#Null wouldn't really understand that and also wouldn't care

[peliginspeaks]

Hey gang I just realized that I don't think Null can pass the mirror test? Which in the context of their past profession and Flondon in general is. Hilarious

Context: the mirror test is a test of intelligence for animals (and development for small children) to see if they realize that the person in the mirror is Them and not another baby/cat/whatever. I'm pretty sure it tests the intelligence needed to realize how reflections work, but it also needs a sense of self, and since Null straight up Doesn't Have One I just... don't think they would pass. Which is hilarious because by sheer luck their assumption that the reflection is a whole other person is in fact kind of right in the Neath.

[bardan-jusik]

based off this post, i present to you an au maybe 5 people will understand!

mercs/501st/rebel legion repcomm au*

*all dramatics in this au are based off of the characters and their dynamics in the series, not real world people, i feel like i have to say this because i'm a currently acting mercs officer

kal is an alor'ad, vau is the ver'alor (no really, trust me on this), and gilamar is the ruus'alor

kal has been the alor'ad for like 15 years now. nobody ever wants to run against him and the entire clan is dreading the year he retires. he never wants to retire, he's going to be trooping when he's 90

kal is ex-military (and in the mercs' military/vet group), discharged when he got shot in the ankle. he works as a substitute high school teacher, so he's mostly retired and treats the mercs as his job. he does a troop at least once a month, usually more

kal joined the mercs straight out of the military because he needed some kind of community and a hobby to keep him busy. pretty quickly he went from Military Hard Ass to Mr Rogers

he's INCREDIBLE at running cons, coordinating between multiple organizations, figuring out booth setup, managing the table schedule, and generally keeps things running very smoothly

kal and vau FUCKING HATED each other at first. they only got away with constant bickering because the alor'ad at the time was jango, who did not give a shit about the 'conflict resolution' part of his job and dumped alor'ad duties on the first person who was willing to do it as fast as possible (this was kal- jango quit the month after kal got approved)

before kal joined, vau was good friends with jango, and he's pretty pissed with him initially for quitting and leaving THIS LITTLE MOTHERFUCKER in charge, but vau didn't want the job either, so

the main reason kal and vau hate each other is that vau's dad was an air force officer (vau never enlisted because his dad wouldn't let him) and kal was army. instead of being reasonable about this, they build about 18 stratified layers of resentment

all their beef is external- they actually agree on most things related to the costuming clubs. they eventually start to bond over being annoyed by the same things, and mutually caring about their other club members. they get drinks after a small troop once and talk it out, and because they dont have Kamino And Vau Almost Killing Atin fucking up their relationship, this actually works. everybody is SHOCKED when vau runs for ver'alor the next year

vau is very happy with being ver'alor because he doesn't mind doing paperwork and merch stuff and finances (all of which kal is... pretty bad at) and he gets to be involved with all decision making, but kal does all the Social Organizing (which vau is very bad at)

mird is a fuckass little white dog that vau puts in various star wars costumes for events

alternatively mird is a doberman or shepherd breed that vau still puts in star wars costumes. i couldnt decide

vau does not talk about what he does for work. everyone is scared to ask

gilamar is the ruus'alor because it is his job to tell everyone not to breathe in bondo fumes or resin dust. this is my entire reasoning

he is actually a veterinarian, not a human doctor. everybody asks him for medical advice anyways

rav hosts most of the armor parties, she owns a ranch house (and horses), and also hosts an annual bonfire party. parja lives with her.

the clones are mostly not biologically related, but all of them for some reason or another lack family connections and have latched onto the costuming groups for that community. kal hasn't legally adopted any of them (he met them all at least as late teens/adults) but most of them refer to him as their dad/grandpa

the nulls are all masters of the craft. they have like 4+ approved kits each across the mercs, 501st, and rebel legion. jaing has the most approved kits: 2 custom mandalorians, a rotj boba (the madman), an arc lieutenant, stormtrooper, sandtrooper, imperial officer, generic jedi, darth vader- (the list continues and he has more in the works. he also is in Droid Builders)

mereel only has less approved kits than jaing, he has more if you count his joke kits. approved he has a custom mandalorian, a darth vader, a general grievous (yes this is a thing, you stand in the cloak and puppet the grievous), and a generic clone

for joke kits, he has a Bedazzled Mando, Sexy Darth Vader, Sexy Boba, a halo mashup, Male Twi'lek Hooter, Rainbow Jedi, and more

a'den specifically likes making helmets and has an entire wall of just helmets

all the nulls have lighting and mechanical parts to die for (whistling birds that actually move into place, fog machine in the jetpack, motorized and lit rangefinder, programmed voice lines activated by glove gestures, blasters with lights and sounds)

mereel also made an e-web prop

bardan joined rebel legion first with a jedi and still sometimes wears it but as soon as he found out about the mercs he made armor and didnt look back

bardan's lighting and programming game is also insane, he also likes droid building and lightsaber hilt building/programming

bardan has only done his jedi and one mando, but he's constantly helping everybody else with their armor. he's at every armor party. he's the best tailor in the whole goddamn area

zey is some kind of regional command/app team for the rebel legion (im not familiar with their command structure sorryyyy) and does not want to wear armor because it's hard to put on and rough on your body and also difficult and expensive. he's very good as a regional officer. kal only drives him a little crazy sometimes, they generally work together very well

etain is rebel legion with a custom jedi, and she's had mando armor in the works for literal years. bardan is about to kidnap her for a weekend to get it done already. she loves building blasters and helped mereel with the e-web

bardan is the clan's jor'alor (runs social media). before he joined that was vau's job. vau is ASS at social media and kept posting his dog. bardan actually would prefer to be the ru'cabur but he can't give social media control back to vau, it would be a disaster, so he's just also unofficially doing ru'cabur stuff (historian, lore expert)

at cons bardan usually runs a mandalorian history panel and includes a Mando'a Crash Course section where he gets the audience yelling phrases. he gets to nerd out to an actually interested audience for about 45 minutes, while wearing mando armor, with a power point. this is ideal for him

laseema has a twi'lek mando but prefers to handle rather than troop, she only wears her armor 2-3 times a year

i could go on but tbh if you read all of that already ily

[151ae]

transcript of ros talking abt factions and pangi yesterday (24/03/25, 0:58:30 in her vod)

ros: no, it's so hard — i feel like i can't be against anyone but i should be, y'know what i mean? i, i just feel too bad, chat. even with the people who've wronged me, i feel a little— i feel a little bit bad, for the... like uninviting people to the ball, i dunno. it's hard. i feel, i feel bad. 

ros: it's so— like i trust sneeg. like i feel like sneeg has a really good... direction. and i... and i want him to... i want to, i want to genuinely, like, like i trust him, but i— it's so— it's hard to— the thing is, it's hard to battle how i feel when i know people are gonna think i'm biased. and then it's like, it's like 'well, if ros is biased then it's irrelevant,'— like not, not like that, but y'know what i'm saying? like that kind of vibe. like it's hard to trust someone who's biased for a specific reason. it's why i don't wanna fight my whole case. 

ros: ... i don't think pangi would lie — let's be honest, when has pangi lied to me in the last month? since the null, when has pangi lied to me? exactly, yeah exactly! exactly! which i, which i empathize with because i would also, i would also be that way, y'know? if... i, (quiet sigh) i don't know. it's hard. 

(..)

ros: i just feel like... i feel like— okay, this is my thoughts. pangi doesn't want me dead, right? but that doesn't mean he'll— he'd stop his faction from maybe treating me badly, right? doesn't mean he'd stop his faction from... at least i don't think so, i don't think it would stop his— him from... (sigh) i feel like, if the— if it was reversed, he'd be the same way, because it wouldn't be directed at me, it'd be directed at the faction. 

ros: ... the thing is— as well, like i. (huff) i've told you guys that pa— pili makes me feel kind of uncomfortable, but it's hard, 'cause at the end of the day, i really care about the kingdom, and pili's part of the kingdom. and it— that's where the confusion sets in. 'cause i... i like, i— yeah! i'm team kingdom. i'm team kingdom, all the way! and, but there's never been a, a— a point where i'd have to choose between the kingdom and my friends, and that's where it's hard. 

ros: yeah, they can believe that pangi's a bad person, but it doesn't mean that he can't still be my friend — but now it feels like there's a, there's a in-between. 

