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GranEssex Chronicles: Chapter 23 - Back to Duty

In a secluded area at the headquarters of the Organization, Kurabe was in the middle of flexing her muscles. After weeks of recovering from her grievous injuries, she was finally able to move around without anyone fussing over her.

"I'm leaving, father. You can't stop me anymore, I'm ready to get out there and start fighting." Kurabe said, knowing her father could hear her, despite not being near her location.

After a few minutes of silence, a voice spoke out from a communications device. "...Go to Planet Octal. That's where your force is currently at. Rejoin with your division and take command."

Planet Octal, a strange planet that is separated into eight different parts, each piece connected to each other by a series of bridges. In many ways it was a like archipelago... a planet sized archipelago.

"Understood. Kurabe, returning to duty."

"Please be safe, my daughter." Was the only response from the device.

Kurabe only nodded, her thoughts directed elsewhere. Planet Octal was, to put it bluntly, not the ideal location for a war. Each section of the planet was vastly different from each other, with some segments being unfriendly to those with no experience of the land.

"Meta, Mercury, please be safe."

However, if that was where the base of operations of Void was, they had no other choice.

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On one of the islands of Octal, Meta was resupplying at one of the bases. This island, if you could call it that, was actually a blessing for Meta in a few ways. It was rocky and fairly desolate with no trees or any kind of greenery. It reminded him of the place he grew up before Kurabe found him. That being said, the time spent here was very stressful and he appreciated the chance to relax, if only for a moment. That's when he felt a feathered hand touch his shoulder, or the puffball equivalent of one.

"What's up, Vul?" He asked, immediately knowing who it is.

"How'd ya know it was me?"

"You're the only bird I know."

"Huh. Good point." His friend said, scratching his head.

"So, what is it?"

"Just checking up on you. We haven't really talked since... yeah. How goes the fighting?"

"Fine." Meta shrugged his shoulders. "I haven't killed anyone yet." He then said, knowing that's what he wanted to ask.

"Oh... yeah, yeah, that's good. Very good." The bird seemed to reply awkwardly. "Good that we're able to make them surrender or capture them, right?"

Meta nodded, not really feeling like talking.

"Hey, how long do you think this war will last?" Vul then asked.

"It'll last until it's over, I guess." The puff shrugged.

"Well, things are going smoothly at least. We haven't had any casualties yet."

Meta nodded, but Vul knew that he was at least glad about that.

"Alright, let's get back out there." Meta said, grabbing his sword and leaving without waiting for a response.

As if noticing this, Vul hesitated for a moment before following along.

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As they walked, Vul attempted to make conversation, but struggled to think of something meaningful to talk about.

"So... um... you hear anything from Fettuccine?" He asked.

"She's not on the frontlines. All she's doing is what she does best, interrogate."

While the reply was blunt, Vul could at least tell he was relieved about his friend not being in any immediate danger.

"Yeah, that's at least good, isn't it? What about the vice captain? Have you talked to her?"

"Vice captain Mercury is too busy for standard conversation. Outside of reports, I have no reason to interrupt her work."

"Yeah, good point."

Internally, Vul sighed, struggling ot make conversation with his friend. "Do you think Kurabe will be back soon?" Vul asked, hoping that invoking her name would get Meta to talk more.

"I hope she will." He replied. Admittedly, there wasn't a day where Meta wasn't worried about his mentor. Thanks to the war, he hadn't even been able to contact her much. He knew that she also felt the same way, of course, but it couldn't be helped.

"Well once she does, this war is a good as won."

"No, as much as I wish that was true. If sensei was here, she'd say something like, never underestimate the enemy."

"Well, um... it'll then be better in our favor then, right?"

"It will be." Was all he said.

Vul sighed again, now noting that he clearly did not want talk more about it. The bird then noticed that Meta's hand started to tense up, a sign that his instincts were shouting at him.

"An enemy?" Vul uttered, now readying his crossbow.

Right as Meta was about to respond, a group of twelve Void soldiers yelled out and charged at them. Meta responded by quickly sending a bolt of lightning out at the attackers, knocking them flat on the ground.

"Incapacitated. Vul, help me tie them up."

Vul gave a nod and started to tie up the soldiers. That was when, without warning, he pushed Meta to the ground.

"Vul! Why did-"

Meta's eyes widened in horror as he watched one of the enemy soldiers cut Vul's face with a sword. Without thinking, Meta cut the foe down for good.

"Vul, are you ok?!"

"Yeah. Just peachy. Stings a bit, but I'm fine."

That was the bird's reply, but Meta had a feeling he was putting on a brave front.

"Sorry, if I wasn't so careless, you wouldn't have gotten hurt."

"Hey, it's not that bad, so don't beat yourself up. Just let me get started on some first aid."

Meta didn't respond verbally; all he did was nod.

"You're not hurt, are you?" Vul then asked.

"No, I'm unharmed."

"Well, that's a relief."

"A relief? You got hurt when you didn't need to. If I was more careful, this wouldn't have happened."

"Yes, but I'm more glad that you're safe."

Meta didn't respond vocally, but internally he was angry. Not at Vul, but at himself. "If only I just killed them instead of trying to take them prisoner. My stupidity got Vul hurt, and my stupidity will only serve to hurt the others. I can't afford to go soft of my enemies anymore. I won't let anyone else get hurt."

"I thought I told you to stop beating yourself up." The bird glared at him.

Meta glared back, leaking out some of his own anger, which caused Vul to back down.

"Geez, I-I'm sorry, I just know how you are..."

"We have a war to fight, let's not waste more time than we need to." Meta stated, walking off with his sword still drawn.

"...yeah, right." The bird quickly uttered as he finished his first aid.

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As soon as Vul caught up with Meta, he asked a question.

"So remind me again what our mission for today is?"

"Eliminate our target. Vris Getztsar, mercenary for hire, apparently has knowledge about the whereabouts of Void's leader. We're to capture Vris and if we can't, killing is authorized. Personally, I'd rather not have to kill again, at least if it can be avoided."

"Got it." The bird nodded in response. "Any hints to where he is?"

"No, just that he's around this area somewhere."

Vul sighed and readied his crossbow. "All right, then we should be careful."

"Yes, we should. From the reports, he uses a strange fighting style."

Vul looked puzzled. "What kind of strange style?"

"Bubbles."

The bird looked even more confused. "Bubbles?"

"Bubbles. Apparently, he can make special bubbles. What that entails is beyond me, but we shouldn't underestimate the power of bubbles." He explained with complete seriousness.

To his surprise, Vul burst into laughter. "I-I'm sorry! It's just hilarious that you're being this serious over BUBBLES of all things!"

"Vul, this is no laughing... matter. Get behind me!" Meta shouted, pulling his friend with him as he jumped backwards.

There Vul saw what his friend was chattering on about: a lone bubble.

"Meta, it's just a silly bubble. That's nothing to be so worked up-"

KABOOM! The bubble exploded like a bomb, creating a crater where it blew up. Vul could only stare in shock, as if he was processing what just happened.

"Now do you get it? Bright side is, we know where he is. Stay alert and stay away from any bubble you see."

His bird friend nodded and once more readied his crossbow, remaining vigilant. The two looked around, waiting for a sign of the target. That's when they saw a group of yellow bubbles. Noticeably, a liquid fell off each bubble, dissolving the ground below.

"Acid bubbles."

"Should I shoot them?" Vul asked.

"Do it."

With a nod in response, the bird took aim and fired. All the bubbled popped, the acid rom them creating a large hold in the ground. Meta was trying to think of what his enemy's plan was, but he was drawing a blank.

"An intimidation tactic? No, I don't think a professional like him would use such a method during a war."

That was when Vul's eyes widened in realization. "Shit! Could it be a trap!?"

As if ready to answer his question, another group of acidic bubbles surrounded them in a circle and self-popped, dissolving the ground around them. Meta understood what was happening now.

"He has us trapped in one place. With the ground gone, we have nowhere to go."

"...we can fly, but I think that'll make us easy targets..."

"That's right, boys." A laid-back voice called out. The source was a turtle like creature standing on two legs, wearing a casual shirt with a pineapple pattern on it. "So, you're the students of the unkillable. Decent senses, but still has room for improvements."

"Is that the guy, Meta?" Vul asked.

"Yes, don't let his appearance fool you. I read about him, his body count reaches the hundreds." Meta explained to his now frightened friend.

"The recorded kills anyway, I've got a few off the record ones." Vris remarked casually, which only further scared the newly scarred bird.

"Meta what do we do?!"

"There's really only one thing we can do. I'm worried my magic will backfire and I can't risk getting close, so...Vul I need you to shoot as many arrows as you can at him."

"Got it!" The bird replied, already readying his crossbow to fire multiple bolts. "Sorry to burst your bubble!" Vul shouted as he fired off his shots, only for Varis to form a wall of bubbles that trapped the arrows inside them.

"I do hope you have a better plan than that. And better joke material."

"Yeah, I think so..." He uttered as the bolts then exploded.

While Varis was seemingly distracted, Meta rushed at him and stabbed him in the stomach. Then suddenly, Varis popped just like a bubble.

"He was a bubble too!?"

"Shit, where is he now!?" The bird uttered, getting down low and searching around.

Meta scanned the area, trying to find where the dastardly turtle disappeared too. The surrounding area seemed normal enough, which left only one other place to look.

"The sky! Vul look up!"

Vul did so quickly. "Dammit!"

He fired another bolt into the sky. Varis, who was laying on top of a bubble in the sky, laughed as Vul missed.

"You need to aim a little better, bird brain. You missed."

"But I won't." He heard from behind.

Meta had taken the opportunity to teleport behind Varis and was ready to strike. But as Meta swung, his blade was stopped completely by Varis's shell.

"Word of advice, never announce a sneak attack."

Faster than Meta could react, Varis snapped his fingers and trapped Meta inside of a bubble. Vul quickly fired another bolt.

"When will you learn? Firing like that won't get you anywhere." Varis said, destroying the bolts with his acid bubbles.

"I was ordered to capture puffball here alive, but nothing is stopping me from taking you out, birdbrain. I'll give you one chance to leave though. You should take it."

"Can I at least ask you why you want him?"

"Seriously? You're asking why the prized student of the Lady of Shadows is wanted? You really are a greenhorn ain't ya?"

"Well, I didn't know if there was something more than that."

"Even if there was, why would I tell you?"

"Good point." He sighed as he looked at Meta.

"Meta, can you get out of that bubble!?" Vul shouted.

"No, I can't move at all. Go, save yourself! I don't want you getting killed for my sake."

Vul let out a sigh, and backed away, keeping eye contact with Varis as he did.

"Sorry Meta, but that's an order I can't follow. Hey turtle soup! What's two plus two?"

"It's four! Do you think I'm that stupid!?"

"Yes, but that's beside the point!" Vul remarked, firing off more bolts, which Varis caught without issue.

"What was that supposed to accomplish? Also, you fired three bolts, not four."

"Count again."

Varis narrowed is eyes and heard a distinctive pop sound. The bubble trapping Meta was no more.

"No!" The turtle shouted as he realized what happened.

The now free knight wisely chose to skip talking this time and stabbed Varis in the stomach. To add to this, Meta sent electricity through his sword, electrocuting Varis from the inside, but only briefly. They were ordered to capture him if possible. As if knowing their creator was out of commission, all the bubbles in the surround area harmlessly popped and Meta gently floated down to the ground, carrying Varis with one hand.

"Alright. Let's take him back to base after tying him up." Vul said.

As Vul started to walk, Meta put his hand up to stop him.

"Wait, he might be pretending to be unconscious. Shoot his leg with a blunt arrow. It won't do serious damage, but enough to make him react if he's still awake."

"Got it." His ally uttered before shooting his leg.

There was no response. The target was seemingly down for the count, but Meta still wasn't convinced. Truth be told, he wanted to finish him off, permanently. It would ensure there'd be no more threat of harm to him or Vul, but he also knew that Varis was needed alive. Perhaps he was over thinking things, letting his adrenaline get to him. Besides, there was no need to kill an already defeated opponent. He would kill, but he was no murderer.

"Vul, tie him up, and make sure to cover his mouth. He might try shooting bubbles at us with his mouth."

"Got it..." Vul looked at him a bit hesitantly as he got to work with that, as if he had read his mind.

Meta watched his friend work, when he got a bad feeling, and he always trusted his bad feelings. He ran up and pushed Vul out of the way and not a moment too soon, as Varis got up and slammed a bubble into Meta's face. The exploded like a grenade, blowing Meta away and heavily damaging his eyes in the process. The turtle laughed as Vul's face twisted in horror.

"Not who I was aiming for, but whatever works." He kept laughing, only for Vul to knock him out cold with a single punch.

"Meta! Are you ok!?"

"...Are you?" He responded weakly.

"Yeah, I am, but you don't look ok!"

"That doesn't matter. You're my subordinate for this mission, even more than that though, you're my friend. Your safety is my priority. Now, tie up the turtle and let's get out of here."

