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help-i-need-a-cool-username · 3 years

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Recently saw a tiktok that was like "if you ship [toph and zuko] than you have issues or you see something galaxy brained that i havent" and stumbled upon the concept of aroace Zuko and i concocted this idea ages ago so im posting it now: the epic Toph x Zuko Marriage of Convenience

Okay what you are all thinking of is book 3 Toph and Zuko, which totally dont have romantic chemistry and with the added age difference is prob why no one ever considers this ship. Four years when you're a teenager is a big difference. Four years when you're in your twenties and beyond isnt that big a deal. So they're adults and they've been friends for years at this point.

You also gotta sit back and look at what they are. Toph is the only child to a very rich and very well known Earth Kingdom family. Her family name in general is huge and carries a lot of weight but you also got her own accomplishments: Master Earthbender, the Creator of Metalbending, the Avatar's Earthbending teacher, and shes a war hero. Thats big. And then you got Zuko, who at this point is the Fire Lord. Zuko himself comes from a prominent Fire Nation family, seeing as he's royalty. He's also descended from a Avatar, but i dont think thats all that well known. Zuko is a Master Firebender, the Avatar's Firebending Teacher, and a war hero. On top of being famous both these people have credibility to fall back on.

So what im leaning into here is not exactly a marriage alliance seeing as the Earth Kingdom has its own royalty but its definitely a political move

Anyways Zuko has a lot on his plate, dismantling his dad's empire and all that. When he's nearing 30 the council is all like "you need to find a bride". Zuko writes up his ex-girlfriends and finds out they're either married or he just cant bring himself to trap someone into a marriage with him after knowing how it destroyed his mom. So he's stuck with no one of his own choosing so the council and high up nobles are trying to fix him up and not-so-subtly set him up with their daughters. Half of Team Avatar comes and visits (lets say Toph, Aang, and Sokka) and witness the behind the scenes of all this. They're having tea with Zuko and two people come in at different times and try to casually talk about the marriage thing. Toph can hear things that happen in the hallways too. Zuko is all "noooooooo guys why is this happening to me" and Sokka probably finds it funny but also a little sucky, and Aang probably hates it because "Zuko should marry for love!". And Toph is all "I know right" because she can totally relate. Her parents were looking for matches for her since she was born, and now that shes visiting again they've started back up again. Her and Zuko start swapping match-making stories ("so i come home and this boy and his father are there and my mom is all like 'Toph have you met __'" "I'm in the throne room for a meeting on road construction and this guy derails the whole thing so he can introduce his niece to me"). Later on after Toph has been listening in on the palace for a few days now and shes starting to really feel sorry for Zuko. Sokka just keeps making jokes until Toph snaps at him. Aang is pretty oblivious and probably spends all day at the market looking for souvenirs to bring home for Katara. And one night while Zuko is up late doing paperwork by candle light Toph stops by because her body cant sleep at night sometimes and they get to talking and Toph jokingly throws out "what if we just married each other? Then everyone will get off both our backs!" and they're laughing and after they've calmed down Zuko has a light bulb moment and he's like "wait, that might not be a bad idea". They spend all night working out the details to their hypothetical wedding and a day later decide to actually go through with it. Theres uproar from the council of course because Zuko didnt choose their pick Toph isnt Fire Nation nobility. And then Zuko starts listing all her family's importance and stuff and the council is forced to admit to themselves its not actually a bad idea. Plus marrying Earth Kingdom would make the Fire Lord more relatable to the colonies where theyre having a lot of problems with people of mixed heritage right now. Sokka and Aang hear rumblings of this because palace servants gossip and they're debating wether or not to believe these rumors when they run into Toph and just ask her and shes all like "yeah we're talking about it" and they boys flip out. Aang still maintains that everyone should marry for love but Toph and Zuko won't budge.

Over in the Earth Kingdom Toph's parents are ecstatic because the only better option Toph could marry was Earth Kingdom royalty. They completely endorse it and only argue to not seem like pushovers and when topics revolving money come up (ex. dowery). The Earth King gets in on this because its too good a opportunity to not capitalize on it. The Earth Kingdom is abuzz because a foreign King is marrying one of their own. Everyone is hyped and Team Avatar are the only ones who find the whole situation weird because to them its not a fairytale its their actual friends.

All-in-all they get married in the Fire Nation and the guest list was awful to make but people from all over the world are there. Toph's mother freaks out the whole time because "what if Toph falls down all those steps!" The wedding is mostly all Fire Nation tradition but Toph wears a Earth Kingdom wedding dress because everything is political now. Toph and Zuko have a relatively fun night and Sokka has the time of his life. And their marriage actually really works out for them because they're friends. They make fun of fancy people and rant to each other in the evenings. Toph is still running metal bending schools but either now they have to come to her or she gets stuck with a Fire Nation security team for like 3 months of the year she spends in the Earth Kingdom and she gets flashbacks to her childhood. And Zuko is sometimes all "i miss my wife" and the servants are all "awwww they're so in love" but the truth is he wants to talk sh*t with her and because shes blind he always has to write letters with the interpreter's opinion/gossip in mind. Toph still sneaks out all the time because shes not giving up her independence willy-nilly and is not above pulling the blind card to get out of things, which irritates Zuko sometimes because that means he has to deal with boring meetings by himself. They gaang visits all the time and by the time Republic City rolls around Toph manages to get herself sent as a "ambassador" (her and Sokka have some fun their shared meetings) and then to stay on to help set up the police force, which is a little dicy since shes representing the Fire Nation but also shes teaching only metalbending so its a controversial thing. This also gives Zuko a excuse to visit Republic City more often so he can see everyone since they settled down there.

#hinacu atla #atla #avatar #toph beifong #zuko #zuko x toph #prince zuko #fire lord zuko #avatar the last airbender

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duelofthefatesmp3 · 3 years

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i DO actually wanna know how youd make kotor 3 !!!!!

this ask has been sitting on my inbox for so long on PURPOSE! i wanted some time to re read the revan book + watch some swtor gameplays so i could give a concrete answer about why the book and swtor arent satisfactory and what i would do instead (im not like. a storytelling god so i this is just my PERSONAL idea). under the cut!

to begin with, what's wrong with revan the book and swtor, mai?

i am very fond of swtor i think it was such a nice idea to have an "open" world game set in star wars old republic time. but ultimately, it was not a good conclusion to revan and meetra's storyline! now, i don't really know what happened in the development of the third kotor game (if there ever was a plan for one) but it's clear they dropped the ball on that and decided to start a whole different project. i don't think we can blame disney for that one, because it was announced on 2008, launched in 2011, and disney had just bought star wars that year. so who knows.

the thing is that it's painfully evident that a bunch of the story that was gonna be in the third game, ended up in the book + misc parts of swtor. much of the book feels like a gameplay.

now, it was clear when the book was planned that they wanted to keep revan's story open so when the game came out, they could have a cool Revan storyline so he could make a cool villain appearence and draw in some of that kotor nostalgia. which ehhhhhh. uh. i don't really think did any favors for revan's character. he didn't have a satisfactory arc (I'm not saying "a happy ending" because good arcs aren't always happy) but at least some closure?

revan went through many big events in his life. we didnt need to keep his ass in stasis for his fun villain moments 300 years later. we already had what we wanted from him: jedi turned sith turned jedi again to defeat a terrible threat. that was it we could have let it there and it would have been cool! but then they decided to drag and drag his story just to leave him right where he was before. he just suffered a little more in the in-between.

you could say he finally redeemed himself of all of his crimes this way, but wasn't that the whole purpose of the first kotor game (and would have been the purpose of the 3rd?)

swtor does not centre revan in his own narrative. he's a side character for the player to experience. and look, i get it, we've had a different protag on each game, why not have another one in this one. well, because the protagonist has no personal relationship with revan. meetra was one of his closest friends, and fought with him. there is a connection that can be exploited. but the swtor protagonist is just some guy 300 years in the future who happens to stumble into revan and his life. not even his descendants get to fully interact with revan.

also, there is the fact that revan is not the centre of the game itself, only of a particular storyline. and it's weird, because swtor could have happened without revan's involvement.

ms. meetra surik, ms. bastila shan, women of the world I'm sorry

so it's no news that star wars is misogynistic as fuck right. cause it is.

so you decide to make your gender neutral protagonist a guy. then you decide to make your other gender neutral protagonist a woman. cool. now let's guess who gets underdeveloped, turned into a plot device without reason, and promptly fridged in the most unceremoniously fashion just to fullfil some manpain moments. which one do you think got that treatment.

i know the revan book is supposed to be about revan, but why make meetra go through a whole arc just to undermine her character and turn her into the faithful servant of the guy? she leaves everything behind for him, sacrifices herself for him, hell not even dead is she not serving the guy. and she was the second game’s protagonist! she beat up a bunch of powerful people and now she’s just meh, there? she had so many interesting ways to interact with revan (meeting kreia, revan’s first master, encountering another force consuming entity, etc.)

meetra went through a whole arc about dealing with the guilt of doing something horrible and having the consequences of it cut her from the force. we see her broken, then slowly come back to the world and reconnect herself with the force, then stop running and face the consequences of her role in the war. thats such a cool character with tons of potential! and nothing happened!

then we got bastila who is. a whole deal. so you make her go through a “promising jedi who defeated revan, to questioning reluctant companion, to fell into the dark side, to was redeemed thanks to her bond to revan, who helped her come back because he’d been through the same experience” arc, and then you decide to push her to the side to have a baby?? which is... its clear that the writer didnt know what to do with her (or with the other characters outside of canderous) so hey, lets get her to marry revan and have a baby.

my ideal kotor 3

to preface, im not a game developer, so some of my choices could be stunted by what a kotor rpg can do lol. of course, it would follow the same mechanics and have the same format as the first two, because consistency!

the fun way to start the game, would be from scourge’s perspective. we get to play as a sith! i’d even say you get to change scourge’s name and gender and looks (i know sith have different looks)

in scourge’s storyline, we get from his arrival to normound kaas, to his talks with nissyris, to his missions working for her. in some of these, we can make scourge lean into the dark or the light side! fun! plus we get some exposition with dialogue options. it all continues untill we get to nissirys story about the emperor. we get a fucked up cutscene of his childhood and then BOOM when its over, we see revan waking up from a nightmare and their pov starts.

ok, as for revan’s story, since we’d have to pick it up from where kotor ended, i’d have a little cutscene of revan back into the ebon hawk, with bastila, and them telling the crew to take them to courascant. then cut to a council meeting where revan and bastila get scolded in private, then rewarded by the republic. i would also like to see some revan mournink malak’s death mayhaps. since he was their childhood friend and all.

i would 100% scrape the marriage and two years passed part. as the book said, the council had no use for revan aside from the legend(tm), so why would they stay in courascant. revan was very alienated from the jedi at that point, despite being back in the “light side”

then like, to revan asking around for meetra and other jedi from the mandalorian wars, we can cash in that atris cameo, then revan starts to have these visions about the sith emperor, and maybe we could get a playable dream sequence about revan’s fight with mandalore the ultimate (I KNOW I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT.) and we get the whole exposition to mandalore telling revan that the sith are behind it all. i believe we should get a bunch of these flashback/dream sequences of revan’s past doing shit. cut to revan burying the mask in a planet, then back to the present. we see a bunch of mission and juhani scenes trying to reach him, but he keeps pushing them away. revan and bastila meet canderous, travel to the ice planet, meet clan ordo (god i love clan ordo) you get the whole quest, you decide weather to spare veela or not, maybe you get a cheeky mandalorian companion (force sensitive mando oh?) and leave canderous behind.

we can visit like, a couple more planets searching for clues maybe, etc. then when reaching nathema, you are forced to go alone as revan, get to explore nathema a bit (raiding ancient location yay) nathema as a location can be so fun because you can have it weaken you hp bar and also you cant use the force (which, in game is pretty cool)

then we get to scourge and nyssiris arriving to the planet, they fight but since theres two of them and revan doesn’t have the force, they beat the shit out of them, and while running away, they get in a fight with bastila and the companions in the ebon hawk (ebon hawk shooting game my hated). bastila manages to get a glimpse of revan’s thoughts before they take them away. but the ebon is so ruined it takes bastila, t3 and the mandalorian a while to fix it, and they get stuck into the unknown regions for a while. the ebon hawk is left in an outer rim planet with t3 fixing it, bastila and the mandalorian run back to the jedi council, only to get caught in the middle of the jedi civil war. we can have bastila choosing to hide in courascant and trying to make sense of what she saw, reading texts about the sith empire, trying to plot a course to where they took revan (more atris! but shes pissed at her now)

cutscene to meetra’s pov, leaving malachor v behind, getting calls from everyone at the hawk (atton my beloved) but just as she’s leaving she gets a force message from revan, calling for her to find him and sending visions of normound kaas. then, through her force bond with visas, she tells her not to go because they’re gay and in love and whatnot.

then boom, she gets intercepted by bastila’s ship, with the mandalore and the other mandalorian (yes i do love having a bunch of mandos on board) and they go on their way to find revan.

now i want there to be an underlying message of “we can’t take our friends with us because we have to do this ALONE we’re powerful JEDI we don’t need our FRIENDS.” meetra gets asked if she wants to bring any friends and she’s like “no. we have to do this alone.” along the game you get constantly contacted by other game characters, you get the chance to talk to them or ignore them.

so, we get back to nathema, and meetra has a whole “holy shit this is just like darth nihilus but ten times worse. but i beat darth nihilus. i can do this!” then she finds peace in this place without the force, we get a whole speech about how the odds arent against them, they find a way to normound kaas, and get going.

in normound kaas i thought about them getting a whole mission about how to infiltrate the citadel, only to get helped by scourge. he joins the party, we get a little flashback of all the years he spent trying to make revan remember and they storm the citadel. we get to fight the dark council members, fun! then we get to free revan and the game switches povs. bastila hands the mask to revan and he has a cool “yes im revan im pretty cool” then a nice heartfelt yet rushed reunion with everyone.

then have a small CONVERSATION WITH MEETRA where she talks about the sith triumvirate she defeated and revan is impressed with her and is like “we are the last hope of the jedi, we’ve learned to walk between light and dark, we’ve done horrors but we can still make things right, our experience has made us more powerful etc.

then they fight the imperial guard, ALL OF THEM, meetra revan and scourge make it into the throne room, they all fight the emperor. meetra shows the emperor that she has seen the void, she has cut herself from the force, and she’s not afraid of him, revan supports her, talks about redemption and hope and NOW.

NOW. how the alternate endings could go:

if you decide to take scourge through the light side, he manages to form a forcebond with meetra and revan since they’ve both teached something about the duality of the force, they get 100% stronger, but its still not enough. UNTIL. a bunch of ships (jedi and mandalorian, even non republic ships) arrive to dormound kaas, the gangs from each game storm the room and together they make the emperor and his guard a bunch of punching bags. they beat him! (unknow to them, this was a backup body because the emperor can do weird shit like that, and has only debilitated his plan, but he’ll come back dont worry). then they fly back to the republic, to tell the chancellor about the sith threat, and preparations for the war begin. meetra and revan get to live happily ever after for a while, then they die away from the jedi or the sith (waaah im thinking about them helping canderous rebuild the mandalorians, and them doing it since they killed so many mandos in the war)

BECAUSE IN THE END KOTOR IS ABOUT LEARNING TO PROCESS TRAUMA AND RECOGNIZE YOUR MISTAKES AND LIVE WITH THE GUILT WHILST TRYING TO FIX THE MISTAKES YOU MADE ALONG THE WAY. AND ALSO TO HEAL FROM TRAUMA YOU NEED A SUPPORT SYSTEM SO EVEN THOUGH IT MAKES SENSE TO YOU YOU SHOULDNT PUSH PEOPLE WHO LOVE YOU AWAY. AND THINGS AREN’T BLACK AND WHITE ITS COMPLICATED SO YOU DONT END UP BACK ON SQUARE ONE YOURE A CHANGED PERSON.

if you decide to dark side scourge further, he betrays revan and meetra, they all die, and the emperor unleashes his angry lightning or whatever on everyone + a bunch of visions of all the enemies of past mocking them, and their loved ones suffering. and since you’ve had that “im not calling my friends bullshit” no one comes, you die there, and the emperor is only stalled for a few years. swtor ensues. scourge becomes the emperor’s hand.

now you could of course bring revan and meetra up in swtor, but maybe only as force ghost guides, or have some of the other characters of the game have relevance (visas tries to heal the miraluka planet 2021)

WELL THAT WAS A LOT OF WORDS. HOPE THIS IS SATISFYING ENOUGH

#this is bonkers but ive been thinking about it since 2011 so.#wow 10 years since i played kotor. wretched little game.#also if i switch pronouns midway its because it would make it clearer #kotor 3 rewrite

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halzore · 3 years

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Cody + 16??

