#who'd be the leader tho?

[yamujiburo]

i frequently get asked what other ships are canon in this au and i haven't really thought about it much tbh?

james is aroace and happy and i think butch and cassidy eventually find each other again. these are the only ones im sure about LOL

the rest of the characters are all kids and wouldn't really be touched on anyways LOL. i feel like most people are curious about ash tho

i think ash and misty would date for a little bit as teens, but misty is a massive romantic and ash is very much NOT (probably where he realizes he's aroace). misty is also set being the gym leader at cerulean while ash wants to continue his travels. i could see them breaking up after finding they're not the most compatible but remain the best of friends.

in my head misty ends up with lana (lana like... clearly has a big crush on her idk). then ash i think would find a life bestie who'd be down to travel with him. i've tossed around the idea of goh and angie (who i think's underrated)

[teewritessmth]

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[stargleam-star]

My thoughts on Star, and A Starless Clan as a whole:

Spoilers ahead for A Starless clan amd a bit of Ivypool's Heart if it wasn't obvious. Time for me to go on a rant! It's gonna feature me mostly gushing about Frostpaw because she's the only character with enough substance to talk in length about. But I've got other things to talk about too I guess. Lets get into it:

As usual, Frostpaw was the best character of the book and honestly the most relatable. She kept Going Through It until basically the very end and I felt so bad for her.

What I am glad about though is that she got the killing blow on Splashtail! Fuck yeah that's my baby girl <3

But he did get a hit in on her before the end and left her basically comatose which was tragic. Reading Frostpaw drift in and out of consciousness and what she saw while knocked out was really cool tho. I especially liked that she got to have deeper conversations with Curlfeather. She wanted so desperately for her mother to admit fault, to show some remose for her actions. Instead Curlfeather kept focusing on how Splashtail ruined her plans, and how he's to blame. All she wanted to do was protect Frostpaw and Riverclan. There wasn't the slightest bit of remorse at all. It was so tragic reading Frostpaw wishing her mother would hold herself accountable. It really hit home with me. In the end, Curlfeather couldn't face the truth and left Frostpaw behind to conclude her mother wasn't a good person and learn to accept that so she could move on. Heartwrenching stuff imo

I got really sad when Frostpaw started taking a turn for the worse and finally got to see Starclan. She got to meet her dad and was so happy, he made her realize that she needs to focus on herself and her happiness instead of worrying about everyone else's needs. Nobody understands how fucking Relatable that is to me. Nobody come near me rn.

Frostpaw wanted so badly to finally give up and be at peace. She wanted to be happy and relax, and to help in other ways. As much as that would have crushed me for her arc to conclude with her death, it really did feel like a good end for her. She would have done so well as a Starclan messenger. She deserves the rest. Sadly the narrative didn't want that to be the end of her, so she got to come back. Hooray /s

I like the medicine cat name she was given! Frostdawn is pretty (although I am lowkey disappointed she wasn't named Frostfeather, and that's not because I wanted her sharing a name with Curlfeather. I've got an oc named Frostfeather and it would have been amazing for a canon POV character to have that name too. Alas).

I'm also going crazy over the fact that her and Whistlepaw (now Whistlebreeze) got named together. I love these two lesbians so much its insane. The speech Frostpaw gave Whistlebreeze about being a good medicine cat and how grateful she was to have been saved by her? I'm planning their wedding as we speak

Frostdawn ended up choosing Icewing as Riverclan's leader, which was the obvious choice from the start imo. Also very predictable but what do I expect from a series written for 6th graders? I'm still salty as hell we got to see her leader ceremony but never Squirrelstar's.

I find it weird that Icewing was against Frostpaw in the beginning of Wind but then came around to "omg you were right" because Splashtail got mean. It was kind ooc for her, but then again she stopped having a bigger role during that book up until the end of Star.

Why tf was Icewing's voice the loudest that Frostpaw heard when cats started singing to bring her back to life? Also how tf were regular warriors able to sing to reach Frostpaw's spirit? I get that Tree was with them, and Icewing had spent a few days with The Sisters in Ivypool's super edition, but it doesn't explain how they were able to get that power. Also it was "all the she-cats that love [Frostpaw]" which included cats such as Duskfur and Mothwing who'd been mean to her throughout a good chunk of the arc... ok. Anyways.

All of A Starless Clan should have been soley in Frostdawn's point of view. Nightheart and Sunbeam barely brought anything to the table

Might as well talk about them. I like how Nightheart's character arc finished. He wasn't a jerk by the end and started being more respectful. His POV felt pointless most of the time, but I liked getting a glimpse of the inside of Riverclan during the height of Splashtail's reign (more on that soon)

Sunbeam's POV was completely unnecessary. While I liked that we got deeper thoughts on Berryheart as a result of Sunbeam, I don't think we really needed it for the story. I don't even think the way things wrapped up between them was good.

I'm gonna talk about Berryheart now because she's more interesting. I've come to the conclusion that the Erins dropped the ball with her as a villan. By the end, she was nothing more than a traitor in every single way. She was untrustworthy and I cheered when she died. She should have died 3 books ago if she wasn't gonna do anything worthwhile. No her trying to get Shadowclan on her side to let her be leader in the end qhike trying to convice them to rise up against Riverclan was not good. It was stupid as hell, almost as stupid as her joining Riverclan and becoming its deputy

I'm gonna talk about Splashtail but there's not a lot to say that I haven't already (but I will repeat myself). It felt like the Erins were trying to remake Tigerclawstar and his villan arc with Splashtail. Think about it. Ambitious, broad shouldered, dark brown tabby tom, who conspired with cats from another clan to kill their leader in order to gain power for themself? Check. A merger of Shadowclan and Riverclan? Check. Evil cat wanting to rule all the clans? Check. A deputy slain for having a different opinion? Check that off too.

As stated before the only differences between Tigerclawstar and Splashtail was that Splashtail was a lazy coward, Tigerstar actually belived in Starclan and its strength, and Splashtail had none of the charm or support that Tigerclawstar had. Also Splashtail had to resort to threatening the life of kits to get cats to do what he wanted, while Tigerclan followed Tigerclawstar's rule because he was formidable and had cats in it who truly believed in him and his vision for the future

Splashtail was written to be so cartoonishly evil and it was a sad thing to read. I'm glad Frostpaw got to kill him, and I loved how he was tormented until the end by Curlfeather's demon spirit.

I didn't like how they implied Splashtail might be the way he was due to mental illness though. I'm probably gonna get hate for saying that, lol. But in the last book they wrote him to seem like s psychopath, as well as implied him to be schizophrenic because he was talking to someone that wasn't visible (even though he was actually seeing a real dead person. But nobody but Splashtail and the audience got to know that). They literally called him crazy throughout the last book, the entire time. And idk it just felt like they were villifying mental illness a bit as a result. Again I'm probably reading into it too much, don't come at me please

The leaders were not as impactful in Star as I'd hoped. But at least they acted and fought together in the end. I loved that the leaders actually participated in the battles to liberated Riverclan instead of only sending warriors to do it. I love seeing leaders fighting for the good of their clan and putting their lives on the line (that's what their 9 lives are for. Looking at you Brambleclaw)

I didn't like that sone of Riverclan's cats were trying to join Thunderclan near the end of Star and I liked how Squirrelstar acknowledged that they had too many warriors as itwas, and how they had to expand the warrior's den in the past because of it. Wish the Erins would do something about all those cats

99% of Thunderclan was not mentioned at all this book, including the elders + Brambleclaw from what I read (I might've skimmed iver smth tho idk) but there was mention of cats like Myrtlebloom and fucking Eagletail for sone reason (is that their name? I can't remember). Tell me why any of these cats are alive if they're not worth mentioning while we have a camp scene? At least I got to see my girl Daisy <3

A Starless Clan had so much potential and the writing and mystery in the beginning were really good. I just wish they'd kept it up throughout.

Star felt like a flat finish and while I liked the way Frostpaw's chapters concluded and the whole main plot of Riverclan without a leader, I hate that the book ended on a Nightheart chapter and that the last like was about how he "could be brave and loyal no matter what his name was." Like that was a really dumb final chapter of the arc, a genuinely novice choice. It ruined the arc conclusion for me. Frostdawn's chapter should have been last

OverallI I will give Star a 3/10, and A Starless Clan 5/10 stars. It could have been great. But then, it wouldn't be Warriors would it?

[pomefioredove]

🙂‍↕️not really coherent reply sorry

vil is one of the only characters in game that treats yuu with respect, and as an equal.

EXACTLYLY. honestly it never ever sits right with me whenever yuu BREAKS THEIR BACK trying to help others (especially because barely anyone is doing barely anything to help them. LET THIS BITCH GO HOME!!!!) for them to just? barely acknowledge it? casually brush it off? the scene in book 3 where the tweels r like wanna help out? you can switch with these guys and ace is like YES double all of my current suffering and pass it onto them /ref all of the students complaining about losing their signature spells when yuu has NO magic at all to protect themselves with.. let’s be serious please. maybe im being a little dramatic! but thats literally my favorite character you are talking about get their name out of your mouth.

vil is literally the only other character who plays a similar role in the story.

... cause chars like trey and lilia are almost there, but distinctly different in their roles, while vil is THE mother.

THIS!! !! !!! !!!!! lillia is more of the father trope and trey is more of a big brother i’d say. they aren’t nurturing in the same way vil is. maybe it’s the ‘nagging’ slash instructing aspect of how vil interacts with people. i don’t even know how to put it into words but ur right vil is so mom. like. i dont know.. it’s probably his relationship with epel (and even the other first years?) that makes me associate him with being motherly but he’s just so. nurturing. so many moms in the media that i’ve (recently) consumed were teaching their daughters to be quiet and respectful as to not get punished/essentially outcasted socially. of course that’s not really what vil is doing with epel but. ugh. read my mind!!! ull understand then trust. the ONLY other character that sorta makes me feel the same way is jamil. illove him so dearly but i know. little to nothing major about his character aside from his relationship with kalim. yuu and grim. vil and epel. jamil and kalim. they should start a we dont get paid (enough) for this bullshit club

honestly i dont even want to project myself onto yuu i wanna be a helpful roomate or somthinf. wtf 😭 my hungry aggressive ass could NOT be yuu /ref..

rhats all i can put into words rigth now . evene though i got sidetracked a lot.. !! bht th part abojt yuu being motherly ! ialso wanted to reply to. wowww thats a lot of typos sorry my eyesight is a tad blurry 😭

AHHGGGGG ANON

"double all of my current suffering and pass it onto them" LMAOOOO 😭😭😭

I am such a yuu defender idc. LEAVE THEM ALONE!!!! it's why rollo is still such a fave of mine, he's like one of the only sane people. looks at yuu and is like jesus christ are you fucking okay.

and yes literally vil is just. I think the big difference is that he actually kinda likes being in charge? more so than yuu. he's a natural leader while they were literally manipulated and blackmailed into their position (I WILL SAY THAT I do think vil feels pressured to be a leader because of how he was outcasted/made out to seem mean and scary by his peers so he just kinda Filled That Role... but also I definitely do not see him as someone who'd enjoy following rather than leading. his own character VERY MUCH parallels yuu's in so many ways)

jamil is definitely different tho. he was also forced into his position as a caretaker but he doesn't have a parental vibe to him. tbh I couldn't tell u what it is but he's got his own thing going on (and he DOES parallel yuu in a way, I wish he was closer to them because there's potential but he's really Not)

BUT YEAH I get you. I feel like this is a weird thing to say but yuu feels like their own character to me 😭 like I have my own yuusona but yuu themselves is a little guy to me

[dzvelinaskebiyars]

(Cont This is the last one I promise)

Honestly i think the more he starts to realize how much he genuinely loves/depends on you the more kinda unhinged he gets. Yes hes happy that finally he can have someone to call his own but at the same time, where were you. Where were you 5 years ago, 10 years ago. Why did it take him so long to find this happiness that he so desperately longed for. How dare you come to him now. When he is this.

