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Deborah (Deb) Cooper!
Art by @officialrin
ANIM has a ttrpg book club discord which voted to play Eureka recently, running a Delta Green module called Signal to Noise. Deb was made for this, but there wont be spoilers for the module.
Deb is a massive woman with the physique of a powerlifter who is, despite appearances, an accountant, one not unfamiliar with investigating… businesses. She has a lot of empathy for everyone, to the point of prioritizing the needs of others over herself constantly. She is an uncompromising Perfectionist when it comes to people's expectations. That's a pretty stressful way to live, which is unfortunate for everyone around her considering she is an incredibly deadly Wolfman. A major exception to her extreme selflessness is her love of and need for copious amounts of food. In Deb's mind, eating enough regular food can prevent her from rampaging and eating people. This isn't the case, even if not going hungry is actually a good idea. Her third trait is Go With Your Gut to take advantage of her truths, account for the more Investigation Points monsters need to get a Eureka, and most importantly because its a pun. One of her truths is a play on "Would Do It For A Scooby Snack" after all.
In mechanics, Wolfman/Loup-Garou investigators have to pay careful attention to their Composure more than most. If they hit 0, they don't just have to deal with frayed nerves and poor bonuses like other investigators, they go on a rampage and eat people until they are full and at 7/7 composure again. Since its hard for them to regain composure without eating people, many wolfmen hunt humans intentionally. Deb has never done this. She refuses to, but de-prioritizing herself over and over, spending composure on her Perfectionist trait to get things done, working sleepless nights, means she kills again and again without technically meaning to.
Investigating mysteries in any Eureka adventure is also pretty stressful. At one point in Signal to Noise, Deb got into an argument with another Investigator, a monster hunter who was suspicious of her. Her reaction to the attempt at intimidation was more fear for the other investigator than for herself, and it brought her down to 1 composure. When she lost 1 more due to events that night, she killed and ate 7 people in the hotel she was staying. She woke up in a nearby forest naked, covered in blood, and literally steaming off calories. For Deb, one of the worst parts about rampaging is that she always feels much better afterwards...
Metatextually Deb's monster qualities represent complex post traumatic stress disorder, and blaming oneself for the special needs and considerations that entails. In my life, if I'm too stressed my body shuts down. I become literally unable to move. I have to ask other people to help me, if I can even talk. In Deb's life, if she's too stressed her body goes out and lets off some steam for her. If Deb really needs to learn anything, its to accept her needs and be more selfish. Pertinently, that would mean not investigating stressful mysteries that could reduce her Composure to 0 even if she thinks it would help other people.
Some fun little things: - Deb is scared of fireworks and thunder. Scared of guns too, but for the noise, not the bullets. Even in human form. - Due to literally having that dog in her, Deb looks 200something pounds, and is actually more like 400. Most chairs are not rated for her, she sinks in water, and is prone to falling through rickety floorboards. She also punches really, really hard. - Deb's earrings are magnetic because her earlobes kept regenerating. - Since all of her hunts have been rampages where she wakes up in human form, Deb sleeps in wolf form when she can to avoid being startled when she gets up. - Deb almost can't help but track small animals with her head when they are around. Again even in human form. - Her full wolf form is about the size of a class 2b light duty vehicle.

Art by @corviacore - To look closer to how you might imagine a werewolf does, she has to stop the transformation part way in lupine anthroform.
if you've got Eureka: Investigative Urban Fantasy characters, we want to hear about them.
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I have today off and I feel like posting some my favorite Warhammer 40k lore facts for my mutuals who are new to the franchise. Maybe they'll help with your own headcanons and writing.
You've probably seen that the majority of humanity in 40k live in gigantic, overpopulated, and pollution-clogged hive cities across countless worlds. If you're a Cyberpunk 2077 fan, you already know what life is like inside a hive city. Night City itself is only a tiny fraction of the size of a 40k hive city, but the living conditions for the majority of people are largely the same. The average person in the 40k universe lives in a dense urban environment with regular day jobs, local entertainment, pubs and sporting events, families, etc. The pollution and environmental conditions can be awful, but most people just live with it because they have no choice.
Holy Terra is completely unrecognizable as the Earth we know of today. It's one giant hive city like Coruscant in Star Wars. The air is dreadfully hot at all times, day and night, and difficult to breathe. A single missed shipment of offworld food and water can starve millions of people to death. Families can spend entire generations on religious pilgrimages to set foot on Terran soil and see the Imperial Palace. Centuries can pass between someone getting the necessary money together to fund a trip to Holy Terra and her descendants actually landing on the planet itself. From orbit, Holy Terra is a sickly brown color, choked in clouds with spires and space elevators connecting to countless orbital structures.
