#saber answers stuff

[biskael]

I AM ABSOLUTELY NORMAL ABOUT BLADED WEAPONS . YOU CAN TRUST ME WITH ANY BLADED ARMAMENTS IN YOUR PRESCENCE .

[sunnypopoki]

━ 𝐌𝐔𝐙𝐙𝐋𝐄 : P.6

(Yandere Mafia Husband x Female Reader)

SYNOPSIS: Your husband has been suspicious lately. Going out for days on end, answering suspicious phone calls, being extra clingy when he can... is he cheating on you?

ᴛᴡ: ɪɴꜱᴇᴄᴜʀᴇ ʀᴇᴀʟɪꜱᴛɪᴄ ꜰᴇᴍᴀʟᴇ ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ, ꜰᴏᴜʟ ʟᴀɴɢᴜᴀɢᴇ, ᴍᴀʀʀɪᴇᴅ ʀᴇʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴꜱʜɪᴘ, ʏᴀɴᴅᴇʀᴇ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ, ᴍᴀᴛᴜʀᴇ ᴛʜᴇᴍᴇꜱ, ᴏᴠᴇʀᴛʜɪɴᴋɪɴɢ ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ, ᴀꜰᴀʙ ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ, ᴇᴛᴄ.

ᴛʜɪꜱ ꜱᴛᴏʀʏ ʜᴀꜱ ʏᴀɴᴅᴇʀᴇ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ. ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴍᴇᴀɴꜱ ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ᴡɪʟʟ ʙᴇ ᴍᴏʀᴇ ᴍᴀᴛᴜʀᴇ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ. ᴛʜɪꜱ ɪꜱ ɪɴ ɴᴏ ᴡᴀʏ ᴀ ꜱᴛᴏʀʏ ᴍᴇᴀɴᴛ ᴛᴏ ʀᴏᴍᴀɴᴛɪᴄɪᴢᴇ ʏᴀɴᴅᴇʀᴇꜱ, ꜱᴏ ᴘʟᴇᴀꜱᴇ ᴅᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ᴅᴏ ꜱᴏ ᴇɪᴛʜᴇʀ. ᴘʟᴇᴀꜱᴇ ᴅᴏ ɴᴏᴛ ᴄᴏᴘʏ ᴛʜɪꜱ ꜱᴛᴏʀʏ. ᴀʟʟ ʀɪɢʜᴛꜱ ᴀʀᴇ ʀᴇꜱᴇʀᴠᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ᴘᴏᴘᴏᴋɪ ᴏɴ ᴡᴀᴛᴛᴘᴀᴅ, Qᴜᴏᴛᴇᴠ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴛᴜᴍʙʟʀ.

Р.5 / Р.7

"Leovana Co?" you echoed, almost dumbfounded to hear the name. "Are you talking about that one billionaire company that deals with communication?"

Danny looked like a kid on Christmas. His chest swelled with pride and he held his chin high, looking down at you from the edge of his nose. You noticed the way his eyes glittered. It was the same pride he used to get each time he got a perfect score on his tests in school. His pearly white teeth gleamed when he smiled.

"Yes! As cheesy as this sounds, Leovanna is a place where dreams really do come true. When I started working there, I wasn't anything, but look at me now!"

That wasn't that convincing. From what you can see, Danny acted like a lesser version of himself compared to how he used to be. It was as if all the good stuff was zapped from his body the moment he found a decent job and started getting a good income. Money truly was a game changer and while you weren't one to judge, you couldn't help but see him in a different light when he was acting so, well, snooty.

You didn't understand why he wanted to hire you. Leovana was only founded a couple of years ago yet it rose up the ranks incredibly fast, toppling over any other competition in its path. Frontier, T-Mobile, and even Apple—this new company was devastating to their charts. Just recently they came out with a new phone that had far more data space than most other phones out there, showing off their new and improved features that to you, seemed like it was out of a movie.

It was hard to believe that artificial intelligence was getting so far out there. And Leovana was taking it by force with how far they've thrown themselves into the field.

Though, didn't he understand how suspicious it was to just give job opportunities out of the blue? Yes, you trusted him more than most people, but your gut was telling you that there was something off about the whole ordeal. You couldn't quite place it.

Kieran moved his hand from yours and placed it behind your head on your seat. He seemed to be deep in thought before asking, "I hope you're not going to drop a ball on us and tell us you're the CEO."

Danny snorted. It almost sounded mocking. "Ah, no. I work under the CEO with a team of secretaries. If (Y/N) joined us, she would be working under him too, though I would also be her supervisor."

He raised an eyebrow. Glancing over at him, you noticed the subtle tensing of his jaw. A feather of a muscle in his jaw twitched and he licked his teeth slowly, he looked back at saber. He wasn't looking at Danny as if he was a long lost friend; instead he viewed him to be a nuisance, like a steaming pile of shit on the side of the sidewalk.

It seemed you weren't the only one affected by Danny's rambling. Your stress was most likely rubbing off on Kieran too.

"So you work for the CEO? And you see him regularly?" Kieran asked unblinking. "And that gives you authority to hire whoever you want without repercussions towards the CEO, who is your boss? If it's team his of secretaries, shouldn't he have a say in who you hire?"

Danny was missing all of the social cues. He couldn't sit still, continuing to squirm in his seat, still beaming like the sun. "The CEO is a friend of mine, as well as my employer. He trusts me with hiring, plus, he's far too busy to look into every person who tries to get into such a position. He leaves that work to the people below him."

You rubbed your forehead. All of this was confusing.

Danny continued to blabber. "I mean, Kieran, if you also want to work there, I can look for—"

"No."

Danny was rendered speechless. Kieran raised an eyebrow in response. You wanted to shrivel up and hide.

"O—Oh... apologies, I thought you were interested. Since you were asking so many questions, I suppose I got a little excited."

With how many times you rubbed your face, you wouldn't be surprised if you broke out in the next couple of days because of it.

Taking a deep breath, you forced your hands back to your lap. You had a ton of questions. But where to start with all of them? You wanted to ask about what he wanted, what his goal was, why he was acting so weird, if he truly wasn't working for your father. Half of them were accusatory, but in that moment, you didn't care.

It was always best to start small and then work up to the bigger questions. "...Danny, can you tell me why you're asking me this? Like, what's your goal from all of this, because I don't understand."

He raised an eyebrow and nodded. "Well, I—"

Ring! Ring! Ring!

You paused when Kieran's phone started humming from his pocket. Danny stopped talking and recoiled when Kieran cursed. It was in Russian so the both of you had no clue what he said, but based on the foul scowl he was carrying, it wasn't good.

Of course his phone was ringing now. You couldn't read the screen from how he held the phone, but you could only guess it was another unknown number. A metallic taste formed under your tongue.

Who knows, maybe it was Sam! You wanted to gag and hurl at the thought. Anxiety was at an all new high for you now.

"Do you need to take it?" Danny asked politely, smiling softly.

"Ah... yes. Sorry my Котик, I need to take this. I'll be right back, it won't take me long." His voice was a little snippy. That phone call seemed to make his mood look ten times worse, whatever it was about, whoever it was.

It felt like a punch in the gut. Sure, his phone just HAD to ring, but he also HAD to answer a phone call? When you were stressed as fuck, stuck in an uncomfortable situation, and anxiously sick? He got up before you could protest (not that you had the guts to do so) and walked away from the table to find somewhere more private.

