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ravenrambles6229 · 9 months

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hi yeah so i was thinking about legacyverse tournament of elements

wrote a little thing set in @the-ninja-legacy-whip ‘s universe. Where Tox and Cole meet each other on the ship to Chen’s island, because the plot bunny wouldn’t leave me alone and I am fickle.

sorry for inevitable inaccuracies. i am the fool. here for a good time not a dignified time

Rockshoot the shit

So Kai was fighting his teacher. And Cole had to admit, he was kind of into it. Even if Karlof wouldn't be his personal teacher of choice for which one to duel if given the opportunity when he was still stuck in school.

Now, Cole thought that was where the novelty would end in this absolute rollercoaster of a day, but he was wrong.

He was watching Kai's fight-- as was always the case when Kai fought, it was a flashy, acrobatic affair. Karlof was an absolute truck of a man, but the master of fire was a menace of his own. However, that menace was not exactly great at directing his ire when caught in the moment-- Jay barely managed to duck out of the way of a fireball.

"Hey! Make hot shots, not pot shots!" Jay yelled in an indignant tone. Lloyd snickered besides him. Sensei Garmadon just pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed.

"I don't need your backseating!" Kai shot back, just in time to totally misjudge the speed of a punch from Karlof, which sent him flying back and off the upper deck.

Jay ran to where Kai flew over the deck and called down. "Are you crazy sure!?"

"Move it, Motormouth," Cole said, pulling him to the side before Karlof could steamroll him as he chased Kai. Jay swatted him aside and went to follow Lloyd and the sensei to the lower deck, where they could definitely hear Karlof and Kai continuing to raise hell.

Cole was going to follow, see. That was his plan. Except that a very familiar shade of green caught his attention. He had to do a double-take.

"Tox?!"

Tox Ikita was leaning against one of the ship walls. She popped some bubblegum in her mouth and gave a single, saluting wave. "Was wondering when you were going to notice."

Granted, they had seen each other like, yesterday when Cole was working. But seeing her here felt not unlike meeting her in the Underworld or Caves of Despair. But also, the metalshop teacher was here, so who was Cole to actually be surprised? "What… are you doing here?!"

"Same thing as you, probably," she said in a breezy tone with a smile that told him she was totally enjoying his bewilderment.

"You're an elemental-- wait-- that explains the eyes-- I just thought they were contacts!"

She propped her hands behind her head. "And what did you think the rest of the green was?"

Cole couldn't help but gape. "That's what those spots are? I thought you said they were tattoos!"

"Did you believe that?"

"Well, no, but I didn't…" Cole pressed his palms into his eyes. "Creation's sake, I'm an idiot."

Now, whatever was going on with Kai must have been exciting, because a moment later, he was flying back up the stairs. He caught himself on the railing and took several hops back, only to double take when he also saw Tox.

"Cole? Isn't that your friend from that Rockrock club?!"

Tox smirked and clapped a hand on Cole's shoulder. "Rockshot. How's it going, Hothead? Still staying out of trouble?"

There was a sound not unlike a stampeding elephant from below deck. Kai jumped onto then off from the railing just in time for Karlof to barrel right through it with the eagerness of a Lloyd in a candy store. Kai landed on Karlof's back, fire licking his clothes as he attempted to melt through the protective sheen on his former teacher's body.

"Oh yeah!" he called. "No cleaner nose than--" unfortunately for him, that was when Karlof managed to shake Kai off-- he slammed into the wall, right between Tox and Cole. They could hear it crack from the force. "...Mine."

"Need a hand?" Cole figured he'd offer. Sensei Garmadon probably wouldn't be thrilled with two of them picking a fight, but also it was better than Kai hurting himself this early on.

However, he didn't have to walk that line. Kai punched his flaming fist into his palm. "No no, I'm good. All warmed up. Fired up. Whatever."

With that, Kai shouted a hearty "Ninjaaaaa gooo!" and took off after Karlof.

"Never a dull moment with you, is there, Charcole?"

He rolled his eyes and leaned against the wall next to her. "You have no idea." He hummed and rapped his fingers against his arm. "So, you're an elemental master?"

