#that team being team we love the albatrio

[lepidopterologism]

any non romantic albatrio fans out there please raise your hands i need to see more of my own kind

their dynamic means so much more to me when they aren’t dating or pining or anything, they’re just buddies :] they’re friends and that friendship is the strongest damn bond you’ve ever seen

I’m a firm believer in “platonic friendship is just as (if not more) important than romance” so maybe that’s skewing my beliefs but like albatrio where they’re the best friends you’ve ever seen to the point where they ARE in love, just platonically. like brothers and sisters are. they hug, they fight, they’re odd and confusing to a stranger but to everyone that knows them it’s “kinda just how they are”

bonus they’re all collectively Ollie’s older sibling figures but they have different styles of raising children so gillion is trying to train him in the art of the blade and being a hero and whatnot while jay practices gentle parenting and chip trains him in the art of being a little rascal

the riptide crew is one big family and i would not trade that for a canon romance any day of my life

[burning-sol]

GUHHHH once again thinking about how hard an apotheosis vs riptide fight would go mannn. i am imagining a choreographed fight in my heeaaadddd.

apotheosis vs riptide. its set up as a gameshow so non lethal but like go off and be as deranged as u want u know what i mean. when it starts the pcs are a bit disorientated because where the fuck are they?? help??? theyre introduced to the premise of the game. differing reactions. peter "no", exandroth "YES", gillion "sounds like fun!! i accept this challenge!!!", thanatos "what is the point of this", rumi "yeah exactly thanny we dont gotta do this i dont want to fight", chip "exactly!! (going to pee his pants at the sight of thanatos)", jay "yo but i could totally take them in a fight??" but you know they cant go home if they dont play and its not LETHAL so they agree. besides, both teams are relatively confident?

les go!! count down 3 2 1 and the teams are fighting. each pc naturally splits off to face against the best fitting match. chip vs rumi, peter+exandroth vs jay, gillion vs thanatos. they start off confident but very quickly things go WRONG... the godslayers are like strong WAYY strong and the albatrio are taking hits man. this one on one is going down and it really starts dredging up all their anxieties. chip doesnt feel like he's a good leader, he's not confident, he doesn't know what he's doing, rumi is tripping him up repeatedly and doesnt even seem phased. gillion thinks he's strong but he's getting SLAMMED by thanatos and gillion is freaking out because oh god he's not strong enough, he can't protect his friends, he's going to LOSE. jay she's fuckinnngg usually a good shot like she deals DAMAGE she's grown UP being the good shot, she spent her childhood training, but it literally just doesnt phase whatever the fuck she's fighting, it's not making a good enough dent.

shit aint working so the albatrio scramble and change their matchups. gillion vs rumi, chip vs peter+exandroth, thanatos vs jay. gillion is so brute force that rumi is forced back a bit. chip is. chip. exandroth is struggling to hit this little worm. jay keeps her distance from thanatos and is able to get some good shots in. they're chipping away at the godslayers it looks like they're getting up and. well. the godslayers are getting bitter abt it they got sensitive egos so they muster up enough coordination to knock chip and jay back, and they DOWN gillion. and holy shit the albatrio are gonna LOSE but half time is called. dear god. just in time.

jay gets gillion back up but evidently, they're not winning k? like fuck it sucked so bad that the godslayers started off kicking their ass, but downing gillion?? GILLION TIDESTRIDER??? that was an emotional blow so hard they're going to need to have a big cry after this. but you know how the albatrio are, they have the brain power, they're gonna scheme on how to take down these bitches.

and if you're wondering how the godslayers are doing at half time they're feeling pretty good about themselves. exandroth takes a nap after healing up thanatos and rumi, rumi fawns over peter like "are you okay???" "yeah rumi im okay" "rumi, stop babying peter he is fine" "i love you peter" "huh???"

second half starts up again and BOOM THE COORDINATION. the godslayers work okay together but we've plucked them out at a point in the story where not everyone is on the same foot... but the albatrio?? babygirl, they've been friends for a while!!! the point is friendship is fucking magic and with the power of their teamwork they strategise so good they take down the godslayers one at a time. i dont know exactly how but it's definitely a mix of something ridiculous and actual good observation and good planning. GOD SLAYERS KNOCKED OUT BABYYY.

in the bg i like to imagine that dm condi and grizzly were like commentating the entire time btw, and dm condi was so confident in his team. then he just starts crying at the end like "NOOOO HOW DID THEY LOSE" dm grizzly laughs "MWAHAHAH I KNEW IT I KNEW THEY'D WIN anyways that's the end of the game!! thank you for playing everyone!! bye bye!!" and every1 gets sent home.

this is the narrative that's been trapped in my brain for a long time. do you see it. do you understand. *shakes you* do you get it????

