#sooo some backstory

[rosie-b]

🦮 fill this empty space (ask game)

(link to the summary)

This turned out to be... longer than a snippet, and like the summary, angstier than I expected. It's been that kind of week ig! But there's a promising ending because I needed one :)

It had been a warm summer day when the old Marinette died.

The new Marinette woke up surrounded by golden light, soft, green grass, and the soft murmurings of a stream in northern France. It was perhaps the best way for her rebirth to happen, in a calm, relaxing environment far from the place she somehow knew was home.

She met her family there. They already knew her, and called her "maman," or "ma femme," or "my lady."

Marinette was no one's lady. She never had been, but according to video evidence and the testimony of her husband and children and best friend, that was one of the many roles her past self had filled.

Marinette did not know how to fill any of those old roles anymore. But because of the secret, magical way she'd chosen to lose her memories, she couldn't let anyone know this fact. She had to study years worth of business lessons in mere weeks, preparing for her return to Paris and the international company she would soon be in charge of running again.

At least her past self had accounted for this new Marinette's incompetence. But no one else seemed to see that she wasn't the same woman she had been once, back when a kwami lived in her purse and villains of the day (and year) kept plaguing Paris.

Adrien, the man past-Marinette had married, professed to still be in love with her. He saw some of the differences between the new Marinette and the old one, but claimed they weren't nearly as big as Marinette thought they were. And he chose to spend most of his time around her, so maybe he was right. He whispered praises for each small thing she did, both when they were alone and in public; took the time to learn her new habits; made her fresh coffee for when she woke up two hours after he did; stayed out of her bed to help her feel comfortable.

Marinette could see why her past self had loved him. It was something both halves of her were beginning to share, a love for this man who found a way to bring joy to her life even when it had been turned upside down.

But it didn't change the fact that the new Marinette was not the same woman he'd married. That fact was written into the vows Adrien and the past Marinette had exchanged; the way they had split up their chores; the daily schedule that Adrien still remembered while the new Marinette did not.

To Marinette, this new self of hers was nothing more than a facade made to cover the void her past self had left behind. She was thirty years old and as empty inside as a newborn baby, with no memories to guide her through this unfamiliar world.

Marinette was an icon, the magazines said. A paragon of virtue in an age of corruption, one half of both Paris' favorite couples, a woman who managed to be a world-famous CEO and an attentive mother at the same time.

That wasn't the new Marinette's reality. She didn't even know her children's middle names, though she was learning their favorite desserts, sports, and hobbies.

Most days, it was like learning a foreign language, and it felt just as isolating when she got something wrong or tried to remember something she thought she knew but actually didn't. Sometimes, this new life of hers was crushing, a drain on her already empty self, taking the last bit of Marinette out of her.

But not always.

As out of place as Marinette felt in her own life, the people in it still felt right somehow. They'd been there for her when she woke up; they were there to hug and comfort her when she cried in the night, to help teach her about her own life and tell her about theirs, and to listen when she said she felt different. They loved her, that much was clear, and they promised to love her no matter which Marinette she was; the old one with all her memories or the new one just fumbling through life.

And somehow, even though she claimed not to feel anything more for them than for other strangers at first, Marinette still loved them back. Their presence soothed the ache she felt in her chest, the one she felt when she couldn't remember, and she found herself more than missing them when they weren't there. She looked forward to hearing about their day, to learning their middle names; she held on to the facts they told her about themselves like sweet gifts of gold and honey, like they were all she needed to survive, to fill the empty space her memories had left behind.

The new Marinette was not the old one, and she never would be.

But maybe that was okay. The new Marinette had her own space, too; it began here, in this remote, rural town near the seashore, and it would expand back to Paris, to the place where the old Marinette had lived.

Marinette's home had always been her family, the people she loved. That was something she knew without having to remember it, and something she was more sure of every day.

So she studied the journals her past self had written, re-learned how to design, baked bread beside Adrien, sang songs with her children and stayed by their side. If her mind was an empty slate, then she was going to fill it with love, the same love she'd chosen before and was choosing again.

And someday, this new Marinette would feel whole again.

