#The Organization

[detectivelawlietryuuzaki]

What L did on the last day of the Year 2023 🥴🙌🍺

Happy New Year from the Organization ☺️🍻🎉2024

No kids under the age of 18 allowed 🔞 (Yagami Light) 😜

[windenbro]

The Organization

A Moonwood Mill Tale

This is a story about losing yourself in regret, and finding yourself through forgiveness. There will be betrayal, and triumph and found families, love, loss and redemption. 

This post will be updated with new chapters as they are posted.

Chapter List:

Chapter 1: The Lake

[weirdlotiel]

Dante: You are very mature for your age.

Sophie: Thank you, it’s the trauma.

[gofancyninjaworld]

Just what did he *do* to them?

So, as The Organization's dastardly plan has been enacted, we've learned that there's a kill list that they're checking off, exceptional individuals who have been targeted for death -- and reconstruction as will-free fighters.

The S-Class heroes, Garou, and a few others, have each had a Machine God sent to kill them and take their corpses back to HQ for treatment.

One Machine God. No back up plan, apparently.

So far the exception has been Dr. Kuseno. Kuseno may only have been No. 23 on their list, but he's gotten special treatment. THREE Machine Gods got sent to kill him, each at threat level dragon, and they were backed up by seven further powerful robots.

Just as remarkable was what they did. For everyone else, the Machine God will announce itself, explain why it's there, talk shit, and only then attack. The Machine Gods sent for Kuseno stealthily approached late at night, stayed well outside the building perimeter in the forest, and sniped the scientist clean through his centre of mass through the building walls. If the other Machine Gods used that modus operandi, they'd have a lot more success but they're acting as if the others are nice-to-haves.

I can almost imagine the conversation that must have happened behind the scenes:

Machine God 'Body': I alone will be enough for one shitty old man and his ex-human pet. Head of Organization: NO! We absolutely cannot afford slip-ups. Take two more guys, and make sure you play together nicely. Also, take this backup squadron in case that old weasel tries to make a run for it.

Why? Thinking of three possibilities.

They really, really, really hate Kuseno.

They think that Genos and Kuseno are an extraordinary threat.

They think that Kuseno is a special resource that they must acquire at all cost.

Let's take them in turn. None of them are mutually exclusive.

Number 1 is very possible! Let's call it The 100 Cyborgs Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Hate You theory. I would not be surprised to see some very unwelcome revelations when/if Genos finally gets to The Organization.

Number 2 seems the least likely. Given how much store the Machine Gods -- and indeed the rest of the guys associated with The Organization -- place on ranking as evidence of strength, they're not likely to make much of Genos's strength. Unless they know that his type of strength is a special problem for them. But then, why are they not chasing Drive Knight with the same ardour?

Number 3 is very interesting indeed. If Kuseno knows something or has skills they cannot do without, then given that they can revive people as semi-automatons with no willpower, this is the best way to get their hands on it.

But wouldn't this risk damaging Drive Knight's anti-Bofoi plan?* That is if Drive Knight is in cahoots with them.

I thought about it some more. Not really. If the squad was able to kill Genos, then it'd mean that he was never strong enough to take on Bofoi's forces, and they'd be rid of a troublesome S-Class hero. And if they weren't, Genos would blame Bofoi for the attack, and then they're rid of two troublesome S-Class heroes. It's a win-win however they look at it.

Set an elephant to get rid of an elephant, as Zombieman would say.

So far, it's all going according to keikaku, which means plan.

The only questions now are, do they dig up Kuseno's body, and how do they get away with this?

*I'm still open to giving Drive Knight the benefit of the doubt, but at this point, it's really not looking good at all.

[deadendtracks]

anyway you really shouldn't hire pathologically insecure people to head a large organization.

she's driven out a bunch of good people because she saw them as threats to her i guess. i took her by surprise because a) she wasn't targeting me because she barely knew who i was and b) she didn't realize i was kind of a lynchpin to the whole operation because she barely knew who i was or what i did until i gave notice and it was suddenly like "everything will now stop because we have no one else to do it" and c) i guess she didn't expect people to look at what she's doing and be like "i'm out of here" if she didn't already want them gone.

