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storydays · 27 days

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The Show Must Go On P1

(3rd POV)

*With Vox*

"Oh! Nifty, nice side swipe. Pentious like to see that effort." Charlie called happily. "Teamwork makes the dreamwork." replied the snake." "Train, train, train." Niffty said excitedly. The camera zoomed out to reveal the TV Overlord watching the hotel members training.

"No fucking way! They're going to fight? Oh, my God." Vox cackled before mocking the princess on screen. "Oh, looks like your little hotel didn't work out so well. Oh Alastor, I cannot wait to watch you get FUCKED!"

*Back at the hotel*

"Oh, I wish my mom was here to see this." Charlie sighed to Vaggie. "Well, the cannibals seem ready to fight, are we?" "Fear not damsels! I shall have the staff ready for victorious combat!" Pentious called, dressed as a war captain.

"What in the hell are you supposed to be?" Vaggie asked. "General Pentious, reporting for duty. I'll turn those rapscallions into soldiers in no time at all."

"Thank you, Pen." Charlie smiled as Vaggie face palmed. "What can I do to help?" Niffty asked, holding dead bugs in her hands. "I'm glad you asked, soldier. The base needs fortifications. Reinforce the southern wall. Create a moat around the perimeter to stop a ground assult." Pentious ordered loudly.

Niffty blinked at him blankly.

"Here, Nif." (Y/N) chuckled, kneeling to Niffty's height and handing her an angelic knife. "If you see an angel, stab it." "Ooh.."The little cyclops giggled at the knife before spotting Angel who was talking to Cherri a few feet away. "Stab! Stab! Stab!"

"Hey,hey,hey,hey!" Angel climbed high onto the pole next to him as Cherri ran off. "Not him!" (Y/N) cried, blocking Niffty, wings widespread to hide Angel from her view.

Niffty glared slightly before giggling and running off.

"She's gone, tesoro. You can come down now." (Y/N) watched in amusement as Angel tapped into his stripper past and got off the pole, back flipping into his arms. "Thanks, babe." Angel kissed (Y/N)'s cheek as he got down before they walked over to the rest of the group.

"Listen up, sinners! We got 24 hours before the extermination begins. Let's get to work." Vaggie said in her drill Sargent voice.

*Back with Vox*

"Oh, they suck. They're--they're gonna die." He laughed, watching as Vaggie teach where to strike the angels, Pentious building something, and (Y/N) using his magic to summon his own warriors and weapons.

*At the hotel*

Charlie borrowed Alastor's staff, tapping it slightly so everyone could hear her. "Hello, I want to thank everyone for coming. Even people who aren't staying here yet...Cherri." Charlie smiled playfully at the pink haired cyclops.

"Look, I can't resist a fight, okay? Especially when I get to tag team with this fuckhead." Cherri grinned pulling Angel down to share matching grins.

"Tomorrow, the exorcist angels will face a Hell ready to defend itself and win. " Charlie fist pumped the air.

"Yeah! Yeah, we will! Tell 'em, baby!" Vaggie cheered loudly for her girlfriend. 'Yes. And we are--we are going to win! But in case we don't, I want you all to know...that getting to know you has been the biggest honor of my life. Whatever redemption really means, I know you all tried."

Charlie looked out onto the crowd, looking proudly at her family who sent her proud looks back. "I have seen the good in all of you. And it's, I just...I love you all so much and--and live tonight however you want because--" "We're all going to die! Hahahaha!" Niffy announced loudly.

Everyone stared at her, feeling very awkward.

"All right! Let's give it up for not dying! Love not dying!" Vaggie cheered, before realizing the mood was killed. "Drinks?"

*Inside the hotel*

"I mean, personally, I'm excited. It's been a long time since I stabbed anyone and meant it, know what I mean?" Vaggie said to Charlie who looked mildly concerned.

"Cheers, bitches!" Cherri exclaimed, clinking her glass against Angel, Husk and (Y/N)'s, who all grinned back. "Here's to us!" Angel smiled. "Here's to being alive today and not dying tomorrow." Sir Pentious said loudly, everyone cheering him on.

On the balcony, Alastor watched them with a fond smile. "Ah, the celebratory night before a courageous last stand. It's been a surprising thrill to witness these wayward souls find connection. Almost makes one sentimental, eh Niffty?"

Niffty was sitting on the railing next to him. "I really like them, Alastor. They let me put on roach puppet shows without booing!"

"Ahh, an enjoyable collective to be around. I admit one could get accustomed."

Niffty placed a roach crown on Alastor's head. "I dub thee King Roach."

"Oh, to understand your twisted little mind." The two began to laugh manically.

*With Angel, (Y/N) and Husk*

"Last day of afterlife, and you're not off snorting a line off some hunk's abs?" Husk asked the spider.

"Ehh, you fucked one cannibal pool boy, you fucked 'em all. 'Sides, I got my hunk right here." Angel shrugged before hanging two of his arms around (Y/N) who smiled back. "I guess you have changed." Husk smiled.

"Hey, Charlie said live tonight however we wanted, so pour me a fresh one, and let's get to living!" Angel exclaimed, holding out his glass. Husk smirked before moving to make the two another drink.

Angel smiled down at (Y/N) who cuddled closer, wrapping his arms around

*With Sir Pentious*

"Miss Bomb? Cherri?" He asked, taking his hat off. Vaggie pat his shoulder in silent support.

"Yeah?"

"I want to tell you....that I...love..I'd love to wish you good luck in the battle ahead." He held his hand out for Cherri to shake, which she did, eyeing him weirdly.

"Okay?"

"You are....Have always been a worthy opponent. With the most brillant explosive contraptions I've ever seen." Pentious blushed.

"Uh....thanks?" Cherri smiled, sharing a soft moment with him.

"Please don't die tomorrow. Okay! Bye!" The flustered snake talked loudly before disappearing.

(Y/N) and Angel appeared on either of Cherri's side.

(Y/N) with a strawberry Daiquiri in his left right hand, Angel holding two shots in his right hands, offering one out to Cherri.

"Ya know, you could totally tap that." Angel smirked, clinking his glass against Cherri's.

"Tss, don't be gross." Cherri rolled her eye.

"Cuz, you know, I hear he's got two dicks." (Y/N) muttered, tail lazily waving behind him. "Huh!" Cherri hummed, eye narrowed in thought.

*With Charlie*

Charlie stood in front of her brother and Angel's door, looking at the photos and the LED lights the spider had strung up. There were photos of the Angel and (Y/N) doing a heart with their hands into the camera, a selfie of Charlie and Angel, a selfie of Husk and Angel in tuxedis with the caption, 'Tux Boys', and a picture of Fat Nuggets and Rocco.

Sobs escaped her throat as she started to feel her feelings. "Charlie?" Vaggie called softly.

"Um, I'm sorry. I'm just so scared." Charlie wiped her tears and hugged herself closer. "What if we lose?"

*With (Y/N)*

(Y/N) hummed softly as he laid in Angel's lap, three of Angel's hands playing with his hair, as his one free hand scrolled through a bridal website. "How about this one?"

"Uh-uh. Too poofy, next."

"Neck ruffles? What is this? The 16th century? Burn it like the witches who wore it!" (Y/N) rolled his eyes, making Angel giggle. (Y/N) stared up at the spider, smiling to himself. Angel noticed him staring and put his phone down, nuzzling the prince.

"What are you thinking about?" (Y/N) waved his hand, and suddenly they were on the roof, and sitting under a (f/c) light show with a romantic picnic. "I figured we could end the night with a romantic surprise."

Together the couple laid together in their swinging bed, watching the stars floating on their ceiling, (Y/N)'s wings protectively wrapped around Angel.

"I love you, Anthony."

"I love you, (Y/N)."

*The Next Day, in Heaven*

"Extermination Day is here, bitches!"

*END*

@marsham3llo

#storydays #hazbin hotel x reader #hazbin hotel charlie #x male reader #hazbin hotel angel dust #hazbin hotel alastor #viziepop #hazbin hotel x male reader #princemorningstar #hazbin hotel fandom

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hardwareabstractionlayer · 11 months

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The trouble with collecting merch is it’s difficult to stop once you start. This Jingsu enamel pin is by the prolific 长风万里, who is responsible for some of the most iconic NiF pins (check out the weidian store for a partial selection). Like many fan-made pins, it’s a re-rendering of a scene from canon, in this case episode 52 [x], where Jingsu look on as thunder and wind portend the storm brewing on the horizon after Princess Liyang has agreed to present Xie Yu’s confessed crimes at the Emperor’s banquet.

