#what Blackguard thinks of you meme

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What canon character gets annoyed by your OC?

Which canon character does your OC not respect at all? Why?

Who has brought your OC to tears before?

What is the worst thing your OC does in their story?

Is there a canon character your OC needs to forgive?

For Gia, Ophelia, and Nikoletta

Thank you so much!!

Fandom OC Ask Meme

What canon character gets annoyed by your OC?

Gia: I think Kate does get annoyed by her from time to time, just because of how difficult things can be sometimes. She knows it's more the situation that she's annoyed by than Gia herself, but it's hard for such a spontaneous, outgoing person to have to sit down and say "It's half a block away, it's quietest around 2:30 so we'll go then, you can watch them make your drink, and we'll get a window seat so you can still see your shop" just to go on a coffee date with her girlfriend. She's not used to having to plan things out so rigidly, and some of Gia's anxieties just don't come naturally to her (she knows she's not freaking out over nothing, but she doesn't understand it the same way), so it definitely takes some getting used to.

Ophelia: All of them, at one time or another. She can be pretty annoying, even to her friends and family. They love her anyway, but she can still be an irritating little shit.

Nikoletta: Waller for sure. Nik is enough of an asset to warrant keeping her around (since she can subtly get rid of the inmates Waller wants gone off-the-record), but she's also unpredictable and hard to control. Waller doesn't like her at all and the feeling is mutual, but things run a little smoother when the two of them have an understanding.

Which canon character does your OC not respect at all? Why?

Gia: The HYDRA scientists who experimented on her, of course. Everything about that operation was just incredibly seedy - even if she hadn't been the one caught up in the middle of it, just the idea of hiding their operation under a medical study to manipulate vulnerable people puts her respect for them in the trenches.

Ophelia: Eddie Brock (Topher Grace's version, she hasn't met Tom Hardy's version). She hates his guts, and he strikes her as a self-absorbed, whiny brat who expects things to be handed to him. Even before he was responsible for Harry's death, she didn't have a scrap of respect for him, and he started digging a hole for himself the moment he bonded with that symbiote.

Nikoletta: There are several, all along the same vein: Blackguard, Peacemaker, Calendar Man. They're really just shit-stirrers, and there doesn't seem to be a reason for it besides their egos, and she just can't really find anything to respect about them.

Who has brought your OC to tears before?

Gia: It would be easier to list the people who hadn't. It's not even their fault, for most of them. She's just such a little ball of anxiety, she'll find herself analyzing every word of a conversation until she works herself into a panic about it. Her brain is her own worst enemy.

Ophelia: More than anyone, it's herself. She holds herself to these impossibly high standards and feels guilty over things she never could have controlled, and it's brought her more sleepless nights than she can count. But if you want an external character... Harry. She loves him like a brother, but he can be a tough person to get along with, particularly when he was in his teenage "I'm better than you" phase.

Nikoletta: Abner - not that he ever means to, but it's really complicated. He's about the first person who's managed to get past her armor in over a decade. She's walled off her emotions for so long, they've just been simmering beneath the surface and building up in pressure since she first entered Belle Reve. He's brought her to tears over the tiniest things (just bringing her a cup of coffee the way she likes it, or asking about her day and really listening to what she says, or giving her a hug when she's chilly), because it's been so long since anyone's shown her that sort of unconditional kindness and love.

What is the worst thing your OC does in their story?

Gia: She was honestly super self-destructive when she first left HYDRA. She's too anxious and agoraphobic to have turned that destruction onto anyone else, but... alcohol, substances, and... not all of those scars she hides with her tattoos are from HYDRA. And honestly, when Kate starts trying to guide her out of her comfort zone, there are times when she starts to slip back into that (just because she's frightened and uncomfortable and it's the first "comfort" she can turn to), though never as bad as the first wave she experienced after HYDRA.

Ophelia: I think I answered for this one before, but aside from her fighting strategy being a little more violent than most, she doesn't have a lot of truly bad deeds. She feels more guilty about things she didn't do, like not thinking to check her father's calculations before his tritium reactor test, even if those are things she couldn't have controlled.

Nikoletta: She's sent plenty of inmates to their deaths, and she knows some didn't really deserve it. She tries to stick to the ones who had it coming, but... sometimes Waller wants them gone and she doesn't ask why, or it's a complicated issue and getting rid of one is the simplest way to keep the peace, or someone just annoys her and she doesn't want to deal with that. They're not kind deaths, either - people get pent-up for their fix of violence, and she effectively tosses them to the wolves.

Is there a canon character your OC needs to forgive?

Gia: Nope. She's not forgiving HYDRA for a damn thing, and if there's anyone she does need to forgive, it's her parents and brother (who are OCs of mine, of course)

Ophelia: Not presently, but there was a time when she turned a lot of her anger against Peter for her grief. It was a lot like Harry did after Norman died - though Ophelia didn't see it as him causing her parents' deaths, or Harry's, just that he could have done more to stop it. It was part of why she isolated herself from him in college, even when he tried to invite her to share the holidays with him and Aunt May, since she had a lot of unresolved resentment towards him. Once she built her actuators and got into hero work, experienced those tough choices and worked through those thoughts a little more, they did make amends and got back to being close.

