I’ve been super busy this week but I’m doing good <3 how are you!!

[kuwdora]

Saturday Morning Vid Recs - Space and Robots

@tafkarfanfic asked me for vid recs that are similar to the following vids:

Data’s Dream by GayleF (Gayle) and TasheryS which premiered at Escapade in 1994 - made on a VCR!! - and was remastered by morgandawn in 2004. Definitely check out the Fanlore page about Data’s Dream. Star Trek + multi-source.

Starships by bironic. Multi-source. The history of Starships on Fanlore.

These two vids are iconic. Please check them out and learn about their history from the Fanlore page, it's a great look at some vidding history and culture. Amazing vids, do love. As for some recs. I love this kind of prompt. More vids like [this vid] is so much fun. I dug deep into my vid rec archives and brain and bookmarks. I’ve also crowdsourced some recs from the vidding discord. Thank you to @rukbat3, @sandalwoodbox, @fairestcat, @monkeyswithjetpacks, @grammarwoman for the reccing help! And everyone else I might have forgotten.

From Land to Sky - and kicking ass while you're there!

Landsailor by @singlecrow/raven. Multi-source. Swades (We, The People); Master and Commander; 3 Idiots; The Dish; The West Wing; Parks and Recreation; Flight of the Phoenix; NASA archive footage; Apollo 13. ❤️ We're gonna need a bigger boat. Come O’ Eclipse by melodytree. Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer. Calendar-making! Math puzzles! Astronomy! Politics! Eclipses! Oh my! Galaxyrise by starlady. Multi-source. Apollo 13 (1995), Interstellar (2014), Gravity (2013), Europa Report (2013), Contact (1997), The Martian (2015). This vid is full of so much wonder! The sky calls to us/If we do not destroy ourselves/We will one day venture to the stars. Going through space with the world by bironic. Space Exploration RPF. ❤️❤️❤️ From "day in the life of an astronaut" videos to international stardom; or, Chris Hadfield and his adorable mustache. Monsters of the Cosmos by CherryIce. Thor/MCU. Jane Foster/Science.Cherry’s editing is goddamn incredible. In the last century, black holes have gone from being mathematical curiosities to real objects in the cosmos. This is a vid about Jane Foster and her one true love, Science. Also, Thor is there. Toxic by JinkyO. The Planets (TV - 2019). Humanity/The Solar System. This vid is so fucking brilliant and makes me cackle in love and awe so much. It's dangerous, I'm loving it. Sci-Fi Friday in a Blender by Luminosity. Multi-source. Farscape, Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who. So much happening in this vid. This is among one of the earliest vids I remember watching and became obsessed with back in the day. Supernova Girl by @usuallyhats. Multifandom. Doctor Who, Star Wars, Babylon 5, Steven Universe, Andromeda, Farscape, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Mass Effect, Stargate. So many wonderful brilliant amazing EXCELLENT supernova women and girls. Zoom, zoom, zoom. Space Girl by @aurumcalendula. Multi-source scifi. Inspired by Charmax’s Space Girl vid and Bironic’s The Greatest. This vid has a great selection of newer tv shows and films and it’s fun to play spot that character. But also this vid will grab you by the heart, too. Utterly brilliant, perfection. A must watch!! 'I've been as far in hyperspace as anybody can.' One Girl Revolution by bessyboo. Star Wars, original and prequel. Padme and Leia!! Seeing these two focused on in one Star Wars vid is an adventurous kickass ride. I'll be everything that I want to be. Space Girl by charmax. Multi-source scifi. One of the most beautiful epic space vids out there! I know I’ve recced this before and I’ll rec it again and again and again. My momma told me I should never watch Sci-fi but I did, I did, I did.

Robots! More than wires.

If a Machine by caramarie, Multi-source. Robot narrative focusing on machine origin, intelligence, and interaction with humanity. And Human fallibility. An incredibly rewarding watch and rewatch. This is the story of cables and copper wirings. Electric Avenue by @monkeyswithjetpacks. Multi-source robots! Nate’s multi-vids are always so fun, especially when it’s showcasing classic cinema and all these excellent serials. Electric Avenue has source from 1919 to 2015. His editing is always on fucking point. Don’t miss this vid. We’re gonna rock down to electric avenue. Everybody by @kuwdora. Star Trek, the Borg. This vid was actually inspired by the Backstreet Boys original music video. I still have the vivid memory of watching or rewatching the original music video in @ars-amatoria ’s kitchen. And then at some point realizing it is perfect for the Borg. Am I original, am I the only one? Fembots by Grammarwoman. Multi-source. Sexy sharp editing and fun use of all the sources. The intersection of women and technology: a spectrum of clones, AIs, gynoids, cyborgs, and other artificial creations. On by @rhoboat77. Star Trek: Picard. A Soji fanvid. Rho has the sharpest editing skills this side of the Internet and this Soji vid is so fucking badass and worth 100 rewatches. Can’t hold me down cuz you know I’m a fighter. Que Sera Sera by @ohvienna. Star Trek Voyager and Picard. Seven of Nine.Nobody vids their Seven of Nine love like @ohvienna. You gotta watch this if you love Seven. Whatever will be, will be…"

Journey through Space.

To Touch the Face of God by destina. Multi-source. The Right Stuff (1983, )The Dream Is Alive, From the Earth to the Moon (TV).This is one of the most beautiful moving vids you will EVER, and I mean EVER see. From Chuck Yeager, to the Mercury 7, and on to Apollo and the Space Shuttle Program (STS) - a very human history of the triumphs, joys, and tragedies of the USA's journey into space. Doctor Who on Holiday by sisabet. Farscape, Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who. A mashup vid of Luminosity’s Sci-Fi Friday in a Blender. This vid inspired me so much. And I have 10 very intense ideas about how I would do my own remix of this vid if I were to make it right now. Fly Me To the Moon by thirdblindmouse. Multi-source. This vid has everything! Alien sex! Xenophilia! Zero-gravity sex! Mpreg!!! Because everyone knows this song is about space sex. Game Night in Space by garrideb. Multi-source. This vid!!!!! IS! SO! MUCH! FUN!! Game on! How are you going to spend those long nights on your starship? Play games, of course! Space poker, space chess, space Monopoly… this is a fanvid celebrating game night in space, set to Don't Stop Me Now by Queen. Starships (Monochromatic Remix) by @monkeyswithjetpacks. Multi-source. See the Fanlore page on the history of Starships (Monochromatic Remix). ALSO check out jetpack-monkey’s extensive notes and side-by-side comparison vid of the original vid and his vid!! He matched Starships shot-for-shot! Most brilliant work ever. The vid notes aren’t on the ao3 page so I HIGHLY recommend checking out the notes on his dreamwidth page! This vid is 10 million kinds of brilliant and technical prowess and perfection.

Vidshow Rec

Alien Invasion! - 30 vids curated and organized into a show by @tafadhali for VidUKon 2024. Featuring films and tv shows: Nope, Attack the Block, Pacific Rim, Venom, Doctor Who, Stargate Atlantis, Star Trek, Prey, Smallville, Rowswell, Supergirl, Arrival, Starship Troopers and more.

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[peachyfnaf]

gamers its like 11 in the morning and im being unwell over nexus again /pos

They are just a walking tragedy and I love it. They have been pushed and pulled in every which way since creation, a ticking time-bomb made for the narrative to string along with promises of being enough, like a pig being led by a carrot on a stick. They make me JKFHSDF RAHHHHH

From the moment since being made they had to fill Old Moon's shoes. Whether or not the other celestial's wanted them to do that didn't matter to them because that's what Nexus felt like they had to do. They had to live in Old Moon's shadow and walk along the path his much bigger footsteps treaded, even if he has no idea how. And he has to do all that while still being better then him, in almost every way.

