#swap!ponk

[corvidco]

day 81 of drawing ponk until hes added to the qsmp

i need to write a fic or sum

[kay-then-i-guess]

for your roleshift au, who is everyone swapping with? i’m very curious…

I try to keep it a secret (for funsies), especially if it hasn't been guessed already, but I can give a list of those that are already known! If you want to know more about my process of selecting all of these and figuring it out, check out this post and some of my character design sheets (linked in my pinned post on my blog).

Sam is in the role of Tommy!

Techno is in the role of Wilbur!

Quackity is in the role of Tubbo!

Connor is in the role of Eret!

Foolish is in the role of Dream!

Ant is in the role of George!

Skeppy is in the role of Punz!

Wilbur is the role of Sapnap!

Tommy is in the role of Fundy!

Fundy is in the role of Jack!

Jack is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Ranboo is in the role of Niki!

Schlatt is in the role of Quackity!

Hannah is in the role of Schlatt!

Tubbo is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Aimsey is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Niki is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Dream is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Ponk is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

George is in the role of [REDACTED] since nobody's guessed it yet!

Aaaaand that's everyone that's shown up so far! Feel free to make any guesses, though most that haven't been guessed haven't had any major events that would clue you in really, so I'd really be surprised if you got it right haha

Anyways, thanks for enjoying the comic! I'm continuing to work on the election arc, and hopefully that'll be done soon.

(^This is me going insane figuring out the election arc, btw)

[a-moth-called-mof]

Throughback Thursday aka I go over my mains during the dsmp

Many of my followers might not know this but i have swapped through multiple "mains". I still wouldn't say I have a dsmp "main", because I've always had phases and even when I did, I've always tried to follow people who "mained" characters I didn't follow as much so I knew what was up. My original "main" was actually C! Fundy. I fucking adored him. I was a big C! Fundywastaken shipper and if you look through my fundywastaken tag you can see the whole ass wedding canonicity saga. I loved C! Fundy so much from late season 1 (when I joined the fandom) (aka before November 16th) to early season 2 (aka post November 16th) and I was really hoping he'd get to be in a spot light for a bit with Ghostbur. I also really likes C! Niki and C! Bad around this time.

After that, I orbited C! Tubbo a lot (although I've always kept up with C! Clingy to some degree) as well C! Ranboo, C! Eret and C! Puffy (IM STILL MAD ABOUT CC! PUFFY RETCONING HER CHARACTER BEING A MOM BECAUSE THE FANDOM FORCED HER INTO THE STEREOTYPICAL MOM ROLE. i really likes c! Puffy as a mom because even though she was a maternal figure. She had such wine aunt energy and felt like such a fleshed out person to me) (also got really into c! Puffychu for a bit)

And then exile happened and C! Tommy maining began (<- FUN FACT I USED TO FUCKING **HATE** C! WILBUR 😭 I thought he was pretty abusive during Pogtopia and I still do think that C! Tommy scape goated C! Techno a bit because he didn't wanna acknowledge how badly Wilbur missed him up <- that being said even though i didnt like c! Wilbur. I was still always of the opinion, he had the potential to get better and i always felt like he'd come back later eventually).

After exile, I became a pretty big C! Techno main and (c! Emerald enjoyer) even if I didn't always agree with what he was doing (<- tbf I've always watched C! Techno, probably helped he didn't stream as much as the others). Around this time and after Doomsday, I got pretty into C! Sam and Ponk as well. And post C! Tommy dying and lore slowing down, I got really into C! Quackity (although I've always been attached to him because a close friend of mine at the time basically mained him). And then the C! Wilbur revival happened and I started getting more into him and I think he was my last proper "main" before the lore dropped off and the CC! Dream stuff started coming out

Overall all the dsmp characters hold a special space in my heart because I was pretty into almost all of then at some point (I didn't mention this because I don't consider this long enough to be a phase but I did have a week or two where I fixated a lot on C! George and C! Hannah). And idk, all of them hold a place in my heart and I also think half of them suck ass as people but I think that's the appeal for me

[2021medeservedbetter]

Intro/name swaps+ design details

Every once and a while I'll remember the dsmp and how much of... a thing that was, and one of my favorite ocs is from that fandom. So, I'm just reclaiming the whole thing bc my au is already separated enough from the c! storyline.

