#welp *brings more enemies to the tower*

[kaiserouo]

bring your favorite enemy to tower day

[420thewritersroom]

Warhammer/Horus Heresy Kinktober 2024

Day 31: Iron Hands/Free Topic/Sequel

Summary: He finally did it :D

Welp, here we are, the final prompt. This one was a little late, which I'm deeply disappointed in. But I've been working on these prompts throughout the entire month and keeping myself up until 2-3 in the morning just to pump them out in time (and that's with being a day ahead) - I think I deserved a good bit of rest with this one lol. Decided the sequel piece would be for the Iron Hand chapter. I've gotten such positive feedback for that chapter both on AO3 and Tumblr and my delulu brain even made a picrew of Midas, the little Serf man. They've been plaguing my mind nonstop so I figured it would be fair of me to make a concluding sequel to their story. Check the end chapter for final conclusions :D

Midas was running out of breath and stamina. Despite his will to get away, to find shelter, to live, his body was exhausted. It felt like he was running for eternity, escaping those creatures. Afronts to the God-Emperor. Their gaping maws and many arms, their desire for his flesh, to tear him limb from limb. Or, worst yet, make him like them if they believed he would be needed, wanted, in their cause. He was running through endless alleyways, paralleling towering buildings suffocating him as they gave no indoor shelter, every window or side door blocked or locked. He was tripping over his own feet, the monstrous sounds of the enemy drawing closer. Midas can hear their stampeding steps catching up to him. He can feel their sickening breaths on his back and neck, all over him. He wanted to rub it off him.

But he had to keep running, forcing his body to prolong a little longer. Shame he had to trip, at last, and send himself falling to the ground. You know, if the ground was made of liquids. Midas found himself surrounded by red waters. Where he once struggled to take one step after the other, he now scrambled to keep himself afloat, flailing his arms around to reach the unreachable surface. His lungs burned; he was running out of air. He needed to breathe; he needed air! Midas watches from above more bodies falling into the endless expanse of red, but none of them put any effort to keep themselves afloat. They embrace the red darkness, descending with eerie angelic grace as they slowly drown past the hopeless Midas who struggled against the inevitable. Midas can feel his body protesting, his heart threatening to burst out of his chest as he fruitlessly floated to the bottom despite his attempts to swim up.

Midas looked down, his heart sinking as multiple eyes and teeth waited for him, greeting him. Midas finally opened his mouth to scream as he realized he was descending into their maws.

-

Midas gasps awake, drenched in sweat, clothes, and hair clinging to his person uncomfortably. He sat up immediately, struggling to breathe normally as his body felt he was under attack. He couldn't even bring himself to check his surroundings; his eyes trained straight ahead, and he looked at a metallic wall as he let out sharp inhales and exhales.

He gives the bedsheets a death grip as he tries to center himself. He's in bed, on the Gorgon's Will; those Genestealers, or whatever the hell they were, can't, WON'T get him here. His master Vaine is here.

...

Wait a minute...

Midas snaps his head to the other side of the room after making a double take. Vaine stared at the small serf, undisturbed or bothered by his presence. Since when was he in his master's quarters!?! Midas knows he's not prone to sleepwalking; throne preserve him if he ever did, then he'd be confused for those sorcerous freaks! Vaine's stoic and unyielding look pushed Midas to sit on the edge of the bed, ready to leave.

"M-my lord! I'm sorry for intruding on your privacy! This will not happen again!" Midas stands to leave, only to be pushed back down onto the bed.

It always amazes him how fast an Astartes actually is. He blinked once, and already Vaine was in front of him, placing a massive hand on his chest and forcing his small body back onto the bed.

"Stay."

Midas stares back at the Iron Hand Astartes with wide eyes, unmoving from his spot. To his surprise, Vaine reaches out, repositioning the small man back under his comforts and wrapping him securely in the blankets and sheets of his mostly unused bed. Midas still keeps his eyes trained on his master, watching Vaine back away before giving another one-word command, "Sleep."

Vaine backed away, returning to a chair he was using, and...Watched him. The two continued to lock eyes. Did...Did his lordship expect him to sleep on command? Especially after experiencing a gut-wrenching nightmare (albeit a more tamed nightmare)?

"Sleep," Vaine narrowed his eyes, seemingly annoyed that Midas still wasn't asleep yet.

"Y-yes...My lord..." Midas turns on his side, facing away from Vaine. Despite this, he can feel that iron stare burning into the back of his skull. He knows Astartes don't have to sleep, he's never seen his master sleep once. And it's made more unnerving as Midas can feel his ever-present aura. Was he going to just...Sit there? Until he fell back to sleep? After what felt like forever, Midas dared to peek behind himself; was he still looking?

Vaine's deadly stare was all the confirmation Midas needed, his skin developing goosebumps as he quickly looked away, trying fruitlessly to appear asleep.

Midas's heartbeat quickens as he hears thundering footsteps approaching. Despite the tight grip of his master, Vaine flips Midas on his back carefully, forcing the tiny mortal to face up at his towering master. "You don't sleep. Why?"

The black-haired man struggles to find his words, opening and closing his mouth. Why would his master, an Astartes, be so concerned about whether or not he slept. He can imagine millions of other pressing matters that plagued his lordship's mind daily. But he's been silent long enough; he knows better than to keep his master waiting.

"I...Um...I don't feel tired..."

"Why?" That wasn't a question; that was another demand.

Fucking A, is his master really going to make him say it? Is this Vaine's way of humiliating him? Showing off the weakness of his flesh and mind, cementing his superiority because he's not held back by the horrors of his own mind? Midas shifts under the covers, looking away as his blood ran cold.

"...I..." He struggles to find the words. How does one say, "I had a bad dream," without sounding like a child seeking the comforts of their parents' warmth? "...I was plagued with night terrors, and I need a moment to recover."

There's a suffocating silence between them, Midas struggling to maintain his disconnect and keep his eyes off Vaine. But he did take this opportunity to ask a question that has stuck with him for a while now.

"...Why am I here?"

"Because you offered yourself to servitude on the Gorgon's Will."

Midas closed his eyes and pressed his lips together, trying to veil his annoyance at that unintentionally smartass comment from his master. "That's not what I meant, my lord."

"Speak plainly then," Vaine responds, keeping a steady tone with Midas.

If Midas was 20 years younger, he'd snap back that he was being clear, but he bites his tongue. "Why am I in your quarters?"

It was now Vaine's turn to be weirdly quiet. It was almost too quiet as Midas found himself glancing at the warrior before him, noticing that Vaine's face was one of deep thought, as though he was looking for the right words himself.

"I heard you struggling in your sleep...I brought you here because I thought you would rest easier in my quarters."

Midas felt his heart grow three sizes; it was genuinely suffocating. His face flushes a slight pink as he stares at his master. Vaine was looking everywhere but at Midas, but the little man noticed his master strumming his fingers on the side of his thigh. Was his master anxious?

"Th-thank you..." Midas had no other words.

Before long, Midas found himself unwrapping himself from his master's covers, sighing as he finally admitted to himself that he wasn't going back to sleep and needed something to do. "My apologies, my lord, but I must busy myself with other activities."

As Midas stood up and began to walk away, Vaine softly grabbed his arm in his entire hand. Midas looks back at the Iron Hand warrior, and his heart skips a beat.

"...Stay..." Vaine's voice was...soft. Quiet. It did not carry the commanding strictness that he always upheld. His face would remain the same if it wasn't for the slightly furrowed eyebrows and that glint in his eye that silently screamed "kicked puppy."

He's never seen Vaine like this; it almost scares Midas to see him like this. "Is there something you need, my lord?" Midas is quick to ask, worried that perhaps he missed something he should've caught.

Vaine's eyes wonder again; his final response was a shake of his head. A no.

"...Is there something you need me to do, my lord?"

"Stay," Vaine repeats.

"And do what?"

"I don't know."

What do you mean, 'you don't know?' is what Midas would dare to utter if his arm wasn't in the grasp of the man who could easily tear it right from its socket. "Ok, I'm staying. What do you want me to do if I'm to stay here?"

Vaine continues to give him the silent treatment, and Midas slips his arm out of his hold. "I can...I can rearrange some items. Recite old hymns and scriptures." Midas proves his point by pushing the oversized chair Vaine once sat on. Midas could see Vaine strumming his fingers again, stepping in place as he watched Midas closely. It wasn't his place to pry, but Midas couldn't imagine anything else that could be done in this room. He was, and still is, exceptionally thorough in performing his duties. "...Is there something you want to talk about?"

Midas's skin crawled when Vaine's eyes snapped to meet his, Midas giving in immediately and lowering his head in submission. He already regretted asking such a stupid question.

"Come."

Midas scurried to his master's side, only to make an audible gasp as Vaine maneuvered him onto the mattress, joining him as he...Big Spoon-ed him? Solid and expansive arms encompassed Midas, securely locking him close to his lordship's chest. Midas would nearly suffocate if he didn't slightly adjust himself so he wasn't face first in his breasts. His face was red again, redder than ever, his heart beating a million beats per second. Midas didn't want to think about it; he had just finished convincing himself weeks ago of this, but now the thoughts had resurfaced.

Ever since that...Incident in the bathing quarters...Midas has been keeping his distance. That deadly look Vaine gave him, the face of contempt and vexation, it brings nothing but blinding shame in him. To think that he would assault his lordship, intentionally or unintentionally. Midas couldn't bring himself to breathe the same air as Vaine. Perhaps his darkest moment was his mind thinking of excuses.

Well, Vaine told him to go slower when he touched his penis.

He asked him to strip. Maybe he wanted something from him. With all the bodies you laid with, how could you miss a man asking for carnality?

Maybe Vaine was asking for something and didn't know how to express it.

Midas still cringes thinking about it. How dare he assume that his lord, Vaine, reborn as an angel, crafted by the Emperor's hands, would EVER want sex from HIM!?! Could Vaine even want that type of thing? He's never heard of an Astartes coupling with anyone, let alone mortals. And why should they want that? The many years he spent toiling away for Vaine, he has been nothing but business. There was barely anything that could make his master crack a smile. His idea of "free time" was training and reading a manual about the inner workings of a dreadnaught.

So Midas kept his distance, avoiding Vaine. He was terrified of seeing him again, believing wholeheartedly that Vaine would punish him severely, or better yet, kill him, should they ever cross paths. But sometimes, sometimes Midas thought death would be too good for him. He doesn't know what would hurt more. Getting beaten, worked to near death, or actually dying. Or being left behind on a stray planet. Exiled.

Midas shudders when he feels Vaine shift above him, slowly trailing his eyes only to meet Vaine's soft gaze. Midas, once again, looks away. Even tried to reposition himself so that he could face away from Vaine, but the large man kept him in place.

"Stay..."

"...Why?" Midas dares to whisper.

A stillness fills the room before Vaine leans forward and kisses his head, sending Midas through a wash cycle of emotions and staring wide-eyed at Vaine.

"...What?" the smaller man said, perplexed.

"...That's why..." Vaine mutters.

Midas was lost for words, his mouth opening and closing like a dying fish. His eyes blinked randomly, yet he couldn't stop looking at him. "My lord, are you ok?"

"...No..."

"Have something taken over you? Do we need to send you to an apothecary?" Midas struggles out of Vaine's grasp, standing on the bed as he looked at the lying man.

"No," This time, Vaine was a bit quicker with his answer.

"I-I don't understand," Midas stutters, so many words coming to his mind, only to spill out of his mouth like spoiled milk. "Why did you do that? Why did you-I mean, you don't really...Are you testing me, my lord?"

"Is it so hard to believe that I wanted to kiss you?"

"Yes!" Midas said that a bit too quick. And just as quickly as he said that, he noticed that Vaine's expression hardened again. "I-I mean, I thought you detested me. After I...Assaulted you."

"When did you ever assault me? Nothing you could ever do to me would leave even a scratch on my body," Vaine had now started to sit up, using his arms as support for his upper body.

"I touched your body inappropriately, my lord! You should be flogging me until I pass out. I shouldn't even be in your room!"

"Do you want me to flog you?"

"N-no."

"Then why do you say that I should do so?"

Motherfucker, are you listening to me, Vaine!?! Midas clenches his fists, trying so hard to not bring to reality the words that swarm his mind. "The bathing quarters...When I was cleaning you...I made...wrongful touches and unknowingly enticed your body unwillingly." For a man who can remember the last time he takes a shit, Midas begs that Vaine finally understands what he's trying to say.

Vaine looked at Midas, plainly. "...I told you want I wanted."

"And I abused my position as your lowly servant and attempted to derive pleasure from you," Midas's voice was shaky. Is this his punishment? To face what he's done that fateful day? To say plainly, not in front of Vaine, but to the Emperor on Terra, the sin he has committed?

"But you didn't?" Vaine gives Midas a confused look. Which is just looking angrier than earlier.

"...My lord?"

"I told you what I wanted..." It was now Vaine's turn to stumble with his words. To face his own reality. "...I wanted you to...Touch me...I...Wanted you to expose yourself to me..."

Midas was further dumbfounded. So...He was...Midas doesn't finish that thought at all. "...Why?"

Vaine purses his lips together tightly, looking away from the small serf.

"...Why me?" Midas lets out an airy breath, his mind filled with softness. To think his master wanted him at that moment, and he denied him so unknowingly. He has laid with multiple partners; how could he have missed a MASSIVE MAN telling him he wanted some dick? Then again, why him? Why anyone of his status? Why would a lowly, insignificant, unworthy lowlife like himself be someone he'd want?

"...I've grown...Dependent on you..."

"Dependent?"

Vaine makes a look akin to cringing inward, immediately shutting Midas up from any further inquiries. "...I don't know how to explain it."

Midas leans closer, daring to cup one hand on Vaines' cheek, silently marveling how chiseled he really was and how masculine his cheekbones were. "Tell me what comes to mind."

Vaine's eyes were trained on Midas's touch, gazing at the gesture done for a moment before letting out a heavy breath. "I have this deep need to protect you. I look at you, and I realize just how pathetic you really are."

Midas's heart stops fluttering the moment Vaine mentions that latter part.

"You're small, perhaps the smallest amongst your own people. A Xenos would have no trouble devouring, decimating, or whisking you away for sick, torturous ventures. You barely could hold a gun when I first met you, and it frightens me to think of you holding one now. You would've shot my head clean off should anyone provide you a firearm. That is, if you could make a clean enough shot to do so. Your only saving grace is that you are fast and cunning...And cowardly. There's not much courage I see about you-"

The more Vaine talked, the more Midas's face deteriorated from a lovesick hopeful to a glowering spiteful. He already has enough self-degradation to feed a starving Imperial family of 6; he doesn't need to hear it from an Astartes. Better yet, he was emotionally done here. Especially when Vaine starts poking at his incapability to fight. It reminds him of home, of the bastards who told him to stay out of fights. Because he wasn't strong enough to do so. Because all he had to do was hide behind his wealth and wait for the lowly servants of the Imperium to fight the battles he shouldn't have to face. While he watched as mutated, heretical creatures devoured his home, his city, his planet, into oblivion. He can see their face, one by one. His agent, his friends, his family, especially that son of a bitch of a man who called himself his father.

Midas begins walking away, trying to hop off the bed and exit the room. When Vaine tries to grab him again, Midas dares to attempt to violently shrug Vaine off him.

"I've heard enough," Midas says, trying to finalize the conversation.

"I'm not done," Vaine says, trying again to physically stop him, making his grip on Midas a bit tighter as he tries grabbing at his arm. It wasn't tight enough as Midas slipped away, making a furious turn on his heels as he faced Vaine.

"Well, I am, damn it!" Midas's eyes burned with a long-held fury as he met Vaine eye to eye, a mortal challenging an angel. "I tried to be understanding, I tried hearing you out, but all I'm hearing is what the others like you tell me. You're contempt for me, you're holier-than-thou perspective of yourself. I fucking get it, Vaine. I don't need you to tell me how insignificant I am, how FUCKING WORTHLESS I AM! Standing next to you is apparent enough! Can't you just simply tell me that I fucked up and call it a day? That touching you that day made you uncomfortable because 'ew, a fleshy mortal touched my Emperor-given cock.' I would rather take a goddamn beating than hear you humiliate my honor any further after all I've done to satisfy you! Better yet, I hope the next time we meet on this ship, it's you telling me to get off this damn vessel and never return."

