#yangverse

[antialiart]

Art Fight is down for maintenance (what else is new) but I drew @umbrahighpriestofgiratina's Yangverse Arceus for it.

[umbrasdoodles]

Was at my parents' again so fired up the ol' OC Randomizer again to pick an OC to draw on my Ipad. This time I got the WAAPT/Yangverse version of Calabria, a Pokemon Trainer with mysterious goals and who means business. 

[umbrahighpriestofgiratina]

Yangverse Michronicles: Unrivaled

Hi! I wanted to finally update Yangverse Michronicles again. And the prompt I chose to do so with was "A group of people in a bar discuss the weird situations they were in that day and slowly realize that all their experiences have something in common." So here's that.

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Unrivaled

In a bar in Castelia City, Unova, Gary "Blue" Oak was sitting in front, woefully slurping a drink of something dubiously alcoholic. He sighed and put his drink down on the counter. 

"Why does this always happen to me?"

"What's ailing you?"

Blue turned his head toward the source of the voice and saw a red-haired man over at the other side of the bar.Blue looked at him oddly before replying. 

"There's this guy. We call him Red. No matter how hard I try he always beats me in a Pokemon battle."

"Tch. I've been there," said the redhead. "This one girl. She always wiped the floor with me. Utterly humiliating." 

"I had the same problem!" said a voice from across the bar. The others turned to find a pale, sickly-looking young man drinking a soda. 

"Even when I was young and ill... This other kid would always best me."

"Same!" said a blonde man. "And they still owe me one million Pokmedollars!"

"Mee too!" said a black-haired man next to a blonde-haired woman. "We both threw everything we had at them!"

"But they'd always fire back more..." said the blonde woman. 

"Hey!" said a large man in a gaggle of four. "It happened to us too! And they insulted my dance moves!"

"Ours got to  be Champion before any of us, before anyone else!" said a dark-skinned young man sitting next to a blonde man and woman. The bonde woman nodded her head shamefully while the blonde man clenched his fist. 

:Oi!" said a purple haired dark skinned young man. "I can relate to having someone... never letting me win..."

"Don't act like you're the only one," said a fluffy-haired, pale young man. 

"Whatever," said a girl in goth attire. 

"Mine wasn't so bad," said one boy with a strong build and two-toned hair. "He helped me cure my Mabosstiff."

The Mabosstiff woofed from his side. 

"He helped me reconcile with my friends,:" said a girl in a baggy hoodie with red and blue hair. 

"He's great!" said a dark-skinned girl with green streaks in her hair. "He's probably one of the best battle partners I've ever had! He goes all out and uses so many strong Pokemon and - "

She noticed the others were all staring at her/ 

"What?"

"So you're telling me everyone here's had the same experience?" said Blue. "What are you all doing here?"

The redhead pointed above Blue's head. He looked up. Above him was a sign that said "Disgruntled Rivals Convention".

"Oh. That explains that part. But why a bar? Aren't some of you minors?"

"We serve mocktails," said the bartender. 

Blue squinted at the bartender. "Wait a minute. You're... Ritchie?! You were Champion before me! What are you doing here?!"

Ritchie shrugged. "It's a living." +++

[umbrahighpriestofgiratina]

Thank you so much!

(redid the post bc 1st one hecked up) Zekrom gijinka commission made for @umbramatic !!!! Commissions r still open :3

[seshirukun]

Yangverse!

[arc-misadventures]

Yangverse II

Yang: So, you, me… whatever. You guys are trying to get me, this me together with, Jaune, right?

Yang: Yeah, pretty much.

Yang: Okay, so then there has been, Yang's who've gotten together with Jaune already, right?

Yang: Yes, we call them the: ‘Milf Yang's.'

Yang: Milf Yang's?

Yang: Most of them are all mothers with lots of kids. So… Milfs.

Yang: And are the hottest among us all!

Yang: Hot Milf Yang's... Wow… W-What are they like?!

Yang: Well, hot is a given, but what you’re concerned about, what we all were concerned about is that you became like, Raven.

Yang: Its one if those thoughts I’ve, no doubt, we’ve always had���

Yang: Don’t worry, as of yet, no Yang has ever left Jaune alone with a kid. Even, Branwen Yang stayed with Jaune and her kids.

Yang: Branwen Yang?

