#so they often cause damage just for fun. that's what guardians are for

[nashdoesstuff]

OKAY HI IM RANTING ABOUT MY SHATTERED!DREAM VARIANT BECAUSE I REALLY REALLY LOVE THEM

meet vou! they’re a shattered!dream au which ate their brother’s apple for the good of the multiverse and became the guardian of negativity and positivity.

i made them originally for roleplay purposes, but i think i’ve grown them as a character to the point where i think i can openly speak about them :]

their story starts when dream broke out of stone after their apple incident. they met ink, and the two eventually became friends. they made a few acquaintances and met various friends and foes, but the one that stood out to them was their brother, nightmare. this didn’t seem like the nightmare they knew at one point in time, and they were extremely concerned about how careless he was about their original duties. dream tried and tried to help him work with them to perform the tasks of the negativity guardian, but when the attempts proved to no avail, they ultimately decided to take matters into their own hands.

they snuck into their brother’s castle grounds, where he had been making a farm of new black apples for reasons dream could only guess. after a few guesses as to how they were supposed to take it without turning the apples golden, they strategically picked one and ate it.

the change didn’t come easy to them. they did struggle, but in the end their positive energy leveled the negative energy, causing their SOUL to have a neutral state when at rest. their friend ink was puzzled by the change, but ultimately went with what dream thought was best for them and the world. dream thought of their current name, and changed it to renevou [vou for short], realizing that they weren’t the cheerful kid under the apple tree anymore, and that they were now renewing their brother’s old role, which he had failed to follow.

time passed by, and the both vou and ink grew close and eventually became lovers. they did practically everything together, but then vou’s negativity got the best of them. after a failed mission, they grew so angry that when they and ink returned to the doodle sphere afterwards, he broke out into a destructive spiral, ripping aus apart by tearing down the fragile papers that held them. ink, naturally, hated this and kicked them out, eventually causing them to drift away over time.

vou still regrets this now, even though in their time it happened a few years ago. now, they work alone and made themselves a home in a cottage off in a distant universe. they keep away from making meaningful friendships in fear that they’ll hurt anyone they dare touch.

fun fact time!

they’re english! their entire multiverse is actually based in the united kingdom, so almost everyone’s from there.

they’re a hopeless romantic 💕

they’re genderfluid and use they/he/she pronouns! [they were amab]

vou isn’t necessarily a dangerously hard-working dream au. they actually surprisingly take care of themselves and take days off a lot. they typically don’t allow people to force them to do work they request, and often tells them they can do it themselves if its something simple, like stocking things or basic chores. what they primarily solve is civil conflict and emotional conflict.

their phases of overwhelming negativity and positivity happen when they’re feeling strong feelings of the respective energies or when their surroundings are strongly of either of them. elevated negativity causes them to be more on edge, aggressive, and snappy, whereas elevated positivity can cause them to be dangerously euphoric, dreamy, and unrealistic. both are damaging to vou, but elevated positivity is more harmful [and can be fatal] as their body has a negative form and can’t handle it for extended periods of time.

they really like dresses and feminine things. sometimes they attend galas for fun just to wear them and see the gowns of others.

sometimes people do get scared by their goop but they usually don’t mean harm— they’re actually really sweet and enjoy talking to people and helping them through their problems if the people they’re helping don’t rudely demand for their assistance.

vou’s alignment is neutral-neutral leaning neutral-good.

they’re super chill and will gladly have a conversation with you over tea.

i’ll have a proper character sheet soon i hope, but for now feel free to ask questions— reblogs are highly appreciated because i want people to know about them <3

thanks for reading if you got this far BAHA

#nash talks #nash’s shenanigans #ocs #utmv stuffs!! #my ocs #utmv #utmv oc #dream sans #dream!sans #shattered dream #shattered!dream #sans au #dream au #dream sans variant #renevou!shattered #<- this’ll be their tag when i chatter about them #nashdoesstuff

[come-down-that-tree]

Prologue Previous

Come down that tree ! (an aftermare story)

Chapter 10: Kamaʻilio kaikunāne me ke kaikunāne...

Nightmare silently watched Geno as he sobbed, lying in the grass. He waited an instant more, making sure it wouldn’t escalate any further than that.

Once reassured, he left, carefully watching his steps as he tiptoed farther away from the scene.

It wasn’t his business.

Spotting his brother down the hill, a basket under the arm. It was probably full to the brim of treats he gathered from the village. It was more and more of a current occurrence, leading him to believe his twin had reached the same conclusion towards the quantity of food their guest should be having.

Nightmare runned towards Dream, meeting him halfway.

While the positive guardian seemed delighted and gave him a warm embrace upon arrival, he watched as the other’s eyes darted across his face, asking a quiet question.

“Did something happen? You usually wait at the tree…?”

Nightmare rummaged the earth with his foot before looking straight into the other guardian’s eyes.

“Yes. No! I mean, I just wanted to talk with you. It’s been a while since our last “brother bonding moment”, don’t you think? We could walk to the blue rocks river? What do you think?”

His twin blinked and stayed relatively stoic as he studied his face once again, making him want to squirm under the intense stare.

A smile bloomed on Dream’s face as he nodded his agreement.

They left together, happily chatting along the way.

Nightmare learned all about the new litter of the mayor’s cat and how good at singing was a certain Marjorie while Dream listened to the plot of several books and the supposedly best way to whistle with a blade of grass. Feat never of them was able to achieve but was the cause of many giggles and groans.

Time went faster when having fun and soon…

Noise of running water indicated they were close to reach their destination and they fell in a comfortable silence. The river came into view, the water clear enough to see the rocks at the bottom, blueish from the sky reflection.

They sat down by the stream.

And removed their shoes to let their toes wiggle in the fresh liquid.

A dragonfly was making rounds above the glistening surface as they observed their surroundings. A few fish lazily swimming nearby. A duck cleaning his feathers. A frog enjoying the sun on its spot on a water lily. A faint wind adding ripples to the ones they were making with their feet.

It was a nice day.

The pleasant silence was finally broken by a sigh.

“Is there anything you wish to tell me, Night’?”

He didn’t answer and continued to look right in front of him.

“I was surprised when you suggested coming here… Happy but surprised…”

How interesting! Did he ever see that particular species of plant before?

“I’m the one to drag you away from the tree usually… And with our guest here, I thought you’d be even more wary to leave.”

The sad tone in his usually bouncy brother’s voice was tugging at his soul strings. He managed to worry Dream again, didn't he? He often forgot how observant he was…

It was his turn to sigh.

“I’m pretty sure Geno won’t try anything today, he shrugged, but I… do want to tell you somethin’”

His brother hummed and gestured to him to continue.

“I don’t think we should keep “our guest” here, he’s… dangerous.”

Dream did not comment but his smile slipped away.

“Don’t lie to me and say he isn’t, I know you saw the damage left by him! You heard him spout this heinous nonsense! WE’RE GUARDIANS, FOR FUCK’S SAKE! Could we start actually doing our job…?”

Startled eyes greeted him in answer to his sudden outburst but still silence. What does he want to hear him say?

Nightmare scratched the back of his skull and took in a long breath.

“Come on, you know I’m right…”

“You looked happy with him…”

“Uh?”

Dream’s eyelights wobbled.

“You always seem so lonely and you never tell me anything. “Don’t lie to me” you say. Who’s lying to who, here? Uh? Do tell me, please. What exactly happened to cause those “damages” then? You should at least be able to answer that, shouldn’t you? Tell me what happened and maybe, maybe I’ll consider your reclamations.”

His brother crossed his arms and stared at him. Well, that was one angry ranting for you… He couldn’t remember the last time he heard Dream’s angry voice. He had not shouted and somebody else would have ignored the subtil change in the smooth voice that could only mean one thing. Nightmare didn’t miss it. Dream was utterly pissed.

He gulped.

“Well I mean… You’re sure you wanna know? It’s kinda boring stuff…”

He rolled his wrist in the air while avoiding any eye contact. He had no illusion over the fact he wasn’t going to convince anyone like that but maybe he could push away the discussion for a little longer.

“Yes, do tell. Especially if it’s boring, I looooove boring stories.”

He wasn’t going to get out of it, or at least that’s what was telling the gaze currently trying to bare his very soul.

He wrung his hands, wondering where to even start and how to say what he wanted to say while avoiding talking about what he definitely didn’t want to tell.

Dream’s eyes seemed to soften after a while and the other sat criss-cross applesauce and scouted a little bit away as if to give him some place.

“We could start with the time I came to earth freshly returned and you had a hole in your collar?”

So he didn’t believe his lies that day. Great.

“Geno woke up panicked after what must have been one nasty nightmare and launched attacks to the one Nightmare he could reach. He missed but it was honestly terrifying.”

Truth was falling out of his mouth like if he just jumped off a cliff. Far too fast and with a rush of adrenalin.

“And the time Geno fainted and there were burn spots all over the ground?”

“I went to fetch a book and due to an… accident with some villagers I met when hurrying back, I ended up in the river. Geno chased off the villagers with two skull shaped magical constructs. He had that crazed shine in the eyes that made me wonder if he was going to kill them.”

“Why did you lie to me?”

“I’m not sure.”

He looked at the ground, not feeling like watching in front of him.

“Didn’t you say you wanted Geno out? So, why hide all this?”

“He looked sad. He’s lonely. He only attacked when spooked or believing I needed help. He’s rude, creepy, weird and secretive. He’s also caring, easy-going and lets me talk for hours without complaining. He puns a lot. Smiles and laughter suit him. I hate seeing him cry. He’s a danger, a strong ticking bomb, one crisis away to provoke a tragedy. He’s wary but smart and nice and… He sometimes looks in the wild, as if looking for something, someone in the distant sky. He’s hurt, has been hurt beyond anything I could imagine. I don’t hate him.”

He was on autopilot, leaving the control of whatever went out in a word vomit to an unconscious part of his mind.

“Do you really want him to go away?”

Nightmare put his head in his hands and whimpered.

“I don’t know what I want.”

Dream softly patted his back and hummed slowly an unknown tune.

“What if we told him to leave, what do you think would happen?”

The answer was easy.

“He would leave.”

“Where would he go?”

This one less.

“Somewhere, hopefully not the village.”

“Would he be okay?”

This one, he wished he didn’t know how to answer.

“I have no idea if this guy ever even be okay once in his life.”

“Would you be okay?”

No.

“…”

“Would you be okay?”

…

“I don’t know.”

“Does he show interest in the apples?”

“Aside from curiosity once in a while but not really.”

“Would he really cause trouble for our mother?”

He knew where all this was going but didn’t have the energy to stop it right there anymore. Make the right decision.

“No, not willingly.”

“Well, what about letting him stay a bit more? Wouldn’t he be more of a danger, to others and himself, out of our sight? We can still change our mind later.”

Nightmare groaned and defeatively glanced at Dream.

“I hate when you use logic against me!”

The mood instantly changed and tension he didn’t notice faded away as he surprised a playful spark in the other’s gaze.

“I’ll take that as a compliment.”

“It isn’t one, you devious sunshine.”

“What kind of insult even it-”

The rest of the phrase was cut short as water went splashing right into Dream’s face. He spitted out some water right on Nightmare’s shirt without missing a beat.

Oh, it’s on.

The two brothers started splashing each other more and more until they both ended up the butt in the river, soaked.

A big trout somehow jumped into Dream’s lap and Nightmare dissolved into uncontrollable giggles. The animal was freed from the knees and Dream waved it goodbye as it fled.

They got out of the water, shaking themselves like wet dogs in the vain hope it would miraculously dry off their pants.

“Great, now we can’t sit down without risking dyeing our pants green…”

He mentally counted how many clothes he had left and the answer was sadly “not enough to risk losing these pants to treacherous grass.

“I may… have something to replace our pants the time it dries in the sun?”

Oh?

“Well, what is it? Anything that could prevent us from having to go home pantless is welcome.”

“Gimme a second.”

He watched as his twin rummaged through the content of his basket. Was there something more than food in there?

“There it is.”

Yellow fabric covered in orange suns. A few layers of tulle made the fabric puff up. It looks a bit like a flower upside down… A skirt?

“Why do you have a skirt in there?”

The other guardian looked away, a slight blush illuminating his cheeks.

“Why is it so obviously designed for you?”

“It… It was a gift. I think it’s cute.”

Someone out there had made a skirt for his brother, and he hadn't heard about it?

Dream ditched his pants, throwing them on a sunny rock. He put the cloth on and immediately twirled. He looked very pleased and shot a glance at Nightmare, there was a strange shine in these eyes he could not recognize.

“Looks nice on you, I’ll admit.”

Dream’s excited little jumps showed him he thankfully chose the right answer.

However, he was still in danger of going pantless for an indefinite period of time. Maybe his no-longer-pantless-brother remembered that fact at the same time as he suddenly went back to search for something.

A sense of dread went up the long of his spine when soft looking dark purple fading to pink fabric emerged.

Nope.

Dream excitedly waved the long skirt he had between his hands.

“Here! I have one for you too!”

“Dream… I… Uh… Where did you find that…?”

“I asked the one who made my skirt to do one for you too!”

He was touched, really. But he wasn’t fond of… wearing skirts. It would probably look bad on him anyway… Dream was making that pouty face again…

Nightmare put on the darn skirt.

It was long, almost hiding his feet. The fading color made him think of sunset. Quite the contrary of Dream’s own. The overexcited ball of joy that was his brother insisted he tried making it turn and he complied.

He did not like the sensation.

While it was a fine piece of cloth, he felt naked each time a gust of wind played with the fabric.

He’d bear with it for now. He wouldn’t dare stop his brother’s fun by grumbling.

So he just sighed and observed Dream’s happy dance, making comments every so often.

He missed spending time with Dream.

End of chapter 10

Go to chapter 11?

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@dragon-tamer-1 @shinechermont @zu-is-here òwó

Geno belongs to @/loverofpiggies

Nightmare, Dream and dreamtale to @/jokublog

#aftermare #come down that tree! #chapter 10 #OWO #chapter 10 already !!!!! #I may be slow but ye we're almost at the middle of the story ;) #hope you like this brotherly moment :D #I wrote this chapter so fast compared to the previous one >w< #it's even longer than usual #very fun to write uwu #tw swearing

[everygame]

Guardians of the Galaxy (PS4)

Developed/Published by: Eidos Montreal / Eidos Released: 26/10/2021 Completed: 23/04/2023 Completion: Beat it. Trophies / Achievements: n/a

It sounds like a weird thing to say about a video game that is more correctly described as IP exploitation rather than a genuine creative work, but I was hoping for more from this.

