#*drops dead dies*

[piepiepiemag]

hehehhehe hehehehhehe wip for the montague fic i’m writing (and by wip i do mean this is the only part i have written lol)

inspired by the fact that no matter where i entered grand glaciers from he would always spawn kill me!!! ass!!

you’re a silly spy on an silly mission, getting caught by some silly french dude

MDNFNNFJFNN THE MONTY FIC!!!!

“Give your boss a call for me, will you?” - His voice sounded threatening, obviously not willing to take no for an answer. You didn’t even want to try. With your earpiece having been disassembled and laid out on his desk he had no choice but to grab your phone from the nearby table.

He leisurely walked up to it then brought it to where you were sitting. He reached behind you in an attempt to activate the fingerprint lock but you stopped him.

“Won’t work. My fingers are fried” - you sighed upon recalling the pain of having your fingerprints permanently removed. The scars were ugly too but it is what it is. You were a spy after all. Things like that were necessary. Just a part of the job.

He thought about it only for a second before holding the phone in front of your face, activating the face id system. It unlocked without a hitch and he started scrolling through the contacts.

“Under M. He’s the only one.” - you said as he followed your instructions. He swiped his finger on the screen a few times before finally settling on the one he needed.

“Midass?” - He raised an eyebrow and you would have laughed if it wasn’t for your current predicament. You just nodded.

Beep.

Beep.

Beep.

“Agent?” - on the fourth beep he finally picked up, his voice echoing through the room.

“Midas-” - you gasped out instinctively, almost falling over as you struggled to get closer to the phone, like reaching it would have saved you. You never thought you would be so happy just to hear his voice. You quickly stopped in your tracks as you felt the cold barrel of his gun press against the back of your head, as if to signal “stay in your lane”.

“I have something dear to you. If you want it back, i’d suggest getting it yourself. Come alone and unarmed.” - and with these simple instructions he hung up.

Shit. You should have know Montague didn’t want a ransom or anything superficial like that. Not only did you cause trouble for yourself but the agency and your boss too. You could only imagine the talk he would give you afterwards. Of course, you would have to return alive for that. And the chances of that were dropping lower and lower by the minute.

Would he even risk it to come and get you? Right now, you were as good as dead.

[rexxkazu]

“it’s complicated”

[infernal666combustion]

Victoria di Prada

[hayaku14]

pushing daisies kaishin au #2

pushing daisies au where shinichi has been able to revive dead animals, plants, even people since he was a child.

kudou "i can literally talk to the dead" shinichi

shinichi's parents didn’t exactly encouraged him to use this power. especially not in public. they’ve seen him revive and re-kill dead plants and animals in the same breath, it doesn’t take a detective to figure out what could happen near a human corpse.

but a young shinichi is curious, a young shinichi admired his father, and a young shinichi wanted to prove himself a detective. but most of all, a young shinichi wanted to help.

so when he saw his father struggle in solving a particular case, a young shinichi figured that maybe asking straight from the source would help give them a hint.

the complete horror in yusaku's eyes shinichi saw that day made him promise himself to never do it again.

shinichi realizes later on that reviving someone just for a clue on the whos, hows, and whys of their death only to touch them again, to basically kill them again, is sick and twisted and the realization leaves him feeling raw and dirty.

he then decides that if he’s gonna find out the truth, if he’s gonna bring justice, it’s not by making the victims suffer a second death. he will unravel the mystery not by magic but by logic.

the curious case of kuroba kaito

hakuba immediately contacts shinichi.

“he was...a friend. if i have to gather all the best detectives to catch his murderer then so be it.”

hakuba goes on to explain.

it was a kid heist. shots were fired. snipers. kaitou kid was caught on camera falling, as if he’d been shot, but he appears a minute later flying away on his glider with not a speck of blood on his suit. all should be well however, a few buildings away in an alleyway, the body of kuroba kaito is found dead. gunshots through the heart and chest.

a simple explanation would’ve been that the glider was a fake activated by kid’s assistant as a last ditch effort to save his legacy and this kuroba kaito was kaitou kid himself. he would’ve said it out loud but by the look on hakuba’s face, he can tell that he already connected those dots long before shinichi even stepped foot in the morgue. that wasn’t what hakuba called him for.

