#primordial robot hell

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Took my best friend to see thr Transformers movie and despite not knowing anything about the series, she LOVED it, I'm so happy rn :')))

[toskarin]

recently put together a broad-spectrum album recommendation list for an oomfie, but it felt like it'd be fun to throw this on tumblr as a blunt force answer to everyone who's asked for album recommendations from me

no particular order, no particular quality threshold, no particular mood, no particular genre, we're shooting for variety here

if there's one uniting factor, it's probably "most of this would be considered 'extreme' music" but even then there's plenty of wildcards mixed in to keep you on your toes

enormous recommendation list below the break

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秘部痺れHIBUSHIBIRE - Magical Metamorphosis Third Eye

の子 - 神聖かまってちゃん

Envy - All The Footprints You've Ever Left And The Fear Expecting Ahead

asami - 屑籠

Blind Girls - Residue

COLD DEW - 欲​欲​YUYU

The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls With Sand

[ALBUM ART IS A SURGERY PHOTO] Maenad Veyl - Reassessment

abriction - Banshee

The Sweet Release of Death - The Blissful Joy of Living

Orchestroll - Hyperwide Lustre

Luminescence - 羞Shyness

Mahti - Musiikki 1

Evvolves - Mosses

Nastia Y - Robot Meaheret

Limbs - Everything Under Heaven

Grima - Will of the Primordial

Full of Hell - Full Of Hell & Merzbow

No Point in Living - Idolatry

Sadness - Leave

Marmalade Butcher - Onomatomani​[​a​]​kus

An Autumn For Crippled Children - try not to destroy everything you love

Theodor Bastard - Beloe: Hunting For Fierce Beasts

My Bloody Valentine - Ecstasy and Wine

ベス・クーパーに+現代日本縮図+色覚異常 - SUCKER PUNCH 2​：​FATALITY

Anti-God Hand - Blight Year

Nadja - Radiance Of Shadows

Thousand Leaves - Twilight Symphony

Ultar - Kadath

群青リボン - 夢の底

Mind Matter - Les Brumes de l'Abandon

Beast Jesus - Distributed Denial of Self

Ethereal Shroud - Trisagion

Trhä - Endlh​ë​ton​ë​g

Signs of the Dying Summer - Oto jest Pustka

i, of the trees and wind - Cry of the Forest

Hypnodrone Ensemble - The Shape of Space

The Stalin - 虫

Story of Hope - Historia

DOPE PURPLE & BERSERK - This Is The Harsh Trip For New Psyche

HEALTH - GET COLOR

Nghtly - An Afflicted Body

Ekselsior Rec. - Funky Impulse '17

Sigillum Azoetia - Erennwell

Little Nemo - Turquoise Fields

VANDAL - 地​獄​変

Sacrimoon - I'm gonna miss you

Havukruunu - Kuu Erkylän Yllä

пуща - éph​é​m​è​re

The Elements - Elementary

Second to Sun - Nocturnal Philosophy

have fun!

[cassafrasscr]

Even putting aside the Dorym of it all... I kinda feel like part of the reason Orym misses Dorian so much is that Dorian is kinda the next most normal person in the Crownkeepers and Bell’s Hells. Which is honestly a little wild to be saying about a runaway prince in disguise. But like...

The Crownkeepers have/had:

- A himbo dwarf Sorceror who has been singled out by a Lesser Idol in a fursuit.

- A bubbly girly-girl Warlock who is apparently her own patron (and the Spider Queen's here too, I guess)

- A Rabbit-folk Paladin who used to be a bartender in Fantasy Vegas and is now devoted to the goddess of death.

- A kleptomaniac Faun whose adoptive grandmother is an eldritch hag with the power to alter fate. Also, has a pet monkey that shits fire.

- Does Cyrus count? He’s an NPC. In any case, he’s basically the same as Dorian, but More Himbo and less useful, lol.

- A woman so intense she is literally always on fire.

Bell's Hells has/had:

- Fearne (I already explained her)

- A Werewolf who makes toys and hates Santa.

- A walking corpse who is haunted by the spirit of the necromancer who raised her from the dead. Also enjoys puppeting a dead rat.

- A purple-haired Psychic who gets her powers from an imprisoned eldritch moon monster.

- A Barbarian punk who is half Primordial Titan, half Beacon, all attitude. Also, they used to be an Aasimar before his cultist parents meddled with powers beyond mortal understanding.

- A chirpy, sentient Robot who is technically a therapist, but also really bad at it. Recently discovered religion and is real annoying about it.

- An 80 year-old man who is an erstwhile member of the legendary Vox Machina. Also, known liar and coward.

In contrast, you have Dorian (runaway prince) and Orym (just some guy).

I feel like they probably met each other for the first time and were both like, 'THANK THE GODS, SOMEONE WHO ISN'T TOTALLY BONKERS,' and just stuck to each other. Like two acquaintances at a party where they didn't know anyone else. 😂😂😂

[corviddetector]

Does the corvid detector Helldive? Would the corvid detector play with fans if requested? I bet there’s corvids on at least one of those planets

Yes, there are corvids on super earth

I do not play... Helldiver's at least!