Nikoletta: Not any world-shattering events she needs to atone for (look, she's not going to apologize for what she did in Belle Reve even if the Cosmic Book of Morality says she should - in her mind, she did what she had to do to survive and she doesn't regret that), but she could probably stand to apologize to Rick and the rest of the Squad after Corto Maltese. She was more than a little brusque with them at the start of the mission, but they grew to be friends by the end of it and it leads her to regret how difficult she was.

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[MEME]

“Sideswipe, you’re...

“You’re something really special. You know that, right? And I don���t mean that in any sarcastic or condescending way. I really mean that. You’re really special. And you’re special because you’re... so full of life. Like the war never even happened with you sometimes. Sure, you’ve got the Autobot badge on, but you don’t act like any other soldier I’ve known - Autobot or Decepticon. Although admittedly I know more ‘Cons than I do ‘Bots, but still.

“You’re happy; Like, genuinely happy and not fake happy, even though you’ve seen and done horrible slag and have the worst luck in the multiverse. You laugh and make jokes that aren’t about murder and death. You love Earth and humans and never talk about killing anybody, for any reason. You make the best of everything if and when you can, and fix whatever you can’t - or at least try to. You trust so easily too. Way too easily, but that’s more our fault than your’s. And you drive me up the wall sometimes, but I still love you.”

[x]

“I... I’m really glad we became friends, Sideswipe. And I’m sorry I’ve caused you so much trouble. If there’s anything I can ever do to help with that please please tell me. Please. Because I would die if I found out you got in trouble over me. You don’t deserve that. And it isn’t right and it isn’t fair for you to get scrapped over my slag.

“I love you, mech. You drive me crazy sometimes but it’s a good kind of crazy. A fun, tiring, mundane, and regular kind of crazy. The kind of crazy I want to keep around for as long as I can. So please, be safe. Be smart. Know that in your spark you’re a good mech, even if someone else made you do bad things. Because if I’m still somehow a good mech then so are you. I refuse to believe you’re anything else.”

[theaudientvoid]

Hi. Since you're reading both Pale and The Department of Truth, how do you think an Otherverse/DOT crossover would go down?

I remember, back when Hawk first explained how he powered his symbolic ritual magic by hiding subliminal messages in porn ("I got a whole army of magic wands casting my spells), thinking "that honestly seems like a viable practice for Pact/Pale". So, the way I'd see it work would be The Department and Black Hat are rival cabals of practitioners, both focusing on harnessing the sorts of emergent meme-based Others similar to the one we saw in the Carmine Contest ( that was killed by Breastbiter, RIP). Probably the biggest conceptual snare in making the concepts work is the Otherverse prohibition on lying, though I guess if you are able to literally warp reality so that your lie becomes the truth, then is it really a lie? I'd say both groups are composed primarily of Aware/Blackguards: Lee, Hawk and Cole are probably the only actual awakened on the Department's side; Martin Baker and maybe a few others are the only for Black Hat. Both groups are pretty isolated from "mainstream" practitioner society; Cole, Lee and Baker were all awakened by the Fictional Woman, and Hawk was awakened by his father, who was awakened by Hubbard and Parsons and then ran away to live in a bunker. The Fictional Woman is an Other, of course, but its unclear what kind.

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Writerly ephemera meme

I was tagged by @thisbluespirit in this rather intriguing meme!

Find five bits of yourself that you gave to your fiction (memories and places and phrases and things into our stories), post and tag five or more writers to share as well.

Now I know I do write bits of myself and my experiences into my stories, one way or another, I think everyone does, but it doesn’t half put you on the spot when you have to try to remember where you’ve done it!

1) I know that recently I wrote Walsingham passing out at the end of a scene in “Mea Culpa”. The entire description is based on personal experience. I went through a scary few years as a young teen where I would pass out for little to no reason, usually at school where there were lots of people watching to cause me huge embarrassment, which then almost gave me a form of PTSD. I was constantly anxious about fainting, it was not good, and we never found out why it happened. But that’s another story... I still occasionally pass out but it’s usually for a reason, after having a vaccine or blood taken or something, but the whole process of fainting, though horrible, is like an old nemesis to me, uncomfortably familiar. I generally feel intense sickness in my stomach, my vision is puckered increasingly with white dots, my entire body comes out in a sweat, and I hear a high pitched whistle-type noise as I lose consciousness. And so since that is my experience, it became Wals’s too:

His palms sweated, his pulse raced...  He shuddered and emitted another strangled breath, fingers white where he clutched the window sill, body trembling.  He needed rest.  Ursula's voice was becoming distant, the room was swaying like the deck of a ship caught in a storm.  He felt a sudden nausea in his stomach, could hear a high pitched sound in his ears, a siren's wail beckoning him into the abyss.

“I am sorry.  So very sorry,” he whispered, though he knew not exactly who he was addressing.  His own voice now sounded as if it was coming from underwater, far away; he was drowning and could resist no more, slipped where he stood and descended into the open arms of oblivion.