Midas tries again to shut the door on this conversation, turning to leave, but Vaine's entire hand gripped at his waist in full, holding him like a doll. "Please, just wait!" Vaine increases his tone, a hint of desperation in his voice.

Midas shuts his eyes in annoyance, slowly turning his head toward Vaine, waiting for him to say anything.

"...When I watch you traverse the halls of this ship, when I see my brothers look at you...My hearts grow with anger." Vaine looked fixedly at Midas, a glint of silent desperation in his eyes, trying so hard to put his feelings into words, to properly articulate what he wanted to tell Midas. "I hate it when they gaze upon you, especially in my presence. I try to conceal you from them, letting my brothers know that you are mine, yet they still insist on conversing with you. I find myself thinking of you, even when you're not there. Every time I close my eyes, I see you, performing your duties, looking out into the sea of stars. I think of the day we first met, and my desire to keep you, to protect you, grows stronger. When I leave to lay my life down for the Emperor, I remind myself that I must return. I must return for you. If I were to die, I would no longer get the chance to see you again. And if I were to somehow live, the disconnect from being placed in a dreadnaught. The highest honor I could ever dream of, but then you'll become the dream I lost in place of it."

"Your scent drives me insane. I practically recognize you by it alone. I have memorized your fear, the smell of your tears, that brightening aroma when you exert yourself...Your arousal...I've...Kept personal trinkets to...replicate your scent, and keep them around when I must be away from you for long periods of time," Vaine kept staring Midas down. Still, his face became increasingly pink as he talked about this subject.

Well, Midas didn't expect that part, especially the arousal part. Then something clicked. "Wait. Is that why some of my clothes and personal perfumes go missing and wind up here-"

"Let me finish," Vaine tightens his grip around Midas's waist, forcing Midas to hush up. "That quiet moment in the bathing quarters...I wanted to...Bring you closer to me. It was the first time we had bathed together in a long time. Feeling you...Touch me...I don't know how to explain it, but I needed you closer. I wanted to press our bodies together until we were one. I wanted to feel your hands all over. I wanted you...And then I scared you. In my frustration, I blindly attempted to...I don't know...And then you went away. You started avoiding me...I thought you...Hated me..."

It was now Vaine's turn to lower his head in submission, trying to hide the vulnerable look and the growing embarrassment coloring his face. Midas's heart softened at Vaine's confession. He's...Flattered, honestly. Every other lover he took when he was younger, they all have made, albeit more straightforward, confessions to him before. And maybe it's because it's an ASTARTES who confesses himself to him, but when Vaine professed his feelings...Something about it hit Midas that prior confessions did not.

"I want to protect you with my life. I would kill whoever would dare attempt to tarnish your honor, even if it were my own brothers. I can't stand the idea of being apart from you. If I could will it, I would be ship-bound and have you by my side every step of the way. I fight so that I can see you again; I kill so that this dying galaxy is safer for you. I never want to see that face again, that fear in your eyes. Because I'd much rather see you smile...Smile at me...Only me..."

Midas gently pulls at Vaine's fingers, one by one, until he was finally released from his grasp. The small serf brings himself closer to Vaine, lifting his head in both hands and placing a delicate kiss on his forehead. Vaine makes a cute gasp. "I'm honored, my lord, that you feel that way towards me," Midas smiles.

Midas isn't even sure if he genuinely feels that way towards Vaine. How much of his heart fluttering is because he truly reciprocates these feelings of admiration? Or is it the attention he has garnered from a powerful being? Midas had past lovers, though; a more apt description of these "lovers" would more so be "past one-night stands and fleeting relationships that went nowhere." But his mind doesn't linger on such temporary thoughts. Because when he pulls away and sees those puppy eyes on the face of his angel of death, his heart grows 3 times its size, and he would gladly vomit the organ so that he could give it to Vaine.

Vaine gawks at Midas, admiring and putting to memory that beautiful smile, those cloudy eyes veiled behind his long hair. Vaine leans forward, pressing his lips against Midas's forehead, returning the gesture. His heart(s) could explode after hearing the little serf giggle. Vaine pulls away, but his eyes look at Midas wantingly. Please kiss me again, his eyes pleaded in silence. As if Midas could read his mind, he kissed him again on his sharp cheeks. It was a back-and-forth between the two as they shared kitten kisses with each other, kissing every part of each other's face until all that was left was their lips.

"Have you ever kissed anyone before?" Midas whispers, his voice growing with sultry.

"Were we not doing that earlier?"

"No, silly," Midas lets out a joyous breath. "Anyone can experience a simple kiss on the forehead or cheek. Babies get enough of that from their mothers. But here," Midas taps Vaine's lips with his index finger teasingly. His eyes watch as Vaine tries desperately to not lick at his finger, keeping his lips sealed. "Lovers kiss each other here."

"You make this sound as if receiving a kiss here is sacred."

"In a sense, it is. It's a symbol of connection. Devotion. Desire. It unites people like no other." Midas leans in, his breath tickling Vaine's lips while his own teases the inevitable, "Would this be your first, my lord?"

Vaine was becoming intoxicated by the smell of Midas. Lavender, he senses, peppermint in his breath, nutmeg on his skin. He couldn't think straight, especially as his blood was running further south to his cock. All he could do was utter a simple "yes" as he silently pleaded for Midas to get closer, for this flesh to touch again.

"Then, I am honored to be your first, my lord." Midas leans forward, pressing their lips together. It was simple, nothing too fancy, a mimicry of first-time lovers. Midas was testing him, seeing what Vaine would do. All Vaine did was become a statue, eyes closed and breath taken away. Midas uses this opportunity to pull away, searching Vaine's eyes. "That feel good?"

"...It was no different from what we did earlier..."

Midas smiles wickedly even, "That's because I gave you a beginner's taste. Come here," Midas leans in again, pressing his lips against Vaine's again.

It started simple again, their lips pressed together, but then Midas made subtle movements with his lips as though massaging Vaine's own. He pulls away with a soft smack, only to lean in again and retake his lordship's lips. Again, and again, and again. Soon, it was no longer just lips touching. Midas made an experimental bite and pulled at Vaine's lower lips, pulling away just fast enough, but the feeling lingered long enough for Vaine to look at Midas in confused arousal. If he had any protests, they were burned away by Midas's small fits of snickering and smiling.

"Did you like that?"

"Yes," at this point, anything Midas did, Vaine liked. He could do no wrong.

"Do you want me to do that again?"

"Yes," Vaine eagerly affirms.

Vaine drowned in Midas's lips toying with his own, his teeth scraping against his massive bulbs of flesh, teasing his lips with his teeth, pulling slightly before letting go. He does this a few times, each nibble sending shivers of pleasure down Vaine's spine.

And then he used his tongue.

Vaine didn't even consciously think about it; he opened his mouth just slightly as Midas traced his lips with his tongue, giving the more petite man an opening to enter his mouth. The moment their tongues touched, Vaine made a drawn-out moan, letting Midas explore his mouth, swirling his tongue with his as he submissively let Midas do whatever he pleased with him. Vaine's cock made a noticeable tent against his loincloth, twitching and slightly leaking with each such on his massive tongue. Midas pulls away, a mournful growl emitting from Vaine as he immediately misses the feeling of his wet appendage. Vaine's skin was hot, burning from the inside, losing breath as he stared at Midas. He was in a similar, disheveled look, lips wet from his saliva mixing with Vaine's. They both kept their eyes on each other, silently admiring the arousing look the other had on their face, only for Midas to look further down Vaine's body to see the ache between his legs.

"Oh..." Every bit of cheeky confidence Midas had slowly drained as he took in the inhuman cock that stood at attention. He never thought he would get that...Big...

"Um, you're definitely more of a grower than a shower, huh," Midas nervously jests. He would make a sudden gasp as Vaine pinches his jaw with two meaty fingers, forcing Midas to look back at him as he kisses him again, crashing their lips together and pushing his tongue into Midas's mouth. A growing hunger builds and exudes from each other as they both scrambled with their fingers to undress the other.

Vaine repositions himself, laying on his back and allowing his serf to straddle his chest. He could better see Midas's face with his hair hanging off his face. His eyes were a perfect grey; you could barely see them, but he did have freckles that dotted his light chocolate skin. After a moment of air between them, Midas reinstigates the kiss, resuming their prior feast as Vaine fucked his mouth with his tongue, getting as deep as he could without making the little one gag. Before long, their bodies were nearly sticking due to the arousing sweat condensing off their skin, hot breaths further fogging every sense that was still available to them as they devolved into nothing but flesh.

Midas moans when he feels Vaine grab at his butt, massaging the gluttonous meat before moving one of his hands up Midas's back. Vaine bucked his hips upward unconsciously, his body wanting, needing something warm, something tight. Yet, these desires eluded the newly enlightened Astartes. All he knew was that he was burning up, his cock was aching, and he wanted Midas.

The smaller man pulls away, breath taken away and enjoying the feeling of his body slightly rising and falling in tandem with Vaine's heaving chest. Midas looks behind him, the expansive man further surprising him. But his attention was on his lordship's cock. If he doesn't know about kissing, most likely, he never touched himself. At least, that's what Midas assumes. Midas looks back at the flushed Astartes, cat-like eyes and a smile plastered on his face as he snaked his way down Vaine's body, letting the larger man enjoy the feeling of his flesh sliding on his. He repositions himself to Vaine's side, kneeling and looking at the veiny member before him.

"Have you ever touched yourself, my lord?"

"...No."

"Do you want me to touch you here?" Midas points at his cock, but he teasingly positions his finger just close enough to nearly touch him but not enough for him to feel anything. But the promise it exude was dangerously mind-altering.

Vaine nods his head eagerly, watching Midas with pleading eyes. Midas runs a single finger down the shaft, and Vaine bucks his hips like a horse trying to remove its rider. Midas makes a delighted hum, darkly smiling when he removes his finger, and Vaine whines. The Astartes snaps his eyes at Midas eyes, filled with the question, 'Why did you stop? Please keep going. Please keep touching me.'

"Don't worry, my lord. I'll take care of you," Midas huskily says.

Small fingers grabbed at Vaines cock, Midas needing both hands if he wanted to fully encompass Vaine's cock, and he slowly, deathly so, moved his hands up and down. Up to the head of his cock, then descending to the hilt of his dick, brushing against his pubic hair and lightly gracing his massive balls. Vaine groans, tilting his head back as his bodily nerves spark with ecstasy. He continues this slow ascension and fall, steadily pulling Vaine towards the finish line and enjoying the way Vaine squirmed under him and impatiently fucked his hand. Midas would allow it, letting Vaine enjoy the spoils of debauchery, to experience the feelings of being an adolescent just learning how to touch themselves. But the moment he was going too fast, Midas removed his hands, leaving Vaine whining and wanting.

"Don't need you finishing too fast there, my lord."

"Does it matter?" Vaine shoots Midas a frustrated look mixed with actual anger and need.

"It's not as fun if it's over quickly." Midas uses one of his hands to cup Vaine's heavy balls, massaging the sacks, twiddling flesh between his fingers, lightly pulling and squeezing the organ. His other hand toyed with the head, stroking the tip and lathering the head of his dick with the precum leaking in quick succession. Vaine was beginning to dip in reason, his eyes cloudy with lust. He needs more; he wants more. How does he get more?

His body lurches forward when he feels the distinguishable feeling of Midas's tongue slowly trailing up Vaine's cock. Vaine let out loud moans with each agonizing slide of his tongue, pushing his hips upwards. "Please! Pleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease!"

Midas moves his head further down, sucking his balls and massaging that area between his balls and ass. Using his other hand, he traces the veins of his member, slurping his balls in his mouth and pulling off with a resounding pop as he moves to suck his cock again.

"Midas, Midas!" Vaine screams, his balls tightening; he feels like he's suffocating. His breathing hitches; the world was spinning too slowly and too fast. Before he knew it, his cock explodes, white cum leaking from the tip and dirtying Midas as he tries to pull away. Splotches of his seed splatters and drops on Midas's face and body while the rest sprays all over the mattress and Vaine's cock.

Vaine looks at the ceiling wide-eyed, breathing heavily and twitching from the aftershocks. Midas cringes at the mess, specifically the mess made on himself. How would he go about cleaning this up without getting suspicious looks from those outside this room? Midas turns to check on Vaine, the Iron Hand coming down from the high and staring in awe from the experience. Midas couldn't help but smile. Yet, he used this opportunity to slip away briefly, seeking items in the room that could serve as temporary towels to wipe himself. When he returned, Midas was shocked to see Vaine was still hard, despite cum leaking down his shaft.

"That's...Definitely something..." Midas mutters to himself. He climbs back onto the bed, snuggling next to the photosynthesizing Astartes, bringing Vaine back from his stupor as he traces his finger on his chest, playing connect the dots with the metallic nubs stitched onto his body.

"...What was that?" Vaine asked breathlessly.

"A blowjob. And, well, a handjob too."

"...It's still up..." Vaine looks at his own cock, surprised himself that his body was still excited.

Midas watches him momentarily before speaking up, "If you want, you can touch yourself while I'm here." Midas wasn't going to dare attempt to ride him. That will be for another time.

"Touch my penis?" Vaine surmises.

"You never masturbated before?"

"No. We don't indulge much with the flesh," Vaine explains.

"Ok," Midas sighs, but it's not one of frustration. He brings himself closer, guiding his hand so that Vaine was grabbing his own member. "I'll tell you how."

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Wanted to say thank you to everyone who came (hehe) on this journey with me and read these awful prompts for Kinktober. Every kind comment and kudos really helped me want to push each chapter out and do my best to negate my own insecurities with writing smut and writing in general. I hope everyone who stumbles upon this will continue to read their favorite chapter for months to come and hopefully in the future, I'll be able to write more in this fandom! Hope you enjoyed these ridiculous prompts and do stay safe out there and be kind to yourself :)

Here's the Kinktober lists for anyone who wants to partake! Let's be extra horny this lovely October

[professionalranter31]

What is this kid?

As Izuku lands, he tightens the cape to keep Eri close.  The raid just went straight out window with Nighteye injured and Mirio losing his quirk.  He is honestly just running on his instincts at this point and trying to ignore the pounding in his head.

A giant monstrosity bursts out of the ground and Izuku sees Overhaul at the center.  He growls and activates Full Cowling ready to fight to protect the little girl who is clinging to him shaking in absolute fear.  Taking a step he rushes forward and kicking Overhaul into the sky and jumps after him delivering a quick punch.

“Don’t you-” Overhaul tries to say something but Izuku doesn’t care and hits him again.

Down at the ground Uraraka and Tsuyu have gotten Nighteye there and watch the fight in awe but notice something that doesn’t look right, “Why is there steam coming off of Deku-kun?”

Another hit to the madman and Izuku just keeps getting angrier ‘Why won’t he just stay down!?’

As Izuku continues to hit Overhaul more steam continues to come off of him until a burst of it covers both Overhaul, Izuku and Eri until the trio see the little girl falling from the sky still holding onto the cape as though it were a life line.  Tsuyu quickly jumps and grabs the little girl and as she comes down she sees the cape ‘Did Overhaul mange to grab it?’ near the knot it was torn.

As they look up they see a giant shadow begin exit the cloud.  Overhaul plummets to the ground and another blur rusher after him with steam coming from it.  Another hit and the blur seems to grow bigger but then another explosion of steam appears as Overhaul hits the ground.

He gets onto his monstrous feet and tries to move and grab Eri when a large blur hits him away.  A large stomp was heard as growl escapes whatever is in the cloud.

Suddenly, a large gust comes from within the cloud and blows away the steam revealing the creature that stands where Izuku should be.

Towering even over Overhaul in his monstrous form stood a green scaled dragon.  Spikes trailing down the back ending in a spear-like tail the muscles rippling with scarred flesh.  Upon the head adorned five sets of horns the slit eyes a vibrant green.  Another growl escapes the beast’s throat showing the maw of razor sharp teeth before it bellows a monstrous roar that shattered the windows leaving those closest to it to cover their ears and alerting those that are currently underground.

Taking a charge the dragon headbutts Overhaul back into the air and with mighty push of it’s wings follows when green lightning flows over the creature in some areas taking shape of the scars.

“DEKU-KUN!?!?”

Izuku in his new form punches Overhaul with his paw before quickly headbutting the Yakuza leader again.  As he goes further in the air smoke begins to leave Izuku’s mouth before he breathes out a torrent of fire straight at his enemy.

