#Rik Duel

[comicwaren]

From Star Wars: Revelations Vol. 2 #001

“A Trick of the Mind”, by Charles Soule (W), Andrea Di Vito and Rachelle Rosenberg (A)

“Tall Tales”, by Alyssa Wong (W), David Baldeón and Jay David Ramos (A)

“Stolen Hope”, by Ethan Sacks (W), Will Sliney and Nolan Woodard (A)

“Showdown at Ocean’s Deep”, by Marc Bernardin (W), Chriscross and Andrew Dalhouse (A)

“Tool of the Empire”, by Greg Pak (W), Salvador Larroca and Nolan Woodard (A)

“All the Republic”, by Cavan Scott (W), Marika Cresta and Chris Sotomayor (A)

“Duel of the Reprobates”, by Marc Guggenheim (W), Salva Espín and Israel Silva (A)

#star wars: revelations #salli georgio #dengar #raslin grace #jango fett #aurra sing #mace windu #darth vader #zed-6-7 #keeve trennis #bane malar #rik duel #jabba the hutt #eightyem #dani gammill #chihdo jo #star wars #marvel #comics #star wars comics #marvel comics

[legendscon]

Panel Announcement: Make Mine Marvel Writers Abel Peña, Jason Fry and Michael Kogge take a look back at the original Star Wars Marvel comics! This panel will be on Sunday.

Get your tickets now, and join us on September 9th & 10th in Burbank, CA! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/legends-consortium-2023-tickets-541786186067

#Expanded Universe #Star Wars Expanded Universe #Star Wars Legends #SWEU #Star Wars EU #SW Expanded Universe #LegendsCon #Star Wars Books #Star Wars Comics #Star Wars Games #Marvel Comics #Marvel Star Wars #Beilert Valance #Valance the Hunter #Master Com #Domina Tagge #Shira Brie #Fenn Shysa #Rik Duel #Devil Worlds #Lumiya

[thislovintime]

“Dolenz is on good terms with Mike Nesmith (the wool-capped Monkee) and Peter Tork (the slow Monkee). He and Davy Jones aren’t speaking, but Dolenz (the bad-haired Monkee) heard through the grapevine that Jones (the short Monkee) didn’t like his book. That’s not really much of a surprise. Dolenz describes Davy Jones as a nice guy overall, but the Monkees-era Jones comes off as a preening ball of ego, more interested in doing his nails than anything else. He doesn’t get much better as time goes on. Young Tork comes off as a gentle but temperamental Bohemian. And young Nesmith, we learn in the book, has a temper of his own and an affinity for Car and Driver magazine. Back in the Monkees days, when Dolenz and Jones — the two actors — were still pals, Tork and Nesmith — the two musicians — had ‘endless artistic duels about the “sound,” and the “groove,” and the “feel.” Davy and I would look at each other, shrug and go have a beer.’” - The News Tribune, October 5, 1993

Rik Turner: “You were treated very kindly in Micky Dolenz’s book. He talked about you in the fondest sense.” Peter Tork: “Didn’t he call me a saint?” RT: “At one point, he did call you a saint in the book.” PT: (nods) Have we got the halo effect back in the control room now? (Laughter) Make-up!” RT: “The only thing that he said about you was that sometimes you, in meetings, you would stare out of the window and curse society. (Laugher) Something like that.” PT: (mimes gazing out the window and shaking a fist) RT: “Something like that. Yeah, I envision that.” PT: “No, I would sometimes rail against injustice.” - The Rik Turner Show, January 5, 1994

#Peter Tork #Tork quotes #90s Tork #Micky Dolenz #The Monkees #Monkees #Peter and Micky #long read #<3 #(so many reviews and articles are so condescending and dismissive in tone... it's maddening) #can you queue it

[isitbop]

Just wanna ramble a bit about a few headcanons I have about some of Brawl Stars. I'll probably make more parts when I feel like it so this doesn't get long.

- The only other person Mortis hates more than Dynamike is Colt. He and Colt have been rivals since day.

