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allator-ad · 8 months ago

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So this is a little unedited and abandoned work I was chipping away at but kind of lost the plot on. I don't wanna put it on ao3 since it's not much, but I feel bad just letting it fester in the WIP hell, so here we go!

Warnings for NSFW text, on ao3 it would be rated M not E but it's spicy. The focus is on Tango but there's a decent amount of Zed and a fair amount of Gem and Impulse. I don't think it needs any trigger warnings but if you think of any lmk and I'm happy to add!

It started out innocuous enough, one of the little parties that tended to pop up here and there on the server. Bring a dish to share, drinks provided, music, dancing, yadda yadda etc etc. Just your normal, standard, everyday party. Except for the two words scrawled on the bottom corner of the invite. 'Dress Down.'

Those two simple words sent a shiver down Tango's spine, and in his head he was already running through dozens of scenarios. True, he still had a couple hours to plan, but between indecisiveness and his inability to keep proper track of time, it was probably better to start picking out his outfit sooner rather than later. And doing that would hopefully keep his mind off of... other things as well. At least he was exempt from the potluck rule.

A few short hours later and he was stood outside the grand front entrance to Gem's elven castle, shuffling from foot to foot as he waited. Thankfully it didn't take long before Gem appeared, with a delighted cry of "Tango!" she cleared the last few feet between them and wrapped him up in a hug.

"I'm so glad you were able to make it, oh, you look amazing!"

"Heh, thanks." And he had to admit, he did look pretty damn good. He'd spent most of the time between receiving the invite and now fussing over what to wear and how to do himself up, and he'd settled on a simple but effective outfit.

His top was a skintight sleeveless black turtleneck, complete with cutout window that could only just barely be considered appropriate, showing off plenty of skin and the tuft of fur on his chest. He had waffled between skirt or pants and eventually settled on the latter, skintight as well. They were high rise, belt resting around his middle to allow for another cutout that showed off his tummy and more fur, if he really stretched they'd ride down low enough to flash a glimpse at what was just underneath. The pants also had a series of slashes along the outer thigh from hip to knee, stopping just above his knee-length combat boots. Which may or may not have been taller versions of what he wore already, but hey, it worked.

The whole ensemble was topped off with an array of chains and belts in teal, aqua, and silver, and a shorter replica of his dungeon master robe in the style of a thick, fluffy shrug. To finish off the look he had a light layer of lipstick, and a decent eyeliner and mascara. The last was probably unnecessary, but he liked the look when it ran, and if tonight went anything like he expected it certainly would.

"You ready to go in?" Gem asked once she released him, and when he nodded she held up the finishing touch. He swallowed and tilted his chin up as she fastened the thin red collar around his neck. "Sorry, it's your old one, we didn't get the one in your new colors made in time."

"Nah, it's fine." He waved off her concern with a flick of his wrist, then choked when she hooked a finger through the D ring on the collar and *tugged*.

"We don't wanna keep everyone waiting!" How she could still be so cheery and level headed about something like this he could never understand, but obediently he followed after her, tail flicking and curling behind him in anticipation for what was about to come. Hah.

Gem had transformed one of the empty rooms in her castle for the party, and his eyes went wide as he saw the setup. Oh, he hoped she kept this. Lights hung from the ceiling, dim enough to cast corners into shadow without making visibility impossible. Chairs, tables, and couches were arranged tastefully around the room, a clear designation between the socializing and dining area, and the 'socializing' area. Everything was draped in soft, sheer fabrics, and the music was at the perfect volume to still be heard but allow for easy conversation.

Gem released her hold on Tango's collar and winked. "There's probably enough time for you to grab a bite and a drink before the entertainment is needed, but I think you better hurry." She was right, as he looked around he noticed a few of the other hermits had already showed up, Etho parked in one of the dark corners while Impulse and Pearl were chatting idly on a couch. He debated food for a moment before deciding against it, probably not a good idea until after everyone had their fun. And there go his thoughts again, running through the possibilities tonight would bring, forcing him to muffle a light whimper. Seeing as he had nothing to do for the moment but wait, he chose one of the empty couches tucked further out of the way and leaned his head back, settled in until he was needed.

Time passed as he drifted, lost to his own thoughts until a body settled beside him, hand resting on his thigh.

"Hello hello," he heard from somewhere above and to the left of him, and when he zoned back in enough to be properly aware of his surroundings he was greeted with the grinning face of Zedaph, nose wrinkled in that way it always did when he got excited. "Is this seat taken?"

"No, not at all." At the confirmation Zed's grin widened, and his hand slid up so that his thumb was tucked into the stomach cutout of Tango's pants, making Tango shiver and swallow.

"Glad to hear! I noticed you over here all by your lonesome and figured I'd come see why." Oh fuck, now that thumb was moving in maddening little circles, and he had to fight to stay focused on the conversation.

"Oh, y'know, just enjoying the party."

"All by yourself? But you don't even have any food or drink! You can't be having that much fun."

"Eh, I manage."

"Well if you don't mind I think I'd like to finish up my meal here. And then," he leaned in and licked his lips, eyes hooded, and for how ridiculous it looked Tango should *not* find it sexy, but he still heard himself let out a low whine as Zed continued. "I think you look like an absolutely delicious desert."

"Works for me!" Tango squeaked out, and like a switch flipped Zed pulled back, expression brightening to his usual carefree grin.

"Excellent! I'll be right with you then." He withdrew fully, meaning his hand was no longer slowly driving Tango up the wall, a blessing and a curse. After a deep breath Tango took the reprive to gather his wits, probably not a good idea to fall apart so early in the night after all.

It didn't take long before hands were on him again, this time grabbing his hips and hauling him into Zed's lap.

"Well then! Let's see what kind of trouble we can get up to, shall we?"

Not even bothering to wait for an answer he yanked Tango into a kiss, and where normally Tango would fight and play, tonight he melted into it immediately, letting Zed lick into his mouth without any resistance. Clearly it was appreciated, as one of Zed's hands left his hip to stroke along the base of his tail, making him groan into the kiss.

As usual, it only took a few moments for Zed to get another idea, and he trailed kisses along Tango's jaw until he reached his neck.

"Well that's just rude now, isn't it? Wearing a shirt that covers up so much? Would anyone happen to have a knife?"

So much of his focus had been on Zed that Tango had failed to notice the other hermits congregating around the pair. Scar had pulled over a dining chair and had Grian perched in his lap. Both were intently watching the scene unfolding. Impulse, Gem, and Pearl were still seated at one of the tables, but all three were throwing glances over during lulls in their conversation. A few other hermits were scattered about, but he was stopped from paying much more attention when Etho leaned over the back of the couch to hand Zedaph a knife.

"Ah! Thank you very much. Chin up pet, we wouldn’t want to slice up your pretty skin, now would we?" His grin went sharp as Tango obeyed with a shudder, and he pulled the thin material of his shirt far enough away to make a slice from the top of his neck to where the shirt ended at his shoulder. "At least, not just yet."

Once the fabric had been cut Zed returned the knife to Etho, then immediately latched onto Tango's now-exposed neck with glee. Tango jolted, then moaned as blunt teeth nibbled at his neck. It didn't take long before he was a squirming mess, leaning into wherever Zed's hands were roaming at the moment. At a particularly harsh bite he gasped, grinding his hips down into Zed's below him.

As if it was some kind of signal, a heavy hand descended on his shoulder and a body pressed against his back.

"And what do we have here?" Tango tried to lean his head back to look, but with Zed still demolishing his neck and the hand on his shoulder moving to grip his hair and hold him still, it was impossible. "Letting someone cut up your nice outfit just to go to town on you? Slut."

He wheezed, air knocked out of him like a punch to the gut as the word rattled around in his skull. Slut. He'd never really been on the receiving end of that word before, but with the whole body shudder and desperate grind of his hips, clearly it did something for him. Good to know.

A tug of the hand in his hair pulled him out of his head, and he fumbled as he was pulled from Zed's lap.

"Hey! I wasn't done with him yet!"

"Too bad! You were taking too long, and besides," he was spun around to stare up (and up and up) into Impulse's eyes, and he had to stifle a moan at the expression he saw there. A thumb brushed over his lips and he obediently parted them to let it rest on his tongue. "I can think of a better use for our slut here than just keeping your lap warm and your mouth occupied."

He was pushed down to his knees on the couch, and a pouting Zedaph shuffled to make room as Impulse stepped into Tango's space even more, crowding him in. This received immediate boos from their audience, Scar and Grian now joined by Pearl and Gem.

"What’s the point of all this if we can't even get a show," Grian heckled, and with a roll of his eyes Impulse grabbed Tango by the arms and *lifted* him, adjusting their positions until he was the one seated on the couch and Tango was on his knees on the floor between Impulse's legs.

"Is the peanut gallery happy now?" A few cheers and smattering of light applause, and thenI Impulse had his hand fisted in Tango's hair again, grip just enough to be on the right side of painful. "Good, now I think our entertainment for the evening should show us what he can do with that whore mouth of his."

#ADllatorAlliterature #ta.ngo #ze.daph #im.pulse #ge.m

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themattress · 1 year ago

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but like...Nomura has Kairi always talk about wanting to help - and literally every time she tries the villains just kidnap her as if she's being punished

Stop right there! What you are describing is true, but is actually far worse than that. This isn't just "a Kairi thing", it's a "leading heroine in a shonen series" thing. This shit has been constantly happening: the girls in a shonen series will be made weak even when action is a priority for the story and male characters tend to have no such weaknesses, will eventually be given some token acknowledgement of how "useless" they are which leads to a token dedication to get stronger, as though this justifies their presence in the story. And then there's no actual pay-off in which they get stronger in any meaningful way, and worse case scenario they actively get screwed over for their troubles. You see it in Naruto, in Bleach, in One Piece, in Ruroni Kenshin, in Sword Art Online, in Fairy Tail, in Demon Slayer, in My Hero Academia, and yes even in a video game series like Kingdom Hearts with both Kairi and Aqua. Winry (in the original FMA manga / Brotherhood anime, anyway) is one of the lucky few to avoid it.

Shonen just needs to be normal about women. It's long overdue.

Ah I love your posts on how FMA has Edward's treatment of Winry grow better through out the story. It's so true. It makes me think about how often media will bring up a female characters perfectly valid feelings but never address them properly. Mostly in regards to Kairi and her having her big "Maybe waiting isn't good enough" moment in KH2 which barely goes anywhere in narrative except off screen training and her getting kidnapped. I'm really hoping that her request to train with Aqua leads to character growth for her but like...Nomura has Kairi always talk about wanting to help - and literally every time she tries the villains just kidnap her as if she's being punished for trying to do anything but be a civilian waiting for her friends to come home. It's bullshit.

Yeah, I missed the Kingdom Hearts train because I didn't play video games as a kid (besides the occasional gameboy thing) but I've heard about Kairi and I feel for y'all. The 'girl tries to act, is narratively punished for it' is really depressingly common, and it gets under my skin like almost no other thing does.

#Fullmetal Alchemist #Disney #Square Enix #Kingdom Hearts #Winry Rockbell #Kairi #Sexism #Misogyny #Analysis #Comparison #Bad Writing #Character Derailment #They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character #Kairi Deserved Better #Anti-Nomura #Anti-Tetsuya Nomura

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phillipreviews · 2 years ago

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Vampire Virus Plagues the JLA

“DC vs Vampires” Issue #1

*review contains spoilers

Marvel took on Zombies and with DC releasing “Task Force Z” it seems only fitting that they would tackle vampires first. Just as many comics before have given their take on vampires taking over the world, now the Justice League must face the same scenario with the story being written by Matthew Rosenberg and illustrated by Otto Schmidt.

This storyline follows Andrew Bennet, who you may remember from the series “I, Vampire”, he’s a mysterious man wrapped in bandages, standing before the Hall of Justice. Hoping to seek help from the JLA inside, he is hit by a car and when his bandages come loose he begins to burn in the sunlight. Yes, Andrew Bennet is a vampire, but one that wants to stop a vampiric plague before it happens.

He is saved just in time by Green Lantern, who is the only one on duty as the JLA are off planet on a mission. He brings Andrew inside where only Green Lantern and Zan of the Wonder Twins. Andrew will have to make due with what he has.

