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cdr2002 · 2 months ago

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Mirror Universe Concepts: Lower Decks main cast

Season 5 is here, might as well share this

Beckett Mariner

Daughter of Carol and Alonzo Freeman, Mariner was born in an Alliance slave camp on Earth. Though her parents did their best to try and keep her out of trouble, Mariner was rebellious by nature and often clashed with Alliance overseers, resulting in harsh punishments including solitary confinement and torture. Prone to using her voice as a weapon, Mariner would mock and belittle her oppressors throughout these punishments, only kept alive because the Klingon overseers found her spirit admirable and the Cardassians were amused by her wit. Mariner never succumbed to any attempt to break her, and even wore her scars proudly, much as her behavior deeply worried her mother and resulted in several arguments.

Eventually, Mariner started a small rebellion in the slave camp, intent on killing or incapacitating the overseers and escaping on a freighter owned by a Ferengi trader that Mariner had gotten into contact with made some deals with, typically using money pickpocketed from overseers or from privileged Alliance-collaborating Terrans. The slave riot that kicked off Mariner’s rebellion would also be its end. Many of her fellow slaves were less equipped for combat than her, and nearly all of them were killed by the overseers during the struggle. Though Mariner successfully killed dozens of her oppressors during the fight, the constant death of friends and even her own father around her finally broke her like no amount of torture ever could. In the end she was fighting just to fight, and would only be saved from death, a death she practically wanted by this point, by two things: the intervention of a Klingon warrior named K’orin, who found her cause and spirit honorable, and the timely arrival of Quimp, her Ferengi contact, aboard a cloaked ship. Contacting her over the communicator she had smuggled into the camp, Quimp urged Mariner that it was time to go, and her surviving allies: K’orin, her then-girlfriend Amina Ramsey, and her mother, saw his wisdom in the matter. Quimp successfully beamed Mariner and the other survivors aboard and then fled Alliance space as quickly as possible.

Though managing to escape, Mariner fell into depression. She grew to loathe the universe around her and rarely offered her trust to anyone for fear of putting them in danger. After years of being forced to hide from the Alliance’s attempts to find them and in particular prosecute K’orin for his betrayal, Mariner eventually set out into the universe as a free woman.

Through Quimp’s connections, she managed to acquire a ship: the SS Cerritos. The Cerritos was far from impressive; a run-down, patched together hulk made from dated technology salvaged after the fall of the Terran Empire. While the Alliance allowed the use of a few such ships as freighters, Terran-style configurations typically invited hostility. Exactly what Mariner wanted: a middle finger to their dominance over the Alpha Quadrant and a ship fast and sturdy enough to pull herself and her crew out of scraps, if necessary.

Her crew was small at first. Not able to handle any more violence or death and simply wanting to escape the Alliance, Carol elected to stay in a small Terran sanctuary city on Ferenginar, which the Alliance ignored due to their lucrative dealings with the Ferengi Coalition. K’orin, having sworn a blood oath to Mariner, readily joined her, as did Quimp, worried about his new friend and hoping they would find some business dealings along the way. Ramsey stayed on the Cerritos for a few months, but ultimately decided to leave once she heard word of a large-scale rebellion organizing against the Alliance.

With her ship, Mariner became an infamous troublemaker throughout the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. The mission of the Cerritos was simple: raise as much hell as they could get away with. Antagonizing Alliance patrols, robbing their installations blind, breaking open slave camps and transferring the slaves to safe worlds, simple acts of vandalism. Mariner was known as a pirate, a hero, a terrorist, and a maverick, respected by some and friend to few.

Over time, her crew grew in size, though not without earning her a death mark from the Orion Syndicate. Mariner reveled in her outlaw status, never staying in one place for long and gaining a reputation for fearless abandon. Per a vouching from Ramsey, and even her mother, who found it in herself to fight, the Terran Rebellion became interested in recruiting Mariner as they took to the task of establishing communication within their cells and growing into a larger organization. Afraid of the commitment and the responsibility for more than a small group, Mariner turned them several times and continued to go her own way.

However, the Rebellion has picked up steam recently, performing daring operations like the taking of Terok Nor, and even capturing Regent Worf. With only her own fears holding her back, Mariner could find a cause worth fighting for, an inspiration like that of Starfleet to her prime universe counterpart. But healing such wounds is far from easy.

Bradward Boimler

Born in Modesto California, Boimler’s family had been simple vineyard owners during the time of the Terran Empire. Little ones for violence, they had been supporters of Spock’s reforms and admired him in the waning days of the Empire. When Earth was conquered by the Alliance, the Klingons and Cardassians, fanciers of good drink themselves, contracted the owners of any vineyards who had survived the assault with with producing Kenar, Bloodwine, and any Terran beverages Alliance members had taken a liking to, in exchange for their lives.

