#Reopened Rift AU

[complexvortex]

More RR AU tidbits I have not forgotten

During Seabound, Cole doesn’t just stay at the monastery for extra defence since he is a ghost. He’s unable to do much this season aside from helping with strategizing since coming in contact with water would kill him. Even after the supposed fake amulet is given to Kalmaar, Cole is not allowed to go anywhere near the sea as a precaution. Because of this, he only finds out about Nya’s sacrifice when the team returns, and wishes that he was sacrificed instead.

#ninjago #Reopened Rift AU

[sapphicwhimsy]

i am like a poor victorian child on the streets with a cup asking for crumbs of your au? perhaps? :)

first off, thank you for this ask. it made me laugh. SECONDLY. OH BOY. YOU ARE GETTING MORE THAN CRUMBS

SO. the premise is, after nearly twelve years of the rift being closed, those on empires awake one morning to find their world slowly starting to fall apart. placed blocks don't always place at first, and then at all. they rubberband around when trying to walk. holes appear in the ground, straight to the void below. entire chunks disappear, or reset to their natural state. magic is faulty, not always working, or causing frequent misfires. food no longer grows properly, and the sun and moon move slower through the sky. it's a gradual change, but the magic can be felt in the air, slowly charging as things get stronger. as things get worse.

Shelby, being the resident witch and having fought to become supreme witch not that long before, is the first to figure it out. the rift has reopened, and has begun to destabilize their reality. it quickly becomes a race to save their universe, as it's slowly ripped apart and taken from them. slowly destroyed before their eyes, while they try everything to save it. gem, being the resident universe hopper, is recruited in Shelby's attempts to save their home in their race against time.

on the Hermitcraft side of the rift, nothing really has changed. there's no destabilization. the rift is open, but they cannot enter it, not that any would want to after gem tells them how badly the other side is affected. they pool together to try and save the linked server... while also preparing for the worse, in case it can't be saved. they'll readily accept them as refugees, though everyone hopes it won't come to that.

synopsis out of the way. I do wanna write something for it. it would absolutely be a multi POV story, one that changes every chapter. since it would take place after witchcraft smp, it'll be tons of fun to explore how things have changed in the decade between the finales and when the story takes place.

i do have a lot planned out already cause I've been sitting on this for at least a month now. gempearl is a given, along with nature wives. they're the main four in the story, which is probably not surprising at all lol.

if you want specifics PLEASE feel free to ask because I am BREWING things up. I won't spoil the plot BUT I am so down to talk about where I think everyone will be after the decade.

#whimsy whistles #gempearl #nature wives #pearlgem #ask #anonymous

[asha-mage]

AU where Moiraine balefired Lanfear

[Send me a potential AU and I'll answer with five things from that story!]

Heh. This one is interesting (and a touch less fraught then the last one)-

Timing is a big thing. I could see it happen at the docks in place of the Tackle Lanfear Into Fairy Hell plan. Thought it's also possible it could have gone horribly awry as well (given that it apparently wasn't viable enough for Moiraine to consider in canon). I could see a concentrated effort by Moiraine to assassinate her earlier via Balefire, possibly during the Aiel Waste Arc, if she managed to put the pieces together regarding Lanfear's identity.

Either way I don't think Rand Reacts Well. He's already got a lot of Issues TM regarding taking responsibility for the actions of others, and a lot of issues regarding Moiraine's trust to work through. For sake of AU I'll say it comes after they've had their turning point at Rhudiean, and Rand has started to trust her again: the twin thoughts twisting at his gut are 'I'm still responsible because Moiraine was doing because she swore to protect me' and 'if I had just been better this woudn't been necessary'. But the only way for Rand to deal with that anger it to externalize it- direct it a Moiraine, and yet that comes across as being angry at her for killing one of the Forsaken, which probably justifies Moiraine's choice to do so in her own mind. One immediate effect is that I think she gets left out of the raid on Camelyn

A rift reopens between them either way- Rand drawing away and Moiraine refusing to bend on the point that it was necessary and right. Which of course leaves Rand open to manipulation by his his enemies- Alviarian, Elaida, etc, who would all take advantage of the rift between them to drive that trust further apart, further isolate Rand.

Ironically, though it saves her life, I think it still dooms her as Rand's councilor, and probably damages the mission long term in ways that are pretty hard to retract or recover from. And just as ironically, I think it would take a big act of trust- probably rescuing Rand at Dumai's Wells, taking up arms against other Aes Sedai, to win back that trust.

Which conversely I think is an easy choice for Moiraine to make when the time comes. I could see her going to the Black Tower even before the Aiel, under cold brutal pragmatism - the Aiel might hesitate still to slay Aes Sedai. Men who can channel, men who can channel lead by Mazrim Taim no less, would have no such compunction.

#WoT #Wheel of Time #AU Ask Game #Wot Book Spoilers #LoC Spoilers #moiraine damodred #Lanfear #still taking these if anyone's interested in sending more

[valleyfthdolls]

Weird FNAF AU idea where after the bite, William and probably Mrs. Afton or smn adopt Gregory into the family, which William wants to do to fix the family and replace the losses they suffered.

Michael sees Gregory’s presence as a shitty attempt at replacing Cassidy after the bite, and he doesn’t hate Gregory for it- how could he, after all?- but he just hates everything about the situation. Gregory is situated in Cassidy’s room until William can “fix it up” for Gregory, which Michael greatly opposes to and insists Cassidy’s room HAS to stay intact. It has to stay as he left it. In fact, Michael opposes all of this. He insists he’d rather Gregory take his room and he sleep in the living room than let Gregory take Cassidy’s room. Gregory should get his own toys, not take Cassidy’s old plushies. All he hears is don’t mess with that, don’t touch that, I’m not letting him borrow that, that’s not his, that’s Cassidy’s. William, of course, constantly rubs it in Michael’s face that it’s his fault that Cassidy is dead. Tells him Cassidy wouldn’t have wanted his murderer controlling what happened to his belongings. If he didn’t want Gregory here, maybe he shouldn’t have killed his first brother. Wasn’t it only fair he lived with the consequences?

This, of course, drives a rift between Gregory and Mike, especially as Gregory treats this new life as a puzzle and does what he does with every situation he enters and tries to solve it; thus, in Mike’s eyes he just won’t listen, won’t stop trying to pry into things that need to be forgotten, won’t just let Cassidy’s memory rest when it’s not even in his right to be disturbing it. However, this doesn’t negate that Michael cares about Gregory, even as he keeps trying to open up the wounds Michael keeps behind lock and key. He looks after Gregory, no matter how distant, and is dead set on keeping him away from any perceived danger.

