#specifically the darksteels

[besiegedhunter]

I never thought that Red's plotline could lead to discoveries about origins of Ancient, but with your explanation, it makes a lot of sense.

Also, I know you more a Siracusa person, but you mentioned Nearl and Pegasus, and do you think Maria's plotline in future could be about her Elder heritage, with her having the most connection with it in family(Pegasian eyes and golden blood)?

Thank you! I'm pretty confident in the idea but even if they do something else with her story I'm excited to find out what (though it'd have to cover the Beast Lords and their connection with Ancients.)

But hey Kazimierz is my second favourite nation in the game and I'm more than happy to dicuss other topics. I just have a difficult time thinking them up lol.

That said I'm not the most versed in the topic of Blemishine's situation but doing a bit of research into it I don't think I can see Blemishine having a future plotline regarding Elders.

Maybe the devs will look at Blemishine and want her to be in or spearhead another kind of story but my reading about that moment in NL-8 is that that bit is actually about Tola's character development then teasing something about Blemishine.

I could be wrong, I've not read her module or oprec.

But my thoughts on this scene is that Tola and Blemishine are both trying to uphold their family legacies. Legacies of the Nightzmora Khagan and the Pegasian Knights like the one from the legend of the Khagan and Golden Pegasus that Tola is looking to repeat.

They lack their own convictions but this scene is about Blemishine, in the face of Tola, gathers her own conviction and own belief of what a knight is to stand her ground and protect her family. Her arts are what makes her blood appear gold and it's not meant to suggest she's special but to be symbolic of her gathering her own conviction and strength like the other members of her family and the golden pegasus.

And Tola sees this and knows that she isn't the golden pegasus, she lacks the strength of Nearl or her family. But she has gained her own conviction and willingness to sacrifice herself for her beliefs that he lacks.

As he says, he still desires to fight Nearl. He still retains that he himself is going to emulate the Khagan like he does in his fight after this scene with the Blood Knight and as he says:

Because he believes he can grow strong off the conviction of the Khagan.

But he recognizes that she has virtues that he lacks despite his belief in his Khaganquest and that lesson he was taught is why he walks away.

Which isn't nearly as fun or exciting or satisfying as Blemishine being special even among the other Nearls but I think...? Think that's what the writers was intending with this scene.

I'd be overjoyed to be proven wrong but I don't think that Blemishine is any different from the other Nearls. For example Platinum's S2 is named Pegasian Sight and there's this line from Pinus Sylvestris that seems to canonize this as something she has in the story:

And with Ho'olheyak's lore that ten thousand years ago her ancestors were actual Kukulkan, it's likely that the Nearls and other Pegasus also were actual Pegasus and likely needed better eyesight akin to a bird's to be able to see while they fly through the sky and it persisted to modern day Pegasus.

A point is probably only made with Blemishine because she's an underdog who has to use everything she has to win, like her engineering knowledge when fighting the Plastic Knight.

For example, Nearl demonstrates at the end of Maria Nearl and in the PV of Near Light (which I believe Pinus Sylvestris refrences, making it canon) the ability to fly and so she likely uses her Pegasian Sight then.

That said, Tola says that Blemishine's name would go down in history and while I don't know if she is returning to being a knight anytime soon (my impression is that the story wants her to chase her desire to be a smith) it would be interesting to see her get a Bloodline of Combat skin or a event revolving around her.

That's my thoughts on the matter.

[bones4thecats]

Sorry, maybe you can do, Tfp Predacons x Predacon femme reader, where the Predacons compete for the reader's love

TFP! Predacons Fight for Predacon! S/O

Characters: POLY! Predaking, Darksteel, and Skylynx Requester: 🐻Anon A/N: I'll call you 🐻Anon just because I like bears and they fight more than a dove or dragon do (I use character emojis first, okay?!) Anyways, hope you like this!! ⚠️ Spoilers/Trigger Warnings for: Just fluff <3 ⚠️ P.S: The Predacon! Reader is based on a Chimera (specifically two pieces of art I found on Quora and InCryptid Wiki)

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╚═════ Predaking + Darksteel + Skylynx ═══════════════╝

🐉🐻🕊️ This was getting very annoying for you. You, as a fellow Predacon, understood that having a more rough-and-tumble personality was normal for your kind. But the way that these three were handling it was beyond you

🐉🐻🕊️ You were in your alt-mode, one resembling a 'Chimera' as Raf once said, just watching as the trio 'play fought'. But you of all beings understood that with each hit they laid on another another, they meant everything personally

🐉 You were closest with Predaking. He was created a little while before you, and since you both arrived to serve Megatron together, your bond was by-far the strongest out of all other Cybertronians you had met and befriended

🐉 Unknowingly to you, the self-proclaimed King of Predacons had begun to see as more than an ally and fellow Predacon. He began to see you as a potential sparkmate, not because of his dream of your kind rising back up, but because he loved you

🐻 Darksteel on the other hand, was a pain in your aft. He would constantly mess with your different appendages. And I mean that

🐻 This guy would sneak up behind you whenever you were resting and just randomly mess with your horns, serpent-like tail, and your hooves. And whenever he wouldn't stop, you would snap your deadly tail at him, which made him laugh, say bye, and fly off

🕊️ Finally, with Skylynx. He did not like you at first and the same went with you, you kinda hated him. Not as much as you did Megatron for keeping you hostage and trying to kill Predaking years prior, but it still wasn't a small hatred

🕊️ But, as time passed, you both grew to enjoy one another's company. You would fly by and talk about how you were on your last nerve with Darksteel and how you were so close to beating him to scrap-metal, much to the lighter-Predacon's amusement

🐉🐻🕊️ To sum it up; Predaking liked you because you grew together and were really close, Darksteel liked you because you could be kind-yet-deadly when provoked (entertaining), and Skylynx liked you because you shared some things in common yet were different enough to be fun around

🐉🐻🕊️ But, as you grew close with the trio, they began to notice how they treated you. Predaking would be around you the most, huddling up next to you in your alt-modes to recharge, Darksteel would play-fight and fly around with you, and Skylynx would spend more time talking and acting like best-friends with you

🐉🐻🕊️ Unfortunately for you that day, the three mechs all asked you observe their strengths and deem one the winner. You knew what they really wanted, they wanted you to watch them fight for dominance and pick one to bond with. That all leads you to now

🐉🐻🕊️ As they all put their full-potential into this fight, you heard an engine rumble behind you. You stood and saw that it was the Autobot you were closest to, Bulkhead, driving towards your form

"Bulkhead. It's nice to see you after a while." You said, a playful smirk coming on your face.

"Yeah, same to you, Y/N." He replied.

🐉🐻🕊️ Your smirk turned into a genuine smile as you sat back down, this time in your bipedal-mode and patted the spot next to you for him to sit down and speak

🐉🐻🕊️ Bulkhead sat down and looked as the three Predacons continued their fight, they tails, wings, or claws swinging left and right as they either dodged or got hit. He chuckled as you groaned in annoyance

"Now you know how Ultra Magnus felt whenever Jackie did something against his orders." He joked.