Canon characters:

~ DreamisTaken- Cain, a glowsquid with scene elements

~ GeorgeNotFound- Micah, a fae who nobody can tell if he's being genuine or not

~ Callahan- Cameron, some deer guy who shows up to raise an eyebrow at everyone

~ Sapnap - Austin, a longhorn with some gemstone elements

~ Awesamdude - Soren, a creeper alchemist

~ Ponk - Pyre, a strider doctor

~ BadBoyHalo - Dallas, a southern belle longhorn

~ TommyInnit - Oliver/Ollie, a crow elytran

~ Tubbo - Theodore/Theo McCallum, a satyr

~ Fundy - Forrest, a kingfisher elytran

~ Punz - Ace, some alien person

~ Purpled - Comet, some alien person

~ JSchlatt - Walter McCallum, a satyr peepaw

~ Skeppy - Almas, a diamond person

~ Eret - Alice, a nymph

~ Wilbur Soot - Elio, a peacock elytran

~ Jack Manifold - Callum, a robot dude

~ Niki Nihachu - Willow, a hummingbird elytran who bakes things with lots of sugar in it

~ Quackity - Dante, a kingfisher elytran who was in elio’s band at some point and they’re exes

~ Karl Jacobs - Jasper, a funky little elf thing who just showed up

~ Technoblade - Atticus, a red hawk elytran who’s comedically tired atp

~ Ph1lza - Conan, a crow elytran

~ Captain Puffy - Eris, a sheep pirate lady

~ Ranboo - Valentine, an enderman thing

~ FoolishGamers- Neptune, a funny shark demigod

~ Hannahxxrose - Seraphina, a dryad

~ Slimecicle- probably still Charlie?

~ Eryn - Finn

- Aimsey - Jasmine “Jazz”

- Kristen- Claudia, a raven elytran

Ocs-

Irene- a peregrine falcon elytran who’s a girlfailure cottagecore anarchist lesbian

Tui- an osprey elytran who’s comedically buff

Othnal- a peacock elytran, the creator deity

Still trying to figure out the god names, so.. yep

[dreamsclock]

oh! dsmp arcane stuff oh! i have. thought about this before haha

vi - sam

caitlyn - ponk

jinx - dream

silco - quackity

sevika - foolish

jayce - quackity

mel - schlatt

viktor - george

sky - karl

vander - bad :(

grayson - philza

ekko - punz

marcus - eret

heimemdinger - callahan

mylo - sapnap

claggor - eryn

OOOHHHH INTERESTING..... im kinda obsessed with this ngl :D

i saw an anon of mine from ages ago swap punz and sapnap around and i'm VERY inclined to do the same but also. stagedduo besties to rivals. is very tempting. alternatively, techno takes on the role. all three are cool :]

[felidaefighter]

Because Love Is Unforgiving

This was an Awesamponk prompt I almost made for a fic exchange a while ago, before swapping to a different one. Angst with a happy hopeful ending!

Merry Christmas @ufuckingpastry! I hope you like it!!! ;w;”

"I don't need you to forgive me," Sam says, twisting his hands together, "I wouldn't… expect you to."

    Ponk sighs. How many times do they have to go through this? But his heart still yearns endlessly for Sam, even after everything. They've both hurt eachother. It's not exactly a perfect relationship.

"That's good," He decides to say, "Because I don't forgive you."

    Sam winces. Sam is allowed to wince. He's allowed to want it even if he understands he can't have it-- but does that have to be the same for love? For what they had?

    Ponk hesitates. He doesn't want to say it, because he doesn't want it to be true, but this isn't some world of magic where you speak things into existence. It's already true. And maybe Sam doesn't deserve to know, per se, but Ponk deserves to have to himself that aired grievance.

"But that doesn't mean…" 

    Ponk grits his teeth. Sam is looking at him, pleading with soft and pitiful eyes, and those are the eyes Ponk remembers. Those are the eyes that helped Ponk nurture his lemon tree time and time again, that flirted with him in bygone days, that offered to help tie his fishing line as they swapped cultures sitting together at the edge of the community house, before its foundations gained walls and it was no more than a communal dock with bedrolls and blankets. Ponk wishes Sam could keep those eyes forever. 

    "That doesn't mean I don't still love you," Ponk whispers. He looks down at the ground, expecting some self-absorbed comment, expecting-- expecting The Warden, he supposes, not so much Sam. Seconds go by. Ponk is still braced, waiting for something that doesn't seem to come. He un-braces as time moves on and seconds becomes a full minute, overrun with confusion.

