#and there was some dude who tried to kill me (second character) and later on boom we friends

[thebottomfromhell]

Hey it's me so I was thinking that how the upper-moon react when they're jealous- like some girl or guys just woke up to the reader and start to flirting with him right in front of the upper-moon

Nice to got you here, thank you for always re-bloging. I hope you like it and sorry for the wait.

Uppermooms getting jelous for gn reader. (I will use "them" for the person who started to flirt with reader.)

Warnings: Cannibalism, Death of unamed character, Self-harm (Gyutaro and his canonical violent scratching), Implied sexual content, Assault, Canon insecurity to ot's respective characters, Gyokko and Douma are their own warning, Torture.

Gyutaro:

He knows when someone is about to flirt, you know where he lives. He can tell when you are going to approached, so he leaves before that happens as he scratches his face. He seems downhearted when you find him after rejecting the other person, and he refuses to talk about it. The next day he bahaves as normal, but you still try to see what is wrong.

When you tried to talk to him, Gyutaro scratches himself, hard. It's enough to tear skin and make him bleed. "NeEeEe, just cut it out! Go with someone that is not as ugly and disgusting as me! Neee! You can have anyone so stop nagging me, ne..." It's inpossible to comfort him, Gyutaro is convinced that is just matter of time before someone else can take your attention from him. You try everything, but he doesn't believe that he can compete with whoever flirts with you.

Again, he easily acts as always later on when you drop the subject and he doesn't act upon it ever, but he is still jealous and bottling it up. He is resigned and doesn't see reason to do anything as long as you fon't bother him.

Gyokko:

Most of all, Gyokko is offended. How dare them to flirt with his darling in front of him? The disrespect! Second of all, he kills them. Easy as that, he doesn't ask questions or even react beyond that. Just a gasp, some few seconds to get even more offended and then he summons tentacles for them to torture that person.

After that, with the agonizing from behind as the tentacles squeeze, pull and twist limbs, breaking bones and ripping flesh, he just starts complaining to you, similar as if he had a bad experience at WalMart. "Can you believe it? They acted as if I wasn't even there! There is no respect anymore!"

Besides that, he understand that it's not your fault and doesn't take it out on you, but he is going to complain for hours straight. And heaven's forbid he remembers it later when talking with someone else, because he will spend hours complaining again. "Don't interrupt me, I'm not finished. As I was saying, it was insulting! How dare they?" And there is no way stopping it.

Sekido:

If Sekido is always angry, how could you explain how he's feeling now. Livid? Not enough. Furious? Not enough. There are no words to describe his rage, except one phrase. "You're jealous..." you say incredulous as he pants after having stabbed the person who was flirting with you with his staff.... plural. There are like 14 still electrified, five on the chest and stomach without fully going in to not pierce organs and the one he just killed him with, the head.

"Don't say that crap, they just made me angry!" He tries to explain himself, but... this is a lot for only "being angry" "Why did they have to flirt with you?" He mutters under his breath, he is still mand but doesn't want to take it out of you.... yet. He will if you become too annoying. You just let it be because after what you just saw you don't want to be beaten up by Sekido.

It passes after a while, and he even apologizes... for the wrong reasons... "Sorry for causing an scene. I was just so angry! I'll try to be more discreet next time." Still, you take it and shrug, there is nothing you can do anyway, he would not have stopped even if you asked.

Karaku:

Karaku is a chill dude, very relaxed. He can't get jealous, can he? "Oh, we are flirting with Y/N? Well, you had your turn already, my friend. Now is mine, so get lost." He is still chill as he throws himself over you, passing his arm over your shoulder and getting his face just inches from yours. He proceeds to flirt and rizz like the sex god he is, not caring if the other party is still there or not. "Babe, do ya like it when strangers flirt with ya~? Totally deserve it, ya know? Cuz you're so hot and cute one just wants ya~."

He really is chill about it, it's not fake or repressed. He is ok with others flirting with you, what he is not ok is others going around thinking they have a chance. "But they must know you are mine, ya know? Should we give them a show for them to realize it?" He kisses and licks your face.

"KARAKU!" You scream, face red because of how shameless he is as he grabs his own pants. Once he heard you Karaku starts laughing, only to start teasing you. "Sorry love, you're right. I'll leave some for the bedroom.~!"

Urogi:

"GET OFF MY Y/N!" Urogi attacks that person the second you make eye contact with him, taking it as a permission and an ask for help from your part. He is ok with people talking to you, but flirting? "Y/N IS MINE!" He takes them to the sky, grabbing them by his feet to them give a sonic scream once they are 200 feet high and drop them.

Then back down he stabs them with his claws. Once they are finally dead he brings the corpse to you (the eyes are missing, and you know he ate them. But he gor hungry, ok?) "Did I do good? Y/N, did I do good? I protected you, so I deserve a reward, right?" If he was a dog instead of a bird he would be wiggling his tail happy and proud, you can basically feel him shining. C'mon, how are you supposed to scold that?

"Yes, you did good. But don't do it again, ok?" He lunges over you to hug you joyfully. "Yay! Does this mean I can eat them? You don't mind?" Like a dog, he asks permission. And they are dead anyway, so there is nothing that should stop it. So you neither don't look at Urogi while being flirted or put a good poker face."Yummy!"

Aizetsu:

"I'm feeling sad." He tells you, tugging weakly your arm, pouting. "Y/N, I'm sad. Can I please have a hug? Please?" The person who was talking to you looks slight offended, not only for being interrupted, but the fact you switched all your attention to those sad eyes beghing for your attention. How were you supposed to not cuddle him?

Aizetsu smiles a little at them, who were flirting with you, just before burrying his face into you, arms wraped in a hug. He knows what he is doing. He gets needy whenever he gets jealous, but instead of having an outburst Aizetsu used his sad puppy eyes on you and makes sure that you only look at him besides showing the other party who is the one you answer to.

There are times he makes himself look so pitiful that you don't even notice that he isn't sadder than usual, he just wants you to stop talking with other people. "Thank you, I really needed. Sorry for being a bother." What a baby.

Nakime:

You didn't even know Nakime could get jealous. But now you just saw her opening a door in the floor to drop someone into her castle only because they told you some pick-up lines. You know you are not going to be seeing them again... ever. If she just send them away, killed them or just trapped them in her fortress, you have no idea.

If you bring it up with her, she plays dumb, even if there is no denying that it was her biwa, her castle, her demon blood art, her. "I don't recall doing so. Are you ok, though? They seemed like a bother." She will speak soflty and gently, smiling a bit to you. That is so scaru you don't push the issue.

At the end you both act as if nothing happened, but she will be doing it again without shame or guilt. She always knows, so forget having flirty people in your life.

Akaza:

Akaza has always been protective, not liking when others get near since he is forever paranoid something bad will happen if he isn't there. In other words, he is easy to make jealous. "Y/N IS NOT INTERESTED YOU PIECE OF-" he goes off to attack inmediately, and it just takes one uncomfortable look in your face for Akaza to kill them. But at least he kills them rather fast instead of torturing them.

"You didn't need to go that far." You try and get him to apologize easily. He was too fast for you to be able to do anything about it, but he would have stopped if you told him. "It's just that we are together. We are together and it makes me mad when others don't understand it ot let us be." He answers honestly. Akaza still understands that you can't control other people's actions so he would never take it out on you.

On contrary, he is the one to comfort and spoil you after it to apologize his outburst. He is usually very relaxed with you, so it was a bit scary, still he won't be doing it again unless (he will only attack if you are being hurted).

Douma:

Douma is bad at feelings, bad with his own feelings, that you already knew. But he does understand the desire of others respecting distance or possesions (not that he ever cared), he would not like others taking his fans or his food away, for example. It's a similar sensation when they try to convince you to go un a date, even after you already said no several times. "Understand already that I don't want anything with you!"

Douma doesn't act, at all. He doesn't even know what of all of the situation he is against. If he dislikes anything that person, if he dislikes your actions or their actions, if he dislikes how tired you look, or if he dislikes how repetitive it is the scene, he doesn't know, so he can't act upon it right away. He just knows he doesn't like it.

That doesn't stop him from killing that person, who was still part of his cult, and eating him greedily. He still doesn't understand it, but it's definetely better. It could be that his stomach is full, it could be that they are gone, it could be that he just did something good and let them have an eternal life inside him. "Y/N, if something like this happens ever again, please tell me. I will deal with it."

Kokushibou:

Kokushibou is petty, but really petty about it. When he sees you being flirted by someone else he just... stares. And stares from afar, blank face yet you can see in his eyes both the yearning and resentment... x3. Then the second you look at him he looks any other way, and if you try to make a step towards him Kokushibou will basically run away. And then starts to avoid you. CAN HE GET ANY MORE PETTY?! He can, actually. He is yet to start making poetry about heartbreak, the one you catched him doing when you were fibally able to get close and talk to him after two weeks.

"Why do you let them speak to you like that? It's inappropriate." Well, it's not like you can do anything but reject their advances, like you did. But number one here is very insecure, so the fact that others flirt with you scare him and he dislikes that. "Kokushibou, please. You know I love you, and only you." But as a good lover you start to list why you like him and think he is better than everyone else. He becomes shy and runs away again.

But at least, once he gets over the outburst of his insecurity, is over is easy to reasure. Besides, apart from being a bit rude and shy, he doesn't hurt anyone.

#top reader #demon slayer #kny #upper moons #kny x reader #karaku #urogi #aizetsu #gyutaro #sekido #kokushibou #akaza #douma #gyokko #nakime #kny headcanons

[darling-i-read-it]

Party Outfit

Homelander x supe!fem!reader

Word Count: 2.7k

Warnings: the reader basically dies, grief, maybe some ooc homelander, canon type violence (death/gore is descriptive), I think that’s it but please let me know if there are more! 

Author’s Note: I gotta admit, I struggled with this one a bit! I wasn’t sure how to start and it isn’t my best work so I may come back to it again later but I didn’t want to make you wait! I hope you enjoy it regardless love! Homelander is such a tricky dude. Love him though. He’s so crazy. I love that in a man. 

Requested by anon: May I request a slow burn homelander x superhero! Reader, who has basically super healing powers like wolverine, so she’s probably the third strongest compared to homelander and Maeve. Homelander and reader are friends, because reader is one of the few people who took the time to care about him enough to look past the mask, and isn’t afraid of him. Something happens in a fight with a new supervillain, who’s power weakens everyone else’s around them. Reader saves homelander from a kill shot, but is killed themselves, and homelander just shatters and breaks down sobbing and clutching their body, after killing the villain. The Seven don’t know what to do to make him let go of the reader’s body, when she suddenly coughs and gasps back to life, shocking everyone and especially herself. It seems reader’s healing ability is stronger than anyone ever thought.                                                        I feel like homelander would be the clingiest person after all of that, lol.

I don’t own these characters. They belong to author/director/creator

(not my gif)

“Are you ready?” 

Your voice sounded suddenly very close. Homelander turned around and jumped a bit at the sight of you. You were standing just beside him in your ‘party’ outfit. Vought thought it was better if you had two costumes, one of ads and one for actual fighting. It allowed them to continue the belief that they were all in on feminism while also marketing off your more ‘easy on the eyes’ outfits. Homelander only had one. Sometimes he wanted to have two, just to get some sort of diversity. Plus, you looked oh so nice in your party outfit. 

“Yup!” he exclaimed. You smiled briefly, taking a deep breath. After he and Maeve had broken up in the public, everyone had been hoping the two of you would finally call it and start dating. It would be perfect. The two most powerful supes in The Seven, a sublime situation for marriage and kids. The perfect American dream with the perfect American boy. 

You knew Homelander though. You knew that wasn’t exactly who he was. 

You also knew that he was your friend. 

“Is the President gonna be there?” you questioned, adjusting your corset. You looked at yourself in the mirror of Homelander’s apartment. His practical penthouse had become like a second home to you. You even helped him decorate it with some things he liked. You had to veto the baby bottles on the fire mantle and he agreed, it was in poor taste. 

“Likely,” he admitted. 

“Well then I’ll hide behind you. That okay?” 

“Always.” 

“Did they tell you about that new guy causing a fuss? The guy they sent The Deep after?” He rolled his eyes. 

“I’m sure a lot of killing happened then and no octopuses were assaulted.” You scoffed. “No. What guy?” Usually he tried to stay in the loop but there was a lot going on. A lot being, so many superheroes and not nearly enough Homelander in his opinion. 

“Apparently he can weaken everyone else's power around him,” you observed. You stayed beside him, adjusting his cape. He looked down at it, observing you. 

“Well he hasn’t met me yet.” You hummed, resisting the urge to roll your eyes. You put your hand on his arm. 

“The car will be here soon. Ashley still thinks I’m in my room and if she sees me in here then our engagement is gonna be all over the papers,” you joked. He nodded, taking your hand off his arm and squeezing it. 

“Prepare for the President to ask to see your power.” 

“He can catch it on the news,” you grumbled. “See you downstairs.” He nodded once and let you go. He watched himself in the mirror, allowing himself to think about you a bit longer than your presence required. You knew him more than anyone else in the world. He wondered if it would be so bad to spend the rest of his life with you. He could’ve done it with Maeve, he could have made it look good. But with you, he might be able to be happy. Be himself, whatever that was. 

He turned, adjusting the cape as he walked out the door. He had a banquet to attend. 

-

“It’s better if just you two go. I’d send Maeve but I know you’ll just end up fighting and it’ll be on the news and we can’t handle another goddamn media break!” Ashley was standing in front of you in her office. You had never actually seen her sit down at the desk, she was always so stressed. Homelander stood beside you.

“That was one spat,” you argued. “We’re over it now. I like Maeve.”

“I don’t wanna risk anything,” Ashley said. “After the…incident with The Deep, I expect full obliteration of this guy.”

“You don’t have to worry about that,” Homelander stepped in. “We’ve got him.” 

You both knew that the best chance of a win was the two of you. You were the strongest of The Seven. Homelander could pack the punch and you could be the shield. You worked together well. 

“Any advice on how to dim his light a little?” you questioned. She shook her head. 

“Didn’t exactly get the best information from the guy who fought him before,” she grumbled. “But it was near water and we all know who lost the fight. Be careful. If either of you die…I mean it would make for a great swing of the media’s likeness of us but I would rather not have to deal with the funeral proceedings.” You rolled your eyes. 

“Thanks Ashley.”

“I’m also sending Noir and Starlight 30 minutes after you land. Just in case.” 

“That’s insulting,” Homelander said. He had his hands folded behind his back, ever the good soldier. “We don’t need them.”

“Then they’ll just be your extraction. Now go.” Neither of you moved. She made a waving gesture with her hands. “Go. Go!” 

