#The point is not that Sonic is secretly a bad guy or anything

[hadesknockedupintheunderworld]

The fans: Ugh Sonic was just so preachy. I mean obviously he's supposed to be the good guy, so any uncomfortableness I feel here and any way I feel like Sonic's choices are framed as being why some other people have shitty lives is just bad writing because he is obviously supposed to be right always, but this characterization makes no sense. Isn't he right for the things he did?

Ian Flynn, using Kitsunami to say the (barely even at this point) quiet part even louder: Hey it's almost like ever since the Mr. Tinker event we've been purposely running with the critique of Sonic as being more selfish than he appears. Sonic is upholding a system of Eggman v Sonic that currently benefits him and shuts down talk of how to improve the current system because he likes his own personal enjoyment and he's attached enough to Eggman that he'd rather Eggman pretend to be a good person than be stuck in prison for life. He doesn't even quite practice what he preaches. We are trying to show that the current hero v villain system and Sonic's recklessness currently affects some people poorly and that Sonic isn't a perfect hero.

[thevioletscout]

Got to see Sonic 3 early at a fan event! If you saw a brunette white girl in a black and white striped jacket who had keychains on her cat backpack of a dark chao and knockoff Shadow, that was probably me.

Gonna share my thoughts because I need to. Spoilers under the cut.

- I personally still like 2 the most. That doesn't mean 3's bad, it was great, but 2 just felt like a stronger film.

- I was honestly pretty wary about Keanu Reeves as Shadow, but I think he did excellent, and for a very peculiar reason that surprised myself; At certain points, he sounds like a teenager. Obviously its the kind of gruff Shadow voice we’re all used to, but there were times he would sound strangely youthful, and its a nice reminder that despite the 50 year stasis, despite the ultimate lifeform thing- Shadow's still a kid, just like Team Sonic.

- My brother even pointed out that Commander Walter objected to shooting the Robotniks and Shadow when they were escaping because "they're kids!" He said kids, plural.

- I think Jim Carrey did great as both Eggman and Gerald Robotnik. There was even a scene near the end where he was downright scary as the latter. That said, I wasn't a big fan of many of the scenes where they interacted. It kinda felt like the plot of the movie would get pulled to a grinding halt so we could just watch extended Jim Carrey comedy. I could probably be in the minority about this, and I can accept that, I just personally think cutting out some of the bits would have helped the movie flow a bit better.

- Fight scenes were so cool. It's not usually something I’d care that much about, but I think with Sonic in general getting the action right is a huge draw, and damn did this get it right.

- I'm not a big fan of Maria's illness not being referenced at all. I can kinda understand it because they're on Earth the whole time now, not in space, but it removes a lot of the important factors of Maria's character. It especially feels bad in the wake of Sonic x Shadow Generations, where the effects of her condition were actually shown, and when compared to the Wicked movie adaptation where they actually went out of their way to do a more respectful depiction of a wheelchair user.

- I like her using rollerskates though. That feels like a cute parallel between her and Shadow, and that could have been an interesting detail Robotnik worked into Shadow's design if he was actually made by him in this version.

- Sidenote, I swore that the whole Shadow was found in a meteor thing was a coverup for the real story, but no thats just his origin in the movies. That definitely carries some interesting implications for Shadow in the SCU.

- They kinda cutely referenced Sonic and Shadow looking alike, but otherwise it didn’t affect anything. G.U.N. didn't even try to use that to frame Sonic for what Shadow was doing. I kinda don't mind that though, I think there's enough retroactive implications to draw from.

- I wasn't sure they would actually use Live & Learn, but they did and holy shit it was so worth it! And Sonic and Shadow did the Adventure 2 pose!!! Theater went nuts, and I was going nuts with them.

- I'm once again probably going to be in the minority about this, but I kinda wish we got more Tom and Maddie. Like it or not, they were major characters in the previous movies, but in this one they just feel like they're there. I would say that it probably would have made Tom's near death experience more impactful, but to be fair my entire theater was in shock and scared out of their minds that they actually killed him so I think it was plenty impactful.

- They just straight up yeeted Gerald into incineration. I get it, there was no other neat way to take him out but damn. Tails and Knuckles killed a man.

- And finally the mid-credits scene holy shit.

- Okay so- I want you guys to know that I was a "Amy's secretly in the movie" truther. Every time Team Sonic was in trouble I was waiting for Amy to suddenly make her debut. I had this vision of her hammer being the first thing we see before Amy herself is slowly revealed. And yet, nothing. Every time they would find a different way out and around the G.U.N. infiltration I finally accepted that Amy wasn't going to appear.

- But then that scene during the credits. Sonic is confronted by Metal Sonic- who looks FANTASTIC btw. That's when I knew we were probably getting Amy next, but I wasn't sure when and how. Then Sonic gets surrounded by several of the metal copies, and like I predicted; first we see her hammer, flying through the air as it takes out several of the bots. Then we see her, dressed in a cloak to hide her features just a bit longer. Finally, she puts the hood down and- GOD SHE'S SO CUTE, I LOVE HER.

- I cannot impress upon you how crazy everyone in the theater went. We love this pink hedgehog.

- Wade only had one scene thank fuck.

There were probably a few other misc things I can talk about but I need more time to process it all. As I said to someone sitting in front of me; "How am I supposed to wait another two years???"

EDIT: ONE MORE THOUGHT

- One thing I find interesting is that after Shadow escapes, he just wants to be left alone. Most of what he's doing when Team Sonic finds him is just self defense from G.U.N. If I remember correctly he even tries to tell Sonic and the others to just walk away, and he dips on the motorcycle as soon as he's able to, once again warning them not to follow. He even spares Sonic and simply handcuffs him to something when the fight's over. It seems like it isn't until Gerald finds him that the revenge plan even gets started for him. He didn't want to go out of his way to hurt anyone, he just wanted to grieve in peace. Unironically, such a good understanding of Shadow's character.

[planet-magic-land]

have been rewatching Doctor Who (or I guess Doctor Who reactions) and got back to fleshing out my own Doctor Whosona Regeneration Version I've had for a long time

will draw at some point but basically she is a scrunkly wet cat who wears ugly tropical shirts and bright clothes but is just extremely tired and exhausted from everything the Doctor has been through

her Tardis interior is just as much of a mess she is, littered with cardboard boxes upon boxes full of Who Knows What and other assortments of Stuff (and she often uses said boxes as makeshift furniture to rest on) the Middle Glass Tube Bit In The Center (official name) is completely crooked and wonky, for a time machine it is all incredibly underwhelming, and not nearly as Bigger On The Inside as it used to be

either that or the interior just looks like a generic house's living room, with a Tardis console in the middle

she Tried to build a new Sonic Screwdriver with the same chameleon technology that the Tardis has, but the screwdriver's is also.. broken, but instead of being stuck as One thing like the Tardis, it's the opposite, and the screwdriver has a bad habit of changing shape. sometimes it's a pencil, sometimes it's a book, sometimes it's a stick, or a rubber duck, and sometimes it will be something A Lot Larger, like a flat out wheelbarrow or a bicycle.

companion- "why can't you just use your Sonic Screwdriver for this?"

*the Doctor simply slams a worn out shoe onto the table, (the screwdriver is now a shoe)*

the Doctor- "... IT'S NOT EVEN IN MY SIZE."

for companions she has a robot and an alien, but less "they just look like humans but Are Secretly Extraterrestrial" robot and alien and more like, A Big Clunky Robot who'd fit more in with Old Who, and a little Alien in a tank of liquid that has to be carried around, who is a furious Alien Overlord-wannabe but is actually Extremely Powerless. there is also One (1) human companion, they are either Some Guy's Dad, or a Generic Businessman who is constantly unimpressed by the Doctor and her.. *gestures to her everything* ..but prefers this (or literally anything) over going back to his job

I considered the robot actually being the human companion, a human mind in the body of a machine with no memory of who they were and how they came to be, and that being a good mystery for the Doctor to solve, trying to figure out What, Where and When they're from.. but I prefer the robot companion being more like a Big Dog/Cat in personality, either simply saying one word sentences, or making unintelligible Robot Beeps and Sounds

when the Daleks and Cybermen meet this Doctor, she is so underwhelming in contrast to her previous versions that they assume that this is some sort of trick, or just assume she is just Someone's Weird Gay Aunt

she tries punching a Cyberman because "she's never tried it before and thought she might as well start now"

[nights-nonsensical-ramblings]

How would the scu trio interact with boom Shadow?

Ok so boom shadow is far more aggressive, hot headed and edgy than his main series counterpart. (i mean the guy tired to destroy the universe because a eggman showed him a bad edit of sonic talking shit) I am only speaking from the cartoon here, I don’t really know anything about the boom games (other than shadow dose willingly come back to help the hero’s at some point, I think)

But anyway I was looking around the boom shadow tag to focus on his character better and one of the tags for movie sonic, and I saw a few things about the strength of scu sonic’s friendship power and i love this. the idea of this super edgy aggressive guy having a secret appreciation for these gremlin danger children and basically going “these children are the only competent people on the island you should feel bad”

but for first meetings it would not take long for a fight to start between him and scu Knuckles, between how often Boom shadow insults and belittles those around him as well as his aggression and Scu Knuckles ready to fight for his brothers and honorable nature, these two are absolutely throwing hands within like a minute. But since the scu characters are more powerful than the boom universe he gives boom shadow a better run for his money than the boom team did. Part of me thinks shadow get curb stomped and part of me thinks the battle would be more even (like what even is his back story in the boom universe, how powerful is he? I’m pretty sure there’s no chaos emeralds/master emerald and such in the boom universe so…???) but either way after their battle boom shadow thinks of him as a worthy opponent.

scu sonic thinks his edginess is the most entertaining thing (just like the characters in some of the action movies he’s seen) and keeps going “awe i bet you’re really sweet under all that edge” and keeps following following him. so shadow keeps teleporting away, but scu sonic keeps finding him and he’ll just say “you know my brother was all mean and grumpy when i first met him, now we get along great’ and boom Shadow is *this* close drop kicking this child into the ocean and leaving him there, but has already learnt that the scu trio are stronger than the versions he knows and that he will get hounded by the other two for ages and he does not want to deal with two angry siblings bothering him. (And secretly deep down where he’ll never admit it he thinks the kids adorable)

He also has a respect for Scu Tails, mainly coming from the fact that tails builds all kinds of dangerous and distructive weaponry yet has everyone convinceed that he’s completely pure and inocent. I can’t really think of more to add here.

Boom sonic: uh shadow do you care about those guys?

Boom shadow: absolutely not I don’t know what you’re talking about.  (while holding Scu sonic’s hand and listening to him ramble on about his favorite action movie and why he thinks boom shadow would awesome in one.

Idk if any of this is accurate at all (boom shadow is a punk and I have no clue what his deal is) but I had fun.

[bubblesandgutz]

From reading about Botch and your tumblr, it seems like you hold pretty progressive viewpoints and I imagine the rest of the band did too? Yet, your song C Thomas Howell as the Soul Man was mocking progressive bands like Racetraitor. I apologize as I'm definitely not trying to say you guys are/were secretly conservative or anything like that, but I'm just curious what the reasoning behind the song was?

I appreciate this question as "C Thomas Howell as the Soul Man" is easily the most misunderstood song in our catalog and I welcome the opportunity to dispel some of the rumors about it. It's one of the few Botch songs where I helped write the lyrics, so I'm particularly sensitive to the way the song is interpreted. When we were writing We Are The Romans, I approached Dave V about wanting to write a song about watching people become jaded in the hardcore scene, and how becoming jaded with the music sadly often meant becoming jaded on the progressive politics that went along with it.

The initial idea came to me after talking with a friend whose band played Goleta Fest---a hardcore festival in Southern California thrown by the Ebullition Records / HeartattaCk fanzine camp. I loved that whole scene earlier on in the '90s, though by '99 it felt like the groundbreaking acts of that community had been replaced by a bunch of new bands that weren't offering up many new ideas. Maybe I was just getting older and was a bit more discerning and harder to impress, but it felt less rebellious and more like there was a certain set of sonic rules that had to be adhered to.

My friend's report on the festival didn't do much to revitalize my interest in that scene. He said every band kinda sounded the same, and every band did the standard thing where they spent a couple minutes before every song talking about what the lyrics were about, and it was always one of the same handful of topics: veganism / animal liberation, anti-capitalism, LGTBQ rights, combatting the patriarchy, etc.... all great things to support and talk about, but not presented with any fresh perspectives, and never really transformed into compelling (or even intelligible) lyrics. It was sad and frustrating, because this scene had done so much for me as a queer kid. So much of my worldview was built around ideas I'd encountered in punk music, but everything was starting to feel very rank-and-file and formulaic, and I saw that as detriment to both the artistic integrity of the scene and to the progressive idealism that went with it.

So my idea was to address it in a song. I wanted to talk about how the formula was going stagnant, and how the cynicism surrounding a tired, played-out sound could easily morph into cynicism towards the radical politics that went along with it. If there's a fault to be had with the lyrics, it's that it points out the problem without really proposing a solution or alternative, so it winds up sounding like it's advocating for the exact kind of cynicism it was meant to combat.

Dave and I worked on the lyrics together, me with Goleta Fest in the back of my mind, and Dave, as he would later mention in an interview, with Racetraitor as his inspiration. We'd played a show with Racetraitor in Chicago a few years earlier and in many ways they were a fitting muse for the song's theme. They were a metallic hardcore band with indecipherable, cryptic lyrics, but they spent as much time playing their songs as they did talking about their lyrics, which were centered on racial disparities in America. Racetraitor were by no means a bad band, and their political stance was admirable. But we'd seen Los Crudos on the same tour, and they had been an ideal example of a band that was smart and inspiring with their between song dialogue and just straight up incendiary with their music. In stark contrast, Racetraitor's set the night we played with them was musically clunky and their banter was more confusing than inspirational. In many ways, they epitomized the whole "great message / self-sabotaging delivery" thing that was at the heart of "C. Thomas Howell as the Soul Man," but my gripe was never with specific bands. It was always about the larger pattern of the scene falling into a rut.

In Seattle, a lot of hardcore kids interpreted the song as being about the local political straight edge band Trial, which was a huge disappointment to me as those guys were friends of ours. And we would later cross paths with Racetraitor's singer, Mani, who was a super sweet dude who had a lengthy conversation with Dave about "C. Thomas Howell." But again, the song was never intended to be about a specific band, and it certainly wasn't meant to criticize their politics.

