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everyone should watch marble hornets, it’s a really good comedy!! where just some guys are makin a movie 😄 and nobody dies! ever! the operator…..who’s that? A transformer?? hahahaha
#GENUINELY THO#IT WAS SO GOOD#WAHHH ☹️#I JUST FINISHED IT TODAY AND IM NOT OKAY ☹️#But yes it was so good and so good and so interesting#slenderman you better be ready to catch these hands#jk#jk he would kill me…………#just like jay…………🤣☹️😦😔#Tim being the only one left too ☹️💥💥💥💥#and Jessica#somehow being alive#and the final#everything is fine#just leaves you with unease.#marble hornets#rahhh i have more sick thoughts#i can’t put into words
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Everlasting Trio DPxDC Nobody Knows Au
I love nobody knows aus.
I love aus where danny flees to Gotham after a Bad Time with his parents.
So what if:
Sam moves to Gotham for college after graduation. Tucker has flown down from MIT over the semester break to spend the month with her. They've stayed very close knit.
They're having brunch at a small cafe maybe a week in, and suddenly Sam's hand darts across the table and grips his forearm so tight it hurts.
He startles and asks her what's wrong, but she doesn't answer. She's too busy staring across the room with a haunted look on her face. Tucker follows her gaze and goes cold and still with shock and disbelief.
They're both frozen because that? That looks like Danny.
Danny, their childhood best friend. Danny who came to their freshman year of high school a little different. Withdrawn.
Danny who kept pulling away and making excuses no matter how hard they tried to engage him, who looked more tired and ragged with every passing week.
Danny who disappeared without a trace shortly after he turned sixteen and who, though it largely went unspoken, they believed dead and gone forever.
"It's not," Tucker whispers weakly. "It can't be, right?"
The guy across the cafe is older than the kid they remember, of course. Around twenty, exactly how old they are. How old Danny should be. He's tall, tall like they and Jazz always assured Danny he would be once he hit a growth spurt and into his dad's genes.
His nails are painted and his ears are pierced and his hair is a little longer, but he sits in front of his papers and computer with eerily familiar bad posture and a pen tapping at his bottom lip like their Danny always did when he tried to focus.
He looks leagues healthier than their Danny did before he went missing.
He huffs a breath out of his nose and pokes his bottom lip out as he scowls at something on his screen, and before Tucker can even process the gut punch of such a familiar mannerism Sam is out of her chair and halfway across the cafe.
Tucker scrambles after her with half coherent protests.
He reaches the table as Sam slams herself down into the chair across from the doppelganger, the guy jerking in surprise and blinking up at his two unexpected guests with confusion and alarm.
Then, slowly, Tucker watches his face go pale and the confusion be replaced with dawning shock, recognition and something unreadable.
"Oh," Danny breathes.
#danny phantom#sam manson#tucker foley#everlasting trio#dc x dp#theyll get involved with the bats somehow#if danny isnt already#not sure how yet#anticipating the delicious reveal of your miraculously alive friend actually being dead after all and has been for longer than you thought
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unorthodox murder mystery
#zosan#one piece#roronoa zoro#sanji vinsmoke#fanart#okay so basically this concept is ok so basically#its a murder mystery where those who are murdered on the ship actually turn into VAMPIRES#but theyre like#guys. how the fuck do we not know who the vampire is#like what do you mean you are literally still alive after being 'killed' and somehow you dont remember who killed and turned you#zoro: well whatever. im still gonna be the greatest swordsman#sanji: right ok so hello FUCKFACE. DUMBASS. GREATEST SWORDSMAN THAT IS ONLY AVAILABLE DURING THE NIGHT OR WHAT–#sanji: CAN WE FOCUS ON THE FACT THAT WE JUST DIED THAT WE JUST CAME BACK TO LIFE THAT WE'RE IMMORTAL NOW. THAT I CANT TASTE THE FOOD I MAKE#zoro: wat dat gotta do wit me#sanji would be suchhhh a good vampire feeder but a terrible vampire I think#thats my opinion stop throwing rocks at me what the hell#anyway i dont actually know who the vampire on the crew woudl be#thats the mystery#its a mystery to the creaotr of the au as well obviously... or else whats the point.....
