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[theforestsys69]

Quicksilver wip

This is the first fan-fiction I’ve ever written so please bear with me.

I started this a month ago and thought I’d post it and see what you guys thought and if I should continue it.

I was enjoying my daily walk, roaming through the field near my house, listening to music as the sun rose. Mouthing the words as if I was singing aloud to 'James Deen You Let Us Down' as I started to pick wildflowers, not completely paying attention to my surroundings, more lost in thought. I had left the X-men a couple of years ago now. The daily stress had taken a horrible toll on me. I had only been there a few years before Charles had pulled me aside and asked if I wanted to take a break as he saw how much the daily threats to me and friends were wearing on me. He offered this property so I could stay close. "Just in case" he said. It was a small ranch house with an equally small ranch built just nearby. I am a happy owner of about 30 acres of land, most of it woods or old fields that grow nothing but weeds and flowers at this point. I barely left except to get groceries once a week. It was just me, my powers and this sweet ranch.

I was suddenly snapped from my thoughts when I felt someone else in them. "Y/N, I'm sorry but we need you at the X-mansion now." Prof. Xavier spoke from Ceribro to my mind.

"What happened?" I pushed the thought to the top of my mind so he could hear it.

"I will explain when you get here."

So I ran from the field, abandoning my flowers to get to my house to change from my ratty pjs and grab my keys.

Once I got to the mansion I noticed the building looked strange, not putting too much thought into it, I quickly ran to the doors and entered them to see.. no one? No kids running around and a mess of the place? I rush to the elevator press the last button for basement.

Once I'm down I am greeted by something new, or rather someone new. He zooms past me then stops and zooms to where I am in a blur and even though I technically witness it all, I barely process it with how fast it happens.

"Sorry hot stuff, private property, ya gotta go." This silver-haired guy spoke far too calmly for someone who probably lived through the scene upstairs.

"No, I definitely belong here." I spoke with confusion painted all over my face. Did Charles not tell them I was coming? I couldn’t help the slight smile that lit my face at the pet name but the confusion covered it. Mostly.

"I'm not that easy, now get out of here." A irritation was starting to join his tone, slightly dropping the nonchalant attitude.

Before I had a chance to respond Charles entered the room. "Ah, I'm glad to see you made it, Y/N.” He said slightly smiling, moving towards us. “I was worried something had happened."

The speedster in front of me seemed shocked with the familiarity he spoke with.

I barely listened to his words, just excited to see him alive and well. "Charles Xavier, you have no idea what a pleasure it is to see you. What all happened around here?" I inquired, the confusion turning to excitement then into worry.

"Come along my dear, join us in the meeting room, we have much to discuss." He told us, words coated with urgency.

The walk to the room was almost entirely quiet, only broken by the occasional sneeze or cough, but I couldn’t focus on that, my attention was entirely on how long the Silverboy had been staring.

Finally turning to face him, I barked “What are ya looking at?” I let the irritation take over more than I would have liked, managing to scare even myself

My next statement is much calmer. “Who even are you?”

“Quicksilver.” He says quickly. Seems on brand.

“Real name.” I state.

“You could have just said you’re curious about me, babe.” He smirks. “It’s Peter Maximoff.” He slightly tilts his head at my slight blush.

“Thank you, Peter.” I say slightly happier now, trying to ignore how he is making me feel and I attempt to put my irritated facade back on.

Our moment is quickly interrupted by Charles announcing we’re here, making me quickly break eye contact. I open the door for Charles and Peter and go in after them, taking a seat next to Ororo who is excited to see me and give me a hug.

“Oh my goddess, how have you been? It’s been forever!” She cooed as she pulled me into another hug.

“I’ve been good, great actually.” I say as I pull away from the hug only to stay attached by her arms still slightly holding me. “After all this you should stop by the ranch, you’d love it.” I smile ear to ear seeing her again after all this time.

“I would love to and I’m sure Jean and Scott would love to see it too! Oh honey, it’s so nice to see you doing good, especially because of how I saw you last.”

She looked sorrowful as she remembered past me. “If this is going to take a toll on you the same please tell me, I’m sure you can go back to retirement, sweetheart, if need be.”

“Thank you, Ororo, but I think I’ll be okay for one mission and honestly? I kinda missed it.” I looked hopeful.

