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#the other variant.......... that is also extremely close to this one
thechekhov · 2 months
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Dungeon Meshi Quick Reacts: CH45
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Slumber party!
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Fair, but consider: She deserves a little murder. As a treat.
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Kabru be like "IS THAT MY BACKSTORY???"
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That sure is....a ship. With no one on it.
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Ah, shit the Americans are here.
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Two things: Toshiro being tended to like a pretty pretty princess is hilarious.
And also, the fact that they think the elves can kill Falin......... hmmm.... Pressing X to doubt.
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............... oh. Laios. 😂
But also like. How was he MEANT to keep it silent? Put a little something in it? I thought since it was a magic bell you could code it to only ring when it's shaken with INTENT?
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Fancy ass house.
Also, Namari...........are you hitting that yet? Both of that?
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Oh, it's backstory time.
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Okay one: that's fucking tragic, it sounds like the Elves are just forcing the dungeons closed with no regard for how the ecosystem compensates and what people suffer by being in close proximity......
And another thing: Kabru. Kabru, isn't that what YOU'RE after? Having all the power?
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Why is this so much like that one meme where the girls at the party are looking at you.
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It's the same picture.
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Kabru that's. That's maybe not the way to go about it. you're going to give them MORE reasons to go in.
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Nevermind the governor not being into this 'good boy, now sign' talk, Toshiro's kinda right. Ya fucked up Kabru.
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No matter how far Laios runs, he cannot escape other people trying to tell him how to live his life. Poor guy. But at the same time...
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Is this real? Or a red herring?
Laios' father and mother seemed to be living relatively pious lives. They clearly had a good house, but it didn't seem like they were extremely rich. Then again, perhaps he's just a cousin of royalty? Is that why his parents wanted him to have children?
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They want to.... halt the growth of the dungeon? Is this another part of the natural ecosystem of things? Dungeons growing seems to point even more towards the idea that it's a gigantic, fleshpit-like creature instead of simply a construct.
Then again, constructs CAN be creatures. Like the golems.
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Elves not understanding how old humans are continues to be hilarious because like.
As humans, we HAVE this same concept of variant aging. Like. Dogs. We understand that dogs live less than us, and mature a lot slower. But this is.... COMMON KNOWLEDGE. Most people do not make it into adulthood without understanding that dogs mature within 1-2 years of their birth.
The fact that elves, a species with FAR more time on their hands, who have lived alongside other races for AGES....... have STILL not got the general concept of aging down....means their education is atrocious. Or they're all not paying attention.
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.......this. THIS is the most fascinating concept in this chapter.
The fallen.... turned into MONSTERS.
We know that dying inside the dungeon doesn't mean permanent death. But dying above-ground does.
We know that dying in the dungeon doesn't mean your body turns into a monster (aside from ghosts and ghouls?) ..... but dying aboveground.... DOES......?
WHAT'S THE TRUTH.
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Hm.
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If Kabru and Laios fused, they could almost make one functioning human being.
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Senshi just beginning to speak in the middle of his own internal monologue is so real.
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...... what's going on there with the expression, buddy?
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Bread.......are they STILL carrying around flour with them?! How are they getting bread?!
Also, it's awesome that the eggs are canonically hard to crack, because it makes sense that they don't break during their many fighting events.
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Izutsumi really said ◉_◉
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Don't tell me Laios, who is sensitive to ghosts has ALSO been seeing things?
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Not gonna lie, that's highkey terrifying.
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Props to that ghost that's been following Laios around, not ever giving up hope that it can bother him into acknowledging it.
And also - hey, it already saved them once! that means it's probably not evil!
That, or it's the king of the bloody dungeon. Wouldn't that be something!
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oharaslover · 4 months
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I wonder what would Miguel’s reaction be if the reader just did the ‘hey’ rizz on Miguel (uncle Aaron’s style) 😭😭😭 mans for sure would be hella confused and tell the reader to just go back to work or something, meanwhile the reader ends up feeling embarrassed 😭😭😭
I could just imagine lyla messing with the reader by playing that encounter over and over again, rip to the reader 😭
But miguel on the other hand wouldn’t think much about it at first until he randomly thought about it 👀
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pairing: miguel o’hara x reader
contents: light-hearted for the most part, some alcohol involved
word count: 2K
"Hey."
Your hand was awkwardly placed on Miguel’s shoulder as you looked up to him with a smirk on your face, his expression contorting into one of confusion and disgust? A conversation with Miles about how his uncle used this technique with women had elicited you to try it out with Miguel, but it clearly failed with the way he was looking at you. You’d heard about other women trying to flirt with him in the past, but a part of you hoped that he’d more receptive to your advances. While you weren't expecting for the man to downright fall in love with you, you also weren't expecting him to glare at you in response.
You heard LYLA's giggles coming from the back of the room and you did your best to ignore them, keeping your hand on Miguel’s shoulder as you waited for some kind of response. "I don't have time for your jokes. The fate of the multiverse is hanging on by a very thin line so go back to work and don't bother me," he spoke, the temperature of the room seemingly dropping with how indifferent he sounded. Your hand immediately dropped from his shoulder, hanging by your side as you nodded.
You turned to look back at Miguel once you got close to the door, his back turned towards you as he analyzed the events unfolding on the monitors. You wanted to apologize to him for how awkward the situation had been, but you decided to swallow it down and keep whatever pride you had intact. You walked over to the cafeteria, sitting down on one of the benches as you buried your head in your hands.
"What's going on, chica?" You heard someone ask you, seeing Miles approach you with a styrofoam box. You thanked him for the empanada, taking it out of the box as you took a bite out of it. “I tried out that whole thing you told me about and it ended extremely bad."
"What thing? The whole electricity thing?"
"No, the thing you said your uncle did. The shoulder thing and saying 'hey.'"
"Oh yeah, I guess I should've mentioned that it only worked when uncle Aaron did it."
You rolled your eyes as you took a bite from your empanada, glancing over at Miles. "Yeah, guess you should've," you muttered in response after you finished swallowing, putting your empanada down on the box. "Well if it makes you feel any better, I tried it out on Gwen and it's basically the whole reason why she shaved the half of her hair off," he responded with a small shrug, taking a bite out of his own beef patty.
"I guess that does make me feel a little bit better, yeah."
"Who'd you try it out on anyways?"
"Miguel."
Miles' eyes widen as he looked over at you, letting out a small scoff. "Crazy Miguel that chased me on all fours?" He asked you, taking your empanada away as you were about to take another bite. "Wish he would chase me on all fours. You don't know how lucky you had it, man," you responded, letting out a small chuckle at the way his brows furrowed.
"Maybe you deserve getting rejected."
"Are you still bitter over getting that B in Spanish?"
"It's an A, thank you. But I mean, at least he probably doesn't know what's going on."
You shrugged as a response, looking at the other spider variants passing by. "Wish I could've seen you though," he says, glancing over at you. You were about to speak once more when an orange hue popped out of nowhere, LYLA making herself shown. "It's a good thing I recorded the whole thing then!" She announced, holding up a tiny screen as the events unfolded.
You cringed as you witnessed the scene from an outside perspective, noticing the little things you hadn't before. The height difference just looked completely awkward as you held your hand up to his shoulder, acting domineering in the situation. "You know, I like you a lot better when we're bullying Miguel," you mumbled from underneath your hands, the AI bursting into laughter once more. "You know I can't be subjective with my bullying. Toodles!"
You glanced over at Miles, seeing him struggle to contain the small giggles coming out of him. At seeing your expression, he couldn't help but laugh audibly. "Sorry, but it's just.. that's priceless," he mumbled, wiping at faux tears. You rolled your eyes and the two of you continued talking about art and what he wanted to pursue. Eventually, you ended up having to leave due to some disturbance in your universe and as you were leaving, you couldn't help noticing Miles and LYLA talking in hushed whispers.