"Yep. Honestly, I'm surprised you didn't know that already."

"Look, I've been busy, the club is dark, and you're like, not even in the top fifty for weirdest characters that hang out in that place."

She snorted. "True that." Another pop of her gum. "Anyway, master of lightning, right?"

"Oh yeah," Cole replied quickly. He made two finger gun motions at Karlof, who was currently taking swing after swing at Kai, only to learn just how slippery the fire ninja could be when he put his mind to it. "I look at all the bad guys and just zap zap zap."

Cole was about to ask what element she controlled, only to realize just how dumb of a question that would have been. "Oh. Element of poison. I probably should have guessed. Explains the vials. And the name."

Tox gave him a mock glare. "Glass houses, Brookstone."

"Hey, I'll throw all the stones I want. It's kind of my thing."

She tipped her head back and laughed. Cole couldn't help but chuckle at how absurd it all was.

Somehow, Kai got a good hit in on Karlof, and this time it was his turn to get sent flying to the lower deck. He could see Tox's expression sober.

"Did you get an offer to drag you here, too?"

Cole felt a pang of… something. Not quite hope, but not quite despair, either.

"Zane."

"The ice one, I assume?" she looked away. "It's a nice statue."

"Yeah… I just… I don't know if I can believe he's alive. We… we saw it happen. I mean, I want him to be alive, of course, but if this is all just some cruel trick--" he paused. "Wait… why did you come here?"

Her expression tightened. "This Chen guy makes a lot of promises."

"Oh."

She chuckled. "Just so you know, I don't plan on letting you and your little crew win. I happen to have a vested interest in winning this tournament."

Cole couldn't help but feel disappointed. "Even if it's to save the ice ninja?"

To save a hero? Someone Cole cared about?

"Nope."

Before Cole could protest, she held up a hand and glanced around-- most of the staff seemed preoccupied by the big shiny show that Kai and Karlof were putting on.

"But here's the deal."

He waited for her to continue.

"Let's say this Chen guy isn't lying, and that he does have your friend. That means he's holding him captive, right?"

Cole swallowed hard and nodded. He felt a knot in his stomach.

"Well, in my book, nobody that keeps one of the heroes of Ninjago captive for the sake of holding a game show is worth listening to." She crossed her arms and smiled. "So as far as I'm concerned, this guy is asking for it."

Cole raised an eyebrow. "Where are you going with this, Tox?"

"We'll get to this stupid little island, and we'll fight in this crazy guy's game. And we'll both do our best. Winner helps the loser get what they came for, yeah? No reason this has to be a zero-sum when the person running it obviously sucks."

He felt a warmth in his chest that had been missing for… a while now, he realized.

The guys were with him, and Cole was with them, one-hundred percent. But nothing was the same without Zane. Everything had just felt wrong. Emptier. Colder. For all of them. With Zane gone, everything had felt so much more hostile. Like the entire world was out to get them. Like one moment of weakness would be all it'd take for Cole to lose even more loved ones.

Cole smiled. "Sounds like a deal." He offered her a fist bump, which she accepted. "After all, us Rockshot DJs have to stick together, right?"

"You know it! Now c'mon, I wanna see who wins," she replied, guiding him to the circle that had formed around Kai and Karlof's fight on the lower deck.

"Oh, Kai is going to wipe the floor with him. Dude survived an exploding volcano. This is nothing."

Tox laughed. "For real? And here I thought the legends about the Spinjitzu Masters were all exaggerations. You have to tell me the stories sometime!"

Maybe they wouldn't be so alone after all.

#the-ninja-legacy-whip #my writing #plot bunny #ninja bunny #cole brookstone #cole ninjago #tox ninjago #let them be bros #i love them your honor #hippity hoppity my brain is your property #i am beholden to the plot bunnys whims #sorry for the mountain of inaccuracies #but i wanted to write banter and besties #im hcing that instead of the lumberjack thing that cole goes back to rockshot after zane eats shit #poor guy #poor blorbo she said with a smile

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boyinthevoide · 2 years

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Does anyone else have a weird amount of attachment to the trope of like, a BBEG having two or three super henchmen? Where they're minibosses that upon defeat, make giant claims like "Oh, the hag will sow your blood across fields of bone and make lasagna with your spleen".

