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it might be my dislike for the "in every universe yadda yadda" trope speaking, but I just. don't see why Ekko had to go to an alt universe and see Powder grown up to figure out he could still share with Jinx what he'd shared with Powder. Like don't get me wrong I loved the dance and the cuteness and the pretending like it's the first time... but he already figured most of it out in s1. And it was a much better, more nuanced scene - of course seeing a physical reminder that she is Powder with the capacity to love him would change his mind, but it's much more powerful when it's shown through their shared memories and behaviors. The coexistence of gentleness and violence in the bridge scene is the heart and soul of why their dynamic is so interesting. She will play their childhood game, she will look at him softly, and then try to blow them both up. We could have had an episode that continues that story, that shows us how they would find their way back to each other now that the main obstacle, Silco, is removed... But instead, Ekko went through it with a separate person, while Jinx went through it offscreen, and nothing more was ever said about it. Man. I am sad.
#arcane liveblog#arcane critical#like i GUESS jinx cares about him in some capacity bc of how she chose not to blow him up/she wore his tags to battle#but that's like. the only signs. didn't kill him and did let him paint on her. wish i could have seen it happening so i could figure out wh#sorry i just keep getting bombarded with concept art and sobbing crying over what could have been#they could have had such a good story.... she killed half his friends man you gotta make use of that#ekko and alt powder are NOT connected to each other the way ekko and jinx are!!!! that's why the song isn't about them!!!!#so really i don't get any narrative satisfaction from seeing THEM fight and make up. it could have all been given to jinx.#god i need a fixit fic that includes 0 alt universes and only the 4 second time travel. i need it so bad
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I just imagined what happens when my time traveling Robins realize they might all have been sent back, and are like, “OH SHIT, DAMIAN!”
(Cut to: The League of Assassins, actively on fire & at war with itself, less than one third of the forces it had remaining.)
Steph: *whistles*
Jason: “Damn. I’m impressed.”
Tim: “This saves me so much time & effort, honestly, you guys have no idea how stressed I was about having to take down two deeply ingrained, centuries old murder cults in a little over 10yrs.”
Dick: “DAMIAN!”
#iwctw (time travel)#batfam#batfamily#bat fam#bat family#robin#robins#time travel fixit#my writing#mine#damian wayne#damian al ghul#stephanie brown#jason todd#tim drake#dick grayson#//#You can picture this as a group conversation or as each of their individual reactions after doing independent research/recon.#I genuinely don’t know
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Started a Rook Fix-It fic and I’m not sorry
#dragon age veilguard#veilguard spoilers#veilguard fanfiction#Vodkassassin fanfiction#time travel fixit
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Ripple Effect by SabreCMC (18k) - After the events of Infinity War, Steve is sent back in time on a desperate mission to find the Tesseract. Instead, he meets up with 21-year old Tony, still reeling from his parents' deaths. Who, naturally, tries to climb Steve like a tree. Somehow, this fixes everything.
Rated: Teen? It's a chapter in a large fic, but I'd say Teen for this one
Warnings: Tony is 21, drunk, and making questionable decisions. Might make some people uncomfortable.
Thoughts: OMG just Steve characterization in this is so interesting to me and very deep. I always enjoy Sabre's fics and this one is just knocked right out of the park. There's so much tragedy in Steve in the beginning when he goes back in time and tries to figure out what to do.
Note: You'll need to be logged into Ao3 to read this one.
