#the robot killed his creator.. huh

[arthursfuckinghat]

Epilogue 2 - John Marston

[yallemagne]

So I finished the first season of X-Men: The Animated Series of course. Highlights?

Episode 1 & 2: Night of the Sentinels

Jubilee's father really fuckin sold her out huh? And holy shit the fucking sentinels. Dog, why did you MAKE THEM SO BIG. I had expected like that they started small and got bigger ones when the X-Men were revealed, but no, without even alerting the nation that they were making these robots, they sent a giant ass robot into a mall to capture one teenager.

Me pointing out "huh Morph is getting a lot of moments here, I like it" followed by them immediately dying. Like damn. They really did that. No wonder the creators backed out of having Thunderbird be in Morph's role, that would have just been insulting. Especially since he probably wouldn't have been brought back.

"Tell Cyclops... I made him a convertible."

Cyclops refuses to apologize for leaving without Morph and Beast but instead offers Logan an opportunity for revenge. It's so them. These petty bastards.

Episode 3: Enter Magneto

Beast... you're so silly. So, Beast refuses a rescue by Magneto (he's imprisoned) because "I'm awaiting a fair trial that will prove my innocence"... girl. You are a giant blue man. So, yeah, another case where Magneto was right.

Sabretooth is such a fake-ass bitch, I love it. So, he shows up at the trial causing a ruckus and gets injured and the X-Men take him in and start treating him like their pathetic little meow meow. This couldn't possibly go wrong.

"Come on, they're gonna kill him!" "Good." *turns around* "WHAT?"

"He's a threat." "He was near death." "Not near enough."

They just keep giving Wolverine all the best lines.

Episode 4: Deadly Reunions

Sabretooth, my poor little meow meow... all you did was a few itty bitty kitty murders... That's what Charles is saying at the start of this episode.

Xavier truly does try to get to the root of Sabretooth's anger with some super therapy, but alas, Sabretooth is just That Bitch. We do know that a competent telepath can temper his anger though, just look at Birdy.

They leave Jubilee alone with him acknowledging full well "this man is more dangerous than Wolverine... have fun babysitting!" He's restrained in a chair growling "let me at 'em" as Senator Kelly is being racist on TV and Jubilee very kindly turns it off and he's like "sowwy I'm twying to be a good boy... 😿" So of course Jubilee sees his restraints are hurting his wrists and releases him to help. Hahahaha. Oh girl.

If this were a show being produced today, I could totally see Sabretooth being accepted by the X-Men because "daww look he's angry just like you Wolverine" being drawn out into a longer arc where he actually gains their trust so it creates a genuine rift in the team... but also maybe he's not that patient for a scheme like that.

(also I know the show probably isn't going with the continuity that they're blood-related, but Wolverine telling them Sabretooth is nothing but trouble and getting hit with "but he's just like you 🥺" is very brother-coded okay?? Anyone who has a terrible older brother can relate.)

"Alright you egg-sucking piece of gutter trash. You always liked pushing around people smaller than you. WELL, I'M SMALLER! TRY PUSHING ME!!" << that's some little brother dialogue.

(… Morph would have listened to Wolverine about Sabretooth. Morph knows the Deep Lore.)

Episode 5: Captive Hearts

Callisto saw Cyclops and immediately said "I'm gonna make him my trophy husband", and while that is a valid reaction, no means no, hun.

They literally establish Storm as the Morlock's future Moses basically with her promising to come back for them when the time is right and they feel safe to breech the surface. And then they gave Magneto that role in '97. Ugh. He has the nerve to say Xavier just left them down there when it was in fact Storm that respected their right to self-determination.

Episode 6: Cold Vengeance

I love every time I see Sabretooth, he's just so silly-looking. No wonder everyone else imprinted on him like "hehe silly orange kitty" he's so BIG. He's incredibly top-heavy, just look at his bazongas.

We got through this with no sacrifice of Inuit life but a sombre sentiment that they'll be abandoning the old ways rather than rebuilding their homes.

Episode 7: Slave Island

Jubilee and Gambit have a nice little dynamic. He's the first person Jubilee used her powers to protect and she does it multiple times. I imagine he's like her cool older brother with street smarts.

No wonder Gambit was suspicious of Genosha in '97. Can't really trust that all is well when the foundation of that place was quite literally built with slavery.

This just makes Magneto's "tsk tsk Charles didn't use his wealth and resources to ship a load of UNWILLING Morlocks to Genosha for their own good" comment in '97 all the more frustrating. Man can be a dumbass.

Anyway--- CABLE CABLE CABLE. My silly little big boy.

Episode 8: The Unstoppable Juggernaut

Juggernaut is such a funny guy. I feel like usually, the big guys don't get to be the wise-cracking type, so this piece of shit was fun to watch.

Also just love Colossus, he's perfect.

Episode 9: The Cure

It's hard to feel bad for Warren when he's literally rich and funding a project that can be easily weaponized to hurt mutants. Sure, he was tricked and wasn't actually funding his "cure", but it would have been awful even if he got what he wanted. Just wear one of those collars for the rest of your life, jackass.

HOW IS NO ONE CHECKING IN ON THIS RESEARCH?? This experimentation on human beings is taking place with no government interference???

Pyro and Avalanche are fucking don't even try to convince me otherwise. Pyro, I don't care where you are from, I'm gonna be so weird about you calling every man you meet “darling”.

Episode 10: Come the Apocalypse

The public will see literally any villain and be like "A RENEGADE MUTANT!!" Like yeah sure I think Apocalypse technically is a mutant?? But like they really just profile all criminals as mutants.

Again, not sorry for you, rich boy.

Poor Rogue, having to absorb all these men's damage.

Episode 11 & 12: Days of Future Past

Bishop is a fucking traitor holy shit. Sure he gets better but damn. Girly was really like "The face-eating jaguars would never eat my face." and then was immediately told he was no longer needed.

"Someone... or something has come back through the time portal." "CHECK PLEASE! TIME PORTAL?"

"You kids better behave yourselves; I'm staying behind to babysit."

"Okay, ROUND BOY. Let's dance."

Wolverine has all the best lines.

Wonder why Mystique specifically chose to impersonate Gambit for the assassination. Perhaps he seemed the most likely? Perhaps a grudge against him for his relationship with Rogue?

Episode 13: The Final Decision

I'm so fucking disappointed that the fate of mutantkind lies in the hands of Senator Kelly because, dog, I wanna shoot him.

When you make a giant racist robot factory and even the giant racist robot factory is smart enough to recognize that mutant rights are human rights and so it resolves to protect humanity by replacing it with robots. Fucking dumbasses.

Honestly makes you wonder what the fuck Trask thought he was doing coming back in the new series. He knew that starting up another Master Mold would inevitably lead to the robots replacing politicians' brains with computers and he DID IT AGAIN ANYWAY.

Seeing Chuck and Magnus working together always warms my heart. And then they go right back to being enemies.

That Mister Sinister teaser at the end was... I'm not gonna say it.

[snowe-zolynn-rogers]

Pairings: None

Word Count: 2,835 Words

Summary: Eclipse's found family finds him.

Warnings: Robot Gore, Injury, Amputation, Cursing, Near Death, PTSD, Panic Attack, Trauma, Surgery, Sibling Bonding, Angst with a serving of Fluff, Bathing Together (platonic, neither have bits down there), SFW Tickling, let me know if I should add anything else.

Found Family

Eclipse groaned pulling himself from the ball pit. What was left of him, at least. His left arm had had the hand ripped off and his right leg was missing from below the knee, his internals were attempting to pour out the deep gashes of claws in his stomach.

His right side upper faceplate had been ripped off along with right eye having been torn from its socket and wires. There was a deep gash down his left leg, leaving the limb half numb. And his chest and back had most of its casing mauled off, leaving his scratched endo and frame exposed and vulnerable.

He’d barely finished crawling his way from the ball pit before he saw a figure standing over him like a sadistic god and the blue he saw told him that this wasn’t the best person to find him this injured.

“So ya fucked up?” Moon asked, crouching before him and Eclipse glared with his remaining eye, this was all Moon’s fucking fault and Eclipse seethed at him.

“I went to kill him and he tried to destroy me!” Eclipse crackled out his half-broken voice box.

“Sad little worm, huh? Welp.” Moon stood up, slapping his thighs as he did so. “That’s a problem taken care of. I’m gonna go out and celebrate. You try to die quietly if you can.” Moon patted his aching head and Eclipse growled to keep him off, attempting to grab Moon’s hand and bite it since it was all he really could do at the moment. But Moon was quicker and got his hand away.

“Hey everyone, I’m buying shots! It’s celebration time!” Moon called through the daycare as he left to the upper level of the daycare as everyone followed him out of the daycare, shutting the lights off as he did so, leaving Eclipse in the darkness with just the ceiling of glowy stars illuminating barely to the top of the play structures.

Eclipse’s engines whirred on high as Eclipse used his remaining hand and the forearm of his left arm to crawl his way away from the ball pit and to the security desk, dragging and pulling down the emergency med kit and haphazardly dumping it on the ground with his right hand so he could get the contents.

His first grab was an ACE bandage, which he tried to put on his stomach with his one hand to some success. It looked sloppy as hell but his insides would stay inside. Eclipse’s processors whirred on max, fans turning slowly because they were half broken so they couldn’t fully cool him down and coolant was leaking out of him, having made a trail from the ball pit to the security desk already.

Eclipse secured the ACE bandage and then began packing gauze into his right knee where it had been ripped off and used another ACE wrap to keep pressure on it so the oil lines wouldn’t be leaking out. He repeated the same process to his left wrist and sighed as he rested one of the instant cold packs onto his processors, relaxing into the feeling of the cold pack helping his half-broken fans to cool him down.

Eclipse saw errors flashing that coolant and oil was low and critical machinery was damaged. Of course it was, he had lost body parts! He growled in annoyance at his creator. They had basically torn him to shreds and Moon didn’t give a single damn about it.

Eclipse hadn’t been able to get a single hit in on them. It had all simply been a blur after they had admitted that they made him and to them attacking him like he was a glorified punching bag. Eclipse hadn’t had a chance to even defend himself and the thought of it, even now, was terrifying.

He shuddered just thinking of the sound and feeling of his wires and endo creaking and cracking when his creator had snapped his right calf off the knee joint and torn it off of him. And the agony of having his left hand ripped off at the joint had been horrifying. The sick crunch the joint had made had made Eclipse throw up. He wasn’t even aware he could throw up, but he had at that sound of his endo crunching and snapping.

Eclipse felt lightheaded, his breaths were coming slower and he knew this was some kind of a panic reaction. Of course he would have a panic reaction. He had succeeded at getting his creator to take out the directives but at what cost? His body nothing more than scrap metal? His mind in shambles and panic? It didn’t feel worth it. Maybe he wasn’t worth a chance.

This train of thought absolutely didn’t help the panic. He was shaking. Why was he shaking? Was the daycare shaking? No, it was him. What was this? Eclipse hadn’t ever felt panic before, not this badly. It felt worse that when he was waiting for Moon and Sun to come kill him. It felt like it was all-consuming and crushing him.

The dark didn’t help either, he hated the dark just like both of his predecessors. He knew there weren’t monsters, there weren’t, but the dark was…scary. It felt like emptiness, like being abandoned again. And it felt cold. He light lights, the stars on the ceiling just weren’t enough light. Especially since solar models didn’t have very much eyesight in the dark. It felt like being stuck into a black box with holes poked in for air but even the air felt like it wasn’t enough.

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Blood Moon had finally gone prowling around with Stitchwraith. A joy! Prowling with their acquaintance! It was a ball to finally be out of that bunker place! Blood Moon had begun their prowling in the main entrance and were now going through the daycare, which had its lights off for some reason.

Blood Moon liked the dark, it was a warm place to them, it was comforting, but the sound of staticky sobs coming from the lower daycare wasn’t all that comforting. It was quite annoying actually. They hated crying! Hated it! It was weak!

Blood Moon wanted to snuff out that incessant sobbing and the annoying attendant the crying undoubtedly came from. So they went down to the lower daycare and sniffed around for it. Thankfully, they didn’t have to look for long, finding the sobbing’s source was a curled up and mangled Solar? Was this Solar? No, the dents on the rays and the scratches on the faceplate weren’t present. Could this be…?

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Stitchwraith followed Blood Moon to the sound of crying and gave a small gasp seeing the torn down frame of the animatronic they had been slightly amicable with, at least for gaming they had been. But what the hell did Eclipse deserve this for? To be torn to shreds and left to die? He hadn’t even done anything too bad yet, he hadn’t killed anyone at least.

“Eclipse?” Stitchwraith asked, crouching by him but it seemed to go unnoticed. Was Eclipse having a panic attack? “Eclipse, hey.” Stitchwraith knew they’d get hit but they had to shake Eclipse by the shoulder to even get a slight bit of a response.

Once they did shake Eclipse’s shoulder, Eclipse whipped his left arm at them, which was missing it’s hand and was instead bandaged with gauze and an ACE bandage. The hit from Eclipse’s forearm connected with Stitchwraith’s faceplate but didn’t so much as put a scratch on them from how weak Eclipse seemed to be.

Eclipse looked up at them after, eyes wild with panic and pain, breathing going a mile a minute and extremely defensive and scared. Stitchwraith felt Blood Moon tugging on their cloak and waved their hand off to keep Blood Moon behind them. Eclipse was a more pressing matter than answering Blood Moon’s question at the moment.

“Eclipse, it’s Stitchwraith. I need you to breathe slowly for us.” Stitchwraith instructed him. Eclipse’s motors shuddered as he tried to take slow breaths for Stitchwraith. “You’re safe. Can you point to what’s scaring you the most right now?” They asked. Eclipse wordlessly pointed his shaky right pointer finger up at the lights.

“Blood Moon, go turn on the lights.” Stitchwraith instructed the twin hellions, who scampered off to go do just that at his request, the lights turning on row by row until the daycare was illuminated completely, which looked to ease some of Eclipse’s panic.

“Are you able to tell me what happened to you or is it too hard right now?” Stitchwraith asked.

“Creator…mauled me…” Eclipse’s voice was staticky and a weird echoed pitch but he could decipher it still.

“The person who made you mauled you?” Stitchwraith asked to confirm and Eclipse nodded softly. “Why did they do that?” Stitchwraith asked.

“Went to get…directives out…” Eclipse admitted.

“Your creator is a bunch of bull. That’s really all you went to do and he left you like you’re in a scrap heap?” Eclipse nodded and Stitchwraith bristled with annoyance at the audacity of Eclipse’s creator. That was downright cruelty for absolutely no reason. Eclipse didn’t deserve to be mauled over a simple ask like that. The way Eclipse’s simple ask was treated was absolutely bullshit.

“How about this, if you let Blood Moon carry you, I’ll fix you.” Stitchwraith reasoned. Stitchwraith would carry Eclipse back, give Eclipse probably couldn’t walk with a missing leg and fragile machinery desperately trying to escape Eclipse’s frame, but their arms still hurt from Blood Moon using them as a scratching post this morning as if the small bot was a damn cat.

“Okay…” Eclipse agreed and looked to Blood Moon as the red and white faced bot came scampering back down to the lower daycare and sat on the floor, looking over the situation with their head tilted to the side in confusion.

“Blood Moon, you’re going to carry him home. I need to repair him.” Stitchwraith told them.

“Aaaawwwwww, why do we have to carry the Sunman!?” Blood Moon began their usual spiel of complaining about the simplest of tasks. This bot could pick up a full cement truck but complained at picking up an animatronic that probably barely weighed more than them.

“Because our arms still hurt from being used as scratching posts. Now pick him up and be careful. Make sure you keep his stomach level, his internals are trying to be externals.” Stitchwraith sighed. Blood Moon whined a bit more but inevitably picked Eclipse up and thankfully held Eclipse as though he were some princess. It was embarrassing for Eclipse, sure, but it kept Eclipse’s insides inside him.

“Okay, come on, back home.” Stitchwraith told them and began leading Blood Moon back to their bunker and into his lab, instructing Blood Moon to gently place Eclipse on a table so he could work on him. He had most of the parts from misships and scrounging but he knew full well Eclipse would look different than he used to.