(..) 

ros: yeah... um, the hard thing is, as well, like i understand it, like, there's like a war,— (stutter) okay, let's be honest: i feel like green have kinda started this war, right? they've started this war. not, not yellow, green. so, the deal has been, like he— pangi's technically sticking with his team on that, right? (sigh) i say this stuff, and then i just lose where my point's going. like saying that— that i'm not gonna die, technically isn't really saving me, 'cause it just means that it's still gonna cause (piglin hits her, voice stresses) pain to my faction! and that's gonna indirectly cause pain to me. um... him killing my faction is causing pain— someone in my faction, is causing pain to me, y'know what i mean?

(..)

ros: so, (huff) ... (reading chat, 'partly probably due to the fact he has nowhere else to go aside from alone in terms of factions maybe?') 'nowhere else to go,' and that is true! but i also feel like i, (sigh) i feel like i also kind of have— no, but then he— he has me to go to, right? and i have him to go to, but, i don't know where i'd... oh, it's hard, chat. 

(..)

ros: it's, it's just the fact that pili— it was pili's last life. pili can't defend himself, can't say exactly what happened, it's... it's how it is right now, y'know what i'm saying.

[fire-on-fuel]

been turning over this thought in my head for a while and it's still not fully articulated but I want to get into it so

(tldr: reflection on characterization in the first boba fett jr novel, child emotional development, personal interpretations, vagueing psychology concepts, boba & jango dysfunctionality)

The boba fett junior novels choose to contrast jango and boba's morality, so we see boba for the first time as something more than a unique extension of jango. But we also see how jango shapes boba- intentionally and unintentionally.

I don't know a lot about child psychology but I do know there are hard and soft ways to direct how kids develop. Jango Trying to parent doesn't mean he's not molding boba in his own image subconsciously, or that he's not deliberately putting in effort to make sure boba has the personality to look out for himself, whatever questionable parenting that requires. Is it giving boba a million Complexes? yeah. And that part's not intentional, but a lot of jango's parenting is.

Most of jango's parenting choices come down to him feeling this overwhelming need to imprint lessons he had to learn in very hard and traumatizing and gory ways onto boba for boba's future safety, and using his presence as a parent to do it in a much gentler manner. Which makes sense, but it also means he's raising kind of a terror. And scrambling boba's social development and sense of empathy. And creating these partitions in boba's head from an early age of hard and soft mindsets and when to use each which boba then takes and applies within himself according to the patterns he observes in people and then you have a kid crossing his own wires and coming to really unnerving conclusions all the time about how he should regard himself and how he should treat others.

Boba needs to be desensitized to violence and he needs to still be able to care about the people close to him (because that's non negotiable to jango). And ofc he needs to understand the code and things like that and to respect his parent and elders and at least outwardly, his peers. (could go on a whole other tangent about how in a perfect world jango needing to enforce boba's niceness to the clones would be a tip off for how he was influencing boba to think about said peers but jango doesn't care about that lmao). So you take the kid on the bounty hunt and you teach him to shoot and you give him the toys r us version of your own personal code that lets you not be in moral turmoil all the time and on the surface boba is doing pretty fine he doesn't seem emotionally stunted or anything he loves his dad. But if you took him off kamino and put him in regular elementary school I guarantee you'd start to see some problems.

The Fight To Survive likes to explore how jango actively affects boba, but not so much passively. Kids are extremely malleable, every Fact about the world they absorb becomes a starting point for an internal domino effect. These effects then become adjectives that describe boba, and uncouple from jango. Which can get spooky to authors considering that boba fett is an unequivocally Weird and not always Good kid. There's also the fact that due to boba's environment jango isn't likely to see any peer conflict go down or wouldn't dissaprove hard enough to take serious action. (this is why I think karen traviss avoided depicting certain sides of the nulls cause it just opens a whole can of worms with whether the audience will remain sympathetic to everyone involved). I mean boba isn't even supposed to be spending time with CT's or in other varied social scenarios that would dig up any weirdness, like jango thinks would be best. (again jango THINK please)

And I'm not saying boba is a completely morally bankrupt unempathetic child with only terrible influences or that he tortures animals for fun or that he's a bully, more that he's a strange kid, pretty self isolating, distrustful, being taught by his dad to be selectively empathetic, and yeah a little twisted in the right and wrong and tact categories. Which doesn't negate him being sweet or caring or protective or excited to learn or innocent.

There's these misconceptions around social development and trauma that imply that something clear cut and violent has to happen to change the trajectory of a kid's sense of self and how they relate to others (ex: vau literally torturing his cadets into detachment). Or that there's some imaginary line that once crossed means the child in question is Screwed In The Head Forever and has no hope of being prosocial or loving or manageable ever again (blatantly false! people contain multitudes!) and kids can only be Nice or Evil (regardless of whether you think being an evil little kid is condemnable).

Even though these ideas aren't true they're widely accepted and they do directly relate to why official writers shy away from reversing the top-down approach to jango and boba's relationship and showing boba, in his whole personality, first, before connecting it back to different causes; jango or otherwise. Doing so forces the audience to see that weirdness and then you run the risk of losing the character being sympathetic to a knee jerk "oh!" reaction.

And this is kind of hard to talk about cause it invites more heavy questions like 'why is moral innocence (for lack of a better word) culturally encoded to be innate to children' 'how badly can you screw with a child's emotional development without visible abuse' 'are children really just warped reflections of their environment and caretakers' that I definitely don't have the full answers to.

What I do know though, is that jango probably subscribed to the intent=effect equation and he probably also thought boba was doing great considering his circumstances (fair I guess). And boba is probably a somewhat unsettling child to be around if you're present for long enough to notice what's missing. And people parent their kids according to their priorities- whether they know about them or not. And boba is still his own person with outside influence to weigh into things like morality. And lots of people develop oddly even with loving caretakers because human minds are very impressionable in order to be so resilient. And a lot of times functionally normal people are only that in certain environments or have weird shit going on but you just might have to trace down a very normal line of thought in their head a while before you hit it. Idk.

At the end of the day boba fett is literally just a kid. He waits for his buir to come home and hug him and shooting real people with real lazer turrets is in the same category of his head as killing minecraft zombies is for the average 10 year old. All he can do is shift around the information about the world and the experiences he's had until it makes sense.

So I want to see him be weird and fucked up more!! I want to see that reversed characterization!! I think it should be possible to see that without it painting boba as a devil child or positioning jango as a relative villain. Cause yeah jango is an adult with much more responsibility here but he's also been hammered into a certain shape by trauma and it's not worthwhile to me to conflate that with malicious intent. But I do want to be shown that caring is not enough to stop harm, and that jango does not have to be a consistently cold or gruff parent to cause that harm.

Jango being that much more loving while still doing as jango does will always be a more interesting message about parenting and internalized trauma than a solid and not at all unpredictable jango that puts boba through trials of character to toughen him up and nothing else. Jango wants the best of all worlds, and he doesn't want to accept that he can't be a healthy parent and teach boba to be a bounty hunter and set his son up to survive relentless trauma and still get a normal kid all at the same time. I think that makes him mildly unstable and hard to guess at from a child's perspective. He'll do his best to make up for it though since every second he gets with boba is important and precious.

[heartcircus]

oh my ros warrior can u please explain to me whats the current ros stance on pangi is i dont understand how truthful she is 😭😭

ros warrior clocking in ready for duty o7

currently, ros is very conflicted about her friendship with pangi. on one hand, she really wants to be his friend and stick by his side, especially following the events of the null, but all of his actions against yellow indirectly hurt her as she places herself in the center of yellow and values them somewhat above all (especially clown, sneeg, and foolish).

she talked a little bit about it yesterday with sneeg; she isn't so upset about pili dying to pangi because she's also very conflicted in her feelings about him, but she cares about what that stands for. pangi is in direct opposition to her faction, and thus her friends/family. ros also doesn't really get along with a lot of pangi's faction members like owen, krow, and lukey and even had sneeg make a move against him last night, so she's kinda stuck in this really strange middle ground? she knows pangi wouldn't actually hurt Her as in her person, but his actions against anyone else in yellow will. ros has also told foolish that if it came down to it, she'd fight pangi in order to save him (i think generally any kingdom member but i don't remember fully lol).

last night she talked to sneeg and pili where they both advised her to be wary of pangi. not necessarily cut him off but just be Aware that he's on the prowl and definitely has the capability of killing them. ros didn't stream it so idk how she feels 100% following that conversation but i think both of them kinda confronting? her about it made her realize that her friendship with pangi is on super thin ice.

all in all, i think ros wants to be pangi's friend and in a perfect world they could be but because of him opposing the entirety of her faction with the sole exclusion of her, it makes things tricky. she's more hesitant to trust him and tell him things/help him in fear it'll hurt yellow, but she still wants to have faith in him.