-

“I can’t stand the show outfit,” you muttered. You adjusted your neck in your soldier outfit, which wasn’t exactly comfortable either. It was too tight in the wrong places but at least it provided you more protection from oncomers. Homelander was walking in front of you, scanning the area with disinterested eyes. Another job. At least he was with you. 

“It’s easy on the eyes.”

“And this one isn’t?” He shrugged. “I like your outfit. It’s bold. It’s iconic.” He smiled a bit, awkwardly, at the compliment. “I need a cape.”

“It’s a nuisance.” You narrowed your eyes at him. 

“You love that cape.” The cape was his thing though and you knew he didn’t want you to stumble onto his territory. “But I digress. Do you want to get dinner after this?” 

He always had food by himself, on the road, going from one meeting or killing to another. Dinners with you were sacred and special to him. You always asked and you watched a silly movie he pretended to hate and he could tell you about his day and you listened. He couldn’t remember any other person who listened like you. 

“As long as there are no noodles.” He always got them stuck in his throat. It was embarrassing. 

“No noodles. Duly noted. We could always-” Your sentence was cut short by you keeling over. You clutched your stomach. It felt like you were being drained, like all of the sudden you were far more tired than you had been in years. It reminded you of being run ragged, like you had run a marathon you weren’t prepared for. 

“What? What is it?” Homelander grabbed your elbow, holding you up. It was like you hadn’t even seen him, let alone felt him touch you. You stood up straight, giving him a pained look. 

“He’s here.” 

Homelander turned around, searching the warehouse the two of you had entered. It was abandoned by city records and vast. Not many hiding places. Homelander’s eyes turned red with anger and concentration. 

“Come out, come out wherever you are!” He called. He let you go, not being able to focus on your pain. You stood up straight, trying to allow your body to adjust. You tried to keep up with him but he was walking with purpose. You looked around, a blur of pain around your eyes. You had never felt so weak. 

“John,” you murmured. He didn’t turn around. 

“What? Scared?” 

There was a crack behind you. You turned on your heels, watching, waiting. The pain was getting bearable as your body started to adjust to it. Perks of fast feeling. High pain tolerance. 

Homelander shot his lasers at an abandoned car. It exploded into fire. You fought the urge to roll your eyes. 

“I don’t see anything!” he exclaimed. He turned to you. Just as he turned around, you saw someone come from behind the car, a gun in hand. Your eyes went wide. “You see-” 

You shoved him aside, taking the bullet intended for his head. 

It hit yours. 

It was like slow motion. He was stumbling and then you were down, a bullet between your eyes. The blood started to trickle down your forehead as you fell over onto the ground. He watched you fall backwards, eyes open in surprise. There was nothing going on behind them. 

He rushed forward to grab you before you hit the ground. 

On the bottom level of the warehouse, Starlight and Noir walked in. Ashley had sent them in only 10 minutes after the two of you. She was nervous, understandably so. Didn’t want to lose all four of you if you were separated and she knew that sending them afterwards was better for Homelander’s ego. 

“Do you hear that?” Starlight asked. She slowed to a stop as she listened closely. Some kind of whimpering. “It’s above us.” 

Noir looked up. Starlight started forward quickly, being followed by her Noir. 

When they reached the top floor they found a decapitated body at the feet of the stairs. A man with a gun was dead, two red dots between his chest burned through the skin. He still had his spinal cord dangling from his neck, clearly removed with force. 

In the middle of the room Starlight could see Homelander’s cape, sprawled on the ground. She could see your limp legs from behind him. He was shaking.

Annie had never seen him cry before. 

Noir approached before she even thought to. She wanted to call Maeve and ask her to come down in case Homelander decided to lash out but realized there was no time. If he hadn’t taken you somewhere…there was no pulse. 

She shared a glance with Noir. This was unsafe. 

“What happened?” Starlight asked quietly. There were tears streaming down his red cheeks. She wasn’t going to get a coherent answer. “We need to get help,” she said, even though she didn’t mean it. She just needed to say something. 

She had never seen The Homelander so broken. She thought about all the times before she saw him on the TV screen when she was growing up. Even now that she knew what he was, she held onto that shred of hope that he was like he had been on TV. She had never seen that in person, genuinely, until that very moment. When his shoulders shook and he was holding his only friend in his arms, wondering if she was really gone, if she was going to leave him alone. 

Annie never felt for Homelander until then. 

She shared a glance with Noir. He gave her nothing, he never did. 

“It should’ve been me,” he whispered. As Annie slowly approached she saw the bullet between your eyes. Your expressionless face was haunting. Annie saw dead people but she never saw those she cared about. She was reminded of Hughie. Homelander was holding his Hughie. “It was meant to be me.” 

Annie could give him no solace. She worried he would level the city for you. Maeve would try to remove him completely but she wasn’t strong enough for that. She would just have to let him stand there until your body got cold or he came to his senses that you weren’t going to wake up. 

Then you woke up. 

It was subtle, a slight breath. He hardly noticed it over his own drama but Starlight saw it. Her eyes went wide. Then you coughed, the bullet falling onto the other side of your head. Your head had healed itself, just like that. You squinted up at Homelander, unable to remember what had happened and why he was holding you. 

Your movement startled him. He tried to find a clear vision in his eyeline, something to blur away the tears. You brought your hand up and wiped them away. 

“I’m okay,” you said, voice dry. “I’m alright.” 

“But-but you-” he stumbled. 

“I’m okay.” It hurt, sure. You could feel the remnant of pain in your head, like your nerves hadn’t quite got the memo you were alive. You sat up and he threw his arms around you. The superstrength almost suffocated you but you were content with putting your arms around him too. 

You saw the big bad dead on the  other side of the room, between Annie and Noir. You shared a look with them. Annie was wiping tears from her eyes. You must have been dead for longer than you thought. 

“I’m okay,” you said again, this time for the two of them. Annie nodded. Homelander needed a moment. She gestured for Noir to follow her out. They collected the remaining body parts of the villain and left. 

Homelander let you go just enough to see your face. 

“I thought you were dead.” 

He cleared his throat, attempting to regain his composure. 

“Can’t get rid of me that easily big guy,” you whispered. He wanted to cry some more, now that the floodgates were open. But he took a deep breath, allowing himself to even. You were still in his arms and that’s where you wanted to remain for the moment. It was safe here. “Are you okay?” 

“Fine,” he promised. He stood up, much to your dismay. He helped you stand, which took some wobbling. It was like you had just been born again. 

“Can you fly us out of here? I don’t know if I can walk,” you admitted. He nodded, quickly. 

“Of course. Hop on.” You made a sly smile and he rolled his eyes. You let him pick you up and carry you away, through the sunlit sky. 

-

Vought confirmed that you were okay. They triple checked your vitals but nothing seemed out of the ordinary. You had sacrificed yourself for Homelander and you had lived. It was a curious thought, one not many people understood. They wanted to test your limits further but you vetoed it for the moment. You would rather not die over and over for the sake of science. 

Homelander decided he wanted to be on every mission you were on here on out. He would make up for that mistake time and time again. 

Sitting in his apartment, a place you were used to and practically lived in, was homey. Your ‘recovery’ was spent here. He had brought you some blankets from your room. The kindness from him was uncharacteristic but welcomed. 

He vowed if he couldn’t protect himself from Vought he would protect you. 

He would protect you and your silly movie nights and matching banquet outfits. 

He would have his life with you, Vought or not.

#homelander x reader #homelander x fem!reader #homelander imagines #the boys imagines

[yakool-foolio]

Out of all of the Amaterasu employees that we see in the game, if you had to list them from most morally good to least, how would you list them?

Obviously, they are all terrible people in multiple ways, but I'm just curious

Hmm, interesting! I haven't even really considered how much they'd be weighed on a scale for their morality. I like contemplating new ways to 'rank' characters though, and the peacekeeper higher-ups, other than Yomi (and Hitman Zilch since they basically come in a package deal in my brain), do deserve some more attention from me, so I'll give it a go! I'll just stick with ranking the higher-ups since we have the most info on what we see of them in canon, so sorry Huesca, your judgement day will have to come another time (not to mention we don't have enough info on the specifics of how bad he really was other than him 'sacrificing others for his own research' and conspiring to kill Yakou's wife, but honestly that should be enough to send him into the murky depths of the river Styx). This list will go from least morally corrupt to most morally corrupt, but I think we can already tell who's at the top.

First off, it's our lil sickly guy Seth! Poor guy honestly did the least things wrong, probably couldn't even hurt a fly if he really tried. While he did threaten to sink the sub and arrest the detectives on scene, he did give them a time limit to investigate and find the culprit. It was a very restrictive time limit, but still a chance to save themselves nonetheless. He was just doing as he was ordered to by Yomi in regards to taking money from the church, who knows what would've happened to him if he disobeyed. Guess we'll never know, sorry Seth.

Next up is Martina. I've been debating on where to put her, but honestly compared to the others, she somehow manages to scrape by as the second least morally corrupt. Most of my reasoning is due to her actively realizing that Yomi was an awful influence and resigning as a peacekeeper. No peacekeeper other than Seth had that kind of hindsight of their actions being the cause of Yomi being Yomi. Martina's above Seth on the moral corruption list cause she still actively threatened to shoot two young detectives and definitely would've pulled the trigger had she not been stopped.

Swank takes a spot right smack dab in the middle on the Amaterasu morality scale. This dude is greedy af and worked alongside Hitman Zilch to frame Yuma for the massacre on the train. And he would've gotten away with it too, if it weren't for that meddling chief! As soon as Yakou stepped into the scene, Swank's disposition took a surprising turn. He surrendered Yuma over to Yakou when he could've easily still arrested Yuma and moved on with his day. And yet, all it really took was for Yakou to say 'I'll tell WDO about your bad behavior and they'd be so mad at you >:T' and Swank took the hint and backed off. MAN DIDN'T EVEN GET BRIBED WITH MONEY! HE JUST TOOK THE L AND LEFT! That's the power of the charismatic blue father figure for ya. Honestly, Swank could've been ranked lower than Martina, but as far as we know, he never got that same sense of hindsight, so he could still be a money-grubbing, mass-murder framer to this day.

And now we move up to Guillaume and Dominic. These two are inseparable, so they shall be treated as such. I think its safe to say these guys like the thrill of hunting down Yuma and want to beat him and his allies to a pulp despite his pleas for mercy. They punch first and ask questions later. Not to mention they view all citizens as slaves, easily manipulated the power of Amaterasu. At least they gave up on harming Yuma when they were given the actual culprits, but Yuma would've easily been turned to paste if not for the detectives' intervention.

And finally, earning the top spot for most morally fucked by a landslide is Yomi! Do I even really need to go into the specifics about why this guy is so damn horrendous? Well, let's do a lightning round! Yomi hired a hitman to kill anyone who criticized or went against him (such as Yakou's wife), violently abused and almost had his 'girlfriend' killed, planned the Amaterasu Express Massacres, physically punished many of his coworkers, manipulated Yakou into killing Huesca, kicked down a dying Yakou, threatened to kill the detectives multiple times, and attempted to leak info about a militaristic experiment to create immortal soldiers to other facilities for some cash. Fuckin' bitch.

#was it even a competition? #rain code #rain code spoilers #seth burroughs #martina electro #swank catsonell #guillaume hall #dominic fulltank #yomi hellsmile

[smolkiwi98]

Hi! I had sent you a request about reader (if you can make the gender not specific, id appreciate it) being Dean and Sam's cousin and taking them to play rpg because Dean would 100% love it and Sam is probably going to have fun to. And when they are getting there they ask the reader about that friend group, if they met while hunting or something and you're like "about that, there's something i was going to tell you" and Eddie (stranger things) opens the door and is all like "baby, you're here!" and pecking the reader's lips. The brothers are a little protective over their cousin who is playing as the dungeon master and Dean makes it so his character is always provoking Eddie's character or fighting him in the game at first

Okay okay...I know it's been awhile, but here's the first half!! A lot of stuff has been going on and a lot of changes! I hope you like it!!

WARNING!! NOTHING! JUST NOT PROOFREAD AND KIND OF RUSHED

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“Hey, Eddie?” You called out of the bathroom. After a few seconds your boyfriend was right at the door, “Yeah?” He asked. His hair was in a low messy ponytail and his forehead had a little oil on it from working on his car. You smiled and held onto your towel. “My cousins are coming over today.” Eddie gave you a confused look “They are? Did you tell me and I forgot?” His eyes widened at that small thought which made you chuckle “No, they just called me. They’re in town and wanted to stop and say hello.” You explained. Eddie nodded his “Have I met them?” Eddie has met a few of your family members, but these two were never around much. You shook your head “Nope! I haven’t seen them since I was about 13.” You smiled. Eddie could tell you were excited about the visit, “I guess I should get showered then.” He said matching your smile.

You were in the kitchen baking some pie (a request from your cousin) when there was a knock on the door. Eddie was still in the shower, he complained about having oil and dirt in his hair so he would be a minute. When you opened the door there stood the two very tall mysterious men in your family, “Sam! Dean!” You said wrapping your arms around them both. The two laughed and patted your back “How’ve you been, kid?” Dean asked, looking at you. You shrugged “I’ve been good! I finally moved out of my moms house.” You said with a small chuckle, “How is she doing?” Sam asked. Again you shrugged “I assume she’s good. I haven’t spoken to her in a while to be honest.” The two brothers nodded and gave each other a look. “Oh! Come in!” You said stepping aside for them to walk in “Dean there’s a pie on the table. I just took it ou-and he’s gone.” Sam laughed, “Yeah…nothing has changed with him.”

“Son of a bitch!” Dean yelled. Both you and Sam ran into the kitchen ‘What? What’s going on?” You asked in a panic. You look around and see Eddie sitting at the table with a slice of pie and Dean looking confused and a little upset, “I thought you said it was my pie.” Dean said. Sam shook his head, “Dude there’s plenty of pie there. Just take a slice.” He said, sounding annoyed with his brother. Dean grumbled something and took a slice before sitting down “Who is this anyway?” Dean asked. Sam sat down next to him and you sat next to Eddie, “Sam…Dean, this is my boyfriend, Eddie!” You said with a smile “Eddie these two are the cousins I told you about.” Eddie was a little shy but gave them a smile “Y/N, has told me a lot about you guys. It’s nice to meet you both.”

