#mori’s monster series

[moriiartist]

So. I, uh… recently found out that one of my teachers died. We weren’t very close, but it’s hit me like a brick.

Out of respect, I won’t be releasing the final part of OMS until next weekend. I need time to grieve, and continuing as normal doesn’t seem right.

Thank you for being so patient with me, and I hope y’all have a good rest of your Halloween :]

[lordrandreaming]

I would like to bring up a small rant with this article I just read, (If you don't like monster hunter world you don't need to pay mind)

So this is basically just a rant on 'the tutorial that teaches you how to play the game is too long and boring.' Okay! Sure. You can say that. But it's not a sin for a game to hold your hand before you really dig in..

MHW is not an easy game! Its easy if you learn it after a LONG time of playing it. It's a long, enrapturing game that can be unforgiving at times. I PLAYED IT SINCE MARCH, 2018. I just got really good at it this goddamn year.

The tutorial is 'bland' because we know nothing. Newer players would find it easier to integrate into the genre, if the game gives them a smooth ride into actually playing the game. You dip your toes in the water, before you slowly lower yourself in or dive in like a madman.

High Rank GETS HARD. Master rank is even HARDER. I'm originally Hunter Rank 140, 300 hour play through. Right now, I'm Hunter Rank 82 in a 150 hour game. I wouldn't be so good if the tutorial didn't hold my hand when I first started. We NEED tutorials for big, expansive games that progressively get harder.

If Wilds gives up on the idea of a hand holding tutorial, then we aren't going to see many 'casual' players enjoying it. Everyone will complain about how hard it is, and Monster Hunter Wilds will get a reputation akin to Dark Souls. Hard.. Unforgiving. Unwelcoming. No one wants to play that except for Veterans and previous entry player's! (Not to say there arent casual gamers looking for a bit of a challenge.)

Newer player's, years from now, are the kids today. If a tutorial is unforgiving as the rest of the game, no one is really going to play it unless they already played other entries of the MH series. The tutorial is there for the people who aren't familiar.

I never played a MH game in my LIFE up until 2018, when some friend's convinced me I would like it. (I did play Dark Souls 3 religiously at this point, being renound for being really good and really far. I beat Midir multiple times on NG+7 by myself, and helped rando's all the time.)

This game is not Dark Souls. Wilds doesn't need to be like Rise, because Rise is EASY SAUCE until you hit 'High-Rank'. Because basically all of Low-Rank is the tutorial.

We don't need harder games, just because one guy is complaining about the tutorial being too easy and unengaging. If you want a harder game, go and play a harder game! It's not a sin that a game teaches you how to play it. GOD FORBID, A HARD GAME HOLDS YOUR HAND IN THE TUTORIAL.

Wilds should learn from World, but it shouldn't ignore key mechanics to player enjoyment either. Not that it should be easy, but a welcoming tutorial and smooth transition to game play would do wonders to the games life span, keeping new players coming in, and old ones coming back.

We don't need harder tutorials.

Imagine skipping past the intro of your favorite movie, and you just watch your favorite part. And then stopping it after that. Wouldn't you rather watch the MOVIE to get there instead? It takes away the immersion.

We go to the New World, and no one knows ANYTHING! We have the tutorial because this is all new stuff here. It's a change up, older player's get the gist, but new players are completely lost.

Easy tutorials should be that. Easy. Need I say more?

[lotus-pear]

Can we stop acting like dazai was the devil. Like yes he did bad things but he was a child. He was 15 alone and in the mafia where althe was told to do was bad things. ALL dazai knew how to do is lie and deceive because it what he's always had to do.it's self preservation. Like??? When will people realize dazai wasn't a monster and was justa child brought up in an Unsafe and abusive environment. Behaviors are learned your aren't born with them. Dazai was a suicidal child just trying to survive all'he knew was manipulation and Iying because that's all he was taught. He abused akutagawa because that's all he was taught. And as he got older it's all he knows how to do. Obviously he's gotten better but he's still morally grey. And that's ok but it's not enough to call him a monster. hes trying so so hard to change, and even if he may not realise it or cling guiltily to his past, the entire prison arc shows how much effort hes put in to become a better person it isnt easy, growing up exposed to death/violence resulting in empathy and apathy issues, all while battling an emptiness inside thats slowly eating up ones will to live. hes genuinely trying to recover from that period of his life, and i cannot express how proud i am solely because of that. hes finally found a healthy environment, a family, and he deserves it along with so much more. he may be deemed as a “monster“ in the past, that cannot be erased, but he hates that part about himself too. being in the good or bad used to make no difference to him, but i strongly believe it does hate that part of him.  Dazai slander are fún and everything - BUT people seem to not get his character right. No, he's not an edgy boy. He genuinely wants to change for the best to make Oda proud, 'BUT HE ABUSED AKUTAGAWA’ , yeah, Akutagawa abused Kyoka and nobody is talking about how its litterally GENERATIONAL TRAUMA. Dazal was never raised correctly, he got raised by Mori and used by him to make him his right hand, maybe because of his ability, or he saw potential in him. He never fell parental Love nor being special to Someone except for Oda. "He LEFT Chuuya!!!“ ok and? Chuuya doesn't need him to live: Dazai LITTERALLY SAW PEOPLE GETTING KILLED/KILLING THEM ON THE DAILEY (AND HE WITNISSED ODAS DEATH - THE ONLY PERSON THAT MADE HIM WANT TO CHANGE.) his eyes at the age of 14, and Mori made him live in a shipping container. Obviously he is not gonna feel human after all this.

And about him and chuuya - the thing is they DO CARE ABOUT EACHOTHER. but nobody seems to care about chuuya other than the fact hes hot asf anf the fact that he is ’super mega gay for dazai 🥺🥺🥺’ because are we reading/watching the same series???? There’s SO MUCH to his character too!!!! But all everyone talks about with him is with dazai, chuuyas character is CRAZY WELL WRITTEN and everyone dumbs it down to ‘he’s an angry short boy with a god inside him and he’s mega gay for dazai and he’s also really hot’ like no - stfu he’s not actually super hot headed and it’s CANNON he’s usually pretty calm and collected. On the other side of the coin is that dazai DOES care about him - in Stormbringer ; Dazai literally willing gave Chuuya an option to either use corruption on Verlaine when he used his true form or to retreat and not do it, which gave a sense of Dazai giving Chuuya the choice to do what he wants without forcing him to, and the fact that when Chuuya used corruption, he was being injured badly to the point where Abahabaki was going to destroy Chuuya which FREAKED DAZAI OUT , and the fact that Dazai certainly believes that Chuuya is human shows that Dazai does care about Chuuya in certain ways without showing due to afraid of losing someone he cares about. and In age 15 Dazai, was willing to help Chuuya to find Abahabaki and defeat Rimbaud, along with stormbringer with him helping Chuuya to find out if he's human or not and to defeat Verlaine.

Ty for reading my rant 💞💞💞💞

i can't tell if this is attacking me or just a rant in general but anyway YESSSSS I 100% AGREE YOU ATE W THAT ANALYSIS BRIAR‼️‼️

[midnightstargazer]

Fic Recs: Regulus Black

So I've been working on this for a while now, and I think I'm finally ready to share it. These are some of my favorite Regulus fics that I've read.

