#rogue-like ask

[roguelikeknight]

TRICK OR TREAT :D

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[bacchuschucklefuck]

no more fan-ta-sizing about it! everything's already changed~

[maiooo-0]

Kurt wagner... *clenching fists

Did you know there's a 'what if' of Raven raising Kurt (who she named Michael). I kinda hate half of it but it's actually quite good,,, the art it's my fav part

[boredth]

more cyber!wick and rogue interactions please? 🥺

Life is tough in NC 😔

[aalghul]

are we still pretending jason remembers tim's name? all because a couple of writers who adored tim but couldn't care less about jason threw in poorly written, ill-fitting slop where jason sought tim out? really?

[cubbihue]

Hey if Hazel, Dev, and the gang play DnD, what do you think they would play as.... and how who would be the fortunate(or unfortunate) DM?

When I was 10, my older brother would play massive D&D campaigns in the living room. He tried teaching me the mechanics but it was too much and too boring for my small brain. Instead, I was far more fascinated with things like Warrior Cats.

Apparently Warrior Cats has a d&d game though. So. The kids would all play that instead!

Dev would eventually be roped into joining. Mainly because when you're sitting with a table of kids doing storytelling, you end up getting very invested, and very frustrated when they make the very wrong choices!!!

Bitties Series: [Start] > [Previous] > [Next]

[aquamarinebling]

Question for the guard rogue au: Does Siffrin re-challenge the party after the death corridor? Does the party get a chance to beat/capture them before reaching the king? I imagine it’s already kinda implied with the second comic but I’m interested how this plays out “in-game”. Like does Sif become a repeating mid-boss throughout the house? :3

Pretty much!! Siffrin is a boss on every floor, and assists during the King fight (depending on if the party is able to pacify him). They have a high speed & attack power, but very little defense. I imagine they’re also higher leveled than the rest of the party, at least at the start, and therefore are tricky to beat the first few rounds. During the King fight, Siffrin mainly buffs the king and will occasionally take attacks for him.

They also have multiple traps set up around the House that interfere with the party as they navigate floors. Floor spikes, rock traps, poisoned potions, and so on.

[gothamite-rambler]

Batman: Harley, I have this friend who has to attend a dinner party and absolutely hates going alone to these events.

Harley: I'm not surprised. Those fancy dinna parties are just for yuppies lookin' to be around other yuppies. Not every rich person is like that, am I right or am I right?

She playfully elbowed Batman, chuckling at the thought.

Batman (nervous, staring away from Harley): This friend of mine is like that, but he has to maintain appearances. He wanted to bring his… kids, some boys, some girls, but they either don’t know how to behave, sneak away, or laugh in my— his face when he asks them to go.

Harley swayed back and forth, a knowing smile on her face.

Harley: Man, this friend of yours is in a sticky pickle. I am curious, why are ya bringin' this up to me?

Batman: I’m getting to that. My friend needs someone to attend these parties with. Someone around his age, tolerable to be around, and who can… riff with him when dealing with the yuppies.

Harley: And y a think that person is me?

Batman: Yes.

Harley (placing her hands on her pale cheeks, blushing): Aww, lil' old me? I feel so special being your— oops, I mean your friend’s plus one. I've always wanted to attend one of those fancy shmancy parties and with the friend of my friend too. Sign me up!

Batman (relieved): Thank you, Harley. He’s going to be very happy you’re going with him. Well, he might not show it, but trust me on this.

Harley (playing along): I believe you, B. I have the perfect modest dress for this. Is the food good at this party, or should I eat beforehand?

Batman: Bring a snack just in case. The portion sizes are small.

Harley laughed, giving her friend a playful pat on the arm. Batman felt flustered at the thought of asking Harley to accompany him to a gala and quickly pulled out his grappling gun.

Batman: I see a robbery happening somewhere. Let’s go.

Harley: I’m right behind ya!

[stealingpotatoes]

Oh my GOD I've fallen down the rabbit hole of your glorious skywalkers apart AU and quite apart from being ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED, I have to know if my boy Cal is around in it?!

yes but i never really developed it!! ok we all know i'm never gonna finish that comic script i'll just tell u guys -- in said script, after leia and anakin free Padme, they find out Luke was taken somewhere else which, after a family recon mission, they find is FORTRESS GODDAMN INQUISITORIUS! (which they assume is bc luke tried to use the force to stop the initial arrest, big mistake huge)

anyway all this to say cal's involvement was a tiny-mentioned cameo to explain why anakin knew how to infiltrate nur (the exact line i wrote in the never-finished-script was "we met this jedi survivor a few years back" + comments abt said survivor inflitrating nur 10 years ago yes it was that unsubtle) -- the idea was they had run into one another on a short mission in the past and then gone their separate ways!