[gottahaveguts]

if this is intentional on Murata’s part, that’s pretty clever

[truetealtears]

A dynamic I think would be kinda fun:

The Apprentices, Lea, Isa, Roxas, Xion and Namine: adjusting to being a somebody has been difficult but thank god we’re not nobodies anymore

Lauriam and Elrena: wow our memories are wild like we’re actually ancient keyblade weilders and so is Ventus! We escaped the war and lost track of everyone except each other and Ven who doesn’t remember us??? We have so much to process but ultimately being somebodies is a good thing because now we can go look for Lauriam’s sister and figure out what the hell happened and stuff

Luxord’s somebody: so as it turns out I’m sworn to protect this kid (Yk cuz he’s Cor to Yozora’s Noctis) who wants to ‘save’/kill/??? the kid who killed me like twice in what was apparently a different reality? I was kinda chill with being a nobody but back to work now ig. Does this automatically make me everyone else’s enemy since I’m technically fighting Sora???

Demyx’s somebody: Oh god. Oh fuck. I want to go back! I WANT TO GO BACK! No u don’t understand IT REALLY IS THAT BAD. My world is fucked, I don’t want my memories. I miss ignorant bliss. Take my heart out! TAKE IT (I’d love the irony of the others being like: ‘oh Demyx was so lazy and chill I’m sure his Somebody is having a great time somewhere doing nothing’ *camera cuts to his somebody* ‘holy shit wtf happened to him???’ like he has seen the horrors and would in fact like to go back to being just a fun little guy.)

Xigbar: lmao I’m still a nobody, sucks to be you guys!

[forever70s]

Max Gail in "The Organization" (1971)

[valefars-ghoul-outback]

Comparison of the three ghost gangs (Main, first cartoon, the Fiend Folio boss)

(FYI in the Speedy/G!Pinky comparison I'm referring to the Organization title card/How Pinky's potrayed in Pac-World 2)

[cinemajunkie70]

A very happy birthday in the afterlife to Sidney Poitier!

[windenbro]

The Organization

Rob managed to get the mystery man out of his torn wet clothes, cleaned up some of the blood and applied some bandages. He carried him into the bed and sat in the char beside him intending to keep vigil while the man slept. Of course..he passed out, and awoke late the next morning to the man beside him groaning out a pained yawn.

He tried to get some information out of him about what had happened to him, but when the man reached out and lightly touched his arm to say thank you, he panicked. He needed to escape. No one is supposed to touch him, everyone who touches him meets tragedy.

Mind blank, he jumps up and the first thing he thinks of is escaping to the kitchen.

“Food!” He blurts out immediately feeling foolish.

He runs out of the room berating himself for acting like this. He wants to help..he does...but he just...shouldn’t be here. Not with him. 

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Meanwhile, Avery struggles to wrap his head around...anything. Now alone in this strange room he’s filled with a sense of dread. His body feels...tense and hot. And at the edges of his mind...fury...rage...white hot anger....

[weirdlotiel]

Sophie: Let’s speak about our talents

Sophie: I’ll start… I like to play musical instruments

Lok: I’m good at learning languages

Dante: I’m good at acrobatics

Zhalia: I’m good at killing people

[gofancyninjaworld]

OPM Webcomic Chapter 145 Review

Another Sunday, another review. At this rate, I may just about catch up on my OPM reviews by September! Anyway, it's been a while, so the summary is going to be a bit detailed.

Summary

Cast your mind back a little bit (if you're a lucky lately-come reader reading the story in one session) or a lot bit (if you've been following it chapter-by-chapter). Back then, the three Machine Gods sent to assassinate Dr Kuseno told Genos that the Plan would be happening at the breaking of dawn. Why do I bring your attention to this? Because as this chapter shows, not long has passed since.