#tonysteve#MCU#15to25k#time travel#piningSteve#get together#fixit#teen#kissing#awesomePeggy#sabrecmc#intoxication
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Do I write a the 100 fixit fic where John Murphy goes back in time and is like “oh god I hate this shit I CARE about these fuckers now ugghhhh” and the biggest problem he faces is that 1 he has to communicate effectively and without starting fights if his time travel is gonna mean anything at all (and he super wants it to matter if he as to relive all this shit again) and 2 does he try and wingman Clarke and Bellamy (his two favs let’s not kid ourselves) or Clarke and Lexa (who tbh would have ruled the fucking planet if they had more time)
#the 100#John Murphy my baby girl#I been living time travel fixits w just the weirdest side characters#I would say if someone has this Pls send it to me but I’m convinced none of y’all watched the show bc Bellamy is always this brooding#jealous asshole in these fics did y’all SEE him??#and then y’all gotta make Clarke all sweet and shit as of age wasn’t killing ppl by episode TWO#I haven’t yet found a good fanfic where lexa is even PRESENT#so don’t tell me there’s a good fix like this already bc I will not believe you
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“What happened?” Ahsoka whispered. Luke choked over his words as he tried to answer, nothing coming out but a single name: “-Ben.” Ahsoka needed to pause, and take a deep breath. Before she could think of anything to say, a fresh feeling of alarm surged down to them from Ezra. Without thought, Ahsoka dropped the medkit and flung herself forward, bracing Luke and Jaina just before the entire ship could shudder sideways. Everything dropped- tipped- the world and the Force alike turned in on themselves, and Ahsoka grabbed what she could, trying to anchor them, to keep two men and four younglings from being hurled through space because there wasn’t anyone else left- White Then black Then nothing
#star wars#time travel fixit#history reversed fic#IT'S UP#posted#ahsoka tano#ezra bridger#luke skywalker
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love obito referring to her as "the plan-ruining etc." rather than constantly repeating the full title over and over lol. even he can't be bothered with that!
By he, do you mean me lol.
Ceaselessly repeating joke names is one of my favorite jokes (see: the fic where I called a character by a different douchebag name every time I wrote his name, which was a massive pain but so funny), but sometimes it creates the most unwieldy sentence and I have to find ways around it. If you look closely, you'll see several times when Obito gives The Plan Ruining Time Travelling Ghost a shorter nickname or moniker. Because otherwise the sentence would sound bad.
#it's about the flow.#i dont know why it was so funny to me that obito refused to call her by her actual name#seperation of church and state#it was such a petty passive aggressive name too. so rude.#i also just find time travelling ghosts in and of themselves worth gently mocking#obito is aware he lives in a naruto peggy sue fixit fic and he just has to deal with that#my writing#my asks
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damn it’s been fifteen minutes and i already miss cid
#once i finish this game i’m writing so much fix it fic where cid lives#char plays ffxvi#ffxvi spoilers#final fantasy xvi spoilers#though the way they’ve made cid a title is pretty damn cool#cid wanted his name to be remembered and his life to mean something#and this does that entirely#hmmmm time travel fixit where post-game clive travels back and saves cid from typhon? (+joshua from ultima?)#(cos baby boy i’m so glad you’re alive but now i’m terrified we’re actually gonna have to kill you)
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why do i always remember ancient magus’ bride exists when i’m in fandoms that don’t really lend themselves to that kind of au??
#writing is hard#'but liz it's an au you can do whatever you want'#no#no it needs to tie into canon in SOME way#much love to writers that can do complete aus but my brain Does Not Work like that#the character needs to still be the character at their core#and so much of what makes a character is their experiences#what is din djarin if he never became mandalorian?#what is daud without the guilt of jessamine's death hanging over him?#what is meng yao without having been thrown down the stairs of jinlintai?#they would be fundamentally different#and that really works (in my head at least) for like#purposeful fixits and time-travels where you know what's being done#but it can't start there#WHY DO YOU HAVE TO ENFORCE ORDER IN THIS OF ALL THINGS BRAIN#JUST LET IT GO
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What is the first thing that Time Travel Fixit Isekai Loqi does? And how?
The first thing he does is panic -- he died, he remembers dying. But now here he is in his childhood bedroom, in his twelve-year-old body, the leg he lost restored bc he was in his twenties when he lost it.
And then he realises when he returned, and realises that holy shit, he can change it. He can change everything, maybe even including the apocalypse he spent the last ten years living through.
So he slips away from his house, steals a former/no-longer-future comrade's magitek armor, and heads to Tenebrae with one singular goal: prevent the death of Sylva Via Fleuret, Queen of Tenebrae and also the Oracle.
His success throws everything off the rails.