Buzzing noises in the bedside table next to you awoke your slumber the next morning, the buzzing happening every five seconds. You rolled over to your side, grabbing your phone from the table as you tried to find the source of where all the commotion was coming from. You ended up on the shared website that HQ had, seeing your face plastered on the front of the newsfeed.
More specifically, your face contorted into that stupid smirk that would be controlling your nightmares for the next couple weeks. You groaned, seeing laughing emojis circulating throughout your screen before you decided to completely shut off your phone. You pressed your face deeper into your pillow as you tried to fall asleep, prolonging having to see everybody around again.
Loud knocking on your door woke you up and while you were debating on telling the person on the other side to leave you alone, you put on your bunny slippers and decided to open the door. Miguel’s gaze narrowed as he saw you pajama-clad, your bunny slippers squeaking on the floorboards. "I’ve been calling you all damn day. We needed your help with an anomaly and nobody could reach you," he grumbled, folding his arms across his chest as he looked down at you.
"It's so funny that you mention that, actually. I turned my phone off since it kept buzzing," you mumbled, looking off to the side to avoid his gaze. "That's not what you have a cellphone for. Don't let it happen again," he responded, his expression hardening the longer he kept you under his gaze. You stayed quiet in hopes he wouldn't ask what had your phone buzzing and nodded, going to grab your phone to turn it back on. You were instantly bombarded with texts, most of them from LYLA just spamming you with the video.
That night, Miguel decided to investigate what exactly was the cause of your phone buzzing constantly, his eyes widening as he came across the newsfeed. He saw your face plastered on the video with the title "Newbie tried to seduce Miguel O’Hara. Epic fail!" As he looked through the video, he started to piece the puzzle together and why you looked so dejected when he sent you back to work.
He had played it off as one of your stupid jokes but he hadn't been able to get it out his mind after it happened. He was determined to talk to you the following day, confirm his suspicions that you were flirting with him before he got any further ideas about what your intentions had been.
However when Miguel approached your desk the following day, he didn't find anyone there except for a discarded burger wrapper and a half empty cup of soda. "Hey, do you know where they're at?" He asked the person who sat at the desk next to you, but they didn't prove to be much help. He let out a small groan, going back to his office after getting an anomaly report.
The following week continued like that, with Miguel wishing he could just get a glimpse of you and your silence being the only thing that remained. He decided to look at your location through his watch, appearing in your universe a couple minutes later. As he looked around, he couldn't help but find it endearing the way that the citizens appreciated their Spider-Woman.
He showed up at the trashy bar your watch indicated you were at, completely taken back to see you taking shots like they were water. "Miguel!" You announced, your voice finding him through the conversations and music circulating the bar. You seemed glad to see him but then your face soured like you'd just taken a bite out of a lemon. "What are you doing here?" You asked, your voice slightly slurring as you ordered another glass.
He sat down next to you, letting out a small chuckle as he rested his head on his hand. "I'm here because I was worried about you. What happened?" He inquired. pushing the glass that the bartender had set down out of your reach. "You rejected my love, Miguel! You don't know how miserable I am," you whined, your head slightly lolling down. "All you did was say hey to me," he remarked, slightly amused at your state. "Exactly! Who needs roses and big romantic gestures when you have a hey like that one?"
Miguel found himself entertained by your antics for a little while longer before he took you to your apartment after you demanded more shots. He was going to be a gentleman and just leave, but you kept a grip on his hand. "Please stay," you mumbled in a drunken state, and even then, he was unwilling to deny you anything. He nodded, taking off his shirt to get comfortable when he heard you retching in the corner. "Jeez, I know I've let myself go a little but that hurts, mami."
You flipped him off as a response, getting up on shaky feet as you held onto the wall. He helped you into the bathroom after that, helping you empty your bowels into the toilet without much judgement. He watched as you took off your shirt, grabbing the shirt he'd tossed to the side and putting it on. "You smell good, Miguel," you mumbled, padding back to your bed to the best of your ability. He laid down next to you, his hands wrapped around your form as he rested his head in the crook of your neck. "You smell pretty good too. Despite all the vomit."
You woke up the next morning with a throbbing headache and a weight resting on top of you. You hoped that you weren't stupid last night as you turned around to face Miguel’s sleeping form. You slapped his arm, waking him up in mere seconds. "What?" He mumbled groggily, running a hand through his hair as he stretched. "Did we sleep together?"
"No," he offered, looking at you as he played with the hem of his shirt. You bit down on your lip, feeling a little assured by the fact. "The time I do sleep with you, I'll make sure that you remember it," he added, in a volume so light you would've missed had you not been paying attention. "What? But you rejected me," you inquired, your brows furrowing. "No, I just didn't know what you were trying to do with that. You haven't left my mind for weeks and I wasn't sure if you were just joking or not so I pushed you away," he responded, pulling you closer to him.
You leaned in, your lips hovering above his for a millisecond before he pushed you away, chuckling. "No I'm not rejecting you before you make that assumption. You just smell like vomit. Go brush your teeth and then you'll get a kiss," he told you, letting out a small chuckle at your little pout. "You have to admit that they 'hey' thing worked since you're in my bedroom," you spoke, your eyes glinting with mischief as you got out of the bed. "Mhm, cariño," he remarked, laying back down on the bed.
After you finished brushing your teeth, you walked back to bed and hovered above Miguel on the bed, putting your hand on his shoulder. "Hey," you whispered, looking into his eyes before your lips pressed against his.
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weebsinstash · 9 months
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Damn, imagine if all this YT drama was happening when Spot's situation was currently going on too. And, well, since our dimension is fucked and we just seem to jump through dimensions without the watch, what if we end up in Spot's place? (The blank void when he entered one of his own spots).
And, it would be funny to look at him, and for him to look at us and just... stare or wave. He is weird like that, and we are too.
Also, we can start bonding on feeling out of place? Sharing the same experience of everyone leaving us behind/ignoring us. Maybe we can even seek solace in his presence, and in his unique persona (even if he is supposed to be a villain).
And the fact that this is the only place we don't glitch out of? Maybe some bullshit physics as this place literally makes no sense, as well as us. It's like we belong here, with him. He could always teleport us somewhere else, but we look so tired, so pitiful and in so much need of some sort of care... he feels bad for us. And maybe, he can try and convince us to stay with him. After all, he *is* the only one who hasn't turned his back on us, right? He isn't a bad guy like those 'friends' of us were saying!
Meanwhile everything is going to shit in the society's HQ :)
I've actually had a few ideas involving The Spot where he's either the yandere or antagonist or a central character in some way and it's really just a matter of me getting around to. Writing the dozens of things I want to write lmao
But bro your mind 😩 you've just been exiled during the YouTwo incident amd you're glitching and, you know, slowly deteoriating over time, and, suddenly, you're in this weird literally nondescript place where you're suddenly... 'balanced out'? You don't feel like you're being pulled in a bunch of different directions anymore, and you look around and it's just some white void with black dots everywhere that you think you can kind of see and hear things out of if you get close enough, but, first and foremost, is that a person? Spot just like. Is staring at you with this very deer in headlights energy and, you both awkwardly wave to each other, "uhhhhhhh... hi?" "...hiiiii, uh, is this 'your place'? Thank you so much, dude, I've been zipping all over the place, i thought i was gonna die, you saved my life" and maybe you even hug him and he's not sure how to process this because you're clearly a variant of Spiderman but you hold no animosity or hostility towards him whatsoever and 👉👈 this is the most positive human interaction he's had in ages.
