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yorshie · 10 months

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Bayverse Headcanons

Just some headcanons I keep in mind when I'm writing bayverse. Will probably come back and add more as I decide on them.

Leonardo

Height/weight: 6’2”, 670lbs

Theme song : Loyal by ODESZA

Ambidextrous but if he needs to punch someone he uses his right hand

Has a dry sense of humor, more little quips and witty one liners than anything planned

Turns into a bit of a caveman when you’re in danger. He catches you going someplace dangerous? Straight to turtle jail for 1000 years. You don’t wanna be picked up and carried to safety? Too bad, it’s happening

Is the King of small touches. A hand on your back, a nudge of his knuckles to get you moving. Mr. soft eyes and low voice when he wants to get his way

Still gets into arguments with Raph. Sometimes they still dissolve into fisticuffs.

References vines to the horror of his brothers (his fav is “road work ahead”)

No one will play Risk with him because even if he’s losing he somehow bleeds everyone dry

Has a gameboy with exactly one game, Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town. All his animals have names like "Bob" or "Tilda"

can't cook, is banned from the kitchen, once set water on fire.

reads science fiction, fantasy and sagas a lot, though if you pay attention to his books the covers are sometimes swapped and it's almost always poetry or romances.

Not a big fan of PDA. Will give you a snoot boop or a chaste forehead kiss in public, but anything more is off limits. What’s that? You wanna snuggle? You better hope none of his brothers walk in because this turtle might panic and shove you off his lap in a snap decision instinct. You wanna go to his room? The scandal. What will everyone think? Fine, but he’ll ninja you in there. No one will know or see. Ninja silent. Except- Donnie will know. Donnie will see. Because he was sitting in the chair right next to you two and you both somehow forgot he was there.

Hogs the bed. And the covers. And the pillows. Basically if you want any bed commodity you better be prepared to snuggle

If you want him to watch tv that’s not sports it’s gotta be some older saga or classic that you actually have to pay attention to. Loves black and white martial arts movies. You once caught him hugging a pillow and watching Princess Mononoke with tears in his eyes.

Will just stare at the person who asked him to kill a little harmless spider before leaving the room

Donatello

Height/Weight: 6’8”/ 680lbs

Theme Song: Frequency by Tim Wolf

Left handed

Donnie is THE sarcastic little shit.

He realizes quickly that while Leo has softness, and Raph is filthy, he doesn’t need to stoop to theatrics to get what he wants. He just has to make eye contact, tilt his head, and tell you in a calm, plain voice what he desires, and it works.

Can’t keep his attention on one thing for a long period of time, or has to have multiple stimuli going on to keep focus. King of multitasking

The turtle most likely to curse

Can’t sleep without a nightlight and either music or a movie

Listens to filthy music when he’s working.

The others gang up on him during trivia night to give everyone else a chance

the adrenaline junkie

one time he got Leo's tea mixed up with his coffee and he spat the substance clear across the Lair.

can cook but it's kinda bland. Can't bake to save his life, despite arguing with every failed cake like it’s out to get him: “it’s science why won’t you work??!”

hasn't opened a real book since the invention of the internet. Has a library of hard drives with the subject matter clearly labeled in alphabetical order. Mikey doesn't know about it and thus it has stayed relatively in order.

Doesn’t use his bed much, so the upside is you always have room to stretch out. Bad news is, if you want this turtle to get any decent sleep, you have to figure out how to keep him trapped enough where he can’t move without waking you up. And he’s a ninja.

Donnie likes to watch informative things. Like how it’s made, or unsolved mysteries. His crack show though? Cryptid hunters. He’ll laugh himself silly over people trying to trap Bigfoot or corner Mothman

The one that kills spiders

Raphael

Height/Weight: 6’5”/ 720lbs

Theme Song: Don’t Get in My Way by Zack Hemsey

Right handed

Turtle has a MOUTH and he is not afraid to open it to to get what he wants. Absolutely filthy when he wants to be.

Will turn into a little melted turtle puddle if someone is sweet to him. Doesn’t really turn to butter over words, but actions will get him every time.

Watches crocodile hunter and golden girls when no one else is awake. Loves animal documentaries, and zoboomafoo

Rough around the edges when it comes to heartfelt affection or feelings. With seduction he’s smooth, but telling someone he genuinely cares for them? Good luck stringing two words together my dude.

Prefers silence or listening when hanging out with someone. He’s slow with his input, careful with what he says. You’re winning if you can make him laugh

in the kitchen he’s either making the most disgusting looking thing that tastes fucking amazing or he’s grilling. Doesn’t tell anyone he learned how to make bread watching Julia Childe.

If he's doing something dangerous or something stupid, the worse thing you could say is along the line of "Leo said-" like, congrats, you just made sure he's gonna do the thing everyone knows he shouldn't. Flip side, he's trying to talk you out of doing something? Just sigh and say "ok, guess I'll go ask Leo-" Boom. Thing is done. Is it healthy? no. Does it work? yes.

Is the most considerate when it comes to sleepy time. He’ll make sure you have your own pillow, own blankets. He sleeps on his stomach and doesn’t move much, and is large enough that you could sleep tucked under the lip of his shell without fear of being squashed

Not the one to call if you see a spider. He will scream

Michelangelo

Height/weight: 6’0”/ 640lbs

Theme Song: Handclap by Fitz and the Tantrums

Right handed but if he puts his mind to it he can use his left equally for everything but writing

Is legally obligated to use cheesy pick up lines, and is a Talker

Uses lollipops and hard candy to keep his focus, bit of an oral fixation

completely ruins heartfelt moments by getting sidetracked. Can be giving the mushiest compliments then in the next breath go "so you gonna eat that leftover cake in your fridge or nah?"

Changes nicknames for you on a semi-weekly basis just to keep you on your toes and to annoy his brothers

Prankster extraordinare

Can cook, but like the annoying ‘these are the worst ingredients to combine and somehow this tastes good and I'm going to sue you over telling me what's in this’

Is the best with understanding emotions and expressing himself. Yes, Leo might be better reading body language, but Mikey has empathy over why someone might react a certain way, not just 'if I do y then x happens'

Will push buttons to see how much he can bug someone

The one most likely to help you sneak out and get up to shit. Also the one most likely to get you two caught.

Makes up song lyrics when he doesn't know the actual words. Will change them to suit his needs, or how badly he wants to tick off his brothers. Not sure who would get the MOST annoyed by wrong lyrics on purpose, but you just know he has a different set fine tuned for each brother

His bed is basically a storage container for pillows and blankets. Which is good, because he is a serial cuddler, and if you need space to sleep you’ve got plenty of pillows to act as a body double if needs be

Loves soap operas, iron chef, diners drive-ins and dives. The more drama is in it, the more he eats it up. He and Raph bond over Golden Girls once the bigger brother realized he wasn’t going to get teased over it

Will pick up the spider to show you it’s not something to be scared of

#tmnt headcanons #tmnt bayverse #tmnt bayverse headcanons #bayverse leonardo #bayverse donatello #bayverse raphael #bayverse michelangelo #my writing snippets

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blackopals-world · 6 months

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Part of me views jester yuu as miett like

Jester yuu: you deny yuu tart? You deny yuu a tart like ace the tart thief? Oh jail for the Queen! Jail for the Queen for 1000 years!

Also Mal is probably sad dragon noises that jester yuu went back to their court

Jester!Yuu is more like a pet at this point. If you tell them no they react like you hate them. They paint a frown on their face and become a sad little clown.

They will put a plastic balls, some balloons, cards, and a little horn in a hobo bag and run away. Immediately to another dorm. One that has a dragon who will let them do anything.

Granted the only downside is that without rules to break constantly its not fun. Heartslabyul is just their natural habitat and the most visually stimulating for a classic jester.

Malleus would have to make a special room to house his new Jester that he doesn't want to return.

