#ooc: which tracks

[lumenflowered]

heyyy, so. the kimono girls said it was fine to record the show and share it with rotomblr as long as I sent them a copy too, so i did! i think its REALLY cool personally. and also we could all uh. use a distraction from The Rocket BS right now

...however. there is open flame due to "there are fire-type attacks used onstage" reasons which is why im putting it under a cut. fluff, this means you, either don't watch this or dm me so i can tell you when to look away and when it's safe to look back

[A video is attached. It's clearly being taken from the back of an admittedly somewhat small theater, though the theater itself seems rather full. It's difficult to pick out any familiar faces in the audience given that the video is being taken from behind, but a dark-haired woman in a pink jacket can be seen beside a Noctowl near the back, and she—unlike many of those in the audience—is watching the stage intently.

The lights dim. It's time for the show to begin.

And begin it does, with a spotlight shining upon a single woman in a black kimono who steps out from behind the curtains, an Umbreon trotting by her side.

"Once upon a time," she calls out, "on a fateful night many centuries ago, two towers stood tall above the proud city of Ecruteak."

The spotlight dims as the curtains open, only to be replaced by artificial moonlight summoned by that very Umbreon. It shines upon the stage, shines upon the painted backdrop of two tall towers, shines upon the woman in the black kimono and her Umbreon partner.

"The full moon shining down upon them both," she continues, "was not to last."

The moonlight fades as the spotlight intensifies once more, another one joining it to shine now on a very brief battle between an Umbreon and... yes, that is an Arcanine, and it certainly looks like Molotov even if Maria herself is hidden somewhere in the wings. He uses Fire Fang once, again in response to an attack by the Umbreon, and the Umbreon is recalled into a Pokéball with a dim flash of red light.

The woman in the black kimono bows her head, and the spotlight goes from her to another woman, bearing a striking resemblance to the first, save for the fact that the second performer is wearing a yellow kimono, and there is a Jolteon by her side.

She speaks. "Along came a sudden storm. Lightning crashed down—"

The Jolteon, as she speaks, turns towards the other side of the stage—yes, there's that Arcanine again, he moved fast—and uses Thunder. As the Pokémon battle, the woman in the yellow kimono continues to narrate.

"—and a great, rolling thunder awoke many of those living within the city of that time. Those who were not wakened by the noise would soon be by their fellows, for that great and terrible bolt of lightning had struck one of their two sacred towers. The Brass Tower, it was called then."

She recalls her Jolteon, and bows her head. The spotlight shifts to a third woman in a kimono, this one red, this one alongside a Flareon.

"And the Brass Tower burned," says the woman in red, as her own Flareon begins to fight against the Arcanine.

Both Pokémon use Fire-type attack after Fire-type attack, but a particularly discerning eye might notice that the attacks are exclusively directed at each other, and that neither Pokémon seems to be taking much damage. Or any damage. Perhaps both have the ability Flash Fire.

"Those living in Ecruteak worked tirelessly to stop the blaze, but by the time that the fire had burned itself out, it became clear that three Pokémon had not been able to escape the tower in time."

The battle ends, eventually, with some sort of physical move from the Arcanine. The woman in red recalls her Flareon, and bows her head, and the spotlight shifts to a fourth woman, clad in a blue kimono, standing beside a Vaporeon.

"It began to rain, then," the woman in blue says, and her Vaporeon throws up a water move that scatters droplets all across the stage before engaging in battle with the Arcanine as well. "It began to rain—too little, too late to save those Pokémon—and Ecruteak itself came to mourn, as it seemed the very world mourned too."

It looks for a moment, if only a brief moment, that the Arcanine will not be emerging victorious against the Vaporeon at all. The Pokémon looks back into the wings, as if being directed by someone there, and then digs his feet in and uses a different move, one perhaps identifiable by a discerning eye as Reversal, one that forces the Vaporeon's trainer to recall her Pokémon as well.

The woman in the blue kimono does so, and bows her head on cue, as the spotlight once again shifts. This time, it is to a fifth woman in a kimono, this one wearing pink, this one next to an Espeon.