He informs the two that Mary, Queen of Blood and ruler over the vampires, has been killed. He followed the trail of her killer to the headquarters of the Legion of Doom and once inside he discovers that everyone has been killed. He stumbles upon a plan to create a shield that will block out the sun. Lex Luthor, hanging onto his last breath, gives Andrew a vial of his blood saying that it could save the world.

Before Andrew can get more answers, Gorilla Grodd and Scarecrow, now full blown vampires, storm in and discover that someone has found out their plan. As Andrew tries to escape, he is confronted by a vampire Riddler who Andrew defeats by using Lex Luthor’s blood. It kills the Riddler instantly, turning him into a pile of ash. Andrew barely escapes with Cheetah on his tail and rushes across the world to find the JLA and warn them.

Zan is ready to call the JLA but Green Lantern stops him and ties up both of them, revealing he’s already become a vampire. He uses his ring to block out the ultraviolet rays of the sun and even replicate them, burning Andrew to a crisp right there on the bed. He then mutilates Zan by replicating a giant blender with his ring and then drinking his blood.

Green Lantern then dumps their remains and calls an unknown “Master” to report what has happened. He is greeted soon by Aqua-man and act as if nothing had happened.

Of all the heroes in the JLA, Green Lantern becoming a vampire would have been my last guess which is probably why Rosenberg wrote it that way. Most would have suspected Batman as the first to become a blood sucker, given he is the most human of the league, but that obvious turn doesn’t happen even if the variant cover suggested such.

As we think all hope is lost, Batman has returned home where a package is waiting for him... from Andrew Bennet. A letter and the vial of Luthor’s blood are contained inside, revealing the ploy to one person who hasn’t been turned yet.

Schmidt’s gritty art style fits well with the storyline, giving a “30 Days of Night” feel to it that helps lure in the reader. With this many twists happening, one can only guess what will happen next and whether or not the entire JLA will become part of the new vampiric order.

-PK

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cosmiclatte28 · 4 years ago

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First Encounter (1) (Yuta x mermaid reader)

Okayy I got carried away and made a long opening for Yuta. Let's say just for the reader x Yuta, it will be kind of two parts. Later on it will only be scenarios .. I promise :")

Please follow my Instagram @cosmic_latte28 as I will be posting polls and questions on what to do next in this mermaid au!

ENJOY THISS 4k story, it’ll be interesting i guess

Scenario 1 – mermaid au! Yuta x reader

Have you ever found your mother annoying? Her constant "mother knows best" quote uughh you're tired of it!

For eighteen years of swimming under the sea, down beneath the scorching heat of the sun, you've spent your entire life swimming within the boundaries just like what your mother told you to do. But today, today is a special day!

You're turning nineteen and well nineteen can be considered a good age to be called mature right? You know running away is not a good idea, but your best friend who is a year older than you had just return from the surface and oh gosh either she was a good story teller or the world above the water is really that magnificent, you don't know yet and soon you will.

Yes, for today your nineteenth birthday, your mother has given you a quick birthday ceremony. She gave you a new "dinglehopper" a mermaid's hairbrush! You thanked her and she quickly left to work. That's when your best friend came and the two of you started your adventure.

It took you some tiring swimming, but the excitement of seeing the other world beats your fatigue. You wonder what's so special up there that your pretty aqua-green haired mermaid here told you such a wonderful story!

"You cannot imagine what I saw (y/n)! Believe me..." she said last week as the two of us are sitting over one of the bright coloured corals. We love to hang-out here and gossip about things. Last week she brought you for a very special story... her journey to the dry sand area!

You listened to her story, trying your best to imagine what it's up there, you listened to her story, while playing with your sparkling ash grey hairs. "Why wouldn't I believe you?" you wondered

She grabbed your hands and stared into your eyes deeply, "Because you will need to experience it to know what it truly is!"

You gave her a meek smile; well her parents are not as conservative as yours. Atlanta can go wherever she wants, and her parents wouldn't scold her, unlike you. Well if you return home after dark, you're pretty dead. Mom was so protective to you after father was caught on one of those giant shiny nets, and he never came back.

Atlanta continued with her story, "It was quite a long swim, I went there with some other girls and oh how great was it to breathe the fresh air!"

You laughed, well your lungs can breathe both air and, in the water,, but rumour has it that the transition phase hurts! You don't really mind that since you're really dying to experience the thrill.

"So, since you told me I wouldn't believe it," you smirked, "why don't you bring me up there to experience it? I'm nineteen next week and I'm sure we can go up for a while and I'll return before mom got home."

Atlanta at first disagree, she told you to ask a legal permission from your mother, but you know better. Mom would never agree and so you chose what people will do. Run away and promised to come back before she got home and pretended nothing happen.

After a lot of bribing and coaxing Atlanta with lots of promises, she agreed, and you were to meet her on the North Border at nine when the tides are calm.

So here you are today! Finally the sea no longer looks dark, the sun rays are penetrating the light blue waters and you can totally see the rocks and hear the sound of the waves as you swim and swim towards the sky. Your eyes changed colours from dark big pupil into a smaller one! Living on the deep waters, made your pupil dilate for maximum light absorbance, now getting near the sun, your eyes naturally contracted, and your hair looks even paler under the sun.

The sound of crashing waves, flying birds, and what mermaids and mermen call "human", are all getting louder in my ear.

"This is it, get ready to feel chest pain!" Atlanta squeezes your hand in assurance, and you nod your head. One last deep breathes and the two of you pop your heads out of the water. The transition of changing your water lungs into air lungs really hurt, you see white seconds after the air made their way to fill your air sacs and you feel great pain in your nose like when you choke on waters.

You feel your head goes light and the bright scorching sun no longer penetrates your eyes, you see dark and suddenly your body limps.

Atlanta was not as surprised as you, maybe it's because you never travel this far and it's your first time changing lung system. She dutifully brings you to an area of rocks where the waves are still high, so there's no human there. She calls out your name several time and slaps your cheek slowly.

"(y/n)! wake up dummy, you made it..." she slaps you

"We made it! Come on wake up..." She shakes your body gently, but when you did not respond Atlanta rolls her eyes and her hand scoops a good amount of water. She directly splashes your face with water and that did help you cough to live.

"Where am I?" You ask

"The upside... those are the dry sands... they are people... you made it! You're breathing air now!" Atlanta cups your face and you smile when you see how messy her aqua-green smooth hair looks above here.

"Hey tell me does my hair look that bad too?" Your first question out of the water is this, how lame!

"Well yeah the salt water made our hair stiffs here but believe me people will not judge you." She shrugs her shoulder.

"Hold up" your eyes grow twice as wide, "How did you know they don't judge?"

Atlanta rolls her eyes, "Well they saw us and they did not comment us at all, they just take out I don't know some sort of rectangle thing that has hole and flashes light... then no one dare to go near us."

You shake your head in surprise, Atlanta missed this part of story. She never told you she and her friends went that near to human! You thought they only hide and saw people from afar, but no they did not. You're now half worried, but what's there to risk more? You've broken mother's rule, and you've suffered from the transition, might as well made this a worth it experience and have no regrets! "You didn't think I'd bring you here just to see them from a distance right? Besides honey, you're the most gorgeous mermaid down there, no one will dare harm you!" Atlanta inches closer to you and brings one hand to brush away a strand of hair from your face.

"I mean it, your glowing ash grey hair, your deep amber eyes! Hey never realized they were amber before... not to mention your sweet smile and sweet voice. Girl they'll love you!" Atlanta praises you with tons of comfort and you find yourself under control.

What you did not know, yes being a beauty in the mermaid world made everyone adores and protects you, but here being a beauty means more danger! Come on which human doesn't want to own a pretty mystical creature in their bathtub?!

You and Atlanta are both too naïve to think that situation. All that matter now for you two is enjoying sunbathing and the fresh air.

"So, what are we waiting for? I'm good already and can we go somewhere else? Rocks are boring here." You splash your tail and make a giant splash to your friend.

Atlanta scoffs but quickly drags you to move to the other part of the sea surface. The two of you swim while holding breathe, yes, you're not transitioning that frequent... took too much energy and painful.

"Is this okay?" Atlanta found a place where there are several rocks and they're still in contact with water. You smile and look for a good position. The warm feeling from the golden ball in the sky really satisfies you. Deep waters are cold, and you love this warm burning feeling. Your long shiny silver-purplish tail flaps gently when needed and you feel your head gets lighter as the sun dries your wet hair away.

"Atlanta, why didn't people let us do this? I swear the sun is my favourite thing now." You brush away your stiff salted dry hairs away from your face, but that doesn't lessen your beauty at all.

The beach was crowded with people, but there were not many people around you. You still choose a distant rock, you're afraid of them still and Atlanta wants the most comfortable for you. So, you learn them first from the distance and later you can always move right.

You relax yourself over the flat rock and enjoy the piercing hot feeling on your pale skin. You close your eyes and feel the breeze, your ears catch the soft whisper of the ocean hitting rocks and without your concern, you start humming.

Well when a mermaid hums, it is luring, but believe us, we're not sirens. We don't kill people...

Your humming stop when you fell asleep on the rock. Atlanta is beside you, posing beautifully just in case someone passes by. You know stories of mermaid and mermen marrying someone from the dry world, and yes they can live happily... or you just didn't know what happen next. You know you can shape shift to have legs, but each step will feel like walking on blades. You cannot imagine living on two legs and take strolls on sharp blades.

"Atlanta have you tried walking on the dry sands?" you ask, still closing your eyes.

"Hmm no, I don't want to feel the blades... Do you know legend says you can get used to it and if you found your true love that won't happen again?" Atlanta answers while daydreaming on the fluffy clouds.

"Hmm... I'll tell you if I know the answer." You joke around and change your position.

Now you're laying flat on your stomach, the warm water meets your bare skin and you winced a bit. Rocsk can get really hot!

"How long can we stay here?" You question, tail still swaying slowly on the waters and hands under your chin.

"Hmm when we leave at nine, the swim took like an hour or two... I guess this is mid day now." Atlanta pierces her eyes into the beach,s and she can see people starting to spread check red mat and laying down plates of foods. It must be "lunch"

You thought things will not go wrong, and that's when everything went wrong.

The sun suddenly disappears, and big waves roll over to you. You and Atlanta are both sun-bathing and laughing under the sun, unaware that it is slowly turning cloudy. Well both of you are not aware since you two are blinded aka closing your eyes as you two chat and laugh. The laughter is loud enough to cover the sound of the growling sea and wind.

When you peek over your eyes since you feel cold, that's too late.

"Atlanta!" You scream when the big wave engulfs both of you and you're holding your breath in. Thinking maybe you'll be okay ... this is just one wave; you'll appear again on the surface.

No that was wrong. You feel the strong current push you into a group of rough and hard stones, you feel your bare back hit the rocks and you wince at the prickling sensation.

"Atlanta where are you??" you call out her name before being swallowed by the big waves again and you're carried further into the beach. Sadly, when you turn around, you're eye to eye with another group of pointy and sharp reefs. You scream when the friction from the rocks rip your shiny scales slowly and bitterly.

You turn your head around to look for your best friend, but you cannot see her. When another big wave hits you, you're ready to inhale the water and just go back home, but nature did not allow you.

Your eyes catch the reflection of your tail under the raging water, one of the pointy rocks has pierced over your tail and you see gushes of blood out of it. You gasp as you try to move your tail, but the painful feeling bring you tears and stop you from moving around. You receive the big wave once again and as hard as you try to keep your tears from falling, the pain under the water is unbearable.

You clung into one of the rocks and try to put half of your body weight into the rocks and let the buoyancy do its thing to keep you floating. You bury your head into your hands and your shoulder shakes and trembles. You cry since you're afraid and alone here. Everywhere you look, you're on another side of the beach, you no longer see the rock you hang out with Atlanta earlier. You also did not see her aqua-green hair at all!

You're doomed. That's all you can think. You weep as you imagine what are the things that could happen. Well if you're lucky Atlanta might make it home and tell someone to help look for you. Two, mom could probably tell someone you're missing but you curse yourself when you remember the silly note you left.

Earlier you left a note, "Gone with Atlanta for a trip, might not go home today. See you! I promise to take care of myself"

Your mother will most likely think you're sleeping over.

Third, you'll maybe die here if no one helps.