But Gregory is dead set on figuring out this mystery, despite the wounds it may reopen, because he’s being haunted by visions and images of the supposedly missing little girls, Charlie and Elizabeth, and Cassidy himself, and as the hauntings progress he wants more and more to get to the bottom of it as Michael tries to stop him- not only for Greg’s safety and wellbeing, but because he doesn’t yet know of the ghosts for himself, doesn’t know what must be done to put their memory to rest, and genuinely believes that some things, like the things Gregory is trying to dig up, are just best left forgotten.

#fnaf #onyx talks too much #fnaf au #michael afton #fnaf gregory #gregory afton au #not to be confused with my other aus with the Gregory as an Afton premise

[shadowlark-stuff]

Since I’m thinking about writing a series / au fanfic (?) I might as well maybe draw a bunch of fellows ! Idk take some small notes on them since I want to share lore but don’t want to at the same time.

Scriptless

I already made him a more detailed reference. Tessliss is very much a thing though.

Tess Aract

First name Tess, last name Aract. Generally makes everyone call him by his full name since it’s more “professional”.

Adopted by and lived with Harmonians.

Was influenced/ Manipulated by the Void at a young age.

Void Tess / “King of Nothing”

The eventual result of Tess Aract being exposed to high amounts of void magic during the reopening of the Void Rift.

Generally has no memories of “past life”. Still gets deja vu and has a similar, albeit more temperamental personality

Dusekkar

High ranking member of an organization. Haven’t named it yet.

Went to an academy with Tess where they were friends. The two went separate ways when Tess’s affiliation with “Dark Magic” was discovered.

Rather than having a plot book due to that thing being confusing and weird plot-wise, practices / uses creation magic, the ability to make something from nothing.

Aristris

Very skilled wind mage! Has a dedication to making this obvious and known. He and his sister tend to have a magical rivalry. He seems(?) to be winning.

Was Tess Aract’s Apprentice for three days before the void mage got tired of his personality. Decided trying to have an apprentice just like Dusekkar wasn’t worth the trouble.

Cumulus

Idk I just wanted to draw one

1x

Former Void Mage, now Voidite due to exposure to void. Like all Voidites, has very little memories of “past life”

Had a similar situation with Tess Aract to that between Ford Pines and Bill Cipher, 1x assisting Tess in his studies so the mage may one day reopen the Void Rift. They could’ve been considered “friends” at one point.

Got tired of Tess having a personal life and settling down with Scriptliss, deciding that if Tess wasn’t going to open the Rift, he’d simply force him to do it.

One of Two Voidites bound to the Void Amulet.

Wiscara

Sibling to Aristris and Apprentice to Dusekkar.

Focuses on Dimensional magic, oddly enough having made dimensional scissors. Everyone is impressed by this.

Harmonian

I just felt like drawing one due to having drawn a Crevon.

2x / “Harvey”

The second Voidite within the Void Amulet. It and 1x don’t seem to get along that well, often ignoring each other.

A bit less aggressive than the typical Voidite. Was dubbed Harvey by Scriptliss in an attempt to make it feel more welcome and seen, which actually worked. 1x was given a name was well, but refused to respond to it and insisted on simply being 1x.

If there’s any questions feel free to ask ‘em since it usually just helps me develop things.

#super paper roblox #tess aract #scriptliss #Shadowlark Au #Not sure what else to call it #Dusekkar #1x1x1x1 #wiscara #aristris

[shallowseeker]

Jack + running away

In a very elder-Winchester moment, Jack wanted to run away to fight Michael. Hotblooded and angry, Jack wanted revenge. This is what war infected Jack with. Hatred. Retribution. He doesn't just want AU Michael neutralized, he wants him punished.

TRANSCRIPT: NEW ANGLE-- Backpack over a shoulder, Jack heads for the yard entrance. SAM quickly trots over and catches up. SAM: Jack. Where you headed? JACK: Before we go, there's something I have to do-- something I promised myself I'd do. (a look to Sam) Kill Michael. SAM: Jack, you can't-- we've gotta get these people to the rift. We'll seal up Michael and leave him here. Jack turns on Sam-- can't allow that-- JACK: No, we-- I've seen what he's done, the people he's killed… he deserves to be punished. 13x22 Exodus

The sad thing is, motivation notwithstanding, maybe Jack wasn't wrong here. Maybe he could've taken on Michael and killed him, and maybe Gabriel + Lucifer + Castiel + Jack VERSUS Michael was the right play.

We've seen with AU Kevin Tran that Michael was ALWAYS interested in traversing worlds. Very likely that Michael would've moved onto another prophet to make it happen, even if Lucifer hadn't been left behind. He was an active threat to both worlds.

But family Winchester is running from the fight this time. Sam said that they'd regroup and go back to the AU Earth, but I'd bet money he never intended to go back, what with locking Michael and Lucifer behind them.

Surely, in another timeline, this pressure point between the AU hunters and Sam would come to a head, with Mary on the side of reopening the rift to save the other world.

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TRANSCRIPT: INT. MEN OF LETTERS - JACK'S ROOM - DAY - MORNING (DAY 2) Jack zips up a backpack, slings it over his shoulder-- his jaw set. As he exits his room-- --we find a note, left on his bed. Addressed, to Dean, Cas, and Sam. The gist: Jack is going off to Hunt on his own. INT. MEN OF LETTERS - HALLWAY/INFIRMARY - MOMENTS LATER Head down, Jack moves down the hall-- prepared to run away. But as he passes an open door, he hears VOICES-- 14x03 The Scar

Thrown into a tailspin by his recent power downgrade, Jack is going to run away. Jack wants to be powerful in order to protect loved ones, whether that's his AU friends or his human family.

Jack's tendency to want to be a hero comes not just from Winchester family dynamics, but from the war on AU earth. Though it was traumatizing, the war gave his enormous power emotional context and utilitarian value. "What's the point of being a cosmic being...if I can't protect the people I love?"

Jack doesn't like being treated like a kid, and he doesn't like being seen in a vulnerable and weak state. This is a detrimental self-reliance quality that Cas and Sam both possess in spades. Cas hates being weak and Sam hates being “banished to the kids’ table.”

#jack + nephilim #jack stuff #tfw + key traits #jack + detrimental self-reliance #jack + human weakness #jack + soldier mentality #spnwin

[newtishfiction]

A Life Series/Empires/Hermitcraft Crossover AU Plot Bunny

Gods that title is a mouthful. Anyways. This thing started *checks notes* around Oct of 2022. Rediscovering an animatic by @iamfluffle did not help my plot bunnies. So I'm just gonna info dump before I drown in paper notes and half finished drafts.

This post got longer than I intended. All details are hidden below the read more line. I have also tweaked some stuff for the life series event since the introduction of Secret Life.

GIF by doyougifwhat-igif

On both sides the rift had closed after the end of the crossover. People checked in from time to time hoping it would open one day so another visit would be possible. Weeks goes by in silence...

