#with the secret being he was actually an alien seal

[faithfulcat111]

Guys....

I just thought of a great crossover for Stranger Things and TAZ Amnesty.

Okay, so, for those who don't know TAZ Amnesty, there is a portal to another planet in this small town in West Virginia and not only do abominations come through to try and destroy the world, but also refugees from this dying planet named Sylvain. So these abominations are honestly kind of small (at first) and, when the portal first moves to West Virginia, a woman named Joyce is able to mostly handle them. She runs a lodge that houses the refugees coming through and eventually partners with another guy named Hopper. He goes through the portal to get a better understanding of where the abominations were coming from and never came back.

Jonathan, El, Will, and Kali are four of the refugees from Sylvain. (I am aging everybody up, so assume everyone is adults) The refugees are all what are considered "monsters" when they aren't wearing magical disguises. Jonathan is Joyce's main partner with the loss of Hopper, does a lot of the cooking and background work and runs the lodge if hunting the abominations takes Joyce out of town. Joyce gets help on one such mission from a stage magician named Max. Max discovers while helping Joyce that she has pyro-powers and Joyce takes her back to the lodge. Robin is a local park ranger who has prophetic visions that she blatantly refuses to deal with cause she ain't about to be a "chosen one" or whatever. She runs across a bear that she quickly discovers isn't and runs ending up on the other side of the portal where she meets Lucas who watches the Sylvain side of things. Steve runs a "Cryptidmania"-style museum that is very much full of tourist traps and partners with Dustin who runs the social media and marketing side of things. He decides to film a fake Bigfoot film to drum up some new people as business is slow and runs into Jonathan who is trying to track down the abomination in the woods.

Basically, Robin, Steve, and Max are the main team who take over fighting the abominations. Robin finally accepts that she needs to pay attention to her prophetic visions and starts taking fighting lessons from a strange guide from yet another planet named Vikki. Max quickly starts flirting and gets together with El and then picks a fight with the leader of a local punk gang/group/whatever named Mike who used to date Will before they had a falling out. An investigator named Nancy comes to town to look into the strange objects appearing in Steve's museum and decides the lodge is the perfect hotel to stay in, Jonathan immediately goes 'what the actual fuck Steve' and then later Jonathan and she totally start dating.

Holy shit, this is actually really good and I kinda wish it existed in the world already.

#faith talks #stranger things #stranger things au #st amnesty au #byler totally get back together later #the falling out was about the fact that will had a secret and kept pulling away because of it #with the secret being he was actually an alien seal #no joke #mike knew hopper before he disappeared too #hopper is found eventually #also anyone who knows this and knows the ned story #i'm sorry #tommy is totally boyd as well #rip tommy #also everything with el and steve in this #and suzie is doctor sarah drake #kali is indrid i just forgot to mention it

[golvio]

It’s like…both Hylia and Rauru run into the Robot Problem, where they create/cultivate servants who end up achieving sentience (the Robots in SkSw and the Constructs in TotK) or were already sentient to begin with but were supposed to fit into this grand design to restore the order they’d created (the Sheikah, their respective Links and Zeldas). And it gets a little uncomfortable because both characters are so focused on imposing their respective ideas of order that they…don’t quite see their charges as people?

Hylia at least had the excuse that she was a primordial goddess of Light and Time and therefore had no frame of reference to emotionally connect with the mortals she was charged to protect. Her actions were ruthlessly pragmatic, but it made sense for a god totally alienated from humanity to think like that.

Meanwhile, Rauru has this sort of…naïve carelessness? He descended to earth, took the people living there as his subjects, and even fell in love with and married a mortal woman, but he never seemed to understand that his actions could have unintended and far-reaching effects on the people around him.

When confronted with how the Constructs continued to obey their orders instead of leaving to do other things, he couldn’t really muster up more than a sheepish, “Oops, my bad.” Granted, he was a ghost invisible to everyone but Link at the time, but, still, he never considered including a contingency plan in their programming to preserve themselves and do other things with their lives in the event of his own death.

And then there was him and Sonia positioning themselves as Zelda’s surrogate parents after she lost her original parents in traumatic circumstances related to the Sealing War’s aftereffects. Zelda, having to step up as Sonia’s replacement as his advisor and sole confidant to make sure he kept a level head after the queen died. Not stopping Mineru when she started talking about draconification because he was convinced it’d never come to that. Zelda effectively being primed to accept sacrificing herself a second time to preserve the order Rauru created whether he wanted that or not. And then him taking Link’s arm and replacing it without his permission while he was unconscious, because the Ultrahand is such a useful tool, why wouldn’t he be fine with a little limb graft?

Then there was the whole thing with Ganondorf. Just this catastrophic underestimation of human agency, intelligence, and capacity for cruelty. Zelda herself warned him about Ganon being more dangerous than he seemed, but Rauru waved her off (inadvertently recreating yet another Calamity-related trauma of Zelda’s). Ganondorf might be causing trouble, but in the end he was just like those other funny little mortals Rauru watched over. How could he possibly be able to understand something as divine and complicated as a Secret Stone? Only Sonia could do that, but Sonia was Special because she was so smart and wonderful and he loved her very much, so that didn’t count! Furthermore, how could he possibly come up with a plan that could blindside him and the queen? That would be silly!

(Also, note how he didn’t give any non-Sonia mortals stones until after Ganon proved any one of those funny little guys could master using one without any instruction from Rauru, lmao)

And then the circumstances of Rauru’s own death, and the consequences that had for everyone around him well after he’d faded to myth. Rauru assumed the “consequences” Ganondorf threatened him with were limited to giving up his own life, when what actually happened was that the people of Hyrule were left to deal with Ganon punishing them for Rauru’s hubris, poisoning the land again and again in rage at his imprisonment, while the people themselves had to figure out on their own how to beat back each wave of his bilious rage with no record or understanding of its source. Zelda being left with no guidance for how to return home, forced to make a drastic decision. Mineru, still alive, but unable to intervene was she was just a soul without a body.

Like…I don’t think he’s evil, much less malicious, but the way the story panned out reminded me a lot of the way Rose Quartz kept accidentally hurting the people who loved her because it didn’t come naturally to her to think of other people as equals, or to consider how her actions made them feel. She loved Pearl, but she didn’t acknowledge Pearl’s baggage from their former relationship as master and servant because she’d assumed they’d moved past that simply by never speaking of it anymore. She loved Greg, but she initially didn’t treat him like a real person. She tried as hard as she could to relate to others and understand them, but in the end she committed one last tragic act of thoughtlessness. She thought would be creating this special, wonderful person free of her flaws who would make the world so much better solely by existing and being himself (at least in part, I think, because she hated herself and thought everyone would be happier without her burdening them with her guilt and her selfish desire to run from her past)…only to leave everyone grappling with the emotional fallout of her no longer existing, including her son, who was stuck dealing with the legacy she’d left behind even though that was never her intention.

She didn’t actively try to sabotage her son’s life from beyond the grave. She didn’t think that the things she’d done would catch up to him, that her old family and enemies would treat him like an interchangeable replacement for her, or that her friends would treat him in strange ways out of grief at losing her. It just…never occurred to her.

But the thing is, I’m not sure if Rauru was intentionally written that way. If he was, the narrative wasn’t really interested in dwelling on the consequences of that, instead treating him and Sonia more like figureheads of this lost, idyllic past that the present must grieve and then strive to follow the example of, even if the present was suffering due to paying the debts of their ancestors’ carelessness.

#legend of zelda #loz thoughts #totk thoughts #totk spoilers #steven universe spoilers #long post #rauru #hylia

[swissy]

Short bio for each of them below: (characters respectively from left to right)

I've been cooking up some oc stuff behind the scene so i present you: the gang (i dont actually have a title yet please bare with me)

雨宮春子 - Amemiya Haruko

Star Celestial - 8 mil years old

Our protagonist. She's a majokko (later gets a transformation as she wished one yippeee) who found a wand in a task to collect the star orb. Happy go lucky and awfully blissful. Rejects all negative emotions and isnt able to identify them deep down. Close to both tsukio and takeshi. likes akira and da lian too. And well, almost everyone she meets. Very naive so some of the secrets she exposes are eye opening.

雨宮健 - Amemiya Takeshi

Star Celestial - 16 mil years old

Haruko's older brother. He does whatever he wants and is pretty rebellious. Despite this he's very friendly. Loves his little sister and untrusting of tsukio. Rebels towards him in hopes he'll drop his "act". Eventually.