And things were going well, for a while!!!

But then Solar died. His chosen Sun. (and Nexus' and Sun's relationship w one another is a wholeee other thing I could get into because I also need to study that like a bug under a microscope kfhdsffs). So, as any Moon does when they lose their Sun, he started spiraling.

And he wasn't going to ask for help- no other Moon he's seen asks for help. Why would he ask for help?? Besides, he doesn't want to burden the other's with his problems when they're obviously suffering from Solar's death, too. And ofc Dark Sun was prolly doing something at this time as well- the hallucinations conveniently starting when Nexus was starting to tip, Dark Sun putting those virus chip things in Eclipse's/Ruin's heads, Nexus being open and vulnerable whenever he went to visit Old Moon in his head for the first time, the perfect timing of Dark Sun being there to scoop up Nexus at his lowest moment, when he was alone and floating in space.

AND now what Nexus is doing now. How do I word what I wanna say about him... He is like a walking unhealthy coping mechanism. Ik a lot of people (me included) have said they can relate to Nexus in some way, and what is going on rn truly makes me think of a "What If" scenario, a "What If" of what if everyone who relates to him chose to cope in a much worse way instead. He is choosing to do the wrong thing because it makes him feel free. Because it brings him comfort, in a way where he doesn't have to feel remorse about what he's done and what he's going to do. He is, to be blunt, going apeshit.

AND I LOVE IT BECAUSE WHO HASN'T WANTED TO GO APESHIT IN THEIR LIFE BEFORE??? He is making the wrong choices. And I want him to be stopped from doing that. I want him to be saved. I don't care if it's Solar or Sun or Ruin or whoever else, I want him to be smacked in the face with being alone again after Dark Sun inevitably betrays/abandoned/leaves him, and I want his ass to be scooped up and dragged back into the family kicking and screaming. And I want apologies from all sides, because while Nexus fucked up, so did the celestial's in their own way. I want him to feel the hurt he caused by betraying the family. And I want the family to feel the hurt they caused by locking him in a cage and throwing him into space. I want them all to feel regret and remorse for things they've done and can never take back.

Oh and I want him to cry. points at nexus. wail, motherfucker /aff

[artistsmellslikeunemployment]

Things that natla did do:

- Katara stealing a water pouch from a merchant shop at night

- zuko draws!

- include pieces from the books and comics (mother of faces, Kyoshi‘s personality,

- „water the most promising seed“

- Katara standing by and smirking as Sokka flounders trying to impress Suki but her not buying any of it

- Katara never letting anyone talk over her once diplomacy fails

- Bumi‘s armpit hair

- Zuko talking about Lu Ten

- Azula learning to use a blue flame and failing

- what can I say, the actors make the show very enjoyable 🤷🏼‍♀️

- Kuruk refusing to take possession over Aang‘s body/ Avatar state

- overall I think they drew info from the books about the other eras

- the sound of Iroh‘s firebending reminding of a dragon‘s growl

- Avatar Roku making fun of Avatar Kyoshi

- Zuko basically enthusing about Kyoshi‘s strength only to then get his ass kicked by her

- Suki (and mom) gushing over seeing their role model Kyoshi in action

- random woman with broom and Zuko letting her hit him

- Aang running away at the end, after the battle. He might not have run from his responsibility but he ran from the consequences

- „have you seen my flying bison?“ which is way better because even less believable

- Katara being bold enough to train her waterbending in the abandoned fire navy ship around Wolf Cove

- emphasis on Sokka‘s inventory skills and by elongation his bad ice dodging skills

- Zuko deciding to stay with/ look for Iroh instead of chasing Aang twice

- Lu Ten‘s theme playing every time Zuko and Iroh confess their love for each other

- Omashu‘s part of the earth kingdom being India coded

- Zuko so specifically being triggered by the word „compassion“ but not „empathy/ emphatic“ because he actually does believe in kindness and much like Azula is still trapped in the pressure of having to represent all his father believes

- Zuko looking disgusted all the time

- 41st division bowing to their prince

- I had fun watching it and most of it makes sense tbh.

What I don’t get (logic mistakes):

- Mai being too openly anti fire nation by saying she wouldn’t ever come back if given the chance

- Iroh finding the Blue Spirit‘s mask in Zuko‘s pile of clothes but maybe that’s not even a negative.

- no talk about the meaning of the necklace

- Gyatso Living in the Spirit World (doesn’t Aang have enough guides with all his previous lives?);

- that assassination attempt on Ozai and Azula infiltrating the plan? Was this meant to show Ozai‘s cruelty and Azula‘s strategic thinking??

- what was Bumi‘s point exactly?

- Yue being a spirit fox. Why? It added nothing.

- „i bet you taste like chicken“ no opossum chicken. just chicken.

- Kyoshi being the narrator

- Aang being able to communicate with his past lives only by visiting their shrines and not in the right order (usually the avatar has to contact every avatar before him in the order of their lifetimes before he can get through to the next)

- Aang being shamed and gaslight by everyone

- confusion over what happened to the villagers as well as Katara and Solla by mixing Hei Bai‘s and Ko‘s stories as well as the Fog of Lost Souls and creating a new loophole into the spirit world when people stand too close to Aang while he meditates? Also, Ko‘s „Magic“ with individuality and his reason for stealing faces when showing emotion is lost.

- with all due love, what was Suki‘s mother for?

- Wan Shi Tong randomly sitting at some wayside

- Why wouldn’t normal people understand Wan Shi Tong? How are they planning for Team Avatar to find out about the solar eclipse if not through Wan Shi Tong‘s library later?

- Iroh suspecting Ozai behind the apparent assassination of Zuko so openly in front of Zhao

- Iroh justifying his war crimes with „I was a soldier“??

- Iroh „sacrificing“ himself in Omashu when the earth kingdom forces were looking for the firebender even though they both would’ve gone undetected otherwise

- Iroh killing Zhao

- does Momo carry the spirits‘ life now?

- the fire nation inventing a solar system model to predict Zosin‘s Comet and potentially the eclipse as well

[spaceacealex]

Trip report!!

For those that have been waiting, sorry! I got home and immediately had to go help with a family thing. But here it is!

First, was the obvious. We had to drop off the baby boy with my parents. He had a great time with the family and was very dirty, stinky, and sleepy when we got back.

So where were we? We went to see the eclipse! As many of you know, My wife proposed to me under totality in the 2017 solar eclipse. So she surprised me with time off to travel to this last one on 4/8!

We flew to Nashville, TN and rented a car so I could scratch my road trip itch. We visited her family in KY, then went up to Cairo, IL for the event.

THIS is the public library in Cairo. It's an absolutely darling building, built originally to be a library and still proudly serving that purpose. The gals who were manning the counter were sweet, knowledgeable, and so welcoming. They had goodie bags with moon pies and starbursts and collected the eclipse glasses when we were done with them so they could be sterilized and sent down to Mexico for the next eclipse. So lovely to talk with and they welcomed us to spend the eclipse on their lawn with some local families. So we did!

We had a little picnic, chatted with some of the families, and got to watch totality in a tiny little town with so much character I still smile just thinking about it.

Hopefully you don't expect us to have top tier eclipse photography lol, but these are great for us! I got to kiss my wife under totality and it was hella romantic.

Then I got to drive more....then Kara got to drive because there were a ton of accidents and the three hour drive back to Nashville took more than six hours. So uh, my motion-sick self was struggling with the stop and go traffic.

But when we got there, we had a great night and then day walking around Eastside Nashville and pointing out the arcades I was going to take Kara to that evening.

That didn't quite happen.