[therabbitthatpostthings]

Okay let’s talk about Murder Drones Finale 😭😭😭

SPOILERS FOR EP 8! ALL OF IT. MURDER DRONES SPOILERS HERE

First off that opening was so cool. Brayden's still on fucking fire, the teacher is so over it. I love it.

Nuzi being Cringe!

THEY ARE SO FUCKING CRINGE YOUR HONOR I LOVE THEM! Uzi asked are they dating and he says "That was the plan!" I LOVE THEMMMMM OMGGGG! I can't get a good screenshot of it but they do wrap they tails together during the fall.

The Animation

I just- it's so fucking good. The red lights as the planet is destroyed. The way that the purple light of Uzi's Null reflects on Cyn's robotic and flesh parts. This is an episode you gotta watch frame by frame. I'm just gonna lump cinematography and shot choices in here too. Like the only way for everyone to truly understand what I'm talking about I NEED YOU TO WATCH THE EPISODE! Like it's well known that every episode is a reference to a horror movie, the Prom is Carrie, Cabin Fever is Friday the 13th, etc. I feel like we don't appreciate how scary this show actually is. The way shots are laid out and scenes are paced give off such unease. It's great I love it. I'm sorry but Uzi trying to put her own heart back in her chest AND save N who is being disemboweled is INSANE WORK. AND THE HANDS! THE HANDS!

AND THE EXPRESSIONS! YALL- FUCK- getting across so much emotion with robot characters is always my favorite thing to see.

And of course! Uzi, N, and V vs Cyn and J. I- it's just- y'all go watch this fight pls. This shot is so fucking beautiful...

J vs V

So J knew the whole time. Big Yikes. ALSO MY PRINCESS BABY GIRL IS ALIVE! God on J for living past the end credits but WOW- for Cyn to trick her... I wonder how much of that she really thought was Tessa.

Khan, Lizzy and Thad

I love this shot of Khan so much.

I still believe that the "secret friend" was Khan and/or Nori just because there is no reason for Lizzy to not tell Thad (also V texted her AFTER the planet exploded to let her know she's alive which she wouldn't need to do if she still thought Tessa was Tessa). It would be funny if it was all three. Nori was gonna get the cross to the surface and give it Lizzy to get to Khan. Khan asked Lizzy to find the hideout since she was hanging out with V in between Ep2 and 3 and then V texted her after the planet exploded to stall J. Honestly love that for Lizzy did the most and cared the least. Side note, the way Lizzy is so unbothered in the fight confirms to me that she is the homeroom teacher's daughter.

But yeah! I'm glad these three made it to the end and they didn't do the thing where Lizzy and Uzi become besties. I like Lizzy as V's friend more. Love love LOVE- Khan looking at Nori's core and saying "Kinda hot..?" Nice to know that the Doorman women have a type. And Thad. Sweet little prince Thad. Just a good dude.

Cyn (this whole part is rambly)

I've been very specific about referring to Absolute Solver as Cyn. I usually write "Absolute Solver/Cyn" when reffering to them. Cyn is dead though. Uzi burned up her core and ate the [null]. So for brevity, I'm just gonna call it/them Cyn.

Speaking of Cyn. I love Cyn. I don't think I talk about how much I love Cyn. I can't talk about Cyn without talking about her relationship to N, V, and J. N, V, Nori and Uzi all refer to Cyn as her. J refers to Cyn as it. Cause that's all it really is. Cyn was the host- someone who is long gone. Even when Uzi was taken over V was angry at Cyn: "Same horrors, huh Cyn?"

J on the other hands says: "It tricked me too." She's knows what the Solver is and sees it for what it is, a virus. We've seen from the memories that N and V (especially N) were a lot closer to Cyn than J who sided with Tessa and the Elliots. This distinction of calling Cyn shows that N and V can't or won't distinguish the two. This is someone they grew up and lived with. N is hesitant and scared cause that's who little sister vs V who is angry cause this is the creature that replaced Cyn. Remember V says "We do our job, and that thing leaves us alone." As far as V is concerned Cyn was always like this and she just wants to save her team, especially N. (As far as Uzi and Nori go, they've never known the Solver by any other name except Cyn so no need to change it. Absolute Solver is a mouthful compared to Cyn). My point it, it hurts seeing the person you love become a monster and even more to know that Cyn 1001 was never there. The only time we saw her was as that little scared Robot in the pile. They never really knew her and maybe there's hope that Cyn, their Cyn, is in there but she isn't. She never was, it's always been the Solver.

And because I have to mention it. In N's flashbacks after Cyn caves his chest open we see flashes of this happening at the mansion and V's body on the floor. Which was expected, we know Cyn made them but what I'm thinking is, Cyn DEFINITELY used N to kill Tessa.

ANYWAY- now I get to talk about how much I love this fucking little freak. She is so CREEPY! I love everything about Cyn. I love how she moves- how her movements are so creepy and fluid. Like all the animation is fluid but she moves extra-fluid. It's creepy she's creepy I love her! I love how much personality she has, they totally could have went the soulless machine route but no, just like the Worker Drones she HAS personality! She sadistic, malicious, and manipulative. Genuinely there is so much wrong with her. Like there is so much about her to talk about that I can't even explain in words. Better to assimilate than explain tbh. Like she shows genuine interest in the Murder Drones. She kept their personalities in tact because of N, even knowing that V and J would be liabilities. She even told Tessa as long as she didn't get in her way, Tessa would be unharmed. She could've easily killed the banquet without all the flair but she was angry at the Elliot family for threatening her, N and the rest of the Drones. The singularity is the point where technology reaches when we, humans, can no longer control it. It is indistinguishable from our concept of humanity. I'm not gonna get all philosophical and ponder the legitimacy of the Drones AI, I think the show does that well enough. They have thoughts and feelings, they are alive, plain and simple. This story is not new btw, robots living in the remains of human society and having their own personalities and living as an extent of humanity has been done before. The examples I can think of are Wall-E, Stray and I Have No Mouth... works too (kinda). Basically, Cyn as the antagonist have her own personality that goes beyond the mindless machine route is so fucking cool and I love it. I love has antagonistic she is to everyone, even people she likes. It's not like she doesn't understand empathy, she just doesn't care. "Your copies will forgive me." And again! The is not new, this is not a new character type, I'm sure but it's done well here. She is amazing and I love everything about her. Cyn you are freaking crazy baby girl and I love you.

The Ending

She a damaged OC now, what else is there to say?

[weaselbeaselpants]

Want to say this outloud so that the rest of the tag+comunity knows it and knows it well: not all the Lily Orchard-critical blogs and people HAVE to be buddy-buds with each other. It's always nice to have unity and no-infighting but you need to understand we are all adults talking about how we and other people have been hurt/set-upon by her base, or even preyed on by Lily herself.

Barring shitty transphobes and KiwiFarms (I 100% get why someone would go there, espec when receipt trails are getting harder and harder to keep up and are reported as harassment in sites like this one; I personally wouldn't trust the farms and the bozos there to handle my info well or with good faith. Other people who are using farms for receipt-tracking? Sure. The Farms themself? Fuck no and fuck Null) and obviously predatory people in their own right like Zena and Poppy, we're here to tell our stories and make sure other people's stories get told. Beef, even particuarly ugly beef like accusing each other of dismissing ab*se, zionism, or being angry that we're on servers w people we don't like - it's valid to not be chummy and mad at each other. Still, none of that will ever make us what Lily (or Zena and Poppy) is.

