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moseslikellamas · 2 months

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Thorn of Winterfell pt.4

Pairing - Stark!OC x Benjicot Blackwood

Summary - Harrenhal shenanigans!!

Warnings - graphic depictions of violence, lore™️, sketchy depictions of medieval hierarchies, blood, death, depictions of shock, dubious battle mechanics.

Word count- 2.1k

We’re back! Sorry for the delay work is crazy rn. But yay, Harrenhall time!

It was guaranteed that Syana was going to run into the Blackwood lord, as he spent every moment awake in the yard eager to bash some unlucky souls head in. This morning it was hers. She could tell he’d been up for a while, his back was soaked through with sweat. She wondered if he had thoughts in his head or if he just felt the urge to hit something with his sword all the time.

“Care for a flesh opponent?” She asked and he swung around so quickly it startled her. His sword inches away from her face.

Seeing it was only her, he dropped his arm. Sheathing his sword before wiping the sweat from his forehead with his equally as drenched shirt. Then he tossed her a wooden sword. She raised an eyebrow at him.

“You want to keep your sword up, you work on arm strength.”

She barely managed to block the first blow he threw at her.

“No warning when the enemy wants your blood on his hands.”

She blocked several more but missed twice as many. Hissing when the wooden sword would hit her skin, she knew she would be bruised.

“Stop watching my feet, it doesn’t matter where I’m moving. Anticipate that I’ll come from anywhere. You have to block it or you're dead!”

Syana was starting to break a sweat herself as she parried and blocked against his never ending onslaught of blows. He kept pressing forward relentlessly and managed to knock her leg out from under her with a nasty blow to her knee. She was sprawled out on the ground, chest heaving only a second before having to scramble away from the blow that nearly clocked her in the head. She gritted her teeth and pressed onward despite the screaming pain in her leg.

She could not say how long they fought, circling each other. Only that her arms began to shake and she struggled to keep her sword up when he handed her a heavier wooden blade.

“Come on, this one’s almost as heavy as your real sword. Get it up, all the way!”

His voice was grating beyond belief a mix of jeering condescension and a victorious gravitas that drove her mad with anger. Pushing through the tremors in her muscles, she pulled the sword back up to the proper position. When the first blow hit, he knocked the sword clean out of her hands. Then using his own leg, swept hers out from under her again.

“Poor form, terrible sense of awareness.” He said from above her before offering her his hand and pulling her up with too much force, nearly sending her sprawling in the other direction.

“I don’t know how you’re still alive.”

She spat a wad of blood out of her mouth where he had busted the inside of her lip.

“Join me at the archery range and I’ll be glad to show you up.”

Looking around Syana was shocked to see a noticeable crowd had grown around them.

“Doubt you’ll be able to pull right now.” He said half laughing as she tried to pick the wooden sword back up, only to drop it again.

She didn’t get a chance to respond before several eager men took her place, plucking the sword up and starting the exercise with the lord. She stood back, one hand holding her bruised ribs while she watched him take on another set of three like it was nothing. He seemed inhuman the way he never tired. After he defeated the first set he continued on even after she had limped her way to the archery range.

It took her a good while for every part of her body to stop throbbing with pain but she was determined not to quit. She stood there for ages, pulling and loosing arrows. The only sound alive to her was the soft whump of the arrows embedding themselves in the target. It was meditative to her and helped bring her mind back to a focused center. The castle around them was eerie, she could feel the shadow of something that wasn’t right roaming the halls even outside in the yard. The hair on the back of her neck stood on end without reason and the hand her brother slapped on her shoulder made her jump.

“I take it you found another sparring partner?” Cregan looked tired but jovial as he surveyed the targets in front of her.

Syana followed his gaze and was shocked to see arrows in every target lined up. She hadn’t remembered moving targets.

“I dunno that you could call it that brother. More like I got my ass handed to me by that freak of nature.” She nodded towards where the young lord was still going at it.

But her brother had only frowned at that. “Blackwoods are strange people.”

She had to agree with him there. “No stranger still than this castle.” She was gazing up at the melted towers, she could swear she saw something moving in one of them but it was gone in a flash. “The riverlands are a queer place, have you seen their heart tree?”

Syana had only caught a glimpse on the march in, but the face had been a horror so unlike the one back at Winterfell that it filled her with a terrible dread. It was different from the cold empty feeling the dead tree at Raventree Hall had given her. The tree seemed too alive here, watching them closely.

“You’ve been listening to our mother's tall tales for too long, sister.”

His heart was not in the jest though and she had shook her head. “The old gods are closer here in the damp air, I think. Their blood runs hotter.”

“And their roots grow deep.” He nodded along with her. “We should keep a close eye on them here. Weird magic is in these walls. We don’t need them fighting amongst themselves before the enemy arrives.”

At his words the yard was cast into momentary darkness as the prince flew overhead. Syana was on the move long before he landed. Cregan did not follow her as she approached the gate. She waited anxiously for Jacaerys to appear, bouncing on the tips of her toes as she did. The gate was pulled open at last with a loud groaning clank and the prince strode through. He didn’t look any happier than before they had set out.

“Anything of note, my prince?” She asked, striding up to walk beside him.

“Nothing. Just as we hoped, they turned back and have yet to meet up with another host.”

That was good news. It meant they had time to prepare before the enemy would arrive and try to take the castle, a foolish move.

“And your uncle?”

At that question Jacaerys exhaled irritated. “He flies above, he wanders below inside the castle walls. He avoids me at all costs. I cannot catch him.”

Syana was struggling to keep up with the punishing pace the prince had set. Her ribs were screaming in agony by the time they reached the yard.

“We will make the most of it with or without him. Help me keep the riverlanders from ripping each other to pieces before the lannisters have a chance will you?”

He finally slowed down at that, pinning her with a piercing stare. “You think there’s dissent among them?”

She crossed her arms staring back. “I think this castle is a queer place to store an army. It’s unnatural, a cursed environment. We should all be wary of how this place affects us.”

Jacaerys took her words seriously, in his time up north he’d seen enough to know the truth in what she was saying. Beyond that he was a dragonrider, if anyone could sense magic she assumed it was him.

“Do you think perhaps Daemon-?” He trailed off looking at her inquisitively.

“I think you should write to your mother, I’d feel better with at least one true adult aware of our situation.”

Surrounded by young, eager, reckless men made her nervous. Ser Dustyn was a fine man but he wasn’t exactly the most politically savvy and knew even less of magic. The rest of the men around him lacked any life experience, they were all too young. It made her feel like they were all winging it, freefalling towards whatever fate might become them. Queen Rhaenyra wasn’t old by any means but Syana knew she was a lot wiser than the bloodthirsty fiends around them.

Prince Jacaerys hadn’t bothered to respond, just left, walking twice as fast as he had been on the way up. She felt exhausted just looking at him. Maybe the blood of the dragon gave them an unnatural energy. It made sense to her, riding on dragonback had to be exhausting. She slowly followed behind him, cursing Harren the Black for the grand staircase that led up from the yard to the main keep. The stairs were made of a black stone that shined like oil in the sun and was oddly slick under her feet. The castle inside was worse, dark and damp.

She limped slowly up the spiraling stone staircase to the room she had been given. She tried three times to relight the torches on her walls before she gave up. Instead she placed several more pieces of wood on the fire and grabbed a thick cloak. The walls seemed to leach every bit of warmth from her body. She did not linger long in the room, feeling uneasy. Instead she’d donned the cloak and set out on finding her brother. She wanted them both to go visit the godswoods here. She needed to get a better look at the heart tree here, the gnarled face replaying in her mind's eye as she walked.

Perhaps her brother was right, and she had been listening to her mother’s stories too much, but she didn’t think so. The castle was possessed by something even if it was just the horrible energy that had been poured into it as it was built. The hundreds of souls that died here imbued the walls with their memories of misery. Walking along the halls, she found herself wishing the enemy would show up soon. She would rather deal with the real tangible threat than the psychic magical threat that would wreak havoc on the minds of the many men encased in the walls.

The ceiling of the castle was too far away to be natural, she decided as she walked. It stretched impossibly tall and she was never quite sure where it ended. Sometimes an odd torch would be lit up high and it would shatter whatever illusion she had about the height of it. Engrossed in her observations she forgot all about finding her brother and before she knew it her feet had led her into the broken part of the castle that opened into the gods wood.

The godswood here was the largest she had ever seen and possibly was the largest in all of Westeros if she had to guess. The trees were tall and stretched high, creating a dense canopy that made the underside dark. She walked the short way into the trees and towards the creek in front of the heart tree. The roots were sprouting up and over the bank of the creek, stretching down into the water in a mass of writhing limbs. She approached slowly, taking her time to admire the full tree. The leaves were huge, larger than her head and in the breeze they grasped, pulling at each other desperately. The eyes of the tree were weeping a thick red sap in an uninterrupted stream that flowed into the water below it. The mouth was open in a silent scream of agony beneath the crimson tears. Syana reached a hand out, her fingers brushing against the coarse white bark.

“It's a bit late to be wandering the godswood alone in a strange castle now, isn’t it?”

Syana turned around to see a woman with dark hair smirking back at her. She frowned at the woman, confused. When did the sun set? She had only just walked out here, hadn’t she?

“Lost track of time I suppose.” She replied, turning back to stare at the weirwood tree behind her. The creek itself was all red, dyed by the sap of the tree. When she turned back to the woman she was gone and a thick fog had settled over the forest of trees.

“Strange place indeed.” Syana muttered to herself as she quickly walked to exit the trees.

Overhead the caws of a crow sounded as it flew across the bay to Dragonstone.

Taglist: @drwho-ess

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paladin-of-nerd-fandom65 · 4 months

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1: What is the starburst duo biggest mistake? one that they look out to never do again.

2: You know how Older! Jon Kent took the title of Superman when Clark went to war world? Did Chris & Jake ever have to take their father's title of Superman & Nightwing?

3: If Jake & mar'i were in canon, when do you think they were born? Most likely right after their parents wedding :)

4: What is something the Starburst duo thinks they are good out but aren't?

5: What is something the Starburst duo is legitimately bad at?

Chris: Leading Jake, Jasper and Lian on a small mission to bust what seems being a regular drug dealing (almost regular as the contraband content was replicated Fear Toxin) by Blockbsuter without properly checking to see who his business partner is and how much of their power they’ll need; this let them completely off guard when that business partner tuned up being Mongul, who proceeded to pounded them all brutally, nearly killing both Lian and Jake in the process. The deal was stopped but Chris has made himself a promise that for now on, he’ll always double check the intel for cases like this and make sure they’re still properly prepared for surprise attacks like this

Jake: Once letting his temper get the better of him when he encountered a bank robbing criminal he was searching for a good bit and always came up frustratingly short every time he has a lead on him. Once he finally had the crook cornered, he fail to notice the desperate and scared eyes of the crook and definitely not noticing they were outside the criminal’s house, revealing his wife and two children who no doubt were spooked by the green fury glowing eyes Jake had as he was pounding the desperate criminal to a near pulp. He eventually snapped out of it when the crook’s wife begged him to stop and Jake then looked around realizing he wasn’t beating up a major super villain but a man who only resorted to his criminal acts out of desperation further his family. Even since then, Jake has made it a considerable effort to try to temper and control himself against petty crooks and those who hadn’t committed the more grievous crimes.

2) I would say….maybe or maybe not. As grown ups, their mantles simply either grew up with them or they change into complete new ones as either their children and/or fixture apprentices take over the Skybird and Nightwing Phantom mantles. Maybe Jake can take over the Nightwing mantle his father has once Dick does retire though it’ll be a tall sell as Jake feels no one can truly be the same Nightwing Dick. As for Chris, the Superman mantle is evenly split by both Conner and Jon, Red and Blue respectively.

3) Oh for sure; Kory became pregnant with Mar’i about a few months after the wedding, likely her being conceived during the Honeymoon itself. Jake followed up a mere two years later. Oh in my version, they get married much sooner, around when Jason was Robin therefore Jake would’ve been about maybe 1-2 year when Jason was blown up by the Joker.

