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smilelessthan3 · 8 months ago

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Some art nerd ramblings for this piece Not gonna tag cause I don't really need to flood the tag with my in progress shots

So if you wanna hear about how I did some things for this/just wanna read what I was thinking when I made it, then keep reading

If not, I hope you have a lovely day! <3

Original sketch page where I just kinda fucked around with the idea of ghostie girl being visible and trying to talk to him when it happened

I loved the idea of her tail ending in a heart shape, but it was kinda hard to tell here that that was the idea also, Silly Billy's body is not at ALL accurate really rough stuff lol, but that's what you get from a doodle page

Then some refined sketches for both Yourself and Herself, then the lineart for the Silliest of Billies

Silly Billy was really easy to get done minus the shirt wrinkles I genuinely had a hard time really conceptualizing them. I like, grabbed my shirt multiple times while getting them done They're real rough and basic in the sketches and I did most of the work during lining I don't think they're THE BEST or even really ACCURATE But I think they still get the point across Billy got the fuckin TIGHTEST GRIP on his shirt rn and he is not a happy puppy

Ghost Herself was real fun!

It's way easier to see the heart tail here than it was in the original sketch I wanted to make her lineless to give her a more etherial sort of feel? At least, a feel that she's not on the same plane of existence as Youself cause She ain't anymore With the change of Yourself's pose, it does mean I had to get rid of how her tail pointed towards the microphone, but wrapping it around his leg still gets the point across that she's bound to him Least I think it does- The first pose didn't really make me happy and it was on call with those discord friends I asked for help and one of them suggested I do the wrapping around Yourself and it worked SUPER good

As for Herself's colors, I kinda just, layered a nice blue on top of a pink and a red with some different layer properties on each lol The tail fading out was just taking an airbrush as an eraser and going very carefully around the tail

Then, just some goofy lookin shots that make me go "Man. Digital art is weird." Blushing is my favorite part, but I had to do it in a color other than red because of Billy's purple complexion, which meant I just fucked around in the pinkish purpleish area until I found one that looked good with the corrected layer filter on

Also The tears Thank you ISAT for having the most beautiful tears that are super easy to draw once you get them right Maybe should've changed the colors to actually have colors but they still work well either way

And finally The start of the shading I didn't take any progress shots while shading because it was honestly a bit oddly straight forward Didn't take me as long as I thought it would Just erasing the color from where I thought the light would hit from when considering it being from below It was a bit harder than my usual shading of course, getting it to look a'ight, but I think it turned out super well in the final piece Fits the whole feel of the drawing perfectly

Overall! Very fun piece to make And doing sort of overview of the piece after completion actually is really fun Probably not the best description of the process or anything but like, still Makes me happy to just spout out ideas even if not many people are gonna actually read it Should do this whenever I do finish a piece from now on would say I would go back to the others I have finished and do it there but I won't Maybe for shadow milk but that's just cause I like him hehe Either way! Hit Single is a fuck ass mod and it inspired me a great fuckin deal hehe Thank you for reading all this!

Have a glorious day~<3

There was a bit of an oopsie

extra shot and artist notes below!!!

This took about like 10 hours over 3 days?

Would've been faster if I just like, focused entirely on it. I did most of the work while on call with some friends on discord, so kinda took wayyyy longer than it should've either way! Very fun piece to do The under shading was super interesting since I haven't done that too much and the Herself ghost was SUUUUPER fun Will post sketches and progress shots in a reblog at some point probably tomorrow

don't hold me to that-

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witcherscreenshotsdump · 3 years ago

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Netflix Fringilla beta - CLOSED -

Beta version is up for a week !

it should be functional as it is, for gameplay and SBUI, HOWEVER since i used a no-texture technique for the skin color IT WILL NOT WORK IN DOPPLER

but the good thing about this technique is that you will be able to use any of your favorite hd face texture mod for Fringilla along with this mod!

on the screenshots above i use: El's Custom Complexions

use it if you want the exact same look as above!

This is still very much a WIP so If you have any feedback, don’t hesitate to send it my way ! clothes ( beside the vanilla ones ) are more placeholders than anything

hair is also not final, i still want to try and make the hairstyle she has in S1 because i think it looks better on her than this one

face may or may not be final, depends on the feedback, just like any other real-person face mesh i made the more i look at it the less it looks like the actress so idk

download:

♡download vanilla clothes version♡

♡download yen dlc clothes version♡ ( it doesn’t affect the ACTUAL yen dlc )

♡download Pavetta gown version♡ ( you NEED the pavetta source mod installed for this one )

⚠️⚠️ Please do not repost and/or share any of the files to any modding site, google drive, discord server, or anywhere else on the internet, ⚠️⚠️

full finished version will be a permanent link and will also be released on Nexus

#netflix fringilla #Fringilla Vigo #the witcher netflix #mimi ndiweni #the witcher #the witcher 3 #ddl link #it will auto delete in 7 days

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potatowitch · 4 years ago

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DA:O Mod Recommendations

I made one of these a while back but I’ve since played with mods a LOT more and have found a bunch that I love and wanted to share. Includes tools, bug fixes, weapons and armor, gameplay changes and edits, texture replacers, companion morphs, cosmetics and character creation bits, and some cutscenes (primarily for the Dalish origin and Alistair romance). All from the Nexus. Let me know if any links aren’t working or are mismatched.

Tools

Make Console Commands Visible What it says on the tin. No more having to guess what you’re typing into the console.

Change your hero hair and face anywhere in the game Allows you to change your character’s hair and face anywhere in the game. Seems a bit daunting to use at first, but once you get the hang of it it’s incredibly simple. Works with Awakening. Automatically backs up your saves for you.

Redefine your hero voice Allows you to use the console to change your Warden’s voice set in game.

Bug Fixes

Awakening Silverite Mines Bugfix Fixes the bug in the Silverite Mines that steals all your equipment and never gives it back.

TSM Jowan's Intention Fix Fixes a bug that prevented the quest Jowan's Intention from showing up on the Chanter's Board (which should trigger if you tell Jowan "Run. I never want to see you again" in the Redcliffe dungeon)

Awakening Party Banter Fix Stops certain banter between Anders and Velanna repeating.

Give Robbed Elves Money Patch Fixes a bug that prevented you from giving robbed elves in Lothering money.

Joining Ritual Fix For Awakening Companions In vanilla Awakening, if you pick up either Sigrun or Velanna last out of all the companions, you wouldn't be able to have them undergo the Joining. This mod fixes that.

Weapons and Armor

Grey Wardens of Ferelden Gives your character and all Grey Warden characters armor based on Dragon Age 2’s Grey Warden armors. Works with Awakening. Armor is automatically added to your inventory after the Joining, can be added via the console and upgraded versions can be purchased from Soldier's Peak.

Armor of the Black Fox The weapons I prefer to use for my dual wield rogue and the armor I use for Leliana.

Gameplay Changes/Edits

Extra Dog Slot Lets you take Dog everywhere with you, without taking up a companion slot. Your companions won’t banter with him and you can’t access his inventory or level him up, but he will be included in cutscenes, you can make him pee on things for Mabari dominance, all his tactics work and you can enter conversation with him.

No Helmet Hack Allows you to hide your character’s helmet. Works for Awakening as well.

Skip the Fade Skips the godawful Lost in Dreams section of the Circle Tower missions. Automatically gives you all Codex entries and buffs. Essential if you’ve done more than two playthroughs.

Character Respecialization Adds a raven to various locations that will allow you to respec you and your companions.

ZDF Dialogue Fix Fixes some weird dialogue in game. As a heads up I do still get a couple instances of strange dialogue (for example during the conversation with Leliana at camp after her personal quest) but I can’t for the life of me figure out how to fix them.

Advanced Tactics Tweaks the tactics system to make it more user friendly, giving you more options for giving your party commands. Works for Awakening. This one is an essential for me.

Personal Annoyance Remover Gets rid of the visual effects of some abilities such as bard songs and Rally.

Traps Away Reduces the time it takes to put down traps.

Awakening Lore-Friendly Epilogue Rewrite Rewrites the Awakening epilogue slideshow to be more lore-friendly and in line with Dragon Age 2 and Inquisition events.

A Nug for Leliana Getting Schmooples for Leliana can be fiddly. This makes it much easier. You still have to speak to the dwarf who sells you Schmooples, but you don’t need to speak to Leliana beforehand or have her in your party.

Happy Owen Sells Far Song Allows you to obtain the bow Far Song from Owen so you don't have to kill him if you want it.

Origin High Cunning Flag Reductions Reduces the Cunning needed for the player to access certain dialogue in the Human Noble, Magi and Dalish origins.

Natural Lighting For The Character Creator Makes it easier to see what you're doing in the character creator. No waiting until the middle of your origin story to find out what your eye colour actually is.

