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[owlygem]

Some back story For Ben back when he was still a child. Some of you may remember some rough sketches I did for this, I suddenly felt like having a real go at it! Consider it practice because I want to start the Escart comic properly soon!

I feel like I learned a lot with this, what to do and what not to do next time, what I need to develop more, and so on! For now, enjoy this rather depressing blossoming of Ben's extraordinary strength 💪

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[sewerratzz]

im watching another mouthwashing playthrough

the “SYSTEM FAILURE” message that pops up onscreen when the alarm is going off and curly’s running to the cockpit, just before the crash, i wanna talk about it.

if it is just meant to be the warning or emergency screens in the cockpit as they approach the asteroid [its not], it doesn’t make sense. because it wasn’t a system failure that caused it, it was a navigational failure.

SO i wanna talk about what it is.

this message appears on the screen like the other messages that are meant to kind of show jimmy’s state of mind. Take Responsibility. Take Care Of It. BE QUIET. those.

but these big red letters screaming

SYSTEM FAILURE

pop up when we’re playing as Curly. when he now knows what Jimmy has done and can no longer look past it.

Jimmy’s done the most insane thing, crashing the ship, as a result of Curly’s lack of action.

SYSTEM FAILURE

The system isn’t the ship. the system is capitalism, the company they work for not caring enough about the safety of its employees [especially anya, as a singular woman stranded on a spaceship with four men] to put locks in the sleeping quarters. the company not fostering a safe environment to do anything in case of situations just like what Jimmy does to Anya. they all have a group pay package. and i’m sure they will dock credits for anything they can. like if they used a cryopod not in the case of an emergency [such as the crash] like people have suggested they should have used as a holding cell for jimmy, im sure their group pay would have been docked. and this is something the crew can’t have. which is why curly thinks its best to play mediator. and why this leads to the crashing of the ship.

SYSTEM FAILURE

The system isn’t the ship, the system is the patriarchy, and how men protect other men, specifically in cases of SA, abuse, and harassment. Curly looking the other way, only seeing the big picture, when Anya tells him about the dead pixel and how its all she can see. always there, in the back of her mind. Curly telling Anya they can fix this when she tells him she’s pregnant, saying he’ll do anything and then simply not. Curly helping Jimmy get a job on the Tulpar in the first place, it being heavily implied he was in trouble on earth and running away from consequences.

Curly himself is the SYSTEM FAILURE, and he doesn’t see it until it’s far too late.

[dunmeshistash]

Greetings, Mr. Meshi!

This is perhaps a bit of an unorthodox question, but one that has been bothering me for an unreasonable amount of time.

Now, here's the thing: I OBSESS over Marcille outliving everyone she holds dear. It's a theme very close to me, but even beyond that I just find it to be one of the most interesting elements of Dungeon Meshi's story for me personally. I've written an embarrassing amount of lengthy essays on it that will never see the light of day - that's how obsessed I am over this specific element of her character. But, there's something that bothers me...

A lot of poignant stories and artworks that tackle this topic get comments on 'em whenever Falin is the subject of aging, each one some variation of "Everything points to Falin having an extended lifespan after her revival!" which... Seems weird to me?

I don't know why this bothers me so much, but setting aside my personal annoyances, I don't remember anything pointing to this at all. At least, nothing concrete.

I don't know if this is a question you'd want to answer or not, but since your blog is a hub for all sorts of opinions and headcanons, I'd love to know where this line of thought could originate from.

I really wouldn't blame you if you didn't answer this question, though. Part of me feels I'm just asking this because I want to see if others share in my confusion or not.

Rrrregardless, though! Lemme take the opportunity to say that your blog is delighful. Love it! Also, that mushroom man with the funny face that sometimes responds to you with lengthy essays is also really cool. Everyone is cool. At least here on the northern hemisphere! It is smack dab in the middle of fall, after all! Coolness all around! Stay frosty! Or don't! Maybe warm up at a fireplace. I don't know!