Space travel is not a common thing for the average Imperial citizen. A lot of people don't even know that alien species are real at all, they only know what is spoken in religious texts and whatever history lessons are taught at local schools. If an average Imperium resident can name a xenos species, it is most likely the orks.
There are memes and edgy writings online that say the Imperium is this brutal right wing ultra conservative government that demands humans only have sex for procreation and all forms of personal expression are banned. This is not the truth! While the Imperium is ABSOLUTELY the most brutal, fascist and evil government in human history, it actually doesn't give a shit about people's sexuality/gender identity/etc. As long as a person is human and they serve the God Emperor, that is all the Imperium cares about. There are plenty of humans in the galaxy with families who keep the countless numbers of humanity growing. And some adeptus mechanicus forge worlds clone people by the millions to keep their factories running. (games workshop themselves had a make a statement about this a few years ago)
20,000 years before the 40k setting, humanity was one of the dominant species of the galaxy. They had extremely advanced technology, to the point that anything you could imagine could be done, was actually done. From advanced genetic engineering to weapons powerful enough to destroy entire solar systems. It's all but confirmed that the navigator gene is artificial and was developed during the dark age of technology. During this time, the Eldar society was in collapse, so humanity rose to fill the void. But just as humans were in absolute dominance over the galaxy, Slaanesh was born and began the long slide into darkness we know today.
To this day, seeking out certain relics from this period is one of the adeptus mechanicus' primary directives.
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merry christmas, happy holidays, and happy new year. i am late for nothing
anyway, behold: the papyrus!! this is like my first time properly digitally painting something, and i really like how it turned out :]
#the majority of this was done in one night#ages ago#but for some reason the background colours took months#mostly bc of procrastination & indecision#“christmas is a good reason to finish this!”#not good enough apparently#anyway#i wanted the background to be kinda scrapbook-y#like stickers and stuff!#to contrast with the more painterly look#undertale#papyrus#digital art#pigeon paints#digital aritst#artists on tumblr#papyrus undertale#digital painting#cw eyestrain#?#ok i need to sleep#gn chat
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noctis showing up at the monastery one day with a child in his arms like uh. i have another kid now apparently? and shiro just nods his head, thinking of shura like. yeah. he knows how that is.
tsukumo doesn't talk at all those first few months. it's clear she's been deeply traumatized by something, but she eventually starts to come out of her shell.
yukio is just happy not to be the youngest child anymore, lol.
having tsukumo around helps teach rin to be more gentle.
yukio listens to izumo's backstory and just quietly does the math. thinks about how much 'tsukiko' looks like izumo and abruptly realizes they've been living with izumo's missing little sister this entire time.
(they WILL be confronting noctis about this later)
noctis has to watch them all eat the food from fox alley. because he can't tell them about the drugs in it, because he's not supposed to know about the drugs in it. he makes sure they all eat every bite of shiemi's grass sandwiches. and he does too, for good measure.
(noctis, grabbing rin by the collar when he jets off to go buy more of the food: nope. not doing that)
naturally, noctis teaches rin to cook!
noctis struggling to help the twins with their homework after a certain point. it dimly occurs to him that he's technically a high school dropout. but does it really count of his high school was destroyed?
his desire to become an exorcist- and therefore his need to get into true cross academy- is what helps motivate rin to devote more time to his studies. he's never going to be a straight A student, but he's a solid C+ student at least!
(if he gets B- or higher, noctis always celebrates. no one knows the struggle better. naturally, he celebrates yukio's accomplishments just as much!)
noctis: okay. it's weird as hell, but I think I've gotten used to the twins calling me dad.
shiro: oh. you can call me shiro, you know.
noctis: ....well that's going to be incredibly awkward and weird.
noctis has to regularly fight the urge to metaphorically bubble-wrap yukio. he utterly and completely failed his brother in his own timeline, so he desperately wants to protect him here... but he also knows that yukio would hate that, because he knows his brother.
shiro, once the truth about noctis' identity is out: so. noctis, huh.
noctis: i don't want to hear that from guilty silverwolf.
the impure king's left eye still gets stolen and noctis just looks at mephisto like. hey. really?
the exorcism world is in tizzy after the fallout. how could it not be? after all, a wave of blue flames engulfed the mountain but only burned away the impure king. meanwhile noctis just whistles like damn wow. blue flames? that's crazy. who could have done that.