- After Spike had released the poison gas in 1995, Starr Park had erased most of the brawlers' memories of what had happened and replaced them with new, fake ones. So far, the only brawlers whose memories haven't been completely wiped are Spike, Sam, and Belle.

- When I say the park is huge, the park is HUGE. It's as big as a big city which is why it's able to have all these different areas among it (especially Super City, which has got to be their BIGGEST environment due to it being an entire city.)

- Rik is R-T's more humane side, not necessarily the entire robot. (This one is basically purely headcanon since the chances of Rik being any part of R-T are unfortunately slim :( )

- Chuck is still mad at Pearl to this day for burning his baton.

- Chuck and Sam are best friends! I don't know why I just thought they'd be a good duo.

- The Turbo Theater Trio and Ghost Station Trio are great partners because Chuck is grateful to the three for taking care of Gus during his mysterious disappearance and comes by often. (Buster is extremely scared of him though.)

- Shelly used to be one of the most infamous outlaws in all of the Wastelands. However, she was eventually arrested by Colt. A few days later, she was bailed out by a mysterious person... This mysterious person was none other, but Starr Park's Owner (Name Unknown). They had promised Shelly freedom if she practiced in Brawl Stars.

- Rico and Brock have a strong bond. Brock stumbled into the fight just like Colt and Rico (who then used to go be Ricohet) saved him. Brock insisted on joining him. He thought this was just like an actual video game, and he LOVED it. (Also, Brock is such an underrated character. Give him love.)

- Ricochet ended up getting into a duel with Darryl, which ultimately put him on the brink of death. Brock got him to Pam, who is an expert and building and fixing robots, and thus, Rico was born.

#beep boop b o p #brawl stars #b o p’s conspiracy board

[tenma-tsukasa-official]

>*uno duel disk how that would work don't ask me but uno duel disk*

//the yugioh thing where they play card games in anime style with the board on an arm bracelet

https://th.bing.com/th/id/R.24c5540645930172a383b22d31756bac?rik=yEzbIHTY2KWOsg&riu=http%3a%2f%2fimages2.wikia.nocookie.net%2f__cb20101214020836%2fyugioh%2fimages%2fe%2fe1%2fDuelDisk2010.jpg&ehk=SIoN29rwPTqI97w6myJhVZ16jleTmYU0HUHkOXvg60Q%3d&risl=&pid=ImgRaw&r=0

// I have Never Seen Yu Gi Oh and the link is Not Working :(

#asks!☆ #ooc post!

[drunkwooky]

Rik Duel (and the Gang?) Returning In Star Wars Revelations #1 Next Month

Is Star Wars Revelations hinting that we're getting Rik, Dani, and Chihdo arcs in 2024 Marvel?? Sure looks like it.

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#Comic Book Speculation #Marvel Comics #Star Wars

[charaday5e]

Two big fighters (drafts cleanup, 2023)

I'm Baxter. I'm a min-max character with an extreme array 15,15,15,8,8,8 I’m also Human with the Variant option and the Heavy Armor Mastery Feat which also gives me a +1 Strength since it’s effectiveness lowers over time. With my feat, I get three +1′s to my stats, my final array is 16,16,16,8,8,8 I’m great in melee and I’m also great with a bow. My hit points are large. And don’t forget I have a high initiative. As a soldier, my Athletics is top notch but my Intimidation is as low as can be (trained). As a fighter, my Acrobatics are great and my perception is also low. If my fighting style is Dueling then I can wear a shield and studded leather armor for an AC of 17 and longsword damage of 1d8+5 I’m Rik. I’m a standard array character with a different philosophy. The standard array is 15,14,13,12,10,8  I’m also a Human with the Variant option and instead of damage reduction from “HAM” I’ve elected for “cheese” from Polearm Mastery Feat. With two +1′s to my stats, my final array is 16,10,14,8,14,12 I excel in melee and I’ve swapped stat points from my Dexterity to Wisdom. My hit points are still very good. As a soldier, my Athletics are my best skill and my Intimidation is +2 higher than my brother. As a fighter, my perception is keen and so is my Survival. My fighting style is Defense making my armor class 17 when wearing chainmail and no shield. I can make a second attack with my bonus action. (I can’t remember where this post was going but I had a notion that min-max didn’t mean the same thing in 5th edition as it once did in previous editions. The first fighter seems to be min-maxed but really only gets a boosted secondary stat for dexterity and not much else. While the second fighter is “playing by the rules” and takes the standard array, they use it to maximum effect, offsetting the lower dexterity with higher armor and replacing the defensive feat with an offensive one and gaining a bonus attack. What used to be seen as “bad” character design no longer gives you the boons they once did. And in some sense, this makes all characters min-maxed while at the same time making no 5th edition character truly min-max-able)