As Overhaul screams in pain Izuku hits him one more time and forces him to crash once more into the ground where he disconnects from the ally he combined with.

Trying to get up Overhaul reaches for his gun hoping maybe he can salvage this situation when the dragon lands in front of him.  The other heroes coming out from underground they stop and gape at the site before them of towering dragon leaning its giant horned head to growl at their main target of the raid who is shivering in utter fear.

Overhaul begins to raise the gun with quirk erasing bullets loaded inside when black tendrils burst out between the scales of the dragon and grabs his hand while new tendrils grab the gun and the other cartridge of bullets.  Raising his free hand he tries to bring down on the face of the dragon when another tendrils stabs through the palm of his hand spins rapidly creating a hole in his hand.  His once captive arm is let go but before he can try and heal himself his hand is stabbed again and the process is repeated.

Multiple tendrils take the gun and bullets; and cover them into a sphere and begin to squeeze breaking everything throwing the ruined weapon into the sky and Izuku breathes another torrent of searing flames completely destroying the dangerous weapons.  As he takes a breath a third explosion of steam escapes from him and there he stands human again at least somewhat.  Before anyone can ask questions, the green-haired boy falls to the ground unconscious.

~A couple hours later~

At the hospital Aizawa, Toshinori and Inko stand on in a hospital room.

“I thought his quirk was super strength not turning into a god damn dragon!” Aizawa suddenly screams out frustrated since none of this makes sense.

“Aizawa, I don’t understand this either, but there is no need to lash out.  Ms Midoriya can you explain the quirk of young Midoriya’s father please?” Yagi decides to try and get to the root of this connundrum they are currently experiencing.

“T-this wasn’t what was on-n the donor’s-s inform-”

“Wait, donor?”

“O-oh um, my husband wasn’t f-f-fertile and well I-I had always really wanted a child so I had gone to a sperm bank and asked for an insemination from someone with a fire quirk so it could be like it was o-our own child but well when Hisashi f-found out what I had done h-he left.  T-t-turned out he had cut his tubes a-and never wanted a-a child.” Inko manages to get out through her worry for her son as she looks to him on the bed.

Izuku is now sporting the same amount of horns as his dragon form.  Scales litter his body now and x-rays showed that he now has a new organ which they theorize is for the fuel for his fire breathe.

“I’ll have Recovery Girl run a DNA test to see who the sperm donor is so maybe we can get some answers.” with that Aizawa and Toshinori leave the room in the hopes of getting some answers.

~One hour later~

Toshinori and Aizawa sit before Recovery Girl waiting for her to tell them the results.

“Midoriya’s DNA is a bit strange right now but I managed to isolate what I was looking for and for some reason he has four biological parents.  I have yet to call the three donors yet as I figured you would like to know who they were.  First, we have Ryuko Tatsuma AKA the Dragon Hero Ryukyu so one part is solved on Midoriya’s quirk.  Secondly, we have Taishiro Toyomitsu AKA the BMI Hero Fatgum, I have yet to figure out how this factors into his quirk yet.  Finally, we have Enji Todoroki AKA the Flame Hero Endeavor which explains the fire breathe.”

The room is currently silent as the two teachers absorb the information they have just been told.

A/N

Welp, that’s it people.  One piece of information I couldn’t tell you guys is that the sperm bank was a front for the HPSC to try and create powerful quirks for the future and Inko’s request was perfect for them to try their hands at combining multiple pieces of DNA.

@musicfeedsmysoul12  @anastasian-dreamer 

Have fun with this!

If you got any feedback for me on how I can improve my writing you can tell just don’t be rude about it.

[kyloren]

i was never really into the jonsa ship, but that post of yours has got me really interested... do you have any fave fics of them??

welp, we’re going old-school, lads. prepare for some of my favourite fandom throwbacks well, I failed at that, I put some of the newer things on the list, too

CANON-VERSE:

Now You See Me: Kissed by fire, Ygritte thought to herself, just like me. 

Goodbye Means Going Away (And Going Away Means Forgetting): Memory is unreliable. No one understands this better than Rickon Stark.

Take My Crown Away (Don’t Smile So Sweetly, My Love): A world where everything is easier. Except for those who love, and love too much.

Build a Ladder to the Stars: Jon abandons the Night’s Watch to join Robb’s cause. After rescuing Sansa from King’s Landing, he and Sansa find themselves in a relationship they never saw coming.

A Winter’s Tale: The War of Three Dragons comes to the Vale, bringing Jon Snow and Sansa Stark together once more.

The Winter of Our Discontent: In the end it is Jon and his men of the Night’s Watch who come to take her back to Winterfell.

tell me true (who are you): Ned Stark brought a dark-haired, grey-eyed bastard babe home and called him son. Years later, Jon Targaryen does the same.

Lift Me Like an Olive Branch and Be My Homeward Dove: She never dreams of Jon Snow but in the end he is the one that comes for her under a Targaryen banner, the might of Winterfell and the North behind him with their father’s sword on his back.

The Whispering Ghosts (Left You Out In The Cold): Winter came and brought Jon home. [this is the first Jonsa fic I ever read, boy, did it fuck me up]

A Bronze Crown: In the end there are no knights. In the end Sansa must rescue herself. Based on the prompt: he doesn’t ride to her rescue; she comes north with her granduncle and the armies of the Vale to wage war on the Boltons, save his life and teach his assassins and the Boltons a sharp lesson.

how ruthless are the gentle*: “Yes, I do.” The easiest lie he’s ever told, by far. It came so naturally, he hardly thought of it as false. “She’s easy to love.”

Tell the Ones That Need to Know (We Are Headed North)*: After years of confinement in the Red Keep with Ned prisoner in the black cells, the Dragon Queen comes. With the knowledge that Jon Snow is actually a Targaryen, she agrees to let the Starks return to Winterfell only if Jon marries one of the Stark daughters. Sansa volunteers so they can all go home. Soon she figures out being married to Jon isn’t bad, but it is complicated.

Cripples, Bastards and Broken Things*: We know no King, but the King in the North whose name is Stark. 

Dragons of Red, Dragons of White*: An AU where the Battle of the Trident took place, but just between Rhaegar Targaryen and Robert Baratheon. Their duel and its outcome have ramifications that none could foresee. In the world built afterwards, dragons once again rule and roam Westeros, among them the son of a northern beauty and the king. Prince Jon and his kin, Stark and Targaryen alike, face new challenges from both without and within. Whatever the future holds, the Seven Kingdoms will learn that, whether in a coat of red or a coat of white, a dragon still has claws.

A Knight’s Watch: Jon Snow is forbidden to take the black by his father. Instead he sent to squire for a famous knight, beginning a long arduous journey that causes him to cross paths with characters he never would have. Along the way he learns truths long hidden and discovers love in the most unlikely of places.

The Conquest*: Three hundred years after Aegon the Conqueror built a new empire on the ashes of the Valyrian Freehold the known world is a place of war. The Targaryen Empire is pressed by enemies, the Seven Kingdoms war amongst themselves and forces contrive to pull them all apart.

Live Without Shame: When Catelyn’s treatment of Winterfell’s Bastard unexpectedly softens, Sansa reconsiders her relationship with Jon. But despite the revelations that ensue, Jon must and will always remain Winterfell’s Bastard and suffer its consequences.

The Tempered Kingdoms*:  After years of wars, death, destruction, politics, and White Walkers, a tentative calm has returned to Westeros partially due to the rulership of King Jon and Queen Daenerys. But politics rues its head again as Stannis Baratheon demands his right to rule, while the former Queen Cersei languishes in a cell, plotting her revenge against all who live above her. Sansa Stark is forced to return to King’s Landing after being found by the rumored lovers Jaime Lannister and Brienne of Tarth.

winterbloom: “You’ve traveled a long way for a rumor.” Sansa lives at the Wall under the protection of her brother Jon Snow, but when Sandor Clegane comes looking for her, she and Jon begin to realize that she is not as safe as they once hoped.

As History Changes: Jon agrees to accompany Stannis south to the Vale and he meets a person he did not expect to meet.

hold onto your heart (you’ll keep it safe): When Sansa turns eleven her wrist burns. She excitedly unwraps the cloth guarding her skin, waiting eagerly for the name to finish forming. The dark letters stop after only three and when Sansa leans in closer she realises that she knows that name and she knows that handwriting already.

carve your heart into mine: Sansa spent many evenings sewing her wedding dress by the fire, dreaming of her husband. The gown spilled out of her hands like a silver river, burning brighter from the light of the flames. She had embroidered it with a noble husband in mind, but she wed her lowborn love in the godswood, with snowflakes falling on her veil. 

ALTERNATIVE UNIVERSE:

Into the Darkness of the Grave: The tragic death of Eddard Stark’s cousin Lyanna brings her estranged son back to Winterfell House, the family’s old plantation home, for her funeral.

The Other Shoe: If anyone had told Sansa Stark that she would be married to Jon Snow, expecting a child with him at the age of nineteen she would have laughed at them. Not because Jon was a bad person, for he had slowly come out of his shell in the past seven years; not because she was young, her parents were married right out of Hogwarts; simply because Sansa Stark seemed to be the anthesis of a happy ending.

several sunlit days: Everyone knows you don’t date Robb Stark’s sisters unless you want to spend your days avoiding hexes and angry bludgers shot at your head. Too bad Jon’s traitorous feelings could care less.

the unexpected champion: Jon must swim to The Black Lake and retrieve something *cough* Sansa *cough* stolen from him. This task makes him realize who he should invite to the Yule Ball.

Where Did You Sleep Last Night: Sansa needs a new guitarist, Jon needs a new band, and the two of them definitely don’t need each other.

and labor till the work is done: Stark Industries is a family legacy she was hoping to avoid: Robb is a project manager, grooming to eventually be a partner, Arya is a summer intern with Bran sure to follow next year and Rickon in another three, and even Jon Snow, who is technically not family but who has been around for as long as Sansa can remember, works as an estimator. But Sansa is not who she was at sixteen or eighteen or even twenty and she’s still in the process of learning what’s truly important, like who she is, who she wants to be, and what kind of people she wants in her life.

One Of The Few Things: Jaime and Sansa spend a lot of time pining over Brienne and Jon together. Sometimes, they actually even do their jobs.

flower shaped heart*: Alayne Stone has lived her whole life in her hidden tower, forbidden by Mother to leave. But she yearns for an adventure like the ones in the songs, so when a man named Jon Snow crashes into her tower and into her life, she seizes the chance. They travel to King’s Landing where the floating lanterns shine each year on her nameday. The new world is exciting and frightening, but Jon Snow is there to guide her every step. He is not nearly as terrible as Mother said men are, though the rest of the world might be. Danger, betrayals, and lies form the steps of their journey as Alayne uncovers terrible secrets.

Crawl up to my Room: Jon left her side after a few moments of silence and she watched him leave with a quiet thought playing in her mind. He was her stepbrother for only a few hours, and she already found herself utterly fascinated and irritated with Jon Stark. 

in the summer, as the lilacs bloom: “You did tech in high school,” Sansa points out. (Yeah, I did tech because you were playing the lead and I was in love with you.) Jon doesn’t tell her that, though. Of course not. Instead he agrees to spend his summer stage managing this passion project of hers, and some trace of his seventeen-year-old self has dried out his throat at the thought of three months’ constant contact with Sansa.

Down from the Mountain: Sansa flies home from college after her older brother Robb, one of the country’s hottest young pitchers, is hurt in a car accident. Robb’s best friend Jon is there to help the Stark family in any way he can.

Little Bed in the Big Woods: “I stared at him for a solid five minutes because he looked like what I imagine god would look like if god was a lumberjack.”

A Game of Stars*: When the Mad Emperor hears that the Starks are Force-sensitive, he discovers the hidden rebel base on Hoth. He sends Jon there with one order: Burn them all. But bring the Stark children to Coruscant. It’s time for the two most powerful Force bloodlines in the galaxy to merge.

I’ll Pack My Goods for the Arkansas Woods*: When Sansa’s brother goes missing, it falls to her to defend the house and the woods against the greed of the Boltons and Freys. All of this would be much easier if she could fight fire with fire, and there’s a saying in the valley: that all the Starks are a little wild, and all the Targaryens are a little mad. Her cousin Jon just happens to be both.

In the Face of Death: On a long list of things Jon never expected, Sansa came top.

United States of Irreversible Oblivion: With the government losing its fight at the northern border, Sansa’s only hope is that one of its soldiers, Office Jon Snow, will return for her and save her from the horrors of a collapsing society.

remember me love when i’m reborn: ‘Longest Night’ has biggest night in hollywood history. “Joffrey wanted someone to make him famous, and as soon as Sansa wrote a movie for him that did just that, he left her in the dirt.”

Hear the Wolf*: The Starks are in Hogwarts. Sansa has to learn to stand up to her ex-boyfriend and Jon has to learn to face his past. They’re determined to do it alone. Will they ever admit they’re stronger together?

Somewhere in the Winter Woods*: Lost on her way to her grandmother’s cabin in the winter woods after running away from home, beautiful young Sansa thinks she’s run into trouble when she crosses a white wolf in the forest. Instead of harming her, the animal guides her to his master, a handsome warrior named Jon who lives in solitude and clothes himself in black.

* marks the ongoing stories. 

[secretsfromwholecloth]

Dragon Age: Origins, day 2.

The profiteering merchant in Lothering offends Isaura’s moral sensibilities in an abstract sort of way, yes, but he also clearly feels some guilt about what he’s doing or he wouldn’t be so defensive. Which makes him a perfect target for her to draw out the conversation and make him squirm.

Morrigan, shut up, Isaura will solve other people’s problems if she wants. You’re just jealous that you’re not the one who’s just starting to realize you’re finally in control of your own life.

Hello, Leliana. The last pretty girl Isaura saw in one of those sunburst dresses didn’t do her any favors, but you seem helpful, at least. You can stay, for now. (A genuine friendship will come later.)

Sorry, doggie, but I need a rogue and don’t want to drop Morrigan yet. Hopefully having just Alistair to tank for three ranged characters won’t leave me regretting my life choices too much.

I can open things now! :D

Hello, Sten. Fucked up bad enough that you would’ve been in line for execution if a Grey Warden hadn’t happened by and decided you looked good enough to push in front of darkspawn? Isaura may know something of that experience.

I’ll give Sten this, his VA is nice to listen to.

Sorry, Morrigan, you can snark at Alistair and Leliana more later, I need a proper melee squad.

Isaura has taken her first specialization—Spirit Healer, of course. One of these days I’ll have to have a good think about what kind of spirit she’d be inclined to pick up. Maybe name it.

Ah, camp. Time to make the rounds and get to know the babies.

Isaura is having fun trolling Sten and Leliana, but she’s already letting up quicker than she would’ve back at the Circle. She’s getting used to being more in control of things, and that means she doesn’t have the same need to be annoying.

Mutual sniping time with Morrigan is pretty fun as well.

Alistair could stand to assume that Miss Former Circle Mage over here knows the basics of what a templar is; what she really wants to know is, how much of a Templar is he, still? His critical attitude toward the institution and his story of being horrified by his first Harrowing and being happy to nope out afterwards are promising, but she’ll have to keep an eye out over a longer period to see if he really means it.

Right then, back home to the Circle tower. I’m not doing Redcliffe first, for once!

Isaura has been telling herself since Flemeth’s hut that Irving will listen to her. He has to listen. Even if he’s still mad at her, he listens to the Wardens, and he has to know there’s a Blight on.

Who to bring? Well, Alistair and Leliana are non-negotiable, and whoever gets the free spot is going to get dropped for Wynne anyway, so it doesn’t much matter. Hey, let’s take the dog back out for a walk.

Alistair, dearie, rest assured that the tower’s location is not due to the mages having “an aversion to practicality”. Isaura will be happy to tell you what she knows of Anders (less than she might, but they knew each other in passing) to demonstrate.

Hello for proper, Wynne. Fun times here at the Circle tower, huh?

Eurgh, this thing with the desire demon. Though, demon friend, you might be advised that Isaura is...less put off by the prospect of having to kill a Templar than others might be.

Oop, Fade time. And this is where I take a second to pull up the walkthrough, because no way am I taking two steps in the Fade without it.

I sure do love the spirit form. Crushing Prison + Winter’s Grasp + spirit bitchslap = hey, where’d all the enemies go?