Hermitcraft

One day Grian hears whispering from hermits's side of the rift. He didn’t like what the voices had to say.

Grian does what he can to keep people from discovering the rift being opened again. Destroys the cave entrance. Avoids his intended base in the floating rocks. Lies to his fellow hermits. Anything to keep people away. But the voices do not stop.

The voices grow in number and get louder to a point that Grian starts looking rough from lack of sleep. Everyone is concerned for him and not wanting to break so he continues keeping quiet about what's happening to him. So the source of the voices decides to play dirty.

The voices go quiet to Grian's relief and worry. The silence lasts long enough for him to believe its over. And when he lets his guard down the source strikes in the dead of night. A figure leaves the rift and wanders about the server whispering into the ears of some hermits.

Those hermits "wake" and unhindered by hostile mobs they head for the cave and enter the rift.

Empires

The peace of the empires comes to an end when the rift reopened. Everyone was happy and were ready to jump at the chance to revisit the hermits. But the fae were acting strange. Doing all they could to keep the rulers from the rift.

Choosing to heed the fae's warnings the rulers send messages or objects through the rift to see if everything is alright on the other side. For a long time they get no answers, mainly because Grian is avoiding rift and keeping people from it. One day they do start getting replies. Lies sent by the person.

Although still cautious because of the fae's agitation, a small group decide to go through the rift.

Reunion of Sorts

Everyone that went through the rift wake in a open field. While happy to see each other again there is confusion all around.

Having nothing on hand everyone breaks up into teams of two. Some teams go gathering for resources. Another group start up farms for food. Some build shelters.

The remaining teams go exploring. Looking for any landmarks that can tell them which server they're on. Except they don't find any of those. Instead the group eventually come across a world border.

They head back and relay this news to the others. And that is when a Watcher appears.

The Life Series Event

When someone is taken out of the game they return to their respective servers. Should they try going back through the rift they merely end up on Hermitcraft/Empires.

Those who haven’t gone through yet will end up on the Life server and are now considered active participants in the game.

For the sake of simplicity this event uses the Secret Life twist. Everyone has a max of thirty hearts that do not regenerate and must do secret tasks.

Grian

Yes he is getting his own section. This is mainly because of Martyn's one bit of watcher lore about Grian. The voice says: "He was never meant to be there. He was only ever meant to watch." So here's an optional detail to this crossover au.

Grian is unable to enter the rift. He only winds up on Empires when he tries going through. An outside force is keeping him from following the others. A punishment created by the Watcher doing this. A further cruel twist of the knife is that when Grian sleeps he can see what's happening to the others and can’t do anything to help those in the game.

Grian fills in everyone who hasn’t gone through the rifts. Filling them in on what’s happening in the mockery event of his smp creation.

#traffic smp #life series au #hermitcraft au #empires au #empires smp #empires s2 #hermitcraft #hermitcraft 9 #watchers #watcher oc #sort of #or maybe they count as a self insert #life series #secret life au #technically #secret life smp

[bittermuire]

a nightlight and a bottle of wine

recently I’ve really loved nezriel and wanted to write a lil thing for them. this will be two parts, this is the first. modern au

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It’s not like Nesta really knew what she was doing when she moved out. All she knows is that there is a rift between her and Feyre; a scar splitting their shared skin, a wound opening and reopening, never to heal.

And so she’s away. They’ve made their mistakes and let them be. They’ve hurt each other and even tried to love, but sisters love each other too much for love—and so she’s away. The guilt is still there, but farther from her, now. Nesta stirs it into her morning coffee and drinks the sleep, wiping it from beneath her eyes and the lines around her mouth.

Every so often Cassian will text her, inviting her out to dinner or to a work party, and Nesta resists the urge to throttle him. He’s a very smart, thirty-five year old man. He should know what cutting off someone means.

(He knows, of course he knows. She guesses he just thinks it doesn’t apply to him.)

His roguish charm, his smirk, his low voice, all inviting her to one thing—sex—was beginning to exhaust her. It’s a surprising relief to be away from him. She feels like she can wear tank tops and let her hair down and go out without a bra, relieved he won’t be there to stare.

(Was she really so afraid of him?)

So Nesta lives her life and drinks her coffee, wears her tank tops and sleeps in her underwear, finally a woman in the way she’s always wanted to be; she feels discrete from the rest of the world but in a near comforting way. She has no one to disappoint, no one to miss. Her world is confined to very few people and her mind allows for one.

•

But there are things that trip her up. Remaining ties.

One such: the nightlight clipped to her bed. It’s cheap, a gaudy silver. She’s sure Azriel bought it for no more than two dollars.

But she uses it every night.

(This trips her up.)

It’s a routine she’s given to herself, written into the margins of her life; she climbs into bed, smooths the blankets over her legs, grabs her book, opens it on her lap, then twists and switches on the light. It illuminates the page with a pretty, golden sun. She uses it religiously. She thinks that if she lost it, some intrinsic part of her might be lost as well, and this frightens her.

Remaining ties should be snipped. These last threads should be spooled up, put away, hidden in the bottom drawer.

She switches it on anyway, watches the light trace the letters.

(Sometimes she thinks she is the black stamp of letters. The utter bleakness of them on the smooth page. Sometimes she thinks she is what ruins the paper. She is what ruined the paper. There’s a reason she is here and they are there.)

•

November 19th.

Happy birthday to me.

She buys a cake from the supermarket and blows out the candle.

There’s a knock at the door, late at night. Not thinking to check, she goes to open it, and there stands Azriel, still in the doorway, bottle of wine in hand.

“Happy birthday,” he says bluntly.

She lets him in for some reason she still doesn’t understand, and they end up drinking a glass together. It’s from Cassian, the wine—his favorite. Azriel tells her that Cassian didn’t think she’d take it from him.

“So he asked you,” she says.

He smiles. “Because you like me.”

1:00 AM, and they’re still drinking. They barely talk. They just sit; they sit on the kitchen stools, then the rickety chairs, then the floor, then the couch, then back to the floor. His cheeks are pink, his words slurred.

“Why’d you come?” she asks, peering down at where he lays, splayed out, on the carpet.

(He’s not the kind for favors, she knows that.)

Opening his eyes, he fixes his gaze on her. He smiles sleepily.

“Happy birthday, Nesta.”

•

She doesn’t really celebrate for the holidays. Her apartment is bare, save a pair of twinkling bells on the kitchen counter, tied with a red ribbon. Sometimes when she’s cooking she’ll give them a little ring.

The letter comes in the mail—from Feyre, clearly put there by her own hand. It’s an invitation to dinner, for the winter solstice. They’re celebrating early this year because they’re going out of town for a few weeks.

(Please don’t feel pressured to come. We were going to leave you be but Az, since he’s so considerate, thought you might appreciate an invite.)