Bonus: for how Tim Drake can still be a teenager when Jake is ten; simple, he got hit by a de aging ray which not only tuned him back into a 14-16 year old but moreso allows him to age much slowly. Or at least if he ages normal, he still looks very young even as a teen…and small

4) Chris: Playing Soccer and Tennis. In both sports he keeps forgetting which way is his half of the court to defend and which one is to score points

Jake: Naming all the Star Wars characters from every show, tv series or animated show even if he’s otherwise good with memory. The problem lies with how many of them sometimes are background characters despite the lore behind them

Chris: Learning how to use VR headsets. Those things are just confusing and where to go, how to move inside the game and what buttons to press while his hands are in motion

Jake: Much to his surprising delight, being able to hold in his laughter, cackles and giggles anytime his sensitive spots are even as so much as brushed softly or gently poked. It’s something both Dick and him have inherited from Mary Grayson, jokingly what’s referred to as a curse in their lineage, all because Mary’s father, Jake great grandfather, took a career as a dentist rather than as a mortician like the rest of that family line.

Thanak for the asks @pin-crusher2000 ! These are fun XD

#chris kent #jake grayson #starburst duo #sfw #Jasper Logan #lian harper #connor kent #jonathan samuel kent #dick grayson #koriand'r #jason todd #tim drake

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sukimas · 2 years

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oh, i got a good one: i take it you're a fan of FE4's gameplay. in that case, do you have a vision of anything you'd want changed in a remake on the mechanics side?

yes!

first off: i want horses to lose the benefit from roads. their movement is good enough as it is without being able to be buffed to an insane degree. the road speedup multiplier for infantry units should also be higher (maybe 0.55-0.6x movement cost? it gets weird at points because you might end up with infantry moving faster than cavalry on roads at some points with these multipliers, but since they're stuck to the roads rather than being able to run through fields, it's more of a restriction than a bonus even still.)

of course, the timing for certain side objectives (cough cough Bargain Band) should be altered if you do this. this would also give our poor fliers more of a niche, since as it is, the fact that they can't gain road bonuses basically makes them village bandit cleanup and child rescuing bots.

you could definitely successfully implement rescue in fe4 instead, but i think this comes to the issue where cavalry units might still be too centralizing unless you give fe5-level penalties for rescuing; and giving fe5-level penalties for rescuing incentivizes just not using the mechanic and tossing cavalry at all your problems instead.

a good thing that might be done to ameliorate their centralizing forces, incidentally, is to increase enemy density and quality. fe4 original flavor had to make do with a lot of autoleveled enemy units of the exact same classes and weaponry due to memory limitations; in a remake, you could make it so every group of enemies is similar to the group you face prior to heirhein, but with twice the number of enemy units- wielding mixed weaponry, with backline support in healers and ballisticians, etc. since cavalry units have worse statlines compared to footlocked units, but in general this comes into play in exactly one instance (the weissenritter), and we want to just increase the number of instances. our enemies may be underestimating us, but they aren't that incompetent. an exception is verdane, which should still just be axes and bows. they're the tutorial guys.

i don't want to implement trading, but i think that unarmed healers (and basically only them) tend to have serious issues getting the items they want unless you focus your thief on them or know ahead of time what to do. this is despite the fact that staves are not that centralizing in this game- the only particularly busted one is rescue, and even that is nowhere near warpskipping levels of broken. i think, since the only unarmed healers in the game are religious figures, allowing the "give gold" command to work on them from anyone (with the gloss of charitable donations) would do nicely.

speaking of the "give gold" command, it would be very beneficial to allow it to not give all of your gold to an allied unit. choosing multiples of 10k, i think (or all your gold if you happen to have less than that) would be ideal for a game which no longer has the snes's memory limitations.

(...speaking of the snes's memory limitations, why not properly implement the feature to dismount promoted mounted units for cool factor?)

as for weapon balance, it's mostly pretty OK, but some weight changes should be made. fire/thunder/wind should get the differentiation they get in later games (descending might order, thunder gets a little crit and wind gets a little more accuracy). dark and light magic being fairly heavy makes sense. sorry, deirdre, but your having absolutely godawful combat is lore accurate and doesn't cause you to be a liability. axes of course need to get their weight decreased- it should be at least a fleeting possibility that you could double with them, even if it's unusual.

i would hope it is patently obvious that holy weapons should not be altered in any way.

now, to map design. chapter 4 having it impossible to go to the latter half of the chapter with your unpromoted mounted units is a huge slap in the face. change that. you already had the thickets in chapter 1 change to normal forest- speaking of which, actually, thin out the fucking chapter 1 forest, it doesn't need to be that long- so have a bit of the mountain just be normal plains for you to traverse after the Annand Experience.

another fairly unpopular opinion of mine is that the chapter 7 desert is.... fine? you're not stuck in it for that long, and you don't need to take anyone but maybe seliph and a healer across it, if that. everyone else can move down to melgen while he's otherwise occupied. now, on the other hand, the chapter 5 desert is fucking stupid and it's no wonder that most people finish the chapter by poking the gelbenritter with erinys and having lewyn annihilate everything rather than actually taking their whole army to velthomer. absolutely a new path through the desert should open up after you seize phinora (you already speak to the village elder, surely he can give you directions), kaga is a god damn lunatic for this one. chapter 1 is also an unforgivable slog that could easily be fixed by just fucking taking away some of the trees. you can alternate them tree-plain-tree-plain and still have the effect of a giant fuckoff forest. or hell, have a route around the forest to the left open up after you get the Deirdre Moment. a lot of the unpleasant terrain in this game could be avoided by convenient new characters just telling you how to avoid it, but somehow this doesn't happen.

overall, with a few movement and enemy quality tweaks, along with a few QOL updates, fe4 could go from being The Game Of All Time to The Game Of All Time, Now Ft. A Larger Fun To Walking Simulator Ratio.

now as for changes i don't think that would be particularly useful but i want to see anyway: the possibility for critical hits even when your weapon isn't at 50 kills, but make them something like skill/4. speaking of that, why aren't the holy weapons all at 50+ kills already? if the count is maintained across generations for everything else, why aren't all the shots ullr took counted on my yewfelle? put them on there, it's always a good idea to make holy weapons more busted. give more random enemy units personal (non-class) skills to ruin the player's day. go random sword general with sol. fuck you.

oh yeah speaking of enemy general skills i'm going back on my word that these changes aren't particularly useful, and very unusually for me, saying that we should implement a change that would make the game slightly more normally balanced. kill full pavise. pavise cutting damage dealt in half was the best thing awakening ever did. it's fine for it to work against every weapon, but completely nullifying damage with an activation chance based on the user's level is stupid. loptous wishes it were you.

another change i'd like to make is making the arena about half as long (3-4 enemies) but making those enemies grant more gold/exp for using it. also, changing the chapter leveling curves in general so arena use isn't required for the highest rank (though idk if they'll keep the ranking system; this is the first remake of a game that had a proper one, and IS appears to be allergic to them nowadays.) you could optionally implement a limit on how many units can use the arena each map to incentivize solely using it to train up weak units, but idk. it's fun absolutely wrecking the arena, and would be less of a huge pain in the ass if it were three units long.

i'd like build and build growths to make a return, since engage seems to want to do that. it would help with some of the earlier weapon weight issues mentioned (esp. axes) but if you tweak weights instead it isn't super necessary.

oh yeah, make warp able to target green castles rather than just blue ones. sucks to make it optimal to get nordion captured so i can send everyone back there in the middle of ch2 instead of sending them all back to evans.

this ended up being a lot longer than i expected, but it's basically all tiny nitpicks. i think fe4's gameplay is really good for telling the story that it wants to, but some of the design decisions made within the game for memory reasons (i'm not exaggerating here by bringing this up so much- the game genuinely hits near the edge of the cartridge size, and project naga doublesizing it was absolutely the only thing that they could have done to fit the patch on there) or for bad decision reasons (kaga's loving marriage to movement restriction) make it less fun than it could be. a remake tweaking those and adding some later innovations in the fire emblem series could make it a game that i'd never want to stop playing, rather than one i have to take a couple weeks break from every time i finish it.

#long post #fe4 #i have a lot of things to say about this video game from 1996!#it is extremely fun to play except for the agonies

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enderon · 1 year

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This is kind of a play off an old project I did a million years ago, but I'm currently rewatching the entirety of The 7D and taking note of certain things, for the sake of my own stories and OC stuff. Here's what I've got for the first 4 episodes so far, for those that are interested.

Episode 1

The Long, Long Winter

FOCUS CHARACTER:

n/a

LORE:

Jollywood Joe is a magical ‘spring’ chicken who’s clucks end winter in the enchanted forest

He lives on top of Mt. Jollywood

CONFLICT:

The Glooms freeze Jollywood Joe so he can’t end winter in the enchanted forest, forcing it to get so cold that Queen Delightful and the Jollywoodians have no choice but to move elsewhere

LOCATIONS:

Jollywood

Queen Delightful’s castle

Mt Jollywood

Jollywood Joe’s perch

The Gloom’s cottage

CHARACTERIZATION:

Doc

Is a bit of an adrenaline junkie/thrill seeker

NEW CHARACTERS:

Jollywood Joe

Itsy Bitsy Spider Fighters

FOCUS CHARACTER:

Grumpy

The misunderstanding over his fear of the giant spider versus the normal little spider is the main joke/conflict

LORE:

n/a

CONFLICT:

The Glooms think Queen Delightful is scared of spiders, so Hildy turns Grim into a giant spider and sets him loose in the castle. The 7D try to catch the little spider from earlier, with only Grumpy seeing Grim as the giant spider.

LOCATIONS:

Jollywood

The 7D’s Mine

Queen Delightful’s castle

The Gloom’s cottage

CHARACTERIZATION:

Lord Starchbottom

Terrified of spiders

Sneezy

Scared of spiders - he gets over it pretty quickly

Grim Gloom

Terrified of spiders

NEW CHARACTERS:

n/a

Episode 2

Sneezin Season

FOCUS CHARACTER:

Grumpy

He keeps getting blasted away by Sneezy’s sneezes and ends up having to stay at the castle, till a solution can be found.

The Glooms keep trying to get his beard hairs for a spell. He makes use of Sneezy’s sneezes to save the day.

Sneezy

Trying to figure out what keeps causing his huge sneezes that keep sending Grumpy flying. His sneezes are used to save the day.

LORE:

Jollyberry pie festival

Begun by Queen Whimsical

Queen Delightful’s great great grandmother

The ruler makes pies that everyone in Jollywood then use in a village wide pie throwing fight

CONFLICT:

The Gloom’s are tricking to get some of Grumpy’s beard hairs, but keep getting thwarted when Sneezy’s sneezes keep blasting both him and them away. It happens frequently enough that they start to think Sneezy is allergic to Grumpy, not realizing he’s actually allergic to Bob the squirrel.

LOCATIONS:

Jollywood

Queen Delightful’s castle

The 7D’s cottage

The Gloom’s cottage

CHARACTERIZATION:

Sneezy

His sneezes when caused by an allergic reaction to squirrels are strong enough to blast Grumpy all the way around the globe

The 7D

They’re so close that one of them having to move-out/stay away, even for one night, makes them really sad and miss each other

NEW CHARACTERS:

Bob the Squirrel

The Delightful Diamond Mystery

FOCUS CHARACTER:

n/a

LORE:

Supposedly, ghosts haunt Queen Delightful’s caslte

CONFLICT:

The Delightful Diamond (Queen Delightful’s favorite diamond) goes missing and they believe it’s been stolen. In the ends it’s discovered that it was no actually ‘stolen’, instead it was taken by Sir Yipsalot, because it’s ball shaped and Queen Delightful has been trying to teach him how to play fetch with a ball.

LOCATIONS:

Jollywood

Queen Delightful’s castle

The 7D’s cottage

CHARACTERIZATION:

Lord Starchbottom

Enjoys reading mystery novels

Sir Yipsalot

When he hears the word ‘fetch’ will seek out and fetch anything ball shaped, but takes it to a hiding place

NEW CHARACTERS:

The Magic Mirror

Episode 3

Mirror, Mirror

FOCUS CHARACTER:

Magic Mirror

The conflict revolves around her being stolen

LORE:

Schmagoogles & Kazinskys

Units of distance measurement

CONFLICT:

Hildy Gloom wants a magic mirror that will tell her she’s the fairest in the land, but when the mirror Grim buys her ends up being busted and obnoxious, he steals Queen Delightful’s magic mirror and replaces it with the busted one. The 7D then try to get the magic mirror back.

