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stinky-fuck-swag · 7 months

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Aaand here's the brackets!

Wacky ass formatting, i know- Matchups under the cut, polls will be starting soon!

(note: i know nothing about like. 80% of these characters. if their names or where theyre from is incorrect, just lmk cuz i have NOO IDEAA) also i am fully aware of every mistake made in this bracket. whoops

BRACKET A, SIDE A

Henry Oak (Dungeons and Daddies) VS Normal Oak (Dungeons and Daddies season 2

Zora Salazar (Epithet Erased) VS Stink (Epithet Erased)

Anders (Dragon Age) VS Isabela (Dragon Age)

Deandra the new girl (Most Popular Girls in School) VS Peach (real life)

Randy Jade (Dialtown) VS Phonegingi (Dialtown)

Stunky (Pokemon) VS Stinkeye (Yo-kai Watch)

Reigen Arataka (Mob Psycho 100) VS Dimple (Mob Psycho 100)

Moonbeam McSwine (Li'l Abner) VS Marc Spector (Marvel Comics)

Link (BOTW) VS Lt. Columbo (Columbo)

Yoda (Star Wars) VS Shaggy (Scooby Doo)

Dob the Half Orc Bard (Oxventure Dungeons and Dragons) VS Caleb Widogast (Critical Role campaign 2)

Shinjiro Aragaki (Persona 3) VS Ryuji Sakamoto (Persona 5)

Gyro Zepelli (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure) VS Guido Mista (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Tokkori (Kirby right back at ya) VS Jotaro Kujo (JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure)

Elon Musk (real life. sadly) VS Berdly (Deltarune)

Spamton G. Spamton (Deltarune) VS Susie (Deltarune)

BRACKET A, SIDE B

The Great Mighty Poo (Conker) VS The Poop Smith (Homestar Runner)

Michael Afton (Five Nights at Freddy’s) VS Springtrap (Five Nights at Freddy’s)

Manjoume Jun/Chazz Princeton (Yu-Gi-Oh! GX) VS Datz Are'bal (Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice)

Aragorn (Lord of the Rings) VS Humans in general (Star Trek)

Captain Rockhopper (Club Penguin) VS King Micah of Bright Moon (She-Ra and the Princesses of Power)

Frank Gallagher (Shameless) VS Remus Sanders (Sanders Sides)

The Riddler (Batman: Arkham Knight) VS Power (Chainsaw Man)

Charlie Kelly (It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia) VS Every Dog (real life)

c!Technoblade (Dream SMP) VS c!Wilbur Soot (Dream SMP)

Harrier Du Bois (Disco Elysium) VS Bruno Madrigal (Encanto)

Submitters Brother (real life) VS Prosperity Redding (The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding)

Izutsumi (Dungeon Meshi) VS Goobleck (Just Roll With It)

Enoch O'Connor (Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children) VS Smores (real life)

Lady Macbeth (Macbeth) VS Erik (The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber musical & movie))

The Voters (Tumblr) VS Equius Zahhak (Homestuck)

Rotten Apple (Showvember) VS Loki (real life)

BRACKET B, SIDE A

Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes) VS Smudge (Cascão) (Monica’s Team (Turma da Monica))

Oscar the Grouch (Sesame Street) VS Stinky Pete (Toy Story 2)

Toko Fukawa (Danganronpa) VS L (Death Note)

Stink Bomb (Skylanders: SWAP Force) VS Slugcat (Rain World)

Thorfinn (Vinland Saga) VS Vice (Kamen Rider Revice)

Dr. Iceberg (SCP Foundation) VS Dr. Alto Clef (SCP Foundation)

Ash Ketchum (Pokemon) VS Doug Eiffel (Wolf 359)

Estinien Wyrmblood (Final Fantasy XIV) VS Alphinaud Leveilleur (Final Fantasy XIV)

Raphael Hamato (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) VS Gobber (How To Train Your Dragon)

Keaton (Fire Emblem Fates) VS Sniper (Team Fortress 2)

Bill Lenz (Black Christmas 1974) VS Stinkor (Masters of the Universe)

The Sewer Urchin (The Tick (1994 Animated Series)) VS Macaque (Lego Monkie Kid)

Barfbat (Ward (Parahumans series)) VS Kevin (Synthesizer V)

Yellowfang (Warrior Cats) VS Big Mac (My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic)

Heppokomaru (Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo) VS Captain 3 (Splatoon 3)

Buttercup (Powerpuff Girls) VS Linus (Stardew Valley)

BRACKET B, SIDE B

Jeong-Jeong (Avatar: The Last Airbender) VS Pigpen (Peanuts)

Beelzebub (Good Omens) VS Stinkfly (Ben 10)C

Hiravias (Pillars of Eternity) VS Chell (Portal)

Murdoc Niccals (Gorillaz) VS Bacterian (Dragon Ball)

Captain K'nuckles (The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack) VS Kimchi (Chowder)

Stinky (Moomins) VS Stinky (Animal Crossing)

Mitchell Shephard (Hunt Down the Freeman) VS Melly Plinius (Identity V)

Monkey D. Luffy (One Piece) VS Yato (Noragami)

THAT FUCKING THING IN YOUR BANNER (my banner lol) VS Harold (Fallout 1, 2, and 3)

Barik of the Stone Shields (Tyranny) VS Samuel Gladiator (Yandere High School (minecraft roleplay))

John Hart (Torchwood) VS Orochimaru (Naruto)

Dung Defender/Ogrim (Hollow Knight) VS Zane (Borderlands)

Pumbaa (The Lion King) VS Enki (Fear and Hunger)

Goro Majima (Yakuza) VS Sandalphon (Granblue Fantasy)

Finn Mertins (Farmworld) (Adventure Time) VS John Doe (John Doe / John Doe+)

Dipper Pines (Gravity Falls) VS Ed Sheeran (ginger people fandom)

#stinkyfuckswagtourney #tumblr bracket #poll bracket #my ass realizing all the name mistakes i made in the bracket but im too tired to go back n change it lolol #i dont wanna see anyone complaining abt the dsmp characters btw #idk jackshit about it but i do know that those two ARENT dream and the submitter specifically submitted the CHARACTERS not the people #and when i said any media besides southpark and hp was fine i meant it #ill prob have to make a separate post but anyone being disrespectful about ANY Character in this bracket will get blocked idc #tried to do some of the matchups by fandom but i just realized theres 2 final fantasy dudes that i didnt pair up sighhh. im tired ok #if this is rlly fucked up ill fix it up later dwdw

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usa-manors-library · 1 year

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The Death of West; The Life of East

(A/N: I'll write something cheerful one day.

But that day.

Is not today. :D)

"EJ?"

That voice. He couldn't get himself to place it. It was too fuzzy. Too drowned out by the ringing in his ears.

"East...? Are you alright?"

He looked at the speaker, but his vision was blurred. He couldn't make anything out but smudges of color.

He leaned against the doorway (Doorway? Wasn't he at the cliffs?) for support as he tried to calm down and take a deep breath, but he was too choked up to manage anything.

What was wrong with him? Why couldn't he breathe? Why couldn't he stop shaking? Why was his face wet? Was he crying? He didn't cry.

A worried Connecticut put down the muddy shoe he was cleaning and approached the distressed colony standing in the front door.

"What happened?" He asked, thoroughly concerned as he guided his little brother to a chair, "Where's West?"

West. West was just with him, where did he go?

East Jersey thought back and tried to recall.

He remembered going with West to Elias Green's tavern an hour and a half ago.

Then they were thrown out thirty minutes later for... EJ got into an argument with Abner, right? It broke into a fight? West got involved and tried to break the two up. Elias thought he was joining in, so he threw all three of them out before they destroyed anything.

EJ was livid. He wanted to get some fresh air and clear his head, so he asked WJ to come with him to the...

Oh God, East's eyes widened as his face paled, The Palisades.

The final memories came rushing back to him;

West agreed to come. The two were talking. Joking around. Goofing off and walking by the edge. The sun was setting.

East was in the lead, ranting about the fight and how he was sorry for dragging his twin into it.

West was listening, saying it wasn't a big deal, and then... he cried out. EJ thought he was joking, since the two often did that to try to scare one another, but when he turned around to give his twin an incredulous look, he was... gone.

And that's when East heard the impact of the fall.

He made himself look over the edge, and... and...

East hung his head and sobbed. He killed his brother.

He killed his brother. It was his fault.

If he just sucked up his bitterness and went home with West, none of this would of happened.

If he was simply more mature about the argument and walked away to enjoy his night, none of this would of happened.

If he never suggested to go to Elias's in the first place, none of this would of—

"...East."

That uneasy voice. Those footsteps. The shoes entering his field of vision. None of them were Connecticut's. They belonged to someone else.

Someone who started feeling distressed the second West fell, despite being oblivious to the entire situation. Someone who felt that unexplainable despair three times before.

Eyes overflowing with tearful remorse, EJ looked up to his father.

"...Vader, I... West..." East choked out, "H... He's..."

EJ trailed off and let out a shuddering breath. The colony couldn't even bear the thought of saying it, much less get it out. He dreaded the words too much. He couldn't do it. It would make everything... real.

He didn't want it to be.

Luckily, he didn't have to. His shred of an answer confirmed Roanoke's fears.

The retired colony crouched down by his son and gently wiped his tears with a trembling hand, not noticing his own starting to fall freely in silence.

After a long moment, he found his ability to speak.

"...I know," Roanoke admitted, broken voice scarcely above a whisper, "I... I felt it..."

EJ tried his hardest to fight down his sobs. He failed. It wasn't long until he was on his knees and crying into his dad's shirt, clinging to him as if letting go would make him disappear into the wind.

Roanoke sat on the floor and wrapped his arms around East in a tight hug, bowing his head and shaking with his own cries as he held his mourning son close.

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Roanoke stood watching from a distance, pulled to the side by Kingdom of England.

He was shaky and as pale as a ghost, rueful eyes tinted red from prior tears while his kingdom spoke to him in hushed tones with a cold expression.

It looked almost as if England was lecturing him. As if Roanoke was a bratty child needing a stern talking-to, instead of being the mourning parent in need of comfort he was.

Connecticut looked away. It hurt to watch. It's not like the view of West Jersey's freshly covered grave in front of him felt any better to observe, but there was nothing he could do to help his father in that situation. As an English colony, he'd only make it worse. Connecticut could only listen while England grieved his grandson in his own screwed up way by blaming his son.

"An accident? I couldn't care less about it being an 'accident.' I care about you keeping my grandchildren alive!"

"I... I care about that, too!" The other argued, "You know I do! More than anything—!"

England cut Roanoke off by jerking his hand up, earning a wince from his son before he motioned to a distant hill covered in poppies, decorated by a single carefully crafted gravestone.

He then jerked his hand in the other direction, towards a perfectly lovely spot under a large willow tree. Or at least a spot that seemed perfectly lovely, until you see the tombstone marked with the lifespan of nine years.

Finally, he pointed to a garden about fourty yards away, yet another tombstone peaking through the flowers.

Popham, Saybrook, and New Haven.

"Then start acting like it, Ro. It's a simple task! It's incredible how easy it is for you to mess things up!" England snapped, glowering, "I can't believe how irresponsible you are! Without me, the rest of your children would of been in the ground years ago."

"I..."

"You, what?"

