#And yet here it all ends ...

[icewindandboringhorror]

(also feel free in the tags to clarify Why you made the choice you made!! :0c)

[zeropro]

I think he was a good man once.

[egophiliac]

don't think I'm not still obsessing over 7-12

[archiepelago]

I think about sebastian on the surface a normal amount

[vaguely-concerned]

the strength it must have taken for illario to not immediately go full 'lmao since when have you even had a kiss hello lucanis' sibling violence mode during the café talk. inspirational. rook and lucanis really were doing all that right in front of his salad huh

[magicpiano]

Bruce Wayne had a child that was somehow kidnapped right out of the hospital just hours after being born. He of them ever stopped looking despite how cold the trail had grown.

Years later there is some rouge attack and a civilian child was injured and taken to the hospital. Bruce does a DNA test on the blood found at the scene and concludes that the child is actually his long lost kid.

Dani was planning to sneak out of the hospital the moment the doctors stopped looking at her. Then Bruce Wayne of all people comes in and claims that she is his long lost child. She knows that this is very impossible because she is a clone, but Bruce won't listen to her and she really doesn't want to explain the clone thing to a "normal" stranger.

This does brings up a lot of questions about how Danny ended up living with the Fentons though.

[arcticclimes]

Something something Fitzjames and Hodgson are two of the most dandy-ish characters in The Terror but they're also two of the most dangerous; they've both been to war, both do the greatest damage to Tuunbaq using the weaponry they were trained in by the navy (Hodgson with the cannon and Fitzjames with the congreves), and Hodgson is also the one to kill the Inuit family, directly connecting the violence of imperialism with the gentlemanly facade it likes to use.

[cheaploafs]

Book wasn’t that interesting anyway..

[carlyraejepsans]

thinking about deltarune and undertale as parallel stories, thinking about chara and asriel's sacrifice ultimately allowing everyone to go free, thinking about the prophecy calling for a human and a monster hero specifically, thinking about "love finds its way to the girl", thinking about deltarune's commentary on iterative metafiction, thinking about the unused intro with susie begging kris to wake up, thinking about the prophecy ending in tragedy in order for the worlds to be SAVED. thinking about kris having a SAVE file already at the beginning of our game.

[artharakka]

1. Addax nasomaculatus (addax) | 2. Litocranius walleri (gerenuk) | 3. Tragelaphus eurycerus (bongo) | 4. Oryx gazella (gemsbok) | 5. Bos taurus (Aubrac cattle) | 6. Ovis canadensis (bighorn sheep) | 7. Sivatherium | 8. Pakicetus | 9. Diceros bicornis (black rhinoceros)

[swampybogg]

[robo-milky]

Twisted Target - Killing Game AU

[CW: Death, Gore(? in future content)] *Subject to change

In an alternate timeline, after the events of Ch. 6 and before Ch. 7, S.T.Y.X. is granted permission to run a simulation on the overblottees (including Idia) for a rehab program. That simulation gets hacked, and is changed into a killing game. All the real players are Riddle, Leona, Azul, Jamil, Vil, and Idia. The rest of the 21 players (or more) are extremely convincing simulacrum of NRC students*. The simulacra are neutral players, simply programmed to fill slots and prolong the game when needed. The total number of players is unknown, and new simulacra may be added occasionally. Simulacra are unmarked and cannot be told apart from real players.

*Another real player may be brought into the game, and gets revived as a simulacrum after elimination or vice versa, starting out as a simulacrum then their real counterpart is forced to join the game.

The premise of the game is simple, everyone is given one target to eliminate and one to protect in secret. Players can be eliminated if they are killed in game, or the target they’re protecting is revealed*.

*If a player thinks they know who another is protecting, they have one chance to make a declaration before the next round. There are no consequences for a wrong guess. The targets remain the same each round, so there may be another chance.

The rules of the game get more complex when two or more players share the same target (to eliminate/protect). Some players can be doomed from the start if they have a paradoxical target.

