#Noodle is there because they’re watching them for Cody

[codythecheshirecat]

Is This The Start, Midpoint, or Finale? Ch 20: Looking Towards the Future (and Finding the Past)

Codywan merman/modern AU

Story Summary: Cody has spent the last several months recovering from a car crash that completely upturned his life. When spending a day on the St. Lawrence River, he finds something that should be impossible–- a merman. An injured merman. And, well, there’s not much to do except bring him home and fix him up. 

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    Fitting two Sea-Folk in the pool is much harder than fitting one, they discovered pretty much immediately. They make do for lack of any other options, but Cody’s making a plan for not only a better pool but also for a way to not have it in the basement. They’ll have to make another building for it to prevent spying neighbors. So they’ll have to get a building permit, and then the pool permit (that Cody still doesn’t have because there’s no way in hell he’s telling the town that he has a pool in his basement).

    It’ll cost money. Maybe it wouldn’t even be worth it, and they should instead just sell the house and buy a different one out in the country with more privacy. Maybe they should just try to fit a bigger pool in the basement.

    But Cody really, desperately, wants Obi-Wan and Ahsoka to be comfortable. In truth, the pool wasn’t even big enough for Obi-Wan alone, not with how long he is, but they’d dealt with it because any other option was far out of their ability to follow through any time soon. Adding Ahsoka… well, the pool really isn’t for exercise.

    Adding Rex and Cody on top of that just means they’re all languidly floating and chatting and trying not to step on each others’ toes (metaphorically, seeing that Obi-Wan and Ahsoka don’t have toes).

    Ahsoka’s Sea-Folk form is different, understandably so, from Obi-Wan’s. Her tail is fairly short, at least compared to his. It’s blue-gray with a lighter underside, and Cody can see some faded striping along it too. The fins… Cody’s no expert, but if Obi-Wan resembles an eel, then Ahsoka resembles a shark. She even has the stereotypical dorsal fin, and the teeth to match.

    Cody himself is relaxing on a pool float (wearing swim trunks, he’s not going to get naked in front of Rex and Ahsoka, no thanks), watching Ahsoka hunch over a collection of pool noodles as she talks to Rex. Rex somehow shoved a tiny pool tube around his middle, up to his armpits, and it’s doing its best to keep him floating as he lets it take all of his weight. Obi-Wan, at the moment, has himself completely submerged, pressed against the wall(s?) of the pool and the floor of it.

    It’s been easy enough to fall into a pattern. Obi-Wan makes breakfast every morning, Rex makes dinner every night, and Cody and Ahsoka help clean up after. They share various house chores between them, Cody continues to work his shifts at the laundromat (Rex spends every night telling him he needs to get a better job, please, Cody, there are so many better places to work-) and often Obi-Wan joins him for lack of anything else to do.

    Since Rex has several months off from his usual job– not entirely related to the colder weather in the northern part of North America, but not entirely unrelated, either– he’d gone job searching. Within two days of that, he secured a job at a supermarket in Massena. Cody thinks he’s ridiculously overqualified for it. Rex had just told him that it was a temporary job, he didn’t need anything special.

    They’re still working on getting Obi-Wan and Ahsoka into the workforce. Well, getting them identities, really. Hard to get them jobs when they don’t technically exist. And they have to be careful about it– America isn’t exactly friendly to immigrants in the first place, and if the government finds out about the existence of merpeople… Cody doesn’t think it’ll go as well as it does in cartoons. Obi-Wan and Ahsoka are both adamant on helping out with money, though, and honestly Cody’s pretty sure they’re getting bored with so little to do. It’s a work in progress.

    But for now, they’re all relaxing in the pool and having a good time. Getting a Basement Pool is frankly the best idea he’s ever had, besides maybe rescuing Obi-Wan. He’s pretty sure Fox would be jealous. It’s a great idea.

    A disgruntled meow tears him from his thoughts. Ah, right. Jinni. Jinni is maybe the most ridiculous cat Cody has ever come across. He’s terrified of water (he’d tried to join Cody in the bath, gotten wet, and let out the loudest shriek he’d ever heard), but insists on being near Obi-Wan or Cody at all times. A cat tree just outside the pool isn’t enough, so Cody and Rex had rigged up a little floating platform for him to lay on in the pool. So long as everyone is careful, then everything is fine. The platform is even made of wood, so Jinni can’t pop it.

    Cody looks over at Jinni. The cat is peering through the water at Obi-Wan. “Jinni.”

    Jinni looks over at him. “M-rrp?”

    “He’s fine, don’t worry about him.”

    Jinni blinks slowly at him, casts another glance at Obi-Wan, then settles his head back onto his paws.

    That cat, Cody thinks to himself, is absolutely ridiculous. He fits right in, though.   

    Cody is of the opinion that Obi-Wan shouldn’t be let near shelter animals, anymore. He’s pretty sure Obi-Wan will try to adopt them all and they frankly don’t have the room for it.

    “They were all so sad, Cody,” Obi-Wan says morosely. He strokes Jinni’s back as the cat stretches out across his lap. “Almost all of them had been found abandoned. There were a few dogs that had been abused by their previous owners. The SPCA workers are still working on getting them to trust people again. It was horrible.”

    Cody shrugs. That kind of stuff pisses him off pretty badly. It used to be worse when he was younger, but time had tempered it. To a point. “Yeah, people can be cruel.”

    “I wish I could bring them all home. I know what it’s like not having a home to belong to…” Obi-Wan sighs. “But I suppose helping one is better than helping none. Jinni will be well cared for here.”

    “If we’re adding anyone else to the family we’re getting a bigger house, first.” Cody shakes his head. “We have four people in two bedrooms right now, and I’m half convinced Rex would kick us out to give Ahsoka our room if you and her weren’t as close as you are.”

    Obi-Wan snorts. “I’d hope Rex likes you a bit more than that, my dear. But agreed, no more additions to the family until there’s proper space for it.”