Cleaner Screenshots From Conversations Gets rid of the subtitles and dialogue choices in your screenshots.

Texture Replacers

White Teeth Makes everyone's teeth a lot less yellow.

Neutral Female Armor (Medium and Heavy Edition) Gets rid of the weird squished-titty effect that medium and heavy armors have on female characters.

Practical Morrigan Robe Lore friendly retexture of Morrigan's robe to cover up her titties while still maintaining the vibe of her original outfit.

Glossy Hair and Beard Improves the texture of the base game hairs and beards.

Some Dalish Textures Improves the quality of halla textures and makes the aravels match the ones in DA2 and Inquisition.

Female Noble Clothing Overhaul Makes female noble clothes much more attractive.

Maric's Blade Blues Edits the colouring of Maric's Blade (obtainable through Return to Ostagar) to match how it's described in the books.

Bow Replacer Makes all vanilla bows less chonky and ugly.

Companion Morphs

Inquisition Inspired Morphs I use the vanilla Morrigan and Leliana morphs. The vanilla Morrigan morph has slightly big ears but I find it really quite cute.

Alistair Morph - Highlights I use the Lighter Brown hair with the Light Brown Eyes. This mod is dependent on Pineappletree’s Vibrant Colors.

Unique Face Textures for Companions I wanted to share this one even though I don’t use it because it really is gorgeous - the problem is that it’s too gorgeous and makes your companions prettier than literally everyone else in the game. Alistair was looking so hot it was distracting. Wynne looked hotter than my PC while still being lore friendly.

Cosmetics and Character Creation

Pineappletree's Vibrant Colors Adds new hair, skin and eye colours to the character creator and replaces the default eye colours with brighter ones. This mod is needed for the Alistair morph I use.

Hairstyle Day Vol.2 Has the braid hairstyle I use for Lyna.

Hairstyle Day More absolutely gorgeous hairs from ShepShy.

Warden Complexions with Eyebrows I use the Tabris complexion for Lyna.

Anna Complexion Another complexion with eyebrows.

Elf Ears Edits all the standard elf presets to have bigger ears, more in line with what we see in DA2 and Inquisition.

Cutscenes and Alistair Romance Indulgence

Clan Sabrae Says Goodbye Adds a cutscene at the end of the Dalish origin where you properly mourn Tamlen and say goodbye to your clan.

DahliaLynn's Sleep Until Dawn Adds a tent to the campsite that allows you to sleep until dawn. Sleep alone, snuggle with the dog or with a romanced companion.

Alistair Romance Eavesdropping Adds a bench to the party camp that allows you to activate multiple cute cutscenes once you've romanced Alistair. 10/10 for screenshots, nice way to hear some banter from companions that you don’t usually take with you.

Let me know if y’all want me to make these for my DA2 and Inquisition mods. I don’t mod the later two games anywhere near as much as Origins (especially since Frosty terrifies me lmao) so the lists would be much smaller.

#dragon age #dragon age origins #dragon age mods #modding dragon age #dao #dao mods #da:o mods #dragon age origins mods #how many tags do i need to put here #mods

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lotorsshoulderpads · 4 years ago

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Merla HCs for the soul

General Culture HCs ⭐ Her home planet is called Orulla ⭐ Ever seen that part where Zarkon says “no one knows where she’s from”? That’s because her and her people are from a place akin to VLD’s quantum abyss in terms of how the place functions. Trying to get in is a death wish so the place has yet to be discovered. ⭐ Her race is all one sex, and their secondary sex characteristics are more inline with that of a human female ⭐ But if you went there you might not notice bc gender expression is all over the place ⭐ Gendered pronouns are a wild concept to her bc “why is the gender of the person in question at all relevant, that’s like having a different pronoun for each hair color” ⭐ They do, however, use different pronouns depending on what they’re talking about. They have pronouns used for people, a word similar to “it” for inanimate objects, and another pronoun used for animals. ⭐ Like in Spanish, their language has formal and informal versions of the word “you” ⭐ The only reason they design their armor to overly highlight their bodies is because they realized it freaks other people out to fight an “all female” army and they get embarrassed as fuck when they get their asses beat by a bunch of ladies ⭐ Way more lax about nudity than a lot of other planets. The idea of modesty is more applied to one’s behavior, like their humility, rather than their clothes. ⭐ The most popular colors/materials for clothing is dark green and purple, red, silver, and gold. ⭐ Most of her people have darker hair, ranging from a black or purple color through magenta and dark pink to red. Eyes are typically the same color as the hair, and skin ranges from gray to a desaturated dark blue color. Most have a gray-blue complexion ⭐ Popular makeup trends are lipstick a similar shade to the skin, but darker or more vibrant, and killer eyeliner. ⭐ Her species is actually incapable of blushing, but after discovering it in other species they found it absolutely adorable and now blush is a popular makeup product. ⭐ Body mods are also very much A Thing in her culture. Piercings, tattoos, scarification, tongue splitting, all sorts of things, and they’re very popular. It’s sort of a right of passage, if an unofficial one. Once someone becomes an adult it’s sort of expected to get something done. ⭐ On that note, getting body mods are also seen as highly inappropriate if the individual who has them isn’t an adult. Something as simple as piercing your ears is jaw dropping to them if you’re a kid. ⭐ On her home planet, people aren’t considered adults until age 20 ⭐ Her people’s life expectancy is around 100-110 ⭐ Her people are also known for doing some funky fun hair stuff. Lots of elaborate braids, curling, and such. Shaving down parts of the head and even the whole head used to be really popular, and is now making a comeback in their mainstream culture. Shaving the entire head is seen as a sign of rebellion or mourning, depending on the context. ⭐ Animal motifs are The Thing in their fashion, particularly birds atm, as they are associated with power and royalty thanks to Merla’s affinity for them. So feathers, things shaped like wings, things with wing patterns on them, etc, are in. ⭐ The average adult of their species is about 6′1.5

Merla HCs ⭐ Age 23 at debut ⭐ 6′0 ⭐ Call her vulture ugly and she will fight you ⭐ Her bird is named Onyx ⭐ She raised that bird from the minute he hatched ⭐ Her telepathic abilities only extend to making people want to do things and getting a vague idea of what someone is thinking about at any given moment. She can’t truly force someone to do something and if she uses too much power she gets migraines. ⭐ She gets along better with animals than with people ⭐ Big Lesbian ⭐ Kala from Voltron Force is her older sister but Merla thinks she died a long time ago ⭐ Merla also has a sister 8 years younger than her named Dyla ⭐ Merla herself actually has a rare pigmentation issue. Her whole color palette is much paler than normal. She’s like an albino of her species in a way. ⭐ Merla has multiple piercings, including several in either ear, a septum piercing, and snake bites. She used to have a tongue piercing but then she got her tongue split and it’s kinda hard to have both ⭐ As for tattoos, she also has more than one, but some are more important than others. On her chest she has vulture wings around an “angel eater,” a flower that, in her culture, means “don’t get too cocky, ya lil shit, you’re still mortal.” On the inside of her right bicep she has an old proverb, “the river goes, and with it the stones.” It means that, yeah, people can make you promises, but ultimately as life goes on things could change and the only person you can really count on is yourself. ⭐ Heart breaker. She doesn’t like getting into actual relationships, she finds them... messy. So when she finds someone she actually likes she dips. And as a Queen needing to one day provide an heir, this is troublesome. ⭐ Merla had a good relationship with one mother and a bad relationship with the other. One, Arella, was a kind hearted woman, who died due to complications having her 3rd child. Merla calls her “mother.” Her other parent was a cold woman who was only interested in herself. Merla simply refers to her as “that woman” or by her first name, Zenaran. ⭐ Dyla was born prematurely, but even if she was carried to term she still would have been a sickly child. To this day she is a very delicate girl, who Merla will protect at all costs. She stands at 5′5, four inches shorter than what’s average for her age. ⭐ Merla herself had complications relating to her birth, but Dyla got everything she had, then some, and dialed up. ⭐ Unlike Dyla and Merla, Kala had no issues in regards to her health and birth. Not only that, but she hardly resembles her other two sisters. This has led to rumors that perhaps the three sisters don’t all share the same two parents, but that Kala is actually a half sibling to Dyla and Merla. ⭐ For several reasons, Merla refuses to acknowledge these rumors and has made no effort to look into them. ⭐ Dyla has not left the safety of their home palace in many years, and hasn’t been off-planet since her toddler years. ⭐ Kala and Merla were close. Kala expected the very best of her little sister, and always pushed her to succeed. ⭐ Mama Arella was a usually kind woman who lacked a backbone, but it’s rumored that she slept around outside her marriage and Merla, despite not really wanting to think about it, also has suspicions in regards to her mother’s faithfulness. ⭐ Arella was monochromatic, having black hair and grey skin. She looked like an old school cartoon character come to life. ⭐ Zenaran, much like her wife, wasn’t very faithful. However, she didn’t bother to hide it. As the one of royal blood, she was the one of higher status and could pretty much get away with whatever she wanted. Plus being an execution happy tyrant also helped. ⭐ Zenaran had long, dark red hair and blue-grey skin. ⭐ Kala is 2 years older than Merla and bore a striking resemblance to Zenaran, with dark red hair and blue-grey skin. ⭐ Dyla, age 15, is a bright and kind girl, despite her rough start to life. She has white hair and dark grey skin. ⭐ Dyla and Merla have an odd relationship. Merla is, on one hand, very much devoted to her little sister, but on the other, dismissive of the younger girl’s thoughts and wishes. She sees Dyla as fragile and incapable of taking care of herself, thus needing constant supervision and someone to make decisions for her. Dyla, though she understands where her sister is coming from, grows increasingly frustrated. ⭐ There is only one person alive who knows the origin of Merla’s powers, and it’s the woman who Arella had an affair with. ⭐ Dyla also has powers like Merla’s, but aside from the Muses teaching her how to rein them in, she doesn’t really know how to use them.