He looks up, ready to react with anger, to snap "Well?" because that's it? Sam isn't going to say anything to that? 

    Ponk's breath hitches. It's an unusual sight. It's been a long time since he's seen this, a long time since Sam allowed himself to be vulnerable and a person rather than his job.

    The creeper hybrid is crying, tears streaming hot down his face, matting his fur and threatening to stain the wood they're standing on with their heat. "I love you too," He says, quietly, choked-out and with the hints of stress-hiss underneath. "But I don't know if I deserve to."

    "Don't-- don't cry--" Ponk really doesn't know how to handle this, frankly. "Well, you don't deserve to. You have to earn that. Do you think you can earn that, Sam?"

    Sam looks pathetic, and frankly, if Ponk’s going to be blunt-- which he is, he’s been long done with pussyfooting around Sam’s bullshit-- he’s acting pathetic too. “I don’t know how,” Sam says quietly.

    “You could start by taking some responsibility for your actions,” Ponk says, “Instead of pretending you’re free of consequences because you had “good intentions” or some fuckshit. Good intentions my ass! Intentions don’t matter, Sam! What you do matters. What you did matters. And what you’re going to do next matters. You can’t play pretend and act like you didn’t hurt me or anyone else in your big righteous quest. Because you did. And you have to acknowledge that.”

“But I--” Sam protests, and Ponk shuts him down immediately.

“No buts!” Ponk snaps, “You did what you did and you can’t take it back. You can only be better in the future.”

“...Okay,” Sam says quietly.

    Ponk will not have a bleeding heart for the man who took so much from him, but it’s also the man he loved. The man he still loves in spite of everything. Isn’t it funny, how love can last? Like a hardy plant. Ponk wishes their lemon tree could have been hardy, instead of this love.

    “And if you want to do better,” Ponk breathes, because they can’t help it, they want to see Sam do better even if things are never the same, “You have to stop being The Warden. Look at how much that job took from you! Look at how much you took from other people, being that! It’s not worth it, Sam. You don’t have anything else left to guard.”

“...Okay,” Sam says again quietly, still crying, still a person instead of The Warden. “You’re right. Ponk, you’ve always been right. I’ll try.”

    And just for now, that’s enough. Trying is enough in this moment. It’s the biggest step forward Sam’s ever taken in the time Ponk has known him. It’s an effort, it’s a want to get better, it’s the acknowledgement that he was in the wrong that Sam has denied from Ponk for so long. And finally, finally, he says he’s going to try.

    “I’m gonna hold you to that, Sam,” Ponk says, and for a moment they’re back to the days of sunshine and fishing, for a moment there’s love in Ponk’s voice and love in Sam’s eyes and they both understand that what Ponk means is I want you to get better, please get better.

“Thank you,” Sam replies with a hiccup, the tears finally coming to a halt, “I hope you do.”

     It’s far from perfect. It’s far from over. It’s far from being the last hurt they’ll ever cause one another, the last grievance or pain or betrayal or heartbreak. But it’s the first stitch on an open wound, and maybe, just maybe, they can stitch it up piece by piece until it’s nothing but a faded scar.

[anachronistic-falsehood]

SPEAKING OF THE DS DANCESTORS i swapped their blood colours bc in homestuck the alpha trolls are all supposed to be genetically made from the beta trolls right?? like the beta trolls were their ancestors first. so i made the ds dancestors and swapped their blood so you can see whose genetics were combined to make who. basically i'm saying ponk and foolish have two horrible green-blooded children and have no idea how their genetics were combined to make these assholes

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[cocomere]

second half of the art! Karl and Sam probably were the most directly influenced out of all of them; I really liked them being a duo + having a personality swap. Cat (aloof, clever) and dog (excitable, kinda dumb) dynamics are GREAT. Love love love that, almost as much as I love snarky frenemy type deals.

If you're wondering, btw, Vio is wholly my own creation. Ponk and Purpled really didn't have anything to them when I blacked out and woke up to Vio Suddenly Existing. I think there must have been a gas leak or somethin'...

I took my Skeppy (Quizzy) in a very different direction. I'm still kinda getting a feel for him through music tho.

