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thecrowandtheraven08 · 1 year ago

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I’ve been thinking about how unhinged my lovely Tav, Cassian the Lolth Sworn Cleric, can be. So for fun, I thought I’d share some of the fun, weird and mostly fucked up things they’ve done along their journey. Spoilers for Baldur’s Gate 3 from Act 1 to Act 3 under the cut. They’re normally making better decisions I swear. Also general warning for violence and some sexual themes

- Said “fuck it” and agreed to letting the hag take their eye because surely they could kill her either way. If she could take the tadpole, and all they lost was their eye, they figured it would be worth it. They chose to lose their pink eye due to it reminding them of their mother

- After saving Mayrina, they offered to say a few words for her dead husband. They proceed to say how this was Lolth’s will and that he basically would have died no matter what. Mayrina, in fact, did not like this

- Used the wand to bring back her husband as a zombie, only to refuse to give him to her and has decided to find uses for him (aka brought him into battle as a meat shield)

- They did not bat an eye when Astarion wanted to kill the monster hunter in the swamp. In fact, they knew the moment that this man brought up hunting a vampire that he had to die. Uses his cross bow to this day while still not being proficient

- Got Loviatar’s Blessing

- Gave Astarion the Necromancy of Thay book because why not

- Persuaded the ogre’s to work for them for food and occasionally gold. Every time they asked for gold, Cassian would convince them that they’d get it “next time”. When confronted by them later before leaving, Cassian then threatened them into leaving. They never gave them any gold

- Stole the Githyanki egg and gave it to the lady wanting it

- Argued with Vlaakith and nearly got everyone killed because of it

- Helped Mol cheat against Raphael in chess and managed to get away with it

- Could tell that Jahira had put a truth serum in their drink, and decided “I’ll still drink this. Why not”

- Decided to help He Who Was bring judgement upon Madeline. How they decided to do this was to intimidate her into stabbing herself repeatedly. It was the punishment her friends had gotten, so they deemed it fair that she do the same. He Who Was took back his body and was upset at the new stab wounds, so they fought. By all this, Cassian was only upset that they had to kill the raven

- Stuck their hand in a weird, fleshy wall

- Convinced the Orthon to kill his whole group, his displacer beast and then himself somehow. They aren’t sure how that one worked themself

- Somehow managed to convince the weird doctor guy and his nurses to also kill themselves. They just didn’t want

- Also convinced Ketheric not to fight them when down in the colony. Went straight to the Myrkul boss fight after confronting him down there

- Stole so much from the temple they offered to help in Wyrm’s crossing

- Immediately got into shenanigans by trying to steal shit from the nobles, but only Gale got caught

- Helped a little girl use a necromancy spell to try and resurrect her brother. Instead the whole graveyard was resurrected. The first of many graveyard shenanigans

- They sex in the graveyard. They do not regret this

- Dug up a grave in front of the child of said dead person. Stole from the grave. The child and the lady watching over the graveyard weren’t pleased

- Stole from someone’s family mausoleum because if they’re looting graves why not

- Again tried to steal from a grave and got attacked by Kobolds??? Cassian is no longer welcome in the graveyard

- While wearing the gloves they promised to get for a lady, they convinced her that they didn’t have them and when she asked them to pay, they threatened her. They did not have to pay

These are just the ones that I remember. This game has been so fun and wild. The drow options can be so wild

#bg3 spoilers #bg3 #bg3 tav #astarion romance #drow elf #lolth sworn drow #no I do not condone their actions #I like picking crazy options sometimes and decided some of them where canon #they’re chaotic neutral leaning on chaotic evil on occasion #they still like to help others #they just help others while also making very morally questionable decisions #I live with the consequences of their actions #reasons my Tav isn’t allowed in the Baldur’s Gate graveyard

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northwest-cryptid · 7 months ago

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You know I think I understand why people who like the plot to AC6 hate seeing me play it.

Because I'm sorry but the "oh no you're a soulless merc who can't think for yourself and you're just a dog being used oh nooooo" is laid on so thick that I just honestly don't care.

Like I'm not saying it's bad, but I'm just so tired of that sort of narrative and there's no other game that gives me quite the same mech gameplay/building so the way I enjoy this game is that I build a silly mech and then go blow up other mechs.

So it's literally like

Everyone: Oh no Cryptid you have to go kill good-honest-innocent man McGoodNiceDude! Me: Okay! Yay! \(≧▽≦)/ Everyone: NO!

Like I cannot tell you how much I love the AC vs AC parts of this game. Going toe to toe with another specifically built machine is cool, it's like I finally get to use everything I've been building towards and AC as a series has always done a great job of making you feel it all, from the choice of thruster to which generator you're using. So even the minor upgrades that may not be cosmetic or that aren't necessarily a new big gun or whatever still feel FUN.

I will now proceed to tell you how much I love the AC vs AC parts of this game.

Fighting a bunch of fodder enemies doesn't make use of all of that, but then you get to fight another AC and suddenly you find yourself using everything at maximum efficiency. It's like a test of your skills both as a player but also as someone able to build and design your AC. Which is cool because whenever I play a Dark Souls game or something my "build" is basically what weapon do I want to use, what's the best weapon for that type of weapon scaling wise; what stats do I need, and then just "git gud" at learning the fights.

Armored Core is different, does this guy use shields? Are they physical shields or energy shields? was I prepared for that? Are they using melee weapons at close range? Should I be using melee weapons? What does my opponent's design/build leave in terms of a weakness, what can I exploit here? Is my AC able to exploit that? Should I swap out my shoulder rockets for a shield this time, maybe a sniper rifle? I could probably hold a few energy weapons on my shoulder slots and swap to them as needed!

This whole thought process leads to creating an AC that feels like it's designed to be a solution based not just on how I play but on what the game is throwing at me. It doesn't feel like I'm flip flopping between "ugh okay I guess I'm going mage this time, spamming magic would be easier here. Then I need to get a larva thing so I can go back to Arcane Strength build again..." It feels like I'm planning for what might get thrown at me, designing my AC around what I need. If taking this rocket launcher is too heavy for my AC then I need sturdier parts, if those parts need a better power supply then I need to shop for a better generator. All of this is to say I'm fitting my AC for the situation at hand, fine tuning every part of it; and then when I get into the fight and they throw up an energy shield and I can whip out my plasma rifle to deal with that, I feel really good; because I was prepared for this thanks to my planning.

Everything you do in AC is thanks to how you built your AC. I mean literally everything, just dodging a missile is a matter of "wow this light frame and high energy generator is coming in handy, I can stay airborne and dodge these like nothing and I still have energy left over to boost out of here!" Having a really heavy sturdy tank tread AC that's just loaded with so many heavy weapons it could punch through a 50 foot thick wall feels good because you made that shit work! You're not blazing through enemies with ease because you have some overpowered weapon, you specifically built to use these heavy weapons; you strategized for this. Everything is the payoff of your direct actions.

The game is basically split into two categories, you have the planning phase and then the action phase. Getting good at one of these can absolutely cover for a lack of skill in the other. If you're a REALLY good action player then you could probably get by with even the worst designed AC, just because you're good at playing the game. If you're really bad at the action, but you plan accordingly and cover your ass with having a sturdy AC that can take a lot of damage; has solid defenses, and can hit enemies hard to ensure you don't give them much time to fight back. You're going to be able to make progress because you built essentially an invincible AC.

Every time I talk to someone who plays AC, they are almost always really attached to their AC by the end of the game because they've come to know that thing intimately. I've talked to a lot of Dark Souls players, none of them feel like their build or their character or their weapon "got them through the game" quite like an AC player.

Granted, mech enjoyers are a different breed.

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quinntamsin · 2 years ago

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Denna let out a cry of joy as the ship crested over a wave and hut the end of it with a hard think. The wind was causing their vessel to speed quickly across the ocean as she and Kwynn headed south to attend a wedding in the neck. The banner of House Ceallach, a white raven on a black banner, sailed above on the mast. Her wife, the Lady Ceallach was busily speaking to the captain as they were only perhaps a few miles before making port.

House of the Dragon S1E8 "The Lord of the Tides". We open with the Lord of Hightide injured from fighting in the Stepstones. Vaemond seems intent on taking it from his own family. Rhaena stands beside Rhaenys as she sits the Driftwood throne. I like how there is still succession debates going on among the Houses of the Blackwater Rush. Is it a Valyrian trait to turn on family; I wonder how they plan on introducing the next Lord of Driftmark, Alyn Hull aka Velaryon. The King tries to focus on the happy as Alicent prays for lord Vaemond. They toast Lucaerys as everyone else including Aegon the fuckwad decides to be a fuckboy. Seriously, that little rapist would reserve the death he gets later. Switching to Dragonstone we see that new fortifications have been built on the great fortress as we zone in on the firemount for some reason. Deep within a crevasse, we see someone stealing a Dragon Egg? It's Daemon he pries the egg from a strange almost dragonglass-made nest. Daemon seems happy about the new eggs as he receives a message from his daughter. Grown-up Jacaerys definitely is lighter in hair than his younger self, as he practices High Valyrian over Aegon's epic table. He is dismissed as Daemon enters to give information to hise Niece-Wife, about the ongoing turmoil of Hightide. Vaemond's own action makes me think he's been causing more problems as we see the Strong Children getting their status questioned. Honestly, I wouldn't put it past Lord Otto to play up the bullshit. The Velaryon-Targs make their arrival back in King's Landing where they hope to put aside ongoing issues with Lady Rhaenys. THey are welcomed by no one, the Queen isn't there (way to go Ali-Karen) and a person pops up without notice. Inside the Red Keep is silent, everything is darker as there's more evidence of the Seven. The typical bullshit of the Andals as many of the Valyrian accouterments have been removed. The Queen Wears a seven-pointed star like it's a fucking shield on her as we see the Greens are trying further to attack the kids. It would have been less outward about it. Sir Erryk alerts the Queen to what we will find out is Aegon being a raper (and her being a total White Karen and pushing to cover it up). Rhae enters her father's chambers with Damon as they are much darker and more forlorn than before. Viserys' illness has spread farther than before. The right of his face is almost entirely bandaged as only his nose is left free. WE can see that the King is fading, Daemon informs the King of the Sea Snakes fall in battle. When Daemon pushes the King seemingly just repeats it. WHen he meets the youngest boys including Visery II and Aegon III, his stuttering scares the children. I mean they are kids. In the Queen's presence the girl is crying, her face roughed and ruffled I am they didn't fucking show us the actual scene. The aftermath is all we need when it comes to the GoT TV series' history of treating women. She tells him how she asked him to stop and the Queen appears to have some mercy for the girl. Some sympathy but honestly, as I watch I know it's all fucking fake. Alicent proceeds to basically threaten the shit out of the girl showcasing that she's not just a bad mother, but also a terrible Queen! She even pays the girl off like a fucking Corporate HR Karen. This scene is so seriously horrific as the girl is forced under duress to drink Moontea to abort the child. So, wow, I really wished they didn't have this, but I will say this Alicent is trying. The soon to be future King as he's ignoring everything all the Queen can do is strike him. Yup, this is a real Bateman hotel. He's ignoring Helaena, and then he tries to whine about how the world is so hard. Helaena pops up and being the just pure soul she is asks for Dyana to watch the kids. Her walk in to speak to Alicent ends as predictably as it could. The Strong Lads head out to the training yard dressed in dark cloaks as befitting their status as scions of House Targaryen. They discuss their current status as Aemond being a total badass in the fighting ring faces off against Sir Criston. Aemond is just so fucking unhinged as he asks his Nephews if they wish to train. In the situation pops Vaemond who is here to be the pissant he is and we prepare as the Lord of the Tides is to be decided. Otto does it all under the guise of putting a child in command. This could easily be decided by Rhaenys standing as a fucking Regent. She has served with her husband and we know Daemon is also a battle-ready fighter. Whatever it is, we travel to the Godswood where Rhaena leads in Rhae to speak to her family. Rhae is right that Rhaenys is there to proclaim herself. Laenor is still alive, and we know Rhae hatched the scheme to let him fuck off under the lie of being dead. It makes me wonder how Rhaenys come to side with the Black Council if she's just going to ignore shit. The Hightowers are going to pry away at Rhae for her status and for her children. We know that Laenor tried to have sex with her, but gave up for his own boundaries. SO she turned to someone to help and that was sir Harwin Strong. If Larys had not broken his family apart as a fucking Kinslayer the Strongs would have been there to back the Black Council. Rhae pops up in the night to speak to her father about the "Song of Ice and FIre". The writers here are leaning hard into more Dreamer work, but we know that Aemond's future came true. Rhae admits she likely didn't really want to lead the kingdom, she's lost a lot here. How all of the ongoing weight of the future and her desire to rule are so damn overpowering. Watching Rhae beg her father is so fucking heartbreaking. She is trying so hard, but her former best friend and her father are tearing it all apart. And the King can do nothing because he's falling apart from his own illness.

