#post from admin vincent

[xzeroweek]

And I was gonna post a reminder that there's a make up week but guess I'll do it here with this post and make a stand alone post about it tomorrow!!

I hope I get everything done by next week lmao!!

~Admin Vincent

The bonus day's gonna have to be delayed at least a day cuz I'm kinda busy outside the event today

At least we have a make up week following after today!!

So I'll be able to give myself more time whether I do it more tonight or tomorrow!!

We'll see!!

[getvalentined]

OKAY. IT'S TIME.

Like this post if you want an invite to the community!

Note that only main blogs can currently join/post to communities, so if you run off a secret sideblog for your Vincent Valentine needs, that blog will not be able to receive an invite.

Mutuals and acquaintances will get invites first, obviously, but I'm not trying to make this a secret club.

Currently the only post is the (temporary) guidelines and tag structure post, which will be transferred onto the appropriate tab once that functionality is unlocked for admins. (Communities are very much in beta, check out my breakdown of how they currently work here!)

I recommend checking that post out before you drop a like here to get an invite. They're pretty comprehensive because I've been in fandom too long to leave anything up to chance, but I know some people may find them overly limiting, in which case this isn't the community for you, and that's fine! ♥

Invitations will appear either as a DM from tumblrbot, or as new item in your notification panel. Presently, there is no way for admins to manually send an invite link, so the only solution to missing invitations is for me to revoke the first and tell the system to send you a new one. Please drop me an ask if you haven't gotten an invitation within about a day of liking this post!

[thenightling]

So I'm in a Horror Facebook group (not my own. mine is called "Gothic Horror.'). And at first it was okay but then one of the admins (might be the main admin) started to ... Well, to put it bluntly he started to post like a crass, edgy twelve-year-old boy from the 1990s left in front of his older sibling's PC. First it was funny horror memes and conversations and that was fine but hen he started to post more and more low brow (I'm trying to think of a non-phrenology way of describing it), crass, uncouth and immature content. I"m talking lots of poop jokes, lots of fart jokes, fart and poop jokes. To me the most unpleasant offender was a post of someone's legs and lowered (soiled) underwear, and Vaseline, and tissue next to it, while in front of this "scene" is a TV showing a graphic scene from Cannibal Holocaust. When I complained (and a few others did as well) he doubled down on it being funny. This! This sort of content, this sort of behavior- this is why I'm stuck getting into arguments with people who insist Dracula is "not Horror" and Barnes and Nobel labels their own collectable printings of Gothic Horror classics as "Gothic Fantasy." It's because when there is quality, when there is atmosphere and ambiance, or romance, or subtlety. people who are used to the edgy, shallow torture p0rn crap can't wrap their minds around these things being horror too. They get used to the run of the mill killers and found footage and forget about Sleepy Hollow, Woman in Black, Crimson Peak, Company of Wolves, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and Nosferatu... These are all horror.

I'm going to sound like the horror equivalent of Holding out for a Hero here but Where have all the creepy men gone? Where are all the Vincent Prices?

Try to remember the genre once had some level of class, reimagining the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Nathanial Hawthorne. Stay classy, Horror fans.

[valdaycare-au]

The Halloween Update! (since we Mateo Vincent??? MATEO forgot to update the blog.) Part 5

Mateo is the one who is responsible for updating the website but as the last photo is his, allow me to do the honors of updating you with the finale of this... Je ne sais pas, this series? Oui, it seems to be the proper term. Mateo went in as this... hm, how curious. This is... a costume? Really? I thought he was wearing his usual outfit! Madame Ling went in as a nurse—which I was later told that she actually went as Nurse Joy from Pokémon (that surprised me), Kirra went in as Aloy from Horizon Zero Dawn (Sasha a fait un travail incroyable!) And you're telling me that... Mateo wore a costume? This is a costume? Who is he even supposed to be? Himself? The colors don't fit him, he looks so... plain. Mon dieu, what a disaster. I thought he was an architecture student? Why is he—

Quoi merde—Mateo?!

Cabrón, chingas tu madre.You think you can just push me off the computer like that, homie?

The hit was unnecessary, connard!

And so is pushing me off the computer, so now I'm just giving you a taste of your medicine! Take that, tonto!

Why, you—?!?

Yes, me! Go back and work in admin instead of taking care of children since you're so bad at it!

If there's anyone who's deathly bad at something, it's you and your idiotic fashion sense! Why not ask the new babysitter for fashion tips since you obviously need some, asshole!

What?! I don't need fashion advice from him, I'm the reason he dresses that way! I told him how to dress!

Have you told him that you're just as violent as your aunt too?!

(They continued bickering until Sasha put a stop to them both—or, more correctly, Vincent was taken away against his will as Sasha carried him on his shoulder, effectively leaving Mateo to finally do this job.)

Um... Sorry about that. You didn't have to see that, haha.

Anyway! If you ask me, I definitely had a blast at our party! It was just unfortunate that we weren't able to post videos and other photos besides the ones we have with our Little Wonders since we needed consent from the parents and the, well, sitter after party is, um... not really available to be disclosed to the public (let's just say that depressed adults are involved). But enough about that, let's talk about my lil' homies!

First things first, I love Pokémon. I still have my original Gameboy cartridges for Pokemon Blue and Red, I collect the cards, I've played all of them and I have very strong team compositions in all of my games! I thought that maybe the kids would like Pokémon and so I dressed up as one of my childhood heroes—Ash Ketchum! No kidding, I cried so hard when I watched him finally become the world champion from the episode from last year. There's news about the series finally ending, too! So it felt appropriate to give a tribute to my own personal hero.

I was planning to bring my very own 'pokémon' to the party (it was just a bunch of my exotic pets, nothing much) because the kids wanted to see them but I realized that, well, the kids are very rowdy and it would be hard to bring them. So instead I made little pokéballs for everyone!

As for my favorite buddies, I like to think that I'm putting them here because they're fun and chill to hang with! They're absolutely cute, passionate, and adorable, no one can resist these little troublemakers even if they make a mistake.

I absolutely adore Tala's sass and liveliness. She would talk to me about the Filipino telenovelas her moms would watch with her and I love her enthusiasm about learning about her culture this way. She's quite the conversationalist, too, as she never runs out of stories!

Jamie was livid when I gave him the pokéball I made and I know mi hombrecito would appreciate what I gave him. He reminded me of me due to his obsession with the action figure and cartoon character KAY/O. He's quite the lively and imaginative kid and I couldn't be more honored to have a little space in the little guy's head everyday and every night when he falls asleep.

And of course, who's going to forget lil' Sunwoo Byrne? Kid's got a huge appetite, she absolutely loves the sandwiches I made her before! I do think it's cute that both her and Jamie are fans of Pokémon given that they bond over watching cartoons and the like! Makes me feel secure knowing that there are still kids who loved cartoons as much as I did—do, since I still watch them now. They're just fun to be around with, you get me?

And unfortunately I was the last one in this batch. Maybe in the future we'll get to have another one to be included in posts like this? I don't know, but this was certainly fun to write!