Born into this environment, Boimler found the work painfully dull and longed for something more with his life. However, a universe in the fire grip of the Alliance granted him few options. Nonetheless, Boimler had a yearning to explore the galaxy and see what was out there. This desire became so strong that one night, Boimler stole a Cardassian shuttlecraft and set course for the next closest solar system. However, a failure to input the proper verification codes upon reaching orbit and the fear of death forced Boimler to immediately surrender. In the interrogation that followed, his obvious panic meant that there was little need to torture him and he was quickly assessed as a minimal threat. His captors made the decision to transfer Boimler to a labor facility on Vulcan.

The harsh environment ill-suited Boimler. He was easily frightened, not especially strong, and talkative. Exactly the kind of slave the overseers were liable to simply kill and be done with. What saved Boimler’s life was a transporter malfunction that occurred during one of his shifts, duplicating Boimler and creating his twin, William. The accident fascinated Boimler’s overseers, who believed that their transporters could be modified in order to create an infinite supply of slave labor for the Alliance, an accomplishment which would surely greatly advance their careers. More opportunistic and ambitious than his progenitor due to some small variation in their brain chemistry, William offered to assist the research in exchange for being granted the privileged life of an Alliance collaborator for being the cause of this discovery.

In order to prove his sincerity, William goads the overseers to go ahead and shoot Brad. Brad would only be narrowly saved by the intervention of a Vulcan named T’Lyn, a seeming fellow slave to Brad who was in fact an undercover operative for the resistance cell on Vulcan. She short-circuited the transporter remotely with a device she had implanted hours before, leaped into the room, and killed the slave overseers by vaporizing them with a phaser. She attempted to shoot William for being a collaborator, but he managed to grab a Disruptor and fire back, escaping the room. Intuiting that William had no real knowledge on how to recreate the transporter glitch, T’Lyn grabbed Brad and had him beamed to a secure location underground with her, where she explained herself and her mission. Though naturally taking some time to regain his bearings, Brad eventually accepted the situation, and asked to join the Rebellion.

Their higher calling of liberating Terrans, Vulcans, and other races enslaved by the Alliance gave Boimler the worthwhile pursuit he had been searching for all his life. Though the members of the rebel cell on Vulcan were skeptical at first, T’Lyn vouched for Boimler and he was accepted into their ranks, given the training he would need to carry out operations against the Alliance. Now skilled with a phaser, as well as various tactics of infiltration, Boimler became a freedom fighter in earnest, undermining the Alliance regime in conjunction with his allies and learning to overcome some of his own fears. Though Boimler never became one for hand-to-hand combat, he was still nonetheless an effective soldier, and T’Lyn taught him the Vulcan Nerve Pinch in order to make up for that shortcoming.

While fighting as a Rebel, Boimler became an avid follower of the exploits of Captain Beckett Mariner and the SS Cerritos, an outlaw famed for giving the Alliance a bloody nose on more than one occasion.

As the disparate rebel cells began to coalesce after Tuvok managed to get Miles O’Brien’s rebel cell on Terok Nor in contact with the rebels on Vulcan, Boimler personally volunteered for the mission to locate the Cerritos and extend an offer to Captain Mariner.

With T’Lyn offering to accompany him, the mission was approved and the two managed to get themselves onto the ship. Unfortunately, Mariner quickly began causing trouble in the system of their meeting right as they began attempting to make their proposal, forcing Boimler and T’Lyn to become members of her ship’s crew in order to assist in preserving the lives of everyone on board. Braving skirmishes with the Orion Syndicate, the Gorn, and Alliance warships far more powerful than the Cerritos, Boimler is still determined to convince Mariner to take part in the wider rebellion, regardless of the walls she puts up around herself. With time, he may succeed.

D’Vana Tendi

“Mistress of the Winter Constellations”, Tendi comes from a powerful family in the Orion Syndicate. She is the granddaughter of the previous holder of her title, Astrea Tendi, who famously stole an ancient artifact from Terran captain Christopher Pike in the 23rd century, among other accomplishments.

Growing up with immense pressure to fulfill her role as heir to family’s wealth an influence, Tendi chafed against these demands as well as the standards of Orion society as a whole, feeling that her people needlessly limited themselves by pouring their entire cultural resources into their vast criminal empire rather than allowing individuals to pursue other interests. Tendi herself developed a fascination with the sciences at a young age, and dreamt of a life of discovery, exploration, and adventure. These values closely matched that of the Federation Starfleet, but were seldom respected in the Orion Syndicate or elsewhere in the mirror universe. As she reluctantly carried out the family business alongside her sister D’Erika, Tendi would take exceptionally well to the training and various skills her family provided her.

