#when they probably Both thought in hindsight that it'd be the other way around

[kachinnate]

For the memorable scene I don’t remember the name of the fic but the glasses cleaning scene when Jared is trying to say I love you for the first time and can’t and he holds Evan’s extended hand and Evan is like “I meant give me your glasses??” waaaaahhh that one is rotating in my mind often! I simply love Jared struggling to express emotions and also embarrassing himself. get dunked on Jared

;_;<33 fun fact i completely forgot that i wrote that and went back to read it just now sdjfnskdfj twas the lips, the teeth (the tip of the tongue) i feel like a lot of kleinsen stuff just in general focuses on how evan is anxious and bad at saying things and does silly things but jared is Also anxious and bad at saying things and does silly things! and we should look at that more !!!

tell me abt a memorable scene u remember from one of my fics

[deviouscrackers]

I brained

ANYWAYS I had an idea of how to rewrite Nexus's villain arc. I didn't really care for it either way, so these are ideas to make it more interesting (at least to me).

I write this with the intention to follow the TSBS writing rules that I am aware of, but I don't know many so… my bad ig.

(This also got long, can you tell I like writing shit like this?)

First of all, what did I not like about Nexus? Well, like many, I wasn't all that fond of the rate he became evil. I didn't like his motivations, which is somewhere between wanting to become an unstoppable powerhouse and wanting control of his life? I think?

Not bad motivations, yes, but how he got to those motivations? Mm… no…

Another thing I wasn't fond of regarding Nexus would probably be his behaviour as a villain, and the lack of respect everyone gave him. Nexus, and other characters, take himself and his goals quite seriously.

Nexus is a threat.

However, he doesn’t act like one, nor does anyone else really behave like he is. Half the time it feels like they're watching some snot-nosed kid sharing his new war story he made with his plushies.

Thirdly, the whole prior arc Nexus had going on before becoming Nexus just became irrelevant. Now, I don't want to sound too much like a conspiracy theorist, but this drop in care for Solar happens to have been around the time shipping discourse got really bad. Just before I joined the fandom, essentially.

Anywho!

So here is how, in hindsight, I would have written this (Please, please, please remember that I have no ill will to the writers or anything. Yes I'm disappointed with Nexus, but in all honesty this arc was not the absolute worst and it had its very good moments. I'm just sharing my own ideas).

Taking how focused Nexus got on reviving Solar, I would have his villain arc more focused on it.

His old motivations:

Power

Control

New motivation:

Bringing back Solar/Keeping His Family Safe

Don't worry! This still encompasses power and control, but in a way that links back to his previous behaviours.

First event I’d change would be when Nexus kidnapped Earth with Bloodmoon.

Quick disclaimer, I skipped through that set of episodes because I was like, four straight days into trying to watch every lore vid and hadn't been to school for any of those days, but to better align that event with how I'm changing Nexus, it'd have to be Lunar or Sun that got kidnapped.

Why? Well, Nexus actually had a good relationship with Earth and him thinking of her as mere collateral makes no sense. On the other hand, Sun and him had a rocky relationship at the time and from what I can tell Lunar and Nexus weren't incredibly fond of eachother.

Plus, Nexus could justify attacking Lunar as he thought Lunar would've been strong enough to take it or protect himself specifically.

So now Nexus is floating in space; angry, hurt, dejected, hapless… and who should come to his rescue but Dark Sun? In this version, Dark Sun would offer Nexus shelter and anything he wanted as long as Nexus did some tasks for him. Hysteric and grieving, Nexus agrees to go with him.

Nexus is definitely hesitant about the Dragon and Dark Star Power. As long as Dark Sun and Nexus aren't about to kill each other at every turn that should work and stay somewhat the same as canon.

If you can't tell this is (so far) sticking to canon progression as much as possible.

Moving on, Monty brings back Moon just the same as canon. The only difference is that it takes longer for Earth to warm up to Moon, considering she hasn't heard the best stuff about his attitude.

Skipping to when Moon and Nexus meet, I imagine there'd be heavy miscommunication between Moon and Nexus. Moon would leave the conversation assuming Nexus doesn't mean well for anyone in the family and Nexus would leave the conversation assuming that they had never liked him and were only waiting for him to leave before replacing him. Both their hackles would be raised.

When Solar is revived, he immediately asks about Sun and Nexus, because they were the last people he saw. He then immediately follows up with the rest of the family. Upon hearing about Nexus “turning evil”, Solar goes into denial, refusing to believe it until he sees it.

How I imagine Solar and Nexus meet is as follows: Dark Sun gives Nexus another task, data collection. Nothing harmful, he assures. Nexus obliges because these tasks are essentially how he pays rent, and he can't leave yet. While waiting for the data, Nexus decides to pay Moon a visit.

After finding the new address (something that infuriates him, because did the house he bought with Sun just mean nothing now that Moon is back?) Nexus enters and taunts Moon. Teasing turns into a genuine argument between the two, which Solar walks into. Nexus and Solar freeze upon seeing each other, Nexus leaving shortly after.

