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nights-nonsensical-ramblings · 5 months

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When people line up Sonic and mlp characters I always see Knuckles being teamed up with Applejack (my two favourites, yay!)

These two stubborn, strong, hard working cool hat wearers would be great friends.

Both of them are so done with everyone's bs and should've had a nap hours but their friends keep getting into nonsense and they're the ones left to deal with it. (Of course they're not immune to being the ridiculous one and have caused their fair share of nonsense themselves)

These two are both the ones who take on way too much work and stubbornly insist they can handle it. Aj has the responsibility of running the farm and works hard to maintain sweet apple acers and Knuckles has the responsibility of guarding the Master Emerald and works hard to maintain Angel Island.

It would also be pretty funny for these two to be in a situation where they need to lie for whatever reason. They're both so bad at lying and it could be so entertaining to watch them stumble over their words and do their best but fail spectacularly.

And on that note I can picture a moment where Sonic and Rainbow did a thing and Applejack tells it to them that "That was just about the worst idea you've ever had. What the hay were you two thinking." And then Knuckles, no hesitation calls them "Dumbasses"

But Knuckles would would definitely feel out of place with how big a focus Applejack has on family and how he grew up completely alone. But could lead to a super wholesome moment of AJ telling him he's always welcome in the Apple family and then he proceeds to get adored by them.

I have lots more more thoughts on these two but I also really want to see is between Knuckles and Fluttershy.

I SO want these two to be besties. Sitting quietly together surrounded by little creatures because they found everyone else too much and needed some space. (social anxiety buds)

I'm picturing a scenario where at first Fluttershy is intimidated and nervous around Knuckles cuz she witnesses him snapping at Sonic or something but then he disappears from the group at some point and she goes looking for him to make sure he's okay, and then she finds him nearby calmly chatting with some of the local animals and letting them climb and sit on him. So then she goes over and the two enjoy each others quiet company far away from the others who can be a bit much and overbearing at times.

And even though he's got quite a temper Knuckles is super kind-hearted and put that next to Fluttershy who's often shy and meek but also has the incredibly kind heart and you've got two super kind characters who still contrast each other.

It was fluttershy's kindness that put discord on the path to reformation and Knuckles has the whole thing of believing there is good in people and how often he jumps to save his enemies.

You know what. these three would be such a nice trio that balance each other out and could be so fun together.

Although Knuckles and Applejack both being stubborn at the same time would be a such a bother for Fluttershy to deal with. But her being one of the few people who can get them to let up could be so cute

AH! I am really starting to adore this trio I have lots more thoughts as well as some thoughts for other characters but i'll save that for another post.

#knuckles the echidna #fluttershy #applejack #night's sonic stuff #night's mlp stuff #mlp

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whirligig-girl · 10 months

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One of my biggest and best commissions yet. Torchship: Forbidden Space cover art, commissioned by Gorn. This cover art is for an audio drama podcast taking place in the same universe as @torchship-rpg, following the crew of the Mary Gilham-32. I'll let Gorn explain:

The year is 2169. The place? The Aquilian De-militarized Zone. All that stands between Humanity and a Second Aquilian War. A buffer zone encompassing countless stars and civilisations, cut off from the greater galaxy by a crumbling treaty. It falls to the four Cosmonauts of stealth-rocket Mary Gillham-32 to explore this Forbidden Space. To find new friends, to supply aid to those who need it, to discover the wonders of the universe. And all without starting a shooting war with the Divine Aquilian Empire. Introducing: Torchship: Forbidden Space. A scripted, fully casted audio drama. The pilot episode, 'The Quality of Mercy', will release later this month on spotify, itunes, youtube, and any podcast host you can think of. Thumbnail art by the excellent Luna Rose

Announcement on twitter:

I had a lot of fun with this. Gorn was great to work with, and I got feedback from the voice actors for their character designs. Although I was given a framework, a lot of the character design was my own work and I'm quite happy with the result.

The characters are cosmonauts in the Interstellar Union of Republics' Star Patrol. They are flight engineer Holmes, an old Aquillian War veteran and cyborg, astrogator and psychic Martin (who is not from Mars), Yureli, the Martian hacker signals specialist, and Stevens, the welsh doctor. And don't forget the Mary Gilham-32, the faster than light stealth rocket ship.

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Large text reads Torchship Forbidden Space. Digital art drawing with black background. A rocket ship with two rocket nacelles with glowing red lights on the front, and two warp drive rings, is in the background. In the foreground are four Star Patrol Cosmonauts. Holmes, a very tall bald woman with cybernetic implants and an orange engineering jumpsuit. An orange robotic arm similar to that on a mars rover or space shuttle Canadarm is perched on her shoulder. She looks at the viewer sternly, with a yellow glowing eye. Martin, a purple-eyed woman wearing a navy blue astrogation minidress, is on one knee and holding an ACER laser pistol, looking half-lidded at the viewer. A blue-green wispy aura or halo surrounds her head. Yureli, a short curvy woman in signals purple jumpsuit with a cute face and octagonal glasses, is kneeling and paying attention to a bulky scanning device with some cassette tapes. Stevens, a man with a goatee in mint-green medical jumpsuit, looks smugly at the viewer with his hands behind his back.

#Torchship #Torchship TTRPG #Torchship: Forbidden Space #Torchship Podcast #podcast #art #commission #rocket #rocket ship #stealth ship #spacecraft #starship #cosmonaut #astronaut

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tgsofu · 8 months

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*breathes* Ok ok social media exists, time for my annual attempt at something resembling activity!

I have drawn shittons... too much to upload BUT what I can upload are my entries thus far for this nice oc-tober made by @bweirdart!

Fave OC: Kai

Good ol Acer tho I'm trying hard to train my brain to start using his reboot name Kai!

2. New OC: Phoebe

Phoebe is a passionate over-achiever who lives off fiction and posesses crazy amounts of trivia covering all of his favourite media works. As a Chosen One, she is driven by her will to learn, experience and interact with as many of her many favourite worlds and characters as possible. As a competitive person she strives to "100% complete" everything she does or learns, and as such is bound to be a very formidable hero.

3. Old OC: Judge

Once the first resident and founder of Garden, she has since come to regret everything that came out of it. Now, she seeks to wipe the slate clean and erase the mistake of her own making.

4. Re-design: Riku

In the olden days, Riku started out as a crackship child in a collaborative impro story, which I've remodeled into an original story with revamped characters.

Riku is one of the last remaining embodiments of two worlds come together, and is seeking a way to restore the connection between the two -- no matter the cost.

5. Relationships: The Garden Gang

This story has too many main characters with too many unknown dynamics, I tried to help myself figure that out with this one. Gods, don't spend too much time trying to decipher this one.

6. Symbol Skipped to do a bday art piece for @kaikkivoipasaatana! I know a lot of you fell headover heels for Astarion, but I'm sorry, her OC Zaiku and Astarion are the one true fated pair and you can never convince me otherwise

7. Personality: The Garden Gang

Same as with the relationships, these guys despertately require fleshing out!