[wefaithfulfew]

double posting but i HAVE to get this conversation i had with one of my friends last night out into jrwiblr

listen. we all like /r ships!! or at least tolerate them. but. god damnit i prioritize good friendship building

immediately riptide comes to mind because yeah i do love fnc romantically but god damnit theyre best friends. these two things can coexist, but if i had to choose, id absolutely hope they had a fucking banger friendship.

i think i treasure just albatrios friendship alltogether. im a jay ferin enjoyer (and if you arent youre WRONG) and i fucking adore her dynamic with these two equally loser guys. her dynamic with chip means so much to me (it reminds me of me and my found sibling. albatrio is us and our other one fr fr!!!) and im SO tired of people sleeping on it. im also a navyseal enjoyer 💪💪 /p or /r

and i wanna say that a lot of fandoms minimize characters in ships to just that: part of a ship. i fucking hate it

people act like lizzie has no character outside of pistolwhip. i love her cringefail strong lady autism. cocme on.

this is a problem i see with a lot of fandoms, not just jrwi, and tumblr does their best to avoid doing this but i still!!1!! god

every jrwi character in any campaign does have a distinct personality by themselves, and im always going to advocate for people to see it. these characters are all fucking masterfully written and played. im so glad jrwi characters dont just have two personality traits and call it a day (though ive seen a lot of people say this about them which??? where is that coming from).

i mean, i just really prefer a ship to Add to a character than Be their character. (tangent: i am a horror movie fan. ive watched tons of slashers. if you write horror. do not make this mistake. do not be final destination 3.) any relationship between characters, friendly, romantic, hostile, anything. should not be their only personality trait. and jrwi does this shit perfectly

i love every character individually first, but its hard to not love them as groups aswell. i mean for fucks sakes the campaigns DEPEND on them being teams because its fucking dnd, but its the characters in a vacuum that really makes me love them.

i dont just love timothy rand for being part of nbr. i love him because hes a paranoid, stupid autism boy who is so hung up on his past it literally fucking tries to kill him. i love dakota cole because he wants to believe the world is naturally good, because he wants people to have a chance, and because hes so fucking relatable to an autistic audience. i love peter sqloint because hes a nerdy guy collecting rocks and his “only character motivation” was finding a log for his pet lizard. i love jay ferin because shes carving her own path, learning to live for others instead of survive, and fighting for what she really fucking believes in.

this even applies to npcs. every fucking jrwi character ive seen so far is endearing as hell and thats so important to me. theyre all distinct in their own ways and its taking over my brain.

tldr: jay ferin 💪💪

[snail-speed-6]

Snails can write. You heard me! They can!

See here, they wrote these just for you:

JRWI: Riptide collection (Ao3)

You Frighten me (Because I Love You) (Ao3): A JRWI; Riptide oneshot about the frightening and blossoming relationship between Chip and GIllion. (fluff).

A Storm Disrupts More Than Just the WiFi (Ao3): How each of the captains of the albatros deal with a stormy night (emotional hurt)

Remember the Tides (They’ll always love you) (Ao3) : Gillion feeling homesick after a trip to the beach (emotional hurt/comfort) 

Fish (Ao3): Chip gets caught by a group of drunk bastards and Gillion comes to the rescue. (some hurt/comfort) (protectiveness)

Under the Weather (is where we sleep at night) (Ao3): Chip notices Gillion is feeling a little ill and (forcefully) suggests that he take it easy. (fluff and comfort) (sickfic)

His Frogtapus Friend (Ao3): Short story of Gillion meeting Pretzel thanks to Edyn. (fluff) (slice of life kinda)

Learning to Live Again (Ao3): Gillion reflects on his banishment, then almost gets run over by a strange floating thing on the water- hey are those humans?! (angst) (prequel kinda)

Air From These Lungs (it’s thicker than blood) (Ao3): Gillon goes down in a fight with the Navy. Chip and Jay help him. (hurt/comfort) 

Burning Taste (like fire on my tongue) (Ao3):  The Riptide and Grandberry pirates have a bit of fun and drinks.(humour) (drinking)

Stars Hide Your Fires (let night stoke the fears inside us) (Ao3): Each of the Albatrio have a nightmare but their friends are there for them. (hurt/comfort) (nightmares)

NK (Ao3): Gillion thinks about the tattoo on his wrist. (thought exploration) (slight angst)