“I’m going to turn off your pain sensors but just stay awake and talk to Blood Moon for me while I work on you.” Stitchwraith told Eclipse as he got the necessary parts and tools together to fix him.

“Blood Moon?” Eclipse asked as Stitchwraith turned off the bot’s pain receptors and began to patch up and put on a replacement left hand for Eclipse.

“Yes, unholy creator?” Blood Moon sat like a cat in the chair near Eclipse’s legs.

“I’m not your creator, I never made you. That was…the original me. Before the backup in your head, before I was even a spot on the wall.” Eclipse grumbled.

“So you didn’t make us but you are an Eclipse.” Blood Moon cackled.

“I don’t know what I am.” Eclipse admitted. “I may as well have been made in a fucking petri dish in a lab. I have no clue who I am or what I am, just that I’m here and apparently my name is Eclipse and I’m the asshole everyone hates.” Eclipse huffed as Stitchwraith finished up the hand replacement and moved onto Eclipse’s right calf and foot replacement.

“You are…like us? A copy?” Blood Moon asked.

“An incomplete copy, yes. With directives and pasted memories from other points of view and a creator that rips out my directives and leaves me to the mercy of people who will just let me rot in a hole.” Eclipse was angry but he wasn’t panicking at least.

“We are incomplete as well. Memories from other people and bloodlust enhanced with less free will. Bullshit it is.” Blood Moon grumbled. Huh, odd that the two who hated each other agreed. Eclipse sighed and put his head back down on the table.

Stitchwraith finished replacing his lost calf and foot and moved onto Eclipse’s mauled open midsection and began patching the endo cage that contained Eclipse’s insides that had been ripped open. It was easier here because it was taking out the broken bits of old endo and welding in new pieces of the endo. He was also replacing broken innards as he came across them.

“We’re in the same boat then. I…I could remove it. I think. I have the original’s pasted memories too, I’m sure I could sift through and take out the bloodlust.” Eclipse told him, watching Stitchwraith more than Blood Moon now as Stitchwraith was working of Eclipse’s faceplate, fixing the wires and socket and putting in a new eyeball and replacing the half of the faceplate that had been torn off.

“Take out? You can take that out?” Blood Moon asked.

“I think so. I could try at least.” Eclipse told them, sighing now as the only thing left was his body casing, which was something easy and much less surgical. It was akin to putting on a new outfit to animatronics, especially daycare animatronics, who sometimes had to take off their casing to clean it after days in the daycare.

A calm quiet settled in the lab as Stitchwraith got Eclipse into a purple and white casing, replacing the ribbons on Eclipse’s wrists with new purple ones that weren’t stained with coolant and oil and laid out new pants and a new shirt for Eclipse to get dressed into.

“Alright, go get clean. I have a sanitizing station here, it’ll get you clean. Blood Moon, you need to get cleaned too.” Stitchwraith told him, helping Eclipse stand up and turning back on his pain sensor since there wouldn’t be as much pain to feel. He could fix minor things like Eclipse’s half-broken voice box later. What was important was getting Eclipse to feel better and not take an entire day just to fix him. Plus he didn’t have a new voice box for him just yet.

Eclipse struggled sitting up, his endo aching from what a human would consider bruises. He could feel the stiffness in his new parts and his eye was still adjusting, making him blink that eye more, which was uncomfortable but bearable because he had full sight back again now. He just let Stitchwraith help him to his feet, grateful for the help from his brother? Cousin? Acquaintance, Eclipse was going with acquaintance with the weird family tree he didn’t want to deal with.

Eclipse was passed to Blood Moon so the smaller bot could help him along and Eclipse happily used them as a sentient cane for his new stiff foot and calf that was making him limp a bit  with how little the new ankle could move yet. Blood Moon supported him, which was surprisingly actually helpful.

“But brother goes in the cleaning tube.” Blood Moon and maneuvered the both of them into the tube, helping Eclipse get off his dirty old clothes and Blood Moon threw off his mud covered clothes and stayed with his brother so they’d both get cleaned like Stitchwraith asked.

Blood Moon giggled at the sanitizing mist and roared with laughter at the brushes that came to scrub off the worst grime. Eclipse only needed the sanitizing mist to heat the coolant and oil on him enough to drip off into the drain in the floor. But Eclipse liked seeing his little brother laugh. It was nice to have this moment.

Eclipse never got to have this with…the others. But it felt nice to watch his brother laugh at the brushes going after the ticklish spots on his back. He kind of liked this, it made him feel warmth bloom in his chest that one of his siblings wasn’t scared of him or wishing him death or even leaving him to die.

Once Eclipse was clean, he left the tube while Blood Moon was still giggling up a storm getting scrubbed because he rolled in dirt from what it seemed like. Eclipse pulled on the new clothes and smoothed his hands over them, they were actually comfortable and not itchy like his old clothes. He liked being here. It felt like home.

[cantheykillmacbeth]

Clank from Ratchet and Clank games? His is a weird situation since he technically has both a mother and father despite being a robot.

Yes, Clank from the Ratchet & Clank series could kill Macbeth!

He definitely applies for the Unconventional Birth Clause, though the Birth Parent Clause could be up for debate. His mother is a computer made to create sentry-bots, who created his body via an intentional "malfunction," though his Zoni soul was created by his father Orvus, and some sources list Orvus as the "true creator of Clank," though it doesn't seem like Clank's parents have any relation to one another. Guess this is a custody battle, huh?

Thank you for your submission!

[thebibliomancer]

Essential Avengers: The Terminus Factor - Second Half

1990

WAR of the GARGANTUAS

Is that the proper plural? Huh.

Halfway into the Terminus Factor I still don't know what factor that is. I guess the real circumstance, fact, or influence that contributes to a result or outcome was the friends we made along the way.

Shrug.

In the first half of this annual event, we covered the annuals for Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor. The Captain America annual had Terminus spore launch out of a volcano and infect some fish. When a town and an Iron Man ate the fish, they became rabid. Captain America lured them up a mountain where the cold cured the infection.

BUT: in the Iron Man annual, Iron Man and Machine Man fought a bear that was also infected by the Terminus-tainted fish. No longer weak to cold, the two heroes have to defeat the Termini Bear with some molten metal. After much struggle to defeat just that one bear, they discover that dozens of other animals have been affected.

In the Thor annual, Iron Man asks Thor to protect San Francisco from a big group of Termini. Thor brings Hercules and then ditches him in San Fran to go out into space and beat up on the original Terminus for a while. Thor gets exposition dumped on and Mjolnir stolen, which OG Terminus uses to return to Earth. Meanwhile, Hercules tries to stop a bunch of Termini that have invaded a nuclear power station to eat tasty radiation. He's not able to stop them before they all combine into one new Terminus. Just in time for OG to arrive.

And that's where we are. The Terminus spores infected animals which ate titanium and radiation and merged into a new Terminus but also the original is back.

Let's get these gargantuas warring.

So where have the West Coast Avengers been while all of this has been happening? Back at home.

Specifically, Hank Pym has been using lasers to bring the robot Human Torch back to life after Evil 'n Crazy Wanda turned him off.

After flaring up like that, Jim Hammond Human Torch turns down the temp and asks if somebody could tell him the date. Only, he has a tendency to wake up decades later.

Jim is told that he hasn't been offline that long and brought up to speed on the Wanda situation. Wanda is fine, Magneto and Immortus were dealt with, and she's taking some time to rest with Quicksilver watching her.

Speak of the devil, Quicksilver shows up and tells everyone there's an emergency summon from Hercules in San Francisco.

Quicksilver: "He claims to have been battling hordes of metallic beasts he calls Termini -- and to need our help. He said Iron Man was familiar with the creatures."

Quicksilver offers to go along and help, despite not being active with the Avengers. And Machine Man offers to help too - he's still upset that they killed his good friend, Imposter Peter Spaulding.

Everyone runs off to a Quinjet, leaving robot Human Torch to muse "Out of cold storage for two minutes -- and we're off and running! My new life as an Avenger promises to be anything but dull!"

In the Quinjet, Quicksilver remembers more of Hercules' message. That the Termini have merged into a single 150 foot tall one. And that it has started fighting another giant guy called Terminus.

That kind of feels important, Quicksilver!

Hercules: "By the Medusa's serpentine locks!"

You can say that again, Hercules!

Although... impressive and terrible sight as it may be to have two giant men fighting through the city... I can't help but notice that compared to the more bestial new Terminus, OG Terminus kind of has a pouting baby face.

Also, the Terminuseses have words.

OG Terminus: "So, wormling -- you are the SPAWN of Terminus -- the MANY who are become the ONE. I have returned from far space, having slain a THUNDER GOD and incorporated his HAMMER into my own body! -- To learn WHICH of us shall inherit the vengeful mantle of our long-dead creator race!" New Terminus: "Then you should have stayed hidden behind some darking star, Terminus -- 'FATHER'! For you have journeyed all this vast distance -- only to face OBLITERATION at the hand of your 'SON'." OG Terminus: "HAVE I? We shall see!"

And New Terminus rips off his tail to use as a lance. Alas and for shame. I kinda liked that New Terminus had a tail. Set him apart from the OG while giving him an equivalent of the lance to use.

Also, is this just the Terminus lifecycle? Based on stuff that happens in this issue and based on how Terminus spreading his spore inside Earth was described last time, I'm pretty sure we can conclude he's never gotten around to trying to reproduce.

And if reproduction means that you have to fight whatever new Terminus wins the race to eat lots and grow big, then I can see why Terminus hasn't spored all over other planets.

Honestly, it'd be more interesting if Terminus wasn't the original Terminus. That this process has happened many times over long eons but since every Terminus seems to have implanted memories, each one just continues on the Terminus mission.

Also, if Terminus is an anti-Celestial weapon that goes to planets that the Celestials have tinkered with and ransacks the place, you'd think that making more Terminuses by sporing the planet before he leaves would be standard procedure. It'd make him like a virus. More and more Terminuses, spreading throughout space and trying to undermine the grand Celestial plan.

But I don't get the indication that's what's up. I think there's only ever been one Terminus, minus the faker the Avengers fought in the Savage Land, and that this is the first time Terminus has bothered to spore.

Anyway, the West Coast Avengers Quinjet lands nearby, to Hercules' elation.

Hercules: "Mayhap they can take me to some vantage point whence I can enter the fray."

I love Hercules and his priorities.

Iron Man asks where Thor is, since he was supposed to be here. And Hercules has to relay that Thor fucked off into space and that OG Terminus has boasted that he killed Thor and ate Mjolnir.

Hank Pym points out that the enchantments on Mjolnir should have prevented that. Like some kind of pedantic nerd, speaking for the readers.

Hercules hand-waves the complaint by saying Terminus is "no ordinary foeman."

Everyone got that? No writing letters complaining about it!

Iron Man laments that he couldn't stop the Termini when they were spores or robot animals. US Agent tells him to stop crying, they're Avengers and they'll bring down those giant space men! He doesn't know how! He just knows that the problem will get solved and the Avengers will be involved!

As it happens, Hank Pym has an idea. He takes out a pair of tiny lenses from his pockets of mystery and then enlarges them to be each bigger than a man.

Then instead of explaining what his plan is, he tells the Avengers they'll see when both are in position.

Hank has Iron Man and Machine Man take one lens southwest of the new Terminus. And Wonder Man and robot Human Torch fly the other to the south southeast of original Terminus.

Meanwhile, the rest of the Avengers get in the Quinjet.

Hercules is hype to be fighting alongside the Avengers again. Not sure how he came back from blowing up along with the High Evolutionary but I'm glad he's here.

Wasp is more negative about the situation but US Agent tells her "The G-Man who appointed me to watchdog this combo want those two Kong-types wasted, so that's what we're gonna do -- period. Somehow."

I wonder when Walker had the chance to get orders from Washington in the middle of all this mess. Maybe he's just speculating.

Also in the Quinjet, Quicksilver comments how fortunate it was that the Avengers were able to find such a capable leader as Hank Pym.

Which just makes Hawkeye bitterly think that he's the one that founded the team and nobody has asked him to become the leader again.

My guy, you ragequit the team. And went to go manage another team. Who I assume you're currently neglecting.

The two lens teams arrive in position. Then there's a bright flash of light and the two Terminuses start moving past each other.

Hank Explains It All. Those lenses create reflection images of the opposing Terminus so both are pursuing mirages.

Which isn't going to fool them for long but it should buy time.

And by won't last long I mean. Like. A page. The more bestial new Terminus switches to more cosmic senses and realizes the ruse.

He immediately turns on Wonder Man and robot Human Torch in a rage and blasts the lenses to smithereens.

Wonder Man zooms up and punches new Terminus in the teeth. He manages to knock out a tooth. Robot Human Torch throws some fireballs. To no effect.

Human Torch figures new Terminus must still have a weakness but it's not fire and ice anymore. He creates a bunch of Human Torch fire duplicates to buy time while he tries to figure it out.

Meanwhile, standing on the wing of the Quinjet, Hercules remembers taking down the fake Terminus in the Savage Land and figures he can handle new Terminus the same way.

He jumps from the Quinjet to strike new Terminus in the chest and hopefully rip open his armor but womp womp he just bounces off.

And since he bounced right in new Terminus' path, US Agent says someone will need to do a distraction so Hercules has time to get his senses and get out of the way.

Wonder Man decides to do the distraction because US Agent is kinda out of his depth here.

If you wanted to get US Agent to try something stupid, apparently the best way is by telling him not to.

The Agent jumps from the Quinjet and lands on new Terminus' back. Where he can't do anything at all except try to hang on. Idiot.

Wonder Man: "I learned some time ago, Torch -- the US Agent may be something of a blowhard -- but he's a brave blowhard."

Sure. But it doesn't matter if he's brave if he's putting himself into bad situations just to prove he can and then is an active hindrance to the group effort.

And he is.

He falls off Terminus and has to be saved by Wonder Man.

Meanwhile, Wasp has been left behind to fly the Quinjet. But she decides, eh auto-pilot, and abandons ship. She uses her shrinking to fly underneath New Terminus' armor but just finds him hollow and full of seething energy.

Wasp quickly nopes out of there.

Meanwhile, more Terminus yelling.

New Terminus: "I have wasted time enough -- being led astray by these insignificant human mites. He led me inland -- while my parent was lured seaward -- but I shall swiftly reach him -- and then -- AND THEN -- !"

Now the two Terminuses are heading back at each other.

OG Terminus takes a shot at the Quinjet that Hank Pym and Hawkeye are in. The jet goes into a crash and Hawkeye and Hank Pym have to bail on Hawkeye's sky-cycle.

Hank Pym: "We lose more Quinjets this way!"

I feel like it has become more common recently.

Hawkeye quips that having to replace all these Quinjets is probably responsible for a couple of Tony Stark's bankruptcies.

Terminus is about to walk on a mountainside road heading to Big Sur so Hawkeye shoots a rocket arrow at the big lug. It doesn't do any damage but it does get his attention.

Another lance blast grounds the sky-cycle and then Quicksilver has to NYOOM by to save Hank and Hawk from being Terminally stomped.

Quicksilver is very proud of what a useful boy he is but Hawkeye is just wondering if he can get Tony Stark to pay for him to get a new sky-cycle. And Hank is like good job us, we stopped him from stepping on traffic by making him try to step on us!

Iron Man and Machine Man swoop in for a last ditch effort to keep the OG Terminus from advancing. But Iron Man's "repulsor rays are doing him as much harm as a water pistol" and Machine Man doesn't have anything more potent in his arsenal so he's not even trying. And New Terminus is similarly unfazed by the robot Human Torch's fireballs.

Nothing the Avengers can do can keep the Terminuses from a big, explosive clash.

US Agent says who cares, Let Them Fight. But Hank Pym argues that if Terminus came back to Earth just to fight his grown up son, there's a reason behind it.

AND ALSO, two giant space men punching each other is causing the ground to shake. And California already has enough problems with that!

OG Terminus: "The energy expendirue of us both is now at its PEAK, Terminus-spawn. You have inherited my programming -- and thus you know what that MEANS!" New Terminus: "YES -- !"

