#team Heavenly Sword

[thekingsavatar-fan]

顾夕夜，生日快乐！

Happy birthday, Gu Xiye! [wiki]

[mothmanavenue]

In conjuntion with this art piece here

...

The war doesn’t end with a crash or a bang. Nothing explodes in a fiery shower the way he’d read about in books as a kid. There's no rocking of the ground as the world shifts under their feet, and a curling anxiety in his gut as he desperately reaches out in the link for a glimmer of one just one of his teammates, his family, his lover.

There’s just the dead drop of a falling lion as a ceasefire is called. It’s just the feeling of his fingers relaxing from a white knuckled grip on Red’s controls and his head falling back with a dull thud against the headrest of the pilot’s chair. It’s the unwinding of his spine as he slumps, all his strength and exhaustion collapsing in on him as he surrenders flight back to his lion, her battle roar softening to a gentle rumble in the back of his mind. It’s the gasps of relief and whispered gratitude of his family echoing in his ears, letting him know they’re safe, they’ve made it, it’s finally done.

Keith is completely unsurprised to note which one he prefers. 

Red’s purr is a constant source of comfort in his mind as he curls his legs toward his chest, eyes squinted in lazy, bone deep weariness, brain barely processing Shiro and Allura from their respective command stations outlining the conditions of ceasefire. He can barely think about anything outside the cramping in his fingers and the bleariness of his eyes from entire successive days spent raising Voltron’s sword, pouring his energy and willpower into convincing the strongest weapons in the universe to bend to his will.  

It’s ok if he misses something. The team will catch him up. They always have, when the tiredness consumes him, and he checks out of conversations and discussion, slumping against the nearest comforting shoulder. 

Allura’s voice is as sharp and clear as the crown that adorns her head; the queen of Altea in all her glory commands her troops from the midst of battle. Keith’s attention had been laser focused on ensuring Voltron’s continued presence, but nothing in the world could keep him from watching for Allura’s flashing blue light as she approached Haggar, now withered and raging, and knelt in front of her. Keith missed what was said, the words exchanged. But he saw the tightening of his Queen, his sister’s, shoulders, and the hand wrapping tight around the witch’s neck. 

It’s been a long eight days on this earth of his.

His brain clocks out in that moment, and he rides the warm haze he’s in, letting the satisfaction of success settle into his bones. It’s not time for celebration just yet. It will come later once the dead is counted and the shrouds are laid. Keith knows better than most the toll of war, and he dreads the time that will come when the lists of the dead will be handed to them, and he will need hours, days, weeks, to grieve people he did and didn’t know and names he’s cherished and ones he’s never heard, and each loss will still hit like a blow to the ribs. After that, the celebration will come. The ballrooms of the castle will glow with life and Hunk will dress in gold, Shiro’s white hair will gleam in the light, and Pidge will protest that she just won a war, she deserves a drink. Allura will stand regal at their side, and her shoulders will be light, free from the burden of an avenger, and she will turn to them with a gleaming grin and they won’t have any choice but to smile back at her. 

And lance.

Lance will be so handsome in his blue suit, golden and silver threaded in painstaking embroidery in the bed of deep sky. His hair will fall loose and natural in his eyes, heavenly blues, and earthy brown under the string set of his eyebrows, and he’ll gleam like a freshly lit candle. 

He’ll take Keith’s breath away and Keith will never want it back. 

But that comes after.

Right now, here, Red lands on dusty earth and grumbles in his head about doing all the work. He’s sure none of the other lions give their other halves this much shit. He loves her so fiercely it burns his throat and eyes. He can’t believe he ever spent a day outside of her. Can’t believe he wasn’t raised alongside this wonderful, temperamental, protective, grouchy cat, who bossed him and fussed him, and purred and cooed when he screamed in his dreams. Can’t believe there ever was a time he resigned himself to not having this. What a fool he was. 

The wave of emotion fills the cockpit in a lilting hum, and she lights up around him, Voltron blue piercing through the chunks in his armour. Red is as alive as a blaze and warm as a hearth in his head. 

Her mouth drops open with one final swell of affection, as she releases her paladin to his home ground. 

Keith murmurs a breathy thank you i love you you’re everything to me, as he stumbles out, hand grasping the cool metal as he comes to a rest on the shifting sands. The sand is warm from fire and fighting and it hits him all at one.

He crouches down, head hanging as he pants and gasps for breath. The emotion of the past few days shutter his eyesight till all he sees in the grains of sand sticking to his gauntlets. His head spins and his hair is falling out of the ponytail he’d tied it back in, and his breath is coming hard now. 

Something is missing. Somethings not quite right.

The swords have fallen, the helmets tossed to the side, red looms protective behind him. The shields are down the guards are dropped and he can feel the press of the Voltron bond that lets him know his team is landing nearby, drawn together with a gravitational pull.

He draws in breath, cool and refreshing and tinged with the scent of burning. Around him the sand is interspersed with freshly formed glass. 

He raises his head, expecting to see the heavens above him. He wants to take in the freshly healed scar of the newly collapsed Rigel star system. Wants to know how the blazing lights of thousands of planets worth of warfare look set against the familiar earth sky. He think he might look at the constellations, like he did not far from here a hundred years ago, tucked into his dad's strong, solid arms, the scratch of a stubbly chin accompanying a moving mouth as it named Orion, Cassiopeia, Gemini. 

He looks up expecting to see stars, and instead, he sees the sun.

Lance's smile is crooked, and his breath comes fast, like he ran, as he hovers over him. Their faces are so close he can count each individual freckle on this boy’s face, as precious to him as the gleam of moonlight cutting paths across the castle hallways. Oh this boy, this absolute death of him. 

“Hey lover,” the words leave Lance’s mouth with ease and anticipation, years of pent-up adoration spilling out with every vowel, “we did it.”

Keith feels his own smile steal across his face, “yeah, we did.” 

If possible, Lance's smile grows wider, crinkling the already forming smile lines at his eyes. Keith thinks of the products that line the counter of his bathroom sink, just waiting for a pretty bronzed hand to pick them up when the separation hits, and their resolves are softened by the press of late hours and long silence. 

A silly waste. Keith likes this look on Lance.

Aging.

What a wonderful thing he never thought he’d get to have. 

“You know what that means?” 

Lance's voice is smooth, the tremble that only a practiced ear could pick out masked by the sincerity and anticipation that has dogged their every conversation since that night on the dais. 

“We’ll wait.”

“Until when, Keith?”

“Until it’s done. When it’s done then we can have this. We can’t lose everyone for each other.”

“I’m yours?”

“When it’s done then. And when it’s done, I’m bringing you home with me. I’m putting a ring on your finger and I’m never letting you go. You’re it for me, Keith.”

“I’m not asking you to wait, that’s not fair-“

“I followed you into space Keith. I followed you to the point of no return. You aren’t asking me anything and that’s a damn shame. I’d give you anything you asked for.”

“When it’s done lance, when it’s done, I’ll ask you anything you want me to. I’ll come home with you, I’ll share a bed with you. I’ll be yours as long as you’ll have me.”

“Don’t joke, honey,”

“I’m not. You’re mine, lance”

“And-“

“you’re mine.”

The words reverberate in his head, and oh. This is what it was. The smooth slot of this thing that’s been so long coming.

Lance drops to his knees in front of him, one warm hand coming to rest on his cheek. Keith leans his head into it. He’s too tired for restraint, or shame, or any other useless emotion that would’ve held a younger him back. He’s got nothing to lose. He’s won. There’s no reason left to hold back. What a novel idea. It coats him and leaves him shivering at the feel of a gloved thumb running gently over his cheekbones.

His eyes fall back open from their unconscious close, and Lance is so close.

Honest, sweet, honourable lance. The sandpaper to all his rough edges. The iron that absorbed his burning heat. The shore that meets his rocking tide. 

Keith can hear the thunder of Pidge’s feet as they run across the uneven terrain. Hunk is following after her, his voice a cacophony of relief and joy. Shiro’s laughter is warm and thick as honey, coming easier than it has since aliens were a late-night story. Allura is giggling, high and bright, and a little hysterical. It’s ok. She’ll pull herself back together and they’ll be there to fill the cracks with liquid gold.

(Or glitter. She’d like glitter.)

Lance is watching him, and Keith’s eyes drift back to him. Lance hasn’t looked away in years. Something, some last resistance hidden away so deep he didn’t even know to search for a cure, falls away. 

He leans in and closes the gap.

...

posted on ao3 here

[epic-arc]

Summing up jaune's crossover ships

WARNING THIS POST IS FOR COMEDY ONLY! I'M NOT CRITICIZING YOUR SHIP OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT!

1-KnightLight

You liked the dynamics of the two and the first film of the RWBY x DC crossover, but you are very sad knowing that Jaune and his team wouldn't be in the sequel.

2-Heavenly knights (Art from @brokentrafficknight)

Arkos but if Pyrrha was a knight and had a giant arsenal of armor and swords. Joking aside and a good ship, the two characters match.

3- Dolphin Knight.

You like dragonslayer and final fantasy. This is a good ship I must agree and I love the jokes about Tifa being Italian with Jaune.

4- Early Moon Knight

You like white knight and you really liked the idea of ​​weiss from ice queendom then it comes to your head ''And you take the idea of ​​weiss from ice queendom to the extreme'' and boom there is this ship.

5- Frozen Knight

Remember what I said about the previous ship and the same thing for this one but instead of going to the extreme you thought beyond the limit!!

6- Usagi Knight

Congratulations you want jaune's pelvis to be broken!

7- Lightning Blade

Two things: You think Jaune is a person who likes cats. You want jaune's pelvis to be broken with speed.

9- Bad Luck Knight

I can fix her/i can make him worse.

10- Empress Knight

Yep, nora haircut tip for Jaune was so good that it made even the empress from another dimension fall in love with him.

