A How-To Guide to Ask Your Girlfriend to Marry You: Advice from Carey Fangbattle
The first step to this is to get a girlfriend. This may sound daunting, but it is doable! You might look back on your past attempts in this arena and cringe; it’s easy enough to say do not cringe, kill the thing that cringes. It’s another story when confronting yourself with the veritable trauma-trove of stinkers you shackled yourself with in the past. Breathe. Ask the cool girl at work to come spar with you. At best, it’s the perfect kindling for some nice sexual tension. At worst, you’re still sparring (and when you’re good at being hard to hit, it’s nice to have a challenge).
Taking it slow is cool! You can keep sparring and hitting the gym and become increasingly obvious that you want to maybe go for coffee sometime. And then, while out for coffee, if you suddenly remember you don't drink coffee, DO NOT PANIC. Tea is cool. You ever tried a Faerun Fog? It's like a latte but with tea. It's fine.
You can also try inviting her back to your place to watch a movie. Be sure to place the bowl of popcorn in such a way that would make accidental hand brushes inevitable.
Keep dropping hints that you're gay. Maybe she didn't notice.
Repeat substeps 1-3.
Get assigned to go on a work trip with her now that the flirtation has really ensued. Find the shittiest, draftiest tavern you can (there's not a lot of money in the job). Now, you might be asking: how many beds were there? And the answer is two, but don't despair! Because if you're cold-blooded, eventually she's going to get tired of your teeth chattering and will invite you to share her bed anyway!
Wake up in her arms. Super platonic like.
Oh, that actually worked? You now have a girlfriend? Great job! Never doubted you for a moment!
Now, you can go on some more dates! Have you tried the new wine and pottery place? It seems pretty cool.
Avoid your coworker at said wine and pottery place
Let her know that the whole being a reptile thing does make certain things different but! it's cool and fine and doesn’t take very much getting used to.
She's very enthusiastic and a quick learner. Lucky you.
This next step is also vital, sorry. You have to befriend this absolute himbo of a man. Neither of you consciously make an effort, you're just drawn together.
Hmm, politely turn him down after he hits on you.
Shit, that's not at all what was happening, cool cool cool.
He's cool about it though. And he has skills! And he wants to learn your skills!!
Have a heart to heart conversation with your girlfriend. This will happen organically after a long day at work. You're both going to be exhausted in every sense of the word. After all, you just had to attend the funeral of a friend.
She'll tell you she had wanted to use a powerful magic item while on a mission a while back.
Recall that the terms of your employment require that you apprehend or kill members of your organization tempted to do just that.
Be so brave and not cry about what this could mean for you both one day.
…cry a little
Decide you want to marry this woman.
Drop the hint to your best friend that you want to marry this woman.
Your best friend will carve a beautiful ring for your (hopefully) future fiancé.
Keep the ring in your pocket.
Try to figure out when to pop the question.
Watch the color fade from the world.
Lose your best friend.
Mourn him.
Discover your best friend was an alien from another plane of existence.
Discover that he didn't actually die.
Asshole, who keeps that kind of thing from a best friend!
Nearly lose the love of your life in the fray of battle.
Lose your shit.
Survive the apocalypse.
Mourn your friends.
And finally, when the dust has settled and you're finally back together in your bed, wince when you realize the ring box is digging into your hip.
Shift your weight and be weird for a minute
She's going to laugh a little. This is good. She loves you, after all.
Forget every single romantic notion you've ever come up with and tell her instead that you'd like to spend every near-apocalypse with her for as long as you both shall live.
She'll say yes, yes, ten thousand times yes.
She'll cry.
You'll cry.
And now you're engaged!
Start planning the wedding.
…Good luck
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I wanted to compile all the characters I've done for my hypothetical Adventure Zone platform fighter, so here's a sort of mock character select screen with the sixteen fighters I've done so far!
So far we've got eight Balance reps, four Amnesty reps, and one each from Graduation, Ethersea, Dust, and Commitment. But I've got a bunch of half-finished moveset concepts for characters from various seasons, so there's more to come!
Links to individual movesets under the cut
Magnus Burnsides | Taako | Merle Highchurch | Killian & Carey
Kravitz | Lup | Lucas Miller | Barry Bluejeans
Duck Newton | Aubrey Little | Ned Chicane | Minerva
Sir Fitzroy Maplecourt | Amber Gris | Augustus Parsons | Kardala
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"Dude, your top surgery is choice," Carey says the moment Magnus's shirt is over his head and off. He preens a little because he deserved to. And because it was choice. He's very happy with the results. But then Carey adds, "Who'd you get it done by?"
"Oh! Uh," and here's where the problem lies. "I... don't remember."
"You don't remember," Carey repeats, sounding a little disbelieving. Killian looks over to them now and squints at Magnus's chest.
"Uhhh," Magnus says. "Nope."
"Did you get like, black market top surgery, or?"
"I... don't think so," Magnus says.
"Magnus," Killian says, "if you hadn't left your packer in the middle of our goddamn bathroom-" Magnus grins a little sheepishly and Carey laughs. "-I would literally not know you were trans. I don't even see any scars."
"It's been a while since I got it done," Magnus says.
"Which was when?" Carey prompts. At Magnus's face, she throws her hands up. "You don't remember!"
"It was a while ago!" Magnus says. "I was like- I don't know, twenty-one? Ish? Twenty-two?"
"Magnus," Carey says. She puts her foam sparring halberd down and comes over to him. "Magnus, did you just wake up one morning with them gone? This-" she looks on the verge of laughter. "This is serious."
"If I tell you the truth, you're gonna laugh," Magnus says.
"Magnus," Carey says, laughing anyway. "How do you forget a whole fucking surgery?"
"It wasn't a surgery, it was a spell," Magnus says, because he knows that much.
"Pretty sure that's not a thing," Killian says.
"Why else do they call it transmutation, then, huh?" Carey buries her head into Magnus's side, snorting with laughter. "Look, I know it was a spell. I know it. Do I know who did it? N-"
"Was it Taako?" Carey interrupts, full of giggles. Magnus pauses.
...Was it Taako?
"No," he said, shaking his head. "I met Taako like, last year. I'm pretty sure I would remember if he did my top surgery. Top spellery? Is that anything?"
"It's nothing," Carey says. "I'm-" she wipes her eye, clearing her throat. "Maybe it's like, a voidfish thing. Like, maybe the Director fucked up-"
"And specifically erased Magnus's top surgery?" Killian asks doubtfully.
"It's a big fish," Carey says, which just seems to make Killian more confused, but Magnus nods in understanding.
"It's a big fish, Killian," he says.
"Are we gonna fucking spar or not?" Killian asks. "I came here to beat ass not uncover Magnus's whole backstory."
"My backstory is actually pretty simple," Magnus says and Carey groans, retracting herself from him. "I was born in Raven's Roost on a swelteringly hot day-"
Killian hits him over the head with her foam halberd.
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THEYRE SO ADORABLENESS YOUR HONOR THE BESTIES EVER!! LET THEM DO ARSON!
id: panel from the taz crystal kingdom graphic novel of magnus, a white human man with auburn hair and beard, wearing a red spacesuit and glass astronaut helmet with a big smile, facing carey, a grayish-blue dragonborn wearing an identical helmet her eyes are closed in excitement and she seems to be talking, a speech bubble above magnus is a small drawing of a flame and ? and the one above carey is a bomb with ! merle a dwarf with medium brown skin white hair in a bun, gray space suit, and the same helmet makes an annoyed expression and his speech bubble has a big black x, end id.
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