2) This is another Walsibeth example I’m afraid because I haven’t written anything else for about a decade! So... Though the pandemic and my lack of funds has put a temporary hold to my hobby of horse riding, I am a half-capable rider and love tearing across country if opportunity allows on horseback. I can thus write people riding horses (English style, anyway) with a degree of accuracy. So in my smutty one-shot fic “In perpetuum et unum diem” (the one which is mostly a pastiche of the raunchy finale of “The Tudors” season 1, and also an excuse for me to write shameless sex), I began the ficlet with a bit of a horse-race between Bess and Wals to get the blood up (a scene that in itself mirrors Elizabeth’s racing with Raleigh in TGA, I later realised). Though I personally haven’t raced a person on horseback per se, I have done beach rides and also ridden on a horseback safari in Africa where you gallop as a group, and “giving your horse its head” is the order of the day! So a lot of this passage is me:

She turned her head back over her shoulder and caught Francis’ eyes.  His lip quirked slightly at the corner but otherwise there was no change to his countenance.  But that was enough.  Her smile deepend as if to invite him to race her and she turned her head back around, gave her dappled grey mare its head and pressed her calves to its flanks.  And the beast responded, driving its legs harder, faster, into a gallop and flew like a falcon through the trees.

...

As the wind flew in Elizabeth’s face, making her eyes water, a great whoop of exhilaration escaped her.  There was nothing but her and the horse, and the knowledge that her blackguard of a lover galloped behind her.  This was what it should feel like to live, even in tragically brief snippets; to feel the blood in your veins, the air in your chest, and the sun on your face, wild and free.

They then jump a tree trunk which I’d love to say I’d do, and I might, but most of my falls have been from jumping so I’d probably wimp out and go the long way around... ;)

3) Annnd another one from my Walsibeth fic “Mea Culpa”, just because it’s fresh in my mind. When I was driving to work last winter, there was one Sunday morning which had a jaw-droppingly beautiful sunrise. I tried to take a photo of it but could not do it justice. I did find a photo of Lincoln Cathedral on instagram from the same morning though which captured the sky perfectly. It literally looked like the sky was on fire, or something, and I immediately worked this memory into my story! I felt that a sky like that would make the perfect backdrop for a single, forlorn, broken bastard riding his horse in a clear, freezing morning:

There was a strange light in the sky as the sun began to make its ascent.  It turned a deep crimson then lifted to shades of rich amber and gold; this combined with the few grey clouds passing overhead gave it the illusion of a huge fire, as if a great furnace now filled the heavens.  Some might have called it beautiful, others would see a grim omen.

4) I had a look in my dreaded old fic archive, so full of cringe, and I found this from the end of my Doctor Who fic “Choices”, which I reckon I wrote between 2005-2006, possibly finishing it later than that. This scene right at the end (told from the perspective of Rose and the ninth Doctor’s daughter, Hope) is literally my old senior school - the class length, the finish time, the uniform was what I wore, and my history teacher was Mrs. Gaskin, and my mum would be waiting in her car to pick me and my sisters up:

By a quarter-to-three in the afternoon, she was in another History lesson with Mrs. Gaskin, and was spending another forty-five minutes hearing about the Black Death, the plague doctors, and the red crosses that were painted on people’s doors. It was fascinating, but Hope’s concentration wasn’t there. She kept looking out of the window at the school yard, noticing the little details that other days she would take for granted - like the way the trees swayed in the wind, the way a crisp-packet rolled across the concrete, and the pure azure-blue colour of the cloudless sky. Something was afoot but she had no idea what it was, or why she was feeling this way.

The bell rang finally at the end of the lesson, as the clock read three-thirty, and the class disappeared swiftly out of the door. It was home time! The voices of myriads of children echoed and shrilled down the corridors, and desperate feet, eager to get home, pounded down the stairs, making for the exits. White shirts were un-tucked from trouser and skirt hems, blue-and-red ties were loosened from about shirt collars, and black blazers were thrown off and carried over shoulders as the mass of pupils took flight.

Hope, however, took things slowly, almost as if she might never see them again, picking up on every smile, every individual laugh, and every joke pulled on every unsuspecting victim. She waved goodbye to friends, hitched her backpack over her shoulder, and made her way out of the school gates toward the spot where her mum or Uncle Jack would usually be waiting to pick her up. As she turned the corner onto Petunia Grove, though, she stopped and sighed. The car - either her mum’s or Jack’s - was not there.

Hope pursed her lips and shrugged, taking another good look around just to make sure that she hadn’t missed it, but there wasn’t a familiar car in sight. She thus let her bag slip off her shoulder, and she perched her backside on the street sign, swinging one of her feet back and forth as she waited for the arrival of her escort.

In the meantime, she couldn’t help but let her mind wander again, as it had been doing often throughout the day, and looked around the street. There was a blue tit on the hedge over the road, stood near a couple of sparrows and a robin. The front door of house number five was a brilliant shade of red, something which she had never really noticed before, and there was some graffiti on the road sign on the opposite side of the street. It read ‘Bad’ something or other, but she couldn’t read the other word since it was blocked off by the blue box.