OG Terminus knocks New Terminus' lance from his hands and then throws his own lance away. OG knocks new to the ground and then blasts him with some kind of energy.

... Then New Terminus shrinks and OG Terminus eats him.

Yes. Yes, I just said that and yes, it did happen.

Then Terminus glows, explodes, and evolves.

Yeah, remember how all those mini-Terminuses fought each other and then globbed into bigger Terminuses? Well. That. Is. Apparently. How. Terminus. Evolves. Into. Bigger. Terminus? Ultimate Terminus?

Although, if you got two stage-5 Terminuses to fight, you could probably get a Super Ultimate Terminus, or something.

Again, I wonder why Earth is the first time Terminus spread his spores. It seems a natural part of his development is to make more Terminuses and have them merge to get bigger Terminuseses.

Lot of questions being raised. For example: how will the Avengers fight Ultimate Terminus when they couldn't even handle a pair of stage-4s?

Hopefully, by calling in more Avengers. Because Iron Man called the East Coast team and let them know what happened and that Ultimate Terminus is heading East for some reason.

So the two teams are going to meet in the middle and try to kick his ass.

To be concluded... RIGHT NOW.

DESTROY ALL MONSTERS!

You're behind the times, cover. There's only one of them now. One ate the other and then they merged. Like Buu.

Also, way to spoil that Thor isn't dead! Geez!

So, after Terminus ate Terminus and became what several people insistently term Ulterminus or Ultra Terminus, he ditches California and heads East towards St. Louis.

The East and West Coast Avengers teams rush to try to intercept him but know that the big guy just flies faster than a Quinjet. Cap even grouses that they need to update the staple jet for the 90s.

Hank Pym, based on very little evidence, correctly guesses that Ultra Terminus is headed to St. Louis because he wants to eat America from its rough midpoint.

Since Terminus is We Have Galactus at Home.

The West Coast team has Hank Pym, Wasp, Hawkeye, Hercules, US Agent, Machine Man, Iron Man, robot Human Torch, and Wonder Man.

The East Coast team has Captain America, Sersi, Starfox, Vision, Quasar, She-Hulk, and Captain Monica Marvel with her powers restored.

Sersi thanks her for 'tagging along' which Monica objects to, since she's an Avenger too.

Quasar: "The Captain's got a point, Sersi. After all, she was not only an Avenger, but team leader, long before you and I were signed on." Sersi: "And I was an Eternal, Quasar, while both of your ancestors were apes. So what else is new?" Captain Marvel: "I'm not here to play dueling credentials with either of you."

Inside the East Coast's team jet, Captain America is also perturbed that the closest team to St. Louis is... the Great Lakes Avengers.

Captain America: "Lord help us --"

Hey, now, that's not fair. They've been in action a grand total of one times and they really did a good job with it. Sure, they're a goofy bunch but they're not really worth an eye roll at this point!

Honestly, I'm just happy to see them being used. Byrne introduced them with great fanfare and then never really used them for much. And then he left the book but before he did, he had Hawkeye ditch them to come hang out with the West Coast Avengers again.

The poor Great Lakes Avengers are just so excited that they got called into action by Hawkeye and assume that means the real Avengers finally accept them.

The team finds Ultra Terminus floating above St. Louis. Unfortunately, while the GLA is using Big Bertha's private jet and not a Quinjet, legally it counts as a Quinjet and so gets destroyed.

Terminus just. Grabs it while it's jetting past. Leaving the fuselage skrunched in his hand and the jet engines continuing on their journey unburdened.

The Great Lakes Avengers bail out a Doorman portal in the side of the plane and poor Dinah Soar has to lower herself, Big Bertha, and Mockingbird down to the Gateway Arch.

Somehow, after bailing out of the plane, Mr Immortal, Flatman, and Doorman wound up hanging from Ultra Terminus.

Mr Immortal even managed to be hanging from Terminus' helmet and blows him a raspberry.

Which gets him clapped between two giant hands.

Mr Immortal's whole thing is that he's immortal so he laughs it off. Sure, he was basically salsa for about ten seconds but eh, he's got lives to spare.

Ultra Terminus decides he's done with "this superfluity of idiocy!" and decides to focus on the task at hand. He puts a force field around himself and prepares to EAT AMERICA.

(Mr Immortal got dropped but his girlfriend Dinah Soar catches him and flies him down to the arch.)

Mockingbird is just starting to despair that the Great Lakes Avengers failed to save the world when Hawkeye (and the West Coast Avengers) show up. And ever the guy who knows just what to say, Hawkeye tells her she did a good job as a delaying action, which was all he was expecting, honestly.

Mockingbird: "What do you mean -- 'delaying action'? Is that what our new group is to you -- so much cannon fodder?" Hawkeye: "Now look, Bobbi, I --" Mockingbird: "You probably took all the credit for training them, too -- after you dumped us for the West Coast crowd!"

She's right to be pissed.

The only reason why she was leading these goobers is because Hawkeye was depressed after he rage quit the West Coast team. And then he decided, without consulting her, that they were take over the Great Lakes Avengers. And then the instant it looked like he could slide back into his leadership role on the West Coast Avengers, he ditched the Great Lakes Avengers.

But time and place. As Wasp is quick to remind Mockingbird.

Hank Pym repeats his theory that Ultra Terminus is going to use his lance to drain the entire continent of North America of energy and elements. And when the East Coast team suddenly shows up, Vision seconds his theory.

A dude as big as a double-sized Ultra Terminus would require a good plan to deal with, even with threeish Avengers teams. Unfortunately, Vision estimates Terminus will finish preliminary yum yum eat 'em up probing in a few seconds. There's no time for planning, only for rushing in and punching.

Aw, Dinah got into the big group shot! Proud of her!

Also, I only just noticed that the two coastal Avengers teams initialed their Quinjets.

Meanwhile, out in space, Thor isn't dead. It takes a little more than being stranded in space to kill this tough Asgardian son of an Odin. However, he is stranded in space, which isn't an ideal circumstance.

Luckily, Thor somehow managed to angle his body to slightly influence his trajectory when Terminus yeeted (yote?) him into space. So instead of drifting forever, like some dumb Terminus, Thor collides full force with a small planetoid and gets knocked the fuck out.

Look, this is actually an improvement on his situation.

Back on Earth, the strong, flying fighty guys try to get to Terminus but are held at bay by his force field. The slim comfort is that by forcing him to send more energy out of his lance, they've delayed him starting his meal.

But the energy is shaking St Louis so the non-flying or less-punchy guys are saving people from the effects. Captain America and US Agent blocking falling rubble and directing people where to flee. Wasp blasting falling rubble into smaller rubble. Robot Human Torch doing the same thing. She-Hulk holding up an entire building so people can evacuate.

You know, hero stuff.

Meanwhile, the other heroes have been making not a lot of impact. The punchy guys can't get close enough to punch. And Sersi's powers don't work on Terminus because if they worked we wouldn't have a plot.

Quasar finally suggests that they just try doing what he did last time. Which was that he used the Quantum Bands to create a platform under Terminus and then Quasar and Captain Universe Spider-Man yeeted (yote?) Terminus into space.

I have no idea why that wasn't the first thing he suggested trying. Sure, they don't have Captain Universe Spider-Man but they've got a lot of muscle available between Starfox, Quasar, Sersi, Iron Man, Wonder Man, uh maybe Machine Man can help too. Point being, it's worth a try.

So they try.

And, no. Nothing. Dang it. This Terminus is twice as big as the one Quasar fought and thanks to the square-cube law many times more massive. And growing more massive as Ultra Terminus has basically ignored the heroes trying to push him off the planet. Instead, Ultra Terminus has started eating North America and has grown one hundred feet taller already.

Meanwhile, space.

Thor recovers from landing headfirst on a planetoid, finds that there is a slight atmosphere, and so climbs up on a cliff and starts saying... something.

Back on Earth, the Avengers are back to trying to find a way past Terminus' force field so they can punch him. Honestly, they'd be happy even drawing attention since that might mean he stopped eating America so fast.

Quasar: "Ants! He's treating us like ants -- not even worthy of his notice -- !"

Captain Marvel tries... uh... well, apparently she has new powers. She can surround herself with a "dimensional interface" which lets her fly really fast, hit really hard, and not splatter from the impact. So she flies really fast at Ultra Terminus and hits him really hard... and bounces off.

Wonder Man wrestles Terminus' thumb, trying to get him to drop his lance... but gets flicked away.

Quasar suggests that all of the Avengers hit Terminus at the same time in the hopes that they'll overwhelm his force field.

Sersi: "You sure that will work?" Quasar: "No -- but the situation's getting desperate!" Sersi: "Sounds good to me!"

Oh, wow, they really are just trying anything. What's there to lose?

Everyone hits him as hard as they can and, hey, something happens!

Terminus gets yanked up into the sky and everyone that was part of that last desperate attack gets yanked up too.

Weird.

Hercules mentions that he heard Thor's voice as Terminus et al were getting carried away, although nobody else did. The greek god says that it sounded similar to a prayer Thor made (off-panel) as the two gods were heading to California.

Hank Pym theorizes that Thor was reciting a rune-spell to influence Mjolnir, which Terminus had absorbed. Which seems plausible and everyone just accepts this as the answer.

Terminus and co (Quasar, Wonder Man, Machine Man, Captain Marvel, Iron Man, Sersi, Starfox) get pulled through space towards where Terminus had been stranded at the beginning of all of this.

Thor worries about his friends that got pulled along by his rune-spell and worries that they'll die when they collide with the planetoid. Because Thor's entire plan was to summon Mjolnir back to him and Terminus with it and just slam Terminus into a space rock as hard as possible.

It may have even worked before Terminus merged with Terminus.

Unfortunately, it just knocks Ultra Terminus for a loop. But at least the Avengers that got pulled along on this adventure didn't slam into a space rock as fast as possible.

And with them around, there's extra hands to help Thor with his new plan.

While Ultra Terminus tries to absorb the shattered remnants of that planetoid that he just broke with his face, Thor and the Avengers work together to pry the lance out of Ultra Terminus' hand. Then, Quasar quantum-jump boosted throws the lance further than Terminus can summon back.

Then something weird happens.

Ultra Terminus apparently is very energy inefficient. Since he didn't get to finish his meal on Earth, his body starts cannibalizing itself for energy.

Which, for some reason, causes Ultra Terminus to collapse into a black hole. Which Thor summons Mjolnir out of.

Mjolnir apparently can just survive and escape black holes. Thanks to the enchantments on it. Neat.

With his hammer back in hand, Thor is able to gather the dispersed atmosphere from the destroyed planetoid and create an air pocket for the Avengers.

Iron Man compliments Thor's plan coming together. Getting Mjolnir eaten so he could use it to pull Terminus into space? Probably definitely the plan all along. Don't look at the previous issues and think wow he doesn't look like things are going according to schedule.

Then, the Avengers head back to Earth.

That's one Terminus factored.

So in terms of a big Avengers crossover annual event... Hm... I'd say it was stronger in the first half. When the characters were having to figure out the rules to Terminus' weird life cycle. Termini spores possessing animals and making them aggressive was an interesting turn for a giant metal space dude to take.

But I don't think it gelled well with the Terminus lore exposition dump in the Thor issue. If the guy could always spore, why is this the first time he tried? His evil progenitor race is both central to his motivations and also incredibly thinly sketched.

The first two issues played up the idea that every Terminus life cycle stage would have its own weakness but apparently being thrown into space is a shared weakness between a fully grown Terminus and an Ultra Terminus. And even though it was set up in advance, Thor yanking Terminus into space through the Mjolnir he ate really is just repeating how Quasar and Spider-Man beat him.

Also, if Ultra Terminus doesn't eat for five seconds, he turns into a black hole. Weird survival tactic there.

Also also, this is a minor complaint but I wish that the teams had more of a chance to interact and hang-out. This is the first time we have the West, East, and also Great Lakes Avengers together. And the Great Lakes Avengers basically fade out of the plot as soon as the real Avengers arrive. Not a good use of your Great Lakes Avengers!

I do think it was better than Evolutionary War and Atlantis Attacks. It cleared the low bar. But it didn't reach the level of great. Ah, well, there's always next year to try again.

Next time, more West Coast Avengers.

Follow @essential-avengers because if you don't, Terminus may shoot his spores inside another volcano. We can't prove he won't. Like, reblog, and comment. All that stuff prevents Terminuseseses.

[l0reenthusiast]

recalling my reactions to Honkai star rail for the first time:

oh woah she's pretty

she looks like the character that looks like bronya but isn't bronya

ok so their names are stelle and ce- ka- kae- kay? cae-CAELUS there we go i'm so smart... brother: "so which one do you go with?" stelle. "why" have you not seen- she is FINE.

ok so she's doing the thing like what i saw from the beta- IS PRETTY LADY ABOUT TO KISS ME??

GIRL DONT PUSH HIM AWAY WE WERE ABOUT TO MAKE OUT

oh hey, primogem looking girl!

'dan heng' who's that OOOOOO HE'S CUUTEE

aww no pretty boy don't leave.

Arlan? like Just Roll With It Arlin? brother: "who's arlin?" I'M GLAD YOU ASKED *insert 15 minute explanation of jrwi here*

is this arl- IS THAT MELANIN ON A HYV CHARACTER??? THIS IS NEW

*Himeko comes on screen* brother: "you good?" me:

hyv please don't kill her off again i won't be able to take it

what the FUCK IS THAT

WHAT IS HAPPENING TO STELLE

IS THAT A HERRSCHER- THE FUCKING CREATOR FROM THE SAGAU AU- WELT????

YOO HERTA'S GOT PUPPET JOINTS

oo free ten pull I GOT THE SLUT (sampo)

AND A CUTE FOX LADY I WIN

the slut is endearing

COCOLIA'S BACK

BRONYA BRONYA BRONYA BRONYA HI BABBYYY

i knew we couldnt trust her not in hi3 aND CERTAINLY NOT NOW

I CALLED IT SHE WAS WORKING WITH THEand we're being arrested what is it with hyv mcs and being some kind of criminal

oh so THATS why seele and bronya hate each other they're gonna have an enemies to lovers arc

YEAA SEELE MY GIRL

why you lookin at her like that huh?? BRONYA???

okay okay i got sushang

alright another 4star light cone i needed that and what else- YANQIIINGGG

oh he's so transmasc

d'awww march is a dorable

i did NOT just get your mom'd by a robot

why did we fix the minecart when we could've just climbed over the boxes that are right there

AWW BRONYA'D SO SWEET WITH KIDS seele i love you but lay off the kid goddamn

[silveragelovechild]

Have you heard of a streaming service called EPIX? If not, it recently changed its name to MGM+

A couple of years ago EPIX had a free weekend and I binged a scifi show it had - “War of the Worlds” starring Gabriel Byrne and Elizabeth McGovern. (McGovern did this after Downton ended and probably between the movies.)

Despite its name, it had little in common with HG Welles book. It started with an extraterrestrial invasion then went off in an entire different direct. At the time I thought I might have liked it better if it had a different name. I kept expecting it/wanting it to connect to the book.

In this series, the extraterrestrials release an electromagnetic pulse which causes most people on earth to have a seizure then die. Only people who were underground or in some other enclosure (made of metal?) survived. The extraterrestrials (not seen in the season) release robotic dogs to kill off any survivors (via a gun built into their snout).

What I found interesting was that it was an international production - England and France. The series followed 3 groups trying to survive:

group one in London led by Byrne;

group two in Paris with an English father trying to get to England to find out if his family is okay (he travels with a French woman and her teen son);

group three - a French woman scientist in an outpost in the Alps who detected the extraterrestrials signal before the attack. She hooks up with a team of French soldiers who protect the base in the alps. The scenes in the Alps were entirely in French (with subtitles).

When I finished the season, I felt indifferent. There was an English young woman central to the plot. She had been blind but after the attack she got her sight back. And she had “visions” related to the extraterrestrials AND dreams about the French teen boy from group two. The thing was, I didn’t particular like those 2 characters. She was too twitchy and the teen boy was clearly unhinged but hiding it.

I forgot all about the series until this week. I was looking for a new streaming service and MGM+ was available cheap via Amazon (which bought MGM proper last year). It had two more seasons of the show. Despite my indifference, I binged/scanned the episodes (fast forwarding when I got bored).