"I suppose."

🐉🐻🕊️ As you and Bulkhead spoke about the finalization on territories for the Autobots and Predacons, the mechs had finally narrowed themselves down to their final attacks. Darksteel and Skylynx attempted to hit Predaking, making him transform and pin them down with his large clawed-feet

"Well, I guess you have a winner now." Bulkhead announced, making you look up and down at the three mechs' final stance.

"I'm not surprised. He won against them last time, why would this time be any different?"

"Fair. Anyways, I should get going. Ultra Magnus said that he would bring by the territory-mapping for you guys to finalize in about a cycle, is that okay?"

"Yep. See you, Bulkhead!"

"See ya', Y/N!"

🐉🐻🕊️ You looked back at the guys and sighed, noticing how they were now beginning to wrestle on the ground, screaming about how they would win the spark of yours no matter what

🐉🐻🕊️ Rolling your optics, you transformed and began flying down to where they were before lifting your back legs, kicking Skylynx away, taking your claws and scratching Darksteel while punching him back before using your serpent-tail to grab Predaking and take him down to the floor before transforming once more

"Quit your bickering, you sound like a bunch of sparklings." You demanded.

🐉🐻🕊️ The three each groaned in pain as your tail swayed and and you walked away to where the remains of Team Prime were working, leaving the guys to heal themselves

"They like me best."

"They do not!"

"Yeah, they like me best, Skylynx!"

"Shut up, Darksteel!"

[weenwrites]

Cooking A Meal: Part 2

Summary - You ask one of the cons to cook you a meal, but honestly it goes about as well as you'd expect. Characters - Megatron, Shockwave, Starscream, Soundwave, Dreadwing, Knockout, Breakdown, Airachnid, Predaking, Darksteel, Skylynx Content - Crack Category - Headcanons Trigger Warnings - None

✎ A/N: This is an un-revised shitpost, not something too serious.

[ Please do not repost, plagiarize, or use my writing for AI! Translating my work with proper credit is acceptable, but please ask first! ]

Megatron

Don't even bother having him try to cook you something, he can't cook at all. More often than not he'll just send some vehicon off to fetch you a meal, but when he's actually put in a kitchen and told to cook a meal, he'll probably serve you a plate of charred... Stuff.

It reeks and honestly you can't even tell what it used to be. The most he knows about cooking is that humans always heat up their food. He doesn't know how cooked a piece of meat or a slice of bread has to be, and despite knowing how useful patience is, he can't bring himself to wait a couple minutes for a slice of bread to turn golden brown.

Even with some instructions he doesn't understand a single word on that page. What does "fold in the cheese" even mean?! All in all, the food tastes awful, the presentation is awful, and it's not even a nice experience, he somewhat cleans his mess, but still, it's an awful experience. Even your local fast food restaurant would serve something better than what he could make you.

Shockwave

He wouldn't be too bad at cooking... However the meal he's served you is most likely made from some artificial substitute... It's not bad, per say, and it has a higher nutritional value than everything in your kitchen combined, but... He didn't stand in a kitchen to make it, he stood in a lab and fabricated it. That aside, it's plain and has a bit of a weird taste, the presentation sucks, and it's not naturally made, it was fabricated in a laboratory. It counts as science. Not cooking. So nevermind, he'd be bad at cooking.

But if he were to cook, he'd get into the technicalities of all, and spout food science facts at you. He'd tell you all about how proteins in meat force out moisture through coagulation, and that's how meat cooks. Or how amino acids and simple sugars are rearranged to change the color of meat as it cooks. Unless you know about food science yourself, all it may sound like some scientific garble to you. Whether you implore him to continue or not is all up to you.

But just because he knows about the chemical composition of a cracker doesn't mean he knows how to make things taste good. He chooses things based on their nutritional value, not their taste. Everything from meal portions, to seasonings, to even the temperature it was cooked at is all carefully measured to ensure that you're getting your healthy fill of nutrients. He doesn't even allow you to season it afterwards, because any more seasoning would disturb the healthy balance.

Still, while it may be nutritious, it certainly isn't delicious, but at least it's 100% edible and extremely healthy.

Starscream

He didn't know humans cooked their food, he thought they just ate it as is. So you'll have to explain a lot of stuff to him before either of you actually get anywhere. But once he gets the basics down, he'll be off to a rough, yet good start!

He's very particular about the way things are organized in a kitchen, and he'll get real annoyed if you moved something like a spatula or a spoon he was using. He's sorta set up this organization system in the kitchen that works specifically for him and no one else. While it may look like a mess on the outside, it works really well for him.

He'd never touch raw meat, even if it were to cook for you. He just hates the feeling, so you'd basically have no luck at getting him to scrub a chicken down with salt and seasoning unless you gave him a pair of gloves or a brush. But even if he's a bit squeamish, he's very thorough with his work, and very patient too. But he does complain about how long it takes for things to prepare things and then cook.

Might be a bit burnt here, and a bit bland over there, but if you pick some parts out and sprinkle some salt, pepper, spice, or hot sauce on it, it makes for a solid-ish meal! Which is pretty impressive, given the fact he once knew nothing about cooking a few hours ago.

Soundwave

They're actually a really good chef, better than everyone else, that's for sure. Soundwave knows where and how to learn what he needs to know, so it wouldn't take long for him to research and grasp the bare bones of cooking. And after a couple of tries, they could definitely whip you up a 5 star meal that tastes like something the best chef in the world would make.

It's almost scary how fast he learns, but hey at least you're getting like one of the best meals in the world using cheap ingredients from your fridge. Like who knew ketchup could taste so good in place of fancy marinara sauce!

And because of the amazing meal he made, it's without a doubt that he is the undisputed best chef aboard the Nemesis and everybody else's skills immediately pale in comparison. If it were a competition, it would've been over the moment they joined.

Dreadwing

Like almost everyone on this list, he has no idea what to do, and he has no idea what humans eat, so it ends up being a bit of a lecture before he actually starts cooking. It might take him a bit, and he'll stumble here and there, but he's always quick to ask good questions to ensure he has a solid grasp on what he needs to do.

He's quick to pick up anything you teach him, like about cutting vegetables, or seasoning meals, temperature, et cetera. And in a while, he's able to follow a recipe rather well, only occasionally coming to you to ask a question about what "folding" or "basting" or "al dente" means.

He'd serve you a pretty solid meal all in all. But on the off-chance that what he made for you had caused you to get sick, he'd immediately and sincerely apologize to you, and most likely never make you a meal ever again.

Knockout

He has some knowledge around human cooking thanks to the internet, and it helps the slightest bit, but for the most part he'll be bugging you with all his questions about human cuisine and cooking.