He gets moody when Jester goes home for the day. But Jester always remembers to give the dragon a new balloon animal before leaving. (Malleus keeps accidentally popping them with his claws)

#jester!yuu #malleus draconia #malleus x reader #twisted wonderland malleus #malyuu #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland x reader #twisted wonderland yuu #twst yuu

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classic-blue · 5 months

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So I'm aware that The Sandman universe and the DC Universe are at least somewhat connected, so my brain likes to throw around how the Endless view the JLA and vice versa. For example:

Death, asked views on Batman: Lovely man. Does good in the world. Literally is content to die at any moment for the right reason, but he'll keep fighting for as long as he can. Good father, helps his grieving adopted kids. Helps others confronting mortality, has no qualms with his own.

Think Ace's death from the animated series, she would have been all over that.

Dream, asked views on Batman: ONLY THE LAWS OF THE ENDLESS KEEP DREAM AWAY FROM CLOBBERING THIS MAN HIMSELF.

Dream says that humans spend a third of their lives in the Dreaming; meanwhile Bruce is pushing A SIXTH of his existence there. THE MAN DOES NOT SLEEP. He contains no melatonin in his body. Sleep schedule? Beneath the Batman. The witching hour? More like the 'wrap-up patrol and file paperwork' hour.

And when he does deign to sleep, he is a nightmare-only sort of guy. Dream has tried to send him good dreams, of his kids, of his parents, of his successes, but NOOOooooo, Bruce ACTIVELY chooses pain and suffering and reminders of his failures. Dream is supposed to bring balance to people, refuge in their rest, it's legit his job, but Bruce REFUSES to comply, all to the face of the reigning champion of 'not taking emotional care of one's self.'

You scorn the power of Dream's realm? You disregard the Dreaming? Oh, oh! Jail for The Batman! Jail for the Batman for 1000 years (in a fishbowl)!

#the sandman #dc comics #the batman #bruce wayne #death of the endless #dream of the endless #I have 2 modes when it comes to Sandman/DC ideas #1 is the world is ending and the Endless are pulled in to stop it and be their weird Eldritch selves #And the other is absolute crack #Maybe I'll actually write something some day with regards to this

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annoyingblondebracket · 4 months

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Round 1 | Poll 7

~ Note: This poll is being done out of a genuine love and affection for these types of characters! Please keep that in mind when adding commentary.

Propaganda under the cut!

Miu:

~ HORNY JAIL 1000 YEARS

~ Her title is "The Ultimate Inventor" so she has a big ego at default for being smart enough to be considered an inventor, let alone the "ultimate". Also she's really horny but also easy to fluster, so she makes a lot of dirty jokes at others but will flip if you give her the same attitude back. A good few characters bully her for this, calling her stupid, a cow, and most importantly annoying. I like her though teehee :3

Monoma:

~ He has an inferiority complex and expresses it by being condescending and cocky and people find it annoying but I love it for him. He's always provoking people he doesn't like and being loud and sarcastic but he does it because hes tired of people like him being sidelined for their quirks

~ I like them both, but I think Monoma deserves to get in over Bakugou, because Monoma is more regarded as annoying in-universe (they both got in!)

~ Incredibly smug to the point of waging war on his neighboring class because they get more attention than him and his class. Some of the nicest characters in the series outright hate his guts because of all his posturing and bragging. Even his own classmates need to regularly smack him to get him to shut the fuck up.

~ He's A Lot, lmao. Always getting worked up about the rival hero class at his school because he's got an inferiority complex. He enjoys being a lil shit on purpose and attempting to rile them up with insults, copying their quirks and then mocking them about it, etc (though hardly anyone takes him seriously and his attempts are seen as more comedic and just a little bit of a nuisance than anything else. His classmates (especially Kendou with her big ol chopping hands) keep him in line and it's a full time job lmao.

~ He's loud, and gives 100 percent in pissing off Class 1-A

~ This guy exists solely in the story to cause mild problems. He just shows up, monologues, says something insulting, and then gets dragged off stage by a classmate. He’s a silly weirdo with unearned hubris who sets conflicts off for the main cast, and to his friends he is a guy who simply does not know when to shut up. He is firmly convinced he is the rival anime character when he is literally just some guy. The real rival is also arguably an annoying blond. There’s a lot of them in this story.

#💛 | polls #💛 | round one #annoying blonde bracket #miu iruma #dangan ronpa #monoma neito #bnha

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urne-buriall · 1 year

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this is not writing or actual bonus content, but here, have the "spirit of the west" Claire horsegirl 2.0 story:

when Claire comes to the farm there's actually a terrible misunderstanding because her father, Michael, who recently reconnected with Cas, never actually knew Cas was kicked out for being gay. he was at college when it happened! and Cas' parents, who initially said that they would make everyone pray for him, immediately pretended he never existed

so Michael, who is going through a messy divorce, brings his problem-daughter Claire to the ranch to straighten out. (she immediately goes to her room. she is making plans to run away.) he'll leave in the morning but in the meantime he enjoys some beers and tells Dean and Cas to never get married, to which they are "??????" and makes generalizations about women and then Dean is like "I suddenly remembered I have something to do IN THE BARN CAS"

and when they meet up in the stables Cas says that he can't tell Michael NOW because he might react poorly and take Claire away and can't Dean just pretend? for a little? so Cas can get to know his niece? just, you know, keeping her unaware and pretending they are just roommates at least until she settles in

and Dean is like "YOU REJECT MIETTE? JAIL FOR CAS FOR 1000 YEARS" and the next morning while Cas is gone at work, he dramatically moves all his shit out of their room and into the spare room downstairs and vows not to give him ANYTHING as long as Cas wants to pretend they're not together. thus begins a long summer of escalating plays such as when Dean washes the Impala in only a pair of jeans that are slinging increasingly lower on his hips, or when Cas shows up in the door of Dean's tiny spare room and makes the most sexualized show of eating a slice of pie while pretending to ask Dean a question

meanwhile Claire plans to sneak onto a Greyhound to reach her sketchy friends from home while she's out with Dean picking up a new rescue, only when they get to this large animal hospital they find out the horse with a "nervous condition" was actually abused, which Dean gets very quiet about, and that it's afraid of men and doesn't like to see or hear them, and Dean, who's been paying her a salary for the farm work (because financial control is something he knows) tells her how this horse is gonna need her to help it along and she's already starting to fall in love with it. and on the way home Dean tells her a little bit of why she never heard of her uncle Cas until this year because he doesn't believe in these "deep country codes of silence" and tells her how much it means to Cas that she's visiting. that Cas would give up anything, really anything, to get to know her better. and Claire, who is 12 and thinks no one sincerely cares for her or wants her around because they send her off to some stranger on a horse farm… Claire can't help being hooked and feeling like she matters. and she lets the town with the Greyhound station disappear behind them and goes back to the farm

and Dean and Cas can talk to Claire and can talk about Claire but it's hard for them to do anything else. except Dean has a nightmare where he's strangled, where John holds him by the throat under the water of a steel trough, and if on a night like that he crawls back into Cas' bed to be held tight, he leaves in the morning without kissing Cas, even though Cas asks him to stay

and finally they have it out, an argument right in the middle of the barn, because does Dean realise what he's doing? forcing Cas into this ultimatum where he either comes out of the closet to somebody before he's ready when he could lose everything? it's easy for Dean who has people who know and who love him. the family, the friends. and Dean says they're Cas' friends too but it's not really true - they're all Dean's people first so he doesn't know what it's like. to want family despite everything. to be afraid of losing them by telling them the truth. and Cas would never have asked it of Dean, never have put him in that same place

this is what makes Dean realise he's been a colossal dick, but Cas adds that he's going to tell Claire. and in a couple days, the next time Michael makes his Sunday call, they'll tell him too and face whatever comes

and they tell Claire and at first she asks if they've been fighting, if it's because of her, just like how her mom and dad are splitting up, but they promise no, they love each other, it's just been different for them. and Claire accepts it and if she wonders things about herself she keeps them quiet for now, and in a few days they'll call Michael but for now they'll just enjoy and live out their summer the way they were always supposed to