Vul silently nodded, but continued to look worried as he did as he was ordered.

"You sure you're fine?"

"Yeah, I am. Honestly, I'm more concerned about you than anything." The bird replied, looking at the harsh injury the puff recieved.

"I'll be fine. It's nothing."

"Meta, can you even see right now?"

"It's nothing. Can you carry him with us?"

"Meta, answer my question!"

"It's nothing."

Vul sighed in annoyance at that answer. "You're acting just like our sensei."

"I'll take that as a compliment. Let's get moving."

The bird picked up the turtle and began to carry him. "I don't mean it as a complement..." He mumbled.

"Do you even know where you're going, Meta?"

"You haven't corrected my course yet, so I think I'm good. I can see, just a little. Enough to navigate."

"Alright, suit yourself."

"I'm already wearing my uniform." Meta replied bluntly.

Vul immediately stopped and stared, surprised at what he just heard. "Did...did you just make a joke?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Nothing, just wasn't expecting it." The bird replied, finding himself suddenly more relaxed.

"Ok." The puff replied as he continued on.

"And uh, thanks."

Meta looked back, titling his head in questioning. "For what?"

"For saving me from a killer bubble."

"Oh... you're welcome..."

"Man, who knew bubbles could be so scary."

"Yeah..."

Vul then blinked. "Are you sure you know where you're going?"

"Yes, I do. I'm not blind, just off balance." Despite this, he began to stagger a bit as he walked.

"Do you need me to support you?"

"You have your hands full with the turtle, I'll be fine."

"Ok, but please let me know if you need help."

Meta didn't respond. At first Vul thought that was just Meta being Meta, but something seemed off. He was still walking, but it was sluggish. Like a shambling zombie.

"Hey, are you awake?"

He finally received a reply, a non-verbal one in the form of Meta falling over unconscious.

"Shit! You idiot, this is why you should have let me get hit instead!"

Desperately, Vul picked up Meta with his beak and ran as fast as he could, hoping he could make it to a base in time.

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It was probably only a couple of minutes, but it felt like hours to the bird as he barreled into the camp, his friend and the captive in tow.

"SOMEONE GET THE MEDICAL OFFICERS! WE HAVE AN INJURY!" He shouted after quickly placing the puff on the ground first.

Calm footsteps could be heard coming towards them, the source of which was a friendly face.

"Relax, Vul. He's in capable hands." The friendly doctor Erhard said, his ever-calm face and voice doing a lot to put Vul at ease. In response, he let out a sigh of relief.

"We also brought someone along with us." He said gesturing over to the unconscious Varis. "Think we can get some stuff out of him."

"That's out of my area of expertise. But, thankfully we received a visitor from the intelligence division. Miss Fettuccine, if you'd please." Erhard said to someone standing behind him.

The usually bubbly interrogator walked out, a serious expression on her face. She stared at the unconscious Meta for a moment, worry evident on her face.

"Er, take good care of him." She said, grabbing Varis by the shirt collar, dragging him off to her interrogation chamber.

"Not going to lie, I feel a bit sorry for the guy..." Vul thought, shuddering internally as he watched. He then looked at Erhard. "I'll trust you to take care of him. Let me know when he wakes up, I have a few things to say to him."

"Of course. He'll be fine. Though it's fortunate you got him here when you did, any longer and the damage to his eyes could have been irreversible. But I should have enough time to fix the damages. Now, if you'll excuse me."

The bird nodded as the Limet took the puff with him. When he was out of sight, Vul grumbled to himself. "Damn it, Meta... why'd you have to do that...?"

"Do what?" A quiet voice said.

Vul turned around, surprised by the sudden new presence. "S-s-sensei!? You're back!"

"Yes, I am. Now, answer my question."

"He...Meta got injured protecting me." Vul said, expecting Kurabe to be angry. However, she seemed calm.

"I see. He's with Erhard now, yes?"

"Y-yeah, he is." He replied, trying to hide his surprise.

Kurabe looked disappointed, but was still mostly calm. "Then our reunion will have to wait a bit longer. Now as for you, Vul. Why are you upset with Meta?"

"Why? Because he got hurt protecting me! Why aren't you upset!?"

"Because he did exactly what I would do. Am I happy he's injured? Absolutely not. But he's alive and you're alive. He risked himself to protect his comrade, to protect you. That was his choice and I'm proud of the choice he made. Let's get to the point, you're not mad at Meta for getting hurt. You're made at yourself for needing to be protected."

Vul groaned, as if he was annoyed that her guess was spot-on. "...yes..."

"Vul, there's nothing wrong with being frustrated. But, don't for a second think you failed. You're both alive. In war, you only fail if you die. You two will live to fight another day, and you'll get the chance to make it up to Meta by protecting him in the future. Instead of doubting yourself, you should be preparing yourself for the future battles we'll face. Learn and grow from your mistakes, that's the way of the warrior."

"I see... thank you, sensei." He replied. "So, what are you going to do now?"

"Wait till Meta is released and Fettuccine is finished with her torture session. After that, I'll make an announcement of our next course of action."

"Do we have another target lined up?"

"Yes, but for now, you don't need to worry about it. Go get some rest. Your left wing has a little blood on it."

"Will do, sensei." He nodded before heading off to one of the tents to rest.

Kurabe watched him walk off, then proceeded to walk off herself. While she wanted to see Meta now, she could wait. Rather, she had to wait. Besides, she had a vice captain to visit. With a slight sigh, she headed to the tent.

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Upon flipping open the cloth that covered the entrance, she called out.

"Mercury, are you here?"

Mercury, who was looking through mountains of paperwork, looked up to see who it was. Immediately, she hugged her best friend with speed even Kurabe wasn't expecting.

"You're back! If you almost die on me again, I'll kill you myself." She jokingly threatened.

"No promises." She giggled.

"So, the old timer finally let you leave?"

If it was anyone else, Kurabe would tell them to address Z with respect. But Mercury was the sole exception to that.

"Yes, it was a bit longer than I wanted because I needed rehabilitation after all those injuries. He was saying things like "well, if you're going to fight, we might as well make sure your back at your full combat potential before you go"."

"Fair enough. At least you're back now. Now let's get the formalities out of the way. I, acting commander Mercury, now return the duty of commander to you, Kurabe. Welcome back ma'am."

"I'm glad to be back Mercury. Now, what's the situation of the battlefield looking like?"

"Currently it's a stalemate, they haven't gotten any major victories against us, but we haven't gotten any either. Until today that is, with the defeat of known mercenary Varis of the deadly bubbles, we have secured some footing. All we need now is Fettuccine to finish her work, but who knows how long that'll take. As far as casualties on our side, none dead. About one hundred and fifty wounded, a few of them in critical condition, but no confirmed deaths. A majority of the wounded will be back in action in a few days."

Kurabe's expression was unreadable. "I see..." Was all she said. "I'll be on the frontlines from now on. Especially because of something I learned while stuck at my father's."

That seemed to pique Mercury's interest. "What is it?"

"One of the other combatants we'll have to fight. A woman named Sang Lune. My father received reports of her existence one of the islands that makes up this planet."

"And just who is this woman? The way you speak about her, she seems like a big deal."

Kurabe remained silent, as if trying to calm herself down. "She's a Myovam."

Mercury's eyes widened, fully understanding her friend's worry. "I can see why you see that..." She uttered, recalling what happened to Meta during his time with the Intelligence Division.

"Yes. What makes this even more worrisome, is that she's not even a member of our enemy's organization, nor is she a mercenary like our turtle friend. According to the reports, she's attacking both sides. A true wild card has been thrown into the mix. It's partly why I came as fast as I could."

"Alright. Just be careful regardless." The vice captain said.

"Oh please, I'm always careful!" Kurabe replied with a huff.

"Right. It's good to have you back."

"It's good to be back." She smiled. "Although I don't like the circumstances." She thought to herself.

Kurabe looked at the direction of where the medbay was, hoping that this conflict would not last as long as she feared it would.

"Do you want to go see him, sis?" Mercury asked.

"Yes, but for now he needs time to rest. He needs it, we both know how tiresome war can be."

"I know... but don't you think that seeing you would make him feel better?"

"You know he's unconscious, right?"

Mercury paused. "He can probably still sense you."

"And that Erhard is still working on him. I have to wait, even though I don't want to."

"Alright then." Mercury replied, looking at her friend.

The warrior was clearly trying to keep a straight face, but it was obvious she wanted nothing more than to barrel over there and just stay by her student's side.

"Come on, let's go get some rest, sis. You're probably exhausted from the trip here."

"Yes, and I'll probably need it anyway..." Kurabe took her leave, her thoughts centered solely on her student.

#kirby fanfic #granessex chronicles #kurabe #meta knight #captain vul #fettuccine kirby #erhard #mercury kirby #art of rikka

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trickster-archangel · 1 year

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Tonight they broadcasted episode 5x07.

Huh. Been a while since I last watched it.

I'm not here to state the obvious, since there are better meta around here. I'm not even entertaining the thought of why Steve chose not to redeem Kamekona or Jerry.

No. It's another idea that's obsessing me since the first minutes of the episode (as always, I'm ignoring the only thing in canon that I allow myself to ignore, i.e. P*L existence. Things go like this bc reasons, not surely their writing).

The thing is, since when I remember existing, I've always been a lucid dreamer, meaning I'm almost always aware of being asleep and dreaming, and most of the times I'm also able to shift, change and control what happens inside the dreams, wake up at command if things get horrible, or in case they're good or interesting (very rare eventuality) and I'm suddenly awakened, I can go back and resume the dreaming from where it stopped.

See my point? I suddenly understood that, drugs or not, there was no way Steve could've been awakened, tortured, drugged, and then start dreaming/hallucinating exactly from the moment he had stopped, keeping the story continuity. He was subconsciously steering the dream. He had some sort of control over it, despite his conditions.

Not just this. He was given drugs to tell the truth...so what I implied, is that Steve was specifically imagining something he believed so strongly inside his head, that his subconscious had subverted reality and translated it into this new one.

Which means....how many times Steve had already daydreamed about this alternate reality? How many times had he indulged in these sort of reverie, sitting alone on his chair at night, on the sand, listening just to the ocean waves? How long had he refined this fantasy of his, carving details and sceneries, choosing words and actions, settings, characters? How many times had this alternate universe he wanted so desperately to be reality, come visiting him in his dreams, and how many times had he changed some subtle detail until his story and Danny's were perfectly never-endingly happy, and yer together?

Steve has spent his whole fucking life being the savior, the protector, the defender, the self-sacrificing lamb. Steve has always been the one never allowed to fail, except for Freddie, and his dad. He couldn’t save Freddie, because it was his oen fault and his own alone, and nobody could've prevented Freddie's death except Steve, and Steve failed.

Not his dad. Listen, in this universe he could've saved Victor's brother, and so also his dad. But Steve is fucking tired of saving everyone and everything and never fucking up, so in this universe he fucked up too. It wasn’t Steve changing fate: it was Danny. Danny is Steve’s valorous knight in shining armour. Danny is Steve’s savior, Steve’s protector, Steve’s defender. Danny's the one saving his father, capturing Hesse, gaining the intel from him with questionable methods thus sparing Steve from always staining his hands, finding Wo Fat.

Danny here has Steve's back in many ways, much more than usual. Danny saves Steve from falling deeper into the pit he's nevertheless fsllen after his father death. Danny's changed Steve’s fate, even more than in reality: not for nothing, Steve’s and Danny's scene drinking beer on the beach at the end of the day is replaced with Steve and John drinking the same beers in the same spot at the same hour. Danny's become Steve’s father figure after John's death, but in a universe where John was saved in time, it's been Danny, Steve’s hero, the father who's replaced his own, saving John....not Steve.

Of course Danny is happy, of course he's chosen Ohau over Jersey (because Steve still fears Danny will flee away), of course he's married with an adored Rachel (because Steve is still heartbroken after Danny's hook-up with her after the sarin, and of course he cannot believe he could ever beat her for Danny's heart), of course Danny drives Steve around (because Steve unconsciously would love so damn hard to let Danny take control and chase every worry away), of course it's Danny asking Steve to stay and work with him.

And so on. Every little detail is hurting even more if you think that maybe Steve was just reliving a fantasy he'd honed and polished for years, night after night, daydream after daydream, waiting for his brave knight to barge in and save him from himself and his fate.

I'm not ok.