Fourth you might end up being caught.

Fifth caught and treated.

Sixth caught and eaten?!

You try to hum and call anyone lurking nearby, anyone who can help or at least see you're there helpless. In the middle of the panic, you see a glint of your father smiling at you as if telling you "this is not the end."

You grit your teeth when the pain hits back, you glance to look into your tail and grimace over the bigger stain and the pointy rock pointing out of your tail.

You look around and see that the sky is clearing, and you choose to try and survive. It's maybe noon already, your last chance of surviving is here.

Quietly you focus yourself and you bring out all of your emotion and voice. The mysterious luring echo suddenly resonates through the big ocean. The open air and the ocean wind helps deliver your voice to anyone near you. You keep on singing, letting out a melodious sad song through the air. The air particles vibrate and send your emotional cry of help to someone walking over the coast by himself.

A young man with white shirt and a comfortable beach shorts walks through the damp sands. He tucks his hand into his pockets as he walks quietly by himself on the now half empty beach. The crowd has fled away when the howling wave crashed the shore an hour ago. This man however, loves taking in the ocean after it is angry. He loves the feeling of the sombre, mysterious, and sad atmosphere lurking on the air as the wave slow down and return calm.

Today's weather forecast had reminded people to leave the beach before noon, but apparently the wave came earlier. Lucky he lives nearby, he can always check the shore after a mad ocean.

His steps come to a halt when his ears perk up after hearing an eerie cry. He focuses himself, closes his eyes, and sharpens his ear. He cannot believe himself when his brain tells him this is a cry of another being. Not a human's cry!

Curious, the young man lets his heart and ears guide him to the source of the painful magical cry.

The sound becomes clearer and the cry painfuller. He opens his eyes when he thinks he arrives at the place already and his eyes widen when he sees you, a wounded mermaid, crying herself for help.

"Help," you plead urgently when you see a man standing across you.

"Help... I'm not.. going.. " you wince from the unbearable pain now, "I won't hurt you... help"

"You're not human, aren't you?" he asks you from the shore.

Your heart curse him for still asking you that when you're clearly hurt.

"Well yeah, but please help me..." You grimace when the saltwater meets your fresh torn scales.

"You won't kill me, right?" he raises his brow.

You roll your eyes, "I'm not a siren, can you please just help me first... I am dying!" You're annoyed, afraid, and emotional. You don't mean to yell at him, but it's too late to take back your words.

You pull your hair with frustration, "Gosh I didn't mean to scream... now you're more afraid... I'll die in this pace." You bury your face to your hand. Now you understand why your mother calls you a drama-queen.

"Just ... help me or bring me help. I'm injured." You look up and to your surprise, the young man is already in front of you. Sitting on the rock with a wet pants. He has left his shirt on the dry sands and swam to you.

"Let's see... I'm not a doctor but I'll try my best," he rolls his sleeves to his elbow.

"Doctor?" you question him

He shakes his head, knowing it will be hard to explain, "Later. Now, what happened?" he leans closer to the edge of the rocks to see your lower body which is still under the water.

"See for yourself," you gritted your teeth when another friction from the rocks and the water meet the fresh wound. He grimaces, "Oh that's so bad. We'll need to pull you out... Can you hold my hand and push your tail as strong as you can?"

You bite your teeth and nod your head, worth trying right? There's no way he can break the strong rocks.

"Hey, what's your name?" asks him

You wonder why he needs to ask that now, but you blurt it out anyways. "(y/n), and you?"

He smiles, "Beautiful! Just like you, now I'm Yuta and I will help you get out of this."

Yuta offers you his hand and you reach out to touch them, "On three or when you're ready... Now (y/n) you can do this... it will hurt, but I'll take care of you.. okay?"

You nod your head and tear escapes your eyes again.

"You're bleeding so bad, on three..."

You take a deep breath and count along with Yuta.

"One..."

"Two..." he grips your small hands stronger

"Three..." with one nod from Yuta, you try your best to swing your tail away and hold into him.

You scream in pain when the sharp edge did move a bit, but your tail is not entirely out of it yet.

Yuta looks at you in pain too and he wipes a tear that left your eyes.

"Look! You're so strong! We'll do it one or two more times and you're free!"

You nod furiously, hands gripping into him tighter, trying to find strength.

Yuta gets down to kneel and offers you a stronger hold, you find the courage and strength again to free yourself.

On three, more tears fall from your eyes as the dagger like stone is only one pull away from your whole tail.

"Yuta... it hurts.." You cry when the waves start to hit you more frequently. The tides are coming in, and you must hurry.

"You can do it! I am here with you... one last effort and you're free (y/n)." he is sweating and you can see his knees are also bleeding from the rough surface of the reefs.

"Sorry... one last pull." You grit your teeth and with Yuta's strong grips. Your tail made it out and you almost got washed by the waves, if Yuta did not pull you out of the waters quick.

He lays you on the rocks and winces at your big scar, "We need to treat this or you will get an infection. Can you swim to the shore?" he asks you worriedly.

You cock your head to the side, it's only a short swim, you feel your tail still has some energies left and so with his help, Yuta guides you to the beach.

You finally feel the funny feeling of dry sands on your hands and tails. You did not realize you're smiling and ignoring the dying feeling on your tail.

"First time with dry sands?" Yuta asks as he kneels down beside you and ties a piece of cloth over your big wound. You think that must be his shirt, for he is still bare chested here.

You bashfully nod, "Thank you Yuta..."

He looks to the horizon, sun is setting down and he doesn't think you can go back to the sea in this state, so he offers you what he can do.

"Can I bring you to my cottage and just clean up this blood first, then you can rest before going home."

You look to the endless horizon and gasp in surprise when you see the sun is already settling down. Oh no, this is not good.

Afraid, you nod and let Yuta carry you bridal style to his cottage.

It is only half meter from the beach and his small cottage is cosy.

"Should you stay in water?" he awkwardly asks.

You think for a while, "Not sure, but now I don't feel anything weird. Don't worry I can breathe both in air and under water."

Yuta is busy walking around the house to fetch the first aid kit, "I know... I'm a marine biologist."

You smirk, "That explains why you got my trust directly after saying I'm not a siren."

Yuta scoffs, "Actually it's because I see your true face and the one over the water the same, and your tail is slightly different."

You nod your head slowly, then scan his room, "Nice, a mermaid enthusiast eh?"

The furniture decorating his shower room is basically mermaid, sea, and ocean. "Quiet interested in one, never dream I'll meet one like this, bring one home, and talk like this is nothing at all."

You're now inside his bathtub, you need water to keep your tail showing, and Yuta must heal the wound in the real form. So, here you are relaxing in his bubble bath! Bubble! He makes cute bubble bath since he thinks you can relax more! How cute and thoughtful is he.

You focus on his delicate fingers gently cleaning your injured tail from the impurities, washing it with alcohol, and then wrapping it with bandage after giving it medicament.

"Now that's all done." He stands up from the small stool and tidies up the mess. He throws the dirty napkins away into a basket.

"Umm don't you feel cold?" you ask when you realize he is still lacking clothes while you're under the warm bubble bath.

Your smile fades a bit when he quickly wears a tank top over his ripped abs.

"So, tell me how to take care of a mermaid?" Yuta drags a chair to sit next to the tub.

"I don't know... Yuta this is all new! I never leave the sea and now... now I'm here sitting next to a human, talking about mermaids, having a bubble bath, and I don't even know what will happen to me next." You massage your temple and relax your body into the warm sensation.

"Yuta do you know what will happen to a mermaid if they did not return by sun set?" You ask him after the two of you have exchanged information of one another. He also had boiled water and introduced you to this wonderful warm dark sweet liquid... hot chocolate.

He flips on his book and points to you a certain picture cycle, "You'll have feet and you can always bring your tail back by being in water."

"Oooh tell me what it is like to walk?" you sip on the warm liquid again.

"For us human it doesn't hurt... well you feel sore after a long walk, but for you... I heard first steps will be horrible."

"Oooof, guess this is the price I have to pay to experience an unforgettable memory, right?"

You two dive into deeper conversations, and you swore you've never seen a man this charming. Yuta and his smile, you feel at ease.

You don't see any harm and danger when you see him, you feel your body tingles and suddenly your tail shifts into a gorgeous pair of legs.

Both you and Yuta are speechless since this is the first time both of you witness this.

"That is amazing!" you squeal and move your legs up and down, feeling the weird new sensation running through your body. You kick the air and water a bit, laughing when you make a riffle of water.

Yuta just sits next to you, smiling as he sees you so happy over small things.

Both of you did not say anything, but the looks in your eyes and his are enough to say these two will one day madly fall in love.

"Hey now that your legs are here, your tail must be quite healed. Now shall we leave the tub. Don't you want to feel what it's like to be human?" Yuta grins and you snap your finger.

"You really understand my mind, don't you?!" You giggle as you push yourself to sit on the tub.

"Uhm wait a second, let me grab your clothes." Yuta nervously tells you to stay under the water first, well he is respecting your privacy.

He returns with a big tee shirt and a boxer. Guess he never has a girl coming to his house, there's only men attire here.

"I only have these, but I'll buy some things for you tomorrow." He apologizes.

"Don't be sorry! This is better, but how do I wear them?" you ask him innocently. Through out your life you've never seen a tee shirt let alone wear something on your legs! Duh even you just see your legs today!

So with a red face, Yuta teaches you how to dress up and when you stand up from the bath, he winces when you squeeze the bone out of him.

"Hell this hurts so much!" You hiss and he too squeals from your dead grip.

"Your grip! You're breaking my bones!" Yuta naturally slaps your hand away, and you end up squeezing his arm even stronger when you take a step to the mirror on the wall.

"Ah! My hair!!!! Yuta I swear I look tidier than this under water!" Your mouth suddenly explain this insecurities of yours out loud to a new man you just met.

He laughs and then apologizes when he realizes he must be rude.

"Believe me, I know how hard it is to arrange salted hair."

"Wait what? Salted hair?" You run your finger to your stiff hair and almost cry since you feel the stiffness so irritating you.

Well you're the most beautiful mermaid down there, there's not a day where your hair is not the talk of the town. Your hair is always on point, making everyone jealous, and even earning you the "best mermaid hair" title. You never leave the house when you have a bad hair day, and you sacredly always brush your hair til it floats perfectly in the salt water. However, now above the waters... you lost them!

"hey, I have a secret to cure that, but let me show you that tomorrow. Today you've had a long day and you need to rest."

You agree with him, though you have so many question in your head, your body is exhausted and you need a sleep.

Gently Yuta asks you, "May I?"

And before you could say anything, he carries you again and lays you down on his soft bed. You take in the new sensation of the soft mattress and soon your eyes grow heavy and you're drifting to dream land.

Heading to next scenario in the next chapter

What to expect

_ Yuta revealing secret to smooth hair

_Yuta teaching you what's that shiny thing dangling on his ears

_Yuta teaching you how to make your hair look flawless

SEE YOU!! MERMAIDS and MERMEN UNITE! 🧜‍♀️🧜‍♂️💖✨

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themattress · 4 years ago

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Evil Team Plots in the Manga

The same as this post, but with the Pokemon Adventures manga.

Gen 1 - Team Rocket:

In the original Red/Blue/Green Chapter, Kusaka very impressively created a very different, more in-depth Team Rocket arc than the one in the games but still managed to retain all of the major setpieces. The first battle with Team Rocket being in Mt. Moon, Team Rocket creating trouble for Lavender Town and making a secret base at the top of Pokemon Tower, a criminal operation being run by Team Rocket beneath the Celadon Game Corner that they own (complete with the secret switch behind the poster), Team Rocket taking over Silph Co. and holding Saffron City hostage, and facing Giovanni in battle at the Viridian City Gym. And just like the anime, the manga was well ahead of the games in tying Mewtwo to Giovanni’s master plan. The chief differences are that the manga had distinct characters as sub-leaders in Team Rocket (Lt. Surge, Sabrina, Koga, and their personal assistants Ken, Al and Harry) rather than there only being generic grunts and, like in the anime, Giovanni sought to conquer the world with an army of powerful Pokemon rather than by a corporate takeover / monopoly.