Friends to besties with both Akira and Da Lian. The only person who "truly" knows Akira and is Da Lian's first friend. Has a lotta friends but those two are his closest. Forms a circle as time goes with another classmate thats kinda a spoiler for a two part.

雨宮月雄 - Amemiya Tsukio

Moon Celestial - 34 mil years old

Reformed bastard who just wants a peaceful life. Used to be a comedian/in a manzai group but later become a florist and occasionally a rakugoka. Gentle, well-meaning and reliable but self-conscious with hidden anxieties. Can be a bit temperemental and greedy. Trying to better himself after getting out of jail for his crime. Has a dark past and many regrets of it.

Cares for both of his children, even if Takeshi's rebellious nature, he totally understand him and is forgiving of it. He's atleast relieved that takeshi has friends to look out for him when he cant.

藤山晶 - Fujiyama Akira

Planet Celestial - 16 mil years old

Popular guy who is attractive due to his skills, intelligence and light emiting from his rings, like a halo. Serious person and to the point. Polite asshole. Gets love letter and tears them in the trash secretly asshole. Doesnt befriend anyone easily. He was so unsatisfied with life until he gained a dark power that ramshacked almost half of the galaxy due to his greed. Was punished by the moon rabbit kindom and almost turnt to stone but takeshi defended him. Now has to serve as a superhero while being supervised by Da Lian so he wont do the same evil deeds. "Unwilling" besties with takeshi. Unwilling friends with Da Lian. is familiar with Haruko.

小莲 - Xiǎo lián (original form)

大莲 - Dà lián (tall humanoid form)

Planet celestial - 16 mil years old

Best apprentice of the moon rabbit queen. Initially travelled to haruko's galaxy to stop Akira's rampage (also the dark power was the power intially sealed but stolen in her kingdom/galaxy). Almost killed him but instead gave him a divine punishment. Doesnt actually know whats the punishment he's given but tasked to watch him n make new friends. Pissed off about that but whatever.

Clumsy to a fault and shy, criminally shy. Only friends with takeshi since he's the only one who approaches her occasionally and absolutely, RELUCTANTLY, with the evil known as Akira. Also friends w aliens around her. Once u get to know her, she's clingy and full of excitement.

Asks of them are also welcomed!!

#oc #original character #art #object head #artists on tumblr #character design #space #moon #sun #star #planet #2d art

[aita-blorbos]

AITA for getting a coworker murdered?

To be clear, I am ONE HUNDRED percent sure I did the right thing, but my students found out about this and are angry at me for making the adult decision, so I was hoping you all could help me talk som sense into them.

I (25m) met K (30-something M?) almost exactly a year ago. He was claiming to be a super-powered world destroying alien from outer space who blew up the moon and was planning to blow up the Earth too come March.

Seeing as how I work for THE GOVERNMENT, me and my group were not thrilled to hear this. We realized K had to be taken care of and eliminated as soon as possible.

But that was easier said than done. K was fast— like, supersonic fast, and weirdly enough he was insisting on only cooperating with us even a little if we allowed him to supervise a group of middle schoolers for the rest of the year.

Now, none of us had any clue what he wanted with these kids at the time, but seeing as how this was our only option to try and get him to stay in once place, we agreed. We allowed him to become a teacher at the school of his choice and began training the children to assassinate him.

I too, became a teacher temporarily. I watched over the children, made sure he didn’t hurt the,m, and tried my best to pass on my skills to them.

But something happened that I really didn’t expect. K bonded with the kids. Like, SERIOUSLY bonded with them. Those kids… hadn’t gotten a lot of support before, and K was the first person to unconditionally love them. Even I must admit he taught them a lot and built up their self esteem.

Eventually, due to an incident, they learned about K’s past and something we had known for a while— that K was not an alien. In reality, he was a human being (once a professional assassin) who’d been experimented on and turned into a monster. And in actuality, he had no plans to willingly blow up Earth. Instead, he was destined to blow up and die come March if not killed, and would take the whole world with him.

The kids were horrified. This, combined with how kind K had been to them made them want to save him. After a brief argument between them, eventually they decided they would no longer be attempting to assassinate K. Instead, they’d look for a way to try and ensure he wouldn’t blow up.

I… had a feeling this would not work out for them, but they refused to give up. Eventually, they hijacked a spaceship and got their hands on top secret information from a study another country performed:

According to this study, K was not nearly as likely as his predecessor (a rat who exploded and destroyed the moon) to blow up. In fact, the chance was less than 1%.

They told me this news and were thrilled. That meant they didn’t have to kill K!

But… here’s the thing. Less than 1% still isn’t 0%. However small, there was a chance that K would still combust and exterminate everyone on Earth.

So me and the government continued to plan. We created an ultimate weapon that we used to seal K away. Then, we scheduled a laser blast we had calculated would kill him. I was the one who let my boss know where K was so we were able to trap him.

Ultimately, our laser did not kill him. Before it could fire, the kids broke in to say goodbye and ended up put him down themselves. They did so through tears, and although they received a lump sum of money for their bravery, they’ve been very, very depressed.

Recently, they found out about my involvement in sealing K’s fate, and they’ve been very angry with me. They’re telling me I sold out a friend and that I should have tried to argue with my bosses to prove he deserved to live. But this has nothing to do with ‘deserving’ to me. It’s not like I disliked K! He could be annoying sometimes, but I learned a lot from him, too.

I simply ensured he died because I felt it was what I had to do… what was best to keep everyone, including those kids safe. That doesn’t mean it was an easy decision, of course. But sometimes when you’re a grown up you have to make hard choices.

AITA?

#aita #am i the asshole #unreality

[tozettastone]

Naruto: "Pride and Prejudice"

Hmm I actually wrote a Pride and Prejudice fusion crack ficlet years ago: A Shark With Five Thousand A Year,

I guess this could be a totally bonkers, completely different, vaguely Regency Era AU... Maybe we keep the ninja magic.

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When he was at last bundled out of the carriage, Deidara was grimy, exhausted, and spitting mad. His hands were bound behind his back and they'd done something—some weird magic—that had sealed up all of his own chakra so he couldn't set the rope afire. The door opened with a click, and he got a glimpse of the same guy who had so easily overpowered him two days earlier: an enormous brute of a man, bigger than any Deidara had ever seen, with facial tattoos and a riotous mane of hair.

What was someone like that doing kidnapping sappers of the royal engineers, Deidara wanted to know, and not fighting on the front lines himself? He looked like the equal of any six infantrymen. There was a lot of hard muscle under all that soft fat.

He bodily hauled Deidara free of the carriage and kicked the shining, dark-enamelled door closed after him. Deidara had just enough time to see those same teeth and bare his own right back—and then the big guy kicked the back of his knee out from under him and the next thing Deidara saw was just the dirt between the wet stones of a dark, torch-lit courtyard.

Before him were steps, and then columns, and then what Deidara's brain categorised as some kind of public building: a large, imposing structure with a heap of windows, and presumably intended to show off the grandeur of the empire.

Usually Deidara's chakra kept him warm. It was itself a warm thing, good with rock, with lightning, with radiant heat. But it was sealed away, and the stones' chill immediately seeped straight through the knees of his trousers. He shuddered.

"What the hell is your problem?" he snarled, but like every other rude thing he'd said in the past two days, it was muffled by the gag. His mouth was painfully dry now, anyway; the rag crushed against his tongue felt like sandpaper.

"Try to contain yourself for a minute," the huge guy advised. He sounded sympathetic, but he'd sounded sympathetic when he'd kidnapped Deidara, too. And then later when he'd bound his hands and gagged him. He had a firm grip in Deidara's greasy hair and upon his shoulder, and his voice was deep and rumbling. "Nobody's ordered you killed or anything."

Deidara wrenched his head around so he could glare back at him. He lost some hair in the process, and his sudden movement must have upset the horses, because he heard the stamp of hooves and an unsettled neigh from the shadow of the carriage.

"That's a pretty scary look," said the big guy, sounding conciliatory.

They weren't left waiting for long in that dark courtyard, but it was long enough that Deidara started to shudder involuntarily in the wind.

He jerked his head back up when he heard whisper-light footfalls on the steps. Kneeling on the stones, at first all he he noticed was the bizarre absurdity of cream silk slippers, gleaming with a pale camellia embroidered upon their toes.

The woman who belonged to the shoes descended the steps, apparently unconcerned about the effect of the damp on all her fine silk, and peered closely at him. Her face was serene.