Art is by @world-loading btw, WHICH SHOULD HAVE BEEN MENTIONED SOMEWHERE (but that's a convo I've already had hehe)

Roleswap DreamSMP (Reference Part 2) 

(Sidenote: these designs are old and may be updated later) 

-Mod Dragon

Keep reading

[corvidco]

Day 80 of drawing ponk until my friends actually read homestuck or he gets added to the qsmp… we all know which is happening first

this swap au has my brain in a chokehold… more au info under the cut

MY COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN

okok the swaps are

sam - ponk

george - sapnap

Ranboo - dream (yes I changed it.)

Quackity - purpled

wilbur - schlatt

fundy - tubbo

bad - skeppy

techno - phil

who else?

The lore brainstorming I have so far is:

schlatt dies after reclaiming manberg from wilbur, asking techno to kill him, tubbo is left to resent the innocent ghost of his dad

wilbur takes over manberg and asks Phil to make an example of Fundy for snitching, phil complies out of fear for what his son would do, fundy grows up resenting his father and the memory of his old life and marries Dream and they raise Yogurt together

ponk loses his eye to ranboo after being locked in his own penitentiary, mimicking his friend Purpled who lost the same eye to Philza

ponk cuts off and eats sam’s arm, the circumstances are slightly different, but still essentially a keycard fight where Sam dies and then gets spawn trapped

sam builds himself a prosthetic arm and inhales/consumes way too much redstone, especially after the wound on his arm reopens and he gets more redstone in the wound removing the prosthetic. The redstone in his blood drives him crazy

lotus penitentiary gets infested with egg and ponk lets it drive him crazy and hurts the people around him to keep ranboo in prison

[respiteresponse]

You can come up with new Niki and ponk designs? It's more work probably tho.. but then you can make side by side comparison with the clothes swap

i think im gonna do this ! ! i tend to follow trends that characters have in fandom designs iykwim but i like adding my own twists and spins so i think i wanna try brainstorming before i line and color the sketch : ))) ty ! ! ! ! ! !

[silvermuffins]

Pokemon Scarlet Livblog! Part 7!

I have a goal of accomplishing three objectives in one part. Also the war with my E ky ragees on.

We lft off at thee Levincia lighthouse! oh tumblr is glitching.

A random trainer battle was like "Hey! Wanna buy this?" and I felt sure I was about to b faced with a poke-mlm scheme or a cryptobro.

Anyway, Rolycoly. Gonna name you Lizard. I actually want to complete the dex in this game, it's insane. Chank the Cufant. Plyfon the Voltorb. Oh! A Varoom! You'r Ponk now.

Picnic....which of cours mans naptime. Oh my gosh Pebbles sleeps on top of her hammer. She also now gets mad if I try to clean it. Today w are making a fruit bonanza sandwich, with lots of banana, and also...strawberry, apple, kiwi, pineapple. And whipped cream, marmelade, jam, and butter. Barely held together, the game was glitching graphically, and i lost a berry, but i got it!

special fire tera kirlia! with volt absorb...oooh. Now how to catch without killing...fuck i need to hope. OKay I broke tera. Crit capture! Okay! You're Palermo!

heey Arven tell me about the local Beast. oh hey he's being nicr about Koraidon. Okay, i found an exit (there is a cave too step to walk into)...there's a distinct Area in front of m and supposeedly thre's an amazing pokemon here but my marker's a ways west...

Well. I definitely see whre the herb hollow is gonna be. ?!?! Holy shit, shooting stars?!

one break for some christmas shopping latr, w're back! And I think I found the titan. Man from up on the watchtower this whole area is caves. Orthworm?! Don't mind Jupe oneshotting it. Twice.

Okay! Time to be sad again! As pr usual Koraidon want snac. Arven is getting less angy. Ooh! I get More Jump, thank god! So the remaining two are "climb stuff" and "glide", neat.

HELP ARVEN IS SO CUTE once again sada how do you know. Actually how does Arven keeep knowing when I'm somewhere near a titan? Nemona is stalking m and Cassiopeia has a tracker in my phone, but Arven and Sada...

Excellent, got into a battle with an Orthworm. Your name is Nood. Excellent, Ankles is volving, can swap out for Chonkster. FOUND GOOMY. Finoo.

