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aishaarashi · 1 year ago
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My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! ~Common Route - Walkthrough~
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This is a guide/walkthrough on how to get the Common Route Ending.
❈ Memory Scenarios can be viewed by pressing either the book icon (����) that shows up or the "minus" button (➖) on the Nintendo Switch.
One Recommended Route Order: Common Route ➔ Geordo ➔ Keith ➔ Alan ➔ Nicol ➔ Rozy ➔ Silva
COMMON ROUTE
Prologue - Invitation to Sea:
(No Choices)
Chapter 1 - A Luxurious Cruise:
Let’s eat delicious food.
📖 Memory Scenario: An Exciting Promise
Wave at the shore.
Do a warm-up stretch.
**Cover it up.  (Choice unlocks after the 1st playthrough)
Be ladylike.
📖 Memory Scenario: First Dance Lesson
Go for the fish!
…the food.
Chapter 2 - Premonition of Fate:
**Invite to breakfast. (Choice unlocks after the 1st playthrough)
Don’t ask.
I feel bad…
**…the quiet types. 
**I imagined it. (Choice unlocks after the 1st playthrough)
Chapter 3 - Bolt From the Blue:
Ask Mary for help.
📖 Memory Scenario: Selfishly Sought Happiness
Turn toward Sophia.
📖 Memory Scenario: Happily Loving Someone
Comfort Maria.
➔ Normal Ending - Under the Wide Open Sky
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vandaliatraveler · 26 days ago
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Summer on the Highland Scenic Highway, Part 1: Highway to Almost Heaven.
From Richwood in the west to its intersection with US 219 in the east, the Highland Scenic Highway traverses some of the wildest and most beautiful mountain country remaining in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, including the highest peaks of the Yew Mountains. A portion of the highway runs along the spruce-clad summit of Black Mountain at about 4,500 feet (1372 meters) above sea level, providing grand views of the Greenbrier River Valley to the east and the Cranberry River Drainage to the west. And one of the largest backpacking areas in the eastern United States, the Cranberry Wilderness, borders a long stretch of the road.
The boreal forest on top of Red Spruce Knob, the highest point of the Yew Mountains, offers a glimpse into the primeval world that existed here before the logging companies arrived and annihilated the virgin red spruce and northern hardwood forest. In more open areas along the highway, the great summer wildflowers, including our magnificent native lilies, are now starting to bloom.
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mirror-to-the-past · 20 days ago
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I'll be real with you, guys. I know it's been only a month in, so it makes perfect sense a large amount of people who haven't been pouring obsessively over details in their spare time haven't seen it yet, but like. I need more talking about the apple feeding scene. I know fandoms that would have immediately exploded and replayed this kind of shit in their head for years afterwards. This is insanity-inducing to me.
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aishangotome · 23 days ago
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Azel Radwan Main Route Translation Masterlist
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Chapter 0
Common Route
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3 | Letter
Chapter 4
Chapter 4 Normal Story | Chapter 4 Premium Story
Chapter 5
Chapter 6 | His Side Story
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9 | His Side Story
Chapter 10
Chapter 10 Premium Story
Chapter 11 | Letter
Chapter 12
Chapter 13 | His Side Story
Chapter 14
Chapter 14 Premium Story
Chapter 15
Chapter 16 | Letter
Chapter 17
Chapter 18 | His Side Story
Chapter 19
Chapter 19 Premium Story
Chapter 20
Romantic End
Chapter 21 | His Side Story
Chapter 22
Chapter 23 | Letter
Chapter 24
Chapter 24 Premium Story
Chapter 25 | His Side Story
Epilogue | Letter
Dramatic End
Chapter 21 | His Side Story
Chapter 22
Chapter 23 | Letter
Chapter 24
Chapter 24 Premium Story
Chapter 25 | His Side Story
Epilogue
Both Endings Clear
Bonus Epilogue
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takeapeck · 10 months ago
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Come October, come the cranes. And every year, without fail, they make me cry.
