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gumnut-logic · 8 months ago

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Lego Volcano (Part 6)

I wrote more :D And this was fun :D

Still @idontknowreallywhy, @sofasurf @womble1 and @sailing-on-a-puddle and other wonderful Thunderfam peeps’ fault :D

Extra special thanks to @onereyofstarlight for actually writing a few small bits of this as I fell out of my knowledge zone and needed serious help, and also for Kiwi advice regarding Alex - gotta help an Aussie speak Kiwi because I miss lots of things. We all speak English, but differently :D Couldn't do this without you.

All the hugs to those who commented and reblogged yesterday's chapter. You guys keep Alex alive :D

This little fic is now nearly 10,000 words long, like 9,950+

M/M and full of fluff still.

I hope you enjoy this bit :D

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Scott woke groggy and hot.

It was to be expected. Apparently he was sick. Damnit. Anger and frustration flared in his belly and most of the groggy part of waking up was washed away.

A tickle in his aching throat had him swallowing hard.

He opened his eyes to the infirmary. He sighed. Grandma and Virgil were going to be intolerable.

His throat tickled again and he shifted on the bed, looking for the expected cup of water. Sure enough, there it was on his bedside table. Virgil was wonderfully predictable at times.

He reached out and his body creaked as he sat up, but the cool water was a balm on his throat and worth every movement.

His tablet was sitting beside the water and he grabbed at it eagerly. He needed to reply to Jack, their lawyer, regarding the latest suit from Fischler. Jack quite enjoyed tossing Fischler’s lawyers around the courtroom, but Scott would prefer a quick end to the latest shenanigans, both he and Jack had better things to do.

His tablet lit up…in green. Oh, damn.

John has restricted your access. Play a computer game, read a book, or watch a movie. International Rescue and Tracy Industries are all being expertly handled. Carly has her instructions. John and I have your back. Relax, Scooter.

Scott let air out between his teeth.

PS: Please look after Alex for me.

Huh? Scott frowned. But as if to answer his unspoken question, a snuffle alerted him to the fact there was someone else in the room.

The tablet landed on the sheets as he realised Alex Sweetapple was sleeping in the chair beside his bed. The lanky engineer was sprawled haphazardly across the furniture, blond hair sticking out in all directions.

Virgil had obviously snuck in at some point as there was a pillow in the man’s lap.

The thought of Virgil sobered him. His brother had been so sick, and now Scott was off rota…damn. He shifted on the bed, frustrated.

Alex muttered something, curled around the pillow and onto his side, now looking even more uncomfortable than before.

He snorted in his sleep.

Scott eyed the man. He couldn’t ask for a better employee, but he was a walking hazard, mostly to himself and apparently he was hazardous in his sleep as well.

And Virgil loved him.

The thought brought a small smile to Scott’s face. It was so good to see Virgil so happy. Alex was smart, goofball or no, and seemed to be able to match his brother on engineer topics - the two of them could babble excitedly for hours.

He was also very loyal. Tia’s reports were shining, Alex was definitely an asset, he worked hard.

The worship in his eyes was occasionally hard to handle. ‘Mr Tracy’ wasn’t sure he could live up to the reverence accorded him.

But Virgil loved Alex.

And that was enough.

He sighed again and let his gaze rest on the ceiling. The very worst part of being sick was the boredom.

His tablet bleeped.

He grabbed it.

A system of equations filled over half the screen.

Oh, so that is how it is, John? Going to distract me with math, are you?

But even as he thought it, the numbers started taking shape. He'd need a Jacobian matrix to approximate the first part of the solution, unless he applied an RK4 numerical method... knowing John, he'd need a justification showing the minimisation of error.

His lips curled up to one side. Okay, let’s do this.

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Alex woke to humming.

He cracked open an eyelid to find he had shoved his face into a pillow at some point - explained the struggle to breathe.

His neck creaked as he moved and as his body came online, he realised he had fallen asleep on the wrong furniture again. Erica probably had photos.

Again.

The humming was interrupted by a dry cough, but after a moment started up again.

It sounded happy.

Alex unfolded and found himself in a hospital room? Wha-? But then his brain booted fully, supplying him with details of last night and Mr Tracy-

Mr Tracy!