Nesta picks up her phone and texts Feyre a simple no thanks.

•

The next morning, she opens her door to a bottle of wine. Its neck is tied with a cherry red ribbon, and there’s a note—“If you’re ever lonely, give me a call. It’s my favorite.”

She doesn’t need to see who it’s from to know.

She smiles and picks it up, taking it inside.

•

It bites, the loneliness.

She wasn’t prepared for the quiet.

She traded in insults and jabs and sweaty hands at dinner tables for nothing, nothing, nothing. Silence in the shower, silence over breakfast. Over time, it’s begun to grate on her skin, sift between the strands of her hair, and she feels like she’s swimming a meter below the surface, ears clogged, vision blurred.

And slowly, she’s started to cry; she cries when the silence is too loud, when her aloneness is real, when she realizes the ugly truth of it all. She’s alone, she has nobody, she’s alone.

She picks up her phone and dials his number. “Let’s drink your wine.”

A small quiet. “I thought you’d never ask.”

“That wasn’t a question.”

“I know, Nesta,” he laughs. “I’ll be there.”

•

They don’t drink at all, actually. She starts crying again the minute she sees his face.

“Nesta?”

•

“I’m fine, really.”

They’re walking down the aisle of the grocery store, weeks later.

“I don’t believe you.”

“I’m doing better, I am.”

He shrugs. “I don’t care. Pick a flavor. We’ll eat it, we’ll watch a movie.” He looks her up and down, brow creased. “You need two things—no, make that three things.”

She huffs a laugh, sticking her hand into the freezer and pulling out a carton. “What?”

“Sleep, ice cream, and company.” He grins. “And now you’ve got me.”

“Lucky me.”

“Lucky you.”

•

He’s seen her beautiful; he’s seen her ugly. He’s seen her in her rattiest apron with flour crusted into her fingernails. He’s seen her laugh so hard she cries, watched her slam her head into an open cupboard door, driven her to the hospital when she sliced her hand open with a knife. They’re together a lot, she realizes. They’re not halves; they’re one and one, and one and one make two, and they stand as two together on sidewalks, squinting at menus in the windows of restaurants, and they pet dogs in the park (Nesta always asks, because Az gets shy), and they take walks at midnight, and they live their lives contentedly next to each other’s. She starts to wonder if he splits his life into two—into Cassian and Rhys and Mor and Feyre, and into her, the girl who walked away. She’d like to know why he followed her.

Sometimes she’ll catch herself staring. Even before Cassian, she’d thought Azriel was the most beautiful of the three; all graceful, sloping shadows, soft and deep eyes, curling black hair. Her heart doesn’t know what to do anymore. It skips a beat when she sees him, but calms when she’s near him. It races when he leans close, falls to steadiness when he slings his arm over her shoulders. She can’t decide if she loves him like this or loves him like that. He means so much to her, means so many different things, that to give him a singular word wouldn’t fit.

She calls him Azriel, Az, Steve, Steven Shadow, Mr. Shadow, Ralph, Ron, He of the Candied Pecans, You. He responds to all of it. Recently he told her that it wasn’t because of the name, but because of the voice—(of course I don’t know who Ralph is, Nesta, but your voice, it’s your voice you use for me)—and she felt warm for reasons she couldn’t understand.

She shows up unannounced at his apartment when it’s a bad night. He does the same.

•

“Tell me the truth,” she begins, tipsy. “Did you like me before?”

“What?”

“Did you like me before?”

He frowns. “Elaborate.”

“Before you learned I’m a nice person. Back at the townhouse. When I hated everyone and was rude to you.”

“Oh.” He laughs a little. “I always liked you,” he says, and then his face settles into something like sadness. Nesta watches him closely. “I didn’t like… the way you made me feel, though. I’d see you down the hall, tired and everything, a stick of a person, and Rhys would make some joke, and I’d hate him.”

She blinks.

He looks down. “I’d never hated him before.”

There’s a tension between them. It’s common enough to be recognizable, but not enough to be familiar. She’s on edge, unsure.

The silence seeps in.

“And I hated myself, too,” he says. His eyes flick back up to hers.

Her breath catches in her chest. “I hated myself because I didn’t do anything. So I stayed away.”

“I’m sorry,” she whispers, overwhelmed. Everything is building; everything is quiet. His eyes are deep and dark and swirling. He shakes his head slightly, leaning closer, slowly, slowly, and she sees it all happen—he takes her face in his hands. She can see the stray strand of hair on his forehead, the one eyelash resting by his nose, the mole right above his mouth.

“I watched you fade,” he breathes. “I watched them pull you around.”

She twines one finger into his hair, trying to bring him closer, trying to have him closer. Come here, Azriel. Come with me. Be with me, love me, because I love you.

“I’m sorry,” she says again, because it’s all she can say.

“You have nothing to be sorry for,” he murmurs, and kisses her.

•

“Wait,” he says, reaching up.

“What?”

He touches the nightlight. “You kept this?”

She laughs, curled into his side, and says, “Of course I did.” He drops a kiss to her hair. “They all bought me books. You made it easy to read them.”

—-

@acosfisfeysandpropaganda I finally wrote it!!

#nezriel #nesta x azriel #nesta archeron #azriel shadowsinger

[tenebrius-excellium]

Zouxie’s Adventures in the Darklands AU

After Merlin has been put to sleep, moppet is...heartbroken. Everybody’s gone: His Master, Arthur, Morgana, Lancelot. Galahad is the last of the Knights and is busy keeping the castle running. He doesn’t have time for a fatherless little boy. 

Douxie is once more an orphan. All he’s got left is Archie and J.B. the horse. So he packs the rest of Merlin’s belongings and roams the streets in search for a quest. Wizardry is not outlawed anymore, but it’s not exactly favorably looked upon either. So he’s an outcast. 

Oh well, he promptly runs into Zoe at the market. She has come to town to offer her services to the magicians who fought at Killahead Bridge. She didn’t know there were still others besides her and the two official court wizards whom she couldn’t get close to, and now she wants to found an open magician’s society. 

She follows Douxie because he, being the only other wizard she knows, is her best lead. However, he’s about to leave town again. An argument ensues about staying or leaving in which they duel each other for the first time. They’re each kinda...really impressed and pissed off at the same time by the other’s magic. 

That’s where it sort of clicks for them that they really are the only ones alike. They stare at each other in astonishment. 

Then BOOM, a crack forms in the earth caused by Zouxie’s magic colliding. Since the Killahead Bridge had just been opened a few days ago, there’s still a small surge of magical energy in the air, and the wall between the realms is still thin. Archie falls into the hole and Douxie doesn’t hesitate to go after him. Zoe tries to prevent it, loses her balance, and they all tumble into the Darklands.

