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emoshinso · 6 years ago

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What Makes Purple Boy so Weird?: Notes on the storytelling strategies employed in Shinsou’s introduction arc

*By ‘weird,’ I mean intriguing/interesting, but in a break-the-mold kinda way.

This really has no objective other than I wanted to break down what makes Shinsou’s intro arc so impactful. Specifically, the buildup before his quirk reveal.

As heroic and well-intentioned as our boy is, the creators do a very good job creating an air of ominous suspense before revealing his true character and quirk in his match against Deku. Up till then, it’s like they wanted us to think Shinsou was a bad guy...

Part commentary, part analysis

Just kinda… finding an excuse to rewatch the Sports Festival arc while focusing on Shinsou’s perspective.

this post goes from his first appearance in episode 15 to the beginning of episode 20

in the future, I plan on dedicating an entire post just to his fight against Deku - but in the meantime, this one centers on the buildup before his quirk reveal

So, if you’re interested, read on! If not, I understand. This is gonna be one heckin nerdy ramble. oh gosh im so excited

First Appearance: Episode 15: Roaring Sports Festival

Confrontation with Bakugo

First, some background on what’s going on right before our boy shows up: The day after Aizawa introduces the sports festival, a bunch of kids from the general studies department show up at the hero class’s threshold, right? There’s no explanation as to why. They’re all kinda just... there (psst it’s for the drama. Large crowds create intrigue.)

Dekusquad mutters collectively, wondering if the general studies kids are scouting the competition… The general studies kids don’t really answer or react. They just keep gawking awkwardly. (psst once again: it’s purely for the drama)

Enter: Bakugo. Trying to leave for the day, but those damn gen studies kids are in his way.

“Move it, extras.”

This prompts a reaction. From one student, at least.

“So this is Class 1-A? I heard you guys were impressive, but you just sound like an ass.”

First time we see Shinsou: pushing his way unapologetically through the other general studies kids. First impression: he already kinda looks like a jerk. Him being at the back of the crowd also makes me think Shinsou didn’t exactly jump at the chance to size up 1-A after school like his classmates, but eventually gave in and followed them over a bit later. Then after that “extras” comment out of Blasty Boy, he decided to retaliate. A jerk with a bit of a proud streak.

”Scouting the competition? Maybe some of my peers are, but I came to let you know that if you don’t bring your very best, I’ll steal your spot right out from under you. Consider this a declaration of war.”

What a drama queen.

That’s all he says. That pretty much concludes his first notable appearance as a character

His appearance essentially serves two purposes: 1) to (fleetingly) introduce him as a character 2) to establish how resentful the general studies department is towards 1-A

It’s important to note that he didn’t get any of those usual name + quirk tag thingies that occasionally pop up whenever a new character is introduced (or as a reminder for recurring characters)

AND he never introduces himself (he just straight up declares war and falls silent, the little shit xD)

Point being, forget his quirk, we don’t even learn his name right away. For all intents and purposes, he’s just that random purple asshole who declared war for no good reason

And as soon as Shinsou delivers his little war monologue, Tetsutetsu shows up, shouting loud and a n g e r y. His and Bakugo’s little shouting match quickly overshadows Shinsou’s cold declaration, making it even easier for both the other characters and the audience to forget about Shinsou pretty quick. Despite that very conspicuous purple hair, the chronic insomnia, and the WHITE PUPILS.

I know I kinda forgot about him - the first time watching, at least.

Sports Festival Opening Ceremony

The next time we see Shinsou, he’s walking into the arena with the other 1-C kids, who are all looking pretty dejected about being forced to participate in a competition rigged to make them look inferior:

“We’re just here to make [the hero kids] look better...”

“Yeah, I can’t wait for this to be over...”

It’s a key reminder that Shinsou is one of these kids, and by all logic should be thinking the same thing. But his expression is hard to read:

Is he bored? Tired? Ready for it all to be over like those other kids? Or is he steeling himself to make good on his declaration of war?

We don’t really get a chance to find out. Not until MUCH later...

Todoroki’s Ice Trick

The next shot we see of Shinsou is my absolute FAVORITE. After getting through the tunnel to the obstacle course, Todoroki uses ice attack. It’s super effective, but somehow there’s still plenty of students who dodged it including our boy Shinsou

A LOT is going on. We see shots of all the different students who evaded Todoroki: Yaoyorozu, Bakugo, Aoyama (lol), Ashido... the montage ends with Uraraka, who makes a comment about waiting for the right time to show off her quirk, and hence alludes to someone else who’s trying to be sneaky:

“So they are good at using their powers, huh?”

What I love most about this scene is first time watching I LITERALLY DID NOT QUESTION the fact that he was being carried by three other students

I chalked it up to him being a charismatic figure in his class who somehow convinced his fellow students to carry him as part of some elaborate grand strategy

And hey... I wasn’t wrong?

Also interesting to note how none of the three non-brainwashed students around him seem too concerned he’s hitching a free ride on their classmates... they’re all too busy dealing with Todoroki’s ice

Point being, between Todoroki’s flashy ice attack and the other students’ equally flashy evasive maneuvers, it was pretty easy for us as an audience to overlook that one purple-haired kid who decided to play cavalry battle a little early. The inclusion of the extra kids stumbling around him in the frame also helps him blend into the background. All this seems very intentional on both the animators’/Horikoshi’s part AND as part of Shinsou’s grand strategy.

Episode 15 ends with us still wondering what this guy’s deal is...

Episode 16: In Their Own Quirky Ways

We don’t see Shinsou at all this episode, which both builds up the suspense and leaves me with a lot of questions:

Q: How did he get past the robots? (Theory 1: By using other kids’ quirks and directing them like his own personal quirk army 2: (more likely) waited till a path was clear and ran through)

Q: How did he get past the chasm? (Theory 1: Again, by hitching a ride with a kid with the ideal quirk 2: Human rope?)

Q: How’d he get past the MINES?! (Theory: By brainwashing other students to walk ahead of him and clear a path)

Regardless of how he got through the course, the ONLY glimpse of Shinsou we get is when Midnight goes over the rankings in the race. Shinsou came in 27th, by the way, not that you’d even notice because the camera cuts off almost before you even see him in the rankings. (I couldn’t even pause it that fast) I have no idea if that was intentional or not, but man does it fit the mood:

This is also the first time we see his name.

But it’s so fast literally no one could’ve actually read and retained it without the help of a quirk. I know I didn’t. BUT I remember from the first time watching, this one tiny glimpse of the random purple asshole with the derpy ass smile ranking so high was enough to make me start wondering just what this guy’s deal was...

It was enough to get me curious. But I wasn’t invested quite yet.

Also, in retrospect, my absolute favorite thing about this screenshot is all the other contestants look angry/disappointed by their ranking EXCEPT FOR SHINSOU. Nope, he just looks like a smug little asshole happy to be the ONLY rep from Class 1-C.

And that further adds to the suspense...

Episode 17: Strategy, Strategy, Strategy

Once again, we only get glimpses of Shinsou this episode. But they’re crucial:

1: Him smirking as the rules for the cavalry battle are explained. Makes us wonder, as an audience: why does he look so confident when everyone else is gritting their teeth over this? What advantage does he have?

(Notes brought to you by 20/20 hindsight: He was probably so confident because he literally had his pick of teammates. As soon as he asked anyone about teaming up and they answered, boom, they were on the team. I would guess he intentionally picked teammates that wouldn’t stand out (no offense Aoyama,) so he could hang around and not call attention to himself during the cavalry battle, both from other teams and from the commentators.)

AND WAIT. LOOK HERE:

2: Once all the teams have coalesced, they’re all just kinda standing around haphazardly, or facing each other slightly to talk strategy... BUT NOT SHINSOU’S. They’re all facing the same direction he is. Yep, you guessed it... they’re already brainwashed.

At the ready with his team. This also marks the second time we see his name. But it’s not announced, it only appears in tiny letters/kanji in the scoring bracket. Also note that his teammates are definitely all brainwashed now, but we wouldn’t be able to tell unless we were looking for it. Aoyama really doesn’t look too different lol

Before the episode ends, we get our first glance at the scoreboard. The game’s already been underway for a bit by now, and Shinsou’s team is at 0 points. Which means Shinsou most likely let Monoma take his bandana to avoid being targeted later in the game, and therein, avoid attention.

End of episode 17. Still no name (unless you were super attentive), and no quirk.

Episode 18: Cavalry Battle Finale

Between the Todoroki vs. Midoriya and the Monoma vs. Bakugo showdowns, there’s so much drama happening it’s no surprise Present Mic didn’t pay much attention to Team Shinsou...

...and that really left me wondering... What were they up to this whole time?

Quick glance at the scoreboard tells us he’s still at zero, and he stays that way for most of the episode again:

BUT. WAIT FOR IT.

HERE’S THE SCOREBOARD RIGHT AFTER PRESENT MIC ANNOUNCED THERE WERE ONLY 11 SECONDS LEFT:

TETSUTETSU STILL HAS HIS POINTS.

Which means...

TEAM SHINSOU MANAGED TO SWIPE THE POINTS IN LESS THAN 11 SECONDS.

Just look how smug he is about it too:

“In third place is Team Tetsute- wait, what?! It’s Team Shinsou! When did they come back from the dead?!”

Point being, Present Mic is so surprised by Shinsou’s comeback he almost says the wrong name. Thanks to all the drama radiating off of Monoma and the Traffic Light Trifecta and Shinsou’s strategy of staying out of the fray until the last possible second, he pulled off a victory without anyone even knowing who the heck he is or what he can do.

This also marks the first time his name is stated clearly enough to catch.

Also note his confused (and frightened) teammates behind him. How ominous...

Little by little, we’re getting hints at who he actually is as a character, which up to this point, still looks a lot like ‘first class jerk’

that smug grin gahhh

Episode 19: The Boy Born with Everything

Okay, here’s where things get s u p e r dramatic.

First half of the episode is dedicated to Todoroki and Deku’s little confrontation, so gives us more time to forget about our purple son...

Second half jumps into discussing the next round: sixteen contestants remaining, waiting to be divided into one-on-one matches. Things are progressing smoothly until....

OJIRO WITHDRAWS.

Everyone’s shocked, why the heck would this kid pass up on the chance of a lifetime? Ojiro explains it’s a matter of pride for him: “It just wouldn’t be right. I barely remember anything from the cavalry battle until the very end of it. I… think it was that guy’s quirk.”