"Suddenly," she proclaims, "the rain ceased. The clouds parted. The moon was no longer visible, but legend has it the stars could be seen up ahead, as could the lightening sky of a new dawn."

The Espeon uses Swift, covering the stage in ethereal stars, before engaging in battle once more with the Arcanine. Molotov, at this point, is starting to look very tired—but he emerges victorious here as well, and the Espeon is recalled by her trainer.

The spotlight shifts back to the woman in the black kimono, now alone as she walks toward the center of the stage.

"But it was not a new dawn that the people of Ecruteak witnessed," the woman in the black kimono says. "It was a truly great Pokémon, resplendent in its approach, who heard their cries of sorrow and sought to assuage them."

She steps aside, revealing a pale, silver-haired woman standing so that the golden cape draped across one shoulder catches the light. In the spotlight, the cape shimmers with far more colors than merely the one. An Arcanine sits obediently beside her, his tail wagging.

The woman—Maria, almost certainly—says nothing. A second spotlight returns to the left side of the stage, illuminating the woman in the pink kimono, now also standing alone.

"Ho-oh heard our pleas," she says, "and the lord of the skies had come to answer them. One by one, the three Pokémon who had perished in the blaze emerged from the wreckage. They were alive once more; alive, but not unchanged."

(If the viewer is paying particularly close attention to Maria, they might see her barely flinch at the name Ho-oh. They might see her gaze flick in that direction, but for the most part she remains standing as she has been since she emerged from backstage.)

The spotlight shifts from the woman in the pink kimono, and three spotlights illuminate the other three women one by one, as the three say three names.

"Raikou," says the woman in yellow.

"Entei," says the woman in red.

"Suicune," says the woman in blue.

Two of those spotlights dim entirely. The woman in the yellow kimono continues, "The people of Ecruteak feared the power that could defy death itself. They assaulted what they did not understand; they attacked the three Pokémon reborn."

The spotlight shifts to the woman in the red kimono. "Ho-oh protected them with their own body, allowing the trio to flee. They never retaliated, merely flew off into the early morning skies, never to be seen again by anyone who who stood there that day."

"Perhaps," says the woman in the blue kimono as the spotlight shifts once more to her, "perhaps one day, when the people of Ecruteak—the people of Johto—have demonstrated that we are worthy of that trust and protection again, perhaps Ho-oh will return then. But only then, when a worthy soul is chosen, will that great Pokémon fly our skies again."

Maria turns, walking backstage again, the spotlight illuminating her golden cape. Her Arcanine walks alongside her, and the spotlight—as well as the one illuminating the woman in the blue kimono—goes out.

The lights come up, again, in less than a minute. The five Kimono Girls stand upon the stage, alongside their Pokémon once more, and bow one by one, to quite a lot of applause.

Maria returns from backstage, still wearing the cape, to bow too. She looks... taken aback, by the fact that she receives any applause at all, never mind more than the Kimono Girls did. Or perhaps she's taken aback by something else entirely.

The video ends.]

#ooc: this took me literal hours to write out #ooc: which tracks #ooc: bc it's 1349 words not counting ade #firebird arc #rotomblr #pokeblogging #pokeblog rp #pokemon irl

[ask-the-rag-dolly]

It’s interesting that we’re not just like a mental thing somehow. Like I don’t think thinking loud gives people headaches

-13

"One of them is 'how many of you all are there?'... if it's a countable amount!"

#the amazing digital circus #tadc #ragatha #ragatha tadc #tadc ragatha #[ asks ] #// ooc: fun fact ! i actually keep track of the numbers somewhere in my notes . which i feel is too much effort for an ask blog but hey ! /

[talentforlying]

cri.trolestats ending their fantastic reign on twitter has irrevocably transformed my peripheral understanding of what the hell is going on in campaign 3 right now, because i have not been around cr tumblr since back in the beginning of campaign 2 and was WILDLY unprepared for the renewed ferocity of the memeing-while-streaming side of the community. i have not been able to comprehend a single liveblog i've seen so far. it has been one of the most enjoyable not-viewing experiences of my life.