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usagifuyusummer · 1 month ago
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Berdly sketches 2 electric boogaloo (actually 4th in the series lol)
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sandy-weeds · 3 months ago
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mink's reaction to overprotective Kou is SO fucking funny like GIRL--
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he could NOT care less abt your ass
also no one knows in this room knows it yet, but much to your chagrin, that's his future husband, Koujaku
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pilkypills · 6 months ago
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Hey other people who like fembagginshield when you picture it do you also imagine the other members of the company genderswapped or nah or like a little of both
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aishaarashi · 2 years ago
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Radiant Tale ~Common Route - Walkthrough~
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This is a guide/Walkthrough on how to get the Common Route Ending.
One recommended route order: Common Route ➔ Zafora ➔ Paschalia ➔ Ion ➔ Radie ➔ Vilio
COMMON ROUTE
Prologue:
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Castle
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Alley
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Plaza
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Main Streets
🗺️MAP
Cheers
Chapter 1:
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House Tent (Jinnia)
SAVE 1
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Main Streets (Vilio)
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Bridge (Radie)
"Did you live here once?"
Give him some food.
"I want an assistant."
Chapter 2:
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Common Area (Vilio)
"Is it a lie, then?"
Go with Paschalia.
Chapter 3:
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House Tent (Vilio)
"Zafora!"
Chapter 4:
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Ferus Main Entrance (Vilio)
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Central Arena (Jinnia)
"It won’t work out."
Chapter 5:
Cleaning
Ask again.
"You have to smile first."
"I can’t choose."
"Why aren’t you listening?"
Keep trying.
➔ Common Route Ending
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hoardcloneheadcanons · 2 months ago
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I'll Eat You Up I Love You So
A Magnus Archives based Stobotnik AU. Because I crave the horrors.
Trigger Warning: Spiders, Manipulation, Uncanny Valley, Unsettling Creatures following people in the night, Stalking, Gore, Cannibalism, Stobotnik, Isolation, Possessive behavior.
An Ivo Robotnik of the Stranger and a Stone of the Spider
Ivo Robotnik always felt off from people. Like he was missing a script that everyone else received. He had the wrong feelings, the wrong expressions. Like he was always saying the wrong things no matter what he did.
The other kids in the orphanage tended to avoid him. And he busied himself with altering things around the house to play tricks on them, switching the TV to horror movies at random intervals when he wasn’t in the room. Or making the toaster burn in their hands when they tried to use it.
If you can’t join them, you can at least laugh at them.
When he was about 14 a weird mist started following him around. It would be in the corners of his vision constantly. Sunny days would suddenly get foggy on his way home from school. Rooms where he was alone would suddenly get smokey
He was a boy who considered himself very rational, but he swore those clouds had an intelligence and that they were trying to eat him.
He got caught in the mist a few times. Every time he did, faces would get blurry and speech incomprehensible, and everything, Everything in him felt cold. Then he’d run until he could see the sun again and try to stay around people.
The mist only came when he was alone.
He didn’t dare tell the head of the orphanage about it. Or the other children.  He knew they didn’t like him, he knew they wouldn’t believe him. They’d probably say he deserved the mist. They just watched the child get suddenly gaunter and more haunted with no reason as to why.
And then one day, Ivo found a book.
A book titled “A Beginners Guide to Animatronics. Stimulating for Young Minds Ages 13-17.”
And the book showed him how to make life-like, fake people. He realized as he was reading it, that the book must’ve been lying about the age ranges. It would’ve been too hard for anyone of his age. But he could follow it easily. He’d always been advanced. 
Nobody liked what he made from the book. The cold doll-like faces blinked too rapidly, the necks hung to the side awkwardly, and nobody knew how to shut them off. Ivo refused to tell them. When he went to school they just hung out in his room, waiting for him.
And no matter what you did to break them, they never stopped moving.
Ivo discovered that if he kept his machines with him, the mist left him alone. The something person-like he had with him counted. And the longer that Ivo built, the more odd he got. Until his blinking became off rhythm and his walking became weird, and the color of his skin was just slightly off.