We open to a page on which the headquarters of the Hero Association and the Neo Heroes are juxtaposed. While the Hero Association has no idea of what is happening in all the cities under attack owing to the communications going down -- and something else has come to their attentions that looks even more dire -- over at Neo Hero HQ, all is in hand. The first attack has been 'allowed', the Neo Hero teams have been deployed, and it's just a matter of time before the source of the robots is found.

McCoy is shaking with horror. He's all for stunts, but faced with such widespread catastrophe, can't the pro-heroes be given battle suits so they too can fight effectively, instead of being targets?

The answer he receives is even more chilling, as the team overseeing efforts shuts him down in no uncertain terms, asking him to focus and not feel nostalgia for the HA. They also refuse to deploy the S-Class heroes in the Neo Heroes, with Metal Bat still in custody, Super Alloy Darkshine clueless, and Child Emperor deemed too hard to control.

Speaking of Child Emperor, shall we check in on our boy hero? We find him giving a resume of what's happened to date. He's reprising his role in the MA arc, only with a key difference: his chilling notes on what is happening are addressed to himself as an aide to his understanding. He no longer looks to Bofoi, nor indeed to any adult, for help. From him, we understand that the attack started at 05:41 and that the robots would systematically eliminate any sources of local resistance before moving to destroy the cities they were deployed to. He continues his narration as he finally manages to gain access to the data table of one of the captured robots and care it to the database of industrial robots he'd built earlier.

Then he goes white as he bites through his lollipop in horror. Almost at the same time, one of the Neo Hero functionaries comes to summon him, which seems to engender further horror. However, when he swivels around to face the visitor, he is the picture of calm. He shoulders his backpack, sans body armour and declares himself ready to act.

Elsewhere, Suiryu's team is making short work of the robots. Suiryu pays scant attention to them as he thinks of his sister with concern. It looks like he may be paying the Hero Association another visit. This time to tell the heroes there not to come.

Speaking of the Hero Association, we see that Suiko is indeed living up to her brother's prediction and oversleeping. She barely stirs when her 7 am alarm goes off and is only roused by the All Hands emergency summons. She gets ready and dashes to where the rest of the heroes are gathered. She asks where to deploy, only to learn that things are well beyond deploying. With only about 40 heroes on site, none of them Class S, they're all that's left to hold out against the r4 million-- and counting -- robots battering at the gates. Metal Knight's defence robots do their best, but it's not long before they're brought down. The mood is bleak indeed.

In the midst of the gloom, Forte walks off. To feed the dog. He pours the usual ration of food for Rover and Black Sperm and bids them eat slowly. He hopes that Saitama will somehow link up with Blue and come through.

As he eats, Black Sperm reflects on what's going on. He can afford to be analytical: as little monsters, he and Rover are very likely to survive. This is a deliberate push to eliminate the poorly-performing heroes and leave only a predictable group. A group Black Sperm doesn't fear. With Saitama away, the Hero Association is finally out of luck, brought down by an enemy who has prepared very carefully. Works for him.

Speaking of devastation, Blue is coming to a realisation similar to that of Webigaza's last chapter: that 'winning' is hollow indeed in the face of the destruction wrought by the robots. Despite having expended a lot of energy, he calls HQ, asking them to hurry up and locate the source of the robots. He can't save people, restore lives, or repair livelihoods. But he can at least fight.

And finally, speaking of sources of evil, we close the chapter with Genos having arrived at the first of the installations that Bofoi has. As he walks forward, alarms go off an an armed defence boots up. The chapter ends with Genos walking into the howling dark.

Meta: True Enemies

Nothing is as scary as a human being

I'm going to ask you to look at the expressions on McCoy's and Child Emperor's faces. McCoy is looking at the executives of the Neo Heroes as if he's truly seeing them for the first time, while Child Emperor is frozen as if the person who has appeared behind him is an enemy. They've just put it together -- the true enemy is paying their wages.

Not all cyborgs advertise their non-human side. I may not be a betting person, but the entirety of Neo Hero brass is almost certainly cyborgs. There's a reason Erimin and Destro had to take out Koko stat before he rumbled them. Nothing can be allowed to get in the way of The Plan.