#( ooc. ) OUT OF CIGS. #cri.trolestats was god for every cr fan who can't sit still for 4 hours without doing something with their hands #and yet can't actually focus on DOING anything with their hands when there is an unfamiliar story being told in the background #cri.trolestats was the altar to which all the failed multitaskers who had to quit live and catch up later prayed #(and by 'every cr fan' i mean me. i am the failed multitasker who cannot create fresh & consume fresh at the same time) #anyway. this coming to you live from a post that sang the praises of a piece of rope like the second coming of jesus. which tracks #seems like everybody's doing good over there #and seems like i should Actually start catching up on critical role at some point. godspeed d&d players

[wiltingwoes]

power list w my no good awful babies for some context from most powerful to weakest

- CANDLELIGHT ( VIRTUE OF PATIENCE )

- LUTE ( EXORCIST COMMANDER )

- ANARCHY ( EXORCIST, RIGHT HAND WOMAN TO LUTE )

- BETTY ( NOSFERATU SINNER )

- HESPER ( GOAT SINNER )

#🐀 OOC. 🐀 #betty got her ass MAULED by anarchy #as much as betty does and has a lot of blood weaponry and talents etc that actually doesn’t make her any stronger #she’s way too emotional in battle which is her greatest downfall #anarchy is extremely methodical and knows how to separate emotion from combat #which is how she killed betty. betty was sloppy and violent. anarchy evaded her attacks and tracked body movement.

[queen-scribbles]

add this to the list of things that annoy me about Lana*

#queen in space #*i guess it's more how bioware *utilizes* lana than the character herself? #there are some things about her that annoy me #(not enough to outright dislike/hate her like liara and some others #just enough to stick her in the ambivalent camp with koth ''valkorion fanboy'' vortena) #but that they use her as the easy way out of ''why can't i X?'' or ''why would i do Y?'' situations with a handwavy ''lana said so'' #like this is a good example #a perfect example really #rather than have lana turn away a (back-up) sis contact who's on slightly less shaky standing than theron #(who LEFT the sis during your carbonite nap) #which feels like an ooc move for your canonically pragmatic advisor #lean into the fact jonas mentions being on denon while the trooper's running sor #we know things got REAL messy there during arcann's reign #use that (i have plans for the conjunction of those two facts in a longfic :3) #he got tied up there in some sense #OR he was on a deep cover op since he clearly still feels the sis is where he can do the most good #given he stayed throug hall of saresh's fuckery #(and not wanting to lose his job puts limits on how much he #helps with tracking down the deadeyes on jorgan's questline so there's precedent for him putting high priority on his job) #idk i just think there are many better explanations for jonas not joining than ''lana wouldn't let him get in touch with you''?????? #and there's other spots where they use lana as the handwave ''bc i said so'' character bc they wanna streamline the story #i understand wanting to streamline the story there's way too many variables to let us do *everything* #(I say as someone who desperately wished elara mentioned aleksei in that bonus 1-on-1 the trooper gets with her #TELL ME HOW YOUR BROTHER IS DOING) #but they put like 85=90% of the explanation for why/how they do that on lana #and just hope she's enough a loyal badass people don't question it #she basically has plot armor at this point since they put in the option to let theron die in nc :| #she's drifting dangerously close to ''bioware assigned bestie'' territory #and it has me very 'eh' about a character i would normally like a lot more #(i do wanna be clear about that.

