#that normally informs people in my locale getting weird about names

[ellasgarden1]

i guess its time to reveal my genshin oc. i have been kinda hyperfixated on him for the past year but only starting to talk about him now since genshin is the main fandom im focused on at the moment.

this is Remi, he is the organist of the Favonius Cathedral, cryo catalyst user, vampire and is just a nice guy with existential crisis (/hj)

his story is kinda complicated and may be illogical in terms of lore?? but i like it that way

in short, Remi used to be a normal organist in another world. due to some events he got killed and basically got isekaied(?) by his local gods to Teyvat as a vampire with amnesia. he went through a lot of struggles regarding his past and current purpose in life and eventually embraced his fate thanks to music and the Mondstadt people (and ofc Barbatos). this is a really brief summary so it may sound weird haidhdkhddh if anyone is interested i can tell more (will anyone even see this post?)

also im not really an isekai enjoyer myself but i went with this trope because i think that Aloy's vision is super pretty... and she is.. not from Teyvat at all.. so i decided to make him from another world too. yeah. the things we do for aesthetics.

(oh look the vampire trio from the church)

some information about him: 1. he loves romance novels; overally has romantic view of world, easily gets affected by negative emotions. church really helped him to compose himself. 2. beside playing organ he is also a good singer and pianist. sometimes performs at taverns during free days. 3. Remi chose his name himself while trying to find a new one at the library but not from a book. he heard someone singing outside the window and unconsciously started naming notes he heard. do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti. Re-mi. lol. he was very confused how he remembered all this musical knowledge but went with it anyways, it just felt right. 4. he still doesn't remember shit from his past life (except music) but it doesn't matter for him anymore. 5. on his first (and worst) day in Mondstadt Remi got arrested and got put in solitary confinement for attaking one of the knights (he is alive dont worry). knights decided to give Remi a chance and allowed him to live in Mondstadt (because its best to get the potential enemy on your side before anything worse happens?). 6. loves dressing up (not because i cant come up with one default outfit, yeah)

[starry-blue-echoes]

Okay, I just got here. Sorry for intruding and I'm kind of freaking out about part 4 of Star Swap.

Because there are two Jotaros. Why is nobody talking about the fact that there are two Jotaros? Am I missing something??? 

Unless I am completely failing in Star Swap lore, in order to not become super convoluted and insane, a universe is localized to a Swap… probably? Anyway from what I understand three universes have an event happening in them and Star Swap is a series… except there's also an OLDER Jotaro here in Part 4! which would be the same Jotaro that experienced part 4 as Josuke! Which is causing problems in my brain.

… I was thinking it's either Joseph and Giono is the exception -Thanks to Hermit Purple Rrequiem- and swaps actually jumps across universes making Older Part 4 Jotaro have that Canon backstory.

…Or… hear me out..

 JoJo

 Specifically, Jotaro gets some of that Time Jumpy Amnesia and has not a single fucking clue what happened to himself.

JUST HIM 

No one else

He is the sole one that gets bonk with a forgot stick

For all Jotaro knows: he blacked out, got possessed, and went to Egypt. Everything went well. His mom got cured and people survived, but STILL. said person that possessed him made a bunch of friends and now Jotaro has to deal with them. HE has to rely on other people's information to figure out what the hell HAPPENED.

Jotaro still gets that Battle Experience in and gets those cryptic forgotten fog of memories from the trip But Yeah

Jotaro has no idea what happened to him when that guy was possessing him. Jotaro doesn't know! he doesn't remember shit!!! All people got is theories.

I have a lot of thoughts and this is probably not even an issue.ARGGGG

.. I'm here thinking that for The Star Swap parts 3 and 4 to connect in an interesting way is Memory Blockage or else Part 4 Older Jotaro would have to walk on fucking eggshells if something wasn't blocking his memories because if he talks or says anything that doesn't link up then he breaks time. Jotaro's fault for actively getting involved!

Probably. I don't know!!! I'm just thinking!!! 

you're correct, Parts 3 and 4 have been criminally neglected amongst all this chaos, so this is p e r f e c t

to clarify the universe shenanigans of everything: I've always been thinking that each "set" exists in its own universe. 1 and 6, 2 and 5, and then 3 and 4 all exist in their own sort of "pocket universe" just so we don't need to keep track of of all the inevitable changes and how they influence each other

that being said, funnily enough what you've brought up with Jotaro is REALLY close to what I've been imagining too!

Jotaro is So Fucking Lost when he wakes up back home. He feels like complete and utter shit and is covered in more bandages than he's ever had before. The last thing he remembers is his mom leaving after visiting him in the prison cell after he tried to shoot himself with Star Platinum

only...... when did Star Platinum have a name? When had it stopped being an evil spirit?

when had he stopped being scared of it?

Kakyoin and Joseph are of course INCREDIBLY worried by Jotaro's apparent and very sudden shift in personality. And of course, this panic only multiplies when they find they think Jotaro's stand has been changed as well. They immediately think it's a Stand attack......

but then Holly steps forward and denies this. That this is how Jotaro normally acts and more importantly, that she remembers seeing Star in the jail

now, technically this might be bending the rules a little bit, but I think it would be interesting to give Holly some..... memory weirdness. Maybe we can tie it into her Stand somehow, or maybe it's just For The Plot, but Holly has two distinct sets of memories before she collapsed from her illness

One where Jotaro comes home with her, quiet and awkward and open in a way he hadn't been since he was a child. And another where he refused to leave and shot himself in an attempt to goad a spirit hovering over his shoulder

this then raises the incredibly uncomfortable idea that the Jotaro they'd gone to Egypt with was the imposter. That there had been a fake in their midst the entire time and they never knew. Was he working with Dio? Another group? What was his goal? Why had he done it? And of course, the biggest question of all, where was Jotaro the entire time and why doesn't he remember?

because it's obvious Jotaro was somewhere. He has skills and knowledge he hadn't before. He's different, he's grown in some ways, but has receded in others

Electricity and loud sounds terrify him in a way that can't be described as simple fear

they do what they can to help and figure things out, but they can never find any leads. It actually during these investigations that Jotaro decides to start working with the Speedwagon Foundation on the side and "rekindles" his friendships with the Crusaders

(he finds himself drawn to Kakyoin at times. Or to be more specific, he's drawn to his Stand. The colors and shapes and eyes all feel so tantalizingly familiar, and sometimes he finds himself talking to the being as if expecting a response)

years go by, and the fog around his memories stays. It bothers him less as more time passes and he makes new memories with people who had a headstart on their relationship, but there's always a quiet niggling in the back of his mind about what could've happened

and then a decade later he finds a boy with a different face but identical Stand and temperament to match

[merridelicious]

I’m moving into college in 3 weeks have you got any tips :0

yes!! quite a few actually. :) *for mutuals outside of the u.s., this advice is based on a U.S. American university experience, so some of it may not apply to you.

PLEASE SEND ASKS if you have specific questions, and I’ll either speak from my own experience or give information from other friends in university rn!!

packing:

You don’t need to bring ALL your stuff. (Really, it’s okay. Also, you have limited space.)

A quick Google search of “college packing list 2023” will yield many results. It’s up to you to decide what “essentials” are actually essential, but suffice it to say, think about the things you use on a daily basis and then think about what you don’t have at home that you’ll need in student housing.

Apartment or dorm, unless you’re really lucky—you’ll be sharing living space & appliances with other people. Yes, that includes showers. If you can get toiletries cheaper locally than in the location of your university, save yourself the time and money. Shower shoes are an absolute must, because those showers can get disgusting.

If you have a meal plan that lasts the entire year, you don’t really need to pack a bunch of food (or go grocery shopping a ton during the school year) but it can be nice to have dry goods & snacks on hand. (I keep rice, macaroni & cheese, crackers, & some type of dried fruit around, if nothing else. Whatever tastes strike your fancy, feel free to add/substitute.) If you’re cooking all your own food, you’re going to need at least a cooking pot, frying pan, spatula, dish sponges, and dish soap, as well as some resealable food storage containers and cheap cups and bowls (I got most of that at Target. They tend to have back-to-school sales and bowls & cups go for less than a dollar each.)