I am once again interrupted by Charles but for good reason. “Dr. Trask is back.” Charles spoke solemnly.

Once the words were spoken I felt a tremble down my spine. “THE Dr. Trask, not someone else with the same name? The guy you guys barely saved me from getting experimented on and killed by? The reason I retired? Totally different guy, yes?” I stood up from my seat, unable to just sit anymore.

Everyone looked away from me except Charles. I wish the sorrow in his eyes was enough to calm my storm. “I’m so sorry Y/N but it’s him. You can either keep half the kids from the same fate as you or worse or walk out. Your choice.”

Ororo took my hand in hers, breaking my eye contact with charles. “Honey, please sit. I know it’s hard, but we need you hun.” Her eyes were pleading.

I looked around to see the same look in all my old friends' eyes, well the ones I could see. Even people I had yet to meet seemed to look at me with some form of hope.

I took a seat and tried to push my feelings back as Charles continued. “We believe he took all the children and is planning on experimenting on them. He has been trying to make better Sentinels and he has so far gotten nowhere.” His tone is stern and serious. “But with the kids, he may be able to use some of their genes to create his dream Sentinels. Some of the kids are safe and were able to escape before getting captured.”

“So what’s the plan?” Scott questioned.

I know, it’s a pretty boring start. So sorry. Tell me what you think and what I should change. Also sorry about writing Storm more southern, it’s how she sounds in my head for some reason lol.

Love and blessings to you all! <33

Divider made by: @dollywons

[susie-dreemurr]

YT comments when a male character is being paranoid and irrationally mean: aww man :( I miss when everyone was happy. He’s fun and sassy, but I hope they make up :( I just want him to be safe, man.

YT comments when a female character is being paranoid and irrationally mean: UGH, why’s she always blaming my poor fave for everything? She’s an annoying bum now, I hate her :/// Only cares about herself, that bitch.

[fratboykate]

Papi, are you alive? Thunderbolts trailer leaked and we got Hailee back from the dead (and there's the movie with Andrew and Florence and its KYAU coded as fuck) Kate and Yelena content galor this week. PLEASE COME BACK. We've been deprived for a year. It's been jail for too long. Grace us with Kate x Yelena content again. Pretty please.

*taps mic* Is this thing on?

[crossbackpoke-check]

Why I Am Not Coming In To Work Today [abridged], Jess Zimmerman

part one | part two

[mel-loly]

-“The Sun loves the Moon so much that he tries to do everything to make it close to you..

Even pick up every dandelion and wish for it...

He also are always praying to God that someday they can be together and for sure, still close to each other..”

-Mel, Designer.

@manpleblog/@alsomanple

[erabundus]

HAPPY BLOG ANNIVERSARY!

it's  officially  midnight  here,  which  means  i'm  allowed  to  post  this!  so ...  happy  one  year  anniversary  of  enduring  the  plague  of  avalon  upon  your  dashboards!  alternatively,  thank  you  so  much  for  giving  me  a  place  to  babble  about  my  #1  favorite  comfort  character  who  has  experienced  zero  comfort.  (  i  swear  i  am  being  SO  NORMAL  about  this.  yes i did literally buy  cake  and  party  hats.  )  whether  we  speak  on  the  daily,  you've  just  gotten  here  or  anywhere  in  between,  i  want  to  extend  my  sincerest  gratitude  for  being  on  this  absolutely  wild  ride  of  a  blog  with  me.  there's  been  ups  and  downs,  but  ultimately  i  feel  like  my  passion  for  writing  has  been  ignited  stronger  than  it's  ever  been  before.  i  am  still  always  so  excited  whenever  i  get  the  chance  to  log  on  here  and  create  stories  with  all  of  you  —  and  i  wouldn't  have  that  opportunity  if  it  wasn't  for  this little  corner  of  the  internet  you've  helped  make truly special.

there  are  so  many  of  you  i  feel  lucky  to  have  met.  (  and  so  many  i  would  love  to  get  to  know  better,  too!  )  i  hope  we  can  continue  writing  together  for  many  more  anniversaries  to  come.  and  if  the  day  ever  comes  that  they  finally  pull  the  plug  on  this  cockroach  of  a  hellsite,  i'll  forever remember  this  community  as  the  rpc  that  got me to  laugh  at  petrichor.

have  a  wonderful  day  /  night!  i'm  sharing  the  cake  with  everyone  in  spirit.