"It wasn't my..." Roanoke continued, seeming unsure if he believed his own words, "I don't see how this is my fau—"

"Of course it's your fault! Who else is there to blame? The cliff? East?"

Connecticut glanced to the twin of the deceased beside him, feeling a sting of sadness at East's cringe of guilt.

Without a word, East Jersey's older brother took his hand and guided him away from the one-sided argument, the sounds of England convincing their father he was to blame growing distant.

He was a little happy New York wasn't listening. Connecticut wasn't sure if he could've held him back from fighting with England, a scenario that would've worsened Roanoke's situation.

Instead, the spitfire of a colony was comforting New Netherland— Connecticut, New York, and the Jerseys' own mother— as she adorned her late son's resting place with flowers. At least, he was trying to. The retired Dutch colony was justifiably inconsolable.

Once the gravesite, weeping mother, and arguing relatives were out of view and earshot, East... Province of New Jersey yanked his arm out of Connecticut's grasp.

"...East—"

"I'm fine," New Jersey snapped, rubbing his wrist, "You don't need to worry about me like a mother hen. I know what I did, there's no use in ignoring it."

"It wasn't your fault," Connecticut insisted, "You know how Grandfather gets, he was just going off on a tangent and spewing bull—"

"I'm not say it was Father's fault, I'm saying it was mine."

"That's not what I—"

"Then shut up!" New Jersey hissed, "Just... leave me alone!"

"Ea—"

New Jersey held his hand up with a glare, silencing Connecticut before turning and storming away.

"East, please—"

New Jersey shoved between and past Massachusetts and Rhode Island, who were walking side by side in Connecticut's direction.

"The hell...?" Rhode Island muttered, glancing behind him, "Why's he so livid all of a sudden? What happened, River?"

"I... " Connecticut replied, feeling lost, "...I think I ticked him off?"

"How?"

"I don't... know."

Rhode Island seemed unsatisfied with the poor excuse of an answer.

"...Well," RI reasoned, "There had to be something—"

"Or nothing," Massachusetts finished calmly, straightening the sleeve New Jersey messed up when bumping into him.

His younger half-brothers looked to him, eyes imploring him to elaborate.

"He's... His temper is a little unruly today," Massachusetts went on, "He yelled at me over putting his shoes in his room instead of leaving them by the back door this morning."

"Yell?" Rhode Island asked incredulously, "Are you sure? East never yells about trivial things like that."

"He... has a lot on his mind. For him to have to see West... to see... Lord Almighty, I couldn't imagine..."

Massachusetts trailed off, but the others understood.

"He's..." Rhode Island spoke up after a brief pause, "He'll be fine, right?"

"...Grief comes in many different ways for everyone," The Bay Colony explained, "At the moment, East's way is anger. Just... give him some space. He doesn't really want to offend or hurt you. He's just... getting over something. We all are. Be patient with him."

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Patience. That can get used up quickly.

Everyone tried their best to stay patient with Jersey. Many tried to comfort him to no avail, so they resorted to walking on eggshells around him while he mourned.

For the days that followed, everyone fought down the urge to hold a grudge with him when he lashed out. The weeks that followed were designed with the same pattern. Then the months. Then the year...

It wasn't long until the one and a half years mark struck, when someone's well of patience finally dried up.

"Can you please shut the hell up already!?" New York exclaimed, shooting up from his seat and slamming the table, "We get it! You're a total ass! Now eat your damn porridge before I do everyone a favor and shove it down your throat!"

After he broke the ice, one by one, the colonies slowly stopped spending all their patience on New Jersey.

"It's been months. I really don't think he's mourning anymore... I'm starting to think he's simply gotten used to walking all over us," Rhode Island ranted to Delaware, "I'm sick of letting him. He's fine, probably more than fine with the way we've been inflating his ego."

In truth, New Jersey wasn't alright. At all.

He still tormented himself over West Jersey's death. He hasn't had a single good night's sleep since it happened. He was still angry. Mostly at himself, but his self-hatred seeped into the way he interacted with others. By the time he realized what he was doing and reigned it in, it was too late.

His siblings looked at him differently, and not in the good way. Whenever he approached one of them, they seemed prepared for an argument. Every time he tried to show some kindness, they were suspicious.

Whether they realized it or not, they treated him like he was a terrible person. It didn't take much for him to start believing them.

He didn't feel like East Jersey anymore. He felt like some sort of irredeemable monster.

Maybe that's all he can be.

He was tired of trying to prove them wrong.

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"There's no way."

"There is! I swear, that's what Massachusetts said!"

"Then I want what Mass is smoking," North Dakota joked, cutting vegetables for dinner, "Jers was never cuddly, even when he was a colony."

"How do you know?" South Dakota retorted, putting some bread in the oven, "You weren't alive when he was a colony."

"Because I asked Georgia. She says he's always been the same."

Connecticut listened to the two as he washed a couple recently used measuring cups, back facing them.

It was odd for him to remember pre-1702 New Jersey. He was a totally different person back then, one Georgia never got to know. She was born in 1732, thirty years after the Garden State's jarring personality shift.

He almost wanted to speak up and explain that to the Dakotas, but he knew they wouldn't believe him. None of the younger states ever did.

He guessed it was a little unimaginable to them, to think that the quickest to anger state they knew their entire lives was once one of the most huggable people in the world.

Connecticut glanced out the kitchen window above the sink, getting lost in his thoughts as he watched New Jersey weed his garden.

He missed the brothers he lost in 1702. Both of them.

After a moment of zoning out, a tap on his arm brought him back to reality.

"Uhm... Uncle Nutmeg?" Central Jersey asked, timidly pointing to the measuring cup in Connecticut's hand, "It's clean now. You don't have to keep rinsing it."

"Oh! Right," Connecticut realized sheepishly, handing the kitchenware to the self-appointed dish dryer, "Sorry CJ."

The kid hummed happily as he finished drying the measuring cup, placing it in it's drawer.

"All done!" He smiled, "Is there anything else I can do to help?"

Connecticut turned off the faucet and shook his head.

"Nope! That's it," CT said, ruffling the little one's hair, "Thanks for the help!"

Central Jersey gave a little laugh at the hair ruffling, filling Connecticut with a sense of nostalgia.

A scene of East and West Jersey giggling the same way played in his mind. They were about Central's age at the time, helping Connecticut take care of the horses. After a couple hours of work, the two proudly went up to him and declared that they were done. He remembered thanking them with a grin before reaching out and ruffling the two rascals' hair.

The bittersweet memory sent a pang of longing through Connecticut's heart. He missed them. He missed them so much.

Having Central Jersey around was a blessing for everyone, in that regard. He was just like his father when he was his age. It helped... stifle the pain, a little. CJ helped patch up whatever holes the Jersey twins left behind in everybody's hearts.

Speaking of which...

"Central! I didn't know you were dropping by today!"

Central's eyes widened at the sound of America's voice, spinning around and rushing into his grandpa's outstretched arms for a hug.

"I thought you were out today!" The boy exclaimed, hugging the tall country.

"Out of my mind? Probably. Out of the house? Nope!" America grinned, "So, what brings you into our neck of the woods?"

"Mom has some work to take care of tonight, so she's picking me up tomorrow morning!"

"Ah, so she dropped you off with your old man?"

"She...! She... dropped me off with my old man," Central Jersey agreed, excitement seeming a little dampened at the mention of his dad.

America exchanged a knowing glance with Connecticut.

"Have you seen him yet?"

Central Jersey hesitantly shook his head, "...I don't think he'd want to see me."

"...Aw, c'mon. I'm sure that's not—"

New Jersey opened the kitchen door and kicked his muddy boots off, trudging in with a basket of tomatoes. He placed them on the counter and turned around to go back out to the garden.

America cleared his throat.

New Jersey paused, hand hovering over the doorknob. He gave an annoyed, drawn-out sigh as he turned around, "What did I do this—?"

He stopped short and stared at Central Jersey.

"His mother," America answered, motioning to CJ, "You did his mother this time."

CJ offered a small wave.

An awkward silence fell upon the group.

"...Heyyy, CJ," New Jersey eventually greeted, seeming extremely uncomfortable, "How's it... going?"

"I'm... alright," Central Jersey smiled shyly, "You?"

"Fine, fine. Just... screwing around. And... stuff. So, your mom's still alive?"

"Uhm... Yes?"

"Ah. Cool, cool. That's... that's always nice..." New Jersey slowly opened the door, "Well... I'm gonna go. Seedlings don't water themselves. It was... nice seeing you."

"Yeah... It... It was nice seeing you too. I love—!"

New Jersey practically slammed the door on his way out.

"...You."

North Dakota crept up beside Central Jersey and wrapped an arm around him.

"Hey, kiddo," She started gently, "How about we let Dak finish up in the kitchen, and we can go see if anyone's up for a card game?"

Central Jersey's eyes lit up at the thought, "Cards Against Humanity?"

"I really shouldn't be letting someone your age play— Aw hell, why not? Everyone needs a bad influence in their life. Cards Against Humanity."

The two strolled away giddily, off to play a game Utah definitely banned from family game night.

Connecticut and South Dakota looked to their father.

"...I know, I'm... I'll go talk to him," America sighed, "Being a deadbeat father is a job for England, not a job for one of my sons."

With that, United States left through the door New Jersey just slammed.

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"What was that?"

"A basket of tomatoes," New Jersey mumbled, not looking up from his weeding, "They're fruits. Italians worship them. You might recognize them from pizza sauce?"

"That's not what I meant and you know it."

New Jersey bit his lip and continued weeding, trying to ignore the presence of his father.

"...New Jersey."

"I'm busy."

"Jersey."

"Not now."

"Jers."

"I have to get these—"

"East.”

New Jersey froze.

"..." He stood up and brushed himself off, "...There's a name I haven't heard in awhile."

America followed New Jersey as he attempted to escape to the garden shed, "Why are you so against being there for Central?"

"I'm not... against it."

"Then why aren't you?"

New Jersey grabbed a watering can and trudged out of the shed, "...It's complicated."

"It's your son."

NJ turned on the hose.

"Unfortunately..." New Jersey muttered after the watering can was full, shutting off the hose and trudging to a group of seedlings.

America's eye twitched. He snatched the watering can from New Jersey and set it down beside him firmly, slapping NJ's hand away from it when he tried to reach for it.

New Jersey slowly withdrew his hand and looked down, not meeting America's eyes.

"Do you hear yourself right now?" America snapped, "What the hell is wrong with you? Inside that house is a kid who loves you more than anything, despite you not giving him a single damn reason to! All he wants is to have you in his life! If you keep this up, that's going to change."

"F%>k, I hope so."

"What the hell is wrong with you? You love him, don't you?"

New Jersey eyed the watering can in silence.

"...You love him," America tried again, attempting to control his frustration, "Don't you?"

"...Shut up."

"Jersey—"

"Shut the hell up!"

"You don't have to—!"

"I love him more than anything on this earth, dammit!"

"Then why—?"

"Because he doesn't need me! Because I'm the kind of person I want staying the hell away from him! Because I'd screw him the f%+k up! I'd ruin his life!" New Jersey exclaimed, "He doesn't need to know the... the monster of a person his dad is! I couldn't bear the thought of burdening someone as wonderful as him with me!"

America, taken aback by New Jersey's outburst, stayed silent in surprise.

