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Gotta ramble about my goof Sargas (and a bit of others) for a bit. Kinda. Anyway, basics:

And more below cut

His Ghost, Summ, rezzed him in a cave near a beach. Summ was also accompanied by an Arc Titan named Dee, and Dee's Ghost, Ouri, who Summ had been traveling with since they left everyone else during the beginning of the Faction Wars.

Sargas was mentored with his Arc by Dee while they all continued their travels without really interacting with other Guardians/not making an effort to go back to the City since they were all content with just. Wandering.

Until Dee and Ouri "die" from a Fallen attack.

This forces Sargas to start on his way to the City and settle down (between after the Great Hunt and before Xûr's arrival in the Tower). And by "settle down" I mean he preoccupies himself for ages and ages with errands just to ignore his grief and also that there's like. A curse on him.

Pre-risen Sargas fell into a cult who placed a ritual on him, but it screwed up a bit and just insta-killed Sargas, while leaving him with a giant marking/defect on his stomach that occasionally flares up and causes him immense dread/pain.

Buuuut eventually he meets my YW (who i need to update GREATLY) who befriends Sargas. So Sargas ends up on their fireteam since "it'll do him some good to get out once in a while". And it does! He feels more "human" again from the genuine friendship, even if it's not as close as he was with Dee and Ouri.

Keep in mind that Sar's resets are veeeeery few and far between. He hates how they feel due to his frame, specifically around the defect, bringing him a lot of pain during the process. The "50" bit of his name was a flat-out lie that he told Summ when he was first rezzed and never bothered to start counting his resets when he began to somewhat have them.

So he and the YW hang out for a while until Season of Plunder, which Sargas sits out on cause being close to Nezarec's relics makes him nauseous and full of even more dread.

Spends time back in the City, generally collecting his own thoughts on everything. There are a lot of filler bits in Sar's story for him to rest, so this would be one of 'em jhgjdghd

Then the YW invites him out on a few minor missions before they head out to do Root of Nightmares. And even though Sargas said he'd be fine, he isn't. Shit happens, and without really saying anything he ends up in a coma for months afterwards. Once I get all the details in order, I'll explain more, but as of rn that is all.

He wakes up after multiple resets were performed on him, but he doesn't talk much for a while. He'll chat with the YW, as well as a new Warlock friend named Nell (who I named before EoF, mind you) that helps him with bow practice. But no speaking to anyone else.

The timeline carries on per usual until Revenant where Sargas is overwhelmed once more from the defect suddenly acting up, to the extent of leaving the City entirely. His memories are a little hazy, but with Summ's help, he finds his way back to the beach he was rezzed at.

He enters the cavern and finds an abandoned camp. Doesn't question it from exhaustion, and just rests for the night. Then in the morning, he wakes up and JUMPSCARE, IT'S DEE. Once again, not saying too much, but she's alive. Barely though. Skipping over stuff, but they get back, and Sargas quickly takes her into the Traveler to help her recover, and they stake camp in the Traveler up till EoF.

They go back to the Tower and get back into the swing of things with Dee, her wanting to take Sar's place as a Guardian, with Nell and Dee becoming friends easily via mutual "yeah-I-helped-with-Sar-developing-his-skills" and "we both like testing our paracausal abilities". So they're hanging out during the beginning of EoF up till the end of the story we have so far.

That's when the YW comes back, is introduced to Dee and Nell, and talks to them about Kepler. Which gets Nell really excited and wanting to go check the place out. Dee agrees to follow along only if Sargas is also wanting to go. Which, he isn't. Originally. But third time's the charm n all that. So he agrees, but only to investigate the Aionian tech and make sure Nell doesn't blow anything up.

Just a short trip, yeah? Wrong. Sargas gets bored out of his mind staying in the Caldera. Bc seeing Dee and Nell be allowed to go out there and explore farther while he's stuck in one place is making him itch for something, soooo...

The obvious solution to this is apparently sneaking off to the Academy while eyes are off of him, of course. And then breaking into some Archives in the very back by messing around with their lock tech. Aaaand consequently getting his legs kicked out from beneath him and landing on his ass before getting dragged back to Lodi by the Emeritus.

They bicker slightly (with poor Lodi translating their back and forth) and eventually the decision is that Sar ends up staying longer on Kepler to help strengthen security, and do other miscellaneous tasks for good ol' Em as repayment. Sar gets used to it.

Kepler offers an odd sense of serenity for him and the defect hasn't flared up since spending time around the Emeritus, which is pretty frequent since Sar gets a lot of free time and Em likes to study his Arc.

I plan for their relationship to be the Emeritus giving Sar a necklace/some accessory that, to Aionians, is the same as a relationship proposition.

So Everyone Knows except Sargas, who just thinks Em's actions are general politeness until he has a Realization one day, then starts trying even quicker to learn the Aionian language by himself to surprise the Emeritus/confess his feelings with.

