#sinking;arc

[lastintheserverbox]

[Parry reached up and lightly batted Ori's gills, tilting their head in thought.]

... Hm. I- I guess that makes sense, but... he still came from out there, didn't he? He used to be human, and- and humans out there... most of them aren't good. I'm just scared. Scared that he'll hurt me... or you... I don't want to be hurt again.

-🦜

[jjemstones]

Black Water Sinking Ships

This is available as a print on my shop!

[kimbapchan]

TGCF Reversed au: Rescuing the Earth Master (Part 1/2)

[shuravf]

I wonder how is he doing after... AllThat™

[happypeachsludgeflower]

I’ll never understand why He Xuan had to go through with his elaborate revenge plot against Shi Wudu the way he did. He already had the perfect revenge set up. Murdering Shi Wudu might have brought He Xuan momentary satisfaction, but seducing the man’s precious little brother and rubbing the relationship in the water tyrants face every single day is eternal.

[cardbored-box]

My contribution to this banger of a trend

[nienna-tinuviel]

He is trying his best 🙄

[vimehemii]

[thornycoconut]

Tgcf SPOILERS

So we all know that kind of funny moment when XL and wind master swapped bodies, and HC wants them to swap back, gets big mad, and smacks earth master so hard he leaves a hole in the ground? Yeah I think we don't talk about the order of events enough, largely because we didn't know everything yet.

There was so much more to it than a moment of frustration or misdirected anger.

The creature we later know IS ming yi. And he just spooked (cursed?) xl.

Hc realizes what happened and freaks out. Obviously.

1. Hc strikes ming yi without saying anything

2. THEN he tells wind master to change back

3. Wind master (and readers) assume the wrong reason of why hc hit ming yi

Hc knew the whole time who ming yi was. He KNEW it was ming yi who just scared XL and was semi-threatening xl. He wasn't taking out idle frustration or blame placed on wind master transferred to a bystander. It wasn't the situation or any of that.

Hua Cheng had retaliated against the actual culprit. And the culprit didn't question it (he knew what he did).

Now hc and ming yi aren't labeled friends but they've allied themselves with shared interest in the heaven realm. This hit was likely reminding ming yi who he was playing games with and to cut the shit or they'd have real problems.

The fastest way to protect xl was to hit ming yi / he xuan.

In conclusion, it was a hilarious moment the first time through. Once true identities are revealed and full disclosure of who knew what, it becomes a completely different incident.

[peace-hunter]

ok so i'm still a bit shaky on it but i would loooooove for orion's character arc in the baby prime orion au to be actually about learning that he's not. inherently special. which i know it sounds backwards because this au makes him primus' specialest little guy but hear me out.

in this au when optimus is born he is his siblings' miracle child, their little blessing, the most precious gift they could've gotten.

they love him so much that even when they die and orion grows up and forgets them, he still knows what being treasured and loved beyond measure feels like.

and part of the reason he believes that the system is wrong to treat cogless bots as lesser is that he cannot accept that he is as worthless as the world wants him to believe when someone once loved him like that.

it's a very... self-centered point of view even if it does come from a place of genuine love. he was loved, he was worth something to someone once, so if the world tells him he's worthless then the world must simply be wrong.

and don't get me wrong he still genuinely does believe others also deserve the choice to decide for themselves what they want to be, that they also deserve to be treated with the same respect and dignity that cogged bots do, he still wants to make things better for everyone.

but a good part of it is because he thinks he deserves better. because he knows he was once loved enough for someone to want to give him the moon and stars if he'd asked for them. and he's still chasing that feeling, even though he has long forgotten where he got it from in the first place.

so when he finds out he's the lost little prime, as much of a shock as it is, it is also sort of vindicating. it's a little bit like "oh. so that's why i always felt especial different".

he thinks that him being a prime is the reason for why he always aspired to be more, for why he always believed he deserved better. he thinks being a prime is what makes him worth loving more than he'd been told.

except that... well, he's obviously wrong. him believing he deserved better, that he was worth more than the system wanted him to believe, had very little to do with him being a prime and everything to do with his siblings loving him so very much he could never forget it even as he forgot them.

the reason he always felt there was something utterly wrong with the way they were treated and had the courage to constantly speak up against it when everyone else around him didn't was not because he had some divinely given wisdom or that he was inherently better than them and could feel it.

it was simply that he, unlike the rest of the miners, had someone to instill in him how loved and valuable he truly was. he had someone to let him know he deserved to be treated with kindness and dignity. he had that privilege even if it was taken away from him.

so. the second half of his arc would be him realizing all of this and taking upon himself to be that someone to everyone else. to be to others what his siblings were to him. that gentle voice that says "you deserve to be cared for, you deserve kindness, you deserve better".

i don't know i'm still working on it akjshdjka

[lastintheserverbox]

[Nio glares at the codes, fiddling them back together. Everything looked neat and orderly...but...what was it supposed to do? He pressed the codes. Nothing. Memory bits from what? For what? for who?]

"I don't...understand why she needed this fixed. It doesn't look like it goes to anything..."

[Wait. Nio pulled out the other file he stole. Was this...a good idea? He pressed start on the object.]

[LOADING. CLOWNFISH.OBJ. INSERTING MEMORY SCRIPTS.

RETUNING FILE.

uh-oh]

[FILE LOADED]

[Nio froze. What'd he do? what did he just do?!

He tucks against the branch as the clownfish falls to the forest floor with a thud. It's quiet for a moment before she moves, looking around in a panic]

"Où est-ce que je suis?! Où est-ce que je suis?! Jade? Sam?"

[...Nio fled out of the forest. He's not equip to handle whatever he just did]

[frankenchlo]

My first time doing anything like this so be nice.....please :3

[potatosaresweet]

im not even sorry

[phosbogey]

want to break up the tartag posting jsut a little bit (sorry will be back to normal tomorrow) with an older drawing

i made this almost 2 years ago which is wild to me because it’s still one of my favorites

[spkyart]

In the end, we're both miserable

[skyeskywalkerart]

“Crimson rules the land; Black masters the waters.”