If I have any other regrets surrounding the song, it's the title. The placeholder title while we were writing the album had been "Tapping Song," since it had the finger-trapping section in the latter half of the song. Then it turned into "Taps." Then it turned into "C. Thomas Howell Stars in Taps." Then someone realized that C. Thomas Howell hadn't even been in the movie Taps; we'd had him confused with Timothy Hutton. So in our typically convoluted and absurdist song-naming tradition, we asked, "well, what movie was C. Thomas Howell in?" And there was our title.

At the time we were making We Are The Romans, I thought there was something strangely apt about naming this song after a movie that had attempted to take a really important stance on a tough subject (race in America) and completely blown it. That's what the song was about after all... well-intentioned politics that were undermined by mediocre art. If you've never seen Soul Man, consider yourself lucky. It hasn't aged well. Even in 1999, it felt like the plot, which involved Howell taking a bunch of tanning pills to pass himself off as African-American in order to get into college, had missed the mark and done a disservice to its supposed aims. But the bummer is that once the Racetraitor stuff was brought up, it seemed like the title was somehow a reference to their band, which wasn't the case.

TL;DR: "C. Thomas Howell as the Soul Man" isn't about Racetraitor and it wasn't meant to be a swipe at bands with radical politics. It was about mediocrity and stagnation, and the disappointment in watching people toss out their idealism when they get tired of their record collection.

[limitlessgojo]

Blood Bound: Blackened Bond (Ch 16)

Warnings: Action, Coarse Language, Fighting, Descriptions of Blood, Death, Gore, Japanese Mythical Folklore, No Major Character Death

Previous Chapter: 土御門天皇 (Tsuchimikado)

Next Chapter: Inferno: Flames of Hell

Word Count: 3.3k

Tags: Kamo Noritoshi x Reader, Soulmates AU, Angst, Fluff, Hurt/Comfort, Fem!Reader

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This chapter is LONG, a lot longer than I expected haha, happy reading!

Chapter 16: Non-Standard

Noritoshi was in a shitty mood to say the least. He went home to his clan immediately after getting a summon. The clan head had discussed their stance on the upcoming war and is readying their jujutsu sorcerers for battle.

His half-brother had made a not too subtle snarky remark about you. "You've already gotten yourself a woman? Wonder if she even likes you. I'm willing to bet Homura's cuter than her." Secretly his brother was curious about you, having heard about your special grade status.

Noritoshi steeled himself, knowing his brother's playboy tendencies at his school.

"That's enough. I am quite serious about her, so don't even think of taking her."

He watched his brother shut up upon seeing him like this and left him hanging.

'Heeehhh? That Noritoshi is actually interested in someone? Interesting…'

Other serious matters aside, his father, as usual, asked about you, only for him to find out you've both gotten into an argument.

The head of the Kamo clan only raised an eyebrow. "That’s normal for every couple."

Noritoshi kept his temper at bay. But he couldn't help resenting his phone call with his father that day. If his father was less controlling and obsessive over their clan status, maybe it would have gone better.

No... He was also influenced by the elders. Ashamed as Noritoshi was to acknowledge it himself.

“We… broke up…”

At that, his father shuts his eyes, mood obviously souring.

"You are literally a fated pair, how is that even possible? *sigh* If it proves too difficult with her… well we had that list of marriage partners set up for you. Homura has made it quite clear she and her family would be very delighted to assimilate with ours."

Is this what Noritoshi wanted? A woman who obviously flirted with him as she lusted for power? No, he wanted you, who never inquired about his status. Just about his family, his mom, dad and half siblings.

You made it very clear you were worried about his family's well-being. And whether they would like you or not. You want him to meet yours. You never even asked him for a gift or much favors. (Though he had a feeling your family was pretty well off, based on your clothes and jewellery.)

And he loved the fact that he could breathe like a regular teenage guy around you. The only thing you’ve requested from him so far was honesty and transparency.

"No. That won't be needed. Y/N is mine. She is the only one for me." He spoke slowly and clearly. This is the first time he actually disagreed with his father. He'd lose his sanity without you.

"I expected as much, I've never seen you this determined about something before. Soulmates are so complicated." His father sighed out. "Do as you wish. It isn't wise for me or the elders to interfere with something as sacred and ancient as this soulbond you share with her anyways."

Noritoshi felt himself earn a small win at that. He was growing a backbone. "Thank you father."

“However! You cannot force her to love you back. Surely you know this. If you don’t get married by the age of 25, as per our clan tradition I’ll have you set up with another woman.”

Noritoshi inwardly sighed, resigned to his fate.

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Needless to say, you trained like a demon as the eve of Christmas quickly approached. Nobody dared come 10 feet near you as you perfected your Blizzard and Tornado techniques. It was normal to hear the crack of a sonic boom and see flashes of lightning around you.

You were hesitant to use your cursed technique reversal. You barely use flames and Inferno in general, but it can't be helped. But now you hold a pack of matches in your hand.

You lit a match and manipulated the flames. It danced dangerously around your fingers before you moved it from one hand to the other.

You were doing well. Spending a lot of time here on campus helped you to control your emotions and not let anger fuel your cursed energy like you did when you were younger. Those were such bad habits.

A wheel of flame circled in front of you. Very clean and stable. All of the sudden, a strong whirl of wind and empty space extinguished the flames like a vacuum … Only one other person in Japan is capable of doing that other than you.

You turned your head to the side and saw an incredibly tall man with snow white hair and a pair of sunglasses approached you. His bright baby blue eyes gently twinkling and peeking over the rims of his shades.

“Satoru nii, it’s been a while. Why visit me now?” You tiredly asked. He came up just a few inches away from you, staring down at you.

“I got a call from Hiroki. I’m here to help you with your special cursed techniques. It’s time, you’ve stopped holding yourself back Neko-chan.” He leered down with his trademark grin.

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You spend the entire afternoon getting pushed around by Satoru. This man was crazy strong. He kicked you against a tree. “OOF” you heaved.

"You avoid using Inferno. Is it because of your childhood trauma? I'm not shaming you but it's something you need to overcome."

You frowned at his words.

"You only have today to train with me y/n! Aren’t you honored I went out of my way from Tokyo to Kyoto?”

"Like hell I am."

“You’re not using the full extent of your cursed techniques. That power is your one true ally in this world. Trust it a bit more. Apart from your soulmate anyways, but I can see you and Noritoshi aren't exactly swell right now." Your eye twitched at that statement.

Satoru eyed the broken strands of red ropes that floated around you. Not a good sign. It was reaching out to the distance. Maybe to where Noritoshi is huh, Satoru wondered. Until he spotted one thin string, still very much intact and alive. He grinned.

‘This prick and his fucking special eye abilities’, you grumbled. He hit your back hard, “What bad language you have. Imma straighten you up today kitteeeen~”

He pranced around you and squatted to lean down to your level.

"But seriously, you say you want to get strong but you fear your own power kitten. Don't do that." Satoru pointed straight at your eyes. “Remove the fear of hurting the people around you. Because you’re literally fighting to protect the ones you love, focus instead on harnessing your cursed energy to fight. Your messed up emotions could cost you a fight, even your life. Doesn’t matter if you’re a special grade like me. At this rate you won’t catch up to me.”

You slumped to the ground in defeat.

“To be honest, I feel like my growth has stunted. I don’t know if it’s the lack of powerful opponents I’ve had lately.”

He sighed out so loudly and obnoxiously that your anger flared up at him. “Thaaat’s what I kept telling you. You shoulda come to Tokyo Jujutsu instead of here! 100% I would enjoy teaching you and I mean it. I could teach you ya know, and Yuuta is there as well. Another Special Grade, although his circumstances are quite unique and with the way he is right now, you have a better chance at beating him one-on-one since he’s a newbie to this world. And yet you kept saying you wanted to be here for your family.” He shook his head.

You felt as though your head cleared up all of a sudden. “Because I was here…. I was meant to be here. Satoru. I know it deep in my soul. Because I met Noritoshi and…. “ Your heart throbbed so loudly you heard it in your ears. A deep pain stabbed into you.

Ah right. You said you were over him. You broke up with him weeks ago.

“And? You’re not together anymore. Figure out your heart and I could let you reconsider transferring to Tokyo Jujutsu High you know?” He said with a frown.

Why does the idea of leaving Noritoshi behind feeling like you were carving your heart out? He isn’t anything to you anymore and yet…

No. Enough of this. You’re here to train and fight that curse that killed Sora. Your emotions were all over the place. Satoru came up to you and wiped your tears off your face.

“What are you doing to yourself y/n? Don’t lie to yourself. I thought you wanted to live life as honestly as possible.” Even Satoru looked concerned and troubled over your state.

You gulped. “Yeah you’re right. I told myself I wanted to get stronger and protect the ones I love. Now I’m just running away. Noritoshi at least has been trying to reach out to me, but I shut him down.” Your heart is hurting.

Satoru stared at you and the cursed energy that was rapidly pulsing around you. Then grinned. “Then... Fight me one-on-one right here right now. Let’s make sure to keep the damages to a minimum and take care of the buildings. All the other students are still here on campus. Sky's the limit since both of us can move well in mid-air. I want to see you control your emotions and fight me properly. I’ll hold back.” He said.

You took a deep breath and looked back up. “Challenge accepted.”

You’ve envisioned this countless times. You wanted to see how you could match-up against Satoru and all his years of experience. You weren’t expecting to win, but you were not going down without a fight. Your cursed technique is actually a good matchup for his.

You can manipulate molecules. Though you suspect his control is on an atomic level, and thus could overpower yours due to his finesse and 6 eyes. But you could at the very least try.

Satoru, on the other hand, already knew of your potential. 'She is the only one I know who can actually touch and surpass me, given that she can control gravity and condense molecules. It will come down to timing and refining techniques.'

“Give me 5 minutes to suit up.” You asked. He agreed. You flew to your room and eyed the katana of your father. He actually planned to give it to Sora when she turns 16. But due to her death, he gave it to you instead on your 16th.

The name was Kintsugi, because it was made of two halves before being welded together in the centre with high grade steel. The center has a core of a fine diamond dust that’s infused with cursed energy. It’s a grade 1 special tool that multiplies the cursed energy you put into it by 10.

“Don’t break it. Don’t break it…. But It’s Satoru I’m going against. It will break.” And so you put it back and instead reached for your best twin blades and metallic whip. You coiled it around your wrist like a bangle, before flying back to Satoru.

“Done preparing, kitten?” He had removed his sunglasses and his blue eyes were out wide open as they assessed your cursed technique.

“Yep!” You yelled. “Ah Toru, shouldn’t we inform the elders or Utahime sensei that we-”

He didn’t give you time to speak as he appeared in front of you all of the sudden. Rushing with a right hook. You quickly dodged. He kept his word and is going easy on you at least.

You exchanged a few blows with him, both his limitless and your spacial barrier active so technically, no hits were landed.

Until you warped the space and forced the molecules around them to retract, making you actually reach and hit him.

He must have expected the solid punch, because in return, he kicked you as he warped off your spacial barrier. You eyed him as you regrouped. It’s anyone’s game huh.

“You’re still holding back! Are you going to be like this in a real battle? Are you okay with staying weak? Or do you have to wait for someone special to die before you ignite?!”

Oh no he didn’t. Your emotions raged, and you tried to calm them down. But all you saw was blood red. You never felt this angry at Satoru before. Before you knew it, you had activated inferno, making the entire surrounding area, which Satoru was in, combust and burn up in flames.

You lit up a match and pulled the flames on the ground and trees towards your smaller flame and held a massive ball of fire. Satoru was gone, it was only soot on the ground. You looked up to see him hurtling down at you.

You barely dodged, before wrapping the flames around you as you used it to strike at him repeatedly. You both rose up higher and higher into the air.

“Special art: Goldenrod,” you shot a bolt of lightning at Satoru only for him to dodge it. “Don’t just shoot it from your hands! Electricity is a current! You can make it run through your entire body!” He yelled as you both spiraled and fought over the campus.

He had the energy to teach you while you were fighting. You scoffed, but listened carefully, generating electricity in your hands before letting it wrap around you.

You were both dodging and striking at each other with such power. The trees swayed violently as winds and rubble were thrown about.

“What on earth…” Noritoshi and the other students stared at the flashes of fire, lightning, and wind above the campus.

The sky darkened. Good. If you had water, that was another asset.

He must have realized this as he immediately activated his Cursed Technique: Reversal. “Red.” You were forced back, plummeting to the ground. You swiftly turned and saw Miwa and Mai staring at you with horror.

You pulled yourself up back into the sky, still filled with fire and lightning, narrowly missing the building. You twisted your fingers to the side. The flames turned into the shape of the Dragon and you whipped back to hit Satoru from the front while your dragon of flame hit him from behind.

He danced around your attacks, teleporting from one area to the next to dodge them.

He then easily extinguished your flames with a flick of his wrist, but your lightning stayed. He can’t extinguish it, because it was coursing through your body, constantly moving.

You both stood, hundreds of feet high above the Kyoto Campus in midair. Lightning flashed above and winds howled.

You’ve never been pushed this hard your entire life. Not with Hiroki. Not with Todo. But Satoru was really on another level of strong. Unbreakable like a monster. He didn’t feel human anymore.

You tried for a Mach Speed hit, which you’ve never tried on anyone else; it would kill them on impact. “Mach 3.5” There was a loud BANG!

Going at Mach Speed has its limits of course. You can afford to do Mach 1, 5 times a day. Mach 2, 3 times, and Mach 4 only once.

A huge cone of smoke formed behind you as you launched yourself at Satoru. He was still able to evade you, but you pointed one hand to him, quickly following up on another attack.

“Fubuki.” Your blizzard technique was a combination of Niflheim and Tatsumaki. Cold air whipped around you and you thrust it towards Satoru. A mini tornado has formed around you and it pushed and pulled widely. But you were in the eye of the storm.

Satoru dodged your winds, but couldn’t escape them all, wincing as some small ice shards cut into his skin. He attracted debris and rocks towards you. One caught on your shoulder, making you yell in pain, but the rest you were able to guard against with your winds.

He immediately closed in on you to prevent you from doing another full blast and punched with ‘Red’. You countered with a roundhouse kick supercharged with your blizzard and lightning, neutralising his infinity jujutsu with a bit of mixed gravity control.

A huge gust of whirlwind was emitted from the impact, forcing everyone on campus down to the ground.

“GOJO! TSUCHIMIKADO! STOP THIS!” Utahime was screaming at the top of her lungs, still heard over the roar of thunderclap.

You both looked at each other and knew it had to end soon. Rain was starting to fall.

He threw his back and laughed out loud. “I hadn’t had this much fun in ages. You’ve grown really strong. Stop me if you can.” And flew away from the buildings and into the surrounding forest. You whipped your tornado around you and quickly followed him.