Archie has broken a wing and can’t fly. The trio struggles to hide from raging and ravaging Gumm Gumms. Gunmar kills them left and right in his frenzy. They finally find a secluded spot not unlike Jim’s and focus on survival. 

...a lot of time passes.

Archie’s wing has healed. Zouxie is a thing, but they’ve never dared to kiss yet. It’s just hugs and snuggles because they need each other so much. They have taught each other what little magic they knew and they’re sorta depressed and exhausted now because there just seems to be no way to get out of the Darklands...ever. As much as they’ve tried, they can’t find a portal spot where it would be possible to crack through the Darkland’s ceiling again. The layers between realms thicken the less they’re used, and it’s becoming too dangerous using so much magical energy in the land of Gunmar. 

They have managed to stay unseen to this point. But one day on the hunt for food they encounter a Nyarlagroth! Fighting and conquering it kindles their spirits and their will to survive anew and they share an epic kiss while the ‘Groth goes down in the background, explosions and screaming and all. 

Shortly after, they discover the changeling nursery. On the run from Goblins, they notice a shadow creature helping them and running alongside them. It’s...a boy, a changeling familiar who fell out of his crib and was raised by a colony of Batwolves (bat + wolf hybrid. They are the size of wolves and run as swift as them, but they hang from the ceiling and are able to glide like Flying Squirrels). In their den, Zouxie finds refuge, company, and better food. 

A few years go by. Douxie is 19 now and Zoe is 20. As an old and beloved Alpha batwolf dies, they realize that they are aging too, and vow that they will not die in the Darklands. They start drinking changeling milk regularly which prolongs their lifespan. However, the Goblins notice the thefts and alert Gunmar. From then on, Douxie, Zoe and the Batwolf boy constantly play cat-and-mouse with the Evil Underlord. Sometimes they’re captured (makes for great angst!) but they always make it out alright. 

They travel throughout the realm and find odd and wonderful things. The Darklands weren’t so bad before the Heartstone died. It used to be a really beautiful place! Douxie and Zoe improve their magic and try to create a device that can transcend realms. But they always seem to fail. 

One day the Batwolf boy (let’s call him Kip) confesses that he has a telepathic link to his changeling familiar. He didn’t tell them because it’s obvious that using it to find a way to open a portal from the other side would risk releasing Gunmar to the Surfacelands. Also, he kinda wanted them to stay. Once Kip’s changeling, however, discovers that the boy is in the company of two human younglings who want to go home, he uses that opportunity to get to Deya. He tells her about the lost heroes of the Battle of Killahead, trying to make her reopen Killahead Bridge for them. Naturally, his secret agenda is to set Gunmar free. 

Deya refuses, but cannot get the thought out of her head. At Vendel’s she sees a live stone from the Darklands and makes a Horngazel from it. She then tells Kip’s changeling to inform Kip about a specific location in the Darklands where she supposedly dropped the Horngazel for them. Kip tells Zouxie. Doux realizes that the message is coded since it includes details from Killahead battle.

They take their leave from Kip and the Batwolf den and head to the right location. They punch a hole into the Darkland realm and step out into the Surfacelands. Deya meets them there and pulls them out. However, Kip as well as his changeling have caught on to the deception and followed them. A battle begins, at the end of which Kip and his changeling switch places. Magical chaos ensues as the Batwolf boy sets foot on his homeland again: The changeling spell is broken in an already unstable rift caused by the Horngazel. A vortex forms and threatens to swallow them all. 

Zoe melts the Horngazel stone with her lightning and Douxie molds it into the octagonal shape of...the Fetch, therein containing the vortex. Deya hides the Fetch and welcomes Douxie, Zoe and Kip back into the surface world.

200 years have passed. Douxie and Zoe are pale, skinny, and have difficulties enduring bright lights. They have forgotten about earthly food, and proper manners, and real clothes instead of rags. All they remember is music, because that’s the one cultural thing they cared to preserve during their stay in the Darklands. It takes some time for them to accustom to the world again.

The first time they hear real music again, they both cry waterfalls.

They’ve got themselves and Archie. It brought the trio so close together that even a season of serious arguments, possibly even breakup between Douxie and Zoe cannot eliminate what they shared. They get back together soon. 

Kip realizes that they’re all aging now that the changeling milk is no longer available. Zouxie eventually finds Galahad and the flying Camelot and they drink from the Holy Grail or something. But when they offer it to Kip, he declines. He lives out a peaceful life in the 17th century. When he dies, Zouxie mourns a great friend. 

They never speak much about the Darklands. They don’t have to. Whatever else it did to them, it gave them their relationship, and they’re gonna treasure that. 

Also, it wasn’t all bad to live among Batwolves :)

When motorcycles are invented, Douxie gets one as a reminder of them :)

THE END

#toa rott #douxie #hisirdoux casperan #zoe #zoe ashildr #zouxie #zouxie's adventures in the darklands au #wherethekiteflies #darklands #batwolves #toa rott au

[complexvortex]

A tidbit of RR AU lore: Since ghosts cannot exist in Ninjago for too long without vessels, Cole frequently has to possess his teammates. The most he does while possessing his friends is eating cake. Yang and his students are exempt from this rule, however.

#ninjago #ninjago cole #Reopened Rift AU

[ccsthemovie2]

trick or treat 2021 letter

DEAR MY KIND AND HARDWORKING GIFTER,

hi there my ao3 is zagspect and thanks in advance for making me a piece of fic or art in this fun little exchange! heres some food for thought to munch on.

i loooove slice of life, character moments, outsider povs that make things we’re used to in canon seem absurd or funny or weird or scary, humor, horror-in-fluff’s-clothing, sweetness-found-in-horror, and also just plain sweetness. feel free to get weird or experimental with your writing if you think the moment calls for it :3 im not really requesting anything sexy-nsfw in this exchange so pls keep things down to a nice pg13 (high-rated gore for higurashi work is an exception, lol, like, it’s when they cry. that’s just part of the deal.)