“Wait, who was Ojiro with again?”

Again, no one seems to remember. But once Ojiro points him out, the camera pans over to Shinsou, who looks away. As if he’s worried about getting exposed. Interestingly enough, however, Ojiro doesn’t immediately reveal what Shinsou’s quirk is (which also might have to do with his personal honor code), instead just presses to withdraw:

“Everyone gave their all in Round 2, but I was just someone’s puppet. I don’t want to advance if I don’t even know how I got here.”

‘Someone’s puppet’? That’s ominous as hell... but once again, it doesn’t fully reveal what Shinsou did. Ojiro could’ve been speaking metaphorically for all we know at this point. But it sure makes us start wondering what the heck’s up with this purple guy, and just what his true motives are...

Later on, once the full bracket’s announced, Izuku looks at the lineup. He’s initially more concerned about the prospect of facing down Todoroki, but then he remembers he’s got a whole match ahead of that: “First I’ve got to worry about this Shinsou guy (whoever the hell he is...)” As someone who l o v e s to collect and analyse data on heroes and quirks, it probably bothers Izuku to no end that he knows absolutely nothing about his upcoming opponent.

“Izuku Midoriya, that is you, isn’t it?”

To top it off, SHINSOU SNEAKS UP ON HIM. I mean, in all fairness, it probably isn’t even that hard to sneak up on Izuku, given how lost in his head he gets. But again, it helps build that aura of suspense: Shinsou’s the type of character to sneak up on people. He’s also the type to stay out sight, use clever strategy instead of shine in the limelight like a typical hero in the BNHA world would. In all fairness, he’s acting a lot like a villain would.

Izuku: “You’re the guy from before, from general studies?”

Shinsou: “A pleasure. So, are you excited?”

Once again. Doesn’t even properly introduce himself. What is with this guy and introductions? And before Izuku gets a chance to respond, Ojiro intervenes, covering Izuku’s mouth with his tail and leaving Shinsou to smirk and walk away.

Izuku: “Ojiro, what’s the deal?”

Ojiro: “You can’t say a word to him.”

These are the first real clues we get as to what Shinsou’s quirk actually is and how it works. but we still. don’t. get. full. disclosure.

The scene cuts to the side games / preparations of the remaining contestants for the final round:

I really appreciate the sheer amount of dread on Izuku’s face.

This is a meme. We all have Shinsou to thank for this meme. At this point, we can’t even hear what they’re discussing, we just know it’s making a nervous boi e x t r a nervous...

A few scenes later, and we finally get what we’ve all been waiting for:

“Whoa, he looks kinda scared in that picture, doesn’t he? It’s Izuku Midoriya from the hero course!!”

VS.

“Hitoshi Shinsou from general studies, who really hasn’t done anything to stand out yet…”

Once again, Present Mic reminds us just how much of a dark horse Shinsou is. Discounting a few strategic bits and pieces, two whole rounds have passed already, and we still know next to nothing about him. It’s interesting to note how Present Mic explains the rules of the match too:

“The rules are simple: immobilize your opponent or force him out of the ring!! You can also win by making the other person cry uncle. Anything goes… so don’t be afraid to put your morals aside and play dirty!”

Which Shinsou does.

He starts playing before the match even begins, already trying to get Izuku to talk:

“So you can just give up, huh?”

Izuku doesn’t respond, so Shinsou continues:

“In a way, this is a test of how strong your spirit is. If you know what you want your future to hold for you, you can’t worry about what other people think.”

Present Mic: “READY?!”

“That monkey was going on about his pride earlier...”

Present Mic: “BEGIN!”

“...but I just think he’s an idiot for throwing away his chance like that.”

Shinsou started playing even before the match began, and he started off by saying a whole lot of incendiary things:

Why would you care what other people thought of you? (In a world where pro heroes depend on popular appeal for their livelihood, that’s not something a typical aspiring hero would say...)

“That monkey... is an idiot” (insulting a former teammate... not very hero-like)

Who cares about pride? (People who say that often hint they’re willing to get their hands dirty if the ends justify the means... again, not very hero-like)

In retrospect, of course we know Shinsou’s primary motivation for saying all those things was to elicit a response from Izuku, but at the time... it just made him look like a jerk. Maybe even a jerk with a potential villainous streak...

Regardless, it does get a rise out of Izuku, and that’s when it finally happens.

We openly see Shinsou use his quirk for the first time.

Izuku freezes.

Everyone’s shocked. But even then not everyone understands what’s going on yet... even Present Mic seems confused, even possibly chalking it up to stage fright:

“Huh?! What’s the dealio? This is the first match, it should start out with a bang! The fight has just begun and Izuku Midoriya is… completely frozen?!”

AND THAT’S WHERE EPISODE 19 ENDS.

WE STILL DON’T KNOW SHINSOU’S QUIRK.

Yes, we’ve seen it in action, we can infer, but it still takes a whole episode to put a clear label on it...

Episode 20: Victory or Defeat

Way to build up the suspense with a corny episode title am I right

Present Mic introduces us back into the fray: “Izuku Midoriya is completely frozen?! He’s not moving a muscle! And what’s with that look on his face? Could this be a quirk at work? Hitoshi Shinsou seems to have Izuku Midoriya completely stunned!”

Let’s take a quick inventory on just how sh00k everyone is:

Concerned frens. I was too the first time I watched this. I think we all were. Our baby Izuku’s been frozen by the weird purple jerk who we don’t really have any sympathy for yet.

Even the pro heroes are stunned. They don’t seem to have any idea what’s going on either, which suggests maybe they haven’t seen a quirk like Shinsou’s before...

BUT what really gets me are these guys. I’m pretty certain they’re all general studies kids. Shinsou’s classmates. Meaning they KNOW Shinsou. And assumedly they know his quirk too, since that’s like the second question that comes up whenever you meet someone in this universe, right after “What’s your name?” YET THEY’RE JUST AS SHOCKED AS EVERYONE ELSE. Which makes me wonder... what if Shinsou never told his UA classmates what his quirk was?

Regardless, it builds up the suspense even more.

And at long last, as the crowd still sits stunned, Aizawa steps in to finally answer all our unspoken questions:

“Since we’re on to the individual matches, I had some information compiled about our final competitors. Shinsou failed the practical exam to get into the hero course. Since he also applied for general studies, he probably figured that would happen. His quirk is incredibly strong, but that entrance test consisted of fighting faux villains. It gave a huge advantage to those who had physical superpowers they could show off. Despite his abilities, Shinsou never stood a chance at passing.”

He never stood a chance beCAUSE...

*cue ambient unsettling music*

Izuku turns around and starts walking out of bounds.

EVERYONE FLIPS THE HELL OUT.

All Might, watching from the sidelines: “What is this power?”

And finally, thanks to Aizawa’s data, Present Mic tells us:

‘When an opponent answers his question, it flips a switch in their minds, forcing them to do whatever he says. Not every question does it though. He only brainwashes when he wants to.”

There it is.

After five episodes of ominous, behind-the-scenes buildup, we finally have it. I don’t know about everyone else, but I was blown away. Looking back, it made total sense, and I had no idea how I didn’t figure it out beforehand, (maybe someone did, lol, I am kind of a dumbass). But, main point here: Shinsou’s intro had a lot of great suspense built into it, culminating in his match with Izuku, which reveals not only his quirk but also his true character (which I’ll talk about in a future post - specifically how Shinsou’s backstory reveal completely flips our perception of him). Along the way, we had plenty of opportunities to forget about Shinsou, discount him - at least in favor of our already well-established favorites - and most importantly, type cast him as villainous. But all that turns on its head the moment we learn what he can do - and as I’ll talk about later on, when we find out his true intentions.

What a brilliant intro.

And he knows it too. Just look how smug he is.

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fatedroses · 6 years ago

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Faustus’ Story

Alright, because @lunarpaps asked for me to go into more detail behind the changes I’ve made for this characters story.

I’m going to make one, albeit long, post going through the timeline and actually have this written out for anyone curious on this characters story and how at least for my canon he fits into the world as a whole.

Alright, starting off are the major changes I’ve made in terms of the story I’ve already written and posted on here, or may have referenced. I may end up linking on an oc page or something similar to this post, and after I get this posted I will most likely end up drawing snippets of the events, cause this also inspired me to do so anyways.

Changes, and anything that I forgot will be added in a reblog later on:

With Liam returning for this version, Hugrim, and most of the decisions involving him, is going to be with and between him and Sarath. This is better just because him and Sarath have better chemistry with each other, and I’ll eventually get around to their stories after I get them more solidified. I’ll admit that writing the initial relationship between him and Faustus just didn’t seem to flow the way I wanted it to, and that I’m more satisfied with this direction, and it lets all of them get a happier ending.

Faustus is more of an emissary and ally to the Vanguards rather than an outright leader, I want his position as a Greyguard to be more relevant to his character and therefore Felicity is going to take his older role in the council of the Vanguards, a better fit considering her role in the Kirin Tor and her relationship with Praeragos. I guess Faustus technically takes the role as one of the adventurers due to his interactions with Genn and his tasks often delivering messages and running errands, but whatever.

Because Faustus would in turn be spending more time both between Darnassus and Stormwind, and later Kul Tiras, when he isn’t on any assignments because of his position, I plan on him having more interactions and development with Anduin, Mathias, Varian, etc. I’ve been able to affirm to myself that it’s alright writing dynamics between these characters, cause I’m a dweeb and steered away from that for whatever reason.

In turn I get to explore his reaction and interactions to the events that happened, both that he was and wasn’t there for. For example him traveling to Northrend with Felicity and a few others to learn of what happened as a person alongside his team, from a bystander’s point of view in his off time with the Vanguards. To then participating in the search for Anduin during MoP, as an active member of the alliance and as someone who would’ve went searching for the missing prince regardless of his allegiances or not. By originally putting him in a situation where he had to be in a consistently neutral environment it made him going out into these new situations difficult to write for, as it made trying to get the information for these places hard to actually write in a way that made sense.