"Is this really the infamous 'devil' of the southern regiment?" she wondered. She leaned down, elaborate blond ringlets trailing over her shoulder, just to catch his eyes.

Her eyes had no pupils. Just endless, cold blue, gleaming gold in the torchlight.

He was caught in her gaze for a long second, falling into her empty gaze like an icy pool. The pressure in his skull was alien, unwanted, and unbearable. He tore his eyes away with effort.

"Miss Yamanaka," said the big guy, a name that made a hard little ball of dread tangle up in Deidara's stomach. What could he possibly know that warranted being stolen by that terrible family of secret-keepers? "He's not really at his best. He didn't want to come."

"Hmph. Well, he has the family temper. And... yes, I think something of the gift. I wonder what daddy will think?" She tapped her lower lip with one gloved finger. "Tell me, devil," she said then, staring down at him. "Do you think I'm beautiful?"

On principle, he shook his head furiously.

Behind him, the big guy just heaved a giant sigh. "I really wish you hadn't done that."

#ask #anon #naruto #fic title ask meme #deidara #THE NEXT ONE WILL BE SHORTER

[codylabs]

Just realized that all my favorite franchises are protaganized by characters that either bypass or ignore how crazy messed up their world's lore is.

Gravity Falls - There's man-eating monsters in the woods, noises in the lake, footprints of things that shouldn't exist, there's cults and shadowy government forces trying to cover it all up, trusted family members are keeping secrets from each other, all while a dark and mysterious future is hanging over both the planet and our hero's impending teenagerhood, and a demon is possessing people, but somehow the genre isn't horror. The kids are just kind of all living their best lives, learning and maturing and growing and making friends, they're having a genuinely good time with the supernatural mysteries, and they're quickly becoming surprisingly adept at dealing with them, violently or by making friend of them. The apocalypse starts and ends on their watch and their takeaway is "Wow, what a great summer." How do you not love that?

Metroid - Samus could fly down out of the sky and land on any planet, in any story, and break (then fix) whatever plot is happening in a matter of hours. In fact I'm pretty sure the Chozo appointed her for that exact destiny in the actual lore. Pirates? Mad science? Demons? Government conspiracies? alien bioweapons? Like 3 different flavors of John Carpenter's The Thing? Ancient sealed evil? Literal magic? All in a days work. She's equipped to handle it, and you better believe she's seen it all before. The lore at the start of the series consists of like 4 concurrent cosmic horror scenarios all brewing at once, the lore at the end of the series consists of a peaceful galaxy with Samus a little worse for wear. My favorite passtime is just imagining her inserted into other franchises just to see how she breaks them, and it's usually in a cool way.

Avatar - An entire century of planet-wide war with no clear good guys. Atrocities are committed by child soldiers. Species and peoples are rendered extinct. A refugee is being forced to invent increasingly devastating weapons of war. Subterfuge, corruption, and duplicity reign in the highest levels of every government. Azula exists. A handful of orphaned, homeless children are the last hope for peace, and NOT ONE of these topics is ever brushed aside or made light of in the text. Yet these homeless children more often than not solve their problems via committing what can only be described as scooby doo shenanigans against dimwitted guards, and spend their time learning kung-fu and getting into side-plots involving cute animals and w-wh-what if wehewd handds aand kisseed?? The comic relief guy dresses up in a giant silly mustache the day before he leads an invasion. Toph decided to tag along, and she forgot to pack her character arc.

Anyway, I don't know if all that has any significance or importance, I just think it's a nice thing.

#gravity falls #metroid #avatar #atla #fandom #Now of course Evangelion has the opposite problem

[skelegun]

So as I mentioned earlier I watched House of the Dead 2 which is a reskin of Aliens but with zombies and no budget. A tale as old as time. Well I had enough free time to watch another movie and after looking shortly I found one. I chose Navy Seals vs Zombies. The reason I picked it was two fold, the cover poster thing on Amazon Prime had Ed Quinn on it, Ed Quinn played the protagonist in HotD2, and when I read the summary I realized that it was ALSO A FUCKING ALIENS CLONE WITH ZOMBIES!! So I essentially watched the same movie twice in row, but like with a kinda Yin and Yang sorta thing going on.

House of the Dead 2 (2006) is unapologetically schlocky, and it flagrantly rips off the narrative structure of Aliens. Basically 2 agents who work for some kinda secret anti-zombie task force are paired up with some meat head soldiers to go and investigate an outbreak at university. The soldiers are all cocky and bantering with each other until two of them get taken out like 5 seconds into the mission. Much like in Aliens, The rest of the soldiers get picked off, they almost escape but realize they need to go back, someone betrays the group, big explosion, the heroes escapes. The two agents I mentioned earlier kinda fill the role Ripley had in Aliens, but instead of one character it’s two people (one being the aforementioned Ed Quinn) and they this kinda lame sexual tension thing going on. The movie is pretty meh. Given how catastrophically awful HotD1 is, this one is shockingly mediocre.

Navy Seals vs Zombies (2015) is somehow far more interesting than HotD2, and not for good reasons. This one is still an Aliens rip off like I predicted, but to a lesser degree. I’ve done zero research, but if I had to guess, I would guess that this movie was partially funded by the US Military, which isn’t some crazy conspiracy thing, it is well known and documented that the Military will cooperate with movie producers as long as you go ahead and make your movie into propaganda, the Transformers movies are one of the most flagrant examples of this. Well anyways, Aliens was not a very pro military movie, the soldiers are bumbling stereotypes who are being manipulated by evil corporations into assisting with unethical human experiments. This movie tries to be like “what if Aliens but the Military is good and competent” which causes some interesting narrative things to arise. There is no outsider protagonist, well there sorta is, but she is a pointless side character, instead 2 actual main characters are like Soldier Guy played by Ed Quinn, and New Guy who just joined the squad and has a pregnant wife and he repeatedly mentions how hot and pregnant she is. There mission is to rescue the Vice President, they do but his helicopter blows up because one of his interns or something was bit, so they get a new mission from HQ, go to the hospital and rescue a lab worker who is working on a vaccine. It’s mentioned that the zombies are caused by a bio weapon, one that America was working on a cure for it, because they “heard rumors” about it, but it super definitely was NOT America that caused the outbreak. It was someone else. Idk. The Navy Seals guys never display any negative character traits and the ones who die all die heroically and you never see any of them turn into zombies. So your probably like well how do they handle the traitor concept? Well they don’t. The closest thing they have to it is that New Guy gets separated from the crew early on, and gets bit half way through the movie, and I’m like oh dang that’s kinda ballsy considering he’s the closest thing we have to a character with some depth (he’s afraid of heights or something and he’s got a family), and when he shows back up there is like a second of disagreement as to whether to continue the mission or rescue him, doesn’t matter, they do both, and then at the end when they are getting to the escape chopper and they find out New Guy was bit, Soldier Man is like you have to come with us no man left behind and New Guy is like Noooo leave me I’ve been bit. Well eventually New Guy gets on the chopper and we cut to like a debriefing where some lady reveals that New Guy never turned into a zombie! He was immune, all the soldiers were! Turns out the vaccines they got when joining the military made them immune, cut to him going back home and telling his wife she is the sexiest pregnant woman on earth in a moment that is meant to be sweet. Wow a terrorist bio weapon that doesn’t effect the military is a pretty big design flaw when you think about it, also how was America actively attempting to synthesize a vaccine for a theoretical virus?

[ruthlesslistener]

Lurien and Herrah taking Hornet and Hollow and being a family unit? Fuck yes!

(Even outside of this au) For some reason i feel like they have such untapped potential of being actually good parents, mainly to Hornet. Like, for example Lurien being the one she goes to hide to when in the White Palace and skipping tutoring. Lurien enabling that but also tricking Hornet into learning anyway through games.

