#Smedry family

[threemoonwatchers]

Nah you don’t understand my need for a fic in which someone is bullying Himalaya for still being a librarian and not believing she’s actually a good librarian the way she “says she is” and then getting beat up by an army of Smedrys and small free kingdomer children who adore her because idk I think she’s good with kids sue me

I might die of fluff just thinking about it

@obsessed-with-words-on-a-page come squeal over the fluff with me

[makethosenarratorsfight]

UNRELIABLE NARRATORS; REVIVAL BRACKET MEETS WINNERS BRACKET

THE FINAL DECISION

Shen Qingqiu (SVSSS) vs. Lemony Snicket (A Series of Unfortunate Events)

RULES

For tie sweeps, im giving each match up a 0.2% margin. Additionally, you have to convince me that these two character have something in common besides being unreliable goofiers

Propaganda is very much encouraged :]

Please be nice to each other :( At the end of the day, this is a silly internet bracket with way too many obscure characters to count. remember to touch grass everyone

Polls from round 1-3 will be one day! From there, all polls will be a week, including the finals

The winner of the loser's bracket will go against the winner of the winner's bracket and that winner will be declared the most unreliable

There will be no propaganda on the polls. However I will still reblog art + propaganda in reblogs

There will be new characters so that the bracket is complete. These characters are highlighted in bold.

Main tag (with polls) will be #unreliable narrator battle

List of all characters below (+their match ups and brackets!)

FINALS

Semi Finals

Shen Qingqiu (SVSSS) vs. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How to Train Your Dragon (books)) 

John Gaius (The Locked Tomb) vs. Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby)

FINALS

Shen Qingqiu (SVSSS) vs. John Gaius (The Locked Tomb)

!!AFTER THIS, THE WINNER FIGHTS LEMONY SNICKET!!

SIDE A

SIDE B

SIDE C

SIDE D

SIDE A 

Round 1

Yoo Joonghyuk (ORV) vs. Patrick Bateman (American Psycho) 

Kuruto Ryuki (AI: The Somnium Files Nirvana) vs. The Narrator of Fight Club (Fight Club) 

Lee Hakhyun (ORV; Side stories) vs. Wei Wuxian (Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation) 

Kaede Akamatsu (Danganronpa V3) vs. Shen Qingqiu/Shen Yuan (Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System) 

Cale Henituse (Trash of the Counts Family) vs. Apollo/Lester Papdopoulos (Trials of Apollo)

Noé Archiviste (Vanitas no Carte) vs. Beatrice (Umineko)  

Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows) vs. Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson & the Olympians) 

Ted (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream) vs. Dr. John Watson (Sherlock Holmes) 

Phone Guy (FNAF) vs. Mima Kirigoe (Perfect Blue) 

Every Fic Writer (Real Life) vs. Submitter (Submitter’s life) 

Amanda (Amanda the Adventurer) vs. Sunny (Omori) 

Edith Finch (What Remains of Edith Finch) vs. The Batter (OFF) 

Cersei Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire) vs. Coriolanus Snow (Hunger Games)

Dr. James Sheppard (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd) vs. Singer of The Main Character (The Main Character) 

Odysseus (Odyssey) vs. Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein) 

Louis De Pointe Du Lac (Interview with the Vampire) vs. Narrator of Jane the Virgin (Jane the Virgin) 

round 2

Yoo Joonghyuk (ORV) vs. Kuruto Ryuki (AI: The Somnium Files Nirvana)

Lee Hakhyun (ORV; Side stories) vs. Shen Qingqiu/Shen Yuan (Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System) 

Apollo/Lester Papdopoulos (Trials of Apollo) vs. Beatrice (Umineko)  

Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson & the Olympians) vs. Ted (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream)

Phone Guy (FNAF) vs. Every Fic Writer (Real Life)

Sunny (Omori) vs. The Batter (OFF) 

Coriolanus Snow (Hunger Games) vs. Singer of The Main Character (The Main Character) 

Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein) vs. Louis De Pointe Du Lac (Interview with the Vampire)

Round 3

Yoo Joonghyuk (ORV) vs. Shen Qingqiu/Shen Yuan (Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System) 

Beatrice (Umineko) vs. Ted (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream)

Every Fic Writer (Real Life) vs. The Batter (OFF) 

Singer of The Main Character (The Main Character) vs. Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein) 

Round 4

Shen Qingqiu/Shen Yuan (Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System)  vs. Beatrice (Umineko)

Every Fic Writer (Real Life) vs. Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein) 

Round 5

Shen Qingqiu/Shen Yuan (Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System)  vs. Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein) 

SIDE B 

Round 1

Alctraz Smedry (Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians) vs. Christopher (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) 

Benjamin Brynn (Before Your Eyes) vs. Charles Kinbote (Pale Fire) 

Neil Josten (All for the Game) vs. The Maid (The House in Fata Morgana) 

Grisia Sun (The Legend of Sun Knight) vs. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How to Train Your Dragon (books)) 

Kvothe (The Kingkiller Chronicle) vs. Margot Garcia/Gottiewriters (An Unauthorized Fan Treatise) 

Tobias (Animorphs) vs. Brooke Page (Ever After High) 

The Biologist (Annihilation) vs. Varric Tethras (Dragon Age) 

The Narrators (Ever After High) vs. Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) 

Mysterious Man (Into the Woods) vs. Briony Tallis (Atonement) 

Simon Snow (Carry On) vs. Marco (Animorphs) 

Nishijou Takumi (Chaos;Head) vs. Jason Todd (Dc Comics/Batman) 

Ulysses (Fallout;New Vegas) vs. Montresor (Cask of Amontillado) 

Yukio Okumura (Ao no exorcist) vs. Rue Bennet (Euphoria)

Goob (Meet the Robinsons) vs. Humbert Humbert (Lolita) 

Drosselmeyer (Princess Tutu) vs. Haruaki Fusaishi (Raging Loop) 

Greg Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) vs. Joker (Joker) 

Round 2

Christopher (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) vs. Benjamin Brynn (Before Your Eyes)

Neil Josten (All for the Game) vs. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How to Train Your Dragon (books)) 

Kvothe (The Kingkiller Chronicle) vs. Brooke Page (Ever After High) 

Varric Tethras (Dragon Age) vs. Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) 

Mysterious Man (Into the Woods) vs. Marco (Animorphs) 

Jason Todd (Dc Comics/Batman) vs. Montresor (Cask of Amontillado) 

Yukio Okumura (Ao no exorcist) vs. Goob (Meet the Robinsons)

Drosselmeyer (Princess Tutu) vs. Greg Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

Round 3

Christopher (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) vs. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How to Train Your Dragon (books)) 

Brooke Page (Ever After High) vs. Varric Tethras (Dragon Age) 

Marco (Animorphs) vs. Jason Todd (Dc Comics/Batman) 

Goob (Meet the Robinsons) vs. Greg Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

Round 4

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How to Train Your Dragon (books)) vs. Brooke Page (Ever After High) 

Jason Todd (Dc Comics/Batman) vs. Greg Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

Round 5

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How to Train Your Dragon (books)) vs. Greg Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

SIDE C

Round 1

Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit) vs. Kuzco (The Emperor’s New Groove) 

Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives) vs. The Narrator (The Stanley Parable) 

Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb) vs. Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club) 

Patroclus (Song of Achiles) vs. Dean Winchester (Supernatural)  

John Gaius (The Locked Tomb) vs. Edie (What Remains of Edith Finch) 

Leshy (Inscryption) vs. Daniil Dankovsky (Pathologic) 

Jeramie Brasirie/Jeremy Brasirie (Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger) vs. Jude Duarte (Cruel Prince) 

Nelly Lockwood (Wuthering Heights) vs. Taylor Herbert (Worm) 

Rachel (The Girl on the Train) vs. Dr. Malcolm Crowe (The Sixth Sense)

Grace Marks (Alias Grace) vs. Guy Pearce (Memento) 

Yoo Jongwoo (Strangers From Hell) vs. Prince Huai (The Imperial Uncle) 

Nadeko Sengoku (Monogatari Series) vs. Odokawa (Odd Taxi) 

Rashomon Cast (Rashomon) vs. Narrator of Death in the Woods (Death in the Woods) 

The Narrator of Slay the Princess (Slay the Princess) vs. Lloyd Allen (Shaperaverse) 

Dr. Money (Presentable LIberty) vs. Nana Daiba (Revue Starlight) 

Jane (The Yellow Wallpaper) vs. Squealer (Animal Farm) 

Round 2

Kuzco (The Emperor’s New Groove) vs. Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives)

Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb) vs. Patroclus (Song of Achiles)

John Gaius (The Locked Tomb) vs. Daniil Dankovsky (Pathologic) 

Jeramie Brasirie/Jeremy Brasirie (Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger) vs. Nelly Lockwood (Wuthering Heights)