I have reached Zapapico! Gonna take down Atticus soon....once I decide which Pokemon to use for that. Poison, so I want steel and ground... Town explored, found Torkoal! Kettelmint. What's this? Glimmet? You'll b Dohrts. Aaaa so many caves around here! Where am I now?'

sir if your baby is due any day now WHY AR YOU IN A HOLE OKAY i think I'v xplord almost vry hol in the ground. Now then. Atticus. I mean, Pebbles is a must, Sotero is a shoe-in, too. Daya hasn't done much in a while and will have levels if nothing else.

oh yah Clive is here. Kind of wish these cutscenes didn't move me, I am lost again. Love that you can se the trees all graffiti'd up. Oh goddammit you're a Zorua? I thought you were an Impidimp! Oh well. Oh fuck you the Oranguru is a Zorua too??? Okay YOU'RE a real Impidimp! Hraivin! And a real Oranguru, running into a wall for some reason. you're Galatz.

Found the base! Oh no, there's a kid. Listen to the kid, my guy, he seems to know what's up. ...awww this is the gamer base? KID WHO ARE YOU. ???? HY CLIVE NO I want in on the chitchat!

Navi squad....playing video games.... They totally named themselves after a certain fairy, didn't they. Ooh, atticus designed their outfits? And he's a bit of a maverick...

Oh my god this nerd. Oh my god he's in fucking cosplay. And now the car. ...wait h actually sent out a Pokmon it's not JUST the car this time? It's clearly the same Pokemon that's ON th car...maybe this is a bug. Or is that just...a diffrent Revavroom? Bc now Muk...okay yah it was a different Revavroom. This is a war of attrition.

oh....that's what h looks like under there. What a handsome fellow. such pretty eyes.....and of course, he was bullied. I LOVE THESE KIDS......i want to protect them.

ok no seriously can i just defeat all five bases and be the new boss and take over the world i don't want to destroy their safe space

so Team Star made it so a lot of bullied kids could go back to school... No big boss means no tam star means no good going back to school. Nobody has actually sen or met the big boss? Cassiopeia grows more and more sus.

A bullied recluse. Penny???

yeah mr director you're pretty out of touch

i am Hurting

Yes, Cassiopeia. Enlighten me. What are we aiming to achieve? Take down the big boss, okay, I could have guessed that. There has to be more to this. OKAY everything is good now Penny is here!

Taking the big boss down will protect Penny's treasure...

Alright. Next....i ascend the peak, tackle the ghost gym, then had south for the psychic. Then I'll do the desert titan and Eri's squad...then it's just ice, fairy, and dragon, thn the capstones to each plot.

Okay I have consulted the Nebula and I am gonna approach Icefuck Mountain from the west. Which is Medali. i have the correct west this time. Once we download an update.

Found a Cetoddle oh my gosh look at it. Baby. ...o.o okay so i just watched the baby eat a vigoroth. So, your name will be Slotheater.

ah heck that's probably my worst sandwich yet...oh this is not where I'm meant to be. OH I FOUND A DITTO. You'll be Fred. Okay now we are properly en route to the ghost gym! I have also been advised to do Ortega before Eri so we're doing it that way now. TOEDSCOOL i am not going to kill it this time! You're gonna be Hogus.

Got it~ Okay and then we go up icefuck mountain, because it just isn't an rpg without at least one icefuck mountain. Chonkstr finally evolved, we'll get a level on Vani before we swap out. Next we need...sunkern, kricketot, and rookidee, then happiny, since som of those will happen real quick. Bob is only here to fill my dex so I'm using a sun stone right away. The rookidee is going to take a while, though...okay that's the cricket, so it'll be Happiny next.

There's Sunny's evolution! Now just gotta befriend this brat and level up and she'll evolve again. ...oh that was fast, turns out three baths and a yummy sammich will do it. So Azurill is next! Let's try the same techniqu for friendship....

I JUST FOUND SIX EGGS IN MY BASKET AT ONCE?

Okay Balto has evolved once, and Orb will be an Azumarill in no time....if it ver warms up to me. Hm. Happiny went much faster. THERE we go. One more level and Azumarill. doot! I don't hav a Surskit, never went back for on, so nxt is Buizel. And I think i'll actually start heading up Icefuck Mountain now.

OKAY up th airy mountain down th rushy glen! Nanze the.....first ice typ Jupe dosn't murdr. Snover. Mechalli the Sneasel. Koeagal the Cubchoo. Havdy the Bergmite. Camdycor the Snorunt. Tachulca the Delibird.

