#rift is connected (ic)

[formerchaoslord]

RiFT! all good? I hope so! Remember our conversation about the possible existence of a Bert son of Regal? then! I improved this idea!

Firstly, let's do him before he "rebellion" (I was going to do a version of him in the Picrew, but I decided to describe it) a skinny boy with somewhat pale skin, but his freckles give him a little life, in contrast to he's dark circles, his loose hair reaches up to his shoulder, I don't know if Bert's hair is curly or simply something unknown to me, but it's the same color as his father's hair, before he "rebellion" he was all about "doing it for my father" "getting this for my father" "help my father" "do you know my father?" "live for my father" "father"

he had no personality, he had no interests, he couldn't live if it weren't for his father, but that changed when he met Lan, well, it took a long process, but he finally rebelled, hehehe

rebellious now, he dyes his hair red and starts wearing his hair tied up, and now he has personality! insecure, courageous, intelligent, whiny, stressed (when pressured), kind, affectionate, and doesn't miss the opportunity to take something from his father, like LaserMan.EXE!!

(as I unfortunately haven't seen anything from BN, I could be wrong about what I'm going to say now, corrections are totally accepted here!) Before MegaMan.EXE deletes Laser, Bert stops him, and they even think he was a cheater, but no, he just shut down Laser, and then restarted him, changing certain aspects of his personality, and then making him his operator!

I also think about a friendly relationship between Bert and Coronel.EXE, more because of Baryl, but nothing is certain yet

but the thing I most like to think about this Bert is the relationship between grandson and grandfather with Wily!

for now, I can only imagine Wily singing "Mother (grandpa?) knows best" from Tangled, more specifically the rerun

"If he's lying, don't come crying, grandpa knows better!" but even with that feeling of "I don't care about you" deep down, he does care

Well, that was it, sorry for the long text, I was really excited! hehe, and making it clear that all this could change when i actually start see BN, but for now, we have this! hehehe, bye bye! to the next!

"Ah. Hello again. I have been well, thank you. I hope everything is well on your end...

"Yes, I do remember this conversation. A very interesting concept. I think I would like to meet the Bert of that dimension... Also, I do like the possibility of LaserMan getting a redemption Arc, especially since his operator did in the prime timeline, but poor LaserMan remained deleted. My job can be hard, but nice little moments and details like this can make it fun, especially when it means making a new friend..."

"Hey. Sorry to cut in all of a sudden, but does Wily still get redeemed by the end of the Cybeast incident in Bert's dimension, or does he stay a villain?"

"I... Believe we're still figuring it out, Lan. We still don't know everything about this said dimension. It's more of a... Concept."

"Are we breaking the fourth wall again? Do you know how tough it was to repair it the last time we did that?"

"If it makes you feel any better, don't consider any of this canon."

"It doesn't..."

"If I can interject, the idea of having a grandson does intrigue me. Though, if I don''t renounce my evil ways in said dimension, I'd be fearful of how it would effect Bert, especially after seeing how much I failed Regal as a father..."

"Even if that's the case, Wily, who that version of Wily doesn't effect who who are now. We have been very grateful for your help during this Multiverse War."

"Anyway, I enjoyed the concept and would love to hear more about it if you ever have more to add. And if this dimension turns up, I'd love to visit it someday."

[jisungsdaydreamer]

Love Playlist | SERIES MASTERLIST

«GENERAL M.LIST» · «NAVIGATION» · «TALK TO ME»

SYNOPSIS A sweet collection of skz college au stories inspired by bts tracks 💕 (3/8) complete; can be read as standalones, but the stories are all connected!

CONTENTS

1. UGH! (Bang Chan)

Release Date: June 2nd, 2023 Pairing: Bang Chan x Fem!Reader Genre: college au, angst, fluff, enemies to lovers, forced proximity Warnings: swearing, mc has autism, misogynistic behavior (not Bang Chan), implications of ableism, bullying, short panic attack description Synopsis: Despite what everyone thinks, Christopher Bang is definitely not perfect. At least, not to you. After the election for Student Council President ends in an exact tie, you and Chris both end up as co-presidents, to your horror. But even though Chris is literally the bane of your existence, you try to remain professional and do your best to communicate with him only when absolutely necessary. But when circumstances force you together, you learn that maybe you and Chris aren’t as different as you thought.

2. MAKE IT RIGHT (Lee Know)

Release Date: July 24, 2023 Pairing: Lee Know x Fem!Reader Genre: college au, fluff, exes to lovers, angst Warnings: swearing, messy break-up, mc has a fear of the dark, mild haunted house/Halloween descriptions Synopsis: You and Minho are the “golden couple” of your university. Well, you were. After letting the pressures of college life get in the way of your relationship, you end in a messy breakup. However, you both share a lot of friends and it’s impossible to avoid each other, so you both ignore your lingering feelings for each other. But love works in strange ways, and now yours needs to be made right.

3. FAKE LOVE (Changbin)

Release Date: TBD Pairing: Changbin x Fem!Reader Genre: college au, fluff, fake dating, friends to lovers Warnings: TBA Synopsis: Growing up, you were always the black sheep of your family. You were never cute enough, or nice enough, or smart enough, and constantly singled out. Your family’s increased pressure on you to be better caused an uneasy rift between you. However, when you are invited to attend your sister’s wedding, you know you will never hear the end of it from your relatives if they find out you are still single. So, you end up taking your friend, Changbin, and he will pretend to be your date. But maybe your feelings for each other are not so fake after all…

4. BUTTERFLY (Hyunjin)

Release Date: TBD Pairing: Hyunjin x Fem!Reader Genre: college au, fluff, strangers to lovers, angst, hurt/comfort Warnings: TBA Synopsis: After a heart-fluttering encounter with an enigmatic boy at a friend’s party, you let go of your reservations and your friends’ warnings to pursue him. Hyunjin may seem like a charismatic, humorous person, but when with you, he literally and metaphorically draws stars around your scars. But such a passionate love at such a young age can be fleeting, like a butterfly. Is it worth the risk?

5. HOME (Han)

Release Date: May 7th, 2023 Pairing: Han x Fem!Reader Genre: college au, fluff, roommates to lovers, friends to lovers, mutual pining Warnings: mild swearing Synopsis: Jisung. Your roommate. Your best friend. The person you call when you need a ride home. The person who brings you ice cream when you’re sad. The person who you tried not to like, but failed anyway. So you bury your feelings. When the stress of impending exams doubles down, both you and Han must lean on each other even more to get through. But on one fateful night, everything changes.

6. BLACK SWAN (Felix)

Release Date: TBD Pairing: Felix x Fem!Reader Genre: college au, fluff, angst, grumpy/sunshine Warnings: TBA Synopsis: Felix is everything you’re not: happy, sociable, optimistic. You’re everything Felix isn’t: grumpy, quiet, pessimistic. You aren’t a bad person, but it’s the circumstances that you face that keep you from enjoying your life, and Felix is a constant reminder of what you don’t and can’t have. When your troubles reach a climax, Felix resolves to help you, and no amount of sassy comments or eye-rolls will deter him.

7. COFFEE (Seungmin)

Release Date: TBD Pairing: Seungmin x Fem!Reader Genre: college au, fluff, strangers to lovers Warnings: TBA Synopsis: Seungmin has never been a relationship person. And no, not even of the casual kind. He prefers independence, getting through college while working at his family’s coffee shop. One day, he’ll inherit the café and finally be able to thrive on his passion, but until then, he’ll keep his head down and work. His plans are thrown off when you breeze into the shop. His heart hurts watching you get stood up on every single date, but there is no way he’s smitten. It’s just customary to spend an extra ten minutes during the morning rush trying to pipe a creamer heart onto your coffee.

8. BOY IN LUV (I.N)

Release Date: TBD Pairings: I.N x Fem!Reader Genre: college au, fluff, unrequited love Warnings: TBA Synopsis: Of course on the one night you let loose, at your best friend’s birthday party, you get too tipsy and end up kissing Jeongin, the guy who sits behind you in your chemistry class. And what makes it worse? You know he has a crush on you, and you definitely do not reciprocate. But no matter how many times you reject him afterwards, Jeongin insists you have feelings for him. But there is no universe where you would have feelings for Yang Jeongin, or his gorgeous smile.

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[acourtofthought]

The description of ACOFAS on SJM's website:

"She finds those dearest to her have more wounds than she anticipated - scars that will have a far - reaching impact on the future of their court"

"She" as in Feyre.

ACOFAS excerpts:

We are told that ACOFAS bridges the gap between ACOWAR and future books. That those future books have something to do with those dearest to her who have more wounds than she anticipated - scars that will have a far-reaching impact on the future of their court.

And who are the characters who are the primary focus of Feyre's worries?

Elain. Lucien. Nesta.

Not Az.

It is their trauma that is Feyre's focus in ACOFAS.

Nesta as she hides herself away from the others.

Elain as she spends hours mourning Graysen, her father, her lost human life.

Lucien who she admits that she is partially to blame for the rift between he and Tamlin, Lucien who she apologizes to for being an asshole, Lucien who she again offers a home in the NC too.

Lucien, Nesta, and Elain who she tells Mor she wants to be happy.

Lucien who she tells Elain is a good male, twice.

Lucien, whose gloves to Elain she thinks about in SF.

And whose scars might have a far reaching impact on the future of their court?

"You ruined any chance I have of going back to Spring. Not to Tamlin, but the court beyond his house. Everyone either still believes the lies you spun or they believe me complicit in your deceit".

"You will need Tamlin as an ally before the dust has settled. Tread carefully".

