#anyway the guy dies & the sword is lost LOL

[mechawolfie]

old gargoyles ocs i never did anything with

#smudgy.png #gargoyles #asghfsdg ok so it was an idea for a spinoff series #where a family of gargoyles basically magically bound themselves to a sword that would be #wielded by this guy they were friends with #basically as an agreement that they would protect eachother (plus the guy's village) #i dont remember the full story but it was an agreement made out of desperation #both the gargoyles & the village were under threat by some great force #anyway one aspect of the magical binding is that #if whoever is wielding the sword dies/the sword gets lost the gargoyles will turn to stone #until the sword is found/gets a new owner #the gargoyles are not aware of this part of the spell #anyway the guy dies & the sword is lost LOL #BUT centuries later in the modern world a girl finds it #& the gargoyles wake up #& she agrees to look after them until they find out wtf is happening #ALSO it turns out whatever great force was threatening them before #had somehow bound itself to the sword too #bc it REALLY wants that sword #so whatever that force is (i never decided who the villain would be lmao) #also fell into a deep slumber #& is ALSO awake now #anyway thats all i can remember LOL

[coolchulainn]

Hey, so in your recent DRK art tags you mentioned German Sidguru being extremely different from the English, and I'm Intrigued, can you spare any details?

HI IF YOU'RE FINDING THIS OLD POST IN THE TAGS OR SOMETHING GO CHECK OUT THIS SITE https://germanffxiv.neocities.org/

the thing is actually that german sidurgu isn't all that different from the english one, the german one is just (in my opinion) a way better execution of the same concept. fray and myste are completely different characters between languages so their english versions have their own appeal going for them but sidurgu is just The Better Sidurgu in german lol

the biggest point for me is that sidurgu is primarily driven by his trauma over having to watch his family be murdered as a child yeah? from which the german writers concluded that hey, I don't think this guy would be an asshole to myste actually (which is a name customarily given to orphans in the brume). he's still clearly not good with kids and struggling to keep his patience with myste, but he makes the effort to not be cruel to a child, because he's very aware of how much you can fuck up a child forever. it's just a so much more compassionate and nuanced take. his interactions with myste are more entertaining for it too, because instead of a gruff guy being mean to a child you have a gruff guy trying really really hard to not be mean to a child and then two quests later trying to pretend he's still sternly keeping an eye on this child and definitely doesn't have signed adoption papers in his back pocket.

another thing with sidurgu is that he claims to be fighting to protect rielle, but he's really just using her situation as an excuse to act on his violent hatred of the temple knights and lash out in response to his own issues, and doesn't actually listen to what rielle wants or needs. in german it's emphasised much more that he attached himself to rielle because she's effectively orphaned too and he recognised himself in that but it's precisely because her situation hits so close to home for him that he's getting caught up in his own desire to avenge what he lost and fails to see what he still has.

after rielle and the moogles rip into him for this he actually admits using the capital T trauma word that yeah, he's been so caught up in his own trauma that he failed to do right by her, because the german script isn't embarrassed to have the tall broody dark knight say he's traumatised and begin to heal from it. the real kicker on this part for me is that after this convo in english sidurgu is like, let's go back to ishgard, and in german he additionally says they can talk things over on the way back (because he does care for rielle and does want to do right by her and he's going to make active effort to listen to her), like it's such a small thing that makes such a big difference.

in english when it turns out the person hunting down rielle is her own mother, sidurgu gets mad at her for keeping this a secret when he and fray bled and died for her. in german he rages at her mother, because he's been so fucked up from having to grow up without his parents after they were violently taken from him that he can't even begin to comprehend a parent willingly withholding love from their child. when he initially spares rielle's mother he explicitly says it's because no child should have to watch their parents die, and rielle tells him to kill her anyway by saying it's her turn to get vengeance. it's the same general plotline but it feels much more internally consistent in german.

in the english 70 quest fray and sidurgu barely acknowledge each other. in german sidurgu calls fray by name, and fray says somewhat apologetically that they're just a painful memory from a corner of the wol's heart. sidurgu responds to this by throwing his sword at fray and saying "here, this way you can't complain the issue was a blunt weapon again", clearly referencing a memory he shared with fray because the memory of fray is just as important to him as the "real" thing was. when you ask sidurgu about fray after completing all the quests he wonders why you'd bring up fray of all people now, but then adds "fine, I do like remembering him". it's much more tangible that the two of them meant a lot to each other within the very few snapshots you get of their relationship.

overall when put next to each other it just feels to me like the english script was scared of ruining the image of dark knight being so cool stomping around in your spiky armor with your bigass sword, while the german script says with its whole chest that dark knight is about traumatised people banding together to hopefully spare others some of the same pain. both scripts tell you that being a dark knight is about love, but english feels embarrassed to say it while the german quest is permeated with it at every point, in so many ways that if i wanted to list them all it'd be more efficient to just translate the whole thing directly. in being so focused on sidurgu's image of edgy brooding knight the english script ends up being way less compassionate to him.

ironically german sidurgu as a character more purposely cultivates his brooding edgy image as an extension of how much it means to him to be a dark knight, which leaves him open to other characters poking fun at him for it to humanize him and he's way funnier in german because of that. english rielle calls him a chocobo's arse and german rielle jokes that his short temper seems to be an occupational disease among dark knights. he feels more like a complete person rather than a character archetype because they actually let him have a full range of emotions. in english he loudly complains about having to help myste because idk its uncool for dark knights to actually help people or whatever. in german he says helping myste is all well and good but he's not exactly a good therapist so he really hopes some of the people they'll be trying to help have problems that can be solved with violence (and is openly excited when you encounter that girl who poisoned you at falcons nest and he realizes helping her will involve beating the shit out of her prison guard).

i'll be real i think the german team are just straight up better writers than the english team. I've been replaying the msq in german and it's a consistent pattern that the german script has more elegance, is more thematically consistent, and above all isn't afraid to let characters be motivated by emotion. i'm getting off track but you know how in castrum meridianum livia says she's going to kill you because gaius is hers and you can't have him? in german she's mad at you for killing her friend rihtahtyn (yknow, from cape westwind) and she's going to kill you and avenge him before you can take gaius from her too, which just makes way more sense as a character motivation without compromising her possessiveness. in english cid left the empire over moral disagreements in german he's additionally motivated by the complicated resentment he feels over losing his father to project meteor (which in english doesn't come up until three expansions later in bozja) and having gaius fill that paternal role for a while only to lose him to a mad search for power too. it just really doesn't compare. highly recommend anyone who can to start playing the game in a language other than english.

#pigeonwitchery #ffxiv #sidurgu

[reijixia13]

Who Made Me A Princess x Reader Scenerio

“First Meeting” p1

Characters include Ijiekiel Alpheus, Claude De Alger Obelia, And Lucas.

Extra characters: Athanasia, Lily, Felix, Maids, Random parents.

Next part will include other boys hihi

Ijiekiel Alpheus

Let's just say you know Athanasia from the past, You both work together at anything and everywhere just to pay up taxes. Unlike her, You Still had the chance to grow up with a Guardian but as you reach adulthood, they died from a sickness.

As time past by, You were growing weak and had to check it out on the doctor, Finding out something's tryna kill you (ok this is trash, i absolutely don't know any sickness that can kill you).

So to summarize, Yes it did kill you.

Now for some random reason, You wake up to a new world with Athanasia by yourside.

You both are looking at one another like (๑ŐдŐ)b d(ŐдŐ๑) <-------

“WHAT HAPPEND TO YOU?!” by telepathy

Yours and Athanasia's nanny Lilian York has explain everything about this one shit history book

Now that we summarize that, Lets get how you knew a white puppy

Now Don't get me wrong- You and Athy we're 7 at the time, Extremely new to the Palace environment of the person Athanasia said that's gonna kill her in her 18 year old teenage life

Athanasia didn't agree to have a Playmate when Duke Alpheus asked if the two of you we're lonely but she was reasing she has Claude a killing Tryant, Felix her favorite and ofcourse You♡

But you, Damn you are hellaa ✨diffrent✨

I mean for 7 years Athy was trying to explain to you how to survive but you- You love ✨trouble✨ so Despite Claude disagreeing and Athy chocking on cakes after you announced you wanna play with Duke Alpheus Son and Niece, Being a Daddy's girl such like claude can get you a way better playmate than a barking dog

Anyways

You met a walking puppy at the Alpheus manor while being lost- You we're so close to telling this to Claude, cause who the hell leaves you? Absolutely no one should. Your ✨Important✨

When you met the puppy, You called out “Puppy!” with actual beams around you, a halo even

He was quite confused so he came to aid you, Only to be shock on how you acted

“Puppy, Paw” with a hand for a shake, He can only embarrassly obey before he heard his father.

“Ha, Your Highness you shouldn't run off-”

“Please stop barking, Im talking to a puppy so shoo”

Yeah you slay💅

Lucas

This is my second attempt, the other one wasn't saved and it was gone lol im crying-

Anyways

Im gonna summarize everything cause im lazy now

Your Anathancius Daughter from his made, Your mother is the Daughter of the Marquise, Anathancius was killed without him knowing your existance, Your mother begging Claude to take care of you in the future and not to kill you, Claude fell inlove when you were birthed and when your mother died he took you in as his own.

You were 2 at the time when a love between Dianna and Claude occured

You guys look like family ngl so im jealous

When things gone hill, after Athy was born you had to beg Claude not to kill Athy with Lily

At some point he was gonna point a sword at you but you had something in you so you took a larger sword

Yeah ngl you were ready to fight him so Felix has to stop you

Time skip you were 7 when you met a 5 year old Athy and became actual besties💅

So when she went into coma, You were the one who keep everything in place from the place to her manas

Then this guy showed up saying his a powerful wizard and saying he knows how to cure Athy

He was almost killed by Claude because he disturb your tea time together to have peace from worrying

He told claude something and Claude went to kill out Athy's pet which you know she'll be upset if she heard it died lol

When Athy woke up, She keep ranting to you about this random dud and you can't help but agree

The next day Lucas showed up and was declared to be their playmate

Ofcourse Athy has to irritate him saying Ijiekiel is better than him making him send her right where Athy wants to be (Athy didn't want to)

You smacked his head

“OW WHAT WAS THAT FOR?!”

“FOR BEING AN IDIOT, HOW COULD YOU SENT ATHY THERE- YOU KNOW WHAT IM OUT TO HAVE A MEETING WITH ALPHEUS ANYWAYS BYE”

It was love at ✨first smack✨ from ✨stupidity✨

Claude De Alger Obelia

Ngl his hot af

Anyways

Let's just say you were falling off the sky because i wanna isekai you

He was having one peaceful afternoon in his gold palace while you were in the sky praying for life

He just happend to see a shadow at the ground so alert, He look up before down, I feel like he saw something- But still he tried to catch you which he did

You had a stare with him

‘OMFG A GOD JSJDKEJJEORHDJWI IS THIS HEAVEN OR HELL? CAUSE IM SURE ILL BE SLIDING FROM UP TO DOWN’

His just looking at you and your weird clothes

You are containing yourself from having a nosebleed

In the end you just did

For some unknown reason Claude is a gentleman for you hihi

He asked the maids to prepare a room, Ask a physician to heal you

And that's all for now lol

Hope u guys like it, i know its short I have longer thoughts but lazy to even write it. And beside on Lucas part it was supposed to be longer and funnier but i keep forgetting this aint wattpad this is some new app im new on and i almost cry for lucas part ngl next part for other character btw

#manhwa x reader #manhwa #x reader #who made me a princess #wmmap claude #wmmap athanasia #wmmap lucas #wmmap ijekiel #wmmap #reijixia13 #scenario

[roseworth]

Do you have recs for lorena, 🙏?

YES. it is incredibly easy to give lorena recs bc shes in like 3 things 👍

if you read aquaman (2003) #16-39 and aquaman: sword of atlantis #51-57 you've basically read everything shes in that matters. but ill even give specific recs from there <3

aquaman #15 (if u want some context for what's happening lol but shes not in this one)

am #16-20 (kind of her origin story <3 this arc includes basically the only scraps of backstory for her we ever get, then a lot of her feelings about. u know. her whole city being plunged underwater)

am #21-22 (honestly relatively little lorena content but these issues completely shape what i think of lorena's relationship with other sub diego residents)

am #25 (babygirl <3 i just like this issue, i think it has some good exploration of sub diego as a whole and how the people feel about it)

am #26-27 (honestly not THAT much of an important arc but. explains how she became officially aquagirl dfhjkadshfkf)

am #28-29 (my girl <333333 shes a superhero AND a hater AND she hates cops. she could not be more perfect)

am #30-31 (probably my favorite arc for her <3 shes a hero <333)

am #38-39 (everyone around her dies.... again!!!!)

sword of atlantis #51 (oughhhh okay so a little context (i might get some details wrong but bear with me) this is the first time she shows up since the end of aquaman, and basically aquaman like. lost all his memories or something and thought someone that looked exactly like him named arthur was actually him... then real arthur died and now lookalike arthur is aquaman. anyways lorena is mourning)

soa #52 (GOD. im obsessed with her story about sub diego in this one. i think about it all the time. i miss sub diego)

soa #56 (shes just adorable in this one im obsessed with her)

soa #57 (babygirl..... she is so sad at the end of this one. but also i need to rec this one bc her getting thrown out a window is one of my favorite panels of her fhdksjfhs)

shes also in teen titans 2003 but warning that this book misunderstands her entire personality and everything about her. this is not lorena but she also has some stuff to do so might as well rec some issues. DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES READ THESE BEFORE READING THE ABOVE ISSUES !!!!!!

tt #69 (she has some fun moments here. and some where that is not her at all. but she also beats a guy up here <3)

tt #73-74 (i like that she takes charge at the beginning of this one fhaskdfjhs and she has some rly nice moments ! IGNORE EVERY INTERACTION SHE HAS WITH JAIME)

tt #83-86 (just so we're clear. i hate this one. so much. almost everything about lorena in this arc misunderstands her backstory and her relationship with the ocean and the surface, not to mention she starts flirting with conner because ??? they wanted cassie to be mad about it i guess. HOWEVER she does have some good moments so ill rec it anyway)

okay thats it. i would honestly recommend reading all of aquaman #16-39 just bc she shows up periodically and i think the book is pretty good, and its kinda nice bc when theres an arc i dont like its usually over pretty quick lmao. and i didnt read any of sword of atlantis besides where lorena shows up but all the ones shes in (#51-57) are pretty good.