A quick thing to note, is that around this point, Nexus’s behaviour isn't too different, but he's beginning to become very unstable. The reasoning for this is because in this version, the Wither Storm’s proximity is causing issues, to both Nexus and Ruin. Dark Sun is fine due to him not being in the dimension for too long, but Nexus ends up actually going insane (or close to it) and Nexus is slowly dipping into insanity. He is not aware of this until it's far too late.

So in Nexus's mind, he's rejoicing that Solar is alive, but is horribly panicked that someone dangerous like Moon is near Solar. So while he spends time making a cell/room for Solar, to keep him safe, Dark Sun manipulates him into using Dark Star Power to further protect Solar.

From then on, Nexus makes several attempts to get Solar to come with him, first with offers, then with manipulation, then…

Then with force as Nexus gets increasingly hysterical.

Other things he'd do, Nexus would still need the wither shards so he'd still go after Sun. He'd also try and get Earth to come with him because she's similarly important to Nexus.

As his mental state deteriorates, he’d begin to act more like the Nexus we know, if a little less pathetic. Just a little.

I'm no good at endings and fine-details however, so I wouldn't know what ending to give him. The ending we got works pretty well for this, though it'd be far more adjusted to include more elements of whatever Dark Sun was doing.

[intheclearblueskies]

A Failed Date

| Masterlist |

Tanjiro:

"Ah, this is so nice," you sighed in contentment as you both relaxed in the cool water.

"Isn't it?" The brunet agreed, smiling at you. "I'm just glad we found this spot. It's been so hot lately, I thought it'd be perfect."

"And it is," you rested your cheek on his bare shoulder, though it was still damp from the river. "Thank you. Really."

The two of you sat there in silence, enjoying the birds chirping in the treetops overhead and the warm sun beating down on your heads.

All was perfect...

... until you both heard Inosuke's shouts from a ways away. Both of you looked up worriedly as Zenitsu began screaming too, begging him not to do... something. You couldn't really hear what it was from this distance, nor did you really want to.

Both of you paused. Tanjiro looked at you. You looked at Tanjiro.

...

You sighed, shaking your head with an amused smile. "Better go see what's happening before it gets ugly."

Nezuko:

The two of you were curled up under your haori, admiring the full moon. Nezuko's bright, pink eyes were half-lidded in contentment as you sipped a warm cup of cider.

"Thank you, Nezuko," you crooned, smiling down at the younger girl. She leaned into your touch when you patted her head, closing her eyes as she beamed back.

Just as she leaned in to rest her head on your shoulder, her eyes snapped open, her pupils narrowed into slits. She looked around before jumping up, making you down the rest of the cup and reach for your katana.

"Well well well, what have we here?" A slimy voice drawled somewhere to your right. You both tensed as a demon came form the darkness of the woods, a lecherous grin on its face as it wiped away the drool from its lips.

"Looks like that date is over," you laughed wryly, steeling yourself for battle. "Let's beat this guy and go back inside, eh?"

Nezuko nodded firmly, readying her claws.

Zenitsu:

The two of you were just leaving a village to go back to where you were staying, laughing about this and that. Your arms were full of little goodies from your time to give to the others (especially Inosuke, who would pout if you forgot about him).

On your way down the road to the Wisteria house, Zenitsu stiffened.

"Get down!" he barked, pulling you into a crouch just as a demon lunged overhead.

"Aw crap," you grumbled, smoothing down your clothes as you reached for your sword. "Really? You can't leave us alone even on a date?"

Inosuke:

For your date, you decided to take him to another village for a festival. You made him wear a yukata (he still wore it open wide enough to show off his chest) and you even dressed up a little bit for it.

As soon as you got there, you both got something to pregame your, er, gaming, and to plan out your strategy for what booths you should visit. As trigger-happy as Inosuke could get, that man sure was serious when it came to sightseeing. First would be half of the booths, then you would meet by the takoyaki stand for some more food, then the other half of the booths, then meet by the takoyaki stand again for more food and you'd go home. It was a flawless plan. Absolutely nothing could go wrong.

(narrator voice) Something definitely did go wrong.

The two of you split up to cover more ground (and to shop for yourselves). You were actually having fun catching goldfish and buying little trinkets for yourself and Nezuko (you found little hanafuda earrings almost exactly like Tanjiro's, absolutely hilarious in hindsight), that you almost ignored the shouting as you got closer to the takoyaki stand.

When you realized that the shouting was coming from Inosuke, you nearly dropped your box of trinkets as you ran towards where it was coming from.

You groaned aloud when you saw him engaged in a fight with a much larger man, probably around six-foot-three by the looks of things, and actually holding his own pretty well.

You could see the local police arriving to break up the fight, so you all but forgot about the festival to drag your date out of there before he could be arrested.

Giyuu:

You were actually having a nice time walking with Giyuu on a river trail when you noticed something off about your surroundings.