Now seen with the “Dynamic Duo” piece that was posted before this post, Faustus’ affinity for magic and the situation with being a spellblade/mage-rogue combo is going to be something that took effect far earlier in his story. With him and his brother, and in turn his mother and his father respectively, the boys took after their parents, with Faustus showing traits of magical prowess while Pheles showed traits of druidic prowess at an early age. After the fire Faustus then later gets training on magic from Felicity, her parents, and Ashton, and he specializes in Ashton’s practice of magic which is close ranged, portals, and enchantment. However in most cases he’s on active duty he tends to focus on using it for teleportation and avoiding the long ass boat rides when he has the ability and energy to. Speaking of Pheles, I’m leaning towards making the two twins, just because the year difference really doesn’t make too much of an impact and this fits a bit better.

Krennan takes Faustus in as an adopted son rather than having him just kinda stick around the castle like it was previous planned/implied. It gives me an excuse to give Krennan more attention due to the fact I was already interested in the character beforehand. It also gives Faustus the opportunity to build his relationships with the royals and Felicity more organically than it was before.

The story behind Faustus losing his arm has been tweaked, but that’ll be explained more in depth during the story section of this post. I also plan on redrawing the pieces that went with it as well. Hex is still the main antagonist of that arc, and it’s still a decisive sacrifice Faustus makes, it’s just the events beforehand and afterwards are a bit different.

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For the sake of having this all in one place, I’m also going to have the entire story written out. When I tagged this as a long post, I meant it. I might tweak a few things in the future, but this is what is what I’m running with for the time being. This also includes the story of his parents due to their relevance in setting up the events that happen later on.

Story:

Parents and Childhood (Ages 0-10):

Born to Ilaise and Cedius Erthwal, Faustus and Pheles’ life started out rather average, and they were planned to be raised in Gilneas. Ilaise, born and raised in Gilneas herself met her husband Cedius during a trip to Boralus. The druid was taking his monthly trip to the market for supplies to aid in his research over the cycle of regrowth and decay, driven by his fascination with the Cenarion druid circles spurred on by an encounter with Sarath as well as other traveling druids. Ilaise herself was working alongside Ashton Wythers, another mage of the Kirin Tor, in finding the limits of their magical ability, and was known in her own town of Emberstone as a rather renowned hunter that earned her a friendship with Mia before the would be queen was courted by and got married with Genn. In learning of each other’s studies they hit it off, eventually leading to Ilaise offering to bring Cedius to Gilneas, which he heartily agrees, wanting to get away from Drustvar due to some history, and family, the druid wanted to get away from.

However Cedius, in his move across the seas, was still going to need a decent size of land to continue his studies. Thanks to Mia granting them a closer audience with both Genn and his father, they were granted a section of land, a farm estate that was to be built by the two north of the city, given their own resources of the forest and whatever land they needed, so long as any food and lumber grown was produced in benefit to Gilneas and her people. Cedius took this offer gladly, as the efforts of mass regrowth of crops and ensuring that it didn’t negatively impact the areas surrounding it was a part of his research. Genn, in his curiosity in seeing that if this plan would work, brought him to investigate it frequently, eventually leading to his cordial friendship with Cedius.

As the years went on in this arrangement, in both his relationship with Ilaise and the regrowth project on the farmland, went well. Him and Ilaise got married after Ilaise returned from aiding the other human settlements against the first horde, lending her duties over to her colleague Ashton who took her place fighting so that she could settle down and eventually have Faustus and Pheles with Cedius, an act she was greatly thankful for. Genn and Mia, busy with raising their own children, and with the situation regarding the surrounding kingdoms, found themselves being able to visit their friends less and less, though they were able to visit each other during the birthdays of their children.

The brothers themselves found friendship in each other and the other children of Emberstone, which was nearby. They had met the Greymane siblings beforehand, but due to the distance and the ever nearing conflicts they didn’t really have the opportunity to get to know each other well. Faustus found at a young age that he had an affinity for the arcane trying to save a vase that tipped off the table. This was much to his father’s amusement having to leap after his son and the vase to actually save the situation, only for Ilaise to run in with a very confused dirt covered Pheles from their trip to their own private garden, discovering that the boys had the affinity of the opposite “preferred parent”, a joke among the two. This led to the boys getting some rather rudimentary training alongside their education, turning the rather mischievous pair even worse in their tricks as it helped Faustus honed his ability to blink short distances, which made him almost impossible to catch, and Pheles had a rather special focus on growing roots that often led to Cedius tripping and landing face first in the dirt, as well as jumpscaring both parents as he found his natural talent in the bear druid form.

Unfortunately Cedius’s history ended up catching up to him as his brother, known only to others as Hex, had hunted him down to Gilneas alongside several members of the cult. With Hex’s intention to either force his brother to use his druidic prowess in strengthening the reach of the blighted lands back in Drustvar and bringing about the return of Gorak Tul, or die. He started a fire at the base of the house, which was first discovered by Pheles, who ran to get his father to alert him about it. With the aid of his accomplices the fire spread quicker than usual, making it difficult for Ilaise to try and put it out as everything she tried to do only seemed to come back tenfold. This only got worse as the roof started to collapse, which ended pinning Faustus under a beam. Cedius had went off to try and find the source up until he encountered his brother, refusing his offer almost immediately and trying to call upon some wicker constructs to defend himself, and while Ilaise had managed to keep the fire from burning Faustus, he was too panicked in his young age to try and blink out from the debris until Ilaise was able to lift the beam a bit and Pheles pulled him out. As they tried to escape the house Ilaise pushed the boys away from more falling debris, sacrificing herself and getting herself pinned so that the two could escape by Faustus blinking both of them away, and they started to run to get help. Hex elected to leave his weakened brother to his colleagues to chase after the boys, believing that if they were in immediate danger Cedius would agree. Instead Cedius watched on as Pheles tripped Hex with roots along the dirt path, knocking his mask off so that they could both run away and so that Faustus could nail Hex in the nose with a rock, catching him off guard so that Pheles could attempt to carry his brother off on his back. One important piece that both Ilaise and Hex didn’t realize was that Pheles had taken his father’s very important research journal with him as well.

This only enraged Hex more, knowing that even if his colleagues succeeded in their attempt to now assassinate Ilaise and Cedius that the brothers would become issues later on. So he gave chase. Pheles found that drawing the pyromancer into the city was a bad idea, and threw Faustus off his back, electing to attempt to maul Hex’s legs before running off in another direction, while Faustus ran off in another direction. Hex went after Faustus however, as he was still injured by getting pinned. Pheles ran off towards the harbor, catching the attention of one of the Kul Tiran vessels that had their own druid working up in the crows nest. The crew took Pheles in, and sent their druid to go help his brother. This druid, Silvio, managed to catch up to Hex, clawing at his face in his bird form and giving Faustus enough time to run into the city of Gilneas and hide before Silvio himself flew off, leaving Hex to deal with his wounds and return to the burning home before he could manage to get caught by any city guards sent his way.

Hex and his colleagues made sure that Ilaise and Cedius were dead before returning to Drustvar, not knowing however that before their deaths they had bound themselves to the hearth, making their spirits remain on Azeroth and defeating their purpose of making them useless in death. Pheles joined the crew on their voyage back to Kul Tiras, much to the captain’s chargin but that aside he would eventually be taken to Ulfar by Silvio to learn the ways of the Thornspeaker, and gave Pheles an opportunity to learn more about his father from his old teacher before eventually returning to that vessel to join the captain in learning to become one. Finally Faustus went into hiding, becoming paranoid that Hex would be able to find him again, or that those around him could give him up to him, and isolated himself, finding his life as stealing food from stalls and blinking away before anyone noticed and hiding away in the empty unused water pipes that surrounded the city. Genn was alerted to the fire by his guard, leaving Liam and Tess in the care of Krennan before they went to investigate, only to find the home and farmland in ash, all of Cedius work was gone, and the now-king himself found Ilaise and Cedius inside the home, hand in hand with each other, and realized as because he couldn’t find the boys that they were still out there somewhere.

Adolescence and the Greyguard (Ages 10-25):

Faustus spent a couple months in hiding, avoiding anyone he deemed as untrustworthy, which due to his paranoia from the entire situation beforehand and being separated from his parents and brother, was just about everyone. Genn, Mia, Krennan, and Krennan’s charge and family friend Felicity would try to go looking for him after getting a letter from Kul Tiras stating that Pheles was found and safe. Felicity herself found that she could get glimpses of Faustus and the directions he went off to, but due to him using his arcane abilities to get away, and for him himself discovering he could hide himself using magic, making him difficult to hunt down.

After awhile, as Genn, Mia, Tess, and Liam were taking a trip through the city, Liam finds that the bracelet given by his mother was gone from his wrist. Knowing that it hadn’t had fallen he looked around, spotting Faustus backing up and running away from the group. Offended at the theft of his heirloom, Liam went after him, Tess immediately following her brother and making Genn and Mia panic for a moment before running after them. The siblings managed to chase him into an alleyway, and nearly succeeded in cornering him had he not tried to blink away. He was quickly caught by Genn when he and Mia caught up, and with Mia’s help they managed to calm him down enough to be able to bring him to Krennan. There the siblings and Felicity stayed with Faustus as the adults talked, and for the first time in a while, thanks to three cracking small jokes trying to get Faustus to at least laugh, they actually succeeded, and while they couldn’t get him to talk he at least accepted staying close to them. Faustus gave Liam his bracelet back as a silent apology, and after a bit of discussion Krennan came to him offering to take him in and adopt him. Faustus gave it some thought, grabbed Felicity’s arm and nodding with a quiet yes.

Faustus had a relatively normal rest of his childhood, though he continued to have paranoia and nightmares about Hex. This also started his and Felicity’s close friendship after they started living in the same house, Felicity thought that she was basically chosen after Faustus agreed to stay, and they bonded over their studies in magic, which Felicity was able to share her resources about it with him. They both also bonded with Krennan, often helping him around with his alchemy by going to the market to get herbs and having him teach them both their general education and alchemy. These two also spent time with the royal siblings thanks to Krennan often visiting Genn for both personal and professional reasons, Tess herself found it fascinating that Faustus was able to pickpocket Liam without anyone noticing, and Liam himself wanted to learn about Faustus more, as he often remembered seeing Cedius come to the manor once in a while but never really got the chance to talk. Felicity herself already knew the siblings well due to the amount of time she had already spent with Krennan beforehand.