Here's a secret, anon: roughly half to 75% of the reason why I ship PK and Lurien (and, well, WL/PK/Lurien) is specifically so that Lurien gets tied into this sort of awkward little family unit with Hollow, Hornet, and Herrah. As cute as they are together, I really like thinking about what sort of effects romantic relationships would have on the character's lives as well, and the thing with Lurien pairing up with PK in an AU where the vessel plan never came to fruition (or was violently disrupted before the Sealing, like in the Desert Runaways AU) is that he then becomes a sort of extra dad figure to Hollow and Hornet. I've already shown why he's a good match to Hollow in that regard in Until Dawn Shall Break, but I also love taking it further, like removing PK from the picture entirely so that both he and Hollow have to mourn him, and he slowly shows Hollow how to deal with such grief and loss of purpose. He's acutely focused, good on picking up small cues/details, familiar with anxiety and depression, and all of his problems stem from him being socially isolated from people instead of deep overwhelming trauma like Hollow, so him taking up that mentor figure for them is just *chef kiss*

Of course, I'm very biased in that reguard, because the one fic that got me to actually like/think about Lurien is A Watcher's Duty by Nym_Pseudo on Ao3 (I think that's their Ao3, anyways? Running off memory here!), and one of my fav troupes is 'guy who has zero experience or qualifications with children ends up with a child and then tries his best to be a good role model', but I really like the idea of Lurien being forcefully dragged into a family + friend group via the Dreamers and courting PK. First off, because he's such a mysterious powerful figure in the City of Tears, so him being taken out of his comfort zone to be put with a spider queen who gives no fucks and a jellyfish scientist who's alien af is funny already, but then throw in him learning how to be a part of the extended family group that he's been craving for so long, and it's just heartwarming. ESPECIALLY since I hc him to have once wanted to get married and have children with some other man, but he gave up that dream when he chose to be Watcher, and now lo and behold!! Unforeseen circumstances have landed him both his first actual friends in like...nearly his whole life, a god-mate, and now two kids. Surprise!

TDLR: Lurien is a character who strikes me as being a softie at heart, and him being forced to abandon his duty to care for a child who doesn't know why she had to run away from her home and a barely-not-a-child who's having a silent mental breakdown over their continued existence and loss of purpose while their parents fight to the death in the kingdom they were born to die for is really good. Especially when paired with Herrah, whose grim 'take no shits' attitude is now entirely a front she puts on for her children, instead of showing the terror that she feels for her tribe back home, and the guilt of bringing them into this whole mess. ESPECIALLY especially when they also are cast out into the wastelands with very little supplies, and have to build a little shelter to sustain themselves in while they lay low, wait for the god-war to blow over, and try to find other survivors in the mess WITHOUT alerting any other gods to their vulnerability

#anon #reply #lurien the watcher #herrah the beast #the hollow knight #the pure vessel #hornet hk #desert runaways au #[holds lurien gently] this awkward dutybound social recluse can hold so much love and softness inside of him #under that veneer of awkwardness and sort of dry snarky bitiness that comes out when threatened

[sillymeter]

the island residents you can ask about: (VERY LONG)

alistair: interdimensional librarian, old and friendly lion who always has candy in his pockets. bloodworth: hitman/bodyguard/single father. cares but is bad at showing it. velociraptor. calypso: endling of an alien species by way of being trapped on the island. everyone’s trying to figure out how to care for him. very friendly. design unfinished. chevron: original occupant of the island. seems connected to it in a strange way. very peculiar. unknown animal resembling a goat/okapi. cymrian: powerful god trapped in a mortal body. cryptobro (derogatory) and proud of it. wanted in several dimensions. manta ray/snake mix gambit: teenage runaway who can’t actually go back home. very secretive. sabertooth tiger. ivy: one of my earliest ocs. older sister seperated from her siblings. very awkward. fluttershy is just like her for real. leopard. little fang: all-powerful reality bender who’s too young to control their powers, nonverbal flightless bat. mavalnol: unicorn from a world without magic, child soldier with Every problem. severe memory loss & aggression. something is following her. shes my poor little meow meow modem: gigantic computer moth robot who assembles polycules just to torture everyone in it. talks like a 2000s scene kid & refuses to stop. only behaves nicely to its children. morgrim: sambar/water deer mix with plant magic. nervous little freak who’s bad with people. REALLY needs to get back to his dimension. NULL: mavalnol’s ghost. to do the right thing and get nothing in return. how love turns to hatred, of her, of yourself, of the island, of what's happening to you both. it's not fair. saoirse: fishmonger who’s pretending to be older than she is so nobody will look into her self-destructive habits. numetal fan. seal. tickertape: calypso’s little sibling, a combination of multiple animals that would result in the WORST child to raise (goat headbutting, puppy chewing, etc etc) resembles a pinata. sooo silly with it the island residents i might not be able to answer because they are unfinished: ryne: early oc, peryton with strong magic (maybe a god) . really cool TBN1: living painting in alistair’s library. evil old lady (affectionate) would poison you for fun TBN2: on the island with chevron, owns a tea shop. happy about the progress to the island after being trapped there. hes a cool dog TBN3: pink artist, wheelchair user. has the least info bc made 4 days ago

#ask game

[griancraft]

can you share a bit about that oc?

HIII THANKS FOR ASKING!!! There is actually like. 4 of them.

I am so sorry this is so long, dear god it is so long. I also apologize for how disorganized this is omg

T is a character that is infected with a type of yeast that makes it possible to “escape death” via replacing cells at a faster rate. This doesn’t affect brain cells, only slowing down the rate at which the cells die. This leaves empty cells in the brain that don’t reallly have the capacity to learn new things permanently or remember anything. This only causes issues after a longgg time. Meaning someone infected with the yeast slowly looses their capacity to function. Destruction of any part of the brain that would kill a regular person also kills an infected person. Sort of like a zombie that slowly looses themselves over time.

T is the adoptive son of this other character who had been infected by that yeast for over 500 years. T is a quarter East Asian, with short black hair and dark brown eyes. He is gay and mayyyybe trans I forget.

T’s adoptive father is named Michel Hobbs, and he worked as a field scientist with the Canadian governments secret military that investigated monsters and aliens and shit. They were looking into tremors under a remote area in the Yukon when they find a massive dying creature. A leviathan. The leviathan thrashes around as it withers in pain and it knocks Michel off of a ledge and into a bubbling pit of water. By the time the team retrieves him it’s too late. Michel is “dead”. The team leave the cave and seal it off, deeming it too dangerous to explore further. They have to sit in the belly Fo a plane with their dead friend as they fly back to base.

A week later, after Michel has been buried for a few days, he digs his way up. He has maggots in his skin and can barely breathe. The government scoops him up and runs test, unable to find out why he’s alive. Deciding he is an asset, they put him right back where he came from.

Michel Hobbs is a light skinned half East Asian man raised by two mothers with his brother on Cape Breton island, Nova Scotia. He has a PhD in microbiology and is a massive advocate for conservation of large marine animals. He is ace/aro and gay.

The second really important character in this is his husband. William Winters is a black man who is a general in that super secret sci-fi Canadian military thing. He has a BA in history. He had a wife and 2 kids, but his wife divorced him and left him with the kids once Michel died and William is left dealing with a lot of complex feelings and. Pretty bad trauma after watching his best friend die. His ex wife isn’t framed as in the wrong per-say? She has her reasons and while they aren’t entirely moral they end up being on decent terms years later. William raises his kids and does his best for a long time. He finds out the Michel IS alive and after a lot of distress they end up together after another year and a half of working together. They end up getting married at 37/39 and live the rest of their days in happiness until William dies from cancer at 94. Michel is there for his children’s children’s children until he leaves for good, unable to watch more people he loves die.

Michel lives, and after a catastrophic event decimates the world about 50 years later, a federation of aliens step in to help.

See, worlds are kept alive by the presence of god like entities called “leviathan” there are two per world on a healthy planet and they reproduce to spread life to the universe. They are partially responsible for aliens and humans having significant similarities and being able to like. Have kids and stuff. They have been in the universe since before the Big Bang and are theorized to have been from a universe BEFORE the Big Bang. Their blood holds the key to all life.

Earth killed one of its leviathan via pollution and environmental degradation, so now the human home world is a massive city sitting upon barren rock. They farm in massive buildings and the world is rife with exploitation and poverty.

This is even after the aliens help, corruption runs in deep in the universe. Humans were on the cusp of inventing safe and light speed space travel and after help from the many alien species are able to traverse among the stars, seeking resources to collect and planets to explore.

Space travel is controlled heavily by the government, which leads to pirates and bounty hunters becoming a vital part of how lower class beings survive. The government turns a blind eye most of the time, it gives them less responsibility over the under privileged.

Before the world died, Michel had collected DNA from as many creatures as he could. Paranoia is part of the reason he is so successful honestly lol. He had used his now vast amount of wealth to purchase a dead planet to repopulate with the cloned species he created. Using alien technology and his knowledge gained from his job he is able to populate the world with a large majority of earths former fauna. It becomes a garden of eden, and he is the god that looks over it. 200 years pass.