8. Past: Phoebe Phoebe (Phantom☆) and Felix (Nate)

Lived out their childhoods joined at the hip, playing games and consuming media!

9. Future: Phantom☆ and Nate After losing contact for some years, they're back together and ready to end the world!

10. Palette week #1: In the woods

This one was just speeddoodle thing since I was very tired in the evening lol

#bweirdoctober #oc-tober #oc-tober2023 #doodled bs #kai #will #phoebe #judge #astarion #garden #nate #stella nova #neocos #new universe #new universe humanoids #also oops wrong blog at first gomen

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sasoxichomoshi · 2 months

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there's something so charming about hunter, but in a soothing way

it doesnt mean she cant be silly ofc, but her eyes reflect so much of her moods and personality

when she's with the eagle she looks calm and gentle and much of the expressions she makes are towards the eagle; when nimue gets the bird, when the godslayer stuns the eagle and got one of the flaps and at the end of the game when he corrupts the eagle completely there were always a close at her face to show us how worried hunter was towards her friend

it's as if the eagle highlights hunter in some way, cause if you think about it hunter is not really an important person; she's an outsider and a stranger, and eagle mother is there not only to push her forwards, but she also works like this excuse to develop what lies inside hunter - her feelings

the more i think about, like no human(oid) character in the pathless have a mouth, which is an interesting decision - may it be because the animator said "nuh uh i aint doing this" or because they had other intentions - having no mouth makes it harder to humanize a character cause to do so you work around facial expression mostly

for characters like the diver or the little guy from journey it works cause humanizing them is not the focus - they are vessels for the player to experience the message of the game, much like a blank page, but hunter is a more defined type of character, she's not only for the player to control; there are instance where she speaks for herself (literally), she reacts towards her environment (like when she groans when she hits the ground), it's a bit of "i exist in relation to others" kind of thing i dont even know if this explanations make sense

the thing is, if you gonna hide the mouth (and it's funny cause they got rid of the mouths but not of the speech), to deliver something believable you have to put extra attention in other places, like eyes (which is probably the reason why they made her eyes big, for emphasis) and corporal expression (i love all of hunter animations like ALL of them, the idles are so cool and my favorite has to be the climbing one HAVE YOU SEEN THAT CREATURE)

another aspect that locks my eyes on hunter is her color palette; she feels a bit like 60% red and 40% black which an almost dangerous distribution cause it gets near the boring looking too evenly palette, but i feel like this problem is partially solved by the color choice cause black and red is very iconic (but i see that this can be subjective, so take it with a grain of salt)

to give some examples: im typing from an nitro acer (black red palette), you can see cars with that bright red (+black of the tires), and i can name a few characters with red+black combination, like matoi ryuko from kill la kill, kaguya, that masochist from that cassino games school (she's iconic i will recognize but i wont lose my time googling it i dont wanna know details about that anime)

(also if i had to point a match for hunter from another media....... kikyo my beloved i fucking love you my gay awakening i kept watching inuyasha cause i wanted to see you on my screen omg)

but at the same time her color scheme puzzles me: what does it mean? usually color is used for storytelling or readability purposes

hunter red black contrasts very well against the greens/whites/oranges of the landscape, mostly bc it's highly saturated; but then you get to the boss fight and......

i know that the boss fights dont take as many screen time as exploration but considering that they are the action moment hmm idk the math aint mathing here

well what's about storytelling? a bit of the same problem shown on the above image; hunter shares the color scheme with the corrupted tall ones and godslayer which makes things even more confusing

(seriously am i stupid and didnt see the obvious hint everyone else saw and im just here staring at the walls idk)

that said i have come up with my own worms to explain this and it comes down to: it's not from the land/natural

godslayer and the corrupted tall ones shouldnt exist, they are not natural to this world and actually an evil twist of the reality; hunter not necessarily is corrupted, but is also not natural (from the island), she's an outsider, it's about this feeling of not-belonging

however in the end of the day the color choice is also about readability and keeping things cohesive; stretching the color palette of the entire game just to give hunter a different look would do more damage than helping, imagine changing to something not that far like a pink or yellow, things still would change drastically

in the end i still love hunter very much ma babegurl <3 sillly stupid<333 my dear blorbo<333 hope she finds a lot of hobbies <33333

#TP #demon speaks #hunter

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mizukagami-takamagahara · 10 months

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Entropy Effect coverage; Pt. I

A day into playing the game, reviews of the game are skill expressing a lot of doubt as to whether or not Entropy Effect was ever meant to be a BlazBlue game in the first place. I'm still wondering if the BB IP was slapped on due to executive meddling and media company's modern trend towards an extreme reluctance to release new IPs.

As I understand it at this time, Entropy Effect's story is unrelated to BlazBlue's. However, as I said in a previous post, I do see how the two narratives are thematically compatible. Ultimately I'm not sure how long I'll be covering Entropy Effect, as I don't entirely consider it a BlazBlue game, but for now I'm committed enough to uncovering its secrets.

So, let's take a look at the story so far!

The SkysEyes entity that I read as godlike from the trailers seems to be some sort of company. It may be what manufactures all of the robots and runs the city in humanity's absence, judging by the SKYSEYES decal printed onto the bodies of several of the robots we meet. When the protagonist asks an NPC if they "believe in SkysEyes" in the trailer, they were likely asking if the NPC trusted their mysterious overlords, as even just a half hour into the game, they're already starting to look a little suspicious.

But speaking of the city SkysEyes seems to run, I'd theorized before that the stages were we battle and play as BB characters were likely simulations- but it seems that the entire setting is one. Characters within the story refer to it as "a virtual world."

Also something I discussed in my pre-release coverage, the character we play as is called ACER. As I thought, this isn't a name, but a term used to describe "those who participate in the ACE Mind Training program." The 'ACE Mind Training program' is the in-universe term for the roguelite gameplay; it's the little battle simulations we do as the BB cast.

Though this seems to be a well known part of the setting's reality, at the start of the game our player character (our ACER) responds as if they've never been called by that term before.

They react to every new concept of Mind Training as if they're extremely new to the idea, and they're surprised (or doubtful, depending on the response selected by the player) to hear that they have a particular talent for it.

Some hints are starting to emerge that this isn't their first time going through all this, though. When we talk to an entity on the second floor (that another character very suspiciously insists doesn't exist) they greet us as if they already know us- while the protagonist seems entirely confused.

We also see this ridiculously high counter during our interaction with them. It looks like the counter we've seen ticking up in trailers for the game.

It's all very strange. Unfortunately, I don't have any more information on it at this time, so let's move on to something else; the gameplay loop, and its purpose in the story.

We know what Mind Training is, sort of, but why are we, the character, doing it? Our ACER seems to hint at a rumor that "Mind Training can help [someone] resist Entropy Particles," a substance that corrupts one's mind. With what little we know about them this early into the game, they remind me a little bit of the psychological effects of Seithr poisoning. Look at Roy's descent into madness. But that's just a theory- where I am now, I have yet to actually see anyone 'corrupted by Entropy Particles.' The connection may not have even come to my mind if this game didn't carry the BlazBlue title.