[infohazardouz]

i know 'steamer benrey' isnt a new headcanon or anything but it'd genuinely be perfect for his character after hlvrai. i like to think he doesnt bother trying to hide his inhuman qualities because nobody thinks anything on the internet is real anymore. they see him manipulate the game in impossible ways in real time and just think he's really good with computers. they think sweet voice is just really tactical vape smoke & tell him to do colours. they see him levitate shit on facecam and assume hes a master of practical effects. plus he gets PAID to play heavenly sword

last image is how he'd sleep in his shitty apartment i think. just a single mattress with a tablecloth and one pillow on the floor in the middle of the room. he only sleeps bc he's bored waiting to stream again

sketches of all the science team up next. benrey is canadian im going to draw him at tim hortons getting my order

[witchofthesouls]

Okami and Transformers crossover??? ideas thoughts??? Maybe with the best girl Miko???

I had several (a lot) ideas about a crossover between them:

One, Team Prime find themselves in Japan, and Miko becomes a tour guide. Something calls out to Optimus, and its a massive cherry blossom tree in full bloom. He shares a 'feeding the animals' moment with a white wolf with peculiar red markings. The wolf disappears without a trace. Miko leads them to the shrine dedicated to Nagi and Shiranui. Miko sees Optimus staring at the statue of Shiranui and later on leads him to the Cave of Nagi. She's a descendant of Nagi and Susano, so she's well-aware of Ammy.

Two, crossover with the soulmate au with Miko/Tarn where the Jasper Trio had been cyberformed. Miko's yōkai ancestress serves the Dragon Palace under Ryūjin , and since the Great Divide, there are no full-blood yōkai residing in the world of humans, but their descendants are able to live there and humans are still able to travel across worlds. Due to her many runs Elsewhere, Miko is now capable of tapping into a yōkai form that followed her cyberization. Amaterasu, origin of all that is good and mother to us all, searches for someone to allow her passage into the elusive, ever-moving Dragon Palace.

Three, the Divine Instrument Tsumugari is actually a Primal Artifact. Megatronus Prime's. The legendary bloodline of which Nagi was descended was actually one of the Primal descendants that followed the Fallen. That's why Tsukuyomi was able to fully seal Orochi and could only be moved by someone of the bloodline: Susano was Primal-descent. Megatronus was Prima's opposite yet equal. It's no surprise that Tsumugari, reborn from the slain Orochi's blood, would then accompany Amaterasu's journey to slay evil across Nippon. Tsumugari now sleeps somewhere in Japan, and the Star Saber resonates out to search for its lost brother. The lost sword awakens once more as Unicron stirs and its solar twin sings.

Four, Transformers Prime is actually set the world of Okami. The inhabitants of Nippon believe the Cybertronians are a kind of Celestial Beings or new type of yōkai/demon. The Autobots and Decepticons must navigate a strange world where higher beings and otherworldly spirits roam the earth, sea, and sky. And capable of bringing them down. (Miko is here, too. She's guiding the Heavenly Beings, the Autobots, across the land. The Cybertronians are adamant that they're not from the Celestial Plains and think their transformation sequences and technology would speak for themselves. It doesn't. This Earth is rich with the supernatural and magic, so Miko gets more adamant that they're Heavenly Beings. Waka is no help either.) It doesn't help that the origin of the brush gods is actually Megatronus Prime, who split himself to seal the planet. His physical self to chain the Unmaker as his immense cosmic power remained as Celestial Beings to act as a counterbalance and protect the world. That's why Amaterasu is able to wield the diverse cast easily. Much like Prima, Ammy is the Sun.

[idkman-ijustwannamakeatournament]

Round 1: Match 7

"Two Sides of the Same Coin"- Two things that are regarded as part of the same thing. Even if they're very different, they have at least one common thread that helps them fit into this trope.

Propaganda (under the cut):

Akira Kurusu and Goro Akechi

"Pitted against each other by a cruel god as his playthings. Both had their lives altered by the same man. They both have the power to summon more than one persona, but while Joker hs multiple and also a whole team of friends to support him, Akechi only has two and is alone. Akechi is the foil to all of the Phantom Thieves, him being the version of them that used the powers of their Persona to exact his revenge, instead of reforming the people they went after."

Original Shen Qingqiu (Shen Jiu) and Original Luo Binghe (Bingge):

"Shen Jiu and Luo Binghe portray the cycle of violence within the in-text novel Proud Immortal Demon Way. Shen Jiu was abused as a slave & unintentionally abandoned by the person he trusted most. He only escaped by burning the mansion down, killing all the men inside. He later joined Cang Qiong Mountain Sect but grew envious of Luo Binghe, who is overflowing with talent, since he, Shen Jiu, was unable to cultivate until later in life. He also gains a lecherous reputation due to his inability to sleep around men causing him to frequent brothels.

Luo Binghe joined Cang Qiong Mountain Sect as an orphan (abandoned by his birth parents & lost his adoptive mother). He excels even despite Shen Jiu's abuse, but once his Heavenly Demonic blood is revealed, Shen Jiu casts him into the Abyss, where he relies on a demonic sword to survive. When he returns, he gets brutal revenge on all those who wronged him, becoming Emperor of the world and forming a Harem with hundreds(?) of women.

However, both of them are unhappy! Neither of them form/keep meaningful relationships or are fulfilled with their lives. SVSSS's entire thesis revolves around nuture over nature - having someone treat you with kindness and not cruelty."

[spidersonicbatl0]

My PlayStation all stars 2 dream roster

Before I begin. I just want to address a few things.

1. Crash and Spyro will be apart of this roster. I imagine Sony would work out of a deal with Microsoft (let crash and Spyro be in they crossover games and bungie (who Sony will still own) can make halo games for them again) because how iconic they are to PlayStation.

2. I think Sony could use this as starting point for a shared gaming multiverse (think dc or marvel). Plus this give some closer to story that will never get continued. So yeah this game is canon to each franchise in this game

3. Similar to sonic heroes, their is multiple team stories with each story being characters for who debuted in each of different eras of PlayStation and a third party story for characters that debuts on other consoles. each era’s would have a villain that debut in that generation. The plot will revolves around a society in the center of the multiverse who creates, watch and help save these PlayStation worlds. But a team up of villains are working together to collect polygon man prices for ultimate power! So this society gathers four heroes of each console generation to deal with this threat. Each team gather more characters from their eras and fight their era villains at the story end. The final story have each team worked together to defeat a resurrect polygon man and his army.

4. Every characters from the first game is returned.

5. each character have eight alternate outfits from they games (if their not enough Palette swap is them)

6. Each character have custom supers moves

Anyway on to the roster

Returning characters

Kratos from god of war (base on his Norse mythology version this time. So levaiathan axe, blades of chaos (because him not have them ruin one of best scenes in the series) and draupnir spear)

Ratchet and clank from ratchet and clank (each weapon in their moveset is updated to there rift apart versions)

Jak and daxter from jak and daxter (yes the mar plot line will be resolved. Level 1 supers reference stuff from jak 1, level 2 supers reference stuff from jak 2 and level 3 supers reference stuff from jak 3)

Sly cooper from sly cooper (considered this hypothetical game would be canon to all series feature in this. It pretty obvious this game would have sly get back to the future! Just case we never get sly cooper 5.)

Paparapa from paparapa the rapper (paparapa will look more closely to his series this time)

Spike from ape escape

Nathan drake from uncharted (the grapple hook replace zip line (grapple hook attach itself to a platform, allowing drake to follow it up with swing kick or a diving punch), each of Nathan weapons are updated to their a thief end version, Nathan custom level 3 are references to supernatural shit in the first three games.)

Cole McGrath from infamous (good Cole and evil Cole won’t take damage from election attacks)

Evil Cole mcgrath from infamous (use the powers of the beast in his moveset. Also the villain of ps3 era story and final boss of that story)

Sack boy from little big planet (now include moves from little big planet 3 and sackboy big adventure)

Fat princess from fat princess (i seriously hope Sony doesn’t changes her name in a squeal. Because modern politics correct)

Sweet tooth from twisted metal (if you remember that canceled twisted metal game that took place in an apocalypse. His design is taken from that scarp project. In other words, sweet tooth home is now paradise!)

Sir Daniel fortesque from medievil (updated to look like his medievil remake design)

Radec from killzone (resurrect as a cyborg after lowtiregod himself)

Toro from Japan aka PlayStation Japan mascot (keep his outfits gimmick. But each outfit attacks represents insomniac, naughty dog or sucker punch games. Insomniac outfit is ratchet, naughty dog outfit is jak and sucker punch outfit is sly)

Nariko from heavenly sword

Heihachi Mishima from tekken (most likely won’t speak because of Japan respect for dead voice actors. So just say he can’t talk because of his resurrection. Edit: somehow heihachi returns. I wrote this (I been working on this for a long time) before the announcement of him returning in tekken 8. I actually thought Namco would keep him dead after tekken 7. because hired a old man voice actor for him, had the same life expectancy of concord)

Big daddy from bioshock (yes he comes with a rapture stage. Like psasbr should have done!)

Dante from devil may cry (the original Dante. His moveset is now updated to include weapons and attacks from dmc1, dmc3, dmc4 and dmc5. Not including dmc2 do to that game being bad from what I hear)

Raiden from metal gear (moveset is now updated to include more attacks from rising, the game amazing bosses songs are available to play on stages, raiden can trigger unique codec calls for each player characters (like snake in brawl) on the metal gear stage. This game would also explain why raiden a cyborg again. despite mgs4 having him turn back to normal at the end)

Kat from gravity rush

Emmett graves from Star hawk

Issac Clarke from dead space (moveset is update to the dead space remake)

Zeus from god of war (the blade of Olympus and the gauntlet of Zeus is used in his moveset now. Zeus can also summon some other Greek gods for custom supers)

Newcomings

Ps1 era

Crash bandicoot from crash bandicoot (I want to make crash a surprise. So he wouldn’t be reveal till the game launch. Imagine this. You just got PlayStation all stars 2 on launch day. You start story mode and notice the ps1 era story is the only available one. So you select it and the first cutscene is a recreation of crash bandicoot 1 title screen. That how you reveal PlayStation original mascot!)

