#apocalyptic!tko

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Carpool Incorrect quotes part 2

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SUBMITTED BY @bubbleberryuniverse

Sami Apocalyptic AU Ramblings, Part One of However Many There Will Be...

The general AU summary is that it's an AU where the villains end up winning. They, after well over decades of planning, end up finally succeeding and destroying and wiping out most heroes. With the bonus detail of KO and TKO being separated!

In today's submission, I'm going to be rambling about the KO and TKO separation portion of the AU, as that is currently what's bouncing around in my head. I absolutely will get to and explain the other general information about the AU at a time that isn't right now (considering it's 12 am as I'm writing this and I work in 9 hours.)

[Some details will be kept vague until I get a chance to ramble sone more later on.]

The AU takes place, and diverges, during season one. At least in a more noticable way. In a very simple summary— sometime roughly between We've Got Fleas and One Last Score, Shadowy ends up separating KO from his TKO, in the forest.

He used a weird kind of machine— cob knows how he got his hands on it— to physically separate the two. This... is absolutely not a fun experience. It's painful. Because he's essentially tearing apart their souls, cause KO and TKO share a soul in kind of a weird way? Words are hard! But it's absolutely one of the worst experiences both KO and TKO have ever experienced.

KO remembers more of the details than TKO, as KO was in control during the separation, but even then, KO doesn't remember much, except for the fact that he was separated and it HURT.

ALSO, ALSO, after the separation, the cage in KO's mind is absolutely just... destroyed. As this was season one, KO never got the chance to let TKO out of the cage, and this is part of why TKO resents him so much [will elaborate later!] The mind is never visited again after this, but the cage, the poor cage, man...

(WB doodle by freepaperdetective!)

ANYWAY, they both end up unconscious on the forest floor after they're separated. Because holy fuck, these two kids were kind of legitimately split in half in a way. It's honestly a miracle it didn't end up killing them [it definitely almost did, though.] Shadowy takes TKO and leaves KO in the forest while he's passed out, where he's eventually found by Rad and Enid, who definitely panic because KO suddenly won't wake up.

He's definitely alive, he's just... unconscious for a few days. He wakes up again a few days later all snuggled up in blankets, but this post isn't about him, so we'll skip that for now.

As soon as TKO wakes up, a few days later, much like KO, Shadowy wastes zero time in beginning to manipulate him. Again, I won't go too in-depth cause this is meant to be super short, but he ends up pretty much making TKO go from, "I hate KO for everything he's done but whatever" to "I absolutely HATE everything about KO and his existence, he's the cause of ALL my PROBLEMS and ALL of my bad feelings and thoughts would go away if I killed him." To put it simply, at least.

Of course, that's not all immediate. It takes like a year [roughly] of manipulation to get him to that point. At which, the apocalypse would've already been very much a thing, and that definitely adds to the problem. [The villains destroyed everything around the time of Villains Night Out/In, which was a few months after the separation. They're kind of connected but not really, TKO just helped. I'll get into that later.]

It's a good detail to mention that over time after the separation, KO definitely ends up feeling bad about keeping TKO in the cage. But as you'll find out, it just... doesn't matter. Cause by the time he does try talking to TKO, it's unfortunately not able to work. I absolutely will get into the little tiny teeny details when I can...

There's a stark contrast to KO and TKO, too, cause TKO is with the villains, and KO is with the heroes, and while KO is forced to hide from the villains, TKO is essentially living with and around them. The villains that destroyed everything. It absolutely affects him in a lot of ways and AUGH it's SO good, man...

[I'm going to end this submission here because I REALLY need to sleep, but please remind me tomorrow to write more and submit the rest of this! After that I'll be open to people asking me questions about it and stuff as I ramble about more AU details. Hope this was a good amount of starting information!]

[bubbleberryuniverse]

goodbye and good luck turbo. we'll be... fucking off now. again... we are sorry. for everything that's happened. suddenly having all of this come out of nowhere and change everything. it's okay to cry. to run. to hide. please try to be safe. it will be okay someday. It's gonna be alright~

[Unfortunately, he doesn't notice the anons are leaving until they're all gone. He's alone.]