Alex sat up straight and the chair teetered. A wobble, two feet on the ground and he managed to prevent himself from falling on his head, but it did all get the blood pumping and consciousness clear and functioning.

Mr Tracy was sitting up in bed and…writing on the bed sheets.

Wha-?

His boss had a black marker in his hand, had spread out the sheets on the bed and was methodically making notations.

While humming some triumphant overture, his voice cracking here and there, proving he was still the sick man Alex had caught early this morning.

What was he writing?

With yet another creak, Alex quietly pushed himself to his feet and every muscle complained. Wasn’t the first time he had slept awkwardly, wouldn’t be the last, but he was more concerned with the numbers Virgil’s brother was writing down…was that a Jacobian matrix?

His eyes danced over the somewhat smudged digits on the bed. Numbers and letters lined up in chains, reading them…omigod…

“That’s beautiful!”

The humming ended in a squawk. “Alex!” The ‘A’ in his name cracked and Mr Tracy sounded more like his youngest brother than himself as his voice skipped up an octave.

But Alex only had eyes for the work on the sheets. “How did you get such a perfect solution?”

“Wha-? Oh,” he cleared his throat again, “John likes to distract me with math.”

“I’d say he succeeded.”

Mr Tracy grunted and coughed again.

There was a smudge of black ink on his cheek.

The numbers were just amazing. “How did you get that solution?”

Mr Tracy’s eyes darted between Alex and the numbers on the sheets “You can read that?”

“God, yeah.”

He stared at Alex a moment longer before pointing out a particular section. “John thought he could catch me here. The variable could easily be switched out and replaced with a static whole number - it would solve it perfectly, but a bit on the boring side. If you input an exponential function here, however, it creates a whole array of possibilities.”

Alex focussed on the equations. Whole number, yes, he could see that, the answer was clear. But if he threw in the function…the numbers just danced. “That’s so elegant. The pattern is perfect.”

“Yeah.” Scott was grinning.

Alex looked up to see those tired bruised eyes lighting up.

John was apparently right.

Scott liked maths.

Now this was a language Alex could speak.

“What happens if you put in a polynomial?”

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Virgil yawned. He really wasn’t up to it, but he had to do it. Much better than Scott killing himself.

Two would be landing momentarily, with a furious Gordon aboard, and he needed to help his brothers with post-situation protocol…and possibly talk Gordon down from something vicious…that John had probably already enacted…yeah, his brothers were chaos itself.

But their hearts were in the right place.

Earlier he had checked on his biggest brother and found both him and Alex asleep in the infirmary. Grandma had left firm instructions with John adding his own version of early morning events.

Fortunately, while Scott was still very warm, he was finally getting some rest. The bed readings provided some reassurance.

Alex was a gymnast in sleep as usual. The man could sleep anywhere in some of the most outlandish positions. It certainly wasn’t the first time Virgil had needed to dig up a pillow or picked up his boyfriend and haul him off to bed.

He was adorable when he was asleep.

Of course, mentioning this when Alex was awake brought on all the flushed embarrassment which had its own adorableness that always needed to be kissed away - any excuse, really.

So Virgil was smiling when he gently tucked the pillow under Alex’s head.

And the thought had him smiling right now.

But before Two landed and almost inevitably disturbed Scott, Virgil wanted to check on him.

To his surprise, as he approached the infirmary, laughter was echoing down the hall.

“He really thought that?”

“Yeah, to infinite decimals and beyond.”

That prompted more laughter which suddenly dissolved into coughing and had Virgil hurrying into the room.

Which was not the room he had left earlier.

The infirmary was draped in bedsheets, a cupboard left askew where they had originally been folded neatly. Now they were stuck up on the walls with surgical tape and draped over the curtain rails.

And covered in mathematical notation.

At the centre of the room sat Scott in bed scribbling with the black markers Virgil had left behind earlier in the hope that John would be able to trigger a math distraction.

Apparently, he had.

But he hadn’t thought his boyfriend would end up with black smudges all over his face and hands.

Because Alex was beside his brother, holding the bed sheet so Scott could write on it.