#h50 #h50 5x07 #steve mcgarrett #danny williams #mcdanno #mcdanno meta #mtmcd

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ohchosen · 1 month

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GET TO KNOW THE WRITER - VAL EDITION !

what made you pick up the current muse(s) you have? i first played ffxv back in the fall of 2017 and fell head over heels in love with the game. to this day i don’t think there’s ever been a cast of characters that’s had such a lasting impact on me as the boys have, and at this point ever will. i actually first started off writing prompto, sometime in early 2018 and shortly thereafter kind of fizzled out of that because i was new and super shy and didn’t really know anyone in the community. i was around 18/19 then and actually took a break from tumblr for a little while, but always kept in touch with the xv community on twitter/instagram so the love i had never went away. fast forward to 2020 and after replaying the game i decided to pick up noctis who at that point had been my end all comfort character for a few years. he very quickly became my little pincushion and then unintentionally a processing tool i used to process a lot of issues in my own life. i notice a lot of nuance in my old notes and ramblings that 100% reflect my struggles at that time and its like huh! wow! didnt know it did that. regardless, noctis is the muse i hold most dearly to my heart and someone i will love for the rest of my life. < he 3

is there anything you don’t like to write? ive seen it all brother. i can be convinced with one skimmed over ao3 tag and then some. regardless, i don’t have any hard no’s that aren’t the incredibly obvious, and i think rp is a great way to develop and analyze your likes and dislikes in a safe environment. it’s okay to be into something in one thread and then change your mind later, that’s something i had to learn the long way but i'm better off for it!

is there anything you really enjoy writing? i really love angst. not sure what happened developmentally to get here but we’re here. i think that shows a lot in my preferred range of media i write in (or just consume casually,) there’s just a certain…. je ne sai quoi 🤌 in writing your character going through the absolute extremes of the human experience. besides that, i really go crazy with character analysis/general meta. i love to deep dive into mundane (or otherwise) aspects of a character and build up traits to fully flesh out a muse.

do you write in silence or do you play music? i need complete silence or i will literally never finish a sentence. i am way too scatterbrained to focus on two things at once and need to lock the fuck in when i’m writing a reply.

do you plan your replies or wing them? who do i look like shakespeare. i’ve never planned out a thing in my life im consistently operating strictly off vibes.

do you enjoy shipping? im a dirty little shipping whore. shipping is god's gift to the planet what else would i do if not daydream about my two little guys passionately kissing in a field of wheat.

what’s your alias/name? val :3 my psn tag is a variant of valkyrie, and after i was tired of my old alias i looked there for inspiration. say thank you god of war (2018) for shooting me into another norse mythology frenzy, feels just like middle school.

age & birthday? my golden birthday is this july (25th)!!! ((mild existential dread))

favorite color? green, brown, black and purple❗️

favorite song? recently rediscovered since u been gone by kelly clarkson. having daily religious experiences for it.

last movie you watched? lord i have no idea. i don’t watch too many movies and the last one i can place is catching the second half of 47 meters down when i was having dinner with my dad a few weeks ago. yay sharks. and mandy moore!!!!

last show you watched? i love a good netflix documentary and i just finished one called the program: cons, cults and kidnapping, which was about exposing the troubled teen industry. it’s a super interesting watch but deals with quite a few heavy topics so if you’re interested please heed caution! i also just started american nightmare, but im only about 30-ish minutes into the first episode…. gotta lock in.

last song you listened to? according to spotify it was safari song by greta van fleet but according to the fortnite festival session i just had it was carry on my wayward son by kansas. literal war flashbacks.

favourite food? dude there’s this fucking sandwich place by my house and they literally make the best chicken sandwich i’ve ever had. imagine grilled chicken on a brioche bun w cheddar, bacon, a corn salsa and slathered in chili aioli. walk with me. it sounds wack but it’s SO GOOD. i dream about her…

favorite season? i love winter i love being cold and tucked into my electric blanket listening to the rain outside. all of you summertime elitists need to get off my lawn.

do you have a tumblr best friend? i have my gaggle of tumblr friends turned irl friends in my pockets at all time and i wouldn’t trade any of them for the world. i met one of my oldest friends in ye olde supernatural rp back in 2013? and over ten years later WE’RE STILL FUCKING HERE. so many of the most important people in my life i’ve met through tumblr and the amount of shit we've seen through the rpc's we've been in has bonded us all for eternity lmfao.

tagged by: @13nth thank u tea my love :* tagging: my homies @sherez @tactition @liegacy + anyone who's interested :3

#* ˖ · 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳 — local man ruins everything .#long post /#DAMN #damn didnt mean to infodump like that do u still like me

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G Gundam meta notes part seven, eps 39-44:

"The Ruthless Fight! Schwarz's Last Match"

-Schwarz is Domon's "surrogate master", huh

-NO KILL LIKE OVERKILL, DAMN, WONG

-drop that bombshell, Dr Mikamura!

-Akino can GET IT

-the announcer is so chipper about such shitty circumstances, I love her

-it's okay, Rain, it makes sense that you wanna help even though you're mad at Domon - that Gundam is your baby

-there's a lot to dissect with this relationship in this episode specifically and I'm struggling with the words, but let's try

-from Domon's side, I can't help but notice his double-down eschewing of any support comes hot on the heels of his encounter with Master and being told that he should rely on his fists and not his emotions, so maybe he went too far the other way and took it as "right, emotional ties are stupid and get in the way"? Or tried to, anyway, because he's obviously very bad at this

-from Rain's end, although we want to shout at her for thinking she needs to apologize when Domon was the one being a jerk, her explanation tells us that this is the culmination of an issue she's been dealing with at least since Allenby's been on the scene

"Battle Royal Begins! Devil Gundam Revived"

-oh fuck me, Domon has such pretty brown eyes

-huh. It makes a certain kind of sense for someone going into a life-threatening situation to put off a love confession. Don't wanna admit to something you may not be around to act on

-"AND NASTASHA"

-okay that is some unsettling animation for the DG reemergence

-Mikamura was about to kill him!!

-okay, THIS is the juicy shit I'm here for! What starcrossed-families drama! What a petty reason to cause so much suffering for so many people!

"Assault of the Four Evil Kings! Gundam Heaven's Sword"

-I always giggle at sparkly Argo

-"C'mere, crazy bird! I'll make fried chicken outta ya!" He doesn't speak much, but it's priceless when he does

-Nastasha reacts immediately after getting told something's a bad omen. Between that and the bit in a previous episode about a shooting star being bad luck on the colony, I see our logician has a superstitious streak!

-hell yeah, Shirley! Use that… engineering? My science skills are lacking

"Royal Counterattack! Ambush of the Grand Gundam"

-"Stay alive!" gets me every fucking time

-"Helped by your friend again, I see. Still can't fight on your own!" See, this is the shit I was talking about!! Master Asia is putting some shitty ideas in Domon's head - and depending on how long he's felt this way about teams/friendships, was he a crappy Shuffle in his day? Or does he proclaim this because the Shuffle relationship fell apart?

-"how could I lose track of my bullets?" Gee, I wonder!!

-"in the arms of the woman I love" which is,,, who, exactly, bro? This feels a little gratuitously "have I mentioned I am heterosexual today" tbh, or a censoring of polyamory if you wanna go that route

-"I woulda socked you in your conceited pretty face" :)

-Marie-Louise has no fear of death, pass it on

-George is the Hulk

"Schwarz Rests in Grace! Domon's Tearful Attack"

-"simply too old for this" isn't he like fuckin 50

-Domon has an "obedient nature"

-this boy's life is tragedy upon tragedy

-"Allenby of the Darkness" okay Wong, I don't believe in cringe, but you're pushing it

-given the chance I could probably wax a little poetic on the 'crews with fallen fighters' shots

-this is another scene I have to watch peeking through my fingers, that red-hot pathos hits just right

"Farewell Master: Master Asia's Last Breath"

-It never fucking ends for Domon, does it

-Master bringing the worldbuilding themes together

-seriously, 'communicating with your fists' is so frickin cool!!

-Domon may not be at ease with his own emotions, but he's more perceptive than he realizes (though, I think I've said this before, only when he's paying attention)

-anything that is allowed to be unashamedly emotional and poetic, and show that those things aren't at odds with masculinity, makes me feel some kind of way

-y'all are foolhardy - did Sai get closer to the action?

-OM NOM GIMME THAT GOOD BLACK JOKER

-Lord Almighty, this is tragic for everyone involved and I am eating it up

#g gundam #mobile fighter g gundam #meta #thinky thoughts

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12x11 I enjoyed this ep although I can see if it might seem too silly to some. The beginning is a fun twist on the “exposition to get the audience up to speed on the case” opening for many eps. Dean having memory problems makes the exposition natural, we know that Dean was hit by a spell so something is up, and then we get to the “Who’s Dean?” and it’s Oh Shit. The eventual turn towards the dramatic was fun—Jensen must’ve had a great time getting to act silly and then the emotional slap of Dean’s monologue at the mirror, trying to remember who he is but failing.

The “Dean as a killer” thread is very blatant this season. I’ve been hesitant about it, because I’ve seen a not insignificant amount of fandom meta that takes the worst, most uncharitable interpretation of this idea / Dean’s characterization. But so far I don’t think the show supports such an uncharitable read, tbh. For instance, I didn’t realize it’s not just Dean who gets framed as a killer, but Mary too. The link between being a hunter / killer, both Mary and Dean framed as diving into hunting instead of dealing w/ their feelings, being drawn to the violence and thrill of hunting in that way, that’s all wrapped up in the “X as a killer” theme. I mentioned “Dean as a killer” as being about Dean as a soldier back w/ my Mark of Cain meta, and that read still works in this season, in both Dean and Mary being soldiers and the tragedy of them being raised as child hunters (although that tragedy is definitely under-emphasized as compared to early seasons). Sam is framed in contrast, with his maybe wanting a life after hunting and that being something Dean and Mary don’t expect at all. There was Sam and Dean’s convo from 12x06 around dying on a hunt being “the best way to go” against Sam’s questioning, or the 12x11 “DEAN: Huh. Well, look, was it nice to drop our baggage? Yeah, maybe. Hell, probably. But it wasn't just the crap that got lost. I mean, it was everything. It was us, it was what we do, you know? All of it. So... that's what being happy looks like? I think I'll pass.” which reminded me of Mary’s comment in the next ep: “SAM: Wait, Mom? Uh... I just wanted to make sure that, um... you’re okay. I mean, I know... you never really wanted this. / MARY: Since when is life about getting what you want?”

speaking of 12x12, the structure of this ep was a nice change of pace. “Everything’s going to be fine” CUT TO everything not being fine. Bringing back Yellow-Eyed Demons… makes sense, in terms of Mary’s character and her trauma. And as an “oh shit, Mary got the group into something that hurt them without their knowledge” and how it calls back to Azazel, the original Yellow Eyes, Mary’s deal w/ him being the spark that lit the doomed fire that burned through the rest of the family…

Also my question of if they were writing Cas as in love with Dean as of S12… Cas’s little monologue when he thinks he’s going to die and wants everyone to run (CAS: No, you listen to me. You– Look, thank you. Thank you. Knowing you, it... it’s been the best part of my life. And the things that... [inhales sharply] the things we’ve shared together, they have changed me. You’re my family. I love you. I love all of you. Just please... please, don’t make my last moments be spent watching you die. Just run. Save yourselves. And I will hold Ramiel off as long as I can.”), I could see how one could interpret the “I love you. I love all of you.” as being about Cas being in love w/ a particular person (obviously Dean) and then loving Sam and Mary, too, in a platonic familial way. It’s ambiguous and there’s certainly enough plausible deniability, but. I do wonder.

#spn rewatch #season 12 #sam #dean #mary #dean & cas #dean & mary #queue

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saw u mention wanting more ppl to talk abt their daemons in ur inbox so here i come

starting on the 15th dec last year, i started having really weird and realistic dreams where my dream self would do something that irl me needed to do. i'd puzzle over these dreams, thus reminding me to do that thing. it became a sort of competition; dream me put my laundry in the washing machine, so irl me would put my laundry in the washing machine AND move it to the dryer, getting a one-up on dream me.

these dreams went on for a week or so, and culminated in a dream in a completely white room where i was sat opposite my dream self. i was the way i perceive myself, whereas she was the way my body looks. we talked for AGES, it couldve been hours or days or weeks. i don't remember ANYTHING she said which is such a tragedy because i know she said so many important things, but i know that she told me that i needed to "figure out what you need, and figure out how to get there".

from there she was completely separate from me. i could reach inwards, or think about/towards her, and id get a response; usually affectionate amusement.

recently i learned about daemonism (from you :D) and i was like "huh, i wonder if she's a daemon. she's my unconscious self, right?" so i reached in towards her and long story short her name is meta (short for metamorph, from metamorphic rock, since that kind of rock forms under intense heat/pressure & that describes us rlly well) and she usually takes the form of a fox!! she's very cool.

tldr: thank you for getting me into daemonism cus it turns out my daemon separated herself on purpose cus she knew it'd be better for us lol

I absolutely LOVE this!!!! Thank you for telling me about it!! The few times my daemon has been in my dream have been so lovely and special. I think this is awesome and I'd love if you kept me updated!! Daemonism asks are my favourite for sure hehe

#uniquely plural #Daemonism #Daemian

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timeturner-jay · 1 year

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I posted 2,251 times in 2022

That's 1,492 more posts than 2021!

