#I just haven't decided

[occultdaddy]

I kinda wanna work on my dsmp au Immanence again, but I never really had a plot for it…

What I did have however was

Some character centric chapter names:

The Vessel of Blood - Technoblade

Death’s Love - Philza

Forged from Fire and Ashes - Sapnap

The Allure of Dreams - George

Child of The End - Ranboo

Blinded by True Sight - Eret

The Coin Decides - Punz & Purpled

Tethered - Skeppy & BBH

Fortuna Brevis - Quackity

Anachronism - Karl Jacobs

The World Code - Dream

And explanations of terms and different roles said characters have.

Vessel - Someone containing the actual power or even the deity within them. The god can directly influence/interact with the vessel. Deities usually only pick vessels if they want to be directly involved with the mortal world or they're in dire need of tributes. Not all people, especially humans, can survive being chosen as a vessel. Vessels: Technoblade - The Blood God, Sapnap - An Ashen and Blazing God.

Champion - Those that have been granted a gift by a deity. It can be a godly item or a power. It cannot be taken back or traded away. Unfortunately it's not unusual for bad luck and even curses to follow gifts. Champions: Philza - The Goddesses of Death (Phil’s curse is immortality), George - God of Sleep and Dreams, Boomer - Unknown

Blessed - Those who are in favor of a single or several deities. Their gifts may be weaker than that of a champion, and can be revoked at any time. But at least it doesn't come with bad luck/curses. Blessed: Quackity - Goddess of Fortune(chance/luck), Punz and Purpled - Patron deity of mercenaries.

Oracle - They are granted visions and knowledge by one or more deities. They have little to no control of what they see and when they see it. Oracles: Eret - Unknown or N/A

Observer(?) - Those who are meant to only overlook and possibly document a deity's domain. They are not supposed to meddle with it, doing so inflicts grave consequences. Observers: Karl - Time, Dream - Word Code, Connor - Unknown. (Connor is the only one not meddling btw)

Enderian - Rare to see, especially outside of the End as they're rarely players and only players are able to use the portals out of the end on their own. They're something between mortal and deity. They could potentially be considered a low level deity. Albeit very similar, they're not Endermen.

Void demon - low level deity (daemon) that lives in the void underneath bedrock. Usually in the depths where players die, but sometimes they will traverse closer to the bedrock. They are unable to leave the void without a mortal tether. A mortal tether is very different from a vessel despite both being closely bonded with a deity. A mortal tether doesn't gain any boons of their own, but the daemon usually will protect them because of their reliance on them. If the tether dies while they're connected the daemon dies too. Void demon and mortal tether: Badboyhalo and Skeppy

Half-deity: born with a fraction of the power of their parent, but similarly to Champion it comes with some sort of drawback/curse/bad luck/etc. Half-deities: Wilbur - son of the Goddess of Death, Fundy - grandson of Goddess of Death and son of a nymph(minor nature deity), Ranboo - half-Enderian, Tommy and Eryn - children of Chaos, TinaKitten - Unknown

Deity (player) : While uncommon, there are some deities who become players. They're usually lower deities. As far as people know. Deities: Foolish, Hannah - lower nature deity, bbh - void demon, Callahan, slimecicle

Mortals with little to no connection to any deity: JSchlatt - wants absolutely nothing to do with deities, Puffy - formerly Blessed, Tubbo, Ponk

Construct: Creatures usually made by mortals: most common way is through the means of of science, magic, or a mixture of both. Constructs who are players have become conscious in one way or another. (it's very common for player construct to have rebelled against their maker) Constructs: awesamdude - made by awesamdude, Michael Mcchill

[pokimoko]

Asexual bird? Please

How about two asexual birds?

[densewentz]

a quick silly sketch based off my earlier post about the Cat King having a mistaken identity crisis when Edwin and Co. don't recognize him in his new cat form post-esther

[thesociallyanxioussociopath]

Part 4 and End of Alastor's bad day Alastor survived his fake date and will probably (not) think twice in the future before trying to one-up Lucifer on unknown projects. Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

[lotus-pear]

mourning black and the death of ideals

[coddda]

culprit

[arataka-reigen]

I'm trying to start a movement here

[ID: The first 3 images are edited versions of the "Let's take ibuprofen together" meme. The captions now say "Let's read shoujo together". They each show a person holding their hand out to the viewer; a character from the series Benigyokuzui, Mob from Mob Psycho 100, and Jerma. / end ID]

ID provided by @siroofington thank you so much

[tofixtheshadows]

Hot take: Laios wouldn't actually mind an arranged marriage. Obviously "reluctant royal being pressured into marriage" is very fun for shipping purposes. But I have harlequin blood, so bear with me. Join me on this journey of character theorizing/shipping nonsense that makes it abundantly clear I have a Scrivener document I'm neglecting.