And all the while he's cooking, he'll ask you to fetch him things like that kitchen knife over there, or that measuring cup—no, not that one. That one was used for wet ingredients, he needs the other one that was used for dry ingredients, now chop chop. The clock's ticking. Or he'll holler at you to come and help hold the bowl as he scrapes the mixture into another pan.

Surprisingly, the kitchen actually remains rather nice and orderly throughout it all. He fills your sink with water and just leaves the dirty dishes in there to soak, and cleans messes the instant they're made, which greatly helps with clean-up afterward! But he won't touch the dishes. He just hates the feeling of scrubbing grimy food off, so you're on your own unless you give him a pair of gloves.

But as for the food itself? It's... Semi-decent! He may have burned it a little, or messed up one of the steps, but it still tastes good and it's still edible. He even decorates it nicely! He'd chop any vegetables into cute little shapes, and he has a good eye for presentation. So it's pretty nice.

Breakdown

He doesn't know anything about human cooking. He does question where the heck human food comes from though, and the most he knows is that humans consume other organisms, which he finds really weird. So in the beginning, the whole cooking session might be more of an educational session than anything, but only so he understands what humans can eat and what he should be doing.

He technically doesn't do any cooking since he just makes you things like instant noodles or instant mac n' cheese. But he'll need a bit of supervising because with the noodles, he'll put the seasoning packet in the water while the noodles are cooking, and then drain the noodles because he thought that the noodles would absorb the flavor (same goes for the mac n' cheese), but it turns out that the cheese water just goes down the drain. So it technically isn't completely his fault that the food may taste off (because instant food doesn't always taste that good...) but he does mess some of the steps up which contributes to that.

But with a little guidance here, and a little trial and error there, he'll actually be able to whip up something pretty decent using the instant stuff as a base! He'll add things like chopped up vegetables or spice for some flavor in some instant ramen, or cook the macaroni in milk and add some mustard for mac n' cheese, or perhaps crack an egg and add some garlic into some insta-soup.

All in all, it's a pretty solid meal for his first time cooking. But does it really technically count as cooking if he used an already pre-made thing to make it?

Airachnid

If she didn't care about you as much as she does, she would've fed you something poisonous if she didn't ignore your request first. She's... A questionable cook... To say the least, but one thing's for sure, all the meat she uses in her cooking is fresh. And I mean fresh as in "she dragged that animal into the kitchen and slaughtered it on the spot" kind of fresh, which is ideal if you're eating something that requires super fresh meat like oysters.

She doesn't burn the food, but she most likely under-cooks it. As for seasoning, well, she doesn't add any, so whatever you're eating will need a whole lot of salt, pepper, and spices either to taste like something, or to distract from the horrible taste the food already has.

But while the food may taste weird, the presentation's interesting. It's something of an art, made from something you don't even think you can call "food" anymore, but it's interesting to look at.

All in all, the food tastes horrible, the presentation's neat, and you're 100% guaranteed to get food poisoning if you scarf the entire meal down (which you won't, the stench is bad enough to kill even flies).

Predaking

He can't cook at all—actually, he doesn't even know what humans eat, so you'll have to explain to him quite a lot. Even then, he'll probably just bring you a dead animal and assume that's enough. You'll actually have to lecture him on cooking meat, preparing ingredients, and whatnot. So this whole thing turns into a cooking lesson as opposed to doing actual cooking.

He soaks all that knowledge up like a sponge, and with his newfound knowledge of cooking he's able to make something relatively decent for you, if not leaning more towards mediocre! The meal is something simple, probably from a cookbook you have at your house (or on the internet...)

All in all, while it's below average, it's probably above-par by your standards, given the fact you just taught him how to cook a hot second ago. The presentation is simple, the food actually tastes good, so all in all it's a pretty average meal.

Darksteel

Surprise, surprise! He is the worst cook out of them all. And here you might have thought that Predaking or Airachnid would've been the worst, but nope. It's him. He'd most likely burn your kitchen down, if not trash everything you have, and waste everything you have in your fridge. The best he does is bring you a dead animal that he "cooked" by spewing fire at it. Then again it's most likely either overcooked or undercooked and would definitely give you trichinellosis, E. coli, BSE, salmonella, or whatever other horrible disease you risk contracting by eating what he's served you.

But what about vegetables? He doesn't even know what a vegetable is, and unless you give him a really thorough description of what counts as a vegetable or not, he'd most likely just uproot a tree or pluck a bush out from the ground and give it to you, mildly scorched, because he remembered that you have to cook it.

If you were to ask him about presentation, he'd probably pose the scorched cattle or chicken he got his claws on, set the crisp "vegetables" upright, and think that's good enough "presentation".

Bottom line? Do not eat anything he gives you, it'll absolutely destroy your stomach.

Skylynx

Yeah he doesn't want to. He'd hate cooking so much because everything takes so long to do! He's sensible enough to do some research and learn, or ask you questions for clarification, but waiting for water to boil just drives him crazy.

He tries to work diligently and be patient, but you might catch him cutting corners a little bit. How so? Well, he'd raise the temperature of the stove to get something to cook faster, or if he needs to carefully ground something into a poultice, he'll just smush it into paste. If you're having something simple like mashed potatoes, then he has absolutely no problem preparing that.

He doesn't pay much attention to how it looks, so while the food he serves looks unappetizing as he straight up slaps it onto your plate, it actually tastes pretty decent... Ish... Decent-ish. Sure your food may have come out a bit burnt, or you might find some weird chunks in it, but it's better than what Darksteel has to offer, that's for sure.

[markrosewater]

So, I'm seeing a good bit of discourse about layers and how interactions work between cards like Darksteel Mutation and cards like Bello, Bard of the Bramble. And I'm wondering is there any particular reason why ability adding/removing is applied in layer six rather than between layers 3 and 4? Since atleast from what I can assume would lead to the cards functioning closer to as written?

Layers are not my area of expertise. I do know they are ordered specifically to maximize cards working as you assume.

For those unaware, layers are the technical means by which different effects have a preset order to ensure there’s an answer to how effects interact.

[incorrect-mtg]

Flavor Text Highlights

So, one thing that I did two years ago (and have kept updated since) on twitter was my flavor text thread, where I went through each set in Magic history and picked the top 4 (or, for some exceptional cases, 8) best pieces of flavor text in my opinion.

Since then, I have regreted some choices and very much dislike the fact I can't edit the original tweets to reflect changes on the rules I followed for card selection... So I might as well use Tumblr as the place to correct all that.

Every day from now on, I will re-post a set from the list until I catch up to it, then eventually update it as new magic sets come out. The rules for selection can be seen after the linebreak below (as well as a full list of sets I've already gone through, with links). The first one can be found here.

1- Categorization

I will always try to select a diverse list of cards so as to fill the following 4 categories of flavor text types:

Cool - Boasts and descriptions that serve to make the subject matter of the card seem powerful and/or interesting.