Hope blinked and slowly rose to her feet. It couldn’t be…

5) And for number five, this is a short extract from the an unpublished Star Wars fic I wrote around 2010, where I tried for what must have been the third time to re-write the Star Wars nonsense I wrote as a teenager, all starring my very Mary Sue OC, Nadia, who became Vader’s apprentice and was mentored by Veers. I have here again worked my experiences of passing out into the story - a psychologist would have a field day with me. Nadia’s thoughts about showing weakness were also real fears of mine - I never liked to be weak, to be ill, to be a burden, and my character was the mouthpiece for my own self-disgust. It’s written in the first person with Nadia narrating in this scene where she accompanies General (Maximilian) Veers to the Kaminoan’s cloning facility to review further batches of troops and is taken ill by the experience of seeing the thousands of farmed foetuses:

Max nodded whilst I remained breathless and shaky in his shadow. I could not get those tiny, wriggling foetuses out of many head - they floated upon my consciousness, their inhuman eyes glaring into my face and their tiny hands reaching out toward me. I tried to rid myself of these infantile phantoms, but I could not, and I suddenly felt quite ill.

“We shall need many more in our next delivery,” Max told the creature, who began to babble on about the problems of this request, but was halted mid-sentence when Maximilian wheeled about and grabbed me, saying my name over and over. He disappeared amidst the snowstorm of white dots that littered my vision, however, and I collapsed upon the floor.

The next thing I knew, I was waking up in a bright, white room. The walls dazzled me for a moment and it took my eyes and my mind time to adjust and to recognise reality. I looked slowly at the plain walls, finding myself alone upon a bed with my hands by my sides and a drip feeding liquid into my arm. This seemed quite surreal - I knew I was not ill enough to warrant this - but I resolved to stay put until someone came to me. I felt extremely tired and I thought that I may as well take advantage of the rest.

I fell back to sleep again and, when I next woke, I saw Max sat in a chair beside me. I glanced about the room - we were alone. I looked at him uncertainly, my visage undoubtedly betraying the signs of my mortification, for he first said: “Do not worry, Nadia, I am not angry with you. It cannot always be helped.”

...

I wanted to defy him, to be strong, but no, I just showed him weakness and insecurity. What indignity was this?

Thanks for the tag, that was fun! I can’t think of 5 writers to tag but off the top of my head: @feuillesmortes, @robins-treasure and @captainofthegreenpeas? Have a go if you fancy.

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The Suicide Squad: Who Lives and Who Dies

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This article contains major The Suicide Squad spoilers. We have a spoiler free review here.

Five years ago, Will Smith uttered the instantly meme-able line, “So that’s it, huh, we’re the patsies, we’re some kind of Suicide Squad.” Yet by the end of that 2016 film, barely anyone in that squad was put six feet under. How times have changed.

For the entire rollout of his pseudo-sequel/reboot, writer-director James Gunn has insisted he had carte blanche to kill off any character in his The Suicide Squad roster. While we may remain skeptical if Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn and a few others were really that expendable to Warner Bros., Gunn’s finished film speaks to just how much freedom he was allotted in slaughtering potentially valuable DC IP. Major characters from the first film, and a slew of new ones Gunn personally introduced, were pushing up daisies before the movie’s opening title card. And the bodycount only grew from there.

So if you had trouble keeping up with who died, and in what gnarly and grotesque fashion, we’re here to offer a handy dandy list of which members of the Suicide Squad walked away from Corto Maltese, and which were carried away in bags.

Blackguard

Dies

You can’t help but wonder if Gunn intentionally cast Pete Davidson as the first Squad member to get put down. With the exception of a fakeout (more on that in a bit), the mildly divisive SNL alumni goes out in gruesome fashion when he reveals on a Corto Maltese beachhead that he somehow communicated with the local military that a U.S. operation would be landing there. He thinks this will get him in good with the new government. Instead it gets him obliterated by a hail of bullets. All that time in prison and Blackguard never learned what happens to snitches…

Javelin

Dies

Flula Borg’s Javelin cut an amusing figure, as if he wandered in from some low-rent 1970s superhero television series. Even his accent was absurdly disarming, as Harley quickly noticed. Alas, it was not meant to be since Javelin was blasted fast on the beach, barely having a moment to entrust Dr. Quinzel with his trusty weapon.

Mongal

Dies

Let it not go unsaid that Mayling Ng’s Mongal made an epic introduction and exit when she took down several choppers all by herself. Unfortunately, she didn’t really think about a personal strategy as she rode one helicopter all the way down into its fiery ‘splosion.

Captain Boomerang

Dies

The first really major death of the film came when Captain Boomerang, Jai Courtney’s holdover from the 2016 movie, also bit the big one from the same fiery blast that took Mongal. At least he and Harley got to share a few laughs beforehand. We guess this puts an end to any chance of him  showing up in The Flash movie!

T.D.K.

Dies

Okay, as soon as you realized the secret superpower of Nathan Fillion’s character was something as lame as “detachable” limbs, you also knew he was dead meat, right? This character is so lame that Gunn doesn’t even show the Corto Maltese military putting him out of his misery. They just snicker as he writhes in pain, feeling how his detached arms have been shot to ribbons. Bad day to be a Browncoat.