Valar Morghulis. As he is wrapped again by the Maesters he speaks to Otto as he calls for supper in the redkeep. He wants his family, his fading vision of family unification, to be somewhat true, even for a moment. As he taken back to bed we see sores covering his body as a shadow of the Seven paints the room. Back in the throne room Otto stands before the chair facing toward those issue and sits upon it. THe fool. Vaemond is up, he goes with the History, and goes on his purist bullshit. The Velaryons have married into the Targs enough for both Houses to have a healthy CLaim. I mean that he pushes harder on declaring the Strong Kids as illegitimate. Rhae's argument begins as someone else, the King enters, and he's hobbling worse than Maester Aemond is. Half is face is masked in gold much like Baldwin IV of Jerusalem. His walk to the Iron Throne is painful as he glances between his wife, brother, sons, grandchildren and his daughter. He basically tells Otto he's there to sit, even in pain, he will sit the Throne. Valar Dohaeris. Bearing down on his cane he is helped up by his brother who for once seems above his own bullshit in this scene. Daemon picks up his brother and the Crown and settles Viserys into the Iron Thone. Excellent acting done by Paddy Considine. THe King's actions here will mean that Vaemond get's set aside, and so does Luke. Baela sits with the Strong Kids, she mentions the fucking marriage agreement. But this seems like a nice build up as Lord Vaemond decides to go full on bullshit. He throws a tantrum and decides to argue with the King. He is about to say it when we see that Daemon is about to go stepdad on his ass and murder the fucker. He calls it out before the King. and insults the heir-apparent of the Seven Kingdoms. And as the king calls for his tongue he beheads Vaemond using Dark Sister. I will be honest, this was an epic as fuck scene, as Lord Rhaenys sits over the body of Vaemond is prepared for funeral. Rhaenys speaks of the STranger, of how Death has haunted her House too much recently. First her daughter, then her goodbrother. Laenor is not included since he was willing to traumatize his family to fuck off. Yes, I get it he wanted to go do his shit, but he left his mother with a lie instead of at least a clue. "It both gladdens my heart and fills it with sorrow." He makes a point at going straight for the jugular at the division of the Hightower and Velaryon Targaryens. He removes his mask to showcase the damage done to his face by the disease that has been eating at him. Valar Morghulis, the king shows him his true face. He's trying so hard for his family to not continue this bullshit. If only Alicent would -just- let shit go. He -begs- them to let it go, and we can see that Alicent is filled with emotion. Which will result as Rhae gives Alicent a compliment, and apology. Rhaena tosses the woman another fucking olive branch, one that could have ended all of this. ALL OF THIS. She admits that Rhae will make a fine Queen, but there's Otto in the background ready to stir shit again. Can someone just off or detongue the bastard. Aegon is a literally drunken fool, and Aemond is a war-weary asshole. And Aegon decides to insult to injury and Jace stands like a man. He could apologize for attacking Aemond (which would have done nothing, but made him appear the bigger person). He did the smart thing though in not playing to Aegon's childishness. Helaena pops up and talks about how horrible her husband is and this was great. Aegon deserve to be eaten by a fucking Dragon as Jace walks off to be with Helaena. This is a pairing that should have happened, but no Karen Queen had to push them together. The family seems happy hear at least a little bit, Aegon is a fuckwad who should be gelded. Rhae is smiling even Aegon is happy as is the Queen. For a night, the King gets his dream, a family without stsrife, but this is a false narrative. He is dying, we can see as the pain begins to take him and Daemon watches. Aemond decides to open his fucking mouth, decides to level another insult, he decides. Alicent is trying at this point, we can see that it is now the generational feud that is spreading now. She says she will return on Dragonback, but I don't think the Princess will return. We switch to the dark of the Keep as music plays in the background. Someone is stalking somewhere in the night. Is this Daemon visiting the White Worm. No it is someone else. We sweep into the King's bedroom where he is struggling with the pain of his illness. I do rail against ALicent, but the woman IS trying. She is dealing with a father who encourages her to cover up and not actually deal with her sons problem. She is surrounded by men who have pushed her into this situation. And she is in a marriage where her husband is a walking corpse. In his throws of pain he speaks of the prophecy of the Song, and he eventually pushes ALicent into a position which is foolish. If anyone writes a good Alaenyra story giving Rhae and her a good start I will jump on that bitch fast! Alicent leaves her husbands room after hearing his rambling as she thinks he wants Aegon to succeed. Knowing nothing of what he meant she will take this as the King Breathe's his very last it seems. He tears up, seeing how the ravages of his future will result in the death of his line mayhap. Thus the King died, Long LIve King Aegon II and thus came the Dance of Dragons. Gay Canon Damn, like seriously damn, I have some really good ideas involving a few characters here. I wanna say that once I finish up some work I will be dabbling in an Alaenyra story for next season. A sort of spite to the fuckery that is the sexism of Westeros. I want to be clear, this is me spiting what Weiss and Benioff did to a sound storyline. I like what HoTD is doing, I think it has a solid story in its hand. At the same time I want to take in hand what I think could have been a take on the Targs not descending into the sickening rot that will become of their future Kin. Hottakes The Driftwood Throne is pretty bamf.

Thank gods they didn't actually show us that gender violence scene.

I like how they are playing up Aemond as a childish almost sociopathic clone of Daemon. The stand off near the end mirrors their ended together well above the Gods Eye.

This show is really doing a good job as expressing and showcasing generational trauma.

Helaena is fucking precious.

All of these time skips are fucking with my head.

They say only four seasons, I would have made it six with fewer time skips.

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11queensupreme11 · 3 years ago

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My Drunken Dead Yuta Theory 🍾🤪

(This is a theory that I made like… the day after chapter 181 of the manga was released. I originally put in my jjk fic “TSUNAMI”, but decided to copy-paste it here because why not.)

Just to clarify: I WAS NOT COMPLETELY DRUNK WHEN I THOUGHT OF THIS! I was drinking (not that much ofc) and barbecuing with my friends when I had an epiphany: Yuta is possibly Yuji’s foil and therefore, he might die because of it.

(Btw, I literally came to this conclusion when I was pulling at the aluminum foil for the barbecue. Lol, get it, foil? Foil??? no??? ok bye 🥲)

EDIT: In my wattpad/quotev rant, I completely forgot to explain what a foil is, whoops. A literary foil is basically a character that contrasts another character.

Ex: Nanami and Mei Mei. Nanami cares a lot about children and the safety of others and returned to the jujutsu world because he knew he was making a positive impact on ppl. Meanwhile Mei Mei is only concerned about money and doesn’t care much for anyone else’s life but her own. She exploits everyone including her own brother (a child) and pretty much used him as a shield against a powerful curse. They’re opposites of each other.

You can find a more detailed analysis about these two characters being foils over at reddit. Can’t put the link in cuz tumblr’s a meanie about links.

LEMME EXPLAIN WHAT I MEAN.

First off, look at this Twitter thread I found about jjk chapter 181:

Before Gege created Yuji, Yuta was his original main character. He was created during a time where main characters of shounen animes/mangas all started out super strong or OP—that’s why Yuta was so powerful back in Volume 0 because that was usually how creators made their MCs back then.

Around the time Yuji was created, there was a shift in interests within the shounen genre; people began to find MCs who quickly became OP boring, they became more fond of more developed characters instead. Main characters, like Yuji, had more realistic progress in their abilities rather than starting out special and OP.

And you know another thing that was super common back in the day? Shounens had a thing for using the Power of Friendship and Talk-no-Jutsu to unrealistically settle conflicts. With the Power of Friendship and Talk-no-Jutsu, protagonists and their friends easily defeated the villains and all was good! 🤗

That’s not what Gege’s doing here, as the Twitter thread above had already explained.

In JJK, he’s showing us that corruption (the jujutsu society as a whole) and selfishness (Sukuna, Mei Mei, Zenins, etc) will always win over selflessness and all things good and holy. He’s showing us that being good can be a weakness, it can get you or other people killed, so it’s better to only care about yourself.

Gojo tried to save people in the train station and got trapped. Nanami prioritized the safety of the kids and got killed for it. Meanwhile, you’ve got fucked up characters like Mei Mei (who I think is Nanami’s foil) who gets to live and thrive in her selfishness (after Nanami died, she’s later seen in Malaysia—you know, the place Nanami wanted to visit the most?—because she ran away from Shibuya to save her ass).

I think the reason why Gege brought Yuta back was so he could be Yuji’s opposite. Yuji’s going down a dark path after what happened in Shibuya and I wouldn’t be surprised if he ends up prioritizing his life and becoming more selfish.

Then we got Yuta who refuses to believe that you should fight for yourself and chooses to fight for his friends and loved ones. During his fight with Uro, he was constantly trying to Talk-no-Justu her into believing in the ✨Power of Friendship✨ and whatnot 💀💀💀

Girl was literally trying to tell him that that shit won’t work in the real world, but he was like “how dare you insult the Power of Friendship! 😡 *proceeds to beat her up*” BOY PLEASE JUST LET HER SPEAK OMFG 😩

It’s clear to me that Yuta is supposed to represent the stereotypical shounen MC whereas Yuji represents a newer, darker concept of an MC. And we’ve seen how many times Gege’s shown us that the stereotypical shounen shit is unrealistic and is NOT gonna happen in his manga. Because of this, I think that he might have Yuta actually try to fight one of the Big Bads (Kenjaku or maybe Sukuna) and die terribly as a result of it. That would be a VERY obvious message to the readers that the Power of Friendship and Talk-no-Jutsu ain’t gonna work in the world of JJK.

EDIT: omg didn’t Yuta say he was gonna try and gain 400 points and then fight Kenjaku so Gojo wouldn’t have to??? BOY YOU BETTER SIT YOUR ASS DOWN

I HOPE TO GOD THAT I’M WRONG THOUGH!

I don’t want Yuta to die 😭😭😭 I don’t want ANY of them to die, I WANT THEM TO LIVE A HAPPY LIFE WITH A WHOLE NEW REFORMED JUJUTSU SOCIETY WHERE CORRUPTION DOESN’T EXIST AND MAYBE SUKUNA PULLS A KURAMA AND BECOMES GOOD.