This is based on my personal preferences, which means you'll find mostly gen and rare pair fics, canon universe (but not necessarily canon compliant), with morally gray characterizations of Regulus

I grouped them by length and topic and included what the main ships are, if any. There may be other background pairings, past relationships, etc. Some do have M/E ratings, archive warnings, etc., so be sure to check the tags!

under the cut because it's pretty long

Long Multi-Chapters & Series

through a glass, blackly by wheresmejumper

Renascentia series by kuchikopi & tonberrys - Regulus/Emmeline

Blackpool by TheDivineComedian

Power the Dark Lord Knows Not by Fantismal & Jormandugr - Wolfstar

The Horcrux Hunt by lostmy_keys - Wolfstar

No Longer Will You Be Forsaken by JulisCaesar

A Means to a Triumph by Naodrith - Moonwater

A Study in Choices and Second Chances by queerofthedagger - Regulus/Harry

Spitfire series by LimeOfMagicLimo

rewrite my heart (let the future in) by secretpersona - Regulus/Pandora

Shorter fics (under 50K words)

Childhood & teenage years (ending before his death if it's canon compliant or while he's still a Hogwarts student if it's canon divergence)

my past has tasted bitter for years now (so I wield an iron fist), by kuchikopi & tonberrys

the silver-forked sky lit you up like a star by tonberrys - Bartylus

Out of the Shadows (Into the Abyss) by missvega - Bartylus

it's cold on the floor by dracure - Bartylus

soft speak, with a mean streak by krystian - Rosewater

A Boy and his Cat, by aCanadianMuggle

How The Dangerous Thing Is To Love by Vivi_ZzZ

Remembrance by Vivi_ZzZ

history forgets the moderates by cleopatroclus

What's So Special About Christmas? by AmethystHeart2421

Caged Bird by GertrudeCC - Moonwater

Ancient Runes series by Soupy_George - Moonwater

The locket & the cave (all dealing with his death in some way - either it's shown on page, or it's not explicitly shown but it's is a major plot point)

Wormwood by acari

The Cruel History and Most Lamentable Tragedy of Regulus, Scion of the Ancient and Most Noble House of Black by aCanadianMuggle

I'm going home to see my mother by TheSharkGuy - Bartylus

monster, moongazer by electricnectar - Moonwater

The Three Soulmates of Pandora Lovegood by AmethystHeart2421 - Pandora/Xenophilius

a soul like silver (tarnished) by rachel614

Parting Words by Dear_Theadosia

And He Drank by Grey_Kenaz

Memento Mori by Trex_Patronus

On Royalty by booksandreadingismylife - Rosewater

Ghost Regulus

He Can't Hurt You if You're Already Dead by unspeakable3

A Transient and Embarrassed Phantom by unspeakable3

Haunted by pennygalleon

Unfinished RABusiness by withasideofangst

in our bedroom, after the war by krystian

Hiraeth by The_Seismic

Hogwarts Professor Regulus

Out of the Lake series by BennieLee

this is family by xslytherclawx

Disconnected Connection by dottie_magic

regulus is dumbledore's spy au (the smiths' version) series by pottersxredheads

Ex-Death Eater Regulus (where he's not also a ghost or a Hogwarts professor)

no answers for no questions asked by tonberrys

Hope by Grey_Kenaz

sanctuary by unspeakable3

Beneath the Ocean Waves by aron_kristina

First Footings by wheresmejumper - Jily or Jegulily

living in the red by griddlebones - Regulily

Flowers Sleep in the Winter by daydreamerdisease - Regulus/OC

someday by justwhatialwayswanted - Rosewater

The Wolf at the Door by lusilly - Moonwater

and if it's all over, I'm taking this moment with me by underburningstars - Moonwater

All the Ashes in My Wake by Antologia_Mil - Moonwater

[jariten]

April 2024 Roundup

A little delayed but I will try to keep it short. Did some quick catch up on stand alones and made some progress on various series. But I couldn't resist the siren call of the anthologies so I just have to mention those.

Dragon Quest The Adventure of Dai I was really delighted to see licensed but when it dropped I forgot about it.... Or had to put it off for money reasons, I forget. But with a sweet discount code I finally grabbed all 5 volumes of part 1: Disciples of Avan starring the plucky Dai who was raised by monsters freed from the control of the evil lord who was defeated by the Hero and his party. Riku Sanjo's art also goes really well with Akira Toriyama's monster designs while overall having an identity of its own. With a story unique from the games it doesn't just feel like a quick buck manga tie on the game series but a representative work in RPG style fantasy manga from the 1980s and a great read for anyone who wants to be more familiar with manga from that decadeUnfortunately only 5 of 25 volumes of this edition are out for reasons Viz has not publicly disclosed so I will refrain from speculating. But it was comforting to know that Viz's release isn't the only international edition in limbo. Hopefully something gets worked out in the near future.

Okinawa by Susumu Higa also had a long and rocky path to the store shelves. I pre-ordered it I think in 2019 then that was cancelled, then the translation got a digital release then the print version was back on then, finally, in 2023 I saw it in stores. Finally read it and its a great companion to Shigeru Mizuki's Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths as a wartime criticism of the Japanese army, while the second part serving as a commentary and look into the recent history of Okinawa as a region still existing under soft occupation of the United States army.

Megami Tachi to (With Goddesses) is an anthology of stories written by Katsuo Kawai adapted by various female manga artists. I'm not familiar with his work so I won't go on to describe his style and oeuvre but the involvement of Yamaji Ebine made me want to check it out (her story is about a woman put in charge of taking care of a shrine and its kami, which turns out to be the bare empty basement of an apartment complex). I really liked the variety of stories taking place across various time periods and locations and how each manga artist's own individual styles stood out with the absurdist scripts. And to keep to the collaborative spirit while making his own contribution Kawai himself drew a story based on a script by movie director Satoko Yokohama about the day in the life of an old actor. Was also delighted to find out this collection contained the pro debut work of Yuriko Hara, who'd go on to make Cocoon Entwined!

Wakaba no Rhapsody is a companion to Hana to Waltz, two anthologies highlighting the new talents in the magazines Asuka and Aokishi. The big name draw is Kaoru Mori but I was very impressed by the artistic prowess of all the featured artists, whose impact was heightened by the HUGE trim size of the volumes. Featured in both volumes was Akira Shouno whose one shot collection Good Night Field I read last year and was very fascinated by. Especially the recurring immortal vampire and the yukionna he regularly visits. Really hoping the rest of the featured artists get their own one shot collection in the near future, but while waiting for those I might check out some of their long form series.

[sorcerersandskillusers]

Why Chuuya Nakahara works so well.

Chuuya’s popularity is crazy. For a character who isn’t even in the main group of protagonists or antagonists Chuuya is still probably the most popular character in the whole manga despite his role in the manga itself being quite small hehe.

I’m sure people are going to say that Chuuya gets loads of attention in the light novels, but thats not the point, he was super popular before the light novels were adapted and widely read, heck i loved him just from season 2 where he fought love craft and he’d only appeared 3 times in the whole series so why is he so likable.

First: He has a good balance of great character traits.

Chuuya has a incredible mix of positive character traits that somehow don’t make him feel like a Mary-sue but instead make him really shine as a complicated and deep character

He’s Really strong but not overpowered, Chuuya is consistently called one of the strongest if not the strongest in the whole series, but somehow he still fights tough opponents so It never feels like he’s invincible or that he never struggles, his opponents Lovecraft, Verlaine, Rimbaud... are all monsters who pushed Chuuya to the very brink to defeat them.

He’s funny, Chuuya and Dazai have some of the funniest dynamics I've seen in manga period, both Dazai’s crazy schemes and jokes as well as Chuuya’s reactions and comebacks are why I loved the 2 of them from the start

He’s loyal, Chuuya shows incredible loyalty not only to the port mafia but to his friends and anyone who helps him out, he’s a person who will go out of his way to help out anyone he feels he owes something even if that person betrays him.

His design is amazing, i’m not personally attracted to him but I can see why he’s got so many of you down bad

He struggles and suffers, Chuuya dispite being the strongest in almost any situation has spent his life being yanked around by other people, first the sheep used him for protection, then Mori manipulated him with hostages, then he spent years being manipulated by Dazai, Verlaine also tried to control Chuuya and his future ect...