Every time you looked over at him, he didn't seem to be concerned with anything. Rather, his face was still a little pink, as you were holding hands while you walked.

Finally, once you arrived at a peaceful little clearing with a bench to rest on, you decided to look around.

"(y/n)-san, what are you doing?" He asked calmly.

"Something's been following us for the last hour," you explained irritably as you checked behind the bushes, "and I'm gonna find out what or who it is!"

He simply watched as you looked up in the trees. The moment you stepped back to get a better view, the both of you heard a cute little sneeze from above.

"Bless you," you called.

"Thank you!" A familiar feminine voice answered. Then you heard a little gasp and a whispered, "Oopsie."

"Kanroji-san?" You questioned as the woman in question came out of hiding, smiling sheepishly.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but you both were so adorable," she giggled nervously, poking her fingers together.

"This is why I told you we should've been a bit further back." Shinobu's voice sighed, and you saw the woman's face peek out from behind a branch, smile still in place.

You sighed heavily. Great, the mood was ruined, and Giyuu looked annoyed because you were being interrupted.

Kyojuro:

It was supposed to be a nice, simple day out. A nice, simple picnic lunch near your home. On a nice, simple sunny afternoon.

Kyojuro's retching snapped you out of your thoughts as you returned your attention to the poor man huddled over your toilet. You rubbed his back as he vomited again.

"I'm so sorry, Kyojuro-san," you sadly sniffled as you pressed your hot face against his back. "I was sure I followed the recipe exactly..."

"It's absolutely fine, (y/n)-san," he encouraged with a pained smile before turning back to the bowl. He grunted, "It-- happens!"

Who else to make their appearance on your date but the worst enemy of man: not demons, but food poisoning.

Muichiro:

"Ow, shit," you heard Muichiro hiss under his breath.

You ceased your chopping, looking over with concern, "Are you alright?"

"I'm okay," he mumbled, looking back up at you with a calm expression. "I cut myself a little."

"Ehh? Let me see." You wiped your hands and hurried over to see the cut. When he said 'a little', you were expecting something, say, the size of a paper cut.

You were not expecting something that spanned half the length of his pinky finger. It looked deep and was beginning to drip blood onto the cutting board.

"Holy shit, Muichiro!" You cried, panicking. You grabbed his shoulders and moved him out of the kitchen to the dining table, firmly sitting him down. "Sit right here, I'll be back with the first-aid!"

Shinobu:

"--and that's how you make flower crowns," Shinobu finished, holding up the finished product, a beautifully-woven crown of white and yellow daisies.

You narrowed your eyes, lacing the last flower into place before hesitantly holding yours up. It was a little loose in some spots, but it held together. "Like... this?"

"That's very good," she praised, and it brought warmth to your cheeks. "What should we do next?"

You hummed, tapping your chin in thought. Before you could reply, a Kakushi came rushing to you both, "Kocho-sama! We've got three wounded that need your expertise!"

Almost immediately, Shinobu switched from 'potential sweetheart' mode to 'scientist' mode, standing and nodding firmly. "I see. I'll be there in a few minutes."

Turning to you, she smiled apologetically. "I'm sorry, (y/n)-chan."

"Do what you have to do, I'll stick around for a while before heading out." You tried to smile back as pleasantly as you could, but inside you were very disappointed. Your date hadn't even lasted forty-five minutes.

Gyomei:

You and Gyomei were having a nice twilight stroll in your village when apparently a demon decided it was an appropriate time to attack. Luckily for you, you had the pillar to protect you.

Unluckily, you accidentally got scratched with the demon's poisoned claws.

You slumped over immediately, and once the fight was over (it was a simple one and done, just another Tuesday night), Gyomei immediately scooped you up into his arms, racing for the Butterfly Estate.

"I-- I'm so sorry, Gyomei," you slurred in your half-awake, delirious state. "Our outing is ruined..."

"Do not worry, (y/n)-san," Gyomei replied, tears dribbling down his cheeks and onto your sweaty skin. "You did very well, and I'm proud of you. We can continue our walk at a later date."

Sanemi:

"So-- so then, I said to him, I said, 'looks like he's been... disarmed!'" You finished, wiping any errant tears from your eyes as you laughed.

Sanemi barked a guffaw, the two of you stumbling over yourselves as you made your way home from a restaurant.

"And that was the end of that fight?" He questioned, bumping his hip into yours.

"Oh, no, it wasn't - Zenitsu laughed so hard he passed out!" The memory of the blond collapsing on the ground brought a new fit, and you cupped a hand over your mouth as you giggled incessantly.

Sanemi was smirking, the cool nighttime breeze rustling his pale hair. As your laughter faded, you leaned against him, face flushed.

"We aren't too far from your family's house," he noted, for once not moving away from your touch.

His hand was resting at his side, moving slightly with his steps - and as you tried to muster up the courage to take it, you heard an ominous rustling.

In an instant, any soft mood between you two faded - and Sanemi's head snapped up, eyes alert as his hand went to his concealed sword.