Snippets of Time

Characters: Cody x Reader

Note: Thankyou nonny for this request, I was having a little bit of trouble of how to encapsulate the kinda vibe i wanted to go for, not sure if it landed. But i decided to do a few snippets of a little friendship with our lovely commander and a reader throughout the Clone Wars. Let me know what you think! I love when people do that! Also, fair warning, kinda gets a bit sad, but thats chill.

Prompt 16: “That you will be by my side to see me through” ~ You and I, Jacob Collier

A little bit about this song: This is some classic Jacob Collier arranging, very spooky, also uplifting and got them good jazz chords. Listen to it here

Tags: @a-lil-perspective @thegoodbatch @leias-left-hair-bun

Introductions

Cody had met Obi-wan proceeding the battle of Geonosis, easily getting along, Obi-wan’s cool quick wit complimenting Cody’s serious but loyal nature. Obi-wan and Cody got along well, but the Marshall Commander had a softer spot for his own Jedi Commander.

He remembered the time that Obi-wan had brought you with him for the first time, a strong senior Padawan, who had already lost one master, but still seemed jovial and effervescent. He watched with skepticism as you gazed at the vastness of the the hangar bay of the Negotiator, looking around as if you had never been outside the temple. Obi-wan was quick and cool, but you seemed different, somewhat of a mystery to the Clone.

In the beginning, Cody stayed out of your way. After all what would a Jedi want with the likes of him. Plus he had a quarter of an army to run, but your paths crossed every now and then, each time more of the mystery of your character unfogging.

The light of the holo-table cast a blue hue over your stern features. Cody could see the stern lines deepen as the council outlined the battle strategy. Cody did not much like it, the plan was too risky, but he let it go. This was not his time to speak. Master Mundi finished speaking, opening the up the floor for questions. There was a slight pause as the heads, both real and holographic panned around the room. You took the slightest step forward.

“This plan, while it would achieve our goal is irresponsible” You voice was matter-of-fact, leaving no room for doubt.

“Is that so?” Master Windu turned to you, dissatisfaction clear. “And why would that be?”

“Too many lives lost, lives we have a duty to protect.” You put it simply

“But the civilians would be saf—“

“Clone lives” you clarified.

The silence spreading throughout the briefing room was deafening. Obi-Wan took a deep breath and pinched his nose, the council members looked at each other in irritation, their nonchalance being called out. Cody smiled inwardly. A Jedi commander who would go to bat for his boys. Maybe you were something he could get behind.

Medical Mischief

He was beaten, he was bruised. Yet he limped with resolve to the one place he could hurt in comfort: His quarters. One foot in front of the other, the commander’s attempt to look uninjured was laughable. He heard giggling from behind him and the Marshall Commander turned back to see you, hand over mouth, trying to cover you snickering. Cody groaned.

“What’re you laughing at?”

You tried to regain your composure. “You.”

“No shit.” Cody was not impressed, bothered at the interuption to his escape plans.

“You see the boys had mentioned something,” You began to stroll over casually, mischief in your eye. “You know, I didn’t believe them when they told me, I always thought you were such a good example for your men.” You had Cody’s undivided attention now, “They said you hated the medbay, never go when you’re supposed to. And I thought to myself, ‘Hmmm not on my watch.’”

Cody hadn’t noticed that you had slipped an arm around his and had began to shepherd him in the direction of his favourite place on the ship.

“Hey, stop! Let go!” He tried to wriggle out of your grip, but you ploughed on, resolute in your gait, easily overcoming the poor limping man.

“No can do Commander, you have an image to uphold.”

Interlude

Time went on, the war continued to wage in the furthest corners of the galaxy and you and Cody found your rhythm. You became an inseparable team on and off the battlefield. Both leading from the front, you managed to get the 501st through some of the most risky of assaults.

You balanced each other out.

You learnt a lot from Cody over the years. How to punch a droid sucessfully, how to patch up a bruise after you had punched a droid. He showed you how to be a good leader and helped you grow in your confidence as a Commander. But you, in turn, showed him things.

He always made sure that you were okay after a campaign, and so you developed a little ritual. You taught Cody how to meditate. You would bring him into your quarters and practice your deep breathing together, centring yourself in the moment. It became a staple in both of your routines and it was the way you both aired out your grievances and let them go to the universe.

You grew close, everyone could see it.

You were like family to Cody, and maker help the galaxy if anything ever happened to you.

Knighting

He wasn’t allowed to go to the ceremony. It was for Jedi only. You had been so nervous leading up to your trials. He knew you could do it, and he was not surprised in the slightest when you came bounding into his quarters, barreling him over in a bear hug, screaming that you’d passed.

But he couldn’t go to the ceremony.

He sat staring at his boring grey walls, wondering what was going on. Was Obi-Wan there? What were you thinking about right now? What things happened in a Jedi Knighting ceremony? His contemplation on these questions was half-baked at best, his mind wandering to the future.

The war was at a critical point, the senate’s order for new clones was ready, Cody knew they needed more Jedi Generals, and none came with better credentials than you. You would be a credit to any battalion, they would be lucky troopers. But they were not Cody’s troopers.

He didn’t hear his door open.

“Cody?” Your face cast in shadow as you were outlined by the glow of the ship light. You voiced pulled Cody from his questionings.

“Hmm?” He looked up. “Ah, how did it go?”

“Good,” You walked into his room and sat down next to him on his bed. “I have something to say to you.”

“I know.”

“I’m gonna miss you.” The emotion cracking the edges of your voice. Cody wrapped an arm around you. “You’ll never be too far away.” Cody managed to give you a bit of a half-smile. You sat there together taking in each other’s presence for what you knew would be for the last time for a long time.

“I have something for you.” You broke the silence by reaching back around to grab at something. It was a small wooden box. You shoved it at the Marshall Commander and he opened it.

“Your padawan braid?” Cody looked at you, a mixture of confusion and awe.

“Something to remember me by, you’ll always have a little piece of me with you no matter how many light years apart we are.”

Cody smiled, and pulled you into a hug.

Aftermath.

You couldn’t remember the name of the planet you were on when you felt it. It was like all the energy in your body being forcibly pushed out of you. Your ears rang with the screams and it was almost as if the ground began to lilt under you feet.

Something was wrong, but you didn’t know what.

You hadn’t clued to the first signs, comms going unanswered, whispers around the native colonies. It was when you saw the Holonet report of the Jedi betraying the Republic when you knew you were in trouble.

At first it wasn’t so bad, you kept a low profile and no one really bothered you, you looked like any other traveller passing through. But then the troopers started to show up, but not in the armour you were used to. Similar enough to go unnoticed by most people, but strange enough to send your survival instincts into overdrive.

But it wasn’t safe.

Especially on the day you saw your picture, a smiling Jedi Knight, plastered on the wall of an unassuming business, labelling you as a traitor and offering a reward.

That’s when you began your new life, with a new appearance, a new name, never staying in one place for more than a few weeks. It was tiring, but it was what needed to be done.

….

You had been watching the holo waves weeks now. Imperial propaganda rife. Disgust had made its home in the back of your throat as you looked upon the force fed narratives on the web. But everyday you checked it religiously, looking for information about what happened at the end of the clone wars, why you were being hunted down.

Talk of a legendary clone wars commander coming to your planet to recruit piqued you interest.

It was dangerous, if it was the man you thought it would be, if the empire found out you were there. But you had to go.

You kept your distance from him. But you knew, without a doubt it was him, his scar, his gait. But the warmth was gone from his eyes. You tailed him, following him away from the carnival and back to his room before you confronted him.

“Cody.”

His shoulders stiffened. He slowly turned around to see who was in the door.

“CC-2224 now” His voice was proper, like when he gave an order. You brow furrowed in confusion, you didn’t quite know what has happening.

“Cody, what’s happening?” You were desperate and confused, in front of the one person who could help you make send of the mess. You moved to hug him around the middle as you dissolved into tears.

You didn’t register it in time.

The hard barrel of Cody’s pistol pressing into you side. You felt the heat of the blaster bolt and looked up at your Best friend, your brother, with pathetically wide eyes.

“I’m sorry Y/N, but good soldiers follow orders.” There was no remorse in his voice, almost the slightest hint of pleasure.

It was the last thing you heard, before your vision frayed, the pounding in your ears became too much and your world faded to black.

#commander cody #cody x reader #tcw #the clone wars #clone wars imagines #halzore writes #and also answers #Crazy wolrd #commander cody x reader #commander cody x you #this is my first time writing for codes #i love him to bits #but I d K if I nailed this one #My brain is a choppy mess #going at 150000 miles an hour

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admin-in-residence · 4 years

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Merci

Request: Hello! Any chance we can get a one shot/fic where the reader speaks a foreign language besides English, and the Bad Batch decides to teach her how to speak English? They give the reader daily lessons on speaking the English language and help her practice her English speaking skills

This is a cute idea, I just hope I did it justice...and hopefully google translate translated everything correctly? I studied french briefly, but I remember practically nothing...translations are located at the bottom of the fic.

Length: 1757 Words

When Commander Cody had called them in for a protection detail, Hunter had assumed it would be like any other detail the Batch had ever done. Go in, establish a contact with their charge, follow them around until the threat could be eliminated or deescalated, and then be on their way to some peaceful planet until the next job came through.

You weren’t like any other charge however...and by the sounds of it you’d be stuck with them for a long time.

“They have valuable information about the separatists.” Cody explained, “They came from a separatist's controlled planet and left everything behind in order to help the Republic. But now the planet authorities, the separatist council and the sith are after her.”

“Why can’t you just get the information and put them into safe housing?” Tech inquired.

“Well...we can’t really understand them.” Cody said, looking over to you.

You looked confusedly between the men in front of you, their language strange and foreign in your ears...what were they talking about?

“Peut-être qu'un droïde peut traduire?” You said, interrupting the men’s conversation.

Cody smiled sheepishly.

“You see...we have very little information about their planet or their language...the Republic destroyed most of it’s history after it aligned with the Separatists.” Cody explained, “We had a translation droid on it’s way, but they only have limited phrases in their databanks.”

“So why did you call us in?” Crosshair glared.

“Tech may be able to decipher the language and report back to us. He was the only person I could think of that may be able to help.” Cody said, “Plus, you guys can be her security detail. Just take her with you, decipher her information and then we can find safe housing for her until the end of the war.”

“The Commander is right...there’s not a lot of information about the language, but I think i’ll be able to figure it out eventually.” Tech said.

“Well then. I guess�� we’re on the job.” Hunter stated.

The strange goggled man had managed to explain to you that they were your protector’s and had you accomony you back to the ship...that was only a few days ago and you were starting to get sick of everything.

“Les séparatistes construisent une nouvelle usine de droïdes, avec de nouveaux droïdes que vous n'avez jamais vus. Ils sont grands et dangereux ... ils peuvent détruire des villages entiers.” You urged.

“What is she saying Tech?” Hunter asked.

The strange man with the bandanna seemed to be the mediator, knowing exactly when you were about to lunge across the table to strangle the goggled man when he misunderstood your words.

“Droids...something about droids. I’m assuming a factory...but...” The goggled man said.

“Apprend moi! Apprend moi-e-english.” You willed your tongue to conform to the strange lanquage.

“English?” Crosshair asked. “She just spoke our language.”

“You want us to teach you english?” Wrecker asked.

You excitedly pointed to the big guy.

“Oui!” You exclaimed excitedly. “Teach-English.”

“That may be able to work better...” Tech said. “If we can teach her our language, she would be able to tell us exactly what she needs to...and even if that prove’s difficult, learning some of our words in her language may help me decipher things faster.”

“Great now we’re teachers? Count me out.” Crosshair groaned, walking away from the table.

“What do you think sir?” Tech looked to Hunter.

“Let’s teach her.” Hunter said.

The week’s flew by as you began your teachings.

The first lesson Tech had completed with you was important item’s, like food, water, and feelings, you were able to tell them now if you wanted a ration pack, or needed some water.

“Je suis fatigue.” You smiled to the goggled man, who’s name was not in fact goggled man but actually Tech.

“English please.” Tech smiled back.

You still had a habit of slipping into your language, especially when you began to get tired, or get super excited.

“Désolée, I am tired?” You apologized before raising your arms up by your head in a sleeping motion.

“Yes, it’s been a long day. We should get some rest.” Tech replied.

The Batch had landed on a simple planet on the outer rim. White sandy beaches and warm weather greeted you when you went for a walk in the mornings.The water was crystal clear, and you could see little fish swimming by the shore.

The next morning you went out for your walk, and in the distance you saw one of the Batch sitting in the sand cleaning his gun.

The silver haired clone looked up at you as you approached.

“Bonjour.” You waved.

Crosshair sighed.

“It means good morning.” You explained. “But perhap’s your morning is bad.”

You had become friends with most of the Batch, Hunter was patient with you, Tech was always eager to learn and teach, and Wrecker was just a big gentle giant. Every day you grew closer and closer with the batch.

Hug’s were a constant with you, constantly thanking them with a quick hug. And they had even begun to reciprocate those hug’s when you learned something new or memorized a statement.

But Crosshair had distanced himself from you very early on.He wasn’t willing to listen to you try to speak english, nor listen to any of your language. It seemed like he was always upset with you for one reason or another.

And as you grew closer and closer with the others, he grew farther and farther.

“No...it’s not bad.” The man said. “Go ahead and sit.”

You smiled brightly at him as he pat the ground next to him and you eagerly sat down before shuffling closer to him.

“Your awfully close.” Crosshair grunted, pulling back a bit.

You tilted your head.

“Close.” He explained, poking your shoulder and then touching his.

“I need space.” He said widening his hands futher.

Ah...he was feeling crowded by you. You moved back some.

“Thanks.”

“Merci.” You replied. “That’s what you just said to me...it means Thank you.”

“Well then...merci.” He said.

“You do not- your uncomfortable with me.” You said, trying to explain in his language.

Crosshair glanced up from his gun.

“No.”

“You do not like me?” You asked.

“No thats not it either...” Crosshair grunted.

“Hmph.” You sighed. “I do not understand.”

Crosshair chuckled as he looked at you. Your arm’s we’re crossed tightly and your eyes narrowed as you looked out to the sea.

“It’s always been me and my brothers.” He said. “And then you came in.”

Your looked to him.

“I thought that even though you spoke a different language that Tech would be able to decipher it, get the information and you’d be gone like everyone else.” He explained, “Uh...you understand me right.”

“I have learned lot’s.” You explained, “Keep going...if I grow confused I will ask.”

“Right.” Crosshair answered. “Well...it’s been weeks and we havn’t even begun to report your info. But my Batch. My brothers, they’ve grown close to you. They’ve accepted you into our family.”

You nodded.

“But one day, your going to finally give out the information we need and then your going to be gone...and my brother’s will hurt. I will hurt.” Crosshair admitted.

Yes, Crosshair thought, despite pushing you and further away you had still found a place in his heart. You cared for his brothers...and for him. You had created food from your planet for them, helped fix things on the ship...you were a part of them.

“Well...she doesn’t have to go away.”

Crosshair turned, finding Hunter standing behind the two of you.

“What place is safer then with us. We know her language almost as much as she knows our’s. Cody will stick up for us...the best place for you is with us.” Hunter smiled at you.

“So no more push?” You asked, lightly pushing his shoulder.

“La famille reste solidaire. Tu es ma famille maintenant.” You said, “Family stick’s together. You are my family now.”

Crosshair smiled, ducking his head down to hide it from you.

The Batch stood behind you as you greeted the Jedi standing before you. Cody and his general, Obi-Wan Kenobi had met on Coruscant to confer with you.

“You have valuable information for us young one.”

“Yes I do.” You replied.

“There is a droid factory being built on a planet in the outer rim. The droid’s being build are not like any you have seen. They are bigger and meaner, they have the capabilities of taking out entire villages.” You explained.

“This is concerning.” Obi-Wan admitted. “But do you have any proof?”

“I can only offer you my word. But perhap’s sharing a fraction of my pain is enough. My own village was a test subject with the new droids, they tore it to shreds, they killed so many, I was lucky to make it out alive with my family. But that is when I knew I could not allow this to happen to anyone else.” You admitted.

“It is thanks to my new family.” You gestured behind you, “That I am able to tell you these things. They have worked hard to protect me and learn my language to translate...but they taught me even more with their language so that I could tell you myself.”

Obi-Wan brought a hand up to his beard, deep in thought.

“I will bring this to the council’s attention.” Obi-Wan stated. “I believe it is in your best interest-”

Everyone stiffened as you waited for his next words.

Was this it?

Would you lose your new family?

“-That you remain in protection with Clone Force 99. They have done well...and I believe they will continue to do so.” Obi-Wan bowed to you and then took his leave.

“Very good work. I will contact you when I have new orders. Get some rest.” Cody smiled following his general.

Turning around you launched yourself into Hunter’s arms, the rest of the Batch joining in on the hug.

“I’m proud of you.” Hunter smiled.

“We all are.” Crosshair butted in.