Not yet, I didn't join the democracy yet

But I play a shitton of other games

Some of my favorites include:

Throwing walnuts on the street for cars to drive over- I'm just kidding

1: from the depths (the building game, not the other one)

2: factorio (the factory must grow)

3: dwarve digging game (we're rich)

4: the common block game (y'know the one)

5: Ark survival (bonking primordial flightless birds)

6: Metal bringer (mech game go bonk)

7: war robots frontiers (childhood but better)

8: cosmoteer (a classic I modded to hell)

9: like 50 others.

I also really wanna play space engineers with people again, that games prime levels of stupid

[duhragonball]

Chainsaw Man ch.63-66

Last time... uh, wow. Holy shit.

Okay, so all these assassins were coming after Denji, but the only three who matter are Germany's Santa Claus and his army of humans-converted-into-doll-monsters, Quanxi and her fiend minions, and Tolka and his master. While everyone else was fighting, Tolka managed to kill Denji using the power of the Curse Devil, and now his master has appeared to congratulate him. He wants to collect Denji's corpse and withdraw to complete their mission, but she tells him there's no need. Then she explains to him that he's become part of the family and talks about all the steps to creating a perfect doll.

I'm not sure I get the exact idea here, but Tolka's master touches him and he starts robotically walking around in the department store the battle is in. And then Germany's Santa Clause steps inside the store, while Tolka's Master stands outside.

Clearly, these three are all on the same team, and I guess Tolka's master is the granddaughter of Santa? Or maybe she just thinks she is? My guess is that she's another one of his dolls, but more sophisticated than the others we've seen. And Tolka is a doll she made just to carry out this task. But to what end?

Well, Santa stabs himself and calls out to a devil, offering his own heart and children in exchange for something, but what?

Turns out he's talking to the "Hell Devil", which... okay, nice flex. And he's asking for the Hell Devil to take everyone in the department store to hell. Also, here's those four kids he got as payment for this job.

Look, they're eating spaghetti! And... OH NO!

Ohhhhhh no...

So I got to this part and the art just completely blew me away. This is the best part of the whole series so far. It's kind of thin on story, but the visuals are just amazing. All the characters we've seen fighting lately are now in this weird landscape with fingers crawling around like worms. Or maybe they're just laying there. I prefer the idea that Hell has severed fingers crawling around the ground. The sky is covered in doors.

All the fiends are freaking the fuck out, and Denji is alive-ish? But not quite. The Angel Devil recognizes the scent of hell, and that's really the only clue they get as to what just happened to all of them. Quanxi asks one of her fiends how they can get out of here, and she freaks the fuck out.

Okay, so as Angel Devil explained before, the devils in this story can't truly be killed. If you destroy one on Earth, it gets reincarnated in hell, and when it's killed in hell, it eventually reappears on Earth. So it's this endless cycle of death and rebirth. However, there are devils who represent primordial fears, transcendent devils who have never left hell, because they have never been killed, even once. And that's what makes this place so terrifying. Whatserbutt would rather kill herself than face these kinds of horrors, and as soon as they draw the attention of any of them, they'll be doomed.

And then here comes the Darkness Devil.

This rules. I don't understand the astronaut thing, but it's awesome.

This guy just sort of walks up to these idiots and their arms all fly off their bodies. They're completely helpless.

The only one who seems to know what's going on is Tolka, if this even is Tolka. He kneels before the Darkness Devil, and maybe he summoned the guy here? I dunno. Anyway, he identifies himself as the Doll Devil, so maybe that's who he was all along, or Santa created him to serve as a vessel for the Doll Devil. Anyway, Doll Devil had a contract with the Darkness Devil. In exchange for Chainsaw Man's heart, he asks for the power to kill Makima.

Wait, what?

So, remember last time, when Master Kishibe tried to form an alliance with Quanxi, and he used written messages to communicate, because apparently Makima could hear him? Well, the Germans who contacted Germany's Santa Claus did the same thing. While that guy was talking to the old man about how many kids he would take as payment for killing Denji, they were actually discussing a plot to kill Makima. Apparently Denji was just a means to an end. Trade his heart for a piece of the Darkness Devil's flesh, and feed it to Tolka's Master, who is apparently Santa's new body. Or maybe she was always Santa's original body, and the old man was a puppet. Or... whatever.

So what about all the guys stuck in hell? What about them? Darkness Devil decapitates Tolka/Doll Devil, and I don't even know why. Whatsisbutt tries to use his power to turn things to stone, but....

Darkness just grabs the Stone Devil who made that power possible in the first place. Looks like he destroys Stone and the guy contracted to him.

Beam tries to pull Chainsaw Man's rip cord, but Darkness dismembers him. I'm not sure this would have made any difference, since Chainsaw Man can't seem to transform all the way. But Beam greatly admires Chainsaw, so it's no surprise that he'd try this.

Darkness Devil takes out a few more of these guys and I'm not even sure how. At least he pointed at Beam. What makes this so eerie is how quiet this is. I mean, there's sound effects, but still. Something about this feels like it's happening in a profound silence.

Then the Violence Fiend tries to attack. We met him earlier in the story, and his deal is that the Violence Devil was insanely powerful, and normally when Devils become fiends that weakens them, but Violence Fiend is still incredibly powerful anyway. He wears this mask which I think is supposed to regulate his power, and so in this situation he asked Kobeni to remove it and run away. So this is Violence Fiend Unleashed, but it still doesn't accomplish anything. Dakrness Devil makes some.... sound... and....

I dunno, chunks of him are just gone now. As he falls, someone hops off his back to fight in his place...

