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If they wanted to attack her, she'd gladly oblige... though, even animals that large are still just animals. She prefers to fight opponents who can understand why they're fighting.

That's how she justifies her choice to just sit around and watch them, anyway. Can't have anyone thinking she's lazy. Or worse... actually impressed.

"I thought humans all lived on the same planet. 'Habitable zones' or something. Speaking of, isn't this a dangerous place for you to be?"

"Not mine, that's for sure. I've never even heard of dinasours where I come from, but I'd prefer to have them around over most people I know. They're a lot easier to understand- you don't bother them, they won't bother you...mostly."

She'd been through this song-and-dance before, so she had some idea of how to handle the dinos. Though the fact remained they were big, strong monsters- if any decided she and this big lady were worth attacking, there might be trouble.

#tremorstep #jasper condescending moment lol #get her ass

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"So those are dinosaurs?"

She's pointing to a herd of long-necked behemoths peacefully demolishing a forest's worth of trees.

"You're telling me Earth used to be full of these monsters, but then they replaced them with worse animals? Whose idea was that?!"

#isola mini #ir event: shore #gems having an extensive understanding of geology but no grasp on biology is funny to me #also jaspy would love dinosaurs.... #earth can make good things sometimes maybe

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"That's only because I haven't gotten to them yet."

Don't tell anyone she's been here for years.

Woah! That's a big lady. People in this city still manage to surprise him.

"I mean, they're pullin' dumb stunts all the time, don't ya' think?"

"Sounds like no one's been real successful at doin' anything about it yet, though." He's hardly been able to get any more information than what's already been given about them, anyway-- for all his snooping is worth.

#amoirsetpacis #me when there's an event happening now and i still do nothing... help

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"Next time the Stars pull some dumb stunt, I'm gonna have to do something about it."

#isola mini #hi i uh... just blanked out for the whole month #ask her what she would even do it'll be funny

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"Pff!" A derisive snort cuts through the crowd. Not that there tends to be a crowd for very long when she's around.

"That's a good look for you."

sometimes your wife dies and you get silly about it (open)

Being the Warrior of Light meant that many died at your hands, and many can die because of your actions. It is a life heavy with weight, a soul shackled to responsibility, duty, and a morality only you can decide the limits of. Where your personhood started and your figurehood ended was another matter, and eventually you had to come to terms with who you are now.

That was why they had become a clown. And why they were amusing a small crowd with simple magic tricks and other illusions. Some were card tricks and misdirection, others were more prop focused but nothing too fancy.

And some of it was mime routines. Physical comedy. The kids loved it. The parents were attracted to it. Why?

They didn’t care. The little bucket full of dustcoins was all that mattered. Hard money for a hard day’s work.

#requiemforthefallengodsbow #this is EXACTLY how you greet a friend. nothing is wrong #little clown ass.....

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"Huh. I was gonna get married once. I almost forgot about that."

#isola mini #who remembers jasper and hornet... #continuity? in MY blog? it's likely

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She's standing around holding a cup with a mildly bemused expression.

"I thought 'punch' meant something else."

#isola mini #she said she'd be at the wedding months ago so here she is #please acknowledge her presence she'll be embarrassed

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"What, you just want to fight me? I don't even have to insult you first?"

"Well, I'm not gonna turn you down. You got a weapon, or just your hands?" She holds up a fist. The sheer size of it should maybe be a warning.

"If you want a fight, then I'm right here!"

Frye's been feeling pretty restless lately anyways, so a good match with someone would probably help her chill out a bit!

She'd be reconsidering this idea if she knew literally anything about Jasper to know how strong she actually is.

#moraypower #i love violence

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"People are going in there on purpose now? Huh, so threatening to throw them in doesn't work anymore..."

"I was asleep, so I dunno, but I just saw like four people jump into the hole at once. So, more than normal."

#forsakenpumpkin #just being silly

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"Something isn't right. Where is everyone?

"I haven't picked a fight in way too long."

#isola mini #goes into the woods so no one bothers her #gets mad because no one is bothering her

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𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐑𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐃 𝐂𝐋𝐄𝐀𝐍 , 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓'𝐒 𝐀𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐄 ?

cauterizing rage

the house has burned around you, and you’re the only one left standing. is it gratifying to be the survivor? fear and anger are weapons in your capable hands, used only to serve your agenda of fighting back when deemed necessary. you're a powerful person, built from the ashes of your despair and your family's mistakes. with time, you'll bloom into someone softer, like the full blossoms that grow each spring and wither away with the leaves in fall. they won't disappear if you take your eyes off of them. you're enough.

#meme friday #girl help this is so good #maybe don't use flower metaphors in front of her though

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redlichbluelich​:

“Don’t you use magic? I saw you manifest out of a rock,” Barry says, though it’s half rhetorical at this point – he’s hardly expecting a productive conversation.