All the other students that had been watching you go at it followed. Utahime did as well. They stood from a distance as both of you exchanged more hits.

You lit another match and let arrows made of flames rain on Satoru, weakening his limitless barrier as much as you could. Only one arrow slightly singed his sleeve. Damn he was good.

Satoru attracted your body with “Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue.” You felt like your insides were tearing as you tried to stop his force. But his limitless technique easily overpowered yours. You let go and rushed towards him with both your swords out.

He easily sidestepped and kicked them out of your grasp. The hit was so heavy, even though it hit your swords, you felt the force reverberate throughout your body.

Satoru grabbed your neck from behind, and for the very first time since you were awarded the Special Grade Jujutsushi status, you were forced down onto the ground.

You used your cursed technique to soften the blow as much as possible, but Satoru was relentless as he slammed you head-first down onto the grass.

Everyone winced as you hit the ground hard. "He's not human." Mai said. Everyone agreed, not used to seeing you at the mercy of another party like this. They were reminded of who exactly was the strongest sorcerer alive.

In order to win against Satoru, your goal was to touch him and move past his limitless barrier. Even if it’s just for a moment. You couldn’t use Niflheim or Inferno from afar. He would remain unaffected as he guards and stops the change in movement of molecules around him.

But now his hand was around your neck. Your twin blades suddenly rush to close in around his neck in an x position to gather his attention, while you use your technique to warp the space around his hand to weaken limitless and hold onto him.

You lashed out with your metallic whip, letting your cursed technique run through it. It worked and scratched his cheek a bit.

"Enhanced gravity: Output 30%", the ground cracked underneath the both of you as a massive weight pressed down. And then you shocked both Satoru and yourself with the lightning coursing through you. Screaming at the pain in the process.

He gritted his teeth as volts shocked his bones.

Utahime and the others stared at both of you. "What a huge amount of cursed energy." Todo said in awe. "Non-standard Jujutsu users are insane."

Satoru still had the strength to hit your lower back which caused you to heave out and stop Goldenrod from activating. Both of your clothes were literally toasted. “Haha. You’re a scary one y/n.”

That’s all you remembered before you passed out; you were out of cursed energy.

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Noritoshi rushed over to take you in his arms. Pulling your unconscious body close to his, he gave you a once-over. You had just fainted from exhaustion, there were no serious injuries. Good.

"Noritoshi," Satoru called.

"Yes, Gojo San?"

"Take care of her for me please."

He straightened up, "Of course. There’s no need to ask that from me." He then carried you to the infirmary, holding you gently in his arms.

Blood Bound: Table of Contents

Author's Notes: Me writing this entire scene: FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!!! (x100)

Y/n was able to fight on par with Satoru, because he chose to limit his cursed energy output and match his skills to her level. A psychokinesis cursed technique would be a natural enemy for limitless since you can condense and expand space between molecules. But you still lack experience in battle. And if we were going to talk about Domains, Satoru would dominate the battle.

[gthreepio]

i’ve been thinking about the future of the mcu and realized there’s a LOT that i didn’t know/didn’t remember in terms of where things are going so i figured i’d sum it up incase anyone else was in the same boat!! 

quick recap of (unresolved) mid-credit scenes:

doctor strange: mordo (a sorcerer that is one of strange’s mentors, who by the end of the movie becomes disillusioned with magic/the ancient one and quits) confronts pangborn (the paraplegic who healed himself with the mystic arts, who tells strange about mystic arts in the first place) and steals his magic because according to mordo, there are “too many sorcerers." of note, this guy is typically a villain in the comics but hasn’t been thus far...

gotg2: ayesha (leader of the sovereign, a golden skinned alien race obsessed with genetic purity), after spending most of the movie chasing the guardians for stealing some stuff, is revealed to have created an artificial being named “adam” which is presumably, adam warlock. (other stuff that is less relevant: kraglin appears to take up yondu’s mantle; the ravagers regroup and several old and obscure comic book characters are introduced [charlie-27, aleta, martinex, mainframe]; the watchers are watching things.) 

far from home: j jonah jameson basically tells the whole world spider-man’s secret identity, and frames him for what happened with mysterio....making him public enemy #1. ALSO, turns out nick fury and maria hill in the movie were ACTUALLY the two skrulls from captain marvel (talos and soren) attempting to do their job, while the real fury (and presumably hill) is ... up in space on some spaceship!!!

wandavision: monica (who we can assume is photon) is called by “an old friend of [her] mother’s,” up in space, which presumably means fury, talos, or carol. ALSO, wanda sits in the middle of nowhere reading the darkhold and hears the voices of her children who.. by all accounts, should not exist. 

aaaaand what we know about future movies (i’m not even going into the tv series.....): 

black widow: 

takes place after civil war

nat confronts a “dangerous conspiracy with ties to her past,” likely has to do with taskmaster who has apparently taken over the red room where nat was trained as an assassin

prominent new characters: yelena belova, who will take over the mantle of black widow after this; alexei shostakov aka red guardian, an ollllld marvel hero analogous to captain america except for the soviet union.

tony stark will make an appearance... SOBS

shang-chi and the legend of the ten rings:

shang-chi has never been seen in the mcu before, but he is, essentially, a superhero that is a master martial artist, and in some adaptations can also create duplicate (fake) versions of himself to confuse opponents

main villain will be the the mandarin who we have *sort of* seen before... he is the leader of a terrorist organization called “ten rings” whose main goal is to destroy world peace. brief history -- in iron man 1: one ten rings cell kidnaps tony stark and tries to force him to make weapons (he of course, makes his suit instead). stark and ten rings become enemies and fight a bunch. nat and nick fury fight them too. in iron man 3, the villain aldrich killian hires a dude to pretend to be the mandarin and claim responsibility for a bunch of stuff, but its not the ten rings or the mandarin at all. this makes the mandarin v mad and he has a dude kidnap the faker to punish him. they also briefly show up in ant-man, when a ten rings agent tries to buy the yellowjacket suit that darren cross is selling. BUT IN SHANG-CHI....... looks like we are FINALLY going to see the real mandarin after over a decade!! 

the villain razor fist will also show up, he is lesser known... he has no superhuman powers but he has surgically replaced his hands (1 or 2, depending on the version) with a steel blade, and is highly skilled at hand to hand combat.

besides the presence of these characters, the only bit of plot we know is “shang-chi is drawn into the ten rings organization and forced to confront his past.” so... yeah. we don’t know much at all.

eternals: 

quick explanation: the eternals are an immortal alien race who have been secretly living on earth for thousands of years. they were created by the celestials, who are most prominently in gotg2. 

more entirely new characters!!! their names are: thena, who can form any weapon out of cosmic energy; gilgamesh, who can make a super strong exoskeleton out of cosmic energy; ikaris, who has superhuman strength, flies, and can project cosmic energy out his eyes; kingo, who can shoot cosmic energy projectiles from his hands; makkari, who creates sonic booms, has super speed, and is deaf; phastos, who has enhanced intelligence, and is also gay (and married with a kid!); ajak, who has healing powers; sprite, who can project illusions; sersi, who can manipulate matter; druig, who can mind control; and dane whitman (black knight), a human with a mystical sword. 

regarding the plot... it seems the eternals have kind of dispersed, but have to come together again to fight the deviants, who are their “evil counterparts” (also created by the celestials, though i’m unclear on why). thena and gilgamesh have apparently been in exile, unclear why; sersi, who is posing as a museum curator, has apparently been in love with ikaris for centuries and it seems as if their love story may be central to the film; and kingo is a bollywood film star in his spare time. aaaaand that’s pretty much all we know.

directed by chloé zhao of nomadland fame! 

spider-man no way home: 

based on the post-credits scene in far from home, peter parker will now be known as spider-man to everyone. unclear if he’s going to be seen as a bad guy due to mysterio framing him, but i guess we’ll see! 

jamie foxx is electro, and alfred molina is doctor octopus; which is VERY interesting considering they played these roles in other spider-man franchises, once again stirring up excitement for possible multiverse. 

there have been *multiple* reports that andrew garfield, kirsten dunst, tobey maguire, and emma stone will be in the movie but tom holland has repeatedly denied this... so... who knows. 

there are also rumors that matt murdock / daredevil (from netflix) will be in several scenes! not confirmed though. 

MJ is still his girlfriend and i hope it stays that way!! 

doctor strange will be featured in the movie, taking on the mentor role now that tony stark is gone :( this will be interesting as i.. haven’t really seen them interact much before. because of this inclusion some people speculate that the film may draw inspo from some comic storylines where peter’s secret identity is restored with magic. 

doctor strange in the multiverse of madness: 

scarlet witch is essentially co-starring!!! it’s going to be really interesting to see if they bring vision or the twins into this at all, though i’m not counting on it. 

seems like mordo will be the main villain -- recall the ds1 post credits scene where he is apparently running around trying to steal people’s magic.

america chavez will make her debut!!!!!! i have no idea how this plays into anything but i am so excited!! 

regarding the plot, all we really know is that strange has been researching the time stone, mordo messes with him, and this results in him accidentally unleashing “unspeakable evil.” presumably there will also be heavy involvement of the multiverse, and who knows what kind of craziness that will bring!! 

initially was going to be directed by scott derrickson who did ds1; however he stepped down to being just EP due to “creative differences.” i am presuming this is because derrickson really wanted to make this more gothic and horror than disney was comfortable with. i REALLY hope they keep some of those elements though and don’t erase the idea entirely! anyway, it will be directed by sam raimi now (of evil dead and spiderman 2002 fame). 

the film also reportedly ties in with the loki series (will loki show up!?) and spiderman 3 (which is obvious enough, given that strange is in that movie and those curious electro and doctor octopus castings...)

thor: love and thunder

directed by taika waititi again, hell yeah!!! and he has stated, the film will be “so over the top now in the very best way" and would make ragnarok look like a "run of the mill, very safe film" .... so.... oh god

so many great returning players!!! including.... valkyrie (now the king of new asgard), jane foster, lady sif, korg, star-lord, mantis, drax, nebula, and kraglin (takes up yondu’s mantle after he dies in gotg2)

in this movie, thor isn’t thor anymore.... it’s JANE!!! she gets cancer :( and is undergoing treatment while simultaneously being thor. i’m a little nervous how this will be handled, but i’m excited. (it’s based off an amazing comic series by jason aaron) 

the big bad: gorr the god butcher, played by christian bale! the gist of it is, this dude HATES gods because nobody helped when his family was dying and in need. his weapon is “all-black the necrosword,” forged from the head of a celestial, and allows the user to create wings and fly at extreme speeds. honestly, he sounds cool as fuck. 

valkyrie is going to be made canonically bisexual!!! 

it will explore more of korg’s backstory, and also include... space sharks!?!?! an alien race from the comics.

taika has called the script “very romantic” so take that as you will 

black panther 2

will again be directed by ryan coogler

not much is known at this point, does not have an official name

t’challa will NOT be recast (which i’m happy about) so..... honestly no idea what to expect for this one. i think we can probably expect shuri to have an expanded role. all we know so far is they will be “exploring the world of wakanda.” not clear to me how this is different from the upcoming wakanda D+ series. 

tenoch huerta has reportedly been cast as a villain, but no one has any idea who. there’s also rumors that donald glover is in “informal talks” to play a role. note all of this is unconfirmed.

captain marvel 2

will be directed by nia da costa (candyman!) and written by megan mcdonnell, who is one of wandavision’s best writers! 

will take place in the present day 

will feature kamala khan / ms. marvel, monica rambeau / photon!!! this will be so interesting.... kamala is a huge fan of carol’s in the comics, she is her mentor/idol. the ms. marvel series will also resportedly lead into cm2. and monica, well, monica knew her when she was a little kid. wandavision implies that there’s some bad blood between carol and monica though, not sure why. maybe because carol left and never came back? (until endgame) 

post-credits scene of wandavision appears to tie into this, having monica go up into space at the reqeust of her “mom’s old friend.” again, not clear who that is. this could also be a tie in to secret invasion though, so we’ll see. or both.

zawe ashton has been cast as an unknown villain... a lot of people are actually speculating that she may play rogue? which would be fascinating, as there’s a comic arc where rogue steals her powers and memories. BUT there’s still no confirmation that X-men exist in the MCU so for now i remain skeptical.

they are looking to cast a ‘john boyega’ or ‘michael b jordan’ type which makes me wonder if they are going to create a new character, a “younger” war machine to be her love interest? (note: carol and rhodey are a huge thing in comics!) carol obviously does not look her age but her and don cheadle.... that just doesn’t work. which is why i wonder.

ant-man and the wasp: quantumania 

in addition to scott and hope, pretty much all the major players are returning including: luis, hank pym, janet van dyne

cassie lang has been recast with an actress 5 years older, which is really making me wonder if they are going to make her stinger in this movie! (aka one of the main young avengers)

the villain: kang the conqueror! this dude time travels. original name nate richards. in the comics, kang travels back in time to rescue his younger self (nate) from an attack that would help shape him towards a life of villainy. kang also gives him some fancy armor. his younger self actually is like, what the fuck dude? and renounces his destiny, becoming a hero. and he makes his armor look like iron man, calling himself iron lad. who is a young avenger. which also makes me wonder about cassie lang.

otherwise not much is known! 

guardians of the galaxy vol. 3

james gunn is returning, i’m mixed about this...he really does *get* the guardians though. 

based on the gotg2 post credits scene, i think we can assume adam warlock will be a HUGE part of this. there are multiple versions of him, some villainous and some heroic, but no idea how this is gonna turn out.

no word yet on whether thor will be involved, or if those ravagers they introduced will be involved. 

fantastic four 

will be directed by the spiderman guy, john watts.

otherwise we know literally nothing.

aaaaand that’s the roundup! 

[geek-gem]

Sonic Resurgence Characters

This is my part 1 of this. I’ll make more with reblogs. I have talked about this before. But to get attention off of the last reblog. I’m finally gonna make this shit. The other parts will include Chaos, Shadow, Knuckles, and whoever else. This may get developed more and better as time goes on.

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Sonic The Hedgehog.

Voiced by: Zeno Robinson.(The Owl House)

Age: 21.

Info: Said to be born on somewhere named Christmas Island, Sonic is a young adult blue hedgehog. Born with the remarkable power of super speed and other abilities that make him less originally than other animal people where he grew up.

Despite mainly raising himself and being seen as an outcast and loner. Sonic throughout most of his life has hated oppression and injustice. Knowing he has the power to make things right. Sometimes he has done simple things to something bigger. Whether it’s saving a group of people from a burning building, or being able to stop a group of criminals. He has mostly kept to himself, while helping out here and there. Not wanting fame, and just keeps moving.