LOCATIONS:

Jollywood

The 7D’s cottage

Queen Delightful’s castle

The Gloom’s cottage

Scalawag’s Magic Mirror Showroom

CHARACTERIZATION:

The Magic Mirror

Helps Queen Delightful do her morning work-outs

Is romantically interested in the busted magic mirror

Lord Starchbottom

Wants to handle things himself, instead of calling the 7D

NEW CHARACTERS:

Scalawag

Busted Magic Mirror

The Big Bash

FOCUS CHARACTER:

Bashful

LORE:

Sky Buckets

A transportation invention of Doc’s that allow for faster travel within Jollywood

‘Floom’

A curse word in the enchanted forest

CONFLICT:

Bashful accidentally causes Queen Delightful’s special new sky bucket to crash into the stage, causing problems (in his eyes). He feels so bad that he’s too sad to show back up, but through a series of mishaps ends up saving her from the Glooms, though under the guise of the secret identity ‘The Big Bash’.

LOCATIONS:

Jollywood

The village

The 7D’s cottage

Queen Delightful’s castle

The Gloom’s cottage

CHARACTERIZATION:

Bashful

Has a crush on Queen Delightful

Writes people apology notes when he feels guilty

Grumpy

Can’t keep up with Doc’s techno talk

NEW CHARACTERS:

Boppy and his mom

Episode 4

Surprise

FOCUS CHARACTER:

Grim

He is watching the 7D to try and figure out how to throw a surprise party for Hildy

Lord Starchbottom

He is trying to do everything he can to keep Queen Delightful out of the castle until sundown and in the end it is revealed to be a surprise party for his birthday

LORE:

n/a

CONFLICT:

The 7D are trying to put on a surprise party for Queen Delightful’s birthday and task Lord Starchbottom with keeping her out of the castle until sundown. In the end, it’s revealed to actually be a surprise party for Lord Starchbottom himself. Having listened in, Hildy then tasks Grim with providing her with a surprise party and spying on the 7D to figure out how to do so.

LOCATIONS:

Jollywood

The Waffle Schnitzel

Queen Delightful’s castle

The Gloom’s cottage

CHARACTERIZATION:

Hildy Gloom

Has no friends and everyone who sees her goes running because of her reputation as a witch

NEW CHARACTERS:

Peaches

Welcome to the Neighborhood

FOCUS CHARACTER:

Happy

The Gloom’s prey on his desire for neighbors and general open and welcomeness to get into the 7D mine

LORE:

Because of the threat of the Glooms, the 7D blindfold all visitors to the mine to keep the entrance a secret

A dragon lives in the depths of the 7D mine, where they dump their rubbish

The Rock of Sages

Looks very different from and contradicts the lore shared in the episode ‘The Rock of Sages’

Could be seen as a false ‘Rock of Sages’ with a false lore, spread to keep people from discovering the truth of and putting back together the real rock

CONFLICT:

The Glooms pretend to be new dwarf neighbors to get in the 7D’s mine so that they can find the Rock of Sages.

LOCATIONS:

Jollywood

The 7D’s cottage

The 7D’s mine

CHARACTERIZATION:

Happy

Has always wanted next-door neighbors

The 7D

Their ‘nice clothes’ are lederhosen and clogs

Prior to the episode ‘Rock of Sages’, they had never heard of it

Bashful

Due to his shyness, his reaction to people visiting is to pop out and surprise them

Grumpy

His hobbies include sewing, cheese eating, & wrestling

Dopey

Does a ‘bear in the hat’ or ‘skunk in the hat’ trick for all visitors

NEW CHARACTERS:

n/a

#the 7d #i didn't include some more obvious characteriztion things #like basic personalities #or the pickle things #im mainly marking down character traits and quirks that i wasnt already aware of #that might be fun to play with

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tsukuyomiland · 2 years

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My favorite games from my childhood to today:

-Tetris

-Altered Beasts (well, more like the alternative lore I made based on it)

-Ugh

-Eternal Champions (the designs were cool)

-Link's Awakening (my first Zelda from when I didn't even know what a Zelda is)

-Super Mario Land (the Mario I have played the most in my life)

-Tomb Raider (all of them)

-Theme Hospital

-Resident Evil 1-2

-Final Fantasy VII to IX

-Silent Hill (1-4)

-Dino Crisis

- Galerians

-Chocobo Racing

-Tekken (2-3)

-Parappa the Rapper

-UM Jammer Lammy

-Bust a Move 3 DX- 4

-Bust a Groove

-Beatmania (most of them)

-Chrono Cross

-Ocarina of Time

-Project Zero (1-3)

-Kingdom Hearts (the first one, the only one I liked)

-Odin Sphere

-Katamari (all of them)

-Arc the Lad Twilight of the Spirits

-Mario Kart DS

-Chocobo Tales

-Resident Evil Revelations

-Kid Icarus Uprising

-Resident Evil Remake

-Wario Ware

-Wind Waker

-Hyrule Warriors

-Pikmin 3

- Twilight Princess

-Octopath Traveler

-Triangle Strategy

-Tetris 99

#Tetris alpha and omega

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okay but can i have a rundown of the cyscara aus. please

// this is going by the order they're in in the masterpost //

1: cyrille and scara go say hi to some family. it goes well but then once they get home it doesnt. 2: superhero au where chero gets to be the villain(he hasnt been properly introduced yet) and also all of teytroplis thinks scara and cy are dating right now 3: first au we ever wrote (35k words) which isnt entirely cyscara centric. mainly flower found family (chero,sakura,cyrille,scara) and i dont like it very much bc i was still properly developing chero at this time so there's a lot of shit in there thats inaccurate now. 4: divergent au where the whole rhea separation bing bang didnt happen. cyrille takes haypasia's place, and scara is the only scara. realm gang still exist but they interfere before scara becomes wanderer 5: heavenblossom featured. leia's god form is minimum 985 feet tall. sakura is 4'10. imagine leia holding tiny sakura in hand. very adorb. now transfer that to cyscara 6: ROLE REVERSAL. scara's the follower and cyrille's the god. i love this one alot 7: au where cyscara pulls up to an orphanage (ft the realmkids except they're normal. except chero he still has that weird glass allergy) and cyrille gets a lot of ptsd 8: witch au where cyrille and chero like. bind souls so chero has to do everything cyrille says or he gets glass burned onto him. really angsty. 9: coffee shop au. cyrille works at shop, scara is a tired college student studying music/a music producer. bonus, its a cat cafe. 10: vampire au featuring kazuwander and two random lesbian npcs. cyrille's car "randomly busts" so he has to stay with this mansion of rich people. plot twist: the rich people are all vampires 11: mer au 1, the one i mentioned previously. scara's a pirate and his crew nabs cyrille the mer (to both of their dismay) and currently rhea's the main obstacle because chero kidnapped her son (xaviero) so now she's gonna wipe half the ocean 12: mer au 2, scara's the mer (he's a purple betta fish variation) and cyrille works at one of those marine rehab centers. scara gets harpooned and ends up there. cy just got fucking traumatized by rhea though 13: au based on baldis basics/fundamental paper education. cyrille is a bit younger and scara is actually much closer to losing it 14: the one I wrote by myself, haunted bookstore au. scara's a ghost, so are the other 4 rhea kids (chaviero are the only ones prominent). rhea's killed them. cyrille works at said bookstore and is now getting dragged into helping these dumbass ghosts out rhea so they can move on to the afterlife 15: pocket scara. no need for further explanation.

these are the ones that all have writing in them. the ones that dont are:

hanahaki, both cyrille and scara versions teylantis, where both of them are mer fisherman au, where cyrille accidentally fishes up mer-scara vampire scara, but it follows the canon rp lore amensia au where cyrille just FORGORS a lot of stuff little red hunter, where chero's an evil little red riding hood, scaras a wolf, and cyrille gets to be the guy with a gun

and thats all of them i think!

#scara kinnie moment #yapping tag #i spent like 20 mins writing this help.

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What's that root got to do with your brand of Lore and how is that thing relevant? I'm curious!

ppl have been asking me to explain this so here's surface-level facts off the top of my head

fallout 4 textually says that the art deco faces are from an ancient alien precursor race that can give people magic powers yes really & ties Dunwich to this imagery

tanagra town is a location in 76 that has been raised into the sky by overgrowing roots, with raised precursor architecture at the core

the roots can be seen in lesser examples ripping apart architecture and natural beauty across the map

the moth cult flock to the roots and make altars out of them, especially in places where they have overtaken architecture

the point lookout ug-qualtoth cultists make similar altars.

blackhall manor is basically encased in vines, like the cult manors in 76

the interloper is some kind of unthinkable catatonic failed root body that psychically called a cultist to a precursor chamber and consumed him

the 5 precursor faces in this room might parallel the 5 skulls on the back of the ug-qualtoth spire

the visitor is another failed plant body in a chamber over a communist ghoul castle in the middle of a subterranean radioactive lake of rocket fuel

the enclave studied this root, identifiable by sprawling viscera and "hand"-like growths, and found that scientists who handled it all heard otherworldly voices. this sample is visibly the same plant as the visitor and was acquired at tanagra town

there's an enclave field research lab where a scientist named wolf apparently killed himself and his comrades in a fit that challenged his motor skils because he felt he needed to destroy their research

the strangler heart is a plant-based boss in 76 that is served by plant-infested ghouls, a grafton monster, and mirelurks, and overlaps a lot of strange lore in a way that requires its own post

wastelanders update put a precursor face under crater & there's a huge root/cult site not far away. the raiders mention that the moth cult consider their settlement "holy land" and want it for themselves.

the city of crater is BOMB-01 from van buren. concept art confirms this was intentional. another large piece of debris from it fell in the jungle, and the entire area immediately downriver of it is overrun with strangler vines.

most content updates add a new root site somewhere important

moth cultists seem to kill themselves near Pylon V-13, a busted portal where greebly escaped this timeline. greeble is a character mentioned in the promotional materials for Project V-13, the cancelled Fallout MMO by Interplay. some scientists moved into the pylon to study the portal and were unceremoniously killed and left where they fell.

there's 2 talking spore plants in fo2, iirc

the courier's grave whispers to them. the courier is immune to spore plants.

jackal gang members and mantises both feed human meat to the v22 plants, which ignore ghouls

update: in night of the moth, The Enlightened combat the vines, which directly infest their altars.

The Enlightened have left an offering bowl containing one of every produce item for mothman, except for the strangler pod, which has actually grown up through the bowl, apparently uninvited

The red moth cult were given adamowicz's extended treeminder designs as outfits. it's worth noting that Harold's heart looks a lot like the interloper.

it's my current interpretation that This Thing is some kind of powerfully psychic plant mutant pretending to be one of the absent precursor gods Lorenzo communes with

whatever this thing is, i'm pretty sure it's also "Bob", Harold's name for his tree, which speaks in a voice only he can hear

#x #flora #qualtoth #76 #lore #suicide t #v13

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scabopolis · 3 years

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lv au week, day 2: super heroes

Title: superbloom Fandom: Veronica Mars Rating: PG-13 for content, R for swears (Veronica writes in her feelings journal and really lets those swears go) Pairing: Logan Echolls/Veronica Mars Other Characters: Mentions of Mac and Meg Additional Tags: Secret identity (again?! what?), unnecessary epistolary literature (does a journal count as epistolary?), half-baked world building, a vague understanding of superhero lore Word Count: ~1,075 Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4 | Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7

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Again, written solely because @cubbiegirl and @marshmellowbobcat are earth angels. I even added a title this time so that MB doesn’t have to come up with one.

Why did I write this as Veronica’s journal? Mostly because it’s a style which seems to be a fanfic right of passage and I haven’t tried it so...here we are.

I probably owe a lot to other superhero universes and their world building (as in, referring to them as ‘supers’ ala The Incredibles). What are the full extent of Logan and Veronica’s powers? *shrug emoji*

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Date: February 15 Tracked a low-level Kane agent to a tourist trap bistro in downtown San Diego. Place was packed. Is this the new thing? Shitty men forget to make Valentine’s Day reservations, so they make them for the day after?

Thought I had the guy but when I mistimed my pulse he metamorphosed into a cockroach and scurried away.

Best part of the night was the chocolate mousse I got to-go. Despite appearances within, the food wasn’t too bad.

Date: February 17 Caught up to Cockroach. Real name is Abel Koontz. Slimy guy tried to escape again, but Mac outfitted me with a souped up Morph Choke as backup — emphasis on the choke. Gonna need to recalibrate that a bit, Mackenzie.