The pin emphasizes the storm in both design (bamboo leaves scattering in the wind) and name: 风雨同守, loosely enduring the tempest together. As for why the image has been transposed onto a tattered scroll, the pin maker said the inspiration came from rubbings/拓印 and elaborated some more:

Personally, I think of this as an excavated artwork (with the surface damaged in its old age) that was created out of Jingyan’s longing. As if Jingsu actually existed in history and will live on for a long, long time. 我自己把这个当做是一件出土的画作（年岁久远画面有所破损），是景琰怀念所做。就好像历史上真有他们的存在，靖苏真的来日方长。

Historically, rubbings not only create an impression of existing artwork but are themselves artworks that take skill and patience. The typical process starts with adhering paper to a stone carving, then ink is dabbed to the paper such that the flat surface takes on the color of the ink while carved areas remain white (here’s a process video). Collecting rubbings was a popular pastime of the literati, and rubbings of good calligraphy were especially in demand for study and appreciation, serving a similar purpose to block printing in allowing many people to see replicas of an original. The originals may have also come from a non-stone medium: some artworks originally on paper or fabric were replicated onto stone so that rubbings could be made and collected [x]. Nowadays, ancient rubbings are valuable artifacts, especially in cases where the carving has been lost.

The rubbing influence is very clear in the second version of the pin, here juxtaposed against one of its inspirations:

Though the text on the right rubbing says it’s from the Tianping Era of Eastern Wei, Year 2/魏天平二年 (535 CE), which is contemporaneous with the Liang dynasty that loosely inspired the fictional NiF Liang, I couldn’t find an actual historical artwork corresponding to this rubbing, and the mass antique market is flooded with fabrications (it’s also thoroughly possible I simply failed to find the original). But here’s a real fragment of a stone Buddhist votive tablet and its rubbing that’s now at the Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong [x]:

The text says that this was made in Tianping Era, Year 3, one year after the one above, and describes the building of a Buddhist pagoda in offering, which was a common practice at the time. This monochromatic rubbing style was also quite typical; though both black ink and red ink (cinnabar-based) rubbings existed separately, they were not really seen in combination in a single rubbing until much later. What is believed to be the only surviving book of bicolor rubbings before the modern era was made in the Qing dynasty around the 1800s and was itself a copy of a lost multicolor work from the same dynasty [x].

In this context of transference of art and meaning between mediums, it’s all too easy to imagine a backstory for this Jingsu scroll: first there was a stone carving, close enough to the actual scene that the artist must have worked from Jingyan’s memory of that day. Instead of the more common approach of carving the outline or the background, the artist decided to carve the foreground so the figures were sunken into the stone. And later, a rubbing was made and mounted onto a scroll, buried and excavated, then finally rendered from fiction to reality in the form of an enamel pin. Each creation is an act of remembering and reinventing, of placing yourself in the observer’s shoes, of stoking the flames of the original story—the fire burns on through metaphorical wood replaced over the centuries, its appearance ever-changing, its core not forgotten.

That’s enough of reading too much into things—I also like the pin on its own. One thing that 长风万里 does well is not just sell pins but also communicate the entire behind-the-scenes process with the QQ group, which is several months’ worth of iterations that I find at least as interesting as the final product. For this pin, you can trace through chat logs how the pin evolved all the way from the original concept sketch to the pieces of metal that fit in your hand (thanks to 长风万里 for letting me share the draft versions here):

Once the pin maker comes up with an idea and decides to go for it, the initial sketch is given to the commissioned artist (this pin was drawn by Forwrite, on weibo and lofter) along with reference images. The artist turns these into a line drawing following the design rules of enamel pins (each block of solid color should be fully enclosed by lines, for example). Some artists will color in the line art while other pin creators commission only the line art and fill in the colors themselves. The final colors are limited to the available palette at the factory chosen to make the pins, and once the color vector art is handed to the pin factory along with instructions on detailing and finishes, the physical manufacturing process begins in earnest (this could be the subject of its own long post).

You may have noticed that there are some color changes from the vector design to the physical pins, most notably the sky in the top pin. This came about as a serendipitous accident where the factory colored the sky of the sample pin dark blue instead of the requested sunset yellow, but the pin buyers active in the group chat liked the dark blue enough that it was kept as the final color. The light grayish blue variant ended up being chosen for the backing card/背卡 instead:

Though backing cards are nominally named for their purpose in supporting the pin, practically no one sticks their pins through these cards in Chinese fandom; instead, collectors generally buy cases and books to keep each piece in pristine condition. And so unlike utilitarian cards that are meant to serve as a background to the pin, fully designed backing cards that stand on their own are very much a thing. The card also adds back in the iconic Jingsu lines that were in the original concept sketch, I want to choose you, Your Highness Prince Jing/我想选你靖王殿下 from Mei Changsu and Sir and I are as one person/先生与我如同一人 from Jingyan.

And now for the last part of the merch package that comes with the pin: the wooden piece on the left is an inscribed bamboo name slip/名刺 meant to resemble what MCS might have presented Jingyan when he visited his manor in episode 9 [x]. This was a preorder bonus to encourage buyers to get on board early, since the upfront costs to commission the artist and get a sample made at the factory are a significant portion of the overall costs (if not enough people preorder, the pin is canceled and the payment refunded, and the pin maker has to take the loss of at least the artist’s fees).

Name slips were the ancient analogs to modern business cards and an important tool of connection building in the ancient bureaucracy. The tradition of presenting a slip before you visit someone’s residence, especially if you’re lower in status than the person you’re visiting, persisted for many dynasties while the form of the slip evolved over time. Even though the visitation slip in canon appeared to be a bound paper booklet, folded books wouldn’t appear until the Tang dynasty—though paper was invented in the Han dynasty, it took time for the manufacturing process to improve sufficiently for a fundamental shift in writing mediums. Bamboo slips were what they would have used in the real Liang dynasty (plus, the modern-day replica is objectively great merch that can be used as a bookmark/fidget stick/cosplay prop/whatever else you can think of).

Slips from around the NiF time period generally stated some combination of your given name/名, your courtesy name/字, the region you’re from, and some boilerplate deferential language. Here are two real ones from Huang Chao/黄朝 and Zhu Ran/朱然 of the Three Kingdoms period next to MCS’s, with the meaning of some phrases listed in parentheses after the literal translation (using two of MCS’s names is a good solution for the lack of courtesy names in canon):

To balance out all the white background product photography, I’ll close with some texture shots:

#cost for everything was ¥90 or about $13 #overseas shipping not included #先生与我，如同一人 #chinese fandom #nirvana in fire #琅琊榜 #merch review #long post

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nemainofthewater · 5 months

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Thanks for tagging me @thebansacredbanned!

1) How many works do you have on AO3? 288

2) What's your total AO3 word count?

1.11million

3) What fandoms do you write for?

So many. Too many. At the moment, mainly cdrama related ones, with Nirvana in Fire being my most prolific fandom.

4) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

I was moderately popular in the Witcher fandom, so a lot of these aren't very representative of what I'm writing atm

Shining, (The Witcher) in which Jaskier is, unbeknownst to him, a dragon. Simmering, Mourning, and Vibing (from the same series) are respectively second, third, and fifth on the list, so I'm discounting them (and other works in the series in the top-kudos-ed) on the ground it would be boring if it was just this series.

Haunted and Haunting (The Umbrella Academy), in which Klaus died age 13 and spends his afterlife looking after his siblings.

Shang Qinghua’s testimonial to why you should NEVER TRY TO CHANGE THE PLOT [System, help!!], (SVSSS), in which Shang Qinghua tries to a slight plot change and ends up with a husband

Barmecide, (The Umbrella Academy), in which all of the Hargreeve siblings die except Klaus, and it's only after death they start to bond

On Reflection (SVSSS), in which the author shoves the characters into a small, enclosed space and makes them talk about their feelings

5) Do you respond to comments? Why or why not?

I try to! Mainly because it's so lovely that people leave me comments that I want to also interact with them and thank them? The only exceptions are if I don't really know how to reply to them, if they're a bit mean, or if they've left a thank you on every chapter of a fic (beloved!!!) in which case I'll reply to the last comment

6) What is a fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

erm... I have no idea. Probably one of the NiF ones. Lin Chen tends to suffer a lot at my hands.

7) What's the fic you wrote with the happiest ending?

I also have no idea. Like I've definitely written fluffy ones! but how to quantify what's the happiest??

8) Do you get hate on fics?

a couple of times, but I either ignore or block. Thankfully not habitually

9) Do you write smut? If so, what kind?