BUT THEN Michael shows up, before they can call him, because one of Cas' other siblings found out and was like "you mean our gay brother Castiel?" and Michael was like "our what brother?" and he says it's awkward, not really an issue, for him, you know, but if his soon-to-be-ex-wife knew that he left their daughter with a couple of gay men. WELL. and he has to think about the court proceedings and the moral virtues and how it would look. he can't take that risk. so he takes Claire away

and I have no idea how this ends except maybe now Claire is WORSE and only talks about horses and the ex-wife finds out what went on and is like "YOU THINK I CARE IF THOSE MEN ARE GAY? SEND HER BACK SHE IS SO ANNOYING ABOUT HORSES GOD BLESS"

#spirit of the west #bonus content

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palant1r · 11 months

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Not the same anon as the other ask, but I guess my question comes from the difference between personal vs political opinion on people who consume that type of media. Like if someone wants to draw some fake anime kids having sex (let’s say they do it because that’s a thing they like to imagine and not for any satire reason), I don’t think they should be put in jail or anything, but I do think that they’re a creep no matter whether they aren’t harming any real kids or not and I wouldn’t want to be friends with them. Even if they would never harm a real kid, even if their account is marked 18+ only and they rigorously check every follower and block them if they even suspect they’re a minor, I still wouldn’t want to interact with this person because if someone enjoys creating and consuming that content, that is an interest I find disgusting because just because the kids they are imagining are fake it can’t be completely de-linked from the existence of irl children or at least attraction to the traits associated solely with them

As a second, semi-unrelated question, I guess it begs the question on drawn cp (I know you don’t agree with the term but there’s not better one) of real people, like the adults who drew porn of, say, the cast of It back in 2017 when they were all between 13-16? Sure it didn’t involve making real kids do those things, but it was depictions of real kids doing sex acts and I don’t see how them not being directly involved means using their faces to make porn is okay. (Not to accuse you of supporting this, genuinely curious on where you think the distinction lies if any)

Thanks for the question! Appreciate you being thoughtful and respectful about these difficult topics, and I trust that those of you who see this ask shan't clown in the notes.

I think it's valid of you to have your own personal boundaries about who you interact with online. It's clear that you've reflected on exactly why you find this interest disgusting, which is great, we love critical dissection in this household, but I'd like to push back on that a little. I find it interesting that you specifically mentioned anime in this question. If we're talking attraction to traits associated solely with children, that's an area where anime really muddies the waters. After all, it's very easy to find anime 14 year olds with 8 packs and chiseled jawlines and anime 28 year olds, especially women, that look like children — not to mention the 1000 year old loli trope. In many cases, especially in shonen fandoms, someone who didn't know the canon ages of the characters wouldn't be able to differentiate between nsfw art of adults and minors even if they were all drawn perfectly on-model. And then of course we could get into the weeds about the distinction between children and teenagers, ages of consent in different countries, weird timeline stuff that goes on in a lot of anime and creates a bunch of technicalities (like Kusuo Saiki being physically 16 but mentally 21), how this relates to real people with disorders that make them appear prepubescent long after the age of majority, et cetera, et cetera. I definitely understand why it makes you uncomfortable, but I'm generally not as quick to judge creators of anime porn on the basis of association with childish traits simply because anime is so stylized that such associations kind of lose meaning. I mean, I'm attracted to anime men, and I experience zero attraction to people in real life, so it's easy for me to see how what someone enjoys in anime and what they're attracted to IRL could be fairly divorced. I'm not trying to argue that you're wrong, just something to think about, I guess.

As for your second question, hoo boy. The issue of explicit art of real children kinda relates to another issue i've seen people talk about, that of explicit RPF of real minors. It's a conversation that I think demands a lot of critical analysis and discussion that people are unfortunately generally not willing to have in a public forum. For the sake of my answer, I am determining that we are solely talking about minors who are under 18 in real life and are American so we don't have to deal with any age of consent debates. This includes minors who play over-18 characters but not child characters played by adult actors, or else we have to start talking about Riverdale and that's a whole other conversation.

I guess I can start with praxis. Let us assume that we all agreed that this is Wrong and Bad. Come play with me in this space without assuming anything about my position from this hypothetical. What now? What concrete actions could institutions take to prevent the existence of Wrongbadthing? Would it be morally right for people to harass those who create or enjoy Wrongbadthing? The relevant entities here would be the US government, AO3, and platforms that host art. I am against most government restrictions on art that people create, because they will inevitably be interpreted through a far broader lens than their original intention. And I don't think it would be productive for AO3 to ban certain types of explicit fic. People would just stop tagging their explicit minor RPF as such, and then we still have equal volumes of the Wrongbadthing but without the tools for people to avoid it. Not to mention it raises logistical problems with moderation and enforcement. Like, what happens when a celebrity turns 18? Are people then allowed to write explicit fic about them when they were younger than that? Maybe we can all agree that it's bad for a 30 year old author to write porn about a 13 year old actor — but what about a 15 year old author writing porn about a 16 year old actor? Any distinction between the two regarding enforcement would require some sort of age verification beyond self-identification, and that's a recipe for disaster. as for platforms like twitter that would host the kind of explicit art we're talking about, well. i think it's pretty easy to see how any sort of enforcement on a minor rpf explicit art ban would be an absolute nightmare. it's hard enough for social media sites to even enforce a porn ban. now imagine a porn ban that needs to incorporate facial recognition of a bunch of people across all different art styles — im not sure that's even possible. as for harassment — the most common punitive response on the individual level — i dont think that's justified in this case. as you've pointed out, regardless of personal feelings on the subject, this art isn't causing material harm to any real person.

I honestly don't engage with RPF communities in general — it's one of my squicks — and I'm not quite comfortable making grand moral generalizations about people I've never really interacted with. From what I understand, there are commonly accepted codes of ethics within RPF communities, and I'm not really sure how those mesh with explicit fic about real minors.

i am personally...not a fan of explicit RPF fic and art about real minors, to say the least. i think it ties into larger celebrity culture that objectifies and sexualizes children in the limelight. but like. what am i gonna do about it? doing journalism has forced me to learn how to not get outraged or disgusted about things i cant do anything about. i just don't follow those people. I'd defend their right to host their work on the platforms we use, but only because any effort ive seen proposed to restrict that work would cause more harm than good and wouldn't even be remotely effective at its stated goal. in terms of harm reduction, the best i can do is support moderation policies that allow that stuff to be clearly tagged and RPF informal ethics codes that stress a firm division between fandom and subject.

i haven't yet formed a super solid discursive framework that i'm confident in defending about this issue, so i'll just fall back on praxis lol

would love to hear from someone who's more involved in RPF than i am haha!

#pisscourse #anon

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sokuroda · 1 year

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was on call w/ one of my friends and found out that the sleepy princess in the demon castle manga is now on viz which is incredible as i have only seen the anime. but bc of that I decided to read the wiki and so many things!!! 1. THE LOCALIZATIONS ?! Syalis to EMILY IN SOME VERSION? And good lord, cubey’s is horrid. Whoever localized her named to Bussy needs to be put in JAIL. 2. Cubey’s wiki page as a whole is. Shocking to say the least. I actually started crying bc I was laughing so hard.

WHO WROTE THIS!!!! JAIL FOR 1000 YEARS

#sleepy princess in the demon castle #im losing it!!!

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murkytowels · 10 months

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Sad. Embarassing. Disgusting. This site has forgotten the full 2.5 years I spent making original Animal Crossing original content and giveaways? It forgets the full year I spent theorycrafting ways Lapidot would become canon in Steven Universe and somehow I ended up being almost correct by accident? It forgets my 600+ slutty posts and photos I've posted? The extremely specific joke posts I have made that only 0.3% of the human population could relate to? How dare you. I am a fucking Tumblr veteran who has survived 10+ years of my brain rotting from this site. Surviving the worst glitches known to this site, somehow not becoming a raybans account? Jail for tumblr. Jail for 1000 years.

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brigwife · 1 year

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Children of the Red King - Charlie Bone and the Time Twister: Part Three

AGE AND DANGER. Omg I love that so much. What does age and danger smell like???

Come on now, Cook. Did you really think an inquistive 11 year-old kid is just gonna sit in a room all day?? Should have given him a playstation or something if you wanted that to happen. It probably would have broken his tiny Edwardian mind.