🌸✨

cardcaptor sakura (trick or treat!)

clear card manga spoilers are fine with me! manga and anime canon are both fine, and mashing them up is cool too. no aus past that though, please!

clow reed

the big man himself! scare me with his his manipulative tendencies, his eternal pushpull fear of both being eternally relied on and being no longer needed, the way he treats other people, especially people who love him. (yue! the madoushi! i am into both of these being unrequited romantically on his end, but he’s not gonna just gonna tell them that, you think he’s straightforward like that?) what’s daily life like in the clowse? creating a new card, what’s that like? does everybody get along with the normal, non magic neighbors? 

yelan li

what’s up with her??? what’s her relationship with her children like, what are the responsibilities of a magician family’s head, how weird is it that clow is kind of back all of a sudden, what’s her thoughts on sakura? fleshing out a minor character is always fun :]

eriol & li

okay, so, we get to the end of the original series. syaoran returns to hong kong. ????????. syaoran is in cahoots with eriol to (vaguely alluding to cc spoilers in case you haven’t caught up in the manga), do some pretty serious magic behind sakura’s back.

so, like... what went down in the ?????

kero & sakura & yue 

they’re FAMBILYYYYY. magic found family i love them so much. show me the depths of their care for her, and hers for them, the way there’s absolutely some ice to break with yue but when he gets loyal he will DIE for you, the way sakura can mend the rift between kero and yue, the way the two of them are balancing this wonderful openness and equality with oh yeah, she’s eleven, we kind of said some seriously dark stuff in the haze of sleepover talk didn’t we? 

ruby & spinel & eriol 

pre-canon or mid-canon or post-canon! what’s the dynamic between them, a quiet night in, a day out telling people that you’re connected by whatever lie you find funniest. going to tomoeda and having to pretend youre a kid, a teen, and a cat, but goddd you could all go for an elegant and adult glass of wine right now (especially the cat). what horrors are lurking in that house from the clow era that no one cares to address? like emotionally and also because it’s a magic wizard house with magic stuff in it. 

touya/yukito/yue 

i am here for any and all angles of this ship- all together, your touyukis, your yuetouyas, your yuekitos if you wanna get in on a rarely seen angle! (but pls have touya and/or yukito be 18+ at a time where yue shows interest in them). i wanna see the way they interact! how they deal with, you know, the everything! pre-relationship pining, going on a date, touya and yukito in college wondering if they’ll end up having different majors, different paths for the first time. yukito seeing yue on video for the first time (OH NO HES HOT), yukito and yue figuring out internal boundaries, etc etc etc.  

naoko and touya 

the girl who loves ghosts and the guy who sees (or, used to see), ghosts! does she follow him to one of his haunts (pun intended)? does he have to go to her for ghost sensing advice now that he’s a regular old human? does he have to save her from a ghost that means her harm? how excited is she to tell sakura about the COOL GHOST I MET WITH YOUR BROTHER OMG U DIDNT TELL ME HE LIKES GHOSTS??? and how much does sakura wanna sink into the ground lololol

🌹⚔️

revolutionary girl utena (trick or treat!)

ohh, what a place of scary happenings! tell me a fairytale, even if it’s not such a good idea. pre, mid, postcanon, im fine with it all. feel free to weave a web with easter egg references to any other media you feel is right for the moment- utena is all about Genre and Stories!

shadow girls 

i love them i love their whole everything. i wanna see a play, i wanna see them interact with other characters! what if they do a play AS the other characters, ooooh.

anthy/utena 

THE GIRLS WHO INVENTED LOVE THEMSELVES. ive read a thousand stories of them finding each other and it never gets old. id love to read about their life post-ohtori, especially the not-so-happily-ever-after parts- the old wounds reopening, the fights, and how they work through it, wont lose each other ever again. 

saionji/touga

what’s spookier than toxic masculinity? both of them miserably stuck, saionji obsessed with touga, touga believing anyone who believes in friendship is a fool. bro we are taking shirtless pictures among 500 potted cacti....why does my heart hurt..... oh shit its the cactus i rolled onto it ow ow

nanami

nanami being nanami! she’s got no clue how to act ever, she’s desperate, she’s trying SO HARD. i’d love to see a nanami finally getting out of there, too. leaving home with nothing but the clothes on her back, diamonds in her necklace, and a wheeled suitcase of raw eggs.... (crunch crunch crunch)

🎲🗓

higurashi when they cry (trick or treat!)

i’m a gou/sotsu enjoyer and gonna prompt about that a lot but original flavor is, of course, great too. pls dont go too heavy on info outside the main 8+saikoroshi+gou/sotsu? i haven’t read those. ive read umineko+ciconia though so references there are fine :3

rena/mion/keiichi

college days! getting together, crushing on each other, poly relationship figuringouts? dates that are just club meetings with kissing and all the ridiculousness of that.

satoko/rika

gou/sotsu era TOXIC LESBIAN EPIC MOMENTS!!!!!! obsession and desperation and satoko putting all her emotional eggs in rika’s basket no matter how angry she is with her, rika’s love for satoko across 100 years and how that all crumbles (to satoko) in the face of rika’s Cool School. rika wanting satoko to go to school with her so so so bad. deep pain and misunderstandings and acting badly (like, murder badly), and then, we hope, atonement and something new beginning? i love character moments where someones so obsessively in love it feels like its eating them up inside.

rena & satoko

look, rena’s smart and really pays attention to how people feel and i think, before or after satoko becomes a looper but especially after, she would make an attempt to have a heart to heart with satoko. and satoko, as a looper, will politely brush her off, will go you dont know me you can’t affect me. youre just a chess piece. when i get to the miracle world where rika loves me, ill listen to you. this you is here to die, or to kill. 

eua

oh eua is just using satoko up like a bar of soap and it takes satoko way, way too long to realize. evil girltalk/crush advice from the witchmom perhaps?

shion

meakashi made me LOVE her. internal shion moments, perhaps? shion being an empath (decides what ppl are thinking and instantly believes it)? shion in gou-era wanting to talk to satoko about st. lucia’s, but she never shows up to dinner?

okay i think that’s all for now!!! thanks and i hope you have fun!!!

[bittybattybunny]

Both?

Alright!

So let’s start with the Miraculous one!

oldish art cuz I made this au in September roughly (and it only goes with season 1 because I don’t care for the later seasons whoops it’s also a bit more akin to the original animated PV)

But in it basically, Ru is Adrian/Snatcher is Chat Noir, Eclipse is Marinette/Nightingale is Ladybug.

They work for the timekeepers (Hat Adult and Bow Adult) to help collect timepiece fragments that get stuck in people's hearts and turn them into villains. the fragments are being spread thanks to a rouge timekeeper who is angry that she was kicked out (Mu) and trying to send all of Birdopolis into a chaotic nightmare so she can locate where the timekeepers are holding the most timepieces.

Nightingale has the ability to purify the timepiece fragments so they can be returned to their full state, Snatcher has the ability to grab them (soul snatching and all that he can grip their soul to remove the shards)

You have your standard Miraculous shenanigans with Chloe being Vanessa, Sabrina is Celeste, Nino is Marcus, Alya is Craft.