Hi there! Thank you for the kind words, I love reading other's opinions on what I post so I also love the additions by the mushroom <3

It's quite hot over here in northeast Brazil, send some coolness my way please I'm dying.

Your question isn't strange at all! And I don't mind answering anything (unless it's rude or sounds like shipping war bait) so don't worry.

(Decided to put the rest under a readmore, TLDR: Kui said "maybe so, right?" about Falin having a longer lifespan but I have arguments why I don't think this actually confirms it. Anyway if you're someone who likes the headcanon you might want to skip this post)

To be honest those type of comments bother me too because I also LOVE Marcille's struggle with mortality and sometimes "Falin will live much longer!" feels undermining of the lesson she had to learn. I don't mind it in the headcanon sphere where everything is allowed and happy endings grow on trees but when it becomes intertwined with canon it starts to make me a little disappointed.

Just a reminder of the lesson she has to learn

She has to come to terms with the cycle of life and death, that something she wants (everyone to live longer) shouldn't be forced upon others just because it causes her grief. So, to me at least, Falin being made into something that will end up outliving other tallmen would undermine the message? In a canon sense ofc, if you're writing a wish fulfillment story then her living longer would have a different meaning, I just wanna be clear I have nothing against it in that sense, it all depends on what story you're trying to tell.

Anyway, actually answering your question that idea comes from the fact she was fused to a Red Dragon, and the fact her body has been affected by it, her sight was fixed and she grows feathers for example, so people theorize maybe her lifespan has been affected too. But we don't really know how long dragon's live so it's hard to say how much it would have been affected if at all.

It also comes from this answer Kui gave in a QnA

Q: Would Falin have an extended lifespan after the whole chimera thing? A: Maybe so, right?

To me this reads as the usual non-answers Kui gives, like, "I'll leave it up to your imagination" but for other people this read as a confirmation of the headcanon, in another questions she answers "I hope so" about Thistle leading a happy life after having his desires eaten and it's even debatable if Thistle survived at all so I don't think those comments indicate much of canon (I'm that way about most QnA answers tbh, unless it's something inconsequential like confirming Mithrun's Brother's name or stuff about very minor characters)

Another argument I have against her having a different lifespan is Izutsumi, Izu has been mixed with a monster but continues to age at the same rate a Tallmen would, even tho she also has different biology because of the Great Cat she's fused with (ears, reflexes, eyes etc etc) she is still a tallman

Falin isn't really the same thing as Izutsumi tho, I understand, but it's the closest example we have, if we believe the AB descriptions and demi-humans are really mixes between humans and monsters that's also another argument about it not affecting lifespan, since all of them are short lived and have an average lifespan of 55.

All of this *can* be dissmissed tho, the other demi-humans and beastmen are all mixed with mammal monsters and nothing nearly as powerful as a Dragon, so there is arguments to be made that Falin is different and that she *might* have an extended lifespan, all I'm saying is that there's no solid confirmation of it, it's fine to believe it but going around "correcting" other people saying it's a fact wouldn't be right I don't think, especially if you're saying that in a conversation about Marcille journey of death acceptance.

Death is a touchy subject and everyone is at different stages of their own journeys with it so I really don't want to judge those who would rather have Falin or even Laios live longer. I'm not really sure how to talk about this in the proper way, but I hope I didn't make anyone upset!

[entity56]

i dont think its often discussed how traumatic that delusional experiences can be

just the delusion itself. if its overwhelming and long enough it's enough to be chronically traumatic. like. i spent a full year or so believing my soul had left and i was rotting internally. i became obsessed with eating clean to 'heal myself' and ended up becoming borderline orthorexic. i was TERRIFIED of the idea of dying (without a soul there's nowhere to go) but at the same time I wanted to just to get it over with and 'finish the process'. i could feel my organs 'rotting' and 'molding' and 'squirming'. i could feel the bugs and maggots in my body and brain. and I was young, like maybe 13-14 years old during this... I felt this stress EVERY DAY. now outside of a purely fictional context anything to do with the human body, skin or diseases terrifies the shit out of me. im a hypochondriac now. like majorly.

