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Thinking about Barbatos, and how he knows that you're meant to end up with Diavolo. He's seen it already, in the numerous variations of the future, in the ones where Diavolo succeeds in his vision with you by his side. Your paths may cross with the brothers at first, but in the end, it's him; always him, your marriage being what unifies the realms in the end.
And so Barbatos resists you; averts his eyes when they catch yours across the room, keeps his exchanges with you brief and cordial. But it seems to do little good, because no matter what, you return to him each time with hope in your eyes and sunshine in your smile that only seems to appear just for him.
If only he could tell you the truth: that you weren't meant for him; you were meant for the Prince. It didn't matter that his heart fluttered when you were within arm's reach. It didn't matter that his gloved hands twitched to touch you. And it didn't matter how the loneliness felt heavier after a day spent in your company. You weren't his to take; and despite how you felt here and now, you didn't belong to him.
But he can't tell you, not without risking everything. After all, nothing makes a person veer off from their intended course more than letting them see the road that's been paved for them. Perhaps it's something innate in humans, a quality of their souls that makes them so stubborn, so resistant to fate as if it were something they, in all of their smallness, could control.
And Barbatos refuses to allow himself to give in to his secret desires, too aware of what such consequences could bring, how it could change the course of the future. He's already experienced the ramifications of his carelessness before, seen firsthand how it'd damaged those closest to him beyond repair. Surely, this would be no different, his own selfishness causing catastrophic changes, centuries of hard work disintegrating beneath the softest of kisses.
Barbatos is powerful beyond reason, but even for all of his ability to see and manipulate time, his powers have limits, particularly when it comes to himself. He is his own wild card, his actions and choices unpredictable thanks to how removed from time his ability makes him. His own lifespan doesn’t follow the strands in the way others' do, a predictable thread sewn into the tapestry next to so many others. Instead, he is more like the needle, with the ability to move the threads from one spot to the next, to bend them to his will to create a picture of his choosing.
His influence cannot be anticipated or predicted.
So he keeps himself forever distant, separate. A watcher, a puppeteer, but never an actor.
He hoped you'd find your way to the Young Lord eventually, let your feelings for him become a part of the past, washed away by time. But you wait, lingering like a lost kitten hoping to be let in.
If only Barbatos could know that the only way for you to find your way to the Young Lord would be through him; through your exploration of your love for him, and later, the inevitable falling out that would take place; a maelstrom of love and loss that would eventually cast you onto soft sandy shores, putting you directly into the Prince’s waiting, loving arms.
If only Barbatos knew that he had to let himself love you and lose you in order to get the future he thought he always wanted.
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Hey y'all I was recommended a video on Leo and as I was watching it and it came to this one scene from the 2012 series where the boys were cornering Stockman and Leo said:
"Halt villain-!"
In this cheesy superhero kind of way and it like hit me how actually young and carefree he was and then tHE TRAUMATIC EVENTS OF HIS LIFE HAPPENED AND HE NEVER DID STUFF LIKE THAT ANYMORE AND HIS BROTHERS PROBABLY MISS THOSE DORKY MOMENTS AND HIS INNOCENCE BASICALLY DIED AND I'M NOW OFFICIALLY SOBBING FUCK-
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S1B MEME TIME (part 2): sad Cuphead edition
*Spoiler alert*
It was at this moment that Cuphead knew he fuc*ed up
Poor lil' Muggy in hell
Gee- I felt like a monster while doing this. I'm sorry-
Or am I ? 👀
Wow thanks, Elder Kettle ! You're not helping at all 😀
A version with the Devil because I couldn't decide which one was best. This one feels ominous 👁👄👁
Time for Sad Dramatic Cuphead on a beach, replacing King Dice in part 1.
Oh no MY BABIES 🥺🥺🥺
LET THEM REUNITE AND HUG FFS !!!
Where are the fix-it/reunion/hurt-comfort/fluff fics people ?? 🥺
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guys im fuckingng cackling omg im waking up like damnnn i got a lot of tumblr notifications while i was asleep i wonder what thats about
oh.
guys.
the audios not even out yet akjshgdkajhdg but thank you, i'm getting the art done today (normally don't leave the art so last minute but this was a real spur of the moment audio that i only recorded yesterday and i wanted to be able to post it straight away cos i'm excited about it)
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"My Bond With You"
(3 page short KalpasEmile comic) 🔥🗡️
Loosely based off from the Marcia Funebre chapter of HI3. Instead of stumbling upon his "other self" in the somewhat dream sequence, Kalpas meets the ghost of his old friend. ಥ‿ಥ
let them be together mhy please
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Hi!!! I’m a huge fan of your work and have been dying to think of a request for you and I finally have one. I was wondering if you could write an angst fic about the reader feeling like Austin is embarrassed of her bc he hides his face in their paparazzi fics. I would love to see you create this story and make something beautiful out of it <3<3
omg babe I am so incredibly sorry that I literally didn’t register this as a message until just now. I never get messages like this so I totally missed it.
I will happily write this for you, dear anon, and hope that you see it—I love this message and it warms my heart to (albeit belatedly) see this. You’re a darling and I hope you know how much this means months later.
