#recall fragment

[tgrailwar-zero]

"Goodnight, Masters! Rest well!"

As you said goodnight to KUKULKAN, you drifted into unconsciousness.

Darkness. Nothingness.

Quiet... before the sound of footsteps.

Distant, yet near.

Not a dream, but a memory. Faded, but clearer.

Followed by a smell.

...The smell of blood permeated the air.

Corpses, slowly decaying away into data lay strewn across the streets, as bloodstained footsteps wandered forward. The source of the carnage came from one Servant.

An ASSASSIN, his blade drenched red.

He stepped in front of a glowing form.

The LAIR SERVANT.

The gaze of the LAIR SERVANT was intense. His voice tried to keep calm, but wavered ever so slightly.

LAIR SERVANT: "So, that's why you ended all of those lives? To draw me out?"

The ASSASSIN chuckled, the red glow from his eyes piercing the LAIR SERVANT.

ASSASSIN: "…'Lives'? These are a bunch of ones and zeroes that you're playin' dolls with. Killin' them was nothin' like killin' a person- twice as boring and nowhere near as hard. C'mon, you brought them back before-- do it again. I'll do it as many times as it takes, before you burn out your mana on that punk-ass Noble Phantasm of yours."

You could feel the hatred burn from the LAIR SERVANT as he raised a hand, a divine light shimmering from it.

His anger had reached its peak, and now the wrath of a Divine Spirit was imminent.

LAIR SERVANT: "This paradise… this Solar Cell… you Interlopers have come to selfishly destroy it. Destroy this paradise where nobody has to die! A place where I can forever develop the heights of my medicine, and create a true elixir of immortality!"

The LAIR SERVANT continued to burn, a divine flame sourced from a cursed bloodline beginning to leak out from his body. This was desperation. He had wasted his energy throwing wave after wave of Shadow Servants, and then reluctantly the undead corpses of the villagers that had been killed in a ploy to force the LAIR SERVANT's hand. It was an intense brutal strategy that resulted in plenty of wanton 'death', however- it was effective. And now the LAIR SERVANT, either too weak or too sentimental to conjure up the decaying data around them into more undead, was on his last legs.

However, it would be hard to tell with just a look.

ASSASSIN: "What a shame. I figured you'd have noticed by now. Thanks to my Masters, the more blood you throw at me, the more revitalized I become. Sorry."

The ASSASSIN took a step forward, fully unsheathing his blade. The mana around him distorted, burning with an otherworldly intensity. A faint form shimmer behind him, the intensity of two, burning Spirit Origins intertwining and fighting for the same cause, allowing his shine to match up against the divine light of the LAIR SERVANT.

This whole time, while the LAIR SERVANT had been trying to wear down ASSASSIN, the opposite had happened. ASSASSIN was growing stronger and healthier, staying in peak physical shape after each kill. …You're recalling something about ASSASSIN's condition…!

[ This is T-SUMMONING ] [ T-Summoning is a trait inherent to your Master status, due to the protocol you went through to reach the Solar Cell. Fusing two Spirit Origins together to create a more powerful Servant. The resulting Servant possesses the highest statistics of both fused Servants, however this power comes at an intense mana cost. This can either be ended once the Servant triggers their Noble Phantasm, runs out of mana to supply the boost, or can be stopped manually. However, either a contract needs to be made with both Servants, or a Servant's Spirit Core is captured before it's destroyed. Additionally, the maximum HP and MP is raised by 2! ] [ ASSASSIN is currently equipped with the 'PHANTOM COUNTESS' Spirit Core! ]

This was it.

The LAIR SERVANT was in your way, but once he was killed, that would be one more key- and one more path opened to the Solar Cell Core.

ASSASSIN: "Alright, Masters. Time to end this!"

( '5-option polls' function similarly to 4-option polls, with the fifth option usually involving triggering or cancelling a specific skill. If the 5th option doesn't win out, the voting percentage for that option will be evenly dispersed among the first 4, and then the success results will be calculated like if the poll had only 4 options. )

SERVANT: SLAYING ASSASSIN

T-SUMMONED: [PHANTOM COUNTESS]

Strength: C Endurance: D Agility: A (Raised from B) Mana: C (Raised from E) Luck: D (Raised from E) NP: B (Raised from C)

HP: 7/5

MP: 9/7

Maximum Damage (Strength): 7 (Increased due to the amount of blood present!) Maximum Damage (Mana): 7 (Increased due to the amount of blood present!)

