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polythremed · 3 years

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wheres the essay op i want whitsun bugs

there might not have been an essay before, but there is now! bugs and inverts are hugely overlooked. however, the victorians loved insects! they were huge inspirations in art, shells were used in fashion, so what would be more vogue than a giant bug for a pet?

(Punch, September 29, 1877)

the bulk of this talk will be under the cut but tl;dr is that arachnids still offer a lot of potential, beetles and moths live in the neath and were popular at the time, and there are a lot of lesser-known bugs that fit fallen london

also cw for bug images because there’s a lot of them beyond here, this is for people with good taste only

firstly: arachnids

FL has a lot of arachnids and this year’s whitsun saw the introduction of a squirrel with a scorpion tail! i think it’s a fun design personally, but arachnid companions are Not obsolete. the most relevant arachnids are crabs, and crabs are more varied than you might think!

(image by abc.net.au)

the yeti crab was the first crab to come to mind, related to hermit crabs and living in hydrothermal vents in the deep ocean. it means we’ve got another underground beast, and could you imagine this as a spired crab? it could be the product of shapeling arts, and the yeti crab’s famously hairy arms have the potential to be used as arm warmers or 1890s uggs for the discerning londoner!

there’s also the japanese giant spider crab, which might be more lanky than it’s neathy angler crab cousins, but look at those legs! how big do you think it is? how about taller than the average person?

you have to understand how badly i want to be this man they also inhabit vents near the bottom of the ocean (the crabs, not this man), they’re omnivores and one specimen’s measured in at 3.8 metres (12ft) across its outstretched legs! it’d probably be a dreaded companion by the sheer size of it, but imagine the walking sticks you could get from those legs

arrowhead crabs and horseshoe crabs are also runners up for this!

mites also came to mind, being small arachnids- the mite above is an adult female tea mite, and not much is known about mites! they’re primitive but have a terrible reputation, and FBG have shone the spotlight on other unloved creatures in the past. there’s also Caveat Emptor which tells us that the bazaar has parasites which are probably like mites? you could have your own romance vampire, surely nothing could go wrong

and if you’ve come here for spiders, how about the pelican spider? with a pelican-like head, pelican spiders prey exclusively on other spiders! isn’t that a fun way to counter sorrow spider infestations? introducing new species is a good thing, right?

higher tiers of this companion could start to own the whole pelican thing. i’ve seen monster designs of spiders with human heads but never a spider with a pelican head!

(image by me)

all he needs is some love and spiders

close arachnid contenders that i want to mention before this whole post is made up of eight-legged companions: camel spiders, harvestmen, and whip scorpions!

secondly: beetles

as john b. s. haldane once said, “god has an inordinate fondness for beetles”. and he’s right because there are more known species of beetle than types of mammal

in fact, the victorians fucking loved beetles (and butterflies but we’ll get to that)

we have phosphorescent scarabs as luminosity items and a few mentions of beetles in airs texts and in sunless sea, the latter where a beetle has been eating through your ship’s supplies. being from england, i have a vague idea of what sort of beetles would end up in london!

there are still stag beetles, rove beetles, and even cardinal beetles, but these by themselves might feel pretty basic. they’d be good t1 companions, but why not have a companion that’s a whole insect keeping setup? there’s even some colourful beauties like the scarlet malachite beetle which are now incredibly endangered

but if you want something Huge and Large and easily convertible into a fashion accessory, hercules beetles have a lot of potential! horns that can be used for knives in dockside brawls, or you could take most of the bug features and place them on a furry animal like a guinea pig since seas already gave us the guinea page

these beetles could also add diversity for the phosphorescent scarabs- and speaking of phosphorescent beetles, why not look to fireflies? they aren’t fire and nor are they flies, but to carry on with FBG’s habit of “slapping animals together to see what happens”, you could easily make something with the features of a firefly larvae

or you could take the even more interesting approach of having a grub the size of a cat, for example. hercules beetles have some of the largest larvae and the feast of the rose gave us maggots, so why not have one of these babies but the size of a cat? and glowing? they’re a possible light source that might make you more bizarre or respectable

a close runner up that i wanted to mention was diving beetles and how freaky they can get if they’ve adapted to the zee but the sabretooth longhorn beetle is going to close this segment as an embodiment of a dangerous and respectable companion- it already looks like it’s been carved out of wood! i think a carved polythreme beetle would be incredible

(see also: bombardier beetles, weevils, oil beetles, tiger beetles, harlequin beetles, trilobite beetles, and giraffe weevils!)

moths, and less commonly found underground, butterflies

another love of the victorians: butterflies!

butterflies are basically moths by a different name (there are way more moths than butterflies) and we do have canon dreams where a frostmoth the size of your head appears in your window, and wouldn’t that be useful for hunting in parabola? much like the beetles, there’s a lot of diversity that can be explored especially if we add shapeling arts

white plume moths are also found in the UK and just look at those wings

we can have a usual approach of adding the wings to something else, like a particularly unlucky bat, or just have something bizarre with the moth itself! more eyes? more eyes has been a common theme lately, or you can combine an insect with an arachnid and give it whip scorpion hands

these wings would be one hell of a decoration because white plume moths are considered to be micromoths

on the other end of the spectrum and taking the role of a respectable companion, the white witch moth is considered to be one of the largest insects on earth because of its wingspan! maybe they’re a more risky cousin of the frostmoth, maybe you could turn the markings on these wings into shifting sigils? don’t set your moths on fire