Dr. Malcolm Crowe (The Sixth Sense) vs. Guy Pearce (Memento) 

Yoo Jongwoo (Strangers From Hell) vs. Odokawa (Odd Taxi) 

Rashomon Cast (Rashomon) vs. The Narrator of Slay the Princess (Slay the Princess)

Nana Daiba (Revue Starlight) vs. Jane (The Yellow Wallpaper)

Round 3

Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives) vs. Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb)

John Gaius (The Locked Tomb) vs. Jeramie Brasirie/Jeremy Brasirie (Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger)

Dr. Malcolm Crowe (The Sixth Sense) vs. Odokawa (Odd Taxi) 

The Narrator of Slay the Princess (Slay the Princess) vs. Nana Daiba (Revue Starlight)

Round 4

Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb) vs. John Gaius (The Locked Tomb)

Dr. Malcolm Crowe (The Sixth Sense) vs. The Narrator of Slay the Princess (Slay the Princess)

Round 5

John Gaius (The Locked Tomb) vs. The Narrator of Slay the Princess (Slay the Princess)

SIDE D

Round 1

Holden Caulfield (Catcher in the Rye) vs. Scout (To Kill a Mockingbird) 

Alex (A Clockwork Orange) vs. Guy Montag (Fahrenheit 451) 

Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby) vs. Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) 

Alex Eggleston (YIIK: A Postmodern RPG) vs. Joe Goldberg (YOU) 

Chief Bromden (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) vs. The Mother (Pumpkin Eater) 

Theo Decker (The Goldfinch) vs. Pi (The Life of Pi) 

Amy Dune (Gone Girl) vs. Josh Newman (The Secrets of the Immortal NIcholas Flamel (SINF)) 

Kukuide Kei (Ultraman Geed) vs. Darkstalker (Wings of Fire) 

Tsurugi Kamishiro (Kameh Rider Kabuto) vs. Vanora (Vincent; The Secret of Myers (VTSOM)) 

Gareth (Philadephia Here I Come) vs. Rune Saint John (The Tarot Sequence) 

Keyser Soze (The Usual Suspects) vs. Jane North-Robinson (Horrid) 

Ben (The Sin Eaters Confession) vs. Mars (The Honeys) 

Lacey (Lacey’s Diner) vs. Katrina Kim (Liar Dreamer Thief) 

Charlie Gordon (Flowersfor Algernon) vs. The Narrator of Greater Boston (Greater Boston) 

Italo Calvino (If on a Winter’s Night, a Traveler) vs. Ted (How I met your Mother) 

Claudia (Monday’s Not Coming) vs. Rosie Amo/Agent Red (The Admistration Podcast) 

Round 2

Scout (To Kill a Mockingbird) vs. Alex (A Clockwork Orange)

Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) vs. Joe Goldberg (YOU) 

Chief Bromden (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) vs. Pi (The Life of Pi) 

Amy Dune (Gone Girl) vs. Darkstalker (Wings of Fire) 

Vanora (Vincent; The Secret of Myers (VTSOM)) vs. Rune Saint John (The Tarot Sequence) 

Jane North-Robinson (Horrid) vs. Ben (The Sin Eaters Confession)

Lacey (Lacey’s Diner) vs. Charlie Gordon (Flowersfor Algernon)

Ted (How I met your Mother) vs. Rosie Amo/Agent Red (The Admistration Podcast) 

Round 3

Scout (To Kill a Mockingbird) vs. Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) 

Pi (The Life of Pi) vs. Amy Dune (Gone Girl)

Vanora (Vincent; The Secret of Myers (VTSOM)) vs. Ben (The Sin Eaters Confession)

Lacey (Lacey’s Diner) vs. Ted (How I met your Mother) 

Round 4

Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) vs. Amy Dune (Gone Girl)

Vanora (Vincent; The Secret of Myers (VTSOM)) vs. Ted (How I met your Mother) 

Round 5

Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) vs. Ted (How I met your Mother) 

[cauldroninthecrystal]

hiii :3

I dunno if it sounds rude but can you draw ( or share more info) about AvtELseries x MLB crossover pls?

Of course! I’ll post some Alcatraz x MLB crossover art in another post, but I’ll share some information here!

- This au is set in a world where the Free Kingdoms and Hushlands are not separated, and the people in the Free Kingdoms are not lords, kings, ect.

- The Smedry family are miraculous holders

- The Evil Librarians are obviously still the villains in the story…but are not librarians? (I’m still figuring them out)

- The Smedry clan and other “Free Kingdomers” are now big business corporations. Rich and well-known :b

- Also this is just general info, but I will be changing the powers of some of the miraculouses. Since some seem very overpowered

And that’s all o got for now :b

[moonzie-writes-stuff]

(Idea by @thesmileystudio but with the singular change of nOBODY ON THE SHIP KNOWING ABOUT IT)

So there I was, being rudely interrupted from my first dreamless sleep since the Highbrary by a frantic Bastille.

One thing we need to clarify. Don’t wake people up to help them after getting sick. I mean really, that’s extremely counterproductive to everything that any foster parents (or other Smedrys) have ever told me. (Surely there’s no oddly backwards Free Kingdomer logic about THAT, right?)

Of course, this situation might have possibly been different, since usually sickness isn’t caused by proximity to an acclaimed Hushlands landmark.

(No, I’m not kidding. In hindsight, why else would anyone build a giant metal arch in the middle of nowhere? For the “aesthetic?” Yeah, right.)

I’m going to assume you guys need context. I’m also going to assume I’m going to have to be the one to give it.

Fine. Here we go again.

“Why are we flying this way to Nalhalla? Isn’t it the other way?” I asked.

Kaz nodded. “We’re picking up Aydee on the way. I’m sorry, kid, but we’ve got to tell her the news about Attica.”

“Oh.”

“Yeah.”

Silence filled the aircraft after that.

For those of you reading this WITHOUT having read the last five books of my autobiography and Bastille’s sixth installment first of all, why? Why are you here? You don’t even know my name, do you? Those of you in the Hushlands are probably questioning why a prison in France is shaking me awake, aren’t you? Read the other books first, you sicko. Secondly, since of course you’re probably still here despite my admonishing, accept this recap.

My name is Alcatraz Smedry. My family is known for having Talents for stuff like breaking things (me), getting lost (Kaz), and being bad at math (Aydee). Or at least that’s how things used to go, until I accidentally released the Dark Talent upon the world and broke the talents. (You know, as one does under pressure.)

The Librarians control the Hushlands. (lands such as the United States or China) and hide that fact from everyone who’s not in their cult while simultaneously trying to take over the free kingdoms (lands such as Nalhalla, Mokia, etc.) and incorporate them into their ever-growing empire.

The last volume I wrote detailed our infiltration into the Highbrary (Or as Hushlanders might know it, the U.S. Library of Congress) and introduced “Cousin Dif,” aka Biblioden, aka the Scrivener, aka the original head of the Librarians who was supposed to be dead years ago.

He betrayed us all when we least expected it, then sacrificed my father on an altar and shot my grandfather, leaving me the last surviving member of the true Smedry line of Oculators, who can use special glasses to do cool stuff.

So, basically, we failed completely.

Or so I thought.

Bastille’s recently released installment covered a LOT of happenings, including but not limited to Grandpa Smedry somehow managing to get his talent back in time to save his life, (He’s still arriving late to his bullet wound to this day.) gravity breaking across the entire world, (I plead the fifth on that one.) a diplomatic discussion with the Dark Talent itself that ended in the other talents coming back, and me having no choice but to give a little bit of Smedry Talent to everyone in the world.

So if you ever find yourself waking up looking uglier than usual, or tripping over nothing, or putting something in one place and coming back to find it gone, that was probably my fault.

Sorry about that.

“Hey, Kaz? Can we stop for food somewhere?”

“Sure, kid. We’re coming up on St. Louis, so we can find a place there if anyone has any Hushlander currency.”

I had, in fact, procured some from the Highbrary, and I told Kaz so.

“Alright! Lemme just set the detour real quick,” Australia said.

“Nice, I’ve always wanted to see the Gateway Arch,” I said, sitting in the nearest empty chair.

Bastille scoffed. “I don’t understand Hushlanders. Lots of gates have arches. Why is this one so special?”

I shrugged. “Mostly because it’s big and metal, and I think you can go inside it, but that might be a different landmark. I guess we don’t have to see it.”

“Well, if we’re gonna be there anyway, I suppose we can stop by it for a few minutes,” Bastille said, rolling her eyes.

“Actually, if you’re in full armor and the rest of us minus Kaz are in formalwear… if we go somewhere that public, we’re definitely going to attract unwanted attention. We probably shouldn’t stop in a city that big at all,” I rationalized.