There was a solid lump in the center of your throat. Like a lodged rock from a creak, you felt like you were choking. The light flickered above the table. Turning back around, you let your head fall into your hands. Manners be damned!

Danny was quiet for a little bit. When he did speak, it was a much smaller voice than before.

"...Did I do something?"

"No."

It came out harsher than you intended. Aggravated for Kieran having another phone call, stressed about the situation, and dissociating from the entire planet was a lot to take at once. You did your best to focus on the table. Counting the amount of lines you could see, noting the glossy reflection of the overhead light, and the cool touch of the wood.

You wanted to go home. But now Kieran was off somewhere to talk to who-knows-who! Normally, you wouldn't be bothered being stuck with Danny, but it wasn't like he was the same guy you used to talk to in school. He was now an annoying pest. The said man took a sip of his wine and placed it down. There was a couple of seconds before he spoke again.

"Are you sure? I feel like—"

"I said no, Danny! Do you know what the word 'no' means? Use that big brain of yours and figure it out!" you snapped, turning your glare to him.

He froze. His hands fell into his lap and he pursed his lips.

You felt a tad bit of guilt when you saw his face, but you quickly pushed it down. He was the one sticking his nose where it didn't belong.

You groaned and rubbed at your forehead, swallowing the rock in your throat. The lights were bright, the smell of food was so strong it made you want to gag, and the seat was uncomfortable. The world shifted and you clenched your eyes shut. It was as if someone decided to stuff cotton inside your skull around your brain, making it a soft pillow to rest. But at the same time every detail felt blinding.

Why did you want to cry? It wasn't like you were sad. Rubbing at your eyes, you prayed for the ache behind your eyelids to go away. Danny continued to bounce his leg up and down, making you even more annoyed.

Where is Kieran?

Who is he talking to?

Is it Sam?

"Uhm, (Y/N)..." Danny started, chewing on the inside of his cheek. He was a little naïve, but he wasn't dumb enough to miss you spacing out. He tilted his head when he noticed your blank stare at the table. "Are you okay? Can I talk to you about something?"

Maybe dad was right.

Maybe I'm only meant for business.

What if dad finds me?

Will he force me back?

Danny shuffled in his seat and leaned forward, his brows furrowing ever so slightly in concern. He didn't know what to do. Kieran was the one who always knew how to help you, not him! He debated on poking you or something, but refrained from using his hands to get your attention. "(Y/N)?"

I should at least talk to him, to see what he wants.

Wait, no, that'll just be playing into what they want.

Fuck. What should I do?

Maybe I—

A soft, fragile hand touched yours. You jolted and your eyes snapped open to see Danny tenderly reaching out to you, his fingertips barely brushing your hand out of fear that you didn't want to be touched. He quickly pulled back when he gathered your attention and cleared his throat.

"Sorry. I—uh, I didn't know what to do," he cleared his throat.

"What do you want?"

It was unfair of you to take your anger out on someone who didn't know how to read your thoughts. It was your fault for expecting him too, but hey, if he was so fucking smart, maybe he could learn to read the room!

Danny shuffled in his seat and lowered his head. Danny was always a bit slow when catching up to things and stuff often went over his head, but he always managed to catch up in the end. Based on his reaction now, he finally realized you were upset and Kieran was too. Good. He finally noticed the obvious, even if it took your snapping at him for him to realize.

"Shit. Uhm—I'm sorry... if like, I upset you. I didn't mean to. I'm just," he sucked in a sharp breath, "I don't know what to say. I just... wanted to impress you guys. But I guess I went about it the wrong way."

"You think?"

Danny bit his lip. "Sorry."

He seemed to shrink in his seat and you rolled your eyes.

Danny scratched the back of his neck and glanced around the restaurant. He looked ashamed of something. You were hoping he left the conversation be, but he opened his mouth again. "If you want, I can walk you out to your car."

"I'd rather not," you muttered sourly.

"Okay... do you want—"

"It's fine."

"Why are you acting so mean?" Danny blurted, his tone not as accusatory as the question sounded. He sounded calm, albeit a little hurt and confused, but calm nonetheless. He was never the type to explode.

Your lips zipped shut.

It was easy to forget you weren't kids anymore. There was nothing holding you back from actually having a conversation. You found it easier to tell Danny what you were thinking compared to anyone else, maybe because he's known you for such a long time, or maybe it was because his parents were also pieces of shit. Even if that also meant being a complete dick to him.

It came back again, that spark of guilt. It wasn't smothered this time. Instead it was fueled by your overwhelming senses and you bit the edge of your tongue.

"I..."

"What did I do to make you act like I'm the worst human being to exist?" Danny asked, his lips pulling into a soft frown. "You're treating me like I'm gum you just stepped on."

What?! No you weren't! You were treating him the same way he treated you the entire outing. Defiance raged through your body.

"Well, the entire time you were looking down on us—"

"Really? And you knew this how?" he asked, his voice tightening. Now he was getting a little angry. He was starting to understand what you were thinking, little by little, based off the small bits of info you were giving him. "Because you assumed? You guessed?"

Just like you, he had every right to be upset, especially since you just lashed out at him after a genuine apology. You just assumed the worst. Off of what evidence? Your gut? Ha, as if that's evidence! Half the time, your gut is just your brain trying to avoid situations that make you uncomfortable. Your gut was telling you Kieran was cheating on you, your gut was telling you that you were a bad wife, your gut was telling you that you didn't deserve happiness.

What the hell did your gut know?

Danny slid out of his seat and smoothed out the wrinkles in his suit. The silence was loud. You knew you should have apologized, for snapping at him, for taking out all your frustrations on him, but you stayed silent. You smothered your guilt until it was buried underneath you.

It was fine. Everything was fine. It wasn't like you were in the wrong, he was the one who made rude comments throughout the entire time they were sitting down. Just because he apologized for his bad behavior didn't mean you had to accept it.

"Here's my card with my personal number on the back. Call me if you want to talk again, (Y/N). I'll pay for your everything up front and I hope you have a good rest of your day."

There was nothing you could say. He placed the card next to your phone and left. Just like that, he was gone, and you were stuck with by yourself. The waitress didn't come over to ask anything if she saw you slump down further into your seat. Maybe she was avoiding you because of the heavy scowl you had on your face.

You don't know how long you sat there by yourself.

All you could think about was your parents. While Kieran worried you a lot, there were some things that made your entire body turn cold. Danny mentioned that he didn't take any ideas from your father and he wasn't working for him, but when it came down to your parents, you hated knowing that they could pretty much persuade anyone if they put their mind to it.

The mention of Dominic left your throat tight. He was a mastermind, cruel, and someone you wouldn't even touch with a ten foot pole. He had to be planting seeds of information and ideas into your father's head if your father was brave enough to call one of your old friends from school.

If they want me to come back into the family again, that means they're up to something devious. There was nothing else it could be. It wasn't like your family enjoyed your presence or liked you at all, so believing they had a random change of heart was a possibility that had to be thrown out the window. Let's say even if they did, you wouldn't have forgiven them for all the things they did.

Dominic had a lot of power. Enough power to make anyone think twice, even Danny, and that alone made you anxious.