“I think we should cube this.” Alex pointed at a spot on the sheet. “It will look good.”

“Hmm, I think a factor of…seven will be prettier.”

Prettier?

“You could be right. It definitely needs to be an odd number. Even would be too regular.”

“Yeah.” Scott scribbled something. “What if we cube this and seven that. They’ll work nicely together.”

“Oh, I like that. Follow that one through.”

As Virgil watched, Scott jotted down several lines in his smooth precise hand. His tongue was sticking out the side of his mouth as his eyes darted back and forth, calculations bouncing in the blue.

Alex’s eyes were following the numbers and every now and again, he would make a suggestion or ask a short question…

“Oh, I see what you mean. The seventh iteration is just perfect.”

“The third isn’t that bad either. That’s why they work so well together.”

Virgil found himself grinning like a loon. He knew Alex could speak math. You didn’t get to do any engineering without math. But he had no idea he could speak at Scott level math. Hell, even John got lost sometimes at Scott level.

And to see the two of them so relaxed in each other’s presence…

“Virgil?” Scott was suddenly frowning at him. “You okay?”

“Virgil!” Alex dropped the sheet and hurried over. “Are you okay? I’m sorry, I was helping Scott and then fell asleep and then…did you know Scott likes maths? Not just maths, but real maths? The fun stuff?” His boyfriend was positively vibrating.

Virgil couldn’t help but grin. He placed his hands on Alex’s arms. Seriously, the man was bouncing. “I’m fine. And yes, Scott likes math. I didn’t know you liked to play, though.”

“Oh, um, sometimes.” His eyes darted back to Scott for a moment. “Usually I stick to applied math, and I’m certainly not at Tracy level.”

“I wouldn’t say that.” He leant up, kissed Alex gently on the cheek and whispered in his ear. “If you can keep up with Scooter here, you’re definitely up there.”

“You sure you’re okay?” Alex brushed his fingers across Virgil’s left temple.

He let his head drop against his boyfriend’s shoulder. “I’m tired, but I’m fine.” He looked over at his brother. “I’m more concerned about Scott.”

But his big brother was peering at the sheets again, eyes wide. It was obvious he had thought of something.

The marker came down and scribbled another line.

“But then again, he’s resting and amused.” Virgil’s ears picked up the approach of Thunderbird Two. He looked up at Alex. “Keep him distracted a little longer?” Alex really did have dark eyes, Virgil could stare into them all day.

“Sure.”

Scott was muttering something about a polynomial.

“Thank you.” Thunderbird Two roared into land as Virgil leant up and kissed Alex, clinging just that moment longer before letting him go.

“Hey, Scooter, zero point nine to infinity still doesn’t equal one.”

“Virgil!” His brother’s outrage was echoed by Alex’s sudden ‘What?!”

Virgil just laughed as he left them to it.

Their discussion of his lunacy followed him down the hall.

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TBC

#thunderbirds are go #thunderbirds #thunderbirds fanfiction #virgil tracy #scott tracy #alexander sweetapple #romance #sickfic #nuttyfic #virgil tracy/alexander sweetapple

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argentasterdisaster · 4 months ago

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Design Lore- Wedding Gowns of Inquisitor Evanui Lavellan and Ambassador Josephine Montilyet*

*this is all related to my headcanons concerning these characters, please don't take anything I write here as actual canon*

I do not agree that these ladies waited over a decade to get engaged. they were quietly married as soon as Eva's arm healed. This is their blow- out vow renewal ceremony.

This is a very long post. Strap in.

As someone with a background in fashion and design, the fashion choices of characters is always an extremely important facet to me when it comes to understanding who those characters are at their core.

Games are no different, in fact they're probably one of the mediums where fashion design shines the most. You can usually tell exactly what sort of person a character is at a glance based on the design choices made and how every piece of their outfit is styled.

I love Dragon Age, so I figured I'd have fun with this little project and go ham.

Josephine and Eva deserve that much after so much time.

Style of Gowns:

The simple sheath- style dress we see in Cullen and Sera's wedding scenes would not work for these two, Josie in particular.

I was originally designing something from scratch, with hints of Italian Renaissance styles, a little Jacobian, metallics, etc. but then this fabulous 80s Mugler caught my eye.