Bastille rolled her eyes. “There are extra clothes on this thing for a reason, Smedry. We can make something work.”

“Alright, then. Australia, I’m afraid you’re going to have to hover and let whoever’s coming with me down on the ladder. A giant penguin landing in the middle of the city would be way too noticeable. Speaking of which, who’s coming with me?”

Bastille, Sing, and Kaz volunteered.

“Alrighty, then. I’m going to need some way to keep contact with you guys. Australia, how do you feel about Courier’s Lenses?”

“Um… better than the first time the two of us used them?”

“That’ll work. Australia, you’re gonna have to take everyone’s orders and pass them onto me through the lenses. Can you do that?”

“Um… maybe? Do we have a backup plan?”

I shrugged. “Only if Kaz still has his cell phone.”

Kaz gave me a thumbs up. “Yup! Sure do!”

“Leave it with Australia and there’s our backup plan. Now, I’m still going to be at least acting like I’m using the phone. Hushlanders aren’t exactly… used to lenses, so don��t freak out when you see me on the phone. It’s purely for aesthetic purposes.”

“Okay.”

“Bastille, Sing, and Kaz, you go change into T-shirts and shorts. I’ll be doing the same. I’ll tell you if they’re on wrong when you’re done.”

And so began a somewhat infiltration into St. Louis.

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When we came back together, we found out that Sing had no taste in clothes. At all.

At least Bastille had chosen a fairly normal-looking black tee-shirt with some sarcastic comment on it and a pair of bermuda shorts.

And it turns out Kaz looks pretty good in a sweater vest. (Who knew?)

Sing, however… Well, some things are better illustrated in pictures.

I looked at Sing. “Okay, you know what? Sing, can you just find a plain, white shirt?”

Sing nodded. “Alright!” he said, already running (tripping once) to the room he’d claimed on Penguinator.

“Bastille, that’s perfect. Great job.”

Bastille smirked. “Thanks, Smedry. You don’t look to bad yourself.”

(A/N: If you’re wondering what he’s wearing)

I blushed, quickly changing the subject when Sing came back, wearing, as I’d asked, a white t-shirt.

“Alright, Australia, drop us down there. We can walk from here.”

It was true. There was a Steak ’n’ Shake not too far from the edge of town we were approaching, so I told everyone ahead of time what their options were.

Australia dropped us off, and I put on my Courier’s Lenses as we walked to the Steak ’n’ Shake.

“Alrighty, guys. Check out the menu while I call Australia.” I said, pulling out the cell phone and acting like I was putting in a phone number.

“Hi!” Australia gasped. “OH MY GOSH ITS WORKING SO WELL??? WOW!”

I winced at her volume. “Okay, Australia. Ask everyone whether they want chicken tenders or a burger, and write it down so you can tell me.”

“You got it!” the Courier’s Lenses blinked out as Australia took them off.

Kaz grinned. “The cheeseburger looks pretty good. Also, what are milkshakes?”

I gasped, faux offendedly. “Okay yeah we have to introduce everyone to milkshakes. Wait, Kaz, do you know if anyone with us is lactose intolerant?”

Kaz shook his head. “Nope, nobody on Penguinator is lactose intolerant.”

“Great! Now I just have to-” at that precise moment, Australia’s Couriers Lenses were turned back on. “Nice! Australia, ask around for milkshake orders. They’ve got Vanilla, Chocolate, Strawberry, Banana, Oreo Cookies 'n Cream, Mint Oreo, Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, Birthday Cake, Cotton Candy, M&M's, Reese's peanut butter cup, Reese's peanut butter, Reese’s chocolate peanut butter, Nutella, Butterfinger, Kit-Kat, and Snickers.”

(A/N: yes I did have to copy and paste the shake menu and delete the calories and ingredient information this hurt me)

Australia dutifully wrote down each flavor and made a saluting motion before turning off her lenses again.

“Alright, guys! Any minute now and we’ll be able to order.”

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About half an hour later, the four of us returned to Penguinator with plenty of fast food for the others before immediately going back down to see the Gateway Arch.

A few minutes in, Sing tripped.

Of course, we made nothing of it.

A few minutes later, the milkshake started to disagree with me.

“Oof. I should NOT have gotten a large.”

Bastille scoffed. “Obviously.”

We came within sight of the arch, and my head began to pound.

Well, that’s not the milkshake, is it, I thought.

My stomach turned as we walked closer, and I found myself suddenly drained of all energy. Where before I’d had the quickest strides out of the team, now I was lagging about two feet behind Kaz, very much in last place.

Needless to say, Bastille noticed. Also needless to say, she decided to make fun of me for it. “You’d better not be falling asleep back there, Smedry,”

“No, m’fine,” I said, although I definitely was feeling a little sleepy.

We were so close; I couldn’t give up now. Bastille was gonna lose her mind when she found out we could, in fact, go inside the thing, up all the way to the top. There were windows up there, I was pretty sure.

She wanted to make fun of me for lagging behind? Well, we’d see how she felt about going ahead of everyone else when we were up six hundred thirty feet in the air.

The world seemed to spin all of a sudden, but on the bright side, we were almost to the ticket center.

“Hey guys! We can go inside it! Let’s go!” Sing exclaimed, pointing at a sign.

Kaz hung back. “I don’t know, guys. Are you sure you wanna go in? I mean, think about Bastille, that’s pretty high up…”

Bastille shuddered. “Don’t remind me.”

I gave a small smile that probably looked like a grimace.* “That’s the idea. It’s time I get some teasing ammunition for once.”

Kaz looked at me. “Al, you’re not lookin’ to good. I don’t know if you’d survive up there without passing out.”

“M’fine, Kaz. C’mon, let’s get our tickets.”

We waited in line at the ticket center for what felt like hours but was probably only a few minutes. My legs felt like gelatin, but Sing looked so excited, and I sure as heck wasn’t gonna be the one to rob him of this experience.

I inhaled sharply. White-hot pain stabbed through my head, uncannily reminiscent of the headaches I’d get as a child. (I now knew they were a result of Oculatory power building up in me at unhealthy levels.)

“You alright, Smedry? We can’t have you fainting away on us.” Bastille snarked.

“Fine, fine. Just a headache.”

“Drama queen.”

“Okay, Bastille.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“Guys! The line’s moved!” Sing said, effectively finishing the argument for us.

I hobbled forward, swaying like one of those inflatable tube men you see in the Hushlands sometimes. (For you Free Kingdomers reading this, think holding a singular cooked noodle vertically and moving your hand back and forth slightly, but upside down and with two smaller noodles attached to the first one.)

Bastille steadied me. “Whoa, there. Don’t go fainting away on me, Smedry.”

I tried to think of a good comeback, but my mind wasn’t working and my vision was fuzzy and when I looked back at Bastille all that came out was, “S’rry.” (Brain-clouding radiation. Obviously.)

I don’t really remember what happened after that, but I woke up an indeterminate amount of time later, perfectly fine, with Bastille shaking me like a child rolling out play-doh.

“Bastille, stop, I’m awake!” I got up and looked around, taking in my surroundings, which seemed to be some sort of makeshift infirmary. “How and when did we get back here?”

“I carried you, idiot.”

“Oh.” I could feel my cheeks reddening at the implication that Bastille had been lugging me around like a sack of potatoes back to Penguinator.

I looked back up at Bastille, and immediately received a smack to the face as a reward for my eye contact.

“Ow… what the heck?”

Bastille then proceeded to tackle-hug me back onto the bed. I stiffened.

This is once again a time to tell the women reading this to please give us men a warning before you hug us. We need warning. (You know what, just everyone give people warning in general it doesn’t matter the gender.)

“Alcatraz, please NEVER do that again; Sing said he could feel your pulse slowing down. You could’ve died, Smedry. I…” Bastille got up and paced around the room, stopping at a window. “I can’t lose you.”

I blinked stupidly. “You can’t lose me?” What on earth was that supposed to mean?

Bastille looked down, and I wasn’t sure if it was the lighting or if her cheeks were genuinely as red as mine. “For one, your entire family would kill me, and for two, the knights would kill me again.”

“So, purely diplomatic, then,” I said, not sure why I was feeling strangely disappointed.

“That, yeah.”

I looked down at the ground, trying to hide the fact that my face was probably tomato red. We were flying closer to St. Louis, and as we approached, I could feel a headache flaring up again. I wobbled back to my bed as spots swam in my vision, and the last thing I remember before passing out was seeing the top of the Gateway Arch through the floor.

I woke up with Australia on the bed next to me, trying to calm down a panicked Sing.

“It’s fine, Sing. It was just a little headache.”

Sing raised an eyebrow. “You said you were really dizzy.”

Australia looked at me and slowly shook her head. “You should be worried about Alcatraz; he passed out again, but he’s awake now. Go interrogate him.”