Hello again, Cullen. Goodness.

Chantry propaganda aside, frankly, the only shameful thing here is your taste. But you won’t understand that for a lot of years, if you ever do.

Well, and your eventual reaction to everything that’s going on, but that hasn’t happened yet.

Isaura may not respect Cullen, but she’s not completely devoid of pity for the kid, and she feels pretty bad right now.

Don’t be tedious, Uldred.

Oh, apparently you’re constitutionally incapable of not being tedious. Welp, time to make you stop, then.

Isaura finds she kind of missed Irving, despite everything. It was good to see him. Well, onward. In the morning. Because it’s late.

[moonraccoon-exe]

Disney’s Tangled but it’s a Corqi

This has been sitting in my drafts for literal MONTHS, being finished little by literal over M O N T H S, and just got to finish it now lmao

Sorry for the size, but Tangled gives me Feelings and Corqi even more, so this had to happen, inevitably ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I’m going to put the whole thing under cuts, UNDER reblogs, because even if you put a “Keep Reading” line on a post, it doesn’t work on mobile and honestly mobile users will MURDER ME for the size, so you’re welcome, making this comfortable for you.

Also making it like three parts so it’s easier for you to read, because you know me, I’m the 10k+ nerd, and this is 20k+ so yes. 

Do I regret spending literal months on this to post and find 10 notes, 5 of which are myself?

Yes.

Does that mean I’m not going to post?

Fuck no, I spent a lot in this so if I get one note, fuck it, I’ll just love it myself lmao

[prplzorua]

Sleep it Off

I've got a helluva head cold, so instead of y'know sleeping, I decided, why not write a sick fic with Remy? With the premise my fogged mind decided to give me. "Like what if he tries to hide it at first but then it gets worse and the entire mindscape starts to get slow and feel sluggish until the others find him?" Sooo ye, this the product if that lol. Sned halp I'm dying. ---------

It started off with a headache. A small thing that was easily ignored. It's not like it was the first time he had a headache, he could deal. Nothing was going to stop him from doing his job, no ma'am! Not today bitch.

Not tomorrow either.

...

Or the next day.

...

Or the next- look man, he had shit to do, places to see and people to be and all that...

Remy frowned, that phrase didn't sound right... places to see and people to be-wasn't it the other way around?

Remy raised a manicured hand and rubbed his tired eyes, but continued to stare forward into the Sand screens, sighing as he had to rewind them back for the few seconds that he had missed when is eyes were closed. He been at it for days, constantly searching. Searching for something, a disturbance, what that disturbance was he didn't know and that unnerved him.

He kept sensing it from beyond the gate, at best it could be a stray Nightmare at worst a particularly gruesome intrusive thought.

Turns out...

It was both.

-------

Fighting off the Nightmare was child's play compared to the fight the Intrusive thought was giving him, and that's wild to say, considering that the Nightmare had been the 12 foot version of Mothman and Godzilla's love baby.

Thankfully a perfectly timed Sand Spear to its heart downed the creature effectively, but that of course was after he got tossed around like a freaking ragdoll-

Hissing Remy dodged the shadowed claw aiming for his throat. That was the annoying this about Intrusive thoughts. Once they snuck their claws into you, once their shadowy bodies clinged and coiled around you, once they whispered in your ears...you were practically done for. Unless of course, you had strong will power, but that could only take you so far.

Crouching into a side roll, Sleep narrowly dodged again. The thing's shadowy form could stretch, allowing its claws to jab at him at any distance. It made things a little bit difficult- not that his job was ever easy.

Rolling once more Remy then pushed himself up, jumping to his feet and then bending back to avoid a swipe to his head-even though the movement was quick, the Guardian saw the swirling claw pass over the lenses of his sunglasses in slow motion- huffing he quickly threw his hands over his head, pushing on the grass below him to basically complete a backflip.

Once upright and now a slight distance away from the enemy, Remy smirked, lifted a finger and beckoned it closer.

The Intrusive thought, angered, rushed forward- only for Sleep to take a single step back- it ran into a wall of sand. Confused the Thought tried to go around in an attempt to rip the Guardian into pieces- except it ran into another wall...and then another...and another. And before it could even think to have climbed up, another wall was placed above it.

It was completely surrounded.

"What you thought I was rolling around for nothin'? Please, this jacket is too goddessdamn expensive for that. Everytime I rolled, I had my Sand spread out, enough to lift up into a cage. Nice trick don'tcha think?"

The Intrusive thought howled throwing itself against the walls of its Sandy prison.

"Thought so too", Smirked Remy, "alright then, lights out buddy!"

Sleep clapped his palms together- the Sand walls moved, closing shut and completely crushing the being it once held.

"Welp, that's all folks", mumbled the Guardian to himself. The annoying buzzing had finally stopped, but his head still ached something rude.

Wincing a bit, he headed back to the Dream Tower.

-----

Remy groaned.

He fixed the problem, so why does his head still feel like he got run over by the mob at Sb's when Pumpkin Spice first gets out?

Speaking of Starbucks, when was the last time he actually went there? Last week? Week before? Why can't he remember??

He'd been functioning on the castle's brew, which wasn't bad, just...not good.

Eh, fuck it.

Shower, coffee then a power nap, yeah- that's a good idea, it'll probably get rid of his stupid headache too.

One cold shower, a trip to Starbies and an iced coffee later...he was now on his bed with an even worse headache.

Grumbling to himself about 'stupid fuckin headaches', Remy downed the rest of his drink, tossed his cup in the bin by his door and proceeded to flop down face first into his pillow.

Maybe the nap would help?

------

It did not help.

He woke up, not even a half hour later, with his head pounding so hard he could feel his pulse though his eyes.

Placing a hand to his temple Remy winced and then groaned, "what-the-ever-loving-fuck?!"

To make matters worse, his phone began to ring.

The sound was so loud it made him jump and scramble to shut it up.

It was the ringtone he used for Thomas but he honestly couldn't bring himself to answer his Host. His body had near automatically curled up, hands pressed against his ears and his eyes squeezed shut. Remy honestly felt like his head was trying to explode, even the sound of his own breathing was too loud-

The phone rang again, Roman's ringtone this time. A louder, much more bass heavy song.

The sound echoed, the reverb practically shaking his brain into pained mush, tears pricked at his eyes and he could do nothing more than whimper-

Remy's sand then rose up immediately and just...ate?? the offending piece of technology.

Sleep found that oddly funny, the sand covered the phone...and then the phone was gone, like a magic trick...or like something getting swallowed up by waves off the beach. Funny, the sand was the wave this time. He wanted to laugh or cry or something! He didn't know, everything...everything just freakin hurt.

----

Roman frowned.

"He's not answering my calls either"

"Of course" mumbles Thomas, flopping down on his bed and throwing a pillow over his face. "Uggh! I'm so tirrreed!!

"Um, We could always go look for him for you sport?" Tried Patton, a sympathetic look on his face.

"You could do that?"

"Well, considering that we can't really summon him since he's an Aspect and not a Side, that would be the best possible way of bringing him here", piped Logan from the Host's door frame.

Virgil, who was on the floor, shrugged. "I mean, I guess, we probably should check the nearest SB's first though"

Thomas chuckles "true"

The Manifestor removes the pillow from his face just in time to watch his sides sink down, hopefully they can find Sleep so he could actually get some decent sleep for once.

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The Personalities pop up in the Commons before climbing up the stairs towards Roman's room.

"Soo", whistles Virgil, falling into step with the prince, "where exactly are we going to find him?"

"The gate, first"

"But its day? I thought he only guarded it at night?"

"No, he guards it at all times, he's the Guardian of the Subconscious not a freaking night guard!"

"Woah easy Princey, go off on him not me-"

"No, no sorry, I just- he never ignores my calls, if he misses it, he calls me back immediately, we made a deal about it in case of emergencies...I think- I think something's wrong"

The other three exchange a glance at each other.

Roman pushes open the door a bright light depicting the portal to his Kingdom, the Mindscape itself. With a bit of concentration the light disperses, showing the image of the Dream Tower's entrance.

-----

The moment they step in, Roman freezes.

Everything feels off.

The air feels slow and sluggish and no one is moving around. As a matter of fact, no one was there at all.

Frowning, he climbs up the stairs towards Remy's room. Something was definitely wrong, the Dream Tower was always bustling with, Aspects, Figments and Emotions.

The others follow behind Roman as he picks up the pace-he almost trips.

There's a tugging, he looks down...sand, Gold sand is wrapped around his ankle.

"Shit!"

-------

"The Sand's not gonna attack us right? I've never seen it like this before"

"That's because it's worried about him, aren't your shadows the same way?"

"Uh, sometimes? I think? There a hell of a lot less sentient than this sand is, that's for sure"

Remy's room...would make the Sahara Desert cry.

Everything, everything was covered in sand. Well it was more like wrapped in sand? The glittering, gold dust didn't drown anything under it, the individual shapes of everything were clearly visible but it was a lot of sand.

"Will you two stop ogling at it and help us get him out of it. The infernal thing doesn't seem to realize the more it covers him the less of him we can actually hold-" huffs Logan, as he keeps trying to brush the sand off of Remy. Every time he did so more sand would crawl over it master, hissing at the Teacher as it did so.

Patton places a hand on his shoulder.

"Logan wait- I think the Sand doesn't want us to touch him"

"But that would defeat the purpose of it asking us to help!?"

"No I think it's for a different reason. I have an idea-"

"Patton we-"

"Hear him out L, none of us know what's going on-"

"Thank you Virge, Roman can you conjure me a thermometer?"

"Um, ok?" The prince holds out his hand and after a brief second of concentration, a new prepackaged thermometer appears.

Patton wastes no time in grabbing it and tearing pack open. Gently he turns Sleep's head- the Sand hisses at him for this.

"Shh, I'm just trying to help ok"

If sand could look sceptical...though it quiets and let's the Prominent personality slip the thermometer between Remy's parted lips.

It's kept under his tongue until it beeped-

"104.6°F"

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Bonus:

"Sleep"

"Ngh, where-?"

"Hey Sleep!"

"Mnh?"

Remy blinked his eyes open. His vision was blurry and his head pounded. Honestly he was consider going right back to-

"Sleep!"

Remy sat up with a gasp. Wincing as a cold rag fell into his lap. He picked it up. "What?"

"You ok there pal?"

Remy tensed, only just realizing that someone was in front of him, that someone being a very worried-

"Thomas?"

"Yeah it's me-"

"Where-?"

"You're in my room, and you kinda brought the Sides here too"

Ever confused, Remy could only squint and mumble. "Wha?"

Thomas simply pointed down.

From the bed that they were on, Remy could indeed see Thomas' main sides in all degrees of sprawled asleep on the floor. They did look quite peaceful though.

"Um?"

"Yeah...that was my reaction too-"

"You said I brought them here?"

"Uh, ye, about that...what do you remember?"

Sleep placed a hand to his head, wincing... "Um, your- your phone call I think and ...Roman's? But other than that, I have no clue"

"I-uh, I guess I could tell you what they told me?"

"Better than nothing, go for it"

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"Pat said you had a high fever and according to him, the others were helping to lower it, but-"

"but?"

"But you...kinda woke up? Roman said you were out of it, mumbling something about protecting me and a fence-"

"Gate"

"What?"

"It's a Gate, huge ass Golden gate that separates the conciousness from the unconsciousness, the literal division and final protection of your subconscious"

"...ok wow, I didn't, um"

"I still can't believe that you've been inside the subconscious, the damn Dream Tower itself and still haven't seen the Gate"

"In my defense, I almost died"

"Fair. Now continue, what did my apparently fever drunk ass do next?"

"Um, well Virgil said you turned into a zombie, you like stood up and were trying to get outside, Roman had to hold you back but you kept shuffling forward-"

"Oof. Yeah...been there done that-"

"What? This happened before?"

"Ohh yeah. One time I was sick and my girls at the Tower had to legit lock me in my room so I wouldn't keep working"

"And here I thought you were lazy?"

"I'm far from lazy hun, I'm just always late. I don't like hard work, doesn't mean I won't do it, I just don't like it. Besides I'm cool do you think anyone this fine could look like this by being lazy? Please gurl, my work schedule could put Logan to shame"

"And yet-"

"And yet I'm always late, yeah- yeah. Look my sense of time and direction, are like, complete shit babes, but at the end of the day, I get my shit done and it gets done well. Quality over quantity and all that."

Both Aspect and Host paused and then instantly started laughing.

"Ok,ok, what happened next? How did we all end up in here?" Asked Remy as he gained his breath back.

"Uh, yeah, um apparently while you were struggling against Roman, Logan had asked Patton how he thought this would have affected me-"

"And let me guess, I heard him mention your name and just popped everyone here huh?"

"Yeah, pretty much, basically"

Remy shook his head at himself.

"Alright, why are they all sprawled out? I doubt that Roman of all people volunteered to sleep on the floor"

"Yeah...about that. When you brought everyone here, you kinda passed back out. The others were trying to explain something about the sand in your room, when this Gold sand just appeared from nowhere and Moana-Ocean-style came up to each of them in like the shape of a finger and just.. shushed them. Like literally went "Shhh"

"Oh, God-"

"And then before we could question it, it retracted, like it crawled back over you and turned into your bag- wait! Is that why you always have this bag with you?!"

"No duh? It's my sand, just easier to carry it around in bag form-"

"H-how, how does it change color like that?"

"It doesn't, that's just the color it takes when it's dormant and bright Gold when awake-"

"Cool, and what about your shades and Jacket?"

"That...is whole 'nother story, one I have absolutely no energy to tell tbh"

"Oh. Ok, well the guys kinda just drifted right off after your Sand became your bag, so yeah, that's the whole story I guess"

"A mess, but good to know-" Remy chuckled only to cut himself off with a wince. His head was still hurting like hell, even throughout Thomas' recounting- but now it just felt worse.

Watching Sleep in pain made the Host's stomach coil. He didn't like seeing anyone hurt, especially his Sides or Aspects in this case.

Gently he grabbed Sleep's shoulders and helped lower him back onto a pillow.

"Ok, why don't you lay back down-"

"Yeah, ok"

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Remy lays back, settling himself on the bed...and then he pouts.

Thomas chuckles, already knowing the reason for that pout. He easily pulls Remy onto his chest, patting his back gently. The Aspect practically melts into it.

"And you call me clingy"

"Shhh!"

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Thomas is woken up early next morning, by the sounds of hissing and mumbled cursing.

Sitting up, he bites his tongue so as not to laugh at the sight before him.

A disheveled Roman was carrying a very much asleep...Sleep, bridal style. The Aspect had his face burrowed in the crook of the Prince's neck, seemingly relaxed, completely unperturbed by the events. Right next to Roman was Patton, who was holding Virgil quite similarly. Every second or so, the Emo's foot or arm would twitch before he resettled. Honestly between Virgil and Remy, Thomas couldn't tell who was snoring harder. The kicker though, was Logan, sleepily holding onto Patton's cat hoodie,slightly swaying as he rubbed his eyes. The Logical side was obviously not a morning person.

Patton waved at his Host, while Roman gave him a nod, Logan mumbled something, but Thomas could not decipher any of the other's sleepy jargon.

The Manifestor simply waved as they sunk down.

Once gone, Thomas flopped right back down curling up comfortably- what? He was sleepy.

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AN:// Hi guys, I did a thing! I should probably take a nap tho XD. The Innerworks update is still coming, I've just been busy and tired, but it's coming, just hang in there. But you can consider this lil ficlet a part of the Innerworks universe, it just takes place after the events in Innerworks....so canon lol.

[nadziejastar]

Riku: That was my...my dark side. I gave in to the darkness once. And ever  since, it's chased me around in one form or another. The Seeker of Darkness  who stole my body...a puppet replica of the shadows in my heart...and now, I'm facing me.

Definitely think it's a scrapped idea. The entire way Riku Replica was handled in KH3 made no sense. It was just so...weird. Riku Replica was the Seeker of Darkness we fight at the Keyblade Graveyard. And also...a ghost Riku? There’s three Rikus now?

Riku Replica: I thought by finding some new strength, I could finally be someone---someone who is not at all you! But...nothing changes... I'm still just empty! Everything about me is borrowed. As long as you're around, I'll never be more than a shadow!