(But I’ll get straight on it for ya. Also idk how angsty you want me to go, so I’m going to feel it out and see if hurt/comfort or hurt/no comfort is the vibes, but it could absolutely go either way tbfh I like to hurt my own feelings sometimes)
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New Transmission
The fucking Scientific Instrument Class Pseudocons apparently developed what they're calling "Hetero Sapience" and are corrupting the brainmodules of the non-Pseudo 'cons around them by using annoying xenophilosophy words. Soundwave tells me they're 'Greek' and 'Latin' words, apparently. Cool, I guess?
Anyway, if you see any SI Class 'cons causing... issues, just try your hardest to turn your brainmodule off before you start getting infected with their weird lingo, alongside all the other issues pertaining to letting the SI Pseudocons transmit data into your brainmodule in their own weird ways.
Thundercracker, on a bet with Starscream, tried to get into an argument with one of them and his head literally exploded when it started talking about Alpha Trion's "Mythological Origins" in its weird dialect. He's mostly fine, CR Pods are working at 'peak' efficiency, but the facial reconstruction is apparently impossible due to some kind of corruption. I thought it was just some weird prank but there weren't even any scorch marks or anything. Just exploded. So yeah, just avoid optical contact and auditory contact to the best of your ability and you should be fine. Otherwise, try to force-shutdown your brainmodule if you can.
Shockwave is working on a cure right now, mostly because I know he had something to do with this in the first place so he's going to be the one to fix it.
He probably wanted a greater justification to do that weird data-transfer idea he mentioned previously. But it also explains the weird Thunderwing hypotheticals he's been asking me lately...
Can I go one fucking cycle without someone trying to "Perfect Thunderwing's Work" or whatever other idiotic drivel that I keep finding our limited energon reserves siphoned into?? It's not even a Shockwave thing, it's like every damn Cybertronian these days thinks they have the "Missing piece of the puzzle" or whatever. In fact, Shockwave might be doing this as a weird threat against the other R&D 'cons to cement himself as the one and only Decepticon "Allowed" to have resources wasted on projects like that. Ugh, now that I think about it, that's probably a correct assumption and he's probably gonna expect me to thank him for it later. Ugh, and he's probably literally right. Ugh.
At least his repairs both to himself and to his lab seem to be mostly complete so further research into the SI project should hopefully come along a little faster.
Both Shockwave and Soundwave think the SIs could potentially be used as some kind of specialty weapon, but we'll have to see how they work on sparkless lifeforms, like biological lifeforms or xenomechanical lifeforms. The SIs don't seem to corrupt each other, but Shockwave keeps reaffirming that they're not "Sparkless Lifeforms" because they "were never lifeforms to begin with"... but I think he's trying to hide something. Usually Soundwave is the one to pick up on that kind of technological obfuscation, but he actually agreed with Shockwave and offered to send Ratbat to try to work out exactly what each "sapient" SI is now capable of on a personal level.
We could have just had regular Cybertronians aboard to fill the role SIs fill. I would've preferred K Class to fill any role an SI could fill in all honesty!! But no, constructing cold wasn't enough, we just had to try to learn how to "Construct Frozen" and the "Absolute Zeroes" just had to be put on my ship.
Whatever. I've probably said too much already. This was supposed to be a warning for my ship crew, but it's looking like it'll end up being transcribed on the golden disk as well so when this new Scientific Instruments of Destruction project backfires in some absurdly bombastic way there will at least be something remaining that says I was right.
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New Transmission
Okay so I was right, but so was Shockwave and Soundwave. Or, well, they were right just enough to make sure the backfire is postponed for at least another handful of cycles. Ratbat is still in CR from the investigation, but the cure Shockwave developed seems to be effective and Thundercracker is out and aiding the repair effort. Shockwave is now in contact with one of the SIs digitally and the other few are... integrating due to the personal efforts of Soundwave. I suppose now would be pertinent to mention not all the SIs developed the "Hetero Sapience" condition, many of them are safe for interaction. Soundwave is also currently monitoring their presence, Ravage is tasked with the regular SIs and Laserbeak is tasked with the "Sapient" SIs. Shockwave probably knows exactly what caused this event but he is preoccupied with the one he no doubt is either indoctrinating or ruthlessly interrogating. Report to Soundwave if you see any suspicious behavior, he has been working very hard to ensure the SIs have their purpose clearly defined (And closely monitored).
And, Starscream, stop trying to convince the SIs that you are the leader of this ship. Not only have the majority of your efforts been wasted on subsentient automata, the only one you have actually found who possesses the ability to truly listen to you immediately came to the bridge to complain about you. They were the first sapient SI I communicated with directly and it was because they felt the need to complain about you. I almost feel embarrassed for you. Come back to the bridge so you can apologize to it or so I can teach it how to laugh at you. It's practicing right now actually!
This moment of chaos should hopefully be largely under control now, the actual "population" of Scientific Instrument Class Pseudocons was actually quite fewer than initially expected due to an indexing error incorrectly labeling certain shells as SI class.
At the very least, we have some more specialty warriors because of it all.
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