T is the son of an upper class family, and after he gets killed and comes back while exploring pipes below the world the government just dumps him with Michel. T has never seen any animal that isn’t domesticated, so upon being picked up and taken to the new earth he is amazed.

Years pass, T grows into a teenager. Michel buys him an alien creature that is also functionally immortal, aware of how lonely the world can become. Michel is. Not the greatest father? He is very hands off. Therefore T becomes VERY overconfident and does not care when he gets hurt because he can “just heal”. Michel at that point is loosing his memory, and spends days looking over his old journals in a feverish attempt to remember his husband and family. He is not a good father, and not a good person to be around. The world is alive around him and the one leviathan left threatens Michel with a fate worse then death if he doesn’t maintain it. Michel does nothing more than work on maintaining the planet and re reading his journals. Stuck in a near endless cycle year after year.

T, not liking the lack of attention and paranoia of his fathers steals Michels old shuttlecraft and leaves to explore the universe. Stumbling into situations and getting himself out with luck, rapid healing, and guns. He eventually becomes a bounty hunter!

In this universe, humans are seen how we see pigeons. Cute yes, but dumb and generally incapable. This is blatantly wrong but leads to pretty bad treatment of humans. A war breaks out between two sides of the federation, one side believes that “lesser beings” like humans should not be afforded the same rights as others, and the other is like “no what the hell is wrong with you??”.

This war goes on for decades, and many alien settlements (including human ones as well) are razed to the ground and their inhabitants taken to work in factories or as prisoners. Obviously, many of the people in the “lesser beings don’t matter” planets do not believe this and either leave or fight on planet to stop the atrocities. This conflict is like. Pretty black and white lol.

T often has a lot of trouble beating the stereotype of being weak, and even more so when he is assigned by the mob boss he owes to work with an alien from a species that very much believes humans are lesser. This alien is named Sol. Sol fully believes in the stereotypes until T proves him wrong.

They become tentative friends at that point. They do the job, and upon discovering the mob boss paired the two together to kill T, they kill the mob boss. They continue to work together and use their unconventional team to play both sides of the war, freeing humans and other aliens as well as pretending one or the other is captured to get past enemy lines. They eventually end up being gay 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 wooooo. The alien species lives close to a thousand years, so they don’t have to worry about loosing each other any time soon.

In this universe, soulmates meet each other and die within the same time frame. Michel and William were soulmates, and due to Michel not dying William is reborn again and again and again. Never quite coming close to meeting Michel again. (t and sol are also soulmates, technically.)

Until the newest iteration of William’s city is destroyed by the military and his family killed in front of him. Prior to this, he was a math teacher in one of the schools in the city. He joins up with the military and becomes a pilot. In a firefight above the solar system Michel is in, his shuttle is shot down and he crash lands on the planet. He is the only one of his squadron to survive.

Upon opening his cockpit, he comes face to face with Michel.

Williams is identical to the Williams Michel once new, hundreds of years ago. And it’s frightening for Michel! So he feeds him and clothes him and lets him stay in Ts old cabin. He barely interacts with him, afraid of the ghost of a man he once loved.

William is enamoured by Michel, and follows him like a lost puppy much to Michel’s dismay. He uses skills he learned in the military to track him and stick close. Michel has to save him from predators multiple times and eventually has to get the man to stick with him. He still keeps him at an arms length, afraid of falling for him. Michel doesn’t want to like. Take advantage of the guy, Yknow?

William finds one of Michels old journals, and finds a picture of the im first iteration of him with Michel and their kids. He shows it to Michel and demands he explain. Michel explains to the best of his ability, it’s the most William has heard him talk since they met. William hugs Michel, and it’s the first time in many years he has been hugged.

They stay friends for awhile, and eventually are sort of in a QPR? It’s a strange situation, and neither of them really know what to do. They are just happy to be close. They are happy to not be alone and they are happy to have found some semblance of peace.

Anddddd that’s all I ever had in my little noggin!!!! It was so fun writing this out again, I missed this universe and these characters so much.

#my characters

[rose-lalondde]

Naruto Fic Recs Friday

Unsent Letters

Chapters: 1/1

Rating: G

Summary:

Gai finds a box of letters with his name on them when he's going through a neglected closet.

Comments: Actual old men in love and it made me weep. Big win fpr kakagai fans.

Twitch Streamer Yuji and Youtuber Megumi

Chapters: 7/?

Rating: G

Summary:

Yuuji is a famous Twitch streamer who does streams from his college dorm. Among his fanbase, his huge crush on a random book reviewer on youtube has become a running joke. The fanbase decides to make it their mission to discover who Yuuji's mystery crush is.

Megumi has a very small book reviewing channel on Youtube he started in high school. He doesn't even know what Twitch is, but Nobara keeps insisting he needs to help her find this random Twitch Streamer's secret crush. Her reasoning: the secret crush does youtube and reviews books.

Comments: As you will find I'm such a sucker for modern aus and this one is really cute! Megumi being a booktuber & its so sweet to see them fall for each other just through their channels.

Ain't That A Kick in The Head

Chapters: 27/?

Rating: M

Summary:

He really, really doesn’t want to think about what it’ll mean to be a double agent. What it’ll really mean. How he’ll have to act. How he’ll have to lie for the sake of his revenge, how he’ll have to reforge severed bonds. And it’ll all be fake. Is a false bond better than not having that bond at all?

Sasuke feels haunted by Itachi's death. Literally.

During their fight, his brother placed a seal with the remainder of his chakra on him as a protective measure so he could watch him from the grave. Itachi, however, did not realize that his actions would change everything... by being able to assist his brother with getting his revenge against Danzo.

This is the story of how one unhinged outlaw, along with the ghost of his dead brother, infiltrates a village to flush out the corruption within and faces those who he left behind. Including but not limited to: old teammates, classmates, and the guy he has feelings for that he keeps repressing.

Maybe they'll even save the world and have a proper conversation.

Comments: Itachi is so funny, literally causing drama from beyond the grave. It's naruto if it was a romcom, and its hilarious & very gay. Also I love sasuke in this fic <3

Redemption In A Worthy World

Chapters: 69/?

Rating: M

Summary:

Sasuke Uchiha has returned to the Konoha of his youth missing an eye and questioning everything. While knowing what's to come is an incredible advantage, his very existence starts a domino chain of events no one could predict. With both the Akatsuki and Danzo interested in a new Uchiha, Sasuke will have to fight to keep those he loves safe in the cloak-and-dagger world of the shinobi. Except things are changing before he's even woken up, his younger self is just as stubborn as he is, and he's going to have to learn how to parent all over again.

Comments: LISTEN LISTEN ik it says 69 chapters it's so worth it, especially if you love sasuke or fix-it fics or time travel or worldbuilding and lore. If you like learning about the Uzumaki clan and always wanted that to be explored go ahead and open it up. It's in my top 3 fics of all time, that's how serious this is. I will say that it's rated M for a reason, which is that the violence is very intense and a bit gory & in chapter 66 there's a sex scene, but you can skip it if you want. It's definitely emotionally heavy and, I'm not even gonna lie, it's a really long read. Personally, I don't care for the aliens, BUT they do their part & the writer makes them interesting, they're also not as prominent in the story as you keep reading.

The "Five Years" Game

Chapters: 21/21 - Completed

Rating: T

Summary:

Things have finally calmed down to business as usual—as much as business is ever usual, for the Ouran High School Host Club—and Kaoru is feeling some tried and true Hitachiin-brand boredom. Seeing this, Kyoya issues an intriguing challenge: he plans on winning a certain game in exactly five years. If Kaoru wants to beat him, all he has to do is figure out the goal of the game before Kyoya wins it.

As if a tried and true Hitachiin could turn down a challenge like that.

Let the “Five Years” game begin!

Comments: I feel like I should tell you that my only bookmark notes on here say "VICTORY!" Anyway, I love it when people write kyoya and know what they're talking about, he's my favorite host club member. I have not been into ohshc for a while and this made me want to get back into it. It's very clever and well-written, had a lot of fun reading this. Definitely cried a bit at the end lol.

Crazy Stupid Love

Chapters: 11/?

Rating: M

Summary:

Mikoto Uchiha and Kushina Uzumaki were more than just friends. What they meant to one another would take a lifetime to express, so they did. The shinobi world is cruel, but it is also very beautiful. Sometimes, you can still find that beauty on a battlefield or on a lazy Sunday morning.

A companion piece to Redemption in a Worthy World, but can be read separately.

