#I need Roier to curse him out

[ohnothisisathing]

No because Quackity is the last person who can say nobody cared about his egg. It only emphasizes how absent he’s been that he doesn’t know how much time Tilin spent with everyone else.

[shikai-the-storyteller]

I'm speedrunning the Roier/Cellbit VODs I missed on Wednesday and dear god you guys weren't kidding, this whole stream really is the embodiment of

[etoilesbienne]

out of curiosity, what are the common qEtoiles mischaracterizations, and the accurate characterizations you wished people used more? Sincerely, an English speaking fan who is re-learning French!

honestly i kind of consider it a mischaracterization when people like... make etoiles into this team leader who always knows what to do and move things forward. or like that he has a bad attitude to like... match his fighting skills. or like the dark knight brooding warrior. he says he is these things. these are lies. he lies about himself constantly. i wouldnt trust a good 2/3 of the things he says about himself to be true. you read him clearer through his actions than his statements.

in my opinion etoiles is more like. sturdy second in command. he's not there to lead, he's there to fill in the holes where they pop up. he's there as cover. he's quick witted in shortchange scenarios, but that is so not the same thing as a genuine strategist. in another expression, if someone is a leader, the leader is a doctor, etoiles's role is more like... the EMS team in an ambulance. He's not there to fix your problem, he's there to keep your problem covered until you can get someone else to fully fix it. but that doesn't mean his role is any less important when he's needed.

Etoiles is also, like, so very much a team player if he respects and trusts a person. And it is so easy to have his respect and trust. His trust starts at 100% for everyone. he's also so very very very good at reading people (gesture to the bbh clip where bbh moves his mouse slightly downward and etoiles calls him out on being depressed). He read Mousey as enjoying dungeons and pvp way more and wanting to hang out with her. He's also one of the only people who like continuously runs in the girlies group and makes all of them pvp with him and they all love it so he keeps coming back to pvp with them. Thats how he started his whole thing with Tina and pvping with her constantly. Reading other people also, he loves finding other pvpers so he attacks roier constantly now bc he knows roier can pvp.

What else OH Etoiles loves whining (and this is because Rayou loves whining) that dude will just complain constantly. You haven't seen an etoiles stream if youve never seen him whine. Can't say I'm not kind of endeared by it. With this too he loves over explaining things (RIP armor powerpoint wish you couldve been given...) because he wants to help everyone....

OH and he's very over exaggerated too in replying to people in a complaining way and a self deprecating way and also likes to try to push the envelope with people and he does all of that to try and get a laugh out of others. like he's well aware people find him going "Oh so you don't give a shit about me and want me to die ? you want etoiles to die ?" fucking hilarious and also loves complaining in the first place thats why he does that. if your etoiles isn't complaining and whining then it isn't etoiles. the self deprecating thing is... its interesting bc he does have full faith in his abilities but will never say it out loud unless its trying to reassure someone who is worried. pushing the envelope is so specific he won't do it too much and its like........... from what ive seen (correct me if im wrong) heavily directed at non francophones where if they laugh at something wack he's done he'll try to do it again to make them laugh more. shoutout to the time he made bbh laugh so much when he cursed he didn't get languaged by bbh so he kept cursing to try to make bbh do it again. the dudes a total people pleaser.

smaller thing ive talked about extensively already (u can prob find it in my q!etoiles tag if i remember i'll edit a link to the posts in here soon lol) etoiles hates losing he looooooves winning he's very intense about it lol. its cute!

on a final note even if you don't become deeply unwell about etoiles like i am i think this highlight clip video has like everything he's like condensed into like 11 minutes. You should watch it. It's a good starting point.

[bloodpen-to-paper]

So much came out of that final sequence

-All the parents and loved ones of the eggs screaming for their kids as the earth shakes and the ceiling caves in

-"I won't leave without her"

-Philza breaking his body and straining his wings to get him and Tubbo back to that damn boat, all strife and rivalry forgotten

-All the members who couldn't wake up for the end, who slept through it exhausted and believing they'd take a quick nap only to never wake up

-Etoiles having Richarlyson in his arms, only for the kid to be ripped away

-Bad getting Dapper back. Bad feeling the most miserable he's ever felt.

-Tallulah once again not having Wilbur there for her when she needs him most. Philza yelling I'm here Tallulah, I'm here. Her apologizing to the father that was there, so so sorry for all she said during their last talk, wanting nothing more than to be back in that basement with him arguing over things that seem so meaningless now

-Cellbit putting Roier through what he went through when Green was eliminated. He didn't want to hurt him, but he's tired. He's done.

-El Quackity the monster. El Quackity the traitor. El Quackity the cursed and the hated. The monster being used as a pawn once more by forces he can't comprehend. The monster having a soft spot for the child that isn't his

-Bagi desperately trying to squeeze in as much time as she can to talk to Richarslyson, the son she never met. To let him know she's family, that she loves him. She had even less time now than she did during Muertos

-Tina getting to see her niñina Leo again. Tina losing her once more. Foolish not even getting to give Leo his totems. Foolish having to shove it all down once more to get what family he has left out of there

-Maximus' final swan song. One final talk with Pierre. A push of a button. Peace.

-Fit risking it all fighting against the clock to save anyone he can, just barely making it with Bagi. Saving one life like that life is his own.