Eventually i think the relationship would hit a breaking point where either izana is able to come to terms with the fact that you wont leave him like his mom did or he'll be stuck pushing you away yet at the same time desperately clinging to you. For the bad end, if you werent already privy to his gang activities hed probaby drag you into them so you couldnt escape/become more dependent on him. Or if you were hed betray you to save his own heart. It wouldnt be the first time hes done it. And it certainly wouldnt be the last. Or he could just ghost you and you never hear from him again. The name Izana kurokawa becoming nothing but an open ended word for what could have been. But, maybe, just maybe, in the timeline where he makes it to 2018. Maybe you guys could spend your days taking care of fish and watering plants together.

Sorry this was so long, I just recently finished the series and I'm hooked.

GIRLIE WHAT SERIES. TELL ME THE NAME ASAP. You wrote three huge paragraphs and I got so excited fdcscbcczxd I NEED that series too.

Tho I agree. Relationship with Izana would be toxic and you wrote fair reasons why. I genuinely think it'd be better if you (reader) wouldn't know about his gang activities because that way, it'd take less time to get him trust you even just a bit. Because gangsters most of the time have ulterior motives, especially with leaders. But still, it's hard for him to simply put his trust in you after everything he has been gone through so it might even take years of "friendship" to be his lover. Plus he'd have hard time recognising that he's in love. Like why does he feels like that around you? Why is his stomach doing that weird thing when he sees you? Why can't he just stop staring at you? Why are you always his thoughts? He'd be very confused at first and that'd be reason why he would push you away. Because he's confused and kind of....Nervous? But then he'd be the one who'd cling to you after that, going back to how you two used to be and etc. That would also scare him off slightly but soon or later he'd realise that he's in love with you. But he wouldn't take that very well because he doesn't even know what love is and he genuinely doesn't want to get hurt again. So, he'd ghost you lot but he'd also the be first running to your embrace. It's like hot and cold, yk. He really needs to heal from his trauma, otherwise relationship would be very toxic. In the future, I can see things working out better.

[justakennyoshi]

hcs of bunnyman or the Hamburger trio (just made up by me, Kenny is the bread, Cartman is the meat and Butters is the cheese plus one of Butters catchphrase is 'Oh hamburgers')

Cartman, Kenny and Butters would eventually hang out more and become some sort of trio and their dynamic would be smth like this:

- Cartman is the brat who comes up with their plans, obviously always giving bad ideas to what to do. He's the 'leader' of the trio

- Kenny is the good to go guy, he'd be down to Cartman schemes for different reasons, sometimes he's just bored, other times bc he's also into it (probably the times it has to do with chicks), another times bc he simply wants to play with his besties but other times because he's aware of how dangerous Cartman ideas are so he wants to keep an eye of him and Butters

- Butters is not exactly fond of Cartman ideas, but what else could he do? Saying no to the only times he gets to play with his best friends? (yes bunny besties bc I say so) Hell no. Plus sometimes he's even curious of some schemes as well, he may be a well behaved boy but curiosity gets the best of everyone. He's not an angel super innocent, he's naughty as well c:

- Kenny has died more than once protecting Butters (who'd be always the victim for Cartman schemes) or getting them out of trouble (the shock of a dead kid always works) unknownwinglly to Butters and for Cartman there's a silent agreement about this, Cartman is ass enough to imply Kenny should kill himself to get them out of whatever situation they're in (Butters getting worried and concerned about those two friendship) but Kenny is who makes the final decision. Cartman never killed Kenny, he's aware but he'd be traumatized to kill his best friend even if he comes back

- Kenny has the role of the ultimate mediator, before he joined Cartman and Butters activities, even if Butters said he was having fun, he was being victim of Cartman schemes more than hanging out. Once Kenny joined their activities Cartman didn't really stop with using Butters as the perfect sacrifice, but Kenny had a saying in this if it was too much, so in a sense Cartman and Butters toxic relationship mellowed down

- Butters is the happy charm of the trio. Cartman and Kenny will discuss sometimes (not having Kyle to take this role and spit facts about Cartman's nonsense, because if no one says anything back to Cartman, he will simply get away). Butters would put a stop to their fights, sometimes even humilliating himself (like 'but you guys are awesome while old me is' you get the idea) not good for Kenny's conscience. Tho this is in the most extreme cases, usually a simple detour of the topic will work. Even to Cartman, Butters manages to get them a smile from his silly moments, jokes or even mistakes.

- Also Butters is who's in charge of the money and investments, Kenny is too broke and Cartman is Cartman. He usually gets his money back tho

- Even if Butters is the sacrifice, sometimes even he had enough of Cartman's bs. He'd call him 'Cartman' and not Eric, and yup thats when the latter knows he fucked up. Kenny simply dissapears and watches in amusement what Butters will do to Cartman, never helping him LMAO

That's all for the platonic interactions now let's talk about bunny + cartman -- aged up to hs

- I've always loved the idea of cupid Cartman for his friends and I think that he had complicated feelings towards the obvious implication that Butters and Kenny liked each other. At first he was mad because he's a possesive guy so he wanted Butters and Kenny for himself (no homo, but like Butters is his victim friend and Kenny is his best friend tho he's also a bitch to him too lol). Later on he'd accept it tho and later on, he'd get into the idea of being WHO paired them up (something like a privilege to brag about). So cupid Cartman on the case lmao, he'd mostly fail tho. Kenny is aware of Cartman's intentions and while he's embarassed for the help, he also find him annoying as hell. Butters is unaware of cupid Cartman

- This romantic thing is not obvious for the other students because no one really wants to interact with them (problematic guys) so why caring about stupid matters, besides a few exceptions like Stan, Kyle, Dougie and Tweek (sucker for Butters and Tweek's friendship you cant fix me)

- Cartman would leave them alone on purpose sometimes. His best (worst) scheme was trapping them in the gym prop room for a whole day (he left them snacks and condoms, no they didn't have sex Cartman)

- When they got together, even if they didn't really like it, they know Cartman kinda helped to get them to the point they were. Is not like their trio drifted away, they still hang out and now Cartman makes jokes about them (e.g. "omg can you f*gs make out later?? We have shit to focus rn") its not Cartman if he doesn't use slurs, much to the dislikeness of Butters and Kenny (and mine)

–Is 5 am why am i cooking

[soldier-of-mayhem]

Legion HCs - Julie Kostenko

- 22 years old

- Slavic roots

- grey eye colour, blonde hair

- has a piercing in her tongue and barbed heart tattoo on lower back

- dating Frank Morrison

- due to her being a single child in quite wealthy family who'd give her basically anything she'd ask for, it sometimes reflects on how stubborn and bitchy she is if she really wants something.

- has issues with jealousy, sometimes taking things a bit too far because of it. She'd never kill anyone because of it tho, just go as far as to threaten with few non-lethal injuries.

- dangerously smart and constantly plotting something, whenever it's something harmless or another mischief rundown for the Legion.

- read through a lot of criminology, not really to see why people did it, but how they did it. Soon started to have some murderous thoughts herself but kept denying she'd actually ever want to truly kill anyone.

- saw possibly every single slasher film that exists.

- artistically expresses herself through drawings.

- knows how to drive, however going with her is a heart attack hazard. No matter how much she ensures you everything is fine, single ride will leave you traumatized. She speeds to places immensely.

- a fucking arsonist.

- even tho Frank is the supposed leader of the Legion, Julie is mostly the one coming up with ideas and being the brain behind most of their shittery.

- after Legion started doing murders as well, a lot of them were just to impress Frank in contrary to gaining pure enjoyment out of killing during trials.

- the Legion most likely wouldn't even exist if it wasn't for her putting the group together.

- when comes to trials it's almost like as if she was a completely different person, sometimes going as far that it even pulls the more brutal killers into shame. Nobody knows if it's something with Entity's influence or just her letting violent cravings out.

- might be the only one actually enjoying getting dragged to Entity's realm, it's little boredom outlet.

- once got her hands on Caleb's gun, the Redeemer, and had too much fun using it. The situation got bad to the point Entity had to interfere.

- she never takes her mask off in the Entity realm, it's almost like as if her face was completely fused to it. To the emotionless, terrifying husk of a face.

[ohwell-itsme-but-danganronpa]

Danganronpa if it worked like Stick of Truth

Apollo: South Park au! Clown: OMG it's like a small town au but INSANE Apollo: It's just a chaotic mess Clown: It really would One direction it could could be it's just danganronpa, but they're kids now, but also half of canon "game" is just them making things up Like play pretend! But the bears real Apollo: Who'd be who? I think Shuichi might be Kyle or Stan lmao. Maki might be Craig Oooo like stick of truth style? Clown: Yeah!! Exactly!! Also hmm, Kenny's Miu! Because that's funny Kiibo is butters Cause he gets bullied all the time I do not wanna make kokichi cartman I will cry aksbdkdh I wanna say shuichi could be Stan because of the depression lmao Junko can be cartman/hj If shuichis Stan would that make ouma wendy???