#im not even an aquaman fan ive never read a single aquaman book that lorena isnt in #but god. the ones shes in slay #i miss her #lorena marquez #dc #reading list #i wish i could tell every single person thats ever read tt03 that thats not lorena at all #they gave her powers she doesnt have and made her flirt with all the guys ?? and just overall gave her an entirely different personality #it makes me so upset #i cant even enjoy her homosexual moments because its with a character i hate :/

[chaos0pikachu]

I don't really watch/consume much BL but do you have any unpopular word of honor opinions 👀

Idk what the popular opinions of WoH fandom is actually other than like, Ah Xu and Lao Wen are in love lol

I guess if I had an unpopular opinion it'd be that the show is actually kinda bad? Lol like, the narrative is all over the place, convoluted, and difficult to follow. Ngl everything about the glazed donut shit was boring as fuck to me.

Like Zhao Jing's secret murder plot was predictable, but also he was so irredeemably hilarious bad and pathetic he didn't make a compelling villain at all. And he's kept so far away from WKX for most of the show that when their plots finally converged it felt anti-climatic tbh and also like, daaaaaamn this mofo been busy for decades huh? His day planner's been PACKED I wish the show made him more thoughtfully evil? If they were gonna go full evil lean into it make him a Bond villain, camp it up the show was already campy as fuck anyway. Instead he's pathetic which made him less intimidating and not in his on purpose moments of being pathetic I liked those, but in general he was so obviously swamy it's like, okay sword society over here is just fucking stupid so fall and then he was working with ghost valley but that was also super convoluted and meh

I don't think it's unpopular that Gu Xiang shouldn't have died, or that whole episode, but I didn't like HOW it happened. I actually wouldn't have minded if all those characters died if it didn't feel so out of nowhere and then almost immediately dropped after? Like all these characters we spent a lot of time with are dead (fuck that one guy LQQ was with he was annoying as shit couldn't stand his ass was happy he died why was he even there) now and it happens and then we're moving back into the glazed armor plot and like what? what????? WKX just lost his little sister and we're just gonna keep on trucking along I guess??? I would like a moment show.

Almost all the men on the show suck and are either boring or annoying. No one in the main cast, and I liked YBY and our dear Scorpion King the up-in-coming Regina George of assassins but all the other men? Boring. Basic. Don't Care. Why are you here? Waste of my time.

Personally I think the narrative of the show outside of the love story of ZZS and WKX and their found family plus SK with his gaggle of wlw crew are the only good parts of the show that work outside of the boss costumes, wigs, and makeup. What saves the show is really the characters cause the the plot?

#chaos pikachu speaks #i say all this with love #i lovingly think the story is A Mess #i haven't finished the novel tbf #I only got to like chapter 40ish of the OG translation?

[hulijingemperor2]

Zixuan: *still on bedrest*

Yao: you did well, Zishie.

Zixuan: thanks Foxy.

Yanli: *holding the twins* A-Yao, hold them nah.

Yao: sure.

Rusong: aww they're so cute!

Yao: really precious.

Ruxuan, Ruming! I'm your uncle Foxy.

Yanli: and Xuan is mama bird.

Zixuan: *pouts* A-li.

Zixuan: I hope our children gets close to their uncle Foxy. Because they'll be around him a lot.

Yanli: they certainly will. And A-Yao would pamper them with gifts!

He already had A-ling pretty spoilt.

Jinling: I'm not spoilt by Xiao shushu. He just buys me things.

Yao: yea.

I must buy things for A-ling. And A-Song too!!

Yanli: I see.

Ruhua grabs Jinling's hair stick and threw it on the floor.

Jinling: Huahua! My crystal hair stick!

Rusong: how did it snap in two?

Jinling: it was a fragile type of crystal. Xiao shushuuuuuuu.

Yao: A-ling, A-ling. Don't worry. I'll buy you a set.

For you and A-song.

Jinling: *smile* thank you Xiao shuhsu!!

Zixuan: he loves to spoil A-ling and A-song.

As he should.

Mo xuanyu: Xuan gege, do you know how to change diapers?

Zixuan: c..change what?

Yanli: diapers, Zixuan.

Zixuan: ohhhhh. No A-Yu. I haven't changed one in my life.

The maids used to do it.

Xue yang: what a diva.

Yanli: so who's going to change the diapers, Zish?

Zixuan: and Huaisang is there.

He'll change their diapers.

When they're older, he'll be their babysitter but he has to undergo severe training.

Mo xuanyu: lol I agree. Where is he anyways?

Zixuan: gave him a vacation.

Because I want my twins to see beautiful things when they're born.

My babies are allergic to negative vibes.

Jiang cheng: *enters* I'm here! Sorry I'm late!

Yao: it took you long enough!!

Zixuan: *crying* Jiang cheng! Where were you!

Meng Shi: Jiang gui fei. What kind of conduct is this.

I'm very disappointed in you! You weren't aren't when my innocent little step son was giving birth.

You're married to two emperors. Act the part.

Jiang cheng: Tai hou and my emperor husbands. This wei wuxian was in lotus pier, and he used my sword~~

Zixuan: not in front the children!!!

Yao: oh my goodness!! How putrid!

Xue yang: wasn't bichen enough?

Su she: you have some freaky family members.

Mo xuanyu: *blocks Jinling and Rusong's ears*

Jiang cheng: that's not what I meant, guys!

He used my sword to cut lotus pods. Then the idiot dropped it in the muddy pond, so we had to fish out Sandu.

Meng Shi: and your sword is a mode of transportation.

Jiang cheng: yes! Taihou.

Meng Shi: why didn't you run or hire a caravan?

Jiang cheng: *facepalms*

Mo xuanyu: Jiang cheng, how could you.

Zixuan: what if I died during childbirth and my children became orphans.

And then my empire lost a super handsome and almost divine emperor with flawless skin.

Yao: and A-li would have sadly become a widow.

Then she would ask me to adopt the children.

Zixuan: it would be hard for them to fit in because they're not hulijings. A-li might become A-Yao's concubine, but she'll become more rich, and depressed cuz she misses me.

Do you know how it's like to be rich, depressed and a hot mess! And on top of that stressed?

Jiang cheng, do you see the ripple effect!

Jiang cheng: stop being dramatic. And look. I'm here.

Zixuan: I haven't had a drop of water or a grain of food, while waiting for you.

Because if I ate I would have thrown up. But read between the lines.

I fasted for you, my husband.

Yao: our confidante!

Zixuan: *sobs* consort Cheng. *sniffles*

Jiang cheng: jiejie. How do you deal with him?

Yanli: *laughing* just fine*

Jiang cheng: uhh.....are you done?

Zixuan: you have broken my heart. I don't think I can forgive you.

Yao: I'm very disappointed in you.

Jiang cheng: Zixuan. I made soup. Do you still want some?

Or are you still feeling nauseous?

Zixuan: gimme that, Jiang. You're forgiven.

Yaoyao!

Yao: poor baby has been starving from his fast.

Zixuan: Jiang cheng, I'm weak. Can you feed me? *bats eyelashes*

Jiang cheng: sure.

How are you feeling now?

Zixuan: I'm still sore.

Jiang cheng: now what did you name them?

Zixuan: Ruxuan and Ruming.

Jiang cheng: sounds ok.

Zixuan: be a little enthusiastic, nah. They're royalty.

They came out from my~~ what's the word?

Xue yang: royal Zishussy.

Zixuan: yea.

Jiang cheng: noted.

Zixuan: A-Yao will let you hold them.

~~~

Next day..

Around midday, a group of beautiful young ladies, all holding fans in their hands,  came to meet their dowager empress Shi.

Greetings taihou.

Meng Shi: greetings darlings. Rise please.

Someone from in front of the crowd: I'm Xu.

And I'm Lu Wan.

We're all aristocratic fox spirits.

Meng Shi: ohh, pleasure to meet you. What brings you here?

We want to see Dianxia!

Also we would love to marry him.

Taihou, I'm good at calligraphy and painting.

And I'm good at poetry and playing the Qin.

Meng Shi: *giggles daintily* excellent.

I always dreamt of Songsong getting a girlfriend, and settling. But then my Songsong is the one who must make the decision right. Why don't you go meet him?

Ladies: *squealing*

*goes to rush outside*

Meng Shi: hey hey wait. You have to go through Huangdi first.

Yes Taihou.

Well we got to meet our inlaws right.

~~~

The group of beautifully dressed hulijing ladies confronted and bowed to A-Yao.

Greetings father-in-law Huangdi.

Yao: *astonished* father-in-law???

Oh gosh, you all saw Rusong, didn't you.

Miss Xu: yes Huangdi, and we're in love!

Dianxia is extremely handsome.

Huangdi are we perfect for future concubines?

Xu: I'll be Dianxia's empress.

Can we see Dianxia?

We miss seeing him.

Yao: hmm sure then. He's in the garden.

Awwwwww Dianxia loves nature?!

We love nature too!

Yao: mhm. He's taking a stroll. And maybe he's going to sit and play the guqin.

*squealing* omg!!! We love music too!

He's so talented!

Let's go look for him!

~

Meng Shi: Yao'er.

Yao: A-niang?

Meng Shi: did a group of ladies come to meet you?

Yao: more like they came to meet A-Song.

Meng Shi: *giggles*

Yao: did you send them?

Meng Shi: yea,. They wanted to meet our little Song'er so I let them. Wangzi needs a Wangfei.

Yao: you're right. But Song'er loves someone already.

She's A-Qing of Yi city.

Meng Shi: A-Qing? Beautiful. I would love to see her.

And why didn't this child tell me? Am I chopped liver?

Yao: *laughing* A-niang, maybe he's shy.

Meng Shi: oh my. This boy.

He's a handful, but a cute handful.

Yao: agreed.

Rusong: *walking through the garden while reading*

Xu and others: *confronting him* greetings Dianxia.

Rusong: *looking up from his book* oh hello. How may I help you?

Xu: Dianxia why are you so hot. 

Rusong: I...I was born like it.

Ladies: awwwwwwwwww!

Rusong: are you here to meet Nainai? May I escort you?

Xu: no no. We met her already. We came to meet you. *blush*

Heehee, how are you, Dianxia?

Rusong: I'm doing well.

Xu: you're really really cute.

And such a gentleman too!

Dianxia what are you going to do?

Rusong: well I was going to play the guqin.

Aww the guqin?!!!! We want to hear!! Play it for us na, Dianxia!!

Please! We would love to hear your music!

Rusong: sure.

Dianxia are you single?!

Rusong: well actually I have a girlfriend. But she's out if town.

Ladies: *disappointed*

Xu: is she even a beautiful hulijing?!

Rusong: no. But don't worry guys. You can still hang with me and listen to music.

*cheering* yayy!! Dianxia!!

We still love you!!

Xu: just saying, we can be better than your girlfriend.

We are hulijings after all.

Rusong: *laughing* I see.

Xu: at least she's taking good care of our Dianxia.

Rusong: *smile*

Ladies: *squealing* dimples!!!!!

Rusong: shall we?

Ahhh right behind you.

Rusong: would you like some flowers? Feel free to pick some from the garden.

You're so kind Wangzi.

Rusong: maybe if you like a certain flower, you can make a bouquet out of them.

Awww!

Anything to remember you by.

You're hella handsome.

Rusong: *laughs slightly* thanks.

I have asked my attendants to arrange tea and snacks.

Aww Dianxia, we were just here to listen to you play. You're too kind.

Rusong: well you're my guests after all.

Xu: so ideal just like Huangdi.

Rusong: us Mengs are known for our hospitality, and we hope that the empire does the same.

Xu: *melting* gosh, that's well said. But i love when your lips move.

Meanwhile, in one of the spring Pavillions~~

Yao: *having tea with Meng Shi and team dimple*

Meng shi: Yao'er, Yao'er, how is A-qing like?

Yao: very vibrant and energetic. Quite mischievous too.

Xue yang: she's a big simp too.

Meng Shi: oh. Lovely. Lol, a simp as well Chengmei?

Xue yang: yea. She popped out of me.

I gave birth to her.

Meng shi: *laughing* awww.

Yao: xue yang and Xiao xingchen are her guardians.

And they're all from Yi city.

Meng shi: ohhh I see. How sweet.

Mo xuanyu: we ship them a lot.

Su she: they make a good pair.

Meng Shi: that's good.

Xue yang: A-Qing is broke by the way, Miss Meng, so I don't know if that might be a problem.

Meng Shi: it's fine, Chengmei.

It's one's character that counts.

Yao: mhm.

Meng Shi: did you give her the thing?

Yao: of course I gave her the thing.

Mo xuanyu: *sips tea* what thing?

Meng shi: the hairpin Yao'er had commissioned for Rusong's soon to be bride.

Xue yang: I hope she didn't sell it by now.

Meng Shi: what?

Su she: it's a joke, taihou. Don't listen to xue yang.

Yao: she's good at heart, and she knows the significance of the accessories.

Meng Shi: oh good.

Yao: she has the same antics as Chengmei.

Meng shi: lol.

Anyways I need to talk to Mr. Dianxia later.

Yao: go for it, A-niang. He didn't tell you about his gf.

Meng Shi: exactly.

A-Yao, I think we should send her some gifts.

Yao: my same thought. And we can give some money to Xiao Daozhang as a sign of courtesy and good relations.

Meng Shi: yea.

Xue yang: what about meeee.

Yao: I'll give you candy, and maybe a new plot of land to practice your fierce corpse.

Xue yang: that's why I love you Jiggy.

Yao: *pats head* love you too, my little gremlin.

Later on, Rusong was walking down the hall, after playing the guqin for the fox spirits.

Rusong: why did Nainai send girls for me? That's so strange.

Oh right.......I didn't tell her about my girlfriend yet.

Rusong: I wonder if she found out? Guess I'll be hiding from Nainai for the while.

Meng shi: Songsong.

Rusong: *turns around* oh...hey Nainai.

Meng Shi: Meng Jin Rusong, the Hulijing Wangzi.

Rusong: (you know you're screwed when she or A-Die calls your whole name and title)

Meng shi: Dianxia *pinches cheeks* you didn't tell me about your gf.

Rusong: yea Nainai. I was going to tell you soon.

Meng Shi: baby Songsong, you're super cute. And I'm so happy for you.

A-Yao told me a lot about her.

Rusong: oh I see. The emperor of Hulijings and Kitsunes, Meng Yao Jin guangyao had let out my secret. *laughing*

Meng Shi: heehee yes. *kisses his dimple* secrets safe with me, Songsong.

