#unkown regions

[fcalty]

“ what the hell was that ?! ”  tanyn stopped in his tracks. his vision chased the shadowy form that disappeared into a bramble of dying foliage. this planet had a sinister aura that made his blood run cold. he glared at rownei through the adaptive optics of his helmet. the night vision switched to filter the blanket of darkness. “ this artifact better be worth trudging through this hell hole.”  tanyn all but groaned. the knights fists close tighter around his electroblades.  “ i'm not sacrificing myself to some primordial entity to dig up vader's left boot or some shit like that. ”

starter for @renkniighted​

[caramelcuppaccino]

hey everyone. turkey has been struck by a very strong earthquake around four am. even now, many regions are being struck still. the weather is cold and snowy and people had to leave their homes. many people have lost their lives (edit: it’s been reported that the number is 1004 now (edit: more than 1500) (edit: more than 2000) (edit: more than 3000) (edit: 5434) (edit: more than 12.000 peope have lost their lives) (edit: more than 34.000 people have lost their lives) (edit: more than 40.000 people have lost their lives) (edit: more than 9000 injured people) (edit: 22.000 injured people) (edit: 31.777) (edit: more than 62.000 people are injured) and there are many people who are stuck under the wrecks (edit: number unkown) it has been reported that around two thousand buildings have collapsed and keep collapsing (edit: more than 9000) turkey has declared a fourth level alert state. the ‘’level 4’’ alarm condition includes an international call for help. if you can and would like to, this is the most reliable organization you can donate to:

(ps: akad and red crescent are not trusted by turkish locals. especially afad because they are lying about the help they send and the number of people. please refrain from donating to them. AHBAP is the most trustworthy organization that sends help immediately).

((please do not hesitate to contact me if you need help with the website/language while donating))

(((1€ and 1$ almost equal to 20 turkish lira. so even a little amounts means a lot to us.)))

((((it has been reported that around 194.000 people are under the wrecks and still waiting to be rescued))))

(((((people are sharing notices of victims who are still under the wrecks and waiting to be rescued on twitter ever since the earthquake and turkish government officially announced that they are banning twitter. this is the reason why we don’t want you to donate to afad and red crescent; they only listen to the government. they don’t care about the people.)))))

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[dogearedheart]

Every devotion is a twisted rope with two ends. Think of a burial.

[despair, supernatural || eurydice, sarah ruhl || eurydice hurried back to the infernal regions, henry thomsom || unkown || orpheus mourning the death of eurydice, ary scheffer || euridice recedes into the underworld, enrico scuri || slaughterhouse-five, kurt vonnegut || all along the watchtower, supernatural || planet of love, richard siken || letters from medea, salma deera || romeo and juliet, william shakespeare || advanced thanatology, supernatural || the oresteia, aeschylus || orpheus and eurydice, carl goos || unkown || metamorphoses, ovid || carry on, supernatural || the death of orpheus, henry leopold levy || do not bring him water, caitlin scarano]

[moonisagremlin]

insane. TALK TO ME ABOUT YOUR HCS!! ( if you want to) i love spanish speaking mercs in general AWGH

ASDSFGGHGFGFDDDS @bimbombimbo LET ME GO FIND MY NOTES-

okay i found them :D keep in mind this is specifically about which Spain's regions they would be from (because, well, i'm spanish). Also, let's ignore TF2 takes place between 1969 - 1971 because, well, fascist dictatorship, y'know? (it is an interesting concept to further explore, but i'm not feeling like thinking about this rn. i'll make another post i think) ALSO these are mostly based around vibes and how i'm feeling (because headcanons are supposed to be fun).

Offense:

Scout - I couldn't decide between making him Madrileño (from Madrid) or Barceloní (from Barcelona) (but I honestly would ADORE making him from Barcelona so i'm most probably going for that one). I also couldn't choose to make him a cani or a pijo. (I am now realising the amounts of spanish slang i'm saying, so let me explain it to everyone who isn't from spain:

pijo means... umm, kinda like, spoiled rich kid who is kinda mean or an idiot. and cani means, umm... adidas tracksuit, cigarettes, alcohol, horrible music taste, being completely reckless, really disrespectful in general. idk, i think it is because both these kinds of people feel like thery're the best, like, they are really "chulos" and kinda brag about being bad people. i don't know it is so hard to explain slang, let me know if you kinda got the vibe that i'm explaining please thank you)

Soldier - Castellano-manchego. I will just say one thing: Don Quijote de la Mancha. If you don't know who this is, go read the book please, it is the best piece of literature ever, thank you.

Pyro - Extremeño or Murciano. A lot of people joke about Murcia not existing or being like, a Thaumiel SCP, and also about Extremadura being kinda weird(?. honestly, even i do not know that much about it, so yeah, i just think it is funny to make the character we know the least about in canon from the places that i know are kinda weird and unkown (unknown to me at least). I think I'm also leaning for Murcia more because my grandpa was from there and that's cool.

Defense:

Demoman - Gallego. I wanted to make him from Euskalerria, but I think Galicia is more similar to Scotland (and because doing a bomb joke is childish and they're not funny. people have died from terrorism and it is not something from a century ago, this is extremely recent). Anyways, both Scotland and Galicia have really green land, similar weather conditions, amazing culture, and are really unique in general. Also because my grandpa was from there and that's really cool.

Heavy - Vasco. I also didn't make Demoman basque because Heavy fits SO much better. It's, it's the vibes, man. I imagine he would have some trouble speaking spanish because he would be from such an isolated village in an already (geographically) isolated part of Spain that he would be kinda monolingual, mostly speaking basque and knowing some basic spanish. He would be SO connected with his culture, I swear I might do more research and do a whole post about the traditions he would like.

Engie - Andaluz. Andalucia is located in the south and the people there have really good vibes honestly. I think he fits because he's so nice and welcoming, and because I also think him being loud and having such a distinct accent would be amazing. And also I think he would love singing and playing and dancing flamenco. (UGHHHH I LOVE ALL OF THIS HEADCANONS I THINK I MIGHT DO A WHOLE AU DEDICATED TO THIS AAAAGAGAHAHAHHHHHHH)

Support:

Spy - This bastard is still giving me a headache. He's too french 😭. But seriously, I cannot choose to make him andorrano (and I know Andorra is a separate country from Spain but, idk), català (because at least ONE of the mercs was going to be from where I am from, y'know?) or make him catalan but specifically from la Vall d'Aran (a region where, apart from speaking spanish and catalan, aranès, a variation of the Occitan language, is spoken). Making him from la Vall d'Aran would be CRAZY because that would mean he speaks Spanish, Catalan, Aranese, AND PROBABLY FRENCH TOO BECAUSE IT IS RIGHT NEXT TO FRANCE. That would make him (almost) PLURILINGUAL since birth, and i think that is wayyy too cool. Also, IMAGINE IF SCOUT WAS FROM BARCELONA AND HE AND SPY COULD BOTH TALK IN CATALAN AND BOND THANKS TO THAT AND- IMAGINE THE DADSPY POTENTIAL AAAHAAAHAAAAAAAAAAA-

Sniper - Canario. He would be from the Canary islands because, yes. I don't really have a reason honestly, maybe similar climate to Australia? Or, idk, i think it would also be cool to make him have some kind of latin american ancestry because a lot of people from the Canary islands fled Spain during the Civil War and ended up in places like Mexico and Argentina and stuff, so that would be cool. Or I could make him straight up latino, which would fit him honestly. I don't really know, both options are really cool.

Medic - Mallorquí/Menorquí. From Islas Baleares in general. This is because A LOT of germans go on vacation there, to the point this is a huge meme in Spain. So yeah, I think it would be funny to make him balear with german ancestry I guess. He can speak spanish, german but also catalan (because catalan is also spoken there), but he has a really strong accent and sometimes Spy and Scout need to really focus on what he's saying to understand what he means. Seriously, if you hear MY western accent and compare it with a eastern balearic accent/dialect you would say they're NOT the same language because of how different it all sounds.

Bonus characters!

The Mann brothers, possibly the Admin?... blablabla, all of those people - Madrileños (from Madrid). The Mann brothers convinced Zepheniah to buy some land in the middle of Aragón and you know what happened.