“can i...take a look at the body alone?”

hakuba raises an eye at him but moves to leave without questioning. "alright then. i have to check on another friend anyway. she's been...distraught ever since she heard the news and..." hakuba's words trail away as his eyes unconsciously drifted towards kuroba kaito's covered body. shinichi patiently waits through the quiet pain that he sees on hakuba. the pinch in his brows, the tenseness of his body. he must've been a really good friend.

hakuba shakes his head and turns his attention back to shinichi. "sorry, i...its been a long day. i'll leave you here then. call me if you find anything."

left alone, shinichi carefully zips open the body bag covering kaitou kid's upper body. he looked eerily similar to himself and imagining his own body cold and dead in the morgue sent a shiver down his spine. shaking his head, he pulls a chair close and reads through the file hakuba brought him.

"no witnesses. no camera. not a trace nor lead to anything. just some reports on mysterious gunshots in previous heists that lead to nowhere." they were professionals, whoever did this, shinichi thought. it was not going to be an easy case.

he takes another peek at the body. so this was kaitou kid, huh. too young to be the same as the one before his hiatus. perhaps a successor? motive could be related to his predecessor. his mother hasn't said anything of interest. does she really not know or is she protecting him? he runs his hand through his hair. there's too little information to go on...unless...

temptation rears its head. the source of information is right there in front of him. one touch and it could open up new leads to the case. an immediate disgust twists deep into his gut. he promised himself to never use it on people. to never kill. his father's haunted eyes embedded in his mind. he shouldn't. he really shouldn't. but he remembers the anguished look on hakuba's face. if he was going to do it, this might be the only good time. any longer and his touch would not revive kid. and gone along with him would be vital information to catch his murderer.

shinichi heaves a deep sigh. he has never used his abilities on dead people since that one incident as a child but he couldn't shake off the look on hakuba's face. it was now or never. shinichi reaches for kid's hand.

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pushing daisies au #1

[randomwriteronline]

Still thinking abt @crystaltoa 's narrative and destiny in bionicle essay and at some point it struck me that oh shit is this why Lesovikk never achieves anything?

Because his destiny was to die, basically, he's technically been retired from the narrative before even entering it. He should by all accounts be the equivalent of a name in the flavor text of a Skyrim history book, just there to give additional context to the culture or language or history of the Matoran Universe. He could leave! He could sit back and watch it all unfold from the safety of his "narratively dead" status. But he doesn't know that, and so he wallows in grief and misery for 90 thousand years as he runs in circles desperately trying to insert himself back into a story that just doesn't respond to his presence. He can't save his team because Destiny says so, he can't return to his Matoran because he technically shouldn't exist anymore, he can't kill Karzhani because he's an actual character with a role to play and he can't just be decommissioned by flavor text.

Even in The Powers That Be, where the influence of the narrative is waning and retired characters are being brought back into the story through the Red Star, his only victory is undone (Idris and Sarda notably do not appear even in mentions in the serial despite them having formed/regained a bond with him previously, implying they have since returned to the Mahri/Voya communities while Lesovikk hasn't for whatever reason) and he remains unable to pursue his goals, at best becoming Velika's scapegoat.

He's like a vengeful yet ineffectual ghost stuck in a house that has moved on without him, repeating old motions in the hopes that he will somehow solve his unfinished business soon.

The Myths and Legacy version's conclusion for him (while I still don't enjoy it personally) does fit this reading. He shows up so suddenly on the Red Star but is it strange? Does it even matter? That's where he should have been to begin with, of course the story would twist and bend itself to accomodate that. While Velika is horrendously cruel about it, revealing Lesovikk's purpose in the narrative exorcises that guilt he's been dragging around for nearly a thousand centuries and gives him solace: he fully detaches himself from Kopaka and Pohatu to join the living dead he has so much more in common with, and finally he realizes that little plot point that he'd been stuck on for so long and is finally at peace. By tearing himself to shreds and blowing up a spaceship but at peace nonetheless.

[princessofghosts-posts]

One the things that got me during HoO,from SoN to HoH is the fact that Frank Zhang can literally command skeletons of people fallen into battles. When I found out about it I was extremely confused because I couldn't remember if it was a thing,or it was something new introduced to us. And apparently that was something already introduced in the first serie,since Clarisse in SoM had a battleship with an undead crew that she could command. I think it was a gift from Ares,like Frank's new spear was a gift from Mars.