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Sometimes girlhood is matching hello kitty oodies with your mortal enemy
#I have such a back log of jjk drawings i need to upload here#im somehow more active on twt even tho everytime i post i feel like i'm being flayed alive#idk just girly things#jjk fanart#jujutsu kaisen#ryomen sukuna#sukuna#yuji itadori#itadori yuuji#hello kitty#bnha kept trying to sneak its way into my tags#babe this??? isnt about you????
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The words still aren't wording, but *gestures desperately to Chosen*
this?
this is a cornered animal
lashing out
...until he physically can't anymore
#Chosen's response to danger and stress and uncertainty being a highly reactionary and instinctive kind of response drives me insane#it's what kept him alive on the PC#it's what protected him and Dark#but it's stopped working in his favor#he failed to protect Orange; and now theyre both stuck with an enemy that's somehow stronger than him and who has plans they can't conceive#–of yet#he's so extremely powerful#it's so obvious when he becomes overwhelmed or afraid because he just explodes#can anyone hear me#I love him so much#animator vs animation#alan becker#rage's ramblings about sticks
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mmmmmm read a disciple shen yuan/shizun luo binghe fanfic about two days ago where the first chapter was the Immortal Conference arc, and SQQ was the one who had to be pushed into the abyss (he was still the villain) except Luo Binghe was refusing and was like, lowkey losing his mind about SQQ being so close to the edge. SQQ ended up having to be the one to fall in himself because of the system's punishment system. The rest of the fic is leading up to that moment. But like, MMM i've been obsessively thinking about that first chapter for DAYS ever since.
now i've been in svsss for a grand total of *checks watch* a week. but god obsessed with that. I want to write/read a fic where disciple SQQ goes a little nuts down there. Like keep all of the things that make SQQ, SQQ, but just. Throw in a little bit more trauma in there. A little bit of a mental break. Let him go a little nuts as a treat. Just a tad unhinged. I wanna see him go, just a little, "god fuck it, i've tried so hard to change this shitty story's outcome and it feels like everything i've done has been for nothing. I'm going to die in this world no matter what I do, I've been doomed from the start, so might as well die the way I want to." and he just, breaks a little! Under all the stress.
He still retains the traits that makes shen yuan, shen yuan, like his overwhelming kindness. But he's just! yk. A little less patient. Paranoid. Jumpy. Colder. A little more aloof and closed off. A little more Shen Jiu. He's no asshole child abuser, but he was a Number One Hater in his past life and he's leaning into that old habit a little more now.
(On a totally coincidental not-at-all related note, there's not enough SJ-and-SY-are-the-same-people fics out there that i've found. This is totally unrelated...)
The Endless Abyss turns the mind into an over-sharpened blade, and SQQ is both fascinated and perhaps a little excited to explore a place that doesn't have a lot of info on it in the mortal realm, but still terrified out of his mind. And he's no Luo Binghe, he doesn't have the sheer brute strength and power to just bulldoze his way through, so he has to be a lot more sneaky and cunning if he wants to survive.
The fic itself role-swapped LBH and SQQ so that SQQ was the half-demon (which lowkey fucks) and LBH the human, but I'm equally-if-not-more obsessed with the idea that LBH remains the half-heavenly demon and SQQ the human. If only because I keep thinking about SQQ befriending some demons (particularly and specifically a group of succubi) and they grow very attached to this Human Cultivator so through magic plot stuff they create some kind of seal/illusion/talisman that makes SQQ appear as a demon because a human cultivator in the endless abyss may as well be the equivalent of putting a giant neon target on your back.
And iirc Shen Jiu was taught demonic cultivation by that one guy(?? i've only been here a week so im not caught up in ALL of the lore yet) so that could totally happen here.
(On the other end of the realms, poor Shizun Luo Binghe is just. losing his fucking mind over losing his most precious and beloved disciple. About .5 seconds from burning down the peaks himself. somebody sedate him.)