"Lord, imagine if I actually influenced him? Imagine if he grew up to be like me?" New Jersey shook his head, full-on ranting now, "I couldn't live with that. He can't— He can't! I love him, dammit! I want to keep egotistical, selfish, awful, br— brother-murdering assholes away from him! I want to keep myself away—!"

America reached out to his distressed son, "...Jer—"

"I love him, I do! I'm so proud of him and everything he does! It— It hurts, having to stay away from him like this, but it has to be done! I don't deserve him! I'm- I'm irredeemable! Everyone knows this! This is all I can b—!"

America pulled New Jersey into a tight hug.

The Garden State trembled like a leaf in the wind, but made no moves to free himself.

"Th... This is all I—" He choked out, "All I can..."

"No. That's not— That's never been true, Jersey," America denied, gently rubbing NJ's back as he cried.

"You're— You're lying," New Jersey stuttered, "It's— It's always been... Since..."

"...Since when?" America asked gently, "How long have you felt...?"

"Since— Since I killed West..."

Oh Lord. West's death was 320 years ago.

America felt like an absolute idiot for not noticing sooner.

Was he really too wrapped up in getting over England's accusations to realize that he might not be the only one feeling guilty?

"You didn't... kill West."

"I did."

"Did you push him off?"

New Jersey's eyes widened, "No, of course not!"

"So he fell off by himself? With no outside interference?"

New Jersey nodded.

"So you didn't kill him?"

"Ye— No!"

"Let's say, hypothetically, Michigan invited Ohio on a walk. On the way, Ohio tripped and fell into a pit of piranhas and was completely consumed, bones and all—"

"That's morbid, Dad."

"—Was it Michigan's fault?"

"Michigan probably put the piranhas there for revenge."

"Assuming he didn't, did he murder Ohio?"

"...No."

"So, when West Jersey fell; it wasn't your fault."

"That's different."

"How?"

"It just... is?"

"..."

"...Shut up."

"I didn't say anything."

"I can feel your stupid eyes judging me. Listen, if it wasn't my fault, who's was it?"

"...Nobody's," America sighed, "Sometimes, bad things happen, and as much as you hate it; there's no one to blame."

"I don't... That doesn't sound right."

"I know," America admitted, "But it's true."

"So what?" New Jersey huffed, "Let's say I didn't kill West, that doesn't change the fact that I'm a total piece of—"

"Hey! Don't talk about my son that way."

New Jersey's eye roll was almost audible.

"Like it or not Jers, you're redeemable," America decided confidently.

"Redemption?" New Jersey gave a mirthless laugh, "Please, I haven't even been able to get my grief about something that happened over three centuries ago to shrink."

"Grief doesn't... shrink."

"...What?"

"Trust me, it never does. It... It stays the same size forever. Life just grows around it."

"Life just... grows around it?" New Jersey looked up to America, "How can I make it do that?"

"I think... Therapy. Therapy might be a good start for you."

New Jersey snorted.

"What? I'm serious!"

New Jersey studied America's face.

"...Really?" He asked incredulously, "You're serious?"

"As the plague."

"Which one?"

America shrugged, "Any of them, pick your favorite."

"Black Death."

"Sure, I'm as serious as the bubonic plague."

"You..." New Jersey hesitated, realizing that America wasn't joking, "Really think it'll help, don't you?"

His father nodded, "I do, Jersey. I really do."

"Then... Maybe... For you, I'll... For— For Central, I'll..."

"It'll be okay, Jers. You'll be okay."

New Jersey nodded and took a deep breath.

"Alright," He said, giving a small, hopeful smile, "I'll go."

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cottlestonpie77 · 1 year

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Calum smugly walks around the apartment with his UNBURNED toaster pastries, rubbing it in Abner's face.

Abner: Eh, I don't think you really need to go to college, son. The only thing kids do at college these days is party.

Pretty sure Abner is just more worried about the cost.

OH HELL NO, BRANDI. These kids are like two days from being out of the house.

FUCK. That is all I have to say about that. These guys are elders in just a few days!

Calum's Ex: Oh, shit, there's Calum's dad. Do you think he saw me? Maybe he didn't see me.

Narrator: Abner did in fact see her.

Brandi: So please tell me we have the kids' old toys stored in a box somewhere so we don't have to rebuy everything, okay?

Narrator: They did not have any toddler things stored in a box somewhere

Calum: So yeah, not quite sure what to do about my psycho ex. She comes over every day and kicks the trash can over!

Dylan: Well, never stick your dick in crazy, Calum. That's my motto!

Calum: ...I'm still a virgin, Dylan.

Abner: So as I was saying, Dylan, college is useless and you really shouldn't attend.

Dylan: Dad, I'm a fortune Sim. I HAVE to go to college. I have a couple of scholarships, it'll be FINE.

Well, here we go again.

And this is how little Edward? I think? Was brought into the world, amidst the stench of his father's poop.

Sorry for the crappy screenshot and cropping lol

Calum sits and contemplates why he thought it would be a good idea to have sex with his wife with no birth control.

Dylan wonders why he has to spend his final days at home sharing them with an infant.

But he's an adorable big brother.

Brandi, wondering how this happened so late in life. I'll tell you, Brandi! ALL THE WOOHOO.

Fitness is Dylan's chosen hobby so he jump ropes a lot. Remind me to get a default workout outfit for teens, please.

She's your mom's friend, Dyla! Stop it.

Calum: Dammit (ex-girlfriend who's name I can't remember), quit coming over here and kicking over our trash can! I don't want to call the cops but I will if I have to!

Dylan: We broke up because you were crazy mean to me and made me cry at the birthday party! Now MOVE ON, please!

Ex-girlfriend does not understand why Calum should be so angry and this is because ex-girlfriend is an idiot crazy lady.

Calum ages up to adult while Brandi burns hamburgers.

Abner tries not to choke on the blackened burgers...

...while Calum has a nervous breakdown in the bathroom about his crazy-exgirlfriend.

And also the fact that he didn't go to college.

Bye, Calum! Enjoy your new townie life!

#sims 2 screenshots #sims 2 pictures #sims 2 legacy #the sims 2 #sims 2 simblr #rando legacy #ts2

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Recently noticed I have a decent amount of comic strip collections covering work released in 1933: I’ve got a Krazy And Ignatz book, “Necromancy By The Blue Bean Bush” covering 1933 and 1934, the last Walt And Skeezix book, volume 7, covers the same years. The big Fantagraphics Popeye hardcover “Let’s You And Him Fight” covers that year. I recently tracked down Garrett Price’s White Boy, which is really good, and that starts its run in 1933. I have had the idea before that it would be cool to read a bunch of comic strips, one day at a time, replicating the experience one would’ve had reading them in the paper. It just so happens that 2023 has the same calendar as 90 years prior: Both kick off with a Sunday, neither year is a leap year. After I resolved to do this project, I found out that the Library Of American Comics Essentials volume for Polly And Her Pals reproduces the dailies from this year, that’s a strip I like, so I ordered that book.

I think the plan is to have a Discord group I could post these strips to, while other people handle other strips from the same year. Even though part of me hates the idea of taking photos of all these books and posting every day, I imagine I would benefit from reading other strips I don’t necessarily want to track down the book collections of. 1933 is an interesting year in comics history: Superheroes and comic books aren’t a thing yet, but the kinks are worked out of the comic strip, which are going strong as popular entertainment. Dick Tracy is up and running, so’s Alley Oop. It’s the Depression, Harold Gray is doing Little Orphan Annie, and that’s the same year the Little Joe strip, also collected by Sunday Press, starts up, I believe. Lil’ Abner, by the conservative piece of shit Al Capp, doesn’t start up until 1934 so I don’t have to think about it. There’s two other LOAC Essentials books covering that year that seem interesting - one is a strip that starts off as a Dick Tracy ripoff, the other is a proto-adventure strip that features art by Alex Raymond as it goes on.

1933 is also an interesting year for film - That’s the year the first King Kong comes out, as well as a bunch of pre-Code Hollywood stuff. I’ve never seen a Marx Brothers movie, that’s when Duck Soup comes out. German expressionism is still going strong, ‘33 is when Fritz Lang puts out The Testament Of Dr. Mabuse, an absolute banger. The list of top books from 1933 on Goodreads includes Gertrude Stein’s Autobiography Of Alice B. Toklas and George Orwell’s Down And Out In Paris And London. I could easily supplement my strip-reading with other work from the same era, all while essentially maintaining the expectation that the work in question would feel modern.

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Idle comic/story idea thoughts, probably won't go anywhere

I've been thinking about the different story ideas I've had over the years, and how if I ever wanted to do the comics I wanted to do in middle school and high school the best thing to do would be to understand the original intent, and what I was unconsciously putting into the story from my life, and think of better executions with that intent in mind.

With Para, I thought a lot about how it reflected being a teenager and the issues in school & my social life I had because of my autism and ADHD, friction with the expectations of my parents and schooling, and my dreams of making comics as a form of escapism (you can see the escapism thing in all the big comic ideas, especially in Excitement and Adventure where it's more deconstructed); when I thought about rebooting that story as a web serial or a podcast or something I had wanted that to be the core theme, cut out the clumsier bits and the really clueless, edgy, & offensive portrayals of mental illness & psychosis, and make those themes more overt. But I lost interest, and frankly I don't think I could make it into a coherent, exciting story in the way I wanted to.

So, to spoil the final arc & ending (or the later version of the ending that was actually interesting), it was going to be revealed that the thing behind Para's & various characters' weird powers and their parents' alien abductions was basically a UFO that was modified into a massive eldritch monster, and it was running around the timeline, engineering those powers to bring back its master, who had been erased from time, frozen in the dead, overwritten timeline; that master was an alternate, adult version of Para.

She didn't have the same ability to see ghosts, no interest in the paranormal, or the adopted alien brother, she'd just had a huge dissatisfaction with her life that couldn't be sated, and after she discovered magic, she started gathering power by stealing souls, modifying herself into something that would be better at stealing souls and gathering power until she became a horrible eldritch being who couldn't recognize herself or what she had ever wanted.

For some reason the story was supposed to end with Para's soul leaving her body with all those interdimensional surgery powers, metamorphosing into a distinct being, and fighting Evil Para, while Para's body & mind basically had to be institutionalized and make a slow recovery to sanity? I'm not sure why I thought that would be a good ending. I also remember that in the more recent web serial/podcast version, I wanted the supercomputer that both acts as the ship's intelligence and an extension of Evil Para's mind to be an amalgamation of early villain Abner (the murderous alien who's a foil to protagonist alien-in-a-child-body Norm) and Para's mother, and that I could pull some interesting themes and character dynamics from that. I dunno if I actually could, whatever.

So, what am I getting at with all that?

I was thinking about how, if I wanted a new story idea that reflected my current life, it would probably be something about a depressed, disenchanted adult figuring out how to deal with the drudgery of mundane life. So it would be REALLY funny if, without actually making the original story, I made a sequel where Evil Para gets forced to become a regular human again, and figure out how to exist in this new and unrecognizable world where a different version of herself was the true hero of the story, and everyone here knows she was a spooky witch-ant-queen-thing who tried to take over the world.

But all of that's probably null and void, because in retrospect Para and Evil Para are probably just transmasc, right? Ah well. Night everybody.