-All the people that escaped having to deal with the loss of everyone that was left behind. The survivors.

[qroier]

okay it's post purgatory 1. roier cubito just got off that boat. everything sucks. cucurucho takes one look at roier's stumbling ass, thinks of all the blood covering him, how it belongs to his friends and family, how cellbit is nowhere in sight, and decides hmmmm.... I can do something with this.

so one day later, once people are more settled in, cucurucho siddles over to roier's house and knocks on his door. there's no answer. um, okay. he knocks harder. still no answer. well. maybe he's working on a building somewhere?

cucurucho needs to hurry. preparations are still under way for the trip to rescue the eggs but, well. roier doesn't exactly need to know any of that, does he? so he needs to find him quick.

he's not in la taqueria el tripon. no roier in the bodega. pemex looks desolate. ouch, someone stole from the coppel. on he goes, until. ah. the oxxo's a mess inside.

the shelves have been knocked over, there's somehow kitkats stuck to the ceiling, and the roier cardboard cutout attendee has a big hole punched into his face. cucurucho looks around some more, trying to figure out where to go from here, before he spots something on the floor that looks out of place. he crouches down to get a closer look and realizes he's looking at leaves. red leaves, specifically. red leaves and orange grass. well, that certainly explains where roier’s been.

cucurucho teleports over to cellbit's castle. he's already crossed the bridge and is just about to enter when he hears some sort of commotion somewhere to the castle's side. roier is there, at the castle's base, fighting with a bird over a bag of chips and yelling profanities. there's lots of bags of chips scattered around his feet.

"stupid fucking bird! is that your problem? you know only inglich? te estás haciendo pendejo leave my food ALONE!" roier gives one last pull that manages to free half the bag from the bird. chips go flying everywhere as the bag tears. roier stumbles backward and steps on another bag, shouting in dismay. the crunch is very loud.

"TÓMALA CULERO!" roier yells, shaking his fist like abueloier after the bird. he looks around and starts half-heartedly cleaning up the bags, still mumbling curses under his breath. wonderful, looks like he's not busy now.

cucurucho waits until roier's back is to him before walking up to him. "good morning."

"GAH!" roier wheels around to look at him, hand to his heart. "WHAT THE FUCK, MAN."

"hahaha," cucurucho laughs. he knows how it is with roier.

"culero estupido pendejo, ok, pues ríete de mi! ríete de mi!" roier crosses his arms and turns his back on cucurucho with a humph. the action makes more chips crunch. they both turn down to look at the scattered bags. roier's shoulders slump before crouching down to continue stacking them into piles.

"good morning," cucurucho repeats himself. politeness is vital. "what are you doing?"

"what does it look like, stupid? i'm eating chips." roier gives up at that point before plobing down on his back. he opens a bag of chips and starts eating them, slowly and one by one. there's a small radio next to him that cucurucho hadn't noticed before. it's not currently on.

"what are you doing?" cucurucho asks again, knowing that's not the full story.

"me voy a quedar aquí. me voy a quedar aquí comiendo mis papitas y me voy a podrir," roier turns to look into cucuruchos eyes at that. "adios." he says, and closes his own eyes. realizing he's forgotten something, roier grabbles for the radio next to him, eyes still closed, before he finally finds it and turns it on. si no te hubieras ido starts playing. he starts eating the chips again, each crunch louder than the last.

well, that won't do.

"no," cucurucho tells him politely.

roier opens one eye and squints up at cucurucho. marco antonio solís is still crooning, soft and low and made a bit tinny by the radio. "what the fuck do you mean, no?"

"no," cucurucho repeats. that won't do. roier is still covered in blood and wearing his emoier clothes. there's still an asset there.

"y bueno. pues f, no? mamate." roier closes his eye again, this time more firmly. there's finality to the motion. he reaches out and turns up marco antonio solís. he starts pointedly singing along.

"noy hay nada más difícil que vivir sin ti," roier and marco antonio solís mourn together. it's muffled by the sound of crunching chips. this won't do.

"sufriendo en la-"

cucurucho reaches down-

"aA WHA?" and pulls roier up by his bloodstained hoodie. he starts squawking immediately.

"ME ESTAN ASALTANDO, ME ESTAN ASALTANDO!" he shouts, looking around and going as far as placing a hand delicately to his forehead before remembering that there's no one left to come looking. the fight slumps out of him, and he twists out of cucurucho's grip easily. cucurucho considers the motion apprasingly. yes, he will do.

annoyance covers roier's face. he crosses his arms. "what the hell is wrong with you. que es tu problema. bueno, aparte de ser cucurucho y horible y asi."

cucurucho takes out the notepad he wrote ahead of time for this. preparation is always vital. he hands it to roier. roier raises an eyebrow before snatching it away and opening it to read through. his brow furrows almost immediately, before he clears that away and looks up from the book, eyes wide.

"ahaha, what the fuck?" roier goes back to reading the book, and scoffs as he pockets it once he's done. "nope! nuh uh, no acepto."

"why?" cucurucho asks him. it's a good offer. a smart one. they both get something they want in return if roier agrees to work for the federation.