As time went on, with Faustus reaching his teens, the four became a very tight knit group. Liam trained under his mother in becoming a hunter, finding after a good amount of training that he was quite a remarkable marksmen. Felicity decided not to focus her studies towards the offensive uses of magic, and instead aimed to one day improve the kingdom itself through her own inventions and such. Faustus found that he had a mark for design and engineering, often helping Felicity with her plans, but he also aimed to become a Greyguard after having an opportunity to watch them train, as well as him watching Genn and Darius train with each other several times before. Genn agreed to help Faustus train, as well as introduce him to some of his spymasters so that he could learn the ways of a rogue, considering how he was built he was suited for it. This also led to Faustus passing off the knowledge he had to the younger Tess, helping her start down her path of roguishness without, for the most part, Genn knowing, until she started training down that path as she got older.

Faust devoted himself to earning his place among the Greyguard, as with the more time he spent with them he found his own purpose with them. As the Greymanes had given him their time and effort to look for and out for him, he found that the only way to repay that in a way he would be satisfied with was to devote his life to giving them the protection that he was never able to give his parents and brother because of his inexperience and young age, In that way he could set aside the feelings and failures he felt as a child and instead had the opportunity to spend time with those he really cares about and be at peace with himself. His devotion eventually earned him the position of being Liam and Tess’s retainer, passed off by his main mentor Sibran, and it gave him the ability to just hang out with them while helping his superiors out on their duties when he could as a decision made by Genn so that the boy could still have a generally normal youth without having to worry about issues that brought him into constant danger or away from those close to him. Liam and Faustus also started getting even closer around this time, often found training with each other, working together to create new weapons and rifles, or were out hunting and patrolling around Gilneas.

There were issues however, as after Genn made the decision to secede from the Alliance and wall off Gilneas from the rest of the other kingdoms issues began to arise that actually called Faustus’ attention, starting with an event that happened not long after the construction of the wall started and in an attempt to get everyone's mind off of it they held a winter banquet, where an angered objector tried to get retribution for losing his land to being on the other side of the wall by attacking Liam, as he was the first Greymane he saw. Faustus managed to take the hit instead, earning him the scar across his eye and a scar on his left shoulder. This started the trend of Faustus having to watch around him more often than before, especially after the rebellion started taking more of a hold and the scourge started attacking the finished north gate wall. In addition due to his talents Faustus was also tasked with trying to root out the rebellion members and finding out who was leading them, in which his attempts tended to get him in a lot of trouble when he got too close.

Though despite all the struggles that came with this era Faustus and Liam found solace in each other, a couple close calls including the attack on at the banquet pushed Liam to actually admit his feelings to Faustus, feelings Faustus shared and that they had both developed from the time they had spent at each other’s side. At first they kept it hidden, in one part knowing that if any of the opposition knew it would be easy for them to use Faustus against Liam, and by extension the other Greyguard and Genn, in another part due to general royal upbringing Liam wasn’t entirely sure how his parents would really feel about the relationship due to the standard of marrying for political benefit and the state of Gilneas’ political climate was difficult to read at the time. However, Genn and Mia are neither foolish or oblivious, and were quick to understand their situation, leading to Genn having to pull Liam aside and quell his worries that he had married Mia out of love, not out gain or political pressure, and that if he truly found that he loved Faustus that he should go with it, especially since with Gilneas isolated there wasn't really much to get political gain for. Even if their relationship didn’t become public, some still found the pair as quite an intimidating duo, as Liam was a natural born leader and a major inspiration to those who came in contact with them, and Faustus became known as a creative inventor with a knack for detective work, who got the title of being an anti-assassin.

The scourge continued to become more and more of a problem, more so than the rooted rebellion as attacks would get collectively worse, leading Genn to call in Arugal for a solution, which came to be reawakening the worgen. Faustus, Sibran, and the other greyguard found themselves as the last line of military defense against the undead. An experience Faustus almost immediately regretted when he first came in contact with an abomination, but when the worgen came to aid them, and ended up turning against the front line, Faustus ended up getting bitten in the process. Not knowing that the curse was spread by the bite, he was cleared by Sibran to return back into the city, only to fall ill and turn once he got home. Felicity was able to restrain him, and Krennan was able to make him drink a potion to knock him out, but they only had a little time to bring him to Stormglen and restrain him, away from the city in a way to keep him from hurting other people or getting himself killed by the guard or hunters. Felicity had to keep a close eye on him, and after admitting to Genn why Faustus had gone missing the three worked towards trying to find a cure or aid to the curse, their working going double time once Genn was also bitten, but with the help of Krennan and Belyrsa found ways to keep him from turning.

Faustus was thought dead due to his absence and the fact that if they couldn’t restore his will and mind he would basically be such anyways. Liam, though distraught, wasn’t entirely convinced, and had a hope in his mind that he was still somewhere out there. Instead he put on a brave face and told others that Faustus had instead fallen very ill, which many of the Greyguard were skeptical about, but kept quiet for the sake of their prince. One day however, Tess and Liam trailed Genn and Krennan to Stormglen, waiting until they left the abandoned building they were frequenting to try and find what they were hiding, only for them to get tracked down by feral worgen. Faustus, upon hearing Felicity call out for the siblings, as well as hearing them yell out, broke from the chains keeping him from escaping. He managed to intercept the worgen before he could attack the three, holding them off until Genn was able to handle it himself. They found that after the attack was deterred, that Liam and Tess could actually calm Faustus down enough to get him to focus on them, though even if he could focus and understand what they were saying he had no way of communicating back with them. Liam and Tess, however, were relieved to find Faustus alive, even if this experience changed him in the long run.

Eventually Sarath, Hugrim, and Drulos came to investigate Cedius and Ilaise’s disappearance, as Sarath and Drulos hadn’t heard from them in a while. They found the farm, and Ilaise’s spirit ended up guiding them to Faustus where Cedius was already waiting in Stormglen. After gathering enough energy due to the direness of the situation, Cedius and Drulos were able to call upon and bargain with Goldrin. If Faustus managed to prove himself to Goldrinn, and Cedius and Ilaise agreed to act as agents of Goldrinn as they continued to traverse the mortal plane, the wild god would agree to aid Faustus in returning to being himself. As Goldrinn tested Faustus, though the man had a strong will, he found himself unable to keep his own fear and rage in check when faced with visions of Hex and the Scourge. Sarath pleaded to Goldrinn that they didn’t just leave Faustus to himself like this, and though the wild god wasn’t going to do so in the first place, he instead allowed Ilaise to separate Faustus’ rage and fury into another section of his mind and make it temporarily dormant, giving Faustus control over himself again and allowing him to return to his human form, as well as letting him have a more intimate control over his worgen form. However, as a side effect Faustus had to constantly manage his rage, as due to this separation this feral anger could manifest in both forms instead of only his worgen form, which when he was armed made him highly dangerous. The solution wasn't perfect but it gave Faustus the opportunity to one day, possibly, be at peace with himself and learn to control that fury where it mattered, rather than letting it control him.

Before going on their way to hold their end of the deal, Drulos and Sarath were able to say their final goodbyes to their old friends, the three remained to help care for Faustus as reverting from worgen form, as well as the general exertion he went through over this period of time, left him rather weak and disoriented. After they made sure their technical ‘charge’ was cared for, Sarath flew the two out the way they came, but not before Faustus came to, learned of the situation, and made Sarath promise to one day teach him orcish due to meeting Drulos and learning what the druid and two shamans did for him that day, out of respect and thankfulness.

Felicity found him not long afterwards, surprised to see him suddenly back to himself, and was in fact rather skeptical about it at first. But after finally getting himself situated, and Felicity retrieved him some clothes for him, he was finally able to return to Gilneas, luckily being able to pass off his disappearance as an illness he had to be taken to Dalaran/be under Felicity’s family’s care for. As time went on he understood how this other side of himself started to manifest, namely that it tended to appear if he couldn’t control his emotions in general, or if he went too long without giving it control. He struggled to keep it under control at first, and knowing that he was struggling with it he found himself both talking less and keeping himself away from anyone that wasn’t the royals, Sibran, or Felicity and Krennan.

Liam was a major factor in helping Faustus get back to normal, and it helped that the other side of Faustus was still Faustus at the end of the day, and even as ferocious and hard headed the beast was he still cared deeply about the same people, and will take control if he feels the way Faustus acts normally is ill-equipped to handle protecting them. Liam was commonly the person Faustus was able to vent to besides Felicity, and when Liam knew it had been a while since a manifestation he and Faustus would often go hunting, whether it would be deterring worgen or just hunting normally to bring resources to the market. It also helped that the other side also respected Liam and his ability to remain calm in the face of adversity. Eventually Faustus started meeting with Sarath and Hugrim out in the old abandoned far, and from there he started to build connections with the Vanguard, and he learned to start meditating as a way of communing with himself and starting to pull himself back together.

Years went on, and the north gate rebellion came and went, Faustus did what he could to prevent as much bloodshed as he could, but the uprising and battle took a heavy toll on both sides. Faustus himself was heavily injured when he came into contact with two of his old childhood friends from Emberstone, Elicia and Jean, who had sided with Crowley, and though he was heavily injured, he was able to get them to put down their weapons and let him help them leave the battle under the promise that he wouldn’t get them arrested, and learning that though Faustus didn’t agree with all of Genn’s actions, that he understood the king was stuck between a rock and a hard place due to his pride, his stubbornness, and the pressure of the surrounding events. This injury, an axe wound to his side, did end up restricting him for a while. It required a lot of bed rest and he was designated to playing messenger while Sibran took his role as retainer back for the meantime. Afterwards, besides the small scale worgen attacks, things went back to normal and Faustus was able to return to his duties. That was until the large scale attack on Gilneas, and as the city fell and anyone not turned was pushed back into the outskirts, it took a heavy toll on everyone involved.

Faustus was tasked with helping the Greyguard get back on track, and as Krennan actually put together the potion that was meant to aid the feral worgen, he was also tasked to aid in capturing what many came to realize as their own friends, family, and peers. Liam however took the fall hard, feeling as though he had failed his people, and with Faustus’ near constant absence, he turned to drinking away his problems (as seen in the game, holy shit Liam why), something that Faustus and Tess tried to steer him away from but the prince was too caught up in his own head to listen. Felicity herself was occupied and gone from Gilneas from helping Dalaran alongside Ashton where she could during the events in Northrend and the ensuing aftermath, and the start of the cataclysm. After the Horde’s attack on Gilneas, and Liam’s subsequent bounce back onto his feet after being in a position to help his people again, Faustus stayed by his side and supported him where he could, the future of their city looking up. Until Liam took the arrow for Genn.