If you ask me, Riku Replica wasn’t supposed to be some kind of unique character distinct from Riku. He was supposed to be an aspect of Riku. His Shadow Self. It's why he had such an exaggerated personality. Like his rivalry with Sora and his belief that the real Riku was a wimp who was afraid of the darkness. Shadows are the embodiment of the repressed qualities of their human counterparts. In the Persona series, Shadow Selves wish to kill their original selves and take their place in the world. I think Kingdom Hearts had the same idea. This is exactly what Riku Replica tried to do in CoM and what Aqua's Shadow Self wanted to do, too.

Naminé: No matter how much I change his memory, Sora will never forget Kairi. Memories of me--- More false memories of me will just make his feelings for Kairi even stronger than before. Because...I'm the shadow of Kairi.

Larxene: What's your problem with that? That should be your incentive not to screw anything up. Just do a good job rewriting Sora's heart. Then you can actually be somebody---and no longer just Kairi's shadow. You'll be real in Sora's heart.

It's exactly what Naminé was trying to do as well, just in a different way. She tried to replace all of Sora's memories of Kairi with memories of HER. I also think Naminé was meant to be simply an aspect of Kairi’s personality, not a unique character unto herself. IMO, the Riku Replica ghost thingy only existed to come up with SOME excuse to bring Naminé back. If Kairi’s shadow could come back, people would wonder why Riku’s shadow couldn’t come back. Oh, look he sacrificed his vessel for her. How sweet. Well, in reality, Riku Replica just wasn’t as popular as Naminé.

Shadow Kanji: I am a shadow... The true self... I'm just being true to myself...And that's why... I'll get rid of anything in my way!

Yukiko: Are these... Kanji-kun's true feelings?

Yosuke: This isn't really him! It's just his emotions going haywire!

IMO, the Seeker of Darkness Riku was the only Riku Replica that was supposed to be in KH3. The original idea was that the hidden aspects of Riku's psyche were manifested in him. I’m sure this was something that was supposed to be explored in KH0.5. If Riku was supposed to have some kind of subplot with his "other self" in KH3, it would be similar to something like Persona 4. Basically, the character is dealing with some personal issue that they are ashamed of. This issue manifests as an exaggerated mirror image of them---what they are afraid to be perceived as. 

Aqua: Terra and Ven didn't have anything to say. But my shadow... She wanted to destroy me. Never would have thought I'd become my own worst enemy. I've talked to myself a lot since falling into these shadows. But with the phantom, it's as though all of my doubts have gained a voice of their own. She's the weakness in my heart. 

My guess is that Riku leaving behind his old Keyblade for his other self was a remnant of the original idea for his character arc. It was featured in the trailer because it was supposed to be a very important scene for him (like Anti-Aqua). Riku would finally overcome the darkness inside of him by accepting it head-on. He was trying so hard to deny certain aspects of himself, because he was ashamed. Riku Replica was the embodiment of what Riku was afraid of being perceived as---a horrible person who destroyed his home and rejected his "loser" friends.

Quasimodo: Master Frollo--he made me live inside the bell tower, but the real walls were the ones I built around my heart. You helped me see that, Riku.

Riku: I was...speaking from...personal experience.

Phoebus: I'd say you still keep a lot locked inside.

Esmeralda: We all do that sometimes. There are just some things we need to keep separate from the world at large, at least until we have time to figure them out.

He’s extremely jealous of Sora's ability to follow his heart and make friends so easily. He hated how Sora always “wormed his way” into his heart, so he constantly tried to kill him. Suppressing those parts of himself only made his Shadow Self stronger, allowing it to become a Seeker of Darkness. 

Yosuke: Dammit... It hurts to face yourself... I knew it wasn’t lying...But I was so ashamed that I didn’t want to admit it... You’re me... and I’m you. When you get down to it, all of this is me. > The strength of heart required to face oneself has been made manifest...Yosuke has faced his other self... He has obtained the facade used to overcome life’s hardships, the Persona Jiraiya!

Riku would need to bring these issues to light and accept them as parts of himself. All people have shadow aspects of themselves, so Riku would learn that it's really nothing to be ashamed of. It's just part of being human. Having a friend see his Shadow and still accept him would also help. That may have been Mickey's role while using the power of waking on him. After dealing with his Shadow Self, Riku would gain the strength of heart to awaken a new power. 

Mickey: Yep, it's just the key I was looking for. A Keyblade from the dark realm!

Aqua: A Keyblade of darkness.

Mickey: "The door of darkness...tied by two keys. The door of darkness...to seal the light." Welp, we've got the keys. Now we find the ones to close the door.

It's VERY likely that Riku's original Keyblade was a Dark Realm Keyblade (a concept that was left unexplored). Riku would symbolically leave his old Keyblade behind for his other self because he doesn't need it anymore. He confronted and accepted his Shadow Self, and was able to overcome his shame. He "faced his fears," allowing him to summon a new Keyblade from the Realm of Light. So, Shadow Riku can keep the Keyblade with the Gazing Eye. But Riku's leaving it behind for him in a figurative sense, not a literal sense. Nobody can actually use that thing. It's a broken piece of junk. And I think that was the point. Riku was supposed to be facetious by saying that.

[duhragonball]

Dragon Ball 123

King Piccolo is dead!    He exploded in the sky over what used to be King’s Castle, but Yamcha, Bulma, and Launch don’t know that yet.   So they move quietly through the rubble to get a better look, until they find...

Another Launch!  No, wait, they find Tien, and this is Launch reacting to that.  Sorry.

She’s super happy an relieved to see him, and she starts bandaging him up.   This is cute and all, but I can’t help but notice that this is the first time Blue Launch has really spent any time with Tien.    She watched Tien break Yamcha’s leg, but I’m pretty sure she was in Blonde mode through every episode until they separated to deal with the Piccolo crisis.  Certainly, she could have sneezed a few times off-screen, but otherwise I think this is the first time Blue Launch has met Tien since he turned good.

I just wonder what the deal is there, because she seems pretty happy to see him, and I always took it for granted that Blue Launch loved Tien as much as Blonde Launch does, but she wouldn’t remember the things Blonde Launch saw that made her fall for the guy.    So what does Blue Launch see in him?   Or is this some deal where the heart remembers?

Then again, like I pointed out before, Blonde Launch didn’t see much of Tien either, at least in the manga, and yet she still fell for him anyway.  Maybe that’s how both forms of Launch roll.   She’s used to hearing about new people after the fact, because someone needs to fill her in on what happened while she was her other self.  

Once Bulma hears from Tien that King Piccolo is dead, she reports the good news to a TV station, and before long the whole world is celebrating.

This escaped convict is so relieved that he’s happy to surrender himself to the authorities.    “Welp, crime is illegal again, so I guess it’s back to jail for me.”   This guy looks like Nappa, by the way.

King Furry’s security guys congratulate him for weathering this crisis, but Furry insists that it’s all because of that boy who tore Piccolo a new cakehole and blew him up.   Well, those aren’t his exact words, but man that fight was good.

Back at Kame House, Tien tells the others the whole story, and Launch is still putting bandages on him.    Okay, Blue Launch is hot for Tien, there’s no question of that.   Bulma’s cooking eggs for everyone, and that’s normally Launch’s thing, so I’m pretty sure she’s only doing that because she couldn’t get Launch away from Tien for five seconds.  

It’s not all sunshine and rainbows, though.    King Piccolo is dead and Goku is alive, but Krillin, Master Roshi, and Chiaotzu were killed during the crisis.    Worse, Shenron was destroyed, so the Dragon Balls have been reduced to ordinary stones.     Not sure why they bothered bringing them back with them to Kame House, or why they’re keeping them in a glass case, but okay.

Meanwhile, this old man’s watching an enormous TV.  

His wife busts in to tell him about this big egg she found in the river.   I was about to say “giant egg”, because it is, but honestly, the TV sort of stole the egg’s thunder.

The old man checks it out an he’s like “This isn’t even close to the size of my TV.” 

Yeeeeeaaaaahhhhh.   Kami left it... why not?

He tells his wife to fetch him a knife, which seems like the wrong move for dealing with an egg, but it was floating in a river before, so maybe he figures all bets are off.    But then it hatches right in front of them, and they look inside....

AHHHHHHHHHH IT’S PICCOLO’S SON AAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

Back at Korin Tower, Korin heals Goku’s injuries with “herbs.”   This word is used in the manga too, which I don’t understand because we’ve already established that Senzu beans heal injuries too, so why bother with anything else?

Korin admits that he honestly didn’t think Goku stood much of a chance, and in his mind, the best case scenario was that Goku and Piccolo would take each other out.   If that happened, he would have used the Dragon Balls to resurrect Goku, though.    Turns out, Korin didn’t know about King Piccolo killing Shenron, which seems odd to me, since he usually knows about everything else, including Piccolo’s wish to make himself younger.    So was he watching Piccolo using the Dragon Balls, then looked away before he killed the Dragon?

  Goku’s pretty frustrated that he can’t wish King Piccolo’s victims back to life, but Yajirobe points out that this is normally how life works.   People die all the time, and you don’t get a reset button.      Then Korin adds that it’s actually worse than that, because when you get killed by a demon, you can’t go to the afterlife, and you’re condemned to wander limbo forever.  

I really don’t get this bit of lore, and I suspect that Toriyama threw it in just to make it clear that there’s something at stake here.    One could argue that Master Roshi is happier in the afterlife, like Son Gohan was, so Korin has to rain on that parade in order to keep the story going. 

But I don’t understand how Korin would know such things, especially since there’s nothing supernatural about King Piccolo or his spawn.   He’s not a demon, he’s a Namekian, and his kids are all mutated Namekians, so how does that fit into all of this?

At last, Korin realizes that there is a way to get the Dragon Balls working again.   Goku just needs to ask the guy who created the Dragon Balls to revive Shenron.   And that guy’s name is Kami.

I don’t want to get bogged down in the definition of the word Kami, since it’s kind of a complicated topic.   Suffice to say that it can be used to refer to a Supreme Being, and that seems to be the context it’s used for in Dragon Ball.  In the Viz translation of the manga, they just substitute the word “God”, which makes the point a little more clearly: Goku has to ask God to turn the Dragon Balls back on. 

I’m pretty sure that’s also what was meant when other characters have referred to Kami in past episodes.   Suno prayed to Kami to watch over Goku while he fought in Muscle Tower, and Chiaotzu prayed to Kami when Tien used the Ki Ko Ho during the World Tournament.   Even in this episode, that old couple who found Piccolo Junior thought the egg might be from Kami.   

So this is what Yajirobe means when he says there’s no such thing.    He’s basically saying that he doesn’t believe in God, even though he’s familiar with the concept of God.   And even if he did think God existed, it’s not like you can just walk up to his front door and ask him to turn the Dragon Balls back on.

But Korin tells them that he not only knows God’s home address, he’s the guy who arranges all his appointments.   Kami’s temple is directly above Korin Tower, and it’s so high up that it can’t even be seen.  Goku can’t fly up to it with Kinto Un because apparently Kinto Un’s maximum altitude is the height of Korin Tower.   A rocket wouldn’t work, because some sort of force field would repel anyone who approached.  

No, the only way to gain access to Kami’s temple is to get permission from Korin, and then to ascend from the top of Korin Tower using... the Nyoibo. 

Turns out the Nyoibo was never a weapon at all.   The reason it extends on command is because you’re supposed to plug it into the top of Korin Tower, and hang onto it while it takes you up to Kami’s place.    Korin gave it to Master Roshi a long time ago because Roshi wouldn’t stop bugging him about it, and eventually Roshi passed it on to Son Gohan, who gave it to Son Goku.   So as it turns out, Goku already has what he needs to appeal to Kami.

Or he would, if he hadn’t lost the Nyoibo during the fight with King Piccolo.    Whoops.

Goku heads back to the ruins of King’s Castle, where King Furry is holding a press conference.   When Goku arrives, Furry introduces the boy as the hero who saved everyone, though he doesn’t know his name.

The press  swarm Goku immediately, but he’s too busy hunting for the Nyoibo to pay any attention to them.

Then he remembers Fortune Teller Baba, and her ability to find lost objects.

Goku heads over to her place.   Now, Baba charges 10 million zeni for a single reading, but you can opt out of her fee by fighting her team of five fighters.   So Goku’s prepared to go that route.

But Baba points out that she’d never find anyone who��d be willing to face the guy who killed King Piccolo, so she agrees to do this one for free.   Master Roshi is her brother, after all.

Turns out the Nyoibo is at Kami House, because Tien picked it up off the battlefield after Goku left.   Goku heads there immediately, leaving Baba to remark that her prediction came true. 

Turns out Launch tied the Nyoibo to a broom head for some reason.    I mean, she needed to clean the bathroom, I get that, but it hasn’t been that long since Tien brought it here, right?   Sometimes it’s hard to tell with Dragon Ball.  Has it been a day or a week since Goku killed King Piccolo?  

Goku immediately runs off, saying something about going to talk to God, and warning the others not to dispose of their friends’ bodies.   No one knows what any of it means.

Meanwhile, Piccolo’s final offspring is burning houses down and threatening to destroy his father’s enemies.

[fgodestinyawakenings]

EOR Shinjuku Singularity: Section 10~Section 12

2/3 of the chapters completed for this Singularity! I’m going to head to the final few bosses very soon! So far so good... Which I’m not really liking how it’s turning out... That’s me being paranoid, so let’s start the next chapter!

Section 10

Previously, the Gudas got kidnapped by the Assassin of Shinjuku and got themselves knocked out in the process! Meanwhile, Edmond learns the Gudas being in danger was part of Archer of Shinjuku’s foils to lure him out

Waking up inside the Leagues’ HQ... More like night time here, Assassin. No given shit here if you beat us for trying to escape! Then why did you bring us if the boss still want to kill us?! Just kill us already you ass--!

Okay, we got the closed up of Other Archer... Oh fuck, they look the same but they definitely aren’t... Right?! Though it explains his reason to tear his good counterpart out to face his rival?

And he pretty much confirms into destroying the whole planet... But why?! You... You did it... BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO TEST IT AS AN EXPERIMENT?! I’ve heard worse in destroying Singularity, yours just feel like a facepalm and a slap too!

I guess somewhat he’s lenient in keeping the Gudas alive, fearing Chaldea will ended up sending another Master to stop him. After leaving us to consider as we reject the idea to turn a blind eye at his doings... So... SHAKESPEARE?! IT’S REALLY OUR SHAKESPEARE THAT CAUGHT UP HERE?!

Yeah, totally that explains the chains meant to hold and torture Servants there. *facepalm* Okay fine, so that where the King Lear Spriggan came from. Look if you two want to shit-talk each other, do it later after I summoned you both in Chaldea!

After Assassin leave us... No dramatic plans to get out of here. But good to know on floor plan, Hornets and King Lear are around in this tower as watchdog. Also, Shakespeare somehow noticed something about Assassin too? Or at least the strange action of our Archer of Shinjuku, since knowing the Hassan disguised should be strange to catch some attention...

Oh he really did give us letter, while drunken enough to do so! And as the letter brings more question... Edmond!! Unfortunately, he could only bring one of us out of this place... We’ll come back to save you for sure, Shakespeare!

Meanwhile, looks like the alarm caught both Gudas and Edmond’s presence. Expected of the Counte of Monte Cristo... A Jail Break like this is nothing but 3 Hornets + 1 King Lear at our ass!

Defeating those 5, Edmond brought the Gudas up to the roof for safety... We’ve got to delay communication temporary until we’re far away from the enemy’s view. So... Time to drop the act, Fake Edmond! Because that Edgelord we know, will never referred himself as his name but the Count of Monte Cristo!

So Edmond is... Sherlock Holmes?! It’s a long time since the last we saw him was at Camelot Singularity! Seems like the reason he came was during Camelot when he was wondering the possibility in finding out if a Singularity could occurred after Humanity was restored

And was still possible if humanity moved passed the incineration Goetia attempted... So more Singularities was created thereafter. Fine, keep your secrets Sherlock Holmes!

Moving on... Sherlock ended up being forced to particpate in the spotlight was thanks to his well-known Nemesis in the story, James Moriarty. Wait.. Our Archer of Shinjuku... Is... James Moriarty?!

But our James is the good one here? Though that doesn’t make him the right to get the Gudas kidnapped here! So before we meet with everyone to get Sherlock to tell us the real motive in that experiment of other James... WHY THE HELL IS THERE 3 RUFFIANS CANNIBALS COMING AFTER US?! WE’RE NOT DELICIOUS MEAT TO EAT!! 