Yang: After Raven found out she was pregnant, she bolted and returned to her tribe. Yang Branwen, then grew up and was trained with her tribe. When she was old enough she was enrolled in Beacon, their she met her Jaune. They eventually ended up dating, and got married after graduating. Shortly after they had their first child and Yang just couldn’t abandon them or Jaune, so they’re living a happily married life with their kids now!

Yang: That’s sweet… But, ya glossed up on some details there.

Yang: Yeah, I’ll explain that in a bit, you’ve got a question, you want to ask, don’t you?

Yang: Hell yeah I do! How hot are we?

Yang: Oh we’re smoking hot!

Yang: Yeah, but even among them there are more hotter Yangs than the others. I’d argue that the hottest among them is, Teacher Yang?

Yang: Why is she the bases for, Hot Milf Yang's?

Yang: Think Glynda Goodwitfch, but you instead.

Yang: But, with bigger boobs!

Yang: Thank you, horny Yang...

Yang: Wow...

Yang: That's an understatement there lassie...

Yang: So, can't we ask the Milf Yang's for advice on how they got together with Jaune? I mean, they already have, so they would know what to do!

Yang: We can't do that...

Yang: Why not Geeky Yang?

Yang: We’ve tried before, but the Milf Yang's techniques only work for them, because there can only be one type of Yang... mostly...

Yang: And besides that, not all the Milf Yang's have happy endings...

Yang: W-What do you mean by that...

Yang: Well... Among the Milfs, there is one called, Single Mom Yang...

Yang: Oh... oh no...

Yang: As you can see, there are other reasons besides the fact they worked, that we cannot look to them for guidance.

Yang: I feel sorry for that Yang...

Yang: Yeah... There are various routes that Jaune takes after out death, deaths…?

Yang: What do you mean by that?

Yang: Well, some, Jaune's get married after a while of grieving, one actually just remains alone.

Yang: Remarries... Well, I guess it's better than staying alone... Question: How long did Ruby take before she swooped in and married Jaune, just like her mother did with Dad?

Yang: Did you just assume, Ruby, our loveable little sister would come in a steal our widowed husband after we died.

Yang: …

Yang: Six months...

Yang: Seriously?!

Yang: Yeah...

[contrairyart]

My half of an art trade I did with @umbramatic! I drew their OC, Yangverse!Ho-oh.

[drippinhyuck]

what’s your friends @ that did the smut?

aha yes my great friend Evelyn😌

@yangverses 

she changed her user today so🥂

[fav-boyz]

liu yangyang users

@/babyangyang

@/yyangravity

@/yangyangrrr

@/yangverses

@/ifyangyang

@/icyangyang

@/yangyanghq

like or reblog if save or use.✦

[phoenix-king-ozai]

Also, believe that Kiyi is short for Kiyiumi. I just cannot accept Yang comics as canon because they just make no sense and the OC are so uninteresting and boring! 😒😣🤢🤮

Who cares about Ikem (IKEA) and Kei Lo irrelevant asses! THEY DESTROYED URZAI AND MAIKO! They contradict prior lore and made plot hole.

How did Azula learn Lightning Redirect while IMPRISONED and CHI-BLOCKED! How did Azulon die for Posion when his son Iroh showed that Firebenders have a degree of immunity from it. Why didn’t Ozai or Azulon just kill IKEA if he was such an issue.

Hard to support Kiyi because Yangverse is so trash!

I think "Kiyi is Urzai's child" or "Kiyi is Ozai's daughter" should be a tag on AO3 🙏

[antialiart]

Art Fight attack for @umbrahighpriestofgiratina's character Logi!

[umbrasdoodles]

It's been 11 years since I started my Pokemon shared universe, the Yangverse, trying to make as much of Pokemon canon as possible actually make sense with each other. Here is the original Squad from that universe, I miss them and hope to revisit them sooner rather than later. 

[umbrahighpriestofgiratina]

Worldbuilding June 2022 Episode 5

5. What sorts of civilizations and architecture fill your world?

In a word, it's all somewhat "pesudo-solarpunk." People live in harmony with nature and Pokemon and build around, not over, natural features, with advanced technology helping it along.