With my luck, that did the trick, and Sing immediately ran over to (for some bizarre reason) check my vitals.

“Sing, I’m fine now. I don’t know what came over me.”

Sing looked about to cry. “You said you were fine last time and look what happened!”

“Yeah, why are we suddenly fine now?” Australia wondered. “Like, I was REALLY dizzy. Sing, you saw it. I almost fell over.”

“I don’t know, but I think I passed out again when we were over the arch.”

Australia nodded. “Yeah, the thing was, like, wiggling and stretching through my lenses. I got a headache just looking at it through them, but when I took ‘em off, it just went away.”

“Huh.”

“I might be crazy, but I think it’s the arch.”

“But if it’s the arch, why were only the two of us affected?”

“Good question.”

We sat there in silence, thinking about why the arch would give an adverse reaction to the two of us specifically.

“Oh,” Australia said, tapping her head like she’d just found out that the most obvious answer was, in fact, the right one.

“What?”

“I think it’s an Oculator thing.”

“Then why would I have passed out while you didn’t?”

“By the first sands, Smedry, isn’t it obvious?” Bastille’s voice came from behind me and I started. I’d forgotten she was there.

“Bastille, I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but there are three different Smedrys in the room right now, so you’re gonna have to learn everyone’s first names at some point.”

“Shut up.”

“No.”

“Alcatraz…”

“What?”

Bastille then made a noise that sounded uncannily like a horse muffled into a pillow.

“Okay, what’s so obvious, then?”

“It’s because you’re so shattering powerful. I mean, have you ever seen Australia use Courier’s lenses from halfway across the country? On instinct?”

“Uh… no.”

Australia nodded. “Yeah, I can confirm I could NEVER.”

“Oh.”

*I know EXACTLY what a good number of the Hushlanders are probably thinking, and you’re thinking of the wrong fast food chain. Go smell some grass, or whatever it is the Hushlands kids say nowadays.

[obscurecharactershowdown]

Do you have a breakdown of how many submissions each character got? None of my guys got in so now i wanna know if its cus any of them got multiple submissions, that would be an alright way to go out at least

There weren't too many with 2+ submissions, so I'm just gonna put them under a cut:

Pioneer 9 (17776): 4

Husky (+Anima): 3

Blueberror (Undertale au community): 3 (might be 2--a submitter admitted they may have submitted this character twice)

The rest have 2:

Syd (One Day at a Time)

Kani Maki (Sushi Pack)

Wilfre (Drawn to Life)

Kohaku (Tsukihime)

Iji Kataiser (Iji)

Permanent Rose Casson (The Casson Family series by Hilary McKay)

Prince Andor (Mianite)

Hunter (The Dear Hunter's Act Albums)

The Fool/Beloved (Realm of the Elderlings)

Heiji Hattori (Detective Conan)

Francis York Morgan (Deadly Premonition)

1x1x1x1 (Super Paper Roblox)

Bernd das Brot (Bernd das Brot on Kika)

Strive (Starlight Brigade by TWRP)

Wx-78 (Don't Starve Together)

Mordimort/Mordi (Stella Glow)

Alcatraz Smedry (Alcatraz Versus The Evil Librarians)

Juice (17776)

Maxwell (Scribblenauts)

Lexcanium (Wasteland)

Chicory (Chicory: A Colorful Tale)

A-Through-L (Fairyland series by Catherynne M. Valente)

Zolf Smith (Rusty Quill Gaming)

Magical John (RTGame miitopia)

Jaron Eckbert/Sage (The Ascendance series)

Abe (Oddworld)

Denny (Twisted Tradition (HHN))

Red Son (Lego Monkie Kid)

[pocketramblr]

im actually down for that family tree au 👀👀👀 hell yeah for rarepairs!!

THANK you anon I'm glad someone else around here appreciates my smedry talent

But yeah there's some other fun relations brewing in that one too so will be fun to put it all together!

[inprogress-predicament]

Incorrect Alcatraz Smedry Quotes

Kaz, to the Council of Kings: Don't beat yourself up over this. No, Pop's hoodwinked the the Knights and his own family on several occasions. How's the saying go?

Kaz: Fool me once, shame on me.

Kaz: Fool me twice, won't get fooled again.

Brig: *starts realizing this was a terrible idea*

Kaz: Fool me a third time, and well, the second time didn't really count cause I mean..MAN! Didn't he look dead?

Brig: Lord Kazan, that's not remotely how the saying goes

[im-a-ramblr]

Day 21, “I don’t understand”

Joan and Roy sat at their kitchen table; hands clasped. “He isn’t going to stay, is he?” Roy said.

“I- I don’t know,” Joan admitted. “I don’t know if he can. Ms. Fletcher came to get him without either of us calling.”

Roy opened his mouth when a faint knocking reached them. It sounded like it was coming from the office. The couple shared a look, and when to investigate. Outside the open window of the office was a ladder coming out of a car. A voice from atop the ladder was saying “- got work to do. Are you packed yet?” A pair of feet made their way down the ladder, revealing dress shoes and slacks. Roy’s eyes widened, and Joan covered her mouth. This must have had something to do with where Alcatraz had run off to.

“Wait!” the teen’s voice called. “Packed? I thought I was staying here with Joan and Roy!” That snapped the couple out of their stupor.

“What is going on here?” Joan demanded, sticking her head out the window. It was difficult, the ladder was in the center of the window, so she bumped into it, but she persevered. She peered up at an elderly man, with a fluffy ring of white hair rounding his head and a thick mustache.

He stared down at her, then looked up to Alcatraz, who was leaning out his bedroom window. “Uhh hi, Joan.”

“Hello!” The old man grinned, a little nervously. “I promise I mean no harm. I’m only here to pick up my grandson.”

“Grandson?” Roy asked from behind his wife.

“Ah, this might make things complicated. Let us talk about this in the house.” The man, Alcatraz’s supposed grandfather climbed up the ladder and through Alcatraz’s window.

“Grandpa!” Alcatraz sputtered at the same time that Joan shrieked “You can’t just come in!”

She pulled her head back in and raced to Alcatraz’s room, Roy at her heels. They burst through the door and found the old man standing at the foot of the bed. Alcatraz sat next to him, though he sprung up when they entered.

“Who are you?” Roy crossed his arms, blocking the door. It probably wouldn’t do much, what with the open window and ladder, but it made him feel better.

“I am Leavenworth Smedry, Alcatraz’s grandfather! Thank you for taking care of him.” He extended a hand towards them, but neither took it.

“You think we really believe that?” Joan asked, “Alcatraz get away from him.”

“Uh, it’s okay Joan. He really is.”

“I don’t understand what’s happing.” Roy looked between the two of them. He could see some similarities. “How do you know that?”

“It was proven while I out.” Alcatraz blurted out, “Well- I mentioned that earlier, right? That I found somethings about my family while I was?”

“Yes, but you didn’t mention him!” Joan pointed at Leavenworth.

He huffed, but then softened. “You didn’t think I was going to come back, did you?” Alcatraz flushed pink. Leavenworth rested a hand on his shoulder and squeezed. “I think we should start at the beginning. You might want to take a seat.” He sat the boy on the bed and lowered himself next to him. “Alcatraz’s father, my son, went missing shortly after the boy was born. His mother took him, and we didn’t hear anything from them-”

The Sheldon’s shared a look, but after a minute, Roy gave a little nod and Joan moved to sit at Alcatraz’s desk. Her husband moved to stand behind him. This was going to take a while.

[ao3feed-genrex]

The Greatest Game

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2ONELRR

by storythief11

A being calling himself the Toymaker abducts dozens of fictional characters from across many different universes and forces them to compete in his Hunger Games-esque arena. Loyalties will be tested, friendships will be forged and broken, and many, many people will die as they struggle to escape.

Words: 766, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: Hetalia: Axis Powers, The Unwanteds Series - Lisa McMann, Runaways (TV 2017), Voltron: Legendary Defender, Scandinavia and the World, Danny Phantom, Generator Rex, The Trials of Apollo - Rick Riordan, Story Thieves Series - James Riley, The Last Kids on Earth (Cartoon), Sunless Skies, Alcatraz Series - Brandon Sanderson, Lockwood & Co. - Jonathan Stroud, Teen Titans (Animated Series), Eight Will Fall, She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (2018)

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death

Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M

Characters: Finland (Hetalia), Simber (The Unwanteds), Nico Minoru, Pidge | Katie Holt, Keith (Voltron), Iceland (Scandinavia and the World), Danny Fenton, Rex Salazar, Apollo (Percy Jackson), Owen Conners, June Del Toro, The Judicious Driver, Alcatraz Smedry, Anthony Lockwood, Cyborg (Character), Tamsyn, Seborga (Hetalia), Hanatamago (Hetalia), The Inadvisably Big Dog (Sunless Skies), Sealand (Hetalia), Demon cats (Scandinavia and the World), Adora (She-Ra)

Relationships: Finland/Sweden (Hetalia), Entrapta/Hordak (She-Ra), Adora/Catra (She-Ra)

Additional Tags: Character Death, Violence, Blood, Inspired by The Hunger Games, What Have I Done, No one is getting out of this intact, Villain OC - Freeform, There's a lot of characters - Freeform, Most of them are going to die, Sad, I'm Sorry, What Was I Thinking?, I REGRET NOTHING, Swearing, Hanatamago Family, Rating May Change, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Tags Are Hard

read it on the AO3 at https://ift.tt/2ONELRR

[kingsbridgelibraryteens]

Middle School Monday: Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians by Brandon Sanderson 

Alcatraz Smedry has spent years living with different foster families. Eventually they all lose patience with him, both because of his personality and because he keeps breaking things in their homes. He can’t help breaking things, but he doesn’t know how to explain it.