Why tf is the taxi yellow. This ain't america my dudes

Someone PLEASE find Asa a hobby outside of being a spy. There's so much more to live for than just being Manfred's lackey. Idc if you're In love with him or w/e. Learn to crochet.

OH CHARLIE WENT THERE.

I love the aunts so fckin much. They're so petty about everything. I live for that.

People out and about, not paying to traffic because they're staring down and something they're reading in their hands?? Ooh I really feel like Ms. Nimmo dodgeballed this one back in 2002...

See, this is extremely interesting to me -the fact that they can travel through paintings as well as photos. Because where do you draw the line? What medium does the portrait have to be, and how good of a likeness? Could Charlie just scribble a stickman of Paton with a biro and jump in to talk to him if he needs help??

Also I'm living for Paton's "You probably won't die but idk tho" LMAO

aSADHSAJFASJ Paton's just like "imma turn my 11/12? year old great-nephew into an alcoholic. Drinking solves all your problems, kiddo!

Also lmao that when he mum came in she either didn't notice or care.

CHARLIE PLEASE-

GABRIEL-

PATON- 🥺🥺😭😭🐀🐀

You know what I'm with Ben here. It's such a pet peeve of mine when shapeshifters' clothes change with them. Dude should have to be naked.

YOU KICK BLESSED, BILLY??? JAIL. JAIL FOR 1000 YEARS. Seriously I'm not even a dog person but nope. We are no longer friends Billy. Be a lil' snitch all you like but DON'T abuse animals!!

#cotrk re read #cotrk #charlie bone #the time twister #children of the red kings

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livingandbelieving · 7 months

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Monopoly Go

In the middle of August 2023, I started playing Monopoly Go. At first, I didn't want to because I'm not really the kind of person who follows the trend, but somehow I just feel bored at the time and was trying to understand what was everyone talking about trading stickerss??¿? Most places I went to like Twitter and Instagram, they were promoting themselves to trade stickers and I thought I really didn't want to do that but I am now 😂 I'd say I'm currently playing the game everyday (guilty pleasure) because I just want to be at the top among my friends (competitive mode on lol) I only connected the game with my contacts, although Monopoly keep asking me to connect with my Facebook account and I know the rewards are so tempting like getting more dice, money, and stickers, but I really don't want to because I'm not trying to brag, but my Facebook account has more than 4k friends, which aren't really friends and I don't even know most of them (oh well I did my FB when I was 10 years old, I probably didn't think too much at the time, I was just trying to get more 'friends' than my friends, see competitive mode again 😪) My net worth is currently at 2600++ (net worth is the level of the game) and my friend's highest net worth is 8000++, it is pretty difficult to get there because as you reach 1000+, everything starts getting more and more expensive, the taxes or the amount you have to pay for bailing out of jail if you get in, it's like over 300,0000 yep. Luckily, it's so easy to get rewards, only if you have dice to roll. Right now, I'm trying to have higher net worth than my sister, which is more than 300+ from me, it's still doable. I was the one who invited her to play the game with me, so I feel very competitive when she passed my net worth 🙂

So about the stickers, it's by season, which is about 3 months and we have to collect 189 stickers as it has 21 collections, each collection consists of 9 stickers. Stickers are pretty hard to collect properly as Monopoly Go always give the same stickers, but those duplicate extra stickers, we can get rewards too when we reach certain amounts, like the amount of duplicated stickers we have collected, but it depends on us whether we choose to exchange those stickers for rewards or not at those stages. Luckily, we can tRadE sTicKerS *insert meme ikyk* with anyone. For example, person A has 'sticker r' and person B has 'sticker f', so they can exchange the stickers to each other by sending it to them through Monopoly Go if they're friends, but if they're not they can just give their invite link to the other person and boom they're friends, so that is trading stickers HAHAHA while I've been trying to understand the meaning and now I feel like an expert :') You can also NOT trade stickers simply by just not giving back to them like my sister, she always give me stickers eventhough I don't have any that she wants (I luv her 🥺) When we have collected any of the collections, we will get rewards and when we completed all 21 collections, we get the big prize (billions of money, thousands of dice, and a special token) Token is the thing that moves around the board, it's the same thing as the real Monopoly board; the silver tokens, only these digital tokens can be colourful, which is cool. Everytime we collect 4 tokens each time, we will get rewards as well, see you'll just keep getting rewards.

What I like about this game is the detailed 3D animation of the game, it's so pretty/cute/on point/lit! legit. Everything we touch or click will have animation and sound effects, that's why it's so interesting. It feels so motivating to actually play the game because it never make us look back, only feel great and grateful that we succeeded and keep moving forward. We can also learn the places around the world while playing it, both reality and fantasy. They really make it so fun and each board has their own names like Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Scottie's Mansion, Sofia's Cafe (whoever Scottie and Sofia are idk I just play the game) For each board we have to complete 5 landmarks to get to the next board, always moving to the front. They also include fireworks when we complete the board, so influential 👾

To get the money is just by rolling the dice, move around the board and you'll get money by people paying you rent, Shut Down, or Bank Heist. Shut Down is when Monopoly Go allows us to attack other people's landmark, either Monopoly Go chooses the person for us, we pick the 'random player' option or just by attacking our friends 😈 At first, I felt bad for attacking my friends because I'd understand their hardwork and efforts, but now I feel a bit greedy (hopefully it doesn't affect in my real life), so I just keep attacking whoever that I feel is not playing because when you get to actually 'shut down', you'll get more rewards and if you don't, it's because they have shields to protect their landmarks, so less rewards. Shields allow you to protect your landmarks and you can get shields when moving around the board. Bank Heist is when you get the chance to rob someone's money. There's the biggesT heist, large and small heist. You have to choose 3 similar objects and if they match, you'll get rewards, no matter which objects you picked. The higher the heist, the better, the richer muahahaha 👌🏼 There's also the Mega Heist, available only when the time comes and it's da best when you actually win it. Monopoly Go also lets us to switch to other multipliers. There are x1, x2, x3, x5, x10, x20, x50, x100, and x200 (I think I've seen x200 if I'm not mistaken). The more multipliers you choose, the more the rewards will be, but your dice will finish fast. I've tried x100 and I don't really like it, I prefer x50 and below, those are fine for me.

Recently, Monopoly Go did like a contest called Choco Partners where we must have 4 partners to bake 4 cakes to get the top prize, which are 5000 dice, extra money (I forgot the amount because I was eyeing the number of dice 🤑) and a cupcake token. I was lucky to have my friends as my partners and my sister too! hehe For each partner, we had to spin the wheel to collect 5 prizes first before getting the top prize and to get the top prize, we must complete all 4 cakes. It's hard because when you get just 400 points, the meter didn't move that much, but teamwork made it worked! I had fun because my partners and I actually communicated with each other through WhatsApp, supportively motivating together to finish the cakes hahaha aaanddd the best part is I actually got the top pRIZE!! 😭 aaaaa I was so excited, happy and speechless. Great job friends and thanks guys,, Monopoly Go actually made me connected with my school friends, I am touché

Congrats Hasbro for making me like your product 😗

Playing Monopoly Go is the only thing that makes me sane these days (healing~ ehek) because they're so many assignments nowadays as I'm about to finish the semester aaaa can't waitttt yet big big projects are close to deadlines. Whatever it is wishing all the best to me and everyone else. May everything goes well for all of us aamiin.

#monopoly go #games

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loominggaia · 8 months

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The FGG members are often mentioned to have a lot of scars. Do any of them have cool stories that you haven't told about?

There actually are a few "off-screen" adventures that characters have mentioned throughout the series:

-Lukas talks about the time he and Evan were hired to arrest a drug dealer. The dealer had a pet alligator that attacked Lukas and almost ripped his leg off, but Evan pried the animal's jaws off him and killed it with his bare hands. Lukas still has a gnarly scar on his leg.

-Isaac mentions that Alaine once got swallowed by a Greywood Gulper and the crew had to cut her out of its stomach.