Laundry is going to be a pain in the ass, unless again, you luck out and have a washer and dryer in-unit. Ditto for dishes (unless your space comes with a dishwasher). Do yourself a favor & get a huge bin of Tide pods, pack of laundry sheets, & at least two paper towel rolls so you don’t have to run out every week to replenish cleaning supplies. (I personally despise having dish towels to wash, so if you don’t mind them take the paper towel advice with a grain of salt.)

My dorm was weird and had a sink in it. If you’re responsible for cleaning your own sink it will get nasty quickly. Either take turns with your roommate(s)/housemate(s), or figure out who the designated sink cleaner is.

friends/socializing:

Your first friend group in college will likely not be your last, nor will it last. This group is usually composed of people close in proximity to you aka convenience friends. You might realize three or four months in that these are not your people and you don’t like hanging out with them. This is perfectly normal and okay! You’ll find people who you do vibe with. I encourage you not to limit making friends to your specific university, although if you go to a small one like I do that can be tough.

Universities often have events with free stuff, including free food. Take advantage of these events if & when you can. They’re usually very laid back, and if you’re not in the mood to stick around, you can grab food and then dip.

Orientation events & icebreakers within your first week are to be expected. Try to remember a fun fact about yourself (which is what you usually get asked, along with your intended major, name, pronouns—sometimes, & hometown).

Your RA(s) aren’t cops, but they also aren’t your friends. They’re required to report sketchy shit that happens. My RAs had a rule that if they didn’t hear, see, or smell anything suspicious, it was like nothing happened, but try to get a feel for what yours look out for.

It is more than okay to need/want therapy. You’ve just gone through a massive change in your life and you did it mostly, if not all, by yourself. Your university counseling services (if applicable) are generally not the best place to go for therapy, though. This is especially true if you’re worried about your privacy. I don’t think I’ve heard of student discounts for therapy, but some therapists have this policy called sliding scale where you pay what you can. Find a person you can talk openly with and who is experienced with your mental health concerns/practices the right kind of therapy for you. (CBT, DBT, & EMDR are a few examples.)

dating, love, etc.

First and foremost, if this section doesn’t apply to you because you don’t participate or aren’t ready to in college, please feel free to skip!

If you’re still here, obviously I am not the expert on your love life—you are. That being said, without getting too personal, here are some things I’ve picked up through trial and error.

If you’re starting college, and haven’t yet dated anyone, it’s okay to feel behind. What isn’t okay is being patronized or taken advantage of for your lack of experience. I wish I could say it’s just common sense, but it’s crucial to figure out what your boundaries, limits, & standards are before getting into an intimate situation with somebody. (I myself learned this the hard way.)

simply put: It is okay to be picky! (Read that again.) Or not—what works for one person won’t work for everyone. Some people date & hook up just for fun, especially during college when a lot of changes are happening, and that suits them fine. Some people want stronger, longer connections, and that works for them. Some people focus on friends over partners and refrain from the entire dating & hookup scene. All are valid and healthy. (As long as you stay safe, sane, & consensual, and get tested.)

school stuff:

Please do yourself a favor and don’t schedule 8am classes five days a week. I don’t care if you could do it in high school—chances are you’re going to need to wake up way beforehand to get ready OR your roommate will do something ridiculous in the middle of the night that will wake you up. In this more than likely event, you won’t want to wake up and go straight to class. If you’re not a STEM major, this advice is easier than if you are (and if the first applies, my condolences and much love).

You need sleep no matter what—if that means midday naps, go for it. I don’t recommend skipping class to nap unless it’s an emergency though.

Re skipping class: some professors take attendance and your grade can suffer if you don’t attend. Aside from mental health days, skipping class for fun can be a slippery slope at some universities. (At some, Cs get degrees and grades don’t matter as much, especially if you aren’t looking to go down the postgrad path.)

[transthadymacdermot]

i would like to hear more about the relationship between mary and eoin if that is alright! it seems like it might be a little complicated?

Yeah. god. so, they've known each other since they were very small, and been very close since childhood, because their parents knew one another and so they were raised side by side. they weren't each other's only friends growing up -- Mary had Kathleen and Eoin had Kathleen AND Donal -- but they represent for each other pretty much the only person either of them has ever met who shares the sense of profound alienation from 1) 'normal' expected behaviour, and 2) their own actual personalities, which they both feel like they have to repress to be accepted in society, in Eoin's case because anti-autistic ableism won't stand for him making weird noises and in Mary's case because she's expected to perform femininity flawlessly to "count" as a woman. additionally, they've had similar experiences wrt the violence of the british empire on their families & communities at large, so generally both of them feel like the other one understands them in a way no one else does AND like therefore the other one is the only person they can truly be themselves around. and obviously there's the fact that they're extremely physically attracted to one another. that too.

Anyway on this basis their relationship evolved pretty quickly from Just Friends to "well, you're the only person I can ever talk to and I feel like no one else understands my situation so obviously I want to make out about it." in an ideal world I think they would at least try to get married and either way live together and probably jump at the opportunity to adopt any children which might appear to have a family together. HOWEVER, the spanner in the works is the fact that Eoin leads the local anti-landlord anti-british sectarian gang, and Mary does NOT approve on several levels. first, she objects to the mere essence of, like, being in a paramilitary that kills people (including people they know. whenever Eoin kills an informer she stops talking to him for a little while), but also she thinks (rightly!) that there's a very high chance he dies or is arrested or is transported or is executed or suffers some sort of live changing injury which would take him away from her and complicate both of their lives severely. as such she refuses to get romantically or sexually involved with him until he leaves the gang. Eoin, for his part, takes issue with her taking issue, because he feels like it's a necessity for him to take up arms in defence of the people and also has constructed a whole complex around not being able to be a "good person" and therefore why should he even leave the gang. Mary is conflicted over how the sweet and silly man she loves could also torture people to death. Eoin feels like it's the only way he can protect the woman he's obsessed with. both of them think omfg why can't they understand it from my point of view it's so obvious. etc

The result of the situation is that Eoin kind of resents Mary for refusing to get with him until he leaves his gang and Mary REALLY resents Eoin for refusing to leave the gang and get with her because she really really really wants to sleep with him but is going for the olympic medal in catholic-ly denying herself the pleasures of the flesh until he does what she wants. they love each other more than anything in the world and would both probably kill everyone else and then themselves if the other died but also both think the other is stupid and unreasonable and Just Doesn't Understand. [derry girls voice] "mammy we come as a set" type situation BUT they hate each other's life choices even if they understand them BUT they also both absolutely have said each other's names while in bed with someone else before BUT they disagree fundamentally on probably the most important political issue that impacts their lives BUT if they were cats you couldn't adopt them separately BUT

[puckpocketed]

hi!! I was wondering where or how you do you research for players and teams, and just hockey in general? do you have any favorite blogs or other resources? thank you~

okay picking thru web rot for the sharks primer has prepared me for this one lmao here's the quick answer because i really need to eat some pie and go to bed. Hockey is my all-consuming interest at the moment and I haven't watched actual television or films; or read anything non-academic that isn't about hockey in.... 9 months? If it seems like I am taking in a LOT of information in a short amount of time it's because I am. I listen to hockey things at 2-5x speed depending on if its a video on youtube (locked to 2x), a podcast (3.5x is my ideal speed), or my screenreader (5x) and often take notes, save articles as pdfs to go back to, and transcribe things for fun (only recently am putting my transcriptions as addendums to gifs... very rewarding <3). When not studying for my actual degree, I am reading about hockey or listening to something hockey related or watching hockey or writing about hockey or learning how to play hockey. i am so serious. please don't assume that this is normal, optimal, or even something I would wish upon other people. I am in Love with her in thee most wretched and irrevocable way. She's my hobby in the sense that shes my sun and im building my wax wings and looking directly at her light and thanking her for blinding me. amen.

more seriously, if I'm going down a player rabbit hole I will try many of these things - though not necessarily all of them, and not in this order (and i'm sure i've forgotten one or two things I usually try... lordy):

I go to spotify/apple podcasts and throw in player names just to see what comes up and listen to basically everything.

if they are on an NHL team, there are likely MULTIPLE podcasts dedicated to that team. trawl through their podcast archives, especially post-game podcasts where discussion is happening about their performance. sometimes there are even interviews <3

i do the same with youtube if I can...!

throw their name into reddit, tumblr, twitter and scroll. endlessly. just trawl through everything that I can possibly get my hands on. The more obscure the player the easier this is, because there really aren't that many things to find out about them and not many people are talking about them at all. <- this is how I make contact with people who are the only person that knows about this one (1) guy and then we hold fins forever. <3

find out who the teams beat reporters are. if youre looking into prospects, even juniors teams have people covering them. the writing might not be the highest quality but you WILL eventually find fun details if you go digging.

check: elite prospects articles, the hockey writers articles, find out the player's home town and see if their local paper has anything on them (basically, check any and all databases that use a tagging system or have a functional search engine)

helpful things to tack onto the end of google/youtube/database searches: "media availability" "post-game" "interview" "feature" "profile" "scouting report" "draft" "debut" "review" "highlight" "tournament"

if they're a player from a non-english speaking country it's worth throwing their non-romanized name into google to see what you can get. google translate the website // chatgpt translation are two options - not ideal and not to be trusted 100% over actual translation done by a fluent human speaker.