The Endless Abyss sucks and SQQ is having a really terrible time and can feel himself going lowkey mad, but also holy shit look at all this WORLD-BUILDING. look at all this flora and fauna, and oh if he had the equipment for it he'd be writing all of this down. ALL OF IT. He was kinda-sorta-already planning on never leaving the Abyss as some sort of fucked up self-exile and self-preservation thing, but now he might? actually just?? never leave if he can help it, like he lowkey likes it down here.
anyways the next time anyone ever sees SQQ again he's got hair so long its almost touching the ground and he's either in rags and half-feral or he's been completely dolled up by his adoptive succubi sisters and still about three seconds from biting anyone who tries to touch him. (he's also lowkey trying to book it back down to the abyss even if he has desperately missed all of his friends and shizun)
#mxtx svsss#svsss au#scum villian self saving system#shen qingqiu#shen yuan#luo binghe#disciple shen yuan#scum villain#svsss#*points at SQQ/SY* i want him to go nuts. as a treat. let him crumble just a little over the stress of his fate and the stress of survival#and the stress of having a lack of autonomy over a handful of his decisions. starry craves angst and she craves a very specific SQQ angst#he was a number 1 hater back in the day and lbr being a hater takes energyyyy. ive heard that this man was the BIGGEST hater i wanna#see him rip a man to shreds with nothing but his tongue and a voice that could cut marble clean in half. skin a man alive sqq you deserve i#*mortal kombat voice* FINISH HIM#i love without-a-cure but unfortunately i dont think SQQ would be able to have WAC and also survive in the abyss.#the succubi nest that adopted him tried seducing him at first. it didn't work. but he did somehow charm them with his cringefail ways#so now they have a brand new mortal big/little brother to dote on. SQQ is frankly delighted to learn all about succubi culture that doesnt#revolve around sex. he makes quite a few friends/allies in the abyss because of his pure fascination and unbiased desire to learn about#demonic culture and all the different niches and nuances of it across species. he's still going insane tho. like that's not stopping.#there's a single LBH pov chapter in the fic and its frankly so unhinged it was fantastic. he's so possessive. he straight up goes:#'oh SQQ isnt gonna be the next peak lord. he's ascending to heaven with me when i do :)' when Sha Hualing (also peak lord) told him that he#couldn't keep his disciple in the bamboo house all the time. what was SQQ gonna do when LBH ascends and he becomes the new peak lord?#gosh that first chapter is rotating around in my mind so bad. LBH was SO unwell. like losing his actual shit over SQQ near the edge.#i so want to write a oneshot abt this where SQQ is also in hysterics (albeit over slightly diff reasons) and tells LBH on his knees:#'this disciple deeply apologizes to his shizun. for he will not be ascending to the heavens with him.' right before he falls into the abyss#this au being disciple SY is for shits and giggles but i can also see it happening for regular SQQ bc 'fuck it im a dead man either way'#frothing at the mouth at this idea also being a SY-is-SJ au too. for the extra angst of SQQ trying to bear the weight of multiple lives on#his shoulders and trying to figure out what is real and what isn't and if he's meant to suffer in all of his lives no matter what he does.#not once in his life has he ever been free to do what he likes has he? self-hatred to the max. he's going mad. poor boy :]
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there's nothing I love more about lcf than the fact that almost all of the main characters are survivors and how it seriously engraves into you, again and again, the importance of being alive FIRST. It's so refreshing to see an mc who prioritizes safety more than anything else, who won't push past the limits.. like serious limits of everyone just for the sake of winning(now if cale can also do this and walk his talk, it would be perfect.. but that wouldn't make him the cale that we all know and love). it provides you with this mentality that retreating doesn't mean immediate failure, and that there will always be another chance to try again. that one closed door doesn't imply a dead end but a chance to open an alternative path. it's such a simple message and yet we humans tend to forget it when we're facing adversities, a lot of times we're convinced we're forced to make self-destructive decisions... cale would prob have plans A to Z but there would never be a single one among them that has the possibility of him losing anyone even himself. so yes!! being alive is the best!!