3 crazy ruffians gone... With Sherlock dressing back up as Edmond’s disguise again. Bringing us to Kaburagi, an owner of a general store in this Singularity... Or a black market general store seeing the demonic beasts and weapons he sells.

Oh come on! Can we have enough of kidnapping for one day?! And it’s cool, the only pet we need is Fou, Ozymandias’s sphinx cubs, Caster Cu’s wolves, and our little plushie Mini Cu-chan!

Removed his disguise off, Sherlock brought us to be ready to go by Artoria and Jeanne... Great, so much for a success in breaking out.

If you guys got Archer of Shinjuku before starting this Singularity, his True Name will finally be revealed: James Moriarty

Section 11

In 3, 2, 1-- Both Jeanne and Artoria Alter immediately rushed to the Gudas wondering if they were okay. Mash was relieved as the three her Master was fine, but revealed on her part to confirm they weren’t able to contact to the Gudas

Sherlock then greeted everyone after Da Vinci acknowledge his presence, answering to Mash that he was the one who saved the Gudas. And one long explanation + introduction later, Archer of Shinjuku comes out revealing he knows Holmes a long time... Or rather, James Moriarty.

We more or less forgive James, despite the bullshit he brought us through. Aside from the cat fight, James confessed his True Name to the Gudas properly, establishing a proper contract with them.

Other than the worries and understanding concerns, we’re already stuck with him until we defeated his evil counterpart. Sherlock explained the true motives that was similar to Lion King and Edison back in their own Singularities using the Holy Grail power. 

Within own discussion inside Chaldea from Da Vinci and the Staff... Gudas summarized James’s plan of destroying the world was removing it from history first! Or rather, the separated Shinjuku will be destroyed along with other inhabitants and Servants!

Gudas objected in saving themselves at the price of Shinjuku getting destroyed. And James, please kindly shut up before you should get the deserve beating from the two Alters. Deciding to save Shinjuku, Sherlock is glad they decided to save and revealed how other Moriarty decided to destroy the world

A time limit to prevent the meteor from reaching the gun barrel tower thanks to the Servant he absorbed in... Good to know you learned your lesson a little from France, Jeanne Alter

First step now is to stop that pervert Assassin that kidnapped the Gudas! Sexiness? Why does that need in a plan for? Buy, steal clothes? What’s going and no stealing!!??

Now in the streets, the idea was reckless as Holmes regretted... Dress-up?! Why? And okay firstly, get rid of the 3 Coloraturas that’s blocking the shop!

So as everyone change their clothes... Oh... Wait... What... NO... WHY?! WHAT THE HELL IS THE MEANING OF THIS, JAMES, SHERLOCK?!?!?!?!?!

Section 12

A narration about hierarchy in this evil-filled Shinjuku Singularity... This is Assassin’s narration of his past and own thoughts?

Welp, after entering the party... And once the two Alter done with the cat fight, they had their radio inside their ears to relay information from within the party. Because it’s part of the plan to infiltrate Assassin’s lair... Why do we dressed up again? Well... For Gudao I’m playing, amusingly, him in a red dress!! XD

Don’t you dare take that picture (but please do!), screamed Gudao! XD Gudas danced with Artoria Alter while waiting for Assassin to show up, of course purposely adding fuel into Jeanne Alter’s jealousy...

Flashback to Holmes’s plan on foiling Assassin’s disguise, turns out he’s always on his doppelganger skill in the public, and intention is to seek glory... Expectedly getting beaten from the two Alter, James got knocked out from that insult he gave.

Back to the party.... Artoria Alter? No, Assassin of Shinjuku taking her disguise now?! After he gave his speech while calming the angry Lion Alter... SHIT, Assassin noticed Artoria’s presence!! Joined by James and Sherlock with Mash... Welp, that explains the 6 hornets needed to fight!

But that doesn’t end with the Assassin... More incoming! Along with... A giant ghost of Romeo and Juliet?! I hope you’re still kicking alive, Shakespeare, especially creating this mob for us to fight!

3 Hornets + 1 Ghost died... Okay now among the Hornets, Assassin disguised himself as one! Removing the disguise, only one shouted... YOU! Show yourself, Assassin of Shinjuku!

That’s rich coming from someone who disguised others! One will play fire right back at ya! Looks like no need to find out his True Name since he revealed himself... Yan Qing!

3 Taunters + Xuangzang + Merlin helps a lot... Especially given his own skillset may give him random charge of NP. Though a little headache was the gimmick where he’s got defense against certain cards for a turn or crit buffing

While fighting in story, Yan Qing detonated a bomb within the building! Grabbing the Gudas with them, they managed to escape safely. James too, positively and very much alive! Sherlock too, together with James, both deduced Yan Qing’s identity among the casualties and deal fatal damage!

Thanks to their own experience of murdering each other... Yan Qing laments of his own side effect of his doppelganger skill that has him remembering all those he copied. Creating a huge memory disorder of his own identity... So the Hassan we supposedly should meet already died before we knew it...

A last thought about his past and lord... He has returned back to the Throne of Heroes. As we head back to base to get some rest, the Gudas can’t drink ya know? Not only the Alters, you don’t know to face Mama Squad’s wrath when they found out

Wait... The howl... No way? NOW?!!!? OH FUCK, HE’S REALLY BACK FOR VENGEANCE THIS TIME!

If you have gotten Assassin of Shinjuku before the start of the Singularity... His True Name and Noble Phantasm will finally be revealed after this chapter: Yan Qing

And done! I’m going to break here again since Part 2 of CCC will be starting back in 6hrs+ so gotta head to grinding hell for BB’s copies!

[pendulumprince]

It’s episode 40. Everybody got their eulogies ready?

After the recap and opening

THE KIDS ARE ALREADY FREAKING OUT

ONE GIRL IS CRYING

“Don’t worry. Onizuka will win! He will!”

YOU SURE ABOUT THAT, LIL BUDDY

SHOICHI AND NAOKI ARE WORRIED, TOO

‘GO’ IS FUCKING SHOOK

AI WONDERS IF HE’S “LOST HIS HEART”

REV OFFERS HIM THE CHANCE TO GIVE IP

‘GO’ TELLS HIM TO GO FUCK HIMSELF AND THE HORSE HE RODE IN ON

“So you destroyed them all. But that erased all my doubts.”

THAT’S A WILD FACE YOU GOT THERE, ‘GO’

KEEP IT UP

HE PROMISES TO DEFEAT HIM

HE ACTIVATES ONE OF HIS MONSTER’S EFFECTS

SPECIAL SUMMONS A 0 DEF MONSTER

AND GREAT OGRE AT 2100 ATK

HE ENDS HIS TURN

“Even if your field is destroyed, you resurrect your monsters quickly to face me. I’ll honor your unbreakable spirit by completely crushing you.”

Aw, shucks. What an honor.

REV TAKES HIS TURN

PLAYS A QUICKSPELL

SUMMONS A 1800 ATKER

BY GREAT OGRES SPECIAL EFFECT, IT GOES DOWN TO 600

REV DRAWS AGAIN

PLAYS ANOTHER SPELL

SPECIAL SUMMONS TWO MONSTERS, BRINGS UP THE RDEF TO 1700 AND 2300

HE LINK SUMMONS!

BRINGS OUY A 1900 ATK MONSTER

SPECIAL SUMMONS A 1100 ATK MONSTER

BRINGS IT UP TO 1400 ATK

IT GOES DOWN TO 0 THANKS TO THAT GREAT OGRE EFFECT

REV’S MONSTER’S ALSO HAVE EFFECTS, THO

HE TAKES THAT MONSTER OFF THE FIELD

DESTROYS BOTH OF ‘GO’S MONSTERS IN ONE BLOW

MY BUFF SON. DOES NOT TAKE THIS WELL.

HIS FIELD IS WIDE OPEN

REV GOES IN FOR THAT DIRECT ATTACK

IT LANDS!

THE ORPHANS ARE FREAKING OUT

HE’S DOWN TO 1000 LP

REV BRINGS BACK TWO MONSTERS AT 2000 AND 1400 DEF

THEY GO UP TO 2300 AND 1700 AGAIN

REV ENDS HIS TURN!

AI TAKES BACK ALL THAT SHADE HE THREW AT ‘GO’

HE IS MOVED TO TEARS BY OUR BEAUTIFUL SON’S RESOLVE

PLAYMAKER FEELS THE SAME (?)

“Took you long enough. This isn’t enough to break a duelist like him.”

Ouch, my celebshipping heart

‘GO’ TAKES HIS TURN

PLAYS A SPELL

BRINGS BACK TWO OF HIS MONSTERS FROM THE GRAVE AT 0 DEF EACH

SETS UP THAT SWEET, SWEET LINK SUMMON

SUMMONS A 2000 ATK MONSTER

HE ADDS A CARD YO HIS HAND

BRINGS OUT A 1800 ATK MONSTER

AND ANOTHER AT 1700 ATK

SWITCHES REV’S MONSTERS TO THE ATK POSITION

AND ALL OF ‘GO’S MONSTERS GO UP BY 500 LP

HE ACTIVATES AN EQUIP SPELL

SUMMONS ANOTHER MONSTER AT 2000 ATK

PLAYMAKER CALCULATES THAT ‘GO’ CAN LOWER REV’S LP AT THIS POINT, BUT CAN’T TAKE HIM DOWN COMPLETELY

AND HIS MONSTERS’LL JUST RESURRECT

BUT ‘GO’S GOT A PLAN

HE SETS UP A LINK SUMMON

IT’S A LINK 4!

SUMMONS GIANT OGRE AT 3000 ATK

REV THINKS THAT’S INTERESTING AS FUCK

‘GO’ ADDS ANOTHER CARD TO HIS HAND

BRINGS GIANT OGRE UP TO 4000 ATK

AND FURTHER UP TO 5000 ATK

AI IS SO IMPRESSED HE BREAKS OUT A KNIFE

‘GO’ GOES IN FOR AN ATTACK

TAKES OUT REV’S MONSTER

HE’S DOWN TO 900 LP

GOOD SHIT, GOOD SHIT—

*deep breath* calm down PP, he’s going to lose*

THE ORPHANS ARE SO PROUD

REV GIVES  ‘GO’ HIS DUE

“You got me.”

“That’s payback for earlier >:)”

REV SPECIAL SUMMONS HIS 2400 ATK MONSTER

‘GO’ ENDS HIS TURN, GREAT OGRE GOES BACK DOWN TO 3000 ATK

“I always improve. That’s what makes me ‘Go Onizuka’!”

HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE OUR BIG BUFF CHILD

*cries* REV TAKES HIS TURN

TRIBUTES HIS MONSTER TO SPECIAL SUMMONS HIS 1900 ATK MONSTER FROM THE GRAVE

HE SPECIAL SUMMONS ANOTHER AT 600 ATK

AND ANOTHER AT 1800 ATK

ONE OF HIS MONSTERS GOES UP TO 2100

TAKES OUT GIANT ORGE, SENDS IT TO THE GRAVE VIA SPECIAL EFFECT

DAMNIT

BUT NO, FUCK THAT

GIANT OGRE’S EFFECT NEGATES IT

“Too bad!”

“You’re so stubborn.”

YOU’RE ONE TO TALK, REV??

“Until now, I’ve battled in front of large crowds. To entertain the many children who root for me, I tried to make duels more exciting. But I realized I’m all alone. There are no fans rooting for me here. I realized… we always duel alone.

“We fight for ourselves, not for anyone else! That’s why I decided to fight for myself! To prove that I’m the strongest! For my thirst for victory that’s deep in my heart! So bring it on with all your strength!”

Wow, that’s… the exact opposite of what Blue Angel said in episode 32.

She said she fights for everyone, while ‘Go’ just said he’s fighting for himself.

Welp, he just sealed the deal.

“Fine. As you wish :)))))))”

PLAYMAKER FIGURES HE’S ABOUT TO SUMMON A LINK 4 MONSTER

HE IS

IT’S! BORRELSWORD AT 3000 ATK!!

AI IS WORRIED

SO AM I LIL BUDDY

“I can’t believe you forced me to play Borrelsword Dragon. But it’s the end of the line! I don’t agree with the lame idea of fighting for others. Or for myself. I just carry out my goal. That’s all!”

AKA, he’s fighting for his dad.

REV GOES IN FOR THE ATTACK

IT CONNECTS!

BUT BOTH MONSTERS STAND AT 3000 ATK…

FROG AND PIGEON GET KNOCKED AWAY

SHOICH, NAOKI, AND THE ORPHANS CAN NO LONGER SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING

*HUGE SIGH OF RELIEF*

F U C K I N G.  G O O D.

WELP. NEITHER OF THEIR MONSTERS ARE GOING DOWN

REV ACTIVATES HIS MONSTER’S SPECIAL EFFECT

BORRELSWORD GOES UP TO 4500 ATK

FUUUUUUUUCK

AND GIANT OGRE’S ATK GOES DOWN TO 1500

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

AND HIS OTHER MONSTER’S EFFECT COMES INTO PLAY

IT TAKES OUT GREAT OGRE

Wait. Wait.

‘GO’ IS STILL STANDING

SO IS GREAT OGRE

AND IT’S AT 2500 ATK!

REV IS SO ANNOYED

“I don’t feel like winning so inelegantly.” SINCE WHEN DO YOU CARE ABOUT BEING FANCY.

BUT NO

APPARENTLY, HE CAN ATTACK AGAIN

“This is the end >8)”

THE ATTACK CONNECTS

GIANT OGRE IS CUT IN HALF

AND ‘GO’—!

… back in the real world, a picture falls off it’s shelf

It’s one with ‘Go’ and his orphan babies!

The orphanage teacher picks it up…

One of the kids runs up to her

“Onizuka won, right?”

“Yes, of course!”

Go’s Manager adds in, “that’s right! Go Onizuka never loses!”

But tbh, he doesn’t look so sure…

Back in Link Vrains, Ai still thinks there’s hope??

But Playmaker tells him to look again

‘GO’S DOWN TO 0 LP

REVOLVER WINS!

AND ‘GO’ IS DISINTEGRATING INTO DATA

“Playmaker! This was the best I could do.”

“‘Go Onizuka’! Thanks to you, I was able to learn his strategies.”

“I leave the rest to you…”

Playmaker and ‘Go’ stare lovingly into each other’s eyes until he finally disappears

Rev jumps in:

“Playmaker. We’re the only two duelists left in this world. It’s finally time to bring this to an end.”

“Yeah.”

WELP. TIME TO TAKE THAT FUCKIN TOWER DOWN.

Preview time!

OR RATHER, SPEED DUEL TIME

“The enemy he’s chasing is right before his eyes. The defeated duelists has led Playmaker to this moment.

Ten long years after the incident, it’s time to bring his journey of revenge to an end.”

YEAH, ABOUT THAT.

Playmaker promises to defeat Rev “with [his] own hands.

And Ai is lookin A LITTLE NERVOUS THERE

AW DAMN

[dangan-ronpa-v3-imagines-blog]

NDRV3 Girls’ reactions to their S/O getting drunk at a party

Anonymous asked: The girls reactions to their S/O getting drunk at a party

Welp, I need to post these since I was on holiday for a while so here they are!

~Mod Kiibo

Kaede Akamatsu

~ When you both decided to go to this party, she thought it was a great idea! Because parties with her S/O are always a great time

~ Fast forward to right at this moment where you are pretty much drunk and chaos has struck

~ At first she thought it was kinda funny that you was drunk because you kept saying weird things that caught her off guard sometimes

~ Then sometimes you'll do strange things like pretend you are different animals and singing on tables or even under them

~ Sooner or later after you run out of energy you'll just suddenly collapse on the ground

~ It's now her job to bring you home safely! Since your condition is not suitable to walk back

~ Kaede tried her best to carry you back home without dropping you and not getting lost even though it's both of your guys house but it's dark okay?

~ At last you two return back to your house! And still in one piece as well and none of you guys are missing too if that was able to happen…?