[tvrningout]

peeking in to say i'm sorry for saying i was gonna be here and then not being here!! i keep getting headaches lately that take me out of commission bc it gets really hard to concentrate ;v; even now i'm fighting one, and i wanna fight my own body for giving me so much trouble asdf but!! i'm at least working on my muse lists, so there's that :' )

speaking of which, i'm gonna remove tsugumi and miyuna for now bc it's been hard to find muse for them for ages, and until i get that muse back, i'm just gonna stick to writing chiyo and kaiya's jjk verses. those two are pretty easy to find muse for uvu i'm also going to officially add back my kny muses, with the exception of chinatsu and sei! even though i've yet to post what i've written, my muse is still high enough that i should be able to write everybody, even if i'm a lil rusty. yuzusa, kojirou, yoshiaki, and yubari will also be removed for the time being.

that's it for now!! i hope everyone's having a lovely week, and i promise to try and be here more this weekend <3

#get ready to ramble | ooc #i swear it's always something with me asdfg life is just making it hard to be active rn #but listen!! i'm keeping track of what i owe!! #so if you're waiting on something it is still coming!! i'm just extra slow rn and i'm sorry about that!! #alsoooooo certain old muses i've removed might be available by request? but just understand that i can't #guarantee the muse will be there bc certain muses are just quiet like tsugumi and miyuna and yubari even #though yubari's muse will probably bounce back eventually -- i'm just more focused on dorverold lore rn #vs what i was gearing up to do with him which was make him a modern day muse #a river deity without a river/who abandons his river/who isn't needed anymore/something like that #ANYWAY!! sorry to talk so much in the tags like usual :' ) i'm gonna get back to my muse lists #i should go to bed soon but i really don't wanna :/

[dutybcrne]

Me BSing hcs like: The fact that Kae is not only able to create a shield when he is dangerously low HP but also the fact that he is able to regenerate HP when he hits opponents with Frostgnaw is definitely due to him receiving his Vision when Diluc had tried to kill him in their Confrontation...but could it be possible that his familial ties to the Abyss Order could have influenced that HP drain of his-

#//And that's without mentioning the fact that Glacial Waltz's duration increases FOR EVERY OPPONENT DEFEATED #//Between that and his lil teleporting trick like an Abyss mage's (minus the flurries of ice); I have SO many thinkings #//Deffo love the abilities of his being an amalgam of Vision based and Abyssal energy imbued #//Deffo love that fact meaning it hurts a bit to use his Vision at all; esp with the teleporting being such a Staple to his combat style #☆ ┆ ( .ooc. ); #//Sidetracking a bit; but I also like to think that even after the Abyss is defeated/beaten back enough to not be such a threat; he'd still #keep his abilities from it/some connection to it. Bc he's so used to it being such a big PART of his fighting style/assets to use in a pinc #//But also bc keeping that connection means it'd help him keep track of any remnants of the Order far easier #//He could track them down with far more ease; sense if they are growing stronger; get intel from Domains/abyssal traces #//Of course being very mindful to keep it a secret & trying to not involve his loved ones/fellow knights of it all #//But he very much is careful esp bc of risks of him being corrupted by it; keeping a keen eye on his mental/physical/emotional states #//Deffo has plans to leave Mond and/or end his own life if he starts seeing the Abyssal corruption affecting him irreversibly #suicide mention tw #//Kind of but also kind of not; considering some of the ways how he'd go abt it #//Knows it'd be harder to the further it goes; so he has particular criteria he keeps tracks of to ensure if they come to pass #//he; in a clearer state of mind; would either 1) use his Vision to try & purge the energy out of himself (extremely painful; COULD kill #if the corruption runs deep enough & save him the trouble) or 2) use the aggressiveness of the corruption to provoke someone (esp Luc) #into taking care of him &thus ending the problem all together. Bc he KNOWS he's strong; only a handful of beings could actually kill him #//& actually be WILLING to; without hesitation. Luc comes to mind first bc of their Confrontation. But also bc Kae'd be happy w him being #the last person he ever sees. Thinks it'd be comforting more than anyone else. Esp since a lover would just break his heart to see them #//Worst case scenario is him falling to the corruption & sb breaking it out of him in the moment #//Bc the Instant he realizes what's happening; esp if they are crying and/or angered at him; he WILL fatally wound himself #//And make SURE it's not something he can come back from; save by a miracle (or 'curse' as he'd see it) #//Probably making an icicle and slitting his own throat; if not jamming the thing into his heart #//he won't hesitate; wont offer explanations; final words or apologies; he cant risk that moment of clarity being too short for it #//he HAS to make sure he can't hurt anyone any further; no matter what it means for him #//Which is partly why he'd be so keen to make sure it's not found out; bc he KNOWS he can be talked out of keeping those abilities #//Or worse; he'd fight them on it; and thus make for a fucken MESS in the aftermath if he's been too far along in the corruption #//But he KNOWS that even with the risks; the powers are a VALUABLE asset to him; &thus desperately wants to keep them #//'sidetracking a bit'; I said. Proceed to write a wHOLE FUCKEN NEW HC IN TAGS; I did; kjfbgkftg. Whoops lmao