Losing Liam twisted something within Faustus, and though he and the separated side of him came together enough to cooperate, he gained this silent rage and ferocity that took a while to ever go away. The anger at the attackers, and the anger at himself turned him into a ruthless machine, pushing him to retaliate hard against the forsaken not long after the initial battle. He found refuge in Tess’ sympathy and hope, and with Felicity gone and busy elsewhere she was all he had left to bring him back down to earth. It was under her guidance that he came to focus his anger towards what mattered, pushing him towards the path of becoming one with himself again. He also had help during this journey thanks to his encounters with Anduin Wrynn, who he had initially met before the summit of the alliance in Darnassus. They got along, and were able to bond over learning about the events that had happened that they were unaware of. Anduin found that Faustus was a person he could vent his worries to without judgement of ability, and Faustus found Anduin as someone he could both look up to and protect. Though Faustus struggled with the loss of someone so close to him, and the loss of his homeland, he was able to find others that would help guide him back onto his feet, and push him to keep fighting for was he thought was right.

The Alliance and Azeroth (Ages 25-Present):

Faustus mostly found himself at Genn’s side after joining the alliance, and when he wasn’t, he was running messages and errands thanks to his affinity for teleportation and portal creation. He busied himself, and almost never gave himself a break initially in order to keep his mind off the events that had happened prior. Upon some of these errands he came across people who he would aid and build connections with. He reconnected with Elicia and Jean during and after the battle for Gilneans, helping them come to terms with the worgen curse. He met Baltor, a priest known for aiding the lost and wayward spirits, when they encountered each other in the rest area of an arena ring, after Faustus was captured by pirates during a trip back to Stormwind with some of the other soldiers. Finally he met Tyraanas, a Draenei paladin, on the front against garrosh’s horde in Ashenvale. This was also the time Faustus was introduced to the Vanguards, their leader Enahlien, and the figures that led the multiple sectors of the settlement. The era of the Cataclysm was primarily providing rushed aid to the front fighting Garrosh’s horde, protecting Stormwind when needed, and providing a connection of the alliance to the Vanguards as a defacto emissary.

It was around this time that Faustus started to form his own squad, with himself, Tyraan, Baltor, Elicia, and Jean. This team was some of the first sent to look for Anduin during the start of Mists, mostly due to personal request on Faustus’ behalf (because he was both incredibly worried and anxious know that Anduin could have been in danger). It was in Pandaria that Faustus was forced to pull himself together, as at that point he risked being consumed by several of the sha, and due to his determination to work alongside his anger and be at peace with it, rather than wrangle and control it, it gave him better control over himself in general and let him aid his team in combating the influences of the sha as well. The only time this nearly fell apart during the expeditions was when he discovered Anduin’s injuries after being crushed by the bell, his doubt and anger nearly getting to him until his team was able to, in payment for him helping them in the first place, help him calm himself to prevent the sha from manifesting.

From there Faustus and his team continued their work while Anduin was recovering, but knowing that Varian was already fretting over his son Faustus instead decided to support his decision to continue to encourage his people and his allies, being overbearing was likely only going to be a detriment anyways. As the events in Pandaria progressed, Faustus bounced between aiding the front with his team where he could, and introducing his team to the Vanguards and beginning to integrate himself with them more afterwards, building connections with Adonis, Hugrim, Hugrim’s family, as well as his crew aboard the allegiance who offered to aid the efforts in Pandaria so long as they weren’t caught up in the war itself in the process.

The issues in Draenor and all the events that take place during that time was actually the period where Faustus takes a break from the front and works on his connection outside of the horde and alliance. He was able to meet the horde emissaries, a forsaken monk who merely introduced himself as Ederi, and a goblin shaman named Glekkle. A lot of what this community was working on combating was the rising influence of Hex’s cult, as well as the threat of the Legion invasion that was starting to be known as an inevitable event. Hex wanted to pull apart the Vanguards, knowing that the cult would be destroyed upon them learning of their efforts to extend the reach of Thros. This issue for Hex became even more apparent when he discovered Pheles had started working with Felicity, Sarath, and Hugrim to combat the reach of the cult, and Tul’s own covens, in Kul Tiras itself.

So, taking this opportunity now that several of the major Vanguard leaders were absent from the citadel itself Hex waged an all out attack against the citadel, catching everyone within off guard and forcing a large scale evacuation that drove the citizen’s living within to Dalaran, and brought Faustus, Ederi, Enahlien, Verelyn, an undead priestess that constantly worked with Sarath and Hugrim known as Ainade, to stay behind and attempt to prevent the cult from taking over the citadel. The position within Arathi and the research that could be used to breach the blighted lands into Azeroth was far too important to the vanguards to just give it up. After the five were swarmed with aberrations and found themselves in a losing fight, Ederi and Ainade locked themselves within Hugrim’s garden/research building, and did what they could from keeping the thankfully fireproof building safe, the other three were urged to leave and gather their strength until they could reclaim the citadel once more. In their attempted escape the three were captured, Hex himself was the one to do so personally as his members were tasked with raided the other buildings and preparing themselves to settle there. Hex’s use of fire and wicker abominations gave Faustus little time to get the other two out before they were seriously injured, and knowing that the Vanguard needed their leaders he elected to use most of his strength to break out of the construct’s grasp, and sacrifice his arm in Hex’s attempt to behead Enahlien so that Enahlien and Verelyn could gather enough of his strength to break free and run away.

Faustus used whatever time he had thought he had left, as he was bleeding out and knew that he likely wouldn’t have enough time to escape, was able to take his pistol while Hex was distracted by the two running and shot him in the knee so that he couldn’t chase after the two, before killing him for killing his parents, ruining a large part of his life, and attempting to break apart a people whose entire foundation came from pulling together through the turmoils of separation, loss, and exile. He knew, from the fact that his father persisted after his death, that this wasn’t going to be the last of Hex, but he was dying knowing that he was either going to combat him himself if he was unable to move on, or that he had broken the Cult’s leadership down enough to give both his team and the rest of the Vanguards enough time to regroup and mount a full attack against them to get the city back.

But it wasn’t like the Vanguards to leave their allies behind, and as Praeragos and Sarath managed to temporarily drive the cult from the citadel, giving them enough time to let Sarath rescue and take Ederi and Ain to Dalaran, Praer brought the remaining three to Stormwind where there was just a slim enough chance that Faustus could be saved. After magically locking the gardens, the mage tower, and the keep so that important information that was already guarded by other means couldn’t get tampered with further, Praer had carried and flown them back by opening a portal after he broke free of the cult’s vain attempts to restrain him with briar thorns. Baltor had felt the surge of energy from the portal from his room at the old town inn and from Praer’s spirit, and urged the rest of the team to follow the dragon as he landed in the fields not far from the keep, the team keeping the guards from targeting the blue dragon as they found they had to prioritize stabilizing Faustus and figuring out what the hell had happened to have caused this in the first place.

Thanks to Baltor’s, and later some assistance of Anduin’s, healing, Faustus had survived. However his injuries had forced him to retire from his position in the greyguard, as he had to focus on his recovery, and any extensive use of magic was out of the question due to his weakened state. He instead found himself staying in Stormwind, using the empty barracks next to the embassy to organize his own team on their missions, giving them aid in the only way he was able to at the time. This barracks was also used as a temporary gathering place for the Vanguard leaders, who either worked to be granted pardon or disguised themselves so that they could walk around the city easily. From here on Faustus, his team, and the vanguard’s worked to reclaim the citadel and also prepare for the impending legion invasion once they got word of Gul’dan’s freedom. Under Faustus’ and Enahlien’s planning, the efforts towards reclaiming the citadel was a success and they were able to start pushing their efforts towards rebuilding and reinforcing their position to prevent anything like this from happening again.

About a month before the invasion several of Faustus’ peers, a gnome named Lania, Felicity, a dark iron mage named Yvena, and Ainade proposed their latest work, which was a prosthetic arm meant to be attuned to his own abilities with magic, most of which he was able to use due to actually taking the time to recover and then train himself, making sure that he was still on par in that way while also learning to defend himself with only his left hand. While it was difficult, Faustus was lucky that he was left hand dominant anyways, and after giving it some thought he accepted getting the prosthesis. He also accepted the risks of getting it, as there was a chance that his body would reject it, and the impending realization that it would hurt, and he would have to give himself time to recover again. He trusted his team however, and he had gone a long way to trust Ainade, giving that she was known within the Vanguards for her research and talent with prosthetics and replacement given her situation as an undead.

Faustus played a similar role to before after he did what he could to aid Anduin’s ascension to the throne, ignoring his own feelings to losing Varian until he was away and able to express such without impacting others. His primary contributions came from sending aid to wherever him and his men were needed, and he spent a lot of his time fighting the legion in Stormheim, while working alongside Genn during that campaign for multiple reasons, Val’sharah, aiding the druids, his brother, and Sarath against the emerald nightmare, and on Argus, fighting demons head on once he firmly established his ability and the improvements granted to him by his new arm. Faustus proved to be an accomplished leader among his friends, and his ability alongside Enahlien’s own tactical prowess made their group a force to be reckoned with against the Legion. Upon the legion’s fall and things started to settle down, Genn welcomed Faustus back into the greyguard now that Faustus was back on his feet, and he proved to be more open, happy, and out there than he was before.

Yvena, Tyraanas, Baltor, and Elicia urged Genn to name Faustus as the commander as their slowly growing team started to expand into a small army, and as the war with the horde started to pick back up, he considered it. It wasn’t until the war of thorns, and Faustus and the Vanguard’s efforts to aid in the evacuations, that Genn considered it and accepted it once the Vanguard’s pledged their aid against, and see specifically, Sylvanas’ path of destruction.

Getting off the topic of Faustus briefly, it was also around this time that Liam was resurrected by Alonsus after Calia herself was resurrected. As Alonsus was standing on neural ground, but saw what Sylvanas had done during the gathering, he saw it fit to send some of his priests, Baltor, Ainade, Jean, and several others, as well as several aiding paladins, to recover Liam’s body to prevent him from being used against his own old friend and the alliance as a whole due to Jean’s accounts of the prince’s marksmanship itself. A pleasant surprise however came in the form that for one reason or another Liam’s body had not decayed since his death, and whether it was true or not, Jean had proposed that it may have been from the extent of the prince’s faith in both his people and the light, while Ainade proposed that like Calia, it may have been for the purpose of the light still needing them, and that his faith itself powered that. Liam went into a form of hiding after Faol had him ensure that he would return should anything go wrong, he rejoined the alliance, making himself known to aiding the soldiers as just merely being ‘the traveler’, a masked bowmen who seemed to appear in a time of need.