(image by Acrocynus)

white witch moths themselves have a lot of diversity while cup moths are another contender for an animal you could combine with another animal

(image by itchydogimages)

why not add the tail of a squirrel to this one? or a scorpion’s tail? a lion? with enough of these, you could end up with a very striking tawny coat. this thing is the embodiment of being neathproofed. even if they’re opposites of frostmoths and are associated with embers because of it, or if the tail is closer to being a candle!

moths are also good at mimicking in order to defend themselves, which is why you see so many moths and butterflies with eye patterns on their wings. birds hate eyes so much so there’s room for some real eyes on your brand new butterfly or moth companion

but some moths also mimic snakes, so for any fingerking fans out there: behold the atlas moth

this is such a mithridacy companion. can you imagine the t3 version of this where the snake heads are alive? we have a two-headed terror bird, so why not snakes on a moth? there’s even jokes to be made about one head telling truths and another telling lies, maybe the only head that could tell you the difference is the moths!

for butterflies themselves, we have butterflies that drink the tears of alligators and tortoises- so melancholy butterflies that only appear to feed on lacre? (and they might not be butterflies down here, you might’ve already mistaken a day-flying moth for a butterfly, not that the difference matters for much in the neath)

another strong mention is vampire moths if we’re carrying on the theme of insects drinking odd things, but a vampire moth with bat wings could be wonderful at ruining the lives of taxonomists

luna moths are also massive and could be more fitting now that we know who the creditor is, and that whitsun is talking so much about the bazaar and the masters

other lesser-known but interesting insects

we don’t entirely need to cover bees and wasps but it would be nice to have a piece of media showing wasps in a way that doesn’t present them as evil, but wasps could wait until hell is really significant again since wasps and bees are incredibly cool cousins. and thread waisted wasps!

(image by Bev Wigney)

get a load of that! these don’t even have the ability to sting humans, what would a thread waisted wasp-themed spindlewolf look like? how much shadowy with something with these colours give you? imagine the corsets inspired by these things

assassin bugs are another dangerous option considering how good they are at hunting other insects, and the neath wouldn’t be complete without more creatures that burrow underground and can find themselves in this weird cavern

(image by Fir0002)

their forearms are specifically developed to dig! perhaps they can dig through a rival’s belongings, or perhaps you can fashion their claws into brass knuckles or a belt buckle?

(image by faraaz abdool)

another fashionable, lesser-known invert is the velvet worm! we have plenty of slugs in fallen london, but you know what they’re lacking? legs

about 200 species of velvet worms have been described and they’re already quite rare! they all fall under the onychophora name and there isn’t anything else like them. you could easily have some persuasive with this, or if you turn it into a stole that can hold however many hands you want!

(image by docj96)

also, thrips! i found out about these today and apparently you’re likely to hear about them if you’re into gardening. sometimes they have crab claws for forelegs, so hey- more bazaar similarities! they have an interesting method of flight (clapping their wings together) but this might not bee too impactful unless you want a novel way to raise your investigating

flies are also criminally underrated, but i couldn’t tell you how many flies live in fallen london. stalk-eyed flies, however, are gorgeous things that would work so well as t2 companions! you could even go all out with a horsefly taking on attributes of an actual horse

(image by minden pictures)

the stalk eyed fly sees you five minutes before you can see it

there are genuinely so many more that come to mind (even neathy types of mantis- orchid mantids that have adapted to blend in with mushrooms! imagine!) but a good way to finish this off is with a love story

there are centipedes who will guard and hold their young close to them! giant centipedes are protective mothers and you can get hundreds of companions in one- or perhaps just one companion who really misses her hundreds of kids. and they hold their eggs just as carefully whilst waiting for them to hatch!

isn’t that a good love story? there’s a lot you can combine this with, but i’ve spent most of today writing this one! do with these creatures what you will, i definitely enjoyed talking about neathy possibilities for insects!

(bogleech also has a fantastic article on insects that should be used as the basis for pokemon designs, if you want even more out there bugs be sure to look here)

#memento of a post #asks #snippity #whitsun #insects #fallen london #bugs #spiders #im not tagging all of these but ohh my god this was so fun to write about #thank you for the ask!

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uncannycyke · 3 years

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I did not realize that the Savage Land was an international ecological protectorate but apparently it was established in the pages of Squirrel Girl. And there's a bunch of treaties about not exploiting Antartica, which I guess the Savage Land would fall under?

x-men books dont gaf about other books’ canon rn i wouldnt think too hard on it. selene should be in the pit with sabretooth rn if they did care

#Anonymous

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spectralarchers · 4 years

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Who/how many characters will be in your fancast challenge? :D

So far, I’ve got 111 characters picked with actors and actresses, and at the rate of 1 per day (every day at 10 pm!), that gives me content until January, lol.