“Well...I did have the best teachers.” You admitted. “But where are we going to go next?”

The Batch looked at each other before smiling.

“How about you decide this time?” Hunter said.

“Well, I heard about this planet, Naboo! I hear it’s absolutely perfect.” You said, following Wrecker and Crosshair as you began walking back to the Marauder.

“She fit’s right in.” Tech said.

“Think we could get some armor on her, teach her to shoot?” Hunter asked.

“Armor, yes. Shooting no. Crosshair already did that.”

Translations:

Peut-être qu'un droïde peut traduire : Maybe a droid can translate

Les séparatistes construisent une nouvelle usine de droïdes, avec de nouveaux droïdes que vous n'avez jamais vus. Ils sont grands et dangereux ... ils peuvent détruire des villages entiers : The sepratists are building a new droid factory, with new droids you’ve never seen, they are big and dangerous...they can destroy whole villages.

Apprend moi : Teach me

Oui : Yes

Je suis fatigue : I am tired

La famille reste solidaire. Tu es ma famille maintenant : Family sticks together. You are my familiy now.

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xmalereader · 4 years

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Kylo Ren x Male reader

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Request: pretty please Kylo x reader, where Kylo watches as the reader slowly rises from nothing and climbs the ranks of the F.O. At first he’s just a prisoner of war, but he betrays his planet for freedom and a chance to join the infantry. Then from soldier to commander, commander to captain, captain to general etc, until eventually the Reader commands all of the First Order forces (instead of Hux) and has to work alongside Kylo. Reader tries to introduce himself but Kylo says “I know who you are.”

Warnings: Slight angst, slow burn, Kylo being protective, slight innocent reader, fluff.

@cozyghosty

Y/n and Hux have both gone to the same academy, going through the same programs and training. The two were very close childhood friends that once they joined the first order the two were forced to avoid each other becuase of the different positions that they have gained, giving them less time to bond with each other. Hux has made it to higher ranking, leaving y/n behind in a lower ranking, it upset him at first but he already saw this coming. He knew that he would struggle through this and would have to find a way to get to a higher ranking like his childhood friend. He didn’t want to be general he wanted to be something more. Making him a very important person that people would actually rely on.

So, he works his ass off.

He becomes an engineer first, making plans with Hux on how they were going to create the New Death Star together, giving them some time to at least bond with each other but y/n knows that it wasn’t enough for Hux to treat him as a friend once again, since he’s become a general he’s sorta become an asshole to everyone, including him.

Their are time when the two would argue on which plans were better but of course Hux always won the argument. Leaving y/n to groan in frustration and head towards the training room where he could blow off some steam, he used one of his new inventions, creating holograms of random facelsss people. Using the holograms to train with them, each time he strikes a person the image would disappear and the system would keep record of his training. It was easy and simple and he was the only one who knew how to use it, he created it himself.

So as he’s training he doesn’t notice the stranger dressed in black watching him train from the doorway. He was to busy fighting off the holograms that when he notices the man, losing focus he’s knocked down by one of the holograms, causing him to grunt and fall on his back. The stranger straightens hismelf, getting ready to jump in and help y/n but the other shouts a command. “Stop training sequence!”

The holograms froze and slowly disappeared as he groans and slowly Stands up, gripping his fighting stick as he glanced over at the stranger. “can I help you?” He asks softly, panting from all of the fighting. The stranger eyes him and makes his way over, he was taller than him which may or may not have frightened him a little bit. “I’ve never seen a trooper train this way before.” He says as y/n raised a brow and tilts his head. “Sorry but I’m not a trooper, I’m actually an engineer here.”

“Then what’s an engineer like you doing inside a training room?”

Y/n fidgets nervously. “Just testing out my new stuff—but if you need the training room then you can have it I’m done for the day.” He insists and makes his way over to the control area, taking his own device as he pockets it and glanced over his shoulder to see the taller one still staring at him.

“Um...—“

“You’re training is impressive, including your inventions.” He says.

Y/n smiles shyly at him and chuckles. “Thanks, not many people seem to appreciate my work.” He mumbles out and grips the fighting stick in his hand. The other notices this and raises a brow. “Ever thought about training troopers?”

“What? Pfft, no way I can barley train myself.” He laughs out but quickly stops as he noticed the other giving him a cold stare. “No, never thought of that.” He simply says.

The other hums at him. “What training sequence were you on?”

Y/n loooks down and twirls the stick around. “Sequence 40.”

“Thats a pretty high level for an engineer, impressive.”

“Thanks...?” He bends down to grab his coat and slip it on, putting his gloves back on as he slicks his hair back. The other could eye him up and down before making his wya out of the room. “Not bad.” He hears him say as he exits the room.

“Wait!” Y/n chases after him, making it outside the training room he spots the stranger once again. “You never told me your name!” He shouts out as the other glances over his shoulder, giving him a grin like smile as he answers him. “Ben, call me Ben.”

The two didn’t see each other again; Y/n had hoped that he worked as an engineer as well but once he looked him up not a single thing about the man came up so he gave up on his ear he and continued on with his tasks. Working on the new Death Star with Hux but of course the council had to call him in, saying that they wanted to speak to him.

The first thing that he felt was fear, thinking that he messed something up and was going to get into some sort of trouble.

Arriving to the council room he is met up with different commanders and generals and at the end of that table sat their number one commander.

Kylo Ren.

Y/n didn’t know much about him but was warned to not anger the man since it’ll come with consequences if he were to get upset. So, y/n made sure to stay clear from him.

“Y/n.” He hears one of the generals say as his gaze snaps away from ren and towards the new voice. “Do you know why we called you here?” He asks as y/n bites his lip and answers honesty. “No, sir.” He makes sure to keep his arms behind his back, standing tall as to show them that he wans’t afraid.

“We got a report from one of our colleagues saying that they’ve seen you training in one of our troopers fighting area.”

“Sir—“

The commander raises a hand to silence him as y/n shuts his mouth and looks down a little as he waits for what’s to come. “They say that your technics are smart and faster, they also mentioned that your tech helped you train faster, is that true?”

Y/n nods in response. “Yes, sir.”

“Very well.”

Everyone that sat on the long table turned their gazes towards Ren, waiting for his instructions as y/n fidgets around nervously as he glanced over to ren. The masked man sits up straight as he speaks out. “We have decided to promote you as commander to our troopers, working alongside with phasma.” His eyes widen at the sudden realization.

“Thank you sir, I am honored but our plans to create a new Death Star aren’t finished yet and I would like to finish those plans before I am removed from my engineering postion.” He says calmly as Ren tilts his head towards Hux who sat a few seats down. “Commander Hux will finish the plans for you.”

Of course he will.

Y/n groans deep down, these were his plans and hux was going to take all of the credit. Sighing deeply he nods at him, “Of course sir.” He says out softly. “Then it is decided, you are to become commander of our troopers, train them well.” And with that y/n was sent away to start his new postion.

His first day was a struggle. Phasma had tried to force him to wear a suit but he refused telling her that he didn’t want to hide behind a mask and that he was only training them, he wasn’t meant to go to the field or to order them around, he is to make sure that they know how to defend themselves.

Using his skills as a technician he created new weapons for the troopers, teaching them how to properly use them and how to learn hand to hand combat when they don’t have a weapon on them. He expected himself to not last a week with the troopers but letting his anger out when training had helped him improve a little, he was so used to being ordered around that now he was the one doing the ordering, fighting his own soldiers as the train them harder.

“If you don’t learn how to use it then you won’t survive.” He hisses at the trooper who was lying on the ground, panting heavily as y/n points the end of his weapon towards the trooper. The weapon contained all electric shock that can knock out any person in less than a few seconds if used properly.

Pulling away his weapon he offers his hand to the trooper who accepts it, helping him up as he shoves him towards the crowd. “Tomorrow morning you are to be sent out on the field, searching for a very important item that our leader is in desperate need for it.” He began to say as he places the weapon into his holster and puts his hands behind his back as he paces around the room, eyeing the troopers.

“What ever you do, don’t hesitate.” He reminds them as he turns to look at phasma who leans off the wall. “Before everyone leaves I have some news.” She says as y/n raises a brow in confusion. “Is it bad?” He asks out of curiosity.

“No need to panic, my little genius.”

Y/n blushes at the nickname and chuckles a little.

“Ive received orders from Kylo ren; he wants you on the field wiht everyone else.”

“Me? But I’m not ever a trooper.”

“No, but you are their commander.”

Y/n bites his lip nervously as he thinks about this, “I—okay.” He finally sighs out as phasma smiles under her helmet and pat his shoulder. “Don’t disappoint me.” She whispers and leaves the room, slowly little by little the troopers began to exit the training room. Leaving y/n all on his own as he thought about this, he was so used to being inside. Doing the inside work as the others did the dirty work, but this was different now. He wasn’t an engineering anymore, he was commander and he was going to be out there.

He was standing inside one of their ships, heading towards Jakku. It was dark and the moons were shining down on the desert planet. Y/n was standing in the back of the ship with Phasma and Ren, he was wearing his own mask since he refused to wheat any of the troopers armor, saying that he’ll make his own outfit that’ll help him move faster during a fight or a raid.

He was wearing all black, having a thin cloth cover his face as he wore dark goggles that covered his eyes. He could still see through them and the suit wasnt as hard to move in.

His staff was strapped around over his shoulder as he fixed his black gloves on.

“Preparing to land...”

Letting out a small sigh he feels the ship shake as it lands onto the ground, the ramp lowering down as the troopers exit the ship and began to raid the village. Y/n steps out and looks around, its been a few years since he’s last been on a planet, he’s been stuck indoors and in outerspace, making plans for the future of the first order that he has totally forgotten what it felt like to be on land again.

“Search the place, burn it down if you have too.” He hears Phasma say as y/n glances at her. “Find me that map.” Said Ren as y/n nods at the command and heads towards the village, he makes sure that all of the troopers have raided the place, pulling out different people and tossing them out of their houses as y/n walks around calmly, already used to this kind of scene.

“Is that everyone?” He asks one of the troopers.

“Yes, sir. No one else was located in the area.”

“Good, go and wait with the others.” The trooper heads off towards the others troopers as y/n gives the place one last glance but before he could leave he sees a hint of movement behind one of the tents, causing him to raise a brow.

He reaches up to click the side of his mask which caused his vision to Change into heat vision, smirking under his mask he spots a figure crouching under the tent as he held a blaster.

Y/n clears his vision and it goes back to normal as he stalks over to the tent, unclipping his staff as he grips it into his hand. Making his way around he sees the man shift in his spot, getting ready to make a run for it. ”Hey.”

The man turns around in panic as y/n swings the end of his staff against the man’s face, knocking him down as he groans in pain. He makes sure to kick away the blaster as he used his foot to roll the man over onto his back. Y/n’s breath hitches as he gets a closer look, “Poe?” He whispers out as the man continues to groan, without hesitation he swings his staff again. Hitting him upside the head as he grabs him by the legs nad drags him back towards their ship.

As he returned he noticed how the place was going into flames as Ren stood by the ship, he immediately spots y/n and began to make his way towards him. Y/n drops Poe in front of Ren and clips his staff back into place, “I’m guessing this is the guy you are looking for?” He pushes Poe onto his knees and grips his shoulder.

Poe groans in pain as he looks up to glare at Ren.

“Where’s the map?”

“I’m not saying anything.” Poe spits out as Ren glares in return.

Y/n could feel the anger radiating off of Ren, he noticed him reaching for his saber but y/n is quick to step in. “Sir, its best to bring him aboard and to inturigate him. He’s no use to us dead.” He reminds him as Ren tilts his helmet upwards to stare at y/n. “Very well then, bring him aboard and make sure that he’s cuffed.”

“Yes, sir.” Y/n grabs Poe by the arm and drags him towards the ship, making sure to cuff him as he gives the man a glance. The two are silent as the troopers come aboard, “I know you.” Poe finally says as y/n froze in place. “You don’t know me.” He mumbles out and moves away form their prisoner, making his way over to phasma to Ren. “Our prisoner is cuffed, ill make sure that he doesn’t cause us any trouble and if he does then I won’t hesitate to use him for one of my experiments.” He grins as Kylo Stood next to phasma, eyeing y/n up and down since he was shorter than Ren.

“You’ve been training the trooper well and your commanding is coming in handy, never seen the troopers fight better than usual.” He smiles at Kylo’s complainant. “Thank you, sir. I don’t go easy on them so I’m sorry if I’m a little too hard.”

“The harder the better.”

Y/n smiles a little under his mask and walks over to stand next to Phasma.

“Phasma has actually told me the changes that you’ve been doing.” He froze in spot as he glances over to Ren. “You seem to know your way around a problem, someone like you will be useful on the bridge.”

“What—?” He breaths out in shock as he grips his arm.

“How does General Y/n, sound to you?”

Y/n gaped at him, not knowing what to say. “But sir, isn’t Hux general?” He questions as Kylo gives him a small nod. “Yes, but I’ve been having second thoughts about his leading and I think its best to keep him as commander again than general.”

Hux was being demoted becuase of him. He was taking Hux’s spot as General, he was going ot be leading his own army and commanding his own people, he didn’t know how to feel about this. All his life he dreamed of becoming a general but never thought of it as anything else, and now here he is. Getting promoted as General.

“It would be an honor.” He replies back as the crew flies back to base where he could get started on his new position as General.

“Beautiful isn’t it.”

Y/n is startled by the sudden clear voice.

Glancing over his shoulder he spots the Same man that he has meet a couple of years back, his eyes widening in realization. “Ben..” he breaths out as he turns to face Y/n. “Thats not my name.” He whispers out as y/n raises a brow, opening his mouth to ask what he meant but before he could question him he gives him a quick scan and realized that he was holding his helmet in one hand and his saber in the other.

“Ren.” He whispers as Kylo chuckles with a grin. “Took you awhile, General.”

Y/n’s face goes red and turns back to face the large window, watching as their cruisers traveled through lightspeed, tracking down the rebellion.

“Why did you give me a fake name, instead of being honest?” He asks as the two stood side by side. “You’re smart General, figured you would notice but I didn’t think it would take this long.” Kylo smirks at him as he gribs his helmet and slips it back on.

“Then maybe we should properly introduce ourselves—“ he turns to face Face Kylo. “I’m—“

“I know who you are.” Kylo cuts him off before he could say anything else.

“You’re Y/n L/n, a former student at the Acadamy that you and Hux both attend as children. You’ve always wanted to be a part of the First Order, but you became a technician instead, but you didn’t complain about it since it was one of your passions, to create new things.” He began to say. “Hux was quickly to take your spot as General but you worked yourself hard, starting from the very bottom and making your way to the top.”

Kylo steps forward, their faces only a few inches away as Y/n stays calm and standing. “I admire someone who can prove people wrong, I’d like to continue seeing that as we work together.” He whispers to him.

Y/n takes in a small deep breath. “Yes, sir.”

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huntsman-ash · 4 years

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RWBY S7E4 Livewatch

BiFucAnd once more unto the breach...this time, maybe we’ll get to see something cool from Mantle!

The more I see the opening the more I feel like its half Teen Titans, half sitcom.

Also the mention of a “lightning bolt” makes me think of either Nora or my unknown OC Marasco, which pleases me

Amnity Colleseum sees your sins...and it JUDGES YOU. “Pathetic”

Also cool, Atlas has military trucks. Good.

LAMB FAUNUS! SHES SO CUTE! Wonder who the dude is. Ohhh that bird symbol. These are Robyn’s crew aren’t they? That bird must be some kind of pheonix. Mantle rising from the ashes... Seriously though that thing looks like the fuckin UNSC eagle emblem and I could not be happier about it.

Hold up, those trucks have the same bodyshape as the cattlecar that RWBY was in on their way to the school. Modular component system? Swap in wheels or wings...cool!

Wait why does Qrow get to walk out with the Ace’s? Is RWBY just not supposed to be there?

Marrow walking like he’s in The Right Stuff.

Lancaster momennnntttt. And then NORA. Oh. Just fanboying.

“Ace Ops are hand-oicked to perfectly compliment each other”. Interesting. So there is SOME planning involved. These guys must train like motherfuckers...

Elms weapon looks so much like Olivia’s Im kind of wondering if RT is stealing my ideas right out of my head.

Nora: I can’t decide which I like more, your muscles OR YOUR HAMMER

God fucking dammit Nora.

So apperently Nora can now break time and space and become PERFECTLY STILL...that or Solitas finally froze her solid.

Also the “we’re not friends” thing is...amusing but at the same time pointless. Soldiers make friends. It happens. They call each other “buddy” for a reason you know...so, one mark towards RT for not knowing how soldiers work.

I get the feeling the whole “no friends” thing is indication they’re trying to say “oh if we have to sacrifice them for the mission we will” which...I guess works but. Eh.

“Only the boring parts”. So your telling me Mistral has more INTERESTING places? Like...some kind of giant weapons factory maybe? Ehh? Eh.

