#(thought about this while doing a pokemon AU doodle of my other muse)

[ossacruenta]

// random mun thing, but I am still absolutely sad they didn't add Cofagrigus to Legends Arceus, just for the terror factor of one charging at you at full speed, because both ways we've seen a Cofagrigus move it terrifying--they're either horizontal crawling with all four arms at wicked speed or it's propped up using one set of arms to walk. Just imagine that coming charging at your character. Horrifying, which is why Cofagrigus is Ra's 2nd fav pokemon

[phantompsychic]

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Mun name: Kusa OOC Contact: IM (or like my starter call and I’ll message you), Discord (on ask/request)

Who the heck is my muse anyway:

Newest member of the Indigo E4. Magician on the side/for funz. Secret phantom thief. Disaster magnet. A fucking nerdlet.

Points of interest:

Appearance: It ain’t Will if he ain’t wearing his mask/dressing like he’s going to a costume party. Pretty tall and fit with a naturally curvy figure. Couldn’t bench press a large stick. Very fair skin that burns easily. The lilac blue color of his eyes can be seen faintly through the whites of his mask upon close inspection.

The First Elite: He’s the first Elite Johtonians/Kantonians face, and is thus the weakest of the 4 + Lance. However, he is also weaker than both the 8th Gym Leaders of the Indigo League (Clair & Green) when they choose to fight at full power. This power discrepancy makes him feel a need to constantly reaffirm (be it to himself or others) his worthiness of being an Elite.

Budding Psychic Master: His skill with Psychic types is enough that he has already been granted the title of Master in his Type, and he already has secretly unlocked a lot of his own brand of destructive Psychic powers. Talented as he is, he still has a long way to go to perfect his skill and lots more potential to realize.

Secret Identities: A runaway whose village was wiped off the map to make room for Johto’s Safari Zone. A phantom thief that uses his psychic powers to steal and expose evidence of corrupt, untouchable criminals. An unknowing descendant of a dead clan of Psychics. And many more. Tl;dr: He is never who he appears to be to most people.

What they’ve been up to recently:

By default, Will is always looking for new ways to further improve both his powers and his Trainer skills. And by night he is trying to find and expose those criminals that have ascended above the law, though that same law is still trying to hunt him down. In his free time, he continues his hobby of treasure hunting and exploring, always excited about the possibility of finding new Pokemon, items, or adventures. Due to his job as an Elite (and the first Elite at that), he doesn’t have nearly as much free time as he used to.

Soon, once his thread with Sabrina is underway, he’ll also take an interest in discovering the secrets of the dead clan he apparently descends from.

Where to find them:

Indigo Plateau: It’s his workplace, so he kinda has to be there most of the time. All Trainers are guaranteed to meet and fight Will, so he gets to meet lots of new people daily. Since he is the one of the E4 that fights the most Trainers, you can also often catch him in the Plateau’s Pokemon Center.

Johto/Kanto: Will can be found anywhere in Johto/Kanto, whether it be on business from the League to take care of some issue or just to explore. He especially loves to explore the Lake of Rage/Mahogany Town area during peak rainy/flood season.

Whirl Islands: Will frequents the depths of Whirl Islands in order to pay respect to its resident Legendary, Lugia. He has never seen the bird himself, but he is able to sense its presence at the bottom of the ocean. He relates to the stories of Lugia’s alienating power and losing its home and literally just wants to give it some kind of company. He doesn’t really do anything while he’s here. He just sits quietly, thinks, stares down at the waterfall, etc.

Literally ANYWHERE: Will, thanks to Xatu, can Teleport anywhere in the world he’s visited, which as a former world traveller is a lot. Anywhere he hasn’t visited, he usually can just Teleport near its general location and walk/fly there. As a naturally curious explorer, he’ll especially gravitate towards mysterious areas (eg Solaceon Ruins) or places that offer new experiences (eg a new Cafe in Kalos or a festival going on in Unova).

Current plans:

I got something set up with fireredrules’ Red with some hijinks regarding one of Will’s little phantom thief operations gone wrong.

I also have something set up with infragments’ Sabrina regarding Will exploring his clan ancestry with her.

And I also have a fun FE AU verse thread going on with tulog’s Caitlin.

And then systematrical’s Gold is having a doodle fight with Will.

I may be forgetting someone so if I am then I’m sorry and I’m not purposely leaving anybody off this!

Desired interactions:

Wishlist is here

In addition to that, I’d say I’m up for misadventure-type threads, threads where he meets new people and maybe is able to help them in some way (or vice versa), and anything exploring the weird or the mythical or the mysterious, etc. Will is very aware that there is a lot of spoopy and inexplicable stuff out there, and outside Ghosts, he’s very curious about it. It also allows for great fun with going wild with hc’s!

In general, he needs more close friends, as in friends who actually know some of his secrets and can help him out with just a thoughtful ear. I’d also love for him to hang out with other League members (any region but especially Johto & Kanto). He also does have his personal issues regarding his perceived inadequacy as an Elite, some personal fears regarding his powers, etc. that I’ve been wanting to rp. Though, those would take more build up.