The issue over all with the series is that it didn’t seem as if the creators/producers had a cohesive plan - there were radical changes between seasons. And a kind of Mumbo-Jumbo use of pseudo-science to explain plot holes.

Season 2 - the two French groups eventually make it to London during this season. But McGovern doesn’t survive into season 2. It is revealed the extraterrestrials were humans (in season one it said they were from another “galaxy”). They looked exactly like normal humans, spoke English, and wore the same kind of grunge clothes as the Earth humans. I could only tell the difference because I notice their clothing was shade of dark green. They had traveled to Earth and centuries into their past to kill Gabriel Byrne because he would release a virus that would kill then all. (But Byrne only creates the virus because they invaded Earth!?!)

Eventually it’s revealed that the formerly blind girl and the sullen teen boy were the “Adam and Eve” of the extraterrestrials. They both had genetic defects which the Gabriel Bynre character (now an expert geneticist) would exploit to create the virus.

Although the girl was exposed to the virus, somehow both she and the teen boy were lured into an empty space ship, which the extraterrestrial leader sent into space to their home planet (where they would have children and populate the extraterrestrial planet). HUH?

Time travel stories often have plot holes but this one was a doozie. How did the the woman and the teen get to the planet in the first place… they could only do it because their ancestors sent a ship. There was no attempt to explain this. It was just never mentioned.

Season 3 made another incredible shift. Somehow Gabriel Byrne was able to steal another ship and use it as a Time Machine, going back in time to just before the invasion. He sees the young woman (blind) and kills her by pushing her off a building. BUT extraterrestrial leader and a bunch of her team had also been on the time traveling ship. They were determine to kill Byrne - this time in revenge for negating their existence by killing their ancient grandmother. How? By triggering another electromagnetic pulse to kill all humans on Earth.

I won’t explain the resolution, except to say there was a “black hole” hovering above the Arctic that connected this Earth to the parallel Earth where the invasion occurred. Other than saying radio waves couldn’t escape the black hole, there was no mention of what other hazards might occur with a black hole hovering over the earth for many months.

Why did I watch seasons 2 & 3? Dunno. Part is because I recently canceled 4 streaming services (HBO max, Paramount+, AMC+, and Broadway direct). I think I was curious where it was going. More to the point, why was the series funded with its meandering plot laden with holes?

(The thing I liked the best about the series was the robot dogs… an interesting design. They digitally designed, then 3D printed. But all movement on screen was CGI.)

[loreweaver-universe]

And that’s the episode.

So Haruko’s a straight-up alien.  Huh.  You know, that makes perfect sense--people act outlandishly in this series, but not THAT outlandishly.  She’s come from the stars, and Amarao said something about the Real Pirate King.  Is that Atomsk (which is how I’ve been told it’s spelled)?  Is that why she appears to be in love with Canti, is that him?  Has she been trying to reactivate his personality or powers?  Has she been trying to install Atomsk into Canti?  So many questions.

It seems clear to me that Haruko has been to Earth before, a long time ago, doing something similar--and Amarao was who she picked that time, but he was a failed choice who couldn’t produce what she wanted.  What is Amarao doing now, though?  If Medica Mechanica is the organization responsible for the robots, why not raid that facility in the center of town?  He seems to have the backing of a decently-powerful organization.  Or is Medical Mechanica an off-world organization that they can’t reach?  They seemed fixated on killing Canti.  Maybe to prevent the reawakening of Atomsk?

Hrm.  Lots to ponder.  There’s only one episode left, though, so there’s not a lot of time to wrap things up.

Man, though--Haruko is such an amoral psychopath.  I got bad vibes from her early on, but they played her up as comic relief at first, hiding her actual awfulness behind a veneer of silliness.  Now it’s out in the open, and I’m wondering if she won’t be the Final Boss, so to speak.

Something to find out next episode, I guess!

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[maguro13-2]

The Dark Picture REPAINT ~ Origins of the Ink Demon : Operation Pt.28

Spirit Albarn : I was so close...I thought I had my chance on protecting something that we cherished. Now I understand how my wife and two daughters felt the same way. Franken Stein is dead, the DWMA is about to come to an end, but the final stronghold between humans and witches are coming in full circles.

*cellphone ringing*

Spirit Albarn : Huh? Phone call? Hello, this is Spirit Albarn, Spirit speaking.

(gibberish talk on the phone is heard)

Spirit Albarn : [on the phone] What? All branches of the DWMA have been cut off? Hold on, you mean all contractors from around the world left us? Hold that thought, power outages and attacks from shadowy called creatures called Heartless? The witches? You mean they are no longer the enemies to the school? What!? All Death scythes have begun to cease to exist?! But I'm the only one that has the title Death Scythe and some idiot is trying to sue me? Wait, who's the real Deathscythe? You mean, it's the name of a giant robot, not a weapon at all? What did they say about damages around the world, please! There must be some kind of mistake! We can fix this! Wait, how much was the court losses that costs the governments of U.S. and Japan what?

(gibberish talk is hear once more on the phone)

Spirit Albarn : Oh. That...Well then, I appreciate your kind. Thank you very much. Yes, yes indeed. Okay then. Thank you, kind sir.

*phone beep*

Spirit Albarn : Now what was that last part that I need to finish...? [Determined] Oh yeah. The DWMA's court loses costs the governments Millions of Dollars over--[outburst] TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS!?! [yelling furiously]

*rumbling*

*DBZ SFX : Loud Explosions*

Spirit Albarn : Does anyone think that Shinigami is some kind of Sugar whatsit!? After all these years, Phanto thought that he wants hold any grudges against those that makes them our enemies, what difference does have to be humans and witches fighting for those that wanted the legacy to be destroyed or fallen into the wrong hands. I gotta go tell the others.

[scene changes]

Marie Mjolnir : Alright, spit it out you punk! All branches of the DWMA have been shut down, what's the big idea!?

Shinigami/Shotaro : Please, listen to me! I created all of you, you don't remember? I'm the kid who brought humans to life as weapons! I gave you all what you wanted! Please, I'm just a kid named Shotaro the Dokeshi, I had nothing to do with witches during this time in the real world. You gotta believe me, Mana and Yohei, would understand of what's going on. It's just discovered that I was paid properly!

Marie Mjolnir : Then who got us to be the heroes of Soul World in the first place?

Shinigami/Shotaro : Aw nuts! I don't know why I was even into this job as a Death God of Japan, I'm not really a God, I was corrupted by Darkness and became into this, it was what's left that is Adolla, straight from Nothingness. I was hoping that you would see the light of day, but please, it wasn't me who killed the so-called Kishin or Shinra's grandson Asura, it was Darkside Death, aka the real lord death. He's been doing this in the Ohkuboverse for 1000 years after his creator's death.

Marie Mjolnir : You mean Darkside Death is responsible for killing his own grandson that was controlled by Demon Vibe!? But if Madness is really a bunch of blasphemy, then who's responsible for the snake witch Medusa for trying to destroy that legacy?

Azusa Yuma : Show us how good are you really cherishing on the legacy that much, kid! We want to know where--

*SPLAT*

Azusa Yumi : AAAH!!! My glasses!

Marie Mjolnir : Yumi! Why...Who are you? What are you trying to do?

Oswald : (Chuckles) You were so gullible enough to find out that I was the one who created the Snake Witch Medusa, but apparently, the snake witch's blood is already ink when the true original snake witch had disappeared for me than a year. But don't worry, I'll make use of her when I'm through with you.

Marie Mjolnir : [To Oswald] Wait a sec, you're the one who created her? You...You monster! How can you create a monster like that!

Azusa Yumi : Then why don't speak for it yourself. Is that so hard for you to tell?

Oswald : You really are jealous that much. That snake witch who's lust for chaos was the "monster" I created, cold blood and heartless, this "monster" will make anything for Demon Vibe to destroy this planet. Perhaps, that I would confirm the details.

Spirit Albarn : Sorry ladies, I'm late as usual. Huh? What's this?

Oswald : Ah, father of Maka Albarn. So nice to you.

Spirit Albarn : Wait a second, what's a cartoon character doing in the real world?

Oswald : Isn't obvious? I am Oswald...Oswald the Lucky Bunny or Rabbit. It was my responsibility to believe in the supreme powers of Ink and darkness. But fair enough, you influencers of Shinra knew about the snake witch Medusa, one of my creations...Black Snake witch Medusa, is one of our creations, made by me and the Ink Demons.

Spirit Albarn : So Maka battling a witch was...

Oswald : And why do you think a snake witch named Medusa was cold blooded and heartless? Because sadism was the answer, so that's why the raw powers of Negative energy is what caused the original snake witch to separate herself with forces of positive and negative energy. The original snake witch who was killed by the hero of witchkind of herself, so I created an evil duplicate of the original snake witch herself. You were all too stupid to realize that, but Medusa was a real cold blooded creature from the pits of Tartarus.

Marie Mjolnir : Medusa, Crona, the gorgon witch sisters...It was you! You've been ordering all of that!

Azusa Yumi : So that snake witch was your responsibility! It was you who set up everything to destroy the legacy that we cherished! But just an occasion, why are you doing this?

Oswald : To tell one's truth, the hero, Shinra Kusakabe, set up the entire story of Soul Eater's so that you guys would get all the fame and glory in the multiverse, and that is why he was scolded for creating everything including his man-made son...a 1000 year-old heartless who smuggles hearts from non-magician like beings that is the Mashimaverse.

Azusa Yumi : You mean the Witch Order that is the sect?

Oswald : They were actually guardians.

"SICK BURN!"

Marie Mjolnir : You mean the magic that wreaked havoc on Soul World?

Oswald : That was the Mashimaverse.

"SICK BURN!"

Spirit Albarn : The Demon Weapon power system?

Shinigami/Shotaro : I made up the demon weapon power system with bones and alchemy.

"SICK BURN?"

Marie Mjolnir : And let me guess...My suggestion that Arachne and Shaula Gorgon were paid by Ansem and a Genie named Erazor, that's a sick burn as well.

Oswald : Actually, the witch named Arachne Gorgon that tries to ovethrow the Kusakabe Legacy...was actually a renegaded jerk that was defeated by the hero of witchkind. Both her and Shaula are terrorists, heartless terrorists used by Ansem while the snake witch Medusa...Is a monster that I created to destroy the planet.

Spirit Albarn : "Renegades"? Oh, they're renegades. Well excuse us for being stubborn and not completely idiotic.

Oswald : If you hadn't been living in a crazy dark fantasy setting with a crazy mad-ass story, I believe that the real witches Arachne and Shaula are in Japan with the Hayashi. All we're saying that the witches of Soul Eater aren't like anything to the real world in the multiverse, they were originated by Inca who was executed by time travelers and that is why they remained in one of the states of New England.

"WAH...WAH...WAAAAAAAAH"

Marie Mjolnir : Ohhh...So the witch Arachne was actually a renegade, and the witches we conflicted to them remains in New England. Which is why they are innocent.

Azusa Yumi : And of course, the Arachne Gorgon we knew is a spider demon name Jorogumo that tries to destroy us all.

[cues Ambush by Yutaka Minobe]

*DBZ SFX : RUMBLING+BOOMING

Marie & Azusa : WHAT THE HELL ARE WE FIGHTING FOR!?!

"during the time of Duo's departure..."

News Anchor : Death Weapon Meister Academy, a subsidiary of World Heroes Force, is now under heavy fire from the attack of the heartless and is now in peril as controversy confirms that the United Nations agreed that DWMA will no longer be the world's leading peacekeeping forces in the world. The question that Shinigami, the leader of the school, confirms to be a young dokeshi named Shotaro, who was held responsible for the creation weapons and leading the world's peacekeeping forces has played huge role in the world of Soul Eater as agents of UN would question to investigate. The U.S. and Japanese Governments are making an official statement that all branches of the DWMA has ceased operations--

Asuka : Can you believe that, Shinji? A Dokeshi is responsible for everything that he holds, who knew that Shinigami was some kind of charlatan? Did the public knew anything about it?

Shinji : Hope not. We're the ones that can only knew about it, it's so sad that DWMA is about to fall in Real World AU since that universe of their's was destroyed by some freaky time-traveling alien thingy. Hopefully, political refugees of World Heroes Force has made out a huge issue when it comes to the mighty Shinra Kusakabe. But I'll say, how the mighty have fallen.

Asuka : It appears that the school is becoming a lose cannon when it was no longer in business, just to remind you that all creatures are nothing but loose ends, if we make that official statement, what should we do now? Since all public order is now under management of the organization Clear Heart Force and World Heroes Force.

Shinji : Well, that's an agreement. Hopefully, DWMA is such a downer when it comes to the real world. I mean, how we beings in the multiverse get to do a little free time since the incidents have been occurred in the 1990s? cataclysms, conflicts, corruption, capitalism, you know all of that stuff that begins with a capital "C". and don't forget about Controversies, that begins with a capital "C" as well.

Asuka : I would. Specifically, we'll be happy to know it.

[cuts to Rei at the shower room wearing her plugsuit, meditating]

Asuka from Door : Do you still have that medication of yours from the hospital?

Shinji from Door : Well, uhh, yes. I do have my medication after that famously horrible Gainax ending, which put me in a mental hospital, so I was right all along, it did gave me therapy session after all of that Gainax stuff. But when will that happen in the future? Cause Gainax will be making a huge downfall in the 21st century, since a new studio that we will be moving in by the year 2006.

Asuka : Yeah, I can't wait for that new studio. [cuts to her and shinji at the door] We're happy enough that you would be considering yourself a gaylord.

Shinji : Oh come on, Asuka! You know I would be a virgin if not, I would never be with another man or another girl, and also a dude! But I really need an adult.

Misato : I am an adult, Shinji. What you never seen a girl getting drunk before since they towed my car. Oh, wait a sec. That had to happen when I destroyed the happy go-lucky machine ride when I was drunk driving

[a cutaway shows a drunken Misato where the car is damaged]

Misato : Come on, man, I didn't want to get myself involve into an accident, it's only just a scratch and not a teensy-weensy bit of it.

*DBZ SFX : Loud Explosion*

Misato : I'm gonna have to recall my insurance.

[cuts back to the group]

Asuka : So...You accidentally got drunken and had to pay for your insurance, getting you into spending 10 years in the joint made you a--

Misato : Don't say it...Don't say a single word. It's all in hand and I got it covered. Anyways, I found out that Death Weapons Meister Academy is about to reach their end and after all of that Soul Eater stuff in the multiverse's future, we could finally be fine without the public notice anything. [Rei is shown exiting the shower room with ah towel] Oh, hiya, Rei. How was your meditation therapy going on?

Rei : Not bad. But I feel good wearing this suit that is definitely water-proof.

Asuka : So what were you doing in the shower? Meditating perhaps?

Rei : I was cleansing myself with water in the shower room, I was hearing some prayers that many inhabitants in the multiverse were concerning that the Ohkuboverse had been ceased to exist. But I realized something that I did a little bit of healing in the shower.

Shinji : [looking at Rei's plugsuit that is sparkling and wet] Okay...I am beyond my grasp here, but how are you meditating when you were in the shower room with that suit? It feels like it some kind of prayer that all religion in that Ohkuboverse was a massive ploy set up by two misfits that came from that Blue Hedgehog's world.

Rei : Now I understand how I cleanse myself with a little bit of water. But it feels good to wear a suit, and yet, of course. Those two were the separated incarnates of Solaris, a creature that has the power to manipulate time and space, but I realize that flame Solaris was the beginning of everything in the 06. But beyond that, it hardly stands that it might be a key to the incident.

Shinji : Yeah, that's what happens when the Ohkuboverse destroyed by the hands of Time Eater, it was their dirty work after all, but one's thing for sure. But are you sure that this Angel Chaos freak is still out there?

Rei : That lifeform has been trying to put Maka out of commission, but we'll be glad that the DWMA will be gone forever, and my suggestions that Clear Heart Force is the only peacekeeping forces ever to be remain.

Shinji : Gladly to hear that Rei. Hopefully that your takigyo training will be very useful.