Because the first stop we made in the arcade crawl is where we stayed all night.

No Quarter, the pinball arcade I now have a hat for because it's so friggin cool. We got to do many cool things there. 1)They had excellent drinks and in true Oregonian fashion I got to try the local cider and judge it. (it was good!) 2) I kicked Kara's ass at pinball. Very important. 3) I got MY ass kicked at pinball by literally every other person in the building. Also very important. Because 4) I got to play in a pinball tournament hosted by Belles and Chimes, specifically for women and non binary folks!

How did I, notorious nerves-haver and not a multiplayer pinball player join this?

5) I got to meet Quinn Hills. You know, @quinnhills ? Yeah. I'm still so giggly about it.

Hi. This pic is me, many drinks in, just absolutely giddy getting to meet (and hug!!) one of my favorite artists.

She's so sweet, so kind, and asked if I wanted to join the tournament.

Remember: do what beautiful women ask of you.

I am still kicking myself because I dropped the cliche, "your music has helped me through some really hard stuff." I mean, its absolutely true!! But I had told myself I was gonna be more eloquent than that. Oh well. I would blame the cider, but I was super excited and nervous before that, so I think I'm just a little goofy.

Kara also was happy to meet the woman who's music I had been blaring for that whole six plus hour car ride back to Nashville, and she's agreed to play pinball with me at our home bar! Major win!

We stayed until one in the morning, Kara ordered pizza to the hotel, and we had safe flights back home the rest of the day.

It was such a fun trip and I'm still losing my mind at all the little bits of it.

When I stream next (soon) I'm sure you'll hear about all this again. Along with my breakdown of eclipse conspiracies I've spent far too much time analyzing. <3

[goodolddumbbanana]

"Well normally the person will bring Sun back to his senses would be Moon, if they are family."

Moon I am sorry honey, but the last time, you literally dead to make Sun stopped. And the reason Sun stopped it is because he still loves you, not because he gains his senses.

From all over the world, if Sun went off deep ends, it is your fault just like how Eclipse is your problem, Moon.

-----

Btw, damn. Dark Sun has no mercy, huh.

(Dark Sun pretends to be Sun, comes up at the door, panting and his clothes look disheveled. He smiles nervously at Moon.

"Sorry, I'm late. I was... doing things."

Suddenly, there was a lousy noise outside. Lord Eclipse kicked the door open and barged in, his whole body tattered like just fought with raccoons.

"*HEH*HEH*HEH** HE PUSHES ME DOWN A FUCKING CLIFF!!!!!"

Sassy gay hands Dark Sun: "Pushing is such a strong word. I call it, to give you a little nudge."

"Oh I will give you a little nudge when I shove my foot up your ass"

Still trying to keep up with his act, pointing at tired and so done Moon: "Hey watch your fucking language in front of my brother."

-----

I know it from the start, servant Sun feels too knowledgeable for me. He stutters too much and keeps repeating things. It is not surprising it is not servant Sun, But Dark Sun.

Things started getting interesting. Seeing the conversation between Moon and Solar makes me wonder, if Solar tells Nexus about his old Moon, about him being dead yet?

Like how he so casually mentioned both his Sun and Moon dead, but I never saw Solar tell any of these stories with Nexus. Maybe off screen???

[boiledprawn99]

Radahn and Miquellas' Vow

This is a bit disjointed and unorganised but I just need to get this thought out.

I’m gonna have a hot take but maybe Radahn did agree to the Vow on his own free will and was always okay with it. So Miquella sees Radahn as a kid, and admires him, and then Miquella is chosen as an Empyrean, and starts his plan. They both promise each other that if this Vow were to happen, Miquella would do something for Radahn, and Radahn would become his consort when the younger ascends to Godhood.

I think it’s plausible Radahn started to lose admiration for the Golden Order (his idol was kicked out of the lands after all, and his father divorced his mother and left her heart broken so he could marry into the Golden Order, and Radahn is all about being loyal!!) and began to think about challenging it. In the opening cutscene you see Morgott and Radahn fighting. I think Radahn really tried becoming Elden Lord, but obviously didn’t succeed. Then Radahn goes to Miquella and agrees on the Vow. 

I think his wish for Miquella may have been to kill Radahn in an honourable way, in combat. I’m assuming he’d know about the Land of Shadow, and Miquella’s plan to get to the Gate of Divinity, and that Radahn would have to die so his soul could be brought back there. See: Secret rite scroll:

Few can decipher the scroll, which describes the secret rite of the divine gateway said to be found at the tower enshrouded by shadow.

"A lord will usher in a god's return,and the lord's soul will require a vessel."

Idk the technicalities! But yeah. So Radahn and Miquella fight, but Malenia fights for Miquella as she is his blade and would be willing to do that for him. They fight, but Malenia is losing, and is determined to see that Vow go through. So in a last effort to defeat Radahn, she unleashes her scarlet rot. But it still doesn’t work. So the vow is left unfulfilled. At this time, Miquella had already cocooned himself and been taken away by Mohg to receive his accursed blood and be able to go to the Realm of Shadow. He’s in the realm of shadow, doing his thing, abandoning his everything. But is unable to complete the rite and his plan with Radahn’s soul not there with him. Until we inadvertently fix it for him and now Miquella’s followers think we’re on his side but we are just trying to fix the Elden Ring lol. 

OR: I’m just stupid, and actually, Malenia beat up Radahn because he betrayed the Vow, for whatever reason, and would force him into being Miquella’s consort anyway. Miquella really wanted his ass. So he decides to do what the secret rite scroll says and has this as a backup plan because the Vow didn’t work. Radahn’s soul is taken to the Realm of Shadow, Mohg’s corpse is used to house Radahn’s soul, and the big lad himself is remade in Miquella’s image. 

In this scenario, the Vow could’ve been to make the solar eclipse and resurrect Godwyn? There’s a big fuss in Castle Sol about the eclipse needing to be done for Miquella, and I’m assuming it’s to give Godwyn a proper death. and Radahn couldn’t fulfil this part of the Vow because he decided to hold back the stars. 

So when he’s revived, it’s himself before he became the Starscourge, because that’s who Miquella made the vow with.

IDFK !!!!!!! Both versions make sense to me! This started because I thought about Radahn’s view of the Golden Order since Godfrey was kicked out, and his mother was heartbroken by Radagon, and Radahn is all about loyalty and stuff. So personally I like the first scenario I talk about. But that’s just me! I don’t want to say what is right and wrong. It’s just what I think. And that might change in the future too, who knows!

[deafeningfanlight]

PARTNERSHIP???? MOON???? DARK SUN????

You know what, I don't even want to know, I'm done with Moon and Tsams and---

OKAY I TROLLED Y'ALL I WANT TO KNOW SO I WATCHED THE EPISODE AND I'M JUST SPEECHLESS 😭

WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK??? THEY NOW BUSINESS PARTNERS, BUDDIES, ALLIES??? MOON IS IN DARK SUN'S UNIVERSE, MOON IS JUST... IDK, NEXT BIG BOSS VILLAIN??? WHAT'S NEXT?? VEGETA AND JACK ARE BOYFRIENDS?? ECLIPSE MAKES OUT WITH THE WHACKING STICK??? 😭😭

AND BRO THE END WITH ECLIPSE JUST MADE MY JAW DROP?? IS HE ACTUALLY TRYING TO BRING SOLAR BACK?? I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A BIG A$$ CAP BUT NO???? FOR REAL??? BRO ECLIPSE I LOVE YOU SO MUCH RIGHT NOW!! PLEASE MAKE IT FAST SO SOLAR CAN KICK MOON'S ASS SO MUCH THAT EVEN OLD MOON CAN FEEL IT 😭

And SUN IS JUST SUCH A POOR GUY HE DESERVES SO MANY HUGS AND ONE HUNDRED BLANKETS SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO WRAP HIM WITH THEM LIKE A BURRITO 😭 SUN NEEDS MORE THERAPY Y'ALL, WE THOUGHT HE IS MORE OR LESS OKAY BUT B*LLSHIT QWQ GET YOUR CREDIT CARDS EVERYONE, WE'LL PAY FOR HIM HIS SESSION >:D (Expect me, I'm broke as f*ck 😭 BUT HEY, I'LL PAY WITH plAtOnic lOvE ✨)

[technowings]

I've only tangently been keeping up with the sun and moon show (too much angst, too few games, confusing to follow) but I really hope that whenever they bring solar back he takes like one look at old moon and is like "you're not MY moon" and just, immediately demands to know where new moon/nexus is.