Funny - Dialogue, descriptions or epigrams meant to get a laugh out of you

Worldbuilding - Flavor text whose biggest strength comes not from what it says on its own, but how it helps build upon either the world the set takes place in or the story of the set in question

Emotional - This one could conceivably be separated in two whole categories, but it encompasses cards that would fill the same niche as the "Cool" category but with a specific focus on either sadness or horror.

However, there will be situations where there might be a number of good flavor texts within a certain category while another is found lacking of any truly great options. In such scenarios, I will simply remove one (and in rare cases more) of the categories and repeat one of the remaining options. For an extreme example, the first Un-sets barely had any non-Funny options, so when picking cards from those sets most/all of the picks will be from the Funny category.

2- Card Selection

Cards will be reviewed only if they have new flavor text (using scryfall's "new:flavor" filter) and only if it's original flavor text (aka no real world references or quotes from literature) while sets will either be reviewed alone or grouped up depending on the amount of eligible cards in the set. Although I don't have a hard cut-off point for how many new flavor texts a set needs to be reviewed alone, the general range is around 150.

For sets that don't reach that number, they will either be bundled with an associated set (i.e. reviewing Commander precons with their associated Standard set) or bundled with a lot of other smaller products until a suitable number is reached (i.e. bundling all early Masters sets and Duel Decks together, since the amount of new flavor texts in those products is very low).

2.1 - Cycles

For some sets, a collection of cards (usually a cycle) will have flavor texts that work together, expand on each other or combine into a single theme. If said interaction is particularly good or if there isn't already a good flavor text that can stand up on its own, a cycle might be picked for a specific entry. Below, I will try to set up a list of every post for this, in order:

Alpha/Beta/Unlimited

Antiquities

Legends

The Dark

Fallen Empires

Ice Age | Homelands | Alliances

Mirage | Visions | Weatherlight

Portal

Tempest | Stronghold | Exodus

Portal Second Age

Unhinged + Unglued

Urza's Saga | Urza's Legacy | Urza's Destiny

Mercadian Masques | Nemesis | Prophecy

Invasion | Planeshift | Apocalypse

Odyssey | Torment | Judgment

Onslaught | Legions | Scourge

Mirrodin | Darksteel | Fifth Dawn

Champions of Kamigawa | Betrayers of Kamigawa | Saviors of Kamigawa

Core Sets (4th Edition - 10th Edition)

Ravnica: City of Guilds | Guildpact | Dissension

Coldsnap

Time Spiral | Planar Chaos | Future Sight

Lorwyn | Morningtide | Shadowmoor | Eventide

Duel Decks

Shards of Alara | Conflux | Alara Reborn

Magic 2010

Zendikar | Worldwake | Rise of the Eldrazi

Magic 2011

Scars of Mirrodin | Mirrodin Besieged | New Phyrexia

Commander Precons (Commander 2011 - Commander 2019)

Magic 2012

Innistrad | Dark Ascension | Avacyn Restored

Magic 2013

Return to Ravnica | Gatecrash | Dragon's Maze

Masters Sets

Magic 2014

Theros | Born of the Gods | Journey into Nyx

Conspiracy + Conspiracy: Take the Crown

Magic 2015

Khans of Tarkir | Fate Reforged | Dragons of Tarkir

Magic Origins

Battle for Zendikar | Oath of the Gatewatch

Shadows Over Innistrad | Eldritch Moon

Kaladesh | Aether Revolt

Amonkhet | Hour of Devastation

Ixalan | Rivals of Ixalan

Unstable + Unsanctioned

Dominaria

Battlebond

Magic 2019

Guilds of Ravnica | Ravnica Allegiance | War of the Spark

[cyberrose2001]

Updated: 29th September 2024

At the moment, I won’t be doing them in any specific order. If I can’t find motivation for a fic, then I’ll move on to another and leave it for later.

If one of the fics listed below is bolded, that means I am currently writing it

1. TFRID15 or TFA Grimlock (??) x Reader (baby dino grimlock, GN reader, human reader, platonic, sfw)

2. TFP Soundwave & Shockwave x Reader (general headcanons, femme reader, cybertronian reader, nsfw)

3. TFP Optimus x Reader (rescuing reader from megatron, smut ending, human, fem, afab, nsfw)

4. TFP Darksteel, Skylynx, Predaking x Reader (threesome turned foursome, fem, cybertronian, nsfw)

5. TFP Synth-En Optimus x Reader (flirting, human, fem, perhaps nsfw)

6. MTMTE Dratchet x Reader (breeding kink, rut cycles, human, afab, nsfw)

7. RB Heatwave x Reader (human, fem, afab, nsfw)

8. TFP Synth-En Wheeljack x Reader (breeding kink, human, afab, nsfw)

9. TF One D-16/Megatron x Reader (size difference, cybertronian, gn reader, nsfw or sfw)

10. TF One Bee x Reader (human, fem, fluff/suggestive)

11. TFP Megatron x Reader (breeding kink, human, afab, nsfw)

12. TF One or TFA Sentinel Prime x Reader (multiple orgasms, overstimulation, creampie, breeding, cybertronian, afab, nsfw)

13. MTMTE Whirl x Reader (filthy smut, human reader, afab, nsfw)

15. TFP Starscream x Reader (tit sucking/nursing, human, fem, afab, nsfw)

14. MTMTE Prowl x Reader (quality time, relaxing, human, fem, sfw or nsfw)

16. TFP OptiRatch x Reader (praise kink, breeding, human, ftm, nsfw)

[hallucinateonpaperspines]

i know your doing platonic relationships for OT&T(Minus Knockout and Breakdown since those two are husbands) but do you ever have any parings you think would fit with Ash? Like does she have a type or plan to enter one later on, or she is planing to be self-filling sometimes doombringer sometimes Mom friend type of person?

Cause i can honestly see Ratchet just holding a wrench all while calmly explaining how many ways a person get injured or worse to any possible suiter.

Honestly, any chance of a romantic relationship I can see would occur after OT&T, I have been toying with the idea of a potential sequel to the story, but that is a long way off.

Any suitor of Ashlyn's would have to be mildly insane themselves, and would, depending on the point of the story we're in, have a very *colorful* variety of shovel talk givers. Ratchet, of course, is expected, but it's the utter randomness of individuals who hear about this match-up and take it upon themselves to warn the poor lunatic about what would happen if they pull something. Most of it is "Do not come to me for help, because I will toss you out to Dr Doom."

For OT&T, Ashlyn will remain a single mom-friend. There will be a couple flirting instances, but that will be either for manipulative purposes (see Giving The Talk; Fannon Edition, to escape interrogations) or obliviousness to what is happening. She's a socially awkward madwoman in survival mode, anything goes and she cannot understand broken plot events until they are painted in neon and sparkling.