[pardonmydelays]

the funniest thing that always happens to me is that every time we have a customer who doesn't speak polish and they ask me if i speak english i'm like "no, i don't think i do" only to realize a few minutes later that i do, in fact, speak english

[necrotic-nephilim]

i love your fics and the ideas you describe for the ask games. i'm especially fond of your takes on the rarer pairings and i always smile when i see your posts in the ship tags <3

and don't stress too much about not posting anything, real life is important and participating in fandom should be fun, not something you have to force yourself to do. god knows fandom burnout is real, especially if you feel like people are expecting something from you. just keep doing what makes you happy :)

ghgfhgjhkjhjhg this was so sweet, thank you so much! i *love* talking about rarer rarepairs, especially if it gets other people to ship them too. the popular ships are fun and all, but i truly love spreading rarepair propaganda.

that's very reassuring, thank you <3 i've loved everything i posted here so far and have not felt pushed to post anything i haven't enjoyed, but sometimes i forget i can like. use this blog for whatever i want and not *just* headcanons/fics/mets/etc lol. and i also forget i don't have to rush myself. it's annoying to want to write and either not have time or not have the words work. i used to run a fandom blog in my teens that got very large and felt like a chore and i was so stressed about the need to perform and the numbers and all of that. like if a fic didn't do well i saw it as a personal failing and forced myself to write popular headcanons just for the numbers game. was not fun or sustainable in the long run and i think it contributed to me no longer having any taste for the ship i primarily wrote for. so for too long i treated existing in fandom like a job lol. i've mostly gotten it through to myself that this is a space for me, but i occasionally forget when i'm so caught up in all the things i want to get to for this blog. my to-write list is a mile long and i need to be bonked with a paper towel roll, i think. so it's very kind of you to say this bc the reminder is nice <3

[kudamono94]

I'm trying to be more active on my blog again, so take some trash memes I spent like an hour on lol

Also sorry they're all Zapp related in advance - I got a lot of the ideas for making these at work, and with the new Futurama episodes airing in just a few days, I'd figure I'd make something for one of my favorite characters✨ That said, since I am once again trying to be more active here, it might be a while before I post anything substantial bc I want to go through and reblog stuff/sort through my blog for a bit, so in that case, if anyone likes these memes and wants to talk about the upcoming seasons/new episodes airing on the 29th, then pls feel free to spam me lol - my inbox is always open in general, but I love when people talk about Futurama especially~

(You get bonus points if you want to also talk about Fry or Zapp too btw)~

Anywho, onto the stuff I put together - and to anyone who actually turns out to like this, stick around for the read more if you're a Yancy fan, maybe ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ?

Here's that bonus Yancy content I promised lol - and to anyone who actually made it to the bottom of this post, thank you for taking the time to get here~ I hope everyone has a great day, and here's looking forward to the new episodes starting on the 29th~ Happy viewing :3

[jrueships]

Do u not ship tatum and brown 💔

[byanyan]

@grimesucker sent 🤳 + 5 for:

ㅤbyan's family (biological, adopted, & found); feat. sol, the boyfriend (@lee-sol); lena, the older sister (@chronal-anomaly); ardaka, the parental sibling figure (@apexulansis); kit, the (sort of but not technically) younger sister (@florafound); garrett, the vaguely guardian-esque figure (@gnarledbite); & dox, the mom (@grimesucker)

[nobodies-png]

it's been a year since my last post here, but ... haha hear me out ... 2023-2024 comeback...