Skills:

Man-Slayer (A) - A sword skill specialized in cutting down humans.

Mind's Eye (Fake) (C) - The skill to avoid danger through pure intuition.

Swordplay as Swift and Powerful as a Falcon (A) - The renowned, unmatched, unique swordsman style of ASSASSIN.

Torture Technique (A) - The deep understanding and precise execution regarding methods of torture, when using torture tools, the efficacy is increased.

Bloodsucking (C) - The act of absorbing another's blood to restore one's own vitality.

Bath of Fresh Blood (A) - This Servant becomes even more effective when drenched in blood.

#recall fragment #thgw story #thgw: chapter 4 #main post

[mournfulroses]

Miguel Hernández, from Twenty Poems; "Do You Recall That Throat,"

#lit #miguel hernández #poetry #writings #words #spanish literature #fragments #twenty poems #do you recall that throat #p

[moonlit-sweet-dreams]

💝˖⁺‧₊˚♡˚₊‧⁺˖~💌~˖⁺‧₊˚♡˚₊‧⁺˖💝

🎀- Nameless style replica attempt with Nightingale. The hair was a nightmare, but I do like how this turned out! It certianly isn't perfect, though that is often the case when I do these sorts of things. 😔

I maaaaayyy write some things for Nameless and my funny little guys, but I'll have to see if I can finish their pages first 😅

#Nightingale Dulce #nameless the one thing you must recall #cheritz #nameless #cheritz nameless #oc #original character #otome #fanart #??? I mean I guess??? #oc persona #persona #nights of dreams #nights' sketchbook #Sweets Trio #style replication #Nameless AU #💝- Fractus Memoriale ~Shattered Fragments~ #<- new AU name since I'm greatly expanding upon my original one #I sort of achieved my goal of putting Nights in the Namelesss style #BUT I also didn't because I'm bad at that sort of thing #Nightingale's hair is becoming more like a pine tree and I've come to accept this fjkjdskhdhkfdj

[fragmentedblade]

"That move was a token of my appreciation", Jingliu says to Jing Yuan's apprentice.

#The ghost of the past hovers over them all terribly #There's an iteration of lives and fragments of stories‚ yes #But it's greatly a construct of their making too #The ghost of the past hovers over them all terribly because they invoke it #They can't move on #But how could they? How does one move on from that? #How to move on from those bonds and that grief? From that pain and that love? From all that guilt and hatred? #I talk too much #Jingliu #Jingliu and Jing Yuan #Jing Yuan #Jing Yuan and Yanqing #Yanqing #Traces #Edit: in Jingliu's quest‚ Blade too tells her something that recalls Jing Yuan's line in that one short

[franstastic-ideas]

I have a feeling that maybe something other than his wares were swiped…

#volo #Miss Fortune Sisters #pokemon: legends arceus #just look at his face! #Volo is recalling the walk of shame back to his boss to tell Ginter his clothes were stolen while he was bathing #(I know he's also upset about the ruin fragment being taken but you can pry this headcanon from my cold dead hands)

[dg-fragments]

Its been a while how have you been random stranger :0

Not sure how long it has been, and well I've been alright, here and there, a bit all over the place too, but that's how it goes at times.

How about you? And who might you be?

#asks #answered asks #anon asks #DGanswers #DG-fragments #writers on tumblr #poets on tumblr #random stranger #rings a bell but can't recall #who are you

[warlordfelwinter]

"i didn't get to play your past like a vr game like fiver did but"

#i like the implication that with the extra soul fiver's echo has gotten more powerful #since this is the first one since ardbert and it's the first one where you get to play a little mini game inside #so now fiver has to like Feel and Experience things from others' pasts instead of just see them #which he will certainly love and will not be more disorienting and unpleasant than the regular echo visions #i also like that we ostensibly learn to control the echo somewhat in elpis with venat #and then as i recall it doesn't really matter and it still sorta just Takes us whenever it feels like it #need a few more pieces of soul and we can do it on command maybe #and i'm like 99% sure we gave one of our soul fragments to ryne in that memoria crystal #og golbez HAS to have been the azem chunk for the 13th he makes the most sense to me #so hopefully we get that back at some point and get new spicy ancient powers #fel's ffxiv #shadowbringers lb #oc: fiver

[xivu-arath]

even infinity

The Worms have risen from the Fundament’s depths, and just the sight of them bulking above the waves is enough to scatter their army. Auryx allows this. It is right for only the three of them to be able to approach their gods.