Miss Pauling - Valenciana (from Valencia). Idk i don't wanna make everyone from Madrid y'know? And also guess what language she speaks apart from Spanish :)

Saxton Hale - Same thing as Sniper, I don't really know if he should be full latino or canario with latinamerican ancestry.

Merasmus - Idk. Portuguese? Andorran? Asturiano? Navarro? I don't know. Galician would be cool as fuck tho because there are a lot of legends and myths about magic and stuff and idk, i have a book about celtic witchcraft and i could read it i think.

Woah, this is a LONG post I am sorry. I hope you learned something about Spanish culture (which doesn't only surround about paellas and flamenco, please). And I hope I do some fanfics or fanart from this AU (can I call this an AU? i don't really know). And if anyone wants to adopt these headcanons or do a similar kind of post, you have my permission (even though you don't need to) and PLEASE, tag me if you make a fanart or something similar I would LOVE to see it <333

[darkcrownninja]

Star Wars HOTD AU

An AU where it is the HOTD setting with Star Wars characters. There's so many ideas that won't leave my mind. Like:

The jedi as dragon riders who protected the republic. Having the force and their dragons. With lightsabers being an equivalent to Valyrian steel swords.

Coruscant as King's Landing. With the king being replaced with the chancellor.

Each mayor planet being a kingdom with the lesser ones being cities.

Mandalore as Dorne, with their dragon killing beskar spears and hatred of the jedi. Having been able to resist conquest and refusing to join.

The unkown regions being the zone beyond the wall. Where sith magic and the darkside abound.

Plot wise I was thinking about how similar Daenerys and Luke are. Maybe Luke is the one that brings dragons back into the realm in a parallel to the ritual Daenerys did, only with Darth Vader, Sidious and himself instead of Khal Drogo, Mirri and Daenerys.

Or maybe we could see Anakin falling to the darkside and leading to the end of dragons and jedi alike.

There's so much that could be done with this idea, but i am curious as to what other people think.

[oceansssblue]

~[MAGICAL CREATURES SERIES] –THE BAD BATCH AU

INCLUDING:

1. "DROPS OF WATER" TECH/SIREN!OFC 💔💖🔥

QUIETLY HURT BY HIS BROTHERS WORDS, TECH TAKES A SMALL BOAT AND DECIDES TO SPEND THE AFTERNOON EXPLORING THE COAST OF PABU. THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE WATER THAT DISTRACTS HIM FAR MORE THAN WHAT HE WAS ORIGINALLY AIMING FOR.

Will post Link here:

Extra:

Link to a request were Tech is also a Mer! Fluff&tinybitofangst&sprinkleofsmut.

2. "JUST AS SHARP" CROSSHAIR/VAMPIRE!OFC 🔥

WITH THE INEVITABLE MONOTONY OF LIVING A HUNDRED LIFES, NAKHTI VALERI HAS A HARD TIME FINDING SOMETHING THAT SPIKES HER INTEREST; YET SOMEHOW, HER EYES LATCH ON THE GREY-HAIRED SOLDIER AS SOON AS HE STEPS INTO THE ROOM.

Will post Link here:

3. "LIKE YOUR SHINE" ECHO/FAIRY!OFC 💖

FAIRIES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN NATURALLY ATTRACTED TO SPARKLING PRETTY THINGS; JEWELRY, THE REFLECTION OF THE SUN IN THE WATER, THE DELICATE WINGS OF BUTTERFLIES AND FIREFLIES... WELCOMING THE PECULIAR GROUP OF SOLDIERS IN THEIR FOREST, BLUEBELL FINDS A SHINE THAT CATCHES HER EYE.

Will post Link here:

4. "THE SMELL OF FIRE" HUNTER/PHOENIX!OFC 💖

THERE'S SOMETHING STRANGE HAPPENING IN THE SMALL MOON PLACED ON THE EDGES OF THE GALAXY WITH THE UNKOWN REGIONS. THEIR PEOPLE ARE RESERVED AND SECRETIVE; TRYING TO APPEAR NORMAL, THOUGH HUNTER HEAVILY SUSPECTS THEY AREN'T. HIS NOSE EASILY PICKS UP THE SMELL OF ASH AND FIRE.

6PART STORY: FINISHED

Link here:

5. "NOT A DOG" WRECKER/WEREWOLF!OFC 💔💖

AFTER ONE OF THE WORST DAYS OF HER LIFE, AN INJURED VALERIE GETS RESCUED BY ONE OF THE KINDEST HUMANS SHE HAS EVER SEEN. IF THE BLONDE KID AND THE VERY BIG SOLDIER THINK SHE'S A REGULAR WOLF WHILE THEY KEEP HER HIDDEN AND SAVE IN THEIR SHIP... OH WELL, SHE'S CONTENT TO PLAY THE PART UNTIL SHE'S HEALED AND READY TO LEAVE.

2 PART STORY: FINISHED

Link here:

[simplyapinkflower]

The Ladybug Kwami

Name: Tikki

Concept: Good Fortune and Creation

Status: Duo Tier

Miraculous: Earings (Transformed; Black polka dots on red surface. Detransformed; Black polka dots on red surface. Camouflaged; Can change any shape or form to match the holder.)

Transformation Phrase: "Tikki, Spots On!" "Tikki, Spots Off!"

Alias:

Xīn yí (meaning happiness)

Personality: Tikki is a rather calm and collected Kwami while also being optimistic, kind, and encouraging. She is also very understanding towards others and loves giving her champions pet names.

Appearance:

Kwami - Tikki is a four inch tall crimson colored Kwami with one big black dot on her forehead and each side of her head, while three smaller black dots are under her big blue eyes, she has a sweet smile, her paws are red that fade into black. She has a pair of soft pink elytra which are seen when she is flying, when not they have a protective cover of red and five black dots, two on the top and bottom with one in the middle. She has two long antennae, which fade into black and curl into love hearts.

Human - Tikki has pale pinkish skin, with red cheeks to substitute blush, and cherry red lips that look glossy. She has loose strawberry blonde hair with threaded strands that frame her face while they form small curls similar to love hearts. She has round blue eyes with three beauty marks underneath her eyes. Her breasts and lower region are colored black (Kwami's do not have genitalia). Tikki can create a variety of clothes (Hanfu, Kimono, Sundress, Rococo Ballgown, Bikini. etc.)

God - (Unkown)

Eldritch - (Unkown)

Weapon: Yo-Yo (Provides communication, messaging, location device, purification device. etc.)

Food: Preferably sugary sweets, mostly chocolate chip cookies, marshmallows, sugar. etc.

Power:

High -

Creation (Allows Champion to will or create anything into existence.)

Cure: Miraculous (The cure allows the Ladybug Champion to fix all damage, debris, death, injuries caused by a magical force, the champion calls out Miraculous and provides it with their name, Ladybug, Mister bug. etc.)

Purification (Purifies all darkened energy.)

Mid -

Elytra (Allows Champion to create wings and fly.)

Bloom (Allows the champion to create a bloom, which is a normal person gifted power to fight alongside and protect the ladybug champion.)

Low -

Lucky Charm (Allows Champion to create one random object that can provide and help in any situation.)

[profsilverleaf]

Pokeblogging Archive: Area Zero Survey Corps

figured it would be worthwhile to compile the story

relevant tags (other than usual pokeblogging tags): #area zero survey corps, #the mystery of area zero, #paldea road trip!

I'll do my best to include everything and have it all in a proper timeline. They/Them pronouns will be used unless I'm absolutely sure what they use.

Also keep in mind that some of the links start the same. That is because they are different threads that spawned from the same post.

The Start

Grace (@trainergraceneedstherapy) put the group together in this post

Siren (@moonrazemalestorm) (who is stationed in another region) got a drone in this post. They fly the drone into Area Zero. They see a Flutter Mane. But Something destroyed the drone. They plan to go to Area Zero their self with Lunala

Grace is surprised at how many of the group are from Unova

Professor Amo (@fucktherulesletsseetheruins) joins the AZ research corps. She is friends with Grace and is also one of her mentors.

Paldea Road Trip Arc

Lori (@legendofzacian) wants to crash on Grace's couch for awhile. They take the train to Paldea. Grace picks them up from the train station. A Zorua gives them some trouble.