Instagram stories are the bane of my existence because they're so ephemeral

tiktok is a parallel universe to me. I do not have the app. any browsing I do on it is solely via googling "[team name] tiktok official" and clicking around on my desktop PC. I've only ever done this for M.Chrona's gf (who is much more famous than him) but if you're really doing down the rabbit hole of player research, some of their WAGs will post about them. <- as always, be respectful/not weird.

facebook for older stuff... genuinely makes my skin crawl so I avoid it and its a last resort LMAO but yeah teams used to post on facebook and everything!!! <- again. dont be weird and stalk peoples families or friends asjklakjl

"[player/team name] gettyimages [day/month/year]" <- substitute getty images for: flickr, hockeyshots, dreamstime, alamy

Substack is good for general hockey stuff if you can stomach the dreaded idea of subscribing via email or getting the app <3 I like: Jack Han (hockey tactics newsletter), Sean Shapiro (shap shots), Adam Gretz (adam's sports stuff), Thibaud Chatel <- for the analytics nerds, Alex MacLean <- his Scouting The Scouts series is what got me into substack in the first place, Greg Revak (hockey IQ newsletter) <- this is the one that's got me on development stuff atm SUPER rec because there's gifs and charts and many many hyperlinks included for citations <3

i should do a book rec at some point but uhhhh its getting late and im hungry <3 thank you for asking + reading if you got this far, I hope it was a helpful peek into my process?

[thecarnivorousmuffinmeta]

Which Arrested Development character is most likely to become vampire?

Really, any of them anon.

The question, of course, is how.

I'll stick with Lindsay and Tobias before this post gets ungodly long.

Lindsay

Lindsay meets a very hot guy in a bar. He has a little bit of a weird skin condition, alright, and maybe he's a bit pale, but he's so attractive and better yet is very into Lindsay. Finally, she can have the open relationship she's been trying to have for years.

The vampire in question just wanted to eat her but this is getting weird/somewhat interesting.

Our singleton vampire is without a mate or a coven. Here's a human woman who seems very very into him and not even slightly alarmed as most women are (Lindsay is, but she's working with this and stopping all warning signs).

Add to that that Lindsay clearly wants to get laid and is attractive.

"Alright, I can work with this," our vampire says and decides to give it a go.

Lindsay wakes up three days later profoundly upset at being knocked out, subjected to bizarre plastic surgery, and injected with whatever the hell he put in her system.

Lindsay dumps his ass and goes home.

And proceeds to accidentally eat someone.

Arrested Development somehow continues as normal except there's a running gag of Lindsay eating someone every once in a while and somehow never eating Tobias despite all likelihood that she should.

Tobias

Tobias joins a method acting group in Italy put together by a lovely woman named Heidi that Tobias is most certainly attracted to! (No amount of any of the other travelers explaining to Tobias that this is a sweepstakes vacation gets through to him, even Heidi is very confused, as the Nigerian Prince email she sent him was about a sweepstake.

"I see you're not breaking character!" Tobias informs her with a bright grin.

Lindsay and Maeby did not join him as both realized this was some kind of Nigerian Prince scheme that will end poorly. It doesn't occur to them that Tobias is actually going to get eaten as a part of this.

Well, the day of the big debut happens and they're taken to a citadel in a place called Volterra where they're putting on their performance with an Italian theater troup local to Volterra.

Tobias gets distracted by impressing the secretaries (who he is very attracted to!) and fails to get eaten with the rest of his party. Upon being redirected to the eating room, the Volturi find themselves witness to this strange little man who starts insincerely screaming "oh, the humanity!" at the sight of the dead bodies (thinking these are very genuine props).

They watch in numb amazement as Tobias (realizing he's supposed to be a vampire) starts trying to eat the bodies.

He goes all in.

He also keeps making homosexual Freudian slips as he's "never had his balls so deep inside a man before"

Aro touches the man's hand and to his amazement Tobias genuinely has no idea that they're vampires. He thinks they're method acting.

Aro can't help himself.

This man must become their jester.

He's just too interesting (and this has to be a gift, this must be a gift, Caius look at him, this isn't normal).

Aro quickly regrets this as the turned Tobias says alarming things like "I'd like to bury my face between his crystal ass cheeks if you know what I mean" with little to no context.

Tobias never realizes he's a vampire even when he starts eating people.

He thinks he's that good at acting.

[artemis-fowl-incident-report]

Here is my contribution for Fowl Fest day 2 (should I make this a full story?)

Diary of André Price, 16 years old, Portland Oregon (aka the Baby from the wrestling match in the Atlantis Complex)

Dear Diary

Okay, brain very loud right now, need to vent.

Kind of a lot happened today. New guy finally arrived, you know the one everyone was convinced must be some juvie reject because he was being transferred in from out of state. Turns out no, his dads in the military, and new guy’s been dealing with long covid. His names Jayden, he’s really cute. I give him an 8, no 9, no… 9.5/10 (still not quite up there with Jacob, but got just a little more rizz than Liam).

Not the point, moving on.

When we were let out to lunch, Em was waiting for me outside class (she never does this, since it’s embarrassing enough to be my sister, let alone people seeing us together, but I digress) said she had to talk to me. Something weird happened this morning when she was getting on the bus (I drove in today, so I missed this). She spotted all these guys in big SUV’s scoping around the woods near the river. They apparently didn’t look like the normal military we get around here, and they had these devices in like a backpack thing and were scanning around the area. She looked really freaked out, because apparently they were scanning the area where I usually go to practice.

Em is the only person who knows about my powers. Thank God it wasn’t Sophie. That 10 year old little weasel would have ratted me out to Mom faster then I could have bribed her. Downside, Em has been treating me like her own personal science experiment ever since (perks of having the local town mathlete/spelling bee/science fair champion around, while you are but a smooth brained gay little lizard) but I guess it’s not all that bad. I know way more about my powers now then I did at the start of the year. I’ve gone from lighting little fires when I look at twigs hard enough to being able to jumpstart my car with electricity.

But maybe that’s not such a good thing.

After school Em and I drove out to investigate. We decided not to get too close, giving ourselves an excuse to be there by picking up Mr Hernández’s dog Chika (still the most adorable Pitbull I’ve ever seen, and a total wimp) and taking her for a walk since he’s still recovering from surgery.

Em was right, a whole swarm of men in black vans with the word A.C.R.O.N.Y.M, stitched onto their uniforms (none of them were even slightly attractive! Total let down). But they were scanning around the old well, exactly where I’ve been practicing for months. That must mean they’re looking for me.

We must have made a noise or something, because one of the men pointed and shouted in our direction. We ran, they ran after us, but they didn’t catch us. I think someone on the team, someone who likes to believe they have sense, must have told them to let us go. After all, we were just kids being curious (shows what they know).