When you were younger, any interactions you had with Dominic was limited. He was your cousin but he never attended any family gatherings unless your father was also in attendance. The times he talked to you were the times he was stuck inside a room with you alone, whether it be waiting to talk to your father, or he was left unattended in the manor.

Your nails picked at your skin. What was your father thinking? He brought up an arranged marriage to Danny, but why? Was he hoping you got married to him instead? It left a bitter taste in your mouth. Danny was handsome but not husband material, not for you at least.

God, Danny. Maybe you did mess up? He was right, you guessed what he was thinking and assumed everything, but wasn't he the one giving social cues that he was thinking that? Sure, he apologized, but you couldn't read minds. It wasn't like you knew that apology was sincere or not.

Wasn't it his fault?

Danny was the one acting like your father, not you.

Maybe that was where all of your annoyance stemmed from. Danny's blue tie, his position in work, where they sat; it reminded you far too much of your father for your liking. Even if the two of them were completely different men in both personalities and looks.

"Fuck," you whimpered, head falling into your hands. You wished you could go back in time and redid things with your family differently, maybe then they'd leave you alone.

"Котик, I'm back. Sorry that took me a moment, I..."

Kieran trailed off when he came back from his phone call. Tired and a tad bit sluggish, he looked around and brushed down his clothes. Bits of his hair were sticking out in odd angles.

"Where's Danny? Did he go to the bathroo—"

You shoved up from the table. Every thought was spinning inside your head over and over again. But mostly, you were angry. Angry at Kieran, angry at Danny, angry at your father. Your fingers brushed at your throat to soothe the painful knot there.

"Let's go home," you hissed, grabbing his wallet and slapping a tip down on the table. "Danny said he paid for us up front."

Kieran's eyes hardened. You weren't in the mood to play the "guess what he's thinking" game in that moment, so you stomped past him to head for the front doors. He didn't say anything and you were glad that he also wasn't in the mood to ask about what was making you so upset. It wasn't like you knew either.

The waitress smiled ear to ear when she saw the two of you leaving. Saying something about coming back, you ignored her and beelined for the door. Home. Fuck, all you wanted to do was get home.

The cold clawed at your skin the moment you stepped outside and stomped back to the car. It was amazing how someone's feelings could change so fast. One moment you were walking inside the restaurant with a hopeful smile, the next you were walking out with a bitter frown.

By default, you started thinking about what Kieran was possibly thinking. He was in a worse state now than he was earlier because of his phone call. There were only a certain handful of theories you could go through before you started to sound delirious.

What did the person on the other side tell him that made him so annoyed? Did it have something to do with the messages you saw on his computer between him and Sam? You hugged yourself tighter against the cold wind.

The cut on his face and busted knuckles flashed to the forefront of your mind. Maybe the phone call had to do with that? You didn't want to think about him being in debt or in some gang.

I'm going to have to snoop, aren't I? Every day was another day you were getting closer to giving up on being polite. If his privacy was the reason he was coming home cut up and late, you didn't give a shit about what he wanted. You had to make sure he wasn't being stupid or in a dangerous situation alone.

The car door slammed behind you. Kieran slipped in and turned the ignition. It roared to life and he messed with the controls up front.

The car was dead silent except for the pitter patter of icy rain falling from the sky, the hum of heat blasting through the vents, and the squeaking of leather when you shifted in your seat. Kieran inhaled and his hands flexed out on the steering wheel.

You didn't know what to say and if you had to be honest, you didn't want to speak. You enjoyed the silence.

Ring! Ring! Ring!

Fucking hell. Again? Wouldn't you ever get a break from that noise? It was one thing after the other at this point!

His phone buzzed in his pocket for the umpteenth time that week. The lump in your throat formed at the sound, as if a phone was about to break that small thread of will you had left to not cry in the car. Kieran started grumbling under his breath, making your headache worse

It was just your luck that his phone started ringing again the moment you wished for it to stay quiet. You were starting to believe that you weren't allowed to have a peaceful life, not even a single moment where you were allowed to unwind.

"Hey... can you not answer it right now?" you asked weakly.

Kieran didn't hear, his head so stuck above the clouds in his own little world to think about reality. He took his phone out and read the screen. You caught a glimpse of unknown numbers. You sighed.

"Are you listening to me?"

"Sorry," he responded absentmindedly. His eyebrows were furrowed in a specific way that cause a worried crinkle on his forehead, his eyes lidded in annoyance. "чего они хотят сейчас?"

"Kieran."

He didn't respond, his thumb hovering over the answer button. The patience you felt thinning throughout the entire day snapped.

"Kieran!"

He flinched. At the speed of light, his head whipped around to face you, eyes wide as saucer places. The ringing phone in his hand stopped when he failed to answer it on time, leaving the car in tense silence. He looked like he just got slapped.

A guttural sigh ripped through your throat. Fuck. You didn't mean to raise your voice, or maybe you did, you didn't know what you meant anymore. Your brain was messy and staticky. Like someone just rubbed a balloon and kept shocking your brain over and over again.

"Just—can you not answer the phone for one fucking day?" you rubbed your face and hunched in the seat, voice cracking. "That's all I ask. One day. I just want to go home and lay down, okay? No phone calls, no shitty networks on TV, no conversations. Can't we just lay down without any fucking distractions?"

He was quiet. Blood rushed to your ears and any feeling seemed to leave your fingertips as you wrung them together. All you wanted was to lay down with him and sleep. You were tired, your brain was tired, and the ache in your heart was a craving to be held. It was an odd feeling; too tired to cry, yet too emotional to do anything.

"I..." Kieran fumbled, obviously at a loss of words, but shifted in his seat to move his hand to yours. You never yelled and he was stunned to be at the end of it. His head spun in circles before he managed to figure out what to say next without upsetting you. "Yes. We can go home and lay down."

"Promise me, Kieran. Please."

There was a pause. You heard a sharp inhale and then a tight, "I promise."

You should have left it be. That alone was enough, there was no reason for you to ask for more reassurance, but you did. Of course you did. Because who were you without the constant need for reassurance over every single thing? The only reason you felt special was because you were always wanting him to reassure you that you were. You blamed it on the emotions that coursed through your head like veins of poison.

"And you won't answer the phone?" you whispered, so quiet you almost thought he couldn't hear you. "Even if someone calls you, you won't answer it? Promise me you won't answer it."

His hand squeezed tighter. Dragging your fingers to his lips, he pressed a gentle kiss to your knuckles and then to your palm, then your fingertips. He whispered a promise to not do it again. But by the time his phone rang for a second time in a row, he glanced over at his phone, and cursed. He didn't answer it but a single glance told you that just like before, it wasn't a promise he could make.

Your ribs punctured your heart. Sighing, you took your hand away from his and pressed your cheek against the window.

Again, you expected too much.

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[venigni]

Hi, it's me again, and I'm here to once more make everything about my cricket husband.

I was staring at this letter from Antonia again (ty @princessaurayt for chatting with me about it earlier) and I realized how often this kind of phrasing was used in the DLC. "A path of light."

And "light" in general. Like, with Goddard, too.

But like.

Path:

And light:

(A literal light)

Plus we've always kind of known that the Legendary Stalker used the Cricket style. Her sword is literally just the default Cricket saber, but bigger.