Rusong: ok, Nainai. Today I'll spare Mr. Huangdi.

Meng Shi: but it's good that he told me. Because you wouldn't have told me.

Rusong: I would have, lol.

Meng Shi: *pouts*

Rusong: *hugs* Nainai. You believe your Songsong, right. Nainaiiiii.

Meng Shi: *pats head* I can't pretend to be upset with you, can I. You always put on that cute face.

Rusong: nah it's just that I'm naturally cute.

Meng Shi: oh really, Dianxia.

Now what did you do with the ladies?

Rusong: just got them some tea and snacks, then I played the guqin.

Meng Shi: lovely little Dianxia.

~~~

Later in the day......

Yao: Songsong.

Rusong: A-Die. Nainai was in her fox spirit matchmaker mood today.

Yao: *laughing*

Well you didn't tell her about your gf.

Rusong: right.

Xue yang: and you're a supermodel, so.

Mo xuanyu: who wouldn't fall in love with you, little Dianxia.

Su she: you have your A-Die's face after all.

Rusong: yea team d. And I can't help being cute.

Mo xuanyu: exactly.

#the huli jing emperor #foxyao #meng yao #dimpledlianfang #hulijing emperor 2 #jin guangyao #jin zixuan #part 2 #su she #the untamed

[szif]

collecting info on my dark souls first playthrough, here are the things: (spoilers for dark souls 1 obviously)

until undead parish, i used the standard knight set, and after that, i used the fang boar helm + baulder gauntlets and maybe something else? and along with that, i used the broadsword, and swapped to drake sword, that carried me almost until the end here.

after drake sword, nothing really changed, i played through the game areas before sen's fortress and then i found after running around the entire game, in darkroot garden, the stone knight set and used that to go into sen's fortress. (i thought darkroot garden was an endgame place cuz it had a bigass titanite demon lol)

after sen's fortress, i went to anor londo, i beat ornstein and smough (and almost fainted from it) and got the lordvessel. i went to rescue big hat logan (lol, i forgot about that) and went to the duke's archives. seath was not fun but he looked cool. went to the abyss and defeated four kings. was alright, nothing good nothing interesting. then i went to demon's ruins & lost izalith. not fun at all and didn't look cool. went to tomb of giants for gravelord nito, it was........ nothing? it was easy and nothing bothered me, the area was alright. for these bosses i used black knight sword (swapped my poor little drake sword..)

npcs i accidentally killed: the pyromancer guy laurentius or whatever and andre the blacksmith. i never upgraded any of my weapons (except the drake sword for a bit before ditching it anyways, and the black knight sword for +5 plus honorary mention my dragonslayer greatbow with the +1 upgrade lol.) plus i killed petrus for killing rhea at the end. everybody else is alive and well :)

bosses i killed first try fighting them: bell gargoyle, capra demon, stray demon, ornstein & smough, centipede demon, four kings, gaping dragon (i technically fell out of the map randomly but i dont think we should count that?), iron golem, crossbreed priscilla, gravelord nito, lord gwyn

bosses i died a few (3-5) times due to my own foolishness, such as being greedy with the hits or not knowing whats going on: asylum demon (i genuinely didnt know what the controls were okay) chaos witch queelag (really a few ok. the explosions suck), moonlight butterfly (i actually died 2 times mainly cuz i let it kill me because i liked the music and i wanted to admire the boss fight, and second after going back into it i got the info that i can have a phantom summon so obviously i needed to die and get the summon for the boss fight.), pinwheel (i died ONCE to i think a fireball or whatever. forgive me.) ceaseless discharge (i didnt know how i was supposed to fight that thing.), demon firesage (no excuse for this one, i was greedy with the hits and disoriented by the speed.), seath the scaleless (i STILL dont know how youre supposed to dodge the curse crystal attack that covers the ENTIRE area. thats the only thing that killed me like 3 times before i went back to the cursebite ring.)

bosses that gave me a GREAT time because they were super hard and i probably died over 10 times before taking them down: great grey wolf sif (she was such a formidable foe!), taurus demon (tried to fight it by running around its legs instead of fighting it from the distance like a normal person.) the bed of chaos (probably around 8 deaths, i had to look up a fucking video for this cuz i didnt know HOW the boss worked. i just went for a kill instantly without thinking about it lol)

& the hydras arent considered bosses so im putting it here: i died like 5 times to the regular hydra and ALL the deaths were caused by me falling into the nothingness after i cut off ALL the heads of the creature. so i deserve compensation for that. the black hydra took me 1 death, because i walked to the right side of ash lake and got decimated by a crab while i was desperately trying to finish off the black hydra. lol. but then i respawned and never walked away from the left side of the beach and i managed to kill it immediately so. cool.

bosses i reaaaaally reaaaaally like: hydra & black hydra (pls give me more bosses like this i love the hydras!!!!!!!!!) asylum demon & stray demon (not firesage demon though! random arena + looked lame too + nothing interesting while asylum + stray demon bounce back from each other due to being related bosses that work within the theme) bell gargoyle (my fav boss fight earlygame!!!) great grey wolf sif (she was so cool and i spent like, 25-30 minutes fighting her after finally figuring out that i should simply stop getting stunned into death because of my greed for hits. it was super dramatic and i won't forget that. ever.) moonlight butterfly (wasnt that big of a fight, however the setting and the boss itself and the music that accompanied it was so unique and stunning that its super memorable to me. i dubbed this boss "the touhou creature".)

oh and also i lit the fire. because my entire philosophy while playing dark souls has been that everybody has been trying to reach this place and do what i have the option to do so, and all the NPCs ive befriended all wanted to live and kept going or simply could not go on and lost themselves. and its like, thats pretty fucking horrible and in order to put an end to it i need to give them the hope of the fire back, right? and i need to act upon the wishes of others, because i only managed to come this far and even get out of the prison i've been sentenced to rot in forever BECAUSE of THIS hope the others had (the knight who rescued me, for example.) - so with the same hopes that they gave me, i give it back to them!

dark souls 1 has been a super fun game and i had a lot of fun while playing it!! and the drake sword MIGHT have been influencing my words here but the game has been so fucking easy. gwyn, from what ive seen people said is easy, and he was. all the lords were easy. most bosses were easy. and im pretty sad that i died once or twice to certain ones because i certainly shouldnt have and i dont know why it even happened. but deaths are meaningless in videogames and who cares about losing souls or whatever right? so this has been a lot of fun for me and it was a great experience! and this has been the first game i played after not playing videogames (...besides farm frenzy 2, the second best game ever created.) for such a long time. maybe a year or something? so yeah, this has been GREAT and absolutely amazing for going back into the """""gaming mindset"""".

oh also i may totally be wrong at certain like. info and stuff but im so tired omg i just beat the game like a few minutes ago plssss forgive me. onto some other game now!.... after resting out what this one did to me.

#livepost #omg its such a long fucking post. soryyyyyyyyyyyy.

[yuyubake]

Hi!!

For the OC thing, do you have a current project in the works? Do you have a favorite OC from that project?

took a little while to answer this one because i had to dig up old art to see if it was finished and it wasn't LMAO

but yeah the thing on my mind atm is an old tabletop campaign i planned out and scrapped years ago but recently revived for a couple friends and one of the npcs is this guy!

more info under cut because i know ONE of my players follows me here and there are spoilers

so it's kind of dnd adjacent, in which there are dnd like races and stuff? so this npc is a merchant/tutorial area npc that's supposed to help the main characters out in the beginning areas, but because he's the traveling merchant type they'll also meet him throughout the journey.

he's, to put it simply, from a lost civilization that lives deep underground, but was sent up to the surface on a mission (the civilization is planning an invasion? although that motivation may change later if i get a better brain worm lol) and got stranded. he's not a teifling, but he pretends to be one and took on the name leisure in order to try to blend in since his race doesn't exist on the surface in any capacity.

back in his home, he serves directly under the royal family as a sort of servant. he is trying to return to his post both because he is very close to the prince and he wants to get home before he dies (short life span lol), but he can't do that without the pc's help because all of the gates and ruins aren't built in a way that he's able to open on his own.

his intended story arc is more or less to become friends with the pcs, and then to betray them once he returns to his prince's side. he'll be torn by it because he has connected to both the pcs and other npcs on the surface, but in the end the prince also does have some level of magical control over leisure and can make him betray them even if leisure himself does not want to.

anyway the last little self indulgent tidbit about him is that his sword doubles as a chainsaw, but like standard dnd pcs and npcs in this world do not know that chainsaws are a thing that exists, so hopefully that'll be a fun little surprise for my players LOL

#@vol you bitch you better not read this lol #haku says shit #thanks for asking :)

[atopearth]

Kissed by the Baddest Bidder Part 5 - Mamoru Kishi Route (up to Proposal Epilogue)

Time for the last original main guy on the Switch, Kishi Mamoru! Honestly, I thought Kishi was the oldest one but he's actually younger than Baba loll! Maybe it's because Kishi always seems like he's tired of life so he seems like he's 40 lmao. LMAO, I love how Kishi was so ready to just let the heroine leave because he's too lazy to take care of her, but Baba and Ota knew him too well so they stayed outside his room to catch him and force him to keep her in his room🤣🤣 OMG, I can't believe they really gave the heroine "back" to the people who sold her in the auction to keep their relationship with them amicable. I mean, Ota was weird more than disrespectful, but Kishi is everything negative loll, legit does not care about people, does whatever he wants or thinks is convenient, treats the heroine like crap and says demeaning stuff to her all the time. Ohh he used her as bait to find out where this creepy religious hideout was, dangg, he actually works properly🥲🥲🥲 At least that means he doesn't intend to leave the heroine here forever, otherwise he really would have been a jerk. Loll at Kishi pretending to be the heroine's boyfriend, him displaying his love to the heroine in front of the AID cult people was hilarious. At least he bothered patting her head and soothing her to sleep, the poor heroine has really had a very tough few days lol. Ooh, so I guess the reason why Kishi doesn't care about anything is because he only cares about getting revenge for his cop partner Minami who died in an "accident" when they were investigating AID and the leader Aida I guess, and he joined the auctions because he thinks people are selling information on police etc there.

Knew Aida was disgusting but omggg yuckk. Anyway, Kishi saving the heroine was expected, but lol it was so funny when the heroine was going to thank him but then realised that she only got into this mess because Kishi dragged her into it lol. Didn't expect Kishi to really need the heroine's help, but I am glad that the heroine saved him with the bamboo sword he used to help her, I thought that was pretty cute. The heroine is definitely way too nice to Kishi lol, she's like ready to do anything for him already. Anyway, I'm sorry heroine, you may apparently love Kishi but I don't lol. Kuroshima being the real traitor was expected but I didn't think Aida would be his son, and I can't believe as a detective he just allows Aida to continue doing all this crap because he feels like he owes him for not taking care of him as a father like wtf??? You're letting all these "believers" get sexually assaulted by Aida, brainwashed blah blah just because he's your son!?? That's absolutely disgusting especially since he knows how wrong it is and yet he lets people like Kishi's partner die just to protect his son who is destroying other people's lives. I'm glad Kishi found out it was Kuroshima and laid a trap for him hoping that he would choose his integrity as a cop instead of his son, but it's sad to see Kishi disappointed that he "lost" this bet on what kind of person Kuroshima is. Lmao, I love how the heroine and Kishi are just arguing with each other showing how much they care for each other in front of everyone lol. They're like such a funny bickering old couple🤣 I'm glad Kishi knows how much of an ass he is in his own PoV lol. I definitely think his PoV is necessary to like Kishi's main story tbh, because without it, I was too annoyed with him to care loll, but seeing him get so touched about what the heroine did for him made me feel better about him haha.

Honestly, it's actually hilarious how childish Kishi is with the heroine, I can't stop laughing at how silly they both are with each other. I loved how the heroine kept gambling to try and win the bet so Kishi would take her out on a date hahaha, too bad she lost, but it made him realise how much he's been neglecting on going on a proper date with her so it's worth it haha. Omggg he didn't plan anything LOL, sometimes I just want to strangle Kishi because he literally has the heroine in the palm of his hand and doesn't appreciate it through his actions as much as he should! Well, the heroine is definitely ridiculous for going to a hideout looking for Mamoru, like seriously??? Soryu already told her where he basically was, so all she really needed to do was wait for him to come back and not cause trouble for him loll. LMAO at Aida for saying he was born just to kill them, I legit died when Mamoru said that was the stupidest reason for being born hahahahaha. What a nut. I agree with Baba though, if Mamoru bothered to tell her at least something about what he was doing, she wouldn't feel so insecure and have to chase him here since she probably thinks his life might be in danger. All he said was he'll be gone for a bit, like dudeeee a bit doesn't exceed a few days max!! Anyway, it was funny how the heroine was trying her best to stop Mamoru from smoking for a week to win a bet for a trip lol. Too bad he replaced smoking with kissing so it interfered with her work lol. Even though Mamoru is a natural destroyer when it comes to housework, it was cute how he decided to do everything when the heroine got hurt. It's sad that he felt a bit traumatised because it was his fault though. On the other hand, Mamoru getting pissed off and yelling at the heroine alwayssssss grinds my nerves lol. It's like, I know he feels bad that he's always getting her hurt because of his work, but how could the heroine possibly leave it alone when he's sitting in jail?! Sigh. LMAO when the fortune teller told Mamoru to clean his messy room and that it'll improve his luck in money and gambling if he does😂😂