That said, I do think she would have a specific type. A rebel, chivalrous, bad boy type that would drive Ratchet up the fragging wall. Angst is attracted to angst, dramatics to dramatics, adrenaline to adrenaline. She would be the type to find Predaking hot, and Skylynx or Darksteel hotter if they play their cards right.

She's a personality girl, but dang if the ability to breathe fire, or turn into a beast, or bond over angsty beginnings, isn't attractive. Not to mention the protective family bond and threatening death for harming someone, oh, she's swooning already! It isn't so much an "I can fix him" as a "your jagged pieces are perfection, let's build a sword out of it and hang it on the wall!"

Ratchet has to sit her down and tell her murder isn't an attractive trait. Doesn't change the fact he would be out there bearing a wrench like it's Excalibur should any of the metal dragons break her heart. There are no exceptions to the Shovel Talk.

(no there will be no human/bot relationships in this fic... do with that information what you will with this reveal)

If I were going to give her a relationship in OT&T it would have to be from an additional oc. I just really don't see any current characters, human or otherwise, who could connect with her on a romantic level in a way that makes sense. And even then, she's got some girl bossing to do before Ash can actually get to the emotionally stable enough point of opening up to a nonplatonic relationship. The platonics are hard enough!

But we'll see where the story goes, I might be eating my words eventually. Her type might be bad boy, but maybe a cinnamon roll is what she needs. (OHHHHH Graham Burns!!!! Where art thou?)

[arandomaquarius]

~Request Rules!~

Please read all of this post thoroughly before you request anything, thx much appreciated <3

Fandoms I will write for now

•DC (I won’t go by canon often though, and I won’t do Arrowverse)

•Transformers (Bayverse, ROTB/Knightverse and TFP)

•Undertale AUs

•Gravity Falls

•FNAF (only 1, 2, 4, and SB. Maybe movie when the sequel comes out)

DC Characters I will write for now (main characters not side characters)

•Pied Piper/Hartley Rathaway

•Trickster I/James Jesse

•Captain Cold/Leonard Snart

•Wally West/Flash III/Kid Flash

•Triplicate Girl

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Transformers Characters (No Comics!)

•Knockout (Tfp)

•Breakdown (Tfp)

•Wildbreak (RiD15)

•Soundwave (Tfp, RiD15)

•Starscream (Tfp, RiD15)

•Megatron (Tfp)

•Dreadwing (Tfp)

•Skyquake (Tfp)

•Shockwave (Tfp)

•Predaking

•Darksteel

•Skylynx

•Optimus Prime (Bay, Knight/ROTB, Tfp, RiD15)

•Bumblebee (Bay, Knight/ROTB, Tfp, RiD15)

•Ratchet (Bay, Tfp, RiD15)

•Ironhide (Bay)

•Jazz (Bay, RiD15)

•Bulkhead (Tfp, RiD15)

•Crosshairs (Bay)

•Drift (Bay, RiD15)

•Slipstream (RiD15)

•Jetstorm (RiD15)

•Mirage (ROTB/Knight)

•Hotrod (Bay)

•Hound (Bay)

•Grimlock (RiD15)

•Wheeljack (Tfp)

•Ultra Magnus (Tfp)

•Smokescreen (Tfp)

•Windblade (RiD15)

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I'll pretty much do any Undertale AU, preferably Sans but other characters are welcome!

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Gravity Falls Characters

•Grunkle Stan

•Mabel Pines

•Dipper Pines

•Bill Cipher

•Rev!Dipper (Mason Gleeful)

•Rev!Mabel (Mabel Gleeful)

•Rev!Bill Cipher (Will Cipher)

•FightFalls!Dipper

•FightFalls!Mabel

•FightFalls!Bill Cipher (Kill Cipher)

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What I Will Write

•Fluff

•Hurt/No Comfort

•Angst (character death included)

•Hurt/Comfort

•Headcanons

•Drabbles

•Scenarios

•One-shots

•Platonic

•Romantic (depends on the character, but I’ll do it for most)

•Crackfics

•character x reader

•character x character

•m/m, f/f, m/f etc

•gn reader

•fem reader

•Cybertronian reader

•specific species reader

•some dark topics (I’ll let you know if it’s too much)

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What I Will Not Write

•NSFW (there are plenty of other blogs for this, do not ask me. However, I might put a few suggestive things in)

•Rape/assault (I am willing to write reactions to it in hcs or imply it, but I won’t explicitly state it)

•character x oc

•uhhh I forget what it’s called but like cyborg reader or like half-human-half-cybertronian reader

I am willing to write characters being sexist, racist, transphobic, homophobic, and overall bigots. I DO NOT support it. However, I strive to keep things real in my writing, and those things do unfortunately occur. It is something I face every day, and I’m sure you do too. These people exist and I am simply acknowledging that.

You may request now! Remember to be specific when you do! Thank you for reading! If you have any questions, feel free to ask me! <3

Edit: some requests won’t get done, simply because I can’t think of anything for it. I’ll try to let you know if that’s the case but no guarantees

Masterlist!

[bobbile-blog]

Okay so considering the end of Il Siracusano, I wanted to put together a list of floating plot threads that might lead to future events, just to get my brain in order. This will be a list of the events and characters involved, as well as a general summary of where things are in these plots in Global.

So, we have:

(Minor spoilers for a lot of Global under the cut, but specifically for some bits at the end of Il Siracusano)

- The main story, obviously, counting both Reunion and Dublinn/Kazdel stuff, as well as stuff like What the Firelight Casts and Vigilo. Not sure how relevant this will be to future side events because it’s already the main plot, but who knows.

- The Feranmut plotline, encompassing Ancient Forge(?)/Who is Real/Invitation to Wine/Where Vernal Winds will Never Blow, featuring Nian/Dusk/Ling/Chong Yue. Updated pretty regularly as the CN new year event. Haven’t been keeping up with this one so I can’t say where we are rn but we’re about to get Vernal Winds anyway so it doesn’t matter much. The short overview is that Yan used to be populated by godlike beings called Feranmuts. Feranmuts fought a war with people, which concluded when a Feranmut named Sui betrayed his people out of a selfish desire to be the only being with the kind of power that Feranmuts possess. When he was discovered, the emperor of Yan (China analogue) split him into 12 fragments which eventually developed their own identities and personalities - these are the Sui siblings, i.e. Nian, Dusk, Ling, Chong Yue, etc. Once all twelve of these siblings meet again, they will reform back into Sui and he will be reborn, and probably take over the world. As such, the current goal is to find a way to prevent the siblings from all waking up and getting back together, and hopefully finding a larger way to prevent Sui’s resurrection.