-Evan contracted floraspell in "The Puppet Masters", but in another story, Isaac mentions that Glenvar contracted floraspell before that. God only knows what he did to piss off a spriggan that bad...

-Isaac says the entire crew contracted cholera from a dirty river and nearly died in the wilderness. Luckily Evan's lycanthropy protected him and his symptoms weren't as bad, so he was able to drag them back to town, one by one, carrying them on his back for miles while they probably shat and puked all over him the whole time...Say what you want about Evan, but he's a ride or die motherfucker.

-Isaac also says Lukas got super drunk once and tried to attack Evan with a hatchet. (Isaac's just spilling the tea everywhere, isn't he?)

-Glenvar says Evan and Lukas used to fight a lot when they were dating, and these fights sometimes got so crazy that he feared they would actually kill eachother. He even kept a bag packed just in case he had to flee the murder scene.

-Javaan and Balthazaar apparently took a trip to the zoo together. Not the most exciting adventure, but I thought it was too wholesome not to mention.

-Isaac tripped and fell down the long, stone steps to the palace in Matuzu Capital City. Despite all his mercenary adventures, those steps did more damage to him than any bandit or monster ever had. He broke several bones and concussed himself so bad that he couldn't work for months. Pretty embarrassing...

-Evan and Zeffer once got trapped in a cave during a flood. Zeffer could have escaped at any time since he's a vampire and doesn't need oxygen, but he chose to stay with Evan as the water rose higher. They were sure Evan would drown by morning. Evan lamented that he'd die without knowing the love of another man, so Zeffer took one for the team and fucked him too. The flood waters began receding right after that, the two survived, and then had a very awkward situation ahead of them.

-Here's one from a pending story idea that I haven't been able to finish: Evan and Lukas stumbled upon an ogrish toddler in the wilderness. He was trying to wake his dead mother, who was clearly murdered. The two took care of the toddler for a few days as they escorted him to the nearest town and dropped him off at the orphanage. Many years later, they encountered the ogre again, but he has grown from a helpless toddler into a hulking adult mercenary. They didn't recognize him at first, but he recognizes them immediately and is overjoyed to see them, thanking them for saving his life and inspiring him to do this line of work. He probably saves them or something, idk. This one has been knocking around in the concept pile for years and I always get stuck on it.

-While he was still leading the Oceanic Resistance, Mr. Ocean spent a lot of time in Zareen Empire. He heard of an intense local drug called zyrup and decided to try it, hoping it would erase all memory of Solveig and ease his grief. Have you ever seen a 1000-year-old sorcerer hopped up on turbo-meth? The city of Viersen has...Anyway, Roach had to bail him out of jail and Mr. Ocean is still banned from Cheap-O-Mart to this day.

That's all I can think of at the moment!

Questions/Comments?

Lore Masterpost

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zazu75 · 2 years

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Me, staring at Therion: I can make him worse

Oh but jail for me, jail for 1000 years

I can make him so much worse

What if I reverse it, and have him throw Darius off the cliff? What if he gets the Cianno’s offer and at first he’s like “Pfft no” but him and Darius get into a pretty disagreement and it’s near the cliffs and the figures screw this and throws Darius off the cliff instead?

Oh but the many many ways I can go from there alone

A moment of anger to a descent of insanity

Insanity from the power trip? The high of watching an annoyance be afraid and die?

Or insanity from regret, from I didn’t mean to I’m so sorry taking him down levels of depravity?

Either way, unrecognizable by the end, when Darius finally bumps into him in Wellspring, seven good friends in tow

Darius’ insecurities softening after meeting the seven (after meeting Alfyn) his rage slowly dissipating when he realizes he can be vulnerable and still be safe. He’s calmer by the time they hit wellspring, more open to laughter and dumb jokes (and trading stories with Alfyn and sitting closer to him)

Therion’s breaking would be so different from Gareth, no matter which side of the insanity you take

And oh, each side could also have different breaks

He regrets it, but is scared of the consequences? Does he run and fight like a trapped animal? Or does he throw himself on Darius’s blade, looking for forgiveness

Or does Darius never unsheathe his blade, knowing he could talk to his old, regret filled partner?

And if he doesn’t, if it fuels his power trips, does he fight Darius to the bitter end? Does he use underhanded tactics to kill Darius and his companions? Or does he wind up the way Darius did, alone and bleeding out and scared?

Branches. So many branches.

And getting to see Darius connect with others? A scholar that first makes him feel stupid, but then he learns and learns and learns from him. You have such a gift with fire magic! Why, I have no doubts you can do things with fire even I cannot do!

A merchant girl who irritates him to no end, but is the first to give him a hug and when he comes out of dangerous situations? They indulge each other’s love for candies. Her, the hard candies. Him, the softer, more sugary ones.

A huntress who regards him with cold distrust and he is a little afraid of her? Who teaches him how to calm his breathing and how to use a bow and clear his head while he learns patience and the hunt.

A warrior who makes Darius feel ashamed, but who fixes his battle stances and teaches him different weapons’ strength and weaknesses, because he would sleep better knowing Darius can protect himself?

An apothecary who is too nice too trusting too naive too caring too funny too nonjudgmental too compassionate and indulges both of their love of ale?

A cleric who’s too goody two shoes that he feels disdain for her and her type and of course she works with the knights— but who will sit beside beside him quietly when he feels bad and never judges him or fears him when he’s angry and who always forgives him and smiles kindly at him and tells him she believes in him

Who he later let’s her play with his hair when she’s feeling bad and sits there while she braids and unbraids it over and over while quietly reciting the scriptures to herself

Or primrose, whose eyes immediately tell him that she will kill him if his actions and his rage endanger them, but who later on teaches him to use his words better so he won’t hurt or scare others and he becomes her dance partner when she wants to practice. She always teases him that he’s awful at it, and he is, but he laughs and tells her to slow down, then, so he can keep up

I've got a few images in my head now

Darius dancing with Primrose by their campfire, exchanging jokes in between steps and Darius swearing lightheartedly every time he messes up a step

Darius with like, twenty small braids in his head while Ophilia does a twenty first braid. He pays her almost no attention, sitting on the ground with Cyrus beside him while the scholar tries to do teach him something new to do with fire magic, delighting when it works.

Sparring with Olberic and swelling with pride when he's complimented on how much his sword skills have improved. He gets cocky sometimes in battle, but when he does, Tressa jumps on his back after the fight. She pinches his cheeks and and tells him to stop scaring her so much or she won't share her gains with him. He playfully calls her too cautious and she calls him a brat and jumps off his back to run ahead and "bet you cant catch this brat before she eats all the candy!"

Feeling proud after a successful hunt. Learning how to make money skinning animals and what stays and what gets buried and what gets eaten. He pays attention when H'aanit talks. Even if he doens't understand her every word. And when he gets to know her better, he starts to tell her when he doesn't understand, and she explains again.

Curling up with Linde when she comes for attention from him. Falling asleep with the giant cat on his legs and unmoving because "Thats my life now." H'aanit laughs at him when this happens but gives him extra food the next mealtime as thanks for putting up with her giant furbaby

(tho he's of the opinion that Linde is the entire group's furbaby now)

(his furbaby. he would kill to keep that big cat safe)

He can never figure out the apothecary thing. he can never figure out what plants are what for it. but Alfyn loves to hear his stories and Alfyn himself has some great stories and those two lose all the braincells if you leave them alone for too long (ESPECIALLY if Tressa is around) and they do the dumbest stuff so much and so often.

Primrose: Where's-- CRASH Primrose: Darius!!! Alfyn!! That better not have been MY TENT!! Alfyn: TRESSA'S FAULT!! Tressa: -makes a mad dash away from camp, Primrose at her heels-

And then they hit wellspring. And Darius sees Gareth and he looks so much like Therion and he freezes. Because he hasn't though of Therion much, lately. Because of course Therion was alive. Was he here?

A regretful Therion would tell Gareth to run, to stay behind himself. He would give Darius the stone, and tell him to come to Northreach for the last one. A power tripping Therion would be just as terrible as og Darius, I think. though with more snark and less death threats. Gareth's "do you know him?" "yeah, killed him once. didn't stick. kill him for me a second time, would you?" and Gareth cannot say no. it's an order and a threat and oh i cannot decide which one i like more... imma do all of them.

