#unless something changes and i want to do something Else but its been a goal for many years already

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

sometimes i like to imagine a future where i write that (y/a or adult targeted) dragon book series i desperately want to, but i know that i wouldn't be able to do it without including art in the book. every time a new important character is introduced the next page would have to be a reference / art of them to Show What They Look Like

#i dont think id be able to handle like. publishing or whatever Without that #maybe that stems from my control issues maybe im just an artist at heart #but i would also need there to be a glossary and a detailed map and maybe footnotes or a basic bestiary- #but then sometimes i wonder if i'd want it to be like... a comic instead #manga style in a way??? i wouldnt color it. it'd be in b&w with only the occasional colored spread or somethin #but all of that If Possible or plausible is a very long way off which is okay its okay #ill get there ill get there #unless something changes and i want to do something Else but its been a goal for many years already #its only recently that ive buckled down on the worldbuilding and character crafting and genuinely considering the plot and themes #its a hot mess! but theres something in there! im determined to find it #its definitely a couple years yet of changing things and switchin stuff around and Thinking.... #who knows if ill ever get there! i hope i will! #but yeah it'd be a book with a bunch of art shoved in it httyd style (kinda) #bc if im gonna Make something im gonna combine my favorite hobbies as best i can #absolutely unprompted #its an exciting but daunting prospect. writing an actual Thing #mostly the plot part of it #i can craft characters i can do worldbuilding #but the plot? oof #there's this other one ive been working on since 8th grade #and its still... barely anything lmao #its for my favorite personal characters - my very first real oc my special boy light of my life but Man. #plot has hands!!! #and then ofc there's my beloved idiot squad... i want to do something for them some day maybe.... #so many ambitions so little energy... i will strive to make future me healthy enough to achieve Something we so desperately want!

[veetowervaporwave]

Man I am so vanilla when it comes to ships in Hazbin...

Staticmoth: The epitome of toxic old men yaoi. They're just the worst. They push each other's buttons. They both have obsessions on the side but both want to be each other's center of attention. Other people's suffering gets them horny. They got married three times and divorced five times. They know exactly how horrible the other one is but it only makes them more attracted to each other. They're so toxic it's a health hazard for everyone around them. I wish nothing more than for them to die horribly while holding hands.

Chaggie: I've been shipping them since the pilot and I'll be real they were everything I wanted and even more. I always knew that their relationship would be mostly background stuff since they're an established couple, and I was excited to have something where the main character is in a stable and affectionate relationship. I didn't expect them to get a whole little storyarc with the whole angel drama... I'm just. So happy. Seeing them, knowing how much they supported each other over the years when they had no one else on their side, openly working out their issues... They're just everything that's good in the world.

Huskerdust: I feel about it a bit more differently compared to the previous two. I'm happy to see them just do whatever, but Huskerdust stands out because its development is kind of... part of the plot of the show, rather than just being an extra layer to their characters. I'm not even interested in fanfiction for them because I'm too excited to see how it progresses in the actual show.

Radiorose: QPR goals. Alastor having someone he's so comfortable with honestly elevated his character for me. I don't have a lot to say but I enjoy seeing them together immensely.

Appledust: guilty pleasure comfort ship, refer to this post for more context.

Ships I like less under the cut, I try not to be too mean but still, be careful.

Radiostatic (Or, I guess, Onewaybroadcast, rather): I like it a lot but only when it caters to my superspecific tastes. First of all it needs to be one-sided. The second Alastor reciprocates I'm like *Lucifer voice* "Who is this? Who is this man?" Second of all the "hate" part of the "hateboner" is essential (unless we're talking before their falling out). Vox both wants Alastor and wants him dead. It's been swirling inside him for years and had poisoned whatever relationship they had beforehand. There's no turning back from this.

RoyalHalo: I don't know how to explain it, but when I personally ship something "platonically", it's different from just regular shipping and different from having a brotp. Nothing much to say on the ship itself, they're cute.

Cherrisnake: I wish I could like it more but "Meh" is right. I think it has potential, unfortunately 8 episodes a season didn't allow it to develop. I wish we could have had Cherri before ep6 to establish her relationships with Angel and Pentious and I wish they had at least one genuine conversation before the end of the season.

Alastor x Charlie & Alastor x Angel: actually it's not about the ships themselves, just some bad experiences in the early fandom. Ik not all the shippers are like that, especially now when those ships are less popular and a lot of people are vocal about not liking them, but unfortunately I don't think I'll ever be able to enjoy them.

Lute x Vaggie: Nothing to say I just don't like it.

Val x Angel: I put a black line because my knee jerk reflex was to think of people like. Ignoring the abuse, but thinking about it, I do enjoy the exploration of their relationship if it's in-character. It's just not something I personally would consider "shipping". (But then what makes it different from onewaybroadcast? Guess I'm just a hypocrite or something)

"Found family" is a term that's used very differently by different people in the fandom, which is a little confusing to me, so I changed this category to "maybe".

Alastor x Husk: Much like the previous one, except I trust people with it even less after all the victimblaming Husk got after ep5.

Velvette x Vox and/or Velvette x Valentino: I don't ship those personally just for the reason that Vel genuinely seems uninterested, but I support the people who do. Especially the polyvees shipping. There's also additional element to this for me personally is that if Val and Vox were an item, there's a fear that Vel would come off as a third wheel or be pushed to the side, and if they were all together this wouldn't happen. So I have no choice but to support, even if I myself can't get into it.

Guitarspear: Lute ripping off her arm to go help Adam... The last thing Adam does before death is smile at her... God. They were also very fun hypemen for each other during songs, and just the general dynamic was really funny. I would say I like this ship when I see it, but I won't go out of my way to look for it?

Carmilla x Zestial: They're friends... The fanart is nice to look at. It's fine.

Radioapple: I'm conflicted. I guess I am kinda interested in what their relationship would be like in the show, but in fanworks I mostly enjoy the "they aren't actually attracted to each other but everyone thinks they are" dynamic. It's funny.

Pentious x Emily: Ok, one (1) crackship. My friend ships them and I kinda see the vision? Could be cute.

#.ramblings #idk how to best tag it... i guess I'll tag the ships I put above the cut lol #hazbin hotel #staticmoth #chaggie #huskerdust #radiorose #appledust

[stateswscarlet]

hi this is the 3p person. how do i stop feeling like im doing this to change the 3D? can i acknowledge that it will change the 3D? im just confused. this manifested really fast but ive fulfilled myself with the state of being with him a bunch so why didnt that reflect like this? idk. im just scared im gonna imagine and enjoy it and nothing will reflect. i was thinking of getting coaching with you because idk what to do anymore. i hate my 3D. i just miss sp.

you need to give up on the 3D fully. you need to accept and acknowledge you (all of us) CANNOT change the 3D, we do not have the free will to do that as our free will ends in imagination. you must really sit with this and decide if you'd rather be trying to chase a shadow world and be frustrated, or would you rather 100% enjoy your imagination and feel good and be stressfree? hopefully the latter. we don't do anything to change the 3D as imagination and who were are is CONSTANTLY reflected, even before you knew about this stuff. we cant make it or un-make it reflect as creation is finished hence why we shift states. knowing the 3D changes is very different than chasing it and doing things for the 3D. the 3D will never fulfill you, only YOU choose how things fulfill you or if they even do at all. you need to understand you only want the feeling, not the actual; physical desire.

its like your shadow, do you only walk and move just so your shadow moves? or do you move because you want to? your 3d is the same, you're not constantly thinking of your shadow when you're doing things because the LAW is that its always there anyways. the law shouldn't be a comfort factor for you because it just is.