But due to for some reason the military accusing him of stealing these things called Chaos Emeralds, and doing other sorts of horrible things. He is chased by the military and tries to figure out what’s going on. Which leads him into allying himself with people he’s met before, or hasn’t met. 

Hardly ever worked with anyone, but not minding it. Sonic and others are thrust into an adventure that goes beyond trying to not only prove Sonic’s innocence. But possibly the fate of the world is at hand. All while Sonic soon feels like he in a place where he belongs. A family that he can finally be close to.

To protect his newfound place and family. He must fully embrace his powers and push harder than before as he goes against his toughest challenge yet. Which is himself in a way. 

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Metal Sonic.

Voiced by: Zeno Robinson.(The Owl House)

Age: None. But mentally, Sonic’s age.

Info: Built to withstand most firepower, able to break the bones of even the most deadliest of men, being able to take on groups of soldiers, and possibly one of the fastest machines in existence. Possibly the perfect killing machine, a literal terminator that is based on maybe the most powerful being on the planet.

Metal Sonic is truly a dark image of what Sonic is. Cold, unremorseful, brutal, and mostly silent. Built to be the perfect weapon to be loyal to Robotnik during his conquest and plans. And built to be superior than the original Sonic.

But once Metal meets the original. His mindset starts developing, becoming more aware and starts adapting. Thinking about what he was built for, and his entire existence.

While not interested in overthrowing Robotnik because he thinks it’s meaningless, while also being loyal to the doctor. The more he fights Sonic, the more he thinks and questions his reality and purpose. 

Metal soon realizes that to put an end to his troubles. That there must only be one Sonic. Which means to kill his original self and prove he is the real Sonic. And he will do anything to achieve that goal of proving himself against Sonic.

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Dr. Robotnik.

Voiced by: John DiMaggio.(Batman Under The Red Hood)

Age: 52.

Info: Despite being respected by people around the world. As he grew up, Ivo Robotnik was an egotistical man and still is. But his ego also matched his big plans, despite having a sense of humor, and able to gain people’s trust easily. He is not a man to be messed with.

Having disappeared for a year, Robotnik had returned with the means to challenge anyone who stands in his way. A man with an IQ of 300, thinking himself to be better than anyone. He goes rogue against everyone in conquest to achieve power himself and present himself as a clear ruler.

Able to make machines that can topple empires, and other powerful armies. Robotnik will not let anyone stand in his way of achieving his goal. To the point he makes sure to make a robot that will make sure his end goal will be met. And that same robot is Metal Sonic.

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Sienna Regine.

Voiced by: Wendie Malick.(The Owl House)

Age: 44.

Info: A single mother who is mainly confidant and honestly sassy. But also quite intelligent being a researcher of trying to learn the history of the animal like people that have inhabited the planet along with humans. And why there isn’t much of them anymore.

Having met Sonic only a couple of times when he was a teenager. Which makes her familiar with the young hedgehog, as they share similar beliefs. But because of her latest research into a rare emerald she found. She and her daughter are thrusted into this situation as well. Which leaves Sienna to offer the hedgehog a hand because she knows he’s innocent.

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Miles Tails Prower.

Voiced by: Zach Callison.(Steven Universe Future)

Age: 14.

Info: A young teenage fox born with two tails. And also a super genius that is able to build amazing tech. Tails and Sonic’s paths crossed when the blue hedgehog defended the fox from being bullied. Ever since then, the fox starts to admire the hedgehog for his deeds and wants to try to be like him.

But when he discovers the situation with Sonic, he offers help in trying to prove Sonic’s innocence and stopping Robotnik. As the adventure continues, the two start forming a brotherly bond and that Tails doesn’t need to try to be like him, but himself.

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Amy Rose.

Voiced by: Jill Harris.(Hazbin Hotel)

Age: 18.

Info: A young pink hedgehog who is friends with Katelyn. Because of one day the blue hedgehog saved her life. The girl had developed what appeared to be a crush on the hero. Despite looking like she could be pushed around, she is able to pack a punch with her secret hammer.

Learning of Sonic’s situation, she decides to join in despite the protest from some of them. But she desperately wants to help Sonic prove his innocence as well.

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Katelyn Regine.

Voiced by: Erica Lindbeck.(Helluva Boss)

Age: 19.

Info: The only daughter of Sienna. Compared to her mother, Katelyn is more shy and less chaotic than her mother. Yet seems to want to step follow in her mother’s footsteps.

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Rouge The Bat.

Voiced by: Nicole Tompkins.(Resident Evil 3 2020)

Age: 24.

Info: An unknown treasure hunter that decides to join Robotnik and Metal Sonic in their conquest. Seeming to be more interested in the emeralds than helping them, Rouge is a tricky lady who knows how to handle anyone. Which angers the opposing side trying to stop them.

But later on, it is revealed she was working for the president to secretly stop Robotnik in his plans. Even if it means having to appear and play the bad guy. When she fully isn’t.

[egg-emperor]

I really don't get people they really want to try and make modern good and some of them will even say he would be cute if he was thinner and it's just like you know if you have these opinions just f****** go with boom he's right over there he is almost everything you described no need to force it on Modern

Yeah I really don't understand why they can't accept that they're entirely separate and that it's okay. If they don't like evil fucked up irredeemable Eggman, game universe classic/modern just isn't their thing. But they try to shape him into everything they want him to be instead, which practically turns him into a copy of Boom. Really, the way they're entirely separate and have their interesting differences should be seen as a good thing. Why merge them and take that away so they're just the same?

They're so different there would be so many contradictions if they took all aspects of their personalities into account when combining them. It'd be like how X Eggman was a hypocrite and did things that blatantly contradicted earlier actions with no reasonable development in between (and still wouldn't make sense if there was because he won't change) but to an even bigger extreme. It doesn't make sense if either version is truly being portrayed accurately. I don't know why people ignore how different they are.

The small similarities are outnumbered by the drastic differences. Boom isn't the type to go anywhere near as far as the evil catastrophic things classic/modern does and Boom isn't shown with the desire to anyway. And classic/modern isn't the type that can be convinced to change because he's so deep and confident in his beliefs and has done all kinds of terrible things without any remorse. So how would that work if they were one in the same and why should we change him?

I'm not saying that Boom Eggman was super innocent but did he have nicer moments than classic/modern Eggman? Yes, a lot. And do I think he has more of a chance at changing his ways? Yes, because he hasn't done anything near as fucked up as classic/modern, so it's possible for him to be forgiven and redeemed. Meanwhile, modern is very evil with no remorse and it'd be impossible to change him, just like how it's impossible to ever make him give up on his dreams of the Eggman Empire.

Boom seems insecure, desperate for attention and a friend, which was seen multiple times in the show. He doesn't seem to truly want Sonic dead, it seems he wants to befriend Sonic and friends. He had all the "not such a bad guy" moments that people want to apply to classic/modern and the difference is that it actually works for him. He had the capability to do genuinely good deeds and care about others. He was the one that was rude and a jerk at times but never as cold and cruel as classic/modern Eggman can get.

Classic/modern's desires are different, he just wants to take over the world to have power, prove his brilliance, and realize his dream. He has a selfish greed for power and control and will do whatever it takes without shame. There's nothing that hints at him secretly being insecure like Boom, he truly believes all the things he says about himself and doesn't doubt it. And he certainly doesn't want to befriend Sonic and friends, he's literally always trying to kill them in crazy ways and holds a fiery hatred that has pushed him to the breaking point a couple of times in the games.

So many things separate them and I don't think it's possible to make it work when writing accurate portrayals. I wouldn't try to make Boom as evil as classic/modern because I acknowledge and accept that it won't work, even though I greatly prefer an Eggman that can be a really evil bastard. That's why I can't understand why other people want to make classic/modern nicer like Boom. If they prefer Boom's personality then they can like him without trying to make classic/modern into him too.

And yeah, I've noticed that some of them also want modern to be thinner like Boom because they're fatphobic, which is even more disappointing. :( It shows how much they just don't really like classic/modern Eggman and want Boom to replace him. They're wrong because evil and fat classic/modern Eggman is already handsome and sexy. 🥰 A nicer and thinner Eggman already exists right there in Boom lol, there's no need to change anything about classic/modern's designs and personality as he's perfect the way he is! 💜💘💖

[crusherthedoctor]

Why Jim Carrey’s Robotnik is The Fuckin’ Man™

Yep, the movie is still on my mind, and I'd say I love it even more with each passing day. Partly because it came as much relief during a time when IDW Sonic is continuing to aggravate me with nearly everything it does with its story and characters, but mostly because I just really enjoy it on its own merits (and unlike some people, I don't need to add “it's no masterpiece...” to every sentence as if I'm secretly ashamed about liking a Sonic the Hedgehog film). While the movie's portrayal of our old mate Robotnik is far from the only reason for why I love the film, he's obviously a huge factor all the same, so I felt like listing a few reasons for why - already - he's one of my favourite incarnations of the doctor yet.

A lot of it can be boiled down to how accurate he is to Eggman's character despite the face value differences, but to elaborate that little bit more:

- He's every bit as physical as Eggman is in the games. It would have been easy for Robotnik to be reduced to a Non-Action Big Bad in a live action role, given how often that tends to happen with similar villains in similar live action installments of similar franchises... But instead, Robotnik actually lives up to his character's habits and takes a very active role in his pursuits, culminating with him facing the hedgehog personally, and putting up a good fight in the process. Compare this to the supposedly more threatening SatAM Robotnik, who spent most of his time twiddling his thumbs and letting Snively do all the work.

- Also like game Eggman, he's stronger than he looks, and he's equally capable of handling himself in a fight. A much larger guy who Sonic had notable trouble with is thrown out a window like it's nothing by Robotnik, and despite getting caught off guard by Tom's attack from behind, he was quick to turn the tables enough for their brief fistfight to be considered a stalemate. And let's not get into whatever it was he apparently did to that school bully...

- While he's every bit the glorious ham you'd expect him to be, his witty remarks can be downright morbid at times. The first thing he does when he sees Sonic's seemingly dead body? Make a crack about PETA animal testing. Absolute legend.

- Not only is he funny and menacing in equal measures, but both sides of his personality seem to be working at the same time in a lot of his scenes, going from one to the other then back again in a matter of seconds. This makes him come off as unpredictable, which definitely adds to the tension involving him.

- The government is clearly terrified of him, treating the mere idea of hiring his services for the blackout investigation as though he's a Horseman of the Apocalypse, and being incredibly quick to give his existence the '06 retcon treatment when it looks like he's gone for good (spoiler: he won't be forgotten for long). But at the same time, they bring him in specifically because they know that he's the only one with the genius to handle the apparent threat that Sonic poses, and their own talk of him having helped out with numerous foreign coups in the past - probably single-handedly at that - is yet more proof that his credentials are no joke. If G.U.N. exists in this universe, they're basically admitting that they ain't shit compared to this one man.

- Despite technically acting on the government's behalf during the events of this film, Robotnik treats the affair in the same way that Blofeld treats his affiliation with Red China: Namely, it's a very transparent means to an end that will ultimately benefit himself more than them, and it's clear at all times that not only is he the one holding the reins, but that they're perfectly aware of this and are simply unable to do anything about it. Considering this is, again, the government we're talking about, that makes it abundantly clear before we even meet him in person that this guy isn't your typical basement dwelling mad scientist whose ambitions far outweigh their capabilities.

- In a Sonic the Hedgehog movie production starring Ivo Robotnik, played to perfection by Jim Carrey, the meme potential is too vast to quantify.

- His drones are essentially Matryoshka dolls of destruction, and they have the tricks and the persistence you'd expect to be saddled with that implication. They highlight the doctor's own determination in catching the hedgehog, and they also confirm his surprisingly keen sense of foresight in dealing with opposition. If only he leant some of that foresight to IDW Eggman...

- His big black truck is actually really badass for an “evil lair”, as the man himself labels it. It's equipped with the aforementioned super persistent drones, it comes with a hangar bay for his sizable hovercraft (which, by the way, just so happens to have an Egg Mobile colour scheme), he can experiment in his lab while he's on the move, and he even has wacky virtual simulators to play around with on the side... and the means to make a latte apparently. It may not have the scale of a Death Egg space station or an Eggmanland theme park, but considering this is an up-and-coming Eggman of sorts, it's a very interesting and impressive choice for the doctor's first humble abode, as it shows that even when he's just starting off, he's already thinking in a different (and cooler) wavelength than most.

- It didn't take him long at all to successfully harness the power of Sonic's quill in a manageable form, meaning he understood how Sonic's speed worked and was able to use it against the hedgehog himself in a relatively small amount of time. If Metal Sonic is ever introduced, he's likely going to be a juggernaut on par with his OVA portrayal.

- Yet another trait he shares with game Eggman: he does not cower. Sure, he might get startled by seeing Sonic for the first time, or accidentally getting creeped up on by Agent Stone, but in terms of legitimate fear, he has none to show for it. Sonic, who he thought was banished to the Shadow Realm killed, suddenly revives himself and takes back his quill by force, all the while throwing one hell of a death glare his way as he becomes supercharged with electricity. How does Robotnik react to this? By putting on his own game face (and his goggles) and staring him down for a final standoff. The idea of running away or pleading for mercy doesn't even appear to register in the doctor's mind.

- Even after going mad upon being stranded on the Mushroom Planet, he remains as determined as ever to reach his goals, and while he may have nothing else on him for the time being other than Sonic's quill, we know for a fact that his return is inevitable, and he'll be hitting twice as hard no matter what he decides to use. His final transformation into a more recognizable Eggman may be born out of isolation and insanity, but despite the circumstance, it's more strangely triumphant rather than tragic or pathetic. He even notes that lesser men would be hopeless in his predicament, and presumably that includes lesser villains as well.

- This face.

I want that face on a T-shirt.

Overall, despite the expected and at times necessary differences for a live action portrayal, Robotnik hasn't actually been watered down in terms of character OR threat level. He's already dangerous enough to risk the safety of the entire planet, and if the stinger is any indication, he's only getting started.

And you know what else? While it's obviously delightful that his resemblance shifts to being more Eggman-like by the end of the film (and the full moustache actually doesn't look too bad on Carrey's face), I don't think I would have minded that much if his appearance remained the same in a sequel, because the core of his portrayal was so perfect and quintessentially Eggman that the differences didn't even click after a while, even as I kept looking at them point blank.

That's how you know the guy did well. Although it probably also helps that his non-Eggman look is considerably more dignified and cool than SatAM Robotnik falling into a vat of concentrated 90's.