A regretful Theiron, so something like….

Darius runs into Gareth, who takes the stone and runs, and he runs into Therion. And he would react with rage. Scared and hurt and what words can he even use in this situation?

But Therion tells Gareth to give him the stone. Tells Gareth to run ahead. He tosses Darius the stone and apologizes for everything. Tells him to come to Northreach if he wants the other one.

and disappears.

And Darius is angry and hurt and confused and he almost attacks Tressa when she touches his arm to ask if he's okay. But Primrose is there before he can swing his weapon and she slaps him, hard.

It snaps him back to his senses. They leave. He's quiet, sad, despondent. Snaps at everything they try to say, refuses to be anything but angry from hurt

Alfyn takes him to the nearest tavern. Darius drinks himself under the table.

The next day, after the worst hangover he's had in a while, they set out and he's listless, until dinner, when H'aanit gives him an extra portion. and he stares at it and tells them everything about Therion, right until Therion threw him off a cliff.

And Tressa wants to fight this guy. primrose is ready to gut him. Olberic and H'aanit are willing to do whatever Darius wants. And Darius feels better than the wasnt belitteled, that he wasn't made fun of.

but later, Alfyn points out that Therion looked so regretful. Ophilia comments he looked tired. Darius wonders if that means anything.

He gets better, after, doesnt think of it until they hit northreach. The townspoeple are wary, but if they interact, they treat him well, politely. there's many thieves here, all of them seem intent on starting a new life of a sort in this cold wasteland. all of them give him a wide berth, pointing towards the cathedral.

at the cathedral, Gareth is there. He is angry and won't let Darius by without a fight. They cross blades only because Gareth wants them to. Because his appearance made Therion worse. It made him sadder, more distant, talk less and be there less and i don't know what you did to my best friend, but if I kill you, then he'll get better

Gareth, with all his foolishness, is outnumbered and outclassed. He's losing but is willing to die for Therion. But then Therion appears, out of breath, eyes worried and angry, and yells at him to stand down. Gareth resists at first, but he stands down after Therion's insistence.

"You don't have to do this!" Gareth tells Therion. "He's not worth it!"

Darius bristles.

Therion hold Gareth's hands. "You should go see the healer about your wounds."

"No! I won't let him kill you!"

"It's my mistake to fix, Gareth. Go."

Gareth steps back, but he doesn't leave. It's the best Therion will get out of him, he knows. So he approaches Darius, no weapons in hands, and hands him the last stone.

"I know my words are too late, and I've done the unforgivable, but for what it's worth, I'm sorry. Anger blinded me. I never meant to push you."

And Darius knows what that's like. He remembers Primrose's slap when he got too angry last time. he remembers H'aanit throwing him to the floor when he used to get angry, sitting on his chest and forcing him to breathe. He remembers Cyrus standing there, letting him shout until he was done then patting his arm with a "there, doesn't it feel better to get it off your chest?"

And he remembers almost striking Alfyn once, out of sheer frustration over plants, barely remembering to breathe at the last moment and saying that he gives up instead.

And he remembers thinking he wanted to shove therion off that cliff because they fought so damn much

So he sheathes his sword and sighs. "It was almost the other way 'round."

He takes the stone, and tells Therion that, despite everything, he forgives him, because he hasn't held on to a grudge about it. because he met some really good people. That he thinks he's a really good person. And that Therion's turned it around for himself too, fixing up the city, helping others start new lives, having fierce loyalty behind him. Bad people don't earn that kind of loyalty.

"I forgive ya," he says in the end, "so forgive yerself an' do better."

And when Therion covers his hands with his face and starts to cry, he Darius hugs him and pats his head the way he does with Tressa when she cries.

But after, Therion smiles, and Gareth stops glaring at the group so harshly, but he is bristled and ready to fight if any of them try to hurt Therion.

But Darius leaves, after, promises to visit, so they can catch up. Tells Gareth to take care of Therion.

And Therion looks less tired, after, smiles more, but is still quiet and thoughtful. He's lighter on his feet and more determined when Darius sees him again months later. Gareth is still like his shadow, even as they grab a table at a bustling tavern and Darius says "so, ye ever heard o' Galdera? 'cause i've got a story to tell ye"

they drink themselves into a stupor, and Gareth, only barely drunk, thinks to himself, that this is the happiest he's seen Therion, and maybe, this Darius fellow isn't so bad.

@goineedsleep mentioned an idea of a regretful Therion getting a curse on himself so he won’t feel strong emotions, which I feel would go something like....

"I forgive ya," he says in the end, "so forgive yerself an' do better."

it'd pick up from right around here, i think.

Therion cant cry. he's cursed and not allowed to emote too much

so he moves to cover his hands with his face and freezes. and everyone's ??? Darius asks if he's okay, Therion doesnt reply

Gareth steps forward, takes his cloak off his back and wraps it around Therion's shoulders. "It's the curse. Give him a while. He'll recover."

"What curse?" Darius asks.

"He's had it as long as I've known him. It makes him freeze in place when his emotions get too strong."

Darius frowns. That was new. "Why?"

"I don't know. You can ask him yourself later. Go. He'll come around later."

They say they'll be at either the inn or tavern, then they leave. it does not sit well with Darius. But a few hours later, Therion finds them in the tavern, Gareth in tow.

"Ye a'right?"

"I don't understand, why would you forgive me so easily?"

A sigh, "Sit down 'n' let's talk."

The two of them grab a table together. Gareth stays nearby and watches. But they talk. Slowly. And Therion keeps taking deep breaths. It annoys the hell out of Darius

"Why do ye keep doin' that?"

"So I don't freeze up."

"Tell me 'bout the curse."

"I got it after... after... everything." He stops to breathe and calm down. "I acted out of extreme anger, and I never want to act out of extreme emotions again."

Darius gapes. "It's self inflicted."

"Had to pay a rune lord a lot to tattoo it on me, but yeah."

And Darius tells him, very seriously, that he's an idiot. Therion starts to laugh but freezes. Gareth is there in a heartbeat. Thankfully, Therion is back to normal in a few minutes.

"That curse has to go."

"No. it stays. forever."

Surprisingly, Gareth turns to Therion. "No, that curse has to go. He's alive and he forgave you. You punished yourself enough for this."

that shakes Therion. He freezes again. Gareth sighs. When he doesn't unfreeze after a few moments, Gareth wraps his cloak around Therion's shoulders again and picks him up. "He'll come around later. Just stay in town."

The next day, Therion comes around, Gareth like his shadow. Darius, again, sits him down and tells him he needs to get that curse removed.

But Therion is worried, because what if he hurts someone else again? "I can't. If I hurt anyone else..."

"And you'll never heal from that if you keep the curse," Gareth says. "You hurt him worse than you've hurt anyone and he forgave you. You have to let this go."

Darius and Gareth are in agreement. Therion feels overwhelmed. He starts to freeze. But then Alfyn decides to intervene.

"He has his own mind, you two, stop ganging up on his and give him some space to think."

Therion is thankful for the intervention and leaves, alone, wanting to take time to think. They let him go.

He comes back in the evening and agrees to break the curse. But he warns them that he might react violently after it breaks. He's not sure what will happen, because he's never thought about removing it before, ever. He admits he's scared, but it's mild. Because he can't feel too many emotions.

They go to a private room. Cyrus and Ophilia make sure it's well lit. Therion takes off his shirt and shows them his back. High Hornburgian runes fill his back. The curse plain to read, if you know how to read it.

Cyrus is, obviously, the expert here. Him and Olberic.

the curse is a lot more than just freezing him at emotions. It doesn't regulate his emotions but he has to regulate them. and the more strongly he feels an emotion, the more it freezes him. Cyrus theorizes that a strong enough emotion could stop his breathing, or his heart, even.

"Then the curse has got to go." Darius says. "But how?"

"We break the right runes so it's nonsensical. The magic in it will disappear."