as i said in the previous ask about your situation. I'm pretty sure you haven't been fulfilling yourself as much as you think you were, and you were fulfilling yourself for stuff that wasn't even your end goal.

youre relying too much on the 3D and seeing this as smth you have to do to get them back and that is exactly where you're going wrong, you need to give up on changing the 3D completely, as edward art says you need to imagine as if there was no outer world bc the outer world has never fulfilled you and never will.

i get missing sp and those feelings are valid, but you need to realize that your life isn't going to end if you're not with them. manifesting an sp shouldn't be something you need, its something you CAN have and definitely shouldn't be approached from a desperate/needy mindset because that will lead to codependent (not saying you are like this but I'm putting it out there in case there are others). please stop revolving your life around an sp and put your crown back on. YOU made sp special, YOU are the secret sauce, they're just some random who YOU decided means something. you need to realize that (manifestation stuff aside) you will 10000% will ok if you don't be with them because you're more than content on your own and can date anyone else. i say this with love but as someone who was in your shoes and knows how it feels, you will only be running in circles if you don't approach this from a healthier mindset. work on your self concept (don't tie it to manifesting ur sp at all) and LIVE your life, do things that you enjoy, have fun/date around with other people (if you have the chance to bc remember that you're not pretending, you are single in the 3D), and stop trying to get back someone. give yourself the feelings of your dream relationship first and how it makes YOU feel, then add sp into the equation. you don't want them back, you want a fulfilling relationship. how would you feel if they came back tomorrow yet the same issues happened as they did back when you were together before/theyre just not good/the relationship sucks? that isn't what you want, you want the fulfilling relationship so focus on aspects about that and give those to yourself. you don't want their physical body back bc it means nothing to you unless you get the feelings you desire.

[peachyloveswriting]

Can a get headcanons for konig, ghost, and soap for a reader who got her period and needs cuddles

DOMESTIC FLUFF --- könig, Ghost, and Soap

SUMMARY: Fem! Reader gets comforted by the military boys while on her period. :)

NOTES: I'm also up for writing one shots for these guys so request those too please.

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KÖNIG

-> könig is a man of his word, so whether it be on base or at home he's always willing to be right by your side when you need him and when he promises. This includes when it's that time of month and you want comfort. If he knows he's can't be there for you he'll leave something for you to have from him.

-> Asking him for anything will always be a yes. You ask for one of his shirts because it smells like him and you need comfort, he'll give it to you without questions. He'll buy pads for you even if it makes him really nervous. Pain meds aren't even in the question because he already has them for when you get cramps. He's prepared and always willing to do anything for you.

-> He always knows when it's close to that time because the week before you'll start doubting yourself and getting frustrated easily. No need to worry though, as he's always here to reassure you. He knows that PMS sucks and that it's just your hormones being all wack so anything mean you say to him is immediately excused. If someone else doesn't know this and they get mad at you or decide to start a fight he'll immediately step in. In public he normally doesn't have to do this because he's an absolute giant that lurks behind you all the time, who would want to mess with him. On base however, he'll step in physically and pull the person aside to explain that it's not your fault, usually they walk away annoyed in most cases.

-> He's very understanding about the pain you're in before and during your period. He understands that your boobs will be sore and your back will begin to hurt like hell. He'll crack your back for you if it's bad enough and he'll get you out of work if he really has too. But when someone pokes fun at you for being on your period or states that 'its not that bad' it's not going to end well. König would rather talk it out but these kinds of people don't change so it ends with someone leaving with a broken nose and a mental note to not disrespect you again.

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GHOST

-> Ghost, bless his heart, has never been good with this kind of thing or just women in general. However he does his best to make sure you're okay and have what you need. He'll ask if you'd like him to get you anything and whatever it is that you want is in your hands within the hour and that's a guarantee. At this rate his main goal is to make sure you're comfortable.

-> This poor man has a hard time telling when you're beginning to PMS, he'll just assume you're being an asshole to be an asshole and sometimes this sparks an argument which can lead to you crying. This man never fails to make this happen but when it does he's relentless in his journey to make you feel better. At this point he'll give you two of his shirts or jackets during the time you usually start.

-> Even though he doesn't like talking outwardly about periods he'll still buy you the supplies you need like pads and whatnot. Unlike König, when people start questioning why you're so bitchy Ghost will just simply state the word period and it gets left at that. But the moment someone makes it an issue he'll very calmly threaten them life and limb, this is no exaggeration either, I do literally mean calmly. That's normally when he's in public though, on base he's ready to jack people up by their throats if he has to.

-> Ghost knows that your emotions are hard to control during your period so he's okay with you being mad at him during this time unless he doesn't know beforehand then it's a fight all over again. However, the moment someone steps out of line is the moment that someone tells you to grow a pair or to get over it. Then he's fucking furious. It's a natural occurrence that you can't control so he just becomes so utterly enraged, if you ever wanted to test his strength this is how you fing out. Not even Soap or König can hold him back now.

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SOAP

-> John's already a very caring man when it comes to you but when you add your period into the mix he's like a sweet little angel. He'll buy you gifts, give you massages, and let you borrow any one his clothes. He understands that it can be rough sometimes so he's just trying to make sure you feels your most possible best at any given moment.

-> Being a confident man he has no issues buying you pads whenever you need them, even at base. After your first period with him around he always kept Motrin in hand just in case. And he doesn't mind the PMS, it's a natural part of the female reproductive system and he's wants to make sure that no matter what, the situation is the best outcome for you and whatever you're going through. He's great at comfort, so your random burst of anger and sadness go over like butter. He knows just the right things to say that make you melt in his arms.

-> He finds no shame in you wanting discrepancy about it and if you don't care he just wants to be sure that others knowing doesn't bother you. Regardless, if the situation calls for it, he'll say something. If someone claims that you've been acting out of line or being a wuss he's calm enough to explain the situation to them once but no more than once, if it happens again he's threatening people left and right public or not. And don't let this man find out who told you that periods where for weak minded people becauses he's going to commit murder and be kicked out of the military. He doesn't care what anyone has to say, the moment they disrespect you is the moment they're dead.

-> Asking Soap for favors during this time isn't an issue. He's always willing to do what you need for anything. On the base he's okay with telling off Price because of your needs or wants, he doesn't care just so long as you're happy. This includes when someone makes a comment about him making it a big deal, doesn't matter if it's Ghost he'll rip them apart just using his words. It's all simply because it is a big deal to him. He cares.