Littletide Pirates AU (JRWI)  (Ao3)

The Champions of Land and Sea (shall rise or fall to bring unity) (Ao3): Gillion's origin for the Littletide Pirates AU (angst) (prequel)

The Runaway Girl (Ao3): Jay’s origin for the Littletide Pirates AU (prequel)

A Satchel of Oranges and Danger Close Behind (Ao3): Chip’s origin for the Littletide Pirates AU (humour) (prequel)

The Littletide Pirates (Ao3): An alternate universe where the Albatrio met at a much younger age - canon divergence (eventual happy ending) (adventure)

On Stardom, and the Benefits of Rock and Roll (Ao3):  The next instalment in the Littletide AU series! (sequel) (adventure) (eventual happy ending)

JRWI: Prime Defenders collection (Ao3)

Sweet Dreams (Oh I want them so bad) (Ao3): Vyncent and the others watch a movie to help them get to sleep. Hints at Ghostknife. (fluff) (some hurt/comfort)

A Little Hot. A Little Cold. (Ao3): The Prime Defenders' AC is broken during a heat wave, and William (being technically dead) is always cold. Fluff ensues. (fluff) (hugs)

Flash (Ao3):  My take on the clean up the team does in episode 16 before William's parents come to visit. Pretty Dakota centric. (short) (slice of life)

Every Hero Has an Origin Story (ours are steeped in blood) (Ao3):  Find out how these three teens became the Prime Defenders we know, and how their first meeting might have gone! (backstory) (prequel) (light angst obviously)

Ghost Energy (a paranormal moment indeed) (Ao3):  William's powers sometimes manifest in strange ways when the wisps get upset or agitated. (fluff) (comfort)

To Catch a Ghost (Ao3):  The Prime Defenders base is totally haunted. (ongoing)

JRWI: Apotheosis collection (Ao3)

I’d Like One Ordinary Guy For Divine Intervention, Please (Ao3): A small character study for my scrunkly little Peter Sqloint (character study)

I See Your Scars (they don’t belong on your skin) (Ao3): Peter doesn’t like being a puppet for an angel. Thanatos realises he has a heart. PLATONIC!! (angst and some comfort) (kinda bittersweet)

Let Your Spark Turn to Flame (Ao3): Peter finally learns a bit of magic and everyone is excited. (slice of life) (fluff)

Torchwood tales (Ao3)

I Was Just An Only Child Of the Universe (Ao3): A Torchwood fix-it because I wasn’t ready for Ianto to die. (hurt/comfort)

MCYT

Almost But Not Quite Human (Wattpad): A MCYT multi-chapter fic in which a terrible disease has spread across the land, turning people into freakish monsters and beasts. George and Sapnap must find their way to New Hope in search of a cure. But what they find might not be what they expected. (adventure) (multi-chapter)

MCYT Oneshots (Wattpad): A collection of oneshots for MCYT such as a dramatic retelling of Technoblade’s execution on the dream SMP, or Captain Puffy’s adventures out at sea. (Might add these to Ao3 eventually) (multi-chapter)

UTMV

I’m Too Tired to Sleep (Wattpad): A Dreamtale story about the 500 years that Dream was trapped in stone, and the formation of Nightmare’s gang. (story) (multi-chapter)

Shattered Souls (Wattpad): Sequel to I’m Too Tired to Sleep in which the creators are bored after the events of the previous story, and decide to shake it up a bit. (story) (multi-chapter)

Slimecicle Cinematic Universe collection (Ao3)

Tell Me More (Ao3): As Jschlatt talks to Charlie in the 100 days apocalypse, it echoes to the next universe over. (transcript but with plot) (worldbuilding)

The Slimecicle Cinematic Universe (As told by a madman) (Ao3): A timeline of the SCU by Jschlatt. (timeline but with plot) (worldbuilding) (angst)

Red vs Blue collection (Ao3)

Feeling Blue (Ao3): Rewrite of one of my favourite parts of season 10 of Red versus Blue (angst) (rewrite)

Halo collection (Ao3)

Recommendation (Ao3): The kind of mission Six might have gone on before he joined Noble Team (action) (multi-chapter)

Operation: REAPER (Ao3): Alpha-Nine discover that the Spartan Noble Six's death was... greatly exaggerated (multi-chapter) (action)

Getting Analytical (not fanfiction)

Hamlet’s Motivations (and lack thereof) (Tumblr): This one's about why Hamlet acts the way he does (essay)

Is Hamlet’s Behaviour Inexcusable? (Tumblr): Discussing what it says on the tin (essay)

[burning-sol]

Okay so while looking through posts I could only find one about Albatrio vs God Slayers? Which I'm sure I had another around here somewhere but what the hell, who's keeping score?

