#in a whole other town. and i can’t teleport

[fingertipsmp3]

Still thinking about how chaotic this afternoon was

[turtleblogatlast]

Love the thought of Leo just casually being well traveled to absurd degrees. Like one day they’re facing their new Big Bad of the year and like, Draxum or whoever says that the key to their fight is located somewhere in, like, Latvia or some place, but no one knows where to start.

Then Leo’s like “oh I know a place” and when asked how the heck he could know of one it smash cuts to Leo falling through the ceiling of said place due to a portal mishap.

Also love the idea of Leo, being as accidentally (and then later, purposefully) well traveled as he is, sometimes taking his family on outings to different places all over, maybe to some new Yokai spots he found along the way.

In these places, Leo 100% lets his bros get scammed by tourist traps.

[wild-dagon]

A little peak at what I’ve been writing for the Everyone’s loved ones get send to BOTW Hyrule

He lead them over to the entrance of the East Winds store when his Sheikah Slate suddenly let out a shrill tone. He pulled the device from his hip and opened it immediately to see the screen flashing.

“Is everything okay?” Sky asked as he and twilight approached Wild. The rest of the group hung back knowing better than to crowd Wild.

“Don’t know.” Wild whispered not taking his hands or eyes off the slate. The screen stopped flashing and brought him to the map function. Everything looked normal. Except there was a new symbol on his map. One that looked uncomfortably familiar. “Time!” Wild called out for their unofficial leader.

Time moved quickly to his side taking Sky’s place. Wild wasted no time showing Time the slate. It was open. To the map feature and zoomed into Hyrule field. There on the map was a cartoon symbol of a cows head flashing in light blue. The same symbol that Lon Lon Ranch used to market their milk. Time pulled the slate closer hoping he was wrong. But it was identical even down to the shade of blue.

“What is this?” He asked turning to look at wild his heart racing.

‘I don’t know.’ Wild signed. ‘I’ve never seen it before.’ He looked back at the Lon Lon Ranch symbol shining brightly on his map screen. ‘I’ve never heard it make that sound either.’

“How far away is this?” Time asked looking between the screen and Wild.

“How far is what?” Legend asked tired of being left out of the conversation.

Time looked up to see the rest of the chain looking nervously between his white knuckle grip on Wild’s slate, an item he rarely let others touch, and Wild’s slightly shaking hands.

He blew out a breath. He didn’t like anything about this situation. “The Lon Lon Ranch symbol just appeased on Wild’s map.”

“But that can’t be.” Twilight said as color drained from his face. “We’re thousands of years in the future.”

“How far away is it.” Warriors quickly stepped into his captain role. Something wasn’t right here. They all turned to face Wild once more.

‘It would take days to get there.’ The group winced at the answers. ‘And that area is full of guardians.’

Time hand tightened on the slates handle. If this had something to do with Lon Lon Ranch he couldn’t ignore it. He didn’t care how far or what dangers there were he was going. He took another look at the map before he turned in his heal. “Then we better start walking.” He started heading towards the town exit when Wild ran in front of him halting his progress.

‘That could take close to a week.’ he signed aggressively.

“If you have another option I’m all ears.” Time was trying very hard to keep his composure. In any other situation he probably could. But Lon Lon Ranch was his home. It was Marlon’s home. Where she was supposed to be safe. He didn’t know why Lon Lon’s symbol was suddenly appearing in Wild’s map but he had to get there as soon as possible.

Wild paused thinking over what to do. ‘We could teleport.’

“Cub no.” Twilight stepped in. “Last time we were here you said you couldn’t teleport with more than one person.” The last time they were in Wild’s Hyrule Wind had asked if they could teleport to the nearest town and Wild had explained to them the limits of the teleport pads. By himself there was no problem. But adding a guest put a strain on his body. The more guest the hard it would be on Wild physically. A group their size would probably lead to Wild passing out after teleporting them. Something none of them wanted to force him to do unless it was the only option.

‘So we don’t take the whole group.’ Wild signed cutting off the argument. He held his hand out to Time for the slate. Once in hand he showed them the map. ‘I can teleport Time and myself to this shrine over here.’ He pointed to the Wahgo Katta shrine next to the Riverside stables. ‘We can take two of my horse and make our way to the ruins.’ Wild continue showing them the path they would take. ‘It be close to two hours on horse back. Once we figure it out we’ll come back. It will take a few hours tops.’ He finished his plan while trying to reassure them this was the fastest option.

In any other situation Time would have refused the plan. Anything that put one of the boys at unnecessary risk or separated their group would have been an automatic no. But Hateno was safe, the others would be alright, and something g was affecting Lon Lon Ranch. “Are you sure you’ll be alright?” He asked giving Wild his best stern face. The one the boys had named his dad face.

‘Positive.’ Wild confirmed with a determined head nod.

[constellationguy]

Another perspective

Episode three

"Text": regular talking

'Text': regular thinking

"Text": Saiki talking telepathically

'Text': Saiki thinking

ATTENTION! You might want to rewatch episode three of The Disastrous Life of Saiki K before reading to fully understand the events.

Summary: Episode 3 in L/N Y/N's perspective.

Previous episode

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“Who’s ready for another tre bien trick by me! Master illusionist Uryoku Chono! Hey pink hair join the fun. I’ll do a trick to put a smile on that face!”

“No thanks, I’ve already seen it.”

“Oh I see you’re a sceptic! But once you see my show you’ll become a believer in my powers to amaze!”

‘Is he really going to ignore me the whole time? In that case, can I leave?’ Y/N thought to Kusuo. ‘No, if I have to stay so do you. We’re only going to watch so he leaves me alone’ Saiki thought back. ‘I’ve got a bad feeling about this but alright.’

“Right! I hold here an ordinary cardboard box. As you can see it’s empty inside.”

‘From this angle you can’t see the bottom, we don’t know that’s it’s ordinary.’

“But watch! Just a couple taps and it’s party time! Aren’t they amazing folks?” Most of the audience clapped as doves flew out of the box, say for Saiki and Y/N.

‘I always wondered how you could get those doves to behave and stay quiet during that trick, maybe I’ll never know,’ Y/N shrugged.

“Hey there kid, tre bien, am I right?”

‘It’s not “tre bien” if anything I’m worried about that dove’ Saiki thought towards Y/N.

‘Okay now you ruined that surprise for me. Sure you can easily see through the trick but the surprise and smoothness of the illusion is still impressive,’ Y/N huffed at Saiki.

“And now ladies and gentlemen, please turn your attention here, for the main event of our show! My super illusion! Magically teleporting for one box to the other will be my lovely assistant Micheal!”

‘Lovely is a strong word,’ both Saiki and Y/N thought.

“And drum roll!” Chono was making an odd pose while he vocalized the drum roll. “La la la la!” Mused Chono as he threw confetti.

‘Okay this is awkward now. Tell me why I couldn’t leave again?’ Y/N thought to Saiki perplexed.

“Alright let’s open the box! Three, two, one. It’s party time! Tre bien!” Micheal didn’t come out of the box, instead he came out from underneath the table connecting the two boxes.

The group that was standing there walked away, even Y/N started to walk away, too tired to appreciate the faces Chono was making, but Saiki grabbed their arm before they could get too far.

“Why should I pay you for ruining the illusion?!”

“I moved at the normal speed, it was your darn pattern that got too fast. Now you hand over that 500 yen.” Micheal commented back.

“No one tipped me for this performance so I couldn’t pay you even if I wanted to! Hey, why are you hanging around?” Saiki pointed towards Chono’s hat while still holding onto Y/N making sure they wouldn’t walk away.

“What? Oh, you want to give me a tip? Haha I could never take money from a kid. The look of joy on your face is- PICO!!!!” Chono only realized his dove was still in his hat after he took it off.

“I completely forgot she was up there.���

‘You’ve done your thing, let’s go now,’ Y/N said while trying to walk away but was still held back my Saiki.

“So you weren’t trying to tip me, you were trying to remind me. Wait does that mean, that you’re a magician? That’s how you knew she was up there! With instincts that good you must have hated my show. Maybe I’m not cut out for magician game after all.” During this Y/N tried repeatedly to walk away but was still being held back. ‘I’m not the one being spoken to so why do I have to stay?’ Y/N whined internally.

“Until a few months ago I was just your average office drone. Then I made a small mistake.”

‘Let’s go. I’m gonna miss my soap opera at this rate! And how does a small mistake get you fired anyway?!’ Y/N whined at Saiki.

“Corporate fat cats laid me off. And my wife skipped town.”

‘Is it too late to walk away?’ ‘Maybe but I don’t really care.’

“With no job I couldn’t pay the mortgage anymore. One little mistake and career, wife, and home had all disappeared. And then it dawned on me. I should become an illusionist! Ya!”

“Wait what”

“Because so many things in had vanished from my life I thought it must mean that disappearing them was my talent!”

‘That’s a stretch,’ ‘Your only talent is self delusion,’ Y/N and Saiki thought towards each other.

“So even though I’d been offered another office job I turned it down to start my new life, doing street magic!”

“Again what?”

“If I can save up one million yen then I can buy a sawing a body in half trick. Then my wife is sure to come back!”

‘Okay, normally I would find this entertaining but this guy is sad and delusional and I’m missing my show.’ Y/N thought generally.

“But then I wonder if I chose the wrong path.”

‘Yes. Yes you did. Now quick street magic and get a real job.’ ‘You sure you should be just thinking this, this guy needs to hear it,’ Y/N thought back to Saiki.

“Sorry, didn’t mean to get so gloomy,” Chono said, finishing his back story.

‘Look he still hasn’t said a word directed towards me, if I’m lucky he’ll forget my existence. Now let me go!’ Y/N again struggled to leave.

“Let’s get back to your background as an illusionist and how you knew I had a dove up there.” Chono said continuing the conversation. Saiki decided on his next move and put his bag out I front of him.

“Woah, gonna pull something out of your bag? You’re gonna pull out, a dove! Well I’ll have you know I can do a bowling ball.” Saiki then reached inside of his back and pulled out Chono’s assistant, Micheal.

“That’s impossible!” Chono said while falling to the floor. “Ya, ta fricken da, can I go now?” Y/N said, a little annoyed.

“Thank you. Now I can see, if your talent was hair yours would be a flowing main and mine would be just an eyelash. Make me your apprentice!!” Chono said bowing deeply. “Does that make Micheal my apprentice by proxy?” Y/N joked.

“Yay! I can afford soup!” Micheal said holding some coins behind Y/N and Saki that he probably found in Saiki’s bag.

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In the L/N residence, Y/N was baking coffee cake while the TV was running some random program.

“TONIGHT! You will whiteness a miracle! A stupendous, amazing illusion preformed by the former homeless man turned master magician, Uryoko Chono!” “Now that’s tre bien!” The TV spoke loudly in the house so Y/N could hear it from the kitchen.

“Holy shit!” Y/N ran to the living room, tripping and almost falling in their way. ‘That’s the guy from the other day! How is he on television now?!” Y/N thought, rightly shocked.

“After losing it all he became a street magician and mastered tricks that others can only dream of!”

“What tricks are they talking about? The show I saw was pretty lame,” Y/N thought aloud.

“What I’m attempting tonight is the most dangerous escape you’ll ever see!” Chono said gleefully, the screen then showed what the trick entailed.

“As you can see folks, Chono’s hands and feet are both shackled as me makes his way to the crate. Oh no he fell! He’s safely inside the box, and with that Mr Micheal, Chono’s formerly homeless assistant will lock him in.”

“Wait I’m not ready!” Chono’s nose was bleeding! Now he’s banging on the box!

“The amazing Chono needs to escape within 5 minutes or he’ll be destroyed right along with this box!”

“Why is he trying to be the next Houdini?! He’s gonna get himself killed! I can’t watch a man die on screen, I’m going back to baking,” Y/N said anxiously.

“He’s got three minutes left to escape!” Y/N tried to tune the TV out as they turned on the mixer to make the frosting for the coffee cake.

“Two minutes! Just two minutes left!”

“There’s been an accident! This isn’t part of the show! Chono is burning alive in that crate! We’ll preopt the rest of the show until we can save him.” Y/N almost fell again running to their living room. “How could he survive this?! Why is the show still running?!” Y/N said flabbergasted.

“Times up! Mr Micheal will now use the swords! 17 swords to go!” ‘I know he’s probably escaped by now but damn is this stress inducing’ Y/N thought while checking on the cake in the oven.

“This is the last one folks. How could anyone survive this?!” ‘No one could, except maybe Kusuo’ Y/N thought absently.

“Now a construction crane is hoisting the box thirty meters on the air! And dropping it!” Y/N jumped a little while finishing icing the cake when the box hit the ground.

‘Glad I’m not there in person, I bet the stress of watching this in person is way worse,’ thought while sitting down on their sofa to watch the end of the special.

“That box has sustained catastrophic damage but we still have more in store for it! We’re lighting it on fire!!” ‘Okay that’s a little much, wasn’t it already on fire earlier?’

“And now we’re running over the crate… WITH A STEAM ROLLER! ‘Gosh that’s loud, wouldn’t want to be anywhere near that thing,’

“Chono’s box is as flat as a pancake, how could he survive that? Hold on, who’s that I see?! It’s the miraculous illusionist himself, Uryoko Chono! He’s alive!!!!!” The crowd cheered and Y/N let out a sigh of relief.

“Well folks that sure was some first rate escape artistry” “Tre bien right?” “Hey, stick around for what’s next! The world premiere of a mystery called ‘Love Fantasy’, my character will try to uncover the mystery of his girlfriend’s death! Enjoy the show!” The camera then fades to a commercial.

Out of nowhere Saiki teleported into Y/N’s living room. “Oh shit, are you good?” Saiki was still covered in dirt from his escape.