I don't, I tend to be a 'fades to black' kind of author

10) Do you write crossovers? What's the craziest one you've written?

So many crossovers. I think the craziest might be 'Percival from Merlin switches bodies with Luther Hargreeves from the Umbrella Academy'

11) Have you ever had a fic stolen?

Not that I'm aware of

12) Have you ever had a fic translated?

Yes!!!

A Russian translation of Plausible Deniability (the Magicians), a Chinese translation of Shining (The Witcher), a Russian translation of tho' it were ten thousand miles (SVSSS), and a Russian translation of you could cut ties with all the lies (that you've been living in) (NiF)

That's so many words of translation and I am amazed that people have done it!

13) Have you ever co-written a fic before?

So many co-written fics. Mainly with @thebansacredbanned and a couple with @luzzeagain

14) What's your all-time favorite ship?

This 100% changes all the time, but probably my favourite it Mei Changsu/Lin Chen/Jingyan, where Jingyan sometimes represents justice.

15) What's a wip that you want to finish, but doubt you ever will?

Hoarding or Barmecide, both of which have wonderful readers but are different from what I've been writing in the past few years. I will get back to them! One day...

16) What are your writing strenghts?

hmm depends. Maybe characterisation? especially in Nif? Dialogue perhaps

17) What are your writing weaknesses?

I don't know how 'pretty' my writing is tbh... and also I have a propensity to plan these huge epic AUs that I then don't have enough time to finish writing (since they tend to be for exchanges)

18) Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I've done it! I think you need to either be fluent in the language of know someone who is and is happy to beta. not against it, but I think it needs to be done respectfully and not using google translate

19) First fandom you wrote for?

...it was possible the Bible. I wrote a poem about god... Discounting that, I think supernatural or Dr Who. It was possible a SPN/DW crossover.

If we're counting unposted ones, then I handwrote a Star Wars fic when I was like 8. Make it into a little book and drew the cover myself! ...it's never going to see the light of day

tagging @tavina-writes @abluescarfonwaston @shadaras

#ask game

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galahdborn · 1 year

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🎧 (for his nif officer verse?)

Soulmate AU || @swordofthreekings

Nyx had always been the talkative type. He liked bothering his soulmate, even if they had never met each other. He would prod for information, tell him about new discoveries he had made – anything that felt worth sharing he would share.

Cor wasn't as talkative in return, but Nyx didn't mind. He was just happy to have a connection to his soulmate, happy to talk with the person who was destined to be in his life somehow. He was in no hurry, content with his life and knowing he'd meet Cor eventually.

Then Niflheim attacked and Nyx fought with everything he had been taught, but instead of being killed, he was captured instead. The memories of his capture was foggy, but he was certain that he had relayed his fear to his soulmate, unable to find comfort elsewhere.

When the experiments started, he tried to block out everything, not wanting to relay how he was feeling to his soulmate, but unable to not let something slip in his weakest moments. He tried to tell Cor where he had been taken, but he had few clues to go off of. After months had passed and nothing changed, he fell silent, listening to the words whispered to him in his mind but unable to respond,

After a year, he had to be reminded often of what a soulmate even was, his memories getting more and more blurry. He never told Niflheim who his soulmate was, the only thing that kept them from using him as a weapon against the Marshal. Sometimes, he thought that Cor was merely a part of him, a voice in his head, not his soulmate talking with him in his mind.

When he was finally set free and assigned as an officer of Niflheim, he didn't answer the voice in his other than to tell him to leave me alone! It was a trick created by Lucis, he had been told, to make him lower his guard and he wouldn't fall for it. He would follow his orders and bring Glory to the Empire, just like he had been taught.

#swordofthreekings #verse; reflections in a cracked mirror #;ask #|| the angst alkjfreg #this hurt to write :')

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meissashush · 1 year

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7, 13, 18 for the behind the scenes ask game

7. Which part of writing do you struggle with most?

The writing bit haha. I mean, I'm sure most writers feel the same, but there are days I sit down to write and absolutely nothing comes out. I guess, if I want to be more specific, I'd say the issue I encounter the most when it comes to writing is that I can almost never tell if I can't write on certain day because of needing to push through a block, or if it's because I need to take a break. There's a fine line between the two of them, and I am not good at recognizing the difference.

13. Is there a trope you wouldn’t write if it was the last trope on earth?

Ukefication. I'm a devoted lover of bad-asses. Even in the whumpiest of whumps, I want my characters to have agency and a spine. I feel like there is a very big difference between letting a character be vulnerable and making them into nothing more than a shivering brain-dead trophy.

18. What is a line/scene you’re really proud of? Give us the DVD commentary for that scene.

(Forcing myself to do this about a published fic lmao)

Goose Step has a scene in it that was not planned, but ended up being one of my favorite I've written.

“You’re seriously gonna do a little dance for His Majesty?”

Nyx lobbed a knife at Lib’s stupid smirk, watching with annoyance as he flickered around it easily. He lazily chucked another three in the general direction of the blue sparks, snorting as one pinged harmlessly off Lib’s knee-pads.

“Not really being given much of a choice,” Nyx said. “You have to practice phasing without the gear at some point.”

Lib glared at him, rubbing at his knee. “Yeah, I will when it’s not you doing the throwing.”

I wanted it to be clear that Nyx was being a bit of a coward, and that meant that someone other than Cor the Immortal would have to tell him so. I figured I would have someone Nyx was much more inclined to trust say it, so that his refusal to listen would stand out more as a product of fear/anxiety rather than based in any unseen past experiences. Naturally, Libertus was the best choice.

We start with my favorite activity for this duo, Libertus and Nyx giving each other shit.

It always kind of annoyed me that, while I know warping is supposed to be one of the harder magic techniques, Libertus didn't seem to be capable of even phasing when most of the other Kingslgaive are shown doing it. So I decided to make Nyx annoyed by it too, which is why Libertus is being given one-on-one training in it.

Lib, of course, uses the opportunity to make fun of Nyx for being spineless. Bit of glass-house move, given the circumstances, but I've never been above throwing stones so neither is Lib.

I absolutely agree with his decision to wear protective gear while practicing with Nyx, though, whose aim is more instinct than is strictly safe for people who spar with him.

“Coward!” Crowe called, dangling lazily from the ropes overhead.

And here's where the scene immediately went of the rails.

Crowe always has a talent for throwing me completely off in my writing (which is why her fic is taking so freaking long). She's a lot of fun to write because of this, but she also has a tendency to run off and world-build on her own. Such as, the Warp Obstacle Course, of which she is currently dangling from. Yes, it also bothered me that we saw almost nothing of her talents in the movie, so she gets to warp too.

“Mind your six!” Nyx yelled back at her, watching as one of the greener Glaives tried to warp up behind her. Anya, he was pretty sure. The rare Nif with a talent for magic.

An OC! Yeah, Anya is actually a glaive you should get used to seeing in my fics, since I consider her to be one of Nyx's more trusted officers. This is early into her training, though, and I made a nod to the Comrades lore here that Nifs aren't typically as skilled with magic.

“You should just hire one of those troupes to do it for you. Less embarrassing for Galahd that way. I’ve seen you dance.” Lib said as he tossed the knives back into the Armiger.

Nyx pulled them out again and readied his aim. “Yeah, keep talking and I’ll make you do it.”

Nyx can't dance. He can do the training sequences just fine, but I don't see him as the kind of guy who can let himself go long enough to feel comfortable making a display of himself. Part of this is because I love to juxtaposition 'grandiose' characters with crippling anxiety, and part of it is because in the movie, he is described by other characters as being a show-off, but he doesn't really do that outside of it being a by-product of him doing what is necessary.

I also loved this little interplay of the armiger here. I have a fairly nuanced idea of how 'my' version of the armiger works, and I love hinting at it in places.

“Or,” Luche said, clapping a hand on Nyx’s shoulder. “You could grow a pair and tell his royal arse to shove it.”

Ah, Luche. Eloquent. A good portion of this whole over-arching AU is to redeem the Traitor Glaives, since I think they're neat.

Nyx held the knife over his shoulder, offering it to Luche, who took it immediately.

“You’re late,” he said as the knife whipped past his ear and towards Lib’s chest.

“Yeah, well, blame yourself for putting me on guard on the other ass-end of this fucking city.”

“Blame yourself for running your mouth in front of Councilor Balneum.”

Luche scoffed, grabbing another knife from Nyx’s hand and pitching it at Lib. “He had it coming.”