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Writing sucks because I'm exclusively a darkfic author but I mainly consume non-darkfics so I can't even make friends with other fic writers on account of all the insane shit I post
#i mainly read like... time-travel fixits and hurt/comfort fics#but i post noncon/gore/cannibalism/inc*st#because i like writing the fic equivalent of car crashes and i love exploring the morbidity of fucked up situations and people#ESPECIALLY when there's a fucked up relationship that's not even a little bit healthy and heavily co-dependent#but like the things i read are normal fics!! so i cant connect with the normal fic writers!! because my fics are evil!! fawk!!!!#sorry for my inherent fascination with the macabre. it will happen again
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Damian getting a Violet Lantern ring and being like, “…I can work with this.”
Clark finding out and thinking it’s absolutely hilarious that one of Earth’s representatives to the universe is a baby. (Clark not knowing whether to be proud that Damian is so full of love despite everything he’s been through, relieved because—even if there’s nowhere safe on Earth from the League of Assassins—Damian is officially not limited to Earth in his options anymore, or horrified that the little boy he took in just got dragged onto the front lines of the hero scene whether they like it or not.) (Will the Sapphires let Clark go along on Damian’s missions? As a chaperone, like a school field trip? That seems reasonable, right? Can Clark justify leaving Earth for that? Yes. Yes he can. Easily.)
Clark saying he can’t wait to tell the Justice League, and Damian just. Stops. Goes very still.
“Yes, I suppose we have to, don’t we?” Damian says, in the resigned tone that means he’s really hoping Clark will say no.
“They’ll love you,” Clark tries to reassure him, “The biggest concern is that Batman might try to adopt you away from me.”
Damian wants to laugh, but he’s worried it might come out hysterical. “Does he have a pattern of doing that?”
“He’s been on a kick lately,” Clark says, fondly exasperated.
(Clark manages to maintain formality in Damian’s introduction, giving a whole speech about Earth’s newest Lantern and being welcoming, yada yada. He’s really looking forwards to everyone’s faces at the end of it, when Damian steps into view and barely reaches Clark’s hip.)
(And it is very funny.)
(Except instead of looking delighted by Clark’s prank, all the color drains out of Nightwing’s face. Under the cacophony of heroes yelling at Superman for pulling this on them, nobody notices Dick silently mouthing, “Dami?���)
#iwctw (time travel)#time travel fixit#superbatfam#batfamily#bat fam#batfam#bat family#robins#robin#damian wayne#damian al ghul#star sapphire#star sapphire damian#star sapphire Damian wayne#superman#clark kent#dick grayson#richard grayson#nightwing#//#Damian disappears before anyone realizes he’s gone. Nightwing excuses himself from the table. They meet in the hall and just. Look.#’’You named your cat Alfred even though she was a girl’’ Dick blurts out.#‘’We used to get pizza mid-patrol from the restaurant on Fitch Street’’ Damian says.#’’It doesn’t exist yet’’ Dick says.#’’I know’’ Damian answers.#It’s hard to say who moves first when Damian leaps and Dick is already there to catch him. The hug is well-practiced & dearly missed.#’’Thank god you’re okay’’ Dick whispers. ‘’Never scare me like that again.’’#’’You died’’ Damian says like it explains everything. (It kind of does.)#‘’I know. I’m sorry.’’ Dick knows he has to clear up that they’re from different futures /right/now/ or Damian will feel lied to.#Dick gives himself another ten seconds of silently clinging to eachother before he does.
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"it's getting turned into a fic :) you can find it on the fic list, but here's the link! Thank you for motivating me into writing this! https://archiveofourown.org/works/53880751
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AAÀAASASSASHHDHJALWODBSNNDKSLS EGSVXBDJIEJCNALWPSKDBDH FUCJ YES I LOVE GAMER FICS
Her name is Drake, Tim Drake.
Except, unlike Bond, James Bond, she’s not a badass who saves queens and get the girls at the end. Well, no, she did get the very amazing woman at the end, and she had the ring to prove it. But not right now. No, right now, she’s a tiny little girl in the middle of a mental breakdown as her parents cart her away from the bodies of the flying Graysons and their wailing son.