[roguelikeknight]

game of the year?/What’re you excited about for next year?

[xxplastic-cubexx]

my ideal rogue & magneto dynamic is rogue and her weird slutty gay uncle that she constantly has to bail out of jail. like their relationship would have been so interesting to me if it had never been romantic

society if magneto got to be the anarchist uncle to all the x-men that they're mostly chill with until the annual dinner argument during the holidays

[cyber-corp]

So how are you doing?

Dog I thought I was doing so well. I thought my boulder reached the top. Then PM Seymour put me in his title and thumbnail and the boulder rolled alllllll the way back down again.

Other than that, I bought Hades on my PS5. I shall give you all updates as I play it

[timbit-robin-art]

can you draw more gambit wearing a baseball cap? (bonus points if rogue it there too) 🩷🩷

Look what they found while cleaning the boathouse.

[neostellarjpg]

three stooges. they don't do much and no one takes them seriously but they're more powerful than even they themselves know. the rogue is a himbo, underappreciated hype man who talks like a frat boy. the witch is an experimental nerd who spends more time using the alchemiter than actually playing the game. the prince is a sad clown who hates being by himself. they all love each other lots and lots

[yuri-is-online]

I imagine Deuce!Yutu is either A. The Ultimate Honor Student with perfect grades and a plsmile that makes old nannies and mothers swoon (Yutu: "Thanks, its because me and my parent are the local "weirdos" I had to overcorrect and become a golden child (':") OR B. just as bad as pre-NRC Deuce was, a gang member who'd jump anyone who'd look at him wrong (but still cried until he was sick when he watched My Girl (1991) behind Yuu's back. They told him not to because they knew it was sad, he didn't listen).

I imagine Yuu's main memory of Deuce to their Yutu was how much Deuce believed in self-improvement and redemption, always trying to be a better man, which either version of Yutu can't help but admire or respect, despite their complicated feelings over their absent father.

Upon meeting him in the "current" timeline as a student, A or B either can't help but give Pop's an A for effort, despite missing the goal sometimes or finds him a little cringe for being such a tryhard.

I had to google the movie you mentioned and got jump scared by it taking place in Pennsylvania. Pretty sure I have driven through the place it's supposed to be set before... and fuck just reading the synopsis made me cry I don't think I could watch it ;-; poor Yutu should have listened to his parent.

notes: they/them used for Yuu, for context on the fyuuture kid au can be found here and here.

I feel like I have read too much Tokyo Revengers because... we can have both: an honor student with a delinquent mean streak sounds like a good set up for Deuce! Yutu. Not that I think he would behave like Kisaki does exactly, but still. Dylla mentions in the White Rabbit event that she wasn't on the best terms with her mother when she was a teen, and we know about how Deuce was in middle school, so the idea of Yutu having a bit of a temper and rebellious streak to him does make a degree of sense. Sadly, I think that extends to his interactions with Yuu... so things are about to be angsty on two fronts today.

Much like Deuce, Yutu was just the cutest baby. He loved all things cute and fluffy. Bunnies, kitties, puppy dogs, he was such a sweet little kid who really loved chasing around butterflies in the great outdoors. He really loved to read, and learned how to do so at a very early age. When Yuu was having a bad day he would pick out one of his favorite books and insist on reading them a bedtime story so they could take a nap without any nightmares. If he was especially worried he would bring his favorite nightlight with him.

Not that anyone would ever dare to suggest it given what Yutu is like now, but he was very afraid of the dark as a child. He still is, there's just something about the void that exists in the darkness that screams danger to him. When he's isekaid to Twisted Wonderland it evolves into an extreme fear of blot and phantoms. I'd like his unique magic to have something to do with light or stars, something inspired by the Second Star to the Right from Peter Pan? I think it would be cute for someone afraid of the dark to be able to provide their own light.

When Yutu reaches middle school there's a noticeable change in his relationship with you. He's still polite, still bringing home good grades and unoffensive comments from his teachers. But he's a bit cold, as if he is purposefully putting emotional distance between you. His friends all treat you respectfully, but you just have a feeling, left over from somewhere, that you know what is likely going on but you can't put your finger on what. He gets angry when you try to ask questions, yelling something about how you just don't understand, maybe even throws in something about this being your fault...