Instead of going home, Em suggested we pick up Dairy Queen and hang out for a few hours. She said it was to throw off suspicion in case these A.C.R.O.N.Y.M guys decided to keep an eye on us. I think she just wanted to get me to pay for Dairy Queen, since I’m not reckless with my money like she is. We got Chika a puppuccino from Starbucks (such a spoiled puppy, but she deserved it after our fright in the woods). While we were there, we saw flyers being put up for a wrestling event that’s coming to town next week. Apparently the Jade princess is gonna be there (you’d think our family’s collective obsession with wrestling would have died down somewhat since that accident when I was a baby. Nope.) so we'll probably all being going.

We were just about to head home when I saw something else weird. Four people parked up outside the general store arguing. There was this tall, bald muscle guy (a 10/10), a tall blonde who looked like tall guys sister (Em informed me she was a 10/10. She was totally having a case of lesbian-itus), this small child in an oversized hoodie (Very loud, could hear them over the entire parking lot), and a dark haired guy in a suit (a 100/10, are you kidding me??? Edward Cullen wishes he looked like this dude!!!). I only took notice of them because I heard the kid in the hoodie shouting something about “magic” and “human babies”. I mean… that’s me! I was a human baby (Shocking I know) and I do have powers (maybe magic???). It felt like too much of a coincidence for both the A.C.R.O.N.Y.M guys, and the hottie bunch (+small child) to all be here on the same day.

All this, and I still have algebra homework to do.

Update.

Hot vampire guy is downstairs with muscle man and blonde lady. They’re asking for me!

[feast-for-the-worms]

No one asked but I inflict ocs upon you regardless ^^ juwst some information from my brain, little tidbits I know about them for now. They'll reveal more later I'm sure.

Cal is so supremely scatterbrained when it comes to anything outside of cases, she keeps notes. She doesn't need to keep notes for her cases, she could arguably say she has an eidetic memory, it's just that it only applies for her cases. She frequently forgets people's names and as such calls almost everyone by a series of strange nicknames, usually based on appearance in some way so she can remember them more easily. She does call Pat Darling Darling, though. This does not help Pat's infatuation with her.

Kirby keeps a near infinite supply of weird items in his pockets. Like, a variety of coins (of various currencies), a toothpick, a swiss army knife, a handkerchief, a bit of sticky tack, a marble or two, maybe even a paperclip if you're lucky. He's really good at, when someone needs a very specific item no one would reasonably have on them, somehow immediately producing it for them. Your glasses get dirty and he hands you a microfiber cloth. He doesn't even wear glasses. You haven't prepared for your period and he slams a pad into your hand. He's a cis guy. He just always has niche use-case useful objects with him.

Patricia Darling gets mistaken as a real no-lifer who only lives to work and/or be hopelessly one-sidedly in love with Cal. At least that's how Kirby would describe her, but Kirby sucks. Pat's an avid birder, and has rarely ever failed to identify a bird on first glance; she used to do carpentry and joinery, before coming to work for Cal, and has a decent amount of money (more than anyone else in the group, anyway) from it; and she used to have a bunch of gymnastics trophies, but gave it up when she broke her leg and it never really healed right. She still holds onto a local record, though.

Lambert used to be really into musical theatre, did tech on a lot of local shows, as well as participating in drag nights at various events and venues. He also used to be really into occultism. He is still into occultism, but now he likes to look at it from an anthropology point of view, so it's totally respectable and normal. He doesn't do drag himself any more but he does still go to shows, and occasionally helps out with tech if someone asks for his expertise. He doesn't say it, but it means a lot to him when people come to him for help in something he knows he's good at.

Ffion isn't a serial killer :] she's a primary teacher and does art classes usually, though she'll help out with other classes when cover is needed. She knew Lambert as he was lecturing at the tertiary school she attended, and so got to meet Cal at one point, and from there it all snowballed. She keeps up with Cal's blog (run by Pat) and basically just thinks Cal is the smartest, from the way she s able to piece things together where others probably wouldn't see anything. Ffion found it really inspiring, and it helped her get back into art, having put down the knife brush for quite a while. She doesn't leave any clues, cleans up as thoroughly as possible, because she doesn't want to give Cal the answers - she wants to see Cal put it together piece by piece of her own accord. That's the fun part. Of. Of art. Yeah.

[snaziestbean]

ali informations post :3c

(reminder that ali is supposed to look like a human but i hate drawing humans so i draw them and my other sillies as cats most of the time. i think i have a few drawings of ali not as a cat though, if you wanna look for them)

immortal. they really dont want to be though(L). i'll hopefully make a better information thing about how that works in the future, but for now you get this: there are technically a few ways for them to be not immortal anymore, one being to give the immortality "curse"(which is what i'll be calling it from now on) to someone else, the other is having someone else who has the curse basically ripping it out of them. with the first method they would age normally from where they left off and just be kinda normal-ish, but the second would kill them instantly. when someone gets the curse they become stuck at whatever age they were when they got it(both mentally and physically. this is how ali is both 16 and millions of years old at the same time) and their body cannot change in certain ways(no scars(except for what killed them, if they got the curse from being killed and infected) actually the scars thing was the only one i really thought about. something something no change is permanent, no marks or blemishes remain, unchanging husk of a person, haha angst). there are also two ways to get the curse, someone who has it gives it to you and loses it themself, or someone kills you and infects you with it(which can sometimes happen unintentionally depending on the person(ali has not, to their own recollection, ever done this. and if they have they very quickly corrected their mistake(probably through murder))). also the curse basically inflicts eternal bloodlust(not really sure how to phrase it lol), so anyone who has it has constant uncontrollable urge/need to killing murder(and also eating people). for some reason(probably something to do with them being one of the first to get the curse and/or partially the fact that they killed the god that made it) ali manages to not succumb to that and is fairly in control most of the time, though they do have that urge(and they do killing murder, but like. by choice. and not random innocent people or whatever). after learning about how shit works ali took it upon themself to wipe out every cursed immortal so that no one else would have to suffer eternal life having to kill people against their will(or if they kill people willingly/are not willing to give up the immortality ali just takes it by force. though they do prefer not having to do that, and most people who get the curse dont end up wanting to keep it(if they ever wanted it in the first place). also ali didnt know about the "giving up the curse to someone else" thing for a long time so they did just kill a lot of the people lol). when someone gets the curse they also kind of become something technically different, example ali used to be human but because of the curse they technically arent anymore. the curse basically makes them a whole new thing. any name this thing may have had before is long forgotten and ali cannot be assed to come up with a new word for it

extra thangs:

ali(short for alias) isnt their actual name. it is (haha) an alias. they dont remember their old name and dont care enough to try to come up with a new one to permanently go by. they kind of cycle through random names(one of which was dun. short for dunno lol)

gender: who cares

sexuality: no

doesnt actually like killing/hurting people, but its pretty much become a part of who they are now and violence is very useful for getting shit done

helped many revolutions, ruled a few kingdoms(kind of. mostly a figurehead/symbol, but tends to be very involved in whats happening with citizens so nobody fucks anything up. it usually starts sneakily but people usually figure out its them pretty quick, and the weird ruler/god/whatever coming by the local cafe for a nice chat and a cup of tea is just normal)

raised a kid for a few years once. did a pretty alright job considering the circumstances. kid ended up hating them though(reason for that wasnt related to how they raised them, but because of the circumstances that led to ali raising them(in a war, some asshole military guy wiped out the kids town before he could be unmilitaried, because military guy was under ali's command they were widely considered responsible for it)

lots of dead besties L

would probably be a lot more stable if they werent resisting the killing murder eating people

has killed several gods. including the one that originally made the whole immortality thing(which didnt used to have the extra effects of craving violence always, that was actually something that was added because said god got really pissed or something. theres a whole origin story there that i dont have the energy to explain)

got a fun extra thing(likely gotten from the whole "killed the god that made them immortal" thing) where when they kill someone/something powerful enough they might get one of that someone/somthing's abilities. but they dont ever really use the abilities because it feels awful and makes it harder for them to keep control

gets wings sometimes. the amount of time they have the wings for varies a lot, and usually they only lose the wings when they are literally torn off

acts like a freak on purpose to try to prevent people from caring about them

so fucking tired all the time. this bitch gets no sleep ever

witness to many many many many many horrors

does not in any way see themself as a god/higher being of any sort. sometimes people will think they're a god or something and they dont like it, they are just a guy who happens to have weird shit going on and is immortal

theres definitely more stuff i could put in here but i cant think of it rn. i also made something i intended to be an ali ask blog but the chances of ever being able to use it are very low because there probably wont be enough people seeing it to make it work ;w; (the blog is @ali-alias)

[icemankazansky]

Tag Game: Get to Know Me

Thanks for the tag, @brendaonao3! (Note for people who tag me in tag games: I love to be tagged in tag games, even though my typical response time suggests otherwise.)