Not even his powers, but his knowledge alone would be extremely useful in this scenario because like, he could literally just warp around stealing whatever parts he needed to build something that would "hold you together", given his involvement with Alchemax and the colliders specifically
You're just so understandably and genuinely grateful and Spot feels GOOD about being needed, about being someone's savior. He really had been one of the only ones who could help you and he gets a little drunk off that fact. Whether your glitching is a mutation and is your own power or you're simply some weird anomaly, you two form a kinship, and if it IS some sort of weird ability, maybe he even decides to mentor you a little! Gives him something to do, and it totally isn't to help distract him from how lonely and depressed and miserable he is!
But similar to how the other villains discounted him, you kind of discount him yourself in the sense that you don't see him as a threat. Which, he doesn't necessarily want you to, and it's not some sort of disrespect thing, but, the linger he spends with you, the more he wants you to see him as a man, a man with needs, emotionally, psychologically, physically. Whyd you have to give him all those hugs when he hasnt had human touch in forever, huh?! Don't you know how lonely and touch starved he is?! And you just think you can--can walk away from him? Disrespect him after everything he's done for you, disrespect him like everyone else?
You can always try and 'outrun him' with your little glitching, but, even if you manage to lose him, he'll pick up your tracks again, and one day you wake up from finally crashing from exhaustion to find a pitch black figure at the foot of the bed, slowly pulling in everything around it like some sort of eldritch black hole. And Jonathan menacingly waves to you, "I don't think I'll have trouble keeping up with you this time. I made sure of it"
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3liza · 4 months
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grim has an instinctual "therapy dog" response which I think could be trained into actual working behavior with a little effort. when he meets people who are having a hard time he is very good at just hanging around being "supportive" in a dog way. he's never been a very cuddly dog, he enjoys wrestling and physical closeness but seems to overheat easily and will just get too hot if he's being held or in your lap for very long, which is unfortunate for people who like lap dogs, but ideal for people who enjoy dog company but aren't big on getting dog hair and dog face directly on them all the time. two different and equally valid ways of being a dog fan imo but definitely a difference in preference.
more churchgrim blogging below
crucially, grim has been trained by me, a person who is very rarely tolerant of dog drool and dog intrusion into my personal space, to leave people alone when they indicate they don't want to be bothered. he understands the body language, but also the verbal commands "leave me alone" and "go away" as well as many variants of no begging for food, we aren't going for a walk right now, and interestingly seems to have some concept of "we aren't doing the thing you want to do right now, but we will do it later". like I always say with animal cognition, you can't do anything except speculate about how an animal is conceptualizing things like time, memory, future events, and the theory of mind of other entities, but you can certainly observe the animal's behavior and form a working understanding of how they respond to situations.
over the weekend grim went with my partner to his friend's house to do some computer help stuff. the report from my partner is that Grim was extremely well behaved and polite, and also did his therapy dog routine with the people in the house and then those people told my partner that grim was making them feel better, and to please bring him over any time. this is a consistent piece of feedback we get from people who meet grim, which is the most gratifying feedback I can get as a dog owner: your dog is polite and makes me feel better and I enjoy his company, please bring him back to visit me sometime. I feel like training any dog with basic social manners just enables everyone, including the dog, to enjoy his essential dogness without the bothersome aspects of dogs interfering with the interaction.
the most exciting report I got from the visit was that grim met their kitty cat, who was absolutely not interested in being snuffled or making friends, and that grim was very interested in the kitty and tried to approach, but that his approach was the same behavior he exhibits when meeting new people or dogs, eg, NOT his behavior when he sees a bunny or squirrel. this is good. this suggests that he does not perceive cats as prey, which is always a risk with any dog of any size. it only takes ONE miscalculation or reaction by a large dog who instinctually bites or grabs a small animal to seriously injure or kill that animal even if the intent wasn't to kill it. like I always say, even good dogs sometimes make bad decisions, it's the human responsibility to anticipate potential bad decisions and prevent them.
the cat was mad but stood her ground and even slapped grim in the face a few times but he just tolerated it and wasn't angry and did not respond, which has been his reaction to every time a small dog has gotten mad at him as well. he has been barked at and bitten a few times and he just looks put-upon and sad and deals with it. when he's in these situations I always praise him effusively and reward him for tolerant and calm behavior and this seems to have worked
if a cat was willing to let grim give them a good snuffle and tolerate the intrusion of his big dumb head for a few minutes I think they would be friends for life but he hasn't met any dog-liking cats yet. he's intimidatingly large and this just puts cats and small dogs immediately on the defensive unfortunately. I've been considering reaching out to the Seattle cat rescues to see if they would be willing to give me some kittens to foster, because fostering kittens in a dog environment is really helpful for adoption potential. it opens up adopting homes who have dogs for the kittens who are already socialized with dogs, whereas most cats are more difficult to integrate into a dog household.
I also think grim is bored sometimes during the way and that having kittens to "take care of" would be extremely enriching for his German shepherd prerogative of "protect baby and keep the herd together". I know GSDs despite their name aren't LGDs or technically herding dogs anymore, they've been bred more for guarding and patrolling instincts, but grim seems to have a lot of the "keep the family together and watch over them" vibes.
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umbraastaff · 1 year
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stuff about the taz atla au:
Taako and Lup are the last surviving air nomads (and by extension, elves). Lup is the Avatar. I established Taako as an airbender but I think it could go either way; if he's a nonbender, he's still got the high-dex rogue-y vibes of an airbender for any fighting.
Barry is a waterbender from the Southern Water Tribe, and the one who finds the twins. He's extremely unnaturally gifted at bloodbending, but shit at most other waterbending until they find a master. (He can bloodbend when it's not the full moon, but usually only to shift someone's balance, shove a limb, etc. Can be very handy when used right, though!)
Lup's hardest element is water. She has the instinct to directly blast stuff, which pushes against the give-and-take nature of waterbending. Once she gets it she likes making huge, scary, ocean-like waves. She's progressively faster at learning earthbending and, of course, firebending comes easiest & becomes a favorite.
Lucretia is also water tribe, probably in the North, though I would love for her to be friends with Barry somehow. She may not be a bender, but she's for sure attuned to spirits, especially the moon. Possibly the whole North Pole spirit imbalance is because of some well-intentioned thing she does while they're trying to repel the fire nation.
Prince Kravitz is trying to capture the Avatar but the Avatar's brother keeps flirting with him and it's very confusing. I don't know if I want to make the Raven Queen be the Firelord but if she's anyone she might be Ursa.
Kravitz is accompanied by Davenport (tell me captain "haven't we earned a little wrath" davenport isn't a firebender), a family member or close advisor who has been secretly a traitor/spy for like a decade. He's mostly coming along to keep his own eye on the Avatar and make sure she doesn't get captured or killed. White Lotus member.
Merle is a swamp waterbender with plantbending and, to everyone's shock in a dire moment, healing powers. He was a good friend of Lup's 100 years ago. Also White Lotus.
Magnus is an earthbender, Julia is a Kyoshi warrior. "Why isn't Magnus the token nonbender" well you see this whole thing is an elaborate AU of that one stretch of SC where Taako learned fighting and Magnus learned wizarding (joke)
Magnus is desperate to interact with spirits but is not attuned to them at all. He's excited to meet Lup because she is obviously the bridge to him getting to pet spirit dogs. Might have a pet dog or bear fusion variant.
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galileosballs · 5 months
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For reasons that aren't important I'm doing some Mothman research. It's kind of fascinating how much name recognition the Mothman has nowadays - it went from a minor local cryptid passed around in the same breath as the Ogopogo and Fresno Creeper to what is very likely a top-5 most famous cryptid (at least in North America). The question is why.
The Mothman Prophesies (2002) is the first and most likely contender for an explanation. Richard Gere was genuinely hot shit at the time (for some reason - he's really bad in that movie) and the film did come out in a lot of theatres presumably to be seen by a lot of eyes. It didn't crack the top 5 at the box office that week, but it wasn't behind by much.
