OKAY Y'ALL
Have a Hallowen gift for all of the FTM Hawke's out there:
Hawke: *staring at Varric's hairy chest*
Varric: (smirks) "Everyone loves the chest hair."
Hawke: (Lil sad tone) "I wish I had chest hair."
Varric: (Sincerely, softly) "I would give you mine, Hawke."
Hawke: ... *smiles*
Hawke: (teasing) "Give it to me then!" Reaches for Varric
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just realised a neat thing.
so, the beta kids' respective denizens are typheus for john, cetus for rose (not technically explicitly confirmed but cetus is her browser so its basically confirmed), hephaestus for dave and echidna for jade.
dave and jade have, at some point, obtained weapons from their denizens; davesprite gives john the code for fear no anvil, hephaestus's hammer, and jade has the quills of echidna at some point because they're a part of the bunny's arsenal. obviously, these match the strife specibi for the other two kids, with the quills being needlekind.
ahab's crosshairs is a reference to captain ahab from moby dick, who was killed by the titular whale. the constellation commonly associated with cetus is the whale. it's therefore not out of the question that at the very least something similar could be obtained if rose ever actually interacted with her denizen. and ahab's crosshairs is riflekind, the specibi for jade.
so in theory, the denizens give out weapons suitable for other players, and typheus could probably give john a sword (that would inevitably get broken via shenanigans) to suit dave's bladekind
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I remember when I first started BG3 and saw everyones PJs, I immediately saw Wylls croptop as a binder. And he alluded that his relationship with his dad is somewhat strained and I just remember thinking "oh, thats a transman, got it" and expected some Dorian Pavus-like backstory. Imagine my surprise when he got the horns instead lmao.
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First & Last Lines
Post the first and last lines of the last 10 fics you posted.
WIPs are welcome. Not super strict!!
Thanks for the tag @whimsicalmeerkat <3 This is a really cute game!
Triskelion Reign: The Shepherd, the Lamb and the Wolf
First Line: As the sole heir to his father’s crown and, according to the court healer, a particularly fertile omega, Stiles had always known his hand would be given to a suitor not for love, but for political security.
Last Line: “Inside,” he agrees.
2. Sweating Out Confessions (We'll Build Our Altar Here)
First Line: The dedication of worship has always presented a unique appeal to Stiles.
Last Line: He begs forgiveness to their gods in silent prayers as Scott takes him apart right there on the floor, but he knows his own sins are only of devotion to someone far more important than the faceless gods he’d only ever worshiped in word.
3. 'My Whole Life is a Reference to 1995 Hit Movie Clueless and I Still Don't Know the Plot' by Fall Out Boy
First Line: “I dunno man, that sounds like some real fairytale bullshit.”
Last Line: “Oh,” Stiles says. “I’m an idiot.”
4. Under My Skin
First Line: A sharp ringing pulses through Stiles’ head as he blinks back to consciousness.
Last Line: For now, he’s going to go be a normal teenager.
5. Thirsty
First Line: Dawn arrives with the fading smoke of a hard fought battle drifting into the horizon, melding with the fog of new day sun burning away the dew of night.
Last Line: “Go lock the door, please.”
6. Want You to Want Me
First Line: It’s not easy being a human member of a werewolf pack.
Last Line: “So,” he starts after stranding and pulling Stiles’ to his wobbly feet. “Mine or yours?”
7. Gumusservi
First Line: The stench of chlorine is still an unwelcome, stagnant presence in Jackson’s nose long after he’s shed the last of his scales and learned to embrace his inner wolf.
Last Line: “So, who’s topping?”
8. Touche (Confessions in the Dark)
First Line: The dull thwap of rubber hitting net is soft in the muggy twilight air.
Last Line: Stiles is almost struck dumb at the boldness, and Jackson smirks at him over his shoulder, stepping quickly towards the Jeep and tugging him along.
9. Elementary, My Dear Sheriff
First Line: “Bobby said you didn’t turn in your latest paper on time.”
Last Line: “Me too, kid,” Noah agrees. “Me too.”
10. Get It While It's Hot (Dessert sans Dinner)
First Line: Stiles has never been a particularly talented cook.
Last Line: Oh yeah, he can definitely go again.