See, Tim Drake wasn’t supposed be a girl. Tim Drake wasn’t supposed to be Theodora Janet Drake, shortened to Timmy because her air headed jackass of a father forgot her name once.
Tim Drake wasn’t supposed to be a woman shoved into a body that wasn’t hers.
By the time Timmy got out her catatonic state of existential crisis, her parental units (faulty parental units) had already left to a dig site a world away. The nanny they’d hired for the three year old had left the slip of a girl in her room, content to just make edible toddler food and spend the day casually checking in on her. The nanny had no concept of stealth, so at least Timmy could hear her thundering footsteps long before she got to Timmy’s room.
She would have been sad, had she not had a full set of memories of a well adjusted adult. In fact, all she felt was relief.
As weird as being comic book character is, Timmy supposed that she should be glad she wasn’t like the original. The dysphoria was already significant, in this tiny body, so pale and white, unlike her calloused and tanned skin she’d come to love. If she was in Tim Drake’s male body…
No, Timmy knew when to count her blessings.
Not that being beholden to Gotham was much of a blessing. Timmy could tell already that whatever had brought her here was going to make sure she stayed. How did she know?
There’s a gamer’s interface hovering on the right of her vision, blaring [WELCOME TO GOTHAM, PLAYER 1!] in annoyingly large white letters.
Timmy sighed and gave in. She tapped the ‘start’ button and the world greyed to a stop.
[ACHIEVEMENT- SO I’M IN ANOTHER UNIVERSE- MET!]
Underneath it, to Timmy’s tired mind, laid the damning and probably helpful:
[TUTORIAL UNLOCKED!]
Timmy tapped the screen again.
[Welcome to Gotham!] The informational screen started. [By now, you’ve realized that you’ve been reincarnated into the lovely and not at all depressing world of Batman!]
Timmy muttered, “Just Batman? Not DC?” She blinked as the informational screen paused its typing before replying to her.
[Right now, you’ve only got the Gotham mode unlocked. Work hard and you can unlock the rest of the world! Maybe even the universe!]
Huh. An interactive interface. Timmy wonders why she’s so calm about this.
[That will all be explained shortly! Please allow for the tutorial to continue and make sure to save your questions for the end!]
Well, Timmy doesn’t want to be rude. She nodded. Interestingly, the interface picked up on both her thoughts and her movements.
[Welcome to Gotham!] It starts again, and Timmy felt a bit of guilt in making it start over. It’s like getting cold called and the caller is just a tired person trying to make their quota for minimum wage and instead of patiently listening to the spiel, Timmy had interrupted so now they had to restart the rehearsed speech. Oof.
[You’ve been reincarnated into the body of our very own Red Robin, Timothy Drake! How exciting! The powers that be, was, and will be has selected your lucky soul to be a beta tester for their relatively new reincarnation roulette!]
See, none of that sounds particularly… “good” for Timmy. Timmy hums as she settled back on the greyed out floor, eyes fixed onto the screen.
[As such, to be the first player deposited in this universe-]
And oh, doesn’t that have some interesting implications.
[The powers that be have decided to grant you a boon! The Gamer’s Exclusive Ultra Package!]
The interface exploded with holographic confetti.
Timmy thought her wife would have loved this… had she not died months before Timmy did.
[Included is the exclusive Gamer’s Mind and Body passive status! You won’t be as traumatized by traumatizing things! A boon, in the hellscape that is Gotham!]
Timmy’s calling it. Whoever wrote this was a total troll. And had a sense of humor she could appreciate. That explained why she’s so… not freaking out about this entire thing.
[It also includes ten lucky draw tickets, with guaranteed five star skills/abilities per ticket! Wow! It’s almost worth getting killed and isekai’ed!]
Timmy snorted and tapped accept.
[And two revival tickets! These can bring any Schmuck dumb enough to get killed, right back to life, with zero drawbacks! To be used on anyone you wish, post tutorial.]
Timmy tilted her head. Useful. She tapped accept.
[Now, you might wonder: ah, why would the de oh so awesome and all powerful gods make me reincarnate here instead of allowing me to enjoy my afterlife with my beautiful wife?]