IDEK WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY BC WE ALL KNEW THIS ALREADY BUT IT'S JUST LIKE...

I SWEAR I'M NOT CRAZY.

EVERYTHING IS POINTING TO GEMINI.

I JUST DON'T KNOW WHY.

Since I moved on to the next game I unfortunately lost all the documents so I can't reference much at the moment so I might return to this after I finish the DLC again. But I'm definitely keeping my eye open for it this time around. Will especially be looking out for references to "light" since there's a lot. Feel free to toss stuff onto this.

sorry. I finished the DLC 24 hours ago and my brain continues to #cope. I can't stop thinking about Gemini and how now we have even more questions than answers about him.

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Now makes me curious how Izuku meets Kagami

//Oh~ Are we getting into the Riposte episode? I believe so~ :D Alrighty, let see how Kagami fits in this AU~

Adrien begs for Izuku to join fencing classes.

Izuku thinks about it for a moment. Although it would benefit him in fighting akumas and build his stamina, could he even apply fencing with the use of his yo-yo?

Eventually Izuku does give in and joins the class.

Which makes practically EVERYONE joining to watch the class...including Chloe.

Adrien teases Chloe of this, especially since he knows she's not the sporty type unless it's ballet or various types of classical dances.

Izuku meets Armand D'Argencourt and his first impression?

'Someone that does take his craft a little too seriously'

Since there was only one spot available for the class, that means auditions are a must.

And so, Izuku gets paired with Adrien in the sparring match.

Which, to Izuku's credit, didn't go too well considering he's never held a sword before.

Adrien lifted his helmet up to look at Izuku on the ground once he lunged at him and touched at his shoulder, setting the green haired male off balance and making him fall to the ground.

"Wow, you're terrible at this."

Izuku pouted, "W-well fencing isn't exactly my forte."

"Funny, I thought you'd be good at this considering you've been good with everything else you try," Adrien pointed out, remembering how Izuku easily beat Felix in various games of chess, checkers and even a simple game of UNO.

"But that's strategic along with a slight of hand. With physical stuff like fencing, it would be hard for me. Remember, I sucked at playing basketball with the guys?" Izuku argued back, but stood up and got into position once more and placing his helmet back on while placing his saber up, "Let's try again..."

Adrien smiled, placing his helmet back on, "That's the spirit! Alright~ En garde! Prêts? Allez!"

Izuku gets a bit better after a few minutes, but he wasn't as skilled as Adrien was.

Meanwhile, the girls in the sidelines watching the both of them were cheering and swooning.

Chloe glares at them, almost giving the 'I'm going to gouge your eyes out if you oogle at my bestie and future husband like that'

Marinette is just there to cheer on her friends happily, even though she doesn't understand the whole thing at all.

And then...here comes Kagami.

"Hey you! Are you Monsieur D'Argencourt, The Fencing Master? I want to join your team!"

Izuku stares at the masked mysterious person in red, curiosity filling him.

And then...Adrien volunteers to fight this newcomer.

And thus the match begins, just as it does in canon.

Only this time, Izuku was the one that follows Adrien and the mystery fencer into the library once they went off course.

His eyes were able to follow easily, pursing his lips as he was careful to observe their moves. If he missed even a second...

"WELL?! WHO GOT THE FIRST HIT? WHO?!"

Izuku easily answered without missing a beat.

Adrien moved his mask up with a perplexed look, "A-are you sure? We did move pretty fast, Izu..."

Izuku nodded in confidence, "From what I understand of the match, You BOTH committed a lot of faults by attacking violently against each other while going off course, using both hands on the sabers. And it was Mystery Fencer-san who was the first to commit a fault by pushing Adrien, making him win automatically. So, Adrien had the final blow as priority..."

"..."

Sighing, the masked fencer then removed their helmet, showing her true face.

Both Adrien and Izuku were mesmerised for a moment.

The girl then places her hand out to shake, and Adrien accepts.

Izuku could tell that the girl was upset for losing.

"Perhaps I was a bit hasty on trying to win. Thank you for being observant and honest of my faults on this fight..."

Izuku shook his head and waved his hands in front of him, "Please don't say that! A-and anyways, I don't have the final say, really! I'm not even a fencer!"

"He's right, my friend just only started today!" Adrien also interjected with a frown, "I think you touched me first, Miss. Really--"

"Please. I do not need your pities..."

Izuku felt his stomach clench and watched her walk away in self-loathing and disappointment, guilt eating at him. He even looked to Adrien, who was also looking doubtful.

"...Should I have said she won?"

Adrien looked at him, then softened as he placed a hand onto his shoulder, "You were only speaking on what you saw and told the truth. It's not your fault, Izuku."

"So..." Izuku pursed his lips, and Adrien reached to hug him, "Why do I feel like it is?"

Even with Adrien assuring him it's fine, and that even D'Argencourt said what Izuku commented was true, it didn't make Izuku feel better.

Chloe's way of cheering him up made it even worse.

"Of course Adrikins would win! He's the best fencer around, there was no way that wannabe would win against him~"

Riposte appears a few minutes later.

"YOU! YOU THINK YOU'RE SO SMART AND SAYING YOUR FRIEND WON? WELL THEN, I CHALLENGE /YOU/ TO A MATCH!"

Izuku was surprised at being challenged by the akumatized victim, even gulping when a sword was thrown at him.

"B-But I'm only a beginner!"

"Then you better BEG and declare me the winner!"

"I'll take his place and take you on!"

Both Riposte and Izuku turned to see Adrien bravely stepping forward with his saber, already getting into position.

"Your fight is with me, not him!"

"Adrien, no!" Izuku yelled before Riposte smirked and pushed Izuku out of the way.

"Fine. I wanted to have a rematch with you anyways. This time, I will crush you, Agreste!"

And Round Two commences.

Although, Adrien was doing his best to hold her off, he was losing against Riposte.

Quickly, Izuku ran towards the locker room and Tikki flew out from his bag that was hanging inside his locker.

"Oh no! Adrien is in danger!" Tikki squeaked out with worry, as Izuku punched the locker near him with angry tears.

"This is my fault! I-I should've said that the girl won instead o-or say I wasn't sure, then she wouldn't have been akumatized and Adrien wouldn't be in trouble!"

"You were only being honest, Izuku. That's just who you are," Tikki assured her holder with soft eyes, patting his cheek with her tiny nubs, "Now transform and rescue your best friend! Then we'll figure out the rest~"

"You're right. Let's save Adrien! TIKKI, SPOTS ON!"

Adrien is backed into a corner, and winces as his leg was sprained after trying to block a hard hit that almost knocked him against a wall.

Riposte almost makes the final blow.

That was surprisingly Feline Noire makes her appearance first.

"Nobody touches the model boy!"

Tirumushi blinks when he arrives at the scene, seeing...his partner actually fencing elegantly against Riposte using her staff.

"You...you fence?!" The Ladybug hero exclaimed while Feline Noire glanced over at him and grinned while winking.

"What? Did you think I didn't~? I actually learnt a few tricks from my childhood friends that do~"

Tirumushi just watched her go against Riposte with a look of amazement, but then turned away for a moment with a look of comical confusion with a hand over his chest.

'Why did my heart skip a beat just now?'

Snapping out of it, Tirumushi summons his Lucky Charm~!