Woo! What a list!! I didn't realize how few fics I'd written were like... wholly for me and not at least Partly for an event ehheh,, anyways!
low pressure tagging: @mirrorthoughts @outtoshatter @geekmom13 @one-fandom-became-all-fandoms @lucky-bishop @renmackree
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i mentioned in the oc q&a that sting does contracted work for a former gun researcher by the name of taz nocturn. let's get into that!
pictured from left to right: dr. nocturn (she/her), vi the caracal (they/them), and sting himself
to explain why sting's working for taz, i need to explain a bit of what's going on with her. long story short, taz left gun to pursue what started as a pet project. she's been experimenting with chaos energy, studying how it interacts with the organic and inorganic, all with an ulterior motive in mind. her research is completely secret. so secret, in fact, that her lab is an abandoned subway system that had been repurposed to suit her needs
vi is taz's assistant. with taz's permission, vi hired sting, having learned about him via a newspaper ad (where he was promoting his services, he was a little desperate for cash). taz and her scientists don't usually leave the subway, and vi can only travel so far...sting is the one they rely on to get them new equipment, new material, new intel. sting is also the person they contact to help them, uh, find participants for their experiments
sting does not know what it is they're testing for nor do the scientists want him to know, can't let anyone on the outside know what it is they're researching. he gets paid well enough to not question it, but he can't help but get a little curious...
in terms of interactions, almost all work-related meetings are with vi. sting has only spoken to taz...maybe about 2 times? 3? taz doesn't really leave her research. she appreciates that sting isn't one for small talk, and he appreciates that she gets right to the point
during the events of my fanstory, a certain blue hedgehog and two-tailed fox start snooping a bit too close to the lab, assuming that eggman is up to something (fair assumption). not wanting to risk discovery, vi called upon sting to go deal with them
if this interests you, please consider voting for sting! 🦂 vote for him here 🦂
if you want to learn more about him, check out his socs2 tag here!
@sonic-oc-showdown
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ok so while my ds is getting sand poured into it at alarming rates I'm thinking about how jrpgs in specific have a really weird desync with How Important Death Is. like some address it better than others but it very frequently happens where if you take a step back youll go "am I wild or is everybody just like, Really down with murder in this game". and consequences for said murder, especially in a characterization sense but even just actual physical consequences, don't really happen? unless it's a vehicle for conflict but like. when it is a vehicle for conflict it feels weird because why are These Guys actually taking the fact we killed somebody in broad daylight seriously and coming after us for it while all the other npcs and even the main party took it like it was another saturday evening
see I Think where the issue lies is in the fact that everything is in its own little world when you're in a battle? like. when you fight an enemy and you get leather out of it it's seen as something the enemy Drops and not. their hide. when you defeat a character in a battle it does just feel like you Defeated them. unless there's dialogue afterwards that says otherwise you don't even mentally assume you killed em you just wounded them enough to make them flee or dissolve or whatever. and it's Weird to just. have that assumption there because for a lot of games it really isn't clear if you're killing them or defeating them !!
that last point is extra important when you have the specific brand of Skittish Hero / Noble Hero Who Doesn't Kill People / Rational Hero In Way Over Their Head or whatever where you really don't think they Would kill a guy just to get them out of the way. in that case it's REALLY weird because it's hardly brought up. even if it Is brought up that that guy Sure Did Die the mc doesn't tend to actually have a reaction ??? and I don't know why this is ???? like Any written reaction would be more interesting than nothing even if the guy doesn't have a full on crisis about taking another life having them go "oh shit, The Consequences" would be nice. really anything except (oh cool we can advance the plot now).
I will also mention that Some deaths do matter plot wise but very frequently what makes them matter is how much of it is linked to an in game battle I think. if your mc just finishes a fight and comes back to the overworld and the guy's Disappeared or Dissolved or whatever it means they don't matter. if the guy's still around after the fight it means it's more significant, especially if they're still alive but wounded or Really Shaken Up. because this clears up the indistinguishable line between if a battle is lethal or not and if a character decides to deal a finishing blow now it's Way more telling of their character. even though this is basically the same thing that happened in the (killed In A Battle) scenario. just with more dialogue. I will also mention that the person who deals the finishing blow is Rarely Ever that good hearted protagonist and often they'll even go :0 at somebody else committing a murder despite them instigating and helping murder quite a few people. just. In Battle. so it's less bad. I guess.
this is leaving out the fact that in party deaths are often a Major Major Blow because like. ok that's fair. that's A Guy You Knew that's understandable. anyway I don't really know where I'm going with this I just think it's interesting how in these types of games death can swap from not mattering at all to mattering a Lot and if u don't think about it too hard u don't even question it. I'll probably be putting some examples in the tags idk
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