I'm not sure what to make of this. Maybe Denji's Chainsaw power is enough to upset the Darkness Devil? This looks like a reaction of some sort. I can't really interpret it, but this is more than the other characters got when they tried to fight.

It still doesn't work, though. Darkness Devil does some sort of thing and Denji's arms and legs twist in all sorts of bone-crunching directions.

To his credit, Violence tries again, and a big-ass sword appears over Darkness Devil's head, and Violence Fiend gets impaled on it. A bell jingles, and he explodes.

Oh, and while this is going on, Aki is losing it, because he recently gained the power to see into the future. So I think that means he's getting to experience this horror in stereo. All this death reminds him of Himeno's death, and he's losing teammates again, and he can do nothing to stop it.

Angel drops dead next, and then Aki. Oh shit, I hadn't even noticed the hands coming out to get him. That's pretty spooky.

Suddenly the Spider-Fiend shows up! Oh, right. Makima ordeered her to stick close and pull Denji out of danger if things got bad. So she must have been in the department store too when this happened. But her ambush is no more successful than the others.

I really like the "ribbit" here. What makes Darkness Devil so effective is that he's so profound. He's not a bad guy dressed in black, or hidden in the shadows. He's the personification of darkness itself. Some caveman got lost at night and heard frogs croaking and it was absolutely fucking terrifying because he had no idea what those were or what was going to happen next. There's no rational explanation for anything Darkness Devil has done. Why does it care about Chainsaw Man's heart? Why is it even bothering to attack the others? Why is it using different powers on some of them? There's no way to know. We're in the dark.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, Makima is somehow aware of what's going on, and she's in contact with the Spider Fiend. She asks her to summon Makima to Hell, and Spider-Fiend obliges.

Oh come on! Makima can beat this thing too? This is insane?

I guess they kind of both hurt each other? It's not clear what Makima even did here, but okay.

This gives Makima time to... do something to the Doll Devil, which causes Tolka's body to offer itself to the Hell Devil, and thus send them all back to Earth.

The Darkness Devil impales Makima with her sword, which I suppose means that she could defeat Makima given enough time, but Makima was prepared for this and now that the Hell Devil is taking them all back, they can return to Earth back to the way they were before they left.

Meanwhile, Santa uses her newfound Darkness Devil power to assemble her dolls into a new doll body.

Makima returns close to where Santa Claus is, and she pulls the cord to reactivate Chainsaw Man. Apparently he's okay now that he's out of hell. She asks him to rescue her from Santa Claus and he replies "woof".

So yeah, this was a trip.

[sillyslayer6]

genshin lore questions i need the answers to:

what the hell is being 'guarded' beneath the thunder sakura, on kannazuka?

why aren't electro visions being issued?

^ who controls visions, if not the archons?

where's the electro sovereign?

where's the cryo sovereign?

where's the anemo and geo sovereigns, if they're not dvalin and azhdaha?

what is project stuzha?

^ miss tsaritsa, why are you trying to make ragnarok happen?

literally what is the tsaritsa doing.

who's the third descender?

who's the SECOND descender?

is the primordial one celestia?

what the fuck is paimon.

is the unknown god a shade? (probably!)

why are cubes seemingly linked to primordial stuff... and why is zhongli associated with cubes? 🤨

why was specifically venti's statue used by the abyss order, in liyue?

is teyvat actually the home planet of lumine and aether? or, related to their homeland? (the inteyvat flower... 🤨)

is 'the abyss' actually a corrupted and flipped light realm that's trying to reclaim its native territory from the primordial one's meddling? or is it just purple.

why does sandrone resemble mary-ann AND guizhong?

is the big robot behind sandrone actually sandrone?

are constellations/fate written in the fake sky, or the real sky?

when will the heavenly principles wake up? and which nation will piss it off the most? (my bets are on snezhnaya, though fontaine did literally execute the hydro archon)

what did childe wake up? the narwhal?

why does skirk look like the narwhal?

how did childe, a regular human, manage to leave the domain of the archons (the abyss) and come back without being turned into a hillichurl?

what even are the wayob?

what's with khaenriah and their obsession with irminsul? king irmin, crimson moon dynasty having memory fuckery powers, abyss order loom of fate, etc. 🤨

is the abyss space/the void?

how did childe manage to no-clip into the abyss? did he actually?

why did SPECIFICALLY childe's vision stop working, and nobody else's?

when, where and HOW did he get a hydro vision?

why does foul legacy look kinda like a seelie and a dragon had a weird moth baby?🤔

who did the ancestor seelie fall in love with?

why did the moon sisters start brawling and killing each-other?

what's the tsaritsa going to do with all the gnoses? eat them?

how did peruere/arlecchino end up in the house of the hearth?

is crepus ragnvindr the 10th harbinger? 🤔

is diluc's mother in the hexenzirkel?

and so many more! (kill me)

[hologramblue]

(struggling to post from the grocery store internet hole as i wait for it to open) i think violet sold the "paradox pokemon are SCARY" thing much better than scarlet did because while the idea of bigger wilder and more monstrous prehistoric pokemon that have never known human presence is cool and all, it's also 1) a hard sell in a franchise where you can feed groudon and kyogre (among other primordial beasties) pokebeans 2) not backed up by the past paradoxes' actual designs, which are kinda scuffed up but not severely enough to not look like pokemon. meanwhile the future paradoxes are like, visually conceptually kinda simple (what if thing was robot?), but seeing them in motion was genuinely kinda uncanny for me because of how they don't...have subtle idle motions, they are dead fucking still when they're not actively doing something, and "in the future everything will be replaced by robots" is significantly spookier and more alien to a franchise that's so much about loving ecology and critters and nature.