Comments: It felt wrong to not include this when I'm recommending Redemption too. It's so beautifully written but it's so dark and tragic, but I think about this fic often. It's also good for providing background info on some things that happen in Redemption but they're both standalone fics.

#look its still friday this counts #naruto fic recs #fic rec #naruto #naruto fics #ohshc #jjk #did 6 this time b/c y'know i had to double it #my comments for Redemption being longer than the summary...Yeah #ohshc fic being thrown here is so random but i love it so much #all of these are queer of course #both unsent letter and redemption feature characters with disabilities #also oomf wrote aint that a kick in the head so all of you have to read it now #btw they all have themes of love if you even care #ok let me post this before it's no longer friday #moon posts

[aikoiya]

Naruto AU - Alternate Kaguya Lore

If it were up to me, I'd make just a couple of small changes to the overall lore of Naruto. For one, the moon wasn't created, not by Hagoromo or by any mortal, because the Earth not having a moon would've had so many consequences for the environment, I just can't even. No, the moon always existed &, in fact, taking a bit of inspiration from the real world's version of Princess Kaguya, specifically Studio Ghibli's animated recreation of the story, the moon is where Naruto's version of Kaguya came from.

In my version, I'd make it so that Kaguya had once been the Kaguya from Studio Ghibli, but upon returning to the moon & staying there for so long, she became bitter & mistrustful of love as her's had been scorned & almost all of her suitors had been conniving, while the only one of merit had, unfortunately, died in his genuine attempt to accomplish the task bequeathed to him. Not to mention the emperor's attempt to rape her.

It had greatly soured her views of love despite how Cháng'é's stories of romance had enchanted her so long ago.

Here, Cháng'é was the original Tsuki no Hitobito & really had accidentally swallowed both pills of immortality when she'd tried to hide them both from a theif, so she truly was in love with Hou Yi.

At the time of her ascension, she had been pregnant with quadruplets & thus the first Tsuki no Hitobito had come into being.

However, she then attracted the attention of Tsukuyomi, who then took her as his wife in exchange for allowing her half-mortal children to live on Tsuki (this is after he'd divorced from his first wife & sister, Amaterasu). After which, Cháng'é had many more children.

She was considered the mother of the Tsuki no Hitobito.

However, because of this, the Tsuki no Hitobito aren't necessarily parasitic aliens & really are considered 'gods.' At least partial-gods, but they're also at least partially human. It ranges depending on the individual member & whether or not one is descended from Hou Yi or not.

There are actually 2 separate clans on Tsuki depending on who the 'founding father' was. The descendants of Tsukuyomi being the Ōtsutsuki & the descendants of Hou Yi being Lièrén'de'yuèliàng. It is unknown whether the rumors of Hou Yi being a god of hunting is true or if he simply had a Kami's level of skill at it, so his descendants' 'kami-ness' is often put into question by the Ōtsutsuki & they are considered outsiders & 'less than' among the Tsuki no Hitobito. Not just because they are possibly the product of 2 mortals, but because despite the fact that Cháng'é loved all her children & grandchildren greatly, it was obvious that she sometimes unintentionally gave the descendants of her mortal husband special attention. Thus, this can cause the Ōtsutsuki to become jealous. This causes the Lièrén'de'yuèliàng to be treated as the low class of Tsuki.

In actuality, Kaguya was the secret daughter of an Ōtsutsuki heiress who cheated on her Ōtsutsuki husband with a Lièrén'de'yuèliàng. Kaguya was the result of the woman's infidelity.

Anyway, the Ōtsutsuki are much like the Legacies of Percy Jackson if said Legacies were also immortal.

Kaguya was just one of Cháng'é's many, many grandchildren who was enamored by her great great grandmother's tales of Earth which is what lead to the story of Princess Kaguya.

She didn't go back to Earth until much later, after the collapse of modern civilization, during a time when the far east was at war with itself. That was when the lore of Naruto began.

Moving on, when the Rikudō Sennin, Hagoromo Ōtsutsuki, sealed the Jūbi's body into the moon, he did so with Chakra Chains or Chakra Jōhyō by dragging the kunai-like ends across the surface of the moon to create seals. (Which must've been pretty shocking for any Tsuki no Hitobito living there.)

It is from Hagoromo's son, Asura Ōtsutsuki, that both the Senju & Uzumaki clans came to be.

#naruto #naruto lore #origin of the shinobi world #chinese mythology #japanese mythology

[reginrokkr]

→ Study 𝐈: Forgotten tales and secrets of aeons old domains —Part II—

Moving on to the domains of Liyue —as I talked about Mondstadt’s in the last post—, there are two specific domains that caught my attention the most for different reasons. These are the Domain of Guyun and the Lost Valley:

- Domain of Guyun: Delusions and disappointments of an ancient ambition to lead humanity are gathered here. It refuses to give up on its lofty ambitions, though it is for now consigned to fester in the cavernous depths of Guyun.

The description of this domain particularly strikes a chord to me, as it shows that there were gods out there that actually wanted to lead humanity and see them prosper (to my knowledge, Guizhong and Havria were such examples), irregardless of whether these gods came into existence before or after Celestia’s arrival (I like to differentiate the gods from Teyvat with those of Celestia as the ones of Celestia are obviously the ones in charge of everything) but had to face the gruesome end during the Archon War, so that only 7 gods would remain on Teyvat.

For the place that represents the Guyun Stone Forest which is the location of this domain, it’s fitting that remnants of the gods would still linger here given that the place serves as some sort of cemetery to the gods that Morax has defeated during the Archon War, each one of the rocky protuberances representing the lances he struck different gods with.

Something else worth mentioning about this location is the influence that Osial has over it while still being alive but physically unable to do anything due to the Jade Chamber that restricts him. Said influence takes the form of memories that those who dare to venture to the Guyun Stone Forest and remain at nighttime will vision the last memories of Osial’s battle against Morax. It makes some great food for thought the prospect that at least some gods can share their memories at will without being particularly detrimental to the hosts of said memories thereafter. In this case, Osial is alive. But there is the knowledge that gods can’t die and that even if they may lack a physical form, their feelings / memories / ambitions still linger until they’re virtually nonexistent, presumably for a long time if we’re to take a look at the Tatarigami in Inazuma as a result of Orobashi’s defeat against Ei. While the god by itself was quite benign according to what we’ve been shown from some books and what he did in Enkanomiya and in Watatsumi later on, it does seem that whatever are the remains of a god can be twisted and most likely no longer represent what that god used to be in life if we’re to compare the tragedy of the Higi Village.

- The Lost Valley: The ancient ritual grounds were buried beneath the earth amidst a cataclysm that tore heaven and earth asunder before being uplifted by the descent of an alien object, and finally unveiled by a destructive battle that resulted from a betrayal. Nonetheless, those who once frequented this place are no more.

While I feel that for this we have yet to know more about what happened (perhaps what was shown that will occur in 2.7 has to do with it and for this I’m referring about the betrayal presumably by the hand of the Yaksha that it’s said to be sealed in the Chasm), there is a quest that sheds light onto the fact that initially, the Chasm must’ve been filled with water and thus have been a considerable body of water judging by some fossils whose remnants indicate to be from the same time. This could be either because of the meteorite that fell there, the nail of Celestia or both.

As a curiosity, I’d also like to address the topic of an alien object. I mentioned in previous times that there have been extraterrestrial arrivals starting from Phanes, then later on the Second Who Came (presumably Celestia) and there is some text concerning this as per the description of a weapon that remains to be seen whether it’ll be released or not, which says: A weapon fragmented from the epic battle waged by ancient extraterrestrial conquerors. It once had the power to extinguish the moon (could this be also related to the fall of the Three Moon sisters?).

Lastly, on to the domains of Inazuma. For the most part, we have recurring themes already seen in Mondstadt and Liyue concerning white trees and past civilizations:

- Violet Court: Sometime in the ancient past, the mountains rose higher than the skies, and the earth was larger than heaven’s dome. But one day, the mirror shattered, and the oceans arose.

In honor to the last domain that I addressed from Liyue, this also talks about the Cataclysm (by Cataclysm I don’t mean Khaenri’ah’s for this one, but most likely the war waged between the Five Saints and the Second Who Came) as the collapse of the heavens is another element that happens every time the apparent rulers / deities of an era enter into conflict with invaders. It happened with Phanes first upon kicking out the 7 dragon lords, after which Phanes began the creation of the heaven and earth; moreover, upon his birth which was from an egg, Phanes created with the eggshell the universe and separated it from the microcosm of the world. And it also happened with the coming of the Second Who Came that most likely had some creation job to be done. This is due to the fact that every time a war of this caliber occurs, the aftermath of it on the world makes it almost impossible to live in unless something is done about it.