As for the idea that the Mind Training simulations prevent whatever cruel fate is brought on by Entropy Particles, our guide (a representative of the ACE program) expresses that this theory isn't perfect. It isn't a guaranteed cure or defense against the corruption, but it's currently the only treatment that has been found to work at all.

The fact that the protagonist asks about this, and is participating in the Training in the first place, makes me think that they are already suffering from this mysterious condition. Is everyone in this virtual world 'sick' with it, or only a select few? How does it spread? Is this something that only affects robotic/simulated creatures, like our cast, or is it affecting people in the material world so as to necessitate the creation of this entire simulation to treat it?

Right now, I've got no idea. I do wonder, though, if this could explain the discrepancies between the protagonist acting as if this is all brand new to them vs the setting hinting at the fact that we've done all this many times before. Do Entropy Particles interfere with memory?

#blazblue entropy effect #bb meta #ao no imakagami #bbee

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glaive-guisarme · 2 years

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Y'all know me and my general reluctance to Do A Capitalism, but like. It's the time and I'm trying to buy my wife a new computer so here I am, Doing A Capitalism. Everything is half off, plus a completely ridiculous "buy it allllll" which amounts to about 75% off.

Highlights include:

By the Author of Lady Windermere's Fan, which is the best RPG ever made about Oscar Wilde plays. This one, in addition to being a hilarious and exhausting game that will resonate with the theater kids in the audience, is just a very funny read.

Penis 2.0.77, which is not a "game" so much as it is a zine full of jokes about genitals. Finish off the elaborate character creation for a game that doesn't exist, entirely focused on your underwear zone.

Let's Rob RJ McElhenny and Steal Her Golden Quill, which... hold up, let's check and see if Rowling has said anything this week which makes me want to cry and puke... checking... checking... and yes, of course she did, which means this game is a fucking evergreen catharsis fantasy of wizards robbing a terrible billionaire.

You're all lost, starving, in the snowy wilds. You need food. You must sacrifice somebody. But who? Discuss. Vote. Live., which is a game whose entire text consists of that title, which maxes out the "title field" length when uploading to itch. That was made for a jam and damn if I'm not proud.

o tawa, which is to the best of my knowledge the first and only RPG written from the ground up in Toki Pona. sona mi la, musi ni li musi wan taso lon toki pona taso. musi la, sina ken tawa lon telo suli, li ken lukin e ma telo nasa, li ken pana e pona tawa jan ale. kin la, sina jo e wawa nasa kepeken nimi pi toki pona. It's a cool way to practice the language if you're learning it!

Wooden Sword Thespians, which is just me going "Thirsty Sword Lesbians is pretty fun but what if instead of powerful adventurers defending your community from toxic threats, you were trying to put on a high school production of A Midsummer Night's Dream?"

And more! There's a Disco Elysium game, a Locked Tomb game, a Next Generation game, and weirder little games besides.

Check it out. Get some games at some discounts. Laugh at my little japes and jests. Get my wife an Acer Aspire TC so she can play Binding of Isaac while she's supposed to be working. Engage in Capital with me.

#indie rpg #sales #doing a capitalism #ttrpg #oscar wilde #That TERF who wrote those wizard books #toki pona #thirsty sword lesbians #trans #i mean i shouldn't have to specify it but the penis game is mega trans #i guess so is the robbing jk rowling game #i mean they're all trans like i wrote them right?

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asksoldieron · 8 months

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SO-7: Prokovia Welcomes the ND Avengers!

If there's a lot of engagement on this, this post is liable to get real long, beware before you expand.

Welcome to the Engagement Lounge, for Les Imbeciles Abroad (SO-7) an instalment! Short comments can go in the replies, but there's a 475 character limit. Longer ones will need a reblog. Remember to @asksoldieron if you're reblogging someone else's reblog, so I can see it too!

Woo! Got a lot of art in this one. I've been slacking off on illustrations for a long time. I like drawing, ya know, if it doesn't hurt.

It still hurts a little, but I'm working on it!

Everyone gets a banner!

Hyacinth!

The General!

Maggie!

Ann and Milo!

Mordecai!

And, because turnabout is fair play - the day clerk who disapproves of them all!

I had a lot of fun with these. Paint.net is way more versatile than I expected. They came out very similar to the genuine examples I was able to find online, oversaturated colours, inconsistent styling and all. I'm tempted to do everyone's character info with banners like these, except these aren't their real talents, just what Miss Mila thinks of them.

I'm feeling the peer pressure to go to Procreate like all the real artists I know of, but I already know how to make Paint.net sit up and bark like a little dog. I'm not thrilled with Windows 11, but Apple has been caught releasing updates that gank their older devices on purpose, and I like longevity - especially if I'm going to shell out for a nicer machine. It'll either be something with 16 gigs of RAM, or a slightly older, open box iPad. I'm leaning towards an Acer Spin 3, I like the screen ratio, but I'll have to see how the Cyber Monday/post-Xmas prices look.

I can do higher res images with 8 gigs, as you see above, but I get hiccups and slow loading. My tablet is just about 4 years old, and I got a cheap one because I wasn't sure if I'd like drawing on it. I like it! I know I like it now! Thanks to my Patrons for helping to defray the cost - you've taken a chunk out of my web hosting fees, and I feel less guilty spending a bit more for a nicer computer. You deserve high res, printable art! I'll try to get it to you!

I cleaned up the comments, cleared out the spoilers, and got rid of most of the "this is broken, what do?" notes. You'll have to switch to dark mode to see 'em, and new ones should go here, because WP is being stupid. ("This is broken" can go in a message, unless it's really complicated.) Speaking of which, the theme coughed up another update so... That's either going to fix some things or break more - or both!

[Back to Site?]

#tin soldier and soldier on #instalment #engagement lounge #art #art deco look #freakshow banners

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tris-acer · 9 months

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At Your Own Risk

I have decided to actually go for it.

Still Tristan Acer but he is not as warm and cuddly as my main gentle giant Tristan.

This Tristan:

Merc - He is what you need him to be; a killer, an informant, a 'cleaner' that gets rid of fuck ups/mistakes/evidence.

Dangerous.

Looks that could get others in trouble.

Will do what needs to be done if the price is right.

He is a gentleman if not provoked.

Fuck around and find out.

Obviously a lot more darker themes could be involved but he is not some serial killer or unhinged monster. He will respect your character's position/rank/etc but don't expect him to bow to their will easily. Even he follows certain etiquettes. Which is part of the reason he is still in business.

Other:

NSFW obviously

Can be shipped with for sure. He may actually show a different side if things develop in such a way to allow it (Approach me for developing or established stuff if you want)

Your character is free to see him as an enemy or ally or whatever. He can be injured, arrested, slept with etc. This is what RP is about, yeah? Explore, develop and have fun.

Feel free to discuss stuff with me. I am always willing to brainstorm and do stuff.