He was surprised to see it was a radiator.

Frowning, he observed the fight and the looked at the lucky charm in hand, and had an idea.

"Feline! Lead Riposte this way!"

Feline Noire backs up and lets Riposte lunge at her, before Tirumushi got in between them, dropping the radiator as the sword goes through it.

"EN GARDE!"

Tirumushi yells as he kept Riposte in place since the sword is a part of her hand, then looks to Feline Noire.

"Feline! Break her sword! The akuma is in there!"

Feline Noire gives a sharp grin, making her jump with her bo-staff and makes her attack.

"ALLEZ!"

Breaking the sword, Tirumushi captures the akuma, purifies it and watches the butterfly go and Kagami turns back to normal.

Tirumushi takes a breath, before lifting his fist up to his partner, giving a smile, "Pound it?"

Feline Noire tilted her head for a moment, shrugging then nonchalantly bumping her fist back at his, "Pound it..."

He bit his lower lip before speaking quietly, "Hey...a-about last week?"

"It's okay."

This surprised Tirumushi for a moment when Feline Noire bowed her head.

"I thought about it. After facing fox-face— er, that Rossi girl? I realized that maybe I was a bit harsh on her. And, that you are right..."

Tirumushi sighed, as he then touched her arm and squeezed it, "Hey, I get it. But I'm happy you apologized. And of course I forgive you, Feline. You're my partner. It's pretty much a given that I have to make sure that we're good, even if we argue...and...you're my best friend,"

"...Cool."

Eventually once Tirumushi and Feline Noire seperate and hide away to de-transform, they come back to Adrien apologizing to Kagami.

"No," Kagami raised her hand up and shook her head, "Your friend made a good judgement call. I shouldn't have gotten so upset and cause so much trouble."

She sees Izuku and turns to him, bowing to him in respect.

"I apologize of my behavior, even if I do not recall what happened."

Izuku forgives her instantly, then suggests perhaps Kagami could come back tomorrow and have a proper re-match with Adrien.

"I think it would be best to perhaps go with the standard match rather than go off the rail," Izuku explained as he gave a small smile while both Adrien and Kagami looked sheepish themselves, "While I get that you both were over-excited, it's hard to keep up with you both since you're both so talented."

"How about we just fight for fun?" Adrien shrugged, "We're both amazingly good, and I have a feeling we'll just end up in a competitive draw each time. So, how about it?"

The girl hummed, then nodded with her own smile, "Alright. It would be...nice to make friends and get to know you both."

Izuku blinked, "Both?"

She nodded, "That includes you...um...?"

"Oh! I'm Izuku! Izuku Midoriya!"

A smile graced on the female fencer, as she nodded in kind, "Kagami Tsurugi. It's nice to meet you Midoriya-kun. If you ever need proper fencing lessons, I'd be happy to spare with you anyday~"

Adrien teases Izuku that Kagami was a possible new admirer.

But is surprised when Izuku smiles shyly with a blush.

"Actually...I-I sorta think Kagami-san is cool..."

...

Adrien resembled a Cheshire Cat at that moment, and Izuku already regrets opening his big mouth.

BONUS STUFF FOR THE DAY:

Izuku and Master Fu met each other already, mostly having a talk with one another about the responsibilities that comes with being a hero for the Miraculous and possible extra power sets. Although Izuku did ask if Master Fu knew who was the person wielding the Cat Miraculous.

"I cannot tell you."

"...Excuse me?"

Let's just say the talk went south real fast, especially when Izuku threatened to feed Tikki LARGE AMOUNTS of sweets so she goes off setting her Lucky Charm powers without him.

"You can't do that!"

"Watch me, old man. I will do it."

Master Fu makes a compromise. If Izuku accidentally finds out the identity of Feline Noire, Izuku can reveal in return who he is to her and not suffer consequences. Izuku agrees, but pouts when Master Fu points that Izuku can't go hunting down everyone that could possibly be Feline Noire by force.

"Let things happen naturally."

"....Tikki, have you ever tried The Dupain-Cheng Galette?"

Marinette is confused with Izuku ordering a dozen galettes despite not being Galette Day. But hey, perhaps her friend has a sweet tooth.

He does not. But he likes seeing Tikki happy.

That, and his petty bish ass just grins as he watches many ladybugs flying around Paris that day. Ah well, he could always clean up later after he sees Master Fu go crazy.

TAGS: @jasmine-the-fox, @candiiee (if you like to be regularly tagged as well for the next parts, please reply below the post :D)

[definitely-not-lying]

Hey, Kokichi!

I hope that you are well! Here's some questions for you.

If Monokuma inflicted the Despair Disease upon your class, what type of Despair Disease would they each be afflicted with?

Based on your answers, who do you think would be the most harmless classmate/s, and who do you think would be the most dangerous classmate/s, while the Despair Disease was still active?

Finally, as the Ultimate Robot, is K1-B0 able to become diseased? Would it work more like a computer virus for him, or just not work at all?

Thank you!

- Saber

I'm doing great! I sure wasn't expecting to receive a whole essay today and write one, nishishi~

Despair Disease Time! Note: All of these are definitely 100% accurate and not just stuff I made up for fun. Probably. Nishishi~

Kaede: Despair Disease of Silence – She can’t say a single word or hum a tune. Tragic for a pianist, right?

Shuichi: Despair Disease of Overconfidence – Suddenly thinks he’s the mastermind. Cute.

Miu: Despair Disease of Modesty – Covers up and speaks politely. Honestly terrifying.

Kaito: Despair Disease of Cowardice – Hides under tables when anything loud happens. Still tries to give speeches, but from inside a closet.

Tenko: Despair Disease of Male Affection – Gets super sweet and flirty with guys. Chaos ensues.

Himiko: Despair Disease of Hyperactivity – She starts running around yelling “REAL MAGIC!!” every 5 minutes. No naps. Zero chill.

Gonta: Despair Disease of Rudeness – Shoves people aside and says “bugs are lame.”

Tsumugi: Despair Disease of Originality – She starts making her own ideas. They’re bad and weird!

Ryoma: Despair Disease of Optimism – Talks like every day is a blessing. Very unsettling.

Kirumi: Despair Disease of Laziness – Refuses to clean or help anyone. Wears pajamas all day.

Angie: Despair Disease of Atheism – Says Atua is fake. Even I don’t know what to do with that one.

Rantaro: Despair Disease of 'Honesty' – Actually tells us what his deal is!

And Keeboy? He's a robot! So the Despair Disease wouldn't work on him. He'd probably have a virus making him super dangerous and out of control!!

So, the most harmless would probably beeeee... Kaede! And Keeboy the most dangerous!!

[friendlyneighbourhoodelf]

can i interest anyone in some codywan kissing on this fine thursday evening?

“Please, darling.” Obi-Wan looked at him with a gaze that could have melted butter. Fortunately, Cody was made of stronger stuff that than. “I promise not to lose it again.”

“Really?” Cody raised an eyebrow, pulled himself up to his full height so he could look down at Obi-Wan, just a little. “You promise?”

“Oh yes,” Obi-Wan leaned forward, let his eyes fall to Cody’s lips. Let them rest there until he knew Cody noticed, the bastard. “I promise.”

