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xxlady-lunaxx · 6 months
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I can't | {InoTan(Zen)}
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Theme: Fluff and Angst
Note: The parantheses in the title (the InoTan(Zen)) is because this is mostly InoTan but Zenitsu is also partally involved in the relationship, except because this is mostly from Inosuke's POV (although 3rd perspective so uhm-) it mostly features InoTan rather than the full InoTanZen iykwim :>
Also major spoilers 😁 Idgaf there's probably spoilers in all of the one shots I write.. this one just has more bc of the ending of the manga- 😀 And I apologize if I get anything incorrect I haven't read the last book in a while ;-;
Tanjiro had always been easy to like. Even from the beginning, when he'd worried about Inosuke all the time. It was annoying, of course. But there was a small tug in his heart. Something that told him that this boy was different. And different in a good way. Tanjiro was constantly there for him, caring, worrying, it was just so.. comforting. A warmth that Inosuke liked. It was a soothing one. Sometimes it even gave him a feeling of nostolgia, although he was unsure why given that he'd been raised by boars who weren't exactly like this. 
Inosuke often found himself thinking about Tanjiro—something he hated catching himself doing, and always ended up being really flushed around Tanjiro for the next hour before he managed to keep himself collected again and back to his normal, chaotic self.
The two—or rather, the three, but Inosuke often favored Tanjiro over Zenitsu—grew closer over time and eventually a relationship sprouted from the roots of their friendship. The more time they spent with each other, the more time they made new memories with one another, the more the bud bloomed into a flower. And by then they started dating. It wasn't clear, at first, just.. a suggestion. An unspoken one. 
Small things; holding hands while they walked, sharing snacks, going on mindless walks together, etc. Eventually the flower buds pricked out more and they started doing bigger things. Hugs here and then, stolen kisses between missions. They were at first, just on the cheek. It had started when they'd been joking around and Tanjiro had taken Zenitsu's hand and kissed it, much to the blond's surprise. Eventually it became something normal to do. Take one's hand, or cheek, and kiss it. Just.. touches of affection. Not a lot, right? Just a joke? But it turned into more. More as in.. on the neck, collarbone, lips.. 
That's when it became abundantly clear that they liked each other. That's when the unspoken relationship came to be. They had something different. A secret they kept but none had ever said aloud. Sometimes, their conversations nearly led to the subject, moving dangerously close. But it was always turned away at the last minute and it was left untouched. The flower continued blooming as time went on. Eventually, Tanjiro decided to just straight up ask. 
One day, after a mission, the three had been walking home—home was just an abandoned house they had found and fixed up to liveable conditions—and they were talking. Tanjiro went off to the side to rest a little, put Nezuko down. While Inosuke and Zenitsu argued a little on the road, waiting for Tanjiro to catch his breath, the sweet boy was looking for some flowers. When he came back, he was adjusting Nezuko's box—as far as the other two could see. But then he pulled out the flowers and give them to Inosuke and Zenitsu. Inosuke had taken his in wonder; they were a bundle of blue forget-me-nots, beautifully intertwined with each other. He'd seen them all over the mountains where he'd lived and was very familiar with them. But for some reason, for some reason these were special. They were special because they came from Tanjiro. Then the young and wild boy looked up and his eyes met Tanjiro's, right before the other's eyes met Zenitsu's. Then Tanjiro uttered the words that are now engraved in Inosuke's mind, the words he would never forget and forever cherish. "Inosuke, Zenitsu, would you two.. be my boyfriends?" 
Tanjiro had said more. Went on with a rant—a cute one at that, Inosuke always loves listening to Tanjiro when he went on, rambling about whatever was on his mind. He found it adorable in some ways, although when anyone else did it he found it extremely annoying and boring—something about how it was okay if they didn't want to, it was okay if they said no, how he'd been thinking about this for a while, and so on and so forth. Inosuke heard none of it however, just staring at Tanjiro and how lovely he looked in the sunlight. Then Inosuke's eyes locked with Zenitsu's and they both grinned. Tanjiro was then smothered in a hug and the rest of his words were stopped in his throat as the other two embraced him, accepting the flowers and the question. They both loved him with all their hearts and wouldn't, even if it saved them their lives, have said no.
And so it went on. A tree now. Big and beautiful. Blooming flowers coating the branches. They spent a lot of time together. This time their relationship wasn't quite as secret as before. Their hugs in public were much longer, more prominent. 'Secret' whispered conversations were held more often. Hands clutching each other's hands were seen whenever they were together. And soon, the brief kisses hidden from the view of others became something none of the trio cared for the world to know about. Nezuko had been delighted at the three's revelation, how they'd gotten together, all of it. She loved how it made them all seem closer, as well, how they felt more like family with every minute.
But of course, good things always come to an end. 
Inosuke found himself in a difficult position. Tanjiro or himself. Tanjiro or himself. Tanjiro or himself. Tanjiro was a demon. Stronger than Muzan. He had to move. Cut the head. Weaken him. Just move!! Cut his head off. Now! Move! Why.. why can't he? Is it because.. because he was his boyfriend? Because they were more now? Because he didn't want to lose all he had? All he'd gained? All the love.. the happiness.. everything.. everything he fought for.. gone? No.. he couldn't.. he couldn't do this.. no.. please.. don't.. don't make him make such a terrible decision.. True.. Tanjiro was a demon now, he could regenerate.. but Inosuke would never forgive himself if he hurt Tanjiro. No. He couldn't. He.. just.. couldn't.. And he felt himself pulling away. Moving out of harms way. But Tanjiro was faster, pinning him down. He heard somebody call to him. The Hashira. The Half and Half Haori Hashira.. What was he saying..? 
"CUT OFF HIS HEAD, HASHIBIRA!!"
No.. no.. he.. it was too hard.. Then he let out a strangled cry as Tanjiro went for his neck.
"I'm sorry.. I can't..!" he whispered.
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Stop I actually feel bad for writing this 💀
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shallowvenus · 3 years
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ka-tet
just finished reading the dark tower series and oh boy. oh boy.
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noonymoon · 3 years
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JUSTICE FOR JESUS — Misconceptions & Prejudices about the Faith in the Biblical Jesus Christ.
PART ONE: Christianity is not a Religion, it is God‘s plan to redeem mankind and have a relationship with us forever
I‘ve used to think that Jesus is about Religion, Church, Pastors, Dogma. When you look around in the world it makes sense: Everyone believes something different, all faiths are entirely valid for the people who practice them. Of course you throw Christianity in the same pot as Islam and Judaism, they‘re called „the Abrahamic Religions“ (because Abraham was the father of Isaac, who was the father of Jacob, and Jacob is „Israel“, but also Abraham was the father of Ishmael who was only born because Abraham and Sara didn‘t put their faith in God to have a child like God promised, they were impatient and didn‘t have faith, because Sara was already old and could actually not get pregnant anymore, so Sara suggested that Abraham should have a child with Hagar, the handmaiden of Sara; and from Ishmael‘s lineage basically the Arabs and Islam came along, since God had promised to make a great nation out of Abraham, this blessing went worth to both sons of Abraham) - so basically YES, Jews and Christians worship the same God. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, as it is written all over the Old and New Testament. The only difference is that Christianity has been infiltrated by Satan a loooong time ago, and Judaism (for the most part) rejects Jesus as their Messiah, even though Jesus was prophesied from the FIRST LETTER of the FIRST WORD of the FIRST BOOK of the Bible/Torah FOR the Jews! When he finally arrived FOR the Jews, the Gospel (the message of Salvation) was preached to ONLY Jews for 7 years (3 and a half years of Jesus‘ ministry, 3 and a half years after His death preached by His Apostles) and only THEN (after the Jews for the most part rejected the Gospel and persecuted everyone who believed in Jesus; our best example for this is the Apostle Paul who was actually Sha‘ul; he was formerly an extremely Jewish Pharisee who relentlessly persecuted Christians but then Jesus Himself appeared in a vision to Him and asked Him „Why are you persecuting me?“ and by seeing Jesus‘ glory and majesty, He was born-again and wrote ~70% of the New Testament) God decided to spread the message of Salvation to Greeks/Gentiles as well, because He wants to save all humans, and His chosen people would not do the work that He hoped they would. God‘s priority was always Israel until they have entirely rejected the Salvation that is ONLY found in God‘s Son, the Messiah, the Anointed One: Jesus Christ. Gladly there are a lot of messianic Jews nowadays who do their best to bring Israel‘s saviour to the Jewish people, just like it was supposed to be.