Muses HCs ⭐ The Muses of Norn weren’t kidnapped, they came with Merla willingly ⭐ She sought them out in hopes of learning to control her telepathy ⭐ Now it’s just. Merla and her squad of pretty girls. Sappho and her gal pals. ⭐ The Muses of Norn are named Thetis, Sura, Ceralean, Penelope, Era, Josephine, and Melody. ⭐ Thetis is 22 and the leader of the muses. She stands at 5′5 with blue hair and eyes, and a light brown complexion. She is associated with leadership and honorable conduct. ⭐ Sura is Thetis’s younger sister, age 21. She has redish-pink hair and blue eyes and is 5′6. Her complexion, like her sister’s, is light brown but dotted with freckles. She’s the muscle in their team. She is associated with sportsmanship, combat, and strength. ⭐ Ceralean, age 21, functions as second in command. She’s the analytical type. She’s ghostly pale, with dark blue eyes and hair, standing at 5′4. She is associated with academia. ⭐ Penelope is the oldest at 25 and is the mother hen of the team. Blonde, brown eyes, stands at 5′11, and has a lightly tanned complexion. She is associated with domestically, crops, and the changing of seasons. ⭐ Era, age 23. She has red-brown hair, dark pink eyes, dark brown skin, and stands at 5′7. She is associated with liberation, freewill, and is considered the protector of young women. ⭐ Josephine is the youngest at 17. She’s a little bratty, but they love her anyway. She has black hair, brown eyes, light brown skin, and stands at 5′2. She is associated with childhood, rebirth, joy, and is considered the protector of children. ⭐ Melody, age 19, is the quiet, soft one. Stands at 5′5 with blonde hair and green eyes, and a fair complexion. She is associated with the fine arts and humility. ⭐ Note that they haven’t aged since the became muses, so they’re all technically much older than their physical age. ⭐ The Muses were once mortal women, who ascended to a sort of deity-type status. ⭐ Although the Muses cannot age or die of old age, they can still be killed. ⭐ Thetis, Sura, and Ceralean have a strong, familial type bond, despite the fact that the 3rd isn’t actually blood related to the first two. Sura and Ceralean butt heads often, and Thetis has to play mediator. ⭐ Sura and Era tend to be a bit more loose canon than the other muses. They get into all kinds of trouble together. ⭐ Ceralean is rather protective of Melody and in turn, Melody has a bit of a crush on her.

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shannendoherty-fans · 4 years ago

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People, September 9th 1991

High School Confidential

By Tom Gliatto and Michael Alexander.

Photos by Mark Sennett.

Beverly Hills, 90210 Gets Its Heat from a Dangerously Cute Cast of TV's Hottest New Stars CONFIDENTIAL MEMO: FROM: The Vice Principal TO: The Faculty, High School U.S.A. I'm sure I don't need to remind you what happened when we didn't prepare for Bart Simpson last fall. The school was flooded with rude, antieducational T-shirts. Some cows were had. Well, as a new school year gets under way, I believe we face another daunting challenge: Brace yourselves for Beverly Hills, 90210. That's the Fox drama about unworldly twin teens Brandon and Brenda Walsh (played by Jason Priestley and Shannen Doherty), recent transferees from Minneapolis to the Hills of Beverly. There they struggle to assimilate into the fast-lane lifestyle of West Beverly Hills High School, where the kids come equipped with BMWs, call waiting and designer surfboards. In the process, the teens examine their emerging identities and the problems that adolescents everywhere face.

The show languished in the Nielsen ratings against Thursday powerhouse Cheers last year. But Fox had no replacement, so it stayed. While we were on summer vacation, new 90210 episodes began airing, and the show landed in the Top 20, becoming the most popular show among teenagers. To some extent, I take responsibility for having ignored 90210. I made the mistake of reading newspaper critics instead of my daughter's diary, and so I believed, as Howard Rosenberg sniffed in the Los Angeles Times, that the show was merely a "ZIP code for stereotypes and stock characters." Little did I know that this show would mesmerize teens by doing emotionally realistic shows that involved adolescent rebellion, alcoholic; parents, a breast-cancer scare and plenty of worrisome teen sex. "Most shows for adolescents," says 90210 creator Darren Star, "seem like they are written by 50-year-olds who think teenagers behave like 7-year-olds."

It also doesn't hurt that the show's male stars, Priestley and Luke Perry (who plays brooding loner Dylan McKay), are "to die for," as my daughter puts it. These two have each been receiving about 1,500 fan letters a week. So be vigilant: Surely some of these will be written by our students...during class! And I'm afraid that 90210 is only going to get bigger with our kids, if producer Aaron Spelling is to be believed. "I thought The Mod Squad and Charlie's Angels got a lot of publicity in their heyday," says Spelling, whose company produced those shows, "but it doesn't compare to this. It's crazy. We have merchandising coming out of our ears"—a complete line of T-shirts, beach towels, notebooks, etc. "And now these actors can't walk down the street!"

Or even streak through malls. You probably saw those alarming news reports about a frenzied mob of 10,000 fans that stampeded Perry when he appeared at a south Florida mall last month. "It's a little scary," says Perry. Scarier is the amount of time students will waste this fall discussing Luke. And Jason. And who is sexier. I provide some information on the two. Jason Priestley, 22, plays Brandon Walsh, a model of thoughtful level-headedness. In real life, however, the brown-haired, blue-eyed star, who started acting in commercials at age 4 and played an orphan on that very nice NBC sitcom Sister Kate, is no Oliver Twist. He likes dirt bikes, bungee jumping and is a chain-smoker (just about the whole cast puffs it up—but not on-camera). Vancouver-born Priestley likes to hang out in Las Vegas. As for his real romantic life, he was reportedly dating actress Robin (Doogie Howser, M.D.) Lively last spring, but it seems likely that now he is too busy for such dalliance;. He must be on the set 14 hours a day, five days a week. To avoid ever-present fans, Priestley says, "I look different from my character when I'm just walking around. I don't shave, I don't dress like Brandon."

On the show, 26-year-old Luke Perry (Brenda Walsh's boyfriend, Dylan) sports a leather jacket, dagger sideburns and a squint that spells t-r-o-u-b-l-e. Although he grew up and graduated from high school in Fredericktown, Ohio, he seems to have attended James Dean wise-guy classes. Perry, who played country-boy Ned Bates on the ABC soap Loving, entertains the 90210 cast by strutting around bare-chested making jokes. Does he have a girlfriend? "No. You know how I can get in touch with Linda Hamilton?" What kind of music does he listen to? "Tom Jones is awesome." Are he and Priestley ever mistaken for each other? "He's mistaken for me on his good days." And 90210, he says, is "the best show on television, except for Jeopardy!" We should act quickly, faculty, when we see any signs that Beverly Hills, 90210 is disrupting normal student activity.

How abnormal might things get? Consider: "It's almost like there are cults," says Brian Austin Green, 18, the North Hollywood High grad who plays the cutely dweeby David Silver. "Girls go to school the day after the show, and they actually become these characters. They say, 'Okay, today I want to be Dylan, you can be Brenda, you can be Brandon.' " Needless to say, students caught pretending to be TV characters should be brought directly to my office for detention. But you know, it might not be a bad thing if our students could show some of the good sense that the 90210ers display in coping with the pressures of fame and fortune. Jennie Garth, 19, who plays the very sexy, very blond, very snotty Kelly Taylor, is particularly admirable. The youngest of seven children, she grew up on a farm near Champaign, Ill., until her schoolteacher parents moved to Phoenix when she was 13. "Living in a small town and coming from a very tight and close family instilled a lot of standards that I need to live up to," says Garth, who just bought a home in Sherman Oaks. She also recently supplied her parents with the down payment for their new home, setting a splendid example for today's youth.