She would also come to despise the Syndicate’s dealings with the Alliance. While the Orions were certainly exploiters, assassins, and thieves, careers Tendi had no taste for, they had long abandoned outright slavering, an act the Alliance almost seemed to specialize in. Though her family tried to explain to her that appeasing the Alliance was simply part of life due to their dominance over the Alpha Quadrant, this was the last straw and Tendi knew she had to leave this life behind.

She would find her escape in the form of outlaw captain Beckett Mariner, who docked her ship at a repair station owned by Tendi’s family after a battle with Alliance forces. Her scientific personal studies having led her to studying various technologies, including those of the fallen Terran Empire, Tendi took a personal interest in repairing the ship. Her skill at optimizing the outdated technology and even fusing it with some contemporary Orion equipment impressed Mariner, and she offered to find some way of repaying her personally. Tendi’s price was escape from the Orion Syndicate, who were already maneuvering to capture the Cerritos and its crew to collect a bounty from the Alliance. Using her inside knowledge to thwart the trap, Tendi quickly earned herself a spot as Second Officer of the Cerritos and the respect and trust of Mariner and the crew. Mariner reacted surprisingly positively to the death mark from the Syndicate, believing it advanced her reputation.

In gratitude for her invaluable contributions, Tendi was allowed the sway to suggest possible sites of scientific observation for the ship, pursuing her passion as much as she could without leaving the ship in one place for too long. This would remain more or less status quo until the arrival of resistance fighters T’Lyn and Boimler, who sought to recruit the Cerritos crew into the growing Rebellion. Tendi was sympathetic to them and was in favor of joining, but Mariner’s reluctance put that idea at the very least on pause. Nonetheless, Tendi has befriended the two Rebellion representatives and is hopeful that the races under Alliance rule can achieve the same freedom of choice she herself sought in breaking away from the Syndicate.

Samanthan Rutherford

Thrill-seeking, rambunctious, and only respectful of authority when it suited his own ends, Rutherford was practically born a rebel. Once he was old enough to be suitable for labor, he was stationed on an Alliance shipyard, where he immersed himself in the study of engines, general starship design, program design, and most especially, speed. Rutherford took in as much knowledge as he could, much impressing his overseers. He became one of the most productive slaves at the facility, refitting dozens of Alliance warships and making improvements to their overall performance. The overseers were so impressed with Rutherford that they failed to keep a close enough eye on him to realize two things: that every Alliance ship he worked on had been outfitted with a sabotage code designed to go off the moment said ship locked their weapons on any Terran life signs, and that Rutherford had been building his own personal ship using parts he gradually stole for himself while working the yard.

After seven months, the small ship was complete, and outfitted with one of the fastest and most compact warp drives in the Quadrant. One night, Rutherford took his ship, the Sampaguita, and made a rush for the Romulan Neutral Zone, which he knew the Alliance vessels wouldn’t pursue him into even if they caught up to him. Skillfully evading the Romulan detection grid, Rutherford took off for parts unknown and began his new life as a free man.

Engaging in illicit ship racing, gambling, and becoming a mercenary engineer, selling his skills at ship repair and enhancement to the highest bidder in the underworld of the Galaxy.

Eventually, another rogue would contact Rutherford: Captain Beckett Mariner, in need of his services to repair the SS Cerritos after another round of damages suffered antagonizing the Alliance. Rutherford would impress the crew, particularly Mariner’s technically skilled Second Officer D’Vana Tendi, with his repairs, optimizing the ship’s systems, further bringing them up to spec with modern technology despite the Cerritos’s century-old Terran frame, and enhancing the capabilities of its shield and warp drive.

Tendi suggested hiring Rutherford onto the crew due to his capabilities, but Mariner was reluctant to give herself the responsibility for another life, and respected Rutherford’s free-spirited nature too much to attempt to pin him down. Ultimately however, Rutherford would be forced to join the crew after Alliance agents caught up with him, seeking to interrogate Rutherford to determine the extent his sabotage work as a slave engineer had affected their fleet.

In the fight ensued, Rutherford docked the Sampaguita, damaged from battle, in the Cerritos’s shuttle bay, before the ship managed to take out two Alliance warships and escape into Ferengi space, where trade agreements forbid pursuit. From then on, Rutherford accepted the position of Chief Engineer aboard the Cerritos, and took part in much of the ship’s troublemaking misadventures from then on.

Due to their respective natures, Rutherford and Mariner would often butt heads and argue, forcing Tendi to be a peacemaker between them. Fortunately, their underlying respect for one another led them to always eventually see reason. Though he hated the Alliance, Rutherford was among the crewmembers skeptical of joining the Terran Rebellion. However upon suffering a nearly fatal injury and being given a cybernetic implant which saved him by Vulcan surgeons, Rutherford would find in his gratitude that he could do nothing less than give his commitment to the cause.