Name: Carly

Pronouns: she/her

Star sign: Maverick sun, Iceman rising Sagittarius sun, Leo rising, Pisces moon

Number of siblings (+ any fun facts): One of each, both younger. They look like each other, but I don't look like them at all. (Oddly, my sister and I both look like our mother, but in different ways.) When my sister and I were little, my mom used to have to tell people that yes, we had the same father. (Bc people think it's fine to ask stuff like that? Also I have very curly hair, and it's a recessive trait that one person in every generation on my mom's side gets, but people are so weird about natural curls, and every new hair dresser I see asks, "Who did you get them from?" and a disturbing number of them have made jokes about my mother's infidelity and my questionable parentage when I inform them no, neither of my parents have curls. Who raised y'all?)

Number of pets & their names: Currently, I myself only have one animal, my dog, Elio. But 1. I am actively looking for another dog, 2. My family has a ton of dogs, and 3. We all volunteer for dog rescues (Yes, plural. My sister actually started her own 503c NPO rescue a couple years ago bc her own, like, extra credit financing of homeless dog medical bills was going to bankrupt her, so she had to start a charity so people could donate. She specializes in senior and special needs dogs, but works with local city and county animal control agencies so she gets a lot of breeder and hoarder surrenders, and subsequently ends up with, for example, 18 purebred Bernese Mountain Dog puppies several times a year.) The point is, there's, like, a whole lot of dogs in here.

Fandoms: They are legion. Mostly active in Top Gun rn. Again. Still. Still again.

Favorite song: They too are legion, but include Fiona Apple - I Know, Fleetwood Mac - Silver Springs, Hozier - From Eden, Lake Street Dive - Good Kisser, Bad Company - Bad Company, Natalie Merchant - My Skin. Lately, I'm listening to the following a very normal amount: Tracy Chapman - You're the One (it is Icemav af BTW check it out)

Favorite author: Fiction: Neil Gaiman. Nonfiction: Mary Roach.

Favorite fic type: I like established relationships, true love and people just enjoying each other, and happy endings.

Favorite holiday: Ugh I hate this. Um, New Years Eve.

Do you have a partner (romantic, qpr, etc)?: I already told you I have a dog. Nope.

Hobbies: Dogs, writing, art of various kinds (mostly drawing, some painting, and I am always trying new things like building a tufted headboard, teaching myself to sew, or making custom funko pops), gif making, Val Kilmer.

Fun facts about you: I've never had a cavity. I ran over myself with my own car. I can't figure out if I have 12 tattoos or 13. I can French and Dutch braid my own hair. My favorite perfume is Chance by Chanel, but I also wear Daisy by Marc Jacobs if I want something lighter.

[justalittleobsessedhere]

Bear with me, this is going to be a little long.

Just got off the phone with my mom who told me this story about my dad that makes me so angry.

My parents got some summer property in Michigan to take a break from the summer heat of Louisiana. My dad is super liberal and likes to challenge the conservative thinking of the other guys at the morning coffee klatch (some weird word for chatting and coffee). He likes to point out the factual errors they hear on their conservative media. He’s usually really laid back and the right kind of person to talk to these kind of guys.

Well, apparently he hit a nerve and they couldn’t fight back with actual logic or facts so they told my dad to go back where he came from.

My dad is a naturalized US citizen. He has been for over twenty years. And before that he was a legal permanent resident for another 20-something years. He’s from the Middle East and finally got his citizenship after September 11th when it became much harder to travel back to see his family.

My dad is foreign looking and has a weird accent (weird because it’s his in normal accent mixed with a local Louisiana accent). But back in Louisiana, he’s considered part of the community. Everyone knows who he is and loves him. I swear he could run for office and win with his very foreign name.

My dad never planned on staying. He was going to go to college and go back home. Instead, he met my mom (born and raised Louisiana girl) and married her. They literally got married after knowing each other two months. Both their families cut them off for getting married to this person from a completely different culture. (Both eventually reestablished ties.) It was a random set of circumstances that had him settle in the tiny, middle-of-nowhere town for over 40 years.

But he loves this adopted country. He is more informed about the history and current events than most people born here. He ingrained a strong sense of patriotism in me. He saw the value of this democratic republic where you have the constitutional right to say what you want about the government and not be arrested for it. Where votes actually matter. That’s why he gets so angry about claiming elections are rigged because in his home country, they literally are.

On my 18th birthday, I walked in to register to vote and I have never missed an election no matter where I lived. I have always voted even if I had to send in my ballot from overseas. He instilled that commitment in me.

I tell you all this to set up how shocked he was to hear that. He yelled back at this guy and pointed out that he CHOSE to be an American. He considers “where he comes from” to be Louisiana. He’s spent more time there than the county he was born in. He didn’t luck into this citizenship. He never takes it for granted.

He didn’t go back for a couple of days. But he did today. Because he wasn’t going to let that guy win. He told him why what he said was insulting and bigoted, and now that guy has to look at my dad every day and live with the fact that he was a small-minded jerk.

I’m proud of my dad. For this small act of rebellion in this conservative crowd and the overall life he chooses to live.

I have no great purpose in telling you this, but I just wanted to put this out in the world.

TL;DR: my immigrant dad got told he go back where he came from and my dad stood up to that small-minded jerk.

[itsjustevil]

I did this with some of my friends in Discord as we took turns doing the prompts. How I went about doing it was five per character. I'm gonna catalogue them all here because why not.

Abe(no last name)

1- Abe has no siblings and does not have any information on his extended family.

2- Abe's mother died in childbirth. All he knows about her is that she gave him three things, his life, his name, and a long black scarf. These are the only things he considers anyone to have given him, the rest of his possessions are things he took.

3- Lmao bitch is fatherless. He has no interest in the concept of a father, though in the situation where he had the chance to meet his dad, he would kill him.

4- Abe once witness a teenaged girl kick a grown ass man in the nuts and then threaten to strangle him with belt for information. This didn't change his morality, he was always a fucked up guy, but this change one vital thing. There are a few people in this world that are interesting, and maybe worth keeping around just to see what they'll do next.

5- A gun, a lighter, some lock picks, a few different fake IDs, some components to a molotov cocktail.

Sera Norio

6- He dreams about being buried several feet underground in a coffin. Strangely he doesn't consider this to be a nightmare.

7- What he does consider a nightmare is whenever the dream morphs into a sort of second phase, where his coffin is suddenly dug up. Normally his coffin is wooden but through dream logic it changes into a glass one so he can slowly make out the person digging him up as the dirt disappears. It's a girl in dark purple gown, with messy dirty blonde hair, and no facial features besides a big sinister grin. The nightmare ends with the girl getting down to open the coffin, but he always wakes up in a cold sweat before she gets him.

8- no.

9- He lived in a tiny little town as the local undertaker's son, and now he lives in the capital as a mortician the government often contracts.

10- More clothes. He does not like being exposed, especially if there's intimate subtext in the air.

Ian "Crocodile" Clives

11- Any situation where there's something that's able to connect him to his past. He doesn't want anything to do with his old life because he A. Doesn't want to endanger the person he left behind, and B. Doesn't want to face the person he left behind.

12- He describes the time where he's sleeping to when he's the most comfortable. He never dreams, so it's just like he's not existing for a few hours, which to him is relieving.

13- No. He cuts up recently murdered people and preserves their organs to sell on the black market for a living. He's extremely comfortable handling a corpse or messy crime scene, it's second nature.

14- Names. Names are important to keep track of in the criminal underworld.

15- Not too much, he doesn't really have any material possessions he's particularly attached to, and he doesn't care too much about money beyond "I need to pay rent so I have a place to live, and I need to meet my quota so my boss doesn't have me offed."