This is why I'm writing a D&D campaign, with a hag BBEG, who has three henchmen, who weirdly ended up having a "brains brawn and beauty thing". Not sure how, but I think it's cool.

So I'm going to braindump about them.

First chronologically is Lagon, the brawns. He's a hobgoblin who was wandering around looking for something to fight and got enchanted by this hag (who's name is Lothe, by the way). He's the first boss and comes with a whole slew of goblinoids, mainly so I can throw off my players before being like "Surprise! It's actually an evil witch!"

Second is Tirra, the brains. She's a fallen aasimar, who looked for power and found it. She's a warlock of the Archfey, and gained her powers from Lothe in exchange for undying servitude. She comes with a lot of undead. Not sure why, just does.

And finally is Saim, a changeling who has the whole beauty thing in the bag. They're one of those, like, diva villains. Big Disney villain vibes. However, they're also a werewolf who sought Lothe's help undoing the curse, and Lothe's a hag and a bitch, so she went "Hah fuck no hippity hoppity your free will's my property"

Also I feel like Knucklebones is the most important character. They're Lothe's cat. In the sense that, Lothe found a rotting cat corpse and went "ooo pet" and now there's a zombie cat that hates the world.

#dnd #brain dump #hah i love these guys #so dysfunctional #so cult of the lamb.#which i still haven't played and want to.

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elfdragon12 · 3 years

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@sweetgums the worst sin was out of all the chages, yako's character suffered the worst.

Oh yes! Which I think is actually related to the fact they changed how her father's case went! And a lot of the other cases!

Also... This ended up turning into a little essay... Sorry bout that. You got me thinking about where the anime went wrong as an adaptation.

In the manga, her father's case is solved right away and, afterwards, Yako's like "huh! That was really interesting and I'm glad that happened. I just wish I'd been more useful!", then Neuro pops his head back in and goes "hippity hoppity, your time is now my property". The more mysteries she experiences, the greater drive she has to be involved. She's self-motivated... Kinda. I think the chapter just after she meets X (I just reread it, so it's fresh in my brain) for the first time shows the audience that, sure, Neuro is dragging her along, but she does actually want to be a part of this.

The writers for the anime, however, seemed to decide that Yako having a genuine interest after getting a taste wasn't a strong enough motivation to deal with Neuro. Which... I love Neuro, but I don't think I'd want to experience him. It's understandable, however, having her motivation for being involved rely on waiting for Neuro to solve her father's case does make her own characterization and growth suffer.

Besides changing the mystery of her father's death, I think pushing back the Aya Asia case was a big sign that the anime did not care for Yako's development. The two anime original mysteries following episode 1 were nothing but fluff. The Hime case in particular was a waste! If Matsui had written it, I'm sure he would have had things to say about parasocial relationships! It also could have been an easy way for Yako to get more involved in the cases rather than having her wave it off "oh, I'm not good at that sort of thing". The Comedy case... I don't know how you could really salvage that one to be narratively useful... Maybe use that one to tease X before officially introducing them?? But pushing Aya off until episode 10 was Not Good.

The anime only had 20-some episodes versus the manga's 202 chapters. They should have made every single episode count. However, there are at least 4 anime original mysteries (ugh, the lake one) plus the hot mess of an ending.

Also... I'm gonna throw it out there, the anime also cheated Neuro out of his character progression too. Not as badly as Yako, but yes... And I think Godai, too. As the arc with Mochizuki and the Hayasaka brothers was a pivotal moment for his character. Everyone was robbed! I don't think we even got to see how truly unhinged Sasazuka can be! But Yako did suffer the worst. Like, Matsui was out here doing the Lord's work in the mid-00s, giving us a female protagonist in Shonen Jump with amazing character growth and not sexualizing her or giving her a bad romance subplot (even if most of the fandom ships her and Neuro anyway) and the anime just has to go and mess that all up!