“Ya, just wanted to pick up some coffee jelly,” Saiki said while walking towards the kitchen.

“I just made coffee cake if you want some, but shower first before serving yourself a plate, I just cleaned up.” Y/N said while turning to Saiki.

“Fine fine,” Saiki said, turning around and walking towards the stairs. “Just pick whatever from my closet, we wear the same size clothes anyway.” Saiki gave Y/N a quick thumbs up before walking up the stairs.

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“Guess what I’ve been summoned. If I told you why I’d have to kill you Saiki, but for now let’s just say the world is in store for some pretty big changes.” Kaido said to Saiki before walking away.

“What? Did he make a friend?” “Oooo, we should follow him! I feel like being a little nosy today, come on!” Y/N said to Saiki before dragging him behind them to follow Kaido.

“Thurisaz, isaz, hagalaz,” a suspicious voice spoke from beyond the door Kaido knocked on. “Sowilō, gebō, fehu,” Kaido said back. “Ehwaz, you may enter.” the door then opened.

“Okay, I know we just got here, but what the hell was that?” Y/N whispered to Saiki, he only shrugged in response.

“I hope no one has followed you, the jet back wings.” “Not to worry Jade eyes, I’m-”

“Wait! There’s something you forgotten” “I’m sorry sir, you’re right. An energy field surrounds this room, if one doesn’t perform the holy grail ceremony within 66 seconds, they’ll vanish!” “That’s right”

Y/N could only hear Kaido clap then say “Laguz”, ‘He did something funny didn’t he? I wish I could see this,’ Y/N thought.

“So have you come to terms with the truth?”

“It’s not that easy for me. It’s like everything I’ve ever knew was a lie! You say in a past life, I was a top soldier in Dark Reunion. But then after discovering their plan to sort man kind, I stole the mystical stone Panalyze, and went rouge. And then when they cornered me, I performed the phantom technique and became a disembodied soul! And then I entered the unborn body of Shun Kaido?! It’s not easy to believe all that!”

“You seem excited by it” “I’m not really!”

“That’s fine. So long as you’re realizing the truth.” “I have always left like there’s something different about me from other kids.”

“The powers of the spirit within you are absolutely vital to destroying Dark Reunion. That’s why we’ll do what we can to help you regain your memories.” “What we? Who else is here?” Kaido asked while looking around the dark room.

“There are four others at this table besides me. Of course, they are all phantoms. I take it you dont see them, if that’s so, you have no chance to help us.” “No, no, I see them fine! They’re just not here physically right?”

“Ah yes, they are here in spirit but not body like myself. Unfortunately they don’t trust you.” “Why’s that?!”

“Because you haven’t yet presented the sworn ally absolution.” “Oh, I got that right here,” Kaido said confidently.

Y/N could hear the other person taking something from Kaido’s hand before saying “Woah, such detailed answers! It’s everything we’ve expected and more from the jet back wings! With this they’re sure to except you into the group!”

‘So ghosts have clicks now? Geez,’ Y/N thought.

“Great! If that’s all it takes I’ll be-”

“Stop!” “What?” “Mannaz, ingwaz, wunjō!” “Um, what was that?”

“Dark Reunion has found out about this room. We’re under attack!” “Attack?!” “They just killed the four phantoms,” Y/N could feel Kaido’s fear from beyond the door.

“What?! Phantoms can die?!” “Yes even phantoms can be killed, if we want to make it out of here alive, we need to act. Now we need to create a barrier.” “Ya, sure! So what do I do?” Kaido asked worriedly.

“Well first things first. I need you to put any and all metal objects on you into that special bag. Metal can interfere with the barrier magic.” “Right!”

“Even change?” “Yes! You know what- just put your whole wallet in,” “right.”

‘He sounds a little to excited to be swindled like that,’ Y/N thought that was odd.

“Great now repeat my movements” “okay!”

“Ansuz, jēra!” “Ansuz, jēra!”

“Ehwaz.” “Ehwaz!”

The room then feel silent, it took a lot of strength for Y/N not to laugh in that moment.

“Looks like we got io the barrier just in time.” “Ya that was close.”

“Now it’s time for us to go home.” “Oh okay! Then can I have my wallet back?”

“The barrier is still unstable. It’s much to risky to remove it from the bag.” “But it’s got my train pass-” “thanks for your help friend! If it was for you, I would’ve died today with the phantoms! Jet black wings, you our savior!”

“Oh, sure no problem.” “Come back same time tomorrow. And keep doing the sworn ally absolution.” “Yes” The door closed then Kaido walked away.

“Those guy’s stupid fantasies are the best thing ever! He couldn’t tell the absolution was my homework. All I had to do was play along with him! I even got the idiot to give me his wallet. Hehe Dark Reunion? Thanks for doing my homework delusioner HAHA!”

Suddenly the lights turned off.

“What the- who did that? AAAAAAA”

The next day.

“Don’t tell a soul okay? This meeting involves the fate of the world. Uh it’s open? AH what’s going on? THATS THE LOGO FOR DARK REUNION! Could it be their only one step behind me?!”

‘Pretty much’ Y/N thought while watching them from behind the corner.

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“What’s wrong Kaido? You afraid of the water?” Teased Nendo.

“Nu- no, t-that’s not true! I know how to swim jerk. I’m not afraid of the water.” Kaido’s tone of voice wasn’t very convincing.

“AH water-” Kaido then fell dramatically and was splashing harshly.

“I’LL SAVE YOOOOOOU!”

Y/N then looked over their shoulder, ‘I know that butt.’

“Yo, it’s Hairo!” “Oh hey Nendo! Hey Saiki.”

“You getting some sun too?” “Actually, I volunteer as a lifeguard.”

“AH IM DROWNING!” “I’LL SAVE YOU!” Hairo then ran off again.

“I can’t believe he does this job for free in this heat. Hey, when are you gonna get in the water buddy?” “Just forget I’m here,”

‘Maybe I should forget I saw them,’ Y/N thought briefly.

“You guys are no fun! I don’t want to go swim the the ocean all by myself! So! To the ladies!” Nendo said with a smirk.

‘Never mind. This job can wait, this is going to be funny,” Y/N thought while turning off their metal detector.

“With a face like that you don’t have a chance!” “Why don’t you try walking on water instead? You’ll have better odds at that.”

“Oh ho ho. My looks don’t matter. It’s about attitude.”

“I’m sorry, I find your face repulsive.” “are you joking? There’s no way I’m giving my number to that face. “Ever hear of a mirror? You should look at one before leaving the house.” “AAAAAA DON’T RUN AWAY!” Nendo said while running after the girls.

‘Wow that was harsh. But even from this far away I could tell he was staring that their chests,’ Y/N thought with little sympathy.

“Girls are stupid”

“Well arent you just a little cutie pie!” “I love his spiky hair! Don’t you?” “Hey, stop touching my hair,” “Hey, come over to our spot!” Nendo then stood over the three of them with a very intimidating face.

“Oh I just remembered I have to move my car?” “Ya, me too!”

Y/N then had the perfect view of Nendo barring Kaido in the sand, they laughed quite hard at that, then got back to work.

“Where’d my bro go? Bathroom? Saiki?! You going pee pee?!” This almost started Y/N’s laughing fit back up. Y/N then turned away, put their headphones back on and continued metal detecting.

“I ROCK!” ‘Wonder what that’s about, probably nothing,’ Y/N could hear Nendo’s shouting but chose to not think anything of it.

“WOOOOAAAH” when Y/N turned around again the spotted Nendo “walking on water”. ‘Now that’s not something you see everyday.’

“Thanks for saving my life. Sorry I joked about how ugly your face is.”

“I’m glad you didn’t ask for her number in return for your heroics.” “I try to be a gentleman, but if that hotty fell in love with me, I’m not gonna turn her down.” “She wouldn’t” “WHAT’D YOU SAY!”

When Y/N was packing up the group finally spotted them.

“Hey it’s buddy’s friend! What’s that?”

“Ya and why are you not in a swimsuit? We’re at the beach.” Kaido asked confused.

“Oh this old thing? It’s a metal detector, my uncle has this whole business finding things that are lost in the snow, sand, and even underwater! He sent me out to do this job for him, I was able to find the client’s phone not to long ago.” Y/N smiled brightly.

“And for the swim suit thing, I didn’t think I wasn’t goin to go deep in the water so I thought shorts would suffice. Funnily enough, I think these shorts are Kusuo’s” Y/N laughed.

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“Hairo, you got tan.” “Ya I volunteered at the beach as a life guard.”

“You’ve got a crush on someone?!” “Teruhashi is this a joke?” “Is it one of us?” “It’s someone I ran into over vacation. It was the 6th of August when I first fell in love with him!”

“I remember seeing you that day too. And the guy you were talking with, was Nendo!” “YOU ARE WAY OFF IDIOT! Ah uh, ya! His name is Yuriof Idiot. He’s a Russian exchange student, you should get to know him!”

“Hey Saiki. Just me or is Nendo acting weird today?” Kaido asked. “You’re the one being weird.”

“Like usually he’s always saying “we should do stuff after school buddy”” “He is quieter than normal.” Saiki agreed.

“Oh my look? Don’t worry about it, it’s a long story.” Kaido said while covering his eye covered by an eyepatch. ‘I wonder what his excuse is first dressing like that, but maybe Nendo acting different than is more interesting than Kaido’s story,’ Y/N thought.

Nendo made a couple dejected faces, did an odd form of sighing then left the class. “Pretty fishy right?” “My interest has peaked.”

“Alright -alright I’ll tell you. It all started-” “Hey! I heard you saying that Nendo was acting weird. Do you mind me tagging along to figure it out too? It sounds pretty interesting.” Y/N was able to interpret Kaido before Saiki got too annoyed at him speaking.

“Oh! Uh, sure, indubitably!”

“His house isn’t this way. He’s got something going on.” “Oh maybe!”

“Why are you two so excited about this? And better yet why are you so good as tailing people?” “Oh hush, you want to know about Nendo acting weird too right?”

“Saiki, L/N, check it. What’s Nendo looking at?” Nendo was making a creepy face at a little girl.

“Creepy” “creepy” “creepy”

“Nendo has a thing for little girls?!”

“This doesn’t look good. We should probably call the police.”

“A little quick to make assumptions but if it turns out that way then ya, we should do that.”

“He’s walking into a store! Looks like a flower boutique.” Kaido said a bit confused, Saiki was making a face that matched Kaido’s tone.

“Don’t tell me he’s got a girl-”

“No not Nendo” “No not Nendo”

“Ouch”

“Another one! That’s just gross” Nendo made another face towards a little girl.

“We’ll confirm it after we call the police,”

“Ew, ya.”

“No! We need more proof than this. I mean list of people like sun flowers. And it’s natural to smile when you see and cute little kid right?”

“I guess.”

“Good point. Let’s not be brash.”

“Hm another shop. Cakes! WOMAN AND CHILDREN CAN’T RESIST SWEET TREATS, SO WHEN YOU COMBINE A WOMAN AND A CHILD YOU GET A LITTLE GIRL!”

“Now you’re just jumping to conclusions,” Y/N agreed.

“I MEAN HAVE YOU EVER SEEN NENDO EAT THAT?! OR LIKE FLOWERS?! IT’S ALL MENT TO BE GIVEN TO SOMEONE, BUT HE HAS NO GIRLFRIEND TO GIVE THEM TO. THAT COULD ONLY MEAN THAT THEIR BAIT! AND THAT HES USING THEM TO LURE AWAY LITTLE GIRLS!”

“I think that anyone that works on has their own problems.”

“Bummer, they were all out if shortcake. Oh well, it’s not like anyone will ever eat this.”

“If it’s not for eating it must be bait” Kaido and Saiki said in unison.

“NENDO! YOUR SECRET’S OUT! HOW DARE YOU HURT LITTLE KIDS, YOU MONSTER!”

“Wait what secret? You mean my dad?”

‘I’m honestly surprised he didn’t think more about that accusation’ Y/N thought.

“So he’s dead?” “I visit on the anniversary of his bus accident.”

“But the flowers and the cake…” “respectful offerings for the dead. It’s normal to bring cakes and flowers to a family grave.”

“To think Nendo is lecturing us on normal.”

“That’s fair, I bring flowers and the favorite snack of one of my family friend’s to their gravesite.”

“When did your dad die Nendo?” “Well it was before I was born, he died trying to save a little girl who ran in front of a bus. Huh, maybe that means he was into little girls.”

“I hope not haha,” Kaido laughed nervously.

“That’s a dark joke.”

“So if he died before you were born, he must have been pretty young.” “He was only 18 or 19 years old. Here look! I’ve got his picture.”

“Hey this is just a picture of you!” “Nah it’s him! My mom says I look more like him each year, weird.” Nendo said sentimentally. “You don’t look like him, you look the same!”

“Are you okay Kusuo, you look like you’ve seen a ghost haha.” Y/N joked slightly but got a little more serious when Saiki’s face stayed shocked.

‘You haven’t developed a new power since you were like five, you better not have just developed the power to see ghosts.’ Y/N thought while looking at Saiki concerned.

“Hey wanna go get some ramen?”

“I know my powers are literally super natural, but personally, I don’t believe in ghosts. So I’ll pretend today at the graveyard never happened.”

“Is that really the best thing to do Kusuo?” Y/N laughed a bit, before following Saiki’s eyes to his mail box.

“It’s for me. Weird. I never get mail.”

The letter read “Kusuo Saiki, I know you have psychic powers.”

“What.” “Oh dear.”