    Cody pulls himself out of the memory, heart beating fast. He keeps… thinking about that conversation. And every time it makes his heart beat funny, his mouth go dry. Obviously it’s because he doesn’t like seeing Obi-Wan upset, and Obi-Wan had been very upset over the lack of care the animals had gotten before going to the SPCA. But it also ties into that not-enough-space issue that he’s been having with the pool, and Cody hates having a problem without a way to fix it. He can’t make the house bigger with the snap of his fingers, and he can’t help the animals at the SPCA any more than maybe volunteering–

    He’s spared from any further thoughts with the sound of someone walking down the basement steps. Cody jerks, nearly falling off his pool float, and locks eyes with Rex. Rex gives him a wide-eyed stare, then promptly looks at Ahsoka. None of them have any time to actually do anything by the time their unexpected guest gets to the bottom of the stairs.

    Fox.

    Cody feels his heart stop. It must have stopped, because there’s absolutely no way he’s alive anymore, not with Fox giving them a completely unperturbed look despite the literal merpeople in front of him. Obi-Wan pops his head out of the water, apparently having noticed something happening.

    Fox still looks completely unbothered. “I was going to ask if any of you wanted to get dinner at J.C.’s, but now I see there are way bigger things to talk about.”

    Ahsoka waves. “Hi, I’m Ahsoka.”

    “Fox,” Fox says. “So, uh. Merpeople. That’s, uh.”

    “Surprise?” Rex offers.

    “Yeah, that,” Fox says.

    Cody… smells something fishy. Metaphorically speaking. “You seem less surprised than when you accidentally walked in on Obi-Wan hiding in my room, Fox.”

    “If you say– yeah, no, I’m not actually surprised at the existence of Sea-Folk.”

Sea-Folk. He even knows the term they use for themselves.    Cody narrows his eyes.

“You aren’t?” Obi-Wan asks. He drifts over to Cody.

    “Uh, no,” Fox says. “I’ve known about Sea-Folk for years.”

    Cody slides off of the pool float. “You have?”

    “How did you know? I’ve been sailing the ocean for years and didn’t know until recently,” Rex adds.

    Fox, for his part, now looks like he wants to make a strategic retreat. “Does it matter? It’s not my business to tell someone else’s secrets.”

    That’s true, but Cody still very much wants to pick his brain for secrets now. He sighs. “Alright, look. Let’s get dinner, we’ll go get ready and all take that time to digest what we’ve all just learned.”

    “Sure,” Fox agrees. He turns and marches up the stairs. “By the way, if you don’t want people wandering down here looking for you, then maybe you should put up some kind of door alarm. You know none of us knock.”

Cody turns to Obi-Wan. “Well, that could have gone worse, I guess.”

Obi-Wan just blinks at him, unimpressed.

***

    “So, you’ve met Sea-Folk before.” Obi-Wan asks Fox, pretending to be cheerfully curious and not that he’s setting up for interrogation. He strokes his beard.

    Cody isn’t fooled, but he also knows Obi-Wan very well.

    “Yeah.”

    Obi-Wan tilts his head. “Are you still in contact with them?”

    “I’m not answering that.” Fox types away on his phone, not even looking up.

    “Could you at least not text while I’m trying to talk to you? I’ve been informed that it’s terribly rude.”

    Cody holds back a snort.

    Fox doesn’t. “I think it’s terribly rude to interrogate someone about other peoples’ secrets.”

    Obi-Wan sighs dramatically. He twists to face Cody. “Your brother doesn’t like me, Cody.”

    Cody smiles. Most of Obi-Wan’s reaction is overdramatic and fakes, but Cody can sense a hint of sincerity in his voice. “He likes you fine. That’s his friendly face.”

    Obi-Wan shakes his head. “I don’t think that it is.”

    “I promise you that it is.”

    “You know anyone named Quinlan?” Fox interrupts.

    “I- Quinlan Vos?” Obi-Wan asks. He jerks around to look at Fox with wide eyes. “You know Quin?”

    The sudden rawness in Obi-Wan’s voice is enough for Cody to step forward and put a hand on Obi-Wan’s shoulder. Obi-Wan reaches up and puts his own hand on top of it.

    “Yeah.” Fox agrees. “I’ll have him meet us for dinner.”

    “Quinlan is alive?” Obi-Wan whispers. “And he’s been here the whole time?”

    Fox grimaces. He rubs the back of his head. “Well, if I’d paid more attention I would have said something sooner. Sorry.”

     Rex and Ahsoka just have to take that moment to walk out of Rex’s room. “You guys ready?” Rex asks.

    Obi-Wan twirls around. “Quinlan is alive!”

    Ahsoka pauses. “Master Vos survived?”

    Fox grimaces harder. He makes eye contact with Cody. “Well, now I feel like a dick for not learning Obi-Wan’s name until today,” he mutters.

    Cody’s pretty sure Obi-Wan and Ahsoka are too busy over the newest revelation to hear Fox, but Rex isn’t, and his face goes on a complicated journey of expressions that can be easily summed up as ‘trying not to laugh’.

    “You didn’t know Obi-Wan’s name?” Cody hisses back.

    “If someone said it, I wasn’t paying attention.”

    “What are you, Fox?”

    “I’ve been trying to figure that out for years with no luck, Cody. Now let's go get some dinner and watch a family reunion.”

    What’s one more for the books?

#star wars #tcw #the clone wars #commander cody #obi-wan kenobi #codywan #merman au #modern au #magic #read it on ao3 #it's all there #if you like it let me know #i love hearing what people think #yes ahsoka's sea-folk form is based off a tiger shark

[shadowthestoryteller]

A Crosshair Analysis Because I Can

So

My thoughts have been on Twiggs recently (I mean when are the ever NOT on Crosshair) but that’s besides the point. 

What have I been thinking about? 

Why does Crosshair dislike Rex? Or, more broadly, why is Crosshair meaner than a snake at times?

I think the main reason he is so hostile with Rex is this: Rex pulled rank.

Here me out. 

If you watch that scene closely, the scene where Cody is down and Hunter is sniffing dirt, Crosshair is an abrasive little noodle but isn’t really outright hostile. He did taunt Jesse in the gunship, but another headcanon that I have is Crosshair purposefully pokes people with a stick to test their mettle (more on that later). Back to the Rex thing, Crosshair actually does not outright challenge Rex until Rex says “I’m in charge now”.

We know the Bad Batch only follows the orders of one person, and that’s Cody. The Bad Batch have never served under Rex, and now this random officer who doesn’t know them is trying to tell them what to do. Watch the scene closely and the moment Rex says “I’m in charge now” Crosshair’s eyes actually widen and his head rocks back a bit. He’s shocked at this, and spite quickly follows. THAT’S when he attacks Rex directly. And, much as I love Rex, looking through Crosshair’s eyes he’s got a point. If Rex is so capable, why were the Bad Batch called in? 