Another interesting thing to consider would be: How real is the heaven that Phanes created? Is it as real as the universe? In the places of the earth where said heaven’s dome wouldn’t reach, were the celestial bodies (aka the sun, moon, stars, etc) seen differently than in other places covered by this heaven’s dome?

- Momiji-Dyed Court: This court is ever a silent scene of falling red leaves. Perhaps lost causes and unforgettable loves may follow the veins of the earth and coalesce into the fruits of the court’s white tree.

- Court of Flowing Sand: They say that in antediluvian times now lost to history, there was once a foolish ruler who dreamed of building a high garden in honor of the white sacred tree over the primordial sands. Now, dead silence fills the kingdom built on sand, but the obsessions of the past remain.

Another description that predates the Second Who Came’s arrival and after the defeat of the Seven Sovereigns, as it’s known that humans began to be a thing since Phanes created them. This ruler’s story with the Irminsul tree reminds me of the “Parable of the Tree” from the Before Sun and Moon book, in which a gardener was commanded by the king to cut off the spirit tree but the gardener was in love with it. So he was advised to cut a branch first so he could plant it and in 500 years the spirit tree would grow anew. Irregardless of whether this is regarding Irminsul or not, it shows the importance of the tree that without a doubt existed before the Second Who Came’s arrival.

- End of the Oneiric Euthymia: Countless dreams once blew about here like petals in the wind, never to be fulfilled. This is the origin of Eternity, and it is also “her” end.

Ei’s consciousness domain. For more explanation regarding the existence of this please see here the Midsummer Courtyard regarding the Sommernachtgarten.

To conclude with this, it’s interesting that so many of these domains that reference to ancient civilizations in many instances still exist to this moment thousands of years after. As for what exactly sustains them irregardless of whether their shape is still intact or not from what they used to be back then, it could be a series of things: Ley Lines, memories (which are also sustained by Ley Lines according to Yae Miko’s quest), the remnants of past gods that are still there or even their consciousness / the consciousness of those strong enough to create a domain out of it.

#◟༺✦༻◞ Analysis within the ley lines ichor ┊Study.┊ #◟༺✦༻◞ Memories are all but forgotten in the river of time ┊Queue.┊

[audiofictionuk]

New Fiction Podcasts - 29th August

MINDRAKER: Background Anger New Audio Drama! MINDRAKER: BACKGROUND ANGER is an eight-episode sci-fi mystery podcast – a surreal tale of love and betrayal, wrapped in an existential meditation on man’s relationship with the forces at war within himself. Mankind is under attack. Alien beings have invaded the collective unconscious, influencing unsuspecting victims to act on their darkest instincts. Maru, a seemingly average man, is burdened by his clandestine duty as a psychic soldier in the fight against the ruthless invaders. But his dual existence has recently become further complicated by a Box of unimaginable power given to him by God. https://mindraker-background-anger.simplecast.com RSS:https://feeds.simplecast.com/ZkSmo_qD

Crimson Hearts Collide New Audio Drama! As one of the top lawyers in New York City, Sonora Williams (Malinda Williams) is as driven as they come. On track to make partner at her law firm and being one of the youngest to ever do so, she has little time for a personal life. One day she receives a letter in the mail that changes everything – Sonora has an uncle who just passed away and left her an inheritance, a farm in Greenville, Alabama. For her entire life, growing up in foster care, she was told she had no family leaving her to wonder, if he knew about her why did he not come for her? In order to get the answers she seeks, Sonora must leave her best friend in NYC (Amanda Seales) and close-knit community to travel to Greenville and meet the people who keep the farm running – including the handsome cowboy Zeke Summers (Keith D. Robinson) who immediately captures her attention.  https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/MIARM1463492131 RSS:https://feeds.megaphone.fm/MIARM1463492131

Professionally Possessed New Audio Drama! A collection of stand-alone fantasy audio stories about Helena, a woman who exorcises people of demons by drawing the demons out of their bodies into hers. She stumbled into this line of work by a botched exorcism she endured as a child which permanently marked her with a tattoo that forces demons to take her instead of other victims. To survive, she learned how to defeat demons in their inner world, their second consciousness, with magic powers that only exist there. However, she is powerless to control her own body in the outer world while possessed. She is often helped by Martzia, a charismatic licensed exorcist who finds clients, handles the money, and comforts victims, and Bridgette, a former soldier and demon slayer, who protects Helana from herself and makes sure she doesn’t hurt anyone else. Occasionally, Simon, a healer mage given his powers by a mysterious god, also helps out. https://twitter.com/ProfPossessPod RSS:https://pinecast.com/feed/professionally-possessed

The Third Threat New Audio Drama! Our worst fears come true... on the home front. An ordinary woman is swept up into an extraordinary plot against America, by Russian domestic terrorists. She's overheard key details of the plot, but does not speak Russian... until she undergoes an experimental procedure, and becomes America's unlikely best chance against enemies hiding in plain sight. https://www.voyagemedia.fm/shows/ RSS:https://feeds.megaphone.fm/thethirdthreat

QNC Presents: Keys From the Golden Vault New Audio RPG! QNC Presents: Keys From the Golden Vault is an anthology series of modules GM'd by Alandra Hileman and tied together to form a full campaign. We record this Dungeons and Dragons Actual Play in-studio and livestream on twitch and youtube. The Golden Vault is a secret organization offering legally questionable services from those that need help outside the law. https://goldenvault.captivate.fm RSS:https://feeds.captivate.fm/goldenvault/

Batman II Audio Play Based on the Unused Batman Returns Sam Hamm Script New Audio Book! Batman II Audio Play Based on the Unused Batman Returns Sam Hamm Script https://rss.com/podcasts/batman2 RSS:https://media.rss.com/batman2/feed.xml

SYMBIOSE New Audio Drama! Hørespillet SYMBIOSE er et stykke dramatik om det tætte dyadiske venindeskab, hjerteveninderne og the Best Friends Forever. To bedste veninder befinder sig pludseligt på forskellige sider af kloden og er nødsagede til at rykke deres venskab over på en telefonlinje. Venindeskabet er euforisk, selvtranscenderende, grænseløst og risikabelt. Hvordan kan man være sig selv, når man stræber efter den totale sammensmeltning? Veninderne bevæger sig ud i et forsøg på et radikalt venskabsritual for at tage den yderste konsekvens af den perfekte symbiose. Med inspiration fra eksistentialistisk kærlighedsteori beskæftiger SYMBIOSE sig med længslen mod aldrig at skulle være sig selv igen. Dramatik og instruktion: Lise Hagen Medvirkende: Stine Stub Nielsen og Mollie Næss-Smidt Produceret på Uniradioen af Dyvekes Fremtid https://www.uniradioen.dk/ RSS:https://pinecast.com/feed/symbiose

Nights At The Square Table New Audio RPG! Listen to a group of friends tell stories and laugh a lot through the medium of table-top role-play-games (TTRPG), mainly Dungeons & Dragons. Our first epic campaign, The Kyruen Chronicles, is available now! Follow along with our heroes as they discover lost artifacts, learn more about themselves, and occasionally tell a joke or two. https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/the-square-table RSS:https://anchor.fm/s/e6c823a0/podcast/rss

Crash Course DM New Audio RPG! Part Dungeon Master’s diary, part live play, Crash Course DM is a series of DnD firsts for our adventurers, whose characters were randomly assigned, and the DM who doesn’t know what they’re doing. Tune in every other week to follow along with the DMs plan and see how the players don’t! https://anythingyoucando.co/crash-course-dm/ RSS:https://anchor.fm/s/e6dd18dc/podcast/rss

Des Reisenden erste Wahl New Audio RPG! Du hörst einen Let's Play-Podcast zum Pen-&-Paper-Rollenspiel „Das schwarze Auge“ in der 5. Edition. Unsere Gruppe besteht aus vier Helden und einem Erzähler. Die Gruppe erlebt offizielle Abenteuer, die improvisiert aufgefüllt werden. Wir spielen nicht alle Regeln aus und stellen den Spielspaß in den Vordergrund. https://www.des-reisenden-erste-wahl.de RSS:https://dsa.podcaster.de/des-reisenden-erste-wahl.rss

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[kudosmyhero]

The Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 3) #4: {untitled?}

Read Date: October 15, 2022 Cover Date: September 2014 ● Writer: Dan Slott ● Penciler: Humberto Ramos ● Inker: Victor Olazaba ● Colorist: Edgar Delgado ● Letterer: Chris Eliopoulos ● Editor: Nick Lowe ●

Synopsis: Over at Pier 64, Parker Industries is testing an anti-Electro netting, with Percy standing in as a "faux-Electro". The team debates methods of re-creating actual conditions, with Percy suggesting he shout "Die, Spider-Man! Die!" Peter then receives a Code Omega from the Avengers, instructing Spider-Man to assist in an end-of-the-world scenario. Peter tells Anna Maria this is a good opportunity to repair relationships with his "Super-Friends", who were alienated by the Superior Spider-Man. Anna Maria insists Peter cannot keep disappearing because he is now running Parker Industries. As Peter webswings away, Sajani asks Anna where Peter is. Anna insists Peter has a very good reason to disappear, but Sajani is done with his excuses, even "If it's the end of the world!"

