Musutafu Monster x Start Again x Stopwatch: when his quirk adapted to him being rewinded he also got the ability to turn back time as a side adaptation
great! pulled twitch out of the afterlife from dying at zee, perfectly in time for them to join in transporting an inadvisable amount of explosives at zee
"I gotta have you talk about Barkov a little bit... 'cuz, you know, he's your Captain but like... What should we know that we don't know about this guy? He's so quiet, he keeps a low profile—I'm sure that's by design—but he's the quietest, incredible superstar that...When Chris Pronger was working there (VP of Hockey OPs/Senior Advisor from 2017-2020), I remember he used to say to me, 'Hey, this guy is a Top 5 player in the game.' Even when nobody was even putting him in the Top 10 at that time, you know? But what makes him so great? What do you know about him now that you thought you knew before you got there?"
"You know, well, everything—because I'm with you! I knew he was in the league, I knew he was a great player but playing on the other side—I'd see him play twice a year and I wouldn't watch that much and I had no appreciation for how good he was.
But the answer—I'm gonna give you an answer about Barkov and it's not gonna be good enough... 'cuz I can't answer that question about him yet, I still haven't gotten to figure it out. I don't know to do it justice but he's this extreme perfect blend of absolutely no ego and an incredible drive to be better at the same time. So usually the guys that are really driven have a bit of an ego. Ego's not bad always, right? Maybe I'm using the wrong word to describe it but he will put his teammates and his—everything—first, and it won't bother him one bit! That's exactly the way he wants it! He doesn't want to be the first guy out, he doesn't want to—it's not that he doesn't want to do interviews because of the media! Talk to this guy! You walk in our room—you don't know hockey and you don't know names—you can't tell if he's the 1st forward or the 13th forward by the way he treats people. That's absolutely the truth!
And the reason he's not appreciated as much as a player is: I have never, ever once seen him even remotely cheat to the offensive side of the game to score a point. He just won't do it. That doesn't mean he's sitting back defensively! He doesn't give a rat's ass about his point totals, he just wants to win. So he's never gonna put the numbers up that he could. If Barky decided he was gonna generate points—if somebody'd convince him, 'Hey, Barky! If you just cheat the game and score—we'd got a better chance of winning!' I don't know, [he'd put up] 120, 130 points? Like he is brilliant but he will never, ever put the game—you know, what?
He wouldn't put himself in front of the game. The game demands certain things and you can't get past that no matter how good you are. There are certain things you got to do in this game and usually those are hard things... he'd never once put himself in front of the game."
"You can't score 120 or 130 without cheating a little bit, right? It's just a real—"
"Yeah, except those guys don't call it cheating! They call it anticipating. Bad players cheat, good players anticipate."
"They see things before they happen, Paul! That's what happens!"
"Exactly, exactly!"
in my opinion...in the course of 7 movies...i am not sure anyone has ever done anythign as cool in this franchise as nyah injecting herself with chimera and then saying "not this bitch"
Tbh the most random ship I've ever come up with has got to be Moonstones (Ruby/Emerald/Ciel)
Like it's so completely and utterly out of left field that it's like I threw darts at a character board and hoped something stuck (I didn't, but the tale of how I actually came up with this ship is either far less fun or way funnier, depending on your sense of humor)
Regardless, I think my favorite thing about this ship is the fact that they somehow work
The shenanigans these three would get into, only for Ciel to make sure to get everyone home in one piece- right on time for dinner
The angst potential too, what with Emerald's betrayal during the Vytal Tournament. If these three had been dating at the time-
Ruby never even got to see Ciel after the fall of Beacon, has no idea if she's okay at all. She didn't even get to face Emerald and ask her why- why did she do this? Was any of it real?
She's offered some relief, some closure, when they make it to Atlas and find Ciel at the academy, but even being in one another's arms again doesn't answer the questions left by the absence of their former partner
Smash cut to Emerald standing in the rain outside of Schnee Manor all cliche-like and saying she knows how to take down Cinder, but she won't speak to anyone except Ruby and Ciel. She's directed to the room where Penny (2.0) lies unconscious and damaged, with Ruby knelt over her and Ciel's hand on Ruby's shoulder
When Emerald walks in, it's Ciel who speaks first, leveling her with an expression as she asks what she's doing there. Ruby can't even bring herself to look up, just clutches Penny's hand tighter
Emerald wants to apologize but she can't find the words. What amount of apology could ever make any of this better? She can't help but wonder if this was how they looked when her actions had caused Penny's death the first time, if this was how they'd grieved the friend she'd killed when she'd betrayed them
Her mouth opens and closes, and she looks away. Instead of an apology she offers information, help. She even offers for them to lock her up if that's what it took for them to trust her, but she can't bear working under Salem, under Cinder anymore
She finally knows Cinder never loved her, that Hazel and Ruby and Ciel did. None of it, none of it was worth it. But she wants to make it right
To everyone's surprise, it's Ciel that gives her a chance first, though it's not long before Ruby warms back up to it as well. She never had been good at holding a grudge
They're barely friends again when they can't return through the portal to Vacuo, when Nora explains that Cinder attacked and they need help and Emerald throws herself against the portal trying to get to everyone, to Ruby and Ciel's hand on her shoulder is the only thing that holds her back
Soon, Ciel becomes the only thing that holds her up, as Winter crosses the threshold with the maiden power and the loss is written all over her face when Emerald asks, desperately, what the hell happened in there
Emerald, Ciel, and Winter strike up a friendship founded in loss, and Ciel and Emerald find comfort in one another's arms again
But the wounds are still raw and the what-ifs plague their minds as they maintain Ruby's memorial and continue the fight in her memory
As for what happens when RWBYJ enters Vacuo and Emerald, Ciel, and Ruby reunite?
hi lol so i have this habit of imagining my favourite characters sing my favourite songs and translating that into a google doc and doing the line distribution shenanigans (i do this during my free time btw! when i have work to do, ofc i'll focus on that)
i won't share all cuz it's like. kinda personal, but i did some lyric docs (as i'd like to call them) for fun for metsuboujinrai because i'm hyperfixated, am starving for very specific content that i decided to just make them myself, and want to extend their sort-of band unit further (because if S.O.S can hit this hard, they can do anything!!!!)
anyways here are the links ^^ pls treat them with care, i worked hard on them (LOLL):
coloured italicised lyrics means more than one person is singing (usually indicated in the tabs [idk what to call them] through the first two letters of the members' names eg. naki & ikazuchi -> na/ik)
uncoloured italicised lyrics means vocals not done by the members (eg. backing vocals)
"all" -> everyone sings the line(s). uncoloured in the tab because there's not enough letters for me to colour lol
i usually put notes in square brackets between verses when there's an instrument interlude
Wanna make something heavily inspired by the story and gameplay style of Return of the Obra Dinn but I can't make games so at the moment I'm just blocking out ideas and shit to see if my thoughts could actually make a viable story