Bonus! Forgot it was laundry day, so had to wear my backup uni. Next time I run into Meg out in the field I’ll have to ask her if she can see my underwear through it.

Date: February 18 Finally got around to watching season two of The Boys. Where do they get this shit?

If Piznarski brings up forming some sort of super team for the 7-millionth time at the summit this year, I’m siccing Clayton on him.

Date: February 21 Got into a fight with Mac. Technically my fault.

I faded while in public, and look, I get it.

Being detected while living as my alter would be bad. BUT!! Being forced to interact with my ex as he is on a date with a woman who legitimately looks like she could be my doppelganger is very bad.

Date: February 22 Clarified with Mac: me fading in public did not worry her. Me tripping Leo on purpose as I faded was apparently a problem.

Date: February 24 Cockroach stood me up.

Date: February 25 For all that is good and holy if another fucking cocky cowboy of a super moves to Neptune, I am going to lose my shit. This newest one? Got in my way as I attempted to track Kane, Jr into a warehouse. Fucking Smirky McCowboy stepped in my way and assured me I didn’t want to follow. Something about a dozen armed guards with guns aimed at the door. MAYBE THAT WAS MY PLAN!

(Because, of course the guy ripped a powers page right out of Superman’s book and has x-ray vision.)

(And, his uni? Not hard to tell when a super has money. They’re always the worst.)

Date: February 28 Ran into Smirky McCowboy again. This time outside of a poker game hosted by a real estate developer with connections to Kane. Smirky said it was a coincidence.

Still no sign of Cockroach.

Date: March 2 FUCKING HELL. He beat me to it. AGAIN! How is he doing this?

Date: March 4 Smirky’s name is apparently Logan. Which I learned because I was getting coffee at Willow Grove (just minding my business while covertly eavesdropping on previously mentioned real estate developer) when some guy sat at my table. Unprompted. Uninvited. UNWELCOME.

Mask or no mask, THAT SMIRK.

The more concerning thing is that his x-ray vision apparently sees through the skeletal enhancements Mac wired into my mask, meaning he ID’d me right away.

Date: March 5 Why do they keep coming here? Doesn’t New York have more crime? Go there!

Mac says it’s my fault for busting the Fitzpatricks, outing Kane as the sociopath he is, and helping all those kids find their lost dogs.

Okay, she only mentioned the first two, but I think the third has value.

The point is! these hangers-on need to find their own territory.

Date: March 6 Mac traced at least 70 arrests to Smirky in the Los Angeles area alone. I hate him.

Date: March 10 If he scoops another one of my cases…

Date: March 11 He calls me Supergirl.

He calls me Supergirl and I want to punch him.

Mac says Cockroach’s tracker is still active but the signal is being blocked.

Date: March 13 Saw Meg today. She took down her own parents. Fucking savage. God, I love her. She flew me up to American Plaza and we drank champagne to celebrate.

Oh! And good news! She says my backup uni isn’t see through.

Date: March 13 Woke up with this terrifying thought: can smirky see through my uni?

He wouldn’t...right? I mean...he’s an asshole but I don’t think he’s a creep.

Date: March 16 I punched him.

Not for the underwear thing! He swears he’s never looked and I weirdly believe him.

And I didn’t punch him as much as he walked into a pulse. Yes, fine.

I maybe purposefully put up the pulse to see if his x-ray vision could detect it. But I didn’t tell him to walk into it.

(He can’t detect it, btw. I did it a second time just to be sure.)

Date: March 18 Found Cockroach. Or, I guess I should say Koontz. He washed up on Dog Beach as his alter.

Mac said it could be a coincidence but we both know that’s not true.

Date: March 19 Did I do this? Did I get Cockroach killed?

Date: March 19 Logan has very good alcohol.

Date: March 20 Hangovers. Bad.

Date: March 20 Logan makes very good pancakes.

Date: March 21 Logan has seen me drunk, which means Logan must be destroyed.

Date: March 22 In a certain light, the smirk isn’t so bad.

Date: March 23 Oh god.

Date: March 24 Oh god.

Do I like him?

Date: March 25 I hate myself. I’m a giant cliché. I apologize to all women supers everywhere.

Logan swears he can’t see past the new enhancements Mac made to my uni.

He also asked me to dinner. Was tempted to 1) fade, and 2) run away, but I did neither.

Date: March 26 Adding insult to injury, Smirky McCowboy really knows how to kiss.

Date: March 27 Mac says I shouldn’t be so hard on myself.

Actually, what she said was that neither he nor I are all that pleasant to be around so we might be meant for each other.

Date: March 28 He really knows how to do some other things, too.

Date: March 29 Logan got me a present: surveillance footage of Kane’s mysterious second-in-command with Koontz the night before he was found.

He’s been upgraded to not the absolute worst.

Date: March 29 To be perfectly clear: we are not a super team.

Date: March 30 Logan and I are on surveillance detail tonight.

Maybe I can convince him to stop for some chocolate mousse.

#lvauweek2021 #vm fanfic #lv fanfic #logan x veronica #veronica mars #logan echolls #never stories #otp: the one person #p: logan x veronica #cubbiegirl #marshmellowbobcat #a title AND a read more?#she's learning!#by far the silliest thing I have ever written.#BY FAR

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so, y'know how jellyfish was dropping lore in the form of dialogue in the last week of the countdown before the original neo 3.0 release date? now that 3.0 is actually out, here's the idea i have so far of what is going on in that dialogue.

TIME: WEEK 2, DURING SOUTH AND SPOOKEZ

LOCATION: OFFSTAGE, MOST LIKELY HIDDEN

Speaker: Definitely Monster. In the dialogue before "Hallucination" in Week 5, he says, "I want to protect you." and "You don't want to end up like me, right son?"

"Boys...!?!"

~ "YES SIR?!"

"Find him... track him down... put him with the resistance leader, the simulation chamber is the safest place for him..."

~ "But sir-"

"GO"

Speakers: Possibly Tankman, and the group shown with him (Fever, Pico, Whitty) in the Funkin' Forward trailer. I say possibly because Tankman could be the mentioned resistance leader instead, leaving the text I've color-coded in blue to probably be someone in the group. Either way, this is them. The "simulation chamber" mentioned is shown in the cutscene that most likely foreshadows Week 6, and replaces Hating Simulator in Neo.

Speaker: Pico. You meet him in an alleyway after Week 2, and he was probably supposed to wait there to get you.

"Why are we in this smelly crowd again?"

~ "We're just here to make sure the boss makes it through properly... he busts in and and we dip."

"This is stupid..."

Speakers: Could be Pico and Whitty, based on the dialogue at the end of Week 3, or someone/two else from the team of 4 in the Funkin' Forward. Either way, I'm thinking the "smelly crowd" is the crowd of Spookeez' show, and the speakers are hiding in there.

Speakers: Don't know, but this is definitely simultaneous with the cutscene before "Illusion" because of the "*glass breaking* / *crowd screaming*" part. In that cutscene, there's a crash and the crowd runs out in a panic, before Monster shows up. From the way this person speaks, I don't think they're Monster- maybe someone from the group trying to take action, and when they do you don't see because you're stuck in the Monster's illusion?

What's Going On?

While BF is rapping/arguing with the Spookeez in Week 2, the countdown dialogue takes place nearby.

Monster finds that BF is there, and somehow realizes that this is his son. He sets off to "protect" him.

Meanwhile, the "resistance" moves to keep BF safe and distanced from Monster. Pico is positioned in the Week 3 alleyway. Two people from the team of him, Whitty, Fever, and Tankman sneak through the crowd to keep an eye on the plan.

Monster crashes onto the stage, causing the crowd (+ Skid and Pump) to scatter, and trapping BF in an illusion. The resistance team puts their plan, whatever it is, into motion. After BF snaps out of it, he runs off with GF to the alleyway, leading us to Week 3.

Links to Jelly's Tweets

[ 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 ]

#friday night funkin #fnf #fridaynightfunkin #fnf neo mod #friday night funkin neo #fnf neo

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ask-the-utanes · 3 years

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Read First: Lore and stuff

This blog is run by @whimsycreator!

The lore is of my Synth fanfiction, Symphony Saga Resonate.

The world they live in is called Whimsica.

The universe itself is a whimsical magical cartoon fantasy AU with original characters as well as Synths, that gets weirdly heavy at times, but the Power of Friendship always manages to save the day… usually. Humor sprinkled in. Magical girls/boys/enbys as well. Some angst. Fluff. Gag humor. Epic fantasy. Adventure. School life. Lots of headcanons. Lore. Backstories. Partly inspired by dreams I have at night. TONS of characters.

The Utanes are all androids. None of the other main characters are androids in this universe, save a few, such as SF-A2 Miki.

Everyone in the Utane family has a huge appetite (especially for rice dishes,) is chaotic, and swears a hell of a lot. Even Koe.

The whole Utane family used to be combat androids on a planet called Discord, along with thousands of others. Discord is a bleak planet where music is banned.

Discord was at war with the dark planet, Monochrome, and created androids to use to fight the battles against Monochrome. The androids have a horrible life being treated like machinery.

Uta was considerably more sentient than the rest of the androids, who were unable to act on emotions, but were still suffering. She fled to a better planet known as Whimsica because she hated fighting in a war and living life as nothing more than a machine. On Whimsica, Uta hears music for the first time and now has a dream to sing. However, the voice she was given was never programmed to be able to sing.

It was difficult, but eventually Uta practices and learns, against all odds. At one point, Uta is taken back to the planet Discord by her creators, along with her friends who they think are responsible for “taking Uta away from Discord.”

So Uta, with newfound confidence, busts out with her combat powers, and uses them against the aliens that created her. She then uses a power that is foreign to the aliens on Discord—music! She sings a magical song to save her friends, and defeat the aliens who created her.

Uta frees all the other androids this way, and now they can feel emotions and be free.

Three other androids who admired Uta greatly for this decided they wanted to be her siblings, and wanted to stick together from now on…

From then on, they were family.

Read the first two chapters of Utane Family Antics to read this in full. (I’m currently rewriting it BECAUSE IT SUCKS.)

Here is the entire Symphony Saga: Resonate Outline/Timeline

Lore about the androids

The Utane family are all very realistic human like and well-made androids.

Their ages are their actual ages. Uta has indeed been alive for 14 years. She and all other androids spent the first 4 years of their lives “developing,” however. They were essentially the android equivalent of a human baby. Afterwards, they start out doing simplest of simple tasks on Discord before moving onto more complex ones.

On Whimsica, androids are sadly a minority. Even though Whimsica seems a perfect and idyllic world, there are still problems that parallel real-life issues. One of them are the fact that androids are prejudiced against. Uta and her family have before faced prejudice for being androids. They look so humanlike that it can be hard to tell at first, but once the fact is revealed, Uta and her family have faced prejudice before.

The oldest of the Discord androids are 20 years old. There are five categories of them.

The reason the android types are all labeled as “default,” is that new models were to be manufactured, but never were.

The five categories and their traits are as follows:

Default female-1 (Defoko)

Uta’s type. This type of android is a true default. They are meant to resemble an the most average kind of average human female in nearly every way. Combat-wise, this android is well-rounded.

Uta is actually a bit petite for an android of her kind. She is just a small girl (and a late bloomer.)

Default female-2 (Defo-Imouto/Defona)

Koe’s type. This type of android is normally small yet chubby. They were build to be speedy and have hyper reflexes, so they need to eat a lot. Yet they burn through their food intake super quickly.

Koe is of average size of an android of her type.

Default male-1 (Defota)

Kanade’s type. This type of android is built for power and stamina, therefore they are large and with a robust physique. With how exceptionally humanoid all Discord androids are, they even have humanlike metabolisms. The default male 1 metabolism is meant to store a lot of muscle and fat.

Kanade is even on the large side for an android of his type. He is just a big guy.

Default male-2 (Defosuke)

Hibiki’s type. This type of android is tall and lean. Built for power, but also speed and dynamics. Well-rounded, a bit like female 1, but with a bit more strength.

Hibiki is average in size for an android his type. However, due to a fault in one of his artificial organs, he is essentially diabetic.

Default female-3 (Defomi)

This type of android tends to be tall with a muscular figure. Built for sheer power. This is the only kind of android not in the Utane family… yet.

Despite being well-made androids, the Utane family can be quite glitchy.