Every single Religion or Faith that there is that does not teach that you can find Salvation in Jesus Christ, the literal Son of God, will not give you peace, love and the Truth, will not give you Eternal Life (and if „Heaven“ and „Eternal Life“ sounds too ethereal for you try „different non-linear dimension“ and „consciousness transferred into a spiritual body“ - because THAT‘S how it was supposed to be before our Earth fell into a linear timeline, away from God‘s presence) and that‘s just how it is. There are tons of Religions, Faiths, even pretty much ALL Christian denominations and all the Christian cults, each one of them has a different way of denying the only thing that leads to Salvation: Jesus is the LITERAL only-begotten Son of the one true God & He died for our sins & was raised to life again by God the Father. Satan literally tries in ANY way possible to deny the LITERAL Sonship of Christ whose Father is God Almighty, YHWH. [...by the way, if you believe in that Zecharia Sitchin nonsense, please visit http://sitchiniswrong.com/ - by an ACTUAL scholar of Biblical Hebrew and of Ancient Semitic Languages]. And for the people who don‘t even bother with Jesus at all, he developed a plethora of options, to believe in something else, his first and only goal is to keep people away from Jesus, and he literally does not care how he accomplishes it. Every single Faith that does not lead to Jesus and into the Kingdom of God, has its roots in Ancient Babylon and leads into the Kingdom of Darkness. There are literally only two options, and that’s the absolute Truth, no matter if “truth” today is a “subjective matter for everyone”; that’s exactly what Satan wanted to achieve, and he sure did it. People are always extremely offended when Christians claim to have the only true God, the One who brought all things into existence despite the circumstance that they don‘t even believe in the FACT that we were brought into existence by this one God through Jesus Christ (who is the „Word of God“, and as you all know „God said: Let there be light, and there was Light“ - basically God spoke things into existence BY his Word, and his word IS Jesus Christ, the Son of God).
People rather believe in an extremely ridiculous and propagated concept of a „Big Bang“ that caused things to just „happen over time“, that our Earth is millions or billions of years old, that it is sheer „luck“ that we can survive because if we were just a tiny bit closer or less close to the Sun we would either burn up or freeze, that we evolved from ape-like men who were not very intelligible, that our extreme complex languages also probably evolved from ape-like sounds (you have no idea how ridiculous all of this sounds, when you are awake, I can‘t even type it without putting it in „quotation marks“, and you literally can NOT UNSEE the Devil’s work once your eyes have been opened) when there is literally an abundance of undeniable evidence that the Creation by an intelligent and brilliant God is a LOT more plausible; or let‘s say: there is a LOT of evidence that the public narrative is simply a deception (for example, tons of GIANT human bones have been found since at least the 1800s but of course not a single person informs us about stuff like this, and of course we don‘t make an effort to research it, because we‘re all brainwashed until we realize the Truth; people who study their Bible know EXACTLY who these giants were and they also know exactly who all those other spiritual entities are which we see in Mythology from ancient cultures) - and when the public narrative is a deception, the only logical conclusion is that something different must be true. And which book contains the entire story from the very Beginning to the very End of humankind, which fulfilled a massive amount of prophecy throughout human history 100% accurate, and is by „sheer conincidence“ the most translated and printed book of ALL time? Exactly! The Bible!
„In the beginning (TIME) God created the heavens (SPACE) and the earth (MATTER)“ — Genesis 1:1 
(parantheses added)
Isn‘t it AMAZING how the inspired Word of God through the Prophets conveys complex scientific concepts in only a little sentence? THAT‘S how incredible God is! He is a Mastermind and good beyond ANYTHING. Sadly Satan has accomplished that the world sees our Creator like a hateful, narrow-minded, strict and arrogant Ruler who just wants to dominate us and put His Religion on us, but that could not be further away from the Truth. God, in fact, HATES Religion, all He ever wanted is to be loved by His people, acknowledged by His people and praised by His people (and honestly, He DESERVES praise for Everything He has done for us and for Everything that He is!) .. And then of course, you can look all around in nature! I swear, being born-again is like being a child again, before this world and our „education“ brainwashes you. When I walk outside, I just MARVEL at God‘s handiwork, it‘s literally AMAZING. When I look at flowers, veggies, fruits, animals, insects of all kinds (I even lost my fear of spiders and wasps and even hornets, it‘s just amazing to look at them), when I taste different kind of nuts, herbs and spices (by the way, isn‘t it amazing how there‘s a herb or plant for every health issue a human can have, just like the Bible says? if we really evolved from a Big Bang to THIS, how do we explain the miraculous powers of all of these things? Have they just „happened“...?) look at the funny shapes of everything; everything just blows my mind, it‘s incredible. Someday I really want to ask God what He thought when He created Romanesco Broccoli because each time I see that thing, I just marvel at its weirdness and beauty. The world is just so ridiculously beautiful and NO ONE can see it except born-again Christians (I‘m really excited for eternal Life because this Creation is in a fallen state and the Bible says that the actual glory of the actual Creation is even more magnificent, WHOA...!!!) and I sometimes literally cry because it‘s SO SAD what Satan has made us believe about our planet, about ourselves, about literally everything. And why? Just because he hates Jesus, he hates God and he most certainly hates EVERYONE else, you, me, everyone. He loves only himself and he doesn‘t care if he‘s robbing us from the most astonishing experience ever: Life! He enslaves us through spiritual warfare to desires that we would naturally not have (social status, money, power, career, material objects of all sorts, fame, success, other people no matter how toxic they are for our health, drugs, likings and addictions of all kinds, literally ANYTHING can be the work of spiritual warfare) and makes us believe on top of that that we‘re just a bunch of random Apes in a random world, that our purpose is to make money and survive in a society that grows more and more into cold robots each year, only so that at the end, we die, never knew Jesus, and perish in Hell with him. It‘s literally the saddest thing EVER.
So yes, „Religious Freedom“ is a thing; everyone CAN believe whatever they want and feel drawn to, but ONLY born-again believers in Jesus Christ will live with God forever and ever in a different dimension that is not bound to time. Just like God wanted to live with us from the very beginning! We are His masterpiece of creation! Did you know that we are more cherished than angels? He sent his LITERAL SON to die for us, ALL of us, just so that we can live with God! Isn‘t that incredible??? I’m just absolutely in Love with God and Jesus and I’ve never thought that I’d EVER say this, growing up as an Atheist and then, over 2 years deceived in a spiritual bubble that is not even real.
My prayer is that the people who are written in the book of Life and belong to God’s kingdom find Jesus Christ, and experience His Love, because once you have, there is not a single day that is sad or empty, not a single day that seems pointless, you will have peace and a blessed hope for eternity to come. Amen.
TESTIMONIES
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Chinese Triad Gangster Finds Jesus In Death Encounters
SATANISM, WITCHCRAFT, DRUGZ, DEPRESSION this is my testimony
"New Age" Occult Practices Nearly Ruined My Life | Warning & Testimony
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pixs-pinings · 4 years
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Me? Interested in Persona 5? No wayyy...
Warning for long post!
I had this written differently before I accidentally closed this tab, but I recovered the infodump well!
So... Yeah, Ribbon! My Persona 5 SI, my Phantom Thief SI. Still want to work on a possible real name- I wanted to go with a continuation of the plot threads I thought of with my P4 si, but... nah. Two separate SIs. Even if P5 si was also from the real world, I want them to be different for. Reasons.
She would awaken in the same place as Makoto- Kaneshiro's palace. I want to slip her in somewhere, and I feel like that case would feel the most... Natural? After futaba, a lot of shit picks up, and, as seen with Haru, can be a bit awkward. (And... Yes. I'm going to try to make that arc...... Not Suck? Maybe keep Morgana self loathing but...)
As for her awakening itself... She and Makoto have similar reasons! Both of them were previously known as prim and proper students, but then awaken to a sense of Justice, and are able to go all out. After looking a bit into myself, I was like "wow Makoto really is sorta like how I would awaken maybe" because like... I want to fight against injustice and hatred in society, but I'm scared because of the law- and, like Makoto, in p5, I could snap past that. Fuck the law, I want to stop people from being HURT by society's ineptitude. Haha...
Also, a reason for the involvement in the first place- Kaneshiro's reach is... far. Its very possible that people in Kosei were affected- and, in fact, judging by Yusuke being able to gather information, they were. So... Say that one of Ribbon's friends were being used... selling her body, perhaps... Hmmm...