But that’s clown shit, I know ��

JJK is probably gonna have a very sad ending and I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if it ended with the bad guys winning and the good guys dead 😭

If my theory made any of you guys upset… good :)

It made me upset when I thought of it, so I thought it was only fair to put you guys through this pain too 💖

#yuta okkotsu #yuuta okkotsu #Jujutsu Kaisen #jjk #jujutsu kaisen meta #jujutsu kaisen theory #jjk 181 #jjk spoilers #im sorry yuta bby #i hope im wrong #but if im not... rip #fly high #rambles #👸🏻| rambles

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findingjoynweirdstuff · 4 years ago

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Dream SMP Recap (December 4/2020)

It’s the day we’ve all been dreading.

The time of reckoning has come for Tommy as he and Ghostbur are pushed into exile -- Tommy’s third exile so far! He’s really racking them up.

Meanwhile, Dream and Tubbo form a tentative alliance, the Badlands start to splinter, and Mexican L’manburg continues to grow in size and power.

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- Sapnap logs on, sees that Batthew is gone and starts going apeshit on Ranboo, but then they realize that Batthew was actually still there and Sapnap was mistaken about Batthew dying. Whoops.

- Sapnap goes on a monologue about Dream dethroning George, saying basically that his loyalties lie only with Mexican L’manburg now. He and Tommy are friends, and he’ll see what happens with Tommy’s situation.

- Tubbo and Quackity speak before shit goes down. Quackity tells Tubbo about George being dethroned and his and Dream’s debate.

- Tommy comes online.

- Tommy convinces Quackity and Fundy to help him start a war against Dream that very night. Tubbo isn’t convinced but they keep talking over him, so eventually he reluctantly agrees.

- They go to meet with Dream. Dream says that he believes Tubbo will make the right choice. Tubbo laughs, says he’s sorry to Tommy, and exiles him. He says the discs are just that - discs, and they shouldn’t decide the fate of a country.

- Dream escorts Tommy and Ghostbur a couple thousand blocks away. The rain is pouring.

- Quackity leads everyone down a hallway to a Technoblade hate shrine. Fundy hands Tubbo a “L’manburg hit list” of all their enemies. They decide to take down Technoblade first, then Dream.

- Dream goes to speak with Tubbo at the walls. Dream says he’ll have the walls down within a week and he’ll give Tubbo all the obsidian.

- Tommy tries desperately to get Ghostbur to remember why Wilbur made Tubbo the president, but he can’t.

- Ghostbur says that Techno was messaging him to tell Techno their coords. Tommy doesn’t want Techno to know.

- Sam appears in front of Tommy - he must have followed them. He says that Tommy is always welcome in his home.

- Tommy is at a loss for what to do. He says they need to get back the discs. Ghostbur asks who has the discs, and Tommy says Tubbo and Dream. And in order to get back the disc from Tubbo... Tommy goes silent for a bit.

- Dream declares that L’manburg and Dream SMP are at peace. He says that he will be officially recognizing L’manburg as a state, and if anybody tries to overthrow the government, he will support Tubbo.

- Fundy asks Dream if he looks good in his suit. They’re getting married today. When Dream leaves the call, Fundy says “I love you.” Dream returns the message after a bit of...hesitation. Fundy is giddy.

- Technoblade joins Wilbur and Tommy’s call and laughs at Tommy’s failure. He arrives and bullies Tommy while showing off his new skin. He says that if Tommy really wants his discs back, he’s been working with the wrong people (Tubbo)

- Quackity retains his vice president duties.

- Tommy and Wilbur name their new town “Logstedshire,” Logsted for short.

- Logchamp. Tommy is tempted by an Apple.

- Tommy burns the Racism Logs. I think it’s safe to say he and Wilbur are going a biiiiit insane?

- #SorryTrendingGuy

- Quackity asks Sapnap what his relationship with Dream is like right now. Sapnap is still heartbroken but says that Dream might still trust him. Quackity tells Sapnap about the Butcher Army and asks if he wants to join. Sapnap says that depending on how things go, he may have “a bigger fish in his sights...”

- Tubbo speaks with Ranboo. Tubbo talks about how Ranboo was planning on running for the election on February 2nd. He says he hopes Ranboo would do a better job than him. Ranboo philosophizes about the discs.

- Quackity gives George the same proposition to join the Butcher Army that he gave Sapnap. He asks George what his stance in his relationship with Dream is. George promptly jumps off a cliff and expertly dodges the question.

- Tubbo and Ranboo go under Eret’s museum and Tubbo reminisces about the piston trap he made when he joined the server, the one he used to trap Tommy. They also fight a raid.

- Fundy and Ranboo encounter Skeppy building a tower. Skeppy has a Manberg War Shield. He asks them for dirt. They proceed to insult him.

- The Badlands are having some internal conflict as well. Sam and Antfrost aren’t pleased with Bad’s actions yesterday. He’s been making too many changes without them, and they disagree with Bad’s intentions of siding with Mexican L’manburg and trying to get involved in a plot against Dream.

- Puffy decorates for the holidays.

- Karl becomes an official citizen of Mexican L’manburg. He, Sapnap and Quackity work together to break down a section of the wall so that they can see Pokimane.

- Karl commits murder in the Holy Land.

- Sapnap is telling Quackity and Karl all the old stories. He tells Quackity and Karl about how Tommy gave up the discs for L’manberg’s birth. Quackity is surprised, as he’d always faulted Tommy for being too obsessed with the discs. Sapnap also informs them about the Railway Skirmish, and how the conclusion he’d drawn from that incident was that “Dream isn’t immortal.” (Is Sapnap planning on trying to kill Dream?)

- Quackity asks Sapnap about his thoughts on the exile. Sapnap says that Tommy had it coming, but it might not have been the right thing to do.

- Quackity then says that he has a secret kept in his basement. He says it’s the most valuable thing he has left on the server: a skeleton horse. Mexican L’manburg’s biggest prize. He says that three horses came to attack him after a thunderstorm, and he killed two of them but kept the third.

- Ranboo and Eret get into an argument about a zombie.

- Badboyhalo, Sam and Ant are all on the server too. Sam and Ant, while Bad is busy, start to draft a contract to be signed with the Dream SMP concerning the two Origin Cows (Mooshrooms) - including clauses that state that the Badlands’ validity cannot be revoked by King Eret nor anyone who comes after him, among many other agreements. The document is unsigned as of right now, since Bad and Skeppy will need to be talked to tomorrow and they’ll need to meet with Eret to get his signature.

The Badlands want to gain control over Spawn so that they have influence over any new players who join.

- Meanwhile, Karl, Quackity and Sapnap are playing dress-up again while Ranboo and Eret make a grave for Jonald, who was very short-lived.

- Eret asks Ranboo about adoption. Ranboo says that he’s not an orphan, he’s just never seen his parents.

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Upcoming Events:

- Karl will tour Pokimane around next week

- Dream and Fundy supposedly got married today but we don’t know what happened yet

- Elytra Challenge????????

#dream smp #mcyt #long posts #dream smp recaps

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alyss-spazz-penedo · 3 years ago

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Okay, so life has gotten STUPID stressful of late, and these days I have basically no time to indulge happy daydreams AT ALL.

Thus: screw pacing, I'm just gonna toss up this mostly-completed 11th part of the unedited v!Wind fic and then blow through the rest of this fic sometime in the next few weeks, bc I’m not adding any more content to what I’ve already got (or at least not anytime soon).

So yeah, @w1lmutt, expect a larger and more chaotic worddump than usual eventually! (I figure I can worry about proper scenes and editing nonsense if/when I ever move these words over to AO3 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

<<First Part 10 Final>>

(I made a Masterpost for this!)

They drag the big doors open.

The inside of the cave is poorly lit and offers little in the way of room to stand; a pathway of those monster-built walkways follows the wall around to the back of the cove, but otherwise the space is all open water with an impressive ship bobbing at the center.

Tetra lets out a grunt of approval when she sees it, though she scowls at the massive cage that's been built on its deck. It’s a crude thing, large and runed with ominous symbols meant to contain the imprisoned, but otherwise the ship itself seems surprisingly understated and not-evil for the primary vessel of someone who’d conquered as much of the sea as Phantom had boasted.

At first, things seem fine. Quiet. The ship is untouched, all gangplanks pulled up and cannons pointed out but otherwise unharmed.

Then one of the pirates peeks their head over the railing and spots them.

"Boss! Swabbie! Is that you?" Niko yells, and there's blood all down his side. "Look out! Monsters afoot!"

"Niko!" Tetra calls in alarm, and the pirates who are able to scramble to lay out a plank for them to board. Phantom doesn't bother waiting, yanking his mask on and clearing the side of the ship in a single bound.

"Who did this," he begins, voice distorted by magic and fury.

Then the monsters attack, dropping from the ceiling and rising out of the sea. Every one of them bleeds black.

The heroes fight, of course. The crew has taken a beating, and the gathered Links do their best to defend the exhausted sailors—Phantom most fervently of them all.

It's hard battle. What footing there is is unstable, and their enemies many. Most of them are not suited to aquatic battles, and the waters of the cave are treacherous. They take injuries, all of them.

But when he's standing between their injured and their enemies, when his eyes are clear and sharp and his strikes deadly precise—for the first time, the gathered Links can see the look of a hero about their youngest.

~o0o~

Of course, he proceeds to thoroughly ruin that impression by the time the battle draws to a close.

The monster he's chosen is not a type of creature he recognizes—green, reptilian, fast in the water. Phantom's cut it's legs out from under it, quite literally, and so it writhes on it's elbows and stomach across the wooden deck as it tries to escape him. Outside of their little corner of the ship, the last of its comrades fall to the blades of the traveling heroes.

"Who sent you?" Phantom demands. When he doesn't get a response he likes, he drags his blade through the side of it's belly, long and nonfatal. It squeals in agony.

"You're going to die here," he observes, soft. He stomps on the wound, heedless of the dark blood splashing his sandals. "But it's going to take time. Quite some time, if you so choose. Answer me: who is your master?"

The creature gibbers. Phantom tilts his head, somehow divining meaning from the nonsensical noises of terror.

"A shadow?" he murmurs. "What-?"

Someone steps in. “What are you doing?!”

And it's only because it’s Hyrule—Hyrule who tried to help, Hyrule who’s lightning magic Phantom can still feel painful echoes of in his bones—that Phantom stays his blade. “Get out of my way,” he growls, which is better than the stabbing any of these other interlopers would’ve gotten.

A hand lands on his shoulder. Phantom's sword swings around, action to reaction with no pause for thought in between. The edge stops a hair's breadth away from Tetra's scowl.

"That's enough," she says, and shoots the lizalfos in the head.

Phantom scowls at the dead body, then at her. "I was not finished," he growls.

Tetra yanks on his ear.

"Ow! Hey!" He flails. "Leggo leggo!"

"We have more important things to worry about!" She yells, dragging him around to look at the sorry state of her crew. "Genzo needs a splint! Niko needs stitches and more bandages than we have! Everyone is beat to shit! And only one of us can fly, idiot!"

She lets go of his ear to shove him forward. Phantom stops. He looks.

"Oh," he utters, and he notices for the first time that he has blood dripping down his shield arm. He shakes his head, once, like a dog, and clutches at the wound. He feels very cold. "...Oh."

As though it had merely been waiting for his permission, the lizal corpse finally explodes into dark smoke.

"Right," he breathes. "Right."

~o0o~

"What were those," Phantom demands.

The pirates have been left in the care of the brothers who'd first opened their dojo to the traveling heroes, recuperating from their various injuries. Fortunately, none of the damage seems permanent. A few fairies, some liberally applied first aid, and all the crew should be at least back on their feet within the week.

This, however, has left the group of heroes with nowhere to stay, which led to Phantom reluctantly opening his own home to them. They're packed in there now, sprawled about both floors and generally tending to themselves with experienced hands.