T’Lyn

Born into slavery on Qo’Nos, T’Lyn was the daughter of two house servants owned by a Klingon regent. Her parents raised her in the Vulcan way, as allowed by the Alliance because of the belief that Vulcan logic produced more disciplined servants. However, the strong emotions of the Klingons around her did leave an impression.

When T’Lyn was in her mid teens, her master took her and her family on a trip to Vulcan to meet with a Cardassian gul to whom he was a political ally.

The two were scheming the elimination of a rival and their plan involved the implementation of explosive devices inside the bodies of T’Lyn’s parents to hide their bombs in plain. T’Lyn was horrified and objected, but was knocked unconscious and unable to prevent the procedure. She was kept alive because her master needed a house servant, but he threatened to kill her if she spoke up again.

The two powerful men organized a meeting with their rival and offered him T’Lyn’s parents as a supposed sign of goodwill.

Before things could go further, the meeting was attacked by the Vulcan Resistance, who were seeking to take out high ranking Alliance officials while they were gathered in one place.

During the chaos, T’Lyn managed to grab a Disruptor from a dead Klingon guard and joined forces with the rebels in order to save her parents and achieve freedom. Unfortunately, the explosive devices embedded in them were activated, and T’Lyn was forced to watch her parents die.

After that, she made sure that every Alliance member at the meeting was killed with quick and savant-like marksmanship. She had learned a fair amount just from observation in all these years. Were she not Vulcan, the display might appear as rage. Once the battle was over, she was counseled by the leader of the rebel attack, Sokel. He suggested that it would be logical to channel her feelings towards the liberation of the oppressed throughout the Alpha and Beta Quadrants.

T’Lyn accepted and began training in various aspects of combat, infiltration, espionage, and assassination by the Vulcan underground. She would also be trained in various forms of Vulcan meditation to assist in coping with her trauma, though she remained with an underlying passion that fueled her as a fighter. She became an efficient and deadly fighter, but also a compassionate field medic and liberator, doing her best to free Alliance slaves and help their own recoveries as best she could.

Eventually however, T’Lyn would suffer another loss when Sokel was killed in a skirmish with Alliance forces, driving her into a depression for a number of weeks.

After finding it in herself to begin actively fighting again, T’Lyn succeeded in the liberation of Brad Boimler from an Alliance facility, preventing the Alliance from exploiting transporter duplicates as a source of labor. She assisted in his training and eventually accompanied him to the raider ship SS Cerritos in order to recruit Captain Mariner into the growing Rebellion. T’Lyn’s patience has proven to be her most valuable asset in this endeavor.

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suffarustuffaru · 8 months ago

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A while ago someone asked you for your thoughts on Garfiel. I figured the sibling set should be complete, so what are your thoughts on Frederica?

HALLO FINNB!!! interesting question :o my thoughts on frederica are. a little mixed. but ultimately i think what we’ve seen from her so far is interesting and that she has a lot of potential here.

we just dont know all that much about her :(( on one level i get it—rezeros cast is immense and naturally tappei has to rotate through everyone and give every character focus and spotlight at different times. but bc we dont know that much about frederica i feel like shes mostly just Kinda There, yknow? :<< we know way more about garfiel and i feel like frederica being kept on the backburner for so long kinda works against her and the emilia camp in general writing wise just bc she just has to be stuck in I Havent Had My Character Arc Limbo when the emilia camp is the main group we see consistently for rezeros main route ig. or at least thats my thoughts on it atm :<<

plus i was honestly kinda sad frederica didnt get to go along in arc 5 If Only bc she didnt get to see what her mom is up to firsthand. then theres the actual arc 4-5 interlude with frederica and garf trying to bond after sanctuary that i HOPE gets included in s3 :<< frederica is just lacking in screentime and literally almost any info at all for sure. which makes me sad bc tappei LET ME IN I WANNA KNOW MORE ABOUT HER !!! >:(((

and again i get it that tappei cant develop every character in existence at the same time. dude has to juggle the most massive cast especially by arc 7. but definitely this has its drawbacks especially with the way tappei writes everyone. bc at the moment frederica is one of the characters suffering the most from it—she appeared all the way back in arc 4 and four arcs later i cannot tell you all that much about her :<

i do think though that what we do see from her so far is interesting!! her insecurity regarding her appearance, like her sharp teeth, her being so fond of petra while also being so dead set on disciplining petra firmly when needed (which is sweet!!!), that one ss where frederica takes care of ram when shes feeling more under the weather than usual (which is Again super super adorable), frederica listening with a smile as emilia gushes about subaru to her. and also her just flatly pitying otto and hearing this guy say hes totally normal and being like “he Literally cannot perceive himself accurately at all” + dropping otto in the anime just to hug petra is fucking hilarious i need fredotto fics to actually acknowledge this.