Ughhh, honestly, the heroine and Mamoru are so dumb, it pisses me off, especially when the heroine didn't think it was dangerous to meet Olivia at all, knowing that she thinks Mamoru caused her boyfriend to die, like seriously??? Anyway, I like Hayami and Mamoru, they suit each other loll. It's nice to know that Mamoru doesn't know how to handle Hayami because he resembles his dead colleague he wants revenge for, but I'm glad to see them getting along anyway haha. I find it saddening that it's always the heroine who thinks that she's inadequate and "not good enough" and that Mamoru will break up with her eventually when I feel like she's the one putting the most effort into the relationship. Despite that though, I loved seeing how shocked all the guys were seeing a heroine who just kept smiling and didn't yell at them🤣🤣 I'm really glad the heroine made the first step and bidded on Minami's keyring (Mamoru's dead partner) when Mamoru didn't know what to do. He obviously cares alot about it and could never forget Minami. But yeah, honestly, I feel so frustrated for the heroine lol. I feel like every story, the problem gets resolved eventually and it shows how Mamoru and her shouldn't hide stuff and communicate more but even in this Twist of Fate story etc, Mamoru is still hiding everything when it comes to his feelings or his work and whatever he's thinking. Like yeah, he can't reveal work that's confidential but he never tells the heroine what he's thinking. Minami got killed by corrupt cops and wants Mamoru to expose the dark side of the police force for him if he dies...that's sad for Mamoru. I'm glad Mamoru finally had the resolve to talk to the heroine and tell her his decision in regards to the letter from Minami. And Hayami is certainly suspicious but I guess we'll see~

Lmao at Mamoru getting so childish about the heroine wearing a ring on her ring finger and not being able to get it off and he gets annoyed every time he sees it😂 He's such a baby lmaoo. Honestly, for Mamoru's sake, I really hope Hayami is a good guy, because I feel like Mamoru deserves a nice trustworthy partner he can be himself with. I feel sorry for the heroine always having to worry about Mamoru's safety all the time, but I guess that's how it is when your partner is a cop. It was pretty hot when Mamoru grabbed his gun that was attached to the heroine's thigh, love the CG. Anyway, I feel so bad for the heroine having to witness Mamoru basically die in front of her eyes, she literally had to live with the idea he was dead for a while until they caught the criminal! I like how the heroine ended up proposing to Mamoru first because she couldn't take it that she never gets to know anything because she's not legally "family", so it was nice to see her sick of that and wanting to change things. Now that the case is done and Hayami really is a good guy, they can get married yay lol. Personally thought Mamoru's proposal was underwhelming and quite simple considering how much crap the heroine had to go through lol. Seeing things from Mamoru's perspective really helps because it's obvious he's smitten with the heroine but he neveeeer properly shows it to her, so seeing him so desperate to catch Jack the Ripper because he wants to protect the heroine, and then asking the guys how to buy a ring etc just makes it so cute lmao. Hayami congratulating them on their engagement was hilarious, he's so right that if the heroine ditches him, Hayami really might have to take care of Mamoru for life since he's so focused on his cases loll. LMAO when the heroine took the guys seriously and decided to not act like herself in front of Mamoru's parents, I legit died when she starting going "ohoho" HAHAHA. I loveee how the heroine stood up for Mamoru because he's not great at communicating and thinks it's a hassle so he doesn't bother retorting what his mother says, so it was really cool when she told Mamoru's mother how good of a person he was and how he was hardworking. It was still hilarious that she ended up yelling at his mum though lol, but it's great that his whole family is chill lol. His younger brother is cute too! I definitely think the Proposal epilogue was my favourite out of everything I read tbh lol, Mamoru's family and the "fake" heroine was the best😂

Overall, I’m not a fan of Mamoru and his stories at all tbh lol! I find Mamoru wayyy too frustrating to deal with. Like it’s fine that he prioritises his cases and trying to find the real perpetrator for the ones who caused his colleague’s death blah blah, but honestly his lack of communication is probably the most frustrating out of all the guys to me. I feel like he always takes advantage of how considerate and thoughtful the heroine is, and the thing is, he knows how good she is and is happy about it, but he never considers her feelings enough to actually show how much he appreciates her and I think that annoys me the most. Definitely a frustrating guy to love in real life lol. Otherwise, best proposal epilogue, I live for the “fake” heroine hahaha. Anyway, all in all, I enjoyed KbtBB much more than I originally thought I would. I feel like a lot of people are turned off by the premise and don’t seem to give the stories a proper chance but I definitely recommend the Switch version that has stories beyond the main story because the main story really isn’t the best at times, but the stories after that can be so nice! Personally, I love Ota and Soryu the most when it comes to their relationship and character development, and then I would probably choose Eisuke, Baba and then Mamoru last haha. It’s such a nice chill story to read tbh and I think I just enjoy how yeah the guys are kinda jerks but they’re okay hahha.

#kissed by the baddest bidder

[yourhangrydoctor]

If zenitsu got reincarnated into his modern self and knew everything. (OOC Zenitsu) -Part 2-

{-1 year later-}

My school year was the same as always like hanging out with murata everyday, taking late night walks, my mom wishing me well before i leave to go school, me doing chores and taking care of my mom when she is sick (Like making food) while she does the same when i'm sick.

It changed when his mom died from illness but got a peaceful send off and he mourned his mother's death and murata stayed by his side and what i mean by that he moved in. Zenitsu was glad he wasn't going to feel lonely in the house since his mom died.

"Where are you going?" He said, "Just going to take a walk and then come back", He nodded his head and went to the livling room. I twisted the knob and went out and shut the door. I took my phone out of my pocket and started walking and looked at the news on my phone, "Today something mysterious and frightening has happened",The woman said on the news, "There has been 69 almost 70 victims that has been killed over the past 9 weeks", Zenitsu becomes curious and listens, "But these lives that have been taken were only killed at night and never in the day time", "No one has any idea how or what killed them but the police are looking in on the case". Zenitsu turns off his phone and puts it in his pocket and processes the information '.....Demons....' I almost fell to my knees but knew that now was not the time then an idea perked up in my mind, 'I should buy a real sword and practice more while looking for information about where the demons are going to be next', I smirk and started heading back to the house. I closed the door and locked it then went up the stairs and closed the door but stopped, "Back already?", "Yup" I then continued to go up and stopped in front of my door and opened it and stepped in. I weaken my body and fall face front on the bed.

'Soft'

-Morning time-

I stretch and l rub my eyes then remember that I quitted high school when i almost graduated cause that was because my mom died and i didn't want to go to school anymore and mostly because i already almost learned everything from my past life. Murata had to restart 8th grade since he got all F's in all his classes. So he still goes to school and he said that there were new teachers, a new principal, and, new classmates. He also made new friends, "What's their names?", I asked, "I will start with the teachers and the principal.", "There is this woman with pink and green hair. Her name is Mitsuri and her husband is obanai who also works with her. There is a dude with orange hair and with red tips at the edge of his hair. His name is Rengoku. There is also this weird trio but they hang with each other anyway. Their names are Sanemi, Shinbou, Uzui, and Giyu. Then there is a guy who prays every time something bad happens in school. His name is Gyomei. We also have shinbou's older sister whose name is kanae and works with shinbou. They all respect the principal of the school. His name is Kagaya ubuyashiki", "My friends names are Tanjiro, Inosuke, Genya, Kanao, Nezuko, Muichiro, Aoi" I gap my mouth open and my jaw almost drops to the floor, "What?" He says, "N-nothing..." I ran up the stairs and closed my door and got lost in my thoughts, 'Holy shit.....' Zenitsu thinks hard about the information and stays inside his room all day but finally gets out and Murata asks if he said anything wrong, "No you didn't. But did you say anything about me?", "Not that i know of but-", "Just don't mention anything about me" I sigh in disappointment, "HEY W-WHY ARE YOU SIGHING!?", I ignored him and went over to the kitchen and started cooking.

-1 year later lol-

"Did you mention anything about me?", "Why do you keep asking me the same question every single day!? The answer is always going to be no!", "I only ask you 5 times a week", "It's the same thing!", I blankly stare at him, "Yeah...sure", A tick forms on Murata's head, "Go bother someone else or take a walk!", He then left me in the livling room and went up stairs to his room. I heard a bang so i just shrugged my shoulders and went with his idea about taking a walk like i do every single day when it's night. I then leave the house and shut the door. I took my stroll around the neighborhood and stopped to notice a bench so i sat and took a looksy at my phone, 'There is less killing than usual. Well i guess that makes sense since i decided last year that i should go ahead and kill demons on my own every now and then. I also kill demons when murata thinks i'm asleep. Oh yeah I almost forgot that i hide the sword in my room and also have a disguise when i kill demons but i always knock out the person who is about to get eaten so i don't become a big hit and earn the title "Hero" or "Mysterious hero". It's bothersome and it is also for the sake of my life and many more that i care about.' Zenitsu gets startled when he hears screams in the distance. He shoots right up and puts his phone in his pocket. He dashes and goes through an alleyway to get there faster. He stops in his tracks and sees a man with white hair with big beady eyes stepping back in fear and another one with white hair but taller and looked like he got injured but he was awaken and shivered and there's man with orange hair and red on the tips of his hair trying to help the tall injured man. There is also a woman with black hair and purple on the edge of hair on the ground scared and a man with black hair trying to help up the woman while shivering too. I looked at what frightened her and saw the demon it was growling and had saliva dripping, 'It's half of the former hashiras...but most importantly how the hell am I supposed to knock out all of them at once!?', I look down at the bloody body on the ground, 'Oh. I guess they caught the demon eating the poor girl', The demon smirked, "I bet you all will taste good", Their faces became more frightened to the point they freeze. The demon comes dashing towards them. 'Shit. I didn't bring my sword or my disguise. Ugh...fuck it....I will just kick it to the ground and put it to sleep and use the poisoned needle that's in my jacket pocket and leave.' I dash out of the dark and kick the demon onto the floor and sit on its back while restraining it so i can get the poison needled out. So then i take the needle out and grab its arm and squeeze the poison inside and the demon stops struggling. I get off the demon and face it on its back and then stand up to check the time on my watch and it said, "3:40...Not too bad...but i really need to work on my timing....Oh yeah that's cause i watching....." I smack my head but turn to the bloody body and grab a flower out of my pocket and place it beside her and then turned to the demons body and scanned his features, "Could've been hotter", I look up and see the 'peoples' blank faces, "Yo and goodbye" That's all i said and turned to grab the demons hand. And yes if you're wondering i was dragging it. I could sense the dumbfounded expressions on their faces. I ignored it and hummed, 'I think i'm going to regret doing this since i didn't have my disguise on....'

Zenitsu knew what they were thinking.

They all thought: 'What the hell just happened?'

[cheshiresense]

[Last Part Here]

Shinji timeee. Lol I’ve had a couple asks asking me to write Shinji into anything, he’s such a popular character.

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The first time Shinji meets Kurosaki Ichigo, he almost dies.

On hindsight, he supposes it’s his own fault. After all, Kisuke did warn him - as much as a former member of Onmitsukidou seems capable of warning anybody about this sort of thing - over the phone call that had brought Shinji to Karakura Town so early in the game in the first place.

“I’ve made contact with Kurosaki Ichigo. He... knows more about our world than we thought. And it seems like he has already tapped into his Hollow powers. If it’s not too much trouble, Shinji-san, would you mind coming over to assess him? Ah, he’s a bit stronger than expected though, so it might be best to proceed with caution.”

Shinji had agreed of course. That was always the plan anyway. Now it was just sped up by several months, the cause of which made him equal parts wary and alarmed and curious because Kisuke had made it sound like the kid could use his Hollow powers without going feral, and could even use them well, which really shouldn’t be possible. It would be best for Shinji to check it out himself.

“This is the guy?” is the first thing Kurosaki Ichigo says in his presence when they meet in Kisuke’s training grounds.

Shinji’s first impression of him is Kaien with orange hair, and then arrogant brat because the scowling expression on the kid’s face is both unimpressed and vaguely dubious as he looks Shinji up and down, and then finally somethin’s off because those brown eyes are normal enough at first glance, a little cold and a lot bored, but not a hint of out-of-control Hollow anywhere. Except when Shinji meets that gaze, a chill runs down his spine all the same, and at the back of his mind, Sakanade whispers a warning.

“Indeed,” Kisuke is saying, smiling benignly at everyone in general even as his eyes remain honed and unblinking on Ichigo.

That should’ve been Shinji’s second clue.

“Shinji-san is amongst the strongest of Shinigami captains that have passed through the Gotei 13,” Kisuke continues, much to Shinji’s wry amusement because that’s a pretty diplomatic way of saying framed and exiled for treason with bounties on their heads.

“Shinji-san,” Kisuke finally turns to look at him, still smiling. “Kurosaki-san here enjoys a challenge. I told him that you have powers similar to his, and that you would be able to give him a decent fight.”

And that should’ve been Shinji’s third clue. Unfortunately, he’s still under the impression that this is a wet-behind-the-ears, largely clueless, human-raised fifteen-year-old who’s spent his entire life in a backwater town, albeit one who knows martial arts and has managed to access some of the power he was born with without needing a Shinigami’s blade to trigger it. It doesn’t occur to Shinji to read more into it.

He probably should’ve asked more questions. Especially when this is all coming from a man like Urahara Kisuke.

(A hundred years in the Human world, and Shinji’s grown careless.)

“Then, if you’re ready,” Kisuke retreats to a cliff overlooking this particular clearing, one hand reaching up to tilt his hat down, shading his eyes. “You can begin anytime.”

Shinji didn’t even bother with a gigai when he came here, so he has access to his sword, but he makes no move to draw it as he turns to Ichigo with a lazy smirk. “So how’re we doin’ this? You don’t have a Zanpakutou yet, right? Can you summon your mas-”

There is barely any warning. A spike of bloodlust and a blur of colour, and then— pain.

The only reason Shinji doesn’t get his heart ripped out is entirely down to the centuries-honed reflex that kicks his ass into gear, reiatsu sparking at his feet as he wrenches himself out of the way just in time, resulting in a deep furrow of claw marks that scores across his chest, down his ribs, and takes a chunk out of his side right before he manages to throw himself backwards and out of range.