[antialiasis]

Hello, everyone! My friend @umbrahighpriestofgiratina and I have decided to swap characters. From now on, Dave and Mia belong to him and will appear in his Yangverse stories, while Tom and Roger belong to me and will feature in Morphic and related extras. To celebrate the switch, we're now posting our first stories featuring our respective new characters (his is here). Please give Tom and Roger a warm welcome to Morphic!

Roger blinked blearily as the first rays of morning tickled his eyelids, pulling the comforter over his head. Only then did he realize that this wasn’t his own bed – the comforter was denser, thinner, smelled different.

He pulled it back down and squinted at the blank ceiling above him. He rubbed his eyes and sat up. He was in an unfamiliar bedroom, sparsely furnished but clearly lived-in – a pair of socks carelessly thrown on the floor, a wardrobe with one door standing open, a piece of paper sticking out of the bottom drawer of the nightstand.

Wait. What had he been doing last night? He could’ve sworn he’d just been watching a movie with Tom before going to bed. In his own fucking bed. How had he—

“Aaaaaahhhh!” came a distinctly familiar scream from outside the room, and Roger sprang up instantly.

He rushed through the door and found himself in a small living room. On the opposite side of the room stood Tom, dressed in superhero pajamas, pressed against the wall, breathing rapidly, his eyes wide in terror as he stared at…

…a little girl?

Roger squinted at him. “Tom? What’s going on?”

Tom looked up. “Roger! Oh, man, am I happy to see you! I just woke up in this—”

The little girl turned around, and actually, there was something strangely unsettling about her now that Roger looked at her better. Her skin and the dress she was wearing were the exact same midnight black, almost as if the dress were part of her body, and her hair floated behind her head in a way that surely defied physics. Was that why Tom had screamed?

“Who are you?” the girl asked in a small, timid voice. “Where’s Mia?”

“Who’s Mia? Where are we?” Roger rubbed his forehead. He had a lot of questions.

“At Dave’s place,” the girl said. “Mia’s my sister.”

“Roger, she – she walked through the wall!” Tom gasped, flailing an arm at her, his expression slowly evolving from pure terror to an awed, enthusiastic grin. “That was so cool!”

The girl turned around again, taking a hesitant step back. “I’m half Misdreavus,” she said. “Daddy says I shouldn’t talk to strangers. Who are you?”

“Wow! How does that work? Are you—?”

“Tom,” Roger said, holding up a hand warningly. “My name is Roger Guildenstern. That’s Tom Rosencrantz. I don’t remember coming here. How did we get here?” A thought occurred to him, and he narrowed his eyes at Tom again. “Wait. Did you put something in those brownies yesterday? Because if you did—”

Tom shook his head, raising his hands defensively. “No! They were regular clean brownies, I swear!” He lowered his hands, glancing around the apartment with a slight frown. “…I don’t know how we got here either.”

The girl looked between them, unease growing in her eyes. “Where’s Dave and Mia?” she said again.

“Look, I don’t know who the fuck Dave and Mia—”

“Roger! Be nice!” Tom admonished before bending down and beaming at the girl. “Don’t worry! We’re going to help you find Mave and Dia! What’s your name?”

“Dave and Mia,” she corrected. “I’m Lucy.”

“Tom,” Roger said, gritting his teeth. “Tom, come on, look.” He beckoned him over. Lucy followed Tom with her slightly unnerving, unblinking red and yellow eyes as he approached Roger, frowning.

“Come on, bro, she needs help,” Tom said, spreading his arms.

“Sure, but we don’t even know where we are, so we’re not exactly the best people to help her find these other people we’ve never heard of. And meanwhile I’m still pretty concerned about how we got here in the first place!”

Tom furrowed his brow as if deep in thought. “Maybe… we’ve been transported into an alternate universe, and Dave and Mia are in our house right now.”

“…Yeah. Sure they are, Tom.” Roger sighed, then narrowed his eyes at Tom again and glanced at Lucy before lowering his voice. “Wait, have you been reading terrible fanfiction again?”

“Not just fanfiction. Crossovers!”

Roger buried his face in his palm.

Lucy looked between them, confused. “Maybe Jean knows where Dave went,” she suggested after a moment, turning towards the phone lying on the coffee table.

“Oh, really? Great! We’ll call her!” Tom immediately zoomed towards the phone, picked up the receiver and put it to his ear. “…Uh, what’s the number?”