57 posts created (3%)

2,194 posts reblogged (97%)

Blogs I reblogged the most:

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I tagged 2,191 of my posts in 2022

Only 3% of my posts had no tags

#kirby - 1,014 posts

#meta knight - 674 posts

#galacta knight - 291 posts

#magolor - 112 posts

#king dedede - 111 posts

#bandana waddle dee - 101 posts

#morpho knight - 88 posts

#post-it-notes7 - 57 posts

#tumblr culture - 51 posts

#heart and soul series - 51 posts

Longest Tag: 139 characters

#you don't have to be perfect. you just have to do what you can. and if you can't go on.... trust that others will be there to catch you. 🧡

My Top Posts in 2022:

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Kirby and the Forgotten Lore: My take on KatFL’s relevance to the Kirby timeline.

Warning: This post contains spoilers for Kirby and the Forgotten Land, obviously.

Now that that’s out of the way, let me explain why I’m making this post. The general community census about the Forgotten Land seems to be that this world was where the Ancients originated; that they were the ones who experimented on ID-F86, whose powers then became the basis of the amazing technology we’ve seen from them. That the Ancients were the ones who left this world behind, to then establish themselves as that famous interstellar society.

To put it nicely, I find this theory incredibly weak and uninspired. Respectfully.

Here is why: The Ancients, presumably, have their name for a reason. Their culture rose to power a long time ago, then stayed in power for long enough to become as legendary as they are today, and then fell; so long ago that in modern times, they are only referred to as ‘the Ancients’ anymore. For something on such a grand scale, I would expect each of these intervals to have lasted several thousands of years at least. Likely much longer than that though, since many creatures in the Kirby universe seem to have freakishly long lifespans.

The ‘Forgotten Lands’, on the other hand? They look like they’ve been abandoned for a few decades at most. Just look at this place-

Sure, it's a little dirty and overgrown, but for the most part, everything in this world is still very intact. The buildings are still standing, their furniture is still there. Machines like cars and light switches are still working just fine. The water pipes are still intact. There's even still paper in many locations.

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If the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy came out today, Ford Prefect would be a tumblr sexyman. No, I will not elaborate.

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AYO, that new Three Hopes trailer tho???

Not AT ALL what I was expecting! I love it though!

First of all, Byleth is your enemy??? OKAY. I love that we're expanding on the Ashen Demon side of their past. Makes sense that there'd be people out there who swore revenge on them back when they were still a mercenary. Though I wonder if that means Byleth won't join the House Leaders at all in this game, since this new main character seems to be doing that instead...

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My #1 post of 2022

Meta Knight and Galaxia: An Observation (and maybe a theory)

Earlier today, I was watching a playthrough of Kirby's Return to Dreamland, and as the group was fighting Magolor Soul EX, I noticed something peculiar:

In his EX form, he uses Galaxia. Huh! I never knew about that! It's gotten my theory brain going a little, I'll admit. How did he get that? Why is there more than one of it to begin with?

If the Master Crown can summon Galaxia, is there some kind of connection between the two relics?

Well. Let's see.

Before the games officially started using the name "Galaxia" (a name that first appeared in the Kirby anime) for the legendary blade, the fan community had a different name for it: the Master Sword. What looks like a tongue-in-cheek reference to Legend of Zelda at first glance actually has some canon basis - in Kirby and the Amazing Mirror, Meta Knight entrusts his sacred sword to Kirby for the final battle. The copy ability Kirby receives thereupon is simply called the "Master ability"; so the sword he got it from must consequently be called the Master Sword, right?

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#tumblr2022 #year in review #As usual my year in review isn't very impressive or interesting sjfsfs #But hey this year was pretty big for me so I wanted to post it <3 #I made so many new friends and mutuals this year. Love you guys! 🧡#Youtube

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ranked ranting

yo where the hell are all these mirrors teams getting so much anti-evade to field on their Oops All Evade teams huh

God, this Ranked feels SO much more broken than last time. I don’t have a particular desire for any of the memos from the medal shop this time (and I’ve got, 20? 30? from last time,) so I’m very tempted to go back to either solo unit chargehunting, or good ol’ solo Fork. My current team is Kirino/Fork/Iromado, thanks to the advice of Discord user marie (and by advice I mean that I stole her idea thank you marie!), and either I can’t keep the enemy alive long enough to get to turn 3 to fire the connects and magia/doppel, or the enemy decides that “Fork has the lowest defense by a lot, so she’d go down in less than three hits regardless, so I’m gonna hit Kirino with the last hit, since she’s got the second lowest defense!” Except Fork evades everything and Kirino gets blasted by the strongest hit in a combo. 66% remaining HP is a huge hit to your score, so that’s obviously bad (especially knowing that Iromado could heal up Kirino either with a connect or their magia/doppel on turn 3, if I could get that far...)

I’ve been testing in Endless first before I jump into Ranked, since this is the first time I’ve tried a mixed chargemagia team (my normal Ranked setup is Kirino/Kamisen doing the usual solo charge unit and/or mokyu hunting,) and I’m wondering if I started testing too late into the day, because I’m seeing some horridly tanky teams stacked with both evading and anti-evading units and whatnot, but also a lot of standard blasters and strong generic attacks that wouldn’t be optimal for Ranked scoring. Especially Yachiyo, been seeing a lot of her around. Not Aniyachi, Not Tanabachi, not AniIro with her 5-star card art that looks like a Yachiyo alt, just normal Yachiyo, and also some Iroyachis. Those two are the least optimal for Ranked right now, since they’re only good at blasting things down, and missing both charge and magia in your scoring costs you any chance at anything other than like, maaaaybe low B rank? I think that might be more high C rank territory actually, depending on remaining HP and skill count. Still, I’ve been seeing teams filled with units like Aniyachi, Mokyu, Iroyachi, Kyoko (not Doppel Kyoko, normal ol’ Kyak,) etc., which tells me that I’m looking at defense teams, not normal offense ones. In other words, teams designed to win by tripping up the enemy, often by baiting them in, or by just being so impossible to fight, but also being hypothetically impossible to score well with.

I don’t know how much players care about what your ranked score is anymore, so I wonder if B rank still looks okay on my end. Like, if my account reads B rank, are my supports still possibly gonna be used or something. ‘Cause if so Imma just go back to rat hunting, I’ve already gotten the ranked memos that I care about anyways, and the new one isn’t super impressive IMO. Not enough to make me stress over it, but I don’t wanna skip out this ranked ‘cause I need the tickets and the gems for Nayumii and/or SunriseShizu...

Uhhh I’m rambling now I think but TL;DR screw current Ranked meta like always and also I don’t know how the whole defense vs. damage cut mechanic works so if someone does get it can you tell me too please ‘cause clearly I’m doing it wrong

#how are y'all faring?#'hey rapo how drowsy are you?' very thanks for asking #anyways i think if i go directly into ranked i'll find more reasonable teams but #i wanna iron out that issue with the damage cut first and make sure kirino can live long enough to be healed up #send help i don't know what i'm doing #magia record #mirrors ranking #mirrors ranking round 16 #rapo rants

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Chameleon - Adrien Sugar

Yes. You read that right. I’m writing Adrien sugar related to the episode that gave birth to, like, 80% of the fandom salt. I’ll keep this short and to the point, mostly because I believe I don’t need to talk too much to get my point across.

I’ll put everything under the cut to avoid cluttering dashboards. Below the cut you’ll find: Reasons why Adrien’s advice wasn’t as misguided as salters some people make it out to be:

First of all we gotta remember that, prior to Chameleon, our Resident Liar hadn’t done anything too dangerous (that they know of). So, from Adrien’s POV she’s just a girl who’s lying to get attention and make friends. He doesn’t see her as malicious. Remember that he never saw Liela steal his book and throw it away. We saw it, and Marinette saw it, but Adrien did not.

Even so, he’s still not comfortable around her. He gives her the benefit of the doubt, that’s all.

See? He’s not exactly happy or comfortable around her. He’s just not vocal about her being a liar like Marinette is.

You know what else Adrien has no idea happened?

This. Marinette never mentioned the fact that Liela had threatened her in the bathroom to anyone, not even Adrien. I am positive that if he knew this, he would stepped in from this moment.

He still believes she’s doing this in a misguided attempt to fit in, considering that he tells her in this episode: “I’m not judging you, Liela, but instead of making friends you’re going to turn everyone against you. You can tell me if there’s something bothering you. I can help. But you need to be honest with me.”

So, now that we know what is Adrien’s understanding of the situation, it’s easier to see why he gave the advice he gave. Because, see, if Liela truly was only lying for attention and not to hurt others, then calling her out would indeed only make her lash out and it wouldn’t be necessary because he believes that once she fits in with the class and feels accepted she’ll stop. Naive? Yes. But he’s not wrong. Lots of kids lie to try to fit in a stop doing so once they make friends, and they even come clean most of the times. Adrien has no way of knowing that Miss Liar over here is not one of these cases, because he doesn’t have the same knowledge that Marinette or the audience have.

This line is often misinterpreted. It was always very clear to me that he meant is as, “As long as you and I both know she’s lying, we can always be there for each other.” - Which Ladybug the episode proved.

Before diving into that episode, though, I gotta talk about Oni-chan. Because it’s in Oni-chan that Liela shows her malicious side to Adrien. He sees her lying to manipulate her way into his house (”You didn’t ask nicely, you lied, Liela,”).

Even Plagg asks him, “Why are you so nice to that girl? She lies with every breath and snoops through your drawers as soon as your back’s turned.”

And his reply is, still, “Perhaps she’s just looking to be a little less lonely.”

That’s his fatal flaw when it comes to Liela. He still wants to see the best in her. But that will stop soon, because...

He sees how she asks about Kagami and then inmediately after forces him to take this picture:

which she sends to everyone, resulting in Kagami’s second akumatization.

Oni-chan: I’ll protect you from Liela.

Adrien: She’s not dangerous. She just craves attention.

Oh, sweet Adrien, she craves attention alright. But she is dangerous. You’ll realize.

“You just wanted me to leave Ladybug alone with the villain? You hate Ladybug… that much? (…) What you just did is really terrible. You should be ashamed of yourself.”

That’s his wake up call. Liela’s lies are dangerous.

“Keep an eye on Lila. She’s as sly as a fox.”

Now, the end of the episode. Adrien is understandably mad at Liela because Nathalie and Gorilla got in trouble because of her.

“Lila, you can always count on me. But not if you hurt the people I love.”

Now. This is Adrien’s warning. And having Adrien’s warning in mind, we can go into Ladybug, the episode.

It’s fair to assume that Liela didn’t try anything serious against Marinette between the events of Oni-Chan and Ladybug. Why? Because she was planning her master plan, of course, that she was about to execute.

We all know how it goes, Marinette answered everything correctly, Liela planted the answers in her backpack, Alya mentions that Marinette always scores high in Miss Bustier’s tests, etc.

Liela inserts herself in the conversation, taunting Marinette and making her look as if she’s the one with an unreasonable vendetta against her and not the other way around, probably so the class doesn’t rally behind Marinette in support. But there’s someone that knows what kind of person Miss Lying Liar Who Lies is. That person is Adrien.

Who, in a very polite manner, redirects the conversation away from the Liela-Marinette showdown and into the thing that matters: Marinette is not a cheat. Everyone agrees with him and starts supporting Marinette.

Then we have the whole thing with the stairs and the leg and we jump into the stealing accusation. Where, again, it’s made clear that Marinette understood what a lot of the fandom failed to understand: That Adrien is there to support her.

She directly addresses him looking for support. She knows he’ll have her back. And he does, he glares at Liela and decides to intervene. The fact that he’s silenced by an incompetent principal isn’t his fault, he has spoken out in Marinette’s defense twice already - to authority figures. We know how much Adrien respects authority figures. But he still spoke up to defend her.

We don’t see Adrien’s reaction to Marinette nearly being akumatized. But what we know is that following the events of the day, after the fight with HM and Mayura is over, he basically makes a deal with the devil to get Marinette back in school.

I don’t think Adrien has ever been or sounded angrier that he did at that moment. He warned Liela once already [that she shouldn’t hurt the people he loves], and now she has to either get Marinette back in school or she’s going to officially make an enemy out of him.

All of this just amounts to one thing: His advice during Chameleon wasn’t just advice, it was a promise that he backed up with his actions later on. It was basically the civilian equivalent of:

“It’s you and me against the world, my lady.”

Bug out!

#adrien agreste #adrien sugar #miraculous ladybug #miraculous #adrienette #meta #mine #all gifs and screenshots were made/taken by me btw #it's been so long since my last meta huh

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BnHA Chapter 328: Pandora’s Box of Discourse

Previously on BnHA: DEKU TOOK A BATH.