Lori and Grace hang out, they plan to visit the crater, they talk about inviting Amo to their excursion. They also share their worry about Team Nightmare as well as Amo asking too many questions about Hisui.

Devi (@professor-devious) joins the mission. Devi, Lori and Grace joke around about going to the crater.

Will (@challengedbywiley) joins the crew

Silverleaf (me) joins the party

Silverleaf arrives at Grace's house. Devi arrives at Paldea and Miku (@champion-class-hatsune-miku) asks about what everybody is up too. Lori appreciates Paldea's love of the occult.

Siren arrives at Paldea, also planning to search the crater with the rest of the team.

Post about the history of Area Zero and what is known about it and the Paradox Mons along with theories regarding it. Lori also adds her own comments. As well as another person's theories and writing about the crater and paradox mons.

A post about "ballin in the crater"

Siren has set up base in Research Station 3, they have run into a Flutter Mane, and are getting along. Flutter mane Info Siren wrote.

[name unkown] (@blueflare7) jumps into the crater (or at least I think this is them).

Vanilla (@humming-pokemon-helpers) asks Grace about the AZ Survey Corps plans. Someone is concerned about the legality of the team's mission.

blueflare7 is in trouble, they are getting chased by a Paradox Pokemon.

Siren visits the crater and discovers a new Paradox mon.

"The dreamer of truth and ideals" (aka N) (aka @bittersweetformula) is concerned about the Area Zero trip.

Something goes wrong, connection with blueflare is lost, they need help. Amo calls for the group to get together for a rescue mission! N tells everybody to be careful. N decided to head in himself.

Siren wonders if keeping Paradox Mons is illegal. Siren finds the knocked down drone and checks the last thing it recorded. Siren wonders about the Ultra Wormholes opening up in Paldea.

Blueflare Rescue Mission!

Grace, Lori, Devi, and Amo head into the crater. They land.

Quill (@quillpokebiology) has been wanting to join the mission and has ventured in Area Zero before. Sean (@trainer-sean) tries to dissuade them from sneaking in again but they still have plans to get in.

N talks to Team Nightmare about what Grace and her friends are doing. N asks them to send their grunts to scare the team off from the creator.

Devi's Zorua fights an Iron Jugulis, it gets defeated and captured by Devi. But then Sean shows up with a group of Professors and League Officials to stop the group. Everyone gets scattered running away.

Blueflare has contacted Amo again. Blueflare is surprised that so many people are trying to rescue them. Blueflare gets into more trouble and Amo runs off to help them. Blueflare gets injured. Amo finds blueflare and protects them. Blueflare's Charizard helps.

Lori laments that their camera isn't working so they are drawing the Paradox mons they see instead. Amo makes a comment about one of them. Will catches wind of what's going on and heads over to join the crew. Amo and blueflare talk about they are going to do now.

Meanwhile... Devi decides to hang in front of a cave to wait for the others. Lori joins her. But about that time they find out from a message from Amo that Grace is acting weird. Sean tries to help snap Grace out of it but it doesn't work.

Blueflare indicates they have an idea but dismisses it, Amo wants to know what it was. Turns out blueflare has minimal teleporting powers. But they can't put it to much use with the storm. If they can find blueflare's Flygon though... it could help.

Some other people catch wind of the chaos going on. Including Siren who was sleeping in.

From Sean's reasoning, they and Amo figure out that Grace is the Hero of Hisui. Sean decides to try to call Rayquaza for help. Sean warns to be on the lookout for Rayquaza to Will.

Grace is hallucinating, she sees Volo. Her ghost friend that haunts her phone takes over her phone. There's talk about Grace losing a friend the last time she was in the crater. Vinnie (the phone ghost) finds out about Sean's Rayquaza. Rayquaza then appears and is pissed. Luckily Sean has a masterball.

Lori and N talk, N heads over to get Lori and Devi from where they are.

Devi has caught an Iron Bundle with plans to give it to a friend. Devi potentially asks Quill if they had any Iron Bundle info (but I don't know if it's them who asked this or not)

Zekrom flies right past Amo and blueflare. Amo thinks they should chase after it. Blueflare agrees.

N arrives to pick up Lori and Devi and Sean as well. They all take off to try to find Grace. Blueflare and Amo catch up on the Zekrom situation. Lori and Sean feel awkward, Devi is doing barrel rolls. Lori is questioning why N didn't do anything sooner.

Vinnie is worried about Grace.

[trio-of-chaos]

//ooc post

RANDOM LORE DROP

Hello everyone. This post is being made cause there are some specific things about Amy's family lore that I don't think I'll be able to bring up in normal posts and stuff.

You guys can either simply act like your character doesn't know any of this or act like they talked about this in one specific day that wasn't posted about here/talked about in text messages and stuff

Well, here we go

tw child neglect, child abuse, drug mention

GRANDPA

Full name: Leonard Garland

Dad of Audrey Garland, Amy's grandpa

his team consisted of:

Nemesis, the Hydreigon

Blondie, the alolan Dugtrio

Teddy, the Bewear

Torch, the Armarouge

Mountain, the Abomasnow

Scuba, the Araquanid

he was an amazing battler with a pretty nice win streak of 143 battles before the incident.

he gave Amy Ness when she was a kid not only to give his granddaughter a pokemon, but to guarantee her the farm, since Ness was the only one who knew where the keys to the farm where besides Leonard himself

his soul still walks around the farm, watching over Amy. Krakatoa is the only who can somehow see him. He helps Amy with her help.

MOTHER

Full name: Audrey Garland

Mother of Amy.

her team consisted of:

Ghost, the Shiinotic

Pendulum, the Hypno

Spark, the Dedenne

Master, the Malamar

she got pregnant in a one night stand and got married to her husband because of that.

she hated Amy a lot for "messing up with her life"

if it wasn't for Leonard, she would have aborted

she would try to kill Amy in a variety of ways, but always trying to make it look like an accident

she would constantly neglect her own child, refuse to do basic stuff for her like feeding, helping her clean her stuff, teach her the basics.

she is a doctor, to be more specific, a cardiologist

she is also the reason Amy hates hospitals, since she would sometimes bring Amy with her. Every time this happened, Audrey would do everything she could to make Amy as scared as she could, making her surgeries as bloody as she could, showing Amy dead patients and forcing her to touch them when no one was looking.

she had a pretty creepy colleague that she'd often ask to take care of Amy. Audrey knew exactly what her colleague was doing to her child. She never cared.

she is still alive

FATHER

last but not least, we have...

wait, what's his name?

he changed it a lot throughout the years, but Amy knew him as Kevin.

his team was:

Coin, the Perrseker

Bank, the Grumpig

Rich, the Gimmighoul

he was a criminal. He'd do anything if you paid him and would sometimes commit crimes himself without the payment.

He killed, robbed, got involved with gangs

he was also addicted to drugs like cocaine and meth

the only reason he married Audrey was because she was rich

that day where they met was the first day they had seen each other

they talked through messages for a long time and he was ready to block her after that, but he didn't after he found out she was a doctor

Audrey knew about his criminal history, but she didn't care

what she didn't know was about his sexual history instead

even after marrying Audrey, Kevin had a simple way of acting. He'd go to other regions for "work", find a woman that looked like she had something for him to steal, use his charms on her, get her to bed, have fun with her, steal her belongings then disappear from her life

this worked well for him until one of this girls ended up being the sister of his main drug dealer. She went to visit her brother as he went there to buy more. She recognized him instantly and her brother shot him as soon as she told him who he was.

He was found dead not long after

his funeral was small, with only Audrey's family minus Amy, since Amy used his death to run away, and his family was unkown

[palominodragon]

List of all the novels, novellas, audiobooks, comics, and fanfiction I read or listened to in 2022.

This is the second year I've kept a month-by-month list. Makes me feel like I've accomplished something and also helps prevent those moments of "I read a really cool book/fanfic but I can't remember what it was! DX"

In 2021, my favorite was Legendborn by Tracy Deonn. With the 2022 list, it's harder to pick a favorite, but I think it's tied between some of the scifi I read - the Murderbot series, Iron Widow, Project Hail Mary, and Space Opera. They were all so fun and all had very different tones. I also loved Naomi Novik's Scholomance trilogy and Tracy Deonn's Bloodmarked (the sequel to my 2021 favorite).