Also the sudden divergence of RWBY’s coherency is...interesting, and I feel may be forced by them fighting alongside the Aces.

So Atlas has the exact same salute as most military's. What is it with that hand to the forehead that makes it so universally deployed.

Marrow showing off to that Huntsman is amusing to me. Also, Ironwood specifically calls the Aces “Huntsmen” here. Which I find intriguing. So, even here, its proof; they are not soldiers, they are Huntsmen first and foremost. And THAT is all I need to know.

Oh, so that’s who Tyrians killing. People who speak out against...Atlas... Oh well now. CLEVER. They’re trying to make Mantle rally and knock Atlas out of the sky aren’t they? I am honestly of two minds of this. We’ll see how its handled.

Ironwood is being really hard to hate for me right now.

Looks like Winter’s ship was a Schnee model like the book said, just with flappy streamers cause...why not. That being said the sharp four-nacelle design really does look good.

The back LITERALLY looks like the fucking shuttle from Star Wars VI. Its literally a Lambda Class but BACKWARDS.

GET HIS ASS IRONWOOD. BITCH SLAP THAT PASTY MOTHERFUCKER RIGHT INTO THE MINE. DO IT. DO IIIITTTTT.

Also, yes, Schnee, you know how the military works, right? I mean I wouldnt be surprised if you DIDNT since you know NO ONE ELSE ON THIS FUCKING PLANET SEEMS TOO.

Upcoming election. Ohhh so he’s on the council too. Guess that makes sense. ...Hmm. Interesting. Most interesting...

Ohhh the sudden SILENCE as he see’s Weiss. Rug tugged...and PULLED.

What the fuck was he doing with his finger there...looked like he was typing something.

Blake and Yang look ready to fry and eat the fucker and I couldn’t agree more.

Blah blah blah politics blah blah whatever. You DO realize if Mantle goes sour (like it probably will) they’re coming for YOUR ass too right Mr. J? And last I checked, Ironwood has friends. I wonder if someone in Remnants invented a guillutine yet.

Also I love the “yes I am holding hands with a faunus, eat shit dad” look on Weiss.

Interesting landing pad design. Must have been for lifting cargo containers, that dropship barely even sat on it fully.

(And as Penny hits the ground we hear Double Kill, Triple Kill, OVERKILL) in the background)

Penny’s smile gives me life.

Also she doesnt really STOP so much as “slow down”. The purity of her emotions are...pleasing to my jaded heart.

Also how fitting of Ironwood to do a military parade ceremony for RWBY and JNR. I hope they get medals.

Well, not quite but...they get official licences now if I had to guess. That’s cool too.

It went by a bit too quick for me but I bet theres a reference somewhere in Ren’s licence number there under his name.

Class L must mean Licensed. Interesting.

“Brothers know.” Ahhh, good, more reference for religios terminology

So now RWBYs fully deployed. Hell yeah.

Adorable Irondaddy is adorable.

I was about to say the cake is a lie but...there it is. Cake. Which Penny cuts with her blades (which are back I should notice, minus the wires as far as I can tell)

Good stuff all around...and here we go with the mental stuff with Ruby. SKIIIIPPPPPP

Wait no info on Summer yooo. And she went out on her own volition fucking good stuff

“Its an app now”. You’re...a couple years late with THAT joke, RT.

Penny 2.0.exe has stopped working please restart

Marrow being the cocky asshole, as usual.

Vine and Ren seem like they’ll get on well. (Aw, we’re not gonna see Mantle at all are we...)

Marrows intentional mispronounciation of Jaune’s name is amusing but also forced.

Mantle has sewers. MANTLE HAS SEWERS. OHHH FUCK YES METRO HERE I COME!

Also why is everyone laughing at Jaune, its a legitimate question.

Biggest fucking ice cube in the history of ice cubes.

The look of fear on Jauque’s face gives me life.

Ah so they know each other. I smell backstabbing slash... Oh. Oh ho...could it be they’re RELATED? Jauque Watts...

Intereting and more interesting.

And thats that.

#livewatch

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thekimthinks · 5 years

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So I rewatched the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy again.

I say trilogy well aware that there are more movies by now but I feel like removing the main charachters and keeping one side charachter counts more as a spinoff. So before we begin I did watch these before once pretty much before they came out. I remember really enjoying the first one and the sequels overall being mediocre. Then over time I forgot why the sequels were bad and remembered a really cool story about magic pirates with a badass female lead. And now I have watched them again and they are bad. But like bad in their own special way. And the fact that they are bad doesn’t mean they don’t tell a cool story about magical pirates. So what I am going to do is go trough each movie in a semi structured way and tell you why they are bad but still tell a cool magical story about pirates with a badass female lead.

So when we start the second movie we get some exposition setting up the main vilian for both movies, It’s this new trading company dude who is looking to get jacks compass for some reason. Also this dude enjoys being an asshole so he imprisons elizabeth and sends will out to see to look for jack sparrow. What follows is what I like to call shenanigans. The pirates movies are not the only movie that employ the shenanigans trope but the trope can be sumarized as any action/comedy/general scene that doesn’t make much sense and does noting to progress the plot in a meaningfull way. (the defintion of the word meaningfull is subjective here but bear with me). The shenanigans the second pirates movie gets into include a very racist 20 minutes of Jack being a king of native canibals and having to be rescued by his crew and Will who was looking for him. Elizabeth gets her own shenanigans as she escapes jail. makes a deal with our main villian. Then in order to find Jack and Will she dresses like a man to tag along a trading ship. In her infinte cunning and wisdom that apperently dissapears because shenanigans she hides her dress on board of the ship. Wich then leads to her pretending there is a ghost on the ship and leading this ship to Tortuga. Now it can be argued both of these shenanigans progress the plot. Will finds jack and frees him. Elizabeth uses a cunning plan to get where she needs to be. Except both of these points rely on A. Jack got captured by natives that are there for no plot relevant reason. B. Elizabeth hides her dress on board of the ship she is hiding her identity and gender on. But ok half an hour into this movie and nothing has happened, fine. skip forward a few scenes and we get to Jack selling will to davy jones, will meets his daddy this is all pretty good. Refer back to cool magic pirate movie. Will escapes eventually and meets with Jack Elizabeth and suprise james norrington, you know the british navy villian from the first movie. (he is introduced earlier and better than I might suggest but this is already far too long.) So the boys fight over davy jones’ heart untill halfway the fight Norrington steals the heart out of jacks jar of dirt. After which the fight actually continues for quite a while. this entire fight can be summarized as shenanigans. So davy jones is angry because his heart got stolen and he sends the kraken after our heroes and something acutally suprising and interesting happens.

See Elizabeth and Jack have this conversation a bit before this, where Jack suggests that Elizabeth will become a scoundrel like himself because deep inside she is a pirate and wants to know how it feels (also this means they are going to make out). She retorts that she will not but that Jack will become a hero one day because deep inside he is a good man and wants to know how it feels. So the kraken atacks because Jack has Davy Jones’ heart and Davy jones generally wants him dead. This is when Elizabeth does something briliant. She kisses Jack and ties him to the boat making the kraken kill him so she can escape. She lost the argument, she became a scoundrel pirate. However Jack in the eyes of the group became a hero, sacrificing himself to save the team. In a way they are both right. Especially from elizabeth’s perspective as a scoundrel, A heroic man is good for nothing but leverage (this is a huge theme in the first movie.) So Elizabeth killed jack, the movie ends with everyone mourning jack at Tia Dalma’s place. Who reveals that Barbossa is alive, and that Jack can be brought back from Davy Jones’ locker. But only if they are willing to sacrifice everything, everyone agrees with an “Aye!” except for Elizabeth, who reluctantly says yes, which makes sense... she killed Jack.

Now why did I write all this down (other than this being the point of the blog), I wrote it all down because the third movie has some issues that facinate and frustrate me to no end. So Elizabeth is now a murderer, pirate, liar, and overall badass worth a milion of Jack Sparrow. But this is a Disney movie and hollywood can’t have women be competent without also being objectified sooo we start the movie with her singing the pirate antem forcing the pirate lords to gather. In order to make a deal with one of the pirate lords named Sao Feng. So far so good she is being cool. But in order to get in she needs to drop her weapons and clothes and Barbossa is there to take the lead. This actually makes everything confusing, Everything up to this point would make Barbossa and Elizabeth equals if not friends for the fact that Elizabeth achieved what Barbossa would have loved to do. Kill Jack Sparrow. But because the movie won’t allow a woman to be a main charachter entirely she doesn’t tell him. So he treats her like shit. We also get to see her weakness in this scene, namely that she still really loves Will making her actually interesting. (I am not going to debate on tumblr if her weakness being attraction to a dude is sexist or not.) So much of the first half of the movie is spent on saving jack sparrow from davy jones’ locker and one thing relevant to my story here that happens is that Elizabeth finds out her dad is dead, which upsets her inmensly and she needs to be stopped from drowning herself. (I am honestly not sure about this scene it makes sense in charachter but portraying Elizabeth this way is just sooo weirdly out of the badass pirate version of her... Whatever.) She eventually gets kidnapped by Sao Feng who thinks she is the god of the sea Calypso, and Sao Feng wants to release Calypso from her mortal prison. This is the same thing Barbossa is trying to do but he knows who Caplypso actually is. Sao Feng dies before this goes anywhere meaningfull other than making Elizabeth a pirate lord with his last words. So now Elizabeth is actually on the same level as Jack. And now we finally get to the scene where all of this comes together. The pirate council scene. All of the pirate lords have come together to decide what to do against davy jones who is now under control of beckett. They fight amongst each other like pirates are expected to do and Elizabeth scoffs at this. She proposes they go to war against Becket’s fleet, in order to flee the scene and live another day, the most ancient of pirate traditions. Jack wants them to stay holed up because he is a coward. Barbossa wants to go to war and release calypso. They figure out the only way to go to war as the pirate council is for there to be a pirate king But everyone always votes for themselves. So there hasn’t been one in forever. Barbossa pushes the vote and because he wants to go to war he votes for Elizabeth, (Also barbossa is a pirate lord for some reason even though he was Jacks first mate in the first movie, you’d think you’d have to be a captian to be a pirate lord?) So elizabeth is now pirate queen. They go to war, some more stuff happend that should probably get its own post but this is all the information required for me to make my point.

Elizabeth as a main charachter is written as a badass pirate with clear motivation but isn’t allowed to be competent and as such the movies narrative around her gets really confusing. If elizabeth had known about the pirate council and the full scope of the code in the second movie, (which was largely spend on shenanigans and could have done with telling us more about the world the story takes place in, the pirate lords and clear details about calypso do not exist in movie 2)and barbossa’s motivation early in the third movie (easily obtained by gaining his trust revealing she murdered Jack), we could have seen this movie as a pirate exceeding her mentor (Jack Sparrow) fighting for the power required to survive, and provide her fiance (Will) with the means to save his father whilst manipulating and lying like literally everyone else.I am almost entirely sure this arc existed for her at some point considering this is what she builds to in the first movie, she adores pirates for their rebellion and heroism, is appaled by their lack of morals and manners, ends up learning how to manipulate them into doing what she wants. But thats not what happend, instead we spent a lot of time on shenanigans and flip flopping between pirate Elizabeth and emotional rich lady on a pirate ship Elizabeth.

If you got this far, thanks for reading. This is one hell of a first post for this blog and I have basicly only written about Elizabeth. I feel like the other big thing i want to talk about is something in more movies and needs its own special post.

#tw: long post #pirates of the caribbean #rant #The kim thinks #elizabeth swann #*Davy jones #Jack sparrow #dead man's chest #Barbossa #Becket #will turner #at world's end #movie #omg I hate tagging things

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dregstrash · 5 years

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Earning the Present(s) [3/4]

Who says presents have to be given on Christmas? (me, the very late, very sorry fic writer)-- another long one folks

Part 1 || Part 2

Summary: Five years after the events of the Ice Court, the six outcasts were in the prime of their lives. They had everything they had fought and bled for: money, power, promise, home. But this holiday season, a surprisingly altruistic event has them all under the same roof, and they all may have been a little older and a little wiser, but they were still those teenagers who had done the impossible and had almost died countless of times. And when the idea of a holiday gift exchange comes up the true test of their friendship and their growth is thrown into the rink.

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WYLAN

Wylan wasn’t sure how he could have possibly ended up here. Whether or not it was by Ghezen’s Hand or from Inej’s saints, but he was positive that it had to be some sort of cosmic intervention that had led him sitting in front of his fireplace, holding his husband’s hand, and surrounded by thieves and an ex-convict.

“That was quite the celebration, Wylan.” Inej said from her place by the window. “I think Kerch might do some good having an orphanage like that in its streets.”

“Thank you, Inej.” Wylan smiled at her. “Getting it past the Council was tough enough, but I’m just happy to give some of those kids a home.”

Jesper snorted beside him, “Yeah, now there actually might be space at The Slat.”

“How did you get those fat birds to donate to your cause anyhow?” Nina brought up. She was tucked firmly under Matthias’s arm and looked positively comfortable.

Wylan felt a slight blush at the measures he had taken to ensure the Council’s support of such an extravagant building to house the countless of orphans roaming the streets, and he tried his best not to look at Kaz as he said, “Let’s just say the right leverage was applied.”

“Oh saints,” Nina rolled her eyes then turned a lazy finger towards Kaz, “You need to stop corrupting his sweet mind.”

Kaz’s lips twitched, “Van Eck doesn’t need me to corrupt his brain. That’s why he keeps Fahey around.”

“Hey,” Jesper protested, “That’s Mr. Van Eck to you, Brekker.”

Wylan grinned and settled to drink his tea as the argument continued on. He wasn’t particularly proud of asking Ketterdam’s most notorious villain to help to threaten the Kerch Council to make this orphanage happen, but he didn’t regret it either. He would have paid for the construction of the building himself, but the land that he was eyeing for the site was owned by the city. When Wylan had brought up his request, one of his father’s oldest friends (who had held a grudge against Wylan ever since his father received his life sentence in jail) suggested that the land would be best used for other means.

And before he knew it, Wylan’s plans of the orphanage were starting to fall apart before they had even begun. It wasn’t just the orphanage that had been upsetting him. It was how easily the Council had looked over his request and how the idea of building an estate for the very act of charity was less worthy. Echoes of his father’s voice had resounded in his head, and this startlingly new conviction settled in his chest and one thing led to another and he had found himself sitting awkwardly in front of Kaz Brekker at The Slat stumbling through the situation.

“I’m willing to pay you half of the exported sugar I have coming in this month, if you can help get this off the ground.”

Kaz hadn’t moved throughout the entire exchange. He could have been a statue as Wylan talked and his dark eyes stayed steadily on him. Even when he had finished talking he remained still.

“Does Jesper know you’re here?”

“He does, and he highly discouraged me from coming. Something about getting into bed with a demon.” Wylan had explained.

“At least being married to you finally wised him up,” Kaz murmured before he looked past Wylan and got a familiar, distant expression on his face. “That sugar shipment, it’s coming from Zemini, isn’t it?” He had finally said.

Wylan didn’t bother asking how he knew that, “Yes.”

“The ship it’s on has one of the largest cargo holds in your fleet.” He said again. Wylan nodded. “Hmm...I’ll help if I can take that ship off of your hands for the rest of the year.”

“What are you going to do with it?” Wylan asked raising his eyebrow.

“I have certain business ventures across the sea, that require speed and space.”

“Right.”

“And just so we’re clear, Wylan. You’re asking me to convince certain members of the merchant council to approve your plans for this orphanage? Through any means necessary?”

“Yes.” Wylan cleared his throat, “It’s a good plan and this city could deal with at least some kindness. Even if it comes through the Bastard of the Barrel himself.”

Kaz’s sharp smile caught Wylan off guard.

“Then the deals the deal, merchling.” He held out his gloved hand and Wylan shook it firmly. “Wait a couple weeks and suggest the plan again. You’ll probably be able to start construction soon after that.”

And true to his word, Wylan went back to the council and no sooner had he finished did they approve the plans and even called it Ghezen’s work that an orphanage should be built to educate those who had nothing. Jesper had scoffed at the reasoning, but was just as excited as his husband when Wylan drew up blue prints, started to hire crew members, and then ultimately its grand opening.

Jesper had been by Wylan’s side through it all. He helped with some of the ground work, supervised when Wylan was away taking care of his mother, and calmed him when the ever-present self-doubt started to creep back in his mind. After the Ice Court job, it had seemed almost like a dream for someone like Jesper to stick around to Wylan, but there he was. Then his tall, Zemeni, thrill-addict boyfriend had really thrown him for an absolute loop when they had gone out to dinner on their backyard and he had gone down on one knee. It was all impossible, but then Wylan said yes and the impossible became possible. And with this orphanage now open, even that had become possible.

For that reason, he supposed it wasn’t that impossible to have all of the people that had survived the most dangerous heist ever to be conceived by anyone to be sitting around the fire ready to open presents.