"What do you think?" Legend replies snippily. Phantom scowls at them all, pacing back and forth restlessly in the tight space by the front door.

His glare lands on Four, helping Twilight wrap his wrist—on Wild getting scolded while Legend rests his ice rod on the Champion's ankle—on Hyrule tutting over Sky while Warriors dramatically bemoans his black eye—

He takes in the group's injuries with a dissatisfaction that very, very poorly covers his unease.

"You're not weak," the boy asserts. Time wonders who he's trying to convince. "You wouldn't have beaten me if you were weak. Why was this battle so difficult?"

"You didn't get off lightly yourself," Time points out, nodding to the thick mess of gauze on the boy's arm. At a guess, the boy had tried to block a blow with his shield and forgotten he wasn't wearing one. Fortunate that there's a fairy fountain on the island, or Phantom might've lost strength in that limb.

Phantom waves him off. "I was handicapped," he dismisses, not denying that he wasn't fighting at his best. Time frowns at the excuse. "I'll figure something out to compensate for it, and this won't happen again."

He gets a lot of dubious looks at that; none of them have forgotten that what he's trying to 'compensate for' is the loss of that parasite. Time's almost dreading what the boy might scrounge up to replace that.

Phantom turns away from them sulkily, unable to defend himself and unwilling to look all that suspicion in the face.

"To answer your question," Four starts, with the air of someone steering the conversation back to safer waters, "that's just the kind of journey we're on."

Sky swings his previously-dislocated shoulder in a testing motion that immediately gets him a cease-and-desist look from Hyrule, before he adds, "Those were pretty standard for black-blooded monsters, I'd say."

Twilight, catching the look on Phantom's face, rolls his eyes. "Did you think something the goddess summoned eight heroes to fight would be easy?"

Phantom scoffs, arms crossed. "It took eight of you to fight me," he grumbles, and there's the arrogant little brat they'd met at the start of this. Hopefully that means the kid's feeling better, if he's up to sassing them like that again.

Time rather doubts that—Phantom IS a Link, after all—and so the one-eyed hero makes a mental note to follow up on that later.

#Vinked Universe #the unedited v!wind fic #linked universe #my writing #fanfic #me: tries my hand at action bc this is supposed to be a LU fic #Also me: drops it like a hot potato bc I have no idea how to Fight Scene #next part is just gonna be me turning my notebook upside and shaking it until all the plunnies fall out #I hope ur prepared #this has been a lot of fun but I am just. done #i think it's clear enough where I'm going with things at this point anyways

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tealenko · 3 years ago

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Listen Before I Go (Chapter 8)

Chapter 8: Persephone

I truly love this one... I added the maps I made so that you can se how the bases are distributed. Hope you like it.

Summary: Shepard and her team go through a quite unusual game of capture the flag.

Words: 3080 Rating: Teens and up Warning: Language, as always.

Read in AO3 -> [link] Previous Chapter -> [link] Next Chapter -> [link] Through Hell and Back series -> [link]

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“Holly shit, it’s cold in here.”

“Really, Frankfurt? And here I was thinking this was a heat wave.”

The whole group laughs at Vancouver’s comment, Frankfurt included, which helps to lighten the mood a little bit and gives Shepard an opportunity to finally expose her plan, or at least fragments of it.

“Very funny Van, but try behaving for a little. And yes, Frank, we already know Persephone is not a tropical paradise, but what were you expecting?”

“Heaters?” Frank’s answer causes a second round of laughs.

“Look, I know this seems like a pain in the ass, but we’re ready for it.”

Vancouver smiles and sighs in relief after hearing his friend’s statement.

“And you already have a plan, don’t you? I know that tone of voice… You wouldn’t be so confident if you didn’t think we are going to win this.”

Shepard returns the smile but remains silent.

“Wait… You already know what to do?” Lynden asks, truly amazed with Shepard’s skills.

“Since the moment I set foot on that shuttle.” She answers her, giving her a soft pat on her back before switching on her omni-tool to send a message to the whole group. “On our way here I made sure our comms were unbreakable and unhackable…” She says as she keeps writing her orders. “But I’m not sure about the security here, so I’ll just say the basic stuff out loud, you’ll get the details in no time. Any question?”

Except for her best friend, who is already used to her commanding form, everyone else needs a second to process all of her words.

After leaving them a few seconds to catch up with her, Shepard starts to talk again.

“Perfect, let's get this party started.” She says before switching off her omni-tool, preparing to address every member one by one.

“Van, comb the room for ears or any spying device and, if there’re cameras, deactivate them in all bases, not only ours. Lyn, there’re shields and barriers surrounding our base, but they’re out, see what you can do to fix them. Lisbon, back there there’s a broken heater, fix it as quick as you’re able. The rest of you follow me.”

Everyone with an order starts moving right away to do their tasks, leaving the rest of them alone in the middle of the room.

“Right, you said you were good with tech, Val?” Valencia nods. “Perfect, get me a map of the planet. Coming here I saw a data hub, do what you can to get all the data that may be useful for us. I’ll join you in just a sec.”

The two biotics stare at Shepard as Valencia nods and proceeds to follow her order, still amazed with the whole situation.

“Frank… Any good with barriers?” Shepard asks him, making him come back to reality.

He replies with a smug smile that lets her know he is an expert before he actually replies to the question.

“Of course. No offense to Chicago here, but you’re looking at the best biotic in base, Detroit.”

“If only you could run…” Chicago says with a big smirk on her face, not even remotely bothered by his comment.

“Ehehehehe. Good one.”

“Perfect. Frank, you’ll be on defense.” He smiles after hearing his role in the whole plan. “Although I can make you come with us if you prefer to run a little.” Shepard smiles at the biotic, seeing him shake his head vigorously.

“I’d rather stay put, Dee.”

“I guessed as much.” She laughs at her own comment for a few seconds before continuing. “Well then, in that case, go talk with Valencia and get familiar with every single entrance and weak spot.”

Frankfurt nods and leaves.

“Chicago, come with me.” Shepard starts moving and she follows her to the other end of the room, next to their flag, where no one else can hear them. “You, my friend, are going to be the key to win this, you’re up for it?”

“Here for whatever you need, Dee.”

“Perfect.”

“What did I miss?” Anderson asks as he approaches the rest of the officers, stopping right next to Cho.

“They started twenty minutes ago, more or less.” Dennis says, turning a little to speak with his friend. “Tell me David, are you still interested to bet?”

“Depends…” Anderson smiles. “Is Shepard finally in this?”

“Detroit? Yeah. She and her plus one. Both of them are down there.”

“Same team, right?”

“Yup.”

“Count me in.” As he transfers the credits with his omni-tool to the online pool, the rest of the officers start to laugh at him. “What?”

“Maybe we should’ve told you, Anderson… They’re in Connor’s group.” One of them says as everyone starts to laugh again, already savoring a victory that is yet to come. “You just bet a fortune on the worst lieutenant in the history of the Alliance.”

Anderson smiles but doesn’t say anything, letting his friends make fun of the situation.

“I mean, we’re now betting on how long it will take the other groups to take them down. I mean, they have half the members to defend their base! They’re gonna be eaten alive.”

“There’s only seven people in team A.” Cho explains to his friend. “They cannot attack and leave a lot of their people behind, but they need to… It’s doom from the beginning being in that squad.”

Without losing his smile, Anderson nods to say goodbye and leaves the group, switching on his omnitool the second he’s away from them. Dennis follows him after a few seconds.

“You seem oddly amused by the fact that you’re going to lose a lot of money.” He looks at his friend as he says this. “Trying to annul the bet? To get your money back?”

“No… No. Betting even more.”

“What!?”

“You said Shepard was in charge, didn’t you?”

“Yeah. But come on, she’s just one person. What do you think one person can do?”

“That’s the fun in all this. I have not the foggiest idea… But I’m positively sure that she’ll find a way.” Anderson starts laughing as he places one hand on his friend’s shoulder. “That kid would never, never, do anything without a good reason and a great plan that allows her to win… Now we just have to wait and see.”

“Why am I starting to believe you?”

“Because I’m right… Or do you think she ended up in that squad by accident?”

Cho hesitates for a few seconds but, after seeing Anderson’s confidence, he gets on his omni-tool and places the same bet as him.

“At least if I lose this time so will you, David.” He sighs. “You’ve been winning me too much… It may be time for me to start paying attention.”

“I’m glad to see you come to your senses, Dennis.”

“Hey…” One of the officers screams from across the room. “They’re about to break into their base! Wanna see how you lose all your money, Anderson?”

Cho and him rejoin the group and, as the first one gets ready to lose a lot of money, the other starts to smile even more.

“You realize you’re the only one crazy enough to bet on that unit?”

“Not anymore.” Anderson taps his friend on the back. “Now there’s two of us.”

“He got you into that mess, Cho? Well.. More money for us.” All of them start laughing but, after a few seconds, they cannot avoid noticing the strength of Anderson’s smile. “What is so amusing, David?”

“Didn’t you say they were about to lose the base?” One of the officers nods very confused. “Well it seems they cannot breach it.”

“What?”

“Take a look at what’s happening.”

All of them turn to look at the screens and become pretty surprised after seeing why it is taking team B so long to take the A base.

“Am I crazy or is that both a technologic and a biotic field?”

“They won’t be able to hold it forever, Anderson. I don’t know what you are so happy about.”

“Well… The temperature in the field is decreasing. So maybe they won’t be able to keep trying for a long time. Do we have visual of the inside of the base?”

“No, only the open areas, the cameras are not working at the main buildings for some reason. Why do you ask?”

“Tell me… How many groups are you able to see right now?”

“B, trying to take the A base, and C and D, on their way there.”

“And A? We are assuming all of them are at their base…” Cho starts smiling the moment he hears that, beginning to understand why his friend is so confident about their bet. “But does anyone know what they’re doing right now?”

None of the officers knows the answer. They’ve been so focused on the big squads that none of them has stopped to think about team A’s strategy until now.

“And now tell me one more thing, just to confirm my thoughts…” Anderson adds, trying his best to control his expression. “How many weapons were assigned to each group?”

“Two, with practice rounds… If you are hit, you’re out.”

“Let me guess… They chose the type?”

“Yeah.”

“Did team A get a sniper?”

“Two, actually.”

Anderson can’t avoid laughing, feeling even more sure about his chances, if that’s even possible.

“This is definitely going to be fun.”

And he isn’t wrong.

A few seconds after, they see, for the first time ever, one member of team A, Valencia, climbing to the rooftop of her base to shoot anyone who tries to get remotely near to the area, eliminating in the process almost every member of team B, who were still trying to find a way to enter the base. The few left, saved after a quick attempt at retreating, are quickly eliminated by team C, that’s taking cover on the opposite end of the field.

“Erase that smile from your face, Anderson.” One of the officers says. “I’ll admit they’ve been clever enough with their defense to be able to take a team down, but this is far away from the ending.”

Contrary to the suggestion, his grin gets even wider, finding it impossible to avoid laughing after spending a few seconds analyzing the situation.

Cho turns and pulls his arm a little to gain his attention.

“What am I missing?” He asks in a whisper, understanding that his friend is seeing a lot more than he is.

“Well… It seems that team C and D are all in the same area, and I suppose they will ally temporarily to take down team A. I’m assuming their objective is to eliminate everyone in there before they can make it out of the base and take their flag as soon as possible.”

“And why are you laughing?” Anderson’s smile gets even wider, unable to hold it back after his friend’s question. “Come on, tell me.”

“Two snipers.”

“What?”

“Team A has two snipers and, I don’t want to disrespect Espinosa, she’s clearly done a wonderful job taking down team B…”

“But?”