Please indicate which Tristan you want to interact with so I don't accidentally give you asshole over here if you wanted far kinder one. I will work on a way to make this process easier.

So this is just some rough idea of what to expect. This is to challenge myself and have fun while doing it. I am so used to writing non-asshole characters so it is not in my nature to be an asshole so this will be fun and interesting.

Been years since I have RPed such a character so I am looking forward to see this through.

Will tweak stuff as time allows me to make my blog reflect all this more...or just give him his own blog. Not sure yet.

#Tris: At your own risk #That tag right there is for the less gentle more cold and dangerous Tristan #Main Tris will get his own tag to distinguish even more

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sherrifdoggo · 9 months

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The Map's Setting, A History

Long Talky One Again, this time it's gonna get autobiographical.

So, as i've eluded to in the past, the map (rp_chicago, see previous posts) is not say in our 1930s. It's set in my funny lore setting that i've been cultivating for the past few years that even though has had more abandonded projects tied to it than i can count still doesn't have a name that isn't a working title.

Ladies, Gentlemen and Etceras, It is my honor to present my baby to the world,

The Staten Island Universe

Yes the name sucks and makes you ask more questions than a title should, but there's a fun story behind the bizarre name i promise. Anyways here i go.

The beginings of the Staten Island universe started back in my highschool days, when i used to DM some D&D for a big friend group i had. One day, after playing too much Grand Theft Auto on my PS4 (This was in 2017? or so i think), i had a moment where the stars aligned.

What if i made a D&D campaign set in a modern crime story, without removing all the D&D elements.

And so it was, i never finished it, but we did play an unfinished version of it a couple times and it was very enjoyable. Specially the quest where you had to kill a bard with an electric guitar in the abandoned times square toys-r-us.

Unluckly, me sucking at math caused my grades to slump and now i had less time to make more D&D shit, and ended up throwing the whole project away in the dreaded vault of dead projects.

Now skipping ahead a couple years and it's my last semester of high school, in 2020. So i'm locked in my room pretending to be paying attention to whatever the teacher was saying (maybe related to my slumped grades from above) and making a new D&D campaign that my friends and i were gonna run over the internet this time. The plot of it was unimportant but what was important was my recent (at the time) acquisition of my current computer and a vr headset.

Before i got the VR headset, and around the time I upgraded from a ok-ish Acer Nitro 5 gaming laptop to this thing, i was making a really shit gmod map.

Stallen Island i called it,

and it was my headcannon version of what the missing part of New York City (Staten Island) would look like in GTA IV's map, of course with nowhere near the amount of skill and art-direction to pull it off in fucking Gmod, but i tried my best.

Eventually i got bored of making this map, and/or ran out of ideas for it so i receded into doing whatever it is i did for fun back then. Until my high school friends contacted me over the internet.

They wanted to play some more D&D over the internet, so i obliged. I made them a new campaign and had a silly little idea for it. What if all the maps for it were actually gmod maps instead of PNGs.

These are my only published maps, The D&D map collection.

Info about them individually on their pictures, but i did actually get to play it with them and they enjoyed it very much.

But...

Around the same time i had finally gotten my VR Headset. And i'd been playing a lot of Skyrim VR, which influenced the design of this D&D campaign. Specifically I inserted my Khajiit into it, Mr. Ralasajeeno as a Theif.

But all this is just autobiographical shit right what does this have to do with the big name you put in yellow up there?

Well one night i was writting more shit for the campaign when it hit like how the best ideas hit you, blasting directly into your brain at 3AM.

I remembered the other D&D campaign again, and i revived it as a really big design doc i still have on my computer for a open world crime sandbox game that plays like a mix of GTA and D&D / Skyrim, A.K.A. a game that would cost too much time and money for me to ever make.

Every day, i would wake up and add more and more lore, characters, ideas for situations, missions, locations, items and it would grow so god damn big that eventually i felt like i had to make something for it.

So i had an idea, how about i make a new version of that map i mentioned earlier.

It's name was Staten Island, and it fucking rocked

Staten Island was the biggest map i ever made, and i never really finished it.

Not because of a lack of ideas, because i had plenty of ideas for it, i just outgrew it. Though it forever holds a part in my heart as the map that really kickstarted the Staten Island Universe as it's own thing. Many of the things written down in the lore for it are direct from either me needing assets for the map or questions people would ask while playing on it.

Afterwards there were a couple more Modern Staten Island Universe maps. Pictures Here:

Finally, how does Chicago fit into all this?

Well after a really long time of making smaller maps that didn't go anywhere, making other types of addons and being a support dev for other people's addons, i finally had a good idea for a map again.

This map was the current map, Chicago.

I had the idea while playing lots of Mafia: Definitive Edition a couple months back and having a grand old time.

I always wanted to do something in the past of the Staten Island Universe, so the idea was to make this map and then make a couple more maps.

Each map would pick a different time period and location, moving slowly towards today. Chicago is step one of this plan and unlike all these other maps, i do intend on sticking with this one all the way to the finish line.

trust me bro, i swear

please trust me

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morganupstead · 2 years

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Okay, Initial Thoughts on The Rookie Feds: while it's really fresh in my brain.

I really enjoyed the backdoor pilots but I really didn't know what to expect.

I am thoroughly surprised I loved it as much as I did. It has so many parallels to The Rookie and I think that's why I love it so far. It's different but it feels familiar.

Simone is exactly as good as I expected

Laura Stensen is so interesting she has layers I can see already. I think that she and Brandon are gonna be quite good partners

Brandon Acers surprised me. Sometimes new shows take the conventionally attractive guy and make him one-dimensional, but already he has a story. A former actor trying to find his way in a new profession then gets the acting gig he's always wanted. That is going to be a decision to make, and it will flesh out some of who his character is moving on.

Carter has Tim Bradford syndrome. AKA looks all tough on the outside and has a reputation to retain of being all hard but he has way more to him than he projects. I don't think he's going to go and rat on Garza's team...... at least I hope he doesn't.

I like Garza (OOOOH and his niece I love her I didn't catch her name but he has family working for him and I like that parallel between Jackson and his dad). This whole stent thing screams season finale-worthy drama. He's going to get sicker over the course of the season and that will be part of the cliffhanger I can already see it. All I can say for him right now is that he has Aaron Hotchner boss vibes and it's familiar so I like it.

This whole episode was going to make or break if I keep watching Live or if I just stay updated for crossovers......but I liked this episode enough to watch it live next week which means something so I think I'm hooked.

This is the first time in a LONG TIME that I am starting a show from episode 1 season 1 as a brand new show, and now that I think about it this might be the first one.

So now I'm excited to at least try and get this to break some of my ADHD brain blocks.