Here's the full list:

January novels/novellas/audiobooks: All Systems Red - Martha Wells Wise Child - Monica Furlong (reread) Artificial Condition - Martha Wells Rogue Protocol - Martha Wells Exit Strategy - Martha Wells The Luminous Dead - Caitlin Starling (reread/for book club) Network Effect - Martha Wells Where The Drowned Girls Go - Seanan McGuire Fugitive Telemetry - Martha Wells Juniper - Monica Furlong (reread)

February novels/audiobooks: The Last Graduate - Naomi Novik Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao (for book club) The House In The Cerulean Sea - TJ Klune February fanfiction: Lovely, Dark, and Deep (Reylo, 4317 words) - junkyardjeditrash

March novels/audiobooks: Dweller On The Threshold - Skyla Dawn Cameron Into The Drowning Deep - Mira Grant (reread/for bookclub) Wanderers - Chuck Wendig (reread)

March fanfiction: Gratify (Reylo, 8132 words) - Anonymous

April novels/novellas/audiobooks: The Magicians - Lev Grossman The Black Stallion - Walter Farley Blindsight - Peter Watts The Black Stallion Returns - Walter Farley Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith - Matthew Stover (reread) Star Wars: Lost Stars - Claudia Gray (reread) Star Wars: Bloodline - Claudia Gray (reread)

April fanfiction: what's not given (Reylo, 12140 words) - Vittra Time (Reylo, 52536 words) - koderenn

May novels/novellas/audiobooks: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir (for bookclub) The Island Stallion - Walter Farley The Black Stallion's Filly - Walter Farley Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir (REREAD, IT WAS SO GOOD) Son of the Black Stallion - Walter Farley The Black Stallion and Satan - Walter Farley The Black Stallion's Blood Bay Colt - Walter Farley The Island Stallion's Fury - Walter Farley The Black Stallion Revolts - Walter Farley The Black Stallion's Sulky Colt - Walter Farley

June novels/novellas/audiobooks: Legendborn - Tracy Deonn (reread/for bookclub) The Scorpio Races - Maggie Stiefvater (reread) Feed - Mira Grant (reread)

June fanfiction: The Unkown Regions (Reylo, 13596 words) - constant-reylo Starstuff (Reylo, 40815 words) - voicedimplosives (reread) Silence (Reylo, 85220 words) - Koderenn

July novels/novellas/audiobooks: Deadline - Mira Grant (reread) Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas (for bookclub)

July fanfiction: Mine (Janeway/Kashyk, 5602 words) - Caladenia Bad Ensign (Star Trek Voyager, no pairings, 1643 words) - Curator Bad, Bad Crewman Janeway (Janeway/Chakotay, 3618 words) - sara_sedai Not So Bad Tuvok (Star Trek Voyager, no pairings, 1820 words - Caladenia It's Good to be Bad Chakotay (Janeway/Chakotay, 2313 words) - Manalyzer fics by Lexus (Beautiful_Ruin): Bad Borg (Janeway/Seven, 1966 words) Bad Drone (Janeway/Seven, 1694 words) Bad Pilot (Janeway/Tom, 1694 words) Bad Inspector (Kaneway/Kashyk, 3531 words)

the choice is yours (Edissy, 488 words) - blueyedgurl like a heartbeat drives you mad (Edissy, 4843 words) - redbelles Rainbow in the Dark (Edissy, 5560 words) - Seicchanart aesthetic chills (Edissy, 51623 words) - slowlimbs

August novels/novellas/audiobooks: Seasonal Fears - Seanan McGuire A Girl and Five Brave Horses - Sonora Carver Blackout - Mira Grant (reread) What Moves The Dead - T. Kingfisher Shadow of the Sith - Adam Christopher Space Opera - Catherynne M. Valente (for bookclub)

August short stories: Open House on Haunted Hill - John Wiswell (for bookclub)

August fanfiction: in the second drawer on the right (Edissy, 2035 words) - Seicchanart

September novels/novellas/audiobooks: The Princess And The Scoundrel - Beth Revis The Goddess Of Nothing At All - Cat Rector Space Opera - Catherynne M. Valente (REREAD because FEELS ;_;) The Island Stallion Races - Walter Farley Black Horses For The King - Anne McCaffrey (reread) The Black Stallion's Courage - Walter Farley The Courtship of Princess Leia - Dave Wolverton

September manga: Red River - Chie Shinohara (volumes 1-7, reread)

October novels/novellas/audiobooks: The Golden Enclaves - Naomi Novik The Black Stallion Mystery - Walter Farley The Black Stallion and Flame - Walter Farley The Black Stallion Challenged! - Walter Farley The Black Stallion's Ghost - Walter Farley The Black Stallion and the Girl - Walter Farley The Black Stallion Legend - Walter Farley (WTF was that ending???) The Thousand Eyes - A.K. Larkwood

October manga: Red River- Chie Shinohara (volumes 8-13, reread)

October fanfiction: Ceasefire (Kylux, 100408 words) - hollycomb (reread) So Now Get Up (Reylo, 5553 words) - Lilander Carry Your Throne (Reylo, 3676 words) - bitterbones

November novels/novellas/audiobooks: Colman -Monica Furlong (reread) The Twisted Ones - T. Kingfisher (reread) The Invisible Life of Addie Larou - V.E. Schwab (for bookclub) Go Hex Yourself - Jessica Clare

November manga: Red River - Chie Shinohara (volumes 14-26, reread)

November fanfiction: hand in unrebloggable hand (tumblr/twitter, 5,357 words) - drxxmingofblue (it was freaking hilarious) sonámbula (Shuri/Namor, 4180 words) - lunarmoonbeam The Importance of Fun (Pitch Black/Jack Frost, 4700 words) - LinesAndColors

December novels/audiobooks: Bloodmarked - Tracy Deonn Moll Flanders - Daniel Defoe Prince Lestat - Anne Rice

December manga: Red River - Chie Shinohara (volumes 27-28, NOT reread! apparently I never bought the last two volumes =o)

December fanfiction: Under the Ruins of a Walled City (Kylux, 477556 words) - hollycomb (reread) Like Young Gods (Reylo, 84000 words) - disasterisms (reread) To Kingdom Come (Reylo, 145765 words) - disasterisms (reread)

[skullboneandunown]

Midnight Sons profile : Man-Thing

Name: Theodore 'Ted' Sallis/ Man-Thing

Age: unkown (presumably mid-late 40s)

Species: human(formally) human-pokemon hybrid

Last known location: the marshlands of the Sinnoh region

Once upon a time, Theodore was a biochemist from Unova who was trying to create a serum that could speed up the growth of plants in dry, arid areas and areas at risk of deforestation. After several years, his research and testing hit a roadblock, being unable to fund his endeavors lead to him turning to desperation and reaching out to organizations that could potentially fund his research. One such organization was Team Rocket. They themselves were seeking to create a supersoldier serum in order for them to stake their claim as a global threat. Seeing potential for the serum Sallis was making for a hybrid supersoldier, Team Rocket accepted his plea for funding on the condition he relocate to the Sinnoh region under the assumption of his isolation would help him work in peace. While suspicious of the relocation, Theodore began resuming research nonetheless into his serum. He began splicing the dna of grass and poison type pokemon into the serum in hopes of creating plants that could adapt to any environmental factors on the fly, and after a few years, he successfully creates the serum he sought.

However, he overheard some of his benefactors talking about the true reason behind his research, and began burning all his papers, destroying any trace to keep them from abusing it for their own gain. He flees into the marsh with the only vial of his serum, his former employers chasing him down to reclaim the fruits of his labor. Having no other choice, he injects himself with the serum before hw was shot and falls into the marsh. Sinking into the waters, his body begins to change. He absorbed the plant matter from around him, and emerging from the water as a seven foot tall green monster. Man-Thing.

Unlike most versions of Man-Thing across the multiverse, this version maintains his humanity in his mutated form. Boasting superhuman strength, stamina and durability, he easily dispatched his pursuers, before disappearing into the marsh, becoming something of a local cryptid to the people of Sinnoh.