[kazutoratiger]

hi so i decided to post this as someone who was in this group. the first thing i want to say is that @koko is openly someone who ships wakasa with kids and thinks pedophilia is something to support and be interested actively in. additionally, vincent has made many comments about supporting incest and being openly interested in it. all of which i and others have screenshots of as when we joined his group, none of this was disclosed.

before anyone messages me, i don't care about proshippers' feelings. i'm not going to be sensitive to someone who thinks things like incest & pedophilia (especially with themes of noncon) are hot. if you choose to hide that from people that you're running a group for, i think that's pretty fucking awful. be upfront as hell about it. if you're going to confidently be into these things, why hide it?

in addition to that, when asked about his twitter that has both of these things as themes all over it, he lied. anyway, the point is, this user in particular might not be someone you want to be in a group with.

all of this aside, being in this group was weird. fraternities (really just frats, they don't care about the women of the group in the slightest and will ignore them lmao) are supposed to be about brotherhood, about friendships and other things. instead, the admin + his friends all leaned into the worst and grossest parts of a frat and made everyone as american as possible, almost to a point that it felt like their japanese culture and everything that makes an anime character not white stripped away in favor of characters having boring sex plots and getting pregnant (trans men and btw, no one has any idea how testosterone works and they spoke over someone who actually had experience with hrt)

if none of this matters to you, the three remaining members (idk if there are more, most people left about the incest and pedophilia info came out) are cliquey. they will ignore you in favor of their boring ass plots and their characterizations will probably make you want to rip your teeth out.

all they want is an audience for their shitty little plots and not include you in the process.

anyway, if you want screenshots, you can send me an ask if you really want to. i'll post again if i need to.

this is about:

@tokyoghoul

[my-own-little-dark-age]

Hello! I'm 30+, hoping to get a Discord server together for older roleplayers. Give this post a like so I can send you the invitation link when the server is ready. More info below:

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➤ About:  a casual 25+ multifandom discord roleplay group.  with original locations and lore inspired by  (but not limited to)   series such as Castlevania, Vampire Hunter D, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Final Fantasy, Cowboy Bebop, The Last Unicorn, and more.  Hoping to keep this a small group with no more than 25 writers, depending on interest.  We're going for a dark fantasy/space western vibe. OCs that fit these themes are welcome.

➤  Server Lore: Welcome to the world of Cronos! We all start at the wishing well. Whether you were born here or came here from another world, the well is where we begin our journey. Hello, weary traveler. I see you aren't alone. Every traveler must have a companion and a weapon to keep you safe. Your animal familiar is your companion that turns into your weapon of choice. Keep them close. Once your weapon is broken, the spirit of your familiar will go back to the well. Where are you headed? There are several locations in Cronos you are free to explore-- including outer space!  Cronos is always expanding! More locations are sure to pop up over time.

➤ Wanted Muses:

Final Fantasy ---

Rufus Shinra

Angeal Hewley

Genesis Rhapsodos

Vincent Valentine

Zack Fair

Castlevania ---

Adrian Alucard Tepes

Studio Ghibli ---

Howl Pendragon

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Now accepting admin roles! Anyone interested in becoming an admin for the server will get early access and first dibs on characters. Please message @my-own-little-dark-age    if you are interested. The server will open to the public in the spring of 2025.

[fazbear-enterprises]

plans for what's next? TELL ME ALL OF THEM!! PLEASE IM INTERESEDT I NEED TO KNOW

IM STEALING THIS FROM DMS BC IM TO FUCKING LAZY TO RETYPE IT ALL OUT. THIS IS ALSO ALL HYPOTHETICAL AND WILL PROBS CHANGE. I WANNA REF OUT SOME ART AND STUFF BEFORE I POST ANYTHING OR MAKE ANYTHING FINAL BC I DONT WANNA JUST FORGET ABT A PLOT LINE AND MOVE OVER IT!!! ANYWAYS HERE U GO MWAHAHAHHAHA

1. jeremy will wake up from his coma bite, come back w/ a mildly different design bc i mean. you get bite of 87'd, u ain't gonna be to keen to look the same, so design will probs consist of something like how people draw Micheal Afton w/ the helpy mask or smth- 2. LEGAL TROUBLE!!!! henry is going to make more statements, that will get him into trouble! probably! ^^ 3. Vincent might step back from the business like how she did before bc things may or may not repeat like.. before! hint hint some kids dying! 4. fritz is gonna look more into finding Willy Afton, bc he thinks the og owner of the company could fix the brand much more than Henry could. 5. and Scott and Mike will probs butt heads lots bc they now have very differing opinions on the company. (Scott still thinks of it in a positive light, thinking it just needs better maintenance and that all the issues fall upon the repair and clean crew, while Mike actually sees the issues bc i mean the place has bugs, killer robots and gives food poisoning -_-)

ANYWAYS BACK TO MY HAITUS GOOD NIGHT!

-admin bob

[jolie-goes-rome]

I personally feel very strongly that Janusz belongs in rehab, and that Vincent would insist on him taking a break and looking after himself for a change, after decades of looking after popes.

But he is a very unique character. Not only does he set this whole crazy rollercoaster of a Conclave in motion by confiding in Thomas about Tremblay at the eleventh hour. His decency and his loyalty towards the late Holy Father are so touching. And I never know whether it's kinda sad that he appears to have been the LHF's only real confidant towards the end of his life, or a true badge of honour.

Interestingly, during the final stage of the LHF's life Janusz pretty much seems to have taken on the role that you'd usually expect from a private secretary. Prefect of the Household is really more an admin position, not about keeping the pope company at meals and making sure he's comfortable at night… (People - possibly including Richard Harris himself - may be getting the two positions mixed up or conflate them because IRL, Benedict XVI's famous Bel Giorgio held both positions simultaneously for a time, and he's certainly a blueprint for extreme personal devotion to his pope.)

It's heartbreaking to think that in the story, the LHF mistrusted his official private secretary to the point of giving another man these confidential, private duties.

His official private secretary, or one of them, of course being the shady Monsignor Morales, who is clearly in Tremblay's pocket and who probably deserves a meta of his own at some point (not exactly an appreciation post though).

But of course that would have added to an already immense workload and emotional burden on Janusz's part. It's really no wonder he snapped…

I love it when characters who are essentially a plot device get a true distinct personality and you can’t help wanting to get to know them better.

Musing about Janusz (again) having had a discussion in the comments of a fic; (thanks @jolie-goes-rome)

Janusz who, in Canon;

Is one of the ones, (the one?)to sit with the Holy Father at Dinner.

Is someone who the Holy Father would tell things, not the details, but at least the fact that he had sacked Trembley.

Is the one who checks on him in the evening.

Is then told by Trembley not to mention the meeting.

Is told by Monsignior Morales that nothing along those lines of a meeting ever happened (and with the implication the Late Holy Father wasn't in his right mind if it did).

Still musters the courage to go against them and inform the Dean of what he knows/almost knows.

Is clearly respected as a source of information on the Late Holy Father’s affairs, because:

Trembley tries so hard to discredit him as a source whenever this is brought up. (And when it's clear that isn't working, follows Morales and suggests the Pope wasn't entirely competent.)

Lawrence/Lomeli is prepared to go digging based on Janusz's word (and Trembley's reactions to it).

Janusz Wozniak, who (in the book) came from a parish priest to keep an Aging JPII company -

Loyal, Brave, and with a clear sense of Right, Wrong, and when something is Off.

Janusz and Benitez (my theories/dreams)

He may be the only one of our "Vatican Cast" who has met Vincent pre-Conclave -

I also wouldn't be surprised if he was in on Vincent being appointed Cardinal. (Note in neither book or film is he around when everyone is discussing the validity of the appointment)

Wholeheartedly transfers his allegiance to Innocent, and remains his Prefect.

Would willingly place himself between danger and his Pope, at risk of death, with barely a thought.

But wishes most sincerely his new Pope would stop disappearing incognito into Rome at the drop of a hat (or at least Take the Swiss Guard with him!!)

Worries himself nearly sick every time Vincent has absconded, until he's brought back again.

...Headcanon

Something happens to hurt or unsettle Vincent on one of his official visits. That evening the sisters find Janusz napping on the floor beside the Holy Father’s bed, to be there to wake him up if/when he has a nightmare. He keeps this up as long as is needed. (The sisters find him one of the old Conclave camp beds instead of the floor)

[xzeroweek]

NEW PINNED POST FOR 2025!!

The dates and prompts are finally being announced!!