#the rookie feds spoilers

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mapbotofficial · 2 years

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I've been wondering how this happened from the start honestly

~Mouse

OK. full blog lore time. buckle up this is is long

sooo. friends were making fnaf blogs, and it seemed like fun + id always wanted to run an ask blog since i first heard about them when i was younger!! so THIS WAS IT. my chance to make an ask blog. ask soon as i made the first post i had a realization.

there is. little to nothing you can do with mapbot. theres no character. just 2 lines of dialogue and congrats. you got a map. soo. i carried on the bit for a while, but it obviously got boring. theres not much you can do with just "please take a map" .

so the reasonable thing to do was to mess around like the other blogs had! add something interesting to add to it, have something else be there.

now, at the time my hyperfixations were the magnus archives, and inscryption. so i thought. "wouldnt it be funny. if i made a whole story getting inspiration from those 2 things."

SO. what i did was have mapbot find a stoat. it at first was supposed to be a bit where "oh look! inscryption stoat on the fnaf blog! how silly!" but . for some reason i backed out on that. so: now there was a weird stoat.

then i started to imply that the stoat was a wizard and gave them their name for a joke: geography, or gg for short because , this is still a normal mapbot ask blog i promise. but then i had an idea. i love character design, and why not make a story? just for this blog? so thats what i did.

so, i had gg go into a weird door. and find a weird place. pitch black, and mazelike tunnels. originally, for the character in the tunnels first appearance, they had no name, (referred to by gg as dice). they were ORIGINALLY supposed to be just eyes in the dark, playing some spooky role. that didnt happen. they ended up being irritable and tired, as well as terrible at childrens board games.

when i had gg leave, i started working on proper story concepts. starting with the concept of caretakers.

the concept of the lamplighter was the first role made. acer paraffin maple, with acer and maple being trees that burn well, and paraffin oil being something that is used in oil lamps!

so, fun naming choices. now at this time, id named all my characters.

holly ilex, (hollyberries), laurel noble (bay leaf scientific name. its a water pun for the boat captain), martin carver (he was never seen, but hes a marten. i was tired of making names by the time i got to him)

the last 2 were interesting to design for the caretakers. fir castell, a librarian/archivist? i wasnt sure, and they were named after how fir wood is used for paper, and the faber castell ink brand. but the last caretaker always stumped me. i refered to them simply as 'the stranger', and left it at that.

so by this point, i had all my characters named, but needed personalities as well as designs so i got to it .

holly was inspired by hollyberry cookie in cookie run and a bloodborne outfit??? (yea.) he was the first one designed actually, and his initial appearance and personality are a biiit different from how he looks and is now, being more fancy, as well as more mean.

the stranger was actually the second one designed, despite having no name. a chess computer. they were based on animatronics, and with my love of object head characters, had a screen for a head. this made them unintentionally resemble p03, which is funny

laurel was the 3rd design, and fir the fourth. design wise? these two had the MOST changes compared to everybody else. personalities remained the same but. im gonna doodle a quick sketch for comparison.

lefts the current design which. i think people recognize, and the right is the original. laurel originally had flatter, straighter hair, a MUCH fancier coat (not shown obviously) as well as mime makeup, instead of more clownlike. this actually got changed ONLY when laurel was met in story. i drew what felt right and . now we have laurel as they are presently.

fir however took the longest to get a design for, and it was made on the go. fir was originally not only and object head, BUT, a mongoose?

i dont know what happened for these designs to change in all honesty. dont ask (also fir lost sweater vest permissions. oops)

,,back to the other designs however.

martin, has actually always looked the same since concepts? the only thing thats really changed was his last name. but even then, only by a few letters.

now to acer. despite them being the first character named, they were the last for a design. they were based on a joke character design (who never got named), and overall, hasnt really changed designwise! hell, even the hair color being inspired from toasted marshmallows hasnt changed. there are some design aspects that didnt make the cut, but did actually go to a DIFFERENT character later on. (youll see them in the reboot)

so by the time gg had gone into the factory in the story, and onto the boat, the story had been written. for the most part? i was writing whatever i wanted. but the story that HAD been written was fully and entirely, ignored. it was more of a guideline. and next came the first character who wasnt originally designed to appear: sacha

acers sibling. its hair was actually styled similarly to acers, mostly for the hell of it. if i remember right, it was mostly to imitate acer, much to their annoyance. sacha actually got the mime makeup that laurel was originally supposed to have, but in a different style. now while on the boat, i tried to push more for a proper story on the blog (it didnt work), so instead i just. posted. a lot. i also had character background for gg vaguely at this point. and at this point, the archive was about to be visited but there was an issue:

i didnt have a personality or design set for fir. so i had sacha push for rumors about them being 'dangerous'. which now in current lore, is super funny, because those two are close friends, as well as laurels cousin. so to sacha, its a silly joke. to gg? who knows. they might die??

but i cant kill off the main character, i did that in my other story already . so, gg was going to reason with them (somehow). but when writing fir they turned out to be pretty cool so. yea whatever. but something else had happened. i implied that caretaking had some other role. so! i ran with that concept.

now came the concepts for past caretakers. i believe the first one who had a concept was halcyon, the old captain. their original concept was given to a different character (and then a different one later). the second lewis, whos design was given to ANOTHER DIFFERENT CHARACTER. and sydney. who stayed the same.

its hard to describe the original concepts i had with those 3. it was so specific in my head that i really didnt know what to do with them. so i didnt do anything. easy fix.

another lore thing was: gg didnt like holly, or more specifically, the woods. they didnt want to go there, but they didnt want to go to the other location . so they chose to go to the woods.

the other location, being THEIR HOME, they didnt go to because uh. they didnt exactly want to be known. they didnt like their family, and felt overshadowed by them. so they left to be an apprentice for holly, maybe to replace him someday. but, now heres the interesting part.

so, holly, as the hunter, hunted. obviously. its in the name. now gg, had set up traps in certain areas, unknown to holly. holly, when messing around and basically playfighting with another caretaker, who never had a name . for some reason.

the other caretaker fell into a trap, and you can take a guess how well that went.

holly, having frequently lied in the past to help cover other peoples mistakes, wasnt exactly believed. seeing how gg had left for the woods, and was never seen by anybody again? it didnt look good for him . so at that point, none of the formerly VERY close caretakers got along that well. gg, was infact. syzygy. thats what their name was. it just happened to be that geography being shortened to gg worked out in their favor.

is the above being kept in the new lore? kinda! youll see lol

now some other characters were written in concepts, being

swilla, magnus, gunpowder, sycamore, willow, and two characters who would later be named cesar and merlot.

NOW. then we have the OLD caretakers. the original ones. they were written in later (with the concepts changed.) around when this blog was SUPPOSED to be in temporary hiatus (its getting rebooted. yea.)

sycamore, amelia, lucas, charles, miriam, and fern. of course, those characters have been changed for the reboots lore and plot but. thats about it really?

here in a bit i miiight make a different post showing assorted concept art of things . like THE REAL behind the scenes YIPPEE

anyways. thats about it???