Laios was promised to someone from a young age. He and Falin both were; it's probably how their parents ended up together. They both broke it off by leaving their village, but it didn't seem to be a factor in Laios's own decision. And when Marcille, presumably, asks about his hypothetical love life (bicorn chapter), he not only brings it up readily, but actually seems kind of flattered? lmao

I love when smug Laios comes out. Underrated factor of Laios's personality for me is how much he enjoys being seen as cool. I think you'd expect Laios to be embarrassed or uneasy over this line of questioning, and the fact that he isn't is fun to me.

So when Yaad and his other old advisors bring up his need for a wife, Laios is ready to go along with it. Not necessarily thrilled by the prospect, but he was raised to think of marriage as a business arrangement you do because it's beneficial for your household/bloodline (as was often the case historically). He's already made the big step to claim a throne, and the idea of becoming village chief after his father seemed to have been vaguely in the back of his head all his life. Besides, if he has to do it anyway, I think he'd take comfort that there was a formalized process for an otherwise socially messy undertaking.

This dovetails neatly with my personal headcanon that Laios is gay but unaware of it. He comes from kind of a repressed culture- or at least I can imagine he does based on context clues- and has spent most of his life being ostracized in one way or another, feeling like he's on the outside of humanity. So he doesn't realize that his lack of attraction to women is unusual- he assumes that nobody really enjoys romance that much. It's not like his own parents married for love. It's just something people play up for stories, right?

It's all tangled up with his fraught desire for human connection and platonic companionship anyway. Meanwhile he's blithely unaware that the things he says about Toshiro are not normal bro things. Oh you'd totally marry Toshiro, Laios? Tell me more.

I see this in Marcille too. Firstly due to her unstable development, which has only recently allowed her to reach maturity (I headcanon her as somewhere between 20-22) and secondly due to her being a half-elf (infertile+a too-long lifespan), I think she has the expectation that she's simply not destined for love. The half-elf character she relates to in her favorite books says as much. So she, too, confuses a genuine lack of heterosexual attraction with the belief that this is just because of her half-elf status distancing her from it. Plus, she spent over a decade as a student/researcher in a nice little sheltered academic bubble, at an all-girls academy populated by adolescents. She's the most sheltered of all the characters: she's only spent the past year in the "real world", and she still focuses all her romantic attention on living vicariously through her favorite characters or her friends (except for Falin, conveniently!).

And Marcille would absolutely want to live vicariously through Laios and his future wife. She would not want him to go through a dispassionate formalized process: she wants her bestie to have a fairytale romance! What is the point of being a heroic king in a mythic castle if you can't even get a love story for the ages out of it?

This would result in a lot of Laios meeting with eligible bachelorettes at Marcille's urging, looking to Kabru for help the entire time and being grilled by Marcille afterwards about what he liked best about each girl. "She had nice, um, teeth?" They're both so close to getting it.

Kabru, meanwhile, is agitating for Yaad and the other advisors not lock the country into a hereditary monarchy, they have the chance to do something radical here, to break away from the systems that the elves and dwarves uphold. At the very least, let Laios marry for love, or formally adopt an heir and name them his successor if he wants, he's already sacrificed enough for the sake of Melini. Don't make him jump through these circus hoops for the chance of some trade agreements, we can get those without a royal marriage. And even if Laios was willing to go along with it, he does look at Kabru like he's his hero for sticking up for him.

The vague unhappiness Kabru feels at the idea of Laios being married off is easy for him to ignore. Kabru didn't actually get better at honoring or even recognizing his own wants just because he's moved past the dungeon. And Laios hasn't gotten the hint about his crush on Toshiro and is still 50/50 on saying casually shocking things, so when he remarks that he doesn't need a wife anyway when he has Kabru, he has no idea why that gets him the looks it does. After all, where he's from, men marry women to run their households, but Laios has castle staff for that, and Kabru is handling the rest?

That comment alone ticks one month off their collective gay awakening countdown.

Anyway. How many repressed gays in their twenties does it take to run a country?

Answer: Yaad can tell you.

[expelliarmus]

I don't believe in destiny, but if destiny exists, then it is heading for Donna Noble.

[sygneth]

game of deduction

[welcometogrouchland]

I've been binging Batman Beyond recently (Terry ily so much) and thought about how- bc of the JLU twist which I think isn't even canon to the comics BB verse but shhh bare with me- he'd technically be Damian's half brother??? Which is just so ridiculously soap opera to me. I need them to interact in a silly time travel adventure so bad you don't even understand (ID in alt)

[coulsart]

"Relax... you're in capable hands."

Self indulgent chara design between comms! The Mad Doctor

[reallyhardydraws]

casual / club / wedding / gig

[nattikay]

OC lineup! All the characters that currently exist in this "story"

[onebizarrekai]

♪ blue's theme - ALL OF THEM (mostly)

mr. character development's tangible rehab from a stupidly evil power hungry bastard who has committed treason against every country to an idiot pacifist with a zebra print fedora, a moped and a license to teach yoga

( note: the 'mostly' comes from two things; one, the very very first version of this song sucked, and two, there are versions that are mostly identical )

[jessmalia]

THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT (Jess Mariano's Version) insp: x x x

"Love, huh? I guess I'll call Matthew's poet and have him explain love to me. Poets know all about it, right?"