"para que solo me pagen con café y enigmas? hm, no gracias." there's a glint in his eyes that he hides by looking around at the ground and muttering something about bears and ruined chips.

cucurucho takes out another book and writes down the offer he gave in the first book, as a reminder, before handing it over to roier. "the federation has resources to find people. stellar employees may request access, should their work be sufficient."

roier reads those lines. he looks at the book, pondering. he looks at cucurucho, also pondering. marco antonio solís finishes his song, and the radio switches over to llueve sobre la ciudad. the sound of static draws both of their attention to the radio. Instead of los bunkers, hozier's voice comes through, and they blink at the radio in confusion.

"do you think i'd give up," he sings, and cucurucho looks at roier pointedly.

roier just rolls his eyes. "fine! ugh." he pockets the second book and approaches cucurucho to poke a finger at his chest. "but i'm quitting the second you try and give me coffee!"

wonderful news.

"disfruta la isla," cucurucho tells him, smiling wider as roier goes to poke at the radio before he teleports back to the offices. a new asset has been acquired. everything is going as planned.

[ducksbyday]

HELLO TUMBLR PEOPLE,

Since QSMP is all about globalisation and learning about new cultures and countries, I think this is the perfect opportunity to tell people about most known MC RP series from the Netherlands, by assigning characters from the QSMP to kingdoms!

TLDR: The Kingdom (DDG) was a minecraft survival roleplay server. The server was devided into different kingdoms (hence the name) which were ruled and inhabited by A LOT of different Dutch-speaking creators. The first episode launched in 2012 and the series ended around 2021. It played out in a medieval-fantasy type setting with magic, Goblins/orcs/gods/dragons and a lot lot of war. Most kingdoms even had their own national anthem (or multiple).

vv WHO WOULD BE FROM WHERE vv

Recognised by their half black-stained skin, white glowing eyes and their extensive knowledge (and gift) of magic, the Empire was the main villain of the series. After forcefully being locked away in the Nether for decades, the civilisation made their way back to the surface with only one goal, revenge. Now with access to the Empire Wand, they quickly got damn good at it.

BBH - EMPIRE

I see Q!BBH as someone who could've been apart of this group, but having met someone allong the way that made him change his mind about wanting everything to perish. Due to that he had to flee from the Empire, since they would've never accepted him like that.

The only ally of the Empire. Jenava, also known as the desert rats, were violent and opressive people who underwent a ritual to gain the same power as the Empire. They had access to the Scripts of Jenava: documents kept very secretive, containing secrets about kingdoms, magic and curses. (also it's the kingdom with the best songs ngl.).

BAGI (+ tazercraft & Cellbit) - JENAVA

It wasn't uncommon for people (especially women) to attempt to escape from the kingdom of Jenava. The living conditions were terrible, for registered citizen but also for the natives (Kanta Tribo) who's land was forcefully taken (also later a civil war). I think Q!Bagi could've been one of the people who forcefully underwent the Empire ritual before running away to warn other kingdoms about the situation. Further, the kingdom had ownership of the most secure prison of the whole server ("Fort Forland, the prison island") which is a place Pac, Cellbit and Mike would've fit in perfectly.

Elementos, the kingdom of the Gods. In the story, the wife of King David (Eclypsa) passed away due to illness and became a deity, joining elementos. During the war between Entropia (her husbands kingdom) and Firjen, she sided with Firjen and gifted them 'The dragons of Bovisti', making Firjen "The kingdom of dragons".

FOOLISH - ELEMENTOS

Dragons, gods, a little betrayl and siding with the enemy for funsies. Foolish the totem god with a dragon base, Do I need to say more?

FOREVER - FENRIN

A island cursed hundreds of years ago, turning everyone into werewolves during full moons. They tend to keep to themselves. They used to be a part of the kingdom of Ljord, but fled and now peacefully live on their own, away from dragons and war (kinda).

ROIER - ENTROPIA

I don't really have a good reason for putting him here, it's just kinda a vibe.

Ah Entropia, the kingdom of capitalism and talking shit. With king David as their leader together with Queen/God Eclypsa their main stick was trade, being rich and doing wars. The statue of the Entropian Sword could be seen from miles away, imbedded with emeralds and other richments (making it a big eyesore for the powerhungry kingdom of Jenava). The king of this wonderful empire died once by the hands of the king of Firjen and his dragons. He was sent to Elementos to become a god, but refused because he is a little dumb and very stubborn.

With Roier putting stores all over the place and unnessicarily putting his egg in big danger, I think it's a good fit.

TUBBO & AYPIERRE - MALINO

The kingdom of goblins and mining. They lived in a gigantic hollowed out mountain, rarely coming up to the surface. They were the only kingdom (that I know about) that had a person assigned for redstone contraptions. Tubbo being the create boy with the gigantic tubhole would do well there in my opinion. Also Pierre (and perhaps Felps) would be a very respected citizen with his extensive knowledge of big holes.

ETOILES - THEROS

I personally know very little about Theros, except that they are known for their assassins and lack of kings/emperors. They dissapeared at some point and got taken over by a different kingdom (Magnos). I wish I could to this man more justice :'(

BAGHERA JONES & SLIMECICLE - ATLA

Probably the strangest of all the kingdoms, and also one of my personal favourites. Atla is a kingdom existing of multiple island, mostly known for worshipping chickens.