~ One Hour Later ~

“So you’re saying the dragon can’t die…like at all?” Sam asked, “Exactly! But, there is a way to kill it! The players just have to figure it out.” Eddie answered. The two have been going on and on about DnD once Sam saw a d20 laying on the counter. You and Dean sat there confused. “Do you get any of this?” Dean asked, you shook your head “I’ve tried playing so many times and I’ve sat in during games and still don’t understand.” You said. Dean chuckled and finished his beer, “How did you meet this guy anyway?” He asked “School actually. I was new to the school because ya know…mom homeschooled me and I had no one to sit with at lunch.” Dean looked at you “So lanky frizz hair invited you to his table?” You laughed and pushed him playfully “Yes…and his hair is not frizzy!” Dean looked at you and then back at Eddie “I don’t trust him.” You rolled your eyes, “You don’t trust anyone, Dean.” You looked at Eddie and smiled at how him and Sam were geeking out over his DM binder, “But trust me. He’s a good guy…He’s not an asshole.” Dean raised an eyebrow at you and then stood up “I’ll judge that myself.” He said while walking over to Sam and Eddie, “Alright dorks…tell me what’s going on with these dragons and elves and other crap.” He said before sitting down. You shook your head and grabbed the empty bottles and dirty plates and went to the kitchen.

Throwing away the bottles and placing the dishes in the sink you heard Sam come in, “Hey!” He said, smiling at you. You smiled and turned around to look at him “Hey! You having fun?” Sam nodded his head, “Yes actually. Eddie is a pretty cool guy.” You smiled “Yeah, I think so too.” You said with a small chuckle.

To be continued….

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[trans-girl-nausicaa]

tumblr choose your own adventure: VAMPIRE ARK: part 22

STATS:

AGGRESSION: 4

CAUTION: 0

HOMOSEXUALITY: 8

ENDURANCE: 1

SKILL: 4

INVENTORY:

[Wallet] [Cash: $14.50]

[Mobile phone] [Battery: 100%]

[Keys]

[Antique Czech Typewriter] [Ink ribbons: 0]

[Antique Czech Lighter] [Fuel level: 1000%]

[Antique CZ 75 Pistol, 9mm, Automatic] [Ammunition: 50]

[Sharpened Metal Stake]

>Stop at a diner and sit down for a meal.

“We should stop at a diner and sit down for a meal,” you suggest.

“Can do!” says Bunny.

“That’s good with me,” mumbles Louisiana from the backseat.

After the decision is made, there’s a silence in the car as everyone watches for a roadsign that would alert them to food services at the next highway exit.

You see a sign for an all-day breakfast joint.

“Not that one,” you say, and Louisiana concurs. “Uh-uh.”

Two exits later, there’s a sign for a Mexican chain restaurant.

“Yooooo, let’s get some fuckin’ tacooooos,” croaks Louisiana.

Tick tick tick goes the turn signal, and Bunny takes the off-ramp.

The restaurant is nearby the off-ramp, across from a gas station.

After the truck is parked, the three of you just sit there a minute.

You feel uncomfortable, and break the silence.

“Shit, I should have withdrawn cash before leaving. If I use my card way out here, my bank might flag it as a suspicious purchase and I’d have to call-“

“Hey.” says Bunny.

“I’ll cover you. Both of you,” she says, twisting around to look at Louisiana.

“Why? You’ve known me for, like, less than a day,” says Louisiana.

Bunny turns back around and faces forward.

“I guess… as a thank you.”

“Fer what?”

“For trusting me,” she says, and unlocks the car door.

She steps out onto the pavement of the parking lot.

You follow suit.

The pavement is damp. It must have rained earlier. At this low altitude, in this part of the state, at this time of year, you expect rain and fog to roll through on a regular basis.

There’s a fake steel cactus in front of the restaurant. It, too, is wet from the rain.

The three of you walk in to the restaurant accompanied by the jingling of the bell affixed to the door.

You are greeted by a middle-aged server who tells you to feel free to sit anywhere.

You head towards a booth.

You sit down and slide in to accommodate your companions.

The red pleather-coated cushions are pretty comfortable.

You sink in to them a little as you sip ice water from a plastic cup.

It’s kind of cold outside, so you want something warm and hearty.

You order a large bowl of pozole.

Louisiana orders a plate of steak fajitas and requests some hot sauce.

Bunny orders a chicken quesadilla.

As the three of you wait for your food, Louisiana fidgets, until finally she exclaims “What the fuck kind of vampire tries to set people on fire? In the middle of the day? Aren’t they supposed to stalk the night and bite people?”

Bunny tries to tell her to keep it down.

“Dude, there aren’t any vampires in the fuckin’ restaurant.”

She looks around.

“We’re, like, practically the only people here. You don’t have to be paranoid right now.”

Bunny shakes her head, opens her mouth, closes it, then tilts her head and squints.

“That is actually a really good question,” she says.

“Ok, I’m developing a hypothesis…” she closes her eyes and massages her temples for a second.

“This IS out of character for vampires…” she says.

“Unless...? Wait. They can overpower humans and take the opportunity to drink their blood. They weren’t after blood, this was just… straight up attempted murder. They didn’t want to bite someone, they wanted to kill someone. Which implies… they weren’t after a human.”

Bunny looks at you.

“It’s like they have some sort of vendetta against you, and they know you’re not human.”

You think for a moment.

You tell Bunny about your encounter with Dr. Jaroslav Jágr.

“You punched a vampire in the face?!” Bunny exclaims, practically jumping out of her seat, right as the waitress arrives with your food.

“Calm down and eat your quesadilla,” says Louisiana.

Bunny eats one slice of quesadilla then presses you for more details.

“Yeah, there’s not much more to tell. Like I said, he offered to make me a vampire, then he hexed Lou with his eyes, so I punched him in the face and left,” you say.

Bunny lets out a breath. “Fucking… wow.”

“The look an hish fashe wash prichelesh,” says Louisiana, her mouth full.

“Lou,” you say, in a chiding tone of voice.

She rolls her eyes and closes her mouth to chew.

She has doused her plate liberally with hot sauce, and she has some on her chin.

You imagine wiping it off for her.

She swallows.

“Why are you staring at me? Do I have something on my face?” she asks.

“No. I mean yes. I mean, uh, it’s just, right there,” you say, pointing to your own chin to demonstrate.

You look away from her and eat several spoonfuls of hot soup.

“They probably can’t drink your blood any more, because they can only drink human blood. Did you know that? They can’t even drink animal blood,” says Bunny.

“Can you stop talking about blood when I’m trying to eat,” you say. It’s not actually spoiling your appetite, but it’s the principle of the thing.

“Oh, but I’m giving you knowledge. You need this knowledge. Blood knowledge,” says Bunny.

You shake your head. “Finish your food first,” you say.

Bunny shrugs and methodically digs in to her meal. She ignores the provided salsa and sour cream.

“Blood knowledge,” says Louisiana, waggling her fingers at you.

You smirk, stifling a laugh.

You’re glad Lou hasn’t lost her sense of humor.

Yet.

Your heart sinks.

‘She wouldn’t be in danger if it weren’t for me,’ you think to yourself.

You try not to think anything more depressing than that as you finish your soup.

“Huh? Did you say something?” says Louisiana.

“No?” you say.

“I’m pretty sure you did,” says Bunny.

“No I didn’t,” you say.

“You know, sometimes I have NO idea what you’re thinking,” says Louisiana. You hear a dangerous edge to her voice.

There’s a chilly silence.

“I’m… going to the restroom,” says Bunny.

Louisiana gets up from the booth to let Bunny scoot out. But Louisiana keeps her eyes on you.

“If you have something to say, say it,” she says, spreading her arms.

She sits back down.

Your lips are pursed.

“You could’ve-“

You can’t bring yourself to say the whole sentence.

You start again.

“Back at our place-“

And you cut yourself off again.

“I’m fine,” she says, coldly.

“But!-“

She crosses her arms.

You close your eyes and take a deep breath.

“You wouldn’t be in danger if it wasn’t for me,” you say.

“What the fuck, dude,” she says. “You know what? That’s so dumb.”

“Don’t call me… dumb? What?” you say.

“FIRST OF ALL. You were bitten. Like, attacked. That wasn’t your fucking fault, you were a victim.

SECOND OF ALL. In that hospital room? I was about to fucking deck that guy myself. So that coulda been me if you didn’t do it.

THIRD OF ALL. Do you think I would EVER make any choice other than to stick by you?! Yeah! You’re in danger! I’m in danger too! But even if it wasn’t fucking vampires I’d still stick with you!”

“But-“ you try, but she cuts you off. Both of you are tearing up a little at this point.

“I know. I KNOW. That if this situation was reversed, you would be by my side too. You’d be endangering yourself too. Right?!”

“Yes, of course!” you say.

“Yeah, idiot! Because we’re BEST FRIENDS. No matter what. Fuckin’… ride or die! That’s just how it is so don’t be fucking… REGRETFUL about that!”

Bunny comes back to the table.

“Okay, no, I tried to wait it out but you guys, we need to leave, we can’t do this here,” she says nervously.

You and Louisiana get up from the table, glaring at each other.

Bunny throws some bills down on the table and escorts the two of you out of the restaurant.

In the parking lot, Louisiana is fully crying.

Bunny looks from one of you to the other and walks to the truck and gets in.

“Couldn’t you have given me some time to PROCESS that I almost DIED before you… you say things like that?!” she says.

“I mean, YOU almost died when you were bitten! I am NOT ‘over’ that either!”

“I lived, I’m fine, I-“ you say.

She cuts you off.

“You have NO IDEA how I felt when I walked in to the hospital room and saw you unconscious with a huge scary wound on your neck-“ -you put your hand over it- “and with all these bloodstains and I KNOW that the doctor said you would be okay, but it LOOKED fucking terrifying! And I felt so powerless! So that- That- That image is fucking BURNED into my mind, dude! And yes, yep, after that, you fucking saved my life twice. You saved my fucking life from that vampire doctor and you saved my fucking life from the fire. And I haven’t even FUCKING processed that. But it’s, like, it, in those situations? You SAVED ME. There was something that could be DONE. But when I first saw you in that hospital bed I felt so fucking powerless. You have no idea,” she says.

“I barely- I wasn’t even trying- I didn’t mean to say anything to upset you,” you say.

Louisiana is sobbing. “When someone says- when someone says- when someone says that ‘You wouldn’t be in danger if it wasn’t for me’ I KNOW what comes after that. What comes after that is ‘Maybe I should leave you behind so you won’t be in danger by being with me’ and I couldn’t stand it if you thought that…”

“I never said that. I would never do that,” you say. “I would never think that.”

She is still crying.

“B-but lately… I f-feel like you’re holding th-things b-back from me… We’re subbosed to tell eachothr evrything, right? Y-you’re the m-most imp-portant person in the w-world to me,” she sobs.

It starts to rain.

Read the rest of the story: https://www.tumblr.com/trans-girl-nausicaa/tagged/CYOA

#cyoa #choose your own adventure

[tloubraininfection]

I`ve discovered recently that I have a violent heart and since I’m also nothing if not petty I did a thing. In honor of this great revelation I went episode by episode scouring for each and every act of violence Ellie commits hoping to find evidence, that I clearly must have missed, of that famous violent heart that makes her so similar to a murderous cannibal p*dofile and here are my finds:

Also please bare in mind that some of these are a little farfetched, I really tried to be fair and thorough. I also divided them into categories to better illustrate my point:

Self-defense: Episode 1: Ellie attacks Joel with the knife Ellie attacks the guard with the knife Episode 7: Ellie attacks Riley thinking she`s an intruder Ellie kills the stalker with the knife

Episode 8: everything that happens in this episode is self-defense period

Joel-defense (or other people-defense): Episode 4: Ellie shoots Bryan

Episode 5: Ellie kills two clickers with the knife

Episode 6: Ellie shoots at those cannibal dudes at the university

Ambiguous: Episode 6: Ellie threatens the older couple with a gun and is technically sort of robbing them? I mean, it’s not exactly violent, but there is a gun and some tough guy posturing so I guess? And it was technically not exactly 100% necessary.

Episode 7: She smashes some cabinets in the Halloween Store out of anger and fear. I see is as valid, but I guess it can be viewed as violent

Concerning: Episode 3: Ellie cuts into an infected and then stubs him with the knife

Episode 7: Ellie beats the leaving daylights out of Bethany and puts her in the infirmary. I think its important to note it was provoked, but yes it was still excessive and very violent.

Out of all 12 instances 8 are in either self or Joel defense, 2 are bordering on something, but not quite there and only 2 can be really qualified as excessively violent and disconcerting. 2 in the span of 8 episodes covering some few months of the story. And those 2 are also the only 2 instances when she is shown having no regret, there is also no negative aftermath etc. All the others seem to weigh heavily on her.

So where exactly is this violent-hearted person? The person we are supposed to love, but also fear? Yeah, its yet another brilliant quote from the podcast:

“David says something to her that absolutely true because he sees it in her because he knows it's in him, he says, ‘you have a violent heart,’ and that is something Neil and I talked about quite a bit because it’s not in the game, that line. As much as we love her, we also have to be a little scared of her.”

They are talking about a 14-year-old stuck in a literal cage, 14-year old who is about to go through the most harrowing experience a 14-year old could possibly endure. This is the face of that violent person you are supposed to fear:

She’s just a little girl and she`s barely standing. She`s just left the gates of hell where she`s narrowly avoided r*pe and murder. She looks like she`s about to fall apart and she actually does seconds later. The moment she knows she`s safe in her fathers arms, shes gone. And it’s going to take her a long to come back from it, I can guarantee you. She’s a traumatized, exhausted child in need of comfort, support and care. She makes me want to save her, help her, wrap her in a blanket and make her a tea. I’m not scared of her, I sob for her, I rage for her and everything she had to go through.

And here`s a thing, if you want your character to have that edge, to be more morally grey, to have that penchant for violence-bordering-on-sadism – more power to you. But you have to commit to it, you have to actually SHOW me exactly that. Show me that character being disturbingly violent, show them enjoying it, show them unhinged. If you present me with a terrified, traumatized feral baby kitten on screen, but then you go on you precious podcast and talk about how "well actually" she’s a violent-hearted monster I should fear you just sound like those televangelists brainwashing people into thinking exactly what you want them to think. And I for one refuse to be gaslit again.

At this point I feel the creators want to have that cake and eat it to. They want fun, goofy, sweet Ellie from the first game, because that’s the character everyone fell in love with, but they are also super desperate to do some build up for the second game. Because contrary to all that Neil says the second game is not a natural progression of the first. It’s a complete departure from it. And those two Ellies are not the same character. And the changes in the show only prove that.

Lastly I feel this portrayal of what trauma and what it does to a person is not only untrue, it’s also damaging to all those who went through similar ordeal and lived to tell the tale. Only to learn that actually, they have a violent heart, or that it unlocked something in them, or that they are the same as their abuser, because they used force to defend themselves.

Why does it have to be all of nothing? Why can’t Ellie be violent when the situation calls for it without it becoming the central part of her character? Why can’t it be about what it actually is? Trauma, fight or flight responses, survival, PTSD?  Why does she have to be a violent person and not just a person, s human reacting to the would around her? Violence as self-preservation, unavoidable part of this awful world, not an evil manifestation of her true self. And what are they even trying to say here? That some people are born more violent? That only those violent ones are going to react a certain way? How she reacts to danger and trauma is not an Ellie things it’s a human thing. And if Ellie has a violent heart we all do, but then, what does that even mean?