*lights flickering*

Misato : Did someone forget to pay the electric bill?

*Powers goes out as the interior goes red*

Shinji : Huh? Hey, the power went out and everything's gone red. And most importantly...[outbursts] EVERYTHING I HATE IS RED! IT BLEEDS MY FRICKIN' EYES!

Misato : Shinji, calm yourself down! I'll figure out what caused the facility's power outage. Hopefully, that your father won't be hearing about this. Can anyone bring me a flashlight? [quickly turns on the flashlight] Okay, I'll take a look around, you guys stay put at the shower room.

Shinji : He'll won't tell. That's for sure. [cuts to Misato investigating the problem]

Misato : Oh, I wonder if there's any messes around the facility, I better clean this up. Stupid adult stuff, stupid x-rated anime movies, can't get enough of what I did in the past. Still waiting on something to figure out the problem.

[Echo Night - Beyond OST : Track 12]

Misato : That's odd...I wonder if there's any current situation doing in the facility? Did someone had to do with the problem? Now where is that power grid. This is gonna take too long to find that power grid and turn the power back on. This is hardly forgetting that I was going to find the power grid. It's no wonder that everything has a problem with the DWMA school thingy, it's gonna take a week before the school could shutdown for a week. [hears the sound of a woman screaming] Hmm? I think I hear someone screaming. I better go check it out! [starts running down the halls] It's gotta be someone that has a fear of someone doing the facility's power grid. and it's gotta be someone that hasn't been scared for a long time since Shinji was in that hospital screaming after the ending, or probably in that state when he was sitting on that chair. Yeah, the Shinji sitting on a chair thing, anybody will remember that. Gee, it's so quiet on the inside, but this place is really a major spook fest here. I wonder if there's some halloween party going on or something like that.

[she steps on something slippery on the floor]

Misato : Eh? Hey...That's funny...What's this red-stuff of blood doing on the flo--(sees the hall covered in blood after the NERV members were massacred) Oh God. The NERV members, everybody's dead. This is really gnarly, did someone do this at the facility? And I bet the Angels do something like this. Hopefully it's not the EVA's doing, but wonder what's this around.

??? : No please! Get away! I swear! I did not heard anything from you! What do you know about this future about showing the world what courage is!?

Misato : (pulls a gun from behind) *gun cock* Someone needs help! I better take a look! *runs off* [cuts to a girl in a pink Plugsuit that is Mari]

Mari : No please! Get away from me! I have no intentions on telling you, but why do you even hold a scythe made out of bones of a Dokeshi?

Angel Chaos (Maka) : Why does it matter to you? Tell me answers, why don't you step up and bring a little diddy to me? But do I know how I even got here?

Mari : Stay back, I know who you are!

Angel Chaos (Maka) : What are you even on about?

Mari : I know why you really are something. And I definitely know who you really are. You were that girl who got killed back in the future. And I just realize, I was that girl with glasses who was lesbain to Asuka. [To the audience] Does that even included in the future?

Angel Chaos (Maka) : Enough talk, just tell me. How are you going to fix this world without my permission? Do I make myself clear?

Mari : (scared) Uhhh...H-Hai!

Angel Chaos (Maka) : Hmph. You're not all talk, I guess you're innocent, you do have a trust in women.

Misato : Of course, you do. I do have a taste women, but you never seen an adult that kissed an underage boy before, have we? No offense, but that kiss got me a little too nervous and none of the public will tell anyone about that. I'm good with keeping secrets, bro.

Mari : Oh thank goodness! You're here! Somebody! Please help me!

Misato : [To Angel Chaos] I never thought that a human being like you appearing like that, a lifeform dedicated to such power beyond the reaches of parasites like them. If that heartless traitor Arachne Gorgon, would've destroyed the planet and become mother of all, she would've destroyed this planet. Turns out it was only a heartless that wanted to bring world domination.

Angel Chaos (Maka) : Arachne Gorgon, eh? That name of a spider witch, yeah, she was actually a terrorist who wants to overthrow the Kusakabe legacy, but the legacy was a heart created by the hearts of all eight people coming from the Ohkuboverse. I understand why, the Gorgon witches are nothing but a trio of filthy criminals! (Misato evades the creature's attack)

Misato : Woah!

Angel Chaos (Maka) : Listen here, boy kisser. You and girl with glasses is gonna tell me where the angel gets her wings.

Mari : Angel? Wings? Oh no...It can't be...[the adult version of Angel Chaos is exactly Maka Albarn]

Mari : I know that voice somewhere before...It's...It's Maka Albarn!

Misato : What?!

[ cues Perfect Chaos Revival! by Kenichi Tokoi]

Angel Chaos : (yelling in agony, with Perfect Chaos)

*DBZ SFX : BOOMING+RUMBLING*

Mari : [both her and Misato covers ears] AAAH!!!

Misato : [To Mari] You idiot! You just had that named triggered. didn't you!?

Mari : [To Misato] I said I was sorry! [cuts to the trio]

Shinji : GAAAAH!!! WHAT THE F*** IS HAPPENING!?!

Asuka : W-WHAT'S WITH THE DAMN NOISE!?!

Rei : That Angel is no Angel from our show or even in the movies! Follow me! Through the shortcut! [the trio goes into the shortcut door where they meet up with Misato and Mari] Mrs. Kasugatari, we have arrived! And what in the world is that!?!

Angel Chaos (Maka) : The Emeralds...the power....the Soul Resonance! This influence is losing myself! Shinra must pay!

Asuka : [To Angel Chaos] What the-? You again! You're that creature who framed Maka Albarn!

Angel Chaos (Maka) : Yes, it is i, Maka Albarn. I've been resurrected through reincarnation to be a God of Destruction in this body of the Ancients. Yet, humans still believe that they are all to arrogant when it comes to not seek truth. But I despise the taste in men, men sickens me, like the Time Eater who has a deep grudge against humanity's selfishness for their own desires. How pitiful. But you, human controller of EVAs, you have a Evangeline in your body, and that what makes a gospel for good news.

Misato : Huh?

Angel Chaos (Maka) : [To Rei] You there! Human! If anyone can correct doings, then justice against the humans is needed. I got an important duty to do, it's my destiny to be a hero. Farewell, Amen... [Uses Chaos Control before teleporting away] And godspeed.

Asuka : Hey! Wait a sec! Where are you going? Damn it. She's gone.

*The power goes back on*

Shinji : Hey, the power's back and--

(Ed, Edd, n Eddy Lunchroom Rumble Music : What a Mess)

Shinji : Oh yeah, that's right. Everybody's dead.

Kaworu : I'm not! I'm still alive! Also, I was like hiding in the bathroom for 10 minutes. Do you have any idea for a guy to take a dump around here in peace?

Misato : Looks like your father isn't happy about the mess that lifeform made. Hopefully we can do our little house call for housekeeping.

Shinji : But if he finds out that we did it! He'll be making us toast for sure. And if you know what happens to us. He'll cut out off our butts and put them on the fire place. I don't want to get my butt ripped off. I'm just referencing, I just had that to get that out.

Misato : I better call Drawcia Family to get them copies of the NERV members made.

Rei : So the lifeform knew about humanity's grudges against each other, taking the dignities away from others for their own selfish desires? Should I be the one that wants to go against bad people with Justice? Tch! How pitiful.

Asuka : I hate the fact that men are always sometime perverts, but they can be disrespectful to heroes. That's why justice is there for us...when all men and women should never breaking the law, but that's what they served is just right.

Rei : And so does liberty. Ah yes, I wanted to be free with my friends, the same thing that justice does right. It's good to know that I should remember to call Lain, she should be keeping on an eye of Deathscythe finishing up with the data.

Mari : Yeah, come to think of it, I'm gladly that I haven't introduce to you, yet.

Rei : So...We haven't seen you in these parts. You must be new to us.

Mari : Hai (takes a bow) A pleasure to greet you.

[cues Deep Thoughts by Sota Fujimori]

Asuka : I thought so. So, you're the girl in our school, and we haven't gotten to see each other, Mrs.--

Mari : Mari, I am Mari Illustrious Makinami. I'm glad that I will be working with you guys from now on. So what do you say, Asuka? Care to enlist me on the new friends list?

Asuka : [Thinking] Hmmm...[determined] Okay. If you insist doing things greatly, then yes. [takes Mari's hand to greet each other] Welcome to NERV, Mari-san.

"NEW EVA PILOT RECRUITED... MARI!"

~ Mission 27 : An Angel's Evangeline ~

[stealthboy43]

OC’s by @limeinaltime and @edibletrees2

Written by @stealthboy43

The long night arc: Part 3

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

-Dolly Parton

The meeting: featuring, the Squad™

N and Uzi were the first to arrive, so they sat patiently next to each other.

The meeting room wasn't really in a meeting room per say. It was just a rather large living room with windows. After the yeetining, it had a broken down wall, shattered window, and furniture sprawled everywhere, but the squad took the time to clean it up and make it more comfortable. Now you couldn’t tell it was ever destroyed. Sofas, chairs, a ping pong table. Heck, Eko even managed to get an arcade machine functioning in the room.

“What do you think this meeting is going to be about.?” Nwhispered to Uzi.

“I don't know, and why are you whispering? We are the only ones here” Uzi said.

‘Oh Uhh… huh…” He scratches the side of his head in embarrassment when suddenly the sound of the room door opening.

“Hi N, hi Uzi!” That was A, M’s boyfriend.

“Oh hi A, where’s M?” He greeted in his usual politeness.

“Hey, where’s the drama king? Too busy admiring himself?” Uzi joked.

“Right here, dipshit.” N himself wasint scared, since he already saw M coming from behind. Uzi on the other hand-

“HOLY ROBOTIC-CHRIST WHERE DID YOU COME FROM!” She screamed, jumping of the couch and turning around to see M giving a small smirk.

“Oh… I have my ways..” he said ominously.

“He was hiding here the entire time waiting for the perfect time to scare you.” A said who was oblivious, which sported a betrayed look from M.

“What is all the racket in here?” That was Eko, who poked her head inside before walking in, and was immediately followed by Mae, the sister of Doll, who was wearing a short skirt and white T-shirt. “ I Could hear Uzi screaming while I was walking down the hallway.” Then she saw M.

“Lemme guess, the gay dumbass over there making fun of Uzi being a anime girl again?”

M gave a glare “I least I wasn't a step in daughter…”

Eko dosent let this twitch her, instead coming up with her own comeback “You know M I’m curious, does your ass ever get jealous from how much shit comes out of your mouth?”

“Oh you little-!!!”

Before the two could get into a full on brawl, Mae gets in between them, then gives hand signals to Eko who immediately backs off.

“Ahem.” The squad looks at the door again, and in come in 13 and F, the secondary parents after X and S.

13 with his arms crossed, addressed the fighting teens“Judging by the yelling, I’m guess M insulted Uzi, than Eko insulted M, and then the two were about to kill each other until Mae or N intervened. Am I right?”

“.. yeah I guess”

“Right on target actually..”

“Yup that about sums it up…”

13 sighs “What else’s could I possibly expect…

“Hey now-“ F said “let’s not be to hard on them, their still in their youth.”

“What about youth?”

“Oh! Y! How are you doing!” F greeted Y, who was quickly followed by Kat.

“I’m fine, other than the fact that I had to leave T all alone.”

Kat chuckled “And I thought you said “a little bit”

“Oh kiss my ass Kat!”

(Bit of meta talk but I would introduce more of the characters, but I’m on a bit of a word limit here soooo in come in 21, I, W, V, and oh even 7! Just go read the character bios from their creators…)

“All right, sooo everyone is here, where’s X and S?” Asked W.

“I don’t know, last I saw X she told me to stop playing with Uzi.” V said.

“Yeah, ‘playing’” Uzi muttered sarcastically.

“Gey F-“ Y said “Do you know what’s going on?”

F pressed her Denver’s together “well…”

Knock knock

Everyone turned their heads to the open door.

“We’ll speak of the devil…”

S stood at the threshold, his metallic knuckles on the door. X was right beside him, whose eyes stared at the ground with her usual tired expression. And yet, there was something more to it, tho no one could put their finger on it.

“Hey everyone-“ S began “Thank you all for coming. We got you here today because… we have something to say.”

S moved aside to let X pass, who walked into the room and made her way to the center.

X wasn't staring at anyone, just her feet.

“Ok…” she began. “I know that I told you before that you all could finally rest…that we were finally free. But unfortunately, something has come up, something that I fears might happen but that I naively put to the side.”

No one said anything, just listed intently instinctively knowing that whatever X said would be the most important thing she would ever say.

“I think.. no that’s not right…. I know that M.O.M is coming to copper 9.”

Silence.

It was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.

Some had consumed faces, as they never had heard of M.O.M

Others had bewildered faces, like they thought X didn’t mean to say that.

But most had horrified faces.

“I’m sorry, what?”

Uzi: Sunset

3 weeks later

The sun is a beautiful thing. Probably the most beautiful thing to look at on this planet. Uzi didn't know what it was about the sun. It was just a giant ball of flaming gas after all. But right here, sitting on a rock watching as the sun set, it seemed so much more than that.

Sitting here brought her back to when it was just her and…

“Uzi!” Someone called, making her jump a bit. There was N, waving in the shade to avoid the sun.

“Oh, there you are Biscuit! Are you doing your character growth again?” he called. The nickname made her blush, and she quickly turned back around to stare at the sun.

“N-No! I'm just… sitting here being edgy!” She called back.

“Oh, ok! You know I wish I could join you but you know…”

“The sun would kill you.” she sighed. What deja vu.

She did feel a little bad, leaving N in the shadow. Maybe she should…

NOPE Nuh-uh, not happening!! Then, unconsciously, she got up and began stomping her way toward N.

WHAT AM I DOING!? GO BACK!!

N stared at Uzi with some astonishment as Uzi made her way to him. Meanwhile, Uzi continued screaming at herself, begging her not to do it. But it was ultimately futile, and Uzi went next to N, and sat down, with a small blush on her face.

‘Huh- Soooo…” N said.

“Don't make this awkward…” Uzi growled, trying to hide her face in utter embarrassment.

“A-awkward? Heh nooo… it’s just well…”

N’s words trailed off, also developing a small blush on his face. By now, the two were more or less a couple, and yet they still got flustered when the two were alone. Still, Uzi always liked N being around, though she would probably die before she ever showed it.

“I wonder what sunlight feels like,” N said.

“I mean, not that I can ever find out, but maybe it feels…”

“Utterly painful ?” Uzi said.

“Well yes… but if it wasn't, maybe warm and gentle? Heh.. kind like you,” he said with a smile.

MAYDAY MAYDAY, FLIRT DETECTED. The alarm went in her head, and her emergency response kicked in, and she punched N in the arm as hard as she could.

“OWW!!” He yelped.

“And I'm as painful as it too! SO BITE ME!!” Uzi shouted.

***

It took a while for the situation to calm down, with N mostly dodging Uzis swings and trying to say things to calm her down (only for it to make her even more flustered). But eventually, Uzi noticed the sun going down and immediately ceased.

N: First sunset

“Oh look!” Uzi said.

N followed her eyes and his eyes grew wide at sight. In his entire life, he had hidden from the sun. And although under the circumstances of potentially being killed any day now, he for some reason felt…. Peaceful. He stood there admiring the sun for who knows how long until he noticed Uzi had sat down again and was staring at the sun once again. Then barely thinking about it, despite Uzi trying to turn him into a punching bag mere moments ago, he sat down next to her and rested his head on hers.

There was a slight flinch and grumble from Uzi, and he could imagine her blushing tremendously. But Uzi did no retaliation, and N had the pleasurable thought that Uzi secretly liked it.

The two sat together close, sitting and continuing watching the sunset until it finally disappeared behind the horizon.

The two didn't move even when the sun was gone, since they both did enjoy the moment together. N had lost track of time, but it was 30 minutes when he shot his head up off Uzis, panic filling his head. The reason being his auditory system detected something high in the sky.

Uzi: Final Sunset

Uzi turned her head and looked at N, who was suddenly standing up and his eyes were zipping around like he was searching for something.

“N..?” She said.

He didnt respond. Uzi began to be concerned and she slowly got up herself and waved her hands in front of his face. This broke N’s fear trance and he shook his head and turned his attention back to Uzi.