Their belief is in the two Chicken-gods Kiip & Kalf, together with the golden egg. Killing and eating chickens is illigal on the island, and the king is ready to start war on anyone who tries (besides that they're quite friendly tho :) ).

The golden egg is.. Well.. a large golden egg. It is believed that any attempt on damaging or stealing the egg will curse the person for eternity, giving them everlasting bad luck. This was evantually proven to be true, when Entropia used it to curse another kingdom (Krax).

I feel like Baghera could be a scholar from the island, perhaps a diplomat who'd travel to different kingdoms to exchange information and perhaps spread the good word.

Further, I see Charlie as one of the people that could pull the chicken=god trope of better than anyone. Also seeing the bad luck he's having on the QSMP, I wouldn't be surprised if he tried to take a little nibble of the shiny egg-statue.

I have a lot more people to assign and a lot of kingdoms not mentioned yet (like Kanta Tribo (a native tribe and arch-enemy of Jenava, Firjen, Ljord etc etc.. there were.. So many.). But this would go on for ages and ages so I'll cut it here for now LMAO

I hope you enjoyed this thread and learning something about Dutch youtube culture. It's a series I watched a lot when I was younger, and always seem to stumble back to. It was very well done and to this day one of my favourite things to watch/talk about.

[becauseplot]

*returns to yours* I HAVE THOUGHTS! NOT COHERENT ONES TOO SLEEPY AND NEED TO SAVE COHERENCY BUT THOUGHTS!!! MOSTLY ABOUT ISLAND TEAPARTIES AFTER THE KIDS ARE ASLEEP WHERE CELLBIT AND PHILZA DRINK TEA AND PHILZA TEACHES CELLBIT ABOUT STARS AND CELLBIT SLOWLY GETS BACK INTO HIS ENIGMAS AND THEY BOTH BITCH ABOUT TEA BUT DRINK IT ANYWAY BECAUSE IT HAS GOOD STATS

YEAAH!! YEAHHH!!! Okay okay okay so I meant to ramble more earlier when you initially responded to my ask and then I got sleepy and conked out and now it's super early for me, nailed it lmaooo. so anyway just like a couple things i noticed abt this scene *rolls out a scroll of notes, the bottom hits the floor and bounces out the door cartoon-style*

Chayanne gives Cellbit a rose!! Idk if Rose still has influence here (I'll have to sift through Phil's VOD to see if he says anything abt Rose, yesterday I mainly watched Cellbit's POV) but he's protected now!! That kinda folds him into Phil's "closer" circle of friends/family since it's primarily them who carries the roses for protection so!!!!! I'm!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THE TEA!! Yes the tea the way the tea immediately broaches the topic of purgatory, and yeah the audible wince in Phil's voice after Cellbit says the tea triggers him and Phil agrees. Yeah it's so shit and they're both so sick of it but it's so OP. Phil survivalist (hardcore) :handshake: Cellbit survivalist (hunger games/"The War"), do and use what is necessary to keep yourself alive.

And AAA!! Yes, okay okay so like you remember that idea abt Phil and Cellbit having late-night convos at the Order pre-purgatory? This is basically that!! It's late at night, they're getting caught up with each other, they've both got the shitass tea and it's going cold and!! In my head this scene goes on for a full night and they just sit and talk and talk and talk, eventually conking out when it's late, just like old times EXCEPT THEY HAVE THEIR KIDS NOW WHICH IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER, THEIR DESIRE TO FIND THEIR KIDS, AND THEY FOUND THEM!!! (I should write a fic i NEED to write a fic, me vs the 754389 wips in my brain; in my head they still had late night convos in purgatory when their "play time" timers lined up, phil waking up early enough and cellbit staying up late enough for them to talk while the others slept)

The way Cellbit still minces his words abt what he and Bags did post-purg 1 "we had our fun...bolas...style..." is it because he thinks Phil will think less of him? because there's children present? because his SON is present? idk how much Richas knows abt what Cellbit did in purgatory, Richas *did* rescue him while he was fighting eye workers but does he know about Cellbit hunting fellow players for sport? what Cellbit did to his pai Pac? I NEED ANSWERS

Phil's "Dude! No! Oh my god... D:" to when Cellbit says Roier was better off without him. PHIL WAS AT THEIR WEDDING. HE TOOK THE GODDAMN PHOTOS OF THEM AT THEIR WEDDING. HE SAW HOW HAPPY THEY WERE, HOW HAPPY ROIER WAS, WHEN THEY WERE REUNITED IN PURGATORY. Phil isn't close enough to Roier nor speaks to him enough to really understand the full extent of Roier's grief after purgatory 1, but it's gotta be hard for Phil to imagine Roier happy with Cellbit gone. Whether he believes it when Cellbit says "yeah Roier told me he was better" (doied WHEN I GET YOU---) is up for debate but I think about this constantly.

Phil fucking laughing when Cellbit admits he ate some of the eye workers fhdjsk. I can't get over the combo of Cellbit POV (in character thinking: "I'm terrible I'm a cannibal I'm a monster") vs Philza POV (cc who laughs at everything that is even remotely cursed) honestly, taking this as in-character (bc ccPhil doesn't mute his mic to laugh and he...usually does that for ooc bits while in the middle of rp), it says a lot abt qPhil that he's able to just laugh abt an admission of eating corpses. ethics who? geneva convention who? qPhil doesn't know her. munch on those eye workers king they're dickheads. (fuck, DOES qPhil know that Cellbit is a cannibal, as in, he has eaten not just workers but other players?? hmmm...)

