#hyper fixation is a bitch

[pyritewitch]

Zoraxis Agent AU

Still working on the 'Spy and the Liar' Headcannons, but this little nugget wouldn't leave me alone. Don't plan to do much with this AU after this post (it gets way more depressing than I wished it would), but mayb someone might enjoy this too.

Holy crap this ended way longer than I wanted it to be! This was supposed b a short little draft. Fuck me! This post might b edited later into 2 or 3 parts so it's more palatable. Spoilers for Spy and the Liar plus Cog in the Machine.

Now on to the AU where the agent becomes the monster they feared they'd become.

So with how Zoraxis works, agents don't really get a "handler" but when they 1st start working for the corporation, they get their mission briefing and report back to Solaris. Their relationship starts off neutral but becomes more antagonist as Solaris finds the Agent's destructive tendancies (now amplified since there is no positive influence for them) to be more of a danger to the operation as a whole.

Unfortunately for Solaris, as long as they continue to have successful missions, they will keep climbing the corporate ladder, and climb they do. It's pretty easy to when the standard for being a good Zoraxis minion is just surviving a mission (which admittedly is the same for The Agency) and being to come back alive with a success is noteworthy. With a few victories under their belt, the agent makes it into Zoraxis' inner circle.

Now nicknamed Agent Vulture, the agent acts the the personal bodyguard and hitman for Zor, Solaris, and the Fabricator. Mind you Zor never really leaves their hideout and Solaris at this point hates them, so the only one who really uses their services is the Fabricator.

The Fabricator seems to enjoy, or is atleast entertained, by their company. She evens learns sign language in order to better communicate with them. She discovers, that while not nearly as smart as her, the agent is pretty clever and has some great ideas. For example, they suggest making it company policy to NOT leave documents in the same room where such information can be used against them.

There's, at first, some push back by employees saying it would be inconvenient, but with the help of Fabricator's influence (and Agent Vulture threatening to burn everyone and everything a person ever loved to any individual who doesn't comply) it becomes standard company procedure. The agency is still able to get a few secret company files (too many guards are willing to assume the sound of broken glass is simply the wind), but there is a noticeable decline in data breaches

Because of this security improvement, The Agency is woefully unprepared for Zor's Death Engine. The Death Engine doesn't completely eradicate the agency but leaves them with little resources and a huge deficit in manpower. The Agency then decides to put what little resources they have into the robot agent project that Dr. Prism purposed

The robot agents do make things better for the Agency, as they are able to survive the numerous deadly traps that Zoraxis throws at them. Many are destroyed, but the information they bring back with them makes it almost worth the wasted resources.

Feeling cocky Dr. Prism starts sending them on unapproved missions to kill their biggest threat, Agent Vulture. It ends in complete failure. Time and time again, Agent Vulture completely destroys her machines, and in anger, Dr. Prism puts more and more resources that they can't afford to waste into trying to kill Agent Vulture.

It comes to an end when Agent Vulture is able to bring back an alive robot to Zoraxis Corp., where not only is the Fabricator able to reverse engineer them but also makes a device that Agent Vulture uses to completely wipe out Roxanne's robots. This absolutely crushes her, and while she still works for the Agency, she's a shell of her former self. After this incident, Agent Vulture's profile contains the words "Do Not Engage On Sight; Do Not Engage At All"

It only get worse for the Agency (I'm so sorry!) as Mission Mimic comes to fruition, as with the help of John Juniper, Zor is not only able to get the nuke codes, but also make The Agency an international pariah, forcing them to go underground. Even after the officials are released, most decide to follow Zor as they have become too powerful to oppose.

Some good news, though, is that John Juniper turns traitor and joins The Agency. Seeing that the real officials are now willing to comply with Zoraxis' demands, thus making him useless and seeing the chaos Zoraxis Corp. is unleashing to the world, John, steals the Mimic Mask and nuke codes and looks to the Agency for sanctuary. Using his acting talent and the mimic mask, he is able to secure some funds and information for the agency, and it keeps them a float but it can't last.

That's sorta of the main meat of the AU universe itself. But for those of still here, here's a little extra that could happen.