Spyro the dragon from spyro the dragon (moveset is base on the original trilogy by insomniac games)

Cloud from final fantasy (moveset is a combination of the original and remake)

Dart from the legend of dragoon (considered they were outcry to finish him! He most likely would be in a sequel)

Leon Kennedy from resident evil (I pick him over Jill or Chris because re4 is considered to be the best game of time. So re4 weapons for his moveset)

Dr. Neo cortex from crash bandicoot (ps1 era story main villain and final boss of that story)

Abe from Oddworld

Tomba from Tomba

Sephiroth from final fantasy (because if cloud end up in a fighting game, sephiroth is going to show up to ruin cloud fun)

Nemesis from resident evil (classic design from re3, moveset combined stuff from the original game and remake, nemesis will hunt you down in levels after Leon join the party in certain levels)

Ps2 era

Sora from kingdom hearts (I know some people think getting Sora is impossible if a sequel happens. But, A. Disney was pretty relax with Sora getting in smash bros and B. Don’t have any Disney characters cameos in this game)

Dr. Nefarious from ratchet and clank (I know some people think another ratchet and clank rep should be captain qwark, but I disagree for 2 reasons. 1. Qwark original voice has Alzheimer’s disease so can’t act anymore and 2. Dr nefarious is the most popular ratchet and clank villain. Plus he be the perfect main villain (and final boss) for the ps2 story, considering he a fan favorite who debuted in this era. Also bring Lawrence back damn it!)

Wander from shadow of the colossal (honestly it pretty surprised wander wasn’t considered for the original PlayStation all stars. His game is considered by many to be the best game ever made)

Ultra v from war of the monsters (basically he the size of the iron giant from multiversus)

Kiryu Kazuma from yakuza (I know the devs of the series say “Kiryu can’t be in a fighting game because he has to fight woman and that out of character”. But because the game story is about different universes, what if dr nefarious just kidnapped a Kiryu from different universe (probably from dead souls) and turn him into a mindless servant robot. So when you fighting female characters it just a robot kiryu reskin with his moves)

Death jr from death jr (the psp rep for the game)

Pyramid head from silent hill (is brought back thanks to the ps4 era villain who good with magic. Because pyramid head only exist till James learn the truth)

Greek kratos from god of war (you know how they three link’s in smash and they’re all have no exclusive moves from their games (except botw link and young link). Yeah, I not doing that so here two kratos with two unique movesets! Greek kratos will be part of two pre bonus characters (The other being reboot Dante) that can be bought four months after release or unlock after beating all era’s stories )

Ps3 era

Joel and Ellie from the last of us (I know some people are going to say “Joel and Ellie can’t be in this because their game series is to violent!” One, silent hill is much darker than the last of us part 2 and 2 you know how much outrage if they are not in it. So anyway. Joel and Ellie are like pyra and mythra from smash ultimate (with Ellie being a semi clone of Joel). Joel deal more damage/take less damage but is slow, Ellie is faster but deal less damage/take more damage.

You’re also probably asking “isn’t Joel dead?” Well, this Joel is from a different universe where he didn’t die and part 2 never happened)

Hybrid Chimeran from resistance (this is an original character for the game. He was a Russia young adult, who have seriously smoked problem. When the chimeran started revealing Russia. He was still able to keep free will because the virus having not adapted to resist cancer yet (he has undiagnosed cancer). After discovering chimeran like him, who also have free will (thank to other diseases). They’re escapes to lceland too work on some kind of cure)

The slayer of demon from demon souls (look, I never play or will play a soulslike game. But his game create the genre. So they have to be in this game)

Kutaro from puppeteer

Gleeber and Lunk from PlayStation move heroes (the PlayStation move rep)

Kevin buttler from those old ps3 commercials (ok, incase you don’t know who he is. Check out rebeltaxi video call ‘strange colorful semi lost ps3 games’ to know who he is. You finish the video? Good. then let move on. Kevin is basically the nick fury of this multiverse protection society.)

PS4 era

Spider man from marvel spider man (I know some people think he doesn’t deserve to be in a sequel, because he not a video game character. But just to remind people, James Bond was considered for smash bros melee because goldeneye 64 was that good. And it a license game!)

Abby from the last of us (ah yes the Ray of PlayStation, a group of people love her and the other group want her dead! Look, it more likely she will be in a sequel if it happen. So just don’t play as her if you don’t like her ok! As for gameplay she a clone of Joel and Ellie with a few unique moves. Tho the rat king will be a level three super and the golf club)

Deacon St. John from days gone (the real reason, deacon is on this roster because of one thing. THAT. FUCKING. CLIFFHANGER! (Also, because it consider an modern cult classic by PlayStation fans) like seriously did forget to trick the director again (another why we never got a sequel is because the game director was an dick with angry issues). Anyway, simply to days gone, deacon can find material (that spawn randomly on the stage) to create items for new attacks, find a melee weapon that be upgraded with materials (still have a durable meter that is viewable next to deacon super bar) and upgrade deacon gun attacks by finding better one’s.)

Helldiver from helldivers (like the hybrid Chimera, this helldiver is a unique character created for this game. He wanted to be a helldiver, since he was kid. So he train till was he the legal age to become one. Becoming the first helldivers in history not to die after 3 missions!

After serving super earth for 10 years, he realized that super earth became the very thing they’re swear to destroy! After that, the PlayStation multiverse protection society offer him to join. Leading him to become the best non power agent in the society. His name is Joel btw! For his moveset, he basically Rachel but with helldivers 2 weapons.)

Odin from god of war (main villain of ps4 era and final boss. You’re probably thinking “why is Odin the main villain of the ps4 era. When he didn’t appear in gow 2018” simple. The main villain of 2018 was sent be him, Mimir got trapped in that tree because Odin and giants species got order 66 because of Odin paranoia!

This Odin version is from a reality. Where he actually kill people’s, when he done using them! One day, Odin find a purple ploygon in his workshop and when touching it, open a portal to different world. Odin sent magni and moni in to investigate (mostly cause they useless) and later. Moni is launch out of the portal dead! With magni body being held by evil Cole McGrath aka the beast!

After expanding he not a threat, Odin and Cole sit down and talk with some beer. Cole explains he found a piece liked Odin too in new empire city (a place he built to restarted humanity. After activating all conduits) and suggest it could be a piece from polygon man. Someone who tricked him into a disguise fighting tournament and changed his world history. When Odin ask. What happened to him? Cole explains after everyone realizes they’re been trick, everyone work together to kill polygons man and change their worlds history back to normal and get back home! While everyone was fighting purple clones of themselves, a mark warrior kill polygon man by stabbing him with a blue glowing sword! Realizing this is his chance to control his fate and rule everything. Odin proposes an alliance with Cole to collect polygons man remains to accomplish their goals. Cole suggests they’re need some type of machine to transfer the power tho and a bigger army.

Suddenly, a portal open with dr neo cortex and dr nefarious tumble out with them getting up back up and fighting. Odin tie them down with vine magic and ask who are they? Both explain who their are and nefarious say cortex enter his lab through some portal, both getting into a fight and ending up here.

Cole explains who there are and they plan and ask if they want to join. Both say yes! After that, all four recruits other villains to help with their plan)

Delsin Rowe from infamous (Delsin Rowe can switch between all 4 of his powers be using down circle. This is possible now thanks to a handheld device that contain smoke, neon, video and concrete)

Jin Sakura from ghost of Tsushima

Aloy from horizon (alts are the different tribes encounter in the horizon games)

The hunter from bloodborne

Knack from knack (yes, I want knack in a sequel! His power to grow bigger with more relics is a unique concept for a platform fighting game. Like his two games, knack will absorb relics to get bigger allow him to deal more damage at the cost of speed)

Connor from Detroit: become human (I know Quantic dreams is a studio with shitting work environment. But three of there games are iconic to PlayStation. So if you don’t like it, cry me a river.

Connor in this story is from the ‘everyone live’ timeline. Kara (aka ‘i really should been a dlc story expansion’ character) has written a book explaining how she escapes to Canada while protecting a robot child. Markus is continuing fighting for android rights and now human rights in others countries. And Connor is how an lieutenant at dpd)

Astro bot from Astro bot (surprise! Astro bot first debut on the ps4! In the story, Astro bot is the guardian of PlayStation society mainframe. Location in a secret in between region of the multiverse. The other bots are just his crew of workers)

Joker from persona (Joker use others persona’s for attacks, he summon phantom thieves members for super attacks, Kasumi is alt, joker is in his 20s now, all out attack and sinful shell are custom level 3 supers and have cel shading like his game)

Josh from until dawn (thanks to Odin magic (and manipulation his bad mental health) Josh is now back in control and he ready to finish what he started. Get revenge on his former friends for accidentally killing his sister’s death! Josh is an wendigo now. So his attacks and supers are combined of wendigo viciousness and his good old fashioned traps.)

Miles morales from marvel spider man (don’t worry. Miles is not going to wear ‘the miles morales original’ for his default. He also more of a semi clone than actual clone character. Because of his bio venom and 3 three unique gadgets)

Venom from marvel spider man (considering, they’re getting them game according to the insomniac games leaks. I think having spidey most iconic villain makes sense. Venom height is the same as in marvel spider man 2 and spider man and miles spider sense don’t work on them)

Quill from moss (psvr rep)

Pig detective from dreams (so in case you don’t play dream. Pig detective is 3d point and click adventure series made by team pig. Anyway, i pick him because the devs of dreams have recommended the series on ‘mm picks’ and this series need more recognition. As for gameplay? Imagine phoenix wright from umvc3 but your playing as pig)

Ps5 era

Kena from kena:bridge of spirits (kena can find rot’s (they spawn around the stage randomly) to increase damage of supers that involves them and the stun time of that one move from her game I can’t remember)

Little outsider from stray (if smash can put in duck hunter dog and a 80 game accessory! We can add a cat)

Akito from ghostwire: Tokyo

Colt from deathloop

Selene Vassos from returnal (because she from a rouge like. I imagine her gimmick will involve collecting items to give her unique attacks and increased her stats, but these upgrades be lost when losing a live)

Vex from little big planet (despite me never finishing sackboy big adventure. I really like vex. He a pretty cool villain. Also ps5 era villain and final boss)

Wolverine from marvel wolverine (despite the game not being out yet. I decided to include him because the game is most likely going to be well received and sell well.