Glitches:

-Emitting various computer sounds when feeling strong emotions

-Voice-glitching. This is almost like nervous stuttering, but sounds like audio lag or corrupted noise.

-Overheating when overworked.

-The family sometimes develops system “bugs” which are equivalent to human illnesses. They can range from common and mild, to chronic and serious, to rare and life-threatening.

A feature (albeit not a glitch) in the androids, is that their emotions can be read in their pupils. Their pupils can turn into various emojis!

Profiles

Uta Utane Nicknamed Defoko. A default female 1 android. 14 years old. Wisecracking, quiet, and seems stoic, but is caring about her friends and family. Can be snarky and sarcastic, has a dry sense of charisma, but is shy and extremely awkward around strangers. Gets embarrassed easily, but has a great poker face. Something of a brave badass. Is however like a wilting flower when it comes to social interactions. Uta has a love of competitive gaming, music, advanced computer coding, and anything that requires techniques that can be redefined and brought closer to perfection upon hours of painstaking trial and error. She is known to have an amazing amount of focus. Uta is a lover of music and a prodigy. Uta is in 9th grade. In this universe, 9th and 10th graders share classes. Her best friends and peers at school are Teto Kasane, Momo Momone, Taya Soune, Ritsu Namine, and Ruko Yokune. Uta is pansexual, demiromantic. She has budding feelings for Taya Soune, who is non-binary trans-masculine. Uta has a small, slim physique and is a mezzo-soprano.

Koe Utane Nicknamed Defo-Imouto. A default female 2 android. 12 years old. Fluffy and sweet. However, quite feral and prone to outbursts and being a gremlin. Koe is really sensitive, spontaneous, and emotional, contrasting with Uta’s more chill personality. But Koe is a badass who will defend her family from anything. Koe actually becomes more powerful when she cries. Like Uta, Koe can be awkward in social situations with strangers. Koe is also very precocious and hates being treated like a child. The rest of the family is very protective over Koe, often treating her as a child younger than twelve. She hates this. Koe is in 7th grade. In this universe, 7th and 8th graders share classes. Her best friends and peers at school are Nana Haruka, Hime Meika, and Mikoto Meika. Koe is an asexual lesbian who has budding feelings for Nana Haruka, a trans lesbian. Koe has a small physique, shorter than Uta, but with a bit of roundness. She is a soprano.

Hibiki Utane Nicknamed Defosuke. A default male 2 android. 16 years old. Gifted when it comes to academics, physics, astronomy. He’s also the most outgoing, probably. But he’s also the chaotic stupid one, unfortunately, as in he’s the one most likely in the family to do and say the stupid things. The butt-monkey. Despite his chill vibes, Hibiki is a hard worker who likes studying, and likes being energetic. One of his hobbies is playing tennis. Overall a friendly guy. He is quite social, unlike Uta. He has trouble showing his true emotions at times, which is unlike Koe, but is in common with Uta. Hibiki is in 11th grade. In this universe, 11th and 12th graders share classes. His best friends and peers at school are Sayu Yurika, Shuu Mawarine, Sora Suiga, and Koto Fuuga. Hibiki is panromanric, asexual. He has budding feelings for Sayu Yurika, who is bisexual (and biromantic.) Hibiki has an average physique, and somewhat tall height. He is a tenor. Despite being an android, he is essentially diabetic as well.

Kanade Utane Nicknamed Defota. A default male 1 android. 18 years old. Kanade is the mature one in the family who is in charge of cooking most meals. He is quite shy, but can get really serious at times. He’s quiet with people he doesn’t know. His bond with his siblings is very important to him. Kanade expresses his emotions clear on his face and with his actions. He is a pianist as well as a singer. Kanade is both emotional and outgoing. Kanade is in college year 1. In this universe, college years 1 and 2 share classes. His best friends and peers at school are Momotaro Momone, Maiko Hakaine, and Mirai Komachi. Kanade is bisexual, biromantic. He has budding feelings for Momotaro Momone, who is gay and confused (and also identifies as abrosexual.) Kanade has a tall, broad physique. He is a baritone.

Backstories + Eventually

Uta’s trigger is daruma dolls. (A traditional Japanese decoration/toy.) The reason I chose this to be a trigger of Uta’s, is because on her official character profile, it was listed something she disliked. On another translated page I visited, it was actually listed as Uta’s “trauma.”

I ended up making a backstory as to why Uta is triggered by daruma dolls.

It turns out Uta’s trigger of daruma dolls has to do with a traumatic memory from her past.

Back when Uta still was a combat android on Discord, before she fled, she and a team of other combat androids were in a traumatic battle with a tremendous monster shaped like a daruma doll. The monster was ultra-powerful and seemed to never tire out. Just like a real daruma doll, it would always get back up, no matter what pushed it down.

Many of the other androids succumbed to their battle wounds, or used up all their power and were wiped out, and could never be brought back. The monster was eventually defeated, but not without a substantial amount of androids never returning to life. Uta was one of the lucky ones involved in the battle who survived.

Needless to say, Uta was incredibly traumatized. However, her feelings were never validated since she was treated as a machine. Also, even though the other androids didn’t have quite the same emotional capabilities, she could tell they were very traumatized too, and felt awful for them as well.

Now, I would like references made to Uta’s trigger to NOT be joking in nature. Triggers are very serious and real. Even though Uta’s trigger is seemingly random and/or “quirky,” and she is just fictional, it does not erase the fact that it would be in bad taste to mock it. Thanks for understanding.

Uta and all her siblings were involved with the fateful, tragic battle with the nightmarish daruma monster in different ways. Uta was one of the androids at the front of the line in the combat, wearing but loose armor to keep her protected. Hibiki was called in piloting armed spacecraft when it became critical. Kanade was behind the scenes, programming defenses, such as laser cannons and protective shields. Koe was a bit young, but even she was called in as medical/repair. Uta has the most trauma from the battle. None of the siblings like to talk about it.

Kanade has a bit of a backstory involving the piano. When Kanade was younger, around 12 years old, and still a combat android on Discord, he was also responsible for doing tasks such as programming. He was still known as Defota. At the time, he was a bit more sentient than the average discord Android, though not to the extent of Defoko/Uta. Music is banned on planet Discord. One day, as he was typing long strings of data into the computer as usual, he accidentally typed something faulty that triggered an ancient bit of code in the computer system to resurface. The virtual piano. It causes Defota’s keyboard to literally transform into a piano keyboard. He touches the keys, and they make a sound that brings him... joy. Something he’s never felt before. The aliens in charge of the androids hear laughter and badly-played music notes coming from the programming room, and discover Defota, and also that the virtual piano code still exists in the computer system. They punish Defota, and make sure the virtual piano can never be accessed again. Defota feels immense sadness and loss that he can never hear those sounds again, and nobody explains why he was punished or what they were. But he always remembers the experience and what it felt like. One thing he also remembers, was the word “Kanade” written on the virtual keyboard. He never forgets the word. He holds it dear to his heart.

A default female-3 android joins the family as a cousin. Her name is Mai and she is 20 years old. Her name means “Dance.”

A human man in his late forties eventually becomes the Utanes’ father. He is a widower and was very lonely. He had always wanted children. He was always interested in robotics as well.

Other characters in this universe

You are allowed to send them asks on special days.

(Note: For Chipspeech, which has canon lore, this is an AU)

DESCRIPTIONS + more characters possibly COMING SOON

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Haku Yowane Neru Akita Luka Megurine Miku Hatsune Teto Kasane Momo Momone Taya Soune Ritsu Namine Ruko Yokune Nana Haruka Hime Meika Mikoto Meika Sayu Yurika Shuu Mawarine Sora Suiga Koto Fuuga Kaito Shion Akaito Shion Mako Nagone Luna Amane Yowa Shion Dandy 704 Cider Dee Klatt Bert Gotrax Rotten.ST Momotaro Momone Maiko Hakaine Mirai Komachi Lady Parsec Kiyoteru Hiyama

#Uta utane #utane uta #defoko #utau #vocaloid #utane family #read first #lore #utane siblings #Uta #koe #kanade #hibiki #koe utane #utane koe #itadaki defota #defosuke

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Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero

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I guess I should provide my hottt takes on the new DBS movie. A few days ago, they did this video for Comic Con announcing the title of the movie and teasing some details about the story.

I gotta say, this is exactly why I’ve never had any interest in Comic Con. They put this on YouTube, I guess because of the pandemic, but any other year they would have gathered an enormous crowd and made them stand in line for hours to watch all of this in person. I live in the Midwest, and when I went to comic book conventions it was for the sole purpose of rummaging through back issue bins. SDCC was always promoted like the biggest and most important convention in the U.S., but all I ever heard about it were trailers for movies and TV shows. Or, like, you had to go to Comic Con because that was the only way to get an exclusive Orange Lantern Hal Jordan action figure or something. They would always hype up all of this useless stuff and I just never heard of anything so important that I was willing to fly out to San Diego and stand in line for three hours for it. So now SDCC peels back the curtain with this video, about something I’m fairly interested in, but it’s really not that big a deal. I found out most of the information on Twitter before I even knew to watch this video.

But I’m just not that hyped about trailers or sneak peaks or sneak peaks at trailers. Which is probably why I waited this long to talk about it.

I’ll just go through the video. The first four minutes are Hironobu Kageyama performing “Cha La HEAD Cha La” live on the stage. That’s a pretty epic way to open this, but I feel like it oversells the importance of this event. You finish watching him and you think you’re about to see the movie itself, instead of hearing from the people who made it.

Next we have Sascha, the host of this panel. He speaks better English than I do, but I’m not sure what the point was in having any of this in English since he has to talk to the guests in Japanese. Pretty much all of the important information in this video is in Japanese, and I think everyone understood that going in. I guess it does give an international feel. If I spoke another language as fluently as Sascha, I’d want to show it off too.

4:56 is where Masako Nozawa comes out, and she’s just a joy to watch. She looks like this sweet grandmotherly figure, all warm smiles and then she busts out “Ossu! Ora Goku!” and immediately sounds like a badass.

Guest #2 is Akio Iyoku, Toriyama’s editor. Not to be confused with the awesome editor who poo-pooed all the androids and Cell’s semiperfect form. That was Yu Kondo. Iyoku comes out dressed like Goku, but he can’t talk like him so he’s immediately second-tier.

Guest #3 is Norohiro Hayashida, Producer from Toei Anaimation. He is also rocking the Goku cosplay, which would be a faux pas in most fandoms, but he can just say that he’s cosplaying as Krillin or Yamcha, which gives him greater nerd credibility because those are more obscure references.

Around 8:30 we really start getting into this, and they show us a model sheet of Piccolo. Is Piccolo being in the new movie a big surprise? He had a dry spell in the mid-90s, but he’s been in every Dragon Ball movie made in this century so far. And it’s not like they changed his look, like when they put Goku and Vegeta in those adorable coats last time. I’m not complaining about any of this. It’s nice to see that a) Piccolo is confirmed for new movie and b) they didn’t tinker with his appearance.

All I’m saying is that they only brought up this model sheet to show off how they’re using his color scheme from the manga as opposed to the anime. Hence the red belt and the yellower arm sections. In the anime, the belt was always blue, and his biceps were hot pink instead of off-yellow. But it’s such a subtle thing that even Sascha didn’t pick up on it. It’s like they were hyping up the fact that it’s such a minor change. I like it, don’t get me wrong, but it’s a weird flex. Also, he looks like he still has his five-fingered anime hands, so I’m not that impressed. Give us four fingers, Toei!

Sascha asks Masako Nozawa what she thinks about Piccolo and she just starts off with “He was Gohan’s teacher,” and talks about how strong and cool he looks. She speaks of him like he’s a family member, because she’s awesome.

Next up, we have Pan, and now we’re talking. The scuttlebutt is that this was the character Toriyama was referring to when he spoke of an “unexpected character”. And I guess Pan fits the bill, since I don’t think anyone expected her to be this old in the movie. I understand this is her kindergarten uniform, so she’d have to be about five or six years old. I love Masako Nozawa’s reaction here. Throughout this video, you can see that Goku and Gohan aren’t just roles to her.