Savant

Dies

Michael Rooker is the actor James Gunn casts when he wants to give a character an epic death scene. It took two movies for that to prove true in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies, but Rooker’s Savant doesn’t even make it to the end of the opening credits here… well not all of him. The blood and brain splatter created by the bomb Amanda Waller detonated in this coward’s skull spells a lovely “The Suicide Squad” lettering across the waves. And hey, at least Rooker got to rock those epic blonde locks!

The Thinker

Dies

Once you heard that Peter Capaldi was playing an evil supervillain who was also in league with the Suicide Squad’s enemies, you knew there was no way Thinker was walking away from this movie, right? Nonetheless, Gunn goes hard with the doc’s death scene when a liberated Starro the Conqueror gets revenge for 30 years of captivity by ripping his captor’s arms off and then turning him into a red smear across glass. Ouch.

Col. Rick Flag

Dies

This one hurt. Joel Kinnaman’s Rick Flag was one of the better and even underrated elements from 2016’s Suicide Squad, and he got a chance to shine a lot brighter here. From small things like his total war buddies vibe with Harley to showing a backbone when he realizes Waller’s nefarious cover-up game, Flag came out as a real leader this time up to bat. Sadly, he then got Cena’d to death.

Polka-Dot Man

Dies

You did it, Polka-Dot Man, you proved your simultaneously dippy and creepy superpowers could make you a real superhero! Even your Norma Bates-like mama would be proud. Too bad Starro then stepped on you immediately afterward. Yay?

Starro

Dies

The big guy had his giant eye poked out by Harley and then an army of rats swarm into the hole that made and chew up his insides. Honestly, you feel bad for the kaiju in the end. Like King Kong, he didn’t ask to be brought here. Who knew we could get the sniffles for a rampaging monster with mind-control powers?

Harley Quinn

Lives

Come on, did you think they’d kill off Harley? Pfft, Robbie’s performance is way too good for that.

Bloodsport

Lives

Given his world-weary stoicism, I thought going in that Idris Elba’s Bloodsport was too noble for Gunn’s twisted vision. How nice it is to be proven wrong. Elba’s supervillain marksman reveals there’s a heart of gold beneath that gruff exterior, and it’s still beating when the credits come around.

Ratcatcher II

Lives

James Gunn once told us that Daniela Melchior’s Ratcatcher was the heart of the movie with a presence “like somebody from the French New Wave.” And he wasn’t blowing smoke about the actor or the character. Despite being introduced as an easygoing millennial, Ratcatcher turns out to be the most sympathetic Squad member and proves her generation gets the job done by unleashing an armada of rats on Starro.

King Shark

Lives

Thank God. Nobody better hurt our precious man-eating Nanaue. Go ahead, King, have another nom-nom. You earned it!

Sol Soria

Lives

Sol Soria gets to be el presidente in Corto Maltese now. I guess that’s a fair enough trade with the knowledge that the people who put her there also fed her buddies head first to a land shark.

Amanda Waller

Lives

Some characters are too evil to die. Amanda Waller is still stewing back in D.C. by the end of The Suicide Squad, and she’s likely scheming of a way to murder all of her current underlings too.

Weasel

Lives

The first fakeout of the movie is the fate of Weasel. Despite seemingly being the first character to seemingly die off—in a really hilarious fashion when Waller and company realize they didn’t check to see if Weasel could swim—it turns out he didn’t drown. There’s another reason right there for why Savant deserved to have his head go boom. Pity the children of Corto Maltese.

Peacemaker

Lives

Even though Peacemaker got an epic death scene where Bloodsport won a quickdraw showdown, some actors are just too big of a deal to kill. Thus the end credits scene reveals that Peacemaker survived his bullet wound to the neck and is still breathing on a hospital ventilator. Nonetheless, Bloodsport taught him a valuable lesson: It’s not the size of your bullets but how you use them.

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🌹 CAUSE I AIN'T INTIMIDATED BY YOU, BINCH

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YOU SHOULD BE, BINCH >:C

So my brain is all over the place right now because I think I have onsetting cabin fever but whatever here we go. I’ve been following you for so long I honestly can’t even imagine being on here without seeing your blog pop up. Tbh, I think you were one of the first OC blogs I followed, and one of the first I interacted with because what you’ve create is just so REAL, Blackguard feels like a canon character to me. Her history, her characterization, her personality, her wants, hopes, dreams, fears, all of it is just so beautifully written and portrayed to a degree I’m almost envious of — and I mean that as a compliment. I admire you and your writing so much, not only as another writer but also as a person.

Time and time again no matter what life throws at you, you come on here with a smile and you’re ready to open your arms to anyone and lift them up without hesitation. You and Blackguard have the largest hearts I’ve ever known, and I think the world would be a much better place if there were more people like you in it.

Even though we don’t RP as much lately, I am so invested in Blackguard’s story and where you’ll take her and the crew next. I’m always lurking and reading trough the threads as they appear, and keep up with the kardashians. They’re not just words on a screen to me, they’re characters I love, characters I cry over, love, feel joy for in their accomplishments and anger at the wrong doings. Your ability to evoke such visceral and powerful reactions to Blackguard and the gang is only possible through your masterful and creative writing ability, and it’s a special kind of strength not everyone possesses.