#and it gets even better when you think that theyre all survivors who have lost someone and doesnt want a repear of it#so now they think of everyone's well being first and somehow keep each other alive and safe and taken care of#i was reading some lcf reaction fics and when the scene where cale said being alive is the best came up i suddenly wanted to babble about i#lcf#cale henituse#tcf#lout of the count’s family#trash of the count's family#lout of the count's family#kim rok soo
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family visit 🏝️
(ghosts can be haunted too)
[Scala script translation in alt text]
#my art#khdr#xehanort#ephemer#khux player#the small eph and xeha art piece that somehow turned into a comic#I hope I’ve pulled on your heartstrings in at least 3 different ways :)#I have so many thoughts about eph being stuck in some kind of limbo#whether it was intentional or not he watches over everybody#all his descendants can sense him to some degree but they can only /see/ him when they’re very young#xehanort is like this. but since he’s more sensitive maybe he’d feel eph’s presence even if he can’t see him#like even as a teen and adult#and the way he wished to meet eph (and the others) even as an old man; endlessly chasing those dreams he had as a kid 😭#why’d they give us that mirror scene man. hurtful.#and on the other hand eph has been ‘alive’ for so long he loses track of time; it’s all one big circle to him#yearghh. that’s my tag ramble for the day#my posts#timeless familia#aeon oc#khx player
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Farmer Lars and Shane shenanigans
Ref under. Spoilers, it's the grumps
#oh hey it's been forever#alive somehow ?#anyway I haven't even played 1.6 that much#(like at all but hey)#i still think about their dynamic#it's frankly hilarious how Lars is here to make Shane worse (as in being a dumbass)#i want to draw more but i'm busyyyy#art#my art#sdv#stardew valley#shane stardew valley#sdv shane#sdv farmer#sdv fanart#stardew valley fanart
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like, i know regulus being mean is his some kind of love language, but since he's a traumatized twink who isolates himself more than he drinks water, of course, meeting james and being his friend is not the every day event we see.
i think regulus would've had, like, so much affection to give that the moment he got comfortable, he rambles a lot and acts like a smartass. in the most humble way possible. but he's scared he'll ruin their relationship because he might be too much or too overwhelming. he doesn't know james literally cries from appreciating everything he does.
#jegulus#regulus arcturus black#everyone is gay#regulus x james#regulus being regulus#james x regulus#starchaser#regulus black#jegulus incorrect quotes#james fleamont potter#james potter#james loves regulus#marauders era#marauders au#me and my girlfriend#im a mess#im alive#somehow
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blood dripped from Poseidon's mouth, red.
red.
the day they overthrew Kronos, child-eater (stomach acid crawling around them, after maw of teeth grazing his small, child body), his golden ichor bled red.
god blood, degraded into a mortal's.
the day Typhon, father of monsters (as big as their father was, as big as the Titans with sharp claws and teeth) ripped out Zeus' tendons, his blood was red.
Poseidon, god of the tides, son of Kronos, looked up at the dark shape stood above him, his own golden trident in his hand, the teeth like prongs drenched in red.
Odysseus is a mortal. was a human.
sharp webbed ears spread out on the side of their head, scales grew around their neck and arms, shining like a coral reef, illuminated by their growing red eyes, that were shrunken to slits.
Odysseus' teeth glinted in the lightning, showing their unnaturally sharp point.
monster.
#small snippet that i can't develop any further.#this is uh#Ithacan Naga AU#didn't mean to talk about Poseidon's probable trauma with Kronos but here we are. do you think particularly salty or poisoned water reminds#poseidon of stomach acid? do you think the original five olympians are closer knit with each other#from being eaten alive as a child and then growing up in a stomach?#do you think hestia is the goddess of family cause she was the oldest sister and had to care for the others the most? that hades find an un#ealthy comfort in the darkness of the underworld? How do you think stomach acid was for Poseidon; as god of the sea? if that was the closes#he could get to his domain in a /stomach/? The same with demeter? only chewed up food as the closest to agriculture?#do you think hera understood - somehow - that this hurt their mother?#sigh#and all and all Zeus was really only able to lead them so easily afterwards is cause they didn't /know/ what to do after they were freed?#/AND/ Zeus really isn't privy to any of it; cause of course he isn't (nor does he care to know).#didn't mean to rant with that but. yup. anyway#tbh i want to draw a part of this to show the webbed ears w/ head-wings so. yeah. maybe. i'm still getting used to my new drawing tablet an#my sketchbook fell in water a while ago and i've been frozen on how to deal with it. so. yeah.#anyway#600 strike#vengence saga#epic the musical#the vengeance saga#epic the vengeance saga#why do we have so many tags for the same thing ;.)#six hundred strike#odysseus epic#epic odysseus#odysseus#writing#poseidon epic#epic poseidon
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HL Incorrect Quote #62
*in the Scriptorium*
Sebastian: Extraordinary! I could stay in here all day!