"I'm sorry I couldn't do much as bolas leader" "It's better that you didn't see us...I think you'll be disappointed" "oh I could never be disappointed what do you mean shut up *laughs*" GODDDDDDDD also Cellbit trying to say he got worse after purg 1 and Phil saying "nah bolas is already at ground level" (either not understanding or indirectly reiterating that he won't condemn Cellbit for his actions, I can't tell) and then Cellbit just,, going with it. because it's not worth it to argue and he's trying to move past all of that now anyway. (QCELLBIT PROCESS YOUR TRAUMA CHALLENGE LEVEL IMPOSSIBLE)

watching Phil's POV now and HFDJSK you can't hear it on Cellbit's stream but Phil catches Richas as they're both leaving and says quietly, "Take care of your dad, Richas, n' take care." I'M 💥💥💥💥 (<-banging table)

Anyway!! This is what happens when the two characters I'm obsessed with interact for the first time in months. Over-analyzing a 5 minute convo. Sorry, it will happen again :] Praying they stay as neighbors I'd love to see archivists have more interactions!! And yes yes yes yes the tea parties with the kids!! Phil routinely chatting with Cellbit and watching him slowly "regain his color" as he settles back into peaceful life post-purgatory, falls in love with enigmas again. They've always trusted each other when they don't trust themselves, and they're both a Stable Point for the other. I'll miss what we never got to have with the leaders-of-the-Order-having-meetings ideas (timezones, wails) but I'm so excited for new island mysteries!! :D

[anonymous-dentist]

been thinking about the emo fantasy au. especially spiderbit and how cute they r. what were their first impressions of each other? and how exactly did roier get cellbit to warm up to him in the beginning?

Okay so Cellbit was just like “oh gods another guard, great, just what I needed -_-” but Roier was like “I’m bored and I’m very much not a knight and this dude seems bored so like. We might as well be bored together”

What really got Cellbit’s attention at first was the way Roier treated him, because he wasn’t really treated as like. A prince. He was just a guy, not the supposedly-cursed prince that everybody- guards included- stayed away from. Because Roier treated him as an equal, and that was so sudden and new to Cellbit that he couldn’t help but pay attention to him

Like Roier would come in and slack off on his guard duties by hiding out with Cellbit in the library. Sometimes he’d read, oftentimes he’d sketch something out on a notepad he’d steal from Cellbit. He wouldn’t always try and strike up a conversation; most of their earlier hangouts were them just sitting in the same room existing in the same space. And when he would talk to Cellbit, it wouldn’t be about his “curse” or about the royal family or the war. It would be him asking what Cellbit was reading or what he was writing and if Roier could be a side character or the murder victim, or it would be Roier complaining about the rest of the staff or the food or his bed or the weather

He never expected Cellbit to talk back, but Cellbit eventually did, and they got along immediately

After all, Roier was the first person to really treat Cellbit as a person in years. He didn’t care that he was a prince or that he was “cursed” or anything, he just wanted a friend, and he got one

[miscellaneoussmp]

I am nothing but an enjoyer of soft family dynamics. Here's Foolish and Roier helping each other out:

Roier feels aimless, really. It's not an unfamiliar feeling, but he's always able to push it to the back of his mind and keep it hidden until those nights where his husband doesn't come home. He wakes up to a tear stained pillow after those nights. He usually thinks of it as some kind of curse, his burden to bear. It's always been present feeling. Maybe there's some awful type of comfort in it. If there is, Roier can't find it. He's supposed to be the happy one, the one who fixes everyone else's issues. He can't bring himself to smile, even as a pale imitation of the real thing. It's quiet. He's never been a fan of the quiet. He always tries to fill it up so he can pretend it fills the void in his chest and the pit in his stomach.

Roier's eyeliner has been smudged for three days now. He hasn't brushed his hair or washed his skin in the same amount of time. His hoodie is just as dirty, same for the rest of his clothes. Maybe if he lays himself bare, something good will happen. Maybe if he just smiles and pretends it doesn't hurt and hopes that nobody notices the blank look in his eyes, It'll all be okay again. Roier sits on an empty patch of grass near one of the paths. He doesn't even know where he is, and he can't bring himself to really care. He's crying again. Out in the open. He's sure his eyeliner is running. He knows he looks awful. A whine dies in his throat as he sobs. Roier hears somebody walk up behind him and then sit next to him, though he isn't sure who it is yet.

It's Foolish. He asks if Roier needs a hug. Roier does, but he can't say it. He can't put his weight onto another person, especially when that person is probably grieving his daughter. He bets Foolish can see his hesitancy and pulls him anyway. Roier starts sobbing harder as he's held by Foolish, held by his dad. He's never had the best father-son relationship with Foolish, but hearing him mutter how he's glad he has one kid who's safe makes his heart melt or hurt, he can't tell which. He looks up at his dad, and there's a hand wiping away his tears. Roier feels so small, and he isn't sure if it's because of how big Foolish is compared to him or how big his feelings are.

