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ranger-rai · 1 year

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Cold Eyes, Warm Food pt.4

The trio had rounded the corner to a shocking display as Tia’s dragon type, a Noivern, was now standing over the man who was running the cafe.

“Whoa. Easy there!” The man called out in an attempt to calm the bat pokemon.

The Noivern reeled back its head in a striking motion with its jaw wide open, a pose that was known as a death sentence to anyone unfortunate to be on the receiving end.

“No!” The woman called out to her pokemon in an attempt to stop the fatal results. However, they were baffled as the violent scene was filled with laughter.

“Hahaha! Ok, ok! I thought I recognized you! The man laughed as he was relentlessly licked by the large dragon type. His attempts to push her away were completely useless as she was too strong for him.

“A little help would be appreciated!” The man laughed as he struggled to break free.

*Wrrrrrp*

Tia hesitated for a moment before she let out a whistle, getting the attention of her pokemon who hopped off and ran to her side.

“That was really weird.” Vea commented.

“I know. Mercy usually doesn't like strangers.” Konani added as she watched the Noivern return to Tia, nuzzling into her human partner like a large Skitty.

They all then looked back towards the man who had finally managed to get up and began to dust himself off.

The trio quickly made their way back to their table, taking a second look at the victim of the dragon's tongue assault.

“Did you see that guy’s outfit?” Vea questioned in a very hushed tone as she was now huched over the table.

“The apron?” Konani questioned, recalling the bright pink apron with what had looked like Slowpoke face on the front.

“No, the uniform under the apron.” Vea had stressed the importance of this individuals outfit.

“No I didn't notice it, but I did make out a large scar on his face. You don't think he’s dangerous, do you?”

“He didn't look so tough, I bet I could take em’ if I needed to.” Vea assured.

“But Mercy liked him, and she only show’s Tia affection.” Konani explained, guesturing to the Noivern who was sitting close to her trainer.

Tia had been silent this whole time, burying her face into her phone to ignore everything that had happened. It was normal for Tia to basically ignore the world around her, either absent mindedly or just trying to tune out all of the annoying noise, but this was a bit different, almost like she didn't want to be seen.

“Oi Tia, you wanna get outta here before Mr. Scar Face comes back?”

Tia obscured her face further, not giving an immediate answer, which cost her the chance to respond as footsteps could be heard approaching them.

The man who had previously been well introduced to the ground had now made his way towards the three of them with a large tray in hand, accompanied by his Porygon companion who was also carrying its own tray.

“Looks like everyone is ready for their food. Sorry for the wait.” He stated as he lowered the tray.

The three women had all corrected themselves in their seats and adjusted their tablespace to make room for the meals.

He placed a couple of dishes on the table, For Konani there was a “Sweet n Savory Salad”, Vea ordered the “Carne Empoleon Empanadas” and Tia ordered a bowl of “Delibird Presente Soupa”.

The salad was a rather simple salad. However, it was topped not only with typical vegetables but a few unexpected fruits and an incredibly aromatic dressing that smelled sweet and spicy.

Vea’s Empanadas weren't actually made from Empoleon meat, but their edge crimping did make them look like Empoleon “Crowns”. The meat was rich, while the baked portions were fluffy with a satisfying crunchy texture.

Finally the Soup was the most interesting as there didn't seem to be a specific theme to it, rather there was a sort of thin bun looking item in the middle of the broth and after a few moments in the soup it opened up to reveal vegetables and meats. The flavor was rich and not overly salty, with the fresh vegetables absorbing a lot of the extra salts and the meat offering a new rich flavor to the broth.

While the trio was busy attending to their meals, the waiter grabbed the tray from his cyber pokemon and headed towards the three dragon types.

Presenting them with bowls of diced berries and some pokemon food as well as water to drink, the pokemon were incredibly excited to eat.

The Noivern was especially excited as her bowl had some nice spicy berries, something their species were known to enjoy.

“Oi, We didn't order any extra meals. Our pokemon are really picky eaters, so don't go thinkin you can charge us more!” Vea protested with half a mouth full of food.

“Don't worry, pokemon, eat free here. As for their diets, I only choose berries that would suit their tastes and some light pokemon food to help encourage strong scale growth.” He responded.

Despite the warning of these three being picky eaters, the pokemon ate with gusto.

“Wow, they are really going at it.” Konani commented in a very surprised tone while she watched her heavily scaled dragon devour its bowl before she took a large bite from her salad herself, letting out a satisfied moan.

“Hm?”

The man looked behind him as he felt a tugging on the back of his jacket.

He turned to see the Noivern trying to reach in his jacket’s pocket.

“Oh, I guess you want one of these.” He stated as he reached into his jacket and pulled out a bright red berry that was both spikey and resembled a pepper.