But it was so strange when I read it,because at the time I really never thought much of that scene,and when they went to the museum to talk with the ghosts (it was off-screen and the only thing we know is that Frank couldn't comunicate with them) I was like:"Wdym Frank can use Nico's power??? He is not related to the Underworld. How is that even possible? Where is the logic at?"

But right now I think it's hilarious because Hazel got together with the only guy in the world that could command skeletons,outside of chthonic dieties children. And she is a child of the Underworld. Hazel and Nico really do attract death and are attracted by it.

And I remember that in HoH,while Nico's used the scepter to summon the undead,it was Frank to give them orders because they weren't listening to Nico since he was greek. And while I have a contrast feeling about this,it's actually pretty good for his character development and leadership skills.

At the same time there is irony here. Frank knew he could summon to skeletons/talk to ghosts but still was unsettled by Nico,and they all know what his main powers could do. The same thing that Frank's technically could but he never learned how (untill Nico provided him with a platform to help him in it),Nico can too without a problem. But nope,let's be scared of the son of Hades when you can do the same things,and had a skeleton fight for you not even a month ago.

I don't think people realized that the Ares Cabin can technically do this too (the IRONY is coming back at full force here,hoping for Nico to never find out about this because I knew he won't take it well) since it's only mentioned in one line. That's fair. But Frank's power of commanding the dead is pretty much in the background: it's talked a bit in SoN when Mars give him a new weapon and he summon a skeleton with it; it's talked about when they went to that museum to see if Frank could comunicate with the ghosts there in MoA (but those are like,4 lines); and HoH when he commanded the dead in the Temple with Nico's help,but that was mostly about his leadership skills and how Jason didn't felt roman anymore (Rick fucked up with this).

That's it. And I think is a waste because,since he can't controll it,Nico would the the best teacher to have for Frank. He is already helping Hazel with her powers,he can do the same for him. Especially because that part of Frank's powers is the same as his powers,since he does better in the death sphere of his father's domain (not Rick putting a patch on what happened in BotL,when Nico used the earth at this liking,and then never did anything with it again). Wasted opportunity to make Frank grow up from the stereotypes of children of the Underworld,and Hazel to step up and actually acknowledge their sibling bond instead of the "I know he is creepy and all but can you still be nice to him?" conversation.

Riordan gave the children of Ares and Mars a leverage they technically should never have,because even if those are fallen soldier,they are still dead. They can respond only if summoned or if someone can talk to them. And while the battleship and the crew were a gift from Ares for Clarisse,Frank had Nico to help him fight at the end of HoH. And then that same leverage got forgotten or unused.

And while I'm glad because it was way out of their parentage,I don't like how Riordan is comfortable to adding whatever power he want,to someone,and then taking it away,without writing about it. Why doing this??? Don't give it if you won't write much about it. It's just a waste of potential.

[deadpoetsandlivinglegends]

Guys hear me out wait shhh guys listen listen reverse death anderperry like this poem but with Neil, Todd, and Jeff Anderson

[veyronvenus]

he's so adorable I wanna shoot myself in thw mouth

[biomic]

bro is built like gao hunter

[swagstar]

under the special (and short. eugh.) ive seen poeple comment freaking out that no matter what two meant the shippers are already getting on it!!!! and like. idk. its important to me that two values platonic relationships so much and says those things meaning them completely platonically. can we. get our brains out of the shipper mindset for a sec and appreciate it

[ceaselesswatchersspecialboy]

Heads up: I likely won’t be posting as much as I usually do the next few days, and any Hannibal analyses I’ve been working on will be on hold. My Dad passed away so I’m sorta dealing with that right now.

[auriannaventiwithcaramel]

I JUST NOTICED JANE'S A CAR PLAYING AT THE END OF NPMD???

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

Ok I can't find it. But I wanted to say I'm Still thinking about the fact that. Countdown just ends with the heros killing an entire universe* because they didn't kill one person and Jason just had to be there and watch that. I think he should be allowed to kill whoever he wants after that actually.

(*called "earths" in countdown but like. It spread ti space if I recall. So. Saying Universe so you get the scale) (also Why are they called "earths", especially since aliens and life outside earth exist. What makes earth so special huh)

[elizabeth-mitchells]

oh sure they can save sayid who was shot in the stomach like 2 days and 30 years ago but they can't resurrect juliet just because she died???? homophobia

[qpjianghu]

Mysterious Lotus Casebook (2023)

(insp.)

[noesa]

it would be really funny if the new pope drops dead within 24 hours of meeting JD Vance too