Now we all know what an absolute BAMF Rex is and how he’s not exactly shy about crazy plans (MF just up and ‘Then we’ll destroy the outpost instead!’ like bro wtf). But the Bad Batch does not know what he’s capable of. 

They are commandos, so basically space marines. From what I know about Marines, they are extremely dismissive of commanding figures immediately trying to take charage that they are not familiar with. Rank also doesn’t usually = respect for them either. They need to see what the officer is capable of first. In the case of Anakin, Cross seems to be chill with him (as a rifle owner, I know you dont let just anyone hold your rifle, that’s your baby) so my guess is either Cross knew of Anakin or Anakin didn’t pull rank the moment he met them. 

Crosshair needs proof the person he’s following is a capable fighter and wont endanger the squad. 

He wants to see if they’re weak willed or will stand up to him. And also that’s just who Crosshair is as a person, he enjoys getting people riled up because he knows Wrecker will defend him. But he does like to test people because you see a person’s true colors when they’re angry. Crosshair wants to figure if they’d be level headed in battle or if they’d jeopardize him and the team. 

This would translate into non-combat situations of course, but that’s a conversation for another time. 

I also theorize that Crosshair puts up his cold front kinda like an owl puffs up to make themselves bigger. Crosshair is not physically intimidating. He’s just not. So, he digs at someone first to let them know he’s not a pushover or weak. Only problem is he doesn’t know when to stop. 

Now, I am NOT trying to say “Oh Crosshair’s just misunderstood and is actually pure and a sweetheart!” No, he can be an outright asshole at times. His comments to Rex about Echo on Skakko Minor are completely and utterly uncalled for an the thud when Cross got knocked on his ass was immensely satisfying.  He’s also not some angel with an acidic tongue. 

He’s a complex character who’s got flaws and isn’t perfect, but a fun thing to remember in psychology is this: “The problem is never the problem”. Cross doesn’t get a free pass for his jackassery, I just like to think he’s got a deeper (even if subconscious) reason for his actions. 

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#stop outright hatin my boy #hes an ass but he isnt satan incarnate #crosshair #clone trooper crosshair #weve seen a grand total of an hour of footage for the bad bach #Rex hardly had all of his character arc in that amount of time #if im wrong and he is just an ass ill eat my words #but i doubt it #bad batch #the bad batch #clone force 99

[imaginedigimon]

I know the Adventure 01 & 02 kids have canon adulthoods already, but do you headcanon any of them with different jobs and/or futures? Or just some cool side hobbies when their older?

I’M SO SORRY I TOOK SO LONG TO ANSWER THIS

I CANNOT EXPRESS WITH MERE WORDS HOW SORRY I AM

But you know, I think about this a lot. When I saw the epilogue of 02 the first time, I just kinda took it. But then, I’ve always been more a canon lover than anything. Maybe that’s because I’m just thankful that the media I consume exists, so I like most if not all of what it does.

Enough about me and my strange relationship with the idea of canon.

Adventure Kids as Adults Headcanons

Tai [Taichi]

Honestly, I don’t think Tai would have played soccer all his life

The diplomat thing, at least after watching Tri, kinda works for him to be honest

I mean yeah my bae isn’t the smartest, but

Where was I going with this?

Oh, yes, anyway, he probably would’ve become a gym teacher or something

I imagine he’s great with kids and wants to be a lot like Nishijima, except without the whole secret agent-y bit

He started doing calligraphy in honor of Nishijima sometime after college ;-;

Matt [Yamato]

Is it cliche to say I honestly thought Matt was going to become a rockstar, if not one of those cool rocker guys who works in some record store or something and turns out to be really wise?

No I’m not thinking about Phineas and Ferb wdym

I’d like to think that even if he’s not still playing the bass like the god he is he gives lessons to others

Also he collects rocks

That’s important

Sora

Even I’m not sure why on Earth she’d be a fashion designer, fabulous as she is

But anyway, if she didn’t do that, she probably would have followed in her mom’s footsteps in... whatever it is she does [I’ve never been clear on that to be perfectly honest]

I think she definitely would have married Matt still as much as my 13-year-old self cries over it because I’m married to Tai, so...

Although I was enlightened to the idea of Sora and Joe some months ago during Takari Week so perhaps---

ANYWAY I can actually see Sora babysitting a lot or being the go-to friend for caretaking needs, whether it’s pets or children

Izzy [Koshiro]

We all know his occupation makes perfect sense

We wouldn’t have it any other way

He still makes Tentomon very very worried (they don’t mention it in the show but we all know it’s true)

He lowkey goes drinking with Sora’s dad and Joe’s brother all the time and nobody’s able to comprehend why he won’t go drinking with the other DigiDestined

Legend has it that he researches different brands of alcohol every now and then

(It’s actually every day)

Mimi

Not that she wouldn’t do a cooking show, but

Can you imagine if she had become an idol?

LIKE IMAGINE

She just goes up to Tai or Matt or all them on the street and people are like “YOU KNOW MIMI” and they’re like “uh yeah we’ve known her for X years”

Palmon joins her on stage too and looks fabulous

She does the thing Alec Benjamin does and goes up to people on the street and sings to them

And of course you can’t say no to Mimi she’s a legend

Joe [Jou/Jyou]

Again, his occupation made sense

I honestly wouldn’t have it any other way

But he doesn’t make as big a fuss about the doctor thing with his son

Watch his son be a delinquent I swear---

Joe somehow got really invested in crime shows

I wish I could explain how

Oh, and also---he found House

WHO LET HIM FIND HOUSE?

T.K. [Takeru]

I don’t think about it much, but I support his career as a writer

Mostly because I am a writer myself

Anyway, I think he probably did more than the novels, like some screenplays for TV shows and movies

He won some nice awards for that stuff

But you know what he really loves

Satanic rituals

....

....

I WAS KIDDING mostly

Kari [Hikari]

CHANGE MY MIND, SHE IS THE BEST TEACHER EVER

I LOVE HER OK

She is so loved by her students it’s heartwarming

We love teachers who get the respect they deserve

Her side hobby is making a better paper airplane than any kid in her classes

I...