HOWEVER, i think violet players got robbed wrt their special befriendable bike lizard because while miraidon has a slick as hell design it's not nearly as emotive as koraidon, who is like a jock toothless, a calculated fusion of lizard and cat whose constant burbling and chirping and mrowling is honestly the only thing that kept me going through the "open world exploration" experience

[medusolo]

its super under construction right now but im making a blog for my ocs and my writing!!!! i have personal projects like convergence, a sci-fi story about the various powers and evils of love and robots coming together to stop a primordial threat to the universe from finishing what it started. i also have my personal workings on a group project ive been doing with my friends for about five years now! that story is about a dysfunctional team of c-tier heroes trying to survive under a cyberdystopic hell.

lots of robot/robot, robot/human, and human/human. largely sapphic, all queer <3

[scarletooyoroi]

So about this 'Original sin' of Fontaine, I've been delving into my thoughts and lore bits and I may have an idea.

More deets below the cut!

I believe that the hints have been in front of since the start, with the prophecy and all. The primordial sea in itself being the key.

In short? Throughout Fontaine's history, not just humankind, but it's gods, everything that hailed from here found itself creating a bond with it. This could be the same issue that stirred the anger of the Whale that hailed from those seas as well. The fact that so many beings here are imbued with Pneuma and Ousia isn't a natural phenomenon.

Yet, through genetics did this power manage to be carried on, alongside of the curse of actually dissolving into water. I'd like to dip into a few things that would shed light on this, first being this excerpt from Rene's Investigation Journal.

As we've come to learn, the Vourukasha Oasis happens to be the deathbed of the previous Hydro Archon Egeria. This would be details that these researchers would've of had any knowledge of, yet, the fact they can go by their genetic makeup to discern this should be lent a pivotal eye of attention. Divine or humanity, it still persists.

So that brings the question of where would this even originate? For that we'd have to actually look at the old experiments of Fontaine's old God-King Remus. In order to pursue the everlasting, he came up with some... ideas.

+ From the 'Sublimation of Pure Sacred Dewdrop'

+ From the 'Essence of Pure Sacred Dewdrop'

So with these two elements in mind, in order to connect part of what Remus's plan was to turn his subjects into an immortal race during his 'Golden Symphony' or conquest of 'Barbarians' aka subjugating all who didn't abide by his ways of establishing order.

In this excerpt we get better confirmation as at some part of these experiments yielding success, this is from Enigmatic page IV from the Book of Revelations.

Then here's another excerpt of how humanity might've ended up with underneath Remus's reign, these are taken from the golden troupe set.

To me, this gives the impression of where Fontaine's robotics may have also originated too.

While the golems may inevitably be the new bodies they'd inhabit, before that, humankind itself beforehand was transformed in a way through these methods such as the golden song, thus leading to a lot of the current abilities and issues in the present day. Due to having this unique connection to the primordial sea.

This very clash of Hydro and the Sea being successfully fused in ways it never should be.

tl;dr: Fontainians being some hybrid existence to the primordial sea. (When humans in Teyvat are ALIENS to begin with) has led to a hell of a time. This in turn through their melting, has melded the primordial sea to the once pure waters of Fontaine.

And likely may be the reason for 'One Unhappy whale boi.'

[frostybearpaws]

screaming into the void again…

because being in more than one fandom is both the best thing in the world and absolute hell. My poor little brain hyperfixates on one little microscopic part of a fandom and then stray thoughts form others invade and lead to this.

bare with me here.

you have transformers: we love talking, sentient robots (that turn to various dodads) with some ambiguous morals committing war crimes against each other and occasionally humanity as well.

and then you have Star Wars: we loves humans and humanoids that are space wizards. We humans and humanoids that are not space wizards. Everyone is also committing war crimes against each other.

now put them together.

Several months ago this post came into my feed (I have no idea where it is, who created, but if someone could find it I would love that) where the long and the short of it can be summarized as “what if Coruscant is actually Cybertron that got colonized by a bunch of humans?”

again.

Obviously this summary cuts out many intricate details, but I thought it was a very clever and neat idea. And it got my gears turning.

Star Wars and Transformers could actually go really well together. Not just because they take place in space and the characters are participating in civil wars.

Here’s an example: Robophobia

Star Wars droids are treated like second class citizens. Despite showing capacity for both emotions and desires, my case: Artoo going to that droid massage parlor in an episode of the Clone Wars and 3PO constantly exhibiting crippling anxiety are still kept in servitude via periodically erasing the memories of past experiences. The IDW comics sees many races hating cybertronians because of the destruction their race’s several million year war has brought to their homes, and this are not welcome in many organic establishment and have to go as holoforms.

this could a very interesting dynamic. Droid are not seen as legitimate beings (regardless of their capacity to show sentience) cybertronians on the other hand are technically biological beings despite their metal shells. In transformers: prime Starscream explains to Silas and the rest of MECH that cybertronian body parts are not technology but biology and need energon (the lifeblood of cybertronians) to work. And shows this by cutting his arm and letting energon seep into the parts MECH had collected and Frankensteined together and voila! they worked.

to recap: you have a world where any thing made of metal is considered lesser, suddenly they’re exposed to a race of metal aliens that are at least 20 feet tall and easily 100 times their mass, that get offended if they’re called “droid” and implied that they are supposed to do shit for them.