Zor, hearing that the Agency is still around, demands that the Fabricator build their most ambitious project yet, a time machine. With that, Zor will have Agent Vulture go back in time and destroy the Agency completely and root out all operatives.

The Fabricator is able to finish the prototype, but being impatient, Zor orders the agent to use the device. It breaks right after the agent goes thru. At 1st the agent thinks they've made it back in time, but with some research they figure out that they haven't gone back in time but to a different dimension, where The Agency has had more victories than Zor (aka our timeline). This would also take place a little after the 3rd game.

Agent Vulture's 1st plan is to get into contact with Zoraxis and get the Fabricator to build another dimension portal. In researching Zoraxis, they come across the profile of Agent Phoenix and realize that this is them if they had joined the Agency. Now, the plan is to kill Agent Phoenix,take their place in order to find Zoaxis, and take down the Agency from the inside.

At some point, they confront Agent Phoenix, kill them (or so they think), and take their place at the Agency. Living as 'Agent Phoenix' let's them experience all the things they thought they don't deserve could never have. Being seen as a hero, having a friend who legitimately cares about them and sees them as a person (yes I'm talking about Reginald!!), and the world not being plunged into chaos.

When the real Agent Phoenix returns, Agent Vulture has now a new, totally not insane plan: Kill Phoenix, ditch Zor, and just permanently live in this timeline. Of course, Agent Vulture is thwarted and feeling bad for them, Agent Phoenix suggests that maybe they should focus instead on improving their own timeline.

Agent Vulture agrees to try, though they're pretty sure if they try to contact the agency, they'd b shot on sight, and they'd probably let them. But Agent Phoenix and Reginald assure them that there will probably be one person willing to hear them out. (It's Reginald; it's always Reginald. If it wasn't obvious before, I hope it is now. He is my favorite character! I am a sucker for older british men looming voice character, i.e., Stanley Parable and Darkest Dungeon). So they contact Dr. Prism (who's on the lamb) and have her build them a similar dimension portal and send Agent Vulture on their way.

[lavenderbunn]

My fiancée trying to explain why it’s weird that I can do 9 play throughs of bg3. He’s comparing it to when kids watch a movie over and over. Then I laugh and I’m like I did tell you how I played the little mermaid vhs so much it died right ?! Like what part of I’m neurodivergent didn’t you get ? I love you but this isn’t new. I sew the same patterns over and over , I’ve literally made the same button up shirt 5 times in different fabric . I have rewatched Buffy multiple times . I have reread The Last unicorn so many times I can almost recite it.

People with adhd actively seek dopamine. Things that give me dopamine will be done till they no longer give me dopamine.

I am an extreme creature of habit. That’s not to say I won’t try new things. I love trying new things. But if there isn’t anything new and stimulating I will reach for the things that give it.

[sp3akfromtheart]

shoutout to the 10 other people making torchwood content on here i love you guys

[hitwiththefandomz]

NEW YEAR NEW CRIMES

[xayspancakeee]

babe, BABE.

chapped lips? ( ,,⩌'︿'⩌,,)

well, guess i need to do something about that.

*proceeds to aggressively kiss his cute face*

[girlishwhimsies]

i’m being bullied

[bobcatblahs]

Me, with two active WIPS, two paused WIPS, and tons of life stuff going on: OVERWHELMED

My brain, who is a bastard and hates me: you wanna make NineRose royal fantasy fic and have to research it right now

Me: yeah okay

[popcultmaniac]

Stranger Things Thunderbolts* AU

Nancy had achieved her mission already, she captured Joyce’s old agents, the so called Thunderbolts now apparently, as they were escaping. She just needs to wait for six minutes for the plane to arrive and get them to the court to testify against Joyce to impeach her from power. It was going to be the single biggest achievement of her political career if successful. But then they had to start telling her about a girl called Chrissy who can fly, and how potentially dangerous she is under Joyce’s hands.

She didn’t believe them of course, but then Robin had to call her to tell her about the failure of project Sentry and how unbalanced this Chrissy person was. If the royal assistant was willing to go this extreme to betray her boss then this was serious. And not just because she can’t say no to Robin’s soft pleas for help. After some deliberation, she removes the group’s shackles to go save the way the old fashioned way.