Lucy told him the number, and he made the call. After a few beeps, someone picked up. “Hi, Dad!”

Tom blinked. “Um. I… don’t think I’m your dad?”

“Oh.” It was the voice of a young girl. “Who’s this?”

“My name’s Tom Rosencrantz and we’re trying to find…” Roger mouthed ‘Dave and Mia’. “Dave and Mia?”

The girl on the other end paused. “But you’re calling from Dad’s phone.”

“Oh, is – is Dave your dad? He’s not here. My friend woke up in his bed. That’s why we called you.”

Roger facepalmed.

“…Um,” said the girl’s voice, sounding a little worried, “I don’t know where he is. He should be at home. Mia’s gone too? Is Lucy there?”

“Yeah, yeah, she’s here. She told us to call.” Tom looked at Lucy, giving her a thumbs up. She tilted her head.

“Did you call his cellphone? He always has it with him.”

The girl managed to dictate the cell number to Tom, and after a few failed attempts with the wrong number, he finally got it right – only for it to give a ‘This phone could not be reached’ voice recording.

“Okay, this is weird,” Roger said. Lucy was starting to look increasingly upset, and he couldn’t exactly blame her, suddenly accosted by two strangers appearing in place of her sister and… this other girl’s dad. Her uncle? “Is it normal for them to just up and leave and leave you behind? Because if so that’s a shitty thing to do.”

Lucy shook her head, her eyes welling up with tears. “Aw, no, don’t cry!” Tom whirled around, dropped to his knees beside her and gave her a massive hug. “We’ll find them for you, don’t worry!”

“And just how are we going to do that?” asked Roger, gritting his teeth.

Lucy sniffled, glancing at Roger over Tom’s shoulder. “I… maybe I can do it.”

Tom gasped, releasing her to look her in the eyes, hands on her shoulders. “Cool ghost stuff?”

She nodded, smiling through her tears. “Cool ghost stuff.”

Roger blinked as Lucy closed her eyes in concentration, and… suddenly vanished into tendrils of black smoke. Tom lost his balance, falling forward as his hands were suddenly resting on thin air.

Roger looked around as the smoke dispersed. “What the fuck? Where’d she go?”

Tom picked himself up off the floor, eyes shining with excitement. “The astral plane! Or the ghost realm!”

“…You know, at this point I don’t even know anymore.” Roger scratched his head. “…I should put on some actual clothes. Wait, are my clothes even here?”

His clothes weren’t there. Another great element of today. He could only thank his lucky stars that at least he slept in his boxers.

He was looking critically at what he assumed to be Dave’s clothes in the wardrobe, considering whether he was desperate enough to just take some, when a voice suddenly sounded behind him: “They’re nowhere.”

Roger jumped, whirling around, only to find Lucy there, solid again, still with tears in her eyes. Tom came barging into the room, flailing his arms. “What was the ghost realm like? Tell me!”

“They’re nowhere!” Lucy repeated. “They’re not in the world anymore!”

“Okay, what does that even mean?!” Roger said.

“I went everywhere and they weren’t there!”

“What do you mean everywhere?!”              

Lucy flinched and ran back to hug Tom’s legs, sniffling. Roger scratched his head awkwardly. That had probably been too much.

“Hey,” said Tom, patting her shoulders reassuringly, “maybe they’re not in this universe, but they’re probably fine over in our universe, you know? Maybe they met N! And Reshiram!”

“Your universe?” Lucy looked up at him. “Hmm.” And then she vanished again.

“What the fuck is she doing?” Roger said.

“Cool ghost stuff!” Tom replied enthusiastically.

“But that…” Roger threw up his hands. “Never mind.”

And then, a minute later, she was back, grinning happily, holding the hands of a bewildered-looking man in his underwear and what appeared to be a teenage girl in loose, baggy pajamas, with green hair, a strangely elongated face, spikes sticking out of her head, and blades running along the length of her forearms.

“There, I found them!” Lucy declared. “It’s fine.”

Roger stared at her. “What.”

The man, presumably Dave, looked around. “Who the fuck are you and what are you doing in my house?”

“They’re the ones who lived in that place we were in,” the girl said, narrowing her eyes at Tom.

“Okay, no. How the fuck would you know–”

“He had merchandise for the show on his clothes.”

Tom grinned. “Isn’t it awesome?”