As a result of his mutation, Man-Thing has the capability of using many, if not all grass and poison type moves such as vine wip, leaf blade, frenzy plant, toxic, etc. Despite his frightening visage, Theodore is surprisingly a kind, gentle soul. At first he hated his appearance, but over time coming to terms with his new life, finding peace with the fact that he can influence plants to grow by simply willing them to.

[singularsaurus]

For decades NASA and other space agencies have been sending probes to the planet Mars. One image of the Martian surface, a region called Cydonia, showed a monumental form that resembled a face. It was casually dismissed as pareidolia.

It's easy to dismiss this as pareidolia, until you realize it's right near a monumental skull, and a five sided pyramid, among other interesting forms.

In 1998 the European Space Agency captured a superior image of the area making use of some heat sensing technology to produce an image without shadows. The face appears to have been damaged, probably by an attempt to do away with it. Hiding these types of things has always been very important to somebody.

If you download Google Earth there is a little orange Saturn Icon at the top where you can switch over to Google Mars. If you try to look at this spot called Cydonia (coordinates in above image) you will notice a suspiciously convenient blurry smear over the Skull, and a dumb icon over the face. The pyramid was left alone, probably because it's not as obvious since it is partially buried.

Here is the censored skull closer with the partially buried five sided pyramid.

Looking at this skull below it may first remind you of a human skull. However, notice that the eye sockets are perfectly circular, whereas ours are kind of rounded squares. There is one of their skulls jutting up from the Martian dirt in this image taken by a NASA rover. Their noses are small and they have wide mouths.

On this stone carving below, you can see they must have had enough nose flesh to sport a nose ring. Also note the wide blunt toothed mouth.

Enhanced image of the carved stone head.

The image of the stone carving came from Jet Propulsion Laboratory's own website. I used to have the exact URL but I don't know what I did with it. If you root around you might be able to find some of this stuff yourself. Below is something that might be a helmet, or a damaged skull perhaps.

Below is an object that looks like it could not occur naturally.

Mars has two moons that look like asteroids. They are called Phobos and Deimos (Panic and Fear, Ares's sons) If they were passing asteroids that were captured by Mars's gravity, they would have long elliptical orbits, but instead they have circular ones. The European Space Agency determined in about 2008-2010 that Phobos is 25 to 33 percent hollow. I suspect it is an asteroid that was brought near Mars to be mined.

Phobos

In the 1980s the Soviet Union sent a space probe to Phobos, and it was abruptly disabled, or possibly destroyed by something as it neared Phobos. Russia tried to send a rover to Phobos in the 2010s. It was called, Phobos Grunt, meaning Phobos Ground, but it was disabled by a meddlesome device from some mysterious country and got stuck orbiting Earth until it's fuel supply was exhausted.

Also important to note, is that Mars has extensive subterranean tubes running all over the place. Portions of the tubes are exposed in some areas. Were they made by some tunnel boring machine? I've heard it said they are big enough to drive SUVs through.

Here is an image I put together to show the difference in Human skulls compared to Martian skulls, also with the object I think is a helmet, and the carved stone head.

Why is it so important to someone to keep all these types of things unkown to people? Could it be, because the faction who ruled Mars when it was destroyed are active here on Earth right now? Them being the same faction that has reverence for pentagons and five pointed stars? Maybe, they don't want it known that their activities are already responsible for the total decimation of at least one living world. How many other tomb worlds might be orbiting around other stars because of them?

I suspect the species that the carved stone head depicts still exists in abundance in our galaxy. Mars's destruction as a living world was the result of a massive attack utilizing super weapons deployed from spacecraft, not a natural cataclysm. This occurred a very long time ago (pre-dating Earth's dinosaurs), but that same conflict is ongoing. I speculate time travel may be a factor in the activities of this species, because half a billion years seems too long for any conflict to drag on no matter what technology is being used. All of the Mars and Phobos images I used here are from old NASA and ESA missions that pre-date artificial intelligence generated images.

Sources: "Death on Mars" by John Brandenburg "After the Martian Apocalypse" by Mac Tonnies

Image Sources: NASA European Space Agency

[mysticalbookkeeper]

Decided to draw something different. Pokémon! My two favourites. Totodile (arguably the best starter of all time. I just love it, it’s so cute). And Gengar, because he is awesome. Before anyone asks, no it’s not the same Gengar from Red/Blue rescue team. But this is based off of that, because Pokémon Mystery Dungeon has been my favourite spin off series ever since I played the first game.

I suppose I should do a backstory about them, yes? Well, Gengar is an obvious prankster who loves to prank others. But as a ghost type, he gets mistreated, because he is what he is. Everyone views ghost types as shifty and untrustworthy. Why that is, no one knows, but Gengar has been on everyone’s radar, even when he’s not doing anything.

The Totodile, called Aura (for now) used to be a human, from the Sinnoh region who moved from Unova, so everyone kinda treated her differently as well, being the new girl. She’s shy, a bit clumsy and gets easily spooked. And even humans were taught that ghost Pokémon were to be feared and hated. Her perspective changed when she first met Gengar who helped her when he had found her with bruises from an unkown battle in a forest, when she first transformed.

Both Gengar and Totodile are explorers, exploring new places and a mysterious disappearance of the mythical Pokémon Arceus, and trying to find why everyone has been put in an endless slumber from which there seems to be no cure from. So they will meet lots of Pokémon both familiar and new to get to the bottom of the world’s current crisis and save both the human and Pokémon world from destruction.

[magic-is-something-we-create]

Weh I realized too late you'd already answered about magic ink! Instead, what about holidays? Does your world have them? If so, what and how are they celebrated? If not, why not?

Hi!! No worries, I'm glad you saw the other asks before I had the chance to tag you in them!! <3<3<3

I've only got a few holidays figured out in the Ehlverse, and only one or two of them are celebrated beyond the Maelands!!

One of those is Springtide, and so far it's celebrated in the Maelands and Emarye on the spring equinox. For the Maelands, it's just one more excuse to throw a festival for the combined efforts of the goddesses Erra and Delta (specifically their domains of Nature and Time, respectively), and its significance basically boils down to low key worship and heralding in the fresh leaves. It's one of the lesser holidays, and often gets overlooked beyond "oh hey, festival food and discounts on bouquets", if that helps convey the attitude towards it.

In Emarye, Springtide isn't the midpoint of spring - it's the beginning, and for many, it comes after months of sparse or even nonexistent sunlight. It's a much bigger celebration of the warmer months and the end to the Winterlong Night, especially in the regions north of the Nightwoods, and while it's also a celebration of Erra and Delta (though Delta is referred to as the Fury), it's also a celebration of Hio, which is Emarye's demigod representation/origin story of the sun. (Fun fact, I wrote a short about him around this time in 2021!)

Some other holidays around the Ehlverse include:

- The Days of Change, celebrated in Deltierin on every equinox and solstice, with similar reasoning/meaning to Springtide and with special emphasis on Delta's domain of Change over her domain of Time, and for Erra's domain of the Unkown over Nature. They feature lots of pennants, and each season is associated with one of the other four goddesses in turn (Lib (Death, Art, History, Love) in winter, Vii (Life, Parenthood, Fate, Language) in spring, Luma (Siblinghood, Legends, Vigor/Youth, Battle) in summer, and Venn (Expertise, Ingenuity, Curiosity, Creation) in autumn.) - Aree's Festival of Light, an event that lasts all summer and celebrates Luma as the patron of Light Mages and entertainers. This one features paper lanterns hung all over the city and the expansion of the night market from the trunk of the Godtree all the way out to the harbor, always kept in the shade to adhere to the "night" aspect, but open all day during the festival. - Aree's Festival of Venn, the last night of the Festival of Light before the night market retreats back to the trunk and goes back to its nocturnal schedule, celebrated with fireworks and other displays of magic to honor Her patronage of magic and mastery. - And, finally, some places celebrate the anniversary of Tieling of Nimia's ascension to the throne! He doesn't encourage or particularly like this practice, because by nature it's also a celebration of the Fall of Fahrial, which he and many others believe should warrant a day of mourning rather than revelry. But in practice, he's found that making that a government holiday automatically makes it cause for celebration, so it's one that people choose to partake in themselves rather than getting a day off of work or school.