Gen 2 - Team Rocket:

Once again, all of the major setpieces are kept: Team Rocket cutting off Slowpoke tails at Slowpoke Well in Azalea Town, a special broadcast forcibly evolving Magikarp in the Lake of Rage into Red Gyarados, a secret base of operations in the basement of the Mahogany City gift store, and the climax involving Team Rocket invading Goldenrod City and taking over a broadcast room. But because this plot was even more bare-bones than the previous one in the games, Kusaka creates an even more different and in-depth one where the two Rocket Executives in charge are actually disciples of the mysterious Mask of Ice and all of the grunts are being forcibly brainwashed to do his bidding and work toward his horrifying objective.

Gen 3 - Team Aqua & Team Magma:

Much of the Aqua/Magma plot in the manga was both very similar and very different from the games. There’s an initial confrontation with Team Aqua in Petalburg Woods, but it’s against the Admins rather than random grunts. Team Magma attacks Slateport City, but it’s at the Shipyard rather than the Oceanic Museum and once again it’s the Admins rather than the grunts. Team Aqua initiates the Mt. Chimney event, but only Tabitha teams up with the heroes to stop them rather than the entirety of Team Magma. The face-off in Rusturf Tunnel happens way later than it does in the game and it’s against Courtney of Team Magma rather than a grunt. Blaise of Team Magma takes both Orbs from Mt. Pyre rather than Archie and/or Maxie taking one or the other. The attack on the Space Center is largely off-screen and done by just Courtney for her own personal reasons rather than by Maxie, Tabitha and a bunch of grunts for Team Magma purposes. Archie and Maxie both end up in possession of the Orbs at the Seafloor Cavern, but they get the correct Orbs here (Red for Maxie, Blue for Archie). Finally, Groudon and Kyogre end up clashing and Rayquaza is called upon to stop them, but unlike in the games Norman is required to control Rayquaza in a special way that ends up killing him.

Gen 4 - Team Galactic:

Like Team Aqua & Team Magma, Team Galactic’s arc from the games is adapted but there are notable differences. It’s just Mars at the Valley Windworks in the manga; neither a group of grunts nor Charon are present alongside her. Rather than holding Rick Radshaw in the Eterna Galactic Building as a distraction while other grunts investigate the town’s statues, he is held there to be interrogated for information on the statues, and Jupiter is not present. Cyrus making a creepy spiritual pilgrimage to Mt. Coronet is maintained, but here he tries to kill the protagonists for “desecrating” the site. Team Galactic taking the heroine’s Pokedex in Veilstone City is a more major event that introduces the Elite Grunt. Cyrus visits the cave painting at Celestic Town and fights the heroes, but he makes no attempt to destroy the painting. The Galactic Bomb blows up Lake Valor so that the Lake Trio can be captured, but here there is one hero fighting one Galactic Commander at each of the lakes. Cyrus’ speech to his followers at Galactic HQ, the extraction of the Red Chain from the Lake Trio, and the ritual to summon and control Dialga and Palkia at the Spear Pillar are all directly adapted, but rather than any of the heroes facing Cyrus at Galactic HQ it’s Cynthia who does so. Giratina pulling Cyrus into the Distortion World happens after he’s already defeated and unconscious. Charon attempts to take control of Heatran at Stark Mountain, but unlike in the game he is successful at this and has bigger plans for it than just using it for extortion. Finally, there is a battle with Giratina in the Distortion World, but it is moved to being the final battle of the whole saga rather than an earlier confrontation before Charon took control of Team Galactic.

Gen 5 - Team Plasma:

For the first third of the Black/White Chapter, events from the Team Plasma plot of the games are lifted almost verbatim: N undergoes the crowning ceremony, Ghetsis makes a public Pokemon Liberation speech in Accumula Town which is followed by the hero facing N in battle, Plasma grunts abuse a Munna at the Dreamyard, Sage Gorm and several grunts steal the dragon fossil from Nacrene Museum and the heroes team up with Burgh to go into Pinwheel Forest to retrieve it, Bianca’s Pokemon is stolen in Castelia City and the heroes have to find where the Plasma operatives who took it are hiding, Team Plasma tries to capture Victini on Liberty Island, and N reveals his true status and objectives while riding a Ferris Wheel with a protagonist in Nimbasa City. And for every improvement made (Ghetsis’ presentation, the grunts’ demeanor and lack of Ghetsis illusion at the Dreamyard, and more distinctive character vibes from the other Sages) there are some major steps down (N’s presentation, the lack of Ghetsis in the Castelia City event, and the more out-there designs for some of the grunts that neuter any credibility that they should have as opponents).

Afterwards, the adaptations made are a lot more different. Sage Zinzolin is still encountered by the hero and Cheren at Cold Storage but here he escapes and begins to draw Cheren toward the dark side. N summons Zekrom from the Dark Stone at Dragonspiral Tower, but he does so without the hero being there as the result of an entirely new big event that transpired at Nacrene Museum. The Relic Castle operations Team Plasma initiated in the games (Sage Ryoku and his forces testing the hero and a grunt trying to claim Volcarona) are combined: with Ryoku and his forces now searching for Volcarona. Both the confrontation with N at Chargestone Cave and N defeating Alder are combined into the same event, which happens much later than when the Chargestone Cave one did in the games but much earlier than when him defeating Alder did (also, it’s outside the cave rather than inside and Fennel is the one who accompanies Professor Juniper rather than Bianca). And then there’s the climax.

The climax is essentially the games’ one on steroids. Ghetsis is present with the other Sages and the Gym Leaders don’t get to fight them until after they are rescued from captivity (and crucifixion!) by a band of ordinary trainers. While one of the heroes uses Reshiram to fight N and Zekrom, the other hero receives details about N’s past by Anthea and Concordia while inside his room in the castle. Ghetsis comes in after N is defeated, reveals his true agenda and attempts to eliminate the hero in battle. And after fully realizing the error of his ways, N bids a solemn farewell to the hero; flying off into the sunset on Zekrom to parts unknown. Oh, and then Ghetsis suddenly seals the hero into the Light Stone out of spite. Fuck Ghetsis.

The Black 2/White 2 Chapter is much less faithful to the games, being a more straightforward continuation from its predecessor and being a hodgepodge of B2/W2 elements and the B/W postgame scenario of Looker hunting down the Sages, but that works to its advantage and causes it to easily surpass the games’ plot. The plot elements maintained are Colress as the new leader of Team Plasma who has developed a device that mind-controls Pokemon, a confrontation with Team Plasma in the Castelia Sewers (although in the games it was some grunts and Colress, here it’s some grunts and Sages Bronius and Ryoku while Colress is facing Zinzolin at Cold Storage), Hugh’s rabid hatred for Team Plasma and the backstory behind it, Ex-Plasma led by Sage Rood standing against the new Team Plasma over their differing ideals, the Plasma Frigate being launched skyward and using the Kyurem Cannon to freeze a city (actually, multiple cities in the manga!), Professor Juniper being behind the movement against Team Plasma’s schemes via agents like Cheren, Drayden, and her father Cedric, the climax transpiring at the Giant Chasm, Black Kyurem and White Kyurem being involved thanks to the power of the DNA Splicers, and Ghetsis losing his composure in a hate-filled rage after N, his “inhuman” son, reaches out to him and offers him compassion.

Gen 6 - Team Flare:

As in the games, Team Flare secures hold over the stone-filled Route 10 and uses those stones to absorb life energy from Pokemon, but in the manga this event is shown fully on-screen and the Pokemon in question are kidnapped ones from Pokemon Village. The event at the PokeBall Factory, conversely, is on-screen in the games but off-screen in the manga. Lysandre makes his broadcast to Kalos telling everyone that those not “chosen” will perish once the Ultimate Weapon fires, although in the manga it happens toward the very end of the climax rather than kicking it off. AZ is held captive at Flare HQ and implores the heroes to retrieve the key to the Ultimate Weapon, Xerneas is used to power the Ultimate Weapon, Lysandre wears special gear to absorb energy from Xerneas and while fighting the heroes, the Ultimate Weapon fires but fails to achieve its actual purpose, and AZ narrates his own backstory. Essentia controlled by Xerosic is involved in the storyline, whereas in the games she was only in the postgame episode. Other than all of this, the Team Flare arc in the manga is wildly different from the one in the games, being much darker and grittier with a heightened sense of stakes. So much like with the anime, not being too faithful paid off here.

As for the Team Skull / Aether Foundation arc from Gen 7, I’m not getting into that because it is almost entirely dissimilar from the games’ version. Even some basic surface elements here and there (Gladion as Team Skull’s enforcer, facing Guzma at Po Town, rescuing a girl trapped at Aether Paradise, “Mother Beast” Lusamine, and everything centered around Necrozma from US/UM) are so widly different in context and execution that they hardly count.

Overall, this manga is excellent at villain arcs. While the latter stages of the Aqua & Magma arc and early stages of the initial Plasma arc have notable problems, and the Skull / Aether arc isn’t as satisfying as either the S/M or US/UM versions it derives from, on the whole Kusaka’s skill at writing great Pokemon villains extends to the arcs that they are a part of.

#Pokemon #Pokemon Adventures #Villains #Evil #Analysis #Comparison #Team Rocket #Team Aqua #Team Magma #Team Galactic #Team Plasma #Team Flare #Team Skull

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radramblog · 4 years ago

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Nuz Report- X Water/Poison

God I feel like shit both mentally and physically right now, and I cant put a button on why. This might be an issue, considering I’ve got like half an hour or so to get this bad boy done.

Hmm. Let’s talk about the nuzlocke I finished yesterday, that’ll work, I can vomit words on that.

I finished a Pokemon X Duolocke with 1 death yesterday, but the fuckers made me fight for it.

For round 6 of the Nuzlocke Premier League, we did Duolocke Runs of Pokemon X and Y. Now I was hoping to take this month off, since only 3 of the team’s 4 members have to do each round, and I’ve done literally all of them previously without a break. But unfortunately, our 4th had to pull out for real life stuff- understandable, but still a pain. Kalos is probably my worst region for Nuz stuff (save Galar which I haven’t tried yet) and being locked to two types, after my allies had taken the starters I didn’t despise, was not exactly a thrilling prospect.

(these screenshots were taken post-E4. I was Lv.68 going in, same as Diantha’s ace.)

With my teammates taking Psychic/Normal and Fighting/Dark respectively, my only starter choice was Froakie. This is literally the first time I’ve used Froakie for anything, and it meant I had to reckon with the abyss that is its natural learnset. Chau (named after Knives from Scott Pilgrim) was an absolute mess until it hit Greninja, and even then took forever to be actually good. Pinch-hitting with U-turn was useful, but that TM comes frustratingly late.

With Froakie in mind, and Dark taken, one of my types had to be Water. I ended up choosing Poison for the natural synergy- Poison can take on the Grasses that scare my Water types, and Water can deal with Poison’s Ground weakness. Greninja, being also Dark, can scare off Poison’s Psychic weakness, with the Poisons taking the Fairies that Gren doesn’t like. It made sense to me.

The only other super earlygame mon that made it to the final team was Pikablu the Azumarill. Gen 6 introduced a thing where baby Pokemon get 3 perfect IVs by default, and Pikablu’s ended up in Attack, Defense, and Speed (with Huge Power of course), making it one of the best Azumarills you can possibly end up with. Funny rabbit didn’t get to abuse its powerful Fairy STAB until learning Play Rough very very late, but thwacking things with Return and Aqua Tail proved to be enough.

While I played around with a Beedrill and Panpour early, the next mainstay wouldn’t show up until Sycamore offers a Gen I starter in Lumiose, where I of course chose Bulbasaur. Rafflé was such a versatile, hard-hitting mon that did a patently absurd amount of work in the E4. Sleep Powder is a useful enough tool that access to it guaranteed him staying on the team, but being the first actually good Poison around (save Budew->Roserade, but I didn’t know where to get a Shiny Stone and it’s redundant anyway) meant a lot early on.

It was around here that I had the only death of the run. Outside of Connecting Cave lies a trainer with an Axew, which I completely forgot knows the frankly overpowering at that point Dragon Rage, one-shotting Anaesthesia the Croagunk. It was a real shame, I was kind of hoping she’d be able to redeem the line for me, but I guess it wasn’t to be. She was Modest anyway so she wouldn’t have been good regardless, I suppose.