Here’s the list of characters I’ve fancast so far:

Reed Richards, Victor von Doom, Maya Lopez, Aaron Davis, Namor the Submariner, Amadeus Cho, Cyclops, Sue Storm, Noh-Varr, Madame Masque, Count Nefaria, Genis-Well, Hyperion, Angel, Teddy Altman, Phobos, Kate Bishop, Jessica Drew, Squirrel Girl, Miles Morales, Moonstone, Billy Kaplan, Tommy Shepherd, Prodigy, Princess Python, Barney Barton, Jacques DuQuesne, Buck Chisholm, Maynard Tiboldt, The Clown, Norman Osborn, Johnny Storm, Electro, Sentry, Tigra, Jubilee, Wolverine, Professor X, Magneto, Adam Warlock, Attuma, Manifold, Moon Knight, Beast, Nightcrawler, Ares, Balder, Annihilus, Silver Surfer, Havok, Azazel, Doctor Octopus, Dracula, Sin, Galactus, Mephisto, Beyonder, America Chavez, Hazmat, Black Bolt, Storm, Rogue, Iceman, Kitty Pryde, Blink, Hannibal King, Curtis Connor, Black Cat, Psylocke, Gambit, Emma Frost, Molecule Man, Lionheart, Mystique, Jean Grey, MODOK, White Tiger, Lady Dorma, Beta Ray Bill, Colossus, Cypher, Titania, X-23, Sabretooth, Red Wolf, Tiger Shark, Monica Chang, Gauntlet, Pyro, The Hood, Chaos King, Medusa, Man-Thing, Hercules, Rick Jones, Komodo, Danielle Moonstar, Namora, Sauron, Sandman, Kraven, Stryfe, Hope Summers, Vulcan, White Wolf, Abigail Brand, Harry Osborn, Jefferson Davis, Rio Morales, Amelia Chavez, Elena Chavez.

I’ve only genderbent one character because I knew exactly who I wanted to play them and for that to happen, I had to change their gender, but otherwise, I’m excited to show off who I’ve picked for most of these roles.

So I hope you guys are excited, because I am!

#christine's fancasts #i mean some of them you already know like barney and buck and stuff #but yeah #it's gonna be fun!#Anonymous

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multiverseforger · 3 years

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Kraven's real name is Sergei Kravinoff (Сергей Кравинов). He is a Soviet immigrant, the son of an aristocrat who fled to the United States with his family in 1917 after the Russian nobility was decimated by the February Revolution and subsequent collapse of the reign of Tsar Nicholas II.

Kraven is a maniacal big game hunter who seeks to defeat Spider-Man to prove that he is the greatest hunter in the world.[4] Unlike other hunters, he typically disdains the use of guns or bow and arrows, preferring to take down large dangerous animals with his bare hands. He also lives by a code of honor of sorts, choosing to hunt his game fairly.[5] He consumes a mystical serum to give himself enhanced strength and dramatically slow the aging process. Kraven was trained as a hunter largely by a mysterious man named Gregor, a mercenary who once battled Ka-Zar.[6] Kraven was, at one point, the lover of the voodoo priestess Calypso.[7]

He is contacted by his half-brother the Chameleon to defeat Spider-Man. He leads Spider-Man to Central Park with the help of the Chameleon, who disguises himself as Kraven to use himself as a decoy while the real Kraven ambushes the hero. However, despite Kraven having weakened Spider-Man with a poisonous dart, Spider-Man prevails in the end. Spider-Man proves a frustrating quarry because Kraven continually underestimates the superhero's resourcefulness.[8]

Kraven becomes a founding member of the Sinister Six when he accepts Doctor Octopus's offer to form a team to fight Spider-Man where they capture Aunt May and Betty Brant. He attacks Spider-Man in Central Park with three tigers. Spider-Man easily fights off the attackers and secures the next clue to where Aunt May and Betty Brant are being held. After Aunt May and Betty Brant are rescued, Kraven the Hunter and the rest of the Sinister Six are arrested by the police.[9]

While in the Savage Land, Kraven the Hunter found Gog in a spaceship that he stumbles upon. Realizing how useful Gog can be, Kraven the Hunter decides to use him in a plot to conquer the Savage Land. After kidnapping the visiting Gwen Stacy from a camp in the Savage Land, Kraven and Gog battle the heroes Ka-Zar and Spider-Man.[10] While Ka-Zar deals with Kraven, Spider-Man defeats Gog by luring him into a patch of quicksand, which he sinks to the bottom of.[11]

Determined to end his life as he becomes older, frustrated with his failing health and continuing failure to defeat Spider-Man, Kraven sets out a final hunt for Spider-Man. After capturing Spider-Man, he shoots him with a coma-inducing drug and buries him alive on his estate.[12] To complete his victory, he attempts to become Spider-Man's clear superior by impersonating him in a brutal vigilante campaign and capturing Vermin, the one foe Spider-Man had never been able to defeat on his own (Spider-Man's last battle with Vermin required Captain America's assistance).[13]

After Spider-Man emerges from his grave two weeks later, Kraven explains his actions to him and sets Vermin free, reaffirming to Kraven that his foe is an honorable man. Spider-Man goes after Vermin to prevent his killing again, giving Kraven the opportunity to leave a final confession of his crimes against Spider-Man and then commit suicide.[14] Because of his suicide, his soul is unable to find rest until Spider-Man confronts his risen corpse on Kraven's behalf.[15]