Thanks again for the question!! <3<3<3

[schwarz-san]

Pokemon x DP

[He's gonna catch'em all cause he's, Danny Phantom!]

Danny return to Veilstone city and head straight to the pokemon center with a premier ball at hand.

Fitting, considering what the pokemon inside is.

"–here's your pokemon,"

He smiled at the nurse at the counter, "Thanks Nurse Joy."

The nurse smiled back at him, "You're welcome! Though I must say I never seen a Zorua looked like that. Is it perhaps a regional variant?"

Danny grinned and winked at the nurse, "'ya bet it is, I can't tell where it comes from though."

True enough, its not like he knew exactly where it comes from. Its just suddenly appeared and ferally attacked him out of nowhere after all due to being spook and confused.

Though he did felt something strange did happened araound when the zorua appeared.

"That's fine, have a nice day!"

With that he went outside with his newly caught Hisuian Zorua.

---

In a clearing just near the road and the bewilderness, Danny sat on a fallen log as he let out his newly caught starter pokemon.

The 'mon materialize in a flash or red light from the premier ball.

Now that he think about it, Pokeballs are so interesting, it reminds him of the Fenton thermos, just in sphere shape and more user friendly.

(He'll need to disassemble them in the future, you know for research purposes.)

He inspect the hisuian zorua in front of him. It stare back at him with a expression that looks like a mix of droopy and sad. Though he could clearly tell that its wary of him.

He wondered how the pokemon got here.

Considering that there aren't suppose to be anymore of them around in Sinnoh and in the present time. (If you don't count the Scarlet and Violet DLC that is)

He then remembered that strange something that happened when the zorua appeared before. He felt the space time distort just a bit around the area which would imply that his new partner is actually space-time displaced.

(Having dominion over space, being around clocwork and that one time Dan escape the thermos a while after that stupid asteroid happened makes danny sensitive to Space and Time itself. And thats not even counting the fact thst he is The High King of The Infinite Realms.)

"Hello, I'm Danny."

The Zorua blinked at him.

"We may have started at the wrong footing, sorry about that, but its nice to meet you. I hope we can be friends."

It tilted his head sideways, frowning a little as it take on its surrounding.

"Zorr…?"

Ancients, its adorable.

He scratched the back of his head and smiled sheepishly at the 'mons question.

"Yeah, about that, I don't really know either. Though don't worry! I'll look in to it in the future I promise! but yeah, you're probably stuck here with me for a while. Sorry."

It drooped its head down, sad that its stuck in an unkown place with a literal stranger.

Seeing its sad expression, danny move closer, carefully crouching down in order to not spook it and gently pet the zorua in the head.

It leaned to his hand a little, its fur is like cloud, fluffy and whispy.

"Aww, don"t be sad. I'll take care of you in the mean time, i promise. "

They turn their head side ways before reluctantly giving in to the cold touch of danny's hand. Its nice, it reminds them of the cold from where it lived.

"Anyway, i bet your hungry fromeverythng that happened. Want to eat?"

It perks at the mention of food and danny grind at how adorable it is.

"Though first, like a famous professor once said; Are you a boy or a girl?"

---

its been a week since he have keith (its awkward to just call him zorua over and over again to be honest, he also seems to like the name as well) and he started to warmed up to him within those days.

And, yes. He's a boy.

Also, he apparently liked ecto contaminated foods.

(Watching hunt down sentient hot dogs is too fun. Keith aslo seems to enjoy hunting them as well.)

During the past few days training with keith, he noticed how ghost type energy actually seems to be a form of very very diluted ectoplasm.

So diluted it barely even register to his ghost senses if he doesn't focus.

In fact, the only reason he noticed at all is because Keith is absorbing the ambient ecto Danny radiates, raising keith's ecto level and purity in the process.

It also became pretty obvious due to his ghost attack getting a more and more neon and radioactive glow opposed to it being black and purple hue made of dilluted ecto and shadows the more exposure he got from Danny.

About training, Keith was really hard to convince. So much so that he had to bribed him with ecto-contaminated food just to agree from the start. The only reason keith continue with the training even with the promised food was due to the result of the said training.

(If he also became more healthy looking compared to the typical lethargic look most Hisuian Zorua does then its just bonus)

Danny ducked under a [Ecto Claw] enhanced pounced (Formerly known as Keith's [Shadow Claw] that doesn't really count as 'Shadow' anymore with the high purity Ecto it has compared to the typical dilluted ecto other pokemon ghost attack has), he went intagible into underground and appeared to the other side of the clearing. He fired a Ectopus level ectoblast to which Keith follows Danny's lead and go intangible underground before appearing the trunk of a tree near danny, brandishing his glowing fangs as he tried hitting Danny with a [bite]. Danny block the [bite] attack by fending off Keith with his arm thats covered with gauntlet made of Ecto Ice.

By pokemon rules, Dark type should be very effective against Ghost type. However, after some observation, Danny figured out that the reason Dark type (In which Danny noticed to be in fact, is actually a filtered Demonic energy minus majority of its usual corrupting evil traits) is effective against Ghost types was due to the fact that Ghost TE (Type Energy, the correct term apparently. He checked.) Is a very dulited Ectoplasm, which makes its structure very very fragile.

Then in turn, makes it easier for the Dark TE powered Moves and techniques to tore them apart due to the Dark type being closely tied to the concept of Death.

Only the Dead could touch the Dead after all.

(Though usually, Demons feared anything related to the Ghost Zone as they couldn't really compared to typical ghost and spirit that were intangible and being invisible to the naked eyes. Add the fact that Realm Ghost are typically immune to most form of magic known that aren't laced or powered with Ectoplasm and the fact that Ectoplasm is notoriously hard to resource, produce and harvest… weeeeell, there is a reason why many creation gods feared the Infinite realms.)

(To be honest, at this point. Danny is sure that only the [Great Old Ones] as well as [Kwamis] are the only ones of the few that could casually get allong with them. Even One Above All and the other Singularites are wary of them. Especially Danny whenever a Metaversal meeting was called every now and then.)

Its the same with dragon being effective against its own.

Back to Keith, he still trying to tore Danny's limb with a [Bite] attack, thinking its would be very effective.

He keepon gnawing, again and again and again.

At some point, he's just hanging on his arm and ferally nomming at his ice like popsicles visibly enjoying the impromtu treat.

Ancients, he's so feral and adorable he loves it.

They match.

They bonded like that for the next few days. Training, eating and sight seeing the City, the tourist spots and the nearby forest before Danny decided that Keith's Ecto purity should be enough for a ecto blast.

After a bit of practiced, keith finally managed to fire off a weak blast from his mouth that reminds danny of a Hyperbeam mixed with Dark pulse. Just in color of neon purple and pink.

Danny grins and cheer in joy, lifting the 'mon to hugged him as he spins the fox while floating.

Being happy on finally getting the Ecto Blast right, Keith fired of another one.

It hits a nearby tree as its branch fell off.

They then heard a yelp and a groan as the branch hit someone.

Oops.

---

Paul is having a nice day.

A little nervous but still having a nice day.

Reggie somehow conviced him to take a vacation and maybe start off on a fresh journey with a fresh team.

(Just like a certain someone from Kanto does all the time)

He just recently caught a Shinx as part of the said fresh team.

It look tame and not as tough as most of his preferred catch but Reggie somehow conviced him to keep the cub. It didn't help that Ash (he got there somehow, he doesn't know how or why, he just… did.) Also manage to convince him somehow that it would be a nice change if Paul tried a different approach in training from his usual style and regimen.

It was hard at first and the him from the past would have called and asked his current self if he is out of his mind but… Paul changed. Its been years, and while he wouldn't really call himself a nice person, he wasn't as bad as before.

Its nice. Somehow.

No schedule. No pressure. Just going with the flow.

Its actually kind of refreshing.

…until he heared a attack in coming, bright purple light show and a branch hit his head.

He yelped in pain as he got hit.

All he knew is darkness after that.

---

A part three! And with a working title somehow.

Well, got to go now!

Schwarz out!

Pokemon x DP

This idea just won't leave me alone for some reason.

So yeah, it's been a millenia and Danny has been the ghost king for a very long time.

Probably longer since time flows inconsistently and in a nonlinear fashion in the infinite realms.