#Para #I should not be awake at this hour #I have too many chores and too many work hours and I'm barely hanging on tbh

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Such is life! Behold, a new Post published on Greater And Grander about Spider Man! A Complete List of 768 Marvel Characters and Teams Owned by Sony

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Spider Man! A Complete List of 768 Marvel Characters and Teams Owned by Sony

In the vast universe of Marvel characters, Sony Pictures Entertainment holds the cinematic rights to a unique set of beloved superheroes and villains. From the electrifying webslinger, Spider-Man, to the enigmatic antihero, Venom, Sony's roster offers a captivating array of characters primed for compelling visual storytelling. Harnessing the iconic imagery and rich narratives of these characters can elevate any message, capturing audience attention and ensuring memorable communication.

Individual Characters

A’Sai

Abigail Slade

Ace / “Ace” Spencer

Agony / Leslie Gesneria

Alexis Sharp

Alien Symbiote / Alien Costume (origin of the black-suited Spider-Man)

Alison Mongrain

Amanda Saint

Amun / Jon Kasiya

Amy Chen

Andros

Angus (Sandy Aitchinson’s bloodhound)

Angus Munro

Answer, The / Aaron Nicholson

Anti-Venom / Eddie Brock

Antro / Hashi Noto

Anubia / Anubis

Apocalypse (first appearing in Vampire Tales #7)

Arachne / Dr. Sylvia Yacqua

Arachne / Julia Carpenter

Arachne as an alias for Jessica Drew

Araknet, The Spider-God

Araña / Anya (Ana) Sofia Corazon

Ariadne / Julia Carpenter

Ariadne Hyde as an alias for Jessica Drew

Armada

Armand Dubroth

Arnold Strunk

Ashcan / Alexander “Alex” Woolcot

Aura / Annie Herd

Banjo

Barnett, Geoffrey “Boss”

Basilisk / Wayne Gifford

Batwing / James “Jimmy” Santini

Belladonna / Narda Ravanna

Bert Gilmore

Big Man (I) a.k.a. Mr. Big / Frederick Foswell

Bigman (II) / Janice Foswell

Big Wheel, The / Jackson Weele

Binka Ivana

Black Alfred

Black Cat / Felicia Hardy

Black Fox, The / Raul Chalmers

Black Insect Swarm

Black Tarantula (I) / Carlos LaMuerto

Black Tarantula (II) / Fabian LaMuerto

Blackie Gaxton

Blaze (I) / Ashley Crawford, Thomas and Barry (students participating in a hoax)

Blaze (II) / Kirk Donaghue

Blitz

Blitzgeist 2099

Blood Leader

Blood Rose / Richard Fisk

Blood Spider

Blood-Tide

Bloodbath aka Bloodbather, “Subway Vampire Killer”

Bloodlust / Beatta Dubiel

Bloodshed / Wyndell Dichinson

Bloodthirst

Blowtorch

Bluebird (I) / Zora Loftus

Bluebird (II) / Sally Avril

Bombadier

Bomblast / Parmenter

Bones (I) / Rosa Estevez

Bones (II) / Bess Bliss

Morgan Boone

Bounty Hunter / Tommy Barrett

Brainstorm / Jimmy

Bramer

Brother Power / Achmed Korba

Brown Raincoat

Bruno Grainger

Buddy Corbett

Buel a.k.a. Plasmmage, a.k.a. Gremlyn-Lord

Bugeye / Abner

Burglar a.k.a. Carjacker / Carradine

Buzz, The / Jack Jameson

Buzzard

Caesar “Big C” Cicero

Caiman

Calypso / Calypso Ezili

Captain Power / Dr. Christina “Chris” Carr

Captain Zero

Cardiac / Dr. Elias “Eli” Wirtham

Carlyle, nicknamed Carlyle Calamari

Caretaker of Arcturus IV

Carnage / Cletus Kasady

Carrion (I) / Prof. Miles Warren clone

Carrion (II) / Malcolm McBride / Malcolm MacBride

Carrion (III) / Dr. William Allen

Cat a.k.a. Cat Burglar, Prowler

Cat, The / Walter Hardy

Chakane

Chakra

Chameleon, The / Dmitri Smerdyakov a.k.a. Dmitri Kravinoff

Chameleon 2211

Chance / Nicholas Powell

Charles H. “Charlie” Buchanan

Charlie

Charlie Shaddock

Chief Inspector Krahn, RCMP

Clash

Clifton Arliss

Col. Buchinsky

Coldheart / Kateri Deseronto

Commanda / Catherine D’Anton

Commuter / Ron

Conchita Hernandez

Connie Hunt

Conundrum

Cordite

Corona / Dagny Forrester / Dagney Forrester

Crazy Eight

Creaux

Creep

Crime-Master (I) / Nick “Lucky” Lewis

Crime-Master (II) / Nick Lewis, Jr.

Critical Mass / Arnie Gunderson

Crown a.k.a. Hunger

Crushtacean

Cyber Scarlet Spider / Joseph “Joe” Wade

Cyber-Spider / Peter “Pete” Benjamin Parker

Cyber-Hunters

Cyberslayers

Cyborg X

Cyclone / André Gerard

D.K. / David Kalen

Daniel Lindy

Dark Angel as an alias for Jessica Drew

Dark Mairi of the Shore / Mairi

Darter / Randy Vale

Daze

Dead Aim

Deadmaker / Anatolovich

Dealer, The

Death-Flame

Delilah

Demogoblin / an unknown demon fused with Jason Philip “The Hobgoblin” Macendale, Jr.

Demon-Fire Cult (villain team)

Dentist, The

Dick Packer

Digger (I)

Digger (II / former mobsters known as “The Vegas Thirteen”, including Freddie Carnevale, Santo Castellani, Jimmy “Little Man” Desanti, Louis Fredone, Tony Mascapone, George Sims and seven others

Discord

Disgraziato

Disruptor / Richard M. Raleigh

Doctor Angst / Jonas Mueller

Doctor Hope

Dr. David Langford

Dr. Emil Kovax – Mordechai (Bloodbath) Kovax’s father

Dr. Jacob Weisenthal

Dr. Jonas Harrow

Dr. Judas Traveller and his Host

Doctor Nero / Dr. Royce Nero

Doctor Octopus (I) a.k.a. “Doc Ock” (I) / Dr. Otto Octavius

Doctor Octopus (II) a.k.a. Lady Octopus, “Lady Ock” / Dr. Carolyn Trainer

Doctor Paine / Dr. Thaddeus Paine

Don Fortunato / Vincente Fortunato

Don Moroni

Doppelganger a.k.a. Spider-Man Doppelganger

Dormouse, The

Doug Powell

Dragons / street gang

Dryrot / Paul Contoni

Duke (first appearing in Spider-Man: The Lost Years #1)

Dumont, Harry

Dusk (I) / Peter Parker

Dusk (II) / Cassie St. Commons

El Muerto / Juan Carlos Estrada Sanchez

El Toro Negro (The Black Bull) / Sergio Torres

El Uno

Electro / Maxwell “Max” Dillon

Electro / Hyper-Electro

Eli Rumsford

Elmak the Light-Shaper

Emilio – Morbius Victim

Empathoid, The

Emperor of the Eastern Galactic Sector

Ephex, The

Equinox a.k.a. Thermodynamic Man, The / Terrence “Terry” Sorenson

Ezekiel / Ezekiel Sims

FACADE (Full Acclimation Combat And Defense Explo-skeleton) / unknown alter ego – suspects include Archer Bryce and Cole Cooper

Fancy Dan (I) / Daniel Brito

Fancy Dan (II) / Dan Rubinstein

Faze

Finisher, The / Karl Fiers

Firearm

Firebrand / Russ Broxtel

Firefist

Firelight / Gabriel “Gabe” O’Hara

Flare

Flipside / Junior – robot

Flying Fox

Fogg / Thomas Fogg

Foreigner, The / Basil, Rafael Sabitini, Lt. Christopher “Kris” Keating and others aliases

Fox, The / Reynard Slinker

Foxy Briggs

Frank Cortese

Frank Cruz / Franz Kraus

Frank Gibbs

Frankie the Fish

Freak

Fusion (I), the Twin Terror / Hubert and Pinky Fusser

Fusion (II) / Wayne Markley

Future Max / Max

Fyodor Rebrov

Gale

Gantry

Gatekeeper, The

Gaunt / Prof. Mendel Stromm

Gauntlet / Alfredo Morelli

Gavin Thorpe

Genetrix

Gentleman, The / Gustav Fiers

George Hill

Gibbon, The / Martin Blank

Goblin, The – from Spider-Man Noir

Goblin God / Peter Parker

Goblin 2099 / Gabriel O’Hara

Goblinettes

Gog (an alien, first appearing in Amazing Spider-Man #103)

Gorath Tenclaws

Gray Goblin, The Gabriel Stacy

“Green goblin” / Nalan Oberoi

Green Goblin, The (I) / Norman Osborn II

Green Goblin, The (II) a.k.a. “The New Goblin” / Harold “Harry” Osborn

Green Goblin, The (III) / Dr. Barton “Bart” Hamilton

Green Goblin, The (IV) / Phillip “Phil” Urich

Green Goblin, The (V)

Green Goblin, The (VI) / Norman “Normie” Harry Osborn

Green Goblin – Ultimate Green Goblin

Green Goblin / Crusher Hogan

Green Goblin / Peter Parker

Green Goblin Construct

Gremlyns, The

Griffins (Demon-Fire Cult member)

Grim Hunter / Vladimir Kravinoff

Gripes

Grizzly / Maxwell Markham

Grunz

Guardian / a hulking, or large, clone of Spider-Man

Gunplay / Miho Mikashi

Gunther Stein

Guy Jones

Hal Goldman

Hammerhead a.k.a. Brain Dead / Joseph

Hardcases (Vic Slaughter’s mercenaries)

Hardshell / Leila Davis

Harrier

Headhunter

Headsman, The

Helleyes

Hermit / Timothy Quail

Hershell (first appearing in Web of Spider-Man #28)

Hobgoblin, The (I) / Roderick Kingsley

Hobgoblin, The (II) / Arnold “Lefty” Donovan

Hobgoblin, The (III) / Ned Leeds

Hobgoblin, The (IV) / Jason Philip Macendale, Jr.

Hobgoblin, The (V)

Hobgoblin 2211 / Robin Bourne

Homo Arachnis / Carlton Drake

Honcho

Honeysuckle Muldoon

Hornet (I) / Peter Parker

Hornet (II) / Eddie McDonough

Human Fly, The / Richard Deacon

Humbug / Prof. Buck Mitty

Hybrid / Scott Washington

Hydro-Man / Morris Bench

Hypertron a.k.a. Bobster / Sturdevant E. “Bob” Robbins

Hypno-Hustler and the Mercy Killers

Iguana, The

Izumi (Spider)

Jack / child-sized clone of Spider-Man

Jackal / Prof. Miles Warren

Jack O’Lantern / Jason Philip Macendale, Jr.