Yes, both Makoto and my p5 SI- can I call her just Ribbon for now?- are third year students at their school. Yes, for Ribbon's backstory, I think I want her to be a Kosei student! Maybe there because of an art scholarship- writing??- or maybe a financial education scholarship, or maybe just that whoever her guardians are, biological or not, they sent her to that school with the money they had. But... Third year. I am 19 irl- and she would be 18 during the majority of the story, turning 19 in that february because surprise I'm a February baby.
Oh, yes, and her costume! She's a magical girl. Supposed to be based off of one- I gave her ribbons and feathers and a poofy dress and high boots with thick soles and gloves... Also, her mask is simple, but... I had the base form of a butterfly, and added on some mask details and also feathers. The ribbons on the lower part of her dress are more noticeable, though. Hence, her name of Ribbon. Unless y'all can think of any better...
As for WHY magical girls? Well, she thought magical girls were cool! Yes, this reflects on me! Ribbon watched magical girl shows ever since she was a young child, and always got this idea of fighting off evil by using bright magic! And punches. And kicks. When Ribbon grew older, while she never grew out of it, she tried to keep it to the back of her mind. She always still kept an eye on one of the magical girl shows- hmm... Beauty Cure? Beaucure? (Yes. Based on Precure.) And it was pulled back to the front with her awakening, because that's always the type of stuff she liked believing in- a magical force of good fighting against forces of evil... OUTSIDE OF THE NORMAL FIGHT AGAINST EVIL SOCIETY TRIES TO DO... Yeah. Mhm. Doesn't that seem familiar.
Oh, yes, I'm going to call the SI by the name of Ribbon- still unsure of if I should use Pix or if I should make up a japanese name that fits a bit closer to my real one, haha.
Her role of the team is... Well, sorta like a magical girl? She has light attacks, which does include the instant kill ones later (points @ magical girls and the series having magical attacks be the magical girl's finishing move), but she also can serve another role... Providing Buffs and giving Debuffs. I mean, magical girl power ups over the season is like a buff... And their attacks debuff the enemy... I would be tempted to also give her some healing things... Maybe later. After all, there are buff moves that are like "gain all three buffs at once!" And she'll get those! So maybe she can also be the status healer...? Dunno. Haven't really watched battle gameplay of p5- even if it's fancy, its... Boring to watch. Oops. Battle dynamics...
As for who her Persona is... I haven't thought of it. I haven't even looked into it either. I was thinking... Her first Persona would be probably an ancient magical girl? Pfft. Funny to say it like that. Maybe a fictional magical girl who was definitely outside the bounds of rules. Maybe villain, maybe hero. Her second persona would... be a goddess. Not the goddess of Magic, since. (stares at Ann.) But. A goddess of something important. Light? Hmm.
Her weapon is... A staff. Kinda a stick, but also it IS something to hurt with. Swing it around, smack someone in the side or head... Use it to adjust your position... Twirling it around... A magical girl doesn't use conventional weapons.
Oh, yeah! Here's where I closed out of the tab by accident. I went to go look at something and my phone pulled a trick on me... Anyway, moving on...
Futaba Sakura is 4'11. Ribbon is 5'. Short squad! Ribbon is irritated about getting teased for it, but is indeed 18- during the story, anyway- and just... Hasn't. Grown. Makoto is 5 inches taller. Interesting.
Ribbon's (outside of battle) role is... well, data gathering, and plan pulling. Makoto thinks of the plans, and can, indeed, push them out to the team... But for group planning sessions, Ribbon is the one listening to everyone's suggestions, and then addressing them... and giving them to the leader to mull over, as well. Make sure everyone is heard.
Oh, idea there... Ribbon also, like me, used to be a theater kid! It helped her grow more used to people around her, more used to speaking, and also technical details on things. Even if she isn't all outgoing, she still shows influences of it with analogies she makes sometimes.
(Spoilers for P5... Brief Warning. Skip to next parantheses for past that spoiler gone.)
During the Phantom Thieves' plans to decieve Akechi into believing he is totally fooling them, Ribbon could easily be very important with that acting experience. While coming up with the plan, Ribbon will definitely state theater terms, backstage, actors, scene changes... And she will definitely help the others get more into character. Staring at you, Ann... For a more believable lie... pull forth a truth similar to this situation and keep that tucked next to your heart... say your lines... and then, when that's over, let it go.
(Spoilers over! Yayyy)
So. Have you guessed who i want to f/o yet? If the answer is yes, congrats, you ain't blind to subtext!
Ribbon's costume is definitely on the lighter side! And... Yes, its definitely pink based. Solid pink ribbons... Light, soft pink dress... A mainly pink mask... I do think the feathers are another color, with those little x marker things that most of the feathers belonging to sharing a similar color, though maybe a different shade. I am... Not good with costume design, though. The accents on her mask would be similar colors to it...
Her hair is black. Darker than Makoto's, yes. She is light skinned, with barely a tan forming on her. Her mask actually covers up her obvious freckles on her face! Her arms, however, still have their freckles showing. (Not in the picture, because i forget about my arm freckles a lot...) (Also not in the picture is the frills on her dress but shhhh)
As for her Confidant? Uh... Hmm... To get to know her... Oh! She can show you her art and writing, sort of brush off her achievements with it because haha not as good as Yusuke Kitagawa's more official art... And her confidant would be helping her tap more into her confident side, whether it be for her own personal projects, or even for her just in society in general! While not as bad as Futaba, she still doesn't like approaching other people... And when that happens, and maybe culminates in her verbally cussing at someone who's been pressing her down for a while now and getting them to lay off her thanks to that newfound confidence. Not a Mementos Target, though she does bring that up but brushes it off as 'just a petty bully thing', but something she deals with herself!
.... Oh, Arcana... Uh. I think... you know how the Jester arcana was like... Another version of the Fool? Wait, the Thoth deck doesn't have an alt Priestess...? Fuck. Uh. Congrats, Akira! You get SUPER DUPER PRIESTESS BONUS. ... Please help
For her Confidant Ability.... Probably something to do with her Magical Girl influnces? The first idea I thought of was like... being able to be a temporary "safe" zone- while in the palace, she could... extend her magical girl light out and create a Barrier that prevents the shadows from noticing her. It will always stay a temporary ability, of course, since otherwise would pribably negate difficulty? But the period would become longer as her confidant goes up. The period of time would be extremly cut down during the times of actually stealing a treasure- after all, the palace ruler is EXPECTING the phantom thieves. No amount of magical girl protecting light would hide that expectation... Or. Something like that.
Also, her last skill. Instead of being like... Making the ability of protecting/anti detecting light last practically forever, its a SUPER STRONG BATTLE ABILITY. What is it? Well... uh... Still have to decide. My current idea has to do with a magical girl blast. Like, activate her light ability right as you get into a battle, and that actually does something- fires a big blast as the battle starts and inflicts damage on the enemy... Hmm. That, or she gets a special version of the all out attack that always kills? Has to be her leading the all out attack, though. What do y'all think...?
Oh, speaking of all out attacks! Hers (or her normal one if I go with the second idea in the above paragraph) would have her landing, spinning around, and doing a sharp "v" pose with her fingers, standing tall and with a grin. Think... Uh... Sailor Moon? I looked up some images and a few I found, with the peace sign arm outstretched, fit that mental image. The other hand would be on her hip, and, of course, she would be winking. Ah, girl vibes.
Yes. I am aware that could be similar to Ann. When i thought of it, i was like "hmmm" but then was like "I do that! and also there's a different between a lean and a wink with the peace sign to your chin rather than a stand/slight slouch and a wink and a peace sign held upward rather than close to the body"
Also, her little line in the background would be "light has prevailed!" In like... Bubbly letters? And it looks like light is shining from behind the letters.
Sure, Ribbon would have a romance route with Akira... but I don't consider that canon. It would make sense that he could POSSIBLY fit my type? But. Nah. Not SUPER attached. Pal at most. Speaking from outside here... In game, with the friendship forming? Maybe so. Anyway, not canon.
Oh my god i just realized Queen and Ribbon have like... Opposite sorta aesthetics. Dark Biker to Light Mage.
Anything else I can think of... Oh, a spoilerly thing.
(I don't believe I can think of anything else to say, so for those who want to be unspoiled on certain things in p5, end of post is the next paranthesis. For others...)
For her reaction to the announcement of Akira's "suicide", it would be something like... Well... A hand to her mouth, and a furrow to her brow... but she doesn't sound like she is going to cry. Instead, she goes, "Ah...", like... Realizing. Like a "hmmm" tone instead of one trying to hold back tears. And then like... Ryuji's scene is after that. And those of you who have seen the scene know what the scene is. So like, if the player was confused by Ribbon, Ryuji smacks them with a direct confirmation.