#Ellie doesn’t have a violent heart #she has a human heart #i had to somehow process all this #still not quite done fuming about it #but i feel a little better #i swear Neil Druckmann is going to be my villain origin story #also not listening to another podcast ever again #for mental health #tlou spoilers #the last of us spoilers #tlou hbo spoilers #the last of us hbo spoilers #ellie Williams #TW: SA #TW: trauma

[henrioo]

HEADCANNON — Do you see Killer as an TransMasc dude?

I mean… he may or may not have top surgery scars, which I’ll explain later, but what he actuall was before the pre-timeskip?

He was a man, who definitely was on T-shots not even half a year. Having a binder crushing his chest, moving fast — but hardly breathing, no wonder why his voice was rather deep. He tried to hide the fact that he hardly got any air during the fights or such.

The slimness during the Sabaody Arc, no facial hair, fast movements… that’s the second when my brain automatically shoved the thought of him being a part of the LGBTQ. Just look at this dude two years later:

He grew out his thick hair, took care of it. Jaw and chin covered in his golden goatee, while his body grew at least thrice as wide as two years before. Man… I know for sure that during those years he was high on his Testosterone level.

But the best part comes along with the explanation of the top surgery marks he might hide underneath his t-shirt. I believe that during the long time of waiting until the Kid Pirates come back to screen, Killer and his crew recently has visited the Revolutionary Army on their way to Wano.

And who’s the most queer diva in there? Of course it’s them — Ivankov.

The one who actually said: “Boy, you seem uncomfortable while moving. Do you perhaps need some help with gender dysphoria, hun’?”

Then the change happened, the scars lasted, but the short and painful process of his body turning fully male was worth it. Feeling like himself encouraged him to train more and gain weight, muscles, and all possible benefits.

So… if you ever read it, I really want to know your opinion about this. It’s not common to see a male-blog only, which I appreciate truly.

— Cheers, Musashi.

Okay I love this ask and I love you now and we two gonna be best friends okay?

And yes now I'm a only male blog and I genuinely love talking with more male authors we need to have a strong community

So here all my opinion about this

Like Sanji is a gay coded character for me, Killer is also one, and in the two examples I'm sure Oda didn't do it on purpose but he did a pretty good job

For me Killer has a lot of coded trans signals that make me feel he genuinely would be a perfect trans character, so here what I feel more

First his name, even one piece has some "weird" names, Killer looks more a name that someone would give to himself, not a weird normal name in one piece that someone would be born with

Since we don't know too much about the childhood of the kid pirates, it is hard to be sure, but I think it is obvious that killer chose his own name. If it is for the reason he is trans or not doesn't really matter, everyone can think whatever they want

Also the mask, we know that killer is far from being ugly but he always had the mask after he grew up a little, and I think that was pure insecure about his face. I think in the start before the T and those things people didn't take him seriously because his face wasn't really masculine or scary, and to try fight against that he started using the mask, also because that would help him having a more strong voice, since the mask would muffle his voice

Kid protection, I think is more than perfect their bond, and is obviously that Killer trusts in Kid his own life and soul. And for me this is the perfect way to show that Kid is a true ally to his friends transition, when they meet again in the prison he even asks to killer "where are your mask?" Because he knows his friend would never be without that

Not only that, he genuinely killed everyone that laughed about Killer no matter why they are laughing, that for me is perfect to show how Kid grows up seeing Killer suffering from intolerant people and becomes aggressive in a way to protect him

But I'm not sure about Iva, I don't think the Revolutionary Army would risk being close to Kid because he had one of the worst reputations between the pirates. And even if they would have a change the Kid owes a favor to them I don't think it would be a good choice, because they couldn't know if Kid would be pacific enough or not

And what we know for now is that the Revolutionary Army don't really have bonds with pirates exactly because they are impressive and dangerous

So I think that Killer got such a big man because of... Drugs

Yeah no joking

The crew would definitely get T enough for Killer besides I think they would have this in a constant way, what can explain why he takes two years to be that big

But I also think he used some anabolic steroids, or anything like that but in the one piece universe. I don't think they would be really hard to get and they probably are not safe, but they probably work better than the ones we have in the real world.

So if I could say the reason why killer got big is this one, Kid probably got some suspicious drugs and Killer used and there we are. We already know those dudes don't give a shit about risking their life and they are like "worthy to try"

Also I can see Law helping Killer with some surgery, but then Kid finds out that Law is also a captain and he gets mad because they get help from an enemy, and he is not blaming Killer but blaming Law and Law is just "wtf I literally help you?"

But yeah

Thanks for that, I love having someone to talk about this hahahha

#henri talk

[emilyrox]

Uhhhh idk pick your favorite Markaplier series.

Gotchu homie :)

In honor of it being Valentine's Day tomorrow, I'm gonna choose A Date With Markiplier!

Favorite Male: Date!Mark. I am making the distinction between him and Actor Mark, as Date!Mark is a different character that Actor plays according to the Meta ending. Date!Mark, while he can sometimes be ignorant or an idiot, does have a lot of funny moments (like taking 50 years to dig a hole with a spoon). He also is my date in this so...bias?

Favorite Female: Kathryn. She appears for 5 seconds during the Meta ending but she's always a delight. Her sassing Actor (or anyone when they're being a dumbass) is always glorious.

Favorite Pairing: If I can include non-canon ships then Darkstache 100%. Unfortunately they aren't (which is a mistake on Mark's part), so assuming I can only include canon ships (ones that appear in the actual show) then Dark x Y/N. Not me specifically. The character Y/N in themselves. Although Dark is threatening in this, they do treat Y/N better than Mark, or at least claims they will. I also recall a post someone made pointing out the difference in the Vanilla and Chocolate endings. In the Vanilla ending (where you shoot Dark), Mark is basically like "Oh man that sucks. Anyway :D." In the Chocolate ending (where you shoot Mark), Dark, disguised as Mark, asks if you're okay, tells you everything will be fine, and is more comforting towards you. That could just be Dark being manipulative, but it's still interesting.

Least Favorite Character: Actor Mark. He shows who he truly is in the Meta ending, and he is nothing but an asshole. Not even an entertaining asshole. Just a big jerk. Some of his lines are funny, but other than that I don't like him. I may also be taking the other series into account but he's just a bad dude.

Who's Most Like Me: Considering Y/N is meant to be whoever the viewer is, and can have whatever personality the viewer has...Y/N I guess lol. Honorary mention to Mad Mike because I too love Ice Cream and would advise parents to not bring their kids as the Ice Cream shop is actually a drug front.

Most Attractive: Dark. There's no contest. Just Dark.

Three More Characters That I Like:

Chef Rexx. He's kinda creepy and tried to kill us at one point but ngl he kinda had a right to. Mark claims he doesn't have his wallet (on our first date?!?!) and can't pay Rexx, and listen retail/restaurant workers barely make enough as it is so I think he had a right to go after Mark. Just wish he didn't go after Y/N too. But later on Mark finds his wallet and I'm like "dude are you serious."

Ethan and Tyler. Including them and all the characters they play throughout this. Their constant running joke of "bonjour" to them getting married in a crappy play to Tyler rooting for Mark during his proposal (that we rejected) to Mad Mike (Ethan) and his totally drug-free ice cream.

Chica. Everyone is legally required to like Chica. She is the goodest girl. The floofiest girl. The most cutest precious girl (that Y/N has apparently been this whole time according to Warfstache?). And she's a doggo. Automatically likeable.

#a date with markiplier #adwm #date mark #kathryn knutsen #darkiplier #y/n adwm #actor mark #mad mike #chef rexx #ethan nestor #tyler scheid #chicaplier #wilford warfstache #asks #ask game #ask away my dudes

[casliveblog]

Custom Toonami Block Week 141 Rundown

Spy X Family: So it’s time for a little character development for Damian, it’s your standard ‘he’s a later legacy character of an important family and the expectation weighs on him’ nothing special but you do kinda have to give the kid a break given he’s like six years old. Rumor is the kid that does the best in the next dodgeball game gets a Gym Badge and considering progress-wise Anya’s still stuck in Viridian Forest we really need one of those so Yor trains her how to murder a man with a dodgeball because that’ll probably be useful some day. But yeah Anya reads Damian’s mind in class and is able to tell he has layers and shit and also their opponent is legit an adult man, like he’s just some dude and they do treat him like he’s a kid but he has glasses and studies on a computer and the subtitle says he’s six so I don’t know how much of this is a joke and I’m just like ‘excuse me?’ but yeah Damian’s cronies take the hits for him and show they do have legit faith in him even if they’re all assholes. Since Anya can read the dude’s mind she can dodge all the balls but still ends up tripping so Damian has to save her and show he actually does have a heart which is cool even if it doesn’t last long. Anya tries her best to do the manslaying throw Yor taught her but you can tell just by how over-extended the buildup is that it’s not gonna work, like there’s buildup for emphasis and there’s over-buildup for comedy and they made it a bit too obvious but it’s still funny. Anyway the adult man wins but no one gets a Gym Badge because Elegance Dude’s like that’s just a dumb stupid rumor bro, but he is impressed Anya and Damian got along for five seconds even though they immediately start fighting after, but the next episode is legit called “Stella” so it’s probably not the last we’ve heard of that.

Inuyasha:. The half of the infant Kanna gave Kagura to take care of just like reverse spirit bomb’s the area he’s in and goes into a full naked teenage albino… you know, as you do. Meanwhile Inuyasha and co are still chasing Entei who has tracked down his old master Rengokuki and freed him and he fights with Inuyasha for a bit and he seems kinda strong but it’s clear without Entei Inuyasha would Wind Scar his ass in one hit but he’s still fronting just saying he’s rusty after being sealed. He goes to burn a village down and Kagura’s there getting clothes for Hakudoshi and since she’s pretty hot by demon standards Rengokuki’s like ‘marry me’ and Kagura’s just like ‘look unless you can kill Naraku or have a ten foot penis get the fuck away from me’ but dude’s not having it and chases her down but Hakudoshi interrupts them and I guess he just… found clothes on his own since Kagura never delivered them. Entei’s sick of Rengokuki’s shit and bucks him off so he can fight Hakudoshi and Hakudoshi absolutely wrecks his shit and mount’s Entei like it’s no big deal. Hakudoshi says he’s learned the extent of what killing monks and lying on their chests can teach him about the border to the afterlife so he starts cutting off demon heads to see what they can see of it. He also does his introduction to Inuyasha and because Inuyasha NEVER FUCKING USES THE RED TESSAIGA FOR SOME REASON he’s able to block the Wind Scar with a barrier, like first time I get it, you weren’t expecting a barrier but he sat there and delivered a whole ass monologue and you got ANOTHER Wind Scar off on him only to crash into the barrier again without even trying the Red Tessaiga, get it together dog boy. Anyway Hakudoshi’s a Bond Villain and just straight up tells Inuyasha that he’s trying to get the last jewel shard and flies away, so next week we’re back on filler because clearly that was too much plot development all at once (I actually checked and I only have 25 episodes of the original series left before I transition to Final Act, like that’s still 1-2 normal anime series but being that close to finishing Inuyasha considering it’s the only series still on the block from when I started it years ago is pretty neat)

Yu Yu Hakusho: Yusuke and Sensui are about to start their fight for real for the third time now but Real!Sensui has golden Super Saiyan energy that makes everyone that knows any better shit themselves and he breaks Yusuke’s arm like he’s holding a pair of tweezers to a cotton swab. Apparently this is a super secret technique that takes 40 years to master but Sensui used Naruto’s Shadow Clone Training cheat code to split that down and also you have to be mildly insane enough to want to change the entire world which is why Genkai could never master it because she literally cannot give a fuck, it’s basically “Super Saiyan Well-Intentioned Extremist” with two layers of chosen one protection built in. Yusuke’s still talking shit of course so Sensui blows him and Koenma back and steals the magical barrier pacifier in the process, unlucky for him Koenma reveals it’s a ranged attack and tries to seal him away. Botan goes back to Spirit World to tell Koenma Sr. what’s going on and Shizuru and Keiko see the big explosion when Sensui deflects the barrier and decide to get the hell out of dodge. But yeah Yusuke’s still pretty confident but the others reveal that he’s actually going for a Kamikaze attack, hoping that it’ll either kill Sensui or inspire his friends to flip out enough to kill Sensui on their own like Kuwabara did with Toguro, see this is what happens when you emotionally manipulate your friends into turning into sad super saiyans, they undervalue their recently restored lives and think the only way to get any powerup is to sacrifice somebody.

Jujutsu Kaisen: Yuji and Kento split for their divergent missions of tailing Junpei and infilitrating Mahito’s lair respectfully. Junpei’s still on the warpath to becoming a domestic terrorist while Mahito’s telling him not to worry about having a code for hating people like some sort of anime character but just do whatever your instincts and cravings tell him to and murder anyone he thinks deserves it. This results in him almost killing a teacher before Yuji steps in and defuses the situation by pantsing the guy, a solution beautiful in its elegant simplicity. Meanwhile Kento fights Mahito and Mahito reveals his power is to alter the soul of anybody he touches and since the soul and body are linked that’s how you get cronenberg monsters so he can basically mold flesh into whatever shape he wants, including his own which lets him heal and/or basically become Sun Eater and turn into part animal. Kento hits his eight hour workday time limit and is like “Well since I can’t punch out I’ll just have to punch YOU out motherfucker’ so that’s pretty cool.

Chainsaw Man: Well now that we’ve had a big defeat, it’s training arc time! Denji and Power pay their respects to Aki almost dying and get his pseudo-girlfriend killed by only stealing most of his shit when he wakes up. Denji has a mild existential crisis that he’s not upset at all about Himeno’s death and isn’t entirely sure if it’s because he’s a Devil now or he’s just a maladjusted antisocial asshole but I’m betting on the latter. It’s funny how he says even in the worst case he’d only be upset for three days and then just go back to how he was like he really is just a dog. Makima takes Denji and Power (also sidenote but Denji has started calling Power ‘Powey’ and I’m not sure if it’s a genuine sign of affection or mocking her lack of creativity naming her cat but I am here for it) to train with Himeno’s Master who’s basically Hamish from Hunger Games on crack and his strategy is ‘you guys can’t die so I’m gonna kill you over and over until you suck less’ which… does not seem to be working. Though it does get Power and Denji to try using strategy which works a lot better than I thought it would but still not very well. Meanwhile Aki gets letters from Himeno’s sister that Himeno sent her and sees how they gradually start talking about him more and more and it kinda hits him how worried she was about him and now he can’t use his Fox Devil or his Curse Devil powers because he’s run out of shit worth giving them for them to put up with his shit so the HQ guys take him to Public Safety’s very own SCP facility to make a new contract with the Future Devil, ironic considering he only has two years to live and basically nothing to give.