I'm being a bit late, and apologies as such, as I'm working on my XZero fanfic "The Maverick and the Hunter" as of currently, and that's also why the art is kinda tied to it cuz it's literally on the brain rn lol

The posts for this year from yours truly will also feature the AU because I can lmao

ANYWAY here's the prompts and the dates!! As well as the blog's links for mobile users!!

Welcome!!

Event FAQ

Rules!! PLEASE READ

Who to Follow!!

aaand here's the bonus day!!

And if you still have trouble reading the prompts, they'll be listed here!!

Damage - June 9th

Sakura - June 10th

Labyrinth - June 11th

Nightmare - June 12th

Sentimental - June 13th

Desire - June 14th

Sunshine - June 15th

Spellbound - June 16th - BONUS DAY

Can't wait for this year!! I think it'll be better for myself personally, but still can't wait for everyone else's either!! Hope this brought you some joy!! Keep calm and ship XZero!!

~Admin Vincent🐰

[fictionkin-hell]

Straight to Hell! The Fictionkin section! Going down!↓↓↓

Welcome to fictionkin hell! The name is obvious!

I’m Mod Vincent/🔪 (He/They/It) and the admin. Our other mods are Mod Phone Guy/☎️ (He/They/It), Mod Springs/🔋(They/It), Mod Cassidy/🦔 (He/They/It), Mod Daniil/🩸(He/Him + Neos), Mod Grover/🫧(She/He + Neos), Mod Trucy/💠(Any Pronouns), and Ghost Mod Columbina/👁(It/Its).

(There’s also Mod Payphone which is just when me and Phone Guy collaborate on a post. Probably gonna just have #mod collab instead for others.)

This blog is was created to give positivity towards the worst kins(though you can do regular kin + fictive requests too)! We all have guilt over our past lives and kinhate doesn’t help. While this blog is anti-kinhate this does NOT mean we support proshitting or anything related, general DNI here!! Learn from the mistakes of your past lives! Don’t repeat them!!

With that out of the way here are the main things we provide in fictionkin hell on the next floor. ↓↓↓

We provide: Kin positivity, canon drawings, icons, wallpapers, general edits, Homestuck edits (PQ edits, talksprites, etc.), mood + stimboards, userboxes, names + neos suggestions, pendulum questions, tarot spreads, shufflemancies, canon/kin calls, timeline questions, music playlists, video playlists, care kits, and fashion kits!

(Sources w/ emojis after them are sources mods would really like to take, also please specify if you would like a video playlist because I’ll just assume you mean music unless specified. Also please put both character and source in your request. Check #extra info for extra questions.)

While we try to do any sources, do note that the main ones we know the best are: (color coded for each mod)

Five Nights At Freddy’s

Homestuck

Stardew Valley ☎️🔪

Sonic

Gorillaz

Danganronpa

DSMP

QSMP

Team Fortress 2 🔪🩸

DHMIS

Silent Hill

Sherlock

Hermitcraft

Undertale

Deltarune

My Little Pony 🔪

Traffic/Life Series

Little Nightmares 👁

Vocaloid 👁

Warrior Cats

Invader Zim

Creepypasta

South Park ☎️

Dialtown

Don’t Starve

RPGmaker Horror Games

The Muppets 🫧

OFF

Genshin Impact 👁

Genloss ☎️

Cuphead

DDLC

The Owl House 🔪

Ghosts BBC

Welcome Home

Inscryption

Emesis Blue 🔪

Slime Rancher

Portal 🔪

Left 4 Dead 🔪

Half-Life 🔪

Backrooms (wikidot) ☎️

Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom

Legend of Zelda

Hazbin Hotel

Helluva Boss

Hunter x Hunter

The Boys (TV)

Amanda the Adventurer

The Amazing World of Gumball

Lots of Horror Movies

House of Leaves

Arcane

Rain World 👁

Parties are For Losers 👁

Qualia Automata 👁

Pathologic 🩸

Disco Elysium 🩸

Life is Strange

Sesame Street 🫧

Chonny Jash

Baldur's Gate 3 👁

Scott Pilgrim

Epithet Erased

Needy Streamer Overload 👁

Project Sekai 👁

[spnfanficpond]

Weekly Pond Newsletter

It's Midsummer (or Midwinter if you're down south), which means we're about halfway through the year! How are we all doing on our New Year's resolutions? That good, eh?

Old Business:

The discord server was hopping this week, with Manta Rays hanging out, competitive writing sprints, and even some non-competitive writing sprints happening almost every day! Did you know that you can hop into the sprint room in our server and sprint any time you want? Anyone can operate the Sprinto bot with either slash commands or tagging the bot and giving the commands. Most of the time, there is an admin around to help you, and maybe even sprint with you! If you have ADHD, you may have heard of body doubling, and doing writing sprints is one way to do that. For a lot of people, it's just easier to get some writing done while sprinting, even if it's just by yourself. You're kind of holding yourself accountable, and the Sprinto bot keeps time for you and even gives you a lovely quote at the end! Be sure to check it out and ask the admins if you need help!

There was no New Member Spotlight for June, as we had no new members by the time we would usually have posted it. However, we've gotten a few new members this weekend, so July's post will be chock full of new people to meet!

Last week's #TweetFicTues prompt was:

JIB13 photos got us all up in our feels about Jeffrey Vincent Parise and his drums. This week's #TweetFicTues prompt is Asmodeus as the drummer in a band!

New Business:

Manta Rays in the discord server! Next weekend, there will be TWO Manta Rays in the discord server just hanging out! On Friday, @katbratsupernaturalwhore will be in there for an hour, and on Saturday, @princessmisery666 will be in there for a couple of hours. (She was originally scheduled for yesterday, but we postponed it because someone forgot to announce it -not naming names it was Michelle-.) This is your chance to get to know wave-makers in the Pond, get advice on writing or Tumblr, or just chat with some really cool people!

Fishing For Treasures at the @fanficocean is next weekend! In July, the Pond and the Ocean are celebrating Real People Fics, or RPF! Send us links to your favorite RPF stories, whether you wrote them or not. You can submit your links to our blogs or drop the links into the #fishing-for-treasures channel in our discord servers. The deadline for the Ocean's celebration is midnight Friday, Eastern US time. If you have any questions, feel free to send an ask to either the Ocean or to us!

It's almost the end of the month, so Angel Fish Award nominations are due if you want to participate in this month's raffle for prizes! Click here for info on the AFA's and how to participate. Want to know what's on the prize list? Click here for the list of current prizes up for grabs! We accept nominations ALL THE TIME, but the raffle ends at the end of the month every month.

(Divider by @glygriffe!)

That's all for this week! To see all Pond events, and also other SPN-related things like conventions and online concerts, check out our Google calendar! We try to keep it as up to date as possible. If there's something you want to see on the calendar that's not there (maybe a convention we missed, or cast birthdays, or something similar), send us an ASK and let us know!

Hope you have a great week! - From your Admins and Manta Rays, @manawhaat, @mrswhozeewhatsis, @mariekoukie6661, @princessmisery666, @thoughtslikeaminefield, and @katbratsupernaturalwhore!

[straitjacketzz]

ok now that the sales are finally 100% complete i am here to add on that "shadow vincent" aka vinny/autophobia belongs to me now as well. i had to wait longer for him while i waited for vincents owner to tell me if they were ok with a similar looking character being owned by me and they were cool with it.

im mainly being so open and public about all this because a lot of people tend to use these designs like theyre co-owned to the public due to being in limbo for so long but. these three are with me now! i know that nothing i do will ever rly stop people from drawing and using scott and jeremy specifically and im not really bothered by that honestly. i just wanted people to know they arent owned by rebornica anymore is all. the only character i want to try having more control over is vinny since hes not any kind of fandom oriented oc at all so its more personal.

an update on the toyhouse links for scott and jeremy: its complicated. i still own them but the toyhouse admin doesnt want them being hosted on the site so thats why the links in the og post are broken now. oh well! theyre still mine though.

vinny has a profile though n theres no issue with him! :) https://toyhou.se/26945826.crow

HAVE YOU EVER DRAWN THESE GUYS?