Thanks for the ask! I hope you enjoyed <3

#ask game #anon #sooo some backstory #this au takes place in the future obviously #after adrien and marinette got married and had those three or four kids they want #marinette didn't want to give up her memories #but they finally got all the miraculous back and the celestial guardian said she had to #(i don't usually vibe with that happening but hhhh it's been a week) #so marinette picked a time and place where she'd feel safest giving up her memories and took her family with her on vacation #gave up the guardianship and gave herself the rest of the vacation to figure out what exactly she'd forgotten and who she is #she doesn't have to stay with adrien and the kids. like they accepted she might want to leave #and sometimes she wants to #but ultimately she's choosing them and they're choosing her and she's starting again #as a new Marinette and as the old one who still lives in her even if she can't see it herself #she's always Marinette and she will always have a place in the world and with her family #ps: if you are still reading. let me know if I should put this on ao3 or not ^^ #rosie-b writing #adrinette #ml au #ml fanfic

[veveisveryuncool]

something something birth of a fallen angel

kirbytober day 8: crystal/enemy

#i am long overdue for a galacta post #behold my inability to shade crystals (sobs) #i will learn for you bbg (baby girlacta) #oooo look at himm hes soooo cool #you wanna give him some canon backstory sooo bad dont you hal #kirby series #galacta knight #kirbytober #kirbtober #kirbytober2023 #veves ultra cool art

[south-park-dimensions]

mmm I know I shouldn't ask this is probably deep lore but, how did fastpass get used to this "new normal(dimension)" and since when did it happen (a few years but an exact number)?

(One day I’ll have a concrete design for this thing sjbdjd)

#south park #sp tfbw #sp jimmy valmer #sp jimmy #sp fastpass #south park dimensions #south park au #sp au #jimmy valmer #sp new kid #(I originally had a wayyy longer idea for this but decided to keep it short :))) ) #(Both bc this is the first big thing I’ve drawn in months) #(And bc Jimmy in general is one of the people that has some of the most backstory chaos sooo) #(Thank youu for asking about my son KDBDJDB)

[lazycranberrydoodles]

“red is DEFINITELY my color”

happy pride to bryce tankthrust, brandon rogers and co. in thrust we trust 🇺🇸 / follow if you love to see a girlboss abandoning her morals

#art #bryce tankthrust #uhhhh so nobody was gonna tell me brandon rogers is making an excellently produced series about bryce tankthrust's backstory?? #and i had to discover it on a 2am youtube rabbit hole??? #agh. go watch it #for some reason im on a portraiture kick lately so i did a study :] #maybe more coming. perhaps. the lighting in the show is sooo cool #yes bryce the character is not techanically queer but. [gestures] #characters that would immediately call me 3 4 slurs on sight #brcu #brandon rogers #brandon rogers cinematic universe #study #digital art #my art #blood #blood cw #art study #portrait #pride

[puhpandas]

reblog with your worst fears about what could come from hw2

#mine is cassie dad protag #like making him a huge deal #id be sooo annoyed #we have FOUR human protags we dont need some random man whos an extension of cassie already anyway #not to mention how neglected gregory and ESPECIALLY vanessa have been since sb #ruin doesnt count gregory was more of an extension of cassies backstory anyway #pandas.txt #pandas talks #pre help wanted 2

[hershelwidget]

wait hang on

HANG ON

DO YOU SEE MY VISION

#professor inkling #count bleck #TELL ME YOU SEE IT. IM NOT CRAZY #*writes yet another octonauts crossover au-* #OK BUT LISTEN HEAR ME OUT HEAR ME OUT #H E A R ME O U T #in case you're wondering if it's just the monocles NO IT RUNS DEEPER THAN THAT I PROMISE #1. both have been around a long time and founded some sort of group to further their goals (octonauts & team bleck) #2. fancy clothes (yeah inkling's in just a bowtie but remember he's straight up an octopus) that stand out among their peers #3. speaking of that last point: unusual anatomy (one does NOT look a fish and the other is a head torso and floating hands. nothin else) #4. i kinda don't wanna have to pull the mafia au card on this one but if I WAS then: tragic backstories and tragic motives #though then again do we REALLY know anything about inkling- like do we R E A L L Y?? his backstory could be tragic they just aint tellin.. #5. avid book readers (bleck let a book tell him how his life was supposed to go this man is clinically into books) #6. defense mechanism that involves darkness (octopus ink & a bLaCk HOLE-) #7. if you see either of them walking it Don't Look Right #8. this is more of an implied thing for them but: knows a LOT about the people they gathered for their causes #9. both from children's media that gets DARK sometimes without warning #10. sometimes they say things and the people around them are just ''what'' #11. love interests (ones outright saying it and the other is again just implied but STILL ITS ANOTHER POINT SOOO) #12. ok fine. yes it was the monocles at first but then i thought about it MORE so HA #feel free to add on if i missed something