Ranking of Kings: Bojji;s training is finally complete and we get to see his weapon of choice and it’s… a rapier! Honestly that made me smile when I saw it because that jus makes perfect sense for him and the silly big sheathe they gave him for it is really cute. Kage’s not entirely sure about this but Despa tells Bojji to have faith in himself and that his best friend should have faith in him too. They go out to eat to celebrate and get into a bar fight with three troll brothers and Bojji takes them out with pressure point attacks that are designed to disorient and knock people out but can kill too apparently if it calls for it. Now if you’re a cynical asshole like me you expect this all to be a trick by Despa to at best boost Bojji’s confidence with some actors throwing a fight or at worst trying to rip Bojji off by giving him fake training and pretending it worked so he can make off with the money. But turns out this series is not so cynical and the fight WAS a set up by Despa but it was also quite real and Bojji did really beat them on his own. Also apparently there’s a super secret technique Bojji still has tucked under his vest that Despa hopes he won’t have to use too often. Kage talks to Bojji about how the giant snake dude taught him to dodge and shit in a way Abridged!Piccolo would be proud of but also since snake and snake dude are connected then Snake Dude may have been right about the kingdom being under some kind of conspiracy and in danger. Kage asks if Bojji wants to go back home to help and I think it kinda hits for the first time for Bojji that somebody he loves tried to have him killed and he’s not entirely sure who. Kage straight-up asks if he thinks Hilling tried to murder him and the thought breaks Bojji but Kage remembers his own mom and seeing Hilling literally throw herself off a cliff for Bojji and knows it can’t be the case and berates Bojji and himself for even thinking such a thing. Bojji beats some sense into himself and agrees that he’s gonna go back home. Meanwhile some knight dude’s in jail eatin rats idk.

Vinland Saga: With most of the Danish army retreated, Thorkell’s bridge is at a standstill with Prince Canute being a devout Christian and unlike 99% of Christians throughout history he takes that ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’ and ‘Do onto others’ shit seriously and doesn’t want to fight so they’re basically biding time until his dad tells him to go home. Meanwhile Thorfinn’s having a minor existential crisis in his dreams where he’s at home with his family but he’s also in England instead of Iceland and his dad’s like “Your mom and sister miss you, bro is murder and pillaging the way you want to spend your life, I don’t give a crap if you avenge me’ and Thorfinn immediately wakes up and forgets his father’s wishes like he presumably has for the past five or so years. Askeladd’s men are just kinda pillaging random small English towns and getting kinda rammy, like they kinda lost motivation to follow the main force and got distracted with random pillaging because they’re a bunch of dumbasses that don’t like taking orders but that’s what happens when your army’s like 40% pirates. Thorfinn finds Askeladd and tells him off for treating him like he’s just another crewmember when he’s actively trying to kill him and Askeladd’s just like ‘cool story bro’ and then proceeds to talk about how he’s getting old and how even great civilizations get old and die like the Romans and how Ragnarok is coming and the rise and fall of things is the way of change. They get visited by a messenger from Canute’s army who apparently were wiped out by Thorkell and  Canute was taken hostage and Thorkell’s on a mission with 500 of his best men to go charge the main force because if a good fight’s not gonna find him then god damn he’s gonna find it. So the messenger’s calling up everyone he meets to come fight Thorkell’s legion and make a charge to save the Prince. So of course Askeladd fucking beheads the guy and tells his men they’re gonna run into a battle where they’re outnumber five to one and take the Prince for ransom themselves and make a buttload of money for whichever side wants him more. Kind of an insane plan but Askeladd is really determined to not go gentle into that good night.

#ooc #Toonami #Custom Toonami Block #Spy X Family #Inuyasha #Yu Yu Hakusho #Jujutsu Kaisen #Chainsaw Man #Ranking of Kings #Vinland Saga

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Increasingly Improbable Predictions on Time Travel

Let me preface this by saying that I am not the person to go to for OPM meta discussion. There are plenty of people on Tumblr that are far more talented in that regard. My strengths are fanfic and shitposts, and I’m way out of my wheelhouse here. I considered not posting this at all. But I have a lot of thoughts about Chapter 166, and I need to get this into writing, even if no one reads it and it’s only to keep me from going crazy. Manga spoilers below the cut, obviously. Also some Mob Psycho 100 spoilers that I tried to keep sort of vague? Ready? Let’s get stupid!

I have a prediction brewing and I don't know how I feel about it. I'm not alone in thinking that the latest chapter was much darker than usual, nor in finding the chapter 164 redraw jarring. I'm sure I'm not the first person to have this thought either: What if there are multiple timelines and we're being shown the darkest one? We've seen ONE do something similar with the Mogami arc in MP100, so we know he's good at making both his fans and his characters go through Some Shit, even if the events are an illusion or aren't permanent. (Also see: Mob going ??? in “Even Then ~Continue Forward~”, an otherwise lighthearted episode that ends with a cliffhanger so brutal that the first time I watched it, I gasped out loud, explained to my concerned spouse that my reaction was because I couldn’t believe the writer would actually go there, and had to stop watching for the night. Obviously, everything turned out to be a trick, but this moment stuck with me.)

ONE is a great story teller. He doesn’t need to kill anyone to make his audience feel pain, nor to leave his main characters with lasting trauma.

Now that that’s out of the way, let’s get to my stupid time travel theory, which I’m sure is also not very original.

Now surely (and this is the point you may roll your eyes, but stay with me, I promise I'm going somewhere with it) Blast or one of his crew has the ability to send someone back in time. Like seriously, the guy fights with portals and tried to send Garou to another dimension. Let’s say Blast & Co. can send exactly one person back in time. But maybe time travel takes an extreme toll on the person’s body to the point that normal people can’t survive the jump. Hm...do we know anyone who can withstand any amount of physical stress without getting hurt? Oh, I know! How about we send the guy who uses a magma pool as a hot tub!

Scenario #1 (the “immediate fix”): The Blast Crew can only send Saitama back in time by a few minutes. But it’s enough. Enough to stop Celestial Garou’s radioactive attack. Enough to save his disciple. This time, he doesn’t arrive too late. He arrives just in time, like a true hero should.

Scenario #2 (the least bullshit one): Saitama gets sent back just far enough to stop Garou from getting possessed by God (no ID), and instead of continuing their Fistfight to End the World, Saitama (who is the only one who remembers the Worst Timeline and is just so tired) asks Garou if he's done yet, offers to lend an ear…and the chapter ends with a panel of dragon!Garou sheepishly sitting seiza at a low table with Saitama in an abandoned house floating in the sea. It’s odd to me that the Murata would spend so much time on the original, very different version of Chapter 164, only for it to be scrapped three days later. Maybe this scene does happen…just in a different order than expected. In this scenario, nothing is wasted.

Scenario #3 (improbable, confusing, and meta af, but indulge me please): Saitama gets sent back to some point earlier that day. LET’S GET META for a hot second. I remember reading a discussion by @gofancyninjaworld a long time ago (sorry dude, I tried to find it on your blog but no luck) about how the manga is ultimately written for the people who read it in its final, published volume form. But here's an awful, fun thought: What if the redraws are ONE/Murata throwing an extremely meta bonus to the readers who read each update as it comes out? If there's time travel fuckery involved, it explains at least one of the redraws…or all of them if Saitama were to get sent back further than meeting Awakened Garou on the shoreline. I'm imagining something like the scrapped chapters actually being an alternate timeline where Phoenix Man doesn't become chickified, Do-S and Narinki's mercenaries are killed by Sweet Mask, Orochi is killed by a punch instead of a bathtime mishap, etc. Time travel could also create some fun deja vu moments, like Atomic Samurai telling Iaian "I swear I've told you about this before" about the Sun Blade. Maybe he really did!

Scenario #4 (for lulz only, everyone would rage quit the series if it happened): Saitama travels back in time to the meeting that Sitch calls with the S-class to warn them about Shibabawa’s prophecy. Saitama informs him that the prophecy is about Bang’s student going off the rails. The entire Monster Association arc is canceled. Saitama beats up everyone in the subterranean and takes their gold. Garou gets therapy and a job at Fedex.

Pros of time travel being used as a plot device:

Saitama saving the world and no one knowing about it would be very on point for the series.

Saitama retaining his memories ties in with my earlier point: ONE doesn’t need to kill anyone off permanently to leave his main character with lasting trauma. Even if Genos survives this, I guarantee Saitama will be having nightmares about holding his core in his hand for years to come.

Many fans found Saitama’s comment that he’d “rather destroy the world” out of character for him. The comment makes a lot more sense if he’s already seen the people he cares for…you know.

It makes no damn sense to set up future sub-plots (Garou becoming a hero, a fetch quest for a magic sword, etc.) if everyone is just going to die of radiation poisoning anyway. It’s wasted potential, and as much as I’m hurting, I have faith in ONE/Murata to not do that.

Cons of time travel being used as a plot device:

Let's face it. Time travel as a fix-it is kind of a cop out. The only time I've seen it done well is in Steins;gate. (Which is a brilliant show if you haven't seen it.)

The further back in time we go, the less character development everyone gets. The S-class never learns to work together. Fubuki never discovers her healing powers, or stands up to her sister. Waganma never stops being a brat. Sweet Mask never gets to beat a pep talk into Darkshine, and Zombieman never gets to admit that Sweet Mask isn’t as bad as he seems. The Bad Boys don’t get their team-up. Garou doesn’t get to (try to) tell God to fuck off.

We’ve already seen characters we thought were goners come back through the power of magic (looking at you, Tanktop Master), and if it happens too much, it's going to be difficult to truly experience suspense properly again. The stakes just won’t be there. Every time a character dies, it’ll be a case of the boy who cried wolf. (Or rather the boy who cried, "Can't we just have Fubuki/Blast fix it?")

So I’m conflicted. Would a time travel fix-it make you rage quit the series? Would it cheapen the trauma that everyone has been through, or could it be done well? Or can you not see this happening at all? I guess we’ll find out in two weeks.

#one punch man #manga spoilers #mob psycho spoilers #meta post #manga predictions #a rare serious post from me #well it's half serious anyway #cursing

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DOS2 playthrough thoughts

I last played early 2018 and I started the last act about 68 hours into the game, and I remember being tired of playing the game at that point and needing the ssd space. So I uninstalled and now my saves are incompatible with the current version of the game. So instead of finishing that run I’m restarting. I finished the playthrough this time in about 90 hours.

First run I played Lohse and romanced Sebille, and while I didn’t keep a journal of the playthrough I did take a some screenshots of the companion interactions. So I’m going into a second playthrough knowing Fane did a Solas Dragon Age breaking the world, there’s a flying witch on a cross who is a pain in the ass, and I made a post complaining about were-spiders. 

Playing with a lot of mods but the improved organization mod is one I DONT recommend. It puts item into category bags then the game wont detect them in your inventory

Super long post below cut, I tried to journal what I did both to keep myself in character and because I don’t see myself replaying this game for a long time

I appreciate how this game will take anything not nailed down, I’m definitely going to try to outside the box do more combos

I killed Magister Siwan when she was unconscious, now that I know you you have a lot more freedom to kill. I’m playing Sebille this run through, goals are to be so a lot less “nice” than Lohse when it comes to antagonists, but not being a dick to other victims of the Magisters

I did not expect Ifan to be this charming or fit this well with Sebille, both of them paid killers, also love his raspy voice

I have an unlimited Companion mod so I’m taking along The Red Prince even though I’ll keep Sebille in character disagreeing with him most of the time

Yeah I killed Stingtail, was on the fence about it until he kept lying to me and seems more in character because then I can eat parts of him

I think its funny that in the scenes where companions interject, all of them will have speak up. Its like for a moment the group just does “poll of the room” and the enemy has to wait there

Mods that share bartereing and persuasion across companions are the best, especially combo with a mod to default to my character vs closes character. I remember that being really really frustrating that I’d have to do inventory management across characters just to get a good sell price

I basically did all the options to get out of Fort Joy just for the exploration and xp boost. Fight at the docks was the hardest, then I clean out the magisters. I definitely don’t remember encountering Daeyena my first playthrough

Healing the wounded magisters at the Seekr camp and the Simone is saying “how do you have so much power”. Other NPCs like Han react as well I love some good gameplay and story integration 

Tir-Cendelius is an asshole. If felt very in character to have Sebille remark that she has a spot for his name as a promise of death, then regret that as he burned his name onto her skin. He is an asshole in his veiws of submission, hope we do get to follow through killing him. No gods no masters.

Oh, I stabbed him, and then his name became Sebille’s name. “You are my champion, you are my chosen one” ok i still dont trust him

I really liked how there such a push to now see your companions as rivals, and yeah this does play different when you aren’t playing Lohse

I used double teleports to get myself through most of the wizards maze. I probably missed a few things but its a time consuming pain with 6 characters

I felt bad for Trompdoy, goading us into killing him, so after hilling him and realizing the soul jar was just beyond his fight, I reloaded to sneak through the area then to free him. I feel really sorry for the dude.

Traded the soul jar for the captain’s coat. Get the nice coat now, find him and kill him again later. Seeing notes there was definitely a smarter way to do this

I feel like Sibelle who was forced to assassinate and kill would have a lot of sympathy for someone like Gratiana who is trying to do better now. Like Sibelle would hope her victims would have some forgiveness

Slane is a Dragon Knight, fun tie in to Divinity 2 - Dragon Knight Saga, a fun if flawed game

Midway through the Bishop Alexander fight I realized it was going really poorly fighting him down in the area with all his buddies. So i reloaded and put my party up the stairs with the cursed blood, teleported him up there, and turned the area around him into necrofire. Easy kill by keeping him in the fire. It was a super long 45/50 min fight though until all enemies were defeated

Had to look up where the Tyrant gear legs were, a high stat check in an obscure statue, lmao

Went back and killed almost every Magister in Fort Joy, wish there was a way to get more people on the seeker boat, but I guess the Seekers have only so many resources

I wasn’t expecting Seekers to die on the ship considering I didn’t take them in a fight

I don’t think Sebille would be like “oh no i wouldn’t hurt you if the demon takes control” to Lohse and apparently that’s the good answer

Boned Fane rn, and he has the highest affection level at 60 when other companions are in the 20s

I cheesed the hell out of the Dallis fight, teleportation + necrofire + corpse explosion + lowering difficulty for the win

I guess Gratiana died when the ship went to the hall of echoes since she’s gone

Fane’s attitude towards me is in the 60s, Ifan is the next highest with 30. Not sure if its a mod bug or just I’ve been choosing a lot of the right options with Fane

Theres a lot of what seems to be void lore worldbuilding spread out across eating a lot of void tainted fish. 7 figures (maybe the 7 gods or eternals) threw someone into the void

I killed Lovrik afterwards because I think that’s what this group would do for trying to kill them especially since he wasn’t repentant nor offered up any money

I got a Ifan romance moment for going to smoke some herbs. Like the game gives me dialogue options to question he has my back but when he’s so affectionate like this how could I doubt him because he straightforward and not a deceptive character

I confronted Wylia the inn cook, because even though I’ve lost track of the number of times Sebille has committed cannibalism but theres a line crossed when you serve it to other people unknowingly. I like to think Sebille confronted because she didn’t want to snitch to the Magisters but was hoping Wylia would leave town. 

