#introducing the bad guy

[blue-kyber]

Chapter 25 edited.

Here's a part of it.

The introduction of the bad guy with powers, Vitiate Scarin.

(this is Vitiate Scarin, btw. - his face and collar was made a couple of years ago in artbreeder, and then the mask and cowl added, and the eyes repainted in photoshop to be purple. The mask is a mass produced plastic one that can be bought on etsy, and the hood is from a generic picture of a hoodie I recolored and darkened the crap out of and added texture to. I never said I was good. The weapon he uses is called an arclight. It has no power pack. The user IS the power source. I has only an ena crystal in the grip at the center with some tech inside it to focus and amplify their energy into a ring -an arc. Hence the name.)

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A harsh fear scraped its abrasive nails through Yune's insides from head to toe in an unrelenting aggression.

He’d faced the Regents countless times before. He should not be feeling as though a wire of cold terror coiled around his spine, and one tug would sever it.

Curious as to the reason why, he fought that fear to peek out the viewport once more.

That reason strode in tailing the elite soldiers. 

Yune’s thoughts shattered. 

The athletic man clad in black and red carried no weapons. He wore a cowl pulled over his head, a matte black mask hiding the lower half of his face, leaving his bright blue eyes stained with purple visible to pierce through anyone who dared to look at him. His clothing, deep as the night sky, cracked with hints of red as though bleeding beneath. Forearm protectors clamped above his gloved hands, and shin protectors over his knee high boots were the only signs of armor.

A short ebony metal bar like a handle with a grip at its center pulled Yune’s eyes to lock onto it. The handle clipped horizontally along the right side of his belt to make it easy to grab - like how Yune kept his all-purpose tool. It didn’t look sharp, or long enough to be used as a blunt weapon. When held, it looked to extend a mere inch or two from either side of a closed fist. 

Yet despite its non-threatening appearance, it threatened Yune. The glint of light off its scratched and marred surface sent his pulse racing with anxiety. He didn’t have a clue as to what it could be - only something to avoid. 

The stranger carried the air of a being in full control of his abilities, enough to make anyone believe he didn’t need weapons. He moved with the strong, unyielding confidence of an iceberg. The tar-like iniquitous aura oozing out of him mirrored that apathetic fridgidness.

Despite being a couple of inches shorter than the commander, his presence darkened the room, dominated every living thing in it, and made him a dangerous force larger than life. 

This was no ordinary man. 

This was a demon of suffering carved from the deepest depths of the Void. 

Yune quickly ducked down before they could spot him. 

He automatically scooted under the console and pulled his knees up. 

His breathing increased to hyperventilation as his pulse pounded hard, painful, and fast in his chest. A pressure quickly formed behind his heart - one he’d felt many times before - but instead of beginning as a subtle feeling that grew, it shot straight to the edge of threatening to explode. A cold sweat beaded his brow, numbing his thoughts. A rapid flood of adrenaline injected him with the powerful urge to run. Panic clawed through each breath. 

Where the hell did this random trauma reaction come from?

He felt a chill in his soul like it knew - he knew - that this man meant bad news. He didn’t know why, he just did. He knew if he stayed in this location, he would die. And his death would not be quick or painless.

A dissonant sense from the constant presence with him agreed.

They shared an instinctive, primal fear of this stranger. 

Their conversation occurred in a quick succession of impressions, thoughts, and emotions between them. 

Who the tak is that? he managed to get a clear thought through the static in his mind.

The presence answered, ‘Stay down. Hide. You have to hide, now. Don’t let him see you.’ 

Yeah, no kidding.

He wiped the sweat away from his brow, noticing his hands trembling, and clenched them. What is wrong with me? Why did he feel like this? Why did he react as though he were in mortal danger? It made no sense. He’d never met that being before in his life. He had zero reasons for this to whiplash him back to being a kid enslaved on the dark side of the wall, to every instance he was yelled at, punished, locked away - this man revived the abrasive emotions of every traumatic experience he could remember. 

It froze him in place.

Rarely had anything terrified him so much that it paralyzed him while his body simultaneously screamed at him to run.

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[bookcluberror]

I am very very far behind in reading the manga, but I follow the MHA community so I have All The Spoilers.