I’ll put on my fanboy hat here and point out that Pan’s age may imply that this movie takes place after the final episode of Dragon Ball Z. She looks older here than she did when she fought Wild Tiger, at any rate. So far, the entire Dragon Ball Super franchise has been set during the ten-year gap between the Buu crisis and the finale of Z. So everyone has been wondering if DBS would move beyond End of Z, or whether Akira Toriyama even still recognizes the continuity of those final chapters. They were supposed to be ten years of peace, but all the battles in DBS say otherwise. Also, I’m pretty sure Pan and Bulla’s ages in the DBZ finale don’t line up well with their appearances in Super, but I’ve never studied it very closely.

So this might be set post End of Z, or this might be Toriyama retconning End of Z altogether. I’m interested to see which way this goes.

Here’s Krillin, still working for the police, although his uniform looks more like Bronze Age Lex Luthor than anything else. Like Piccolo, the “big” story here is that he’s been tweaked to resemble the coloring in the manga, so his sclera are now white instead of fleshtoned.

Never mind that, here’s Piccolo’s house. This is probably the breakout star of this video, because I think everybody is excited to see Piccolo’s house. Because it’s new lore! No one even knew if he had one or not. It was a running gag in DBZ Abridged that he was homeless. I mean, congratulations to Krillin for getting his eyes colored in right, but that doesn’t tell me anything new about the character. But Piccolo’s house is a big friggin’ deal. What’s inside of there? What’s on the second floor? Check out his mailbox. What kind of mail does he get? It’s exciting.

Nozawa even points out that she and her co-workers would talk about this sort of thing in the recording studio. That’s a big deal to me, that the voice actors think about the same kind of stuff that I do as a fan.

Around 15:30, they start talking about Toriyama’s commitment to the making of this movie, which seems like a weird thing to focus on, because he wrote the screenplay to the last two movies. Did anyone think he was stepping back? I get the impression that there’s still some hard feelings about the failure of Dragon Ball Evolution, in the sense that they want to reassure everyone that we’re still in good hands. I suppose one of these days, Toriyama won’t be as heavily involved in a project like this, so maybe it makes sense for Toei and Shueisha to make it clear that today is not that day.

On the other hand, Toriyama was just as involved with Broly as he was with Resurrection F, and Broly was a much better film. The Dragon Ball Super manga seems to have revived the old argument over who’s to blame when the story is a letdown, and I think that misses the point. Look, the Zamasu arc sucked, and I don’t care who wrote what parts, or whether Toriyama had a bad idea or whether he handed a good idea off that was badly executed. They can hash that out behind the scenes if they want to.

About 19 minutes in, they show us this model sheet, and refuse to explain who these guys are or what they’re doing in the movie. Are they villains? Who knows? I’d like to think they’re important characters to the story, but I have my doubts that Krillin will have a big part to play.

At 20 minutes, they announce the title of the movie, and I’m not very thrilled with “Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero.” They can talk it up as much as they want, and maybe the title is relevant to the plot, but it’s just too many uses of the word “super”. Especially when they’ve got another series called “Super Dragon Ball Heroes” on YouTube.

Then we get this teaser trailer, or whatever you want to call it, with a CG Goku hopping around and doing his classic fighting pose. Now, for some reason, lots of people concluded that this means the entire movie will be done in this CG style, which has led to a debate over whether or not that’s a good thing. If they can make the whole movie look this slick, then I’m fine with it. Hell, I’m not picky. They could animate the whole thing in Yukio Ebisawa style, and I’d be thrilled.

But I’m not understanding where people got the idea that it’s definitely going to be a 100% CGI movie. They never spell that out in this video, and they even go out of their way to admit that this shot of Goku isn’t actually from the movie. So is there some other source people are referring to, or did everyone just jump to conclusions?

And that’s pretty much it. I don’t mean to sound negative on this panel, but I don’t feel like they revealed very much, unless this is actually going to turn out to be Piccolo and Pan having an adventure by themselves. I think Toei could make a movie like that and it would be a success, but I have my doubts that they’d go in that direction. If this is going to turn out to be another big slugfest with Vegeta, then I’m down for that too, but don’t show me Piccolo’s house if the movie’s going to be about Vegeta punching a guy.

Bottom line: I’m still looking forward to this, but I don’t feel like I know much more about the movie than I did before. Well, except for the part about Piccolo’s house. I’m looking forward to seeing the inside of it.

#dragon ball #dragon ball super super heroes #piccolo #pan #krillin #goku

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zaph1337 · 3 years

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Monster Hunter Rating 28: Lao-Shan Lung, the Old Mountain Dragon

Welp. I knew I’d get here eventually, but I spent almost the entirety of this project thinking that I would talk about a different monster of this caliber. If you’re unfamiliar with Monster Hunter, you might be confused as to why I seem so trepidatious about this. I mean, I’ve already covered Rathalos--the big cheese of Monster Hunter! What could be a bigger deal than that? Well, back when I was talking about Diablos, I mentioned that the only monsters it wouldn’t attack were things called Elder Dragons, which, by the way, are some of the only monsters that have a good chance of killing a Rath(ian/alos) in a 1-on-1 brawl (though I didn’t mention that during the last two reviews). It’s finally time I talk about why.

Elder Dragons aren’t just “dragons that are really old”; in fact, they don’t have to be dragons at all. Elder Dragons can look like they belong in a different group, but there’s one reason they aren’t: power. Now, saying that something shouldn’t be in a biological taxa just because it’s stronger than what’s currently in that taxa may seem stupid, but let me put it this way: saying that an Elder Dragon should be in a mundane category is like saying that the Greek gods should be classified as hominids because most of them look exactly like humans. It doesn’t work like that. They’re in a completely different league than we are, and the same goes for Elder Dragons and mundane monsters.

Elder Dragons are like forces of nature made flesh; some have been compared to gods, while others have been viewed as living natural disasters due to the destruction they can bring, if they so choose. And the scary part is, some of them do. Behold the Old Mountain Dragon, Lao-Shan Lung!

(How it appears in Monster Hunter 1)

(How it appears in Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate)

(How it appears in Monster Hunter Online)

Appearance: Lao-Shan Lung is fairly simple, design-wise: it’s a brown, quadrupedal, wingless dragon. It’s certainly prickly, though, having sets of sharp scutes on its back, as you can see in the MH1 render. Its head also has a lot of pointy implements, with a serrated nose horn and eight normal horns (at least the wiki says there’s eight, I don’t think I can accurately count them on the renders); it also has some weird-looking teeth-like spikes on its jaws that look like black fangs which erupted out of its face, and I hope for its sake that that’s not what actually happened.

However, what’s easily the most noticeable thing about Lao-Shan Lung is its size. Of all the monsters I previously talked about, Plesioth was the biggest at 127 feet long at its largest. But Lao-Shan Lung isn’t called the “Old Mountain Dragon” for nothing; it’s never been seen at any size smaller than 6960 centimeters...which converts to 228.3 feet long, and the wiki says that they can potentially be 7000 cm or bigger. The wiki also says that they’re 1294 cm (42.5 feet) tall, and considering how long they are, I’m guessing that the height measurement is for when they’re on all fours. In other words, thassa chungy boi. And when you’re looking at something that big, you’re not going to think about how basic its aesthetic is, you’re going to be in awe of the sheer presence it exudes just by existing. Of course, that wouldn’t make up for it looking difficult to take seriously, but it’s a freaking dragon, so of course it makes it work just on concept alone. 7/10.

Behavior: Hoo boy, this is gonna be a long one. The Ecology page for Lao-Shan Lung is longer than those of the previous monsters I’ve reviewed. Pretty weird for something that people don’t know a lot about. We don’t know its main habitat due to the fact that it wanders around a lot, we think that it feeds on ores and other minerals, and it’s believed that the stone-like shell its scutes make up are made from airborne mineral particulates which stuck to and accumulated on its body, a process that would likely have taken about a thousand years. They like to wander, and if anything’s in their way, even if it’s a mountain, they’ll bust it down and keep on moving.

Lao-Shan Lung has been nicknamed “The Walking Natural Disaster” because of the damage it causes just by existing. Its footsteps can cause landslides and shake buildings to the point of causing them to crumble, and like I said, they’ll bulldoze their way through anything in their path, regardless of what it is or who gets hurt. Why go around an obstacle when you can go through it? This is a big reason why Lao-Shan Lung is compared to a natural disaster; it doesn’t try to kill anything, but just like a disaster, it doesn’t care if it does, and even if it did, the very nature of its existence makes it dangerous. It doesn’t even care about people attacking it; it’ll keep on moving and never even try to defend itself. And even when it gets to a fortress in its way, it won’t make an immediate attempt to break it down (at least in Generations Ultimate, based off of the one video I watched on the subject). My guess is that when it does make an attack, it immediately destroys the fort, so the devs made it take so long to actually try to do that to make killing or repelling it before then possible, and they didn’t make it have to constantly attack the fort to break it down to preserve its sense of power; how can you expect it to destroy entire mountains when it can’t destroy one dinky little fortress in one hit?

I believe that the force of nature Lao-Shan Lung embodies is an avalanche, due to its title of “Old Mountain Dragon” and the fact that the threat it poses comes from the fact that once it starts moving, it won’t stop for anything. It crushes and destroys everything in its path not because it wants to, but because that’s just how avalanches work. The only way to stop it is to kill it, or to repel it by making its death an inevitability if it doesn’t go the other way. Obviously you can’t kill a real avalanche, nor can you scare it off, but in terms of Lao-Shan Lung’s attitude towards everything, they’re scarily similar.

But there’s one more lore aspect to Lao-Shan Lung that I want to bring up here: The Five Incident. See, Monster Hunter actually has a reason why there’s a 4-person-limit on Quest parties; according to in-game lore, the chief of a place called Kokoto Village went on a Quest to slay a Lao-Shan Lung with four other hunters--one of them being his fiancée, who wanted the Quest to be her greatest triumph, as well as her last one before she retired. And as any trope-savvy person will tell you, if a part of your story is that you’re one job away from retirement, you’re almost certainly going to die. And she did. The end But after her death, the story of the tragedy spread, and with it, what seemed like a jinx. A disproportionate number of five-person-hunts resulted in at least one person dying. Obviously this is a coincidence, but the Hunter’s Guild was not going to take any chances; they set a limit of four for hunting parties to (hopefully) lower the death toll and out of respect for Kokoto’s chief, who was presumably less than pleased that the death of his beloved was being viewed as the start of a curse. In times of crisis, larger groups can be allowed, but only if there are more than five people involved. And all of this happened because a Lao-Shan Lung couldn’t be bothered to just go around whatever the hunters were keeping it from.

Lao-Shan Lung is interesting because of its impassive nature. It’s not even slightly aggressive, but it’s dangerous to everything around it because it just doesn’t take any notice of the consequences of its actions. It seems like it lives its life ignoring everything that doesn’t present an immediate problem to it, and even when it’s close to death, it doesn’t fight back against the hunters that are killing it, which makes me believe that the Kokoto chief’s fiancée was killed as a consequence of the damage Lao-Shan Lung dealt to the environment around it, not because the monster actively attacked her. In that sense, it really is a natural disaster; it’s never going to make an attempt on your life, but if you’re around it in the first place, then it doesn’t need to. Its presence alone is a weapon of mass destruction. 8/10.

Abilities: Lao-Shan Lung lacks any form of supernatural ability aside from immense strength, and that’s the weakest aspect of it. It only ever relies on its bulk to destroy things, and even then, it only ever tries to deal damage to things that are in its way. Now, normally I’d say that the fact that it doesn’t need to do anything else in order to be one of the most dangerous monsters makes up for that, but like I said before, when it reaches the fortress that you spend the whole hunt trying to prevent it from breaking, it doesn’t break the fortress down right away. It just stands there like an idiot letting you attack it. Again, I know that this was probably a decision the devs made in order to preserve the notion that Lao-Shan Lung can obliterate the fort in a single attack, but in-universe, it’s ridiculous. I know that this is a section on rating abilities and not the fight with the monster itself, but the way the monster uses those abilities is important to informing my opinion on it, and my opinion is that Lao-Shan Lung is a bit of a letdown in this department. 3/10.