Spring is key because of its location.

Yet in SF, we have the IC continue aggravating Tamlin when Nesta visits his lands.

Also in SF:

It sort of sounds like the problems with Tamlin and Spring are a pretty major concern, do they not? Something that they addressed as a major concern in the novella and continued on in SF?

Problems that might have a far reaching impact considering Beron wants to take over its weakened lands. Far reaching when there was the concern of what might happen to the humans now that the wall is down, the human lands which border Spring. That those on the continent are still looking to make trouble.

Is Az connected to Tamlin or Spring in any meaningful way?

Who did we later learn as being made for Spring? Whose scent is a promise of spring?

Which character was later stationed in Spring to be the eyes and ears of the NC?

In the novella, Feyre wanted happiness for Nesta, Elain and Lucien. Her worry was for them, not Az.

It's not that Az won't get his HEA, of course he will, but I doubt he'd be getting one with Elain when it was Lucien that Feyre was worried about in the novella and Elain and Lucien who were tied to Spring in a major way in the most recent book. A court we know they need as a strong ally but do not have with Tamlin in his current state, a court we know Lucien still has sadness over because of the events of ACOWAR.

It was Lucien who Feyre told Elain of being a good male.

It was Lucien and Elain that she wanted happiness for and Mor who offered Feyre "a kernel of truth" when she told them all they needed was time.

It's been over a year since Mor spoke those words to her.

Bring on the Elucien endgame.

[space-owl]

Okay time to finally talk about the boiling isles/The Titan/Kings Dad!

And why I love him and hes been a character of the show the whole time.

We first really "meet" the titan when Eda shows us the beauty of the boiling isles at the start of the show

Just a dead carcass, right? Thats how it seems at first but over the show we learn that the titan is magic! That the magic around Luz comes from the Titan! Now here is where the Titans character first really shines. He gives Luz the spell! And literally gives her a clue to make the connection!

Now we think that this just happened randomly because she really listened to the nature. But since we now know that the Titan was actually there, seeing and listening to everything, this was a choice he made! Notice how Luz saw the light glyph in the sky after she spoke directly to the Titan.

Luz: "youre supposed to teach me magic...."

And afterwards it starts to snow, revealing the glyph to Luz!

Afterwards in more episodes, and especially in season two we learn that the habitants of the boiling islands worship the titan. The question of course is if they always did this in the first place or if Philip was the one who convinced them that the titan is some sort of god. I think they always kind of worshipped the titan since it was important for Philip to earn the islanders trust and so he used an already established deity that was wroshipped by the witches.

Witch on screen: "he says he can talk to the Titan!"

Witches on the island constantly refer to the Titan like we do refer to god when we express worry or doubt or if we just wonder what is going on. ("Oh my Titan" "For Titans sake" "In the Titans name" etc)

And those graffiti. Sure they were most likely added to be jokes. But those jokes only work because it is established before that the witches of the islands see the Titan as a god!

Also see how Eda and Lilith react when they find out King is a titan!

Lilith: "I cant believe that all this time you had a titan under your roof! - GASP - Ive eaten ice cream with a god!"

The Titan didnt choose to be worshipped. But he chose to tell Luz the glyphs and how and where to find them. And he chose to not tell Philip about them!

Philip: "Took years to find them. Almost as if the world wanted to hide them from me."

Another instance that showed or hinted at that the Titan was still there, alive and watching out for King was when the wind gently brushed the swing he was sitting on in "Clouds on the horizons"

And - of course - something that got kinda overlooked by all of us, the GIGANT still beating heart in the throne room!

But we also learn that Titans themselves were crazy powerful. So powerful that they were the only ones who were strong enough against the collectors powers! Their blood is literally the cause of Luz being able to cast magic in the first place! Because of them and well because of the boiling isles Titan things from the human world wash up there constantly. Because they create those rifts.

So what did we learn? We learnt that the Titan is a big being that was crazy powerful and was worshipped by the witches on the boling isles. We also learnt that he has sort of a character of his own and may or may not be still around.

And THEN..... we actually meet the guy!

Basically in his pyjamas, what he is wearing is also basically merch from the show. The "bad girl coven" shirt and the glyph sweatpants. Thats something any nerd from the show would want to wear. He has a dad bod and the first thing he does is making a joke to Luz about himself. Yes he is wise and does give Luz a lot of advice and her crazy powers, showing that he is very powerful even when he is trapped in the inbetween. But he never considers himself better than Luz or anyone else on the isles. He is very down to earth!

Also the reveal that they dont take gender that serious but is totally fine with the title "dad" cuz thats what King has been calling him the whole time. All while he chuckles!

The Titan: "What? Have you been drinking Edas home brewed apple blood?"

When Luz presents them the idea that she "might just be as bad as Belos" he immediately asks her if shes serious about that in a joking manner.

And, of course, the cherry on top for all of this, is the one direct message they could send to their child. The only thing The Titan could EVER tell directly to King! And what is it?

King: "... I loaf you...? I loaf you!"

King: "... Oh hahaha! BREAD pun!"

Its a DAD joke! And King loves it!

I think none of us really knew who the Titan was and if hed ever show up ever on screen. (Honestly I myself thought its more likely that we would see Evylin and Caleb.) But whatever our idea from the Titan mightve been, Im sure no one of us thought it would be like this. The Titan turned out to be just some guy. Just a being that happend to slip into all of this mess. I think we can all learn from that that some things arent as big as they seem (literally.)

This reveal was awesome and I love that the show took this route with him.

[bts-0t-7]

Breaking Bonds | PJM | Chapter 1

Pair: Fae Jimin x Nymph reader 

Summary: Stripped from your own birthright, you suffer at the hands of your people. But after all, you couldn’t blame them. Having enough, you left in the middle of the snowy days but things didn’t go as you planned. Jimin, pulled by an unspeakable force, ventures out into the blizzard to find a body face-first on the ground. Your love and connection is forbidden - looked down upon. But the both of you are willing to try. However, where there are dreams there are prices to pay. How will the both of you push through? Can the both of you do it?

Genre: Strangers to lovers, fantasy au, Jimin is the CROWN PRINCE (I mean-), angst, kidnapping, smut

WC: 2932

The history of the fae and nymphs - elements that used to live together harmoniously. Like the primary and secondary elements of life and magic, the love between faes and nymphs was sacred - so sacred that only royals had the right to arrange a marriage between their children. 

But hundreds of centuries later, amongst the roots of enmity that were fueled by old grudges and misunderstandings, blew out of proportion and affected many citizens. 

The dark history between them that started was marked by blood in the ledger books. The first is The Great Rift. The conflicts between faes and nymphs are often referred to in this phrase as the powerful fae kingdom taking lands that were traditionally inhabited by the nymphs. Territorial dispute ignited much hostility and opposition. This therefore caused the lack of resources. Both mystical beings relied on the same natural elements to thrive from the magical essence in their forests. 

And within these battles of dominance grew something more than just territory but also magical supremacy. Each mystical being possesses its own unique and elemental powers. As the war grew to a larger scale, betrayals were not able to be prevented. A web of alliances and betrayals intermingle with the supernatural races while leading to mutual distrust. 

The history was marred by not one, not two, but five different wars at different times. Both sides inflicted much suffering on the other. The wars led to untold loss with neither willing to yield. The main lasting repercussions come in, especially in the revised laws that were enacted to prevent any form of interaction or alliance between fae and nymph. Love between individuals of two races was seen as a dangerous threat to the stability of their respective societies.

The history was written in blood and the older generation of both races have a hard time letting go of their prejudices. 

And here lies the snowstorm. 

In the middle of the forest, where the snow blasts down like little chilling knives slicing through your skin and a good three feet of snow -

Your kind were the ice nymphs, once the royal family, now stripped of your title and an outcast amongst your kind. Where the fae folk thrived, you ventured - away from the place you once called home, now a barren room barely the size of a storage room. The scars of the Cold War between the nymphs still lingered, leaving the kingdom in the easy grip of the Lyrin fae.

You kind - the ice nymphs - were rare to come about, each one of your veins flows with the power of winter. In the lores, your kind was told to have a beauty that was like a fragile kind of enchantment, with hair as pale as frost, and skin as delicate as the first snowfall. 

There were only a few times that you have looked in the mirror - countable with five fingers. After your family was stripped of their title, with you accordingly, life was never the same. Your people, with no place to go, lost trust and justice in you. 

Desperation drove her journey as she yearned to escape the dark shadow of your people’s fall that hung over her head like a knife over the bed. Even with the ice in your veins, that winter night, when the biting frost finally embraced you and hunger gnawed at your core, your strength failed. You had pushed yourself as far as you could but as the sun dipped below the horizon, your body could no longer hold you up, giving in to your exhaustion and malnutrition. 

Lying beneath the icy canopy, you were a fragile, half-dead being that is an easy hunt for food for predators living around the area. Your eyes swerved back, trying to calculate how far you might have to go back for shelter. But you didn’t know. 

You had walked without a direction, lost in the depths of the Lyrin forest. Frostbites numbed your limbs and your brain was moving slower from the exhuation. But there it was, amidst the unforgiving cold and darkness, you sensed a presence stirring. 

Your hazed hearing registered the crunch of footsteps in the snow as your blurry vision sent your brain to somebody standing next to you. Your eyes roll around until you have a clearer picture of who it is. A man with dark hair, brown eyes, and plush lips, dressed in regal attire with a crest of the fae kingdom. Lyrin was one of the biggest fae kingdoms and everybody knows their crests. After all, it was them who led the battles many years ago. It was them that inflicted the harm and loss on your people. It was them that had killed the ruling family back then. 