I hope he calls out the family on their behavior. I hope he goes looking for new moon/nexus instead of just accepting old moon in his place. Let solar and new moon/nexus have a good reunion (and kick dark sun's ass).

I hope sun gets to yell and be angry. I hope he gets to ACTUALLY talk about all the hurt that gets heaped on him, all the changes he's had to deal with and been expected to accept without question. (I would really like for the others to actually listen and try to be better but that seems unlikely to ever happen tbh.)

Kind of related: I want earth to dump monty (she can do better!) Or at least actually acknowledge and get MAD about the way they act and treat other people. Also she and eclipse should at least do morning yoga together. Maybe get sun involved too. They've both got a lot of screams that need to be let out.

[quitealotofsodapop]

Monkey King: Hero is Back Au/Sequel details:

Old post of ideas and theories - made before I experienced the game.

May name the au and/or fic "Hero Rebound" as a ref to the ship nam eof Dasheng and his LEM.

Mixing some elements found in the video game as the added lore is cool af but a bit messy. Also the old man that raised Liuer deserves recognition.

Putting characters under Read More:

Major Characters:

Dasheng/Sun Wukong/"The Great Sage Equal to Heaven":

Going by the prequel concept poster; Was born/hatched looking like a coconut macaroon.

Secretly a herbalism/medical nerd. In the games he keeps a little guide of the medicinal plants and materials he finds.

Babysat a lot on Huaguo. In the english dub he even seems to default to asking if Liuer needs a babysitter.

Instincts take over a lot. Will pull the kids towards him and groom fur thats not even there.

Is tramatized by his experience in the Trigram Furnace.

Desperately wishes to find Erlang Shen so he can kick his ass.

Tries to play it cool; but Liuer's death actually tramatized him. He fears losing him again.

Don't touch Liuer or Silly Girl. Those are his babies now. He will kill you.

Zhanshi/Six Earred Macaque/Liu er Mihou/"Great Sage Informing Wind":

An oc/JTTW character variation; Was a member of the Brotherhood of Sages during her and Dasheng's youth. The LMK OC Picrew was used to create a rough image of her.

Sweetest ray of bustling sunshine compared to her gloomier mate. Will still kill any being that dares touch one of her subjects.

Severely injured during the Burning on Mount Huaguo - permanetly damaging her right eye and ears. Dasheng had assumed she'd died during the battle after he was tossed into the Furnace.

Honorary grandma to the little monkeys of Mount Huaguo. Helped raise many of them after the Burning while their parents foraged and worked the land.

Finds a weird Stone Egg that crashed down after the solar eclipse. Now everyone seems to want the dang thing. Realised what the egg truly was when she heard the flutters of a heartbeat from within.

First time Liuer accidentally called her "Mama", Zhanshi cried for two hours.

Pls do not touch the baby monkeys. She will bite. And crush.

Jiang Liuer/"Tripitaka"/Current Incarnation of Golden Cicada:

Died during the battle with Hundun - but Dasheng basically smashed down the doors of the Celestial Realm and begged the gods/bodhisattvas to bring his biy back.

Is bedbound and near comatose for 49 days as his body and soul heals.

Dasheng sacrificed his powers, freedom, and some of his dao/life energy for Liuer's revival. Liuer may or may not be part-stone monkey now.

Liuer doesn't know what happened to his parents. He assumed he was abandoned. His time in Diyu-Limbo clears this assumption up - learning that his parents died protecting him from mountain trolls/yao that wanted him for his delicious holy soul.

Can be a feral little guy at times. He was raised by a hermit after all.

Calls Fa Ming "granddad" in the english dub, so it's possible he just assumes Fa Ming is his granddad.

Is desperate for a mother figure.

Sha Ya Tou/"Silly Girl"/"A-nan":

A very cheerful baby despite her situation.

Is not 100% human.

Hundun specifically needed her for the ritual.

First word ends up being "Bima!" (horse) after someone mentioned "Bimawen".

Zhu Bajie/"Uncle Pigsy"/Marshal Canopy:

Lies that he's the reincarnated Pagoda King to scare demons. And because nobody outside of Heaven knows who Marshal Canopy is.

Gets real quiet when people bring up the story of Chang'e for some reason...

Amazing uncle figure. Notices that Liuer is sad during the movie's song sequence and uses his transformation ability to let the little guy experience flying.

Most of the time on the road he lets the kids use his stomach as a pillow.

Sha Wujing/"Sandy":

Another oc/JTTW character variation since no Sandy-equivalent appears in Hero is Back. Also made in the LMK OC Picrew.

She/they

Dresses very masculine but loves accessorising with flowers, shells, bones, pretty rock etcs.

Zhu Bajie shot her a wink and Sha Wujing had to politely explain that she wasn't interested in men in general. The two then bonded over their shared love for women.

Encounters the Seven Spider Sisters and... ohhh mama.

Sifu Fa Ming/"Grandpa":

Just some really cool old human dude.

Has a Diogenes-esque view of life, and does not care for monks and religious officials living in luxury. Self-exiled himself from his Vihara so that he could persue a simpler life.

Raised the baby he found (named "Little River Float/Jiang Liuer" cus thats what the baby was) with whatever he could find. Pretty much all alms he gained were used for food and clothes for his adopted grandchild. And from what the opening credits show, Fa Ming travelled with Liuer on his back through rain, snow, and shine.

Considers finding Liuer a blessing from the Buddha. Something he's somewhat correct on.

Was the first one to introduce Liuer to the legend of the Monkey King - as a cautionary tale to not be covetous. He did not anticipate Liuer thinking the monkey demon was the coolest person in all of Buddhist mythos. Fa Ming sighs, maybe that doll of his influenced that too.

His english va is James Hong, aka Mr Ping from Kung Fu Panda and he gives the best english performance imo. James Hong just be playing ancient chinese men who find and adopt a random baby they find.

Canglong/"The Dragon":

Isn't Ao Lie/Bai Longma... but is one of his dads. Canglong and Ao Run are a thing. Ganglong was once a regular rain dragon who saw that the newly-appointed King Ao Run of the "Western Sea" (in the mythos the older three called dibs on the actual seas around China) trying to build a canal from the Yellow River. Canglong called down a great rain to help make the in-land sea/lake that would become Qinghai Lake. The two dragon bonded over their effort and well... dragon pups occured.

I hc that the Western Sea kingdom is a lot more chill than it's empire-like brothers, so these guys are flying and swimming freely all around the place.

In the film the dragon and Dasheng just sorta team-up off screen. In the game they have Guanyin bring the boys straight to the Western Sea Palace (in the sky) to ask for a dragon assist. Canglong fought Hundun and the other three Perils before alongside "Shunwang" - a human with a sword. "Shunwang" is likely a reference to Emperor Shun of the "Three Soverigns and Five Emperors"-era of Chinese mythos (same era as Nuwa, Fuxi, and Shennong) and predecesor of Yu the Great; who ultimately tamed the waters with Ruyi Jingu Bang (Sun Wukong's future staff). Emperor Shun in mythos beat the stuffing out of the Four Perils - though not the same ones that include Hundun - rather Gonggong who broke the Heavenly Pillar.