They roil and loop around each other, breaking the surface like monuments infested with uncountable, seething life. Out of their element and in the weak dawn light they are even more vast, and seeing them in Kaharn’s familiar waters aches like a lost limb. His eyes want to find an easier horizon, but he does not look away.

Above them, the wound peels back the sky, laying bare stars and the closest moons. Somewhere beyond them Taox hides, planning their demise as they pin down hers. That their vengeance has led them all here feels right. Of course they would reach the moons that were arrayed against them, whose doom had driven the King mad with fear.

He will lead his people out of the Fundament, and in surviving the God-Wave prove to be greater than every truth they had been taught. They are not meant to burrow and cling to the skin of a world that doesn’t want them. They will not be swept away and forgotten.

The stars are waiting for them, and an infinite horizon.

EVEN INFINITY HAS AN END, Yul says. YOU MIGHT REACH IT, OH NAVIGATOR OURS.

They ready the cutters at Xivu Arath’s order, a thousand ships armed and armoured by every secret Savathûn could dredge up. Then they sail through the wound and rise into orbit, the Worms coiling around and ahead of them to secure the ascent.

They devour the horizon, and Auryx does not look back.

#my words #the hive #osmium sorrows #books of sorrow #I... do not recall why I never published these last two #I think there were gonna be more of them as in-between fragments #so maybe I wanted all of them together? #seems silly now #wip days

[ava-does-dumbassery]

I’m more than halfway through my Middle Egyptian textbook, which means I know know more than one and a half languages, and now I can understand one of clauses in the Kahun fragment completely (unless I learn about constructions later that would look like exactly like the constructions I think these are and also work, in which case egg on my face for getting too confident).

(This isn’t one of the parts where Set says horny things. I’m pretty sure it’s one of the parts where Isis gives Horus advice. Sorry. I am aware that figuring out if Set is a bisexual icon or not is the only we’re all here /joke.)

Anyway so there’s this part, right here in the fragment:

And (nerd words incoming, you don’t really need to care about this part, the point is that I can explain how all the pieces of it fit together without being confused about anything and I’m very proud of that): nn (those shrugging arms and the jagged line beneath them) and rdit (the mouth, the arm, and that semicircle) are a negated infinite verb construction (“without [verb]ing”), and mA (the sickle, the eye, and the vulture) is probably a prospective form that’s acting as the direct object of rdit, since there’s only one vulture it in instead of two and the word after it, st (that folded linen glyph and that other semicircle) doesn’t make sense as the next word if it’s an infinitive and Ra (other mouth above arm, as well as the sun, the vertical stroke, and that bird perched on a stick) is also part of the sentence.

ANYWAY it should mean “without causing that Ra should see it,” or in a way that makes more sense to say in English “without letting Ra see it.” (The Latin translation just uses the word “sun” instead of Ra’s name, but capitalized, which makes sense because “Ra” and “sun” are literally the same word in Egyptian. I’m not sure which word is better here. Maybe the English connotations of just “sun” are better, the Contendings version of this myth makes a big deal about whether there’s daylight out or not when everything happens.)

Anyway, I feel pretty confident about this one part now, hoorayyyyyy progress! and hopefully I’ll be clearer on the rest of it soon.

#egyptian mythology #this goes in the main tags cause I am very proud of this #ava has thoughts #ancient egypt stuff #IIRC this is the part of the Latin translation that’s like ‘the seeds which flow from his limb‚ not allowing the sun to see’ #And the part that precedes this is ‘[mtw]t pri m Hnn.f’ so it looks like the Latin to English is correct on that #Even when disguising what they’re saying with Latin the Victorians cannot bring themselves to actually say dick lol #It’s so funny that the Latin Kahun fragment translation is one of the few things I can recall of the top of my head #Stuff I needed to study for tests? Things I was supposed to do today? No we forget that. But ancient Egyptian penis myth? #That stays in there forever. I will never be able to get that knowledge out of my brain. #The latin incident #No id

[cosmicraelum]

Alexander, a mage with no memories

(I ramble about them in the tags.