He just finished all of Pariah's Neglected paper works and messed up and he's Stressed and Dead Tired™ that he needs to relax.

He completely skim through every media entertainment he could get his ghostly hands in to, managing to finish One Piece, Detective conan, MCU, DC, Spongebob, the entire pokemon franchise (games, manga, anime, movies included), complete slew of movies of different genres, games and many, many more.

He's still stressed though…

So Vacation it is!

He had a hard time deciding where he would go before someone joked about going to another multiverse just for a vacatiin and you know what? Danny like that.

(Tucker wasn't serious obviously, he was just kidding!

"Danny! Wait—! Aaaaaan he's gone."

Sam entered the office with a bunch of ghost behind her carrying ghostly paper works and request from multiple Gods, Death Gods, and Eldritch entities.

She take one glance to the office and to tuckers sheepish expression and pinched the bridge of her nose.

"Okay spill, where's Danny?"

"Funny, you see—"

After the explanation, Sam sighed.

"You do the paperworks then."

"What?!"

"You dig your own grave and your own coffin, you sleep on it."

"Excuse you! I'm not Vlad! And FYI! I sleep on my Sarcophagus!"

"Don't care, what ever.")

Danny then remembered pokedex entries:

[Phantump–the Stump pokemon]

[These Pokémon are stumps possessed by the spirits of children who died in the forest. Their cries sound like eerie screams.]

Just like the kind of universe he belongs to!

Ignoring Tucker's voice, he opened up a portal and immediately dive in.

(He could sense the presence of the dreadfull paperworks getting closer, better skedaddle before he got caught)

He grinned and transform himself into human before shifting his age to that of a teenager, this is gonna be fun.

___

If you tell Paul previously that he would end up travelling sinnoh again with a fresh team and a traveling companion like a certain World Champion from Pallet town does all the time, then he would have scoffed or sneer at you before insulting youe intelligence.

"GET DOWN HERE YOU MENACE!!!"

Paul screamed at the tooof his lungs towardshus travelling comoanion. The said menace just grin before—

"WAIT—STOP!!!"

The menace jumped off the fucking cliff.

Paul almost have an heart attack before his companion harmlessly lands on the ground with both of his feet.

There was a big explosion of dust and dirt that Paul had to cover his eyes. The ground gave in and he could see the dark haired teen standing on the crater unharmed.

He gawked, before sighing in resignation.

Of course, he just have to get a super human, just like a certain boy from Pallet, for a travelling companion.

"Come—on Paul! Live a little would ya? Look at me, I'm half dead yet I'm having more fun than you! Give it a try for a yourself!"

Its official, this is karma for being awful and for all the things he did and said before.

[oceansssblue]

~ [MAGICAL CREATURES SERIES] – THE BAD BATCH AU (N4)

Pt1. "THE SMELL OF FIRE" HUNTER/PHOENIX!OFC

THERE'S SOMETHING STRANGE HAPPENING IN THE SMALL MOON PLACED ON THE EDGES OF THE GALAXY WITH THE UNKOWN REGIONS. THEIR PEOPLE ARE RESERVED AND SECRETIVE; TRYING TO APPEAR NORMAL, THOUGH HUNTER HEAVILY SUSPECTS THEY AREN'T. HIS NOSE EASILY PICKS UP THE SMELL OF ASH AND FIRE.

WARNINGS (pt1): TALKS OF HUMAN SACRIFICES WHEN CHARACTERS BOUND WITH ROPES 💔, AND A VERY LIGHT HINT OF (SEXUAL) TENSION 🔥.

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When Tech had warned them they were going to have to make an emergency landing on an undescripted planet on the very limits of the Outer Rim with the Unkown Regions, Hunter had imagined one much more different than this. The small moon looked unusual, yes, with it's almost sparkly silvery sand covering miles and miles of its surface; vibrant blue flowers and trees, and waters as black as coal. Still, it was sand, trees and ponds; not that much further apart of what he had already seen before, if only in another range of colour.

"I must say I feel pleasantly surprised with our luck right now" Tech's voice seemed unusually loud in the quiet of the forest, not an insect to be heard even with Hunter's developed senses.

His brother couldn't stop pointing his long ago self-made detector everywhere around them, constantly scanning their surroundings while he recorded everything with his helmet. Even if slightly tense at the uncertainty that the moon held for them, he looked as happy as a child in a candy shop; his curious mind ecstatic to find new and unresearched territory to explore.

"Crashing into a mystery planet in the Unkown Regions is luck for you?!" scoffed Wrecker, evidently not as excited as the goggled clone.

He wasn't afraid per se, but he didn't like this. Their ship was broken beyond some quick repairs, they knew nothing about the strange moon or the creatures that lived in it and they had no way of comunicating with the rest of the galaxy. They were fucked, to sum it up. Karking pirates.

"Well, you have to admit it's incredibly lucky we have landed on a planet biologically compatible with human life" Tech shrugged, his eyes still flickering over every tree and flower. "Breathable atmosphere, decently similar flora, and several bodies of water. Remarkable, if I may say".

Wrecker muttered a piece of his mind and dropped back into silence, following the line commanded by Hunter.

The long-haired clone couldn't help but feel wary. Not only because of their situation per se; but because of the slightly different gravitational pull on the moon and the lack of stimuli around him. His senses were so developed it was extremely rare for him to just not hear something, feel something; and yet, in this unkown planet, they seemed strangely muted. Apart from their own steps and chattering, he couldn't hear anything else. No insects, no animals, no wind brushing against the flowers and trees. No rush of water, either; permanently calm and almost frozen in place. He didn't like it one bit.

"Don't touch that" he almost barked to Omega, watching her move almost hypnotized to grab a vibrant electric blue flower with the corner of his eyes. "Don't touch anything".

Omega's hand dropped to it's original place and her eyes switched back to Hunter. She pouted.

"But it's so pretty!"

Tech hummed in agreement, yet backed Hunter's warning.

"That is precisely why you shouldn't. It is a common well-known fenomenon amongst the plants of the Outer Rim. The more vibrant the colour and eye-atracting the flower looks like, the higher the probabilities of it being venomous or lethal" he explained, his voice turning distracted at a new species of taller trees in front of him. "I suppose it works mainly on insects or birds; though I guess sometimes humans aren't that much more intelligent".

Tech patted Omega's shoulder amicably –not at all consciously using his words to make a jab at her–, and resumed walking. Omega roller her eyes.

All thoughts about blue flowers and their level of intelligence extinguished with Hunter's sudden stop and raised fist. The sargent frowned, slightly turning his head to the right towards the origin of what he had supposed to be a fluttering wing. His eyes scanned the flora around them. He couldn't see anything past the first line of trees.

His sight unuseful, he closed his eyes and listened in. Nothing; yet he felt there was something there, waiting, looking.

He focused on his third sense. He had already grown fairly used to the sweet smell of the blue flowers and the general metalic hint of the moon's ground; but that... It was the first time he smelled that; ash and fire.

"Ready your weapons. Slowly" he ordered, muscles tensing.

They barely had a second to blink before dozens of natives dropped to the ground around them.

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Hunter was scared. It wasn't a new feeling for him, really; he was a brave man –which clone wasn't?–, but there had been countless of times when he'd been scared of losing his brothers. Of dying. This was a different type of fear, though. It was one laced with uncertainty and terror. Even in battle, when one of them were compromised, they had the others to back them up. They knew what to expect. How they were going to die, if it came to that. The worst thing about their new situation was that they knew nothing at all. Ignorance was the reason why his heart had sped up significantly and he couldn't stop analysing the people in front of him.

"This vaguely reminds me of a book I read about the traditions of some ancient species in the Before" Tech whispered, his mind working nonstop even when tied up to a tree like the rest of the Batch. "Some cultures used to sacrifice living beings in order to apease to their gods. They believed it granted them protection, better harvests, or simply soothed their anger".

Wrecker squirmed in place. He usually would have been able to break through his bindings in a blink; but the rope this people used was made of some sort of intertwined roots surprisingly resistant to his efforts to free himself. Plus, their captors had noticed the obvious difference in strength between himself and his brothers; and had duplicated the ropes around him.

"Surely no-one does that anymore, right?" He chuckled, nervously.