Sooooo idek where to begin with this. I'll start by saying that yes I contacted Rebornica/Bones/Voltergeist and bought two of their old FNAF au designs. Those being Scott/Phone Guy and Jeremy. Before I get into anything I feel like I'm obligated to address Volt's past and let it be known that I do not Care about a mentally ill teenager faking other disorders or aggressively yelling at people to stop copying them or whatever other overdramatic thing they did like a decade ago and I don't think buying from them is anywhere near comparable to "supporting problematic people" compared other designers who are like homophobic or whatever the fuck else, and I'm not here to talk about or argue about "the ethics" of me giving Volt money. So jot that down before you even start typing.

I'm here to ask if anyone here has drawn art of Scott/Phone Guy and Jeremy so that i may save it and add it to their toyhouse galleries. You'll see they both currently have like 100 pieces in their galleries right now but I know that's not even scratching the surface. Theres just so much of it It's overwhelming to look for. Theres also issues of these designs being so popular to the point of people making their Own personal redesigns of them. And it starts to muddy up which art belongs to me or not. This isnt toooo much of a big deal with Jeremy as the giant "?" on his face makes him pretty distinct and easily recognizable as The Guy That I Own. But this becomes a problem with Phone Guy specifically. He is... pretty much The design that everyone draws him as regardless of if they intend for it to be Rebornica fanart or not. People use this design in their own AUs, people use this design as their own OC. Theres so so so so so much art of people labeling their art as "heres my phone guy design!" and its just the Rebornica design. And I don't feel comfortable or really have the heart to save anything that people consider to be theirs even if its literally the design that I own x__x It's just a bit hard when you own a design that is considered canon enough to a real video game to the point where people just. Take him. and there's nothing I can do about that. And it's not something that upsets me tbh because I knew this was an issue when I Bought him. Literally all I want to know is what art I can or can't save and upload to their archives lmao. So I figured asking people to send me their art directly would help reduce the chance of me just taking someone else's art that they didn't intend to be My phone guy. Not even counting the fact that a popular FNAF fan game called Dayshift At Freddy's has their own version of phone guy that ALSO had the red rotary phone head but wears a black business suit. So, any art of That One isnt mine.

But anyway yeah! And just know i'm looking for literally anything involving these guys. Digital art, traditional art, gifs, animations, physical/irl art, doodles, comics, fanfic, cosplays you made, even weird misc stuff like ponytown designs for them, literally anything and everything!!

also because i keep getting asked about it, Vincent, shadow vincent, mike, vendetta, mahogany, faith, captain, vex, sheriff, fritz, hocus, and boss have also all been sold and multiple different people own these guys now. and for vincents owner specifically, i will not be giving out their username as they Do Not Want To Be Contacted About It.

im cross-posting this on multiple websites so feel free to reach out anywhere where its most convenient for you. reblogs are appreciated for reach

twitter: straitjacketzz discord: straitjackets toyhouse: straitjackets

[thenightling]

I feel H. P. Lovecraft is overrated

Confession:   I am not a fan of H. P. Lovecraft. I don’t hate him.  I’m just not a fan.  

It's not just that H. P. Lovecraft was a known antisemite, racist, and xenophobe (even by early twentieth century standards he was extreme).  

I just never liked his writing style.

Years ago I had been part of a Facebook group called Super Scifi Saturday - which was based on MeTV's Saturday night programming block, including the horror host Svengoolie.  (If you've ever seen the 1985 Fright Night he's sort of like Peter Vincent only in ghoulish makeup).

One day one of the group admins posted a thread "What is one of your scifi or horror unpopular opinions?"

So I said that I think H. P. Lovecraft is overrated.  

It's not that I think he is a bad writer.  It's not that I don't think he influenced and inspired a lot of people. I just felt he was overrated.

Even the world Eldritch today (which just means "weird or mysterious or sinister") has come to mean "Lovecraftian to most people.

I also notice he gets credit for a lot of tropes he didn't actually invent such as the forgotten primordial Gods. See "The Mothers" in Goethe's Faust Part 2 for a pre-Lovecraft example.

And we reached a point where anything with tentacles is associated with Lovecraft.

Well, one of the group admins really didn't like me saying this and suggested that I probably couldn't follow Lovecraft because he uses too many "Big" and "archaic words" that aren't common anymore.

As a book lover I tried to swallow my pride and not be offended at this assessment.  I tried to assure him that I read many books from that era and the chosen words do not bother me though I admit to not being a fan of his particular writing style.

He then suggested that I needed to read more stories in the genre to appreciate Lovecraft.

I, again, attempted to remain calm and polite and said that I have read many storied from that era *and* genre.   And that there are authors who use Lovecraftian characters and concepts that I like better than Lovecraft, like Neil Gaiman.

The group admin again suggested that I just "Don't get" Lovecraft. That I don't appreciate him because I don't understand his writing.   It was very much sealioning.  Very politely suggesting- again- that the words were too big for me and that if I studied more and read more I'd come to appreciate it.

Finally I snapped and asked him to stop with the condescension.   He had asked for an unpopular opinion and that was mine.   I told him he was being rude and disrespectful in assuming that just because I don't like something it means I'm not well-read enough, or my vocabulary is too limited, or that I'm not familiar with that genre.   I told him flat out that he was treating me like the only reason I could have for not liking Lovecraft is if I'm too ignorant or stupid to appreciate him and it was starting to offend me.

He said "I'm sorry you feel that way." and I thought he was genuinely apologizing but immediately after he said that I was blocked from the group.

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#5

HA!Cloud chugs seven redbulls and cures poverty is my existemated amount of feral! Personally!

The line between feral adopted cat and feral adopted teenage time traveller is a very thin one

219 notes • Posted 2021-01-02 23:45:05 GMT

#4

Gast is professor cloud's favorite student so the H&H boys try to kill him for that spot, probably getting foiled by lucrecia by accident or cloud on purpose and it probably just ends up like spongebob's boating school episode with patrick

Some Professor Strife lore, as facilitated by the server and @sheseesinthedark​

Cloud went far enough back that Gast and Grimoire are faculty-age along with him

They both like Cloud’s maverick ways and are very surprised that he can actually be quite pleasant...sometimes.

Particularly if they bring bribes when they need to speak with him

Lucretia is unquestionably his favorite student, much to Hojo and Hollander’s irritation

When Shinra finally manages to start producing SOLDIERs, basically the entire Science department has taken a class or five with Professor Strife

“Hey...Didn’t Professor Strife’s eyes look kinda like...?”

When they see it again at some academic thing, his eyes are startlingly obvious. 

This only makes them more terrified and/or awed of him

Professor Strife becomes an academic meme.

You can get an entire auditorium of undergrads to yell Rule #2 in unison, much like irl you can get an entire auditorium to yell CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION. 

It works shockingly well at keeping idiots from sticking their dicks in the science

He frequently tells stories about idiots who disobeyed rule one or two. The Rule #2 stories have been known to make grown-ass adults grip their balls in terror

His student make him art about Rule #2

He has a whole collage lovingly arranged in his office around the very first art he was given: a giant poster hand-lettered with Rule #2

Admin tried to get him to take it down, but the students nearly rioted and they gave up

There is a competition, unofficial but quite ferocious, to draw him something that makes him cringe

No one has managed, though they have made many of their fellows "eep"

The one and only time anyone has ever seen him make a pained face (including the time he got literally stabbed on campus) was when one of his former students named him as their greatest inspiration in science

That student was by then known as Dr. Hojo

Hojo then went on to cure cancer

He is by far the coolest and most popular Professor on campus, much to his own consternation

This has consequences over time

One time ShinRa considered kidnapping him since he was pretty damn obviously mako-enhanced.