I mean, I’m not sure why? I mean, I do know why, I’d heard the classic siren song of “it’s not as bad as people say” and for some reason that always makes me interested to play something. But Marvel’s video game output is inconsistent like the MCU never happened (well, because as far as the video games are concerned, it hasn’t) with different studios doing different things, like Square Enix bafflingly deciding the Avengers should have a games-as-a-service loot shooter, and because despite what the video games want to have you believe the MCU did happen, so an Avengers games-as-a-service loot shooter features a cast that look like they should be be standing outside Mann’s Chinese Theatre having their picture taken with tourists because all the actors were clever enough to not sign away their likeness rights.

Surprisingly–or perhaps, luckily–this doesn’t affect Guardians of the Galaxy too much, because most of the cast are aliens and everyone is sick of fucking Chris Pratt, so having another jerky looking white guy in the role barely matters. And I do think the design team made a genuinely good decision to just try and make a straight forward third-person shooter with a linear narrative and levels rather than giving in to the temptation to make some sort of open-world thing, even if the Guardians of the Galaxy’s wacky adventures might have suited more of a Mass Effect metagame, though that the game does try and include meaningful dialogue choices and Mass Effect-y squad combat mechanics.

It’s just that… It’s boring.

The team dynamic works–there’s constant chatter, and it’s honestly not that annoying. The needle drops are often funny (or at least, I was easily amused by them). But the pacing is all off, with long segments of what feels like just walking slowly from cut-scene to cut-scene, and then when you actually get to the combat it’s never, ever satisfying. I eventually gave up and bumped it down to the absolute easiest it could be and every enemy was still an insane bullet sponge, and the fact that you need to be constantly directing the other guardians to do things to make them cause any damage at all means there’s absolutely no flow. It’s entirely possible that the game’s stagger and elemental damage mechanics make killing enemies easier, but they’re poorly explained and as much as I thought I was using them correctly, maybe I wasn’t?

The game’s economy/upgrade system also doesn’t work; your upgrades for Star Lord are underwhelming and you will have them all by three quarters of the way through the game, meaning you can ignore the rest of the currency you find lying around the levels, and though there’s a limited number of guardian upgrades, you don’t really want more considering you can only use one at a time with cooldowns; you end up spamming a few favourites through the whole game anyway.

It’s all a bit of a bummer, because you can sort of feel that the team are trying to do something, it just doesn’t work. Maybe it was scheduling, pressure from the top or demands of the IP, but every little spark of fun in the writing or twists in the design are hammered down by the lengthy tedium of just grinding through the game, especially as the story is extremely underwhelming, suffering not just from some pretty picked over cliches but also really baffling character motivations at points.

Ironically, it’s only really that I have residual fondness for the characters/”IP” that carried me through this, which is a sorry state of affairs. Still, I’ve learned my lesson, even if it is being delisted I’m not touching The Avengers with a ten-foot barge pole.

Will I ever play it again? Why does a game like this have a New Game Plus, really? You unlock everything before you’ve even finished it! I’ll never look at this again, I doubt I’ll even think about it. Final Thought: The question is of course, is sitting through this worse than sitting through things like Ms. Marvel or She-Hulk? Trick question, you can look at your phone while those are on.

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[doggiefooditems]

Can dogs eat cotton balls? Animals are curious and playful, so one day, you may need to know what to do if your dog eats a cotton ball. Most pets do things they shouldn't do daily, including eating prohibited items. When you have a pet that keeps getting ready, you must be used to torn slippers and gnawed slippers. When the dog eats a cotton ball, what should be done? Learn more about it by reading this text. Can the cotton ball be harmful to dogs? It is common for animals to be extremely curious about objects, and objects often do not escape this desire to explore the world. Therefore, the dog may eat a cotton ball if it is within reach. You can try to remove the cotton ball from his mouth when he does this. If you don't give it time, it might take until you're worried. It is important to remain calm first of all. In the case of a dog eating a cotton ball, there is no cause for extreme concern. To harm an animal, your dogs need to eat many cotton balls. A gastrointestinal blockage could result in death for the puppy, especially if it is small. Is cotton ball bad for my dog? Most puppy dogs bite things as they learn about the world at this stage. As a result, anything they find along the way is considered fun. In most cases, the dog chews things only a little to recognize them, but sometimes, it swallows them. It can happen out of curiosity or by accident. Textiles like cotton often get tangled in an animal's mouth, so it can't get it out. A dog defecates when swallowed objects are smaller and do not cut after a while. A guardian may not even realize that the animal ingested the object in question. There may be problems, however, if the quantity of cotton is large or the dog is small. Cotton absorbs moisture, increases volume, and can interfere with intestinal transit. Other objects that arouse the curiosity of the little animal often do the same. What makes animals eat strange foods? The interest of dogs in many objects can even harm their health. We'll discuss some key reasons why this happens to help you better understand the issue. It is common for puppies to gnaw on objects. Because chicks are extremely curious, they explore the world through their mouths. The gums of teething animals can also suffer discomfort, which leads them to chew on objects for relief. Permanent teeth replace a child's milk teeth around six months of age. Once again, the animal seeks objects to massage and relieve its discomfort. Keep the cotton ball and other items safe, and have soft bites available. Anxiety caused the dog to eat cotton balls? It is common for dogs to feel anxious for various reasons, just as with humans. Stress causes the nervous system to react in several ways, the most common being damage to various objects. Compulsive biting is common in animals that spend much time alone. Your pet may just be stressed if it becomes destructive. Spend more time with him, playing games and taking tours. Dogs can also benefit greatly from environmental enrichment. Will the dog be able to digest cotton? No. Like paper, cotton is a plant material that the dog's body cannot digest. The cotton ball is soft, however, and dents or undoes easily. Therefore, if the swallowed piece is small, it will likely pass through the animal's digestive tract. Although, it's always a good idea to keep an eye on the pet to ensure there are no further problems. Vomiting is the most common symptom in this case. Also, when the dog feels bad, it gets colder and stops eating. In dogs with intestinal obstructions, they may have difficulty defecating. This is a sign that the animal needs to be taken to the veterinarian immediately for treatment. When dogs poop, cotton can come out. Animals do not digest cotton, although it can pass through the digestive system intact without major problems. In addition, the fibers are not toxic or harmful to dogs. Small pieces can pass through without causing damage.

A cotton ball can disappear in the dog's poop without a trace. When the piece is too large, it clogs the stomach or intestine of the pet. This case may require specialized medical treatment and material removal surgery. How does stomach acid affect cotton? The acid in the stomach is used to digest proteins, not to process the cotton. As a result, cotton balls remain in the stomach or pass into the intestine. As cotton absorbs water, it swells the intestine, taking up more space in the digestive system. Can the dog eat cotton balls? Even if the dog ate a cotton ball, you could perform first aid at home. It can work if your dog is healthy and stable. In case of more serious signs, it is important to act and take the animal to the veterinarian for care. Once you realize that your dog ate cotton, three things must be kept in mind: Check the material: The cotton does not contain acetone. Look for the package and take it to the veterinarian; Measurement: Determine how much cotton the animal ate. Particularly if the material contains any secondary chemical substance; Continuity: Determine when the dog ate cotton. The professional can see at what stage the material is digesting. Can I tell if my dog has eaten a cotton ball? Are there any signs of destruction in your house? Do you suspect your dog ate something? However, this does not always occur, but it is common among dog tutors. The dog might show signs of indigestion if it ate a cotton ball or other object, such as: The dog salivates more than normal and licks its lips; Swollen abdomen and signs of pain; Having a decreased appetite; Tiredness; Anxiety; These signs may indicate that the dog swallowed a cotton ball. These are common signs of obstruction. You need to take the pet to the vet immediately to determine if there is any further issue. If no intervention is made, the animal can die if the obstruction is total. A partial obstruction can also occur when the food bolus moves slower through the intestines but still passes through slowly. These cases require more attention and may even require surgery. It is, therefore, necessary to consult the dog's veterinarian. Doctoring your dog independently may worsen the problem instead of helping the pet. A serious case requires every minute to save the pet's life, so there is no time to err on treatment. Symptoms and diagnosis Foreign bodies in dogs' gastrointestinal systems require an understanding of what happened. This requires tracing all information about the incident. Time and manner are important. Report everything within reach when you need to find out whether a cotton ball or other object was eaten. It is important to report any suspicions or disappearances to the veterinarian. What happened and the pet's health history are important. A professional should further request diagnostic imaging tests to determine the causes and treatment. A veterinarian may request an X-ray or an abdomen ultrasound to look for a foreign body. The doctor may or may not be able to identify what the foreign body is about. An x-ray cannot identify materials such as plastics and fabrics. Therefore, ultrasound examinations of cotton are more effective. Also possible is an endoscopy if the foreign body remains in the stomach. This procedure can diagnose or remove an object in this case. Frequently Asked Questions Can a dog swallow cotton? Textiles cannot be broken down and passed through the digestive system like a stick. Depending on their size, dogs may be able to vomit it back up or pass it through their excretion. Can cotton balls be digested? You can't digest cotton balls, so they remain in your stomach or intestines. They form a bezoar when they mix with mucus and other food particles. An indigestible food can obstruct the digestive tract. Can dogs eat cotton from toys? The fluff inside many dog toys and other items, such as pillows, children's toys, or furniture, should not be eaten by dogs.

For dogs, these fillings are not safe or edible. Do not allow your dog to chew on and swallow fluff from toys. Conclusion When the dog eats a cotton ball, nothing bad will happen to him. However, if there are signs of obstruction, it is important to take the animal to a veterinary office in time.

[thetoxicgamer]

Destiny 2 Telesto Event Ends in Confusion

Some players who had higher hopes for Bungie's unexpected in-game/real-world crossover felt confused by the Telesto event in Destiny 2. Some Guardians thought the event was lacking in comparison to the scope of previous Destiny events, which entailed the frequently damaged weapon firing odd patterns before becoming sentient and taking control of the Destiny Twitter account. Instead of the community event that the Guardians had anticipated, they were given a free emblem code and a different firing mode for the weapon in the well-known FPS game. Destiny 2 has held several major large-scale community events, some of which caused some players to work around the clock to try to make sense of the puzzles as they appeared in the game. These include Niobe Labs, which would have unlocked a secret Black Armory facility (players struggled to complete the puzzle, so Bungie opened it before the community figured out the solution), and the Corridors of Time, which kept players busy for days wandering infinite rooms and looking at symbols. When Telesto began showing unusual graphics within the game, some players got excited about the prospect of a large event. Even journalist Paul Tassi, who often covers Destiny 2 content, seemed prepared for the possibility of a major community activity. Telesto’s ‘takeover’ of the Bungie Twitter account, in which the weapon appeared to have gained sentience and started to communicate directly with fans, only fueled players’ expectations. However, Bungie community team member Cosmo dashed these expectations when he shared that there were no puzzles to solve, a statement reiterated in the team’s This Week at Bungie weekly summary. Ultimately, the hype resulted in a free emblem, which players can redeem with the code 9LX-7YC-6TX on the Bungie Code Redemption webpage. YouTuber Aztecross, who dedicated significant time to figuring out whether there were codes in the weapon patterns on both his stream and a YouTube video, tweeted a gif in response to the emblem code that said, “Is that it?” Similarly, Destiny 2 streamer JOverrated tweeted a different gif featuring a disappointed face and the text “was it all for an emblem.” While the event was all in good fun, and the emblem is quite unique, some fans were disappointed there isn’t something more to the tease. Several took to Reddit to explain that their issues aren’t with the small, unexpected event, but that the lack of payoff added to their frustrations with the overall season itself. “I think it was just the frustration of the season, the , mixed with the hope of the community that there will finally be a secret event again. I can only imagine that some thought the joke went too far,” shared Redditor redoxly. The comment has more than 600 upvotes. Others felt as though the takeover set high expectations but then served as only a promotion for a Telesto-themed t-shirt in the Bungie store. This complaint comes on the heels of complaints that the game’s recent Festival of the Lost event card also amounted to a ploy for Bungie to press players for money. On the whole, the game is reportedly experiencing lower-than-expected player counts across the board. Players have expressed dissatisfaction with the game’s repetitive seasonal content and its annual Festival of the Lost event, which had several bugs and issues upon launch. Even the major Arc 3.0 overhaul wasn’t enough for some players, following Solar 3.0 and Void 3.0 reworks in the previous seasons. Season 19, which starts on Dec. 6, is expected to bring reworks to at least 25 of the game’s Exotic weapons, and some suspect this was a teaser for what Guardians can expect with the weapon overhauls. Regardless, the sentiment remains that some players had higher expectations for the event. Beyond its history of community events, Destiny 2 is known for secrets and puzzles in raids and other in-game activities, which can take even the most elite fireteams hours to solve. Unfortunately, such a history of significant in-game surprises led players to have higher expectations for what was essentially a practical joke. Hopefully, a relatively slow season means Bungie is simply preparing to draw the last few seasons’ storylines together in Season 19 as a precursor to the forthcoming Lightfall DLC, which launches in Feb. 2023. Regardless, it would be exciting to see more Easter eggs and surprises in the space game sometime soon. Read the full article

[ramthepatriarchy]

I'm quiet. I always have been. I live in my own brain, going over things over and over again.

From a very young age I was exposed to pornographic material, from someone who was my guardian. As a kid, you don't realize what harm that can do and how can confusing it can be.

No one really wanted to spend time with me growing up, except for my Grandfather, who thankfully lived across the road. I was always bothering someone, I should occupy my own time. No one is here to entertain. I spent a lot of my life feeling lonely in a house that had more than two people.

I was a big girl when I was little. My family teased me relentlessly and told me if I didn't stop eating so much, I'd be so fat by the time I'm 16 that no one would ever love me. Doctor told my mother to leave me alone, she didn't listen. Now I'm 32, and go through periods of starvation if I feel like I'm gaining weight because if I'm fat "no one will love me." My cousins used to grab my fat and call me rice rolls, would make fun of my double chin, my fat arms. Once I left a pair of my jeans at my Aunt's house, her and her daughter both got into each of the legs of my jeans and took a picture, with smug looks on their faces.

When I didn't want birthday cake at my Uncle's birthday, my Aunt open handed slapped me across the face. I didn't want cake because they always shamed me when I would eat junk food.

Once, when I was a kid, my mother was so mad at me, she claimed she was going to find a foster family for me. She dropped me off across the road at my Grandfather's and took off. And didn't come back for HOURS.

I've been kicked out of the family home three times already, only to be gaslighted and told that I was NEVER told that. The first time I spent the night in the park. The last time I was kicked out, my stepson was there and I was coming back to take care of them. Mother adamantly said that I was NOT allowed to come back and then cried wolf to the whole community that I "dumped" them on her. Treated my new boyfriend like shit, even though she knew nothing about him, the situation and just assumed. It's a theme that she knows EVERYTHING.