He loses so many people close to him, he suffers so much pain, being tortured and beaten in every fight he’s in. he also never really gets support since the people who help him normally end up dead or are cold Mafioso. The flags are killed, the Sheep betray him, his friends die in the Dragon Head conflict, Adam leaves, Dazai makes his life hell and he has no one who just unconditionally loves him like Dazai got with Oda.

He’s smol, he’s a little guy, just a lil dude, a short king, if we met I’d be 30cm taller than him and that’s hilarious, he’s so tiny.

The other thing that makes Chuuya so popular is he doesn’t have a glaring bad character traits either.

He’s not super annoying, stupid, perverted, incopetent, preachy, whiny or really irritiating at all, he might not be your favourite but outside of his fanbase there aren’t many reasons to hate him.

He’s willing to kill but isn’t sadistic and doesn’t kill for fun.

He’s not egotistical even if he’s confident, and doesn’t bully people.

He’s not gross

He doesn’t get all preachy or whiny about how much he’s gone through and the pain he’s suffered even though he’s been through hell.

Sorry for the long post but I’ll just add that Chuuya is one of my favourite characters and if you’ve been wondering why he’s so popular I hope this helped you understand.

[hazellvsq]

hazel levesque fic recs:

i put this together from ao3 and ff.net, the criteria is that the fic is good and does something interesting with hazel. most of them are under 10k or 5k words, and i tried to roughly group them by pairings or by subject so people can go for what they're interested in (romance, friendship, au, whatever)

pre-series: Horses by SpellStorm, Opposites by Band10hut, A Land Beyond the Gods by TagTheScullion, Unnatural, A Minimal Height of 54 by hecatea, blessed joan, duty bound to God, give me courage by staybeautifulnow, Hazebug by Leaf Skeletons

gen/au: Hazel’s Problem by MikeWritesThings, Ignis Aurum Probat by romanitas, not a second time by seaweedbraens, A Short Story on the Revival of Hazel Levesque by LastHope, the end of the line by Pets, all my flowers grew back as thorns by revelationinthelightofday, when i'm ready i will fly us out of here by blackcatintherue, Sixty Days, Make Death Wait, Maximum Security, So Be It, A Brief History of Dance by HecateA, Turn My Sorrow into Treasured Gold by Thatcrazyfan, Tired by Donzepan, Cross My Heart And Hope To Die, interregnum by bunnyinthemeadow, golden gods by adaimperium

hazel and nico: How the Death Squad Saved New Years by scrhaiser, We Have Each Other Now by ikeasharksss, Brother of the Bride by celestialshimmer, Centuries by FlyingBoar, in the bleak midwinter by yrbeecharmer, i don't wanna be alone like this (why don't you make it what you want it to be) by rainnows, Those Who Run by HecateA, spring's stepchildren by dovetail (icedmango)

frazel: Do I Wanna Know by PastyPirate, Cold Toes Heavy Shoulders, Burned Out, Behind the Scenes by notcoolenoughtobehere, In the Stables by TheGirlWhoRemembers, Un Peu d’Amour, un Brin de Miel by mautadite, ghost hunter, 20 by waddled, It's Nice To Have You With Me Tonight by queerlettuce, A Way to Hurt by FoxyAtlas, I'll Keep You Warm (When You're Frozen to the Bone), Half bloods, assemble!, HALLOWEEN EXTRAVAGANZA 2017 by sssssssim

hazel friendships: the sketchbook, The Red of the Rising Sun by femmepire, mea maxima culpa by ExceedinglyPeculiarChick, For the girls by MagnusFierro2020, Embers in My Fingers by auristelaswife, Old Eyes by theforgetfulalchemist, Hazel's Hair by Vikingfangirl23, dance of the corpses by rosegoldblood, just as we have by 723, Hold on to the memories (they will hold on to you) by anna_was_here, if we make it through december, everything's gonna be alright, i know by polypanpercyjackson (ineedibuprofen), Cards, Monster Fighting, and Other Girly Things, glitter in their eyes, smoke in their lungs by ash_ish, Outside Assistance by malrie

hazel rarepairs: Hazel’s Wash Day by afuckingcastleintheclouds, Birthday 20 by HecateA, Master of the Stick by ryoku, Domestication of the common vampire, Reunion by historicallyredacted, digital love by rosegoldblood, aurum et argentum, There's something in the way you roll your eyes by Thunder3Zigon7, our love was made for movie screens by levesquelsimp

ensemble fics/non-hazel fics with good hazel content: twist your brain around by artfulacrostic, Tattoo by ricecookerwritings, Stucco Hearts by ananbeth and writergirl8, The New Rule by books4belle, Siamo Nei Guai by kingburu, a necessary not-evil by Notebrooke, Mortals Meet Demigods by MaryaDmitrievnaLikesSundays, Apartment 305 by waddled, we could walk straight through hell (with a smile) by seaweedbraens, Hold Tight and Pretend it’s a Plan by Rynna_Aurelius, The Standard Job by CrystalZelda, Caged by historicallyredacted, Connected by Chaoticneutralpaladin, memento mori by rosegoldblood, Invictus Maneo by adaimperium, Only Honey in the Valley by Baye

[maraudingforflesh]

more soukoku recs

https://archiveofourown.org/works/36333331/chapters/90580072

death offers no absolution (62,063 words); chuuya finally cracks and leaves the port mafia

https://archiveofourown.org/series/3128790

redamancy (series); mori is abusing dazai and chuuya wishes he could do more to help his partner

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41248287

Over every extinguished past (16,590 words); dazai is injured and chuuya sits vigil in the ADA

https://archiveofourown.org/works/36104566

Sleep Warm Tonight (16,650 words); Soukoku Christmas traditions

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1989544

Affirmation (series); chuuya defects to the ADA

https://archiveofourown.org/works/39981816

you'll never make me leave (13,049 words); moments from their time in the mafia

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41126526/chapters/103088673

We Shall Be Monsters (12,884 words); dazai doesn’t take kindly to subordinates dehumanizing his partner

https://archiveofourown.org/works/39313518/chapters/98380413

This is how it feels to take a fall (20,602 words); chuuya dies and dazai is willing to do whatever it takes to undo that

https://archiveofourown.org/works/39264423/chapters/98250894

Five times Nakahara Chuuya visited the Ada, and the one time they visited him (16,357 words); what is says on the tin

https://archiveofourown.org/works/29849802/chapters/73448754

Baby Executive (101,652 words); chuuya gets de-aged by an ability

https://archiveofourown.org/works/42610176

the pain we share (the strength we have) (5,668); the ADA finds out how dazai trained chuuya and takes issue with his methods

https://archiveofourown.org/works/39430836/chapters/98684571

Damn Your Love, Damn Your Lies (26,612 words); when dazai arrives at the ADA after hiding underground chuuya is already there

https://archiveofourown.org/works/41621943/chapters/104400675

Willful Neglect (27,924 words); chuuya dies from a complication of corruption and dazai will do anything to undo this mistake

https://archiveofourown.org/works/39856635/chapters/99791361

What Is Being Human Anyway? (27,634 words); chuuya leaves the mafia with dazai and they travel the world

https://archiveofourown.org/works/19273030

Blind Spots Covered (4,626 words); chuuya tells the agency when dazai’s birthday is

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23908429

Sweet Sixteen (9,829 words); dazai and chuuya celebrate chuuya’s birthday

https://archiveofourown.org/series/2651140

Dazai’s crumbling mental health (series); dazai-centric stories

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21857764/chapters/52166419

Raison d'être (25,441 words, WIP); dazai’s relationship with chuuya is revealed to the agency and he knows what he needs to do to keep himself and his partner safe

[randomthefox]

Episode 16 of Ghost Game aka HEY KIDS EVER SEEN THE EVIL DEAD?