Cody didn’t move. With his free hand, the hand not holding Obi-Wan’s lightsaber far above his head, he threaded his fingers through Obi-Wan’s hair. Felt him shudder against his hand. “You see,” He kept his voice low in a way he knew drove Obi-Wan a little mad, “I don’t quite believe you.”

Obi-Wan batted his eyelashes in a way that said, who, me? Then smiled, his voice kept carefully level, “My darling, you wound me.”

“You’ll get yourself wounded, more like.”

“I would never,” Obi-Wan leaned closer, close enough that Cody could feel his breath against his cheek, “Afterall, I have the Force to protect me.”

“You have me.” It was a promise spoken again and again, whispered into Obi-Wan’s neck in the darkness of his quarters, shouted silently each time they fought side by side. Spoken so often, it was as familiar as breathing, yet still they said it. I’m here. I’m here.

Obi-Wan’s answer was a quick kiss placed at the corner of his mouth. For a brief moment, Cody almost gasped, almost dropped the lightsaber there and then. Instead he pulled back, just a little.

Obi-Wan gasped into the empty space. Still close enough to feel his breath, Cody shivered.

“Promise me,” His voice was heavy, weighted with emotion he couldn’t quite give words to. “Please, Obi-Wan.”

“Cody,” Obi-Wan’s voice was the mirror of his own, heavy with emotion in a way Cody so rarely heard, “Force, Cody, I’m sorry. I don’t mean to worry you. I will try. I promise you that.”

“Alright. Alright. I know.” He finally let his hand that clutched the lightsaber drop. Stood there for a moment, the ‘saber resting in his steady hand between them. He leaned towards Obi-Wan, almost felt the tiny gasp that escaped his lips as Cody’s hand drifted to his belt. He clipped the lightsaber to Obi-Wan belt, let his hand hover for just a moment. Obi-Wan stood still beneath his hands, it was only his breathing that betrayed him.

“Thank you, darling.” The words were whispered into Cody’s ear, softly, they settled in his head.

“Just don’t lose it again.”

Obi-Wan hummed, and Cody watched as his hand curled its way around his neck. He leaned slightly into the touch, even like this the calluses and scars that decorated the hand were known to him, just as intimately as his own.

The hand twisted into his curls, gently pulling his head back, just a little. Despite himself he gasped, the little noise an almost desperate thing as it flew from his lips.

Obi-Wan grinned, there was something dangerous about it, just at the edges. “My dear, I never mean to disappoint you.”

He meant to respond, but found Obi-Wan’s lips against his own. He breathed into the kiss, instead, his mind filled only with Obi-Wan. The Jedi’s other hand curled around his jaw, his thumb pressed carefully into the skin beneath his ears, into the place that Obi-Wan knew made him gasp, desperate beneath his hands.

After what felt like a lifetime, a star born and collapsed again, Obi-Wan pulled back. His nose just brushing Cody’s, he breathed his name. It was promise, and prayer. Spoken with so much reverence that, if he was not seeing his own feelings reflected back at him, he would never have believed such a thing was possible.  

He let the word hang, just for a moment, before he tugged gently at Obi-Wan’s hair. Felt him shudder against his hand, pulled apart in that instant. Felt honoured that he was allowed to see this, trusted enough that Obi-Wan let himself shatter like this.

He pressed Obi-Wan’s name against his neck, felt the way his hands, still resting against Cody, twitched at the contact. He pressed another kiss to Obi-Wan’s neck, then another to his jaw. Eventually, he reached Obi-Wan’s mouth. Hovered there for a moment, allowing his breath to flutter against Obi-Wan’s lips.

Something that sounded like his name caught up in a desperate plea fell from Obi-Wan, and at that Cody kissed him.

Heat curled through him at the way Obi-Wan melted into the contact, letting himself fall endlessly into Cody’s hands. Trusting Cody to catch him.

In answer, Cody held him. Did not allow any part of him to slip between his fingers as they curled their way through his hair. His free hand had, at some point, come to rest upon Obi-Wan’s back and he relished in the way Obi-Wan leant into the touch.

It was this trust, as much as the contact, that sent a heady sense of affectionthrough Cody. Love, if he was brave enough to let himself think it.

Obi-Wan gasped, briefly. Again and again, Cody’s name fell from his lips.

“Here, darling. I’m here.” He couldn’t quite bring himself to say the rest.

[a-friend-of-mara]

Hello hello

It's been a long long time since I made an intro post so time to do it again

Hello everyone, I'm Mara, I'm an 18 year old autistic trans girlie on the interwebs. I'm mostly into women but recently have been getting bi-curious, I'm poly and in a relationship with some lovely people, I am okay with you flirting but don't get upset if I don't reciprocate your feelings, my partners come first.

New: I'm pissed as fuck that I have to write this, I'm turning off asks because I got five "help my family" asks today alone...

Rant below in green

At first I was like "idk, I don't have money so I'll just delete it" now I'm sure it's bots doing the whole "help my family" garbage. I don't have a better word for it than "evil"... people are fucking suffering and some dickwads are trying to scam people out of money...... "oh but Mara how do you know its a scam" Hello there hypothetical goober who I made up for the sake of argument. I know it's a scam because the only thing I get more often than those asks are mommy doms in my dms saying "hello bitch" ... I'm not happy... I'm just not, tumblr should be for funny videos of fennec foxes, cats, queer shit, sad girl hours, and saying "mommy? Sorry" to other trans girls who I think are cute... NOT FUCKING GILT TRIPS

:(

I am a transgender woman, if you call me a sissy you're getting blocked

Stop asking where I'm from! I've heard that a hundred times and I'm tired of it!

I swear to Satan herself if one more guy is creepy in my DMs then I'm gonna start blocking all of them

Blank blogs I do not trust and will be presumed bots/scammers until proven otherwise, likes, reblogs, and a PFP take almost no time

My non-horny intests include

Computers

TTRPGs

Video games

Fixing stuff

I love talking to people and love attention even more so feel free to DM me*

*Dni list

Racists

Homophobic people

Transphobic people

TERFs

Anyone who calls me "sissy" or "tranny" or "shemale" because those are all derogatory terms and if you use them you're either an asshole or uneducated and I don't wanna take the time to figure out which

Favorite video games

(Last updated 5/13)

Titanfall 2

Team Fortress 2

Deep Rock Galactic

Beat saber

Project wingman

Cyberpunk 2077

Armored Core 6

Lethal Company

Pizza Tower

I love spreading little pockets of happiness around here sending messages saying "Heya you're loved and valid" to people on here

I frequently talk about Charlie, she's my PC, I built her with my own hands and seeing her damaged or malfunctioning hurts my soul

Ask me for money and you're being blocked instantly

Horny below the line

Dirty ask list

When giving an ask please give the question number and question, thx

I LOVE TO RP, PLEASE ASK ME ABOUT IT!

[just-prime]

Tales of Squandered Potential

Oh hello again everyone who follows me for my Star Wars ranting!

So! Tales of the Empire. The Hat Man is at it again.

Episodes 1-3 : The Path of Boredom

As expected, all of the Morgan stuff was not my thing. She was boring in Ahsoka, she was boring here. The entirety of the three episodes just hammered home "this lady is angry" in a way that felt overdone because there is no arc. There's no growth, no interest, no nothing. It all just feels like Filoni trying to retroactively make his one dimensional character that gets killed off in the stupidest way possible feel super badass. However because we know that she gets killed in the stupidest way possible, everything falls flat and none of it feels earned. It also doesn't actually answer any of the many many questions that Ahsoka raised about her. She's just there, standing in front of a fire. That's all she does.