[v-arbellanaris]

under the cut in case tags are broken but spoilers for the game & fandom crit

i rly think some of you are just rancid for no reason btw. like i just think if u look at a queer man LI who is a canonical victim of abuse - inc sexual abuse, and the story does not shy away from it & the ramifications of that - and a deep, rich, layered story about regaining autonomy and healing and personal liberty and trying to forgive yourself for all the horrible things that you did & were while you were abused (that you were a Real monster for) and all you have to say about it is "ugh another fucking white LI ofc you're all into him" like... idk. i dont think the problem is the fact that he's white. i think there's something wrong with YOU.

#ppl will bitch when characters of colour are survivors of abuse saying its some jerk off fantasy. ppl will also bitch when white charas have #that narrative too. like. just because a story isn't for you doesn't mean there's no fucking value to it. #and to idk sooo easily dismiss as ofc people only care abt this LI because flirty white boy. like everyone who has tried to approach him #that way has apparently gotten rejected. so like. clearly that's not his character. #i keep saying this but sometimes stories are not for you or about you or relevant to you #and that's fine. yes. even those stories. #there's never any room in fandom anywhere for these kinds of stories. you people will deny deny deny #any depictions of these kinds of experiences and you will find a way to claim it's problematic or idk morally deficient in SOME way #and you're hemming and hawing about it. and finding 100 ways to dismiss it. but the underlying theme is that it happens with specific kinds #of stories and storylines and character backstories. but ofc you don't want to get accused of not being supportive of abuse victims #so you couch it in other terms. and i just want you to fucking know that i see you. i see you and i think you're RANCID. #your faux activism does nothing for me either as a person of colour or as a victim of abuse. #get FUCKED. #tbd #vee plays bg3 #bg3 spoilers #fandom critical

[gayrogues]

there is no fucking way that tom king's shitty oneshot, featuring the most out-of-character riddler known to man and a batman who breaks his no kill rule and waterboards people, got nominated for an eisner award...

#i hate the riddler issue of one bad day so much it's unreal #1. why write a riddler comic if you're gonna be like 'actually he HATES riddles and puzzles and won't be using them anymore' #now he's just some guy who kills people #2. i don't think i need to explain why i hate the concept of batman breaking the no kill rule or waterboarding people #3. trying to make the killing joke relevant again after 30 years? to say that ed was the mastermind behind it? #4. the plot is just. incredibly silly and not in a good way like you're telling me once the riddler stops using riddles he #becomes powerful enough to take over the entire city and batman can't do anything about it except kill him? #and i'm not talking taking over the city like in zero year where there was an actual plan #in one bad day everyone just gets sooo scared of him and his massive brain that they fall in line #5. that is not his fucking backstory #that's like. the complete opposite of it. keeping only the part about him having a shitty dad #he was never a prestigious prep school kid under immense pressure to be the smartest #he was just some kid who went unnoticed by everyone and that's why winning that puzzle contest was so important to him #and then his dad refused to believe he was smart enough to win the contest without cheating and you know the rest #he has a very ordinary backstory that explains a lot about him #meanwhile i feel like tom king was like 'oh shit this series is called one bad day' #'i need to give ed a pivotal moment in his life that made him fucked up and evil' #'how bout i write all this stuff leading up to him brutally killing his teacher at the age of like 15' #and it just sucked ass #i feel like there was more stuff i hated that i'm forgetting but i am not gonna re-read this comic to remember! at least the art was good #oopsie daisy these tags turned out to be much longer than i was expecting - i don't even care about the eisner awards i just saw the #category pop up on the library app that i use and i was like Why is This in here #ransom.txt