Kraven is resurrected from the dead by Sasha Kravinoff and the Kravinoff family with a ritual using the blood of Spider-Man.[16] He is shown to now be explosively psychopathic and cold towards his family, beating his son Vladimir and daughter Ana and expressing little attention towards his wife. After being stabbed by his daughter Ana, Sergei recovers, stating that Sasha restored him with corrupted blood which he calls "unlife". They pull off the mask of the corpse of Spider-Man hung in their mantel and discover that Kaine is in Spider-Man's costume.[17] Spider-Man, in his black costume, confronts Kraven and the rest of the Kravinoff Family. Spider-Man is tempted to kill Kraven, but he refuses to do so when he is reminded by Julia Carpenter (who has inherited the powers of Madame Web after her death) that committing murder is not in his moral code. Following their defeat by Spider-Man, Kraven and his family escape to the Savage Land. While there, Kraven brutally kills Sasha (who complained that Kraven would have to hunt them to prove their place in the Kravinoff family) and euthanizes Vladimir. Alyosha flees in disgust of what his dad did to his stepmom and half-brother afterwards. Kraven and Ana discuss rebuilding the Kravinoff family, which leads to Ana running off to hunt Alyosha to prove herself worthy to Kraven and rebuild the Kravinoff family.[18]

It was later revealed that back in the 1950s, Kraven the Hunter was a member of Nick Fury's Avengers alongside Dominic Fortune I, Dum Dum Dugan, Namora, Silver Sable, Sabretooth, and Ulysses Bloodstone, tracking a stolen version of the Super-Soldier Serum combined with the Infinity Formula that had been stolen by a group of Nazis attempting to create their own Captain America.[19]

While he is in the Savage Land, Agent Venom lands in the area on an unrelated mission from the federal government. Mistaking him to be Spider-Man, Kraven attacks him and gains the upper hand before Venom escapes.[20]

At one point, Kraven is contacted by a doctor who once treated him when a past hunt went wrong, the doctor requesting that Kraven track down a recent patient of hers - who had been used as a test subject to duplicate another man's electrical abilities — as well as asking that he capture the Black Panther — currently acting as a 'local' vigilante to regain his sense of self after the destruction of Wakanda's vibranium - in return for her help finding a way for him to die. With the aid of Storm, T'Challa is able to stay ahead of Kraven long enough to convince him that the doctor had lied about being able to kill him, Kraven agreeing to leave T'Challa alone and take the doctor's mutated animal subjects back with him into the wild.[21]

When their identities became fractured after a temporary separation, the Hulk discovers that Bruce Banner had hired Kraven to find the lost city of the Sasquatches. Although the Hulk was uninterested with helping the Sasquatches deal with Kraven, he changes his mind and beats up Kraven.[22]

Kaine, in the alias of the Scarlet Spider, later encountered Kraven the Hunter, who was dressed as the Scarlet Spider in order to torment him.[23] With the help of Ana, Kraven kidnapped Kaine's friends in order to motivate the Scarlet Spider to fight him. In the end, Kaine delivered Kraven a fatal blow in the chest, which paralyzed his heart. But using the same attack, Kaine brought him back to life supposedly still breaking the curse. Following the fight, both Kravens disappeared.[24]

Kraven, still claiming to be cursed, next battles Squirrel Girl at Empire State University, having earned her ire by lashing out at the local squirrels, including Tippy-Toe. Kraven departs when Squirrel Girl informs him of the existence of sea monsters like Giganto and challenges him to hunt them, instead of limiting himself to going after the same prey he did prior to his resurrection.[25] He later returns to abduct Howard the Duck,[26] but gets trapped with Howard and Squirrel Girl in a manhunt as the hunted. After surviving, he vows to only "hunt the hunters".[27]

During the "Avengers: Standoff!" storyline, Kraven the Hunter was an inmate of Pleasant Hill, a gated community established by S.H.I.E.L.D. who used Kobik's abilities to turn Kraven the Hunter into a zookeeper. He rallied some of his fellow inmates to help him find Kobik and bring her to Baron Helmut Zemo.[28]

During the "Opening Salvo" part of the "Secret Empire" storyline, Kraven the Hunter is recruited by Baron Helmut Zemo to join the Army of Evil.[29] At the time when Manhattan was surrounded by a Darkforce Dome, Kraven the Hunter raided the Daily Bugle in order to find information to the identity of Spider-Man. Knowing that J. Jonah Jameson would be in danger, Phil Sheldon's daughter Jennie headed to J. Jonah Jameson's house to warn him. After Kraven the Hunter attacked J. Jonah Jameson, Jennie Sheldon fired a signal flare into the sky. This attracted the attention of Spider-Woman, who defeated Kraven the Hunter. Jennie Sheldon even took pictures of the fight.[30]