“Okay,” Nina announced finally, “Me first. So as tradition dictates. Whoever picked first has to give the present first. If I remember correctly, Matthias picked a name. Okay, my dear Fjerdan, who’d you have?”

“Uh,” Matthias said hesitantly. He pulled out a long, rectangular box from behind him and kept his eyes on the present. “I-uh-I didn’t know what else to get you, um, Inej.” The girl in question raised her eyebrows in surprise and stood up from the window, “But, I hope you find it suitable.”

Inej walked over and opened the box slowly. Wylan watched as Inej smiled gratefully as she pulled out a beautiful double-edged knife with a white marble handle.

“It’s of Fjerdan make,” Matthias explained his face flushing, “The inscription is from-uh- Fjerdan saint and uh-”

“Thank you,” Inej interrupted and further surprised the bulky man with a hug.

Matthias smiled in relief and returned the gesture.

“Splendid, Jesper you’re next.” Nina said.

“Ah, finally,” Jesper grinned widely as he separated his hand from Wylan’s. He dug around in his pants pocket and produced two small boxes. Wylan recognized the smile that was lighting up his face and he felt his insides swirl at whatever his husband had decided to gift their friend.

“Now, dearest Nina, since you only deserve the best. I hope these will suffice.” He tossed both boxes at her and she caught them deftly, “Though, I think one of those might actually be for Helvar.”

Curious, Nina opened the first box and positively giggled as she held up a scrap of black lace lined with a blood red border. If Matthias’s face was red before, it was practically boiling now. Even Wylan felt a slight blush creep around his neck.

“Ah, Jes, you shouldn’t have.” She held out the undergarments out for everyone to see and slyly glanced at her Fjerdan, “Think of all the things we could do with this, sweet.”

Matthias looked away fast and everyone laughed at his reaction.

Still giggling Nina unwrapped Jesper’s second present and the smile that settled on her face was far more genuine and real than Wylan had ever seen on her. “Jesper Llewelyn, how did you get this?”

Nina held up a thin chain up from the box and revealed a beautiful sun charm. It glinted against the fire light warmly, and had a clear jewel in the middle.

Jesper shrugged, “I was in Little Ravka in the other day, and I happened to befriend a very talented Fabrikator. He insists it’s the purest form of gold out there.”

“Thank you,” Nina said.

“You’re welcome,” Jesper smiled back.

Wylan couldn’t help but reach back for his hand. It was so rare to see him this comfortable with anyone else or with any other group of people. He was never comfortable with any of the men that Wylan did business with and all of Jesper’s other friends lived far too close to the gambling halls. So to see him so happy made Wylan’s heart flutter in his chest.

The night went on and with each unwrapping came a surprised shock of actually receiving a perfect gift. Inej gave Jesper finely crafted holsters for his guns. Nina gave Wylan a Grisha made flute, that Jesper insisted he played for everyone. He obliged and marveled at the artistry of the instrument and the clear and pure notes that emanated from it. Then came for Kaz to give his gift and Wylan couldn’t deny the sudden shift of mood as they all waited for Kaz to come back from wherever he went to fetch his gift.

“Alright, Helvar,” Kaz reentered the room with a hefty box under his arm, “This was hell to try to get, but try not to kill it.”

He all but shoved the box at Matthias’s lap and went back to his seat by the fire. The other boy looked curiously at the plain box curiously.

Matthias’s furrowed brow quickly rose up as whatever in the box made a loud bark. Nina peered in and her mouth dropped in an almost comical O shape.

“How-what-I-” Matthias stammered as he lifted a gray and white pup out of the container.

Wylan gaped at the small creature that was now sniffing at Matthias curiously and even dared to nibble at the giant’s thumb. It let out a small whimper before Nina instinctively stroked it behind its ears.

“He is adorable! Look at him!” She squealed.

Kaz shrugged, “I did a favor for a Fjerdan a while back, and I had a pack delivered to me for security reasons. As it happens, I had a litter of these runts running around and I kept a couple before getting rid of the rest.”

“By ‘getting rid’ do you mean a quick trip down the canal?” Jesper said hesitantly.

“Ugh,” Nina shivered, not taking her eyes off the dog, “Please don’t answer that, Brekker, I don’t want to hear the truth or the potential lie.”

Kaz’s lip twitched, but he stayed silent.

Matthias’s bewildered blue gaze met Kaz for a moment before he stammered out a quick, “Thank you, demji.”

A bemused expression settled in Kaz’s eyes before he saluted him in acknowledgement.

The puppy was yawning and Wylan could have laughed at the sight of such a small thing nestled in Matthias’s large hand. And if Wylan was completely honest with himself, he could have laughed at the fact that Kaz had even thought of being so considerate. That he went out of his way to think of something Matthias would actually want-- that his gift was so small, fluffy, and....wholesome.

“What are you going to name him?” Wylan asked finally.

Matthais looked down at the animal and nuzzled his face with its snout, “I’m going to name him Trassel....after a good friend of mine.”

Nina peered into the blue and black eyes of the puppy, and cooed to it, “Hi, Trassel. Welcome to the family.”

The dog barked cheerfully at that and settled to rubbing his face against Matthias’s hand.

After a few moments all eyes turned towards Wylan who had yet to give his present.

“Ah, right,” He said, suddenly feeling nervous. He got up from his seat and went behind the curtain to retrieve the long rectangular box. His stomach fluttered with anxiety as he made his way back to the circle of his friends. It wasn’t so much the giving of the present, but knowing what the recipient might do with the gift gave him a slight pause. But as he neared Kaz, he shrugged away the discomfort.

“Here you go, Kaz, hopefully it’ll serve as a good backup.”

Kaz took the box hesitantly, and ripped open the box. Wylan held his breath as he delicately lifted a cane. The handle was shaped like a crow about to take flight, and its dark-wood finely engraved with jagged lines, and its tip tapered into a fine point.

“It’s-” Wylan started to explain in the midst of Kaz’s silence, “It’s Grisha made so it shouldn’t break when there’s a substantial amount of force applied. And- if you twist the handle-”

Before Wylan finished the thought, Kaz twisted the handle and the pointed end of the cane opened up and the neutral expression Kaz had kept on his face disappeared. He smiled as he examined the turned cane and the new opening of the cane.

“You made me a gun.” There was a slight hint of a laugh in his voice.

“Wylan, my dear,” Jesper said looking amused and concerned all at once, “Did you just give the most deadly man in the barrel a weapon that is not only as strong as his current cane, but also a gun?”

He shrugged and tried to fight the smugness working its way in his chest at Kaz’s reaction to his gift. He had his own reservations when he had come up with the plans as soon as he knew who he had gotten for this secret gift exchange. Wylan had debated about it for a full day before he had drawn up the plans and then set up a meeting with Ketterdam’s few Fabrikators. There were always going to be monsters in Ketterdam, those with longer and sharper teeth, and he supposed it wouldn’t hurt having one of those monsters as an ally and providing him with one more tooth.

“Well, Wylan,” Kaz’s grin was the widest he’s ever seen on him, “I will say, you never cease to surprise me.”

He twisted the handle restoring the cane to its proper form.

At this Wylan did smile at Kaz. That was the closest thing to a compliment he’s given him in recent years and even if he had stopped working with the Dregs, there was still a small part of Wylan that couldn’t forget about his past. That feeling of doing a job well done or even earning a place in Kaz’s crew.

And as the night continued on, with people playing with their presents in anyway they could, whether that be taking turns holding Trassel or making Wylan play or Nina offering to teach them some Ravkan games, Wylan couldn’t help but marvel at the warmth and radiating from the people around him. And when he noticed that Kaz had managed to slip away quietly, he decided that they needed this-- all of them.

The crew who broke into the Ice Court, brought down a member of the Merchant Council, conned multiple countries, and fabricated their own plague, needed a chance to feel like the world wasn’t always escaping the past or fighting for their future. That for once they could sit around a fire with warm drinks in their bellies and live in the present.

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harpermiller · 5 years

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I stole this ask game from @thelittlefanpire because it looked fun!

1. What Station on the Ark would you be from?

Probably Mecha Station tbh - my dad and grandpa are mechanics so it’d make the most sense

2. What would you get arrested for on the Ark?

Probably for talking shit to an official/council member or for stealing something

3. Would you take off your wristband when you landed on the ground?

I’d take it off in exchange for food yeah

4. What would the necklace Finn would make for you look like? (Clarke: deer/Raven: a raven duh..)

An otter? idk

5. If you could resurrect any MINOR character who would it be?

Harper McIntyre my girl

6. Create a squad of 5 characters to go on missions with. Who are they?

Bellamy, Clarke, Raven, Murphy, Miller

7. What Grounder Clan would you belong to you?

Floukru 100%

8. What would your name be in Trigedasleng? (example: Octavia=Okteivia…just make it up!)

ashley = ashlee ???

9. Thoughts on Finn? Some people hate him, and others love him, so I’m curious

See i thought he was annoying from the start and that smth wasn’t right with him and when it was revealed that he was cheating on Raven/Clarke I instantly didn’t like him.

10. Be honest. How willing would you have been to take the chip without knowing all the horrible things it does?

I have a hip injury (kinda like Raven’s) that causes me pain sometimes so if i was told that the chip would take that pain away permanently i would absolutely take it

11. What character do you relate to most?

I have never related to a character more than i relate to Clarke Griffin - especially in season 5 and what i can tell from season 6.

12. What character do you like the least?

s1: Finn

S2: Cage

S3: Pike

S4: Echo/Jaha

S5: Octavia/Echo

13. Describe your delinquent outfit. (Would you wear something like Murphy’s jacket with the spikey red shoulder patch or have a trademark like Jasper’s goggles? Be creative, yet practical)

Probably a bomber jacket, jeans, combat boots, and like some cool finger-less gloves idk

14. Favorite type of mutant animal?

the butterflies ?? other than those and the two headed deer there weren’t really any other mutant animals shown

15. What would your job be on the Ark?

A teacher since thats what i’m in school for now

16. Would you have willingly pumped Ontari’s heart if Abby asked?

In the circumstances? yeah. Any other time? hell no

17. If Lexa wasn’t Heda, but she was still alive then who would have made the best commander?

Luna 100%

18. How would you act if you ate the hallucinogenic nuts like Jasper and Monty?

Spacey af

19. How would you have dealt with Charlotte’s crime? A more John Murphy approach or Bellamy Blake approach?

Bellamy’s approach

20. Who should have been the Chancellor, if anyone?

I think Kane is definitely the best chancellor but lbr Clarke and Bellamy were in charge

21. Would you have been on Pike’s side like Bellamy or on Kane’s side? Or Clarke in Polis?

Kane’s side duh

22. Mount Weather had a lot of modern commodities. (example: Maya’s Ipod) What is the one thing you would snatch while there?

the music ie an ipod, books or art supply

23. What would your Grounder tattoos look like? Hairstyle? War paint?

Tattoos: i’d probably have the flourku symbol on my shoulder or back of my neck

Hairstyle: probs like a french braid or smth

War paint: no warpaint for me

24. Favorite quote?

“For all its faults, earth is really beautiful.”

“Who we are and who we need to be to survive are very different things”

25. If all of the characters were in the Hunger Games, who would have the best shot at winning?

Octavia would be the obvious choice in terms of physicality, Raven would have a huge shot because of her brain, and then Clarke and Bellamy would probably make it to the end together and then pull a Katniss and Peeta.

26. Least favorite ship? Favorite canon ship? Favorite non canon ship? NOT INCLUDING CL OR BC OR BE

Least: Mackson

Favorite canon: Briller

Favorite non-canon: Sea Mechanic

27. A song that should be included in the next season? If there had to be another guest star like Shawn Mendes on the show, who would you want to make a cameo?

Hozier needs to guest star and sing some sweet faerie bog music

and i think Bootstraps cover of Stand By Me would make for a beautiful scene between the remaining delinquents

28. What would you do if you were stuck in the bunker with Murphy for all that time?

Go crazy since it didn’t seem like he had a lot to do lol

29. Your an extra that gets killed off. How do you die?

Probably doing something stupid - i’d 100% die in season 1

30. A character you’d like to learn more about and get flashbacks of?

I would have liked more flashbacks of the delinquents on the Ark and maybe some of spacekru

31. A character you’d bang?

Bellamy Blake

32. Would you stay in the Bunker? Go up to Space? Or live on your own in Eden?

If Octavia wasn’t in charge and they didnt turn to cannibalism probably the bunker but considering all factors definitely space

33. In the Bunker, would you follow Octavia? What would you do to pass the time underground?

I wouldn’t really have a choice but to follow her lol - and idk i’d probably teach or help out with the children

34. What crime would you commit in the Bunker that lands you in the fighting pits?

Probably just for talking back to Octavia or someone - or for refusing to participate in warrior training lol

35. Up in Space, who would you bond with first? Who would be the most difficult for you to get along with?

I’d bond with Harper first definitely - i would probably have trouble bonding with Echo or maybe Bellamy just because of his post-Clarke isolation

36. How long do you think you would last on Earth by yourself?

not long at all lol - i’d die of starvation and dehydration

37. When the Eligius ship lands what do you do?

Watch them and see what their deal is - decide whether they are useful/friendly and then make a decision from there

38. Favorite Eligius character? Least favorite?

Zeke or Diyoza are my favourites and McCreary is my least favourite

39. Would you Spacewalk?

Probably not lol

40. Would you prefer to eat Windshield Bugs, Space Algae, or Bunker Meat?

Space Algae tbh

41. Would you start a war for the last spot of green on earth? What would your solution be to avoid it?

I’d fight for it but i wouldn’t want a war. Negotiations and peace talks would be my first choice

42. Would you rather dig out flesh-eating worms or stick thumb drives into bullet holes?

thumb drives into bullet holes - seems nasty but not as nasty as digging out the worms

43. Are you willing to poison your sister for the Traitor Who You Love? What would you do to stop Octavia?

Me and my sister are chill so she would have had to do something really terrible for me to poison her - even if its at the expense of someone i love. If i knew that my sister would be fine if i did it then maybe but if there was no guarantee then no.

To stop Octavia i’d probably either do what Bellamy did or just kill her

44. Would you go to sleep in cryo or stay awake like Marper?

Go into cryo - unless i had a really good reason (or person) to stay awake for

45. Who are you waking up first to explore the new planet?

I’d probably go with Clarke, Bellamy, Raven, Murphy, Emori, Zeke, and Miller

I’m tagging @miles-ezekiel and anyone else who wants to do it but hasnt!

#tag games #the 100

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booksandchainmail · 5 years

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nanoha vivid liveblog: episode 9

We left off in the opening rounds of the competition, with Vivio and Miura slated to fight each other at some point.

The other belkan girls!

I think I remember them being friends

Soft music and slow-mo here, as we get our first look at sieglinde’s eyes

... which are entirely ordinary

huh, i was kinda expecting more heterochromia

… RIGHT SHE HAD A DUMB NICKNAME

THEY BOTH DID

look I know youre overdramatic teenagers but I promise you giving yourselves nicknames about how good you are at fighting doesn’t actually make you seem good at fighting

also, i like to imagine that victoria’s been trying to get people to call her victor for most of her life, and sieglinde is the only one who will. victoria gave her her own nickname in thanks, and sieglinde was so happy about having a friend to give her a nickname that she didn’t care about the theme

have you considered losing the waist long twintails?

awwwww

weirdly wholesome considering the subject matter

who’s this boss? Presumably one of the other competitors we’ve seen, and I’m guessing harry as the only one who runs a thing (as well as one of the only returning successful contestants)

please tell me she didn’t pick that nickname/title herself

theyre cute together

and sieglinde pulls her hood back on as soon as more people arrive

i guess i shouldn’t be surprised that the ojou and the delinquent dont get along

at least it looks like it runs both ways

i really do like this dynamic of harry and victoria constantly trying to fight, and meanwhile sieglinde’s just there in the background trying to calm down her friends

oh hey the last unintroduced girl from the op! presumably she’s a returning fighter considering she seems pretty familiar with the others

… I can’t tell if “violator restraints rule master” is one skill, two skills, her job, or her personality

would they be wrong?

let the fangirling commence!

oh gods shes trying to hide behind that popcorn

it is very much not working

i feel like this scene should be one of those draw the squad memes

also, these four are great together, more scenes with them please

I do like how in the returning champions we’re presented with three people who all hate each other, and then one person who they all like. it’s a good setup for comedy and shipping

awwww, even while being shy, she’s still nice to einhart

come to think of it, i wonder if she also has memories of belka, and if so does she recognize einhart

sdjklaghklfaghlj

those chains were completely ineffective i guess

i like to think that harry and victoria didnt break out immediately because they didnt want to hurt els’ feelings

gods

els is extremely indignant and harry is just having a good tiem

okay that’s cool, they edited the OP now that we’ve seen sieglinde with her hood down

how do these two know each other? I mean I’ll believe it, but I’m curious now.

so what were the fights we saw last episode?