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Next episode

[anarchy-and-piglins]

you asked and I deliver (I am exceedingly partial to “there are hybrid hunters and they are an active threat” osmp settings so be forewarned)

He spends a long time making bolt holes and hideaways around the valley, stocking them with weapons and food. When confronted, he says they’re in case of emergency for if hunters find the valley. They’re actually for the worst case scenario (the hybrids finally get fed up with having a human in their midst and run him out of town like he thinks he deserves) the rest of the crew finally put together their actual purpose only after Ran and Tubbo get angry one day after he messes with one of their projects. They yell loud and long enough to drive him into a panic, he vanishes, and the crew have to organize a party to find him before the hunters do.

They find Techno in the woods a few months after noticing the hunter’s traps seem to be sabotaged without their intervention. He gets cornered by a group of hunters, gutted and left for dead, and they barely manage to keep him alive. Niki is the first one he sees when he wakes up. he compliments her hair, and she decides right then and there that he’s staying.

Techno grew up in a mixed hybrid family and when they were captured, suffered a lot of scarring. He spends the first few months of his time with the osmp crew pretending to be a hybrid with his hybrid features surgically removed, because he’s afraid they won’t accept him and he can’t go back to the humans who did that to him in the first place.

None of the crew think about how dangerous it is for someone who can’t fly, can’t breathe underwater, cant shrink, and can’t teleport to navigate the floating islands and high bases. Techno manages through sheer stubborn grit for a while before a nasty fall takes him out of commission for a month.

He’s painfully touch-starved for a really long time. It takes a lot of late nights and awkward hugs before Phil sees him staring at a preening circle longingly and realizes touch starvation is also a human thing. He now gets to participate and they play with his hair until he passes out.

he’s usually barefoot. He’s also always got a few knives on him.

Ranboo has a lot of hair jewelry and Techno borrows it regularly. He’s the only one that’s allowed.

Okay okay okay, I'm munching and crunching on these as if they are a bowl of little snacks for me

Ough that one is painful but so so accurate to Techno's character. I wouldn't be surprised if the hidey holes are kind of meant for both, though at the end of the day Techno figures for a long while the hybrids are a bigger threat to him than other humans just because his expectations are so low

HSKJSQJHSQJSQQS YES nice and whumpy, perfect human!Techno osmp backstory

We've been over this but human!Techno pretending to be a hybrid is always tasty

YEAH, I love the 'accidental whump through oversigh' thing so much. Nobody is actively trying to make the commune hostile to Techno, it just is by design and he's too stubborn to mention it until he gets seriously hurt hehe

hsqkhqjqssq UEUEUEUEUE yes

I feel like walking around barefoot is such a bad idea he's gonna lose some toes. Good for him tho!

Peerpressureduo my beloved, I think Ranboo used to have long hair and then cut it off at some point (maybe because long hair was a sign of enderman royalty and they're doing the whole 'disowned by my shitty family' thing). Their hair is now a little above shoulder lenght and they still wear a lot of hair jewelry, but they love braiding Techno's hair and making it pretty and such. It's like, recontextualising something that used to be painful because it reminded them of their family

[samlacy]

One Last time

Summary:

Sam’s backside was for sure a heavenly sight for Gabriel.

Warnings(?): Smut, Sabriel (SamxGabriel), Light Bondage, Crying, Gabriel is mean (teasingly)

Enjoy!!

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It was Night time and the streets were empty. The town showed no trace of disturbance and people slowly drifted into sleep.

The motel was cold as the heater was malfunctioning. Sam laid his stomach on the bed as he shut his eyes, not to sleep, but just to rest his eyes a little.

The books and his laptop he used to do research were on the desk, messy and open. Which means Sam was going through all kind of stress too careless of it being messy or not.

His hair was tucked behind his ears as he laid his head on-top of his crossed arms and slowly sank into the comforting silence.

Not to his notice, Gabriel just teleported into his motel a few minutes ago, to tell the man ‘Hi’ (we all know it wasn’t only that).

The view was quite the amazing one for Gabriel. Especially when it was Sam’s whole bakery on full point. Almost like a tease.

The man was still fully clothed in his loose fit jeans, the button up plaid flannel he always wore and the black belt wrapped around his tiny waist.

Gab wasted zero time as he stripped out of his jacket, throwing it over a chair and slipping out of his shoes to not dirty the wood floor any more.

He walked up to the half asleep man, as his knee dipped onto the bed, followed by the other knee. Sam’s legs were pinned down by Gab’s, as his thighs were squeezing together, adding more fat to the already big area.

“Sam, you know it’s not very nice to tease me like this”, Gabriel finally spoke up as he straddled Sam by his words and his filthy hands all over the man’s ass.

He turned his head back to look at Gabriel, only to see the archangels hands and eyes inspecting his thighs up to his clothed ass.

“Well, it isn’t very nice to lurk up behind someone and then proceed to sexually assault them either”, Sam grabbed Gabriel’s one arm in a warning.

The archangel snatched his arm away as he took Sam’s wrists and pinned them on his back.

His other hand still stroking Sam’s thigh up and down before going up to the belt, snatching it off and then proceeding to tie Sam’s hands together.

“It’s not assault, if you’re secretly begging for me to touch you, Sammy”, Gabriel leaned down, his clothed cock rubbing onto Sam as his lips were caressing the half-demon’s neck with soft kisses.

The boy left a whine as he breathe hard into the cold air that was hurting his lungs slowly.

“Don’t”, Sam tries to talk, but the cock rubbing onto his ass, as it helps his own clothed cock rub onto his jeans, is not really helping.

“What, Sammy? Wanna tell me something?” The archangel wraps his hands around Sam’s waist as he riles them up to lift the man’s flannel up.

He was inspecting Sam’s moles on his back as it decorated perfectly on his tan skin. And Gabriel’s pale veiny hands caressing them was just enough to almost make him combust.

“Don’t, ah, call me that”, Sam manages to get out, though it sounded more like a whine than a threat.

Gabriel chuckles into his ear,

“You know, I don’t take orders from a pathetic human like you”, he bites onto the man’s neck as it gets a screech out of Sam, “especially if you are being so bratty to me, today. Was work stressful, Sammy?”

Sam buried his face into the pillows as he endures Gabriel having a deadly grip on his hips now, lifting them up so Sam gets on his knees while his head is pressed onto the pillows.

His hands now wander to rip the flannel off, noting to buy Sam a new one after this, can’t promise that he will remember though.

“That was my favorite one!” Sam whines as he muffles himself onto the pillow under him, deciding to ignore Gabriel completely now. Well if it works.

Gabriel mumbles under his breathe, clearly mocking Sam and moves onto pulling the man’s jeans off with his underwear. The hard cock slapped onto the man’s stomach as pre-cum was leaking.

Every single clothing that was on Sam was now on the hard wooden floor. Forgotten.

The archangel hugged him from behind as he trailed kisses down his back and up again. As he trailed down again, he was leaving kisses on Sam’s spread inner thighs, which made the half human shiver and his cock twitch.

With a harsh force, Gabriel grabbed his cheeks and spread them to show the man’s tight pink hole.

It was clenching around nothing as it was begging for at least anything inside. So Gabriel rubbed a thumb on it, as it got sucked in slightly, eagerly.

With no waiting he licked over Sam’s hole and insert his tongue right in without any warning. Sam tries to squirm away as it is “disgusting” and shouldn’t be done, especially by an angel.

Yet the grip was deathly onto him, stopping his movements and stilling the man in his place.

He was already a whining and whimpering mess under Gabriel’s touch which was as pleased to his imagination.

“Stop, that is weird-“, he got cut off by a harsh smack on his asscheek, as he gasped for air and just let go.

Sam moaned into his touch and started enjoying the sensation of the outside and inside of his hole.

Drool was leaving his mouth onto the pillow which he could care less about. In the moment he felt an immaculate pleasure wash over him, causing to him almost coming right and there.

And suddenly it disappeared.

Gabriel pulled out and let go of Sam completely. Another smack was this time left on the other cheek as the archangel snickers.

“Well, what is the fun in that if you already come? I still wanna use you in plenty of ways”, Gabriel confesses with a followed chuckle as he turns Sam around before moving onto the man’s chest, not completely sitting on it.

He zips down his jeans and pulls his underwear a little off so his hard cock comes out. It hits Sam right in the face as it lays on his lips. It was nothing like Sam imagined, Gabriel’s cock was thicker than he thought. He didn’t know how it would really fit into his mouth without his jaw aching after.

“Come on, suck it, Sammy”, he purrs as he lines it up to Sam’s pink lips and slightly shoves in. Sam let’s him by opening his mouth and takes the half of it in his mouth.

When Gabriel tried to go deeper, he started shaking his head as he was almost choking.

The archangel didn’t quite like it as he grabbed Sam by the hair and shoved the whole thing down his throat, followed with harsh thrusts into it.

“What a bitch”, Gabriel whispers as he lets a groan right after.

Sam’s mouth was warm and the gagging sounds left vibrations on his cock, which just made it closer for him to finish.

The lewd sounds and movements were getting Sam’s mind dizzy as it overwhelmed him by a little.

Gabriel seemed to quite like the show that was going on since he thrusted one more time before pulling out, letting go of Sam’s hair and watching Sam pant for air like crazy.

Sam coughed a little as he caught his breath. The scene in front of Gabriel was amazing. Sam’s long newly washed hair was sticking onto his forehead as tears built up on the corner of his eyes and lips were chapped.

He was a total mess and Gabriel loved it.

Moving on, Gabriel went off him and positioned himself between Sam’s legs as he inspected the wet hole of the man.

“Since you have been a bitch all day, might as well go in without preparation, right? You’re too much of a slut to not enjoy it anyway, Sammy”, Gabriel says with a smug smile on his face that pissed Sam off, but was a reason he loved him so much.

“No, please”, Sam breathes out with tears decorating his tired out face.

Gabriel’s heart hurt at the view as he sighed and rubbed the man’s thigh up and down.

“Fine, baby, tell me whenever it gets too much, okay?”, Gabriel reassures Sam as he kisses his inner thighs before gently sliding his index finger in.

Sam arches his back off the bed and melts into the slow and soft thrusts that entered his body.

“I love you, Iloveyou, Iloveyou—“, Sam whined out as tears kept spilling, but in a relieved way.

Gabriel shushed him as he now kissed Sam’s stomach before entering another and another finger. Now thrusting three fingers in and out of his lover while having the man sob so prettily under his touch.

Wondering how much more he could make him cry by inserting his cock.

When he thought Sam was ready, he pulled out, wiping his fingers on the sheets as he grabbed his dick to line it up at Sam’s hole.

“Im gonna put it in now, baby”, Gabriel whispered as he leaned in while his other hand was inserting it slowly.

Sam was whimpering as it was going in inch by inch until it was completely in his body.

His eyes were shut completely with dry tears on them. It didn’t last long because Gabriel chuckled deep as he caressed the lower part of his stomach. Which made Sam shoot his eyes open as it sent an odd pleasure through his body.

“Look, Sammy, I’m making your stomach bulge just by my cock”

It was Gabriel’s cock hitting his stomach from the inside. Sam’s eyes widened as he moaned erotic when Gab started moving quite fast inside him now.

His arms were on each side of Sam’s chest as he started fucking into the boy in an animalistic pace, making the bed shake.

Sam was now also shaking and moaning loudly. It kept hitting his sweet spot over and over just as if it knew the path there out of the back of his hand.

Gabriel leaned down to hug Sam while licking over his nipples, double penetrating him like it’s nothing.

He still had the smug face on him while it, looking up at Sam, which he got a glare back.

Sam wished he could smack that smile right off his face.

And there it was, the next moment sam knew, he started shooting white stuff out of his cock while he was shivering like crazy. He never had an orgasm like this.

Gabriel followed up by filling Sam up from the inside, his seed painting the man’s walls white and warm.

They stood like that, Gabriel hugging Sam, not pulling out as Sam’s cum was painting his stomach.

It was gross, but Sam liked the odd comfort of it.

While laying, Gab took Sam’s belt around his wrists off and threw it on the floor as he sat up, to pull out.

After he pulled out he tried to stand up, but Sam grabbed his arm in time. His face was fucked, but so hot.

“Just stay, let’s rest, please”, Sam begged with the puppy eyes he always used.

And Gabriel was a fool to fall into them.

A love fool.

“Okay, Sammy”, Gabriel smiled as he leaned back down, but this time turned to the side so Sam was laying on his arm, buried in Gab’s chest.

“I love you, too, Sammy”, Gabriel whispers since he couldn’t before.

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[serickswrites]

Make Me Your Villain IX

Master list here (links to chapters, summary, and character bios)

Warnings: violence, threat of violence, abduction, threat of drowning, hypothermia, water inhalation, lacerations, exhaustion, power exhaustion, fire, threat of death

Nova’s first mission was very successful. She kept herself concealed in the shadows that Liam had cloaked her with. She didn’t interfere and merely watched as Liam confronted a serial home invader. She watched as Liam quickly disarmed the man. And she watched as he didn’t kill, didn’t even hurt, the man. He merely restrained him with shadows until the family he had saved came out.

“Call the police, get them to come out here. I’ll make sure he can’t get away until they arrive,” Liam told the father, an middle aged man with a shock of red hair. He held his wife and crying child.

“You saved us,” the man said in awe. “When I saw you I thought we were going to die. You saved us.”

“Thank you!” The woman threw her arms around Liam’s neck, pulling him into a tight hug.

Liam awkwardly patted her back. “It’s ok, don’t mention it.”

“But you aren’t evil. We should tell everyone Jude has been lying to us,” the man said.

Liam shook his head. “Don’t draw attention to yourselves. Just know that one day, I will stop Jude. And maybe then you can tell your story.”

Liam teleported Nova and himself out of there before the couple could say much else.

“You should let them tell the world how good you are, Liam.” Nova said as she stepped out into the Haven. She still wasn’t used to traveling by teleportation, but it wasn’t as bad as the first couple of times.