I helped Barrel Man escape and it earned me the Hero tag. I guess its because I helped enough people without being an asshole about rewards but all the Hero dialouge options are not what I want to say, because I’m not so heroic I’m not asking politely for a reward for a lost ring

Intersting to consider from a role play perspective, Sebille hates Magisters and has no love for them but will deliver the ring so the ghost can rest in peace. 

I didn’t have anyone built into theiving last time, so Glad I have Beast this time so he can steal the note and then pickpocket the unethical fish factory owner.

I want to kill Magister Reimond but not in the middle of town, played along and I’m sure I’ll get the chance later

The Djinn quest is well done, lots of different options and he’ll easily mislead you with a monkey’s paw style “reward”

That Ifan didn’t bring a portal but the means that the Elves homeland was wiped out from Deathfog. Really adds a layer to romancing him as an elf

I wound up killing Zanisma the deathfog technician in the caves when pickpocketing her failed. Not sure if this counts as in cold blood, Ifan didn’t inherently kill her, and Beast had smashed what she was working on, but she was working on a WMD

Mordus fight was a lot easier reloading and just dogpiling him while ignoring adds. He taught me how to wield more Source even though I didn’t promise to save his life, and then killed him afterwards for creating all the bug monsters. I’ve seen some interesting discussions on if he had free will

Had to kill the cute little Peeper the chicken because otherwise it spawned void enemies too powerful, but tbf Peeper had slaughtered the henhouse

I killed Gareth’s friend Jonathan and told him to get over it and lead the seekers. I really have to remind myself I’m trying to play Sebille as not merciful to active combatant Seekers

Wow the magisters + dog on the left bridge of Driftwood were killed, wonder what triggered that event

I wonder how the attitude among companions works, because it varies rapidly based on who is examining whom. Like Ifan has 99 attitude for Lohse but she only has 22 for him

Considering the Sebille option to step up with Ifan and threaten Hannag with him, it feels out of character not to follow through and kill her. Killing those who were knowingly involved unlike Ifan who was the catspaw. Like Ifan really emphasised “not right for me”

Hannag fight gets real easy with terrain swap and sacrificing someone to lava

I gave Xhaxh my source and blood, and let him leave without killing him. He did stop killing when I gave him source

Ifan’s dialogue about how he used to believe in something but no longer does, he really opens up and responds differently if you say you believe in people

Sebille’s response to Zemski is she desires vengeance upon the wicked, I think I’ve done a good job trying to fit that

Damn Lohse as a companion is very different from how I played her “spare me this elven strife, I care not”. 

Theres an old farm couple talking about how nice Hannag is, uuuh I’m not going to say that I killed her, but something tells me they don’t know about the deathfog

Now all my party has the Hero tag because I stopped the Magisters from killing an innocent family

Magisters killed the boy in front of his family and were going to execute the rest of them, I killed those Magisters. Magisters tortured and then killed an elf for the spore armor, I attacked and killed them. The scared dwarf woman who was one of the people who snitched on the Crossleys and regrets it, I didn’t hurt her since she told me how to get past the checkpoint

 The infamous Gwydian fight went a lot easier teleporting him away to a safe spot, and apparently its been re-optimized it so it wasn’t making my computer cry

No such thing as a free purge ability apparently, I used it on shriekers in Blackpits and a demon popped out

I appreciate how basically all my characters but Fane have movement abilities so I don’t have to teleport everyone all the time

7 Eternals turned into gods and maybe made mortals to harvest for source, isn’t a shocker. I kind of remember this plot point from the first playthrough that it was similar to the Elf “gods” in Dragon Age. Even the “nice” Amadia is an asshole if she flung every Eternal into the void as well. Seems less liberation of the people against a tyrant and more assholes overthrowing a tyrant “you could have saved yourself if only you had bowed”

Oh gods are the gems that we pick up off Voidwoken the spirits of Eternals? It mentions the gems are cloudy like there is something in there and some Voidwoken early on knew Fane’s name 

Fane has his moments of assholery where he’s mad that “of course they lied to you but they also lied to me”,  then follows it up with very moral based self reflection “if you open the gate and set a mad dog loose, are you not responsible if it savages a child”, but I guess both are a bit self absorbed

Damn if you tell him its all his fault I think that breaks him atleast a bit (I did this just to see what happens then reloaded). Telling him emphatically that it isn’t his fault is the only option where he says he can’t “sit here and mope” vs “sit here and wish for death”. 

Telling Fane that I would do anything if I had a wife and child in the clutches of the void. I hope this specific choice affects things later, it feels in character especially since I’m trying do the whole “believe in people” thing

Some real Darth Nihilus vibes about the whole source vampirism thing, hunger feeding on hunger, how long until that turns someone into a monster

I don’t remember fighting Harbinger of Doom on my last playthrough. What a fun fight using sneaking to set up the area full of necrofire. Made finding Almira later rather anticlimactic

I killed Reimond (living on the edge and mass corpse explosion ftw) and rescued Nikor and the other Black Ring people to see what happens later. 

Even if Ryker didn’t enslave souls into his masked servants, feeding people to a giant spider would be enough for me to kill him. I snooped around his room and learned he was a Lone Wolf which was an interesting detail, and he wanted the scythe because he was sworn into the Covenant. The only reason he didn’t look like an undead was he fed off the spirits in the graveyard. Super interesting villain, lots of small details in his house and mannerisms

I’ve been eating the source of asshole spirit magisters, but I left Ryker alone. Lets see if anything happens. 

Interesting how atleast 3 Sourcers: Mordus, Almira, and Ryker are all sworn to the God King

LMAO made a pass at Qanna and it was persuasion impossible with her reply “oh honey you really think you’re irresistible” 

Whelp fulfilling the ghosts last wishes by fighting the Lone Wolves makes Roost by default hostile, and means Sebille doesn’t get any dialogue, but that’s the easiest way to get the achievement. 

With the other lone wolves dead I went to go take care of the one impersonating the Baron. The ghost was nice “you who succor the souls of the dead” though I have eaten quite a few, like Roost’s spirit and the Sawmill Foreman

Oh hey, that Tir Cendelius put Sebille’s name on her arm came up later. 

I don’t think I want Sebille to be heart of the Mother Tree, but denying it there turns all the elves hostile

Saheila could have given me a source point but I already had enough

I don’t remember communing with the tree last time, it was possessed by the same Demon that possess Lohse

The Alison Addison fight was not hard at all on lvl 16 with 6 characters

I killed Grog then later Marg randomly attacked me, so I killed him too. Something something reduce the barriers preventing people from using public infrastructure

I think there’s a lot to unpack about how Lohse’s affection jumped 40 points after Jahan’s attempt to exorcize her, and if you say you want to be friends her comment “even if I can’t … well never mind”

Doing web of desires I was like: this is definitely a trap, goddamn it its spiders again

Reached Nameless Isle: Red Prince is at 66 attitude, Lohse and Ifan are in 70s, and Beast and Fane have 80

Got a chest in the middle of lava thanks to Tornado making it not lava, farsight letting me put the tornado skill far away, then teleport person to chest destination. What a fun skill puzzle

Felt pretty great to kill the Master aka the Shadow Prince, then eat his spirit after the Red Prince was done talking to him. He might be right the Mother Tree is a tyrant but that doesn’t justify his slavery

I looked up how to solve the imp pocket dimension because the slow mechanic was really annoying. It was a easy cheese with teleport

Saving Nikor paid off where he vouched for me with the Black Ring, I’m trying to explore as much of the island as i can before I wipe out both parties

I just realized I could use Sebille’s needle. Atleast the past dialogue played out fine

Aww Duna gave Beast his hat back

Awww the knight of Duma wants me to consume his source so he can’t be brought back. He really is devoted

I consumed the spirit of the Fanatic as he asked but I plan on trying to kill the Devourer, and I think he wouldn’t like that.

I brought Delorus to his fellow Magisters then helped Gareth kill them all. Like after all the evil shit the Magisters did I’m not siding with them. They blamed it on Dallis but there were shriekers outside the temple. Also there can only be one divine so I’m going to fight Alexander again sooner or later. Glad Ifan can get what little closure he can from talking to Alexander’s spirit. Of course I stood aside and let him consume it. 

Well apparently helping Gareth get his vengeance makes him disavow us. I’d rather have him on the crew so I did a persuasion check for getting him to abandon his quest for vengeance, spoke to Alexander alone to get more info, then let Ifan kill Alexander in a very satisfying dialogue scene. Interestingly Ifan gets his own dialogue option “tell Alexander he will never know what you intend” then you consume his source. Ifan hates this dude (understandable)

Sallow Man was a cool character, great to use all his mirrors afterwards to make Black Ring fight each other

Oh wow its Wendego from all the way back in act 1 in the Sallow Man’s cave, I’m not going to consume her source just to see if she shows up again

I didn’t teleport lava onto nearly enough people, only remembered to start doing it with Krug the Troll

I think last playthrough I was a lot more unsure about killing the Mother Tree, this time I’m totally doing it. I’m suspicious of Saheila’s rapid change of heart, so I figured the best option was accept the Mother Tree’s power and then kill it, there are worries about power corrupting but it might help when Sebille is Divine

I have no idea what was going on with Beast’s crew and the Isle of Mists, I’m just getting info about that now. 

It was pretty nice to choose the top non Persuasion marked dialogues and have companions agree with me, which is great because I can’t pass any of the persuasion checks without my companions sharing their bonus

I was going to romance Fane but romancing Ifan instead, I personally find him really charming and he’s the one I’ve gotten romance prompts for like bringing up what happened in the Undertavern and then he blushes.

They really spell out the Voidwoken are former Eternals for the players, and Fane has that moment of really being tempted to accept the Covenant. I’m curious if there are any paths that have him doing so if he’s a companion

I am now The One thanks to my party being good at combos in the Arena fights (I’m just realizing this is probably a reference to The Highlander)

I gave Almira the Swornbreaker, and by gave I mean I used the item glitch to drop it on the ground so it finished the quest but I still got to keep it

Found a book by Lucian that the gods feed off of mortals Source, I remember this being heavily implied by Aetera. I agree with Lucian’s desire to kill the gods but disagree with his methods

Love when a god suddenly turns into a giant robot/construct. That was a fun fight area

Kind of suprised all the companions are options for romantic choices, if you built affection with one person then swerved and sleep with someone else here wonder what happens. Also lmao the ship make this private nook for you to get nookie

I was warned against blindly agreeing to help Malady so I remained noncommittal this time. She really doesn’t like it when you choose ambivalent dialogue options towards her which I’ve done most times

Even though I told Lohse at “just friends” at a few points she REALLY has unrequited feelings for me. Also weird Fane has 0 commentary unlike all the other companions

Yeah between the glazed look in Mihaly’s eye and his line “I’m eternally grateful to be at her side” hes totally enthralled :|

The Loric fight was awfully hard until I spent about 30 minutes clearing up the deathfog and killing the adds without triggering him into combat

Holy shit wtf happened outside of Arx that there is deathfog everywhere in the valley

Glad I installed an item leveling mod, its been nice not being annoyed at getting a bad roll, and the ingame prices for the Sourcerous Sundries prices are expensive enough that its clear the devs wanted people to not keep the same gear from act 1

I found the possessed child and convinced the Demon to take Sebille as a host, the fight afterwards went much better on reload and with proper positioning. I just really enjoy having 6 characters to do fun combos with than the optimal meta

Managed to save one of the Paladins on the bridge into Arx, but more like one of them didn’t have the AI make the worst choices

If I hadn’t sent the War Owl in Act 2 I wonder how different Arx would have been with the Magisters in charge, or if things would have changed that much

Oh wow Eithne the undead from Driftwood who committed suicide is here as a spirit in Arx in the super secret underground area. Fane has unique dialogue options to tell her not to listen to the God King but seeing as she’s so dismissive I think we’ll have to fight her in the future

Huh I killed Reimond in Driftwood but his spirit is in Arx. Ironically he’s being very chatty but the audio is bugged

Vredaman is Bracus Rex, I’m not surprised Bracus Rex is running around considering how much focus he got in Act 1 but I thought he might be tied to the God-King not the Cloaked Figure. But the note from the magister that he burned a dude alive with fire is a Bracus Rex thing to do. 

Tarquin has such an ego about being the greatest necromancer; atleast he realized Bracus Rex is awful and was working on countermeasures though he really played the cards too close to his chest. 

Who could have guess a spore based armor that spreads through exploding corpses would discard its host when no longer useful /s, RIP to Daeyena, there was a moment where she recognized Sebille as the prime scion before the armor killed her

Ok this Karon kid is super sus, he’s way too nice and cheerful for this setting, and thats before the spirits talk about how the child massacared them. Gareth mentions how he’s grateful the mistake did not ascend, so I need to fix this situation somehow because keeping him forever imprisoned seems untenable. 

Time to investigate Kemm, I haven’t been keeping him up to date on the investigation because I didn’t trust him and from what Paladin DeSelby is saying glad I trusted my instincts. Yes Magisters were doing horrible things, but I think he’s using this as a power grab

Excited to see Wendigo again glad leaving her alone on the Nameless Isle paid off, and I could dismantle the shielding thanks to having my collar dismantled by the blacksmith all the way back in Act 1. Oh shit that Kemm is sworn to the God King, his whole thing about the magisters is DARVO shit. I gave Wendigo the Swornbreaker as thanks for all the info and so that she can truely rest vs us just killing her again. Sebille has some dialouge afterwards about how she didn’t fail her master, her master failed her. 

I headed back to deal with Karon and it seems he escaped. Whoops

The bit with Adramahlihk’s realm is great environmental storytelling. Considering the ethics of destroying 3 souls to weaken the demon then right behind to door are thousands of souls, the horror of that moment

Lohse’s comment of “I don’t care about [the trapped souls]. I mean I do… but the only person I really care about is me”. It makes total sense how if you don’t interject Lohse will lean on you for support then tell Malady to extinguish all the candles. But if you speak up to say to leave, she will agree with that because she doesn’t want to become just like the demon. I believe in my party’s ability to kill Adrahmalik through cheese strats if I must, especially for Lohse’s morality

So the Doctor(Adramalikh) gave the Kemms both the fucked up talking plants and the bud plants that spit poison, but its all a trick because those plants attacked me thinking I was Lord Kemm

Kemm’s vault was a bit tricky in that I looked up the optimal way to do quests so I didn’t get locked out of anything. 

