#devoted assistant

[5ecardaday]

Monster Popularity Contest: Legends of Innistrad

Well, it's been quite some time since I last posted anything here (all the way back in April, in fact!) but my long summer hiatus is finally over, and I'm happy to be back on a regular schedule once again. That starts with new Weekly Releases, including this brand-new series of monsters from Innistrad, the gothic-horror setting for Magic: the Gathering. Terrify your players with Kurbis, the huanted treefolk; whip-up a mad science mini-boss using Oglor, Devoted Assistant; or put your players firmly in celestial crosshairs using Sigarda, Font of Blessings!

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[hetchdrive]

Anyway the thing that's making me feel insane is that Scorpius spent an entire episode showing John-in-his-head his Tragic Backstory because he wanted so badly to get him on his side only for John-in-his-head to kill himself to avoid him and then real John all but invited Scorpius to get off the cargo carrier with him because real John does, against all logic and reason, care about him a little bit, and Scorpius basically told him to go fuck himself because gaining John's empathy was not about gaining John it was about power. John Crichton is probably the only person in the universe who cares whether Scorpius lives or dies but Scorpius Needs No One And Nothing and rejects this hand reached out to him. Unfortunately I'm obsessed with him.

[welcomeinthisplace]

"I Gotta Give You Something to Do."

The above quote is said by Roy Mustang in the English dub of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. In this scene, he’s fighting with his lieutenant/bodyguard, Riza Hawkeye, and they wind up back to back in battle. They both jump and turn around; Roy smiles when he sees her, but Riza fires a couple bullets on either side of his head. Roy didn’t see the enemy that was close to cutting him down with a…

[egg-emperor]

I'm game canon Eggman's strongest soldier I'll always go to bat for my boy and spread the word that he's always been a well written, consistent, and an absolutely fantastic character in the games no matter what 🥰💜🥚

[jrueships]

he is NOT going back to Vegas ‼️‼️

[age-of-moonknight]

“Moon Debt,” Moon Knight (Vol. 9/2021), #20.

Writer: Danny Lore; Penciler and Inker: Ray-Anthony Height; Colorists: Le Beau Underwood and Scott Hanna; Letterer: Cory Petit

[moliathh]

Idk if you’ve thought this much about it but I keep thinking about your reverse au,,,,, how did the groups come together in this universe? Were the members of Iscariot still raised together, or are they more of a hodgepodge of mercenaries who met through work? Has Hellsing taken on that roll of a ‘family’ in the church?

Yes I mostly want to know how Yumikel met MEUXBEKZHEBE

Thank you so much for your interest i am still working on the AU but here are some basic information i kind of sketched out about the Iscariot (i also love yumikel yess i am working on how they meet),

The initial idea (might change) i had for the Iscariot is that Yumiko, Heinkel and Enrico are all from the same orphanage and they sticked together, because Iscariot in this is neutral alignment, and i intended to fix Enrico. He's still hungry for power and control, like in canon, but more grounded because his relationship with Yumiko and Heinkel is closer and they're his found family that keep him from straying too deep into madness (btw spoiler that Millenium is good aligned and Hellsing is bad aligned, it is "reversed" from the og hellsing anyway). In this, Enrico is an occultist, and Anderson is a demon he conjured (to contrast Anderson in canon that served his Christian religion).

Yes and back to the trio, they were seperated and taken in by different organisations and got turned. I am still working on this btw, so the reasons are still unclear whether they were used as bloodbag (yumi) or maybe military purposes idk i need to think harder on it, but one thing is definite is that in this au there are more monsters, real one not artificial, than in og Hellsing, so each group have their own autonomy. Yumie and Heinkel are both true vampire and werewolf btw, not artificial. Anyway, Enrico made a pact with Anderson for power to find Yumie and Heinkel. And they started growing up together, making money by working as hired mercenaries. That's why their alignment is neutral, because they work for the organisation that pays them.

During that time, they helped each other work on the newfound power. Heinkel can't control the wolf shapeshift yet she is working on it and she still wolf out when she's excited. While Yumiko sometimes go bloodlust and delirious, after she drank a lot of people that she assassinated, and her alter ego is Yumie (almost similar mechanism like Alucard's variations in the og hellsing). Enrico binded her with black magic demon power something something idk, almost similar to the Hellsing binding in og Hellsing, but not to bound her to him but to restrict her powers so Yumiko don't just comes out randomly. (I will work on creating a mechanism on her restraint that makes sense, this is still missing a lot of informations).

And to Hellsing, well Hellsing doesn't exactly act like a family, well they almost, kind of, but not exactly. In this, Integra is probably the closest to "family" to Seras while Alucard acted more like a teacher than a family member to Seras. And to recap, Integra is supposed to be Seras' guardian angel (long story btw), but she failed to save Seras in time so she gave Seras' angel blood so Seras became a nephilim, half human half angel.