“Too risky. Thanks for listening to me today.” And before Nova could say anything else, he teleported away.

Nova tried to not take it personally. She would have liked to have spent more time with him. She rededicated herself to training over the next several weeks. The stronger she could get, the faster Liam would be to let her handle herself on missions.

Liam took Nova on another mission a month later. He had set the same conditions. This one was less successful. By the time the two of them had arrived at the apartment in the middle of town, it was empty.

“Jude took her,” Liam said solemnly after checking the apartment twice for any sign of life.

“Do you think he killed her?” Nova tried to not let herself think of how close she had to being that person.

Liam frowned. “Not yet. I think he may want to keep this one around for a while. See if her power is worth having in himself.”

“What could she do?”

“Influence the emotions of others. She can change how you feel. Heighten feelings.” Liam sighed. “Could be a useful power. Getting a whole group of people to support you even when there is evidence that they shouldn’t.”

The next mission Nova went on, she could be helpful. A boat had sunk off the coast of Hiraethian and Liam teleported people out of the water one at a time. Nova healed each survivor of the minor injuries—mild hypothermia, water inhalation, and one facial laceration. She was glowing with pride by the time Liam teleported them home hours later.

“You did really great today,” Liam said, his face haggard with exhaustion.

Nova didn’t want to ask him how bad it was, how close he had come to burning out again. The last time she had, he’d brushed her off and was gone for a couple of days. “Thank you,” she took her bubblegum pink hair out of the bun she had put it in when she was in the midst of healing the boat passengers. She gave a big yawn. “Tiring to heal that many people though.”

“You should rest.”

“You, too, Liam.”

She got into the rhythm of going on a couple of missions a month, and with each subsequent mission, Liam let her do more and more. First it was healing at the very end, then it was helping heal in the middle, until he gave her free reign, no shadows concealing her from whatever they faced.

And so when the building they were evacuating went up in flames around them, Nova was ready to do whatever Liam told her to do. She knew Jude had started the fire, no doubt hiding his tracks of trying to abduct someone from the building—a mind reader. She was scared, how could she not be, but she was ready to pull the remaining civilians out and heal whoever needed healing.

“What do you want me to do?” Nova shouted over the roar of the flames.

Liam looked at her for a moment before grabbing her wrist. “I want you to be safe.” And Nova felt the in between close around her. She started to turn to yell at Liam, but realized he wasn’t with her.

“Liam?” Nova called as she stepped out into the Haven. How had she teleported without him?

“Where’s Liam?” Henry said. Liam had teleported her directly into the library.

“I don’t…oh God!” Nova’s mouth went dry as she realized Liam was still in the fire. “Turn on the news,” she ordered Henry.

Henry turned to Hiraethian’s local news station and the two of them watched the coverage of the apartment complex fire. The fiery inferno was huge. But there was no word of Liam being caught. Or that Jude was on the scene.

“Do you think he got stuck?” Henry said, not tearing his eyes from the screen. “How did he teleport you without coming, too?”

“I don’t know. I don’t know.” Nova said a silent prayer that Liam would be safe. “NO!” She shouted as the building collapsed on the screen.

“Got out of there just in time then,” Liam said as he stepped out of the in between next to Nova.

“You’re ok! You’re ok!” Nova said as she grabbed Liam’s face and pulled it to hers and kissed him.

Liam initially froze the moment her lips touched his. But after a breath, he softened, opening to her. He kissed her back passionately. Henry cleared his throat. Nova pulled back, her cheeks flushing with embarrassment. She had totally forgotten about Henry.

“Now that you two have finally, FINALLY, gotten over that, can we talk about what you just did?” Henry looked at the two of them, his look of smug satisfaction telling Nova that she had not been subtle in her pining for Liam.

And perhaps Liam hadn’t been subtle either. He ducked his head sheepishly, “Sorry, Henry.”

Henry rolled his eyes. “I don’t care about that. Maybe now the tension in this house will fade. You have no idea how insufferable the two of you were to live with this past year. No, I want to talk about how you teleported Nova out of there and didn’t come with her.”

Liam thought about it for a moment. “I just knew I had to get you out of there. So when I grabbed you, I just visualized you going through the in between and ending up here. And you did.”

“You teleported her without knowing if it would work?” Henry frowned.

Liam shook his head. “No, I knew it would work. I….I just knew. It was like a secret I always suspected and then suddenly I knew. I had to get you to safety, Nova.”

“Next time, you come, too. I need you safe, too, Liam.” Nova leaned into Liam’s arms, savoring his touch. “Always remember I need you safe, too.”

Tags: @dutifullykrispyland@jesssmolfur@parad0xical2@st0rmm@keeper-of-all-the-random-things@pigeonwhumps@gala1981@allylovessweets

[mnogogrannik]

on the topic of patho 2 bugs improving the narrative, there’s the aglaya survives bug. so normally her story culminates either in her staying in town & with her role and being found dead outside the town hall the next morning, or you can try to leave with her on a train out of town, which ends up with you being caught and her being shot by the army and her body left in the steppe. inevitability of fate and adherence to role and all that (more severe this time because it’s always directly ending in death for her whereas in classic it was just implied it’d happen after the game is over).

but! she can in fact survive this! and it requires really specific behaviour and decision-making on the part of the player that i think serves to strengthen the “narrative” to this bug, and which plays to the themes of the game as a whole.

so, if you’re careful about it, and maybe ignoring your duties for the day, you can stock up on a bunch of food, water, coffee, medicine, etc. all things you’d need to survive if you had no access to any other resources such as townsfolk for trading or a bed for sleep. essentially, packing for a long journey. you have to be conscious of what you’re bringing, and also of your state before you arrive to the station, so as to stagger out your rations properly.

aglaya’s train out of town event occurs very late at night/early in the morning on the last day of the game, and is comprised of several sections; there’s the start where you meet her on the platform, the middle, where you ride & converse with her in the train carriage, and then the end, when the train is stopped and the army executes her. each section requires a conversation to advance - the stages don’t advance on their own.

here’s the fun part! you have your final conversation with her to get on the train. and then, you wait. and wait. and wait. her voice lines still play as she’s near you, but you can’t ever try to engage actively with her again. all you can do is sit there, and feed or heal yourself as your hunger rises or your health runs low. this takes a long time even if you wait until the last moment to start this quest - you have to start it during the night, and wait through the entire day, never moving or speaking.

why do this? because at 10 pm the next day, with the failure to find the courier carrying the inquisitor’s orders, the game’s late ending will kick in. you’ll be immediately teleported to the theatre, and mark chastises you, and aglaya is now nowhere to be found for the rest of the game (the tiny chunk that you have of it left), but on the bound screen we can clearly see that she’s never marked as dead.

so, you can get aglaya to survive to the end of the game - you just have to forsake your duties, your bound, the entire town, the ability to talk to her, and the entire rest of the game, which i think is a fitting sacrifice, thinking of it in the terms of your choice from p1 haruspex. her story is cast off, the rest of her life is in some off-screen limbo, but it is guaranteed she is there to live it. the ‘where’ isn’t important.

this bug (well, less bug i guess, more oversight) has mystified me since i first found out about it - the fact that the character whose entire story revolves around fate and more importantly the idea that fate isn’t something you can subvert or shift, can totally avoid that fate through an unplanned act, like a little hole to escape through, unseen by god. it being unintentional and throwing off the events of the game entirely, so much so that you have to take it as your new goal instead of reaching a fulfilling ending for the town is so fitting and satisfying to me that i half wonder if it was that unintentional at all (though it must be because i imagine it would be patched out otherwise). the inability to speak to her ever again despite her being so close to you calls to mind the myth of orpheus and eurydice, as well - you can keep her alive and safe and all you have to do is not interact with her, not doubt yourself or your goal.

it’s one of my favourite things in patho 2, and i don’t think i’ve ever seen a bug as narratively-fitting and miraculous.

[honourablejester]

Numenera Setting Notes: Points of Interest Part II

Moving over into the Beyond, the less-than-settled area of the Ninth World. This will have to be multiple posts, because the Beyond is huge and weird and woolly, and there’s a LOT out here. Not going to lie, I do think it’s cooler than the Steadfast? While the Steadfast has some cool weirdnesses in it, it is generally calmer and more medieval-fantasy toned. The Beyond has a lot more batshit SF vibes, and I’m here for them.

This is all literally just from the first half of the Discovery Corebook chapter on the Beyond. It’s HUGE. But. Some locations/setting details from the Beyond in Numenera that make me happy:

Part II: The Beyond Part I (Numenera: Discovery)

The Cloudcrystal Skyfields. Literally the entire area. This is what I want out of vast science fantasy worldbuilding. It’s a sky full of huge crystals floating over a desert formed from the shattered shards of fallen ones. There’s a dune sea pierced by crystal shards. There’s a moving city in there called the Crowd City that’s built/formed of corpses, strange, preserved, possibly petrified corpses, and this whole city crawls around the place, and everyone (sensibly) avoids it. There’s a lake so transparent it’s invisible and the fish seem to be swimming through air. There’s a mountain in the middle which may or may not exist, because some people can find it and others can’t. Uxphon, the main living, inhabited city in the area, built up off the plain in the Black Riage mountains, is built into a twisting complex of massive ceramic prior-world piping that extrudes out into a canyon. I just. If you have a fantasy, high magic, high tech universe, feel free to go off a bit with the landscaping, you know? Have an invisible lake and a vast field of crystals floating in the sky and a corpse city crawling around the place, why not. Go off a bit. Have fun. Make it big and bonkers and just a little bit horrifying. The Cloudcrystal Skyfields are excellent and I adore them.

Mt. Zanlis, in the Black Riage Mountains. Worshipped as a living being, a god, and Aeon Priests say that the heart of the mountain is artificial and run by a reality-warping AI that makes weird weather, teleports people into and off itself randomly, and generally makes life weird in the vicinity. Because everybody loves a living machine-god mountain that makes weird weather, right?

Hidden Naresh, in the Black Riage Mountains. Basically a hidden fungal skid row, it’s a weird writhing creepy bioluminescent fungal city in the mountains whose primary export is psychedelic substances (‘mycos’) and despair. Humans and abhumans and all sorts of others find their home there. The city’s leader has a harem of Nibovian Wives, which appear to be basically genestealers, who take human, ahem, genetic material and transmit it to ultraterrestrial (possibly Lovecraftian) entities who use it to make distinctly nonhuman children. So. Weird creepy drug city full of alien genestealers? I mean, why not.

The Slant Milieu, again in the Black Riage Mountains, or rather just below them. It’s a wide strip of land that is blasted flat by a constant wind off the mountains called the welkerwind. As in, trees grow sideways along the ground instead of up, if they grow at all, sort of blasted flat. People live in burrow towns in a network of prior-age tunnels that honeycomb the area, and most of the wildlife in the area is ferociously wind-adapted. And valuable. There’s a (very dangerous) insect here called a caffa whose iridescent goldgleam wings and golden silk from their cocoons is really valuable, but also really hard to gather, so there’s a whole tense industry around collecting enough of it to trade out to big cities in the Steadfast. There’s also a whole community of once-criminals and their families who were sent here as forced labour to harvest them, and who realised that this was the perfect land to slaughter your guards and vanish into instead. And the only tall things in the area are two prior-age artefacts. The first is the windmoldens, which appear to be hundred-foot-tall ancient black wind turbines, which would probably power quite a lot, but nobody can figure out how to hook up to them. The second is the Susurrus, which looks like a massive junk sculpture, but is actually an environmental musical instrument, which is played by the welkerwind. I honestly love this entire area as well. It’s the concept of katabatic winds writ really large. I love it.

The Ausren Woods, in the Plains of Kataru. I’ll be honest, I just love the shape of this entry. It takes the form of several excerpts of a diary found in the woods, a ten day arc of a visitor admiring these lovely purple trees and their absolutely delicious fruit, and then getting sick, and then getting too sick to move, and then growths coming out of their stomach, and then the growths burrowing into the soil, and crippling them with agony when they try to cut them, and then the diary ends. And then, after all that, there’s this lovely dry note by the Corebook itself at the end: “The Ausren Woods are a large forest of purple trees that grow nowhere else. Do not eat the fruit of these trees.” That’s it. That’s the entry. A quick horror short story, and a dry ‘don’t eat the fruit’ at the end. Excellent.

The Beanstalk, in the Plains of Kataru. Because they wanted to play on one of the class names being ‘Jack’. But. This is why I love Numenera’s playing with POV. To the medieval-era people of the Ninth World, it’s a metallic beanstalk up to a giant’s castle in the sky. To a modern reader of sci-fi, I’m here wondering is that an orbital elevator? It’s a tower of metal and glass that leads up to the ‘stalk’ a strip of a strange material about 10ft wide and a few inches thick, that just extends beyond view into the sky. The whole edifice causes a local gravitational distortion that has five huge boulders hanging in the sky around it. Not for any apparent reason, so it’s possible they’re just a side effect. And, like. That sounds like a gravity-isolated orbital elevator to me? If I was a Nano in its vicinity, my fingers would be itching. There is a thousand-strong town under the rocks outside, pushing any buttons you might happen to find is likely a bad idea, but gosh I wanna push some buttons. The top end of the elevator, if it is an elevator, could be broken and I’ve just zoomed myself up into orbit to die, which would likely be karma given that I might have just killed 1000 people, but … I wanna push the button, Max?

Dessanedi, the Jagged Wastes. Again, as a region, and for the same reason as the Crystal Skyfields. It’s a sheet of splintered glass. The whole area. It’s a desert that got literally glassed, and then carved up by wind or other forces in the aftermath. I just love when fantasy lets its hair out and gives me some alternate landscapes. There’s little beetles in there called Warrow Beetles that eat glass and it’s gently noted that most things therefore can’t eat them. I love it.