Heaving a sigh, you rolled your eyes and got ready for a fight as you spotted a pair of bright golden eyes peeking at you hungrily from the bushes.

Akaza:

It was a lovely night with a new moon, and you and Akaza were sitting on a cliff overlooking a waterfall. The stars were bright and beautiful in the clear navy skies, and you were content, holding hands.

"How long until you need to leave again?" Your soft voice made him turn.

He hummed in thought. "Whenever he wishes it. I don't know when he'll want me to leave."

You nodded your head, satisfied with that answer. Slowly, you leaned closer to him, resting your head against his shoulder.

His face flushed a cute pink and he closed his eyes, enjoying the nighttime breeze.

Everything was so peaceful, until Akaza's eyes snapped open and he gripped your hand tighter.

"There are demons here," he hastily explained, turning his torso to glare into the darkness behind you. "Get ready to fight."

"Aw, okay," you sighed, grabbing your katana and straightening your haori.

Douma:

The two of you were actually out of the compound for once, a gentle rain showering the two of you. Douma held a dainty umbrella over your heads as you walked, talking quietly in the calm downpour.

You were actually having a great time with him, chuckling about something that had happened the day before when your back stiffened. You reached for your katana and looked around, sensing someone else.

"Demon," your eyes narrowed when you saw the person's hair flying around the corner of a building. It was thick and black, whipping around unnaturally in the slight wind.

Douma nodded, offering his umbrella to you. You declined, deciding to tie up your hair and wrap your haori tighter around yourself, dainty patterns of lace decorating the fabric making you look like a falling snowflake as you leapt at them, readying your blade. (Usually when they ruined your date, you used your most merciful technique.)

Kokushibo:

The two of you were walking through Asakusa when Muzan suddenly appeared in front of you, crimson eyes trained on you.

You gasped and averted your gaze, shaking hand going to the handle of your concealed katana.

Kokushibo ignored your reaction and asked, "Is there a meeting?"

"Yes." An almost-unnoticeable smile spread across the man's face as he glanced toward you. "I'm afraid you'll have to cut this little outing short."

Your date nodded stiffly, taking your arm and disappearing. You both reappeared at your gates, where he bid you farewell and disappeared without a word.

You sighed, trudging back into your home in disappointment.

Muzan:

The two of you were walking through the city, Muzan styled up as a pretty woman, when all of a sudden her shoulders stiffened.

"Is something wrong?" You asked, giving her a concerned frown.

"That boy..." she breathed, turning her head to glance over her shoulder. "That... that boy with the earrings... he's near, I can feel him."

You sighed quietly. Somehow, you'd known that this was not gonna be your night. "Should I get back home, then?"

"Best if you do that," he agreed distractedly.

You nodded and gave him a one-armed hug, turning to walk off into the crowd.

Yoriichi:

It was a lovely afternoon when you had a date. You decided to take a short hike through the mountain near the Kamados. You quite enjoyed the scenery, so it was the perfect place to go for a picnic date. You walked with Yoriichi, hands brushing against one another.

As you went, you weren't paying much attention to your surroundings. You were suddenly pulled back when Yoriichi noticed a bear lying in the sun nearby. It didn't look too concerned until you came into its line of sight. For some reason, your presence seemed to offend it in some way, because it immediately became more alert, raising itself up and giving you a wary stare.

You stared back, confused. You rose a hand hesitantly. "... hi?"

The bear roared at you, leaping to its feet and charging at you.

You screeched and ran away, tripping over your own feet as you tried to get away. You spotted a good climbing tree and hurried to it, scampering up the trunk.

You held on for dear life, listening for the bear. You tried to climb up higher, but when you got out onto a branch, it cracked -- and you fell right into the river.

You shivered and sputtered as the bear came into view, now more docile -- with Yoriichi on its back?

Your boyfriend shrugged. "Are you alright?"

"You... can tame animals?" You breathed in confusion, taking his outstretched hand. "Holy shit. What the hell is this. I quit. Please take me back to the Kamados."

[system-of-a-feather]

How do you know if you fused ? I wonder if I did because we haven(t seen my little sister in quite a while, and I have more and more of interests only she had, but are you supposed to know for sure about it or is it more of a "I guess.... ???" situation ?

Disclaimer: This is entirely based on our personal experience solely and I'm lowkey scatter brained at the moment so this entire post is not my best writing

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Honestly, there really isn't a point where you will magically know you are fused. I think a lot of DIDtube has presented fusion as this instantaneous thing that is bam over night suddenly you are a new person kind of thing, and for some it might be like that, but we've personally never experienced it. For us our shortest fusion took like 2 weeks, and longest could be argued to be like 4-6 years.

In my personal opinion, you are fused once you feel you are fused and/or have put emotional and mental time and space into pulling two parts together and holding them in the same space. Once you've reached a place where you can comfortably hold both "brains" and rest as some middle ground place and you feel like its fair to call yourself fused, its probably a good point. It personally feels a lot like learning emotional regulation between two extreme emotional states and trying to find the middle ground in a DBT like setting, and that phase takes up a lot of the space prior to feeling properly fused.