I also like to explore the relationship between Nyx and Luche as friends who had grown apart, and how that changes when Drautos isn't purposely driving a wedge between them. I see them as two people who know each other extremely well, but don't always have the same ideals. They do, however, both enjoy throwing knives at Libertus.

Nyx nodded slightly in agreement, sniffing once. “Yeah, he did. Doesn’t change the fact that I had to do something about it, or risk him mouthing off to someone else with more sway.”

I don't think a lot of people caught this detail, despite the fact that I made a point of it in the scene prior, but Nyx is subconsciously using the same behavioural cues that he was examining in Cor. Specifically, this is the 'slight sniff to denote agreement', though Nyx notably also voices his opinion where Cor tends to leave it unspoken.

“Fucking politics.”

Nyx laughed, “Yeah, welcome to the Citadel, Luche. You still want to be my second?”

This is the first time I mention in this series (or any, for that matter) that Luche is Nyx's second in command. I will delve into this more in his planned KGLegends22 piece.

“Shut the fuck up,” Luche sighed, throwing the last knife at Lib and missing by a meter. “Let me take a nap instead of running drills, and we’re even.”

Lib watched the knife clatter off in the other direction, bemused.

Luche is just tired, here. His aim is actually very good.

“How about you go relieve Crowe of her flag and I won’t make you do target practice for an hour to make up for your shit aim?”

Nyx has to balance being a Captain and not being a hardass. He's being a bit soft here, but part of that is to gauge just how sour Luche is, since this is early into their Captain-Second partnership. They already mesh pretty well, but the last thing the Kingsglaive need is interpersonal conflict between their leadership. It's about toeing the line between authority and comraderie.

“Oi, fuck you!” Crowe shouted, now dangling slightly to the left of where she had been earlier and attempting to shove Anya off the course.

“Deal,” Luche laughed before shattering into blue sparks behind him.

One of the parallels I am making in this scene is the connection between Fighting and Play in Galahdian culture. Nyx's training style and leadership is drastically different from Drautos', largely because Nyx is letting his own upbringing inform how he leads. Rather than warp training being traumatic as it is in the movie, they utilize various techniques in team building activities, simultaneously training the magic as they build trust in one another.

I am annoyed at myself for not mentioning that there are other Glaives taking part in this capture the flag game, though. It's not just the five of them in there.

“Still should just tell them off, Hero,” Lib said, sauntering back from retrieving Luche’s stray throw. “Or at the very least have someone else do it. No reason to make a fool of yourself for the royals. You’re not just a random Glaive anymore and they need to remember that.”

“Easy for you to say,” Nyx scoffed. “You’re not the one standing in a room with them every day.”

“Sounds like you need to remember it too, Captain."

Libertus has never exactly been subtle, but that's just as well, since Nyx is being extremely obtuse here. You'd think he'd pick up on it, but nah. Which is a good think for us, since otherwise we wouldn't have gotten Nyx doing a little dance for Cor in the very next scene XD

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For more than 60 years, scientists have pursued one of the toughest physics challenges ever conceived: harnessing nuclear fusion, the power source of the stars, to generate abundant clean energy here on Earth. Today, researchers announced a milestone in this effort. For the first time, a fusion reactor has produced more energy than was used to trigger the reaction.

On December 5, an array of lasers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF), part of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, fired 2.05 megajoules of energy at a tiny cylinder holding a pellet of frozen deuterium and tritium, heavier forms of hydrogen. The pellet compressed and generated temperatures and pressures intense enough to cause the hydrogen inside it to fuse. In a tiny blaze lasting less than a billionth of a second, the fusing atomic nuclei released 3.15 megajoules of energy—about 50 percent more than had been used to heat the pellet.

Though the conflagration ended in an instant, its significance will endure. Fusion researchers have long sought to achieve net energy gain, which is called scientific breakeven. “Simply put, this is one of the most impressive scientific feats of the 21st century,” U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said at a Washington, D.C. media briefing.

In reaching scientific breakeven, NIF has shown that it can achieve “ignition”: a state of matter that can readily sustain a fusion reaction. Being able to study the conditions of ignition in detail will be “a game-changer for the entire field of thermonuclear fusion,” says Johan Frenje, an MIT plasma physicist whose laboratory contributed to NIF’s record-breaking run.

The achievement does not mean that fusion is now a viable power source. While NIF’s reaction produced more energy than the reactor used to heat up the atomic nuclei, it didn’t generate more than the reactor’s total energy use. According to Kim Budil, director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the lasers required 300 megajoules of energy to produce about 2 megajoules’ worth of beam energy. “I don’t want to give you the sense that we’re going to plug the NIF into the grid—that’s not how this works,” Budil added. “It’s a fundamental building block.”

Even so, after decades of trying, scientists have taken a major step toward fusion power. “It looks like science fiction, but they did it, and it’s fantastic what they’ve done,” says Ambrogio Fasoli, a fusion physicist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.

SPARKING FUSION IGNITION

Though nuclear fusion and nuclear fission both draw energy from the atom, they operate differently. Today’s nuclear power plants rely on nuclear fission, which releases energy when large, heavy atoms such as uranium break apart due to radioactive decay. In fusion, however, small, light atoms such as hydrogen fuse into bigger ones. In the process, they release a small part of their combined mass as energy.

In laboratories, coaxing hydrogen nuclei to fuse into helium requires creating and confining a “plasma”—an electrically charged gas, where electrons are no longer bound to atomic nuclei—at temperatures several times hotter than inside the sun. Scientists learned decades ago how to unleash this process explosively inside hydrogen bombs, and today’s fusion reactors can make it happen in a controlled way for fleeting instants.

Since the late 1950s and early 1960s, fusion reactors have had the same basic goal: create as hot and dense a plasma as possible, and then confine that material for long enough that the nuclei within it reach ignition. The trouble is, plasma is unruly: It’s electrically charged, which means it both responds to magnetic fields and generates its own as it moves. To support fusion, it has to reach truly staggering temperatures. Yet it’s so diffuse, it easily cools off.

Physicist Riccardo Betti, an expert on laser-driven nuclear fusion at the University of Rochester, likens the challenge of fusion ignition to burning gasoline in an engine. A small amount of gasoline mixes with air and then ignites from a spark. The spark isn’t massive, but it doesn’t have to be: All it has to do is ignite a small fraction of the gasoline-air mixture. If that tiny fraction ignites, the energy it releases is enough to ignite the rest of the fuel.

In terms of energy released, nuclear reactions pack roughly a million times more punch than chemical reactions do—and are vastly harder to get going. Past fusion experiments may have achieved the right temperatures or the right pressures or the right plasma confinement times to reach ignition, but not all those factors at once. “Basically, the spark was generated, but it wasn’t strong enough,” Betti says.

A PELLET OF FUEL

NIF’s method of sparking the nuclear fuel starts with a peppercorn-size pellet that contains a frozen mix of deuterium and tritium, two heavier isotopes of hydrogen. This capsule is placed within a gold cylinder roughly the size of a pencil eraser that’s called a hohlraum, which is then mounted on an arm in the middle of a large, laser-studded chamber.

To trigger fusion, NIF fires 192 lasers all at once at the hohlraum, which angle into it through two holes. The beams then slam into the hohlraum’s inner surface, which causes it to spit out high-energy x-rays that rapidly heat up the outer layers of the capsule, making them burn off and fly outward. The inner part of this capsule rapidly compresses to nearly a hundred times denser than lead—which forces the deuterium and tritium inside to reach the temperatures and pressures needed for fusion.

In 1997, the National Academy of Sciences defined what “ignition” would mean for the facility, which broke ground that same year: when fusion energy released exceeds the energy of the lasers.The facility opened in 2009, and reaching this threshold ended up taking more than a decade. In August 2021, NIF reported its best-ever experimental run up to that point: 1.32 megajoules of released fusion energy for 1.92 megajoules of inputted laser energy.

The 2021 run signaled that ignition could be achieved within the NIF reactor. To finally cross the threshold, NIF researchers made a few minor tweaks, which included operating at slightly higher laser energies. “Any small changes, if you do them right, will have significant changes on the outcome,” Frenje says.

THE DREAM OF A FUSION POWER PLANT

For all of NIF’s success, commercializing this style of fusion reactor wouldn’t be easy. Betti, the University of Rochester physicist, says that such a reactor would need to generate 50 to 100 times more energy than its lasers emit to cover its own energy use and put power into the grid. It’d also have to vaporize 10 capsules a second, every second, for long periods of time. Right now, fuel capsules are extremely expensive to make, and they rely on tritium, a short-lived radioactive isotope of hydrogen that future reactors would have to make on-site.