When my mother and stepfather separated, all she could was badmouth him. Tell me how he was a fat, lazy prick that couldn't get his dick up.

I've often heard the phrase "if it wasn't for you and your Grandfather, I would have had a life" and "there's always just been... something off with her" as well as "I love you but I don't have to like you" and "who do YOU think YOU are?" Clearly not anyone you care about, that's for sure.

When I wiped out on my scooter at like 50 mph and smashed the whole side of my face up, she didn't take me to the hospital and just proceeded to wake me up every five minutes so I didn't fall into a coma. I'm still convinced that I managed to acquire some brain damage from that.

When teased relentlessly st school for being fat and a myriad of other things, her response was to "ignore them." The only time she came into school and caused a fuss is when I came down with head lice and had to stay home from school and she only protested because she couldn't have her fucking alone time.

Bled through my clothes in high school. Called mom to see if she could bring me a change of clothes, to which she yelled at me to use common sense and bring spare underwear next time. She didn't drop me off any clothes.

My stepdad is a long haul trucker so he'd be gone from Sunday night to Friday night. If I'd get in trouble on a Monday, she'd withhold love, stick me with the cold shoulder and silent treatment until the weekend and then would allow my stepfather to get mad at me because I "ruined his weekend." So if they managed to get into a fight because of me on that weekend, she'd withhold love, stay upstairs and leave me alone to occupy myself for a whole other week. She's a master at holding grudges.

I was often involved in fights between them. My bedroom was connected to the laundry room so I often was dragged in there and told how horrible the other parent was.

I've been verbally attacked by more than one of my family members at the same time. They love to use me as a doormat and a scapegoat.

My cousin is so deathly jealous of my relationship with our Grandfather that at his funeral, she said "I don't know why I'm here, I hated the bastard anyway." This is the woman who dated a guy who pissed the bed, EVERY DAY and used to steal my mother's used underwear. Whenever she used to visit my Grandfather, he would put all his valuables in his room, padlock and chain the door closed because she was a THIEF.

My mother's side of the family either married a child molester, housed one or both. My Aunt's first husband molested both my mother and Tanya but yet, the sun shines out of my Aunt's ass. My cousin June married her husband Phil who was a LITERAL kiddy diddler and was dying from cancer. I was always told not to go into Phil's fucking room and now I know why.

I was super excited for a field trip and being a kid, I wanted to go so badly. So I kept bothering my mother, and she kept telling me that we didn't have the money. So, being a kid, I went into my room and had a meltdown. She came into my room, screaming that this is all she had and if I was happy now, all the while throwing pennies at me. Then afterwards she punched me in the shoulder, gave me the finger and stomped out of my room. I wasn't a teenager yet. I was in bunk beds still.

My mother was hooked on codeine but now she's on Kratom and if you didn't know, Kratom is an herb that has been used experimentally to help people with drug addictions. I do believe she takes about 12 caplets.

As an adult, she's accused me of lying about all of this, being a narcissist and will only go to therapy with me if I take a lie detector test. Anything I do, anything I say, anything I try, is just never quite enough.

In most of these cases, the sole blame is placed on me. Every fight, every altercation was caused because of ME and she's innocent. She's never done anything wrong. She has a victim complex. A lie detector test is selfish and only for her, to clear her name. I want to go to therapy so we can try to save this mother/daughter relationship that has been so toxic. Apparently what we want and our values aren't the same. I don't know if I should just give up. She's practically 60. Narcissists don't change.

[suriliebrothers]

oc stuff in the tags, you know the drill. extreme lorebreaking and wall of text be warned

#i'm gonna talk about farha this time #she's not from tamriel. she is from another dimension/universe entirely #her skyrim arc is an extension of an original storyline that i have for her. it's complicated but i will do my best to explain #okay. farha is an android #she was created in another universe alongside hundreds of others to act as like. soulbound guardians of individual pocket dimensions #called realms for brevity #skyrim is one of these pocket dimensions. so is every other game you've ever played #they are commercialized as immersive vr experiences for unsuspecting consumers who are under the impression that it's all a simulation #so they often cause damage just for fun. that's what guardians are for #the corporation that created them all has untold wealth and technology #operating their main headquarters underground with full protection from the government #anyway #one of farha's very close friends is caught and exiled for falling in love with a human #farha was unsatisfied with the answers she was given and against another friend's wise advice went after classified documents in the archive #now this headquarters is essentially a maze of hallways lined with portals called gates. they lead into different realms #guardians are told that it is impossible to enter a gate that is not their own. that's a lie #farha is caught trespassing/stealing and is chased by security guards. she loses them momentarily in the maze #and makes a split second decision to risk it all and try to run through a random gate #and it works. she wakes up in the cart on the way to helgen. on her way to be prosecuted for crossing the border #though not the border we usually think of. #farha as a person is extremely sweet and kind. she has a clear set of morals and believes firmly in protecting and respecting the land #she is able to make plants grow due to her home realm being very similar and requiring her to be able to do so #she also has fire magic #which before she came to skyrim #she only ever used to light the fireplace. she hates fighting #though she will do it to protect herself #she settles in whiterun and becomes quite skilled as an alchemist #the mechanism for her being dragonborn is a bit different since she wasn't ''born'' #rather there was no dragonborn until farha jumped through the gate #at which point i suppose the gods were like ''okay that one''

[spidernana]

Oh man those are GORGEOUS! Can we have some basic facts about them all? Or would you prefer we ask about each individually? :D

Let's start with the Tale boys:

Wander is a member of the beast clan, powerful shapeshifters that have, in his world, been hunted to near extinction through stigma and misunderstanding. Thusly, he spends most of his time among people in his monster form, to keep from being hunted down and killed. He is far too curious and attached to mankind to keep his distance entirely, though, and wanders his world as a merchant, peddling rare and magical trinkets throughout the land. The largest of the beast boys in his beast form, yet the smallest in his monster form, and the most powerful of them. Lonely, due to fear of being discovered for what he is.

Raven is a tengu monster and a VERY clever boy, easily able to dismiss people's fears of him being a demon with his charm, and is in love with the sky, flaunting in front of adoring crowds, and anything shiny. He has taken it upon himself to be something of a tour/travel guide, and takes his payment in precious metals. Supremely greedy, and extremely flirtatious. Fond of flings.

Cobalt is a legendary creature not often seen outside of myths, and is, unfortunately, a solitary being, through an accident that took most of his family from him an age ago. He is timid because of this, living deep in the forests of his world, but approaches human settlements to add to his collection of comfortable sweaters and blankets, which help insulate his cracked and sensitive bones from both weather and damage. He leaves gifts from his treasure trove to make up for his thievery. Longs for a mate but is too afraid to try.

Aqua is a siren, a rare male member of the largely matriarchal species. He is a traveler, loves to swim his way around the world to see every sight that he can, though he returns to his home waters once a year to assist in the continuance of his species. Not very intelligent, but extremely charming, especially with the aid of his magically enchanting song, and well known for wooing women off of beaches and into his arms.

Aranea is an ancient being, a son of Arachne, and the minor god of abandoned and abused women. Gifted with immortality so long as he has one soul to love, he has made a habit of rescuing women from terrible fates, abusive husbands or unwanted arranged marriages and the like, and joining them with his harem of beloved wives to ensure their happiness for the rest of their days. Devoted to his cause, his many loves, and his numerous children.

Next are the Fells:

Brutus is a member of the beast clan as well, but in his world, the beast clan have taken command and control of their homeland, where mankind have largely become livestock and possessions. Brutus is the king's most accomplished tracker and hunter, hunting down escaped humans to return them to their rightful place of servitude. Prized breeder and egotist.

Ash lives in his own personal kingdom among the sands, soaring over the plateaus and scrub brush on wide wings, scaring his prey into hiding just for the fun of hunting them down. His home is a beautiful oasis in the very center, which he guards jealously. A bachelor known for stealing women away to his oasis, a chain smoker, and a scoundrel in desperate need of a bath.

King is a hybrid lamia, composed of many deadly breeds to make him an almost unparalleled hunter, and a danger to any desert settlements he decides he wants to steal from. His trove is vast and legendary among any treasure hunters brave enough to attempt to take it from him, though none have thus far been successful. Monogamous, but often long outlives his mates.

Regin is a legendary leviathin, long-lived and written of in many ancient texts. The last true member of his breed, many of the others so old and large they have fallen into an eternal slumber. Responsible for the sinking of Atlantis, which he attacked to steal a remarkable treasure... a collar capable of letting him shrink his form to a more manageable size. Very fond of stealing women from cruise ships, and pretending to be caught in fishing nets.

Shale is a distant great great grandson of Aranea and a wanderer, traversing the world searching for new sights and the occasional mate. He is bitter, in love, disillusioned by the way his mother clung to his father and neglected her children, and has no trust for women, staying only long enough for his mate to give birth to his children before taking them and leaving in the middle of the night, to raise them on his own.

And now the Horror boys:

Cerberus is a member of the beast clan, and is the result of experimentation, inbreeding, and a great deal of abuse. Taken from his litter and placed in a circus for his mutations, he has lived most of his life in a cage, stunted in growth and almost completely incapable of speech. Each of his heads has its own personality: the green is kind and quiet, the blue intelligent and even-tempered, and the purple angry and protective. An expert at pretending to be a simple dumb beast, to avoid attention and too much expectation from the ringmaster. Refuses to mate, despite his keepers' best attempts to force him to.

Ghost is the guardian of a snowbound forest, a once kind and magnanimous protector to all who passed through his woods, most especially of the various villages dotted through it. A selfish hunter ruined that peace by attempting to kill him as a trophy, however, shattering his skull and twisting his mind, and left behind a savage, territorial killer in the wake of his former kindness. The woods are now a place of horror, hunted by a beast with nothing left but his instincts. He searches for a mate, but none thus far have been able to bear his appearance. Some say the wind that howls on the darkest nights are his cries of lonely misery.

Asper is the only survivor of his clutch, after they were cannibalized by his starving father. He wandered the land alone for many years, irreparably scarred by the occurrence and shunned everywhere he went. Out of fear of being killed for his shattered and scary appearance, he fled to the mountains and delved deep within an abandoned jade mine, and has dwelt there ever since, afraid of the sun and other monsters and anything that moves too quickly for his poor eyesight to keep up with. Desperate for a mate, but too ashamed of his appearance to attempt to find one, after being rejected and hurt so many times.

Nautilus is a kraken from the deepest depths of the ocean, dragged away from the crushing depths and into the sun by illegal fishing in the ravine he dwelt in. Hurt and confused and lost, he settled himself in a reef bedecked by many sunken ships, and slowly recovered enough to make it into a home, slowly hunting or scaring away all other predators in the area until only shoals of glittering fish remained behind. Has ultimately despaired of finding a mate in this area of the ocean.

Nox is the aberrant creation of curious scientists, taken from his nest at a young age and subjected to horrendous experiments and shameful mutilations, and eventually torn completely from his spider form and joined with the lower half of a giant scorpion. Furious, in neverending pain, and given far too much power, he broke free and destroyed the lab where he had been held, taking the lives of every scientist that had tortured him before escaping into the world beyond. He is possessed by an intense hatred of humans, convinced they are all cruel, heartless, and would only seek to harm him further, and has concocted a suitably, at least to his twisted mind, cruel manner of taking his vengeance. None thus far have survived it.

#myth monsters #summaries #tale #fell #horror #the trifecta #lamias #driders #sea creatures #tengus #beasts #long post #sorryyyy #it wouldn't let me put a read more for some reason

[celepeace]

A monster-taming game recommendation list for fans of Pokemon

Whether you're a pokemon fanatic obsessed with all things pokemon past and present, or a veteran fan disillusioned with GameFreak's recent adoption of monetary philosophies and strategies reminiscent of other major game publishers, or looking for a monster-taming fix as you await new Pokemon content...

I'm compiling here a post of little-known games in the genre that Pokemon fans are likely to enjoy!

Under readmore cause long, but some of these games really don’t get the attention they deserve, so if you have the time, please read!

(I am also likely to keep updating and editing this post)

First up is Temtem!

Temtem is a game made by and for Pokemon fans, from the spanish indie developer Crema. Temtem is currently in early access on Steam and PS5, and is likely to remain in early access until sometime late next year. Full launch will include a Nintendo Switch release, too. Despite this, it has plenty of content to explore before full release. The developers are active, release new content on a semi-regular basis, and are responsive to the community as a whole and individuals if you happen to come across a bug you want to report.

Temtem boasts a wide variety of monsters to collect and train. It takes place in the Airborne Archipelago, a system of floating islands that orbit their star, the Pansun. The monsters inhabiting the archipelago are called Temtem, or tem(s), for short.

As far as game mechanics go, it has many similarities to Pokemon, but also many important distinctions. The biggest one, in my opinion, is that the element of chance has been removed from battle entirely. Moves cannot miss, have the same power constantly, and status afflictions have an obviously displayed countdown to when they will wear off (for instance, sleep lasts as long as it says it will last. Not 2-4 turns). PP does not exist, either. Your tems can battle for as long as their HP holds out. In place of PP, a new system called Stamina exists. Stamina is an individual stat, like HP and Attack. Each move costs a certain amount of stamina. If you go over the amount of stamina your tem has, the deficit is detracted from your health instead, and that tem cannot move next turn. Stamina passively regenerates a certain amount each turn, and items and moves exist that can heal stamina. All battles are also double-battles, you and your opponent will typically have two tems on the field at a time. This is just a few of the differences Temtem has from Pokemon, but they're some of the biggest ones.

Temtem is also a massively multiplayer game. You complete the storyline independently (or with a friend through co-op!), but in the overworld you can see other, real players moving around and interacting with the world. There is also public and area-specific chat you can talk to other players through. Despite this, all multiplayer functions are (currently) completely optional. You do not need to interact with others to complete the game.

Overall, Temtem is suitable for the Pokemon fan who is looking for a more challenging experience. Temtem is not a walk in the park you can blaze through with a single super-strong monster. For one, individual tem strength is more well-balanced than it is in Pokemon. There are very few (if any!) completely useless tems. Even some unevolved tems have their niche in the competitive scene! Aside from that, enemy tamers are scaled quite high, and you typically cannot beat them just from the exp you get from other enemy tamers. You have to do some wild-encounter grinding if you want to progress.

Temtem is a very fun game and I've already gotten over 100 hours out of it, despite only 3/5-ish of the planned content being released!