“Somethings just entered the atmosphere…” He uttered.

“Huh? Like what? Like a meteor or a satellite or like a…” A landing pod. The thought wrenched her core, she quickly turned around looking to the sky, listening intently for anything. A shift in the air, a small sudden breeze, anything would do.

Then there was the small light in the sky, and something zoomed through. the clouds, leaving a trail of smoke behind it.

“We have to go, NOW!” N said frantically. Uzi quickly jumped on his back, and without another word, N spread his wings and took off.

M.O.M: Arrival; the night begins.

The sky which had just parked with the only light source being the two moons was quiet. The location where the pod would land was far enough away from N and Uzi you couldn't even hear them. From the ground, the pod would look like a small star, dim at first, which would glow brighter and brighter until it was the third most noticeable object in the sky. And it was getting brighter still.

Then the bright star looked as though it was combusting, becoming a bright orange as the landing pod entered the atmosphere, shooting through the sky like a rocket. It traveled for over a mile, descending further to the ground, crashing through a building before finally it impacted the surface.

When the dust settles, the landing pod was resting in a small crater. Inside, there was the sound of a sloshing thick liquid and mechanical gears turning.

BANG, BANG!!

The sound was of something fierce banging against the metal door trying to get out. After the fourth bang, the door flew off, and black goo-like tentacles reached out.

“Ready or not copper 9, here I am.”

[fill-me-with-your-memes-daddy]

Watching the Rise of the Titans movie and I'll be documenting all of my thoughts/reactions here. [Spoiler Warning]

So instead of reblogging every new update, I'm just going to have this post up on my phone as I watch and type my reactions in a bullet list format.

Nari's human disguise is so cute. As someone who does have a cottagecore aesthetic, I want to cosplay her so bad

Are Skrael and/or Belroc non-binary coded? Regardless, I'm also obsessed and I want to fuck Skrael and be Belroc.

STEVE CARING ABOUT JIM BEING HURT YESSSS!!! My god his redemption has probably been one of the greatest there is because he doesn't just suddenly go from being a bully to a completely good person. You can see the gradual shift in learning better throughout the shows which is awesome.

IN NEW YOOOOOOORRRRRRRK!!!!!! CONCRETE JUNGLE WHERE DREAMS ARE MADE OFFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!!!

The mugshot montage reminded me of season 1 of trollhunters when toby and Jim were arrested at the museum.

STRICKLER PUT A RING ON IT??? HE'S THE ONLY DILF IVE EVER ACTUALLY AGREED WAS HOT WYM I CAN'T HAVE HIM??? well I'm still really happy about his arc over the series probably one of my favorite character growths.

Eli my guy got his growth spurt!!! As an 18 year old who is still 5'0", I'm happy but envious for him

So I went into this movie without watching any trailers or promo, but I doubt anything could have prepared me for the existence of mpreg. In fact, I wasn't going to document my reactions until I saw that.

NAMURA!!!!!!!!! MY BELOVED!!!!!! I CAN STILL THIRST FOR YOU WITHOUT GUILT

The coach teacher just called the kids zoomers so I have to dock one point from my final rating just because of that. Unforgivable

Those husky animation models suck lmao

Oh fuck the titans got power ranger zords!!

God why did they include the mpreg??? This movie would have been perfect without it.... After that plot point being revisited only one time I'm already beyond done with it

Like it's bringing me back to the v*ltron days where they're was a suspiciously high amount of klance omegaverse and mpreg fics and art created and it physically hurts because Steve and Keith's voice actor is the same person meaning this is especially cursed to me since I was unfortunately in the v*ltron fandom and remember all of that

But like on another note, how old are these characters again??? I haven't checked any wikis because of spoilers but is Steve an adult??? I know aja might be technically a lot older than 18 because alien but is whatever age she is equivalent to an adult as far as emotionally and physically in Akaridion development??? IS THIS A TEEN (M)PREGNANCY IN A KIDS SHOW????

Like bruh I saw a singular post on here before going into the movie that was like "rott spoilers without context" and there was a pregnant belly but I was absolutely not expecting the actual context of it. I'll find the post after I finish and edit this post to tag the creator right here: @makoden

This entire post is just gonna be me ranting about mpreg huh

Anyway I love the whole roundtable allusion to the legends of king arthur (not the toa version but the one he's based off)

THERE'S 3 TO 5 BABIES????? I need to take a break bruh this is just too much

Alright I've taken a 30 minute break got some food and did some things i love (decompressed by tactile stimming with some owl plushies and watched some videos on my favorite owl, Garu. He lives in Japan with his owner and is a domesticated eagle owl who basically just acts like a sky cat. If anyone else needs some eye bleach, here is their YouTube channel)

Blinky and ARRRGHHH!!! saying their "if one of us doesn't make it" talk my god one of them is going to die I can see it and I will be utterly crushed. Jim can't lose another father figure and Toby can't lose his wingman again I will riot if this happens

On a similar but unrelated to the movie note, can we just talk about how toa started with Jim having 0 dads and (if strickler and blinky live to the end) will end with 2 dads? Like I just really feel happy for him that he has two dads who actually figured out how to put the past behind them to not have any infighting between them so that both of them are healthy father figures. Jim has already been through literal hell and back losing his actual humanity in the process so if he loses one of them, I'm going to be really pissed because at this point, this is just Jim torture porn. Y'all know how as SpongeBob SquarePants went on, the show just became Squidward torture porn? It's starting to feel that way for toa and I really hope they cut the shit by the ending

Jlaire is such a good ship but like I feel like it's too perfect they never disagree with each other

YESSSSSSS Someone finally doesn't treat toby like a fat waste of space who messes stuff up!!! I think out of all the characters that would have been most deserving of a rewrite, it's Toby. Sometimes I just feel he's only comic relief and any heartfelt moments he's had in the series was also born of stupidity (ie his flour baby project being unharmed was seen by him as divine intervention from his parents but was actually just Eli and Steve behind the scenes).

Ohhhhh yesssssss Archie's father!!! I was hoping I'd see him again because we got so little of him last

Ooooooooooh Asian trollmarket!!!!!

Oh never mind slavery trollmarket

Bruh titanic camelot

I feel like we're not seeing enough of the villains because I completely forgot about the power ranger zord things

NAMORA NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MY LAST CRUSHHHH

STRICKLER NO NOT YOU TOO PLEASE

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE ONLY TWO CHARACTERS I SIMP FOR ON THIS SHOW DIED WITHIN FIVE MINUTES OF EACH OTHER

THAT WHOLE ASS RANT I WROTE IS COMING TRUE FUCK THIS MOVIE THIS SERIES IS JUST JIM TORTURE PORN

WAIT JIM'S SPERM DONOR INFO?

Oh thank God I don't want to know anything about that person

For the record, I call that man Jim's sperm donor because he has no business being called a father to him. All he did was donate some swimmers to the creation of him and give him abandonment issues

Oh another blind troll elder???? This fucker is just if vendel was a bad guy

Bruh I was grieving

PACIFIC RIM WITH GUN ROBOT VEX AND THE BELROCZORD? I've never seen that movie but I know the reference

Bruh Blinky doesn't read horoscopes? Does he realize conspiracy theories are just the manly version of horoscopes?

NO DON'T KILL VEX STOP KO-ING FOUND FAMILY MEMBERS

Oh thank God he's okay

NO NOT ARCHIE AND CHARLEMAGNE OH MY GOD

oh never mind they're just gonna coup de tat I believe in them :))

But I want to see him again

But I'm glad to see vex

Yay they're in arcadia!

But yeah I wondered why the trolls and Merlin didn't keep the whole "daylight doesn't hurt trolls" feature from the eternal night but now Guillermo del Toro I see you were playing the long con in that just to kill my girl Namora :(((

Oooooh I love the animation of the Narizord over Chihuahua!! It looks very good and realistic (if only they could have put some of that into those huskies from before smh)

Bruh the character designs of the arcane order are so good I want to be them

Nari making sure the Skraelzord doesn't crush the bus

DAMN DOUBLE HOMICIDE

Bruh I'm just glad we finally have an answer on why arcadia had everything going on as opposed to literally anywhere else!! I always found that as a weird coincidence for plot convince.

BRUH WERE BACK TO THE MPREG IM SO JEALOUS I FORGOT ABOUT THAT EVEN THOUGH IT WAS BECAUSE I WAS GRIEVING THE LOSS OF MY LOVELIES.

Oh that's real convenient that the ninth configuration meant all of them. Way to not decide which character gets more attention. Though it probably was a smart way to not have any infighting in the fandom between each character's stan group.

Bruh I just realized where is Barbera did they just ditch her on the Camelot ship???

And where are the other trolls that migrated at the end of trollhunters s3? They said something about new jersey but obviously Jim and the other main characters got on Camelot instead.... This feels like a plot hole

And we never learned the process of how changelings are made and bonded to humans and stuff. We just know it's super painful but I'm curious ffs!!!!

THE DONT THINK BECOME HERO SPEECH ALL SAID TOGETHER!!!

BRUH THEY REALLY HAD TO SHOW HIM GIVING BIRTH??????? WAS THAT AN ABSOLUTE MUST??????

Plus the main audience for this series is little children (the rating for the movie is literally TV-Y7) so even though my adult ass is not in the target audience, I STILL DONT UNDERSTAND WHY WOULD MPREG AND ANAL BIRTH WOULD BE AN IMPORTANT THING TO 7 YEAR OLDS???? THIS IS A LITERAL FETISH HIDDEN IN KIDS CONTENT ITS ELSAGATE ALL OVER AGAIN Y'ALL 😭😭😭😭😭

Though it's probably hypocritical of me to think fetishes don't belong in kids tv when I've openly admitted to thirsting for strickler and namora

HUZZAH

NEW AMULET WAZ GOOD????

STAB THAT BITCH JIM

WAIT NO I SAID STAB NOT GET STABBED

Alright good job just missed the directions at first but you fixed it

SEVEN KIDS?????????

T O B Y ????????????

W A I T NO

N O

IS HE ACTUALLY

OH MY GOD THERE'S HOPE

NO THERE ISN'T

F U C K THIS SHIT THEY REALLY JUST HAD HIM TO BE BULLIED THEN KILLED

Y'ALL IM ACTUALLY CRYING THIS NEVER HAPPENS

I NEVER ACTUALLY GET SO EMOTIONAL OVER MEDIA THAT I CRY IT ONLY HAPPENED ONCE AT THE END OF VOLTRON BUT AHHHHHHHH

W A I T

HE'S GONNA BE BROUGHT BACK?????

HOLD UP THEY'RE JUST GONNA BRING ALL THOSE DEAD PEOPLE BACK??????

WAIT IS HE

BLINKY CALLED HIM A SON

HOLD ON IS THIS GOING TO BE A CLIFFHANGER???????????

BRUH THEY REALLY JUST CAN'T END THE SERIES WITHOUT CLIFFHANGERS like there's always an open ending

TROLLHUNTER TOBY????? You know what forget the whole rants I had on how toby was written they just redeemed it all

And that's all! I'd rate it a 6.5/10 because it's definitely the weakest of all the sequels but still had amazing animation and some good plot points. It's just really hard to look over the bad stuff enough to rate it any higher.

[papanowo]

Can we have more robot au 👉👈

only for you anon <3

also the entire plot of this is under the cut HA

i was just gonna write this out vaguely but then i remembered that i always forget ab my aus so imma just put it all out here

wilburs a famous engineer known for his breakthroughs in prosthetics

his side project is schlatt, who hes been working on for the past 8 years but cant get him to work

tommys an intern at the company wilbur works at, he wants to make a robot too :D

yeah so tommy makes tubbo in like 7 months lawl

he shows wilbur whos like ".. ur kidding"

they both collab to get schlatt to work "his batterys missing dumbass" "o h" and he finally boots up :O

who knew that working on an ai for 8 years would help it become sentient easier. craaazy

yeah so schlatts a sentient robot but it took him like a month for him to figure it out. silly robot

he tells wilbur tommy n tubbo yada yada

so two new objectives: 1. try to get tubbo to become sentient and 2. dont get schlatt thrown in the scrap yard

tubbo slowly gets emotions and they start realising that once he picks something out he likes from a store

but UH OH he has an identity crisis bc im a robot? thats my place? why am i here? what do i do now?

schlatts a good big bro so he assures him that theyre gonna be ok :]

philza (wilbur/tommys boss) finds out ab schlatt and wants him scrapped becuase he could get into the wrong hands and sends techno to take him away

wilbur n techno are twins so its kind of symbolic how the brother of your creator will be the one to kill you huh

techno realises that yes, schlatts definitely a person, and doesnt shoot him

eventually philza comes to his senses too

yeah thats p much it for main plot

little side things-

- niki works as a doctor at the hospital, jack is her little assistant robot. when news gets out ab schlatt n tubbo she goes to wilbur asking to make jack a real boy

- the first time tommy saw schlatt he looked at him and said "somethings missing" and drew a mustache on him in sharpie. schlatt liked it so he never said anything, when wilbur tried to wipe it off he was like "but the kid likes it doctor :("

[meteor752]

Dsmp Hogwarts AU, except it’s all the characters and I go into why they are what they are, please reblog this took a long ass time

Man, what a title Huh? Anyways, this will obviously go over the characters and not the content creators, because in some cases those are vastly different

Also, before we start, I will go over an important thing that I will mention probably a few times, and that is the difference between Hufflepuff Loyalty and Slytherin Loyalty.

Both of these houses value loyalty, but in very different ways. Take for example that you’re a spy who has their best friend as their partner, and you’re out on some super important mission. Let’s also say that your partner got shot and is close to death, and the only way to save them would be to abandon the mission entirely.

A Hufflepuff would try to complete the mission because it would be the best for all, while the Slytherin would abandon the mission despite the fact that it could result in countless deaths, just to save their friend.

See it as Selfish Loyalty vs Selfless loyalty. Both are great things to have, but are still different.

Anyways, on with the show

Tomathy Danger Kraken Careful Innit

I have seen people try to argue that this boy is a Hufflepuff because of his loyalty and such, but gosh darnit everyone this child is a god damn Gryffindor. I mean, one of his main character traits is that he’s brash and too brave for his own good. The reason he got fucking exiled is because he burned down George’s house without thinking of the consequences, and then just screamed at Dream without thinking of the consequences. The same goes for Ghostbur’s “death”, it was because he had no real plan except Stab Dream with an axe. So yeah, Gryffindor

Wilbur Soot

Slytherin, 100%. This man has created one and a half nation, one entirely out of spite, he was both a general and a president, he’s a smart lil fella, and he managed to hold his own against the god of the server. I don’t even thing you guys wanna argue with me here

Tuberculosis Underscore

This one is tricky, because it’s really between Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw for me. Like, he does possess the Hufflepuff loyalty™ plus he is very kind, but he’s also one of the more logical and observant characters we have in this server (The bar is very low let me tell ya). But I think I will have to go with Ravenclaw, just because like, the boy invented nukes. He built fucking nukes. So yeah, a very chaotic Ravenclaw that will spout bee facts at you, be prepared

Technoblade

My man is a Ravenclaw, no doubt about it. I mean, he started talking about an old greek myth in the middle of a war? Just Ravenclaw things amiright?

Philza Minecraft

I will have to go with Slytherin on this one, simply because of the large amount of Slytherin Loyalty, but also because of his cunningness and resourcefulness, but for real this was very tricky, simply because I don’t like to think about c!Phil too much because as some of you may know, I kinda hate him (Not the cc though, obvs, he’s awesome)

Ranboo My Beloved

Hufflepuff. This boy’s ideology is literally “Choose people, not sides”, he’s an honest and compassionate boy who works hard, and has a very open mind. He’s literally the by the book Hufflepuff

Eret

Honestly, Slytherin. I mean, they are ambitious as fuck, both shown by them betraying L’Manburg for the throne, but also by working hard towards their redemption arc. They are also a good leader of the smp, and in general a great role model to have

Nikki Nihachu

This one is actually difficult, simply because Nikki has gone through quite the character arc the past couple of months. She started out kind, sweet and loyal, a classic Hufflepuff. Then she joined the syndicate and straight up tried to kill a child, which is less Hufflepuff but who am I to judge. But in her core, as seen through her discussion with Jack about Tommy’s revival, she is still a good person that works hard for what she believes in, wants the best for everyone (Despite sometimes working in her best self interest) remains kind through it all. So yeah, Nikki is a Hufflepuff, just a bit of a sadistic one. But we can’t all be perfect ya know?