(And... That's it! Sorry for the long post, I am both unsure of if the read more code trick works on mobile anymore and also am unsure of, if it does work, which version of the trick is the correct one. Because i remember two different versions. Fuck.)
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ncrcissam · 2 years
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conceal don’t feel don’t let them know.
date: january 25, 1979. a self para for @mementomori-rp .
tw: torture mention -- will put in parantheses .
Narcissa hadn’t wanted to go to Diagon Alley.
In fact, she would have preferred to stay in the Ministry, hidden away in what she was pretended was piles of work and what was really books she’d smuggled on time turning from the Malfoy library. There was little information on going back as far as she’d gone and even less on it being done to someone else and them remembering. The work was frustrating, and slow going, but Narcissa was determined. 
That didn’t stop the frustration that built in her day by day. She’d tried to bring it up to Lucius a few times now, and he’d looked at her as if she were insane. For a day or two, she thought she was going mad, but then a memory of Draco would pop up and she would know, instantly, that she couldn’t have just imagined all of that. No, Narcissa  had never been able to trust many people, but she had always been able to trust herself. Her own mind. She wouldn’t let Lucius’s words sway her.
But, the rumors started swirling around the Ministry, too, and it was enough to ground her. People were going to Mungo’s, but Lucius seemed to either have forgotten about her little questions, or was choosing to ignore them for his own image. Narcissa didn’t want to give away how she felt, but it was hard when no one else around her showed any signs of knowing, and anyone else that might would be a dead giveaway that she was having similar thoughts to those in Mungo’s.
And she did not want to go to Mungo’s.
It was that morning that she saw someone getting carted off, hands on either arm, anger clear in their face, that she knew she needed to keep her mouth shut. Still, there were fears. Narcissa hadn't seen Bellatrix yet, but she knew it would happen eventually. She’d always liked to get out of the house these days, away from Rodolphus, who was as evil as they came. Luck had gotten her so far, but it wouldn’t take her to the finish line, she knew. 
So, when Lucius showed and asked to have lunch, Narcissa had to agree. Why else would she say no? Why else would she turn him down publicly? They were in Diagon, the two of them, and Narcissa could get through that. She’d gotten through it for weeks now, even if she’d been careful to avoid his advances; careful to find excuses for why she didn’t want to go to bed, or why she was going to bed early, in a lot of cases. That wouldn’t go on forever, either, she knew, but Narcissa was getting away with it for now. 
They made it to the restaurant, Lucius pulling her chair out for her as she sat and plucked at the napkin on the table. It wasn’t pleasant, and for the most part, all she could think about was how Lucius, when he smiled, sometimes looked enough like Draco that it made her heart want to burst. It was lucky, really, that Narcissa smiled back when he smiled; luck that kept her laughing at the right moments and chatting as if it were a normal day. 
They’d made it through tea when luck, it seemed, deserted her.
Bellatrix sauntered in, giggling about something to Lucius as she kissed Narcissa’s cheek. Lucius may have noticed the flinch; may have noticed the way Narcissa’s eyes did not leave her sister’s face, scanning that openness there. Tears might’ve sprung to her eyes, if she wasn’t so shocked by the icy fear that gripped her soul now. Bellatrix was ruined by Azkaban, but had always had the capacity, she supposed, for destruction. Still, the Bellatrix that returned from Azkaban wasn’t a person any longer. She was chaos. Evil. There wasn’t love in that person; not in a person who would hurt even Draco if it meant helping the Dark Lord push their agenda. She’d mourned Bellatrix long before her actual death, but seeing her now all she could think about was the Bellatrix she’d known. The one who held a dagger to her son’s throat. Who pointed a wand at him when he wouldn’t kill Dumbledore. 
They finished lunch and had made it to Flourish & Blotts when it happened. Bellatrix was talking to the shopkeeper about how ridiculous it was to have the Muggle section so close to the front window when Lucius asked if she’d wanted to go to the beach house that weekend. The waves already were beginning to crash in her ears when Bellatrix had sauntered back over and asked if she and Rodolphus could come too. Narcissa remembered this weekend. ( Remembered how Rodolphus had taken an innocent muggleborn and his girlfriend who had stumbled into the property and used cruciatus on them. Bellatrix had practically cheered him on while she and Lucius had retreated back to the house. She’d spent the better part of the night in the bathroom, sick with the thought of it all, but she hadn’t done anything. Narcissa had been complicit in al of the horrors, and this time… God… )
“Enough,” she said, louder than she’d meant to, her eyes wild as she looked at Bellatrix. “I will not have you join only to go off on some muggleborns.”
Bellatrix raised a brow, looking to Lucius. “And since when did you care about the fate of a random mudblood?”
Realizing what she’d said, Narcissa tried to backtrack for a moment, “Oh, there’s always someone with you.”
A scoff. “What in the hell has gotten into you?”
It was such a simple question, but Naricssa couldn’t help but feel herself teeter over the edge with it. No one had asked, not yet, and it was like being asked sent her falling, limbs flailing. “You want to know?” Her voice rose. “You really want to know what’s gotten into me? Because, if you do, I’ll only tell you how I didn’t want to go on this bloody weekend trip, and how, last time, you tortured two innocent people just for accidentally stepping foot on our beach. If I were to tell you that, you would cart me off to Mungo’s with the rest of the psychopaths, as Lucius so wonderfully calls them.” Icy gaze fell on her husband who balked at her. 
“Narcissa, not here—“
“Why? Because it’ll ruin your precious, precious image? I’m so sorry, Lucius. You don’t want me to tell people about how even you couldn’t stomach Rodolphus’s toture? God forbid, if someone suspects that maybe, just maybe, you have a heart or a soul.”
And then Bellatrix’s hand was on her arm, trying to calm her. It was what she’d always done since they were a child. A gentle touch. Simple, and effective. They didn’t hug. They didn’t show affection any other way, but if one of them was about to fly, a hand could bring them back to the ground.
This time, Narcissa felt her feet spring from the ground like a Quidditch broom taking flight.
( She slapped Bellatrix’s hand away, the feeling of her touch bringing up the memory of Bellatrix’s hand on a dagger; hurting that poor Granger girl. And then, afterwards, going after Draco, blaming all of their misfortunes on him, a hand around his throat, the other on her wand. ) “Don’t you dare touch me!” she screeched, backing away, meeting Bellatrix’s bewildered gaze. They both huffed for a moment, and Narcissa vaguely registered that Lucius had disappeared. “Get your hands. Off.”
Her sister held her hands up in surrender, and Narcissa huffed, flicking a hair out of the way. “I’m going to go home now,” she said. “And if you follow me, you will find that the wards are up.” There was something akin to hurt in Bellatrix’s features, but she couldn’t help it, couldn’t help the anger that rose in her like a wave. She’d never gotten to talk to her sister after that moment; never saw her again before Molly Weasley killed her. Now wasn’t the time, she knew, and this Bellatrix hadn’t done anything to her family, not yet. But that didn’t stop the fact that some version of her had; that didn’t stop the fact that somewhere in Bellatrix’s heart, there was a darkness even Narcissa couldn’t fix.
Feet moved to the store’s exit, only to be stopped by Lucius and two other men. Healers. Her eyes flickered to her husbands and she barked out a laugh. “Oh come on,” she hissed. 
“You wanted to make it public,” he shrugged, gaze flickering back to the men. They said nothing else as strong hands wrapped around her arms and she glared at the both of them, pulling her arms out of the grip and turning on her heel, leading the Healers to the Floo herself. They wanted to send her to Mungo’s? Fine. She’d go and prove there was absolutely nothing wrong with her. They couldn’t keep her locked up forever, fortunately. 
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MCHANZO AU WHERE MCREE IS A STUDENT LIVING IN JAPAN BECAUSE HE CAN GET A SCHOLARSHIP THERE TO LEARN WHATEVER WITH HIS RuDEMENTSRY JAPANESE!
Okay so Mcree gets a scholarship to this university in Tokyo with a group from the Overwatch international community college because the boy is a quick learner and took like a year or two of Japanese and can do okay in formal dilect but is kind of struggling with using casual (its the same thing for me even though ive been doing Japanese for four years now). So he’s going to be in Japan for the next five years (one to get a solid grip on Japanese and the other four to get a master’s in teaching/ history (he’s a history buff, tho he’s also game for being a spanish/english/japanese teacher)). And let’s say he’s Twenty for simplicites sake, which puts Hanzo at 21 and Genji at 18. (Also warning in advance, I overuse paranthese.)