But also like.... XIV didn't know he was fused and it was a complex situation, but he spent a lot of time balancing his wildly swaying mood swings and lack of control and in hindsight we realized he had fused with a part that was MIA.

Personally for me, I usually say I'm a fused when I felt two parts close and got this general emotion-based vibe that fusion was possible, ended up melding (term we use, its like blurring, but instead of fogginess, it is just confusing temporary state of two parts fusing and is often very brief and short run) by accident, decide that we intend to try to hold onto to this and give it mental and emotional time and space. Usually doing that will be annoying as shit because it'd feel like you are one person with HORRIBLE emotional regulation and identity crisises, but if its a positive fusion there will still be a net positive

And usually once a part "gets a grip" on the extreme swings that comes with working to fuse a part and can typically regularly hold a "middle ground" brain, we like to consider that part a fused part.

In our time of trying to fuse parts I've tried fusing with a good few parts. Only like 1 of the 4 I tried actually stuck because the other three were too much pretty quickly and the distressed / discomfort outweighed the benefit and it naturally returned back to what it was.

Also I think one of the most common traits in our system of knowing you are a fused part is looking at how you were before the possible fusing and going "Goddd I was miserable" but that is most likely a system specific trait XD

Honestly I'm still a bit new to how this fusion stuff works cause I only sorted mine out like 2 or 3 months ago and haven't really sat to get the words put together in a manner that is really coherent but like.... for example, I'm a fusion between two subsystem parts Riku (One) and Arya (Four) and one of the largest and hardest parts between the two to properly integrate was the ability to be grounded and have needs and the need to chronically be moving and like.... it was horrible cause while there was something of a "third overwatching" brain that is me now, it was very very weak and small and most of the time I thought I was loosing my mind with how I kept jumping between coping skills and interests in ways I knew that were too extreme and not moderate and not what I needed to be doing.

I like had the vision of something between the two but the behavior and depersonalization / derealization particularly around traits that were hard to bring together and it took a few weeks and me also removing "crutches" that I as Riku (One) relied on to avoid shit with to actually get used to the "swings" and eventually lower them while building this third middle brain between the two parts.

And real talk here, even after you fuse, it really isn't odd - at least here - to occasionally swing a lot more to one part than another especially when triggers to them come up or coping skills get rough.

... really sorry about how scatter brained and unstructured this is, I have a lot of loose tangential thoughts on the topic, but really.... Fusion isn't this "on or off" thing really - its really a spectrum of integration with the far end being generally labeled "fusion".

If you put a gradient from yellow to red, at what exact hue are you "orange" - where does orange begin and end exactly? Is it one specific hue? Is it a range of specific hues? Or would you just generally pinpoint a general place that seems to represent orange well?

I dunno I'm sorry I'm rambling XD I also just lowkey switched in here so my brain is all over the place. If any of this makes any sense and you'd like further expansion or clarification feel free to ask more.

-Riku (Host)

[archer3-13]

having knocked through skyward sword hd to the final boss, gonna take the opportunity to collect my thoughts as it were on the game.

STORY

- well i would definitely call the plot a 'zelink plot' when the chips are down, its not nearly quite as prominent as i remember it being. but then, i also found myself being a lot more down on zelda this time in general as well. i think its the value of hindsight, with botw also on the table/mind it really highlights the elements and areas of sszelda that are basically just proto botwzelda [the insufferable waifishness, the atmosphere of self pity, the weird amount of delicateness the narrative insists on treating her with]. nowhere near as bad mind, and the sortta pre tornado bossy childhood friend zelda is a lot of fun compared to the soft moments botw tried. buuuuut stillll... i just cant unsee it.

- i remember the unique races to this game, the mogmas, the jellyfish things, the kuqwi and the robots looking a lot worse then they actually do in terms of design. they're more so just forgettable if anything, nothing to latch onto even just compared to the 2 random gorons roaming about.

- the plot is one of those 'odd ducks' as it were, where theres never really a natural feeling break in the story to focus on side content and quests and the like, but the sense of urgency thats trying to be imposed can never really get off the ground because of how the game actually functions. it just makes it a bit odd to be doing oddjobs around skyloft when as far as the plots concerned zeldas in constant danger.

- i rather like link though if im being frank, hes a charming dope as it were that kinda sharpens along with the master sword into a hero of legend over the games course. you might call it a mix of wwlink and tplink both in terms of art and personality, but i do more so consider it a unique kinda progression for a link [who tend to either be stoic competent or unrepentant goofs].

- the side cast is fine, perfectly serviceable. really though id almost even consider grooses reputation in fandom slightly overblown solely because i kinda feel he only stands out as he does because all the other side characters are kinda just... eh. not that grooses story isnt fun mind, just that it'd probably not be as memorable if it had stiffer competition in its own game.