Timmy stilled, heart in her throat. That’s right… why?
The screen turned red. Ominously, smoke starts to steam out from the side.
[You’ve got blood on your hands, Timmy. That’s hard to wash away.]
The screen blinked back to its neutral blueish-white color.
[That, and it’s because the Powers that be made an oopsie and messed up this world so bad, we needed a soul from a different universe to replace Tim Drake’s. He kept dying! Which meant Batman kept dying! Which meant the entire universe went to shit! But we can’t just cut it off, it’s a main Universe! But nooo, does anyone listen to the admins? Noooo. Of course not! What does the literal administrator know in the face of an all powerful god-!]
Timmy blinked, sympathy welling for this person. This administrator. That sounded rough.
[Ahem. My apologies.] The admin apologized, somehow conveying sheepishness through a screen. Timmy got a notification.
[ACHIEVEMENT- COMMISERATING WITH A CO-WORKER- MET!]
[1,000 Shop Points Granted. Message: You’ve worked under tyrannical bosses too! Kindred Soul!]
“Yeah, it be like that. I’m sorry you had to clean up their messes.” Timmy said.
[I, too, am sorry you were dragged from your afterlife for it.]
The two overworked employees shared a solemn moment.
[Well, then! This brings us to your goal! Keep Batman from killing himself, and fulfill Timothy Drake’s Destiny!]
“And what is his destiny, exactly?”
[To keep Batman from dying, becoming a crime-fighter, get beat up by Jason Todd, and destroy Ra’s al Ghul’s work with explosions!]
“That’s… really specific. I just have to fulfill those?”
[Yes! Not in any particular order, of course. And in any way you see fit!]
That last part was italicized, like the admin knew what was brewing in Timmy’s brain. They probably did.
[And now, please direct your attention to the screen to the right. ]
Four boxes popped up.
SHOP
LUCKY DRAW
QUESTS
PROFILE
[Underneath “Quest” is all of your current objectives! For now, the Tutorial is selected and can not be put on hold!]
Timmy obligingly tapped “QUEST.”
Main Quest: Get Your Shit Together, Batman!
Main Quest: Jason Todd and His “E is rated for Everyone” Hands!
Main Quest: No Crime Under My Watch!
Main Quest: Play Bomberman With A Bunch Of Ninja Assassins Led By A Borderline Immortal Cult Leader!
Main Quest: Tutorial!
Side Quest: Level Up!
Side Quest: Learn a Skill!
Side Quest: Nanny Bye-Bye!
And so on, and so on.
“Woah. Nanny Nye-Bye?” Timmy tapped, clicking away at the reminder that Tutorial could not be paused.
[Side Quest: Nanny Bye-Bye.]
[Your nanny has been embezzling the allowance your parents gave her to feed you! Since your bourgeoisie parents have no sense of how much things should actually cost to eat, you’re stuck eating boxed food and unhealthy things while your nanny goes out for hotpot every other week! The injustice! Get her fired before the month ends!]
[Rewards: 1000 EXP. An approving nod from the scary Draconic Janet Drake. $800 per month.]
[Failure: -2 (permanent) to Health. Your status will be [Malnourished] until 17 years old. A disproving glance from the scary Draconic Janet Drake.]
…
“What the ****?”
[Language filters are unlocked at level five.]
Timmy grumbled.
“What if I need to curse to complete my missions?” She asked.
[Then Player One needs to buy herself a sense of creativity.]
Timmy scowled but moved on. She perused the shop, window shopping as one might say, while asking the Admin some more questions.
“Does the Keep Batman Alive quest have a time limit?”
[Until Damian Wayne has had at least four years of being Robin.]
Timmy nodded, brain whirring with plans.
“Hey, admin?”
[Yes, Player One?]
“If I’m player one, does that mean there will be other players?”
[Yes, Player One. There will be more! But unlike you, their abilities will be based on your feedback of the reincarnation system. Not to mention, they will not be reborn as a predetermined Main Character like yourself. This is because your existence was a result of a cosmic oopsie that had better never happen again or I’m going to rip their star-riddled hides from their cosmic bodies. Does that answer your question, Player One?]