That said, it's not the mechanical side of cyborgs that came up with The Plan. It's the greedy, cruel, and entirely human side that came up with an ambition to control the world and worked out how to make it happen. Their being cyborgs is an identity that separates them from the rest of humanity, affording them a vantage point from which they look down on people, and also, as we've learned, you cannot become a cyborg without an extraordinary amount of willpower and self-discipline. This is a plan not only dreamed up by cruel, greedy people (who are common) but by people possessed of extraordinary self-discipline and determination... and money. It's not cheap to be a cyborg. What a terrible combination that is!

Remember way back when Genos was talking about a rampaging cyborg and how hard it had proved to find in the four years since? It starts to make perfect sense now.

Measure Twice, Destroy Once

In earlier chapters, I had thought that the goal of today's attack was to discredit the Hero Association once and for all and establish the Neo Heroes as the true heroes. I thought way too small. Never mind discredit the Hero Association: The Organization is out to erase them completely. Just as they sent 10 powerful robots, at least three of them highly intelligent dragon-level threats, to ensure that one little scientist got killed without fail, they're sending millions of robots to ensure that the HA is made a bad memory.  It's clear that Bofoi isn't responsible for this: with the HA slated for elimination, the best thing for him to do as a collaborator would have been to stand down his robots and open the gates wide. It's not like there are going to be any witnesses to care about whether or not Bofoi betrayed them.

At some point, the attack will end, and at that point, only the Neo Heroes will be left to provide security. Society will be broken, and survivors will have to be grateful for whatever protection they can get.

Bofoi is probably the only source of widespread opposition they could face (where is his robot army?) but it looks like they've got a plan for that too. Unless Metal Knight is a very good talker and Genos is in a listening mood, a gross miscarriage of justice looks set to occur.

There is, of course, a wild card The Organization has kept missing, Saitama. But where is he? What is he doing? And will it be enough to make a difference to people? Who can tell? ONE, where is the next instalment?!

[robot-appreciation-posting]

G5 from One-Punch Man

They’re a "Machine God"— and while I don’t know what that means in the context of this character, it’s definitely in the “Names To Run Away From Really Quick” category.

It was sent on behalf of "The Organization" (whatever that is) to join the Monster Association (whatever that is) with the intent to destroy the Hero Association (whatever that is)

(I haven’t watched the show or read the manga ^^")

Its true, much smaller form is hidden beneath all that armor. Despite surviving an Atomic Slash, they’re finally done in by Genos who stomps it into scrap metal.

[realitybitesyouknowit]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Harry Potter/Tom Riddle, Orion Black/Walburga Black, Abraxas Malfoy/Original Character(s) Characters: Harry Potter, Tom Riddle | Voldemort, Tom Riddle, Fleamont Potter, Walburga Black, Orion Black, Cygnus Black, Lucretia Black Prewett, Abraxas Malfoy, Pomona Sprout, Albus Dumbledore, various other hogwarts students, Original Female Character(s), Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Time Travel, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Time Travel Fix-It, But when i say fix it i mean fixing EVERYTHING, Mysterious third party organisation, Harry Potter is Bad at Feelings, Harry is a Little Shit, Harry is a peverell, my boy is going back in time and fucking up the time line, im so proud, Harry Potter was Raised by Other(s), kind of, is fifteen a little late to be raised, idk - Freeform, i gave him adoptive parents because i want harry to have nice things, BAMF Harry Potter, Morally Grey Harry Potter, Kinda, its not super showcased but you can kind of tell he's not as pure hearted as he once was, seeing multiple people die before you even turn eighteen will do that to ya, no beta we die like men, Some Humor, it's - Freeform, Teen Romance, Slytherin Harry Potter, 1940s, Hogwarts Fifth Year, The Noble and Most Ancient House of Black Summary:

"We would like to give you a chance.”

“A chance?”

“That’s right.”

“A chance at what?”

“Why, at living, Mr Potter.”

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When Harry Potter is approached by a mysterious third party organisation that offers him the chance of a lifetime, he finds himself flung five decades into the past with a new name, new parents, and one hell of a mission.