(I am specifically using a gif of the remake because there are no SFW gifs of the scene from the original movie)

Hiro went solo camping! =D that's cool, he mentioned that in the Clockmon Returns episode. Nifty to see them follow up on that.

Seeing (Mori)Shellmon show up as a good guy was pretty fun! Shellmon was famously one of the first monster of the week digimon coming back but in a different role is always a really fun treat for the ol' nostalgia.

Hiro being beset by a bit of that there PTSD keeping him from going all out in the fight is nifty. Considering he's gotten to get away with being a goodie two shoes who always lets the bad digimon go with a bop on the nose and a tut tut in the end, I've been waiting for the moment the training wheels are forced to come off. But the scare with Gulus seems to be kind of setting that up to be a character conflict he's going to deal with a lot of friction with. Like Shellmon said, eventually Hiro is going to have to stop being such a softy. I figure that's going to be resolved by finding a good middle ground between Hiro being a softy and Gulus being so ruthless.

Anyway it's hard to be analytical about this episode because it kept FLUSTERING ME SO MUCH

Yes =) yes I do

HAHA WHAT A STORY MARK

YOU SURE ARE USING A LOT OF WORDS THAT ABSOLUTELY TRIGGER THE DOPAMINE RESPONSE IN MY BRAIN

it's comforting to know that even if I had been born much later in life and was nine years old watching this Digimon series nowadays, I still would have been doomed to become an absolute total degenerate because of stuff like this in childrens media x3

[fag-by-daylight]

Why ARK: Survival Evolved would be an amazing addition to Dead By Daylight

What IS ARK: Survival Evolved? ARK is a survival game where you tame dinosaurs and mythological/fictional creatures! That's not all you can do, but that's the main gimmick. The game features an awesome soundtrack, by the amazing Gareth Coker, amazing bosses and an amazing antagonist. The game also has some really great lore, that I'd recommend watching Neddy the Noodle's videos on. [Lore Videos and ARK: The Survival Stories [the lore from the Island to Aberration]]

But that's not horror!! Okay, and? Lara Croft, Nicholas Cage, and Dungeons and Dragons are in the game, so what's wrong with a survival game that has some horror elements in it?

Who's the killer gonna be? Edmund Rockwell, of course; he's the main antagonist, I'd say, of the game; more or so becoming a threat to the player in the third, fifth and sixth story-DLC. Think of him in a similar way to Vecna, arrogant, thinks EXTREMELY highly of himself [he literally calls himself a GOD], and he's an intelligent, fun antagonist! He's a British chemist from the 19th century turned giant tentacle-meat-monster. Obviously, we can't just have a gigantic monster with tentacles as the killer, but, the Entity would take him from Aberration, after he's defeated by the player, and give him a body that's better suited for the trials. Kind of like how the Entity gave Chucky the ghost so he could actually hook people. [An added note, he would have voice lines <3] And if this was a skin collaboration, he'd be a legendary for Blight. They suit each other. And there'd be voice lines and a different Mori.

Why would Rockwell even want to join the Fog? Power. Same reason as Vecna. Edmund is a man driven by power, and science. Think about why Wesker is in the Fog; he would join for similar reasons.

Power? I feel like a biological power would be pretty cool, something close to Singularity or Wesker. I'm not too good when thinking about powers and balancing it for the game, but maybe even something to do with his orbs in the Aberration bossfight, which would act similarly to the Unknown's UVX.

Perks? I am not a perk designer, so I sadly cannot think of perk ideas </3.

Chase Theme? Of-fucking-course it has to be his boss theme! Like, not just the theme outright, but a mix of it. They can do so much with the music, especially if they get Gareth Coker involved!

Who are the Survivors gonna be? Helena Walker, an aboriginal Australian palaeontologist [also canon lesbian], would be perfect; she's smart and resilient. She later becomes a Homo Deus in the game, but she'd be an amazing survivor! [and would obviously be taken from before she became a Homo Deus.] And of course Mei Yin Li, a warrior from the Han Dynasty [she's also a lesbian 💪]. She is perfect survivor material; she's a strong, resilient woman who can very well take care of herself. AND, if this is a skin-only collaboration, Helena would be a great skin for Claudette, I think. I think Claud could use a legendary <3. And Mei Yin Li would be a fantastic legendary for Yui Kimura. [Maybe a Santiago skin for Gabriel?? Hmm??? Give him the TEK armour, too?] [Maybe even a legendary Diana skin for Kate ^^]

Perks? Again, I'm not a perk designer.

[pictured left is Helena's design from the animated series, because I couldn't find any good pictures of her from the explorer notes; pictured right is Mei Yin Li]

Map? OHOHOHO, BOY ARE YOU IN FOR A TREAT! Since I want everyone to be taken from the Aberration map, obviously the map should be Aberration! Maybe the Green zone is the actual map and the main building could be the destroyed TEK city! It'd be great, atmospherically, and maybe there could be some creatures around that can be interacted with in a similar way to the Tanuki and the creature in the Dungeon on the D&D map [like light pets chilling around]! The realm would be called something like "The ARK", or "The Broken ARK", and some other areas on the map could be the portals and maybe even a little bit of the blue zone? Obviously, the maps are a bit difficult for me to think about, because how would the borders work, lol? Or the exit gates. But then again, you have to think about the fact that the Entity makes these itself. The Entity would be the one recreating the whole map, so there would be tiles that look funny and maybe the fact that there's generators would make this map look "weird", but just think of the possibilities! If Dvarka can be a map, ARK: Aberration can work, too!

They could even make different variations of the map where one is the green zone, one is the blue zone, one is the red zone, and maybe even the surface would be super cool! I also think some cool environmental features would be awesome like in the red zone, you'd hear Reapers growling, see rumbles, and hear Rockwell's voice echoing quietly. And if they do it this way, having the light pets for the specific zones would be awesome.

[pictures; left to right, top to bottom: green zone/Fertile Region, blue zone/Bioluminescent Region, red zone/Molten Element Region, and the Surface]

Are there any skins or charms that would come with the Chapter or Collab? I personally think a cute implant charm would suffice, and if they do the skins thing, it'd be like Resident Evil where the more you buy, the more charms. The first buy would grant you a Gamma Ascension charm, another would be a Beta Ascension charm, and the last would be an Alpha Ascension charm.

I know this is long, and I apologize for the, probably, incoherent rambling, but I'm very passionate about both of these games, and I think that they'd be perfect for each other. ARK has horror in it. It's not a horror game, but Tomb Raider isn't either, so I think ARK should be able to come into the game. I know I was vague with things, like Rockwell's power, but I'm not a game designer, so I am not qualified enough to think of a balanced, fun power to suit him. And, again, I cannot think about what perks to make. I don't know what perks would work by now and I just cannot think of anything good. So, my apologies. I would love to hear your feedback, and maybe even more ideas!

Peace and love, and thank you for reading my nonsense <3

[moriiartist]

yoo Mori, would it be alr if i made a playlist on Spotify about (Call The) Number of the Beast? obv with credits to you for the fic in the desc :)) -uni anon <3

Of course you could, as long as you send me the link! I’m interested to see what vibes you associate with it…

[ddostoyevskyy]

❝𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐀𝐖 𝐎𝐅 𝐀𝐓𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐂𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍❞

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐈𝐕: A Pay for Sins!

Edogawa Ranpo

𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐍𝐆𝐒... f!reader, mindbreak, mind manipulation, self-harming, emotional instability, death, murders (just for a while, Fukuzawa to the rescue🤸🏻‍♀️🤸🏻‍♀️). THIS IS QUITE MESSY, I WROTE THIS, LIKE 3 AM TO 4 AM.

𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐄... the mood of the backstory is darker than the usual, because I want to show y’all the reader’s ability. It wasn’t really made to be use for good intentions. Although, it’s up to the ability user. After these backstories, Imma switch up the mood rq🤸🏻‍♀️

𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐒... 3.331k (wao)

SERIES MASTERLIST

𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐒: 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐆𝐄, 𝐈, 𝐈𝐈, 𝐈𝐈𝐈, 𝐈𝐕, 𝐕

You are to learn to purposely and consciously attract the things in your life that you desire the most.

The world is full of lies, sinners, murderers, and greed — it made your head ache as you watch the world in silence, within the sight of the moon, within the sight of a pair of dark eyes that carried a lot of sins. You can see the innocence or how tainted they are. The heavy guilt on their heart pumps through their veins and run through their minds as they tried to erase those bloody memories, although at the end, they were always proven guilty to you.

The world is cruel for a child like you... for a child whose parents and origin are unknown, yet you’re trying to make your own name in this world where violence is the answer, where justice came with death and silenced. You could easily break free from this bars, yet you stilled — sat in the dark on silence once again.

You were silenced once again.

It happened in a blink of an eye. Your so called father had died in front of you with the click of a gun, the smell of gunpowder emits through the air, mixing with the scent of blood that trickled on your face. You refused to talk, even now and then that even Mori gave up on pursuing a child who had just lost her parent.

You were alone again.

Your ears perked up when you heard a clink on the other side of the cell, glancing across the room, a pair of cerulean eyes had been staring at you for a while, making your eyebrow arched. Maroon hair and cerulean eyes... his appearance were somewhat matured, although the appearance of his chubby cheeks made him appeared younger — he had a lean figure beneath his shirt — an assassin, maybe — by how he figured you out even though you have been keeping yourself away from the light outside the cell. He has a keen eyes through the dark.

He seems dull... like he had no emotions at all. Yet, you can sense the weight of his sins through your shoulders as you scrunched your nose. You are a no God to provide judgement to these people, yet it still made you shiver as you realized how much you were surrounded by these criminals, no, monsters. His unemotional capable is making you a little wary. Although, the warmth spread through your body made you a little relief that he still has good intentions through his morals.

He keep his eyes on you as he finally break the silence, “How old are you?”

“It’s rude to ask a girl her age, you know?” You spite, crawling towards the light as you finally showed yourself.

“I apologize. I thought you are in the same gender.” He answered as he reverted his gaze to the book he’s holding — a bible, which you were quite surprised. That has been what he’s reading all this time... a bible. Interesting.

“What’s your name?”

“I asked first and I never received a proper answer. So, it’s rude to ask someone another question without answering the question first, you know?”

Feisty. You clicked your tounge. “I could crawl through your head using my ability and command you to kill yourself, Mister.”

“Then, you could use your ability to rummage through my mind, so you can know my name, Miss.” Your lips puckered in an adorable pout as he averted his gaze back to you. You could sense a familiarity and a sense of humor within.

“(Name) (Last Name),” You muttered, “That’s my name.”

“Oda Sakunosuke,” He answered, “Nice to meet you, (Name).”

His boyish voice, the calmness in his heart despite the possible danger of him. You can’t pinpoint his emotion... he feels dull, his thoughts were the same — it’s like, he spawn in the world without memories. The only thing that you knew you were good at is to read people, and it scares you; meeting rare people whose emotions were void, dull memories, and eerily silent — it made your head ache.

“You look pale, are you alright?” You could feel your heart pounds through your ears as he spoke, head numbing and all you want is for it to halt. “That’s your ability? Mind reading?”

“N-No,” You stuttered. “I... I don’t even know what’s my ability and I can’t really stop myself from using it time to time.”

“Elaborate, I might help.”

You were confused, Oda figured. You were never really exposed through the world full of people, yet you look like someone who experience everthing; the pain, the suffering, the trauma, yet you were still naïve. The look in your eyes were empty as you stare in space, a single tear slip passed your cheek, yet when you spoke, your voice never faltered.

“I can go through people’s memories with the help of a single mirror, Altered Reality, where I could force memories that never even happen in someone’s mind. Reflecting Emotions, just like this... I could feel your emotions, I could feel someone’s pain physically and emotionally.”

That’s cruel. He thought. Did you even realize that you were crying right now? Or have you adapted his emotions? You look lost... is that what he’s feeling right now? This kind of ability is what considered gifted, yet you looked miserable. He never really understood the gifted world... nor he has discovered his own. And, what he have witnessed is nothing, but a child in crisis.

He can’t help. He’s been emotionless since.

“I can’t help you. But, maybe someone out there can. Endure it for a while.” Your mouth twitched at his answer, wiping your face.

Oda Sakunosuke doesn’t feel anything. His emotions were unstable, yet the satisfaction of driving his weapon through a flesh, the blood splattered across the wall, dripping down on his face — that’s the only thing he had felt alive. Or so he thought.

“Why do you feel hesitant?”

He stared at the girl across his room, behind the bars — the same expression he had. “What’s wrong, Mister Oda?”

“Nothing.”

He moved away from the light where she couldn’t see him, away from her curious eyes and her ability to figure personal space. He sighed, closing the book on his hand. You stared through the dark as you realized what he have done. The weight of his feelings through your head disappeared and it left nothing.

“Do you feel anything? Emotions, I mean. I have realize, you kept adapting your emotions to the people around you, yet you never know what you really feel, don’t you?” His question left you speechless as you stared behind bars, eyes searching for him, yet you couldn’t catch a glimpse of his eyes.

“Of course not...”

“Why do you feel hesitant?” Your breath hitch at his question — the same question you ask earlier whirl back to you. “Do you want to get out of here? How did you even got here, in the first place?”

“Someone named Mori Ougai sent me here. He’s an underground doctor and he feel dangerous, at the same time. Although, I didn’t feel scared, maybe I was reflecting his emotions that time.”

“This is a non-government jail where most of the gifted people here are captured. Do you understand what it meant?”

“Yes and yes, I want to get out of here.” You muttered. That information is never in your mind in the first place, yet you did understand. You never really not understand something you were told of. Yet, the silhouette of a man in your mind were the only thing you couldn’t understand.

“You can’t survive alone if you can only rely with people’s emotions. I can’t help you, but maybe someone out there are willing to. You just have to wait.” You kept silent as he talks. Although, he understood your silence, he let out a sigh as he turn his head on your direction, staring at your spacing self until your eyes closed shut, head resting against the rails as you fell asleep.

This world is too dangerous for you, too harsh and too terrifying within your mental capabilities. Although, he also have wished to know what’s on someone’s mind — he can’t handle something he can’t control, something too strong, yet too innocent. You don’t belong in this kind of world he’s been used to, and he can only hope someone will come and take you out of here — away from people’s advantages.

Oda Sakunosuke is not innocent anymore. He have seen more than you; the blood, the murder that he is too, a suspect. Although, there’s a piece of something awakening when he had met you for such a short time he tries to identify.

Not pity... he hasn’t done that for a while — he’s an assassin, after all.

Then, what is it?

Care? Does he has any care at all? Those lives he had taken without a reason, without mercy, without... care, then why is he feeling this way now? Why does it feel like he wanted to protect her at all costs?

Someone... save her. If I can’t even save myself out of this hell, then someone... someone save her... someone —!

“Do we have an agreement?”

“I can escape at any point if I want to,” Oda answered as he sat by the edge of the bed, staring at the man standing in front of his cell — looking desperate at some point. It has been a week since his interaction with (Name), although she is nowhere in sight anymore as he got detained to another place. “The reward you’re promising isn’t quite worth it. But the food in this facility is awful. If you happen to have some sway here, would you mind talking to them?”