So where to start. Well when I initially thought about it, it was back in like SEPTEMBER so this has been in the back of my mind for a while. The Albatrio have certainly become a lot stronger than then, so I'm not sure if it still applies when I say that the Albatrio are the underdogs in the fight... But that was a part of the idea back then and a part of WHY it was so compelling to me. Our goofy little pirates were fighting against LITERAL god slayers featuring: a machine built to kill said gods; someone presenting as a perfect person with charisma and a sword that collects the dead god's power to boot; and an ACTUAL celestial being. They were outclassed.

And I'd always thought of the matchup as being Chip vs Rumi, Gillion vs Thanatos, and Jay vs Peter/Exandroth to emphasise their roles in each team and how the Albatrio fell short. I mean in combat, I think I've made my point about the Albatrio being outclassed... But particularly I am enthralled in the idea of Chip and Rumi fighting. Because Chip is NOT a leader, right? The first chance he got, Chip tried to defer his leadership. RUMI was successfully upstarting a religion (cult) and had a charisma that RIVALLED the god of charisma. Rumi appears fucking perfect at any given moment - and if that didn't make apparent the difference between each group then I dunno what would.

But also, the God Slayers don't exactly get along?? You could feel the lack of cohesion for a good goddamn portion of their journey. I'd LOVE the fight to end with the Albatrio coming out on top simply because their chemistry is far better than that of the God Slayers, and they're able to coordinate an effective plan. Power of friendship y'all!!! Respect it.

So yeah we have powerful bad guys vs underdog good guys I love that shit.

Other notes I will write down! In dot points! Try to keep up.

Despite Rumi appearing better put together, they are actually like hiding a lot about themselves?? Obviously. They have that in common with Chip. Trying to pretend they're well put together.

Back when Jay's character had an emphasis on her bow and fire, Exandroth seemed like a good matchup considering its own flaming motif. But actually, with Jay moving away from that it's REALLY scary for her to be facing up against someone so firey.

^^^ The above note was taking into consideration my aforementioned matchup. BUT YOU KNOW WHO ELSE HAS FIRE AND IS BIG AND SCARY AND MAYBE REMINISCENT OF HER FATHER..... Jay and Thanatos, let's bring that trauma to light guys.

Gillion is chosen by the gods and Thanatos is a god slayer. Probably the most obviously good guy vs bad guy of the bunch. THEY'RE LITERALLY BLUE/GREEN VS RED??? *calling out to the distance* You seeing this shit????

Let's have Rumi and Gillion talk about destiny.

Let's have Rumi and Gillion not talk and instead pit an elegant af bitch against a fish out to destroy!!! We love the contrast of fighting styles. ALSO LIGHTNING??? THUNDER???

Chip and Exandroth have comedic potential for sure. Let the pathetic man run about while being chased by a hell creature, this will work out great!!!

Or you know just have Peter and Chip talk. They're both literally just sad guys with sad lives.

Also let Peter and Jay talk! As the least insane out of their teams, they are entitled to ten minutes of convo between each other.

Exandroth and Jay are women... The girlies hanging out...

Back to bullying Chip, make him fight Thanatos. He is going to piss himself.

Rumi and Jay are VERY talkative. Their fight would leave you in god damn awe and their dialogue would actually be so thoughtful. I can barely imagine what they'd talk about, but I know it'd be good shit!!!

Actually have Jay stop and inspect Thanatos and talk about how he was made. Have Exandroth join in. They're discussing how the robot got made. Like in terms of engineering.

GILLION AND EXANDROTH FIGHT AND DESTROY LITERALLY EVERYTHING AS THEY TRY TO PURGE. PURGE AND SMITE AND PURGE AND PURGE AND RID THE EVIL FROM THE WORLD AND BRING RETRIBUTION AND oh shit dude we actually have so much in common. This is awkward. Do we like continue to be homicidal maniacs or do we stop and vibe?

Omg Lizard and Pretzel could duke it out???? YES!!

MOON BEAST. MOON BEAST. Thanatos and Exandroth hype up the Moon Beast. Chip and Gillion "MOON BEAST!!!" until they start getting chewed. Gillion Tidestrider chosen by the moon is not happy with this.

This is all I can think to dump at the moment but hopefully by now you can see how much I want Albatrio vs God Slayers to be a thing!!!