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Also Naomasa grew a beard. Goddamn.

please let this be a cool chapter that plays nice with my ADHD lol

(ETA: lol I feel guilty because a lot of people hated this chapter, but I’m just happy there was a lot of stuff to make fun of, and also that I have another week to work on my backlog of meta posts since the kids were MIA.)

around one month ago?? ah, okay, so we’re gonna find out what was in that Tartarus security file huh

I love that they just randomly set the place on fire

was it necessary to do this in order to escape? no. was it a good idea to set the island they were occupying on fire while they were in the midst of still occupying it? uh. was it cinematic as fuck? fuck yeah

wow it’s a pervert!!

that’s so great that the villains set loose this fine fellow who I’m sure is definitely not a serial rapist. truly the LoV is so noble and misunderstood. they’re just trying to free society from its chains people

oh my god??!

SHANKED!!! oh my god I cheered for Stain before I realized what I was doing. time to have an identity crisis I guess

so he’s all “hey what’s going on.” which, while a respectable question, is something I personally would have waited to ask until I had put a bit of distance between myself and the fiery murder island. but that’s just my personal preference

Stain you really are tenacious I’ll give you that

“what’s the point of escaping prison if you’re not gonna be smart about it” well shit. anyways yeah you’re dead right, society is in the process of collapsing and the outside world is in total chaos, good call there

oh shit

I mean it’s not like we really expecting anything otherwise, but still. fucking brutal. I feel like these guys’ fates were decided the minute that one guy called AFO “scum” back in chapter 94. AFO is unmatched at getting long-term revenge

ahh, was it the security footage??

fdsdfk he’s still alive??

and he’s immediately launching into an inappropriately theatrical monologue even as the darkness closes in on him fdlfksjdlk. you know, was it ever confirmed that the other guy back in chapter 297 was Seiji’s dad? I’m just saying

very impressed that he’s still coherent enough to weigh the pros and cons before making the decision to gamble on giving this info to Stain, who at the very least has his own moral code and isn’t allied with AFO. it was definitely still a risk, but as we now know it was also the right call

what a weird alliance. so Stain tells him that he’ll give it to a just person, and the guy is all,

okay for real though I’m gonna need someone to run a DNA test on this guy. maybe it was some kind of cuckold situation?? the other guy had the family resemblance, but this guy absolutely 100% raised Shishikura Seiji and you are not going to convince me otherwise

anyway, so Stain is all,

PRISON GUARD: “???? ??????? what the hell. what the fuck does that fucking mean. I’m dying here, jesus christ, whatever man fuck you”

(ETA: I kind of feel like this might have been Stain’s last appearance in the manga, given all the fanfare. there’s not really much else he can do for the story at this point, and he seems to have gotten all the character development Horikoshi was planning on giving him. so if this really is it, hasta la vista and good riddance I guess.)

DWLFDKSLDK MEANWHILE, OUTSIDE

(ETA: I feel like this is meant to be evocative of that Sermon on the Mount painting, but in a really fucked up way lol.)

if it were me stumbling upon this scene I would just shake my head and walk right back into the flaming building. not getting involved in that mess. sorry not sorry. I’ll take my chances with the fire, especially given that it’s half-assed neutered BnHA fire lol

blah blah blah and so he decided to pass the info on to All Might -- HOT DAMN, HOLY SHIT

NAOMASA HOLY SHIT. THE APOCALYPSE LOOKS GOOD ON YOU, BOY

“I really like that facial scruff thing Aizawa’s got going on, I think I’m gonna get in on that” yes sir. “also thinking of ditching the tie in favor of the bulletproof vest look. also thinking of getting totally fucking jacked.” good lord. except I’m pretty sure that’s just body armor, but also I don’t care. anyway I should probably stop staring and actually read the fucking speech bubbles here lol

“All Might first handed this information over to Nao, and then went to see Deku, and then came back to Nao” thanks for that tidy little summary Horikoshi. we are capable of piecing events together in sequential order, I just want you to know that. but thank you

“so has Deku finally gotten a bath? also, sucks that Stain saved the day, but what are you gonna do” Nao I missed you so fucking much and didn’t even realize. how am I just now realizing that you are the perfect man

for a second I was gonna ask why Tartarus’s security systems would be cut off from the outside world, and then I remembered that’s a basic security control, and then I actually got impressed by how sensible that is. like, it’s been a while since I could genuinely say that the good guys (excluding class 1-A) did something smart. not that it helped them much in the end, but still

anyway so they’re talking about how AFO was able to coordinate the attack by communicating between his horcrux self on the outside and his ugly peanut-faced self on the inside

huh

okay you have my attention. I am taking notes here lol please continue

ah okay so he says that prior to Jakku, the transfer of information between him and his Vestige self was only one-way. but post-Jakku when Deku was in the hospital, he was able to tell what was happening inside the OFA Radical Lisa Frank Dead People Book Club Realm when he touched him. I feel like we established that before, actually. but he didn’t talk about how it actually felt, though

boy we already know this lol. yes AFO can talk with his horcrux self. and he can also communicate with his little bro in OFA too, let’s talk about that sometime why don’t we. what exactly does that imply, based on the rules we’ve established here

my god I cannot get over Naomasa and his fucking facial hair

no wonder All Might was in such a hurry to leave Deku and get back here

like I have no idea what this radio waves nonsense is but my god, people

that jawline. also so it’s a quirk, I see. except last I checked Deku didn’t have a radio waves quirk, so that doesn’t really explain his connection to AFO. but whatever, hopefully we’re at least getting closer to some kind of reveal here

(ETA: since I sometimes forget that other people’s lives don’t revolve around my theory posts, here are the two relevant links if you by chance want to know my thoughts about this.

Hagakure is still The U.A. Traitor™ regardless of whether Deku is passing information on to AFO through his psychic link, which he almost certainly is.

speaking of said psychic link, Deku is a horcrux.

just posting these now, because whenever trippy OFA stuff happens I tend to get an influx of theory asks. so hopefully this will be a bit of a time saver lol.)

-- wait, what

THAT’S what the recording was??!? holy SHIT. I genuinely was not expecting that. y’all wiretapped his fucking telepathy. fucking quirks, man. wild

AND THEY USED THAT POWER TO DETERMINE WHAT WE ALREADY KNEW, HUZZAH. GOOD SHOW

-- oh shit wait lol, except I forgot we’re not talking about 38 days from the present, we’re talking about 38 days from the date the conversation was recorded. heh. um

yeah that’s the face I would make too if All Fucking Might just casually told me we had eight days left until the end times

oh, pardon me. three fucking days

r.i.p. anyone who thought we were going to have another band arc sob. I sure hope Deku is enjoying that nap

(ETA: I realize people were hoping for a longer rest period here, but given that the man warned us all the way back in chapter 306 that we were entering the final act, you can’t really blame him too much when that turns out to be true. anyway but I do recognize that we’ve reached the point in the story where this kind of discourse is going to become a weekly occurrence, simply because there’s no possible way for Horikoshi’s actual endgame to line up perfectly with the variable headcanons of millions of fans, all of whom have wildly differing and in many cases contradictory expectations which can’t possibly all be fulfilled. anyway, so I’m already bracing myself for that lol. this coming year is going to be a wild ride.)

damn, U.A. out here looking like the motherfucking United Nations

-- is this U.A.?? I actually just realized, U.A. is four interconnected buildings, not two. wait holy shit is this Shiketsu?

wait holy SHIT

based on the overwhelmingly powerful vibes of bureaucratic incompetence, I’m thinking this really is the (future) U.N., or whatever organization it is that deals with international hero stuff

“just let them handle it themselves I’m sure they’ll be fine” yeah okay, thanks guys. appreciate it

wait oh shit did he say that it’s not just Japan?

soooo, what you’re telling me is that AFO is this close to bringing about the end of not just Japan, but the entire world, and you guys don’t think it’s a good idea to help the Japanese heroes stop him? so, genuine follow-up question: are you guys already planning your rich people exodus into space a la Wall-E, and that’s why you don’t give a fuck?? like, what??

omg international heroes

these guys are from World Hoodie Mission, right? is this Horikoshi’s way of reminding me to buy tickets

(ETA: and it worked too lol.)

WHO??? WHAT???

don’t tell me you’re introducing yet another badass new female character for me to fall in love with only to watch as you dismember them and/or blow them up, Horikoshi. I’m getting tired of playing this game my dude. don’t lie and tell me this time will be different. we’re not doing this again goddammit

noooooooooooooooooooo

god fucking dammit lmao. [sighs and rips the previous paragraph into shreds]

on behalf of Americans I apologize for our superheroes always being Like This

I also apologize because I love her already and I’m gonna be shameless about it. so fucking shameless you guys

is her fucking hair red white and blue. it is, isn’t it

this is the volume cliffhanger, 100% lol. it will take every ounce of Horikoshi’s willpower not to put her on the volume cover. he’ll have to settle for the spine or the inner cover this time because Deku VS his class 1-a superpals takes precedence. but it will be a close thing let me tell you

tbh it’s that smile that does it for me. she’s definitely All Might’s protege. get out there and show them how it’s done girl. and maybe call Salaam and BRD and see if you can’t convince them to play hooky from their governments as well. why not. world’s ending in three days you guys. “sorry, I’m busy this weekend” ain’t gonna cut it lol

so while I am not fully caught up with Vigilantes, I have read far enough to know that there’s an American hero named Captain Celebrity whose superpower from what I recall is being a humongous douchebag. and while I haven’t read far enough to know what happens to this guy, I can’t say I’m very disappointed to learn that he’s no longer the number one hero in the U.S. (actually, didn’t they kick him out and that’s why he moved to Japan to begin with?). anyway, so my thanks to Horikoshi for having a marginally higher opinion of Americans than Furuhashi, even though we have definitely not done anything to warrant said opinion lately, and you may have inadvertently opened the door to a pandora’s box of discourse lmao

(ETA: lol I went into the tags and they don’t disappoint. “why is she dressed like a flag” because she’s an homage to Captain America and Major Victory and literally every other character on this list. again, I apologize for fictional American superheroes being Like This. “oh boy another thicc waifu to make the fanboys happy” look, tumblr fandom never seems to have a problem thirsting over Dabi or Tomura or Aizawa or Nao, lol, I’m just saying. “where is Captain Celebrity” idk, probably murdered by the exploding bee cartel, let’s just be grateful for our good fortune and try not to Beetlejuice the man.)

anyway, so let’s see if Horikoshi’s recent character development with regards to making Mineta not terrible anymore will apply to other aspects of his writing as well. I know I was making light of discourse just now, but I do think the complaints about him introducing yet another new character at the 11th hour to be cannon fodder in the final battle are absolutely valid. and again, it wouldn’t be a problem if he didn’t keep maiming/killing off his female characters one by one instead of developing them and letting them kick ass long-term. but that said, I will never complain about Horikoshi adding another female character to the series, regardless of how clumsy the attempt may be. go ahead and pander away, just give us more girl power lol

anyway so we’ll see how it goes, but I think I’m gonna be optimistic and let myself hope once again, even though I’m probably gonna regret it lol. it is what it is. she is standing on an airplane just chilling for fuck’s sake. I’m only human. anyway fingers crossed

#bnha 328 #stain (bnha)#tsukauchi naomasa #all might #stars and stripes (bnha)#all for one #bnha #boku no hero academia #bnha spoilers #mha spoilers #bnha manga spoilers #makeste reads bnha #eta: how did I forget to type 'bnha' in the title sob

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lady-literature · 4 years

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Accidental Crime Boss Marinette

Okay so,, I have this AU in my head, right? (not surprised) and I’m lacking any real direction for it (still not surprised) but it basically goes like this:

Marinette moves to Gotham.

She’s drawn there for whatever reason and the kwami are saying something about balance and being a Guardian and her sacred duty and something but Marinette isn’t really listening. She’s too busy trying to find a shop front where she can open a bakery without having to worry about getting mugged every time she steps outside.

Chloé comes with her, obviously, because they’re friends and Chloé has a business degree she puts to good use actually running Mari’s bakery and online boutique while Mari gets to bake and fuck around basically. Adrien, Luka and Kagami are not there, but that’s mostly because they travel too much to settle down and keeping an empty apartment in Gotham is just asking for trouble.

Kagami is a world-renowned fencer and Luka travels the world for his music company. Not touring, but soaking up cultures and ways of life so he can make soundtracks to movies and tv shows. Providing the background and life to a film is more his style than touring the world ala his father, Jagged Stone.

Adrien is having the time of his life being Kagami’s trophy husband. He has no pressing responsibilities he doesn’t take on for himself and he gets to fuck with the world’s elite with little to no consequences. He spends most of his days donating far too much money to charities and orphanages and then causing minor scandals that land him on the cover of magazines.

He has much the same kind of ‘dumbass with a heart of gold’ persona to the media as Bruce Wayne does, only without the playboy bits.

(There is a wall in the back of the bakery, where Chloé and Mari carefully cut out and frame every headline and ridiculous picture Adrien has. He is very much delighted when he learns about his ‘wall of fame’.)

Anyway, Marinette finds herself with a bakery not overly far from crime alley, much to Chloé’s chagrin.

(“What do you mean it ‘just felt right’?! I swear to kwami, DC, you’re going to get us robbed and sold into slavery.”)