~ Now she has to bring you to bed which is the hardest part because of the old enemy

~ S t a i r s

~ Luckily she managed to get you to your own comfortable bed without any harm by stair related accidents

~ She decides to stay and snuggle next to you just because you looked so cute when you was asleep

~ She falls asleep after a while after a tiring night of trying to carry you home with many obstacles in the way and trying not to harm you as well

~ Yup it is a job well done, all for her drunk S/O

Miu Iruma

~ You two went to a party with absolute excitement, with you just wanting to enjoy yourself and Miu hoping that she will have a chance to see you drunk and just the crazy shenanigans that you both can get into

~ She always had that thought for a while to be honest because she loves to have fun with her S/O

~ Surprise surprise you got drunk with her help and some of your friends as well and you were an absolute mess

~ Just rethinking life and just wobbling everywhere as you talk to random strangers about weird topics and then making it depressing in the matter of seconds

~ At one point of the party she lost you in the crowd and queue the overwhelming panic!

~ She looks all around for you saying that if you come to her she'll let you do whatever you want just pLeASE SHOW uP

~ She found you in the bathroom right next to the corner talking to a soap dispenser

~ OKAY THATS ENOUGH FOR ONE NIGHT S/O

~ After many attempts of trying to drag you away from the bathroom with your pleads since you didn't want to leave your new friend she managed to get you out of there without too much tears on her clothes

~ Welp time to go home before you make friends with another household appliance and get emotionally attached to them in seconds

~ She keeps close to you while you both are walking home so you don't just randomly wander off and also to help you stop crying oVer A GodDAMN SOaP dispENseR

~ You stay quiet mostly from the walk back home so that makes her feel like you are starting to calm down a bit

~ Once you two get inside it is straight to bed no buts, we are going straight to bed because you need rest before you cry again and end up staying awake all night

~ Luckily all the crying you've been doing tired you out so Iruma didn't have to do much since when she came in to your room you was already asleep

~ Note to self when S/O gets drunk, keep them away from soap dispensers

Tsumugi Shirogane

~ She agrees to go with you to this party even though she was a little hesitant first, she comes along for the ride

~ Everything was fine at first, yes there were some people who were pretty out there and all and some creating scenes but overall it was fun

~ That is until Tsumugi tried to see where you were but when she did find you, you were drunk

~ You were quite tired honestly and kept on dozing off as well but then shooting back up in seconds, this pattern kept on going throughout the night

~ She follows you everywhere you went too which was kind of hard with a heck of a lot of people in the way but she kept on finding you which is good and you weren't collapsed on the floor as well so that's a bonus

~ When she did lose you, she would always find you in weird places asleep: first she found you in one of the rooms shower, next she found you in a wardrobe and then she found you was underneath a mattress

~ Honestly she was so confused about some of the places you slept in but you was okay so all she had to do was wake you up

~ Once she decided it was late enough to go back home, she carried you bridal style home without much effort

~ When she arrived home, you woke up at that moment so you both decided to watch some anime while you were both awake

~ Well you was struggling to keep your eyes open so you kinda just rested your head on Tsumugi’s shoulder and nodded off

~ She didn't mind of course but you had some trouble when you woke up the next morning as you ached from the weird positions you slept in the random places at the party

Tenko Chabashira

~ When she heard that you was going to a party she asked that if she could come, just to make sure you was safe of course

~ You agreed that she could come since you thought it would be nice for the both of you

~ She was so excited that she was going to spend some time with her S/O!

~ After a hour in she realised that you wasn't around her anymore so hence her little search party for her S/O has begun!

~ It didn't take long because of your loud shouts stood out more than the more casual chats going on around her

~ Turns out you were drunk and you get more cranky while you are drunk as well, she found it quite concerning that you was drunk but she was keeping her eye on you now or you'll just spar with someone because of your crankiness

~ She will pull you away if you started to have a fight with someone or she would try to keep you in a corner so you can cross your arms and rant about everything as she listens

~ After a couple of hours you start to tire yourself out by shouting a lot and also that your voice has worn out as well

~ That is enough alcohol for one night S/O

~ Tenko carried you home after you start to feel awkward about the mess you made but you still grumble all the way home

~ She finds your grumbles about random stuff cute though and keeps it in mind that not to let you near alcohol without especially when she's not around

~ Who knows what might happen

Kirumi Tojo

~ When you ask if both of you can go to this party she hesitates for a bit since she doesn't really go to parties and she doesn't know what might happen

~ But alas she agrees finally and both of you are surrounded by different types of people

~ She just sits quietly to herself for a while on the other hand you do other things which is out of hear sight

~ After a while she comes to find you and without it's no surprise you're drunk since she knows it's bound to happen nonetheless

~ She finds you crying your eyes out and saying random stuff which she thinks is upsetting you

~ Like some memories of apparently tragic stuff and such which Kirumi had no clue what it was about

~ She comforted you in hopes that it would help you stop crying but that didn't work so she tried giving you some tissues and saying things that would make you happy but yet nothing

~ She decides to bring you home early since that you be a huge help for the both of you

~ Once she gets in, you are immediately in your bedroom under the covers and she is doing everything she can

~ After you finally fall asleep she is getting anything she needs if you actually do get a hangover in the morning

~ She's always there for you whenever you get drunk no matter the situation

Maki Harukawa

~ Yeah parties aren't really her thing really well at all but you get the point

~ But if her S/O insists that they want her to go then fine, she'll go for their sake

~ When you two arrive it's just havoc there, she tries to stay with you but the huge amount of people split you up somehow and that's a big problem

~ It takes her a while to find you and after asking people where you was in kind of a blunt way, she has no clue where you were

~ So yeah this party was a horrible idea

~ She finally hears a familiar voice in the crowd of people and heads straight towards it

~ Turns out you were quite flirtatious while drunk so

~ ohh god

~ Her S/O while drunk is quite a handful to be honest with you, she tries giving her S/O a glass of water to help but they just went off and started to freaking talk to a stranger

~ Yeah, Maki is taking them home right now thank you very much

~ She listens to them babble while walking home and at home because they refused to sleep when she asked them to

~ She acts annoyed with them but then again she can't leave them alone like they could get up to whatever stuff like this which is concerning

~ After trying to soothe them down, it actually works for a change and they start to fall asleep

~ Maki is relieved that her S/O is finally asleep and prepares some things for their hangover in the morning

~ Next time she won't let S/O next to any alcohol again

Himiko Yumeno

~ Oh a party? Sure let's go…

~ She’ll doze off at the start of it to be honest since you wanted to spend some time together and all

~ She was dozing in the corner of one of the rooms and then she suddenly woke up and started to slowly realise what was going on around her

~ Huh…? Where's S/O?

~ She steadies her way up and tries to find them with the problem of a huge wave of people towering her

~ When she finds you, you are clinging right onto her for some odd reason

~ She doesn't understand why you aren't this clingy and you don't say random silly things like that at all, what could this mean?-

~ Ohhhhh, now she gets it

~ You're drunk in fact scratch that you're very drunk, seems like she has been asleep for too long to notice that you was going to drink a lot at this party

~ She didn't know that you was the person to drink so she was a little surprised but nonetheless calm about it because it wasn't anything urgent

~ She tries getting you out of the party which was much easier than she thought it would be since you was so close to her in the first place

~ Had a hard time getting you back home though since you kept swaying around while in close contact with her making you two walk all around the place

~ Finally we have arrived home!

~ And Himiko instantly goes to the couch to nap again with you along side her due to you still being clingy as hell

~ When you do wake up, you have a huge hangover and Himiko tries her best to help by using her magic to make the pain go away

~ You insist that you just need some painkillers and water rather than magic in this situation 

Angie Yonaga

~ You two are immediately heading towards this party you've been invited too and you brought along Angie as well

~ You two split your ways after being torn apart by the crowd of random strangers and some familiar faces

~ At first Angie didn't notice that you wasn't by her side then it dawned on her that you wasn't beside her like usual so she was on a search for you

~ She finally sees you in the crowd and goes in running to you

~ When she reaches you she realises one thing, that S/O was drunk as heck

~ It kinda concerns her that you are drunk and you are falling all over the place because it seems like you are very tired

~ She doesn't really know what to do in this situation so she tries to pull you out of the party without you fainting on top of her

~ You do wobble a bit but she manages to at least make it to the entrance which is good

~ Now then to make it all the way back home, this is going to be challenging

~ But she does it! And when she gets home she brings you to bed so you can finally drift off without hurting yourself by falling onto the floor

~ She asks God for advice on what to do and to make sure the pain wouldn't be as strong when her S/O wakes up

~ After she receives an answer on what to do next, she is off preparing things for the hangover

~ When you do wake up surprisingly there wasn't much pain as you thought it would be and Angie is there to give you what you need to help it completely

[thegeminisage]

hella spoilery zeldablogging from earlier tonight

feel kind of bad cause i had to look up the gerudo maze desert thing but i was SOOO close on my own

oh my god there's a lady over here by this shrine failing at cooking and all the recipes she teaches me give me dubious food

there are PILES of rotting garbage that have flies around them and the thing in the pot is sending up this black cloud of smoke lmao

wow the blood moon came in the middle of me clearing out an enemy camp :/

good god there's a stable out here in all this deep snow? how?? would the horses not, like, die?

aww beedle's here but he's cold ):

WOW you can upgrade the boy gerudo clothes but not the GIRL ones? that is SEXIST

oh noooo shield surfing DOES damage your shield i hate this i love my current shield what if i can't find another!!!!!

lol the ridge tower si surrounded by water and electric enemies. Great

omg i found the royal lab ruins ):

ok, i gotta begin prioritizing here

while i'd LIKE to complete all 120 shrines before i beat the game just for the armor, i don't think that's going to be possible - i haven't even unlocked some of them yet bc i don't have the snowballs or the quest takes so long

but the most important thing to me is memories

so after i check out all the ridge shrines on this map i'm gonna get the hyrule field map as well and get those memories

and i'll just save a lot and if i fuck something up and trigger endgame stuff i'll reload

god idk how to do this trial on the thunderplanes so like...im gonna let it be

see? i could never do all 120 before tmrw night

PLEASE this memory i just got was so cute zelda was being a nerd over plants and caught a frog she wanted link to eat :')

i love this zelda like i'm super not crazy about her voice actress sounding much older than i think of her as, and the fantasy british accent, but she has so much more personality than many of the others

ah, and i see now why she loved the silent proncess so...can't be grown domestically, only thrives in the wild

much like herself if you watch some of the other memories haha she feels trapped by her own destiny that's easy to see

i think it's super clever how even with a map you still have to look around for shrines bc they are hidden semi-underground

and i wish i had more time to stop and enjoy the little things like that, but i CAN come back and explore later, i can't unlearn a plot point

this spoiler fear might be a little baseless...tbh i also want to finish the main story tho bc like

i want it to be something i play in my free time, not something i obsess over 24/7 and HAVE to play and think about all the time

it's been a beautiful fun and absolutely life-changing experience but also it's been two weeks and i gotta get back to my actual life, i can't be Like This indefinitely

i'm kinda stunned that it took me this ling tbh? like, even skyyward sword was like a week and a half the first time iirc and i did that at like, a pace where i could stop and explore, i remember thinking how huge skyward sword was

omg im so glad i decided to ride epona down to where i need to go next rather than fast travel + walk bc 1. faster maybe? and 2. THE MAIN THEME PLAYS WHEN YOU'RE ON EPONA OVER THE NORMAL HORSE THEME i could weep

KASS IS BY THIS BRIDGE HI BUDDY I LOVE YOU

i solved the puzzle! this time im talking to him BEFORE i go in

he told me it was stupendous ;_; thanks pal

aw dude another memeory and it played the trailer music but

is zelda really only SIXTEEN about to turn seventeen? how old is link?? i guess under 21/18 if they wouldn't let him drink...

jesus, they're just babies ;_;

also, she quoted link's horse advice so like

this + the dialogue options gives the feeling that he does actually speak, you know? so as much as i love mute link i also like these glimpses into his personality as well, bc he's always been such a blank slate

he's empathetic, playful, sometimes downright goofy, and very tenacious - confident, but not in a cocky way, and obviously always a bit shaken when he gets a memory back

it's nice getting to know him a bit, even if you have to patch most of it together - kinda like narrachara lol

;w; it's so nice to have epona gallop over when i call her again

omg i think i found kass's house! i see his journal :3

haha i got this song "when the blood moon rises stand naked on that platform" ok nintendo

i wonder if you get all the puzzles do you get to tell him who you are ):

im tempted to unlock this one now lol

like, it takes a long time to get here and it's almost the blood moon

SIGH this is gonna take awhile but it'll save me time later

oh lmao it was JUST the blood moon so i'd actually have to wait a SUPER long time nvm tbh

well. welp. welly well well

i guess.......its time for hyrule field tower

Im Scared

wow. holy shit. i can see the great plateau from here...and it looks so small. i can see the temple of time, i can see the tower from which i first saw hyrule castle. i can even see the little path i nearly followed, when catching sight of my first moblin and becoming curious, before i got myself back on track. damn. Damn. i have come FULL CIRCLE, holy shit

and like, it's just the way i played it. hyrule castle for last. but you know? i love that shit. journeys ending the way they began. gets me in the feels every time

i'll be honest, THIS i could really stop and explore. forget those awful snowy mountains. this is where the #history is

oh god. i see a guardian down near that tower. please god don't let it be a mobile one

FUCK

i saw two still ones and relaxed and a mobile one snuck up RIGHT FUCKING BEHIND ME

[wheezing]

i don't wanna stop and grind but i worry i might HAVE to get some guardian armor before i can do this, even just one piece...!

i have a diamond circlet so all i'd need from the prof is the chest and/or legs........oh god. jesus fuck

motherFUCKER the range on those still ones, i wish i had been able to take them out...!

oh jesus i made it

this is it. final tower. thank fuck

there'll be more guardians, way more. i gotta at least check and see if i can afford some arrows without setting myself back further for the armor

i think i had all the mats i needed actually i just needed cash...maybe i can cook to earn some since i sold my monster parts

k, i only have enough gears for the chest OR legs, and i don't have enough rupees for either... :/

i COULD buy some arrows and still have enough mats for the armor but then i'd be setting myself back HUGELY re: rupees

ok, i FINALLY got the chest, jesus, now i can go back to hyrule field

altho it doesnt have any def and without even going to the fountain i know i cant upgrade it so rly is it worth it at all, but w/e

also, i read online that if you can learn the timing of parrying their lasers they go down REALLY easily but i suck so much at combat

i guess i'll just wear my anti-guardian stuff, i have daruk and mipha's abilities and fairies AND FAST TRAVEL if anything goes wrong

YES i did it holy FUCK

oh my god! three-shotted!

oh

i just climbed a small hill and got my first look at the rolling green plains...i missed you

no, no, i gotta go get epona to make this perfect, there's a stable i can warp us both to

omg it's the very first people i ever encountered outside the great plateau again

NOOO i hit epona when i was aiming for a monster baby i'm sorry!!!

i gave her an apple and some pats to say sorry ;w;

"legend says that an ancient voice resonates inside that sword...can you hear it yet, hero?"

frankly i'm glad they finally got their timeline shit together bc even tho the games are SO far apart im LOVING these continuity nods

yeesh, only two memories left but they're both RIGHT at the castle...im scared LOL

): i wouldn't feel right taking epona any further

reasons i never have money: cannot physically stop myself from buying arrows

oh, hyrule field is just beautiful ;___;

ohh god im scared

its fine its fine they wouldnt put a memory that close to the castle and then make you go back to impa if hat wasnt POSSIBLE its gonna be ok

awww no zelda sees link as a living reminder of her own failures?? whyyy

ha i love fighting guardians for the first time in ages im like COME TO ME LET US BATTLE

im uh. still working on the timing, but

oh JESUS

my mouth fell open in horror i climbed over a wall to get to the outsideish of the castle (castle town ruins, so says my map) and

the music was already creepy but jesus CHRIST

there's no color except for that blight evil goop stuff...no life...it's awful

poor hyrule, oh god

it's a lot like finding hyrule castle town devastated in oot when you first wake up, except of course this time we've nothing to compare it to visually, only emotionally...

i see a fuckton of guardians too so its a good thing i learned not to be scared of them

ok, god, i can do it, just one memory, i know RIGHT where it is

apparently the hylian shield is in here too and i am sooo sorely tempted

i mean if i have to get that fucking close anyway...