I wish I knew why she tried so hard, but

Kari

Davis [Daisuke]

I am not about to take his dream from him

But I propose that it wasn’t just noodles

Oh no

It was also other delightful dishes found in carts like his (I’m not good at Japanese culture, so I’m not about to list some)

He’s so wealthy he goes to hang out with Oprah a lot

Somehow he’s started reading like all of the Oprah’s Book Club stuff

I just

I don’t know why it took this long to get him to read

Yolei [Miyako]

I greatly respect women who are willing to stay home all day with three children (like seriously HOW DO YOU DO IT), BUT

I think that’s just not very Yolei

She definitely joined Izzy a few times for his thing

Maybe she became a professional hacker

Like Garcia in Criminal Minds

So, yeah, she’s a big help to Ken, which makes sense

I bet Sora knows more about their kids than they do at this point XD

Cody [Iori]

HE IS JACK MCCOY FROM LAW AND ORDER CHANGE MY MIND

So anyway

I’d also like to think he’s like the dad of a friend of mine--the type of lawyer who represents children in tough situations

Social justice is just his thing, you know

When he’s not being the best lawyer in the world, he is rewatching Legally Blonde over and over and over again

He’s even watched Red, White, and Blonde and that spinoff Legally Blondes a thousand times

Let the man have a hobby

Ken

You cannot tell me he didn’t become the star of a reality show

You know “Cops” or like the Shrek parody of it from Shrek 2 “Knights”? Ken’s in something like that

But it’s all just antics between him and Stingmon

It’s really funny because they’re the best detectives but you can’t tell at first glance

We love them anyway

He still plays soccer, but he actually prefers coaching recreational leagues of it

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I don’t know where a lot of these came from @_@

It is 2 am, but I am tired, so I will finish my last backlogged request tomorrow (hopefully... I have some things I promised myself I’d do)

Thanks for stopping by!

#digimon headcanons #digimon adventure 01 #digimon adventure 02 #digimon as adults #i would tag all their names but no #never again #sometimes i wonder if these headcanons are just me being a crackhead or---

[krixwell-liveblogs]

Worm asks

Have you tried to give D&D alignments to The Travelers yet, and if not how would you classify them?

Hmm.

Trickster: True neutral

Sundancer: Neutral good

Ballistic: Chaotic neutral

Genesis: ???

Noelle: Lawful? good

Oliver: Chaotic nerd

Gurer’f abguvat vaqvfchgnoyl njshy tbvat guebhtu, ohg V’q qrsvavgryl yvxr gb frr yrff uvagvat znxr vg guebhtu gur fperravat gb Xevk

Sharks: Fher guvat. V’ir orra ehaavat bss gur vqrn gung vs vg’f va gur sbezng bs na ubarfg dhrfgvba, va beqre gb nibvq nabgure Fpragyrff Zna vapvqrag, ohg V pna svarghar vg vs crbcyr jnag?

As usual, translate here.

While you’re checking out all the Simurgh fanart, you should listen to this theme someone made for her: (google Simurgh Husr, first result. Hopefully sharks can just replace this with the actual link) Same person who made that Leviathan theme linked way back.

https://soundcloud.com/user-371879520/simurgh

This was really nice. I like how it does sound like a good melody while at the same time exhibiting some of the pattern-defying nature of the tune. 🙂

I think you miiiight have jumped to conclusions from an ask that simply asked you if you could list the Traveler’s cape and civilian names. Miiight have. Also, I’m pretty sure most of them where refered to by their civilian names in previous arcs.

It’s certainly possible.

It’s not so much that I jumped to the conclusion as that the ask opened my eyes to the possibility of it, which I hadn’t considered before. From there, I had to reevaluate things and consider how things would change if it turned out I had gotten the two mixed up. Ultimately I think I’d prefer for Cody to be Ballistic, but I’m still not sure either way (even with this ask heavily implying it’s Luke).

As for names, most of their names did show up (all the more reason for an ask about matching names to capes being kind of odd if it wasn’t trying to set me thinking of something), but I can’t recall Ballistic’s being one of them. But you know how my memory can be.

That smurf song you posted definitely says “dab dab dab” several times, despite the video being uploaded to YouTube in 2009, and the song supposedly being from 1978. So that’s suspicious as hell.

I… think that has to be the bits where it actually says “tramp, tramp, tramp på en smurf” (“stomp, stomp, stomp on a smurf”).

Either way, now we’re all forced to consider the concept of the Smurfs dabbing, so thanks for that. 😛

“Dragonberry” was Scarfgirl’s old character on City of Heroes, a MMORPG with a superhero theme that no longer exists. I know you’re not reading the chapter comments, but if you ever go back to read the early ones, you’ll see that quite a lot of the early readers were City of Heroes players who had an interest in superhero fiction. That’s why Scarfgirl’s art is signed “Dragonberry”, because it’s how people knew her back then.

Ah, interesting. Fun to hear a little about the fandom’s early history. 🙂

I’ve had many names, myself. Once upon a time I used to make a different name, if not more, for just about every site I was on. One of the names that stuck with me the most was Elementarion, which I used in the game Godville and a few other places (not every Elementarion that comes up on Google now is me, though), because I found long-time friends while using that name.

Though for some reason I wonder why 😛, nobody seemed to want to type it out every time they wanted to mention me. I’ve been called almost every short form of Elementarion there is. El was the most common (made watching Stranger Things kinda odd the first time around, even though I’d long abandoned the name), but I’ve been called Ele, Elem, Eleme, Elemen, Element…

A couple other highlights I remember were Hiatus (in a browser game I don’t remember the name of), OldHeavens (NewGrounds) and Barbute (ArmorGames).

It wasn’t until I came up with Krix Jace, later Krixwell Jace, that I started stabilizing my name.

1. Do you think people ever submit misleading questions just to fuck with you?

Some, probably. And that might be a good thing — if there are some asks that deliberately imply things that are wrong, it makes it harder to trust accidental implications of things that are right.

2. Have you ever noticed that Danny and Eidolon have never been in a scene together?

Hmmmmmm 🤔

Still no Travelers interlude… do you still think you’ll get one, or has this dashed your hopes?