Timmy leaned away from the screen. Intimidating.
“Yep. Thanks.”
[Anytime. Would you like to play the Lucky Draw?]
“Yes, please.”
The Luck Draw Menu was pulled up again. Timmy looked at the amount of tickets she had and shrugged. She tapped the “DRAW ONE” option.
The gacha machine spun and spun until:
[DING! DING! DING! Congratulations! You got a five star skill! Eloquence Beyond Measure!]
Timmy checked it out.
Eloquence Beyond Measure!
[As expected of a true Bristol elite (and not one of those snotty snobs of children running afoot with their parent’s money), you’ve gained the ability to spit fire and ice out of your mouth! What you want to say will always come out of your in a way that benefits you most! Diplomats kneel to your eloquence! Socialites dare not provoke you in fear of your barbed words! You’ll never sound like you don’t know what you’re doing ever again!]
Huh. Timmy grinned.
“Thanks, Administrator. Is the tutorial done? I just had an idea about that Nanny Side-Quest.”
[The last task is to check your profile, Player One.]
“Thanks. You can call me Timmy, you know? We’re in this together now.” Timmy grimaced. She just wanted to rest. Chances are, so did Admin.
[Timmy, then.]
Timmy tapped PROFILE.
Theodora “Timmy” Janet Drake
Level 1 (EXP to Next Level: 500)
Status: Healthy. Alive. Uninjured.
SKILLS: Eloquence Beyond Measure
[STATS]
Timmy sighed and exited out of the window to finish the tutorial. She could peruse the stats later. She’s kind of hungry.
[Now that you’ve finished the basics, the powers that be encourages you to try your best to live out this life and fulfill your destiny! The Prize at the completion of Tim Drake’s destiny will be a reunion! With your beloved wife! Work hard, and she’ll be placed on this earth once more!]
Timmy sat up, throat burning. She could see her wife again? To tell her how she missed her and how much she loved her?
Timmy’s heart burned once more since the death of her wife.
Determination filled her now small body. She’ll wrangle the Bats to therapy kicking and screaming if that’s what it took to meet her beloved wife again.
[CONGRATULATIONS! YOU’VE FINISHED THE TUTORIAL! LEVEL UP! (1000 EXP TO LEVEL THREE)]
[REWARD: A PHONE! 100 SHOP POINTS!]
Timmy dialed the first contact she saw in the phone.
“Hello, this is Theodora Drake. Might I speak to my mother?” Her three year old voice smoothed out, suddenly eloquent and powerful in a way it simply wasn’t before. Eloquence Beyond Measure was proving useful already.
“Yes, of- of course, Miss Drake. Please hold.”
She waited.
“Theodora. What is it, daughter? You know better than to interrupt our digs.”
“Mother, it has come to my attention that my nanny is embezzling money from you. I have been eating boxed mac n’ cheese and only that for the past three days. They cost four dollars each. I would hate for my growth to be stunted.”
Two days later, Janet Drake and Jack Drake stormed into the mansion and threw out the nanny. Janet gives her an approving nod at her sudden eloquence (wow, these people had no idea what children were supposed to be like) and gave her a credit card to use freely.
Rich people. Honestly.
Timmy’s sly gaze was highlighted by the invisible glow of the congratulations banner.
#dpxdc#batman#jason todd#batfamily#time travel fixit#i wanna be tiny#tim drake robin#tim drake wayne#that time i got drunk and saved a demon#‘oh you were expecting batman? that’s adorable tell him hi when he gets here’#that time i got drunk and yeeted a love potion at a werewolf#magic#detective comics#uncle waylon jones#red robin yum#batfam all need so much fuckin therapy#fuckin gonna cause so much chaos#gotham rogues#boi will the justice league be concerned#justice league should be scared#tiny tim drake
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Silm time travel fixit fic where Curufin is spat out into his younger self fairly early in YoT, and when his efforts to solve the Noldor's political/ Melkor problems bear no fruit... he just fucks off to Alqualonde to apprentice as a ship-builder, because it's a concrete and fixable future problem.