Your family. 

But he wasn’t the one who took the action. No, he was almost as old as you were and then, the both of you were barely kids. 

Prince Jimin, they called him. 

The golden sunlight. 

The crown of Lyrin weighed heavily on his shoulders. He knew the crowning ceremony would be soon, and this winter, he wanted to let go and be just a man until he could no longer. Once he takes over the throne from his father, his duty to serve his country is solely on his shoulders. There was much to do and many things he would like to change, but even as king, these little ideas - as his father likes to call them - had to go through the council. 

And Jimin knows that the old hags would never approve of it. 

It went beyond the revised edition of the old laws. 

To reconcile with the nymphs. 

Jiminhad ventured into the forest today, going around with no direction, guided purely by an inexplicable force. The kingdom, although a realm of enchantment, was deeply tainted by the darkness of its past. If all was silent enough, one could still hear the shrieks and cries of the souls. The darkness had bred a strong sense of hatred and fear between faes and nymphs. Their mating was now an old tale of forbidden love - a story buried deep in history. 

As he ventured further into the woods, he stumbled upon the nymph, your frail form half-buried in the snow. Your beauty, even in your weak state, took the breath right out of his lungs. He recognized you as a nymph with your small frame and pale, white hair. But it wasn’t completely white. It shone like the silvers of the moonlight when light reflected off it. 

But it was when he moved to pick you up that he saw your family’s sigil, now faded from royal to common, that told him - you were no ordinary nymph. As his arms went under the ice, you stirred slightly at the movement. As you opened her eyes, he was completely taken aback by the sheer blue shade of your pupils. 

Even with one foot into the Underworld, you looked ethereal to him. Jimin was snapped out of his daze when your frostbitten lips whispered a plea for help. In that moment, all history and hatred were forgotten. With fae swiftness, he scooped your fragile state - lighter than air - into his arms and covered you with his coat. 

Determined to save her, he summoned a warm breeze that melted the frost from your body and sealed you in a cocoon of warmth. Jimin only dared to start running faster to his horse when colour slowly came back to your lips. Ensuring that you were safely tucked in his arms, Jimin ran back to the castle, fighting against death who wanted to take the girl in his arms. 

As days turned to weeks, weeks turned to months. The little nymph’s life continued to hang in the balance and Jimin was a mess. He made every doctor attend to you, pacing around the bedroom day and night. He had caused an uproar in the kingdom when they found out that their crown prince had brought back a nymph - even more than this one that was from the late royal family - and was nursing her back to health. 

His father had threatened to strip him of his title if he did not abandon you. But he could not do it. So it started the feud between father and son, neither backing down. Jimin understood that his late grandfather and his father had a feud among the nymphs, had been the ones who executed them and had been the ones to fight at the front lines. They were the ones who brought Lyrin to what it is today - expanded. But as Jimin studied the history of both parties, he felt a certain connection to the nymphs. 

He did not want to be a ruler where their mystical counterparts would be afraid of them. He did not want to be a ruler like his father - ruling by fear from an iron fist. 

While doctors attended to you, Jimin watched them with sharp eyes, ensuring that none of the doctors would slip anything into your bloodstream. When nothing helped and your state was only getting worse, Jimin grew more and more anxious. He had sifted through books and hunted down the Old Scripts.

He learned that your name was L/N Y/N, the youngest of the last ruling family. Your father had been killed in the war, your mother led you and your siblings to safety but soon after passed due to the broken mate bond. Your siblings were either caught by his father’s cavalry or died of starvation, leaving only you. Your records were still in the kingdom, seemingly down till two days before he met you. That means that you were active in your own kingdom, at your people’s mercy until you left.

He looked back at where you lay still on the bed. 

And if he didn’t find you, you would have probably been dead by now. 

You woke up to the warmth and luxury of a place you had only dreamed of. Your body was still weak and you didn’t know what happened after passing out. Slowly rising to consciousness, you found yourself in a room of blue and white, drapes swinging in the wind. But you registered that the windows weren’t open and the room was cold like… ice?

Winter may be the season but no room was made to stay cold unless the elements of the magicians’ are meant to stay cold. 

Like you.

You curled your fingertips, feeling the soft, silky sheets beneath them. Trying to view the room from your current position - lying flat on the bed with a head that feels as heavy as bricks - you were taken aback by the sheer language it screams. 

Royalty. 

From the materials beneath your body to the furniture displayed, the decorations and architecture of the room, they were all beyond your imagination. You had not stepped into such a room since the battle. As you looked around, you realised the room was not originally made to stay cold. The fireplace seemed to be covered in a layer of dust but the decorations on them were clean. 

And although you knew that this was not your room, the calming temperature felt just like home. But you had not been in a room like this for a very long time. Distantly, you heard the opening and closing of a door. Your eyes immediately shot in the direction of the sound just to find a man already standing beside the bed. 

You were immediately broken out of your thoughts when you realised who it was and where exactly you were. You did not need to open the windows to know - you were on enemy territory. The rulers who killed your family. The rulers who brought demise onto your people. 

But looking at the man, clad in a loose tunic and pants, dark brown hair ruffled in all directions, you couldn’t find yourself to hate him. Even as you knew that he shared the purest blood with the murderer, you knew that he… was just like you. 

A family’s misdoings do not mean a child’s downfall. 

One’s choice does not equal the choice of another. 

You sink deeper into the sheets, holding in your sigh as you close your eyes. 

“Oh!” Your eyes shot open to see the man right in front of you. “Oh, you’re awake! Oh, finally! Wait - wait - let me call the physicians!”

Your brain couldn’t register his words fast enough before you saw his body move so fast it was just a blurry shade running down the stairs. Or maybe it was just your vision that was a little crusty. Rubbing your eyes as you yawned, you got up from the bed. You wouldn’t like to overstay your stay, especially not in a place where your head was on a bounty. 

You had left your kingdom only to be stuck in another. 

Sighing, you looked down to your feet -

Your arms shot to cover your already clothed body. Wait, wait, wait - 

Your hands patted yourself down. You - 

You were changed. 

Your plan to secretly escape was a fail the moment your ears picked up the sound of multiple heavy footsteps coming towards the room. The large doors were banged open, revealing a line of physicians behind the prince. 

“There! There! I told you, she is awake!”

Squinting at the all-to-cheerful sound that the prince makes, the palm of your hands pressed against your ears. 

“Careful, Prince. The Lady just woke up, her senses will be sensitive. You must lower your volume, Prince.”

Sheepish eyes shot at you, a guilty smile lifting the corners of his lips. The physicians fussed you back to bed and ran a thorough check of you, reporting back to the prince whenever they found something. Whether it was something healing or something that needs healing. Over the next few weeks, you realise how persistent and petty the prince can get. 

He would refuse you bites of food if you were to call him by his royal title. He would refuse to help you up from bed, just standing at the corner of the bedpost when you need the restroom, always claiming, “If you aren’t going to help yourself, you don’t get to do your business.”

But you also realise how much he has gone through. As the only child, he was meant to take the throne a couple of weeks before he found you. But he had caused a huge uprising and a big fight with his father. When you were sneaking out one of the nights, Jimin found you during his nightly duties of patrol and whisked you back to the room. 

Although you had left with the intention of Jimin’s life getting back to normal, he has increased your security so that you won’t have much of a chance to run away again. 

Keyword: much. 

You still had your chances and when that came, you took it. You had everything packed and ready, but this time, you left with a note at the bedside table, paired together with a magic-infused healing charm for the man. 

Safe to say, it was a bad idea. 

You knew it was the moment you penned down your goodbyes and gave him the charm. But you didn’t have much on you to give him for thanks other than the occasional swirls of magic in his office. 

Yes, it was a horrible idea - of course it was! You were caught - again. 

This time, Jimin didn’t just leave you back in the room. He was silent the whole time after he found you. The ride back, up the stairs, and even after the both of you entered the room. You saw the note on the bed. 

Jimin’s back was to you. 

“Why - Why would you think that?”

You were taken aback by the tears that streamed down his plum cheeks that you had teasingly squished the past few weeks. Looking down at the note, you felt a pang of… sorrow.

A sorrow that wasn’t yours. It shouldn’t be. “Because it is against the laws.”

“I do not care what the laws claim!”

“I am nobody, Prince. You have a duty to serve your kingdom and its people. I am a princess, stripped of my title, belonging to the very kingdom your father and his father killed through. The very princess that they couldn’t care less before killing off my father on the battlefield.” He couldn’t be yours. He was a prince, deserving of one better than a bond that was looked down upon. 

“My ancestors can go suck their dicks.”

You pulled a face at the crude language. You knew that he would be insisting - you found out that much about him - and you prepared yourself for a situation like this. But your resolve was already crumbling. 

“Prince -”

“Stop, stop! I am yours! Please - I beg of you - stop calling me by my title.”

You sucked in a deep breath. “You are more than your titles. But you are also the light of your people. The only heir to the throne and you will not shove it away just because we are bonded. I refuse.”

“I will lay the world down on your feet for you, please. Do not leave me.” His cries hurt you more than knives and ropes splitting your skin raw. 

“My world is not one you can provide.”

My world is you. 

But you wouldn’t dare say that as you turned your back to him and walked out of the castle, following your original plan in mind.

[sepublic]

Post-Hoot for King’s Tide!

            Let’s go over the lore (and some fun trivia I picked out) for the King’s Tide Post-Hoot!