#simon ghost riley x reader #ghost x you #simon riley x reader #john mactavish x reader #john soap mactavish x reader #soap x reader #könig x reader

[20001541]

there was a time where I got into an argument with someone who believed the purpose of chapter 407 was to show that AFO was born evil and though the circumstances in his childhood were tragic he still was a lost cause from the very beginning. they believed that he was shown to us as an example of someone who is too far gone to be saved. and why did they think that? they told me it's because the story has not taken any measures to reach out to him as with the other villains.

and it is interesting isn't it? afo has one of the most horrifying and tragic backstory in the manga and yet we do not see anyone making an effort to try to understand him. he is only seen as a threat to be eliminated.

and while I wouldn't mind this sort of attitude if it were in any other series, bnha has shown us multiple times of heroes reaching out to those who got left behind by society and took their wrath out on everyone as a result. so the fact that afo who was screwed over by life from the very moment he was born does not seem to get this same grace extended to him sticks out to me. it is one thing to dismiss him as being too evil, but if you're going to show me in explicit detail about all the tragic events that were out of his control that happened to him as a child then I would expect there for more to be done with that.

now you could make the argument that afo could've been saved as a child but now it is too late to change his mind. I would've agreed with that if it were not for the fact that we are shown his own humanity throughout the story. we know he feels some guilt when faced with the vestiges of the peoples whose quirks he stole in his sleep and he's able to feel fear as he had nightmares about his first fight with all might. his own main goal is to have the worlds eyes upon him because he wants to be noticed after a lifetime of being ignored. however, the biggest display of his humanity is shown to us through his feelings towards yoichi.

some of the most genuine displays of emotions we see from him are because of yoichi. yoichi is someone who had been with him from the womb and he is someone he cares about more than anyone else.

he has spent the last century chasing ofa not because of its power but because it has one of the last pieces left of his brother after he died. we're even shown how he kept yoichi's severed hand, it's a raw display of sentimentality and regret over what he did to his brother.

and while he claims yoichi isn't the final goal, only the midterm goal, one shouldn't underestimate yoichi's importance to him as we see him chase after him even when it would've been more beneficial to just let him go. he had two chances to end the ofa line for good before it became too powerful as we see with banjo and en, and yet he didn't take it because he couldn't bear to let go of yoichi. and let no one forget his line "yoichi without you, it's all for naught" from chapter 410.

so why am I saying all of this?

honestly, I'm hoping for a different ending for afo that's not him being defeated and humiliated once more.

I'm not trying to justify anything he has done nor am I an afo apologist, but if other villains could get the chance to have a hand reached out towards them then why can't afo? why else would you show me how terrible his childhood is and the displays of humanity within him unless you're trying to show us he isn't a complete lost cause?

we saw how izuku was willing to listen to muscular as to why he was doing all this, but muscular didn't care to speak so they fought instead. there was no backstory nor any attempt to show muscular as something other than a bloodthirsty killer.

why not have the same treatment with afo if your main point is to show he is a lost cause? yes afo doesn't deserve any grace or kindness towards himself, but isn't being a hero reaching out to other even when they don't deserve it? certainly none of the other villains being reached out towards didn't deserve it after all they've done. so maybe just maybe I am hoping for a kinder ending for vestige afo. an ending that will put to rest all the "he was born evil and is a lost cause" arguments and shows us the who he really is underneath the mask he has worn for all these years.

my biggest hope here is that yoichi's vestige isn't gone permanently, but it still exists. how will he come back and how did he survive the whole being smashed against tomura? I have no idea. as I said its just a hope. but if there is anyone who could reach out to afo as of now and have the moment be impactful it would be yoichi.

there's a lot of bad blood between them and yoichi did give up on afo when they were alive, but considering how depressed afo is now that he thinks yoichi is gone forever and that he doesn't see the point of ruling a world without the one person he wanted by his side the most and how yoichi took no joy in seeing him being beaten earlier there's a chance a final reunion between them could happen.

afo built too much of his image being the evil villain that he doesn't know what else to do, which is why he's still trying to conquer the world even though he feels its meaningless now without yoichi. I think this all leaves afo in a very vulnerable position emotionally right now.

yes the heroes will defeat and his vestige will fade away forever, but I'm hoping for yoichi to be there with him at the very end and they decide to put everything behind them and fade away forever together. maybe we will also get to learn his true name through yoichi and see his humanity fully out on display. no more struggling between them, but just them being brothers once more right before the end.

#let a41 get some proper character resolution before putting him away for good please #we already had him experiencing a humiliating death now I'm hoping for a more bittersweet end for him #it's an unpopular opinion but it's just how I feel

[natsmagi]

tbh you should just sexualize your fem Tsumugi more. I'm talking full on fetish hentai style. Put her in the open boob sweater. Have her accidentally flash while leaning fowards. Have her slip and show pantsu. Full kink with no breaks. Please shut these anons up. People trying to police your creativity like it has some sort of reflection on your morals or beliefs. I also wish you would stop answering them? or at least tagging it as anon hate because it's so sad to keep seeing people be so mean to you over and over when most of us just want to enjoy your big brain takes and drawings. Maybe I'm getting parasocial bc I get so sad seeing people hate on your Tsumugi I love her she's just like me fr!!! All that matters is that you enjoy how you draw her and I hope you don't feel pressured to change your headcanons.

HWEISUHRUHKDHG I SHOULDDDDDDDDD I SHOULD UR RIGHT ive been too prudish as of late. need to be insane again. Tbh ive made some art that was made purely bc i am a freak and insane but i feel like its never the art people would expect it to be. And thats really funny to me. like my more explicit stuff is just drawn for fun But if uve ever looked at a drawing of mine and gone "this seems kind of freakish conceptually even though the execution isnt super weird" Well thats probably bc it actually is freakish. sorry. My suggestive art is usually just for the vibes tho i DID also like. yesterday?? discover a twt acc that will sometimes post various lingerie fits SO!! MAYBE ILL DRAW SOME SOON 💪💪

AND AUGHHH I KNOWWWW in the beginning i thought itd be worth replying to people bc i was like "well this is all kind of niche. im sure they have good intentions so we might aswell talk it out" But as things progress its been made clear thats doing me or anyone else no favors. i love having discussions, so i reply to most of my asks! but i do hope that ive made myself clear enough and that we can all just continue doing our own things im sorry to hear its made you sad though!!!!! rest assured its not something that demotivates me, nor is it something that makes me feel i need to change how i draw. i do what i do because i enjoy it! and i know others enjoy it too! i will never be able to appeal to everyone, and that has never been my goal. i like having fun with others though, which is why i enjoy hearing why others might think differently than me!

but yes! i already feel ive said my piece on the whole discourse thing by now and i hate walking in circles, so even if i get negative asks about it i likely wont answer unless i feel its warranted. but! if that does happen, ill be sure to tag it! you can mute "#discourse tag" ahead of time incase i ever end up using it

#btw about the lingerie thing one thing ive thought about doing is like #lingerie designs of some of their idol outfits #just bc i think that would be SO pretty #but i havent done it yet bc.............. designing lingerie seems hard KUASHDFKAHSDKJGHJK #BUT AUGHHHHHH I SHOULDDDDDDDD that would be so fun......... #and also a challenge for me #ask

[deadbeatbirdmom]

Personally I don’t expect team rwby to solve all bigotry, but I’d like to see them make any sort of attempt to at least begin to change something? Even relatively small scale?

The SDC seemed like the perfect opportunity but nope,

And maybe don’t kill,of characters like sienna and have characters like Robyn hill who are actively trying to combat class inequality get competed into fighting Salem instead

Movies like nimona manage it I don’t see why rwby can’t

This is the last time I'll be answering an ask to do with these issues in RWBY. I don't feel that there's a satisfactory answer, and certainly not one that I can provide. I've mentioned something along those lines before, but I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt that you're not the same anon and didn't see my posted answer.

I recently reblogged a post about these issues, but that doesn't mean my answer has changed. That post basically said there is no simple fix, and that means it isn't possible to do in RWBY, unless it was a fictional fix that wouldn't work in reality, which would be disrespectful.

I'm not sure what you expect four teenagers to be able to do, even small scale. They're good at fighting Grimm, but that doesn't mean anyone's going to pay attention to them about anything else.

Ruby's lucky at least some people listened to her broadcast about Salem, but that's connected with Grimm.

Weiss was the SDC heiress but ended up having that taken away before she could do anything good with it, and actually doing anything would have had to wait until her father was no longer in control.