Eclipse likes Arulius but he likes Nightingale, you know that whole love square; it’s basically the snatcher/eclipse madness of MGatLP but with the added layer of Eclipse is also pretending to be someone else as well

They have to work in order to make sure Mu doesn’t get to rewinding time and fight against various villains in the form of the AHIT crew (like there’s a battle of the birds villain for both fights, there’s a vanessa villain, even Moonjumper shows up with Eclipse’s older brother being possessed)

It’s super silly fun but that’s who Miraculous is for me :’3c

As for the other AU---

In it Eclipse is a magical girl who’s trying to prevent the overtaking of the horizon; an alternate reality in which magic is derived; her familiar is a being known as the Moon Jumper. While she’s fighting for the world’s sake; in a nearby town a young man is tricked to forming a contract with a being called the Snatcher.

he ends up working alongside the mysterious nightingale and her familiar in order to prevent the spread of the horizon and try to find a way to get his own body back from the Snatcher. he grows closer to Nightingale even when she’s a civilian as he hides in her shadow

it’s revealed that the collapse of the horizon is due to the fact Moonjumepr’s twin has been using another magical girl to break timepieces thus tearing the fabric of reality across. Snatcher is distraught to see it’s his younger sister being used.

In a big confrontation, Nightingale ends up using her own soul to patch the broken reality and trap Twilla with her. Doing so sets time back to before the collapse and before Ru signed his contract. no one remembers her at all.

The snatcher shows and asks him if he’s fine “letting her do this again” revealing they were in a sort of time-loop and that the Snatcher is in fact an Older arulius who was a magical boy but let the horizon corrupt him so he could try and save Amaris who time after time always sacrifices herself to save reality.

He realizes the common link is actually himself (as in the whole reason Twilla was able to break reality was the original version of him had died, becoming the Snatcher and Amaris in her grief had tried to fix it, her brother Twilla using it as an excuse to usurp control. Her other brother had to work to find a way to fix it and created the time loop), and that Twilla used him to get to Harriet and signs a contract with Snatcher before the rifts can reopen and gets Moonjumper to team with his sister and together they go to fight twilla in the horizon to stop him from ripping reality apart again.

He’s horrified to find that since twilla couldn’t get to harriet “he made due” and turned the original Amaris into a puppet. What twilla didn’t expect was they had a loophole in his contract and Snatcher abandons possessing Arulius to fight one on one with twilla. Taking over his sister’s contract with moonjumper Arulius is able to free Eclipse and the original Amaris and breaks the loop, locking twilla permanently away.

As thanks, Amaris and Snatcher reset everything for Arulius, Eclipse, and Harriet.

years down the line, Arulius meets a young woman with brilliant blue eyes and asks if she’d be fine if he tried to snatch her heart

So those are those two aus!!!!

[pinevalley]

36, 38 and 13!!

obscure asks - accepting!

36. do you have any impulsive movements? (twitches, ticks, flapping, etc.)

oh gosh my knee often bounces when i’m sitting. i also do this thing where i rub my thumb on my opposite palm a bunch bc it helps with stress?? whenever i’m holding an eraser i always turn it in little circles, and i fiddle with mechanical pencils a lot. i don’t know if these count as impulsive movements or just fidgeting but they Happen a Lot agsgd

38. are you left brained or right brained?

hmmm this is tricky!! i love comp sci, which is generally a really left-brained type thing (logic and sequences), but i also love imagining stories and characters, which is more right-brained. i probably lean toward right-brained! i daydream a Lot.

13. talk about an au or story you came up with

aaaaa i have so many unfinished fragments of stories it’s wild!! one of my favorite developed stories involved a 1920s new york librarian who had a rift between universes in one corner of his bookshop. his name was dewey! people from other times and universes tended to stumble through the rift. dewey had the responsibility of comforting them and giving them guidance before the rift reopened and they could return home. he had this backstory where this mysterious woman gave him the bookshop for almost no money without telling him there was a rift inside it. dewey loved books and always wanted a bookshop, so he agreed! he was also... highkey gullible and really should’ve asked for more information agsgd but the woman vanished and he got stuck with the bookshop, and he felt obligated to watch over it bc he didn’t want to burden anyone else with the responsibility. he never learned the woman’s name, but he called her quill bc she’d given him a letter with a quill stamp on it! one day a teleporting cat named tilly came through the rift, and the rift never reopened for her, so tilly just... became dewey’s chaotic cat. i love his story a bunch!!

#ciircusbrats #(!!! thanks a bunch for sending these in!!!) #(dewey is absolutely one of my favorite characters agsgd he’s so gullible but kindhearted) #(i used to rp him!!) #|↟| inbox #|↟| ooc

[galaxyhitchhiker12]

So this is my first Tumblr post and my first destiel prompt, but I just had this idea stuck in my head for a while now. So if anyone likes it enough to write it, please send me the link, or the story, or whatever. So the story is set after Jack's birth, Cas is alive, he bearly managed to escape getting stabbed, (I'm hoping this is what will make Dean realise his love and that he can't lose Cas) but Mary is still stuck with Lucifer in the Apocalypse AU. Unlike in canon Jack didn't open just one rift, but multipule rifts, most of them closed after his birth, but one of them opens at the end of every month to a world, where humanity is extinct, couse monsters took over and ate them all and such. So every monster is basically starving, and when the rift, for some reason, reopens for a few hours they fight and tears at each other to go through. The twist is that the rift is in the back yard of a High School, so Dean and Cas has to go undercover to be less suspicous. Cas as a history and literature teacher, and Dean as a PE teacher and groundskeeper. They live in an apartment together, and it's really fluffy, but if someone will write this it will be their decision what rating they will give the story, I won't mind anyway. The scene idea I first had for the story was that, one night when the rift opened Dean and Cas were there for a while now, and already together, ready to take on the monsters, when a few students brake into the school, and see them kissing, and one of them takes a picture couse they're so cute, but forgets the light is on so they see them, and catch them and that's how they find out their history teacher is an angel, and the hot PE teacher is a hunter. Meanwhile Sam is back at the Bunker with Jack, connecting and as backup to Cas and Dean. So basiaclly this is a lighter version of the season 12 finálé, the boys don't resent Jack and are working on getting Mary home, while getting to know Jack as he is (a cute cinnamon roll). So if you like my idea and would like to write it, feel free to contact me I would love to see what an actual writer could do with this raw idea.

#destiel #prompt #destiel prompt #supernatural #Dean #Cas #supernatural season 12 #supernatural season 13 #dean winchester #sam winchester #castiel #jack kline #fanfiction #supernatural fandom #supernatural fanfiction

[ilosttrackofthings]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Agents of SHIELD Rating: T Characters: Jemma Simmons, Will Daniels, Fitz Tags: slightly delayed AU (the fic, this isn’t delayed ... that title was a mistake); season 5; minor fs; this is not nice to Fitz Summary:   Six hours before they close the spacetime rift and a month before it reopens, Jemma walks into a nightmare.

Her first thought is that it’s not a nightmare at all. It’s a dream. A beautiful, perfect dream she’s had a thousand times, both sleeping and awake. But the specifics quickly prove that to be a flawed assumption.