Thrawn is there for all of about two seconds, and every moment of it is painful, because here's the thing. WE KNOW WHAT THRAWN WAS UP TO AT THIS TIME!!! We have the book that explains all of Thrawn's many exploits as an admiral. This is only more evidence for the idea that Filoni has never actually picked up any of the canon Thrawn books. Which we kinda already knew, but this is all but confirmation. As I've previously said, and will continue saying, Filoni needs to contextualize Thrawn as a 100% big bad otherwise his Heir to the Empire fanfilm won't actually feel earned, so he is systematically destroying any and all nuance that Thrawn has had to make sure that new viewers only ever see him as an unredeemable evil.

And I know that there are a lot of you out there who are holding out for the possibility that this is all a misdirect by Thrawn! That this is all part of his grand plan to go back and help the Ascendency, and that he's lying to everyone about his intentions. But the sad truth is that Filoni doesn't give a rats ass about anything other than cartoonishly evil Thrawn which means we're never getting Eli, or Karyn, or Hammerly or any of the characters from the six fantastic canon books that Timothy Zahn so lovingly created. That was made very clear with Filoni's prioritization of Admiral Pellaeon, who for those who don't know is actually in the new canon Thrawn books too! He wasn't just left behind in Legends, Zahn brought him back into canon too! But again, being the Legends fanboy that he is, Filoni doesn't care about where Pellaeon should be canonically, so instead he's just shoehorned into the episode for no other reason then Filoni likes him.

Episodes 4-6 : The Barriss Content

Soooooo, why didn't Barriss get a full fucking season to herself??? I get the idea behind the 15 minute episodes, but it really makes it hard to tell any sort of cohesive story. It works far better as a snapshot of a couple of days in someone's life. So unfortunately, while I did enjoy them, Barriss's episodes felt really rushed and I found it really hard to tell when things took place. How long was she at the Inquisitor training center? Was it a day? Was it a month? Really would have been interested in actually seeing the inner workings but it all has to get brushed over in favor of her becoming an Inquisitor. A seemingly intentionally not named Inquisitor which makes me feel like they've run out of early Inquisitor names. Unless there's a trial period before you get a proper number? I don't know it was just one of those things that niggled at me. Another thing that niggled at me (which was also mentioned by the wonderful artist @stealingpotatoes, go give her art some love) is that her design is kinda boring as fuck? Like, you have Birdy-Mc-Skullface right there with such a neat design and yet all Barriss gets is a motorcycle helmet with very slight voice modulation.

But I digress. The fact that Barriss commits herself to the Inquisitorium via a ritualized fight to the death, and then goes "wait, the red light saber wielding, all black wearing, Darth Vader serving inquisitors aren't here to help people?" before immediately bailing is so funny to me. This girl cannot for the life of her commit herself to an organization without becoming disillusioned within 1-3 business days.

I'm not sure how I feel about it all being about Lyn? I was very much rooting for her to totally die in the ice shafts instead of what felt like a very last minute redemption arc?

Though speaking of the last episode...HOLY SHIT OLD BARRISS IS FUCKING HOT. *coughs* Excuse me. Anyway. I would have loved to see more of what happened in between eps 5 and 6. Seeing how she and the jedi kid escaped the planet, and where the two of them did after than in the very hostile Empire would have been a facinating story watch play out. Also, who is this female friend that Barriss is referring to when she sends the child away? Is it Ahsoka??? If it is...WHY WOULD YOU NOT SHOW US THAT REUNION??? Like I get the whole point of this is to set up Barriss to make the jump to live action like every single other Filoni character is curseddestined to do, but also you've had people waiting years to find out what happened to Barriss and it feels like they burned their biggest story possibility on a throwaway reference. Did she find Ahsoka? Did Ahsoka find her? When did they find each other? Was it pre-Rebellion? Was it after Ahsoka was already functioning as Fulcrum? Given that we now know the Fulcrum name originated from Anakin, did Barriss recognize the name and seek this mystery person out? I don't know it just feels again like more wasted potential.

Final Thoughts

Fuck this animation is good now! Can we get a new writer?

Like, even for the shit I was annoyed by, the entire show just looks fabulous. It makes me really really wish that ANYONE other than Filoni could make content in this style. Let the writers of Jedi: Fallen Order and Survivor do a Merrin episode or a baby Cal episode. Or the people doing The Acolyte, let them do Tales of the High Republic! Let anyone other than Filoni have a chance to create within the world of Star Wars animated content.

[dykedvonte]

Silly ask incoming: what video games would the crew enjoy, in your opinion? Especialy, multiplayer games they can play together on their rare breaks? I think Anya eats everyone up in mario cart (she is picking princess peach probably)

-💀

Okay so I know everyone always tries to do cop out answers with saying "They wouldn't play video games yadda yadda" but I'm giving everyone something:

Curly

I think he likes those mindless sort of games. Not like easy but ones where they are a bit methodical.

Likes games with options but also set rules/restrictions. Endless creativity would overwhelm him and make him frustrated as he wouldn't know what to do and when

Honestly? Sims, minecraft, stardew, terria, games where there's options but at the end its like an inverted funnel. Start the same each time but you make it what you want in the end.

I also think he'd love VR type games like Super Hot and Beat saber just for the physicalness and kinda not having to be in reality.

Not into multiplayer too much mainly cause he's actually not that competitive but because he always drags out matches by being the worst

Will happily join a server or world in the games he does play even if it gets abandoned. He's the type to log on for notalgia

Daisuke

We know he's a gamer already. QnA said he likes to go to the arcade and waste time losing.

Also has his little handheld so I think he's into retro games, no specific type just likes how creative they are for how simple they tend to look

Def likes management games. I see him as being into figuring out pro strats and gamer shit like that.

Pikmin, Katamari, Resident Evil, Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, etc... He likes the older stuff with a challenge, but proponent in wanting games to be mean to you again.

Gamer rage but in a sulky way like he misses a jump and just turns off the entire TV

A Mario Party instead of Mario Kart guy. Like the random chance of it all and to get aggressive and hype over like line tracing the mini game

Anya

And if I said Anya is like a strict multiplayer competitive like COD lobby girl then what?

Honestly I think she likes games with a lot of story and depth but has guilty pleasures in FPS and competitive games.

Like those RPG maker games a lot Mermaids Swamp, The Crooked Man, Ai Oni. Not for the horror, its a bit cliche but often time its the real people monsters or tragedy that captivates her.

Me thinks she's the type to scroll like Itchio or Game Jolt and plays whatever's free and looks interesting, gamer in the way she's just played games.

Ofc she's competitive, likes any game where she can show off or win, so she's always upset during chance games. Sorry girl, Daisuke won the draw no mario kart for you

Though I think her favorite would be like fighting games just to have subtle shit talk like "Are you sure you're not just button mashing?" Tekken Girlie

Swansea

This was hard cause like I genuinely think he wouldn't care about games and just plays them in the way like parents beat levels for their kids.

Platformers. Idk why but I think its just like its good hand eye coordination, keeps him feeling spry mentally.