Equipment: Despite being a Dragon-element monster with an earthy look, most of Lao-Shan Lung’s weapons are fire themed, even if they’re Dragon-element. An easy example is the Long Sword called the Fire Dragonsword:

This looks sick. I don’t think the tongues of fire make sheathing that thing easy, but they still add a lot to the sword. Something else I noticed is that the tip of the blade looks like someone just took a normal sword and put an orange filter over it, which seems really sloppy until you notice that the sword starts becoming a more vibrant orange starting from the first flame, giving the impression that the sword really was on fire, but it’s been frozen in time, and the sword’s tip still bears the light of the flame’s glow. Of course, that’s just my interpretation. Next up is a Hammer that doesn’t look like they stuck the monster’s head on a stick, the Dragon Destroyer:

This is cool, but as I’m sure you’ve noticed by now, neither of the weapons I’ve shown really look like they were made from Lao-Shan Lung parts. My guess is that that’s because the devs wanted Elder Dragon weapons to look fancy and powerful, and Lao-Shan Lung’s color scheme and design elements would make such weapons just look bland. If that’s true, then they figured out how to make cool looking Lao-Shan Lung weapons that look like Lao-Shan Lung weapons in Generations Ultimate, such as this Switch Axe called Dragon Ripper:

They kept the fiery glow on the blade, but the body of the axe has Lao-Shan Lung’s scales and spines. Don’t know what the rope tie is for, but the weapon still looks cool. As for the armor, there are unfortunately no images for the normal sets on the wiki aside from the ones from MHO, so I hope you don’t mind that I’m using those here. Here’s the Blademaster armor:

...I’m sorry, what does any of this have to do with Lao-Shan Lung? They don’t even look like they’re differently gendered versions of each other! And this isn’t a case of MHO screwing things up; the wiki has an image from Monster Hunter Freedom Unite of a special version of the Lao-Shan Lung armor that appears in that game, and while I didn’t want to show it here because being a different version means it has different colors, both the male and female sets have almost the exact same designs you see above! The dude looks like a samurai wearing a historically-inaccurate Viking helmet, and I don’t even know how to describe the woman. Neither of these look very appealing, either. Is the Gunner armor any better?

No. No, it does not. Looking at this is and thinking about how it’s supposed to be based off of Lao-Shan Lung just makes me angry and confused, so I’m wrapping things up here.

Okay, so obviously the armor sets were real stinkers, but the weapons really helped this section out. I still can’t give it a very high score, but at the very least, I can say it’s above average. 6/10.

Final Thoughts and Tally: I’m...disappointingly lukewarm towards this monster. From a conceptual and lore standpoint, it nails the concept of a sentient disaster, but the fact that it barely does anything in its fight and the sucky armor that really doesn’t say “I killed a dragon bigger than a house to make this” hold it back. Still, the MH design team did a good job at making a monster that introduces you to the power Elder Dragons can possess. Hopefully, it only goes up from here. 6/10.

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kickingitwithkirk · 4 years

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Happy Coincidence Chance Discovery

Pairing: Sam Winchester x Piper, Jared Padalecki x Piper,

Characters: Dean Winchester /Jensen Ackles, mentions of Chad Michael Murray

Word Count:4367

Warnings: cursing, kissing, nudity, implied sex/genital fondling/teasing

*Jared and Jensen are single.

A/N: for @idreamofplaid Thanks for the Memories Challenge #plaid and the memories HAPPY BIRTHDAY JARED🎉

Prompt: Season 11, episode 4, Baby

A/N: Baby is my favorite episode but every time I’ve watched it I kept wondering; Sam’s hook up with Piper the waitress? So this is my fill in that blank with a Jared twist.

Divider: created by @writeyourmindaway

*No beta all mistakes are mine

Dean drives into the parking lot of a roadhouse just after dusk and Sam looks at the marquee shaking his head in disbelief.

“Are you serious? Dean, it's late, I’m exhausted and..and.. and starving. And this place. I mean, even Swayze wouldn't come to this roadhouse.” Sam groused.

“First of all, never use Swayze’s name in vain, okay. Ever.” Dean chastises his brother for such a sacrilege, “Second, you don't remember this place? You don't remember Heather, the hunter we worked the wendigo case a couple years ago?”

“Oh, yeah,” Sam partially smiles, remembering that night of fun.

“Yeah, exactly” Dean taking the same trip down memory lane.

“What, she’s here tonight?” Sam asks, perking up a bit.

“I texted her, she's working a rugaru case in Texas.” Dean says.

“Actually, she never texted me back. That's not the point, the point is that we have a ton of driving left to do just to go to a town where it's not probably a case.” Dean points ahead, “But in there, good times.”

“Uh...” Sam hedges looking at the building.

“But time heals all wounds, especially good times. What do ya say?” Dean looks at his brother hopeful.

“I say... knock yourself out.” Sam answers with his usual reply and Dean looks away, “I'm gonna find a diner and dig into the lore like Cas did, see if anythings ever happened where we’re headed.”

“Ah man, you really got to learn to have fun.” Dean’s reply was full of disappointment in his little brother.

“Seriously. It’s pathetic.”

They both climb out of the Impala. Sam grabs his bag from the backseat and starts walking back towards town as Dean heads into the roadhouse.

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Sam had walked over a mile looking for somewhere to eat. Being Saturday night he thought there’d be more open but that’s small town living, the streets roll up at noon on the weekends.

He was about to give up and hike back to that mom & pop gas station he passed for a microwave burrito, preferably bean to get back at Dean, when he happened upon a small, local place, Mak’s Diner.

Hitching his bag up, he pushed open the door expecting the usual greasy spoon Dean's unerring sense navigates towards and stops just inside the front door.

It was an older establishment, obviously one of those passed down from generation to generation places but to his surprise it was well maintained, despite the C on the marquee being burnt out.

“Evening, have a seat anywhere and I’ll be right with you.” A woman’s voice called out from the kitchen. Sam walked past the counter smiling at only other occupants, an elderly couple having coffee and dessert, heading towards the back where family seating was located.

As he passed the next to last booth he noticed a closed laptop, several open books with notes scrawled around their margins, highlighted paragraphs and a few notebooks scattered on its tabletop.

He dropped the bag on the seat and shed his jacket before sliding into the booth, fishing out his laptop and the legal pad that he had started making more notes on earlier.

“Hey there, what can I get you?”

Picking up the menu laying by his elbow Sam glances through it, “Coffee and the Cobb salad, thanks.” He orders closing the menu and looking up to hand it to the waitress. She is differently not what he would have expected to find in a backwater burg like this one.

Her makeup is understated, nails painted a neutral color and her copper hued hair is pulled back in an elegant chiffon, not a high ponytail or hastily bobby pinned up-do, held in place with a real silver clip, the type that’s handed down as an heirloom.

“Just the Cobb salad?” She asked looking under the tabletop, taking in Sam’s long legs somewhat stretched out under it, boots bumping against the other side of the circular booth. Her blue/grey eyes slowly travel up appraising his body till they meet his.

“Big boys like you need more than a few leafy greens for stamina.”

Sam felt himself blushing like he was seventeen again. Waitresses blatantly flirt with Dean and vice versa all the time so he’s taken aback by this woman's more than blatant appraisal of his physique.

“I, um, yeah, ju..just the salad.” Sam stammers out.

“Okay, be back with that coffee.” Her smiles genuinely, not that faked for the customers sake one he’s used to.

Sam appraises her retreating figure like she did him. She’s not wearing the nurses white or black rubber soled shoes that’s usual waitress gear he’s seen but a brand of tennis shoes he knows are out of the typical income of career restaurant staff.

The fifties style, yellow uniforms color is completely unflattering, not fitting her right, way too tight around her bust and hips and far shorter than it should be, her mile long legs on display.

Sam shifts in his seat and tries to discreetly palm down his spontaneous erection but not so little Sam is putting up a fight, making it known it's been way too long since he’s gotten wet and he wants to enjoy her junoesque attributes.

***

While he is waiting for a page to load Sam hears the elderly couple preparing to leave. He watches as the husband helps his wife into her jacket and gently takes her hand, resting it in the crook of his arm as they slowly make their way to the exit, feeling the pang of loneliness that’s his constant companion.

“Mr. Reynolds’s, hang on a sec,” the waitress calls from the kitchen emerging with a white cake box tied shut, “Auntie wanted me to make sure you got this before leaving. She’s sorry she missed your anniversary party.”

“You tell her we missed her, needs to hurry up and get well.” Mrs. Reynolds remarked as her husband took the box with his free hand. She glanced back towards Sam, “Sweetie, you gonna be okay here with the likes of him?”

Sam kept his expression neutral, waiting to see how this plays out. He knew people found him intimidating because of his size and being a stranger in a small town, he definitely stands out but not many were that blatant about it.

“He ordered a Cobb salad, I think I can handle him,” she jested winking at him.

The couple bid her goodnight and she went back into the kitchen, Sam realizing they were now all alone. Sighing, he starts reading the info again trying to figure out what exactly their hunting is. Or not.

He was so focused on his research like usual he didn’t acknowledge the waitress standing there with his order.

“Kmm hmm,” Sam’s head snapped up, “must be something really good if you don’t notice the likes of me.” She chided him setting down a coffee decanter and cup.

“Sorry, guess I was kinda caught up.” Sam moves the laptop and notepad over as she sets down his salad and two types of dressing. “Figured you might not be a ranch type of guy so I grabbed the vinaigrette too.”

“Thanks, I prefer vinaigrette, don’t usually get offered it.”

“I’m pretty good at reading people which is why I also brought you this,” she set down another plate with a lettuce wrapped, curiously colored and, by the smell, not meat burger with all the fixings, a generous helping of baked sweet potato fries and a green colored milkshake.

“I didn’t order this.”

“I know but it cooks night off and I’m trying some new recipes. Seeing as you're the only other one here, you've been conscripted as my guinea pig.” She slid into the other side of his booth where an identical plate rested, “I wasn’t kidding about you needing more than just a salad. Besides, I hate eating alone, you wouldn’t believe how often it happens. Fuck, where’s my manners, I’m Piper.” She stuck her hand out across the table.

He takes her preferred hand amazed how it fits perfectly in his, “Sam.”

“So Sam, figure out what you're hunting yet?” She asked nonchalantly as she picked up her burger, “Cause, not being judgey, but that’s some really random shit you got there.” She takes a bite, watches as his expression bounces between startled and incredulous.

“How…”

“Saw your Tarsus 99 when you took off your jacket. I had one as a kid, then daddy got killed on a hunt and I got sent here to live with Auntie, she doesn’t cotton to hunting.”

Piper picked up a fry pointing it at him, “But what I really wanna know, where the hell did you get that demon blade, ‘cause I’ve never seen one like it before.”

Sam hesitates, “That’s a long story.”

“Don’t close till one and I’ve got nowhere to be after.”

Sam decides to deflect instead of answering. “So what is it you do, because you're definitely not a waitress.”

“Officially, I’m an antique appraiser. Unofficially, I’m helping a wayward hunter who graced my door with something he can’t figure out.”

***

Sam and Piper, after closing the diner, stayed another three hours hashing out the research for his case were now taking their time walking back towards the roadhouse.

“I’ve been wanting to ask, what’s with that name tag?” Sam noticed early it read Maggie.

“Came with this god awful uniform. Auntie insists that we all adhere to how her daddy ran the place. So when I came back to temporarily help out after her surgery, Maggie decided she was not gonna take orders from someone younger, quit and I got stuck with this. I told Auntie it wouldn’t fit, even with letting out the hem. Maggie was like five-four and I’m over five-ten!

Ugh! I keep popping these stupid top buttons and can’t freaking bend over without showing everyone my C U Next Tuesday.”

Sam smiled that nervous smile he got when unsure how to respond to an answer he wasn’t expecting.

“I normally wear this to cover it,” moving her pocketed hands in the light weight, knee length sweater she had put on when they left the diner, “but I have to confess,” Piper turned around, walking backwards, “I took it off when I saw you come in, thought what the hell, been long time since a really cute guy has walk through my door so...” She bit her lip, turning back around as they continued down the lane in companionable silence.

Sam mused over her confession admitting to himself he was interested in her too. He enjoyed sharing different theories and bouncing ideas of what they might be hunting back and forth with her, surprising him with her unique take on things.

Piper might not have been the type he consciously steered towards since Jess but she was comfortable to be around, didn’t feel his usual awkwardness he normally had around most women.

They arrived at the roadhouse a few minutes later and Sam led her towards the Impala.

“Damn, you brother is a fucking artist, how many times has he rebuilt her?” Piper asked walking around the car, running her hand over the Impalas pristine exterior.

“To many.” Sam replies, putting his bag on the front seat. “Can I have a look?” He turns to see Piper standing by the trunk. “Um, sure.” Strolling over he unlocks it and lifts the interior wheel well exposing the car's hidden armory.