However, I do feel obligated to warn any prospective players of one thing: the current endgame is quite inaccessible. After you complete what is currently implemented of the main storyline, there is still quite a lot left to explore and do, but much of it is locked behind putting a lot of hours into the game. You kind of have to get perfect temtem to do the current PVE (and this is also somewhat true for the PVP too). By perfect I mean you have to breed a good tem and then train it to get the preferable EVs (called TVs in temtem). This takes... well, for a whole team... tens of hours. Of boring grinding. Some people enjoy it! But I don't. Regardless, the game was still worth buying because the non-endgame content is expansive and fun.

So overall, pros & cons:

Pros

Battle system is more friendly towards a competitive scene

Cute monsters

Lots of gay characters, also you can choose pronouns (including they/them) independently from body type and voice

Less difference between the objectively bad tems and good tems than there is in Pokemon

Lots of stuff to do even in early access

Most conversations with dialog choices have the option to be a complete ass for no reason other than it’s fun

Having less type variety in your team is less punishing than in Pokemon due to the synergy system and types overall having less weaknesses and resistances

At least one major character is nonbinary

Cons

Falls prey to the issue of MMOs having in-game economies that are only accessible to diehard no-life players

Related to the above point, cosmetics are prohibitively expensive

Endgame CURRENTLY is inaccessible to most players unless you buy good monsters from other players or spend tens of hours making your own. However I must add that the grind is great if you like that kind of thing and is quite easy and painless to do while watching a show or something.

Here is their Steam page and here is their official website.

Next is Monster Hunter: Stories!

This is a spinoff game of the Monster Hunter franchise released for the 3DS in 2018. If you're anything like me, and you've played the core Monster Hunter games, you've often thought "Man, I wish I could befriend and ride these cool dragon creatures instead of killing or maiming them!"

Well now you can! In Stories, as I will be calling it, you play as a rider rather than a hunter. Riders steal monster eggs from wild nests to raise them among humans as companions and guardians. And yes, egg stealing is a whole mechanic in of itself in this game.

This game works pretty differently from most monster-collecting games. You do battle (usually) against one or two wild monsters using your own, except you fight alongside your monsters too. With swords and stuff. There's armor and weapons you can smelt to make yourself stronger. Type match-ups also kind of don't exist in this game? Except they do? But not in a way you'd expect?

The vast majority of attacking moves you and your monster use fall into categories reminiscent of rock-paper-scissors. Moves can be categorized as power, speed, or technical. Speed beats power, technical beats speed, and power beats technical. The matchup of your move vs your opponent's determines how a turn will go down. If one move beats the other in matchup, then the winner's move will get to go and the loser doesn't get to do anything. If you tie, you both get hit, but for reduced damage. There's also abilities and basic attacks, with abilities basically being the same as pokemon moves, and basic attacks just being "I hit you for normal damage within this category". Also, you don't control what your monster does all the time in battle. You can tell it to use abilities, but what kind basic attacks it carries out is determined by its species' preference. Velicidrome, for instance, prefers speed attacks, but Yian Garuga prefers technical. Stamina also exists in this game in a very similar manner to Temtem.

Overall this game carries over a lot of mechanics Monster Hunter fans will find familiar (how items and statuses work for instance). You don't have to have played a core Monster Hunter game to enjoy Stories though! It's fine and is easy to understand as a stand-alone.

The story has some likable characters and is rather long (it was actually adapted into an anime!), for those of you who enjoy a good story.

I'd really recommend this one especially. If it sounds fun to you and you can drop $30, just do it. I bought it on a whim and I got a few weeks' worth of playing almost nonstop out of it, and I didn't even get to do everything! (I got distracted by Hades, oops)

Stories is also getting a sequel later next year on the nintendo switch! How exciting!

And yes, you do ride the monsters.

Pros & cons:

Pros

Large variety of cool monsters to befriend and raise

Pretty lengthy story

Every tamable monster is also rideable

Deceptively simple combat mechanics, easy to be okay at, hard to master

Incorporates some mechanics from early turn-based party rpgs like Final Fantasy for a nice twist on the monster collecting genre

Cons

Many monsters are objectively outclassed by other ones, making what can be in an actually good team more limited than you’d expect

3DS graphics inherently means the game looks like it was made 7 years before its time

Here is the Monster Hunter Stories official 3DS product page.

And here is Monster Sanctuary!

Monster sanctuary is a game that just had its 1.0 launch- meaning it was in early access and no longer is! Although the devs say they still plan to implement a few more things into the game in future updates. It is available on Steam, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and PS4.

Monster sanctuary is a metroidvania twist on the typical monster collecting game, meaning it is also a sidescrolling platformer in which you use abilities you gain throughout the game to explore the world around you. The abilities in this case are the monsters you get! Every monster has an ability that helps you traverse the sanctuary.

Speaking of the sanctuary, the game is set in one. The monster sanctuary is a magically shielded area, cut off from the rest of the world, created by an order of monster keepers, people who befriend and protect the mystical monsters inhabiting the world. Humankind encroached too far on the natural habitat of monsters and were hostile to the native wildlife, so the keepers created an area of varied environments to safely protect and preserve the remaining monsters of the world.

Unlike many other monster collecting games, this game only has 5 types: fire, water, earth, air, and neutral. However, the types themselves do not possess resistances and weaknesses. Instead, each monster has its own assigned weaknesses and resistances. And yes, this can include things like debuffs, physical vs special attacks, and the typical elemental types.

All battles are also 3 vs 3! And unlike in pokemon, where you can only hit the enemies nearest, all monsters have the ability to hit any opponent they want. Turns also work a little differently in that speed doesn't exist, you just use 1 move per monster in your turn and then it goes to your opponent's turn. Your monsters hit in whatever order you want them to.

There is also a quite important combo system in this game, where every hit builds a damage multiplier for the next. Moves often hit multiple times per turn. Healing and buffing actions also build this combo counter. So what monsters you have move in what order really counts!

But the main mechanical difference between this and other games in the genre is how it handles levels and skills. Instead of learning a set move at a certain level, this game incorporates a skill tree, and you get to allocate points into different skills as you grow stronger. And jeez, these skill trees are really extensive. Monster sanctuary is a theorycrafter's dream. Each monster has a unique, specially tailored skill tree, making every monster truly able to have its own niche. You can make use of whatever monster you want if you just put thought into it!

And like Temtem, this game is not made to be beatable by children. I'm sure a child could beat it, but it's not made to be inherently child-friendly like pokemon. It's honestly quite difficult.

On top of that, you are actively encouraged to not just be scraping by each battle. Your performance in battle is rated by an automated system that scores your usage of various mechanics like buffs and debuffs applied, type matchups, and effective usage of combos. The rating system directly influences the rewards you get from each battle, including your likelihood of obtaining an egg from one of the wild monsters you battled (no, you don't catch wild monsters in this game, you get eggs and hatch them). If you're not paying attention to how the game works and making good, effective use of your monsters, you'll have a hard time expanding your team!

The music is also really good, it's made by nature to be able to play over and over and not get old as you explore each area, and the composer(s) really did a good job with this. Some area songs, namely the beach one, I especially enjoy, so much so I've actually played it in the background while I do work.

This is a game I would really recommend. If I made it sound intimidating, it is by no means unbeatable, you're just gonna have to put some thought into how you play. At no point did I actually feel frustrated or like something was impossible. When I hit a wall, I was able to recognize what I did wrong and how I could improve, or I could at least realize something wasn't working and experiment until I found a solution. It's challenging in a genuinely fun, rewarding way.

Pros & cons:

Pros

Extremely in-depth combat system

I genuinely don’t know if there’s an objectively bad monster in this game

Evolution exists but is completely optional, as even un-evolved monsters can be great

Entire soundtrack is full of bangers

Large and diverse variety of monsters to tame

Cons

Story is a little lackluster, but passable

That’s the only con I can think of

Here’s a link to their Steam page and the game’s website.

A kind of unorthodox recommendation is the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon series!

Likelihood is that everyone reading this has heard of this series already, but just in case anyone hasn't, I thought I'd include it! I would categorize this as a hybrid between the mystery dungeon genre and the monster collecting genre, because you recruit pokemon as you play and can use those pokemon on your team!

If you're unaware, the mystery dungeon genre is a small subset of dungeon crawler games where you progress through randomly generated levels called mystery dungeons. Throughout the dungeons, there will be enemies to fight and items to collect. The challenge of these games is mostly due to the stamina aspect of them, in that you have to manage your resources as you progress through the level. If you go all out in each fight, you will inevitably lose quite quickly. You have to learn to win against enemies while balancing your use of items and PP, so you have enough for the next fight, and the fight after that.

Pokemon mystery dungeon in particular is famous for its stories, the likes of which isn't seen often in Pokemon games. They are hugely story-driven games and are notable for the emotional depth they possess. It's pretty normal for the average player to cry at least once in the span of the game. There's lots of memes about that specifically.

This entry in my list is also unique for being a series. So, which one should you play first? It actually doesn't matter! Each storyline is entirely self-contained and requires no knowledge of prior entries. The quality of each entry varies and is a point of contention among fans. I say you should play all of them, because they all have their merits (though some more than others.... coughgatestoinfinitycough). They're mostly distinct for the generation of Pokemon they take place in. Rescue team is gen 3, Explorers is gen 4, Gates to Infinity is gen 5, Super Mystery Dungeon is gen 6, and Rescue Team DX is a remake of a gen 3 game but has the mechanics and moves of a gen 8 game.

My only real caution is that you play Explorers of Sky, not Darkness or Time. Sky is basically a combination of the two games with added items and content. It's an objective upgrade over its predecessors, and I honestly wouldn't waste money on the other two. 

I’m not going to include a pros and cons list for the PMD series because I’m incredibly biased and it wouldn’t be an honest review.

Next is Monster Crown!

Monster Crown is a monster collecting game that seems to take heavy inspiration from early-gen Pokemon games in particular. It is currently in early access on Steam and is not expensive. I learned about it through the developers of Monster Sanctuary, when they recommended it on their official Discord.

The game has lots of charm and interesting creature designs, and an entirely new take on monster typings as well. Instead of monster types being based off of natural elements like fire, water, electricity, etc. Monster Crown uses typings that seem to be influenced by the personalities of the monsters. For instance, Brutal, Relentless, and Will are all monster types!

It also captures a lot of the charm many of us look fondly upon in early GameBoy-era games. The music is mostly chiptune, with some more modern backing instruments at times, and the visuals are very reminiscent of games like Pokemon Crystal in particular. Monster Crown is definitely the monster collecting game for fans of the 8-bit era!

The thing that stands out the most to me about this game is the breeding system. Instead of one parent monster passing down its species to its offspring, you can create true hybrids in this game.

However, it is very early access. I would consider the current build as an alpha, not even a beta yet! So temper your expectations here. I have not encountered any major bugs, but visual glitches here and there are quite common. The game also could definitely use some polish and streamlining, and is quite limited in content currently. But the dev(s) seem quite active, so I fully expect these kinks to be worked out in time!

The reviews are rather positive, especially for being in early access. I'm all for expanding the monster collecting genre, so if you're looking to expand your horizons in that sense, I would recommend you at least give this one a look! I personally had quite a bit of fun playing Monster Crown and am going to keep an eye out for updates.

Pros & cons:

Pros

Charming artstyle, appealing monster designs

Faithful callback to a bygone era of gaming

Controls are fairly simple and easy to get the hang of (and are completely customizable!)

Cool breeding and hybridization mechanics

There's a starter for each monster type!

You can choose your pronouns, including they/them!

Cons

Inherent nature of being very early access means can be clunky and unpolished at times

Also not much content as of right now, see above

User interface could use some redesign in places

Here’s their Steam page and the official website!

Here’s an oldie but a goodie, Azure Dreams!

This is one I actually haven’t played, mostly because it’s really old and therefore only practically accessible if you play it on an emulator, unless you're one of those old game collectors. Azure Dreams was developed by Konami and released for the PS1 in 1997. My impression of it was that it either didn’t sell well or only took off in Japan, because it’s actually really hard to find any comprehensive information about it on the internet.

Azure Dreams is a monster collecting - dating sim hybrid. You can build relationships with various characters and can pursue some of them romantically, although that isn’t the main draw of the game. There is also a stripped-down version that exists for the GameBoy Color, which forgoes the dating portion of the game entirely.

Azure Dreams is kind of like a mystery dungeon game in that you progress through a randomly generated, ever-changing tower using the help of the familiars you have accrued throughout your adventure. Similarly to Monster Hunter: Stories, you yourself also take part in the fighting alongside your monsters. Each time you enter the tower, your character’s level is lowered to 1, but your familiars keep their experience. Thus, progression is made through strengthening your monsters. To obtain monsters, you collect their eggs, just like in Monster Sanctuary (which, turns out, was at least partially inspired by this game!)

Due to this game being very old and on the PS1, the visuals leave a lot to be desired... but if you can get past that, Azure Dreams has lots of replayability and customization to how you play the game. To this day, it appears it has a somewhat active speedrunning community!

If you don’t mind the effort of using an emulator, and like old games, Azure Dreams just might be that timesink you were looking for in quarantine.

Honorable mentions:

Pokemon Insurgence (or any Pokemon fangame/ROMhack, really!) is a Pokemon fangame that introduces Delta Pokemon, which are really cool type-swapped versions of existing Pokemon. It’s sufficiently challenging and has a lot of variety in what you can catch in the wild, so you can pretty much add whatever you want to your team! The story is quite good, and the main campaign is multiple times longer than a typical Pokemon game’s campaign. Download it here!

ARK: Survival Evolved is NOT a monster collecting game BUT you do get to tame and fight alongside a lot of really cool extinct species, including but not limited to the dinosaurs we all know and love. This game is genuinely fun as hell, especially with friends, but I must warn you: never play on official servers. I highly recommend singleplayer, playing on a casual private server, or making your own server. Here’s the Steam page.

#pokemon #temtem #monster sanctuary #monster hunter stories #monster crown #azure dreams #pokemon mystery dungeon #pokemon alternatives

[prismadog]

Found Family AU character facts (part 6)

okay yeah, these are more like backgrounds than anything else so idk why I keep calling them "character facts" - but I've already come this far and am therefore too lazy to change them [used to be a time when my OCD kicked in real bad and wouldn't leave me alone until I changed everything to better fit. thank the minecraft gods I don't have that problem anymore - still got OCD but I'm able to ignore it more]

oh, these are also kinda my headcanons for the characters - like Sausage is a dwarf, Pearl a Harvest Guardian, etc. I'm still thinking of writing one-shots about the characters before the actual AU's beginning (ya know, focusing on the background characters more) and I think I might just go ahead and do that, but only after I finish these posts - got two more to do, this one and one with Joel & Pixl.

also, these ones are kinda long but you're just gonna have to live with it because I'm really tired of trying to condense them down, plus, I don't think I can with these two? there's a lot going on

this one features our beloved seablings Lizzie and Jimmy! [I got a one-shot idea for Jimmy's mostly fleshed out in my head] anyway, here we go!