They do not get sold into salvery.

In fact, despite their less than stellar choice of locale, they do pretty well for themselves. The only problems they have (according to Chloé) is the army of children Marinette accidentally attracted.

When asked, Marinette tells everyone that it was an accident. Meanwhile, Chloé, standing behind her, will shake her head and insist there was literally never any other option for them the moment that first kid came in looking to nab some cash and a few pastries.

Mari lives by the phrases, ‘kindness breeds more kindness’ and ‘do unto others’ and all that other nice person shit. Chloé just lets Mari pseudo-adopt her strays and makes sure that they don’t steal anything too important in the time it takes her to gain their loyalty.

The kwami stay staunchly out of any arguments involving the kids (and eventually the homeless all along their street and every working girl in a five-block radius). They do so with a special brand of amusement that never means good things for either of them. (After all, the last time the kwami looked that amused, they moved to Gotham.)

The first kid is named Serrure, as Marinette comes to learn over the next month after he returns again and again, getting closer and closer like a feral cat. Other kids come during that time, all of them too small and too thin and too guarded for Mari's tastes. She wants to wrap them all up and tuck them into bed but she can’t. She has to be patient, has to be gentle. These kids are just as likely to bite her hand as they are to accept help.

Serrure becomes an almost permanent fixture at the bakery after that first month. Mari’s not quite sure what she did to get through to him, but she did, she supposes. He can’t be much older than eleven and looks nine, but after getting settled, she and Chloé discover this little slip of a boy is just as mischievous as Trixx and has all the dramatics of their favorite black cat.

The kwami, when talking about him, only refer to Serrure as Loki, even after Marinette scolds them for it. She eventually gives up trying to correct them, it’s not like Serrure talks to them anyway(yet)((that she knows of)).

There’s an apartment above the bakery, which is where Chloé and Mari and all her strays that grow to trust her enough live. It’s three bedrooms, and at first, Mari just buys as many bunk beds as she can fit into the spare room and calls it a day. The kids feel safe in her home, which isn’t too surprising. Everyone thinks the bakery feels safe, feels like home or comfort or whatever else eases their minds.

And Marinette should hopes so. She certainly put enough time and effort and magic and energy into the wards around this place for that to happen. To protect her and the children and all her strays that no one else will help.

But, she eventually amasses too many kids to fit into the one room. Chloé throws a fit about having to share with Mari again—“I had enough of that in university thank you very much”—but she relinquishes easily enough.

Mari buys more bunk beds, and Serrure has taken to sneaking into her room to curl up in her bed anyway, and sometimes the smaller kids who have nightmares will come in and pile on as well.

(There are only a few that Chloé will allow to do the same with her. It is considered a high honor and breeds a playful kind of jealousy that Chloé finds amusing. Mari scolds her for pitting the kids against each other.)

That only lasts them another two months.

“This is getting ridiculous,” Chloé tells her one day before the kids wake up. Mari is at the stove, cooking and baking for a small army while Chloé balances the books. “There’s not enough room for us all, DC, and the only reason someone hasn’t come barrelling down on us about the abundance of children is by the grace of your absurd amount of luck.”

“Well I can’t just kick them out, Queenie! What do you want from me?”

“Either we need to buy more real estate in this city—which I’d rather not do—or you open up the grimoire and start building pocket dimensions. I know you can. I’ve read the chapter.”

Marinette looks at her. “That is such a bad idea.”

They do the idea.

And then Mari adds about a thousand more wards to the bakery, carved into the wood and counter and anything that’s a permanent fixture. Doorways become particularly ward heavy, what with them being the entrances and exits to the hidden realms and children’s’ rooms.

The apartment above the bakery isn’t quite infinite but it gets pretty damn close some days.

This also means, of course, that all the kids definitely know about magic now. Some of them—Serrure—have known about it for a while she knows, but it’s different now. The kwami followed her around most of the time and she doesn’t keep them trapped in the Miracle Box like Fu did, but now that the kids know, they don’t bother staying hidden.

The children, at least, love them and the kwami adore them with all the ferocity a god can give. After Chloé gets over her ‘ew children’ phase, she throws herself into their education (on top of actually running the businesses Mari keeps, mind you). She has the help of the kwami, who act as personal tutors to the children, and it’s not long before the kids start to joke about her being the Principal.

(Some tried to call her Warden, but that joke didn’t last long.)

Marinette has also been telling the kids bedtime stories ever since this started. Old stories of the Guardian and Chosens who fought back the darkness, she shares all she knows of the Orders history with these kids and it’s not until Wayzz points it out to her does she realize what she’s doing.

“Ladybugs are known for renewal. It is no surprise that you are rebuilding what was lost.”

Rebuilding the Order using children was certainly not her intention but, well. She supposes there’s no place safer for her kids than what is shaping up to be the new Miracle Temple. It’s the only haven where they can learn to harness their Gifts and powers, it’s the only place where they can be surrounded by others like them without being thrust into superhero-dom.

Context: about a month into this whole circus, Marinette had realized there was a significant—almost all of them really—amount of metas and Gifted in her little hoard of strays. Which is… odd. Especially with how few metas there are in Gotham.

She had asked the kwami about it, and they have that amused look again. “You are their guardian.”

“Excuse me?”

“You’re their guardian. True, you are the Guardian of us, of the ancient ways, but you are a guardian at your soul too. You protect what is yours, and they are yours whether you realise it or not. The children can sense that, so they flock to you.”

And, huh. She supposes that makes sense but that’s also really kind of strange and weird and she doesn't want to think about that anymore actually.

So things are… fine, Marinette supposes. The bakery is doing well, and she has about two dozen-plus helpers running around underfoot to help tend to the customers or run to the store or help in the back with the baking. And every kid of hers has new clothes, their street things thrown out for being too ragged and replaced with something fresh made by Marinette’s own hands.

She embroiders little fairy wings into the clothes normally, because that’s what her cloaked wards look like most times and the kids like it and its technically the logo for the bakery and there’s a million reasons she does it.

It is, perhaps, her first mistake.

(“It was certainly not your first,” Chloé will snark one dayin the future.)

Because now Marinette has an army of magical children learning to wield their powers and not fear them and they’re all wearing what can be considered her insignia and uh oh, it looks a lot like Mari is some sort of up and coming mob boss who uses kids and prostitutes and the homeless as runners. People on the street start calling her the Pixie, start referring to Chloé—her second in all things just as Chat had been her equal—as Wasp, as Yellowjacket, as the Unseelie.

(They cannot seem to pick a name for her, but Pixie is all but engraved in stone. Mari is not sure who coined it, and she doesn't think she wants to know.)

The first time the whole situation is brought to her attention, she punches the idiot who dared even imply such a thing so hard she knocks him out.

Because look. The kids are hers right? And she watches out for the people near her, makes sure the working girls are treated as well as they can be and offers the homeless extra food and a dry place to wait out the storm. She offers her hand and gives them all a place to rest, to eat, to exist without expectations or consequences.

She does that because she’s kind, because it hurts her to see people in need, to see them suffer, not because she’s hoping to gain something from it.

The fact that most of them repay her in gossip or information or bend her ear about the newest goings on in the corrupt elite or filthy underworld is strange, yes, but it’s nice to know what’s going on in the city, she supposes. And one time, Kathy, who works on the corner of Brookes and Gilmore, warned her of a drug raid that saved her an unnecessary trip to the police station so it’s not like it doesn't have it’s uses.

But mostly, Mari doesn't really think about all the information that’s unintentionally or otherwise passed onto her. She remembers it all, because it’s rude not to listen when people talk to her, but nothing comes of normally.

Not until Serrure—now twelve and well versed in the magic of illusions and glamors and knows almost as much about this city as her or the Bats—bursts into the bakery one day and grabs Mari away from the front counter right in the middle of a customer ordering. She should, perhaps, be a little angry at that but Tony, one of the older boys and just shy of sixteen, steps into her place almost immediately, so.

And then Serrure speaks and everything is pushed aside in favour of the next words to fall from his lips.

“Someone took Sophie,” he says and she nearly sees red.

After Serrure, Sophie has been here the longest. She is the youngest of them all, only seven, but oh so clever and kind and while she looks nothing like her, everyone calls her Mini-Mari. If Serrure is her beloved first son, Sophie is her treasured daughter.

She’s out the door in the next moment, storming her way to their base. She has Sophie and a handful of extra kids back by sunset, a little frightened, but no worse for wear. She doesn’t make a big deal out of it, besides making sure that the idiots who dared cross her never do so again, but word gets out.

Soon, her kids and teens and adults begin giving her more than just information, they begin giving her problems. Ones she’s meant to fix because she’s Pixie. She’s safety, she’s protection, she’s the one the people start to turn to for help.

And enter stage left, one Jason Todd who’s all snark and charm and smiles wrapped up in a nice leather bow and tall enough that Mari likely could climb him like a tree. If that was something she wanted, she guesses.

(She wants. She just won’t admit.)

He becomes a regular at the bakery and befriends most of her kids.

Mari’s wary when he first takes an interest in them. They’ve been hurt and a lot of them are still adjusting to being safe and it doesn't matter that this man is hot enough to burn, if he steps even a toe out of line with her kids she’ll make him wish he was never even born.

But, she stops worrying eventually. The kwami like him well enough, but seem to think something’s odd about him—but its Gotham, who isn’t strange?—and both Serrure and Sophie take to him like ducks to water and they’re both good judges of character.

There’s a certain intuition they both have that reminds Marinette just a bit too much about herself and pure magic. Not for the first time does she wonder if they got such strong magic from their parents or if it cropped up in them randomly, fostered by fortune and chance and the magic that’s so deeply seeped into the bones of her bakery it’ll be here long after she’s gone.

And, okay, so she was a little right to be wary because Jason was mostly there to investigate her. Far too many people respect her and are loyal to her and she has a veritable orphanage in her pocket and also Harley and Ivy like her and it just- it doesn’t look good right?

But Jason’s a good detective and it doesn't take him long at all to see that Mari is just as sweet and kind and loving as she appears to be. Not long after that, Red Hood declares Pixie and all of hers, under his protection. She, of course, is more than capable of taking care of her and hers, and the underworld knows this, has seen it, but he does it anyway.

The news, of course, gets back to Mari and she is… confused. Why would the Red Hood do something like that? She’s heard talk of him being sweet on kids, but to claim her? They’ve never even met.

Bonus points for Jason being there when she’s told about it. He kind of raises his eyebrow at her because, huh, that was fast, and then spends the next few minutes talking up the Red Hood to her much to her utter bafflement.

He actually keeps doing that too, talking up the Red Hood. Mari thinks he has a crush on the man for the longest time because of it. Until he reveals he is Red Hood, then she just wants to punch his stupidly handsome face for being such an idiot.

Shit happens from there and things go down and the two spend a couple of months dancing around each other and intentionally and unintentionally ruling the criminal underworld and at one point Marinette definitely punches Bruce and Batman in the face—separately, much to Jason’s unending joy—and she also definitely adopts Duke/Signal as well because that poor boy needs to know he’s not alone.

And it’s just them being domestic and badass and lowkey raising an army of children and falling in love while the kwami and the kids and Chloé are all in the background just yelling at them to get together already!

Which, they do. Eventually. After all the secrets come out and Jason knows about the magic and Order and meets Mari’s other friends, ie Kagami, Luka and Adrien who are all intimidating for wildly different reasons. And Mari finds out that Jason died and came back (which earns him the nickname firebird btw) and that he was a Robin once upon a time but is now Red Hood and oh my kwami it all makes sense now.

Jason confesses like three times via classic Victorian romance novel quotes because he’s a fucking literature nerd but it’s not until he basically spells it out for Mari does she really understand. it’s all very sweet and heartwarming and then the pair duck into one of the empty pocket dimensions they have lying around and aren’t seen for three days.

(No one really goes to look for them tbh)

Chloé definitely teases them about early honeymoons and things but besides the two being even more ridiculously lovey-dovey than usual, life goes back to normal. Or as normal as it gets for them.

And they all live happily ever after the end.

#maribat #jasonette #my typewriter #batfam #crime boss mari #miraculous ladybug #dc #mlb x dc #i was possessed by the need to write this all down #i have so many random ass moments from this au #just scenes taht barely fit together #zero coherency #let me know if yall want that ig #?

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cellydawn · 3 years

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sans IS gaster (OR the sans theory masterpost pt. 2)

Part 1 || ❤️ || Part 3

(drawn by me, color by @magenteel)

Previously, we discussed: Sans and his hand in the destruction of a world, his connection to Ice-E and Deltarune, and how he relates to Gaster. We’re going to continue the thread we left off on.

Section III - Gaster (Cont.)

Snails are mentioned too many times throughout Undertale for them to not be of any significance. As it turns out, they are pretty important in unraveling the mystery behind Gaster and Sans.

When you enter the area with Napstablook’s snail farm, you’ll notice that Sans’s theme is playing despite him not making an appearance.