(it's kind of a bittersweet feeling, watching his friends go out and have fun in kyoto with the younger version of himself and yukio. like. ah. in his heart he still considers them his friends, but he's not part of their number anymore.)
lewin conducting his investigation into the blue night, just like he does in canon. it's not hard to guess from his appearance that noctis might be an azazel clone, but curiously he can't find a trace of his records. it's almost like he doesn't exist!
noctis can see the way lewin looks at rin and yukio, and he's not sure he likes it. somehow it didn't occur to him that lewin's investigation might be a major problem to keeping both his own origin and the twins' origin a secret.
whatever happens, noctis is determined to not like yukio got to the Illuminati. that's where everything went downhill in his timeline. it'll be fine, he tries to convince himself. after all, rin hasn't even awakened yet!
(in the aftermath of mephisto getting shot and being forced to drop the barrier around the artificial gehenna gate, rin's seal finally begins to weaken. noctis is telling the exwires to stay home- let the adults handle the fallout, but rin isn't having that. he doesn't like the idea of sitting around and doing nothing.
they fight- and for the first time, rin flares up.
the exwires watch in horror as rin bursts into blue flame. rin stares at himself in horror, because he knows what blue flames mean, except... they aren't hurting him. he's fine.
noctis stares at rin in horror, because he can see everything unravel around him. no. this can't be happening. he should have had more TIME.)
there's also this time travel idea I've been rotating since this morning in which a Rin from a failed timeline is sent back to the past by Mephisto... and then, upon arrival, is promptly put in charge of raising his infant self + Yukio... also by Mephisto.
(the man saw his chance to do something really funny and took it.)
some assorted thoughts about this one, in no particular order:
upon arrival, Mephisto instructs older!rin to pick a new alias- no, you can't pick Rinka. that would stand out too much. so in all of his cringy sixteen year old glory, Rin names himself Noctis on the spot, bc it sounds cool as hell and he definitely won't regret it when he gets older.
(he absolutely does)
yukio: dada.
noctis: huh!? no! i'm your nii-san, yukio! i'm way too young to be a father!
(noctis struggles valiantly, but he is fighting a losing battle. or: rin's teen dad arc.)
older!rin is the white haired version of himself, to further differentiate himself from younger!rin. of course, this does not stop the two of them from having an uncanny resemblance, so any time the twins introduce him as their foster father, people just look between Noctis and Rin and are like. doubt.png.
Shiro is still roped into becoming the Paladin by Mephisto. as far as he knows, Yuri's twins are being raised by some other unfortunate soul. imagine his shock when a few years in, he comes across a pair of familiar children at a local park under the care of someone who looks equally as familiar.
for a brief moment, Shiro mistakes him for Satan- but it can't be. Satan would never make that kind of expression. but was there another Azazel clone running around other than him? there's no way this guy isn't one, right? that resemblance is uncanny.
(older!rin's cover story is that he's a misfit Azazel clone who got a little too much demon in him, and was thus raised away from Section 13.)
and then he finds out that the guy is only nineteen. Shiro does the math. Mephisto put a sixteen year old boy in charge of taking care of children- which, well. fuck. okay. he's definitely intervening.
(or: becoming friends with his father is a little awkward at first, but Noctis comes to enjoy it, eventually.)
Mephisto gives Noctis a new demon sword and puts him to work right away as an exorcist. no using your own flames, though! we can't let people know there's two of you running around!
Noctis goes and picks up Kuro like, first thing. sorry old man, but he's stealing your familiar. he's really open about being an exorcist to the twins, since he knows he sucks at lying- and the less of it he has to do, the better.
he understands why his old man did it, but he doesn't want yukio to become an exorcist. instead he tries to introduce him to friendly demons like kuro and the greenmen, so he knows they're not all scary- and does not realize he himself is doing like, half of the heavy lifting there.
(rin and yukio both know their foster father is a first generation nephilim. yukio suspects that noctis really is their father, but just refuses to admit it for some reason. is it because he doesn't want them to know they're nephilim too? rin's strength makes it pretty obvious...)
this, ironically, leads to the outcome where both of the twins tell him that they want to join the exorcism cram school in high school. noctis' brain just does a record scratch. hwuah? huh? unexpected outcome????
the older his younger self gets, the more noctis begins to understand why shiro didn't tell him the truth until he couldn't hide it any longer in the original timeline. plus. you know. he has the additional wrinkle of being rin from the future, which is just SO awkward.
noctis gets into fierce arguments with mephisto about changing the past. he wants to prevent things like what happened to shiemi, or the lab in inari, but mephisto counters with the hard to argue fact that if they do prevent those things from happening, the timeline could very quickly spiral out of control. the future could get worse than the one you came from.
mephisto: but since you enjoy being a father so much, why don't you raise kamiki-san's younger sister?
noctis: hwuha!?