sometimes, somedays, i got hopeful that i did still have a soul, or at least a piece of it, and that if i could JUST get out of my body, I'd be free.

those were really bad days. what i called 'escape attempts' were just paranoia induced self harm.

was anything happening to me? no, but it felt EXTREMELY real. i get flashbacks and delusional 'relapses' and nightmares. that year left a permanent mark on my psyche.

and that's not even to say the stuff that CAN happen during a delusional episode. suicide attempts, being mistaken as aggressive and attacked (SHOCKINGLY common), being alienated by the ones you're supposed to trust, the list goes on and on and on. and you're not allowed to talk about it because thats disturbing. thats weird and gross and bad and schizophrenic/schizospectrum people are crazy and less than human. and trauma means something ! that happened irl ! and those were just delusions it was all in your mind you basketcase.

idk. im rambling. i just know i got an untagged post on my dash saying 'There's mold growing inside of me' and am now nauseous and fighting the idea that that nausea is Actually My Organs Rotting.

praying for a future where neurotypicals treat us with more respect

[maryland-officially]

Ok I'm genuinely confused here so don't be mean please. All of this is /genq /nbr

I have a dissociation disorder and I'm questioning plurality (I would be considered traumagenic if I am 1). From my understanding of systems, they're formed through trauma that happens before the age of ten. The brain puts up amnesia barriers and the child's personality doesn't form correctly, so multiple alters are formed instead.

Endos confuse me. They're systems that say they somehow did this without trauma? How do they fit into this? Like, I want to be supportive but some of the rhetoric I've seen genuinely pushed me into a panic attack once (it was a post saying basically you can just make headmates whenever if you want and for fun, you don't need trauma or anything which I think made me upset cos... Why would someone want to be a system and how could they view it as a whole as fun?? & the idea you could just manifest it out of thin air confuses me deeply)

I'm sorry if you don't want asks like this but you're a relatively big blog and I've just seen you say you support endos so I figured you'd be a good person to ask.

Explanation below cut because it got long ^^

Ah, well. Most, if not like all endogenic systems, are non-disordered or use that term.

Endogenic systems can form in many different ways -- we're traumagenic, but we're pretty sure there are some endo alters, and we usually find them by talking into the void of the brain and getting a response that isn't from somebody established-- I'm sorry, this isn't very helpful, but think about it like:

Talking to yourself in your brain, and then suddenly you realize that you do not in fact control the person/alter replying, and that is not you. That's kind of what it's like.

Think of a cave:

At first, you think the echo is yourself. And it probably is, or it could be. And then the echo doesn't say what you say anymore -- it changes it and it isn't exactly 'you' speaking. Well the brain is the cave and the echo is a headmate forming.

This is the way that WE know about when alters form. It's a bit like this. We/a member thinks that we/they're thinking to our/themselves, and then bam. somebody different. not formed from stress or trauma

I'm sure there are other ways this could happen,, but none that we know of

so instead of uhm

I've seen this diagram/things like it to describe DID + plurality, so I'll explain with this.

This is an adult brain

This is a child's brain

This is the child's brain developing

With this model, DID (from what I've seen,,) looks like this.

The circles spread out, and might combine into large circles between themselves but not a full one as the brain develops

I'm not sure how accurate this model is, but I've seen people use it to describe DID. This is a sort of simplified version that makes more sense but is probably less detailed

Anyway let's say an endogenic systems starts as a large circle -- though,, this might not always be correct and is probably not majorly correct, since brains take a while to develop (im so sorry if this diagram is confusing. The circles are supposed to resemble child's thoughts/personality traits and how they assemble into a person. Or at least i think--)

Well anyway, an endogenic systems would look like this in my brain:

A part of the person kind of drifts off into its own thing

And then it might turn out like this

Sometimes there's a piece that there's no way to know where came from. They just kind of appear. They might have dropped from the brain, who knows? It can be hard to tell.

These can be fictives, or other alters.