“Is that a grenade launcher?”

“Yeah, Dean found it at the bunker.” Sam laughed remembering how excited Dean had been when he discovered it.

Piper shook her head shutting the trunk and hopped up on it, “What’cha wanna do now, go in,” gesturing at the bar, “or hang out here for a while longer?”

“I think I’m good hanging o...”

Piper grabbed his jacket dragging him between her spread legs and kissed him.

It took Sam all of five seconds to process what was happening before his hands grabbed her hips and tugged her to the edge of the trunk, her short skirt riding even higher as she wrapped her legs around him, pulling him closer.

Sam jerked back as headlights flashing over them, a patrol car drove into the parking lot. He lifted Piper off the trunk and led her to the car's back door dragging the green cooler out of their way.

Piper climbed in as he hauled it to the trunk and grabs the army blanket Dean keeps then gets in depositing it and his jacket over the front seat.

“Where were we before being rudely interrupted?” Piper asked, sliding onto Sam’s lap and leaning in to resume kissing him.

Sam tangled his long fingers into her now loose hair pulling to halt her, “What about that patrolman?”

“Won’t be back till closing, around six A.M.”

“That means Dean won’t either,” he says closing the space between them, heatedly attacking her lips.

***

Piper ran her hand over his bare chest, “How long is your refractory period?”

Sam shifted to look down at her, “umm, around twenty minutes.”

“Hmmm, I’m gonna have to see what I can do to shorten that ‘cause we are so doing that more than once again.”

“And how are you gonna do that?”

Piper stared at him slowly trailing her hand down his torso. Sam’s breath hitched as she lightly teased her fingers across his lower stomach, running through his treasure trail and over to his hip.

Shifting further down his body she continued running her fingers over the top of his left thigh feeling the hard muscles flexing under the skin. She placed both of her hands in between his legs shifting his left one off the seat and bending his right leg back placing his foot flat on the bench seat.

Piper kneels in the space between Sam’s spread legs continuously moving her fingers in random patterns over the insides of both tights, touching him everywhere below his waist.

Sam closed his eyes groaning loudly, dropping his head back against the window as her fingers played over his balls feeling her other hand travel behind them teasing over his...

“You fell asleep in the fucking car!”

His eyes snapped open startled. Blinking rapidly he sees Dean leaning through the open car window looking at him.

“Dean what...where’s Piper?”

“What’s a Piper?” He growled out, “Dude, we wrapped twenty minutes ago and I’ve been looking for you, got worried cause you weren’t answering your fucking phone Jay!”

He took a good look at Dean. His foggy brain finally realizing its mistake, taking in the headset hanging around his neck and the ball cap he likes wearing when directing. “Jen, sorry, guess I’m still in Sam headspace, got disoriented for a sec.”

Jensen laughed, “You find one grey hair and suddenly you're getting memory loss and needing naps? I’ll have to remember to have you in bed by nine, old man.”

“Your fucking hilarious Jack.” Jared shoots back sliding across the seat getting out, “Man, I had the weirdest dream.”

“From the happy noises you were making that was far from weird. And speaking of happy,” Jensen's eyebrows went up as he pointedly looked down.

Jared glances down thinking he’s drooled all over himself only to see the prominent bulge in his jeans.

“Bob’s called a meeting in five but I think we’re gonna be late.”

***

“I’m telling you it was so real! She was tall with coppery blond hair, tasted like chocolate peppermint and has this tattoo above her...” Jared paused grinning, keeping that specific location to himself, “I’ve never in my life had such a vivid dream like that.”

“Dude, you like petite brunettes.”

“I know..so why would I make her a redhead?”

“Hell if I know, it’s your giant melon. Maybe all that sugar ribbon you eat is finally getting its revenge.” Jensen snarks as they enter the meeting room.

They were greeted by Bob’s gruff voice, “About time you two showed up. Alright, now that everyone is finally here, we need to get everyone up to speed. We’re having to make changes to the filming schedule.” He pauses looking at him notes, “Jared, don’t need you to come tomorrow for those new promo shots with, what was that new character again?”

“Y/N Y/L/N, Sam’s new love interest.”

“Right, anyways, writers scraped that idea. As some of you heard, several of our exterior locations got flooded with that last storm and it’s taking time to find new locations so instead of doing blocking we're gonna do a quick read through of the new episode.”

Jared opened his copy of the new script to episode 4: Baby.

Reading the opening scene he experiences deja vu, quickly scanning the first two pages: bunkers garage: Dean washing the Impala, Sam having a possible case in Oregon. Next scene: interior shot Impala, Sam gets a protein shake out of cooler, Dean wants to know about the beer. Next scene: pulling in roadhouse parking lot, Dean trying to get Sam to join him, goes to eat instead, shot from Impala view watching Dean walking. Next scene: daybreak continuing from the view of the car...

“Fuck me.” Jared whispers, catching Jensen's attention. “What’s wrong?”

“This is how my dream started.”

Jensen pulls a yeah right face.

Jared shifted in his chair leaning closer to Jensen, looking directly into his green eyes, “I’ll prove it. Next scene: Dean gets in the car at daybreak and a naked waitress pops up in the backseat with a voice-over from Sam. Dean gets out peeping in the driver's side back window at her getting dressed. Cut to next scene: Sam climbs into front seat buttoning his flannel as he apologizes for having sex in Dean’s car. Dean, happy his brother finally got laid drives off quoting Bob Sager lyrics, playing Night Moves and Sam changing a lyric.

Jared continued to lay out the entire episode from memory as Jensen flips through the script following.

“Bullshit Jared, someone snuck you a copy of this script, you're totally fucking with me.”

“Jensen, not this time.”

***

Jared walked back to his trailer aggravated that Jensen won’t believe he didn’t get an advance peek of the script. He can’t shake this unsettling feeling that he was forgetting something important.

He was two steps into his trailer when his phone vibrated. Chad left a voicemail instead of texting, weird.

“Jay man, you gotta do me solid. A friend of mine got the part of Y/N on your show and I don’t know what the fucks happening up there but she flipped the fuck out on me! Need you to check on her, she’s outside one of the guest trailers. And have her call me back after she’s calmed the fuck down!”

Jared snorted, another woman pissed off at Chad, shocker. “The fuck you getting me into this time Murray.” Jared mutters to himself as he heads over to the guest stars trailers and hears a somewhat familiar voice outside of one.

“What do you mean there’s nothing you can do? I get here and now they're telling me they’ve dropped the story line.”

There was a pause in conversation as Jared walked closer to hear more clearly over the lot's noises and was shocked when he saw her sitting on one of the trailer's steps.

“But I signed a contract...what? I don’t remember seeing that in there. So they can just arbitrarily drop the part with no notification, that’s bullshit! I’ve never had a clause like that in one before. I gave up my job and apartment for this!” She gets up and paces around not noticing him.

“They're giving me the bit part of the waitress in this episode, have a five am call for hair, getting a blonde rinse so I look more like a Dean type girl. I don’t know what the fuck is with these writers, it’s like they don’t get Sam, should’ve left him like Kripke originally created him.” She paused, “paying me what? At scale! That’ll just cover my petrol for the drive back to L.A. Wait, what about my six month lease? Could you check on it.”

“Oh, giving me two nights at the Hilton. How magnanimous of them,” she sarcastically replies, “can I still get that part on Arrow...cast someone else.” She abruptly ends the call and sits back down on the step slumping over her knees.

“So, how much of that fucked up conversation did you overhear?” She asked not looking at him.

“Um, almost all of it.” Jared confesses, “I wasn’t intentionally eavesdropping but I got a voicemail from Chad,” she looked up staring in disbelief at Jared, “he’s worried and wanted me to check on you.”

“Fanfuckingtastic, can this day get any better? I’ve completely humiliated myself in front of Jared Fucking Padalecki!”

Jared can just make out her blushing in the still dimming light. “I wouldn’t say completely, I mean, you could drop your pants and yell Pudding.”

She blinked at him before doubling over in laughter, “Alright, point taken. Still, it’s a crock of shit you don’t need to be bothered with.”

“Chad’s kinda made it my problem. Look, I don't know all the details but maybe I can help, I can call casting..”

“Oh hell no! Thanks but no thanks. Bunch of assbutts on social media were already speculating about how someone like me got the part in the first place. Last thing I need is more ammo for the haters, they’ll tweet something like I had a three way with you and Ackles because I was desperate to get the part back.”

Jared cleared his throat, running a hand through his hair embarrassed to feel turned on by the imagery she conjured up in his mind.

“Mmm, that’d be my wet dream come true, but not the point, they’ll just come up with some random shit.”

Jared understood being all too familiar with the anti whatever’s having been the target himself.

“Okay, how about we go to my trailer,” she gave him a skeptical look, “where you can have some privacy to call Chad back. I’ll get de-Sam’d and we can talk some more or grab a bite if you're hungry.”

“You don’t know me from Adam, what if I’m some psychotic serial stocker nut job?”

“If your friends with Chad, you absofuckingloutley are Ms. what's your name.” Jared sarcastically remarks given her a mischievous grin.

“Touché, and it's Piper,” Jared froze at her name, “and you’ve been friends with Murry longer than me so I know you’re straight up batshit crazy.” She smarts back standing up, “lead on, oh gallant knight.”

***

Jared walked out of the bath toweling his wet hair sees Piper lounging on his couch still on the phone with Chad.

As he crossed over to the kitchen's fridge he couldn’t help but notice her low rise jeans had ridden lower, revealing the top half of the tattoo just above her..

“Dude, should’a told me Padalecki has a tattoo kink,” Jared tripped over his feet before catching himself embarrassed at getting caught, “Yeah, that was your boy.” She winked at him, “No way in hell I’m ever showing it to you perv.” Jared loudly laughs at that. “Hey, when I get back I’m PA’ing for you till I get another gig. Don’t you dare argue, you got me into this so it’s that or I’m on your couch for a month,” Piper rolled her eyes at Chad’s response, “Yeah, yeah, talk to you later.”

“Is that how you met Chad, working as a PA?” Jared inquired coming over to sit down next to Piper handing her a beer.

“Yeah, paid the bills while doing auditions, was starting to pick up a few bit parts around LA.” Piper starts nervously fiddling with the bottles label, “I heard about the casting call for a new Sam girl and Murry talked me into trying out for it, so I figured unless I kiss Crowley I don’t have a shot in hell and holy fuck, I got it.”

She stopped talking but kept playing with the label.

“Hey, whatever it is you don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to.” Jared says gently touching her shoulder in a reassuring manner.

She took a long pull of her beer before continuing. “My Auntie died and I inherited everything, including her debts. I negotiated a smaller settlement but it wiped out all my savings.” She paused draining the rest of her bottle. “I figured it was serendipity..”

Jared is half listening, feeling that uneasy sensation again at that last word.

“...gonna be Sam Winchester’s...”

“If we’re meant to meet again,”

“.. weren’t killing her off after three episodes but then they decided to drop that story line...”

“we will.”

“...I should be going. Thanks for the beer and letting bending your ear, I’m gonna get out of your hair.” Piper gets up heading for the door.

Jared finally remembers.

“I believe in serendipity..maybe you can too.”

He quickly jumped up moving between her and the door blurting out, “I know you said you didn’t want my help but you can’t go, not yet.”

“Okay, why not? ‘Cause any other time I’d be up for some wham bam thank you ma’am but so not in the mood right now.”

Taking a deep breath he goes for it, “So, get this, after we finished filming today, I fell asleep in the Impala and had this dream…”

***

Jared sat on the couch nervously chewing on his thumb watching as Piper paces back and forth mulling over his story.

She abruptly stopped and sat down on the table in front of him. “So here's the deal, I will believe everything you've told me,” Jared opens his mouth to say something but Piper reached out laying her fingers on his lips, “if you can answer one question.”

Jared took her hand remembering how it felt so right in his, “Okay.”

“Since you’ve seen it in your dream, what does my tattoo mean?”

“In Japanese, it means happy coincidence,” Jared confidently says sitting back as Piper climbs onto his lap, “but that's the first line, the second one is chance discovery.”

Jared pulls her in, brushing his lips against hers, running his tongue across them so she’ll part them , allowing him access. He can taste the beer they’ve been drinking but there’s that sumptuous flavor of her underneath he finds intoxicating..chocolate peppermint..thinking to himself..

Serendipity.

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