Back on topic, Faustus led said group during the battle for lordaeron, offering routed support as well as acting as the extraction soldiers for the horde prisoners. They also led the retreat once the main group had went to go confront Sylvanas. Upon returning to Stormwind, Faustus set out to help set up the Vanguard’s outpost with his friends, and they were organizing their supplies and working up until Nathanos had set fire to the city and the group had to turn their efforts towards putting the fire out. An attempted assassination on Enahlien turned into a near death experience for Faustus, as he had taken an arrow meant for him by one of the diversions, but due to the amount of aid the worgen were giving to the alliance, the most arrows in the assassin’s quiver was tipped in wolf’s bane. The assassin got away, and Faustus made his team focus on putting out the fires before he almost succumbed to the poison, narrowly getting saved by Liam as he had worked with Baltor beforehand over the possible issue of wolf’s bane being used against his friends and family. Liam left Stormwind for a while after that, getting too close to being caught before his evaluation of his situation was complete. The last thing he wanted to do was give those he cared about a false hope of his return if something suddenly went wrong.

Faustus instead went with Genn to Kul Tiras as he recovered, reprising his role briefly to work as an advisor to his team, to Genn, and to his brother as the alliance worked to bring the admiralty back into the faction. After a while after the incident and Liam was cleared to be alright for the time being, he returned to Faustus and his family to reveal his resurrection, Faustus being more than ecstatic to have an old friend and long time love back, and Genn quite frankly just being glad that he can, in fact, hold his son at least one last time before anything else happened. From there Faustus and Liam became a rather terrifying due who worked together to help clear the turmoil where they could, and Liam joined the Vanguard’s and became a major inspiration and leading force against the darker reaches of the time, working instead to fight against Azeroth’s deterioration and against the horrors of the deep.

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So, there is everything I have so far, anything else as the story progresses will be updated onto this document, and I’ll have works, stories, and art pieces to go along with all this. If the read more didn’t work, I’m sorry, but I just wanted to have this all in one comprehensive place for my own reference as well. Thank you for reading :D

#writing #wow #Oc: Faustus #backstory #long post #a bit of a happy ending because im weak to shit like that #but hey #au #i guess #because liam isnt my character and what #goes on with him if anything isnt in my control in the actual canon #i do play him as a hunter tho #and i do admit that its fun running around as him #god this took forever #about... four days roughtly #maybe five #but I'm happy its done #woot

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whiteravensoars · 8 years ago

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My re-upload is almost finished. Only one chapter left which will probably show up next week. :)

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Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug

Pairing: Adrien Agreste/Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Alya Césaire/Nino Lahiffe

Characters: Adrien Agreste, Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Alya Césaire, Nino Lahiffe, Tikki, Plagg, Chloé Bourgeois, Master Fu, students of Francois Dupont

Tags: post-series, identity reveal, fluff, lots of kitten, secret relationship, eavesdropping, Dork Adrien Agreste, but totally in love, established relationship, poor Nino Lahiffe, Alya Césaire Ships it

Summary: After scoring the highest points in a stress level test at school Marinette and Adrien have to take 'recreational hours' in order to prevent being akumatized. It seems like a long awaited break for them until Ayla hacks into CCTV and discovers …? Mostly fluff. Especially the kittens.

Chapters: 8/9

Length: 18k

Chapter 1

Nervously Adrien knocked his pen on the desk. Tap, tap. He couldn't stop worrying about this damn test. Tap, tap. Why had he agreed to take it in the first place? Ah, yes, the school decided that every student had to undergo with it … Adrien almost crashed his pen, leaving a small dent in the surface. Beside him, Nino sent a puzzled look but then concentrated on his own convertible tablet. Hiding the strength that he had built up as Chat was getting more and more difficult. Adrien needed every ounce of power to protect his lady, at the same time he couldn't explain how he gained so many muscles as a non-stop-dieting-model who burned up every additional calorie at fencing. Sighing heavily he borrowed a pen from his best friend and pushed those unsettling thoughts away.

The survey, he remembered and tried to focus on the almost never-ending row of questions. He would love to cast a glance over his shoulder where his princess sat but didn't dare to. Lately, their teachers punished any rule violation as if rebellious students could attract akumas or even something worse. Adrien wouldn't get his princess into trouble because he was behaving like an attention-seeking cat. Nevertheless, he was an attention-seeking cat. His mind was glued to Marinette non-stop. Would she answer honestly? The last days were a fuss of fights and photo shoots and way too short meet-ups after dark so Adrien simply forgot to ask her. Did she stare a hole into his back now? Pondering which option would be the best to choose? Would Marinette pretend to be a care-free teenager like she always did?

Since three years Ladybug and Chat Noir were fighting akumas. Trying hard to oppose Hawkmoth with all they've got while balancing out their civilian lives. Marinette and Adrien would instantly agree that the latter was getting harder and harder to achieve, soon it would be an impossible task. School work was piling up, they had constantly to tell lies to Ayla and Nino, they'd never expected that secrets could weigh so heavily over the years. But they managed somehow. Thanks to their companionship. Thanks to Tikki and Plagg. Until today. Because some adults had the great idea to measure the stress level of all students. Was he stressed? Hell, yes! Should anyone know this? Definitely not. Questions would arise to whose his supermodel lifestyle could not serve as an excuse. For starters, it was kind of a miracle what his classmates thought about supermodels. He could tell them almost everything. As long as he smiled happily they've swallowed it.

"Bro…" Due to his cat senses, Adrien caught Nino's almost inaudible whisper. He was reminding him to answer before their time ran out. Otherwise, Alya would kill him. For sure. Again he turned to his survey, though a Cheshire grin spread across his lips as a dangerous idea popped up. Yes, he would take this risk. Most likely it was worth the reward. Q17. Do you eat regularly? – Depends on my jobs. He ticked 'no'. Q18. Do you eat healthily? – Depends on your definition of healthy, so probably a no, too. His eating habits were absolutely weird. He didn't need a test to prove that. Since he had found his princess he was leading a double food life, training even harder to run off all those chocolate buttery tasty sweet treats the Dupain-Cheng bakery did offer. So far no photographer complained that he had gained unnecessary weight. Adrien chose his answers as fast as he could; trying to forget all those limitations he was bound to in his civilian life. Be yourself. Act naturally. Don't lie. Q23. Is it hard for you to concentrate? – Sometimes. He did not dare to write depends on Ladybug's smile, rainy days and other things cats despise. Q24. Do you tend to have small accidents? Or are you getting hurt unintentionally? Yes. Akumas created accidents while breathing. Q25. On a scale from 0 to 10, how easily do you get angry over those small accidents? This survey was very thorough. Adrien crossed 3, he was often reacting over-agitated but lately, his princess leveled him very well. Q42. Name your best friends. Marinette. – Adrien paused for a moment and scribbled – My cat Plagg. Nino. Tikki. Alya.

Adrien swiped the page with a fluid motion of his pen. Hopefully, he wasn't provoking to much trouble for his lady. Still, after being Chat Noir for three years he trusted his intuition more than anything. This survey would turn out interesting.

Marinette squirmed in her seat. Her stress level had to be higher than anyone else's - because nothing could be compared to a superhero life. The good things and the worse. Except for Adrien who struggled to maintain two alter egos simultaneously. What should she do now? Should she answer honestly? Her gaze shifted to the blond mop of hair in front of her. Why did she forget to talk about this with him in the first place? Ahhh, yes, because this week had been super eventful and absolutely stressing. As if to prove her thoughts Adrien hardly suppressed a yawn and sipped coffee from his travel-mug. Marinette stifled a sigh. She already drank her mocha coffee till the last drop. "Stop daydreaming", Alya whispered and Marinette nodded dutifully. "You can swoon over your prince afterward, girl." Now and then she was still swooning over Adrien, especially if a new magazine was published with a glossy masterpiece of him. She would never tell her kitty though, he didn't need to know this fangirling side of her too well. Fighting akumas was hard enough without ogling his leather-clad ass. "Mari", Alya pressed. "I'm on it", she yawned. With an apologetic smile, Marinette focused on those damn questions. In her purse, Tikki sent an encouraging buzz plus a wave of warmth in order to calm her troubled mind. Never ending lines of black words on an illuminated screen didn't mean her downfall. There was no reason to panic over a catalog of almost hundred questions. Especially when most of her classmates already finished this dull task; eager to leave school afterward.

Q5. Are you feeling tired? – Always. Q6. Can you sleep at night? – No. Marinette deleted her first answer and replaced it with: hardly. Q7. How often are you having nightmares? – Marinette ticked 'regularly'. Since Adrien sneaked as Chat into her bedroom after suffering from a nightmare, too, hers were kept at bay more often. Cuddling while hearing his steady breath always soothed her. Until recently Marinette never thought how many Parisians hardly managed everyday life due to the constant stress of akuma attacks. Sure, her Lucky Charm could repair all damage done, but this only referred to objects. She realized almost too late how fearful and nervous especially the students of their lycée had gotten. In the third year of their superhero life official polls awarded college and lycée Francoise Dupont with an undeserved label: For the time being their school had suffered the most akuma cases of Paris. Almost every student had been akumatized twice or even three times. Hawkmoth was claiming schools as his private playgrounds. Raging teenage hormones, bullying, insecurities – Francoise Dupont was like a feast for purple butterflies.

Marinette and Adrien had read the news and seen all the talk shows on TV where politicians and worried parents discussed possible solutions without speaking about the real culprit: a certain Moth miraculous holder. Hesitant how to react without revealing too much, Alya had sprung into action. Thanks to her blog her knowledge of akumas was huge. She still hasn't discovered every detail of the magic, but she was as good as a civilian could be. Studying the victims, their reasons and the reactions of the crowd for three years now, Alya developed a stress level survey. In the first place, it should discover students who tended to be emotionally unstable. Alya wanted to intervene and help before Hawkmouth sent out a butterfly.