[aotoreiki]

MY BIRTHDAY PRESENT ARRIVED AND IT'S SO COOL!!!!!!! BOOKS BOOKS BOOKS

I'm SO happy. They are such pretty books. I've had them for 10 minutes and I love them so much already. One of the Shadows of Almia ones even had a poster still inside.

#thank god the seller was having a sale right around my birthday AKNDJBD there was one i didn't get because this was already a lot #there's at least one in these sets that i know i'm missing bc they didn't have it but it's pictured in one of the dustjackets #so maybe one day i can track that down too #but regardless i feel VERY DELIGHTED WITH MY BOOKS #all the japanese books i've gotten (which was like 2 until now but anyway) have been so pretty i love them sm #ooc ✻ who opened the box

[byanyan]

i think i'm gonna pause my queue and stock it up a little again while periodically replying to & posting those unhinged ask prompts just so there's some writing on my blog over the course of however many days it takes me to amass enough content that i feel i can start the queue again...

#my drafts are back up to 44....... which tbf is my own fault bc i've been liking starter calls & hoarding memes & shit #i don't want anyone to feel like they can't reply to our threads out of fear of overwhelming me #like no please keep posting them i'm always so so happy when i get to read a new reply #they encourage me to keep going!!! #i literally just need to get better about my own shit lmao #but yeah. i'm gonna do what i need to do to continue trying to get back on track without overwhelming myself #i've had a better day today so i'm gonna take it easy... see if i can't get a couple things done & tossed into the queue... #and just not worry about things too much if i can avoid it #i've at least answered all the relationship hc asks & they're all scheduled to post over the next two-ish hours :> #━━ ˟ ⊰ ✰ ooc ⋮ don't @ me.

[bravevolunteer]

good morning plot with me

#still in gay baby jail until… tomorrow afternoon? #which isn’t a promise for replies i’ll probably get more tasks today but i’ll be way less Stressed once i’m back on track lmao #so i can’t post a call but michael on the brain. shaking him at you!!! #my silly and so haunted guy #⁂ ･ﾟ: i was looking for a job‚ and then i found a job‚ and heaven knows i’m miserable now ➛ ooc

[obscenely-overdue]

Oh! I guess another question that came to my mind: Blog is named obscenely overdue, but like Are you actually overdue?

Technically not overdue until next week but... I look like it, and certainly FEEL like it. I don't have so much as braxton hicks contractions so it's very possible I'll hit that soon. It was wild being 36 weeks pregnant and talking to a lady who was full term 40 and I beat her in size... for the record, she was having twins too. I guess I just grow 'em big.

#ooc: I don't keep super close track of time passing for this since I really only have 1 good fake belly size right now #ooc: so I can't really backtrack or progress much ATM so I'm just kinda perpetually 38-42 weeks with twins #ooc: which is a general statement going to everyone not just you popdude #ooc: trust me if I had the means to change size reasonably and track a whole pretend pregnancy I'd do it #ooc: but that is outside of the scope right now so I take my mildly oversized twinner bump and say “talk dirty to me but not TOO dirty” #preggo kink #pregnancy kink #pregnant rp #pretend pregnant #ask #tfpreg #popdude731

[godblooded]

oh my god tomorrow i have to be awake to take my aunt to a transfusion at 5 am in the city but good news! her platelet levels are trending upward!!