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While this looks like a lot of cultural impact for our dearest Lepidopteran friendo, it's worth taking a moment to think about how much you remember from those other five films, assuming you remember them at all. A Beautiful Mind still has a place in the popular consciousness, I suppose, but I dare you to look me in the eye and tell me you know a single thing about the film Snow Dogs (2002). Without checking, tell me in the tags whether Snow Dogs (2002) is an animated film. I'll wait.
There's another consideration that pushes back on The Mothman Prophesies as the source of the Mothman cultural icon we know and love today, and that is the extreme dissimilarity between the Mothman of the film and the adorable fluffy red-eyed dude who graces my dash on lucky days.
Here's what you get if you do a Google image search for 'Mothman'
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We've got a couple of different designs there, but they break down into three major categories. There's the official Mothman statue in Point Pleasant WV (the silver fellow with the holey wings, menacing face, and magnificent crop of chest hair), a cuter and more mothlike design of a biped with feathery wings, round eyes, and fluffy antennae, and a design that more closely resembles the eyewitness reports of the creature - a hunched, shadowy figure with red eyes, big wings, and no antennae. These are the three basic mothmen you see in most mothman-type stuff. None of them, however, are the mothman of The Mothman Prophesies, who never appears in the film except as a disembodied voice and some drawings like this.
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(also the word 'Mothman' occurs in exactly one scene of the whole movie and the rest of the time he's called by the name of a (possibly) different Cryptid. 3/10 not enough Mothman)
So, there's the question. The Mothman Prophesies probably isn't the source of the Mothman we all know and love today, especially the antenna-wearing cute (and... sexy, apparently?) variant of which tumblr is so fond.
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The antenna variant is also dominant on Etsy and Pinterest
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Where does Antenna Mothman come from?
It's not from the canonical Mothman sightings. Those mostly look like this:
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It's not from the movie that made Mothman's name.
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It's not from the (super cool) Frank Frazetta comic book art. Though this art is gorgeous, this Mothman is clearly just Spiderman with butterfly wings.
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It's not from his appearance in the Shin Megami Tensei games (though his first appearance in 2003 doubtless makes SMT early Mothman Adopters, and they did have the bright idea to make him cute and give him antennae). This colourful design is not the tumblr one, though). It's likewise not from the antenna-free Castlevania depiction of Mothman (2005), though I am again a huge fan of him. Even though his eyes aren't red and kind of look like boobs.
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My research suggests that Mothman was mentioned in Invader Zim (probably in 2003-2004) but not actually depicted. I'm not going to comb through the filmography of Invader Zim to check because I am an adult with a job, but if you, dear reader, can confirm this fact I'd be delighed.
So, what does this add up to?
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My hunch is that we can isolate Cute Antenna Mothman to roughly the year 2005. That's going off this Google Ngram data that shows a continuous increase in the use of the term 'Mothman' since that year, after the peak presumably caused by The Mothman Prophesies (2002) starts to dip. Since so much Mothman activity now is driven by Cute Mothman (I just got back from Point Pleasant myself - Cute Antenna Mothman is 90% of the non-locally produced moth merch and cosplay) I think we can pin the explosion of Mothman's popularity on the explosion of Cute Mothman, rather than more authentic representations. Cute Mothman is the variant of mothman that has become a cultural icon - it's the one that you see on pins and pride flags (again, I'm not saying it's wrong, I'm just asking why). Cute Mothman is the one that made the Yu Gi Oh card. That's cultural impact if I ever saw it
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It's worth noting as well that Cute Mothman is much more moth-like than any of the other renderings. The antennae are the most obvious Moth-like thing, but hardly the only one. Many moth men are depicted as having actual moth-like wings, covered in patterns. It's a striking image, but not one supported by sightings. The creature sighted in West Virginia was actually not particularly moth-like, and to this day locals refer to it as 'The Big Bird' or the 'Point Pleasant Pheasant'. The origin of the name 'Mothman' is a bit contested, but the Mothman museum in Point Pleasant attributes it to a comic book contemporaneous to the disaster in which Batman fights a Killer Moth.
So, none of the sources I have found really give us what would become the canonical mothman image. The cute, fluffy guy with wings, red eyes, and adorable fluffy antennae. The one who would spawn abominations like this:
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Terrible. Also, that's clearly just a bat.
So, now we get to hypothesis time. The fact to be explained is: the dominant image of mothman in popular culture is a guy with fluffy antennae that do not appear in its initial description or most 'mainstream' media portrayals. The popular mothman is a new design. Where did it come from?
I don't have an answer to that question. Part of why I'm writing this deragned moth essay is to try to solicit answers from the general public. If you know, please tell me. I must know. Who is Cute Moth patient zero?
One of my initial theories was that the mothman mention in Invader Zim led to moth-themed fanart of the relevant character (without reference to the historical Mothman) that was cute and fluffy for all the normal reasons, and this image bled into the popular mothman conception. I'm delighted to report that I don't think this theory is true, since after a lot of digging through old Invader Zim fan-art (it's so much hornier than I expected, but I guess I should have expected that) I couldn't find any recognizable mothmen before about 2017. Phew. I'm glad that's not the answer. But what is the answer???
Where does the cute mothman come from? How does one design take over the world?
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plz hear me out
Imagine gekko and reader had just started dating and gekko didn't tell the reader abt his little guys. So one day when gekko had left his thing where the buddies stay in at the reader house and the reader like see what is inside and boom the little buddies come out and see the reader a start to like hug them or whatever
Ik it's really random so please feel free to skip if you like :)
OMG that would be so cute noooooo, I saw someone make a fic about how his little buddies can sense what he's feeling and, I haven't been able to get them out of my head since, they are so cuteee <;33
(Also sorry for the late response, I've had a lot in my plate today :c)
Tight Knit
Gekko (Mateo) x reader
CW: Nothing, really, just fluff and cute stuff♡♡ Reader is GN
This one is pretty short c:
Song: Ditto - newjeans
You've known Mateo for some time now and just recently, or as his mother would say, FINALMENTE, you two made it official.
Once in a while, specially because of his new job keeps him extremely occupied at times, you two would hang out, trying to make his visits to your place as frequent as he can, or at least hang out at his house for a bit.
This time was no different, he knocked at your door, radiating happiness from his perfect, beautiful smile. "Hola, amor! You ready for this movie marathon?" He said, trying to lean into the door frame of your apartment, just to stumble and, in his eyes, failing to impress you.
You giggled at his weird antics. "Hola precioso, just get inside so we can start" you pulled him into a hug that ended up in a kiss and let him in.
You two made yourselves comfy at your room, Mateo put his little bag down along with his sweater, then both of you got to work and started making a little "nest " of some sorts. You stopped as you noticed his worried face look around, worried, you walked up to him, leaving the blanket you've had on your hands forgotten on the floor.
"Mateo? ¿Bebe? You ok?" You asked, getting closer to him.
"Huh?" Gekko looked up and smiled, awkwardly. "Uhhh... Yeah, I just forgot something, nothing super important but, ugh, well" he left whatever he had on his arms and went for his skateboard. "I'll be back, in like, a few minutes, I swear!!" You tried to get a word in but by the time you finally came up with a sentence, he was already out, door swung open.
"Ayy... Nunca me dejas hablar." You muttered. Frowning, you tried to finish the nest you two started.
A little more than a "few minutes" have passed and Mateo was nowhere to be seen, you texted him but realized his phone was in his little blue circled backpack, so you just sat there, in your bed, defeated, until you heard a kind of weird... Rumbling, it almost sounded like groans? Coming out of his backpack, you brushed it off, thinking it was his phone, until you heard it again, louder this time.