Blake persuaded Menagerie's faunus to form a militia and help save Haven from Adam's corrupted White Fang, but that took a serendipitous attack on her parents and their house partly burning down. She can't command that militia to do anything else.

Yang would struggle to persuade anyone to do anything. The last time Remnant at large saw her was during the Vytal tournament broadcast, apparently breaking Mercury's leg unprovoked. The CCT is still down, so chances are most people have no idea she was set up. I dunno, maybe she could intimidate some sense into people?

I'm not sure when team RWBY would have had time to do anything while in Atlas. Ironwood kept them busy. Were they supposed to take down or reform the SDC with the one night off they had? If they'd tried they might well have found themselves arrested, the SDC and its Dust is rather important to the Atlas military. And then where would they be with their goal of getting the second Relic from the Atlas vault?

As for after things fell apart with Ironwood... As important as these issues are, avoiding arrest and doing their part to help get word out about Salem, or helping Mantle and then rescuing Oscar had priority.

It's not the reason they've done it, they just happened to fall in love, but I guess it could be argued that Blake and Yang's romance is some sort of proof that faunus and humans are equal.

After Salem is eventually somehow defeated, I can imagine at least Blake working with or even leading the reformed White Fang and campaigning for faunus rights. I'm sure the rest of her team would help her if there's anything they can do.

But survival against Salem has to come first. So a huntress like Robyn Hill doesn't really have any choice. There won't be any world to improve if Salem isn't stopped.

As for Sienna, take that up with Adam. I'd much rather she hadn't been killed off too, but there was no other way that was going to end between them.

That's the best I can do, anon. I'm well aware it's not a great answer. I can't provide one. I don't think there is one.

I haven't seen Nimona, I don't have a Netflix subscription. Maybe I'll watch it the next time I want to rewatch She-Ra. I've read the Nimona graphic novel years ago, but I don't remember bigotry being solved in there. Unless you meant an attempt being made? I need to reread it.

Edit: this got long and I forgot about a read more cut until now. Apologies!

#Ask #Anonymous #RWBY #team RWBY #RWBY speculation #Bumbleby #mentioned Bumbleby anyway #faunus rights #ensemble RWBY

[alstroemerian-dragon]

theres something that really bothers me about the way a lot of people talk about and write peko re: her place as fuyuhiko’s “tool,” especially when it comes to like. despair. and i feel like it stems from a few different places and one of those is definitely uh. distance from the source material. because. w. did we play the same game

like. the second trial is a lot of things. annoying. about the death of a character i dont really care about. kind of confusing. Very Sad At The End. but the one thing it shows beyond any shadow of a doubt is that peko Does Not Want To Be Fuyuhiko’s Tool. she leans into it a lot in that trial, past the stupid. serial killer shit. which is literally just desperation and quick thinking on her part (and non diagetically meant to parallel the first game but whatever). but she does that because it is the only option she thinks she has if she wants to keep fuyuhiko alive. because thats her ultimate goal, right? sure, she’s his tool. sure, theyre Badly and Unhealthily codependent. sure, she was basically groomed to stay at his side no matter what. but…

she also cares about him. genuinely. she loves him. for all that teenagers can properly conceive of love in all its forms, but she at least think she does. but she does truly care about him.

did anybody do her free time events other than me? genuine question. because i dont think someone who wants to ask the guy shes sworn to protect on a date would be content being just his tool. that sure sounds like someone who wants to be on equal footing with him.

like. look. say what you want about the anime. take it with a grain of salt. cherry pick what you like and toss the rest of it out. that sure is what i do!! but even if you do that, youve got to take the text of the game itself into account if you want to have any semblance of regular characterization, and the game makes it clear that she hates this!!! she doesnt want to be his tool! she will fight him on things if she has to! she will disobey him if she has to!!! thats the whole point of the trial!!!!! he told her to run and that he would take the fall and she told him no!!!!!!!!!

and you cant ignore the fact that the time between them starting at hope’s peak and the tragedy hitting the ground running was two whole years. people can change a lot in two years, especially teenagers, and especially high schoolers. idk how long its been since you were in high school (unless you currently are in which case. dear gd im so sorry. good luck) but your mental state in high school is so fucked. you have no idea who you are and neither does anybody else and can you even imagine the kinds of pressure the ultimates would have been under?? again, taking the anime with a grain of salt, but even if you go along with it and think the school was barely a school at all, the pressure from society, from family, from peers still has an impact. everyone was telling them who they were and that thats who they were going to be for the rest of their lives and i doubt ANY of them felt like it.

and even if you subscribe to the idea, like me, that their second year was a downward spiral because of junko’s presence and influence, they still needed somewhere to fall from. the idea that peko was uniquely comfortable being quiet and violent and doing whatever fuyuhiko wanted so she didnt need despair to be his tool is ridiculous. i see the argument of “well watching her friends fall into despair and spiral made her spiral in turn and grow numb to it and retreat into herself until she needed to become fuyuhiko’s tool again as a coping mechanism” but. buddy. That Is Despair.

sometimes i feel like the only person who thinks about despair complexly and maybe thats its own post because this ones too long already but. despair isnt just Being Brainwashed Into A Monster. ignore what the writers told you. okay? look at me. Look Into My Eyes. The Writers Are Fucking Idiots And Dont Know How To Write Good Drama With Genuine Stakes. despair as a nuanced concept is so much more horrifying. different post. sorry. peko.

if peko had not been pulled down by despair just like the rest of them she would have fought tooth and nail to keep fuyuhiko above it. she would have demanded he explain to her why he was doing what he was doing. and she would have told him no.

and of course heres where i get into the accusatory part because the other place a lot of this comes from is, and im sorry, an unwillingness to write complex or nuanced women. not pointing fingers, but reducing peko down into “fuyuhiko’s tool” and “she does whatever he says without question” completely destroys any minuscule amount of agency she has. shes a fucking person. yes, shes pixels on a screen. yes, shes a representation of tropes. but diagetically, within the fiction of the game, she is a human being, and if you want to write her, and not be puppeting around a gddamn cardboard cutout, you have to think of her as a person with agency who makes her own fucking choices. sometimes those choices are taken away from her. but they shouldnt be taken away by you.

#personal #long post #peko pekoyama #danganronpa #meta #okay thats it #sorry this is so fucking long. was thinking about this for the past hour and a half #AGAIN. NOT POINTING FINGERS. NOT STARTING SHIT. IM JUST SAYIN. #1) revisit the source material 2) think about women as people… #thats all i’ll say. the post about despair as a concept will have to wait for another day #i will talk about metal gear solid in it. im sorry. #okay gnight

[bramble-scramble]

do… do you have any phandrow headcanons that you HAVENT shared….? i am now very hyperfixated on the ship and your writings for it..

Oh yes!! My mind has been especially busy lately, as you might imagine!!

Here's something I've been thinking about which isn't necessarily Phandrow specific, but... well, we know Phantom can take his gramophone out. When it's inside him I think it works automatically, but when it's removed, it can still play and amplify his voice but it needs to be operated manually. You probably see where I'm going with this.

Phantom would allow no one to touch it, not even lovers, unless it was someone extra special to him. To date that has only been Bea and Woodrow. And after Bea got her revenge with her stinger at the Galactovision contest, he was ESPECIALLY wary and guarded with his next lover(s) until he met Woodrow.

