#operation: break out

[fabuloustrash05]

I randomly remembered how on Newtralizer's action figure toy had a description in the back that called him a big bad mutant. So your theory about the salamanders being mutants that the Kraang created 1000 of years ago might not be too far off. That or we can also assume the writers just intended to be a one off villain or some crap but then they introduced the salamanders and went with making apart of the salamander alien race. Or by the time they started making season 5 they remembered Newtralizer and decided to shove a bunch of all of a sudden lore about him.

Funny enough the toy is correct about him being an assassin and also a bounty hunter seeing as he originally worked for Lord Dregg as an assassin. Also also, idk if you remember that one ask where I suggested Newtralizer could have gotten a potential redemption arc if it weren't for When Worlds Collide but also on that toy desc it says he proves to be more of an ally to the turtles. I don't know- (sorry for the rambling I originally intended for this to be about your theory-)

The original idea for Newtralizer was for him to be a mutant experiment made by the Kraang that has gone rogue. If I remember correctly (I could be wrong so don’t quote me on it), Newtralizer was a rejected mutant character for the 87 toy line created by Ryan Brown.

Here’s the original concept:

The concept was for him to be a mutant newt who would hunt down Krang, possibly being a failed experiment of his that he abadoned (idk, I'm guessing. Like I said, don't quote me on this).

Even in his 2012 series concept art, it’s kind of insinuated that he’s a mutant experiment of the Kraang cause the concept sketches refers to him as the “Amphibious Assassin of Dimension X”, as if he was born or better yet created in Dimension X and it's his home.

In TMNT 2012 they seem to have planned to go with this idea like with his rejected 87 concept in the beginning of the show. That’s what they hint at during the season 1 episode Operation: Break Out.

But by season 2, the writers started switching from him being a mutant to instead him being an alien.

In the season 2 episode Newtralized, Raph refers to him as an alien:

But then not even 5 minutes later (No joke. I timed it, it was less than TWO minutes later) in the SAME EPISODE they refer to him as a mutant!

Granted, maybe they had Leo refer to both Slash and Newtralizer as mutants just to make it easier than saying "We've got a crazy mutant and alien running around",

I kind of gone off topic here, but I wanted to share this interesting info and point of the inconsistency. You can tell in the earlier season they were still debating on whether or not they wanted Newtralizer to be an alien or mutant.

Anyway, yeah my headcanon of the Salamandrians being long descendants of mutants that escaped the Kraang many many years ago was pretty much inspired by the confusion/Newtralizer being mistaken for a mutant for the first half of the series, even if that wasn’t intentional/planned out, considering they didn’t officially confirm Newtralizer was an alien until 2015 during a San Diego Comic Con and they were showing the concepts of Mona Lisa and Sal Commander for the upcoming 4th season.

We even got an in show confirmation in the season 4 episode The Moons of Thalos 3, if you listen carefully when Sal and Mona first confront the Turtles, you can hear Leo called them "Newtralizers".

[invasivefungus]

meow

[gomzdrawfr]

Sorry this is prob weird but I’m imagining Raven and Ghost working at amusement parks (they look like they don’t belong there)

Raven is the kind that counts down and then pulls the lever at the count of 2, smirking under her hat

Ghost is the same, but he finishes counting and then lets the suspense build in uncomfortable silence, cuz he wanna see the faces of the people wondering if there's a malfunction, and then only Ghost pulls the lever

[digitalcarcrash]

thinking about alex being a hardcore pacifist pre-operator, yeah sure he's bitchy to everyone more often than not but Physically he wouldn't hurt a fly, only for him to wind up breaking one of his best friend's leg with a block of cement

[borntolead]

OPERATION MINCEMEAT | ORIGINAL CAST RECORDING »[4/4]

[spookythesillyfella]

Hiii Spooky!! Hiii!!! Ello!! Waving!!