“But I’ve never seen a shot like Shepard’s in my whole entire career so… Why isn’t she on the rooftop too? It'd be the logical thing to do, they would’ve eliminated the enemy even quicker, no?”

“Yes, I suppose.”

“So… Where is she?”

Cho thinks for a couple of seconds, looking at the monitors and trying to understand what he’s missing out on, when he finally understands what his friend is trying to say.

“No, wait… It cannot be.” A moment after the realization he starts smiling too, suddenly comprehending why Anderson was laughing like that. “She isn’t on the base… You have to be kidding me.”

They stare at the screens, seeing team C and D striking the base at the same time, suffering a few losses before the technological field, that’s no longer supported by the biotics, is finally down allowing them to enter.

Anderson rests his hand on Dennis’ shoulder, happy to see his friend finally catching up with his suspicions.

“She… She is attacking their bases while they focus on hers, right?”

He nods, agreeing with Cho’s deduction, just a few seconds before reality confirms it for them.

What happens next, is way too difficult to understand at the beginning for the majority of the people gathered around the monitors, but they all start to comprehend the span of team A strategy the moment their whole plan starts to unfold in front of their eyes.

A few seconds after seeing the base shield fall, they notice, to the surprise of all the officers in there, included Anderson and Cho, a second member joining Valencia on the rooftop.

“Wait…” One of them says, squinting her eyes. “Isn’t that the lazy biotic who’s always complaining about everything? What’s Weber doing up there too?”

Her question is quickly answered. After a few seconds focusing on him and Valencia, they start to see both team C and D retreating in a hurry from base A, running as fast as they can through the no-man's land.

“What the hell is happening? Have they already eliminated the other members of team A?”

“Wrong question.” Cho replies, quickly understanding the whole plan in just a few seconds. “Take a closer look.”

All the officers stare at the screen, but they aren’t able to decipher what’s going on.

“What are we supposed to see?” One of them asks, quickly losing his patience.

“It’s more in terms of what you are not seeing.” Anderson adds, trying to contain his smile as best as he’s able. “Don’t you see what's missing?”

“A flag.” The woman from before replies, coming to the realization all of a sudden. “No one has taken the flag from team A, which means…”

Before she is able to explain her deduction, the whole plan starts to develop in front of their eyes.

Out of nowhere, in the building situated on the other end of the open field, appears Shepard, followed by Lynden and Lisbon, and as the first one starts climbing her way to the rooftop, the other two stay in front of the building, hacking the main entrance to shut it close.

“You have to be kidding me…”

The commotion spreads through the whole room, causing gasps and laughters at the same time, as they see both Vancouver and Chicago getting out of the sewer, in the middle of the battlefield, and with the first one carrying every team flag, including their own, while the biotic casts a huge biotic force field to protect the two of them.

When the other teams realize where they are, it's already too late.

Lynden and Lisbon finish hacking the door and Shepard gives the order, leading to Frankfurt going to the main door while Valencia covers him from the rooftop.

In just a few seconds, the biotic field the entrance of their base reapers, casted by Frankfurt, and the couple carrying the flags starts to run to the building as Shepard and Valencia start an inescapable crossfire.

The first to be eliminated are the ones who attempt to attack the flag team, who quickly become Shepard’s main target to prove Anderson was indeed right when he dedicated so many compliments to her skills with the sniper.

The remaining time for the ones who tried to retreat instead of attacking isn’t much longer either. Both teams turn into complete chaos, all their members confused and separated in an open field, and with no option to escape now that the two closest buildings are blocked by team A.

By the time Vancouver and Chicago make it to their base, most of the other participants have been eliminated in the crossfire and, after putting all the flags in the designated area, none of them is left.

“Team A wins the game.” A VI voice announces, both in the field and in the room situated one planet away from there, confirming to everyone inside of it why Anderson was so sure about his bet.

The silence that spreads through the room once the announcement is over, that lasts for a while as all of the officers stare at the images of team A celebrating their victory, is quickly broken by Cho who, still in awe of what he’s just witnessed, starts to clap without even thinking about it.

The applause extends in record time, and all the officers in the room join in a matter of seconds, creating an ovation that, even though the winners are not able to hear, they need to get out of their body after seeing what just happened in front of their eyes.

“Fuck, I’m not even mad about loosing the bet.” One of them says as he gets closer to Anderson, fidgeting with his omni-tool preparing to transfer the credits. “That shit was amazing.” Many laugh and follow his lead, paying what they’ve lost to Anderson and Cho. “You were right, David, as always… Although this time it doesn’t hurt to admit it.”

“You’ll get me the next one.”

“Count on it.” He says before shaking his hand as both of them smile at each other. “Although I’ll refrain myself from betting against that kid any time soon… Well, or any time, period.”

The whole room laughs and starts to form their goodbye, getting ready to go on their way.

The celebration is still going on even when they make it back to Demeter, with the whole team still shouting and praising each other when the shuttle lands on the main base.

The first thing they see as they get out of it is Commander Dennis Cho, waiting for them in the landing zone, with a big smile on his face.

He takes a few steps to close the distance between him and the rest of the team, stopping right in front of Shepard.

“Sir.” She greets him and salutes, but, to her surprise, he puts his arm out to offer her a hand shake, which, after a quick smile on her part, she takes without hesitation.

“Seattle.” He says, immediately mirroring her expression with a smile of his own. “You can call me Seattle.”

Cho looks at the rest of the crew, dedicating a moment to congratulate each and every one of them without needing to say any word.

“Well…” He adds, taking his hands to his pockets before addressing the whole group. “Welcome to my unit.”

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Yaaaaaay!!! We are closer, only 2 chapters until we meet Ryder weeeeeee~~~ I had a lot to tell you but I've forgotten everything lol Well... Have a nice day

And her are the maps and team A path to victory (the black squares are the sewers btw)

#mass effect #commander shepard #fanfic #gonna write this even if no one likes it lol #pre mass effect 1 #origin story

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finitepeace · 4 years ago

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my this week’s reading

Syzygy (a Kludged Together remix) by Mizzy

Summary: When Tony Stark cut Steve Rogers' morning jog short to join him on a reconnaissance mission off the East Coast, Tony sure wasn’t expecting to end up stuck on a life raft in the middle of the ocean, Steve's hand knuckle-deep in his chest.

13k+ words, arc reactor problem, steve & tony on an adventure together, all these cuteness..

The Butterfly Effect by itsallAvengers 💙

Summary: While fighting with Loki, Steve Rogers from 2012 hears the two simple words: "Bucky's alive."

And the whole universe ripples with the aftershocks.

20,5k words, endgame fix-it, stony in alternate reality

Down in Lonesome Town by resurrectedhippo

Summary: “Why do I always find my way back to you?”

Maybe Tony didn’t necessarily return to Steve, but fate is a funny little thing, and after living a life of loss, Steve wants something that’s his to keep.

After the universe is restored, Steve is lost without any direction. Retiring from the Avengers, he moves across the country and ends up building a house by a misty blue lake. Across the bridge is Tony Stark’s new workshop.

79k words, post endgame, stony mending their relationship while living in countryside (so fights and anger are there) featuring morgan and peter!

you'll wait a long time by nanasekei

Summary:

Steve and Tony share a moment during a wedding. Things escalate from there.

Alternatively: Four weddings, a funeral, and one very emotionally stunted idiot.

16,5k words. post end-game but everybody lives (and getting married). steve being frustrating with his feelings lol, tony flirts

Second Chance Lives by raeldaza 💙

Summary: Tony's gonna die of palladium poisoning anyway, why not join a pointless expedition to recover Captain America’s body? And after, well, why not dedicate his last few months to making sure an American hero settles into his new life? What else is he going to do, get drunk at parties?

44k words, Iron Man 2 but stony, Tony found Steve on ice and took him in,

Haste by Veldeia

Summary: With Captain America seriously injured and a bomb attached to the Quinjet, set to go off at any change in speed or altitude, this is not the best flight the Avengers have ever had.

7,5k words, avengers on mission, injured steve and self-sacrificing tony, SPOILER: gnidne yppah

'Til Death Do Us Part by itsallAvengers

Summary: Steve goes on a mission. Steve dies on the mission. Or at least, SHIELD make everyone think he's died on the mission. In reality, he's alive and well, and still kicking ass.

If only someone had let his husband know that.

15,5k words, fake death so... angst for tony

Unshattered by erde (orphan_account) 💙

Summary: It's really a split of a second, but for a moment there both of them remain in silence staring at each other, and it's a throwback to that moment in Siberia when a truce seemed more likely than shit hitting the fan.

Steve picks up the pieces from their relationship and tries to make them better. As the official tinker of things, Tony isn't happy with Steve's shoddy work. At first.

127k words in 19 chapters, civil war fix it continuing to IW and endgame, SPOILER: tony get shot, gnidne yppah

Unveil My Unsightly Heart by Mizzy 💙

Summary: Looking over an old prototype helicarrier for its future viability as a base for the Avengers should have just been a routine day full of bickering and non-adventure for Steve Rogers and Tony Stark.

But when they're catapulted into an alternate universe – where their alternate selves are married and battling with a mysterious threat – the two are forced to get over their differences in order to figure out what's going on, before it's too late.

Because there's more going on than meets the eye, and Steve and Tony falling in love might just be the most dangerous thing that can happen. Not just for one universe, but for all of them… [Iron Man 3-compliant.]

43k words in 3 chapters, stony journeyed to alternate reality where they are VERY MUCH in love and married, angst but SPOILER gnidne yppah

Lost in Transcription by Veldeia

Summary: In a world recently turned upside down by the discovery of genetic markers for soulmates, Steve and Tony struggle to come to grips with their unexpected, unasked-for match.

25k words, story spanning from steve in ww2 to civil war so.. a bit of civil war fix-it?, heartbroken tony

For You, Sir, Always (The Fairy Godfather Remix) by Veldeia

Summary: Unable to find a replacement for the toxic palladium core of his arc reactor, Sir has gone into cryostasis to wait for a day when science has advanced enough to provide a solution. While he is indisposed, it is my all-important task to decide when that time has arrived, and to select the person who shall bring him back to life.

9,4k words, Jarvis POV, Jarvis being super loyal, steve is not captain america when stony met.

Presenteeism by Veldeia

Summary: Tony thinks piloting the armor remotely while letting the others believe he’s wearing it is a good plan, until he realizes he’s not hung over, but actually quite ill.

Steve thinks something’s off with Tony today, but he has no clue what that might be, and since Tony says he’s good to go, they’ll proceed with the mission anyway.

(Basically, that trope where Tony is sick but is too stubborn to admit it, with a slight twist. Fill for my Stony bingo prompt “armor”.)

9,5k words in 2 chapters, it’s all in the summary.

#last week #stevetony #stony #fic rec

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iasmelaion · 4 years ago

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Falcon and Winter Soldier 1x05

So that was my favorite episode so far!! :DDD

Oof, that fight with Walker. It was just kind of grim and miserable to me tbh, and I very nearly fast-forwarded through it. There’s probably something to be said about how Walker makes Sam and Bucky wrest the shield from him by force: something something white privilege doesn’t relinquish its power easily, but it was by far the least interesting part of the episode. Sam’s face though as he tried to wipe the blood off the shield :(

Also ISAIAH. That scene hurt. Isaiah did the EXACT SAME THING Steve did, only he didn’t get made Captain America and handled an elite commando squad for it, he got sent to prison :( Isaiah’s whole story parallels both Steve’s and Bucky’s, like he got all the same heroism Steve had, but got no reward for it other than all the suffering Bucky had. And of course that’s inextricable from the way this country treats Black men. Isaiah’s bitterness is understandable, but so too is Sam’s desire to see it made right, however it can be. Sam can’t help Isaiah now, but he can try to redeem the shield.