But most of these challenges aren’t unique to NIF, and the world’s many fusion labs and companies are chipping away at them. Last year the Joint European Torus (JET), an experimental reactor in Culham, England, set a record for the most fusion energy ever released during a single experimental run. Construction on JET’s successor—a huge international experiment known as ITER—is underway in France. And private companies in the United States and United Kingdom have built next-generation superconducting magnets, which could help create smaller, more powerful kinds of reactors.

It’s hard to say when, or even if, this work will yield a new energy future. But fusion researchers see the technology as an incredible tool for humankind whenever it’s ready—whether that’s 20, 50, or 100 years from now.

“When people say fusion is very complex, it’s true, but when people say that fusion is too complex, it’s not,” Fasoli says. “We know how to do complex things … Going to the moon is not simple. Achieving this result in fusion, it’s not simple. And we’ve demonstrated we can do it.”

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You can use TES5edit to change the slot, but the equipment won't show up in the game though. It will be there and reflect in your AC, but it just won't show up - you need to change that in the CK to make it show up. EDIT: Mod authors can assign multiple slots to a piece of equipment. For example, most cloak mods use only slot 31, 41, or both. This allows wearing a circlet that is in.

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The funny thing is my companion's backpack still shows. I don't have any pack/storage mods either. The backpack disappeared, I believe, when I started carrying around 3 loadouts--heavy armored, hunter, and vampire. I use the SkyUI quick equip function but unfortunately I carry around a lot of extra items now.

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There are no backpack mods. Not on the nexus nor the workshop. Your 'backpack' is already capable of carrying an unlimited amount of items. Ummm actually there is around 10 mods that add different kind of backpacks... Uhmm he wants one that increases the backpacks carrying capacity. Which none of those mods do. Try working on your reading. For some reason, whenever I equip a piece of armor, for example, a bikini, at slot 32 (body), it automatically also takes up slot 52. I opened up TESVEDIT, and made sure that the armors/armor addons only applied to slot 32, but this occurrence persists. This is true for any of Nisetanaka's bikini armors or anything else that ONLY occupies slot.

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Setting the body slot in the nif file(edit) Load the mesh into NifSkope Select the BSDismemberSkinInstance node of one of the NiTriShape nodes of your armour as shown in picture Adjusting the dismemberment data. In the Block details section expand the Partitions property. Expand the second Partitions property.

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Click on the number two times, and expand triangle should appear. Select your desired slot from list. Repeat the process if your armor consists of multiple NiTriShapes, you can change different slots so your armor occupies more than 1 slot. When you are finished editing slots go to top bar, click Spells->Batch->Update All Tangent Spaces. 110 to 120 bag slots cost 30,700 gold 120 to 130 bag slots cost 46,000 gold 130 to 140 bag slots cost 64,500 gold You can buy bank slots by purchasing upgrades from the banker. Upgrading your bank slots increases the size by 10, from 60 slots to 240 slots. You can find the relevant prices below: 60 to 70 bank slots cost 1,000 gold. Setting the body slot in the nif file Load the mesh into NifSkope Select the BSDismemberSkinInstancenode of one of the NiTriShapenodes of your armour as shown in picture Adjusting the dismemberment data. In the Block details section expand the Partitionsproperty. Expand the second Partitionsproperty.

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Changing slots in the plugin. There are two ways to change plugin slots. One is to go into the Under There settings menu in Synthesis, navigate to "items", find the desired item (s), and write in the slots: Click the + sign next to Slots. Write in the slot that you want the item to use. Alternatively, you can find the referenced item in. ToggleGodMode. The above command will also make your character invincible and stats like stamina, magicka, etc will not drain. You can toggle this mode off by running the command again. Learn more about god mode here. That's all there is to increase and decreasing carry weight in Skyrim. You can find more console commands on our cheat list. Page 37 of 45 - Face Masks of Skyrim - posted in File topics: In response to post #23893589. Got the required DLC?.

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Backpack Slot Rs 3 - Top Online Slots Casinos for 2022 #1 guide to playing real money slots online. Discover the best slot machine games, types, jackpots, FREE games. new casino online australia, is hollywood casino in joliet open, casino jeux haute loire, cosmo casino bonus, saint michel sur orge geant casino, gambling regulation qld. To make more inventory space that you can carry with you, you must make the Tool Belt. This allows you to quick swap between various items and tools. Equipping an item to your Tool Belt takes it out of your backpack, freeing up a slot. To craft a Tool Belt, you need to get one lashing and one piece of cloth.

Changing Armor Slots - Nexus Mods: Skyrim Special Edition.

Translating it in NifSkope results in no change in-game. Moving it using the bone tools in 3DS Max, exporting the skeleton, and then copying the QUIVER bone node to the existing skeleton using NifSkope results in no change in-game. I haven't been able to export an entire working skeleton directly out of 3DS Max, so that was off the table for now. The default hotkey to open the Backpack while wearing it is B. If the Backpack is in the hotbar, it can be opened by right-clicking while the Backpack is being held in the player's hand. To wear a Backpack in the chest armor slot, the player must first unequip any chest armor and place the Backpack on a block. What am I looking at Minecraft?. Leather Backpack Sabre Gear Backpack /// Fur Bag - Backpack Dwemer Goggles and Scouter Wearable Lanterns (Uses same slot as the back right pouch)--- Known mod conflicts: --- The mod might conflict with any other mods that use the same slots (48, 55, 53, 57, 58, 52, 59). Angelic Halos and Demonic Horns (Items in that mods use a couple of the.

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When outer wear is taken off, the skyrim slots item of the same body slot will be removed from the layer container and reequipped automatically. Going for a lightweight armor i like using the nightangale armor.... im just trying to skyrim equipment slots mod change the backpack slot id since it doesnt show up the same time with armor (which i. Keeping this in mind, here are some of the best mods for Skyrim. 1 Unofficial Skyrim Legendary Edition Patch. 2 Enderal. 3 Falskaar. 4 Sofia — The Funny Fully Voiced Follower. 5 Skyrim HD — 2K Textures. 6 SkyUI. 7 A Quality World Map And Solstheim Map — With Roads. 8 Apocalypse — Magic of Skyrim. How do you use a forestry backpack?. We hope you enjoy your new custom backpack in your travels! _____ Update History: - NEW! v.2.0 - by popular demand: > set the backpack on body-slot 47 for better compatibility with other mods > replaced the steel war-axe with a woodcutter's axe on the equiped and world model > replaced deer hide ingredient with horse hide to avoid elk/moose.

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. 3 Change Notes Created by. Strange Offline See all 250 collections (some may be hidden) 42,954: Unique Visitors... A Skyrim recreation of the Inn League Survival Pack from Lord of the Rings Online, made from vanilla Skyrim resources.... Uses slot 47, like all the other backpack mods. My Other Stuff. Skyrim - Knapsack Backpacks (Nexus Version. Default keys to open this are Left Shift + Home key. Whilst the menu is open you can press CTRL+S to save settings or just go to File then Save. To close the menu instantly just press your Esc key, sometimes the Skyrim default menu will pop up with this method just hit Esc again or you can just click File then Close.

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Slot for a backpack - posted in Skyrim Mod Talk: hi guys, i'm making a backpack for my character and i need to know, what type of slot can i use for the backpack? i tried to use the amulet slot but it did not i have to make a new slot in the creation kit?please tell me i have this is the backpack, if people like it i can also release you in advance. You have to find the armor first in the in the "Armor" category and look for the part with numbers on the right side as shown below. Then just right-click on "32 - Body" (or whatever the number is) and click on Edit. Unmark the. Powerofthree's 'Equipment Toggle' mod is a plug-in for Skyrim: Special Edition that lets you do just that - it "visually toggles" your equipment on and off without actually unequipping.

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The changes include: A left-handed, Gold "Ruby" Ring based on SMIM signifying Masser – also known as Mara's Tear. An improved enchantment: Health, Magicka, and Stamina are all increased by <10> points. Its own item slot! Wear your wedding band.

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Fortify Archery, One-Handed, and Two-Handed are the most powerful offensive enchantments. At 100 Enchanting and with the appropriate perks, if you have the maximum four items enchanted with these, you will do +160% damage. Drinking a "+32% Fortify Enchanting" potion while enchanting further increases this to +188%. This mod offers you many items that will increase your carry weight. At the moment, there are 7 new slots for the equipment: Chest, Back Left, Back Right, Front Left, Front Right, Left Side and Right Side. Different items can be quipped into different slots, so you can combine up to 7 different pieces. At the moment, there are 67 different items available.