[prophecyofgray]

something about tedlassoposting on tumblr dot com is so incredibly funny to me. however Holy Fucking Shit this show makes me feel the shrimp color spectrum of emotion i just watched the penultimate ep and i was hyperventilating for half of it and now i feel like theres a little hamster running around in my stomach

#ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #<- lol #anyway. some thoughts: #jaime tartt makes me feel crazy in the brain. the jaime roy keeley friendship makes me feel CRAZY in the BRAIN #the contrast between ted and his mom vs jaime and his mom #im going to die. #also i usually hate the 'trope' or whatever of characters forgiving their abusers i think abuse victims should kill their abusers actually #that said i dont entirely hate the way theyre handling things with jaime and his dad? #idk. i think i need to see how it concludes in the finale to form a full opinion #i LOVED the thank you/fuck you thing that they did tho #with jaime wanting to say fuck you and thank you to his dad and then ted saying thank you and fuck you to his mom #sooo good. #also the way that jaime led with the fuck you but ted led with the thank you. so small but so intentional and so telling and soooo good #SOOO EXCITED to see the truth bomb at the start of next episode. Holy fucking shit #yeah. good episode. good show. #EDIT: HOW COULD I FORGET THE TED AND BEARD BACKSTORY #SO GREAT. so great :]

[ajdrawshq]

oh okay so one more question. I did not realize start again and isat were separate things on steam what is the relationship between those two like well it says prologue but I am confusion

OH yeah thats a thing.. to be real i havent played or watched a playthrough of start again yet (i found one (1) earlier while searching for some kinda guide) so im not entirely sure what kind of context it gives to the main game, i just know it came out before isat itself and IS related but from what little ive seen i dont even know how it fits in with isat's canon, so .. its not that its not important (probably) but u definitely dont Need to play it to get a good and full experience out of isat itself if that makes sense ?

#that does remind me that i need to watch that playthrough tho bc i genuinely dont know what it brings to the table #bc the gameplay looks similar despite it being a prologue which .. doesnt make sense without knowing anything else.. #the only thing ive seen from start again is some different dialogue in a familiar area that is neat for minor character reasons #sooo idk!! ill come back to u after i watch the playthrough bc i have no idea what it could bring to the table that isat doesnt #maybe extra backstory ..? #either way!! id say dw about it bc its not a required part of the whole thing but u could always come back to it later #hope u have fun with isat btw!!!!!! :D #and ty for the ask!!!!!! <3 #ask #mortellanarts

[verraising]

Have some Myrri lore because I can't sleep despite being exhausted from travelling, and I have nothing else to do:

- She comes from Venko, a village in traditional Veena Viera territory, so the forests bordering the Skatay Range. Other than that though her village used to be pretty non-traditional, only very loosely following the Green Word, mostly by respecting and caring for the forest. There was no seperation of genders though, no wood-warders, and the village frequently welcomed outside visitors in the form of traders due to being relatively close to the forest's southern edge (about 3 days of travel).

- Her mother is the chieftess and her father was a hunter and woodworker. As the oldest child her mom put a lot of pressure on her from a young age on to grow into a good leader who had their people's best interests in mind at all times to take over her position one day, and Myrri struggled with not wanting to let her mom down while also not really being that interested in the responsibilities in the first place. She preferred to go hunt and forage with her dad, since she loved to roam and wander the forest more than being confined in the village.

- The rose she wears in her hair is actually a carved and painted wooden hairclip her dad made for her. It also has a small vitality enchantment because her dad knew she was struggling and hoped it would just be a lil extra boost to keep her spirits up.

- She was about 10 years old when the Garleans invaded Dalmasca, and soon their village's proximity to the forest's edge which had helped it to thrive for so long proved to be its downfall as it didn't take long for them to get attacked. Though the adults tried to organize a defense they soon got overwhelmed - many died fighting back, many got taken prisoners, and what little survivors remained scattered and retreated deeper into the forest.