People avoided him. That used to bother him. Now it seemed to fuel him. To get into their space and unsettle them, to make himself uncomfortable to be around. And his mentality morphed to suit it. He didn’t need people when he had his machines, when he could make better versions of them that could climb on walls and twist their head 180 degrees.
Ivo kept his machines around him as he aged.
He took odd-jobs as an IT consultant, a programmer and a machinist. They lasted longer if he worked remotely. It usually wasn’t steady work, his personality often ended his employment. But that was fine. Ivo found more and more often that he didn’t need to eat, not as long as he had someone’s fear, not as long as someone was looking aside at him, wondering if the mechanical eyes they saw outside their window was his, or his machines.
This is when he starts taking on assistants. It’s easy to terrify someone who's forced to be in your space for money. It’s easy to terrify someone who gets bit by shiny, chromium-covered things as they’re trying to clean them.
So on one of his steadier periods, when he has a work-from home programming job. He put out a Craigslist ad for an assistant. Someone to help clean his machines and his house when he was working.
And he gets one Aban Stone. A soldier who ended his tour of duty and was looking for a job.
And he’s horrified to discover that Mr. Stone seems to be quite immune to most of his tricks. Ivo can’t tell if he’s the stupidest, most oblivious man on the face of the earth or simply the most fearless.
Stone would clean the robots, and they’d turn their heads round 180 degrees to stare at him and grin. And Stone would simply turn their heads back around, and then continue his task, humming all the way.
The animatronics followed Stone home, and watched him while he slept, staring through his bedroom window, and Ivo got a knocking on his door in the middle of the night.
He opened the door to find Stone, in his bathrobe and sneakers leading the robots back to Ivo’s door by the wrist saying that “they must’ve gotten lost, I’m surprised none of them got hit by a truck on the way over.”
Robotnik found a little bit of webbing on each of their backs the next morning. He thought nothing of it, except that he should probably yell at Stone for not dusting for cobwebs more often.
(He forgot to mention it, by the time Stone got there he was already dug into some network error, and half-paying attention to the world around him).
Stone got bit by one of the machines as he was making lunch for the two of them and his main response was to say “Fascinating! They’re so detailed, I didn’t know they had teeth.” Before turning around and chiding Ivo that he should probably adjust their programing. “I can handle it, I’ve been shot before. But what if they bit you? Ivo, that isn’t safe.”
It drove Ivo insane.
And he was so relentlessly helpful. His job was to clean the machines, and the house. And he did all of that, and then also insisted on doing the laundry, and cooking for Ivo. He consistently worked past his shift and even when he wasn’t bustling around the house, he was asking Ivo questions about himself, bringing him coffee, and humming.
Always humming. In a sound that Ivo found himself mimicking. He had to shut down conversation and insist Stone go home a million and a half times. He didn’t need people, he had his machines.
He knew he was sunk when he started building machines that looked like Stone.
He’d always tear them apart, rip them to shreds before Stone could see. All Stone understood was that Ivo was going through some creative slump where none of his creations were good enough.
And Ivo was eating food. He didn’t need to eat, not when he had people’s fear. He’d almost forgotten how. A fork felt weird in his hand. Most food tasted like dust to him. 
But he did whenever Stone cooked for him. It tasted like care and attention, and he devoured it whole.
At first Ivo refused everything he made, but Stone was stubborn and fretted over him, and kept buying groceries and making him things until he found the exact things Ivo could eat. The first time he did it’s because Stone had put a sandwich by his hand while he was working, only half paying attention and he ate it without thinking. It had some spicy aioli, that burned past his dulled senses.
And a second fear started to build within him that Stone might leave. That the humming and bustling around the house might end, and the one person he could stand to be in his space and could stand to be in his could go away.
A billion times he’d thought to fire Stone to end the fear and this madness and change. And a billion times the thought would slip from his mind as he got distracted, or he thought “one more day, just one, then he can leave.”
And Ivo was getting hungry. It must've confused Stone so much how his charge seemed to be getting listless and tired even as he was feeding him more. He felt Ivo’s head to check if he was sick and insisted he drink electrolytes before Ivo could shoo him away.