The sight of this berry caused the Noivern to begin squirming in excitement.

With a quick snap of its jaw, the large dragon type happily took the berry before scurrying off to enjoy its food.

“So. How’s the food?” He asked as he approached the three women who were clearly invested in the meal.

“Mmmm, it's so good. These flavors are so rich!” Konani responded as she finished another bite of her salad.

“Yea, s’pretty good, but what’s with the outfit, mate?” Vea added as she pointed her fork towards the man, gesturing to his uniform that was slightly hidden under a smiling Slowpoke apron.

The scarred man looked down at his clothes, patting his body in realization as he began to chuckle.

“Huh? Oh, I forgot. I just came from work.” He clarified as he began scratching the back of his head in embarrassment, not usually caught off guard by something so trivial.

“Wait, so that’s real?” Vea questioned as she pointed the badge on his hip.

“Yep! Pokemon Ranger Rai, at your service.” He introduced himself tapping the badge at his hip before resting his hands on his sides, giving a big smile in a genuine reaction that he had surley given many times before.

His introduction was cut short as the Noivern rushed to his side once again, nuzzling into him to which Rai obliged with some well placed scratches behind this pokemon’s speaker shaped ears.

“Wow, Mercy really likes you. We can barely get attention from her half of the time.” Konani stated, taking another bite of her salad in the process.

“S’like she already knows you. Whats’sup with that?” Vea commented as she too took a bite of her meal like a vicious and wild mon. It's not like she was jealous, but she found the situation very surreal.

Rai chuckled as he had begun scratching under Mercy’s chin, managing to get the desired response of a leg kicking from the Noivern.

“Well she did almost tear my arm off once, so if we can walk away from that and laugh, then I think we can be friends.” He chuckled, not quite grasping the impact of his comment, the action of a pokemon trying to attack or injure him not really registering as danger anymore.

Vea and Konani looked at him with wide eyes. Not really sure how someone can just laugh off the possibility of losing an arm to a potentially dangerous pokemon.

In the middle of this confusing lunch, an interesting realization had just occurred in Vea’s mind.

“Wait wait wait. A Pokemon Ranger from Sinnoh? Mercy going crazy? Almost broke an arm?

Vea put the pieces together as she and her muscular companion turned to their tall, plum haired friend who had been silently sipping her soup and avoiding eye contact this entire time.

They thought it was odd how buried in her phone she had been when they showed up, and noticing the red in her face, it had all made sense now.

“NO WAY! This is the guy you ran over a month ago?! Vea exclaimed with a huge grin on her face. She got an odd sense of joy out of an individual's pain or misfortune, and this was almost as sweet as her drink.

Konani’s eyes lit up in realization.

“OHHHH! You’re right!” She added, pointing to Rai, who was a bit thrown off by the sudden spike in volume coming from this previously subdued table.

The chatter got a bit louder, but Rai didn't pay it much mind.

He narrowed his eyes and began to focus on the slender woman who had been avoiding eye contact with him. He couldn't quite his finger on it, but he knew something was off about her.

He leaned in closer, causing her to become more embarrassed, not really sure how to react. Awkward situations seemed to follow Tia around like a full squad of Falanix. However, it was the reaction that people gave in these situations that affected her the most.

Her “Ice Queen” persona wasn't something she chose to take on. It was mostly an instinct or reaction based on how people approached her. In reality, she was usually a big ball on anzitey when it came to social confrontation.

When some creep tried to hit on her or insult her friends, she knew she could put them in their place. However, she had a hard time showing off a more warm side when she really would have liked to.

This was a very unusual situation as it had actually been her fault, and she was completely freaking out if this strange man would have a justified reason to be mad at her.

What would she do? Maybe she should run, or she could just glare at him in silence and intimidate him. What about a battle that could distract him. Wait, Mercy was acting weird. She might not battle!

What to do?!

“Do you want a refill?”

#ranger rai #pokemon ranger #the ranger base #pokemon #ask me anything #ask me a question #sinnoh #Tia #Vea #Konani #Noivern #rai headcannon #cold eyes warm food #cold eyes #warm food #writing #story #rais story

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dangeroustaintedflawed · 2 months

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dollster · 3 months

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me after acting like it didn’t matter to me

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drinkmyblood333 · 2 years

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shorthaltsjester · 11 months

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watching the sdcc panel and i am just very :) about how sweet their answers to “what are some of the micro moments from the game that have stuck with you the most over the years?” are. taliesin saying what the fuck is up with that which was the first like The Party Gets To Know Each Other moments of c3. travis saying asking his wife if he could kiss her in campaign. marisha going way back to the cannonball competition in campaign one. ashley choosing the beauyasha date but also just the silly goat noise matt made. liam adding onto that to compliment matt roleplaying grass so well and then saying his favourite moment was writing a story for laura and reading it to her as caleb for jester. and then matt saying that was his answer, and that his favourite moments of the game are when they find ways to give gifts to each other whether tangible or not. and sam saying his favourite moments have less to do with the story and is more so when he can just. see his friends across the table from him. when marisha perches and when laura and ashley are (badly) drawing dicks and liam saying he loves when sam sneezes and ashley tells him to stop it and just. yeah. they Are an extremely popular online powerhouse, but i’m so happy that they’re also friends building a world together out of gifts to and love for one another.