- Abyssal Hunters and Seaborn, with Grani and the Knight’s Treasure/Under Tides/Stultifera Navis/Mizuki and Caerula Arbor, featuring Skadi/Specter/Gladiia/Kal’tsit. Was updated pretty frequently as an anniversary event, but they seem to have thrown us a big lore dump with Caerula Arbor and left it at that for the time being, which is understandable. The state of the plot at the moment is the Abyssal hunters we have are back together, Specter is back to her old self, they’ve met Ulpian and established an uneasy truce with the Iberian (Spanish analogue) Inquisition, and we’re starting to understand just what Ishar-mla is. Iirc the alternate timelines we see in IS3 are actually shown to the Doctor by Mizuki, so that may play into future events as well.

- Kazimierz, with Maria Nearl/Pinus Sylvestris/Near Light/Obscure Wanderer, featuring Blemishine/Zofia/Nearl/The Followers/Flametail/Ashlock/Fartooth/Wildmane/Justice Knight my beloved/Młynar. This kinda shouldn’t be on this list, because it’s mostly wrapped up, and I don’t expect any more Kazimeirz events for a while. It’s still probably important to summarize though so: Margaret Nearl won the 24th Major and became the Grand Knight, and has since stayed in Kazimierz (Poland analogue) to improve living conditions for the infected and push back against the General Chamber of Commerce. The Armorless Union has mostly been decapitated - the Platinum defected, the Lazurites have disappeared and taken on new identities, and the Darksteel has promised to stay away from Margaret and Rhodes Island. Pinus Sylvestris and most of the rest of the Nearls are now on the landship, working for Rhodes Island.

- Rhine Lab, with Mansfield Break/Dorothy’s Vision/Lonetrail/the second Records of Originium comic (which has an official translation that you absolutely should read it’s really good), featuring Silence/Ptilopsis/Saria/Ifrit/Dorothy/Mulesyse/Ho’olheyak/Kirsten. This is one of the newer plotlines, and my personal favorite. Kirsten Wright, founder and head of Rhine lab, wants to go to space. Ever since her parents were killed in a plane crash, she’s looked at the stars as a goal for humanity and a symbol of the power that science and technology can give us. Unfortunately, in pursuit of that power, she believes the end justifies any means, and the Colombian (America analogue) military-industrial complex definitely isn’t helping things. Kirsten’s disregard of human rights has pushed away the people closest to her, most notably Saria, who left the company after discovering how Ifrit was abused. At the moment, the relationship between Rhodes Island and Rhine Lab is becoming more adversarial because we keep poaching their directors when they see the horrific human rights abuses that they’ve committed. Saria left after the Diαbolic incident, Dorothy left after site 359, and now the Doctor even has Mulesyse thinking about leaving. In addition to that, Saria has finally confronted Kristen and told her in no uncertain terms that she is done working with Rhine lab, which Kristen previously hadn’t fully accepted. Unfortunately, all this has only served to drive her deeper into “the ends justify the means” - rather than accept that she might have been wrong, she’s doubled down on the idea that if she can just achieve her goal and make it to space, they’ll all see how right she was and come back.

- Wolf Fangs, with some hints in the earlier chapters of the main story and being explicitly confirmed in Il Siracusano, featuring Texas/Lapland/Projekt Red/Lunacub. This is the newest of these plots, set up in Il Siracusano and presumably proceeding from there. The Feraerus are supernatural talking animals that we’ve encountered a couple of times throughout the story, like the High Priest or the Emperor. They are connected with the land and are almost akin to guardians of it. They don’t need Originium for their magic, and are tied to the setting in ways we don’t quite understand yet. More importantly to us, though, they’re involved in their own power struggles and contests among each other. This underscored the drama in Il Siracusano - the whole Bellone family was propped up by the wolf Feraerus Zarro as part of an ancient game in which the wolves pick champions, called Fangs, who fight each other in a Battle Royale to decide the pack’s next alpha(debunked study, I know, just roll with it). We know a couple of the fangs - Lunacub is one and Bernardo was another before his death, but Projekt Red is also a Fang, as well as Crownslayer’s mentor, so we’ll probably be coming back to this conflict in the future. Judging by Bernardo’s story and Lunacub’s files, the implication is that a lot of this story is going to revolve around breaking free of these old traditions and systems.

- The Sami Icefields haven’t technically gotten an event yet, besides that one story in Operational Intelligence, but I’m including it as an honorable mention because it looks like we’re going there for IS4. The Icefields are up north of Ursus, and they are terrifying. You remember the Emperor’s Blade, the one that kicks your ass in WD-8? Yeah we only see three of them in the game because the rest are busy fighting against the Eldritch demons constantly invading from the Sami Icefields. Let’s please never go there ever, thanks.

That’s all I can think of in terms of plotlines as of Il Siracusano in AK Global. If there’s anything I forgot or got wrong, tell me and I’ll add it in.

[bots-and-cons]

Can I request Darksteel with a seeker femme who has had crush on him since she met him during the battle to defeat unicorn in predacons rising so she will hang around with the predacons, specifically him? For some reason I can see Darksteel being one of those people who thinks he has game but is oblivious to when someone actually likes him. Thank you. 😄

You sent another one of this same request, but the newer one had more detail so I decided to answer this older one instead. I'm gonna try to write it, but it might kinda go OOC because I don't have a good grasp on Skylynx's and Darksteel's personalities, but I promise to try when I get around to it :D

[krimsonkatt]

Ultra Instinct Shaggy/Ultimate Reaper Shaggy

There's a long, convoluted story behind this piece. In the original version of Chronicles Meteorfall, Meteo Chronicles, there was going to be three alternate endgame routes. The "normal route", the "demon route", and the "golden route." The normal route was the standard route through the endgame. However, things got interesting once you got to the two "alternate routes."

The demon route was unlocked immediately after clearing the game. After loading your completed file you would be brought back to before the final battle where the events of said final battle would be contextualized as a vision the characters had of future events. Learning that a great sacrifice would be required to defeat the big bad, the characters look for an alternate means to saving the world. This leads them to labrynthia, a secret dungeon hidden under the normal final dungeon, the Tower of Babel. This dungeon originally was a maze with the 7 archfiends in each of the corners, but in Meteo Chronicles R, the initial remaster of the game (version 2.0) that was cut in favor of Chronicles Meteorfall, a from the ground up remake, it was changed to a proper dungeon with multiple of its own bosses that was cut up into sections with each section requiring that you defeat a specific archfiend to progress.

Regardless of which version was going to be the final one, a mysterious cloaked figure was going to appear after each Archfiend/Boss was defeated to warn the party that what they're doing is going to destroy the world, as the party is trying to destroy the pillars holding up the Tower of Babel to destroy the tower from its foundation. This will apparently lead to disastrous consequences. You then have the option to heed the mysterious man's warnings and go forward with the regular route of the game, or push forward further into this dangerous alternate path.

At the final pillar the cloaked man finally reveals himself as Koros from an alternate dark future where after the Tower of Babel was destroyed a fissure opened up in the ground releasing a horde of demons and plunging the world into utter chaos. This version of Koros sacrificed everything, including his fallen friends, to return to the past and attempt to stop his past self from destroying the world. So the final battle begins between the Koros from the past and future. The Koros from the past wins and collapses the final pillar, and exactly what the future Koros says happens. The tower does collapse, but without the tower there serving as a natural seal for the demonic chasm underneath, hordes of demons come rushing out of the pit and end up destroying all of society.