- the sky is sooooo fucking empty, like, holy shit is this bad. zelda overworlds tend to be busywork commutes mind, but the sky here is particularly bad for it seeing as huge tracts of it are given over to empty space and the selection of places to visit and explore are minimal and kept purely to the functional. and it takes way to long to get anywhere in the sky to boot.

GAMEPLAY

- non motion controlled swordplay is an interesting experience. things like faking out ghiriam feel a little bit more difficult but wracking up damage on foes is a lot quicker and easier. almost to quick even as i found myself taking damage i might otherwise not have or hitting any enemy before their invul frames came to an end simply because it was so easy to jump the gun.

- the gear felt generally waaaay to situational for my taste to the point that the bow when i got it was the only gear i really used on a regular basis outside of required puzzle use. its faster then a lot of the other gear and more importantly its one of the only things that actually does damage.

- dungeon design was pretty neat, i like how so much of it felt so compact, very little wasted space. kinda makes me wish we had gotten a few more of them, say an extra set of dungeons instead of the world challenges to get he song pieces?

- the silent realms feel surprisingly generous all things considered? like, i was pretty regularly bltizing through them when they came up which felt odd given the seeming sense of their importance/challenge the game tries to build up.

BOSSES

- own dedicated section

- 1st ghiharam definitely works as a first boss, having a strong mix of elements to test if you are paying attention in combat or not

- 2nd the bolder spider thing, i refuse to look up names, is honestly more so tedious then it is fun

- 3rd the scorpion, almost would have worked better as the first boss if im being honest, as it covers the same bases as ghiharam well generally being a little easier to handle, the only complication being when it burrows in the sand but even thats a pretty easy thing to spot

- 4th the shiva golem thing, definitely the most fun non ghiharam boss, having a varied enough moveset to test your skills, and interesting progression of phases, and a really satisfying visceral feeling when ya start hacking it to pieces with its own swords

- 5th da kraken, this thing sucks both in terms of design and to actually fight, like the 2nd boss it mostly just wastes time

- 6th ghiharam round 2. really ups the anti compared to the previous fight with more aggressive strategies, integration of magic, and a more foreboding presence in general

- 7th the imprisoned. lumping all the imprisoned fights together, for something thats suppose to feel epic and life threatening they mostly just end up being boring slogs of wrestling with the camera. became mildly more tolerable when i started regularly using grooses bombs to just stun the fuckin thing so i could slash at its toes

- 8th giharam round 3. less impressive then round 2 if im being honest, its a neat fight in terms of visual and story around it, but i never really felt like i learned what i was doing yet it was waaaay to easy to brush through the first phase and the second phase felt more like winning by accident

- final demise. honestly before he calls lightning from the sky it feels like an intense fight. demise can mostly shrug off your blows, he hits pretty hard and fast, he has a sortta feint parry thing going on, your openings to attack feel somewhat minimal. then the second phase happens with the lightning and you get an instant 'break his shit open button' in skyward strikes. cool death though

[countrtnrs]

hxllblazer​:

“Civvies will be fine. Mostly. They have no free will about ‘em, less they get particularly hungry.” John simply shrugged at the thought. “’sides, none of your kind ever stopped to care ‘bout it before. Folk have been going missing like this for lifetimes.”

In hindsight, perhaps the complete and utter dismissiveness of the situation wasn’t normal by any means, but it was just how Constantine rolled with it. Sure, there was the high possibility that maybe one zombie might get a little peckish on their way back to their master, but who wasn’t guilty about going out of their way over a late-night snack? Even despite the part where in this case a late-night snack probably would be whichever poor bastard happened to be out on the streets.

Oh well. It wasn’t his problem.

But it seemed like his companion wasn’t of the same mind, which was probably also something he should’ve expected. Damn heroes and their damn moral codes… “Look, I dunno what you want me to say. Crap like this happens all the time.” John made sure to sidestep in his walk just so he didn’t end up colliding with the other—though the words made him stop once more.

What if he wasn’t around? Did he genuinely look like he had any sort of loyalty to keeping this city safe?

“What do I look like? A hero? Mate, as far as you’re concerned I’m just some bloke who needs t’ make some quick cash so the landlord doesn’t kick ‘im out. The fact I know some magic doesn’t mean I gotta do shite for anyone.” Especially with heroes who clearly had no idea what the true world really was. Christ, it really was just his luck…

“You don’t wanna step foot into my world, mate. Especially when that guy who set ‘em on me is unfortunately a necessary evil for this city that’s been keepin’ the magic here together longer than either of us have ever been alive.”

Yeah. Yeah, if only John could hear how he sounded through different ears. 'It'll be fine, it's just how the world works' was something that he'd ever learned to accept, though originally that'd been a response to growing up in a town that never seemed to accept him. Who even was he if he wasn't trying to push boundaries in some way?