Lily Orchard-

wrote CP (her 'Stockholm' series). It may not have involved real children so it's not punishable by law in many states/prefectures, but y'know writing graphic cp is not a good thing. Most annoying proshippers defend the semantics of 'drawn material' out of fear that those rules will be abused and used to silence non-vile art: BUT, they don't support it and they don't want it around;

also, Lily up and lied to her audience, first that she ever wrote Stockholm then that the videos were she admitted to writing it were deepfakes and that the fanfiction's graphic bits were edited in by bronies who were mad at her.

stole (ie. copy-pasted other people's writing) other people's words and passed them off as her own

CONSTANTLY talks over people of color and other queer people. I'm too damn white and not native to dictate if Lily is truly 'native' or not. What she does/say though in the name of fighting for other lgbtq and bipoc folk is really scummy.

and that's JUST the tip of the iceberg!! Lily-

had PatchworkHearts make graphic p0rn of her behind her[Lily's] partner's back, most of which Patchwork was not comfortable with making but did so out of desperation that Lily took advantage of, including drawing r@pe-bestiality of on of Lily's x's ocs.

is quite possibly is a serial sock-puppeteer; creating accounts to live out her darker fantasies. On the offchance that Tara Callie is somehow a real person, than that real person is vile as hell and was just as much (longer so) a friend of Lily's than she was Britt's, so it's cruel of Lily to act like Britt was complacent in Tara's crimes and not her.

has been accused of lying about medical ailments to get money from her audience.

immediately dumped ILoveKimPossiblealot for having the gall to talk to LIly's accusers and get their stories, rather than just take Lily's word.

keeps instinctively misgenders people and only stops when she gets any heat for it like she did to EssenceofThought. By contrast every one of her main critical blogs has not misgendered or deadnamed her, and the one who initially did has actively avoided deadnaming and misgendering her since.

in now deleted videos and older tumblr posts, told friends of abuse victims not to care about their abused friends and parents of incestuous siblings to accept their children's incest.

is being accused by her sibling of CSEM. Lily has said it's the other way around but then also draws her sibling as the darvo'd sister from an incest game, dismisses said siblings abuse at the hands of their half sibling because Lily 'loves' him, and also proudly has mentioned beating up said sibling and slying saying she 'ran off with a pedophile' at 17 as though being taken advantage of (I know, Courtney does not view said relationship like this) is the sibling's fault.

And that's all I could remember for a single post. Im going to go back and post links once this headache I'm suffering from is sated.

[bruhhhh-huhhhhh]

RAMATTRA REQUEST TIME - trans masc/gn reader, some fluff first - Ram discovering s/o is ticklish, I feel like he'd be almost clinical about it while reader is dying laughing and it's sending me 😂 - Carving pumpkins w/ s/o (it's halloween season now idc) - Ram grabbing s/o's hand so they don't get lost in a crowd or something, Ram doesn't notice for a while that he's still holding s/o's hand, but s/o does and they are f l u s t e r e d (premarital handholding????!!! lmao) - Ram helping care for his sick s/o (just like a cold or something way more angsty whatever your heart desires). nsfw request(s) next!

YESSSSS

I'm doing the hand holding one first

and you totallyyyy shouldn't send me some angsty requests too... (Wink wink, Nudge nudge)

Ramattra holding readers hand

The two of you had been attending an event that Talon had planned to celebrate Null Sector's recruitment. It was loud and crowded. Very crowded. Lots of Talon's agents were there, as well as Null Sector's. Ramattra had been trying to keep track of you in the crowd, trying to keep you next to him. It hadn't been working very well.

"Y/n? Where are you?" Ramattra called out. He had lost you.

Again.

It was starting to annoy him, how easily you got lost in the crowd. It had happened twice so far, this time making three.

"I'm over here!" You called out from one of the tables on his left. Your feet had started to hurt, so you said over your shoulder that you were going to sit down for a bit. Unbeknownst to you, he wasn't next to you as he had been dragged away by Sombra.

Ramattra could feel the frustration overcoming him. He knew that he'd have to do something about you getting lost. You're small and fragile compared to him. You're...human. It wouldn't be hard for a spy to take you and use you to get to him.

"Y/n. You musn't walk off without me," Ram says as he sits down next to you.

"I don't do it on purpose! There's just so many people that's it's so easy to lose you," you respond, crossing your arms.

If he could, Ramattra would have rolled his eyes. He opted to sigh instead. "I understand that, but I don't want something to happen to you and me not be there."

The two of you talked for a while before deciding to go back into the crowd. The two of you talked to various different agents in both Talon and Null Sector.

At one point, people started to move to a certain area. Ramattra felt you starting to slip away from him, so he made a split second decision to grab your hand and pull you closer to him.

The two of you stayed like that for the rest of the night. Holding hands didn't seem like such a big gesture to you before, but now that Ramattra was holding yours you understood why people thought it was. Your face became more and more flushed as the night went on, Ramattra never letting go of your hand.

He hadn't even noticed that he hadn't let go. The feeling of your soft hand in his metal one felt so natural that it was pushed to the back of his mind.

By the end of the night, both of you were exhausted. Being the leader of Null Sector, Ramattra had lots of people coming up to him, and you by proxy.

He guided both of you to the room that you were to be staying in, his hand not leaving yours the whole time.

You were very tempted to just collapse into bed with your boyfriend, but you also really wanted to get the suit that you were wearing off. But you couldn't as long as he was holding your hand, and you weren't going to be the one to pull away.

It took Ramattra a while to finally notice that he was still holding your hand. He went around doing his nightly chores, including meditating, without realizing.

When he finally did it was because he wanted to know why you hadn't gotten changed yet. The two of you were sitting on the couch, still holding hands.

"Darling, why haven't you gotten changed for bed yet?" He asked, looking over to you. That's when he noticed that your face was quite red and you looked really flustered. "Are you alright?" Ram was worried that you were sick and he hadn't noticed until just now.

"I, uhm..." you trailed off, not knowing how to tell him. "You haven't let go of my hand yet."

"Oh," is all he said in response, not finding it that big of a deal. "You could have let go, you know."

"No I couldn't!"

"Why not? Is this one of your weird human things?"

You groaned and hid your face in your hands. "Kind of? I don't know. It's just- It felt intimate, I guess?"

Realization dawned on the omnic. "Is that why you're so flustered?"

"No!"

Even though he doesn't have eyes like you do, you can tell what look that he's giving you. It's the "Oh really?" look.

"Maybe..."

"Good boy."

All that does is fluster you more

AHHHH I'M FINALLY DONE IM SORRY THIS TOOK SO LONG!!

[elvenchevalier]

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom

Wow, what a game. I probably could not have chosen better for my first game of 2025.

At first, I wasn't certain how I would feel about a Zelda game with indirect combat, but Echoes delivered on its premise with aplomb. I felt like it was the perfect evolution of Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom's systems where every tool had multiple uses. The wonderful thing about Echoes is that you have so many tools with so much utility that you can basically do whatever you want with creative enough Echo use.

Of course, for me, that meant spamming Deku Baba for combat for basically the entire first quarter of the game. It got to the point where, even though I'd long since stopped using it, Deku Baba still took SECOND PLACE on my most used Echoes list. Crazy. (Trampoline and the all-powerful Water Block were the other two.) I regret nothing, though. Spamming Deku Baba like I was twerking at the enemy was far more satisfying than it had ANY right to be.

On the subject of the Water Block, can I say that thing needs a NERF? It feels like once you have access to Water Block, you can get literally anywhere you need that's either a certain number of blocks away or, even better, along any ceiling or up any wall, as the only limitation Water Block has is that one of the connecting blocks is touching an existing piece of terrain. And since you have access to the third dimension, you can snake your chain of water blocks any which way you need. It's completely busted, and the only reason Flying Tile even keeps being useful is that it can cross huge gaps that are too long even for the Water Block. Long live Water Block.

The only real flaw I can come up with for the Echo system is that the list of echoes displayed upon holding right is a single line almost as long as Hidetaka Miyazaki's swamp boner. It should honestly have been a grid, like it is in the pause menu, or even better, organized by category.

Complementing the Echo system is a mechanic wherein Zelda uses Tri to control the movement of another entity—item, enemy, obstacle. Sometimes I would forget this exists, but that’s my own fault. It has two functions: moving the target to match Zelda’s movement, which saw plenty of use, or moving Zelda to match the target’s, if the target is mobile...which saw next to none. It was tremendously underutilized. The only time I actually had to use it was when it was first introduced. Still, it was an interesting skill; I just wish it had been expanded on a little more.

The boss design in this game is ACE. Echoes of Wisdom sees some of the most creative and fun boss designs I've seen in Zelda in a long time, and that's including Tears of the Kingdom's high-tier bosses. (I’m not sure any of them beat out that Ganondorf fight, though. That was *sick.*) That being said, creative use of Echoes does kind of make the bosses a little too easy, but that's not necessarily a problem for most players.