According to a tabloid that someone left in the faculty lounge, Memphis-raised Shannen Doherty, 20, a veteran of such wonderful shows as Little House: A New Beginning, is the only cast member to be accused of behaving like "a spoiled brat" on the set. But she maintains she is no such thing. "I think everybody gets in a bad mood," Shannen says. "You do not work 16-hour days and not start feeling it. But I have never thrown a tantrum. I've gotten upset on the set, but it's never been just to be a bitch. You have to stand up for yourself in this business. That was something I was told when I was 12 years old and working with Michael Landon."

As with about half the cast members, Doherty is in a relationship—in her case, a real-estate developer with whom she's exchanged commitment rings. "You really have to date a while before you decide if this is the person you want to marry," she says with Brenda-like candor. Almost sounds like the relationship could be a future 90210 plot. "The problems of young people have accelerated," says Aaron Spelling, "and so have their feelings and thoughts." The show, he says, has kept pace: Even with their Clearasil-perfect complexions and plump allowances, the students at Beverly Hills have encountered their share of problems. "We had the guts to make Luke Perry be a member of AA," says Spelling. "We had Jason, our star, drinking and driving. That's reality."

And, apparently, the adulatory fan mail often includes a sad dose of that reality. "I got a letter the other day from a girl who mentioned the show we did on parental drug abuse," says Perry in a rare moment of seriousness. "She wrote about catching her father freebasing in the basement. I get letters like that all the time, from people all over the country." Gabrielle Carteris (at age 30, she's 90210's oldest cast-kid), who plays Andrea Zuckerman, the bright student who comes from the wrong side of Rodeo Drive, remembers an encouraging close encounter in a grocery store. "One girl came up to me after we'd done the breast-cancer show," says Carteris. "She said, 'I went home with all my friends and we checked our breasts for lumps.' "

In conclusion: Maybe I didn't need to write this memo. Maybe things won't be that bad, even if every locker in every corridor has a picture of Jason, Luke, Shannen or Jennie in it. Perhaps our dear little school is more like West Beverly Hills High—at least the TV version—than I thought. That's what Ian Ziering, 27, thinks too. "The reality on the show pretty much mirrors the way life is all over, in terms of teenagers," says New Jersey—bred Ziering, who once did Fruit of the Loom underwear ads and now plays 90210's curly-headed jock, Steve Sanders. "There's a mystique about Beverly Hills. But that's not what keeps people tuning in. The show could have been Montana E-I-E-I-O." By the way, should any student pronounce his name "eee-an," correct him or her, please. It's "eye-an."

-- WHEN BEVERLY HILLS, 90210 PREMIERED last October, Highlights, the student newspaper at Beverly Hills High, ran articles mocking the school's TV counterpart, West Beverly Hills High. "They said that the show was a joke," says Jenny Brandt, 14, a sophomore at the 1,900-student school. But as the story lines improved and Jason Priestley and Luke Perry became stars, the jokes stopped, and Brandt found herself, like many of her pals, glued to the set on Thursday nights from 9 to 10 P.M. "No phone calls allowed," says Brandt. "Except during commercials." Hope Levy, a 17-year-old senior, has taken fandom a step further with her friends. "We have little handmade cards," she says, speaking from her mom's car phone. "They say you're a member of Club 90210." While some kids think the show treats them as snobby stereotypes, most agree with sophomore Jordan Rynes when he says, "It's like a soap opera for teens. The shows dealing with drinking and drugs are the most real—adults don't realize how accurate it is."

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mauserfrau · 4 years ago

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Mau's Very Silly Headcanon Post

Since I have two pieces of fiction going live this weekend and they’re both going to be late due to butting into each other XD.

I did another one here and there’s going to be some overlap, but less bodily function stuff in this one (mostly spit) (also some vague references to medical trauma).

A lot of this is small potatoes because I didn’t want to spoil anything. How Phaseleech actually works ends up being a plot point in what I have pending, so I actually can’t just come out and say what’s going on. That said, I’m sure there are people here who want to know what’s on my mind, but who don’t want to sit through 50K words with half a dozen squick warnings.

That said: https://archiveofourown.org/users/Mauser_Frau

Questions welcome, about this, anything else I think about Borderlands, what exactly is in Chapter 13 of Satellite, if it’s true the one flashback actually happened to Mom...

Both

-Look, the only thing I did that’s appreciably off-canon is let them have emotions. Maybe I drove into left field with what those emotions were, but that’s really all anybody’s got to do to fix this situation. Go with the deity of your choice.

-If I was headed for a Gearbox ending, it would be for the scrapped one, not the one we got. See this and this other thing.

>>>I would still have written the twins as having something resembling a meaningful relationship regardless of whether that turned out romantic or not. As things went and are, them as a couple was something I knew how to write and my mom shipped them (no, I’m not kidding).

-I’m not going for a canon ending. Mercy, did I find a thread I could snap and take the whole sweater out.

-Both had blue siren markings when they were born; Troy’s turned red after they were separated.

--Which was a complicated mess-- they were upside-down verses each other and had several secondary adhesions, the most notable of which was Tyreen’s face to Troy’s thigh.

---Leda never 100% recovered from the emotional or physical trauma, but she put on a brave face for the last sevenish years of her life.

---Troy’s tissue loss was severe and left him with a notable pit in his upper right side.

---Tyreen also has heavy scarring running from her right armpit to her right hip. It’s not as complex, but it is very visible. Missing a fair amount of intestine compared to the average human, but this has apparently never bothered her beyond the fact that visiting the toilet when you don’t eat is not fun.

-Semi-identical twins. Have 82.5% of their genes in common. LSS, neither one is a parasite. They’re two sperm plus one egg and they didn’t divide right.

--Ms. Phaseleech* didn’t know any better. #oops

--If you get them relaxed enough, they will indeed curl up together in their “fish” position.

-Tyreen is the one who would wail first if separated from her brother when they were very small, but they don’t like being apart even as adults.

-Both very well-read, used to recite The Odyssey to congregants instead of scripture (‘cause they didn’t have any scripture).

-Good to excellent hunters. Depends what they’re hunting and if they’re together. Prefer to go barefoot if there’s no one else around.

-The circumstances surrounding Leda’s death are appreciably worse than fanon baseline to the point I don’t think I ought to leave them lying around in a Tumblr post.

-Both have wavy hair if they don’t iron the daylights out of it.

-Prefer to be on the road and around people, even if a fair amount of those people are going to end up dinner.

-Get weirdly soft-hearted around kids, especially little boys with a similar complexion to their own.

-Do they have any concept that they’re horrible people? Yes, but it’s very academic and not something that motivates them. You’d be way more likely to hear them frame themselves as hedonists, which also explains their worldview to a certain extent.

~*~

Troy

-Skinnier than most other Troys. You could put him in a room with every fandom Troy and sort them by muscle mass, you’d find him at the bottom end, partying like this was an accomplishment.

-Has an X-linked connective tissue disorder which is more extensive than he lets on. He really should not do about 90% of the stunts he does because of the vascular involvement.

-Made a categorical decision to treat the associated pain with a lot of cannabis and massage. Has a distinct resin and honey body butter smell because of this.

--Also, if you get him off-hours, there’s going to be a fair amount of “but why are we here, man?” discussion.

-Has a kink in his upper back. His spine tilts to his right. Not super noticeable, but if you were on massage duty, you’d realize something felt out of place.

-Used to get catastrophic nosebleeds, though these have lessened in frequency and severity over the years.

-After a certain point, has a permanent latching socket port installed on his right side, allowing him to switch arms out as he likes.

--Because he has a selection of eccentric ones. What? It’s a challenge to learn to use non-human aspects like claws or feathers or forty joints in a tentacle.

--Still flounces around without one if nobody of consequence is watching and generally won’t sleep with one in.

-The insides of his ear gauges are messy and don’t even get him started on changing the jewelry on any, erm, other piercings he might have. (Nipples and one off-center PA. That was QUITE enough after what it took for his tattoos to cooperate.)

-Will frame any illness or off-day as a migraine, which he does get.

-Had really bad teeth before his mouth mods. After that, has none of his natural teeth remaining. Primarily uses his exceptional bite radius to annoy others, show off, eat sandwiches in a disturbing fashion and do unspeakable things in bed. They’re for show. They’re not functional in any serious way.

-Doesn’t have great control of said mouth mods in the heat of passion or if you get him laughing hard enough. Hope you like spit!

-Still has rather heinous-looking feet, but he’s concerned about losing his calluses if he has them fixed. You’d be more likely to see him open on an operating table than barefoot in public.