Q9. Do you feel satisfied with your work? – Yes. Saving Paris all the time was quite satisfying. Although she had to sacrifice her ordinary life, she loved the thrill and she loved to help all those people even more. That's why she was answering honestly. Maybe her answers could be used as a role model for a high akuma alert or something like this. Without her miraculous, she would have been... No, Marinette did not want to visualize those horrific scenarios, never again. Her nightmares of a possessed Chat were still haunting her. More than anything she wished to lessen the tension, to ease everyone's nerves. Plus for the first time in forever, she could do this as plain Marinette. Not as Ladybug. Having a change of pace once in a while was refreshing, wasn’t it? Taking another glance at Adrien she hoped he would acknowledge her decision. Q10. Do you make mistakes? – Probably more often than she should and checked 'often'. Q11. Have your grades dropped? – Yes. But her tutor was working hard to change that. Marinette smiled at her thoughts. Adrien did his best to learn together with her; somehow they squeezed those sessions into their hectic schedule. The best motivation had offered his kwami, though. Tikki always encouraged her and tried to see the positive side of things. Plagg was brutally honest: If Marinette screwed up tests, assignments or finals; she wouldn't go the same class as her love anymore. This fuelled her more than anything. Shaking her head till her pigtails went flying Marinette swiped the page of the questionnaire. She forced herself not to look at Alya. Her bestie was probably glowing from pride and trying to read her answers. Since she had to learn from psychologists and a bunch of other specialists she was noisier than ever, her curiosity never reached its peak. Heck, she even forced some of those questions into Ladybug's face – Marinette remembered now. Alya mentioned that she worked her superhero knowledge into this survey, too, but Marinette had been too tired to inquire this further.

Q52. When was the last time you fully enjoyed yourself on a trip or outing with friends? – About four months ago. Back then Hawkmoth vanished into thin air for two whole weeks. Two whole weeks she spent with sleeping, playing games and having a first date with Adrien disguised as superheroes. This question was especially hard to answer honestly. Somehow Marinette felt like she was missing out on her teenage years, although the sadness did not linger for long. Which teenage girl could fly over Paris with a magical yoyo? Kiss Chat Noir on top of illuminated Eiffel Tower? Still, akumas seemed to sense all her happy moments, eager to interrupt them. Even yesterday she failed to finish an ice cream cone with Adrien before the latest attack hit Paris. Q64. Is someone bullying you? If yes, how often? – Yes. Almost daily. Hawkmoth, you big butterfly bully. Marinette controlled herself not to write that down. Q65. How do feel about this? Choose an adequate adjective….

She was determined to get rid of him one day. Suddenly Marinette's thoughts drifted to Chloé, another target to get rid of. Sometimes she wondered if Miss Akumatizer was secretly acting as Hawkmoth's minion, but the mayor's daughter would never lift a finger for anyone. Probably the super villain would be working for her instead or kick her out of his hideout after three days of constant bragging. Both ideas seemed possible. Marinette ticked 'furious'. It was a risky phrasing but deep down she was full of rage and insecurities and disappointment. After three years of playing a monstrous kind of hide and seek with Hawkmoth, they still had no clue how to catch him.

In the end, all her answers would be summarized into a ratio that depicted her stress level. Yet, the details were confidential, the others students would only see her result. Satisfied with this kind of concealment Marinette pressed 'send'. Her convertible beeped before closing the app her best friend created in order to take this test at every school in Paris. Adrien's chimed in a similar fashion and their gazes shifted to the screen in front of their classroom where a chart presented everyone's results. The names of her friends were colored in different hues referring to their current stress-level. Alya had explained that the best results were painted white, but only a zen-master could attain this level. Blue was pretty relaxed, green numbers had a tinge of aggression, followed by yellow and so on … Marinette hadn't bothered remembering all the details.

The chart reloaded, presenting her own result in letters as red as her ladybug suit: Stress level 96/100.

#miraculous ladybug #tales of ladybug and cat noir #ladybug and chat noir #fanfiction #identity reveal #post-series #adrien agreste #adrien x marinette #marinette dupaincheng

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bionic-buckyb · 8 years ago

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What Happens In Vegas: Part 14

A Bucky x Reader / AU drabble series

Master List

A/N: Sorry this took a bit! I had 5 days off from work and literally did nothing but sit on my ass, so that was nice. This chapter explains some things, so I hope you like it. So far (unless I decide to write more or the next chapter seems unfinished), only two parts left! Let me know what you think. I love hearing from you! ♥

Word Count: 1,182

Warnings: - language.

Tags: (at the end)

*gif is not mine.

Bucky’s words hit you like a ton of bricks, square in your chest. He moved towards you, his hand outstretched, but you backed away, unable to meet his eye. You were hurt; offended that he hadn’t told you such important information. Was he the man you thought he was, or was he someone else entirely? Your heart was screaming at you that he was a good person, that he was going to tell you at the opportune moment but hadn’t yet had the chance. Your brain was yelling at you to kick him out, scream at him for being such a piece of shit, and never speak to him again.

In the end, your heart won.

“Well fuck, Bucky,” you breathed out, blowing a rush of hot air out of your mouth with force. “This is… a lot.”

“I know it is, doll, and I am so sorry it’s all happened this way. But you have to believe me when I tell you, I was going to explain all of this to you when the time was right. Steve was obviously pissed because he thought history was repeating itself, but it’s not like that with you.”

“Then what is it like?” you asked, standing up straighter and looking him directly in the eye. “Why am I different?”

“You’re special. Everything about you radiates perfection. With Peggy, it was an accident, on both parties. We got completely smashed, got married, and well… made Charlotte. But I never had feelings for her, Y/N.”

“How can you have sex with someone you don’t have feelings for?”

“In my right mind, not intoxicated, I can’t. It’s impossible. I didn’t even know what happened until we woke up next to each other naked---“

“Okay,” you said bluntly, putting your hand up to silence him. “I get it.”

“Steve thinks he loves you, but I know he still loves Peggy. He can’t forgive her for what she did to him, not with Charlotte in the picture…”

“But why did he forgive you?”

“I don’t know, honestly. Maybe because we’ve known each other since we were kids, but he’s known Peggy almost his entire life too. I don’t think he ever fully forgave me, if I’m being honest.”

“Why doesn’t Steve give Peggy another chance? I mean… if what you say is true, everything was an accident. It wasn’t out of love that you both slept together and got married. It was an accident.”

“Once Steve is offended, it’s hard for him to reconcile. I mean… I think he would’ve taken it a bit better if a baby wasn’t born from it.”

You hadn’t even met Peggy, and you already disliked her. It was hard not to, considering she was the mother of Bucky’s child, had been married to him before (if only for a very brief time), and kept his only daughter from him, as if he were some kind of degenerate.

“Why won’t she let you see Charlotte?” you asked softly, after a brief silence between you. Your brain was working in overdrive, trying to find answers for all of your questions.

“I don’t know. She just won’t. She won’t answer my calls. I’ve tried to take it to the courts, but they said we need to take a paternity test in order for me to have any rights.”

“So… why hasn’t that been done?”

“Because she put a PFA on me. I can’t be within 100 feet of her or Charlotte at any time. My rights don’t matter.”

“What?” you asked dramatically, not able to contain your shock. “Why the fuck would she do that?”

“If I knew, I would tell you. I think she’s hiding something though, and I have no way of ever finding out what that is. I can’t tell Steve, because he won’t believe me.”

“Bucky… is it possible that Charlotte—“

“What? Charlotte, what?”

“Isn’t yours…” you trailed off, kicking yourself for even mentioning it. You could see just how much Bucky loved Charlotte when he spoke of her.

“It’s extremely possible. Her and Steve were in a relationship, remember?”

“Then why doesn’t she try and get a test done to see who is actually the legitimate father, instead of trying to push you away? Charlotte deserves to know her dad. If Steve is her father after all this time, things could have been worked out between him and Peggy. If she’s yours, you’re missing out on precious time when a little girl really needs her dad.”

“I get what you’re saying, doll,” Bucky said, brushing a stray piece of hair away from your forehead. “You have no idea how happy I am that you’re not killing me right now. This is truly why I love you. But in all honesty, what am I supposed to do about it?”

“Fight for your rights. If she’s yours, you deserve to be a part of her life.”

“Peggy is… kind of a big deal, Y/N. No lawyer can ever take her down with the heat she’s packing in her corner.”

“Are you forgetting who your wife is?” you asked stupidly, mentally punching yourself for not thinking of this before. Bucky’s eyes lit up at your words, and you could tell he did forget.

“You’re a lawyer,” he said, open mouthed, his hands waving wildly in the air. “I can’t believe I fucking forgot you’re a lawyer.”

“I am,” you said with a smirk, watching him freak out.

“And a damn good one too. You’re the one who got Clint out of that robbery, yeah?”

“I did.”

“He was clearly guilty, but you got him a year’s worth of probation, when he should’ve been in jail.”

“Clint’s a good guy who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I just had to show the judge that.”

“Doll…” Bucky said, striding over to you and placing his hands on your shoulders. “After everything I’ve done to you, I’m going to ask you something. You can say no, but it would mean the world to me, and I would owe you my life.”

You looked up into his sapphire orbs, swirling with hope. You knew what he was going to ask. With all of your heart, you loved him. He was your husband, and not just because it happened in Vegas so suddenly, but because you wanted him to be. You realized, standing right in front of him and watching his face positively light up was enough for you to do whatever he asked.

“I’ll help you,” you said, before he could even ask himself.

“Oh my god, you will?” he breathed out with relief, his eyes widening even more if possible. “Thank you. Seriously, thank you so much.”

Bucky wrapped you up in the biggest bear hug and kissed you right on the lips. His face was flushed red, as he spun you around the room. You kissed him back, and tried your best to stem your nerves for what was sure to be the biggest court case of your entire career.

“Don’t thank me until we know who Charlotte’s father is.”

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101goalsin1001days-blog · 8 years ago

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The List

The entire point is to avoid those vague-ass goals you’ll never get around to do so I’m posting the reason for every goal I have.

Some goals are private so are either slightly edited (e.g. how much money I want to save) or completely blacked out (e.g. things that are very personal), but the vast majority is for everyone’s eyes. All goals are very specific but to shorten the list I’ve included “Update wardrobe” but omitted the subgoals such as “Buy a new jacket” and “Buy 3 pairs of jeans”, for instance.