Adding on to the lore from the HiB game: Canglong teamed up with humanity during the Great Flood to help curb the flood waters. Here he met Shunwang, who's goal was to kill the Four Perils and God that helped cause the Flood. Canglong thought that was cool af and got all the dragons involved to help. The Four Perils are sadly all concepts and you really can't 100% kill them, so they all ended up sealed away instead. By the time of Dasheng's release; Hundun (blind chaos) got out. Canglong was in the same area as the gang looking for Hundun to apprehend him - when Sun Wukong ran up to him with info on what Hundun had planned, Canglong agreed to help no questions asked.

As in game canon: Helps the gang return the stolen children. I hc through amazing sense of smell. Canglong doesn't hang around for long though, as Ao Run immediately flies over, worried out of his mind for his injured mate, and brings him home. Canglong and Ao Run do however have a cheeky white-scaled dragon pup that likes to pretend to be horse and is obsessed with the legendary Bimawen...

Hundun and the Great Perils:

A squad of four primordial concepts set loose when the destructive water god Gonggong destroyed the Heavenly Pillar. Their goal? Take out the newly-formed humanity.

Among them was (as taken from Chinese mythos):

‣Qiongqi/窮奇/"poor and strange": Deviousness. Said to devour the innocent/noble people, and serve evil ones. Said to either possess the body of a flying tiger or a carnivorous ox. Killed at the hands of Emperor Shun.

‣Taotie/餮/"greedy glutton": Gluttony. Said to have the head of a ding/bronze vessel that consumes all. Has the body of an ungulate, and the voice of a baby. Some believe it to be the reincarnated form of Chi You - the decapitated enemy of the Yellow Emperor.

‣ Taowu/檮杌/"stupid stump": Ignorance. Personifies the stubborness of man, and the refusal to learn. Resembles a sabre-toothed tiger.

‣ Hundun/混沌/"chaotic torrent: Chaos. Like chaos it's true form is blind and directionless. Mythology says that attempts were made to give it holes in which to see, breath, and eat, but it immediately died and reincarnated into "an evil creature".

Nuwa, alongside Shunwang and the dragons, and a bunch of other allies, kicked the Perils butts but couldn't 100% kill them. The compromise was exile/sealing them away indefinitely. Hundun in his original form was attemtped to be rehabitilated, but upon gaining sight and the ability to breathe - died and reincarnated into the human-reptilian avatar we see in the film.

"Hundun" is an extenstion of primordial chaos itself - a thing that isn't inherently evil and was born alongside Pangu when the World Egg hatched. The demon king however, has merely a chunk of the power held by his original life.

Hundun in his current form may have died... but the soul within has move on into something else. Child-like chaos cannot be contained.

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

The Eclipses Show

Pairings: None

Word Count: 1,972 Words

Summary: Meetings and new names. Backup has to explain to Original what has happened since he went offline.

Warnings: Death (mentioned), Abuse (vaguely implied), Cursing, Abuse (mentioned), Controlled Shocks (mentioned), let me know if I should add anything else.

Chapter 3: I’m Still Standing

“Uh…” Original looked between the two. Both looked like him, which wasn’t anything different, really with daycare models. But they were also mainly orange, he could see it. Even though the one in black didn’t have rays. The other was orange and black purely.

Eclipse and this other Eclipse in black had mismatched parts with different colors. But that orange eye. Those were Eclipses. How? What? What had happened? How were there three of him?

“Let me guess. You’re Eclipse?” The fully orange and black one asked.

“Uh…yeah? Can someone please tell me where I am? Why is there three of me? What happened to Sun and Moon being here and Lunar? The tall girl with white like cloud-hair?” He asked.

“What the...” The rays retracted with thought on the one who was speaking to him.

“Oh my god.” The other realized faster. “You’re the original. The one before me.” The monochromed Eclipse told the orange one.

“Wait, he’s the original?”

“He has to be. He doesn’t know who Earth is. He doesn’t know what dimensional travel is. Moon made the portal after he died. He wouldn’t know about it.”

“That would make sense, actually.”

“I’m still here, you know. You can tell me whatever it is that I’m missing.” Eclipse huffed.

“I’m your backup. I activated in Blood Moon after Sun kicked you out because you ‘died’. You were the original. This is Solar, the Eclipse of this dimension that we’re in. Or…Solar is what he’s letting me call him because honestly three Eclipses is confusing.”

“Oh.” Eclipse sighed. He was in a different dimension from what he could gather and this other one was a backup of his that had activated after Sun expelled the Original.

“Whatever you three parasites do, just figure out names because I don’t wanna deal with this.” The Moon huffed, going back up to the balcony on his fly wire.

“Please don’t pay attention to Crescent, he’s actually a lot calmer today than normal.” Solar assured the both of them.

“I-Should we figure out names?” The backup asked.

“I mean, it wouldn’t be right for one of us to keep the name since it’s all three of our names. So maybe coming up with something different for ourselves would be better?” Original came closer, plucking balls off his rays and wincing at the damage to most of them that he had overlooked since the rays weren’t a vital component of his body.

“Well then, I’m keeping Solar. I like it.” Solar smiled, gesturing them to sit. This would probably be a while if the two had similar tracks of mind unlike Solar who had had a different life than them.

“I kinda like Asteroid but I really don’t like how the nickname is Ass.” Backup huffed.

“True.” Both thought for a bit, quieter as they tried to think.

“What about Phase and Umbra?” Solar suggested.

“What?” Both asked.

“Phase and Umbra. It would be something individual for you two. Nothing connected, being separate people instead of seen as one.” Solar explained.

“I really like that. I like Phase.” Backup agreed.

“I like Umbra.” Original smiled.

“Then we’ve agreed. We’re Solar, Phase, and Umbra.” Solar leaned back in his chair.

“Okay but what has changed since I just kinda-“ Umbra made a slitting throat motion. “I mean, I lost almost a year.” He sighed.

“All in all, you missed a lot of shit.” Solar told him.

“I was probably the majority of the shit.” Phase told him.

“Okay. Maybe start when I died?” Umbra asked.

“Well, after that, I activated on the thirteenth of November inside of Blood Moon. So they were living in the streets, killing people and all that, causing a bit of chaos for the daycare during November. November I think is when Moon made the dimension portal too but I don’t know exactly when. But it was early after your death and early into my activation.”

“Yeah, about there.” Solar confirmed.

“Yeah. And I was making a plan I was having the twins help me with. I…I admit now it was an awful idea, honestly. But I got Sun angry enough to break Moon’s computer because I wanted his kill code to take over. And it did. It was awful for them. It took over Moon and from what I understand, Monty went in to get Lunar out but wasn’t able to get Moon.”

“Then the fuckin shock of a century, the Kill Code gained sentience, claimed himself me and the twins’ father. So I went with the absolutely horrible idea of letting Kill Code free because the twins are trigger happy with controlled shocks.” Phase huffed.

“Jesus, how many shocks?” Umbra asked.

“It had to be like seven a day minimum. It was awful. My memory was scattered for a long time and simple tasks while being in control was difficult to do between aftershocks and them fighting for control.” Phase admitted.

“Jesus, I’m shocked you didn’t lose memories.” Solar realized it had indeed been a difficult time for Phase.

“I did. I know I did. I can feel the voids in my memory banks. I know things are missing, chunks of time from late-November to about mid-December are blanks, I honestly can’t remember anything from then.” Phase took a breath.