IN SUMMARY: it was a joke that got really out of hand and now im attached to these characters

#mod asks #THIS TOOK SO LONG TO WRITE. HELP #if this reads weird i didnt proofread any of it #I KNOW THIS WAS PROBABLY ASKING FOR THE ORIGINS OF THINGS BUT. LISTEN #IVE WANTED TO EXPLAIN WHATEVER THE HELL WAS GOING ON FOR SO LONG

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abouttemperedgrace · 3 years

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Global Confederate and Amity Enforcers

This is somewhat important, because both my 'protags' work with G.C in close proximity. Since it is relevant, it obviously, is not set in stone (nothing important ever is, this is an ever-evolving project). I'd like to share what I have so far. It echoes of anime, and rank systems stolen from existing militaristic organisations. G.C is a lot of things, being and being an Amity Enforcer (Acer) is a long-haul process. Hit me up if you've had a chance to go through this and have ideas about how I could flesh it out some more. Details below the cut!

Global Confederate's motto is: Conscience. Concordance. Cognizance. Their M.O is to try mould their Acers young. Scattered all over the world (at least one per Region), they have, G.C Academies, that are half/full-Boarding schools. They are highly competitive to get into. One needs excellent mean of their 'Genetic and practical-applicability score' to make it in. Usually, G.C academy graduates get (especially those that have done well), get a preferential spot in G.C Universities. G.C Universities have open call-outs for students all over the world, but those who are not Academy graduates very rarely clear the qualifications examinations and that is if they have the pre-requisites to apply. G.C universities are equipped with the best research labs and offer cutting edge higher education. It is also where Amity Enforcers (should someone choose to be one) are further trained and start interning/practising. Amity Enforcers, and other staff/S.P.A.C.C company workers get to enjoy the perks of the G.C Facilities, which offer state of the art residences and healthcare access.

More about Amity Enforcers (Acers)

The goal of Amity Enforcers is to: Identify radicals that pose a global threat. Dismantle organised crime and/or resistances that are deemed to be seeding chaos and seem to have no plausible, verifiable, singular cause. Resolving inter-sector conflict and situations. Providing aid in the event of disasters etc. So there is variance between the role and operations of on Acer from another.

Amity Enforcers - Ranking Passing the initial screening [usually conducted straight out of the academy] puts an Acer at Rank 0 and they hold minimum jurisdiction over civilians. Subsequently, Ranking up comes with its own perks and each Rank holds power over the ones below. Each rank-up needs an accumulation of 180 credits. Academic Clearance/Teaching/Research can get a person maximum 90 credits per year. Mission Volunteering can get a candidate another 90 credits per year [This would depends on field and level/area of expertise+Patrol hours.] So, a person can rank up maximum once per year, and this is deemed quite difficult and time consuming. P.S - I'm mostly focusing on the weapons each rank has access too, and these are not the perks I'm referring to above. I want to make it clear that it is not to diminish the brutality that we as a global community have been dealing with and rightfully protesting against in our current times. In my fictional world, this access to these weapons is very regulated. Use of the weapons is monitored and always needs to be explained. Apart from that, the focus here is primarily because sometimes I imagine anime-esque battle scenes and its good to know what my characters, or those around them would be wielding based on their ranks or who they are working with. Rank 0 - Ensigns. Rank 1 - Recruits. Blunt subduing melee weapons. [Prod-batons/tasers] Rank 2 - Cadets. Customised sharp subduing melee weapons. Rank 3 - Officers. Customised non-lethal ranged weapons. [Tranquil darts] Rank 4 - Lieutenants. Non-lethal crowd-control. [akin to Smoke bombs. Tear gas.] Rank 5 - Captains. Customised lethal ranged weapon. [Guns etc] Rank 6 - Majors. Area tech interruptions Rank 7 - Colonel. Non-lethal knock-out explosives. Rank 8 - Generals. Larger tech interruption. Drones, surveillance, Rank 9 - Commanders. Lethal Crowd-control weapons [Small Explosives] Rank 10 - Junior Council Member. [Seat on the table obtained as per availability, requirement and individual prowess] Lethal crowd control [Larger areas] [+3 more years of service as Junior Council member, leaves a person eligible for:- Senior Council Member. As a SCM, one can have access to any an all records of any person. [+6 more years of service as a Senior Council Member] on becomes eligible for Council Leader. (High ranking S.P.A.N.C.C employees and people in leadership positions are often also part of the council.)

#Tempered Grace #original content #writing #Global confederate and amity enforcers #acers #some of my characters work as acers #so this is fun stuff to know I think #hit me up if you have more ideas on how I can flesh this out #T.G Organisations

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bunny-rambles · 2 years

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May I request a building a snowman with aether , albedo , kazuha ?

Btw this is my first time requesting

🌸anon

✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*✧･ﾟ

Notes: hello dear new anon, I hope you stick around~ I’m not too familiar with aether if I’m being honest? But I’ll try him out anyway, apologies if his turns out to be out of character. The format is a little different as it’s more than 2 characters, so it may be a little shorter? Ahh, I love the snow, I was very happy about this request. I hope you enjoy!

CW/TW: Aethers is a little sad if you squint

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“Do you wanna build a snowman?”

VIATOR;

Snowman Paimon? Snowman Paimon

She would be so angry hjhigffcf did you see her reaction to Aethers drawing she would expect a masterpiece and nothing less

Aether with snowflakes in his hair is just,,, wow. He’s definitely from ‘another world’ because no one looks as good as he does in this one. Prince vibes!!

I do have a feeling that the snowman snowpaimon would look very lopsided but Aether would have that proud little smile on his face and you just,,, how could you tell him it looked like a disaster? You don’t. You can’t. it’s impossible

Also is Aether affected by the cold? He wears a crop top in Dragonspine. That scarf is not going to keep the rest of your body warm sir. iknowyoucan’tchangeoutfitsshh

After you two have finished, he decorates it with some twigs and stones, which makes it look even more like a train wreck but you don’t comment on that

But there’s this… Sad smile on his face. You know what he’s thinking about

Your hand reaches out towards his own, cradling it and intertwining your fingers.

“I’m sure Lumine would like it, too…”

He’s so grateful for you in that moment, that he doesn’t have to pretend he’s not affected by losing his sister

He gently squeezes your hand, a silent ‘thank you’ for being there for him

PRINCEPS CRETACEUS;

There’s no ifs, ands or buts about it, Klee is definitely with you guys when you make one

It probably happens because Albedo had to babysit Klee, but was busy with his experiments, and you were assisting him. So, the poor baby was obviously very bored. her bombs were probably confiscated

So, while you two were finally taking a break after hours of non stop experimenting, Klee asks if you guys could make a snowman with her.

As diligent and dedicated to his work as the alchemist is, it’s obvious that he has a soft spot for her, and so he agrees.

He glanced towards you, of course, and asked if you’d like to join. And who are you to say no to two giant pairs of puppy eyes staring back at you? It’s not like you’d refuse anyway.

So here the three of you were, entertaining the little arsonist by building multiple snow-dodocos.

Albedo probably uses a little Alchemy trick to make them come to life for a time, a small smile on his face once he realises how happy Klee was when her snow-dodoco’s started bouncing around.