lord i googled it and apparently this memory is super hard to get you gotta Activate some shit but they did it this way they made it so you have to go back out i know i'll be able to come back out i WILL

ah, apparently you need to fight a stalnox for the hylian shield.ok. ok. good, great, Nice, Perfect

haha im soooo scared ;_;

ok, apparently the two paths are COMPLETELY different, so One Thing At A Time

we'll start with the memory, it's more important

tbh, i can't even bring myself to go in. i gotta go around anyway to get to the starting point of this path so i will

lmao i am almost PHYSICALLY ILL with dread this is SO stressful

JESUS

the music went all scary and the map is in 3D like a beast!! which i knew but it's so Much

and i got a cutscene of the calamity screaming with the Classic ganondorf theme i'm Dying how the fuck does anyone just get this memory and LEAVE holy shit

oh my god the main theme comes in!!! jesus

even ballad of the windfish a little?!?!

oh FUCK and ofc with the lightning

haha aww there's a "leave area" button on the map i can bail whenever i guess tat's reassuring

not yet!! i'm gonna have Courage

ohhh i dipped into a doorway just to wait for revali's thing to recharge and the music changed!! so i got scared and went back outside lol

oh god the higher you go the oranger the sky turns it looks like the blood moon jesus fuck

I MADE IT INSIDE

oh god, zelda's STUDY, the rooms all have names bc ofc they do

holder of the triforce of wisdom of COURSE she had a study she's such a nerd im crying i bet she loved it here and it's totally decimated

a silent princess sprouted in her study too ;_;

HER LULLABY IS PLAYING IN HERE IM GONNA CRY

oh good there's the memory!!

ohhh this picture of how it used to be is hurting my heart it was BEAUTIFUL

holy FUCK dude

ok old man is struck from my heart forever he was such a DICK to zelda no wonder he called himself a fool

link knelt right away but god damn i would have interjected on her behalf

you can't expect a person to pray 24/7!!!!

and deny her her passions, which are obviously machines and learning!

omg she has a journal in here and i almost missed it jesus

TODAY SHE MET WITH IMPA im cryin

omg this is her finding the sheikah slate!!!

jesus, and she found the shrine of ressurection too and hoped she'd never have to use it, and Yet...

oh GOD i hit leave area and it plucked me down in the middle of castle town nope nope nope fast travel outta there

ok to impa and then last memory i can do it and then do stream

and for once not play again afterwards bc to be quite frank i could never stress myself out this bad right before bed again, FUCK

hylian shield and all the rest of it tomorrow

h o ly fuck

he DIED protecting her, or he was going to, but she stood in front of him for once and finally unlocked the power, that's how she unlocked it, for HIM

i'm WEEPING and the sword made the fi noise from SS

even the sheikah warriors ran like sheik in smash bros

im gonna cry that was so much!!! there's so much continuity

fi is in TWO GAMES like...that was such direct referencing!!!!

SHE HAS BEEN FIGHTING ALONE FOR 100 YEARS jesus CHRIST she is SEVENTEEN

ok, im gonna watch all the memories in order and then quit for the night

i just realized the ceremony scene is where she mentions embers of twilight and adrift in time - putting us on the mm/tp timeline

aaaah im sad

god and i LOVE her princess dress i wanna see it in her classic pink why is everyone in this game blue??

so like, despite me not being crazy about zelda's voice ACTRESSS and the VOICE she's using, she actually does the best ACTING out of the entire cast

high key loving this zelda who is smart but has trouble with feelings, also

holy SHIT

ok so one of the first memories i got was of zelda coming down mt lanayru

amd it was badass and i enjoyed it

but there's SO much in there once you know more context

mipha was highkey about to spill to zelda that she was in love with link

revali's distain for link

urbosa seems less stern and more caring now that i know her better

now i know what zelda was trying so hard to do

"we have to keep trying until we find the thing that unlocks your sealing power [long shot of link]"

and "i'm not a child anymore" ofc it's bc she just turned 17! like link in oot!

oh man oh man

i love so much link's expressions in these serious moments especially that very last look into zelda's eyes before he "died"

it feels a bit like, with the other stuff i was talking about, i'm getting just a hint of character

and it's kinda close to My Headcanon but even if it wasn't i just like getting to know him

warped back to the temple of time & i'm leaving it there for the night

tomorrow: The End

(and my shield)

[huntsman-ash]

RWBY Season 7 Episode 2

Same deal as last time on this one, no tags so it doesn’t spoil anyone but I’ll keep it for my own stuff. Might start tagging these “livewatch” but I dont think THAT should show up on any particular tag-list. So here we go.

Where last we left our intrepid band of weirdos, lesbians, small boys being inhabited by old men, and Qrow, they’d just gotten their asses pinched by the most flamboyantly over-the-top “special operatives” in existence after probably saving Mantle from getting its ass chewed on by Grimm. Lets see how they fare...

Well seems like its pretty in character. Nora is attempting to EAT her way out of handcuffs. And I think Oscar just fell asleep. 

“Took us out like its nothing”, says Jaune. Its almost like they’re Specialists and you didn’t even graduate from Vale.  Mind you, BOTH groups are nothing compared to what I really honestly hope is true and not just my military headcanons Atlas has on hand. 

Hmm. Random gritty looking civvie. Interesting.  Least his giving exposition. “The elite of elite military Huntsmen.” WELP. Atlas is well and truly fucked if THAT is the best the can bring to the table. 

...Oh fuck, its Ash. Its Ash as a green-eyed angry teenager. Mixed with Tabloid from Ace Combat 7. 

Actually no, he’s a LOT more childish than Ash. Ash has history, this guy just has a boner for Robyn. Robin? IDK. 

Sigh. “Happy Huntress’s.” GREAATTTTT. Fuckin’ Robin Hood bullshit. I get this is Remnant but come on. And apperently Mantle cant even have people stand up for itself, no, they have to come from ATLAS. Mehh. Fuck it. 

New airship design! Its basically a flying box, but hey. Least we get a new one.  Henceforth I shall call it the Cattlecar.

Okay not going to lie but Atlas looks like High Charity kinda. Glowing spires, tight city blocks...its pretty cool, actually.  And it looks like they literally build the city into the moutain and then...ripped the mountain out of Mantle. Wonder when that happened. Was that the result of a mistake during a Dust RnD test? Also, calling it now, but this is how Fortress Academy looks. Except inside the mountain. 

Nora is still trying to eat her way out of her bolo handcuffs. 

And now, Atlas Academy; literally a giant fucking tower surrounded by OTHER towers. Top of the fucking rock. I gotta admit that fits the feeling of it, really. Dear Biased RWBY Gods LET IT HAVE TRIPLE-A

Atlas trooper armor hasn’t changed a bit. 

And I see that Atlas takes rules from the Forerunners of Halo; NO FUCKING RAILINGS ANYWHERE. I wonder how often people fall off the sides by accident...

Oh good Penny’s here! And HOLY SHIT ITS WINTER! SHES NOT DEAD! Also Atlas’s room doors all look like they have protculus’s on them.

REALLY Winter? Fucking with the grunts? Come on, their lifes bad enough as it is, don’t go the military route...

Soft daddy Ironwood. Cute. Also, nice fucking office. 

Penny looks adorable when she stands at attention. I mean everything she does is cute but... Also is Ironwoods voice different? Must not have heard it in a while but it sounds different...

Yes. Shut up and accept the hug Winter. ACCEPT. THE. HUG.

Good. Penny and Winter are in on this. THAT means others are...and so’s the Helljumpers. 

Yang, you dont know how the fuck this works, do you? Come on.  Also, RT, your Autin-fueled liberal side is showing...

Fucking super dramatic window closing and rising floor. This is what happens when your up in the cold north with nothing to do, HA. 

A new approach...oh my god. Open warfare? PLEASE TELL ME ITS OPEN WARFARE. NUKE SALEM!

Also oh hey there’s the Colloseum. Does that mean its officially Atlas’s to keep? Huh. 

Holy shit, someone figured out to rebuild the CCTS! It only took them...a year and a half, give or take? New ones mobile too... WEAPONIZE IT. Gun emplacements, military defenses, barracades, Triple-A! Make that fucking flying sports arena into a BATTLESHIP. 

GIVE REMNANT A PHALANX!

HOLY SHIT THEY’RE DOING IT! LOW ORBIT SATELLITE COMS! FUCKING AT LAST!

Ohhh. OH FUCK YES. IRONWOOD YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD! YES! LETS SEE THAT SLIMY FUCKIN BACKSTABBY BITCH GET OUT OF THIS! AN ENTIRE WORLD REUNITED AGAINST HER! HUMAN WAVE ATTACKS, MASS ASSAULTS, AIR POWER AND COMS...IRONWOOD YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARD, DO IT!

That being said though this...seems kind of intense.  Also the whole “revealing Salem will cause panic” is...odd to me. I would think Remnant would be MAD. Vengeful. Yes that could bring Grimm, but when you have reason to fight, your morale is high. You fight harder than you have before. Thats the first rule of any military. Give the people an enemy, and they will rally. The Queen of Grimm, the cause of all your sorrows and frustrations...people will be grabbing rifles by the MILLIONS.

Oscars like “oh, well...shit.”

(Headdesks) NOTHING pisses me off more than seeing the General of FUCKING ATLAS bowing to a fucking SHOTA.  DO NOT KNEEL BEFORE THE FUCKING SMALL FARM BOY. YOU ARE A FUCKING GENERAL. I DO NOT CARE IF HE IS OZPIN REINCARNATE SHOW YOUR FUCKING RANK SOME RESPECT. Yes I know its becuse Oscar is like 4 feet shorter than him BUT STILL

Penny probably knows Ruby’s lying about the lamp. If she can’t read biometric data, I’ll be incredibly shocked. 

On that, something tells me Ruby’s making sure Ironwood cant figure out whats going on himself. Shes taking some control back. Good. 

We’ll make a soldier out of you yet farmboi.

Weird magic shape-changing lamp. Woooo

OH YES. IRONWOODS BRINGING OUT THE UPGRADES. OH FUCK YES

Yang’s response is my own. Mind you it’ll still be...Hunter tech. But hey, good shit.

Oh hey look its Olivia’s long-lost sister. Also when humor requires it, Ruby fully becomes a cartoon character

Wolf faunus. Hm. These really are Ace Ops. Aseops. Cute.  Hope they dont ALL die.

Penny can cha-cha-slide

Ironwood; Qrow (Decends the stairs to “Here comes the general” from Hamilton)

...Hes hugging Qrow. AND THATS HOW YOU GET DEATH DISEASE PEOPLE

Fucking hell this place is gigantic. I thought Beacon had a big campus, this is fucking bonkers.  Everythings white too though which might not be the best choice...also the wall lights are literally torches just like on Atlas’s kingdom emblem so.

Noras down. Quick, no one glance up her skirt

Rain in Mantle. Hmm. Must be melted snow from above.

Watts walks like a fucking gentleman. Like, damn dude, slouch a little. 

Ear-coms. COMBEAD? Perhaps...good they’re canon, thats enough for me. 

Im pretty sure I can hear tyrian killing a dude in the background of his call.

None of the code was updated in Mantle. Well, fucking great, Watts has control of the entire area. He’s literally fuckin Adrien from Watch_Dogs. Even down to the “I helped write it” Also some of those cars look seriously armored. I like it. 

Yep he just killed a dude. Actually I think this is the first time we’ve seen proper blood in the show. Someones gonna notice that Tyrian you know that right

And with that...Episode 2 down. 

[secretsfromwholecloth]

Dragon Age: Origins (and DLCs), day 12.

Aw, Varel. Bless you, you did good.

The “little self-righteous baby of Justice crawling around the Fade” line makes me laugh, I’ll admit.

The squishies were fine, it was Justice of all people who went down at one point during the fighting. Come on, dead boy, do keep up.

Anyway. There’s no way I’m getting Oghren’s approval high enough to finish his quest, not without going to trouble I don’t care to go to, so off to go pay the Mother a visit it is.

OK, yeah, the Architect is pretty stretchy. Original-Recipe Stretchy Man it is.

Decision time: Kill the Architect or ally with him? I allied with him last time, but both are tempting, and the companions who’d be able to influence his opinion are split. Like, yes, stopping all Blights forever is an excellent cause, but a) do we believe he’s telling the truth, b) do we believe success is possible, and c) that’s a darkspawn.

...I tried to talk myself into killing him, but I couldn’t. If my Amell survives into Awakening, I can have her do it (though if she doesn’t, the Andras I’ll be sending in is definitely the type to ally with him).

I’m very nearly certain that my Inquisitor this run will be packing Blackwall off to the Wardens; if he ends up at the Vigil, he’ll be in for quite a surprise to see the order he so idolized led by an angry, guilt-ridden Dalish who found it in him to make friends with darkspawn and allow them to requisition Wardens’ blood.

Mother time.

Whose idea was it for her to look like that, anyway, considering what every other broodmother in the series looks like? What was the idea behind that? Whoever you were, please get in the trash can.

We all remember how this went last time, right? Three rogues and Anders, Sigrun doing her best to tank and kind of failing, Mother eventually taken down by archers. Let’s see if this party does better. Or differently, anyway.

Justice, don’t be smug, it’s not a good look. Too late to do much about this, anyway.

Welp. Like last time, Nathaniel was the last companion left standing, because a) he’s badass like that and b) aggro management meant most enemies were leaving him alone and attacking Daiwen, who could take it. Unlike last time, I only needed the healing tower once, nearly at the end of the fight when it was only the Mother left to take down, and that more as a precaution (and a way of speeding up the rest of the fight) than because Daiwen and Nate couldn’t have hacked it by themselves. I didn’t even use the other three towers, though I did throw one of Dworkin’s grenades.

Endings: Architect does the thing, anti-Warden sentiment and conspiracy theories about the burning of Amaranthine being some kind of elven revenge plot that end up with another uprising (though public opinions of the Wardens is better in the rural areas), the Vigil as a more important trade center than Amaranthine, “But prosperity bred scheming and treachery between merchants and nobles” oh Maker more politics, Alec founding a knightly order, Dworkin gone into hiding, the Silver Order being super awesome, Velanna’s killings still causing bad blood between Dalish and humans, Kal’Hirol resettled, the Blackmarsh also resettled, Anders came back after an attempt to bang out, Velanna stuck around for a while and started being nicer to humans but eventually disappeared to chase after Seranni, Nathaniel threw himself into Wardening, saved Fergus Cousland, and got what I’m sure was a very nice statue at his nephew’s new castle, Justice stuck around until Aura got too disgusted with the state of his body then disappeared, Sigrun was induced to stay around with a string of totally important and urgent assignments, Oghren kept right on Oghrening and his relationship with Felsi and their child eventually dissolved, and game, are you quite sure about this “banged out of the Wardens and fucked off to Antiva to chase after Zevran” thing? Pretty sure that’s a rumor they started to throw people off the scent. Pretty sure Daiwen will still be on the books as Warden-Commander by the time of Inquisition, for one, and it’d be far more like him to bring Zev to rejoin his clan if he did have to go to ground.

Anyway, time for Witch Hunt. Should be fairly quick.

So, who do we say got twitchy and sent Daiwen on this mission? Loghain, through Anora? The leadership at Weisshaupt, having heard something about eluvians? Either makes more sense than Daiwen giving enough of a shit to track Morrigan down.

Good to see you again, doggie.

Hello, Ariane. Wow, you’re a lot friendlier to a Dalish Warden.

Daiwen never exactly loved Morrigan, but this business with the book has him wanting to punch her in the face. And hey, this time she no longer falls under “ally, do not punch.” :D

So, uh, my party for this DLC is apparently going to be three warriors and a mage. Hope we don’t come across anything that needs unlocking!

Circle tower: *is full of locked doors and chests*

That business about the lady pirate and the three greased nugs is a scurrilous rumor, girls. And I suspect you’d be surprised to learn who that is in the armor walking past you.

Ooh, a fourth specialization? For me? You shouldn’t have. And I can’t help reading “flirt with inhabitants of the Fade” literally and giggling.

Ah, yes, Witch Hunt, a whole DLC of random humans running rings around the Dalish when it comes to researching and reclaiming their own past. Not annoying in the least, of course not, what would give you that idea?

On that note, no, I am absolutely not giving Finn the Keeper specialization.

See, the thing is, I’m not here to kill Morrigan. I’m here to punch her in the face. And there’s no dialogue option for that.

And Morrigan has been given a good stabbing. I suspect she’ll recover, considering her role in Inquisition.

Golems of Amgarrak is too frustrating to bother with again, so now on to II!

And since we’re saying goodbye to Daiwen, a picture of the baby.