I guess prelims for the qualifiers? Which explains how some people are seeded already

this tournament sure has a sense of the dramatic

she is actually a rule master school president

and brought her council with her i guess

OH THIS IS THE PERFECT MATCHUP

I mean, I would take harry fighting just about anyone, but this is an excellent clash of anime character archetypes

The fact that there is canonically Japanese immigration to midchilda is one of the weirdest things about this setting to me. I mean, Nanoha and Hayate just moving to another planet with magic and magitek and spaceships is weird enough, but Subaru’s family immigrated generations back. How the fuck did that go? Can you imagine being a random Japanese peasant circa the 1700s and then suddenly you’re on a different world that has magic and also computers.

oh gods

she looks so happy and i love her but her nickname is so stupid

and thats saying a lot considering the competition

extremely on brand

… that is the most “go ahead please” face I have ever seen

and theeeeres the competition making an abrupt return

i mean, she could still totally call you that even if you win

“tension”

i dont know if she planned it in advance, but letting harry see and underestimate her power beforehand was pretty smart

A ranged attack?

OR NOT I GUESS

she just... blew up her own arm

That’s kinda clever. And also really metal.

WHAT THE LITERAL FUCK HARRY

Thank you for the reasonable reaction

the kind of attack name you expect from a girl called buster head

Well that was fast

Oh okay they have a set time to get back in the ring. makes sense considering how easy it is for a lot of them to send people flying

nove suddenly has competition as the best punchy redhead in this show

shes so good

…you entered a martial arts competition without looking up the injury rules

I’M STARTING TO AGREE WITH ALL THE NUNS WHO DIDN’T THINK YOU WERE MATURE ENOUGH TO ENTER

i cant decide if this is smart and practical or really creepy

that is some powerful simulation

Idk if it’s just saving on fight animation, but while their powers are cool, the actual fighting technique doesn’t seem equal to what we’ve seen from vivio and einhart

gods

please get hurt less

where did that bandaid come from?!

~tempting faaaate~

SHES BITING THROUGH CHAIN?!!!

Oh no wait shes pulling on it with her teeth

That’s… more reasonable, I guess?

Still fucking badass

this is gonna be brutal

yup.

also, anime nosebleed

awwww

i love harry’s emotionally supportive girl gang

PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YOU HURT YOURSELF

this idiot

For some mysterious totally not screen-time related reason

That said, I do like them establishing that vivio&co are unusually talented even by this competition’s standards. I’d have a hard time buying that there are that many fighters on their caliber in the tournament

because as is well known the inter-middle tournament involves fighting buses

she’s just from a completely different samurai anime than everyone else

magic infused or something?

...no

Oh fuck.

Okay, scary sword girl vs. the wolkenritter’s student

…and whichever of them wins, vivio still has to fight

I feel like I have a lot in common with this announcer man

Is this like a general shyness thing, or an actual issue, or something minor that you’ve made into an actual issue…?

come to think of it, she mentioned leaving the tournament a year ago before she could fight victoria. did she also skip out on fighting mica? or was something in her fight with mica why she left

also, kudos to micaiah for having a sensible nickname

call and...

... response

the purpose of having a gang is to force your friends to be supportive of each other

How many times do you think vita’s gotten mistaken for a contestant? Actually, how many times do you think she’s got asked if she’s old enough to compete?

aww

in nanoha terms, i’m pretty sure this counts as a love confession

Oh yeah, vivio&co have a personal connection to both contestants. That’s gotta be awkward

Also, does everyone bring an entourage to this tournament?

Actually, considering zafira and vita are there, it looks like you get a couple helpers (which I think is a thing in actual fighing tournaments), and presumably most people have a coach or friend or parent, we just happen to have seen a bunch of fighters with minions

~tempting faaaate~

Okay, I get the whole “magic doesnt cause actual injuries, we just simulate them” but like micaiah isn’t using magic. That’s a real sword.

Well that’s a hell of a lot of damage from one attack. I don’t think Miura can afford to be hit again at all.

I mean, I don’t know about her but I’m definitely thinking that

haven’t mentioned this before, but miura’s outfit with the heavy shinguards is really cool and well-suited to her fighting style

pot meet kettle

miura backstory! and yeah, this makes a lot of sense. she’s very cheerful, but the way she’s nervous all the time and latches onto team nakajima so quickly makes her seem pretty isolated form her peers

and here we can see a demonstration of why carrying swords of different lengths is useful. Miura’s within the reach of Mica’s longer sword, so she switches to the shorter one to drive her back

fancy kick coming up!

Sword draw? Since she doesn’t seem to have one, I’m guessing it’s a kick that uses similar principles. Now the question is, is Miura’s secret weapon a technique that happens to be similar in principle to Mica’s fighting style, or is it a copying technique?

1) this is a very pretty shot

2) it would be really funny if instead of powering up her own sword draw, mica just ran over there and stabbed miura before she can power up the breaker

Didn’t seem to do a whole lot of damage for a special move

Oh ok, she can keep kicking like that for a while

Disadvantage of using a weapon: it can be broken

its pretty interesting that the show sets up various rematches and rivalries and thematic fights that can’t all happen by the design of the tournament. it makes the fights a lot more suspenseful when there would be plot and character reasons for either side to win

...remember what i said about how wanting to fight people in nanoha is basically a love confession?

#magical girl lyrical nanoha vivid #nanoha vivid #nanoha vivid liveblog #magical girl lyrical nanoha #vivid #mahou shoujo lyrical nanoha #long post

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blairtrabbit · 6 years

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Thoughts on Goddamn Voltron

1. The treatment of Shiro and Adam as a couple was the stupidest shot at “representation” i think I’ve ever seen and it honestly made me angry. We don’t know anything about Adam. We don’t know anything about him but his name and that he possibly has some sort of relationship with Shiro. We are never even allowed to see them physically touch (because this would be gross I suppose) and when Adam is killed off immediately in the initial invasion there is no emotion to it other than he was someone we were supposed to care about because Shiro cared about him. Or ...so its suggested. Not only is Shiro denied any sort of emotional catharsis after being forced to be stoic and endure unimaginable amounts of physical and mental trauma there is no one waiting for him to come home. They are killed for absolutely no reason aside from creating some bizarre boyfriend in the refrigerator for a character who certain has enough anger at the Galran empire that he doesn’t need anymore. If Adam was introduced to show Shiro was gay then that failed. If Adam was introduced to heighten the stakes that failed too. Adam was created to die for no damn reason and unless he somehow appears in season 8 this kind of shit queer-baiting is un-acceptable...hell even IF he comes back who cares? we aren’t even given the chance to know him as a person so whats to come back? Sidenote: Don’t make Shiro sick with some terrible wasting disease and then NEVER mention it again. What the SHIT. 2. The treatment of Lance is unimaginably cruel and I don’t understand it. In season three Lance proves himself to be a mature member of the team and not only does he help Allura who took his lion he becomes Keith’s right hand after a rocky start. He has shown multiple times that he is vulnerable, once to Keith’s face, and yet his leader and his team constantly question his choices and insult him. It went beyond ribbing this season. It felt like everytime there was a chance for the writers to do it they stuck in a Lance barb. I kept expecting a breakdown a moment where he finally defended himself, walked away or told them that he was tired of it. But that moment never happened. Instead the strong right hand of voltron just takes it and continues to do his job. No matter how many great shots or encouraging comments he makes he never gets fucking complimented. Also the writers seemed more determined then ever to give him absolutely no arc or focus. Which leads me too- 3. Why the hell did Hunk have Lance’s story arc. Theres this thing in writing called “setup and payoff” Its a super simple concept that all writers,especially in film and television, know how to use. You set up a concept early and later on it pays off with an emotional revelation or a character change. In seasons one two and three...even four? Lance was the only one on the crew besides Pidge who talked about his family. We saw them in his memories. he had a scene with Coran where he talked about missing earth. He talked about his mom and so on. That was his starting point and when he gets back to earth it should have been his family in the camps, his speech about being angry about coming back to a peaceful earth and a closed end to his talk with Keith about being a leader and how he respects him as one back in season 3. Having Keith compliment his bravery would cement him as his right hand the person hes SUPPOSED to be closest to on the team. Hunk had no set up for this. He never mentions his family or how much he misses them. He talks about food but for some reason he was given the ending arc that Lance EARNED but wasn’t given. In fact it feels like it was even written for Lance but was changed because they goddamn hate him and decided he doesn’t get an arc fuck you. 4. Hey. Hey Voltron. Its called fucking character development. If you wanted to make Allura and Lance have a relationship you can’t make them blush in ONE EPISODE and call it development. Why don’t you cut down on the 90 fucking minutes of brain melting action sequences and put in some more character development. You can’t just dedicate the first half of your season to some goofy (lance abusing) comedy then spend the last half in one constant exhausting battle and expect us to give a shit about the cadets or anyone you introduce on earth. To me the stand out episode this season was the one where everyone is floating in space. They had to...INTERACT with each other but even this episode felt empty because Keith was the only one allowed to act out...AGAIN. Where was Lances righteous anger? Or even Allura’s? Why is Hunk stepping into this role as mediator all the sudden? What even lead to that? Was he literally just written into the Lance roles? If you wanted to tear the group down to have them be built back up then you have to do so on equal footing and it felt....tame. Like you didn’t want the kids to worry too much. Stress makes people act in cruel ways sometimes and overcoming it is a part of good character development. Instead it was just some lame foreshadowing about the deux ex machina that was lion summoning. It had so much potential-SO MUCH.

5. Not everybody has to end up in a fucking relationship. Axca? Seriously? Man are you gonna crank out some romance bullshit in season 8 aren’t you voltron? Is that what your gonna do? Make sure everyone gets a set of corresponding genitalia to wrap everything up in a nice straight bow? I’m sure you’ll give Shiro some kind of significant other right? Or maybe just have him smile at a dude ala live action Beauty and the Beast because that's what representation looks like in 2018. 6. Coran not getting to build the spiritual successor of his grandfathers work is kinda bullshit.

He spent literally every season waxing lyrical about how great his pop pop was and how much he wanted to be the one to build something like he did and then the castle is destroyed and I’m like oh man so cool Coran is gonna get his wish.Thats so emotionally rewarding that after all the hero-worship Hes gonna have the opportunity to build a new castle even better than the one his grand-oh -no...ok Sam did it. Yeah ok.

7.YOU CAN’T SPEND ONE EPISODE ON EARTH BEING DESTROYED AND SHOW MAYBE THREE PEOPLE AND EXPECT ANYTHING TO HAVE EMOTIONAL WEIGHT. Hey, remember the movie Independence day? Not a great movie but it actually felt like the world was being invaded. It felt like peoples lives were being interrupted on a large scale and it accomplished this by showing the invasion from multiple pov’s worldwide. Would that have been so hard? Maybe show a little girl at school seeing a Galra ship. A man in Africa? A mother in Russia? Just quick shots. Thats all you need. A few establishing shots to show that people are experiencing something foreign and terrifying. I know its a kids show and you gotta what...keep it Y-7 but the Galra literally killed thousands and thousands of people-possibly millions you can’t just gloss over that. STAKES CAUSE TENSION. WITHOUT STAKES OR JUSTIFICATION A BATTLE IS EMPTY AND POINTLESS.OH ON THAT NOTE. 7. THE BATTLES IN THE LAST EPISODES BECOME RIDICULOUSLY BORING AND REPETITIVE. You can tell what the writers wanted to write. They wanted to write whole scenes where people star trek groaned in chairs and shouted about how much time they had.Because of the season lack of setup or stakes buildup in the previous episodes theres no tension whatsoever. Do I care about the people of earth? No I haven’t even seen them. I care about Shiro and the mains ...not even the cadets. I haven’t seen them interact enough with each other to even establish their personalities. So if the whole earth fries eh...I care more if Shiro is ok because i’ve gotten to know him over time. If the entire battle was to save Shiro from a falling ship (HOW THE FUCK DID HE SURVIVE THAT BTW I GUESS BEING A CLONE MADE HIM IMMORTAL) It would have more weight to it than the entire Hour long clusterfuck that was the battle for Hunk’s Parents, literally the only humans we care about. 8. WORLDBUILDING? HOW ABOUT FUCK YOU. Wow...so WW3 huh. That sounds interesting Voltron you wanna...no? Alright so...Russia is still a country this far in the future? Is China still communist or? Hey...why is this lady the queen of the Garrison? Why is her position so important? Who funds the Garrison? Is it the United States? The UN? Is it an international organization? Who pays the bills? The funding must come from some government who would be curious why you asked for millions of dollars towards all these bizarre supplies that could be used to build the biggest ship ever made.Why is Admiral Sanda god? She keeps threatening to go over their heads in the chain of command but that means that SHE has to report to someone? WHo?? THE PRESIDENT? SOME KIND OF WORLD LEADERSHIP COUNCIL? I know this shit is hard but come ON. Earth is NOT like these alien planets Voltron has been on that have a centralized monarchy or singular race with one central government. If Sanda is worried about causing wars and global panic thats fine but shes the one commiting treason by not reporting to her own superiors and letting the leaders of the free world make decisions on behalf of their own people. One person can’t make all the decisions we call that LAAAAAAAAZZZZYYYYYY. Oh and about Admiral Sanda? 9. Admiral Sanda is the worst villian Voltron ever faced Why did you try and give her a redemption arc? Every decision she made was stupid every choice was just...so dumb. She betrayed everyone and her level of power kept making me go...why...is she the queen of earth? When she died I was like good. What a dumbass. Don’t try and redeem someone who did nothing good in the first place especially if you never established enough world building to show she might have been correct. We can’t just trust TELL you have to SHOW us. 10. If you think the racism against immigrants is bad now I can’t even imagine the civil wars when actual aliens just invite themselves over. 11. Thanks for fucking up our tide systems by parking a fucking Balmera directly in our atmosphere assholes. In conclusion:THANKS I HATE IT.

#fuck this #fuck everything #voltron #vld #season 7 spoilers #season 7 #voltron legendary defender #lance deserved better #again

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minimin1993 · 4 years

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B/L 17

Warning: Violence. Bucky Feels.

The couple hours later they decided to call a meeting.

“ This man declined the Nobel Peace Prize. He said, "Peace wasn't an achievement, it was a responsibility." See, it's stuff like this that gives me trust issues.” Fury said looking at the picture of Pierce.

“We have to stop the launch.” Linda said looking at Steve.

“ I don't think the Council's accepting my calls anymore.” Fury said opening a case containing three chips.

“What's that?” Sam asked.

“Once the Helicarriers reach three thousand feet, they'll triangulate with Insight satellites becoming fully weaponized.”Maria Hill said turning the case to show them

“ We need to breach those carriers and replace their targeting blades with our own.” Fury said.

“ One or two won't cut it. We need to link all three carriers for this to work, because if even one of those ships remains operational a whole lot of people are gonna die.”

“ We have to assume everyone aboard those carriers is HYDRA. We need to get pass them, insert the server blades, and maybe, just maybe, we can salvage what's left…”

“ We're not salvaging anything. We're not just taking down the carriers, Nick, we're taking down SHIELD.” Steve said.

“ SHIELD had nothing to do with it.”

“ You gave me this mission, this is how it ends. SHIELD's been compromised, you said so yourself. HYDRA grew right under your nose and nobody noticed.” Steve said.

“ Why do you think we're meeting in this cave? I noticed.”

“ And how many paid the price before you did?” Steve asked

“ Look, I didn't know about Barnes.” Fury said

“ Even if you have, would you have told me? Or would you have compartmentalized that too?” Linda said getting up from the chair pissed before Steve place his hand on her shoulder.

“SHIELD, HYDRA, it all goes.” Steve said calmly.

“ He's right.” Maria said as Fury looks at Natasha then Sam.

“Don't look at me. I do what he does, just slower.” Sam said looking at Steve.

“ Well... Looks like you're giving the orders now, Captain.” Fury said.

“Did you really have to steal the uniform?” Linda asked when they sit in the truck driving to Triskelion.

“Its not stealing, its called borrowing with an intent of maybe not able to return.” He said with a smirk.

“Whatever, America’s golden boy.” Linda said getting out of the car and walking the rest of the way with Sam and Maria.

When they got to the tech room Linda, Sam, and Maria held up there gun as Steve knocks.

“ Excuse us.” Steve said to the tech boy who holds up his hands and steps aside to let them enter. Steve heads over to the PA making his announcement.

“ Attention, all SHIELD agents. This is Steve Rogers. You've heard a lot about me over the last few days, some of you were even ordered to hunt me down. But I think it's time you know the truth. SHIELD is not what we thought it was, it's been taken over by HYDRA. Alexander Pierce is their leader. The STRIKE and Insight crew are HYDRA as well. I don't know how many more, but I know they're in the building. They could be standing right next to you. They almost have what they want: absolute control. They shot Nick Fury and it won't end there. If you launch those Helicarriers today, HYDRA will be able to kill anyone that stands in their way, unless we stop them. I know I'm asking a lot, but the price of freedom is high, it always has been, and it's a price I'm willing to pay. And if I'm the only one, then so be it. But I'm willing to bet I'm not.”