At the time when Venom encountered some Dinosaur People in the sewers, Kraven the Hunter followed Venom and killed an Ankylosaurus-type Dinosaur Person before engaging Venom in battle. He was fended off by Venom, who vowed to fight Kraven again.[31] Upon the news of Dinosaur People being found beneath the streets of New York City, Mayor Wilson Fisk and NYPD Commissioner Chris Rafferty appointed Kraven the Hunter to lead a SWAT Team into the sewers and eliminate them. When Venom deactivated each trap and confronted Kraven, Venom was caught off-guard when Kraven the Hunter revealed his secret ally Shriek, who used her attacks on Venom and then collapsed the ceiling over him. Shriek then tells Kraven the Hunter that she can have Eddie Brock's head after the mission is done.[32] As the Dinosaur People feed on the rats that enter their lair, Kraven the Hunter sneaks up on some Dinosaur People and kills them. Venom catches up to Kraven the Hunter and fights him and Shriek. With help from Tana, Venom stated that the Dinosaur People were not killing anybody and that they are only surviving underground. Kraven the Hunter and Shriek are arrested by the NYPD, as the captain stated that he never liked Kraven the Hunter anyway.[33]

Kraven the Hunter was hired by the evil organization Rampart to lure Captain America to them. After a brief struggle with Kraven the Hunter, Captain America was frozen in ice by Rampart's freeze cannon.[34]

Squirrel Girl has helped Kraven reform, teaming up with him to fight other villains, even establishing a friendship with him. She helps Kraven realize that Spider-Man is not even close to being the most dangerous prey in the Marvel Universe.[35]

In a prelude to "Hunted", Kraven the Hunter reminisces about how Sasha, Vladimir, and Alyosha were killed by him and Ana for not living up to his legacy. After cutting a deal with the High Evolutionary, Kraven the Hunter has 87 clones of him created, trained as the Sons of Kraven, and sent out to prove themselves by being hunted by each other. This motif caused Ana to leave him. The one that hunted and killed the other Sons of Kraven was labeled as the Last Son of Kraven. With help from the Taskmaster, the Black Ant, and Arcade, Kraven the Hunter starts hunting various animal-themed characters, like the Beetle, the Kangaroo, the Owl, the Puma, the Serpent Society, the Squid, and the White Rabbit. In the case of the King Cobra, the Rhino, the Scorpion, Stegron the Dinosaur Man, the Tarantula, and the Vulture, they were grouped together as the Savage Six.[36] While making the final preparations for the "Great Hunt," Kraven the Hunter recaps on his own immortality when it was revealed that the Kraven the Hunter that was stabbed by the Scarlet Spider was actually a clone. Kraven the Hunter sends the Last Son of Kraven to capture Spider-Man for the Great Hunt.[37] After a Hunter-Bot created by Arcade Industries is demonstrated on the Iguana, Kraven the Hunter and Arcade begin the Great Hunt, where Central Park is surrounded by a dome that is from the same technology as the Planetary Defense System.[38] It is revealed that the moment the individual connects to the Hunter-Bot and if it is destroyed, then the individual is killed, which is what happens when the Vulture destroys Bob's Hunter-Bot. Kraven the Hunter plans this from the beginning to punish the hunters for killing animals for sport.[39] Kraven the Hunter has Arcade tell the Vulture that there is a chance to break the force field by killing more Hunter-Bots.[40] During a fight between the Hunter-Bots and the animal-themed characters, Kraven the Hunter's secret motive is to force Spider-Man into killing him again so that he can be free from his dreadful curse. He does this by trapping Curt Connors when he tries to rescue his son, Billy. Spider-Man was forced to "kill" Curt by tearing out the implant chip that prevented Curt hurting humans as the Lizard, despite the risk that taking out the chip would kill Curt.[41] After Spider-Man found the dead bodies of the guards that were killed when the Lizard escaped, he was confronted by Kraven the Hunter. During their fight, Spider-Man figured out that Kraven the Hunter was the one who killed the guards to frame the Lizard, as the wounds are too precise for the Lizard's feral claws. In order to guilt Spider-Man into becoming a hunter, Kraven the Hunter attempts to force Spider-Man to watch the Lizard save Billy and the Black Cat from the Last Son of Kraven, but Spider-Man rejects the idea that this can only be accomplished through violence. Upon realizing that he was the beast that he was wanting to kill all along, Kraven the Hunter released all the surviving animal-themed characters and sends Spider-Man to protect Mary Jane. Kraven the Hunter then dons a copy of Spider-Man's black costume to act like him once more. When the Last Son of Kraven was conned into strangling Kraven the Hunter to death, he soon realized that he was fooled when he sees Spider-Man swinging away.[42] His funeral is later attended by the Last Son of Kraven. The Chameleon is revealed to be one of the attendees, as he is pleased that Kraven the Hunter spared him from the Great Hunt. As he walks away, the Chameleon quotes to his dead half-brother to sleep well and states "You needn't worry. The world is no longer your burden. Besides, there won't be much of it left soon...not by the time I've finished"

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ruleandkillrp · 4 years

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PLOT DROP 5: Dawn of the Ice Age

Evening on day ten dawns cooler than its predecessors, a relief to the remaining tributes in the Arena. The first few hours are pleasant, a well earned respite for the tributes to the South. However, the temperatures continue to drop past comfortable ranges and into dangerous lows. By morning, it’s a full thirty degrees less than the evening prior. One final time, the Arena tremors, and tributes are rocked and shaken as the landmasses collide back together, the oceans drain back as oceanic fissures erupt on the equatorial outskirts of the Arena, and fresh land bridges are revealed as ice crystallizes at each pole.