Honestly, everything coming out in the last few weeks seems almost fake. Like a giant joke-conspiracy being put on by all of you, just to fuck with my head and see how gullible I am.

Bkdk giving bedroom eyes across a war zone after coming back from the dead? Holding hands in order to take out The Big Bag Guy? Kats literally calling himself by Deku's pet name for the first time EVER in the history of life itself?

Next you're gonna tell me they kiss, imma nod vigorously while leaning in to hear more, and then as a collective whole you all are gonna yell out "OMG GOT YOU, YOU SUCKER. BAHAHAHA Like any of that would ACTUALLY happen in cannon?! Stop reading so many fanfics, loser!"

Those are the legitimate vibes I'm getting right now. So stop it, you guys. You're getting my hopes up, and I don't appreciate being played like this.

[57sfinest]

also yall we need to step back from the harryvision and understand that kim, at his core, is a loser (affectionate) like everyone else. so much out there wants to portray him as limitless patience, great cook, super organized, good handwriting, nice tasteful living quarters etc and that's fun to contrast him to harry but well i am here to RUIN that we need to take off the du bois glasses and appreciate kim for the weirdguy that he is. he has horrific fits of road rage and harry genuinely fears for his life riding along with him and witnessing the generational curses this man is capable of unleashing upon the stupid little fucks that cut him off on the 8/81. he has never had the time or space or budget to learn to cook so he lives off deli sandwiches and butter noodles and the occasional grab-and-go fruit. he writes so much so frequently with such awful handwriting that he has invented a new form of shorthand and the moralintern is contacting him to create a cipher system for them. he has no resources to furnish and maintain a nice flat so it's like a slightly gentrified r/malelivingspace but with a table for his sewing machine and there's scrap fabric and thread and half-pinned half-hemmed pants strewn about the place. there are absolutely a bunch of shitty mockups of his old wirral character in the backs of his notebooks and he hasn't played it in years but if he ever picks it back up then his minmax high int high dex definitely-not-a-self-insert sidhe artificer is READY. everyone add your weirdguy kim thoughts NOW 👇

[fizzy0bloom]

i finde it funny how everyone looked at charlie's new design and expected her to be more 'muture' but shes just her old selfe but worse, same with vaggie

i started to notcie how they are shifting from redeeming sinners plot(really sad about that btw) and introducing new characters so fast

messy to say the least (after the fact that s2 and maybe 3 is on the way wow)

not even gonna talk about ep4 becuse its just viv and that artist fetish at this point (also husk calling angel a loser because of his sa was out of place and annoying)

they are just jumping around things and arent giving the main characters their time to shine in my opinion

sorry for any spelling mistakes btw

[sagesolsticewrites]

Anthony Boyle(‘s hands) in Pilot (episode 1 of Manhunt on Apple TV)

[moeblob]

There was a post I saw about someone who mutually ghosted a guy after a date and kept matching with him and they're not interested but it's the longest "relationship" the person had been in at that point and I'm like. Karen would mutually ghost someone.

She doesn't really tell Brent/Right/Evelyn/Chris his name (he has a double first name, Patrick is not his last name) and just refers to him as "My Guy". Like "Ah damn, My Guy matched again. End my suffering." And when she tries to explain it to Right who does NOT understand how it's different, her logical answer is "it's my God given right to ghost a polite man!"

Also I just imagine her confiding in Paul about Rick and he's like "is his name Patrick" and she's like "kinda". And after that, Paul calls him "Pattycakes" cause he's never even seen the guy so why not give him a funny little nickname. He's allowed to do so at this point probably.

[ragingtwilight]

bribing ur friends so u dont get the boot amiright

[justafriendofxanders]

i go back and forth a lot on my interpretations of ats s5, ie. what parts of spike are 'in character' or not, but the one thing that stays constant is my belief that spike and angel fucking would have fixed most of this.

[what-is-love-babey-dont-hurt-me]

OC DUMP!!!!! And a rambly life update haha

Haven’t been drawing a lot because the semester was difficult ESPECIALLY around finals. As a break between studying I would often sketch my Kirby ocs! These were are all scattered throughout August - December. Still making the ref for Sir Meteor, so he hasn’t been introduced officially yet (unless you have seen me post about him in discords lol), but he’s been a work-in-progress ever since I posted those allosaurus skull studies in August X)

My winter break has started recently and I’m itching to create again, especially since I have those requests that I opened, I wanted to do them way faster but assignments are priority sadly. As a reward for anyone who has read this far, have a peek at my next planned full piece!