Wolverine main gimmick would be his healing factor. Allow him to recover heath in the fight automatically! To make it balance. The rate Wolverine heal will depend on his health bar. He will recover health faster when at critical health, the opposite happens if he almost at full health.)

Atsu from ghost of yotei (again, the game isn’t out yet. But by the look of the trailer. It probably going to be great. Still piss Jin not the main character tho. Like come on! Make him Japan Batman!)

Jordan a. Mun from intergalactic the heretic prophet (ah yes, the game that will help anti woke content farm keep their light on till it release. Again, the game haven’t come yet. But it with being naughty dog next big game. She have to be here)

Eve from stellar blade

Third party characters

Solid snake from metal gear (keep you waiting huh? So your probably wondering why snake isn’t in the ps1 era? Because metal gear first game released on msx2 computer. Metal gear solid was a soft reboot like god of war 2018.

So anyway, as not to undoing mgs4 ending. This snake is from the universe of snake revenge (pretty meta because snake revenge didn’t have any involvement from Kojima) recruited into secret PlayStation society due to being a great infiltrate. Also most because the main universe snake is dead. And yes, David hayter will return to voice snake and he will have codec calls for each character like raiden)

Lara Croft from tomb raider (turned on tomb raider debut on sega Saturn. Anyway Lara Croft would be the one from ps1 era games. Yes they multiple tomb raider continuity’s. So she being this game story would be her final adventure, like drank in a theft end. You can also expect her double pistols as attacks)

Ryu from street fighter (it can’t be a crossover fighting game without Mr. Fighting game)

Scorpion from mortal Kombat (because this a crossover fighting game that has ryu. You might as well add the mascot of street fighter rival series. Just don’t except any fatalities tho)

Alex Mercer from prototype (when infamous and prototype first came out. Everyone was compare these two super heroes sandbox games in a quarantine city. So making Alex. Cole rival make sense)

Reboot Dante from DMC devil may cry (the other pre order bonus character. Dante moveset is updated to include his entire kit from DMC)

Booker Dewitt from bioshock

Batman from Arkham (The Batman arkham games has had exclusive content on PlayStation in the past. Plus, asylum and city are considered the best games of all time. But real reason he here is to retcon kill the justice league. I fucking hate this game!!! It undo Arkham knight amazing ending, unnecessary bring joker back (it a alternate version. But still this a game about the suicide squad, not Batman), making deadshot black (because I guess the general public can’t understand different versions of characters exist), having deathstroke not be one of the four base playing characters (origin post credit scene has deathstroke be the first recruit for the squad) and having the first appearance of the justice league in the Arkhamverse. Just for them to act like idiots and get most of metropolis kills! Just no. So here my idea for Batman in the third party story mode.

Suicide squad: kill the justice league is explained ways as an in universe movie. To cash in on Batman identity being revealed as Bruce Wayne. The movie got overwhelmed negative reviews for kill the world greatest heroes with no respect and giving Batman an insulting death. But anyway, on to Batman.

Bruce has continue his war on crime, using a less powerful version of scarecrow cloudburst fear toxic. To scare criminals and supervillains as Batman “ghost”. Tho he doesn’t interfere that much. 2 years later, batman is testing a new suit (made out of different bat suits) on patrol when he hear a GCPD call about some crime scene. The story starts there.

One more thing tho. Due to Kevin conroy passing away. He honestly wouldn’t return to voice the dark knight. For that reason I suggest to get someone who sounds identical to Kevin Batman voice.)

Joker from Arkham (the third party story mode villain. “But you say it was unnecessary to bring joker back in kill the justice league!?”. Yes I did. But Batman is played this game, unlike kill the justice league. “Joker doesn’t have a reason to come back”. During in Batman (the prime Batman) storyline. Different jokers from across the multiverse were getting power up by a different joker (one who never became joker) and dead jokers were bought back to live. Including Arkham joker. So there you’re reason on why he can come back! Also, mark Hamill would obviously not voice joker. Due to him retire from voice joker after Kevin conory dead. So just get someone who sounds identical to mark joker voice)

Shadow the hedgehog from sonic the hedgehog (this is mostly because of that old fake leak)

[blues824]

Imagen the female tanjiro in the remarried empress.

💚Imagen her being a friend of navier because of her honesty she is the same age as navier but she is like a big sister to her(even though they are the same age ) .

🖤Her in the beginning asking to be navier her guard but navier making her a lady in waiting especially because of her heavenly cooking and her caring soul.

💚Her getting the titel empress guard dog because of her loyalty her sence of smell and how she might look weak but she is able to protect navier from anything.

🖤Her being the lady who everyone respects and enjoy to be around she doesn't judge people for anything aceping their flaws and making them take a break from high society.

💚Her being able to smell that heinley is the bird and comforting him and when he thinks she will tell on navier about it she smiles and says that even though she finds it weerd qween makes navier happy so please don't stop.

🖤Her being a higly traind swordsman and being able to use the dance form of sun breathing that I forgot the actual name for how would they react to her dressing up in the sun dance clothing and dance so elegant with a sword.

(That's the outfit I'm talking about)

💚Her being extremely good with children that most nobles ask her to a nanny and how the children whoud be so well behaved after her taking care of them.

🖤Imagen rattrash hearing that sovieshit wants to make her the nanny of the baby and her crying about it because she knows he simps for her and her not getting her wish of her not becoming the nanny.

I’m adding Kosair, Duke Kaufman, and Duke Ergi because why not? You get to choose which one you are with.

Sovieshu

He was wholeheartedly in love with you, but he was aware that you were in love with another man, so he couldn’t do much. However, he saw how well you worked with kids and was about to assign you as the coming baby’s nanny when Rashta begged him not to. It didn’t budge him from his choice, so you were appointed as the Imperial Nanny.

Well, the problem was that you were still very dedicated to watching over and protecting the Empress. You knew that as Navier’s lady-in-waiting, you would most likely go with her to the Western Kingdom if the plan that she told you about goes well. But, you didn’t want a baby to be left unattended.

There was one time where you were in the forest and he was looking for you because he wanted to make a deal that you couldn’t refuse, when he saw you doing some ceremony or ritual. You looked absolutely beautiful, and your fluence with your sword made it perfect. You later told him that it was to honor the Kami that your family worships. He isn’t really paying attention, though.

Rashta

When she heard that Sovieshu wanted to make you her baby’s nanny, she was infuriated because she knew that besides herself, you were one of the women that the Emperor loved. The only thing that consoled her was the fact that you refused the position because you would go where Navier goes. Plus, it seemed as though you loved another man.

To be fair, she had nothing against you personally. Even though you were Team Navier, you still made her feel welcome into the castle and you offered to show her around when you could. However, she has seen you fight and so she’s worried that your nice personality could all be a mask.

But, she never tried to spread any rumors about you. All the nobility loved you because you were great with kids and you taught them how to behave. Even some of the heads of the houses were once children that you had looked after at least once. So that meant you had power over the nobility to some degree, which she did not like.

Navier

You originally wanted to be her knight or guard, but she thought that with your tender heart you would do great as her lady-in-waiting. You proved especially valuable when Viscountess Verdi had left to be employed by Rashta. Plus, during your time together, the two of you had grown close, like sisters.

She was aware of your reputation as the Noble Nanny of sorts, and she was aware that you were incredibly great with children. If she remembers correctly, some of the heads of the current noble families were actually cared for by you at some point, and they turned out to be decent human beings.

When you danced the Hinokami Kagura, she watched your movements. You had meticulous footing with each step you took, and the outfit you wore was very strange to her. However, it was your family tradition that you were letting her see, and she thought it was beautiful.

Heinrey

Your strong sense of smell was definitely worrying to him, especially when you were able to tell that he was Queen. You could also understand what he was saying through his squawks and caws, but you seemed to be on his side. You saw that he was the better fit for Navier than Sovieshu ever could be.

So, you both had an agreement. You would put in a good word for him (which wasn’t hard because he was a very great person), and he would get things prepared in the Western Kingdom in the case that a remarriage takes place. You had a feeling that the two would be together in the end.

He unfortunately never had the chance to get to see you dance the Hinokami Kagura, because you excused yourself from the New Year’s Ball in order to do it. You weren’t gone very long, but he was too busy looking at the Empress, and so he didn’t notice your absence.

Kosair

He had first met you when you both were teenagers. It was a brief meeting between your parents, but in that short amount of time there was a connection between the two of you. You later reunited when he went to visit his sister, and it was a bit awkward (think the Genie and the handmaiden from the live-action Aladdin). But the connection was sparked again as you walked arm-in-arm in the palace garden.

Kosair found your interactions with children absolutely adorable because he’s a family man at heart. It made his heart flutter as he saw you and some kids of a noble family laughing while you were teaching them what life was like in the palace. That heart fluttering turned to green when Sovieshu asked you if you would become the nanny of the child that Rashta was carrying. 

You allowed him to watch as you danced the Hinokami Kagura, and he was very honored because this was a family tradition of yours that was passed down through the generations. He might not understand it, so afterwards he would be asking so many questions. You don’t mind it though, because you’re glad to see someone so interested.

Kaufman

He met you during his stay in the Eastern Empire, and to say that no love potion could compare to the feelings that he almost immediately felt for you would be an understatement. He wanted to bring you back to Luipt, but you unfortunately were dedicated to Navier and you knew that your duty was to serve her, which he understood.

However, he didn’t stop trying to win your affection. Even though you were perfectly capable of taking care of yourself, he still worried about you. When Sovieshu came around, he would always place himself in between you two so that you wouldn’t be inconvenienced by the likes of the lowly and pathetic Emperor.

This man knew all too well the importance of tradition, so he felt honored when you invited him to see you dance in the forest. He watched with great interest as he saw the fire surround you, and you later told him that the Hinokami Kagura was to honor the gods and ancestors of your family.

Ergi

When the New Year’s Ball started, all of the rumors started flying about the two womanizers showing up as representatives for the Western Kingdom. However, you didn’t mind the words whispered through the nobility. You just saw him as a new person that you needed to introduce yourself to, and that’s what made him interested.

Not going to lie, he advised Rashta to not allow you to become the nanny to the baby because he knew that it was Sovieshu’s plot to try and win over your heart. The thought of you in love with another man made Ergi jealous for some reason, so that’s when he realized that his feelings were serious.