It's perfection.

Swap the colour, tweak the sleeves, fuller skirt, some bows on the neckline, and done!

Eva's I wanted to keep more in line with what was in-game, but fancier. Adding sleeves to this 60s Valentino did the trick, as did the bodice shape of Lady Sibyl's harem pants frock from Series 1 of Downton Abbey.

Colour Palettes and Materials:

Historically women married in their best dresses. For people of means that meant very elaborate, costly things. They rarely wore white wedding gowns, preferring bright or deep colours for their gowns, or most expensively, metallic fabric.

Cloth of gold and cloth of silver were preferred by noblility, and those with the coin for it often made full outfits from these fabrics.

Examples include the wedding gown of Empress Ekaterina II of Russia, and the coronation gown of Queen Maude of Norway (yes, I know it's actually gold lamé, but there are almost no examples of actual cloth of gold left and old style lamé is a good approximation to the look of the OG).

As the head of a now-prosperous noble family who dealt with trade, Josie would be familiar with these and many other fine fabrics. Now that she can afford to splurge a little, she'd have a choice of the best. The skirt is cloth of silver with gold coloured silk satin for her bodice and sleeves.

I took inspiration for the bodice from the the colour of Artemesia Gentileschi's Ester Before Ahasuenus, and the texture of the silks in Vittorio Reggianini's La Soireé.

Eva's gown, while simpler in shape and style, was no less elaborate in construction. The pleats on the Valentino gown remind me so much of Mariano Fortuny's Delphos gowns that were all the rage during the early part of the 20th century. She chose a fine light linen for it's construction, in a colour she liked over whatever was more fashionable. In this case a light rosy pink with darker pink as a base for the embroidery panels.

The embroidery is where things get deep in my headcanon (and my feelings), as traditional embroidery patterns are something that I've always been particularly interested in. Both as a hobby, and the historical and cultural traditions and motifs that are tied into embroidery as an art form.

It's an artform historically practiced by women, an industry made and defined by women. Stories, techniques, designs, patterns: passed from mother to daughter, sister to sister, friend to friend, from generation to generation for centuries. The textile tradition of a culture tell the stories the men wouldn't commit to memories, the stories few will ever commit to words. Stories of love and history, changing trends, aesthtics, personal style. Stories of the individuals who wore the clothes.

Historically women of the family came together to work on the embroidered items in a bride's trosseau. It's the case with the heirloom embroidery that still exists within my family, and I'm sure many other families as well. I'd like to believe the Dalish do something similar to this.

I chose heavy embroidery for Evanui's gown because as the First to the Keeper, she would know the importance of traditions like these within families and clans. And Clan Lavellan has lost so much. This is her way of represent her traditions, and her personal story on her body on what would be one of the happiest days of her life.

And it's also a way for the women of Clan Lavellan- Evanui's sisters, cousins, aunts, and friends- to come together and show a most cherished member of the Clan all their love and support during this happy occasion.

Poppies for beauty and remembrance, and twining stems and leaves reminiscent of the elfroot icons you see in game. They're done in the style of Hungarian style red work embroidery, a personal favourite of mine.

Veils and Headdresses:

I lifted a blue version of the flower crown Queen Guinevere wore for her wedding in Excalibur for Josie. With everything else going on in the outfit, a simple mesh veil works.

Eva wears a short veil of dark pink linen with some simple embroidery along the scalloped edge. It's a shortened, simplifed version of historical headwear in the vein of wimples and henins. She wears it with a flower band in the popular face-framing style of the mid-1800s.

It's a look that's perfect for elves!

Shoes:

These aren't shown, but I did think of them!

Josie wears Roccoco-style heels like those depicted in François Boucher's Marquise de Pompadour, coloured gold of course. Eva wears something more Romantic, Jacques-Louis David's Mlle Ducreux in pale pink and red would work.

And yes, her shoes are full shoes. She got tired of having her feet cold and wet in traditional Dalish footwear.

Final Thoughts:

While I'm nowhere on her level, the biggest inspo for this little exercise came from one of my favourite illustrators, Beverlie Manson. In particular the paintings she did for Cinderella and Snow White and Rose Red.