Apollo: Oh god does this mean he gets puked on? Clown: I FORGOR ABOUT THAT OH NOOOO Shuichi feels butterflies in his tummy and thinks he may be dying Danganronpa being a game all the local kids play is just, really fun. Like how in stick of truth they had the main classes and their leaders. They can have something similiar! (Am I saying this so ouma can keep child version of dice?? Yeah) There's a despair and hope side run by junko and Makoto respectively, maybe Tho I don't know what the goal of the game would be? Also hajime going "I have every skill actually" is so funny

Apollo: Probably who can out do each other in dramatics. It'd probably be a murder mystery probably where Junko pulls random people aside and assigns them killer and victim and they have to kill/die in a certain timeframe. Junko would help organize the clues and stuff and they'd hold the trials after. Also, imagine if Izuru was Hajime's twin who's like a prodigy or whatever but didn't want to play so Hajime just went I'll be talented enough for the both of us! Clown: Ouma dramatic recreation of his very serious death in the middle of the street gets interrupted by a car driving by so they scramble to wait on the sidewalk before returning to wailing dramatically Apollo: He finds fake blood and covers himself in it before putting like a bit of metal or something over himself but hears a honk and just throws the metal off and rushes to the side of the road, 'bleeding out' The town is so used to their antics that they don't even blink at the sight of Kokichi covered in blood Clown: Kaitos pulling him along like "go! Gogogogo!!" Shuichi's uncle is letting them use his garage as Shuichi's "ultimate lab" The adults are lowkey invested in the story line ajdvskbdk

Apollo: DICE gets in with planning deaths and stuff because they find it hilarious to watch everyone pretending to be dead/executed. They eventually get banned after everyone realised that Kokichi might be getting clues from them as to who the killer is "How am I meant to be the Ultimate Supreme Leader if you've banned my gang??? " Clown: Ouma keeps complaining saying it was totally fair because one of his skills is sleuthing. So of course he needed info!! "Fine!! They're in JAIL actually!! The reason so many of hajimes classmates survived is because he kept finding "revives" (a bear shaped cookie, or something) and just passed them out to his class He ran out before he could give one to chiaki… Apollo: Yes! Loser is finding all the boosts and is just handing them out Rip Chiaki Kokichi sulks for awhile until one of DICE tell him to grow up and cause hell for them 'Chapter 4.3' freaked everyone out because none of them expected Gonta and Kokichi to team up and kill Miu

Clown: YEAAHH, shuichis frantically flipping through the "rulebook" a spiral notebook junko gave them. "Is this allowed?? Is this allowed???" Their parents are watching from the kitchen window as they witness ouma and gonta put on the act of their goddamn toddler lives Apollo: They're so proud Shuichi panicked and told Kokichi he'd be alone after the trial and started apologizing almost in tears afterwards Clown: Kokichi was holding back his own tear tbh lmao Apollo: Shuichi was just panicking and wanted to seem cool by playing along with everyone. The second it was done, he run after Kokichi to apologize and tell him he didn't mean it Clown: Ouma sniffling and going "we're enemies right now." Meanwhile shuichis just [crying cat emoji] Apollo: DICE is not pleased but allow him to continue playing. Shuichi almost has a breakdown at Kokichi's death because he briefly forgets how dramatic the guy is and thought he went over the top with his death because of what he said Clown: THE CHILDHOOD ANGST His depressive episode when kaito was kidnapped?? That's him sniveling and going "I dont wanna play anymore" while everyone tries to convince him to keep going

Apollo: Kokichi huffs and gives Kaito his phone so he and Shuichi can talk when it's dark. Kaito isn't that shocked to see that Kokichi's room is an utter mess. He is a bit confused and possibly lowkey concerned when he sees the 'evidence' he's hoarded Clown: He's really going all out for the game akshdjhd His "lab" where shuichi finds evidence of previous killing games is a tent in his backyard OMG he's dramatically writing his "this is not a will" note with kaito behind him as he gets really into character Apollo: Kaito is concerned ™ with how in character Kokichi can be but at the same time is slightly jealous in awe because he wants to be like that. Sure he can play into the whole hero thing but the flu is making it hard to keep in character. Kokichi was the one to convince him to use it for the game. Mikan isn't happy because Kaito needs rest to recover quickly but here he is, working out each night before his grandparents call him home and fighting Kokichi He gave his grandparents puppy dog eyes and they let him play as long as he doesn't overdo it Clown: He didn't wanna miss out on the game!! His goatee is a piece of paper he taped to his chin To look "cooler" Apollo: Kokichi keeps trying to steal it as a 'joke', saying he can just draw one for you! Kaito naturally does not trust him Clown: Oumas trying to sharpie his face man They have a sleepover for chapter 5 and he finally succeeds Apollo: The real reason Kaito agreed to kill him /hj

[Clown went to sleep after that, and it's precisely when I bust in with my character assignments, so late it's no longer fashionable & I don't even have a coffee]

Me: Maki Craig, Miu Tweek would make so much sense actually, both how they used to fight all the time & the later relationship, Shuichi would be Stan for sure, Kokichi can be Kyle [haruruma was an attempt at Kai bait ngl] [about Kiibo as Butters] that I can wholeheartedly agree with no, Wendy is Kaede, duh okay, I am beginning to see the Junko Cartman, but for it to be really him, there needs to me more cringefail element, so I suggest Tsumugi, she has way more delulu [this is probably the only instance I used that word and I won't do it again, but also. I did use that because a character like Cartman can be genuinely delusional, like when it seemed he was just trying to take credit for the gay fish joke, until near the end of the episode when it becomes clear he believes his version of the story & is willing to die for it, it's just one of many examples when he just convinces himself of something so strongly, so I do not mean it lightheartedly] energy and that's a requirement here, we're talking about the most disturbed child on the playground Rantaro should be the french? guy that pisses of Stan because he's close to Wendy Kenny Ryoma would work, he's a tortured soul (I would consider Kenny Kokichi but I don't want to) Kaito really doesn't fit anyone, maybe he could be Clyde? (but honestly that gang would be hard to assign anyone)

Chee: theyre both fucking crying like kids do I can see it in my head, Shu apologizing and Ko just keeps repeating that theyre enemies (hes like half messing w him too) WHSHHS THE FLU IN PLACE OF HIS DISEASE IM FUCKING CRYING I LOVE THIS SO SO MUCH, Kokichi in this au reminds me of how Mysterion takes his superhero act so seriously imagine if Izuru who doesnt wanna join is the one watching out for the cars for them, he had a little chair and calls out to the others when a car comes by also Junko starting this whole huge game probably bc shes bored sounds funny

Apollo: He just has a megaphone and yells in the most bored voice I love Mysterion so much and I can see Kokichi acting sorta like him "Move or not. I don't care if you get squished for real."

Chee: I honestly just want Ko, Shu & Kaede to be Style & Wendy bc theyre my fav trios WHSHHS BUT HONESTLY KOKICHI KENNY IS COOL BUT HMM do we gotta assign them kids ? :0 Me: you know I said Kyle Kokichi for Style reasons what if I said Pip & Damien Kirumaki? Maki is a good fit for Damien, Pip is Pip [maybe it'd be better to pick a due from a different class tho, idk which assignment is better for Maki] the way main cast treats Pip would have to be adjusted but it's not like there's a better fit for Kirumi amongst those children Angie could be that girl that turned out to be a living ad

Clown: LESLIE??? Omg I love that Cartman tsumugi and Kyle kokichi at each other's throats for real

[yoki-loves-stars]

i heard the words techno centric au 👀 i'm listening

the moment which i desired but was never prepared to face came...

this is very messy but...

an AU where Tech is immortal and every now and then he meets the same 3(4 if you count Kristin) people. They all look the same, have the same names, act the same, treat him the same, but have different stories, perceive him differently and most importantly don't remember him.

there is also no way for him to find them. He watches them die and tries to look for them as time passes, but he never can find them. They are always the ones to find him first no matter what he does. So he just has to wait no matter how hopeless it is.

First he met Phil. For Phil he was a son, a comrade, a follower, a friend. He taught Techno a lot and gave him the ideals to live with and to stand for. Phil was the only one who Techno once told about his immortality, about Phil's past lives. The lives of him being a warrior, a leader, an artist, an architect, a loving father and an angel of death. All these lives he had a soulmate, Kristin, and sometimes Techno wondered if she's also immortal, but never asked.

He met Wilbur then. Wilbur was a brother, a leader, a friend, a musician, a traveler. Tech liked to change his story just to see how would it change Wilbur. Sometimes he liked to play an older brother role, sometimes they were twins, sometimes he was younger, sometimes he was just a friend of Phil's, but Wilbur always treated him with the same taunting smile even though Will himself always was changing.

He spend time with these two the most. If he could he would give his life for them, but he couldn't, so instead he would give them the world, slaughter anyone who'd stand on their way, that he could do.

He met Theseus last and didn't think of him much. He thought that this child was yet another mortal and was quite surprised to see him once again as time passed. He was already so used to Phil and Will and now he had to put up with someone new, understand their habits, understand them. Tommy had the most serious roles for the most unserious person to ever exist. But he did treat Techno with a huge amount of respect.

the AU doesn't focus on SBI that much thought, but on Techno's life without them. Slowly he realises that he doesn't really understand who he is as a person. He's been the blood god, a soldier, a warrior, a prince, a leader, a follower, a brother, a son, a friend. But in between that? Before Phil found him centuries ago? He was nobody. His life came to constant waiting.

(Another thing to mention is that as immortal he doesn't really change visually either. He looks like a young adult, people usually think he's in his 20s.)

So he decides to try and become someone. He travels, learns to farm, to cook, craft, (there are things taht he could do already but they weren't a choice but a necessity during wars) write, study. He finally settles down and find a place for himself. He learns how to handle grieve, trauma, loneliness, old habits, voices and his own emotions.

During that time he encountered other people too. Some became his friends, followers and students, some became his enemies. Also Floof is here :D

And then his soulmates find him once again

i apologize for the rambles. I also apologize if this post has an unbearable amount of mistakes I started writing it at 1am

ill see if i have any art of this AU but i probably don't...

i always can make more tho😼

tech is one of my comfort characters ever (i also want to add that he's anything but cold here. he's always laughing and taunting and joking)

[stormlit]

sabria "rook" mercar, shadow dragon mage. a spellblade with a natural aptitude for lightning and storm magic. she grew up by the sea, feels a kinship with it, and almost like she's channelling its storms and currents when she casts. sabria likes to masquerade as a rogue with her dagger on her belt and no staff in sight; magisters and tevinter slavers tend to underestimate non-mages and it means she can get right up close before unleashing her magic on them. mages, ranged AOE fighters? not sabria. she's right there in it, and she's direct.

sabria is elf-blooded and therefore small for a human, born to an elf slave who was freed when sabria was small. they lived with other liberati for a while, but when she was found wandering the streets of minrathous as a child, all she would say was that her mama was gone, and she was alone. and then she did not speak again for months. even now, if she's upset or frankly traumatised, she has a tendency to go completely silent. it was a shadow dragon who found her, assumed some connection to slavery, and got her placed with a couple who'd wanted children but could not have them. while not part of the organisation themselves, sabria's adoptive parents were at least somewhat sympathetic to the cause, and her adoptive father, in tevinter's navy, would turn a blind eye to ships rescuing slaves and smuggling them out of the imperium. but that has always been too passive, for rook, it has never felt like enough; she joined the shadow dragons as soon as she could, needing to do something concrete.

she does not consider herself a leader, but someone who does the right thing, even if it goes against the elite or the rules or her orders. she's a little prickly on the outside, a little stormy, but she's been through a lot and is protecting the soft heart she has. she's got a dry wit and deadpan sense of humour, and is very much about acts of service for those she cares about. loves music and plays the lute? there are lutes in thedas right? tho she doesn't advertise that, or that she loves nature. she knows how to survive, is very much street smarts, can pick locks as well as any rogue. while she can call lightning from the skies or start fires with her hands, she can also send little jolts through touch — another thing that happens inadvertently when she's upset — but also maybe be a human defibrillator z.oya n.azyalensky style.

this is so much rambling for a character i won't get to properly meet for a month but here we are she is living rent free in my head and yet i'm sure i'll look back on this post and laugh bc none of it holds true once i've started playing.