Anyway this is my take/diagram on how endo systems form. It's probably inaccurate, but hopefully we got it mostly right ;;

[thankstothe]

when she brings up freud on the first date

[knightfeared]

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[showmethehotpods]

Whilst I have said this on other blogs, and even if I'm down a follow or two on Gigs dusty ass;

I'm still just in a state of disbelief at how the start of this year has turned out. Old dirt being dragged up, my recent diagnoses thrown into the mix - only to have people I've only just been introduced to give me the benefit of the doubt, ask if I've been okay with everyone. Heck, show interest in original characters as well.

It just makes me feel so hopeful. For anyone who might have had moments of emotional outbursts, vulnerability - moments of regrets and mistakes - that if you take the time to heal, grow, learn more about yourself - even if anyone tries to drag you down, you can move on with acknowledgement, humility, be confident that you will find a space where all your hard work is recognised and accepted.

Just know that I'm encouraging you all, with so much love and gratitude. I've always believed a community is what you make of it and being the attitudes you want to see; thank you for starting my year off on such a wonderful first foot forward.

[nori357]

so ive been playing ffxiv for like the past year and ive gotten really into g(gay)poses and realized i never shared any of these anywhere so here they are on wumblr.com, enjoy! ^^

[kharrneth]

I'm having WAY too much fun with the storylet, brain demanded a part 2 to the Epilgoue, so here it is! Going to nap after posting this and maybe get some replies out...

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The throne room was quiet.

Absent were the sounds of quarreling daemons, of war-artisans carving sagas into the black walls of Great Skull Hall. Gone were the sounds of cowardly souls being sacrificed on the great daemonic pyre or even sorcerer-slaves forced to work at the behest of the blood legion. Even the great bloody flame pit, ever alight within the Skull Throne room, had burnt out and cast the normally gloomy chamber in pitch near-black. There was not even the baying, barking, and jostling of the Blood God’s favorite daemons:  his flesh hounds. Only the Great God himself, and his most favorite daemon-companion, Karanak the Hound of Vengeance, resided in the Skull Hall.

The three headed hound curled up at Khorne’s hooves, closer than he usually dared. He kept quiet, not whimpering or pawing at his master despite wanting to do both. Kharneth had become sensitive to it all lately—the noise. The lights. The sights and smells and sounds. They had become intense, unbearable, and even in his beastly mind Karanak had come to know him as the culprit.

The Serpent.

The flesh hound would smell him before he saw him and only regard for his master’s order of silence prevented the Vengeance from barking and lunging at the other deity. Karanak would fix his face into a silent snarl, but the Pleasure-Lord would all but ignore him. The Serpent would sweep in like gale, his perfumed scent filling up the chamber, and the two gods would lock in a vigorous embrace. At a word, a gesture, the exhausted Blood God would summon forth all of his flagging energy and serve as the Prince desired, before collapsing back in his throne. The Perfumed one would always leave vigorous, skipping or sashaying away reeking of ephemeral satisfaction and playful malice. Kharneth would be left haggard, his condition worse. The Blood Realm, once a vibrant bloody crimson, would creep ever closer to rich merlot and the pleasure daemons invading their kingdom would take deeper root.

Khorne panted, a steady stream of blood dribbling down his fangs and chin. He ached all over and it was a bone-deep ache, felt in his muscles and with every ragged breath taken. Things had turned; the scales of power had moved out of his favor and into his “ally’s”. It had been so slight he hadn’t noticed it, not until it was too late, and now he lingered, hating and longing, seething and despairing. It was the Prince who commanded the Blood Legions now, carrying the Hound’s orders to his subjects, tweaking them as he saw fit. It was he who sowed corruption and co-opted Khorne’s creed, inspiring dark degeneracy in the Blood God’s honorable legions. Those who protested were never heard from again, prompting others to stay quiet and seethe to themselves. Slaanesh would disappear into the Brass Citadel under the guise of meeting to discuss matters of war and relay Kharneth’s orders, but it was really to steal his strength and weaken him further.