Fukuzawa Yukichi was confused, yet he immediately gave in. “Any requests?”

“Curry rice,” He smiled, “And one more thing...”

Fukuzawa strided through the halls, several footsteps emitting through the concrete floor as the boy besides him kept talking about how hungry he was — Ranpo Edogawa, a fourteen year old boy he brought along to his journey of solving crimes — which had been hectic and stressful for the man. The walk towards their destination were silent as Ranpo noticed the sudden change of his aura.

“What’s wrong, Mister?” Ranpo’s voice bounce through the hall, interrupting the suffocating silent as Fukuzawa halted before he turn to his right, silver eyes fixated to a cell. “Who...?”

“You’d like to take her?” Fukuchi’s voice erupted as he leaned through the wall. “She’s quite feisty, mind you.”

“Yes. (Name)... this is (Name), right?” Fukuchi nodded, handling him over the key.

“She’s gifted a dangerous ability if not use right, Yukichi. I’m just telling you. She had brutally killed few of my people without even touching them,” Fukuzawa halted, his hand stop reaching for the lock as his hand touched the rails, peeking through the darkness of the small room until he saw a glimpse of a silhouette, tucked with head on knees, hugging her knees in silence. “She’s a real deal. Once you‘ve open that cell, she’s your responsibility if she’ll continue her own massacre.”

“Okay.” Fukuzawa muttered as he turn back to look at Ranpo who shrugged his shoulder. He approached the inside, walking through the darkness as he place a hand through the top of her head in a gentle manner.

“Is she asleep?”

“She’s not. She just don’t want to raise her head.”

“May I know why?”

“That’s how her ability works, Yukichi. I guess,” Fukuchi added, “I don’t know how she exactly did it, but before her victims died, they keep muttering something. V.”

“It’s... not an alphabet... not a letter...”

Fukuzawa drop his gaze to the girl as she muttered something muffled.

“(Name)? What is it?”

He felt a tug on his haori as he was approached by the girl whose currently now hiding her face inside his haori.

“I don’t... wanna look at you... I might... hurt you... please...”

“She’s harmless, don’t you think?”

“I don’t think so. She had caused such huge problem.”

“I’ll take her, then.” Fukuzawa unwrapped his scarf around his neck, carefully rolling the scarf to create a blindfold as he press it around her eyes, raising her hair away from the nape of her neck as he tied it not too tight, but enough for it to not fall.

“I can’t believe you were really going to fulfill his request.”

I can’t believe it too, he thought as he lower himself, putting her arms around his neck as he clutch both of his arms under her knees, glancing at Fukuchi as they stare at each other for a while.

This is really going to be a huge problem now that (Name) is willing to go with him. Ah... definitely in need changing of plans. “Best of luck, Yukichi.” Fukuchi breaks the silence with a tight-lipped smile, in which Fukuzawa answered with a small grin.

“Mister Fukuzawa, I’m quite hungry now, can we go eat?” Ranpo whined as his gaze fixed to the girl on Fukuzawa’s back — completely engulfed with silence, yet the confusion from the girl’s body language is visible.

“Fukuzawa?” He heard a small voice uttered his surname as he tilted his head to the side to stare at the girl on his back. “That name... seems familiar.”

“Really? Well, I’m quite famous around this area.”

Ranpo’s lips pout, an annoyed expression plastered on his face when he realized he’s now being ignored, crossing his arms over his chest.

“Silver hair, silver eyes, mid thirties... you were once called The Silver Wolf, an assassin. You were acquaintance with Mori Ougai.” It wasn’t a question as you keep going with those information that even Ranpo doesn’t talk about anymore. Fukuzawa’s footsteps continue to falter the more you talk and you feel a sudden anxiousness washes over your body... and you knew it was either those two emotion you’re experiencining right now —

It was yours.

You feel... anxious.

“I... I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to push the wrong button... I... I met that man before...” Your voice faltered and Fukuzawa suddenly got a nostalgic feeling that he had seen this before as his gaze turn back to Ranpo whose staring straight to him with the same bewilderedment. “... I may or may not dealt with him and swivel my way through his memories and I saw you... well, I am keen with my sense of smell and I knew your scent is familiar the moment you stepped inside this facility.”

You were now becoming talkative as you noticed — now that your sense of sight is gone, the more you became aware of your surroundings; the droplets of silence and the sensitive noise of their footsteps on your ears. Although, it was comfortable at the same time, you feel like you’ve said the worst thing you could ever tell a stranger.

You have seen Fukuzawa Yukichi through Mori’s memories... the same scent of masculinity mixed of blood and musk — this is definitely him. In the midst of someone’s memories, your five senses is more sharper than usual, that way you could remember every people in their memories. The same bloodlust smell through this man whose carrying you on his back changes a bit, yet you knew, you weren’t entirely wrong by the way he fell completely silent.

He’s an assassin... more like a private one. Mori Ougai and Fukuzawa Yukichi is an unstoppable duo in this world... yet one day, Fukuzawa Yukichi wanted nothing of this pool of blood anymore. And, so, their bond has been broken; two people that were fated ties cut together as one wanted to do good despite of countless of times his sword has been covered in blood and one wanted to continue his legacy to achieve his goal of overdriven power.

Fukuzawa is terrified and flabbergasted at the same time; such ability, such strong sense of survival, such power to alter anything and everything all in once within a body of a child... of a young girl now he’s carrying in his arms.

Fukuchi is not entirely wrong... this is such a huge responsibility. These two child, too intelligent and, yet deprived from the knowledge away from world. Two complete polar opposites; one who is yet in need to know his “gifted ability” is natural, and one who is yet in need to control her ability that can conquer the world in her own small hands.

He’s completely silent, so is Ranpo, so is (Name). The spindle wheel of the needle felt sharp on his throat that once he did a wrong move, it will cut through his flesh and the strings attach in these child’s mind will let go. He felt a lump on his throat, and Ranpo isn’t feeling good; the hunger he felt earlier disappeared as it changed — feeling the empty whirl of his chest like he’s constipated... the anxiety rummaging on his chest that he was quite thankful for the blindfold Fukuzawa created for (Name).

“It’s a burden... this ability they called gifted,” She whispered through the air, near Fukuzawa’s ear as he listens, “He called me a Gift of God... it was the meaning of his own name. My father, too, called me a Gift from God because I was sent from the Heavens to be his child, but he confessed that I was never from his flesh... which I never understood at first, but now I realized when I finally figured my own memories, the one that I have never altered,”

“It is painful in my head, it is piercing through my skull. It hurts... well, I figured; the reality hurts. I was never —”

— made from flesh;

Is what you wanna say. But your lips won’t move and Fukuzawa felt your arms tightening around his neck (but it was just enough for him to breath), “— I was never awake from reality. I am always relying with someone’s memories, someone’s emotions. This blindfold you put in my eyes to cover, it was really appreciated, Mister. I figured how much you can’t really see anything through memories...”

“You can only see the reality if its written within the eyes of anyone who has their eyes open. It is only up to them if they want to believe or they want to close their eyes and live within their own fantasy.” Ranpo spoke your final words as his fist balled through the hem of his clothes.

“Yes... you’re correct. You can tell my exact words... finally,” You let out a satisfied sigh and Ranpo’s eyebrow quirk as he stared at your form.

“Finally someone who can understand me...”

Even though, Ranpo didn’t hear the exact words you muttered under your breath, Fukuzawa’s gentle smile etched across his face is enough for him to figure out what you wanted to say to him.

“Maybe, this way I could pay for the sins I made, don’t you think, (Name)?”

“Huh...? What do you mean, Mister Yukichi?”