[elegyofthemoon]

While reading the relic story for Fleet of the Ageless, I ran into some mention of the "Three Sufferings":

Yet, just like the shifting of the sun and moon, what once prospered was fated to decline and what once brought elation must eventually induce agony. It was not until the arrival of the Three Sufferings, when people were tormented to near extinction, that the Xianzhou people finally came to understand the true nature of this so-called miracle, which was nothing but harrowing calamity. (The Xianzhou Luofu's Celestial Ark)

And I'm not really sure if they mention it elsewhere on the Luofu (I'm very slowly going through everything. Except I keep getting sucked into reading Belobog stuff >_>), but what it did make me think about however is that in Buddhism, there is something called the "three marks of existence", which refers to the three sources of suffering in the world. So I wanted to mostly write this up as a comparison between what's going on in the Luofu vs. Buddhist belief! (And a very big warning: I might be skimming over important details about the religion. I was born into a culture that is very heavily influenced by Buddhism and have grown up with some understanding of it while having to study it on my own, so I'm sure I'll get a lot of details wrong. So if I get anything wrong, you're always welcome to chime in!)

At least in my memory, I remembered that there was a suffering because of attachment to objects, to self, and to others -- all with the concept that all things do not last, so I had to search up these names properly.

anicca (impermanence): This is the core concept in which nothing lasts in this world. The inability to recognize the impermanence of life will then lead to grief -- suffering -- that humans face, as a result. You can actually see this with the Sanctus Medicus's desire for eternal life with Dan Shu who grieved the loss of her friend Yufei via the diaries that you could pick up

It's this idea of attachment to something bound to end some way or another that will inevitably lead to suffering/pain when that loss comes.

dukkha (suffering): The idea behind this mark is that the truth is that life cannot be satisfied. If there isn't suffering, there are moments of joy, but as all things in life, even the joy is brief.

I wouldn't exactly be able to pinpoint how this gets carried out on the Luofu. I would have said something about how the Luofu had once sought out eternal life which then led to the implanting of the Ambrosial Arbor by Yaoshi, but now are unsatisfied by their gift of eternal life to them. I could also say that at least with the longer lives that the Xianzhou natives have, they eventually lose interest in life itself because they've had the chance to sought out anything they could with their many years, which is better described in Yukong's third character story:

and for the final mark of existence: anatta (not self): If suffering comes from attachment, then an attachment to an image of one's self too can lead to a source of suffering. With time, everyone is bound to change and grow, so any attempts in trying to hold onto one specific image could lead to a source of pain.

I think the best way to display this concept is actually through Yaoshi's acts and why the Alliance condemns them and their "abominations" (themselves included :'D). To rid of the suffering that comes with death, Yaoshi hopes to grant the gift of eternal life, but it seems that coming back from the dead doesn't mean returning to one's old self, which I feel can be seen at least with Blade's case with his revival and no longer being Yingxing. These undead are what the Alliance hopes to get rid of. I think it can also be seen through Bailu's story quest with the girl who slowly becomes marastruck who panics the moment the armor and her skin becomes melded into each other, no longer able to retain her former image before meeting and reuniting with her lover, in which case the idea of "self" is an attachment to a physical form rather than something more abstract instead, and that leading to her own suffering in the end.

I'm sure that a lot of Hoyo's writing with weaving in Buddhism with the Luofu lore isn't coincidental (looks at Dan Heng) , and I'm sure that there's bound to be better show of each of these principles, but I think this is what Hoyo might be referring to when they write about the "Three Sufferings" in the relic. Maybe I'll come back to this post later if I find better evidence BUT I thought worth noting at least for now :) ty for reading if you made it this far

[paperlovesadness]

Did I just spend way too much time trying to "scientifically" determine the ranking of my favorite AM albums - even though I'm canonically terrible at math (proven fact) and hate it? Yes. Yes I did.

Because next to being a purely artistic, humanities-focused right-brained person I am also a Capricorn. And earth sign. Obsessed with lists and rankings and determining things as objectively as possible. Even when it's impossible.

(Anyway - my podium is apparently TBHC, WPSIATWIN [a little surprise] and The Car very closely followed by SIAS)

Which actually does make sense when I think it through.

(Anyway - I still love all of the children very much).

[abyssembraced]

Okay, so! I have:

Changed the url of the blog (scale-tippers -> abyssembraced)

Changed the colour scheme of the blog (though it's still somewhat subject to change)

Updated the avatar to reflect the new colour scheme (though it's still temporary until I draw a nicer one)

Removed my old promo as my pinned post due to it being outdated (a temporary pinned post with links and stuff will be up in a sec; a new promo will come eventually, probably once I finish writing Rouxls' bio page)

Archived (dropped) Ryunosuke and Robin as muses for the time being.