[just-jae]

Voltron LD Creative rerwrite

Okay, here we go.

Imma start with some superficial stuff:

All the main characters are adults (ranging 20-45). Tallest to shortest: Hunk and Keith are a close tie, Lance, Allura, Coran, Shiro, Pidge.

Oldest to youngest (ignoring Altean aging and the whole 10000 yr sleep) : Coran, Shiro, Allura, Pidge, Lance, Hunk, Keith

Allura's hair is more of a amber blonde. It's got like a slight rainbow effect (if that's what that's called) but just warm colors.

Alright less superficial stuff.

Keith's mom had a more outgoing and fun personality,. A lot more laid back and adventurous, but also verocious in battle. She can be passionate about what's right and wrong and what's nessecary. Leaving behind Keith wasn't just a testament to her dedication to to the Marmoran cause, but also to how much she trusted Keith's da with her bean

. Keith's dad was an actual cowboy (took care of cattle and the like) and liked to do funky cowboy dances. Maybe a volunteer firefighter though?

Keith also likes to do funky cowboy dances… when no one’s watching.

Keith had a crush on a neighbor who'd come to dance at their ho-down parties, but yaboi shy af tho so they never actually dated. His dad definitely teased him about his "boyfriend".

After Keith's dad's death, Keith became something of a workaholic, pouring himself into training and school, but was socially and emotionally shut down. He never really properly mourned, and had a hard time with intrusive thoughts whenever he was on the ranch, so he left it completely for the Garrison.

Allura and Coran aren't the last Alteans, the remaining ones are scattered throughout the universe just like the Galra (I mean, that was the whole point of destroying Altea-- to get revenge. So the Altaens dont have a homeworld just like like the Galrans, but the goal was never to wipe them out--- also why would they assume every Altean was on Altea. C'mon.

The Galra were originally very war like. It was their technological advancemencents that the Altaens adapted for more altruistic science. The Galra specialize in weapons and battle ships and communications while the Altaens had tech catered more toward medicine, bioengineering, and observation (telescopes, scanners, etc) But had a culture more deeply rooted in magic and mystic arts. Magic was how they initially came into contact.

Daibazaal had nightmare creatures, Altea had nightmare weather.

Zarkon was a Paladin a bit ironically. The Galra were very confrontational and defensive, often escalating conflicts amongst eachother or other planets into full out war, to the point that they were often seen more as predacious creatures than sentient beings.

Altea was one of the first planets to make peace with Daibazaal and, in-short, begin rehabilitating their image as bloodthirsty monsters, by sharing their diplomatic skills with them. This gave rise to leaders like Zarkon, whom could be very passionate and fierce if e felt threatened, but had the patience to observe and investigate a situation and indeed forged a reputation of robust reliability. Zarkon was a great leader, but was always controlling and power hungry,however those traits were used in healthier ways. Before then, those vices were more or less thoughts in the back of his head. Altea and Daibazaal worked together to forge Voltron, but at the time they were both fairly homogenous peoples (not very diverse in their personalities or mindsets) and so members of other species ended up as the other three paladins. The first Green and Blue paladins were both from the Dalterion belt, with Yellow actually being a wanderer alien of no particular planet (was mixed species too cause scifi).

The Fallout happened because of Altean witches being shady on multiple accounts and a domino effect leading to the death of a paladin. Broken trust, grief, and anger-- along with Altens generally tending to deny or trivialize the existence and influence of witches... or any bad thing in general-- escaelated social problems amongst their respective planets, opening old wounds until the destruction of Daibazaal, turns the Galra on the Alteans.

At first the Black Lion willingly participates, not only sharing the pain and distrust, but also being more nieve influenciable, like a child basically, but eventually it becomes conflicted by the killing and Zarkon's blind rage, and indulgence in his controlling tendencies, still emotionally attached, it rejects Zarkon and allows itself to be locked away, not even trusting itself to choose a good paladin to replace Zarkon.

Then history happens and--

Okay so Lance is indeed a sharp shooter. His whole theme is precision and perfection. He's accurate with just about any weapon, and is phenomenal in tight spaces and dynamic, high-speed settings. Personality wise e tends to be impulsive and impatient, nit picky, vain, and superficial, quick to make other's deviations from an "ideal" out to be a flaw to fix. He starts out really annoying at first but he means well, he's just misguided about image and what-not. Also Lance is the cooky, foody one and a snob about it.

Hunk IS AN ENGINEER, and mechanics/physics expert. He's very attentive to the conditions of things, particularly when it comes to problems, and is good at telling real problems from inperfections. He's a good listener who tends to other's internal turmoils and helps the team mesh together by supporting everyone and tending to their needs. Sometimes this can be a bit onesided as Hunk may sometimes feel he has to be strong and invulnerable for everyone else, becoming burned out or neglecting his own care.

Allura grapples with the fact that Altea's allies turned on them and wiped out everything she knew in a blink. I imagine she's got some trust issues and at first is particularly sensitive to infighting. From her perspective the Galra were either lying the entire time or the very idea of an alliance was fragile to begin with. The fact that it seems the entirety of the Galra went along with wiping out her people and then turning on the rest of the universe muddied her optimism and makes her more wary and hesitant to give the benefit of the doubt.

However, these are more subconsious fears that effect her knee-jerk reaction to things. The other paladins, starting out rough to begin with, and being prone to inner conflicts, help Allura to remember how strong and reliable forged bonds can be. She ends up investigating more of Altean and Galran history to try to make sense of what happened to cause the trust formed between them to collapse.

Shiro's backstory is much like the original.... EXCEPT there's no clone shinanigans. Shiro was absorbed into the black Lion and then revived- unlocking the ability to astral project and teleport.

At first, the Black Lion doesn't accept ANYONE, as the new Paladin, as it's too busy dealing with Shiro's soul or whatever. It's basically a scifi fantasy withdrawal/shutdown as he started to reflect on the fact that defeating Zarkon wouldn't end the imperialism of the Galra empire-- it seems like an impossibly endless feat. So the team has to learn to function without a head to Voltron. This is when Allura really steps up to be more involved on the front lines. She ends up spending alot of time with the black lion, empathizing with it, while also mourning Shiro, and she confides in it, especially given that they were both stuck in the castle for 10k yrs just to jump into a universal war.

So- yeah, eventually, Allura becomes the Black Paladin.

Allura is the one who realizes Shiro is IN the black lion, and works on learning some kind of magic finger flittering to revive him.

After Zarkon's defeat, the team start to see more Galra opposing the Empire, not through flat out fighting it, but basically by under-the-table acts like voting against certain moves, conveiniently failing missions, Becoming secret allies to previously conquered planets (especially if they're on the outskirts of the empire and barely get looked at-- especially as generations pass.

Passive aggression. That's what it is. "Fuck imperialism, but also we were born on this conquered planet and the Empire is still pretty brutal, so. :,/"

The Blade of Marmora are considered a suicide squad and necessary evil for opposing the empire on such an intimate level as they often participate in war acts to maintain their cover, but have been vital in weakening the empire from the inside and gaining intelligence through their many moles. The Blade is part of the reason the Galra haven't advanced even further than they have, haven't found the lions, or Altaens and are only just now developing their super juice. It looks like they haven't done much but they have, especially for an organization that only started forming after the twisted intentions of Galra imperialism became apparent.

Shay joins Hunk and helps maintain the castle ship as a mechanic. She also journals to practice writing and reading. She ends up creating her own little scripts bc she finds them easier to use. It takes some time to teach her the ropes, but she helps out however she can. Gets a bad case of homesickness after a few weeks, but, you know who doesn't. Occasionally she goes back home.

Pidge was always a tomboy :'D So infiltrating the Garrison was more a matter of looking like a different person than a different gender :V. Just makes more sense to me that that would work better than just cutting ones hair and wearing a short and pants instead of a dress.

Mat died for real. Idk, I feel like the show made a big mistake punching me the gut and then going "haha just a prank bro". NOPE. Its my headcanon now. Mat's gonna stay in the ground and enjoy the tears I shed.

Maybe Pidge looks into it, in denial at first, and uncovers some journals or records about Mat that confirmed he was dead but also leads Voltron to new allies. I thought it was a nice touch to show the mortality of rebels, and why more people aren't opposing the Galra.

Prince Lotor gets a complete makeover, He looks a lot more like his dad, and is a bit of a mess. Like in the original, he goes through much the same arc, except he's not this brittish mastermind, he's still really smart, but he's a mess...a lot like Keith, and relatively young, like, younger than Keith (20), so like, 18-19 ish in galran ages. Imagine OG Lotor and LD Keith fused.

UUUMM...

Sendak and Haxus, and Throk. They do more. Like, seriously, they were good villains'. They still get taken out, but its more than just, Haxus falling, Keith just surprise attacking, and... idek what happened to Throk.. did he even die? *does research*

Throk goes rogue, full chaotic evil.

Some shipping stuff since its crossing my mind:

Shiro/Allura, they're literally mom and dad.

Hunk and Shay, are literally sweethearts, I think I'd love for them to be platonic friends too. Either works. Like, c'mon they adore eachother. Beasties frfr.

Like I said before, Keith/hometown cowboy crush. Keith feeling like he's already thrown es life away (the life he had on the ranch with his friends and whatnot) is something that makes him progressively more angsty. He becomes a high-functioning angster, longing for the life e had before the Garrison, but always being more afraid of the pain of all those emotions than the feeling of being alone or afloat.

When thy go back to earth Hometown Crush has also joined the Garrison, but as Casualty Control. I initially chose casualty control just bc I felt it was a pretty cool but overlooked specialty--- but for those who know what it is, it ironically also implies certain things about his and Keith's relationship

I'm thinking, for Lance/Pidge, he initially picks on Pidge a lot, but develops a crush on her bc "Pidge is awesome!". Its one of the first times he's actually been interested in someone for reasons other than looks or status. But, Pidge is not into Lance seeing him as a baby (even at 22) bc he's immature, and initially thinks he's only interested cus shes a girl and Allura already rejected him. She realizes later that he's being genuine, but again he's still pretty immature so it's a bit of a slow burn for them. Like literal years of work flirting- mutual work flirting.