[iheartsunset]

Papa Louie Scarlett HCs

-Rosabella Ocampo is a 23 year old singer/songwriter and graduate school student who lives with her fiancé, Rudy, in a Powder Point condo. She is widely known by her legal/stage name, Scarlett Heart and is the lead singer/songwriter of Scarlett and the Shakers. While punk ska and playing gigs with her friends are her true passion, Scarlett plans to become a game theory professor in the future. She can mostly be seen writing lyrics for a new song, riding roller coasters with Rudy, climbing trees with Clover, and just vibing with Marty.

-Scarlett is rather bold and seductive, often playfully flirting with others or making jokes about inappropriate topics. I stole this from Rouge, thanks SnapCube fandub for revitalizing my love for Sonic. Alongside her flirtatiousness is her intelligence and desire to succeed, using rules and lessons that she learned from various games to apply to her daily life. Thanks to her love of poker and mahjong, Scarlett has grown to be very analytical and sly in her motives. Out of the shakers, she is undoubtedly the big sister friend as she’s kind of a bad influence on the rest of them and is always subjected to scoldings by mom friend, Janana.

-Rudy calls her “Princesa” because of her Cinderella-like backstory. Her mother was a very kind woman and Scarlett lived happily with her and her father. Her mother died in a roadside construction accident when Scarlett was only 9, leaving Scarlett heartbroken. Her father then married a woman named Moira with two sons, Graham and David, who was emotionally abusive towards Scarlett until she moved out at age 16. Scarlett’s relationship with her dad deteriorated over time and she’s basically disowned them since. She finds solace in Marty and Clover’s parents, who think of Rudy and Scarlett as their own. She also got along with the other Frostfield residents and helped Willow get back into hockey after her infamous car accident (the first one).

-Stan Twitter often makes memes of her because she’s so iconic and quotable. One of her most iconic moments was when she screamed “I wrote this next one about my bitch ass stepmom. Moira, if you’re listening, your hair is limp and you fucking suck!” at the VMAs.

-Music was her escape as a child, hence why she learned to sing and play multiple instruments. However, her stepmother made her play the violin in the school orchestra as opposed to being allowed in a punk rock band. Even though she was concertmaster and first chair, she hated life so badly. Scarlett can play the guitar, bass guitar, violin, cello, drums, the trumpet, the saxophone, the bassoon, the piano, the xylophone, the harp, the flute, the recorder, the French horn, the clarinet, i didn’t even list all of them and I’m tired already. When one of the other shakers has lead vocals on a song, she’ll take over playing their instrument.

-Scarlett met Rudy during their shared freshman year of high school. Hazelnut High’s orchestra department had its annual field trip to Powder Point (based off my actual orchestra field trip!). Scarlett decided to sneak away from her snobby classmates and teachers and have the time to herself. On one particularly large roller coaster, she sat next to a boy with a Mohawk who told her that since he was a Powder Point native, he could more than handle it. He then proceeded to cry the entire time while holding her hand. They realized how much they had in common and kept in contact even after her trip was over. Their relationship is super lovey dovey, yet chill at the same time. Couple goals, but not on the level of Prudence x Cooper x Taylor.

-The shakers got together during the 23rd season of Flipline’s Got Talent. After the shocking elimination of Taylor Morales in the quarterfinals, the remaining acts were merged together. Scarlett and Rudy and Marty and Clover were two sets of pairs merged together. They all got along beforehand and loved Scarlett’s songwriting, so they all wrote an original song together for the finals. Even though they were fan favorites and had lots of support from the audience, Bill and Boopsy’s amazing ventriloquy act was what won the show, with the upset Shakers coming in second place. Afterwards, they were approached by Janana who offered to become their agent, and all they’ve known since was success. Fun fact: Rudy wouldnt accept Clover and Marty into their act unless they beat him and Scarlett at poker. They did.

-The shakers each can speak multiple languages, with Scarlett being able to speak fluent English and Tagalog, Tagalog being her native language (Filipino gang!). She can also speak some Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, Hindi, and Gaelic because she hangs around the other Shakers and Janana so much.

-All of the food, drinks, clothes, and personal belongings Scarlett loves are various shades of red. Cherries, longanisa, red wine, and candied strawberries are her favorite. Her entire wardrobe? Red. Her LED lights? Red. It honestly scares Rudy how red everything is.

-Her voice would either be Jessica Sanchez from American Idol or Gwen Stefani from the No Doubt era. She also covers a lot of No Doubt songs during their concerts. Speaking of covers, the shakers like to sing classic rock songs as well as modern day hits. Scarlett has the vocal range to do Ariana and Mariah Carey justice.

-Her and Marty are best friends. They’re both on the same wavelength and will most likely have the same reaction to memes, like word for word the same reaction. They usually have to get Rudy and Clover out of trouble most days. I love their chaotic, yet chill energy, like the types that just sit and observe and quietly make funny comments to each other.

-She determines whether she likes you or not based off of how good you are at mahjong or poker. If you suck enough to let her win, she’ll love you forever but if you match her in ability, she’ll respect you but kinda fear you as well. If you refuse to play altogether, she hates you. She’s a game theory student, so playing any board game with her is grounds for disaster because she’ll use her weird psychology and tricks to win all the time. Ironically, she sucks at video games. Even though she loves games of chance, she’s hugely against casinos and betting, instead trading small trinkets like food or makeup.

-At the Cheeseria, she set up a poker table, a mahjong table, and a pool table for the entertainment. They unfortunately had to get rid of the Uno table because somebody (ahem, Jojo) got a little too heated over a match with Papa and Wally. And by “got a little too heated”, I mean that Jojo literally got in a fist fight with Papa and lost.

-All she watches are telenovelas. Don’t ask about The Office or Game of Thrones, all she knows is stuff like Rubi and Maria la del Barrio.

-She doesn’t like musical theater except for Phantom of the Opera. She has taken a few roles as Kim in Miss Saigon, but secretly regrets it because musical theater is so much harder than just a regular concert. She still respects theater actors, but will never again sit through Anything Goes.

-She is the only one of the workers who has managed to successfully punch Guy Mortadello. Koilee and Rudy came close, but Scarlett landed an especially hard punch to his nose. Next to being engaged and forming Scarlett and the Shakers, she says it’s the third happiest day of her life. Now, Guy Mortadello is extremely scared of Scarlett and will cry if he sees her or hears her song on the radio (which is all the time).

-She has a tattoo of a heart of her hand along with a crown. On three of her fingers are a yellow Diamond, green clover, and blue spade.

-Scarlett is absolutely gorgeous and badass, I always kept rewinding Papas Cheeseria just to see her and Rudy in the opening because I had crushes on them both. Anyways, stan Scarlett for good grades (it’s not working though I’m still failing two classes)

[death-is-a-new-beginning]

if you still write for cisco, i’d like ro request a smut (if you do them, its okay if not)! he and the reader are together but its a secret. she’s been bratty and teasing him all day. cisco tries to keep his cool but he’s obviously breaking, so she snaps hia final straw by flirting with barry (before iris & him are together). something inside him snaps and he drags her to his lab and fucks her senseless and overstimulates her. thank you in advance!!

A/N: Ooh I would love to do this for you! This is my first time writing smut but I'm going to do my best. Sorry it took so long! I wanted to make sure I got this right. I hope you like it! Also requests are open, feel free to request some more fics! 

Word Count: 2699

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All damn day. All damn day y/n had been teasing Cisco. He was going absolutely mad because all he wanted to do was pull her onto his lap and kiss her senseless and do so many things just to hear her scream Papi, the way she did when she finally released her control. God just thinking about it made him want her that much more. But he couldn't do anything because they were keeping their relationship on the down low.

She was wearing normal clothes that normally would not call attention to her but for some reason it looked so good on her. It had been cold outside so she had worn a black hoodie with the S.T.A.R Labs logo on it and some dark jeans with red converse, totally normal clothes. But something about those jeans made her butt look a type of way that he just wanted to smack. At some point during the day in between missions the temperature had gotten warm and y/n took off her hoodie to reveal one of Cisco's new t-shirts he'd gotten recently with a mathematical equation written on it. It was like she was trying to get them outted. She looked at him smirking, knowing full well what wearing his clothes did to him. She then circled him like a temptress and reached over the control table for a her pen and came dangerously close to his face, he could feel her breath fanning him, her lips inches from him. It was like a mental battle they were fighting to see who would give in first. He was oh so close and willing to give in if it meant having her close to him.

After a few seconds of making intense eye contact, she smiled sweetly and said "Sorry Pap-Cisco I can't seem to reach my pen, do you mind passing it to me?"

He quickly passed it to her, swallowing thickly suddenly so thirsty, with a thirst that no amount of water could quench but time alone with her. He stood up abruptly and said, "No problem at all," and quickly exited the room, he need to get out of there. Barry would be back from the police department soon and he didn't want them to catch them doing something deliciously indecent. Not to mention Caitlin was working with them as well so it would just be problematic all the way around.

The rest of the day seemed to pass by agonizingly. With "accidental" brushes of skin in passing or flirty glances and there may have been something with a lollipop and a fake innocent laugh, he was at his wits end and about ready to burst, not caring about exposing their relationship. Later that day, they were working on some tech for Barry's suit when Cisco made a comment about her not programming something correctly and she just flipped him off.

"Like you never make a mistake? Geez, I'm already fixing it. Get off my back cowboy." The sexual frustration was translating over into just straight frustration with each other.

"Rarely do I make a mistake that would end in our friend getting killed," he fired back at her, immediately regretting it but he couldn't take it back.

"Fine, Mr. Perfect finish this yourself. I need a break anyways," she huffed and dropped the tools she was using and was already out of the room before he could call her back.

When Barry walked into the metahuman jail section, he noticed y/n sitting down on the floor reading a book about Quantum Physics, trying to come up with new ways to help Barry's suit phase with him more smoothly.

"It looks like you're doing some light reading," he joked, sitting next to her.

She laughed, "Yep, I needed a distraction before actually punching someone in the face. Maybe you know a guy on which I could use as a punching bag?"

Barry's eyebrow raised inquisitively, "Who do you want to punch in the face? Who hurt you?" He began laughing and bumped her shoulder with his.

"That is a can of worms I'm not sure we want to open muchacho," she joked with a bright smile, already feeling better, she hated arguing with Cisco, especially when it came to keeping Barry safe or when he felt like she wasn't doing a good enough job.

"How about you give me a list of names and I'll be back in like two minutes with the names crossed off with thorough lessons learned?"

"You think you could get it done in two minutes? Its quite a long list. I think it would take five minutes at least."

"Dang how long are we talking?" He asked.

"You know that episode of SpongeBob where the list just keeps going like out of his house or what not? Yeah about that long," she chuckled.

Barry cracked his knuckles and stood up, "Okay, no time like the present, give me the names and I'll beat their ass," she stood up while laughing then said, "Easy there Sonic, you need to fuel up and check in with Caitlin for your normal check up."

About thirty minutes later when she hadn't returned, Cisco went to go find her, he was worried he might have took it too far. He passed by the metahuman holding cells and heard her laughter mixing with Barry's. They were making their way to the entrance, he heard Barry ask her if there was anything he could do to help her and she said a hug would work. He watched them hug, her arms were around his neck which made her shirt rise up a little so Barry's hands were on her bare skin. After a few seconds they pulled away, with a sigh she sent him on his way to Caitlin and sighed before turning to go back to where Cisco was only to come face to face with a pissed off Cisco.

Y/n stopped in her tracks, a pissed off Cisco was probably one of the hottest thing to witness, but his anger was directed towards her, she could detect that much.

"What the hell Y/n? I know we want to keep our relationship on the DL but flirting with Barry? What the actual hell?" The realization that Cisco was jealous of Barry, for no reason, made her laugh.

"What is so funny?" Cisco asked almost yelling. He couldn't take it anymore, he felt so possessive and seeing them hug was the straw that broke this camels back. He would show her who she belonged to, as much as he belonged to her. He grabbed her arm and pulled her into a secret room he had found the first year he started working at the lab. He sometimes slept there when he was working late. It had a mattress he'd secretly brought a few years ago.

He locked the door and like a predator hunting his prey, he pounced. He pushed her up against the wall, he had placed his hand behind her head to protect it, just like guys do in anime. His eyes darkened when he saw how turned on she was. He almost growled, "You're mine. Only mine, and I'm yours," he pressed his lips to hers passionately and it was on. A fight for dominance began but one he was winning. He smiled in the kiss and pulled away. Her eyes slowly opened, she was panting hard. His hands had moved down from her head to her side sliding his hand under his shirt she was wearing until he reached her breasts and he squeezed her the way she liked.

She moaned softly with this action her eyes growing dark and his hand were on the move again, unbottoning her jeans and reaching for the one place she ached for. When he reached that place his hands slowly circled her mound so slow that it was almost agonizing.

"All day you've been taunting me, being cute, wearing my shirt, being a brat. You even flirted with Barry! Well baby girl, you messed with the bull, prepare to get the horns." His voice deepened and the Cisco that only she gets to see came forward. He removed his hand, the source of her pleasure, which made her whine in desperation. 

"Take off everything. Now." He demanded.

"Yes S-sir." She stuttered, at times she was unprepared for the shift in dominance with Cisco. Most of the time he was laid back and nerdy as all get out, but here and right now Papi Cisco was present and demanded respect. This made her want him all that much more. She removed her articles of clothing one by one. His eyes raked over her as he licked his lips. 

“Now get on all fours on the mattress. You know what to do, you’ve been a bad girl and it’s time to get punished,” She complied, her bum was up slightly. She stared ahead at the metal wall. He took off his shirt, and approached her his hands squeezing her ass, massaging it. 

“You’ve been bad baby girl, being so beautiful and flirty with me all day when we are trying to keep our relationship under wraps. You’ve been pushing my buttons. You’re going to count to three okay?” He asked kindly. 

“Okay,” She said. 

“Okay what?” He asked.

“Okay sir,” She replied with a smile on her face. 

“Good girl, let’s begin,” He spanked her, it was a solid spank that didn’t hurt but made heat pool down her body. “One,” she moaned. The second and third followed suit with more pressure in each spank. After he was done, he massaged her butt, there was a bit of redness but he would make sure she wasn’t in any discomfort. He peppered kisses on her ass which made her moan, the soft touches were driving her crazy. He took those kisses lower until he reached her lips, licking down her strip, moaning at how wet she was for him. 

“Please, Cisco,” she mewled, all she wanted was for him to finish what he started over and over again. 