(additional child acquired)
mephisto also ropes noctis into teaching at cram school as a swordsmanship instructor, just in time for a familiar batch of cram school students to enroll...
noctis: wow... they're all so young...
noctis: wait. FUCK.
(despite that, he doesn't look a day over 25 even though he's actually 31. it gets on shiro's nerves constantly. you don't have any right to complain about getting old! you don't even get back pain!)
mephisto: I'm surprised you are not trying to prevent me from recruiting shima as a spy.
noctis: nah, that's like enrichment for him.
(noctis watching rin and shiemi interact like. i am going to be the world's most embarrassing father about this.)
(or: older!rin's journey from "don't call me dad" to "fuck it. i'm their father now")
#if noctis had his way then rin's seal would never break#but at the same time he knows that's not realistic.#when he finds out the truth. yukio wants to be so mad at noctis for lying to them for so long#except. noctis is rin from the future. but if noctis is rin from the future then why is he *alone*?#noctis au
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You chose your enemies. You chose your consequences.
#Darth Vader#Anakin Skywalker#This is a redraw of sorts‚ I've needed to destress and new things were not in the cards for the night.#Majority of the rework was done with a mouse. That level of stress. But you know. Good for Vaderism.#I did first re-draw him on the tablet to look more like hayden. However that was quickly scratched as I transfered to the pc.#Doomed to have Anakins that are hard to recognize‚ what can I say.#Star Wars#Star Wars Art#Darth Vader fanart#Anakin Skywalker fanart#Anakin#sw art#Suitless Vader#Vader#vaderkin#buns.d#buns.all#Tumblr shadowbanned this one for some reason so it'll just be this way I guess. Not even posting it with 2 tags allowed it through. So.#edit: I reuploaded a fixed face version#edit2: well it seems tumblr did unban this post after 2 days#Star Wars Fanart
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I drew all of my historical AU Sebs!!!!



In order they are(with relevant links to lore info if you are curious!!): Napoleonic Hussar Seb(x), Renaissance Muse Seb(x) and Boy King/Emperor Seb(x)
Let me know which you like best!!!
#oh my fucking god this was truly the endurance race of drawing sessions#i just drew for four hours straight or so......FUN!#and it is now almost 5 am on a school night so pls wish me luck in school haha#basically this spawned from me seeing if i could sketch all 3 of my Sebs easily and then whoops 4 hours later they are finished!#i think now i can draw the hussar uniform with my eyes closed. it was so comforting to draw honestly ;;;;#this is actually the first time ive drawn boy king seb with colors!! so i think it turned out pretty well?#hey guys do you notice what all of the Sebs have in common...? they all have a gold motif...GOLDEN BOY CODED!!!#anyways i think the most developed of these AUs is boy king seb which is funny bcs its the one ive created most recently#but gaahhhhhh ive done so much research and im literally brainrotting over it constantly#now i need to draw fernando in his 3 AUs hahaha but drwing Seb is sooooo much more easy/comfy for me#did you guys also notice i have a fondness for a specific seb hairstyle? malaysia 2010 my truly beloved youve served me so well#i mentioned this already but like i dont get how drawing these kinds of clothing is far more preferable to me than drawing racesuits#well anyways i have so much fun researching into these different eras!! and then very fun to mix it with the drivers#im very surprised i was able to draw this. im not usually able to draw good chibi anatomy#but like seriously i think i was posessed by my thoughts of boy king seb and i just couldnt stop drawing#in didnt really have any mental roadblocks which is surprising#but then again these drawings are me mixing my two major interests atm so ofc it'll come to me easily and make me passionate!!#anyways time to go sleep pwease dont let this flop my hands literally are overheated from drawing LMFAO#catie.art.#sebastian vettel#f1#formula 1#f1 fanart#formula 1 art#formula 1 fanart#f1 art#boy king au#renaissance muse au#hussar au
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Adele hummed. She needed to pick her words carefully. She remembers feeling the way Adam does so vividly. She so desperately wanted someone by her side, but the thought terrified her at the same time.
Adele: You've done nothing wrong, not one thing. Lucifer was meant to guide you to teach you. And he failed. Lilith failed at her role, and so did Eve. Their punishing you because you follow the rules. Because you're good... perfect.
Adam's eyes widened: P-Perfect...? Like the angels said? You... you think that? Really?
Adele smiled and took a major risk. She slowly reached her hand up and touched his cheek. The way he flinched broke her heart. She remembered being this scared. It was exhausting being on the alert all the time.