Just a quick question, no reason really, uhmmm, what's your favorite dinosaur? No reason *cough cough* no reason!! Smiling :D

Okeii!! Byee!! Love ya broskiiii/p!! Runs away

hihi apollo !!!

whooff ... thatz a tricky one

my answer iz probably just gonna be incredibly dumb and / or incorrect . since im very much not a dino nerd like the best sillybling in the whole wide world

but i like pterodactylz !!! i think they look a tiny bit like batz and im a lover of batz [though that waz probably expected given my nature hehe]

[invasivefungus]

Some more sketches :p

[r0ryy]

my turn on the barbie meme

[tj-crochets]

Hey y'all, I am blanking on a word so hard I am even blanking on the words to describe that word What's the term for like...groups of colors? color palettes but more specific? I'm looking for the generic term, but the specific words that are versions of that generic I can think of are things like earth tones, jewel tones, pastels, and maybe brights/neons I'm trying to figure out other categories like those but I cannot figure out what the word is to search

[garlique]

me when i actually think i have a shot at a job that would work well for me 😭 i hate job hunting so much my dumb ass gets so invested into every single job and it never works out and logically i know i only have a 1/100 chance of getting this particular one but i know that's still better odds than most jobs and it already feels like things are aligning for it a little bit?? and i don't want to get my hopes up again and them get crushed because it feels like every time it happens it's like. genuinely devastating for me but i also really want to manifest this shit i feel like i'm being stretched by my arms between two giant rocks lol

[aero-sense]

The EK military feels so disconnected and unsociable towards their own people, despite coming from relatively warm and unorthodox communities (ie. Haru's village, Omashu) so I had an little theory that Ba Sing Se is a cause for this, and that they've been instilling their values ie. nationalism, xenophobia, classism and authoritarianism by spreading their influence throughout the EK military and governments.

There's no denying the sort of influence BSS has over other city-states and villages. The mail is under military control and was shown being taken advantage of, as important letters to the Gaang were intercepted by Long Feng. We also see in the show a map of Ba Sing Se's military forces sent to every major fortress in the EK.

These fortresses also double as training camps, and it's established by the games that it's common to send EK children to these camps once they're old enough. The only training camp we see in show is the fortress under General Fong's command and we all know how he is:

In the games, the Consul's background is unknown but his character was written like a precursor to Long Feng, with similarities such as "maintaining" EK traditions as an excuse for discrimination, manipulating the king as an advisor, secretly controlling the guards of the city, and ultimately selling their kingdom out over their obsession for power. My first impression of the Consul was that he was an envoy sent from Ba Sing Se, as a method to control other governments, and he's just a particular case that went off the rails. While General Fong and the Consul have unknown origins and are unconfirmed to be associated with Ba Sing Se, their values and actions align with Long Feng's policies.

Because of the way the EK governments and military are set up during the war, the result is EK children being indoctrinated by Ba Sing Se's styled nationalism, xenophobia, classism, etc, and them returning to their hometowns only to become detached and persecuting towards the people they were supposed to protect.

[thelostfable]

finding that one oz comic has sent me down the rabbithole because of another post from years ago that i remember that i want to see if i can find again . but i know i didnt reblog it. im reaching the point where im considering i may have hallucinated the post. the struggle of the post hunter

[emstargazer]

Not sure if these will turn out to be just recurring OCs with a brief backstory or a full-on written fanfic centered around these two or some other format, but either way... Berserker Armor inspired Titan whose Pilot mimics the arsenal Guts uses throughout the manga when paired together with the Titan's loadout and whose relationship with them has an ominous side reminiscent of Guts and the Beast of Darkness.

Does anyone on planet Earth see the vision?

For which audience is this post supposed to cater, you ask?

Me, I am the audience.

Don't worry, I'll be reasonable and put my self-indulgent rambling under a readmore. Beware of some minor spoilers for Berserk.

Considering Vanguard-class Titans are "almost as well armored as a Legion, with the dash capacity of a Ronin" I feel like it fits best class-wise, but it would be a heavily modified Vanguard-based that sacrifices a lot of its defensive capabilities for an incredibly aggressive self-destructive approach to combat. It would also take some design inspiration from Ronin Prime, specifically the concept art (inheriting similar legs and the plates on its sides that remind me of air vents, which I may repurpose to introduce a cooling system) while still preserving the overall structure of a Vanguard. So think of Ronin Prime(Concept) +BT(or FS-1014 or SDV) +The Armor.

They utilize a unique Sword Core that would at first be identical to the regular until it one day develops to have the same, yet way amplified benefits with one additional being the ability to "keep itself together". What I mean by that is while the core's active it's able to keep most of its components functional despite sustaining damage that would otherwise prove to be fatal by using technology similar to the Gravity Star ordnance which upon activation would bend space so that said components can still work in unison, albeit semi-efficiently. It doesn't necessarily repair, but it does let you keep on going for longer even after your Doomed State health bar has completely depleted(yeah, I'm also trying to look at this from a gameplay perspective).