Madhouse! Please remake this series! It's been over 10 years and you can use the success of Assassination Classroom to advertise it!

#sweetgums #response #essay post #Majin Tantei Nougami Neuro #MTNN #long post

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hamliet · 3 years

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I’ve just seen the episode and honestly good thing about it was Watts and your meta. As always it’s very interesting.

But I’m super disappointed in how ironwood had been written. Like I can live with the dark sun ideology. To live someone has to die. Mors tua vita mea. And that’s who he’s supposed to be: the tin man have no heart after all. I’d aspect full logic from him. However... his actions are extremely illogical, as just run by fear. The reason the conflict between Ironwood and the team started is that he didn’t have much firepower and time to laugh amity because Salem was knocking at their door. While he was right , the previous criteria is time and possibility. He had no time for help, no time to call anyone , no time to evacuate everything , not time to lauch amity no nothing. Ironwood made a strategic and traige like decision which the team dislike.

But now ironwood has time. And possibility. He could evacuate mantle or at least evacuate the most of it. He can make a new plan to keep Salem at bay. He can even compromise : telling ruby “ok, my first decision was very logic , but because the situation changed and we have time , I propose to make another plan”. And this is not because James must be good. But because he’s the logic one. Changing the plan because conditions changed is the most logic thing to do. But nope. Ironwood want to commit a mass slaughter because of ... what exactly? Handing the staff to Salem ? Why then he doesn’t bargain? Salem is ALWAYS accepting those who stop opposing her.

Like daaaaman it makes me eat my liver out of frustration! Ironwood needed a Thanos situation. He thought the universe can go on with so many people so he wants to kill half of it. Point is that there’s no other way to reduce mass population. He tried wars, he tried slaughter planet by planet , he can even try to reach but the problem won’t be solved. This is what Ironowood needed. Not.... this. I prefer your vision more but there’s absolutely nothing that can sustain it: it’s not a triage, it’s not one live and one die. It’s “I’m dumb and the show need a villain so hippity hoppity Salem, now the villain status is my property”.

I mean... Thanos could have created infinite worlds instead of zapping half the world, but sure, logic.

Haha, you’re entitled to your opinion! (I also have spoken before that I don’t think Thanos was well written.) I just don’t agree personally. I actually think Ironwood is one of the most well-written characters, albeit he is a tragic character.

I think the point is precisely that Ironwood is acting illogically. I actually don’t think he’s very logical in general--he likes to presume he is, for sure, he doesn’t rely on surface-level emotions, but he’s actually constantly at war with himself and with those around him whether or not he’s in an actual war. He’s always methodically planning because he’s terrified, not because he’s accepting that things will go wrong.

Fear is his defining trait, not logic. This has been consistent from the start of his arc, from his introduction even. The moment he entered the show, “war” got brought up by name. He was always existing in a state of “what if” but the “If” was always “when.” Fear is what drives Ironwood to do the dark things he does. He wants control (hence, the chess motif in Atlas) not because he’s a power-hungry maniac, but because control is an illusion that belays fear--but it’s just that, an illusion. It is tragic. We see him panic when things do not go according to plan and overreact (a trait the Ace-Ops also have) instead of trying to talk things out. Last time he bargained, a few things went wrong (all of which were fixable!) and he went nuclear, so it seems very in-character to me.

I was talking to @aspoonofsugar, who brought up that Ironwood is the opposite of Lionheart. They are both characters with fear at their core. Lionheart is the cowardly lion, who wants his courage back, while Ironwood is the tin man, who wants his brain. Both the Lion and the Tin Man in the original Wizard of Oz actually have these traits, they’re just not using them how they think they should be. The characters in RWBY have courage/a mind, but they’re choosing not to use them like at all because they’re bloody terrified. Fear brings the Grimm, after all.

I doubt Ironwood will end any differently than Lionheart, sadly. Ironwood is the antagonist of this volume, not Salem. He’s sympathetic and Salem is the overall villain of the story, but much like Cinder was the antagonist in the early volumes, Ironwood has stepped into the role of villain here. The end of this volume will likely be defeating him.