         Gus’ palisman is named Emmiline Bailey Marcostimo, after some Season 2 writers (presumably Emmy Cicierga, Madeleine Hernandez, John Bailey Owen, Zach Marcus, and Mikki Crisostomo)! She would’ve been named in Any Sport in a Storm but the line was cut out for time; When Gus says “My way is better!” he would’ve added, “Right Emmiline Bailey Marcostimo?” He calls her Emmiline for short… The original line took up TEN SECONDS of runtime, which is why they had to cut it out.

         Dana mentioned that the in-between realm is “where all dreams form” and described it as a “cosmic glue”, presumably one that holds the worlds together and connects them! Hence the cubes allowing Luz to peer into the human and demon realms, and possibly the force that the Portal harnesses and relies upon to traverse! I wonder if this means that Titans themselves have a connection to this in-between, and if the in-between is ONLY between the human and demon realms, or at least not all of them by default, hence why travel is particularly easy and common with the Titan’s blood rifts, which can evidently sync up through the in-between; This may have been how the Titans accessed the in-between to seal away the Collector!

         This one is really funny… When asked to name Lilith’s palisman, chat was split between Mike and Socks respectively; Can attest that Mike comes from a TOH server I’m a part of, and we’ve had that name for about a year… And it’s short for Mike Ass Fungus. And now it’s partially canon; Dana decided that Lilith would name her palisman something super-extravagant after some obscure historical figure, and Rebecca told us to check Dana’s twitter in a week or so for the final name. But so far it seems Dana is going to incorporate “Mike Socks” into the name of Lilith’s palisman; Probably making it short for the actual name itself!

         Dana confirmed that Belos tried naming the other Grimwalkers names besides Hunter, but evidently he wasn’t the only one to have that name; And yes, Belos was totally the person to laugh at his own sick joke, naming Caleb’s clones after “witch hunter”. As she said, Belos is after something unattainable, even if his other goals were attained; And when she saw people calculating the low-balled numbers from Hollow Mind, she could only cringe knowing we had a BIG storm coming in the season finale…

         Also this is just a sweet bit, but Dana reiterated that the other Grimwalkers aren’t failures in HER heart, despite what Kikimora says! She also said that a tragic backstory might happen but it doesn’t justify things, in regards to Kikimora, who she confirmed acted purely out of spite; So I wouldn’t hold your breath on a redemption arc!

         Raeda is Dana’s OTP, Raine is one of her faves. Not much else to say here but like… For those Raeda fans who enjoy the validation!

         Dana also reiterated that ALL members of the Emperor’s Coven have sigils. While Lilith hadn’t been brought up in the context of this, we know Rebecca was looking at different questions in the comments, so I assume this is what prompted that; So this points us towards Lilith having a sigil! Its absence may really just be an animation error, or it’s elsewhere on her body… I hope her sigil didn’t agitate the curse; But given what Eda said about Lilith not having hers as long, it probably didn’t react as severely and thus didn’t necessitate any amputations. This would track with Lilith still being able to summon an ice cube at the beginning of Season 2, compared to Eda who only had a crumbling spell circle.

         Dana described Darius and Eberwolf as having a younger, older brother dynamic, although she didn’t specify which; Eber is the chaotic one, who always knows how to tick off Darius, but there’s a real bond and trust between the two. Eberwolf is referred to as He/Him by the crew, but Dana said she’s open to They/Them for Eberwolf as well! We would’ve indeed explored Darius more had Season 3 not been shortened.

         In regards to neurodivergency in TOH, Dana said that she and the crew wanted to write with different mindsets and ways of thinking, drawing upon their own real-life experiences; She says she doesn’t quite have the language to express specifically, but she’s open. This kind of representation of people who are different but all have something to offer was indeed important to her; THAT much was intentional at least.

         Adrian Graye’s name is confirmed to be a reference to Dorian Gray! And speaking of which, we have some names on the Coven Heads, with Rebecca clarifying the spelling in a tweet (same for Gus’ palisman Emmiline);

Bard- Raine Whispers

Abomination- Darius Deamonne

Beastkeeping- Eberwolf the Huntsman

Plant- Terra Snapdragon

Illusion- Adrian Graye

Construction- Mason

Potion- Vitimir

Oracle- Osran

Healing- Hettie Cutburn

          Dana explained that Darius’ surname is French, and that Mason, who we saw back in S1, actually got promoted since then to Construction Head; So he presumably wasn’t the first head of the Construction Coven, or at least wasn’t one at all until some time after Covention! According to Dana, they were figuring out the designs for the Coven Heads, and suddenly decided, you know what? Mason is promoted now, good for him! I guess Ulrich was a deleted concept for a name, a placeholder, or intended for some other chap who looked like Mason.

        Hettie Cutburn is also a favorite of Dana and the crew’s; She said they would’ve explored her character more, had Season 3 not been shortened… Dammit.

        Anyhow, I’m planning to get caught up on the previous post-hoots I missed out on (all of them), so if you see more and wonder why King’s Tide is out of order, this is why! This was the only post-hoot I watched all of, so I’m gonna go back and scour them for lore!

[chickensoupleg]

-pokes head in with a prompt- Hi, it me, Brightside!

Billy gets brought back 'wrong', Eddie gets brought back 'wrong', but one thing Vecna underestimated was the homoeroticism of one Steve Harrington. Now all three are on a cross country road trip in a stolen bus or RV to save the world. These are their stories -dun dun-

Your thoughts?

STEVEN NOT AGAIN.

Okay so what I'm imagining is the Upside Down after Vecna's defeat is repairing itself back to what it used to be, and since everything is a hivemind it just repairs everything. That includes whatever was left down there, including Eddie and Billy's body. Billy's body technically isn't physically there, but since he was hive-minded and kept in one piece at one point there is a Billy somewhere down there.

Except of course humans don't naturally exist there so they get revived using non-human materials. My idea is the UD repaired them like they did the Mind Flayer body so they're semi... liquid. Not entirely! But whatever was lost was filled in with evil putty. And the evil putty may or may not be controllable.

To make it cool it looks like tattoos once their bodies (forcefully) accept the goo. I am a sucker for sun scar Billy and bat scar Eddie, so that's what the 'tattoos' look like, which are entirely black. They're not entirely controlled by the Upside Down, but there's a part of it still in them. It freaks Billy out way more than it does Eddie since he's half convinced that he's not in control of himself again, but Eddie manages to calm him down and get everything explained for him.

After a while Vecna (>:() gets a hold of himself and decides to try yet again! Man is as stubborn as a toddler in search of ice cream. Eddie and Billy find out somehow, perhaps through a democreature they managed to befriend to their side and decide 'Yeah no that's not gonna happen again' and figure out a way to portal back into the real world. They're not the greatest at it (all hands on deck), and only manage to open a rift near the closest person they could imagine.

That being of course a Steve Harrington. Steve of course is besides himself because not only is Eddie alive, so is Billy. They're both supposed to be dead! Eddie and Billy find out that after Hawkins was destroyed Steve stayed just long enough to help with reparations until he disappeared with Robin out across the country, back in sunny California because where else would it be. Perhaps Steve wanted a taste of the sea, reminiscing about stories Billy told him by the quarryside and needing to see it for himself out of memoriam for both him and Max.

Except, well. Turns out he's back.

And after a tearful reunion and some relaxing they explain what was going on in the UD and Steve decides (after a lot of griping) that he's going back into the fray.

Lucky for him, he's gotten the RV of his dreams and now his Billy and Eddie back. He finds out about their new abilities a few hours in when a bump in the road knocks over a cup and before it shattered Eddie caught it with a black vine shooting out of his side.

... So there's that.

For a lingering danger over their heads they sure do take a long time getting there. Why stress? The world is their potato. Perhaps the black duo still have a connection that tracks how close Vecna is to coming back again and know there's a lot of time (Steve and Robin get a lot of congratulations for defeating Vecna so hard he's taken this long to collect himself). Steve's learning a lot about his feelings towards the recently revived and also a lot about his body's feelings towards the recently revived.

Robin comes along as well. She has to leave the RV often for the privacy of her best friend. Perhaps even picks up a girlfriend on the way who is oddly very okay with what's going on in the studio. Maybe even two girlfriends, Robin has two hands.

They have a lot of souvenirs as they go along and the RV is just filled with trinkets by the time they return to Hawkins to save the world a fifth time.

[zinjanthropusboisei]

The door in the meadow has been there for months. I enjoyed the enigma - I drew a little comic about it and now I have several thousand people in my notifications arguing about whether I should go through the possibly-magic-possibly-cursed doorway and embark on a heroic quest (For the record, having had a thorough education in, among other things, medieval Celtic literature and mythology and the perils of passage into otherworlds, I have not gone through the door).

The thing is, the door is still there. After my berry picking days of high summer, when I largely worked from home and walked that way every other day for an iced coffee and a break from the downstairs neighbor, I didn't go to the meadow until February. And it's still there. It's on university land, in one of the sprawling natural areas ancillary to campus, and I'd like to ask someone at the botanical gardens about it, but I'm worried that perhaps its continued presence is unsanctioned, and that drawing attention to it will run the clock out.

I'll be keeping a closer eye on the door these days though - that scrap of woods is also my calendar, the little brook usually surrounded by skunk cabbages poking up as the first sign of spring. The timing's all gone wrong the last few seasons, no snow then too much snow then floods. I last passed through on February 28th, and the cabbages were there - harder to spot without their blanket of snow. When a plant generates enough internal heat to melt a hole through a foot of snow, it tends to catch the eye. Less so when it's one spike of mottled burgundy-brown against a creek bed.