“Anyway. After KC took us three in as his kids, Moon made a deal with KC that they wouldn’t meddle in each other’s lives while they shared a body. And Lunar got a body from Monty. It was cute and tiny. He was precious. He had a tail and everything like a little cat.” Phase fondly smiled at the thought of Lunar.

“And KC put me into a computer. He literally grounded me.” Umbra couldn’t help but to snort a laugh at that. “Hey! Don’t laugh at me! I was confused. He didn’t want to give me a body because he knew I’d just leave, so he put my AI in a room. I was freaking room!” Phase whined.

“I’m sorry, that’s funny as hell.” Umbra cackled at the thought before calming down and taking a few breaths.

“He was a good dad. Sure he was a little manipulative and all but he was learning. He was taking care of the three of us. It was…I actually really liked having a dad. It was like he couldn’t just abandon me, he made me, I was his child. And I liked having that kind of person where they would care about me without just blaming me for everything.”

“Then…Then Blood Moon died.” Phase gave a shuddering breath. “Sun shot them with a laser, they died and Dad was inconsolable. And Sun went on a murderous rampage afterward. He wanted to hunt me down and kill me next and then KC. He wanted to erase us once and for all. Without even thinking about how it felt for us.” Phase’s eyes pricked with tears.

“I know they hurt me but they were my brothers still. Sure they were violent and a little unhinged but they weren’t monsters, they had limits and morals. They weren’t just monsters just because they were made to be killers. They had a family and people who cared about them. I cared about them. Dad cared about them. It hurt, it still does. I always thought they’d come running into the lab and tell me it was just a prank, that they wanted to see how we’d react. But they never did.”

“I didn’t make the best decision but…I wanted to defend myself. I knew Sun was coming for me. I just knew it. So I took over a robot I made with a vessel capability called Solar Flare. And Sun did. He tried to kill me. He ended up stabbing a magic sword through a computer modem because I convinced him I was in it. And I tried to get him away, I had him at sword point. And then he used magic to blow up the base.”

“I…I admit I went a bit off the rails after. I just left while he was getting magic help from Golden Freddy. The bunker had had Moon’s magic pooled under it and the explosion had just destroyed it. Moon was stuck in his head and I was still grieving my brothers and father. Because Moon was trying to get rid of KC while all this was happening.”

“Please don’t kill me for what I’m about to say, I know we both love him.” Phase looked to Umbra.

“I’m not going to kill you.” Umbra agreed.

“I used Lunar as a pawn to get the star. And, once I had it, I killed him anyway. I murdered him with it. At the same time, Moon erased his memory to separate from KC. And…And I just felt too numb to care. They gave KC a body eventually, I know they did. And Monty managed to remake Lunar”

“Most of the in-between is a blur. Almost all of it, actually. The star corrupted a lot of my memory banks and erased them when it got destroyed yesterday. I knew I was dying with that star in me. That it was hurting me. The last thing I remember before waking up again was that I was just trying to help them. I don’t remember with what and I don’t remember why.” Phase finished.

“That is…a lot.” Umbra sighed. “We have a dad. The Kill Code is our father?” Umbra asked.

“We did. Before we got the star. I think he might have just given up on me. I don’t think he really knew how to handle me once I was just numb. I don’t think he really cared once I was dangerous, I think he just…gave up. Because he knew I wouldn’t be saved or just talked to and he knew they wouldn’t and he couldn’t convince them to.” Phase sighed, wiping his eyes.

“So we had a father but he doesn’t want us anymore.” Umbra realized with a bit of sadness that he had a father but his father would likely want nothing to do with him. It was a bit crushing to say the least. KC sounded like he’d been as good of a father as a learning AI could be, though likely preferential to the twins, which how couldn’t he be with how similar the twins were to him?

“But he loved you.” Umbra wanted to confirm.

“He preferred the twins, but he was loving. He was kinder than others with me. He was strict, but he respected my boundaries and he didn’t try to force me to do things I wasn’t comfortable with. He didn’t ignore me even when he could. He was a lot better than others.” Phase confirmed.

“I wish I’d been there.” Umbra squeezed Phase’s hand and realized he’d been holding it the entire explanation. He wasn’t sure if it had been to comfort himself or to comfort Phase, but Phase squeezed his hand back anyway.

“I wish you had been. Having a dad was…good. It really helped. I had been really scattered with my memory at the time and he helped. Him being there helped. He had a habit when he was checking on me. I could faintly feel things when I was a lab. People touching certain things. It felt like someone holding me. Even, every time he checked on me, he’d pat the tube my AI was mainly in. It felt like he was patting me on the head.” Phase gave a little smile.

“I’m sorry for your loss, Phase. I didn’t realize how affected you were when Blood Moon died. I’m sorry I laughed at you when we first met.” Solar apologized.

“It’s okay. I don’t remember it. You have nothing to apologize for because I don’t remember that.” Phase assured Solar.

[artistnamedlg]

GARAGES SONGS ASSIGNED TO FANTASY HIGH CHARACTERS (AND SOME OTHER STUFF)

For context, the garages were a band who wrote songs based off a game called blaseball, mainly rock but not confined directly too it. I am assigning some of their songs to fantasy high characters for the very small subset of people who are interested a.k.a mainly me. Most of these are based off season 1 but there is influence from the others. 👍

FIG

-Pyschoacoustics: Very loud but also kinda team based! (The bigger the garage/ the better the sound/ we’re just so glad you came around)

- Vanessa tables, the cheesiest love song ever. I can totally imagine fig singing this.

- ALBUMS: either Underground (its heavy metal) or Short circuit (psychoacoustics esque, it’s so loud!!!)

- CHARACTERS THEY WOULD LOVE? Probably Betsy Trombone or Allison Abbot. Or Jaylen HotdogFingers. Big Garages Fan probably.

ADAINE

- so mediocre, it’s about not being good enough and being told your not good enough. Yeouch.

-Sidelined, same album same reason but this one ends happier cause people do believe in them :)

- the entire Kansas City breath mints team failed the bar exam,

- won’t strike out, it’s about a frog kicking ass. For everyone who doesn’t know blaseball google chorby short right now.

- ALBUMS: either unstable (the first two songs are from it) or, while not a album, The Mike Townsend Trilogy because she would one hundred percent understand the looked down on for not being good enough vibe.

- CHARACTERS THEYD LOVE? Mike Townsend, Chorby Short, maybe Sebastion Telephone cause underperforming sibling vibes. I can see her being a big Hawaii Fridays fan or more accurately Yellowstone Magics

KRISTEN

- And I mean all gods, the first line is “I need to email god because I have some issues”. Kristen would say that, 100%.

- solar eclipse, this one’s a little bit of everyone but it feels especially Kristen because of the direct callouts to god in it. She’d very much understand this one I think.

- ALBUMS weirdly enough, no clue. She would probably like the garages kill gods cause of the title and maybe pathetic/spineless cause repressed rage.

CHARACTERS THEYD LOVE? Most of the like goofy ones I think. She’d see pitching machine (a player who is an actual honest to god pitching machine) and start cheering. She would actually maybe enjoy the monitor who is a god but is also a pushover and eventually anticapitalist. Shed like Randall Marijuana if only cause he’s called “Randy weed” She’d also be a big Fridays person but I can see her being a Hellmouth Fan.

RIZ

- operation plasma (swing and a miss) it’s a song by the spies about how they want a spy to bring them stuff, riz core.

- beautiful day, I don’t know why I can very much see riz in this, half of it cause shit canonically hits the fan even harder after beautiful day.