You three don’t stay out there long though, since you and the young spark knight were beginning to shiver. Since Albedo is used to these temperatures, when he notices you two trembling he’s immediate in his actions in taking your hand in one of his and Klee’s in his other, shuffling back up to his camp quickly.

All three of you definitely snuggle against one another once you get back with some hot cocoa to warm you up. Yeah, snow days with Klee and Albedo are definitely some of the best

ACER PALMATUM;

Does it even snow in Inazuma?

well he is a traveller so

Crafting a snowman with Kazuha is like crafting a work of art

His gentle hands move gracefully, but with purpose. They scoop up mounds of snow and sculpt it in place, smoothing out the edges by sliding them over the already perfect circle.

He’s only building a snowman, and yet it is like he is creating the most beautiful ornament that has ever graced the universe.

You almost feel intimidated to contribute.

But Kazuha is nothing but kind and gentle, so he takes your hand and pulls you down carefully to kneel at his level.

“I sense your hesitation, dove. No need. For it to be truly beautiful, it needs to have your touch.” There’s a soft smile on his face, those rubies in place of his eyes looking at you with nothing but adoration.

It’s just a stupid snowman why are you being so angelic sTOPMYHEARTCAN’TTAKEIT

So, after his reassurance, you placed the small pebbles in your hand on its head to resemble a smiley face, placing the largest one in the middle for its nose, while he placed some on its body for buttons.

When you stepped back, you couldn't help but smile at your little creation.

Kazuha had added some maple leaves on its cheeks for decoration, and you had to admit it looked absolutely adorable.

Snuggles in front of a campfire after yes please

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Extra notes: formatting this was a nightmare,,, But this whole prompt made me very soft yesyes.

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#genshin x reader #albedo x reader #genshin impact x reader #kazuha #kazuha x reader #albedo x y/n #aether x reader #aether #genshin x y/n

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madelineorionswan · 2 years

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A Royal Queen: The journey of a young duchess.

Chapter I: The Abdication

Summary: Life was going great for Madeline as the Duchess of Rosewood from the country of Lornesse. But one signature made by Jacob on a piece of paper changes the entire course of her life.

Warning: Crying, mentions of horse racing accident, maybe some dark stuff? amateur writing of horse racing commentary, angst, swearing and blood.

Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. All of the characters in mention (Except the ones from history) are fictional. The relationships mentioned among these characters aren't real. I am not an expert on history and politics hence the mentions and portrayal of these two subjects are based on my imagination. Events that take place in this story are a work of fiction.

A/N: MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! this is my Christmas gift for everyone. And boy was this painful to write. Hope everyone enjoys this.

"And off they go! Competing for the Yorkshire cup of 1980."

Madeline felt the adrenaline course through her veins as she took off with her horse Star Acer. All of the horses galloped through the race track; all riders were keen on winning.

Madeline whips her reins slightly, signalling Star Acer to gallop faster. In front of her, Madeline could see a fellow racer, Patrick slowing down slightly. This is my chance she thought and kicked the heels of her shoes on the sides of Star Acer who proceeded to close in on the other horse.

"Star Acer no.3 weighted by her Royal Highness, Duchess Madeline of Rosewood closes in on Zepher Breeze No.1 weighted by Sir Patrick Brown," the commentator, Murphy Mcnully announced.

Madeline and Patrick were now neck and neck in the race

"Looks like it's you and me Mads," Patrick yelled over to Madeline. She didn't care. She had known him long enough to know his guileful tricks to topple over other racers.

"I see you've decided to ignore me huh?" Patrick cocked, infuriating Madeline even more.

"Let's just keep to our own rides yeah?" Madeline said, smirking.

She kicked Star Acer's side and the horse strode forward. Cheers erupt from the crowd as Madeline crosses the halfway point.

She was in her zone, the only thing on her mind was the end of the race.

Suddenly there was a scream. Madeline whipped her head around for a second but couldn't make out what was happening. All she saw was Zephyr breeze on the ground

She didn't have to worry for long to find out though.

"Oh looks like a bad hit for sir Patrick Brown's ride Zephyr breeze No.1, there's an 87.9% chance that he won't make it." Murphy, the commentator announced.

Madeline, for a second, wanted to stop. You see, while she might have been competitive as hell, she was also a person who would risk her life to help someone.

"And he's DOWN ladies and gentlemen. Sir Patrick Brown and Zephyr breeze are out of the race." Murphy burst into the mic, startling Madeline slightly.

She returned to her senses and jolted the reins, gripping them tighter whilst Star Acer galloped against the wind.

"Looks like her Royal Highness Princess Anne is closing in on her fellow royal! There's a 78.56% chance that she'll be in the first place, but there's also an 89.7% chance her Royal Highness Duchess Madeline will end up in first place!" Murphy announced, almost literally bouncing on his wheelchair.

"Looks like it's you and me, Anne," Madeline smirked at Anne who mirrored her competitor's expression.

"We'll see who's on top, Orionswan," The young princess cocked back.

"Oh we shall see Windsor," Madeline muttered, still smirking.

"Oh, the pressure is ON. The two royals might be good friends but the competition between them is undeniable," Murphy announced. A lot of "whoops" and "oh"s were heard from the audience, whose eyes were glued to the intense race between the two ladies.

Madeline and Anne turned at the final curb, 250 metres away from the finishing post. Madeline narrowed her eyes and leaned forward slightly keen on winning the Yorkshire cup.

"They've crossed the 250 metres, mark ladies and gents! Looks like it's between these two ladies to win the Yorkshire Cup of 1980!"

Adrenaline coursed through her veins. Madeline could almost feel the tension between the stands and her fellow riders.

"They're almost there ladies and gents! Any second we'll know the winner!"

"Almost there buddy" Madeline grunted into her horse's ear, who snorted.

"Any second now..."

Through the corner of her eye, Madeline saw Anne getting closer to her. She focused on the finishing post, which was almost a feet away.

"3... 2... 1!!!"

Madeline and Star Acer blazed through the finishing line.

"AND she's done it, ladies and gents! The winner of this year's Yorkshire cup is Her Royal Highness Duchess Madeline of Rosewood! The princess Anne finishes closely behind at second place followed by third-place held by Sir Richards!" Murphy announced.

The crowd hadn't stopped cheering ever since Madeline and Star Acer crossed the finishing line. The moment the both of them came to a stop and Madeline realised that she had won, she let out a cheer, despite being quite worn out and breathless.

"Save some for the next race will you," Anne said raising her brow, a smirk on her face.

"And thank you to you too Anne," Madeline chuckled and she dismounted her horse. Anne trotted away with her own ride, possibly to her family.

"Gosh, you were BRILLIANT!!" Madeline turned around and saw a young lady smiling widely.

"DI!!!! you made it," Madeline let out a laugh as Diana, her cousin wrapped her tightly in a hug.

"Honestly, didn't think so myself but I had Sarah let me out for an hour and well, here I am!" Diana chuckled.

"You do know you need to stop doing little favours for Sarah right?" Madeline said and swung her arms across Diana's shoulder who smiled shyly.