Zarkon/Haggar, but, they weren't together before the "war". Heck, they didn't even know eachother. Haggar was practicing dark magic before and appealed her use the the Galran Empire just to save herself, and expand her reasources. Overtime, she gained a following of druids and floated up the ladder of power until she was at Zarkon's ear.

Seeing that she is the very thing that wedged the Galra and Altaens apart, they're a very ironic pair, and they're aware of this. But its been 10K years of being evil assholes, Zarkon doesn't give 2fucs about Altaens or witches anymore. And his relationship with Haggar has been marinating for a long time... and is mostly platonic... mostly.

I think Zarkon might even find it funny that the Empire is now the perfect entity for witches to thrive in.

Lotor initially is infatuated with Allura, but it's just infatuation. He does get a bit snot-nosed about it, thinking Allura couldn't see past his Galran blood and seeing it as an excuse to rip on her vices, but its a learning point for him to not have his insecurities blind him to reality. He gets over it once he accepts that Allura's disinterest isn't amanifestation of shallowness or a personal attack. She also makes him realize more about himself than the mix blood he's always ridiculed for. Allura salvages it pretty well.

Okay.. that's enough shipping stuff.

As far as endgame go. The show is very much a power of friendship theme, about building connections and mutual care. So, I guess, the endgame would be the sympathetic Galrans, the ones who HAVE learned to appreciate freedom and connections, instead of perpetuating the heirarchal chain of dominance and control, create their own web, and "join the fight" so to speak, by disrupting status Quo's left and right, and employing the empire's own robust tech and man power against it. It's like the American Revolution, but in space.

Call me a glutton for grief, but I was legit actually thinking that Earth would be destroyed just like Altea. All the signs wwere there, the Atlas being built, "Carrying the world", all the romancing about Earth and whatnot.

It seemed like they were going to put us in bith altean and Galran shoes and really make us understand what it meant to have yourworld destroyed, coming full circle. Maybe Haggar even straight up replicates the event that destroyed Daibazaal. And it just went to show not only how far removed modern Galra are from their history, but also snapshotting why it's so impactful when we see everything that we associate with ourselfes and our identity, and the place we called home, obliterated.

Or on a happier, more conclusive note, all the allies Voltron makes along the way make their defense of Earth successful, and they beome the first planet the Galran's fail to conqure, where at the end of the first season, Voltron barely made it out alive facing Zarkon alone.

[waylyngdraws]

my cunty culty monsterhearts oc

i, waylyng, have never played monsterhearts.

if you don't know what that is, i refer to the ttrpg based on all those supernatural teen romance novels; think stephene meyer, cassandra clare, all that jazz. it's a gloomy morning in the village, and you are a sexy vampire.

i made this character, however, because i wanted to be in my friend's campaign, and we each had to make an 'audition' character to see who'd take the last spot. didn't get it, but they're making a oneshot soon, so to celebrate, i'm showing you my character !

this is cassius (he/him). he's the monsterhearts skin 'queen', which, for the monsterhearts virgins among us, is like a regina george-style clique leader, whose power relies on keeping lots of loyal followers.

so, naturally, i decided by blorbo would be a cult leader.

he's been sent out from the "hub" where he grew up to tell people about the true happiness. do the popular kids not understand you? do you not understand when people talk about romance? do you feel like you belong in a skirt rather than trousers? well, you'll fit right in with Us. We will show you a True Community, and you too will feel the Love of the Thunderer.

(i chose the thunderer as the cult name of the god as a cheeky greek myth reference; bromios, the cult name for dionysus, translates as "the thunderer". i tried to find out what the cult name was for aphrodite, which is more appropriate, but like,,, they didn't slap as hard. looking back tho maybe should have chosen hestia though, for all the stuff about the hearth relating to community, and spooky death connotations. oh well. tangent over)

illustration ! religious ecstasy !

(looking back i'm not happy with the rim lighting, a bit flat lmao (like me—) and the shirt looks a bit strange. i will stop now)

here's a vignette i did as a "taster" for the character!

Who is Cassius? Don't you know?

When I say he's magnetic, don't think I just mean hypnotic — he's an obelisk, a monolith of cold, harsh metal standing far above you. You throw iron filings in the air, they fly straight to his side; such an austere exterior, why do they keep coming? It's a question they might even ask themselves.

The bell's rung, students are flocking to the cafeteria. You hear him before you see him, the hush of the surrounding voices, the rise of the mumblings that constantly follow. Cassius strides past, covered in his clique. You see the kid with piercings who transferred last week — they mustn't have fit in anywhere else. How easily they fall in.

They look so together, his swarm; all wildly different in appearance, but moving with a single mind. Like a flock of birds, they flow around him, so in tune with each other you'd call them a polycule if you didn't know better.

Through the people, you catch a glance: a wave of soft brown hair, punctuated by a shock of white. The school has no uniform, but he always wears a blazer. His nails, almost claws, a new look every week — today, they're black, dripping with molten gold. And of course, he's wearing that ever-present half-smile. You feel almost as if you could talk to him…but there's a chasm between you larger than words. You can't think what his life must be like. But still, to talk to him…how can you not try? And, trying, how could you not fall? i hope you enjoy my blorbo !! for my morally gray characters, i like taking a concept i really believe in, like community, and pushing it that extra bit too far. i hope i've accomplished that with cassius. he wants to keep you safe, he thinks he's doing the right thing, he thinks he's saving you. but. you can only be saved his way. enjoy !!

[masquerain-with-a-mask]

Anyway, i thought i'd introduce you to some of my favorite cats in my main clan SolarClan because, well, i love them dearly

We're gonna start with the alive cats with Pheasantstar ; he joined on the first moon after the clan was created and kept his original name ; Pheasant. His first apprentice was his adopted daughter Barleypaw, whom he brought back to the clan back when she was a kit, he became deputy after the previous deputy - Honeywhisker - died. He's mates with Lotusfreckle, one of my many medicine cats, and they keep adopting kits like holy shit i am drowning under kits over here. He became leader only recently after the founding leader, Squirrelstar, died

Next up is Lotusfreckle ! He's my original medicine cat, who got sick during literally my first leaf-bare, which led me to appointing another cat - whose name was Edelweissdrizzle - as medicine cat so my clan wouldn't be eradicated by greencough at the very beginning of the game. He became very close with Edelweissdrizzle, became mates with Pheasantstar despite being hated and hating pretty much the entire clan and Edelweissdrizzle's death really messed him up.

Malika ! There's not much to say about her tbh, she isn't a really important cat in the clan's lore actually, but during a patrol she put everyone back in their place and it stuck with me so now she's one of my favorites. (also you can't see it on the screenshot but i appointed her as deputy even tho she's prolly gonna retire soon)

Galestripe ! Not much to say about her either, other than her design is really fucking cool and that when she was an apprentice, she was caught by twolegs and came back two moons later while the clan was grieving, which sent her into shock. Also, her litter was the first one that was adopted by Pheasant and Lotus.

Last alive cat ; Tempestseeker ! Tempestseeker was an apprentice when SolarClan was founded, at the same time as another apprentice, Lizardpaw. They became mates after becoming warriors, but then, Lizardpaw - now Lizardrose - died, which left her distraught. Coincidentally, another cat was grieving at the same time, Newleafjump, and they became mates. They had a kit together, Fogpatch (who was named after an apprentice who died back when Tempestseeker was an apprentice) but then Newleafjump died soon after too, after disappearing at the same time Edelweissdrizzle did.

And we're moving onto the dead cats ! Starting off with Edelweissdrizzle, who's probably my absolute favorite so far. So, Edelweissdrizzle became a medicine cat while Lotusfreckle was sick and he spent pretty much his entire life grieving cats who died under his care. It started with the death of his mate, Hemlocktail, and was then quickly followed with the death of Honeywhisker, Hawksnout and Beamfreckle. He went missing at the same time Newleafjump did while he was grieving and found dead. I love him because after each death, his reactions to the death became more and more whitsdran, to the point where he would push away the cats who'd try to comfort him.

Next up is Newleafjump ! Newleafjump was found during leaf-bare by Squirrelstar and Honeywhisker who adopted him despite not being mates at the time, this lead them to become mates later on. He's cute, he loved his wife, he loved his mom, he loved his dad and he loved his dad's boyfriends.

Beamfreckle ! She was SolarClan's second deputy before she retired and started off as an arrogant cat before becoming charismatic. She saved quite a few patrols from close calls due to her fighting skills and became mates with Squirrelstar towards the end of her life after Hemlocktail - who was her mate - died.

Hawksnout ! He's cute ! He loves his wife (Squirrelstar) ! He loves his husbands too ! That's it, that's all I have to say I was so sad when he died!!!!!

And finally, Honeywhisker ! This man started the first polycule of SolarClan, he loved his wife and husbands and adopted kits with pretty much all of them, was a great deputy and i was SO DAMN SAD when he died

[steveinscarlet]

Presenting for your consideration a gig review and interview with Joe and Steve from 1980. This is the article referenced in the infamous 'Wayne' Rockline interview.

A few points before we begin:

I said it was long!

Apologies that I can't do proper scans - tho given this is 40 yr old newsprint, I don't think that would help much!

Interesting decision to give a cover and centre spread to a band you don't like just so you can be mean to them

The journalist has decided to write all the interview answers in a representation of the Yorkshire accent, because apparently northern accents are hilarious, which makes it kinda hard to read

I can totally see why the band got pissed off with the British music press!

This is 1980 so standard warning that language is used that would have been commonplace at the time but is unacceptable now - I cut one paragraph out of the text version because Joe uses a slur a bunch of times and I just didn't want to have that on my blog. You can still squint at the image if you want to read the full thing. (No Joe-hate, he's just talking the way working class blokes did at the time, there's no malice behind it)

The new Lords of Denim

His ears bleeding from white noise and thick northern accents, Allen Jones debates heavy metal and other apocalypses with Def Leppard, leaders of the HM new wave.

"We're the Dooleys wi' goolies," says guitarist Steve Clark.

Their first rehearsal studio was in an old building near the Sheffield United football ground. A single room, it cost them a fiver a week to rent.

After work on Friday, they'd go down there and rehearse, often until 4am. There were four of them. Pete Willis played guitar. He knew Rick Savage who played bass. There were several drummers in those early months. Then Rick Allen joined. Pete and Sav were 17, Rick was 15. Joe Elliott had never sung in a band before, although he played a little guitar and had depped as a drummer in a local rock 'n' roll band. They told him that he looked the part. He was tall and brawny, with a shock of curly blond hair: an identikit heavy metal frontman, really. They were persuasive. He joined them in October, 1977.