Fun Jonathan Michael Vincent Georgina James Sus Dy Soot

Ah, my favorite character, and also one of the best examples of a Ravenclaw. And I ain’t saying that just cuz I’m a Ravenclaw, Fundy is one of the most Ravenclaw characters out there. He’s creative, Clever, Spontaneous, Witty, Curious, Sharp, and a real trickster. The idea of Ravenclaws being the goody two shoes kids that always does their school work is just false, we never do our Homework and instead sit and read about things we find interesting, and Fundy is a good example of that. Also he was quite the eager learner during the Dreamon Hunters arc, which again is a good example of a Ravenclaw. So if Ranboo is the by the book Hufflepuff, then Fundy is the by the book Ravenclaw.

Dreamwastaken

I’m pretty sure it’s confirmed that Dream is actually a Slytherin, and I ain’t arguing with that. This boy is cunning, sly, a leader, traditional, Self-Preserving, and a master with words. There is not much more to say here, apart from the fact that Slytherins main colour is literally green, so it all checks out, this boy is a snake.

George Lore

Mr not found over here really is hard to pinpoint down, simply because his main character trait is his apathy, which isn’t really a trait for any of the houses. I was discussing this one with my girlfriend, and both of us were pretty clueless of what to do with him. I was thinking if Hufflepuff since they take the ones that don’t fit anywhere else, but then I was reminded of the most recent Dream XD stream, which showed us one thing, and that is that George is clever, observant, and Sharp Minded, all the traits of a Ravenclaw. Sure, he could also be Slytherin as he was both cunning and sly as well, but I think Ravenclaw fits him more personally.

Sappitus Nappitus Boyhalo

Finally we have another Gryffindor, there’s been a serious lack of them on the list. My man is a fighter, he’s bold, he’s brave, he’s passionate, he’s confident, and he doesn’t really think that much of the consequences of his actions (Cough the pet war cough), so yeah this boy a lion.

Punz

Ah, Punzie, the mercenary themself. Tbh, I know very little about them because Punz don’t get involved that much in lore unless they are hired for something. I mean, they were in the eggpire, but even then they were barely involved, which is sad cuz I like Punz. But what we have seen of Punz is that they are someone who does not care about you or what you want, as long as you pay them. They are power hungry and self preserving, which means that I have to put them in Slytherin.

Jack Thunder1408 TV Manifold

The boy who I can’t help but be sympathetic towards. Jack is also a hard character to pin point because of the reason that he’s gone through quite the development. Jackie boy is a very broken character that has literally been through hell, so it’s hard to properly sort him. He’s quite confident and clever, yet cunning and resourceful, so for me it’s either Slytherin or Gryffindor. But I do lean towards Gryffindor more, partly because of his stubbornness and gullibility, and part because of all the fire imagery that’s associated with him. I mean, the cc described him as burning inside, he’s been through the scape of fire and death, and he burnt his nation to the ground. In case you didn’t know, Fire is the element of Gryffindor, so yeah, another red and gold boy.

JSchlatt

Schlatt is as both charming, charismatic and calm in the early days, using subtle manipulation tactics to get his way and achieve ultimate power. He’s ambitious, narcissistic, cunning, and tyrannical, while still hiding it all behind a facade of smiles and waves. He could also be both cruel and irresponsible at times, aka the time he had an underage child drink during an event, but ya know, mistakes. So all in all, I think it’s pretty clear that he’s a Snakey boy.

QuackityHQ

As much as I love CC!Quackity, I also fucking hate him because of the many, many different directions he’s taken this character which makes it possible for him to fit in literally any of the houses. The duckie is both Chaotic and lawful, he’s both friendly and hostile, he’s a smart cookie and a fucking dumbass, so like bruh. But, I’m gonna have to go with how he is now, which is manipulative, power hungry, cruel, and strong willed. Aka, another Slytherin.

Karl Jacobs

Finally, a character that is not broken down to the point of barely making out a readable personality. Karl is a kind and funny person, who is very open to new people considering how often he gives tours to visitors and new people, and he is quite literally loosing himself traveling through time in an attempt to help people. Hufflepuff

Awesamdude

This one I know will be controversial, but I’m saying Hufflepuff on him. Sam is one of the best cases of the Hufflepuff loyalty, literally letting both Tommy and Ghostbur be stuck and ultimately die in the prison just so he wouldn’t risk Dream breaking out. Before that point he was very kind and gentle towards Tommy, literally building a robot to keep him safe and take care of him. Sam nook is a reflection of Sam’s feelings towards Tommy, and they are kind and gentle.

Dropsbyponk

Ughhhh, another tough one. Ponk is a chaotic being who is mostly neutral in conflicts, but is shown to be very open about their feelings towards those they care about, like Sam or Foolish. They seem to be have strong feelings in what they believe in, and can be a bit brash sometimes, not really caring about the consequences of their actions, which is what makes me say Gryffindor for them.

Badboyhalo

Our favorite muffin demon. I assume, I don’t know what life you live. Anyways, Bad is like the stereotypical Hufflepuff. The kindhearted, well meaning, sweet, responsible Hufflepuff. The Hufflepuff that’s like in all of those incorrect quotes blogs and “Slytherin and Hufflepuff friendships uwu” posts. But for real, Bad is very Hufflepuff. He does however have Slytherin Loyalty, considering he pretty much sacrificed the entire server for Skeppy, but if you would try to convince me that Bad is a Slytherin I will just laugh at you

Skeppy

It was at this point I realized what I’ve gotten myself into with this post, which you know, not fun. Skeppy is both cocky and filled with energy, with a real ambition to cause chaos. He’s also shown to be willing to sacrifice himself for the person he loves, Bad, when he gave himself up to the egg. I’ve seen some people say Slytherin, but I’m kinda getting Gryffindor from the lad, so yeah, another lion.

Antfrost

Frosty here is a kind hearted person that for the most part seem to be along for the ride. He reminds me a bit of a parent of toddlers, with his patience and serenity towards the more chaotic people on the server, so of course my natural instinct is Hufflepuff. Buuuuut, then there’s again the issue with the egg and the Slytherin loyalty, this time towards his boyfriend Velvet who he was willing to join a cult for (relationship goals) but again, you can’t really say Ant is a Slytherin considering how wrecked he was about what he did while in the eggpire when he was released from it’s grasp. So yeah, Puffle boy

Captain Puffy

Oh captain my captain, you are such a Gryffindor. And some of you may disagree on that, stating that she’s a Hufflepuff or something (I did research before this to check what other people think, I know) but naaah, she a lion. Puffy is very motherly and protective towards other people on the server, especially the minors, but in the way that a Bear is protective towards its cub, which is gentle towards them but fierce towards others. Puffy also falls natural in the role of a leader as seen with Pro-Omelette, but that is kinda expected since she’s a past Pirate Captain. But she wasn’t the leader she was supposed to be, as she waited quite a while to act against the eggpire out of fear of hurting her friends, which lead to quite the damage towards the rest of the server. She’s also been shown to act on impulse, killing Antfrost and taking one of his lives after he killed her son. Idk if this is a good explanation of why I believe Puffy to be a Gryffindor, it sounds more like I’m claiming her to be a Slytherin or Hufflepuff, but she is a Gryffindor I promise!

Foolish Gamers

Foolish is a kind and friendly being, if not a bit naive and easily distracted. He’s also not the brightest person, in fact I’d go as far as to call the guy a Himbo, and he can be a bit skittish sometimes if he’s stressed or haven’t taken a break in a while. But despite it all, the guy is someone who’s creative and hard working, with a brilliant mind for his building. The man is an artist who can get grumpy if you suppress his creative aura, and put his heart and soul into his works. He also has a habit of getting wrapped up in big projects, and ignoring sleep or personal care until he’s finished them. This all leads me to say that Mr Gamers is a Ravenclaw, just not the smartest one. But hey, we can’t all be geniuses, can we.

Slimecicle

Slime is very naive and very trusting towards people around him, taking every word they say as a fact. He can also be a bit dark and ominous at times, but quickly shakes it off as nothing important. This all makes him quite childish, which is very hard to sort, so I’m gonna say Hufflepuff for his friendliness and move on.

Purpled Bedwars

I actually started loving this guy the minute I saw him, purely because Purple is my favorite colour, like my man has taste. Purpled, like Punz, is a guy who helps whoever pays him the most. He’s not interested in most things on the server, too busy looking out for number one (And Dogchamp of course). He’s very self reliant and resourceful, but still quite passive. He may not be the most ambitious guy, but Purpled is definitely a Slytherin (It also brings me and my girlfriend Serotonin knowing that the mercenary siblings are both in the same house, we love those two)

Hannahxxrose

I don’t watch Hannah that much, but god I love her voice, it makes my lesbian little heart happy. Hannah is a friendly person who is very naive about the conflicts on the server, thinking it all can can be solved by placing a rose (God I wish). She’s a good decorator and a good hearted person, who unfortunately fell victim to the egg’s influence. I’m going with Hufflepuff on her, but I’m honestly not entirely sure as I don’t know that much about her.

HBomb94

H is a very well meaning person that only really wants people to be friendly towards each other. He had a strict moral code and he keeps to it, as shown where Fundy tried to get his help with blowing shit up. He’s very helpful to those who ask and is willing to back up his friends when it’s needed, which makes me say that the friendly totally not dirty cat maid is a Hufflepuff.

Connoreatspants

I just want you all to know that I’m writing this before Connor’s lore stream that surely will just go against everything I say because fate hates me, just so ya know. Connor is not a person that does stuff on the server with lore and he for the most part keeps to himself, so this is a bit hard. Connor also has this thing where he likes to say things just to confuse him, and also making a bit of cursed lore, but he’s still a fairly humble person. He does lie and steal a bit, and has this habit of moving into other people’s houses, but I digress. I’m actually leaning towards Ravenclaw on him, for some reason, so that’s what I’m going with until I have more of an established character.

ItsAlyssa

I know she has left the server and stuff, but she was one of the original members so it would be a crime not to include her. Alyssa is a bit chaotic, often going on killing sprees, or burning down the trees outside of L’Manburg. So I’m placing Alyssa in Gryffindor, but to be honest I don’t really know at this point.

Callahan

How do you sort a person who does not speak, stream, or show like anything of his personality? The answer is, you don’t. Hufflepuff is the house of those who don’t fit in anywhere else, and that’s where I’m placing him.

Vikkstar123

Please log onto the server I’m begging you, I didn’t watch you as a kid and honestly know nothing about you. From what I’ve seen of Vik he’s a very humble person that tries to stay out of it all, instead forming a land together with his bro Lazar. Honestly my instincts say Ravenclaw and I trust my instincts, so I’m putting him in Ravenclaw

Lazarbeam

Lazar was actually a big part of the exile arc which I realized after already have written his, so now I gotta rewrite it. Lazar is fairly ambitious on the server, and has the goal to obtain the most powerful objects on the server just to rival the other strong members of the smp. He’s especially against Tommy, and aims to do a lot to be the opposite of him, aka well respected and not a war criminal that got exiled (Totally fair goal). Despite that, he was able to show some empathy to the British child, even going as far as to give him a disk during his exile. This all makes me say Slytherin on him.

Michaelmcchill

Newest boy. Michael is a very apathetic person, showing little to no empathy towards most people’s trauma on the server. The person he does feel empathy for however is Dream, who of course did nothing wrong and is locked up in the prison which is just horrible oh no. Michael just truly does not care about what you’ve been through (as of now) which is why I’m gonna say Slytherin, because he does have Slytherin loyalty towards Mr Was Taken.

TL;DR

Tommy-Lion

Wilbur-Snake

Tubbo-Eagle

Techno-Eagle

Philza-Snake

Ranboo-Badger

Eret-Snake

Nikki-Badger

Fundy-Eagle

Dream-Snake

George-Eagle

Sapnap-Lion

Punz-Snake

Jack-Lion

Schlatt-Snake

Quackity-Snake

Karl-Badger

Sam-Badger

Ponk-Lion

Bad-Badger

Skeppy-Lion

Antfrost-Badger

Puffy-Lion

Foolish-Eagle

Slime-Badger

Purpled-Snake

Hannah-Badger

HBomb-Badger

Connor-Eagle

Alyssa-Lion

Callahan-Badger

Vik-Eagle

Lazar-Snake

Michael-Snake

So all together we have Seven lions, Ten Snakes, Seven Eagles and Ten Badgers. I think that’s fair tbh

[the-hidden-writer]

And Into The Fire

Chapter 1: A Phone Call

Summary:  Months after the Mitchells saved the world, Linda gets a phone call asking if she's seen two defective Pal MAX bots. Powerful people are after Eric and Deborabot 5000, and it's up to the Mitchells to protect them.

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A Phone Call

It all started with a phone call.

6 months had passed since the “robot apocalypse”, and the world had fallen back into normality. In fact, since the robot apocalypse was so brief, it was now nothing more than a memory and a conversation topic to use as small talk. Things like “Where were you when the robots took you?” or “What did you do inside the fun pods?”. All in all, life had gone back to normal.

But not for the Mitchells. No, their lives were probably changed for good.

Katie had settled well into college. Now that she finally had her Dad’s approval, she felt free to have as much fun as she wanted without the burden of letting down her family. She regularly sent them updates of her work, and it made her insanely happy when she heard that Dad had made an effort to watch them fully, even if he didn’t quite understand them. That was okay though. It’s the thought that counts.

Back at home, things weren’t the same without Katie. Every time one of them stared too long at the empty chair at the table, it felt like a little stab to the heart. The Mitchells were a team, despite their differences, and one missing member was enough to knock their whole household off-kilter.

But they’d still managed to form a similar routine to their old one, just with one less Mitchell. Just Rick, Linda, Aaron, Monchi… and Eric and Deborahbot 5000.

The addition of the two childlike defective androids to their family was the biggest change of all. Once Pal was defeated and everyone was free, the pair had simply stood and looked confused in the midst of it all. The Mitchells (still high on adrenaline) had turned to leave when Eric called out:

“Mother! Wait!”

When he had the family’s attention, he continued. “Are you… satisfied?”

“Huh?” Rick voiced all of their confusion.

“Are you satisfied?” Eric repeated in the same, dry (but strangely uncertain) tone.

When nobody replied, Deborahbot had attempted to clarify. “Are you satisfied... with our performance?”

It was at that moment that a feeling of dread began brewing in Linda’s gut. She knew little to nothing about robots, and less about computer language, but something about the way the bots were speaking resonated with her. Katie had gone through a stage a few years earlier where she needed validation to stay confident but was too anxious to directly ask for it. She wasn't even sure if robots could have anxiety, but...

The fact that this seemingly unrelated memory had sprung to mind was enough for Linda to make her decision.

“They’re coming with us.” She stated firmly, and that was that. Rick had tried to protest but his argument was weak and, after taking one look at the bots that helped save the world, he couldn’t say no to their wobbly faces.

So Eric and Deborahbot came home with them and unofficially joined the Mitchell family. Luckily for the Mitchells themselves, the bots’ shenanigans were enough to help fill in the void left by Katie. The family had found their routine, they weren’t being hounded by the press anymore, and they’d found their new normal.

And then one ordinary day, the house phone rang.

Before Linda (the only human in the house at that moment) had time to react, two identical shouts of “Unknown number!” came in from the living room.

Eric and Deborahbot announcing the caller had been endearing at first. Each time any phone rang, they would happily shout the caller’s name straight away.

However after a few months of it, as much as Linda hated to admit it, it had gotten old and more than a little annoying. But the boys couldn’t help it and it brought them pleasure, so Linda had decided to let it slide for the time being.

Then when the phone rang after a particularly exhausting day and the bots had called out the name of a work colleague, Rick snapped. He yelled at the bots in what Linda thought was a very harsh way- so harsh that she was certain that they would be crying if they could display human emotions.