#ooc. mikkelsen vc: this week on kat valentine's hannibal. #cancer / #[I’m crying about it I’m so fucking relieved even if it’s only ONE point it means they CAN trend upward which is important. it’s a really #good sign. now pray for me for the next couple days because HOPEFULLY with this next procedure and these next treatments it’s a good track #we can get on. but HOPEFULLY day after tomorrow she’ll finally not have to deal with this fluid retention isssue. my poor aunt is having a #rough fuckin time rn.]

[mythvoiced]

HYELLO~ work's slowed down a little again, but I'm continuing m'hiatus a tad because for whatever reason I've been super low on energy so I'm not really managing to provide the usual energy I offer, SO UH HI I LUB U THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE, CATCH YOU SOON

#;ooc #;psa #ACTUALYL MAYBE IT'S /BECAUSE/ work's slowed down #i was stressing over deadlines and whatnot and dealing with some family drama nothing too serious BUT draining #so now i'm just kind of like... the physical embodiment of a sigh with an occasional spike for whatever hyperfixation manages to - #- grab me for a few moments | watched r.w.r.b and i am in DESPERATE need of the full 3 hour cut #and i don't care what flaws it had it matters a LOT to me now okay #but that nonsense aside i can't really word & write anything in character either so i will catch u soon ;3 #also someone called us to fetch a stray kitten found in their garden so we're taking care of a Lil Guy~ #hmu if you'd like to see him btw my brother's still gotta give his vote on a name but we seem intent on going with my suggestion #which would be Chili Con Carne (Chili for friends) so we'll see #sorry if i sound very... idk dismissive? or uncaring? i hope it doesn't come across like that i appreciate you folks SO MUCH #i'll catch ya when i'm on track again~

[yngai]

as a general guide, reference(?) for how ada ages, her face beneath the crow beaked mask she wears during her time in the village, here's her faceclaim (joan chen) in the movie 24 city, which was released & filmed around 2008, when she would've been 47, the same as ada during the events of resident evil: village . another visual reference, though obviously not a faceclaim, is kim seo hyung in mine (2021) .

#* file // : OOC — ( 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑'𝐒 𝐂𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐀𝐃𝐄 . ) #i guess it does help that joan chen has basically barely aged since twin peaks #just look at her photoshoots with WSJ China #this movie is filmed as an interview with various residents of chengu & she's there for only one segment #which is primarily a static camera shot of her speaking #so i'll scout around for other films she's in released around 2008 as 24 city was the easiest to track down

[hatredcurse]

I have a feeling that I am missing some drafts...

#ooc #|| Should I get a thread tracker? Probably. #|| But it's so much easier to track by notifications. #|| Which I am finding to become more unreliable by the day. #|| I had stuff I explicitly remembering saving as draft but I'm not seeing it in drafts. #|| So either my memories are meshing together or I have a bigger problem at hand here.

[magnusmodig]

||. you know what no i'm on my music shit again. remember when thor had a whole (2) themes in each of his films? remember when in the first film patrick doyle represented thor's love for his family and country through "sons of odin" and thor's love for earth and jane through "science and magic"? Remember in Dark World when his themes surrounded Thor's growth as a leader and warrior ("Thor, Son of Odin") and his role as King ("Asgard") ? Remember how those tracks bled into each other the way that Thor's identity and his duty were starting to? (which would make perfect sense with the original ending being Thor being corralled back into being King at all costs??? definitelyodin'sidea —and even makes sense with the rewrite ending of "i would rather be a good man than a great king" never realizing he already is both)

because you know what i sure do

#(so anyways i'm feeling testy today) #( ooc . ) — stories that leap from the page . #(i'd tag as salt but i didn't mention that gagnarok only gave him one theme and technically it's not even /his/) #(it's the “thor ragnarok” theme for the entire movie) #(which dark world also does but the “thor the dark world” track is specifically a mix of asgard/thor son of odin) #(...SO HAVE I MENTIONED I'M ON MY MUSIC SHIT AGAIN AND FEELING TESTY)