Lizzie

Lizzie is the firstborn of the Ocean Empire, heir to the throne, and elder sister to Jimmy. their mother is Queen, commander of the seas, and their father is King, but also Mr. Trophy Husband (he does not mind this in the slightest). Even from her birth, she has known that one day, she'll be Queen, and has trained extensively to be the best fighter, the best ruler, the best Queen.

she was about 5 when Jimmy was born and she loved him from the start. he was always too small compared to her so she took it upon herself to watch over him and protect him. when she was older, she taught him to fight since their parents were too worried about him getting hurt.

she would go with her father to represent the Ocean Empire, sometimes Jimmy would join but usually he stayed at home. she met other children but never really got to know them because they were scared of her - except one kid named Joel, Prince of Mezalea. he would follow her around and talk her ear off about building, she liked that he was so fearless.

for the next several years, the empires of Mezalea and the Ocean would make visits to each other. Lizzie and Joel got to know each other more and Joel got to meet her brother - Lizzie was nervous that they wouldn't get on but she didn't need to worry, Jimmy accepted Joel easily and Joel called him 'brother'.

Lizzie didn't know until later why there were so many visits - her and Joel's parents wanted to unite their empires through marriage. she found out and went to Joel and talked to him about it, they were 16 at the time so it was too early for them to wed but they promised when they were of age. they talked to their parents about a future marriage and their parents were glad - Jimmy loved the idea as well.

two years later, their father was traveling to another kingdom, to the Crystal Cliffs, when he was slain by unknown people. his remains were returned home and a funeral was held to return him to the Ocean. their mother carried on for some months after but the grief was causing trouble for the empire - there were constant storms that made travel near-impossible.

Lizzie went to her mother and they had a long talk, by the end of it, the Queen gave up her crown and her thrown in order to return to the sea, to her departed husband. a ceremony was held for the Queen as she joined the ocean, and a few days later Lizzie was crowned Queen. Jimmy and Joel were at her side through it all, and Joel's visits became longer and longer until he was practically living with her - not that she minded, she loved the company.

Lizzie and Joel married nearly two years later when they became of age. they had two ceremonies - one Mezalean and the other Oceanic, the wedding itself was held in Mezalea due to different customs, and a smaller ceremony was held in the Ocean Empire. Jimmy was Joel's best man.

life was fairly peaceful for a time, Joel became a trophy husband (like her father, Joel didn't mind). if there was a Gathering, Lizzie would either go with Joel or Jimmy, a few times even both, though she did worry about her brother - he wasn't nearly as strong as her and he liked to get into trouble, when he wasn't hiding behind her that is.

a sickness hit Joel's kingdom that wiped out a decent amount of Mezaleans, including his parents. Joel had to return home to run the kingdom while they were bedridden, Lizzie provided as much aid as possible without endangering her empire too - he insisted she stay in the Ocean. his parents, like many citizens, had their lives taken and he became King.

visits had to become commonplace again and the couple were apart more often than they were together, but Lizzie and Joel made it work. Jimmy often traveled for them, sending messages and gifts for them - he didn't mind.

a few years later, when Jimmy had become of age, he came to her asking her permission to let him travel - really travel, not just between the two empires. she worried for his safety and wanted to keep him near but knew it would only hurt him in the end - so, she gave him as many blessings as she could, as did Joel, and they parted ways. Jimmy promised to write often.

a year later, after a few months of no word, Lizzie got a letter from Jimmy about a small settlement in the swamps that boarded the ocean. she went out immediately with Joel and they visited Jimmy, she lectured him about worrying her then doted on him for a time. she came to find that there had been a storm and Jimmy had washed up in the settlement (literally), the people helped him heal up, and they accepted him into their community when he wished to join.

Lizzie spoke with the elders about the settlement and her brother's role. an agreement was made where Jimmy was declared the ruler of the Cod Empire and they would be allies with the Ocean Empire. she doted on her brother more but eventually returned home.

at the next Gathering, she greeted Jimmy as a ruler, and found that he decided cod heads were in fashion. she kept on eye on her brother - who still liked to get into trouble - and more than once came to his rescue when things got out of hand - some of the other rulers liked to pick on him. things only went too far once and she showed fWhip and Sausage the true might of the Ocean Empire - they never went too far again.

Jimmy

Jimmy is the secondborn to the Ocean Queen & King, prince of the Ocean Empire (though, there's no chance for him to rule), and younger brother to Lizzie by about 5 years. he was a fairly weak child, smaller than what was normal, but he didn't let that stop him from getting into trouble.

he was doted on by many of the adults around him and picked on by many of the noble children - but he thought it was all in good fun. Lizzie watched over him like a hawk, doted on him as well but she also taught him how to protect himself. he learned how to fight and defend from her, even though their parents didn't like it.

Jimmy often stayed home when their father had to travel to the other kingdoms - usually for the Gathering - and Lizzie almost always went with him. he spent most of that time either by himself or with their mother who taught him different things about ruling - in case he either married into another kingdom or founded his own.

after each Gathering, Lizzie and their father returned home, and Lizzie told him all about the event. she brought him gifts and food, and stories about the other kingdoms. she also told him about another prince - Prince Joel of Mezalea - and how she wished they could see each other again and that it'd be nice for Jimmy to meet her new friend.

after a few of these talks, Jimmy decided to help his sister out. he went to their parents and asked them about an alliance between the Ocean Empire and Mezalea - let it be known that he can be fairly intelligent when he wants to be, even though at this point he's only about 7. their parents talked with the rulers of Mezalea and soon, there were visits. Jimmy tried to stay out of the way the first few visits to give Lizzie and Joel space, but his sister always managed to drag him into the middle - Joel accepted him pretty quickly and welcomed his company.

some years passed and there was talk of a future marriage between Lizzie and Joel - Jimmy was more than happy about their decision and already felt like Joel was family. then their father died and a funeral was held for the King of the Ocean Empire. Jimmy took it upon himself to try to keep his mother and sister in good spirits - Lizzie was relatively okay, sad, but okay; their mother was different though, she grieved almost continuously and was torn between keeping Jimmy at her side and not wanting to see him at all - he reminded her so much of her husband but Jimmy never held it against her.

then one day, Lizzie had a talk with their mother about her grief and how it was damaging the Empire - travel had been all but halted and the people were suffering. he wasn't there for the talk, only after when they had to say their goodbyes to their mother - she decided to step down and return to the sea to be with her husband. Lizzie became the next Queen and he stood at her side like always.

Joel visited more often, so often that Jimmy just suggested he move in - even though only a few months had passed. he and Joel often got into some trouble but it was all harmless fun. some time passed and his two best friends - Lizzie and Joel - became of age and Jimmy officially gained a brother.

he didn't really like to go to the Gatherings - there were always too many people and sometimes the other nobles would tease him. if he did go, he liked to wear a mask. otherwise, he usually stayed at home or explored the ocean around the palace.

a sickness hit Joel's kingdom and he lost not only a good number of subjects but also his parents. Joel had to leave the Ocean Empire and take the throne, something that saddened both seablings but more so Lizzie, though she didn't like to show it. Jimmy acted as messenger between his best friends once all was well within Mezalea - Lizzie didn't want him in the thick of it in case he got sick too.

when Jimmy became of age, he decided that he wanted to explore the oceans. he'd always dreamed of exploring but he never thought he was strong enough, that and he had to be here for his sister. but he was an adult and seeing as the throne only goes to the females in the family, there wasn't really an official place for him in the palace. so with Lizzie's permission and many blessings, he set out to see the world around him.

he traveled for quite some time, sending letters when he could, except for one time almost a year after leaving home. he got caught up in a mighty storm that battered him towards the shoreline and washed him aground. he found himself days, maybe more than week, later on the shore of a swamp settlement surrounded by fish-hybrids that looked a bit like cod. he was injured and dehydrated and they took him in and cared for him.

he sent a letter to his sister when he was well enough, which was a couple weeks after waking up in the swamp, and was soon visited. Lizzie lectured him and doted on him and wanted to take him home but he turned her down - he had a debt to repay. a small meeting was held with the elders and Jimmy came out of it as the unofficial-official ruler of the swamp. the people accepted him well enough, he was just another member of their community and he thanked them for that.

he quickly adjusted to his new life, though being closer to their average humanish height took some getting used to - the Ocean royalty are usually about three times as big as the average human, and normal Oceanic people are about twice the size as a human. he started dressing in long sleeves and pants, and he donned a cod-head - all to better blend in with his new people.

at the next Gathering, he was introduced as the Codfather, King of the Cod Empire. a couple of the other rulers - fWhip and Sausage - started to tease him, all in good fun at first then things slowly escalated until one time where he got injured and bedridden from one of their traps. Lizzie wasn't happy about that and put them in their place.

he also found, during the Gatherings, that the ruler of the elf empire, Elfking Scott of Rivendell, hated him, but he also teased him? Jimmy tried to give the elf gifts, to appease him, but nothing seemed to work, he just couldn't get the elf to like him.

#empires smp #found family au #xornoth adopts child!shubble au #lizzie ldshadowlady #jimmy solidarity #seablings #only got one more to go and then i can go back to our (ir)regularly scheduled Xornoth & Shrub content

[artxyra]

The Secret Life of MDC | Part 5

Part 5 – Haha, wait you’re serious?

Fun fact: This rewrite was supposed to be five parts, but as I was writing and changing things, I have no idea how long this is going to be.

Parts 01 | 02 | 03 | 04

What a relaxing evening the couples group plus one was having. Everyone but Jon and Damian was wearing a disguise of some sort. Marinette in her usual lace netted veil, Chloe with her hair down and sunglasses on, and Adrien with a dark wig and punk clothes. It was never easy being out and open like this, but it was relaxing.

“I’m telling you, she’s not worth it.” Marinette states before taking a sip of her ice coffee beverage. She doesn’t know how or when their conversation regarding the upcoming gala turned into a revenge plan to reveal the liar that has made her life miserable back in Paris.

“Angel, she is making up stories about me. How can I not make her suffer any more than she had made you?” Damian asks taking her hand into his own. Marinette huffs unsure what to say.

“C’mon buggy, even Luka agrees with him. Let him take over for a moment.” Adrien comments showing the designer his phone with a series of messages from Luka on the screen.

Marinette still doesn’t reply. Instead, she looks up to the sky as of it hoping for a miracle. Nothing was working.

“Kagami even she said she’ll help hide the body. Just give me the okay and she’ll be on the next flight here or I’ll go get her with Kaalki.” Chloe adds in taping away on her phone as if she wasn’t paying attention.

“Absolutely not. Look, guys, we have three weeks left here and I don’t want to spend it worrying about the class despite being the damn TA for this exchange. I already need to finish the touch-ups on our dresses and grade like a shit ton of assignments.” Marinette groans leaning into Damian’s chest. He places a kiss on her forehead before resting his chin on her head.

“Why are you guys even like this?” It’s Jon’s turn to cry out in frustration. Everyone turns to him with an eyebrow raised. The half-Kryptonian should no better by now than to question anything his boyfriend and friends do. “Alright, alright, I fold. What do I need to do?”

“Stay my handsome hero.” Adrien absently adds swooning in Jon’s arms looking upward to the hero. Shaking his head, Adrien turns to Marinette and blinks. “Did I really just say that?”

Marinette tries to hide her giggles, nodding. However, Chloe didn’t even try to hide her laughs causing the model to blush.

“I actually liked it,” Jon says before placing a kiss on the blonde’s cheek furthering his blush to a deeper red.

“Ooh, Gami just replied back to me, she wants to see if we can do a movie night stream?” Chloe asks on behalf of her girlfriend. Planning movie nights are often frequent amongst the group especially when they are missing each other.

“I know my father wouldn’t mind, but depending on who’s staying at the manor tonight it might turn into a family affair,” Damian responds gently pushing Marinette off of him and stand up to stretch.

“She’s fine with that.”

“Good; I’ll message Alfred to set to the theatre room.” Damian pulls out his phone and immediately proceeds to message the family butler.

“You know he’ll probably send a message with an image of the theatre room decked out with pillows and blankets with the caption: already have, young master.” Marinette jokes but little did she know her guess was actually right.

Damian’s phone dings with a message from Alfred. It is indeed a photo of the theatre room with pillows and blanket gently piled together. Underneath the photo is the message “Already done, young master, just be home before dark.”

“How does he do that?” Adrien wonders before adding, “It’s witchcraft?”

“You know as well as my brothers that we still do not know that answer.” Damian murmurs sliding his phone back into his pocket. He then holds out his hand for Marinette to take as she pushes herself off the wooden bench.

“We should head back then…” Marinette is then cut off by her phone along with her blonde sibling’s phones simultaneously buzzing. The three Parisians grab their phones and see the answer.

It’s the Headmistress of Gotham Academy calling her. Confused, Marinette answers the call just as Adrien and Chloe read the variety of messages from the classmates or at least those that still have their numbers.

Damian and Jon look to one another cautiously. It’s not every day that the trio’s phone would go off especially when they are not in a group chat with the others. Damian takes a step closer to Marinette as panic rises her eyes.

When the call ends, Marinette takes a series of deep breaths. “First the Riddler and now this shit. They better be damn glad to stay on this trip once we find them.” Was the only thing that would come out of the designer’s mouth.

Chloe and Adrien stop reading. “Ridiculous, utterly ridiculous.” This really draws two teens to their friends. Adrien stays silent which is unlike him especially when there isn’t a battle or around them.

“Um, care to fill us in?” Jon asks knowing that Damian would not as he tries to get answers from Marinette.

“Apparently Mlle. Bustier and the GA staff are losing their heads.” Chloe starts.

“Nino messaged me that something had happened after we left,” Adrien adds shuffling his feet against the ground.

“Yeah; Alya and Lie-la are missing. The headmistress says that no one has seen since we left and asked if we, more specifically I, knew about their whereabouts.” Marinette shakes her head, “Which I have no clue about. I’m not a sheep’s keeper.” The noirette sighs, face-palming.

“I guess movie night is off then.” Jon ponders.

“No, no, we can still find them before it gets super late. By we, I mean Robin and Superboy along with the Gotham’s miraculous team.” Marinette counters before anyone could get a word in.

“Wait, you’re serious?” Chloe asks in disbelief.