Worried, you walked over to see what was making so much noise, then noticed how the front of the backpack has this weird glow to it? What kind of fancy LED backpack did this boy have? Whenever your hand touched what it seemed now upon closer inspection clear plastic, it started glowing again, but brighter. You closed your eyes and retreated your hand away, until you felt something warm and soft grabbing it, you opened your eyes and layed your gaze on a little yellow and purple... Toy? You squished it and it made a little gurgling sound, wich made you giggle. It started rubbing its little head into your palm and you couldn't help but pick it up and cradle it in your arms, some other creatures from different variants of color came out, almost as if it were an ambush.
You fell into the ground, how many days has it been? You don't remember. The only thing occupying your thoughts were the little adorable creatures begging for your care and cuddles on top of you, the door finally swong open and Mateo stepped into the apartment.
"Bebeee, I'm..." he looked over at you, in the ground, tackled by his little friends, defeated but with a big smile, he joined you in the floor. "Nooo, man, I was about to introduce you guys today..." he sighed, hugging wingman. "See? This is why we can't have nice things" All of the kids did an annoyed gurgling sound and tackled Mateo, their new victim. The item Mateo forgot to bring long forgotten, laying on the floor.
"But fr tho, I'm telling Ma' about this."
I love them so much omfg I WANT PLUSHIES OF EM OMGGG PLSSS RIIOTTTT PLSSS GIVE IT TO MEEE
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Hello! I want to write some fanfiction, but I want your help. How would you describe Raine's personality?
Raine strikes me as a character who knows themselves, and is comfortable in their own skin. Going through the motions of performing for others because it's demanded of them annoys and irritates them, because they don't care for attention, glory, or popularity. They aren't shy-- when something interests them, they usually are quite bold about pursuing it-- but they don't have the social spoons to play nice with people who don't interest them. They're an introvert, but not the shrinking wallflower variant that everyone assumes an introvert is and more of the person who gets begrudgingly dragged to a party by their more social friends and spends the night lurking in a dark corner with one eye on the clock counting down the seconds until this crap is over and they can go home to decompress. Their social circle is VERY small, VERY exclusive, and extremely dear to them since it's hard to find people who are tolerable for long periods of time, let alone actually LIKABLE.
I like imagine that Raine has developed two different 'faces' so to speak. The public 'face' for work, where they are a brilliant, polite, but slightly distant professional who gets things done as quickly and efficiently as possible (so they can retreat to a private space and decompress as quickly as they possibly can) and a private 'face' that only those close to them get to see, where they are goofier, cockier, and much freer with their opinions and views than they normally are. Raine also can sometimes rub people the wrong way because they don't play the Modesty Game. They know what they are good at and how to play to their strengths, and isn't afraid to be honest about that. This annoys a lot of people because rules of social engagement dictates that you have to humble yourself, because if you don’t that means you're stuck up or full of yourself and arrogance is seen as a bad trait when combined with talent. Raine isn't interested in wasting their time playing that game. They can go through the motions, to get through all the annoying parts as quickly and painlessly as possible, but they only do as much as they have to, and they are internally ROASTING everyone around them the entire time.
This is part of the reason they clicked so well with Eda so quickly. Eda is very much the same in this regard, which makes conversing with her much more enjoyable because Raine doesn't have to waste their energy trying to figure out what Eda ACTUALLY means or how she really feels, because Eda wears it all on her sleeve (until the curse came in and muddled the waters, at any rate).
Raine has a very strong sense of justice and is extremely firm on their moral compass. They don't care about the written word of Law. They judge right and wrong for themselves on a case-by-case basis, taking into account all the grey areas involved, and they do not stand by idly if something isn't fair. They are every bit as feral as Eda in this regard, but are a little better at keeping their cards close to their vest. They can actually PLAY the game, rather than immediately jumping across the table, punching their opponent in the face, then grabbing the entire pot and running out the door like someone set their hair on fire.
(They CAN do it that way. And, admittedly, it's more fun when they do get to let loose like that, but they're able to weigh the risks against the rewards and bide their time waiting for the right moment to act.)
On a personal level, I actually like considering the idea that Raine has the same type of Magical Neurodivergence we see in characters like Willow, Gus, and Alador. Magically, they are hyperfocused on a very specific field of study, excelling at that magic to the point of being considered prodigious. Socially, they are a little left of the crowd. They can be polite if the need calls for it, but for the most part they prefer to keep to a small social circle and are very choosey about who gets to be in that circle. Because of this, it wouldn't surprise me at all to find that Raine also has the ability to make their eyes glow.
A lot of this is part speculation, part projection, and part observation by watching Raine's behavior and interactions with others, which is sadly quite limited. If you are looking to write their character in a more in depth level, I fully encourage you to go back and map out their place in your story by writing out what you know to be important to them, where you can see them struggling, what their goals are, and why they are motivated to reach those goals. Having those points are usually a good place to start writing from, and once you move forward with your work, a lot of time you find yourself learning who they are as a character is while you work with them.
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poppletonink · 8 months
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10 Things I Hate About You Review
★★★★★ - 5 stars
"But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you. Not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all."
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Katarina Stratford does not conform to everyone else's ideas of teenage normalcy: she doesn't wear things based on what's trendy, she likes indie rock music and feminist novels and most importantly, Katarina Stratford does not want to date. On the other hand, her sister, Bianca does want to date. After their father decides that Bianca can only date when Kat does, a boy named Cameron (who has a crush on Bianca) comes up with a plan to pay someone to date Kat.
I love the characters in this film so very much. Kat is a feminist icon who I've idolised ever since I first watched this masterpiece. Bianca annoyed me at first but the whole punching Joey in the face thing was very cathartic for me, so she increased her placement in my favourite character ranks. Patrick Verona is amazing, and all of the Kats in the world know that not falling for him is a very trying task. Cameron, on the other hand, is the complete opposite of Patrick and yet he's extremely sweet and endearing - a hopeless romantic at heart (and a definite James Potter variant for sure).
It is safe to say that generally speaking feminism and rom-coms do not go hand-in-hand skipping down a flowery hill (what with most rom-coms being Chick Flicks, a controversial genre in the eyes of feminists everywhere). However, 10 Things I Hate About You manages to meld together these two assumedly opposing topics into an amazing masterpiece. It discusses a horrible idea formulated within society - that idea being that a woman cannot be in a relationship with a man, whilst retaining her status as a feminist. The irony of it is that feminism is about equality and yet we put this boundary between men and women, both of whom can be classified as feminists, and say 'No, you cannot date and wish for equal rights.' That's what is so wonderful about 10 Things I Hate About You: Kat Stratford is a feminist icon in her own right (what with her love of Sylvia Plath and riot grrrl bands, and her blatant "Well I suppose being male and an asshole makes you worthy of our time" comment) and yet she is also the star of a rom-com. She's a feminist who simultaneously "gets the guy".
Aside from the amazing characters and the amazing feminist representation of 10 Things, one of the best things about it is its music. Music plays such a big part in 10 Things, from it playing to represent the character's emotions to Kat wanting to start a band. The soundtrack overall is amazing, with riot-grrrl bands galore and Joan Jett as the queen of rock 'n' roll. Without a doubt my favourite musical moment of 10 Things is Heath Ledger singing "Can't Take My Eyes Off You"- it's one of the most romantic moments and an important part of Kat and Patrick's journey.
In case it could not be gathered from my prior statements, this modern, feminist adaptation of Shakespeare's Taming Of The Shrew is one of my favourite films of all time - on par with the likes of Dead Poet's Society and Clueless. It's wonderfully witty, romantic and heartwarming, and furiously feminist all in one - and if that does not convince you to watch it, then I don't really know what will.