Paradoxical targets:

• A: A that player must eliminate themselves and protect themselves. They can be protected by others, which stop them from their goal of eliminating themselves. (Best Strategy: Wait out the rounds until you’re one of the two players left.)

• B: The player must eliminate and protect the same exact person.

• C: Player A must protect Player B, but Player B must eliminate Player A.

Each round will conclude when at least one player is eliminated. If nobody is out of the game by a certain timeframe, then a loser is randomly chosen.

The game will run until a winning pair is recognized. A winning pair includes a player and the one they’re protecting as the last players standing, regardless if the protected player’s conditions are met (failed to eliminate/protect their target). If a winning pair does not emerge by the time two or less players are left, new players are brought in until there is a winning pair.

FAQ:

• What organization could have possibly bypassed the Cerberus System?

“:3 Why would we dox ourselves?”

• How are we expected to kill our targets if we don’t declare who they’re protecting?

“Magic, barehands, you can be creative! What, you think we’ll baby you and give you the tools? We’ve already provided you all with this beautiful playing field!”

• What happens after a real player is eliminated in game?

“Electric chair! …Or something. You probably don’t want to lose.”

• Will the winning pair be free once the game is over?

“Sure, if that’s what’ll motivate you to participate and not wait for RNG to randomly pick y’all off.”

• What’s with these janky rules and loopholes?! What’s the point in playing if you’re set to lose?

“It’d be boring if everything is clean and organized.”

• What happens if one of those imposters win?

“Then they win. Sucks to lose to an NPC.”

[egophiliac]

Silver is finally here...he just took the title for the most beautiful card in TWST's history...

me five years ago: wow I really hope we get to see dragon Malleus someday! that'll be so nice and wonderful. I bet he's a big silly! :)

twst: :)

GOD. it occurred to me literally three hours before the anniversary stream that they might've been saving the reveal for then to just explode us all at once. this timing was EXTREMELY deliberate. thank you Twst. I can't even focus on all the Blazing Jewel stuff because Silver wielding the physical manifestation of his Complicated Dad Issues is busy eating my entire brain. and -- oh what's that? he duos with Lilia? I'M RUINED THANK YOU ᕕ( ᐕ )ᕗ

this is your warning that I'm going to be the most annoying person on the planet come Monday morning, thank you everybody and goodniiiiiiight

[vaguely-concerned]

that part in sea of blood where the game is soft tutorializing you on the sunder mechanic as the elite rogue venatori enemy shows up for the first time and lucanis' reaction is sooooo..... 'mierda. these guys'. see this is why he's the funniest and also most endearing character ever made. he really does sound softly, tiredly mildly exasperated in a way so wildly out of proportion with the situation at hand. a knife dude from the secret society slash cult that's been horrifically torturing him for a year just popped out of the woodwork, and the tone of lucanis' voice in response is reminiscent of nothing so much as a man who's just realized the office printer is out of ink again and whose resigned little sigh in response conveys with perfect good-natured clarity to everyone else working late alongside him that he is a bit annoyed but like not at any of them. 'we're in this together' his tone seems to say. fuckass printer and all. I'll go fetch some new cartridges. I'm getting coffee along the way does anyone else want anything while I'm there. he has the most companionable effortlessly comforting and innately hilarious presence of anyone who's ever lived even running through the failing forcefield personal trauma horror prison of all time at the bottom of the ocean. his day job is murder. he met rook and co literally half an hour ago and already these are the vibes, starting as they mean to go on.

the je ne sais quoi factor of this man. unparalleled

[ricketycr1cks]

And if I say Mac grew up equating love to cigarette burns and absent fathers and getting told to toughen up, that Mac doesn’t understand love that isn’t conditional, love without equal parts hate or distaste, that never in his life has Mac understood earnest love, that even though Dennis isn’t trying to, he often ends up re-confirming this idea in Macs head, that love is hatred, that-

[lightbluesleeper]

Knight and a reaper 🗡️🪦