“Yeah, let’s just hope the liar’s big mouth didn’t get her in trouble with the Joker or any other Gotham villain,” Marinette grumbles as if all happiness crash and burned right in front of her.

“And here I have thought that after last week, they would stay on the down-low, but no~ they just had to disappear. This will really put a stick into Mlle. Bustier’s teaching qualifications.” Chloe groans as she starts packing her stuff up with looks ready to kill.

“I’ll see you in a bit, suit and all. I have damage control to handle before we make our next steps.” Marinette and Adrien give their significant others a peck on the lips. As much as Damian hates the veil covering her eyes, he knows the pain the reset inside them.

“I’ll talk things through with the family. Maybe even hack into the security cameras for some leads.” He whispers into her ear holding her arms. Marinette looks up to Damian and nods.

~*~

If those phone calls didn’t give light to the current situation, it would have been like walking into the middle of a war zone. Everywhere you look there were teachers asking questions, normally this would never happen to Gotham Academy, but when the exchange happens it like the school turns on its head.

Chloe, Adrien, and Marinette decided to split up. Adrien went to speak to Nino to see if he had knowledge of his girlfriend. Chloe sneaked into the security room while Marinette takes on her teacher assistant role to speak with Mlle. Bustier and the GA headmistress.

Marinette could tell how heated the conversation is from just a few feet away. The closer she got the more she could tell that Caline was sweating where she was standing.

“Marinette doesn’t belong in conversations like this.” Caline tries to get Marinette removed from the conversation the moment she sees the girl, but the headmistress wasn’t having that.

“Marinette is allowed to be here, Ms. Bustier, she is apparently the only one with the contact information regarding your students.” The headmistress states and it was true. Even though Marinette is technically the class representative despite no longer being a student of the school, she still holds vital information regarding the class.

“Hold on, you didn’t contact our parents?” Realization began to hit. “We were nearly killed last week and today, not even a full week since we have arrived, you have lost two students.”

“Marinette, you guys made it back safely, and I just didn’t have time to call everyone’s parents or guardians.” Caline is really trying to save face here.

“We’re in a whole another country. It is your duty to inform parents and or guardians about any situation, mishap, whatever happens to them.” Marinette nearly screams at the teacher. Anger could not even begin to be Marinette’s main emotion.

“I’m sure they’ll show up, Alya and Lila are very responsible.” Seriously? She cannot be for real.

“Mlle. Bustier,” Marinette takes a deep breath, clasps her hands together. “They can be killed here. I may not like those two but even I know the importance of safety here in Gotham.”

“Marinette, I’ll take it from here. How about you go help the others in finding the two missing girls.” The GA headmistress says placing a hand on the designer’s shoulder. Marinette calms down and nods. It was for the best.

Marching down the halls, everyone avoided Marinette. How could they not, she was a woman on a warpath. The Paris exchange students have never seen Marinette so angry before it was causing them to quake in their shoes.

Adrien was finishing his conversation with Nino when he joins Marinette’s side on the march to glory. Chloe had just finished up with the security room before she joined her crew. Together, the three exits the school grounds knowing exactly where they are heading to.

It was no secret that everyone knows each other identity between the Batfam and the Miraculous crew. So, when Alfred pulled up in a disguised car, with the window rolled down he simply raises an eyebrow. The trio gets in as the school just watches in shock. Nothing was making sense to them.

“So, I found that they did indeed leave minutes after we did. The cameras lost them upon walking across the streets towards this building.” Chloe states pointing to the screen with confidence.

“From what I had gathered from Nino, they had missed their check-in time at least three times before the flags were raised. As you know the class aside from us needs to check-in with the teachers at least once an hour after what happened last week.” Adrien then adds in.

Marinette nods before she turns to Tim, who was surprising on his fourth cup of coffee.

“Tim, what did you find?”  She asks before sliding a coffee flavor “health” bar over to the hacker. Tim takes it and slides the bar into his pocket.

“Let’s just say its not the Joker behind their missing appearance. We got Gordon on the lookout, but you know what they say when it comes close to nighttime here in Gotham.”

“Out of everyone, it had to be the two of them. If my job wasn’t also kind of on the stake, I would have just left them to figure it out and stay out of it.”

“You know that’s not true Mars; you love to save people even those who let deserves it.”

“Who asked you, Kitten, let him bitch about things that we know would never happen.”

If it wasn’t for the growing tension in the room, everyone would have burst out laughing.

“We got movement,” Jason calls out while cleaning one of his guns.

Everyone catches the other’s eyes before simultaneously nodding. It’s going to be a long night ahead of them.

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[honey-dewey]

The Rapunzel Effect

Pairing: Ezra (Prospect)/Reader

Word Count: 2,048

Warnings: None, one use of (F/N) (L/N)

Upon losing his arm, Ezra is left stranded, almost entirely unable to care for himself without making some kind of mess. That’s where you step in. As his prospecting partner turned somewhat nurse turned Cee’s other new parent, it’s your job to keep poor Ezra functional and marginally happy as he adjusts to his life. 

Living with Ezra was hard. 

You’d known him for a while, on and off as distant friends do. You two would take a prospecting job together, work side by side for a bit, and then go your separate ways until you managed to team up for another job. 

And then he got stuck on the Green. 

You could still remember his face when you’d left him. The mutiny that your coworkers had staged, them dragging you away from him, the expression of betrayal and terror as he realized what was happening. 

You quit prospecting after that. It was too dangerous, especially on moons like the Green. For almost two years, you built a life for yourself on a nearby habitable planet, looking up and seeing the Green every so often, wondering if Ezra was up there or if he’d given in yet. 

Honestly, you should’ve expected he’d come back. He was a stubborn bastard, of course he’d come back. 

You got a call one night, stumbling out of bed and answering it. 

“Hello?” You mumbled, rubbing your eyes and yawning. 

“Is this (F/N) (L/N)?” The person on the other end asked. 

“Yeah?” 

The person took a breath. “You are listed as Ezra 4053’s emergency contact, is that correct?” 

“Who?” You asked, genuinely confused for a minute before you remembered Ezra had no surname. He had been a state ward, meaning he had a number in place of a family name. “Oh! Yeah, I am.” 

“We recently took Ezra into our care, and he now needs a responsible guardian for the duration of his recovery.” 

The shock hit you like a ton of bricks. You’d expected them to say they found his body, not that he was alive and in their care. “Oh. Okay. Um, that’s,” 

“Unexpected?” The person said, voice tipping with amusement. “He was brought in last week, along with a young girl. If you’ll consider it, she’s highly attached to him.” 

Immediately, you nodded. “Of course. I’ve got room for her too.” 

“Perfect.” The person said. “You can visit them whenever you want, and we’ll send them out to your care come the weekend.” 

“Thank you,” you mumbled absently, putting the phone down and sighing. This was going to be an adventure. 

And it was. 

Seven months later, Cee was recovered well enough. She’d begun to attend virtual school, slowly growing out of the shell she’d forced herself into. She had nightmares, of course, but she was handling them as best she could. She went to therapy, talked her problems over, and took the prescriptions she’d been given. 

Ezra was a whole different story. 

On the surface, he seemed okay. He did what he had been told by doctors as well, rubbing a numbing disinfectant on his wounds and sleeping with the help of a machine that regulated his oxygen, trying to reverse some of the damage done to his lungs. 

But below the physical, he was at war with himself. That long on the Green without pleasant company did things to the mind. Ezra was jumpy, more so than you’d remembered. Every little noise was a threat to him, turning his face pale and his hand sweaty. He had night terrors, he saw things, his entire body would hurt like crazy, and worst of all, he couldn’t care for himself anymore. 

“Ez!” You shouted through the house. “Ez! C’mon, breakfast time!” 

Ezra stumbled out of his room, clearly having just woken up. “Huh?” 

“Breakfast,” you repeated, sliding a plate with scrambled eggs and a few bites of sausage his way. 

He sighed, sitting down and fumbling with his fork. He had been right handed, but now he didn’t have that arm. It was clearly still a struggle for him. He still couldn’t really write, or eat without dropping food, or properly care for his hygiene. 

“Cee’s going out today,” you said, putting the breakfast dishes in the sink to do later. “We’ve got the house to ourselves.” 

Ezra hummed, focusing on his fork. It was shaky, but he hadn’t spilled anything yet. “Sounds good.” 

You sighed, but left him alone to eat. 

Twenty minutes later, Cee left, waving at the both of you and smiling to her friends, who were just outside. 

“She’s doing well,” you mumbled, crossing out a mistake in your most recent work assignment. “I’m glad she’s making friends.” 

Ezra was silent, slowly stabbing the last bite of eggs on his plate. You watched with interest as he ate the bite, looking down at his plate in slight shock, as if he couldn’t believe what he’d done. 

He stood, picking his plate up and putting it in the sink. You followed him, grabbing a paper towel and smiling. “Ez,” you said, holding the paper towel up. “You’ve got egg in your beard.” 

Ezra smiled, allowing you to wipe egg off his face. “Now darlin’,” he drawled smoothly. “How’s about we have some fun, you and me?” 

You laughed. “Ezra,” you murmured, running a hand through his tangled and overly long hair. “Why don’t you go shower, then we can talk about having some fun.” 

Ezra left to go bathe, and while he did, you did the dishes. Once they were all done and you’d heard the water shut off in the bathroom, you grabbed a new towel and knocked on the bathroom door. “Ez? I have a towel.” 

“Come in.” 

You pushed the door open, grinning when you saw Ezra’s left hand poking out from behind the shower curtain. “Thank you kindly. I’ll be out soon.” 

You nodded, promising Ezra you’d be waiting for him. 

Of course, he fumbled after a few minutes. 

As soon as the clattering and the string of loud curses hit you, you were up and running, shoving the door open and seeing a very frustrated Ezra staring at his hand, which had a small cut across the thumb. 

“Oh Ez,” you mumbled, opening the medicine cabinet and grabbing some disinfectant and a bandage. “It’s okay Ez.” 

Ezra whined, his eyes filling with tears as you methodically cared for his wound. 

“Do you need anything else?” You asked, putting away the disinfectant once you were done. 

Ezra turned his big brown eyes on you, pleading without words. “I can’t.” He stopped himself, choking on tears. “I can’t.” 

You slowly picked the abandoned razor out of the sink, shaking water off it and holding it out. “You can. You just need help.” 

He sighed, looking at you and choking on a whimper. “Help.” 

“Yeah.” You carefully turned him around, so he was facing the mirror. “Help.” 

It was a slow going process, helping Ezra shave. He held the razor in his shaking hand, you holding the hand and keeping him steady enough to shave. 

Eventually, you had the Ezra you remembered standing in front of you, with his patchy facial hair and visible smile. 

You grinned. “Hello handsome.” 

Ezra poked his tongue out at you, setting the razor down and hesitantly picking up a pair of scissors. “My hair too?” 

“Aw,” you pouted, taking the scissors from him. “But I like this whole reverse rapunzel thing you got going on,” you said, tugging on the natural blond streak in Ezra’s hair. 

He laughed, taking your hand that didn’t have the scissors. “I know, but it’s a damn pain.” 

You nodded, picking up a comb. “Alright. Sit.” 

Ezra sat down, wrapping his arm around your waist as you combed through his damp hair and began to take chunks off. You warned him that your hack job wasn’t going to look good, and he simply responded with the fact that he didn’t care. 

The end product wasn’t bad, in all fairness. It wasn’t great, but Ezra’s hair was back to its old length, which satisfied both of you. 

“Hey,” you said, grabbing his hand as he tried to walk away from you. “Y’know you can ask me for help, right? I’m not gonna say no.” 

Ezra’s eyes darkened. “I don’t wanna be a bother.” 

You shook your head, pulling him close and hugging him tight under the artificial lights of the bathroom. “Oh Ez. Ezra, darling. You could never be a bother. Not to me, not to Cee, not to anyone who loves you. You hear me? We’re here to help you, my love.” 

Ezra loosened in your arms, sighing out a huge breath. “You’re amazing, little dove. Y’know that?” 

You smiled, pressing a kiss into Ezra’s hand. “I know. So’re you.” 

You both ended up on the couch, mindlessly cuddling. Ezra stroked through your hair, slowly putting you to sleep. 

“Can you tell me a story?” He finally asked, causing you to look up at him. 

“What?” 

“A story,” he repeated. “Can you tell me one?” 

You nodded, laying your head back on his chest. “Once upon a time, there was a beautiful prince named Ezra.” 

Ezra snorted beneath you, but didn’t say anything. 

“The prince was born with magical powers, the power to heal the injured. This power stemmed from his beautiful brown hair.” As you spoke, you reached up to scratch through Ezra’s hair, causing him to smile. “But others were jealous of the prince, namely an evil witch who kidnapped baby Ezra and locked him away in a tower. The tower-“ 

“Babe,” Ezra interrupted. “You’re just retelling rapunzel with me as the princess.” 

“And?” You asked, shimmying upwards so you could kiss Ezra’s nose. “You wanted a story.” 

Ezra chuckled. “I did. You may proceed.” 

You smiled, shifting so you could continue. “Anyway, the tower was covered wall to wall in plants, so many plants that little prince Ezra soon started to call him prison the green. And one day, little prince Ezra wasn’t so little anymore. In fact, he was an adult, begging the witch to let him go, to let him see the world. When she refused, prince Ezra cut a lock of his very special hair, causing it to go white and lose its power. For that, the witch vowed to never let Ezra leave. Ever.” 

“Isn’t there supposed to be a prince or princess who comes to save prince Ezra?” Ezra interrupted yet again. 

“Ez!” You groaned playfully. “Stop interrupting! I’m getting there.” 

Ezra shrugged, but stayed silent so you could continue. 

“But, what prince Ezra didn’t know was that a young royal from the neighboring kingdom had been spying on the witch and prince Ezra for a while, and the royal was deeply in love with the prince.” 

Ezra sighed, smiling and letting his eyes fall shut. 

“This royal would risk it all for prince Ezra, and they did! One day, when the witch left, the royal stood at the base of the tower and called out to the prince. ‘Ezra, Ezra, let down your hair!’ And the prince did. He fell in love with the royal, and they spent many days together while the witch was away. But one day, many months into the secret relationship, the witch caught them. When she saw the royal, she freaked out, yelling and screaming. She tossed the royal out the tower window, and they landed in a bed of thorns at the base of the tower. Ezra, in his despair, jumped out after his beloved.” 

You smiled, tracing shapes in Ezra’s shirt, feeling your own eyes grow heavy. “Ezra, horribly injured, cradled the dead body of his lover, surrounded by the thorn plants. Consumed by his grief, he grabbed the dagger off the royal’s belt and shore all his hair off. ‘If this is what life is,’ he declared. ‘Then I wish to live no longer.’ However, at the last second, before the dagger could strike his body, his beloved awoke, healed by the prince’s tears. They rode off into the sunset together, and while the mighty prince Ezra lost an arm that day, he gained something of higher value. A lover for all eternity.” 