Steve, Linda, and Sam make their way to the Helicarriers as Maria stays in the control room being their eye waiting for CAPs orders.

“ Hey, Cap, how do we know the good guys from the bad guys?”Sam said

“ If they're shooting at you, they're bad.” Steve said just as Sam, in his Falcon suit, flies off. Steve and Linda jumps down running toward them. The HYDRA agents starts to shoot at them but Steve blocks the bullets.

“You go left, I go right?” Linda asked smugly.

“Deal.” Steve said jumping over pallets, Linda conjure her whip aiming at the agents taking them down one by one. On her left Steve threw a grenade taking out a couple more. Overhead of them Sam was flying when the Helicarriers starts to shoot at him.

“ Hey, Cap, I found those bad guys you were talking about.” Sam said in the com making Linda giggle.

“No shit birdy.” Linda said making Sam scoff.

“ You okay?” Steve asked

“ I'm not dead yet.” He said dodging the bullets while Linda and Steve was on the base just taking out Agents after agents.

“ Falcon, status?” Maria asked.

“ Engaging.” Sam said flying down to the Hellicarrier Bay taking down the HYDRA jets chasing him. “Alright, Cap, I'm in.” He said when another HYDRA jets heads his way and starts shooting at him. “Shit!”

“ Eight minutes, Cap.” Maria said.

“ Working on it.” Steve said getting into the Alpha Carrier switching the chip successfully.

“Alpha locked.” Steve said.

“ Falcon, where are you now?” Maria said

“ I had to take a detour!” Sam said still trying to dodge the jet.

“Fly upward north I got you.” Linda said getting in position

“Got it, just don’t whip me out of the sky.” Sam said.

“Aww now where is the fun in that.” Linda mocked seeing Sam fly up before she whip the Jet coming up after him with great force destroying it instantly.

“Oh, yeah!” Sam said flying into the second Helicarrier switching the chip. “I'm in. Bravo locked.”

“Two down, one to go.” Maria said.

“Thats me.” Linda said running full speed toward the 3rd Hellicarrier jumping right into it.

“Yeah I am not doing that. Hey, Sam, I'm gonna need a ride.” Steve said after seeing Linda jump.

“ Roger! Let me know when you're ready.” Sam said as Steve jumps off the edge.

“I just did!” Steve said, Sam flies in just in time to catch Steve flying them onto the last Helicarrier meeting up with Linda who stood at the edge watching.

“You know, you're a lot heavier than you look.” Sam said

“ I had a big breakfast.” Steve said suddenly Bucky appears and pushes Steve off the edge

“ Steve!” Sam and Linda both said about to run after but Bucky punches Linda right in the ribs sending her flying to the side before grabbing Sam’s wings throwing him back. Sam reacted quickly pulling out his gun and starts to shoot at Bucky when Linda jumps behind Bucky flipping him over.

“Sam go!” Linda yelled wrestling Bucky.

“Got it.” Sam starts to fly to get Steve when Bucky pulls something out of his belt pointing it at Sam’s wings ripping it off sending him flying off the Carrier. Bucky then jumps up kicking Linda off of him before pulling out a gun and starts to shoot at her. She jumps and runs onto some of the crates dodging him before whiping right at him sending him flying.

“Steve, come in. Are you okay?” Linda asked running to the edge seeing him holding onto the side of the Helicarrier.

“ Yeah, I'm here! I'm still on the Helicarrier.” He said pulling himself up.

“Sam, where are you?” Steve asked.

“ I'm grounded, the suit's down. Sorry, Cap.”

“ Don't worry, I got it.” Steve said running inside.

“Steve, I lost James.” Linda said looking around not seeing him.

“Because he is staring right at me.” Steve said. “ People are gonna die, Buck. I can't let that happen. Please, don't make me do this.” He said as Linda hears them battling. By the time Linda made it down she saw Bucky punching Steve shield, she jumps down the steps right on top of Bucky twisting him into the air sending them both over the edge.

“Linda you have the chip.” Steve said.

“I am working on it CAP.” Linda said standing up dodging a couple punches from Bucky, kicking him in the face, knocking him down another level but he grabs her ankle pulling her down with him.

He pulls her close to him digging into her pocket pulling out the chip. She snatches his hand pulling it backward while the other one goes to his face pushing it away causing a strain on his flesh arm.

“DROP IT!” Linda said putting more strength on it when she sees him resist she snaps his arm, his scream of pain causes tears to run down her face. Bucky uses all his strength to push her down which Linda retaliates in putting him into a choke hold. Bucky uses his metal arm to try to free himself but she grabs him arm and holds it down with her leg holding him in place choking him harder until he passes out. Linda immediately releases him grabbing the chip and tosses it up to Steve who starts to run to switch the chip.

Linda heard some movement behind her by the time she turned around Bucky pulled out a gun on her and shot her twice right in her stomach dropping her instantly before shooting up at Steve hitting him in the thigh and back.

“30 Seconds Cap.” Maria said

“Stand by.” Steve said about to switch the chip when Bucky shot him again, sending him down. Linda stood up holding the wound launching herself into a roundabout kick on his metal arm sending his gun flying. Bucky turns around furious at Linda before grabbing her neck choking her.

“James.” She said weakly with tears running down her face, she grabs his hand to loosen the hold

“Charlie locked.” Steve said before collapsing.

“Okay, Cap, Grey get out of there.” Maria said

“Fire now.” Steve said.

“ But, Steve…”

“ Do it! Do it now!” Linda yells touching Bucky’s face tenderly. “We will always love you.” She whispered flashing her eyes at him, not wanting to fight him anymore. Linda manages to see Bucky eyes soften a little with recognition before passing out. The other Helicarrier starts to shoot at each other causing Bucky to lose his grip on Linda as they tumble around when a pillar land right on top of Linda and Bucky crushing them causing him to scream. Steve stands up and looks down before jumping down trying to help them out. Steve and Bucky uses their strength to push up the pillar grabbing Linda out who was still passed out.

“You know me.” Steve said when he and Bucky stood up

“ No, I don't!” Bucky lashed out hitting Steve.

“ Bucky, you've known me your whole life.” Bucky hits Steve but Steve chooses not to fight back. “Your name is James Buchanan Barnes. And she laying there is your fiance.” Steve said pointing at Linda

“ Shut up!” Bucky scream hitting Steve again

“I'm not gonna fight you. You're my friend.” Steve said taking off his mask and dropping his shield out of the Helicarrier before Bucky charges at Steve knocking him onto the ground.

“ You're my mission. You're my mission!” Bucky said punching Steve mercilessly.

“ Then finish it.” Steve said, Bucky hesitates holding his fist up. “Cause I'm with you to the end of the line.” Bucky looks at Steve as if he's starting to remember just then the bottom of the Helicarrier falls sending Steve and Linda down into the river below as Bucky watches from the Helicarrier.

Linda felt like her body was being dragged when she slowly opens her eyes she sees Bucky crouching next to her touching her face lightly. “James.” She whispered before fainting one last time.

When she woke up, she was in the hospital next to Steve with Sam sitting on the chair.

“God what is that horrendous sound.” Linda said hearing Marvin Gaye's "Trouble Man" playing next to their bed making Steve and Sam laugh.

“Shit he really did a number on me.” Linda said trying to get up but could making Steve smirk at her.

“Don’t he always, you guys are always loud as hell.” Steve said making Sam hit his arm making him hiss.

“I didn’t need to know that.” Sam said making Linda giggle.

“Oww” She said grabbing her ribs.

Fury meets Steve, Linda, and Sam at a cemetery at his own grave

“So, you've experienced this sort of thing before?” Fury asked staring down at his grave.

“ You get used to it.” Steve said

“ We've been data-mining HYDRA's files. Looks like a lot of rats didn't go down with the ship. I'm headed to Europe tonight, wanted to ask if you'd come.” Fury said looking at Steve

“ There's something I have to do first.” Steve said.

“Grey?”

“Nope, I have other priorities at the moment.” Linda said smirking.

“ How about you, Wilson? Could use a man with your abilities.”

“ I'm more of a soldier than a spy.” Sam answered

“ Alright then.” Fury said shaking their hands. “Anybody asks for me, tell them they can find me right here.” He said looking down on his gravestone before walking away.

“ You should be honored, that's about as close as he gets to saying thank you.” Natasha said walking up to them

“Not going with him?” Steve asked

“ No.”

“ Not staying here?”

“ I blew all my covers, I gotta go figure out a new one.”

“ That might take a while.” Steve said with a smirk.

“ I'm counting on it. That thing you asked for, I called in a few favors from Kiev.” She said handing him the file titled ‘дело No 17’. “Will you do me a favor? Call that nurse.”

“ She's not a nurse.”

“ And you're not a SHIELD agent.” Natasha said with a smirk.

“ What was her name again?” He said making Linda giggle before Sam nudge her playfully.

“ Sharon. She's nice.” Natasha said giving Steve a kiss on the cheek “Be careful, Steve. You might not want to pull on that thread.”

When Natasha walks away Steve opens the file with Bucky information on it regarding his Winter Soldier transformation, Sam walks over to Steve

“ You're going after him?” Sam asked him

“ You don't have to come with me.”

“ I know. When do we start?” Sam said.

“Linda?” Steve said turning to look at her.

“Always Steve. I will be with you to the end of the line.” Linda said winking at Steve making him shake his head.

#james buchanan barnes #bucky x reader #sebastian stan #sebastian x reader #steve rogers #the first avenger #originl character #chris evans #original character #winter solider x you #winter soldier #captain america #infinity war #marvel

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tfk episode summaries 28-30!

WOW OMG...30...I CANNOT BELIEVE IT what a fuckin milestone.

Episode 28: Interception

The KC make their way to the ritual sight. They find a large storm suddenly brewing on the horizon, and follow a concerned farmer's directions towards it. Sure enough, the Kraken Cult is well into their summoning ritual, and the KC begins their attack, knowing if the Kraken is summoned it would be extremely bad. Cik launches a fireball that instantly kills about half the cult, and the rest of the KC moves through the grunts fairly quickly, trying to cut their way through to the cult leader, who has now managed to summon two tentacles from the deep. Cik casts animate dead on a cultist for the first time, much to Bell's dismay and Orna's delight. They finally make it to the real ritual platform, and begin their true attack on the kraken priest. Seraphina gets the final blow, shooting an arrow right through his eye. Afterwards, they loot his body for a staff and some prayer beads, and then Orna casts animate dead on him. The KC mostly asks him silly questions just to mess with him. There are shenanigans with reanimating and changing the size of the cultist corpses, which Orna smiles at for the first time. Bell has none of it and banishes them. They return to the Silorian Council and are thanked and told to go to the temple of Bahamut to receive their reward. There they meet Drovah-el, the head cleric of Bahamut, who gives them the sprigs of kateomisah that they need. Afterwards, the rest of the KC goes to the marketplace and makes various purchases while Cik heads to the beach to bury Ezita's deck of cards like she asked. He holds a private, impromptu funeral for her, and has Clair flame the sand around the cards to make a glass tomb. Bell and Selxi try and join in a gambling game at the Three Claws tavern and lose horribly. Cik gives the love potion to a random waiter he meets, gets wasted, and stumbles back drunk and disorderly to the tavern. After a sad night for the KC, they wake the next morning and head back to Nugoii, where Voyage's ship is. He is still there, like he promised, and they all head back to Solan. During the trip, Voyage gives Bell a dagger, Bell and Voyage have sex for the first time, Cik buys drugs (namely another dose of Glorin), and Cik allows Voyage to play around with Clair. Near the end of the trip, Bell asks Cik to talk. They finally make up about their fight, and Cik opens up to Bell and tells him about his previous life and why he doesn't want to go back to Kestrel. Cik also makes Bell say that the whole deal with Symon wasn't his fault, and the two hug and restore their friendship back to a good place. We end with the KC returning to Solan, ready to start the next leg of their journey for the herbs...

Episode 29: The Summer Queen

The KC lands back on Solan, and decides their first course of action before they continue their quest for the herbs will be to make a stop back at the Grove. It's a 15 day journey over, during which they are attacked one night by an enemy they have fought before: ice devils. Keen and Selxi miss them on their watch, and the devils begin their attack. A difficult battle ensues, but Keen Bell and Orna all get final hits on the three devils. Seraphina and Bell quickly realize that the only way the devils could have known where they were was by a scrying spell, which puts the group on edge. The KC scraps their original plan to stop in Arcomb and head straight to the Grove instead. On the way, Bell finds out more about the worsening situation in King's Watch (which involves several of their friends including Barnabas being jailed). After this is brought to light, the KC then decides to contact the assassin group the Whisperers that they met months ago in Kilead to try and hire them to attempt a jailbreak. The details are worked out, and the Whisperers agree, saying they will make their way over to King's Watch hopefully in a week. After their long journey, the KC arrives at the Grove, where they meet up with an exhausted looking Yunah and Havernon. They see the two have been working tirelessly on druidcrafting them a ship to sail to Kestrel with when the time comes, and that its nearly complete. The KC makes the choice to head to the other herb thats located in the Feywild instead, to give the druids more time. Yunah treestrides the KC into the Whispering Adder Forest to get them close enough to Zalfari, which is the only way to enter the Feywild. Before they enter, Orna casts seeming on the KC to make them all appear to be elves, since she knows how her home city feels about non-elves. Orna speaks to an uptight elven man named Cirdine, who seems to instantly dislike her. However, she convinces him to lower the barrier to the city to let them enter. The group walks in to the stunning crystalline city of Zalfari, which is packed full of high elves- and only high elves. They begin to get an understanding on why Orna is... the way that she is. Orna knows the only way to enter the Feywild is through the feypools in the Lyceum here- and that requires seeing the resident Arcanists that Orna seems to have some negative history with. They all gave the KC quite a hard time- Orna especially, as they kept implying she had some past experience with her research here that ended up disgracing her. However, they end up letting the KC pass through their feypool...and the KC is transported to the Feywild. There, they see red fields and a land of eternal twilight- and they meet Orna's warlock pact patron, Titania the Summer Queen. They find her in a meeting between the Seelie and Unseelie fey- where they two sides appear to be watching a fight to the death between their sprites. Orna asks Titania where they can find the Blood Cheruil- the herb that they need. Titania informs her it can be only found in the Unseelie realm- and that if the Seelie fey win the next game, she can wager to the Unseelie that they should let the KC in their realm. The KC agrees hesitantly and a little fearfully, but they win the light-catching game fair and square. Titania, delighted, sends the KC into the Unseelie realm- before they leave, however, Orna catches a glimpse of a familiar face in the crowd. They tumble through the trees into the other realm- a dark, twisted counterpart to the Seelie realm. They cautiously move forward, and Bell suddenly begins to sense they're being watched...

Episode 30: Ill Met By Moonlight

The KC continues their journey into the Feywild, where they now find themselves in the Unseelie realm on their quest for the Blood Cheruil, the third out of four herbs they need to complete Banisher. The happen upon a cluster of ruins where they are finally attacked by the creatures that have been stalking them since they entered- Displacer Beasts. A battle ensues- and during the battle, Selxi notices that a strange, lanky fey creature has come and stolen the only remaining bunch of Blood Cheruil and ran away with it. After the battle is over, Selxi yells and runs after the creature, and the KC follows. The trail leads them to an odd-looking dilapidated mansion- and inside, they find the fey creature. He introduces himself as Orion, and forcefully suggests they have dinner with him. The door out shuts and disappears behind them. The KC reluctantly agrees to sit with him. Keen has bad table manners which enrages Orion, and they get glimpses of his form flickering into something else- something thats not the beautiful fey elf he presents himself to be. Seraphina suddenly casts plant growth on Orion, attempting to tie him to his chair so the KC can make a break for it. They make a messy escape, but Orion poofs away, leaving them with no clue as to where he is.Unable to leave with the Blood Cheruil and knowing its somewhere inside the mansion, the KC splits up to look for it. They find a number of dead bodies which they presume are Orion's previous "guests", several strange magical items, and in the basement Keen and Cezall find...an elven woman who was being kept hostage. They bring her up and learn her name is Solveig- and that she and Orna clearly have history. The KC makes their way up to the final floor of the house, and before they grab the Blood Cheruil that they find Solveig tries to warn Orna that she should run. Cik grabs the herb and they hear an enraged scream as the house begins to shake, vines begin shooting out of the wall, and an angry Orion reveals his true form- a spindly, bark-skinned Unseelie fey that wants to kill them. After dodging flying silverware, dinner plates, and candlesticks (except for Orna, who gets knocked unconscious briefly), they find that the wall is an illusion and that the door was always there. Selxi leaps out first, with the rest of the KC to follow- but Solveig gets stuck by black vines wrapping around her, trying to keep her inside the house. Bell casts Spiritual Guardian to stall Orion as he and Orna try to get Solveig free- it works, and Bo Boggle appears to lead them all out of the forest. Right as they are about to leave the Unseelie Realm, Solveig stops- she informs Orna she cannot go any further. She cannot enter the Seelie realm- she says she has disappointed the Summer Queen, Titania, and is not allowed back in. Orna refuses to accept this, and promises that she will be back to help free Solveig. Solveig gives her a sad smile and says goodbye for now. A teary Orna and the rest of the KC make it back to the Seelie Realm. Once they do, Orna is bestowed with a cape from Titania herself as a reward. Titania promises Orna that one day she will return to the Feywild, and teleports the KC back to Havernon's Grove. While there, Bell and Yunah make dinner and bond, Seraphina and Havernon discuss their lifespans and the loss of Druid society, and Keen and Orna have a heart to heart about Orna's past that ends in a rare hug. Later that night, Orna and Bell talk about how despite their differences, they don't actually (and never have) hated each other. The group settles down to rest for the night, knowing soon they will be on their way to collect the last herb, Lunar Milfoil, located in the arctic island of Kestrel...