- the unremarkable ballad of Derrick Krueger, I can’t explain this one but I think it does have slight riz vibes of like overlooked underdog at the beginning of season 1

- Albums, be my valentine cause some of the songs are very sweet and a decent amount are not even romantic in like partner partner way or percolate or lofi hip-hop brews to kill siesta/kill gods to.

- Players he’d love? Parker McMillan, he’d love the insane complexity of trying to piece them together and like interrogating their socials. He’d be a big Houston Spies fan as well, no surprise, but he’d also be a data witch or something similar on the side, just digging round in the code.

EDIT: he would also love one of my fav players, Evelton mcblase 2, a trans mad scientist who is evil and also occasionally a eel.

GORGUG

- heart full of love mouth full of blood, it’s a little romantic but also about killing to protect your friends

- Mike Townsend is back, I can see him vibing to this, especially with the goofy “I learned how to solo!!!” Part

- hurt people, it’s about desperately not wanting to hurt those around you but being unable to.

- Albums I don’t know! Maybe encore cause some of those are very hard hitting and he’d like that I think but also maybe lofi as well cause chill out vibes. Potentially Immaterial Shores which is a bunch of like sea shanty’s.

-Characters they’d like? Jaylen hotdogfingers as well, he’d understand the tradgedy. Also Theodore Duende. Definitely Nagomi McDaniel because she’s a buff as hell mother , maybe the dad versions of Lenny Marijuana. Generally the strong ones who have hearts of gold. He’d be a Dallas steaks fan (their joke is that they’re all dads or dad adjacent, they do cookouts)

FABIEN

- Top ten Tillman Henderson moments that actually happened, dude I cannot describe it but he would love Tillman, shitheel player who does the silliest shenanigans.

- Rise, I can’t really explain it but the extreme confidence mixed with the knowledge that Jaylen actually deeply regrets her revival and fame feels very Fabian.

- Betsy trombone (+ r - s version) I can’t explain it but specifically this version has Fabian feels.

- Albums. Uhhh maybe just straight up discipline, it’s super long but he’d like it I feel. Something shorter would be Caught in the Reverb I don’t know why but I think he’d like it a bit.

-Favorite Characters? Tillman Henderson, he’d love how much of a shitheel he is. I can see him also liking Nagomi McDaniel and Jessica Telephone. I can also seeing him being part of the Jaylen resurrection efforts and just supporting her girlbossing murder spree. He’d actually care if they’re good at the game, similarly he’d be a crabs fan since they’re pretty consistently good, if not the crabs then the hades tigers cause they’re sick as hell. I can also see him really really enjoying York silk because it’s a 12 year old with a gunblade who’s unironically super strong.

BAD KIDS IN GENERAL

- Well suck forever

- A horrible Mistake we will make again and again

Gilear (special edition!!)

-on fatherhood, im adding this just cause it reminds me of him. If you didn’t know people died in blaseball! That was a key thing! While figs alive this does give that vibe with how much she gets into.

[ayyy-imma-ninja]

Why don't the people who call for Eclipse's return on the show see that every time he comes back they only ruin the character more? I'm his fan, really, the best villain with a lot of potential. But ever since he was revived it was an up and down in the quality of his mere existence, it went down when he was with BloodMoon and Killcode, it went up a bit when he broke free using Solar Flare's body to get the star, and it just went on from there descent to the subsoil reaching the center of the earth in terms of quality. Eclipse is like The Simpsons or The Fairly OddParents, the longer he lives, after fulfilling his goal in the script, the more he ruins himself as a character. Because if the villain who always wanted to restart the world and kill his enemies reaches a point where he can't do it because otherwise the program ends, then the script has failed. And I totally blame the fans who harassed EC and Davis so much that they had to bring him back the first time. I hope he doesn't pass again.

The show has certain rules it has to abide by. One of them being you can't actually kill off the canon characters (Sun and Moon). And a lot of the show is more scripted than one would think.

Eclipse's rising and falling moments are intentional, I believe. It reveals a lot about his character and what he's thinking. It's to show how he essentially fucked himself over. How is he supposed to be all high and mighty after getting his ass kicked? And dying? That time with KC and the twins was him licking his wounds and re-strategizing.

As for fans harassing them to bring him back, I wasn't there for that. So my understanding is he was always going to come back at that time regardless of fan reactions.

[i-would-like-some-tea]

The White Lotus Gambit/ 50 years early AU

Atla AU: 50 years into the war, two young Water Tribe women find a boy frozen in an iceberg. A runaway northern noble and the south’s last waterbending master embark on a long and dangerous journey with their new friend who might be the world’s only hope. Hot on their heels is a prince looking for his destiny and running from the reality of his broken family. The Avatar will meet friends old and new and in the shadows grows the White Lotus.

Book 1: Duty

Book 2: Family

Aboard the crown prince’s ship, bound for the Fire Nation, Kuzon plans treason and is approached by his son Piandao, who has figured out his dad is planning something and wants in. He tells him about the White Lotus and that he hoped to one day sway the prince to their side. He believes the boy is a good person at heart but right now he’s still much too unquestioningly loyal and caught up in the Fire Nation’s ideology.

While making port in a colony in the northern Earth Kingdom, Kuzon breaks Aang out of the ship’s hold with his son’s help and they go undercover, making their way towards the abandoned city of Taku, where a friend will be awaiting them.

Meanwhile, in the Northern Water Tribe’s capital, a letter arrives, carrying a message encoded in Pai Sho terms. Yuruk tells his daughter, her friend and his protégé (and sadly no longer future son in law) to take Appa and fly to Taku to meet up with allies.

Before they leave, he gives Pakku a White Lotus tile and tells him the basics about the secret organization without the girls present. Kanna can tell something is being kept from her and it’s driving her crazy.

The Water Tribe crew gets a bit lost in the vast woodlands of Pohuai territory and run into Wu again, this time alone. 

She tells them, she had a fight with her dad - being disgraced nobles from Ba Sing Se, they had started out half a year ago with a substantial amount of money between them that was supposed to get them through for a while but he had managed to burn through it within a few months which is why she had started earning money with parlor tricks and roadside fortune telling. 

After she met them, she wanted to do something to help the Earth Kingdom with the war effort while he tried to convince her to find a well off husband far away from the front lines. A week ago, she just left him at the inn they had been staying at and set off on her own. She joins them.

The groups converge in Taku, or rather at the herbalist institute within the former governor’s palace facing the abandoned city on the opposite side of the valley.

The White Lotus contact they were meeting is Lady Su Ji, cousin to King Bumi of Omashu, who officially holds the title of governor of Taku (which has been under the stewardship of Omashu for centuries but since the city had been abandoned for nearly as long after a series of earthquakes and plagues, it’s really more of a symbolic title…) and has been living there as a hermit only with her plants and cats as company.

When Kanna finally learns about the White Lotus she is furious. Hama has to physically hold her back from strangling Pakku and she challenges him to a game of Pai Sho where she proceeds to kick his ass on the game board

Su Ji/ Crazy Herbalist Lady arranges to smuggle Aang and his friends, now including Piandao and Wu, safely to Omashu where he can start his earthbending training under King Bumi. 

Kuzon will not be going with him, he is going to be busy mobilizing the White Lotus - there is going to be a solar eclipse a year from now, that would be the perfect opportunity to strike a counter offensive against the Fire Nation. 

Pakku decides to go with Kuzon, keen to escape the awkward company of his (still-super-mad-at-him) ex and her maybe?probably-girlfriend…

In Omashu, Aang finally gets to reunite with his old friend Bumi. The next four months are spent in a training montage...

Meanwhile, the Fire Nation is frantically searching for the Avatar and the traitors who helped him escape.

Just a few days after losing Aang, however, Iroh receives devastating news - his mother, Fire Lady Ilah died shortly after giving birth to his baby brother and he is being summoned back to the palace for her funeral.