“No Mamas, you teased me, now its my turn. On your back baby girl. You’re not allowed to touch yourself,” she turned over, laying on some firm pillows that gave her the support she’d definitely need soon. When she looked at him, he was putting his hair up with a hair tie and there was a few strands that would always fall loose no matter how hard she tried. He looked beautiful, she enjoyed seeing all the different sides of him, they often face so much danger which is why they decided they wouldn't tell anyone until they were sure it would last. 

He kneeled onto the mattress and made his way to her, like a predator hunting for his prey and he looked hungry. Like he’d eat her whole. She almost moaned at the thought. When he reached her, he  was hovering above her, mere inches from her lips. 

“May I kiss you?” He asked, even when he was in dominant mode, he always asked her for consent, always made sure she was okay. The respect alone made her love him so much more. She wanted him to do more that kiss her, she wanted him to fuck her so good and then make love to her, the order in which that happened did not matter. 

“Yes, you can kiss me. I hope you plan on fucking me too though,” with that he smiled and smashed his lips to hers, sucking on her bottom lip a little before slipping his tongue in to her mouth. His hands wandered to her breasts, squeezing her nipples roughly which made her moan into his mouth and arch her back. His hand continued his journey down her body and between her legs, she was so sensitive and swollen there. He rubbed in circles then in 8 rotation movements. And with two fingers he entered her, he started pumping the digits in and out of her. She began moaning, her hips trying to meet his fingers with each thrust. 

After a few moments of fingering her, on the brink of her orgasm, he stopped. He slid his fingers out and she clenched around the absence of his fingers. He brought his fingers to his mouth and sucked them, tasting her while making direct eye contact. He smirked, he planned on edging her for while before letting her finish. 

“Please Cisco, I was so close,” she pleaded. Aching to finish the job herself. 

“No baby girl you’re not allowed to cum until I say so, understand?”

“Yes, sir, “ she conceded. He placed one more kiss on her lips before moving down her body, leaving a trail of kisses as he made his way between her legs. Then he started sucking and licking and tonguing her entrance, He could feel her start to clench around him and so he stopped. Again. He robbed her from completion again, he kissed her thighs as he sat up on his knees. He unbuckled his belt and undid his pants. He stood up pulling the last remaining clothing off. He was standing there in all his glory. He pulled a condom from his wallet and gave himself a few pumps until he was hard enough to put the condom off. 

When he was ready he climbed back to her rubbing himself at her entrance, to which she moaned. He kissed her and pushed his way inside of her, they both moaned, he stretched her so well, he waited a bit to let her adjust and then began to move slowly, in and out of her. Her legs were wrapped around his waist trying to meet each thrust. He kissed her harder as he started to speed up, hitting the spot that made her go wild. 

He then slowed and came to a stop as she came close once again and came to a halt. She huffed in frustration, but then Cisco moved to his knees whilst still inside her, she was clenching and unclenching around him which almost made his control waver. He lifter her legs to be on either side of his neck and he put a pillow under her bum so she was comfortable. He held her legs together and started to thrust into her deeper and harder than before, she was screaming in pleasure, which made Cisco glad he had sound proofed the room. 

¨Papi, please let me cum. I´ll be a good girl. Daddy please,¨ she recited like a prayer, she wasn´t sure she could prolong her orgasm if she tried. He was fucking her so good. 

¨Cum now baby girl,¨ he demanded and she experienced the strongest orgasm she´d ever had. The man was Gandalf at making her cum. How he learned all of these techniques was beyond her. As she rode the high down, he continued to thrust until he came not too long after she had finished. He pulled out, he cum slipping out of her lips. He slowly lowered her legs down and went down on her, lapping up her juices, cleaning her, and sucking her sensitive clit, she didn´t think it was possible, but she ended up coming again for the second time. 

He cuddled her and she came down another high, panting. “I’m glad I was being a bad girl today.” She said with a laugh.

-A few days later-

Y/n was hanging with the gang in the main control area, laughing and joking around with Barry and Caitlin. Cisco walks into the room, strolls over to her, mumbling something like “Fuck it” and spins her to him and kisses her in front of everyone, she kisses him back on instinct. After a moment, he pulls away and looks around the room and says, “She’s mine.” then he struts out  back to his lab. 

“I knew it! Barry you owe me $100.” Caitlin said excitedly while clapping. 

Y/N just sits there in shock of what happened. “Wait you guys had a bet going?” She exclaimed.

-Fin-

[totallyjazzed]

Analysing Copaganda (or "I watched seven seasons of Brooklyn 99 so you don't have to")

Introduction:

Several months ago my parents approached me asking if I wanted to watch Brooklyn 99, not knowing anything about it, my first instinct was to say no, but then I thought it would be interesting, to watch it and write a proper analysis for exactly what makes it propaganda and why it gives liberals brain worms. If you've spent any amount of time engaging with politics online for the last few years, you've likely already heard of Brooklyn 99. It's a sitcom written by Michael Schur, who previously wrote The Office (I'll get to that later), Parks & Recreation, and The Good Place. The show follows the lives of a squad of police detectives in Brooklyn and the wacky hijinks they get up to.

Brooklyn 99 has become famous, or arguably infamous, on Tumblr (and potentially other social media websites too) for being used as a "retort" to anti-cop sentiments (namely ACAB and any variation thereof), mainly taking the form of "the only good cop is Raymond Holt". In this essay (to use a funny Tumblr meme phrase) I will provide a brief overview of the show and the main characters, and analyse how the show, and each character individually, is pro-cop propaganda (copaganda).

The Show:

Brooklyn 99 is The Office, at least from what I understand about The Office. It’s a sitcom based in a workplace in which characters often pull pranks on each other and have wacky adventures pertaining to their job. The main thing that sets it apart from The Office is that the workplace in question is a police station, this makes it a cop show too. However, unlike more “classic” cop shows like CSI, Law & Order, The Wire, and so on, B99 doesn’t seek to glorify it’s characters as action heroes, but rather paint them as normal people living normal lives. This is far more insidious than the picture of the gnarled man of action who doesn’t play by the book, and by making the characters relatable the show gives viewers people to project onto, making them more vulnerable to the propaganda of the show.

Occasionally, in a break from the antics of Relatable Immature Prankster Archetype and Funny Overly Attached Best Friend Archetype, the show will attempt to say something about racism, or homophobia, or misogyny, or something like that, and while it usually feels well-meaning it often falls flat as it’s a watered-down safe-for-TV version of whatever the issue du jour is. 

In S4E16 (“Moo Moo”), Terry is harassed by a racist cop while he doesn’t have his badge, and is almost arrested until he manages to prove his cop status, the rest of the episode revolves around how racism is bad and that one singular racist cop is a problem, in the end Terry submits a complaint to the NYPD higher-ups and gets his job application denied, and the racist cop gets away with a slap on the wrist. Throughout the show, Captain Holt tells stories about how he suffered from racism and homophobia, and still does. Transphobia is mentioned once (presumably for brownie points) in a throwaway line about Ace Ventura.

At the end of Season 4, Jake and Rosa are framed for a series of bank robberies and sent to prison, and the first two episodes of Season 5 work to show that prison is bad and prisoners are mistreated, they also make abundantly clear that everyone in prison is a menace and deserves to be there (Jake’s cellmate is a literal cannibal and he’s shown to be one of the nice inmates), once the duo are released from jail, there are a few lines here and there about how prison is bad, but they’re only throwaways used to serve as one-off jokes and never again used as an actual critique of the prison system.

Police Brutality is never mentioned, the closest it comes to bringing it up is in S1E19 (“Tactical Village”), where Rosa is introduced to a sonic-blast weapon and aims it as Charles, this is clearly supposed to be a very harmful piece of equipment, but it's only appearance is treated as a joke.

There are also recurring gags about Defense Lawyers being “the enemy” because they only defend guilty parties (the show heavily implies that none of the squad has ever arrested the wrong person), which meshes with the harmful stereotype in cop shows of only guilty people saying for a lawyer or a warrant or whatever, which has been documented before by others.

The Characters:

Jake Peralta (played by Andy Samberg) is the Relatable Immature Prankster Archetype I mentioned before, he’s the office funnyman and usually responsible for the majority of the goings-on and goings-wrong in the show, while he does mature and evolve through the show he never grows out of this character. He’s the closest the show gets to the “gnarled man of action who doesn’t play by the book” character I mentioned before, not because he is that character but because he wants to be, his favourite movie is Die Hard and it’s the reason he joined the police, so he could be like the cool bruce willis man. He’s also the most unlawful character on the show, in S1E7 (“48 Hours”), he arrests a man with no evidence and the squad is essentially locked down until evidence can be found, in the end it turns out the man is guilty. Jake is scolded for this, not for essentially breaking the law, but for wasting everyone’s time when they had much better things to do that night. Jake’s character is propaganda because he’s the zany relatable one with a heart of gold.

Amy Santiago (played by Melissa Fumero) is the overly-organised hyper-nerd archetype, in direct opposition to Jake. Her dream is to be the NYPD’s youngest female captain, and she’s very “I want to keep the people safe” in her approach to policing. In S3E3 (“Boyle’s Hunch”), she is used as the face of the NYPD’s poster campaign, only to have her image vandalised, which is painted by the show as being very bad and sad. Amy’s character is propaganda because she’s the uptight peacekeeper who sticks to the rules.

Charles Boyle (played by Joe Lo Truglio) is the Funny Overly Attached Best Friend Archetype I mentioned before, often depicted as bumbling and naive, he’s an incredibly competent detective, arguably more so than Jake. He’s usually polite and friendly, and has moments of childishness that compliment Jake’s character. Charles’ character is propaganda because he’s the nice guy who just wants what’s best for everyone.

Raymond Holt (played by Andre Braugher) is probably the character most people are aware of, he’s a somewhat stuck-up man who embodies a lot of the same characteristics as Amy, he’s highly-educated, incredibly smart and quick-witted, and emotionally restrained. Originally presented as an outsider, being the new guy to the pre-existing friendgroup, he learns to relax and let go over the course of the show, and acts almost as a father figure to the other characters, primarily Jake and Amy. Raymond’s character is propaganda because he’s a black gay cop.

Rosa Diaz (played by Stephanie Beatriz) is tough, aloof, and often scary in the eyes of the other characters, she is shown to have problems with engaging with people socially, particularly romantically, and while her exterior is rough as uncaring, she’s shown to be fiercely loyal and have some not-so-tough secrets. In Season 5 she comes out to the squad as Bisexual. Rosa’s character is propaganda because she’s the no-nonsense tough cop who secretly has a heart of gold.

Terry Jeffords (played by Terry Crews) is a kind and caring man with a firm-but-fair attitude, acting as Holt’s second-in-command he also acts as a father figure to the other characters, he has two (eventually three) children which he is often seen gushing about. He is the most mature of the group, on-par with Holt in some respects but sometimes more so, refusing to take part in hijinks to focus on his job. Terry’s character is propaganda because he’s the physically strong and imposing, yet kind cop who just wants to provide for his family.

Michael Hitchcock (played by Dirk Blocker) and Norm Scully (played by Joel McKinnon Miller) are an inseparable pair of bumbling, lazy, oafs. Scully is fat, lazy, and old, Hitchcock is lecherous, lazy, and old. They’re propaganda because they’re the lazy incompetent cop archetype.

There are plenty of minor recurring characters, as well as Gina Linetti, a main character who left after Season 6, however as she’s a liaison and not a cop I won’t be analysing her in detail.

There’s a lot more I could have mentioned here, from the dirty cop that sense Jake and Rosa to jail, or the police commissioner who wants to spy on everyone’s phones all at once, Holt even says the line “I don’t want to live in a Police State”, but I’ve left them out for the sake of brevity.

Conclusion:

Brooklyn 99 is copaganda to it’s very core, this much everyone already knows, but unlike serious cop dramas and high-stakes high-action cop shows, Brooklyn 99 offers viewers an escape to a world where the police are the force for good that people want them to be. The premise of “The Office but police” suckers people in with nostalgia for the late 2000s/early 2010s back when things were “good”. Given Michael Schur’s previous work I imagine he and the other writers didn’t explicitly set out to make copaganda, but it’s undeniable that this is what was achieved. And now with the political climate being what it is and the threat of a potential Season 8 addressing this year’s BLM protests, it’s now more important than ever to be able to identify and root out police propaganda, no matter how unassuming, no matter the source.

[peterstanslizzie]

Reacting To: Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts (Season 2 Episode 7)

Episode Title: Benson and the Beast

Spoiler Warning: Kindly proceed if you’ve already seen the episode or are able to handle spoilers.

1. The past few episodes have been starting out with flashbacks huh? Well, this episode is no exception; We travel back one year into the past and we see Benson climbing down into a deep den with baby Dave in his backpack. He’s there because he wants to get his cassette player back from two giant bat mutes. However, they catch him red-handed and tell Benson they need the player to build an alien communicator to reach out to the aliens. 

2. Baby Dave then molts rapidly across one entire cycle and stops at his toddler stage. This makes the bats think that he’s an alien. Why are they so sure that he is though? Lol. So afterwards, Benson and Dave were able to escape with his cassette player. 

3. We are now in present times and it picks up where things left off last episode; Full Mega Jaguar Kipo is chasing after Scarlemagne who has her mother, Song aka the Mega Monkey under his mind control. One of the Nobles tries to shoot Kipo with an arrow but he gets taken down by the three scientists with a paralyzing dart. 

4. Kipo goes on to attack them and Dr. Emilia retaliates by shooting the darts at her. Luckily, she’s stopped by Wolf and Benson then tries to calm Kipo down and remind her who she is by showing her, her family photo. However, Zane points his arrow at Kipo, which startles her and accidentally bumps Benson to the ground in the process. He tries again one more time and Kipo manages to turn back into a human. Wow, that sure was suspenseful!

5. The scientists immediately recognize she’s Lio and Song’s child (I think) and they try to act like they know nothing about her parents. I think they are gonna try to kidnap Kipo themselves to experiment on her. They claim to be part of the human resistance that’s against Scarlemagne and they plan to wait till the Noble whom they just took out snaps out of his mind control state in order to extract information about Scarlemagne’s plans. 

6. It looks like Benson has dislocated his shoulder; Poor thing! Dr. Emilia tries to trick them into following them back to their headquarters but Wolf is highly suspicious of them. We also know that the scientists were actually looking for Kipo for 13 years! Okay, so they definitely know she’s Lio and Oak’s daughter. Also, they secretly plan to use Kipo as their weapon and dispose of her afterwards. Yikes! That’s evil! Anyways, despite still having reservations about them, Kipo and the others agree to follow them because they really need for Benson to get medical help. 