Always so relentlessly helpful, always so caring and doting.
That night, while Stone wasn’t there, he repurposed his basement and filled it with machines of horror. He filled it with spinning blades that wailed like people in pain and left his most uncanny and troublesome creations down there, filled them with sharp teeth and fire jets, and eyes too big for their heads.
And then he called a plumber for a burst pipe in his basement. Emergency situation.
He ate well that day. Stone was glad to see whatever fever he had, had cleared up. He was curious about the lock on the basement, but Ivo explained it away with “Water damage in the basement, and the stair is broken.”
And then he had to insist several times that Stone let him handle it. He’d already called a plumber and they’d be there next week.
And for a little while longer, they got to pretend to be normal.
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Meanwhile,
Stone was finding Ivo a hard meal to digest.
Aban Stone likes getting what he wants. And will be quiet and friendly to do so. He has worked hard to be the best all his life. The best in athletics, the most attractive, the one with the most gung-ho, can-do attitude.
It’s only natural that he gets rewarded, that he gets everything he asks for in return for his efforts. It’s only natural that he got everything he wanted from the people he loved.
He liked taking care of people. He had a little habit, a hobby one could say, of finding a single person to take care of, coming into their life, and making them utterly dependent on him controlling their lives completely. Making sure they wanted and needed to do everything he asked of them.
Then he would then ask them to rip out their hearts so that he could eat them.
He wasn’t quite sure when he started to see the little threads on them, that he could pull to subtly change their thoughts, or when he started to look in the mirror and see three extra pair of eyes.
It all seemed a natural extension of it all.
So when he saw an ad for an assistant and house cleaner for one Ivo Robotnik, he thought he’d hit a jackpot.
Ivo was an isolated man who spent all day in his workshop or on his computer. He lived in an abandoned part of town and people avoided him. Stone could take over his life and feed off the fear of his dependence, and his loss of control for a long time without anyone noticing or telling him what was normal. Stone could eat him slowly.
But Robotnik had such a stubborn resistance to human connection that made him so hard to devour.
He pushed Stone out and away thousands of times, he insisted he didn’t want help beyond his basic chores. Stone had offered to move in a couple of times and Ivo had shoved him out, and told him he couldn’t stand to have him around more often than he was.
If Stone was human, he would’ve thought Robotnik didn’t like him.
But he can taste his fear. It’s subtle, in the background, slowly growing, but it’s there. Fear of dependence, of loss, of change. It’s there. And Stone is a patient spider, he can wait for it to grow.
And in the meantime, he makes himself comfortable.
He fills the refrigerator with things he likes, since Ivo barely eats. And he got busy investigating this strange man who resisted human contact like the plague, learning his favorite color, his tastes, his hopes and dreams, growing ever more possessive all the way.
He was so interesting. He built things no one else could! He treated his job as a hobby and filled his life with passions. He moved and talked in ways none of the other humans did. He talked to his creations often, and Stone learned the most about him when he did, finding out all the people he judged in the neighborhood, and all the little ways he had messed with their lives.
He’d sent his androids to listen to the Diazes’ house to find out their gossip, He’d made the Jones lawnmower turn on and off randomly and made it into a lethal hazard.
Stone found himself wrapping web around the house where Ivo wouldn’t see, over and over, around and around, so thin as to be a layer of paint, marking what was his. “Mine mine mine mine mine” whispered over and over in tiny threads.
It would make him sorry to eat him, he liked his fascinating human and all the delightful toys he surrounded himself with.
 Stone found the constructs were just similar enough to humans that he could puppet them himself with his webs. They followed him around docilly. At a certain point he stopped leading them back to Ivo’s in the middle of the night and just let them settle down on his living room floor until he could lead them back the next morning when his shift started.
He didn’t need to interrupt Ivo’s sleep.
But the entire time his hunger grew. Ivo’s fear was to him like potato chips would be to a normal human. It was delightful, tasty, but it was hardly filling.
So he went out to eat. Just to tide himself over, nothing major.