It’s difficult to see given the angles and the positioning, but Jemma knows herself and that is very definitely her. A near perfect double of herself wearing those godawful clothes she spent months in on Maveth (though she notes they’re decidedly more ragged in this vision) balanced precariously on the edge of a desk. Balanced because one of her legs is braced against the side of the desk itself and the other is wrapping around her companion’s leg, urging him closer. 

#jemmawill #my fic #aos fic

[ridingirlsblog]

Photoshoot of the Week: April 27th-May 3rd 2020 - Ducati Monster 796 & Mrs Black Soul

Stopped since last March 13th, with the exception of the Research and Development Department activities, Ducati has finally got the engines back this week. A "gradual return to normal" which at the moment involves only a part of the workers destined for the production lines. First the workshop workers were back, then the engine assembly workers and, from 28th April, also the motorcycle assembly ones. For all other employees (such as designers, project managers and designers) the use of smartworking will remain mandatory, with access to the plant allowed only to those who have no physical way to carry out the activities remotely. In compliance with the safety protocols issued by the Italian Government, internal production has been completely reorganized, for example from an 8 hour shift to two 7 hour shifts to allow the minimum number of people to be inside the plant at the same time and, therefore, reduce possible contacts. Furthermore Ducati, thanks to an agreement between the unions and the employers, have established even stricter rules, such as the use of masks, regardless of the distance between workers. In total safety, the reopening of the production lines will allow Ducati to get back on track immediately: Ducati's aim is obviously to lower the negative effect of the production halt, unfortunately at the worst time of the year, given that Ducati has a large order portfolio and costumers are waiting for their bikes. Anyway, even if Ducati wouldn't have been able to manage this chrisis, awesome German bikergirl and "metalhead and Bike addict" Mrs Black Soul was already prepared to get back on tracks with her stylish, iconic and a little retro looking 2011 Ducati Monster 796, which she got last year. It won't be straight from the factory, nor full of up to date tech and besides storage and wind protection are minimal but that model is still a work of art in performance and efficiency (not including the manageability). Getting an used motorcycle is right now a really good choice, especially when industries are slowly starting out but we do need to speed up riding and moving around the city quickly, safely, without problems or parking or social distance. Believe me, Mrs Black Soul definitely knows what she is doing. As her Instagram account declares: "Working in the motorcycle industry, it‘s not just a hobby!" *** *** *** Ten years ago, in April 2010, Ducati unveiled its newest naked bike, the Monster 796, producing a factory-claimed 87 hp (65 kW). Before the 2011 Ducati Monster 796 was unveiled, the rift within the Monster lineup was considerable: the entry-level 696 served as a great advanced beginner bike, while the 1100 offered a considerably more ballsy option. Ducati's lineup sticked to a lightweight, performance-oriented theme, and the new Monster 796 adhered to the level of form and function we've come to expect from the Italian manufacturer. A steel trellis frame helps the naked middleweight achieve a dry weight of 368 pounds, and the air-cooled 803cc L-twin engine produces 87 horsepower at 8,250 rpm and 58 lb-ft of torque at 6,250 rpm, a gain of 7 hp and 7.4 lb-ft over the 696 model. Like the Monster 696, the 796 featured non-adjustable Showa 43mm inverted forks up front, while the rear monoshock by Sachs was preload and rebound adjustable. The Monster 796 incorporated a wet, hydraulically actuated clutch with an APTC slipper unit (a la Hypermotard 796), and unlike the littlest Monster, the 796's swingarm was a slick, single-sided design. As with the Monster 1100, the 796 received aluminum tapered handlebars and Pirelli Diablo Rosso tires; the wheels and tires were identical to the big bore Monster's, apart from their black finish with short section pinstriping. Dual-disc, 4-piston Brembos were found up front, with a 2-piston disc at the rear. The Monster 796's ergonomic triangle was been revised for greater comfort: the handlebar was .79 inches taller, the saddle had been re-shaped for greater comfort (and sits .39 inches lower than the 1100's), and 4-point adjustable hand levers had also been incorporated. Thanks to the re-contoured seat and slightly revised ergonomics, the Ducati Monster 796 naked middleweight feeled noticeably more comfortable than its predecessors. The single-sided swingarm's design moved the seat .2 inches higher than the Monster 696's (to an altitude of 31.5 inches), and that repositioning might deter those of shorter stature. But the added clearance benefited the bike's handling, especially when it came to canyon carving. Though it was still got a sporty, arms forward posture, the comfier seat resulted in a less intimate relationship to the tank, reducing sensations of between-the-legs claustrophobia. The Monster 796's gruntier engine and single-sided swingarm were notably more lust-inspiring than what the 696 had to offer, and with a price difference of only $1,000, those two distinctions cannibalized sales from the smaller-engined stablemate. That said, the 796 still now hones in on the qualities many riding enthusiasts are looking for in a naked middleweight: a quick, nimble, reasonably comfortable, and appropriately priced ride with loads of personality. The 796 was replaced by the Monster 821 in mid 2014, equipped with the 821 cc Testastretta from the hyper line, and incorporating the same electronics suite as the monster 1200 #bikergirl #Monster821 #ducatiobsession #ducatilife #motorcycle #ducatista #ducatinsta #superbikes #ducativ4 #ducatimonster821 #ducatiSuperSport #ridefast #bikeracing #motosports #motolife #fastbikes #RidinGirlsBlog #racing #motorbike #bikersofinstagram #bikerfamily #biketouring #riderich #girlsonbikes #hjc #sportbike #sexybiker #bikerchick #bikerlady #desmo #speed #roadracing #ridingsexy #superbike #motard #ducaticorse #motorrad #ducati #motogp #moto #helmetporn #ducatimonster #ducatiracing #stuttgart #monster696 #monster796 #v4

  Home sweet home *** Visualizza questo post su Instagram Wenn man merkt dass man fotografiert wird... Eigentlich mag ich keine Selbstporträts von mir, aber das mag ich irgendwie total - weil ich in diesem Moment sehr happy war und es sehr authentisch und nicht gestellt rüberkommt - echte Emotionen Wie sieht’s bei euch aus? #schnappschuss : @limithunter_01 ➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖➖ *Werbung/Advertisement #ducati #ducatimonster #ducatimonster796 #motorcycle #sportbikeaddicts #bikergirl #bikergirlsofinstagram Un post condiviso da @ mrsblacksoul in data: 19 Set 2019 alle ore 11:35 PDT Read the full article

#bikerchick #bikerlady #bikergirl #Desmo #Ducati #Ducati848 #DucatiCorse #Ducatigirl #DucatiMonster #DucatiMonster1200S #DucatiMonster600 #DucatiMonster696 #DucatiMonster796 #DucatiMonster797 #DucatiMonster821 #DucatiSuperSport #DucatiV4 #helmetporn #Monstergirls #motard #moto #motogirls #motogp #motorbabes #motorrad #Superbike