7. Another flashback!; This time, we go back to the time when Song decided to stay back to answer the knock on her and Lio’s apartment door. As I’ve predicted, the same scientists were the ones behind the door. Song opens it and Dr. Emilia immediately calls her out for lying to them about being able to isolate the mutagen. 

8. If I’m not wrong. there’s two sides here. The first side, which Song and Lio belong to are the ones who want humans and mutes to live in harmony with one another and that’s by genetically modifying humans to become half-mutes in order to survive on the surface world. And as for the other side, which the scientists belong to, they just want to take mutes down and turn them back into animals so that humans can go back to being the dominant race again. 

9. Dr. Emilia tells Song that she’s going to find Kipo and take her away; Song tries to resist them but accidentally falls off the balcony. Luckily, she transforms into the Mega Monkey just in time. That was a cool scene I must say. 

10. Back at the scientists’ HQ, Dr. Emilia is able to fix Benson’s dislocated shoulder. She then gives them a tour of their offices and we see more scientists busy working on plans to rescue the mind-controlled humans in Aurum and they have a tunnel that can take them there. We also get introduced to some of the things they’ve created to use against the mutes like a pheromone proof room and their Sonic Emitter, which emits sound waves that can only bother mutes. 

11. However, the sonic waves unknowingly wakes up the two mute bats. Are these bats supposed to be good or bad? We discover later on that the mind-controlled human they managed to capture is actually Troy’s dad, Roberto! Finally! After 6 episodes, we get a mention of Troy again. I miss him. And so does Benson hehe. Lol, look at Dr. Emilia’s face in this picture. 

12. Dr. Emilia now wants to train Kipo to control her powers and Benson wants to come along since she needs her anchor. Before leaving, he asks Wolf if she could make him look good in front of Troy’s dad. LOL! He still gotta impress his boo’s dad even during a time of crisis. Well, he still has a date set with Troy after all! I hope we get to see this date by the end of the season!

13. During the training, Kipo is finding it difficult to go back into her full jaguar form again. By the way, Dr. Emilia is INTENSE! Benson tries to talk to Kipo to figure out where her head’s at and Kipo tells him she’s afraid of hurting him or anyone again. Well, that’s a valid fear to have.

14. Meanwhile, Wolf is re-telling the story about how Benson and Troy had set up their date to Dave. Suddenly, Roberto wakes up and Wolf explains to him what happened, including letting him know that Troy is safe with the Timbercats, thanks to Benson. Roberts asks them who these people are to which they explain everything to the best of their ability lol.

15. I appreciate Dave for trying to talk Benson up to Roberto lol. I mean, that’s gonna be his future father-in-law. Zane and Greta discover that Roberto is awake and asks him to explain Scarlemagne’s plan during his future coronation; He reveals that Scarlemagne plans to gather all the humans in the arena to mind-control them. Benson, Kipo and Dr. Emilia joins them and Roberto tells Benson he’s impressed with the heroic things he didn’t do, thanks to Dave. 

16. Suddenly, the mute bats barge into the building and fortunately, they’re not evil/mind-controlled but they are really obsessed in trying to find that “alien communicator” they so desperately want. They (Geli and Jibralta) start rummaging through the place and attacking whomever in standing in their way. Kipo tries to stop them with her two jaguar arms but it’s not enough. 

17. Because Benson recognizes these two, he tries to lure them to him by telling them that the sonic emitter is the communicator. However, they think he is an alien whisperer and they grab hold of him and take him away. Aww, Dave is upset that Benson’s gone. Finally, Kipo is able to trigger her transformation into her full Jaguar form. 

18. The crazy bats take him to their den and ask Benson to use the “communicator” to make contact with the aliens. Kipo, the full jaguar then jumps into the burrow and starts to chase the bats. Wow and she’s giving them a beating for sure lol. As Kipo is about to attack them some more, Benson manages to calm her down by showing the family photo to her again. Phew! I’m glad that she’s able to transform back again because you know how some shows will try to make it more dramatic by not allowing its characters to do something for some random reason. 

19. But they still have to deal with Geli and Jibralta and it turns out, Kipo is able to transform back into a jaguar again without any problems, in order to scare them. Wow, I’m impressed; She’s getting good at this. Afterwards, Benson gets on top of Kipo and they head off. 

20. They reunite with the others and Kipo impressively turns back into her human form once again. She’s happy that she’s able to now control her powers and she’s confident in taking down Scarlemagne without hurting the humans. However, Dr. Emilia wants Kipo to use her powers to specifically take down the Mega Monkey. But Kipo doesn’t say anything. Why can’t she tell them that the monkey is her mom? It’s not like Kipo was given the impression that the scientists already knew of her or her family. 

21. Awkward moment alert! Roberto tells Benson that he should date Wolf because she’s been saying nice things about Benson to him. LOL! His plan backfired. Benson decides to tell the truth and Roberto immediately gets the hint and it seems like he would be happy for his son, Troy to be with Benson. Phew! For a minute there, I thought Roberto would be that homophobic parent we all hate tbh. But considering the fact that the show’s setting takes place very much in the distant future, I’d like to think that gay relationships would be much more normalized by then. 

22. Kipo is facing a dilemma because she might have to fight her own mom, who is mind-controlled. Benson, yet again, comes up with a plan to get Kipo and Roberto to sneak out in the middle of the night and Roberto navigating through the tunnels to get Kipo to reach the place where her mom is being kept. She goes up to the surface to immediately find her mom who is asleep but it looks like she’s tied to a giant tree? 

23. OMG look at that face; I just want to cry. Song wakes up and they share an emotional reunion. However, Kipo gets grabbed by a flamingo and is dropped onto an empty clearing in the forest.

24. She is then greeted by Scarlemagne and her mind-controlled father. So she has no other choice but to hold herself back from attacking. The episode then ends here. 

25. That’s the end of my review of episode 7. Thank you guys so much for having read my review/reaction. I really appreciate your support. Please check out my review of episode 8 for when it will be out tomorrow. Till then, bye!

[shadowsfascination]

Sonamy YAAU - Irreversible [Chapter 15 - B]

Impatient and restless as ever a blue hedgehog footed in circles through a dark cave, trying to make up his mind. He would sit back on a flat rock and toss up a red emerald only to catch it again. Then he would rise up and start walking again. The resolution that had landed inside him to proceed and indeed go through with this red emerald stuff was gone when he woke up this morning- highly unnerved by a vivid dream. One that had awoke all kinds of questions in his mind that he wasn’t able to shake off. And it wasn’t like him to be this unnerved. Having come to terms about his feelings for Amy had robbed Sonic of his care-free signature attitude. It was extremely annoying for him because he felt like he couldn’t face this problem the way he used to face all the other issues in his life. Running away wasn’t an option because Mobius needed him to fight the oppression from the A.R. and talking to Amy about it wasn’t either. If anything, he didn’t want her to find out. He’d be humiliated but most importantly: nothing would be the same if she knew.   Talking to Tails about it last night was highly uncomfortable for him enough. Neither of them had ever had dated someone before so they shared the lack of experience there. And even though Tails was a couple of years younger than Sonic, he still didn’t take any interest in girls or kissing and everything. It appeared to Sonic that Tails might have a different reason for that than he himself; a girlfriend would slow him down and rob him of his freedom… So he thought for a very long time, until he now had found a new interest in Amy all of the sudden. The dream of last night, in which Amy returned his feelings, kissed him with her rosy lips and chose him over Shadow was proof of that. Immediately he felt guilty for even the tiniest bit of desire to have her instead of Shadow, who he now had come to deeply respect. The swirl of feelings of hope, joy, guilt and surprise overwhelmed him. He had never had dreams like this one before and it had made him doubt what to do.   He shook the upcoming thoughts off, tossed the emerald up once more and caught it with ease and confidence: he was going forth with the plan. He had to get over this! “Sonic? Are you in here?”   Of all the times, why now? Why her? Sweet chaos! You gotta be kidding. It was almost completely dark in here, so maybe if he kept really quiet, she’d go away.. How did she know where he was anyway?   His wristwatch caught his eye and he drew a long and heavy sigh. His location was on and so his marker was trackable for anyone in his friend list- including Amy of course.   “Sonic! I need to talk to you! It’s urgent!” Her voice was drawing near and he heard the tiny chunks of stone crackle under her shoes while she was stepping closer to him.   “Are you in here? I can’t see a thing!” Suddenly he was blinded by the spotlight she turned on and he almost never felt so embarrassed before- as realization dawned that he had yet to explain why he was hiding in this dark cave, ignoring her. To make things worse his tongue felt tied. Sonic swallowed: “A-amy! What brings you here?” He smiled at her in discomfort while in search of where to put his hands in a way that wasn’t unnatural, but failed. Where on Mobius did he leave them before? “Don’t act so casual with me.” At least she thought he was being casual.   “How else would I act?” She looked at him with a worried expression.   “Please don’t go through with it.”  The blood in his hands and feet seemed to draw away. His hands got sweaty and his stomach twisted and churned. He clenched the red emerald in his hands, tiring his fingers from the cramp. She knew! “Is this why we barely seen anything from you for the last weeks?” He remained silent.   “Why didn’t you just talk to me? I thought we were friends!”  “It’s not easy to talk about you know. I’ve never felt anything like this before. And, I… I didn’t want to jeopardize our friendship! It would’ve been for the best. And besides, guys don’t really talk about these things much anyway.”   “It would only have worked if I were totally oblivious about it.” “You weren’t, then?” “I suspected something because you were acting so strange in the cave when Shadow took me home. And then afterwards you didn’t check in on me?! That’s so unlike you.” “I know. I’m sorry.” “I started to think that you didn’t care! But then it dawned to me. That you might care too much after all.”  A quick flashback of his Chaos Engery Transfer in the cave passed by in his mind.   “Did you share that vision with me then, back in the cave?” “I did,” she confessed. “My memory was a little blurry at first, but I regained it later.” “We’ll need a new plan than.” Sonic sat down and leaned with his back against the cave wall. Amy sat down next to him and it made him nervous. She placed a hand on his knee. She asked him what he exactly felt for her and he told her everything: the fear of suddenly losing her, how he thought of her as amazing, kind, strong and brave and that he didn’t see a future without her in it. How he suddenly was filled with love at the moment he transferred his Chaos Energy to her and how he didn’t know how to act. The fear of ruining their friendship and how annoying it was that he didn’t know what to do. How he lost himself in it and how it led to this stupid Chaos emerald legend-thing. And then there was Shadow, who was more of a friend to him now than he had been a rival. He didn’t want to be a burden to anyone, so he tried to get rid of this ridiculous emotional rollercoaster that he was placed in without approval. Amy nodded while she listened to him.   “Sweetie, I knew you loved me. I don’t know though if it’s a romantic kind of love.” “What?” He eyes widened with the possibility of and escape.   “I mean: are you attracted to me?” “How would I know?” “Do you want to kiss me?” He looked deeply into her eyes, heating up in distress of not knowing.   “Ames, you’re gorgeous, but it doesn’t matter if I do. You’re with Shadow and you’re happy. Right?” “I am… And I can’t believe I’m gonna say this but, Sonic, I’m not the girl I used to be. I’ve been trying to catch your eye for so many years… Even though my love for you was a great part of my strength, it’s been also exhausting. I just gave up at some point. I didn’t believe you would ever want me like this… And I got older, more serious, focussed on my studies and became less clingy, haha. Then Shadow and I became a couple. He is amazing and treats me so well. He’s secretly such a gentleman.” 

“I get that. It’s just too late, isn’t it?” “I guess. I just don’t want to open that book again, Sonic.” “Kind of ironic. I’m never late.” “There’s a first time for everything, right?” “True. How did you know what I planned on doing by the way?” “Tails told me. I dragged it out of him. He feels horrible. You should go see him.” Sonic looked at her in annoyance, unsure if he cared at all at this point and in doubt who he blamed more: Tails or Amy. “Anyway: I’ll just have to get over this...” He said with a regained confidence and calm heart. It didn’t hurt that bad after all. ”Can you help me with that?” “How?” “Maybe you could go back to being a crazy obsessed teenager again? That drove me far from you, didn’t it? Or I could ask Shadow about all the things he doesn’t like about you. Oh! I can think of one thing already: you’re a hothead.” “Are you aware that you’re still talking?” She snarled at him, trying to hold her temper, squeezing his hand so tight that it hurt.   “Ah! Okay, I get it.” The two of them giggled at each other and suddenly burst into inexplicable laughter. For the first time in weeks the air felt cleared and the vibe between these two friends was like it always had been. He looked up to her and then rested his head on her shoulder, heaving a sigh.   “I’m sorry I got us into this mess.”  “It’s okay.”  We’re cool?” “Always.” 

[cgmayra]

More Sonamy Prompts? More?!

Prompts are still on shutdown but I have an old prompt idea I’m gonna go for~

Prompt:

With a free-wheeling tumble, Sonic landed over Amy’s form and protectively took the impact of Eggman’s attack.

High up in his massive, mega robot--The doctor laughed and began firing on Tails and Knuckles, seeing as Sonic and Amy were left as a pile of dirt after the assault of firepower.

A single strand of Sonic’s blue quill stood out... it lightly swayed in the wind before ruffling quickly as the dirt began to fall to the sides of the mound.

Sonic, like a dog shaking off water, shook himself free of the dirt. Still having that same smile on his face he had while rushing in to cover for Amy, he narrowed his brow and began burrowing for Amy.

Only when he couldn’t find her did he lose his smile and began sticking his head up and around to locate her.

However... Amy had dug herself up out of the mound herself and quickly turned around to see she was behind Sonic.

Being sneaky, she stalked up quietly behind him... But his head turned and saw her with a gasp as she leapt at him. She had hoped to catch him off guard, but his reflexes were better than that.

He caught her as she hugged him and tried to shower him with missed kisses, due to the fact that he kept her back just enough away that none would get a solid landing.

He closed one eye but smiled with the other as her voice rang out in delight, “Oh, Sonic! You saved me!”

“Heheh.” He chuckled, lightly, “More like I just kept the dirt from getting in your hair. You okay?”

She pulled back a moment to really look at him, “Oh Sonic~” She turned back to Eggman, “He’s really got something up his sleeve this time, doesn’t he?”

Sonic, after scratching his head from the embarrassment of Amy’s showering devotion, turned back to look at it.

“Yeah, it’s different alright. From his usual, crazy, hair-gripping schemes...” Sonic joked, but there seemed to be something off about today.

Even though everything was happening as it usually does, even Amy’s typical admiration of himself, something wasn’t quite right...

He sneezed.

“Sonic?” Amy blinked curiously back to him.