Steal your strength? Slaanesh had cackled, between the Blood God’s bone quaking thrusts, his amusement shining through his pleasure. At some point, the bastard had invaded his very minds and so even Kharneth’s thoughts were not safe from the Prince. Slaanesh had seized Khorne by the jaw, offering a broad smile with far too many teeth, and the Blood God remembered the bruising strength in his delicate hands and of the slender legs wrapped around him, refusing him retreat. Not that he ever would. I have taken nothing you have not offered, Lord of War. And then he had left when it was over. Khorne could still smell the musk he’d left behind and it disgusted him.

The Blood God looked down at Karanak, able to see the Hound clearly despite the near-dark of the chamber. He was looking at something, his hackles up, and Khorne felt dread as he felt desperate desire. But when he looked, there was no Prince of Pleasures. Rather, another presence dared to enter his vicinity, one with bright eyes. Then two, then four, then—Something landed on his shoulder, scrabbling and chitter. He felt another perch on his horns and shoulders and wings. Finally, the heaviest of them landed square on his snout, looking directly at him with gold and blue eyes.

“ Kharneth.” It hissed, and the Blood God knew the voice immediately. The Trickster was here. He felt himself grow exponentially more tired. “ You look terrible.” It commented, crawling around on the edge of his bloody muzzle like an overlarge bug, “ The alliance with Slaanesh is proving fruitful, is it?”

“Why…are you here.” Khorne forced out, summoning as much ire as he could.

“ To help you, little brother of mine!” The fury spread it’s arms wide in a welcoming fashion. “ Despite your folly and blatant disregard of my warnings. The Prince is not the only god who can be generous.”

“Slaanesh.” Khorne trailed off and was silent for a long moment, either thinking of husbanding what was left of his reserves just to speak. “ This….is the ruin you spoke of?” It must’ve been. And Tzeentch must’ve been here to rub it in Khorne’s face, now that there  would be no consequences for doing so.

“ No. Well, not quite.” The Fury answer, “ But it is the beginning of the end. Not just for you, but for all. Did you know Slaanesh is also trying to bring Nurgle into the fold? He figures he has you under his thumb, among other things, and he’s preparing to end the game as we know it.”

Khorne’s despair flared in his chest. He rumbled his displeasure.

“ But, I will not allow that to happen. The Prince’s games have gone on long enough, and too far. I would pull you from this grave you dug for yourself, despite my warnings not to do so. I would offer you my help, arrange my minions to ensure that it is you, not Slaanesh, that ascends. Because if he does--- ”

The despair deepened and hardened into a hateful resolved. The kind built on resignation and inescapable destruction. Of the two evils he faced, Khorne would much rather be wrapped up in a Tzeentchian scheme than be a plaything for the Prince. And he knew Slaanesh would not let him die once he gained primacy. That was not the Master of Excesses way. Khorne would made to suffer and suffer and suffer until the last star in the last universe extinguished at last. He hacked up more blood, feeling the tiny furies’ claws in his snout to maintain purchase.

“ Help.” Khorne hissed out, through burning lungs, hating how weak he sounded. His fury rose to a crescendo, but petered off just as quickly, unable to maintain itself. The Blood God drifted into sleep, breathing out a final word before he succumbed at last.

“ Please.”

The last thing he remembered was the sound of a thousand thousand wingbeats, the shrieks of Witchbreed furies pouring out of the windows of his citadel, the smell of the Prince of Pleasure’s perfume…

[nukerooster]

a rough, messy thing that didn't get as far as I'd of liked bc time and once I got so far into the pages and saw all the ridiculous wonked out anatomy mistakes I lost motivation to do any more. Comics, even silly sketchy ones like these, are hard for me. It started out sketchier and just progressed into a more contrasted mess but still a mess no matter how I want to look at it. It was meant to be a fun thing following the idea of 'what if Kraus was zipzapped into an Arch, how would he react? How would he change? What would he do? What would his right hand man, Liam, do? It's a whole can of worms and I ripped the lid off. And now it's part of my AU pile and canon. Despite me stopping the pages, I love the idea and have spent an awful lot of time deepthinking, sketching, and exploring ArchKraus. His design here is inconsistent(as it was a very new thing at the time) but I kinda felt around as the pages progressed and now have a generally good idea of what he's like. Maybe someday I'll actually rise to the challenge of creating a short comic, but for now my busy busted brain can't handle much more than it already is.