When Alcatraz turns 13, his life gets even more complicated. He gets a strange gift (a bag of sand) delivered from the parents he’s never known. Then his gift is stolen, he meets his grandfather for the first time, he discovers that his life is in danger, he learns about the evil Librarians who want to rule the world, and he discovers that breaking things is actually his superpower. This book is filled with funny and bizarre details, like how multiple members of the Smedry family are named after prisons, how talking dinosaurs exist, and how all libraries are far more dangerous than we’ve always assumed.

Give this book to older kids and younger teens who enjoy funny stories, sarcastic narrators, and amazing adventures!

[fangirltothefullest]

Which of the sides would pass or fail the soul gun test?

Oh all of them would pass it no doubt because Logan would turn immediately and ask the implications of murduring someone and why the hell this is an actual legal test. 

Patton would burst into tears immediately before being handed the weapon. 

Virgil would panic and ask to be taken out because hell no are they going to shoot someone! 

Roman would be handed the weapon and immediately ask what the person did to deserve this because this isn’t right.

Deceit (Dee? Dustin?? Dalton??? Duke????) would turn the gun on the one who handed it to him and demand immediately to know why a human would make him kill someone to prove that he is alive and insist they let him leave freely because even if humans hurt him and his family and even if he doesn’t trust them this is just madness and clearly something is wrong.

Emile would take three steps back and start pleading that there has to be another way because nonono she can’t kill anyone that’s not fair at all!

Remy would take the gun and twirl it and shoot several times and the humans would be shocked until they realize he’s made a smiley face in the wall with the bullets and then says to them that they’re stupid if they think he’s gonna kill a person but at least now there’s no bullets so they can’t either. He’s… a chaotic boy. 

tag list:

@kdnightshade,@a-nonexistent-floof, @crestfallendays,@thatweirdidiotyouknow, @yikes-dodson,@dailypattondoodle,@obsessingovermanythings, @bastille-smedry,@wittlevirgilsanders, @octoninnii,@kittycake574,@darkqueen-of-asgard, @approximately12lbs-of-ducks, @guardian-of-cookies,@ask-the-alkisides,@portal66,@that-random-fandom-girl, @spooky-bi-vibes,@comfort-cores-therapy-session,@turntechspacegay,

[threemoonwatchers]

Smedry gang and their knights!!! :D

(Featuring a few headcanons)

In order: Alcatraz, Bastille, Australia, Shasta, Aydee, Kaz, Grandpa Smedry, Draulin, Himalaya, and Sing!

(I also have Attica but only ten pics are allowed so I guess either tough luck or I make Folsom, Quentin, and maybe Angola, Brig, and Rikers to go with him)

[makethosenarratorsfight]

master master post

just all the brackets :] for my sake

FINAL FINAL—FINAL

Shen Qingqiu (SVSSS) vs. Lemony Snicket (ASOUE)

REVIVAL ROUND—FINAL

Semi Finals

Shen Qingqiu (SVSSS) vs. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How to Train Your Dragon (books)) 

John Gaius (The Locked Tomb) vs. Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby)

FINALS

Shen Qingqiu (SVSSS) vs. John Gaius (The Locked Tomb)

REVIVAL ROUND—SIDE A

SIDE A 

Round 1

Yoo Joonghyuk (ORV) vs. Patrick Bateman (American Psycho) 

Kuruto Ryuki (AI: The Somnium Files Nirvana) vs. The Narrator of Fight Club (Fight Club) 

Lee Hakhyun (ORV; Side stories) vs. Wei Wuxian (Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation) 

Kaede Akamatsu (Danganronpa V3) vs. Shen Qingqiu/Shen Yuan (Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System) 

Cale Henituse (Trash of the Counts Family) vs. Apollo/Lester Papdopoulos (Trials of Apollo)

Noé Archiviste (Vanitas no Carte) vs. Beatrice (Umineko)  

Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows) vs. Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson & the Olympians) 

Ted (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream) vs. Dr. John Watson (Sherlock Holmes) 

Phone Guy (FNAF) vs. Mima Kirigoe (Perfect Blue) 

Every Fic Writer (Real Life) vs. Submitter (Submitter’s life) 

Amanda (Amanda the Adventurer) vs. Sunny (Omori) 

Edith Finch (What Remains of Edith Finch) vs. The Batter (OFF) 

Cersei Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire) vs. Coriolanus Snow (Hunger Games)

Dr. James Sheppard (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd) vs. Singer of The Main Character (The Main Character) 

Odysseus (Odyssey) vs. Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein) 

Louis De Pointe Du Lac (Interview with the Vampire) vs. Narrator of Jane the Virgin (Jane the Virgin) 

round 2

Yoo Joonghyuk (ORV) vs. Kuruto Ryuki (AI: The Somnium Files Nirvana)

Lee Hakhyun (ORV; Side stories) vs. Shen Qingqiu/Shen Yuan (Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System) 

Apollo/Lester Papdopoulos (Trials of Apollo) vs. Beatrice (Umineko)  

Percy Jackson (Percy Jackson & the Olympians) vs. Ted (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream)

Phone Guy (FNAF) vs. Every Fic Writer (Real Life)

Sunny (Omori) vs. The Batter (OFF) 

Coriolanus Snow (Hunger Games) vs. Singer of The Main Character (The Main Character) 

Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein) vs. Louis De Pointe Du Lac (Interview with the Vampire)

Round 3

Yoo Joonghyuk (ORV) vs. Shen Qingqiu/Shen Yuan (Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System) 

Beatrice (Umineko) vs. Ted (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream)

Every Fic Writer (Real Life) vs. The Batter (OFF) 

Singer of The Main Character (The Main Character) vs. Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein) 

Round 4

Shen Qingqiu/Shen Yuan (Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System)  vs. Beatrice (Umineko)

Every Fic Writer (Real Life) vs. Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein) 

Round 5

Shen Qingqiu/Shen Yuan (Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System)  vs. Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein) 

REVIVAL ROUND—SIDE B

SIDE B 

Round 1

Alctraz Smedry (Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians) vs. Christopher (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) 

Benjamin Brynn (Before Your Eyes) vs. Charles Kinbote (Pale Fire) 

Neil Josten (All for the Game) vs. The Maid (The House in Fata Morgana) 

Grisia Sun (The Legend of Sun Knight) vs. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How to Train Your Dragon (books)) 

Kvothe (The Kingkiller Chronicle) vs. Margot Garcia/Gottiewriters (An Unauthorized Fan Treatise) 

Tobias (Animorphs) vs. Brooke Page (Ever After High) 

The Biologist (Annihilation) vs. Varric Tethras (Dragon Age) 

The Narrators (Ever After High) vs. Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) 

Mysterious Man (Into the Woods) vs. Briony Tallis (Atonement) 

Simon Snow (Carry On) vs. Marco (Animorphs) 

Nishijou Takumi (Chaos;Head) vs. Jason Todd (Dc Comics/Batman) 

Ulysses (Fallout;New Vegas) vs. Montresor (Cask of Amontillado) 

Yukio Okumura (Ao no exorcist) vs. Rue Bennet (Euphoria)

Goob (Meet the Robinsons) vs. Humbert Humbert (Lolita) 

Drosselmeyer (Princess Tutu) vs. Haruaki Fusaishi (Raging Loop) 

Greg Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) vs. Joker (Joker) 

Round 2

Christopher (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) vs. Benjamin Brynn (Before Your Eyes)

Neil Josten (All for the Game) vs. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How to Train Your Dragon (books)) 

Kvothe (The Kingkiller Chronicle) vs. Brooke Page (Ever After High) 

Varric Tethras (Dragon Age) vs. Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) 

Mysterious Man (Into the Woods) vs. Marco (Animorphs) 

Jason Todd (Dc Comics/Batman) vs. Montresor (Cask of Amontillado) 