Ominis: I would rather we didn't. I wish for us to leave as soon as-
*slurping sounds*
Sebastian and Ominis: *turn to see and hear MC sipping from a cup*
Sebastian: Where did you get that?
MC: Oh, it was just sitting here.
Ominis: And you DRANK it? Do you not realize how long that beverage had to be sitting there?
MC: It was only a little dusty.
Ominis: A little-?! You are going to kill yourself one of these days!
Sebastian: Why would you just drink some random cup of...whatever is in there?
MC: I think it was tea. You're telling me you're not curious what kind of tea a founder of Hogwarts drank?
Sebastian:
Sebastian: Well, when you put it like that-
Ominis: DON'T ENCOURAGE THIS-
#can we talk about the fact the game lets mc drink random cups of drinks from ANYWHERE#One of the cups in fact being in the Scriptorium which had to have been unvisited for centuries???#I think we're sleeping on how deranged mc actually is#We can hand wave the unforgivables and constantly casting revelio and spinning globes but I draw the line at drinking random cups#Anyway sebastian and mc share a braincell and ominis has to try to handle them#mc is somehow still alive despite obvious food poisoning#hogwarts mc#sebastian sallow#ominis gaunt#hogwarts legacy#hogwarts legacy incorrect quotes
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Book 7 Spoilers ahead!!!
hmmmmm Lilia x Reader where you're a member of the Silver Owls but you have no loyalty to them so you betray them by secretly playing spy for the fae in exchange for peace, quiet, and safety if you help them win. The fae don't really trust you, especially Lilia, but he knows opportunity when he sees one. They just have to be careful about how much they trust you.
Because of the nature of your agreement you end up meeting up and exchanging letters with the Phantom General of the Briar fae a lot to relay information. At first it's just that and your meetings are all really just pure business, but then Lilia complains about Princess Malenoa and everyone pushing jobs onto him. This spurs you on to complain about Henrik and how all he does is order people around and lounge around all day. The two of you end up bonding over your demanding and tiring jobs and gradually grow closer each letter.
Aside from exchanging information, the two of you begin to exchange stories and tales and knowledge. You begin to know each other on different facets that no one else knows and confide in each other your deepest thoughts, fears, and insecurities. The two of you have a lot in common and understand each other so well that it just makes it so easy and natural and comfortable to be open like this. No one else have ever made either of you feel safe enough to share your most deepest secrets (not even Malenoa and Revan in Lilia's case. They're his best friends but they're also his superiors. There's just some things he can't talk about with them.) so it's so nice to finally find someone that does.
The two of you fall slowly, but you fall hard.
Neither of you admit this to each other of course. A war is no time for something as silly and trivial as love and romance and you both know that neither of you have time for a relationship. So you both pine and yearn in silence, either from your fortresses miles away from each other, or several feet apart on the rare occasions you meet up in person—so close yet still so far.
In one of your letters you relay to Lilia your worry that someone might be catching on. Lilia's heart twists in fear and his mind races with paranoid thoughts and possibilities. He doesn't show any concern in his response aside from acknowledging your worry, but he does tell you to be careful. He reasons that it would be unfortunate for the fae if their most valuable informant were to be discovered. (he activated tsundere mode to cope)
He sends the letter and goes about his duties. Days pass. Weeks. He realises during some off-time that he hasn't heard from you in a while. More time passes. No sign of a response from you.
Lilia says to himself that it's fine. It's nothing. It's no big deal. You're probably just occupied, or finally realised how dangerous it was to keep associating with the enemy. It's fine. The fae forces have managed before without your assistance. It's fine it's fine it's fine
he's not fine
(Part 2)
#twisted wonderland#lilia vanrouge#book 7 spoilers#twst book 7 spoilers#lilia vanrouge x you#lilia vanrouge x reader#twisted wonderland imagines#there're so many possibilities for what happens next#you're either straight up dead (either by your own doing or execution)#lilia either never finds out about this or finds your body later on (depending on what kind of angst you prefer)#or you're still alive but in hiding because you got discovered and lilia finds you later on#OR lilia somehow hears about you being discovered and comes to your rescue in the nick of time#and we get some hurt/comfort as he takes you into the safety of fae territory and treats your injuries
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Round 7
Till doesn’t fight back as he’s fitted into his costume; a tailored, white suit.