#OC #OC art #original character #full body reference #cosmic art #cosmic OCs #Alexander!!!! One of my first OCs #they've changed so much oops. They were once an FMA OC that I yoinked out of fandom stuff cause I wanted to do more with them. #Due to reasons they can't recall a spell was casted on them that stole their memories and stored them into crystalized fragments #These fragments are scattered across the globe leaving them rendered helpless and confused #their story is the quest of finding these shards and restoring their memory #learning who they are as a person and what is so important about them that their memory needed to be shattered in the first place #I don't want to do the born sexy yesterday trope with them so they at least remember how to be a person properly lol #Though their lack of knowledge leaves them a bit naïve to the world they most definitely aren't stupid #They are my cinnamon roll I love them very much #Forget(me)not

[tgrailwar-zero]

ASSASSIN ran.

This is what ASSASSIN-class Servants were good at. Running. Hiding. Striking from the shadows.

Your adversary, however, seemed unfazed and unsurprised.

'BOWMAN': "So it's death then."

The BOWMAN fired one arrow.

The sounds of the heavens themselves ruptured, bright light filled the area like the sun itself had burst to life between the two Servants as ASSASSIN narrowly dove out of the way. Despite his fast movement, the arrow landed heavily against his shoulder as he dove into an alleyway and continued to sprint away, his breath heavy and panicked.

[ Damage reduced to 3 thanks to a Great Success with Agility A! 4 HP remaining! ]

This.

This is why this Servant's face is burned within your mind.

Why you remember his expression so clearly as he stated his True Name. Disappointed. Somber. Determined.

KARNA: "My True Name is Karna. My bow, Vijaya, is the absolute pinnacle of its kind. Crafted for and wielded by Shiva, it ensures absolute victory. You were given a chance to live. That chance is gone."

The bowman's words rung as clear as church bells, even as you drew further and further away.

An announcement of an incredibly powerful Servant, and perhaps an even more incredible Noble Phantasm.

ASSASSIN: "Dammit… dammit!"

Eventually he found a homestead, slipping and ducking inside. The home was filled with the dissipating data of a small family. Digital corpses. Ones and zeroes, and yet the macabre sight began to feel a bit nauseating.

ASSASSIN found himself shaking, which frustrated him more. Even with the arrow skimming off his body, his shoulder was bleeding profusely. A direct hit from that was certain death. Of all the Lair Servants- of all the people to fight- it had to be this one? Caster was easy, his head rolled cleanly off his shoulders. But that was after extensive fighting and wearing him down. Near perfect strategy- this was their ambush- they weren't supposed to be the ones in this situation.

He felt the strength of the T-Summon waning, which didn't do anything to calm his nerves.

ASSASSIN: "I'll be damned if I die here. Caster-- can you hear me, Caster--!"

No response. Was the signal being jammed? The code cast you were using to communicate was top of the line. They'd need to have an ally incredibly versed in magecraft or curses in order to effectively jam them in a situation like this.

This was only the first Lair Servant. This was supposed to be easy. An assassination- an ambush- and now ASSASSIN found himself on the back foot.

You could hear the sound of his footsteps as he walked around. His lack of urgency made the hopeless reality of the situation even more palpable. He spoke, with the same even, dry tone.

KARNA: "I promise to make your death swift... or perhaps that isn't a convincing reason to come out. Hm. It would be easier if you revealed yourself on your own. Trying to communicate isn't my forte."

SERVANT: SLAYING ASSASSIN

T-SUMMONED: [PHANTOM COUNTESS]

Strength: C

Endurance: D

Agility: A (Raised from B)

Mana: C (Raised from E)

Luck: D (Raised from E)

NP: B (Raised from C)

HP: 4/5

MP: 3/7

Maximum Damage (Strength): 7 (Increased due to the amount of blood present!) Maximum Damage (Mana): 7 (Increased due to the amount of blood present!)

#thgw story #thgw: chapter 4 #main post #recall fragment

[jacksintention]