-Always wants to be the little spoon. You’re a tink? You’re a third his size? So what. He wants to be the little spoon. Just give in.

-Genuinely likes tea, especially flower-based tea. Favorite foods include grits, polenta, tamales, campfire beefy rice, beef and broccoli layered onto somebody else’s leftover noodles, beef curry, beef sandwiches soaked in jus, steak tips on day-old fries and look just give him a sloppy plate of starch and dead cow if you need him to shut up.

-Drinks vodka so cold and over-filtered it tastes like water, then follows it up with extra greasy, burnt-to-hell texas toast while talking about his mother.

-Lactose intolerant. Please do not feed the rat child pizza. Or chipped beef on toast. No, not even if he begs.

~*~

Tyreen

-Abnormally acute senses, especially hearing/smell and including a form of intuition which targets where things she can leech exist nearby. She’s only aware of any of this in the context of it being different from how Troy’s senses work. She knows where to get food. Don’t most people?

-Doesn’t perceive herself as 100% human. The Leech is part of her and she likes herself. Mama said she was perfect. The details are whatever. You got a problem here? Well, that’s easy to fix…

-Would have been sorted as a tomboy growing up, but had no companions to do so. As is, prefers the company of masculine individuals, loves showing people up in a boyish fashion and is absolutely going to tune you out if you start talking to her about the topic.

-Reeks. You might smell something “off” with her around in a meeting room, but get her sweaty or worked up and forget it. It’s not even a human smell. Petrichor and spray paint, menstrual blood and chlorine, dead leaves and solvent. It’s chemical, it’s uncannily biological. It’s really not OK. She can’t smell it and Troy’s used to it.

-Doesn’t shave. Has fluffy armpits that don’t match her dye job and a rather spectacular bush that extends onto her upper thighs. Does pluck here brows and the witch hairs on her chin, but otherwise, you know what, nah.

-Heavily tattooed, but this is limited to her torso. The viewing of said tattoos, as well as her scars, is a ritual in her particular CoV.

--Not that she cares about being naked. A body is a body. You people are so uptight.

-Will reflexively guard her lower stomach before anything else and sometimes in error. Do not call her on this. You will piss her off.

-Has an eye-shaped siren marking, but it’s on her left shoulder blade and she tends to forget it’s there. More aware of the “pointer mark” underneath her navel.

-Poor tolerance for any drugs.

-Can only ingest salt, sucrose and 80 proof or better clear alcohol without retching.

--Which is to say she doesn’t eat “people food”.

--Fatty or high-fiber foods tend to make her ill faster. She could possibly keep tofu or chicken breast down for an hour or more, but it’s still not going to end well.

--Can and does eat cinder toffee because it’s one of the few things she can chew and digest. Konpeito is nice too, but sometimes the dye upsets her stomach.

--Milk, maybe. Human works better.

-Enjoys swimming or long baths.

-Ambidextrous. Was either born that way or picked up doing certain things left-handed because that’s what her brother had to work with and she had to show him how to do stuff somehow.

-Good with a forearm-mounted crossbow. Either hand is fine.

-Used to drool precipitously when she leeched something “good”. Mostly has a handle on this by the time the CoV gets to be a thing. Mostly.

-Deeply immature love language which might include her actually asking to play with her prospective partner and a good bit of bullying.

-SHE IS NOT SHY ABOUT HER NEEDS AND KINKS. THE HELL WITH YOU. YOU’RE MAKING SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING. HOW DARE YOU. DO YOU WANT TO BE SKAG BAIT ON THE NEXT LIVESCREAM. UGH. #nottsundereatall

~*~

* The Leech IDed herself as, erm, herself in some stuff I’m not sure I’ll ever post but ANYWAY.

#borderlands 3 #headcanon post #calypso twins #troy calypso #tyreen calypso

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trulycertain · 5 years ago

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I swear to god, you use one mod and suddenly...

I mainly just modded the Arishok fight because it’s evil. And installed the hats and Profane-punching because they delighted me.

Cosmetic mods?

I made Guin with the Chargen Revamp mod, which lets you actually customise default Hawke. After a couple of fascinating errors when KS Hairs decided to protest -

- I may have been enjoying this mod way too much.

*cough*

So Guin by design has HR skin anyway.

I used two of the high-res companion skin mods, just to make people not look like they'd been run through a meat grinder, but only two. They make sense for Fenris and Tallis - elf complexions can be a tad odd, and they don't change most of their features - but I do kind of miss the weathered look for him. I also ended up giving Sebastian the HR texture.

Other than that, I actually mostly prefer the old versions and the wrinkles and dramatic shadows. They add character. Some of the HR versions make the companions... not quite look like themselves. Aveline's HR mod, in every one I've seen, just makes her more makeup-y and takes away those unnatural but sharply-striking eyes, so I didn't much want it. Anders'... doesn't quite look like him anymore. Same with Isabela’s, which makes her look about nineteen and takes away her beautiful crow’s-feet.

I also gently upgraded the resolution on clothing and armour where I could, just as a small thing.

Mostly, I'm steering clear. I installed Blue Wraith, because it’s a lore-friendly mod that gives Fenris his forehead tats like in concept art and the comics. (”If I’m actually going to see this character for once in a playthrough, might as well do it properly.”)

Post-Act II and Hadriana and his realisation that “no matter what I do, they’ll always find me”... well, I tend to think he probably gradually stopped hiding behind the hair, at least when he was at home. And I used that as an excuse to make his hair slightly less emo. Sorry, Fenris. Between you and Hawke, Kirkwall isn’t big enough for this many fringes. I generally much prefer companions as designed, but between this and some of the later canon we get... eh, it made sense.

Guin: "Are you really... Maker, you sound like my mother." Me: "'Stand up straight and stop hiding behind your hair and you'll be a very handsome young man'?" Guin: "Yes. That." Me: "As a fringey sloucher, I'd be a hypocrite." Me: "...Also, I like the twitchy slouching." Guin: "Agreed." Me, squinting suspiciously: “I thought you were an Andersmancer.” Guin: *shifts guiltily*

Unfortunately, this now means that Fenris’ hair is higher-res than my entire life.

The poor dramatic git.

Everyone else: *exhausted and covered in dirt* Fenris' hair: *glowing in full 2k* Everyone else: *resentful glaring*

#tru plays dragon age 2 #guin hawke

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abalathia · 5 years ago

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never-ending survey: esja

RULES: Repost, do not reblog. Tag 10 blogs!

tagged by @yascaret! thank you! <3 tagging @nekun-uul, @nascentflash, @s-udarshana, @lavender-hemlock, @blood-of-the-dragons, @hingan-fox, @fairwindsandblueskies, @warpstargazer, @red-hare, @wood-warder, and anyone else! feel free to use me as your tag if you brave this! ;)

BASICS.

FULL NAME : Esja Fiala

NICKNAME : The Violet Warder

AGE : Appears late 20s, actual age unknown.

BIRTHDAY : 16th Sun of the 5th Umbral Moon

ETHNIC GROUP : Viera (Veena)

NATIONALITY : Ivalician (?)

LANGUAGE / S : Common

SEXUAL ORIENTATION : Bisexual.

ROMANTIC ORIENTATION : Heteromantic.

RELATIONSHIP STATUS : Single.

HOME TOWN / AREA : Skatay Mountain range.

CURRENT HOME : An isolated hunter’s cabin buried deep in the Shroud.

PROFESSION : Survivalist, hunter, and mercenary.

PHYSICAL.

HAIR : Naturally platinum, dyed to a beige blonde.

EYES : A pale violet blue.

FACE : Stoic, serious, and determined yet still radiant with an underlying beauty.

LIPS : Of average size and often left natural or stained to match her traditional tribal paint.

COMPLEXION : Ivory.

BLEMISHES : None.

SCARS : Several, each a reminder of the war she fought, the Wood she protected, and the comrades lost.

TATTOOS : A golden sunburst that spans from her ribs to her thigh.

HEIGHT : 6′3″.

WEIGHT : Average.

BUILD : Slim and athletic.

FEATURES : Slightly upturned nose, full eyelashes, faint dimples, mid-length ears left thick with fur, and fingers stained a muddy brown.

ALLERGIES : None.

USUAL HAIR STYLE : Typically left natural, thicks waves parted down the middle hang to her waist. When working, she pulls it back into a messy ponytail with plaits and strands of leather. It is common to see it adorned with beads and feathers.

USUAL FACE LOOK : A thick painted band across her eyes with two finger swipes beneath on either cheek. These are either in tones of sienna or sepia, and it is not common to see her without them.

USUAL CLOTHING : Leathers, furs, and brass jewelry. She has not taken to the more casual style commonly seen throughout Eorzea and instead sticks with her traditional attire.

PSYCHOLOGY.