Clance Clansol

16- Success. Clance considers happiness to be a byproduct of success. If he's not accomplishing whatever the fuck his weird strange goals are, then is he really happy?

17- A rubik cube. It just has an "intellectual" aesthetic to it, a style he purposefully parodies with his memer redditor persona.

18- Both wisdom and ambition are important qualities to Clance, though he'll likely lean towards ambition. Gotta have big goals.

19- Clance is very self destructive when it comes to his relationships with other people. He purposefully built his whole persona around being the obnoxious kind of guy that you can easily find yourself in an antagonistic relationship. His only real friendship is with Sunada, who herself has issues with how she views friendships.

20- Clance is always looking at what others are trying to accomplish, what they're trying to get done, and silently compares his progress with theirs. He's secretly really critical of himself. It's a little hard to go further into detail without spoiling the deets.

Wendy Pan

21- When something negative happens to Wendy, it is simply The Universe trying to get in her way of achieving her goals. She believes both herself and Sera to be those scorned by the very cosmos itself, and attributes most bad things that happens to divine sabotage.

22- She does not like people that aren't Sera Norio. In her childhood, the only one to ever shown her kindness was Sera, and thus she's constructed the belief that he's the only person in the world that truly deserves happiness.

23- Wendy simply thinks that most people are inherently evil, or just ambivalent to the actions of those who are evil. She does not think very deeply on her opinions of others, her mind on humanity and society was made up years ago.

24- In their childhood, it took Wendy a long time to go to trust Sera. At first he was just the strange child who lived in the undertaker's house, who didn't snitch on her when she hid in his cupboard. It was a long while until she grew to trust, to attach herself to him, though it was inevitable. The only person to offer shelter to her, the only person who she could talk to, to confide him. Wendy has room for only one person in her beaten and abused heart, and that is Sera Norio.

25- Very quickly. Low opinion of people and all. Anyone that she isn't bribing or blackmailing and isn't Sera is most likely working against and wants to punish her for the act of existing.

(BONUS!: This is the same person in Sera's nightmare. Also kidna fucked up that there's only three girls here, and one of them is this creature. My cast is more evenlt gender split, the Wheel just chose mostly guys for some reason.)

Omura Minori

26- She is a children. Despite the fact that she's more intelligent then anyone else her age, she is still a little kid and likes hanging around other little kids. If you let her, she'll organize a group of kids into a little army, and under her control they'll actually be incredibly dangerous. Now that I'm thinking about it, when she was first noticed was when she over threw an entire orphanage by getting her fellow snot nosed imps to unite with her.

27- Omura is tactically minded and confident, she approaches and reacts to conflict with stoicism and a plan. She handles confrontation probably better than most of my characters.

28- She is tiny. She can't inflict physical violence. She will however command adults to "get ready to engage combat/use persuasive force." She'll think her choices through, but she doesn't have qualms with making someone beat the shit out someone else who isn't giving her what she wants.

29- Omura is still a child, and yet is already what she wants. She's recognized as one of the greatest tactical geniuses of our time, and more importantly, she gets to eat breakfast food three meals a day. So many pancakes. What more to life is there than that?

30- Insects, mustard, adults making sexual innuendos with each other, etc. She is tiny silly kid, who just so happens to have the strategic mind comparable to hi story's greatest military commanders.

Lionel Theobold

31- Honestly, hard to say, and that's because Lionel wants to get out of his comfort zone, my man wants to interact with people, he wants to experience the trial and error of learning how to act around people his own age. When he'd naturally feel the most comfortable is on his own, maybe reading a novel or doing cartography work, but he also doesn't want to just hide in his room all day.

32- Probably just his introduction in the plot. He wakes up in a room he doesn't recognize, and is woken up by not only a stranger, but a stranger a gender he has no experience talking to. He is forced to speed run learning how to be normal around women. Bitch was damn lucky that Isa's natural instincts lead her to try find out why someone is acting a particular way, and try to be more empathetic when she thinks the other person is out of their element. There's a version of that scene where [my friend] was in control and man does that not go well for Lionel.

33- Lionel knows he's scuffed in a lot of areas, and does want to improve. He wants to learn actual social skills. He can sometimes take a piece of criticism hard, but in the end he's willing to take whatever you dish at him as long as it's at least a little constructive.

34- Eh??? I'd say he's smart enough to try different solutions to a problem, though sometimes he can get hung up if he was *pretty sure* something worked a certain that it's not seeming to.

35- Lionel is very kind and polite to those he likes. He's constantly offering to help people with their problems, wanting to be as valuable as a friend as he can.

(BONUS!: A way I like to describe him is this: Lionel has permanent disadvantage on all Persuasion checks, but has like, a 16 in Charisma(that's good.) He's genuinely a great guy, but his personal life experiences just leaves him absolutely scuffed when it comes to social interactions.)

Sunada Maki

36- Matt should knows how this goes well, Sunada did not tolerate Seth's BS. She's very upfront about her opinion about other people, and will actively fight back if she believes someone is wronging her. (This next bit all happened in a RP, isn't strictly canonical but is a good reflection of how'd she react to ableist people.) She ran over Seth on multiple different occasions, and when he apologized before he was about to be executed, she was just like, "Yeah, whatever man" and absolutely refused to give him closure on that front.

37- I don't think Sunada necessarily really thinks about the concept of honor? She might throw out the word when doing a monologue or rant during a trivia game or tournament, but won't really mean much by it. She kind of feels it in sense, she doesn't like disrespect or losing, but on the whole honor's not a big thing for her. Status on the other hand, is. Her self worth comes from the fact that she's recognized her encyclopedic knowledge on all subjects.

38- Remove the problem. If she isn't the problem, then why would she remove herself? No, if something is causing her grief she is dealing with that shit.

39- no.

40- This probably won't put her in the best light, but she'd likely be very commanding and thorough when speaking to people in service positions. Not necessarily mean, but not really polite or empathetic.

(BONUS!: Context on the bit where she reacts to an ableist bastard, she's paralyzed from the waist down, has been since birth.)

Chiba Shou

41- He feels he should have what he wants, for he already earned it essentially. Not in a "I'm naturally deserving" sort of way, but he feels like what does on a daily basis should earn respect and admiration from his peers.

42- Eh... Probably not. I actually don't think I've ever made him a backstory. I guess he doesn't really need one, but I might write one for him some day.

43- Hm... I'm assuming this means like adopting, which is not something he's ever done, but he's the kind of person who tries to take others under his wing. He really thinks of himself as a father figure, but that's just because of his ego. My man ain't a role model.

44- Pretty easily honestly. He believes he means it, he'll convince himself of it in the moment, but never has it been truly sincere.

45- If asked, he'll probably say something romantic about becoming one of the stars or something else like that. Bullshit. Chiba does not know what'll happen when he dies, and fears it. He hopes by becoming surrounded by admirers and having people remember him after he's gone, he'll find some solace in passing away, but in truth it's all empty, and when his time comes he'll scream and plead with the void as it consumes him.

Character Development Questions: Hard Mode

Does your character have siblings or family members in their age group? Which one are they closest with?

What is/was your character’s relationship with their mother like?

What is/was your character’s relationship with their father like?

Has your character ever witnessed something that fundamentally changed them? If so, does anyone else know?

On an average day, what can be found in your character’s pockets?

Does your character have recurring themes in their dreams?

Does your character have recurring themes in their nightmares?

Has your character ever fired a gun? If so, what was their first target?

Is your character’s current socioeconomic status different than it was when they were growing up?

Does your character feel more comfortable with more clothing, or with less clothing?

In what situation was your character the most afraid they’ve ever been?

In what situation was your character the most calm they’ve ever been?

Is your character bothered by the sight of blood? If so, in what way?

Does your character remember names or faces easier?

Is your character preoccupied with money or material possession? Why or why not?

Which does your character idealize most: happiness or success?

What was your character’s favorite toy as a child?

Is your character more likely to admire wisdom, or ambition in others?

What is your character’s biggest relationship flaw? Has this flaw destroyed relationships for them before?

In what ways does your character compare themselves to others? Do they do this for the sake of self-validation, or self-criticism?