The next new year, he followed you once he saw that you were quietly leaving. You went all the way to the forest, where you took a deep breath and detected him. You called him out, he admitted that he followed you, and you said since you’re here, you can see my family tradition. He thought that the glow the flames casted upon you was beautiful, and the focus you had to complete the dance was divine.

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Whatever the Fuck Benrey is: Chapter Twenty: Caring For Him Has Downsides

Chapter One

Previous Chapter

~

“Wow, we used to kinda be like neighbors, huh?” Gordon said as they stopped at the door leading to the lab Benrey’s handlers had been set up in. “Or not neighbors, I guess but… I used to work a bit further down there.” He gestured down the hall they’d been heading down. “How come I never saw you around before the test?”

Benrey had rarely spent much time here outside of when his handlers wanted him for something and had always left as soon as they were done. This part of the facility was boring and his handlers had been annoying, why would he want to spend more time than needed near them and their dumb lab? And… “A lot of people from around here knew me so they wouldn’t’ve been as much fun to stop for their passports and stuff. So I didn’t hang out around here.” The team assigned to him had been relatively small so maybe it wasn’t quite ‘a lot’ but they had shown him off to their friends occasionally before he’d started actively resisting such annoyance. “But I heard there was a big experiment thingy going on over there and I wanted to disrupt it a bit before heading out to get Heavenly Sword.”

“I don’t think any of us are surprised,” Bubby said at the time as Gordon said, “Figures.”

“Well you chose the perfect test to disrupt,” Coomer said, “because look at you now! Free at last and about to start a happily ever after with Gordon. Let’s continue, shall we?” He turned to the door and jiggled the handle. “It’s locked.” Stepping aside from it, he gestured for Benrey to proceed.

They’d run into several locked doors during this little trip. Benrey had phased through them all to unlock from the other side, letting the others through. Each one had reminded him to dread this moment a little more. Not that it really mattered, he didn’t care that much if they knew he had a weakness but… it would still be nice if no one ever knew. That wasn’t happening though and this was one of the benefits to bringing them along since… “I can’t phase through it.”

All four of them turned to look at him. He didn’t flinch or cringe under their collective gazes though because he didn’t care, it was fine. Not a problem at all. He was mostly bored with these proceedings.

“There’s something you can’t phase through?” Tommy asked.

“Uh… yep. Just got done saying that.”

“What is it exactly?” Gordon asked. “Is it like a certain material you can’t phase through or like a device or something inside that somehow blocks you? … If you don’t mind sharing anyway.”

Of course he’d want to know; he wanted to know everything. Benrey was a scientific marvel and he was a scientist after all, what else could one expect? If he knew how to contain Benrey would he want to try it? … Almost certainly no, right now anyway. After going through Benrey’s files though and thus needing to study him directly to learn anything more, he might be tempted to. Which Benrey hadn’t been thinking about when agreeing to let him look. It would be a good reason not to, especially since he’d been given leave to change his mind. But he needed to know if Gordon cared about him more as a scientific marvel or a person. Benrey would give him what he wanted and then see if he would push, poke, and experiment to find out more or when Benrey asked him not to, if he’d listen.

It was important. Gordon was making him feel too many emotions for Benrey to not need an answer. It would suck and maybe even… hurt if he didn’t listen and would perhaps end in Benrey losing his freedom. But he could hope Gordon would listen to him, right? That was a reasonable thing to hope for… maybe.

Before the silence could become awkward… “It’s uh… kinda like plexi-glass but tinted orange. I don’t know what it is, only that I can’t go through it and they paneled the room with it. Real lame.”

“I suppose I’ll have to bust it down then,” Coomer said as he turned back to face the door and placed his flashlight off to the side, pointing at it. “Stand back everyone.”

As everyone stepped back to give him more room, Coomer took a stepped towards the door, cracked his knuckles and rolled up his sleeves, revealing his mechanical arms. Maybe now that Black Mesa was back doing stuff, Gordon could get something like that to replace his hand. If he was willing to get the gun hand chopped off though which seemed to be a problem. Probably a weird trauma thing related to it having been chopped off in the first place.

Coomer squared up to the door as if he were about to box it. Which is about what he did as one of his fists shot out, slamming into and then through the door with a crunch of breaking wood. The barrier of not plexi-glass stopped it but not without a cracking sound. His second punch hit the same spot and then the third burst through.

“Victory!” he announced for himself as he pulled back to lift his fists in a victory pose. Bubby started clapping, quickly followed by Tommy and then Benrey. Sleep deprived Gordon was the slowest at picking it up but after fumbling a bit, clapped his hand to his forearm, adding to the applause as it petered out.

Stepping forward, Coomer stuck an arm through the hole he’d made, putting himself in up to this shoulder. A few seconds later the door’s lock click as he evidently found it. After pulling his arm out, he turned the knob and pushed the door open, revealing the lab. “Lead the way.” He gestured for Benrey to go in again.

Having been in there many times before, Benrey had no problems doing so and thus went in without hesitation. Maybe he should tell the others to stay out. … Nah, it didn’t matter. It was fine.

Inside was dark of course but with five flashlights, there soon wasn’t much that couldn’t be seen. Panels of the barrier, all over the walls doors and ceiling, only small gaps between so Benrey, even at his smallest couldn’t fit through, reflected some of the light as well. Making the room almost well lit. It was clean too; if his handlers had been killed it hadn’t been in here. Which wasn’t surprising as in addition to him they’d had other projects they’d been working on too and the test thing had been a big deal, drawing many folk over to watch.

“Was all this to keep you in or out?” Tommy asked, shining his light up at the ceiling which was also covered in the orange tinted barrier stuff.

Before Benrey could answer, Bubby did it for him. “Probably both.”

“Uh… yeah, both. I got in once when I wasn’t supposed to and then they fortified it a whole bunch ‘cause they’re super lame.”

Gordon strode further in to pan his light over the back of the room where the various thingies used to test Benrey or draw his blood were located. “Jesus fucking Christ.” Apparently even sleep deprived he still wanted to be weird. Which was a good sign. As annoying as it was, it meant he cared and even if he did end up viewing Benrey more as a scientific marvel than a person, he’d likely still be nice about it. “This stuff is…”

“It’s boring and lame and sucks,” Benrey interrupted, not even bothering to look over at whatever exactly Gordon was looking at because he didn’t care. “Don’t feel bad for me.” He didn’t need pity when he couldn’t be physically harmed in any way that mattered and only felt emotional pain from people he cared about which hadn’t been any of his handlers.

“Nah, feel bad for him,” Bubby cut in again. “Black Mesa sucks. We should gather up as much stuff outta here as we can and destroy the rest.”

“Good idea, Bubby!” Coomer said as he turned to start prying one of the barrier panels off the wall. Bringing it with them, especially so much of it, was a less than fun idea but… theoretically, it’d be worse in the hands of the other Black Mesa members.

So, leaving him to it while the others set to their own self appointed tasks, Benrey turned to the computers. They main thing they were here for. All his data stuff was logged onto them and a lot of it backed up on the flash drives in the desk drawers. Before he could start unplugging and moving things though, Gordon slid up to him.

“You okay?” he whispered.

“Yeah, why wouldn’t I be?”

“Just… it’s a lot… or seems like it should be.” More of him projecting; he found it upsetting so he was assuming Benrey would too. He was wrong of course, Benrey didn’t care beyond it being lame and boring but it wasn’t tragic. He was perfectly fine and didn’t need to be pitied and viewed as a sad little whatever the fuck.

Benrey pulled out two of the desk drawers. “We’re here for a reason so uh… hop to it. You should be able to handle grabbing stuff from drawers, right?” He was one handed and sleep deprived but not useless.

Gordon sighed. “Yeah, okay.”

~

Everything they couldn’t bring with them they destroyed. Naturally Coomer did most of the destruction with his mechanical arms and legs. Gordon’s gun hand helped too though, largely as a just in case disguise for why everything was destroyed; bullet holes in stuff and in the walls would make it look like proper violence had occurred. No one should suspect a thing.

There was satisfaction in watching the place get stripped and then utterly ruined. Most of the experimentation had been done on Benrey when he’d been younger, before his handlers found out everything he could do and the extent of it. Also before he’d developed much of a will to push back against it even if that meant just being difficult about it. But even once all that had slowed down, giving Benrey more time to wander around the facility or hunker down in his gamer pad to play video games, coming here had never been fun. This room in particular sucked, it deserved to be destroyed. If it wasn’t made of concrete, he would’ve asked Bubby to burn it down.

By the time they were finally done, the salvage wagon was full. They’d collected some of that on the way here but most of it was from Benrey’s handlers’ lab. All of which would be going home with him and Gordon. Meaning, to the rest of Black Mesa, their salvage operation was going to look like a failure.

“You guys gonna get in trouble for bringing so little back to the lab?” Benrey asked as they started back the way they’d come.

Tommy replied with, “We could just tell them that uh… our trauma from our first adventure made it hard so we didn’t venture far or find much. And then um, that also gives us a reason to not want to come again even after volunteering for this.”

“You could just blame Gordon,” Bubby said. “Tell the boss he fucked up again.”

“What do mean, again?” As proof of his exhaustion, Gordon barely sounded like he cared.

“I just mean, again. You saying you never fucked up before? I don’t believe that for a second, especially since the reason you’re here is a big fuck up.”

“Whatever just… we go with what Tommy said. Or um… if you guys wanna come back for whatever reason, just say it’s me who was too traumatized for this ‘cause that’s not untrue. Don’t word it like I’m the only one who fucked up though, please. I’d rather keep my new position.”

“Don’t worry, Gordon,” Coomer said, “we won’t throw you under the bus without good reason. I do believe though that I will return here on my own later or perhaps with Bubby to retrieve my stuff and his too if he would like to make sure it doesn’t end up in Black Mesa’s hands again. If you weren’t here, I’d suggest we go do it after dropping our current stuff off in the car. But we won’t make you do that or wait for us. So we will have to come back later.”

“Ugh, sorry for being a burden.”

“Apology accepted!”