like i Am so enamoured with the characters and the world of exandria but the moments when you can feel the love that those people have for each other reach out from behind the stained glass of their performances (to steal a metaphor from brennan lee mulligan) are so extremely special and i am endlessly grateful that they decided to share their silly little home game with the world.

#it’s just the. laura and travis’ characters always being supportive of one another when they’re facing hardship #taliesin and marisha consistently making characters who challenge one another and still protect each other relentlessly #all of them being so fond of ashley’s characters always and literally seeing them light up in c1 episodes when ash got to join in person #sam and liam always making characters who offer one another reprieves into kindness that they don’t always get in the campaign setting #liam making orym after falling in love with keyleth as vax #marisha making laudna after matt’s storytelling with delilah and choosing vex as her body double #ashley using ‘i would like to rage’ and matt having kord ask her where she finds her strength #laura and matt always weaving these deeply complicated and emotional interactions between a daughter and a father #the gasps and yells and clapping when matt makes cool sound effects or reveals a map or breaks/ends on a cliff hanger #them ending both campaign 1 and 2 with ‘what a great/nice story’ and travis saying ‘let’s do it again!’#and it’s like. yes yes i love the comics and i’m a fan of tlovm but . seeing this well produced thing that somehow mimics #the feeling i get sitting in my living room laughing with my roommates about my ranger’s giant rat failing to climb stairs #it’s very special it’s very sweet #critical role #sdcc 2023 #taliesin jaffe #travis willingham #marisha ray #ashley johnson #liam o’brien #matthew mercer #laura bailey #sam riegel #cr cast #critical role cast #my posts

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ultrataintedviolence · 17 days

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“my body is a temple” bitch my body is the murder house you’re gonna die in there

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katemossdietcherrycoke · 4 days

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sofia coppola smoking a cigarette

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vhs-consumer · 2 months

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i fuvkin love robots

Feeling bad for Stirling ngl, they were so mean to him :(( he just wanted to rebuild his home man, I would never betray this little guy

also gave my guy a name, meet Carrion the bone core, they can definitely be trusted with humans, trust me!

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weirdlookindog · 3 months

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"They are coming through the air and traveling along the ground," said Cecy, in her sleeping - Ray Bradbury

Lawrence Sterne Stevens - The Home Coming

(Famous Fantastic Mysteries - December 1952)

#lawrence sterne stevens #the home coming #ray bradbury #famous fantastic mysteries #pulp art #horror art #story illustration #illustration #art

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nambawan-zonvip · 2 months

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sorry for the delay, i was busy.

but at last, here they are!!!

@mcratscult

#fun fact when i searched four rats for reference mikey's weezer mcr ig story pops up #they are cuddling :3 #my chemical romance #my chem #rats #mcr #bandom #zoncreate #fanart #art #drawing #artists on tumblr #gerard way #mikey way #frank iero #ray toro

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my-darling-boy · 27 days

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(TW injury description)

I am SO glad you asked I lose my mind over this man. Sidney Beldam! He’s most known for his miraculous recovery from a major facial injury sustained while he served as a young sergeant in the First World War. If you’ve read the Facemaker by Lindsay Fitzharris you might recognise him! Sources differ slightly about his story, so I’ve pieced it together as best I could. The photos below were from about February 1919!

Born in 1897, Sidney was about 17 living with his mother in Cambridge, England when the Great War commenced. While he didn’t enlist initially, he was soon conscripted when it came about in 1916 though thankfully he was in a non-combatant role driving lorries transporting soldiers to boats headed for France. It’s where he learned he enjoyed driving! However in April 1917, Sidney was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps and eventually rose to the rank of sergeant where only 7 months later, his life would change forever.

During the battle of Passchendaele, one of the muddiest most gruelling segments of the war, Sidney was on the frontlines when a shell burst, sending a shrapnel fragment tearing diagonally through his nose and the right side of his face. The young soldier collapsed face first into the mud which ended up saving his life as falling backwards would have caused him to choke on his own blood. For three days Sidney laid in a mangled heap floating in and out of consciousness while vermin scurried about his body and the other dead and wounded around him. No one would ever know the details of those agonising three days, but the trauma he experienced there left him with a lifelong phobia of rats and cockroaches. After the initial wounded had been cleared out, a wandering band of stretcher bearers discovered Sidney alive after one man touched him with his boot fully expecting him to be dead. Miraculously, he was still clinging to life.