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warning for long post! i always get my best ideas at night when im on mobile and cant do a read-more. sorry. blacklist "vehl's headcannons" to stop seeing my stuff. no rvb season 15 spoilers i dont think. me3 is like 5 years old now so im not tagging it as spoilers for any of the games. OKAY, RVB X MASS EFFECT TRILOGY CROSSOVER ( mostly ME 1 because its been two hours since i started writing this post now and oh shit) #TuckerFightsARobotArmy is gonna be the tag for this and the inevitable sequel posts at first i thought, with default Femshep being a badass red-head that would make our local badass red-head Carolina the obvious choice for the role but it occurred to me that she would make a better Miranda Lawson than Commander Shepard. The Director is The Illussive Man (Tim). Aside from the daddy issues, Miranda is a big supporter of Tim's until she finally sees his dark side and resigns during the end of ME 2 just like Carolina was a staunch believer in the Director until she had to face the music. The Freelancers are involved in Project Phoenix and ultimately its every man for himself when the Director starts indoctrinating/reaperfying troops. She gets assigned to the Normandy SR-2 just before the agents make their escape and she's left out of the loop and feeling betrayed. She carries that well into hunting the Collectors and her loyalty mission involves maybe saving York and getting answers. Carolina goes into hiding just like Miranda during ME3, trying to take down her former employer and his organization on her own until she needs help. Thats where our best dudes come in. but then if she's taking the place of Miranda, who could be Shepard? let's start with the Reds. Sarge is too...Sarge. Maybe he could take Admiral Hackett's place as Admiral Colonel Sarge because obviously (everyone knows he's crazy but going from enlisted man to fleet admiral makes him a legend, and he really earned a name for himself during the First Contact War. that name was legally changed to Colonel.) Grif would be Joker, so our esteemed pilot/vehicle operator who's all back-talk and bitching. Simmons is where it gets tricky. Simmons could be an engineer, possibly a quarian, who got prosthetic limbs from when he temporarily served with Sarge on a joint human-quarian deployment and became enamored with the freedom to experiment in the Alliance opposed to the strict policies in the Migrant Fleet and sought to return to his service by trying to kiss ass. but i also like him as EDI because of the proximity to Grif and how they would develop that friendship leading up to Joker's Mission when Grif unshackles Simmons to save the Normandy in ME 2. i also kind of like krogan!Grif, and you know the two of them would have the greatest time messing with the Alliance's engineers during the retrofits. then when Simmons gets a body in ME3 he tries to get a faux-skin to look human but there's a problem and its missing in places on the left side and Grif decides to tell people he's just got some prosthetics from an accident. all shiny and chrome on the fury road. Donut is Kelly Chambers. trained in psychology but rarely clinical, loving all the species, somehow spreading a space-dog STD around the ship, a bit too naive if pretty gung-ho about the mission but give him a belt of lift grenades and hot damn we're in business. Lopez is the AI who robbed the bank? embezelled money? (ME 1) and threatened to detonate a nuclear bomb inside a shopping center but actually managed to buy and download himself into a ship and set sail for sweet robot freedom in the Persius Veil. he was caught by Sarge and officially "destroyed" when he's really locked in a Rampart mech with AI shackles that force him to aid Sarge in his crazy science endeavors. he refuses to speak anything other than spanish out of spite even when he genuinely needs assistance. now the Blues. Washington will have been with Cerberus until about the beginning of ME3 which is when Tim starts indoctrinating troops and members of Project Phoenix take their chances so thats too late to start trying to save the galaxy from the Reaper threat. Caboose takes the place of David (i might be getting the name wrong), an autistic savant who can communicate with a race of alien AI (the quarian-made geth) and is unwillingly mentally linked to the geth for an unknown period of time by his own brother (one of his sisters then? my poor boy imsorry). This would cause the neural trauma/scarring resulting in Caboose being... more Caboose. but he isn't found until sometime in ME2 by Shepard and co. Freckles is the mad AI who goes rogue on Luna (not EDI or part of Simmons in this au) but ends up being befriended by Caboose. he inhabits an Atlas/Titan mech and together they're unstoppable. Tex is an attempt to recreate Allison as an AI inside a cloned body made by the Director during the early stages of his madness. now she's taking Ashley's place as a trigger happy space racist, a double agent inside the Alliance and on Tucker's squad. Church almost dates her but something...feels off...and instead spends his time fighting with her because it feels...familiar? like when he used to argue with his mom when she was alive. huh. Kaikaina and Grif petitioned to serve together so she's on the squad as an infilitrator of all things. she and Wrex commiserate over the story of how she stole a krogan warlord's biotic hammer and she tramatizes Grif by flirting with his 800-pound ass. (not that it goes anywhere. Wrex thinks humans are too squishy.) which leaves...Tucker. because who else. Commander Shepard took the responsibility of proving the existence and defeating the Reapers only because they happened to be at Eden Prime when the prothean beacon was to be recovered. it could have been anyone caught in the beacon- Ashley or Kaidan or any other marine- and that person would have tried to do the same. Tucker in RVB isnt so much chosen to be the savior of an alien race (Doc said he was but that was more Junior) as he gets caught in a bunch of shit that went down in ways he was not expecting when he interacted with an ancient alien artifact thank you very much. so he's on the Normandy SR-1 because he's an N7-in-training or outright failed to get past N1 (which is still impressive because he was considered and thats not easy criteria to meet. let my man be a badass space marine. just a little bit. badass-in-training. HE'LL GET THERE.) but is noticed for his potential and is to be evaluated by turian!/salarian!Felix for Spectre candidacy. the first human Spectre. he's a biotic, i can't decide between adept and vanguard. Tucker and Grif are Totally On To the mission's importance because "spectre's(Felix) dont come along for shake-down runs" in their new experiental human-turian ship and they arrive at Eden Prime mid-attack. Tucker and his squad try to clear a path to the beacon while Felix scouts ahead. but then they find his body and eyewitnesses say it was someone he knew by name that shot him once he let his guard down and his back was turned. "Locus" they say. supposedly leading the assault with an army of heretic-geth and a massive ship emitting a terrible sound. they fight to the beacon, disable bombs along the way, and find it just as Locus's ship departs. as the squad's engineer is scanning it, Tucker notices they're starting to levitate and rushes in to grab them and throw them aside only to get caught himself. he gets the prothean vision-warning about the Reapers and maybe a special prothean omni-blade and its on. he has to prove to the Citadel Council that their Spectre Locus is a traitor and that the Reapers are real but visions? galactic extinction cycles? oh you humans are so full of it. you've been part of the galactic community for 30 years and now you're here with a conspiracy theory at best? i cant believe we thought you could work for us. blah. Tucker marches off but meets Church who's been trying to take Locus down from within the system to no avail. Alpha!Church is the Director's son but Allison got custody after the divorce and now he's a grouchy C-Sec cop getting nowhere real quick. Tucker invites him along and he's a shitty sniper but actually pretty decent with the Mako's cannon considering it handles like a drunk krogan who can do a flip it you drive off the cliff edge fast enough (what are mass effect booster jets for?). they track down a krogan mercenary (Wrex is probably still Wrex. because who could hope to live up to him?) and fight through a strip club and kill Fist and rescue a quarian (Palomo? make that Jensen) with evidence proving Locus is guilty. then they save Dr. Emily Grey and help her keep her small clinic in the wards from being shut down and she gives them sweet discounts and all the free medigel they can shove into their pockets. they rescue asari!Doc from inside a prothean ruin (got lost on a yoga retreat and panicked when geth started attacking...i guess he could be an archeologist but maybe they drag Grey along for the ride instead...) but he's developed a split personality due to how long he's been alone in there and its kinda murderous but coupled with biotics its pretty useful. (and yes, asari are mono-gendered and are all "female" but ME: Andromeda confirmed that some asari use masculine pronouns/identify as "male" and there's no way that wasn't a thing in ME 1 canon so Doc is he/him). on Virmire, he almost shoots Tex AND Wrex on the beach- put down your shotguns you fucking lunatics i will biotically throw you into the ocean! he helped Wrex get his family armor so Tucker manages to talk him down but man Tex could you chill its been months already. he has to leave Tex behind though to protect the bomb while he and Wrex save Kaikaina and Kirahee and fight Locus. they evacuate and the bomb detonates and atleast it was instantaneous. she wouldn't have felt herself be vaporized, it was quick and we stopped Locus from getting an army of krogan. Church is devastated and knowing that Tucker leaving Tex behind was a conscious choice splinters their friendship. but. Tucker has to finish this. its bullshit and why us. why'd it have to be us on this ship in this life shewasmyfriendtoo- but its a race against the clock to the lost relay and Ilos and theres no time to have a real talk. its complete bullshit. they get to Ilos but Locus is ahead of them and they have to fight so many geth and find a 50,000 year old message which only Tucker can understand but fuck this we're being left in Locus' dust openthisstupid templedoor*swish* oh shit this things a fucking key "guess we didnt have to fight all them robots" he said stepping over the mountain of slain robots because fuck my life. Wrex how'd you live so long life fucking sucks. "i've been drunk for a lot of it" great. yup. can the Mako go any faster. and then they meet Vigil but dont record it because they're still idiots who forget/dont mind the details until Simmons shows up in the sequel you morons but hey remember THAT CHASE WE WERE IN LETSGO and they drive the Mako into a relay and if Tucker made sure to crash into a geth colossus no one says anything- and they fly out into the Presidium Commons like if the Mako had wings but itfuckingdoesnt and why are there even jets on this tank. Locus and Sovereign beat them to the Citadel and the arms are closed but Hal-9000 over there is just chillin' on the Citadel Tower like he's shishing the kebab himself. then gravity goes off and they fight sideways all the way up the tower and those turrets sure are being turrets you know and not differentiating between us and the assholes ahead of us. but they finally make it and stop Locus short of the apocalypse. Tucker goes all renegade Locus was just afraid, the Reapers put his life in persepective and we are all so small and insignificant, "is servitude not preferable to extinction?" you're just a puppet, they're using you because you're weak, because you let them, do yourself a favor-! but Locus claims its too late and they fight and kill him. but he rises anyway. the fight the first and only Possessed Marauder- Sovereign controlig Locus' corpse through implants. he was mostly implants. and once its ash ashashashes Tex didnt even get to be ashes its unfa- and Sarge is over the comm, open the Citadel's arms son so the Alliance can save the day and Tucker has a choice. save the Council and sacrifice thousands of soldiers. or kill the Reaper and worry about new leadership later. its Tex again. worse. i need to think, theres no time, you know what this thing can do you saw in the vision i believe you so what do we do. make the call. and Tucker needs the Council's support...but the Reaper needs to be killed...but saving the Council will cost too much...but the Reaper could still call the others from dark space...they'll trust me... will the new ones? will the Alliance? Anyone? no. but someone will definitely be alive. kill Sovereign. the Council dies. the Destiny Ascention is destroyed. the Alliance suffers minimal loses. humanity fills the vacuum of power. humanity is no longer trusted. they blame him. he does too. have any of his choices been good enough? right? much of the crew goes their own way. Church goes back to C-Sec. maybe he'll call. Wrex returns to Tuchanka, faith in his people restored. Doc joins Grey at her small clinic. Jensen returns to the Migrant Fleet with geth data. and Tucker and the rest are... disgraced. no one says but they dont have to. every breath is a reminder of his failures and what he did. so much potential in him once, they say. he could have been great. instead he did this. and they fight geth. chase geth. fight more. they head to Alchera. more geth, they said. it isnt. the ship is blown apart. Kaikaina shoves anyone who cant walk into the escape pods. The XO is killed almost immediately. Grif won't leave. Tucker, please, Dex! Get Dex! she yells as she's dragged into an escape pod by a Yeoman and he storms over because he wont lose anyone else but the hull is gone and you can't run in mag boots. Grif is fighting for Normandy. Tucker can hear him asking for just a little more just enough to- to- but Tucker's having none of it and pulls and heaves and forces his idiot pilot into the pod. of all the times Grif chose to be the opposite of lazy. a streak of yellow catches his eye and its coming this way and he pushes off and hits the launch button but the engines blow and he hits something as he is set adrift. he's losing air. fuck, its- its behind him. he panics and scrambles for the puncture but his arms are geting heavier and he's already wheezing short little breaths shortlittlefailures youfailedyoukilledthem youkilledher. the sun in the distance is bright. he can feel his body tilt toward the planet, sees the sunlight cresting over the horizon. his vision goes dark around the edges. but the sun is bright and he doesnt notice he isnt afraid and he falls *maniacal laughter* someone should have stopped me. i think its super out of character but this is a rambling monster and not meant to go super in-depth or anything. god help me.

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WBJ2019-Diaries of Straud: Prompt 16

Year 6 day 234: To boldly go back down the road we got lost on to try and unlost ourselves.

(What magic exists in your world? Changed to Colony and Galactic governance because magic only exists in fiction in this setting.)

We finally got the colony ship ready and are sending it out with a skeleton crew, without colonists it doesn’t need as many people to run the ship. We’re hoping that they can follow straight back till the ship’s auto nav figures out it’s position again from there they can get back to our home colony and calculate a new route to, Oh yeah we named the planet finally, we’ve decided to call it Skyreefs, cuz of the empty ruins and the planets aquatic nature. Most just call the world whatever they want anyway and I’m sure we’ll rename it a few times before settling in on something but thats what it is for now.

Anyway the colony ship still has a couple of things to do before it officially departs but it shouldn’t take more than a week unless the ship is more banged up than we though. And we’re fairly sure it isn’t by this point.

In any case this has of course sparked a whole bunch of debate on whats gonna happen when we establish contact with the rest of humanity again. As for what the debate is over well. We’ve kinda got a unique thing going here. Without direct contact with the rest of human space we’re technically not apart of the Human Planetary Council. Which is basically the space version of the United Nations from Earth.

Every planet has a seat, if they so choose though if you really want things to be smooth with the others you sorta have to be. It’s got it’s powers and runs a small fleet, mostly meant to deal with the rare pirates and be ready to intervene if any planets start fueding too hard. But isn’t really a central government. Hence why I call it the UN of space rather than the New Republic of reality or the Space USA.

Most planets govern themselves and work with the HPC because it generally helps more than it hurts. Kinda like Greek city states. Largely due to message times, we wanna make a quantum entangled device for long range instant communications. And we do have them but the best we’ve figured out was the old fashioned telegraph systems. Dots, and dashes. But read by a computer, it’s more a problem of getting it to switch fast enough to be a data stream rather than just a jump node.

Anyway that’s off topic, So yeah arguments. we’d be the first planet set up without any central interference from the HPC and some are saying we should stay out of that and declare ourselves independent of it and or Start a new version of it for the planets closer to us. Message times back to the Sol system are almost a year or two long out here on the edge well for mass data anyway.

Also if the aliens show up again they argue it’ll make it easier to join them or incorporate them into our government. Slightly less red tape and all.

Speaking of the aliens there’s been a little more scouting of some of the ocean alien cities and they think they found a working console. They just aren’t sure if it’s interactable or not. Or if it’s just a weird monitor that sometimes reactions at just the right time to make us think we’re doing it. Still working alien tech is working alien tech. Here’s hoping before too long we have something we can actually work with.

Day 241: update

Whoo! The colony ship is away hopefully it won’t be too long until we’re able to talk to home, catch up with our relatives and... pass on the grave news to others. The closure has been too long coming. Oh also those quantum communication devices. Yeah we didn’t have one on the ship. Seems like an oversight now, I doubt that will go on for too long. Someone will probably develop a blackbox transmission device for ships using that system. Actually a few people here are already working on it. They figure the patent for it might help the colony grow.

#wbj2019 #world building june 2019 #mywriting #Diaries of Straud

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