His shirt’s a lost cause, and blood gushes from the gouged flesh just above his right hip. He staggers as he lands, one hand automatically clamping over the worst of the injury. His head spins for a moment, his surroundings waver, then settle again, and Sakanade snaps at him, “Are you asleep?! What are you doing, you fool?”

What the fuck, Shinji thinks in a daze, blood pounding in his ears as his eyes lock on to the biggest threat in the immediate vicinity.

Kurosaki Ichigo is still standing in the clearing, one claw-tipped hand stained red with Shinji’s lifeblood, but it’s his eyes that stand out most, because they’re the exact same as before - a little cold, a lot bored - as the kid remarks in Kisuke’s direction, “This is your strongest? Are you joking?”

Shinji meets that gaze again, and he doesn’t need to be told to know - this guy’s killed before.

“Well, whatever,” Kurosaki Ichigo says, nonchalantly flicking some of the blood form his hand. His head cocks, almost animal-like, and his irises flare a burnished gold, all bloodthirsty focus. “I don’t leave fights unfinished.”

And then he’s gone in a rush of something three steps left of Shunpo, quick as a lightning strike and just as lethal, and Shinji dodges just as another swipe of those claws nearly takes his head off from behind. They smash into the ground Shinji had been standing on instead, and rock and debris shatter beneath the blow.

A bit stronger, Shinji’s ass. This isn’t a bit stronger, this is fuckin’-

“You can’t give a poor showing here, Shinji,” Sakanade tells him, serious in a way that doesn’t quite align with the rising anticipation he can sense from her now. Nor with the rapid thud of his own heart beating in time with it. “If you don’t fight like you want to kill him, he won’t hesitate to kill you first.”

Shinji flashes backwards, one step, two step, three, lands, turns on his heel, and then lashes out without holding anything back, slamming his foot straight into Ichigo’s chest. He feels the crack of at least three ribs, feels the sting of another slash of claws when it nicks a line down the left side of his face, and he knows he only has moments to breathe as he sends Ichigo hurtling backwards through two stone formations and into the side of a cliff, hard enough to send fragments of rubble flying in every direction.

A beat of silence follows. Shinji doesn’t waste it. He unsheathes his Zanpakutou and calls up his mask, and even as power coalesces about him like a much beloved cloak, he keeps all his senses trained on the relentless thrumming pulse of reiatsu that’s finally rearing its head in the distance.

Laughter rings out across the training grounds, wild with the echo of a Hollow, and genuine with a savage sort of delight.

“So you’re not weak, just slow to start,” Ichigo comments as he strides out of the clouds of dust hanging in the air, and that face no longer looks so bored. He tips his head up, a serrated mimicry of a grin curling across his lips, and his eyes gleam with a single-minded ferocity that makes Shinji’s blood sing.

In the depths of his soul, Sakanade laughs, goading and gleeful.

Shinji’s voice comes out equally distorted under the manifestation of his Hollow side, and all around him, his own reiatsu surges, stills, poised to attack.

“I hope you know,” He grounds out, rolling onto the balls of his feet. “What you’re gettin’ into, brat.”

And that’s the only warning Shinji gives before he disappears and reappears in the kid’s blind spot, blade already angled for his throat because it’s never a good idea to push a Visored too far, and yet this brat-

Metal against bone(?) screeches through the air as one hand stops his sword and the other takes a swing at his gut. Shinji breaks Ichigo’s grip on his Zanpakutou and spins out of the way, just to try and stab him again, missing his abdomen but cutting into his side before Ichigo deflects the rest of it and sinks his claws into Shinji’s shoulder in return. Shinji snarls and rips himself away, but not before closing his own free hand around the kid’s wrist and twisting, hard enough to dislocate the joint. He almost gets skewered for his efforts, and then they’re off, each of them pulling back several feet before crashing together again, dashing back and forth across the training grounds as they do their level fucking best to kill each other.

They tear up their surroundings without care, tear into each other like their ancestors had called a blood feud, and they don’t stop even when their respective clothes are more rags than not.

It’s vicious and brutal and destructive, and it’s the best damn fight Shinji’s had in ages. Ichigo is good, fucking excellent, instinct blending seamlessly with a tactical mind that almost gets Shinji killed another half-dozen times, and he has no idea where this kid learned to fight or how he’d grown up so fucking ruthless with a thirst for blood and battle that borderlines insane, but the sheer weight of it makes even Shinji’s sword-arm tremble with every blow, and the pressure of his reiatsu ratchets higher and higher like it has no limit.

It’s a marvel to watch, and almost terrifying to face.

But at the end of the day, Shinji is still Shinji, former Fifth Division Shinigami captain, with several centuries’ worth of practice and experience over this feral misfit boy, and it’ll be a while yet - far shorter a time than common sense dictates, but still, a while - before he’ll be able to defeat Shinji.

(Shinji doesn’t doubt for a second though, that one day, and one day soon, his defeat will be inevitable.)

(Kisuke has created a monster.)

(And what a glorious monster Kurosaki Ichigo makes.)

“Stay down!” He snarls, hammering Ichigo into the ground for the third time in the past five minutes, and this time, he follows it up by plunging his Zanpakutou straight through the boy’s shoulder - not the heart, Shinji - pinning him like a butterfly because there’s really no other way.

The kid spits curses at him, and a wayward flail of his hand slices Shinji’s thigh open, dangerously close to his femoral artery, before Shinji manages to grab that and crush it against the ground as well. He looms over the boy and jams a knee into his gut hard enough to make the other wheeze. His remaining hand closes around Ichigo’s throat, tight enough to bruise, tight enough to scream threat, and finally, miraculously, Ichigo stops.

Their chests heave for breath. Shinji’s all but blind in one eye from the blood dripping into it, his first stop after this is the goddamn shower because his hair is a mess, and underneath him, immobilized but nowhere near harmless, Ichigo doesn’t look any better.

Shinji bares his teeth in a facsimile of a grin. “Yield?”

He can see the single moment Ichigo takes to really debate that, testing Shinji’s grip on him, weighing his own strength, his own exhaustion, before grudgingly coming to the natural conclusion.

“Yield,” The kid rasps, and the last of the fight leaves him limp beneath Shinji’s grasp.

Shinji huffs and releases him, only a little wary of a surprise attack that doesn’t come. They’re both sweaty and covered in blood, and Shinji’s long since lost his mask, his three minutes used up. His muscles ache, he’s bruised all over, and his injuries are only just beginning to heal.

He hasn’t fought someone this tough since... longer than he cares to remember. Aizen doesn’t count; there hadn’t been enough time to fight before the Hollowfication had put him down.

Ichigo though...

Shinji yanks out his sword, quirking a sardonic smile when Ichigo hisses at him but otherwise doesn’t even flinch, and Shinji’s gaze lingers on the way the stab wound instantly starts knitting itself back together.

Healing factor through the roof. Handy.

He sighs and sits back on his haunches and watches Ichigo push himself up into sitting position, rolling his shoulders like he’s just had a decent workout instead of a fight that could’ve been fatal for one or both of them.

Shinji snorts, and he isn’t surprised either when it comes out way too fucking fond. “Kid, you’re fuckin’ crazy.”

Ichigo looks over at him, blinking, then grins. There’s blood in his teeth and dark exhilaration in his eyes, the same exhilaration that’s still coursing through Shinji’s veins and making his fingers itch, for blood, for battle, for the freedom found in the unrestrained violence that he has never been known for in all the years of his military career.

But he also knows the kind of person he is better than anyone, and Sakanade isn’t a predator - feline and cunning and even cruel when the mood strikes, especially after she Hollowfied - just for shits and giggles.

Speaking of which, Sakanade also presses forward now, her bloodlust only barely leashed again even as she remains alert and inquisitive, and wholly intent on Ichigo in a way that speaks of a sharp, hungry sort of interest that Shinji absolutely, determinedly, 100% ignores.

Hollows are more in tune with their base instincts than any other species, and a fight of this level would get anyone’s blood pumping.

"You’re not that different,” Ichigo says in response, and it comes out almost cheerful. Shinji gives him another once-over and thinks happy is a good look on him.

Hell of a thing to make him happy, but... well. To each their own.

“We should fight again,” Ichigo adds, all eagerness and challenge.

Shinji snorts. “Not today. Not the next couple days either. Gimme a break, kid, I’m an old man. I need some time to recover.”

Ichigo tilts his head to one side, his expression turning thoughtful. In contrast, his smile goes sharp and curious, but before he can say anything, the sound of clapping interrupts.

Ichigo’s features fall back into that scowl that Shinji is beginning to realize is his resting face. That, or Kisuke’s presence just brings it out in him, which wouldn’t shock Shinji, who’s feeling inexplicably annoyed himself.

They both turn to where the shopkeeper is approaching on clacking footsteps, smiling like the troll he is, and watching Ichigo like he’s just witnessed an impossible phenomenon.

But all he trills out is, “What an exciting battle!” He pouts. “But you’ve done quite the number to my training grounds.”

Shinji sneers and hoists himself to his feet. Beside him, Ichigo does the same.

“Thanks for the heads-up,” He says, dry as Hueco Mundo. “Since you’re the one who gave us permission to fight here, don’t complain.”

He pauses, then turns back to Ichigo, who’s already folding himself back into average teenaged boy, shielding the world from the ravenous beast within. Or maybe just finding most of the world not worth the effort of revealing that beast to.

Idly, Shinji wonders what shape Ichigo’s soul has taken.

“You hungry?” He asks instead.

Ichigo blinks owlishly at him. “I could eat.”

Shinji grunts and stretches out his limbs. Damn, he’s going to be sore tomorrow. “Let’s clean up, and then you can show me what’s good around here. I’m starvin’.”

He’s curious to see what this kid is like when he isn’t on the hunt for his next kill.

Ichigo shrugs. “Sure. Sushi’s always good. My treat.”

“Oh?” Shinji arches an eyebrow as they begin making their way to the ladder leading back up to the shop. “How nice of you.”

Ichigo shrugs again. “I lost. My treat.”

Shinji chuckles. “Fair ’nough.”

Ichigo smirks. “So you should start saving up now, cuz when I beat you, you’re gonna have to treat me back.”

Shinji outright cackles. “You brat. That’ll be the day.”

That will be the day, inevitable as the sun, and when it comes, Shinji can’t even say for sure whether or not this boy will leave him alive.

“Are you treating me too?” Kisuke pipes up from behind them.

Ichigo instantly glowers. “Did you beat me? No, so no, you creepy stalker.”

And then, without slowing to use the ladder, he leaps for the shop proper in one bounding step.

Shinji waits until he’s out of sight before slanting a glance back at his fellow former captain, who is no longer smiling.

“You and I are gonna have a long chat after this, Kisuke.”

Kisuke inclines his head and doesn’t say another word.

-0-

Hours later, after their bellies are full, and Ichigo’s gone home, Shinji finds himself back at the shop, seated at the table with Kisuke, with a bottle of sake between them.

“What’s his relationship with Isshin like?” Shinji asks in offhand tones as he pours himself a drink.

“Hm?”

“Don’t ‘hm’ me,” Shinji scoffs. “There’s no way a guy like that would be willin’ to stay under the thumb of a man like Isshin. There’s no way Isshin could make him obey.”

Kisuke sighs. “A few weeks back, when I called him, Isshin-san admitted he lost control of Kurosaki-san years ago.”

Shinji’s eyebrows go up briefly, as unsurprised as he is unimpressed. He takes a swig of alcohol. “’Course he did. And didn’t tell us. Dumbass.”

He takes another sip before continuing, “So then, where’d he learn to fight if not from his old man? You can’t pick up the things he can do in a human dojo, that’s for sure.”

He swirls the liquid in his cup before quirking a smile full of dark humour. “It can only be one thing, right? Tapped into his Hollow powers, my ass. Kid probably has full access to his soulscape at this point. You’ve really dropped the ball on this one, Kisuke.”

Kisuke grimaces faintly. “I... have not paid as much attention as I could’ve over the course of his childhood. I had thought that Isshin-san would note down any anomalies and report it to me, but...” He trails off, then sighs again and confesses, “I hadn’t thought- With how the Shiba Clan is, I hadn’t thought Kurosaki-san would turn out... the way he has.”

Shinji laughs in his face. “What way? Sociopathic? Homicidal? Uncontrollable?”

Kisuke’s expression says it all.

Shinji shakes his head. “Might be better this way. You think so too, don’t you? Aizen definitely won’t be expectin’ him. Of course, that’s only if we manage to convince Ichigo to kill him - and only him - for us, which just might turn out to be the hardest thing to do on our end. But hey,” He grins, and he knows it isn’t a friendly one. “You wanted a weapon, and you got it. Congrats.”

Kisuke doesn’t reply, so they fall silent after that. The clock ticks the seconds by. The sake slowly disappears between them.

Shinji’s just about to call it a night when Kisuke finally speaks up again. “Ah, by the way, Shinji-san.”

Shinji flicks a look over at the shopkeeper, at the oddly tentative edge to his smile and the careful look in his eyes. He snorts.

“I don’t need you givin’ me a lecture on morality,” Shinji says, flat and unamused even as Sakanade croons something of desire in their soulscape. “The things I know not to do, I won’t do. But maybe this will teach you to think twice the next time you wanna throw someone with that much huntin’ instinct in their blood at someone like me, without even givin’ me so much as a real by-your-leave. You and I both know you did that on purpose, to see what Ichigo can do.”

Kisuke at least has the decency to wince. Shinji rolls his eyes and tosses back the last of his sake. “Still the same, after all these years. But I guess, deep down, nobody really changes.”

He glances out the window at the full moon peeking out from behind a few wisps of clouds. “Everythin’s comin’ to a head, and Kurosaki Ichigo ain’t anythin’ any of us imagined. He won’t change for anyone, so here’s to hopin’ we all survive it.”

#bleach #stunted empathy verse #kurosaki ichigo #hirako shinji #urahara kisuke #myscrap #did i just accidentally point this in the direction of shinichi end game

[phoenixyfriend]

Thoughts on “Auntie Soka and Little Leia” now that I’ve actually got it posted:

Call it a director’s cut! The process of actually writing the thing, and also jokes made along the way. Link to the actual fic.

Unfortunately, I don’t have the energy for image descriptions, even the text screenshots. Might come back that later. Most of this was DMs with @atagotiak​.

This was an entire thing before I even started writing:

Before I decided on ages and stuff Ahsoka, to Jango, who has had zero contact with Kaminoans: Okay I know I'm a Jedi kid so you hate me but this toddler is your clone from the future. Jango, tired: What the FUCK are you talking about. Rex, barely able to talk: Don't you dare leave me with him, Commander! Ahsoka: I'm not going to leave you I just--I'm so tired I'm so fucking tired I haven't slept in five days and someone tried to kidnap Leia two days ago I am so fucking tired I need help

Ben: [twenty years of depression followed by a 'now I'm safe' breakdown over the course of weeks] Sokari: [whatever the FUCK this mess is]