In my last visit, I was observed - several deer on the opposite side of the creek, separated by a small rill of water and a bank of reeds. I think I've failed to paint an adequate picture, from a topographic point of view. It's a place of nature, as dictated by the university's categorization scheme for its outer regions - a Natural Area, the So-and-So Woods Natural Area, a remnant of woodland that rises up and down around a small scrap of crick. In the middle is a meadow on top of the ridge, like a pause for sunlight, ringed by berry bushes. The ridge slopes down to the north to the stream, which is granted a brief reprieve between the severe constraints of an uphill golf course and the suburban neighborhood downhill where it is blinkered by culverts.

The door isn't the only human intrusion; there's a frisbee golf course on one end and a small seismic station on the edge of the meadow near the door (This at least will provide some truly unique scientific observations should there be a large-scale fairy invasion). It's the same kind of seismic monitoring set up that I used to rely on for research: a small solar panel and GPS unit at the surface, connected to the recording equipment in a big plastic tub weather-proofed as well as possible with duct tape and a tarp, all connected to the actual seismometer buried out of sight in the quiet earth, measuring its every twitch and rumble.

It's the GPS unit I'm thinking of; it doesn't only provide location, but also - more critically - time. To analyze seismic data - not just locating earthquakes but also things like identifying structures within the Earth - you need precise timing data. The calculations revolve around the time that it takes for seismic waves to travel through different rock layers, so you don't rely on local clocks in each individual recording unit; you use the GPS to synchronize. On one of the projects I worked on when I was a geology student, we were maintaining an array of seismometers across northern Tanzania, peering into the East African Rift. About a month after installation, the GPS units started to fail en masse across the array, and by the time we returned six months later to harvest all that lovely data that had been steadily filling up the SD cards, all but five of the clocks had failed. The timing was gone, and the data was useless - unmoored in time and therefore in space.

It's an apt metaphor, if it even counts as a metaphor given how literal the unmooring feels when it's over 60 degrees in upstate New York in February. My internal clock is set to berry time and skunk cabbages and when the lake water gets to be a swimmable temperature, and my clock is losing time. The door is a nice distraction, but it's not the most unnerving discontinuity in the woods.

[masterqwertster]

For the spell hurt/comfort prompts, might I veer a bit off the given list and request some Dunamancy Shit with Reality Break (or any other fitting Dunamancy spell) for Ashton and any other character(s) you feel like?

(Also, sorry to hear about your D&D group ghosting you and hope you get to play soon!)

God. I hope so too. Because I’m about one more week of this uncommunicative bullshit away from saying “Peace! Good luck finding a way to play without me (the person who’s been organizing this group and hosting sessions at my house despite not being the GM)” Like, I understand life is full of surprises and can get in the way, but if I can’t get a simple “yes, no, maybe” out of these people in a timely manner about whether or not we’re playing (at my house!) any given week, I’m just done at this point. (Sorry about the rant, but this is a frustratingly on-going problem) Anyways, I did invite any spell, so let's go! Looking at this spell, it looks like the “Find Out” half of “Fuck Around” in the depths of Ashton’s half-beacon brain. Or from sending Ashton off the deep end as they draw from their dunamis chaos void of a brain.

Reality Break

(8th Level Conjuration/Chronourgy Dunamancy)

You shatter the barriers between realities and timelines, thrusting a creature within 60 feet into turmoil and madness. The target must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw, or it can't take reactions until the spell ends (Concentration 1 minute). The affected target must also roll a d10 at the start of each of its turns; the number rolled determines what happens to the target as shown on the Reality Break Effects table.

At the end of each of its turns, the affected target can repeat the Wisdom saving throw, ending the spell on itself on a success

Reality Break Effects:

1-2: Vision of the Far Realm. The target takes 6d12 psychic damage, and it is stunned until the end of the turn

3-5: Rending Rift. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw, taking 8d12 force damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful save.

6-8: Wormhole. The target is teleported, along with everything it is wearing and carrying, up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space of your choice that you can see. The target also takes 10d12 force damage and is knocked prone.

9-10: Chill of the Dark Void. The target takes 10d12 cold damage, and it is blinded until the end of the turn.

Ashton can feel it, beneath the furious quaking earth of their being, curled under and around and through their mind: the void that is everything and nothing.

He's used to feeling it spit sparks with a battle rage. A barrage of fireworks firing from his head to bend and twist the world around him. The chaotic, fundamental building blocks of reality swayed by this power that is somehow his. Familiar and directable once it starts.

But this is different.

Deeper, stronger. A clinging net of power welling up to be cast. It's not meant to bend reality in their favor, to help and support. It is the void set to rend and destroy. This is the end of everything.

And it is at Ashton's command.

He casts, letting the void tear its way up the mental connection to rend Liliana, who is trying to fucking punish him for the fact that Bells Hells was caught, that Imogen is in danger and under the eyes of fucking Ludinus himself and the Weave Mind. As if Ashton isn't fucking pissed (scared out of their fucking mind) and looking to get Imogen out along with all of Bells Hells.

Liliana reels back, screeching in pain, ice crystals forming across her eyelids and extremities as Ashton's dunamis destroys the warmth within her body.

A face so like yet unlike their friend's bares teeth in their direction, not quite locking-on to them through the frosty obscurement, and an angry dagger of thought pierces their mind.

It hurts, but what doesn't fucking hurt in Ashton? They just give her an unseen toothy grin in turn, flexing their chaotic magic against her once more, causing the ice crystals to thicken as they destroy more of her vital warmth.

This time, as Liliana uncurls from the pain, electricity unfurls from her body as well to dance across Ashton's enchained form. It's unpleasant as fuck, especially with the way it clings to the gold embedded in their left side, making their muscles convulse.

Though as the ice crackles away from Liliana's eyes, they widen in some sort of shock or horror. Liliana's body locks in tension, arrested by whatever Ashton's chaos magic is showing her (he thinks he can glimpse it, and it's fucking horrifying and mind-breaking). He gives a testing yank to his chains, but they're not giving.

Ashton watches as Liliana's body loosens, only to gather frost once more as his magic surges once again.

"I've had enough of you," she growls, lightning crackling around her hands.

It's strong, this Lightning Bolt, screaming through their body, bouncing along the golden veins. Ashton's vision goes white with the brightness and the pain. They keep their grip on the dunamancy writhing around Liliana as their body judders under the electrical pulses.

They're left panting a hanging from their chains in the aftermath.

"Had enough?" Liliana pants herself, blood dripping down her face from a nosebleed, from skin chapped and split by the cold of the void.

His heavy head lifts to meet her gaze, a manic grin pulling at his lips. "Have you? 'Cause I can keep going."

And they push on the power surrounding her, making it surge once more, vague visions of horror flicking at the back of their mind and obviously at the forefront of hers, stunning her once more.

Another yank on the chains, another failure to get free.

Ashton's powers twist against her, a portal sucking Liliana up from her position at the door to spit her back out within Ashton's reach with enough force to leave her winded on the ground, an arm grotesquely bent out of shape.

"Looking pretty rough there," Ashton taunts, testing their chains and finding enough just enough slack in them.

Liliana growls in response as she struggles to her feet, and psychic force bursts through Ashton's mind, clouding it, but they manage to shake it off with a snarl. And they can see fear gathering in her eyes as she realizes that it didn't blank their mind and break their concentration on the chaotic magic ravaging her.

Ashton grins, bloody and feral as he digs into that well of power and gets his brain sparking. Time stirs, blurring red and blue around him. And Ashton surges forward against his chains, causing them to break, so he can clock Liliana in her stupid fucking face.

It's so fucking satisfying to watch her drop to the ground. Ashton has wanted to punch a parent for so fucking long, and this one time he's gotten to do it, he knocked her right the fuck out.

There's a temptation with that body lying on the ground to end her. Liliana Temult is in way too fucking deep to rely on. She's a danger to him and all of Bells Hells.

...But Imogen would be sad if they did. And she could still be useful as an inside source of information.

So he rolls her unconscious form, happily pocketing some healing potions and magical items, before setting off to find and rescue the rest of his people.

I did roll for this. That's part of the fun! I gave the Liliana a +1 on her Wisdom and 300 health to scale with Otohan's roughly 500 (Fighter d10 to Sorcerer d6) and a spell DC of 20. Original Save: 8+1=Fail. 9 on the Table. 79 cold damage and blinded for the round. 15+1=Fail. Mind Sliver on Ashton Save: 4+1=Fail. 14 psychic damage. Nat 20 on the Concentration check. (Liliana is allowed to use the spell since she was already poking into Ashton's head so she kind of knew where he is/didn't need line-of-sight) 2nd Round: 10 on the Table. 52 cold damage and blinded for the round. 2+1=Fail. Shock Flare (4th Level) on Ashton Save: 12+9-2=Fail. 19 lightning damage and can't take a reaction until the next turn. 14+6-3=Success on Concentration. 3rd Round: 1 on the Table. 31 halved to 15 psychic damage because Aberrant Mind Sorcerers are resistant at Level 6 and stunned for the round. 9+1=Fail. Ashton vs Chains: Looking for a Nat 20, got 7. 4th Round: 10 on the Table. 64 cold damage and blind for the round. 6+1=Fail. Lightning Bolt (7th Level) on Ashton Save: (allowed a regular because he's Restrained but she's Blinded) 17+3=Save. 51 halved to 25 lightning damage. 18=9+Success on Concentration. 5th Round: 1 on the Table. 36 halved to 18 psychic damage and stunned for the round. 2+1=Fail. Ashton vs Chains: 5 6th Round: 8 on the Table. 52 force damage and knocked prone. 7+1=Fail. Synaptic Static on Ashton: Nat 20 on the save. 17 halved to 8 psychic damage. 5+9=Success on Concentration. Raging Punch: Nat 20 to hit. 1+4Str+5Prof+3Rage=13 doubled to 26 bludgeoning.