I wrote about Riddle! Yutu having some fights with Yuu, but Deuce! Yutu's fights are so much worse. While Riddle! Yutu typically comes out of his room blubbering big fat tears ready to apologize, Deuce! Yutu feels the need to double down and save face. He does believe his parent has amnesia, he's seen how they act, but what he does not get is why they insist on feeling so fond of his dad and refuse to move on. In his mind their life could be a lot better if Yuu was willing to be honest with themselves about who his dad probably was. Yutu is very hung up on why Deuce felt the need to be redeemed, focusing on self improvement is all fine and good if you are someone worth redeeming but he's not around for Yutu to judge. And Yuu doesn't remember...

He's young, stupid, and angry, and he takes it out on anyone who looks at him wrong. What's worse for authority figures who want to help is that he's veeeery smart about how he does it. When he jumps someone you can bet there won't be cameras around to see it. When the police start troubling Yuu about what he's doing it's mostly just in the hope that they'll be able to talk some sense into their kid rather than to arrest Yutu or anything like that, but it doesn't work. Yutu gets to see the same thing that his dad did all those years ago, his parent crying because of his behavior but there's no grandparent Yuu is asking advice of. Since I am in the mood to be extra cruel, let's say the day that fight takes place, the day Yutu sees Yuu crying is the day he hears a very important name for the first time.

Deuce. His father's name is Deuce and the reason why he wasn't around was because he was from the other world that came to swallow up him and his parent the instant they began to remember. He doesn't get time to cover up the signs of his rebellion, or really a chance to say sorry. He has to look Grandpa Crewel in the face and admit that he made Yuu cry and added to the overly stressed mess their life had become. Everything they said about Deuce was true, and what's worse he was like him.

I feel like Deuce would be the sort of person who wanted to make a lot of home videos. Cater probably would be too, but he'd store most of them on his phone and I think that would be lost to time by the time his Yutu came home. Maybe it's because of the ghost camera, or his desire to be an "honor student" evolving into wanting to be an "honorable husband and father" but Deuce totally bought a video camera to take cheesy videos to show Yutu as he grew up. Instead the kid gets to see fragments of a life he could have had as he listens to his dad tell him about his life and how he met Yuu.

"Honestly I have no idea why they said yes." Deuce is a dork. A complete dork who looks so... young and life like in the video. He knows what features he took from Yuu but watching Deuce talk, he can pick up on the ticks, the way his mouth sets when determined. The look of shock that always made Yuu laugh, it bursts into view when he hears Yuu laugh as they enter the frame to snuggle into Duece's side, to press their face against his cheek with a happily contended sigh. "Y-yuu you're making me look uncool in front of the baby."

"He's not here yet!" You giggle and for the first time in a long time Yutu feels himself choking up as he watches his dad get all silly looking at the thought of his arrival.

"We're really looking forward to meeting you kiddo. I promise, nothing will ever happen to you. I'm not going anywhere."

"Well. Technically kept that last promise didn't you." He tries to play it off like a joke, but Crewel isn't laughing and neither is Yutu.

Gets put in Heartslabyul, but isn't exactly determined to be an honor student like his dad. While Deuce enjoys a good fight or the feeling of the wind in his hair... Yutu mostly got into fights because he was angry and needed someone to take it out on. Because of that temper he struggles with learning and controlling his magic but he still does pretty well with the practical academic side of things. He's proud of his ability to understand these things, and takes a lot of comfort in knowing his dad would be excited at knowing he was good at things like math and science.

Like with the other Heartslabyul boys, he had to fight his father's phantom. He sees putting Deuce to rest as part of his penance for how he treated Yuu in the years leading up to getting isekaid. He refuses to go back in time until he's able to lay this version of his father to rest next to Yuu so he can promise both of them, to their faces, that he'll create a world where they all can be together and live as a family.

Deuce is extremely friendly to Yutu! He wants to learn as much about Yuu's world as he can so he can help them feel as at home in Twisted Wonderland as possible. He makes sure to let Yutu know that extends to him too once Yuu warms up to having him in the friend circle, Uncle Ace is much less enthusiastic but it's clearly from a place of care towards Yuu. He starts to warm up when he sees Yutu trying his hardest to tutor Deuce, though he claims it's because he just thinks it's funny but really it's because Ace wants to see Deuce succeed.

Very correct on his feelings about Pops. His dad is so wildly cringe it's unreal. His effort is inspiring until he starts getting embarrassed for losing his temper and stuttering, or seven forbid you look at his grades. The more he interacts with both of you the more certain he becomes that Deuce would never have abandoned him... and that he is so getting grounded when Deuce learns about how he treated Yuu. And what's worse is that Yutu sort of wants him to.