If you’re interested in doing this project yourself I suggest you take a look at dayzeroproject.com – there is plenty of information on how to go about it as well as a huge source of ideas for your list!

Without any further ado – my list:

101 List 2017

Start date: 1st January 2017 End date: 29th September 2019

In progress: Complete: Failed:

Myself

Looks:

1. Update wardrobe in 2017 [I desperately need new clothes after two pregnancies]

2. Clear out wardrobe [I also desperately need to clear out my closet before I drown in stuff I can’t fit anymore]

3. Get a new tattoo w. foot/handprints [I want a tattoo of my kid’s hand/footprints, this one is self explanatory]

4. Get a Doctor Who inspired tattoo [I’ve wanted this for a good while now but never got around to doing it]

5. Get a SPN inspired tattoo [Ditto the above]

Health:

6. Do 20 sit-ups every day for a month (0/30) [After the twins this is just really necessary since I can barely lift anything anymore]

7. Cut out sugar for one week (0/7) [In hopes that it’ll help with my migraines]

8. Don’t drink soda for an entire month (0/30) [Again, migraines. Not to mention it’s expensive]

9. Jump rope 10 min. every day for a month (0/30) [Because it’s literally the only thing I want to do AND have time to do, and it’s better than nothing]

10. Wash face every day for a month (0/30) [Primarily because I need to do something for myself once in a while and even with three kids, I can find 30 seconds to put product on my face and wash it]

11. Use hair treatment once a week for 3 months (5/12) [After two horrible pregnancies where food was NOT my friend, my hair is a joke]

Skills:

12. Practice being ambidextrous [I’ve always been ambidextrous but with twins you notice exactly HOW useful it is, so I want to get better at it]

13. Take an Italian course [Because “learn Italian” always seems to fail on every list and I should be able to do a single course]

14. Learn the ASL alphabet [Never underestimate communication skills!]

15. Learn the Cyrillic alphabet by heart [I’m okay at it but it takes too long if I’m reading subtitles, etc. so I want to get better]

16. Take an archery class [I’ve wanted to do this for SO many years but somehow just never got around to it]

On the inside:

17. Do something for ME once a month for a year (2/12)[Because I really, really need to. This something can be almost anything, as long as I feel relaxed and let myself enjoy myself]

Family & Friends

Kids:

18. Take kids to a water park [They’d all love it and we’ve never been]

19. Do some kind of activity with A every week for a year (0/52) (bake, cook, Legos, paint, etc.) (2/30) [After the twins, he quickly feels a little left out, so doing activities that are just for him might help.]

20. Give A a new book each month for a year (1/12) [He loves his books just like his mom, but we’re both growing tired of the same ones]

21. Take a picture of D & J next to the giant teddy bear every month until they turn 1 [I’ve always been way too sick after pregnancy to do anything fun like this but better late than never, right?]

22. Have a special one-on-one day with each kid every month for a year [With three kids, especially twins, one-on-one time is hard to come by, so I need to prioritize it]

Husband:

23. Have a night out with J every month for a year (0/12) [Because we need time away from out lovely offspring]

24. Take dance lessons with J [We’ve talked about it for a while but never got around to it]

25. Give J a “day off” once a week for two months (0/8) [He’s amazing with the kids but he’s very bad at letting himself relax!]

26. Do something nice for J 12 times (0/12) [I used to do so many nice, little things for him but kind of stopped after I got really sick]

Brother:

27. Take brother mini-golfing [It’s a childhood thing]

28. Invite brother over for dinner once a month for 6 months (0/6) [We don’t always have enough time to hang out very often]

Mom:

29. Invite mom over for dinner once a month for 6 months (0/6) [She’s hard to make come by because she always feels like she’s intruding, even with an invitation]

General family:

30. Move to a new house before A starts school [We could use the space but mainly because I REFUSE to let him go to school in this neighborhood!]

31. [PRIVATE]

32. Have a family photo taken [Because it’s rarely a spur-of-the-moment things that someone takes a picture of all five of us]

Friends:

33. Take S out to dinner, just the two of us [Because we always hang out as couples + kids and it would be nice to leave the kids and husbands behind for once]

34. Take C out to dinner, just the two of us [I think she could use some adult time, being a single mother she’s always “on call”]

35. Host 3 board-game nights (0/3) [I LOVE playing board games but we rarely ever do it]

36. Buy 3 new board games (0/3) [It would be nice to own a few new ones]

37. Host 3 dinner nights with friends (0/3) [Usually our dinner nights consist of everyone forgetting dinner and ordering something last minute. I’d like to actually cook food for once]

Finances

38. Open an emergency account and put at least X in every month for a year (1/12) [We had one but our car f’ed up tremendously so we need to build it up from scratch]

39. Do a no-spend month (not including groceries, bills, etc.) three times (0/3) [I’m in no doubt we can do this, we don’t buy too much excessive stuff anyhow but I really want to see how much we can save by buying nothing excessive]

Food

40. Try 6 new flavors of ice cream (0/6) [Because this is my favorite goal on all my lists :D]

41. Try 12 new recipes (1/12) [I quickly get bored and it’s fun to try new things]

42. Try 12 new foods (1/12) [Ditto the above]

43. Make homemade chocolates [I’ve always wanted to try but never been patient enough; after three kids I think I have all the patience I’ll ever have]

44. Make and CAN tomato sauce from scratch [I’ve always wanted to be more self-sufficient and I think canning will turn out to be my kind of thing]

45. Make my own bread one a week for a month (0/4) [I love homemade bread but I’m a shovel when it comes to baking… Won’t ever learn if I don’t try]

46. Write down all food we throw out and why for a month(0/30) [I used to throw very little out but kids make everything a bit more challenging, and I know that if I write down how much we throw out, I’ll be more likely to avoid the “pit falls”]

47. Stick to the meal plan for 3 consecutive months (0/3) [Because I’ve been shit at this lately with the result of a tripled food budget!]

48. Keep a food waste journal for a month three times (0/3) [I know we throw out little compared to most people but I still think it’s WAY too much, and it would be nice to see where we can improve]

49. Serve really delicious/interesting lunch for A for two weeks (i.e. no bread/lunchmeat/that’s-it combos) (0/7) (0/7) [because we’re all getting tired of the same things]

50. Serve really delicious/interesting lunch for myself for two weeks (0/7) (0/7)

51. Make really delicious/interesting lunch boxes for my husband for two weeks (0/7) (0/7)

Books, music and movies

Books:

52. Read 12 of the unread books in my bookcase (0/12) [I need to cut down the amount of books I have and only keep the ones I love, but I keep re-reading my favorites]

53. Read my height in books (164 cm worth of (0/164 cm) [I’m a hobbit so I might even finish this one]

54. Read one new poem each month for a year. Compile a journal of these poems (1/12) [I miss poetry but it hasn’t been a priority for the last many years]

Movies:

55. Finish A’s list of movies (1/23)

[Because I’m crap at watching movies and I’ve promised him to watch at least some of these]

- Alien III - Kiss Kiss Bang Bang - The Fugitive - In Bruges - Reservoir Dogs - The Prestige - Twelve Monkeys - Good Will Hunting - V for Vendetta - X-Men: Days of Future Past - Indiana Jones - Ant-Man - The Wolverine - The Usual Suspect - Find Me Guilty - Glengarry Glen Ross - John Wick - Love Actually - Megamind - One Hour Photo - Pacific Rim - The Fifth Element - The Recruit

56. Watch all Star Wars movies (2/8)[Because A asked me to]

Experiences

57. Go ice skating [My husband promised to take me the first winter we were dating but then I got pregnant and we forgot all about it]

58. Try laser tag [Who wouldn’t want to try laser tag!?]

59. Ride a horse [I’ve always wanted to try this but I was one of those kids who cried when I saw a mini-pony and was asked if I wanted to ride it…]

60. Hold a snake [Simply because snakes are awesome]

61. Watch a Symphony Orchestra live [I’m so annoyed we missed the Harry Potter concert two years ago that any concert would do at this point]

Creative stuff

62. Do the 365 Photos in 365 Days challenge [I fail this goal every time but I’ll make it eventually, right?]

63. Take a self-portrait every month for a year (0/12) [Just for fun. Maybe to see if the bags under my eyes get smaller as time goes by]

64. Buy a tripod [Seriously – have you tried taking a selfie with 5 people in it?]

65. Fill out an adult coloring book [I have an app on my phone but it’s much more relaxing with the real deal]

66. Do one craft each week, no matter how small, for 3 months (0/12) [This is gonna be a real challenge but I would love to actually do something enjoyable again that doesn’t involve other people]

67. Take a photography course [Taking better pictures would be nice!]

68. Finish “This Is Not a Book” [I really want to finish these books/journals soon]

69. Finish “Mess” [I really want to finish these books/journals soon]

70. Finish “Wreck This Journal” [I really want to finish these books/journals soon]

House [All goals have sub-goals and are meant to improve our house and our sanity – I go crazy when I have to look at 18 piles of random crap around the house]

71. Bedroom

72. Living room

73. Bathroom

74. A’s room

75. D & J’s room

76. Playroom

77. Kitchen

78. Hallway

79. FIX. THE. GARDEN. [BECAUSE I NEEDS TO BE FIXED BEFORE WE DIE OF OLD AGE]

Cleaning up my life

80. Use up 10 products (not including shampoo) a year [I’ve given away like 90% of my stuff because I had WAY too much, but I still need to actually use the stuff I have left] - 2017 (1/10) - 2018 (0/10) - 2019 (0/10)

Help.org

81. Buy 3 things through a helporg site [Often enough they have some pretty cool stuff and why not support it?]

82. Donate X kr to Pomozi.ba (0/X) [They’re one of the very few organizations I fully trust and I highly appreciate what they do, so I’d love to help]

83. Make 6 micro-loans of min. X pr. loan (0/6) [I think this is such a neat idea and definitely something that doesn’t cost too much for us to do]

WSHTF

84. [PRIVATE]

85. [PRIVATE]

86. Update First Aid kit

87. Take a baby CPR course

88. Take CPR course every year (2014) (2015) (2016) (2017)

89. [PRIVATE]

90. [PRIVATE]

91. Grow something edible in the garden without killing it or attracting a horde of snails this time [Long story, but I won’t be growing lettuce again…]

#101 goals in 1001 days #The List

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