“Nice save.” He rolls his eyes, but then his expression softens into something more resigned. “Look, we both want the same thing. You clearly know the situation better than I– than I do, so I’m gonna keep followin’ you for now.”

He finds the quickest path he can to go around the destroyed machinery, and takes a moment to catch up with her long stride again. “Alright, new direction, why not. Think there’ll be more down this way?”

"You really don’t shut up, huh.”

There’s a hint of resignation in her tone. She doesn’t have it in her to get angry every time he talks. Well, maybe she does, but she doesn’t want to.

She leads on, ignoring his questions. Obviously she knows where she’s going. It’s all as familiar as if she’d lived her whole life here.

There: one of the holes in the sandstone is clearly different. While they’ve all varied in size and shape with the defective Gems they belonged to, they were still obviously exit holes. And they were millennia old, their distinct outlines only preserved by the metamorphic heat with which the figures had taken form. This, here, is a new excavation: the rock scratched away from the original opening until it left an ugly, gaping wound in the wall.

It wasn’t really an improvement.

The canyon winds in a tight corner here, and beyond it a dead end—and here, every hole has been dug out, bearing the same coarse claw-marks. Metal spikes made from destroyed injectors’ legs have been driven through the stone in front of each one, forming makeshift prison bars.

This is where... yeah, that’s right. Some of the cells are empty, the bars having fallen loose over time. But the occupied ones belong to the dreaded Cluster prototypes: writhing masses of mismatched body parts, resulting from the shards of different Gems being forced together. She holds back a shudder at the thought.

“These ones aren’t going anywhere.” Jasper can already sense the new wave of questions on the way, and she turns preemptively to give Barry a little (big) push toward the closest cell on the left. “So, get to work. I don’t care how you dispatch them. Just bring the gems to me before they can reform.”

She takes the one across, bending back the metal she’d straightened in the first place to reach in and grab the wretch by what is trying to be their head.

#redlichbluelich #isola challenge #body horror cw #we're getting there...

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whohassummonedme​:

Yeah, no shoot, Sherlock. I coast by most discussions by attempting to be distant and wise, but I’m actually just vague and trying to sound smart by putting the onus of truth on others, so it seems like I’m leading them to a realization. I haven’t had any idea what I’ve been doing for four hundred, ninety-five thousand years.

I don’t want to give you a new purpose. I’m terrible at giving people new purposes. The only real skill I’ve seemed to cultivate this whole time is self-sabotage, and destroying the attempts of others from the inside, while demanding success from them.

How about you fight for yourself, and giving yourself value in this world? How about you try that?

A growl rises in her throat, only to die back down as he admits something he probably didn’t want to. Unless he’s just saying all that to mess with her, she wouldn’t put it past him... still.

That’s a long time.

Of course, he just has to remind her of how little, how insignificant she is.

“I... I don’t know how to do that.” Sometimes the honest answer is the simplest one. “How about I just fight you? That makes more sense.”

#whohassummonedme #ir event: a crocus among us

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whohassummonedme​:

I can’t tell you what’s wrong with you. I can tell you what bothers me about you, but only you would know what’s wrong with you. You’ve been you this whole time.

You sound like a wonderful soldier. Never stopping, wanting to be of use and working for whoever would give you that. The problem is that you’re more than a soldier, and you want a purpose outside of that. Or at least alongside it.

“You wanna know what’s wrong with you? You keep saying things like that.”

“Oh, no, I’ve heard that one before. It didn’t end well. You’re not giving me a new purpose. I don’t want one anyway! I just want my old one back!” Her old purpose, losing a war and making an utter fool of herself for 5000 years. It’s still better than... whatever she’s doing now. “I want something to be worth fighting for again.”

#whohassummonedme #ir event: a crocus among us

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whohassummonedme​:

What, then, is wrong with you?

...

“I thought you were telling me!” An ineffectual punch lands against his leg. She has to pretend she wasn’t trying. “I guess you can’t see too well from up there, but there’s nothing right with me. I’m not supposed to be like this. When I was made, I was perfect. That’s what I thought, anyway. But if I was really perfect, there’d be nothing to improve on.”

“I'm useless! No one has a use for me, so nobody wants me around. And I can’t even blame ‘em—I don’t want me around, either!”

#whohassummonedme #ir event: a crocus among us

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whohassummonedme​:

Tried doing anything with your defects. Changing them, improving them, getting around them. I’m not you, so I don’t know what they are.

Have you tried that? Are you doing anything about them?

“It doesn’t work like that! I can’t fix what I am.”

“I train every day. I turn my anger into strength. There’s always more of it... so I know my work isn’t done yet.”

#whohassummonedme #ir event: a crocus among us

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whohassummonedme​:

Well, you aren’t very good at it so far. I would like to help.

Then remove them. Empower them. Support them. Work around them. What stops you? Have you tried?

“Tried... what?”

#whohassummonedme #ir event: a crocus among us #homophobic that jasper makes some of her best expressions behind this pink wall