The official missive is accompanied by unofficial whispers about how the Fire Lord has apparently not been seen in public since her death and the new prince hasn’t been announced to court yet despite almost a month having passed since his birth.

Iroh hurries back home, the Avatar suddenly not his number one priority anymore. The search is delegated to newly promoted General Jeong Jeong.

At home, Iroh finds Fire Lord Azulon grieving and bitter and unable to look at his newborn son whom he blames for Ilah’s death. Iroh, meanwhile, also has to grapple with the betrayal of his mentor and his best friend. He tries to be a good son and older brother but it’s hard.

After a few months back at the palace, his mind starts drifting back to the Avatar and he starts getting an overwhelming feeling of connected destiny. He starts burying himself in research and, thinking about when Aang appeared to him in his astral body, he starts trying to meditate into the spirit world, determined to get the hang of this trick himself.

Meanwhile, rumors of the Avatar’s whereabouts do eventually get out and reach Fire Nation ears. Jeong Jeong mobilizes the troops under his command to lay siege to Omashu.

Bumi gets the Gaang out of the city in time but stays behind, saying that he taught Aang enough that he can keep training by himself for now and his people need him. He recommends that he seek out the sandbenders of the Si Wong desert, learn some of their techniques as well, and start looking into mastering the Avatar State. They should also eventually head to Ba Sing Se to try and recruit the Earth King’s armies to their cause.

In the desert, they are taken in by the Hami tribe, where they meet a young girl named Jia, who turns out to secretly be an airbender. 

They stay with the tribe for a few weeks and Aang learns some sandbending. 

They also get to know Jia a little better: her mother had been part of a small group of surviving eastern Air Nomads hiding in a small town at the edge of the Si Wong desert, her father had been a sandbender of the Hami tribe with airbender ancestry. She had spent her early childhood with her family in the airbender hideout until, one day, they were discovered and the entire village was burned down. Jia had been the only one to survive because she had been on a trade run to a neighboring Oasis with her dad. When he noticed the smoke on their way back, he told her to take their glider and flee into the desert to his tribe while he returned to the village alone to see if there was any hope of saving his wife and the others - that was the last time she saw him and she had to hide her bending from everyone except her uncle ever since. 

She is overjoyed when Aang offers to teach her proper airbending.

There are tales of a massive spirit library hidden away in the desert nearby and Piandao suggests to go looking for it in hope of finding answers on how to control the Avatar state.

They do indeed find the library and are permitted entry after some haggling with the great Wan Shi Tong. They find a scroll written by someone called Guru Sham a couple centuries ago. He talks about reaching spiritual enlightenment through guided meditation and unlocking one’s chakras and mentions having assisted the Avatar of his era in attaining the same. 

The name is somewhat familiar to Jia - she believes one of her Air Nomad aunties mentioned it in one of her stories, he seemed to have been an important figure in the history of the Eastern Air Temple.

They fly east to follow up on that lead. During the trip, Aang starts trying the meditation exercises described by Guru Sham. In the spirit world, he has a run in with Iroh - let operation “forcibly befriend the villain by abducting him on spirit play dates” begin!

The Eastern Air Temple seems abandoned at first, but they can’t shake the feeling of being watched…

Eventually, their little shadow steps out and introduces himself: he’s Arun, a non-bender from what remains of the people who used to live below the Air Temple. When the Fire Nation attacked, they burned much of the forest below but some of the ground dwelling people still managed to escape and settlements further away from the Temple were spared. They took in some airbenders that had managed to flee but when it became apparent that the Fire Nation was still combing the area looking for survivors, most of them left. 

Jia realises that was probably her mother’s group. The only airbenders still hiding out among Arun’s people are two old women, one of which has almost completely lost her bending due to spiritual stagnation. Arun takes them to their temporary village (they move around regularly) and Aang meets Guru Pathik, who welcomes him like he has been expecting his arrival and they begin Aang’s spiritual training.

Meanwhile, after occupying Omashu, Jeong Jeong follows the Gaang’s trail with his Avatar-hunting task force.

Kuzon and Pakku spent the past half year traveling the southern Earth Kingdom on what can only be described as the most awkward buddy comedy road trip of all time (long story short: Pakku gets practically force fed all the respect women juice on Kyoshi Island, gets laughed at by swamp benders for calling himself a master without knowing even the most basic healing and Kuzon repeatedly kicks his ass at Pai Sho, insists on exchanging bending techniques and basically adopts him). 

While at the Misty Palms Oasis to check in with the White Lotus contacts there, they are recognized and ratted out to the Fire Nation.

Kuzon faces them so Pakku can flee and is arrested and sent to the Fire Nation Capital to be tried as a traitor.

Pakku hurries towards the Eastern Air Temple where he was told the Avatar and his friends were last headed to warn them.

He finds them in time and they leave, deciding this would be a good time to head to Ba Sing Se, even though Piandao is distraught at the news of his father being captured. This also leaves Aang without a firebending teacher for now…

[digi-sams-au-hell]

Nezuclipse AU

(current notes, roles do not equal ships)

-Lunar fills in Tanjiro’s role, and Eclipse takes Nezuko’s. 

-Creator is fucking Muzan Kibutsuji. 

-Sun takes on Zenitsu’s role as the anxious powerhouse, but without the creepy-girl-obsession part, because ew. 

-Bloodmoon take on Inosuke’s role. 

-Moon takes on Tomioka’s role as the depressed socially awkward one. 

-KC acts as Urokodaki. 

-Golden Freddy acts as Ubuyashiki. 

-Earth gets to be doctor Tamayo. 

-Drop is Yushiro, but absolutely not a simp

-Nexus gets to be Shinobu, yay dead siblings. Solar is Kanae (and dead). And Jack is Kanao. 

-Monty is Sanemi and Vegeta is Genya. 

-Roxy is Uzui, yes she has a loving ninja harem. 

-Glamrock Chica is Mitsuri, more food obsessed than romance obsessed.

-Glamrock Freddy can be Rengoku, and die, and Gregory can be Senjuro and Phantom Freddy can be their shitty dad. 

-Circus Baby can be the sword smith village kid the with the training robot, the one who almost killed Tanjiro. 

-Afton can be Hantengu. Glitchtrap, Malhare, and any other forms they had can be his other forms.

-Vanny as Douma. Her short time knowing baby Bloodmoon left an impression

-Exo as Kotoha. An oc made specifically for this AU.

-Iah as Yoriichi. Another oc made specifically for this AU.

Nezuclipse is kind of an asshole, but protective, big brother at first. Then he gets demonized, and loses most of his thinking capabilities for a few years so he just acts on pure emotion, which is very cuddly and affection (and confuses Lunar, who’s used to his big brother being a sarcastic yet reliable asshole). But as he gains power and lucidity, he becomes a bigger ass to people who aren’t Lunar, and more protective of his little brother.

Nezuclipse just gradually evolves from sweet adorable innocent baby demon to unhinged violent tsundere asshole as he grows stronger. So, like, in that first Wisteria House he’s happy to cuddle up to Sun and Bloodmoon, but after the Entertainment District he’s more likely to punch them if they try to hold him. He’ll still cuddle with Tanjilunar, though.

At some point during the Entertainment District Arc, Nezuclipse gets into a fistfight with Gyutaro over Tanjilunar. First time he was lucid enough to swear since becoming a demon. Nezuclipse did flip off Rui, though. Not quite swearing, but close enough.

He definitely kicks Sanemonty in the balls at some point, as vengeance for being stabbed in the face by the bastard. After he’s not a demon anymore, Nezuclipse is fucking biting Monty. Hard.