Yukio Okumura (Ao no exorcist) vs. Goob (Meet the Robinsons)

Drosselmeyer (Princess Tutu) vs. Greg Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

Round 3

Christopher (The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time) vs. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How to Train Your Dragon (books)) 

Brooke Page (Ever After High) vs. Varric Tethras (Dragon Age) 

Marco (Animorphs) vs. Jason Todd (Dc Comics/Batman) 

Goob (Meet the Robinsons) vs. Greg Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

Round 4

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How to Train Your Dragon (books)) vs. Brooke Page (Ever After High) 

Jason Todd (Dc Comics/Batman) vs. Greg Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

Round 5

Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How to Train Your Dragon (books)) vs. Greg Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid)

REVIVAL ROUND—SIDE C

SIDE C

Round 1

Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit) vs. Kuzco (The Emperor’s New Groove) 

Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives) vs. The Narrator (The Stanley Parable) 

Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb) vs. Monika (Doki Doki Literature Club) 

Patroclus (Song of Achiles) vs. Dean Winchester (Supernatural)  

John Gaius (The Locked Tomb) vs. Edie (What Remains of Edith Finch) 

Leshy (Inscryption) vs. Daniil Dankovsky (Pathologic) 

Jeramie Brasirie/Jeremy Brasirie (Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger) vs. Jude Duarte (Cruel Prince) 

Nelly Lockwood (Wuthering Heights) vs. Taylor Herbert (Worm) 

Rachel (The Girl on the Train) vs. Dr. Malcolm Crowe (The Sixth Sense)

Grace Marks (Alias Grace) vs. Guy Pearce (Memento) 

Yoo Jongwoo (Strangers From Hell) vs. Prince Huai (The Imperial Uncle) 

Nadeko Sengoku (Monogatari Series) vs. Odokawa (Odd Taxi) 

Rashomon Cast (Rashomon) vs. Narrator of Death in the Woods (Death in the Woods) 

The Narrator of Slay the Princess (Slay the Princess) vs. Lloyd Allen (Shaperaverse) 

Dr. Money (Presentable LIberty) vs. Nana Daiba (Revue Starlight) 

Jane (The Yellow Wallpaper) vs. Squealer (Animal Farm) 

Round 2

Kuzco (The Emperor’s New Groove) vs. Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives)

Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb) vs. Patroclus (Song of Achiles)

John Gaius (The Locked Tomb) vs. Daniil Dankovsky (Pathologic) 

Jeramie Brasirie/Jeremy Brasirie (Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger) vs. Nelly Lockwood (Wuthering Heights)

Dr. Malcolm Crowe (The Sixth Sense) vs. Guy Pearce (Memento) 

Yoo Jongwoo (Strangers From Hell) vs. Odokawa (Odd Taxi) 

Rashomon Cast (Rashomon) vs. The Narrator of Slay the Princess (Slay the Princess)

Nana Daiba (Revue Starlight) vs. Jane (The Yellow Wallpaper)

Round 3

Jonathan Sims (The Magnus Archives) vs. Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb)

John Gaius (The Locked Tomb) vs. Jeramie Brasirie/Jeremy Brasirie (Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger)

Dr. Malcolm Crowe (The Sixth Sense) vs. Odokawa (Odd Taxi) 

The Narrator of Slay the Princess (Slay the Princess) vs. Nana Daiba (Revue Starlight)

Round 4

Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb) vs. John Gaius (The Locked Tomb)

Dr. Malcolm Crowe (The Sixth Sense) vs. The Narrator of Slay the Princess (Slay the Princess)

Round 5

John Gaius (The Locked Tomb) vs. The Narrator of Slay the Princess (Slay the Princess)

REVIVAL ROUND—SIDE D

SIDE D

Round 1

Holden Caulfield (Catcher in the Rye) vs. Scout (To Kill a Mockingbird) 

Alex (A Clockwork Orange) vs. Guy Montag (Fahrenheit 451) 

Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby) vs. Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) 

Alex Eggleston (YIIK: A Postmodern RPG) vs. Joe Goldberg (YOU) 

Chief Bromden (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) vs. The Mother (Pumpkin Eater) 

Theo Decker (The Goldfinch) vs. Pi (The Life of Pi) 

Amy Dune (Gone Girl) vs. Josh Newman (The Secrets of the Immortal NIcholas Flamel (SINF)) 

Kukuide Kei (Ultraman Geed) vs. Darkstalker (Wings of Fire) 

Tsurugi Kamishiro (Kameh Rider Kabuto) vs. Vanora (Vincent; The Secret of Myers (VTSOM)) 

Gareth (Philadephia Here I Come) vs. Rune Saint John (The Tarot Sequence) 

Keyser Soze (The Usual Suspects) vs. Jane North-Robinson (Horrid) 

Ben (The Sin Eaters Confession) vs. Mars (The Honeys) 

Lacey (Lacey’s Diner) vs. Katrina Kim (Liar Dreamer Thief) 

Charlie Gordon (Flowersfor Algernon) vs. The Narrator of Greater Boston (Greater Boston) 

Italo Calvino (If on a Winter’s Night, a Traveler) vs. Ted (How I met your Mother) 

Claudia (Monday’s Not Coming) vs. Rosie Amo/Agent Red (The Admistration Podcast) 

Round 2

Scout (To Kill a Mockingbird) vs. Alex (A Clockwork Orange)

Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) vs. Joe Goldberg (YOU) 

Chief Bromden (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) vs. Pi (The Life of Pi) 

Amy Dune (Gone Girl) vs. Darkstalker (Wings of Fire) 

Vanora (Vincent; The Secret of Myers (VTSOM)) vs. Rune Saint John (The Tarot Sequence) 

Jane North-Robinson (Horrid) vs. Ben (The Sin Eaters Confession)

Lacey (Lacey’s Diner) vs. Charlie Gordon (Flowersfor Algernon)

Ted (How I met your Mother) vs. Rosie Amo/Agent Red (The Admistration Podcast) 

Round 3

Scout (To Kill a Mockingbird) vs. Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) 

Pi (The Life of Pi) vs. Amy Dune (Gone Girl)

Vanora (Vincent; The Secret of Myers (VTSOM)) vs. Ben (The Sin Eaters Confession)

Lacey (Lacey’s Diner) vs. Ted (How I met your Mother) 

Round 4

Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) vs. Amy Dune (Gone Girl)

Vanora (Vincent; The Secret of Myers (VTSOM)) vs. Ted (How I met your Mother) 

Round 5

Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) vs. Ted (How I met your Mother) 

NORMAL ROUND—FINALS

Semi Finals

Kim Dokja (ORV) vs. Eugenides (The Queen's Thief)

Lemony Snicket (Series of unfortunate events) vs. Marvin (In Trousers)

Finals

Eugendies (The Queen's Thief) vs. Lemony Snicket (Series of Unfortunate Events)

NORMAL ROUND—SIDE A

SIDE A 

Round 1

Lemony Snicket (A series of unfortunate events) vs. Dr. James Sheppard (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd) 

Neil Josten (All For the Game) vs. Cersei Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire) 

Simon Snow (Carry On) vs. Alcatraz Smedry (Alcatraz Vs The Evil Librarians) 

The Biologist (Annihilation) vs. Yukio Okumura (Ao no Exorcist) 

Briony Tallis (Atonement) vs. Tobias (Animorphs) 

Montresor (Cask of Amontillado) vs. Margot Garcia (An Unauthorized Fan Treatise) 

Kuruto Ryuki (AI: The Somnium Files Nirvana Initiative) vs. Kaede Akamatsu (Danganronpa V3) 

Jason Todd (DC Comics/Batman) vs. Greg Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) 

Varric Tethras (Dragon Age) vs. Marco (Animorphs) 

Mysterious Man (Into the Woods) vs. Narrator of Jane the Virgin (Jane the Virgin) 

Johnny Traunt (House of Leaves) vs. Charlie Gordon (Flowers for Algernon) 

The Narrator of Greater Boston (Greater Boston) vs. Italo Calvino (If on a Winter’s Night, a Travler) 

Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) vs. Rue Bennet (Euphoria) 

Tsurugi Kamishiro (Kamen Rider Kabuto) vs. Nishijou Takumi (Chaos; Head) 

Humbert Humbert (Loltia) vs. Ted(I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream) 

Brooke Page (Ever After High) vs. Coriolanus Snow (Hunger Games) 

Round 2

Lemony Snicket (A series of unfortunate events) vs. Cersei Lannister (A Song of Ice and Fire) 

Simon Snow (Carry On) vs. The Biologist (Annihilation)

Briony Tallis (Atonement) vs. Margot Garcia (An Unauthorized Fan Treatise) 

Kuruto Ryuki (AI: The Somnium Files Nirvana Initiative) vs. Greg Heffley (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) 

Varric Tethras (Dragon Age) vs. Mysterious Man (Into the Woods)