Oh, sure, THAT'S a safe place to be (on a narrow cliff, over about a million foot drop, in a blizzard, cornred by a floatzel)

aaaaaaa this cliff doesn't go anywhere

[ALL SCREAMING]

it's fine we're fine

AAAAAAA I FELL OFF A DIFFERENT CLIFF

what is tatsugiri it's strong wait is that th psudo

im gonna name you Maya. Ooh and here's a boy to name Tatsuya, because I am An Nerd. I think this is yt anothr version? nope it is not. Oh but THIS is! This on can b Lisa.

wherever th hll I am is th prettiest picnic spot. One horrifically spicy sammich later...

there is a cav hre...what's inside? Pokemon. Frigibax. You can be Zartd. Oops nvermind, you faintd and thre isn't another here. Ah! Mermert volved! Swapped for Psyduck. Whoa, hello Hawlucha! Annnd it died. Found anothr one you can b Rhumbacho.

We are going to fly back to Glaseado's Grasp bc otherwise im stuck here...thr's a wild flaron just chillin here....oops i killd it. Gonna ned this lady snorunt. Zaleet.

How the hell do I gt where I'm going??? Oh well. This femal Glaceon could be my tickt to more eeveelutions. You'll thusly b Mamedar

I MADE IT. Oooh, hypr training is back? oh! this sushi place has an xclusiv menu! Whether or not I accomplish my third objcetive today depends entirly one the gym test.

[candyblob]

Lemon moobloom ponkiee

[cosmic-hypnotic]

new au just dropped y’all

[frombeyondtheblackhole]

Hermit DSMP Swap AU: Part 12.8

Foolish stared at the others, holding his breath and listening to Doc move around in the room above. His whole body ached and throbed as the adrenalin wore off and his injuries began to make themselves known. 

Ponk looked back at him “You look like shit.” He hissed.

Punz handed him a golden apple without a word before squeezing past them to the front of the group.

Foolish nodded and muttered a thanks as he bit into the apple. He felt the warm tingle soak into his bloodstream and the worst of the damage healed. He could feel the pain numbing, it was only temporary he knew. He would be really sore later. 

He felt Schlatt give him a little shove from behind. “Fucking useless.” Schlatt muttered.

Foolish bristled but hurried after Ponk and Punz. It was several minutes later that they came out of the tunnel into the open. Foolish hurried his pace to catch up with Punz. 

“So what now?” he asked. 

Punz glanced at him “I’m going to need to talk to Schlatt to see if he has any useful information. But as far as you're concerned, as soon as we get back, you need to tend to your injuries.”

Foolish huffed in frustration but nodded in agreement. He knew he needed to heal up before he could be useful again. He might be a god but that didn’t make him invincible. Punz would keep him informed. In the meantime he could take care of Genesis. He felt bad for having to leave her alone like this. When this was all over he would take his entire family to some seaside beach location far away from the DSMP and they could build a new life together. 

—

Doc growled as he exited the house, Gem flinched as he yanked what was left of his prosthetic arm free “Der gone.” He hissed. 

“Are- are you ok, maybe you should sit down,” Gem stammered. 

Doc turned to her, his scowl melting away when he saw the look of concern on her face. He sighed and tucked his badly mangled prosthetic under his good arm rubbing his hand down his face. “I’m fine… it’s mostly just d’ arm,” He sighed. “It’s going to be a pain to fix but I’ll manage,” 

“What happened?” Impulse asked as he came out of his house. Gem spun around to see him. He looked fine.

“Impulse! Are you ok?” She said going over to meet him.

“Yeah,” he grinned sheepishly, rubbing the back of his head, “I just respawned. I’m ok, that caught me by surprise. I didn’t expect them to have help. 

“Where’s Scar, and Bdubs? I hope they're ok.” Gem said, looking around.

“I’m fine! I’m fine,” Scar called as he jogged over from his house, only slightly out of breath. “Oh boy, that felt strange,” he laughed, slowing down as he reached the group. 

“You sure you're feeling ok?” Gem insisted. 

Skar nodded “Oh, definitely,” He giggled “It tickled for sure but I'm perfectly fine now, and that’s a Scar promise.” 

“I-I should be heading back- you know, Bdubs- make sure he’s ok,” Keralis stammered. 

“Oh, of course,” Gem said “Go on now, don’t worry about us… are you ok though? You took a couple of hits back there.” 

Keralis nodded and smiled, “Don’t worry about me sweetcheeks.” He patted Gem on the arm before turning and heading off at a jog in the direction of the Big Eye base where Bdubs should have respawned. 

Gem watched him go.

“What now?” Impulse asked, looking around at the others. 

“Where’s Grian?” Scar started.

“He went through a portal yelling something about lightning,” Impulse said.