but also other details like—and ok granted i dont remember every detail on frederica (yet) but leaving garfiel like that is still kind of. a dick move HAH. and i know her reason was smth along the lines of wanting to improve the outside world for demihumans iirc but like whats her Full Reasons for doing all that?? what was she even planning to do?? why couldnt she talk to or see garfiel more in this entire time period?? i think it comes with the interesting implication that frederica isnt entirely as nice and sweet as she looks—or at least that of course she herself is flawed. which is fun!!

also her relationship with clind is. ………..naturally of course i dont trust tappei with anything regarding children and clinds weird shit with children but ignoring tappei for a moment i do at least appreciate the complicated thoughts frederica has about clind. how she had feelings for him once and they still linger but she keeps her distance bc hes like That, you know? that feeling of broken trust and “i cared for you now what do i do with This Feeling” is So interesting to me i just hate clind’s whole thing with children bc tappei will never write it in an entirely serious and satisfactory manner 😭 BUT greed if and the dynamic between frederica and clind and frederica having to help kill / kill clind bc of greedbaru and echidnas shit is SO interesting (and clinds lore apart from being Creepy About Children is very interesting). but also poor frederica……….. ;-;

and poor frederica bc if the rumors about her getting more development by like arc 10 or 11 are true then shes gonna be stuck in I Havent Gotten Development Yet Limbo for a while ;-;

but yeah anyway. the frederica crumbs so far are interesting, the shit going on with frederica and garfiels family is Interesting, and i definitely dont trust tappei with children 👍 but i hope we get more info on frederica and that her character arc slaps really hard !! i Need to learn more about her!!!

im not fully familiar with fredericas side of the complicated family drama but if memory serves me right her birth was. not an entirely happy affair bc her poor mom has been through A Lot of shit and frederica was a product of that. and then her mom later tries to go find garfiel’s dad. like all of that is just so incredibly sad to me and again, i wish frederica was there to see what happened to her mom in arc 5, and also im curious about how thats affected frederica more in depth. knowing she wasnt exactly wanted. having these demihuman features from her dad (im assuming), whos also One Of the people who hurt her mom. knowing that she was born a burden, learning that her mom cant entirely take care of her and isnt in a stable life situation and almost certainly isnt mentally stable herself. garfiel coming along and their mom leaving. frederica leaving garfiel in sanctuary herself. her growing up admiring clind, which is an unfortunate parallel to what couldve happened with her mom and garfiel’s dad. its just so so tragic to me and theres a lot of things you could explore there!!

frederica to me seems like someone whos probably grown up too fast, who comes off as composed and very disciplined and likes taking care of others but also fumbles a little at growing closer and is insecure and uncertain herself even as shes good at being the older and wiser one to petra and later garfiel a bit. but also we dont know much about her so im kinda just spitballing here but she has potential methinks :,) im definitely sad that it seems like the fact that shes a pretty anime waifu or whatever kinda overtakes discussions on her character sometimes ;-;

and also one of my pals is really passionate about animals and gave me a whole lecture once a few years ago on why they think fredericas beast form design fucking sucks and i cant remember all of their points now but like i Will back them up i think garfiel and fredericas beast forms could look better but im not an expert at illustrating animals so HAH i cant speak on that. but def the eyebrows on the beast designs is so…… whaaaaat is that 😭 go FULL beast design or NOTHING. WHERE IS MY EXTRA EXTRA EXTRA BUFF FREDERICA BEAST DESIGN !!!

also ngl i just think frederica looks really cute in this shot <333 ALSO iirc she feels like she cant wear cute outfits bc shes insecure about her body and :((((( GIVE THIS GIRL ALL THE CUTEST OUTFITS IN THE WORLD PLEASE :((( and also i just think its a tragedy just how much shes sexualized :(( and i just think there are. a lot of AFAB specific and girlhood specific themes you could explore with fredericas storyline but tappei is tappei so all the foundation is there but idk if i entirely trust him. but on another level i think its fascinating yeah!!! sad how much it flies over audiences heads sometimes.

in conclusion: i like frederica i hope we see more stuff from her. and im crying about how she reportedly wont be getting development for a wall :<<<<

#ask #rezero #re:zero #frederica baumann #PUT THIS GIRL IN ALL THE CUTE OUTFITS HER HEART DESIRES !! i need to see more cute art of her :<<#and on a serious level i think in general frederica and her mom as characters hit Different also as an afab person #;-;;;;; their plotlines….. ;-;;;;;;;;;

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aeoki · 7 months ago

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Blackjack - Prologue

Location: SANCTUARY Emperor’s Room Characters: Gatekeeper Season: Winter Writer: Akira

ㅤㅤㅤ< The first year ES was established, during the preparation period between the “SS”

ㅤㅤㅤㅤQualifying Rounds and the Finals. Christmas – somewhere in the ES building. >

“Gatekeeper”: Merry Christmas, Anzu.