I love you to the moon and back, I truly do. You’re one of my longest friends on here and I’m sorry to say you’re stuck with me now. You’re a phenomenal person, an incredibly talented writer, and I’ve loved watching you grow over the years. I’m so excited to see where you go

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         as most of my friends know I don't usually respond to any anonymous hate that I get. fortunately, there has been little of it since I returned to tumblr rp 2½ months ago. . . . . . . but at some point yesterday afternoon/evening, someone sent me a rather blunt. “ assessment ”. the only reason that I'm addressing it at all instead of sending it through the virtual paper shredder is because I want to say something.

     ^-^-^-^-^-^-^ The above is that which I speak of. Apologies for their crass wording, and definitely that this need even be on your dash out of necessity.               Now, first and foremost you should remember. . . . This is my blog, my muse. One who has had ( 358/2 days non withstanding) all of thirty minutes screentime AT MOST, and whose character I have spent well over a decade studying. Does this mean that I am wholly confident in my writing for him? No, but this is due the fact that I have little faith in general when it comes to my writing. It's something I'm attempting to work on, but regardless. . . I've been rping Luxord for 14 years and not a moment goes by where I don't try to do him justice.          But I digress. The point being here that you think I've ” ruined ” his character “ by making him ” someone who “ flirts with every girl ”, when that's a rather nasty exaggeration. I can count on both hands the women he has been openly flirting with, and the amont of fingers raised on the second hand is less than three.

         I'll try to keep this as short and simple as possible. As a character given less time in the spotlight than most of the others, and who is shrouded in mystery, he's a little more open to interpretation. Based on my own observations and beliefs, what feels right to ME and that which doesn't clash with the information we do have, he is a flirt. Whether as Rould or Luxord. Yet he isn't a lecher, he doesn't force himself on anyone, and if the woman in question shows or indicates she has NO interest in him/in any man, he is respectful of that.          He is a naturally charming man with a tongue of silver, a voice that could melt steel, and a gentleman. Being a pirate doesn't negate that or mean he is a cad. A rogue, but not a blackguard. His flirting is out of genuine interest in the woman, for th7 for FUN. Women are gorgeous and enchanting entities, who he enjoys complimenting and teasing and charming; those that draw him &&/or his interest, at least. Rould is a romantic at heart though, and there is certainly an echo of that in Luxord.

                      There are a few things I want to say in closing this.          This blog is mine. The portrayal is mine. I will not change that for anyone.          If we have interacted at all ( even if just through memes so far or we only have a couple replies between us ) and he is shamelessly/subtly flirting with your muse && it makes you, the mun, uncomfortable, please tell me. Please.          If you have any thoughts/opinions on this subject, feel free to comment on this post, send in asks/ims, or message me on disc.or.d.

[patternedwings]

Sides: "So why were you such a dick to Blackguard?" =I

[MEME]

“If you’re referring to what I think you are, drop it. Neither of you understand the stakes of the situation, and I don’t care to explain them to the likes of you.”

[freshsteel]

You guys asked for this...

and by unpopular demand, we have some doodles from a forgotten time: 

little thing i did on a postit a while ago, going from left to right we have: talba, kits (both belong to @slightlyofftomatosauce), Blitz, and Theron. It was meant to be angsty with Talba talking bc half the programs there dont really make it

here’s another Talba ( @slightlyofftomatosauce / @architectprogramtalba) meme, some warning tho there’s a lot of her bc i couldn’t stop drawing her

here’s some character design i did for my character Exton, however this is that one (kinda major) AU for Miraculous Ladybug that me and @just-ash-k have been thinking about for years, he’s the bat miraculous holder :)

this was my attempt in trying to design Theron’s light lines. on the bottom left there’s a small comic of theo and talba with reference to that one scene in thor ragnorok, right above it is theo stealing something lol

the top 2 are the finished design i had going for theo for Uprising era. the bottom right is me for an ask that someone did for a draw yourself thing and they chose tron. the lower left was Theo as a Blackguard bc, fun fact, that’s what he was before joining the Uprising (you can find more of his backstory on his blog @therontheprogram). don’t you love how inconsistent these are :)))))))), anyway

there’s a lot going on here lol. on the bottom is a comic (yet again) of Talba and Theo on a supposed stealth mission that went sideways lol. on the left we have a little sketch of blitz :) my baby, im sorry for not paying attention to you enough. above blitz we have another kinda full body theo as a blackguard, and to the right of that is a little doll sketch of Talba. and all the way at the top are even more theo doots lol.