Spider-Man arrives on the scene of the Avengers and their battle with the Mindless Ones, asking Kitty Pryde to tell the other X-Men that he had been mindswapped with Doc Ock but was now back in his own body. The Orb unleashes one of Uatu's eyes, allowing Spider-Man to see that the spider which bit him had also bitten someone else. The girl, Cindy Moon, reveals to her parents she cannot control her webspinning. The family is then approached by Ezekiel Sims, who takes her away and seals Cindy inside a room like the one he offered Spider-Man to hide from Morlun. Spider-Man looks around and sees Luke Cage, the Hulk and Thor have been similarly affected. Spidey then webswings away to look for Cindy.

While webswinging, Spider-Man thinks back to his encounter with Madame Web after the events of Spider-Island, when she told him of someone else who would take his place if he chose not to continue being Spider-Man. Peter goes to Ezekiel's old building where he was offered a room to hide him from Morlun. He remembers that Ezekiel told him that he made the room years before he new his identity. Realizing that Ezekiel knew his secret from day one, he breaks the door into the building screaming "Liar!". He enters and triggers a pre-recorded message to him from Ezekiel. The message tells him that if he is hearing the message, that means that he entered without him and reveals in the unlikely event that Spider-Man survived Morlun's attack and Ezekiel did not, then he should know that there is another individual like him - a Spider. Before the message reveals why Ezekiel kept this from Peter, he fires a webline that breaksthe screen, cutting off the pre-recorded message. Peter tells Cindy he is there to free her, she tries to warn him that Morlun will come if he does. Peter, knowing Morlun is gone, opens the sealed door. Cindy is initially upset, and promptly attacks Spider-Man for dooming them to Morlun's attacks.

Meanwhile somewhere else, Morlun senses the opening of the vault, referring to Cindy as the Spider-Bride and the spinner at the center of the web. Morlun then vows that a "Great Hunt" would begin. Spider-Man is still under assault from Cindy, who is displaying superior speed and Spider-Sense, but lacking in strength. She reveals Morlun will know of her existence, and that he would devour their "brothers and sisters". Peter reveals Morlun is dead, and that Cindy is now free. When she prepares to head outside, Spider-Man reminds her not to be seen using her powers, and so she creates a costume out of spider webs, then tells Spider-Man to call her Silk. As she swings away, Spider-Man has a hard time keeping up.

The Black Cat is in Parker Industries, making a record of all the tech they are currently producing. However she doesn't understand them, and opts to 'steal' someone who does. Sajani has had enough of Peter's constant disappearances and vows to make Peter see how he deals with everything without her help. The Black Cat then pulls her away, commenting on her perfect timing.

Spider-Man is still following Silk, but realizes his Spider-Sense is drawing him towards her and not steering him away from danger. Silk arrives at her former home and realizes they moved away, with Spider-Man promising to help find her family again. Cindy asks when Morlun died, and when Peter reveals he died twice, she is angered and attacks him again. Cindy states that since Morlun came back once, he could come back again, and that Spider-Man setting her free had made her sacrifice all for nothing. Spider-Man tries to move away, but she pulls him back with a webline and tells him they're all in danger. She asks him whether he can feel it, and Spider-Man realizes his Spider-Sense is out of control, screaming inside his head, and running through his veins, the likes of which he has never felt before.

Silk pulls up his mask, and they kiss.

(https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Amazing_Spider-Man_Vol_3_4)

Fan Art: Spider Man and Black Cat Color by logicfun

Accompanying Podcast: ● Amazing Spider Talk - episode 0?

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[lowder-the-koopa]

Lowder's Horrible and Weird Yo-Kai AU Part 4: Kamen Rider Forever Part 2 and Countdown to Escape Part 1

Alright, Part 2 for the Final Saga before Shadowside is here for this weird story let us continue this. Read Part 3 to get what is happening.

After running away, they realize they can't run away from Oma Zi-o because he will follow them and kill them, so he can do everything over again but now they need to think of a way to beat him and Komasan thinks that maybe they can use the blank Ridercard he has on him to trap him by using his soul magic but they need to distract him long enough. They enact the plan by all of them becoming their final forms(Komasan's Complete Koma, Decade Complete 21?, Diend Complete 21?, Den-O Liner Form, Ghost Mugen Damashii, Usapyon's Complete Heisei, Yuki's Complete Showa, and Jibanyan's Complete Reiwa) to distract and summon every Kamen Rider ever to stop but he is able to overpower all of them but, thankfully, Komasan is able to sneak the blank Ridercard under him and he distracts him by attempting to use his Rider kick but it doesn't work, but he uses blank Ridercard to trap him in it, which he does, Oma Zi-o is trapped because of Komasan using the combined powers of every Kamen Rider to seal in the Ridercard, which gives him a Oma Zi-o Ridercard to transform into him but Oma Zi-o is still able to talk because of soul being in there but Komasan doesn't want because of it being able to corrupt him. After that, All the Rider worlds are brought back to normal and they all go back to their worlds.

After the Oma Zi-o sitaution, They return home and it is announced that Lord Enma is putting a contest to see who is the strongest yo-kai ever, so Komasan, Yuki, Jibanyan, and Usapyon join to fight to become the strongest. The first event is putting all of 14 billion yo-kai(yes there are that many yo-kai in this AU) in a battle royale to only get 32 for the actual tournament and to weed off more the weaker yo-kai. The main group uses their entire arsenal of weapons and abilities to fight a lot of the yo-kai ranging from using their natural abilities, acquired abilities, and their Rider powers. During this, the four need to go to space because the arena for this battle royale spans a solar system. During this, the four use Megaoptimuszilla to fly through space, and encounter many space yo-kai and old enemies but they are able to use Megaoptimuszilla's atomic breath to get rid of many them but they encounter a new enemy they've encountered before(but that story is for another time),the aliens from Y School Heroes, but before they are able do anything, the four yo-kai use Megaoptimuszilla's atomic breath to go throught their entire fleet but before they die, they use their secret weapon, Gigan, the two kaiju fight briefly before Goji(Megaoptimuszilla) uses the atomic breath to destroy Gigan's(Secret weapon my ass) putting an end to the alien threat. After the remaining yo-kai apart from the 32 are gone, the tournament begins with all the 2 of the 32 yo-kai being chosen to fight each other through random selection, which includes the four main yo-kai. During all of these fights, Komasan, Usapyon, Yuki and Jibanyan are able to beat their opponents but this leads to Komasan fighting Usapyon first and winning with the power of the Grand Zi-o Ridercard. Next up, Yuki is beaten by Komasan with him using Complete Koma: Reiwa. In the finale to this tournament, Jibanyan is beaten by Komasan with him using Complete Koma: Heisei against her Complete Reiwa, in which Komasan is able to win due to his Rider kick being stronger. In the end, Komasan is declared the strongest yo-kai by Lord Enma for winning the contest of power.

During all of this, Goku Blizzaria teams up with Swartz to finally get Komasan's and Yuki's body for her to bring her dead love(Son WuKoma AKA Goku Koma) back from the dead and use her descendant's body to look and feel more normal but when they do attempt this plan but it fails because the main group was able stop but not before Goku Blizzaria tries take Komasan down with her but Yuki is able to stop this and seals the both them, Swartz escapes, this leaves the main group, especially Komasan, with a hopeless outcome.

Looks like I will continue what happens after in part 3 of the final saga. See ya, next time

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