The Great Slab, in the Jagged Wastes. Because it’s a jazzed up sci-fi version of the Lost World. The Slab is a vast artificial plateau, whose strange organic synth-metal sides ooze a red-black oil that makes them impossible to climb, and which contains a giant gash on top called the Driftless Valley that’s its own whole little isolated ecosystem that has nearly no contact with the outside world. Nobody’s been up there, because the slab is featureless otherwise, and the sides are impassible. So unless you find a flying machine or ability, you ain’t getting up there. So … anyone want to play Lost World/Dinotopia up there?

Druissi, a town in the Ba-Adenu Forest. It’s ‘built on the visible part of ancient, unknown wreckage that generates a stable, low-level heat year-round’. Which. Concerns me? I know it’s been there for hundreds or thousands of years and it’s been fine, but the combination of ‘wreckage’ and ‘heat’ just has me concerned. Like. I would want measurements over time scales. How stable is stable? Is it stable but increasing? Because, yes, making clever use of ancient machinery to live your life, very cool, but also … wreckage. That’s generating heat. I have concerns.

The Untethered Legion, also in the Ba-Adenu Forest, but towards the swampy, bayou-esque southeastern extremes, where the forest is a morass of red oily mud that dries itself grey and hardens and then liquifies itself in cycles, and births black mutant hounds as it liquifies again. And an army of biomechanical humanoid riders waits to ride them every time, just gathering in the forest, waiting for gods know what. This is one of those ones where I feel like the science fiction perspective makes it worse than the fantasy one. Because the fantasy perspective is just a cursed land birthing demons. The SF one is a vast biofactory manufacturing supersoldiers/supersoldier mounts. I don’t know if it’s just me, but somehow that makes it worse.

I really am vibing with the Beyond, over here. The Steadfast, for all its obelisks and inverted cities and telepathic cliff faces, did feel much more ‘ease the audience used to medieval fantasy into this’ a bit, while the Beyond is taking the gloves off and shaking your sleeves out and going, ‘right, that’s done, now let’s get down to business’. Let’s throw some landscapes in here. Some orbital elevators. Some AI mountains. Am I being unfair? It’s possible I’m being unfair. But I just want to get a bit wild and woolly with my hyperworld-SF-viewed-through-a-fantasy-lens over here, and the Beyond feels like it brings that a lot more than the Steadfast does.

Looking forward to the second half of this chapter!

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it's dangerous to go alone

two years after shadow and vio's evil takeover, the gang reunites for dinner. this is a multi-chapter continuation of the oneshot "thank darkness for that," which introduces a corruption-type au that's actually super chill. definitely read the one-shot before following this one!

chapter 7 of 7: the final boss (4441 words)

Red takes Blue by the hand, leading them both to a large painting on the wall opposite from where they entered. It looks out-of-place with its ornate frame, and a small golden plaque that Red currently obscures.

“All art is good art,” Red remarks, “but this composition still feels wrong.”

Blue cocks his head, sizing up the piece. It’s a nighttime scene in dark blues and greys, depicting a tree-lined path leading towards a dark mountain.

“There should be something in the foreground,” Red continues. “It’s weird, but I feel like I’ve seen this somewhere before…”

“Guys!” shouts Shadow across the room, although Blue can’t quite bring himself to look away from the painting. “I think I know who’s been living down here!”

“Oh,” Red says quietly, something in his voice breaking Blue out of his trance. “There’s a plaque.”

Red steps backwards, finally allowing Blue to read the name of the strange painting:

Evil Spirit from Beyond

PHANTOM TINGLE.

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“So we just have to insert the swords, right?” Blue asks, sizing up the puzzle-lock on the dungeon’s (hopefully) final door.

“Only one way to find out,” Green says, sliding his sword into one of the four slots. They hear a loud click and Red follows suit.

Green cups his hand around his mouth and turns his head. “Hey, Vio! We need your sword!”

The Kings of Hyrule rejoin the group hand in hand. Seeing Vio, Red beams.

“Finally, you’re wearing it!”

Vio sheepishly rubs the back of his now-exposed neck. “The scrunchie is really nice, Red. Thank you again.”

“I can make more, as long as we survive!”

With that somber reminder, Blue takes a deep breath and relinquishes his sword. Vio does the same.

The Links are no longer surprised by the puzzle-solve jingle, but they certainly aren’t expecting the sudden appearance of a whole other door. But there it is, right beside the large now-unlocked door, as if there’s always been an easy way out.

“That’s weird,” Zelda says, cracking it open. Daylight pours into the dark hallway, and Blue has so many questions about the teleportation magic holding this entire dungeon together. How is Tingle capable of this? And why is he only doing it now?

Zelda cranes her head. “It leads to the woods outside Castle Town.”

“No shit?” Shadow asks, joining her. “Well, no shit.”

“I’m not going anywhere,” Vio says, arms crossed over his chest. “I’m not letting Tingle take the throne. He wants me to play his game—so I’ll play, and I’ll win.”

Blue watches Shadow take his husband’s side. “Right there with you. Who knows if we’d be able to get into Castle Town, anyway? Tingle could have turned the entire Royal Guard against us already.”

Vio nods. “That’s what I would do in his place. I’d then put out a cash reward for us, dead or alive, and make sure everyone in Castle Town knows it.”

Red turns to him with deep concern. “You’re kinda evil, Vio.”

“Yeah, Red, I know.”

“But why would Tingle even include this door in the first place?” Green asks no one in particular. “Seems counter-intuitive to the whole ‘making us betray each other’ theme we’ve seen so far.”

Blue crosses his arms over his chest. “I think it makes perfect sense—kind of a final ‘screw-you’ to Vio and Shadow, giving us the chance to abandon them while they have no choice but to clean up their mess.”

Vio’s gaze is razor-sharp. “So, will you?”

“I’m not going anywhere.”

“Aw, Blue,” Red coos, taking his hand. “I’m so proud of you!”

Blue, ironically, can feel himself turn red. “I… shut up.”

Zelda locks eyes with Shadow. “You already know I’m staying. Green, you too, I assume?”

“Yep,” he answers, not even skipping a beat.

Shadow looks from Zelda to the room’s only other occupants. “We should tell our new friends what’s going on, don’t you think?”

She gives him a thumbs-up, addressing the four hinoxes who appear to have started a game of cards during Vio’s emotional outburst-monologue-apology. “We think the next room is the last,” Zelda informs the group. “You don’t have to come if you don’t want to. There’s a door out of here and you’re welcome to use it.”

The largest of the four crosses his arms over his chest and gives the hinox closest to him a look. She only shrugs, while the smallest of the group seems to struggle with her words.

“I think it’s just… I’m not really a fighter,” she eventually says, and the hinox beside her nods in agreement. “I want to help you all, and I’m not very happy I was used in this weird dungeon thing, but…”

“It’s okay,” Shadow tells the group. “You’ve already been put in enough danger on our behalf.”

“Good luck out there,” Shadow tells the hinoxes as they head for the door. “Hopefully we’ll see you soon.”

“Hopefully not,” the largest says kindly, “but we still appreciate your help. Good luck to you all… even the nepotism hire.”

The hinoxes depart without further discussion, and in their absence Green cracks a smile. “So Vio’s the nepotism hire, right?”

The nepotism hire scowls. “I—I’m not! I… well… if you define it in a certain way… never mind. Let’s just figure out a plan before we rush into anything.”

“My plan is to stab whatever’s in there until it dies,” Blue says, already reaching for his sword.

It doesn’t budge.

“Never mind.”

Green reaches for his own weapon with equally discouraging results. “Tingle must want us unarmed.”  

“Wish I had my powers,” Shadow mutters, and then pauses. “Wait. Are my powers, like, permanently gone now?”

Blue and Red wince. “Sorry,” they say in unison.

Shadow takes a deep breath. “It’s only fair, I guess—I relieved you of your burdensome Triforce powers, and you took my super fun and cool Dark World magic. Not like you had a choice, anyway.”

“If it makes you feel any better,” Red says, “I can get you in touch with an amateur magician I know from the craft store.”

Vio makes a stink face. “Pull a rabbit out of your hat and we’re getting a divorce.”

“A-ha, but the real trick is that I get to marry you again!”

Green claps his hands together. “Guys, focus. Weapons—what do we have?”

“Red’s got his fireplace poker,” Blue says, and Red raises it enthusiastically. “Put that down, you maniac, you’re going to take someone’s eye out.”

“That’s the plan!”

“Do you still have your stake?” Vio asks Shadow, who shakes his head.

“Nah. Burned up. You?”

“Same, actually.”

Green turns to Zelda. “You still have something, right? From the stolen furniture room?”

She sighs. “Just a fountain pen. Not sure what I was thinking, really.”

Green tries and fails to smile reassuringly. “You never know.”

“I think I should lead,” Red tells Blue, tugging at his sleeve.

Blue frowns. “Are you sure?”

“Yes. I know you guys have my back.”

Blue’s heart skips a beat as Red approaches the large door. It opens with a loud creak, revealing a large circular room. The six file inside and allow the door to slam shut behind them.

“It looks empty,” Blue observes, scanning over the space. They appear to be in some kind of servants’ quarters, long abandoned by Hyrule’s current leadership. A few wooden tables litter the center of the room and bunk beds line the walls. The only other doorway is open, seemingly leading to a small kitchen.

“No exits,” Vio says. “What… what is this place?”

“It’s your castle,” Green retorts, not unkindly. “Zelda, any ideas?”

“I don’t think servants have actually lived inside the castle since my grandparents assumed the throne. Everyone has housing in Castle Town.”

Shadow is the first to separate from the group, walking over to the bunk beds. “Looks like one’s unmade.”

Blue watches Vio quickly join his husband’s side, while Green and Zelda search the tables for useful items.

“I think someone’s been living here,” Green says, holding up a glass bottle full of milk. “Smells fresh.”

Red takes Blue by the hand, leading them both to a large painting on the wall opposite from where they entered. It looks out-of-place with its ornate frame, and a small golden plaque that Red currently obscures.

“All art is good art,” Red remarks, “but this composition still feels wrong.”

Blue cocks his head, sizing up the piece. It’s a nighttime scene in dark blues and greys, depicting a tree-lined path leading towards a dark mountain.

“There should be something in the foreground,” Red continues. “It’s weird, but I feel like I’ve seen this somewhere before…”

“Guys!” shouts Shadow across the room, although Blue can’t quite bring himself to look away from the painting. “I think I know who’s been living down here!”

“Oh,” Red says quietly, something in his voice breaking Blue out of his trance. “There’s a plaque.”

Red steps backwards, finally allowing Blue to read the name of the strange painting:

Evil Spirit from Beyond

PHANTOM TINGLE.

Thrown back by a sudden flash of light, Blue and Red scramble towards the center of the room. Green and Zelda help them to their feet, while Vio and Shadow vault over tables to join their friends. The six watch in horror as a spectral form begins to emerge from within the painting.

Hovering a few feet above the ground, a ghostly version of Tingle flashes them a menacing grin. It holds up what Blue first thinks is a sword, but quickly recognizes as a wooden spoon. Phantom Tingle swings the spoon with a grunt, sending a dangerous ball of light in Blue’s direction.

“Guys, scatter!”

As if in slow motion, Red throws himself between Blue and the projectile. He whacks it back with his fireplace poker, temporarily stunning Phantom Tingle with his own attack.

The other four do as they’re told, running to opposites of the large room, but Blue stays at Red’s side. “I’m not leaving you,” he huffs, and scans the surrounding tables for anything he can use to help.

Phantom Tingle sends another attack towards Red, who deflects it flawlessly yet again. Unfortunately this time the boss is prepared, and parries the energy ball for a sequence of nail-biting back-and-forth volleys. It takes a few passes, but Red finally manages to land a hit again.

This time Blue acts, running over to the stunned enemy and throwing a punch as a last resort. He misses the ghost entirely, and to add insult to injury, gets whacked on the head by the wooden spoon.

“Ow!” Blue rubs the point of impact and rolls out of the way as Tingle prepares another energy attack. He watches Red brace himself and then glances back at their enemy, who seems to be taking just a little more time than expected to send out a projectile.

It’s changing the timing, Blue realizes, and knows Red isn’t prepared to respond. A strange instinct causes Blue to snatch up an empty glass bottle and use it to deflect the attack—and despite this being a terrible idea, it somehow fucking works.

Phantom Tingle takes the hit, and this time it’s more than stunned. Red grabs Blue by the arm as the single boss splits into four. The Phantom Tingles, plural, are only distinguishable by the colors of their spectral forms: green, purple, red, and—of course—blue.

It appears they’ve entered the second phase.

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“Look out!”

Green dodges at Zelda’s warning, just in time to avoid the green(er than usual) Phantom Tingle’s attack. The enemy taunts him as it zooms around, phasing in and out of thin air. It seems able to turn invisible at will, making it impossible to even tackle.

Beside Green, Zelda narrows her eyes. “Really wish you had your sword right now.”

“Yeah, join the club. And hey, Zel?”

“Yes, Green?”

“Sorry for being a jerk about your dinner party plan. You were right the whole time.”

Zelda turns to face him, her expression soft. “Aw, it’s—OW!”

Out of nowhere, Tingle manages to land a hit—nothing too serious, but enough to tear the fabric of Zelda’s business-casual attire.

“Get behind me,” Green says without hesitation, but Zelda shakes her head. She runs a hand along the now-torn neckline of her dress, scowling… but then her expression shifts.

“Actually,” she tells Green, “you get behind me.”

She withdraws the stolen fountain pen from within her bra and twists it in half, revealing the cartridge inside. Zelda swings half of the pen in an arc, coating their invisible enemy in black ink.