If you're unable to discern who characters are, that's no fault of anyone's but mine lmao. Aside from sharing sparsely here, I tend to dump silly sketches and run so the who's who and what's what is all but lost sometimes. The only two mains here are Liam (Read with a soft and lightweight Glaswegian based Scottish accent, he's lost some of his accent due to being around folks that don't have his own accent for decades), and Kraus (Think Ralph Ineson without the English accent, a more assertive gruff, almost snarly, Kraus is big, he's 'mean', and he knows it.)

[kyra45]

waterarchon scam post archive

Then a comment:

Don’t donate to them their scamming. Below is the source where I’ve left the owners name uncensored as the scammer likely copied it to look more legitimate. The post is not on the owners profile so it could only have been took from the private group.

The real owners email is different but as it’s not publicly posted I will not show it.

[ghost-on-a-string]

finally

the (semi) long awaited hux longpost! before i get into any of it though, some disclaimers:

1. i have never read the star wars comics and honestly i never will. i like star wars enough to watch clone wars and suffer through the sequel films. that's it.

2. i will not be giving all my thoughts on hux as a character because then i can make more posts and i like when the numbers go up

3. as i said, i have not read the comics. i honestly only half watched rise of skywalker. this won't be super accurate to the star wars lore or anything like that, this is for fun

4. on that note, while this isn't going to be super serious, there are still heavy and sensitive topics, primarily child abuse and neglect, so if those things bother you, please sit this out

actual longpost/shitty character analysis below the cut

how does one start with a character like hux? despite how little screen time he actually gets in the movies, he's incredibly complex, even before you get into the comics. there's a lot to be said about him, even if you only have context from the movies. and while i could (and probably will) make a separate longpost about how last jedi not only fucked the entire trilogy over, but specifically ruined the character of hux by making a genuine threat into a joke within the first 15 minutes, not today my friends.

i will mostly be focusing on hux in the force awakens, using things from the rise of skywalker and what little i know about his backstory in the comics.

1st it must be stated: i do not like any of the other characters in the squeal trilogy. i don't hate most of them, but i either don't have an opinion on them (finn, rose, bb8 kind of, maaz, kylo to an extent), or i genuinely hate the character entirely (rey, she'll get a longpost later). a lot of it is because most of these characters don't have a lot of personality, which is a problem the sequel trilogy has as a whole. even returning characters are bland or weirdly mean

yes, you can argue that hux doesn't really have a personality either. however, compared to others characters (cough cough rey), he is dripping with personality, if you look a little closer. the first example that comes to mind is the speech scene. when he yells, there is genuine malace, hatred and fury in his voice. he isnt just yelling to be loud, he's yelling because he demands respect, terror and power.

it makes sense why he would want those things, especially when you look at his background in the comics. hux is a bastard child, his father was abusive and neglectful. he probably grew up feeling in adequate and out of control. he grew up in terror, so he is going to inflict that terror on others.

(i also want it to be known, i don't think hux is a good person. he's sympathetic, and with his backstory you can understand why he did what he did, but he also literally blew up several planets so. a little different.)

even in his smaller interactions, he seems stiff. while part of that is probably because no one had any personality, part of it could be purposeful. hux is a character desperately grasping for respect and control. he's stiff because then he can control how the conversations he has go. he's cold and confident because people respect those with plans who present those plans calmly. in tros, hux says "i don't care who wins. i just need kylo ren to lose." he's more focused on the way those around him look. because if they look bad, he looks better, he looks more confident, more in control. even after he's dead, he needs to be respected, feared, whatever. he can't let himself be seen as anything other than entirety perfect.

hux doesn't have a personality, because he can't let himself have anything other than utter perfection. he would rather be feared, loathed and respected than simply appreciated and forgotten.