#tolkien#san shoots the breeze#He does his damnedest to single-handedly build a fleet for the noldor#To feanor's proud bemusement (feanor sees no need to rush! But curufin's faith in his plans to leave is touching)#If he's spat out late he goes to learn shipbuilding early. Less time to influence events but plenty of time to circumvent Doom#He takes it up with a strong spirit of malicious compliance. He's sure the valar *want* to damn them and he'll make sure they have no excus
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@foxstronaut: #YEAH SO I DID IN FACT WANT TO SEE IT#this is so good……this au just keeps getting better……….tysm for the link to this post!!#the wider context of the time travel……the fallout of bens betrayal…..#positively eating this up#also if i can ask- what is the ‘shereshoy’ mentioned in ur tag? :0
Shereshoy is the capstone of my Vod'e An Star Wars series, which is ALL about time travel, but I keep copy-pasting the intro scene into different AUs because it is. Definitely one of my favorite bits of writing to date.
Here's the series summary:
Have you ever seen a time traveler dropped into the middle of someone else's butterfly effect? How about several dozen someones? AKA I nabbed all my fave clone troopers and sprinkled them into a much happier galaxy, with a touch of violence on top. As a treat.
Aaand just for laughs, here's the intro scene in question:
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The Force screamed in the middle of the night, and Ahsoka lurched awake with one overriding thought: not again.
Both lightsabers immediately flew to her hands as she rolled out of bed - boots and outer robes left behind in her sprint for the door. For the first time since constructing her own hab at Luke’s school, Ahsoka regretted putting herself on a neighboring ridge instead of down in the valley among the students.
Even as she ran, the Force flickered with another youngling’s death.
Beams of red light in the darkness, matched to knots of Dark power, drew her forward at even greater speed. Bounding off rocks and trees, the togruta remained nearly silent with every leap; she instinctively shielded herself with the Force to mask her approach, until the moment she burst out over the heads of three Sith acolytes, and let her own power flare.
Their helmeted heads snapped upwards. In the span of two heartbeats, her white sabers slashed, and those same heads fell to the ground, their bodies following after a brief pause.
Ahsoka landed in a battle-ready crouch, positioned defensively over a boy collapsed on the ground. When no further Sith revealed themselves, she deactivated and tucked away one lightsaber, freed hand reaching for the teenager at her feet. “Jacen?”
“I’m okay,” he rasped, heart pounding hard enough her lekku could feel the vibrations. “What- what’s happening?”
“Another Purge,” Ahsoka said, fighting hard to keep her voice level. “Can you feel Ezra?” After a moment’s pause, his face scrunched with desperate concentration, Jacen nodded. “Then let’s go. I’ll watch your back.”
The boy staggered upright, and led her around to the far side of the school buildings: student sleeping huts, a kitchen and meal hall, storage and laundry and library. Most of them bore scorch marks and other damage, while further up the valley, the actual temple where Luke handled meditation and combat training burned.
Storm clouds rumbled overhead, an echo of the fury roaring in Ahsoka’s mind. Twice, cracks of lightning revealed fallen bodies as she and Jacen ran past.
Another set of Sith attempted an ambush, only to falter when they registered her white lightsabers. Ahsoka didn’t hesitate to leap forward and deal with them swiftly, before any attention could be turned to the padawan beside her. Jacen, thankfully, didn’t attempt to join her, nor did he comment afterward - but his Force-presence shivered and pulled in even tighter on itself.
The next enemies they came across were a squad of stormtroopers, concentrating fire on a solitary figure, who deflected incoming plasma bolts and shot back his own with the same weapon. Ahsoka could sense two more younglings hidden behind Ezra’s billowed cloak, and increased her speed.
One trooper spotted her mid-charge. He and his neighbor turned to shoot at the new target, but their bolts went wild, too far off the mark to even require deflection. Ridiculous, Ahsoka could hear in her mind, as she spun and slashed, No brother would have gotten off Kamino with aim like that; do they even bother training these shinies, or just hand ‘em armor and a blaster and a new set of orders?