top left: a UA student, of which now i believe to be my brain’s first thoughts of my OC Exton in a bnha AU. top right: Theo in a swimsuit as drawing practice, but also to kinda match @slightlyofftomatosauce‘s going to the beach drawings of Talba and Kits. bottom left: my attempt at blitz in a swimsuit for the same reason as the previous. bottom right: from a snap I saw on snapchat where this guy comes out of the ceiling to give his friend a soda, so naturally I had theo doing the same for talba :^)

top: little comic of no fear: one fear with talba bc she’s a ball of stress, the middle reads “Everyone You Know, Love, And Care For Being Slowly Picked Off By CLU’s Forces”. middle: short comic of talba that i’m kinda embarrassed about but there it is: she’s on the ground and exhausted when someone asks why she keeps dealing with her boys lol. bottom left: talba as the angry Marge Simpson meme. bottom right: just random doodles lol

top: short comic of theo doing a stupid thing (not jumping off of a burning recognizer or anything)

bottom: this is actually an AU i had going of rather than theo being derezzed at some point, he was rectified, here are some AU point written with the sketch:

caught by Dyson => after looking through theo’s disc, he found that he was once part of the Blackguard

rectified, but done similarly to what happened to Cutler

solo missions become when he updated CLU’s forces

a little something to add (that’s a little inconsistent with the sketch): after the fight with Dyson, he has a bit of a scar going down his face where his helmet breaks

lmao i did this in the middle of class on the back of my notes... anyway, on the far right is the general blackguard design, but for a while he wears it with white lightlines after joining the uprising. the middle is stealth, minimal purple lines but he still keeps stun/explosives and a couple extra batons on his legs like the blackguard. the left is my attempt at a legacy era design lol, if he lived that long.

this is the last of the bigger sketches, more to follow but its just more memes

[practically-an-x-man]

Which canon character annoys your OC?

Which canon character respects your OC most?

Which canon character doesn’t respect your OC whatsoever?

Which canon character does your OC respect a lot?

Who would your OC say is their best friend?

Who would call your OC their best friend?

for Eris :)

Thank you so much!!

Fandom OC Ask Meme

Which canon character annoys your OC?

So many. Peacemaker, Amanda Waller, and anyone who particularly morally-uptight (Eris appreciates someone who sticks to their own morals, but gets annoyed when that person tries to push their morals onto Eris instead - don't want to kill their enemy? Fine. Try to stop Eris from killing their enemy without a good reason? Good fuckin' luck.)

Which canon character respects your OC most?

Rick for sure. Most of that is due to the fact that he knows Eris well enough to really understand that they have morals and a sense of honor and don't just kill out of pure bloodlust. To others, they're so violent that it almost seems senseless, which is hard to respect, but Rick knows about the things Eris has experienced in their life and knows things could really be much worse.

Which canon character doesn’t respect your OC whatsoever?

I think it's hard not to respect Eris on at least some level, even if that level is as simple as "respect their skill because otherwise they will kill me", but Peacemaker doesn't seem to realize how dangerous they really are and therefore doesn't respect them as much as he should. Same can be said for Blackguard, or any other hero/villain who thinks they're the strongest person in the room.

Which canon character does your OC respect a lot?

Eris really does have a lot of respect for skilled fighters and warriors, whether or not they completely agree with their morals or techniques. It takes a lot to be truly great in a fight, and they respect that no matter who it comes from.

That's the thing: Eris does understand the value of life, they do have respect for the people they interact with, but that make them regret their violence- it just means they have respect for what that violence means.

Who would your OC say is their best friend?

Eris doesn't usually acknowledge that they have friends, and certainly wouldn't use the term "best friend", but if they were to pick out who they're closest to in that way, they'd probably say DuBois or Harley.

DuBois is a "friend" in that they can rely on him consistently, which to Eris is a big tenet of being close to someone. Harley is a "friend" in that interactions with her are always fun, and she includes Eris in "normal human" activities the way most other people don't tend to do.

And of course, Rick is the person that sets Eris the most at ease, and he's their best friend and their lover and their partner-in-arms and a lot of other unlabeled things. He's honestly the first person in their mind for a lot of things.

Who would call your OC their best friend?

Nobody. Eris isn't really "friend material", and while there are a few people that enjoy their company and can rely on them, it would feel really strange to refer to him as their best friend. Even with Rick, she's incredibly important to him and he loves her to no end, and they can definitely behave like friends, but "best friend" just isn't a fitting description of their relationship.

[heligooddeals]

!

[MEME]

[x]

“I think out of all the Decepticons I personally know you scare me the most, Arkaitimus, because you’re going to be a world leader someday. Whether it’s tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, or next century - it doesn’t matter. New Cybertron is your inheritance and the responsibility of taking care of the mecha who live on it will be your’s and your’s alone. And when I think of that, I think of how you got me locked in another dimension that I couldn’t get out of on my own because you were mad I adopted Rigel.

“I could have been stuck forever if you hadn’t found the nerve to tell the anonymous creatures that locked me in there to stop punishing me on your behalf and let me go. I would have been alone and trapped and probably insane by now if you hadn’t released me.

“I think of all that, and I think of you being a leader, and I get scared because if this is what happens to your friends when you get angry with them then what’s going to happen to New Cybertron when you’re angry with the people? Or with your allies? Is New Cybertron going to be plunged into another war? Are you going to start wiping out the undesirables - whether they’re an Autobot or a Neutral, rich or poor, organic or inorganic? And speaking of organics, are you going to start a galactic genocide against all organic life in the galaxy like so many other Decepticons would like to do? Because the way you talk about them sometimes certainly sounds like it. I honestly can’t stand to be online when you and the other Decepticons start going on rants about organic life because the way you talk about them is so… disgusting. Like they’re something less for being different.