Moving through gyms and the awful Kalosian pacing, I ended up picking up a few other temporary team-members- Vaporeon and Crobat. [bad meme] the Vaporeon, despite having an excellent nature, just didn’t have the stats to cut it, and I wasn’t comfortable with Flaps adding yet another Electric weakness to the team, especially with Clemont approaching.

[bad meme] would get replaced by Lagrange the Lapras, since Ice seemed like an extremely handy type to have around. Lapras is another one of those mons that’s just generally pretty solid, his bulk being much appreciated along with the coverage Ice Beam (and later, Thunderbolt) brought. Looking back, I ended up with a bit of a bulkier team than average, but I feel like that was fine to make up for the fragility of Chau and one of my later members.

Clemont was the first Gym that actually scared me, and it wasn’t because of his actually good Pokemon. My main answer to him was Venusaur, except, he has an Emolga….that bloody rodent gave me more trouble than anything else on the team, since it hit everything super-effectively if I didn’t grind something else up (and I didn’t).

Choices for the team ended up being pretty slim pickings. The lategame of XY has a lot less variety for my two types than the earlygame, with multiple repeated options, and a lot of them were less than appealing. Combine that with my lackluster luck with a lot of areas and my team felt a little stretched for playables. That Beedrill only left the team after Clemont.

It would be replaced by Quaaaaaaaaag. Despite having the worst of Quagsire’s two abilities, he pulled more than his weight, even if he just clicked Earthquake most of the time. An immune switch for Electric was absolutely essential for the run, letting Chau’s U-turn be extremely safe in certain scenarios.

The last team member was somewhat of a surprise. I was running around Frost Cavern for the only legal encounter, a 10% shot at Haunter. I’ve always been a lot less high on that line than most, gotta get that hipster cred in, but that does fly out the window when you get to legitimately use a Shiny one.

Unfortunately due to the rules of the NPL, I was not permitted to get Mega Akuta running, confining him to the shade shiny he was. But I wasn’t going to pass up the chance anyway. Akuta had huge utility being able to switch into Normal, Fighting, and Ground completely freely, and break just about anything with a variety of heavy Special attacks. His paper-thin defenses didn’t matter if he never got hit, though I was always loathe to switch him in just in case he got Crit to death on entry.

The final team paired up awkwardly against the Kalos E4, and I was a bit worried about having 4 waters and 2 poisons instead of 3/3 (my other options were like, not good) but we made it through without losing anyone. Malva and Drasna were, unsurprisingly, not hard, and Siebold’s Gyarados terrified me with Dragon Dance but didn’t actually get an attack off before Lagrange’s Thunderbolt took it out. I was extremely concerned about Wikstrom, but a rather silly strategy prevailed- using Rafflé to Sleep Powder and set up Growth (shoulda taught Swords Dance tbh) before rolling him with Bulldoze (I forgot to get the Earthquake TM). Diantha was similarly scary, seeing as her Mega Gardevoir had SE on everything except Quaaaaaaaaaag , and he wasn’t going to be able to take two. Chau was in when she came out, and I knew Night Slash wasn’t going to KO, so she had to get out of there- U-Turning into an already chipped Akuta was the only play and I had to hope she went for Moonblast instead of Thunderbolt. She did, but it got the Special Attack drop, which presented its own conundrum- does Akuta KO from here, or does he die? Because I can’t switch around forever, chip damage wasn’t going to get me far when she had healing items in reserve. I went for it, and it turns out Akuta did get the KO, but I was nailbiting the whole time.

I’m hoping next round, Crystal Superless, is less grating on my nerves, if I even have to do it at all. Because, fuck, I need a break.

What’s that, NWC is starting again? Oh, sign me up fam,

#ramble #pokemon #nuzlocke

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eyebeastposts · 5 years ago

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FanFiction Road: B-Expansions

SUGGESTION PHASE ENDED

The time has once again come to set out on the road of fan fiction. However, the path this time has reached a fork in the road leading down several paths. Instead of focusing on a single type of story, I'm going to poll about various characters through a variety of expansions that all begin with the letter B. These include Breasts, Butt, Belly, Balloon (Inflation), Behemonth (Giant), Berry (Various Fruit), Breeder (Pregnancy), and Bulk (Muscle). Just as before, this event will be broken up into two parts, both requiring reader participation to ensure the most popular story idea gets written.

First up will be the suggestions phase. While my mind is a creative and perverted place, it does has its limits. I'm going to be opening up suggestions for characters to put into the polls. Obviously there are going to be some guidelines to keep things civil and controlled, which you can find below. In addition, for the first time I'll be publicly posting the characters involved as the event goes on. I'll still be keeping the main story ideas hidden to leave somethings a mystery, but hopefully this should help things along and encourage more people to submit ideas.

The other half of this journey will be the voting period. Once I've gathered enough story ideas, it will be time to put them up against one another to see what will reign supreme. The stories will start by being separated into their respective categories for the first round of voting. Once the initial polls are done, I'll take the top two ideas from each category and put them into randomized brackets. I'll keep running polls until only a single story idea remains to claim victory. This event can only succeed through group cooperation. I want to write different stories, but I also want to ensure it's something my audience will enjoy. At the very least, this event gives me a chance to try out new scenarios to both entertain my readers and improve my writing skills. With that said, I ask that you all take my hand as we walk down this road together.

Submission Guidelines

1. You can submit story ideas to me by either my ask box or messaging me directly. Just like writing prompt submissions, none of the ideas will be tagged with the original owner, so all submissions will be anonymous.

2. It is acceptable to send just characters attached to specific expansions, but I will pay attention to more elaborate descriptions. I'm looking for scenarios to put the characters in, things like setting, why they are changing, how are they reacting, and what the final results are such as size and mindset. The only limitation is that I ask you keep ideas to no more than a paragraph long.

3. You can submit as many characters or ideas as you like until I close the suggestion phase. The suggestions can also include groups of characters, not just one. 4. The usual NO's are in effect when in it comes to content: No vore, gore, scat, rape, or anything sexual involving underage characters.

5. I can not give a detailed list on what characters I can and cannot do, since a lot of it is going to be on a case by case basis. That being said, the following are definite character rejections: My Little Pony, Sonic characters, children, and real people.

6. In addition to the main expansions, you can suggest secondary effects to go along with them. For example, loss of IQ when growing muscles, cow person TF for breast expansion, gassy for inflation, etc. However, the main focus should be on one of the main expansion ideas. I will list a few of these characteristics next to each category as we go on to help inspire ideas. 7. While you can submit to any category you want, I will limit each pool to 10 ideas. I can and will swap out characters if a list is filled and I like one idea over the other, but don't bet on it. Please try to help out any categories that are still short to fill out the polls.

8. You can submit characters that are already listed, but they have to be for a different category.

9. Pictures can be submitted to help get ideas across or as the entire submission, but I will only accept links from the following: Deviantart, Twitter, Tumblr, Pixiv, and Furaffinity

10. This event will go on until each each category has at least 5 entries. Categories

Breast Expansion

-Possible Secondary Effects: Lactation, Cow TF, Multibreast, Bimbofication

1. Urbosa (Legend of Zelda)

2. Tomoko (Watamote)

3. Aqua (Konosuba)

4. Hex Maniac (Pokemon)

5. Ryuko (Kill La Kill)

6. Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club)

7. Ann Tamaki (Persona)

8. Mercy (Overwatch)

9. Lilith (Borderlands)

10. Mai Valentine (Yu-Gi-Oh)

Butt Expansion

-Possible Secondary Effects: Farting, Donkey TF

1. R. Mika (Street Fighter)

2. Athena (Borderlands)

3. Tracer (Overwatch)

4. Morrigan (Darkstalkers)

5. Widowmaker (Overwatch)

6. Parasoul (Skullgirls)

7. Samus (Metroid)

8. Haru Okumura (Persona)

9. Peach (Mario)

10. Mt. Lady (My Hero Academia)

Belly Expansion (NOT Weight Gain. Think spherical stomach via stuffing or water.) -Possible Secondary Effects: Burping

1. Juri (Street Fighter)

2. Lucy (Fairy Tail)

3. Shantae

4. Jill (Valhalla)

5. Tohru (Koboyashi’s Dragon Maid)

6. Darli Dagger (Samurai Shodown)

7. Darkness (Konosuba)

8. Callie/Marie/Pearl/Marina (Splatoon)

9. Korra (Avatar)

10.

Balloon (Inflation) Expansion

-Possible Secondary Effects: Gas, Clown

1. Asuka (Evangelion)

2. Hex Maniac (Pokemon)

3. Kitana (Mortal Kombat)

4. Weiss (RWBY)

5. Mei (Overwatch)

6. Miu Iruma (Danganronpa)

7. Talim (Soulcalibur)

8. Rosalina (Mario)

9. Roxie (Pokemon)

10. Harley Quinn (DC)

Berry (Any Kind of Fruit) Expansion

-Possible Secondary Effects: Rotten (Slob)

1. Monster Musume Girls

2. May (Pokemon)

3. Nico (Devil May Cry)

4. Ryuko (Kill La Kill)

5. Palutena (Kid Icarus)

6. Zarya (Overwatch)

7. Batgirl (DC Comics)

8. Leia (Star Wars)

9. Takemi (Persona)

10. Vault Girl (Fallout)

Breeder (Pregnancy) Expansion

-Possible Secondary Effects: Lactation, TF to match offspring, Egg Laying

1. Mipha (Legend of Zelda)

2. Morrigan (Darkstalkers)

3. Samus (Metroid)

4. Bayonetta

5. Ashley Graham (Resident Evil)

6. Kyu (Huniepop)

7. Graverobber (Darkest Dungeon)

8. Albedo (Overlord)

9. Medusa (Soul Eater)

10. Panne (Fire Emblem)

Bulk (Muscle Growth) Expansion

-Possible Secondary Effects: IQ Loss, Rage, Bull TF, Caveperson TF

1. Lusamine (Pokemon)

2. Zelda (Breath of the Wild)

3. Aoi Asahina (Danganronpa)

4. Chun-Li (Street Fighter)

5. Asami (Avatar)

6. Ada Wong (Resident Evil)

7. Taki (Soulcalibur)

8. Erza (Fairy Tail)

9. Makise Kurisu (Steins;Gate)

10. Tharja

Behemoth (Giant) Expansion

-Possible Secondary Effects: Monster/Kaiju TF

1. Zelda (Breath of the Wild)

2. Peach, Daisy, Rosalina (Mario)

3. Shantae

4. Flannery (Pokemon)

5. Bernadetta (Fire Emblem)

6. The Handler (Monster Hunter World)

7. Mikan Tsumiki (Danganronpa)

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dualblossomspinner · 5 years ago

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A morning’s retrospection

Words: 1604 Warnings: none

It was a cool morning in Archimedes when Marta had woken up, the sun just beginning to peek in through the curtains. She hadn’t been up this early in quite some time, it felt like- while she couldn’t complain about sleeping in, it was also a little nice to be up early. It gave time to think, and she’d admit…she was awfully in the mood for that now.

She was quiet to refrain from bothering her roommates, just grabbing her bike soon as she got outside. She quite liked it- she didn’t really get motion sickness on it like she did on a lot of other vehicles… she didn’t really know why, but still found herself appreciating the fact.

After a few moments of consideration, she also let Id out of his pokeball. It would be good for him to go for a run- he always had so much energy, even she had difficulty keeping up with him at points.

And so that was how she’d found herself casually biking around the ward, heading up and down old cobblestone streets and thinking long and hard of home, of Palmacosta, back before everything had changed.

In some way, she did miss her life from back then. She missed her mother, she missed the simplicity of things. It had just been her and her parents, and despite everything, they’d tried to be happy. Tried to make a life for themselves together, prayed for safety… but then, that was just it, wasn’t it? She would miss her family, but she’d never ask to return to those days- the constant threat of the desians looming over them had been horrid.

Just… just horrid.

She knew she’d never forget the relief she’d felt upon seeing the Tower of Salvation for the first time, the time she’d finally allowed herself to hope for something better in life. Though, that had all come crashing down when the giant tree had attacked- her mother had died, and everything after had felt… hollow. Her and her father’s travels had been almost out of desperation, a need to get away from the city that held so many painful memories.