- Her dad was one of the unfortunate who got taken prisoners. Her mom, who had been fighting after entrusting her children to those fleeing to safety, managed to escape alive. Once the Garleans were gone she gathered the survivors and they retreated as deep into the forest as possible to tend to their wounds, mourn their dead, and eventually begin the painful process of rebuilding their lives.

- Her mother and the entire village changed after this. It was decided that they would adhere to the traditional Viera way of life from now on, that maybe by following the green word as it was intended the forest would protect them from another tragedy like this. And so men left the village, the women stayed, and any outsiders were to be kept away - those mostly came in the form of desperate refugees, the few and far in-between who had been driven deep enough into the forest by fear of the Garleans and survived long enough to stumble over their village. But the doors stayed closed and Venko's guardians, with arrows and blades pointed, would tell them to get lost. Growing up Myrri lost count of all those desperate, fearful faces she had seen turned away, dirty and gaunt, some begging, some bargaining, some demanding to be let in but all being left to the mercy of the forest. And as she grew older she began trying to speak up, but nobody listened, so she had to learn to live with the growing sense of guilt building up in her chest.

- Her pivotal moment came after she ended up befriending a refugee who was hiding out in the ruins of their old village which Myrri liked to frequently return to to be alone. A miqo'te girl, called A'ruta, who had escaped from a garlean labour camp after being shipped there all the way from far away Eorzea. Over the following weeks Myrri returned regularly and brought her supplies and showed her how to hunt and forage, but after a close call with a Garlean patrol she finally decided to take her to Venko, hoping she could sway her mother to make an exception just this once and allow A'ruta to live with them.

- Her mom would not be swayed. Which was the point where Myrri was like Alright then. If you won't let her stay, then I will take her back to Eorzea myself. Because her loved ones are praying for her to come home just like we are waiting for our loved ones to return, and while doing this might not bring THEM home I can only hope that someone out there will extend them a helping hand when they need it most as well. And so Myrri left her home with her new friend, knowing fully well she would never be able to return, but too fed up to care.

- Getting to Eorzea was a long and arduous jorney but by the time they made it A'ruta and Myrri were close like sisters, and after reuniting with her clan Myrri stayed with them, basically getting adopted into the family.

- By that time she actually still went by her forest name, Hlif, but soon after she took on the name A'myrrhis, whike keeping her village's name as her last name.

- She lived with the A Clan until after the calamity, when she decided to become an adventurer because she wanted to travel more and help people in need, but even after leaving she considers them her second family, and they consider her family just as much.

#myrri lore #that was a lot whoops. backstory drop!! #also my phone is dying and i forgot to bring my charger sooo.... good night :') #i love her tho!!! i love my baby!!!! #she just wants to help and do some good #BOY if only she knew how that will escalate #:'D

[lowpolyshadow]

"traumatized by the grief of her death" like. like not just her death. the grief of it. the sheer emotional turmoil he felt from that. that's the part that traumatized him. this could be me reading into the wording too hard but it always makes me think that the loss of maria and seeing her die was A Lot, yeah, like of course it was that shit was brutal and he cared about her deeply

but shadow also cares about the fact it hurt so badly to go through that and doesn't want to experience it again actually

#smth smth insert the meme of 'BECAUSE GUN AGENTS KILLED MY BEST FRIEND' but #but . like. okay. edgy loner shticks that have a sadge backstory reason for them are very hit or miss with me #but this one in particular makes me sooo (grips my head) because this is literally guy with no life experiences #besides living in a space station for some years with his best friend and some scientists. he has full like #emotional and thinking capacity as anyone else. but none of the life experience to go with it. he even probably won't die naturally #like . your first loss. your first acknowledgement of death even. being That? #he already lived probably knowing maria would die if he failed to live up to his purpose of being a cure and all but then it just. happens #lol. Lmao? anyways. #speaking

[scribblyshipping]

I hope I feel a bit better about my tadc f/os by the time the second episode comes out because I’ve been getting nearly sick with anxiety thinking about what could happen to them

#scribbly says #there’s some specific posts by gooseworx about Jax that have been making me nauseous by the implications #like just sad backstory implications #ITS SOOO BAD ITS SO BAD WHYY