By 10:00 AM, there is an icy, gray fog hanging in the air. Sectors One, Two, Three, Seven, Eight, and Nine, are no longer habitable- any remaining tributes who try to stick it out will die of hypothermia in a matter of hours. The tributes at the edges of Sectors Four and Six see it first- churning, orange and hot lava, steaming in the chilled air, all parts of the Arena- ocean, land, tree, animal, dropping off into its oblivion. It eats away at the Arena, unrelenting, closing in on the center.

Tributes are forced toward the land bridges and back toward the Cornucopia to take their final stand. As they approach the safety of the center, unwitting tributes may cross the likes of angry sabretooth tigers hungry for tribute blood, starving repenomamus packs, or stampeding mammoths, all hungry, angry, competing to escape the tundras and the magma. Neither the mammoths nor the sabretooths have been seen before, they seem to have appeared with the temperature shift. Small squirrels scurry across the new tundra with nuts to store and hibernate away the impending long, cruel winter. Only Sector Five is safe, where the Gamemakers leave it between the starving predators, unforgiving land, and finally, the lasting tributes themselves in an epic recreation of the dawn of man, and our Victor, the living testament to humanity’s resilient spirit.

#plot drop #122 #ruleandupdate

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rpdrafts · 4 years

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Canons & Families

List of canon characters and their children

If you don’t see a character you would like to apply for on this list, just go ahead and shoot us an ask!

BOLD - being played

STRIKE THROUGH - unavaliable to be played

ITALICIZED - has a child (children listed)

ABOMINATION (Emil Blonsky)

ALINA ENSTROM

AMANDA WALLER

ANT-MAN (Scott Lang)

Cassandra Lang (daughter)

Additional siblings/children wanted

AQUAMAN (Arthur Curry)

ATOM (Dr. Ray Palmer)

BANE

BATGIRL (Barbara Gordon)

BATMAN (Bruce Wayne)

Evangeline Wayne Prince (daughter)

Half siblings wanted

BEAST (Hank P. McCoy)

BEAST BOY (Garfield Logan)

BIG BARDA

Children not wanted

BLACK BOLT (Blackagar Boltagon)

BLACK CANARY (Dinah Lance)

Delilah Queen (daughter)

Additional children/siblings not wanted

BLACK CAT (Felicia Hardy)

BLACK LIGHTING (Jefferson Pierce)

BLACK PANTHER (T'Challa)

Children wanted

BLACK WIDOW (Natasha Romanoff)

BOOSTER GOLD (Michael Jon Carter)

BRAINIAC (Vril Dox)

BUMBLEBEE (Karen Beecher-Duncan)

CARIN TAYLOR

CAPTAIN AMERICA (Steven Rogers)

CAPTAIN BOOMERANG (George “Digger” Harkness)

CAPTAIN COLD (Leonard Snart)

CAPTAIN MARVEL (Carol Danvers)

Arabella Danvers (Daughter)

Bauer Danvers (Son)

Additional children/siblings not wanted

CARNAGE (Cletus Kasady)

CATWOMAN (Selina Kyle)

CLOAK (Tandy Johnson)

COLOSSUS (Piotr Nikolaievitch Rasputin)

CROSSBONES (Brock Rumlow)

CYBORG (Victor Stone)

CYCLOPS (Scott Summers)

DAGGER (Tyrone Bowen)

DAREDEVIL (Matthew Michael Murdock)

DARKSEID (Uxas)

DANIELLE BAPTISTE

DEADPOOL (Wade Wilson)

DEADSHOT (Floyd Lawton)

DEATHSTROKE (Slade Wilson)

DOCTOR DOOM (Victor von Doom)

DOCTOR LIGHT (Dr. Kimiyo Hoshi)

DOCTOR OCTOPUS (Otto Octavius)

DOCTOR STRANGE (Doctor Stephen Strange)

DOMINO (Neena Thurman)

DOMINIQUE THIEBAUT

DORMAMMU

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cykelops · 5 years

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silly, unfinished Feral!Logan fic from his perspective. have.

The air smells rancid. Cold-blooded grey-skinned creatures move inside their wood structures--their homes-- their only protection against the beast roaming the streets. They are perfumed like rotting fruit. Beneath the sweet smell of death and decay there's a viler stench. It coats his tongue and gags him. He, who would gladly feed on carcasses in the absence of fresh meat, cannot entertain the notion of hunting these slimy things. They're clearly easy prey. The bumpy stone paths entangling their dens are caked with dry blood. In the spectrum of things, he would put them somewhere between kits and veal. Yet Wolverine would sooner die than eat from them. Their blood is an unnatural shade and their flesh holds pestilence and madness. He's seen what it does to the Sabretooths from the mountain.

Strange, unfamiliar territory disorients him. The smells are all wrong, the inhabitants are all wrong, and no matter what direction the wind blows in he cannot catch a whiff of his home for miles around. He doesn't know how he got here. The last thing he remembers is falling into cold water and coming out the bottom by cracking through his reflection. High in the mountain, before he escaped, there were creatures like these-- and like him. The Sabretooths. They would rip into the grey ones' dens and drag them into the stone paths-- hunting for sport, not necessity, and rarely picking their bones clean. Those beasts were not concerned with the circle of life, they just wanted to hurt. Nature doesn't know cruelty, it cannot account for their madness. This place is not natural.