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5 reasons to watch NIF and 5 reasons it will make u sad ?

To Watch:

1. Amazing characters! Everyone is great and even fairly minor characters are often surprisingly complicated.

2. The relationships between characters are correspondingly complicated and compelling, even the ones the show doesn't spend much time on. I believe these people have spent a lot of time together and care about their feelings. I also just liked how the palace drama aspect lead to every prince essentially being on a team with their mothers, who serve as partners, parents and co-conspirators in a really messy way I enjoyed.

3. It delivers on the messy family dinners in a big way.

4. On the side character front, I loved how vivid and entangled the older generation was- there's this real sense that a Nirvana in Fire prequel would be equally compelling if even more emotionally devastating.

5. Princess Nihuang, who is simply a delight every time she graces my screen. I'm trying to nail down exactly what I love so much about Nihuang and I think at least some of it is the character's relationship with grief- she doesn't let it destroy her and in fact perseveres with a great deal of humour and grace but you can see the gouges it's left in her. She's the kind of larger than life paragon I often bounce off of a little but I'm spellbound. Also the actress who plays her is very pretty and talented. There is a moment where she calls out "I am coming to protect you" and I actually cheered.

Crying Times:

1. The main character is great and I love him but towards the end of the show I realized he was significantly more self loathing and manipulative than I had previously assumed, which is impressive because he was clearly quite self loathing and manipulative the whole way through. The way this manifested broke my heart.

2. Jingyan. He was not originally one of my favourites but he absolutely is now. Ugh. That conversation where his mother tells him that even if his brother and cousin had lived he'd still be alone. Anyway this is a show about grief, and Jingyan spends a lot of it being quite sad and stern, but there is this lovely moment where he smiles and it's like the sun coming out and the contrast between his joy in that moment and the rest of his entire life is a blow I may not recover from.

3. The destruction of perfectly lovely if slightly evil blended families for scheming purposes.

4. The emotional toll of the destruction of perfectly lovely if slightly evil blended families for scheming purposes on Grand Princess Liyang, specifically, and also Grand Princess Liyang more generally

5. Nihuang is exiled from the plot for a truly unreasonable chunk of the show and gets, IMO, done wrong by her man in a way that really bums me out.

#nif for block #I mean I do appreciate that he had a more honest conversation with her before the end #but moTHerFUCker #I feel like I should have talked more about consort jing #both a reason to watch and a person who makes me very sad

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oh thank god my mod is finally working as intended

#i know EXACTLY what the issue is but i have no goddamn idea how to fix it #somethings fucked up with outfit studio where it wont load the texture (the path in settings is correct so its not that)#and when i save the nif its missing the sabrecat texture node thing #so i figure i can just copy that branch from my backup nif but i cant figure out how to paste it in the right place #bc it just goes to the bottom of the list #i try to insert the block (bsshadertextureset) in the right place it also goes to the bottom #im probably not using the correct terminology here bc my understanding of nifskope is similar to how a parrot can #produce human words without understanding the language #OH whats happening here isnt a result of that issue this was me trying to bruteforce it with something i knew wouldnt work and im #shocked the game loaded without crashing

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The sound of your pen scribbling away on papers filled the quiet room when your work partner Ravus walked in. You continued to write while waiting for any kind of news about the Lucians or Nif army. He cleared his throat making you glance up from the papers. His face said it all. You immediately stood and walked with him to a drop-ship, a few of the Nif soldiers boarding with the both of you.

"So. Where are we going? Give me the details." You said, crossing your arms over your chest. "There is suspicious activity near here close to the meteor." "That's impossible." Your head snapped toward him. "Noctis made off with Titan's Blessing. Tch... What the hell is happening?"

Once you were at the location that was pinged, Ravus and you headed out with the soldiers close behind. The closer you got the louder a voice could be heard. Ravus stopped you and pulled you to the side, holding his finger over his lips.

"Ah, fuck! Where the hell are we and why is it so damn hot?!" You peaked around to see a red-haired man talking into a walkie-talkie. "Rude, pick up! I-I went through some glowy thing and now I don't know where I am."

You went to sit up straight and reposition your footing when you stepped on a small branch from the nearby trees, causing a loud crack. Ravus gave you a look like 'seriously? This is why you're never in the field. Your eyes went to check on the guy and his soldiers to see if he heard or not but there was no one there.

"What the he-?" Ravus pulled you to his side and held up his rapier to block the red-haired man's attack with an electric baton. You looked up at the man, a smirk plastered on his smug face as your few soldiers began fighting with the ones he had.

He was caught off-guard as your foot made contact with his abdomen, causing him to fly back, and knocking the wind out of him. Ravus tutted his tongue as you both walked over to him before he passed out. He was tied to the chair once you returned, his head down as he let out slight groans.

"Finally. You're coming to. Wake the fuck up!" You barked, bringing your arm back and smacking his face hard with your hand; the sound of a loud smack ringing through the small room. "Hey! What's the big idea, huh?!" The man was caught off guard as his turquoise eyes traveled up the exposed legs from your skirt up to see your exposed cleavage that you wore every day then to your face. "Aaaand whoa re you?" His brow flicked up as he sat up straight, not caring about the sting of the slap. "Your worst fucking nightmare." You snarled holding his baton against his throat. You noticed the smirk on his face as his tongue darted out to wet his dry lips. The man let out a groan as you slapped him again with your free hand. "Oh come on, tough guy... Step it up. Is that all you got?" He gave a smug smirk as he looked you up and down. You snarled and punched him really hard, your fist getting covered with blood. "I will fucking kill you without hesitation." You warned, pressing the tip of his baton up under his chin. "Mmmm. I love a woman that could just kill me." He said as his tongue darted out with a pant, his blood coating the pink muscle. "Damn." "Enough." Ravus barked as he slammed the door behind him. Tch. Whatever. You stood straight, looking forward over the guy's head. "You follow orders nicely. That your boyfriend?" He chuckled. "Fuck you." You glared down at him. His smirk growing. "Well if you're offering, sweetheart. You already have me tied up. I like it rough." "Silence. You need to show some respect, brat." Ravus snarled, gripping the man's face roughly. "Don't take it personal, bitch. Not my fault she wants my dick- well... Kind of is. I know irresista- Fuck!!" Ravus

growled as he backhanded the red-head with his magitek hand. "I beg your pardon?" Ravus raised his fist but you stepped in front of him, making him stop in his tracks. "What's your name?" You asked grabbing his hair and pulling his head back. "So you're gonna make me work for it, huh? Hee." He said glaring at Ravus then smirking at you. "Name's Reno Sinclair. I work for the Turks. I was told to go on a mission with my teammate Rude about some thing that gave off a lot of energy surges. We got split up and I fell into the portal thing and then you guys showed up." "Hmm.." You pushed his head back as you let go of his hair before pulling your knife out. "M'kay, pretty boy. Story adds up so far." You said as you ran the tip of the knife along his jawline then down his neck and chest before moving behind him. With a shwick of the blade, Reno was free from his binds. "Where are you from?" "Midgar on Gaia. Why? Isn't this a part of Gaia?" He asked rubbing his wrists as he leaned forward, resting his elbows on his legs. "Cleigne on Eos. You're at one of the Niflheim bases we own." You said crossing your arms as you looked over at Ravus. "I'll take him to his chambers. Might as well have him help us in figuring out what the fuck that portal is." "Tch. Fine. But one false move from him and you're going to get punished." Ravus said standing chest to chest with you, glaring down at you before turning and leaving. "Wow. Tough crowd." Reno said standing and following you. "You have no idea. It's hard to make Lord Ravus crack a smile." "King? How the hell is he a King?" You scoffed and shook your head, stopping at a door and unlocking it with a keycard. "Ex prince. His family was killed except his sister, Lunafreya." "Ah. No wonder he's mister moody." You motioned for him to enter. The door closed behind the two of you as you walked over to the medical cabinet that was over the sink in the room and began gathering random supplies. "What bout you? What's your story, kitten?" He sighed, sitting on the bed. "The name's Y/N and you will use said name. Got it?" You asked as you gripped his jaw, making him look up at you as you patted away the blood from his nose. "I was abandoned as a child during the invasion of Tenebrae. Ravus stayed with me since he and I were friends since way before the invasion."

You froze in place as Reno placed a soft hand over yours, the look of sympathy written on his face. He stood, towering over you slightly as he took the gauze from your hand and walked over to the mirror to clean himself.