FEAR / S : Failure, insignificance, being forgotten.

ASPIRATION / S : To achieve greatness and be worthy of remembrance outside the confines of her tribe.

POSITIVE TRAITS : Determined, resourceful, confident, resilient.

NEGATIVE TRAITS : Reckless, impatient, competitive.

MBTI : ISTJ-A (Architect)

ZODIAC : Nymeia (Libra)

TEMPERAMENT : Phlegmatic.

SOUL TYPE / S : Warrior.

ANIMALS : Wolf.

VICE HABIT / S : Drinking, smoking, fighting, isolation.

FAITH : Religious, no. Spiritual, absolutely. Though she tries not to insult or anger any deities.

GHOSTS ? : Yes.

AFTERLIFE ? : Eh.

REINCARNATION ? : Eh.

ALIENS ? : Eh...?

POLITICAL ALIGNMENT : She cares not for politics, and does not burden herself with the workings of a land she will eventually leave, too.

EDUCATION LEVEL : Common education, but relies more heavily on experience rather than the teachings of those long dead.

FAMILY.

FATHER : Estranged.

MOTHERS : Estranged.

SIBLINGS : Potentially many, but she knows of none of them.

EXTENDED FAMILY : Many. Some she was close to, some she’s never met. All estranged.

NAME MEANING / S : Fiala, the small and secluded mountain tribe she hails from that I totally made up and also means violet in czech :P.

HISTORICAL CONNECTION ? : No.

FAVORITES.

BOOK : Old and dusty tomes detailing the victories of the heroes of old.

DEITY : None.

HOLIDAY : All Saints Wake.

MONTH : October.

SEASON : Autumn.

PLACE : Deep within the woods where only the trees may speak.

WEATHER : Hazy, rainy days.

SOUND / S: Crackling fires and distant thunder.

SCENT / S : Tobacco, lingering rain, damp wood.

TASTE / S : Whiskey, spiced apples, fresh herbs.

FEEL / S : Fur, wet grass, tree bark, rough skin.

ANIMAL / S : Wolves, ravens, stags. (Plus the fox kit and road sparrow she calls family.)

NUMBER : 6

COLORS : Sienna, white, olive, beige, black, copper.

EXTRA.

TALENTS : Surviving, hunting, drinking grown men under the table, shit-talking, incessant flirting, and kicking your dad’s ass.

BAD AT : Losing, singing, dancing, cooking anything that isn’t over a campfire.

TURN ONS : Men - rough hands, facial hair, scars, muscles, abrasive personalities, good hair. Women - soft lips, sweet voices, humorous, strong-willed, independence.

TURN OFFS : Carelessness, stupidity, attention-seeking, ignorance.

HOBBIES : Hunting, leatherworking, making jewelry, sketching, drinking all day long.

TROPES : Badass Teacher, Crazy Prepared, Action Girl, The Leader, To Be Lawful or Good, One of the Boys, Nature Lover, Lady of War, Guys Smash Girls Shoot, etc.

QUOTES : “Got a light?”

MUN QUESTIONS.

Q1 : If you could write your character your way in their own movie, what would it be called, what style would it be filmed in, and what would it be about?

A1 : Beyond the Wood - a southern gothic film riddled with a feeling of discomfort, lurking cryptids, old gods, and one badass bun.

Q2 : What would their soundtrack/score sound like?

A2 : Dark folk with eerie instrumentals and scratchy voices that make you feel both at home and like something is watching you from the woods outside your window.

Q3 : Why did you start writing this character?

A3 : Esja has had many faces. She started as a warrior bun, went off the rails as a botanist, and ultimately transformed into the woman she is now. I’ve always loved southern gothic and norse themes, and I decided to cram them both together. I didn’t think it would work so well, but she’s easily my favorite thing ever.

Q4 : What first attracted you to this character?

A4 : Everything. I’ve wanted a viera since I was a little kid, and I was so sad to have to wait so long to play one in FFXIV. I’d resigned myself to using mods for eternity, but bless SE for finally giving me the option. Also, who doesn’t love a strong lady bun?

Q5 : Describe the biggest thing you dislike about your muse.

A5 : Her desire for infamy and immortality overshadows any craving for love, and it makes me feel for her. She’s so wrapped up in her dreams and hides behind the walls she’s built that she’ll probably never find it. It’s easy to find company for the night, but we all know that isn’t satisfying forever. I keep my fingers crossed for her, though.

Q6 : What do you have in common with your muse?

A6 : I, too, am a lone wolf who does no evil but takes no shit. But honestly, I have been pulling a lot of inspiration from Esja to apply to real life. I’ve started hiking, I want to learn how to shoot a bow and arrow, and I’ve stood up for myself a lot more since creating her. She’s my muse in every sense of the word!

Q7 : How does your muse feel about you?

A7 : I would for sure be one of the green adventurers she mentors. Though I imagine she’d kick my ass off a cliff for whining too much.

Q8 : What characters does your muse have interesting interactions with ?

A8 : I’ve only had a handful of roleplays with Esja, but she will easily have a good time with anyone willing to arm wrestle and get drunk under a full moon. If that’s your jam, hit a girl up!

Q9 : What gives you inspiration to write your muse ?

A9 : Vikings, norse mythology, southern gothic aesthetic, the supernatural, dense forests, folk music, and folk horror.

Q10 : How long did this take you to complete ?

A10 : Started at 11am and worked on it off and on throughout the day.

#ooooo that was a doozy #these are always fun though!#esja fiala #prompt

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thebestpersonherelovesbucky · 6 years ago

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WIP Wednesday

didn’t know about this, but here’s a little passage from my upcoming original piece This is How We Burn

@captainrogerrsbeard @luninosity thank you for the support you’ve already shown!

Wet hair stuck to his face by the time he arrived at the restaurant. Nothing fancy. Sasha didn’t even think to take note of what type of place it was before he walked in through the doors. Only that there were St. Patrick’s Day decorations painted on the front windows. But the place was small. Nothing particularly fancy or charming about it. Nothing that really stood out, anyway. People were even there with their kids. Strike one against this being a date.

A couple stood in front of him, waiting for the hostess to seat them. This gave Sasha ample time to try to fix himself up before seeing Trystan. The tie around his wrist -- somehow -- remained there. Sasha peeled wet strips of hair away from his cheeks and secured it all behind his head--all but the few locks that never stay in place. He tried to push the rest behind his ear. Over and over just to have it fall back out again.

About to threaten to cut it all off, Sasha took a handful of it and sighed. He hoped, hair related calamities withstanding, that he still looked all right. Sasha knew he’d never been any Don Juan. No Adonis or even anybody’s wet dream. He wouldn’t go so far as to call himself unattractive. Just plain. Average. A bit rough around the edges. Someone who might catch a stranger’s eye as they passed each other on the street and then be forgotten the second he was gone.

When the hostess, who assured Sasha that she’d help him the second she returned, took off to seat the couple who’d been waiting before him, Sasha caught a glimpse inside the restaurant. At one of the booths in the back sat Trystan, running his finger around the rim of his water glass and chatting the ear off of one of the waiters.

The waiter held a tray of empty glasses that probably needed to be bought back but Trystan kept right on talking anyway. Whatever the conversation was, it held the waiter’s interest and smile and a spark in his eyes despite the table calling for his attention across the dining hall. Of course, all of that could have just been Trystan himself.

He looked exceptional. Even a little out of place among sweaters and fake Uggs and blue jeans. It could have been that New York was currently underwater. Good thing Sasha ducked in when he had otherwise he’d’ve ended up drenched. But seeing Trystan in this light -- in the swirling blues and hanging grays while the sun hid behind thick, lazy clouds -- made something just magical about him. New colors played throughout tidy locks of shimmering hair. A light flush kissed fair skin though it was hardly warm in here. Even his eyes, which lit up at the simple prospect a fresh cup of coffee on any ordinary day, had a different sparkle. Almost like they’d been hiding something all along. He looked like a fairy prince trying to blend with the commoners and doing a very poor job of it.

He also, and Sasha had difficulties ignoring this, looked like he’d gone out of his way to dress nice for the night. Cozy, yet elegant in that wool turtleneck. Cream-colored. Complimented his complexion. And his eyes. So maybe this was a date. In which case, Sasha had seriously underdressed.

While in the middle of another laugh with the waiter, Trystan happened to glance over and spot Sasha waiting in the lobby. Already smiling, Trystan straightened even more and waved. The waiter, turning to face that way, smiled as if also waiting for him and then pinched between his eyes before possibly giving a farewell to Trystan. He finally went back to the kitchen.

“Hello, sir,” the hostess greeted when she came back over. “How can I help you?”

Sasha, who hadn’t taken his gaze away from Trystan, said, “I’m meeting someone. I see him, though, thank you.”