Surprisingly that's not what happens at all. When Deuce learns who Yutu is, whether by sleuthing or through a violent confrontation with a monster from the future, when the whole story is laid out before him and his son bows to beg for his judgement it doesn't come at all. His Pops yanks him up by the collar and turns him towards Yuu.

"Say all of that again to your parent." Deuce's voice is as stern as it is serious. Yuu looks distraught, not quite to the point they were on the day everything changed but getting there as Yutu immediately breaks down and chokes, crying and begging for your forgiveness and saying he's sorry as Deuce brings all three of you together into a strong embrace. "I'm not the one you need to make things up to, but it's ok. I know exactly how you feel and we'll work through things together."

Deuce doesn't feel like he can be overly angry at Yutu for taking after him. He does feel the need to apologize to Yuu, profusely and in private, for putting them in so much danger and not being there to help Yutu work through his temper. If I was writing this as a story, I'd make Yuu sort of afraid of Yutu's feelings? I could see them blaming themselves and things being a bit awkward within their relationship with Yutu where they had been very good before the reveal. With Deuce being the loving and understanding partner that he is, the bridge is once again mended and the whole family gets to indulge in hobbies that aren't beating the shit out of other people.

Yutu gets back into reading, and starts looking up manuals and histories of blastcycles so he has something to talk to his dad about. He was right about his dad being extremely proud of him for being smart, he's that classic mechanic working class dad who can't stop talking about his kid who went to college and has pictures of him in his garage he makes sure to point out to everyone who comes in. Said person is really just Ace who really wants to make fun of Deuce and Yuu for being cringe together but is too focused on this whole world ending thing and wants everyone to be more focused on that.

Deuce promises that he is, he has a lot of confidence in the ability of your little group to be able to win against stacked odds. You've done it before you can do it again. Yutu couldn't have picked better allies, he's really determined to show him that and be a dad his son can be proud of. He repeats his promise to Yutu that he's never going anywhere, even though the kid never told him anything about the tapes because he really means it. He wants that world little Yutu dreamed of and older Yutu swore to fight for to be a reality, and it's his job as an honorable dad and future husband (he gets so flustered when he says that) to be the one on the front lines of fighting for it,

... just please please please do not tell Yutu about the egg incident. He doesn't think he could handle that embarrassment.

[avalost]

37!

“What they did to you was wrong.”

“What?” The word no more than an irritated exhale as Heinrix slumped against the shuttle window, elbow propped on the armrest. The poised Interrogator was gone. This man, exhausted and disheveled, was an utter stranger.

With a gentle pressure, the shuttle lifted off, leaving behind the foul remnants of the Black Ship. In the seat next to him, Kat spoke quietly. “That was horrific. No one… should be treated that way.”

She kept her voice low to keep the others from hearing their conversation. Simple courtesy, nothing more. It had nothing to do with how much this felt like giving ground.

Heinrix did not lift his head from the cradle of his fingertips. “It was necessary. Untrained psykers are incredibly dangerous.”

“They're still people.”

At that, Heinrix did stir – and fixed Kat with an incredulous glare. “Still people? You saw the aftermath – were those people? Was there anything human left?” His voice rose. He caught himself and exhaled through his teeth, turning away once more. “I do not expect you to understand.”

A tool of the Imperium, he had called himself. Yet he had told her stories of his childhood – far more carefree than the careworn man sitting beside her now. Was it that child that had been herded onto the Black Ship? Had they put that boy in the shackles that hung in its cells?

How long had it taken to hammer him into a weapon?

And how many people, just like her, had refused to see him as anything else?

She fixed her eyes on the seat back in front of her, not looking at Heinrix. “No. I didn't understand before. I do now.”

Still, she saw his fist clench on the armrest between them. “Forgive me, but you do not. Cannot. You've spent your life doing as you please, defying the law and the Throne as you see fit. Now, with the warrant of a Rogue Trader –” He shook his head. “I… have never been afforded such leeway.”

She lifted her hand. Remarkably, it did not tremble as she placed it on his gauntleted forearm.

Heinrix froze. So close, Kat could see his chest stop moving for a moment.

Then he withdrew his arm.

“But you have other things to worry about. I assure you, Lord Captain, I am fine.”

Her title, cold steel in his mouth, where once he'd spoken her name with such warmth.

Kat leaned back in her seat and let her head fall back against the headrest, and fought down a sigh.

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