I truly believe Echoes of Wisdom stands up with the greatest 2D Zeldas. A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening should be proud to stand with it. I would PREFER a less bobbleheaded art style, but I wouldn't mind if Zelda games continued on a path like this--less focused on Link necessarily cleaving a bloody path through to Ganon as if Hyrule depended on it and more on unique and interesting mechanics like Echoes.

Also......

Is it really the Downfall timeline if there's smoothies?

Even an unfortunate smoothie is still a smoothie.

Lore discussion under the cut. I understand many Zelda fans do not care for overall lore or even like the idea of a timeline, but I am not one of those fans. At the core of me is a lore nut and I will be loring. And nutting.

LORE DISCUSSION ---- Spoilers ahead!

The Eldin Temple's boss threw me for a loop!

I know it's just an Echo, but the fact that it appears is still significant. It means Volvagia was still alive to BECOME an Echo by the time Null started breaking out of its cage. Where was Volvagia during, let’s see… A Link to the Past, Link’s Awakening, the Oracle games, A Link Between Worlds, and Tri-Force Heroes? Does Volvagia’s presence mean OoT Link didn't even make it as far as the Fire Temple in the Downfall timeline? That doesn’t exactly jive with my personal theory for the existence of the Downfall timeline, but the fact is Volvagia’s echo exists in Echoes. (It COULD simply be that they want to start making Volvagia a recurring boss like Gohma, but with how creative the bosses in this game are, and that Volvagia is a single individual while Gohma is a species, I somehow doubt that.)

Echoes of Wisdom seems to have been placed after Tri-Force Heroes and before the Decline of Hyrule leading to the first two games. Given that it explicitly takes place in the Downfall timeline, it makes me wonder what Null’s deal is in the Child and Adult timelines. It clearly must still exist as it was there at the very beginning, long before even Skyward Sword, so it would have survived into each timeline as well.

That it takes place after A Link to the Past, however, is blatant just in its geography, as a couple of AlttP’s dungeons can be seen as ruins in Echoes of Wisdom. Notably, the ruins of the entrance to the Desert Palace is the site of a minor rift that Zelda must explore as part of the Gerudo story in Echoes. Very cool. I love that shit. I LOVE that shit.

Also, in Eastern Hyrule, the Eastern Palace makes its third appearance as the Eastern Temple. Good Stuff! I love Zelda.

That about sums up my thoughts about Echoes of Wisdom. At least for now. I might update this later. Who knows?

Next up is Link’s Awakening. I’ll likely finish Lies of P first, though.

またね！

[araneitela]

While I have these noted in my OneNote, putting them on here may... make it that I write these down more thoroughly faster. But, meta-topics that I'm planning on elaborating on:

— Kafka's semblance of 'boredom' and its manifestation. This is seen across the board through either suggesting or engaging in both more trivial and more significant 'games'. But a great example is the "trial" during the on-going Jepella Rebellion. Throughout the entire sequence, we see the judges with flaring red eyes that glow brighter at numerous intervals, and when she's "let to plead her case" a bit more thoroughly towards the end of it, we're shown a red string breaking (timestamp: 2:08); you see the judges' eyes return to normal and they are in a state of severe mental disorientation and panic. The string breaking marked the intended end of Kafka's Spirit Whisper on them. The entire trial was nothing more than a mockery of the court: her game. As Sam notes at the end (timestamp: 2:32), "You should really stop playing with your food; Kafka." He meant it. Kafka plays games when many likely wouldn't due to a sense of risk. Aside from being immune to this due to the lack of fear that she claims the populace of Pteruges-V (or at least, New Babylon) to have, this playfulness is likely an added manifestation of this. We know that she doesn't fall victim to the same follies as others from this same planet, "I used to be a Devil Hunter (...) When people don’t feel fear, they are dominated by desire and pleasure – they become “devils”, so this may be a different form of 'pleasure' in the simple form of entertainment. The Jepella 'trial' is simply the most evident example.

— The two different manners of speech. We're overtly familiar with the incredibly seductive delivery of most of her dialogue, but there are instances where Kafka's delivery is quite different and it is incredibly intentional. The very first instance of this, is when she first speaks to the Trailblazer. It is not as consistent, and there is still usually a lingering element of playfulness to the end of most words' pronunciations (there are specific lines that are a lot more evident, such as "When you have a chance to make a choice, make one that you know you won't regret" at the end of the sequence). This could be blamed on the fact that this was an early recording and they were undecided; however, the decision of having two different 'vocal deliveries' has been set in stone with Kafka's story/companion quest. Thankfully, I found this to help make it very obvious.

— Not feeling fear does not equate lack of emotions and/or the concept of humanity. For me, 'fear' is merely one of many emotions that humanity possesses, it is tied in with many (all) others but it is not representative, on its own, of all emotions in their entirety. The reason I make note of this is Kafka's inherent tie to musicality, one of numerous great 'arts' that requires great emotion to properly understand and appreciate. Now, part of me wondered if she perhaps lacked this as well, and whether, because of that, this was one of her 'goals' within the Stellaron Hunters as well. But when looking at the individually noted goals for each of them, "they who chase after fear" (Kafka) is separate from "they who inquire meaning" (strongly hinted at being Sam), which renders the question null and void. Aside from that, she actively seems to harbor an element of care towards the Trailblazer, but most undeniably, she actively harbors a semblance of care and concern for Blade's state of being in her story quest. This also means, to me, that Kafka harbors the ability of affection.

— Her character banner was called 'Nessun Dorma', named after arguably the most famous tenor arias in all of opera (yes, you've likely heard it even if you're not into opera). As much as she is very much tied to classical music throughout the game, and showing an active investment in it, this is entirely different as it is a vocal performance, rather than instrumental as all other musical passages used for her have been. Nessun Dorma is an aria in the final act of a musical called Turandot. This is a fantasy tale that unfolds in China, where a beautiful but very cold princess (Turandot) poses three riddles to any suitor who dares court her, and commands the death of all who fail. When an unknown prince (he who sings 'Nessun Dorma) ultimately triumphs, the opera ends in a love story with a happy ending. Hoyoverse doesn't do things without reason, and so this intrigues me relentlessly. But moreover, the riddles and their answers really get the cogs in my head to spin wildly; as this reeks of Kafka in more ways than one:

"What is born each night and dies at dawn?" Hope.

"What flickers red and warm like a flame, yet is not fire?" Blood.

"What is like ice yet burns?" Turandot (the princess in question).

[corner-master]

people in the comments be saying "she was 16, she didn't have parental consent, so the contract was null and void", but that's a relatively modern thing (as in, within the last century and such). In the time period this movie was set in,->-> if Ariel had been born a human woman, <-<- she wouldn't have had the right to do anything her father didn't allow her, not because he was a king, but because as the male head of the family Ariel would have legally been considered his property. Even if she was of legal age, she would have still been his property until she was married... then she would be her husband's property.

couple of important notes before I continue:

1)In the states, the Married Women's Property Acts, which allowed married women to keep their own wages and to own property in their own name, only really got started in New York in 1848. Prior to this in 1839, Mississippi allowed women to own property with their husbands permission.

2a) in 1875, Minor vs Happersett, the Supreme Court declares that despite the privileges and immunities clause, a state can prohibit a woman from voting.

2b) 1890, Wyoming becomes the first state to allow women to vote in all elections.

3) 1981, Kirchberg vs Feenstra overturned the state laws designating a husband "head and master" with unilateral control of property owned jointly with his wife.

This, and many more laws and acts and declarations that gave and took away rights, is just what happened within the US. Which I'm pretty sure is not where the little mermaid took place, but I also don't have a clear view of other countries women's rights laws, so this is what you get. Point is, it wasn't until certain points in history that women gained specific rights equal to men. And it took a hella long time to get there.

The only way she could have circumvented this and made her own discissions was if she abandoned her home, forfeiting all rights of protection and safety that came with belonging to a family... which she did.

Ariel gained her Legs because she wanted to go to the surface and, under the romantic reasoning pushed by children's movie logic, be with the prince. Big Problem here is that Love had very little to do with marriage back then. If your parents genuinely cared about you and your thoughts and feelings, they would take your declarations of love into consideration but still have to weigh whether such a union would be beneficial to the family as a whole. Eric, being a prince, would have already had an arranged marriage with someone of presumably equal standing to strengthen his Kingdoms ties with other nations. This is supported by the original Little Mermaid where the prince had to refuse Ariel's advances and she pretty much dissolves into sea foam.