“Why you got some place to be?” Nancy asked, as they looked at her in disbelief.

“Nancy, you have the wrong people. We have all done bad things.” Max argued, not believing they were the heroes she was looking for.

Nancy, the ex winter soldier, knows more then anyone about not having a clean slate so she isn’t going to start judging the others’s dark pasts now, even Harrington’s past actions.

“Look, I've been where you are. The past doesn't go away. So you can either live with it for ever, or do something about it.” Nancy said, subtly giving them a last chance if they wanted to abandon ship for survival.

[misteria247]

*Slams hands down on table*

You're not gonna believe this bullshit bestie.

Like 2, 3 years of writer's block. Of being unable to write or find inspiration to write. And now all of a sudden, I'm thinking nonstop about one character and now I've got the beginnings of a possible one shot in the mental works and I'm buzzing with creative juices and it's all thanks to Gravity Falls of all things and one super special lady named Caryn Pines.

Jesus tap dancing Christ-

[mytortoisegotstuckinatupperware]

in a horrific turn of events, my hyperfixation on survival cannibalism and call my by your name has intersected into the worst possible outcome

[yesandpeeps]

Listen, all I’m saying is that if the phallos mortuus 2.0 doesn’t have a flared base, I’m gonna be disappointed /lh. I know it’s probably marketed as a novelty item and is not meant to be used as an actual sex toy but come on. Folks want it up the ass but it is not safe! Remember:

No flared base = leaves no trace.

[anonymous-harpy]

A YouTube short made me laugh and also reminded me that Sans is a Tumblr sexy man

And no less than twenty seconds after watching that short my brain decided that my AroAce "Monsters" INCLUDING MY AVATAR RAGDOLL could slot into Undertale and I feel a mini resurgence of my trinity of FNAF, Undertale and Creepypasta trying to catch me

and it's working and that's the scary part

[timelessda]

why is it that every single time I get wrapped up in a Dragon Age hyper fixation, the thing that pulls me out of it and mock speed is a Victorious fixation?

How did we get here, how did we go from dark fantasy politics and murder to ✨high schoolers who can sing✨

[h0r53f7y]

Huh, that new spider in the Monster Hunter Wilds trailer looks neat. Wait…. NO BRAIN, DON’t YOU DARE-

[theworstcreature]

One day I’ll finally listen to all the cool yoinky sploinky music artists my friends tell me I’d vibe with… that day is the day I become a WHOLE LOT MORE INSUFFERABLE BABY

[dailyrandomwriter]

Day 820

It’s been a while since I’ve felt the itch of a fixation coming on. One of the things I learned last year was that the sense that I am about to vibrate out of my skin if I don’t do the thing I have on my brain right this second is how my brain registers a fixation.

Fixations are a weird thing because a true hyper fixation is one where I feel like if I don’t get it out of my system I am hopelessly distracted. Whereas being excited to do a thing, but not fixated on it, is just a simple case of being impatiently patient. I can wait to do  that thing, waiting won’t distract me, but I can still be excited for the thing I’m waiting for.

Interestingly enough, my fixations tend to be me wanting to solve a problem, answer a question or anything that requires me to get a thought out of my brain.

In this case, because Eerie Season in Infinity Nikki revolves around the story of the Queen’s Palace Ruins, I’ve had the urge to go on a lore hunt, and probably thought dump onto the nearest person. Which will probably be Were-Ah.

This is because Infinity Nikki tends to tell a story through environment, dialogue and scattered pages rather than to tell the player out right. As a result, the player is forced to put together what they think happened all those centuries ago by looking for clues in the game. Right or wrong, it is up to the player to decide.

That type of narration style checks all three boxes off on the type of fixations I get, and now I just want to run around the world looking for things. It helps that I had already been kind of curious about those ruins, but with more information it has caused my brain to think back on all the things I’ve found in the past.

So, I guess that is what I’m doing tonight, otherwise my brain is just going to be a dumbass for a while.