When Ahsoka mentions there only being three other Jedi at the time of her death,  I was thinking Kanan, Yoda, and Obi-Wan (Leia told her about the latter two living past her). She's not counting anyone that received training after the Temple fell, and she didn’t know about Cal.

When Leia says  “I was adopted and raised by one of the founders of the rebellion, a movement built on the desire to instate freedom and democracy in a galaxy that had lost even the pretense.”

Depa: I'm no therapist but I diagnose you with "incredibly fucked up." Ahsoka: yeah, that’s fair

"Why did you pick Depa for--" She's pretty and I'm gay. Also because of the Kanan thing But mostly I'm gay "It's not a visual medi--" GAY

Empty of context beyond general post-fic AU: "Hey Sokari, we need to engage in psychological warfare against this individual and--" "I'm going to break into his office and leave a threatening note on his desk and leave no other sign that I was there. He'll see that his security is nothing and the only reason he isn't dead is because I'm too nice to kill him." "...okay, not what we were planning, but that works. Why is that your first choice?" "I really like breaking and entering, it's soothing." Ben just standing there with a bland smile like This Is Normal.

"We need someone to infiltrate a highly guarded facility in hostile territory." "So we're sending the Torrent kids?" [sigh] "We're sending the Torrent kids."

Rex and Sokari insist on both going by "Torrent" even though Rex could be a Fett. Jango really wants him to be a Fett. Rex has too many grudges to agree to being a Fett for... a while.

I really hope it's blatantly obvious that Ahsoka's not a reliable narrator for some things Ahsoka: Fett could care less if I died Jango: jfc even if you are older than me I can see you're fucked up. Drink your hot chocolate. Hells. She's got good reason to expect him to hate her as a Jedi! BUT. THAT IS NOT REFLECTIVE OF REALITY

We don’t get a lot of actual characterization for Jango, but the way I played him out here is he has never really parsed that Jedi are people before all this. It's a lot harder to treat them as a monolith when the traumatized former child soldier is having regular breakdowns in your shitty little kitchen

Fett: I respect you Ahsoka: No, don't do that

Ahsoka’s vigilantism is something that, in my mind, she's associating heavily with Zygerria and then the clones.

I figured that she never bothered to learn Quinlan’s teacher’s name but in the process of looking up some basic facts (whether he had a surname), I found that Wookiepedia was forced to give us a VERY wide range of possible death in Legends.

Please take a moment to imagine Quinlan's FACE when Ahsoka initially dismisses him. Quinlan has put a lot of effort into being rogueishly charming! It's very useful for his line of work! He knows to expect either irritation or a return flirtation when he acts like this with people his own age! Ahsoka is not flustered OR rolling her eyes and insulting him, she's just ignoring him and it's a bit of a blow to the ego

This just makes me really happy:

This was the initial comment I made, as a joke What if Maul is just. There. On one of the planets they make a pitstop at. What if Maul exists as the walking problem he is, but fifteen, and Ahsoka immediately tries to kick his ass and drag him back to Coruscant. I do not have room for this plot but What If

Despite not having room for this plot, I proceeded to write this plot.

Maul is kidnapped and it’s the best thing that ever happened to him HE'S FIFTEEN HE'S DUMB AS SHIT AND HAS A BAD ATTITUDE AND YEAH HE'S A DARKSIDER BUT HE'S FIFTEEN

Ahsoka: I sense... Maul [takes off sprinting] Rex: [immediately takes Jango's blaster and runs after her] Jango: Wait who Tholme: Who Quinlan: Who Jango: [looks at Leia] Leia: I don't know who that is either! Ahsoka, already wrestling a teenager to the ground: Oh no, you're a child, REX STUN HIM AND GRAB THE CUFFS, I'M SURE FETT OR THOLME HAS SOME

Fighting him isn't even legal, they have NO evidence of criminal wrongdoing, so first she needs to yell until he admits to something she can fight him about

Ahsoka: When I see Maul, it's on SIGHT Maul: WHO ARE YOU

Ahsoka: The Force didn't give me hands just to NOT throw them when I run into That Crafty Son Of A Bitch

Ben, when they arrive, after the tearful reunion: You... you brought Maul. Ahsoka: Well, yeah, he's fifteen and kinda dumb. I figured we could drag him here and force him into therapy, see what happens. Ben: I can't quite tell through the gag, but I think he's threatening to feed you your own spleen. Ahsoka: Lol, yeah.

Ben is absolutely on team "get Maul therapy" and will fight the Council on rehabilitating the baby Sith But also it's like. Here's your daughter! And your niece! And your daughter's QPP! Also your best friend, but baby, and his teacher, and the biological origin of a number of people you cared for deeply! AND ALSO THE GUY WHO SPENT LITERAL DECADES CRAVING YOUR DEATH, FOR SOME REASON

I just really want Ahsoka lovingly bullying Maul She gives him noogies and the horns don't protect him because girl has reinforced gloves

Maul's only allowed a low-power training saber and his fights with Sokari involve Much Taunting by her and Eventual Screaming by him, and everyone pops by to see: 1. Sokari doing the most absurd flips, for fun. 2. The bullshit that is ataru-shien reverse-grip jar'kai in the hands of someone who makes it work 3. What a Sith lightsaber form looks like 4. Just the general nonsense that is the way these two fight

Tia said “Wrt ridiculous flips. I'm remembering that time she beheaded four Kryst'ad at once.” and I just Rex brings up the quadruple beheading at one point to get someone to stop asking questions and the awkward, horrified silence almost makes him regret it. And then Sokari just snorts and makes a joke about how Rex once speared a slaver point-blank and everyone's just like hello??? "are you two okay" "no"

Maul absolutely starts crushing on Sokari after a 'sword under chin' moment and she's just very "Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh you're fifteen, bye" GO MAKE PUPPY EYES AT OBI-WAN OR SOMETHING

The crushes are the worst part of everything, really, she's an attractive young woman that can kick a lot of ass, and a lot of people are into that! Unfortunately, most of those people are a decade younger than she is, mentally, because all the people her actual age look at her and see a child on account of the 17yo body.

It’s almost a good thing she’s in no place mentally for a relationship.

I just want Ahsoka to wear beskar.... I think that would be Nice........

This AU is also what caused this post.

I'm deeply enamored by the idea that Ahsoka can win fights against "older" padawans pretty much unilaterally, even when they team up 2v1 And then she offers to fight 5v1 "But only if I have permission to fight dirty." Ben approves it, a horror show full of "I fought many wars and will scream in your face or kick you in the balls if that's what it takes" follows She wins. There are no permanent injuries, but her reputation certainly gets weirder. Nobody under the rank of Knight agrees to let her fight dirty again. She just lets that stand because, well, she's not actually a padawan, she's thirty-three.

I’m not going to write this but my brain was EVIL and suggested it:

IT WOULD BE REALLY SAD IDK maybe 9yo Anakin has nightmares about what's happening to baby Ahsoka because bullshit about time-traveling force bonds IDK ANYWAY he cries to Sokari about the nightmares and she's like "oh shit" and it's time to go rescue herself from motherfucker unlimited

It's either that or she's like, expecting to welcome mini-me aaaany day now, for like, several months, before she realizes Something Went Wrong. Anakin’s dreams could even start right as she’s starting to realize something’s off.

Obi-Wan has never had a padawan that doesn't at some point bite Even Luke will, when pushed

OH also once the twins get Baby's First Lightsaber (training sabers, not real kyber), Sokari begs to borrow them for a dumb joke and tells Rex to get on her shoulders for a "Grievous Greeting" and they do The Thing

Jango and Ahsoka wrt Quinlan is just “Do I need to beat him up for you” “You realize I’ve beaten up sith lords before?”

JANGO'S TRYING He's just. "Can we be friends? Can I--can I be the guy that just noticeably gets in the way of a creep on the subway so you can be more comfortable without someone making a scene? I'm fucking trying here, give me a hint."

We didn’t actually figure out Jango’s age until this point. The only reason Fett's age matters is for Quinlan making a Wild Oats quip after Jango says he didn't know about Rex until a few weeks ago, and Fett going "How old do you think I am? And how old do you think the kid is?" and Quinlan getting Very Awkward as he does the math. Rex overhears and lets Quinlan sweat for a bit before saying "I'm a genetically-modified clone someone grew in a tube, he didn't know or have reason to know until he saw me with Sokari." Which is like. Eight additional layers of WTF, obviously, but at least Jango gets to avoid awkward wild oats jokes

Like, you’d expect the rebuttal to be ‘he’s my brother just with a biiig age gap’ or ‘he’s my nephew’

I find it very unfortunate for Quinlan that I've decided his defining characteristic in this context is going to be repeatedly putting his foot in his mouth

He’s trying so hard but "That sounds like a cool thing, maybe I'll ask ab--and it's another fucking trauma."

I'm doing Ahsoka&Jango t w i c e (there’s another fic where I’m doing it)

It’s just a fun dynamic! So much resentful respect.

Like she's twenty seconds away from calling him a bitch at any given time and he's just there like "I don't like you but I do see you move like you're about to tell an entire building to get on their knees with their hands in the air and I can respect that" Also she's probably much less judgmental about using blasters than Obi-Wan is The Maul subplot actually started with me daydreaming about Ahsoka grabbing a blaster for Reasons

I like the idea of Jango just deciding the most Useful thing he can do is help teach the Smol how to fight. He's AWKWARD around Rex and Soka because he doesn't know if there's anything he CAN teach them.

I didn’t actually plan for Tholme to figure out the age thing, he just SAID it and I had to sit there like Wait.

Ahsoka, Rex & Leia: ahhh, children Tholme: you say that like you aren’t children

I liked getting to write Rex's little "I have worked with all of them, and they're all Terrible" He loves them But They once got stranded on a planet that didn’t exist and Ahsoka died and Anakin killed a god.

There was research and discussion as to whether Ahsoka could win against Tholme but seeing as she held her own against Vader, and fought Grievous at that physical age without dying, etc.... yeah, the only thing holding her back was her body not being what she was used to, and she’s had a few weeks go adjust.

“I miss being able to just jump off skyscrapers” is such a jedi thing

Jango: I'll take the gun back if he tries to leave, they can't get far before--WHAT THE FUCK He knows Jedi are scary but he’s still not really used to just how over the top ridiculous they are He knows how to deal with Jedi in battle, not Whatever The Fuck These People Are Doing

Rex isn't even a Jedi, he's just so used to working with them. “Oh yes time for free-falling without a parachute again, same shit as always.”

Tia: I’m imagining Jango freaking out and Quinlan and Tholme being like. Concerned but mostly exasperated Clearly if they’re jumping off buildings it must be serious? But jfc they could’ve maybe communicated a bit more?

Leia: I want to finish my juice Tholme: Quin, stay with her while we go figure out what those two are doing. Quinlan: Wait what

Jango: Oh now he’s jumping off a building too??? Tholme: Sokari, you are not registered! You can't legally jump out windows yet! Jango: What the hell is going on? Is this normal?

We don’t necessarily know how often Ahsoka and Maul ran into each other after Mandalore. There was the later thing on Malachor, but other than that I'm just going with the idea that they ran into each other every year or two and just went for the eyes like feral cats

Ahsoka: I need to kick ass and you're coming with me. Rex: Yeah, okay. [several minutes later] Rex: Whose ass are we kicking?

Ahsoka and Rex

Neloms aren’t a SW fruit to the best of my knowledge, I just wanted to mess around with lemons/melons

Jango: you didn’t think any of this through, did you? Rex: you were there, you know we didn’t "When the Jedi says to jump out a window, I jump out a window."

Tholme’s real composed about stalking the ancient nigh-mythical enemy of his people, very “Life is already so goddamn weird”

This fic has been so heavy on the trauma but then I introduce Maul and suddenly it's the worst kind of comedy Nobody is competent, everyone's a little dumb, the bad guy is just grocery shopping

My propensity for banter has turned this into a six-person buddy cop comedy about Maul buying grapes They spend a significant amount to time ineffectually stalking Maul before Quin suggests the sensible option Quinlan just "You remember this is my literal job and specialty right"

Ahsoka sees Maul and all her brain cells go out the window except "Fight good" Usually she doesn’t need to worry about doing things legally. Maybe she needs to worry about someone seeing her do illegal things but she spent the past 15 yrs in a place where her existing was illegal

I feel like he’s also maybe kinda wanting to reassert that yes he is competent. Bc like. Ahsoka’s been kinda condescending this whole time and also can beat everyone up so. It's not his fault that he's actually the youngest person there, but.

Jango is finding this whole being friendly to Jedi thing a lot more overwhelming than he thought it would be. And overwhelming in different ways.

Maul usually signifies things getting worse and more horrifyingly tragic but he's just a dumb teen that they needed to arrest for his own good.

Quinlan: Look, I'm useful! Ahsoka: I've been through hell, wanna hear? Quinlan: NO. I DON'T. WHY.

Quinlan: I understand the concept of joking about your traumas, I do it sometimes myself! But sith hells that’s a lot of trauma.

Quinlan just wanted her to treat him as a Competent Individual, and here she is whipping out stories about Dying and Gods and the Force insists it's the truth and he just???? And apparently emo darksider over there is a Sith. And just, sure. Why not

A lot of people’s interactions with the time travelling disaster lineage is just

Tholme and Fett arguing and  Ahsoka's just waiting for a moment to pop in with "Hey, when's the last time either of you worked with the other's culture before this mess? Yeah, that's what I thought."

Much like Leia and Ahsoka hurting each other earlier, and Tholme figuring out the de-aging, we ALSO have Fett’s confrontation with Ahsoka being something the characters just did, rather than something I planned.

FTR the only time I managed to trigger myself while writing this fic was the “your behavior isn’t actually acceptable and we’ve all been trying really hard to give you room to recover but you have to at least make an effort to not be a bitch”

Writing about people having PTSD and symptoms of such: Yay! Writing about people having PTSD and engaging in toxic behavior to cope: Shit Ahsoka had... basically my exact reaction. It's "remind yourself that you're in the wrong, that they have a point, and then be overly formal in the apology because fuck if you accidentally make them feel sorry for you when they're the injured party"

Quinlan: Can we be friends? I mean, you're an asshole, but you're really cool. Let's be friends. (He MIGHT be nursing a crush) (Neat mysterious girl who can beat him up.)

Also he realises she's probably nicer when not having a slow-motion breakdown He's like "Huh, you'll probably be less of an asshole once you've gotten therapy."

...also, she pretty and got Nice Biceps

I love writing a good mental breakdown

I was so close to including a "he tried to kill me" just early enough for Jango to wildly misinterpret as her thinking Quinlan tried to kill her. He'd have been very confused, considering Quinlan's the one that called them down in a panic and currently has Ahsoka having her massive breakdown in his lap But

Tia:  I could see Jango interpreting it as idk, Quin resembling someone or for a moment acting like someone who tried to kill her and she had a flashback or something like that