[noir-renard]

Sorry if you've already answered this but being a bit of a tech nerd I have to ask: how do the in-card-pacitators "scientifically" work?

okay, oh boy, my moment is here! /j

I'm sorry it took me so long to answer, I started working on a reply, saved it as a draft, and then it got buried 🥲 but I got a shovel and started digging, so here I am, several months later, with an answer!

It's long, so I put it under a read more ^^

Before I go into it, I am very much an electronics amateur and it's been a minute since I studied circuits in school, so a lot of the gaps in the "science" I filled with magic, so. Take it with a grain of salt.

The basic concepts behind the in-card-pacitators were inspired by two things: those pens that were really popular at one point that allowed you to "draw" circuits and PCBs on paper with electrically conducive ink; and static shock. I like the fan theory that ectoplasm conducts electricity really well, and since Danny has drawn sigils with ectoplasmic paint, I figured he could marry science and sigils again with the cards. If ectoplasm conducts electricity well, it seemed logical to conclude that ectoplasm is full of ions.

The show doesn't really go into how overshadowing "works", so I came up with my own explanation. When a ghost tries to overshadow someone, they have to extend their 'ectoplasmic field' and take over the electric synapses of the person's brain they're trying to control. Assuming ectoplasm operates on a different layer of reality, the electromagnetic field is an area of overlap between 'ghost stuff' and 'not ghost stuff'.

One more thing that has been touched on but not thoroughly explained in IYGABAB-verse is that: 1)ectoplasm is ectophilic; unbound ectoplasm is prone to sticking to larger sources (like: ghost cores, ectoplasm rifts, sigils, etc); and 2) ecto-ice is particularly attractive to ectoplasm; it has a "purifying" effect, but in practice this means it acts like an ecto-magnet. (important to note that although ice and ecto-ice share many qualities, like being cold and being less dense than the liquid state, ecto-ice is not actually ice, and therefore possesses qualities that ice does not have)

Okay. So all that is base level. Going back to the cards and how they work, the most important question is: how are they 'powered'? Where does the shock come from?

The idea here is inspired by static shock and what causes it. I know it's different from AC/DC electricity, so that's where ectoplasm does the heavy lifting. Because most humans don't have their own ecto-field, they wouldn't generate ecto-static (which in this case would be the transfer of ions from one ectoplasmic object to another when they rub against each other, like socks and carpet. But ghost!). Basically, the "capacitors" in the cards are made of ecto-ice, which collect these negatively charged ions, and when a ghost tries to exert their ecto-field on a person holding the card, the circuit connects and the ions jump to the ghost. Boom. They're shocked. Not unlike when you touch two charged capacitors together (to anyone reading this who doesn't know: don't do that. It's dangerous)

So that's basically how they work, and any gaps that make that not make sense scientifically....well no one really understands how magnets work, right? Blame the magnets.

[weshney]

Portal Panic Chapter 17

And A Partridge In A Pear Tree

Danny Phantom x Boku no Hero Academia

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Ao3 | FFn | Youtube Audiobook

Tags:

Mystery, Angst and Humor, Misunderstandings, No Romance, Friendship, Swearing, Slow Build, Rare Characters, Author Regrets Nothing, Except When The Characters Push Me Around And Give Me More Work, Like 5 Different Major Interwoven Plots At This Point

College Age Danny Fenton (20), Danny Fenton Gets a Hug, Or Three, Mostly From the Same Person But It's Fine, Danny's Fenton's Clones Are Little Shits, But Just to Him, Meddling Clockwork (Danny Phantom), Ghost Obsessions But They're Really Just Hyper-Fixation, Valerie Gray Jack & Maddie Fenton Know Danny's Secret, Supportive Jazz Jack and Maddie Fenton, dyslexic Jack Fenton, Phantom Planet Who?, no beta reader we die like danny

Mineta Minoru Doesn't Exist, Pre-Overhaul Arc (My Hero Academia), Well Kind Of, Midoriya Inko is a Ray of Sunshine, Bakugou Katsuki Needs a Hug, Eventual Happy Ending, Kirishima Eijirou is a Good Friend, One Main OC Needed For PlotTM, Protective Aizawa Shouta | Eraserhead, All Might's Trying Not To Have Heart Attack Buuuut, Retired Yagi Toshinori | All Might, Loosely Follows BNHA Canon, But in the Background

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A white shape suddenly zipped from the portal, and it was barely a second before Danny’s own monochrome blur overtook it. A series of barked coos, loose feathers and panicked flapping exploded from Danny’s hands as he held onto the mysterious creature. Frowning, a miniature ecto-shield formed around the open portal, effectively closing its door. It didn’t matter though, because not a moment later, the rift evaporated.

“What’cha got there, Danny-boy?” Mr. Fenton chirped, stepping away from a laptop that was connected via USB to a monstrous server beneath it.

“Uh—smoothie?”

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And then there was that damn Chisaki. Just the icing on this shit cake. If the Shie Hassakai expected the League to bow down and lick the dirt from their boots, they had another thing coming. 

While it was obvious the yakuza were on to something big—whatever they’d shot Compress with was definitely worth stealing—there had to be a way to take advantage of that beaked bastard without ceding power. 

Shigaraki’s red eyes passed unseeing over another row of games, until they suddenly sharpened on a dramatic cover art. Protagonists from several different franchises stood together, working to battle against a sea of Nohearts.

A wide smile pulled at cracked lips, splitting one and causing it to bleed; but he barely noticed. 

Of course. 

Why didn’t he think of it before?

A crossover.

[formerchaoslord]

*unholy cackling*

oh man ViA. not at all what i was talking about, although it is true that you could probably fold me like a lawn chair without thinking about it. you know. if you weren't stuck in my $100 phone.

...anyway, iCO. I wanted to tell you that you are cool as hell and should not stop being so. You are awesome. Thumbs up and hats off to you and your badassery.

*simply ceases to be*

"...Should... Should I be offended? I can't tell if I should be offended..."

"Not gonna lie, that sounded like a combination of backhanded compliment and a solid burn to me..."

"I see... Excuse me as I go sit in the corner and think about my life..."

To the corner sulks a mentally defeated ViA.

"Well, that escalated quickly...

"Still, thanks for the compliment. Glad to see somebody recognizes my awesome qualities."

"iCO, please don't go bragging. You might make ViA feel worse..."

[lixxen]

I've talked about it before a bit ago, but I started to put Danny Phantom characters into my magic universe I made in 2015 that has three books worth of content and plot written in college ruled notebooks that have pre calc notes every other page.

The basis of the story is that Danny and Co live in a universe where magic is real in the world of an energy field surrounding the Earth. It connects all matter and energy together within its own energy field. Humans eventually evolved to be able to conduct this energy, which started to give them the ability to have powers. Everybody conducts this energy in different amounts and ways. The more energy you conduct, the more rare magic and more magic you can use. Then however your body processes it is how you use it.

Danny and Ellie (Dani) are born as twins. Ellie was born weak and she wasn't expected to survive, so she was sent to live with their Uncle Vlad to keep her alive (will get to this later). Danny grows up and he finds out his magic is specifically death and spirit magic.

Danny ends up running away for a bit, sick of everything and the expectations of his family. During this, he ends up in an accident that mortally wounds him. He goes to Vlad's house and practically dies on his doorstep.

Vlad, not wanting Danny to die because of things I'll explain later, uses his own magic to bring Danny back to life. During this, Danny became a ghost and was forced back into his body. He becomes a half ghost half human. This creates a rift between the human and spirit realm pretty much; allowing ghosts to come through and terrorize people.

The plot then goes into Danny trying to avoid his parents finding out what actually happened to him and fighting ghosts. His goal is to fix the rift between the worlds and adventuring into the spirit realm to find out how. The assorted cast ends up helping.

Character powers, magic types, school system, and more under the cut!

Types of magic, their rarity, school color:

Fire (common, red)

Water (common, blue)

Air (common, yellow)

Earth (common, green)

Metal (common, grey)

Electricity (less common, pale yellow)

Telepathy (less common, pink)

Shapeshift (not common, brownish orange)

Psychokinesis (not common, orange)

Death (rare, black)

Life (rare, light greenish yellow)

Spirit (very rare, purple)

Ice (very rare. Almost none, baby blue)

Note: life and death cannot exist without a counterpart. If a life magic is alive then there is a death counterpart about the same age. When one dies, the other will die soon after. It is to balance the world and there's literal physics involved. Energy balance.

Characters and their types & how they conduct:

Danny: death (suck life force out of living organic beings. Can decay items, especially organic materials that derived from things considered living. Creates a power surge inside, which can be used for other magic), spirit (can see and interact with the energy from ghosts, so he can see them and can almost interact as if they're tangible)

Ellie: life (she can push her own life energy into other things to give them life. She cannot heal, but undo decay to make it possible for revival), spirit (she can only see the energy from ghosts and see them)

Tucker: metal (he can manipulate metal and inorganic materials. He can change their forms and how the atoms are rearranged to create new shapes or harden/soften them.)