From there the conversation drifted to other things, occasionally petering out for a bit before someone revived it. Gordon didn’t participate much. Benrey tried to prod him into it but it never lasted long. Whether he was having another quiet freak out or was just exhausted was hard to tell. Probably the latter but… that was worrying in its own way. He could die if he didn’t sleep for long enough.

Maybe Benrey should be upset with him enough to not be as bothered by that thought. If Gordon ended up viewing him more of a science experiment than a person after seeing all his science stuff, then it would be less of a loss, right? But even if that would be the case, heck, even if that was how he viewed Benrey right now, Benrey still liked him and was responsible for him as a pet owner. His death wouldn’t be easy to just go along with. And so when they eventually pulled to a stop to rest and eat…

“Maybe we should sleep here for a bit,” Benrey suggested.

“No,” Gordon interrupted before he could say more. “I think we should just keep going until we’re out, no nap or sleep break. I know none of you guys really need one, don’t try to pretend like you do. This place sucks. I want out.”

“Are you sure, Mr. Freeman?” Tommy asked. “I mean um… you didn’t sleep much last night, did you?”

“I’m fine.”

Benrey wasn’t letting him get away with that lie. “He’d didn’t sleep at all. Or he tried not to. He fell asleep anyway ‘cause uh… humans are like that. It was maybe an hour before I had to wake him from a nightmare.” The whole having to sleep every night thing had to suck in general but even more so when plagued by nightmares.

“Yeah, yeah but… I hate it here. I want out. I’ll be fine that long.”

Coomer spoke up next. “Gordon, for two Play Coinstm I’ll carry you the rest of the way out and you can nap in my arms.”

“No thanks. Let’s go.” He grabbed his flashlight, stood, shoved his gun arm back into the cart’s handle and started walking again. Everyone ultimately followed, even Benrey.

“I’ll be fine,” he repeated as Benrey fell into step with him. “I just want out of here. Let me have this.”

Benrey shouldn’t have agreed to helping him stay up last night. … Or maybe it had been the right move. He’d had nightmares before, they sucked. Maybe it was worth it to skip sleep for Gordon even if he could die of not enough sleep. Perhaps nightmares could kill humans too, they were awfully weak after all. And so he bit back on insisting on anything for now.

~

Their pace, dictated by Gordon, slowed more and more over time. Bubby complained but stayed close as Gordon had requested anyway. Another short rest to eat didn’t help much.

“Benrey, I need to slap me,” he eventually said.

“Uh… why?”

“Just do it.”

Who was Benrey to deny such a request? No one had ever asked him to slap them before so why Gordon wanted him to didn’t matter as much as the novelty of it. He switched to backpedaling in front of Gordon, giving him the perfect angle to lift a hand and slap him across the face.

“Wait…” he began a split second before it connected, snapping his head to the side. “Ow. What the fuck?”

Bubby laughed as they all stopped to turn and look. “You literally asked him to. What were you expecting?”

“I uh… don’t know. Just, I didn’t think he’d be so willing.”

“Why would you ask if you thought I wouldn’t do it? That’s dumb.” This didn’t seem to be a human thing but just a Gordon thing. It was silly.

“Yeah, guess you got a point, huh? But uh… I think it helped a little so thanks.”

“You’re welcome.” How that could’ve possibly helped with anything was beyond Benrey’s understanding but it had been kind of fun.

“You know, Gordon,” Coomer said, “if you wanted him to help wake you up, you could’ve asked him to sing you some sweet voice. You seem particularly sensitive to it so a colour that provides an energizing feeling might help.”

“Damn, you’re right. I’m an idiot.” Gordon turned his gaze back onto Benrey. “Do you think you could uh… do the opposite of your blue calm down one?”

“Ooh, I recommend orange,” Tommy chimed in.

Somehow this hadn’t occurred to Benrey before either. In his defense he rarely had cause to try to make anyone excited with orange. And it wouldn’t cure his sleeplessness but it should indeed energize him. So, taking a deep breath, Benrey looked up at Gordon and sang him a long string of bright orange.

Like the blue as soon as he breathed it in, he took a deep breath of it to draw in even more. His eyes widened as the slump in his shoulders lessened. As the tone ended, he stepped back and shook himself out a little. “Wow.”

“What’d it taste like?” Bubby asked.

“Like orange, not the fruit but the artificial orange flavor you find in candy or I guess orange flavored soda. By the way, why does it taste like candy? Like, there’s no way that’s an accident. There’s gotta be a reason they made it like that, right?

“Maybe uh… maybe Darnold helped make it,” Tommy suggested. “He does stuff with flavors so maybe that’s his influence. We can ask him when we get back. For now though, are you feeling better?”

“Uh, yeah, actually. Not like a hundred percent but better for sure. Thanks again, Benrey, you’re amazing. Let’s uh… keep going, huh?”

~

Their journey continued. Now every so often, without even pausing, Benrey sang more orange for Gordon. It always seemed to help and that was a comfort at first but… what if it made it worse in the end? The sweet voice wasn’t giving him any energy, it was just boosting his mood, making his body produce more energy. Not a human himself, the equation on that wasn’t something Benrey was intimately familiar with, but it didn’t add up to anything that seemed good. Surely it could only increase his overall exhaustion.

Benrey kept doing it though, every time he was asked. This was the place that was the source of Gordon’s nightmares so of course he wanted out as soon as possible and it would be good for him to be out. Even as the further they trudged onward, the more often Benrey had to boost him, he kept doing it. Not stopping for Gordon to sleep should result in them getting back out sooner so it would hopefully be fine in the end.

Eventually Bubby starting to visibly flag too, all the effort he’d expended clearing the room shit had gone down in finally catching up to him in a way he couldn’t hide anymore. He denied it when Coomer brought it but it was obvious even to Benrey. They kept going though because the rest of them were fine.

But even going at a slower pace, not stopping for more than a few minutes meant they did finally reach the living area again. Upon Benrey pointing this out to him, Gordon perked up a little more, picking up the pace. And thus they were soon on the elevator headed to the surface.

Upon stepping outside, it was night time, deep into it. All the way out here, far from civilization and its light pollution, that meant it was dark. The moon and stars overhead was the only thing making it less dark than the facility.

Gordon paused as he stepped out after Benrey, tilting his head up towards the sky. “Gosh, fuck, it’s beautiful.”

Benrey looked up too and… he was right. The moon and endless vastness of the stars were quite lovely out here. Not a fan of the desert night air, Benrey had never gone out in it often to see this sight. … He should’ve brought his camera. Oh well, it’s not like a picture could do it justice anyway.

“Come on,” he said as he started for the car, gesturing for the others to follow. “Let’s go home.” It was even colder out here than it had been down below. He wanted out of it and Gordon needed sleep.

Having taken the lead, Benrey reached the car first. He phased through it to reach the trunk button, making it pop open in time for the rest of the crew to reach it. Starting the car to get the heater running would’ve been nice too but Bubby had the keys. … He was going to have to learn how to hot wire a car one day, probably after he learned how to drive one. Maybe Gordon would teach him… assuming he still liked Benrey after seeing all his stuff.

“Gordon, Bubby,” Coomer said as Benrey rejoined the group, “you two go ahead and hop in. I’ll handle loading everything and then, Bubby, dear, if you are agreeable, I’ll drive us home as well.”

Bubby sighed as he dug into his pocket and pulled out the car keys. “Sure.” He handed them over to Coomer without hesitation, before dropping his pack to the ground and starting for the passenger seat. Wow, he must be pretty tired too then.

Upon freeing his gun hand from the wagon’s handle, Gordon followed suit, heading for the backseats. With nothing else to do and trusting Coomer and Tommy to handle packing everything, Benrey joined him. Despite being the first one in, Gordon placed himself in the middle seat. Even if he was going to sleep the whole way back, the sacrifice was still admirable.

He leaned in to whisper as Benrey settled in next to him. “You mind if I uh… lean on you a bit?”

“Go for it.” Benrey preferred it actually. It was cold and Gordon was warm.

“Thanks.” Gordon slouched as much as the backseat would let him before leaning into Benrey, resting his head on his shoulder. Benrey put that arm around him pulling him a bit closer.

“So,” Bubby looked back at them, “are you two fucking?”

“No,” Gordon replied, not looking up at him.

“Are you sure?”

“I don’t even like fucking so, yes, I’m sure.”

“Ah, I see. I was going to ask you later what Benrey’s like in bed but I suppose I don’t need to know that anyway. But are you dating?”

Gordon groaned. “Please shut up.”

Bubby turned his gaze onto Benrey. “You two dating?”

“Uh… no,” Benrey replied over another annoyed groan from Gordon.

“Damn, I thought I was onto something.”

“Why do you think we’re dating?” With how bad Gordon’s attempted explanation of romance had been, Benrey still wasn’t sure why anyone might think they were romantically involved.

“This whole… this.” Bubby lifted a hand to gesture vaguely at them. “He used to hate you and now he’s all over you. It’s cute, don’t get me wrong. I’m not judging. In fact, I’m rooting for you. Romance is uh… nice.” His face grew a little redder before he looked away. “When you figure it out, let me know.”

Benrey would’ve asked him to elaborate since he apparently knew stuff about it. With Gordon right here though, it didn’t feel right. But while being called cute wasn’t ideal, if Gordon being ‘all over him’ was a romance thing maybe Benrey wanted that because he liked this. He wanted to date Gordon? … Maybe. It was a tough question to consider when the question of how he’d view Benrey after seeing his records still hung in the air. After that question got answered, he’d return to the thought of dating.

Before the conversation could drift to something else or even resume, Coomer and Tommy were climbing into the car. And then from there they were finally off, headed home. Unsurprisingly, it wasn’t long after that that Gordon fell asleep, slumping even more into Benrey’s side as he did so. Meaning, Benrey wasn’t allowed to move him enough to risk waking him. Not that he’d been planning to anyway.

~

Naturally upon finally reaching Tuefort, their first stop was Gordon and Benrey’s house. As Coomer rolled the car into the driveway, Benrey saved and turned the Game Boy off before putting it his his jacket pocket. He was stuck now though as there was no way he could move Gordon out of the car and into the house without waking him so…

“You guys can walk home, right? ‘Cause I can’t move him. It’s not allowed.”