Sighing, Marta allowed herself to come to a stop. She’d found herself at a small outcropping of rocks that overlooked the sea… the smell of salt was nostalgic, and she decided to rest her bike against a tree. Id was quick to come over beside her, curious- she scratched his chin, letting out a soft ‘oof’ as he flopped onto her side.

“It’s… strange, Id. Everything… everything’s changed so much, hasn’t it?” She smiled gently, looking off at the horizon. “This place, this sea… it’s similar, but it’s not the same. I guess that’s what I should expect, but… well, it’ll never be Palmacosta.”

She hoped that nobody was listening to her talk- it would be pretty embarrassing. But sometimes it helped to just say things out loud, and she could give whoever was listening in one hell of an earful!

“I’m not… entirely sure how I feel about this place. I mean… I don’t hate it here.” She picked up a little stone from the dirt beside her, and threw it into the water. It sank below the crystal waves with a little ‘plunk!’, still visible in the clear aqua ocean. “In fact, I… I do kinda like it. There’s a lot of people I’ve been able to meet that have been really nice…”

And beyond that, there was… people who she knew she couldn’t see anymore. She’d met people who had died, people from other worlds, and… and Emil, too. So for that, wasn’t this place a blessing? Wasn’t it a miracle?

But for all the time she spent here, even if she knew she wasn’t missing anything back home, she still wished so dearly to see her own world again. She missed Sylvarant and Tethe’alla, she missed the people she’d come to know.

She wouldn’t even be free back home- she had a lot to do to make up for the trouble the Vanguard had caused. She’d refused to accept a pardon just because she’d ended up helping stop them… she’d helped her father create that group. She was just as culpable, and she wouldn’t run away from that. So was staying here just… running from responsibility?

Letting out a sigh, Marta tossed another rock to the waters below.

So much had already happened in her time here. It seemed like there was a… a gap in her memory here, a period that was just missing where she hadn’t been around, but for the time she had been here? It had been… so strange, and so much.

She thought of when she’d first came to the island, before everything had been in working order. It had been ruined in a way that had reminded her somewhat of Palmacosta, a desolate place that had seemed a hollow cast of what it’d once been like… then having to fight, in a desperate hope of helping fix this place. And it’d worked! Even if it had just been a new coat of paint on their island prison, it had been enough to make a difference… that much was good, right?

Festivals had come and gone, the island had seemed to continually get more and more lively- until that time with the undead had happened, but she didn’t want to dwell on that for long. It’d been… well, less than pleasant. But she’d fought as she always would, trying to help those she could and protect people who couldn’t protect themselves. Even without her spinner or her closest allies, she’d not given up… but she had had aid.

“You’ve been a big help too, huh?” Scratching Id under the chin, she smiled gently. “I don’t know what I would’ve done without you. You’re such a good boy, Id. Thank you for all of your help.”

He barked and started wagging his tail, although he still didn’t get up. It seemed like all the running had tired him out, something that Marta wasn’t going to complain about in the moment.

Her mind continued to wander, and she found herself fixated on the time she’d had her father’s staff with her. It had been strange and a little unwieldy for the girl, who was far more used to casting with her spinner. But it had been something to remind her of home… and by the goddess, she did miss her father. She knew he’d done wrong, she knew he’d committed terrible crimes- but he was family, and she missed him.

“I wonder… if I’ll ever even get to see him again?”

Her hands clenched into fists, and she forced herself to steady her breathing. She had no proof that the worst would come to pass. There was always a chance that her greatest fears were just fears, and her father wouldn’t end up receiving the worst possible punishment. But… she wasn’t sure if it would be better or worse to hold onto that hope. After all- wouldn’t it hurt more, if she tried to believe in the best possible scenario, and then the worst-case one happened?

No. No, she couldn’t dwell. She was supposed to be the upbeat one, the positive one.

“What would people think, if they saw me like this…” Sighing yet again, she turned her head to look around a little more. “I… I don’t know, I guess… I feel like a lot of the friends I used to know here have moved on…”

She wanted to see them again, obviously… but she also couldn’t wish for them to arrive. After all, she wouldn’t wish being trapped here on people who might not have wanted it. But there were so many faces in her mind’s eye that she did miss, people from this weird island who she might never see again…

“I guess… being sad like this won’t get me anywhere though, right?” Id just tilted his head a little at her words, and she wanted to believe that meant he’d understood her. “I mean… I doubt it’d make them happy if I was moping about. I’ve still got work to do.”

Even if she wasn’t at home, and she maybe couldn’t make reparations there, she could still do her best to better herself here. She knew what she wanted to do- she wanted to help. Perhaps she didn’t know enough to open any sort of business, but… she’d figure something out. And hey, she’d done plenty of things for the Catz Guild back home… perhaps there was something similar here, too.

Really, could she say she’d been trying her best at this point? She didn’t think so… which just meant it was time to try harder. She wanted to make something good of her life, she’d already decided that for certain. It was something she was sure of in her entirety, no matter how long and hard she had to try to make something good come of it.

Shifting in place, Marta bounced back up to her feet. Id whined in protest at his support suddenly moving, and she found herself giggling- he was cute. Very cute. But now was time for acting, not just resting around!

“Alright, let’s head back home. We’ve got a whole day ahead of us, right Id?”

He gave a little bark, tail right back to wagging as Marta picked her bike up. Whatever was coming in the future, she’d meet it head-on, without hesitating or running away. That’s what she’d learned to do, and she was determined, no matter what this weird place wanted to throw at her.

#𝐼 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝒷𝒶𝓃𝒾𝓈𝒽 𝑒𝓋𝒾𝓁! { IC }#drabble #ir challenge drabble #opting to do the 800+ word self-reflection thing.... it suits her well #went uh. a little overzealous on the word count. but it happens nbd

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hotcuppajo · 6 years ago

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Team ROSA:

Bianca Rozengarten - White Rose

Owain Escher - Pink Rose

Brian Shamrock - Green Rose

Aqua Marina - Aquamarine Rose

Overview:

ROSA is a 2nd Year Atlasian team that could not make it to the Vytal Festival (Bianca had a surgery and thus was not fit for battle in time for the event). Therefore, they were not present during the fall of Beacon or know what really happened then.

Bianca Rosengarten:

Shy girl who was not prepared for the responsibility of leadership, specially with how...high maintenance her team is.Tries to be in good terms with everyone, sometimes to her own detriment...

Semblance: “Adaptive Defense”

Bianca’s Aura develops a temporary resistance to the types of attack she receives(Blunt, Slashing, Piercing or Elemental), which grows the more of the same attack she sustains. Receiving damage from different sources reduces the previous attack’s resistance to increase the most recent.

Class: Knight

Due to her Semblance, Bianca especializes in one-on-one combat, where she can amass resistances to an enemy’s attacks. In a scenario where she is facing too many sources of damage, she can disengage and fight at long-range with her Bow.

Owain Escher

Owain is actually a famous Metuber whose career started a few years before joining Atlas Academy. He has a big personality that bloats even further when his weapon, which doubles as a tablet and camera, is out (He has the bad habit of streaming his missions). For personal reasons, he hides his pink panther tail under his battle gear.

Semblance:”Mirror House”

Manipulating the light around him, Owain can create reflective surfaces that confuse and distract enemies. The mirrors are easily breakable but can be reinforced with Dust for various effects.

Class: Mime

Owain’s hand mirror has several functions like a camera, a scanner, a combat tablet...which give him utility in the battlefield. Gadgets aside, however, its main feature is using Light Dust to create hard-light structures, which Owain can create blueprints for. The creations last as long as Owain can feed Aura and Dust into them, but it can’t create ranged weapons or Dust Effects it cannot provide the proper dust for.

Brian Shamrock

Previously involved with crime in Atlas underbelly, Brian was sent to a Youth Detention Center which taught Combat classes in order to discipline children. Brian’s teacher saw potential on him and convinced him to apply to Atlas.

Semblance:”Barbed Armor”

Brian can alter the shape of his Aura to make himself covered in spines, damaging enemies that attack him at close-range.He can apply that thorn-coat to his weapon to make his punches more dangerous.

Class: Hunter

One of Brian’s skills is Graffiti, and he brings it into the battlefield with Dust-Paint. Infusing drawings he makes with his aura, he can create a trap that will trigger when stepped-on(varying with the type of Dust used).

The nails in his Nail-gun hide rose seeds that sprout when hit with Nature Dust, causing them to grow into thorny bushes from inside the Grimm or in a desired location. When all else fails, he can defend himself with his weapon in its Knuckles Mode.

Aqua Marina

Aqua comes from a family of Atlasian marine officials, and was allways encouraged to follow in the military like the rest of her family, but she always had a passion for dance. accepting to compromise, she applied to Atlas Academy while taking dance lessons on the side.

Semblance: “Bubbles”

Aqua can convert her aura in a slippery, soap-like substance. With it, she can make surfaces slippery or create bubbles. Said bubbles are still made of Aura, through, and can therefore be infused with Dust. Alone, the bubbles can block enemy view when in high Volume, but when combined with Electric Dust, for example, can create a cloud of charged bubbles that zap those withing it.

Class: Dancer

Aqua fights with high-speed, rhythmical strikes to her enemies. She is not very durable, but has enough mobility and ways to hinder her enemies to keep herself safe at close range. Her Chakran is also equipped with a Gravity Dust core, which allows her to throw it, manipulate its trajectory and retrieve it.

#RWBY #RWBY OC #RWBYOC #Team ROSA #Bianca Rozengarten #Owain Escher #Brian Shamrock #Aqua Marina #OC #Art #Concept Art #Weapon #Mine #POphelia

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kh-akira · 6 years ago

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It's me!! #13 Fluff of your writing prompt list!

“God, you’re so beautiful.”I actually had an idea for that in mind. Be ready for Lea and Akira in formal wear.

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They were both not very fond of parties. Not that they didn’t enjoyed to hang out with their friends, it mostly was the dressing up.

But Ilana wanted to throw a party in the newly restored castle of Radiant Garden. It should be a ball to celebrate all the achievements the people had accomplished and give them a good time.

Akira was not able to say no to Ilana, when she asked her to join the party and he couldn’t let her suffer through this alone.

And who knew, maybe this night wouldn’t be as horrible as they thought?

The party was already in full swing and Lea was waiting in one of the big halls, that was redecorated to serve as ball room. On a stage, several musicians entertained the people and a little bar was built-on in a corner of the room.

Lea was leaning against a wall, opposite to the entrance door, so he could see whenever Akira would appear. While he wasn’t the most underdressed person in the room, he had kept it simple with his clothes: A red dress shirt, with rolled up sleeves, a black tie, vest and dress pants.

With him were Xion and Roxas. The girl had the time of her life during this ball, showing him all the dances that Aqua and the others had shown her. Roxas wasn’t as enthusiastic as her, but he still had his fun and enjoyed being Xion’s dance partner.

The kids also had it kept simple with their clothes: Xion was wearing a lilac colored, knee-length frilly dress, while Roxas was clothed similar to him: beige dress shirt, black dress pants and a red tie.

“You think Akira will still show up?” Roxas asked, when he and Xion took a little break from the dancing.

“Hope so. After all, I’m only here to keep her company,” Lea said with a laugh.

“Don’t tell me you’re also a party pooper,” Xion sighed and elaborated when Lea looked at her with a raised eyebrow. “When Aqua showed us some dances, Akira fought it with tooth and nail. She said it was a waste of time.”

“Yeah, that sounds like her,” he chuckled and then patted Xion on the shoulder. “Don’t blame her, she has bad experience with parties and she usually avoids it like the plague.”

“I don’t get it. This whole ball thing seems to be pretty fun, how can one get bad experience from it,”Roxas wondered and Xion nodded at that.

Tilting his head, Lea tried to come up with a short explanation.

“Well, it was just boring for her as kid. Never liked the fancy stuff. Oh, and also the dresses. That’s why I guess it takes so long. Probably fighting with Ila, because she doesn’t want to wear a dress.”

Thoughtful Xion looked down at her own dress. “I think they are nice to wear once in a while…” She then looked back at Lea with a smile. “But I guess Akira isn’t the type for that.”

Lea nodded at that and grinned: “Yep, bet she’ll wear some royal dress up suit like that Terra guy, just out of spite.”