I wrote in OVAC how he let Woodrow touch it, but eventually it's more than that of course. To polish its horn, change its records, wind its crank, put its needle on the record just so, so gently... Well, even when it's outside of his body, Phantom can still FEEL it. It's a part of him. The most fragile part of him. It's a very very intimate and vulnerable and tender thing to let someone else operate it.

Have fun extrapolating from there!

...now, some other stuff I've been thinking about. As far as I'm concerned, unless I missed some dialogue that would directly contradict this idea, Rayman in the Phantom Show could possibly take place MONTHS after the main game and therefore after Woodrow and Phantom have already started dating. I am working on something regarding this, but for now I'll just say that... the tension between Woody's gentle and forgiving nature, and Phantom's villainy and enduring need for revenge, is something I want to explore more in the future. They love each other for their differences, each of them filling in for what the other lacks, but that doesn't mean they will always agree or never argue (especially with how grateful Woodrow is to the Heroes).

At the end of the day they will work through it all even when their difference in goals and motives becomes vast, because their love is even more vast and never lapses for a moment. And they both might rub off on each other a bit, in surprising ways.

#mario rpgs #mario plus rabbids #mario + rabbids #alter answers #phandrow #woodrow #ts woodrow #the phantom of the bwahpera

[naranjapetrificada]

I'm also a queer black adult. There's a difference between spending money for sources of comfort vs needlessly spending stuff to flex status in very childish ways. We definitely see that as we boycott all these companies. Would the latest iPhone be nice? I guess, but it ain't that impressive to support Congo's genocide. Is that Stanley cup cool? Honestly not really, and it definitely ain't worth supporting another genocide for. Even ofmd, it really wasn't that important for queer media or even black queer media, which a lot of Black shows were also canceled at the same time. No one talks about how important black rep is here though. Despite this, however, you are not seeing black people gather funds for a billboard for a show unless we talking about blm. Because that's more important than getting a show back on the air as a flex. So we as adults can recognize the bizarre message we see when people are out here begging for help, and dismissed as scammers. But the moment a donation post for a billboard gets put up to get a show back to production, it meets its up almost instantaneously. As an adult I literally study these kinds of phenomenons in our capitalist society. I'm not sending this message to come at you because you are not the only one who does this, and I certainly am forced to partake in capitalism. But I do want to share that these are the "adult" conversations people are going to have and question. For as many "we can support both ofmd and Palenstine" I read here, I see the same bloggers attacking Palestinians and Black people for rightfully being upset that they certainly do not "do both" with the same amount of passion

Thing is? I don't disagree with almost anything you said, and the frustration is real. The disparities are real. I've been on the other side of that and needed support and seen whose fundraisers met their goals quicker than mine did. All of that is real and under ideal circumstances, yeah, the billboard people could have handled all this better.

I think the differences in where I come at all this from is that:

I watched the live feed of the billboard for a minute, and people put all kinds of less-than-important shit on it. So when I see people talking about how wrong the billboard is I just remember the like, graduation-announcement-level other stuff that was on it for the same price. I'm not saying the idea still didn't rub me wrong but I am saying that put it into perspective for me at least.

This show has changed lives, which may sound silly, but that's art sometimes. There are people whose lives are better and bigger and more authentic than ever before because of this weird mix of kindness and space to be queer that isn't like anything I've ever seen before. I understand that not everyone had such an impactful experience with it but I've found that incredibly moving and valuable and worth the fight for a 3rd season.

More than anything else, I value the efforts to get the show renewed because it feels like a watershed moment in the TV and streaming industries, and things will only get worse from here. I'm aware of all the Black shows that got canceled before OFMD did but a lot of the time people only care when something comes for their shows, and now we've got a a bunch of agitated white gays (who to be clear to everyone except the asker, are NOT the show's sole audience so please stop talking about it that way) who we can and should be pushing to include Rap Sh!t and Love Life etc. when talking about all this. Because it does represent a trend that's coming for everybody, it just started with going after POC and queers first. FWIW I actually did make a post the other day aimed at OFMD people to try to get them talking about the Black shows that were canceled first. (I deleted the original post because my notifications were killing me but reblogs of it should still be floating around out there)

I'm not out here trying to say that people's perfectly understandable frustrations are invalid, it just has felt inconsistent the way a lot of (almost entirely white) self-styled leftists have been coming after OFMD as if it's uniquely horrible.

When BIPOC object to the disparities Asker pointed out, I lift that up and value it. There are things I might say in other forms of this conversation that I would have with other BIPOC away from prying eyes that might surprise you. But right now there's too much noise in this conversation from people who don't actually give a fuck about any of their talking points, they just see an opportunity to dunk on a cringe fandom or they're operating with incomplete/incorrect information about things or in the least surprising/most transparent move of all, they're projecting a bunch of inaccurate shit onto Taika and using it to criticize him in as pattern that's familiar and obvious to every POC watching it happen. That's not what I think you're doing or anything Asker, but it's important context for the conversation we could/should be having and something that keeps getting left out of the conversation.

#asked and answered #anon ask

[lightyearssurrogatedaddy]

Okay, Error and Ink will never get a happy ending, in any scenario. Even if it's the most heathiest interpretation of them I can even imagine, I still don't think it could last forever. One of the downsides to being immortal. It Never Ends. An immortal being changes and shifts its personality to where it's not even recognizable to who they were centuries prior. It goes around in a loop, they forget things they knew before, they learn things then unlearn them.

And since AUs repeat timelines I like c+pasting the same logic onto Outcodes. As in after a while, they just end up reverting back to what mindset they had way way before, after they do all the things and have nothing left to be curious about. They don't really HAVE an ending to their story, yk?

Imagine there's you and this other guy. You both don't have defined death dates and you're both nearly unkillable (you can 'kill' Ink in a sense by killing his personality, taking away his vials.) You're both tied to the hip because of what you do and why you do it, there's no way to avoid one another unless you changed your opinion and went off to go live in the woods somewhere, and that's Not happening.

So, out of boredom or growth or any excuse, you switch through titles because that's the only person who you can do that with. Everyone else can forget about you and you can forget about them whenever you wanted!

Along with the similar aspects in character. Error and Ink have-- a lot-- a shit ton of similarities. Unending loneliness, mainly. A sense of creativity (Error, in some ways, very creative.) The way they act and solve problems. etcetc. + Their main topic, the AUs! They don't talk about it in the same way, I like to view them as people who love a piece of media regardless, and the ones who live to observe it, and state an opinion. They both love talking about it.

"Okay, go back to the 'can't avoid one another' thing?"

Sure sure. I feel like I should have elaborated or something. They are exact opposites in theory. Error is a force to tear down and Ink's supposed to bring it up and support it. I don't really see Ink as a lifesource for the AUs, the AUs would continue to exist even if Error tried *tirelessly* to destroy them. Because an AU of him finishing his job is an AU nonetheless :) there's literally nothing he can do.

You can't avoid the other side of the argument, it ceases to be one if you do. And they don't really represent actual PEOPLE in those arguments, just the embodiment of the viewpoints. People can see both sides but it's been proven that Ink and Error cannot (I'm talking in theory, I do treat them as breathing people in my fics for the sake of exploring them, this paragraph is about the point blank flat colors of their character.)

Kind of like you can't remove positivity from negativity, you can't really have a finished comic without the scraps from ones that were shut down and discontinued.

So you and this one guy. You have an eternity to get to know one another. They'll constantly keep morphing between friends/lovers/enemies! No goal or end! Cool huh? That's how I view them. They can legit have any relationship and I'd still think they were such a Thing to glare at.