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Top image: Multiple people have been asking about TankEater weaponry, so I sketched this out. One of the conceits of the TankEater universe is that medical technology is about 100 years ahead of us, while the rest of technology is only about 15 years ahead (and depending on the technology, may be closer or further from out own), so the guns are pretty close to our universe for the most part. In fact, this is basically a gas powered M61 Vulcan, because I don’t know a whole lot about guns so I’m just stealing real stuff. It’s on a pivot with some rotation and elevation capability (which can also lock into place during firing), and aimed with the two parasite arms, which can reload, clear jams, and fix other issues. This type of setup is much more common on Mark 1, mule and bear cyborg platforms, so this tankeater is on some sort of high-value mission.
Interestingly, Dex could never be fitted with this! Dex is a variant with an absurdly jacked immune system as they’re built to deploy germ weapons and then mop up survivors, and therefore can only be fitted with parasite extensions made from their own flesh, or extremely close relatives. They have the technology for organ transplants that will fool most immune systems, just not super hyped up ones.
Other common weapons include the lasers fitted to space-warfare specialist tankeater heads, the missiles that you’ve seen on Dex, and literally any weapon a baseline human can carry (their fingers can’t fit into the trigger guards, but their claws can).
Middle image: Official Dex turnaround for my own reference.
Bottom image: My blorbos as dril quotes.
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Actually I have more thoughts considering what you @immortalwithoutaname said that I just couldn't fit in a responce so I'm doing it here. In regards to my last post - https://www.tumblr.com/patriamrealm/737610093240139776/so-ive-been-playing-the-update-for-pokemon?source=share
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So you make very good points! Though I'm not entirely sure they'd be the most viable for the hisuian variants to be extinct extinct rather than just functionally extinct.
With cloning and fossil restoration, cloning has shown to not be the most feasible thing in the pokemon world, when it was done things went wrong and people didn't get the results they fully desired or they tampered to much, IE Mewtwo. Unless there is new information that I am lacking it cloning seems to very much be in it's infancy that few if any are willing to try.
Fossil restoration on the other hand, in one way it takes around 10,000 years for something to become fossilized and the events of legends arceus take place 300 ish years ago. That and every time it's done it results in pokemon winding up with a rock typing that they may or may not have had when their species was fully around.
Every single restored pokemon from fossils has been given a rock typing, EXCEPT in Galar with those poor pokemon put together wrong. But that is likely due to the botched restoration being done. When done correctly the pokemon wind up with a rock typing. We don't see that in the hisuian pokemon in the present. Basculigion is still ghost/water ect. Making fossil restoration unlikely as well.
NOW AS FOR DISTORTIONS! That is also a very good point but I also have a theory about how those function timeline wise. Distortions seem to be able to pop up any-when and anywhere. The any-when being most key to this theory.
I believe that distortions came and went in a bit of a wave starting slow and very infrequent about ohh let's go with 20 years before the rift above Mt. Coronet even opened up. Easy to simply not see especially if they were small and very unstable. Then they pick up a bit before the rift opens, people start to notice, it's like a warning.
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Then BOOM! The rift opens and you get distortions showing up near daily, sometimes more than once a day for 2 ish years. After the events of the game happen they start to slowly become more infrequent till they are near unnoticeable again within 20ish years.
Now why are there red distortion dashes close to present and far past on the timeline? That's because distortions go two ways! So Lets say the distortion on the far left is connected to one of the ones within the rift being open. It's more stable and big but it's a single one that lasts only a few minutes and frankly if anyone did see it they would likely not be sure it was real. And the one closer to the present is the same deal only let's say the one it is connected to is one of the very early distortions before the rift. Small and unstable. Easy to not see happen.
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Now the any-when and anywhere really come into play here. A distortion could show up well over a million years ago in far off Kanto and that one is connected back to one of the distortions from after the rift is closed. Next one seen could be Paldea 5,000 years ago.
For everywhere else and every other time period distortions would be extremely rare, some small and unstable others big and last minutes. The likelihood of even seeing one in a world with so much wilderness as the pokemon world would be a near nonexistent fraction of a percent.
Pokemon showing up in the distortions often wind up vanishing. Most people would not risk going in one if they did see it. And the chances of a distortion leaving behind even a single breeding pair that people of present day could use to try and bring back a species is even less likely than seeing a rift.
In the end, it is more feasible and likely that the hisuian pokemon, even in their decline were cared for by the native clans to Hisui/Sinnoh and there are likely conservation efforts to bring them back to the wild while currently they are functionally extinct but never were fully wiped off the planet.
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Splendor by @fragile-gods vs The Eradicator by @frnletorres - round 1 set 1
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Splendor- Description:
splendor would have an extremely high food requirement with very little carry-over (if any at all) up until the rot is neutralized, because they’re feeding both the “healthy” body and the rot. they’d have the ability to grapple and enter a stance where they’re able to send their tongue out to grab and consume prey. his agility (minus the grapple) and spear throws would be somewhat close to average, but would get worse as his remaining time to seek help shrinks and his rot’s abilities become stronger.
Story:
hi so one of his parents was made semi-unintentionally by sliver of straw (it would make more sense if i explained the story of one of my other slugcats) and the fucked up genes in that parent presented as rot in splendor. he’s sent out to seek help from anybody he can find that could help and ends up giving the rot to one of ISO’s neighbors before being helped by ISO themself
(the rot has been neutralized at this point in that it doesn’t spread any further, but is still a part of splendor’s body because he doesn’t know how to survive without taking advantage of how it gives him the ability to grapple to the environment and Consume much larger prey)
The Eradicator- Description:
Stats: Needs 7 (10 max) pips to hibernate. Can only eat corpses, with batflies giving 1/4 pip and baby centipedes/noodleflies one pip. Starts with the glow and the mark. Can dual wield, has 1.5 spear damage and has a stronger maul than artificer. Can also throw spears upwards. Heavier than survivor. Regular lung capacity and swim speed. Slightly slower than survivor when walking, but crawling and climbing speed is the same. Can do very high and long jumps however, and even leap vertically, allowing it to reach high places without having to backflip. Longer slides.
Abilities: It can secrete a sticky substance from its hands, allowing it to: Temporarily climb walls, with a meter depleting everytime you climb up and recovering as long as you’re not on a wall. Craft bombs and bomb spears with cherrybombs Cling onto big creatures, letting you maul or stab them before being shaken off. It has a thick skin, making it harder to get stunned, giving it more time before being incapacitated by predator bites, and a small chance to survive spear hits. It can hold items with its mouth, with the drawback of not being able to eat or maul while doing so.
Campaign: The campaign would take place on a new map, composed mainly of an iterator and its city with a connection to the void sea through a mining facility under it. Most of the campaign would be spent in the city, divided in regions and with a focus on verticality and climbing, similar to metropolis. In exchange of not having to deal with the rain while in the city, and besides the day/night cycle, the shelters in each region will not open until a specific number or type of creature are killed. Once enough kills are achieved, that region will be “cleared out”, permanently opening its shelters, reducing its creature spawns, and unlocking the gate to the next region. The rest of the regions (Inside the iterator, under it and on the surface) function as normal. There would be a high quantity of vultures, introducing more variants of them (such as juveniles), with the final region being a vulture nest with a final boss at the highest point to end the campaign.
Story:
They where created by an iterator in response of his city being overwhelmed with vultures and other creatures, with its main task of being basically pest control. Without getting to deep into said iterators lore, the reason he chose a slugcat for the mission is he already had experience working with their species, using them as workers to maintain his structure. The Eradicator can either attempt to fulfill its mission, or dip and take a swim in the void sea.
Fun Facts:
While it doesn’t really affect its abilities or story, its kind of a slugcat and lizard mix, shown by its frills and coloration. Also is genetically engineered to hate birds.