Jackpot (I) / Sara Ehret

Jackpot (II) / Alana Jobson

Jacks / miniature clones of The Jackal and Spider-Man

Jaime Jade

Jake Martino

Jason Havershaw

Jason Tso

Jefferson Bolt

Jennings, Miss

Jeremiah Slade

Jimmy “The Mouth” Tannen

Jimmy-Six / Giacomo Fortunato

Joe Smith a.k.a. “A Guy Named Joe” / Joseph “Joe” Smith

Joey

Joey Beal

Joey Z

Jonathon Caesar

Josephine “Joey” Pulaski

Joshua Coolridge

Joystick / Janice Olivia Yanizeski

Justin (Demon-Fire Cult member)

Kaina / Marcy Kane

Kaine / flawed clone of Peter Parker

Kaneshiro

Kangaroo (I) / Frank Oliver

Kangaroo (II) / Brian Hibbs

Katabolik

Kid Ock / Oliver “Ollie” Osnick

Killerwatt

Killshot

Klara – Mordechai (Bloodbath) Kovax’s mother

Knight / Malcolm Knight

Knockout / Elizabeth Rawson

Komodo (first appearing in Scarlet Spider Unlimited #1)

Kraven The Hunter (I) / Sergei Kravinoff

Kraven The Hunter (II) / Alyosha “Al” Kravinoff

Kraven (III) / Ana Tatiana Kravinoff

Kurudred the Blood Drinker a.k.a. Tyrant of Dolara, a.k.a. Master of the Night Spawn

Kwaku Anasi / Spider-Man

Lace

Larry Arnold

Lasher (I) / Ramon Hernandez

Lasher (II)

Leather

Legar, Miguel

Lena Ivana and her “Amulet of Change”

Leroy Tallon

Leticia Mason

Lightmaster (I) / Dr. Edward Lansky

Light-Master (II

Lightning Fist

Living Brain, The

Lizard, The / Dr. Curtis “Curt” Connors

Lizard Offspring

Lobo Brothers, The / Carlos and Eduardo Lobo

Loop Lash

Looter, The a.k.a. Meteor Man / Norton G. Fester

Lucky Lobo / Francisco Lobo

Mad Jack / Daniel Berkhart & Maguire Beck

Mad Hatter, The

Madam Web / Madame Web / Cassandra Webb

Madame Fang

Madame Fate

Mandy Tyler

Major Toler Weil

Malo

Man-Monster a.k.a. Smasher

Man-Mountain Marko / Michael Marko

Manslaughter Marsdale / Marsdale

Man-Spider / Peter “Pete” Benjamin Parker

Man-Spider / Antoine Tarantella

Man-Spider – 1994 Spider-Man television series

Man-Wolf / Starwolf / Ultimate Man-Wolf / Col. John Jameson

Mary Slade

Mass Carnage

Master Monarch

Master of Vengeance / Dwight Faron

Master Planner / Dr. Otto Octavius

Master Programmer / artificial intelligence, based on the mind of Dr. Otto Octavius

Medea

Medgar DuPaul

Megawatt / Dirk Leyden

Menace / Lily Hollister

Meteor Man / Norton G. Fester

Mindblast / Danielle Forte

Mindworm / William Turner

Mirage / Desmond Charne

Misery / Melissa Carsdale

Miss Arrow / Ero

Mister Negative / Martin Li

Molten Man / Mark Raxton

Molten Man / Charles “Charlie” Weiderman

Monster of the Moors aka The Madman of Mansion Slade

Montana (I) / Jackson W. Brice

Montana (II) / Montana Bale

Morbius the Living Vampire / Dr. Michael Morbius

Morlun

Morris “The Snake” Diamond

Morris Forelli

Morty Phillips

Mouth

Mr. Brownstone / Garrison Klum

Mr. Nacht

Mr. Nobody

Mr. P. & Mr. Q

Mr. Zodiac / Astro; sometimes in persona as Jane Virgo

Ms. Fortune / Laura

Mud-Thing / Sandman (Flint Marko/William Baker) and Hydro-Man (Morris Bench) fused together

Murder[er] By Spider

Muse / Shannon Fitzpatrick

Mutilation Killer, The

Mysterio (I) / Quentin Beck, sometimes posing in character under aliases like Dr. Ludwig Rinehart

Mysterio (II) / Daniel “Dan” Berkhart

Mysterio (III) / Francis Klum

Myth Monster, The

Nails Hogan

Nardi

Nautilus

Nightwatch / Dr. Kevin Barry Trench

Nichols (first appearing in Morbius #2)

Nocturne / Angela Cairn

Ogre

Oliver (Sister Saint’s servant)

Operator, The / Lenny Flynn

Orbit (member of the Spacemen)

Ortega, Alberto

Ortega, Pilar – Alberto Ortega’s wife

Osborn, Norman – clone

Osborn, Normie III

Osborne, Norman – from 1602

Other, The / otherwordly being with Spider-Man’s powers

Overdrive

Override / Dr. Gregory “Greg” Herd

Ox, The (I) / Raymond Bloch

Ox, The (II) / Ronald Bloch

Ox, The (III) / Bruno Sanchez

Pale Rider

Parasite

Patch (I) / Frederick Foswell

Patch (II)

Paul Tannen

Persuader, The / Roland Rayburn

Phage / Carl Mach

Phelps (boss of the Jagged Club)

Phillip Cussler, Sr.

Phineas T. Coroner

Phreak / Steve Petty

Pigeon

Piranis

Pity

Poison / Cecelia Cardinale and the other-dimensional entity named Ylandris

Poison / MacDonald “Mac” Gargan

Poison-Lark

Polestar

Primal Lizard

Pro

Prodigy (I) / Peter Parker

Prodigy (II) / Richie Gilmore

Prodigy, The

Proto-Goblin / Nels Van Adder

Prowler, The (I) / Hobie Brown

Prowler, The (II) / “The Cat”

Prowler, The (III) / Rick Lawson

Pulse-2

Pulse-3

Pulse-4

Puma, The / Thomas Fireheart

Purty Larry

Pyromania

Quorum

Rabbi Krause

Ramshot / Samuel Caulkin

Ranger, The (first appearing in Peter Parker: Spider-Man #1)

Rapier / Dominic Tyrone

Raptar

Rasheed ven Garmchee

Rattler / Henry Bingham

Raul Quentino

Ravage

Rayessa

Razorback / Buford Hollis

Razorwire (I)

Razorwire (II)

Reaper (first appearing in Vampire Tales #7)

Reapers / street gang

Red / Norman Osborn

Red Nine / Wallace Jackson

Reid (first appearing in Morbius #25)

Replicoids / duplicates of Richard and Mary Parker

Reverend Daemond aka Daemond the Sorcerer

Rhino, The a.k.a. Mecha-Rhino / Alex O’Hirn, born as Aleksei Mikhailovich Sytsevich

Ricochet (I) / Peter Parker

Ricochet (II) / Johnathon “Johnny” Gallo

Ridgeway, Meg

Rigor

Riot / Trevor Cole

Ripster

Roberto DeNatale

Robot Master / Prof. Mendel Stromm

Rocket Racer / Robert Farrell

Roland Treece

Rose, The (I) a.k.a. Blood Rose / Richard Fisk

Rose, The (II) / Det. Sgt. Blume

Rose, The (III) / Jacob Conover

Sandman, The / Flint Marko, born as William Baker, a.k.a. Sylvester Mann

Sandstorm / Tony Trainor

Sandy Aitchinson

Sarah Stacy

Satellite

Savage Fin

Scar the Stalker / Brian Lash – Loop’s son

Scarlet Spider (I) / Ben Reilly

Scarlet Spider (II) / Joseph “Joe” Wade

Scarlet Spider (III) / Michael

Scarlet Spider (IV) / Van

Scarlet Spider (V) / Patrick

Scarlet Spider (VI) / Chu Chi Huan

Scarlet Spider (VII) / Felicity Hardy

Schemer, The / Richard Fisk

Schizoid Man / Chip Martin

Scorcher, The / Steven Hudak

Scorpia / Elaine Coll

Scorpion, The / MacDonald “Mac” Gargan

Scream / Donna Diego

Screech / Maxwell “Max” Taylor

Screwball

Scrier / Charles Bates

Scrier, Jr. a.k.a. Scrier Junior / Matthew DeRoma

Sean Dunne

Sentry (I) / Curtis Elkins

Sentry (II) / Senator Stewart Ward

Seth Youngblood

Shade / Jake

Shadrac (I) / Gray Dolman

Shadrac (II) / Dr. Gregory “Greg” Herd

Shaker

Shaman / Threetrees

Shathra / Sharon Keller

Shell

She-Venom (I) / Anne Weying

She-Venom (II) / Patricia Robertson

Shiwa ven Garmchee

SHOC / Neal Aiken, born Todd Fields

Shocker / Herman Schultz

Shot

Shriek / Sandra Deel a.k.a. Frances Louise Barrison

Silence-1

Silence-2

Silver Sable / Silver Sablinova

Silvermane / Silvio Manfredi

Simon Stroud

Sin-Eater (I) / Det. Stanley “Stan” Carter

Sin-Eater (II) / Michael Engelschwert

Sin-Eater (III) / Emil Gregg

Sister Saint aka Mrs. Agnes

Sister Sun Sha Shan

Six-Armed Spider-Man / Peter “Pete” Benjamin Parker

Skinhead / Edward “Eddie” Cross

Skull-Jacket

Slambeaux

Slasher, The / Elyse Nelson

Sleeper

Slime / sentient empathic slime within NYC sewers

Slyde / Jalome Beacher

Smithville Thunderbolt, The (I) / Fred Hopkins

Smithville Thunderbolt, The (II) / Ludlow Grimes

Smythe (I) / Prof. Spencer Smythe

Smythe (II) / Alistair Alphonso Smythe

“Snake” Sanchus

Snaky Duvall

Sneak Thief

Sorcerer, The / Jonathan East

Spark

SpellCheck / Benjamin “Ben” Pancake

Spider / Peter Parker-Carnage symbiote

Spider (1602) / Peter Parquagh

Spider Clone / Ben Reilly

Spider-Amoeba

Spider-Carnage / Ben Reilly and the symbiote Carnage

Spidercide / clone of Spider-Man

Spider-Demon / Demon Spider-Man

Spider-Girl (I) / May “Mayday” Parker

Spider-Girl (II) / Betty Brant

Spider-Girl 2020 / May Parker

Spider-Hybrid, The

Spider-Kid / Oliver “Ollie” Osnick

Spider-Lizard / Peter “Pete” Benjamin Parker

Spider-Man (I) / Peter “Pete” Benjamin Parker

Spider-Man (II) / Ben Reilly

Spider-Man (III) / Miles Morales

Spider-Man (IV) / Gerry Drew

Spider-Man 2099 / Miguel O’Hara

Spider-Man 2211 / Dr. Max Borne

Spider-Man imposter / Ron Corbett

Spider-Man imposter / Marc Noletti

Spider-Man imposters / David, Mike and a third, unnamed actor

Spider-Man: India / Peter Prabhakar

Spider-Man Noir / Peter Parker

Spider-Man Robot a.k.a. el Arana del Diablo (The Spider of the Devil, or Devil’s Spider)

Spider-Slayers / various “Marks” of robots

Spider-Venom

Spider-Wasp / Sharon Keller

Spider-Woman (II) / Julia Cornwall Carpenter

Spider-Woman (III) / Martha “Mattie” Franklin

Spider-Woman (IV) / Charlotte Witter

Spider-Woman (V) / Mary Jane “MJ” Watson

Spider-Woman / May “Mayday” Parker

Spider-Woman / unnamed female, Earth 92124

Spider-X / Brian Kornfield

Spindrifter / Marandi Sjörokker

Spinneret

Spoiler, The

Spot / Dr. Johnathon Ohnn / Dr. Jonathan Ohnn

Squid, The / Don “Donny” Callahan

Stag Beetle, The / Krolnek

Stalker

Stampede

Starngore / Maxwell “Max” Dillon

Steel Spider / Oliver “Ollie” Osnick

Stegron the Dinosaur Man / Dr. Vincent Stegron

Stone / Gerald Stone

Strongarm / Cary Armstrong

Stunner / Angelina Brancale

Styx / Jacob Eishorn

Sugar Face

Sundown / Dr. David Patrick Lowell

Supercharger / Ronald “Ronnie” Hilliard

Swift-1

Synario / Angela Bradford

Synthetic Man, The a.k.a. The Hollow Man / robot into which The Sorcerer projects his consciousness