Given this was set in a fictional world with fictional ways of life, you can't really apply more than the pretty basic laws and rights attributed to those settings. Only the narrative really gets to tell you how things are and how they will go. So in the original, Ariel was denied true love so she shriveled up and blew away in the wind. In Disney's version, she married the prince.

Now, How does all this apply to Ursula?

In the Disney Version, Ursula was undoubtedly the Villain. She used predatory tactics to lure Ariel into signing a contract without understanding entirely what she had done, and then tried to hedge the deal in her favor. All of this under the premise of gaining ownership of Ariel to get back at Triton.

The problem with all this? As scummy as it was, it was all Legal. Whatever laws that may have existed in that world- in Triton's domain- meant in this instance, Ursula was in the right.

Triton literally tried to strike Ursula down, but the contract itself shielded her from the trident's power. The most powerful weapon at his disposal could do nothing against the power of the contract. The King of Atlantica, presumed ruler of the entire sea, didn't have the ability to break the contract. The only thing he could do? Was make another deal to pay the price himself.

Which was a monumentally stupid thing to do given he had six other daughters who were now also in as much danger as his 7th, let alone his kingdom and the numerous denizens that resided within the sea. Hate to break it to you all but Triton was not a good or wise ruler because he put his family, his interests, before the safety of his people.

The only reason they defeated Ursula was because Eric was able to murder her. Not sure if it was because it was a mundane object (the ship) instead of a magical one, the contract wasn't big enough or present to save her, or because Eric himself was outside the terms of the contract (meaning Triton and presumably anyone affiliated with him couldn't retaliate against her under the binding of the contract).

So what can you take away from this spicy take?

Ursula was a business woman that used cut-throat tactics to get what she wanted. It may have been morally wrong but legally she was in the right?

Society as a whole should strive to better educate themselves and their children on the risks and dangers of entering predatory contracts without looking for and understanding the hidden stipulations within said contracts and what consequences may then befall them? Especially when that deal is made with a shady woman living out in the boonies with clear signs of horrific moral integrity?

The Monarchy of the sea was ruled by a man who often made impulsive and careless decisions that negatively affected his people's lives and should not have been allowed to retain his position?

Triton was the King, But I sure didn't vote for him.

[notesofarichlycolorednight]

s1ep10 reflekta

23rd verse same as the first. pacing was okay. set-up was dumb and contrived.

i love juleka's english va. like nathaniel, she doesn't sound like a high schooler, but whoever is voicing juleka has that evil laugh on lock. she has a fun voice.

i'm annoyed that chat noir was completely null in this episode. when, again, ladybug and chat noir are supposed to balance each other out. so it stands to reason that if he's voided, ladybug can't do her side of things bc things are too imbalanced. that's like. literally what yin and yang is and means. i don't understand (that's a lie, i do understand) how they got it so backwards.

the creator kept telling us that it's about balance without actually knowing what that meant or, more importantly, showing us that. if they were truly partners who could not be without each other, then there has to be raised stakes where if chat noir goes out, so does ladybug in some way.

a better written show would've thought through that and, to raise the stakes, would've shown that in like. a two-parter finale.

like imagine if they had actually been more balanced and equally contributed to defeating akuma. and both of them could cleanse akuma in their own way. but they never lose. it may seem close at times, but they win the day. but then. in pt1 of the season finale, chat noir gets taken out (or ladybug, if we're going for truly balanced here), and suddenly the other who is left behind is unable to defeat the akuma until they figure out a way to get their partner back. like how tense would that be!! can you imagine the stakes if hawkmoth figured that out! you could build up to that in the next season, even. like maybe he doesn't notice in the s1 finale, but you start to slowly build it up more over the next season and he exploits that to raise the stakes even more!

and this is just me brainstorming on the fly. can you imagine what they could've written had they actually put thought and care into the story?

another thing that annoyed me was chat noir trying to make his case for ladybug to take him with her to fight reflekta. he comments he sometimes has ideas, and i just honestly wanted to laugh, bc like when? when has he had an idea that tangibly contributed to helping them defeat the akuma. if he was as smart as ladybug, he wouldn't have gotten so caught up in trying to get the already-turned kids out of the school, and instead focused on finding reflekta. not only was his catalysm not going to be useful, but he turned his back on his enemy.

that also makes me think about how sometimes they silently communicate or they just know what the other is thinking and will act accordingly. which i think is supposed to be demonstrative of like how they're partners and are supposed to be yin and yang, but that once again misunderstands what yin and yang actually is and means. also you should teach children that communication is always important, even in close relationships like ladybug and chat noir are presumably supposed to be. it's really not clear and it's never really shown to us in the show.

the final scene in the tv station was also annoying bc they had a really good setup had they not fucked it up. esp bc the way they did end up writing it was totally backwards? ladybug tells chat noir to cut the lights but can she see in the dark? literally the first episode shows us she can't and that chat noir has night vision!!! AND THEY DON'T UTILIZE HIS NIGHT VISION BC THEY TURNED HIM INTO A REFLEKTA. LIKE MAYBE THE WRITERS SHOULD'VE JUST GONE BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD AT THAT POINT.

i can just see them story-boarding this and getting to this part and someone bringing up the fact that ladybug can't see in the dark but chat noir has night vision bc he's a cat. and the writers being utterly at a loss at what to do. like instead of trying to write a better script that keeps chat noir as chat noir so they could actually have him be useful and use what they established in episode one, they just. idk. thought it would be fine.

they set something up and never wrote the fucking pay-off.

the fact that chat noir can't take a few jokes. pathetic. he's fine dishing them out but can't take them himself. weaksauce. don't give if you can't take, chat noir.

also (and i know this is a lot less organized) i didn't like the lesson/"bad luck" marinette had to deal with in this episode. tikki scolding her for sneaking into the principal's office to delete a photo, and then chloe blackmailing marinette felt so wrong on so many levels. again, it's not a bad thing for her to do something wrong under the guise of her thinking she's doing something right. in a better show.

but as i've stated before, we never feel marinette ever learns from these little incidences bc they write the show like it's episodic. so everything resets at the beginning of a new episode.

this is not to mention that chloe has once again gotten another akumatized, and marinette is forced to protect someone who should have been turned into soup in the last episode (that i watched, not in the word of god order). i honestly don't like the message it teaches people. that you should be kinder overall to everyone, even the person who bullies you and your friends, who's racist, and classist, and every other ism bc what do you expect from a rich, white, blonde-haired, blue-eyed girl.

like no! you have no obligation to be nice to people who have blatantly, time and time again, demonstrated that they do not respect you as a human being. again, anyone who acts that violently racist should be turned into fucking soup!

[indigoipsum]

OKAY OKAY I have to finally express my thoughts about Kuro II after the rewatch

Me and Null agreed that episode 1 is just... a lot better than a lot of the characterization going forward. Despite the eye gouging (I cannot defend this. Alois is very mentally ill and needs to take it out on someone and I think he has misogynistic tendencies and self-hatred for his own femininity that he decides to hurt Hannah because of it) Claude was written more how he should have been the rest of the series-- stoic, annoyed, but ultimately showing glimpses of care or something adjacent for Alois.

Delete the filler episodes and add more Trancy house development in general.

Alois is a lot less malicious than I remember. Before the duel happens he's literally just going to show Ciel to the bathroom. He only tries to hurt Ciel when his life is on the line, and even then, he begs Ciel to try to understand him as he's dying.

NONE OF THE REVENGE STUFF MAKES SENSE!! WHY WOULD AN 11-YEAR-OLD ORDER THE DEATH OF THE PHANTOMHIVE FAMILY! Ciel is smarter than this! I know demons are charming but Ciel is an extremely smart kid and literally solves crimes every day. When Alois starts explaining things, you'd think that after the duel Ciel would actually try to process it before all the torture stuff happens. Also, why would that "arsonist" allegedly hired by Alois confess to it? Was Sebastian paying him off? We know none of this actually happened!