In all, this has been far too much fashion, and even more headcanoning for one measley piece of fanart. Like I said, I went ham on this. Maybe too much ham, but that's but besides the point.

These are designs I will be definitely be returning to sooner rather than later.

So...how did I do?

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duskofastraeus · 1 year ago

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Wednesday, 24th of January

Multiple integrals exercises

Partial derivatives exercises

Notes on line integrals

Notes on the Laplacian and the Jacobian

Listen to French podcast + start new French series

HSK2 Mandarin lecture

Artistic anatomy studies

{Note of the day: lectures begin next week and I’m attempting to catch up with some material I’ll be studying this semester, though I have completely ignored my physics related readings I am trying to dedicate as much as I can of my day to make sure my mathematical background is strong enough for more advanced physics… I have recently acquired a sudden desire to start oil painting but have no way of supporting such a ‘hobby’ on my own nor do I think I could bring myself to actually find and frequent an atelier in this city. My antisocial and recluse tendencies will be the root of my own downfall at this point.}

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ultraericthered · 4 months ago

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Reimagine That Villain (Con)

Naraku, Inuyasha Squandered Ultimate Villain -> Feudal Era Kang the Conqueror

Part of what made Naraku falter as the ultimate villain of his series to me was that he was kept around so long, even when there was increasingly little else that could be done with him and we even had other villains on the scene, so he didn't justify his position as the Big Bad to keep around to the very end. There's quite an easy way around that for a reboot of Inuyasha: instead of doing what was done with Naraku's "incarnations" and "spawn" in the old series, have them all be literally different variants of Naraku. Make him like Marvel's Kang the Conqueror, a singular uber villain with different versions of himself across different points in space and time. This way we have a bunch of different major villains who all tie back into the singular overarching Big Bad, as they're all alternate incarnations of him!

No Heart, Care Bears Evil Satanic Sorcerer -> Evil Bigoted Studio Executive

This one's pretty out there. No Heart, the demonic sorcerer villain of The Care Bears Family, would honestly be well-serviced being reinvented into an evil studio executive with an unconcealed loathing of different groups of beings such as the Care Bears. This way, he not only becomes a real threat again, he become an allegorical one: how many studio executives have tampered with the creatives' visions and works in order to churn out something that can be called "soulless" or "lacking heart"? And how many have made decisions that clearly show them to be bigots? Think an Avi Arad or an Ike Perlmutter, or even higher up the chain of command like a David Zaslav! A guy wielding such levels of power and hatred in addition to magic would be truly frightening and formiddable on so many levels. For his aesthetic, he combines features of No Heart, the Wizard Of Wonderland, and the Evil Vizier all into a singular sinister package!

(Credit to the--jacobian on Deviantart for the design edit).

Noah Kaiba, Yu-Gi-Oh: Duel Monsters! Bullshit Filler Villain -> AI Of Gozaburo Kaiba's Ideal Heir

This would normally fall under a villain rewrite, but in order to rewrite him, I'd have to reinvent him (and obviously I'd want whatever story he featured in to be set far away from the Battle City arc!). Rather than be a virtual replica of Gozaburo Kaiba's deceased biological son who for some reason bears resemblence to his adopted son Seto, Noah should've been an AI program made to emulate the ideal heir that Gozaburo wanted to turn Seto into, one that'd take on a life of its own in an effort to live up to its purpose and become that heir, which would obviously require destroying and replacing Seto to do so.

Otonokoji Twins, Super Danganronpa Another 2 Serial Killer Abuser And Her Victim -> Pro LARpers Who Are Ultimates In Manipulation And Torture

It's sort of an AU idea based on what the twins were as young adults. In addition to them being a successful music duo, I can see them as gifted at acting and LARPing whatever gimmicky thing they choose to be to work their acts into, and whenever there's any threat to their livelihood detected, Kanade would turn to manipulation and different ways to torment the target - abduction, extoriton, blackmail, mind games, meddling, musical torture, indirect murder, you name it - and would often strongarm Hibiki into being her faithful accomplice.

