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I never shared my Mistborn animatic here so I may as well post it now👍

reproduced/used under license from Dragonsteel, LLC.

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Ranger Gathering 2024

Prompt 9 - Guilty

Trigger Warnings for uuuuuh Blood / Death / Injury / General Bad Vibes

This Prompt Fic uses an OC I made a long time ago, before I knew about Royal Ranger. If you don’t like reading OC content then this ain’t for you.

This Prompt uses of my OCs. His name is Ansalon Prier and additional information for him will be under the cut as well. His father may appear or be mentioned in these prompts. His name is Geldon, he’s a senior Ranger, it’s not super important (another OC. Shocking I know)

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Ansalon sat on the steps of the old cabin. He knew he had time. Setting his elbows on his knees, he tried to catch his breath. This was it. He'd made his choice. He knew that. He knew there was no going back now, but even still, his hands wouldn’t stop shaking.

He tried to wipe the blood off of his hands when he realized he was covered in the stuff. He stood up abruptly, stepping off of the porch, his footsteps staining the grass red. It wasn’t supposed to be this way.

This isn’t the first time Ansalon had taken a life. He was a Ranger. He killed for a living. Killed for the King for a living. For a King he barely knew, for people who barely knew him. Who were afraid of him. Why? Why wouldn’t he listen? It was all wrong. We can’t keep going like this.

His cheek throbbed where blood oozed steadily from a gash there. He’d almost had his eye taken out. The vertical slash started less than an inch below his right eye, and ended just past his jaw. He needed to stitch it up. He could use the mirror in the bathroom- No. Don’t go back in there. You can’t go back in there.

This wasn’t the first time Ansalon had been here. This was the cabin he grew up in. He’d trained in the backyard. He learned to cook in the kitchen. This would be the last time he saw it.

All he had to do was listen. Why didn’t he listen!? He didn’t even need to agree. He could have told Ansalon to leave. Told him to get out. Cursed him. Anything else. He would have gone. He didn't want it to be this way. But he pulled a knife. 

Ansalon could hear a horse in the stable. The first ranger horse he’d ever known. She was upset. She was angry. Of course she was. He had killed her Ranger. He looked up and saw his own horse, Shade, staring at him. Concern washed over the horse's face. Concern for him.

This wasn’t the first time Ansalon had taken a life. This was the first time Ansalon had killed someone he’d known. Someone he’d loved. The man who trained him. The man who had given up so much for him. Geldon Prier, King’s Ranger. There was no turning back now.

He was no longer a Ranger. Ansalon Prier had just killed his father.

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Welcome to the Ranger Gathering, coming August 2024!

Without further ado, here are the prompts for this year's Gathering.

How it works:

The Ranger Gathering will run for the entire the month of August, 2024. Please note this is a change from last year in order to give people more time to prepare. Each day has a prompt that participants can post about Ranger's Apprentice, The Early Years, The Royal Ranger, or Brotherband.

Check out last year’s stuff here!

If you want to participate, tag your post with #ranger gathering 2024 so we can all find it!

A few notes on the Gathering:

You do NOT have to do all the prompts, or even most of the prompts to participate in the Gathering! The most important thing is to have fun and avoid burnout. Pick whichever prompts inspire your creativity, and ignore the rest.

The Gathering is meant to show off all forms of creativity! This means art, music, writing, memes, textpost, moodboards, playlists, or whatever else you can come up with. Don't feel like you can't participate if you're not an artist or author.

This blog is going to showcase a few posts from the tag every day of the Gathering, so make sure you support the creators with reblogs and comments.

Good luck, and see you all at the Gathering!

Text Prompts:

1. Dawn

2. Hero

3. Resist

4. Experience

5. Alone

6. Mentor

7. Culture

8. Puzzle

9. Guilty

10. Navigate

11. Siege

12. Trap

13. Tattoo

14. Letter

15. Ignite

16. Game

17. Paranormal

18. Loss

19. Oak

20. Laugh

21. Panic

22. Protect

23. Stone

24. Destroy

25. Companion

26. Sunset

27. Beast

28. Confident

29. Kingdom

30. Wedding

31. Belonging

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You guys just have to trust me on this one and click here okay?

