#transfer fail

[lucifers-little-light]

Charlie maybe you can do a soul transition spell and let someone else carry the baby to term? Maybe if Alastor is willing to try to be pregnant again he could carry the baby for Lucifer?

Charlie: That’s so dangerous. And if this is the sound of one of the deceased twins…they maybe fragile. Even more fragile than normal. I don’t want to risk it…

Ozzie: I can do the transfer, after all succubi magic is one of my specialties. Question is, is Alastor strong enough to be pregnant again.

Alastor: *nods eagerly, struggling to speak* I…wa-want to c-carry m-my son again.

Ozzie: Before we start, we will need a back up surrogate. Because if you can’t for any reason, then the baby’s souls won’t return to Lucifer.

Angel: *stepping forward, his voice steady but filled with an underlying tension* Alright, I’ll do it.

The others paused and turned their attention to him.

Charlie: *eyes widening* Angel, you…?

Angel: *nodding firmly* Yeah, I’ll be the backup surrogate. I can deal with Valentino on my own. The baby’s gotta come out of Lucifer and it’s not like we’ve got a ton of options. *glances at Alastor* I’m not trying to be a hero or anything, but someone’s gotta step up.

Ozzie: *nodding thoughtfully* It’s a dangerous process, Angel. You’re sure?

Angel: *grinning, though it’s forced* When’s anything I do not dangerous? *chuckling bitterly* I’m used to it.

Lucifer: *still unconscious, his form peaceful, unaware of the discussion happening around him*

The room darkened further as Ozzie began preparing the ritual. He cast a few protective wards and summoned glowing red and violet symbols around the room. The magic of the succubi was powerful, but it was delicate, requiring intense focus.

Charlie: *worriedly* I don’t like this. If something goes wrong…

Ozzie: *cutting her off* We don’t have time for hesitation, Charlie. This is the only option we’ve got. The baby’s essence must be transferred to a surrogate.

As Ozzie began chanting under his breath, a faint glow enveloped the air, the room feeling heavy with magical energy. He reached out, connecting with Lucifer’s unconscious energy, trying to channel the essence of the baby. The ritual was delicate, pulling on the power of the unborn child, drawing it from Lucifer’s weakened state.

But suddenly, something went wrong.

Ozzie’s eyes widened in surprise, his hands trembling as he struggled to maintain control.

Ozzie: *strained* I… can’t hold it! It’s… out of control!

The baby’s soul, once within Lucifer, now twisted and pulsed with an uncontrolled force. The essence of the baby’s soul, as if rejecting the ritual, shot out of Lucifer's body with a blinding flash of light.

It soared around the room in erratic bursts, faster than anyone could keep up with. A powerful gust of wind whirled through the manor as the baby’s soul flew free, breaking free from the confines of the spell.

Angel: What the hell just happened?

Ozzie: *gritting his teeth, trying to steady himself* I… I don’t know… It’s too powerful to control. The soul’s rejecting the transfer—something’s wrong…

The baby’s essence surged out of the manor, breaking through the walls and shooting into the night sky. The light of its departure illuminated the room before disappearing altogether. There was a moment of complete silence before panic set in.

Charlie: *grabbing Ozzie’s arm* What does that mean? Where did it go?

Ozzie: *sighing heavily* I… I don’t know. It’s gone.

Alastor: *stepping forward, his usual grin absent* Wh-what do you mean it’s gone, Ozzie? Wh-where did it go?

Ozzie: *shaking his head in disbelief* The baby’s essence… flew away.

Charlie: *fearfully* So…what do we tell my Dad once he wakes up?

[horreurscopes]

my guy pretty like a girl & he got fight stories to tell; i see both sides like chanel

[biinaberry]

We can all admit that binghe would make a terrifying hal right?

[robotslenderman]

when is Bioware going to admit that the Evanuris are the archdemons

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

K but the fact that Kristen is just a regular human being. Just a standard, average person in a land filled with mystical beings and magic spilling from every crack, nook and cranny.

And here's Kristen Applebees, the first born child of typical suburban parents, born into a religious neighborhood where everyone goes to church every Sunday and prays every night and everyone has a white picket fence with a perfect manicured lawn and not-so-subtly shuns those who are in anyway different from them.

Was Kristen not chosen by her God, by Helio himself, because of her perfect average parents with their perfect average house in their perfect average neighborhood?

Kristen wasn't rich, she didn't have a powerful bloodline, her parents weren't important, there was no prophecy foretelling her birth. No, Kristen was an attainable goal. Kristen was a good example for the youth, an example of what could be achieved if you just played along and played your part.

Kristen was destined to be the perfect picture of a devoted follower of Helio. She was the poster child, born smack dab in the center of Helio's flock, surrounded on all sides by followers and moulded into the perfect unquestioning chosen one since birth.

But by choosing Kristen, by marking her as property of a God, Helio gave Kristen power. Power over him, power over good and evil, the divine and infernal. Because Kristen is promised to Helio, because she was chosen by him and prophesied to be his, Kristen wields the power to start the end of days and crumble nations with a snap of her fingers. Should she want to, Kristen could destroy the world by simply not doing that, by not ending up in Helio's afterlife to live for eternity by his side, by proving a God wrong.

And it's with this power, this leverage that Kristen holds over Helio's neck like the sword of Damocles, that Kristen is able to free herself from his grasp. It's slow, at first. Joining a 'risky' school, meeting people outside of the religion, questioning elders, researching history and religions. And she doesn't understand how much power she has, not at first, because the power she possesses isn't magic, but a divine promise and unspoken rules that govern a world that she was never supposed to know.