There's absolutely room for a couple reasonable interpretations there And "trapped in a flashback about someone who tried to kill her" is absolutely what's happening! Just. You know. For a different reason. Jango probably wouldn’t assume Quin would hurt her, for one thing he seems to like her, for another even if he did he’s smart enough to pick a way that wouldn’t be so likely to get him caught

I had to step back and actually say “Also I'm just. Wow. I'm really just shoveling QPP Rex&Ahsoka at full speed”

Me, a few weeks ago, joking: Two halves of the same idiot black ops specialist Me, now, entirely seriously: Two halves of the same idiot black ops specialist

Me, belatedly: Oh, Ahsoka being joyfully mean to people was a form of mania she was unconsciously using to build a barrier between herself and her impending meltdown

She went from "just died" to "in charge of Rex and Leia" in like. Two minutes.

Confession: I've been delighting in the mental image of this whole Mess leading Jango to try to retake Mandalore, and Ahsoka loans him a saber for a 1v1 to get the darksaber.

“Can’t I just fight him barehanded? That’s how I did it on Galidraan.” "But the drama, Fett!"

Probably Rex has learned how to use a saber as well, because you never know when you have to borrow a weapon

I later changed my mind to Jango asking her to help, rather than her just sneak-teaching him, but it was funny.

Background nonsense to all this is Ahsoka and Rex, despite Rex being as force-sensitive as a lump of coal, having developed a process where she can extend her sensitivity to him mind-to-mind for weird symbiotic battle trance that scares everyone around them. It’s very similar to Battle meditation.

CONTEXT FOR LEIA BEING WORRIED ABOUT THOLME HIDING THINGS: Tholme is hiding the fact that the Council reached out and told him that the people he picked up might be connected to Ben and Luke, who showed up after the Depa thing but a solid week and change before Jango's ship makes it to the Temple. They asked that he not share that information to avoid getting anyone's hopes up in case the two situations aren't related. Ben and Luke haven't shared enough information for anyone to really be sure if the other three are connected Because the info Tholme has isn't quite the info Jango has, etc. And they can't just say Ben is a future Obi-Wan over comms

I just have a lot of feelings about people trying to do something right and just. Nobody's at fault! Not really! It's just complicated!

Tia: I like how when Ahsoka isn’t doing maladaptive trauma response stuff she’s very mature. And of course she’s had to be but it’s a good like, contrast. Where when she slows down to think about things she’s very sensible

Jango just spends most of this story lowkey wanting Ahsoka to Be His Friend but there's too much baggage that he's only metaphysically responsible for

Local aroace(?) has a squish

Ahsoka: He just wants to get on my good side because of Rex. Jango: I'm pretty sure you could kill an entire army without trying but you wouldn't because you have actual morals and stuff... and when I met you it was because you were killing yourself trying to keep (what appeared to be) children safe... you seem cool please be my friend.......

Ahsoka’s #1 weakness: mountains of trauma Ahsoka’s #2 weakness: she just doesn’t get why so many people think she’s cool and want her to be their (girl)friend

Jango, a 27yo massacre survivor who's killed Jedi masters with his bare hands: [gets lectured on various government structures by a tiny girl that's missing several teeth and needs to sit on books to see the table properly]

Ahsoka was raised in a religious meritocracy but developed all her opinions during a galactic war and then became a vigilante spy, Rex comes from a military cult, Leia is from an inherited monarchy that participates in democracy, Quinlan was originally from what appears to be a dynastic dictatorship, and IDK about Tholme other than that he is also from the religious meritocracy. And in legends Quinlan came to the religious meritocracy after his aunt sacrificed his parents to a vampire cult and then forced him to experience the psychometric echoes of that. There's just. A lot going on.

Leia at least has knowledge about structure and admin in theory that isn't based in either the military or populations under 10k

Jango: I want to be your friend. Ahsoka: Sounds fake.

I am unfairly fond of "Rex destroys a conversation by bringing up his own horrifying childhood and calling it a cult"

"Why does Sokari call you 'Rex'ika'?" "Because she's older than me." "...can I--?" "No."

Nickname privileges are extended ONLY to Ahsoka and older clones. There are no more older clones, so it's just Ahsoka.

Me joking about Star Wars AUs: Would you like a crackship? Me writing actual Star Wars fic: My favorite character type is apparently “too traumatized to have a relationship” so this is at least 90% gen.

I had to pull a scene opening at one point because Ahsoka's skill with not getting shot is actually much less useful than Tholme's clearance levels.

Now I really want a team-up of Ahsoka, Rex, and Jango where they do have to get in a dogfight of the "she flies, we shoot" variety and Fett just has to scream because the speeder thing to catch Maul was one thing, but this....

Ahsoka, before TCW: I know all the traffic rules but I'm not that great at flying! Ahsoka, after TCW: I'm great at flying but if you let me behind the wheel we are absolutely getting arrested.

She went from "knows the rules but doesn't have the skills" to "has the skills but primarily in the form of not getting shot" which! Is delightful! "Bet I can get us through that alley--" "DO NOT"

Jango and Ahsoka are both just very "Is this friendship? Is this camaraderie? My heart's been fried on platonic love by so many murders that I'm not sure anymore." "I've lost a lot of friends. I kind of forgot how to make those."

I have no idea if "hasn't been closer than Alderaan except that one trip to Chandrila" is canon-compliant but ehhhhhhhh It feels plausible enough?

Belatedly realized that I could just explain my optimal Rex&Ahsoka dynamic as just... drift compatible. It's vague enough on the specifics while still digging into the meat of what they mean to each other and how they work together. The terminology is already in existence. I can just use it.

Romantic? Platonic? Familial? Doesn't matter! They're drift compatible.

They are important to each other and that is what matters

I really like the Leia&Quinlan thing. He's just like "This small child needs a friend that isn't super depressed," and decided he's going to be her friend. I keep trying to toss in "Quinlan volunteers to 'baby'sit." She's not much older and she has a Baby Brain, it works out

There's a running bet as to whether Leia will leave the Order the second she turns thirteen, or if she'll let Sokari "train" her for a few years first. And... that’s how I came up with Leia Antilles, Senator of Serenno.

They'll be bullshitting Ben as her new master to "finish out the padawanship" since they can't tell everyone she's really in her thirties and he's conveniently there and already knows everything and was half her master anyway. Like Ben was planning on taking on Luke, but Luke is "six" and even he can't swing that as old enough to be a Padawan, and it's not like Sokari will take more than a handful of years to justify knighthood, sooooooooo

#Ahsoka Tano #Captain Rex #Leia Organa #Jango Fett #Obi Wan Kenobi #time travel #de aging #Phoenix Babbles #Uncle Ben and Little Luke #Auntie Soka and Little Leia #I need to excise the bits that are actually funny on their own

[splatsys-sizeshift-shenanigans]

Prompts open pog?? Anyway, G!Wilbur and H!Techno noms plz (if you’re comfortable with that (also anon asks aren’t on))

hopefully I got the anon ask thing situated lol, thanks for letting me know they were off!!!

im not the best at writing wilbur or techno but i will try my best! (This is being said before writing)

All the writing will be under the cut!!!

TW FOR: Soft, safe vore, unwilling, but still safe, vague digestion mention (though nothing happens), swearing

Unconventional Rescue Method

WORD COUNT: 647 WORDS

Techno growled under his breath as he gripped his sword. He was backed into a corner and surrounded by mobs, trying to think of something to do. He didn’t have a pickaxe on him and had no way to build out of the hole he was stuck in. The voices were going nuts as well, which didn’t help his thoughts in trying to get out. ‘Escape. Blood for the blood god. Cornered. Flee. RUN.’ Techno glanced around his surroundings as he attempted to block out the voices, huffing before tightening his grip on his sword and preparing to fight.

The piglin hybrid was quickly overwhelmed by the sheer amount of mobs, looking up as he heard a loud thump from the top of the cliff, grunting as the voices continued to shout. ‘No way out. Dying. TECHNOBLADE NEVER DIES!! Lost cause.’ Techno sighed, closing his eyes as he awaited death. His eyes shot open as he heard a loud thud in front of him, stumbling back against the wall at the sight of a giant hand reaching for him. He lost grip of his sword as the hand wrapped around him, struggling. “What the hell?! Let me go!” He swore under his breath as he was lifted higher, continuing to struggle as he glared up at his captor. The brunette giant looked down at Techno with an apologetic look in its eyes, bringing him towards its face and opening its mouth. Techno’s eyes widened as he was brought towards the giant’s maw, struggling in an attempt to escape.

The voices went wild as Techno was forced into the giant’s mouth, causing him to have to forcefully block them out as he tried to find a way out of the situation, cursing as he fought against the tongue starting to coat him in saliva. ‘Going to die. Being eaten!! PANIC PANIC PANIC. Fight back!!!! Trapped.’ Techno continued to struggle as the voices continued screeching, wincing as he started sliding towards the cavernous throat. He closed his eyes tightly as he was swallowed, the area around him tightening and pressing in on him as he struggled, trying to get the giant to choke and spit him out, trying to block out the loud sounds of its heartbeat and breathing as he passed the heart and lungs. The second Techno slipped into the giant’s stomach, he started fighting back extremely aggressively, punching and kicking at the stomach walls until he was exhausted. He heard the giant breathing heavily, having to cover his ears from how loud its heartbeat was, even with it being quieter now that he was in its stomach. He grumbled as he heard the giant speak, huffing. “Are you alright? I’m so sorry if I scared you, but I panicked and didn’t know what to do or-“ “Just- try to calm down man. Your heartbeat is stupidly loud when you’re panicking.” Techno interrupted the giant as it spoke, basically snarling the words. He was pretty relieved, to say the least when the giant’s heartbeat slowed down and seemed to quiet down. “Sorry, sorry. This is a really weird time to be saying this, but, uh, I’m Wilbur.” He huffed as the giant- now Wilbur- spoke, rolling his eyes. “Cool, cool. I’m Techno. So am I just gonna die in here, or-” “Oh god no, you’re not gonna die, you’re in my storage stomach. You humans, not knowing anything about giants.” The area around Techno shook as Wilbur chuckled, making Techno stumble. “I mean, the only thing we were taught is that if a giant sees you, you’re gonna die, we weren’t taught about the anatomy of you guys or anything.” He countered, earning another chuckle from Wilbur. “Nah, I’ll let you go once I get out of this ravine. Speaking of, why the fuck were you in a ravine without a pickaxe?” “I forgot it.” “Eh, fair.”

WOO! I FINISHED IT!!!

sorry it took so long! my adhd brain couldn’t decide on an idea (this oneshot’s title changed like 5 times in the writing process and i scrapped at least 3 half-written things before I finally settled on this one DBBDHDNDC) so it took a decade lmao. I really hope you like this

also you get a first ask award now lmao

alSO, first vore oneshot on this account lets goooo!

#tw vore #tw digestion mention #cw cursing #mcyt g/t #tiny!techno #giant!wilbur #i had a lot of fun writing this!!

[takahero]

in honour of finishing inkspell, here are some basta observations I picked up along the way. also, inkspell spoilers warning! i also have MANY MANY thoughts so i’d love to hear what you guys think to some of the questions raised

“He hadn’t changed: the same thin face, the same way of narrowing his eyes, and there was an amulet dangling around his neck to ward off the bad luck that Basta thought lurked under every ladder, behind every bush.” — pg.138

“Basta’s left hand was bandaged, Elinor noticed when he took his fingers away from her mouth.” — pg.139

“‘I’d have been here much sooner, believe you me, but they put me in jail for a while on account of something that happened years ago. No sooner was Capricorn gone than all the people who’d been too scared to open their mouths suddenly felt very brave.’” — pg.140 (see they never tell us WHY he was in prison, do they? the possibilities are endless. we know he committed atrocious things, like arson, but imagine if he got put in jail for something completely different…LOL)

“‘You wouldn’t believe how often I’ve told him there’s nothing to be ashamed of in going to jail, particularly when your prisons here are so much more comfortable than our dungeons at home.’” — pg.140 (OHHHTMGOD MEME IDEA)

“Basta flung his arm so roughly round Orpheus’ neck that his glasses slipped down his nose.” — pg.141

“‘Hold your tongue, Basta!’ Mortola interrupted him abruptly. ‘You’ve always liked the sound of your own voice.’” — pg.141

“‘Well, Silvertongue, I’m sorry it’s taken some time,’ he said in his soft, cat-like voice.” — pg.180

“‘My son always said revenge was a dish best eaten cold,’ observed Mortola.” — pg.181 (question. did basta find out about mortola’s true identity between inkheart & inkspell? do u think he realised it when mortola cried when capricorn died?)

“Basta passed a finger over his throat and winked at him.” — pg.186 (wink 2 LMAO)

“Basta bent down and picked up a rusty helmet lying at his feet. ‘What do you expect me to say?’ he growled, throwing the helmet back into the grass with a gloomy expression, and giving it a kick that sent it clattering against the wall. ‘Of course it’s our castle. Didn’t you see the figure of the goat on the wall there? Even the carved devils are still standing, though they wear ivy crowns now — and look, there’s one of the eyes that Slasher liked to paint on the stones.’” — pg.190

“‘So Basta was right after all. He’s dead, here and in the other world too.’” — pg.191 (interesting….so Basta knew Mortola’s plan wouldn’t work? he just wanted a ride home?)

“‘I’d really like to know what happened!’ he muttered. ‘I always said Capricorn wasn’t here, but what about the others?…What are we going to do if they’re all gone?’ Basta sounded like a boy afraid of the dark. ‘Do you want us to live in a cave like brownies until the wolves find us? Have you forgotten the wolves? And the Night-Mares, the fire-elves, all the other creatures crawling around the place…I for one haven’t forgotten them, but you would come back to this accursed spot where there are ghosts lurking behind every tree!’ He reached for the amulet dangling around his neck, but Mortola did not deign to look at him.

“‘Oh, be quiet!’ she said, so sharply that Basta flinched.” — pg.192

“‘You’re going to leave them here?’ That was Basta’s voice.” — pg.193 (at first I was like oh so he has a heart….but then he was mean to resa straight after this 🙄)

“‘Sorry, but he must have overlooked me, shut up in that cage as I was,’ purred Basta in his catlike voice.” — pg.377

“‘Wasn’t it Mortola who had you put in the cage to be fed to the Shadow?’ Basta just shrugged his shoulders and flung back his silver-grey cloak. Of course, he had his knife. A brand new one, it seemed, finer than any he’d ever had in the other world, and undoubtedly just as sharp.

“‘Yes, not very nice of her,’ he said as his fingers caressed the handle of the knife. ‘But she’s really sorry.’” — pg.377 (okay so it SOUNDS like he threatened/made some kind of bargain with his knife, but I strongly doubt that considering how afraid he seems of her?? i know he’s technically working for the adderhead but even by the end of the book, it seems he is far closer to mortola than adderhead. what is their relationship? or does he sincerely think she’s sorry/has deluded himself into believing such? UGH SO MANY QUESTIONS)