You yawned, cuddling up to Ezra’s chest and closing your eyes. “The end.” 

When Cee came home hours later, she found the pair of you laying on the couch together, tangled in a messy pile of limbs and blankets. Upon further inspection, she realized you were both asleep. 

“Those two,” she muttered to herself happily, tossing another blanket overtop you and heading off to do her schoolwork.

#prospect #prospect (film) #ezra (prospect) #ezra x reader #ezra x you #pedro pascal #my writing

[melloian]

Character bio 2

ADRIEN AGRESTE

Age: 14

Gender: M

Race: French Species: Human

Alignment: Good

Status: Alive

Relatives: Felix (older brother), Ambre (cousin), Oscar (cousin),  Gabriel (father), Emilie (mother), grandmother, Amelie (aunt)

Occupation:  Student (Françoise Dupont Lycée) & Superhero

Love interest:  Marinette 

Friends: Nino, Marinette, Chloe, Max, Alix, Juleka, Valery, the guardians, Kid Mime (later on), Celeste (later on), Mercury  (later on), Sparrow (later on), Aeon (later on), Gavroche (later on), Mime (later on when he redeemed).

Enemies: Hawkmoth, Every villain, Mayura, Mime (formerly)

Personality: Playful, optimistic, Loyal, Calm, Gullible, Sympathetic

Bio: Adrien is a teenage boy who attends at  Françoise Dupont Lycée. He don’t really talk much but he does like having fun with others. He somewhat daydreams alot. Outside of school, Adrien lives in a strict family, with his brother Felix. He’s pretty much the favorite child, he doesn’t really get punished much for his actions. But he is pretty much hiding his true personality. In the meantime, he’s a hero who goes after the name chat noir.

Backstory: Adrien was 8 years old at time when he sorta knew his mother. He, his brother, and cousins used to play with each other alot. One day, some incident happen where is his mother ended up in a coma. He was wondering what happen but Nathalie didn’t want him to enter the room. Adrien noticed that felix was acting strange afterwards, he tried to say what happen but felix just ran off. He isn’t sure what happened, but his father walked out the room and also didn’t answer his question.

Cousins Disappearance

When Adrien was 11, He heard about that his cousins was coming over. In some other room, he heard a girl screaming from next door, so he ran into Felix’s room. Felix was looking down on his phone in terror and Adrien wanted to know what happened. The only response was “they’re gone... both of them....” Adrien didn’t understand what he’s talking about so he shake him to snap out of it. However Felix was too in shocked and left frozen. Afterwards,  Adrien was left worried.

After these incidents, Adrien acted little different, but everyone else changed completely. 

As Chat Noir

Altered personality: Determined, Reckless, Daring, Sarcastic, mischief, playful

Abilities: 

High Jump

Flexibility

Med Durability

Fast

Nightvision

Scree - give am person fear

Misfortune - give anyone bad luck

Watch - Look in far away distance

Sense - sense some one from anywhere location around him

Blackhole - summons a blackhole from anywhere

Catsnatch -  De-akumanize a person and prevent them from being akumantized for an current time.

Pawlace - clean all the damage and reserve the effects

Main ability:

Cataclysm - release a strong mist that can cause destruction. This can also destroy akumantization, but in result killing the butterfly. 

Weapons: Claws

As Chelonian

Altered personality: Wise, chill, determined, Sympathetic, Meticulous

Abilities:

High durability

Flexibility

Slow but can go fast in certain situations.

Stomp - be able to break strong/tough objects

Tucker - turn into turtle shell ball and become invincible for 70 seconds. 

Blockage - be able to block any projectiles or attacks with a small hologram shield for 50 seconds.

Slow down - make time slow down, making you fast for 80 seconds

Strengthen 

Blocked -  De-akumanize a person and prevent them from being akumantized for an current time.

Sweep -  clean all the damage and reserve the effects

Main ability

Shell-ter - creates a huge force field that’s unbreakable for 120 seconds.

Weapon: turtle shell shield and Hat

As Blaze

Altered personality: sympathetic, Dignified, Forthright, chill, Individualistic

High durability

Flight

Flexibility

Fast

Regeneration

Rings of fire - summon fire rings on ground

Firebody - lit themselves on fire and becomes untouchable for 76 seconds

Flamesla - shoot fire out of hand

Highpressure - alter the climate anywhere to make it hot

Firetint -  De-akumanize a person and prevent them from being akumantized for an current time.

Smelt -  clean all the damage and reserve the effects

Main ability

Sun of the Eyes - Summon a bright large sun that can blind others

Reincarnation - Becomes a different person that was made in the image of what adriens thinks about for the rest of the day (one time use in every transformation. Also Adrien can change back to themselves at will).

Weapon: Mace on fire

As Delight

Altered personality: Cheerful,  sympathetic, outgoing, playful

Med  durability

Flight

Flexibility

Immunity to cold

Sparkles of Joy: Makes other around them happy

Surprise! Gift - Present Grenade

Sparkles of Sleep - causes anyone around them to fall asleep

Gift - Gave anyone a gift of what they wanted

Breeze - causes the weather to snow

Sparkles of relief -  De-akumanize a person and prevent them from being akumantized for an current time.

Cleaning sparkles -  clean all the damage and reserve the effects

Main ability

Christmas Joy - Causes huge blizzard mist and summon every Christmas decoration from the sky. Awhile making others dreams come true, if their near (expect for the targeted opponent). 

As ColdHeart (akumantized form)

Altered personality: Cold hearted, Envious, Disrespectful, Selfish

Cause of akumanzation: Heartbroken (during the time he didn’t have a ring)

Goal: Freeze the city until there’s no one left

Akumantized object: bracelet 

Fast speed

Loud screaming power

If he smells or sense love, he will turn them into ice

Ice missiles

Summons heart shards bombs

RELATIONSHIPS (MAIN ONES)

Adrien & Nino

Adrien and Nino have met since highschool. They usually talk to each other and hang out. Adrien helps out with Nino’s creations and criticize them. They often go to each other houses.

Adrien & Marinette

Adrien and Marinette met since highschool. Adrien is pretty much shy to talk to Marinette. He tries to talk to her but he ends up mumbling his words. He often invite her to things, but still can’t talk to her correctly. He later on started to talk to her more without blushing so hard.

Ladybug

Chat noir basically trying to wins Marinette's affection awhile also causing reckless actions. However, he respects her and try to be a best sidekick for her.

Adrien & Chloe

Adrien and Chloe met since Highschool. Adrien pretty much talk to her sometimes and sometimes hangout with her. However, He seems little confused about her actions towards him. Later on, Chloe started acting differently towards him, but he really didn’t mind. 

Adrien & Felix

Adrien & Felix used to play alot in childhood years, until some incident happen. Adrien pretty much don’t understand why Felix feels gloomy and stressed all the time. He asks him but he really don’t like his answers due to because he talks about Gabriel.  Most of the times, Adrien is just bigoted towards Felix. Other then that, Adrien pretty much loves his brother and sometimes worries about him.

Adrien & Gabriel

 Adrien remembered when Gabriel was happy to see both him and his brother. After the incident happened, Adrien don’t really see his father the same way again. He dislikes how strict he is now and overprotective. However, Adrien is extremely gullible to what his father says. Despite Gabriel's ways, Adrien thinks his father wouldn’t do something horrible.

Adrien & Lila

Adrien met Lila since highschool. Adrien is pretty much kind of scared of her. He doesn’t like her aggressive ways towards others. He doesn’t really hangout with her, but Lila tries to make him do so. 

Adrien & Plagg

Adrien pretty much dislikes plagg ways. He have to stop him from doing certain things so he wouldn’t get in trouble. Other then that, they pretty much chill with each other. Adrien is also sorta gullible to plagg. 

Full body

Adrien’s alternative outfit

As an kid

Other information

He thinks about if he can just time travel back in past to see what happened.

He’s still allergic to pigeons

Adrien pretty much have a one-sided friendship with lila

He often read alot of books.

#adrien agreste #miraculous adrien #ml adrien #adrien and plagg #plagg #ml plagg #lila rossi #miraculous au #miraculous ladybug #miraculous chat noir #miraculous gabriel #gabriel agreste #miraculous felix #felix graham de vanily #chloe bourgeois #miraculous chloe #ml marinette #Marinette #miraculous marinette #miraculous nino #emilie agreste #chat noir #miraculous ladybug reboot #ml reboot

[theyellmanfan]

Random hizashi headcanon??

hell yeah, here’s some off the top of my head!

under the cut bc I went absolutely hog wild.

- his radio show tends to get a lot of calls from villains and people in dangerous/bad situations, so there is a hired team of people to vet calls before they are allowed to air, and will redirect them when necessary. there is a team of crisis workers there to help people who are calling because they are in a hard place or at risk of hurting themselves, a team with the equipment necessary to trace calls in the case of villains, and his show is paired up with many local hero agencies and the police so that details about emergency situations can be sent to the right people as quickly as possible!

- he doesn’t actually do patrols due to the destructive nature of his quirk, it’s part of how he is able to balance 3 jobs, his hero work isn’t a part of his regular schedule. he’s just on call for more serious situations.

- he would be a high ranking hero if he didn’t spread himself so thin. he focuses so much on building the foundations of a more unified, better world for people to live in that things that would bring up his statistics tend to fall to the way side. he honestly doesn’t care as long as he’s popular enough for people to be interested in hearing his voice.

- he’s vegan! and before anyone says anything about his hero costume, environmentally friendly vegan leathers exist sdlfjsdf. idk I just see him as the type of person who is so passionate about wanting everything (people, society, the planet) to be better than it is presently that I can’t picture his values not bleeding into his personal life. I wouldn’t be surprised if every decision he makes has others or the greater good in mind, thus his decision to live a vegan lifestyle.

- he can’t cook for shit. he just doesn’t come across as someone who would have the patience/self control to follow a recipe. he would just randomly come across a spice while looking for the one the recipe called for and be like hM I love this flavour, I think I’ll add it! or, oh shoot the measuring cup is in the dishwasher... hmm this mug is probably about the same size, I’ll use it to measure this ingredient instead! and he ends up with an inedible dish by the end of it after all his little tweaks and mistakes.

- he hosts, makes appearances at, and contributes to charity events regularly. at least once a month, though he makes announcements for them and non profit organizations practically every show and over his social media pages daily.

- he was a gen ed transfer alongside Aizawa, as he didn’t have access to the equipment/facilities necessary to train his quirk before being admitted to UA and wasn’t able to destroy any robots without risking hurting other examinees. after getting in, as a student he had access to UA’s training grounds and honed his quirk with the help of Aizawa.

- his quirk doesn’t actually give him the ability to amplify sound waves, nor is it a mutation of the human vocal chords. theoretically, if he were producing sound waves that destructive, the vibrations would damage his body (not just his ears). instead, his quirk gives him the ability to manipulate the chemical composition of the atmosphere around him. depending on the medium you are in, sound travels differently, so he has been unknowingly just altering the atmosphere around him when using his quirk. if he knew this is what he was doing, his quirk would be a lot more powerful, as he could focus on increasing or decreasing the concentration of certain molecules to do much more (ex. increasing the atmospheric water content to produce and shoot water out of seemingly no where, lowering water content when underwater to produce a breathable bubble around his head, increasing the carbon dioxide content around a villain temporarily until they pass out for easy capture, lowering the content of toxic gases and other dangerous materials from the air, ect).

- he was raised as an only child by his grandmother.

- said grandmother was his biggest ally growing up, supporting him through everything unconditionally and with so much love. when he came out as bi/pan and nonbinary, she was the type of guardian to get one of those shirts that say I love my lgbt+ grandchild! her influence is part of the reason Hizashi conducts his hero work as he does, largely through advocacy and support, since he knows how much his own grandmother’s support helped him.

- he is the most outwardly spoken hero about social issues in japan, and is always the first to contribute and bring attention to causes. he will often use his radio show as a way to educate and inform the general public, bringing in actual experts on topics and those with experience to let their voices be heard.

- loves watching cartoons!

- he hates it when people make assumptions about who he is as a person and assume they know who he is and what he wants/thinks. and an extension of this, he hates when people treat him like a one-dimensional caricature instead of a person. though he has definitely used it to his advantage in his hero work, it still hurts him. think class clown stereotype amped up. he initially presented himself as the goofy, ditsy guy who would always be happy despite everything because he wanted more than anything to make people smile and make the world a better place, but when he was younger he didn’t know how he was supposed to do that. he resorted to allowing himself to be the person everyone laughed at, going out of his way to be ridiculous, and though it hurt, it was worth it to put a smile on their faces. as he got older, he didn’t know how to stop even after he had the presence and resources to make a positive difference through his careers, so the reputation kind of just stuck with him. Aizawa was the first person he figured out how to be himself around.

I feel like this all says a lot about how I see Hizashi’s character haha.

If people are just going to make fun of him for being loud and annoying, he’ll own it and be loud and annoying in a way that helps others!!

he’s a good boy and he’s only so angry and feral bc he’s sick of all the awful things in the world.

#🌿 #hizashi yamada #yamada hizashi #present mic #mha #bnha #my hero academia #boku no hero academia #my hero academy

[immortalcoelacanth]

PTA: Science Team (HLVRAI Fic 1/3)

*pulls dusty story out of garage and drops it into Tumblr*

I have been trying to finish the first chapter for AGES, and I finally got it done! I crave PTA AU content due to the wholesomeness and angst, and I just had to work on one short fic for this fandom. So, welcome to the first chapter out of three!

Word count: 1788

Summary: PTA meetings are a sham and no one hates them more than Gordon, but upon being forced to miss a “mandatory” meeting because of work, Benrey comes up with a brilliant idea to deal with this problem.

Chapter 1: Hostile Arrangements Require Equally Hostile Solutions

“Fuck! Shit! Okay-okay, I’ll just-motherfucker she did what?!”

Cursing was in Gordon’s nature. He often used it as a way to express his angry, dismay, shock, and all sorts of other negative emotions. As such it was not unusual to see pacing about and spitting insults left and right. 

What was unusual, however, was the fact that he was cursing in his own home. He had a strict swearing free zone in effect as a way to stop Joshua from picking up on any foul language, including a swear jar that tended to fill up whenever Bubby visited. It was quite fortunate that Joshua was currently being distracted by Benrey as the pair had been playing video games together for the past hour or so. 

Or they had been until, in a surprising display of stealth, Benrey crept out of the young boy’s room and slowly approached the frustrated Gordon. 