" 'M sorry. I um.. I shouldn't have asked. I apologize. That was rude of me." You smirked slightly and tossed him his baton. He smiled as he caught it, throwing the gauze away and turning to face you, his ass resting against the sink a bit. "What? Go soft on me now?" He let out a chuckle and walked over to you, looking down into your eyes. You don't know why the feeling came out of nowhere but your cheeks became pink as you averted your gaze. "I could ask you the same thing." He said seductively, grabbing your chin softly and pulling your lips up to meet with his. He tasted of mint and all the best sins you could ever dream of. "Reno." You breathed out as he kissed down to your jawline, your head rolling back as he pushed his hand into your bra to play with your breast. "Yeah? Let's face it. You want this just as much as I do, kitten." You gasped out, gripping his hair as he bit softly at your sensitive flesh at the curve of your neck and shoulder. He let out a groan as you drug your nails down his chest, causing marks. "Re-Reno. I can't." He smirked and pushed you to the bed carefully, guiding you onto your back against the mattress. Your face became red and your thighs clenched together as he pushed your skirt up with his baton, running the end of it against your clothed slit. "Why not? Ravus isn't here to stop us. Relax for me." You shuddered as he got on his knees, shoving his face between your thighs, yanking your panties to the side, and began to lick and suck at your cunt. "Fuck you're so damn wet. All this for me?" "Reno. Just shut up-." You whimpered pulling his face back against your pussy. He chuckled as he gripped your thighs tightly and continued to suck and lick at your clit.

Reno moaned as he rutted his hips against the mattress looking up at you with needy eyes. You pulled him up and kissed him hungrily, pushing his pants down to free his throbbing erection, as you moaned tasting your juices on his tongue. He nibbled on your bottom lip as he began to tease your cunt, throwing his head back at the feeling of your wetness coating the tip of his cock.

"Fucking hell. You like that, baby? You like my dick teasing your needy little pussy, hm?" You nodded, pulling your top open to expose your black lace bra. "Damn..." "What the hell are you doing?!" Ravus yelled, looking between the two of you. "Fucking cockblock, man." Reno whined. "Seriously? Should've fucked her sooner, loser." You swallowed thickly as Ravus stalked over toward the bed, pushing Reno out of the way and climbing on top of you, pressing his lips to yours.

Your brows furrowed together as you closed your eyes tightly, your fingers tangling in his silver hair as he deepened the kiss and slid his tongue in. Moans left you when Reno pulled your lips away from Ravus's and kissed you again. Your mind was swimming as they started to fight over you. You couldn't help but palm Ravus through his pants as you kissed Reno desperately.

"Ravus. I-I want you to fuck my mouth. Then I want you both inside of me." Ravus smirked and stood, discarding his armor. Reno positioned you over his lap as he sat on the edge of the bed, bringing your hips down slowly so you could feel every inch of him as he split you open. "Fuck... Your pussy is so tight." Reno huffed, resting his head against your shoulder while wrapping his hand around your throat. "You're such a good girl, kitten." "We're not going to stop until we know you're good and broken. You understand me, pet?" Ravus asked as he gripped your hair, pulling your face against his cock. "Suck." He hummed in pleasure, leaning his head back as you took him into your mouth, sucking lightly before taking a deep breath and shoving him all the way down your throat until your nose was pressed against his pelvis. "Ha... Shit, Y/N."

You looked up at him as you massaged him, pulling almost all the way out before deepthroating him again. Reno moaned and started slamming your hips into his as he watched how eager you were to please both of them. He didn't care if you couldn't breathe. Your sounds of gagging and gasping for air made him just about bust then and there. "Fuck... Stop. For a second." He panted. Ravus pulled out and patted your cheek softly, wiping the spit away from your shin with his thrumb before allowing Reno to turn you around. You were confused at first until Reno leaned back, shoving himself into your quivering core again. Ravus squeezed your ass tightly before giving it a firm smack and began to push into your needy hole. "Ravus! Reno! Fuck... Oh my god, it's too much." You were shaking as you clawed at Reno's chest with every inch being pushed into your ass. "Ravus!" Reno chuckled as he pulled your breasts free from your bra, sucking one nipple while pinching the other with his free hand. "Such a good little whore. You like being fucked by two guys at once don'tchya? Love that full feeling? Feel like you're about to crack?" You nodded as you let out a shaky breath, your limbs barely holding you up as they wobbled. "G-Gnnacum." Your words slurred together as Reno began fucking you roughly, the sound of his balls slapping against your wet pussy filling the room. "Just relax, baby. We aren't in any hurry." He chuckled as Ravus began fucking you equally as rough. "Taking our dicks so well." "Just remember," Ravus said placing his hand under your chin and pulling your head back until you could see him, straining your neck slightly. "Your ass and cunt is mine after he leaves. No one else will be allowed to break you like I do. Understood?" "Good girl. He's trained you well. Now be a good little bitch and cream all over my cock. I wanna make sure I still feel you around me for months."

#ffxv #ff7r #reno sinclair #ravus nox fleuret #ravus x reader x reno #how bout some r&r? ;)#final fantasy 15 meet final fantasy 7 remake #i am a hoe for reno sinclair and I would gladly be his hoe daily #ravus can stab me and id thank him #reno sinclair one shot #ravus one shot #smut #minors dni

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abadpoetwithdreams · 7 years

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Nirvana in Fire Episode One Reaction

I DID IT. I FINALLY WATCHED THE THING. AND I LOVED IT.

I want to race into episode 2 instead of pausing to write this but I promised I’d share my reactions as I go, so here I am XD

Oh, and before I get any further I want to state for the record that I am pretty much unspoilered for this entire show. I’ve seen gifsets around Tumblr and such but I’ve always been careful to avoid really looking at them or any commentary etc. because I could tell I’ll probably love this and didn’t want to ruin it for myself. The only thing I knew going in pretty much is that it’s a Chinese period drama, that it has like a million episodes, and that I had the impression it was a slow burn revenge story of some kind??? Like I was getting vague Count of Monte Cristo vibes off it without any concrete evidence for them lol but anyway I don’t know anything but I’m ready for shenanigans XD

OK, so the opening credits started and about 20 seconds in I was grinning madly because the watercolor/calligraphy visuals, and the music is so gorgeous, and the butterfly motif had me wondering if that’s signaling this show will have a central theme of rebirth or transformation or if the butterfly means something else in China. No idea, but anyway all this had me pretty much in love before the show even really started lol just give me that gorgeous theme in every episode and I don’t care that there’s a million, I’ll drink it all up.

Anyway, as far as aesthetics go this show is so ridiculously pretty. The colors! The music! The people! And the production value looks ridiculously high, those costumes! Those sets! Those carefully calibrated filters! Mainly those costumes! Even the extras look more elaborately costumed than most tv extras I’ve seen, so that level of detail is captivating really quickly. Also the acting is great so far, I was worried I’d have trouble keeping track of characters at first (especially because the show introduces a lot of people very quickly that all seem important) but everyone’s actually very distinct and I haven’t had any problem at all. Each character has a lot of personality and individualized mannerisms and all the interactions have been really natural and well-scripted so far, I am so invested and it worries me. A lot.

The background context of the story was a bit more difficult for me to grasp (but I imagine the story will unravel it more and more as things go on so I’m not stressed about it), but so far I can tell there was definitely a massacre of a battle of some kind, probably unjust (because this is a Chinese history drama, people are always framing rival political powers in those), and our protagonist was the son of the General who died but he survived somehow? And has been haunted by this, presumably, or he’d look a bit more appreciative about living in an absolutely gorgeous house in some absolutely gorgeous mountains, and would not still be having nightmares about that battle twelve years later. Also he has very beautiful eyes. But his first intro (which was great, btw) doesn’t show his face beyond just his eyes basically (except for in that nightmare flashback where it was hard to see him anyway plus it looked like a different actor lol) so for a while there I kept squinting suspiciously at every new character like “is that him? No, wait, he doesn’t look like that tiny glimpse of face we got. Wait, is that him? No, hang on, he’s the prince. Come on, show me the protagonist you teased! WAIT IS THAT–nope, can’t be. Moustache.” It was a relief when the story finally introduced him properly. Especially because this proper introduction was him just gliding out of nowhere dressed all in white (again: COSTUMES) on a boat while playing a flute?? For no reason other than To Be Dramatic? And then he gently threatens a fleet until they turn around and run away? You. I like you already. Especially when it’s revealed later that he is Terribly Ill in some way and so this means he totally left his cozy fur cape behind while he went out on a chilly, misty river purely for the sake of Aesthetic. I LIKE.