#undertale #undertale au #utmv #error sans #ink sans #errink #long rant

[a-kind-of-merry-war]

I've been following you for a while, and I'm so happy you got published! I have a story idea but no idea how to even start writing a book, let alone get it published. Do you have any tips for someone just starting the process?

Hi Anon! Thank you!! :D

Honestly, at this stage I think the best advice I can give you is to write the damn book. It sounds super obvious, right? But if your end goal is to get published it is REALLY easy to get bogged down in all the things you "need" to do to make it happen.

But the reality is that having a huge following on publishing twitter and 50k followers on BookTok and an amazing website and a regularly updating newsletter and a selection of really fancy headshots won't mean anything unless you've also got a manuscript.

So: write it. But like. HOW.

I mean. You just gotta sit down and do it. Which sucks. Here's you vs this big empty page and you have to fill it with words and AAAAAAAAA!!! SCARY!!

So... here's my advice!

If the start is too scary, don't start there. The first thing I wrote for Hartswood is on page 277. Don't know the beginning yet, or find it too intimidating to write? Skip it. Write the bit you're mad about first.

Related: if you want to write out of order, you can. Write the scenes that have grabbed you by the lapels and are demanding to be written.

Let the first draft be hot stinky garbage. The first draft is there so the book exists. The edits are there so the book is actually good.

Write every day, if you can. Set yourself a REALLY low word count to meet every day and try to hit it. And if you can't write on any one day, that's fine! Don't beat yourself up about it: life comes first.

Make yourself a private discord server that's just for you. Make a bunch of channels - ideas you want to include, changes you want to make, memes and funny shit related to your story. This way, when you wake up at 1am with an idea/worry, you can post it in there and its WAY easier to keep track of than a notes app.

Find someone to talk to about your story - whether that's just a friend to squeal with, someone to rubber duck at or a beta reader for edits. Its so much easier - and more fun! - if you've got someone else excited with you.

Skip the bits you can't write. Not sure if you've chosen the best word or need to do more research about something but are in the flow of writing? Throw that sucker into [square brackets] and come back to it later. It's better to ctrl+F it and fix it later than derail yourself by falling down a research rabbit hole now.

I hope that helps, Anon!! I love you 💖

#You got this!! #on writing #writerblr #writing tips #long post #i am not an expert im just some guy #but these things helped me!

[angelgoddard]

i would like some of your views for my situation right now. i found out about loa and stuff 2 years ago. i’ve always wanted to manifest an entire differe life, everything different. i did affirming, visualization, void, sats, and many more but nothing worked. i came up with my own rules then, just deciding and affirming once then the desires will materialize into 3D, that didn’t work either. i don’t know what to do. everything is suffocating me, i literally cried for like an hour before i decided to ask you. everything is getting hopeless. i don’t know what i’m doing wrong. i keep repeating to myself, i have it i have it, done it for like 2 years. nothing worked till now. i kept questioning me if all these success stories could, why can’t i? i’m literally so discouraged and exhausted i just cry so often these days. please help. sos

hi baby :( i'm really sorry to hear about your struggles with the law! i was actually like this myself for a while too, i understood the law but i couldn't make any meaningful change in my life.

the way i got it together was by going back to the source. the book that helped me realize everything was "how to manifest your desires" by neville goddard. it was a long book, so i took my time going through it and read it whenever i was free to do so. the most important things to know are:

1. conciousness is the only reality.

2. persistence is key.

3. thoughts/emotions do not manifest.

4. you are not doing methods to "get", you are doing methods to stop hunger.

5. the sabbath state should be the goal, not getting desires in the 3d.

the manifestation process is very simple. one, decide what you want. two, persist in the assumption that you have what you want. three, fulfill yourself and the law will do its job. stop placing value on the 3d, and dwell in imagination. the reason you've been unable to make progress is because you're placing value on the 3d and not focusing on ending the inner man's hunger. you know these essentials, and all you have to do is apply.

settle down with one method. for you, i'd recommend staying away from the void and doing sats. (if you need a different method, feel free to send another ask and i can suggest smth else!) pick a single scenario that lasts no longer than a few seconds and loop it as you fall asleep. don't worry about feeling emotions or anything, just loop it. throughout the day, close your eyes and think fo your desires from the perspective of having them. do not attempt to police your thoughts or force them to be what you want them to be. let them pass by your mind with no acknowledgement unless they reflect the state in which you wish to be. do whatever you need to do in the 3d, but don't identify with any of it if it doesn't reflect your desires.

eventually you will get to the point in your journey where your thoughts will begin to naturally flow from the wish fulfilled state. you will begin to not feel the need to participate in any methods or affirmations. your desire will no longer be a desire, and rather something you have. your desire may be on your mind so much that it "haunts" you in a way that's familiar and not in a lacking one. this is called the sabbath state, which should be the true goal. the sabbath is the gestational period where movement occurs to grant you your desire in the 3d. (during the sabbath, you can still engage in methods if you wish.) when it does come, it shouldn't feel like something you've been desperately waiting for, but more like a pleasant event.

tldr;

1. focus on imagination only.

2. fulfill the inner man until you stop desiring.

3. place no value on the 3d.

4. stop forcing yourself to do something to "get". there is no getting because creation is finished.

you can do this! there is no failure in the law <3 i believe in you with my whole heart!

#law of assumption #answering asks #manifestation #miss know it all ♡ #minnie luvs the law ♡

[meowcats734]

[Soulmage] A mimic, seeking to improve its hunting ability, starts hiding among humans studying them to the point where it can pull off a perfect human disguise. However, it soon finds that life as a human is much better than life as a mimic pretending to be furniture.

I expected Odin to show up the next time I fell asleep. Perhaps to taunt me, perhaps to manipulate me further, perhaps to go for the kill and offer a deal I would be forced to refuse.

What I didn't expect was a dreamless, uneasy slumber.

When I woke up, I half-expected to still be in a dream, with Odin waiting to finally spring the trap they'd spent weeks building. But... Experimentally, I waved my hand in front of my face. Unless Odin had somehow fundamentally changed the rules of soulspace, I wasn't in a dream. This was reality.

Odin had thoroughly outmaneuvered me, held me over a barrel in order to extort me, and then... left me entirely alone.

Somehow, the thought terrified me more than if they'd showed up in full demonic form, tempting me with every trick they knew.

My stomach growled, and I grimaced. Odin could wait; if they weren't immediately going to twist my brain into knots, I could at least spend some time trying to find something to eat in this hellhole. But I'd already spent a day wandering the upper reaches of the Plane of Elemental Falsehood, and I'd found nothing but wooden steaks and salads made of solid glue.

So that left me with only one choice.

I had to go deeper.

###

As dungeon names went, "Do Not Enter" was one of the scariest. Oh, sure, it wasn't "Quarznidoth's Tomb" or "Home of a Thousand Pointy, Tentacled Horrors," but there was something primally worrying about the only lettering on the dungeon entrance being "Do Not Enter," scrawled in a fluid that could have been oil or blood or something in between.

But I needed food in my belly, and it wasn't like there were many job opportunities in my nearby area, so into Do Not Enter I went. At least my contrarian side got some kicks out of defying the message.

The halls within were slick with oil, iridescent rainbow sheens glancing off their surface wherever one of the dungeon's strange, sourceless sunbeams struck. I could hear the click-click-clack-ing of one of those clockwork monstrosities that pretended to be human in the distance, and pointedly stayed away.