The trio laughed at this likely scenario, when the door to the ball room opened. Roxas noticed that first and when he saw who just entered the room, he stopped laughing.

“Well, guess you just lost that bet,” he said.

Confused, Lea and Xion followed his line of sight.

It were Akira and Ilana, who had finally arrived.

Ilana wore an elegant, floor length, cream colored silk dress that was adorned with flower embroideries.

But what shocked the three was Akira’s attire, which was far off from the prediction that Lea had given: She wore indeed a dress, a black one with dark red, glittering ornaments. It was long sleeved and even covered her neck. The dress went down to her ankles, but was cut open at the sides, up to her tights, to ensure as much moving space as possible.

“She chose a dress after all,” Xion said delighted. When she noticed, how Akira looked around searchingly, she waved to get her attention.

As soon as she spotted the trio, Akira walked over to them, Ilana on her coat-tails.

“Hey guys. Sorry that we’re so late,” Akira apologized.

“It’s all her fault,” Ilana said, pointing at her friend with a grin, who only rolled her eyes.

“No problem. We started to think you might have made a getaway,” Roxas said, while Xion chuckled.

“Nah, we just had a little…disagreement about her choice of clothes,” Ilana explained with a smile.

“We thought so. I’m glad you decided to got with the dress. It looks really pretty,” Xion said to Akira, who scratched her nose slightly embarrassed.

“Ah, thanks,” she answered. Then her eyes went to Lea, who hadn’t said a word since the girls had arrived.

Roxas also turned around to his best friend.

“Seems you weren’t that far off with-…Hey Lea, you okay?”

While Roxas and Xion got worried about Lea, Akira bit her lips to hide her grin.

Since Lea had laid eyes on Akira, he wasn’t able to stop staring at her, looking totally gobsmacked. It partly was due to the fact that he had absolutely not counted on her appearing in an actual dress.

And then one that she looked so stunning in!

When was the last time he actually had been rendered speechless?

Meanwhile, Ilana had tapped Roxas and Xion on their shoulders and whispering something to them. They blinked a bit confused, but nodded.

“Well, we’re getting some drinks,” Roxas excused them.

“Have fun you two,” Xion added and together with Ilana they walked over to the bar.

Their sudden departure seemed to get Lea out of his stupor, as he blinked a few times. He then noticed, that while Akira tried to hide her grin, she fumbled nervously with her hands.

Maybe he should finally say something?

“Man, you look…so beautiful,” was the only thing he could come up with in that moment, but it had it’s desired effect.

While blushing, there was also a pleasant smile on her face.

“You think so? Not too much?” she asked innocently and did a little spin.

Lea had to gulp at what he saw: Her entire back was free, down to just above her tailbone.

She had done it on purpose, hadn’t she? The cheeky grin he could spot on her face told him yes.

Gathering his wits again, he also grinned at her and took one of her hands in his, to pull her closer.

“Don’t worry, it’s perfect.”

Lea’s other hand immediately went to her back, his fingers moving up and down her spine, eliciting a purr from her.

“But have to admit, I’m surprised. Thought dresses weren’t your thing?”

“They aren’t. But once in a while, I want to feel pretty, too. And that dress just spoke to me,” she answered, intertwining her fingers with his.

“You’re pretty even without the dress, you know?” he murmured and nuzzled his nose against her cheek.

“Charmer,” Akira giggled, enjoying the attention immensely. With her free hand, she stroked over his vest.

“Have to say, you don’t look so shabby yourself with that outfit.”

Lea had to snort at that a bit stood straight again. “Maybe. But I surely feel extremely underdressed compared to you.”

“Well,…” She hummed, wandering with her hand over his chest, until she got to the tie and grabbed it to drag his face back down to hers. “I like it.”

They smirked at each other, hidden promises in their eyes, when the musicians started to play a faster tune than before. This gave Lea an idea.

“Say, why don’t we go the extra mile and do some dancing?”

The playfulness vanished from Akira’s face and in her surprise, she let go of his tie and stepped back.

“You serious?”

Nonchalant he shrugged with one shoulder.

“Why not? At least Ila wouldn’t nag us for not doing so.”

But Akira didn’t looked that convinced.

“Lea, I don’t know how to dance.”

“Neither do I,” he just smirked at her.

“So why do you want us to make fools ourselves?” she asked, crossing her arms.

“Oh, have a little more faith in us Aki,” he said, putting an arm around her shoulder. “Just a bit to show off. Think we’re very capable of that.”

The look he gave her was a challenging, one he knew she couldn’t rest. So after a moment, she budged with a smile.

“Fine. At least I know we won’t step on each other’s feet.”

“That’s the spirit,” he said with a happy grin.

Lea took Akira’s hand back in his and lead her on the dance floor. A few of their friends were surprised to see them there, but Ilana and Kairi clapped delighted at this.

While the first steps of them were a bit uncoordinated, they soon got the hang of it and moved rather elegantly over the floor.

In the end they had so much fun doing it, that they had more than one dance.

#kingdom hearts #axel #lea #roxas #xion #kh oc #akira #ilana #my writing #AkiLea #hinataoc #ohman describing clothes and me will never become friends #xd

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delightfulconnoisseurgentlemen · 3 years ago

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Sonic Forces - Thoughts and Opinions [SPOILERS!!]

Sonic Forces has a lot of lost potential. From the execution of the narrative, to the level designs in it’s entirety...with...some exceptions.

It kept me wanting more...but it left me hanging.

I can’t say it’s bad, but I can’t say is amazing, it’s just an okay game with some fun elements and a good base of ideas. The sad part is that they didn’t fully flesh things out. Was it time? Was it dev problems? Who knows.

I know that they’re gaining their footing in gameplay and the direction they want to go in Sonic, but if they don’t step out of their comfort zone, actually take their time and do a good product instead of a 4hr long game, maybe we’ll see the return of those grand level designs from the Adventure Series and Unleashed (Day Stages) in the modern era.

Same thing with the story, it was a great direction! But so many little details were lost in it- with some friends in a stream, we talked about some points that could have been great for the game, example:

Classic Sonic is also the one from Mania...in which also is the one from Generations but due to the events of that game, Classic Sonic’s timeline sort of split from the one Modern remembers....err- yeah-

Now, this Classic Sonic should be aware that the chaos emeralds are useless against the Ruby right? Then imagine if you could get Super Sonic in the game, go face infinite as some sort of epic show down and, despite Classic Sonic hinting everyone that it won’t work, they just tried anyways and failed! That would have been amazing! Also, the fact that Tails was so neglected...oh god that made me a bit mad... i love Tails ok-

OH and another thing, WHY MAKE INFINITE HAVE SUCH A BACKSTORY LIKE- IT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE BETTER SURE- I WOULD HAVE LOVED SOME RIVALRY WITH SHADOW BUT NOT SOME “I’M NOT WEAK!” CHRIST.

...ok...Aura...calm down... -ahem-

I think my message can come across right? Sonic Forces is a game where had an opportunity to be the comeback of modern sonic, but really- I guess they’re still not getting out of their comfort zone.

I can’t agree over the fact that it could be because of the whole “a chunk of the gamers as a whole don’t have time to play a long game” because people LOVE long games, they would look forward to play them, they would wait to get back and play it on their free time. Especially if it has replayability. SEGA needs to see what they got right and what they got wrong, We’re not stupid. We’re not kids. Most of the fanbase is already skilled enough to have challenges. We want a fast pace, adrenaline inducing sonic game with a long, entertaining story, enjoyable and diverse level designs. I want to learn the different routes of a level. I want to see that my first run could be different from others. I want to enjoy finding secrets like the collectibles and all. What I need is to see my blue hedgehog rise against the adversity and unfair judgement of the franchise. Just because 06, Lyric and Chronicles were bad, that doesn’t mean the whole series is trash. Grow up.

Sonic Forces made me smile at times, enjoying the moments i had with my custom character, making me think of scenarios that could have been in the game n stuff- It made me see that maybe, just maybe, Sonic Team could just get themselves together and pour actual time, effort and just think of the specific things that fans would enjoy- TRULY ENJOY and make a game that could satisfy us...

But that can only be done if they stop thinking of doing the minimum, and break boundaries. Sonic is all about running free, seeing sights you could never see in speeds nobody can achieve normally.

I’m no game dev, I’m just an animation student, but I know one thing: attention to detail, paying close attention with your fans and bringing that feedback to the devs, fix what was wrong and add what was missing from the previous game is essential. I know now we live in an era where now companies can have more direct feedback than ever. The social media accounts are aware. People from the staff are aware.

They’re not stupid.

So please, SEGA, if you ever read these kinds of opinions on these games, PLEASE TELL THEM TO SONIC TEAM. What we need is for these ideas to be fixed and fleshed out better. I know I might repeat myself on things but, it’s the one thing you must do. Get out from making short games. It’s time to do an experience. It’s time to make a Sonic game.

...

I just hope that the day we get an amazing Sonic game is sooner than we think...

But Forces...made me see a step in the right direction.

Ho man- that was kind of long but i needed to get it out of my chest. Sorry.

I think the one thing I hope to see once again is more customization if there’s an option to make a custom hero again...

Ohtani did amazing with the soundtrack, I’m in love with the avatar stage level music (especially Space Port and Aqua Road.....and Imperial Tower....and...actually no- i love them all).

Just- If only the level design and the story being fleshed out more it would have been an amazing Sonic.

Oh well. Here’s for a better one in the future.

#sonic forces #sonic forces spoilers #aura talks

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[fic] mittens; mingyu x yein

kim mingyu x jung yein. 3147w. yein had a cat following her since this morning. mingyu lost his mittens. hogwarts au. (requested by yoongijiae)

There was a cat wandering the hallway when Yein exited the common room this morning. Some of the cats owned by Slytherins did wander in the hallway of the dungeons at times, but she had never seen this cat before; a cream-colored tabby with an aqua blue collar around its neck. The cat stopped walking when it heard the walls opening, and turned around to look right into Yein’s eyes.

Yein, feeling compelled to pet it, called for it to come closer. It did, in little, bouncy steps, and Yein crouched down to pet it. Its fur was short, but soft; its tail either looked like a feather duster or a water fountain. It was cute.

Yein wanted to pet it some more but she had to get to the Great Hall to get breakfast because her first class was starting in an hour, so she stood up, bid the cat goodbye, and walked to the staircase. Halfway up, she sensed movement from behind her so she looked back, only to find the cat two steps behind her.

“Are you following me?” Yein asked the cat, and the response she got was the cat hopping up the stairs ahead of Yein. It turned around to look down at her when it had reached the top. “Who’s your human? Get back inside.”

For a minute, she had a staring battle with the cat, until she blinked hard and decided to quietly continue her journey. If she walked silently and did not acknowledge it, maybe it would lose interest and go back to its owner.

Contrary to her belief, the cat followed her even until the ground floor.

“I don’t have food, please don’t follow me,” Yein said, whined even, at the cat, who just looked back at her, unblinking. She tried moving one step towards the door of the Great Hall and the cat also took one step forward. Yein shook her body in frustration until she finally said, “Fine.”

She entered the Great Hall, occasionally looking back to make sure that the tabby was following her. The cat had a spring in its steps, seemingly excited to find out where Yein would be sitting, and stopped behind her when she took a seat at the Slytherin table.

Yein greeted her friends, and one of them noticed the cat sitting behind Yein’s seat, its chest puffed forward like it was anticipating food. “Whose cat is that?” her friend asked.

“I don’t know. Found it in the hallway and it’s been following me ever since,” Yein absentmindedly answered as she took a piece of grilled chicken thigh from the gold plate in the middle of the table. “I hope you like chicken thigh,” she said to the cat and dropped it to the floor in front of the cat. It happily devoured it, fangs ripping into the flesh. Yein hoped the elves wouldn’t be too upset with the new stain on the brick floor.

Yein had her usual breakfast; two glasses of orange juice, mashed potato and sausage with gravy, while looking back at the cat from time to time to make sure it was still there and eating. When it was finished with the chicken, Yein gave it a slab of smoked beef.

She gathered the broken pieces of the chicken femur onto her empty sausage plate and bent down to give the cat, who looked pleased and full, a pat on the head. She scratched behind its ear as it was licking its paw and her hand moved to look at the collar around its neck.