[comic-covers]

(1983)

#Star Wars #comic #1983 #Ron Frenz #cover #Tom Palmer #comic book #Luke Skywalker #Rik Duel #IG-88 #Bossk #comics

[siyurikspakvariisis]

Sjur Eido, from inventing war to pursuing peace

Three theses:

Sjur Eido started the Theodicy War.

Contrary to popular belief, her hesitation to kill Mara Sov doesn’t come from Mara’s “thoughtless grace and beauty”

She had learned Eliksni language and customs in an attempt for a diplomatic end to the Reef Wars and, potentially, partially redeem her past sins. Unfortunately, she was killed too early.

The first thesis is the one in which the third hinges upon. The evidence is circumstantial, but there is quite a bit.

I. The second crime ever committed

In Fideicide II we have this passage:

One of the 891 fell today, shot down by a matter laser, a coherent boson weapon: There was almost nothing left to burn. Matter lasers are the kind of appalling maltech weapon Alis thought she'd locked up in the Shipspire's vaults. She'd armed a few of her Paladins with them, just a few—women she couldn't bear to lose…

The thought that one might have defected to the Diasyrm breaks her heart.

And in Imponent III:

Historians were called to the court with bouquets of sweet flowers and grant money to speak of Sjur Eido. "She was one of Queen Alis Li's Paladins, but she was an Eccaleist, who believed that we would one day be called to repay the gift of our awakening."

There we have our defecting Paladin - and this was common knowledge after the war, that Sjur Eido was an Eccaleist and that she had been a Paladin. Nowhere it is said that this was the first shot fired in the War, though, but put a pin in that.

Flash-forward to Tyrannocide III, when the Awoken were already in the Reef, and Mara is starting to plant the seeds for her katabasis. Before she walks to her death, she confesses her worst secret to Sjur, both immersed in vacuum, isolated from everything else in a spacewalk.

"Sjur, I have this secret, this thing I did, and I don't know if anyone can know it without hating me forever."

"I had a secret too," Sjur reminds her. "The thing I did…"

"It's nothing compared to mine. Nothing at all."

As mentioned before, it was a known fact that Sjur was a Paladin, a deserter, and an Eccaleist. So what could her secret be, if not that she had been the first killer?

(Which is pretty fitting, given the parallels between the Osmium Court and the Awoken Royal Family. Oryx and Uldren, navigators. Mara and Savathûn, mistresses of lies. Sjur and Xivu Arath, incarnations of war)

II. Does blood wash blood?

The Theodicy War ends with the disappearance of the Diasyrm. This is the motivation for Sjur to declare her intention to murder Mara Sov:

Now in the court of one of the Scribes, there appeared a woman of stellar height and furious wrath, armed with a bow that could be strung only if she twined it around her body and used her whole mass to bend it. "I am Sjur Eido," said the woman, "and I accuse Mara of the ancient murder of my lady the Diasyrm. In my saddle, I have a weapon with only one death remaining. Take me to Mara, and I will deliver it."

The Scribes consulted and said to each other that this foul murder might prevent another Theodicy War. So they gave Sjur Eido all their knowledge to hunt Mara.

And here comes, in Imponent II, the infamous paragraph:

Sjur Eido deduced who among the Queen's court must be a disguised Mara Sov. She followed the hooded figure to her laboratory and watched Mara go to work soldering a makeshift bolometer to search for signs of primordial gravity waves. Sjur Eido's fury and grief whetted themselves against Mara's thoughtless grace and ancient beauty, until at last her heart unseamed itself and spilled its hot blood in a shout. "Mara Sov!" she cried, throwing down her maltech matter laser between them. "I cannot live while you live, but I cannot bear to kill you. I challenge you to a duel to the agony. I will fight your most beloved companion to the death and leave you forever maimed or else die in the attempt."