“I’m fine.” Sonic sniffed, wiping his nose to his glove a few times before getting up and tapping his foot behind him. “I’ll take care of Egghead, you just take out those clunky feet!”

Amy got up on a knee, flinging up her hammer, “Got it! But Sonic-!”

He was rotating his shoulder out, feeling something stuffy in his chest. “Ugh... *Sniff*, yeah, Amy?”

As he looked back, trying to look more like his usual self, she suddenly gave him a flirty look.

“Marry me?”

He noticed she was on one knee and looked back to her, unamused. He just rolled his eyes and dashed off.

“Silence means it’s not a no!” Amy called out, giggling to herself before getting up to help.

As the battle dragged on, Sonic felt drained and like he couldn’t breathe. His head was warm as Eggman finally admitted defeat...

“And that’s... what you get-! You loser!” Sonic, looking a bit scatter-brained, seemed to be wobbly on his feet, standing over the giant robot before it began to glow green...

“My emerald!” Knuckles cried out as the robot got back up from the grave, seeming ready for round two as robotic wings began to form on it’s back. A metal wire-line that soon blasted electrical webbing throughout itself.

“HAHAHA!!! HOHO! Take on this, Sonic!... Sonic?” Eggman looked around, but Sonic was being secretly dragged off the battlefield...

“Where’d he go?” Knuckles looked around a moment, then shrugged it off and cracked his neck to the side, “Ah, forget’em! It’s just you and me, Eggman!”

“Hardly any fun...” Eggman pouted, but seemed to engage the fist-pounding Knuckles who came directly at him.

“Give me back my eeemmmerrallldd!!!”

Beyond the bushes and treeline, Tails lightly put Sonic down as Amy rushed to join him.

“What’s wrong with him?” She worriedly held her hands to her chest.

“He seems kinda out of it.” Tails concluded, touching his forehead before pulling out his Miles-Electrics.

“I’m... Fine...” Sonic huffed out, laying down as he seemed to be stuck there. He tried to reach out and move his upper-torso to sitting up straight but was like a tortoise on his back.

“Oh no... He seems-” Amy began but Tails finished the line for her.

“Woah! He’s off the charts sick!” Tails shook his head, then looked to Amy, “I knew this would happen. Sonic said he felt ill earlier but then carried on like he never told me. I thought that maybe he fought it off but it looks worse than before.” Tails sighed, “I think we can handle Eggman from here, but... We really shouldn’t leave him alone like this...” Tails frowned as he saw his friend struggling to kick his legs up and move off from his back.

Sonic was strangely tired, that never happened before. Not like this, anyway. Usually, he had to move or else the energy in him would collect and explode! His face was warm too, odd, and it seemed like a perfectly good day to destroy a giant robot too...

“I don’t need to be put on the sidelines, Tails... I’m-HACHOO!” he sneezed, as Tails and Amy flinched. Tails held up his miles-electric to block any germs that might have been spread in the air, but Amy just stepped back and covered her face.

“Don’t worry, Tails.” Lovingly, Amy put her hand on Tails’s shoulder, which caused him to lower the device blocking his face. “I already got the feet pretty damaged, maybe just ask Knuckles to tunnel it under?”

“Good idea!” Tails nodded, then got up with an apologetic grin to Sonic, “Sorry, buddy. But you need a break!” he took off then, waving to Amy, “Make sure he rests!”

“Right!” Determined, Amy walked around Sonic and pulled him up by a bit by getting her hands under his armpits. “Come on, Sonic! Let’s have you rest somewhere safe- Ah!” she turned to see Eggman Robots hacking through the forest.

“They’re... not gonna just let me sleep... not on my watch.” Sonic’s head could barely stay up, but he could see what she was worried about. “I’ll take’em on.” He tried to kick his feet up and managed to squabble up, then went to spin-dash but it rolled so fast it made his stomach ill.

It was like a drunk tire rolling left and right, missing the robots completely before he uncurled and held a hand to his mouth. “Ohh man... Maybe this is a bit more serious than I thought...” Sonic turned around and punched a robot, then kicked one away before hearing a- ‘Ow!’

“Opps, sorry, Amy!”

Amy just frowned up at him, a bit annoyed. “Let me handle this! You’re being stubborn!” she took her hammer and began hitting what Sonic thought were trees.

“I’m fine~ Just doing my- oh geez!” he tripped, “Help! Amy! There are bugs on this floor!”

“Oh, come on..!” Amy whined, seeing he wasn’t just gonna rest like Tails and her were hoping he would.

After fending off some of the robots, she quickly got Sonic under what looked like a tree’s roots and began digging to make something comfortable for the two of them.

At this point, it was just to hide, but Sonic was so terribly ill by now that he had to be pulled through the small gap between the tree’s large roots just to get into the hole.

“How are you feeling?” Amy, feeling a little too close to him for comfort, ignored her own warm forehead and tried to make things better for him.

His feet flopped into the hole at last and he dizzily looked up at her, “You... You can’t hold them off forever.”

“Watch me.” She narrowed her eyes, but then sneezed. “Ha-choo!”

It was adorable.

Sonic chuckled, “Uh oh. Sick party.”

“D-don’t say that.” Amy looked around and pulled a leaf off to blow her nose into it.

“Hey... that’s smart, mind passing one?” He held out his hand.

She gave him more leaves and the two continued to clear out their noses non-stop into them.

He laughed, “Look, we’re bonding!”

“Ugh... my nose is itchy now...” Amy complained, before laying down beside Sonic.

“Woah, you’ll get more sick if you... ha... ha.. HACHOO! Ugh... stick this close to me, Amy.” He tried to warn her, but she laid her head next to his anyway.

“The hole’s too small,” she sniffled, “And I’m not as bad as you. If it’s the same cold or something, then we’re fine.”

“Buried alive together... again.” Sonic joked. “When they find our bones, will they be able to... ha...ha-!”

Amy put her finger up to his nose, catching the sneeze before it happened, as Sonic’s nose twitched and then calmed down.

“Haaa... thanks.” He sniffled, “Will they know we were stuck here from sickness or just acquired a hopelessly cheap coffin?”

“Sonic, you say the darndest things.” Amy took some more leaves and passed them to him. “What got you so sick, anyway?”

Sonic paused a moment, about to blow into the leaf before putting it up against his nose, and then looking off to the side. “...Well, yesterday I went out with you to help at the farmer’s market... you had a stand and-”

“THAT GUY!” she shrieked, “He was sick as anything! I couldn’t sell my garden’s produce with him coughing and hacking everywhere! But we left before... he... ha...ha...HA-!” she felt Sonic’s finger hit her nose. “...Haaa...” she took a leaf and replaced his finger with it. “CHOO!” the leaf went flying.

The two watched the leaf drift away before laughing.

“Hurricane Amy.” Sonic teased.

“Oh, stop that. *Sniff* I’m serious, we’re both really sick!”

“Yeah...”

“I mean, it’s cute, right? But, like... what if we get Knuckles and Tails sick too?”

“Eh, nothing a little tender love and care can’t solve.” Sonic pulled out what looked like some stow-away’d food.

“That’s gross.” Amy blew into another leaf. “Let me have a bite.”

“With your boogers all over your gloves?” He held it away, “Fat chance.” and took a bite of whatever the cloth he had unfolded slightly was hiding.

“Heeeyyyy... come on...” Amy whined, “Girls don’t have boogers. We’re too polite.”

He stopped from taking the first bite and looked over to the leaf that had been blown away moments before. “I think that poor ant person on that leaf would say otherwise.”

Amy chuckled, but only from the numbing headache she was getting. “There are no tiny ant people.” she giggled.

“Really? Waking up tomorrow and finding a tiny letter stating that Mr. Ant can’t afford house insurance on the nasty green blob you just delivered all over his great-grandmother’s leaf will make you think otherwise.” He took a bite as Amy continued to giggle from his sickly humor.

“You’re silly.”

“I tend to be goofy when I’m sick.” He admitted.

“Hehe, I just gave him a free paint job.”

“Wooowww that’s awful.” Sonic saw her slowly losing her intelligence as the sickness carried, but then he wondered if Tails and Knuckles were the same.

Suddenly, his own consciousness seemed to wane, and soon, the two were sick buddies.

They laughed next to each other in their hazy mess, kicking leafs out of the hole as they stuck to one another after a while.

“So gross...” Amy whined out.

“Hey, that’s mostly your mess, not mine.”

“All the tiny little lawyers...”

“Still, not my problem- HACHOO!”

“There goes a few hundred rings.” she laughed.

“Eh,” Sonic wiped his nose, “I’ll collect them again later.”

“How many you need?”

“Just one.” Sonic flicked the ring out and held it up to her. “One to survive this awful cold.”

“We should share it.” she sniffled, reaching up for it. “Quick, put it on my finger...”

He was so out of it that he began too, but halfway through, he heard her giggled and removed it.

She stared at him, a huge, sickly grin on her face as he shook his head and refused to make eye-contact with her.

“We’re so sick.” Amy teased.

He huffed.

“You like me~” she joked, pulling out some more leaves before gasping, “We’re out of leaves!”

“Maybe we should ‘leaf’ then.” He teased.

“You’re just upset cause you almost put a ring on me.” She made a face, “Mr. Grumpy quills... sir, Mrs. Grumpy Quills would like your side of the leaf pile, please.”

He folded his arms, bundling the leaves around him. “It’s your fault we’re sick.” His voice sounded stuffy, and it made her groan.

“Oh, are you still sick too? It’s been a while, I don’t hear robots or explosions anymore.” she looked out towards the roots. “It’s getting dark too...”

He tried to stand up, felt his head, and then lowered back to where Amy was. “For the record-! ...Oh, bad idea, bad idea... hmph, you’re not Mrs. anything.” he joked, gripping his head. “This is worse than any headache I’ve ever had.”

“Spring fever.”

“Is that what it is?”

“No, I mean, I don’t know? I just know that spring is the best time to get engaged.” she giggled, bringing it up again as he groaned.

“I have mucus in my head and throat and you want to joke about tricking a sick man into marrying you again?” he turned his head and suddenly... the two were right next to each other.

She giggled before opening her eyes and seeing his large eyes, though small green irises, looking back to her.

“...Hee,” she let out a cute but nervous chuckle, “What are you staring at? Your sick bride-to-be? Haha!”

“No..” He smiled, “A nasty girl booger.”

Amy slapped her hands over her nose, “Ew! Really?! Give me a tissue, quick!”

He laughed and held the leaf up over her head, reaching back to grab a few more. Dangling it playfully, he taunted her as she removed one hand to try and grab it.

“You’re tormenting a beautiful, sick young woman!”

He just laughed.

“Ohhh, give it up, already!”

“How many rings do you have?”

“You’re gonna make me pay for it?”

“Absolutely!” there seemed to be a double-meaning that he meant by that, but she didn’t catch on to it.

“Ohhh...” After using up most of her energy trying to grab the leaf, she gave up. “You’re mean...”

He noticed with a tilt of his head that she was still covering her face, so he brought the leaf close to her nose, “Here, blow.”

She stared down at his hand offering, wondering if he was being real or not. She removed her hand, still revealing the snot as he placed the leaf up to her nose.

“Isn’t this gross?” Her voice sounded off when he pitched her nose against the leaf.

“Very, but I figured, you’re my gross bubble too. Now blow.”

She did so, and he threw the leaf off towards the almost plugged hole with sticky, gross leaves.

“Think they’ll dig up our bodies and say we died of the farmer’s market guy?”

“If anyone is getting a lawyer, it’s us.” Sonic folded his arms, rubbing his hands against two more leaves in attempts to clean them.

Amy giggled before pausing a moment on something he said, “Us?”

She saw he was getting sleepy, and went for the question again, “Not just you?”

“Not just me.” He groaned, turning to throw an arm around her, getting comfortable in the small space as she sniffled in her gasp.

“S-Sonic..?”

“What?”

“W-what are you...”

“I’m sick.”

“I-I know you’re sick, I am too, but-” she stopped questioning it, but instead, leaning into his embrace.

“Emm... This is nice.” She admitted. “But you’re really warm, and I’m already so warm too...”

“Eh, take what you can get.” Sonic sniffled, reaching back for more leaves, blowing his own nose.

“Ewww... groosss...” She giggled, but he seemed to purposefully make nose-noises right next to her and wiggle his head more towards her. “No, no, no! Haha!”

“Ugh, you’ll be the death of me.” he threw the leaf, but it stuck to his hand. “Ah, I should really get back at Eggman and just get him sick too.”

“Sneeze on his pillow?”

“You’re evil. I was just gonna pile all these leaves into his robots.”

“Haha! Make them all look icky while he thinks they’ve grown minds and made camouflage!”

The two tiredly laughed before dipping more into sleep.

“Hey, Sonic?”

“Hmm?” he seemed barely awake now, completely slipping into a sick-induced sleep.

“Can I be your sick wife?”

“You can be my sick friend in this hole we may die in together.” He countered.

“But... Can I, though?”

“Where else will you go?”

“I’d like to die in your arms...”

“Don’t say that. Don’t say that again.” He held her a bit tighter.

“Too morbid?”

“...Something like that.”

She felt his breathing go at a steady pace.

“...Sonic?”

He didn’t respond.

“...I’m glad we’re sick together. It’s like the first time I really get to enjoy being around you without you wiggling away from me... Hey, Sonic?”

He groaned from his throat, which caused her to giggle again as she slowly began to slip into sleep too.

She yawned and sneezed lightly, as Sonic frowned next to her but she turned and moved further into him. “I hope you take me to the farmer’s market again... I hope you still hang out with me... and go on dates with me... and let me take care of you when you’re sick.”

“...We’ll take care of each other.”

“Deal...” she fell to sleep... but Sonic blinked his eyes open, smiling as he took a leaf and wiped her nose for her, then hugged her again and fell asleep too.

Later...

“...Should we move them?” Tails peered into the hole.

“Ew, what this is?!” Knuckles shouted in a whisper, trying to get some stuck leaves off of his gloves. “They won’t-! Grr! Come off!”

“We should at least get them home. Come on.” Tails, sucking in his germ-phobias, used his beautiful tails to wipe the pile of yucky leaves away, cringing as some stuck to his tails.

They pulled the two out, feeling their heads to see they were really burning up, and helped them to get some medicine in time.

While washing up, Amy noticed her nose had turned red on the underside of it, and sighed at how irritable it was.

When she came out from Tails’s bathroom, she gasped to see Sonic on the couch, some ice on his head, and when he turned... a red-stain under his nose.

He smiled at her though, seeing her matching one too.

“Oh, you poor thing!” she giggled, “We should have shared that ring!”