The Phantom Blot, Disney Comics Black Cloaked Criminal -> Unfinished Character Who Shapeshifts

I legit have no idea why this hasn't become a thing for this character. Make this guy an actual ink blot of what was going to be a cartoon character but who never got finished and whose rough sketch got discarded to decay into the "Phantom Blot" it is now. Give them Clayface powers, including the power to shapeshift into different cartoon characters to pull of their crimes! It seriously writes itself!

Prince Phobos, W.I.T.C.H Tyrannical Usurper -> Charming And Orderly Authoritarian

I know Elyon got a rebooted incarnation recently, but what about her older brother Phobos? I think there's a lot you could do with him if you made him into this more Akio Ohtori-esque character, seemingly the perfect Prince Charming with a handsome, kind face and an outwarldy benevolent reign upon the land he rules, but behind this mask he's a complete sociopath and an authoritarian tyrant who looks to conquer or destroy the other realms of Metamoor so that Meridian alone could stand as the only prosperous, powerful nation. Y'know how in the TV show there was this dumb plot element of Phobos decieving Elyon through illusions that made his Meridian look beautiful and peaceful? Make his Meridian actually like that! Both he and his domain, pretty covers concealing hideous truths.

Mr. Potter, It's A Wonderful Life Sociopathic Wealthy Realtor -> Sociopathic Mega Corporotist

Remaking It's A Wonderful Life is something else that becomes the topic of rumors and discussion every now and again. If it was to be remade in a modern time and Mr. Potter was to be included, there's really no better direction to take him in than to embody the stone cold inhumanity of cutthroat capitalism and corporate avarice. Push him in an even darker direction, with more details spared for just how fucked up and corrupt an enterprise his "Pottersville" would truly be.

(Image used is of actor Brendon Gleeson as Winston Churchill).

The Q Continuum, Star Trek Q Continuum -> Q Anon

Yeah. It's that fucking obvious.

Dr. Regal, Megaman Battle Network/NT Warrior Evil Net Criminal Mad Scientist -> Horror-Themed Cyber Terrorist Mastermind With Military Ties

For both Dr. Regal and Nebula, I touched upon this in this post.

Rosemary Applefied, Nadja Of Tomorrow Wannabe Princess -> Ruthless Young Capitalist

This one's less a total reimagining and more what Rosemary would likely become as she strove to make a fortune and a living for herself in America after the events of the series. Definitely not anywhere near the level of Mr. Potter, but cutthroat in business all the same.

Sailor Galaxia, Sailor Moon Alien Demigoddess Sailor Soldier -> Evil Studio Executive

What Sailor Moon Stars ought to have done with this character! They had Shadow Galactica using the Ginga TV studio as a front for their operations. Information known about this is that there are many civilians also working there who have nothing to do with Shadow Galactica, the Sailor Animamates are employees there, use desks and lunch rooms, and conduct their business incognito, and a supposedly out of service elevator takes you to the secret real top floor, Galaxia’s dominion. These are all solid ideas, but there’s nothing really gluing them together even when such thing was so freaking obvious - Sailor Galaxia with a civillian alter ego as the leader of the proudction company that owns the studio! Give her a fake name and have her wield illegally attained (via maaaagic) corporate influence to advance her master plan, all while the regular people who work there are completely in the dark about what they’re truly working towards, and they could double as the only victims-of-the-day that the story would need. This would’ve made Galaxia seem Freeza levels of scary in how she’d have so much power in her yet would usually not need to lift a finger to accomplish anything since she’s at the head of this corrupt business. The Sailor Senshi taking on an enemy with institutional power that shields their true evildoing wasn’t really done beyond Professor Tomoe being the head of Infinity Academy and Witches 5 doubling as students there, so to do it here was such a golden opportunity that got so tragically wasted.

Slade Wilson, DC Universe Masked Mercenary Mastermind -> Corruptive Teacher

Great Slades and not-so-great Slades have come and gone, but I'd kill (no pun intended) to see a version of Slade Wilson who keeps all else about his character in-tact: army vet, big game hunter, toxic family man, masked mercenary killer, supervillain, etc., but has his day job be that of a school teacher or a principal. An occupation where he has access to young people that he can manipulate, corrupt, prey upon and use as pawns in his secret criminal games. Sort of a Walter White crossed with Gakuho Asano if you will. That would be super interesting and really lean into his darkest facets.