If something tragic or negative happens to your character, do they believe they may have caused or deserved it, or are they quick to blame others?

What does your character like in other people?

What does your character dislike in other people?

How quick is your character to trust someone else?

How quick is your character to suspect someone else? Does this change if they are close with that person?

How does your character behave around children?

How does your character normally deal with confrontation?

How quick or slow is your character to resort to physical violence in a confrontation?

What did your character dream of being or doing as a child? Did that dream come true?

What does your character find repulsive or disgusting?

Describe a scenario in which your character feels most comfortable.

Describe a scenario in which your character feels most uncomfortable.

In the face of criticism, is your character defensive, self-deprecating, or willing to improve?

Is your character more likely to keep trying a solution/method that didn’t work the first time, or immediately move on to a different solution/method?

How does your character behave around people they like?

How does your character behave around people they dislike?

Is your character more concerned with defending their honor, or protecting their status?

Is your character more likely to remove a problem/threat, or remove themselves from a problem/threat?

Has your character ever been bitten by an animal? How were they affected (or unaffected)?

How does your character treat people in service jobs?

Does your character feel that they deserve to have what they want, whether it be material or abstract, or do they feel they must earn it first?

Has your character ever had a parental figure who was not related to them?

Has your character ever had a dependent figure who was not related to them?

How easy or difficult is it for your character to say “I love you?” Can they say it without meaning it?

What does your character believe will happen to them after they die? Does this belief scare them?

[stlcapewatch]

Re-posted Report!: Downtown Massacre! 23/09/08

I hope everyone's alright, after today. Crazy stuff going on, not a lot of info besides the basic stuff from the mainstream news, PRT being really tight-lipped about this one. Best wishes to iggy992, I hope their injuries heal fast!

The Facts that we know:

A cape from this weird security company called "Emerson & Co Securities" went crazy and killed fourteen people in a massive explosion, injuring fifty-nine additional people.

This company doesn't have a website or any info besides their name easily available

Someone shot at or did something to this cape and started this whole mess.

That's all we know, so it's time for me to start writing some of my own theories as to what the hell is going on!

Theory 1. Failed Assassination

Okay, so we DO know that before the attack on the cape, they were patrolling around some territory. KMOV mentioned that they were hired by some local companies to protect their stuff, perhaps one of the local gangs sent someone to take them out? Give a message to Emerson and Co.

Pros:

Rationalizes the attack on the cape

Rationalizes why the cape was there at the time

Cons:

Makes Emerson and Co seem like a normal security company. Idk why, but something about them just makes me suspicious.

No one has claimed this, for obvious reasons, but it also doesn't fit any of the gang's MO, not even the Vice Men.

Not very convincing, I know, but I'm just getting what the main cape-forums are thinking about out of the way.

Theory 2. PRT False-Flag Operation

The PRT is being REALLY tight-lipped with this, suspiciously so. . . With all the evidence missing and witnesses in custody, we haven't gotten any other stories besides what the media is trying to feed us. With how little information we have on this group, can we be sure that it even exists?

What if this is ACTUALLY a false-flag operation by the PRT, so that they can lobby for more security in the downtown area! With this being so close to election season, it's incredibly suspicious.

Pros:

Ties up all the information, and why the PRT & the media is acting this way

Makes sense!

Cons:

People will say its "overcomplicated"

-Asherah 

P.S. I hope everyone stays safe after today, keep me posted on any new info you guys get!

[Edit 23/09/08] Apparently people are getting mad at me for just telling them my theories, calm down guys! They're just my personal thoughts!

[Edit 2, 16/01/09] Not very proud of this one. . . Maybe it should have stayed un-uploaded. . .

[traxanaxanos]

“Again, the short laugh. ‘You may simply call me Gres, Mr. Johnson. It is usually the best that human tongues can do with my name.’ His tone grew more wistful. ‘Samantha was the only human who was ever able to pronounce it properly.’“

-from Letting Go by Keith R. A. Decandido in Star Trek Voyager: Distant Shores, edited by Marco Palmieri 

I’m not sure if this is the originator for Greskrendtregk shortening his name to Gres in beta canon, or if this is following another beta canon novel’s decision to do it. I’ve also seen fic authors shorten his name this way - not sure if it’s because they’re following beta canon or that Greskrendtregk is a lot to type out.

But!

As a person with a long name that starts with a G that absolutely no monolingual English-speaker can get right on the first try I hate this decision. It’s not that humans physically can’t say Ktarian names - Samantha has obviously figured it out and can say it. So it’s more that awkward balking that happens when people just don’t want to try, that annoying little laugh of “oh haha, that’s quite a name/ I’ll never be able to keep that straight” or the immediate insistence of “Well I’m going to call you [nickname].” Greskrendtregk has clearly met that multiple times, and just decided its easier to forward an alternative, a nickname, a shorter version, which I get because its tiring! I have also made the decision of “I guess I will simply be a different person at work” after spending weeks correcting everyone. I get it but it doesn’t make me any less mad about the phenomenon.

The episodes with Ensign Ro fighting to get her name said correctly in TNG touch on this as well, the (because its sci-fi) human-centrism and, more importantly, the (because its sci-fi written by a specific make-up of people) English-language-centrism that casually strips people of their names and the personal and cultural import they have.

[noras-dc-shenanigans]

Alright, Part 2!

Also Announcement! I have an AO3 where I am currently posting an Assassins Creed/Marvel Crossover, and my current story has 2 chapters left. I have decided that after the last 2 chapters are posted, I will begin posting the more fleshed-out versions of my posts from here. I will keep all my Captain Marvel stories in one series, and have each story in the series contain a different prompt/story from here, so I don’t have to worry about tagging people. I post on Mondays, so after I get the AO3 caught up to here I will post new chapters/stories whenever I get stuck on my AC/Marvel series.

Now, without further ado…

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The next thing that gives Flash Weird Vibes about Captain Marvel happens just a few weeks after their first meeting.

Batman uncovered a meta trafficking ring trying to start up, and due to how many people they’d grabbed in such a short time he’d called in the League to help. Batman and his various bat-spawn were good, but these people were dangerous and had over two dozen scared, powered metas of various ages locked up. Even with inhibitor collars on, someone could still panic and cause harm during the rescue.

Of course, this was super time sensitive, because this group kept moving to avoid detection. So Batman sent out a general call and went in with the first few League members to show up. In the end, Batman and Robin were joined by Nightwing, Red Hood (who gave Flash the creeps, for some reason. Probably the ‘severed heads’ story), Flash obviously, Green Lantern, and Captain Marvel.

The raid went really well, especially considering these guys had, for obvious reasons, been equipped to go up agains metas. Unfortunately for them, the Bats and Lantern were all normal, Flash was used to anti-meta weapons, and Marvel was… whatever he is, though meta sure wasn’t it since the attacks did nothing and even getting an inhibitor bracelet slipped on him while grabbing a trafficker did nothing.

So, bad guys arrested, people rescued, and while Batman called the local authorities out to the place the other Leaguers were going around getting names and places of origin and just general information to try and get these people home as quickly as possible.

There’s a lot of crying, and thank-yous, and a few bursts of powers as the inhibitors are taken off. After a while, Flash realizes that he hasn’t seen Marvel in a hot minute. He looks around, then asks the nearest hero, Nightwing, where he went. The man gives him a grin and points him in the direction of a corner of the warehouse, partially blocked off by boxes and broken machinery. Red Hood pops out of nowhere and tells Flash, while he’s recovering from his minor heart attack, that is he ‘disturbs them’ he’ll ‘see how fast Flash is with one leg.’

So, with that mildly terrifying convo over, Flash walks towards the partitioned area, listening carefully to make sure he wasn’t going to be ‘disturbing’ anybody. It’s not until he’s just about to turn the last pile of junk that he hears something. It’s quiet, probably only noticeable due to his enhanced hearing, but it… it sounds so familiar…

Flash carefully, silently, sticks his head around the boxes. At first, he only sees Captain Marvel, sitting cross-legged on the floor. Then he’s starts to pick out the tiny heads, hands, and feet sticking out from beneath his crips white cape, which he apparently stretched out to cover several young children all clustered in his lap or leaning on his sides.