They plundered Thin Lizzy and Bowie albums for songs for their early repertoire, playing "Jailbreak", "Rosalie" and "Suffragette City". They began writing their own songs, too. "Sorrow Is A Woman", which they still play, was written then, though it was called "Misty Dreamer" in those days. Joe wrote the lyrics. Pete and Sav handled the riffs.

There was another song called "War Child". Their faces twist with embarrassment now when they recall "War Child". They dismiss it quickly as being derivative of Black Sabbath. "An 'orrible fookin' mess, it were," Joe Elliott cries, his accent as thick as a girder of Sheffield steel.

They introduced "Emerald" to their repertoire when Steve Clark joined and they realised that he and Pete Willis could duplicate Thin Lizzy's guitar harmonies. Steve met Pete at the local college of further education. They were both attending the same day-release class. Steve saw Pete reading a guitar manual and realised they had a mutual interest. They met again at a Judas Priest concert at Sheffield City Hall and started talking guitars. Pete invited Steve to a rehearsal. Steve was impressed. He was invited to join the group. He accepted.

They called themselves Def Leppard. Their intention was local fun rather than international success; at first they nursed no grand ambition. They debuted in July, 1978, at Westfield school in Sheffield. They say they were dreadful, but copped the promoter for five quid, anyway.

They were not satisfied rehearsing four hours a night, five nights a week; they'd spend weekend afternoons developing and refining their heavy metal assault, their armoury of bone-crunching riffs. And their local reputation grew into a northern cult.

Impressed by the enterprise of young punk bands who'd financed their own recordings, they saved and scrounged enough money to go into Fairview Studios in Hull, where they cut a three-track EP of their own songs. They released it on their own label, Bludgeon Riffola; "Ride Into The Sun", "Overture" and "Getcha Rocks Off". Those who know about such things will tell you that "Getcha Rocks Off" is destined to be remembered as a classic heavy metal performance.

They found an enthusiastic supporter in Andy Peebles, the Radio 1 deejay. Even John Peel played the record. HM aficionados in the music press began to shower them with adulatory notices. People were beginning to talk about them as one of the leading bands in the new wave of heavy metal, future threats to the supremacy of UFO, the Scorpions and Judas Priest.

Then, last summer, Phonogram released a single, "Wasted", a blustery performance marred by an indifferent production. Phonogram placed them as support on two prestigious tours: first with the American hard rock singer, Sammy Hagar, then with AC/DC. They estimate that they played to over 40,000 people on those tours.

Their impact must have been considerable. In this paper's reader's poll in November, they were voted into fourth place in the "Brightest Hope" category. In the same category in the NME's readers' poll they were voted into sixth place, above more fashionable contenders like the Undertones, the Pretenders, the Gang of Four, Secret Affair and the Selecter. Def Leppard's first album is released in March.

Follow the moon to the end of Sauchiehall Street. Turn into Tiffany's before you reach the corner; sprint up the stone steps into the glare of the foyer. Past the ticket office, quickly. There are the bouncers in their tight-fitting tuxedos; look at them, with their necks bulging out of their starched shirt collars. The manager leads the way into the pumping heart of the ballroom.

The air is ravaged by the hysterical excess of Rainbow, screaming through the house PA. When the tape finishes, Zeppelin replaces Rainbow on the cassette deck. It's going to be that kind of night.

The manager declares himself pleased with the attendance; at least 700 headbangers so far, he estimates. Not at all bad for a Sunday night, especially for a band headlining its first concert in Glasgow. Mind you, he says, the Specials played here on a Sunday and they had 2,500 rabid kids packed into the ballroom. And the police were squabbling outside on Sauchiehall Street with at least another thousand. He rolls his eyes at the memory. One of his bouncers was struck that night by a girl wielding a hat-pin. He and one of his men dragged her to the back of the auditorium. They tried to calm her down. She stripped off her shirt and, naked to the waist, tried to run off. She was tackled by a police officer. She felled him with a well-timed kick in the balls. The manager chuckles to himself as he tells the story.

Tonight's audience is already pressed tight around the stage, fists clenched, punching the atmosphere in the familiar heavy metal seig heil! Their feet are stamping, their heads shaking violently. The imaginary guitarists are out, too. Just a few for the moment, though: the Deep Purple Formation Dancers will not take to the floor in force until Def Leppard are on the boards and tearing holes in the fragile fabric of the local ozone. The crowd around the stage began chanting. Their message was unclear at first.

Then their ranting become ominously clear. "We hate the mods, we hate the mods, we hate the mods... we hate, we hate, we hate the mods!"

Def Leppard were racing down the narrow staircase from their dressroom to the stage. Joe Elliott must have heard the chant. As the band plugged in and roadies made last-minute checks on equipment, popping up like greasy glove-puppets behind the amplifiers, Elliott grabbed his microphone.

"D'yer want us ter do soom Sec- ritt Afferr songs fur yer?"

The reply was lost in a landslide of noise as Def Leppard smacked out the first powerchord of their set. 

That first chord was like a grenade going off in your hand; surviving the rest of the performance was like living through Pearl Harbour.

The drummer sounded like he was shitting amplified house bricks. His bass-drum kicks walloped holes in the chest; each cymbal crash was a sustained opera of alarm. The guitars were a thick carpet of shrieking chords. And Elliott's voice came howling through the debris, like the devil calling in the damned for supper.

And this was just the first number. It left me more confused than a conversation with Robert Fripp. 

The boys sure could whack it out with the best of them, as earlier observers have been quick to remark. I saw UFO a year ago at the Hammersmith Odeon. Compared to this lot, they sounded like schoolchildren rattling the railings with their rulers.

As a visual spectacle, Def Leppard are a whirlwind of frantic gestures, arm-swinging, headshaking and microphone twirling. So completely do they epitomise the satin-and- leather flash of heavy metal they almost become caricatures. There were more bare chests on that stage than you'd find in a topless bar on Sunset Strip. Willis and Clark have perfected every manoeuvre in the HM handbook of macho poses, throwing more shapes in one song than the entire front line of Thin Lizzy in an entire set.

One significant distinction should, however, be made between Def Leppard and their HM predecessors. Solos are infrequent, usually quickly despatched, more often tightly contained within the blistering structures of the songs. Willis and Clark prefer to maintain the pace of the attack, which relents only for the obligatory moody ballads.

Of course, this did nothing to deter the denim-swathed ranks of phantasy guitarists. They lined up at the back of the crowd in neat batallions, heads down, right hands scrubbing their chests while the left tore up and down imagined fretboards. They were even more energetic and frantically nimble than the band. Whhooosh! There went one, a vertical take-off from a standing start! Craaammmm! There he went, smacking down on his knees, back bent over in an impossible arch, the back of his head dusting the ballroom floor. There was a marvellous moment towards the end of the set. The guitars dropped out, leaving Rick Allen alone for a brief drum flourish. Suddenly, everyone was an imaginary drummer.

It's difficult making notes with both hands clamped over your ears, and dodging flying riffs that are threatening to tear off your kneecaps rather prevents one's assimilation of individual subtleties. However, I do remember that "When The Walls Come Tumbling Down" was an epic about apocalypse, complete with characteristic HM imagery of doom and destruction. The final encores, "Ride Into The Sun" and "Rocks Off", seemed standard hard rock outbursts, fiercely played and lavishly received.

After the gig it took at least four double vodkas and a sharp slap on the back of the head to recover the power of speech.

"Loud?" exclaimed Pete Willis at the hotel, "We only used half stacks t'night."

He looked at me as if I was the biggest wimp on the planet. I didn't reply. My ears were still bleeding.

Willis, Allen and Savage have gone off with the road crew to the local fleapit. Rather appropriately, they have gone to see "Apocalypse Now".

Eliott and Clark are in their hotel room fielding questions. Elliott is affable, forthright, confident; not at all the offensively cocky individual I had been led to expect. Clark is drunk and getting worse.

"We all knew when we started the band that it were goin' t'be heavy rock," Elliott is explaining. He has the kind of accent you hear on voice-overs for Hovis commercials. "We knew it weren't going t'be poonk. An' it weren't goin' t'be Lena Martell. We all knew it were goin' t'be based around Lizzy, Zeppelin, UFO."

I had wanted to know why such a young band had turned to heavy metal rather than punk, like most of their contemporaries. When they formed punk was, after all, the most fashionable trend. And Def Leppard shared both age and circumstances (bored teenagers, working-class) with the majority of new punk bands storming the barricades in '77.

"We never thought about it," Clark blearily attests. "We just did what we wanted to do. We never thought, 'Well, punk is fashionable, heavy metal is dated - let's be fashionable, let's be a punk band."

"If we'd done that, it would've been unnatural," Elliott elaborates.. "You get certain bands who say, 'We've tried for 18 months at bein' this kind of band. We're not gerren anywhere, let's be summat else. We'll change us name and change us image... Like, apparently, there used t'be a really weird, heavy rock band called Black Widow. Apparently, some of them are now in Showaddywaddy." 

He looked suitably aghast, as if someone had just walked over his grave.

"It would've been false for us to pretend we were summat we weren't," he continued. "It would've been wrong for us t'say, 'Right, we'll go and cut us hair and dye it blond and wear bondage trousers with zips all over t'place and be a poonk band. But it's not tha' we didn't like poonk. I though t'Pistols were greet. An' Clash. New wave were greet. It's a cliché now, but it did give music business a kick up the arse. People must've been gerren pissed off wi' bands like Supertramp. I like Supertramp mesel', but I can see kids' point of view - when there's nowt 'appenin' apart from yearly release of a new Supertramp album or Pink Floyd, kids'll get pissed off, look for summat new. So when they gerra band like t'Clash comin' up, they think, 'Wharra great fookin' blast of energy.’"

Elliott is eager to stress the catholicism of Def Leppard's musical tastes. Pete Willis might be more emphatically involved with heavy metal "he only ever listens to UFO and Priest" but Sav was into Queen and Boston, and Rick Allen was deeply into funk, especially Parliament and Funkadelic.

"I've gorra case full o' tapes over 'ere," Elliott went on. "You can look through it, if yer like. None of 'em are heavy rock. The nearest thing t'heavy rock in tha' bag is Meat Loaf. I've got Tubular Bells, 10cc. I just like music. It's just that I don't think I'd like it as much playin' 10cc's music onstage."

"Thing about new wave," Clark said, looking up from his beer mug, "were that the bands had a definite feelin' for audience. They were just like audience. There was a sort of rapport. An' it's the same wi' new wave heavy metal bands. Like, wi' old wave heavy metal bands, like Rush, it were 'Look at me. I'm in a band. I'm on a ten-foot stage. I'm above you.’ There isn't the same rapport. I fookin' ‘ate that. We haven't got that attitude, that Sabbath, Deep Purple attitude. We believe that it's t'kids what count. Like, we'll put on show whatever… I could break me back, but I'd still play show even if I had t'be carried onstage. We wouldn't pull out of show just because we didn't have a proper soun'check or bollocks like that."