“Basta had always liked describing his own and other people’s abominable deeds in detail.” — pg.378

“‘But we’re not going to shoot you.’ Basta came a little closer to Fenoglio, his face as intent as that of a stalking cat.” — pg.378 …. living for all the cat references tbh

“‘He wants you to crawl on your belly to him, that’s what our noble lord and master likes. But never mind, he pays well!’” — pg.378 (yes basta all abt getting that bread LMAOOOO)

“He slowly drew the knife from his belt. Its blade was long and slightly curved.” — pg.379

“‘Hey Basta, I know you like the sound of your own voice.’” — pg.379 (AHAHAHAHA HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE CALLED OUT BASTA ON THIS NOW? IVE LOST TRACK)

“With a regretful sigh, Basta put the knife back in his belt. ‘Yes, very well, you’re right,’ he said in surly tones. ‘I need to take my time with this sort of thing. Questioning people is an art, a real art.’” — pg.380 (LMAOOOOOOO HE IS SUCH A DRAMA QUEEN)

“Basta. The same thin face, the same twisted smile. Only the clothes were different. Basta was no longer wearing his white shirt and black suit with the flower in his buttonhole. No, Basta now wore the Adderhead’s silvery grey, and he had a sword at his side. With a knife in his belt too, of course. But he was holding a dead chicken in his left hand.” — pg. 455

“‘Yes, they are!’ purred Basta. ‘The little witch, and the fire-eater into the bargain. It was well worth the wait. Even though I’ll probably never get that damned flour out of my lungs again.’” — pg.455 (ok….so who’s gonna draw basta sitting amongst the flour AAHHAHA)

“‘Servant? Who’s a servant here? Just listen to him. As bold as if he’d never felt my knife! Have you forgotten how you screamed when it cut your face?’” — pg.457 … don’t call basta a servant…..noted

“‘Oh, don’t look so disbelieving, little witch, I still can’t read and I don’t intend to learn, but there are enough fools around the place who can, even in this world.’” —pg. 457 (i wonder how much capricorn influenced basta’s views on reading. because capricorn said that he learnt how to read from a maid, right? so basta certainly wouldn’t have trash-talked reading in front of him. and even after living in OUR world for nine years, I’m still surprised that he never attempted to learn, given how dependent we are on it. anyway my headcanon is that he secretly wants to, but doesn’t want to give others the satisfaction of knowing they have something he doesn’t. also nobody he knows would be willing to teach him (unless he threatened them) bc of his obviously violent and short-tempered nature…and learning requires so much patience. still, though, would love a fic of basta being taught how to read in secret and having some kind of positive interaction)

“‘You’re even more talkative than you used to be, Basta.’ Dustfinger’s voice sounded as if he found this tedious.” — pg.458 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH IM DYING. honestly the animosity between them was just. A+++

“Basta was in an even worse state. He was sitting close to Mortola, his face so red and swollen that Meggie almost failed to recognise him. But he had escaped death once again. Perhaps the good-luck charms he always wore worked after all.” — pg.526

“The sunlight falling into the room made Basta’s face look like a boiled lobster.” — pg.575 

“Basta put his hand to the amulet hanging around his neck. It was not a rabbit’s paw, as he had worn in Capricorn’s service, but something that looked suspiciously like a human finger-bone.” — pg.581 (THIS STILL IRKS ME SO MUCH)

“The Piper straightened his back, as ready to attack as the viper on his master’s coat of arms…He was a good head taller than Basta.” — pg.582 WHY DO I KEEP FORGETTING HES NOT TALL LMFAO

“The two men were standing so close that the blade of Basta’s knife wouldn’t have fitted between them.” — pg.582 HAHAHAJAHAAJAHAHHAAHAHAHAH PKESJENE I LOVE THIS SO MUCH … IMAGINE BASTA SQUARING UP W HIS NOSE JUST SMACK BANG IN THE MIDDLE OF PIPER’S CHEST OR SOMETHING

“The Piper struck Basta in the face so hard that his head hit the door frame. Blood ran down his burned cheek in a trail of red. He wiped it away with the back of his hand. ‘Take care to avoid dark corridors, Piper!’ he whispered. ‘You don’t have a nose any more, but one can always find something else to cut off.’” — pg.582-583 THIS SCENE WAS SIMPLY……CHEF’S KISS

are you serious is he dead??? WHAT. okay I knew dustfinger’s love for farid would be the end of him and basta being the instrument to rip that away from him was totally heartrending. i WISH it had been more climactic? like dustfinger unleashing his fury and fighting basta, blind with anger and grief. THE DIALOGUE POTENTIAL BETWEEN THEM AS THEY FINALLY TALK ONE-ON-ONE, and then some revisiting of the scene where dustfinger has the opportunity to kill basta but AGAIN withholds because killing is not in his nature….THEN MO IN SHINING ARMOUR SWOOPS IN TO DO THE JOB

now, off to inkdeath!

#inkspell #inkspell spoilers #basta #inkheart trilogy #BASTAAAAAA

[melody-of-lost-souls]

Hey,

I don’t know where it was stated—but SS fans bring it up all the time. Apparently, Sasuke would bring Sakura back to life if she were to die, and use that against us sns shippers, saying he wouldn’t do that for anyone but Sakura…Ahem, last time I checked he was ready to die with and FOR Naruto. As shown in the wave ark, and at their final battle. And stated that “Everything would be pointless” if Naruto were to die during that one dudes fight in brouto(I forgot his name). I’m not sure if he was referring to the battle itself, and how if Naruto were to die that it would literally be pointless, and the guy they were fighting would of course win whatever he was trying to win I forgot lol. Or, if he was referring too how losing Naruto would make everything pointless—his will to live, to continue fighting for the village, etc…

Anyways, I don’t know if they got that from that horribly written novel?? How they consider that canon or even remotely in character is beyond me… But the fact it wasn’t even written by kishimoto, and they’re so passionate about this novel, and are one hundred percent sure that ff is canon…Is delusional. Enjoying the novel is one thing—but forcing it on others despite the fact the original creator of Naruto hadn’t written it is absolutely ridiculous. How can they be so confident if the CREATOR of the show didn’t even write it??? The creator of the characters knows them better then anyone yet they’re sooooo sure that they’re in character in this novel. NO they’re sometimes not even in character in Boruto!!! But they’re too blind to see that because anything that aids to their precious ship makes them want to piss there pants. LIKE even if there was a sns moment that didn’t really make sense and was ooc I wouldn’t go and piss myself over it!!!! I would simply enjoy it momentarily! But they can’t let this novel go—and shove it in my face everywhere I go! They downplay absolutely everything that happened in The manga—and say “well in the novel—” LIKE STOP!!!! Ugh, anyways, sorry for ranting…You can ignore all that and just answer my initial question. Thank you!!!

Hello anon! I was writing a whole ass answer and this shit of pc got crashed. So i will try to summarize it cause now i am lazy xD

So yes it's true that fact about Sasuke saying well he didnt say but the author was pretty obvious about his thoughts (cause she DAREEESSS to write this monstrosity from Sasuke's pov) that he would revive Sakura if she dies

"If she cooperated to revive the beasts, and if her corpse could be found... he could revive her and see her again.

"You were going to try to revive her... using the reanimation jutsu..."

Noticing Sakura's expression, Gigi couldn't help but let out a small laugh.

—Aww, don't be so hurt, Sensei. Do not look at me like that. I really wanted to see her...

last time. Even if she was forced with a forbidden jutsu. Sasuke... if you were In my shoes, wouldn't you have done the same?

"..." Sasuke remained silent. He really couldn't say that he wouldn't do it. the same.

I thought back to my meeting with Itachi, when he was brought to life through Edo Tensei.

It is an irreplaceable memory of him. I thought just a few moments talking to him they could dispel any misunderstandings. Even if it was up to the

Edo Tensei. If he ever lost my wife... who knows if he might do the same decisions that Gigi at that time

So yeah, but this is purely from the novel Sasuke retsuden WHICH IS NOT CANON. Ofc SS love this novel because is the only romantic material they can have since they have nothing and only indiference in 699 manga chapters which are the canon ones. SS will fight cape and sword saying this thing is authentic and how kishimoto drew the -poor- cover of the novel.

Sasuke turned to face Gigi.

“...My body moved without thinking.

Occasionally, unintentional feelings lead people to take actions

unexpected. Sasuke thought of when he jumped in front of his best friend to receive the blow of Haku's needles.

At the time, I genuinely wondered why I did it, but now I know.

He may have lost his way in the past, but Naruto had always been the one.

Sasuke's best friend. They were reasons that exceeded logic.

He didn't think that Gigi had the same emotions that Sasuke had for Naruto with

Menou, Ganno or Penjira. She though she probably carried some sort of attachment. Its funny because the author has some parts in her writing where even she cannot explain SNS bond saying for example that Sasuke gave his life for Naruto without reason, and they exceeded the logic

And If they were just friend and best friend, how he cannot find a reason? How his "friendship" for naruto exceed the logic? Which logic man? Also, what kind of emotions you have for Naruto then? Anyway that's it, that statement is from Sasuke retsuden novel, they will use it against us because ofc they will is the only moment where sasuke could dare to do something for Sakura. About the Jigen fight.

I didnt read the manga cause...Ikemoto draws ugly(?) But I saw the canon anime episodes so i will speak from that perspective. Sasuke repeats this sentence twice. Once he said it against Momoshiki, in the movie and also in the canon episodes (if I'm not mistaken but the movie is also canon to the manga so) And then he repeated Vs Jigen.

First he said "You know if you die everything will be lost, dont you?"

vs jigen he said "It will be all hopeless without you" Which Naruto repeated "I think the same about you" So. I think they /he said in 2 senses. One is very obvious (but a bit ambiguous) that they are the most powerful men in the world, so if one of them dies...well WHAT DOES HAPPEN TO THE OTHER? I WONDER? I really wonder why Sasuke feels so insecure if Naruto dies (we know the answer) But he is as powerful as Naruto. He has rinnegan and Sharingan he has THE POWER to control Naruto's Kyuubi. So why does he think is all hopeless withouth Naruto? Of course the task would be harder without him, keeping peace but...he has kakashi, shikamaru, a bunch of great shinobis who will follow his rules since he is the other half of Naruto and since Naruto gave him the authority and same "power" as a Hokage so...Why so insecure? I get the same feeling as when you life partner is not there so you not feel able to do some things you used to do both together.

Also, Sasuke in his teens when he tried to kill Naruto in vote2 in that moment he didnt care about this topic. Kaguya existence was already in that world, so he would have to deal with that alone and still he resolved to kill naruto to not have his beloved one in his way to not get distracted. (when he wantd to receive all the hate of the world to become their only enemy...there wasnt room for feeling and receive Naruto's love) So why does he feels now insecure if Naruto dies? Sasuke here is in his 30's a much mature and powerful man. So Sasuke here feels insecure and feels weak if Naruto dies, and this speaks many levels about them. He ALWAYS felt weak around Naruto and without him. But when he is around him, he lets himself feels weak cause there is someone who can support him and give him strenght, is not a weakness that it hurts it's more of "i'll show you my weaknesses cause I know you won't hurt me". Nonetheless if Naruto is not there, then he will feel weak and insecure and would not be able to destroy these enemies. Sasuke is holding onto Naruto's dreams and they are sharing them, but if the blonde dies...despite Sasuke will inherit his will and pass it to his (their) son...Still he has not the same determination as Naruto. So, in my opinion is an ambiguous sentence (as a lot of them that there are in this manga) which means that yes if Naruto dies then everything is pointless since nobody would be able to defeat the enemy (despite is boruto the one who has to defeat them since he is the mc lol) and its also about how hope will be lost for sasuke if his sun dies. (which is metaphoric too, what happens if we dont get our lightsun? )

#sasunaru #sns #narusasu #sns naruto #naruto #sasuke

[the-redeemed-anon]

Ayup I decided to make an AU lol

Yup, title says it all. So I was watching some Pokemon videos on YouTube and I went Hey what if I made an AU of Wilbur getting isekai’d into a Pokemon game?

So I went ahead and did that. Wilbur got isekai’d, after Phil killed him, into Pokemon Insurgence, a fan game known for its difficulty and dark story mainly because I don’t own any of the official games lmao.

Oh but here is the catch: it’s a Nuzlocke :)

Details under the cut for what a Nuzlocke is, how the story is a little changed and a poll to choosing the Starter for this AU, because I am actually playing this run, so anything that happens in my run happens to Wilbur:

1. What is a Nuzlocke?

A Nuzlocke is a challenge type of run in Pokemon games where the player must add some rules to increase the difficulty of the game. I will be doing the standard Nuzlocke run, so here are the basic rules:

The player must catch only the first wild encounter per area. If the wild encounter faints, the player can’t catch any other Pokemon in that area.

If a Pokemon faints, it is considered dead and must be deposited in the PC in a box, never to be used again.

A Nuzlocke would usually end if your whole party gets wiped in one battle, but due to the increased difficulty of this game, I’ve chosen to modify this rule as the following: Under normal circumstances, if the party gets wiped, I get to train another team and retry the battle that wiped the previous team. If, however, the lost battle happens at a point in time where by the story’s logic, I should be fighting for my life (like say, in a battle against the antagonists) then it is considered that the player was killed.

As you can see, this will be hard. And because my adventure will be Wilbur’s... yeah, he needs a lot of luck on that part. Many Pokemon will die. He will not have a good time, oof.

2. What’s this AU about?

So the basic story of the game is that you’re a kid with amnesia who has to fight some cults while doing usual Pokemon adventuring. That’s the jist of it. Wilbur gets isekai’d in this world somewhere around the beginning town, and he basically goes along with oh I forgot everything because that’s more believable than him saying that he died to his dad’s sword a minute before. I will update this AU often I feel, especially if people engage with it, so I will try to explain the story (or at least the slightly modified version of it to fit Wilbur) as i make posts and progress through the game.

Anyway, I want to make this a little interactive, so if there are any important choices I will post polls for it and you guys can interact with the story through asks. Ask questions, suggest names for the team, suggest strategies, do anything basically lol. Oh also if anyone has an idea for a name for this AU, please suggest one.

So, to finish the post, I played up to the Stater choice. I made a poll for it, with a little explanation on context for the choice, as it is a moral dilemma in the game. I will check it again in a day, and if it’s a tie, i will make a tie breaker poll, if it isn’t, I’ll announce the Starter that was chosen. Anyway, I hope this will be fun for you guys because I am excited!

https://forms.gle/3WqaskNdWhQmSuW58

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