It puts a smile on my face to see you in such good spirits again this year. Don’t know what it was like for you last year, though.

Doesn’t it make you wish we could spend every delightful Christmas together? Hahaha.

…Hey, that was a joke so you should laugh. If you’re not going to give me any sort of reaction, then I’m just going to look like some awkward and sad middle-aged man.

Hm? What are you doing?

You’re drawing a line in the middle of the ground with a marker and building a barricade using the sofa and other furniture… Huh? That’s your territory, you say?

You’re going to enjoy Christmas within your own territory, so I should do the same? Don’t talk to you?

Haha. Look who’s sulking away. What are you, a brat going through puberty?

…Now that I think about it, that’s exactly what you are. Hmph.

No matter. Then I’ll do whatever I want. That’s what you said, right? I’m not going to listen to you even if you say you take it back later.

I’m just going to be talking to myself now, so even if you complain, it’s got nothing to do with me. Put some earplugs in or something.

Right now, everything is unfolding exactly as I had expected.

ES is growing at a tremendous speed and the idol industry is trying to achieve astounding development with ES at its core.

They dominated the entire country with “SS”. It shouldn’t be long before they begin spreading their branches overseas.

That’s where my base lies and it’s where our interests differ, so I suppose I do want to keep ES under my thumb while I still can…

Oh, right. I guess this isn’t something I need to mention once more, but I’m a mafia whose base is located overseas. I’m what you’d call an anti-social force.

The idol industry will continue to be chickens who will lay money eggs for us to exploit.

Just like the period right after the war, when the concept of an idol was created.

I bet that lad, Ibara, and those other clever brats are doing everything they can to stop that sort of dark history from happening again.

But I sure wonder how things will turn out.

I think they’re struggling for no good reason. The dead gather where there is money. If one wants to protect their assets from the evil spirits, then they’ll need a guard, a treasurer and a gatekeeper.

I’m willing to take on that role for some small change, so you lot should be crying tears of joy.

Huh? You’ll protect your own assets yourself, so I should stop doing bad things and get out of this country?

You sound like some pushover from a peaceful country. You can protect yourself on your own? That’s exactly what farm-raised cattle would think.

Speaking of cattle, do you want some turkey? I bought one, seeing as it’s Christmas and all.

No? Nevermind, then.

Hmph. It’s that joyous time of year so don’t give me such a gloomy look.

You’re going to scare Santa away.

Well, be it Santa or whoever, as long as I’m here, I’m not going to let anyone near you lot.

And be it assets or whatnot, I’ll be sure to protect you all since I was the one who volunteered to be the gatekeeper for you lot.

That’s what obligation means.

…I know you don’t intend on listening, but listen up.

Right now, you lot have three threats.

The first one is me, of course. “Gatekeeper”, the overseas mafia who’s threatening you lot and trying to get you to give in so I can take your money.

The other is someone we call “Priest”.

Oh, your expression changed. So you’ve heard of that name before. Maybe you heard it from Hitsugi – the poor, adorable boy.

Hitsugi is after the one who gave birth to him in this world – “Priest”, the mastermind behind everything.

Right now, Hitsugi is trying to strike back at “Priest”, his actual father who forced his fate or whatnot onto him.

That’s fine if that’s all there is to it. “Priest” is an eyesore in my eyes. If Hitsugi would do the deed and cut his head off, then that would be a dream come true.

He’s got the skills for it.

I’m busy wrapping “SS” up so I don’t have the time to act like his guardian. It’s possible “Priest” may harbour malice towards me and try to erase me.

Huh? What’s that complicated look for? You seemed indifferent when I was talking about the idol industry, but you can’t ignore it if your friend is mentioned?

Hm? You’re not friends?

Don’t be ridiculous. You two go to the same school, do stupid things and have a jolly good time together… Wouldn’t you call that being friends?

If they’re not family, they’re friends. You should cherish your friends – Not that I can give you any advice since I’ve never had anyone like that, though.

In any case, the secret feud between “Priest” and I is continuing with the idol industry at the centre of it all. Only God will know how it’ll turn out.

There are two things that will affect how things will unfold: Hitsugi, who has become the eye of the typhoon in your place since I’m forbidding you from doing anything, and the “third threat” – it will all depend on how they act.

Hm? Who’s the third person? Haha, I see you finally couldn’t stop yourself from reacting.

It’s my win.

Anyway, unlike “Gatekeeper” and “Priest”, this third threat doesn’t have a name. It’s not a specific individual but rather, how do I put this, a sort of vengeful spirit.