In the program he gets into, he gets a host family. In his case, he gets the Shimada clan as his host family. Why does the Shimada do it? Probbly tax evasion, i dont know how rich crime synidates works and i dont really want to find out via irl experiences. 
Hanzo is closest in age to Mcree, so  he’s get put in charge of how Mccree get’s to uni, how he gets lunch, and tries to make sure that he doesnt bring shame to the family name. They find out very quickly that they go to the same University, though for diffrent majors (Mccree in Teaching/history and Hanzo in bussiness/mathmatics). At first he keeps Mccree at Arms length and is always civil though curt at times, but then he learns more about Mccree and starts getting a crush on him which leaves him flustered as hell but eventually he tries his hardest to flirt with him which both works and doesnt at the same time. He has the mentally of the golden child and the “i cant be the scape goat mentality”.
Genji is fresh out of high school and is hitting the rebellious phase full throttle. His hair is a diffrent color each month, he has peircings (probbly clip on/magnet ear rings at first because yeah... japan has stigma against actual peircings and while genji might be a yakuza, he’s a bit of baby), and gets a non-yakuza related tatto every month divisable by 3. (If you think thats child play and are a rebellious american teen, remeber that these thinks are considered pretty taboo. when i was at a very liberal school, my host sister still had clip on earings). He’s both the delinquent who is almost never at school, is asleep when he is there, and parties all night and the straight a student who gets good grades on all the hw and tests. Always compared to his brother. He constantly teaches Mccree cuss words and tries to get him to teach him Spanish cuss words. He acts like a hotshot/hot mess at first but later he reveals that he’s got a heart of gold in there somewhere. He constantly gives Hanzo shit about his crush on Mccree and does the same to Mccree. He’s not sure what he wants to do with his life, but he doesnt want to follow his familes footsteps. He’s also a big gaming nerd.
I should probbly talk about Jesse since I’m doing very deep bits about Genji and Hanzo. Let me just say that Mccree is smart. Thats a fact. He’s got a better than average grasp on mechanics (from hotwiring cars in his youth, fixing his prothestic with minor things, making a motorcycle with Gabe when he was older, and learning a bit more once he realized that there a sometimes Omnics who dont get the help they need), he’s so well trained with a gun that it’s not really a joke anymore when he calls it dead eye, can take apart a gun in seconds, knows how to ride a horse, can cook pretty well, and stealthy as hell when he needs to be. And he’s at least bilingual. These might come as a surpise to those who think he’s just a cowpoke because he doesnt boast much. He was part of deadlock until he was 15, when Deadlock was broken up by the san fran police. He got adopted by Gabriel reyes and Jack Morrison and has an adopted sister who went by Sombra for a year before they finally found out that her name was Olivia.
So we have Mccree thrust into a new family drama which he takes in stride and tries to help where he can. He acts polite and doesnt “disrespect the clan” (he’s speaking formal japanese almost 25/8, quickly learning how to use Kego (the highest form of japnese which reserved for extremely higher ups like company presidents, priniples, gods, and probbly yakuza bosses), correcting any cultural accidents, ect), he tries to make sure that Hanzo gets more friends/and is able to leave his shell (introduces Hanzo to the rest of his group (which consists of Miora, Mei, Zenyatta, Widowmaker, and Mercy who are both in running start), acts competive with him, pesters Hanzo to act childish), he tries to get both brothers some help mentaly/emotionally (at first he tries getting them therapy, but relizes they dont know how bad their mental health is so he has to struggle to give them enough support that they can help themselves but somtimes he had to have interventions with them), and acts like a mentor figure to Genji (encourages his indivually, gives him advice when he needs it, encourages him to seek diffrent routes that the one he’s been given, calmly defends Genji’s choices to his family/the elders).
If i ended up writing this, it would be a hell of a slow burn and have a slight crossover with a comic i really like, Sakana because i remeber I went to the big Fishmarket on my first day in Tokyo. So i guess they would go to the fish market fairly often and interact with Jiro, Taro, and Yuudai. The Shimada bros probbly have some history with Taro because obviously has Yakuza ties. Yuudai is very passive agressive with Mccree but is very Gay about Hanzo. jiro is an anxious man.
Ships that i would probbly include would problly be: Mchanzo, One-sided Gency (from Genj because I dont really enjoy the ship but he probbly whould have a crush when he was younger), Moira/Mercy (when Mercy is like 20 or something and its temprary because that seems like a thing that would end in a year after all the ust and shit stops fueling their realtionship), Genyatta (originally part of the Give-Genji-a-support-system plan that Mccree had but Genji fell hard, either way it worked), Reaper76 (really fucking background because i like them pre-exploding lol), Chie/Jiro, Yuudai/Taisei
Random things I’ve thought of in this au:
Line, the app. Everyone in Japan has this.
www vs lol (they are the same but probbly mccree, mercy, micheal would use lol/lmao while Hanzo, Genji, Zenyatta, Mei use www. Moira and Widow use neither)
genji: your so wise Zen, how old are you
Zen: im 3
christmas, in general.
Mccree helping Genji with his first real peircings
Mccree becoming a teacher at the university for the second generation of  overwatch kids
widow and Hanzo being salty friends while Mei and Hanzo are adorable science friends
everyone hates the crows
Mercy works part-times at the shop Jan works in and tries to help him with his Japanese
ana is the japanese sensei who is helping them, encouraged Mccree to start taking japanese
there is alwaus at least one vending machine mentioned per chapter
trans hanzo
hanzo, and mccree have prothetics
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Translation: “The Minish Cap” in German, Part 8: Deepwood Shrine, Where ITEM GET is the Star
We go into the Forest's Forest Shrine (LOL) and battle a giant chuchu... No, wait. We're the tiny ones. Oops! Here is my translation of the German version of "The Minish Cap" to English!
My translation key: DT: „direct translation" (translated word for word) EQ: "English equivalent" (as in, as close to an English-sounding sentence as it's gonna get) DT/EQ: „"direct translation/English equivalent" (for when the DT is so similar to an EQ that it's practically English already) OE: "official English (translation as given in the European English version of "The Minish Cap")" (NOTE:) "anything I need to point out" (exactly what it says on the tin) BG: „backwards German" for the Minish language in reverse form
My translation work under the cut.
Ezelo: „Hi-Hier ist also der Wald-Shrein... Hi-Hier sollen Mo-Monster leben..." DT: „He-here is so the Forest-Shrine... He-here should mo-monsters live..." EQ: "So, he-here is the Forest-Shrine... Mo-monsters should live (in) he-here..." OE: "So this would be the Deepwood Shrine the Minish elder spoke of... He...said something about there being Monsters inside, didn't he?"
Ezelo: „W-Was ist?! Z-Z-Zögere nicht... Ich - äh - bin ja bei dir..." DT: „W-what is?! H-H-Hesitating not... I - uh - am indeed with you..." EQ: "W-what is?! I'm not h-h-hesitating... I - uh- am right with you..." OE: "He-Hey now! No reason to be afraid or anything... I'll be waiting right here."
Ezelo: „Na gut... Dann gehe ich eben vor... Nein, warte! Wir gehen zusammen!" DT: „Well good... Then go I even before... No, wait! We go together!" EQ: "Very well then... Then, I'll go ahead... No, wait! We'll go together!" OE: "No, wait! What am I saying!? I'm not letting you leave me alone out here!" (NOTE: Slightly idiomatic.)
ITEM GET: „Kleinen Schlüssel erhalten!" DT: „Small key received!" EQ: "Received a small key!" OE: "You got a small key!" (NOTE: Just realised that the DT could have worked as the EQ. Oh well.)
ITEM GET: „Er öffnet verschlossene Türen und Barrikaden in diesem Dungeon." DT/EQ: „"It opens locked doors and barricades in this Dungeon." OE: "Use it to open locked doors and blocks. You can use it only in this dungeon."
Ezelo: „Nanu! Eine verschlossene Tür!!!" DT/EQ: „"Well! A locked door!!!" OE: "Hmph! There's a locked door here! See if you can find a key to open it."
Ezelo: „Kann man diesen Hebel vielleicht herausziehen?" DT: „Can one this lever perhaps yank?" EQ: "Can one perhaps yank this lever?" OE: "Do you see that lever? I think you should be able to pull it."