She might’ve said to go on in, Sasha couldn’t really be sure mostly because he started doing this on his own already. The closer he got to the table Trystan sat at, the larger that dazzling smile of his grew. Sasha also couldn’t help notice Trystan’s… unusual choice of footwear.

“Hi!” Trystan said when Sasha was almost at the table. “You’ve made it just in time! Someone must be in a very sour mood, wouldn’t you say?”

“Hello,” Sasha said back, envying Trystan’s optimism about everything and all things, even something so casual as greeting someone. “Why would I say that?”

“I should say it’s rather obvious, isn’t it?” He gestured toward the windows, still taking a pretty hard beating from the rain. “Nature certainly wouldn’t make it rain like this out of nowhere. Had to be the work of a cranky weather mod.”

While a person with strong enough a Weather Modification Gift did have the ability to cause such weather, Sasha wasn’t so sure he agreed with Trystan’s point of view. Just because he taught history didn’t mean he lost all knowledge of basic high school science. Some moisture to form clouds and rain. Add some unstable air, relatively warm and could rise rapidly. Finally, toss in some lift that could be found in the form of fronts, sea breezes or mountains. Voila. A thunderstorm. No Gift needed.

Sasha chuckled. “I don’t know if this is the work of any Gift, but I do believe you might have a curse on you.”

Eyes narrowing, Trystan took a very long sip of his water and then pursed his lips, already wise to the games Sasha played. The wheels in his mind turned and must’ve come up empty-handed. He sighed and dropped his hand on the table.

“Okay, I yield,” he said. “Why do I have a curse on me?”

“Why else would you be wearing bright blue rubber shoes with yellow laces and black bat wings flapping out of them?”

Trystan gasped and kicked his foot out from under the table, nearly tripping a waitress in the process. Stretching his lips and fumbling through several words of an apology -- though it doesn’t appear to be necessary since she batted her eyes and twirled a strand of her hair and smiled at him long enough that Sasha worried Trystan might actually get up and leave with her -- Trystan showed off the, in his words, fabulous work of art.

“And just what is wrong with these?” he asked. “They’re perfect.”

“You’re wearing rain boots.” Sasha chuckled. “That look better fit for a child, I might add.”

“They are galoshes, you uncultured swine,” Trystan teased. “And they give me the power to fly.”

Though Sasha initially intended to remind him that they were, in fact, in America, and the term boots and galoshes tended to be used interchangeably, the second half of that statement had a good chance to settle in. Whatever he wanted to say changed to something else entirely.

“I’m sorry,” he grumbled in a failed attempt not to laugh, “they give you what?”

“The power to fly.”

No hesitation. Straightfaced. Even a nod at the end for good measure. Trystan said this as though he truly meant it.

Levitation, a rare and sought out Gift, had forever been something people tried to duplicate via technology. Whether it happened in real life, as with airplanes, or in science fiction, like hoverboards, people wanted to fly. Sasha, however, did not. He already knew what it meant to crash and burn. He certainly never wanted to find out what it felt like physically.

“And how, pre tell,” Sasha asked, “do they make you fly?”

Trystan rolled his eyes and dramatically fanned his hand out toward the shoes. When Sasha, who still had no idea what he meant, just shrugged, Trystan gave him an exaggerated moan and pointed directly to the wings.

“They have wings, of course.”

“Oh, wings.” He nodded. “That makes perfect sense.”

“You know what, my boots are fan-bloody-tastic, thank you very much.” Trystan pulled his leg back under the table and crossed his arms. “Do not whine to me if you step in a puddle wearing your stinky shoes and your socks get all wet and soggy.”

“Maybe I’ll just go around the puddle.”

“Maybe the puddle is too big to go around.”

“Maybe I’ll find an alternate route altogether.”

“Maybe there’s water covering the entire city.”

“Maybe I’ll take a boat.”

“Maybe the boat springs a leak.”

“Maybe… maybe…” Sasha knew he couldn’t break his own rules. Any more than a few seconds and it didn’t count. “Okay.” He sighed and twisted his lips. “You win.”

Gasping, Trystan threw his hands up in excitement. He shimmied in place on his seat, squeezing his tongue between his smile. And, oh. Oh, Sasha didn’t expect to have such an intense reaction to fake showboating. Warmth blossomed in his belly. Tingled through the rest of his body.

#my stuff #text post #wip wednesday #original fiction #this is how we burn #my fic #sasha and trystan

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imaginedanganronpa · 6 years ago

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Can you please do Yandere Kaede x Rantaro scenario? Except it’s played for comedy. Kaede doesn’t kill anyone, but just scares the competition away from Rantaro. Bonus if she actually manages to scare Kokichi, Korekiyo, Angie or even Monokuma.

I love this. I’ve written for Yandere!Rantaro multiple times but never for Kaede, and you all know I love my Amamatsu. Enjoy!

Yandere!Kaede Akamatsu x Rantaro Amami (Comedic Scenario)!

Eversince this Killing Game predicament started, Kaede hasn’t been able to restrainher feelings as easily or seamlessly as she used to.

It didn’t help that there was a certain green-haired man in particular thatseemed to catch her eye. She had fallen for Rantaro so quickly and didn’t want anyone else to take her man away. Kaede was especially fearful in this situation because she would be damned if he fell Victim to one of the other worthless participants trapped here.

She doesn’t want to kill anyone, that was never her style – especially in the Killing Game; she’s not just going to let the Mastermind use her as a toy. If she were to become reckless and kill someone to get rid of hercompetition, Kaede risked getting caught and executed. And if that happened,she could no longer be there to protect her beloved Rantaro! And she could never win hisheart over if she was dead.

So, she’d have to settle for scaring the others away from her lover.

He was so charming and romantic that he seemed to have several other Ultimatesswooning over him as well, and Kaede just couldn’t have that. She wondered howshe was supposed to compare or stand out in a place like this. She could feel herself growing colder, her Yandere-tendencies getting the best of her.

Even in a life-or-death scenario, Kaede was too afraid to approach Rantaro. Shekept her distance, admiring him from afar and slowly building up a shrine inher room dedicated to him.

Every time one of the others got close or spoke to him, a rage built up insideof her that proved difficult to contain. That’s when she devised her plan toscare everyone away from the man she loved, so that she never had to intervenewith him directly.

She was sick and tired of watching that little pest Ouma trying to flirt withhim, and she knew that he had some little thing for Rantaro; he was constantlycalled him his ‘Beloved Amami-Chan’ among other nicknames.

Kaede knew that directly influencing Ouma would only lead to trouble because hehas a big mouth and would without a doubt snitch to Rantaro, ruiningeverything.

She simply… broke into his room when she knew he wasn’t home and no one elsewas around, vandalizing it a bit. She left some threatening sticky notes behind that said to ‘Leave Rantaro alone, you tiny little fucker.’

However, all Ouma did was laugh and show them to the other man, giggling about how he had a secret admirer. Rantaro looked a bit uncomfortable but shrugged it off as a prank. Stomping his foot, Ouma raised his voice and shouts, “It’s not~! I wouldn’t lie to you, Amami-Chan!”

His eyes danced over to the corner where Kaede was hiding and he made eye contact with her wide, soulless eyes and devilish grin. The sight was unsettling, even for Ouma. He simply backed off with Rantaro calling for him, asking him where he was going.

“You can deal with that crazy bitch, I’m not trying to die!” Ouma responds hastily, leaving the other man in a dazed confusion.

Her next rival came in the form of an all-too preppy Artist who was trying to lure Rantaro into joining her Cult, or something. He seemed a bit intrigued since he’s always trying to learn about different cultures and beliefs, but Kaede couldn’t have that, now could she?

She seemed to come at the right time because Angie was clinging on his arm and chanting about a blood sacrifice to Atua. She couldn’t let that creepy bitch take her man’s blood, only she could do that!

Without a second thought, Kaede retrieved one of the switch-blades she kept in her backpack and tossed it at the Artist, grazing past her face and giving her a nice haircut.

Angie stopped and snaked her arms away from Rantaro hesitantly, glancing around in a panic. Truthfully, Kaede didn’t even think when she threw it, as if her reflexes had a mind of their own. Thankfully, they didn’t see her except for…

Korekiyo who had been standing in the shadows just a few feet away. Kaede didn’t notice him until it was too late and he let out a small chuckle, but all she had to do was square up and shoot him an intimidating glare, and the taller man got the message. With a fearful expression, he wipes the grin off of his face and disappears, promising to never tell anyone what he saw.

Kaede returned to her room where she had the faces of their peers lined up in a row, drawing an ‘X’ over Angie’s face since she seemed to get the memo after nearly getting a blade to the cheek. There wasn’t anyone else whom she was very fearful of, feeling content that her competition was slowly whittled away.