A simple meal, a quick one. A gentleman at the bar who chatted him up, someone he could lure into his house with the promise of conversation and wine, and heat and close flesh.
Someone who he could tie to his bed and crack open his ribs, and eat with the heart still beating, screaming as he saw Stone’s mandibles and 8 reflective eyes.
He didn’t notice the animatronic that had followed him home, yellow-camera eyes staring through his bedroom window.
Then Stone felt fear.
He hadn’t checked. He’d been so hungry. He didn’t usually go to the bar. it must’ve been waiting for him to come home.
He lunged at the creature, determined to control it, to stop it and it skittered away. He didn’t know Ivo could make them go that fast, and he felt impressed even as the horror dawned on him.
He was going to lose everything.
There would be no final meal, no constant snacking, no Ivo, no home, no fascinating conversations over lunch of circuitry and mayhem. Ivo was going to see him, and be afraid of him, and it was all going to end. He’d see the webs outside of his house and move and it was all going to end.
No no no. He can fix this. He’s eaten, he's stronger. It’ll be fine. He can fix this.
Suppressing his panic, he cleans himself up, washes his hair and gets prepared to go over to Ivo’s house and to pretend, to make him believe that everything is normal. To yank the faint threads he had from Ivo and whisper in his ear that everything was safe. He’d go to his job, at the same time he always does, because nothing happened and everything was fine.
He walks around his living room in the dark, reciting it to himself in his head.
Ivo? is everything alright? You look pale. I saw one of your robots last night at my house and it was acting strange, walking into walls. I think it might be glitching. You should check it. See if there’s any bugs in its code. You look like you need something to do with your hands. You do that and I’ll make us some tea and we can forget about this.
Ivo, people don’t turn into spiders. You’re being silly, you’ve been working too hard. You know people hallucinate when they don’t sleep enough.
Ivo, you don’t want to get rid of me.
It’s in a loop in his brain as he walks up Robotnik’s front steps the next morning, all nice and shiny and clean with the most harmless body language he can muster and prepares to knock on Robotnik’s door, certain that the locks have been changed.
He is rather surprised when Ivo yanks him inside and pins him to a wall before his fist can hit the door.
Was Ivo always that strong?
Ivo is in his space not leaving him two inches of breathing room, grinning like a madman.
“Let me see them! I saw them last night, I want to see them!’
“ See what?”
Robotnik made a clenching gesture around his own face where his mustache was.
“The mandibles! I saw them last night when you ripped that poor sucker’s heart out. Let me see them! I want to study them.”
In that moment, Stone wondered if his webs could be tugged in both directions, because his mandibles sort of popped-out out of sheer surprise.
Robotnik had the measuring tape out, to review them and was delicately feeling the texture, and Stone realized it was the first time Ivo had touched him with his bare hand, he usually had gloves on.
Stone’s fingers happened to glance upon his wrist and he noticed that where his blue veins should be there was instead complex circuitry.
“Ivo, are you a robot?”
“No Idea!” His scientist was the most expressive that Stone had ever seen. “It started happening to me in my late 20s, I’m not sure which parts of me are man and machine anymore.”
He pulled up his sleeves to show circuity going up his wrists, through his forearms, and then stopping at his shoulders, shifting back to veins and muscle tissue.
Stone felt dizzy from the paradigm shift, like a puppet with his strings cut.
He sat down while Ivo pelted him with a thousand questions about his reflective eyes, their color spectrum, his depth perception, where they went when he wasn’t using them.
Ivo wasn’t afraid of him. If anything…
Stone tasted the air.
“Ivo are you less afraid of me now then you were before?”
“Of course I am, you’re not human, I never have to worry about you leaving because I've scared you away or broken some inane social custom. You eat people. What could I do to ever terrify you?”
He grabbed Stone’s face, suddenly tactile where he’d been so resistant before.
“You do realize you’re never leaving me right? I have a thousand eyes everywhere and an infinite mechanical soldiers. You can’t leave now that I’ve gotten used to you. I’ll hunt you down. I’ll drag you back.”
And suddenly Stone saw all his webs in Ivo, taking root and finding their place now that his final barrier of resistance was gone, increasing the madness in his eyes.