[mishapen-dear]

genuine question but is there any fandom where a character is well written by the majority. im thinking about fandom culture and the spread of frustration when people dont write characters well but. honestly in all the fandoms ive been in there's only like, a Select number of authors who i trust to write Well, let alone write Well AND In Character. character analysis and writing and getting inside characters' heads are all separate skills (all of which are trained by roleplaying fyi can CONFIRM playing pretend with your friends is good for you). there's been more than once where I've disagreed with an interpretation that others agreed with, and then I turned out wrong. or i turned out right. like it doesnt matter WHO is right it just matters that differences in character analysis exist, so even if you DO write well AND write in character, your in character is still going to be someone else's out of character

there's this sort of. vibe. that to play in the sandbox you Need to be able to make a castle, and if you can't make a castle then you shouldn't bother, and it completely dismisses the idea that youre in that sandbox to PLAY in the first place. there's this Weight of disappointing someone if you can't build something that they like, but that forgets that you aren't there to build them a castle. like, be KIND. if you disagree with someone then please make an effort to do so kindly. i dont give a shit about fandom discourse but there is a reason kids get removed from sandboxes if they keep throwing sand in people's eyes. but if they don't like your misshapen sand pile, then youre not obligated to change it. even if you yourself end up hating that same sand pile later- youre not building a legacy. youre playing. and sometimes the result of that play is out of character drivel. theres a reason there are so many authors and so few who i like to consistently read and thats because everyone is Fucking Around in their hobby space. hash tag brag or whatever but i can build castles. ive built several that im v proud of. ive also dug holes in the sand for fun and then tripped on them when trying to get up. I often dug a hole and then got up and fucking- whoops, its a castle now, and i didn't realize i'd made something to be proud of until after the fact. the whole time while creating shit i was Convinced it was bullshit that didn't make sense. and then other times i was Convinced it was bullshit and then i was Right and i can look back and go. huh. ew. but it doesn't matter what the end result was, because i had fun playing in the sandbox

this wasn't meant to turn into a ramble but i have Feelings about bad art and art that's badly perceived and how public perception can screw with your head and how making art youre proud of is fucking. it's so difficult!!! it's hard!! it's really fun, which is why i try to make it, but i promise you it is Okay to not tryhard creativity. even if you CAN, it's okay not to do it all the time. or ever, even. fuck around find out have fun etc

[thevoiceofdesertbluffs]

me when a game (for children) i play adds paid (real money, not premium currency) gacha mechanics featuring fantasy animals, starting with unicorns (a highly predatory tactic, especially in the context of children)

[guideaus]

im obsessed with the one relevant boy in The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All who is always fighting to be included in this story

[stepbackattack]

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

with the top ao3 ship poll going around right now, i have to admit that while i can 100% see why stucky resonated with so many people from an intellectual standpoint, i either have a bad memory or wasn't paying that much attention during the first captain america movie so by the time i watched ca:tws i had completely forgotten about bucky barnes' existence, and now every time i see something about stucky i'm just reminded of watching that scene in ca:tws where steve's like, "bucky?" and bucky's like, "who the hell is bucky?" and i was like, "i would also like to know who the hell bucky is."

[maburito]

I probably don't have many followers who are interested in playing Metroid or knows about it, and like I know usually people in this fandom say to not start Metroid with the first one on nes and start by the remake

But like....honestly, if you wanna get into the Metroid franchise...I think you should give the NES one a try? If you don't like it, then definitely go for the remake Metroid Zero Mission, I have heard nothing but great things about it and I'm sure it's awesome.

But like....it's never the same feeling you know? Just like playing Pokemon Firered/Leafgreen is not the same as playing the first Pokemon Red and Blue.

It's just a really different feeling and I don't know....I really like the sensation of playing Metroid NES ??? The music, the atmosphere it's just!!!

And sure it's bullshit how hard this game can be, and how easy it is to get lost but these flaws honestly add more to the atmosphere, where you feel alone and trapped on a hostile planet as a space hunter.

But yeah anyway, Metroid is an awesome franchise, and you should give it a try

[luonnonvalinnat]

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