This could shake up dynamics, maybe droids see this and want the same respect, maybe they don’t care. But cybertronians will change what it means to be alive, the races in the Star Wars universe are all organic, they are all born in some way. Cybertronians? They come out of the ground in at least 2 continuities (prime, the well, IDW literally come out of the ground, they dug up) in earthspark they come out out primordial soup. Regardless of the method it’s rarely organic (the closest thing is budding).

so you have a metal thing that is alive. Which brings me to my second example: Metal!

cybertronians are made of metal! (Living metal, I digress) and there are plenty of fictional metals in Star Wars, but I want to focus on one in particular: Beskar! The metal used to make Mandalorian armor. It is strong enough to not cut when exposed to a light saber (or blaster shots), which is a blade of plasma.

different transformers continuities have shown time and time again that cybertronians are actually really hard to kill. IDW 2 Ratch outright says when he is looking over the body of Rubble, Bumblebees mentee, after he is killed by Six Shot. And in the same story a young cybertronian (I can’t remember her name forgive me) get a a clear shot to the head, through her visor and out the back. But she survives, is horribly traumatized by the experience, but is alive. This creates concerning implications for the weapons used during the civil war. They are specifically made for killing another cybertronian and are capable of taking down a warrior very quickly.

the weapons used by the each respective franchise look visually that different from each other, which leads me to believe that they work the same way but one is obviously more powerful. How does this lead back to Beskar. The Mandalorian shows us that, if powerful enough, something could cut Beskar. When Din Djarin is fighting Moff Gideon, he’s using the Beskar spear given to him by Ahsoka. When it clashes with the Dark Saber, it starts to heat up, implying that the Dark Saber is actually more powerful than even a regular Light Saber.

now returning to the original concept, the wepons used by rebels, storms troopers, and bounty hunters are significantly less powerful than weapons used by Cybertronians. If they were to use their weapons against them, they likely would absorb the shot similarly to Beskar and receive not damage.

how does this circle back to Beskar? Well the old republic before the empire is stated in the prologue of the novelized version of A New Hope written by Ryder Windham, it is stated that the republic kid 25,000 years old. The war between Autobots and Decepticons was 4 million. I don’t have to do the math to tell you that 25,000 is a mere fraction of 4 million. And it is plenty of time for Mandalore to be an early battle field where thousands of Autobots and Decepticons lost their lives and were Barrie’s under layers and layers of sediment only to be rediscovered in the mines, harvested, and melted down in Beskar alloy.

Yes! There it is folks! What if Mandalorians are wearing the melted down corpses of dead cybertronians?

I’m not done.

this next part less of rambling about two things until they make sense and more of talking about a plot point in a fic that I never finished while I’m ranting about these two, because why not?

the clone war was a deadly and ultimately pointless conflict. In some continuities of transformers the civil war much the same. In led them back to square one, only now they’re stuck on a dead world. In this particular story, the cybertronian conflict has already ended, and they’re not too eager to enter another. However they are forced into one, and they are cranky about it.

energon has a lot of energy, hence the name. And to the republic, desperate to end the war quickly, this is a very attractive resource. They would take it and be amazed by its capabilities. It makes their shops go ZOOM, it increases firepower! Suddenly they’re winning, the war looks hopeful. All is good, great even, until the Cybertronians realize they have rats, and go get their shit back. Will fight them? Will they join them? Who knows never got that far. Maybe I’ll come back to it.

Anyway, I’ve beaten this point into the ground, you get it, I don’t know how many even made it this far into my rambling XD

I’ve been typing this out for 45 minutes. if you have anything to add please do

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seriously though, if hasbro can make published crossovers such as Star Trak, Terminator, Avengers, Power Rangers, and My Little Pony; Star Wars is not the weirdest thing to mix in.

[the-blossica-fan]

Glad you're enjoying the chaos lol o7

The Coven was founded 600 years prior by Dynol Cyn, a Gynoid who's name could mean "Human Before" or "Human Cyn/Sin"

Some include; Dynol Cyn, Connor Tomo, Akiloria, Roshia, Llo'Llo, Benjamin Iroha Griseo, Kanae Severus, Philip Agro Isolde Tomo, Maria Tomo, 4859, Harlequin and Aluya Tomo

They sit and discuss inside of The Ark, and sit as such in a circle on chairs on problems in the other cities, or happenings in Diianas. Each with their own humour to add, as well

Friends wise, Aluya's childhood friend was a girl named Sophie, and later called 110, and 28; they are from Ancient Greece, and are the last "true" followers of Pythagoras, brought by a Paradox in time to the future

Now, that's just the simple parts. Just wait until I explain the fact she died, came back as a robot, split her Soul in half to be HoSa and a Gynoid, and how she is related to the Primordial Deities c;

I read all of this and was like "Holy fucking shit what the hell??!!", Very impressed with a gaping mouth, then you tell me what happens next and I just 😦

My friend I am scared of you, what did you do to Sophie I got emotionally attached to her (I just heard she was Aluya's childhood friend and got attached)

SOPHIE STILL EXISTS RIGHT?!

And, woah The Coven is 600 years old?! Well- actually makes sense, still surprised tho. Where are all these plot twists coming from you're literally telling the plot to me

Goddamn poor Aluya, I was literally about say "hey at least she has a friend!" Before I got brutally spoiled 😔

Well technically not spoiled, still left me wide eyed mouth gaping heart trembling.