Suddenly, Monokuma appeared on her bed which was behind her and signaled his arrival with his signature laugh. Kaede whipped around and grits her teeth, growing at the pesky bear. “Wow, Kaede, you sure are crazy about Rantaro! Emphasis on crazy.”

The blonde smirked and, with an evil stare, reminded him that she could tear his stuffing out with one swift move. A sweat droplet formed on Monokuma’s face and he defensively raised his paws, “T-that won’t be necessary, Kaede!”

Before she could ask what he was doing here, he disappeared almost as suddenly as he came.

Her frantic acts of desperation became more intense with time. During Himiko’s Magic Act, she asked for volunteers and Rantaro nearly raised his hand. However, Kaede elbowed Tenko in the side and forced her to raise her hand before she could pick her man from the audience. Another time, she crashed Kaito’s Workout Session when Rantato decided to tag along by stealing some insects from Gonta’s Lab and releasing them on the Astronaut; making sure that they wouldn’t taint Rantaro’s perfect complexion, though.

Once, Rantaro offered to paint Tsumugi’s nails. They were the only three people in the Kitchen at the time and, before Tsumugi could accept the offer, she purposefully set the oven on fire to cause them to rush out of the room in a frenzy. She didn’t care if she burned the building down as long as her man wasn’t holding another woman’s hands.

Slowly but surely, her competition disappeared and Kaede was the only person left who was compatible with Rantaro! That’s how these things work, right…?

Plus, no one would attempt to kill him at this point since they knew what would happen if they tried. One too many ‘coincidences’ surrounded Rantaro and no one was brave enough to try. Not only did she eliminate the competition but she also ensured his safety.

It’s a win-win in Kaede’s eyes! Now he has to love her… right?

- Mod Rantaro

#danganronpa #danganronpa imagines #danganronpa v3 #ndrv3 #ndrv3 imagines #killing harmony #kaede akamatsu #rantaro amami #amami rantarou #amamatsu #yandere

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jpriest85-blog · 6 years ago

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Fallen Hero Sidestep Bio

Finally finished a character Bio for my Fallen Hero MC, Maryam Qadir

Sidestep

Name: Maryam Qadir

Gender/preferred pronouns: Female, she/her

Height: 5ft 5” (165.1cms)

Eye color: grey

Hair color and style: dark brown and styled in a neat Bob cut.

Face claim: Heidy Karam

Physical description: Maryam appears to be a Middle Eastern woman with a light olive complexion in her early thirties. Average height and with a pear-shaped body type, with a heart shaped face, noticeable eye bags, thin eyebrows with a small scar bisecting the left brow, an aquiline nose, and a small mouth with a prominent cupids bow.

Vice: coffee

Heart Break scar: outsider

Expletive: Son of a bitch!

Likes: Caffeine, death metal, musical theatre, dogs, cats

Dislikes: looking to long in the mirror, dealing with feelings

Romantic interests: F!Dr.Mortum & Ricardo Ortega

Personality: Maryam is intelligent and empathetic, which makes her a very good actress when necessary. Being able to read off the intentions and mood of the people around her and play the part accordingly when needed. This has served her well over the years, especially when she needs to lie or manipulate someone to further her plans. She's very private about her personal life even with those who she considers friends, their are still things she keeps secret. She doesn't forgive easily, even back in her hero days she was known to hold petty grudges against Steel and would often retaliate with pranks and verbal barbs when she felt wronged. She's was always very curious, which caused some issues back on the farm. She was well known to have a sense of humor back in her hero days, trading friendly quips and banter with Ortega and Anathema, or bickering with Steel. She doesn't joke around as easily as she used to but when she does joke they tend to be more along the lines of gallows humor. Maryam tends to be very hard and critical of herself especially when she remembers how she was like back in her Sidestep days, and has intense self loathing about her past and current actions. She also has some issues about control in her personal life, she takes comfort in having a certain order to things weather it's her living space, preparing her coffee, or changing her hair, personal wardrobe and makeup. Even with things like touch she prefers to do things on her terms. Sadly when it comes to things like dreams, memories, and her personal feelings she isn't as in control as she'd like and that terrifies Maryam. She hates the thought of losing control of herself just as much as she hates how the Farm trying to control her. She wanted her own life and identity so badly losing that identity either to the madness she glimpsed in other villains minds or having it taken away from her by the Farm again would be worse than death to Maryam.

Puppet

Name: John Doe

Gender: Male

Height: 6ft (182.88cms)

Eye color: blue

Hair color and style: red and wavy worn short and neat.

Face claim: Reece King

Physical description: A tall young man in his twenties of mixed ethnicity, with tanned completion and Slim athletic build. He has a square jawline, dimpled chin, a full mouth, hollow cheekbones, and almond shaped eyes.

Personality: John is charismatic, charming and clever. He's very good at reading a person or situation and acting accordingly, which has served him well with some of his more volatile clientele being able to sooth tempers, or redirect aggression when necessary. Though his friendly demeanor doesn't make John any less dangerous. While he lacks mods or any known boosts he is still a capable fighter and keeps armed either with a gun or gadget for self defense.

Villain

Name: Revenant

Armor type: Mysterious

Power ups: Armor and Speed

Motivation: show them the truth, Anarchy

Nemesis: Sidestep her past self

Stats in Fallen Hero Rebirth:

Strength of mind: 60%

Sublet Manipulation: 70%

Infamy 38% /Obscurity 62%

Arrogance 33 % /Anonymity 67%

Ruthless 32% /Empathy 68 %

Daring 46% /Caution 54%

Misc. Info & Headcanon:

•Maryam never actually chose the name she uses now. When she was wandering around after first escaping from the farm she befriended an elderly refugee couple, Muna and Amir. Muna had Alzheimers and started calling her Maryam thinking she was her dead daughter. Muna's husband Amir initially too pity on her, thinking Maryam was a homeless run away, but quickly became disturbed when she took playing house too far by mimicking his deceased daughter.

•Anathema introduced Maryam to musical theatre and when they were both bored they often used to sing excerpts from their favorite performances. It used to drive Steel crazy.

•When Maryam was first starting out as a vigilante she hid her identity wearing goggles and a scarf wrapped around her head kind of like a hijab. It made it easier for her to blend in with the Arab and Muslim refugees in Los Diablos.

•Back in her Sidestep Maryam used to wear bright colored makeup and black and blue spiked bracelets with her costume. It even became a bit of a fashion trend among her teenage and young adult fans, to wear spiked bracelets and bright colored lipstick.

•Maryam has mixed feelings about her old Sidestep fan-merch, and there was an incident where a cosmetic company tried to make her a spokesperson for their Sidestep inspired lipstick line. Maryam quickly shut them down when she learned how shady the company's business and how dangerous the cosmetics actually were. So they were pulled off before ever coming to market and are considered the holy grail of rare Sidestep merch. Herald of course owns the rare sample cosmetic set and even some of the promotional advertising for the lipstick that was never used.

•Maryam is well known to hold petty grudges when she felt offended even in her hero days. Sometimes she used to prank Steel when she was especially mad at him, and one time she got him by rigging a glitter bomb. It took Steel weeks to get all of that glitter out of his armor, and even longer to get Ortega to stop laughing about it.

•After her second escape Maryam used to often disguise or alter her appearance whenever she went out. Wigs, colored contacts, different styled outfits and full make up to hide or alter her facial features. She even disguised herself as a nun when she infiltrated the hospital to physically retrieve her puppet.

•When Maryam first started interacting with people as her puppet, John, she'd unconsciously mimic some of Ortega's speech and mannerisms. Or more specifically didn't realize she was projecting things she remembers Ortega saying or doing that she found attractive. Eventually Maryam started building and evolving off of those traits, and mixing in some of her own to eventually evolve into John's current persona.

•While Maryam is reserved about showing off skin her puppet John is not. He will often lounge around Dr. Mortums lab in various states of undress like a Calvin Klein model, or think nothing much of answering the door wearing just a towel.

•When John/Maryam commissioned Dr. Mortum to design the Revenant suit they had the Doctor add a few stylistic touches. There is detailing in the armor that makes it resemble a skeleton and the mirrored helmet has an etched skull decal, that becomes more visible under certain lighting or when up close. Along with the dark color scheme and cape the overall appearance is very cryptic and gives off a grim reaper like aesthetic.

•There is a neighborhood Bodega Maryam likes to shop at for groceries because they carry a brand of imported coffee she loves. Hector, the elderly gentleman who runs the Bodega has a bit of a crush on Maryam, because she reminds him of his late wife, he even gave Maryam the nickname María Bonita, after an old Spanish love song. Maryam has used this to her advantage, dressing up in flattering clothes and chatting up Hector to get a discount on his imported coffee.

#fallen hero: rebirth #fallen hero #sidestep: maryam #revenant #puppet:john #character bio

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