Steele, Balto Jerk Jock Killer Sled Dog -> Police Brutality Dog

There was always kind of a problem with Steele in how he was meant to be a Gaston type character where though his a prideful, boorish jerkass, he's a beloved figure in town....only he was designed, animated, and voiced to be as Maximum EVIL as possible, without even a pretense of subtlety, making it a stretch that no one had a clue about how evil he truly was until he actually goes and does really inexcusably evil stuff. But if we incorperated Steele into an urban setting like Shere Khan in Tale Spin, the remedy to this would be quite simple: make Steele a cop. This way not only does he win over the reverence, respect and goodwill of the public for a different reason, but it suggests he also keeps others in line through fear. He can act as aggressively, blatantly evil as he wants to, what's anyone going to do about it? He has a fucking badge, and it shields him from paying consequences for his corrupt, cruel, and unethical actions. His prejudice against half-breeds like Balto would also take on new meaning, as it's reflective of the very worst of such dirty cops.

Sweeney Todd, Sweeney Todd Demon Barber -> Demon Stylist And Merchant

Sweeney Todd was technically already reinvented when the musical stage play was first concieved, but his original iteration was so obscure that it hardly seems to matter. If Ben Barker got a second do-over, I think his villainy could be ramped up by making him not only a barber, but an acclaimed stylist and the producer and seller of various hair and skin products. Him expanding into a larger business could make him a man who "cuts throats" in a much different way, also expanding his means of killing people, both overt and subtle. And working with Ms. Lovett to make meat pies out of his victims ensures he maximizes profits in both money and in human life!

Tsumugi Shirogane, Danganronpa V3 Ultimate Cosplayer Twist Villain -> Ultimate Amoral Fangirl

Basically doubling down on the Tsumugi we got to see in Alternate Continuity outside the main V3 story. As I've stated before, I do like antagonist Tsumugi when she’s actually being antagonist Tsumugi and leaning into the idea of an unhinged, amoral fangirl and fanfic writer in total control of her own Danganronpa game experience.

Valmont, Jackie Chan Adventures Criminal Gang Leader -> Political Donor Who Heads Conspiracy

Were Jackie Chan Adventures to be rebooted, imagine if the Dark Hand wasn't a crime syndicate but instead a criminal web in a conspiracy that spans different places and carried out by different public figures and civil servants who are secretly involved, like with HYDRA in Captain America: The Winter Soldier? And Valmont would be at the head of the whole thing as a top political donor who makes donations and contributions to various politicians and factions in exchange for their silence and complicity with his secret movement. After a demeaning Villain Decay, this would be a return to top form!

Venom, Spider-Man Vengeful Addictice And Corruptive Symbiote + Eddie Brock -> Vengeful Addictive And Corruptive Symbiote Cycling Through Hosts, Driven By Wrath, Power Lust, And Irresponsibility

In a way, they're already starting to move in this direction with recent depictions of Venom like in the 2017 Marvel's Spider-Man show, Insomniac Game's Spider-Man 2, the recent comic stories that has the symbiote bonded to a mysterious new host as the All New Venom, and maybe even whatever's coming next for Tom Holland's MCU Spidey. Eddie Brock's had his share of solid reinterpretations, but I'm glad Venom can now move away from him as a fixture.

Vlad Masters/Plasmius, Danny Phantom Generic Arch Nemesis -> Half Ghost, Half Vampire Chef/Caterer With Influence Over Politics And Crime

This reimagining of Vlad I can only describe as being one part Count Dracula, one part Hannibal Lecter, and one part Chef Julian Slowik. Rather than the accident by his old friend Jack causing him to turn half ghost, Vlad would have become a vampire like he was initially planned to be and from there he'd gained his phantom powers from the Ghost Zone on his own. Amassing his vast fortune, he'd become a renonwed chef that makes recipes from Wisconsin dairy products, but uses that position to attain his special secret ingredient of human blood. He'd also have hypnotic powers that he'd use to hold sway over local politics and law, including in the criminal underworld.