This can be easily read as “Sjur was too mission-abandonly gay to proceed with her vendetta”, but I think this is a superficial reading. Keep in mind the author of the Marasenna is Mara herself, and she warns you that

[a]ll things told, all truth revealed, if through mist and mystery. If you have grace, then see our sorrows, but swallow back your tears. We were made to pay this price. I led us to our fate.

Seek me in my place. Hear these whispers from the lips of Queen-Egged God.

This has passed through the filter of Mara Sov’s authorship. And later on Sjur Eido would become her lover, confidant, and closest thing to an equal she has had during her reign. Sjur’s internal turmoil, I think, is the kind of thing she would filter out of a history of the Distributary Awoken.

What kind of internal turmoil? The one that comes with having so much blood on her hands - the blood of immortals, no less, of immesurable value. Alis Li (well, Mara Sov, actually, but she does not know that yet) might be the biggest criminal by Eccaleist standards for having created the possibility of suffering and death, but Sjur has brought that potential into the material. She is a murderer (the first murderer) and she has had time to mull that over.

Maybe she could not kill a defenseless person in cold blood.

Maybe she wanted someone who could fight back and kill her all along. There is no evidence for that, this is true, but this would give Mara all the more reason to draw a veil over her lover’s motivations - Sjur’s mental health struggles were hers and hers alone.

3. Restitution and atonement

So we now have asserted Sjur as the first murderer in Awoken history, and as someone who regrets these actions. This contrasts with the end of her arc, when she has learned Eliksni customs and language to, presumably, understand them for a potential peace between their peoples.

In Misraaks, we read about her capture of a surly young Vandal who tries to kill himself by dashing off a cliff, and to take Sjur with him, before being a prisoner of war.

Drawing two fractal knives from sheaths on her thighs, she makes a perfect ireliis bow before him. Thunderstruck, he sits up straight. Stares.

"Not good?" she asks, and tries again.

Furious confusion takes him. This is some kind of trick. Blasphemous mockery. "Iirsoveks," he rumbles.

She shakes her head. "Nama." Sheathing one of her knives, she holds out her free hand with her fingers spread in supplication.

He draws his chin toward his throat with this fresh betrayal, narrowing his secondary eyes. It speaks!

Slowly, without breaking eye contact, she lays her other knife on the ground between them. The blade points toward her boots. He watches her every movement. How many secrets have the flesh-lovers betrayed, that this creature can make peace like a cringing drekh before his kel?

She taps two fingers against her cuirass. "Sjur," she says slowly, then she points at him.

Honor-bound even as he simmers in scandal, he replies, "Misraaks. Velask, Si-yu-riks."

"Mithrax," she repeats, then grins. "Velask, Mithrax. And welcome! Let's have a look about, shall we?"

She is trying so hard to meet Misraaks in his terms, despite the power imbalance!  This is, of the three theses, the flimsiest one, but I think it is a very satisfying end for her arc. She is not redeemed, if she could ever be, for starting the Theodicy War - but she tries. And in trying, she has made an indelible impact upon a young Vandal who would become the Kell of House Light.

#long post is long #no proofreading we die like sjur #destiny #sjur eido #mara sov #misraaks #suicide cw

[yugirl-with-dragons]

Now that everybody talks about DM: Tea's duel record on Domino's city Tournament (not counting Noah's filler arc):

0 victories/ 0 Losses/ 2 times being possesed by M*rik Ishtar. As far i remember.