Sam: electricity (she can conduct and control electricity. She can feel electricity and pull energy out of the air and objects to create tangible electricity), earth (she can communicate with plants and feel their emotions. They tend to do what she wants because she cares for them)

Vlad: life (he can use his own life force and energy to heal others. He cannot heal himself, but he can transfer energy between two people. Cannot take it like death), spirit (he can see and interact with ghosts and their energy like Danny. He can also move into the spirit realm slightly)

Jazz: psychokinesis (she can move any objects with her mind. She cannot control or connect them on a molecular level, but the energy the objects give off she can manipulate into moving), water (she can basically bend water. But it has to be pre-existing and nearby)

Dash: fire (he can create fire off of his body through his own body temperature. He cannot be burnt by it and can manipulate the fire he creates off of himself), air (he can move air pretty much. Not that impressive until he combines it with his fire powers)

Paulina: earth (terraforming organic materials, not including metals, to her own accord. Wood, dirt, and rocks she can manipulate. She can also connect to the earth and feel how the earth as an organism feels), electricity (she can conduct electricity and make it tangible)

Star: earth (she can talk to flowers specifically and anything that is soft rooted. Trees do not like her. Vines also love her! And weeds), metal (she can bend metal and actually turn organic materials into metal if she tried hard enough)

Valerie: shapeshifting (she can change her form and characteristics as she pleases by manipulating her own energy and molecules), earth (she can feel how the earth feels and is connected to animals due to this. Animals are protected by the earth and are through life force one with it)

Kwan: fire (he can control fire from premade sources. He cannot produce it, sadly), electricity (he can control electrical currents)

Lancer: electricity (he can conduct electricity and manipulate it. He can feel it from a good bit away and had eventually learned he could tap into people's nervous systems. He's actually powerful but he doesn't care), water (he can draw moisture from the air and objects)

Wes: water (he can breathe underwater and manipulate it freely), air (he can manipulate it, but also control different gasses individually. He can smell and see most of the different gases when he focuses hard enough)

Kyle: water (he can breathe underwater and create water from his finger tips. Nobody knows how), earth (he can talk to plants and control them. More of a mind control unlike Sam)

Jack: Electricity (he can control currents and create electricity) and metal (he can manipulate it and bend it)

Maddie: psychokinesis (she can move molecules that are solid and tangible) and telepathy (she can read emotions and thoughts can be read in flashes)

School:

The school systems run off of Pre-K through kindergarten as one establishment and then middle through high as another. They're called primary school and secondary in this universe.

There are private magic only and private non-magic only secondary schools in more populated areas. Public secondary schools are always both.

Private schools are required to teach the same base curriculum. Magic secondary schools have extra classes and electives to teach about your magic type so you do not harm anyone. Public schools have these same classes.

Their curriculum is set up like college. So you're told to fill certain criteria and you have to have it all completed by a certain time. You can choose different variants of courses and some classes require others before you can take them. This way the non magic kids get the same amount of time and classes as non magic kids, but they don't have to take magic classes. Your workload is how much you want that year; you're given a path and guided to finish it.

Due to Amity Park being mostly magic users, Casper High is the only secondary and is public. It is weird that the town is mostly magic, since they're only half of the population. The odds are low to have towns be almost only magic or no magic.

Children are tested once a year between the ages of 8-13 for their main magic type. These are the ages they start showing what type. By the age of 9 you know if you can use magic, due to energy level testing.

Secondary schooling is almost always uniformed, whether private or public, and have colors to symbolize that person's magic type. The uniforms are always sweaters, sweater vests, or double brested vests in your magic color over a white button up, colored tie, and then black slacks. Shows are up to you.

Non magic kids have white or navy blue uniform color.

You can accessoriese however you want normally. As long as you're in uniform, teachers do not care. Just wear it and be the right color.

Btw the colors show which counselors/advisors and authority you belong to. Each type gets their own set of advisors. Literally think of college majors except you gotta show what your major is. The schools make sure to put in effort to have a team of adults who want each student to succeed.

This universe is actually really dedicated to the safety and health of students. And education if you can't tell. Like, really dedicated to making sure kids don't hurt each other with their powers.

Also, college is normal. Like. It's pretty much just normal school again with normal majors and education.

Sparring is allowed in most schools. They teach self defense and there's strict rules on this

Other information:

There's a magic council that is part of the government. They help with law creation and aid in research projects to further the understanding of magic. They also will deal with punishment for crimes dealing with magic

Ellie and Danny are linked through their magic type; but in the sense that they're the other half of each other magically. As kids they were told that since they're twins, their birth and death is tethered. If Danny dies, Ellie dies. Vice versa

Ellie was born weak and very ill. The fear was her dying and Danny dying also. This is why Ellie was sent to live with Vlad, who uses his powers to keep her healthy and safe. He views her as his own child and Ellie considers him more of a dad than Jack. Not that she will ever admit it.

This is why Vlad saves Danny. He doesn't want to loose his kid that he's kept safe for more than 10 years. He assumes Danny as another kid, but not the same as Ellie.

Vlad also seemingly isn't a evil character. He's more of a chaotic neutral character whose just hella jealous of Jack and would go great lengths for people he loves. Vlad redemption?? Spare Vlad redemption??

Valerie is already out of the A Listers by the point the story starts. She had a falling out with Star. It is over something that the others don't know, but took her side

The kids all have weapon like things that they make at some point.

Paulina's is wooden finger caps that have claws made of charcoal and graphite. The claws she charges with electricity to shock and scratch people

Star has a wooden staff that has aluminum tips she forms into shapes. It also has aluminum core for if she needs more length

Tucker has metal balls that are made of iron

Sam has metal lined gloves that act like Paulina's claws

Danny just has his hands.

Paulina highly respects Danny and Jazz. She just never talks about it with anyone

Wes and Danny were childhood friends who fell out

Paulina and Sam are childhood friends who now hate each other. They never speak of what happened, but people assume it has to be over Danny

During the events, Danny gets closer to Paulina and Valerie. With this, he also gains Kwan and Star as acquaintances. Dash refuses to acknowledge Danny as good for a while. Nobody gets why

The A Listers are actually very smart kids. Dash is kinda dumb academically, but he's smart socially. Paulina and Star are top students

Jazz is the top of her class and has scholarships to top psychiatrist programs in the state

Jack and Maddie are scientists still, but are studying rare magic and possible uses of merging magic types. They're obsessed with magic manipulation, which is why Danny is terrified of them. He's a prime example of magic manipulation. And also, they think ghosts are evil and develop stuff to protect the town.

Valerie confides and becomes friends with Danny quickly after his accident.

Phantom is seen as a sickly poor dead child. People generally like him and he is the first ghost that Amity Park interacts with

Danny is the "obsession is protection" trope in this. The town quickly understands this.

Danny sometimes gets stuck as a ghost and literally haunts shit. Think classical ghost horror. He hates it because he doesn't feel like he has bodily autonomy

If I think of more stuff, I'll post it. But for now, here's two doodle pages I've done to show off uniform colors! And quotes I'd put in

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LCDrarry 2023 Round-Up Post | Week 3

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Don’t Worry, He’s Got This

Prompt: "Legally Blonde", 2001, Robert Luketic Prompted by: lettersbyelise Artist: Anonymous Art Medium: Digital Art Rating: General audiences Warnings: None

Summary: Draco enrolls in a muggle university to prove he’s changed. Harry’s not convinced.

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no daylight

Prompt: "Black Sails", 2014, TV Show Prompted by: Sitp-recs Artist: Anonymous Art Medium: Digital Art Rating: General audiences Warnings: None

Summary: After Draco loses his leg saving a crewmate, Harry teaches him how to fight. He's teaching him how to defeat him, too.

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History Maker

Prompt: “Yuri on Ice!”, 2016, TV Series/Show Prompted by: quackquackcey Artist: Anonymous Art Medium: Digital Art Rating: General Audiences Warnings: None

Summary: He's done it! Harry Potter has caught the snitch, winning the League Cup for the Pride of Portree for the first time in three hundred years! And—what's this? Potter's personal trainer, Draco Malfoy, is running out onto the pitch! And he's—! My goodness, did he just kiss Potter?! -- Screencap redraw of Yuuri & Victor's kiss from episode 7 of Yuri On Ice featuring Harry as Yuuri and Draco as Victor for Lights, Camera, Drarry 2023

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When I Close My Eyes

Prompt: "Millennium Actress", 2001, Satoshi Kon Prompted by: omgkatsudonplease Artist: Anonymous Art Medium: Digital Art Rating: General Audiences Warnings: None

Summary: Because I like who I am chasing him." 「だって私、あの人を追いかけてる私が好きなんだもの」

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Fic

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The Breakfast Club

Prompt: "The Breakfast Club", 1985, John Hughes Prompted by: Ladderofyears Author: Anonymous Length: 7,827 words Rating: Teen and up Warnings: None

Summary: Draco Malfoy is forced to endure a Saturday detention with four other students, including the Golden Bad Boy himself, Harry Potter. Over the course of the day, and under the watchful eye of Filch, the seemingly disparate group form a budding alliance and discovers that they have a great deal more in common than they thought. And Draco discovers that sometimes, he can not only get what he needs, but he just might also get what he wants.

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The Rifts that Reveal Us

Prompt: "The Notebook", 2004, Nick Cassvettes Prompted by: ladderofyears Author: Anonymous Word Count: 8,539 words Rating: Explicit Warnings: None

Summary: Harry wrote to him. For 365 days. Today, Draco visits him. But learning why Draco didn't write back is just the beginning.