The only weapon I had was a wooden chair leg, and my only relevant offensive spell was soulsight. In theory, my soulsight would let me sense when anything with a soul got within a couple dozen meters of me... but that didn't exactly help when mimics didn't have souls.

I didn't fancy my odds against one of those demonic mimics in my current state. I was alone on my little adventure, and I needed to prioritize.

Find food, eat the food, live another day. That was my mission. Everything else was irrelevant.

I found it darkly amusing that the inhabitants of the dungeon quite possibly had the same goal as me.

"Hello?" A high-pitched, feminine voice called. Oh, rifts, it was another one of those mimics that could copy voices. The one that had done my mother's voice was creepy enough, but at least I could tell it wasn't human—this one, however, sounded perfectly real. "Is anybody there?"

Nnnnnope. Nope, nope, nope. I wasn't touching that with a ten-foot pole. The last creepy clockwork nasty had nearly gotten me, and that was when I had a convenient ledge to shove it off of; in these cramped hallways, armed with nothing but a stick, a straight-up fight with a mimic was just asking to be turned into dog chow. I hated myself, but I didn't hate myself that much.

But on the other hand...

It could have been a real person. It could have been someone else, lost and hungry and afraid, just like me.

And the part of me that wanted to lie in bed all day and never wake up would get just a little bit stronger if I abandoned someone down here without even trying to look.

"What do we think, gang? All in favor of risking our lives to get eaten by a mimic, say 'aye'," I muttered.

Of course, nobody answered. There was no-one here but me.

"And all in favor of doing nothing, and tiptoeing away to leave someone to die?"

I was alone. Which meant that there was nobody to stop me from doing something monumentally stupid.

Being a solo adventurer was tough.

Cursing the shard of myself that still tried to be a halfway-decent person, I slunk down the oily, dim halls to where I last heard the voice.

"Hellloooooooo?" The voice called out. "Is anyone there?"

I turned the corner and froze.

She looked like a real person, not a mimic. Her pale skin was the pale of flesh, not of cracked ceramic and ebony. Her eyes creased up at the corners instead of swiveling freely in their sockets, and their blue was the blue of a healthy iris, not of too-perfect paint. Her body didn't even tick and ping with metallic sounds like every other mimic I'd met did.

But my soulsight informed me that there was nothing in her heart.

I backed away, but she must have heard the splash of oil, because she turned around. And when she turned, it was relieved and human, not rigid and mechanical. "Oh, thank the rifts! Someone else came through! I thought... I thought that I was alone down here..."

I warily took a step back. "Don't come any closer," I warned, holding my chair leg between us as if it would do anything against a being made of metal.

Her expression flickered—and not in the uncanny shutdown of a mimic entering hunting mode, but... in genuine pain and shock. She complied, though, holding her hands up and taking a step back. "I... I'm sorry. It's just... been so long since I've seen another person."

"Are you?" I asked.

She blinked. "What?"

"A person," I continued.

Emotions flickered across her face—offense, fear, horror, resolution—and slowly, she closed her eyes.

"What... what gave it away?"

I... paused. That... wasn't the response I'd expected from a vicious killing machine. "You... I have soulsight. You don't have a soul." At her hurt expression, some part of me was compelled to say, "...Sorry."

She bitterly laughed. "No. No, don't apologize. I... I should have expected this. Why should I count as a person, anyways? I thought... I thought if I faked it for long enough, I could be... real. Laugh along when adventurers made jokes, instead of dumbly, numbly staring. Cry in pain when I break my leg, instead of idly thinking how inconvenient it was."

"Get out of bed with a smile on your face, instead of lying on the floor, wishing that you'd never wake up," I found myself blurting out.

The mimic turned to me, surprised, and I swallowed heavily.

"I... I know what it's like." I bit my lip, then... well, to hell with it. I was already in the room with the mimic. If she wanted to kill me, she'd have done so already. "Putting on a mask. Waking up every day and pretending to be human. Because you like what they have. Because you want to live in the light with them."

The mimic stared at me, shocked. "Are you another..."

I shook my head. "I'm a human, born and raised. I just... sometimes feel like I don't have a soul, either."

The mimic playing human and the human playing mimic traded long, bone-deep looks for a cautious... considering... vulnerable heartbeat.

Then she reached out to shake my hand.

"Meloai," she said.

"Cienne," I replied, shaking her hand.

"Come on," she said. "It's not safe out here. The other mimics aren't as... much of a person as I am." She shuddered. "I've got a saferoom with human-food and real beds. You'll like it there, I promise."

A faint smile crept across my face. "I believe you, Meloai."

At the use of the name—her name—she smiled back.

Being a solo adventurer was tough.

It was a good thing I'd found a friend.

A.N.

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[bridgyrose]

I'm not sure if you're accepting requests at this time, but if you're feeling up to it as this is an idea going around it seems:

Ruby Ascends in the Ever After. But now she is nothing but her purpose to save Remnant, if it/or someone does not contribute to that goal, then she doesn't care about it, just complete apathy for anything other than her purpose.

How would WBY take this?

(Getting this out before the new episode so I dont lose what I want to do with this. Might not be completely accurate, but you did ask for this.)

Ruby came back but everything was wrong. 

The first to notice was Yang. It should’ve been more clear to her that something was off, Ruby came back slightly older, hair longer and more like Summer’s, but Crescent Rose was still on her back and she was still Ruby. What really made her realize she wasnt the right Ruby was her smile. It was empty, no longer hiding pain, no longer trying to radiate optimism. It was forced, almost as if she didnt care beyond her single minded mission to get back to Remnant. 

Blake was the next to realize something wasnt right about Ruby. No longer did the huntress seem to care about the issues they passed, pushing Jaune away and only ever heading through the Ever After to reach the tree. But what really struck that something was wrong was how she treated the Curious Cat. It became clear that she treated the cat differently to reach the tree, almost as if she didnt care about anyone else or anything else unless it led everyone back to Remnant. 

Weiss realized it once she tried to apologize and Ruby blew her off. Her heart broke as she tried to make things right with her friend, only to be pushed aside as if what happened never mattered. Words that were said still lingering in her mind, still upset at herself for not seeing the pain that Ruby was in and only focusing on her own. Words left unsaid that she desperately wanted Ruby to know, but this Ruby didnt want to hear. 

Jaune was the last to realize what was wrong, figuring that Ruby was still upset with him. When Neo attacked again, he realized it wasnt the same Ruby he knew. The Ruby he watched fight through Neo’s images didnt seem to care about what came to the end of her scythe, instead slicing through anything that got in its way. Allies, enemies, plants and trees, Ruby had no regard to anything that had gottten in her way. 

Once they were all back to Remnant after going through the tree, they figured Ruby would be herself again. Yang kept an eye on Ruby while Blake and Weiss did what they could to help share the burden that Ruby carried, trying to give gentle reminders that they were there for her. 

But none of that seemed to matter to Ruby. 

Yang finally had enough once they reached Vacuo and shoved Ruby against the wall of a building. “What’s going on with you?” she asked. “I know you’re not feeling great about everything that happened, but you’ve changed. What happened to you?” 

“I found a new purpose,” Ruby said, her voice steady and calm but still devoid of the optimism it usually had. “I know what I need to do to make sure Remnant is safe, how to stop Salem. I can finally be the hero like in all the fairytales.” 

“...you ascended, didnt you?” Yang pulled back as all the pieces finally started to make sense. The way Ruby treated anything in her way that wasnt allowing them to reach Remnant. The way she fought as if time was being wasted, the way she moved through every obstacle as if it was just another annoyance in the way. “Rubes, you didnt need to-” 

“But I wanted to, Yang. Ruby couldnt… I couldnt be the hero that needs to stop Salem. So, now I am.” 