Flash smiles, now understanding Red Hood’s warning, and starts to think about how adorable they all are, he should get a camera, before he realizes in one of his flashes (hah!) of intuition, that the noise from earlier is coming from Marvel.

It’s a purr. The man is purring, like an enormous cat, and it’s clearly coming from his chest, where one of the kids have their head rested. Flash can’t do anything but stand and blink for a moment, a general ‘what the h*ll’ feeling running through him, before Marvel abruptly twitches his head to stare at Flash, eyes looking oddly green for a moment before his expression smooths from protective to welcoming.

Marvel grins sheepishly at him before tilting his head questioningly. Flash mentally shakes himself before returning the grin with a physical shake of his head, not wanting to see if Hood was serious on his ‘disturb them’ threat.

(Probably. Heads, duffel bag, yeah. Better not risk it.)

Marvel nods back at him, then turns to one of the kids as they begin to shift in their sleep, expression wrinkling in distress. The man (?) smooths his hand over the kids forehead, mumbling something under his breath, and a slight gold glow follows his fingers’ path for a moment before it disappears and the kids face relaxes back into peaceful sleep.

Huh. Magic, right. Maybe that has to do with the purring…?

But… but why? Why would magic make him able to purr? Zatanna never has, Constantine— yeah, he wasn’t going there— maybe it’s a ‘Champion of Magic’ thing instead?

Yeah, he’ll go with that. Magic is weird, Marvel does weird stuff, simple as that.

… but how does it work?

(Sometimes, Barry regrets his choice to be a scientist.)

Half-Ghost Billy Batson

(Inspired by a post that I can’t find😡😤. If you recognize it please let me know! I have searched. Everywhere. I remember it starts off with Billy contemplating how he’s different and his dad didn’t want him, and then Danny shows up.)

Danny Fenton grows up, gets crowned King of the Infinite Realms, and then discovers that time it weird in the Zone if the portal you came through doesn’t stay open. He’s been ruling for over a century, but it’s only been a few years on Earth. Early on he made sure to keep popping in and out to visit family and friends and keep up a human identity, and so was able to age normally too.

By the time he’s 25 (2015), he’s in a serious relationship with a woman named Mary Batson, and has decided to tell her about his other life. Before he can however, he is ‘killed’ in an explosion at his civilian job as an engineer.

He’s fine, but was weakened enough that he reverted to his core, and Clockwork retrieved him and took him to the Realms to heal. He does, goes discreetly looking for Mary, and discovers it been a year and she died in a car accident. Heartbroken, and with no civilian identity anymore, he starts spending all his time in the Zone, only making weekend trips to see family/friends.

Unknown to Danny, Mary was pregnant, gave birth, and little William ‘Billy’ Daniel Batson was saved via emergency C-Section after the accident and placed in foster care, because she had no family and no one looked into the father’s well enough. Mary only survived long enough to name her son and give them Danny’s name.

10 years later, Billy gains the title of Champion of Magic. The influx of so much magic also triggers his… other genes.

As Billy, he is faster and stronger and heals quicker and if he concentrates really hard he can turn invisible and walk through things— at least for a few moments. He also discovers that he’s essentially a cat, since he can hiss and purr and randomly sprout claws.

Billy only uses a mirror if he needs to give himself a haircut, but the next time he looks he notices the tiny little baby fangies. And that his eyes are more teal than blue, his hair has a few white spots in it, and his ears point a little more. No wonder no one’s been bothering him lately.

(He’s basically 75% human and 25% ghost, so unless he gets hosed down with pure ectoplasm and also eats a bunch of the stuff, he’s not going to be able to ‘go ghost’. He’s just hasn’t got enough Phantom in him to manage it.)

As Captain Marvel, the magic of his patrons and the Rock of Eternity kinda work as a counter-measure against the partially-dead thing, as the magic sees it as a threat to the Champion’s health and fights the genes’ effects like it’s a virus. So the magic is basically shutting down all of the actual powers he gets as Billy. But he does get little things that the magic doesn’t care about, like sharp little fangs and pointy ears.

Billy just thinks it’s all side effects of the magic, and uses his new ‘adaptations’ as Billy to survive on the streets.

The Justice League comes knocking about 6 months in, meet this huge chipper dude who can evenly match Superman and uses magic in a way that causes other magic users headaches and rage, and invite him to join.

That’s when they notice that he’s a bit… strange.

Not like, in a bad way! Just, the other day Batman did the ‘appear behind you from nowhere’ thing and when Marvel noticed he full on hissed at him, like a feral cat, before looking sheepish and apologizing.

A few weeks later, they’re rescuing some kidnapped meta kids and they find Marvel sitting cross-legged on the ground, several toddlers draped over him and a very distinct purring noice emanating from his chest.

A week after that, and Superman confides worriedly that sometimes Marvel’s heart will just… stop beating, and/or he’ll stop breathing, and that when his heartbeat is gone there seems to be a strange hum coming from the center of his chest.

Then another 2 weeks later, after a meeting, he and Flash were talking and they both laughed, but when Marvel did he just flashed these very sharp incisors that Flash swears are fangs.

And then one day they call him in to help fight some demons and one growls at him and he freakin growls back, bares his definitely fangs I told you so! And just freakin launches at the thing. They basically roll around like a couple of territorial tomcats, and at first Marvel is throwing punches and lighting but then the demon bites him and Marvel just… bites back.

And then he like… sprouts claws?! And then it really is like a cat fight, with these two just hissing and growling and clawing and biting until Marvel does something and the demon breaks away and flees, whimpering like a kicked dog. Superman has to snag Marvels cape and dodge some claws to keep the guy from chasing after it.

He’s covered in claw marks and scratches and there’s blood like everywhere but once they drag/convince/bully him into going back to the Watchtowers medbay, there’s nothing. The wounds are gone, the blood is fading away, and the suit is repairing itself. Marvel just shrugs and says magic, which, fair enough.

But then they have to have a talk about what the hell that was, and all Marvel can say for his feral-cat behavior is “I just heard him growl and had the uncontrollable urge to bite him. Like, he’s in my territory, and he’s gonna challenge me like that? Heck-no.”

…Territory? Territory?! What does that- does this possibly-immortal being consider all of Earth his territory? Is he secretly a Fae? An eldritch being in less terrifying form? Part demon himself? A cat transformed into a person?

Marvel shrugs.

“I never met my parents, so honestly any of those have a chance of being true.”

Oh No. Oh F*ck. Those were rhetorical!

Meanwhile, Danny is back on Earth and finds out from Tucker that Mary had a kid. They discover this because he was reported missing after he ran away and the cops tried to find out if there was any more family, and do a better job looking this time. Danny is ‘dead’ so they called the Drs Fenton, who told Jazz, who told Tucker, who dug around and realized oh sh*t, Danny has a son.

But they can’t tell Danny this, because some a-hole in a different dimension is trying to invade the Infinite Realms, so Danny has to go kick a**. The time in the other dimension is weird too, so several years pass on Earth by the time he stops the threat, locks away the demon Trigon, and finds a nice home in the Realms for the demon’s half-human orphaned daughter Raven, who fits in very well with the ghosts.

So, Danny’s back and between Tucker and Danny they figure out what city Billy is in, and Danny spends days flying around invisible feeling for any ectoplasm. He finds it, finds Billy facing down some wanna-be teenage gangsters, and watches with growing pride as his son hisses at them with his widdle baby fangs oh my Ancients!

So after the other kids flee from the ‘crazy demon kid’, Danny invisibly follows Billy back to his current hideout in the basement of an abandoned warehouse (only someone Billy-sized or smaller would be able to fit through the window, and then they’d have to do it again to get into his little blocked-off closet. Smart. Very smart. I have such a smart kid, the family will Love him!)

Danny doesn’t want to freak his kid out— strange man+small space=bad no-no— so he just settles himself in front of the exit and starts chirping. Calling.

Billy, who has never heard the sound before, still knows what it means. Can’t resist following it out of his hidey-hole. Sees the man, cross-legged on the ground, sees his blue eyes flash green-green-green and knows.

“Hi, Billy. Is so good to meet you!”

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2015: Danny=25

2016: Billy born

2027: Billy=11, Danny=27

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