His instincts tell him to roam, mark his territory, and eat. His gluttony cannot be undercut for long, but these creatures are more than sickly--they are low hanging fruit, worse than carrion. Wolverine turns from their dens in disgust. They can offer him no chase, and he cannot honor what would surely be their sniveling deaths. There are animals even in these unnatural woods that will give him what he requires so long as he's strong enough to take it. It's spring, there are meadows in full bloom, and thorns that scratch him as he crawls through the underbrush. The woods smell of squirrels, foxes, deer, and goats--nothing close to the synthesized food on a trough he gladly left behind. There's a taste to the desire to survive. He craves it.

He ditches the yellow-brown cloth obstructing his movements as he passes a river. A small, niggling fraction of him manages to convince the hunter at the forefront of his mind to only part with the upper half of the cumbersome restraints. Wolverine agrees. The hindrance is a challenge he can conquer and it's best to give his enemies less to trail him with. The beasts from the mountain see him as a threat. It's only a matter of time before they get bored of drinking purple blood and seek him out again.

Even after he's walked long enough to be clear of the artificial lights and screeching machinery, Wolverine's hunt does not begin. He acquaints himself with the area first. The ground is wet with spring rain and tracks are in abundance. Here, a pack of deer moved east, past the hollow of a dead tree where squirrels have hid their young. There, foxes chased a rabbit back to its den, so they can dig, and dig, and feed, as all of nature's children must. Normal things that make anything out of place all the more obvious. Miles into the woods there should be nothing like him, and yet… Wolverine touches the ground where it's split into hundreds of diamonds. He sets his foot down beside it. The leather at the end of his clothed leg leaves a nearly identical pattern. The tracks are not his, but whatever made them belongs to him.

Wolverine hunts.

The trail jumps from mud to bark, from footprints to blood scraped on the side of a tree. The injury isn't serious, but it's enough to slow one down. Half the footprints are dragged through. Soon every tree is marked as a crutch by a telltale shoulder-height stain. Wolverine doesn't bother trying to cover his tracks or the mistakes of the one he shadows. A storm brews overhead. His predecessor counted on it washing this all away before he could be followed, but luck and skill are on the Wolverine's side.

His walk through the trees leads him to a clearing lined by a wooden barrier he crosses with ease. The Wolverine doesn't have use for words to describe what he sees beyond it. He knows it's a kind of structure to store human food and provide shelter for animals of their choosing. The main den has been burnt to the ground and overrun by vegetation, but the bright red building behind it stands in better condition. His trail of blood is fresher than whatever happened here and it leads him to that building that smells of wheat and, most importantly, his mate.

He walks into the barn triumphantly. He lacks offerings of food and drink, but his prowess should be sufficiently proven by his ability to track his mate down here. They are lost, but it's comforting to know they are lost together. He stands at the wide doors with darkness at his back and nothing but the distant crack of lightning to outline his silhouette.

The silence lingers. Something's wrong. He's owed a warmer welcome than the slow drip of rain seeping through the space between the boards overhead. He can smell his mate. He can hear his teeth grinding inside his mouth. The Wolverine knows he is heard and smelled in return.

He walks by each of the entrances branching into smaller chambers covered in piles of hay. He searches through them with one swift kick. His tongue licks impatiently over his teeth. If this is a game, he doesn't want to play it. By the third door he's had his fill of empty haystacks, and a low growl slips from his throat.

“Logan?”

The Wolverine turns his head sharply towards the sound. From one of the last, unchecked stacks of hay comes his mate, exactly who he expected to see. His left leg is heavier than his right, inmobile, and Wolverine can see blood on his chest and face.

“You know how it pains me to say this, but I am so glad to see you…”

Wolverine tolerates the nonsense noises coming from his mate’s mouth as he always does. It comforts them and soothes him, allows Wolverine to approach his mate without frightening him. She could not replicate the smell and taste of his blood but he still has to be sure. Wolverine crosses the space between them quickly, interrupts the nonsense with his hand on his mate’s jaw.

“What’s wrong, why aren’t you saying anythi--”

He tugs his mate down to a more agreeable height and flattens his tongue over his cheek. He tastes like stress-sweat and blood, but smells of vanilla. Sweet, heady vanilla. His mate. His Slim.

Slim pulls away until his back hits the wooden divider behind him. He looks confused and disoriented, and unlike Wolverine that look did not disappear once they saw each other. It seems to have aggravated it. The Wolverine’s brow tightens. Strip away all of Slim's complex layers of posturing and he smells frightened. Wolverine turns his head towards the main door. He can't be sure with the rain, but no one else has followed them thus far. Slim is under unnecessary stress. Now that Wolverine is here, nothing that came through that door could hurt him. Why should he be scared?

The Wolverine startles like a dog in cold water. Of course-- his injuries. He forgets that those must be frightening to everyone but him. Wolverine grabs his mate's arm and directs him to stand straight so he can slip an arm under his knees and lift him up.