Scar frowned his brow furrowing with concern. “And he hasn’t come back through? I’m going over to X’s house to see if he’s there,” Scar said, without waiting for an answer he started jogging down the path towards the tunnel through the mountain to X’s base. 

“I’m sure he’s fine,” Impulse muttered. Gem got the feeling he was saying it more to convince himself than anyone else. 

Gem clapped her hands and put on a reassuring smile “Why don’t we all go inside, I can make some more tea to calm our nerves and we can do something about that arm there,” She said nodding at where Docs prosthetic used to attach to his arms, lose wires and sharp edges were all that was left attached to the shoulder plate. 

She didn’t give them time to argue, instead leading them all back inside Impulse's house. It would take a minute to clean up the mess… She brushed back some loose strands of hair that had fallen out of her braid, flower petals falling to the ground through her fingers. This really was a big mess they had gotten themselves into. 

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Grian stumbled through his portal into X’s house, almost knocking Scar over as he did so. The other man caught him steddying him. He looked up at Scar, his heart racing, his eyes locked in a purple haze and his head throbbing. “I can’t-” He gasped, clutching desperately to Scars arms. 

X stood up from where he sat on the bed, “I got it,” He said, his eyes glazing over and going still as his mind went into the admin space.  

“Hey, it’s ok,” Scar soothed. Grian’s grip loosened and his breathing evened but his eyes were still purple. “It’s ok,” Scar assured.

“But it’s not,” Grian sobbed. “The server is dying and there isn’t anything we can do to stop it.”

Joe stood up from the couch and placed a gentle hand on Grian’s shoulder “Why don’t you sit down friend,” He said, guiding him back to the couch “X will take care of this. Scar why don’t you get something to drink out of the cabinet.”

“Like tea or spirits?” Scar asked, moving over to the cabinet.

“Spirits,” Grian interrupted.

Joe chuckled “I ment tea but that works I guess, I don’t know if X has any though.”

Scar grinned and turned around pulling a small cantine out from the inner pocket of his jacket. “Don’t worry, I’ve got just the thing,” He said tossing the canteen to Joe, who opened it and gave it a whiff. 

“Why do you have this?” Grian asked, “Not that I'm complaining.” The purple had started to fade from his eyes as he took the bottle from Joe and took a swig.

“You know,” Scar shrugged, turning back to the cabinets and starting to rummage through them for anything else of use, “For the aesthetic.”

“I-I should be getting back,” Grain said standing.

“Oh no you don’t,” Joe said, pushing him back down. “You’re way over worked, you need to rest. I don’t know exactly how all this Watcher stuff works but you, sir, are a mess and everyone and their grandmother's uncle can see it.”

“Yes, my grandmother's uncle is very concerned about your health,” Scar giggled. 

“You don’t even have a grandmother, or an uncle,” Grian scoffed.

“How do you know?” Scar said waggling his eyebrows.

Grian sighed and rubbed his eyes. “Alright, fine. I’ll rest for a minute. But after that I really do need to go help X. He’s in there all by himself.” 

“Couldn’t you just make a portal and send one of us through?” Joe suggested.

Grian shook his head “You would just die in the void. Only Watchers and… Developers, can survive the void. Besides, you wouldn’t be able to do anything without a deep understanding of magic, even if you could survive,” Grian said, taking another swig from the bottle before capping it. It probably wasn’t the best idea to drink too much before having to fly in the void.  

“Oh you wound me my friend,” Joe dramatized, pressing a shocked hand to his chest. “I pulled Cleo out of Limbo. I think I’d figure somethin’ out,”  

Grian shrugged “Doesn't matter. I need to head back now,” He said, handing Joe the canteen. The purple had only just fully faded from his eyes, to return in full force. He cut a rift through the air, flared his wings and flew through into the cold void beyond. X needed his help.

[Notes: Sorry for the long wait. I was working on some other projects and working on updating this fic to Ao3. its not all there yet but I am slowly working up updating it. I have a whole bunch more written for this too and I am very excited to share it with you all. Some of the sub plots are about to reach their climax and things are about to go down. I hope you enjoy]

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waaaaait lol you know what would be funnyyyy (read: not at all funny)? if foolish went with quackity to ponk’s valley to recruit them to las nevadas and quackity’s using his slimy tactics and they destroy part of ponk’s new home and its exactly like when ponk was possessed by the egg and led the attack on foolish’s summer home and exploded his statue