[gainprincess]

"H-Has anyone seen Melt lately...? I've been looking for her all week..."

Well, she hasn't, really...She had an agent out searching for her.

What's that look for?! She can have agents! She's a major player here, you know! She has a ninja that works for her!

"PassioOoNlip-dono...I have retuRRrRnEd."

The robotic voice of Kashin Koji precludes the doll's presence, the woman dropping in out of nowhere as her spider-like metal tendrils clank on the floor to hold her in place. Her body's not all that anymore, and she sounds more like Siri than the master of illusions he was in life.

"W-Welcome back, Koji! What did you learn...?"

"BegINnnNinG report...No signs of Meltryllis-dono in designated class: ALlTer Ego. Lancer located, same position as previous repPpoRRt.

BB-dono remains secCCCluuuded...Recommendation: ExttttERminate. We are...UnSure of her motivAAATIoNs, after all..."

"No sign of her at all, then. She must be in a singularity, like you suspected at the start. We've been wasting our time there..."

It's like Passionlip's demeanor changed completely. The shy, if steel-backed young woman is no more. A calm, cool, collected woman has taken her place, and listens to her assassin's report with complete focus.

"Thank you for searching this past week for me, and I'm sorry for sending you on a wild goose chase. I'll take the matter about BB into consideration, but..."

She sucks in on her lip.

"What about the other matter I asked you to look into, Koji?"

"Nnnh? Other maAAAtteR?"

She closes her eyes, seeming to have to dig through her memory to recall an order issued to her merely 7 days ago.

"Ah- Yes, I reMmMember noWW."

A smile spreads across the spider's face as her tendrils clank and rustle in excitement.

"AaAlL is AcCOrDDinG to plan. They're A-a-a-already falling into posiTIION..."

She twitch-twitch-twitches. She'll need to recalibrate her voice box and limbs, then.

"Very good...Continue monitoring them, and let me know immediately if Avenger's routine changes. Even if she does something small."

"Of course, PAASssionlip-dooOno. I am eEvvER your faithful shinobi...Master."

Passionlip doesn't have hands. So no one would have any reason to check them for anything. Especially Command Seals.

That's why they're on her back. Three of them, in crimson red, unseeable by anyone who isn't trying to get behind lip for some inane reason.

Koji isn't 'officially' in Chaldea. She's not even Ritsuka's Servant.

The master of Assassin, Kashin Koji...

Is Alter-Ego, Passionlip.

"Hehehe...you don't need to call me that, Koji...we're friends. But, um, while you leave..."

"Can you survey the area? Make sure no one's listening in?"

"At onNCEe, Passionlip-dono."

The scuttling of spider legs echo as Kashin Koji flips herself back up into the vents, darting away to do a check on her mistress's domicile.

-

Breath, hot down your neck. The click, click, click of eight steel legs behind you, as you stare at your computer. The hissing of metal joints as they creak and groan.

A soft, warm finger gently tips at your chin, turning your eyes away from the Tumblr screen for just a moment. Just a secon-

Do nOooT OBBbSserve ThiIIngs you were not suppPPPosed to seeeEE.

You will be LEEETTTT off this time.

I am not known for second chances.

Scuttle, scuttle, scuttle. You blink. You're looking at Tumblr again. How odd.

Perhaps a trick of the light.

Yes.

That must be it, my dear reader.

A tTRIIccCCk of the ligHHhT.~

[grieverled-moved]

➤ MISC. HEADCANONS [ ; ] TRAVERSE TOWN & LEON’S CONNECTION TO KING MICKEY ©

Another thing I wanted to elaborate on, was Leon’s time in Traverse Town along with all the events leading up to it. I do have a mish-mashed version for how he arrived in Radiant Garden — how originally, there was a fall of some sort within his world within VIII where he was then torn away & separated from those he knew, waking up in the strange new world on his own.