No pendant, no engraving, no name. Just a simple strap around the neck. What a useless collar, Yein dissed inwardly. Then she would just leave the cat in The Hall and hope its owner would find it.

She glanced at his friend next to her who was drinking his water, and said, “Seungkwan, hand me your water.” The boy handed it to her quizzically. Yein filled it to the brim before bringing it down to the floor, much to Seungkwan’s dismay.

“Are you kidding me right now?”

“Well, it needs to drink after a meal, does it not?” Yein reasoned before going back to the cat. “Here, do you want to drink?”

Even after much prodding and shoving of glass to face, the cat only tried smelling the glass once to find out what was in it before it was back to cleaning itself.

“It doesn’t want to drink, and now my glass is contaminated,” Seungkwan scowled.

“Just get a new glass, you baby.”

Yein left the Great Hall after that with his friends and, unsurprising at this point to her, the tabby cat. She looked back at it, once again making sure it was following, when she heard a wail coming from one of the tables. She jerked in surprise and looked up to determine where the sound was coming from and found a boy at the Gryffindor table to be the likely source, judging by the placement of his head on his arms on the table, his slouched shoulders, a couple of his friends looking like they were trying to cheer him up across the table, and half of the Gryffindor table looking at him. Yein rolled her eyes. Gryffindors were always such drama queens.

She headed to class with the cat still on her tail.

Meanwhile, at the Gryffindor table, Kim Mingyu was devastated, to say the least. His lovely Mittens had gone missing since last night and if he couldn’t find her by today, he might go crazy.

“She’s a cat, Mingyu. Cats know their home. She’ll come back,” his friend said, a lame attempt at cheering up that Mingyu paid no heed to, because he had explained to his friends probably fifty times that Mittens did come back to The Tower every night except for last night. It was unusual for her to not return.

Mingyu had never went a day without his Mittens, a cream tabby he picked up from the streets a few months before his first year at Hogwarts. He went to sleep with her, woke up with her, ate with her whenever he could. But because of her feral blood, she saw the huge castle as a playground to explore in. Mingyu accepted that about her and let her explore, because she always came back to the Gryffindor Tower every night. A student just coming in would inform him that his cat was waiting outside and Mingyu would pick her up and went back inside.

However, he received no such message last night.

He waited until Myungho told him to go to sleep by midnight, but even then, he couldn’t, not with scenarios of Mittens’ well-being playing in his mind. He was afraid something bad had happened to her. Maybe she got into a fight with Mrs. Norris. Mittens had gotten six stitches four summers ago after fighting another feral cat at home. She was feisty with other cats, but the loveliest with humans.

“She was a stray too. I think she’ll be okay,” Myungho said.

Mingyu’s head jolted up, surprising his friends, and he sucked in a breath before saying, “I’m going to look for her again.”

“No, you are not. Class is starting in 15 minutes,” Myungho said, giving him a pointed look. “You’re in your final year. You can’t miss a class because your cat’s gone missing.”

“But—” Mingyu cut off his sentence when Myungho shot him a glare. He wasn’t afraid of Myungho most of the time, but he was right. Mittens was a stray. She was a survivalist. Besides, the NEWT exams were in a couple of months and he couldn’t get distracted if he wanted to make the Ministry.

Still, Mingyu called her name all the way to the greenhouse.

The cat went another way when Yein entered her Transfiguration class, so she guessed it got bored with her. She bid it goodbye and didn’t think about it again until she came out of the class and the cat was already there, waiting.

“Looks like you have a cat now,” Seungkwan said to her, sniggering before he went ahead towards the Charms classroom. Yein sighed and went after Seungkwan, but not before telling the cat to come with her, which it voluntarily did.

“How do I find its owner?” Yein whispered to Seungkwan, whose head was resting on a stack of books and his eyelids looked ready to close.

“Go up to the front at dinner, pick up the cat and announce it.” The suggestion came from the boy sitting next to Seungkwan, Hansol, a Ravenclaw they befriended in third year. Seungkwan seemed uninterested, his eyelids getting droopier.

“I can’t do that,” Yein hissed at Hansol behind Seungkwan’s back. Then, she added, meekly, “That’s embarrassing.”

“Or you can make flyers, saying that a cat has been found.”

Yein put her hands together, but not clapping them as she didn’t want to make a ruckus while Professor Flitwick was explaining. “That’s a great idea. How do I make a flyer?”

Mingyu decided to skip lunch to go look for Mittens, but he put a chicken thigh that he had shredded to little pieces into a plastic bag to give to Mittens for when he found her. She must’ve been so hungry. It physically hurt Mingyu to think of how starving his baby must be.

He even asked Sir Nicholas and the Grey Lady to inform him if they ever found Mittens, but requested for them not to let Peeves know that his cat was missing, otherwise he would prank her if he ever got to her first.

“Mittens!” Mingyu called for the cat, clicking his tongue to get her attention. “It’s me, Mingu. Mittens?”

He did get quite a few stares from other students, but he just brushed it off and focused on his cat. The first floor seemed to be hopeless. Mingyu thought that he should’ve started from the Gryffindor Tower, but it was far and so high from where he was, he decided to scour the bottom levels first.

Mingyu descended to the ground floor and went to the edge of the castle so he could search thoroughly. “Mittens?” Mingyu even opened the chicken plastic bag so the smell would waft through the air, inviting Mittens to him, but so far, no luck.

He went pas the Great Hall and into the hallway that always bathed in sunlight, the one next to the courtyard. Mittens loved the sunlight. Mingyu released a defeated sigh. His cat would never leave him like that. He was starting to want to stop searching because a) He was tired, the castle was enormous and he hadn’t had any lunch yet, and b) Myungho was right about cats knowing their home. He read about that somewhere once.

His eyes scanned the courtyard looking for a cream-colored feline, and his heart leaped when he saw the familiar frizzy, fountain tail of a particular one, and someone was picking the cat up.

Mingyu, in excitement, wasted no time in shouting, “Mittens!” and ran to where she was.

Hansol suggested making handmade flyers, but Yein didn’t have the time nor patience, so the “Picking Up the Cat at Dinner” plan seemed to be the doable option.

Yein had left her friends at the Great Hall after lunch to take the cat for a walk in the courtyard. After another chicken thigh, the cat seemed even happier than ever.

She huffed as she sat on a stone bench on the courtyard. There were people passing by, sitting under trees, playing with stuff from Zonko’s, but none of them were the cat’s owner, and she had no idea why it was following her in the first place. Did she smell like its owner? Did she smell like fish?

“Oh god. Do I smell like fish?” Yein muttered, looking down at the cat as it slithered between her legs and rubbed its cheeks on them. She picked the cat up and looked it right in its honey eyes, which, Yein admitted, were beautiful. “Hey. Do I smell like fish?”

Its round eyes stared back at hers and it meowed in her face, oblivious to her question. Yein was about to put it down onto her lap when she heard a shocking and deafening shriek of someone… finding their mittens?

Yein put the cat onto her lap and turned to her right to see a boy, who Yein felt she had seen before but couldn’t recall, marching her way; but when she saw the red streaks on his tie and the red emblem on his chest, she took a guess that it was the Gryffindor boy who wailed in the Great Hall at breakfast today. At least the shrieks sounded the same.

She looked around her, trying to find mittens lying around but found no such thing, so why was the boy still hurrying off towards her?

The boy stopped right by the bench she was sitting on. She looked up at him, half curious half terrified, her hands moved the cat closer to her.

“Hi,” the boy said to her but he seemed distracted by the cat. He looked at it before he said, in a meek tone, “Mittens?”

When the boy clicked his tongue, the cat in Yein’s lap meowed and turned back to look at him, and with just that one look, the boy looked like he was close to tears.

“Mittens!” he shrieked again, startling Yein, and it made him turn his attention to her. “I-I’m sorry, it’s just… that’s my cat.”

“Oh. Oh!” Yein exclaimed. She felt a weight being lifted off her shoulder when the cat jumped off her laps to go to the boy. The cat had finally met its owner. She didn’t have to go up the teachers’ podium tonight and lift a cat up.

The boy was smiling wide, squatting down, hugging the cat and scratching its back, and the cat seemed to love it, snuggling closer to him. It looked so adorable that Yein couldn’t help but mirror his smile. The cat was happy, the boy was happy, and she was happy.

“Thank you so much for finding her,” the boy said, looking up at Yein with the brightest smile Yein had seen on a person, ever. “And taking care of her.”

“It’s no problem at all,” Yein said, waving her hand in a dismissive manner. “She’s a really good girl.”

The boy beamed and looked down at the cat in his arm. “Yes, she is.” He paused, then shrugged. “Most of the time.”

They didn’t talk for a while; the boy happily petting Mittens’ head and scratching behind her ears, Yein enjoying the moment. That was, until the boy looked up and asked, “May I?” while pointing to the vacant spot on the bench next to Yein.

“Sure,” Yein shrugged. The boy stood up, still hugging his cat, and sat down next to her.

“Are you hungry?” he asked Mittens with baby-talk and while baby-talks in general usually made Yein cringe, this was quite cute. She wanted to tell him that the cat had had her lunch but she thought a cat wouldn’t be satisfied with one chicken thigh, no? So she watched the boy whip out a bag of shredded chicken meat she recognized was from a grilled chicken thigh from the pocket of his robe, and finally put the cat down. “Here you go, sweetie.”

Yein watched him scatter meats in front of the cat like a buffet line and the cat quickly ate them one by one.

The boy sat back up, stashed the plastic bag back into his pocket, and turned to Yein. He offered her a happy grin, to which she awkwardly responded because she had never had someone happy-grinned her. He seemed unaffected by her half-smile and said, “Thank you again, so much, for finding her. I’m Kim Mingyu.”

Yein looked at his outstretched hand, and took it. “I’m Jeong Yein,” she replied, her smile had gotten more relaxed.

“Where did you find her?” Mingyu asked, head tilted in curiosity.

“I found her this morning wandering the dungeons,” Yein answered, and saw Mingyu’s eyes widened at the word ‘dungeons’. Before he could comment any further, she quickly added, “She’s been following me ever since.”

“The dungeons?” Mingyu sighed in disbelief. “That’s so far from the Gryffindor Tower.”

Yein smiled. Gryffindors were usually repulsed—and that was the softer word—by the cold dungeons and everything about it, thus, including the Slytherin house, so she was glad that that was not what he was focusing on, but how far the distance from the tower to the dungeons were.

“I think you should put your name on her collar,” she suggested, slowly so that it wouldn’t offend Mingyu. Mingyu turned to her sharply. “Just in case,” she shrugged.

Mingyu frowned, but nodded. “I should do that, yeah,” he mumbled. “I hope she won’t go missing again, but that’ll make it easier for people to give her back to me.” He beamed again and said, “Thanks, Yein.”

Yein didn’t think it was such a breakthrough idea to get her a thanks, but she took it nonetheless, smiling and nodding at him. Mingyu seemed really innocent, and paired with his amazingly attractive tall heights, Yein thought he was a junior, so imagine her surprise when Mingyu said, “This is my last year at Hogwarts, though, so if she goes missing again, I don’t think I can’t focus on my NEWTs.”

“You’re a seventh year?” Yein asked, unbelieving, and Mingyu nodded. A seventeen-year-old boy crying in the Great Hall about his missing cat named after a pair of winter wears. Yein did say Gryffindors were drama queens, but Mingyu was oddly endearing. “I’m a sixth year.”

“Huh, a junior,” Mingyu said, seemingly pleased about the newfound information. He quickly dropped it and said, “Listen, Yein, I really have to thank you for finding her,” he paused to look down at Mittens, who had eaten all the pieces of meat and was now laying comfortably right on Mingyu’s shoes. “I’d like to take you out on a glass of butterbeer the next time we go to Hogsmeade.”

Yein put on a tightlipped smile and asked, “Will Mittens be there too?”

Mingyu beamed again (he really looked elated now that he had found his cat) and enthusiastically nodded. “She has winter mittens for her paws and a jacket,” he replied excitedly.

Thinking about Mittens in actual mittens and a winter jacket was amusing to Yein. She really wanted to see that. So Yein happy-grinned, like the grin Mingyu gave her a few minutes ago, and said, “I’d love to see that, so, yes, you can take me out on a glass of butterbeer.”

And maybe more, but it was too early for Yein to say out loud.

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