In one of Papyrus’s phone calls, he mentions that Sans recently bought snail-shaped pasta and says “He’ll probably fill them with hotdogs and slime.” Toriel also owns a book called “72 User for Snails”. Track 72 in the Undertale OST is “Song That Might Play When You Fight Sans”. That’s multiple times that Sans is likened to snails.

Snails belong under the taxonomic class Gastropoda. Gasterpods.

These long pauses between words and phrases are not unlike how Gaster speaks.

Here is Gaster speaking with us in the opening sequence of Deltarune. And...

Now. Let’s move on.

(More under the cut.)

Mus_smile is the track that plays in room_gaster. This is my personal opinion, but the character that is the most strongly associated with smiles is Sans.

And Sans is certainly intelligent enough to be the prime suspect for being Gaster. The proper name for his namesake is Comic Sans Microsoft, or Comic Sans MS. MS can also be used as a suffix for the name of a person who has a degree in a Master of Science.

Sans also owns quantum physics books. The subject of Gaster’s scientific research is revealed in Entry #17: “photon readings negative”. Photons are described as a "quantum" of electromagnetic energy, and are of course within the realm of study under quantum physics.

Gaster, like Sans, is brilliant yet slow-working. Slower than Alphys, who is repeatedly noted to have nothing to show yet as the royal scientist in the eyes of the people and is shown to slack off constantly.

Gaster is implied to have perished, and I suppose he did, in a way, if these speculations do end up being correct. However, there’s something more to this statement. Ghosts are sort of in the realm of being not-alive, and Sans and Napstablook have a surprising level of comparability.

They both:

Get likened to “garbage”

Have connections to snails (Napstablook runs the snail farm)

Speak completely in lower case

Pretend to sleep and say “Z’s” out loud

Have black “sclera”

And the black sclera is also a topic of its own; it’s equated with the status of being brought back to life. Being “determined”. (See: Asriel and Undyne)

Undyne is especially suspect due to the strange right-eye-phenomenon she has in common with Sans, with spears shooting out of hers. Spears that are actually colored light blue, not unlike Sans’s eye.

To recap:

Sans and Gaster are heavily involved in Deltarune

They have been displaced from time and space

They have connections to snails

They are both doctors with knowledge in quantum physics

They both “fell” into the abyss

They both talk similarly

They are both slow

They are both characterized by their smile

They are both some degree of dead

Sans is Gaster or a significant piece of him. Sans has Gaster Blasters because they belong to him. If all prior conjecture proves true, he is and will be responsible for the destruction of a world or THE world within Deltarune. After all, the Latin definitions of “gaster” and “sans” are to destroy and to be without, respectively.

That brings us to the next subject: why is Sans Sans? More specifically, why is that his name? Why even change his name?

Below is the Japanese version of the fun event with Sans’s phone call. It features completely different dialogue from its English counterpart.

Am I Licca-chan? (Select No) Then from now on call me Sans. I need to check every once in a while. I won’t know when my name has changed.

“Licca-chan” is a well-known Barbie-esque dress-up doll in Japan, so popular to the point where it is even used as a synonym for other dolls from different companies. Perhaps it implies that Sans is adaptable due to Licca-chan’s nature as a doll and how she is in a constant state of change to reflect the times. It also seems to be a pun on “liquor” because Sans was talking about beer in the English version. I tried to scour the Japanese fandom for clues, but they also seemed stumped. If anyone has any ideas on what this could mean, please let me know!

Regardless, “Sans” doesn’t seem to be his actual name. Perhaps his true name was Gaster...?

Additionally, If the player changes the name of the fallen child via going into the code, this message appears in the stats menu. The vernacular is very Sans-like, with his frequent use of question tags at the end of his sentences (I counted 14 huh’s from Sans).

Finally, let’s talk about the number six. We know that it’s Gaster’s number--All of the explicitly Gaster-related fun events trigger for fun values in the sixties, Gaster’s stats are all comprised of 6′s, Gaster’s “typer-value” is 666--you get the idea.

The concept art Toby drew for the Alarm Clock’s character screen features what is presumably Sans and the number six.

“The Choice”--the track that plays during Sans’s judgements--is “Undertale” slowed down by 666%.

Section IV - Angels and Demons (The “Why”)

In modern day culture, 666 is closely associated with the devil. The Book of Revelation (13:17-18) asserts that 666 is “the number of a man” (this is important, and we’ll come back to it later) and is “the number of the Beast”. The Beast is mentioned as “coming out of the abyss”.

Sounds a lot like someone else we know, doesn’t it? And how fitting for Sans, the one who judges our sins and demands us “to burn in hell”.

But if we go further, the Beast of Revelation is described to have seven heads representing seven kings. The beast itself is an eighth king who is of the seven and "was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition."

Chara is an eighth of the seven fallen children.

There’s something Chara, Sans, and Gaster all share, and it’s their association with demons.

Here is an excerpt from the Cutting Room Floor:

Among the four strings in version 1.0, the last one, designated by variable “demond”, stands out for two reasons.

The letter “d” is separate from the other letters denoting the demon variables--the rest, “x”, “y”, and “z” are in sequential alphabet order.

The speech pattern of the last string is different from the others. It has that signature question tag at the end of the sentence that a certain character is known for.

In version 1.001, the strings clearly reflect Chara’s speech pattern. This time, all the variables are in sequential order from “a” to “d”.

Pieces of dialogue at the near-end of a genocide route from Chara and Sans. Recall that Chara is using the same “Now” from earlier with Gaster and Sans.

Chara makes a reference to Banana Yoshimoto's book “Kitchen”. Take note of the page number.

Chara is also linked to the number nine. It’s the highest achievable stat in-game. It’s the stat of the locket and real knife. It’s how much damage Chara deals. It’s also the number six flipped upside down.

The connections are undeniable.

And yet, it goes further. Let’s take a look at how Christmas comes in to play.

In Deltarune, there are a few references to it, the most foremost probably being the importance of Noelle Holiday as a character. We also get Lancer’s laugh and the joke with “Krismas”.

Back to Undertale, there is significant Christmas iconography represented by “Gyfmas” and Gyftrot (bearing a strong resemblance to Photoshop Flowey, the DT Extractor, and Gaster Blasters).

What I’d like to focus on is Santa. Papyrus describes him as “a chubby, smiling man who loves to surprise people.” From the thank you note addressed to Santa we find in Sans’s room, we can assume that Sans is a Santa, at least to Papyrus. It’s pretty fitting, since Sans can be described as someone who “knows if [we’ve] been bad or good”. Maybe he can even tell if we’re sleeping or awake with how the Dark World appears to be linked with sleep and dreams (please read my theory on Sans being a Darkner for more on this).

So we can reasonably conclude that Sans presents himself as a friendly, child-oriented figure, in-line with the nature of Comic Sans, a font for children, and Ice-E, a mascot of a company marketed towards children.

…

Santa is an anagram of Satan.

…

To recap: Gaster’s association with the number 666 marks him as a “demon”. Chara and Sans are also called demons and similarly have connections to the number 6. This is more evidence that Gaster and Sans is or used to be the same people, and Chara has some form of correspondence with them.

I failed to mention before that there is actually a second Beast of Revelation “from the Earth” with "two horns like a lamb”. From the “earth” like Flowey, with horns like Asriel.

Asriel is most likely the “Angel” depicted in the prophecy within the scope of Undertale; he’s named similarly to Azrael, an angel of death, and one of his attacks is literally called “Angel of Death”. He also bears a striking resemblance to the Deltarune in his God of Hyperdeath form.

Surprise, surprise, he and Sans also share parallels.

Let’s start with their introductions. “Flowey the flower”. “Sans the skeleton”. It’s a similarly alliterative greeting and they’re both using fake names.

Mirrored dialogue yet again...

…and similar meta-commentary.

These three characters--Sans/Gaster, Chara, and Flowey/Asriel--they have all fallen. Gaster fell into his creation. Chara fell into the Underground. Asriel had “fallen down”. (Sans and Papyrus are also the only sibling pair other than Chara and Asriel. I won’t talk about Papyrus in this part though because this thing is shaping up to be too long already.)

What does this mean for Sans? I have a personal theory.

Above the entryway of the Judgement Hall, there is a reversed Deltarune. The triangles are inverted and the wings are more bat-like. In the room where only Sans appears, the same room that plays a version of “Undertale” slowed down 666%.

I think Sans is a candidate for the Angel prophesized to destroy the world in Deltarune. I think he is Sans Serif, a seraph. He fell into his experiment and became a “fallen” angel, a demon.

The Angel’s Heaven mentioned alongside, on the other hand... Heaven can also be used to refer to God. Dog is an anagram of God.

Sans has many, many connections with dogs, especially one Annoying Dog. More on this next time.

Part 1 || ❤️ || Part 3

#undertale #deltarune #undertale theory #deltarune theory #sans #gaster #cellytheory

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It’s probably too early for The Meta No One Asked For That I’m Gonna Write Anyway about XQC, alas…here we go

Dr. Xie Qingcheng, 32, male, straight (so far), 180 cm with only one current family member.

Xqc is introduced as a cold, aloof and apathetic retired doctor who has no passions, cares about nothing except for his sister, and unless he’s angry, you can barely get an emotional response out of him.

Through meatbun’s character notes on how he has no favorite food, no favorite color or animal, no personal preferences outside what’s most practical and how he’s very very responsible and rules abiding and honest and sober and serious, and through he yu’s POV that continuously paints him as this heartless cold blooded person, I dare say we were…deceived by this so far shades of gray picture we had of him.

Xqc was born into a finically stable middle class family consisting of two cops for parents and a younger sister that came into the world 8 years after him. When he turned 13, and his sister was only 5 at that time, his parents were fired from their job due to a case they shouldn’t have been investigating going wrong, and they had to move to a rural area. Not long after that, he witnessed both his parents’ deaths and saw their corpses with his own eyes, the site was bloody and there’s no way it didn’t traumatize a pre-teen like him. He then was tasked with taking care of his sister, becoming a doctor despite not wanting to, owing others favors and spending all his money on smth that’s yet to be revealed instead of enjoying it. He got married, not to a woman he loves but to someone whom he thought of as “suitable and appropriate”, got cheated on and went through a divorce before losing full interest in the marriage life. He was finally able to retire (we don’t know why yet) and live a quiet, normal, boring life.

I believe xqc loved his parents, I believe he loved them so much cause in chapter 20, he mentions how he thought he wouldnt be able to live past the grief, he wouldn’t be able to go on or move forward, how the grief completely overtook him. He also mentions how he used to play with knots and handcuffs when he was a child, which shows how close he was to them. So for a child who had a good stable life with two loving parents to suddenly fall from a class to a class, suddenly lose both parents and see their corpses with his own eyes, that must’ve fucked him up big time. I’m talking “when can I fully register all of this” kind of fucked up. But he didn’t have time to fully absorb all of this, didnt have the time to sit down and cry, he had a sister, she was only 5, where will they get the money from? What were they gonna do? How was he going to continue school while caring for her? He didn’t have the time to sit down and grief, to sit down and adjust. For a child who had a normal life and didn’t have to worry much about the money like every other middle class kid, he was suddenly burdened with poverty AND loss, and duty and responsibility. Good bye to the days of playing with handcuffs and knots huh?

You ask me, why does xqc not have a favorite food? I answer you, because many many nights, he didn’t know what to feed his sister, much less himself. Cause I bet that many nights, he would have to give up his portion for Xie Xue, to make sure a kid like her is full. Cause he couldn’t afford to be picky, couldn’t afford to choose; whatever was edible will be eaten, taste and flavor be damned. He had to start working from a young age, balance school, babysitting and working all at once. The last friend he made (I think) was that Chen Man guy whose parents were friends with his parents, back when they were alive and life was good. He didn’t have time to make friends, or go out, or have a favorite color or visit the zoo and decide on a favorite animal. No, he had to study, and study hard to become more financially stable and support Xie Xue, he had to raise his baby sister and protect her, he had to work or else how will he put food on their table? Yet he never lost his soft kind heart, cause when his sister asked for a laptop, he bought her one just so that she wouldn’t feel less than any of the other children.

Xqc had to SURVIVE, he had to make do with what he had and what he didn’t have. He didn’t have time to sit down and cry or process his trauma, didn’t even have time to think of adolescent love or his youthful days or do what kids his age did. And all of that carried forward into his adult life. He pushed his emotions back so hard and had his practical, business like mind take care of everything in order to make it through the days. He started to believe that passionate emotions such as love and hate and lust and desire were all a waste of time, a distraction from his duties, smth that will rock the delicate balance he created with his everyday busy schedule. Emotions will stunt you, emotions will delay you, crying and not going to work today means no food to feed his hungry sister with. That’s when he started thinking, strong emotions are a DISEASE, they will take up your time, cloud your judgement, have you make reckless decisions that you’ll regret later. And he couldn’t afford any of that right? Strong emotions are for the weak, they put you in crutches and disable you from moving forward. Wasnt that what he told his ex wife? If he had submitted himself to his grief back then, where would his sister be? Where would he be? How could they have grown up to be healthy and successful adults?