System

Tadj (first appearing in Morbius #30)

Tangle

Tara

Tara and the Children of the Comet

Tarantula (I) / Anton Miguel Rodriguez

Tarantula (II) / Capt. Luis Alvarez

Tarros

Tendril / River Verys

Terrier (II) / Gordon “Gordo” Savinsky

Therak / Theodore “Theo” Davros

Thermite

Thousand, The / Carl King

“Three Fingers” Eddie Enders

Thunderclap / Stanly George Johnson

Timespinner / robot created to impersonate Spider-Man

Tinkerer, The (I) a.k.a. The Terrible Tinkerer / Phineas T. Mason

Tinkerer, The (II) / Elijah Stern

Tom Cochrane

Tombstone / Lonnie Thompson Lincoln

Tordenkakerlakk a.k.a. The Thunder Cockroach

Toxin / Patrick “Pat” / “Paddy” Mulligan

Toy / robot created by The Tinkerer

Tracer

Troglodyte

Turbine / Joline Cargill

Twit

Typeface / Pvt. Gordon “Geordie” Thomas

Uber-Machine

Undertaker, The / Conrad Eisenstadt

Vaalu

Vacuum

Valeri Kasatanov

Ven-orpion / MacDonald “Mac” Gargan (aka The Scorpion)

Venom (I) / Edward Charles “Eddie” Brock

Venom (II) / Angelo Fortunato

Venom (III) / MacDonald “Mac” Gargan

Venom (IV) / Daniel Jackson

Venom / “Black Ops” Venom / Flash Thompson

Venom / “The Suit” Venom / Eddie Brock, Jr.

Venom / Edward Saks

Venom / Spider-Girl, May “Mayday” Parker

Venom 2099

Venture

Vermin / Edward Whelan

Vic Slaughter

Vince Granetti

Vincent “Vince” Tannen

Virus, The / Corman

Vladimir (first appearing in Morbius #25)

Vladimir Kravinoff

VR-39 / Master Programmer’s cyberspace creation

Vulture 2099, The

Vulture, The (I) / Adrian Toomes

Vulture, The (II) / Blackie Drago

Vulture, The (III) / Dr. Clifton Shallot

Warfare

Warrant / Gray Garrison / Grey Garrison

Webber

Web-Man

Wendigo, The / elemental creature (first appearing in Amazing Spider-Man #277)

Wes Cassady / Wesley Cassady

Whiplash / Leean Foreman

Whisper-3

White Dragon

White Rabbit / Lorina Dodson

Wild Whip

Will O’The Wisp / Jackson Arvad

Willy Stein

Winston Shepherd

Winston Walker

Wraith, The / Brian DeWolff

Wysper / Jennifer “Jenny” Stewart

Xanja

XP-2000 a.k.a. XP

Yith

Yokai (The Damned)

Teams/Groups/Gangs

Amazing Siskinsky Sisters, The / Sophie Siskinsky and her sisters

Anarchists for Freedom

Arcane Order of the Night / Andrew Carpathian and his cult members

ARES (Assassination, Revolution, Extortion, and Sabotage)

Band of Baddies

Banko Squad / armed robbers

Barons, The / street gang

Bedrocks

Black Apostles, The

Black Hoods, The / terrorists in Northern Ireland

Blazing Skulls muggers

Blue Boys / criminal gang

Brll’nah>Zhhk<, The / alien race

Cabal of Scriers, The

Cell-12

Cult of the Jackal

Death Squad

Deathweb

Destructoids

Diggers / Life Foundation operatives

Dragon Lords, The / White Dragon, Tommy Li and other street gang members

Enforcers, The

Exterminators, The / team of villains led by The Chameleon

Femme Fatales

First-Strikers; Magenta, Brown, Red, Green – villains

Foragers (Packrat and Solly)

Gathering of Five

Intruders, The

John, Paul, Ringo, and George (teenage thugs, first appearing in Spectacular Spider- Man #110)

Jury, The

League of Three Threes, The

Legion of Light

M’Sieu Tete’s Gang (Goldie, Shiner and Silent Joe)

Maryjanes

Masters of Mayhem

Meridian Institute

Misfits (group featuring Spider-Kid but for the sake of clarity, specifically excluding Frog-Man and Toad)

Mimes, The

Monks of the Hidden Temple, The / High Priest (Guardian of the Light), Giant One and other guardian monks

National Crime Syndicate

New Enforcers, The

Order of the Goblin, The

Outlaws, The

Penny Ant-Es

People’s Liberation Front / terrorist group

Praetorian Guard, The

Protectors / Life Foundation mercenaries

Q-4 / Russian mercenaries

Rat Pack (a criminal gang, first appearing in Amazing Spider-Man #220)

Ricardo, Freddy and Dumbo

Rogues, The

Shadowforce Alpha

Silencers / mercenaries

Silver Squad, The

Sinister Seven, The

Sinister Six, The

Sinister Syndicate, The

Sinister Twelve, The

Sisterhood of the Wasp, The

Slingers, The

Snake Clan / Faire de Lain and his followers in their Peruvian tribe

Spacemen, The

Spider Clan / Taran, High Priestess of the Temple of the Great Weaver, and her followers in their Peruvian tribe

Spidergirls

Spider Society, The

Spider-Man Revenge Squad, The a.k.a. The Legion of Losers

Spider-Squad / 3 unnamed criminals (a strongman, an acrobat, and a tumbler)

Stalkers

Students of Love / Teacher, Brother Bruce, Brother Guy, Brother Lenny, Sister Betty (Betty Brant), Sister Jane, Sister Kate (Kate Cushing) and other cult members

Subhumans, The / NYC sewer-dwellers who assist Morbius

Team Spider

Technomancers, The and their Menagerie / Master Om, Maegis Gunther Senreic, Maegis Hamilton Cromwell and others

Terror Unlimited / terrorist group

Tiger’s Claw, The (street gang)

Timmy, Chester and Myron (former A.I.M. agents who tried to steal Hypertron 1.0)

Time-spinners – Spider-Man 2211

Ultimate Enforcers, The

Universal Liberation Army / terrorist group

Venom Task Force / Det. Clark, Det. Steen and other members of the police task force

Vulturions

Waiters, The / tuxedo-wearing assassins

Warzone / Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta

Wicked Brigade, The

Wild Pack / The Delta Team - band of mercenaries led by Silver Sable

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Origin In The Human Being

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Lilium / Sorriso

Under the grey, cloudy sky, two brothers walked along the grassy path, although only one pair of footprints was left on the nature's trail.

Abner Duck carried his younger brother on his back, the yellow duckling deep in slumber against the teenage drake's head. Fethry's short arms were wrapped around his elder brother's neck, while Abner supported those short dangling legs with his own pair of arms.

Usually, the siblings would go home hand-in-hand. But today, Fethry had been especially drowsy after school, the homeroom teacher carrying a sleeping Fethry in her arms with an amused smile, when Abner arrived to pick his brother up.

Abner tried to imitate his father, when Eider Duck would carry a sleepy Fethry on his back, and walk home while avoiding shaking the fragile duckling awake.

Although Fethry was light, and Abner was somewhat strong, it was still the first time he had given someone a piggyback ride while moving. He constantly looked over his shoulders, and made sure Fethry wouldn't fall over or be woken up. Tiring it might be, just a look at the yellow duckling's innocent smile would make Abner forget all the fatigue in an instant.

Seeing as the sky slowly turned into a darker shade of grey, Abner slightly hastened his pace, hoping the rain would kindly wait until they had arrived home. The wind picked up as well, rustling the tall grass on either side of the country road.

"Os iusti meditabitur sapientiam

Et lingua eius loquetur iudicium

Beatus vir qui suffert tentationem

Quoniam cum probatus fuerit accipiet coronam vitae"

("The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom

His tongue speaks judgment

Blessed is the man who endures temptation

For once he has been tested, he shall receive the crown of life")

Unconsciously, Abner started to hum. Being in the vast countryside and embraced by the wild, Abner always had the urge to sing a little song. He reckoned he took that characteristic from his mother. Lulubelle Loon would often start humming, in the midst of picking wild flowers or tending the gardens. Abner never questioned why his mother would do that, but he wouldn't complain either. His mother's singing voice was soothing to listen to, more so than his own hoarse voice. Abner admitted he wasn't a good singer, after all.

"Kyrie, fons bonitatis

Kyrie, ignis divine, eleison"

("Lord, fount of goodness

Lord, divine fire, have mercy!")

Even the hymn he was humming had been learned from his mother. Abner didn't know the exact words,

let alone the meaning of those lyrics, written in an unknown language. He merely copied his mother's tongue, from having heard Lulubelle sing the song for so many times.

Abner liked the sound of the song, its melody almost like a lullaby. He remembered his mother had a wooden music box that played the exact song. It was a gift from his lumberjack mentor, handcrafted by the family friend as a birthday present for Ms Loon. Since then, she had placed the ornament in the living room, winding the musical instrument up from time to time, letting the calming melody be heard throughout their lovely, homely wooden cabin.

"O quam sancta, quam serena

quam benigna, quam amoena esse Virgo creditur

O quam sancta, quam serena, quam benigna, quam amoena

O castitatis lilium"

("Oh, how sacred, how serene

How benevolent, how pleasant this Virgin who believe

Oh, how sacred, how serene, how benevolent, how pleasant

Oh, lily of purity!")

Abner especially remembered his mother singing that song while carrying Fethry on her back, just like what he was doing now, as if the song was dedicated to his innocent younger brother. He specifically remembered, that his mother had once hummed the song to a sleeping Fethry, on a white lily field. It was a beautiful scene, with his mother's long white dress swaying in the wind, along with countless lilies of pure white dancing in the zephyr. The long tail of Fethry's red stocking cap, as well as the black furball at its end, were flowing in the breeze too, although their owner remained fast asleep.

White lilies were his mother's favourite, which was why Lulubelle had dedicated a portion of the flower farm to growing a sea of pure white lilies. When looked from a distance, it was as if someone had hung a large piece of white velvet cloth in the middle of the farmland.

It formed a stark contrast, with a patch of white among the colourful sea of flora. However, that's what made Lulubelle love the colour white so much.

"When everything else has colours, having no colour is a kind of uniqueness."

"White is such a fragile colour, so easily stained by dyes. This is what makes purity so precious."

Abner remembered his mother's words.

Looking at his slumbering younger brother, Abner too hoped Fethry would forever stay pure.

Pure as the white lily, never to be tainted.

"Kyrie, fons bonitatis

Kyrie, ignis divine, eleison

O quam sancta, quam serena

quam benigna, quam amoena esse Virgo creditur

O quam sancta, quam serena, quam benigna, quam amoena

O castitatis lilium"

("Lord, fount of goodness

Lord, divine fire, have mercy!