Ezelo: „Drücke R, um Hebel zu greifen. Drücke zusätzlich (hinab), um zu ziehen." DT: „Press R, in order lever to grab. Press additionally (down), in order to pull." EQ: "Press R in order to grab the lever. Also press (down) in order to pull." OE: "Just stand in front of it and press R to grab it, then press (down) to pull." (NOTE: My problem here was that rather than „hinab", it was the picture of the D-Pad with the down arrow highlighted. So, I just winged it with words, hence the parantheses.)
ITEM GET: „Blauen Rubin (= 5 Grüne Rubine) erhalten! Toll!" DT: „Blue Rubin (= 5 green Rubine) received! Terrific!" EQ: "Received a blue Rubin (= 5 green Rubine)! Terrific!" OE: "You got 5 Rupees! That's kind of nice." (NOTE: This, however, always had the parentheses.)
Ezelo: „Das ist ja ein riesiges Fass!" DT/EQ: „"That is indeed an enormous barrel!" OE: "Wow! Look at the size of that barrel!"
Ezelo: „Ach so! Beinahe hätte ich es vergessen!" DT: „Oh so! Almost have I it forgotten!" EQ: "Oh, so! I've almost forgotten!" OE: "Hm? Oh, right! Right! How silly of me!"
Ezelo: „Nicht das Fass ist groß! Wir sind so klein!" DT: „Not that barrel is big! We are so small!" EQ: "Not that the barrel is big! We are so small!" OE: "It's not big; we're just small!"
Ezelo: „Huch!!! Kindchen! Das Fass hat sich bewegt!" DT: „Yikes! Kiddo! The barrel has itself moved!" EQ: "Yikes! Kiddo! The barrel just moved!" OE: "Wha--!? Hey, be careful, my lad! The barrel just moved!"
ITEM GET: „Dungeon-Karte erhalten! Betrachte die Karte!" DT: „Dungeon-Map recieved! Consider/view the map!" EQ: "Recieved the Dungeon-Map! Consider/view the map!" OE: "You found a dungeon map! Check it on your Map screen." (NOTE: „Betrachte" can mean both "consider" as in "consult", or "view"; and both happen to work in this context, so I had no idea which one to go with.)
ITEM GET: „Blaue Räume hast du bereits betreten. Ein Raum, der blinkt, zeigt an," DT: „Blue rooms have you already entered. A room, that blinks, indicates (x)," EQ: "Blue rooms you have already entered. A room that blinks indicates," OE: "Lighter rooms are ones you've visited. The blinking room is your location."
ITEM GET: „wo du dich gerade befindest. Wähle ein Stockwerk aus mit (Steuerkreuz)." DT: „where you are currently located. Choose a level (x) with (D-Pad)." EQ: "where you are currently located. Choose a level with the (D-Pad)." OE: "Press Up or Down on (D-Pad) to check different floors."
Ezelo: „Wenn wir doch nur etwas hätten, was wir auf den Schalter stellen können..." DT: „If we yet only something had, what we on the switch place can..." EQ: "If only we had something that we could place on the switch..." OE: "What we need now is something to hold down this switch..."
Ezelo: „Drücke und halte R, um dinge zu greifen." DT: „Press and hold R, in order things to grab." EQ: "Press and hold R in order to grab things." OE: "Once you take hold of something with R, use (D-pad) to push or pull it."
Ezelo: „Drücke zusätzlich (Steuerkreuz), um etwas zu ziehen oder zu schieben." DT: „Press additionally (D-Pad), in order something to pull or to shove." EQ: "Also press (D-Pad) in order to pull or to shove something." OE: "This is extremely important, so I hope you take pains to remember it!"
ITEM GET: „Magischen Krug erhalten!" DT: „Magic Jar received!" EQ: "Received the Magic Jar!" OE: "You got the Gust Jar!" (NOTE: Fun fact! The reason the Gust Jar is called the "Magic Jar" in German is because that's also what it was called in Japanese.)
ITEM GET: „Drücke den Knopf, um den Sog zu aktivieren und lass ihn los," DT: „Press the button, in order the suction to activate and let it go," EQ: "Press the button in order to activate the suction and let it go," OE: "Hold the button to draw things in,"
ITEM GET: „um das Angesaugte wegzuschießen." DT: „in order the sucked-in to shoot off." EQ: "in order to shoot off the (things) sucked-in." OE: "and release it to fire them out!"
ITEM GET: „Lege das Item im Item-Menü auf A oder B." DT/EQ: „"Set the item in the Item-Menu on/to A or B." OE: "Set it to A or B on the Items screen to use it!"
ITEM GET: „10 Mysteriöse Muscheln erhalten! Wozu so etwas wohl gut ist?" DT: „10 Mysterious Shells received! Why so something probably/surely good is?" EQ: "Received 10 Mysterious Shells! Why is this a good thing?" OE: "You've got 10 Mysterious Shells! I'm not sure what they're for, but let's just hold on to them for now." (NOTE: I love how sassy the German version is. Other possible translations include, though, "What is this good for?" or "Surely this is good for something?")
ITEM GET: „10 Mysteriöse Muscheln erhalten!" DT: „10 Mysterious Shells recieved!" EQ: "Recieved 10 Mysterious Shells!" OE: "You've got 10 Mysterious Shells!" (NOTE: And this is said every subsequent time you find X-number of Mysterious Shells.)
ITEM GET: „20 Mysteriöse Muscheln erhalten!" DT: „20 Mysterious Shells recieved!" EQ: "Recieved 20 Mysterious Shells!" OE: "You've got 20 Mysterious Shells!" (NOTE: Like this, for example. 10 Shells, 20 Shells, etc.)
ITEM GET: „Kompass erhalten! Du siehst, wo sich interessante Dinge befinden!" DT: „Compass received! You see, where yourself interesting things located!" EQ: "Recieved the Compass! See for yourself where interesting things are located!" OE: "You got the compass! Use it find the locations of hidden items."
ITEM GET: „Drücke START und betrachte die Karte durch Drücken von L oder R!" DT: „Press START and consider/view the map through pressing of L or R!" EQ: "Press START and consider/view the map through the pressing of L or R!" OE: "Press START and then L or R to view the Map screen."
Ezelo: „So ein Pech..." DT: „So a bad luck..." EQ: "What rotten luck..." OE: "Now what?"
Ezelo: „Ohne passendes Transportmittel kommen wir hier nicht weiter!" DT: „Without proper means of transportation come we here not further!" EQ: "Without proper means of transportation, we can't go further!" OE: "Unless we find a way to travel by water, we won't be going much farther."
ITEM GET: „Großen Schlüssel erhalten! Er öffnet große Schlösser!" DT: „Big key received! It opens big locks!" EQ: "Received the big key! It opens big locks!" OE: "You got the Big Key! Use it to open big doors!"
ENDGEGNER: GRÜNER RIESENSCHLEIM (BOSS: GREEN GIANTSLIME) BOSS: BIG GREEN CHUCHU
ITEM GET: "Erd-Element erhalten!" DT: „Earth-Element received!" EQ: "Received the Earth-Element!" OE: "You got the Earth Element!"
ITEM GET: „Das Erd-Element enthält die Kraft der Erde, die Quelle allen Seins." DT/EQ: „"The Earth-Element contains the Force of the Earth, the source (of) all beings." OE: "The power of the earth is the source of all living things. The Earth Element is the embodiment of that power."
Ezelo: „Gut. Das Erd-Element haben wir. Erzählen wir nun dem Ältesten davon." DT: „Good. The Earth-Element have we. Tell we now the Elder of this." EQ: "Good. We have the Earth-Element. We should tell the Elder of this now." OE: "Ah, we've got the Earth Element! You must go tell the elder at once!"
Ginsta: „Ah, ihr habt das Earth-Element gefunden!" DT: „Ah, you all have the Earth-Element found!" EQ: "Ah, you all have found the Earth-Element!" OE: "So! You have found the Earth Element!"
Ginsta: „Du bist noch jung, aber deine Kraft und dein Mut sind beachtlich!" DT/EQ: „"You are still young, but your force and your courage are remarkable!" OE: "You are blessed with so much courage and strength for one so young."
Ginsta: „Macht weiter so und sucht das nächste Element beim Gongol-Berg!" DT: „Make further so and seek the next Element at the Gongol-Mountain!" EQ: "Continue so and seek the next Element at the Gongol-Mountain!" OE: "If your conviction holds strong, head to Mount Crenel." (NOTE: Idiomatic a bit. And literally every translation EXCEPT for English calls it "Gongol Mountain"/"Mount Gongol". How English came up with "Mount Crenel", I'll never know.)