But, she was surprised when Adam slightly leaned into her hand. Smiling, she cupped his cheek properly, running her thumb slowly over the soft skin.
Adele: I know it.
She smiled warmly when Adam started to tear up and leaned forward and onto her shoulder. He was shaking as he started to cry.
Even Adele felt herself tear up as she gently wrapped her arms around Adam and rubbed his back.
Adele: You're okay, Ad. You're okay. You're safe now. You're safe with me.
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She rubbed his back even long after it grew tired and sore. It was getting late, and for the first time on over 10,000 years, she was finally seeing the night sky from Eden. It was always beautiful.
Adam: ...Are you tired? Do you want me to show you where I sleep?
Adele smiled down at him: I'd like that.
The First Man’s Bride
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Darkness, pure black darkness surrounded Adam.
What he assumed was his soul was floating around in this endless vastness of nothing. He had no idea how long he was here. Could have been just a couple hours or hundreds of years.
Time was a fickle thing here.
There was nothing to tell him how long it’s been since his second death. As a matter of fact there was nothing here except him and his inner thoughts.
He tried screaming in the beginning. Begging for help, but no one answered.
Not even the Holy Spirit when he called for him. Then again it had been awhile since last they spoke.
He had never felt so utterly alone. That was saying something.
This was worse than when Lilith left.
This was worse than when she took his only friend.
This was worse than they worked together to seduce his second wife.
This was worse than when he finally perished the first time and learned that only a few of his children had made it.
This was worse then when the meetings regarding the extermination began and every single time he was reminded by his former friend and his exes, plural as in both Eve and Lilith were by his side, that he had no one but himself.
He never did understand what act he committed to make them all hate him so.
But then again he was never really good enough for anyone.
Except, maybe Lute who cried for him when he had fallen in battle.
He hoped that she would watch over his children for him. Maybe he wasn’t the best parent in existence. But that didn’t mean he didn’t care.
He just didn’t know how to express it. After all he didn’t have much to go on when it came from love.
…He wished that he had someone to show him true love.
He wished that in the beginning he had a friend. A true friend.
Someone to never stray from his side and protect him from all that he had gone through.
In that moment his wish was heard.
For the first time in a long time he felt the touch of someone. Then he was surged forward into the light.
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Adam didn’t know how long he was out for. When he was brought from the darkness from the suddenness of it all he fell unconscious.
But soon he was up again, sort of.
He heard voices surround him, he opened his eyes flinching from the light before he finally adjusted to it.
Who he saw left him in utter and complete shock.
There Sera was standing before him looking down at him with such a soft expression. One that he hadn’t seen on her in years.
Sera: Welcome to life third woman.
While Adam was confused by her words and their surroundings, it looked just like his first home, but it couldn’t be…could it?
But the absolute thing that left him baffled and maybe a little scared was when he turned to see himself staring back at him with wide, curious eyes.
Sera: Adam this is Adele your new bride.
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promising myself that if I send in five job applications or more in the next 24 hours I can give myself a little treat (an 8x10 of paulie I saw on eBay that made me downright critically DEHYDRATED for that man)
#do we think I can do it?#I've got one already that I want to apply for but I haven't yet because Laptop#unfortunately I need to find a new job in a new fucking city that I don't necessarily choose but I'm hoping I can make a great new start-#outta this. but jesus in this job market my anxiety is turbo charged#for someone that is Aggressively Mid at pretty much everything I touch I'm shitting BRICKS#on the bright side I can consider myself a jack of all trades; master of none#so like. that's handy I guess? that's basically what being a PA is. you just do whatever needs to be done#but you never do specific things on a regular enough basis to be like Oh I Fuckin Got This#except floor directing. floor directing my BELOVEDDDDDD#you'll have to pry it out of my cold dead hands. gimme the late nights free flowing coffee and summoning cheerleader energy out of nowhere#and im in my fuckin ELEMENT. bitch you better believe I make sure my talent knows what needs to happen and when it needs to happen!!!!#I have never been good at being social for a day in my life but. put me in an environment I am at home in with majority people I'm-#-comfortable with and I turn into a fuckin social BUTTERFLY#I have at least one mutual here that's a witness. I swear on my life. something in me changes when it's five minutes to studio
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My semester project for art class, "Streams of Being"
Forgot to post it earlier but I'm kinda proud of the way it turned out actually :)






The task was basically to make a piece that relates to the topic of water in any medium we like as long as we plan it out thoroughly (which I didn't do lol, I mean I have thought about it a lot before starting but I wrote actual planning notes for that afterwards because come on. The flow of the process is important)
I decided to try and visualise the different aspects of identity through different states of water because I generally like to compare humans to nature, draw parallels between everything and stuff. I don't want to explain it all because I prefer y'all to interpret it yourselves, and I've had enough of explaining it in school. I think art should speak for itself instead. But anyways, just wanted to share it with you guys :)
#my art#I mean considering that the majority of the art I make is character art and not philosophical conceptual stuff#I do think that this piece turned out rather nicely#it was all done in one night btw because how else do you do art#concept art#water#mixed media#I don't even know
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my ass has, once again, failed at the make-fic-shorter edits by rewriting entire paragraphs for conciseness and accidentally adding 200 words to the chapter.