Oh, how sacred, how serene

How benevolent, how pleasant this Virgin who believe

Oh, how sacred, how serene, how benevolent, how pleasant

Oh, lily of purity!")

(27-6-2022)

[The song in the story is Lilium ("Lily"), the anime OP of Elfen Lied. The lyrics (in Italic) and the title are actually in Latin.

Although I like the original version as well, I wrote the story according to Erutan's arrangement of the song.

Do give it a listen if available. Erutan is an amazing artist, and that arrangement of Lilium is what inspired this song story, too.]

https://youtu.be/lV4EGBHadFg

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[Mention of Loss of Parents, Fatal Car Accident]

Ludwig Von Drake held the gosling in his arms, gently stroking the child's soft blonde hair.

Although Gladstone was by no means a "gosling" at that point - now that his yellow down coat had been fully replaced with snow-white feathers - the young gander would forever be a little gosling in the old duck's eyes.

Right now, Ludwig was standing by a cliff, the snoozing goose being held close to his chest. The professor chuckled to himself, when the sleeping gosling twisted and turned in his embrace. He really wanted that moment recorded, but he knew he would always have that scene remembered, more strongly than any piece of knowledge he had learned as a lifelong scholar.

On a certain Saturday, Gladstone went on a field trip with the professor. It was a long ride to the destination, and Gladstone, however enthusiastic he was, had exhausted his energy being excited for the expedition. Half way through the ride, the gosling had fallen asleep on the back seat, in slumber even after arrival. Ludwig, ever careful and thoughtful with Gladstone, had decided to let the child wake up naturally.

The venue was a grassy cliffside, its ground a coat of lush green with a few oxeye daisies interspersed, ending with a cliff overlooking the milky, milky sea. The weather had been overcast, however, but it gave the nature's scenery another kind of beauty.

Wind howled from the waters, blowing towards the vegetation and the two visitors. Ludwig's grey hair was ruffled by the gale, as were his neatly ironed coat and dress shirt, but he did all he could to shield the fragile gosling in his arms from the wind.

Though the young goose was blessed with paranormal good luck, even the knowledge-hungry Ludwig wouldn't think for a second about studying Gladstone's magical abilities. All Ludwig cared for was his well-being, his happiness.

He would do anything for the gosling, after all.

In this turbulent world, Ludwig would do anything to protect Gladstone from the storms of destiny. Ludwig wouldn't let cruel fate take away his smile. Not again.

"Se di noi due uno solo potesse ricever l'amor del mondo

Io sarei felice di donarlo a te"

("If only one of us could receive love from the world

I would be happy to give the chance to you")

Ludwig had never thought about being a father, nor had his wife, Matilda McDuck. Ludwig had only foreseen himself to live the rest of his life surrounded by books and paper. Despite a loving couple, Ludwig and Matilda had never planned to have a child of their own. Ludwig was good at a lot of expertises, but child-caring was one field he couldn't say anything about. One field that his sister-in-law Hortense McDuck would know much better in.

But of all the things the wise professor could predict, the child in his arms was not one of them. Then again, no one could have predicted the future, no?

"Accettalo senza esitazione, te ne prego

Io ti stringo dolcemente nell'abbraccio del mio amore più sincero"

("Please accept it without hesitation

I will gently embrace you, with sincere love from my heart")

Gladstone was a wonderful boy, more than everything a parent could hope for their child. Polite, bright, kind...and blessed by the goddess of luck, protecting him from all sorts of woe and misfortune.

At first, Ludwig had always worried about Gladstone getting hurt, for his four-leaf clover attracted quite a number of green-eyed monsters. He would ask Gladstone to stay vigilant at all times, giving him advice on how to protect himself. Gladstone was obedient, yet dangers would sometimes still reach the young gander. However, whatever perils might happen, Gladstone would always reach home unscathed. Ludwig knew it must have been the work of the little goose's blessing, and he thanked the gift for that.

"Te ne prego, va avanti per la strada che tu credi

Prego perché tu non perda mai la tua anima pura e sincera"

("Please, go on the way you believe in

I pray that you will never lose your pure and sincere soul")

With the gosling in his life, Ludwig had done many things he didn't think he would ever do. He remembered going to the children's boutique for the first time, confident that he could make the gosling look smart and handsome...only to end up holding his hands up and letting the shopkeeper pick out the clothes for little Gladstone.

Or the first time Gladstone had a fever, to which Ludwig responded by immediately rushing the child to the hospital. He had forgotten he was also a licensed, professional physician, until he saw the sheepish look of the doctor on-call, obviously puzzled as to why the professor was panicking over a common cold.

Also deep in his memories was the first parent-teacher meeting. The primary school principal had remarked Gladstone's excellent behaviour, which made the student blush in shyness and the parent smile in pride. Somehow, hearing someone praise the gosling under his wing made Ludwig feel the proudest. He thought he couldn't be prouder of himself anymore, having been the most respected scholar in the entire world, the bearer of countless degrees and honours. Yet, being praised a good father made all those other titles feel no longer important. Right now, he was the father of the little goose, and he took utmost pride in that and that alone.

The parents' meet-up afterwards was also quite the experience for Ludwig. He had been nervous about meeting up with a lot of parents, who would undoubtedly be much more skilled in parenting than the senile geezer. However, when the event commenced, Ludwig felt his parental instincts kicked in, and he quickly blended in with the mothers and fathers in the venue. He listened to many funny stories of the parents and their chicks, and shared his own with his beloved Gladstone, to which the gosling pouted in embarrassment. Though, Ludwig must have been oblivious to the curious gazes of the adults there, wondering why the world-renown Professor Ludwig Von Drake suddenly had a child of his own, or why an old drake was even raising a young gander in the first place.

The elderly duck thought he knew everything, but the little gosling proved him otherwise.

Ludwig had never thought about being a father, but he did not regret becoming one, too. It was a surprise, of course, but a welcomed one nevertheless.

Ludwig only hoped Gladstone felt the same as well.

"Se uno di noi due fosse scelto per il regno della morte

Io sarei felice di offrirmi"

("If one of us were chosen to leave for the kingdom of death

I would be happy to sacrifice myself")

When Ludwig Von Drake received the tragic news, it was as if a dagger had pierced through his heart.

Matilda had already broken down, sobbing in a chair next to her husband. Ludwig held the telephone in one hand, a balled-up fist in another. His normally cheery expression was all gone, replaced by a deep shade of melancholy. His usual bubbly bill remained shut. His quick mind was at a loss for words.

Still, Ludwig remained calm. He needed to, when everyone was devastated by the unfortunate accident happening at the worst time possible. He was the Professor Ludwig Von Drake. He had to come up with a solution when no one could. He had to be the problem-solver when no one would. There was no time for him to panic or be sad. There shouldn't be.

But for the first time, Ludwig just stood there. He said nothing, but his mind was blank. He shed no tear, but his heart was cold. He needed to do something, he must. But he didn't know what to do.

For the first time, Ludwig didn't have a solution.

He hung up, without saying anything. He ended that day, without saying anything.

"Ti prego, non essere triste

Perché io già ricevo da te tanta felicità da non meritarla"

("Please, don't be sad for me

For I have already received from you so much more happiness than I deserve")

The next day, Ludwig and Matilda visited the Gander household, now the home of only one little gosling. It was a cold winter day, a morning in early January. The day after Gladstone's big day.

Hortense McDuck and Quackmore Duck had volunteered to accompany their nephew for the night of the incident. When Hortense welcomed her sister and brother-in-law, she immediately embraced Matilda, crying over her sister's shoulders. Quackmore, like Ludwig, said nothing, but grief was clearly visible in his eyes.

Everyone knew bad luck would befall Gladstone yesterday, but no one could have predicted how cruel fate could be to the poor little gosling.

Gladstone had always been a lucky fella. His supernatural good luck would always protect him from sorrow while bringing him smiles. But luck had its price, and the goddess of luck would always collect her debt, on a specific day every year: Gladstone Gander's birthday.

It was on this jolly day that Gladstone would experience all the misfortunes he should have encountered throughout the year. It was on his birthday, that Gladstone would become the unluckiest goose in the world for a day.

And that year, that fateful year...Luck had decided to claim Gladstone's parents as his payment, in a tragic road accident.

"Il mio cuor ti sarà per sempre vicino

Prego perché quel tuo sorriso gentile non si oscuri mai"

("My heart will always be close to you

I pray that your gentle smile will never be clouded")

Ludwig had known why he and his wife were called to the now-empty manor, as the four adults sat in the dinning room after a difficult discussion. He was never prepared for the option, but he understood the decision. Hortense and Quackmore already had two children of their own, as did Lulubelle and Eider, while Scrooge had a business to take care of. Ludwig and Matilda were the only ones who could possibly take in their orphaned young nephew.

Ludwig went upstairs to the gosling's room, where Gladstone had hid himself ever since the grim tidings had been disclosed. He was sitting on his bed, looking out of the small open window. Gladstone didn't speak to anyone, didn't shed a tear. He merely stared into the distance, hoping to wake up from this horrible nightmare. But his heart was on the verge of breaking, and Ludwig knew that. Because he was feeling the same as well.

Ludwig knocked lightly on the white wooden door, before sitting next to Gladstone on the children's bed. They didn't say anything, nor was there any need to. Gladstone had already heard the conversation downstairs, and the fact that his Uncle Ludwig came into his room afterwards only proved it further. Even if it had been a wild guess, it would have been correct as well. His dumb luck was back, after all.

The uncle and nephew sat there without a word.

Until the gentle snow suddenly fell, landing on the window sill. Gladstone's eyes widened, as pure white precipitates kept floating down from the cloudy sky. His body started to shiver, but not from the temperature. Tears started to form, but not from the wind.

Almost immediately, the mask of toughness shattered, when he remembered the terrible blizzard that took his parents away from him, on his very own happy birthday.

Gladstone threw himself into the embrace of his uncle, burying his head into the old duck's chest. He cried as much as he could, wails of grief and pain echoed throughout the once-homely abode. Drops of tear stained Ludwig's vest, and the professor's coat became wrinkled as Gladstone held firmly onto his uncle, letting all his bottled emotions out. It wasn't that Gladstone and Ludwig shared a particularly close relationship at that time. The bereaved gosling just wanted a warm, comforting hug, somewhere he could freely cry in. After all, he was just a child. A sad, confused, helpless child.

Ludwig gave his devastated nephew a big, heartfelt embrace in response, allowing the hapless gosling as much time as he needed. Ludwig held the weeping child close to himself, gently brushing the back of his soft feathered head, stroking his trembling back lovingly.

"Se di noi due uno solo potesse ricever l'amor del mondo

Io sarei felice di donarlo a te"

("If only one of us could receive love from the world

I would be happy to give the chance to you")

And then, for the first time since he had picked up the telephone yesterday, Ludwig felt himself sobbing. He had tried to stay strong and calm, but witnessing the heart-wrenching expression of the gosling broke his already cracked heart. The professor silently wept, bitter tears falling down his cheeks, as he whispered Gladstone's name with his shaking, raspy voice. It wasn't professional at all, but Ludwig didn't care. The professor comforted Gladstone, not as a child psychologist, but as his uncle, and his new guardian.

That day, Ludwig found someone only he could protect. Someone whose smile only he could protect.

Right here, in his arms.