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Hoid is such a weird character if only for his apparent affinity for Roshar of all places in the Cosmere. If I were a worldhopper, "weekly hurricane planet stuck in the middle ages" is not necessarily where I'd want to be.

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Shallan Davar is a disaster and I love her (audio from Tom Cardy)

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Transforming Love

Thinking about this scene I decided to try myself at the lyrical structure of the vorin ketek poetry, which was a fun challenge itself. Then I wondered, if one could make a ketek in comic form as well. I really love this moment, because in all the rollercoaster ride of emotions in Oathbringer's finale it is the pivoting moment to me. With in a single, small moment of love and compassion from one cousin to another the whole mood softly shifts into a new gear. So the symmetrical, yet transformative nature of a ketek seemed to fit just right.

So enjoy and have a great start into the week. ❤️

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kind of getting emotional about Pattern right now. he knew Shallan would probably end up killing him. he knew. he was there when Testament died, and yet he still bonded her. he was so invested in learning about humans and finding a way to save his people that he chose to go on what he believed was a suicide mission because he thought the knowledge he’d gain would protect them. i know he’s a Cryptic, but he is Honorspren to me

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Fucking hate ai bitches this shit is poisoning my search results just like that tumblr baby crow post fuck y'all for real

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"Olimar who? never heard of him. Me and my dog here are just humble practitioners of Dandori..."

Very excited to find out whoever this guy is when the game comes out.

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Kaladin: This is my little brother Tien, he was a wonderful human who cared more for others than himself, taught me to do what I think is the right thing to do no matter what, and I will forever miss him and treasure my memories with him.

Adolin: This is my little brother Renarin, he’s a RADIANT, adorable, A WONDERFUL AND KIND BOY, AAAND SO INCREDIBLY SMART.

Marsh: This is my little brother Kelsier. He has rabies.

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szeth is all like "I hate killing people. I hate myself for killing people. Why must I kill people all the time" and then every time he fights it's the most elaborate fight scene ever. There is ONE GUARD and he lashes him upwards, binds him to the ceiling, puts his own spear under him, and then waits for the lashing to run out so the guard falls down and is impaled. and every fight scene is like that. if you think murder is morally wrong why did you do that to him

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Makes me sad that all the deaths and the large time frame that the Cosmere takes place on prevents a proper crossover.

If Dalinar had known Tindwyl all of Oathbringer would be 2 chapters bc the coalition of monarchs would have no choice but to listen to her

Imagine Mistborn and Windrunners flying around, showing the other the intricacies of how their flight works

Adolin, Elend, and Raoden would be the triumvirate of Good Boys while their slightly insane wives could get together and have tea or smthn

Lightsong and Wayne will never get to compete for title of Most Insufferable

Imagine Hrathen learning of the shards and varying religions of the Cosmere and having another crisis of faith

Imagine introducing Scadrians and Rosharans to Nalthis, a place that has Good Plants and Nature

Steris and Renarin bond over being autistic in a world that is hard to navigate even when you’re neurotypical

Combining fabrials and allomancy to give Mistborn a new type of flight

Syl being drawn to Vin for how similar she is to Kal (read: grumbly with a severe case of rbf)

Vin showing off her koloss sword to shardbearers

Rosharans seeing aviar and losing their minds over the variety of chickens

Rosharans seeing any animal that isn’t a crab or slug and losing their minds

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I like Horace because his weaknesses AND strengths as a character are that he’s Just Some Guy. Like he just follows you around, fights during whatever happens and then asks when’s lunch. There’s no personal drama there’s no overt superpower there’s no underlying dire consequence he constantly goes through. He just exists and can swing a sword pretty good. Where he falters? He’s scared of the dark. He’s scared of heights. He’s scared of claustrophobic spaces. He doesn’t think about the yknow inevitability of death or anything like that he’s Just Some Guy

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No it’s complicateds. I’m making you pick. If on a reread, which book were you rereading?

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I wish pattern had a mouth I feel like he'd love eating