[hanaaria]

creating a new dnd character is so fun like what the fuck

#currently developing my drow paladin's backstory and shit some more and jshsgsj they are so different from caim #bc caim is like. a good person in general! they have some issues but overall they try their best #meanwhile valkyon (the drow) is like. they 100% believe they're also a good person. when in reality. they are not. #they're a vigilante who kills people who they believe are bad and are trying to get stroger and stronger.......... #ngl val might have been kinda inspired by light yagami. alongside kotoko yuzuriha from milgram #what can i say. characters who have a strong sense of justice and then start killing people who they believe deserve it are sooo interesting #i wanna study them under a microscope #and that's exactly why im making a character like that! #also trying to make them visually distinct from caim is also really interesting #i think i have the facial features down. where caim is a bit soft and round val is all sharp edges #sharp cheekbones. straight nose. more angular eyes #now i also have to also design an outfit for them which will be a bit more difficult but i think i can do it #they're a dex paladin so i can't just go for full on armor. gonna have to play around with that for sure. #i know i wanna include a shoulder cape or something of the sort #ooooh actually i just googled shoulder capes (to see if there's any other word for it) and saw something cool on google images. #gonna have to come back to it later #but yeahhh i guess i know what im doing tonight #as well as learning a bit more about how to play a paladin before the oneshot on friday #wish me luck ig #hananans

[ninjayuri]

i just finished the chunin exams arc so whats the next arc called 🥰

konoha crush, and then search for TSUNADE ARC heck yeah dododooddo~ and then its RETRIEVAL ARC. retrieval arc is great i love it

#all of the og arcs are good Tbh #ik youre reading the manga but if you do watch the anime at some point i recommend the filler so so much #YES its filler but i got attached to so many random chwracters that nobody else rememvers 😭 #ALSO it shows naruto like. interactinf with different kinds of people yk? fleshing the world out #THE ONE ANIME ARC YOU *NEED* TO WATCH IS THE GUREN YUKIMARU ARC but that shows up in shippuden #its sooo..... gurennfnshhawjdjd ueueuueu #I DONT THINK UTAKATAS BACKSTORY SHOWS UP IN THE MANGA EITHER

[void-writing]

If Lazarus Pit side affects appear in your story, could you tag them on AO3 please? Jason mentioned them in chapter 6. They're a fanon concept that makes me really uncomfortable and I'd appreciate a forewarning.

No worries, that's totally reasonable! (And anyone else with similar feels, let me know! I'll try to be conscious about tagging potential tws but let me know if I miss anything. Off the top of my head, the worst of it is "depictions of toxic parenting" with Jack and Maddie and...uh. whatever bullshit the GiW has going on in the background)

There's not really going to be any of the conventional Lazarus Pit fanon in CiM. The only impact Jason's dip in the corpse juice will have is that it makes the boons Danny unwittingly gave him more pronounced on account of him having a more profound connection to the other side, as it were.

And really, the League of Assassins aren't going to feature that strongly in CiM aside from maybe occasional mentions. Including them would just take the story in a direction I don't intend it to, and as such, Lazarus Pits and their impacts aren't going to feature heavily--if at all--in this fic, fanon interpretations or otherwise.

#void answers #change in management #for CiM i'm trying to break away from the conventional fanon tropes and i know that in dpxdc fics the Pits feature heavily #soooo yeah. we wont be seeing much of them here #i only mentioned the pit in jason's section of chp 6 bc its so integral to his backstory AND his presence in dpxdc fics #but basically when he got his boon it powerwashed the lazarus funk out of his system sooo tldr no pit madness here : ) #maybe some lingering bad attitude and anger issues but no mystic bs adding fuel to the fire : ) #it also has the effect of making jason's boon absurdly strong compared to the rest of the bats #like. i know i made it that bruce can literally drop off all manner of detection but he cant MAINTAIN that for long #where as jason's new supes-level durability is just a constant thing now for him #i AM going with the 'lazarus pits are ectoplasmic in SOME respect' route but since they're not important here i havent thought more on it #so basically what that did was 'widen' the channels that allows jason access to the City Spirit's power #this will be true for any bat fam member who's taken a dip (so like. cass and damian) #but its more obvi w jason on account of his power being passive #tag rambles