[ask-beast-o-tonicko]

Session 52

He walks on his way to the train, muttering under his breath, "Please don't let me see him again he's so annoying--"

[ask-kimerako-therapycarpool]

took a while for you to get over the cage yeah? nobody's telling you to just get over that. you were hurt and it sucked to the point it still messes with you. same with him, just with a whole lot of other stuff on top of it. ...have patience with yourself.

I wasn't even talking about the cage before you brought it up, genius...

[ask-apocalypticko]

scary? oh no... and you've been working so hard on facing your fears as well.

tttbb.. t.. t.. t... tk.. tko...

[ask-mutant-ko-n-tko]

how does crux being a flower make you feel?

"I don't know..... I'm... not sure how to feel about it right now. I'm still upset at what Decomp said and what I tried to do to him, but... I just don't know..."

[librarycomic]

Djeliya: A West African Fantasy Epic by Juni Ba. TKO Studios, 2021. 9781952203244. 180pp. http://www.powells.com/book/-9781952203244?partnerid=34778&p_bt

The Wizard Suomaoro destroyed the world from high in his ivory tower. Now Awa Kouyaté, last in a line of djeli guiding the rulers of Keita, is helping Mansour, the surviving heir to the Keita throne, race the holy man Mbam to the tower's secrets. (Awa and Monsour are actually to blame for the situation -- the pair stole a criminal lord's powerful juju for Mbam, which allowed him to break into the tower.) Mbam sees himself as on a quest to restore order by replacing the wizard. But Awa and Mansour need to beat him to the top, to stop him from ruining the world.

This post-apocalyptic tale has traits of superhero and manga comics, along with giant djinnes, monstrous criminals, magic, and high technology. The art is as kinetic and energetic in places as FLCL. It runs the gamut from wild colors to black and white, and turning from one page to the next I never knew what to expect. From berserk layouts to old school manga screen tones, this book has everything and it all works. The story itself is demanding, going backward and forward in time in a rhythm that needs more concentration than the average graphic novel, but which is so worth reading and rereading. What a book!

#bookreview #graphicnovel #graphicnovelreview #fantasy

[askedgylonefighterko]

Ah, right... Well... Crux is a younger KO who was separated from his TKO because of Shadowy and was living in an apocalyptic environment for over a year and started staying with Edgy after everyone died and now he's a deity. of powerlessness. Cool huh.

that’s certainly…uh…interesting.

[dustedmagazine]

Algiers — There Is No Year (Matador)

hey say the end of the world is coming. An apocalyptic cavalcade of equine flogging clowns gallops across a devastated planet drowning in noise. Algiers’ front man Franklin James Fisher casts a jaundiced eye over this landscape, observes, describes and despairs. On their third album Fisher and fellow multi-instrumentalists Lee Tesche and Ryan Mahan and drummer Matt Tong strive to maintain the impact of debut Algiers and its follow up The Underside of Power with mixed results. There Is No Year is the first Algiers album to be recorded by the band in a studio together rather than through file sharing. Ironically it seems to have sapped some immediacy from their music.

So much of Algiers’ power resides in Fisher’s voice and the call and response with both his band mates and the gospel backing. There Is No Year hits hard at the start but lapses into some turgid moments where the band seem enervated by screaming in the darkness and lose momentum, not through lack of passion or commitment but more from the fatigue of preaching to the never will be converted. It is testament to the vision of Fisher, Tesche, Mahan and Tong that the relative low points only marginally dampen this collection. “There Is No Year” opens with a juddering martial beat over a bed of synths as Fisher declaims “Now it’s two minutes to midnight/And they’re building houses of cards/It will spiral out until the day we all fall.” Already there seems a Beckettian resignation but the hollering response of the backing vocals push the song along. Likewise “Dispossession” combines Fisher’s febrile sermon “Run around, run away from your America/While it burns in the streets/I been here, standing on top of the mountain/Shouting down what I see.” with gospel backing, double time hand claps and deeply layered keyboards that create a palpable excitement and tension which dissipates over the next couple of tracks which lose their way in mid tempo meandering and an over reliance on fire and house of cards metaphors.  

It’s the moments Algiers push their sound forward that make this album worth your attention —  the squalling saxophone solo and distorted bass synth of “Chaka”, the church organ on “Nothing Bloomed” and a welcome blast of punk energy on “Void” that brings to mind the wig out at the end of Mos Def’s “Rock N Roll”.  