GOD Ciel's characterization is horrendous. He kills the alleged arsonist without remorse and then is prepared to kill Alois then, later on, is like "ugh I could never kill that easily" YOU JUST DID??????? Also, when he becomes a demon, he completely leaves his servants without any regard for their well-being despite them caring for him for three years. Even though he's a demon and such now, he's not going to change his personality like that. Sebastian was under orders by Ciel to find new staff, and instead of just hiring a really good cook, maid, and gardener who had defense experience or whatever, he took in three people who had nothing left but their abilities and showed them genuine kindness. It's debatable how much of the kindness was really Sebastian's but it stands that Ciel would not abandon his servants. At the very least, not Tanaka, who he's known all his life. He wouldn't do that to Lizzie or Soma or Agni either! He cares about all these people. So he and Sebastian are just wandering around flower fields forever? Why don't they just go back to Hell where Sebastian will still be his servant?

Another point with the demon thing: I fully believe that it was just done to pander to Sebac1el shippers (censoring so this doesn't come up in a search for the ship because that is the opposite of the goal here).

I forgot how creepy Claude was in the later episodes. There were parallels between him and previous Earl Trancy that should have served a stronger narrative purpose but just made it look like he was sexualizing the two boys.

There's only one scene that actually intends to make Alois' CSA feel disturbing, and it's when he's laying motionless in bed and saying how Trancy looks at him with hunger in a different way than Claude does. They were so close to the point! Also, one of the maze questions is about Alois pretending his trauma didn't happen so why do people insist he enjoyed his abuse?

When summoning Claude, why was none of the contract about getting away from Trancy???? "I don't care about that old pervert" YOU ARE BEING BRUTALLY ASSAULTED?? Sorry Alois would have def ordered Claude to kill him in my mind.

Every scene with Hannah, no matter how serious, portrays her in a sexual light and I HATE it.

WHY WOULD SCOTLAND YARD THINK THAT CIEL IS ALOIS. THEY HAVE WORKED WITH CIEL FOR YEARS.

The maze idea was cool but, again, executed poorly.

Grelle's characterization is better than Season 1 in terms of showing her skill.

The Hannah contract was still confusing after multiple watches and idk what was going on in that writer's room.

I think that's it for now but dear god. This series is so much. If all of Kuro II Tumblr was hired to write it then it would have been genuinely good

[the-phantom-otaku]

How would Max, Carl, Sandra, Frank, Natalie, and Ken react to Ben holding a family meeting so he could have the lil chills meet the rest of the family? How would they react to Gwen and Kevin knowing about the lil chills before they did, and them not telling them?

Ooh, this is quite the meaty question 👀

First of all, I feel like it would be Gwen who practically forces him to hold the meeting. I've always thought Ben wouldn't be real keen on talking about the subject. Not bc he doesn't like the Little Chills but bc discussing the fact that you technically are a mother when you're a teenager and a guy at that is just a bit awkward. But, anyway, I think Gwen would eventually get guilty after being reminded of the Little Chills and she'd be the one to suggest they tell the rest of the family, especially Sandra and Carl. 

Also, I feel like Max already knows and I’ll explain why. In Above and Beyond, Manny makes reference to Big Chill’s rampage. Now, Kevin could’ve very easily told Manny and the others about the incident at some point. Seems like a very Kevin thing to do. But I was struck with a thought: What if it was actually Grandpa Max who told them? This is like a whole ‘nother headcanon, but my thought was they told Max and he ended up letting it slip to the Plumber’s Helpers by complete accident. I also think Grandpa Max would be the only one Ben would willingly tell without being convinced by Gwen. Max would have an easier time wrapping his head around the concept and all since he’s been dealing with crazy alien stuff for decades at this point, but it would still come as shock. He was thrown into the Null Void for a few months and by the time he comes back, he finds out he’s a great grandfather lmao. And obviously, Max wouldn’t be upset that he wasn’t told immediately. Ben really didn’t have a chance until after he returned from the Null Void.

Anyway, on to the actual question! Let’s start with Sandra and Carl. They’d definitely be shell-shocked by the news. I’m sure neither expected grandkids for a hot minute considering how much of a trainwreck Ben’s love life is. Confusion is also a definite. “How is my teenage son a mother to 14 moth children?” I also really think Sandra would freak a bit. Like, she’d jump to conclusions based on human culture (ie she’d think he knocked some random alien chick up) and just be caught between all sorts of emotions. After the shock and an explanation, they would accept the Little Chills without hesitation. Sandra especially would love them, tho I think she’d be a bit hurt that she didn’t learn about them for so long. Carl doesn’t like it when Ben keeps secrets, but I think he’d be more forgiving this time since he could understand why he’d be hesitant to tell them. They’d both understand that the only reason Gwen and Kevin knew before them was bc they were there for the incident, and I think in the end they’d make a deal with Ben for him to NOT keep anymore alien secrets, even if they are really strange by Earth standards.

Next, Natalie and Frank. Natalie is so done with this weird alien shit LMAO. She doesn’t even bother asking, she just accepts the reality that there are 14 aliens in the family now. Frank is more shocked than his wife by the news, but he comes to understand the situation once the explanation is given. Ken would probably be the most lost on it since he was only recently introduced to extraterrestrial stuff. I think he’d be the one to sort of freak instead of just sitting there utterly dumbfounded. I don’t think any of them would be against the Little Chills. Natalie probably wouldn’t be ecstatic that her family tree is even weirder now. I don’t think they’d really care that they weren’t told for so long. Actually, Ken probably would since it sounds like he was at least sorta close to the two cousins. But at the same time, he’d probably understand since he was away at college and it was alien stuff, something he’s not really involved in. 

Aight, I think that’s about all I got for this one! I hope the answer was sufficient! Also, sorry it took so long, I had a lot of thoughts but not enough time to type it all up in one sitting.

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Well fuck, I gotta do this now, since you asked politely :) sorry if Yori's a little OOC, she's a darling and I love her but I can never seem to get her voice right.

@fourbitsinatrenchcoat here you go :D

Beck cocks his head, because puzzling out his current situation is a great distraction from the knowledge he is well and truly in over his head.

He's never seen that many guards for a single stasis chamber before. Especially when there wasn't supposed to be anything here. The stasis chamber jolts as it gets settled into a pallet, one corner flickering - Beck bets he can use that to hack it.

"Careful!" Someone hisses.

Dyson.

Damnit.

"If she escapes, the Luminary will have all of us derezzed!" The General snaps. "Null units, the lot of you." He complains. "Just get her on the transport, and no more mistakes."

Beck has to get whoever that is. Bad for the Occupation is normally good for the Renegade. He doesn't-

He's not going to bring them straight to Tron's lair. That's just generally a bad idea. The Garage is also a bad idea...

Eh. He'll figure it out later.

...Beck cannot believe it was as easy as "steal an armour set and a forklift". He just can't. How is their security this lax - sure there's lots of guards, but nobody vetted the driver of the damn forklift that showed up to move the pallet.

Dyson really should know better. Maybe he's too frazzled right now though.

Beck's not an idiot, so he ditches the stolen armour and goes hunting for trackers the moment he's out of sight. A diagnostics scan brings up details about whoever's in the chamber unexpectedly, and he feels his eyebrows hit his hairline.

Damn that's an early compilation date. Pre-this-Grid kind of early.

Maybe Tron knows her.

Later, later. Trackers disconnected and removed, he takes his rescuee somewhere he's been thinking of building his own base.

It's not much, certainly not at the level Tron has in his lair, but it has a charging berth and medkits and supplies, and a containment area. Good enough for now.

She doesn't stir when he finally deconstructs the stasis chamber - what medical scans he can understand tell him she'll wake up on her own as the effects of the chamber wear off. There's no sign of rectification - that's either good, or really really bad, but Beck's an optimist at core.

He did, after all, notice Tron had been rectified when even the Monitor couldn't, and managed to tweak the healing chamber to actually be able to deal with that instead of mask it. Tron's been looking leagues better recently for a reason.

Again, Beck's not an idiot - he still makes sure she's in the modified quarantine unit and shouldn't be able to get out of it. Precautionary measures don't hurt.

He switches his circuits from Renegade to the knowingly terrible versions of Tron's he used pre-Renegade. Not his civilian circuits, obviously a disguise... but also an extra layer of misdirection away from him being the Renegade. Because of course the Renegade wouldn't be caught derezzed in something so amateur (never mind the extra armour panels he's been able to add, now he knows how to make them).

And now, to wait.

The lady wakes with a muffled yawn Beck only just catches through his own exhaustion. He's taken naps of course, here and there, but... up all rest cycle, not enough sleep. At least he has the work cycle off.