They're just gonna be sillies for me to put together for mostly fluff purposes. Old and retired sillies. For my dorky situations. You can ask other questions about anyone mentioned here if you want, since it'd probably help me clarify specifics if I get asked about them. But yeah ty for reading if you did read all this hhshdsh

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SOBBING

ok so someone in a server im in sent this maze and told another friend to solve it, and i said i'd solve it my plan was simple, i was just going to use the bucket tool to fill in at least the main path from the start to the end.. there was an issue though

the image wasnt very high res so this anti aliasing made the bucket tool not play nicely. i figured i'd just use a levels adjustment layer to bump up the contrast and that worked well!

and so I covered the start and end with red, then used the bucket tool to fill in the rest. ..the maze had no disconnected parts, and my levels adjustment made the seal and ball at the top and bottom become uhh..

FUCKING. EVIL MAZE. JUMPSCARE

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I went a little crazy today

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Snowy Gullfoss - Iceland, March 2024

photo by nature-hiking

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the room where it happens

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LET ME SEE WHAT YOU HAVE

A KNIFE

NO

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the problem with trying to avoid spoilers by muting tags is that that 'view post' button instantly becomes an extreme test of will

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THE HAUNTED .... himst...............

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warmind au Felwinter is Rasputin’s old failsafe to bring the warmind back online in the event of his destruction. Forgotten by Rasputin himself, only Vergil knew of its existence. The protocol ran unhindered after an Eliksni fireteam aided by the other warminds finally raidbossed Rasputin. Felwinter awoke far far away in a very outdated RAS-bunker with a very insistent (and red?) voice urging him to do something about warmind cores?

Even though he has what would be considered cutting edge equipment in earth’s Golden Age (a replicator for stable brilliance/glory/splendor/magnificence/fortitude mites, seraph gear many decades out of date compared to the warlords) in a system full of light addled godkillers and wannabe gods, he’s pretty outstripped.

Vergil guides him to his very awesome town called Palamon full of his super smart and cool humans!! just in time for the worst of the worst of rasputin’s stragglers to attack the town. And so the quest for Dredgen-4′s head on a stick (and some nonrampant rasputin cores) begins.

the team! Felwinter an exo with a minor imprint of the systems most hated warmind chilling in his exobrain, CHLM Nighthawk Jaren Ward (now Ward-1 lol), confused VRGL Security Dude Shin Malphur, JYS researcher Camrin Demuzi, and a freshly defrosted Ana Bray,,,

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I love my mutuals ocs.....i will learn about a new one/new lore about them and need to hold the oc up for display. That or violently bite and shake them. Joy.

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Since the 50s/60s have suddenly become relevant to Destiny, I decided it was time to do some First Crota Fireteam Cold War AU sketches. :)

Left hand side, left to right:

Capt. Toland (navigator) photographs the rest of the reconnaissance crew: Maj. Eriana (pilot), Maj. Eris Morn (co-pilot), and electronics warfare technicians 1st Lt. Mota, 2nd Lt. Agah, and Capt. Tarlowe. Background: their RB-47H Stratojet.

Right hand side, clockwise from left:

Maj. Wei Ning, also a Stratojet pilot, presumed killed in action.

Eris Morn, years later after her jet was shot down and entire crew killed (excluding Toland, who skipped out on the mission), recruited to the Defense Intelligence Agency by its Director, Ikora Rey.

Irina Yutshenkova, lounge singer and Soviet spy...

And Toland, who left the Air Force disgraced after an affair with Yutshenkova. He's now employed by the RAND Corporation as a nuclear strategy expert.

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Felwinter

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there's 5 of you now. Whoever did that im going to find you.

truly, i wonder how the 4 people that have my felwinter playlist saved are doing. do they actually listen to the full thing? it's like five hours long. do they agree with my hyperspecific headcanons? or how do the songs i chose fit into their own headcanons? do they just like my music taste? what about the person that also has my timur playlist saved. are they doing okay? are we all going through it together? are they upset that there's like five different genres in that playlist, and that i haven't sorted it much? did they get upset when i did finally start to sort it? why do they all like my playlist more than the other felwinter playlists, especially since those have existed for a far longer time than mine? .....,.. i need to know

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truly, i wonder how the 4 people that have my felwinter playlist saved are doing. do they actually listen to the full thing? it's like five hours long. do they agree with my hyperspecific headcanons? or how do the songs i chose fit into their own headcanons? do they just like my music taste? what about the person that also has my timur playlist saved. are they doing okay? are we all going through it together? are they upset that there's like five different genres in that playlist, and that i haven't sorted it much? did they get upset when i did finally start to sort it? why do they all like my playlist more than the other felwinter playlists, especially since those have existed for a far longer time than mine? .....,.. i need to know

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felwintie :]

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i'm letting you guys know too about my new expansion spoiler rule:

i always wait until the first reset after release (ie next tuesday) to post anything at all, unless someone tells/asks me otherwise. if i post here, they'll be both tagged and under a spoiler, since this is the only place i can do that in LMAO.