He feels right in his arms. He's a bit lighter than Wolverine remembers and it puts him to shame. If he had been around sooner, he could have fed him. If he had been around sooner… Slim would not have been hurt. The Wolverine resists tightening his grip on his mate when his condition is so precarious. There will be time to hold him and never let go.

He sets Slim down on a pile of flattened hay that will have to do as substitute for a bed. Slim tries to sit up and Wolverine pushes him back flat. He goes down a lot harder than he intended, gasping and curling up reflexively. Wolverine stares at his hand in disgust. Perhaps that other part of him cannot be blamed for reigning in their strength. Slim's already been through so much pain and discomfort. Wolverine's nose wrinkles. The wounds are bite marks. There's saliva in them that's slowing his healing below the already feeble attempts of his body. He unsheathes his claws with the goal to cut away Slim's clothes, they're wet with blood and irritating his injuries.

"Logan?" Slim's mouth moves, breathless. The scent of fear thickens, and there are no distractions to stop Wolverine from making the connection that Slim is afraid of him.

Wolverine is not good, but he has tried to be. He visits his dens frequently, he cares for their kits, even travels together with them for a time before he sends them on their way. They don't need him for much longer. Slim is the least understanding of all his bondmates, but Wolverine cannot blame him for knowing his shortfalls. The only thing that matters is his arms have never been any less open than Ro's. Than Red's. Slim just takes a little bit of throat-baring on Wolverine's part.

He has never been afraid of him.

"What did he do to you? God, Logan. I thought you were dead. Sinister threw me into the Sabretooth pit but I saw you go down in water…" Slim covers his mouth with his hand. To muffle… whimpers? Certainly a sad sound. Wolverine pets his mate's hair firmly. It feels soft, if matted with sweat, and it's a relief that there's no blood on his scalp. No head injuries. Good, very good. He retracts his claws to communicate safety. Carefully, he lifts the tarnished cloth off the bites and looks up to Slim's face as if to say: See, that wasn't so bad.

Slim's face is uncertain, but the fear has abated. Whatever Wolverine did to hurt him, he can atone for.

"What are you--"

Wolverine cleans the wound on his arm first. He starts with the smaller scratches of claws and builds up to the deep gashes left behind by teeth. Those he needs to reopen. He tastes Sabretooth's putrid saliva in the tears left by his teeth, but he cannot allow it to remain in his mate or he will not heal before they become infected. Slim makes sounds that he can finally understand: guttural yowls that hurt Wolverine just as the graze of his tongue must hurt his mate. Slim's thin fingers clutch at his arm, but he doesn't stop Wolverine from doing his job. He always knows what's necessary, even in the throes of pain. This admirable, stubborn creature. Wolverine touches his nose to Slim with a consoling rumble so he has a moment of tenderness to hold on to, to help endure while Wolverine cleans his mangled chest.

"You--You're actually trying to help me… He said he was going to break you. Wear you down to your basest instincts, but you're still…"

Wolverine covers his mate's mouth with his hand and shakes Slim's head softly. He cannot continue to make those longer sounds before Wolverine is finished. They wrack his chest with a violence, aggrieve his breathing. When he's sure his mate understands, he lets go and smooths his hand over Slim's chest. Sabretooth bit him at the ribcage. His tooth touched bone. It's a wonder he didn't crack them. Wolverine does more than clinically clean through the damage, he stops to rub his mate's stomach, hold his cheek in his hand, anything to make those awful, pained sounds more bearable for them both.

The chest worried him the most, Wolverine can breathe easier when it's done, and so he can Slim.

"Your saliva might have healing properties… Or at least numbing ones. It barely stings anymore."

Wolverine accompanies those longer sounds a warning look that closes Slim's mouth. How efficient. He presses his ear to Slim's chest and prompts him to go on with a gesture that's not enough. Wolverine pokes the side of his lips.

"I don't know if you can understand me... but I trust you."

There's no pause in his heartbeat or hitch in his throat. It's safe again. Wolverine trills. Only the wound on his thigh is left, but it's a deep one. His tongue moves slickly over the blood and flesh that's been made smooth by friction. The Sabretooths did less damage here beyond the bitemark, so Wolverine can better taste Slim. No intruders. Just his mate. His tongue travels further from the wound that is strictly required. It's a reward of sorts, the Wolverine thinks, to taste the sharp peak of his mate's hipbone and nose the curly strands of hair left beneath his navel. Delicious. His mouth waters. There's the faint scent of arousal and a heat to his mate's chilled skin that wasn't there when he started. Under different circumstances he would not hesitate to resolve his mate's needs, but he's too fragile in this state, and Wolverine must admit he is not in full control of his own strength. Slim was afraid not too long ago, he's stressed still. If Wolverine were to contribute to that in any way it would kill him.

But they can play softer games, for a little while. Wolverine's yellow eyes seek out his mate's and he bares his teeth against his belly.

"I'm starting to think you've left concerned caretaker territory and entered hungry-snacky territory."

Wolverine blinks slowly at him. Three times. A sign of affection. He rubs his face against his mate's middle until his beard leaves behind little red streaks. Slim cuts himself short and breathes hard at the ceiling.

"Wolverine probably wants to eat me and I am struggling not to find that hot anyway. My therapist is going to love this one."

#writings

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