But it’s definitely influencing the world of the living that we reside in.

It still is – to an aggravating extent.

I don’t want the world we live in to be thrown into shambles by ghosts and the dead.

Unfortunately, it certainly exists and it’s not something we can simply ignore.

You should start praying to God or whoever for nothing bad to happen – in this land where God has long passed.

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#blackjack #enstars translation

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yume-fanfare · 2 years ago

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do you guys understand. that there have been only 3 events in the past 6 months where i havent gone for a 5*

#tori has three checks cause i got three copies #(every now and then i think 'man i shouldve just gone for 5' but just that took so long already help)#satellite n mitsu have hearts because i want em #and don't get me started on the other upcoming events id like..................#ideally i'd play pretty much every ss tour if only for the mem coins but. thats so tiring #i know i want for sure. crab hokuto sandstorm hina baby tsukasa and both sanctuary cards #and tor from the finals of course #and mystic fragrance naru in the middle too waugh #too many things coming up.#mar's midnight rambles

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password-door-lock · 4 months ago

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Mystictober day 1-- Favorite character/Hourglass

Unknown brings an hourglass to the RFA party. (1k words)

The sound of the rooftop door opening shakes you from your thoughts and nearly sends you off the edge of the party hall building. You whip around to see who dares to disturb your sanctuary from the chaotic hustle and bustle of the RFA party downstairs. A strange man in a striking white suit approaches you, his hands poised near the lapels of his stiff jacket as though he isn’t used to wearing one. He greets you with a low whistle. “You know, prince(ss),” he drawls, “It isn’t safe to hide up here alone. Someone might just come and snap you up.”

You quickly survey your options— it’s clear you don’t have any way off the roof, not with this man blocking your path to the only advisable exit. It goes without saying that you’re not going to jump, and at this juncture, the man has given you no real reason to try and shove past him. ”Snap me up, huh?” You decide that feigning confidence is your best move in this situation. He’s probably just a harmless party guest. “Is that what you’re planning to do, then?” The man isn’t unattractive, and you wouldn’t be opposed to getting snapped up for a dance or two downstairs.

The stranger leans against the doorframe, withdrawing a small glass bottle from his pocket and holding it up to examine its contents. “Aren’t you just the sharp one?” There’s something utterly intoxicating about the gentle hum of his voice, especially when he's so plainly ignoring you in favor of his prop.

You take one last look over the edge of the roof before resigning yourself to this conversation. You’ve got no way out. “What is that?” Then, a better question pops into your mind— “Actually, who are you?”

“Take a wild guess.” He grins at you, revealing an endearingly crooked smile. Everything he’s said so far feels just a little rehearsed, as though meeting you up here is only one step in some elaborate master plan. Strangely, this does nothing to dissuade you from interacting with the stranger. If anything, you’re looking forward to finding out more about him. There’s a reason why you haven’t called the RFA members to your aid yet, though perhaps it’s not a very good one.

“You’re not… the hacker.” It isn’t a question. There is absolutely no way. Unknown hasn’t answered a single one of your texts in nearly two weeks— what reason would he have to show up here and corner you after making such an obvious effort to avoid you? Besides, the more you think about it, the less threatened you feel by the logistics of this situation. He can’t very well drag you back down through the party, and he can’t keep you trapped on the roof forever. Sooner or later, your friends will notice you’re missing and come up to investigate.

The man clicks his tongue in irritation as you rummage through your pockets for your phone. “Hm, not as sharp as I thought,” he observes, his tone void of humor or malice. The sheer objectivity of the judgment serves to chasten you— though, at least you now know who he is. “Did you think I’d let you slip away so easily, cutie?”

You shiver, deciding to blame the involuntary motion on the chilly autumn air. “What are you talking about?” Stepping closer, you are finally able to make out the item that Unknown brought with him. It’s not a bottle after all, but a small, upturned hourglass. Blue sand spills from the top chamber to the bottom much too quickly to convince you that it will truly take an hour to complete its cycle. You’d give it twenty minutes, tops.

Unknown sighs heavily, gripping one side of the door frame with each arm. Though he’s not the most physically intimidating, he’d clearly be able to catch you if you tried to push past him. “That guy’s app isn’t working right now,” Unknown explains slowly. It seems he’s lost his patience with you, as he’s dropped the suave, mechanical act. “You can’t contact anybody.”

You take a deep breath in an attempt to center yourself. You suppose this makes pretty good sense— you are dealing with a hacker, after all. It follows that his first move would be to hack in and lock you out of the app. “What’s the hourglass for?” You reason that it can’t hurt to learn as much as possible about the odd situation in which you now find yourself.