#texts.#it's fine it's fine. this chapter is the first major change in DTT from ACFD so it was bound to happen.#anyhoo. the rewrite for it is done it just needs to undergo one more round of polish before it goes live.#but it is saturday night which means it is time for me to head out for the rest of the day.#chap will probs be out late tomorrow.
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One day I want to write an AU where Dante and Vergil were actually born a few hundred/thousand years pre-story, which is something Dante tries to hide while Vergil doesn't. I have 2 main ideas for it- DMC1/3 Fusion AU and DMC4 AU. These got long, so I'm putting them under the cut!
In the DMC1 AU, it'd be sort of like a combination of the anime, DMC3, and what you see in DMC1. Dante'd look like he's in his late 20s for this one. He and Lady would meet because they've both been hired for the same job, then encounter each other on some odd jobs before they end up working together on a big one. Maybe Arkham killed Kalina Ann when Lady was a teenager, but didn't manage to enact the rest of his plans right away so Lady's been chasing him for a decade, hunting demons in hopes of finding a lead. Dante meanwhile just likes the human world, so he goes from place to place hunting demons until it gets too suspicious he's not aging and he has to leave. This AU'd have branching paths at the big job they take take together: the Temen-ni-gru or Mallet Island. In both cases Dante and Vergil haven't spoken for a while. Vergil's gone silent for years or even a decade or two in the past, but he'll have a bad feeling about this particular silence (for good reason).
The main difference between the two would be who Arkham allies with. In both cases, Lady isn't aware of how old Dante is, or just *who* he is until partway through. She knows he's part demon, but with the way he acts she assumes he's actually in his late twenties and the kid of a demon that was probably fairly powerful, but unknown. But the truth would come out partway through, which...would maybe change things, maybe not. It would be a shock regardless.
Back to the branches though, in Mallet you could go with the plot where Arkham is trying to revive Mundus, so Dante intervenes. This one would have a Nelo Angelo bit (making Dante feel terrible because he'd just allowed Mundus to do whatever he wanted with Vergil for who knows how long, all because he hadn't bofhered to check up on his unusually silent brother). I might have a sort of B-plot involving Lady, Arkham, and Trish to accompany the Dante, Mundus, and Vergil angle.
With the Temen-ni-gru, it would be your classic Arkham+Vergil relationship, but with a much older Vergil he wouldn't be tricked by Arkham this time. Arkham would think he has Vergil in the palm of his hand until he clearly doesn't and Vergil deals a fatal blow as soon as Arkham pulls off his betrayal. I think Lady would be pissed Vergil stole her kill, but ultimately have to back down for the Dante vs Vergil fight because with that many extra years under their belts, she'd be no match. Seeing them would be an interesting contrast though, because Vergil so clearly clings to the past (he'd be in a more Renaissance style than Dante) while Dante's all about the present and human world. This one...I think would be harder to resolve than the other one, because I'm not sure how Dante would convince someone so set in his ways (again, hundreds of years old at a minimum) to change, but it could be fun to play with.
As for the DMC4 AU, this one would be a case where Nero is still a teenager, and Dante's really surprised because oh boy, who in the *world* managed to convince Vergil to sleep with them when he'd been so uptight for centuries? And Dante's excited to have a family member and can't help but mess with them.
I think in this one it might also be fun if Fortuna was aware that Sparda had children because then you'd have a case where people potentially worship said children, whether or not they realize it's Dante. Maybe Vergil ruled Fortuna for a little while after Sparda left and that meant people knew he existed. Dante hadn't been aware he'd apparently come back, but Nero's proof enough so he's really going to have to have a talk with Vergil the next time he returns from his travels. I'm not set on whether the people of Fortuna would know that Sparda had twins, or if they'd just know about Vergil and thus be in denial that Dante could possibly be the son of Sparda because he's *so* different. In either case eventually people (or at least Nero and Kyrie) would have to reconcile Dante with the figure they'd been worshipping and that would be hard (and for Dante, hilarious). I think in this one I might make Lady part of a bloodline that has fought alongside Sparda since he split the Human and Demon worlds, sort of like the Castlevania series with Alucard and the Belmonts, while Trish would be someone Dante recruited a few decades to centuries ago (importantly, she's younger than him).