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garbagepile · 3 months
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Shadow knights headcanons
Shadow knights are an interesting species. Many people seem to have various headcanons on them. So here is a post with mine.
The basics
There are four ways a someone can become a shadowknight,
Firstly, by dying in the nether. You can reject becoming a shadowknight despite dying in the nether though. Unless the nether portal is closed.
Secondly, through a ritual. It is basically impossible to reject becoming a shadowknight under these circumstances. All that is needed is a dead or alive body that is mostly intact. Rejecting becoming a shadowknight under these circumstances is basically impossible, since you are quite literally tortured into becoming one. By far the most painful method. But the ritual can be hard to pull off.
Thirdly, through a death of betrayal. Shad was betrayed and backstabbed by most of the other dive warriors. So in turn, when one dies by betrayal, or the person believes they died through betrayal. Shad empathises with them, understands them. And is able to turn them into a shadowknight through these bitter feelings. Shadowknight who died through betrayal are likely to be disproportionately upset about it. Because of these feelings being amplified. Due to your emotions being messed with, it’s hard to escape from. It can even be an imagined betrayal. The feeling doesn’t need to be anger, it could also be sadness and sorrow.
Fourthly, anyone who is able to wield Shad’s relic. If it’s because of blood, the shadow knight transformation can be rejected. But, if it’s through a similar personality, it can’t. Shadow knights from this category tend to be Shad’s favourites.
Classes
With the new nether update, I like the idea of there being different shadowknight variants based on the new biomes. I decided to mix this in with the shadowknight doll headcanon flying around. Each shadowknight class is based on another type of doll. The class you are in depends mostly on how you died. If you death falls under multiple categories of the ones listed above it’s based on whatever is the most important. Any sort of shadowknight can be from any area. Their armour and weapon design is just different depending what class they are to resemble “where they’re from” so to say.
Crimson Forest
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First off, let’s start with this beauty. The most notable of this area is the wood found within this area. So shadowknights from this area are like wooden dolls. Shadowknights that are linked to this area are the ones who died in the nether.
Warped forest
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The shadow knights from this area resemble paper mache dolls. Since there is wood in this area too and paper comes from wood. This area is blue coloured. So due to the biome colour, I gave it the more colourful paper mache dolls. Shadow knights from this area died from a betrayal.
Nether waste
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The shadow knights from this area are the ones who died through a ritual. The stuffed dolls. All shadowknights can be found within any nether area, not just the one they “came from”. But there are especially many types of shadow knights found within this area.
Basalt deltas
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The shadow knights here are based on dolls made of porcelain or wax. This is due to the higher spawn rate of quartz within this area. These are Shad’s most special shadowknights. The ones able to theoretically wield his relic and some exceptions. His favourites. The ones he saw the most potential in. Who should be in another class but aren’t due to this favouritism.
Soul sand valleys
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This is where the shadow souls are. These underrated fellas.
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They are shadow knights without a body. They once were shadow knights without immortality. But then they died. And now they are without a body, or a sense of self. They are quick and weak, and far gone. Gaining immortality basically means gaining an immortal body, their souls stay ‘alive’ until Shad gets defeated and they will finally be able to rest.
Other important things to note
Shadow knights are also resilient to extremely hot temperatures, and can bathe in lava. But they cannot handle the cold at all.
They also have their own food palette. They can eat plants humans can’t, and humans can eat plants shadowknights can’t. I may make a post elaborating on this.
The differences between immortal Shadow Knights and the ones that aren’t quite immortal yet.
Getting immortality basically means that they get an immortal body. It’s both gaining and losing your humanity. Mortal Shadow Knights are only partially doll-like, they still have parts of flesh and blood. Flesh that is rotting away. Gaining immortality makes your entire body doll-like, it gets rid of your human body entirely. It gets rid of the ugly rotting parts, of the horrid smell surrounding them. But something still looks off about them, as they aren’t made out of flesh. They’re like living dolls. While mortal shadow knights are like zombies with doll parts. A doll shell so to speak, easily breakable.
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Hello Smooches
What if I appeared in your ask box with family stuff again?😘 This time my victim is Pierro (I just need to cope w/ fact that hydro men hate me and I lost 50/50 to Jean)
So to be Pierro's child there are few variants on how you appeared. Maybe you survived Khaenri'ah with him (with your other parent dying there) or he picked you up after you were abandoned (like with Kaeya) or his current lover somehow, miraculously managed to convince him to start a family. Either way - after downfall of his homeland, Pierro is extremely protective of anything, what's close to him, so while he can't stay with you for long, drowning in endless work, you're always protected. Fatuus won't dare to disobey Tsaritsa's right-hand man (bc if they do there's a certain doctor or marionette waiting for them..)
Sadly, because of their father's status, child is feared as well. Most likely they grow to be very lonely, only really interacting with some harbingers and maybe Childe's family as well, because he felt bad for them and asked Pierro's permission to let them meet his family. Your father won't show it, but he's oh so happy when you return and tell him about how nice Childe's relatives were !! And you even made friends !!
As busy as he is, Pierro tries to make time for his child. He plays chess with you and no, he doesn't lose on purpose, what makes you think that? He also reads bedtime stories for you (either if you can stay awake until he return home or you come to his office specifically with this request). He has low and raspy voice, so you fall asleep quickly. Pierro will never forget how he was reading a silly fairy tale and a fatui soldier came with report, but he didn't notice them.. Talk about awkward
Speaking of awkward situations, very rarely you can end up on harbingers' meeting, when you fall asleep in Pierro's office and he doesn't want to leave you or you came to him before meeting and refused to leave, of course promising to stay quiet (well, these adults speak of lots weird and boring stuff, according to you, so you probably fall asleep rather quickly) or something else.. Harbingers are like ?? 🤔🤨😳?? the first few times, but then they get used to it
Another random thought, but imagine smol child hiding in their father's coat. Considering how lonely they grew up, they're probably shy as well. Or they just want to warm up, because it's too cold in Snezhnaya. Then, someone makes c/n a mini version of harbinger coat..
When it comes to studying, Pierro is demanding, but not to the point of making you know everything perfectly by studying endlessly. Child ends up very knowledgeable
Pierro genuinely tries his best at fatherhood. He can come across as cold, overly busy or too demanding and to some extent it's true. However if he was a father, he'd always manage to give you all the love and time that's left in his frozen soul </3
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WE ARE READING DAD PIERRO FLUFF TODAY PART 2 😤😤❤️ What if i gave you a little kith for providing me with this lovely fluff 🥀 anon?? 🥰
Only the most qualified and strongest agents are asked to guard you, it's one of the greatest missions and honors you could be granted as a Fatuus (which is kind of funny 😭) Some of them are just confused about why they're asked to protect a mere kid but once they hear it's Pierro's kid, they're like 😨 oh! So at this point even your own protectors are scared of talking to you in fear of upsetting you, and it's very hard for a Harbinger's child to make friends in general... :( there aren't much people your age in the palace too... but of course big bro Childe saves you! The ginger has seen you around only a few times, but he can't help but feel bad. A little kid who already looks so lost and lonely, it makes him sad :( If he has to set up some playdates with you and his younger siblings, then so be it! After that, Pierro genuinely thanks Childe, because social interaction is very important for growing kids... and he loathes that he can't provide it himself.
Poor reader, they're never gonna beat their dad at chess 😭 As soon as you think you got one of his strategies figured out, he's already on to another one! I imagine you got grumpy left quite a few times 😭 Ouhhh the bedtime stories... 🥺 you come to his office with a book in hand with the biggest puppy eyes and he can't help but give in! Reader infiltrating the meetings real 😭 You wanted to learn more about your dad's work too but then it got so boring... how can he listen to these people drone on for so long?! The Harbingers don't say anything but just give Pierro a knowing look.