Unknown uses one slender finger to trace along the outside of the hourglass, following the path of its cascading sands. He’s clearly in no hurry to explain himself as he offers you a contemplative hum. “After the sand is finished spilling,” he explains, tone low and even, “The believers will be finished with their work downstairs, too. Then, it’ll be safe for me to bring you back to our Magenta.” He says it so calmly, as if it is a foregone conclusion that you’ll be going with him.

Your blood runs cold. “No– the— the party, I—” You attempt to rush past him.

Unknown catches you in something like a hug, clicking his tongue at you again. Just as you suspected, he’s got the upper hand. “Ah-ah,” he scolds you, the mocking edge returning to his voice, “You shouldn’t play so dangerously when we’re up this high. Something… horrible might happen.”

“Are you threatening me?” You ask, already knowing the answer. Of course he’s threatening you— but find yourself giving him a pass against your better judgment.

For a moment, Unknown is silent. The only sound on the rooftop is your frantic breathing and the slow pour of cerulean sand into the bottom of the hourglass. Then, finally, he sees fit to reply. “Of course not, prince(ss),” he purrs, still unfortunately just as fascinating as he was when he first set foot on the roof. “That was a warning, not a threat.”

All you can do, you suppose, is wait for the sand to complete its journey through the hourglass. After that, who knows what will happen?

#Here we go!#MM_mystictober2024 #mystic messenger #unknown mystic messenger #choi saeran #saeran choi #mystic messenger drabble #fanfiction

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ultrajtb · 5 months ago

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Finally back to the SS rewrite. Got through the lack of motivation. This is gonna be a long one so enjoy.

So Dark died, and light is essentially hospitalized.

Things calm down for a bit as rainbow takes light to try and heal him.

Nightmare shows up looking for rainbow. He struggles in the search and decides to use a machine to clone himself so he can cover more ground. The process leaves him weaker though so he reversed it and goes to continue his search

Eventually he tracks down rainbow and light, capturing the two and trapping them in the nightmare dimension.

(Side Note: I think conceptually it’d be cool if the dimension was made through manipulating an end crystal to forge a pocket dimension of his own.)

So light goes missing and Rainbow is left heavily weakened.

Nightmare eventually drags Sabre into the nightmare realm too, while stranded, Sabre finds rainbow in a crater with half of his color gone and his powers clearly not working right. He puts rainbow into a makeshift machine for the time being until he can find a way to help him. Eventually he finds nightmare harvesting shadow stone and gets the idea to steal some so he can potentially use it to help rainbow.

After getting the shadow stone, Sabre uses several colors of wool to refine the shadow stone into the first version of rainbow stone.

Rainbow recovers after getting the rainbow stone infused into him and the two work together to track down Light Steve and find a way out.

They find light nearly dead, still suffering from his wounds and try their best to keep him alive while they build an exit portal.

Once free, the three decide to start building a base of operations that can act as a sanctuary from nightmare and any other dangers out there for them and any other remaining steves. They decided to build�� The Rainbow Town (shocker, ik. I would make an attempt at revamping it myself but I don’t have the patience or equipment for it rn)

The install an area to function as a sort of hospital/infirmary type thing for light to rest in securely until he’s properly healed

So after the building is done they spend a few more months dealing with nightmare’s attempts at destroying their home. They start planting rainbow trees to give rainbow a power boost within the area, and plant the rainbow tree of life. The most notable event before the final fight was nightmare sending rainbow to the reverse dimension (more on that in a later post) and leaving him powerless and in such a damaged state that it begins to make him degrade mentally.

Anyway final encounter. Nightmare invades, causes damage, light tries to hold him off and gets absorbed. As Nightmare is closing in on rainbow, ready to finally just kill this nuisance, he feels a burning pain in his body. His markings and eyes start to glow white as his body begins to crack.

And then finally his body is engulfed in a burst of light as every augmentation he’s had is burned out of his body by the absorbed light Steve. When all is said and done, nightmare is left unconscious, now just a normal yellow steve and light is back, but once again critically injured, now in a comatose state.

Sabre and rainbow decide to place light inside the rainbow tree of life in the hopes that one day he will be able to heal and rejoin them. But even if he doesn’t, he finally achieved his original purpose. The original beacon of hope had finally ended the nightmare that’d plagued their people for generations.

As for nightmare steve, they opted to imprison him in a heavily secured machine deep in the rainbow town bunker, armed with a four sided lock in mechanism, lava and redstone rings as power dampeners, two full redstone batteries as emergency power, and a vault door. Essentially a maximum security solitary confinement cell.

And that’s all I’ve got for this post. Hopefully I’ll be able to make more for this series now that I’ve gotten through the part I was struggling to write out. Even now I’m not fully happy with it but it’s good enough.

As always, lmk your thoughts on what I did here and have a good day/night!

#favremysabre #minecraft #steve saga #steves #skins #ultrajtb’s remakes

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