I really can't stand Gil

#Thinking about him for some reason tonight/this morning/esta madrugada #And like I can't stand him. It never changes lol #Someone else besides my cousin's girlfriend is now also reading PH because I asked #and between one and the other I'm falling again in the realisation of how much I can't stand him haha #I went into PH for the first time and saw him and thought 'oh he's neat. really pretty' #and just a few chapters later I couldn't stand the sight of him haha #Shittiest character ever. And I do love shitty characters often but the way Gil is in particular irks me a lot for some reason #I guess it's in part the narration and how hypocrital it is at times when it comes to him #Which would make sense with the ending if it weren't for the fact that I don't think it feels narrated by Gil at all until that very moment #Or not that I recall. I could reread to check again #Anyway... He is the favourite character of my cousin's girlfriend for now because 'he's very pretty and he is so kind and nice' omg #My attempts at keeping my dislike at bay were unsuccessful I think #One of the guidebooks actually brings up the topic about how shitty he is (I'm letting her borrow those too #so I'll wait and see what she thinks about it) which as I told Leigh was very validating #because this may be one of my most unpopular opinions of the manga? xD #On the other hand he was compared in that very fragment to Liam‚ who I also think was quite a shitty person despite how he is constructed #or at least perceived by the other characters as perhaps one of the best persons in the manga #Anyway yeah... Rereading these few first chapters because of being asked a question about them sent me into a Gil spiral tonight lol #Funny how it works like irl to some extent. I can't even perceive him as beautiful anymore‚ or not as I did at the very beginning #Despite how much the art improved #Although I think it's also his gestures #I talk too much #I should probably delete this later #Anyway #Vincent prettiest brother among the two #Despite not being really my thing at all either #I mean #He's blond

[dwellerinroots]

Moon Tree, Joakim Back, misanthropia.net (defunct)

#joakim back #other's photography #misanthropia.net #so! fun story time! i was a hell of an edgy little sprout (the 'writes dark gothicc poetry' edgy not the other kind) #and used to listen to dark and gloomy mus - I still do? well anyway! #there was a site that had wallpapers AND music called misanthropia.net #I cannot recall how I found it but it's gone - smashed to atoms. #I still have all the wallpapers I think - and most of the old music. #now - you have a fragment of them as well. #in a way - isn't that something..? #the title is actually moon_tree according to my saved file but #I'm turning that underscore into a space for readability reasons..! #Joakim - if you're still out there and by some chance see this post on a tumblr and want it gone - let me know..! #we never talked once but your photo edits (and more often the photos themselves) helped an angsty sprout out..!

[c0rpseductor]

i get really upset and crushed that i've lost so much of my life to amnesia but at the same time ohhh god i don't know how i could possibly handle some of the horrible horrible shit i must have forgotten

#it's a situation where i have just enough memory to have an idea of what happened in the long term #and that is something i do NOT want to remember all of #like the general knowledge is very crushing. the few specific fragmented memories i have are already too much to handle #idk how i would be able to function if i was able to freely and normally recall everything

[skalidris]

sometimes i forget what my interests are in the middle of doing other stuff only to get nearly nauseous with excitement when they come up

#warships today. frequently stones. often? jewellery #ive been recalling the period of my life where i basically only communicated in poetry fragments recently #i really actually like myself. it's just that the world i exist in doesn't match me well. whatevr

[shatterthefragments]

I SWEAR TO FUCK IF HE DOESNT FUCKING RESPOND THOUGH

#this is time sensitive as the first question I had is if I wake up too sick to come in can I do the quiz from home? #school #I don’t know how long I can do this #with my parents I feel so alone #and I wouldn’t be any better alone but I’d also be in a lot of debt #like for the next week if you are not helping me you are hindering me #and my usual coping of Whatever Gets You Through It is a bit expensive for the fun things I have coming up… #shattered fragments #AND I KNOW SOME OF THIS IS MY OWN FUCKING FAULT #AND I HABW TRIED SO HARD TO PREVENT THIS #but sometimes shit happens #parents get sick you have to take over everything you get NO FMLA unless someone dies and you have a few mental health crises #that I’m STILL hesitant to call crises #there’s only been one time where I was 🤏 this close to checking myself into the hospital but I didn’t bc of what I’ve heard of MH stays here #instead I attended the conference I was supposed to (the timing was perfect. I’d skip and have my 72 hours and none of my family would know) #and I got to spend time with one of my most beloved friends #I don’t run (also makes me suicidal) and it would’ve been nice to have been able to support and join my friend when she needed to run home #for something imperative #but I was also too young to drive the rental car despite having a full license #and if I recall correctly we were drinking #I think this is the night I joined the men for whiskey (neat) #(I didn’t like it) #why can we not just learn things without the pressure of deadlines 😩 #the joy of learning vs the horrifying reality of being alive #still awaiting for craft trades apprenticeships that I can afford to take to open up (preferably in my area) #(but how long can my body hold up to do that?)