Bucky finding Zemo and showily NOT killing him, lol Bucky, you drama queen. Nice of Zemo to be like “oh, I don’t want to kill you” I guess! Also re Zemo being on Bucky’s list and lol Zemo crossing himself off: I don’t think this was amends so much for Bucky, other than how obviously catching Zemo again is making amends to Ayo, but it’s more of a tying up a loose thread thing for Bucky.

Also after all that Ayo and Bucky drama I was delighted that she was more or less like “we’re good” this week lololol. Still like “maybe steer clear of Wakanda for a bit” but then she called him White Wolf again and seemed happy enough. I’m very relieved because I was weirdly stressed about this dangling out there without resolution. I need to know SO MUCH MORE about this relationship though!!! Idk that I ship it, but in like four scenes we’ve gotten so much possibility!

SAM AND BUCKY :DDDDDDD lol FINALLY they talked! In addition to still being all about the gestures, I SEE YOU, BUCKY, WITH YOUR ACTS OF SERVICE LOVE LANGUAGE :DDDDDDD Working on the boat together (MY SHIP ON A SHIP LOLOLOL)! Bucky bring Sam a new pair of wings! Bucky staying at Sam and Sarah’s! Bucky and Sarah low-key flirting while Sam is >:( about it :DDDDDD And FINALLY they used their words!!!! I’m so happy ;______; there was such warmth in their rapport this episode, and I loved their banter about not being coworkers or a team, but just a couple of guys :DDD like, it could’ve sounded grumpy, but in context, it was so much just them shooting the shit, I loved it.

Loved too that Bucky apologized, though this presents the somewhat hilarious timeline of Bucky basically storming off after they get Walker, going after Zemo, making up with Ayo, presumably having a nice long think and time to cool off, then being like “oh okay, I have Fucked Up, time to make it right,” and then he proceeds to do so in EXCESSIVE fashion. Oh and nice to get confirmation that Steve didn’t just fuck off to another timeline without talking to Bucky about it.

Also perfect: Sam asking Bucky if he’s ready for some tough love and Bucky being like, sure, and then Sam proceeding to be 100000% more helpful than Bucky’s therapist. I liked that a) Sam engaged Bucky on his own terms, he didn’t tell Bucky to stop with the amends making or that he didn’t have to do it, he just cut to the heart of why Bucky was doing it and offered him an alternative way to go about it that would make him and everyone involved less miserable. (ACTS OF SERVICE, again, both from Sam and in what Sam’s telling Bucky to do.) And thank you to Sam for pointing out to Bucky that Bucky’s been letting other people define him. I wanted more on that score, especially in the confrontation with Zemo, but at least it gets called out here.

Another very important thing to me: BUCKY SMILED. MULTIPLE TIMES. PLEASE CONTINUE TO BRING ME THIS BUCKY BARNES BEING REASONABLY HAPPY ENERGY THROUGH THE LAST EPISODE PLEASE AND THANK YOU.

All the Sam and Sarah scenes were SO GOOD too. They have such good sibling chemistry, and I love seeing how Sarah is just as kind and good as Sam is, if in a different way.

Oh wait, I almost forgot: lol so is Sharon the Power Broker, or is she playing a deeper game? Or is she in fact straight up just trying to KILL Sam now??? lololol what a character twist. It’s so wild I’m not even mad about it.

#falcon and winter soldier #sam wilson #bucky barnes

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elcorhamletlive · 5 years ago

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Fandom: MCU (post-Avengers) Ship: Steve Rogers/Tony Stark Tags: Fluff, Pining Tony Stark, Steve Rogers and the 21st Century summary: As Steve discovers the internet, he also discovers old memes.

As Tony and Bruce climb out of the lab, the sound that echoes in the room is so foreign that it takes Tony a moment to realize it’s a laugh, and one more moment to realize it’s Steve’s.

At the top of the staircase, Tony sees him on the couch, and yeah, he’s laughing. Not politely chuckling or awkwardly forcing a laugh, mind you, but actually, genuinely having a belly laugh, complete with a pink flush all over his face, his eyes turning into tiny blue streaks as he wipes them with back of his hand, catching his breath.

It’s—well. It’s a vision, to be blunt.

“Sounds like you’re having fun,” Bruce says, and that’s the understatement of the year, because Steve looks downright delighted. He struggles to catch his breath, still grinning helplessly as he looks away from his phone.

“Oh,” he says, as if he’s just realized their presence. His flush deepens, Tony notices. Steve’s has kind of an ugly flush, that shows up in red spots coming up from his neck as well, instead of sticking prettily to his cheeks. Tony sticks his hands in his pockets to control his itch to touch it. “Hi.”

“Hey, Cap.” Clint throws himself on the couch next to him and leans, trying to take a pick at his phone. It’s rude, but Tony can’t really blame him, because he’s one step away from offering actual money to find out what made Steve laugh like that. “What are you looking at?”

Steve controls his grin into a more schooled smile, but he still perks up , and in a moment Tony is right behind the couch, leaning forward to place his hands over the cushion. From behind Steve’s broad, sculpted-by-the-Gods back, he catches a glimpse of a Twitter feed.

“I was trying to learn how to use, hmm—Twitter, right?” He pronounces it correctly, which really shouldn’t make Tony want to kiss him in congratulations, but it absolutely does. “And I found this, this page…” His face twists in an effort not to laugh. “You’re not gonna believe it. Here, I’ll show you. You guys need to see this.” He holds up the phone a little higher for Tony and Bruce to see.

As he types – a little slower than most people would – a name into the search bar, Tony’s heart kind of breaks.

“It’s genius,” Steve says, as the account opens. “I was just looking at this one—”

“Wait,” Clint interrupts. “Are you serious?”

“What do you mean?” Steve asks, with a little frown between his eyebrows that Tony’s hand itches to smooth it out. “I know it seems silly, but it’s really funny.” He turns, and, at Clint’s gaze, grows more indignant. “The pictures are very good and the captions are really creative.”

“I know,” Clint says bluntly. “It’s Dog Rates, Cap. They have over eight million followers. It’s a huge account. Everyone knows it.”

Steve’s frown vanishes, but it’s replaced by something a lot worse: surprise, and then a clear, raw disappointment that he does his best to mask. His posture deflates, his hand going to the back of his neck, rubbing it.

“Oh,” he says, and he’s back to his usual man-out-of-time voice, probably feeling old and stupid, the excitement from before already a distant memory.

It’s legitimately like someone turned off the sun. So, really, nobody can blame Tony for saying, “I didn’t know it.”

Steve looks at him. “Really?”

“Really?” Clint asks, a thousand times more skeptical, and Tony gestures flippantly at him.

“Not all of us have free time to troll on Twitter, Barton,” he says. Then he turns to Steve, who’s watching him with wide blue eyes that almost make him forget how to form words. “So? What’s all the fuss about?”

“Oh, yeah,” Steve says, a hesitant smile already blooming on his face. He turns further to show his phone exclusively to Tony, signaling for him to lean further so their heads are closer, which isn’t a configuration Tony minds, at all. “See, it’s very simple – they post a picture, and give it a rate. At first, I thought it seemed a little harsh, because, really, which dog should ever get a low rate, right? But, see—all their rates start out at ten.”

He proceeds to show some of his favorite posts. Tony’s seen them all, either from following the account or from random dog memes Rhodey sends him sometimes, but he plays along, ooooh- ing and awwwww -ing at the right moments, and in no time Steve is grinning again, glad to be explaining something to someone else for a change, feeling in the loop.

Some people could say what Tony’s doing is lying, but he disagrees, because he isn’t faking it at all when he grins back.

After Steve finds out Dog Rates, it doesn’t take him long to find Thoughts of Dog, which he finds even more delightful. He shows it to Tony during breakfast, sitting next to him on the counter as they go through the tweets together.

“This is amazing,” Steve says. He’s at that stage where it seems like his cheeks hurt from smiling. Tony thinks he should look like this more often. Maybe all the time. “When they explained it at SHIELD, I thought the internet was more of a tool, like a huge encyclopedia. And obviously, it is, but it didn’t occur to me it could be…”

“Fun?” Tony asks.

Steve looks at him and smiles. Tony is quite fond of that sequence of events.

“Yeah,” he says. When he smiles like that, a dimple shows up in his cheek.

Tony isn’t even a dog person, but it couldn’t matter less.

Steve eventually expands his knowledge of animal memes and pages to include cats, which means Tony starts receiving lots of videos that were, at one point, considered the pinnacle of internet humor, with cats playing piano and sliding over wood floors.

Steve finds out about Grumpy Cat a few hours before he learns she’s dead. In between, he texts Tony a bunch of pictures of her with a message reading “this is how you look at morning team meetings”.

Tony honest-to-God giggles, because, really, he’s a lost cause.

A few moments afterwards, he receives a lengthy message of Steve saying he just found the cat in the picture had died, but she had apparently lived a long and happy life and so he hoped Tony wouldn’t be sad by finding this out.

Since Tony doesn’t immediately answer (because there’s a marching band leading what is apparently an eternal fourth of July parade in his chest), Steve then apologizes for sending the memes in the first place, and, look—if nobody sees Tony sighing, nobody can prove anything, regardless of what the dopey smile on his face might suggest.

On a remarkable occasion, Steve sends in a “important Avenger news – waiting for your thoughts, Iron Man” e-mail, and, when Tony opens it, he’s rick-rolled in front of his entire office.

“This is the cringiest shit I’ve ever seen,” Clint, who’s there to get suit upgrades, says.

“Shut up,” Tony says.

“SHIELD has informed him we think it’s best if he doesn’t have a Twitter account,” Natasha, who’s there to have lunch with Pepper, says, and even through her supreme spy training Tony can tell she has to try hard to keep an even expression. “For his… reputation.”

“Oh, shut up,” Tony repeats. “It would only make him more popular, and you know it.”

Natasha shrugs with a knowing smile. “To some people, maybe.”

Tony looks away, his face heating.

Eventually, Steve confronts him about it.

They’re on the couch, right after what wasn’t exactly a date, but also wasn’t definitely not a date either—Steve had said he was hungry, and Tony had asked if he wanted to get dinner, but then Steve said “sure, there’s pasta in the fridge”, and they had ended up eating in the living room, plates full of large portions of heated up pasta from lunch (which, against all odds, tasted really good).

Now they’re on the same couch, bodies lax and full of carbs, and sitting pretty close to each other already, although Tony does take advantage of any opportunity to slip a little closer. They’re watching as Steve scrolls through a series of images on his phone, all historical pictures or paintings with a photoshopped, photobombing squirrel.

Tony chuckles, because he barely remembers this one, and because Steve seems happy and relaxed and this makes it easier for him to laugh.

“How come you don’t know any of these things?” Steve asks with a raised eyebrow. “You work with tech.”

“Machines don’t make memes,” Tony says. Then, after a second, he adds: “At least not good ones.”

“Your profile is one of the most followed of all time on Twitter and Instagram,” Steve counters.

“Wow, okay—cyber-stalking much?” Tony replies, which makes Steve’s cheeks grow a little pink, but he doesn’t seem too embarrassed, just a little shy as he opens a small smile. Tony takes the opportunity to nest a little closer.

“I was just looking,” Steve says, his eyes landing on the point of contact between his and Tony’s shoulders. They’re so close now they’re basically leaning against each other, and Tony is about to retreat and mumble an excuse to leave and save himself the embarrassment, when Steve adds: “It’s nice. That—that you don’t mind me sharing things.” Then, to Tony’s bafflement, he comes closer and leans his head on Tony’s shoulder. “There’s so much to catch up on. Sometimes it’s nice to—to feel like I’m in the loop for a change.”