Stone smiled, harder that the structure of his face had changed to it’s more arachnid form.
“Ivo, do you need your heart inside your chest to survive?”
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He didn’t.
Stone gnawed on the mechanical heart as Ivo excitedly showed him his basement of horrors. He sat with his bathrobe on, low enough to show the cavity in his chest that he’d wrenched open himself, rewiring his arteries, and quickly fitting it with a temporary device so he could hand his own heart to Stone.
Such a romantic. Stone wanted to fill the empty cavity with spider eggs and watch spiders crawl out of Ivo’s mouth as they hatched. That was a new urge he didn’t know he could have. Could he put them in his lungs or his stomach? He could ask him once he finished talking.
Ivo’s heart had pretty little blinking lights in it. It was shiny and steel and Stone was pretty sure he couldn’t digest it, but he was happy to have it anyway. He was going to wrap it up in spider-silk before putting it back in Ivo's chest. It was his. His forever.
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Notes:
Stone and Ivo do move in together.
The murder-basement of horrors continues to exist, and it is Stone’s job to lure people into it. Manipulation is still the main way he feeds, and he delights in it. Ivo will watch the horrors through the cameras and feed that way, while creating a series of obstacles for the victims to run through as Stone and his animatronics hunt them. They have a little game of “who can get to them first.”
Stone does have a full giant-spider form.
They have to move whenever the disappearances get too suspicious. They got married when they found they could get into more docile, unsuspecting suburban neighborhoods as a couple.
Ivo tries creating robotic bugs for Stone to chase for enrichment. Stone finds it a little insulting, especially since his main prey is people.
Stone does, however, find the robotic spiders that Ivo created to join Stone in the murder basement when he hunts very romantic.
Once Ivo finds the Stone can hold him with 3 pairs of limbs, (4 if they’re lying down) He feels neglected if Stone only holds him with two. He has not slept outside of a cocoon since they started sleeping together.
Stone has adjusted to the fact that most of the appliances in their home have some extra sentience due to Ivo. The toaster will try to escape if he uses it. He’s tried to web it to the wall, and it gnawed through it. It is one of the few things in the house he cannot control.
Most people think that Stone is out of Robotnik’s league and don’t understand why they’re together. That is a trap. Their basement is littered with the bodies of people who thought they could seduce Stone away from Ivo. It’s his favorite method of hunting because he gets to eat someone who ever doubted their romance.
Robotnik does not let Stone fill his stomach or lungs with spiders. Instead, he makes an entirely separate organ for himself called his "egg-sac" that Stone can fill as much as he wants, to the same effect.
Freaks. Run.
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otomedetective · 6 months ago
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obsessed with them <3
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berrycrepes · 1 month ago
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BYAKKO ~ Shijin Butai Enrenki ~ - Promotional CGs
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beheamothscreamoth · 5 months ago
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Quick question for the Touchstarved fandom!! As much as we love Ais calling us 'Sparrow,' I have to ask - if you had to decide, what other bird nickname do you think he would call you/your MC? :O
For example, Ais would my Unnamed MC Daniella 'bluebird,' while he'd call my Alchemist MC Edgar 'crow' (and another OC I'm planning, Shinju, 'woodpecker!')