Ahaha

Yeah, no, I’m counting this as everything I asked for and more. 😛

Sharks:

http://www.nospoiler.com/y/WenCYI_Bn7I

Sent in by “ewerwqer”. “Simurgh Scream” by person257 Don’t… Open it with headphones on. Trust me. Don’t.

I’m scared.

*disconnects his headphones*

…not as bad as the description sounded, but yeah, probably a good idea to not use headphones. It’s a well put-together bit of mind noise, nice work. 🙂

Worm fanart

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Oooh, there are more of these? Awesome! They’re all going in my backgrounds folder.

I love how Behemoth just kinda peeks around the corner of the image border. It’s okay, don’t be shy!

(Also I just discovered I can do slideshows. Neat.)

K6BD ask

My favorite part is the Master of Aesthetic saying “she is an idiot, and a loathsome schemer!” and YISUN is all “YEP, YOU GOT THAT ONE RIGHT 😀 😀 :D”. With Aesma standing right there.

YISUN is the type of person who has “precious trash babies” in every fandom they’re in. 😛

I feel like you all need to know, even if you don’t care about MLP:FiM, that the final episode of the show proved us all wrong.

The show’s resident Skitter is not Queen Chrysalis, the villainous, scheming ruler of a hive full of insect ponies.

Nor is it Twilight Sparkle, the mainest character and socially awkward brainiac who leads a team of five other main characters and always does her research if she can.

No, because of this one episode, it becomes clear:

It’s Rarity.

…

Okay, that’s just a joke, Twilight is still the best fit among the Mane Six, but Rarity using spiders for her fashion did immediately make me think of Taylor.

Twilight – Taylor

Applejack – Brian

Rainbow Dash – Rachel

Rarity – Lisa

Fluttershy – Alec??

Pinkie Pie – Aisha??

(Spike – Shatterbird??????)

K6BD patron comments

1. “What happened to Hansa” is addressed in the Prim story so that’s still out there if you want to know.

Ahh. That would explain why it was left unexplained in Aesma, aside from acting as a noodle incident if you haven’t read Prim.

2. As you observed, the word “demon” has appeared very rarely in the comic, outside of epic title drops & an instance where drunk Allison used it in place of “devil”. It’s used in some of the bonus texts but without a clear definition. Can you speculate further on what it might mean?

The priests seem to call Aesma a demon in the sense of a being of evil, but I don’t think that’s necessarily a definition that’s relevant to the comic’s title (and what appears to be Allison’s “name” in some sense, though the Demiurges do seem to have misinterpreted other parts of the prophecy and Zoss didn’t unambiguously use it as a name). It may be more about inner demons, Allison killing her fears, doubts and insecurities as she grows into the role of a king/queen of the cosmos. Six billion might be hyperbole, in that case, but still.

Alternatively, the prophecy and name might actually refer to Zaid, who could easily end up being the final villain of this thing even if he’s not actually Zoss’ intended successor. In that case, “six billion demons” might refer to humans, if Zaid gets really nasty with his own species. We know very little about Zaid’s base personality beyond “kinda sleazy boyfriend”, so a lot of developments are plausible on that front.

Though there are other parts of the prophecy, as well as illustrations, that do fairly clearly indicate Kill Six Billion Demons is Allison and will be flanked by White Chain and Ciocie, so it referring to Zaid is unlikely.

3. I think the author once said that there are still Aesma-worshippers active in Throne. What do you think they’re like and what would she think of them?

(Somehow the flesh sellars come to mind.)

Well, clearly they’d be Slytherins, if they understand her teachings. Aesma might treat them as ants, if she were still around, but bask in their adoration.

4. Kalpa — a Hindu / Buddhist concept meaning a really fucking long time. Besides in the story you just read, the term has also appeared in the comic at least once so far.

Good to know. I think I kind of just assumed it was Throne’s equivalent of a year, however long it might be.

5. Panopticon — a prison design envisioned by philospopher Jeremy Bentham, allowing all prisoners to be observed from a central point.

Makes sense. When I read it in Aesma’s story, the word’s construction was clear enough that I figured out what it was immediately, before I finished reading the sentence. It very clearly means a place from which to see everything.

6. Root — penis.

Yeah, I figured that one out. 😛

7. To offset the unfortunate scarcity of Cio in your life lately, here’s some of the old concept art:

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(The quantity of arms was somewhat uncertain.)

Oooh.

Her arms and legs look so spidery here. I suppose that might be why she was introduced with the Coat of Arms.

Can Skitter control her?

8. Not related to K6BD but Abaddon has also been working on a tabletop mecha RPG and here’s the very nice cover art:

Ooh, you’re right, this looks very nice. It kind of gives me a K6BD x Steven Universe x Star Wars vibe. And a little bit of RWBY with that one guy that reminds me of Tyrian. I can definitely see the resemblance between this an K6BD in terms of character design style, despite the genre shift.

I particularly like the blonde in the lower left.

In the interest of transparency, I should also mention that the patron has said he probably won’t sponsor full liveblogs of any of the other bonus texts, but has sent me a few recommendations and links to some of the ones I’ve passed (besides Prim). I might read some of those on my own time, though, especially the second Aesma story. If I do, I will of course let you know and discuss any particularly notable observations.

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How Director John Carpenter Found His Second Career

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John Carpenter launched his career as a filmmaker in 1974 with the micro-budget sci-fi parody, Dark Star, and completed it, for all intents and purposes, in 2010 with his last full-length directorial effort to date, The Ward. But in between, the New York-born Carpenter created some of the most legendary cult classics of all time, including Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Halloween (1978), The Fog (1980), Escape from New York (1981), The Thing (1982), Prince of Darkness (1987), and They Live (1988).

In addition to directing and writing, Carpenter—the son of a music professor—has composed or co-composed the scores for nearly all his films. The filmmaker revealed a natural instinct for music which resulted in classic cues like the theme from Halloween or the lesser-known but still recognizable stingers from Prince of Darkness or The Fog.  

Although Carpenter has remained involved in filmmaking to some degree—most recently as an executive producer and co-composer on David Gordon Green’s excellent Halloween sequel and the next two installments in the series—he has, in recent years, turned his attention full-time to music.

Assembling a musical unit with his son Cody and godson Daniel Davies, Carpenter has released four albums in six years: three volumes of original music called Lost Themes and Anthology: Movie Themes 1974-1998, featuring new recordings of his classic film scores.