Tech hummed. His eyes focused on the humanoids in front of them. They had black stripes painted on their pale grey skin; the dark, matted colors a sharp contrast to the vibrants reds and oranges of their long hair. Their eyes were completely black as well, no difference between iris, pupil or sclera; giving their appearance an almost demonic look.

"Actually, it is still a practice used in some planets of the galaxy" he answered. "Considering we are delving into the Unkown Regions and following my suspition that these creatures don't seem to hold much knowledge of technology and heavily relay in what nature offers them, I wouldn't discard the option".

Omega's eyes searched for Hunter's in fear; the man only throwing her a silent look that gave her no comfort at all.

Studying them, Hunter understood how they had stayed hidden from his senses now. These humanoids –because they did have a similar shape, even if their body proportions weren't exactly the same– danced through the sparkling silver ground; thin slender agile bodies almost looking as if they didn't really step in the floor before taking their next stride. They were fast and noiseless, too. He wondered if it was a trait from their species or if they had learnt to move like that because they weren't the only natives they had to worry about. Their sudden arrival opened a wide range of possibilities.

He prayed for Tech's comment to be just one more of his curious facts instead of reality. He didn't like the idea of his family being used as a sacrifice.

Suddenly, the natives around them whispered to each other –in a quiet hissing language that Hunter didn't recognise at all– and the crowd parted to show two aproaching figures calmly walking towards them.

The first one was a man. He looked old; much older than the rest of his people, at least. Hunter had no way of knowing about their real lifespan.

His skin was paler than the rest of the natives; drier, too. His orange hair travelled in small multiple braids towards his hips; lower body covered in thick black fur –he guessed that answered the question about them being the only intelligent creatures there– decorated with light blue accents. He wore small pouches on top of it; tied together with a thin rope.

The black marks of his face and chest were more intrinsecate than the rest; swirls and dots interlacing with plain stripes. His body seemed thinner –and therefore, more fragile– than the humanoids around him. The most noticeable aspect about him, however, was his eyes; shinning in electric orange, and staring straight at him.

Hunter shuddered.

The clone took in the way the rest of his people stepped aside and firmly, slowly nodded in his direction in a sign of respect. The same greeting was throwed at the person walking behind him; though Hunter couldn't clearly see him yet, his body covered by the native closer to them.

"Hun... Hunter?" Omega whispered, trembling in place.

All eyes were now focused on the humanoid with the orange eyes; who had stopped in front of the blonde girl. The old native opened one of his pouches; dipping his fingers in black before taking them to her face. Omega whimpered and trembled harder. Hunter's heart squeezed. His own body tensed and he had to put all his efforts to wait through the scene and remain calm. He would have given everything to hold her right now.

"Breathe, Omega" he told her, his deep voice capturing everyone's attention, making his skin crawl. "It's just paint. Close your eyes".

The blonde did exactly as he told her; taking a deep shuddering breath in and removing her sense of sight from the scene. She tried to imagine being somewhere else –in the Marauder, watching the hyperspace lights through the window– while she felt the man's thumb and index fingers carefully crossing her face.

"I wouldn't worry about it right now" Tech whispered, as the creature moved to recreate the painting on Wrecker. "It seems they are marking us with the same designs as themselves. That can be either very good or... very bad."

Tech patiently waited while the old humanoid took his time on him. A small noise of protest escaped his throat when he took his goggles away; examining them curiously like a kid with a new toy before pressing the paint on his skin, and returning their place on his head. He relaxed and hummed, thoughtfully. He took that as a sign of the natives not having a directly ill intention with them. If not, why bother giving him his goggles back?

Hunter, tied up the furthest to the left, was the last one to be marked with the black stripes. His ears picked up a small muttering coming of the creature in front of him; a pray of sorts, perhaps? It didn't look like he was trying to comunicate with him, that's for sure...

Once the humanoid with the orange eyes stepped back, seeming satisfied with his job, Hunter's attention was finally drawn to the second figure. He felt inevitably enthraced with her appearance. She had the same pale grey smooth skin as the rest of her people; long thin arms and legs and a toned stomach without a belly-button to match. The only thing covering her was another piece of black fur half stitched with blue thrails. It hanged low on her hips; leaving her small but rounded breasts exposed. Apparently, these people didn't consider them sexual zones. Her marks weren't black, though; but as red as her hair, which started at a dark scarlet tone at the roots and blended into a fiery rich colour at the ends. Her eyes were neon red as well; shining brightly in the darkness of the night. He could see a hint of small pointy fangs resting on top of his lower lip. She looked dangerous; and yet, Hunter's cock inevitably turned half-hard at the sight. He convinced himself it was just the adrenaline.

He couldn't stop looking at her while she carefully analysed his sister and brothers. Her people seemed to hold her breath; as if the final veredict of the Batch's destiny relayed on her. She had to hold some sort of position amongst them; if only for the obvious physical difference between them. Her eyes and the old humanoid's were the only exceptions to the otherwise black ones. She... Felt different too, as well; in ways Hunter couldn't begin to explain.

Either way, if the life of his family was in her hands, he wasn't going to stand by and watch them end.

"We are not looking to cause trouble around here" he spoke up, firmly. Her neon red eyes inmediately snapped towards him. He breathed. "We are not a threat".

The humanoid woman approached him; in the same quiet elegant way he had seen his people move before. She stood in front of him; their bodies only separated by half a meter now.

She studied him. Their stares clashed; Hunter's still slightly dilated pupils fighting of the intensity of her burning red eyes. His posture, his muscles, were completely tense. It felt as if she was scanning his soul with just a glance. Hunter had to follow his own previous words when the humanoid slowly moved to carefully hold his jaw in her hand; closing his eyes and trying to breathe calmly through his trembling body. She felt... She felt...

Hunter felt her warm –almost burning– fingers tracing delicately –gently, curiously– the skin of the tattood side of his face. He sighed in relief. She probably only found it interesting; as he had marked his own skin with blank ink as well, similarly to how the natives painted theirs.

Her hand dropped, and Hunter could feel her take a step back, away from him. He had to pull his courage together to open his eyes again.

The woman slowly walked back to Omega. She hold her chin in her hand, this time; staring into her eyes as if she were deciding something about her. She seemed to find what she was lookinh for; and made a small gesture to the natives behind her.

The Batch watched helpessly as they untied a trembling, terrified Omega and started to drag her away. Anger and hate rushed through Hunter's veins. He made a harsh tug against his bindings.

"Get away from her!" He hissed, fighting against his ropes with all he had, trying futibly to break through. "Omega!"

"H-Hunter!" She called his name back, half-screaming, tears rolling down her cheeks.

The mysterious native woman followed her, glancing back at him. She seemed to have noticed the bond between them, the father-and -daughter-like connection; intrigued by it.

"Please" he whispered to her.

Her red eyes locked with his once again. Energy pulsed between them. She felt... She felt more than human, more than humanoid, more than... Real. She felt almost like its own, unexplicable, burning light; a powerful, mysterious energy like the Force itself, or something close enough. She was different from her people, as well. Unique. Hunter hoped she wasn't the godess the natives where trying to apease.

The woman wordlessly turned around.

The Batch's worried eyes couldn't do anything else but watch them take Omega away.

END OF PART 1

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BOOM! THERE WE HAVE THE FIRST PART OF HUNTER'S SPIN GUYS!

REMEMBER I'M DOING A WHOLE SERIES OF MAGICAL CREATURES/TBB CHARACTERS. YOU ALREADY HAVE WRECKER'S TWO-SHOT STORY POSTED, AND THIS IS THE NEXT ONE I'M CURRENTLY WRITING.

AFTER I FINISH THIS, WHICH I THINK IT'S GONNA BE A FIVE CHAPTER STORY –WHOOPS, ONCE AGAIN I FAIL TO WRITE A SINGLE ONESHOT– I'LL MOVE ONTO TECH/SIRENOFC! & ECHO/FAIRYOFC! AND CROSSHAIR/VAMPIREOFC! STORIES.

THIS STORY IS GOING TO BE A MIX OF MYSTERY AND ROMANCE. I'M STILL DECIDING IF I'LL ADD A SMUTT PART OR NOT. WE'LL SEE.

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