“Why not?” Tommy asked.

“He’s my pet and you’re not allowed to wake pets when they fall asleep on you unless uh… he has a nightmare. Those are worse.” Or at least Benrey was pretty sure they were. Maybe he’d been doing it wrong. Probably not though, Gordon always seemed grateful. It was also possible he’d been doing it wrong whenever he moved away from Gordon after having him fall asleep on him but he couldn’t just sit around all night every night. And moving away never woke him the way moving him probably would.

“Oh uh… that’s… I didn’t know you guys were into that. I don’t think I needed to know either but…”

“They’re not,” Bubby interrupted, “or at least I’m pretty it’s not what you’re thinking. It’s just Benrey being weird.”

“It’s not weird. I’m responsible for him. I help keep him alive, try to make sure he doesn’t do bad things and uh… stuff like that.” Like make sure he went to bed and helped him sleep. “That makes him my pet, right? And Tommy, when Sunkist falls asleep on you, you always say you’re not allowed to do anything that might wake her so… I’m stuck.”

“I guess that makes sense… sort of.”

“It’s close enough,” Coomer said. “And so since you can’t wake him, I will.” He pressed on the car horn. It wasn’t as loud as the one in Bubby car but that didn’t mean it wasn’t loud.

Gordon didn’t jerk awake this time. Instead he groaned and pressed his face into Benrey’s neck. “Make it stop.”

Coomer let up on the horn. “Hello Gordon! It’s time to wake up! We have arrived at your house and had to wake you because you would’ve woken up if we dragged you out of the car anyway.”

Gordon sat up but he did groan about it again, louder this time. Benrey pulled his glasses out of the pocket he’d put them in after they’d fallen off his face a while ago and handed them to him. “All right, okay, fine. Thanks for not just dragging me, I guess.”

With that they were soon all out of the car. Coomer again volunteered to do most of the heavy lifting when it came to moving all the stuff from the lab into the house. Gordon offered to help but Benrey sent him off to shower – being clean seemed to be important for humans’ health, how exactly Benrey couldn’t tell but having one as a pet didn’t mean he had to know the why’s and how’s of everything – and to get ready for bed instead. The sun would start to rise in a few hours but he needed sleep.

Benrey and Tommy helped moved things. And under Benrey’s instruction, they put it all in the gamer pad, even the barrier panels. It made the room much less cozy and more crowded but that’s where the computer was so that’s where they were going to look at it anyway so best to have all of it all in one spot. Hopefully things would go well and they could put most of it in the basement instead.

By the time they were done and were on there way out, Gordon had stepped out of the shower. Just in time to wish the others a, “Good night,” before resuming his bedtime preparations. Since Gordon seemed to like it when he was clean, Benrey changed clothes too. Pajamas were soft anyway. He wouldn’t have objected to a full hot shower too but didn’t want to bother.

“I really shouldn’t go to bed with my hair damp,” Gordon said as he got into bed anyway.

“Eh, it’ll be fine.” Benrey turned off the light and joined him.

“God, it’s good to be home.” Gordon pulled him close, curling into him to rest his head on Benrey’s chest.

“You shouldn’t have ever left.” Not to go to the facility anyway.

“I know. Sorry again for… you know. Thanks for not being mad.”

Benrey didn’t bother responding as the lightly pet his fingers through Gordon’s damp hair. They’d been doing this for a long while now. Snuggling up to each other like this and in any way they felt like was comfortably familiar but it was still wonderful. Despite that… Benrey didn’t feel like purring right now. The anxiety of what would happen when they looked at his records tomorrow was too much.

He should be pissed at Gordon for making him feel like this. Making him care enough to be anxious not just for his health and safety but also at the thought of losing him in a different way too. It sucked and wasn’t fair. Things had been much easier when the only other person he’d really cared about was Tommy. Back then, they hadn’t been particularly close, just pals who hung out and talked sometimes. Losing him to death or just his friendship would’ve been a bummer, more so than Benrey’s occasional guard pal, but he would’ve still gotten over it without too much issue.

Now though, Tommy was a good friend and Benrey cared about him enough that losing him would be an issue. The same held true with Bubby and even Coomer. And then there was however the fuck he felt about Gordon. He wasn’t supposed to be so attached to any of them but Gordon was a whole other thing entirely. It was often nice and fun; Gordon was warm and wonderful to hang out, snuggle, and mess with. But he also had to go and be weird, stupid, and fragile, making caring for him have downsides that were super fucking lame.

Feeling anxious for Gordon’s safety and now over him possibly seeing Benrey more as scientific marvel than a friend sucked. And that was in addition to him having made Benrey care about what he was when it didn’t matter. Despite all that though, Benrey didn’t want to move. He wanted to keep holding Gordon to help make sure he had good sleep without nightmares. To sleep in his arms in turn because he was tired too. An emotional tired that shouldn’t have been possible – how could just feeling things, even if they were intense emotions, make one need sleep? – but was for sure a thing. And so, confusingly, he wasn’t upset enough to make leaving appealing and thus would stay here, cuddling Gordon for however long they both wanted to.

~

Next Chapter

[thekingsavatar-fan]

邹云海，生日快乐！

Happy birthday, Zou Yunhai! [wiki]

[tk-duveraun]

16/? Luo Binghe is SO NORMAL about Shen Yuan

7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 (here), 17

Read up through even numbered parts on Ao3

Zero out of ten, Luo Binghe would not recommend being punted into the Endless Abyss. Worse, he was due for another dose of the antidote. So he had to survive the Endless Abyss, collect the sword Xin Mo and kill Linguang-jun while dying of poison. Yay.

While reading IRS, he'd never questioned how Shen Yuan knew that Luo Baixiao's sword was called Xin Mo. Sword names were a thing; it was just part of the genre. Of course the main character knew the name of an important sword. But actually living in the world, that knowledge had more significance.

Shen Yuan had a deep wealth of knowledge of demons, their customs and their artifacts, so why did he think Luo Binghe needed Xin Mo specifically to kill Linguang-jun?

"This Venerable One can provide enlightenment," Meng Mo interrupted.

"As if I'd trust anything you had to say. I'm useless to your master now." Luo Binghe snapped back. It wasn't as if he could do anything else, stuck as he was at the bottom of the crater made by his own impact with the ground with a broken spine.

"That obsession of yours was correct; you have the blood of the Heavenly Demons. Never let it be said that this Venerable One is foolish enough to work against fated royalty."

Luo Binghe considered his words. In light of everything else, the Heavenly bit of his demonic reveal hadn't seemed particularly important. The only known Heavenly Demon in IRS was Zhuzhi-lang, a recent addition at the time of his death. Zhuzhi-lang was the general of the former demonic emperor: Tianlang-jun, who had been suppressed by an alliance of the righteous sects in general and the Xuan Su Sword in particular.

Whatever particular strength or power Heavenly Demons had was glossed over in favor of the fact that, as half snake-demon, Zhuzhi-land had two dicks. That said, for having reached terminal velocity before making impact, Luo Binghe was startlingly alive and cognizant.

"Enlighten me, then."

"The Mobei clan possess the ability to open portals between spatial locations, not unlike the Black Moon Rhinoceros-Python. Xin Mo can do the same, if the legends are true," Meng Mo said. "But given that you survived the merging of your spiritual and demonic cores, it's likely unnecessary as more than a tool to escape this place."

Feelings was slowly returning to Luo Binghe's body. While it was all pain, it was still feeling. If nothing else, the regenerative traits of a Heavenly Demon were certainly strong.

"So you've jumped ship onto Team Luo. Why should I trust you won't betray me in turn?"

Meng Mo didn't answer for long enough that Luo Binghe was able to wiggle his fingers. They didn't feel broken, but his torso had taken the lion's share of the damage when he slammed back-first into the rock. Luo Binghe was tentatively flexing his ankles when he finally got a response.

"Ever since this Venerable One ascended from his flesh-"

"You're anchored in me anyway," Luo Binghe accused. "And you're just now taking my side?"

"Watch your tone, brat. This Venerable One is the only reason you surivived failing your task and missing a dosage of the antidote."

"Get ready to do it again, Old Man," Luo Binghe thought, baring his teeth.

"Unnecessary. Heavenly Demons are immune to almost all poisons. Clearly Linguang-jun failed to assess your bloodline before poisoning you. Or he assumed you would die when the seal broke, though the latter is short-sighted considering the value of your body as a panacea."

"How reassuring," Luo Binghe replied. It was getting hard to think; his ribs were piecing themselves together, the shards jerking sharply out of his organs and back into place.

"Your first lesson as a Heavenly Demon approaches, brat," Meng Mo replied.

Before he had time to ask for elaboration, Luo Binghe heard steps on the broken rock. He couldn't turn his head. He couldn't move more than making a fist, but the steps came closer and with it the feel of assessing, predatory eyes. The next thing he knew, the pain in his ribs was eclipsed by a vicious bite taken from the meat of his thigh.

Luo Binghe couldn't manage more than a pained gasp, his body still too broken to react.

"Good, it has your blood in its body. Feel it. Reach for the you outside your flesh. Tear it apart from the inside with your blood parasites."

Meng Mo made it sound so simple, but at the same time the words sounded like vague, New Age claptrap. However, he didn't have a choice; the creature's muzzle was back, licking at his leg and pushing the torn fabric of his trousers out of the way of his flesh.

Luo Binghe made an attempt to feel outside of himself despite the pain, but even when he could grasp the blood parasites, he didn't know how to control them. After several false starts, he succeeded by visualizing old children's videos depicting how vaccines worked. He spread his awareness through the creature like an innoculation and then reversed his intent, tearing it apart on the celluar level.

The beast collapsed on top of his open wound, but a success was a success.

[theeminentlyimpractical]

ALRIGHT I HAVE SOME CROWLEY THOUGHTS that are LONG and UNHINGED buckle up kids //// MILD SPOILERS(?)

Essentially - knowing Crowley's angelic rank recontextualizes a lot of the first season. Hat tip to @moonyinpisces for inspiring this madness with their Pre-Fall Thoughts.