Lord Voldemort, Harry Potter Wizard Hitler -> Nonbinary JKR Expy

OK, this one is more than a little petty, but at the same time could make for an interesting character! Rather than be a reflection of the racist, classist, nativist despots that the UK and Europe had to contend with a century ago, Voldemort could reflect the populists, bigots, and authoriatrians of this century, and in a way that gives him a striking ressemblence to his own creator, JK Rowling. This Lord Voldemort would begin as a widely beloved figure for the magical gifts they'd imparted upon the world (much like JKR) only for their own personal vices and emotional immaturity to steer them towards seeking further power and self enrichment for the sake of their ego (again, much like JKR), to the point where they mutilate their own soul and become a shell of the human being they once were (again, much like JKR), and with newfound power and purpose they embark on a crusade to persecute and wipe out a vulnerable group of people they deem as detriments to the world order they wish to see, making it their life's mission to see them all struck from existence (again, much like JKR), and becoming the dreaded dark lord who many dare to even speak the name of. The most twisted part would be despite the insistence of being hailed as "LORD Voldemort", or "HE who must not be named", Voldemort secretly does not identify themself as male or female, hypocritically believing their greatness puts them above things such as gender pronouns and labels while in public they'd blast any such person as an inferior that must be oppressed. And unlike the Tom Riddle of old, this Voldemort doesn't fear death. They fear life that they can exert total dominance and control over.

The Wet Bandits, Home Alone Common House Burglars -> Corrupt IRS Agents

C'mon, this would've been miles better than whatever the fuck Home Sweet Home Alone was doing. If only they'd agree to role reprisal...

Yukio Oikawa, Digimon Adventure 02 Wannabe DigiDestined -> The UnChosen Child

Whereas Ken's change would ride on an alteration of his motivations and villainy as the Digimon Emperor, Oikawa's would hinge upon an alteration of his backstory. Rather than a longtime best friend of Hiroki Hida who could see Digimon and dreamed of going to the Digital World, Oikawa might've been either one of the first ever Chosen Children who got unchosen for some tragic reason, or one with the potential to be a Chosen Child but who got passed over by destiny when he was made to spend less time around his bestie, thus unable to observe anything more related to Digimon and the Digital World. Either way gives Oikawa a hangup that he'd carry with him all the way into adulthood, a Digimon fanatic who refused to grow up until he got to have the Digimon Adventure in the Digital World that he was owed back in his childhood. This also enhances Oikawa's desperation, which could suggest that maybe in this version his corruption and draw to the powers of darkness wasn't mere chance. Rather than the pawn of some dark entity, he's embraced the dark entity and made it part of himself, and he will have his way in the Digital World even if he has to ruin the lives of children and endanger both worlds just to reach it! It's every bit as effective and interesting as the original canonical Oikawa.

Yzma, The Emperor's New Groove Treacherous Advisor Mad Scientist -> High Priestess For Supai

As with Chelsea, Dr. Irie, Lila, King Magnifico, and Vlad, this is more moving a character back towards their conceptual roots as means of reimagining the character they'd become in the final product. In the planned Kingdom Of The Sun, Yzma was the high preistess for the Temple of the Sun who secretly resented the sun, blaming sunlight for her physical aging, so she pledged her servitude to the god of darkness Supai and schemed to cast the empire into eternal night by releasing Supai via a blood sacrifice of the young Emperor Manca and granting him the power to destroy and conquer as he pleased. She's also a necromancer who reanimates mummies to serve her. Definitely a darker, more vile take on Yzma than what we ended up with, even though she's still no less comical and bungling. And this is the Yzma who'd get that awesome villain song Eartha Kitt recorded!

Xehanort, Kingdom Hearts Squandered Darknessholic Villain -> Amoral Scholar Of Dark Arts

Or rather, Anxem Norterrax, a researcher who studies the powers of darkness within the Mirrorverse and those that come from such darkness like the Fractured. A retooling of Terra-Xehanort's character for the Mirrorverse setting and in name, characteristics, and even clothes he combines the best of regular Terranort, Ansem Seeker of Darkness, and Xemnas. Would've been quite fun to have around had only Disney Mirrorverse stuck around and been handled better...

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