Ginsta: „Im Gongol-Berg lebt ein Mann namens Melta." DT: „On the Gongol-Mountain lives a man named Melta." EQ: "A man named Melta lives on the Gongol-Mountain." OE: "There, you will find a man named Melari. Among all the Minish, there is no one" (NOTE: Speaking of which, "Melta" is the name every translation except for English and Italian go with. English goes with "Melari", while Italian goes with "Fusardo", meaning "AXEL-MAKER", which I laughed uncontrollably at.)
Ginsta: „Unter den Minish ist nur er in der Lage, das Schwert neu zu schmieden." DT: „Among the Minish is only he in the position, the Sword new to forge." EQ: "Among the Minish, only he is in the position to forge the new Sword." OE: "more able to repair your sword. If you ask him, he will surely"
Ginsta: „Er wird das zerbrochene Schwert der Minish für euch reparieren." DT: „He will the broken Sword of the Minish for you all repair." EQ: "He will repair the broken Sword of the Minish for you all." OE: "reforge the broken Picori Blade. I shall send word to him in advance."
Ginsta: „Ich werde ihn benachrichtigen. Passt auf euch auf!" DT: „I will him notify. Take care of yourselves!" EQ: "I will notify him. Take care of yourselves!" OE: "Travel safely. You are brave, but there are many evils now in the world." (NOTE: Idiomatic and no other way to translate it.)
Ginsta: „Geht doch entlang! Das ist eine Abkürzung durch den Wald." DT: „Go there along! This is a shortcut through the Forest." EQ: "Go along there! This is a shortcut through the Forest." OE: "Leave through this door here. It will take you out of the forest quickly."
Ezelo: „Der Älteste ist eine große Hilfe." DT/EQ: „"The Elder is a big help." OE: "Great elder, we are in your debt."
Ezelo: „Nun, dann bring uns doch gleich zum Gongol-Berg!" DT: „Now, in that case take us there immediately to the Gongol-Mountain!" EQ: "Now, in that case, take us immediately there to the Gongol-Mountain!" OE: "We shall head for Mount Crenel at once!"
Heureta: „Grüne Kleidung und eine komische Mütze!" DT/EQ: „"Green clothes and a comical hat!" OE: "Green clothes? And a mystical hat?!?"
Heureta: „Bist du vielleicht der Mensch Link, der das Erd-Element gefunden hat?" DT: „Are you perhaps the human Link, who the Earth-Element found (x)?" EQ: "Are you the human, Link, who found the Earth-Element, perhaps?" OE: "Sir! Would you by chance be Link, the one who found the Earth Element?"
Heureta: „Es ist also wahr! Ich habe schon von dir gehört." DT: „It is so true! I have already of you heard." EQ: "So it is true! I have already heard of you." OE: "Surely you are! I have heard so many tales about you."
Heureta: „Ich bin Heureta, der Item-Erfinder. Ich erforsche alle möglichen Werkzeuge." DT/EQ: „"I am Heureta, the Item-Inventor. I research all sorts of artifacts." OE: "I am Belari, researcher of antiquities. I am also, well, a bit of an inventor." (NOTE: No clue how the English translations came up with any of these names. Heureta and Belari are the same person! I mean, what???)
Heureta: „Du findest keinen Weg zur Stadt, weil alle Wege versperrt sind?" DT: „You find no way to the City, because all ways blocked are?" EQ: "You find there's no way to the City because all ways are blocked?" OE: "You know, you won't be able to get back to town, due to all the debris..."
Heureta: „Ich gebe dir etwas Feines, das dir bestimmt weiterhelfen wird!" DT: „I give to you something fine, that (for) you certainly help will!" EQ: "I'll give you something fine that will certainly help you!" OE: "Here, I have something that might come in handy."
ITEM GET: „Bombentasche erhalten!" DT: „Bomb Bag received!" EQ: "Received the Bomb Bag!" OE: "You got a Bomb Bag!"
ITEM GET: „Und 10 Bomben gratis dazu! Räume damit alles Mögliche aus dem Weg!" DT: „And 10 Bombs free/costless as well! Clear there with (all) anything on the way!" EQ: "And 10 free/costless Bombs as well! Clear anything on the way there!" OE: "And it has ten bombs in it! Now you can blow up lots of stuff!" (NOTE: „Weg" and „Räume" are together as „wegräumen".)
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Sentinels of the Multiverse: Adelphophage’s archives (part 4: Shattered Timelines/Wrath of the Cosmos villain promos)
Welcome all to Chronos Casuals. I’m ChronosMysty and today I’ll go over the last of the villain promos and the gauntlet.
Deadline: Angel of Extinction
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This new Deadline is very much similar to the old deadline, only with a few extra quirks. • His devices are harder to kill. • Catastrophes being destroyed while he is on his front side causes deadline to deal 2 non-villain AOE fire damage. • Severed Ley-lines accelerate the environment destruction but are also less detrimental to trash-based heroes. • H-scaling health Moving on.
The Dreamer
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The first half of the Dreamer fight plays very similar. The second half, however, has a tempo-regulating system that “rewards” heroes doing well with more projections (which is technically good, since the goal is to chew through them as fast as possible) but lays off on the extra projections if you’re a little slow on the projection destroying. (Do note that you’re still better off destroying them fast if possible.) My only gripe was that I played a game where I ended up seeing pretty much all the projections in the first half and the second half was mostly spent revealing duds (not to mention that shuffling back in the duds only increases he probability of hitting duds in later reveals, at least theoretically). The 3 Violent Nightmares in the deck are there to help prevent these situations, so I don’t think I would recommend changing it to discard them, this was just an off situation. (Then again, old Dreamer could encounter very similar situations, so that’s just an inherent problem of the deck.) Only thing I could think of is maybe adding an end of turn ability or adding to the start of turn ability (either before or after), “If there are no projections in play, shuffle the villain trash into the villain deck” or even just the projections, but that’s quite a bit more to keep track of an unlikely payoff that I’m not sure it would be worth it.
Infinitor
There isn’t one for Infinitor. Honestly, base infinitor is in a pretty good spot (although ally infinitor is ridiculously easy except in challenge or ultimate mode).
Iron Legacy: Justice for All
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Oh boy, Iron Legacy. out of the three most difficult bosses pre-vengeance, at least iron legacy was kind enough to kill you or die within like 10 minutes.
The first thing you’ll probably check is whether the end of turn effects do less damage, and the front one certainly does (the back one does more IIRC but now targets the highest HP unless playing on Advanced. It also heals 1 point less IIRC.)
The second thing you’ll check and notice and is that his H-scaling mechanic revolves around H-2 Ongoings: he starts with that many (rather than H), but you’re probably not going to get him to less than H-2 Ongoings. Overall, he still hits like a ton of bricks and not being able to clear out all his Ongoings makes him a persistent threat, but those two fewer Ongoings at the start really do make a huge difference in making him beatable.
Kaargra Warfang: Ruler of the Pit
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Remember what I said about Iron Legacy making the game nice and quick? yeah, Kaargra Warfang didn’t play like that. I think I can say without exaggeration that old Kaargra Warfang has more bookkeeping than OblivAeon.
I’m guessing you probably can’t read the altered Crowd’s favor and Bloodsworn Coliseum, so I’ll just type out their texts, with my commentary in parantheses and italics. Bloodsworn Coliseum [Cards] This card, the Crowd’s favour card and Title cards are not considered hero, villain or environment cards. (And apparently, the Oxford comma isn’t considered a thing either.) This card and the Crowd’s favour card are indestructible. When a target is destroyed, destroy any Titles under it. When a title is destroyed, put it in the title discard pile. (You mean Title Trash?) When the Title Deck is empty, shuffle the title discard pile into it. [Titles] End of the villain turn: Move one Title next to this card under the highest HP gladiator. Destroy all other titles next to this card. Then play Title cards until there are 3 titles next to this card.
Crowd’s Favor [Hero Favour] Add two tokens to the hero favour pool when... • a villain target is destroyed • A title is moved under a hero target If there are ever 4xH tokens in the hero favour pool and Kaargra Warfang is on the “Ruler of the Pit” side, flip her. (And she will then proceed to require you to ignore the text on this card and make it almost irrelevant except when Fickle Fans happens.)