Everything in the story is so good, like, every part of it. I'm also interested in The Ark but I think that's a place where The Coven stay.

Wait if Sophie is now two different entities, does either have her memories?? (I may have gotten attached to Sophie I'm sorry)

But more importantly

Aluya does get more friends, right?

[shikai-the-storyteller]

Dude the new Transformers movie is AMAZING

[torturedpoetsy]

hollow soul ⸺ an anthology,, 1/7

“In this series of brief scenes and edits, you'll follow the demon Murtaugh, the personification of death, as he introduces a newcomer to the underworld city: Quasinoite and its ruling families.”

I´d like to give credits to fergsmacleod on twitter and jungrainsoul on deviantart for the amazing templates used in this post. Also this is heavily inspired by hazbin hotel.

The human only felt his last breath leave his body, and in the next second, he was falling, and falling, and falling, endlessly, never finding a bottom. It was as if all the air in his lungs was insufficient, and every organ weighed heavily within him. He felt every drop of blood, every strand of hair, every throbbing nerve. He was entirely aware of himself, and he hated every second of it.

When his body finally stopped, he found himself seated in a dark room, illuminated by a large, ornate skylight that cast a reddish gloom over him. The room felt both strangely vast and suffocatingly small at the same time. His eyes seemed to betray him—was he dreaming?

As he attempted to rise from the chair, a supernatural force pulled him back down. In the next moment, he saw a shadow materializing before him—a towering figure of a man, dressed in long, black garments that made his arms appear longer than they truly were. His hair was long and pale, his eyes entirely black, and, of course, there was that sharp smile with pointed teeth. A shiver ran through the man's body, forcing him to lower his head.

“Unwelcome to Hell! My name is Murtaugh, and I’ll be your guide.” Murtaugh vanished into smoke, only to reappear seated on the molten lava table in front of the mortal, causing him to jump in surprise. “What’s your name? Uh, let me guess, it´s something dumb like Ben, or James?” Before the human could even open his mouth, the entity continued, shrugging nonchalantly. “You know what? It doesn’t matter. You’ll have the chance to choose a cooler one later on. But that can wait.”

The demon snapped his fingers, and several objects materialized in a floating circle around them. Murtaugh appeared bored, resting his chin in his hand. He snapped his fingers again, and a small floating paper appeared before his eyes. He read it with exaggerated slowness and in a robotic voice, never ceasing to smile as if his cheeks might tear at any moment. “Yeah… welcome, blah blah blah, I’m Murt—Oh, I already said all that.” He made a dismissive gesture, and the paper flipped over. “In Quasinoite, we have seven main families that represent each of the primordial sins. If you’re really good, you can join one, be really important and live forever. If you’re just another poor incompetent soul, you’ll rot and burn until you´re nothing but sad ashes.”

He glanced at the human before snapping his fingers again, causing the paper to ignite and burn in the air. His smile widened. “Any questions?”

HOUSE VALENTINE: the lust.

The human, whose name remained unknown, observed everything with a look of disbelief so intense that it almost made Murtaugh laugh. However, for the sake of his sanity—and that of the poor soul before him—he maintained a serious demeanor. The demon then flicked his hand, causing the seven floating objects to glide swiftly through the air. With a swift motion, the blonde demon grabbed the blackened apple, making the others vanish in an instant.

“Now let’s see if you’re worthy of something in the afterlife, or if you were insignificant even in what brought you here.” He raised his eyebrows and began to idly toss the apple into the air, while the human continued to stare at him.

“So, what’s the deal?” The mortal looked slightly confused by the flood of information he’d received in the last few minutes. Finally shaking off his daze, he began to think more clearly. “I have no idea what’s happening.”

“Are you kidding me?” Murtaugh gave him a mocking stare, sighing and rolling his eyes as the human still looked bewildered. “You’re dead, sweetheart. You’re dead and rotting on the earth right now. And for some reason, you ended up in Hell. Lucky for you, by the way, the other guy isn’t as patient as I am.” He vanished once again, reappearing behind the human’s chair and leaning over his shoulder to whisper. “Listen carefully. I’m almost certain you’re just another one of the useless souls who will continue to pay for what they’ve done. But, if you were bad enough, you might join a family and own more than your tiny mind can imagine.” He extended his hand, projecting a small image of the city within it. “You could own a seventh of this place, command it, and live eternally in satisfaction, if you pass the test.”

“What test—” The sound of Murtaugh disintegrating cut him off, and the entity was back on the table.

“Let’s take it step by step. First, the Valentine family, the embodiment of lust. The most lascivious, impetuous, and fiery sinners…” He let out a theatrical sigh, then prominently displayed the apple. “Each object you saw represents one of the primordial sins: Lust, Wrath, Pride, Gluttony, Sloth, Greed, and Envy.”

“Like the movie?” the other interrupted, making the demon burst into laughter.

“Why the hell do people always ask me that?” Murtaugh shook his head rapidly before nodding. “Yes, just like in the movie, or whatever. The point is, each object will tell me if your soul aligns with a particular sin. If you fail all of them, it’s because none were strong enough. If you succeed with one, congratulations, you’re a rarity,” he said with a sarcastic tone.