With the other half of the pen—the sharp top half—she brutally stabs Phantom Tingle until it disappears.

Green’s jaw drops as Zelda turns to face him. She tosses the pen pieces over her shoulder with an easy smile.

“Not sure why I ever doubted myself,” she says, and Green thinks she’s the coolest person in the world.

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Vio and Shadow take Blue’s command to scatter seriously, ducking inside the small kitchen Tingle has been apparently using on a daily basis. A large pot of pumpkin soup remains on the stove, with an empty potion bottle beside it.

“We should have been paying more attention,” Vio mutters as he crosses over to the oven. He makes sure it’s off, because Hylia forbid Tingle try to murder them and leave the burner on, and then turns back to Shadow across the counter island.

Well, back to Shadow and… Shadow.

“Wait,” Vio says slowly, “I thought you couldn’t shapeshift anymore… which… well, you wouldn’t shapeshift into yourself, even if you could… and there are two of you… I am very confused.”

Both Shadows roll their eyes.

“Purple Tingle flew in here and shapeshifted into me,” explains one of them, while the other crosses his arms.

“No, that’s Purple Tingle, he’s describing what he did.”

Vio looks from one Shadow to the other, already hating where this going.

“Well? What are you waiting for? Kill the imposter!”

“I’m obviously me, Vio, kill him—”

“Both of you, shut up,” Vio says tiredly, picking up a kitchen knife still covered in pumpkin guts. This feels like the third time he’s felt directly responsible for his husband’s potential death tonight—how many times will he have to prove his devotion?

Vio thinks back to earlier, in the throne room, when he’d been so stressed out about the sunlight hitting Shadow at the wrong angle. Then in the chamber of stolen furniture, where they’d both been immobilized, and in the dark hallway, where they’d been forced to separate. He thinks about Zelda, fiercely protective of Shadow, and Red, being kind enough to make him a gift by hand. Vio remembers his own conflicting emotions when Blue had described his time in the Dark World—the revelation that Shadow hadn’t been dying at all, but simply letting go of the darkness that had once defined him.

Vio remembers standing in front of the Dark Mirror, so many years ago, struggling with the mallet’s heavy weight and Shadow’s precious life in his hands.

His grip tightens around the knife.

“I could tell you something only your real husband would know,” one of the Shadows offers, and it could be his Shadow, but there is no guarantee. Vio doubts any single piece of evidence could be reassuring enough for him to hurt either of these creatures.

But if he doesn’t act in his husband’s defense… who will?

“Okay, fuck this.”

Shadow—the real Shadow—rips a frying pan off the kitchen wall and smashes it against the imposter’s skull. Not-Shadow transforms at once, first into a purple ghostly Tingle, and then into nothing at all.

Vio looks at Shadow, dumbfounded. “You… you just…”

Shadow just shrugs, that infallibly irreverent grin on his face. “I know you’d do anything for me, Vio. But I can do things for me too.”

Vio drops the knife, takes a deep breath, and allows himself to be held.

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The red Phantom Tingle is basically made of fire, and it’s ironically the one thing Red’s fireplace poker can’t defeat.

He shakes out his hand as the weapon clatters to the ground, its metal far too hot for Red to grip, even by the handle. Whatever makes up this thing, it burns much more intensely than any natural fire. Not even the fire rod could omit this level of heat, and forget destroying the monster—Red has absolutely no idea how he’s even supposed to touch it.

Red steps backwards and catches Blue out of the corner of his eye, struggling with his own color-coded enemy. His Phantom Tingle appears to be made of ice, and he’s having similar trouble figuring out how to approach it.

Until he throws a punch, that is, and is frozen in place.

“Again?” Red exclaims, rushing to his friend/employee/roommate’s aid. As expected, the fiery Tingle follows him right over to Blue, melting him free just by proximity.

“Holy shit,” Blue says and Red envelopes him in a hug.

“Glad you’re okay! But we still have to fight these—”

The red and blue Phantom Tingles collide, instantly defeating each other with opposite elemental energies.

“Oh,” Red remarks. “That makes sense.”

“Really hoping that’s the last phase,” Blue groans as Vio and Shadow exit the kitchen. They look fine, if a little shaken, and Green and Zelda…

“Why are you covered in ink?” Blue asks them. Zelda just grins.

“Fountain pen?” Shadow asks her with a similar expression.

She nods. “Fountain pen.”

“Are we done?” Vio asks the group, and also maybe Hylia herself. “Can we be done now?”

Green shakes his head. “I haven’t heard that noise yet…”

The six stand in a circle at the center of the room, back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back, scanning their surroundings for any sign of Phantom Tingle’s final form.

“Oof.”

Six heads swivel to find a final, life-size Phantom Tingle standing in the center of their circle. He looks up at them all, sheepish, and raises both hands in surrender.

Blue looks to red, already rolling up his sleeves. “I don’t think we need weapons for this, do you?”

Red considers what he had almost lost today—his friends, his life, Blue—and shakes his head. “Nope! But can I say something first?”

“Make it quick,” says Vio, who looks extremely eager to start kicking the shit out of Tingle-once-removed.

Cracking his knuckles, Red smiles. “I just think it’s just really nice we can all work together again.”

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One relentless beating later, a new door appears below the Phantom Tingle painting.

“There it is,” Shadow mutters, watching the other Links react to the tune in their heads. Zelda, bless her heart, is still visibly confused by the whole thing.

“Swords,” Blue reminds the group before they can head for the exit. Turning his head, Shadow sees that the lock puzzle seems to have disappeared. The four swords lay unceremoniously on the ground beneath the heavy door.

Shadow follows Vio as he retrieves his weapon. “Glad to have it back?” he asks as the six return to the exit door.

Vio nods. “Yes. I don’t think we’re quite done here, Shadow. There’s still Real Tingle to worry about.”

“We’ve got your back,” Green tells them both. Blue, Red, and Zelda nod in agreement.

Shadow takes a deep breath and reaches for the doorknob. And then—because there’s no use in delaying the inevitable—he opens the door.

“CONGRATULATIONS!”

Shadow is blinded by artificial light, bright colors, and flashes from party decorations. Ironically, when he does manage to see, things makes even less sense—Tingle floats from a balloon before them, flanked by the instantly recognizable faces of castle staff and acquaintances, with a decidedly un-sinister smile on his face.

This can’t seriously be happening, Shadow thinks to himself.

Tingle throws confetti at the stunned six heroes, and by Hylia, this is seriously happening.

“You’re all friends again!” Tingle enthuses, so incredibly earnest that Shadow worries for his immediate safety.

Speaking of which…

“No, Vio, no!” Shadow scolds, already reaching for his husband. It takes the combined might of Shadow, Blue, and Green, but they manage to hold him back.

“I am going to tear you limb from fucking limb, you deranged son of a—“

“Vio!” Shadow repeats, squeezing his arm. “Stop it.”

Vio turns to him, incredulous. “Shadow, he almost killed us all! Multiple times! He basically tortured you, and he took your powers—”

Shadow shakes his head. “I appreciate your passion, beloved, but I can fend for myself. And I gave those up willingly, remember? I told Blue to shatter the mirror.”

“Deep breaths, buddy,” Red tells Vio, who now looks more embarrassed than pissed off.

Shadow watches Zelda pinch the bridge of her nose. “So, Tingle, let me get this straight—you created this entire dungeon, put something in our soup and forced us through an elaborate series of dangerous trials… as a teambuilding exercise?”

Tingle nods, as if that’s the most normal thing a person could possibly do.

Zelda turns to Shadow. “Do you believe him? He’s your employee.”

Shadow thinks back to the time he’s known Tingle, the genuine moments of trust and familiarity he’s felt in the strange little freak’s presence, and...

“Honestly, yeah, I do,” Shadow says, surprising even himself. “We’ve talked a lot about wanting to make things right with you guys—I mean, that was the point of the dinner in the first place.”

“The Kings did say it wouldn’t be an easy task,” Tingle explains. “I went along with the dinner party idea, but really… what else could have brought you all back together?”

“I don’t know,” Vio seethes, “something other than near-death? Something proportionate to the circumstances at hand?”

“My plan was completely proportionate to the circumstances at hand.”

“We did corrupt the world,” Shadow tells Vio, resisting the urge to fix his tousled hair. “Even if it was, like, chill.”

“Hylia, whatever,” Vio groans, shoving off Blue and Green. “I need a drink.”

“What you really need,” Green says, “is a better hiring manager.” He grabs a glass of evil root beer from a  passing castle employee and downs the entire thing in one go.

Shadow acquires drinks for Vio and himself. “Last time I checked, we’re the hiring managers.”

“Well, you’re both atrocious at it. I’m finding a seat.”

“Of course!” Tingle says, ushering the six towards a nicely-decorated table in the center of the room. “I invited everyone you know to celebrate, arranged the catering and everything!”

“Did you also arrange the murder dungeon?” Blue asks dryly, grabbing a mozzarella stick off a banquet table as they pass.

“Because if so, you did a great job!” Red adds, because of course he does.

The six settle at the table, each in a different stage of shock, as Tingle continues to explain his involvement in the evening’s events. “I won’t bore you with the details—”

Vio scoffs. “I sincerely believe there is not a single detail about this night that could be boring.”

“—but I assure you, everything was planned. The hazards, the puzzles, the magic pulling it all together, were all completely controlled circumstances.”

“Uh,” Zelda says, “the hinoxes? Were they in on it?”

Tingle frowns. “Well, hm. No. I kinda left that room until the last minute, so I ended up using extra potion to knock out some landscaping specialists. It wasn’t too hard to do a temporary charm convincing them they were Vaati’s henchpeople.”

“I didn’t even know you could do magic,” Shadow tells Tingle, almost impressed.

“Oh, but I can, with the help of Force Gems and the royal library!”

“I don’t know enough about Force Gems and the royal library to dispute that.”

“It tracks,” Vio admits, clearly hating the words as they leave his mouth.

“But back to the hinoxes,” Zelda says, taking a sip of her drink. “That doesn’t sound very controlled to me. And what about the Dark Mirror, and Blue’s trip to the Dark World? Shadow losing his powers? How could you have anticipated all that?”

“Yeah, uh,” Shadow tells Tingle, “I was in very real pain for a bit there.”

Tingle sighs. “I didn’t know that the mirror being fractured would hurt you. I thought Blue or Red would simply fall in and realize they needed to break it completely, and that’d be that.”

“But did we have to break it at all?” Red asks, although his voice remains empathetic. “Shadow losing his powers is a pretty severe consequence of events that didn’t actually need to happen.”

Tingle turns to Shadow, addressing him specifically. “It was going to happen soon enough. Surely, you could tell something was going on with your connection to the Dark World. I realized it myself when you told Vio about being comfortable in the sunlight.”

“Sure” Shadow concedes, “but you still have to admit this whole thing was pretty insane. A lot of things could have gone very wrong.”

“I was almost killed by a lizalfos,” says Green.

Vio’s expression turns somber. “And I had to sacrifice the Fire Temple throne.”

Shadow slams a hand over his own mouth. “No!”

“It sounds like you had good intentions,” Red tells Tingle with a reassuring smile. “And the party is very nice.”

Tingle frowns. “Yeah… okay, I’m starting to see the flaws in my plan. Sorry I got overzealous. I’ll, uh, make sure to send the hinoxes gift baskets or something.”

For some reason, Shadow feels compelled to comfort the strange little man. Maybe he sees himself in the guy, just a little—hadn’t he and Vio thought the same thing about hiring him in the first place?

“You know what?” Shadow says, not quite smiling but not frowning, either. “At the end of the day, your plan was successful. It brought us all together again. And I’m thankful for that.”

Tingle gives him a tiny bow, which looks particularly strange since he’s suspended mid-air by a balloon. “Thank you, Your Majesty.”

Shadow glances at Vio, who nods for him to continue. “But, Tingle… you’re still fired. Not banished or anything—but very, very fired.”

Tingle takes a moment to consider, and then shrugs. “Yeah, that makes sense.”

Seemingly inspired, Red turns to Blue. “You’re fired too!”

“Sorry?”

“You hate working at the shop. You need to do something you actually care about!”

“Hylia, are you evicting me from the apartment too?”

“Of course not, silly! I love living with you!”

Shadow notices Blue’s blush and smirks. Okay, something’s definitely going on there.

“Fine,” Blue says, “yeah, thanks, actually. I think I want to try my hand at some actual dungeon crawling. I have always claimed to be the real Hero, after all.”

“By all means, go ahead,” Green tells him. “I’m perfectly happy on the ranch.”

Shadow reaches for Vio’s hand and squeezes it. “Not to be tacky, but I think we should do a toast.”

Vio raises an eyebrow. “That is very tacky, actually. Let’s do it.”

Everyone at the table, Tingle included, raises their glasses.

“To the future,” Shadow says, basking in the attention of his new friends.

“And to friends,” Vio adds with a shy smile.

Red beams. “And to fun!”

“And adventure,” contributes Blue.

Green looks to Zelda. “To courage.”

“And wisdom.”

“And pumpkin soup!” Tingle exclaims, and even Vio can’t help but chuckle at the sheer absurdity.

Shadow clinks his husband’s glass and takes a sip from his own. “To the darkest timeline,” Vio says quietly, just between them. Shadow goes in for the headbonk with no hesitation.

“Thank darkness for that.”

[alyaandmarigolds]

[AAM] CHAPTER ONE - PART 3

YOU CHOSE: Awkward! Refuse to move or do any sound.

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"... Hum…"

The moment to whom Lily decided to paralyze in her tracks felt like an eternity. The woman right in front of her stayed silent with a questioning gaze that was hidden behind the cloth on her eyes. A questioning that took a while to leave her mouth as she realized that Lily had no intentions to move from this embrace.