Also he’s got a surly kid bodyguard who excels at wirework and I’m very excited about this.

Anyway, our protagonist’s name is Lin Shu, and I’ll call him that for now because I can’t remember his other names yet (it will take me about 3 episodes to get everyone’s names, fair warning), and he is basically the number one guy on Ancient China’s list of hottest talents but I get the feeling that’s rigged. Like, sure he is obviously brilliant, but also he’s working with the people who make the list somehow, so. Unfair advantage. Plus no one seems to really know who he is outside of his reputation (that one happy kid was so excited to finally see his face, I was sort of disappointed the show didn’t show their meeting, haha. Also I loved that happy guy, he’s adorable and dangit I TOLD MYSELF I WOULDN’T GET ATTACHED TO ANYBODY). And he uses his fame and his connections with that awesome place with the over the top filing system to trick two rival princes into thinking they need him as an ally to succeed in their bids for the throne. I can’t wait to see where he’s going with this. He’s giving himself power by rigging a prophecy, so to speak, and that’s the sort of thing I live for in a story.

But after he makes himself desirable for these two powers, he leaves for the capitol with two OTHER guys instead. Don’t know where he’s going with this yet, but I’m keen to find out. He’s going to play all these people against each other, isn’t he. This worries me, because the older kid who came to fetch him clearly thinks they’re good friends, and I have the awful feeling that Lin Shu is just using him. Especially since I think his “friend’s” father, Xie Yu, is actually the man who killed HIS father and tried to kill him all those years ago? Yikes.

Other first impressions: The crown prince seems unlikable. Non-moustache prince seems a bit more likable but he’s too ambitious for me to trust him, no matter how cool his grabbing that sword was. His strategist had an amazing red outfit and I hope we see more of her. The doctor/scholar who treated us to a solid minute of midair sword ballet (gosh I love Chinese wirework when it’s done right) was instantly likable even before his cute conversation with Lin Shu, but I still have trauma from the doctor in Faith, so I’m trying not to get attached. Interested to find out what exactly is wrong with Lin Shu, but I’m glad he’s got this guy looking out for him, at least for now. Their conversation was honestly one of my favourite parts in the whole episode, because it felt like one of the last quiet moments before things in this story take off and I just instinctively wanted to cherish it, lol. It was one of many well-written/well-acted scenes that really established life in all these characters; that makes it feel like they have a history and lives before what the show has shown, and I love that. They feel like real people. Most everyone does, despite the heightened-reality sort of feel the show has, which is a testament to the actors.

The two princes’ mothers only got one scene, but their obvious hatred for each other was hilarious and I want more of them, too. Oh, and also THE PRINCESS. I can’t even say how excited I was when she rode up in her armor and started flying around–again, just for kicks, there are no high stakes to this swordplay yet. And she was engaged to Lin Shu in his past life????? (His face when he was hiding in the palanquin and realized she was there aaaaahhhhhh) And she is basically doing the martial version of Penelope’s trick where she keeps putting off getting married? Excellent. I loved her line when the Emperor chided her, saying that she is a better fighter than any man, so if she insists her future husband must defeat her in combat she will never marry:

“Don’t worry, your Majesty. If I do meet the man I’m destined to be with, I will lose to him whether he is skilled in martial arts or not.” TELL HIM, WOMAN. I LIKE YOU. Her friend was intriguing but I missed exactly how she lost her husband–which side of the battle 12 years ago was he on? She seemed to blame Lin Shu’s family for some reason, anyway. I guess if it’s important it’ll be reiterated in more detail.

Let’s see, what else? There’s some background politics about a guy getting framed for something but I don’t know what’s up with that yet. Oh, and a couple of men on horses who appeared for a few seconds and then rode away again–I don’t know who they are but I’m assuming they come back. Costumes. Music. Lots of beautiful people in beautiful lighting. A sense that things are going to get Very Complicated Very Quickly. A bit of confusion when subtitles introduced Xie Yu as a Marquis, because now I’m wondering what his actual Chinese rank is because it can’t really be Marquis???? @buri-art enlighten me.

In summary, I am at least intrigued by all the characters and am already actively invested in a handful, which frightens me because I’ve been promised lots of pain.

And that’s my scattershot reaction to episode one! Any reactions to future episodes that I post will be more bulletpoint, but there was a lot to unpack here so it’s more rambley instead. Plus I watched this one episode probably three times in all, because I had to keep stopping and starting and rewinding (what happens when I try to find the time to watch a solid hour of anything, usually), so I didn’t really take notes while watching. I’m really excited about watching more. I want to know what’s going to happen! (Judging by the teaser footage for the series that played over the ending song (and that I sat through and watched the entirety of), it’s going to be A Lot of Awful Things. BRING IT.)

#nirvana in fire #badpoet watches #I'll tag these as #badpoet watches NIF #in case anyone wants to block these for fear of spoilers or whatever #cdramas

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mpfuro-station · 2 years

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Remember the cutie? He's a weird one. Tarot card nicknames, here we go!

Furo: Empress

UPRIGHT: Femininity, beauty, nature, nurturing, abundance

REVERSED: Creative block, dependence on others

The Empress greatly encourages compassion, beauty, and love. She is deeply connected to Mother Nature, and her influence is powerful when you absorb the energy of the natural world around you.

I chose this card because of it's emphasis on nature. But if you feel uncomfortable with the feminine nickname, please let me know! I'll make sure Xenon doesn't refer to Furo as 'Empress' in future interactions.

Mortimer: Justice

UPRIGHT: Justice, fairness, truth, cause and effect, law

REVERSED: Unfairness, lack of accountability, dishonesty

Justice is your firm-but-fair reminder that karma is real, and there is a consequence for every action. Whatever life is handing you at this moment comes from decisions you've made in the past, and whether it's a punishment or a reward, it is exactly what you deserve. When this card comes up in your Tarot reading, make sure you are acting fairly in all your interactions with others.

Tido: Star

UPRIGHT: Hope, faith, purpose, renewal, spirituality

REVERSED: Lack of faith, despair, self-trust, disconnection

The Star is the embodiment of hope and healing. She is a calming influence that brings messages of renewal, optimism, and inspiration. When The Star comes up in your Tarot reading, she reminds you that the universe is working in your favor, and encourages you to have faith in where you are being taken.

Furo: it's fine! it does fit them very well!

It took Furo awhile to realize the first year was referring to them. When it finally clicked, everything made sense. "Wait, you mean me? I'm Empress?!"

"Yes, you seem to embody the card very well," Xenon nodded. "If it bothers you, I can always stop."

Furo shook their head. "Not at all! I find it endearing," Furo laughed a bit. "Heh, although I have no clue about tarot."

"Really? I thought I heard you are referred to with gender ambiguous terms."

"Well yeah, but if you use they/them pronouns it'll be fine. My name is still feminine in nature, so it's like that." Furo explained away. "Besides, now you get spot number 2 for people who gave me a female title!"

Xenon asked, "And who holds number one?"

"Oh, Rook-senpai. He calls me Madame Furet," Furo smiled. "But feel free to call me what's easy for you! Gotta build a good relationship with my juniors!"

Mortimer:

"Justice, little old me? You flatter me!" Mortimer laughed. "Well, if that is the case, I will fulfill my role justly!"

"I am glad that you like it." Xenon responded.

"When it appears, karma is sure to follow, is that it?"

"Well yes, but it also - "

"Haha! I wonder how my dear old father would feel hearing that. He always pesters me to return home, but maybe he'll stop once he hears what others think of what my presence brings." Mortimer muttered to himself. He smiled wide as he gave Xenon a clap on the shoulder. "Thank you, my wonderful underclassman! It's always a pleasure to hear how my peers think of me!"

Tido:

Tido looked at Xenon confused. “Shtar? Heal-healing?” He tapped his chin before he knocked his hands together. “OH! My, my, uh, leg! Doesh it gotta do do wid dat?!”

He sat down where he stood and took off his prosthetic leg, with the shoe and all. Tido smiled and laughed, “Ehehehe! I don’t di-dink dis is healing doh!”

“Please...put your leg back on...”

“Oki, oki,” Tido relented still giggling to himself. “But dat’s a nif-nif-nifty name-a-ding! Should I, I give ya one? Hmm? Bud-buddy-bossh? Yeah! Buddy-Bosh-bosh!”

#furo lore #mortimer lore #tido lore #xenon ambrose #twisted_wonderland #twisted wonderland oc #this is so fun!#don't sweat the feminine nickname

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