“Do you want me to try the apple? Are you joking? It’s black, it looks rotten.” The look of disgust on the human’s face was amusing to Murtaugh, who wondered how this idiot would fare when facing the rest of Hell. But that was something he would only discover later.

“The flavor can vary, you know?” the demon said, leaning over the molten lava table. The human's eyes narrowed, wondering if this was some sort of cruel joke.

“I’m serious.” Murtaugh continued, biting into the blackened apple, allowing a thin trickle of what appeared to be blood to seep from the corner of his mouth. A satisfied sound escaped his lips as his eyes closed in pleasure. “Sweet as blood.” He licked the juice in his lips, it almost looked like he was kissed in a really intense way.

He tossed the apple toward the wretched soul, who, with no other choice, took a hesitant bite. Almost instantly, the human spat it out, recoiling from the pungent odor and bitter taste that assaulted his senses. “That's fucking disgusting.”

“Language." He hummed, with humor, only to be met with a derisive glance from the former mortal. "Well… it seems that you lack the affinity with this sin. Sex wasn’t one of your preferred pastimes, huh?” Murtaugh observed with dripping sarcasm, throwing his head back in a hearty laugh. “But, don’t worry! You’ll have plenty of time to indulge here if it wasn’t a common occurrence in your mortal life. Of course, everything has a price, even the pleasures of the flesh…” 

The Valentine family is composed of all those sinners who were so devoted to lust that they were chosen to be its representatives. The family stands as a titan among the many powerful families of Quasinoite. Their influence weaves through the very fabric of the city's nightlife, from opulent party houses to clandestine brothels and grand entertainment venues. They reign as the undisputed monarchs of the Guts District, where the pulse of the night beats the strongest. The Valentines are instantly recognizable by their signature fiery aura, eyes that captivate with a single glance, and a silver tongue that few can resist. Their presence is felt in every shadow and whispered in every corner, a family whose legacy is as intoxicating as it is unassailable.

... to be continued.

[terrence-silver]

sentence stater for “cockwarming  is  such  a  pretty  concept.” 💓

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Sure, Terry Silver could spin some bullshit narrative.

How it unlocks the sacral Chakra.

How slipping inside of you and staying like that was as good of a tantric practice as any pursuit of maintaining the wellness of the body and its immaculate condition, and you'd buy into it, because he'd have you buying into it, undoubtedly, with little purple prose and trying on his part --- maybe he could bring up the myth concerning the idea of humans once having four legs and four arms before jealous gods ripped them into twin beings forever searching for one another and how it is an innate, natural need to be one, always --- a call to a more ancient, advanced and primal self, sex and combat often man's way of connecting old separations. Intricate rituals. Hell, maybe Terry could actually believe that one himself for all intents and purposes, not that he was ever keen on believing nonsense. He was good at stories and their weaving. Fantastic at them. He was more than aware of that. And cockwarming was such a pretty concept, yes. He supposes he wanted you to know what he desired, head on, without any tricks and games for once; tangled in a mess of limbs, like the primordial man of legend, on a great big California King sized bed, post-coital after a couple of rounds of training, Terry says it, outright, an order more than a request. -"I want to be inside of you."- There's no blinking. There hasn't been blinking for a good half an hour or so. He feels like a snake in heat on the hunting prowl. -"At all times."- He was just inside of you. Not even five minutes ago. Was it enough? Will it ever be enough?

He found that he was envious.

Whenever you weren't stuffed full of him one way or another.

Existing, without him inside of you. That wasn't right.

And so, Terry makes much needed corrections as he lays with you, sweat sparkling gold red on the ribbon of sunlight spilling through the colossal master bedroom windows, falling on two naked bodies as he strokes himself ready, sprawled out on his side facing you, not entirely hard and not entirely flaccid, reaching a perfect balance, having you watch him do it as he held class with his fingers, up close and personal, slick and shiny and nestles himself into a place that was warm and receptive and well-trained and all his, having just been fucked, still dripping his cum. Adjusted for him, through immeasurable sessions, until you take him and you're impaled on him as you should be, clicking into his cock and the rest of his frame in a cacophony of small sighs and moans as you stretch and submit, wiggling into place, your slick, soft hole amazing for him. He smiles into the sensation of burning fullness, embracing you whole, imagining what it would be like to simply live like this. Yeah, maybe old Zeus or whoever had to screw man all up back in the days. If they were quite literally one, maybe they just spent all their time fucking and doing nothing else. Where was the productivity of enterprise in that? Now there was a thought that tickles Terry. -"Singular entities."- He purrs into your ear, pleased, once you're finally close enough where he can smell your breath on his face and sense the salt on your skin. -"You're me."- His robot.

[duhragonball]

Neon Genesis Evangelion 20

Last time, Evangelion Unit 01 ran out of power in the middle of a battle, but that's okay because it came to life and ate the Angel it was a fighting. So NERV has taken it back to base and trussed it up with bandages and some kind of "cage" to restrain it while they figure out what to do with her. Oh, right, the Evangelion is a girl. We just found that out.

God forbid a woman do anything.

The crappy old man council doesn't like any of this at all, but they're crappy old men, so they can't do anything but whine about it. They're like "we never should have put Gendo Ikari in charge of NERV." "But he's the only one qualified to do the work." "Well we should have put a bell around his neck." "There was a bell, but it didn't ring." "That's stupid, what good is a bell if it doesn't ring?" "Well, we need to put a better bell on his neck next time." Just the most asinine dialogue ever written.