LOL

#IT'S TRUE #sorry for flooding your dash #but that confirms me someone is still reading my Tumblr LOL #I was afraid everybody left for good #and joined Instagram #yugioh #eddie-94 #ask #I really like Tumblr even though it's... Tumblr)

[mortallyclearwonderland]

Star Wars Alien Species - Stenax

The Stenax homeworld, Stenos, was once known as Maldont and was part of Xim's empire. Stenaxes were among the empire's enslaved species. Stenos was a planet of pinnacles and plateaus, where the winged Stenax built most of their structures. Several hundred years before the Battle of Yavin, a series of earthquakes and volcanic disturbances shook the planet. One quake buried the stone idol believed by the Stenax to be the worldly avatar of their god, Vol, and the Stenax refused to fly until the idol was found.

The Stenos capital city later became a crowded haven for criminals from various worlds. The Stenax lived among these people but all but ignored them. Shortly after the Battle of Yavin, the Vol statue was uncovered by Rebels, including Luke Skywalker. Rik Duel tricked them into finding it, only to reveal he had done so to hand it over to the planet's Imperial governor, Quorl Matrin. The Stenax, willing to fly again once Vol had been uncovered, believed Matrin had stolen the idol and attacked and killed the governor and his stormtroopers. For the next few years, the Stenax returned to flying to and from the old high structures of the planet, and virtually ignored any offworlders. Though, many Stenax did emigrate to a number of other planets, especially in the Gordian Reach.

Ten months after the Battle of Endor, the native Stenax population massacred the Imperials garrisoned on Stenos, as well as all non-Stenaxes in what was only the beginning of what would be called the Stenax Massacres. On many planets throughout the Gordian Reach and beyond, the Stenaxes brutally killed non-Stenaxes and Imperials in a series of surprise attacks. The New Republic finally brought an end to the massacres and placed monitoring posts in orbit around Stenos to prevent any future campaigns by the Stenax.

The reptilian Stenaxes were considered a fearsome sight. Tall and thickly muscled, they had gargoyle-like faces and a row of bony spikes running across their shoulders. Three sharp claws punctuated each foot and five each hand, with additional spikes lining the backs of their calf muscles. Stenaxes had scaly, purple-gray skin and white eyes with minuscule pupils. Their ears and brows were up-swept at several angles, due to thick muscular cords lining their facial features. Two such cords hung down far below the mouth like stalactites. Completely hairless, they had a wide, spine-shaped protrusion running over the head, from their eyes to the top of their neck. This protrusion housed their Kleti gland, which allowed them to home in on objects on the ground when flying at extreme heights.

Few offworlders know the details of their biology. However, according to hieroglyphs found in the ruins of the abandoned city of Farruz, they could live as long as 270 standard years, remaining in good health until 220. Whether such longevity was a result of their physiology or some other influence is a source of debate, for few winged species came close to such a lifespan.

Stenax were known to occasionally visit Zeltros.

Stenaxes on average are 2 to 2.5 meters or 6.6 to 8.2 feet tall.

Stenax age at the following stages:

1 - 9 Child

10 - 13 Young Adult

14 - 44 Adult

45 - 62 Middle Age

63 - 74 Old

Examples of Names: Farruz, Helmurath, Vol.

Languages: Stenax is spoken by the Stenax as a grumbling baritone by most of the populace. Due to their insularity, few Stenax bother to learn the off-worlders’ languages.

#star wars #star wars species #star wars aliens #Stenax #star wars Stenax

[vintagegeekculture]

My old friend Rik Levins, a huge Superman fan, once told me that he believed “Superman Duels the Futuremen of the Year 2000″ was the last true appearance of the Golden Age, Earth-2 Superman in regular comics. 

It was the last story to say there was no Superboy and that Superman fought evil beginning as an adult, which is a characteristic of the Earth-2 Superman. By this point, the Fortress of Solitude had already been introduced (the defining cutoff point between Silver Age and Golden Age Superman, since Golden Age Superman had no such thing), however, this story shows that some stories were written about Earth-2 Superman after that “cutoff point.” 

#superman #golden age #dc comics

[carewyncromwell]

Do you have any headcanons for erik and eos relationship? <3

Awww, ‘Rik and Doe Eyes!!