But despite not having magic, despite being chosen for her averageness, despite being trained to be naive and blinded to the realities of the world, Kristen is overpowered as, if you'll excuse the pun, hell.

Helio creates divine religious scholars to protect her when she doubts and strays from him. Helio creates an entire new deity and religion for Kristen, allowing her to think that YES! (and, later, YES?) is it's own separate power from his and he does all of this, not out of generosity or love, but because he needs to keep Kristen alive. Kristen cannot die before she rejoins Helio's flock or the divine promise will break and Helio would be fucked.

So Helio gave her power under the pretense of it being from elsewhere, solely so that he could keep Kristen alive until he changed her mind.

And then! And then Kristen dies! And is revived. And she's Saint Kristen Applebees now (but the Saint of who?) and Helio has fully given up on her and turned his back on her (but his prophecy cannot be unspoken and he cannot be proven wrong so does he really? Can he really?) and Kristen finds a new God, a broken God and Kristen chooses her.

Kristen names her, creates her, Cassandra the Goddess of Doubt and Night, and Kristen finally has her religion, a source of power that doesn't stem from Helio, she's finally escaped his grasp.

And yet.

And yet, Helio still spoke his prophecy, still chose Kristen and she will always have that power over him.

And yet, in his own foolish shortsighted attempt to keep Kristen within his grasp, Helio still created a deity for her, a separate divine entity that chose her as well.

And yet, Kristen is still the undying, the follower of Night and Doubt, Saint Applebees, Creator of Cassandra.

With no real magic to speak of, with nothing special in her bloodline, with no real talents or money to her name, the perfect picture of normalcy in every way, Kristen has managed to twist the divine sphere around her little pinky finger. She has so much power and she has so little awareness of it.

And also she's going to be President, bitch.

[barbiegirldream]

Maybe I'm sleepy but the Blue Lock 283 leaks are not good to me. Like just to sum up

The Isagi x Kaiser chemical reaction was Isagi baiting Rin into shooting the ball to where Isagi assumed Kaiser would leap into the air. Which means when Rin said Isagi was letting himself get devoured the whole thing was Isagi admitting defeat to Kaiser's kicking ability.

And Kaiser's kick which didn't actually stop the ball but sent it off course a hair probably gave the ball enough power to almost achieve the goal post rebound.

And since Kaiser was the last one to touch it if not for Gagamaru saving the ball that was 99% in the net then the Kaisagi chemical reaction was almost Kaiser scoring an own goal lmao

What is this botched play supposed to prove other than Rin dog walks everyone on the field... how is this a chemical reaction... how is isagi evolving by still expecting other people to make the plays he can't

[problematicsashawaybright]

In my fourth and final required zoom meeting of the semester for this class and every meeting has been going over the exact same information in a slightly different powerpoint.......

[sunforgrace]

dean “reacts in new, interesting, fucked up ways to losing cas” winchester and they’re telling me that has nothing to do with nothing in the finale after cas literally confessed his romantic love the act of which was his moment of true happiness and subsequent sacrificial death. haha okay

[bookwyrminspiration]

trying to get shit sorted out for fall semester but no one is back in office until it starts is. not ideal

[hubba1892]

[opens-up-4-nobody]

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[mantisgodiveblog]

(Part 13 is here)

Back at it again, boys. This time: The House.

Nothing changed after Isa's confession, or with picking the Very Clearly Not Looping Option, rather than the "still". As the orbs scene is still the same, and none of the pillars seem to have unique dialogue, we've skipped right to the Sadness - though calming Mirabelle's nerves is valuable, we're fairly sure that the tutorial won't have unique dialogue, and even if it does, we can come back to see it later. Test us getting things blatantly wrong, et cetera.

This way, we can also potentially set the pace for later on - if we can get into a headspace where we can force the party to Proceed, rather than lingering, we might be able to trigger the party into simply Going Forward with the Death Hallyway, rather than dallying and potentially setting off a time-based trap. Set the momentum, keep it moving. Though this might make things worse in the short term, it'll keep her from getting worse in the long term - cutting it off by simply doing it, we can avoid the anxiety spiralling by fear of what might come, and cut short the ramp up. Oftentimes, after all, the fear of could is worse than the fear of actually doing it.

And there we go. Cut it off, nice and clean. This will likely affect the atmosphere later, of course, but in the moment... we can test variables later.

Anyways, a note, while going through profiles - Mirabelle requires more experience to level up than the rest of the party! Quite interesting, honestly. Now...

THIS is interesting as well. For the floor-jumping, we assume? So, if we grind, it'll be recorded as well, we assume. There IS that one achievement for getting all party members to max level, if we recall correctly - so that won't just be an Ouroboros Gambit? It'll remain, if we save it? Interesting. VERY interesting. We wonder if it's the FIRST variant you save with it, or the highest... something to experiment with, to be sure.

[sugarbunbie]

Please have my 2023 MDZS RBB fic inspired by @travelingneuritis's gorgeous, unforgettable art and deliciously angsty prompt --

the late hum by the river

WWX dies mid-golden core transfer

JC/WQ have sex for medical purposes

Rated E, wc 23k

Expect: angst, grief, humour, healing

CW: gore, blood, viscera, dubcon, multiple character deaths, violence, etc. (mind tags)

[kirby-the-gorb]

[pinkcadavart]

New twst oc, hi guys

[imogenkol]

I’m gonna be insane for a moment and say that if Bix were force sensitive her and Imogen could have formed a dyad. They’re already kinda halfway there on Imogen’s part because she can sense Bix’s life force from across the galaxy and make very limited ambiguous contact. They are bonded, it’s just not as binding as it would be if Bix had a strong connection with the force.