Faster than droids, but not nearly as fast or coordinated as clones, which meant Ahsoka carved through the stormtroopers within moments. As the last blaster fell in pieces to the ground, she saw Jacen dash past to crash against his favorite teacher with a desperate hug. Ezra wrapped an arm around the boy’s shoulders, the other still holding his lightsaber. “Ahsoka?”
“Get to my ship,” she ordered, as another peal of thunder rang above their heads, and the first few raindrops began to fall. “Don’t wait for anyone else, just take off and get to safety.”
Expression grim, Ezra nodded, and turned to drop into a crouch. He helped Alora get to her feet, the girl holding Grogu against her chest. “Pypey?”
The teenager shook her head, headscarf gone, face covered in tears. Ezra didn’t waste any more time before hustling her and Jacen off, towards the hidden landing pad where they kept hyper-capable craft. Ahsoka barely waited before hurrying onward again.
She passed more bodies; some students, some stormtroopers, the occasional Sith in black and red armor. The rain began coming down harder, turning the ground slick with mud, dragging visibility down to mere feet and severely impacting how much Ahsoka could sense with her hollow montrals.
But the Force didn’t falter. Every leap took her from one mostly-stable spot to another, following further death knells and surges of power, all the way up to the front steps of the old Jedi temple set into the mountainside. All the way to Luke.
Despite his much smaller stature, he moved like Anakin, and she could feel the intense emotions racing through him. One trooper after another fell, Luke refusing to let any of them put so much as a single foot on the steps into his school, his Academy. More bodies sprawled across the stones behind him; only one still flickered faintly with life.
Ahsoka took over the fight.
She landed ahead and just to one side of Luke, better positioned to defend the one student still gasping for breath. “Go! Take her and go!” Her fellow Jedi hesitated, clearly torn between multiple directions. “She’s dying, Luke, take Jaina and go, NOW!”
His Force-presence flared, then settled, decision made. Ahsoka felt the man lunge, scoop up his wounded student, and bolt into the Temple. She knew he’d follow a secret route out to the far side of the mountain, where an overhang sheltered his old X-Wing. With any luck, Artoo would be waiting, engines already fired up and ready to take off.
Even without luck, Ahsoka would buy them enough time to escape. Raindrops sizzled off her lightsabers as she swept them through the air, evaporating into steam that trailed after her every movement.
And Ahsoka moved.
#star wars#vod'e an series#ahsoka tano#time travel fixit#shereshoy#which was SUPPOSED to be the final installment#but then haat ijaa haa'it happened#and who knows when that will be finished#but that's just individual snippet chapters#the full plot of the series is Done and Dusted
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You put "bred for desired traits" and "Assassin's Creed" next to each other so my brain connected some dots, hear me out: The Isu are still alive in this AU. They're humanity, and humanity are the mermaids. Or they could be dead. The important thing is that the Assassins are the pretty fish.
I love seeing all the 'mermay' fan art and fics, however...
I've also had this wish for a 'darker' mermay fanfic.
The typical 'species' are all ocean dwelling things, like orca's, seals, sharks, octopi, etc.
But I'd figure, like with all things, there would be 'collectors' that would want to have these creatures as exotic pets. And would breed them selectively for exaggerated traits.
Traits like flashy, bright colors (even though those exist in ocean dwelling creatures), 'fancy' fins like a beta or those gold fish. Basically, traits that would cripple them in the wild. Colors unsuited for their species/habitat, fins that made them very slow swimmers who get tired easily, gills that are poorly adapted for breathing due to a small size or frills, etc.
And that mer just so happens to end up in the ocean, maybe due to a shipwreck that was transporting them to a new 'owner'.
And they had to struggle for survival for a while, unused to feeding themselves or danger in general. Until a 'wild' version of their species appears, at first just to investigate the strange, deformed mer. And then decide to help the poor creature.
Etc, etc.
I don't have time to write such a thing though...but an AC version would be a dream to read...
#assassin's creed#to my irl friends who are confused as to how I'm in this fandom:#I may not be able to physically play the games or watch playthroughs but the important thing is that#AC is the source of some *fantastic* time travel fixits#mermay#It's rather tangential to the actual premise described but I think it's a fun idea?
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