Next thing Roier realizes is that he's being led to Foolish's base. Once they're there, he's handed a plush towel. He's being strongly encouraged to take a shower, which is fair enough. It feels good to remove three days' worth of sweat and tears, and God knows what else. He's lucky to have a spare shirt and sweatpants in his backpack. Once he's out of the shower, he finds Foolish making food, specifically peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Roier laughs, Foolish looks up to see him with a clean face and jokes about how hard it is to have an emo son. Roier rolls his eyes and sits down anyway.

When Foolish sits across from him, with the food, Roier asks why he's doing all of this. There's a flash of something sad in Foolish's eyes before he explains that he'd rather know that one of his children is okay than wonder if both are okay. Roier feels tears well up in his eyes again, and he calls Foolish an asshole for doing that. The taller just laughs again before telling him to eat. Roier spends the night at Foolish's. He warns his husband about it, though he doubts the other will go home tonight.

When Roier wakes up, he feels rested for the first time in a while. It doesn't feel like as much of a struggle to get up. He still feels the void in his heart and pit in stomach but they take a backseat for a moment. It's a nice moment.

[factorialsotherfandoms]

xcom au, set like... idk 5 years before the 'present' (when Felps is rescued)? It's another year or two before Roier joins the Order, and Cellbit doesn't return until a good chunk after Felps (was going to write that but not in the mood for that level of stuff rn)

... Cellbit/Roier meet cute where one's undercover on a mission, the other's an assassin, and the prompt is 'stabbed'...? Also Cellbit's a bit hungry but doesn't actually eat anyone. Not even the corpse.

Cellbit leans over the corpse of the scientist. With one hand he keeps the scalpel embedded in his thigh - not deep, but annoying - steady, with the other he reaches over to the computer.

With gloved hands he sorts through the records - he's allowed to be here, just not at this time, or in these files...

Blood seeps from around the scalpel as he reads, committing every part to memory. He knows he's good at this, he knows he is. Making a copy leaves a trace, and anything he writes or carries risks being found.

His mind, though?

Well they can violate his mind - they have done before, many times - but he also has means to protect that.

It's not a clue, not even really an answer, but it's another step. One more step, one more clue - he will find where they have taken Felps, what they have done to his friend. He will save the man who saved him, or he will be ruined in the act.

"Hello there."

A voice from the ceiling. Spanish. Cellbit whirls around. He pulls the scalpel from his leg - a mistake, definitely a mistake - and points it to the sky.

Six eyes - two large, four small - stare down at him. Four eyes - one large, three small - blink, then the other two.

And, oh, that's a /nice/ jawline. Cellbit isn't sure if he wants to kiss or chew on it.

It belongs to a man - spider hybrid, but a man - crouching on the ceiling. And yes, on the ceiling - bare feet and bare hands are in contact with the roof tiles, something about his sub-species enabling him to stay suspended.

He's not in Federation dress, and Cellbit definitely /looks/ the part he plays right now.

Cellbit curses under his breath, slaps his free hand to his wound. He keeps the scalpel up and says "this isn't what it looks like!"

At least he speaks Spanish. It could have been very, very much worse.

The man tilts his head. The four smallest eyes all close this time, and the other two squint, "you... did not murder the researcher? Then why was her scalpel in your leg?"

"Oh," Cellbit lets out a single breath. "No, no I did do that."

"And now you're bleeding."

That doesn't really need a response.

The man drops himself down, landing softly on the floor.

"Is anyone paying you for that?"

"The bleeding?"

"The murder."

That's almost as confusing a question. "No? I just needed her computer."

The man breaks out into a grin, "can we make a deal, then? I get to have killed her, and you get help with your wound."

"You want to claim a kill? Won't the Feds come after you?"

"I like getting paid. Do we have a deal?"

An assassin, then. Cellbit's not sure why someone would pay for a random researcher dead, but he's in no mood to ask.

Healing with stitches is slow, but it's only a small wound. The bleeding is unpleasant, it has the potential to be dangerous, but only as a way to be caught.

He was just going to leave it, bandage it when he gets the chance, and hope it heals up before his supervisor cares to ask about the limp.

But, if a pretty boy is offering...

"Deal."

Cellbit doesn't even want to claim the kill - he still needs his cover, to stay hidden. He's not found Felps yet, and now he's in this deep he can see something even deeper in the web. The Federation are not just stealing people, not just killing them either. They're up to /something/, and seeing as he's already here...

He doesn't think he can leave until he's dead, or he's worked out what.

But the pretty spider boy smiles, sitting down on the floor to him, next to the corpse. He pulls out a packet of butterfly stitches and an antiseptic wipe.

Cellbit rolls up his trousers, and offers the man his wound.

Fingers linger as the cut is cleaned, then carefully aligned and stuck back together.

"I would have expected a spider to have thread."

"Oh I do," the pretty boy says. "But it doesn't need it, and I don't want to hurt you, Gatinho. Even with a little needle."

Cellbit splutters at the nickname, earning him a mischievous smirk.

It's better than names. This is far from a safe place to share names.

The butterfly stitches in place, the man pats Cellbit's leg and then hoists himself up.

"Thank you," Cellbit says, because he has not entirely forgotten the manners that were taught to him.

The man smiles with all of his eyes and all of his teeth, "before pressing a quick kiss to the "no, thank you."