Erik and Eos are -- honestly -- complete opposites. Carewyn Cromwell’s ward Erik is an analytical, overly critical, potty-mouthed Slytherin whose sharp tongue is only matched by his viciousness on the Dueling field, while Orion Amari’s daughter Eos is a sensitive, patient, soft-spoken Hufflepuff whose protective instincts makes her both an ideal Keeper and a fierce friend to those few who earn her trust and love. Despite this and despite the fact that Erik isn’t at all the nurturing kind like his guardian Carewyn, Erik took a liking to toddler Eos (or as he calls her “Doe Eyes”) pretty quickly when he was a kid, and Eos soon enough latched onto Erik (or “‘Rik,” as she calls him) just as much. One of the sure fire things Erik can do to entertain Eos is to swear a lot -- Eos herself only swears when she’s really angry (and when she does, look out, she turns into Gordon Ramsay when it happens), but she always ends up biting back laughter seeing how crude and snarky Erik gets about things, since it’s so different from how her father and his Quidditch friends behave. When she was really little, Eos would always have to stifle her giggling whenever Erik did it, particularly when she knew it would get him in trouble or Carewyn would scold him for it. When Eos attends Hogwarts, Erik is a teacher’s assistant under Alistair Schaefer @cursebreakerfarrier, so Erik’s able to attend all of Eos’s Quidditch matches. One can also imagine how thoroughly taken aback poor Alistair was, to find out that this little Hufflepuff with the sweet, angelic smile had been adopted as a surrogate sister by his foul-mouthed counterpart. Alistair and Erik’s coworker Jasper “Jay” Kingsley reacted more positively to the revelation after seeing Eos connecting with his younger sister, Christa.

Send me one of my characters, I’ll give you a headcanon!

#headcanon ask #erik apollo #eos amari #about erik #carewyn cromwell #orion amari #jasper kingsley #alistair schaefer #other people's mcs

[zelda-ffitzgerald]

I honestly don’t know if Cole has brought Ari to any of the gatherings he has been to where Lili was also present. He has been very stealth since the incident with Rik the pap.

Since Fedyck the pap? Do we know why he posted that weird thing on Camera Duels?

[thedarthray]

Hasbro - Razor Crest Accessories by Darth Ray Via Flickr: Various Hasbro - Star Wars Vintage Collection Accessories from the The Mandalorian Razor Crest HAS 001 - Grogu (The Razor Crest) Bagged - The Mandalorian with Cloth Cape HAS 002 - Offworld Jawa Elder (Arvala-7) Bagged - Weapons, Packs, and Grogu basket Carbonite Blocks - The Mythrol, Rik Duel, Dani, & Chihdo

#Hasbro #Star #Wars #Vintage #Collection #Accessories #Mandalorian #Razor #Crest #Star Wars #Vintage Collection #The Mandalorian #Razor Crest #HAS #001 #Grogu #Bagged #Cloth #Cape #Cloth Cape #002 #Offworld #Jawa #Elder #Arvala-7 #Offworld Jawa Elder #Weapons #Packs #basket #Carbonite Blocks

[nahthekidlived]

HENRIK HEADCANON - DEATH

obvious content warning for, you guessed it: death.

Rik grew up in a Viking household. Well, perhaps he wasn’t raised entirely like a Viking, given how his mother was most likely Saxon, but I guarantee you that Viking values and traditions were far more prominent. As such, Henrik as a child had a dream of dying in battle one day and entering Valhalla.

This also plays into how much he beats himself up over not standing up for Klaus and their other siblings any. There was all this pent up urgency to fight back against his father, and he often imagined himself challenging him to duel at some point. And yet whenever their father was near, he’d freeze and find it hard to breathe at all. He feels ashamed of that. Even in present day.

He didn’t run from the wolf that killed him. In the back of his mind, he told himself that if he fought it for even a second before it killed him, he could get into Valhalla, and that’s exactly what he tried to do. Except it killed him before he could even react at all.

He knew right away he wasn’t in Valhalla. He didn’t know where he was. For the longest time, he thought maybe he was being punished by the gods for being a coward, doomed to forever trail after those he failed to fight for, unseen and unheard by any of them no matter how hard he screamed.

#i wanted to watch the wolves / henrik headcanons #death cw #been rewatching vikings lately and its been giving me some Thoughts about rik and his family