Gordon, who was currently continuing to quietly yell into his cell phone. 

“Are you kidding me?! I was scheduled for a meeting on the weekend! I have work tonight! How in the FUCK did she-”

“psssst, hey, hey feetman. you might wanna chill out there and, uh, stuff. turn down the volume.” Benrey cut in while pointing the tv remote at Gordon and clicking the volume button. “don’t wanna be a bad boy and teach joshie any naughty words.” 

“Shut the fuck up.” Gordon sighed, no real anger in his voice before redirecting his attention back to the phone call. “No, not you Natasha, it was just Benrey-”

“tell tasha her cookies are baller.”

“Wha-baller? Who the fuck says baller anymore?!” 

“c’moooooooon man, be a bro.”

“Natasha I am so sorry-tell her that yourself!”

“i can’t feeman, you know i don’t have a phone.”

“YOU WERE THE ONE WHO STUCK IT IN THE MICROWAVE!”

“i-i was just chagrin’ the battery with those radio waves, man. ads… they never lie.”

Laughter could be heard coming from the phone in response to the conversation going on between the two men. It was enough to snap Gordon out of his somewhat enraged state and refocus on whatever it was that Natasha was telling him. He gestured for Benrey to leave and only succeeded in shooing the ex-guard to the kitchen so he could have some peace. 

Not that the peace lasted long based on the muttered cursing and general sounds of Gordon stomping around. 

About ten minutes later, the frustrated physicist joined him in the kitchen, quickly making himself a cup of coffee and grumbling under his breath. Welp, looked like this was the perfect moment for some interrogation. 

“soooooo, wha was that about?” Benrey asked as he took another bite of the block of cheese he had been digging into. If you asked him, he’d say it tasted pretty gouda.

Damn, he needed to torment Gordon with more puns again. 

“Fucking-” Gordon exhaled sharply and ran a hand through his messy hair, too angry to noticed how Benrey reached out and gently pulled at some of the locks, watching them bounce and resume their previously curly shape. “Linda.”

Well, there went his good mood. 

Benrey’s eyes immediately narrowed, becoming nothing more than glowing slits in his shadowy face, as a disgruntled frown replaced his previous smile. Even the cheese in his hand seemed to start burning, smoke wafting off it as it began to melt in response to the sheer anger that name invoked in him. 

Linda Smith, the scourge of the neighborhood and one of the most uptight, pieces of shit that Benrey had ever encountered. A narcissist with a massive superiority complex, she constantly put down everyone around her who she thought of as being inferior.

Which was just a cover for how much of a racist shitwad she was, plus there were the various comments she made about fags invading the neighborhood.

An obvious insult aimed at not just Gordon and Benrey, but the other “not normal” couples that lived here and there. Poor Joshua had overheard some of the insults on multiple occasions, and she had called the kid a mutt to his face-

“Benrey? You wanna calm down before you poke holes in the ceiling again?”

Fortunately, Gordon’s exasperated voice snapped Benrey out of his enraged state before he accidentally inflicted more damage to the kitchen. A place that had seen many, many small explosions and fires. At this point, he towered over the other man as sharpened, boney spikes poked out of his back and scrapped the ceiling. Plaster fell and dusted the countertop. 

“oops, s-sorry dude.” Benrey awkwardly shrugged, flesh dripping from his arms and face in a rather gruesome display, not that Gordon was bothered by this. He was used to how… horrific his partner could become. 

Especially when someone mentioned Joshua being hurt or insulted in any way. It was actually quite wholesome thinking about how much Benrey cared about the young boy and how much their friendship had bloomed since they first met. 

“I get it.” Gordon sighed. “She’s such a bitch she’d make anyone Hulk out.”

“ten points for the ref there, feetman.”

The physicist somewhat seriously flipped Benrey off, making him laugh, before continuing to rant about the purpose of the now finished phone call. 

“I still can’t believe that stupid school listened to her, and I’m not the only one getting fucked over here!” He spat. “I can’t just drop out-”

It was at this moment that the source of Gordon’s rage dawned on Benrey, and the ex-guard spoke up. “wait, the school thingy?”

“You mean meeting?”

“ya.”

Gordon groaned and hid his face in his hands. “The MEETING! Linda fucked up my schedule! I don’t know what she said to the administrator, but they canceled the weekend meeting I was booked for and rescheduled me for tonight. When I have WORK!”

Benrey winced in sympathy and reached out to pat Gordon’s shoulder with his not cheese coated hand. “damn, th-that’s a real cringe move. can’t you get, uh, joshie’s mom to take care of it? s...shea?”

“I can’t,” Gordon muttered, face muffled by his hands. “Shea’s been on a business trip for some conference and she gets back in five days.”

“oooooh, that’s why you’ve had little josh bro for so long?”

Rather than respond, the physicist just continued to groan and hide his face in his hands as he tried to figure out how to fix the mess he had been caught up in. 

Joshua’s school had a very… specific structure to how it was run. Standard funding and where it would be directed was determined by the staff, however, sometimes the school would receive donations or raise large amounts of money through fairs and other events. 

And it was how this extra funding would be spent that the local community had the chance to weigh in on. Determining if it should be used to get more sports supplies, help fund after school programs, or be used to help make the school more accessible. 

The ramp that had been added two years ago was one such example of the potential good that these extra funds had, however there was one problem with this process. 

All parents were required to attend a meeting and voice their thoughts. This was a rather new development that had been added after a small group of disgruntled parents, ones who had objected to using the extra funds to improve the school and arguing that it should go towards planning fun trips instead, had tried to sue the school board. 

Of course, the case had immediately been thrown out and dismissed, but it had set a dangerous precedent. A precedent that now made it mandatory for all parents to attend one meeting to determine their opinions on where the funding should be used and write it down so they could not claim their voices had not been heard. 

Honestly, it was such a stupid arrangement in Gordon’s opinion. Why not just send out an email? Or forms that kids could take home to their parents. It was so… disruptive and annoying, especially for single parents who had to work long hours. 

Like him. 

His hands tensed, nails nearly dug into his skin before Benrey carefully moved them, holding them. As Gordon looked up, the ex-guard sent him an awkward yet warm smile. An attempt at reassuring him that things would turn out alright. 

“hey... you-you gotta chillax feetman, things’ll be okay-”

“How the hell am I supposed to chillax in this situation?!” Gordon barked as he removed his hands from Benrey’s, shoved himself out of his seat, and began pacing around, furiously staring at the floor. 

“I’ve been fucked over by some racist bitch! Joshua needs someone there and it has to be someone who has some kind of guardianship over him for that stupid funding bullshit!”

As his partner raged on about the unfairness and overall stupidity of the situation, Benrey decided that it was time to think. To think, and plot, and come up with something that would hopefully calm Gordon down while solving the problem that Linda had caused. 

Simply put, Joshua needed someone who had designated guardianship over him to be present during the meeting to act in his best interests. Not surprisingly, Benrey did not have this title due as both he and Gordon had agreed that it would not be the best idea due to both his inhumane nature and the potential destruction he might cause. 

But, that did not mean that only Shea and Gordon were listed as the young boy’s guardians. There was one other who had been granted the title in case of an emergency, although his presence had never been needed up until this point, which was probably why Gordon had forgotten about him in his stressed out state. 

Dr. Coomer, one of Joshua’s “grandpas”. 

And, of course, if one member of the Science Team went somewhere, then the rest had to follow. The Science Team stuck together through thick and thin, no matter the strife or struggle and always left chaos in their wake. 

Hostile arrangements required equally hostile solutions, after all. 

“this is gonna be baller.” Benrey chuckled, his eyes flashing brightly at the brilliance of his plan. Now all he had to do was get Gordon to agree to it.

“pssst, yo, xen to gaydon.”

There was something about the tone that Benrey’s voice took on that snapped Gordon out of his ranting. How calm and collected he sounded, the coherency and confidence in his words. Somewhat concerned, the physicist turned around and saw the scheming look in the ex-guard’s glowing eyes as his fingers drummed on the table. 

“feetman, i got a plan.”

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I would like to make it clear that no offense is intended towards anyone named Linda, aside from the one racist Linda I know that she was named after who will never, ever read this so my sins will forever remain unknown :>

#my story #fanfiction #hlvrai #hlvrai gordon #hlvrai benrey #pta au #humor #quick warning that a racist and homophobic character is mentioned #and as such her crimes of using slurs are used #chapter one of three

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Summary: Mahiru is a teacher and Kuro is the parent of one of his students. (KuroMahi, Teacher AU)

Mahiru carried a stack of boxes to the school’s track where they were setting up an obstacle course for the sports festival. While the boxes weren’t heavy, they blocked his view slightly. He did his best to look around the boxes so he wouldn’t bump into anyone but it was difficult. Luckily, he knew the school’s layout well and he counted his steps to the entryway.

He reached the double doors but he couldn’t open it since his hands were full. Mahiru turned around and he pushed the door open with his back. He walked backwards until he felt the ground disappear beneath his feet. He realized that he had walked too far back and he was about to fall down the short stairs. Since he didn’t want to damage the supplies in the box, he could only brace himself for the fall.

An arm wrapped around his waist and stopped his fall. He opened his eyes and he found himself in the arms of a handsome man. The man wasn’t a teacher or part of the staff but he recognized him as Kuro. He was the brother of one of his siblings, Hyde. Hyde would often cause trouble and Kuro would pick him up so Mahiru grew to know him well.

Kuro helped Mahiru back onto his feet and he thanked him. “Thanks, Kuro. Are you here for the sports festival?”

“Yeah. Hyde ran off somewhere and I’m searching for him right now. He dragged me here but then ditched me. Troublesome.” He told him with a light groan. “I hope he isn’t causing trouble. Can you help me find him?”

“Of course I’ll help. I need to take these boxes to the field first though. Did you see Hyde with a boy who has black hair and a white streak in it? If you did, I know where they might’ve gone.” Mahiru told him.

“I’m sorry if my brother has been causing you trouble in class. Wrath talked to him about starting fights but he doesn’t listen. He has gotten better since he entered your class though.” He said. His parents had abandoned them when they were kids so Kuro had become a guardian to his younger siblings. It was a struggle to balance a job and taking care of his siblings. He was glad that Mahiru was Hyde’s teacher so he knew he had someone looking out for him while he was working.

“He’s a good kid. I think he starts all those fights because he wants attention so I suggested he start a drama club with his friends. He has been trying to get Licht to join his little club. Oh, Licht is the black haired boy that I mentioned earlier. I’ll tell you about their adventures later. Are you free after school?” He asked.

“Thanks for looking out for my brother. You said that you were taking these boxes to the field. I’ll help you carry them.” Kuro took a few boxes from Mahiru and they walked towards the track. He glanced down at Mahiru in the corner of his eyes and thought of how his soft eyes reflected his personality. “I promised my siblings I would take them out to eat after the sports festival. Do you want to join us?”

“I would love to.” Mahiru nodded. They talked about their different jobs as they walked. “Teaching has been more interesting this year. Hyde likes acting in plays more than sports but he seemed excited for today. He said his brother would be joining the events. I was a little surprised since you said exercise was ‘troublesome’ to you.”

“I can be persuaded to run an obstacle course. Hyde needed a family member to partner with for the race and everyone else was busy.” He said with a shrug. Family had always been important to both of them and Mahiru was glad they shared that value.

“Kuro, focus! You need to pass me the baton properly for the obstacle course!” Hyde whined and repeatedly tugged on his pants. The event would start soon and he wanted to discuss strategies they could use. He looked up at his brother and then followed his gaze to see what had Kuro’s attention. “Why are you staring at my teacher?”

“I wasn’t staring.” He answered and then knelt in front of Hyde so they were eye level. “This festival is for fun so you don’t need to put so much importance on winning. Just do your best.”

“You’re saying that as an excuse because you don’t want to run fast. I care about winning!” Hyde pouted. He subtly glanced to Licht and Kuro noticed the blush his brother had. Did he have his first crush? His suspicion was confirmed when Hyde muttered. “He said he would join my drama club if I can win first place in the obstacle race.”

“Is that what this is about? Fine, I’ll try.” He stood and Hyde immediately tugged his hand to take him to the track. As he walked with Hyde, his eyes met Mahiru’s who smiled back at him. Kuro understood how Hyde felt since a part of him wanted to win the race to impress Mahiru.

Other families were already standing on the starting line. The obstacle course was one of the events where parents could participate with their children. When he was Hyde’s age, their father wouldn’t go to Kuro’s school events. He thought it was important to support his siblings due to that. Hyde excitedly told him about his plan to go through the obstacles and Kuro nodded along with him.

He turned away when he heard Mahiru’s voice over the speaker. “The obstacle course will start soon. Will the participating students please go to the blue line? Their family member must stand on the green line behind them. When I blow the whistle, the parents will pass the baton to the children. Then, they’ll go through the course and tag their partner. Lastly, their guardian will come to me and pick out a paper from this box. Bring the object written to the finish line and you’ll win.”

Mahiru waited until all of the participants were ready before he brought the whistle to his lips. He blew into the whistle and the race started. He watched Kuro run forward and outpace the others. A large part of Mahiru wanted to cheer for Kuro but he stopped himself. As a teacher, he didn’t want to appear biased. He silently cheered when Kuro was the first one to reach the blue line.

With the lead Kuro gave him, Hyde dashed through the hurdles until he made his way around the track. He tagged Kuro’s back but the action resembled a shove. Kuro jogged to the box next to Mahiru and took out a slip of paper. As he read the note, his brows furrowed and Mahiru wondered what his item was. Kuro looked towards him and their eyes met.

“What is it?” Mahiru assumed the paper he pulled said he needed a whistle or something similar.

“I need you.” Kuro took his hand and started to pull him towards the finish line. While Mahiru was confused, he let himself be taken away by Kuro and ran beside him. His hand felt strong and warm around his. They crossed the finish line and a horn blared over them, signalling that they had won.

The race was over but he hadn’t let him go yet. Mahiru didn’t pull his hand away though. He lightly squeezed his hand to make Kuro look down at him. “Congratulations, Kuro. I have to see the paper you drew to make sure you brought the right item first.”

Kuro blushed and took out the slip of paper from his pocket. He placed it in Mahiru’s hand and wondered how he would react to it. A sun was written on the paper. He had always thought that his bright smile resembled the sun so he took him to the finish line. Mahiru’s eyes widened before his face softened into a smile. “When I wrote this, I thought the person would take one of the sun decorations we put up. But I’ll count this. It’s kind of sweet to be called a sun.”

#servamp #kuromahi #sloth pair #servamp kuro #mahiru shirota #fanfiction