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A Different Kind Of Attention

Prompt: “Yuri on Ice!”, 2016, TV Series/Show Prompted by: quackquackcey Author: Anonymous Word Count: 10,706 words Rating: Mature Warnings: Alcohol Use, Drunkenness, Off-screen Pet Loss

Summary: Last year's Grand Prix Final hadn't been easy for Harry. And France's top skater, Draco Malfoy, hadn't made it any easier. This year, however, Harry is determined. He wants that gold medal! But things don't ever go to plan if it comes to Harry James Potter, do they?

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Deep Dive

Prompt: "Heartstopper", 2022, TV Show Prompted by: edaniels0221 Author: Anonymous Word Count: 13,448 words Rating: General audiences Warnings: None

Summary: When fourteen-year-old Harry Potter returns to Hogwarts for his fourth year, he learns that the school will be hosting the first-ever European Wizarding Student Cup. He is excited for a year of just Quidditch, without Voldemort or any mortal danger. But it doesn’t take long before an unexpected connection with a competitor complicates what was meant to be a worry-free year.

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I Couldn't Love You More

Prompt: "P.S. I Love You", 2007, Richard LaGravenese Author: Anonymous Word Count: 73,706 words Rating: Mature Warnings: MCD, grief, mourning, AU- No Voldemort, drinking alcohol, brain tumor, five stages of grief, dead dove don't eat, sex toys, sad moments, unrequited love (not Draco), Draco shares brief kiss with another man, bars and pubs, Harry is dead before the fic begins, he doesn't come back to life.

Summary: Their plan had been a simple one: to stay together for the rest of their lives. When Harry and Draco met, their attraction was instantaneous. They couldn't be without each other and eloped to marry as soon as they could. They wore each other's clothes. Finished each other's sentences. They were going to be together until they were old and grey. None of their friends could imagine one without the other. But, on Valentine's Day, 2010, Harry died. Draco was left devastated. The only light in the darkness is ten letters that Harry has left, labelled with the remaining months of the year. As the letters are opened, Harry shows Draco that life goes on and that he is much stronger than he ever knew. With a lot of help from his friends. Draco realises that, while his life might be very different from what he'd planned, it can still be special.

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[driftward]

.dungeon

She could hear accusations and disparagement from the ghosts of all of her possible pasts. Disdain heaped upon dishonor, hurtful words and insults, disappointment and derision. Her head fell swam, as she tried to keep track of who she was, where she was, lost in this dungeon of despair.

She stumbled down dark frozen corridors, the ice seeping into the gaps of her soul, but she kept moving forward, one step at a time, hand held tight to her chest. She would find her familiar, and then they both could be away from here.

She turned the next corner, trying to ignore her failures and shortcomings that were dogging her heels.

~river~

Lavender had vanished as the Madam Commander entered the rift once more, but forced herself to manifest as soon as they entered another echo. Upon landing, she found this one more disjointed than most, and her Scholar nowhere to be seen.

That did not matter. There was always that invisible thread that connected them, that aetherial link that could not be severed, and through it, she could tell that the Madam Commander was confused and lost once more.

But resolute. She could feel her master trying to find her, determined to keep moving, and Lavender would do no less.

She was a creature of aether, more at home in this place than the Madam Commander, but a stranger to it all the same. Madam Commander had offered her her aether; she had accepted only the smallest amount of it. There was yet a tiny kernel of the static aether she had absorbed before entering the rift, and she was tending to it for as long as she was able. They would both need to keep their strength.

She considered the rivers that had brought them to here. She did not want to risk dipping into their chaotic waters, even as they seeped through her form and soaked into her being. She could replenish herself from them, true, but their energies were already becoming a part of her, and she wished to stay true to herself.

And then she felt panic along the link.

She had to move, she had to act, and quickly. The Madam Commander was in danger. The echoes, despite their unreality, presented an extremely real threat.

One that would now need to be met.

Well. The Madam Commander had always done what needed to be done. She had always become what she was called upon to become, to meet the needs of those around her.

Lavender decided she could do no less.

[starvels]

SteveTony Reclist: Road-Trips

@stevetonygames 2023 team future. challenge: camouflage. a reclist in the style of the inspiring @carsonian ! (thanks for your fun reclisting haha)

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A Long Road To Share [FANART] by SirSapling

Summary:

After 50 years in the ice and a couple exhausting years leading the Ultimates, Steve realises he isn't quite sure he knows anything about the new modern America he's supposed to represent. Luckily, Tony has an idea how to show him.

Notes:

such a sweet hopeful look at ults in the future! the landscape is warm and so is my heart. this comic encapsulates the road trip vibes in its scenery, colors and soft focus on steve and tony discussing believing in each other.

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After the Devil is Gone by Ironlawyer

Summary:

When Steve leaves to travel the country on his bike, Tony comes with him. But Steve is not ready to face those particular demons yet.

Notes:

CW for noncon offscreen. a super sharp desolate view of steve's 616 roadtrip, this fic aches to its core! the things it doesn't have to say ring so loudly and painfully across the text.

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Are we satellites? by starvels

Summary

In between sunrises on the road, Steve is speaking, eating, stepping into diners to save people like coming back to his childhood home. And Tony, Tony is watching him. Tony is relearning being awake. - A cross country roadtrip where Steve and Tony find the typical American town, a fuckton of trees and finally, finally, find the right questions to ask each other.

Notes: a self rec! this is an ode to winding american roads, the trauma and aches of being a superhero, the longing that comes with being in love with your best friend, and both steve and tony being the little spoon.

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BACK IN BLACK!! Eyes on the road Tony… [FANART] by @shaggybeetle

Summary:

MCU roadtrip featuring sing alongs to blaring music, delicious snacks and a phone ready to topple off the dashboard

Notes:

what a style! what a scene! steve and tony jamming out is so fun and they both look so at peace and ready to dig into vacation. great atmospheric details like trees through the windows!

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Flight of Icarus by Missy_dee811

Summary:

“Tony,” said Kamala, hurried. “I loaded up some music to give you a little boost,” she said. “Oh no,” he said, shaking his head. “Don’t worry,” she added. “It’s not mine.” He smiled. I knew I liked you. She wished him luck. He thanked her, though he didn’t believe in luck. He had one try, one try to get it right. She was counting on him, they all were. It felt good to be needed. It felt good to be useful. All these years, he had wanted nothing more. He couldn’t fail now. Not again. [Written for Lights On Park Ave - Round 13.]

Notes:

a marvel avenger's video game rec! a wistful retrospective of tony dealing with the loss of steve, flipping through memories like a photo album, topped with a reunion cherry!

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the honeymoon suite by CapnShellhead

Summary:

Wade Wilson is getting married and he's assembling a team to get him to Vegas for his bachelor party. Requiring a team with a special set of skills, he asks Wolverine, Spider-Man, Special Agent Preston and Captain America to come along. Steve decides this would be a wonderful opportunity to fix a rift between him and an old friend.

Notes:

a thoroughly enjoyable 30k 616-verse fic based in an oft-overlooked moment in canon featuring delights such as: bed sharing! team fight scenes! wistful conversations! snark! accidentally thinking of your crush while jerking off!

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On the Road We Find the Journey Home by navaan

Summary

In the Aftermath of Secret Empire, Steve goes on his Road Trip to find out who Captain America can be after Hyda!Cap put fear into the hearts' of the people who used to cheer for him. His thoughts trail back to Tony.

Notes:

follows 616 canon for steve's post-hydra road trip gives this fic the opportunity to have steve connect genuinely to things in a way that reminds us all why we love cap. the end pay-off is good and the writing is so very even keel and wonderfully paced.

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somewhere along the oregon coast by Marvellous

Summary:

Tony stared at the door of the coffee shop they’d pulled up to, watching multiple people come and go. He crossed his arms and laughed to himself, “How much do you want to bet he’s having a very in depth conversation right now?” A deep but agreeable woof sounded from the backseat of the car.

Notes:

small and sweet like a little dessert! a tale of a pup and a love so warm it melts your heart to look at it. sometimes, it is that easy.

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ride (with) me [FANART] by wingheads

Summary:

kobik brought steve back. tony woke up from a coma. a road trip seems like a good place to start some reacquaintance. square filled: e1 motorcycle lol i really wanted that stevetony roadtrip in 2018 bc it had been a long time ?? since steve and tony were together where steve isn't old (i love old man steve btw) or evil and tony isn't in a coma or an ai. etc. etc. inspired by steve's road trip.

Notes:

a vibrant scene of steve and tony on their way to reconcile some loving feelings, complete with a gorgeously detailed motorcycle. the vibes here are so picturesque and the pose is so sweet.

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You Go Up Instead of Down [FANART] by MissionCritical

Summary:

This is set in the universe of the 1966 Marvel Superheroes cartoons (Earth-600026). Only two years ago, Iron Man and the original Avengers discovered Steve, frozen and floating in the Arctic Ocean, and rescued him. It's been rough for Steve, adjusting to this new world, but he has a lot of support -- from two people in particular. Tony Stark is brilliant, handsome, and a generous benefactor to the team. He's even given Steve a place to live in his own actual mansion! Steve doesn't really understand why, but it's clear Mr. Stark is good man, devoted to helping the Avengers. And then there's Iron Man, who has quickly become Steve's best friend, Iron Man is brave, and determined, and just a terrific teammate. He's given Steve the thrilling experience of flying into battle by riding on his back! And in that gleaming suit of armor, Iron Man always has Steve's back. Steve is Iron Man's biggest fan.

Note:

a delightful lil glimpse into a fun, small universe, this edit is such a delight to experience! we all need a little more flying steve in our lives, don't we?

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go forth: stevetony beans, greens, potatoes, you name it! and give these treats the resounding kudos/comment/retweet/reblog chomps they deserve!