Far more expensive than anything he’s ever worn or owned. Restrictive in a way he knows Luka’s isn’t.
He doesn’t argue when they slick his hair back. Or when they take out his piercings.
He doesn’t even look in the mirror once he’s ready.
Someone nearby whispers that he “looks like a prince.”
The collar of the jacket is too tight around his neck.
Don’t think about it.
The stage is dark when Till is shoved out to take his position.
A sea of stars unfolds above him, stretching out across the deep black yawn of space. Till allows himself a moment to look.
His heart stutters as something bright and fast streaks across the sky.
A meteor.
A shooting star.
He remembers when the sky was a brilliant orange and dozens of stars fell as easy as the rain.
Don’t think about it.
The overhead lights come on, nearly blinding him, and the crowd roars below. Luka must be making his entrance.
Till doesn’t look at the audience. He doesn’t look at Luka either.
His gaze drops to the stage beneath him, trying in vain to tune out all of the noise.
He blinks.
Once. Twice.
Blood pools at his feet. Soaks the soles of his boots.
Don’t think about him.
Till grips the microphone and squeezes his eyes shut.
The music starts.
Luka sings the opening lyrics… but it doesn’t sound quite like him.
This voice…
It’s higher. Sweeter. Familiar.
His eyes snap up, locking on to the figure across the stage from him. Glowing like an angel under the spotlight.
Mizi.
Still in her white dress with her long pink hair pulled back.
Just as she left them. Left him.
Till’s heart aches.
She turns to him, letting her golden gaze settle over his.
What he wouldn’t have done for her to look at him like that when they were kids.
Slowly, as she draws out the last note of the line, her lips lift into a gentle smile.
Something cracks.
Wait—
That smile doesn’t look right. It doesn’t feel right.
It feels like—
It feels like Luka…
Flashes of Round 5 hit Till hard and fast.
Mizi in a daze. Luka dancing circles around her. Getting too close. Smiling that same smile.
This is exactly what Luka did to Mizi. This is why she snapped.
Till doesn’t question who Luka pretended to be to get a rise out of her.
He knew it wasn’t him.
Luka comes closer, still wearing Mizi’s face.
He can’t move. Can’t run. Can’t think.
A strong hand cups his right cheek.
Till lunges.
He can barely hear the music over the thundering in his ears and the sound of his fists meeting Luka’s face over and over again.
That bastard is grinning up at him like he already won.
Till just hits harder.
Blood pours out of Luka’s nose and splatters on his suit.
For a moment, it’s Mizi looking up at him with a bloodied face.
Till doesn’t stop.
He won’t stop until they put him down.
Just like Sua. Just like Mizi. Just like—
Ivan.
Dark eyes bore into him as they slowly drain of life.
White suit. Slicked back hair. He looks like a prince.
They dressed me just like you.
His lips are still red.
Till stares back into the only gaze that ever wanted to hold him.
As if it could make up for all of the times he looked away.
The fire raging inside him freezes over. For a moment, everything is quiet.
At the end of this story…
There is only a cold spot stained with blood…
No gods. No worshippers.
#till metaphorically destroying the version of mizi he’s idolized for years#think of it as character building/destroying to prepare him for joining the rebellion#imagine the rebels charging in right after this to save him#this is my version of round 7 (i’m pre-coping)#plus a little ivantill thrown in at the end as a treat#in my mind luka switched from being mizi to being ivan because he realized till was going to kill him in his blind rage#so luka had to make till stop somehow#no gods because sua and mizi (from till’s pov) are dead#no worshippers because till no longer worships mizi (and also sua and mizi (again from till’s pov) are dead)#ivan is also gone (not dead)#till is still ivan’s god but what is a god without a worshipper?#also ivan is alive but that’s not relevant right now#alien stage#alnst#alien stage till#alnst till#alien stage mizi#alnst mizi#alien stage ivan#alnst ivan#alien stage luka#alnst luka#alien stage round 7#alnst round 7#alien stage ivantill#alnst ivantill#ivantill#cw blood#ivanttakethis talks too much
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How would you make mario a villain?