The latest album, Lost Themes III: Alive After Death, features titles like “Weeping Ghosts,” “Vampire’s Touch,” and “The Dead Walk” that combine blazing synthesizer/guitar/electronic dynamics in evocative, memorable, and intensely cinematic instrumental passages. Carpenter called the first Lost Themes album “a soundtrack for the movies in your mind,” and that holds true for this third edition as well.

Carpenter, Cody, and Daniel also toured behind Lost Themes II a few years back, bringing Carpenter’s original music and iconic cues—as well as a new appreciation of the films that spawned them—to delighted Carpenter diehards and a fresh generation of fans.

While Carpenter awaits the pandemic-delayed release of Halloween Kills later this year, and hopes to play live again, Den of Geekhad the opportunity to get on the phone with the legendary director to discuss his new album, how his music-making process differs from filmmaking, and more, including some key anniversaries in his filmography.

How was this recent album [Lost Themes III: Alive After Death] done? Was it a rush of creativity, or did you and the guys work on it piece by piece over the last few years?

John Carpenter: Piece by piece over the last two years. We played some music, then we’d stop, then we’d play some more music, and we’d stop. We did the score to Halloween Kills and then we finished Lost Themes III, but it was a constant finishing business. So here we are.

Do you think the three of you, you and Cody and Daniel, have coalesced more as a musical unit over that course of time, and did playing live as an actual band help the new music along?

We each bring our strengths to the program. And we all know what we do the best, and we cover each other in that sense. I’m the experienced guy. I’m more experienced in this than they are, but Daniel is a virtuoso on guitar, and Cody is a virtuoso on keyboard. So it’s all different stuff, and we just have a blast, too. It’s all fun.

Was it fun to get out and do that tour?

Ah, man, are you kidding? It’s a dream come true.

So there’s always been a touring musician hidden away all these years in John Carpenter?

Oh yeah, and I never knew it either, but he’s there. He’s there.

Obviously, with everything that’s going on now, there’s no live music happening, but when we return to normalcy would you like to take this back out on the road again?

You know, we’ve talked about it. We’ll see. I’d like to if the opportunity is there, and things are right again in the world because they’re not right now. It’s crazy so there’s no chance of doing it now.

How about doing a performance via livestream?

We’ve talked about that, too, but it’s all a question of timing, and there’s a variety of things to take into consideration, but sure, we might do stuff like that.

When you write music, do you visualize scenes and storylines the way you would when writing a screenplay or is it a different type of muscle entirely?

Well, the purpose of the music is to do exactly what you said it does, which is to allow you to fantasize a movie of your own. That’s the whole purpose. And for us, for me especially, it’s just doing music. That’s a process of its own. It’s not foolproof. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and start working on something, and it’s crap, and you have to abandon it later. But sometimes it works out. So it’s all good. It’s all good.

Are there stories behind any of these songs?

Yeah, but that’s up to you to provide, not me. I’m just there to do the music. I’m the soundtrack to your imagination.

Was all this material created from scratch, or was there anything that you had in the archives either from scores, or material that didn’t make the previous albums?

It’s pretty much from scratch. All made up for this particular record.

What’s the difference to you between the energy of working in the studio and playing the music live, and did you try to get more of that live feel to this record?

Oh, they’re just very different. Compiling in the studio, we can perfect something. You can go back over it and over it, but when you’re playing live if you make a mistake that’s it. Nothing you can do about it. Plus the energy, the buzz from the crowd, is incredible. It just gets you going. It makes you want to take over Russia. But they both have their strengths, and it’s also fun just to do it in the studio.

Who were your influences, musically, when you started out scoring your own films?

When I was doing movie music, it was usually guys like Bernard Hermann, or Dimitri Tiomkin. Their scores for movies, that was my youth. That was what I went to see in the movies, their sounds. But the more modern stuff would be Tangerine Dream, stuff like that. I guess you could say I learned from these classical masters of movie themes. That’s where I got my training. I listened a lot to them.

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You did the music for most of your movies going all the way back to Dark Star. When did it become apparent that this would be the case?

It was pretty natural. I don’t know when exactly it was that this was the way it was going to be. I was just doing it all of a sudden… in the beginning, mostly it was because I could do it cheap and fast. And I knew I could do it, and it would be there. That wouldn’t work with anybody else. That was the way it was. Some of my stuff wasn’t particularly sophisticated, and it wasn’t particularly advanced. It was just synthesizing music. Some of it was really simple depending on what the movie required. But I was pretty good at judging that, so I guess that’s my strength.

The music you’re doing now has truly become a second career for you. Do you think that directing is firmly in the rearview mirror at this point?

I don’t think it’s firmly in the rearview mirror, but come on. Supposedly the rap is that Americans don’t have a second career, and man, I got to have one, I fell into it, and here it is. It’s the greatest. I’m blessed. I don’t question it.

In a strange way, it’s also helping people appreciate what you did as a filmmaker as well.

That’s what happened, and it’s the greatest. And plus I’m doing scores to the new Halloween movies which is really, really fun. We just finished up Halloween Kills and it’s great.

What are your thoughts on the debate over whether the studios should wait until they can theatrically release films or stream them?

Well, the studio’s going to do what’s in their best interest. But for a while the theaters are dead, so you’ve just got to put the movies where they can be seen. So streaming is one way, but we’ll see. We’ll see how it evolves. They’ll make the decision that’s right for them. Thank God I don’t have to make that decision. I don’t want that responsibility.

What else can you tell me about Halloween Kills?

The movie’s done. The score, and everything. Halloween Kills is the ultimate slasher film. It is a slasher film on steroids. It will literally blow you away. It’s incredible, and I love it. I’m loving it.

What do you know about the third one, Halloween Ends?

I’ve read the script. I can’t wait to see it. It’s great also. It’s really interesting.

You have some anniversaries this year coming up as well that I want to ask you about. One I think of which is really relevant. This year’s the 40th anniversary of Escape from New York.

Really, wow.

I was just doing some background reading on the movie because I actually hadn’t watched it in a while. You wrote it out of cynicism about the President, right after Watergate.

Yeah, that and the decay of New York in the ’70s was pronounced then. It was really bad.

Do you think it’s just as relevant now particularly with the situation we’re just getting ourselves out of with Trump?