Johnny Traunt (House of Leaves) vs. The Narrator of Greater Boston (Greater Boston)

Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) vs. Tsurugi Kamishiro (Kamen Rider Kabuto)

Ted(I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream) vs. Brooke Page (Ever After High)

Round 3

Lemony Snicket (A series of unfortunate events) vs. The Biologist (Annihilation)

Margot Garcia (An Unauthorized Fan Treatise) vs. Kuruto Ryuki (AI: The Somnium Files Nirvana Initiative)

Varric Tethras (Dragon Age) vs. Johnny Traunt (House of Leaves)

Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) vs. Ted (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream) 

Round 4

Lemony Snicket (A series of unfortunate events) vs. Kuruto Ryuki (AI: The Somnium Files Nirvana Initiative)

Johnny Traunt (House of Leaves) vs. Ted (I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream) 

Round 5

Lemony Snicket (A series of unfortunate events) vs. Johnny Traunt (House of Leaves)

NORMAL ROUND—SIDE B

SIDE B

The Narrators (Ever After High) vs. Louis De Pointe Du Lac (Interview with the Vampire)

Ulysses (Fallout New Vegas) vs. Phone Guy (FNAF) 

Bilbo Baggins (The Hobbit) vs. Hamlet (Hamlet) 

Patrick Bateman (American Psycho) vs. The Narrator of Fight Club (Fight Club) 

Joker (Joker) vs. Ted (How I Met Your Mother) 

Alex Eggleston (YIIK: A Postmodern RPG) vs. Benjamin Brynn (Before Your Eyes) 

Odokawa (Odd Taxi) vs. Nadeko Sengoku (Monogatari Series) 

Mima Kirigoe (Perfect Blue) vs. Drosselmeyer (Princess Tutu) 

The Narrator of Slay the Princess (Slay the Princess) vs. Dr. Money (Presentable Liberty) 

The Batter (OFF) vs. Sunny (Omori) 

Submitter (Real Life) vs. Every Fic Writer (Real Life) 

Shen Qingqiu (SVSSS) vs. Cale Henituse (Trash of the Counts Family) 

Wei Wuxian (Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation) vs. Beatrice (Umineko) 

Haruaki Fusaishi (Raging Loop) vs. Lee Hakhyun (ORV Side Stories) 

Kim Dokja (ORV) vs. Yoon Jongwoo (Strangers From Hell) 

Prince Huai (The Imperial Uncle) vs. Fukuide Kei (Ultraman Geed) 

Round 2

Louis De Pointe Du Lac (Interview with the Vampire) vs. Phone Guy (FNAF) 

Hamlet (Hamlet) vs. The Narrator of Fight Club (Fight Club) 

Ted (How I Met Your Mother) vs. Benjamin Brynn (Before Your Eyes) 

Nadeko Sengoku (Monogatari Series) vs. Mima Kirigoe (Perfect Blue)

The Narrator of Slay the Princess (Slay the Princess) vs. The Batter (OFF)

Every Fic Writer (Real Life) vs. Shen Qingqiu (SVSSS)

Beatrice (Umineko) vs. Lee Hakhyun (ORV Side Stories) 

Kim Dokja (ORV) vs. Prince Huai (The Imperial Uncle)

Round 3

Phone Guy (FNAF) vs. Hamlet (Hamlet) 

Benjamin Brynn (Before Your Eyes) vs. Mima Kirigoe (Perfect Blue)

The Batter (OFF) vs. Shen Qingqiu (SVSSS)

Lee Hakhyun (ORV Side Stories) vs. Kim Dokja (ORV)

Round 4

Hamlet (Hamlet) vs. Mima Kirigoe (Perfect Blue)

Shen Qingqiu (SVSSS) vs. Kim Dokja (ORV)

Round 5

Hamlet (Hamlet) vs. Kim Dokja (ORV)

NORMAL ROUND—SIDE C

SIDE C

Harrowhark (The Locked Tomb) vs. Percy Jackson (PJO) 

Jonathan Sims (Mangus Archives) vs. John Gaius (The Locked Tomb) 

Kuzco (Emperor’s New Groove) vs. Goob (Meet the Robinsons) 

Jeramie Brasirie (Ohsama Sentai King Ohger) vs. Noé Archiviste (Vanitas no Carte) 

Kvothe (The Kingkiller Chronicle) vs. Darkstalker (Wings of Fire) 

Nelly Lockwood (Wuthering Highs) vs. Dr. John Watson (Sherlock Holmes)  

Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb) vs. Apollo/Lester (Trials of Apollo) 

Dean Winchester (Supernatural) vs. The Narrator (The Stanley Parable) 

Guy Montag (Fahrenheit 451) vs. Holden Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye) 

Theo Decker (The Goldfinch) vs. Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) 

Pi (The Life of Pi) vs. Hiccup Horrendous Haddock III (How to Train Your Dragon) 

Rosie Amo (The Administration Podcast) vs. Rune Saint John (The Tarot Sequence) 

Charles Kinbote (Pale Fire) vs. Nana Daiba (Revue Starlight) 

Lloyd Allen (Shaperaverse) vs. Josh Newman (SINF) 

Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows) vs. The Maid (The House in Fata Morgana) 

Eugenides (The Queen’s Thief) vs. Grisia Sun (The Legend of Sun Knight) 

Round 2

Harrowhark (The Locked Tomb) vs. John Gaius (The Locked Tomb) 

Kuzco (Emperor’s New Groove) vs. Jeramie Brasirie (Ohsama Sentai King Ohger)

Kvothe (The Kingkiller Chronicle) vs. Dr. John Watson (Sherlock Holmes)  

Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb) vs. The Narrator (The Stanley Parable) 

Holden Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye) vs. Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) 

Pi (The Life of Pi) vs. Rune Saint John (The Tarot Sequence) 

Charles Kinbote (Pale Fire) vs. Lloyd Allen (Shaperaverse)

Kaz Brekker (Six of Crows) vs. Eugenides (The Queen’s Thief)

Round 3

Harrowhark (The Locked Tomb) vs. Kuzco (Emperor’s New Groove)

Dr. John Watson (Sherlock Holmes) vs. Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb)

Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) vs. Pi (The Life of Pi)

Lloyd Allen (Shaperaverse) vs. Eugenides (The Queen’s Thief)

Round 4

Harrowhark (The Locked Tomb) vs. Gideon Nav (The Locked Tomb)

Nick Carraway (The Great Gatsby) vs. Eugenides (The Queen’s Thief)

Round 5

Harrowhark (The Locked Tomb) vs. Eugenides (The Queen’s Thief)

NORMAL ROUND—SIDE D

SIDE D

Narrator of Death in the Forest (Death in the Forest) vs. Singer of the Main Character (The Main Character) 

Guy Pearce (Memento) vs. Chief Bromden (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest) 

Joe Goldberg (YOU) vs. Dr. Malcolm Crowe (Sixth Sense)

Daniil Dankovsky (Pathologic) vs. Amanda (Amanda The Adventurer) 

Keyser Soze (The Usual Suspects) vs. Jane (The Yellow Wallpaper) 

Narrator of Tell Tale Heart (Tell Tale Heart) vs. Victor Frankenstein (Frankenstein) 

Gareth (Philadelphia) vs. Grace Marks (Alias Grace) 

Squealer (Animal Farm) vs. Scout (To Kill A Mockingbird) 

Katrina Kim (Liar Dreamer Thief) vs. Aislyn (The City We Became)

Claudia (Monday’s Not Coming) vs. Marvin (In Trousers) 

Mars (The Honeys) vs. Jane North-Robinson (Horrid) 

Rachel (The Girl on the Train) vs. Amy Dunne (Gone Girl) 

The Mother (Pumpkin Eater)vs. Lacey (Lacey’s Diner) 

Leshy (Inscryption) vs. Taylor Herbert (Worm) 

All the Narrators of Rashomon (Rashomon) vs. Wayne Booth (The Rhetoric of Fiction) 

Christopher (The Curious Incident o the Dog in the Night-Time) vs. Alex (A Clockwork Orange)

Round 2

Singer of the Main Character (The Main Character) vs. Guy Pearce (Memento)

Joe Goldberg (YOU) vs. Amanda (Amanda The Adventurer) 

Jane (The Yellow Wallpaper) vs. Narrator of Tell Tale Heart (Tell Tale Heart)

Gareth (Philadelphia) vs. Scout (To Kill A Mockingbird) 

Aislyn (The City We Became) vs. Marvin (In Trousers) 

Mars (The Honeys) vs. Amy Dunne (Gone Girl) 

The Mother (Pumpkin Eater) vs. Leshy (Inscryption)

All the Narrators of Rashomon (Rashomon) vs. Alex (A Clockwork Orange)

Round 3

Singer of the Main Character (The Main Character) vs. Amanda (Amanda The Adventurer) 

Narrator of Tell Tale Heart (Tell Tale Heart) vs. Scout (To Kill A Mockingbird) 

Marvin (In Trousers) vs. Amy Dunne (Gone Girl) 

Leshy (Inscryption) vs. All the Narrators of Rashomon (Rashomon)

Round 4

Singer of the Main Character (The Main Character) vs. Narrator of Tell Tale Heart (Tell Tale Heart)

Marvin (In Trousers) vs. Leshy (Inscryption)

Round 5

Narrator of Tell Tale Heart (Tell Tale Heart) vs. Marvin (In Trousers)

[races-erster]

Lasting Letters pt. 5 (race x reader)

Requested: nope

Word Count: 1322

Warnings: none

A/n: sorry that this part took so long to write! I had the idea, but wasn’t sure how to write it, but I think it’s pretty good! Also, let me know if you enjoyed it, it would mean a lot!