 Finally killed those demons that kept ambushing me, the charm effect from Lohse’s coat drastically changed the course of the fight when she charmed 3 of them

The cursed revanants that respawn if there is cursed fire are the literal worst fight of the game. So much area prep for a then very short fight

Getting trapped in the realm of Nightmares was sooo bullshit, once half my party went through the door the other half had multiple rounds of being taunted and provoked so they couldn’t do that and kept dying. Not sure what I would have done without being able to keep recrafting the idol of rebirth and giving it back to the characters in combat. 

So the Red Prince is the father of dragons, here’s hoping his Empire remains peaceful and not expansionist with a lot of slavery. Honestly Sebille obtaining Divinity feels like it would be a good power check on him

Oh wow Saheila is in Arx and is a warhawk for a racewar and from searching online she’ll say this regardless if you kill the mother tree; this feels like extremely inconsistent writing for her character between each act

I have so many skills on several characters that its bleeding over to the second row, kind of annoying because out of sight is out of mind

The Lord Keem fight was a lot better on reload since Arhu died instantly the first time. Surround Arhu with boxes so no one can get close or damage him, fill an area with Deathfog and then teleport all the other enemies into it

It was really satisfying to drain Kemm’s source, he really was such a rich asshole

Adrahmalik fight was pretty simple with the tip to kill Lohse every 2 turns so that he’ll spend his turns channeling the possession spell. The demons may be immune to Deathfog but theyre not immune to teleportation + mass corpse explosion

Lohse’s song was really touching and heartwarming to hear in game especially because its a good song but also the demon took music from her for so long

Malady really cares for Lohse much more than the other godwoken

The Dwarf Husband to be wants Ifan to kill his father in law, I think the bride’s health beeing poor is also sus. Funny you can interject to correct Ifan’s title, but love Ifan’s response “The man you seek is not who I am. Anymore. And I’ll not become him again for the likes of you”. Hits a lot of tropes I enjoy. 

I thought the exploding wedding cake was from the murderous groom but no its from the Demon Doctor. Wow he really was trying to kill every agent of the god king with maximum collateral damage

After the Isbeil fight Fane’s comment failing to see the issue of killing thousands of other reace to save thousands of his own race is 100% in character for pragmatism, except the plan wouldn’t have save dwarf lives and just empower the God King. Red Prince’s comments of how he might do the same with a pre-emptive attack is frightening considering he has dragons now. 

 I consumed Isbeil’s source, like yeah she did have the sob story of the Magisters deathfogging the elves but she’s clearly a threat if the god king can keep bringing her back. Also her sob story doesn’t justify the 564 prisoners she killed in monstrous experiments

I wanted to see what would happen if you do release the deathfog then reload, Beast and Ifan immediately turn on you but the rest of the companions will stick with you and not say much. Shame there wasn’t more budget for character interaction there

Beast actually leaves Justinia’s fate fully in your hands, not many other companion quests do that. While Justinia seemed to have gone along with the Deathfog plot pretty willingly and executed dissenting nobles, killing her would leave a power vacuum that Beast wouldn't step up and fill because as Justinia points out he wasn’t helping rule he was off being a pirate. (also feels good to have them sort of reconcile)

This game would be sooo much better with 0 spiders in the sewers and containers that have the spider legs. I had to pause playing and go walk around since it was bad for my phobia

I had Beast wear the Tyrants’ set all the way from getting it to most of Arx but the Devour’s set has better stats. I’ve kept Ifan with his shadow’s eye crossbow because I haven’t found any others to do piercing, its outclassed by other crossbows with base damage but that piercing is really good. 

Karon finally show up again, I’m not sure if he was demon possessed or just extremely obsessed with what he believed he was owed, but I talked him into finding peace and so his spirit moved on. Thats the last sidequest in Arx done

The puppet battle with the switch fucking sucks, source vamparism was supposed to work but they just kept spawning and crowd controlling my team. So on reload I just maxed stealth with Lohse and had her pull the levers out of combat. Having a pipe puzzle than this combat puzzle right before the boss kind of kills the momentum

Aww really cute romantic makeout moment with Ifan, where he says he can’t wait for Divinity to be over to live a human life

Not suprising the Eternals claim they could come back but it would kill all the other mortal races. Theres got to be a name for this trope, I can think of 2 other games that have a similar plot

Sir Lora and Quercus had moments of being cute but on the whole were really annoying, dying to traps a few times and getting stuck and damaged by AOE attacks

On the “Fane is my father” reveal I’m not sure if that’s Fane’s liefmotif or the Eternals one. I was kind of spoiled about Dallis being Fane’s daughter a while ago, I really want to know if there is unique dialogue for player character Fane, but lmao imagine getting here and Fane was left behind in Act 1

Annoyed I can’t call Lucien out for Deathfogging the elves. He can’t be trusted with power, Ifan says it best “Surrender my Source? [Lucien] should surrender his life”. Anyway started combat as Ifan put down a deathfog barrel, teleported it to back of room, got 2 more AP from killing the Gheist, and then teleported Lucien into it. Ez clap

The Anathema was really disappointing, breaks in 1 hit so I had to set up a multi step combo buffing Beast for it to be worth it

Damn, Lohse and Red Prince both said they wanted Divinity for themselves and turned on me. Lohse’s Attitude was 79, and Red Prince’s Attitude was 75 (not surprising because I didn’t chose the best dialogue choices with him trying to stay in character). The rest of the companions attitudes were low 80s and higher and I wonder if that made a difference. Also watching videos I wonder if I missed companions interjecting since it usually defaulted to my player character

I think Sebillie would be as shocked as me that at the last minute they change their mind after backing me before. So when pressed in a last minute decision she won’t say yes. My reasoning for Sebille not backing Lohse was her willingness to snuff out all the souls Adrahmalik had taken out of self interest. The Red Prince in the past said he’s fine not being Divine but when its in his grasp he changes his mind and wants the power for expansion. I don’t see Sebille EVER backing him. 

Oh Almira definitely enthralls you if you let her kiss you at the ending.

From Sebille ascending to Divine ending: I really like Gareth’s ending arc, you can say you’re friends and he’s dedicated to figuring himself out. Ifan’s dialogue is really sweet with the romance, he wants to return to the forest to help rebuild and doesn’t want to serve the Divine even though you’re different from the last one

That you can grab Fane’s arm like he did to you in Act 1 is great, I imagine Sebille was just WAITING to do that back. He has some really touching dialogue about learning to move on and appreciate the world and its wonder. His big regret is that if his people were brought back that they wouldn’t live in peace with everyone else

Canon ending as Sebille killing The Red Prince and Lohse, and living with the regret that they forced her hand as she ascends to Divinity. I thought that you could kill Dallis and Lucien and sacrifice your Source and Lucien wouldn’t get the credit because he would be dead, but he does get the credit and Ifan hates you for it. Which makes sense because the magisters committed atrocities and they continue to stay in power.

No perfect ending, either the world continues the fight against the God-King and Driftwood is wiped out vs Lucien becomes the Lord Emperor of all of Rivellon which has to go much worse than the ending cards mention and theres a growing threat from demons. In that ending it seems to go a bit better for some companions, but Sahelia only refrains from violence because Sebille took the power of the Mother Tree and Saheila’s mother is still alive. In neither ending did the red dragons get mentioned at all nor did it show up in the ending fight as was mentioned. Giving Source back to the world is probably the worst option right above God-King or Eternals return

In the ideal ending Lucien is dead, Dallis isn’t, we give up our Source, and all the companions would be alive. It feels railroaded that you can go through the effort of fighting Lucien, Dallis, and Braccus Rex then give up your source and it differs not at all from agreeing to give up your source from before the fight. 

#mac plays video games #im using main tags just because I organize my blog #but I don't expect anyone to read this #but using 5 non main tags #should keep it out of main tag results #dos2 #dos2 spoilers

[hermitreunited]

The void in S3 immediately reminded me of your fic! With all the personal heavens. Then I was hit with a mix of sadness and hilarity because in your fic it's implied the sibs care about Klaus heading over to the void to hang with dave via killing himself and of course in the show they barely blink an eye when he dies lmao.

Anon, awwww, the first part of this message had me like 🥺🥺🥺🥺 in a major way! Thank you for saying this so I feel less like a self-centered ass when I talk back to the netflix episode descriptions like, "Klaus's relationship with death proves more complicated than anyone knew" I'm sorry though what are you talking about because I knew!!?! I knew. A lot of people knew but I definitely knew. The color starts to come back the closer he is to people he cares about? Yeah my dude I KNEW THAT!! The dead just hang out in their own little heavens and eat yummy food and kick back and get into hobbies and check in on the living? I knew that! They don't refer to the place as heaven but rather say they are 'at peace?' Hello I knew that, that's why the doc title was 'Klave Peace fic' okay??

(is this just to prove I am bad at naming things, or is it mainly a pointless tease of the wips that y'all will probably never see? it's both.)

But okay about the second part of this ask - in the incredibly brief amount of time I've spent online since s3 dropped, I have seen some talk about how the Hargreeves are unfeeling monsters who don't care about the deaths happening around them. Stan getting kugeled, Luther and Harlan being killed, Klaus being left behind. And I just don't see it, I'm sorry!

Okay, so it's like, in the middle of the season Klaus dies and we don't get a full-blown family meltdown or much of a reaction at all. And although I would happily read (and maybe even write) all the fic about the family finding a dead Klaus and all the angsty emotions, I feel like on the actual show it would come across as cheap if they went all in on the mourning, only for him to come back seconds later.

The deaths at the end of the season have a similar feeling to me. Allison's entire viewpoint this season is that nothing matters, because they'll just move on and reset, and I think by the end the others have to adopt that view or they'd completely fall apart. Stan is gone, and so is the entire universe except for the hotel they are staying in, so they're just going to have to plow ahead and fix all of the everything and Stan's death will be undone along with the demise of the rest of the human race, OR well there's not really an 'or' there, it's just gotten to a point where things are so dark that the only win is a do-over.

I'm actually pretty into the show embracing that, because I feel like most of the media that heads in this direction commits to the bit a little too hard. Like, a movie trying to convince us that, 'the heroes really did lose this time because, look - see, half of the world's population is wiped out!' Like I've never seen a movie before and I'm not aware that a deus ex machina will be able to fix this because that's literally what those are for.

Once things get to a certain level of dire, you know they are going to have to hit that reset button, and whatever happens starts to not matter because of course it doesn't.

I appreciate from a storytelling perspective that they never even tried to pretend like that wasn't their end goal with this season, and from a character perspective it honestly makes a lot of sense to me. It's almost like a sunk cost fallacy, in a way? Things start getting bad, so bad that literally the only way to fix them is to reset the universe, so you've got to keep moving and don't let any loss slow you down, because you can fix those losses if you can just make it to the end. Don't validate this reality with your grief, just refuse to accept it. That's literally the first stage of grief, right? and most of us haven't had the real life experience of dimension-hopping. If anyone is going to think they can find a time loophole out of an apocalypse, yeah, it's the Hargreeves, because they've literally been there done that got the t-shirt cowboy hat. Twice.

So, anyway. That's not really related all that much to the question here but as per usual I decided to use an anon as a jumping off point for a different soapbox. I'm going to not feel too bad about it because I'm answering this kinda late anyway so probably whoever sent this has forgotten to even look for my response, sorrrryyyy about that and also thanks for talking to me about this show and my fic it's been a while since i've done that <3<3

#also in my fic the siblings do get a little bit cavalier about Klaus dying I'm pretty sure that's at least touched on #they are strongly against the on purpose aspect of it all but that's not present in the show so that's not really a fair comparison #tua s3 #tua s3 spoilers #long post #tua #asked and answered #i mean as much as I ever 'answer' these. i ramble is what i do #oh bonus reason for me to share that screenshot is to prove that i'm still working on the 1963 fic lol #yes it's s2 speculative yes i've seen through s3 what about it #i have over 18k that has not yet been published because i am trash

[themountainsays]

here's an idea for ur role swap au : what if Isa and Mira leave the Encanto together? Mira learns to let go of her need for the family's approval and they run away together to live their happily ever after far from everyone who knows they're sisters and who would judge them

Oh i thought about that option actually! But for some reason the idea of then leaving hurts so much 😭😭😭 i don't know if I should kill this one darling but I lowkey want them to stay. Like narratively it just doesn't feel right to let them leave? Because, when characters leave their current place of residence to seek out freedom, they're usually going somewhere else that they, at the very least, have some knowledge of. And I'm sure the characters learned about their region in school and whatnot but since we only ever see the E.ncanto and its surrounding forest in the story itself idk something feels lacking to me. Like it would be much more fulfilling if they had gotten a taste of the world out there at some point, came back home and Yearned and Longed for freedom for a long time and then finally the story satisfied this tension by allowing them to leave, right? And i cOuld do that, but I don't really like adding much worldbuilding outside of the E.ncanto in my E.ncanto fics. It strikes me as the worldbuilding equivalent of an OC. I don't really like OCs :/ it feels like a far too big diversion from canon, like I'm making stuff up, and I prefer to delve deeper into the existing canon and extrapolate depth from what we already have, rather than building anything entirely new. Does that make sense?

Soooo that leaves us with a few options.

Isabela leaves alone. The story ends in tragedy. We focus on Mirabel's pov as she lets her sister go and has to accept her departure. Most realistic ending, possibly.

They both stay. The family accepts to listen and tries to change for the better. Happy ending. My problem with this one is that it's too similar to canon, AND it almost seems too good to be true. It's a bit too idealistic. A little too perfect for the fucked up situation.