"Do you need anything else?" Cellbit asks, standing too. He has everything memorised - it's time to blow the boiler and erase the evidence. "I'm going to burn this place when I leave, so it's your last chance."

"I'm good," the man's smile looks a little more real like this. "I'll get out of your hair, then."

He grabs onto the wall, scuttling up it and back to the ceiling. Up there Cellbit can see a cracked open skylight, surely where he came in.

Cellbit finds his lighter, and checks where the gas pipes lead, and looks up and-

"Wait!"

It's Cellbit who calls. He doesn't know why he did that.

The pretty boy stops, turning and looking at Cellbit over his shoulder - with three of his eyes.

"Will I see you again, Guapito?"

A nickname for a nickname, something to name the man.

Part of Cellbit hopes so, most of Cellbit knows this is a dangerous place to be. The depths of the Federation are no place for a human being.

Cellbit sold out his humanity a long time ago.

Just because he's an assassin doesn't mean Guapito has necessarily sold his too.

Guapito puts a finger to his lips, and smirks.

That's all the answer gets as the man hoists himself out of the skylight, and away.

And Cellbit...

Well, Cellbit has a laboratory to explode.

[dez-wade]

Blue team stans yesterday: Fucked that team red was killing afk players.

The afk players:

Missa: typing in chat not long before he was killed asking to kill Foolish, not alone and with a teammate when he was killed, people argue whether he was typing or afk.

Bagi: Straight up not afk, trying to talk to Cellbit with her sword out.

Blue team fans today: if anyone says anything negative about team Blue today they suck.

I haven't seen a lot of neg about team Blue, did see a whole lot about team red from team Blue the past two wins. Not even just complaining about the fandom (valid). Complaining about the last second submission. About them 'villainising' poor innocent BBH who has repeatedly spawn camped them. About them killing 'afk' players. As soon as they are winning complaining is wrong. I hope BBH gets kicks out of OT. I hope people stop trusting him after this. I hope blue team isn't the cursed team. I hope it is green. I hope the server turns on him /lore. I hope Philza heals his relationships with green team. Would be nice to see if he could hang out with Forever and everyone. I hope this alliance lasts a little longer. And things get worse for blue. I hope BBH means they can't ally with anyone and no one trusts them.

I know how easy it is to get heated up with this event and with BBH (believe me, I've been there) but try to take a step back and see it in a more logical approach.

As Etoiles says "Hate the game, not the player". RP wise, Dapper told BBH "Run over whoever you need to win" and he took it to the heart. He's desperate to have his kid, he was never a very sane individual. But his kid gone, a chance to get him back, and being at the disadvantage of being a single parent I'm actually not surprised that he did all that. If he was allowed to do worse he would.

Thankfully the admins already patched spawn killing and last minute contract strategies and hopefully they'll keep balancing to be even better.

RP wise I do agree that it would be interesting if that makes a dent with his non-blue team relationships because a lot of them never see him being so ruthless and so evil, he always could get away by his "I'm just a little guy" facade, and this event clearly shown his true colors.

I don't think he'll be kicked out of the Order though because the leader is an insane cannibal who'd definitely kill a bunch of people if that translated to Minecraft skills (maybe not spawn killing though) and he was already going on a murder spree back on the island. So I think he'll be forgiven in this front, especially because he's doing all for Dapper.

I think it's completely valid to hate qBBH guts this event, and hell you can hate cc!BBH too as long as you don't try to spread negativity.

Red definitely wants his blood though, so I can totally see them doing their best to aid green so Etoiles and Roier, who also are itching to kill him, can get his ass. Red already has huge BBH paranoia.

I'm not sure if it'll happen today (or tomorrow?) because the event dynamics of protecting the egg, so that maybe will unite people because the eggs were something that always did it. Or maybe they're not willing to give away their win because of concern for the egg they'll get. Because there's no way they're not getting attached. NO WAY.

But regardless I'm curious how this is going to affect relationships in the future.

[molluskmirage]

Soulfire Purgatory Day 4-5

Day 4:

-Tubbo and Peirre check out the new portals to center

-(im not sure what pac got up to in total today I think he gathered materials for the global tasks)

-Tubbo found how to make sugar for global quests and made a small ‘bee farm’ to get the honey for sugar

-they didnt turn in quests tactically coming off there losses they discovered that turning in quests at the last second of the day is best. So they gathered materials and kept it in there pockets

-all of blue died in a hunger event and kept repeatedly dying in their hell spawn, the admins took pity on Blue after this and moved there spawn to the beach where there base is. (Hooray)

-bad makes a bike and traps reds loop portal to center

-Bad needed to kill for the win today and Tubbo let him off the reigns they went to green and killed Bagi they tried looking for roier but couldn’t find him they then went to red and spotted Jaiden,

-they followed her for a little while then Tubbo confronted her It was bads daily task to kill her but as he went in tubbo sniped the kill from him

-Bad to start felt bad and didn’t want to kill her originally more then once but since the kill was already made he committed to spawn camping her to wrack up the score. he tried to escort Jaiden afterwards to her original stuff because he felt bad but of course she didnt trust him anymore and used her wits to get away from him

-tubbo logged off by the global task npc with 15 minutes left so he could turn it in in the last minutes of the day telling bad about the bees to get more sugar for candy

-pierre worked on an enchanting set up

-bad went back to blue base to work on tasks when jaiden lets quackity spawn kill her for points. Bad instructs pierre to run to red base to kill quackity, while bad races to green base so he can spawn kill quackity.