Lasting Letters Masterlist

—

I’m pretty sure that that was the best date of my life. I mean, the first few minutes were kinda awkward, but still. I think it went really well.

—

Race had come downstairs about 30 minutes after he asked you out to see if you were ready to go. You nodded, bid the rest of boys goodbye, and met Race at the door.

The walk down to Jacobi’s had been pretty silent, aside from the slight attempt small talk . You were both pretty nervous about your first date with each other, even though you were both sure it would go okay.

You figured that the silence would be better than speaking, just in case one of you slipped up. But, in your opinion, it was so much worse. You were sure that Race was feeling the same way, due to the slight glances he took while he thought you weren’t looking, but you knew no one would break the silence.

—

When you got to Jacobi’s, he looked at you and Race uncertainty. He wasn’t used to the two of you coming in to the deli during business hours, but lead you to a table anyway. You sat on opposite ends of the table, and eventually, conversation flowed normally like it always had.

The night was shaping up to be the best night of your life, and all you had done was go out to eat with him. As you both started to finished your food, you realized that you never wanted the night to end. Race decided to order dessert, despite your protests on the cost, but you were relieved when he did. Although, the unexpected visitors were a shock.

—

Now, you were probably right about going to Jacobi’s when it was closed, not that we didn’t pay, but because of the crowd. I would have liked being alone. I think it would have been more comfortable for the both of us. And if we were alone, Katherine and Darcy wouldn’t have stopped at our table halfway through.

—

After Race had ordered dessert, Katherine and Darcy walked through the doors of the restaurant.

She noticed the two of you, grabbed Darcy’s hand, and came over to your table.

“Hey, guys! What’s up?” Katherine asked enthusiastically.

You and Race shared a glance, unsure of how to respond, before he said, “Nothing much.”

He shot you an apologetic look, even though you knew he was just trying to defuse the situation so you could go back to enjoying your first date.

“Oh, well. Do you mind if we join you?” She asked, still oblivious to the fact that you were on a date.

“Sure,” you replied cautiously, as you moved to sit next to race in the booth he was in.

Katherine and Darcy sat down across from the two of you, and you moved closer to Race. He noticed your restlessness from the situation, and took your hand in his. He gave you a reassuring smile in order to tell you that your date hadn’t been ruined, but you still couldn’t help but feel uncomfortable.

You looked over to Darcy, and he seemed to catch on to what was going on as Katherine talked a mile a minute. He kept trying to interject, saying that they should go, but Katherine kept making conversation.

You looked over at Race again and squeezed his hand. He looked down at you, and you smiled up at him. You hadn’t realized that Darcy had told Katherine what was going on. She looked at the two of you in shock.

“I’m sorry. I didn’t realize that you two were…” She trailed off.

“It’s okay, Kath. Don’t worry about it,” you replied.

“Well, we’ll let you two get back to your evening,” Darcy said, still just as uncomfortable about the situation as he had the first time he sat down.

They got up and left just as Jacobi dropped off the cookie that Race had ordered to you two to share. After the two of you had finished, he stood up and held out his hand for you to take.

“Come on. I have another place we can go before we head back.”

—

I think my favorite part of our date though was the walk around the city. Sitting on that same bench that we went to the first day after we sold together, just made everything about the night so much better after we were interrupted.

—

Race led you through the empty park to your favorite bench. You had spent many nights sitting on that very bench watching the stars, but tonight it was different. You and Race were different.

You honestly weren’t sure what you were now. Were you two still only best friends? Or were you something more now?

Just like earlier in the day, Race saw you overthinking and grabbed your hand. You laid your head on his shoulder and couldn’t help but smile as he absentmindedly traced patterns on the back of your hand.

The silence that followed then wasn’t the same as before. It wasn’t awkward or uncomfortable. It was peaceful.

You both sat there enjoying each other’s company and looking up at the stars for, who knows how long. After a while, Race started to feel you falling asleep against his shoulder and decided you should probably head back.

He helped you up from your spot on the bench, and wrapped his arm around your shoulders to keep you warm. You followed in suit and wrapped your arms around his middle in order to be as close as possible.

—

I knew that our date would have had to end eventually, but I still never wanted it to. I never wanted to let go of you, even though I knew I would have to. I was trying to think of new date ideas as we talked while walking back. Before I knew it though, we were outside of the lodge.

—

“Thank you for tonight, Race. It’s been the best night of my life,” you started, still outside of the lodge.

Neither of you were making an effort to go back inside or to move from the comfort of each other’s arms, even though you knew it was really late.

“You don’t need to thank me.”

“I do, but I know you won’t except it and you’ll say that it’s fine. But even, thank you.”

“You welcome,” he responded, cautiously pressing a kiss into the top of your head.

You couldn’t help but smile after he pulled away, even though you hated the loss of contact.

“So, I was thinking,” you started and he motioned for you to continue. “I know a guy who can get us into Miss Medda’s for free, if you want to go tomorrow night?”

“Is that guy you know just Jack?” He laughed when you nodded. “I think we should do that. Just the two of us though, right?”

“Just the two of us. Goodnight, Race,” you said, wrapping your arms around his neck to hug him again.

He hugged back, and you started to pull away. You kissed the corner of his mouth, and headed back into the lodge.

“Goodnight,” he said barely above a whisper.

He stood there watching you as you went inside, and couldn’t help the grin that spread across his face. After composing himself, he went into the lodge up to his bunk.

—

So, yeah. Nothing is ever going to top that. I mean, maybe if we get married one day and start a family, but I’m getting way ahead of myself.

Also, I don’t know if I’m counting that as our first kiss or not, since I didn’t get to kiss back. But, who knows. Maybe when we go to Medda’s that will change.

I’m not sure about all of that other stuff, but I’m still sure that I love you. More than anything.

—

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[onlycosmere]

Alcatraz

Questioner: Do you think when the Alcatraz series is done, you can make a short story where they have a Smedry family reunion?

Brandon Sanderson: Ooh, what a great idea. I'll have to think about that. I like that idea a lot. If I write it, you can take credit for it, if I forget to credit you.

[neranishin]

It has come to my attention that I have FAILED to tell you, my followers, about Alcatraz Smedry. So I will attempt to inform you without devolving entirely into a rant.

Alcatraz Smedry is the main character and Narrator of the series Alcatraz Vs The Evil Librarians, which is what happens when Brandon Sanderson decides to write a book series aimed at middle schoolers. Like most series aimed at middle schoolers, they are brilliant and hilarious and well worth being read by people who have long left middle school behind. Alcatraz is an orphan in the foster care system who learns that he’s actually a scion of a noble family from a continent that The Librarians who control the world’s information have hidden from public knowledge, because war. It turns out that his talent for breaking things is, actually, a Talent for Breaking Things, because his family has magic that manifests as Talents that all sound like extreme inconveniences, such as a Talent for Getting Lost or a Talent for Waking Up Ugly In The Morning, that they cheerfully manage to turn to their advantages. Alcatraz gets to go on adventures that feature british dinosaurs, deadpan crystal knights, apparently sentient romance novels that I don’t remember, and at least one set of eyeglasses or a monocle or something that lets him have laser eyes.

The books are a lot and include a lot of Alcatraz insisting heartily that he is not a hero and is, in fact, a liar and a horrible person, all while constantly snarking at everything and using extremely vivid and unexpected metaphors and analogies. The fourth wall is in shattered pieces on the ground.  There’s an airship that’s a dragon made of glass. The second book involves the Library of Alexandria. This series is made of gold and used to be hard to find because afaik Scholastic did Brandon a dirty, but in the past few years it was rereleased featuring really good illustrations, and you should absolutely seek them out/ask your not-evil librarians to purchase them for the local library.

They’re so good.

but also Alcatraz’s narrative style is still better for a novel series than a political science textbook. But at least the textbook isn’t putting me to sleep.