With no idea of where to start to try finding his way back to Balamb, Squall originally tried his best to get a general lay-out of his new surroundings, of how things worked & functioned in this place. *He felt no junctioning connection any of his Guardian Forces, a strange feeling considering he’d always made sure to keep them on hand in case of an emergency. *There was no connection to Rinoa that could be felt either, the initial emotions felt being a strong, near overwhelming isolating feeling of ‘lost’ — not unlike the one felt during his time trapped in Time Compression.

Days passed, eventually the time he’d spent just simply trying to stay a temporary visitor bled into something new. No new directions opened their way for him, nothing came up to give him anything worth looking into, & so, *he’d settled for making himself comfortable. At least until he knew more, it couldn’t hurt to take a break in his search — for a while things were quiet again. Peaceful even despite his restlessness, he’d managed to carve a small, comfortable space for himself. But it didn’t last long & soon enough, that same looming Darkness would begin to overtake Radiant Gardens, slowly this time, providing the man with just enough time to arm himself, gather what he could before he’d started trying to aid in rushed evacuation efforts with Highwind & the others. He’d done his best to hold off the initial hordes of Heartless, using his old experience of being a trained mercenary to his advantage, but he’s only human.

In his adrenaline fuelled state of panic, the former commander had gotten separated in his efforts to push back against the more dangerous of Heartless, unsurprisingly leading to an ambush, nearly being overwhelmed enough to lose his own heart before he’d been subsequently rescued amidst the chaos. During the fray, he’d gotten severely injured, though Cid was able to drag him onto the ship along with the others & from there, they’d soon find themselves within Traverse Town, where they’d then take refuge in the time that’d followed.

For the first while, around a little over a month, he was was bedridden & stuck recovering. During that time & admittedly with little other options, Squall’d started to connect more with Yuffie & Aerith. At first, he fought them heavily, stubborn in his want to leave, to be active enough since that same restlessness was back with a vengeance at yet another perceived failure in preventing a world from falling — another home. At being useless yet again. ( I’ll ramble properly about this more in another post, but this is around where he decides to change his name to *“Leon”, a simpler acknowledgement / last remaining tether to his lost past, while renouncing who he’d once been after all the loss & failure on his end. ) Despite his very vocal protests, the others kept him from leaving until he was fully healed.

When he did eventually heal enough to wander, he’d started to make sure things within Traverse Town were properly secure with what he’d learned during his last few attempts in fending off the Heartless, also taking time to note the sudden increase in newcomers who’d arrived just as they had. *More time passed as he learned to juggle between making sure their newfound haven would remain as safe as they could make it, that people were prepared, setting up regular guards to patrol & fight the odd Heartless that’d invade.

*To also making sure housing & supplies were carefully managed. He’d once again fallen back into old habits, the memories of the times he’d spent leading Balamb during the battle had against Ultimecia plagued him, but he found comfort in the fact he’d been able to help as he had using all his prior experience.

Eventually, with Cid’s approval, using the old & repaired Gummiship they’d arrived in, *Leon then leaves to perform research of his own into what happened. To how the worlds fell, what signals to look out for in advance, to how long they took so he knew how much time he had to evacuate. He also began to search tirelessly for ways to counter the Heartless, scouring for any hopeful ways to reverse the falling of a world. He’d started to travel around, between continuing his upkeep of Traverse Town, journeying to ones that were falling to follow Cid’s footsteps in helping to evacuate as many people to safety as he could.

*Its during one of those self assigned missions that he manages to bump into King Mickey, someone else looking into the sudden disappearance of the stars & ways to reverse whatever phenomena was happening. Over the span of their friendship, the pair had relayed what info they’d come across to one another, working together alongside the others up until Sora is introduced into the picture & things are officially kicked into high gear.

In summary, that’s my personal take on how Leon got to where he is in Kingdom Hearts, along with a bit of frantic connecting the dots on my messy lil corkboard to explain why he knows as much as he does & why he’s the guide character who mentors Sora in KH1. It just explains why he’s so passionate about trying to keep the Heartless problem under control, along with his name change, & his dedication to helping others.