Hmm, sounds familiar.

But the real fun lies in its major drawbacks. First of all, if it does get to a certain point of no return, you won't be able to eject and once the Titan Core ability ends an explosion is imminent. Basically making every instance you use the core into a likely suicide mission. A risky last resort rather than an ultimate ability.

Secondly‚ after every usage the neural link gnaws at your psyche, leaving you with a mental scar, meaning your mind(notably your judgement and self-control) gradually deteriorates over time.

This issue derives from the very nature of the Titan, because its AI is designed to have such a strong link that it inadvertently has access to something which can only be detrimental in the long run and that is the deeper unconscious layer of the Pilot's Mind.

Initially, Titan's AI will have its own set of characteristics, but the better the link becomes, the Titan's control over filtering those unconscious thoughts will falter. Until eventually, the AI splits into 2:

The seemingly original, true self(I know, one may argue that's not the right choice of words, but I disagree considering we've seen how far the Titan's AI can evolve with BT)

An independent personification of the Pilot's Jungian Shadow(I wonder what kind of dynamic will they and the Pilot have, image below definitely unrelated c;)

Now, about the Pilot. Anything relating to their backstory before being assigned with [insert Titan's designated name](been researching military alphabet and code words for ideas, still haven't thought of something that sticks) is currently undetermined.

What is set in stone is they don't have any idea either due to being revived as an advanced simulacrum, until they achieve a complete awakening(like Ash or Revenant) by the unique link they've established as such. The Titan could give insight into the inner workings of their mind that they couldn't fathom as a human, let alone a digital backup of human consciousness with restrictions(ego retention system).

Once awakened, their main objective is to uncover lost memories through the use of said link. The catch is in the drawbacks and the eventual separation of the Titan's AI.

First one is mostly self-explanatory, even in the case that the Pilot's mind component remains intact and gets miraculously brought back into a spare robotic body, it would certainly be a limited resource(same with the Titan) and there would always be a high chance of data corruption.

Second one turns their journey into a ticking time bomb, making every subsequent combat encounter push the Pilot closer to inescapable insanity.

Birth of the second AI inside the datacore causes the Titan's original self to fight for control and question whether the other one is a part of who they are despite originating from someone else, while the Pilot can only bring words of encouragement from inside the chassis.

A story about a Titan and Pilot who both struggle with their identity leading them to form a connection that goes beyond the neural link itself. Exploring how in the journey of self-discovery what one might find to be a part of who they are may in fact be working against them and despite that one should learn to accept it and acknowledge its existence in order to have any control over it. All while affirming interpersonal connection as one of the necessary steps in learning such a lesson.

With hopefully a lot of emotional damage sprinkled along the road.

c:

To the arsenal we go, Titan's loadout would consist of:

an energy-based weapon with a repeating crossbow-like mechanism visually resembling the Ballista from Doom Eternal.

And, you guessed it, The Giant Ass Sword which is preferably going to be unnecessarily longer and thicker than Ronin's canon broadsword to the point where it should theoretically be ineffective, but as a consequence of their unique fighting style and years of accumulated battle experience they'd be able to find unconventional ways to use such attributes to their advantage. Why not use a standard edition broadsword like all the others? Both of them got too attached to their sweet heap of metal^_^. Another significant distinction from it is that instead of using electric charge to produce the Arc Wave, it would harness it to send a shockwave through both the "phase dimension"(one used by Ronin, Simulacra Pilots and others) and our own making it able to damage even those currently occupying the alternate dimension.

Again, one might guess where the general idea comes from.

When it comes to the Pilot's design, I'm keeping it mostly unknown for now. They will be using Pulse Blade since it's the closest thing to Guts' throwing knives and one of their arms will have a use as an Anti-Titan weapon. As ordnance, a large amount of miniature frag grenades.

Ok, I think going into deeper intricacies would be overkill, so I'll put my foot on the brake here.

If you've read this far, I'm beyond grateful you took your time to go through the amalgam of my sporadic unorganized ideas.

Here's a treat!

[rainyfestivalsweets]

Speed work. Mileage not accurate.

It was a short & hard speed workout- 1 min run, 30 off.... reducing to 30 sec run /45 sec rest.

Topped out at 8.2 mph.

My highest speed ever!

[kindahoping4forever]

Ashton @ The 5SOS Show Tour

[gumy-shark]

nobody talk to me im thinking about shou and mob again

(author’s note: this is not quite true. everybody talk to me please)