 All of Science threatened to quit. 

Cloud heard about this and had an existential crisis

He teaches shop and swordsmanship on the weekends

Admin told him he needed to look “more respecible”

He put a tie over his sleeveless ribbed turtleneck

They stopped asking him for things after that and the Rule #2 poster incident

He now has tenure and is unstoppable

Yes, his sword is with him during every lecture

He never gets any less dangerous.

One time Lu tried to put her hands over his eyes and do that sing-song “guess who!”

He almost suplexed her

He has helped babysit fellow Professor’s kids when they’re on campus

The kids love him

This includes Professor Grimoire Valentine’s son

This also includes eventual professor Lucretia Valentine’s son

Lu and Vincent got married because, thanks to Strife hammering home the point about not charging in like an idiot when you’re excited, Lu never got Grimoire killed

Hojo was the best man at their wedding

Cloud attended. It was the most bizarre experience of his entire life. He drank as much has humanly possible that day. It didn’t help things make sense.

The unexpected friendship trio of Lu, Vincent, and Hojo may or may not have occasional three ways.

Cloud doesn’t want to know. 

Cloud DOES NOT want to know

263 notes • Posted 2021-05-16 19:23:08 GMT

#3

I don't know why, but I got the image in my head of Tanuki!Cloud being up to something in the background as the Firsts are talking to Rufus and trying desperately to figure out how to grab Cloud without drawing Rufus's attention (all while being unaware Rufus knows Cloud, knows he's there and probably just handed him a new knife and told him to have fun).

@CC Rufus: why did you do that to your hair bby???

Edit: in reference to this

289 notes • Posted 2021-01-18 01:22:18 GMT

#2

An (Everything But) the Kitchen Sink group photo. Fear the might of Babalanche!

Final time clocked: 18 hours

As always, click the image to see it in HD rather than Tumblr-standard potato quality

335 notes • Posted 2021-04-26 01:34:45 GMT

#1

It could be interesting to start a AU in which either Cloud goes back and "prevents" the two "scientists" from getting their degree... or, he somehow teaches them the right way to doing things.

Oh god now I have this idea in my head of Hollander and Hojo being shitheads trying to impress professor Strife and Cloud hates every moment of it. 🤣

812 notes • Posted 2021-05-16 17:23:05 GMT

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Who is V_A? [FNAF, Renegade AU]

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Renegade File Server Location: https://archiveofourown.org/works/36608917

Published: Apr 3, 2022

Part three of Escalation and Revelation. Set a few weeks or so after the previous. The pre-timeskip part of "Promises that can't be kept" takes place before this, as does this 'Adelaide incident' that I keep talking about. The post-timeskip of "Promises that can't be kept" takes place a month or two after this. Several days after Adelaide wrecked her havoc on the maintenance firm, Ness goes AWOL and only shows up to collect some rather concerning packages that she'd had mailed to the maintenance firm. To top things off, Faz Ent' had one of thier people, an email starting with 'V_A', get the virus off their system, but in the process, this V_A also accessed thier admin commands and locked them out of their own systems. After being present for a shipment of thumbscrews, everyone decides that they must take action and find out what happened to Ness, and uncover the identity of who the hell this V_A is. =°•.🌹 Story 🌹.•°=