Whatever their own sympathy for punk, it could hardly be said that the punks had ever displayed a reciprocal sympathy for heavy metal, old wave or new. Didn't that smart a little?

"No doubt some would think so," Elliott replied. "But fact that Johnny Rotten might not like us don't mean it's goin' t'put me off likin' him. If I ever heard an interview where Rotten or Joe Strummer were sayin', 'Oh, Def Leppard - wharra load of bollocks! I'd just say, 'Fair enough, he don't like us.' Tha's no reason fer me to go an' break all me Clash albums in half and say, 'I don't like you any more."

Clark had already made one distinction between the old guard of heavy metal and its more recent, youthful manifestation. Elliott thought there was an even greater difference.

"Frankly," he said, after some pause, "I don't think t'old wave of heavy metal bands are a patch on't new wave. I'm not talkin' just about us now. You compare people like Purple and Sabbath wi' UFO, wi' Michael Schenker. Purple and Sabbath aren't in't same category. I mean, Sabbath weer just really heavy. No light or shade, no melody. UFO and to a certain extent Judas Priest, there's more variety wi' them. It's a totally different sound. Like, wi' us it's more commercial. Some of our stuff, like 'Rock Brigade', if that ever came out as a single, it'd be commercial. It wouldn't just appeal to heavy metal fans. You can't compare summat like that wi' 'Paranoid' or 'Child In Time'. It's short, punchy. It's three minutes. It's straight though. Bangbangbang. Verse, chorus, verse, chorus, guitar solo, stop. That's it."

They didn't, then, approve of the old "Ben-Hur" length guitar solos (and bass and drum solos) much favoured by their predecessors? They certainly didn't.

"Guitar solos are borin'," Elliott stated unequivocally.

"That's why we don't do any," Clark hiccupped. "We don't have half-hour drum solos like John Bonham wi’ Zeppelin. We think it's borin'. We try to strike a balance between what Sabbath were doin' and what the fookin' Clash are doin'." 

As far as the press was concerned, though, they were more likely to be treated with the derision traditionally reserved for Black Sabbath than with the often sycophantic reverence afforded the Clash: they would most often be seen as a kind of desperate joke, I told them.

"I can't understand that, to be honest," Elliott said. "In any kind. of music be it punk or heavy rock, or even country and western there's always a brilliant artist and there's always a shit artist. Like, in heavy metal, where you get a really good band, someone like UFO, you'll also get your Motorhead. I think Motorhead are fookin' terrible, I saw Motorhead at Sheffield City Hall. After two numbers I had to put me fingers in me ears (I knew the feeling). Lemmy's not got the sweetest o' voices at best of time. That night he had a cold. He sounded like ferret bein' strangled…”

"Wharr' I'm sayin' is there's good and there's bad in all sorts of music. But the press always seem to slag heavy rock wi'out thinkin'. Do you know why?" he puzzled. 

I didn't. I simply pleaded guilty.

"I just don't see why they do it," Elliott continued, immersed now in the argument, giving his tonsils a hell of an airing. "I can't see how they do it. The Clash might be great, excitin' an' that - but musically they're not a patch on UFO. In my opinion, heavy rock is the second best music for the actual musical competence of people in't bands. Jazz rock I'd put top. People like Chick Corea and Billy Cobham, musically they're brilliant. To listen to I think they're borin'. I mean, one like John McLaughlin - now he's probably t'best guitarist in't world. I dunno, but I couldn't watch him play live, sittin' cross-legged on't bloody floor. I'd rather watch Chuck Berry play three notes and duckwalking, you know. I mean, you go to a concert, you expect summat to be goin' on. You don't want to see someone sittin' cross-legged on a bit of carpet sayin' prayers for audiences before he starts playin' guitar. I'd rather watch Clash, frankly." 

Elliott pauses for breath. I rinse out my ears. 

"I think," he says, "the majority of heavy rock bands are musically more talented than the majority of new wave bands, And probably put on a better show, too. I'm not sure, though - I imagine a band like the Boomtown Rats might put on a good show. But bands like the UK Subs, I imagine they'd be totally useless live, 'cos they're totally useless on record. That Charlie 'Arper, I think he's a waste of time. He looks old enough to be me grandad.” 

So you resent the fact that the press characterises heavy metal bands and their audiences simply as moronic headbangers?

"Course I do," Elliott said. There is a lot of talent there. "It really does annoy me that the press will knock band cos they're labelled heavy rock. They say they're just another joke band, they can't play. But if they took the time to be totally unbiased and watched the bands they'd see a lot of people who can really play. Like Steve 'ere." He threw his thumb over his shoulder at Clark who was trying to light one of the two cigarettes he could obviously see in his mouth. "Steve can really play."

He paused dramatically. 

"Steve were trained classical," he declared like a triumphant parent, commending his child on his first heart transplant operation.

I wondered, though, whether he thought that most heavy rock/HM bands didn't actually invite ridicule with their costumes, light shows, lasers, dry ice, leathers, perms and juvenile mysticism.

"There's summat in that," he said, sounding like Len Fairclough pondering a foreign body in his pint. “But I don’t think the songs and the music do.”

Clark took his nose out of his beer.

"I don't know what the kids think or what the press thinks," he said, his words sliding down his tongue like runaway toboggan down the north face of the Eiger, "but when we do a gig, we don't think we're heavy metal. For me, someone like Black Sabbath, Motorhead or Van Halen - that's heavy metal. We're not into noise. We like volume, but it's got to be nice. We're trying to make music that's appealing and exciting. If you like quiet bits, we've got quiet bits in our show…”

I told him I couldn't hear them for the noise. He ignored me. 

“...if you like loud bits, we do that, too." 

Elliott jumped in quickly to stress the variety of Def Leppard's material.

"You can't say all our songs are the same. There might be a basic similarity because they're all hard rock songs - so you're going to get your guitar solo and your wailing vocals an' all that nonsense. But we do all sorts of different things. Some of the songs we do are slow, some we do are ridiculously fast, some we do are quiet, some we do are loud. And we do some that are fast and slow in the same song." 

A veritable Noah's Ark of variety!

I was prepared, after an incoherent outburst from Steve Clark about the virtuosity of mad Kraut guitarist Michael Schenker, to go on to the next point on the agenda. Elliott had been thinking, though.

"Frankly," he said, "I can see your point, where you say bands like us might be inviting criticism. because of the dry ice and the leather trousers and smoke bombs. But there's a certain obligation, certain unwritten rules you have to stick to. People expect things of you. If we ever did a tour of your Hammersmith Odeons and what have you, we no doubt would use dry ice in slow bits and open with an intro tape and have fookin' explosions every other second. It adds to the visual side of it. That's what people expect.”

"But," he said darkly, "the music press would just go, Phahblahblah - it was all dry ice, leather trousers, open-necked shirts, gold medallions, wailin' guitar solos, all the usual stuff - let's get back to the bar…” 

I wondered where he had seen me in action.

"Thing is," he said, and I could sympathise with him, "because heavy rock has always been knocked, it will be knocked." 

“But," said Clark, "it'll go on. It's existed for ten years, despite all t'other trends. And it'll last longer, than mod or ska, or whatever revival it is.”

This was unusually coherent for the guitarist. I asked him if he might explain the continuing appeal of heavy rock. 

He tried, rather bravely in the circumstances.

"People who listen to heavy rock are workin'-class kids. They're not interested in fashions and trends. They don't give a shit about what's happenin' in't papers. They stick by what they know they like. They don't change image every week. Just 'cos there's supposed to be a mod revival, they won't sell all their Judas Priest albums and rush out an' get Secret Affair's album. They'll think, 'Fook it, I'll listen to what I want to listen to.’ They won’t change clothes just 'cos it's fashionable. If they want to wear flares, they'll fuckin' well wear 'em.”

Clark's fleeting reference to Secret Affair had conveniently brought us into the Eighties. I wanted to know what Def Leppard thought of various performers. With no real idea in mind I reeled off a few names: Springsteen, Costello, the Pretenders, the Specials. 

"We don't dislike any of 'em," Clark smiled cheerfully.

"The Pretenders," grinned Elliott. "Chrissie Hynde. I'd like to marry 'er one day." 

"We don't dislike anybody, really," Clark belched. "We like everythin'." 

"I can't stand bands like Specials," Elliott blurted, destroying Clark's magnanimity. "An' what's that other load of tit tha's just coom out? The Beat. Can't stand 'em, either. Tha's mod. Don't appeal to me. As far as I can see they're just revampin' an' ruinin' old songs. Tears Of A Clown' by Smokey Robinson were brilliant, but Beat have done it and I think it's a load o' rubbish. Same wi't Specials. An' Madness, I don't know if I like 'em or 'ate 'em, 'cos every time I watch 'em I just crease up. They're really funny t'watch. They remind me of Split Enz to be honest, the way they kind of lumber about like idiots."

Clark is awake again. "Bands like Specials and Madness and the mods and th' parkas an' all that shit," he said, "all they're doin' is just re- vampin' what was happenin' in 1966. But what we're doin' isn't revampin' 1969 heavy metal. We're takin' them roots, but we're buildin' on 'em." 

Exactly the same could be claimed for the Specials and ska, I protest. 

"I don't know that much about ska," Elliott intervened tartly, "all I know is that they're revampin' summat that's older than heavy rock and they're not gettin' slagged for it. They're revampin' 1964 or whenever... Like the mods. Like, two or three year ago, the 'Oo were borin' old farts. Now they're t'heroes of all t'mods. Does that mean in 18 months their mod audience of now is goin' to be walking about wi' kind of Indian waistcoats wi' long dangly tassles? 

"I reckon." Elliott calculated, "that by about 1983, we should have all these parkas thrown on't fire and they'll be gettin' headbands owt of cupboard again."

This argument had a certain logic; but weren't they really deluding themselves. Didn't even their kind of new wave heavy metal actually depend upon its predictability? The closer they stuck to the established clichés of the genre - in appearance, sound and presentation - surely the greater the chance of success? They weren't really straying too far away from classic HM themes of sexual dominance, celebrations of hedonism, macho posing, apocalyptic rantings about the end of the world.

"All right," Elliott argued, "So there are clichés in what we do. At same time I could run through thousands of punk songs that are all about the same old punk clichés. There they are, singing 'I wanna be an anarchist, I don't wanna conform, I'm on the dole. I've got no money an' life's so hard…’  All that crap. So you get some heavy metal band singing about death and destruction, astral trips t'moon an all that. But we haven't got songs about death and destruction… wi't exception of 'When The Walls Come Tumblin' Down'. That's the only one. Most of our songs are more poppy than anything else.” 

"If you listen to 'Walls’" Clark said, "you'll realise that it don't revive all those things about death and destruction that you had in '69. It's lookin' forward.We wrote tha’ songs perhaps a year before all this crap came around in Iran and Afghanistan. If you listen to the words: 'All the people came together in fear of the end…’" 

Yes?