What happened to Shinji? Well, they never could eject his plug from Unit 01, and when they finally get a look inside, it turns out he's not even there. His plugsuit is floating around in the LCL fluid, but there's no sign of his body. Ritsuko theorizes that his physical body is still in there, but it's been dissolved into something akin to "primordial soup". As for his mind, it must still exist as well, inside the Eva's consciousness.

Misato asks, for the umpteenth time, what the hell the Eva even is. It's clearly not a giant robot, or an Angel, or anything remotely resembling human technology. So what are they, that one of them could do something like this? Where did they come from? Ritsuko gives a bunch of non-answers and riddles, so Misato slaps her. I like Ritsuko, but yeah, she kind of deserves this. If you don't want to tell Misato, that's one thing, but don't jerk her around with poetry when she just wants to know what this thing is that you're supposed to be an expert on.

I mean, the only characters who seem to truly understand the Evas are Gendo Ikari and Ritsuko, and that might be it. If Ritsuko can't explain what an Eva is, then what business does anyone have even trying to use them?

Ritsuko does have a plan to recover Shinji, but I'm not even going to try to explain how it works. It's based on a procedure her mother came up with ten years ago. I guess something similar happened at NERV back then, but Ritsuko says it didn't work that time. As it stands, it takes Ritsuko about a month to set it up this time, and she still has no idea if it will do any good.

Basically, if they can access the Eva in some way, they might be able to coax Shinji's mind into separating from the Eva's, and then the Eva might be so gracious as to reassemble his body from the chemicals in the LCL fluid.

But it seems to fail, not because the procedure isn't working, but because it seems like Shinji doesn't want to return.

This is probably because, from Shinji's perspective, he's in communion with the Eva, and he's having a nutty vision involving imagery and voices from his memories. There's a lot of stuff in this, but I'd say the culmination of it all is when the Eva takes the form of Misato, Asuka, and Rei, and offers to combine with Shinji.

Then the plug ejects, and Shinji's suit spills out along with all the LCL fluid. Misato thinks that's it, and he must be lost forever...

But then Shinji's nude body tumbles out beside her, so apparently the whole thing worked after all, despite Ritsuko's readings to the contrary.

Before he emerges, he has a somewhat more lucid vision of himself realizing he's inside the Eva, and the Eva informs him that he's piloted the Eva, and he just got done piloting the Eva, and that he will do so again. Okey-dokey.

Misato goes to have sex with Kaji after it's all over, and she asks him what he knows about NERV and Gendo Ikari's goals, but the answers are things he either doesn't know himself or can't explain just yet. Then they have sex off-screen, for an uncomfortable amount of time. She tells him not to put strange things in there and I really don't think I want to know what that means. Then he gives her something, and she puts a capsule on the counter next to her drink.

Kaji calls this a gift, perhaps the last one he'll ever be able to give. I don't know what the hell they're talking about.

Now I've pretty much zipped right past all of Shinji's visions while he was inside the Eva, but to be honest, most of it is lost on me. He talks about how he wants people to like him and be nice to him, and he feel like the only reason people treat him well these days is because he pilots the Eva, but we kind of already understood that.

He also mentions that he thinks his father deserted him because he found a surrogate child in the form of Rei Ayanami. I'm not sure if that's actually true, although there is a flashback(?) to Gendo telling Shinji's mother that he'll name their unborn baby Shinji or Rei, depending on whether it's a boy or a girl.

So maybe Rei is Shinji's sister? Or Gendo had another child that he named Rei? Or Gendo made Rei in his lab and gave her that name? Or Gendo just happened to meet Rei and they got along well and she just so happens to have the name he would have given to his daughter if he ever had one?

I'm not going to waste a lot of time trying to figure this stuff out. There's six more episodes and I have a feeling the important stuff will get a full explanation in due time.

[themetalvirus]

Reading through your egghog tag makes me think of jinx fron arcane where i dont know if u have seen if but she was a kid when her sister was captured and thrown to jail but she thought she died right after fighting cus she accidentally killed all her family and anyways i cant keeo picturing sonic in such a state of mind that is SO broken and doesnt know what to do, his brothers have left him and all he has is his dad so he get back to them by destroying what little things he had that remind him of them, and denying they were even close and eggman just being the most unsuportive father ever like BAVFVAH this is such an i teresting concept i love it

ive never seen arcane so i have no idea what it's about, but the rest of this ask is pretty much spot on!

sonic being reminded of the absence of people he thought loved and trusted him unconditionally is too painful for him to bear. so one night he goes into their rooms and destroys everything he can to try and get rid of some of that anguish. but all it does is make him more lonely.

shadow and silver didn't really know just how much their presence kept sonic sane until they left and witnessed how he changed. eggman is pretty much always busy, so sonic only has robots and his brothers' metal counterparts to interact with, and it REALLY starts to fuck with his head. he spends way too much time alone and it just makes his resentment grow and morph into something almost primordial. the absence in his heart grows.

i should explain the details of shadow and silver's world shattering realizations that their dad lies to get what he wants. they were essentially trained from birth to think that their dad was the only example of Real Truth and Genius so shattering that perception is A. extremely difficult to achieve and B. absolutely devastating when it does happen. so how they end up there and how they deal with it after is pretty interesting i think

anyway yeah. sonic carries a lot of grief after his brothers wise up and it only pushes him further into the depths of Eggman Hell