YES. Reader literally just pops out of Pierro's coat out of nowhere and people usually get hella spooked. And when they try to speak to you, you just slip right back into the shadows. You love your tiny coat so much, because it makes you look like your dad :3 Pierro may not be the best dad, but he's certainly not the worst... he will put in as much effort as he can and that's what counts.
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hellsite-detective · 3 months
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*sighs in relief* (anon looking for the red blog with a blue eye pfp)
My most notable post, and the one this blog reblogged multiple times that brought our paths across each other, was a "do you love the color of the sky" post, but I made it extra long. Like, several times as long as the original. It was evil, I know. It was for April Fools. The blog I'm looking for reblogged it from me en masses, a good 20-40 times in a row. That's what made me take notice of them. Most of the time I just reblogged posts, but that one was a special occasion. I also had a bunch of back and forth posts with a different mutual, tagged #homeskillet, which might be unique enough to be of use? Oh, and one of my most popular posts was a Awsten from the band Waterparks that I edited to have transparent hair so it would change color with your blog theme (made that for a friend). Maybe that would help? The blog I'm looking for never reblogged that post, but it still might be worth something?
My old blog used to be ftinally (currently on anon because my new url is extremely similar, but I've had too many bad experiences with sending asks off anon and then getting a bunch of hateful asks in response that I'm wary of attaching my url to asks).
The title of my blog was "don't write yourself off yet", like the Jimmy Eat World song. It was only deleted around September/October, so the trail isn't too cold yet. Hopefully some of that information is useful? Thank you so much for looking into this!
finally... a lead. first thing was first, i saw the mention of "do you love the color of the sky" and jumped for joy. see, i'm very close with Madame Curator, @hellsite-hall-of-fame. and dare i say she is the Queen of the Sky. i went to her and asked for any extra long color of the sky posts, to which she sent me two different variants. however, neither of these were gettin' me where i needed to go. luckily, i was provided a blog name i could track! doin' quite a bit of diggin' i managed to stumble across the aformentioned Awsten post. now, i know that i was told that the missing person hadn't reblogged this one, but at least i could confirm this was what i was lookin' for.
so, i went down to my ol' pal, Google, to see if they knew anything about "tumblr ftinally." and they handed me a whole laundry list of links. it was time to meticulously check every single one of these. i was hopin' to stumble across the color of the sky image that my client had mentioned. unfortunately, i wasn't findin' the color of the sky post. however, i went back to the Awsten post and thought i might be able to use that as a lead. problem was, that wasn't gonna do me much good. usin' the Wayback Machine and searchin' for the blog's address also wasn't doin' me much good, and i was gettin' worried this was gonna be a dead end.
i hate to do this again, but is it possible you have any defining characteristics of that color of the sky post you made? any accompanying text, tags you may have used, or even original image files and could reverse image search? and of course, feel free to message me this information in private if it's too personal to share in an ask, or not mention it at all if you're not comfortable!
additionally, when you say "red blog" do you mean the blog had a red theme, or the blue eye was on a red background in the actual image? that also may help to narrow the search!
i will not give up on you, anon. i will find your mutual if it's the last thing i do!
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basementstalker · 5 months
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Shackling type
SUBTYPE: Easily jealous
Variant:- (reminds me of monopoly yandere type)
It is rare for a yandere to be okay with their love interest to be around other people than not, so this is an very common variant. There are differences in whether or not the yandere shows it or not, but they are mostly easily jealous. It may be impossible to talk things out with yanderes whose feelings surpass jealousy, so they are more dangerous than most. The extent of their jealousy decides whether or not they are emotionally ill or a healthy person. If you notice them act slightly abnormal when you meet their gaze, or see them feeling annoyed when they’re alone doing nothing, that is when they are first recognised as having something off about them. Note: Jealousy does not affect sociopaths and those who have emotional abnormalities. The Love is Blind variant of the Intoxicated type does not “see” anyone other than their love interest in its truest meaning, so they may not care about the existence of other people. They either look down overwhelmingly upon others or don’t even notice them, so most of the time something is obviously off about them.
SUBTYPE:Self imposing
Variant: Dependency (reminds me of manipulative yandere type, loneliness induction yandere type)
Yanderes of this variant bear a close resemblence to the YES meme1 that went viral for a short period of time. As this variant takes care of the love interest in everything, they seem like the Self-Sacrificing subtype at first glance. However, because their goal is to make the love interest dependent on them they are this variant. They are extremely calculative, and their self-sacrificing trait differentiates them from the Controlling subtype. By the time the love interest notices anything the love interest will have become (mutually) dependent. The likelihood the love interest is the one who becomes useless without the yandere is overwhelmingly higher than the reverse. There are rarely any male characters who will fall under this variant. However characters such as the first-born son who has sibling(s) much younger, or mother-figures who make meets end financially for the family are attentive characters who are highly able to earn a living. These traits make it comparatively easy for them to fit into this variant.
Variant: Contact
Being with the love interest is the goal of yandere of this variant and is not affected by their ability to support themselves. There are some who may end up in the love interest's care so making their way into the love interest's life is the kind of contact they make and end up becoming financially dependent on the love interest. However, for this to work out the love interest must have some affection for the yandere so there must be something about them that the love interest is attracted to. At the core of this variant are the traits of the Shackling type, so if the yandere discovers any factors of unease in their shared life with the love interest, they’ll often show their jealous nature. It is easier for those of the ‘useless man’ or ‘younger man’ types that tickle the love interest's maternal instincts to develop into this variant.
SUBTYPE: Overprotective
Variant: Doll (reminds me of protective yandere type, loneliness induction yandere type)
Having the love interest under their surveillance is the major prerequisite for this variant. They are also doting. These yandere do not wish for the love interest to be independent. As long as the the love interest is within their monitoring range, the yandere will spoil them. However, they will not allow the love interest to do as they please at all. Compared to the Glassware variant, the Doll variant is undeniably more self-centered and rather aggressive, but they are also highly sensitive to maliious and aggressive intent from others. They can be considered a ‘360 degree security protection’ type, one that even the love interest finds a nuisance.
Variant: Glassware (reminds me of protective yandere type)
The love interest is so dear to the yandere of this variant that they are afraid of losing them more than anything. They have similarities to the Deprived subtype but don’t cling nor are they determined to get the love interest back after losing them. This type is simply extremely fearful and is timid in their approach to the love interest, which is a characteristic of this variant. As the traits of the Shackling type are at core of this variant, they want to safeguard the love interest extremely carefully. They are compatible with the Worshipping variant and sometimes the two may be combined in one person.
SUBTYPE: Easily lonely
Variant: - (reminds me of dependent yandere type)
This variant is afraid of being alone above all else. They tend to be self-preserving most of the time, and love themselves and the love interest. They don’t want to be alone so shackling the love interest to them becomes their aim. Unlike the Overprotective subtype, if the Easily Lonely subtype is betrayed their nature makes it easy for them to shift into the Love-Hate subtype. They have more in common with characters who are categorised as lunatics than not.
SUBTYPE: Matching
Variant: -
Psychological identification is the ultimate aim of yandere of this subtype. Everything needs to be matching or the same. This is the secret to keeping them emotionally calm. They are more common when the yandere and the love interest are of the same sex. If the yandere choses to match with the the love interest, they fall under one of the Intoxicated variants. If they force the love interest to match with them, they fall under this variant. By matching in appearance, their aim is to keep those around the love interest in check, create a world no one else can enter freely in order to shackle the love interest to them. The yandere is scared and will hate that they might wear or have something that doesn’t match what the yandere does, or show interest in different things. They won’t allow even the slightest difference.
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