"Well, it means something." Clark insists. "It's a prediction. It's not going back over that old Black Sabbath shit.”

"It's in the future tense," Elliott added, trying, presumably, to be enlightening. "If you ever get the chance to read t'words when album comes out, you'll see that they explain exactly what would happen if there's a massive atomic war. If there is ever an atomic war, I reckon that 90 per cent of those lyrics will prove to be accurate about what'll happen." He paused for a moment, considering this.

"Give or take the odd thing," he said at length. "Like the women bein' 'captured an' chained"."

"That's a cliché," Clark said, farting wetly. 

"Maybe," said Elliott. "But the bit about 'national suicide'... you will get a lot of people killing themselves. And, like - ‘America fell to the ground' - you're goin' t'get buildin's fallin' down, you're goin' t'get kids left crippled, whether it's wi' atomic rays or wha'ever."

"Whole cities fallin' down," re-peated Clark dreamily.

"A lot of it'll be like that. Of course," Elliott added modestly, "I'm not sayin' that I'm some kind of messiah who can see into the future."

“I’d like you to know that I haven't got one Black Sabbath album," Clark admitted suddenly, as if this had been haunting him since childhood.

I quickly asked Elliott what Def Leppard thought about the other bands with whom they've been associated in the vanguard of the new wave of heavy metal. I mention Japan and Girl.

“I don't think Japan are heavy metal," he said authoritatively. "I don't think Japan are anything near to heavy metal. Japan to me are a brilliant band. I've got 'Adolescent Sex' and I think it's a great album. But it's not heavy metal. The fastest song on it's a Barbra Streisand song, 'Don't Rain On My Parade".

"I've never heard Girl. I can't really comment on them. But to be honest, I don't think they've got a future. Their image is all wrong." 

Paragraph omitted. Starting back again with Joe...

"I've been in trouble before for sayin' that birds don't buy records. But I don't believe women buy as many records as blokes. An' I reckon they'll appeal more to birds. An' I don't think birds go to as many concerts or buy as many records. Of course, you've got your exceptions wi't Rollers where it were totally all birds. An' a lot of birds probably buy disco records. There are bound to be exceptions. But I think there's percentage of't lads that go to concerts”.

Elliott is convinced of Def Leppard's commercial success, though he admits it might not have been possible without the commercial breakthrough last year of both Judas Priest and UFO, I ask him why he thinks those bands finally found commercial success after years (15 between them) of unsuccessful stabs at the chart. 

"They got airplay for a start," he said. "They tried to be more commercial. They made better records. They made commercial records. They didn't try to do in the studio what they do onstage. They made really good heavy rock albums instead of average heavy rock albums."

"They realised," added Clark, "that people don't want to see Jimmy Page playin' a 20-minute guitar solo wi't violin bow. It's out now. At same time, you don't want to go t'see t'Damned who don’t play a guitar solo all night. They want summat in between. Summat between the Dooleys and Black Sabbath." 

“The fookin' Dooleys?" Elliott asked, utterly confused. "Wharra yer talkin' about now?" 

"We're the Dooleys wi' goolies," Clark attempted to explain. 

"Why do you keep bringing up the fookin' Dooleys?" Elliott demanded, still confused. "What 'ave we got ter do wi’t Dooleys?”

“We’re in't middle,” Clark struggled to clarify his statement. "People fed up wi’ bands shoutin’ about anarchy. There ‘as t’be a balance between bands like Rainbow, bands wi' ripped knees in't jeans and Genesis. An' I think the balance is us. We can play but we can still roar.”

Elliott looked at Clark, looked at me, looked confused. I was going to ask Clark to elaborate upon this point, but I didn't. 

He'd fallen back upon the bed, unconscious.

[cheemken]

Knight I just had a big brain moment (I hope). I was thinking about what AU I could create and then I started thinking about Unova characters, mainly N, Iris, and Ghetsis. Then it hit me

What if Iris, alongside N, was raised by Ghetsis?

Idk how they’d meet, whether it’s in Unova or Ghetsis just happened to be in Johto before she got adopted, but they do end up meeting through Ghetsis’ Hydregion who was a Zweilous at the time. I imagine Zweilous ran away from Ghetsis after another attempt to force him to evolve early, and when he goes to look for his Pokémon Ghetsis finds him with Iris. And he was just going to return Zweilous to his pokeball before leaving but.. the Deino line are infamous for being one of the hardest to raise, and here was a young child who calmed down a Zweilous she just met. The more Ghetsis looked at the girl who had calmed down a raging dragon type with the touch of her hand and a few words, did he realized how much control she had in the situation

How she was almost in control of Zweilous

How she was controlling a powerful Dragon Type

I imagine N was a cover, a distraction, for Iris. So the League would focus on him and not on Iris, who infiltrated the league as a gym leader and then the Champion. Her job was to give all the private information to Ghetsis and help destroy it from the inside

Screaming crying punching the wall throwing the absolute fuck up omfs Iris being Queen of Plasma

THATS DOPE THOOO CBMXBCMD oughhhhh Iris and N siblings REAL😭😭

God but Ghetsis having to deal w two kids who can talk to pkmn, one was just limited to Dragons, and he calls both of them freaks and god my heart can't take that but like cjxmcbmxnxmd OUGGGHHHHHH

But also man that must be rough for N tho bc knowing Ghetsis he probs made it really clear to N that he would just be there as a diversion, as a shield, for his own sister who their father has greater plans for than him. His sister was going to be a hero, and he wasn't opposed, she was nice to him, but damn he also sees how shit Ghetsis treats them and Iris probably still believed he genuinely cares bc for most of their lives he was the only one who showed an ounce of care for them

God fucking imagine tho, just as they got the stone of Zekrom/Reshiram, it didn't respond to Iris, rather it responded to N. And even Ghetsis was surprised. He was so sure, so fucking sure, that Iris would be the one to call out the Dragon, she had proven herself time and time and time again that she was a strong and capable Dragon master, that she could speak to them, that she could control them. And yet the legendary dragon did not listen to her.

Ghetsis was pissed, no this wasn't the plan, it was supposed to listen to Iris, it was supposed to recognize Iris as the Hero of Truth/Ideals, not N. Well, he just has to make do w what he has, N still listened to him, N still believed their cause was good, so he attacked Hil w his new Dragon. But man imagine how that'd fuck up Iris too cjmxbxmx

Like homegirl was led to believe she was going to be the one who'd Zekrom/Reshiram see as a hero, not her brother. But watching her brother command the dragon, watching her brother be beaten by the other hero, she doesn't know what to feel anymore. Before Ghetsis could even show her how pissed he was, she ran away, leaving behind Plasma, leaving behind her family.

Hiding was easy for Iris, she and N loved hide and seek, she always won. So she hid. Hid from the people of Unova, from Drayden, from N, from Ghetsis especially. She got to Lacunosa, hid within the Giant Chasm, and to her surprise she saw a slumbering dragon within the cave.

Kyurem. He said his name was. He was lonely.

Iris stayed w him ofc, stayed w him for two years, until Ghetsis found her. She was scared, terrified at what he'd do to her, but he knelt before her, giving her praises at finding a legendary dragon, especially since Kyurem was shown to be protective of Iris, having grown attached to her, despite not being held captive by a pokeball.

Ghetsis' plan failed two years ago, but w Kyurem under Iris' control, and w Iris still fearing him, still the most obedient child, he's sure he won't fail this time.

[maskyartist]

I may not know much about splatoon but take this ask as an opportunity to tell me all about your rwby x splatoon crossover👀👀

you always give me such good excuses to ramble bestie ;3c

so listen theres no real BIG plot here, again its still very slice-of-life, very "mostly here for the interactions and happy life stuff", so think of it a bit like a sports anime or smth!

Full Spectrum (FS) is Ozpin's League Team, with James, Glynda, and Leo as his teammates.

Stark Damage (SD) is Summer's League Team and is made of herself, Tai, Qrow, and Raven

Stark Damage are very new to the Anarchy Battle scene. this is Summer's first official team and shes unfortunately paired with two ex-teen soldiers (Octarian military stuff if you know you know) and Tai :) who is VERY new to all this Turf War stuff. hes just here to be stupid and cute and we respect it but its not very helpful on the field

Ozpin and Summer have a bit of a rivalry goin, tho its mostly one-sided in Summer taking a bit too seriously while Ozpin just thinks its very friendly and casual. just a bit of bickering between leaders :)

Ozpin comes from a LONG line of League Battlers, starting with great great grandpa Ozma and participating in the first official Turf War over who'd get the land all those years ago, so hes got a bit of an expectation to live up to. hes the highest rank on his team and gets very into his role during battle, be it Turf or Ranked. he takes it a lil seriously when hes got his scope ;>.>

Meanwhile, Qrow and Raven were members of the Octarian Army before hearing that ✨ heavenly melody ✨so all this normal living and "fun" battling is still very new to them. they both sorta make up for Tai's terrible kill rate, but Raven's usually playing hunter while Qrow's picking off whatever she leaves behind

however it does explain why Qrow knows how to repair so many weapons, so he and Summer get along well after learning the shared interest in weaponry :) (this doesnt get him out of a scolding for repairing Ozpin's e-liter for free tho)

and because it got really long imma put weapons and kits under the cut :D

Full Spectrum Team Lineup!

Ozpin Pine

Weapon - E-Liter 4k Scope/Bamboozler Mk.1

Role - Backline + Anchor

Anarchy Rank - S+ 12 (tends to skirt the line of X rank)

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Glynda Goodwitch

Weapon - Neo Splash-o-Matic

Role - Frontline Assault

Anarchy Rank - S

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James Ironwood

Weapon - Dark Tetra Duelies

Role - Tank + Backline Assault

Anarchy Rank - S+ 10

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Leonardo (Leo) Lionheart

Weapon - Splat Brella

Role - Turf Cleanup (unfortunately gets splatted a LOT)

Anarchy Rank - A

(Leo is eventually replaced by Theodore, who plays more aggressively with a Ballpoint Splatling)

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Stark Damage Full Lineup!

Summer Rose

Weapon - Inkbrush Nouveau

Role - Frontline Assault

Anarchy Rank - A+

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Taiyang Xiao-Long

Weapon - Sloshing Machine

Role - Backline Defense + Anchor

Anarchy Rank - B+

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Raven Branwen

Weapon - Splatana Stamper

Role - Aggressive Switch (frontline and backline options, can be flexible)

Anarchy Rank - A

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Qrow Branwen

Weapon - Painbrush

Role - Support Switch (often picks off almost-dead players, also works cleanup crew)

Anarchy Rank - A-

theres side teams too but they're not too important, i still might design em for funsies tho :) (team popi exist and that makes me happy)