This ending would be followed up in the alternate universe sequel "Chronicles Black", formerly known as "Meteo Chronicles 2: Darksteel Saga", where there are three endings: law, chaos, and neutral. Law would involve destroying the world and returning it to its primordial state, chaos would be merging humans and the demons into one new race where everyone would return to their primal instincts, and neutral would be traveling back in time to prevent your past self from destroying the world. No matter what you do, the world is screwed. In law Elzakalas, the god of destruction, wins due to spoilers. In chaos humanity goes feral and it will be millions of years before humanity finds reason again, if ever, and neutral results in either a stable time loop of Koros killing his future self and going back in time to die again or Future Koros killing his past self and therefore being erased from time, which dooms the timeline because then future generations of the satori family like Serrah or Ryuuta could never be born and either Baetylus or Laos would end up destroying the world. So no matter what, the world would be doomed in this timeline. A true "earn your bad ending" sort of route.

This ending/route was fully removed from the current build of Chronicles Meteorfall, the v3.0 of the overall game concept, but concepts from that ending/route will be reused. While Chronicles Meteorfall itself will only have one route with 3 endings (good, bad, and secret) there is another saga brewing that will tie into both Chronicles Meteorfall and Chronicles III. Yes, as I like to call it, the "Chaos Saga" including the trilogy of "Chaos;Domain", "Boundless;Domain", and "Chronicles Black."

In this new trilogy Koros is sent spiraling across time and space away from his home world and time where he has to uncover the conspiracy of the "Throne of CHAOS" and stop various entities from claiming its power for themselves. The first game, Chaos;Domain, I have talked about quite a bit on this blog. It is a decently short first person dungeon crawler featuring callbacks to previous KrimsonKatt games and only has one ending.

Boundless;Domain is where things get interesting with 7 different endings and many different possible routes. The game is split into two chunks, the "Emblas Arc" and the "Throne of Chaos Arc". The Emblas Arc is the main portion of the game and once the first arc is completed you can end the game at any time to obtain the "good ending". The good ending and true ending are both equally canon to the main timeline, as the results of those endings on the events of Zutara do not change, it only effects characters outside Zutara and their relationships towards Koros. However, you can choose to continue the game into the postgame, also known as Part 2 or the "Throne of Chaos Arc". This part has a primary route with 2 different endings and 3 alternate routes each with one ending. Here are each of the routes and endings and their canonicity status:

Part 1 Endings:

Good Ending: The standard default ending of the game. Is canon to the main timeline of the Chronicles of Chronicles series.

Throne of Chaos Endings:

Bad Ending: The ending you get by not reaching at least B Rank Support with every character before reaching the end of the bonus dungeon/descent "Titanic Depths" for the first time. It is completely non-canon similar to the bad endings of Chronicles the Lost Page, Noel and the Tower of Doom, and Chronicles Meteorfall.

True Ending: The ending you get by reaching at least B Rank Support with every character before reaching the end of the Titanic Depths, then convincing a certain character to join you after their boss fight. This will prompt the true final boss "Chaos Reborn" and the true ending. It is canon to the main timeline of the Chronicles of Chronicles series and is equal to the standard good ending in it's canonicity.

Alternate Route Endings:

Nightmare Ending: An alternate route to Chaos;Domain. To reach this route you must meet with the mysterious boy who appears in Gate after at least one ending is obtained (NG+) and complete all of his requests. This route involves fighting the remaining Deviants (remember those guys from Chronicles Meteorfall) and destroying the Tzga Order for good. In this route all your party members leave you, but you are given 5 new party members, Lil Fella, Alcotto, No Name, Vivian, and Barbello. Some of these party members are EXTREMELY OP and are very useful in the fight against the overpowered and overleveled deviants. The final boss of this route is Bio-Himeros and potentially Lil Fella himself. This route is considered an alternate universe and while canon in a cosmological sense, it is not canon to the MAIN timeline of the Chronicles of Chronicles series. Though considering the Deviants lie outside of time, it is technically canon to all timelines yet isn't canon to the main timeline either.

Demon Ending: An alternate version of the demon ending from Meteo Chronicles and Chronicles Meteorfall. It is practically the same ending, but with time travel instead of future visions. To obtain this ending you must open the gate of time hidden in a secret room within Gundigap by using 3 "time stones" dropped by the NG+ superbosses Terrasol, Akalis, and Blinnadeus. This allows Koros to meet with Anake, goddess of fate and a future villain in the fighting game spinoff, who allows Koros to go back in time to try to save a certain character, which is Koros' greatest regret. This causes similar events to occur as the cut Demon Ending from Meteo Chronicles and Meteo Chronicles R, including a time traveling Koros. However one aspect of the ending is massively changed. Instead of a chasm of demons opening up, a portal opens up in the sky summoning a second Baetylus who crashes into the planet and destroys society while evolving terrors into their next evolutionary stage. Why a second Baetylus appears remains a mystery even through Chronicles Black, but is explained in the final game of the Crimson Meteo Trilogy, Chronicles III: Ascension. This ending is canon, but is explicitly an alternate timeline. This ending is followed up in the current version of Chronicles Black as well as Chronicles III: Ascension, who's second half involves exploring this destroyed alternate timeline.

The final ending in boundless domain is the Golden Ending, but we'll get to that one later.

Now, to cover the endings in the real Chronicles Black, which has been massively reworked from the original draft. In the current version of Chronicles Black the protagonist is no longer Koros but rather a dragonkin without the power to transform named Nahash. Like in the original draft there are three routes, law, chaos, and neutral, but this time the routes are drasticly different.

Law: The law route is relatively the same with the difference that Nahash is transformed into an angel after the route split and gains an insane power boost along with it. Like in the OG script Nahash resets the universe but in doing so dooms everyone and everything due to spoilers.

Chaos: In this ending Nahash sides with the mysterious girl in his head, Nyako, who orders him to massacre every last entity in the universe to consume their souls and ascend beyond god's providence. This route is pretty much an edgelord power fantasy where Nahash gives into his dark powers, the power of gluttony, to absorb the souls of people and monsters to gain all their powers. It's revealed in that route that Nahash is the grandson of Archon Adonis the fell dragon and he himself is the Archon of Gluttony. He was supposed to die on his 13th birthday but thanks to the Second Crimson Calamity that happened in this timeline it caused a butterfly affect that caused him to survive and in this route fully awaken as the archon of gluttony. In this route you have no party members, just Nahash. However Nahash's level cap is raised from 99 all the way from 99,999 and his stat caps are raised from 999 all the way to 9,999,999 and every soul he consumes allows him to obtain ALL their arts and have their level added to his, quickly allowing your power level to snowball as you destroy everyone and everything. Killing every NPC, effortlessly killing every boss that would normally be a struggle on other routes, until you eventually consume the entire world and then starsphere before setting your sights on the gods themselves. Eventually Nahash ends up consuming both Elzakalas and Barbello and ends up consuming the entire tree of sefiros and the false tree of quilloth, but then he is left with nothing left to consume as he, this immoral, all powerful, godly being who has consumed both god and the devil and stolen their powers and authority, sinks into the waters of chaos where everything emerges and returns to. Even for a being beyond gods, the end is inevidible.