Algiers has always been about the collective, identity, action and movement. Their combination of political lyrics, gospel and soul with post-punk energy is a potent one that brings the righteous anger of both to bear. If Fisher and co feel wrung out at times it’s not through lack of commitment or creativity. No one said fighting the good fight would be easy and There Is No Year lands enough punches to win at least a TKO decision.  

Andrew Forell

[asylumkollectibles]

Gremlins animated series in development at WarnerMediaGet ready for another infestation of Gremlins.

WarnerMedia has announced that an animated series based on Joe Dante's iconic 1984 film has been put into development for its as-yet unnamed streaming service. The series will serve as a prequel, according to a report by Variety.

The story will focus on Mogwai steward Mr. Wing, the mysterious character from the original film who laid out the rules for treatment of the adorable/terrifying creatures (which were all, of course, promptly broken, leading to a near-apocalyptic Gremlin-based catastrophe). He was played onscreen by the late Keye Luke, who reprised his role in the 1990 sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch.

The new series will be a "period piece" which will follow a younger Wing as he embarks on strange adventures accompanied by Gizmo, the friendly Mogwai whose mishandling by the well-meaning Randall Peltzer and his son Billy led to the increasingly insane series of events portrayed in Dante's film. It will be produced by Warner Bros. Television in association with Amblin Television, the TV arm of the Steven Spielberg-founded production house which also co-produced the films.

Attached as writer and executive producer is Tze Chun, who has an interesting pedigree, to say the least. A writer and story editor on the long-running series Gotham and Once Upon a Time, he's also the scribe behind the 2013 Bryan Cranston vehicle Cold Comes the Night and the award-winning 2009 drama Children of Invention; in addition, he's a co-founder of TKO Studios, a new comic book publisher who made a splash in the industry late last year with its signing of an impressive roster of talent and announcement of an innovative "binge release" model for its titles. 

Source : Looper

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Carpool Incorrect quotes part 4!! Featuring @bubbleberryuniverse

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SUBMITTED BY: @bubbleberryuniverse

Part two of Sami Rambling About Its Apocalyptic AU, with more stuff about a!TKO and a!KO! Strap yourselves in, this is gonna be a LONG one.

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I mentioned last night that TKO is up with the villains, while KO is down hiding, underground, with the heroes. And there is so much information to this, cause despite being separated, there are so many similarities and parallels between these two.

Like...

KO is hiding in small underground areas, away from the villains while, like I mentioned, TKO is up with the villains. And while he's generally not forced to survive in a dangerous place in the way KO is, he definitely has to in a different way. Cause he's up there with the villains who caused this mess, including Shadowy.

TKO never had anyone there for him, either, unlike KO, even after separation. Cause he existed, was in the cage, and then with Shadowy after the separation and immediately manipulated. He never got to experience any kind of love or anyone even caring for him as a parent, just villains hurting other people and being so violent and literally destroying the world in order to win. There's, like, so little left.

I've imaged the sky being red, like how it is in the finale after the sun dies, cause the sun is dead. And there's just dirt and debris scattered around as far as people can see. Rocks and remnants of old buildings, broken sidewalks, and just... various things that just scream apocalypse. Absolutely little to nothing is left up there, and there's absolutely little to nothing underground. Both heroes and villains are struggling to survive, but the villains still take the win because the heroes are the ones hiding in fear for their lives.

You can get a general idea of just how it is for TKO by this general information. ESPECIALLY as a younger TKO that more recently started existing. The apocalypse generally has been a thing for about a year [in terms of timeline in regards to when a potential fic would take place], so he's been in this horrid environment for a long, long time. He's taught himself to pretty much suppress any feelings that AREN'T anger and rage, and has pretty much learned violence is what he needs to do to survive.

It's BAD. Horrible. And he's told and manipulated by Shadowy that if he killed and got rid of KO, that everything bad would go away. That he could be happy. And he believes him, because why wouldn't he?