My post about the Dark Sun was not to indicate that Ironwood is knowingly plotting this out, but instead to illustrate where his arc is going. We’re in a Congelation/Sublimation stage of alchemy, which involves separating the weak from the strong, the parts that will coagulate into the stone from those that won’t.

I don’t have much hope for him.

#ask hamliet #rwby #james ironwood #rwby meta #rwby theory

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daisy--devil · 2 years

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Hippity Hoppity!

Your soul is now my property.

not really, I'm just recommending my Archive Of Our Own Account.

Check it out! I make lots of Omori Fics.

https://archiveofourown.org/users/DelightWriterAnon

LET'S GOOOO! WE'RE WRITING BUDDIES NOW! >:D I'LL BE SURE TO MAKE MY BRAIN REMEMBER TO READ SOME OF YOUR STUFF!! I HAVE SEEN BEE TALK ABOUT YOUR WRITING BEFORE I THINK AND I HAVE HEARD YOU ARE REALLY GOOD AT IT! :D (Jokes on you anyways, you cannot make something your property if it isn't there. /lh)

#windmill answers #me and the homies giving each other our writing projects B)

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ymorii · 3 years

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me: 👁👁

an idea for a story/manga: hippity hoppity, your brain is my property.

#original series #original concept #original manga #i am never safe 😔✌️#the manga brain worms... they come for me

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thepinkseat-askthemoonbunny · 4 years

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Fandom life be like: Hippity hoppity, your brain is now my property!

#fandom #fangirl #fanboy #harry potter #hp #versailles tv #versailles 2015 #versailles #netflix

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scales-and-feathers · 5 years

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Facts about the Amber Bentacourt prequels that nobody remembers and rightfully so

• Oberon has a girlfriend in the first chapter (and only in the first chapter) whom he supposedly loves so much he'd run into a burning building for her but then he's like. She dead. Omkay. I'll mention her sometime but I'm moving on. I have hot sisters who are the "examples of feminine perfection" and if they weren't my sisters he would have "lusted after them".

• somewhere Corwin with pretty tame "if only she were not my sister" and wholesome butterflies in stomach when Deirdre does him a kis on the forehead is facepalming through time and space

• Her name is Helda and the only line spoken by her is a sleepy sound and the only fact known about her is that she had a house, banged Oberon and is a deep sleeper after partying. Yeah. Also she's my favorite character

• in like the first chapter Dworkin comes over to Oberon like "hippity hoppity your time is my property you're in danger let's get out of here" and Oberon comes down to him after waking up from afterglow with Helda and he like

• he's um

• naked

• and also the afterglow took place in ahem a bED SOAKED WITH INSENCE SWEAT AND PERFUME like fucking do laundry people

• like he gathered his clothes when he was coming down to answer the knock but only put his pants on after talking to Dworkin for some time

• so it's like

• he's standing there talking serious drama with Dworkin and throughout he's just naked

• to quote one of my favorite reviewers , it's nudity that's pointless to the point when it's actually kind of surreal

• he also points out every article of clothing he puts on

• Dworkin comes to get him in a pumpkin-shaped carriage

• Oberon sees it move without horses and is like

• his sis Freda who meets him in the carriage she like

• she's a fashion disaster she wears a round red hat and her "slender fingers are covered in rings"

• Oberon's Shadow home country is called Illerium and the town he's residing in is like called Kingstown

• these goddamn prequels

• they've given me so many irks and also laughs and I'm like I didn't actually finish them I'm like at chapter four of this madness I'm gonna try to pull it through cuz like I've never laughed so much in my life but they also make my brain kinda shut off to the point where after some reading I'm rationalizing ',,,maybe this is good' like this book is an abusive partner that I want to see good in just cuz I've spend so much time banging it god damn it there has to be something good in it

#feathery blanky #blanky talks #chronicles of amber #the dawn of amber #john bentacourt #oberon #dworkin #helda #freda #corwin #deirdre

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