°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•🌹•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*° It had been a few days since Adelaide had been dealt with. Daniel Rocha was still in hospital, but was holding steady, even though he was missing one of his ribs. Anna, Steve, and Mark had been reassured multiple times that they are not at fault for any of this and are as much victims in that incident as Dan was. Luis felt guilty for not being there, but knew that if he and Ness had been there, then things would have gone a lot worse. Raha didn't like that she had to beat up her colleagues to get the masks off their faces and free them, but she knew it had to be done. And a few days after that, Ness had fallen ill. Despite having to close for a few days for everyone to recover, everything was going disturbingly well. Fazbear Entertainment even offered tech support to get the 'virus' off their system. Anna felt forced to accept their offer, but made it known that if they caused problems with this tech support, the world will know once again how slimy Fazbear Entertainment really was and still is. Several days passed, and the date of the tech support was getting closer. Anna was on edge. She knew damn well Fazbear Entertainment put the viruses there in the first place, but she couldn't deny the aid offered lest she look suspicious instead. Especially at this short notice. The day before they were to receive tech support, Dan had recovered and was back at work despite being advised to stay home and rest, because the last thing he wanted to happen was to have Anna and Steve left alone dealing with Fazbear Entertainment tech support. He had to be there for her. Despite Ness having fallen ill a few days after the incident and not being around to help and Luis being jumpy as a result of her absence, everything went smoothly. The person from Fazbear Entertainment was this 'V_A' woman who was able to isolate the viruses and got them off the systems of CK maintenance, but didn't appear to delete them on their end. With all traces of the viruses gone on CK maintenance's end, everything seemed to be going fine until it became apparent that someone from Fazbear Entertainment was still using the 'V_A' account to run admin commands on their systems. All of the Springtraps had been released from the systems, and one of the animatronics had attempted to eat a stray cat, and Anna was left taking care of a bunch of kittens, keeping them at home so they wouldn't also be hurt. Due to the increased violence of the animatronics, she had the bots stored and locked away in the basement, despite the dampness and leaky pipes. "If they didn't want their animatronics to be damp they would have taken them back after they canceled work on these things." Anna said as she barricaded the door with the aid of Vincent, who had opted to see this through. Until this new issue was sorted, the only reason the animatronics would be let out is if the contractee had come to collect them. Luis had tried to visit Ness a few times. He had organised a date and time to visit, but when the time came, she never seemed to be home. However, she always answered her emails when he sent them, even when he was outside the door. He figured she was simply too ill to have guests, but it was odd, given that they had agreed to meet up. This reminded him of how she had described Casey's condition when she had been posessed; never going outside, trying to get people to come around but flaking last minute, and only communicating via emails or text. When Ness stopped responding to Luis's emails, everyone was worried. Initially, they feared that she had died, but it was a slight relief when she would sometimes come in to pick up packages that she had ordered. However, the contents of these packages were rather strange, and when she showed up she always looked so tired, as if she wasn't herself. This made them fear that the worst had happened, and that she really was no longer herself. When a parcel of thumb screws arrived within a week of some flowers regarding Brad - which was a term she still used to refer to Glitchtrap, as it's safer to talk about an abusive ex Brad than literally William Afton, especially when the man has ears everywhere - everyone knew they had to act. Steven noticed that Ness's actions were not just exhaustion or being mentally broken, but confirmed Luis's suspicions that she was indeed posessed - the signs were clear: tired eyes, lack of control over basic motor functions, and walking like a puppet. Luis knew that Ness was trying to call for help in a discreet manner. Her sudden absence followed by going unresponsive was a sign that something was wrong and he was kicking himself for not realising sooner; she had stopped responding to his emails is because she literally couldn't, and the reason why she couldn't is because that thing was not letting her. They had to intercept her to save her. So when Ness arrived out of the blue to pick up the thumb screws that she had ordered, Anna and Raha dragged Ness out of the shipping area and into the main office part of the maintenance firm before Ness could pick up the parcel. At first, Ness seemed to try and fight back, but quickly fell unconscious, only to wake up a minute later with no recollection of how she got there. "Ness, you've been ill for about two weeks, arranged to meet up with people only to flake last second, and you've been ordering all this weird stuff. We pulled you in because we figured that something wasn't right, and knew that if we didn't, you'd just vanish again. These are all signs that Cassey showed - which you told us about -  and we want to help you nip this problem in the bud before it gets worse." Anna said in a very calm voice. She was not only trying to comfort Ness, but also deduce what had happened. "Thank you for dragging me in here - he panicked and left when he couldn't make me run," Ness replied, her voice oddly hoarse, "Brad - no, I'll just call him what he is - William was starting to get desperate. I don't know what I did, but it seems I was able to cue you into that something was wrong in time" "Definitely. Are you ok? Did he hurt you?" Luis asked, panicked, but relieved that Ness was safe. "I feel like I'm going to be sick, and everything aches. I'm sure Steve can relate." Ness looked around. Dan was covered in bandages, Anna and Mark had some small scars on their faces, and Steve's bruises has almost gone. Last time she saw everyone, they were all bloody and bruised. Now, they looked normal, or at least as normal as they could. If Dan was back at work, then how long had she been out? How long has she been under Glitchtrap's control. Steve nodded. "I assume you don't remember much of what happened then this past two weeks." "Kind of," Ness replied, "After I fell ill and stayed in for a few days, he used that to gain more control faster. I know I received emails, but every time I went to reply, I wouldn't be able to. I was able to read them, but I wasn't able to respond once he took over." "I - I'm really sorry if my emails were corny." Luis went red, "I was getting worried. And, the thing kept sending me red flag reports - I'm so sorry but I read them, so I've seen your search history..." Ness chuckled a bit, "Don't be. Those emails were keeping me going. Even though I had practically no control over my body, knowing that you'd fight Glitchtrap for my sake really gave me hope. And, I've known since the first email that you've been able to see that stuff. Remember the time I just searched the word 'help' after the compliance searches a while before I went AWOL? I knew you'd see it, and it may sound weird but I've always hoped that you'd snoop. You've always been my ticket out." Luis smiled back and went even more red, but knew that they still had to get to the bottom of all of this, "You said you had no control over your body when you 'went AWOL', as you put it. Was there anything that he let you do?" Ness looked down taking note of how tattered her clothes had become due to Glitchtrap not letting her have any modicum of control, even for sanitary purposes, "he'd let me order suspicious things online that he thought would help him control me, but I couldn't go outside without losing control over my own body. Cass's advice came in handy with staying in as much as possible to play damage control, but I feel he had too much control for me to act on most of it." "It's ok," Luis said, "you're here now. A lot of stuff happened whilst you were ill. Apparently, the viruses are off our system, but I'm not convinced. Their tech support lady also has access to our systems still, and has been running admin commands." Ness went pale, remembering the list of employee names that Luis had gathered several weeks ago, before the whole Adelaide incident kicked into its final stage. "The tech they had contact us was this woman who went by 'V_A'. I'm pretty sure she's one of Dimitri's lot." Luis continued before being promptly interrupted by Ness. "Who is V_A!" Ness shreiked in a panic. She was shaking, and everyone could tell that she was going to be sick. Everyone looked at eachother. "I just thought she was another member of Fazbear Entertainment." Mark said, looking at Raha. "She seemed to be very knowledgeable about both computers and machines." Raha added, looking at Dan. "Especially the legacy hardware. But then again, I wouldn't put it past staff of that place to know this stuff." Dan said, looking at Steve. "She did seem more like she was used to programming the machines as opposed to building them though." Steve added, looking at Anna. "Luis, we should check the list of names you sent me a few weeks ago. There were work emails attached to each employee, so when they set Charles up an employee account, and maintained yours and Ness's accounts despite you not being employees anymore, they likely made new emails too. They probably have already used the account under your names to get more access to our systems. I've got a bad feeling about this." Luis nodded and looked at his phone. Everyone in the maintenance firm had had to change what email they used for more sensitive information as many emails were still getting leaked and their work emails were filled with crap from Fazbear Entertainment. This left everyone with two work emails and two personal emails to keep the compromised address away from the non compromised ones. Luis opened up the scavenged data and quickly found what he was looking for, jumping to the employee data file and searching for 'V_A'. V_A. Job assigned to that email: tech support. Division D. She was certainly one of Dimitri's lot, so he knew what kind of chaos she was tasked with inflicting. Then the next element in the row connected the account name to the employee name and email address. Vanessa Diego | V_A@... Luis put his phone in his jacket pocket and sunk to the ground as he felt the blood drain from his face. He felt cold, but he was sweating like it was the middle of summer. He knew this was coming, but he didn't know he'd have to face it so soon. Everyone was looking at him. Anna crouched down and asked Luis "what did you find." Luis could bearly bring himself to say it. He knew that this was just the Adelaide incident all over again. Ness and Steve were in the same boat. She had to know for her own safety, lest they had a repeat performance of last time. "Ness." He managed to say. Ness looked at him, thinking he was about to tell her something, and Luis continued talking. "V_A is Ness's account." Ness seemed more calm than what Luis expected. Everyone seemed more calm than he expected. 