Dave rubbed his forehead. “Okay, fine, I get that one.” He looked at Roger, looking very tired. “So, uh. I guess you don’t know how you got here either, huh?”

“Nope.”

“What the fuck,” Dave muttered. “So, it’s a long story, but this little hellbeast seems to develop new bizarre powers every week.” He pointed a thumb at Lucy, who by now was running around the living room as Mia chased her. Roger’s stomach did an uncomfortable flip as the older girl swiped at her with a scythe, only for it to go straight through her as Lucy shrieked with joy. “I guess this was her. Somehow. I’ll… talk to her about it. Something. Sorry about that. She… she doesn’t mean any harm.”

Roger glanced at her. “She seemed pretty upset about you being gone.”

Dave looked at her again, uncomfortably. “Oh. Maybe she did it without even knowing she was doing it. Point is, when some weird fucked-up apparently-supernatural shit happens, it’s probably her. Just… please just get her to take you back and pretend this never happened.”

Roger stared at the two sisters as Lucy dissolved into smoke, reappeared behind Mia and took a slash that should have cut her in half. “They seem kind of… dangerous.”

Dave scowled. “Look, sometimes they don’t know their own strength, but they’ve never killed anyone. We already get enough of the police knocking on our doors over stupid shit.”

“He didn’t mean it like that,” Tom said immediately, stepping beside Roger.

Roger watched the girls’ game for a few moments more. Lucy’s cheerful exuberance was a sharp contrast to her earlier timidness; the thought that she could have somehow accidentally caused all this was a little disconcerting, but seeing her happy and content still made him warmer. “…Yeah,” he said. “I’m sorry. I know a thing or two about creatures who get ostracized just because they seem scary.”

“I know a thing or two, too,” said Tom, his expression softer than usual.

Dave narrowed his eyes at them for a moment. “Great. Okay. I’m thrilled you’re having a moment reminiscing about whatever the fuck you’re reminiscing about, but you’re in my house.”

Roger was about to respond, but Tom was already waving to Lucy, grinning. “Hey! Lucy! Could you use your awesome ghost powers again and take us back home to our universe?”

Roger sighed. Going home was probably good.

“Take good care of them,” he said to Dave as Lucy ran over. “And, uh… you should probably call your daughter. She seemed worried.”

Dave blinked. “Jean? You talked to—”

And then they vanished, and in a split second they were back at their place.

“Goodbye Mr. Rosencrantz!” Lucy said, giggling as she waved enthusiastically. “And Grumpypants.”

And as Tom waved back at her, she vanished into black smoke.

“I’m. Grumpypants?”

“I liked them! They seemed fun!” said Tom, beaming.

“…I’m going back to bed,” said Roger. “For my parts, I’m all for pretending this never happened.”

Tom pouted. “Awesome ghost stuff.”

“Never happened.”

And Roger headed back to his own bed.

[umbrambles]

On Why There Is No Ash In The Yangverse (But Not For The Reasons You Think)

Brought to you by Plascracked

More seriously,  for those of you who have read my page on the Yangverse, the setting of the vast majority of my Pokemon fics, on my Pokemon Tumblr (I assume this is a pretty adequate illustration),  you may have noted that I wrote that every human character otherwise unique to the anime’s canon exists in the Yangverse except Ash Ketchum, but that it wasn’t out of any sort of grudge against the guy and rather for what possibilities working in everyone but him opened up. And I’ve been meaning to write a more elaborate explanation as to what the hell I mean by that, and... This is it.

So read on for the real story of why this kid didn’t make the cut:

If you’ve known me long and well enough, you’ll know I have a strong soft spot for Pokemon’s anime series despite the ire it gets from certain chunks of the fandom. And so naturally I have to preface this saying I do not hate or dislike Ash in the slightest. Sure, he’s hardly my favorite character the show’s ever introduced, but I bear no ill will toward him or any of his companions, even those that get similar or worse crap. And mocking Ash in a mean-spirited manner is actually a surefire way to get me extremely upset and angry, especially because it triggers godawful anxiety I have over it being wrong for me to like the show in any way or that I’m severely mentally deficient for liking it (last one’s not helped by being on the autism spectrum and a not-uncommon victim of ableism) due to much of the more vicious hate the show gets. And, again, while he’s no favorite of mine, I feel he’s got more going for him than a lot of people give him credit for.