Yukichi, huh... Fukuzawa let out a smile again within the gesture. Fukuzawa knew you understood the meaning of his words. He’s always been carrying the heavy feeling of his own sins through his shoulders — the weight is nothing compared to what he’s carrying now; a child with a future within his liability.

Thus, within these two child, named Ranpo Edogawa and (Name) (Last Name), was the reason of founding and creating his own legacy.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are either the products of the author's imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely coincidental.

All Rights Reserved 2023 © ddostoyevskyy. Do not repost without permission or plagiarized.

[osarina]

(uh, this is rlly long im so sorry qwq)

OMG THAT LAST CHAPTER HAD ME FEELING SM CARINA U CANT DO THIS TO ME !!!! LITERALLY THE FIRST FEW PARAGRAPHS IN I HADTA WALK AROUND BC I WAS SO OVERWHELMED I LOVED IT SM !!! N THOSE LAST FEW LINES. DONTDOTHISTOME I S A W THE "BEAST AU COMPLIANT" TAG ON UU IM GONNA SOB MY EYES OUT DURING IT I JUST KNOW !!!

gonna leave some of my fave few lines n my thoughts abt them from this chapter (ok these arent all of em, bc if i put all of em it'd be the whole 50k words of this series SO ITS JUST THIS CHAPTER)

"because how could he possibly belong amongst people who are so unfailingly good that it makes his tainted heart stick out like a sore thumb?"

STOP NO DONT DO THIS TO MEEEEEE throughout the whole fic u perfectly captured his thought process n how he denies his own capacity for change n how he HAS changed from when he was 18 BUT THIS LINE MADE ME TEAR UPPPPPP

"He is so completely and irrevocably in love with you that Dazai doesn’t think he’ll ever be able to live in a world without you. The thought alone makes his skin crawl and his chest cave in."

self-explanatory

“Are you calling me ugly?” 

u gorgeous, gorgeous man ilysm yes you look like a rat but i'll swaddle u up in blankets n clean u up

the whole graveyard scene. DO YOU WANT ME TO CRY HELLO

“You were a kid, Osamu. You’re not some incarnate of evil for ending up where you did, you were failed by all of the adults in your life,”

ok nvm crying this hit me like a truck

"Humans cannot live without a heart, so if he’s to give you his, it’s only fair that you give him your own—though realistically, yours has already been his for a long time."

i feel like this mightve been ur fave line, but if it wasnt IT STILL IS MINE BC OH MY GODDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD QWQ

ranpos lil rant was so funny he's literally me frfr

“Yeah… ha, look at us, in jail at the same time! Couple goals, huh?” 

i giggled

PLS READER INVITING EVERYONE JUST TO AVOID GETTING INTERROGATED UMMM RELATABLE LMFAO

these are just some of them BUT JUST IN GENERAL, UR WRITING IS JUST MAGICAL ITS EVERYTHING IVE EVER WANTED TO READ N I LOVELOVELOVEEEE THIS SERIES N ALL UR WORKS (n u /p) SM !!! I CANT WAIT FOR UNREAL UNEARTH, I JUST KNOW IT'LL BE AMAZING !!!

RED HOW MANY TIMES MUST I TELL YOU NOT TO APOLOGIZE I LITERALLY ADORE YOU IM GOING TO WEEP OMG

honestly the first scene of dazai’s pov was one of my favs to write because it pisses me off so much whenever he’s excluded from the ada panels in the manga fjsjdjsjjd so i NEEDED the opportunity to hit home that that is his FAMILY idc what asagiri says the ada is that boys family and he deserves it 🥹🤞

UGHHHHH STOP BECAUSE WHENEVER I WRITE CANONZAI ITS SO HARD TO KEEP ON THAT THIN LINE OF HIS INABILITY TO ACCEPT HIS OWN GROWTH WHILE ALSO HAVING HIM ACKNOWLEDGING ODA’S LAST WISH FOR HIM SO I REWROTE SO MANY OF HIS POVS SEVERAL TIMES BECAUSE I FELT LIKE I WASNT GRASPING IT ALL PROPERLY

the graveyard scene was one of the 3 scenes i started writing for 🥹 i literally was weeping when i finally got to it

AND ALSO THE YOU WERE A KID LINE UGHHHHHHHH BRO when i tell you that’s something that i literally want to scream at him and shake his shoulders like he was FOURTEEN WHEN MORI BROUGHT HIM IN AFTER HIS ATTEMPT !!!!! FOURTEEN !!!!! HE WAS A BABY IT MAKES ME SO SAD WHEN HE FRAMES HIMSELF AS SOME IRREDEEMABLE MONSTER WHEN HE ONLY TURNED OUT THE WAY HE DID BECAUSE HE HAD NO ADULTS IN HIS LIFE SETTING HIM ON THE RIGHT TRACK ugh im gonna weep again i will always be dazai’s #1 defender, i will fight him himself idc he was only a lil baby :’)

oh my god fun fact i actually almost deleted that line about the heart, i don’t even know why like i was rereading it right before i post and i second guessed myself because i was like ‘i don’t think it rlly flows’ but then i decided against removing it because i liked the line in general SO IM WEEPING AGAIB

bro ranpo needs a promotion for real the headaches this man must get because of people not listening to him 💀

HDOSJDJSJDJJD THE COUPLES GOAL LINE WHEN I TELL YOU I SNORTED WRITING IT HELPPPPP I WAS GIGGLING SO HARD

RED ILYSM IM BUNDLING YOU IN THE SOFTEST BLANKETS AND GIVING YOU A FOREHEAD KISS

i’m so excited for unreal unearth like honestly it’s my pride and joy, i’m so pleased with how my beast!dazai characterization has come out so far and i’m hoping everyone else is going to like it too 🥹 if not ill simply die HAHAH JK JK JK no but really i’m so very excited for it

[lionofchaeronea]

The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett - I quite like it, it kinda goes into the (poor) english aristocracy marrying wealthy american girls and the differences in expectation of treatment and such.

A Bride's Story by Kaoru Mori - a manga series, don't know if your into that, but carefully researched, beautiful art (especially the textiles) of the time period and place, in areas around the silk road/russian steppes - Kazakhstan is one place I know the author visited.

The Ghost Bride - Yangsze Choo

Black Water Sister - Cho Zen

The Midwife's Apprentice - Karen Cushman

The House of the Scorpion - Nancy Farmer

Julie of the Wolves - Jean Craighead George

Blackbird House - Alice Hoffman

Geisha of Gion - Mineko Iwasaki - one of the main people Arthur Golden interviewed for his book. She wrote this to counteract his "white guyification" of what she told him.

Literary Studies for Rhetoric Classes - Bernard L. Jefferson - found this one at a thrift store I just really enjoyed a lot of the pieces in it.

The Story of My Life - Helen Keller

Sirena - Donna Jo Napoli

A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness

Binti - Nnedi Okorafor

What Happened to Lani Garver - Carol Plum-Ucci

The Color of Magic - Terry Pratchett

The Boxer Rebellion: The Dramatic Story of China's War on Foreigners that Shook the World in the Summer of 1900 - Diana Preston

Trudy's Promise - Marcia Preston - a very close look at one mother separated from her son when the Berlin Wall goes up.

Interview with the Vampire - Anne Rice - a very sad novel as it was written in response to when Anne Rice lost her child. A good close look at grief and loss and apathy.