If you have an idea for something tho, feel free to throw it at me in an OOC ask or IM! Even if we can’t come up with a plot, I’m always game for throwing hc’s around for good fun.

Offered interactions:

Well, as a friendly explorer-type, Will can often be found anywhere that’s needed. So he can always bump into anybody and let whatever whirlwind the other muse is caught up in sweep em both up.

Also, if you feel like making them go on any kind of adventure, supernatural hijinks or no, that’s kind of Will’s thing. He can very easily sweep people up into his OWN shenanigans, which often involve anything from strange ruins to mishaps with his own Psychic powers.

Finally, he does have a vigilante alter ego. He can prove to either be a formidable foe to muses that come up against him, or he can maybe get mixed up with a civilian in some silly mistake he didn’t mean to. It’d really all depend on the muse and what you want. He’s decently flexible.

Current open post/s:

N/A (I suck at opens)

Anything else?:

Can’t think of much else to add rn that isn’t covered in my rules or about, so, yeah. As always, anybody who wishes to interact can like my starter call (which is really more of a plotting call since I can’t write starters without plotting) or IM me!

[zyxyz-xyzzy]

some assorted ramblings from discord chat

somehow the talk of games like Sonic and the Black Knight got me thinking about self-insert fanfic, maybe due to the similar levels of goofiness this thing keeps happening where I'll start in on a really long self-insert fic, and it'll be just good enough to keep me interested for a while, and then it pulls some really dumb twist that makes me regret spending time on it

I think the thing about self-inserts with me is they can kinda be a form of canon-divergence AU if you squint ("ok how does adding this new character and their extracanonical knowledge change the course of the plot?"), which as I've prob said here before is an endlessly fascinating genre to me

also they can very easily carry over to idle daydreaming in the sense of "hmm, how would I do if I were in this situation, how would that go down"

(or more accurately maladaptive daydreaming!zyx uses an alternate version of me that is more of a functional human being, for the sake of plot convenience—like, still just as much of a nerd and bad at social as the real me but capable of living on my own/having more basic life skills as well as not having some of the really nasty internet shit internalized so I'm not a complete wreck)

I mean, it's a fun enough thought experiment

also said daydreaming shit is Literally Never seeing the light of day or even being discussed in specifics with other people so that's a bit different from self-insert fic published on the internet in that regard

though the upside to that is not bringing it outside my own head means there's no set "canon", so the stories/scenarios are continually morphing and evolving as I come up with new ideas and tweak existing ones

also once again going to take the opportunity to reminder/shameless plug that I can link my fic rec list here whenever if wanted—I Sifted Through the Sea of Fic So You Don't Have To

(seriously though, I amaze myself sometimes thinking about the amount of time and effort I've put into that thing)

(over 15 million words of fic very neatly sorted and labeled, all done pretty much manually)

the funny thing is the idea of polishing up and publicizing the list didn't start until later when I had realized just how big it had gotten, initially I just made it as a way to be able to easily find my favorite fics in case I ever wanted to reread them, and then the combination of lots of free time + fast reading speed + being very dedicated to and having fun making those sort of large organizational Projects led to it ballooning to epic proportions

thinking about it I guess it's not surprising that site of mine I linked is primarily functioning as a gfaqs topic archive in addition to hosting the rec list, the way it purges old topics on certain boards has always bugged me preservation of knowledge/information and all that

yeah it can be fun to see someone else's reactions to a game the gfaqs playthrough topics are really the same sort of thing as a tumblr liveblogging of a game/show, just without the screenshots

expanding a bit more on the preservation thing, it's like, obv for big projects like the playthrough topics that's something that had significant time and effort put into it and should stay available for future readers, but even archiving the more mundane and inane topics of a forum can have value, as a sort of snapshot into the internet culture of that time and place to make a maybe pretentious comparison it's like how when reading about history I get upset by when things with historical/cultural value get lost or destroyed, and how there are whole ancient civilizations we know nothing or almost nothing about--I guess I just put a lot of innate value in being able to say "this is what it was like, this is how these people thought and acted and lived their daily lives"

yeah, and it's fun to see stuff like that one thousand-year-old parchment of a kid doodling on his homework, or the sumerian tablets complaining about a merchant selling low-quality copper--it really humanizes the history, I guess you could say that people are people in any era

also only very tangentially related but I've been going to the local graveyard for pokemon go raids sometimes lately and have realized that I find it weirdly fascinating to go around reading graves like, finding the earliest birthdates, people with particularly long or short lives, people with unusual names, the different styles of gravestones... maybe a bit of an irreverent thing to be interested in lol

while I'm doing these long random musings, here's one more--I think one thing that makes fanfiction as a genre (for lack of a better term) interesting to me is the sheer openendedness of it (prob not the right word? but idk), from both a literary and content standpoint like, you don't have to stick to a particular length or writing style/format, you don't have to concede to the demands of a publisher or what will "sell well", as long as you have an internet connection and the imagination to put words to a page you can put just about anything out there and people will read it so you can see some real interesting experimental/unusual writing as well as things underrepresented in mainstream works like more minority representation etc. and ofc I know these things aren't exclusive to fic, it's just a really nice example of it that not a lot of people think about that way