There’s a knot in Tony’s throat, and yet his body is reeling, completely taken by the warmth of Steve’s frame cuddled up against him.

There must be something in Steve’s eyes, too – something more than what his words say, something brighter and warmer that’s almost blinding as he stares at Tony, something that makes Tony confident enough to lean forward and press a kiss on the top of Steve’s head.

“No problem,” he muffles against Steve’s hair.

Steve hums pleasantly and then asks Tony if he’s seen the world’s fastest skateboarding bulldog yet.

Of course, Tony hasn’t.

#stony #stevetony #superhusbands #stony fic #happy steve bingo #reblogs are love

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drarry-with-a-side-of-harry · 5 years ago

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Journey into the MCU XIII

Spider-Man: Far From Home

omg so I finally got to watch FFH last night and I’ve slept on it and... nope! still cannot breathe!!! it was soooooo gooOOOOD!!!!!

so first of all, Nick Fury is a major dick in this, right? like he’s always been a bit arrogant and I’ve always liked that and him as a whole but tHEN he signs this kid up to some shit he doesn’t wanna do aND PROCEEDS TO TELL HIM THat ‘I knew you weren’t ready for this’ or whatever???? ummmm?? eXCUSE YOU??!?!!! you just forced this kid into the fight and then you tell him he’s not ready? uhh yeh okay whatever Nick... poor baby Peter why can’t anyone just leave him alone

speaking of which, I got a LOT of Tony parallels from the bits with Nick, particularly Iron Man 2 vibes, which I thought was really nice.

aND ALL THE TONY STUFF OMG!!!! all the memorials and everything and... just... UGHHHHH so fucking good! EDITH fully ain’t lying is she??! yes Tony you’re still an icon even when you’re dead uh huh!!! but was nobody gonna tell me that they used some Civil War footage?! I was so shook like ‘YES my baby’s on screen again come on!!!’ and the way they used all the former SI employees... I just really loved that! but one of them fully is just like ‘so Obadiah Stane yelled at me one time and that was Tony Stark’s fault’ oh ok sweetie go off I guess??

okay so in the illusion sequence the big, fallen stone Cap and Nat?! oH okAy they did tHAT wow. aND TONY’S GRAVE FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF!!! AHHHHH Peter you poor boy why can’t they just leave you alone?!

I loved the homage to Steve/Thor with the makeshift shield/hammer - it was just wonderful :’)

omg aLSO I LOVE how Happy has fully stepped up after Tony’s death to become the BEST honorary uncle and we stan :’) it was all just so lovely and wholesome and I was scREaming at their interactions!!! AND WHEN HE LOOKS AT PETER CREATING THE SUIT ON THE PLANE OMG IM GETTING SHIVERS JUST THINKING ABOUT IT AHHHHHH I AM SOFT!!!!!! took me straight back to the first Iron Man man and... 🥺🥺🥺 he looked so much like his dad I- :’) and they had the wholesome chat about Tony and Happy says he misses him too I AM TOO FRAGILE FOR THIS AHHHH

i love that the film is basically a rom com as well?? like we love that. and I love MJ and Ned so much in this and Ned with his 2 second relationship ughh I love that boy so much! and yeh MJ’s just iconic as per! throughout every MJ/Peter interactions I was just screaming ‘nO I am TOO SOFT FOR THIS!!!!!!!’

and I’d seen all the memes about Quentin’s motive and the ‘you don’t have to kill Spidey. oh no I’m gonna’ meme and that shit’s iconic bUT I DIDNT REALISE HOW STRAIGHT UP TRUE IT WAS GONNA BE JFC lmaooo he’s fully just like ‘I didn’t like Tony Stark (on my world, right)? and now this kid’s gonna die AHHHH HAHAHAHA what a legend

I mean Jake Gyllenhaal in general was just fucking iconic I couldn’t quite believe it. you know I’ve seen all the memes but I couldn’t grasp how fully brilliant he is wow

so it was great! and I cried a couple of times when it was missing Tony hours you know? aND THEN THEY HIT US WITH THE MID AND POST CREDITS SCENES AND OH MY GOD let me just say, I now get why everyone was fully freaking out about how awful it would be if Spidey left the MCU on those cliffhangers because bITCH wow.

I knew he revealed Peter’s identity but I DIDNT KNOW HE DID THAT holy shit and then the skrulls?! omg wtf!!! is that why Nick was a dick to Pete? so many questions I just- AHHHHHH

EDIT: OKAY ALSO SO I FULLY FORGOT TO MENTION DURING THE TITLE SEQUENCE THEY DID NOT PLAY I WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU I WAS SOBBING OMFG THIS IS IT THIS IS THE END

#IT WAS SO GOOD #I WAS CERTAINLY NOT DISAPPOINTED #AND NOW THE INFINITY SAGA IS OVER #AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #i cant stop screaming about this film man #im so giddy about it #lmaooo #let’s hope with the next release (black widow right)? i finally get to see an mcu film in cinema!!!!!!!#with a side of rambling #peter parker #spider man #ffh #far from home #mcu

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Wynonna Earp 2x08 No Future in the Past

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Stray thoughts

1) We begin the episode with a flashback of little Waverly running on very thin ice because evil Willa threw her stuffed rabbit there. You know, in case you needed a friendly reminder that Willa was the worst. Waverly uses this anecdote to explain how, in a way, she always knew she didn’t belong in the Earp family. Willa hated her, so that must mean she wasn’t one of them, right? Well, wrong, Waverly. Willa was the fucking worst and that’s the only reason she hated Waverly. Wynonna tries to comfort Waverly and argues she saw her come home right after the hospital and that she even named her herself (how cute!) But… the fact that their parents brought Waverly home as a newly born baby doesn’t mean she was their daughter, right? I guess we’ll soon find out. While Willa tried to kill Waverly, Wynonna saved her, although she doesn’t remember that part. History does repeat itself, doesn’t it?

2) The Widows pay JC a visit, and it’s not looking good for old Juan Carlos…

I truly hope they don’t kill him off because I was hoping we would find out more about him and what’s his role. He seemed like a prophet of sorts?

3) Doc is headed to the salt flats so I guess he’ll soon find out Clootie is gone and he’s in trouble, right? Also, kind of bummed because I thought he would go to the doctor’s with Wynonna.

4) Wynonna saw her baby for the first time and totally freaked out. I mean, the doctor is giving her lectures about taking proper care of the person growing inside of her and then suggesting adoption is a viable option and then boom, here’s your baby! She had, what? all of two or three weeks to process she was pregnant and the baby might be a revenant hybrid? I think she’s handling it quite well, to be frank. She didn’t want to know the baby’s sex, but I have a feeling it’s going to be a girl.

5) Wait, what happened? Was Wynonna kidnapped?!

Was that blood?!

6) The truck that took Wynonna was JC’s, so that means the widows have her, right?

7) Nicole makes a GREAT point…

NICOLE: Waves, Wynonna remembers you coming home from the hospital. Okay? So, who are you gonna trust more, your sister or a sociopathic revenant in a fuzzy coat?

But to be safe, Waverly sent in the blood samples. Okay, I’m calling it, she’s not an Earp. Or she’s a hybrid. The latter. She’s hybrid. Calling it.

8) Rosita suggests they should throw Wynonna a baby shower, and that’s very sweet of her? Unexpectedly sweet.

9) Oh, he’s back!

10) So, JC did kidnap Wynonna, the question is why? Is he possessed by the Widows or something? It didn’t look like he’d survive that bite at the beginning… Is the Church where the third seal is located?

11) So… JC has apparently a curse of his own. He claims he’d like to give Wynonna answers but he literally can’t because his burden is “to survive and witness, never to decide.” He also says that Wynonna is “all choices,” which is kind of funny considering how she really didn’t get to choose whether she wanted to continue her pregnancy or not. He then proceeds to instruct Wynonna to go into the church and do a ritual that will show her the truth, but I feel he’s leading her into opening the third seal?

12) She thinks the ritual didn’t work but she left the gun there…

13) And now she’s talking to Doc and he’s ignoring her and WTF! She’s traveled in time?!

“When am I?” That sounds like a line out of Back to the Future.

14) OMG BOBO IS BACK!!!

And he looks like Spike before he was a vampire?! And Doc is bullying him in front of everyone? He’s being an asshole and I don’t care for it one bit.

15) Doc tells Bobo to sod off, basically, and that he’s been dying since he was 14 years old. He starts coughing, and I’m afraid my prediction that he’s getting his tuberculosis back might be on point…

16) Bobo, on the other hand, seems like a righteous dude, and he expresses absolute loyalty towards Wyatt Earp, so this means that his relationship with the Earps goes way, way before he was a revenant. And how did he become a revenant? And now I’m imagining he’s Waverly’s dad and he gave her to the Earps to protect her and that’s why he had that weird connection with her since she was a little girl? Am I insane? Please, don’t tell me.

17) I really enjoy the call back to Waverly’s safe phrase from a few episodes ago, “tacos are tasty.”

18) Wynonna finds her way back to the church only to find a dying Bobo del Rey after Wyatt shot Sheriff Clootie and his THREE WIVES are pissed off. So, I guess, Clootie the Stone Witch was one of these widows and the other two are the ones that possessed Mercedes and her sister, right? But how did Bobo die and why did he become a revenant?

19) Father Juan Carlo! So this dude also goes all the way back, huh? Did he try to mediate between Constance and the two widows? Is that how he got cursed?

20) Rosita is being super friendly and sweet, and Waverly is kind of suspicious and so am I? Nicole is trying to understand Rosita from the outsider’s perspective, but I don’t know, it seems too iffy.

21) Dolls is threatening JC and the padre says “she needs to see the past if we have any hope for a future.” And what does it all mean?!

22) So… Constance Clootie locked her demon husband away with the three seals. I guess if the three seals are opened, the Big Baddie will be released in the present, right? If I’m correct, there’s only one seal left…

23) And the reason JC finally decided to intervene was that he’s dying. Is it because of the Widow’s bite? Why didn’t they kill him? I still think he might be playing Wynonna…

24) It turns out Wyatt shot Bobo while he was being held by Clootie as a human shield. And that’s how he became a revenant! Before dying, Clootie cursed Earp by saying that all those killed by Peacemaker will go to Hell until Earp’s death when they will be resurrected until the next Heir kills them all. So… Bobo became a revenant because of his loyalty to Earp. Constance offered to give him a way out if he helped her find her sons’ bones. And that’s how their deal was born.

25) Oh, no. The DNA results arrived and Nicole kept them hidden from Waverly because “she was trying to protect her.” She’s not an Earp, is she? I love Nicole, but… why would she take the choice from Waverly? I think this was the worst possible way she could’ve found out she was not an Earp. Instead of being there for Waverly to support her when she found out, Nicole kept it hidden from her and hurt her. I don’t like this.

26) The third seal… is a ring on Doc’s finger, a ring given to him by Clootie since the moment she threw him in the well. Bobo was given a choice… rescue Doc, get the ring and be cured, and allow Doc and Wyatt to be reunited. Or let Doc in the well forever, die, come back as a revenant and fulfill Constance’s wish to get the bones of her sons back. I guess Bobo was very jealous of Doc and Wyatt’s relationship, wasn’t he? Was the guilt over this choice what led him to work with Wyatt after he was a revenant, even though they were technically enemies?

27) Oh, Padre JC…

28) Well, here’s demon Dolls to save the day…

It’s his love for Wynonna what brought him back, right? These two are going to be a thing, I feel it in my bones, but I’m Team Doc ugh! And now he mercy-killed JC and damn, I really liked him.