#Ais calling Mhin 'that dove' has made something click in my brain and I had to ask this orz#Ngl it made me wonder- Does Ais base his bird nicknames off of appearance or personality?? Or both?? Or something else??#Doves mean peace and pacifism and uh *looks at Mhin* Peace and love to them but they don't exactly remind me of either of those- Mhin's hai#has the same color as doves though so that makes me think back to appearances.. But maybe peace is something that Mhin yearns for? Idk#Sparrows mean resilience; adaptability; joy; and freedom- I remember someone saying that freedom is something that Ais wants due to Ocudeus#But also that sparrows are one of the most common birds in the world- So to Ais (at least at first) you're just another face to him#and he tries to distance himself from you by calling you a common bird. I'm not sure where I'm going with this but it's probably something-#I personally like to think Ais's nicknames are a combination of personality+appearance but I could be very VERY wrong DKLSFJNS /lh#Tbh I doubt Ais is super focused on the deeper meaning of his nicknames (since he gave us our sparrow nickname upon his first impression)#But still!! This is just for fun- For my OCs let's start with Shinju - woodpeckers represent determination; communication; and opportunitie#Since he's a merchant these qualities are pretty fitting (still haven't come up w/ a solid design just yet but I'm trying to cook orz /lh)#As for Edgar crows mean death and the afterlife which KIND OF links to his scientific hypothesis?? (though Ais doesn't know about it)#But crows also mean intelligence; transformation; and wisdom which links to him being a scientist+alchemist.#Or Ais just calls him that because he has black hair LJSNDF /lh#As for Daniella bluebirds mean joy; hope; and renewal/growth which are pretty fitting for her#But Ais could just be calling her that since she wears a lot of blue lksjdlala- /lh (*cough* And also- *cough)#(I read that bluebirds are also supposed to be 'harbingers of happiness' which could be a cute little thing if Daniella goes down his route#touchstarved#touchstarved game#touchstarved ais#ais#touchstarved mc#touchstarved oc#Scream Posts For: Touchstarved#touchstarved daniella#daniella#touchstarved edgar#edgar#touchstarved shinju#shinju
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finnicksghost · 8 months ago
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this is lowkey making me emotional but the thought of dimitri single handedly destroying imperial soldiers terrifying the kingdom commonfolk during the five years of war….
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sillygoofyqueer · 2 months ago
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Deity Jester Wei Wuxian AU because I really like it I don't CARE if you guys have no taste (/silly). What a shit ending to that last one was though, I was obviously some form of deluded with that ending. Jesus CHRIST. When Wei Ying returns to Master, he is furious. He wants to kill him, to rip him apart slowly and remind him that although he may hold the key to controlling him, Wei Ying can still fight back. He already has, once. It was a minimal, small struggle, one that had seemed to tear him apart inside, but it was enough. A sign that he does not need to resign himself to being forced to complete Master's every whim and want. It's what fuels him to pulling the poor wood that hides a room off its metal bindings as he enters Master's space, feeling that familiar tug in his chest that usually signals a transformation, but he still can't free himself of this cage of flesh and blood so he can only growl in frustration. Master is lounging in that pathetic chair of his, obviously having been waiting for him to enter, lips pressed against that damn instrument and already playing the tune that leaves him feeling separate from his own body.
At first, he can ignore it, clinging to his body - it's so heavy to move it, so heavy in a way it hasn't been since the deaths of his mama and papa - and dragging himself forwards towards the man himself. But, there's something about this melody that feels different. It seems to echo, reverberating around the room and thudding into his mind every time it bounces off a surface; it hurts, every thud another rip in his control, until he can no longer keep himself in control. He doesn't even hear the orders that Master gives him, but can only watch and vaguely feel himself moving somewhere, doing something, but then it all goes dark. He can't think, can't move, can't open his eyes. He just. Exists. It feels almost similar to how he existed after being chased out of his home when his parents had died, hidden beneath a tree and clinging to his mama's cloak as it rotted in his hands. He wonders if this is what death is like.
Wei Ying's master, known to most as Wen Haoran, moves in to take the throne after he is sure that all other competition is gone. The monster took care of all of them, but the way it had refused to attack the children had him worried. However, they were dealt with, it was dealt with, and now he can easily take over command of the country. The commoners cannot do anything, and it is easy to pit the old court loyal to the previous crown against one another with carefully placed pieces of 'incriminating evidence' that ties all of them to him in some way or another. Rumours and whispers, letters and bribes, all linked back to him in some way or another, falsified to suit his purposes. The infighting weeds out the weak ones who come begging for his support a few weeks in, the strong ones who end up swarmed as more 'evidence' piles up against them, and the smart ones. The ones who merely pretend to bend to his will. They are dealt with swiftly, leaving his control of the throne secure.