They didn't have any more time to converse, unfortunately. The moment Madeline walked up to the stands a tsunami of photographers and members of different press companies swarmed her, all keen to know about her opinion about the victory, amongst other things.

"Wankers," Madeline muttered under her breath. Being a second-born daughter of the Lorneese royal family, who lead her own life, the press had always been an absolute pain to her.

"Madeline!" Diana gasped.

"Sorry, it's just... never mind. I'll talk to you soon." Madeline muttered to her younger cousin. She nodded and wedged herself out of the crowd.

Madeline didn't have any time to even breathe before cameras and mics were shoved her way.

"Sorry no comment," was the answer she gave to all of them Sometimes she had the urge to answer some of those questions, but she knew the consequences of a royal expressing their views in the open.

So she just kept her mouth shut.

Madeline finally managed to get out of the stadium without any major issues. When she came out she was met by a dark-haired bespeckled lady in a formal business uniform. She recognised this person as her secretary and best friend Rowan Khanna.

"There you are Madie! Congratulations on the win!" Rowan said smiling gleefully.

"Thanks, Ro!" Madie smiled. But before Madie could give Rowan a hug they both heard a bunch of screams and lots of footsteps.

Both the girls gave each other a slightly terrified look before breaking into a run.

"See this is why I told you to go out of the other gate!" Rowan whisper yelled.

"I didn't have any opportunity to!" Madeline retorted.

The girls turned sharply at a curb and ran into a dark and dingy street, momentarily throwing the paparazzi off track. Moments later they spotted Madeline's chauffer sitting in a black Mercedes.

The man spotted the ladies and 20 other people running after them with cameras and letter pads in their hands.

"Your royal highness, Ms Khanna, this way," the chauffer ushered the two girls inside the car just in the nick of time.

He pressed on the gas peddle and steered the car towards the left and the car dashed outside the alley. Madeline and Rowan looked through the window a few minutes later to see that they had left the paparazzi left to the dust. Both of them sighed in relief.

"Now, what's on the agenda today?" Madeline asked Rowan.

She turned to Rowan and saw that her face was crestfallen. A pit formed in Madeline's stomach as her eyes widened. She had never seen Rowan with such a serious expression.

Whatever was coming, was bad.

Jacob's POV

I nervously fiddled with the cuffs of my sleeve. It was finally happening. Despite everyone being against my decision, I was finally doing what I had wanted to do.

I was denouncing the throne.

"Your Majesty we're ready for you," Rakepick said.

I turned around and saw my secretary, Rakepick, The prime minister and my grandparents were all standing surrounding a desk.

I sighed and walked up to them. With a curt nod to all of them, I sat down.

"Your Majesty is well aware of the procedures and requirements," Rakepick asked me coldly. I'd never really like Rakepick.

I nodded. The Prime Minister sighed and looked at me grandfather Leonardo. The pair seemed to have a silent conversation before the Prime Minister handed me a long piece of paper.

"These are the abdication papers if his majesty wishes to abdicate..." the prime minister hesitated to continue,

I put up my hand to make him stop. It all felt too gruesome for me. Slowly all of the people, except my grandparents left although all of them still left lingering looks.

I sighed and picked up my pen. Scanning through the papers, I felt a hand on my shoulders. I looked up and saw my grandfather, an earnest look on his face.

"You're absolutely sure about this?" he asked me solemnly.

Suddenly the weight of this situation finally dawned on me. I stared at the papers; specifically at the end of the papers where I would be signing.

I sighed and nodded my head. I looked at my grandfather, who nodded in understanding.

I took a steadying breath and then signed my name in the papers. Finally, it was done. Both my grandparents went outside, probably talking about other business things.

Soon there was the loud booming of thunder. I looked up and saw the sky darken and rain pelted down. Then I was reminded of my baby sister. Well, not exactly baby but to me, she was still my baby sister.

I remembered; she'd be queen. The guilt started to chip its way through. I felt terrible about dumping the heavy burden of a country onto her shoulder, unprepared.

I shook my head dismissively, I knew that she would be a great Queen. I had always known about it. Anyways, I can't change my actions.

What was done is done.

Author's POV

The Eallesborough castle was eerily quiet. Darkness was filled in every single corridor. Rain was pelting on the windows.

Jacob was silently staring out of the window in his room, looking at the gardens, twirling a pen in his hand.

All of a sudden, He heard some commotion and a door bursting open with a loud bang. he whirled around and saw his sister, Madeline.

Madeline's face was flushed, her expression one of fury, her eyes glassy and brimming with unshed tears.

"How could you?" she almost growled to him.

"I-" Jacob looked dumbfounded.

"Did you have any fucking idea of what you were doing?" Madeline asked and grabbed a hold of her shirt collars tightly, pulling him down to her height.

Jacob's eyes widened as his sister glared at him. It would seem funny to some, but he was fucking TERRIFIED of his sister when she was mad. But he wasn't going down without a fight.

He freed himself from her grasp forcefully. Frowning he told her calmly, "I'm doing this for the monarchy."

Madeline scoffed, "you're just gonna fucking put that off like that?"

Jacob groaned and ran his hands through his hair in an exasperated manner.

He was about to reason with his sister, but she didn't give him a chance to reply.

"Jacob, do you have any basic fucking idea of what you did? Do you have any bloody idea about how you changed our lives, MY LIFE?" Madeline yelled, her voice threatening to break, but she continued.

"YOU'VE CHANGED MY ENTIRE BLOODY LIFE JACOB! FOR THE WORSE! DID YOU EVEN GIVE THAT A SINGLE FUCKING THOUGHT? NO! YOU JUST GO YOUR WAY AND WALTS INTO ROOM AND JUST DECIDE OUT OF NOWHERE THAT YOU WANT TO ABDICATE?!!?" she screeched, tears now falling freely from her eyes.

"Pip don't you bloody understand? This life is not for me!" Jacob tried to reason but Madeline just scoffed.

They both stared at each other for a few minutes, their minds blank but also full.

Finally, Madeline broke the silence by sighing deeply.

"Did you want it?" Madeline asked referring to his decision of abdicating.

Jacob sighed and nodded, " More than anything."

Madeline let out an inaudible gasp but nodded nonetheless. She took a breath and walked outside. Once she saw the coast was clear, she ran outside and entered the gardens.

She burst into a run in the gardens, not caring whether she was tripping on the bushes. Tears slid down her flushed pink cheeks as she ran. She didn't know what she was running from.

Her life? Her fate? Her family? Her name? Position?

Oh, she wanted to run from EVERYTHING. Her mind was clouded yet blank. The world seemed to be closing in on her.

She was too distracted to notice a stone Fountain in front of her. She blundered into the fountain, hitting her elbow on a marble statue.

Madeline shook her wet head, releasing her brown locks from her tight ponytail. She let out a strangled wail, not caring about who was hearing her. She was so distracted, she failed to notice, blood gauging off her injured arm, filling the pool with red liquid.

She felt numb. But what was she to do?

As Jacob had said,

What is done is done.

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