“Am I something less to you and other Cybertronians? Because Gigantion wasn’t terraformed like most of the other colonies were. It was left organic and the Well was planted into organic soil. My spark came from organic ground. Does that make me a disgusting creature? Am I less worthy of life for my inferior origins? Or whatever you mecha say about organics. I don’t know.

“I don’t care.

“…I don’t mean to speak so harshly, Ark. It’s just… I want you to be a better leader than Megatron and Optimus ever were. I want you to be the kind of leader that pulls our species back from the brink instead of driving us further into the grave. And I feel like you teeter between being those two things and it scares me. A lot.

“…I know it’s easier to listen to mecha who have the same opinions as you, Arkaitimus, but… maybe when it’s time to build your court - or whatever - you should consider hiring some Autobots or Neutrals. Mecha who don’t share the same politics as you and aren’t afraid to challenge you. So they can bring a different opinion and a different perspective to the table. Because if you keep yourself surrounded by only Decepticons… I honestly don’t think New Cybetron will last for very long.”

[heligooddeals]

“!”

[MEME]

[x]

“You’re something else. Not quite what I expected, I guess, you know? Because when I hear the words DJD Commander I think of a ruthless, unforgiving, fanatical murderer who’d kill me and my entire family because I said ‘I don’t want to be a Decepticon’ and that is apparently not okay to say, and my family has to die because they made the mistake of standing next to me.

“But when I think of Tarn - the mech, not the city - I think of you. This... high class, educated, beautiful mech who is still very fanatical about the Decepticons but also a little more understanding towards people who aren’t. Because you could have killed me. You should have killed me. But you didn’t. You haven’t made a single move against me.

“I use to be so scared of you. Like, I thought for sure you were going to kill me if I said or did the wrong thing. But now I’m not really worried. We’re friends now, and I trust you better than I did before.”

[heligooddeals]

“!”

[MEME]

[x]

“...Why did you get to live? And how did you live? Because I-- I don’t get it, mech. I really don’t. I understand that you did and that you’re somehow not contagious anymore but... 

“HOW? And WHY?

“Because everyone else I know who got the plague died. All of them. Every single mech I knew, every single friend I had, my bondmate, probably his friends and his family - they all rusted to dust but you fragging lived and I don’t get it.

“It’s not fair.

“I don’t have a fragging home anymore, but you got to live because...

“It’s not fair.”

[heligooddeals]

! (ditto for the grandmas lol)

[MEME]

[x]

“I use to think I was ancient until I met you mecha. Now I realize I’m not quite as old as I thought I was. Still pretty old, but not as old.

“I kind of envy you mecha too because you’ve been on Earth for so long and have settled in so nicely with the local people. I wish I could do that too, but every time people see me they get scared and freak out. Maybe I’m in the wrong area? Or maybe it’s just how my universe is? Because Sideswipe’s universe-- the people there are just.. okay with Transformers. We can go to parks and be surrounded by people and nobody cares because he just exists there like it’s normal.

“Either way, I wish I could be more like you mecha. I know being out of the loop of everything is hard, but... You really didn’t miss anything worth knowing.”

[heligooddeals]

! (I honestly can't remember if I sent you one or not)

[MEME]

[x]

“It’s really great to have you back, Vee, cause I didn’t realize how much I missed you until I saw you back online. I mean-- Immediately, when I saw you, I thought ‘Oh wow, I really miss him.’ And that’s silly because you weren’t gone that long. A while by Earth standards, but we’re Transformers. We live for millions of Earth years so a few of those is nothing to us but I still really fragging missed you, mech.

“I love our lil chats, and question games, and stuff. I love spending time with you, if and when we can spare the time for each other. I really think we should go out more cause our last session doesn’t count. Filling you in on my personal drama is not a fun outing with friends. Drinking and dancing and singing is. Murdering senators too, I guess, but it has to be the right one.

“I’m really glad you’re back, mech. All of you. Except Swindle. But I guess you’re all a package deal so I’ll deal with his shady aft - for you.”

[heligooddeals]

"!"

[MEME]

[x]

“You’re probably the strangest co-parent I’ve had the, uh... pleasure of working with. Because if I remember right we started off with you threatening me. Not directly, but still. You made it crystal clear that you’d step in for Rigel if I faltered in any way and, well... You’re you. There’s no way you couldn’t have meant that non-violently.

“You’re not bad though. A little rough, which is to be expected, but not bad. I like being friends with you, even if it means having to deal with Smokescreen sometimes.

“...I’m not sure I want Rigel spending anymore time with you though. I know you two have history, but... you broadcasted that video of yourself killing Optimus. And I don’t know if he saw it but... I don’t know. Things are so complicated with him right now. But I don’t want to see him get hurt anymore by Optimus and you are unfortunately his big arch nemesis and killer so...

“I don’t know.

“...Get a better leash on, Smokescreen. He causes too much trouble.”