29) Aaaand the Widows are setting the church on fire while both Wynonna and Dolls lie there unconscious. Cool. Cool cool cool.

30) Now Bobo actually sees Wynonna and can talk to her and calls her his angel, and… did she give him his nickname? And told him to remember how much she loved Wyatt Earp even after he becomes a revenant. So…? This means this trip back in time altered their future? OMG! It did! She told him that his angel’s name was Waverly so that he would protect her!!! That’s why he’d always protected Waverly!

31) In return, Bobo saved them by ringing the Church’s bell and waking Wynonna up.

32) Shit, Bobo saved his angel.

Can I just say that I love the relationship between these two A LOT? Like, a lot.

33) Dolls actually counted the seconds Wynonna didn’t breathe. That’s sweet.

34) OMG how didn’t I realize this? WYNONNA DIED. For a few seconds, but she did die! THAT MEANS… the revenants will be back! BOBO WILL BE BACK?!

35) YASSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!

36) Wow, what an intense episode! I feel like this a pivotal episode in the show, isn’t it? A game-changer. Like, it goes back to the beginning of the story and sets up the future while tying some loose ends. I guess Waverly and Bobo are not related after all, but how amazing is it that Wynonna’s quest is the reason Bobo maintained a good relationship with the Earps and protected Waverly? And what will it mean for Waverly to have Bobo back? Will she go ask him for answers about her real parents? And will Wynonna dying have other ramifications? I mean, she’s sort of reset the cycle, hasn’t she? That means that another Earp must become the Earp when she turns 27. But if Waverly is not an Earp, then who?! Wynonna’s baby? Will they do a time jump? Is this a Connor situation? So many questions!

More questions: Wynonna mentioned how her mother called Waverly her “angel”, which is Bobo’s monicker for her as well. Could it be that Waverly is her mother and Bobo’s love child? I mean, she was looking at the test results as she remembered how Bobo rescued her, so that has to mean something, right? And if she is a hybrid, does that mean that she could still be an Heir? Can you tell that I’m obsessed with this storyline? Like, Wynonna’s one-night-stand mentioned that it had happened once before, so this has to mean something, it must be connected to the main storyline...

Even more questions: If the revenants are those killed by Peacemaker, not an Heir, does this mean that both Willa and Wynonna’s father might return as revenants? She did kill them with Peacemaker, after all.

Even MORE questions: Where does this whole seal-in-the-ring leave Doc? Why were Wynonna and Dolls so cozy in the bed as if they were a couple? Has Wynonna’s quest altered their past and their present as well?

TOO MANY QUESTIONS, I’M SORRY, BUT PLEASE DON’T ANSWER ANY OF THEM, I’M JUST TRYING TO ORDER MY THOUGHTS AND LET YOU KNOW WHERE MY MIND’S AT AFTER WATCHING THIS AMAZING EPISODE.

I’m truly in love with this show, I think it’s the closest thing to Buffy in the sense of how it blends different genres while still being a mainly supernatural show and how it has the characters and their relationships at the forefront while building this captivating mythology. I’m super glad you all got me to watch this show! I just hope I finish watching season 3 before season 4 is released, I’d love to watch the new episodes as they come out!

37) Hope you enjoyed my recap, and, as usual, if you’ve got this far, thank you for reading! If you enjoy my recaps and my blog, please consider supporting it on ko-fi.Thanks!

#Wynonna Earp #Waverly Earp #Doc Holliday #Xavier Dolls #Bobo Del Rey #fUCKING BOBO DEL REY IS BACK MY PRAYERS WERE ANSWERED #WE recap #recap #WE 2x08 #mine

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🍵 let the world know of our angst 🍵

Aha.

Welcome everyone to:

TUA JAPANESE MYTHOLOGY AU by @a-blue-hoodie and me!

In this AU, we have *drumroll please*

DIEGO

- A protective Tengu who mainly takes care of the Patches

- He Fucked UpTM once and Eudora ended up being killed

- It’s his greatest failure and he’s vowed to do better

- He’s friends with Klaus! And Ben!

KLAUS

- Our favourite ghost seeing boy is a shinigami!

- Everything he touches dies and when his situation gets particularly bad and he’s feeling emotional, he emits a Cloud of Death which causes everything in a certain radius around him to die

- He HATES it and he wishes he wasn’t a shinigami

- Boi’s like immortal and he’s constantly shunned by everyone

- He mostly hangs around Ben and Vanya (who is dead)

- He’s been friends with Ben for a long time, and at some points they haven’t interacted with humans for a Really Long Time which leads to... hilarity.

- Spoiler alert: he kills Ben by accident

BEN

- Bean boy’s a kitsune!

- He’s got like 6 tails when he meets Klaus

- Spoiler alert: He dies

- That’s not the angst part, oh no, we have WORST hoho

- Ben’s been captured by an onmyogi and basically forced to kill and tortured all the way since he has 2 tails to the time he had 5 tails

- He only escapes because the last time he was told to kill, it was a small boy named Dave. Who realises what happens so he fakes death and binds Ben to him to protect Ben all the way until Klaus turns up to investigate

- See all these dead souls that Ben kills? They did NOT die easy or happily. So there’s a huge influx of these souls so Klaus is like ok we need to check this out

- The only thing that gets Ben through is the knowledge that it can’t be forever. It can’t be because Five told him that his ghost will only have 6 tails so he knows he’ll die at some point.

- Then Ben meets Klaus and like he’s so thankful like ‘oh are you here for me finally?’ and Klaus is like ‘No????’ and Ben ends up befriending Klaus knowing he’s going to end up dead.

- His power’s exponential not linear like most other Kitsune so by the time he was 6 tails he had like 9 tail power

- Basically he’s crazy powerful which is part of the reason why Five just told him

- After his death, which was caused by Klaus, he’s actually kind of relieved like ‘IM FINALLY DEAD HAH YOU CAN’T DO SHIT TO ME NOW’ and like he’s the least emotionally affected by his own death. Klaus is sobbing and grieving and he just

- returns. Completely nonchalantly.

- He retains his powers after death too.

FIVE

- Teleporting tenko kitsune that’s the boy

- Idiot was supposed to ascend to heaven but... he forgot and missed his window

- He was doing research and got distracted. (NO ONE BELIEVES IT WHEN HE TELLS THEM THAT)

- So now he’s forever stuck in a child’s body

- He can teleport and see into the future

- First time he met ben he was like ‘oh your ghost is going to have 6 tails’ and Ben was like ????

- He’s been around so long he genuinely doesn’t understand why people are upset by the idea of death and themselves/the people close to them dying

- got his name because he met Delores when he had 5 tails and she didn’t know what a kitsune was so she just called him 5

- Then delores dies and he wasn’t bothered enough to find a new name so yeah

- He’s like insensitive as fuck but also really wise

VANYA

- Resident Violinist is now a natural disaster causing onryo

- she was really scared of her powers and timid and very much a walkover when she was alive

- then Leonard tried to use her as a Nice Guy and manipulate her into causing a natural disaster around and she Finds Out about what he tried to do and she went ‘oh FUCK THIS’

- Leonard ends up killing her, but her ghost is full of anger and having none of it

- and proceeds to enlist Klaus’ help and kills Leonard

- that’s the first time Klaus is really ok with taking his gloves off and like trying to kill because really Leonard was an asshole and he did just try to destroy an entire country because he wanted power. (also Leonard reminds him of the onmyogi who controlled Ben for centuries)

- After he kills Leonard, Klaus thinks Vanya’s unfinished businessTM should be done but like she’s just. I’m Still Angry I’m Staying.

- And Klaus is like uh. Sure I guess. And so she hangs around him and somehow she retains her powers as a ghost?

- She’s Really Sassy and sometimes Klaus will be like ‘Would it kill you to be a little nicer?’ and she looks at him deadpan and goes ‘yes’

- She’s also constantly salty and has full control of her abilities because ‘really. I’m dead what’s the worst that can happen’

BONUS:

DAVE:

- Hachiman/the actual Prince

- He was supposed to become the emperor but went like nahhhh

- He’s actually like a minor god of war and worshipped by the samurai but like he doesn’t brag about that

- As a child he saved Ben until he met Klaus and like ‘Oh ok shinigami ok I can trust him’

-When he’s older he’ll remember he did Something about a Kitsune and a Shinigami but he doesn’t know it’s ben and klaus

- hilariously he ends up dating Klaus

- He meets Klaus at a ball and like some cinderella bullshit happens and like Klaus doesn’t recognise him because he’s been away from civilisation for so long

- Hilarity ensues because Klaus introduces him to Diego who DOES recognise him and Dave shushes Diego like SHHHH DONT TELL HIM HE DOESN’T KNOW

- Poor longsuffering Diego tbh. He tries to Hint at Klaus but Klaus does NOT get it

- ‘Oh no the prince is way out of my league I’m sure he’s nice and all but I’ve already got Dave’ ‘I’m sure the prince would be lucky to have you.’ ‘Aww thanks Dave’ *Diego sobbing*

- Oh yeah he gets killed.

- Klaus’ shinigami powers don’t work on him but Klaus doesn’t know that. Dave can’t be killed by magical means but like normal physical means work

- He dies in a horrific fashion

AND THAT’S ALL

Some key scenes:

- Klaus often walks about with Ben and later Vanya by his side making comments. Especially after Ben’s death. They’re really good friends

- POOR DIEGO TRIES SO HARD TO HINT AND LIKE EVEN EUDORA GETS IT BUT NO KLAUS NEVER FIGURES OUT FOR A LONG TIME THAT HIS BOYFRIEND IS AN ACTUAL GOD HE JUST THINKS DIEGO’S BEING A BI DISASTER

- ‘how’ ‘idk man but Ben didn’t know either? anyway don’t tell him’ ‘UGH’

- Ben’s death comes about because like Klaus is trying to snatch Ben away from someone who’s trying to control him so he’s trying to kill the onmyogi after Ben so gloves off but his gloves are still off when he touches Ben’s hoshi no tama, aka his actual soul. Usually his powers don’t work on Ben but like it’s his soul so Ben feels something weird and goes ‘well shit’ and dies

- Ben’s had a hard life really like he was kidnapped by someone who took note of his prodigious and unnaturally powerful magic when he was just 2 tails and forced to kill. When he kills, his power grows but it also hurts Ben a LOT. And he hates it and it’s torture but he’s literally forced to.

- The only thing he can cling on to is Five’s declaration that his ghost will have 6 tails so it won’t be forever it’ll end at some point and that’s how he endures being tortured for several centuries :)

- He’s so grateful to see Klaus because he really thinks that it’s the end for him thank god. and he’s so happy and klaus is like no? i’m not here to kill you i’m literally trying to prevent your death and ben is disappointed

- Eudora’s death is a really sore spot for Diego because like he was off chasing some robbers and vigilante-ing becos Eudora told him there were some robbers threatening people and he was like WELL LET ME HELP. And he does manage to catch them but that means that he uses some magic.

- So when the Patches are in danger, he protects them, but Eudora realises her friend is in danger and runs back in for them and Diego doesn’t have enough magic to shield her too and that’s how she ends up dying.

- See vigilante work is NOT part of tengu’s job so Diego effectively failed terribly at doing his job

- No one blames Diego, least of all Eudora, but like he failed. He failed in his job as a Tengu he’s a failure of a protective spirit he had only one job in his life he had to do 1 (One) thing and he couldn’t do it.

#the umbrella academy #au #diego hargreeves #klaus hargreeves #ben hargreeves #five #five hargreeves #number five #vanya hargreeves #dave katz #eudora patch #japanese mythology au

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