When the apocalypse first started, there was a bit of that manipulation, but it wasn't as BAD. His first interaction with KO in the apocalypse is him attacking him with just a tinge of hesitance, but by the year point of the apocalypse, it's absolutely just cold-blooded, deep-seated rage. He's latched onto this idea that KO is GENUINELY the root of ALL his problems and unhappiness and torment, and the desire to kill him grows the more Shadowy tells him that doing that will make it better. It's like his purpose; that's what he believes. Murdering KO in the most violent way he can is his way out of misery and by cob, he wants OUT.

The thing is though he actually doesn't WANT to kill him. But he's suppressed that so hard that he genuinely believes he wants to, and even if he doesn't want to, he needs to. There's no other option in his mind. He firmly absolutely believes this is what he wants AND needs, and any doubt about him actually wanting KO dead is suppressed harder than KO ever ended up suppressing anything. This is, unfortunately, something he has to figure out the hard way, but I won't get into that...

KO is scared of him, though, and rightfully so. Because TKO wants him dead, and he knows this. Any interaction they had during the apocalypse, as very scarce as they were, ended up with KO getting hurt. And TKO being very clear about his goals. TKO absolutely terrifies the shit out of KO, because holy shit, that kid is ANGRY and he's POWERFUL.

I also sometimes think about how KO would've apologized if he could have. If he wasn't scared if TKO, he'd apologize to him for keeping him locked up in a cage. And just... everything in general. As he's a season one KO, though, he doesn't really know about TKO in the way other season two KOs might, but... still. It wouldn't have made it better or fixed it, but cob, the kid genuinely WANTS to apologize to him, but the sheer terror he feels when he simply hears his name is just... too much. It's SO good, man, I love the way these characters are.

They could've gotten along like siblings, honestly. If one wasn't actively seeking out to kill the other, and the other wasn't actively terrified of the one that wants him DEAD. AUGH... I love these two children so much, they deserve so much better. They're both seeking someone to love and care about them, in a way.

KO is stuck without a parental or even an older sibling figure for, like, a year (he's surviving with Colewort and Potato), and when he DOES have an adult show up, it's... it still sucks. He's alone and feeling super useless and just wants his mom, Rad, Enid, or SOMEBODY to be there. Even if the two people he's simply working with to survive care about him, he's... it still sucks, you know? I'll get into more stuff with KO in a different post though, he's got a lot, too!

But TKO is in a very similar situation. Except he's surrounded by villains who aren't anywhere close to good adult figures. All he has is Shadowy, who... is Shadowy. He may absolutely deny the fact that he really needs and wants someone to care about and love him, but that's absolutely something he does want. AUGH... one of my favorite things is that he just doesn't feel like he can call Carol his mom. He'll just call her KO's mom. And this absolutely lives in my brain so much. Cob, get this kid some blankets, please! Both of them. Blankets, hot chocolate, and lots of love.

One more detail I want to share before I send this off is the tape recorder.

They both have a half of the tape recorder in each of their subconsciouses. It's super, duper deep in there, and they never go to their minds, so they'll never know about it, but I do and I AM TELLING YOU.

It got split during their separation and it doesn't really work. It'll sputter and spit out some words and gargled static and noises, but otherwise, they're completely non-functional. But I love thinking about this, cause it has a lot of meaning behind it, which I absolutely SLURP up. And even if you repaired each one in their mind somehow, they wouldn't even be legible. Not very legible, anyway. Which is one of my FAVORITE things. I can't quite explain the entire way that this detail makes me feel, or how important this is in the grand scheme of viewing their separation and how it's affected them. But it's just... SO impactful, man.

I love these children and all the funky details and I will be back another time with more :) Feel free to ask me questions if you want I will happily do so 👁️

[bubbleberryuniverse]

Anon!TKO: If you can face all that, be yourself and NOT try to be Shadowy 2... You can get there someday. To what you REALLY want and not what you think you want. ...I hope to be seeing you... Me. *he gives a genuine laugh (get it cause they're both TKO) and stretches... looks up at where the sun was and then breaks into a sprint and then through straight another window several blocks away*

[The sounds of the glass breaking in the distance gets drowned out by his now-quiet sobs.]

[ask-beast-o-tonicko]

*sigh* classic Decomp...

He sighs with the person. "At least I took care of it by hiding him somewhere... I hope he becomes easier to be around with and talk to soon..."

[ask-kimerako-therapycarpool]

also other villains. which are probably why he has such a potty mouth. honestly surprised he doesn't know more.

Ech.