It’s different now. That movie is very much of its time. Now is a new story, and it’s pretty grim. I think we all agree on Trump and there’s a huge section of the country that doesn’t. They think he’s the greatest. It’s unreal. And they think the election was stolen, and they have this fantasy world they’re living in. It’s unbelievable to me. I don’t even know what to make of it.

I’m just noodling that around my head. What would I do with this in a movie? Because it’s very different. It’s different than They Live. They Live is Reaganomics from outer space, or whatever. But this is something else, I don’t know what. The closest I can come to it is that series of movies, The Purge.

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The studio pushed back on using Kurt Russell for Escape, but you knew what he was capable of, and that he was trying reinvent himself at the time.

Yeah, he was, and I knew he could do it. The studio was just not sure because he hadn’t done anything like this. People are scared if you’re starting something that hasn’t been done before. They want to make sure that it’s been done so they know what they’re getting. They weren’t sure about Kurt. He proved himself so that was great.

What was it like shooting the film in East St. Louis?

It was amazing, unbelievable. We were there in the summer when it’s blistering hot. They had this big fire there in the ’70s. It burned out the place. But they were very cooperative. They turned off all the streetlights, and let us move stuff, and that was great, just great.

This year is also the 35th anniversary of Big Trouble in Little China, which was a troublesome movie for you and sent you out of Hollywood for a while.

Yeah, it was the way I was treated at the studio. I loved making the movie. Making the movie was great.

I think maybe it was a little misunderstood at the time. Would you agree?

Well I don’t know. I think that’s a director’s way of excusing himself not having a hit. I don’t know. But some people like it, and that makes me very happy…It was great to make. It was fun to make.

Do you know what’s happening with the remake that Dwayne Johnson was talking about?

I have no idea. Nobody tells me anything so that’s fine.

One of my favorite films of yours is Prince of Darkness. It really hits the sweet spot between science fiction and horror. You’ve said you were reading a lot about quantum physics at the time. How did that blend with your thoughts about the devil, and religion, and what made that all work together for you?

Well I don’t know if it worked but that’s why I made that movie, was just all the thoughts that I had. Quantum mechanics was the thing I wanted to do. No one had ever made a movie about it. So I did, and I really enjoyed that movie. That movie was fun, and it was freeing to work outside the studio.

I know you’re a big gamer. What have you been playing in lockdown?

Well I’ve played Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. The new Assassin’s Creed game. Great. I’m finishing up on Fallout 76. I love that game. And I’m playing some old games like Dead Space, and generally looking around for any new games.

Is your son Cody a gamer too?

Oh huge. He was the one who got me into games. He’s great at it. Although I’m pretty good now. It’s just taken me a long time.

What do you like most about playing video games?

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Everything. You just go to a different world for quite a while, and have fun, and shoot people, which is great, or whatever you’re doing to solve various problems. It’s great fun.

John Carpenter’s new album, Lost Themes III: Alive After Death, is out now.

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max, johnny, and the very important mission (bmw 2)

bullymagnet week, day two: heist

Since the plan is to make one cohesive story out of these, I’d suggest reading day one first.

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“Mr. Spender, I need your help!”

It’s not exactly unusual for one of the Activity Club members to come bursting into the room with a dramatic one-liner. Actually, it’s probably far weirder for any of them to make their presence known like normal people, but Max usually does his best to bring down the curve on this one. Pair that up with his reluctance to ask for help in general, and… he would’ve expected more of a reaction, honestly.

“Oh, good afternoon, Max,” Spender mutters, flipping a page of his magazine. He doesn’t even bother to look up. “Yes, your pop quiz was a little below normal for you.”

“I’ve only been here like a week, you don’t know my normal,” Max retorts, frustrated. “Not that I ever expect to see ‘normal’ again… But, anyway, this isn’t about school!”

At this, Spender does perk up. “A spirit? Report!”

“…Not a spirit, per se,” Max shrugs. “More of a… Starchman situation?”

“STARCH-SIT!” Ed bursts into the room, followed by Isabel twirling her new umbrella around her wrist with a fierce grin. As Ed continues talking, he and she begin spontaneously fencing with their tools, leaving Isaac blocked in the doorway, scowling. “Man, I love those! What was it this time? Quoteathon? The Great Tremble? Oh, did he bring out The Noodle?”

“What? No. No. What is that stuff? No.” Max sighs, turning back to Spender. “He confiscated something that belongs to me, can you help me get it back?”

Ed just laughs mysteriously.

“Max! How could you lose y–” Cutting himself off with a quick glance to Isabel, Spender changes tacks with a sigh: “What did you do to make him confiscate your tool? Were you magnetizing things in class?”

“No. It’s weird enough that I’ve been carrying a baseball bat around everywhere, you really think I’m gonna draw attention to it like a numbskull?” The looks Max gets suggest that yes, everyone does think exactly that. Jerks, the lot of them.

“Well, your pop quiz suggests – ”

“There was a spirit on my desk eating that test! You saw it! You sparkled at it!”

“The fact remains, even Isaac gets good grades with spirits around.” The boy still trapped in the doorway perks up a little, until Spender continues, “Well, not in art.”

“Heh.” Max can’t help snickering at that one, despite the betrayed look Isaac shoots him. But he’s quick to get back on track – this is a serious matter, after all. “I only said I don’t really like The Hobbit, can you just help me get my property back?”

Spender sighs again, with feeling.

“Who doesn’t like The Hobbit, Max?” He shakes his head despairingly, and Max rolls his eyes. So sue him for preferring sci-fi. “I really shouldn’t encourage so much flaunting of the school rules – Isabel, your turn to watch the security cameras. I suppose I’ll be busy walking young Max down to the office to plead his case…”

“Max has his bat,” Isaac points out.

“Yes, it’s really not a good idea to separate a new spectral from their tool for long, we all know that Isaac – wait. You do have your bat.”

“I never said he took my bat,” Max grumbles, glaring at Isaac. There’s a stupid triumphant glint in his eyes; Max is totally going to remember how petty he is. He’ll be twice as petty back over this. “He took my hat! I need it back!”

As one, everyone turns to him with silent, yet expressive faces.

Do you really think I, a Teacher, would stand against the ancient teacherly art of Confiscation unless a tool were involved? Spender asks.