'No shit', he thought to himself, 'we have just done this with Adelaide possessing Steve, and "why else would Fazbear Entertainment had made an account for her if not to use it to unleash this virus across our systems."' He didn't realize that he had said that last bit out loud until everyone was looking at him. "I figured," Ness said, "no wonder he was keeping me away from you guys. I understand if -" "Can you get the credentials to the V_A account?" Luis said, knowing that if he didn't butt in, Ness would have started blaming herself. "What?" Ness replied. She was shocked that this was being brushed off so easily. No talk of betrayal. Just what can be done to help now they knew who the account belonged too. It was a shock, but also a relief. "Can you still get into the V_A account. The data I got didn't have passwords, so I'm wondering if you're still logged in on your end - if you were even in control of the V_A account at all. We could use it to get the virus off the systems ourselves." Luis confirmed that what he said was what he said. Luis had just brought up the possibility that the V_A account was used by a legitimate employee of Fazbear Entertainment and not Ness, much like how Luis and Charles had never used the accounts made under their names, but Ness knew deep down that even though that was a possibility, Glitchtrap definitely would have used her to access the V_A account, even if just to try and cause a rift between Ness and her colleagues. "I think so. I'm pretty certain I was used, and Glitchtrap is an old fart, so I don't know how much he knows about how cookies are used nowadays. He probably didn't log out either." Ness then smiled, "He didn't suspect that I tipped you off, and besides, we could always see if you could do something with that tracking software his goonies left on our computers." She seemed almost proud of herself. She was able to communicate that she needed saving, and her friends, including her dearest, managed to save her, and not just that but she also had an IDEA of how to help. Even though this was only 'for now', it was enough. "With a bit of luck, perhaps you're logged on still and I probably could make use of that software." Luis said trying to smile, "we can turn the tables if we start using that account against them." Ness smiled again and nodded as Luis opened his computer and made a right hack-job out of opening and logging into the tracking software that had been left on his device as a vestige of his part time employment. As he started to look more concerned, Ness's smile quickly faded into panic as she realised there was one little problem: the device had gone into sleep mode and/or was off. "My computer is at home. I don't want to go back there. What if he's waiting for me?" The room was silent. Due to Adelaide's recent defeat, there was reason why William would avoid the maintenance firm, but as soon as Ness left the relative safety of this place, who knows when he'd strike. Who knows when he'd next try and control Ness, and what he'd do. Ness didn't want to know and had grabbed Luis, holding him tight, and mumbling "I don't want to go back," over and over again. "How about I go with you?" Luis suggested, figuring that two was better than one. "Are you kidding me?" Anna exclaimed, knowing that if only one person went, that would be a recipe for disaster, "I'm going too, and were having at least one other person waiting outside. If anything goes south, we need to be prepared this time." "That'd be better," Ness smiled, "could everyone come?" "That would be optimal." Anna replied, "Me, Raha, and Luis will help you collect your things. Dan, Mark, and Steve will be waiting outside to help just in case anything goes wrong. Having people outside means that we can't all be trapped in one place." "You seem to have thought about this a lot..." Luis seemed rather unnerved by how thought through Anna's plan was, "were you expecting something like this?" "No." Anna bluntly replied, "I'm just using what we learned last time to give us the upper hand." Last time. The Adelaide incident. During the past few weeks, Anna had talked to Dan - she lives with him, so of course she did - about what happened that day, and she talked to Mark about what little he remembered. Their responses were basically the same. Steve was posessed. Steve shoved a mask on Marks face before overpowering Dan. Rest was history. And she remembered what happened to her the night before: went to the basement alone, got cornered by an animatronic and knocked down. Every time she mulled over the events in her head, "if only there was someone to help" was repeated over and over again. So many situations where they should have put something off until other people arived, or should have done something before everyone left. Anna hadn't been preparing for this in particular. She had been preparing for just a similar incident full stop. "I want to know that I've done all I can to help. I can't let you walk into the same trap I walked into." Anna said, placing a hand on Ness's shoulder, "For all we know, he could very well be planning an ambush - good on you for trusting your gut there and speaking up - so we need to be ready for anything." Ness nodded and seemed calm. Everyone wanted to help her. Everyone still saw her as a friend. They saw her issue with the Aftons as being something they had to help solve. They saw the fact she was susceptible to being controlled just as they saw Steve when he was posessed: they still saw her as one of their own: a friend. "Guys," Ness's eyes watered up as she spoke, "thank you." "It's nothin'," Raha said as she crossed her arms, "we're friends, aren't we? I see that look on yer face. We'd 'ave been up shit creek without a paddle whether you started workin' 'ere or not, but 'ey! You bein' here's given us a paddle t' use." Ness then remembered what Luis told her several weeks ago, well before the incident: that he'd have gone to investigate the old sites anyway. She always had a gut feeling that he was being genuine, and here was the proof she needed to know for a fact that these were the exact sort of people she thought they were, and Marks next word summed it up perfectly. "We may be colleagues, Ness, but we're also friends. And when a friend is being hounded by a ghost, friends need to stick together to stop said ghost." Mark leaded on his mop as he spoke, "Whether that involves petty trespassing, corporate espionage, or data theft to solve, we're in this together." As he looked away for a moment, he mumbled, "and if they bring it up we can always use the fact the Botanist and Dimitri exist to bring up the murders." Everyone heard and acknowledged the last part of what he had just said, and then carried on talking as if they hadn't. Nobody wanted to deal with that kettle of fish right now. "So, you got any plans for your living arrangements? Just need to know so I can plan ahead." Anna then said, looking back at Ness. "No," Ness replied, "that apartment is my home, but I don't want to be there alone anymore. I don't want all your effort today to be for nothing." "I see," Anna sighed. Ness didn't want to be alone due to fearing William, and didn't want to be around others for the same reason. This would be tough, but luckily, someone else had already suggested an alternative. "How about you stay with me?" Luis had meekly piped up and looked like he was about to turn bright red. Everyone knew Ness and Luis were a thing, but also knew the two were very nervous around eachother due to the recent circumstances of William Afton - usually just referred to as Glitchtrap - being able to control Ness as if he was possessing her. This arrangement was risky, but Luis had good enough parents for him to routinely contact them, so ensuring Luis was safe was mostly taken care of. "I don't see why not," Ness agreed. She'd finally be able to move out of the apartment that over the past few weeks had caused her so much pain. Whilst it was nice living there prior to being posessed, being trapped in her own body whilst the filth of an uncaring possessors actions built up around her wasn't so nice. "I'll pack my things whilst I'm there. Get what I need today, get the rest later. I have a whole two months of rent paid in advance, so I don't see why I'd need to get everything in one trip." 'Two months?' Luis thought, 'she either paid in advance or William actually paid bills in multiple month blocks to reduce the amount that people would try and check in on Ness.' Either way, they could - as Ness said - get what was vital now and head back for everything else later. "Right." Anna a clapped a single time before she continued, "That settles it. I'd say that dealing with this is more important, as it will help us with our system administrator problem." Anna decided to cut the work day short to help Ness move out. Everyone would be paid the full day, and as soon as Ness was moved into Luis's place and Anna had Ness's laptop in order to extract the V_A accounts credentials, everyone would be free to go home. The drive to the apartment was silent, if a little awkward, but Anna knew that the awkwardness was less Luis and Ness in the back seat, and more of the fact that they were willingly entering a big danger zone and one wrong move could grant William control over Ness. They all knew this, and nobody felt like small talk, so they just kept their mouths shut as the CD player blared out a tune that sounded like it came from the 70's. Whilst Luis did have his own car - Ness too - they wanted to take up as few parking spots as possible and raise as little suspicion as possible; the last thing anyone in this town needed was for their day to be interrupted by not getting a parking spot only to then find that the reason why is because a local woman is posessed by a serial killer. Anna hoped that Raha, Dan, Mark, and Steve were having a less nerve wrecking trip. Raha, Dan, Mark, and Steve were not having a less nerve wrecking trip. It was about the same level as nerves, if not more. Steve had already been on the receiving end of full involuntary possession and feared that it may happen again if he wasn't careful. Everyone knew that Ness was posessed by William, and if he was so 'prepared and talented' as Adelaide claimed, then he feared that they'd be in for a tough ordeal. Mark was scared that something would happen and he was scared that perhaps taking off the mask wasn't all there was to breaking the control that was forced on him. Dan had almost died due to this involuntary possession and was scared he'd become a victim again. Raha was still torn between feeling as if her late arrival that day was for the better or worse. Once everyone arrived, they parked up in the visitor spots and noticed that Ness's car was in one of the parking spots. "She must have walked to the firm," Luis thought to himself, "I guess driving posessed is pretty dangerous." "It is." Ness replied, "But walking through town with a cardboard box isn't suspicious? I'll never understand that rat." Luis was surprised that he said what he said out loud, but not surprised that he had received an answer. He simply shook himself out of his daze and got out of the car. Anna was the next to get out of the car, followed by Ness. The other four had already