So this man taught himself practicality and duty and priorities. He stopped thinking about himself, about what he wants and what he feels, and instead started making sure that those around him are happy and content and safe and well taken care of. He no longer had desires or passions, he only had rules and regulations. If a person lost their sense of taste, would they still want chocolates and burgers? Would they still have cravings and foods they’d rather swallow medicine than eat? No. If so, how will they decide on what to eat every day? They’ll simply start following a “perfect nutritional plan” and “balanced diet”. They’d eat what they have to eat, when they have to eat, and in the exact portion they need. To them eating would be another chore they have to do every day to keep their bodies going. Similarly, with xqc, graduating, working, marrying, taking care of his sister and auntie, these all became “tasks” and “chores” that he had to abide by and follow. They became the dietary plan for his life till he dies, the outline he shall follow, the textbook rules he will carry out, no need to think of what he “wants” or “desires”, what will make him “happy” or bring him “joy”. He no longer listened to his emotions when making decisions. Even when marrying his ex wife, he married her cause she was “a suitable match”, not for her looks or personality or anything. Feelings are life’s taste buds, and once you remove them, everything becomes tasteless and mundane, and practicality/logic takes over. He stopped knowing what it felt like to choose based on your preferences, cause he stopped having the luxury of choice ever since that night when he was 13, and he no longer was able to re-teach himself the meaning of free will and choice.

So when he yu, in chapter 20, asked him how he would’ve acted if Xie Xue had died, and he said, “I would’ve continued living as I am today till my last breath,” he wasn’t being “cold” or “heartless” or “indifferent” as he yu likes to say. He was being practical and methodical and thinking with a logical approach, rather than an emotional one, just the way he taught himself to throughout all these years. His almost 2 decades of pure survival mode and severely repressed feelings spoke in the form of autopilot. “I would do what I have to do, what I’ve always done every day of my life so far cause what choice do I have?” Is what he meant to say.

But I believe that he’s a soft hearted, kind and loving person. He never says no his sister, never says no to his auntie, helped that homeless man as best as he could, taught he yu that he was normal and that he wasn’t a monster, believed in treating his patients with words instead of medicine prescriptions, believed that the mentally ill deserve to live normally instead of being locked up. I believe that underneath all the shit he has buried, there’s a lot of passion and love that’s been kept dormant for 19 years.

In conclusion, idk where meatbun is gonna take his character but I genuinely hope he gets to heal, and start having more color and flavor in his life. Start allowing himself to live, not just survive.

#case file compendium #xie qingcheng #bing an ben #meatbun doesn’t eat meat #cfc #bab #meatbun

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hazelcephalopod · 2 years

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The Eye of the World Ch 36-38

I’m back with another, whatever this is!

In the city Team Luck finally catches a long(er) break. Mat gets a nap, in a bed. Rand makes a strange new friend. Team Experience comes across Team Competent in a dire situation. The reunited groups continue on their way to Caemlyn.

It’s going to be a long one!

Disclaimer: this is my first read thru but I’ve watched all of the show this far and been spoiled on some book things. So… I’m going to lean into that. Enjoy figuring out what I know, and what I think I know, and what I just don’t. Also s/x I add commentary when I edit.

Spoilers for the first book and up to the most recent episode under the cut. Potential spoilers for latter books.

Ch 36

Rand POV

Be gone well before then

But. Food!

A story to rival an Aes Sedai honestly in stepping carefully thru the truth. Still… hard sell (editor me- Is Rand and Aes Sedai? Is that still how that works?)

Oh joy court politics /s

You do own the place and she does work there

Rats… well that means the dark one is around, apparently

Lol. G’luck sorting out who is and isn’t a Darkfriend. If they will act is indeed another matter

Food. But sad fear eating

Oh sweet relief. An attic with a bed!

Rand’s discomfort with girls like I understand it’s b/c he’s a teenager -and meta reasons. Like I know that. But… tbh I keep having to remind myself because my first instinct is- ‘why are you like this and why does it feel queer?’ Which does say more about me but… I think it’s gonna be more fun to also figure out why he’s queer so I think I’ll do that instead. I guess this is your warning?

“He [Rand] expected some comment from Mat, but as soon as she was gone, Mat threw himself on one of the beds, still in his cloak and boots, and turned his face to the wall.” -after the barmaid shows them to their -attic- room and flirts with an uncomfortable Rand. Also, the latter half is verbatim for the show scene. Fantastic.

Library?! I knew it the library is in the inn they are staying at isn’t it?! In the show. Because it appears to be. Many books and now I’m probably too excited

Even tho I’ve seen more I fully relate to the awe of seeing so any books in one place.

Excitement valid! Yesssss. Loial! I’m as excited as an oyster growing it’s first shell!

Lol. Fails to draw sword. And he fell on his ass

So Ogiers haven’t really interacted with humans in the hundreds of years since the War of Hundred Years (I later learn it’s just less rather then not at all)

4 days isn’t too long at least

90 years and that may still be a teen in his culture?

Lol. Yup. He just left cuz they were taking too long to let him

Right?

It’s also cool meeting someone who left home of their own volition to contrast the TR crew being mostly forced to leave or at least having little option to return

Oh they built a bunch of cities after the Breaking. For humans. Huh

Something about trees? Idk what that is but I’m for it. That’s sounds cool

Ok the trees have something to do with the stedding?

And there are Ogier in Cairhien that work on the cities still. And various Ogier communities in the multiple steddings

So yes a teenager, basically

Lol. Few refute the pattern exists I guess

That is absolutely a part of it yup

“I suppose it’d be fun to live as long as you do, but I never really thought about it.” -Rand to Loial on Ogier long life vs humans shorter ones

“We Ogier are bound to out steddings.” - Loial to Rand. Why?

Don’t think the groves and the stedding are the same thing now ???

Carihein was once called “Al’cair’raheinallen, Hill of the Golden Dawn”. They forgot the name but remember the sun imagery

“Caemlyn is still Caemlyn…” that name hasn’t changed

Tear and Illian names have changed.

“‘Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the Last Day.” -Loial, clearly quoting something to make a point about human nature.

“Sightblinder” again, and eyes being mentioned. That’s the Aiel name for the Dark one I recall.

Oh he’s expecting some phrase in return then. Nice… that’s a good little egg, maybe?

“The Great Trees… Are they like *Avendorosa*?” -Rand trying to fill the silence after Loial’s quote and silence. Didn’t someone mention that earlier? I can’t remember who to whom tho. Maybe Rand and Tam? ??

Oh lol. Yup. Loial absolutely thinks he’s Aiel. -b/c he is, ethnically at least-

Lol. ‘No!’ ‘Huh? Yes.’ ‘No’. ‘Weird! Guess the world has changed?’

“Your pain sings in my heart, Rand al’Thor.” -Loial

Hmm… is he actually like, feeling his pain somehow!

Ohh he’s like ‘large man… friend? Plz be friend’

“…it was almost as if he were two people…” -Rand

Rand tells Loial everything, ‘this is fine. Yup totally fine’. Tells him about the dreams: “Maybe Loial would just think he was going mad.”

Loial pointing at Rand ‘main character.’

“I could live on the farm or in Emond’s Field, and that would be a small change. If I wanted to be king…” -Rand al’Thor trying to understand Loial’s explanation of the pattern

So. Much. Lore. So… normally the Pattern is elastic but sometimes it just chooses a person/people/place for a while and says ‘this is what’s gonna happen to you now. Buckle up. Or don’t. It’s happening regardless’. That’s the web (ta’maral’ailen) and it happens to ta’veren.

“Artur Hawkwing was ta’veren. So was Lews Therin Kinslayer… I suppose.” -Loial on the pattern.

‘Kinslayer’ can’t deny it fits.

Rand ‘no. No. I’m nobody to the pattern and neither are my friends’

“It’s just ridiculous.” (Rand) “I wish to travel with you, Rand.” (Loial)

No bring him!

Ch 37

Nynaeve! POV

“At Whitebridge she had begun to believe Moiraine. Somewhat. More, at any rate.” -(Nynaeve) lol

And the penny drops. Or rather the magic tracking coin

Wait that’s how the coin works? Penny back in the air

Idk if I’m using the penny phrase right or not

Perrin and Egwene. Yay?

Honestly what the Whitecloaks are interested in they are terrible at getting. (I’m never going to stop saying this or dissing them btw)

“Light knows it doesn’t take much to make Whitecloaks suspicious…” -Moiraine. Truth!

Oh shit. Sabotage, get rid of the horses.

Don’t worry about the wolves. Lol they did

Finally! Someone making their skirts easier to move in. It’s not hard

Lol love Nynaeve and her competitive crushing.

They’re not cult-y at all /s

Truly NPCs

These horses are indeed more perceptive than their riders

I have never feared *a horse* more

Bela!

Would Lan not have seen which boy it was in the camp? Like… at least know it wasn’t Rand? And maybe in the books Perrin and May look enough alike that Lan has not yet learned which is which. Honestly is so, hilarious. I’m fine with that then.

The horses: fuck yea if Bela wants to go let’s leave these assholes behind!

Lol. Nynaeve: I wish Moiraine would do the thing. Moiraine: I got you girl!

And… all the horses loose it of course

She got Bela, and another horse! Good call!

Ch 38

Perrin POV

Well that sounds miserable

And horrifying

And deeply sad. Because people do torture each other

That Byar guy is evil. Like, just a pure evil person, and I don’t say that lightly

So just… absolutely horrible humans all around then. Still dangerous fools

That feels like a trap. Is he really going to help them escape and let them go? More like help them escape and kill then as they run

Perrin agrees (I soon learn we are right)

It does! Help is coming. And not soon enough

Lan- me dead? Lol. Not to these fools at least

Well add all this to the “List of A Bad Times”

It’s like dark dark out then

Wait… Perrin doesn’t have night vision anymore?

“He felt a prick as it settled around his shoulders, a stab of worry between his shoulder blades. Was it Byar’s cloak he had ended up with?” -(Perrin) as he puts on one of the Whitecloaks cloaks worrying if it’s the one of the guy who has been tormenting and abusing him the most of the Whitecloaks -which all of them have/ but Byar, the guy, especially. Show honestly toned that down, which… uhhh ‘Kay.

More hand holding! My babies!

Moiraine Lightningbringer [redacted] Sedai

More evidence the Whitecloaks are doomed to failure. Utterly incompetent

Ok mild spoilers for later: truly how is Nynaeve not te’veren in this. I assumed Moiraine was doing some telepathy magic but no she just got impatient.

Not Lan wanting to go after Nynaeve immediately after learning she’s been gone a little too long

“Remember your oaths, al’Lan Mandragoran, Lord of the Seven Towers! What of the oath of a Diademed Battle Lord of the Malkieri?” -Moiraine when Lan wants to go back for Nynaeve. Just real intense there, he must really want to go back for her!

Don’t worry tho man. She’s fine

Also that sounds important. Lan is a fucking lord?

And see all’s well!

Love Nynaeve always noticing Egwene first

Lan showing affection- grips the arm of one he has affection for

Fully adding Byar to the Hate list right above Bornhold.

And back on the run!

Mm be interested to know what’s happening in Egwene’s head. Obviously that was awful for Perrin and it sounds awful for her too

When do we get to burn down the Whitecloaks as an institution?

Honestly nothing you did was justified for that Perrin.

What the fuck type of plants do that? Nynaeve that is just magic

“It isn’t anything.” Perrin *lied* (about his yellow eyes)

Moiraine just tell her what it is ffs. Or say you don’t know. (I later learn the latter option would be a lie)

Does she? How much does Perrin know about the, er, conflicts to come? (He soon learns a bit)

I’d also be pissed if I was Nynaeve

Lan knows Elyas?

Elyas was a fucking Warder? Near the Blight?

What doesn’t Lan want to say?

Tower politics? Not even at the tower yet. Excellent

Ah. The web mention again. Te’veren stuff, don’t remember the name of the web in the old tongue

Dude pretty sure you naming or not naming the Dark One does not matter. He takes what he wants, or at least makes every effort too. Yea, like those dream

Yup. It’s not the Dark One is connected to the wolf power it’s the patterns doing stuff which indicate things are changing

Well those are ominous looks Lan

I think it is very much for him to worry about by the sounds of things actually

The Dark One fucking up his life is basically his life now regrettable

Can’t the Dark One change that tho?

Yup no magic with those other two at all. (Flash thru all the absurd shit Rand has been doing)

Well good news about that!

Note- I get that the dark one is like bound but he still clearly has me as to influence the world at least thru his servants.

#many thoughts on twot teotw #< block or filter to stop seeing these posts #the wheel of time #wheel of time #wot #wot book spoilers #twot book spoilers #twot book #eotw spoilers #eye of the world #the eye of the world

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