Lovecraft Country - Matt Ruff - the show missed the point... the author wrote this inspired by when he and a black friend had been talking and he realized that because of skin color that while they occupied the same space, they lived in "different countries"

The Marvels - Brian Selznick

Salt to the Sea - Ruta Sepeteys

Koyal Dark, Mango Sweet - Kashmira Sheth

The Help - Kathryn Stockett

Children of Time - Adrian Tchaikovsky (or anything by him really)

The Ramsay Scallop - Frances Temple

Doomsday Book - Connie Willis - time-traveler finds herself back during the start of one of the sweeps of the black plague - it's pretty sad

Fifth Chinese Daughter - Jade Snow Wong

*some of these are middlegrade but I feel middlegrade is sometimes not appreciated enough as literature. ^_^'

*also sorry for the very long list....

No apologies needed. I really appreciate the recommendations.

[sincerely-sofie]

Do songs that you listen often to ever remind you of characters or events from TPiaG or other stories you've written? It happens to me a lot with stuff from a story with OCs I've been helping my best friend make for years now.

Anyways, I'm asking about it because a song from my playlist reminded me a lot of Twig when I heard it while driving the other day. I had heard the song a million times before, but when I was thinking about the lyrics more they seemed to perfectly fit her internal conflict. The song was Blurt by Mega Mango if you want to take a listen.

The song is definitely just about dealing with mental health issues in general, but my PMD brainrot made it so that this was all I could think about after my epiphany. On that note, I want to offer you a congratulations for writing characters so well that they takes over my brain from time to time. I greatly appreciate it. :D

First up: Thanks so much for your kind words! Second: Oh my goodness. My friend, you are opening up Pandora's Box. 

TPiaG doesn't have as many songs associated with it as my other projects because it hasn't been in development for several years— however, a vital part of my story development process is listening to music and imagining all the animatics of the characters and storyline that I want to make set to them. I do this for every project that sufficiently resonates with the blorbo frequency in my brain, and TPiaG is no exception! 

In terms of songs that embody specific events but aren't connected to a single character, I regularly listen to “Turn the Lights off” by Tally Hall and imagine a sort of extended theme song animation for if TPiaG were an animated series. There's so many lines that mention concepts important to the story!

Another animatic song, this one set in the Dark Future when Twig was human and starting her and Grovyle's quest to save the world, is "Running Out Of Time" by Lin-Manuel Miranda--- specifically the stretch spanning at roughly 1:10 to the end of the song. I have a very vivid image of Twig repeatedly shouting at Grovyle that they need to abscond ASAP as he frantically gathers supplies that spilled out of his bag while they're being pursued by the sableye, and then of Dusknoir being dismissed by a ferryman as he's interrogating him on which way they went.

I also still listen to “Let's Get This Over With” by They Might be Giants and imagine the rest of that one unfinished animatic I posted forever ago. That song isn't as blatantly connected to the events of the game, but there's a few anchor points in the lyrics I really enjoy. 

As for individual characters and songs I associate with them, here’s a selection with links to Spotify for easy listening!

Twig:

"Hey, Doctor Doctor" by Milk in the Microwave

"Monster" by Half Moon Run

"Smile" by Ukuletea

"Feelings Are Fatal" by mxmtoon

... And now, "Blurt" by Mega Mango as well!

Ark:

"Problems" by Mother Mother 

"Rule #21- Momento Mori" by Fish in a Birdcage

"What You Know" by Two Door Cinema Club

Kip:

"I'm Not Fine" by Blixemi

"Don't Throw Out My Legos" by AJR

"Just Take My Wallet" by Jack Stauber’s Micropop

Grovyle:

"The Villain I Appear to Be" covered by Annapantsu

"Surface Pressure" covered by Annapantsu

(I don't know why both of these songs are specifically the versions sung by Annapantsu. Apparently she's Grovyle-coded in my head.)

Celebi:

(Insert any bubblegum pop or kawaii future bass song of your choice here.)

(Celebi has somehow evaded my ability to assign her songs. I’ll get her someday.)

Dusknoir: 

"I'll Be Good" by Jaymes Young

"Never Love an Anchor" by The Crane Wives

"I Was Me" by Imagine Dragons

Twig's Aunt:

"Family Jewels" by Marina and the Diamonds

"In Fact (Demo Version)" By Gregory and the Hawk

"Ain't It Fun" by Paramore

Twig's Mother:

"Brother" by Madds Buckley

And for those who'd enjoy some Travailshipping songs...

"You Are The Moon" by The Hush Sound

"Dark Clay" by Levi Weaver

"When the Day Met the Night" by Panic! at the Disco

"Can I Have the Day With You" by Sam Ock

"Tongues & Teeth" by The Crane Wives

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So the other day I read the first volume of a manga called Magilumiere: Magical Girls Inc., which is set in a world where, kinda like MHA with superheroes, magical girls are a common sight, and being a magical girl is treated like a normal job. Basically, they function as exterminators for these monsters called kaii, and there are multiple companies, of all sizes, that employ magical girls for this purpose.

Anyway, the manga was really cool, but we all know that magical girl transformations (especially techno-magic ones like in this series) look best animated. So naturally, I looked it up to see if there was an anime adaptation. And there is - just not yet. This manga only came out in 2022 in Japan (and it's running in Shonen Jump+, no less), under the title Magilumiere Co. Ltd (Kabushiki Gaisha Majirumie in Japanese) and it only started being released in English by Viz in March of this year. And while an anime version is planned, it's not due out till Q4 of 2024. So I have to wait.

The cast and staff seem pretty good, though. The anime is being made by J.C. Staff (the studio behind many well-known animes, like Azumanga Daioh, the A Certain Magical Index franchise, Saiki K, Food Wars, Revolutionary Girl Utena, and Shakugan no Shana), alongside Studio Moe, which seems to be a pretty new studio with not that many credits. The composer, Makoto Miyazaki, also did the music for One Punch Man and Spy x Family. The script writer Shingo Nagai has also written for Symphogear (so he's no stranger to mahou shoujo). The director, Masahiro Hiraoka, doesn't seem to have much directorial experience (most of his credits on ANN are for artist work, most of which seem to be tied to Studio Moe, which as I mentioned, doesn't have very many credits), but I can overlook that. (Interestingly, a lot of his artist work has been in CG art, including CG for both HeartCatch and Suite PreCure, which makes me think the transformations and maybe attacks will involve CG, though I guess that's expected nowadays).

The cast is interesting too. The two main girls, Kana and Hiromi, are being voiced by Fairouz Ai and Yumiri Hanamori respectively. They previously appeared together in Tropical Rouge PreCure as Cures Summer and Coral respectively (and just last year reprised those roles in the movie PreCure All Stars F), although interestingly here Coral's actress is playing the energetic Hiromi, while Summer's actress is playing the much more reserved and intelligent Kana, which if you know Tropical Rouge is a complete opposite of their Cure characters. But then they have range - Fairouz is also the voice of Jolyne from JoJo and Alisa in Pokémon Concierge, while Yumiri has also played Hayasaka from Kaguya-sama (a character with a varied personality, apparently). So I'm not worried.

The two characters above are the resident programmer at and the boss of the titular Magilumiere. (Yes, the boss is a middle-aged male cosplayer. He's just weird like that). The programmer's name is Kazuo Nikoyama, and rather hilariously given his design, he's going to be voiced by Daiki Yamashita, the same actor who voices Izuku in MHA (I guess the resemblance to Izuku may not have been a coincidence 😂). As for the boss, his name is Kouji Shigemoto, and his planned actor is Rikiya Koyama (Kogorō Mori/Richard Moore in Detective Conan/Case Closed, Jōichiro in Food Wars, and Emiya in the Fate franchise).

Rounding out the currently known cast is nice-guy office worker Midorikawa, who is going to be voiced by Ryota Ohsaka (Keiji in Haikyuu, Sadao/Satan in The Devil is a Part-Timer, and the Japanese voice of Cat Noir).

Anyway, sounds like an interesting series! Unfortunately, Volume 2 of the manga doesn't come out in English until June, so I'll have to wait for that too.

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