You may notice that ability to gain Titles only happens 3 at a time and the gladiators can get one of them that you didn’t win during the previous round. You may notice that the purpose of Crowd’s favor is to get kaargra to get off her chair and into the fray so that you can beat her down to win. You may notice a complete lack of referencing bloodsworn pool tokens among those two above cards and ask, "Are they still relevant?” The answer: yes. At the end of the villain turn, kaargra deals each hero x projectile damage, where X is the number of tokens in the bloodsworn favour pool divided by 4, rounded down, and then adds 2 tokens to that pool. You’ll also notice that she’s a target that’s immune to damage. that’s pretty much just to avoid her flipping prematurely. This does have some other interactions, but a safeguard on the back side helps stop it from being too relevant.
Overall, the play experience is much more enjoyable and feels decently beatable if you get a good set of titles early on.
Kismet: Twist of Fate
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Old Kismet was a great idea done poorly - it’s clear she wants to keep the Talisman, but it’s so easy to take it away from her and use it against her that the fight just doesn’t go anywhere. Her unsubtle trickster promo is fascinating, but it still hinges on the idea of giving the heroes an extremely useful power and giving them the option to attack it and put it back to get it a few turnslater on a different hero. This idea is quite different from either of those. Here, Kismet builds up power with Jinxes and releases a (usually small) AOE attack every turn. An indestructible Lady Luck makes destroying her Ongoings very unreliable. The talisman acts as the kill switch, as using it will put back all her non-Lady Luck ongoings, trigger a rather large AOE, give her back the Talisman at full health. The game becomes managing a cycle of jinxes and AOEs vs the potential massive burst damage. Oh yeah, and for some reason, she is somewhat reliably unable to be hurt by large damage attacks.
The battle is an interesting and unique experience, albeit a little frustrating when you’re trying to destroy an Ongoing when Lady Luck says “nope”.
La Capitan: Paradoxical Pirate
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La Capitan has always been a fiddly battle. This version helps a lot with this, but it doesn’t make it stable.
First thing to note is that the Timeship actually plays a very different role in this fight, with its actual abilities rarely ever used, instead mostly just being a marker for whether the back side can deal damage or not. Additionally, Raiding Party triggering the end of turn clause that flips her and skips all other ‘end of villain turn’ clauses ensures you don’t get overly swarmed.
Honestly, I don’t have much to say about this fight. I still don’t enjoy this villain, but it’s better than the official card.
Progeny: The Messenger
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I always found Progeny boring, due to it basically being the same fight throughout with little variation. This variation helps a bit, but overall, I still find it boring.
To go over the differences: • There’s only at most 1 Scion out at a time, generally. This actually fits a lot more flavor-wise. • The end of turn effect deals two instances of H to the highest HP hero target rather than 2 AOE, making him much less susceptible to damage fluctuations. (1 DR still has its place, though, as a number of cards in the deck deal damage in chunks of 1.) • he now flips in the middle of the fight in a mechanic very similar to Dark Souls’ heat-up, gaining an additional ability based on the current Scion.
And, yeah, that’s about it. It’s also cool to note that his health is 20xH, which makes sense given how most of his damage is sort-of H-based, either directly or indirectly.
And rather than change each vengeance villain, why not just change the rules of vengeance style entirely? Here we go:
The Gauntlet
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This is an alternative to regular Vengeance play, in which the basic idea is that you only fight H of them, but only two at a time and they both “share” a turn at the start of the turn order. Additionally, they’ll collectively play H-1 cards per turn, keeping the pressure up.
Honestly, at H=3, you might as well play a regular vengeance game, although I can still see the appeal of using this gauntlet format. H=4 is quite fun. H=5 is soul-crushingly difficult, watching a new villain step in completely refreshed while you’re getting battered.
Anyway, my plan is to next look into the unique decks I have played against in Adelphophage’s archives, but before that, I’ll be making one more post soon after this one. I’ll see you all next time, and remember, keep it casual!
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arscriptura · 7 years
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avite & bevite
When does a boy grow up?
In Africa, they went through spears. In native America, they spent five days in the desert. But in civilized culture, they just get married. 
A battle is a ritual, but a wedding is a ceremony. 
There’s a boy to start, and then work + wife => man.
ah - vight & beh -vight
first and second, alpha and beta, above and below                                               -vight
Avite comes from ante + rite. After the rite, they’re Mr. Right. 
(It’s not on google, but I ran it through translate and it said it was a latin word, “of old.” Or rather, is old.) 
after rite
f + r = v
a - v - ite
I’m stepping, but vie means life and vite means fast. a, vie, vite, means after growing up.
avite
bevite
before rite
befite 
This really is Latin. It’s “befit.” be fit. Or, decet, decent. Fitting like a peg in a hole.
bevite
Sounds a bit like beastlike, doesn’t it?
What do women want? Nothing more than a young man who’s old. 
young + old + man + woman => avite and bevite
time + I = wise
(remember how they used to have f’s as s’s in old english? then they diverged, and s got softer and became f.)
(f and v are both fricatives. See, it’s right there in the word.)
( Since pictures are sharp and words are round, they meet in the V. Two lines of thought meet at a point. That’s why the writer in Hubbard’s Future stories said that nobody had sung V in the song before. Because it’s new. V is very latin. )
(pictures are sharp--in chinese characters, the simpler words are curved. And in English, it started out as a bunch of sharp sticks and is now extremely round. And japanese, it might be noted, is Chinese except round. And their sounds are sharper. Witch Kiki, for example. sight is sharp, and sound is soft.)
right before or after right, is not right. 
evit means to prevent. We don’t want to grow up--we want to stay young. Though that’s not the same thing. 
if you’re wondering why bevite comes after, it’s because it’s below. 
av is have, bev is be
women are roses, men are bees.
a bee picks roses and makes honey. 
It’s three and three...
The japanese haiku. 
3 to 4 to 5. fire, earth, air. bound together in water.
Well, japan is an island surrounded by water. 
men are squares, women are circles. 
together, they’re a sphere. 
square & circle > sphere
but they thought a woman was a U. That makes men a V? 
Well, if you exclude the center!
And if you turn a U upside down... (wincy face)
I mean, when you turn a V upside down, you get an A. 
u down is n. Is N. 
You know that the character for peace is woman + house?
What do you suppose you get with an angry woman?!
Why, it’s like sleeping with a double edged sword. 
I guess this is a xing of letters? 
an astrology of letters, I mean.
you know star and heart sound the same? 
Star is white, or light, above earth. 
But heart is like curved fire. 
Notice how english did it in a round shape, with v above and v below, and chinese did it in a u shape, like a reverse J...
It’s like the bottom point on a heart, which is shaped like that.
And the aorta goes in the top, like a V, I downwards into it, you know.
Why (heart diagram) is shaped like (heart emoji), you know. 
Light, you know, on the other hand, is exactly what I said...the (color elements), in the shape of a man holding up fire(stars.) But West made the mistake of thinking it was Atlas, though. 
If you look at it, he has river/steel for a left leg, and xin for the right, his middle is tu, and he holds up fire. Or rather, the top of the middle is metal. Water is his left leg. 
It’s not an ant holding up a globe, jeez. (jesus?!)
The interesting thing about wu xing is that it doesn’t have air. Because it wanted something solid, you know...elements, to build from...because it’s not xing, element, but xing, path. Like the ground beneath your feet. 
Parantheses enclose in a curve...sharp things inside. Fire, that is. 
So you put the world on paper...
just for the record, I don’t know chinese.
or japanese. 
I just live in America, take French, had a year of Spanish, know Mexicans, had Chinese parents, and watched a lot of anime. 
I guess it’s fun to to be American!
tumblr + ff + news + moloch => yay! lols
I don’t want to leave...
You know that ars poetica was written to a friend, in a letter. That’s what this is. 
You make the world a friend, I guess...
A boy riding a dragon. 
When a girl rides it’s sex, though. 
If only men were as nice to us as Athena. 
Well, from far away...the ground to a mountain, I guess. 
Holden said the digressions are most interesting. Well, they’re on the bottom, I guess. That’s why they’re digressions! Dig it? 
Hardy har, the class says...
(hard ha, get it...)
Poets are polymaths, and not jacks...they don’t specialize. Except in the center. Which is a point...no wonder it wasn’t popular, I guess...
It’s an inward sphere, like the one in apples, that people ignore.
medocarp and pericarp? something like that? corp? mort?!
You know, I haven’t put any -- on here?
I mean, I lived on them. 
Well, you don’t have -- in conversation.
They don’t let you... );
Okay, so this is the wincy face.  };
It’s a mustache...
I always spell it mouse ‘tash. A should draw that. 
(no, it’s not a mistake, there’s somebody named a...) in spenser’s voice. 
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