It wasn't like he was a total bleeding heart type. But he'd been going too hard with compassion in the last couple of years, ever since it felt like he had something to lose if he didn't do enough. Deep down he knew that in another life, even in his normal life where he'd sworn off ever getting to use his weird quirk of being able to not be touched or seen, he wouldn't hesitate to run to save a stranger. It's the best trait you could want in someone crazy enough to do what he does, yet it's the most self destructive one for any actual person who lived in a city like this.

For the first time, it hits him how different the pair of them are, not just about this. Because he's young, debatably not even old enough to drink, and optimistic still, but if he seems older it'd be the exhaustion. Taking on the burden of two lives tends to drain them both out in the end. And He can work out enough about John, from all three of their encounters, but this one most of all. 'Your kind' already convinced him he didn't think of himself as having to always do the good thing just because. But he knew better. He couldn't think of a good reason to save someone from some strange antique shop encounter that could be reduced down to 'monetary gain'. Part of him wanted to bring it up, but he was aware of the risks.

He's been awfully quiet, almost by design. Every word being said felt like it needed to be thought through and meditated on somewhat, considered in its entirety. And he didn't want to seem even more persistent as they walked across these city streets.

" I don't think that's true. But either way, if you're really committed to just being someone who can do magic but doesn't care, it can't hurt to actually give a heads up to people that do. You're right - I don't want to step into your world. But I keep stumbling across it either way. I'm interested. Sounds like someone needs to be, "

[smol-grey-tea]

Can I reblog it too? :0

1. I don't really have a concept of time so this'll only be a guess but depending on how much detail ypu wanna go into...a veryyyy longgggg timeee

2. I'm kinda confused on the meaning of para and also there are a few of my paras who count as one person but for the sake of this question I'll count them as separate people: I think it'd be 9? I'm not sure tho, probably more

3. I have 2 different dream worlds/paracosms but I have one main paracosm that's been with me for years, I'd say just a bit younger than how long I've been a Doctor Who fan but I can't remember how old I was then, maybe 10? My other one is I'd say at most 3 years old but I think it you can definitely see that since this younger one has paras that are more original than the older one which is basically ALL from other media sources.

4. Again, I have no concept of time so I don't know, but I'd say probably almost a full day. I usually do daydream for this long if its a Sunday since I go out on Saturdays and go to school for the rest of the week, bit I'd usually take tiny tiny tint breaks to look at YouTube or smth

5. Yes! 3 teachers, a nurse, a counsellor, 6 friends (1 fell asleep, 2 dont remember and 1 is a lying dickhead asshole who didn't take it seriously in hindsight so idk if it counts) and half a parent (he didn't listen and doesnt remember)

6. Most people were accepting yeah! My counsellor is going to help me get a doctors appointment so I can possibly get medication for it!

7. The majority of the paras I've created are definitely female presenting while most that I've taken from fiction are male presenting (but recently I've been thinking of having Lance be a trana girl shh)

8. Right now :((( I am sad. I don't think they happen that often (since ive gotten a better control of them lately so i dont feel that bad about them) but when they do they really break me :(

9. I think definitely social life. That's what's affected by my MaDD the most but now that I think about it thats what saves me from it... I should talk to people more! And I also think I should open up to more people about my MaDd too!

10. Eh, when I'm in school I'm not as attached to and obsessed with them if that counts? But I'd really love to have more of a control over the story - for some reason I can't really get it to move? I think its because there are lots of possibilities for where it could go so my brain doesn't know which direction it wants to take it, its not daydream crash since this aspect of my MaDD has been around for years

11. I'm kinda scared that I'll abandon my old paracosm and move on to this new one and that makes me sad. Idk if that answers the question but idk what else to say about it :( I really have loved these people for years, idk how many, but its felt like my whole life

12. I think its generally pop or video game/TV show/movie music? Idk about anything else that triggers me, a lot of things do I think

13. Oh yeah definitely! Jen!! The name of both a robot and a part of North

14. I think I may have ADHD and that may have causes it in some way? Idk if this is a real memory (since sometimes your brain creates fake memories to explain stuff you don't understand) but I specifically remember when I was very tiny, complaining to my dad about how bored I was and then starting to pace.

15. Some of them are similar, I can definitely see a kind of pattern. There's the smart but tortured one, the careless one, the fabulous one and the cute one - I think that's usually it. I think I am similar to North in some ways personality wise but I think she would proudly say what I would only quietly think...

16. Sometimes? I have a lot of fun picking out names though, looking at the meanings, the gender, the origin...I think I do it way too often! 😂

17. Funny story but I found it on a weird little questionnaire thing, idek why someone would make a questionnaire/quiz about this? I was very young at the time so I just kind of thought it was just a nice little explanation for that weird thing I do and didn't question it.

18. Downstairs! The hallway! Pacing! But its kind of weird though...does anyone else obly daydream certain things in a certain place? Like, when I'm daydreaming something that's basically just my paras screaming and crying into the void, I have to do it in bed, with my eyes open, at night time. And its hard to do it when I'm standing up or pacing. And vice versa! Its difficult to daydream about anything else when I'm in bed! What the heck is that all about??