BLUF/shitpost TL;DR:

God machinated the not-pocalypse, including manipulating both our idiot angels (this is canon, fight me)

Crowley Fell out of necessity in The Plan, knows that as a higher ranking Angel and both resents God and still believes in Her Plan

When foiling the Antichrist initially fails, my man has a crisis of Faith, thinks God has abandoned him yet AGAIN, and is like WELP FREE WILL IS ON THE TABLE NOW BABYYYYY 

LET’S RUN AWAY ANGEL NO ONE IS WATCHING THIS IS MY ACTUAL SELF HELLO NICE TO MEET YOU

Aziraphale, having been a heavenly plebe*, still believes in the hierarchy of Heaven and blah blah blah

Crowley, still a Believer at heart, makes one last plea to the Almighty OR HE WILL RUN AWAY SO HELP HERSELF

My Guy is successfully manipulated by God into staying and also rescuing Book Girl’s Book

Great Plan fails successfully 

Oh. OH.

They survive thanks to another divine intervention.

Crowley muses on the ACTUAL Big One, which like, my dude, how do you KNOW?  👀

Aziraphale is entirely unaware of this whole process and is fully on team Free Will and is all “our bookshop” this and “our car” that; meanwhile

Crowley is now a full time existentialist and part time Sad Keanu because if his entire existence is predetermined, why do anything, including love?

*this also makes it super fucking funny that Aziraphale insists on standards. Crowley is quiet luxury. Aziraphale is nouveau riche.

ACTUAL META WITH CANON CITATIONS (yes the above is the short version):

I’ve always assumed that Crowley falling was part of The Ineffable Plan, similar to how it was necessary for Aziraphale to give away his sword. God accepts Aziraphale’s babbling excuses, and 6,000 years later the sword shows up in the hands of War. When he returns to Heaven, he is reprimanded only for losing his body - the sword has ineffably disappeared from Heaven’s requisition roles. He HAD give it away in order for it - and him - to play their respective parts in The Great Plan.

And that was thwarted only by Aziraphale and Crowley collaborating for the good of humanity, and (selfishly) for themselves, rather than angels and demons. For it to work, there needed to be an agent of the Ineffable Plan on each side.

We now know Crowley was fairly high ranking in heaven. Would he have had insight on the Plan, or some part of it? Or merely assumed, truly believed, as he still seems to, that they would all play a part? We also know he is somehow wrong about how the hierarchy of Heaven works - what if his error was in assuming his role in the Plan meant maintaining his status as an Angel? [EDIT GIVEN NEW INFO: seems plausible he went to God and asked for a stay of execution on the Earth, and he got it, whether knowingly or not.] And instead God sends him away to fulfill his role in Hell, when that comes to pass. It could be why he’s not too concerned with the day to day of demoning - it will all work out as intended, in the End.

Does he know, suspect, or just truly still believe that they were meant to thwart the Apocalypse, which is why he is so confident in their cockamamie scheme? And when that apparently fails, he feels betrayed by God again, because the Plan he felt entrusted with seems to have been scrapped. He rages: 

“For the record, great pustulant mangled bollocks to the Great Blasted Plan!”

That may be why he’s so ready to run off with Aziraphale in that moment. If the Plan is off, then he can finally make his own choices, and he chooses Aziraphale and freedom. Aziraphale doesn’t choose him back, and Crowley moves to run away anyway, with one final plea to God to not let this come to pass, a Psalm 22 of his own.

Crowley is the only demon we see who still seems distraught over his Fall, rather than out for vengeance. He resents God for damning him, but often seems to believe in Her ineffable game.  He still addresses his final pleas directly to the Almighty -

“God, you listening? Okay, I know you’re testing them, you said you were going to be testing them. You shouldn’t test them to destruction. Not to the end of the world.”

Only he never leaves, because of a fire started by a gust of wind and the sheet music for Her favorite musical. 

And then they do thwart it, and survive, thanks to Agnes’ note fluttering inexplicably right into Aziraphale’s hand. So many little details demonstrate divine intervention. 

So now what’s the Plan? Crowley was ready to run away when the Plan was off, but now? He muses on the nature of The Big One before they dine at the Ritz. He says it lightly, but how does he have this insight?

What, exactly, is their role in the Second Coming? Because, it appears, they do have one.

Aziraphale seems blissfully unaware of the divine intervention in successfully averting the Apocalypse. He is now All In on Their Side, finally feeling free. Crowley, on the other hand, seems painfully aware. My man had the full free will he finally grasped in that bandstand burned away in a bookshop fire. 

Do I think he necessarily knows their exact role in this? No. And they still have free will in the small things, naturally. But I wonder if we will see Crowley resigned to his (and Aziraphale’s) fate being predetermined, a foregone conclusion. So why do anything, including love, if in the end, nothing really matters. 

[pokemonxhyperfixation]

I said I was gonna do a Madness Character's team, so here we are!

I chose Jeb because he just kinda happened to be the one I had the most inspiration for. (Kinda funny given that he's not even close to being my favorite MC character lol)

Genosect is meant to be a hit at his backstory. He was a scientist before becoming what he was in all of MC. I feel it stands to reason that in a pokemon setting he'd be on the team of either Mewtwo's or Genosect's creators, and Genosect felt more Madness to me (probably because of the giant fuck off gun).

Pidgeot is here as a Bird Jesus joke. It's really not that deep. Be greatful I didn't do Omastar instead.

Shedinja is kinda the only real "heavenly" pokemon, with the light angel motifies I think the design is going for. So that's why it's here

One of Jebus's more iconic (or at least from what I can tell apears to be more iconic) weapons is his sword, and while Aegislash is right there, something about gallade fit the "Bootleg Jesus killing people with a sword" vibe Jeb has, so yeah.

One of Jeb's more used abilities is raising the dead. While Parasect would probably work better here, something about Galarian Slowking felt so much better. And plus, I'm pretty sure G. Slowking is also zombie adjacent.

Octillary is a gun. that's it. there is no deeper meaning.

HAPPY MADNESS DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[princess-of-anons]

Okay The Hyperfixation has completely consumed me so fuck here we go

Metamorphosis AU

HLVRAI AU where Gordon becomes the same species as whatever the fuck Benrey is because of fucked up Xen shit. Like some sort of metamorphosis or gross alien puberty

He was kinda already Changed™ by the time they all left Tommy’s birthday party but literally nobody can tell Gordon when or how it happened, but he’s pretty sure the fact he spent a lot of time around a lot of Xen Radiation without a helmet on it is the primary cause. Cue the Science Team cheerfully teasing Gordon for not wearing a helmet.

Benrey is here as well, of course. He’s been here for about a month before the story begins (he was really busy playing Heavenly Sword, you see, and once his free month of PS+ ran out he decided to Go Bother Gordon). He has his own house so he doesn’t really need to stay with Gordon…but said “house” is literally an abandoned gardening shed that he wired up an electrical current and router to, so Gordon is letting him stay anyways (“Dude why the hell are you living like this??? That’s fucked up, I guess you can stay with me until you can get a Real Job…”).

Having Benrey live with Gordon works anyways since he needs somebody to help him control the Sweet Voice he keeps spewing out, among other things like not getting stuck in no-clip mode and turning off the fucking nightvision he accidentally unlocked.

Shenanigans ensue:

Benrey turns into a massive worm on a string at least once (to Gordon’s horror AND humor)

everybody vents about how Big Suck their old workplace was

Bubby goes to work at a Burger King for half a shift before inevitably setting the place ablaze

Sunkist rides a skateboard (hell yeah!)

Benrey and Gordon play in the dirt

All this happens and more

[traineecryptid]

Zang Hai Hua Post Episode Quiz (1-3)

The quizzes covers from episode 1 to 7.

Quiz 1 (Episode 1-3)

What is the name of Wu Xis's antique shop? A. Wushanju (Wu Mountain Abode) B. Wuxie Xiaopu (Wu Xie's Little Stall) C. Tianzhen Gudong (Naive's Antiques)

What is the pattern carved on the bead that Xiaoge left behind? A. Spider B. Qilin C. Scorpion

What is the name of the position of the person who keeps records for Zhang Qiling? A. Deren B. Dema C. Yuda

What is the trap that the team encountered in the Zhang Family Castle during their wilderness test A. Flying sand B. Eighteen strings C. Poison gas

Where was Xiaoge's painting discovered? A. Post office B. Antique shop C. Hospital

Quiz 2 (Episode 4-5)

How many "Wu Xie" heads were there on the table? A. 6 B. 7 C. 8

What snack did Wu Xie use to hit on Zhang Haixing? A. French fries B. Chocolate sticks C. Ham sausage

What skill does the bloodthirsty Night King have? A. Invisibility B. Teleportation C. Shooting flames

What is the item that represents the patriarch of the Zhang family? A. Heavenly Staff B. Black Gold Sword C. Hexagonal Bell

What is the secret code used by Wu Xie and Pangzi? ________________

Quiz 3 (Episode 6-7)

How many keys are needed to find the Heavenly Staff? A. 1 B. 2 C. 3

How many tests did the Zhang siblings prepare for Wu Xie? A. 1 B. 2 C. 3

What is the Zhang Family item that Zhang Haike and Zhang Haixing used? A. Pentagonal bell B. Hexagonal bell C. Bronze bell

Where is the Zhang Family Castle located? A. Sifang City B. Mosang C. Dejia

How many people were on the team during the wilderness test? A. 3 B. 4 c. 5

[ultimate-sword-showdown]

Round 3, Match 8: Master Sword vs. Eyelander

Master Sword

From: The Legend of Zelda

Wielder: Link

Forged by the Goddess Hylia, the Master Sword is a legendary sword that Link uses to defeat Ganon in nearly every Zelda game. Only a wielder that is “pure of heart and strong of body” may use the sword. It has the power to vanquish evil, can destroy magical barriers and break curses made of strong dark magic, and can unleash powerful Skyward Strikes by channeling heavenly energy.

Eyelander

From: Team Fortress 2

Wielder: Demoman

Eyelander is a bloodthirsty spirit possessing a sword. It desires heads and grants Demoman additional health and speed for every person it beheads. It apparently also lives in Demoman’s house and in the comics they are seen watching lawyer dramas together.