Neutral: The canon ending of the game and the hardest route of the game by far as you get no power boosts. It is recomended for NG+ after clearing one of the other two routes as the route starts with two back to back very tough bosses. In this ending humanity is able to fight back both the evolved terrors and the angelic forces working under Mekala and defeat both at once, beginning the process of rebuilding the broken world just has their ansestors did before. This route is canon to this particular timeline and leads into the events shown in the second half of Chronicles III.

But now, at long last, onto the main event, the "Golden Route!" In the original version of Chronicles Meteorfall, Meteo Chronicles, alongside the 2.0 version Meteo Chronicles R, there was an additional route only unlocked in NG+. To unlock the route you must talk to a bunny girl in the final town who will cause a distorsion in reality to not only turn all the party members into bunny girls, but also create a new dream-like timeline where everything is perfect and nothing goes wrong. However the three reapers, death reaper, life reaper, and time reaper are angry that the story of the world would be messed up in this way and transfigure the area around the Tower of Babel into the "paradox city" to eventually take over and destroy the entire world and create a new world of order. The party then enters the paradox city and fights through the three towers "Thanatos Tower", "Asclepius Tower", and "Chronos Tower" filled with "corrupted memes" and playing siilvergunner rips of the themes previously used in the tower of babel. At the end of each tower you fight the boss and after defeating all three you enter the "paradox keep" to defeat their master, the reaper king, who is none other than Shaggy Rogers from Scooby Doo! For some reason... He ends up being one of the hardest bosses in the game having an 100% P.EVA rate and having many attacks taken from Dragon Ball Z. Eventually he is defeated and everyone lives happily ever after including the bad guys who all turn good.

This ending was always meant to be a joke ending/meme route, and will likely be adapted, with alternations of course, as an ending of Boundless;Domain which will likely involve the Throne of Chaos. IDK I haven't come up with the main plot.

This is the sprite/design I planned for said Reaper King boss in the cut meme route of Meteo Chronicles and Meteo Chronicles R. I told you this would be a long story! This took me 2 hours to write!

[niuttuc]

Magic subject: a specific special metal or special metals in general

I'll do you one better, Special Materials™ in general: the more we get, the more silly they get, because it's really hard to strike a balance between how Precious and Special they try to be and how WotC flaunts it on cards to highlight its existence.

It's hard to sell me on how priceless Etherium is, or Halo, or Cosmium, or Powerstones, when they show up on every other card in the set and people are pretty liberal with their use. Hard to believe Darksteel is so rare when there's an entire foundry made of the stuff. Ixalan's story actually handled that a bit better than the card with Cosmium, I feel, since it wasn't treated as particularly special or precious there, even if it was sacred.

Generally, I think the Special Materials are better when they aren't a main focus, just a worldbuilding element in the background. Darksteel did that relatively well with a mechanical tie-in, Mizzium isn't flaunted left and right, Tyrite did it really well because it only appears a few times, and most of them are the same weapon. Aether is alright because it doesn't pretend it's particularly rare, but Halo isn't with how liberally it was used. Despite not appearing that much, Benalian enchanted Stained Glass was overused, I think, since it's supposed to be this precious family legacy material that only exists in small quantities, plastering it everywhere on all cards of the faction cheapens it (even if it looks fantastic.) Etherium has a canyon between how precious it's touted to be and how much we see of it everywhere on Esper.

If you're trying to sell a Special Material, don't plaster it everywhere if you want it to feel precious and special.

[ask-the-praetors]

Brudiclad, are you SURE that the Myr aren't working behind your back? Working together to forge greater and grander myr, creating infinite mana loops, cladding themselves in darksteel and waiting for the moment you drop your guard so that they may take back their autonomy and get to work on putting down the weakened flailing beast that is phyrexia?

Are you sure you wouldn't like to join them, in that case?

...This is a strangely specific circumstance you name. An illogical one, seeing as I have always been on the side of freedom, of Urabrask, and the furnace.

I do not seek to control my myr. They are released into the world with the imperative to create.

-Brudiclad

[definitelynotarabbit]

I have noticed a pattern and that means theory time!

In the article The Legends You'll find in Streets of New Capenna it says

Prophetic dreams—visions in the flame and the oil—led him to this towering city. There's someone here he's meant to meet. Someone important. Someone who needs to know what the future holds . . .

And I thought "hmm, that's odd. maybe they just mean he's seeing the past and metaphorically seeing history repeat itself". You'd think that if one of the praetors could actually see the future, they'd mention that outside of a single promo article, right?

But then the plot thickened. In the Phyrexia: All Will Be One short story A Man of Parts it says this

Tezzeret had seen enough in Urabrask's domain to know that the metal was not mined or shaped in any way remotely traditional. Forging darksteel lay in forging the reality around where the metal would be, presaging it so that it could be willed into shape.

Which made me pause. "Presaging" is an oddly specific choice of word. Now I admit that it's possible this was just a way of making something like planning sound fancy, but they've used such tiny details as foreshadowing in the past.

Presage literally means warning or indication of the future. So that makes two separate times that Urabrask has been referenced in conjunction with predicting the future.

This would also explain why darksteel is so rare among the phyrexians. The stuff is really hard to make! It needs someone both capable of looking forward in time and skilled with a forge.

While this still has a pretty good chance of being a crack theory it fits pretty well with Urabrask's design. He doesn't have any visible eyes which makes me wonder if maybe his way of seeing is just looking just slightly into the future. Food for thought...

[markrosewater]

Why do we see so few cards that reward playing specific basic land types in Standard, such as Blanchwood Armor, Armored Ascension or Flow of Ideas? These seem like a slam dunk for encouraging monocolored decks in Constructed, something that we see less and less of as dual lands are released. Take the Darksteel Affinity for Land Type golems for instance: they solve the high mana value playability issue very well while asking for a meaningful commitment.

Those effects work best in uncommon, especially if that's all they're focused on. At uncommon, those cards are draft traps though if the set doesn't support monocolor play. So, they're not something we can just drop in most sets.

[weenwrites]

Shit I read your new post incorrectly,

Since y'cant make 3 you can choose from either predaking, darksteel, and, skylynx in my asks :')

Alrighty! But if you'd like me to write one of the scenarios specifically for one of the three rather than having me choose, you're always free to change your mind until I write it.