19. Pacing! I hate it, I wish I was tapping my fingers or something instead. Does anyone else HATE HATE H A T E seeing yourself in the mirror when daydreaming and pacing? Its not just that but whenever I see anything in the MaDD community picturing it in some way...I don't know, I just hate it so much

20. ALL of my original(ish) paras are singers! And on top of that, I changed Lance and now he's obsessed with music, dancing, singing, musicals...hmm.

21. Definitely mentally around my own age! Even if North is in her uhmmmmm 70s?

22. I have literally no idea how I would do that.

23. I want to be a psychologist and when I'm old I'll be a writer and foster carer! I have literally no idea how much my MaDD has influenced my desired careers!

24. There is a less than 0.0002% chance that I would ever daydream about myself!

25. My violent ones probably wouldn't ever go into the details of it and would mainly just focus on how it makes my paras feel emotionally, but yeah they do go into torture and rape etc.

That was fun, that actually made me feel better! :)

MD/MaDD Questionnaire...

This is kind of like a “get to know you” except geared towards the topic of MD. I love to get to know others in the community and how my MD and yours compare/contrast. Leave comments to answer questions or send me asks/submissions! I allow anonymous asks too. (Please put the number of the specific question(s) you are answering with your responses). Also, if you want to know my answer to a question just send me an ask with the question you are curious about. (For the questions I have already somewhat answered, I can expand on the answer/give more of an explanation if you want) 

Warning: This post may contain daydream triggers as it is asking questions specific to your daydreams. It also may include personal questions. You do not and should not answer any questions you don’t feel comfortable answering. :) 

For those of you whose daydreams occur in chronological order: How long do you think it’d take to run through the entire thing? A day? A week? A month? Longer?

How many paras do you have currently? Can you even count them? 

Do you have one main dreamworld or several dreamworlds, all equally important, existing at once? 

What is the longest amount of time you’ve spent daydreaming? Do you normally daydream this long? Did it happen accidentally or was it planned?

Have you told anyone (besides the online community) about your MD? Friends, family, therapists, etc.? 

If you have told someone in your life about your MD, how did they take it? Were they understanding and interested or did they brush it off like it was nothing? Did they downplay your MD or ask you if you wanted help? 

Are the majority of your paras a specific gender? 

Have you ever had a daydream crash? If so, what happened? Do you have daydream crashes often?

What aspect of your life does your MD affect the most? Social life? Grades? Relations with family?

Have you learned to control your daydreams? If so, how? If not, do you want to or why haven’t you?

Have you had the same paras and dreamworlds since you were young (or started daydreaming) or have you moved on to different paras/dreamworlds?

What kind of music triggers your daydreams the most? Country? Pop? Rock? Rap? Classical? All genres? What other kinds of things trigger you? Events? People? Art? Etc.?

If you’ve had several different paras over the years: Have you ever reused para names? (Eg. I had a childhood para named Benjamin and a few years ago I had a para named Benjamin but they were two totally different paras. They just happened to have the same name).

Have you identified reasons why you may have maladaptive daydreaming? Childhood abuse? Emotional negligence? Loneliness? Boredom? If not… do you want to know?

Do your paras have similar personalities or very contrasting personalities? What about your own personality compared to your para’s? Do you and your paras have similar personalities?

Do you have any paras that are nameless? (Eg. For some reason the bad guys in my dreamworlds don’t actually have names…weird right?).

How did you find out about your MD? Was it difficult or embarrassing coming to terms with it? How long have you known about your MD?

Do you have favourite places to daydream? Your room? Outside? Childhood playhouse? Shower?

What’s the main thing you do while daydreaming? Pacing? Rocking back and forth? Spinning? Dancing? Swinging? Etc? Or are you more of the sit still/trance-like kind of daydreamer?

Do some of your paras have similar roles/occupations? (Eg. Many of my paras are doctors for some strange reason… maybe because my paras get hurt a lot!)

Are your paras the same age as you or are they younger/older?

If you are trying to control your daydreams: do you schedule specific times to daydream? (Eg. While on the bus to school/work, before bed, in the shower, while cutting the lawn, etc.?).

What career do you want/have and why? Is your (desired) career choice based mainly on your MD or not? (Eg. I want to go through to be a writer because I channel/control my MD by writing).

Do you daydream about yourself? Or do your daydreams include characters from TV shows/books/characters of your own creation?

What content do your most violent daydreams feature?Torture? Rape? Etc. (If you choose to answer this question I would really appreciate if you avoid going into too much detail just to stay on the safe side.Thanks!) 

Annnndddd… that’s it! At least, those are all the questions I could think of right now. Plus, I didn’t want to make this post too long. :P Once again: Thanks to everyone who participates and shares with the MD community.

Side note: Sorry if I’ve posted questions from other MD/MaDD blogs. If I have copied your question, it was completely unintentional and accidental.