Gee, Max, that’s lame. Never knew you were so lame. It’s just a stupid hat, Isabel opines.

I wonder if I made a paint oven, could I cook a spectral potato? Hot potato hot! …Ed.

Ha ha ha that’ll show you, don’t make fun of my dumb drawings ha ha ha I win, gloats Isaac.

“Fine! I don’t need your help anyway!” Max yells, and storms out of the room.

The problem is, he doesn’t even know where Starchman keeps the stuff he confiscates. Normally the teacher’s desk would be a good bet, but this is Starchman. Max vaguely recalls a treasure chest his first day. The English teacher is way too terrifying to just ask for his hat back, and there’s no way he’s just waiting around until he manages to earn twenty-five stars to get it back.

Honestly, he’s not sure if it even counts as confiscation when you require students to pay you to get their stuff back, but the stars aren’t actually real money. Even if no one seems to ever remember that fact. Even the vending machine by the cafeteria accepts them, to say nothing of that school store.

Maybe, if it were just a matter of a day or two, Max would be willing to grit his teeth and wait it out… but collecting twenty-five stars would by all indications take a lot more time and effort. No, there’s got to be some way he can steal it back…

“Ow!”

Even though Max is the one who ends up knocked to the ground, Johnny gets mad. And he wasn’t even the one Max bumped into.

“Ollie,” the bully snarls, cracking his fists with that signature menacing grin, “what little punk dares to bump into my friend?”

The big lug blinks contemplatively down at Max, who rolls his eyes.

“He’s a nerd,” he decides.

“A nerd?!” Johnny’s voice gets more than a little bit insane, his grin ratcheting wider. Max can hear those tires screeching again. “Y’boys know how I feel ‘bout nerds.”

“You wish some of them actually wore suspenders ‘cuz snapping them seems like it’d be fun,” Stephen contributes with a grin, Ollie and RJ nodding seriously.

“No, not that feel, the mean feel!”

“I mean, that feel’s kinda mean too,” Max interjects.

“Yeah, Puckett, but it’s not like punch mean, you get me?” Johnny does a double-take. “Wait. Max?”

All of a sudden, Max finds himself lifted to his feet, brushed off in like fifteen different directions by what feels suspiciously more like nine arms than eight (a ghost?), and his right hand receives another weird Johnny slap-biff-punch-shake-clasp greeting. He’s fairly certain it’s not the same one as last time, but he doesn’t know if that’s because he’s moved up in Johnny’s book, or if they’re both just completely random. At the end, Johnny just stands there, giving him this weird stare.

“You look different, man,” Stephen says.

“Yeah, that’s cause Starchman confiscated my hat,” Max snarls, rage returning as he remembers the injustice done to him. “That thing is basically part of my head!”

“Oooooooh,” Johnny’s gang agree. “Yeah, that’s it. You look naked, dude.”

“You look like a nerd,” Johhny says. “That’s just not right.”

“I thought you thought I was a nerd, though? I mean… you broke into my house to call me one in the middle of the night only like a couple days ago.” Max hoists his heavily-graffitied cast as proof.

“Y-yeah,” Johnny says, cheeks flushing. “But. You don’t normally look like a nerd. Yer all… stealth-nerd. Normally.”

“Did. Did you just say my hat makes me look cool.”

“T-this kid needs a hat, stat!” Johnny roars, and leaps at RJ, trying to tug off their hood. “RJ, c’mon, it’s a sacrifice for the greater good! Gotta cover his, his stupid, uh bald head. Yeah!”

…That sounds like a yes.

Max ducks his head, scratching at his hair, grinning a little. When he looks up, it’s to Johnny staring at him again, frozen, with one hand in RJ’s mouth and the other hovering mid-air.

“W-what?”

“……Nothun’. Ollie, Stephen: extraction.” The two boys help Johnny to prise his hand out of RJ’s mouth, a task that takes a couple of minutes. They all act like this is usual stuff for them, but Max is very concerned about what this implies for RJ’s bite strength, and makes a note not to touch the hood any time soon.

Still, Johnny’s got a point. Max needs a hat. Not just any hat. He needs the hat his mom gave him, the one that makes him look cool. And, well, he was just thinking about how hard it would be to do this alone…

“Johnny,” he says carefully, well aware that maybe this counts as making a deal with the devil or whatever. “Johnny, uh, do you want to steal back my hat with me?”

Johnny’s face is – yeah. Definitely the devil.

“Do I ever, MAX,” he exclaims, suddenly at his side, arm clasped over his shoulders. “Do. I. Ev-arr. Yes! Yes Max I EVER SO DO -”

“Great we got it you like crime,” Max mutters, trying to at least pretend like he regrets this decision.

Twenty minutes later, after one strategy meeting, one hoist into the vents, ten minutes getting lost in the vents, and one spent hovering in the ceiling trying to think of a cool way to jump down without bumping his cast. After some frantic hiding beneath the desk and a lot of attempts at lockpicking the treasure chest and Johnny finally just kicking the lock off with a roar that brings Mr. Starchman back into the room moustache a-tremble and wielding what Max realizes in horror must be The Noodle -

Twenty minutes later, he finds himself bolting down a stairwell, screaming in mutual terror with Johnny at his side, when their escape is foiled by Cody, Violet, and Jeff walking up the steps chatting. The only free space next to them is filled up by a small spectral goat on two hooves wearing a ridiculously huge backpack, so there’s no way through. Well, on the steps anyway, but Max manages to leap up and rebound off the wall, flipping over them and landing in the hallway beyond. Freedom awaits him in the form of the open front doors to the school, and for a second he’s tempted, but…

Johnny’s tangled in a heap with the other kids on the last few steps, and if Max runs now he’ll probably start punching his way out. Jeff has had it rough enough lately, what with the spirit possession and all.

He pretends that’s why he goes back to offer Johnny a hand up, followed only moments later by a pool noodle lasso landing round both their necks with (he could swear) a spectral yeehaw! echoing in the air.

He pretends real hard.

#bullymagnet week #bullymagnet #my fic #paranatural #haha johnny doesn't even show up for like half of this sorry #anyway you can consider it alt text canon #that the new handshake is personalized and represents max moving up many rungs on johnny's people ladder #let's pretend that makes up for me skipping over the actual heist so quickly too haha