History unfolds from that moment, time passing as Wen Haoran's rule marks the start of Wen control of the country, rules doling out to become more and more oppressive as time goes on. Nobody can explain how he gained the throne, can only speculate while he tucks away the ancient, mould-ridden text that holds a short, vague passage on the monster with the melody that summons it. While he doesn't want anyone else to learn about his methods for his takeover, he wishes to ensure that future generations of the Wen also have the knowledge in case they need to summon the monster. It's stupid enough, it won't even recognise them considering it didn't even know his name, so it can be utilised again as long as the melody is played by them. So, he creates an inner library, hidden within his chambers (the chambers of the ruler), that holds all of the secrets his family should need to know to keep control of this country, one that is finally taking shape to be a truly great place. It is a secret that is passed down from ruler to ruler at first, but one that fades with time, until eighty years have passed and Wen Haoran is long dead, with Wen Ruohan on the throne.
Wen Ruohan is unlike his ancestor in that he is outwardly cruel. He is power hungry, a maniac that cares not for appearances - the Wen have been on the throne for this long, their power is practically absolute, and everyone has grown complacent with the treatment doled out to everyone within the country. Whatever the Wen ask, you do, or you face certain death. Rumours flit around that they are using dark magic but honestly, none of the rulers are even aware of the secret room within their chambers and, even if they were, would not think to find any sort of magic present in their ancestor's work. Wen Ruohan is just evil alone, he does not need any cursed magic or object to taint his mind. A clear indicator of his cruelty is when he asks the prestigious families to send a son into the palace so they can learn their roles; they can do nothing but send them over despite their fear and mistrust of this tyrannical ruler with his equally fucked up sons.
It's not long before these boys from prominent families have different tasks doled out to them that seem to mock the individual family's greatest pride - Nie Mingjue is placed as a Duizhu (captain of a company), meaning he is working with woefully less soldiers than he usually would, an insult to his expertise of battle. Jiang Cheng is now a fisherman for the Wen, supplying them with the best fish - an insult to the family revered for their trade and control of the waterways. Jin Zixuan? A retainer for Wen Chao, who delights in ordering around a member of the family that poses the most threat with their almost natural talents of politicking and charming all those that cross them (well, until you talk to Jin Guangshan, of course). And Lan Wangji, the one to willingly go to the palace so that his brother could still be the heir of the Lan family, a scholar dedicated to documenting the illustrious history of the Wens and whatever strikes their fancy, spitting on the Lans' own well-documented, impressive history and their unparalleled scholarly arts.
Lan Wangji despises his place in the palace, forced to sit in the library every day and read through pages and pages of the Wens' lies, writing down everything that could be deemed even remotely important to the Wens so that he doesn't have to go back and read through them if he misses something. This task is not straightforward even with his length, because every time one of the royals ask him to research something else, he must stop his documentations of the Wen to learn everything about the subject asked until he has enough information written down to appease those that have asked for it. It's long and tedious enough already, and every time he has to pause, it adds more time to what he has to do. It gets worse when he realises that there is vagueness around the beginning of the rule of the Wen - something that Wen Ruohan will not tolerate if he is presented with it, forcing Lan Wangji to ask for more resources on that part of history.
Coincidentally, a servant stumbles across the secret library while cleaning the room, having done the impossible and accidentally knocked a statue resting against the untouched books in the study. They look inside, assuming this is just another part to the library of the study, and dust off all of the books - they notice two books in particular - small, handbound. 'The beginning of the Wens' and an unnamed, mould-covered book. They don't think much of it, just remembering that that blasted Lan was asking for more resources on the former subject and so grabbing that without much thought to go give it to the Lan, then grabbing the mould-covered book just because it will surely be a pain in the ass for the Lan to decipher. They leave the hidden library, being sure to reset everything after they're gone, and go to give the books to the Lan. They honestly assume that the other inner servants know about it, so they don't mention anything as they deliver the book to Lan Wangji, who practically glares down at it as he opens it for more bullshit to be delivered.
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c-kiddo · 4 days ago
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i saw a nuthatch :D and greylag geese and a bunch of mushrooms called prunes-and-custard lol
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