Huh! Tricky one. I mean, there's tons of Newgrounds parodies about how fucked up it is that Mario goes around crushing turts all day, and there's the obvious "silent scary henchman of the image-conscious dictator" angle. Tricky to cast him as the villain rather than the muscle, though...
There's only one thing that notably motivates Mario, and that's Princess Peach. Extreme devotion, there. For him to have agency, she needs to be removed from the picture- and I think that neatly answers the motive thing, too. Peach hasn't been kidnapped, this time- there's something more permanent. But what? "She's been killed and he's out for revenge" is a little 3edgy5me, and also if Mario sets out to get revenge I think he just gets it. His antagonists have rarely put up the kind of fight that would require him to concoct a villainous scheme.
Who's the protagonist, if not Mario? What is Mario doing that requires someone else to go on an adventure opposing him? How do we make this something that Nintendo would actually consider releasing?
...Okay, what's Mario's usual M.O.? How do we make that villainous? He... goes to dangerous places, nimbly circumvents all obstacles in his way, and claims powerful, usually star-shaped magical objects, in order to rescue the princess. This time... he isn't really concerning himself with who the rightful owners of said magical objects are.
It's a Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego situation. There's been a rash of heists committed by a strange masked phantom thief, and the protagonist's job is to find out how the relics were stolen and where the culprit hid them, and get them back before their clients suffer dire consequences as a result of missing-magic-item-itis. You investigate crime scenes, pick up the phantom thief's trail, chase him down, and bop him one but good to recover the relic and save the day.
This is complicated somewhat because this phantom thief is in league with Bowser, who keeps causing trouble in ways that the phantom thief takes advantage of to get past security. The Koopa Troop often assists the phantom thief in his getaways. Why are they working together???
Flash back. Mario standard plot- Bowser has kidnapped the princess. This time, he's done it using some magic item or invention doohickey whose provenance he doesn't quite understand, which has turned Princess Peach to stone. True to form, Mario goes through several another castles and thrashes Bowser and breaks his evil doohickey, and... uh. This fails to rescue the princess. She is still a statue.
Bowser doesn't know why she's still a statue, and both of them panic. How do they fix this?! They need to try something- find some new magic thing that'll bring her back! They've heard of the Sacred Star of Healing in one of the neighboring Kingdoms (which exist in infinite supply in the Mario universe to be adventured through precisely once and then forgotten about forever), and agree to work together to steal it and use it to restore Peach.
It doesn't work. They ditch it somewhere. They follow up on another rumor- the Golden Coin Spirit in the Treasure Kingdom or whatever, and that's a bust too. And after a couple of these, the international community is forced to call in an expert to catch this thief and bring him to justice.
So who's our protagonist? Who in the Mario universe is a famous detective who specializes in guarding star-shaped magical relics from would-be burglars? WHAT IMPROBABLY LARGE-BRAINED PENGUIN COULD POSSIBLY THWART THIS MASTER CRIMINAL?!?
#villain ask meme#i'd kind of like a subplot where it turns out peach is just like#fully alive and somewhere else and the statue is just a statue that got swapped out somehow#hence no attempts to magically restore the statue succeeding#but idk how to do that without it being her fault for not just letting people know she's alive and solving the plot#i'd give it more thought but this is long enough
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pimms + noah kahan, stick season
as you promised me that i was more than all the miles combined you must have had yourself a change of heart like halfway through the drive 'cause your voice trailed off exactly as you passed my exit sign kept on driving straight and left our future to the right
for @ohyoufool <3
#it's about being crushingly grateful that your best friend is alive#even though he simply doesn't speak to you (doesn't want to speak to you?)#and you used to know how to act around him. but not anymore.#somehow that doesn't stop you for thanking whatever uncaring god is out there that he's still breathing#anyway#hope y'all enjoy <3#jack zimmermann#kent parson#pimms#omgcp#my edits
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