Isabela leaves, Mirabel has to accept her departure, but she comes back a few years later. Now this one is less of an ending and more of a complete re-structuring of the plot, in which the first half of the story is composed of everything we've discussed so far, and the second half is... something else. Maybe Isabela doesn't want to leave again. Maybe she regrets going out there. My biggest fear with this one is the eventual inevitability of facing the historical context, and it seems like a gross insult and lack of respect to comment on those topics in a fucking disney sister inc3st fanfic. Or any fanfic for that matter. The truth is that leaving is the worst thing Isabela can do atm considering the time and place, so realistically it's understandable that she'd come back seeking sanctuary, but dude I'm not touching the topic with a ten foot stick. These conversations belong to, idk history congresses and construcción de la ciudadanía clases. They have to be treated with respect. You won't catch me dead writing about it in fanfic. However this is also the alternative that tempts me the most, even if I find it intimidating to consider, since that means turning this into a quite different story with a different kind of conflict in the second act, which would requiere a different ending, one that doesn't raise the question of "will Isabela stay?", but rather "can Isabela, Mirabel and the rest of the family make it work this time around?" It seems like a perfect marriage of optiond 1 and 2 with a bittersweet melancholy that seems to fit the story much better. The key things I need to figure out is a) the intertextual relationship between acts 1 and 2, and b) how to circumvent the elephant in the room that is the historical context. I ssssssshhhould be able to come up with something, if I do some thinking. Much thinking. Quite a lot of thinking. Until then I'll be drawing angsty fanart uwu. Though I admit I'm not sure if i feel comfortable letting the first conflict (isabela leaving) share space with a new conflict (isabela coming back). Wouldn't that be too big a change?

#madrigalcest #isamira #shipcest #isamira role swap au

[percontaion-points]

TVD chapters 18 & 19

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Chapter 18

“I just spoke with my father at home,” Roma said. He angled his head so he didn’t have to watch Dimitri pump his sts and bare his teeth to the crowd. “He has stopped caring about the madness. He thinks it is something that can be waited out. He thinks that Alisa will simply wake up and snap out of it when she has grown tired of trying to tear out her throat.” 

That was a half truth. Lord Montagov no longer wished to investigate the madness, but it was not apathy. It was because Roma had hit a nerve and struck him right where it hurt most. This inaction was punishment. For calling his own father a coward, Lord Montagov would show him just how cowardly he could be, and let Alisa wilt away.

Hope you liked planning your wife’s funeral, because Alisa’s is going to be even worse. 

“Hold on,” Marshall said. “Why wait for Lourens to make a cure from square one when there is word on the street about someone already having made a vaccine? We can steal the vaccine, run our research—” 

“There is no way to know if the vaccine is real,” Benedikt cut in. “If you are speaking about the Larkspur, he sounds like an utter charlatan.” 

He does sound like a joke. But at the same time… might as well investigate it, too. It sure beats sitting around and twiddling your thumbs while more and more people die. 

He has a blade between his fingers, Roma realized dimly. Then, as if it was new information: Cheater. 

THE DUDE SHOWED UP TO FIGHT CLUB WITH A GODDAMNED HAND-GUN, AND YOU’RE SURPRISED HE HAS OTHER WEAPONS?!

“Roma, I truly cannot fathom what else there is to do,” Benedikt admitted. “I think the meeting made it clear that the White Flowers know nothing.”

THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE MEETING WAS TO AGREE TO SET ASIDE DIFFERENCES AND WORK TO FIND A CURE OR A WAY TO STOP THE LITERAL INSANITY. 

A minute later Roma resurfaced, the contents of his stomach emptied. “Okay,” he said bitterly. “I’ll ask Juliette alone for her help.”

Chapter 18 summary: Roma fumes as he leaves the hospital and makes his way to an underground fight club. There he runs into Ben and Marshall, and complains that his father refuses to do a goddamned thing. That he’d literally let his only daughter die simply to teach Roma a lesson. They talk briefly about that Larkspur character and his alleged “cure”.

In the fight ring, some Russian guy pulls a gun on his opponent, claiming that he’d seen the guy trading with the Scarlets. The guy says he’s not associated with either of them. Roma thinks that the man must have arrived in the city a day or two ago to be that fucking stupid. Roma tries to stop Demetri from shooting the American, but the man is killed anyway. Roma then faces off against the guy, and when Demetri plays dirty, Roma plays dirtier. 

Outside, his friend and cousin talk some more about going to the Scarlets for information. They’re certain that none of them know anything, but agree that it’s obvious Juliette is trying to find the answers, too. So Roma agrees to talk to her for help. 

Chapter 19

At the very least, her parents were taking the madness seriously now.

Well, that’s one set of adults who are. Too bad Roma’s dad feels like he has better things to be doing than getting to the bottom of why people keep dying. 

Juliette bolted upright. Someone was knocking rhythmically on the glass doors of her second-floor balcony. 

We are not fucking doing this.

“You ask me for help,” Juliette said quietly, “and yet—how much blood is on your hands, Roma? In the time I was gone, how many of my people asked you for help, for mercy, right before you shot them?” 

Roma’s eyes were wholly black under the moonlight. “I have nothing to say to that,” he answered. “The blood feud was the blood feud. This is something utterly new in itself. If we don’t help each other, we may both die out.”

This is a girl who would literally cut her own nose off to spite her face. I don’t know why Roma would think differently. 

Only then did she allow herself to emit a long exhale, pushing the moonlight out of her room and its changing faces out of her heart.

Chapter 19 summary: Juliette sits with her mother, although at least her parents are taking this seriously. Unlike Roma’s dad, they see the writing on the wall. This insanity doesn’t matter what race or gang that you are… it kills and kills. And the Cai’s know that if they do nothing, then both of their gangs will be made extinct. 

After Mrs. Cai leaves, Roma climbs his way up onto Juliette’s second story balcony. Because this is a shitty Romeo and Juliet remake, if you hadn’t caught onto that already. AND WE NEED OUR GODDAMNED BALCONY SCENE. 

Anyway, Roma begs for Juliette’s help, saying that this is for Alisa. Juliette softens a little bit, but refuses at first. They go back and forth but eventually she agrees to help. Not for Roma or the White Flowers, but for Alisa and all of the little girls like her. She tells him about the communist paper editor, and how Kathleen got her the guy’s home address earlier tonight. She warns that she and Roma cannot be seen together, because that would be bad for business. But they agree to set out at dawn to search the guy’s house. 

#These Violent Delights series #These Violent Delights (TVD 1) #chapter 18 #chapter 19 #shitty parents are shitty #Roma Montagov #Alisa Montagova #HEADDESKING #Juliette Cai #can we not #shitty people doing shitty things

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been watching markiplier, etc. as background noise, as stuff to watch when i’m not feeling good physically or mentally

and one vid i watched (“watched” as in it’s horror so i just listen to it lol)--at dead of night--has a lot of characters that are morally grey and stuff like that

and the premise is there’s this guy named jimmy (evil alter ego named hugo) who does all these horrible things but we later find out it’s bc he’s literally being possessed by the ghost of his abusive father (or the ghost of like a centuries long abuse cycle situation?)

and while the morally grey characters who were slandered and murdered by jimmy (hugo) in the past are still justified imo? bc they’re being injured and threatened by someone, they just don’t know it’s bc he’s possessed? some youtube comments were a bit funny to me (like genuinely kinda funny to read)

*game content mentions an accusation of sexual assault, murder, harm to animals, etc. and my post mentions sexual assault, medical malpractice, some outdated terms or ableist language BUT the last two paragraphs are generally free from that/highlight what’s interesting to me abt the youtube comments if u wanna skip the text

one dude (harvey) was really violent towards jimmy and threatened him with a gun (not with the intention to shoot, just to scare him out of the hotel) but that was after jimmy almost killed him by electrocution, shot a crossbow bolt through his leg, etc so like. yeah he was violent but after jimmy was violent towards him

i do not fault him for choosing violence or reacting that way. some people were weird abt him and were like “oh but he’s being violent too!” but like. yeah?? i would be if all this shit was happening plus other guest deaths due to jimmy??

but when it comes to dr. bose like. i get being wary of his character because drs can exert control over their patients. i get wanting to look more into jimmy’s accusation of sexual assault. but not only was the scrapbook of news articles mentioned about both accusations (that he was being beaten and that he was being assaulted), meaning both accusations seemed to be word-for-word what was in the newspapers,

when harvey confronted jimmy about making up that story about dr. bose beating him with a paddle to take the medicine AND THEN that he molested him, jimmy’s response was to laugh? so like. if we wanna be skeptical of harvey bc he already doesn’t like jimmy then ok but i dunno, jimmy’s response didn’t seem in line with the kind of response someone would have if they were telling the truth

BUT ALSO in regards to how drs work--

this is in a time period where force was regularly exerted on patients and he never did so in the way that we’d expect--and tbh force is still regularly exerted on patients? it never went away, it just changed in some aspects?

people still restrain patients, forcefully medicate them etc. so while i get being skeeved out by dr. bose chasing jimmy around with a syringe and (rightfully) being of the opinion that you can’t force meds on a patient (which i don’t think dr. bose did? he tried to enforce it in a strange way but might not’ve even administered it?)--

i feel like that’s when you’d be like. ok can some other character call the police. can dr. bose call other doctors in here for a second opinion LIKE my issue wouldn’t entirely be with his methods bc he never resorted to the kind of force we usually see for this time period?

like yeah i’d think chasing someone around a hotel w a syringe is bad, even if he didn’t go further w it, but ppl aren’t really mentioning that part so like? we’re not even neutral on this man for the right reason???

but i think for me, the funny comment was abt ppl going “um diazepam is a sedative, it’s not made for what dr. bose assumed was jimmy’s condition, it wasn’t the right drug, he must’ve been trying to sedate him to assault him--” and i’m like. babes.

tell me you’ve never gone to the doctor IN MODERN DAY NO LESS with symptoms and had them say smtn to the effect of huh that’s weird?? try this i guess?

like not only can drs not necessarily prescribe the correct thing all the time--

ex. a past dr who sort of listened to my issues, prescribed me a med, the med worked for some symptoms but gave me such an increase in anxiety that we had to stop--but we didn’t try anything else which was the weird part

yeah she wasn’t great in the first place BUT i wasn’t sure if i had adhd? and she was maybe treating me for depression or anxiety? and then the anxiety got worse and we just dropped it, rather than seeking out answers as to what actually was happening?? 

so like i got a med, don’t remember what we were trying to treat, it sort of worked in a way and didn’t in another, ??? like drs don’t necessarily get it right every time--

but sometimes u get prescribed stuff bc they don’t know what you need or because it might actually work for something not listed

yeah diazepam is listed as an anti-seizure med and/or an anxiety med but who knows if dr. bose thought an anxiety med would help--even if only we know as the viewers that jimmy actually has anxiety/depression and it’s ghost related/dr. bose doesn’t necessarily know or expect that. just bc it lists anti-seizure doesn’t mean he’s giving him a random med

i take clonazepam for anxiety--specifically severe agoraphobia at one point--and it’s listed as an anti-seizure med and an anxiety med. not only does it not specifically mention agoraphobia (although it solved that issue in a way my everyday anxiety med doesn’t, despite it also being an anxiety med), just bc it says it’s for seizures doesn’t mean that’s what i’m taking it for

plus like, only we know narratively that these issues are being caused by a haunting/possession. no med would be likely to work anyways but i can’t blame dr. bose for being like let’s try a sedative at the moment to see if that stops him from putting glass in ppls sandwiches and killing animals and harming other guests while we figure out the root of his issue and try and prescribe something else later

it feels like the difference between “let’s try this for the moment to see if it eases certain behaviors” (okay, open to changing meds, not a permanent decision) versus like “we gotta sedate this kid” (not okay, implies the patient is like. “lol fucked up,” not likely to be taken back and switched for something else)

PLUS, given the time period, even dr. bose with the best intentions is probably reliant on sedatives for patients. like i don’t want to imply that’s all they have without prior research but it’s like the long lists of why ppl were in asylums and it ranges from like. incorrectly diagnosed issues/outdated terms for actual problems to like. she acts inappropriately

and that still happens! my sister went to an outpatient place once and they

A. gave her meds without telling her the risks/side-effects (for example, if u miss a dose YOU CANNOT TAKE THE SAME DOSE THE NEXT DAY U HAVE TO START FROM THE LOWEST DOSE) + seemed to just? give her meds???

B. grouped literally anyone in there and did not give specialized care to anyone. it literally was like. here are people who are having very different issues that cannot benefit from this bc it’s just? not catering to anyone’s specific problems? you had someone who was forced to get an abortion, someone who had anger issues, someone like my sister who was having mental health issues due to ppl ignoring her physical health issues

like i’m not suprised that for the time period in the game, a doctor, even with the best intentions, would immediately prescribe a sedative. that doesn’t implicate dr. bose in anything else and while it’s definitely an issue with the time period, i don’t think we can blame him in particular for that + he does seem to genuinely try to help jimmy and i don’t think a lot of the

and like in no way are any of these yt comments ableist, it’s not that serious, but it is funny to me as someone who’s like yeah sometimes u trial meds, sometimes something could work although it’s not specifically for that thing, a lot of the time, without specialist intervention, u just test stuff out and hope it works or names what’s not being resolved, at worst ppl prescribe things too generally and medical services can be extremely abusive, which isn’t even necessarily showcased in the game--

like what do u mean ur surprised that got prescribed or that u assume it’s for SA reasons not like. The Med Of The Time/over-reliance on sedatives in general or bc medicine as a practice is like damn that’s weird, try this i guess

like what do u mean ur not aware this is how it is lol

#at dead of night #markiplier #my posts

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Name: Atem

Alias: Yami, Yugi, Pharaoh

Age: 23 | 3023

Birthday: July 26th

Height: 160cm | 5'3"

Weight: 54kg, 120lbs

Blood Type: A

Gender: Male

Romantic+Sexual Preference: Demi Homosexual

Relationships: Aknamkanon (father), Aknadin (paternal uncle), Seto (first cousin) - All Deceased, Yugi Mutou (Reincarnation)

Generally, About the Main Verse:

This Atem exists Post-DSOD, reborn into his own body.

The first pang of guilt came at the end of his last duel with Yugi. The boy that he had spent upwards of two years with from the moment he woke to the moment he slept. The boy he had shared a body with, shared a bond with. The mirror to his own soul - his reincarnation. He should have won. His deck had been built to yield to Yugi’s by design, but even then… If he had truly tried, he could have stayed.

The second was when he returned to save Yugi - and the rest of the world, consequently - from the threat of the Ring and the Plana. He’d said nothing. They’d had an entire conversation with just one look, but he should have said something. He took the puzzle so that nothing cataclysmic would happen again.

The third regret, the final strike of remorse through his unbeating heart, was when Seto Kaiba came to his palace on the other side. The man had practically killed himself to see Atem, to duel him. He tore apart the cosmos to get the King back. It was a stark reminder of what he had been missing in Domino.

And in the end, he was unable to resist the call of the mortal world.

After the executive departed, he decided to find his own way back.

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Atem now lives in Domino, re-acclimating to modern life. Despite having lived here for two years with Yugi, it’s a whole new ballgame now that he has his own body. His own autonomy. He can go places on his own time, dress the way he’d like to dress…

He’s still learning the value of money, and how public transit works, but things are… good. He’ll figure out the paperwork later.

#DIVINE PROVIDENCE ; ANUBIS SPEAKS #almost forgot to drop one of these lmao