Lily's face still burned red. This was so embarrassing, she couldn't stop asking herself why she was like this, feeling embarrassed to any pretty woman that came to embrace her, even if it was in a dire situation. Freezing in such a state only meant to make the whole thing even more awkward.

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It wasn't her fault though! Or so she wanted to believe... She couldn't help to notice that beautiful aqua hair that beautifully turned white from a gradient wonder, asking herself just what type of eyes were behind that cloth. Was that woman even capable of seeing anything with such a thing?

"... Who are you?" The aqua haired woman asked, not letting go totally of Lily. "What are you doing here?"

"I.. I don’t know." Lily was honest, her face still hot. She was slowly calming down from the hopeless romantic mindset she usually liked to be in. " I was lost, and suddenly I was…. Dying…?"

That description felt like it made Lily sound completely out of her mind, yet the woman just nodded to that, understanding yet casual body language.

"Hm. That does sound like the entity's powers. Can you stand up?"

"I… think so…?" Lily feels her body move slightly to a more comfortable position by the help of the woman who stands up before her to help her out.

Lily tries not to think of anything of it this time as she gets up.

Her legs still tremble. After a moment of not feeling them and almost falling back down – even with the help of this strong woman – Lily thought to herself: Maybe it wasn't a bad idea to freeze and not move at all, she would have made a fool of herself with that one.

The woman steadies her for a few seconds after Lily feels okay to stand by her own.

The rain still pours, the wind is strong and Lily feels slightly cold. Her clothes are so drenched now and it feels so heavy and annoying. After that incident with the 'Entity', she just wanted a cozy warm place.

Aqua haired woman seemed to have noticed that, holding her hand up to Lily, waiting for her to take it.

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Lily coughs awkwardly, giving her hand, holding the other in a shy manner. How strange it was to feel shy while the other's hand felt so calm and strong.

In her wonder of thinking about imaginary scenarios, though, a sigh from the woman by her side can be heard. "Hold still for a second."

Lily suddenly felt the lack of warmth in this woman’s voice to be alarming, an indirect way to tell her to please stop this. She cleans her throat, shielding herself from more awkward situations. "... Okay… I should maybe leave.."

"You can’t. Not right now at least." As the woman spoke, Lily felt, for just a split second, her body lose any matter as her entire view changed from a cold rainy town in a dark night, to a rather cozy small room. The only light source in that place was a candle in the table nearby.

Lily felt confused for a single second, until she realized what this woman's powers were.

The wonder of teleportation. What a nice power to have, Lily always felt the need to use those types of powers in any capacity if she would be able to. It was such a nice one to have. But, truth be told, as long as it stayed exactly like the current situation, Lily was okay over her current situation regarding her powers… at least that's what she hoped in the best way possible…

As these thoughts go through Lily’s mind in a flick of a second, the scenery surrounding her quickly makes her body relax as the warmth of the nearby fireplace decides to give the fire a comfortable and warm lighting to the whole room.

Lily took a while to continue to speak, to the moment where this woman took her spear off her back and put it near the couch.

“... What do you mean by not right now? I can’t leave?”

The silence the woman stood after that was a bit scary in Lily’s mind. She stood her ground as she took a step closer to this woman, feeling her wet clothes making her feel so much heavier than she was.. “Is there any reason for me to be unable to?”

“No. Well…” Silence again. When Lily felt like this person would never answer her clearly, the woman turned her head towards her, passing by her side and walking towards the window behind Lily. “It’s not easy to explain, and not safe white it stills around.”

“It…?” Lily turns around to look at the window. The woman opens the heavy curtain to reveal… a dark sky.

Lily’s eyes go wide. She hadn’t noticed it before. The sky was not a night sky. Where the stars should be, there was nothing but darkness. A lack of everything.

It wasn’t the night sky Lily was looking at, but something devoid of anything but void itself.

“There it is.” The woman spoke, pointing at the sky. Lily had to squint her eyes to try and see anything. Probably took her a while, but eventually she saw in the sky a glitch type of effect going through the sky. There was any lack of orange to be able to see it clearly, making it all impossible to see unless it was the slight colors of its shape quickly fading. “That entity keeps us here for days, or even months sometimes when it decides to not kill us.”

Lily felt fear slowly rising under her skin, stepping away quickly from the window and closing the curtain without asking the other first.

Luckily the woman didn’t even react to any of that, just looking silently at Lily as she tried to come to terms with this situation.

“... You… You will have to explain everything to me right now, otherwise I will scream…”

The woman stays silent for a few seconds, pondering over the statement. “What do you want to know?”

NEXT PART -> [CLICK HERE]

[steve0discusses]

S5 Ep 42 Pt 1: It’s All In Your Head

Every week with long covid is like a new batch of symptoms. Last month’s symptom, among other things, was “words no work no good,” and so we just uh...didn’t do an update. I probably needed to chill and nap anyway. Not that I’m fully better yet, today I did laundry and pulled out a blue shirt that I clearly own and bought with my own money--but I have no memory of it. Zilch.

The brain is amazing, that with this brain fog, I can’t remember my blue t-shirt, but I can remember Yugioh. Weird, right? So anyway, thanks for your patience in this weird time of my life, glad to have a blog to write about anime in that is so chill with our very long breaks.

Also, I finally went through my old caps to toss old pictures so that way I can make new stuff, and guess what I just realized?

Kisara is not a dragon!

Seto’s girlfriend isn’t a dragon! She’s just on top of the dragon, I can’t...I just can’t believe this.

Truly a crime that this season, the final ultimate season of Yugioh, is what I’m doing while on Long Covid fruitloops, so I can miss every damn point that this show fires at me. But, at least, I hope it’s funny to read. It is like every single update where I realize I was wrong about the obvious, and don’t worry, it’s gonna happen again in like 4 seconds. My borked brain.

Anyway, Yugi and Co have walked all the way to the palace. Because we’re still on S4 time and space conventions where Death Valley, the Grand Canyon, and San Fransisco are all next to each other. Like Yami fell in the Nile in a fight that was just outside of the city--but I assumed he got pulled way out there. Either way, it’s a kid’s show, never think about geography.

(read more under the cut)

Yugi can conveniently walk through doors now, and after a quick shoutout to his homie Yami, they phase through.

Including Tristan who is...

Well,

APPARENTLY TRISTAN WAS POSSESSED.

Freakin, my brain is a bunch of salad dressing, lmaoooo even last episode I was like “wow Tristan is drawn kinda evil and I don’t really get why” and it was RIGHT THERE. He’s been possessed probably since Bakura grabbed him by the neck right in front of me. I somehow missed this!

And like, I figure, if I try and wait out long covid it may take a whole other year, so like this is just me now. I started this blog as like a competent analysis (ish), and now I get to the end of S5 giving you just an incoherent rorschach. It’s kind of fitting for this show really, everyone has to end up at least a little bit of a mess. Keeps you humble. Even me. I also have to become the mess.

Anyway, speaking of becoming a babbling incoherent mess, we go back to Bakura, who has fully lost his game in Battle Basement of a 7 vs 1 game.

Only in Yugioh would they make a 7 vs 1 game feel evenly sided.

And as I wonder if I’ve already made that joke four months back and have forgotten, they all watch Bakura do a mad dash to screw them over one last time.

And while they stood there and just allowed Bakura to fumble around with the doom rocks made of human souls, from no where, Aknadin stumbles through the door all day drunk like freakin Kramer.

And no, in the show he did not reveal here that he was Seto’s dad, but he does in like 2 minutes so I didn’t really care about where I put it. The big thing is that Aknadin’s gone full-tilt cray and not even he can fully explain his motive anymore.

That’s when they realize Aknadin’s babysitter, Shada, has been punk’d on the bottom of skull tablet basement. Which like, Imagine the day that Shada’s been having. I guess Aknadin just left him at the base of like 10000 human skulls then, hahaha.

I have checked my notes and I decided that 2000 people died in Kul Elna a few months back but eh I don’t feel like changing this cap. Overall, I have no freakin idea how many people lived in this freakin town and they can’t tell us because 4Kids would never allow it.

Which is when Bakura decided to teleport his bean into another bean because this bean is broke.

Which is when we met this guy, a guy we’ve only met for like 4 seconds of the show so far. Hello there, Original Bakura.

Straight up, he wasn’t on screen long enough for me to over-analyze his accent before he was a small mound of dust on the floor.

Ah the death count! Oh damn it, I write these notes on the caps sometimes, expecting I’ll put an actual number there later but lets be real, I just need to publish this episode, so let me open the Google doc...

7,805,847,572

Yeah that’s how many people have died in this kids show so far. We’re right on track. Thanks Bakura, for another death, but no you have not caught up with Dartz. Although I will hand it to him, Dartz didn’t end up killing himself nearly as many times as Bakura has.

Speaking of dying and being dead on a kid’s show, in enters Shada.

So lets go see what Yugi’s up to hm? The four have decided to separate in this Egyptian palace to each find Yami’s name. Mind you...there’s some flaws with this plan.

The flaw being that none of them have graduated high school or know freakin anything about Egypt, other than they hang out with an Ex patriot Egyptian. (2 ex-patriots if you count Yugi’s Grandfather. Although honestly, are you an ex-pat if you are reborn in a kid’s body on the other side of the world? You are, right? You are). But, whether or not Yami can or can’t read Egyptian in Canonical Yugioh, we know that Yugi apparently super can’t when Yami isn’t in his bean.

And Joey just can’t focus for the life of him, which, damn, relatable. But, he did find a room full of women.

He also went to the only room with like lots of water. Real pissed focused mind here, and no the piss plotline will not be resolved.

Tea, still GOAT.

This castle, man. I love the complete disregard for interiors that this animation team has. Like...what even is the purpose of this weird maze room with masssssive stone tiles, Yugioh? Like...what is this even supposed to be? Why are the tiles so SHINY?

Anyway, lets go back to Shada and hear his excuse for what the hell happened last episode.

Which is when Aknadin decided to just start cursing everyone, which he would have done earlier if he wasn’t constantly in a sick bed this season.

This very well might be a yugioh card effect that turns you into a rainbow filter, but it also looks like a complete mess of artistic directions on the screen.

Which like, after that cutesy filter, lets pull our eyes out.

Which is when Yami makes the biggest logical leap known to man.

That’s right! Yami has figured out that this entire time, this entire arc, he’s been sleeping at this RPG table that Bakura’s built in his mom’s basement Yami’s Puzzle Necklace.

In fact, when Yami wakes up to all of this, wearing his normal ass school clothes, and Bakura sitting across from him in his popped collar duster jacket, Bakura says something on the line of “bout time you woke up.”

the fic shippers must have had a FIELD DAY with one.

Anyway, everything is a lie, Bakura is controlling people like puzzle pieces, which not only explains why Aknadin’s motives went a 180, but can lead us to believe that Yami also COULD control everyone else, but just chooses not to. Just like he does in real life.

I think, overall, you just have to go with it. We’re playing D+D, except it’s about your embarrassing past. Like if you made D+D about your middle school experience and you can’t remember your first name.

What a way to die, really. What a weird ass way for Yami to almost die.

Anyway, here’s a link for those new here to read these from the beginning. I have the 2nd part already drafted up, should be up in a few days and not an entire month, haha. Hope your 2023 is looking up!

https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono

[iamapoopmuffin]

Pokemon Gyms and whether my wheelchair user player character would be able to navigate them

Pewter City: Straight line on some cobblestones. Compared to the rest of this bullshit, this is luxury. Brock needs to come down off his staircase throne at the end of the corridor though.

Cerulean City: Yes. Mans can just scoot scoot around the edge of the pool. Misty has to come down to meet him though, she’s also on a staircase throne.

Vermilion City: Once he gets past the initial ‘what the fuck’ of the thunder barrier, as long as the bins are spaced out enough he’s fine. Doesn’t appreciate rummaging through trash though. At least mans isn’t on a staircase throne this time.

Celadon City: Depends entirely on how much tree is actually left after using cut.

Fuchsia City: He can make it through, but after about the third time of bumping into an invisible wall he’ll be real sick of this shit.

Saffron City: Runs entirely on little teleporters. Gucci.

Cinnabar Island: I never got to Blaine in LeafGreen but it looks like a straight shot.

Seafoam Island: Wouldn’t even be able to enter the gym in the first place. Can’t climb ladders.

Viridian City: Would probably develop motion sickness from all the spinning but I think he can navigate this one.

Violet City: I wouldn’t feel confident navigating the sharp turns 50 feet in the air walking, never mind trying to manoeuvre a chair through them. He can do it, but he won’t be at all comfortable.

Azalea Town: Stairs right at the entrance. Motherfucker.

Goldenrod City: Hard nope. Multiple steep staircases. Fuck you, Whitney

Ecruteak City: Morty, I love you, but the narrow walkway entirely in darkness over the void to hell isn’t exactly able bodied person friendly, never mind this-

Cianwood City: Another hard nope, those stairs look homophobic

Olivine City: Another straight walkway with an elevated leader. She’s definitely nice enough to meet him halfway too.

Mahogany Town: Ice gyms as a whole are bad. Not sure how well the chair will do on the ice (do you want to slip and skate or have traction?) and in Vernon’s case he is paralysed from the waist down so his lower body isn’t great at the whole temperature regulation thing. He’s definitely learning about winter’s harshness, thank you. Compared to the other ice gyms this one is pretty chill though.

Blackthorn City: The warning of unstable footing at the start is worrying, but the puzzle itself can be done.

Rustboro City: It’s all ramps until you get to the almighty stair throne, so okay. Also he’s absolutely stopping to look at the little museum.