-quackity left the premise before Aypierre arrived so Pierre has to kill Jaiden a few times to get points he feels bad and negotiates to lead Jaiden to green base as bait he also leaves a chest at reds base with materials for the global quest for bad to retrieve.

-Bad waits at green and rummages around and is met by Jaiden and Pierre. Jaidens gets away collecting a goblin merchant while shes at it. Pierre is kicked for time

-bad waits at green base collecting honey from a near by bee hive. Quackity slips by and dies of natural causes and combat logs as Bad comes near

-Bad goes back to blue to collect more honey near blue base, delibrates with Tina as she collects more materials then sets of for red to the chest Pierre left behind

-Bad is crunched for time and needs to log off with 15 minutes to spare to relog for end turn in, Slime calls to him for a duel and Bad kills on sight. He then goes to red spawn to kill more but discovers that the admins had now placed a barrier. Bad discovered he could shoot arrows in and killed slime and jaiden as she had spawned there after death and they were spawned killed by bad till a black cat (admin) chased Bad off (breaking his helmet with a frying pan)

-Tina is lead by a cat to red base as everyone is hanging out there chilling, she has a cute moment with Bagi

-Bad and Tubbo log on in the last few minutes and secure the win.

-Tubbo his hunted down and killed by Cellbit, Roier, and Slime

Day 5:

-with the win from yesterday they wanted green to win today (to even the score in case of cursed team rules) so focused on gearing up for future days

-Tubbo mined a lot for exp to enchant

-Bad and Pac made a secure secret base

-Tina is killed by Fit at some point on this day

-Bad mined a lot for materials and exp. He made a decked out armor set and then went to see if he could discover where red’s secret base was, based off when Tubbo and Bad had followed her the day before

-mariana logged on Bad couldn’t really help him out because he was far away on a time crunch but after finding nothing he returns and gives him full iron armor

-in the last few minutes bad had he talked with Bagi and built what he could for the egg event (a tiny pitiful tower platform of cobble) before kicked from server.

-Tina and Mariana are spawn killed multiple times by a meature

-Mariana is followed by an eye guy admin, he has a good chat with slime at the center.

-Tubbo is killed offline by Etoiles not sure why he logged on wasnt for long not sure if ‘legal with new rules’ looks like he destroyed the farm on purpose?

[leolingo]

So, let me be a dear and give you an gree pass to talk about ideas for the new AU (we need a shorter name for that-) or to put a fictet

-White

in hindsight i know very little about spiderman and should’ve probably thought about this before bringing up the scenario lmfao. this is to say ill be making stuff up as i go (read: borrowing world building and mechanics from dc which is what i do read ..)

man I thought i was being so original and was about to suggest the alias ARACHNE for roier but it turns out theres already a marvel hero by that name fuck everything WHATEVER. arachne is a cool hero name im claiming it. I thought of using it because of the greek myth about the weaver who was more skilled than the goddess Athena and got cursed to become part spider, as a “punishment for her arrogance” . he wears that mantle ironically, naturally. he’s doing the punishing.

hero roier would honestly be more like vigilante!roier. he’s a genetic experiment— stemming from getting caught up with an ill-intentioned research lab as a child — and because of that he can shoot webs from his wrists (the material is stifling enough to suffocate, not that he has needed to resort to this more than a handful of times.), can use arachnid vision (with an extra set of eyes just below his human ones) and is just generally a very good acrobat.

unlike a friendly neighborhood spiderman, he DOES kill. it’s not something he’s proud of, and it’s not like he’s racking up body counts, but there’s history there. this roier is down for anything to ensure his survival and this includes hurting people, though he tries not to.

i briefly entertained the idea of roier wearing his hero suit WHILE in drag as melissa, just as an extra layer of protection for his civilian identity (we need a reason why his identity would be so important though… help me out?) but honestly idk about the practicality of it! its just a cool visual lol and funny to think about when cellbit tries to unmask him for the first time and finds a Beautiful Girl……

as for cellbit in this au, i think he’d actually be more of a journalist! a classic! our lois lane stand in or whatever! and I thought maybe he’d become fixated on finding arachne’s true identity after a close encounter — like being saved from an active robbery or something. he’d be almost obsessed with this figure and go really really far in trying to find the person behind the mask

[anonymous-dentist]

do cellbit and roier ever get to travel outside of the castle in emo fantasy au? what's their first kiss like?

Oh yeah, Cellbit’s actually been sneaking out of the castle and to the nearest village for YEARS. It’s where the rest of the Favela lives (minus Bagi), and they all treat him like he’s just some regular guy and not the supposedly-cursed prince

Roier catches on Immediately and he’s like “Hey, so I won’t make you go back to the castle if you just let me go with you. I need to get some stuff from town, anyway.”

And thus their weekly village dates started

The village is also where they had their first kiss!

It was the annual Harvest Festival, and they had spent all day together eating food and dancing. After the sun set, the local wizard set off fireworks, and Roier just looked at Cellbit and saw the wonder in his eyes and couldn’t help but kiss him.

And then they just didn’t stop.