Cyrus spends a long time analyzing the runes. Then he picks out the ones he feels will be best to destroy. "We should cut them open deep enough that they scar over, or we remove the entire tissue."

"Remove his skin?"

"it would work best, but it would be painful."

"I can handle pain," Therion says, "it wont be too bad."

"I'll do it." Gareth and Darius say at the same time. They turn to glare at each other, but Alfyn puts a hand on both their faces and shoves them apart.

"Uh, I'm the apothecary here. I'll do it."

No one can argue that.

So Alfyn works with Cyrus at removing the skin on/around certain runes. Gareth sits in front of Therion and holds his hand the entire time.

As soon as the curse is broken, Therion starts to cry. Gareth leans up to hug him and Therion hugs back. But no one approaches them until after Alfyn is done with his work and bandages Therion up.

"we oughtta stay in town to make sure you heal up right," Alfyn says, "if they don't heal well, then they'll ache somethin' awful."

Therion nods. Gareth helps him get dressed. And then everyone files out and leaves the three thieves alone.

It's a long talk. Therion cries a lot. Darius will never admit he was teary eyed, but he was. Gareth holds Therion's hand and remains quiet the entire time.

Therion keeps joking he can't control his emotions becasue he can't stop crying. Gareth tells him it's because he's never let himself cry before.

When they leave, Therion feels better. Lighter. He's smiling tiredly the entire way to the cathedral. Gareth likes it.

(we’re having garetherion as a treat and none y’all can stop me)

"Right, one other thing," Gareth pauses when they reach the graveyard. "I need to tell you something, Therion." "What?" "I love you," he says softly, "I've been in love with you for a while, but I didn’t say anything, in fear of your curse killing you." "It would have, probably!" Therion laughs. There are tears down his cheeks again. He pulls Gareth into a tight hug. "I love you too. Couldn't think or act on it because of the curse, myself." Gareth hugs him back and laughs softly. "And you wanted to keep it." "I'm still scared of hurting you, more than anyone else." "You'll find me very forgiving."

Darius and Alfyn come by the next day. The new wounds are healing well. But they have to leave town soon. So Alfyn teaches Gareth what to do, to care for Therion's back.

Darius notices the two thieves holding hand and Gareth is smiling and he immediately figures out what's going on and teases the two of them mercilessly.

"Ye couldn' wait ta make yer move, eh?"

"Shut up or I might throw you off a cliff." Gareth rolls his eyes, annoyed.

"Try it, I'll take you with me," Darius pokes his cheek lightheartedly. Gareth attempts to bite his finger, which just makes Darius poke him more.

Therion huffs out quiet laughter as he listens to them bicker. It calms both of them down, happy that he's able to laugh again.

and i think, it goes on the same, after. Darius promises to come back and visit, and he does, and he has stories about Galdera. and the two of them drink themselves into a stupor catching up. And Gareth sits there, watching them both sleep against the table, and thinks, this is probably what happiness looks like.

a cruel therion...

"kill him for me again, gareth," he says gleefully as he leaves with the stone

Gareth fights to his death, knowing he cannot go back. Darius tries to tell him to stop, he doesnt have to do this. but Gareth ”I'm more afraid of him than I am of all of you"

Darius is angry after, hurt and afraid, and he almost attacks Tressa when she touches his arm and asks him if he's alright. He deals with it the same way he always did, with rage. it's not until Primrose slaps him, hard, that he snaps out of it. he drops his sword and looks down and starts to cry

and Tressa hugs him. Primrose hugs him. Alfyn and Ophilia hug him. Cyrus pulls Olberic and H'aanit into the hug as well

Linde curls around their legs

He tells them about Therion, on their way back to wellspring. Alfyn takes him drinking and carries him back to the inn, after.

He's better, after that, kind of sad, but they're there for him

Until they get to northreach. Everyone's afraid of the group, but they give them a wide birth. No one will talk to them. But then, as they're wandering, Darius turns to ask Tressa a question, only to find her gone. They scour the area for her, only to find her pack and "we're in the cathedral. come alone."

(i do think a cruel therion would kill everyone, but for the sake of the story, let’s do an easy hostage situation)

He goes alone. But H'aanit and Linde stalk from far way. Primrose slinks in the shadows, unnoticed with her magic. The others are on standby

Tressa is a hostage. Therion laughs when he sees him alone. Tells him "You killed my friend, maybe i should kill your yours"

Darius drops his weapon. Tells him to take him instead, but, "Nah, I'd rather see you dead."

An arrow crashes through the window, followed by another. Therion dodges. Primrose grabs Tressa. The others burst through the doors. Therion retreats

it's an army between them and Therion. and everyone, everyone is more terrified of Therion than they are of the eight. everyone would rather die than face Therion's wrath if they live.

Cyrus regrettably brings half the cathedral down on their heads, just to give himself and his companions a fighting chance.

Therion is fast, faster than Darius remembers. Faster and stronger and oh, he was definitely blessed by aeber with how he fights. But Darius overpowers him still, in the end, because eight against one isnt fair. Therion calls him a coward, to hide behind so many people. Darius bites back, at least they care about me, not like your people.

"But you were the one that taught me that caring isn't important. What's important is getting things done."

"Then I'll finish ye an' get me job done and live in peace!"

Therion still manages to stab him, but Darius stabs him right back. And whereas Darius has a healer and an apothecary to catch him. Therion falls to the floor and bleeds out.

"Hah, always knew you'd be the death of me," he manages to say as he's fading. There's a mirthless chuckle, and then he's quiet.

Northreach finally breathes when Therion dies. The tension in the townspeople disappears. anyone who survived from Therion's crew runs off. They get a room until Darius heals. Then they go to leave.

But Darius goes back to the cathedral. Not just for the stones. He find Therion's body where they left it, eyes closed and covered in a thin layer of frost. He takes the purple scarf and buries the rest of him.

When Alfyn asks about the scarf later, he says, "Just somethin' for me. For the memories."

Alfyn understand and doesn't ask further, and doesn't let the others ask further. Darius is grateful, because he doesn't want to explain that he misses who Therion used to be and wishes they could have worked it out, instead.

Strange, what can become of a man near a cliff, sometimes.

@lyteupthelyfe then mentioned, what if Lyblac got her hands onto a grieving, regretful Therion? and I kinda. have a whole story for that, too.

i think this story would start out different. i think this one starts with Darius meeting Kit outside of bolderfall, taking on this dumb kid who wants to travel and knows nothing about it

a very "listen to me and ill take care of you" thing, much like he had with Therion

and much like he had with Therion, Kit asks too many questions. he listens at first but challenges later on and Darius is not happy

but he hates how nostalgic this makes him feel

and he meets the rest. he starts to chill out and calm down and then kit goes "i want to travel deep west and we haven't been there yet so im joining this performance troupe"

Darius does not handle that well

But with the others, he learns to let go. He lets Kit go, tells him if he ever needs ANYTHING then he better write. Tells him to write in general. He half threatens the troupe leader for Kit's safety, gets chided for it by Primrose, who proceeds to show him how to do it properly.

and kit, bless him, "I'll write, I'll write. But. You can't read, can you?"

Cyrus, from the background "I'LL TEACH HIM! I VOLUNTEER"

(though its mostly in jest. I hc Darius escaping an abusive nobility household half the time, so do with that info as you will)

everything is about the same until they reach springwell.

there, it's only Gareth. Therion isn't there. and Gareth wants the stone. Needs the stone. He is desperate

Darius recognizes it as a case stronger than "shiny is miney" and so do a few others. especially with the way Gareth keeps replying to "you dont have to do this" with "you dont either"

they win. they disarm him. Gareth begs them for the stone. He needs it to save someone.