Dewford Town: Give him enough room between all the exercise shit and we’re gucci

Mauville City: More of these random electric death walls? Eh whatever, the floor’s level at least. ... NEVER MIND I FOUND MORE STAIRS

Lavaridge Town: What the fuck. Fuck you.

Petalburg City: Doesn’t seem to pose any problem, yay!

Fortree City: I don’t think he’s getting in, dear.

Mossdeep City: Y’know what? All this floating around is pretty cool, actually

Sootopolis City: WALLACE YOU MOTHERFUCKER WHY HAVE YOU DONE THIS

Oreburgh City: Ah yes. Vernon’s actual home region serving him an immediate slap in the face with steep ass stone stairs. Wonderful.

Eterna City: Ahh, so peaceful, so chill, such a vibe. Maybe there is hope after all.

Veilstone City: Goodbye hope, hello whatever the fuck I have to push and a lot of stairs before you even enter the gym itself-

Pastoria City: Besides this being the weirdest fucking swimming pool I’ve ever seen, it’s another fuck you to wheelchair users. Though Vernon can swim, so if there’s a clear path from the entrance to the leader via the water he can make it, he’s just going to have to fight the battle soaking wet, in a swimsuit and on the floor.

Hearthome City: As long as you can do maths, you’re alright.

Canalave City: He can navigate it but those super speed lifts are giving him motion sickness for sure.

Snowpoint City: He’s dead now. He fell down the stairs right into the massive piles of snow and suffocated.

Sunyshore City: It’s another hard nope, and I had high hopes when I saw the catwalks-

Striaton City: No problem no worries, Hakuna Matata.

Nacrene City: As long as someone can get the books down for him he’s good.

Castelia City: Pushing through the gooey shit will be annoying but it is possible as long as it doesn’t gunk up the wheels too bad.

Nimbasa City: It’s possible, but only if someone brings his wheelchair round to where he’s getting off the rollercoaster, or the chair can go on the coaster.

Driftveil City: Lifts and scaffolding? Okay. Random staircase right at the very bottom? Not okay.

Mistralton City: The cannons themselves are fully disability friendly. The stairs are not. So close.

Icirrus City: I’m giving this one a no. Even without the stairs, that jump, the fuck? We’re not all stunt ready actors, sir.

Opelucid City: The path is narrow and winding, but it has cool trick ramps and that’s a win in Vernon’s book! But also there’s stairs so 0/10

Aspertia City: Straight shot with a stair throne. Cheren you patronising cunt, get your ass down here.

Virbank City: Stairs right at the beginning. They’ll never hear him scream.

Humilau City: Getting on and off the lilypads looks like a pain, it might be easier to swim it again. Also it looks like you need a lot of momentum to move those pads.

Santalune City: He’s fucking dead again.

Cyllage City: Grant what the French fried fuck is this?

Shalour City: Yeah no this is impossible. Sorry, buddy.

Coumarine City: WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS. I can't fucking do this shit with fully functional legs.

Lumiose City: Finally one we can fucking do. Thank you, puntable looking children.

Laverre City: The warp panels are annoying but mountable.

Anistar City: Trippy as fuck and totally doable!

Snowbelle City: Fuck this disco fuckery.

Turffield: Ignoring the stairs in and out (rage), we can handle herding some Wooloo. Git along lil tumbleweeds!

Hulbury: So anyway I don’t like Nessa-

Motostoke: So again ignoring the stairs in it’s totally doable-

Stow-On-Side: Can transfer in and out of the spinny cups, but someone has to bring the chair down while he does it.

Circhester: Fuck you and your pitfalls.

Ballonlea: OLD LADY HAS RAMPS YAY

Spikemuth: What a nice wheelchair friendly street!

Hammerlocke: I forget if you can actually get in the room, but hey it’s just double battles, sweet.

Cortondo: The olive roll is possible.

Artazon: May depend entirely on where the Sunflora choose to hide. The gym itself is elevated up some stairs though so...

Levincia: All you have to do is sit there and look at some cameras and look pretty for the fans.

Cascarrafa: The trek through the desert to get Kofu’s wallet back to him ain’t gonna go well, but this is supposedly not the usual pre battle challenge so ehh.

Medali: The stage at the treasure eatery is a whore but everything else is fine.

Montenevera: Once again, access to the stage and the gym itself are whores. He’s gonna pet all the ghost dogs though.

Alfornada: You just gotta make faces for this one, right? Surely any other exercises Dendra and Tulip give you should be able to be adapted for the disabled anyway.

Glaseado: Uhhh the snow slope run is done on the back of a Pokemon as far as I remember so it should be fine.

[direraven21]

9, Rose and Jack

THere’s my personal headcannon on this lovely trio of time traveling adventurers, along with my own personal commentary as I rewatch Doctor Who. 

Whether or not Rose was aware of it or not, these three act as if they are in a polyamorous relationship, and considering the Doctor and Jack’s beliefs on the matter, it may well be.

1st- The three of them are such good friends, they have such fantastic energy when they are together, whether that is through time or just for dinner together.

2nd- Despite the semi-rough start between the Doctor and Jack, with the whole conning thing, there is definitely a respect on both parts. I think in part that has to do with understanding each others beliefs on time travel and taking care of Rose first and foremost.

3rd-I think that there was so much flirting between Jack and the other 2 individually, that it is impossible not to assume some of it was serious if lighthearted. While there was more of a friendship between Rose and 9, then there was her and 10, it still had some of that flirting the whole time.

4th- In the 1st GIF, it’s right when the Doctor and Rose were dancing while Jack teleported them in “The Empty Child”/”The Doctor Dances”. The chemistry between 9 and Rose is definitely starting to coast past casual friendship, but Jack is a huge flirt which the Doctor and Rose individually return.

5th- In the 2nd GIF, right before they encounter the Slitheen for a second time in “Boom Town”, you can see how they interact in the closest thing to a casual setting that Doctor Who gets to. They are at the very least very good friends, which is interesting considering they have only known each other a few days.

6th- When Rose looks into the Time Vortex in the last episode of Season 1 of the reboot, Jack has already died. He is the only person that she chooses to save other than the doctor when she destroys the daleks and their ships. If he was just a casual acquaintance, like some of the others in that episode, she wouldn’t have bothered but he was revived even with the Doctor trying to stop her.

So I can’t say that Rose was fully aware but this genuinely feels like it was a polyamorous relationship, or could have become one if Jack was still in the picture. And the way that Rose interacted with Micky over their travels felt very much as if it was an open relationship and that she wouldn’t be against the idea of such a thing if it had been brought up. But this was also 2006, so that may not have worked out so well.

[captain-lonagan]

MCD Rewatch S1 Ep33: Sugar and Dragons

Do you need to watch this? 0%

Is it fun to watch? 0%

Plot Summary: Aphmau walks in a circle while talking about how far she has to travel, then gets yet another side quest.

Personal Notes:

dogs dying

being weird about little maid again

“I don’t want to see them get hurt” Thorgi is covered in blood, on one health, and crying because he’s starving. you do not care about your dogs at all, don’t lie to me

“kyah” throwing up rn

just noticed KC’s skin has garters

this mod is so so so uncomfortable dude

FOCUS UP. WE HAVE A MISSION

STOP CORRALLING AND COLLECTING THE MAIDS WHO ESCAPED THE BUILDING. THEY’RE PASSIVE MOBS IT DOESN’T MATTER. MOVE ON

maid mod demo but once again Aphmau doesn’t know how the mod works so it’s just her walking in a circle and being confused for ages

“we have a long way to go” YOU HAVE BEEN WALKING IN A CIRCLE FOR TEN MINUTES

whenever Aphmau walks anywhere she doesn’t actually talk about anything she just starts saying the animals she sees. “There’s a panda over there....there’s a cow over there...there’s a tiger over there...there’s some cows over there...” this has gone on for over 5 minutes in the past and it drives me insane whenever she does it. if you have nothing to say or do you can just edit your fucking videos to cut out the time. it might even make the distance you’re traveling seem substantial since I CAN SEE THE MAID CAFE LESS THAN 3 CHUNKS AWAY

“We need to make a camp” I CAN STILL SEE THE CAFE IT IS A 30 SECOND WALK AWAY

“I’m a little lost” HOW

traveler camped out in the woods, he says Scaleswind is half a day’s walk away thank god

NOOOOO HE HAS A SIDEQUEST. TO GATHER SOME FUCKING LOGS

he’s a former Lord whose town was destroyed by shadow knights??? and he’s neither bringing up nor complying with any of the established lore around Lordship and how it works Okay I Guess

WE’RE GOING BACK TO THE CAFE ARE YOU KIDDING

JUST TO GET SUGAR TO TAME THE MAID???

this is gross

Aphmau the whole statement about being lost really is meaningless when you are able to get back to the cafe within 40 seconds of Walking

i maintain nobody walks as badly in minecraft as Aphmau does this is fucking baffling

logs are from a wyvern den btw

teleported to location using a magic staff given by traveller, it’s not a den it’s a whole ass dimension I Guess

STOP STALLING AND TALKING ABOUT BUILDING A SHELTER WE HAVE TO GATHER 4 STACKS OF THESE STUPID LOGS

the shelter is shitty if offers no protection + we can’t stay there anyway because WE NEED TO MOVE AROUND AND CHOP THE TREES

no but actually, all Aphmau’s stalling aside, it seems like Scaleswind is a 5 minute or less walk away. like it’s a 30 second boat trip across the lake, then you go through a forest and fields for like 2 minutes to get to KC’s cafe, and now we’re a “half day’s walk” away from Scaleswind, which means it’s probably literally on the other side of the next hill because it takes Aphmau 5 minutes and 3 hearts of damage to get across a single chunk.

[zarvasace]

You disability AU has invaded my brain and I’m very happy about it. I was just thinking about how much I love it, and I love disability representation in general, and I can’t wait to see what you come up with next for the AU!!! Also I hope you’re having a good day! <3

I have had a lovely day, thank you! :) Disability rep makes me so happy to see, too. I don't have grand plans for this AU, but maybe I'll come up with something in the future (perhaps once finals are over...) And I always love learning more and talking more! Here's a baby thing that I have not edited.

Relapse

Disability AU, Legend-centric (reminder that he has RRMS here, relapse/remission multiple sclerosis.) They're using the word "episode" here to refer to periods of relapse. About 715 words. Sorry about the long post, I'm on mobile and can't stick a read more in there. AO3 link here.

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The general shuffling of people awake but not awake enough to talk yet pulled Legend from a dream about being underwater, yet only half able to breathe. He was grateful to end that dream, but less grateful to be woken up. Especially when his vision cleared and he realized why he'd been dreaming something like that. 

Legend groaned, did his best to suck in a deep breath, and pulled his blanket over his head. It felt like something was squeezing his ribs in a tight hug, but wouldn't let up.

"Everything all right, Legend?" Hyrule asked from somewhere outside the blanket, a smile evident in his voice. 

"No," Legend replied, not moving from under the blanket. He consciously expanded his chest to get another deep breath in. 

Hyrule's hand touched Legend's leg, then moved up to his shoulder. "No? What's wrong?" 

It was getting hot under the blanket, so Legend pulled it down around his chin. He shut his eyes tightly against the brightening sky. "Remember what I said, when we met, that my body hates me, and that I hate it?" 

"Vaguely," Hyrule responded, sounding hesitant. 

"Well, the next few days are really going to suck." 

Time spoke up from the other side of the fire. "That's right, Legend, you mentioned episodes, didn't you?"

"Yeah." Legend sighed. "One's gonna hit soon. It'll probably be over by the end of the week, but…" 

Hyrule's hand squeezed his shoulder in sympathy, and Legend patted it to make sure Hyrule knew he appreciated it. 

"What does an episode entail?" Twilight asked, pushing his feet into his boots. "What would you do about it if you were home?" 

Legend raised his hand to cover his eyes. He was a bit upset that this was happening around the others at all, and a bit upset that he had to be camping when this hit, but he'd have to make the most of it. "If I was at home, I'd stay in bed the whole time. Everything's gonna start hurting, much worse than usual. My vision's starting to go already—it'll come back, but it likes to fade out for a bit sometimes."

"So walking will get harder?" Time said. 

"Try 'almost impossible.'"

"Join the club!" Four called from his spot, awake and reading but squished in place by Sky, who hadn't woken up yet and was unlikely to anytime soon. "But it's not because of pain, so you have my sympathy."

Legend wanted to roll his eyes, but they hurt already. "Thanks." 

Twilight poked the fire with a stick and positioned another few dry logs on top of it. "Well, it isn't as if we have anything pressing to do, right now. Wild said yesterday that we're just a day or two out from Tarrey Town, so we can still probably head there, as fast as we can."

A silence stretched, but Time spoke a moment later. "Warriors says that he thinks Twilight's right, we should aim for town if the episode will last all week. It's safer and more comfortable."

"I don't know if I can get there," Legend admitted. Already, he didn't want to move. Shifting around would cause pain. 

"Maybe Wild would be willing to teleport," Hyrule suggested. "Or someone could carry you. You're not that heavy."

"Am I offended?" Legend wondered aloud. 

"We also don't have to go," Twilight said. "We could just stay here, if that's better for you."

Legend waved a hand and regretted it. He put his arms down and tried to settle and to breathe. His right eye was starting to gray out. Hooray. "No. Town is safer, you're right. And as comfy as the dirt is…"

"Then that's what we'll do," Time decided. "Head out as soon as possible, and get to town. Is there anything else we should know? Anything you'd need?" 

It was nice of him to ask. "This is gonna be a bad one, I think. I wouldn't mind some of that knockout tea. Other than that, no, it's just something I have to ride out."

Twilight snorted. "Wars says he's more than willing to make you some of that tea, for several days in a row if you want."

Legend allowed himself a bit of pain for the satisfaction of raising a finger in Warriors's general direction.