In this one I think part of the driving force would be that Dante wants humanity to be able to protect itself/prove its worth, or for Nero to protect them/prove his worth, because if they/Nero don't then Dante's worried Vergil might instead deem humanity a scourge and do something bad.
The plot of DMC4 revolves around humans using demons to fuel their own power, and in this case I think Dante will have found out about what Fortuna was doing too late to erase what they've done, so it's a case where humans need to prove that there are more good humans than bad humans so Vergil doesn't slam down the hammer. Dante can encourage them in the right direction, but he can't carry them the whole way. If he does then Vergil will deem his interference proof of humanity's weakness and do...Dante isn't totally sure what, but he doesn't like how Vergil's been the past few decades and he's increasingly been feeling like Vergil might decide he's had enough of the human world and side with the members of the demon world Dante *knows* have been slipping through the border to speak to Vergil. And while Dante doesn't think he'd *lose* to Vergil, the battle would lead to immense destruction and would weaken them enough that Dante's fairly sure Mundus or some other demon would take advantage of the chance to invade the human world while they're in no state to defend it.
...Anyway! That's two/three ideas for first that I will...maybe get to, one day, once I finish the million other fic ideas I have. I just really like the concept of "totally goofy guy is actually super old" or "frustratingly unserious guy is actually one of the guys you grew up worshipping, somehow." I think there's a lot of room for fun there.
#erurandomness#erubabbles#eruwrites#dmc#eru hcs#i have SO MANY IDEAS but right now all my time is being funneled into leveling my crafters and gatherers in FFXIV...#expansion drop is the best time to make money but also i need them leveled before savage drops so i can craft my raid gear#i've made i think 8mil so far this expansion? but that's not enough for a pentamelded raid set#also that's barely enough to buy the new mount. and i'm someone who likes collecting mounts#i really shouldn't be so uptight about this. i have 82 million gil and i own a medium house so i don't have much to spend it on#i'm not interested in the 50mil gil mounts#but i DO want the night pegasus and eureka mounts which are expensive#...but i really want to get those as drops myself#same thing with the eureka orthos mount. i've beaten it 3 times and no drop. potd i've beaten once#and got to 181 once and 190 once. so i had many chances for pegasus but no drop#anyway that's all ffxiv and this is a dmc post so i'll stop rambling here#maybe i will start on this while i work on my other longfics#right now i have one at 62k and one at 96k i think? wips. and then one that's 'done' at 10k that need major overhauls bc im not happy w/it#plus 4 or 5 others that are at 1-8k i think#i have so many dmc fics guys. i just. am having problems with being happy with my writing quality so i haven't posted any...
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am i seriously gonna need to write analysis into why fx isnt classist???



#at this point i feel like we need an arsenal of posts where we can go when someone propegates the echochamber of freezing cold fx takes#'fx was so mean to mq tho???' have you maybe considered that mq also acts like a prick sometimes?#there is a difference between insulting someone who happens to be in a lower class vs insulting someone BECAUSE OF said lower class status#i dont give a fuck if mq was a king or criminal— if you act like a dick you are acting like a dick#and if you dish it out you better be able to fucking take it#like why are we even on this again? 'omg ive been waiting for someone call fx out!' since when? last tuesday? bruh#this take may be arctic in temperature but it sure aint fkn original#ok now that im far enough into my own tags to prob not get shot...#this is why i have such a bad taste in my mouth abt fq esp in fic bc the majority of content i see is written by ppl who say shit like this#and yeah fandom is fandom idgaf who writes what or how if you wrote a fic more power to you and no one should be criticizing it#but omfg#this fake 'mq stan at the expense of everyone who ever wronged him' mindset#is srsly just robbing ppl of the fun in rhetorically picking at wonderfuly complex character he is#ok im done#i need to sleep instead of think abt mq for the... uh... 3rd??? night this week lol#alex talks#rant#...i guess
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Daily November crying sessions start today
#why. who. how. how tf does my professor think it's okay to assign 4 major assignments in the same amount of weeks + 4-6 readings every week#all of which are ~20 pages.#i've got all that to do and another big assignment for a different class. plus the weekly readings and reflections for that one.#and i have work.#i've stupidly decided to volunteer for a thing on saturday in the hopes of bulking up my resume + rubbing elbows with the administration.#and i have a medical thing on friday and i'll be looped out and likely will have to sleep half the day. probably won't get ANY work done.#what else..... some fairly easy stuff for my other class thank GOD. but a lot of reading and preparing for a few big essays.#november is the month i hate the fucking most. i always lose my mind in november. and no wonder!!!!!!#meanwhile people are bugging me to hang out. i will be in a student-coma until approx. the first week of december. see you then. peace.#oh and my BIL + SIL sitting me down and showing me all their europe honeymoon photos for 2 HOURS last night is also not helping my mood.#fuck you lol#like i'm happy for you and nice photos but also? Fuck You.#if i can offer some dark humour though.....#my fic axis exists because of a legitimate smidge of insanity i experienced last year. it shifted the way i looked at the world and at grie#sooooo i wonder what kind of fic my mind will crank out this time?#i don't think i'm at risk of losing it this year though. doesn't seem that way. but we'll see!#i can write/draw good things without sacrificing my mental health first i can write/draw good things without sacrificing my mental health f#rst i can write/draw good things without sacrificing my mental health first i can write/draw good things without sacrificing my mental heal
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@beatingheart-bride
"Yes."