Okay, let me start from the beginning, everything process like in og Hellsing, Vlad got dragged to public execution and prayed to heaven but G didnt ascend on him. So in this au, i made Integra an archangel who pitied Alucard so she think a little bit of divine revelation to a dead man is probably not too much of a transgression, but when she appeared before him (only he can see and no one else can so they thought he was tripping when he started talking to himself), he assumed that G sent her as a prize for his sacrifice so he just assumed that he rightfully owned her (inspirations from stories of selkies or mermaids that were caught by men because those fishermen just ASSUMED he owned her what a crazy man, but that is what Vlad would do i think) so he cursed her to be bound to him and every of his reincarnations (it's a blood curse, and if you want to know how he did it, he kissed her with his own blood and blood he licked off the stage, and she became an outcast angel like Eve because she ate food from humans, and that was blood too so it was extremely sacrilegious, im drawing inspiration from Eve AND Persephone). Yeah well anyway, Integra still had some celestial power left like understanding Angel's languages and shapeshifting, immortality, demon repelling, exorcism etc etc yeah all the classic one and she can return to her angel form but only PARTLY, not entirely and also she is not allowed back to heaven (she can fly tho but she have her limits when it comes to flying). And then, Vlad reincarnate and everytime he did, he started wrecking havoc, each reincarnations of him doesnt exactly remembered his past lives but he is always born into someone with Dracula blood, descendants of the family. And because Vlad left records, other reincarnation of him also contribute their own record of encounters with Integra. Integra on another hand was stuck with humans, she have her limits and no longer as omnipresence as she was. And each angel in this au is asigned a list of humans to guard over, and Integra failed her task because she no longer capable to guard all over them, however she did have the list and she tried to find her human to protect but most of the time they're already dead by the time she arrived. And she tried to do good things to ammend her sins, but Vlad everytime he was reborn will start conflicts and war to draw Integra out because she is a repenting angel she is very drawn towards places of great suffering, and she tried to hide from Vlad's reincarnations because he have authority over her and she can't kill him, both not capable and not allowed to (as a repenting angel, remember? not allowed to harm anyone). Okay okay fast forward, in the au i am working on, this time the reincarnation of Vlad is called Alucard, and spoiler alert, this time, hes a human but with celestial powers, almost like Integra. Because the soul of Vlad made a deal with Lucifer so when he reincarnated as Alucard, he maintain all of his memories and Integra in this au agreed to side with Alucard because she sensed celestial energy from him so she thought he was blessed or chosen to become an exorcist. And as to why he became an exorcist, he doesn't really care about exorcising, he was just messing around with Integra. In some cases, he himself was the one that conjure demons up (Hellsing is bad aligned in this but Integra and Seras didn't know it yet). And as an exorcist he is invited to crime scenes of demon activities to clean up. One of the crime scenes was Seras's family and Integra finally came across someone on her list that is still at least breathing so she tried ressurecting Seras with her blood. Yeah that's how we got Seras Victoria an orphan that was adopted by the church. Integra cared a lot about Seras, while Alucard intended to use Seras to use Integra. Oh and, Alucard in this au is still obsessive as ever to Integra, he's very close to losing his shits. Alucard and Integra acted like an exorcist duo, with Seras as their protege exorcist.

(The background of Integra and Alucard is lowkey inspired from buddhism's concept of reincarnation and fate and karma something something btw)

If you have any suggestion please do inform me I would love to hear it and thank you for listening to my yappings.

[critterbutt]

fuck man. cirrus has been clouding my thoughts nonstop and it's starting to influence what media i consume

[vroomian]

this post: [post/684826507072372736/ from piosplayhouse : [Every minor villain in mxtx books is just a guy who was forced to do their entire workplace’s taxes but got so tired of doing taxes that they just went apeshit and started killing people instead]] is p much yrz yes? his villian origin story is restrained in bfiasc but i think its barely hanging on by a thread in bitter waters and just gone in other aus

10000% correct!

The yrz we get in bfiasc is actually the best possible version of Yrz in pretty much any universe. He loves his family and his lans and wants them to love him too! That means Following The Rules and Being A Good Person, no matter how irritating he finds them personally!

Yrz is not a naturaly ‘good person’. At most he can be called a ‘responsible person’. He doesn’t like or care about other people he’s just in charge of them lol. He’s got more in common with of sqq and jgy than he does with lwj or wwx. In bitter water literally the only thing Yrz cares about is sqq. If he had a choice between the entire sect and sqq, he’d pick sqq with no hesitation.

[howifeltabouthim]

Only say what I can do for you, though it be with my entire life, and I will do it.

Anthony Trollope, from Phineas Finn

[always-tilting-at-windmills]

Amos with the assist 😉

[walkman-cat]

you cannot just reblog a metal post and blorbo tag it without an explanation davey who is eidolon and why does he rule i must know - @pigeonwit

hi pidge! i'm soso glad you asked wbwbw

eidolon vetch is the title of one of my stories! it's a mystery/fantasy/i dont really know set in a city based on turn-of-the-century new york :]

it's primarily about kit allister, alias hermes vetch-- a gentleman thief-- trying to solve the 14-year old disappearance of her lover's ex-betrothed by becoming the assistant of the detective chasing him.

but it's also about a forbidden pantheon of dead gods erased almost completely from history, were it not for the fact that traditions and practices done in two of their names have kept two of them somewhat alive (they're still dead but prayers are answered they still have powers it's confusing but i think also metal as hell). two major characters are technically embodiments of these dead gods but also technically not and neither of them are really suited to the god they're supposed to be it's a fun time

[egoborderline]

I don't know how much longer I can work at a Christian university before I lose my fucking mind completely I have got to get the FUCK out of here bro

[emails-i-cant-send]

told my English teacher that I didnt want to do anything in a group again because people in my group just sleep and do nothing and he told me that I just need to help them. and explain it to them. and baby them. and teach them. and give them the easy work.

[stmichaelthearchangel]

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[markodragic]

Ship opinion Lercier (major Lemieux x Jean-Marc)

its not a ship ive thought a lot about but I can def see it! ✨ ive seen some of your posts abt the ship now and then and as a fellow enjoyer of underrated characters I think your dedication to them is just fab fjfkhk 🙏