So why did I give him the boot from my fanmade essentially-hybrid-canon Pokemon setting anyway? Well, turns out it’s due to much more detached storytelling reasons, and I’ll be going over them all here, starting with the obvious:

Red’s already there

Now I don’t mean this Red:

Or this Red:

I mean this motherfucking Red right here:

As I state on its page, while a hybrid canon in practice, the Yangverse is essentially an adaptation of my convoluted headcanons on the main-series games, and as such, I try to actively contradict them as little as possible except in certain areas like eg. canonicity of certain Legendary captures, things that don’t translate well from a video game, etc, even when splicing other canons in. So Red in the Yangverse is adapted directly from the one you see in the games - not recursively adapted from a loose counterpart like Ash or even closer counterparts seen in other canons. That said, Red DOES canonically have a really powerful ‘chu, so you’ll see how I play with that.

Next reason for no Ash is a bit more disparate: The anime as we know it is mostly Ash’s story, the Yangverse is not

You see, Ash is obviously pretty central to the anime’s story. It’s basically a journey across the Pokemon world from his perspective, and the nature of his adventures reflects that, for better and for worse. So we’ve got countless episodes and movies focusing on his side of the story with those of others as spinoffs, and hey, it makes sense to a decent degree, he’s the protagonist! (Though he does get shoehorned a bit too forcibly into the “hero” role in several of the movies; one of the reasons I love the 15th movie is it’s probably the most glorious aversion of that in my eyes.)

However, the Yangverse does’t quite have the same focus. Sure, there are some characters I write about more than others *cough* a certain green-haired pretty boy *cough*, but overall it’s meant to allow me to explore a broad spectrum of the Pokemon world and its characters, both the ones it already gives us and ones I make up myself. So a more hyperdedicated protagonist like Ash makes little sense within it, especially since I have a policy of leaving as much ambiguous about most of the gameverse protagonists as possible (currently planned exceptions being Red up there and one other that’s kind of a spoiler). Additionally, the vast majority of blatantly anime-canon fanfic not starring OCs features Ash and co. in the spotlight much like the show itself does.

So ultimately I have no interest in writing about Ash as part of the Yangverse, because sadly I just can’t see anything new or interesting I could do with him in its setting. And almost all of his companions exist as their gamverse selves, so the most I can do with them is fun nods and winks to their animeverse selves - and mostly I don’t really want to do much beyond that.

(There are some fun ideas I have for writing about Ash regarding tounge-in-cheek deconstructions of the wilder theories about his father along with less tounge-in-cheek reconstructing of his character, but those are best suited for the animeverse proper.)

But if that’s the case... Why do I bother bringing everyone else normally exclusive to the anime into the mix? Well, it happens to be very tied to both previous reasons: 

No Ash + Nature of the Yangverse = Countless possibilities for the minor animeverse characters (and the TRio)

Yep, I have fun plans for the Yangverse!TRio because I love those dorks, shut up. Not spoiling them just yet.

But if I’m not bringing Ash and co. in any of their incarnations into the Yangverse shenanigans, why am I making an exception for the TRio plus the countless lower-key and one-off characters the anime’s brought into the franchise over the years?

Well, as I said, Ash is the POV protagonist of the anime, and every character he meets is ultimately affected by him in some way. Getting rid of him in ITS narrative would ultimately have quite a ripple effect on them in their home canon by itself. And on top of that, the Yangverse is, again, rooted in the main series, with elements of canons from beyond either it or the anime as well, giving me plenty of room for repurposing the anime’s characters I adapt to it in fun ways, especially ones that have little in the way of backstory as is but still plenty of potential. So these characters all exist in the Yangverse, but most, if not all, under wildly different circumstances - and I want to have fun exploring those.

But none of all that has anything to do with any gripes of mine against Ash. He’s a good kid. He and his buddies - especially his bro Pikachu - can try and be the very best all they want on their home turf and in fics set in his ‘verse. He’s just not in the Yangverse because it’s sadly better for the Yangverse storytelling-wise and that’s all. Sorry you have to miss out on my fun, buddy.

[umbrasdoodles]

Another draw-over, this time of the old 300 "I am a generous god" meme but with Gijinka!Yangverse!Arceus. Do I intend to use this as an exploitable reaction image? You bet I do.