And the others want to listen to his story. Darius knows that even if he says no, he will be outvoted. so he gives Gareth the chance to explain

and Gareth says that he's a second in command of a gang in northreach. They take care of the city, making sure brigands and monsters stay away and people who want to start a new life can do so. they keep the houses fixed from all the snow and the graves clean and streets well kept.

but then a plague hit town. they got no help from flamesgrace

and the caravans that usually brings them provisions and food and trade have been going missing or found mostly dead a little past stillsnow

that the caravan with the medicine they bought for the plague was found set on fire and nothing's escaped

and that the leader of the gang has been a shadow of his former self lately, and he acts as though he sees ghosts

a wise woman came into town. she calls herself a wise woman, but Gareth doesn't believe her

she can't help cure the sickness, but she's helped them quarantine people. she also helped them work out rations. and she helps people with their problems.

and Gareth asked her how he can fix all of this. to at least heal his leader. and she told him to gather the dragon stones

that having them near his leader would help him.

And Gareth, desperate, went off to do so.

This is his second stone he says. Darius says this is his third. Gareth asks where the rest are, Darius says house ravus.

Gareth looks despondent. he is not good enough to break in there. Darius holds up the hand with the bangle and says its not worth it either.

Cyrus is sus with the story. he asks what the woman looks like

Gareth gives a description of her, says her name is Lyblac.

"Lyblac? Galdera's daughter?"

"Is she? She had her own child with her."

"What did he look like?"

"Blond hair, blue eyes. He said his name was Kit."

there's a very oh shit moment

Darius convinces Gareth that no, something is wrong. this woman means harm.

But Gareth is, again, desperate. If there's any chance it would help his leader... his beloved...

(ive decided we're having garetherion as as treat)

Darius, in more faith than he's ever had in people, gives Gareth the dragonstone. Tells him to lead the way. Mostly because Kit also reminds him of Therion, and he feels an urge to protect that child.

And Gareth, now convinced of their sincerity to help, agrees to take them back to Northreach.

They get there, and the plague is bad.

but "shucks, that's what im here for!" says Alfyn with a smile. "I'll get this figured out in a jiffy. might need extra supplies though, to make enough medicine"

Ophila's "i'll help too"

H'aanit's "I shall help thee gatheren thy supplies, Alfyn."

and they go off

the rest follow Gareth to the cathedral. it's beautiful up there, not as well kept as it could be, but there is a plague

Some people in uniform greet Gareth.

"Where you have you been?"

"The leader's gone! We've been looking for you!"

"He's missing?"

"Disappeared a few nights ago. Left a letter with your name on it on his desk"

"What does it say?"

"Dont know. no one's read it."

what all of them fail to mention is that the leader also left the first/last dragonstone on the desk too, besides the letter

Gareth reads it, hands shaking.

"What does it say?" asks Cyrus.

"Therion went with Lyblac and Kit to the Gate of Finis."

"WHAT"

"Where is that?" Gareth asks, not caring about Cyrus' shock

Cyrus launches into a spiel, Gareth cuts him off and tells him to get to the point or he has a dagger with his name on it

offput, Cyrus explains that no one knows where it is, but it's where Galdera is locked behind

and the scholar asks "But why would he agree to go there?"

"He says in the letter that Lyblac said he could fix everything there"

But Darius has stopped listening for the most part. instead, he asks "What did you say the leader's name was?"

"Therion." Gareth glances at the letter. "he mentions you, too. Here. you can read it."

"Where are you going?"

"To find the gate. i have to stop him."

Gareth leaves the letter and both dragonstones. he tells the others he's going to find Therion and bring him back. leaves soemone in charge and takes off

Darius reads the letter. It mentions the plague. it mentions the supplies. townspeople dying from the cold. Lyblac said that going through the gate will fix all of that. She said that he could also solve his other regrets. And while he would never regret Gareth, he had always regretted what he did to Darius. and maybe this was a chance to right all of those wrongs at once. even if it costs him his life.

And Darius is shocked. Because, right, no one survives being thrown off cliffs. and Therion had gone somewhere terrible in his grief. And Kit is there.

"We need to go after 'em"

"but how? we dont know where the gate is?!"

they don’t. but it’s desperate now. and it takes them a long while to find it, but they go once they do

a little outside the gate, they find Gareth. he had managed to track them down this far. they join up and go together

to find a woman and two men stepping through the gate

Darius and Gareth don't even pause in their rush through the gate. But time is weird there. They entered at the same time and fell out at different times.

then the others start to arrive, so they wait, because it is strange and there is strength in numbers

they have one heck of an awkward conversation about Therion in the meantime.

"So... he threw you off a cliff" and "So... his lover, huh?" and the like

nine people head inside, once all gathered. they find a locked passage, and in front of that, is a body. Therion's. Something dark is trickling out of it, going towards flames against the walls.

Gareth is inconsolable. Darius is in a rage.

But the strangest thing happens when they take out the flames. Therion gasps and sits up. He's breathing heavily and ???? "I swear i was just stabbed"

But the wound is gone. whatever dark magic he was stabbed with, is gone. The flames are gone. Gareth doesn't care. He hugs him and "You're a damned idiot, Therion!"

and Therion apologizes for worrying him, but says that he's still going to go deeper. He needs to fix everything. Lyblac said he could fix it here.

Cue Darius' "Fix what, exactly? And where in the bloody hell is Kit?"

Therion freezes. He sees the others and he freezes and looks towards Gareth. "Are you... dead?"

Gareth explains everything. And there, in the far reaches of hell, Therion and Darius talk stuff out. Therion is apologetic and regretful and Darius is, as before, forgiving.

Then Cyrus interrupts the "heartfelt reunions" and asks Therion what the heck is going on here

Therion explains that Lyblac told them she could help Kit find his father. And she could help him save the town. They had to come with her.

But why them? Not anyone else?

Therion shrugs "she said something about needing a strong magic bloodline, which is what Kit has."

"and you?"

"she needed a god's blessing. I have Aeber's."

(now this hinges on my hc of therion genuinely being blessed by aeber. he's a natural thief and noble and he observes all the superstitions and rules a good thief should. so he is very blessed by aeber, despite his difficulties)

They spend the next several minutes explaining to Therion that the only thing down here is Galdera. and that's galdera's daughter. And Therion... "I know. She told me. She said he could fix things. His domain is death, and he can stop the death of my people."

Gareth volunteers to drag Therion would of the gates and fill him in and lets the others go on.

eight people are just in time to fight the god of death and destruction.

they win. they bring kit back. they see the ghosts of the past and they leave.

Kit is overjoyed to see them again. He goes on about everything that happened

Darius cuts him off to pinch his cheeks and yell "WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT WRITING LETTERS ALL THE TIME!!"

he stretches his cheeks out "This is why I didn't want to let you go alone, wound up with the first crazy lady who said she might know your dad!!"

"Sorry" Kit says. Darius lets go. Kit smiles. "I missed you too."

Darius puts him in a headlock and messes up his hair.

They're reunited with Gareth and Therion outside. Who, while still decent, were definitely starting to do indecent things.

Darius gives Therion so. much. grief. over it. mostly teasing him. but "seriously, right outside the gate of death? we have children with us you know!"

Tressa and Kit "hey!!!"

Darius "shut up and let's find the nearest tavern."

Everything is talked about over a meal. Darius and Gareth are going back to Northreach. Alfyn and Ophilia are going with them, to see to the rest of the plague. H'aanit goes with them too, to help with supplies. she's fit for the snow. Olberic goes home, Cyrus goes home. Tressa goes home. Primrose has things to do.

Darius decides he's not letting Kit leave his sight for the next few years/months. Kit has nowhere to go, however.

"Why don't you come with us?" Asks Therion. "We can help you find a home there. Both of you."

Kit agrees without thinking it. Darius rolls his eyes and scoffs but agrees.

Northreach gets better. Many people find a new home there. Darius is delighted to find that part of taking care of the town also means going out to steal things sometimes. And he and Therion still make excellent partners.

and since they've both chilled out so much over the years, it's a lot easier to get along.

Though both of them are still wary of cliffs

And... I think that’s it! I like this idea so much. I might do more stuff with it later!

And good guy Darius being a big brother to Kit is... a surprisingly fun idea XD

#zazu writes #octopath traveler #headcanons #Therion #garetherion #gareth #darius #kit crossford #primrose azelhart #alfyn greengrass #Cyrus Albright #ophilia clement #Tressa Colzione #h'aanit

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