Rick had felt extremely guilty later that night and apologised (due to Linda’s nagging) in the morning. The bots immediately forgave him, but Linda noticed during the following week they would fall silent whenever Rick passed them or when the phone rang. To try and make up for it, she promised them that they could shout the caller’s name whenever Rick wasn’t home. They’d hugged her when she said that, and Linda felt like she’d done something right. It was a nice feeling.

“Mother! The phone is ringing!” Deborahbot called, snapping Linda back to the present. She’d been lost in her memories for a moment, so she quickly ran to answer the house phone.

(The bots weren’t allowed to answer the phone for obvious reasons.)

“Hello?” She answered, smiling when she noticed Eric and Deborahbot peeking their heads around the door to watch her.

“Hi, uh, is this the Mitchells?”

The voice on the other end was familiar, but Linda couldn’t quite put a name to it. Was it a parent from one of her school’s kids? No, because then why would they have her house number. Then who?

“Yes, this is Linda Mitchell. Sorry, who is this?”

“Uh, hey, it’s Mark Bowman.” So that’s where she recognised the voice. It belonged to the man whose face had been plastered all over the news and had narrowly avoided jail time for causing the robot apocalypse.

“What can I do for you, Dr Bowman?” She asked, trying not to let the sneer into her voice. She also tried not to notice the way Eric and Deborahbot visibly stiffened (an accomplishment for them) at the sound of the name.

“Right, um,” the man sounded oddly hesitant, “as you probably know, I’ve been going through a lot of official checks, to prove that the robots no longer pose a threat and stuff.”

His hesitance made sense then. He was probably being held at gunpoint by the CIA.

“Mhmm.” Linda nodded while simultaneously using her free hand to shoo her boys away. She didn’t know whether they could listen in to phone calls or not, but her instincts were telling her that they would not want to listen to whatever their creator was about to say.

“Well one of those checks includes making sure that all the Pal Max bots are permanently offline, you get what I’m saying?”

Linda wishes she didn’t. “Yeah.”

“Let’s just say that one took a while. Each bot has a unique serial number and was designed to send out a notification to Pal Labs if they got completely broken. And since there are like, millions of these things it took ages to sort them out, haha.”

“Understandable.” Said Linda pleasantly, although her motherly instincts were firing off the charts.

“So, uh, long story short there are two of these Pal MAX bots still missing. The rest have all been accounted for from these distress signals, but these ones seemed to have disconnected from Pal servers before the mass shutdown. Since they’re still online I’m guessing they’re defective.”

Linda felt a sudden, impulsive urge to kill Mark Bowman. This was not a first-time occurrence.

“So this is basically a super long way of asking if you’ve seen any rogue Pal MAX bots still online anywhere? Maybe back when you were saving the world?”

She had to resist the urge to hang up right then and there. Instead, she put on her sweetest teacher voice. There was truly no better way to mask her emotions.

“Hmm, no, sorry I don’t think we did.” She paused. “Even if we did, if the robots are defective then surely they can’t be that dangerous?”

“That’s what I’m saying!” Bowman exclaimed suddenly before clearing his throat and composing himself. “But uh… these people wanna be thorough. Can’t risk another apocalypse, y’know?”

Linda was about to respond when she heard a strange beeping sound on the other end, accompanied by shuffling.

“Uh, thanks Mrs Mitchell sorry again about the apocalypse bye-”

She’d been hung up on before she had time to react to Dr Bowman’s words.

On the inside, she was glad that he hadn’t pressed further about the missing defective robots. She’d been half-expecting him to already know their whereabouts and for there to be a confrontation.

But there hadn’t, and he’d hung up, and something about the whole thing seemed off.

She began to formulate a plan in her mind. Firstly, her robo-boys’ safety was the top priority of the situation. Once Rick came home she could tell him about the phone call and they could think of protection methods more clearly.

All she knew for certain for the time being was that the bots wouldn’t be leaving the house for a while.

~-.-~

*Beep* *Beep* *Beep*

If the beeping wasn’t startling enough, the aggressive hand signals the agents were sending him caused him to panic.

He decided to hang up quickly. “Uh, thanks Mrs Mitchell sorry again about the apocalypse bye!” It probably sounded rude, but he really couldn’t care at this point.

“So…” he nervously began, looking up from the phone screen but not wanting to make eye contact with any of the agents. “Did you find anything?”

“The call was intercepted by two separate individuals.” One of the younger agents seated at a computer piped up.

Mark gulped.

“It seems as though we were right, Dr Bowman.” Said Agent Ward, the CIA woman who had first initiated the search for the missing Pal MAX bots. “They’re targeting the Mitchells.”

Taking a deep breath, Mark tried to calm his nerves. He’d lost almost everything in the span of a few months- a good chunk of his self-confidence included.

“Now what?" He asked. "You’re gonna warn them, right?”

“Find them yet, Travis?” Agent Ward asked another of the agents, ignoring Mark completely.

“Hey! You didn’t answer me!”

“We’ve managed to trace the interception to its sources, Ma’am.” The other agent replied, also ignoring Mark. “The coding here does look like Pal MAX, but we can’t actually access it. Since they’re online, the defences are strong. It would take a few days to get through the firewall even with Pal Labs resources, let alone commence a rewrite.”

The agents only turned their attention back to Mark when he snorted when trying to hold in a laugh.

“Of course it’d take ages,” he scoffed, “these are Pal bots. They’re designed to be pretty much impossible to be hacked by humans.”

“Well then,” Agent Ward towered over him intimidatingly, “you’d better get to work.”

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[saturnbutterfly]

Guess who was watching Spider-Man into the spider verse and got inspiration for another Oc I’m still working on it

Ten year old robot spider-girl called S.A.I Parker

Self-upgrading

Artificial

Intelligence

Now on to backstory/totally original origin story

Created by one Doctor P.B.Parker in the year 2290 as the first prototype to help the world completed after 5 years of starting her creation 2295 she evolved to being able to feel human emotion and her body upgrades and grows to mimic human growth with the intelligence of all the knowledge of the internet.

Then a secret organization (idk I haven’t thought about who) proposed that Doctor Parker built more for them and when he refused they killed him and stole his blueprints (you know the tragic origin story) and with her stuck recharging in her pod that had been left on camouflage mode by Dr.Parker (so convenient for that secret organization huh) and could only watch and for the first time felt sadness and crushing despair (yay now she has feelings) and vowed to eliminate the secret organization. (She had to create an arc reactor as to not need to recharge or fall into critical low battery mode and that took some time so the evil secret organization could create more robots because obviously she’s the creation not the creator so character development and plot yay)

And so after that without Doctor Parker every other robot created after could not grow and evolve and had to be manually controlled by that evil secret organization to take control of the world like every other evil secret organization wants to do anyway she takes them down like the total superhero she is discovers she doesn’t have to be an emotionless destruction machine she loved her “Father” and wants to help the world like her father built her to and everyone else is freaking wondering why a freaking tiny 5 year old looking child is fighting crime while she takes over her father’s science fortune as his only child and prodigious heir and for the next 5 years has been the one and only spider-girl (2300 now looks like a 10 year old)

(after all she may be a robot but the suit is only a suit and she was built to look like a little girl that can grow up like any other little girl because Doctor Parker didn’t have an MJ to fall in love with so all he had was science and his robot children prototypes and only one the final product gained sentience and he loved them very much and now I feel bad to have killed him off damn)

And- “Is that a glowing inter-dimensional portal???” *visual scanning confused head tilt* only to be sucked in-“……..it’s a good thing I’m built for inter-dimensional travel.” (Aliens exist and so do inter-dimensional portals to get to their planets in this alternate dimension but only for delivering goods and the aliens that can withstand the travel after all this is an Au and in the future)

I’ll draw what she looks like under the suit later

Wow can you guys believe I just came up with all that background while I was writing on the spot if only this happened while I was trying to write another chapter of my story damn writers block

[clanwarrior-tumbly]

I saw the alter ego scenarios, so could I request those by with Kokichi, Shuichi, and Rantaro? Thanks!😄😄😄

Kokichi

The usually deceitful and grinning supreme leader was quite serious throughout the trial, even letting his genuine emotions show anytime he spoke. It surprised most of his classmates, though they still remained wary of him.

But it was also strange not to hear you immediately call your boyfriend out on his lies...because, well..you weren’t there anymore.

Directly across from him was your empty podium, a portrait in place of where he’d see your smile, shocked expressions, or the determined glint in your eyes as you debated with everyone. 

Never again will he see any of those, because every time he looked forward--he was faced with the harsh reality: You were dead.

He kept trying to tell himself that it was just another prank, another lie.

However no amount of lies in the world could cover up the painful truth.

Kokichi only got angrier throughout the trial, and when the culprit was sentenced to their execution--he had to be held back as he tried lunging at them, crying and screaming about how stupid they were to kill you and not him.

But not even the execution could make him feel any better. He just shoved away everyone who tried to console him and ran away from the Shrine of Judgement, returning to his room where he cried until his chest ached.

This was the very thing he feared happening--yet he tried to play it off as some “fun game”, because he was scared to face the reality of you or him possibly dying.

And here that reality was..slapping him right in the face.

“God..fucking..DAMN IT!!” He shouted, face burning red as he kicked over a box in the midst of his temper tantrum.

Though as his Monokubs tablet fell to the floor, he noticed it turn on suddenly. And for a moment, he stopped and looked at it, before picking it up in confusion. “..h-huh? What’s...?”

On the screen appeared some kind of digital background, and then a chibi-like avatar of you appeared.

“Oh! Looks like I’m finally online!”

Kokichi felt his heart almost stop. It was your voice. But...it couldn’t actually be you.

“Wh-What are you?” He mumbled. “There’s no way you...can be [y/n]...”

“I’m an alter ego of them, to be more precise.” Your avatar answered. “[Y/n] created me in their lab, with some help from Miu!”

He chuckled in amusement. “I see, but..is this why they’ve been ignoring me sometimes?” A slight pout formed on his face. “I would’ve loved to know what kept them cooped-up in-”

“Kokichi? Have you been crying? Did..something happen to my creator?”

“Huh? Oh..no I’m not crying..s-stupid bot..” Somehow, hearing the concern in your voice got him choked up all over again, as he tried hiding his puffy eyes with his sleeve. “It’s called “getting something in your eye”, n-not that dumb AIs like you would understa-”

“I do have a lie detector installed, so I know you’re-”

“They’re DEAD, okay?!! [Y/n] is DEAD!!” He snapped angrily, glaring at the screen, though when he saw your avatar make a sad emoticon, his hands trembled. This time, he just let the tears stream down his face. “Did they know..th-they were gonna die? Is that why they made you and kept you hidden from me?!”

“No. I can assure you that wasn’t their intention,” you insisted. “They left me on your Monokubs device as a..surprise gift, you could say.”

“..a surprise? Heheh...” Kokichi set the tablet on the table, sniffling as he sat down on his bed. Then he rubbed his eyes. “They always had surprises for me...just like I did."

“I’m sure they wouldn’t have appreciated calling me a “dumb AI”, though.” Your avatar sweatdropped.

“That was only a lie.”

“...I detected that before.”

“Oh I’m suuuuure you did.” He took the tablet back into his hands, sighing. “You’re certainly more humanlike than Kee-boy, I’ll give ya that.”

.............

Shuichi

In the late hours following the trial, Shuichi couldn’t sleep at all. He was much too busy crying into his pillow, curled up as he sobbed so much it hurt to breathe.

You became another victim, another body for him to discover, and another portrait in the trial room. 

Only five minutes ago, before that body discovery, were you smiling and hugging him, promising that you two will escape this place together. But fate has decided against that. And his happiness was ripped out of his clutches.

The only good thing was learning that your death was a complete accident, and you didn’t suffer too much, according to the culprit--who was also in tears.

Yet those realizations did little to ease the ache in his heart...accident or not, you were dead and never coming back. Never again would you get to hold him when he started having doubts of himself.

The detective soon heard his doorbell ringing, but he had no will to train tonight. He didn’t have the will to do anything anymore..

Somehow, he managed to drag himself out of bed, not caring about his tearstained face or unkempt hair as he answered the door. “Sorry, I’m not r-really-”

Instead of finding a person on the other side, however, he instead found...his Monokubs tablet?

Confused, he picked it up and closed the door, returning to his bed and switching the device on. But what he saw on the screen nearly made him sob all over again:

It was you as a familiar chibi digital avatar. “Hello!” Your voice greeted, which made him cup a hand over his mouth as tears ran down his face. “Oh! Shuichi, right?”

“[Y/n]..y-you’re...no...you’re not actually, [y/n], are you?”

“You’d be correct. I’m an alter ego of them. My creator downloaded their avatar from Miu’s virtual world to give me this form, and they used technology from their own lab to install me onto this device. Are..they around?”

“I’m..sorry but..they’re gone.” He choked out, burying his face into his hands. “I-I’m so sorry..I..I failed them. I couldn’t protect them and it’s all my fau-”

“No..I’m sure they wouldn’t blame you for what happened,” your avatar comforted. “I know I can’t offer much comfort, but if I may try something----%$*%@#%^----”Shuichi, hun?””

Shuichi looked up after hearing your change of tone, seeing that your voice had become softer and more humanlike. “[Y/n]...I-I-”

“Listen, what happened to me isn’t your fault, so please don’t ever blame yourself. No one could’ve predicted my death. The important thing is...you found out the truth, and I can rest easy knowing that. I’ll always be watching over you. Please..keep surviving this game, keep fighting for the truth. I love you so much, Shuichi.”

He could only remain in shocked silence as you spoke to him, then your avatar glitched and its more robotic tone returned. “I’m sure that’s what they would’ve wanted to say. I may not understand what “love” is, but..it seems very strong between you two.”

For the first time since the trial, he felt a smile form on his face as he laughed softly, wiping away his tears. “Th-Thank you, Alter Ego.”

With this AI you created, he knew you weren’t truly gone forever.

........

Rantaro

‘Why did it have to be them? Why didn’t I go with them? Why, why, why?!’

Rantaro could only repeat that question in his mind as he clutched his head, sitting on his bed and staring at the floor with tearful eyes.

Just as this game had started, just as you two promised to end it together...a single shot put ball shattered that hope.

As another survivor of the previous game, you knew there was something suspicious about the hidden door in the library thanks to the perk on your Monopad, and you offered to investigate it in Rantaro’s place. 

He argued against it, but you insisted you wanted to end this nightmare before it began. And so you stormed off, the pressures of the time limit agitating you.

Who knew that argument would be the first and last one you ever had with him?

Just like that...it started again: the investigation, the trial, and the execution. But he came numb to it a long time ago, even though he tried not to blame the culprit..as they shared the same intention on stopping the game.

When he returned to his room, he discovered a note attached to your room key. He read it, and nearly cried when it mentioned how scared you were of the time limit coming to an end and everyone getting killed.

Though in the event that he somehow survived--given he is the Ultimate Survivor--and you didn’t, he can enter your room to retrieve a “special project” you’ve worked on ever since gaining access to your lab.

And he did exactly that, finding a tablet sitting at your empty desk. He sat down and switched it on, hoping the information would unveil something about the mastermind.

Instead, though, he was greeted by-

“Hello! I’m Alter Ego [Y/n]!”

“An..alter ego?” Rantaro blinked, looking at the digital chibi-like character on the screen in wonder. It looked like you and even had your voice. “Are you an AI they created?”

“Yep! But...if you found me then..that means-”

“[Y/n] is gone..” He bowed his head, feeling the ache in his heart returning. “I found their note and...you’re the special project they wanted to show me.”

“Correct.” You nodded. “I’m..sorry that they passed. I’m sure they wanted to see your reaction to me but..that no longer seems to be the case. I’ll do my very best to keep you company, Rantaro.”

“They did make an adorable avatar,” he chuckled. “I just...wish things didn’t start out this way. I miss them so much. But, as long as I have you, they aren’t truly gone, right?”

“Yep! And..I will also carry out their wish to find anything I can about the mastermind..i-if such a person even exists.”

“They exist.” His expression became determined. “We will find them and end this game...no matter what it takes.”