“But you’re not… you. At least, not anymore.” 

“I could never be me if it meant stopping Salem.” Ruby let out a soft sigh, a little emotion starting to slip through the cracks of the mask she continued to wear. “Ruby was just a shadow of Summer, of the heroes of fairytales and the stories of how huntresses are supposed to be the ones to keep everyone safe. So, instead, I’m now Ruby Rose, guardian of Remnant. A new person with a new purpose to keep everyone safe.” She paused and took a breath as her body shook to get her back on track. “And right now, that means we need to safeguard the relic and then take the fight to Salem. We’ll find where she’s at and I’ll stop her.” 

Yang could only watch as Ruby started to walk away, her heart breaking as she watched her sister continue forward. She knew none of this was right, that the Ruby she had known as a sister was gone and replaced with a different Ruby from the Ever After, a Ruby who would only keep going until her purpose was fulfilled or until she died trying. 

“Is everything okay with her?” Weiss asked, arm held to her chest. 

“She… ascended.” 

Weiss looked down at the ground and wiped a tear from her eyes. “Of… of course she did. After everything we did, after everything she said… of course she ascended.” 

Yang slowly reached out to Weiss and put a hand on her shoulder. “We’ll get her back-” 

“But we wont be able to, will we?” Weiss put up a weak smile as she tried to hide the pain in her heart. “She’ll stop Salem and then… what happens? Will she be pulled back to the Ever After for a new purpose? Will her purpose carry her away somewhere else? Its… Its going to be problem after problem for her to fix to help save Remnant, she’s never going to be back.” 

“We’ll talk to Ozpin and find a way to get her back. Back to herself.” 

Blake finally spoke up, ears folded. “And we need to prepare for the idea that we cant get her back. At least, not fully. And even if Ozpin does know how to get her back, does that mean we’ll have to go back to the Ever After?” 

“I… I dont know…” Yang sighed, eyes still glued to Ruby as she watched her sister speak with Headmaster Theodore about the relic’s defenses. “But we’ll get her back. Even if it means giving everything up.” 

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Ruby panted as the dust settled, scythe blade broken next to her as her legs gave out. It had been a long shot, but she had managed to trap Salem in the space the relic vaults inhabited, finally freeing Remnant from her. A sense of serenity washed over her, quickly interrupted by Weiss’s voice. 

“Ruby? Ruby!” Weiss called out. “Ruby!” 

“I’m… still here…” Ruby said, voice weak as she felt her body start to give out. Her arms felt like they weighed her down, her chest pounded as her heart throbbed. “I… I did it. I saved Remnant.” 

“What… did you do? I… I dont see her.” 

“I trapped her in the space where the relics were kept.” Ruby smiled a bit. “She wont be coming back.” 

Weiss tried to help Ruby up, her hand going right through her. Her arm shook as she desperately tried to pick her friend up, each attempt ending up as the same as the last. “Ruby? What… what’s going on?” 

“I’m… done.” Ruby fell back as her voice started to become emotionless, her body slowly dissolving into rose petals as she watched a tree start to grow in front of her. “I need a new purpose, but the tree cant give me one.” 

“But Remnant isnt saved yet!” Weiss started to try to gather the rose petals as they broke off Ruby and slowly started to disappear, her fingers digging into the dust left from the grimm. “We still have to deal with the relics. A-and then the huntsmen academies! You heard Cinder, everything is still broken and its going to take years for us to get things right! And then there’s the faunus! We can help Blake and Yang-” 

“But that wasnt my purpose.” A smile crossed Ruby’s lips as she closed her eyes. “Maybe one day I’ll make it back to the Ever After and gain a new purpose. But for now, Ruby’s purpose to save Remnant from Salem is finished. She’s never coming back and I have no reason to stay.” 

“Of course you do Ruby!” Weiss slammed her hand down onto Ruby’s chest, freezing as her partner disappeared into a storm of petals that disappeared in the light. Her eyes widened as her arms shook, a few words still on her tongue. Words she had wanted to say for months but never had the right time to say it. Instead, she slowly picked herself up, holding back the tears that so desperately wanted to leave her. 

Yang finally made her way to Weiss, panting as she leaned against the doorway. “Weiss? Did you find her?” 

Weiss looked silently up at Yang, and then back to the broken blade of Crescent Rose. Her heart finally broke as her legs gave out and tears started to flood out. 

Yang made her way to Weiss to help comfort her, pausing when she saw the broken blade and no Ruby in sight. “She’s… gone, isnt she?” 

Weiss nodded between sobs and pressed into Yang. 

“Lets get out of here,” Yang said as she picked Weiss up and helped her walk. “We’ll figure out what to do next.” 

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[catflowerqueen]

Ironically, Eclipse might have actually done Sun and Moon a favor in the interpersonal relations department considering that Freddy actually said he missed his old friends. Which is probably the nicest and most positive thing he’s said about Sun and Moon in… a while. Suffice to say, I really don’t think this “revenge scheme” is going to work out the way he planned, for multiple reasons.

First of all, since Sun and Moon didn’t actually get kicked out (and Earth really was the MVP of the episode to be able to pull that off), this probably isn’t really going to affect them all that much unless Eclipse did some other things as well. Sun and Moon had already been basically abandoned by everyone unless they needed to ask for help or favors, and all this is going to do is make them even less likely to come and visit them. Not to mention that Sun and Moon being effectively fired just means they’re going to have more time for Moon to regain his scientific/technological/magical knowledge and then plot how to fix things. …Which actually could lead to a scenario in which Moon makes another star, come to think of it, perhaps even modifying it in similar ways to Lord Eclipse’s.

 Anyways… the second reason Eclipse’s plan isn’t going to work is that if his end goal is to make “friends” to cure his desperate loneliness, it’s just going to end up with another betrayal situation unless he keeps resetting everyone with the star constantly or actually changes how he acts and legitimately grows as a person to become nicer and drop his ”all about me” “I’m a poor victim” attitude.

The third reason is that if Monty did manage to remain unaffected, then he’s just going to be gunning for his own revenge eventually, more than likely.

I do wonder how far Eclipse was able to modify things, though. Did he manage to affect the cat? …Did he even know about the cat? Does the effect extend to hard copies of things, like printed out paperwork or children’s drawings? What about Moon’s various business ventures? Was he able to affect the Trashcan Guy at all, assuming he is still alive (which he more than likely is, let’s be honest)?

My guess is that he didn’t actually mess with the lawsuits at all, though. Fazbear’s is messed up enough on its own, and Moon and Monty got up to some pretty shady stuff. And laid a bunch of false trails to cover up other stuff. And the lawsuits probably didn’t even really name names or specifics in that regard all that much, so if they were complaining about one of the daycare attendants, they probably would have just said “the sun/moon-themed one,” and could have very easily been a reference to something Eclipse did in October or Bloodmoon… being Bloodmoon, and yet the blame would have been pined on Sun or Moon anyways since they were the only actual animatronics who worked there.

…Though that does make me wonder what Eclipse claimed his own backstory was in the altered memories.

And while I don’t blame Freddy for his actions today given that he is under the influence of Eclipse, I do still want him to offer an apology once the situation is (hopefully) resolved and they fix everything. Based on past examples when stuff like this comes up on the show, though, and how Freddy and everyone else are just horrible friends to them in general, my guess is that it’s unlikely to happen.

#SAMS #sun and moon show