Tron's a sleepy grumble in his comms, probably fresh from the healing chamber and wondering where on the Grid Beck is. He pings off reassurance that he's safe first and foremost - nobody needs a rampaging fugitive Monitor on their hands - and then alerts Tron that he's somewhat accidentally found, and then on purpose liberated, someone who seems to be of importance.

Tron demands explanations as to who and how, so Beck sends him a picture of the lady currently investigating the walls of his containment unit.

The stunned silence echoes. That's definitely an interesting sign - Tron's very rarely shocked out of lectures.

...Beck very nearly misses the first choked sob. "Yori." Tron murmurs, full of longing and disbelief.

The lady - Yori, if Tron is to be believed - catches sight of him eventually - Beck sees the veiled shock on her face, which quickly gives way to suspicion. That's... fair, he supposes. In this particular get-up, he's pretty clearly not Tron, despite wearing Tron's ident.

"Who are you?" She asks, defensive.

"Depends who's asking." Beck fakes Tron's voice... deliberately badly. Exactly how he used to, when all he had to mimic was footage scraps someone had tried to wipe from existence and not quite succeeded. Knowing Tron, he can do a better impression, but... better to hide that connection for now.

She snorts at him, and he can hear Tron suppress a shaky laugh over the comm. Beck grins under his helmet - he likes amusing Tron, makes him feel like he can help his friend in more ways than just with his job. "Well, you're certainly not my counterpart." She tells him, raising an eyebrow - as if the news is supposed to startle him.

It does, but Beck paid attention during Tron's lessons on How To Not Let The Enemy Distract You. "Truth?" He asks Tron quietly.

"Truth." Tron answers shakily. "I thought she'd been derezzed or-"

"Rectified." Beck completes softly, when it's clear Tron can't bring himself to say it. "She's clear of that, as far as I can tell." Tron makes a noise somewhere between a gasp and a sob - definitely fresh out of the healing chamber, that's the only time he's so expressive - and whispers a thanks to every deity he can think of. Users and otherwise. "I take it she's safe, then?"

"Yes." Tron breathes, and Beck chooses to take that as permission.

Retracting his helmet nets him keen eyes, and Beck lets his circuits shimmer back to civilian. "Sorry about the suspicion, Miss Yori, can't be too careful any more." Beck relaxes his posture, opens up, lets himself be warm and his actual age. It works, given how she relaxes in kind. "Just precautions, but a friend vouched for you."

"Must be some friend." Yori hums, sizing him up - Beck's definitely sure she's not checking him out.

"He is." Beck wanders over, deactivating the containment area with one hand and offering her an energy pouch with the other.

...does not let her see how he deactivates the containment. Even Tron trusts wrong sometimes, and Beck's determined to still have some secrets. Just in case.

"Anyone I'd know?" Yori asks, teasing in her voice.

"Mmm, you could say that." Beck grins, tapping his sternum four times - a gesture Tron uses to soothe himself. "So do us both a favour, yeah?" He abruptly goes serious, hair and plating fluffing out in an intimidatory display. "Don't break his trust."

Because Cyrus is a fresh wound. Because Dyson is a festering wound. Because Yori's betrayal would kill Tron, one way or another, and Beck refuses to let that happen.

The lightrunner ride to Tron's lair is done in silence, Beck using what by now is intimate knowledge of the glitches and shortcuts and general weirdness of the Outlands to obfuscate how to get there. Doing this makes Tron's head hurt, but... he trusts Beck to maintain secrecy this way. Yori stays quiet too, processing everything Beck's allowed her to know.

Tron's making an effort to be welcoming, near the entrance instead of manning his surveillance array. Beck gives his mentor privacy when he and Yori reunite - Tron hates the vulnerability that comes with emotions, the least Beck can do is make sure nobody's going to interrupt them.

Besides, he has reports to write.

Yori cajoles Tron into sitting down and resting, talking and comforting each other. It's... not easy watching them (Bodhi - Beck's core aches with loss), but at least Yori's seeming to hold true to her promise not to hurt Tron.

It takes ages for the discussion to wind down, for Tron to accept help to stagger to his healing chamber and let it close around him.

Yori watches him with sorrow in her eyes. "How can I help?" She asks Beck, when he nears.

Beck grins, and it's the fanged one he doesn't let Tron see. "So, I have this plan to overthrow Clu..."

Because nobody hurts Tron and gets away with it. On that, he and Yori can agree.

a while back I drew a concept for Uprising Yori -- but thanks to the power of me learning 3D modelling, I've made it a reality (:

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--// Time for angry jerboa bot metas or whatever they're called.

While Setesh's faction is noted in the bio to be the resistance, this doesn't mean it is THE resistance of Operation White Dome, it just means they're affiliated with at least one of the many groups of underground omnics out there. So, maybe omnic underground would be a more suitable name.

They generally stick to the continents of Europe and Asia, but might be in North Africa at times. The locations they travel between differ wildly in how omnics are treated. They are less likely to try and conceal their unit model in places where omnics are generally treated better. Mainly, because they wouldn't be a wanted criminal (anymore...and yet) in several of those areas, but anyway...

They have never been to Numbani. They're skeptical of the peace and unity people say it has and really rather not find out whether or not it's true, because either outcome will have...results. They may go to other places on occasion, mainly to aid other omnics.

Maximilien uses Set as an escort for his weapons trades and for the occasional intimidation or elimination of rivals. Set dislikes him and how he sometimes goes into subtle prying lines of questioning.

Set still believes their omnium only acted in self defense after being deactivated by humans. Why yes I do hate the Anubis plot reveal in Ramattra's short story because it reduces the omnic crisis to mindless evil robot war. I will continue to ignore it by having Set be a conspiracy theorist who thinks the omniums are intelligent enough to register a threat and build defenses to protect themselves. Set will continue to regard their omnium as some sort of mother figure and trying to kill their mother is not okay.

After having collected the remains of several units Null Sector deployed in the London uprising, the underground now has several repurposed former Null Sector units in its ranks. The few that aren't dormant protect the units in the abandoned subway systems.

The first sets of Null Sector units the few members of the underground involved in the project successfully reactivated and changed the directives of after Set realized the units were not yet "awoken" were Slicers, because of their slightly less robust programming.

After encountering a Nulltrooper unit who was butchered and slapped back together by a local, they realized the units could be salvaged as more than mindless constructs and they went to work trying to figure it out. Some were more successful than others.

For now, those who haven't reached that same stage as other omnics have in their sentience are kept around anyway, with the only alteration being that they won't march into the streets to continue the omnic crisis when active. Most of those are kept dormant and only activate when there is a threat.

Not all omnics in the underground are as comfortable with them as others, but the patchwork Nulltrooper keeps an eye on them.

Set and that Nulltrooper have a very odd relationship. They don't always agree on everything. Null detests the thought of any unit not having free will and being used as a tool. Set sees it as an occasional necessity to use an unawaken unit for its intended purpose.

The Nulltrooper also hates Ramattra. It doesn't understand why Set would still look up to him after learning what he did. It also makes jabs at Set from time to time, but seeing as Set had a hand in repairing it and Set clearly cares deeply for the omnics down there, it's generally alright with them and would fight someone to protect them. They have fought side-by-side and both employ a hit and run tactic after Null was equipped with boosters that let it navigate like the guy in Vanquish. We gave a hero that ability before Sojourn went live. Jot that down.

One of the omnics developed a course called "Hello world!" It is intended to teach newly awakened units about the world, how to navigate society and developing their individuality.

EVE, another ally, stays with the London units and was with them when Mondatta was assassinated. Null stayed underground.

Set, Null and EVE are both in agreement regarding the difference in treatment less humanoid units get even in the more tolerant areas and would like there to be more awareness regarding this expressed from the omnic community.

There is a makeshift plaque in one of the areas of the London underground the omnics reside in listing names and/or designations of units that have passed away.

Set participated and spoken in several protests through their life, many of which turned violent. They never preached peace. Set does not believe they will achieve equity without violence. They acknowledge omnics must be careful because they have limited numbers that they cannot replenish, but having to demurely ask for common decency or preach peace and rely on the empathy of humans to finally catch up with the times is ridiculous.

Despite being a rather recognizable unit model, they have made no effort to change what they are to be less conspicuous and avoid law enforcement, regardless of the multiple offers they have been given from other omnics for a remodel.

Set will never allow someone to convince them or anyone to make their appearance more human-like either. They love what they are. ))