exited their vehicle and had walked up to meet them. "Ok, first order of business, I think we've already decided on whose going in and whose staying out," Anna said trying to remember who volunteered for what, "can someone just remind me whose staying out here in case something goes down?" "Me, Steve, and Mark." Dan replied, pointing at Steve and Mark, "we're not in a confined space so it shouldn't be too hard to deal with anything if she tries to mess with us again." "And the rest of us are going inside, right?" Anna asked to which she received a unanimous reply of yes. "Right, let's go." As Dan, Mark, and Steve waited outside, Anna, Luis, Ness, and Raha headed into the apartment building and headed up the stairs. Ness had managed to get a first floor apartment, so they only had to go up one flight of stairs to get from the ground floor 'loby' - if you could even call the empty room with lockers at the back that - to where Ness lives. Once at the door, Ness handed her keys to Luis. She was shaking too much to open the door herself. After a deep breath, Luis unlocked the door, and they headed inside the apartment. Once through the door, a terrible smell hit the four as they proceeded to the more lived in areas. Discarded food boxes mixed with the smell of body odour, and it became apparent that Glitchtrap had been completely neglecting Ness's health. "Ness, where d' you keep the bin bags?" Raha asked, bearly able to handle the smell. "Under the sink," Ness mumbled as she looked around, finally able to see what had become of her home. "I'll clean up a bit, you guys help 'er pack." Raha said as she Pulled out a bin bag and begun tossing all the food waste into the bag. The overflowing contents of the bins were tossed into the bag next as everyone else took up the next task. "Seeing as we're just getting what you need now then coming back for the rest later, what do you need to pack?" Luis asked, "what clothes do you want to bring? Do you have a suitcase?" "Yeah, I-" Ness froze for a moment, everything went hazy, as if she was dreaming again. A rush of adrenaline was sedated by a mysterious something as her hands moved on their own and she turned towards the kitchen. A quick tap on the shoulder and the haze was gone. "You ok?" Luis asked, hand still outstretched near Ness's shoulder. Ness nodded and turned back around, heading to her bedroom and opening her wardrobe. Some dust had settled on some of the clothes, but they were untouched by the stench of the rest of the house. She pulled out a very large suitcase from the bottom of the wardrobe and tossed it onto her bed. The zipper got stuck half way around as always, but she managed to get it open and flip the cloth "lid" so that she could shove things inside of the large canvas suitcase. "What should I pack?" Ness asked, looking at Luis for an answer. Silence held stagnant in the air for a while. "You're asking me?" Shock and confusion hung in Luis's voice as he responded, "I don't know? Pack what you like? What do you wear often?" Ness didn't answer and just continued to look at him. Exhaustion had made itself at home under her eyes, and she probably wasn't going to chose for herself: when she offloaded a task, usually that was it. With a sigh, Luis looked inside Ness's wardrobe and then back at the suitcase. "All of this could probably fit." Starting from the left, Luis grabbed the clothes off their hangers and then rolled them each into a tight cylinder - or in the case of some bulky jackets, as tight of a cylinder as he could - before placing each inside the suitcase. Before long, the contents of the wardrobe was taking up about half of the suitcase, most of which being jackets. Ness looked at Luis a bit shocked at how efficiently everything had been packed. Luis noticed the look on her face and said, "Look, whilst my family's lives in a small home, I had a lot of stuff that I had to keep tucked away. 'If there's no space for it it goes in the bin' they always said. Jokes on them, if I couldn't find space, I'd make it. They call their lifestyle 'fashionably minimalist', I call it dumb. But hey, it taught me how to pack things." Ness opened a few drawers and let Luis pack the contents. T-shirts, jeans, and jumpers filled another near-quater of the suitcase, and then there was socks that made it a full quarter. Ness had stuffed her pajamas into a carrier bag and was starting on some other drawers too. "Do you need help? There's space in the suitcase still." Luis asked tapping Ness on the shoulder. "Um - uh - yes? no? Wait no!" Ness stuttered and slammed the drawer shut, her face a bright shade of red. Luis felt his face flush a little bit too as he noticed a bra half sticking out of the carrier bag Ness had been packing; she must have been packing the contents of her underwear drawers as well as pajamas. "I - I'll let you get on with that." Luis said as he went through the rest of Ness's clothes drawers and filled the rest of the suitcase. There were some clothes left over, but Ness stashed them in a swim bag alongside the carrier bag of underwear and pajamas. All that was left to pack was trinkets, games, and jewellery. Ness had already gotten a few unfolded cardboard boxes out from under her bed and begun to fold them out into actual boxes. From under her bed, she also pulled out a box of packing materials. "Here," Ness handed Luis a box, "could you pack up the games?" Luis nodded and started on emptying the nightstand of any videogames boxes, gently stacking the boxes into the cardboard box. He figured it'd be safe to leave Ness in her room to pack - who knows what else she wanted to pack without anyone seeing - so he went around the rest of the house, which had been mostly packed and cleared. Luis had an easy time scouring cupboards, shelves, and drawers for all of the games, and as he organised the items in the cardboard box, he figured that if he added some packing material and then carefully packed the home consoles themselves, then they'd basically fill the box. He went back to Ness and got some packing materials before finishing this first box and grabbing a second. This one was filled with what he missed on his first run; board games, handhelds, and the controllers. By the time he had done, everything bar a few trinkets had been packed away. He then went to Anna. "We're almost done. Should we see if you can get the VA information off her computer now?" "Yeah," Anna replied, "Just in case whatevers on this thing boots us out as soon as it becomes disconnected to the internet, I'll have to do this now." Anna went to Ness, who had just finished packing her room, having clearly gutted every nook and cranny of the place to make sure that she didn't leave anything, and asked if she could access her computer to see if she could get the credentials of the VA account. Ness gave a quick "isn't that what we're here for?" And pointed to where her laptop sat on her now empty desk, letting Anna use it as needed. As Anna worked her magic on collecting any and all information on the VA account, Ness asked Luis to help pack the rest of the trinkets that were around the rest of the house as well. The two then checked about the house to collect up anything else of Ness's that she wanted to take with her. They checked each room, opening drawers and gently packing away anything of Ness's that had been left behind. "So much for making multiple trips" Ness smiled as she gently took an ornament off the mantlepeice and placed it in a cardboard box, wrapped and gently packed alongside other ornaments. "We may have to make multiple trips for the boxes," Luis replied as he carefully took a framed photograph off the wall and packed it in a box full of other framed photographs. The apartment looked sparse now, only containing boxes and static furniture. "I've got a car. We can use that." Ness replied as she placed the last ornament in her box and taped it shut. "And I should probably tell the landlord that I'm moving out. Guess that two months of rent'll still be worth something in the form of not being yelled at for ending the lease early." The duo shared a chuckle as they packed the final boxes and sealed them with packing tape. As they begun to cary the boxes into the living room, they heard a yell from Ness's room. "I got it!" Luis, Ness, and Raha rushed to Ness's room and much to their relief, they saw Anna looking rather triumphant, holding a USB stick. "I've gotten all of the information and shit needed to remotely access Fazbear Entertainment's systems! We can figure out if there's a way to reverse the virus!" The friends shared a high five and decided that they'd help Ness move out before heading home for the day. Anna, Raha, Ness, and Luis ferried the boxes down, whilst Dan, Mark, and Steve decided to take the boxes to the cars. It didn't take long, and when they were done, they headed to Luis's house where they unpacked the boxes and parted ways for the night with the exception of Luis, Ness, and Anna. "I'll grab a blank computer and try them out. I'll give you a call and tell you the results." Anna said as she gave the duo a nod as as she too decided to part ways for the night. "Alright. Tell us what you find." Luis replied with a nod. As Anna waved goodbye, Luis and Ness looked at all of the boxes around them. The duo spent the next while bringing in the boxes, and once all the boxes were inside, they begun unpacking the contents. Then Luis's mobile phone rang. It was Anna, so he picked up. "It works! It works!" Anna exclaimed, her excitement audible despite the graininess of talking over the phone, "I've gotten the credentials to work! I'm going to see what's going on with our systems now - remotely of course, I'm not going there alone - just in case they shut this account down, but I'm in!" "That's great to hear!" Luis said, "now we can finally do something about all this and get our systems back." °*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•🌹•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°•°*°

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kristen-chin

@secret-engima @hinalycoris @alyss-spazz-penedo i have not played FF7 nor am I very familiar with the characters but I really like this AU. The thought of the royal twins’s concerted and elaborate attempts to swamp Besithia and the rest of empire in enough admin to distract them from Ardyn’s extended vacation in Tenebrae is really funny. Also, when do the twins find out about their chancellor being the Immortal Accursed because that must have been an interesting moment.

kristen-chin

Also am glad that no one ended up getting Galahd except the Galadhians, because I feel like none of the locals would have appreciated hearing imperial scions squabbling over their hometown

Me: I’m glad you find the insanity amusing even though the characters are unfamiliar XD.

The twins are having a blast ruining all of Besithia’s plans through admin work, which is impressive considering they’re still teenagers during all events up to and just post the Tenebrae invasion thing.

Vincent comes and tells them when the two of them are like- 4 or 5 years old and they start plotting from there. It’s also probably Vincent’s idea to sic Aerith on Ardyn post the invasion? Yuffie wanted to do something a lot more stabby but Vincent talked her into it.

Of course I had to give Galahd back! Tho Yuffie being the new Empress of Galahd would have also been funny because she would fit in SO WELL.