The answer came without hesitation, and why shouldn't it? The idea of being parted again was one that brought a sharp pang to his chest-not only because it would mean he would be separated from the woman he loved once more by death (even if they got much more time together than they did before), but it would also mean Emily would be alone again. He would be dead, and she would walk the ages alone once more, unable to love again.
And...then what? Would he be reborn again, and she would have to find him again and remind him of their past together? Would he believe her next time? And if he did believe her, would the cycle merely repeat itself, him dying and leaving her alone for who knew how long until he was by chance reincarnated, and she found him again? No. No, he couldn't put her through that heartache again, nor could he bear to live a life without her again.
Threading their fingers together to give her hand a firm and loving squeeze, Randall looked deeply into Emily's eyes, confirming softly, "Yes, my heart, yes. I want to be with you always, and if that means turning...then so be it."
As he said this, he closed his eyes and lovingly pressed his forehead against hers... ...allowing him to miss the sight of the two figures lurking in the shadows of the staircase, listening in on the conversation.
#((y'know i'm of two minds on that kill; because on the one hand; the visual of the blood from the mouth))#((dripping into the popcorn is a very effective one! it reminds me of something i'd see in an ad for 'halloween horror nights'))#((with the character of the usher; who kills anyone who breaks the rules of the theater))#((and the fact that it takes so long for anyone to realize he's dead is effectively creepy! however...it just makes no sense!))#((how the hell did chucky do it? when i first watched it; i thought he may have stabbed him in the back))#((or something like that; but that doesn't make any sense either! hitting a major artery feels like the only answer))#((but i'm still not sure how chucky pulled it off and i want to know how! i'm with you and james; it earned the dull machete!))#((i know he wasn't the most major character in the season; but still; i wish they could've done a little more))#((to show how it happened! it would've made the kill a lot more impactful if they did!))#outofhatboxes#beatingheart-bride#V:Dark Shadows
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ughughugh
#sad day for me despite all the booping#found out one of my fam’s cats died last night#and then my husband tested positive for covid so now i’m having to isolate all weekend so i can try and not get it 😔#but i already feel bad but luckily still testing negative#so took a sick day anyway which sending those emails gives me major anxiety but like who wants a sick person in their office cmon???#also my job could be done at home 95% of the time but we only get one day at home 😭#so that could solve this but instead now yall get no work out of me ya played yourself#just gonna huddle and cry and boop all day then#pet death tw#katie.txt
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Far Beyond the Stars//Don't Come Back
CW FOR DEPICTIONS OF POLICE BRUTALITY + DEATH
(song is Don't Come Back by O'Death)
*sounds better with headphones btw
#HEYYYOO ITS DONE. BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR THE PAST UHH FOREVER#hit a major fucking block about halfway throough sooooo evil because the first half was so smooth#everything lined up so perfectly i seriously put it together in like one night#i still dont know if this is good.heh idc pretending like idc i like it so idc if it's bad. hello#also if u look into odeaths discography because of rhis. i will not explain myslef. okay maybe i will. maybe i would actually like to expl#ain this one#not gonna explain my taste in music BUT my inspo for this video#i watched this episode then listened to the song amd envisioned this video so perfectly in my mind. idk y#also the frame jumps around i mnow i know sorry i know. i can't be fucked to figure out how to fix it sorry#deep space nine#star trek#deep space nine: far beyond the stars#far beyond the stars#benjamin sisko#ds9 sisko#video#edit#sir i protest i am not a merry man
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