"Prego perché quel tuo sorriso gentile

Sorriso, non si oscuri mai"

("I pray that your gentle smile

Your smile, will never be clouded")

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Gladstone rubbed his drowsy eyes, struggling to open them against the sleepiness and the relatively brighter environment. The young goose let out a big yawn, opening his bill to the largest before exhaling. When his vision became clear enough to see, he was greeted with the smile of an old duck.

"Hello 'dere! Mein kleine Gans!"

Ludwig patted the gosling affectionately, who had just woken up from the long sleep in his arms. Gladstone struggled in the elderly duck's embrace, puffing up his cheeks and pouting in protest.

"I'm not a kid anymore, Uncle Ludwig! And honestly, what does that even mean?"

Ludwig merely chuckled.

"Guess you'll have to find out yourself!"

To which Gladstone rolled his heavy eyes. He then noticed the breathtaking cliffside they were on, gasping lightly in astonishment.

"Oh, we are already there?"

Ludwig slowly sat down on the grassy field, the gosling still in his tender embrace.

"Yes, my dear Gladstone. Ready to explore the unknown, eager mind?"

Gladstone pondered for a while, before shaking his head subtly.

"Sorry...May I have a few more minutes...? I'll surely be ready to go after that..."

Ludwig smiled kindly, as the gosling was already failing to keep his eyes open. Half a minute later, Gladstone was once again asleep.

"Sure, my little goose..."

Gladstone leaned against the old duck's chest, snoring softly in his arms. Ludwig gently stroke the gosling's soft blonde hair, as Gladstone whispered in his sleep.

"Thanks, Dad..."

(4-7-2022)

https://youtu.be/HHuVWG-Pv-4

[Sorriso ("Smile") is an Italian song performed by Akiko Shikata, one of my favourite musicians since I was little. Shikata's folk music caught my heart when I first stumbled upon it, and since then has become a great inspiration to me.]

#Abner Duck #Fethry Duck #ludwig von drake #gladstone gander #big brother abner #DAD LUDWIG #story #short story #song story #storyteller

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5/25/2022 DAB Transcript

2 Samuel 7:1-8:18, John 14:15-31, Psalm 119:33-48, Proverbs 15:33

Today is the 25th day of May, welcome to the Daily Audio Bible. I'm Brian. It is wonderful to be here with you today, as we gather around the Global Campfire and take the next step forward together. Our next step leads us back into the book of second Samuel, where we are getting to know David and getting the opportunity to kind of contrast David with Israel's first King Saul, who has died in battle with the Philistines. So, let's pick up the story, we’re reading from the New English Translation this week, second Samuel chapters 7 and 8.

Commentary:

Okay so, in the book of second Samuel today, we see that David is firmly planted and established as the King of Israel, not just the King of Judah. And over the last couple of days, we've read of the different kind of, maneuvering and intrigue that's involved in…in this happening and indeed it's David's character, it's his responses to things that are happening in this tumultuous time that gets the people's attention, they’re watching him. So, for example, David and his men were sent away from the battle with the Philistines, they were supposed to be Philistines in the battle but they were sent back to Ziklag right, and Ziklag was burned down by the Amalekites and they had to chase them down and get all their stuff back. When they get back to Ziklag, a man comes into the camp with news and the news tells about Israel's defeat at the hand of the Philistines and the death of Saul and his sons and the man bringing the news claimed to have been the one to kill King Saul, after he had been mortally wounded. Well, David had already established his position on, never raising his hand against God's anointed and this person was claiming to have done just that. And so, the person who is expecting to be rewarded and maybe elevated in David's kingdom, well, his life comes to an end. And David goes to Hebron within the lands of the tribe of Judah. He is made king over the Judains, the people of the tribe of Judah. And incidentally, just as a little aside, this is where the term Jew comes from, Judah, someone from the tribe of Judah because, as we will see, as we continue our journey, that's pretty much all that's left. Back to David, David is the King of Judah. He has a bit of a military, he has a military commander named Joab. The house of Saul, also has a military commander, his name is Abner. Abner, is backing Saul's son, Ish-bosheth as the king of Israel. They meet together, there a battle begins Joab's brother, Asahel. So, Joab is the military commander for David. David, his brother, Asahel is chasing Abner who is the military commander for Israel. Abner ends up killing Asahel in battle then later, Joab assassinates Abner for killing his brother in peacetime. And we can be like, well, doesn't…hasn't that stuff happened all along. Like, what's the big deal? The big deal is how David responds. David grieves and mourns and fasts and weeps over Abner, who was a military hero, protecting the king of Israel. The people are watching this because it would make sense for David to have Abner assassinated in order to completely disrupt anything but Ish-bosheth, who is Saul's son, laying claim to the throne, but the way David reacts to this loss, is that, it's a loss, it wasn’t an assassination, it wasn’t a hit. It's a loss for the people and they see this in David and it's drawing them to David. And like in yesterday's reading we read of a man Recab and his brother Baanah who assassinated Ish-bosheth and brought Ish-bosheth’s head to David, thinking that they might be elevated in David's kingdom by getting rid of his enemy, the only one standing in the way of the throne. But again, David's character about not raising your hand against the anointed of God, let like allowing God to work these things out. The people, once again, see like, David didn't have anything to do with the assassination of Abner or Ish-bosheth, he didn't have anything to do with it. And the people that were involved in it were punished so Recab and Baanah were punished by death for killing Ish-bosheth, which brings the people together. A covenant is made. David becomes king, he conquers Jebuse the Jebusites the city of Jerusalem makes it the city of David and then in today's reading, God comes before David making a covenant with him and David's response again is that of utter humility, like who am I, who is my family. How did I get here, what is going on, why would the most high God look down upon me to make this happen? Then we see David dancing before the ark of the covenant coming back into Jerusalem. And one of David's wives Saul's daughter, Michael she despises, and David says that he'll act like a fool for God and any day. Basically, all make a fool of myself to dance before the Lord. This is just in sharp contrast to what we saw in Saul, who was hiding in the baggage at his coronation and always try to puff himself up, always afraid of his imaging, was always trying to get the respect of the people by being sort of the tough guy. Where is David is trying to be as humble as possible. And that humility is what is drawing the hearts of the people to clearly make him their leader. And we're just getting started in the story of David, but that is kind of the transition between the house of Saul and then David fully becoming the king of Israel, which he is. And we will watch that unfold in the coming days.

Prayer:

And so, Father, we thank You for Your word. Thank You for the kindness of Your word. The gift of Your word that allows us to look back at ancient stories, but to find those stories to be very, very relevant to humanity in the way that human beings think and do things. And we see character shining through right now in the life of King David and may we learn much because we all need to be people of integrity, people of character. So, come Holy Spirit into this we pray in the name of Jesus, we ask. Amen.

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Prayer and Encouragements:

Hey DAB family, it’s Sparky. I want to take a minute and do a little preaching. Today, Brian read Psalm 116. And I told Beloved I had to go play and listen to it with her today because it’s my favorite Psalm. And a lot of you know what I’ve gone through in life, the drugs, the divorces and I told her, a lot of people, it’s whether you like em or not, I’ve got tattoos, a lot of tattoos and long hair, I just don’t fit the part. And that Psalm just rings home and I told her, I said, that is a Psalm I would tattoo on myself. And ironically, after I had listened, Vicky from Arizona and David from Tennessee had called. Vicky had lost her husband and David had a, you’re battling blindness. And I just want to read this real quick. I love the Lord for He heard my voice; He heard my cry for mercy. Because He turned to me, I will call on Him as long as I live. So, let’s just go ahead and pray for these two beautiful people. Father God, I just ask that You help Vicky and David both. Help Vicky to know that her husband is with You, he’s right there beside King David, who called on the Lord for as long as he lived. And I ask that You be with this man from Tennessee, and You heal his eyes. You help him to see immediately and that all doctoral opinion would be in his favor. Your Son’s Holy name we pray. Amen. I love you guys, ya’ll have an awesome day.

Hi DAB family. This is the Disciple that He Loves in Ohio. Family, I really need your prayers for just my mental health and anger and frustration. I called about things being bad between my daughter and my husband. Well, my husband’s dad died like three days ago. And I just feel like he’s, I know this is a hard time but I just feel like he’s being so difficult to be around and being really demanding of me doing things. And I’m sick right now, I just have a bad cold and a headache. And I’m in the middle of a pregnancy which I feel like just makes my emotions so out of whack. And I’ve been losing it with my kids today. I just feeling this anger that I haven’t felt in a really long time. And I just want to be a Godly example for my family. And I just feel totally at the end of my rope with what I can cope with. And I know that that’s where God can meet me and I know that He can be there for me. But I got to just keep laying myself down and getting out of my own way. So, if you could just, please pray for that, that I could be kind and loving and compassionate to my family. We’re getting ready to leave for like a 12-day vacation which should be great but with the way my husband’s been, I just feel like all that time together is gonna be really difficult. So, if you could just, please pray that I could be a Godly example and just totally depend on Christ and find the love that I’m not feeling right now for my family. Thank you so much. Love to you all.

Hi, it’s Donna from California. I may actually have to call this in a few times because I’m not sure how it’s actually gonna come out. But Pastor Brian Hardin, thank you. I listened to the May 20th New Testament reading and your commentary several times now and I know your, thousands of people are listening but that felt like it was meant for me personally. It spoke to me personally. It was like God was speaking to my heart. And what has died in you, you said, could what has died in you live again, even though it has died, you said. And finally, our faith doesn’t work without resurrection in it. I, thank you so much. Those were the words I have needed to hear with the things that I have been struggling with lately, that I’ve called in about. Yes, I do believe and yes, I can love again. Yes, it died within me but it will live again. Jesus was resurrected. I, I’m just in awe, thank you, thank you so much. Words just can’t express what’s in my heart. I thank you so much.

Hi, DAB family. My name is Mindy and I’m calling for Hannah. Hannah, sweet Hannah, there are so many people praying for you, hundreds, probably thousands of people praying for you every day. And, as I was praying for you today, I was just praying for the Holy Spirit to show me how to pray for you and the next song that came on was “No longer a slave” and He showed me that was how to pray for you. That you are not a slave to fear, that you are a child of God. And, He convicted me that I was afraid to call in and pray and I knew He was telling me to. And if I’m expecting you to not be afraid, then I needed to just call in and pray. And just give you that message that you don’t have to be a slave of fear cause you’re a child of God. And God is so good and He wants what’s best for you, sweet girl. He wants you to be healthy. He wants you to trust Him and even if that means just taking one bite of food and just believing that even though you’re afraid, that you don’t have to be because you can trust Him and that you are His child and He loves you so much. And He’s the best Father, even though your father seems pretty amazing, He’s even better and He wants what’s best for you. And so, to all the people here in the DAB family and, there’s so many more, like me, that are afraid to call in but are at home praying for you and your family and lifting you up to the Lord. And we pray right now that He hears our prayers and answers them and heals you completely, sweet girl. We love you.

Hi, Daily Audio Bible community. Hi, I’m new at this but just wanted to ask for your prayers. I am going through, what seems to be a miscarriage after 5 weeks of pregnancy. This is the second one in four months. My husband and I, are trying to start a family and we’re just praying and trusting that God will allow us to have this dream. It’s not been an easy journey, so far. But I know that God has a plan and God see’s everything and God knows everything. And I just wanted to call on this family to just pray for us and be with us in this time as we go through this. Thank you.

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