The 19 year old sergeant was rushed down the line and then transferred to two different military hospitals where his wounds were hastily stitched in an effort to save his life before infection could spread. Unfortunately, closing the gap where he was missing flesh in his cheek caused his upper lip to be pulled into a sneer and a sunken depression formed where most of his nose was missing around the bridge. Still, he was lucky to be alive, which he later used to remark. Well he was luckier still as he would be transferred to Sidcup military hospital in Kent where he would become a patient under Sir Harold Gillies, the man often considered the pioneer of modern plastic surgery. When he arrived at hospital in 1918, his wounds were healed but his face still bore the heavy trauma of his experience. If you want to see his photographs upon arrival, I won’t post them here but if you search his name, the photos are everywhere. IMO they’re not graphic but I know it can upset some people.

Gillies went to work trying to restore Sidney’s face. This required him to reopen the wound in his cheek where a skin flap was grafted to allow his upper lip to return to normal. He also folded down a skin flap from his forehead in order to create a new nose. Behind his facade, a series of tubes and canals had to be inserted for proper sinus drainage and other unnamed functions. While his initial handful of surgeries did most of the work to reconstruct his face, Sidney underwent over 40 surgeries between 1918 and the 1930s, some reconstructive and some to evacuate the tubes behind the flesh, meaning the common cold was a routinely painful affliction for him. Gillies understood operations were traumatic for the men at Sidcup, especially since most required more than one, and so made a point about creating a lighthearted ward environment, one Sidney says was quite jolly with the staff doing everything they could to make them feel comfortable and dignified as possible. And while I thought the topmost photos were the most updated case study photos for his recovery, I stumbled upon another set from 1920 in the Faces of War by Andrew Bamji I have not seen posted anywhere!

And lads listen. In such a sweet little twist, while Sidney was still recovering from the bulk of his major surgeries, a local pianist by the name of Winifred volunteered to play for the resting servicemen, all of whom had some form of disfigurment or amputation. Carrying in her sheet music, she and Sidney laid eyes on each other for the first time and she later remarked how his smile instantly lit up the whole room! For them, it was love at first sight. The two were soon married, and although it was in the 1920s, I don’t have an exact year for this. This most likely came after Sidney was finally discharged from service in 1921. There is a photo of their wedding and y’all look how SWEET!!

Between his initial surgeries and army discharge, Gillies asked if Sidney would be his personal chauffeur, an offer he took up quickly as he loved driving from his time with lorries during the war. One somewhat humorous account tells of Gillies—who was a bit scattered at times—asking Sidney to renew his driver’s license as the surgeon left it until the last day to take care of; Sidney in a rush waited in a long line at the county hall before jumping the queue and begging the administrator to expedite his employer’s license as it was needed to drive him to the hospital the next day. The man refused, even for a surgeon to get him to his patients. Sidney went to another staff member who was friends with Gillies and begged him the same. The man cheerily agreed but was still in need of a signature from the stubborn administrator who again refused... at least until he found out Harold Gillies nearly won a golfing championship, at which point he took Sidney to his personal office to expedite the license as he was happy to do business for a skilled golfer (apparently saving people’s lives doesn’t matter as much??). A no doubt perplexed Sidney was finally able to get back to the hospital on time!

After his army discharge and most likely about the time of his marriage, Sidney moved back to Cambridge where he worked for the council as a rent collector. He was so well liked, apparently even from the people he collected from, that he soon worked his way to Housing Manager for Cambridge. About this time, he had a daughter, Pam. Every account I read of him, people gush about how sweet he was. His wife recalls how Sidney was always adored by all his family and friends. His granddaughter Marilyn McInnes in an interview said, “He was the most warm and optimistic and loving man. I adored my grandfather, I was constantly on his lap as a small child. I never noticed anything funny about his face, I guess I thought all grandads looked like mine.”

Sadly, Sidney Beldam passed away from cancer at about 80 years old in 1978. But considering the man was given 6 months to live and ended up living for 60 years more surrounded by a large and loving family, I’d say he certainly had a full life. There is a picture of him and his wife in the 60s and they are absolutely charming!!

But anyway that’s me done rambling I’ve a massive crush on him. His story makes me genuinely happy to tell and I’m so glad you asked!

#I love love love this man sm he’s just described as this ray of sunshine!!#I want to put him in my pocket #And the story of him and his wife like actually kill me that is so cute #I’m so happy he was able to live a full life #Also yeah lads he is so fine ngl when I saw him in that book I was like WOW #he has such gorgeous eyes and I love his nose #and his smile #wwi #world war 1 #sidney beldam #history #wwi medicine #injury tw #medical tw #long post

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