Rhythm games honestly but in the sense of like how like piano tiles is a rhythm game.

He's like basic older man who plays like bejweled, solitaire, maybe even penguin diner.

I know this is almost a cop out but like I can't imagine him like being into gaming even if he was young, like I think he'd like card games, jacks and dice.

Honestly he plays online dominos vs the computer online and complains to his family or the crew (depends on where he is) about it cheating whenever he loses.

Jimmy

For real he's harder than Swansea's cause man doesn't even have hobbies like I don't know what he would actually like and it scares me

I think he's somewhat elitist with his gaming views because he just always thinks he's write but I know he plays everything the bad way

Honestly I think he likes games like Borderlands for the humor and the like fantasy power. Like Handsome Jack's humor a bit too much

Played Halo and Cod but either is so mid it's just not enjoyable enough for him to continue. Like he needs the instant gratification from gaming or he's not playing it anymore

Maybe GTA but again he annoys too many people and gets banned from servers and doesn't care about story mode.

LIkes the sims but in the fucked up girl way where he makes all the sims like live in his basement and paint for him while he get mad over storylines he made up.

I like think they all play monopoly like my family where it takes days because we treat it like real investments and alliances are formed and relationships ruined.

[mammoth-clangen]

Hi! In your answer to another anon's question about clangen comic tips (all those resources were amazing btw, tysm!), you said picking a unique name really helped. I'm considering starting a clangen tumblr for a New Years project (yay!). And it will need a good name!

Any tips/preferences on naming conventions? Do you prefer longer names, descriptive adjectives, just main character names, etc? Any names that are particularly better/worse for you as a reader?

And of course, happy holiday season! Much love to our fluffy prehistoric family!! 🦣🦁

Referring to this ask

I'm glad the resources were helpful! That doc is really good because it helps summarise a lot of things I've absorbed through osmosis reading so many comics and listening to what the authors have to say cx

On naming conventions, I'm once again gonna give a disclaimer that this is all just my opinion! If you have chosen/want to choose a name that would be "wrong" by these standards, don't let me stop you!

That being said, if I can't remember your comic name and/or I see the name and can't remember which comic it belongs to, it really messes with my ability to get invested in the story/characters :'o

DeviantArt was super renowned for having comics with long unwieldy names that had to be shortened to acronyms, to the point readers would forget the name entirely. T.W.O.R.R. page 34 is easier to forget than It Cascades Down page 34 (these are both my own examples, the latter may come back to life after Kindred of the Mammoth).

Now clangens are different than other comics in that most are just called __clan. Which is fine + it makes it clear that this is a clangen and, at least to me, means I'm less critical on the plot because "sometimes crazy stuff may happen bc RNG said so" cx

My personal issue is that there are so many clangens and a lot of the time their name has little relevance to the clan as a whole. ((Briefly ignoring that "Mammothclan" doesn't exist because they don't call themselves a clan.))

I like to think Mammoth-Clangen is pretty distinct because mammoths are often seen as synonymous with the ice age. Most will instantly know after reading 1 moon that mammoth= iceage= sabertooth cat clangen. If I named them Fleetclan or Glacierclan or slightly more plot relevant Remnantclan, it might not immediately bring up that connection. I also pedantically refuse to use "Saber" in anything because that's a sword and cats don't Have swords XD

Some memorable examples off the top of my head would be

Circusclan and Jungleclan= it's the setting, simple as that cx

Ashpaw is Alone/Lionpaw's Diary- both have a titular character that's easy to remember

Goofyclan- just silly guys, haha unless

Loudclan and Splinterclan also have names I remember for the lore tied to them- Loudclan have a loud train running through their territory, and Splinterclan have splintered off a larger clan!

Again, if you want to name your clangen blog Ravenclan, Stoneclan, Cloudclan, Vulcanclan, Humuhumunukunukuapua'aClan purely because it sounds cool, go for it! I'm not your dad and ngl I think making art and comics should be fun first and serious only when you want it to be uvu

[lookslikethatsallthetimewehave]

In your opinion, what's the darkest thing in Poptropica?

Oh... wow. You know, some people might be surprised at some of the dark stuff that's happened/implied throughout the franchise. And from such an innocent looking world too :)

I guess I'll make a list of some stuff that stands out to me:

24 Carrot Island 

The 4 children were kidnapped and brainwashed by Dr. Hare probably for months.

Astro-Knights Island 

Mordred almost died in a crash, and had to replace half of his body with robotics. 

Mordred kidnapped the princess because he wanted to marry her. And her parents most likely thought they were never going to see her again, since they had no way of going after her.

Counterfeit Island 

It's implied that Black Widow was gonna torture the player in order to get answers. 

Reality TV Island/Wild Safari Island 

Villains allowed to be on reality tv… and being treated as celebrities... WHAT.

Skullduggery Island 

Captain Crawfish probably killed a lot of people. Cause… pirate.

Steamworks Island 

The entire backstory of this island: the people were doing experiments on plants, when the plants mutated and tried to kill them. The only way they could survive is by freezing themselves.

Captain Ziggs sacrificed himself to hold off the Plant Monsters. Mayor Crumb must be feeling pretty depressed now that she's free and forced to live without him.

Red Dragon Island  

The Shogun being a pretty terrifying tyrant. 

Shrink Ray Island  

POV: you're an elementary school student and your teacher's star pupil. You trust him, because he's a nice teacher. And then he goes crazy and kidnaps you.

Mr. Silva threatens to shrink CJ and the player to the point where they can't be seen by anyone, which is kinda dark honestly. 

Blimp Adventure 

Dr. Cumulo Nimbus sets fire to the rain to all the islands. 

Game Show Island  

Robots take over and enslave humanity. 

Ghost Story Island  

A really depressing murder mystery/ weird love triangle story that involves several character's deaths.

S.O.S Island  

The ship sinks and everyone inside almost dies. Also a child.

Vampire's Curse Island  

Count Bram outlives his wife, and goes crazy. And he kidnaps a child due to insanity. 

Cactus von Garlic has killed many vampires. But not all vampires in Poptropica are evil (if Haunted House is any indication). 

Twisted Thicket Island  

The forest creatures turning into stone. I'm not 100% sure if they're still alive in there or not...

Poptropolis Games Island

The island sinks back into the ocean, with people still on it. Some of the ancient islanders are waterlogged (but still alive, for some reason).

Lunar Colony Island (Book)

The PASE workers are oddly sociopathic to Glen John's situation, only caring about Glen helping them. Glen is 13 btw.

Super Villain Island  

Zeus almost winning. He blew up the world for no reason. Also, there's something really scary about the way he blew up his own island.

Zomberry Island  

Zombie apocalypse. 

Virus Hunter Island  

A pandemic almost happened. 

Monster Carnival Island 

Ringmaster Raven's backstory: Pretty messed up. 

Edgar is an orphan who ran away and joined the carnival. He put a lot of trust in the Ringmaster and seemed pretty happy… and then the Ringmaster hypnotizes him and uses him for his scheme. Pretty messed up. 

Survival Island 

Myron Van Buren. Enough said.

Mission Atlantis Island 

The alien was trapped underwater for years and died.

PoptropiCon Island  

Omegon taking over the convention center, and turning the people into Hench-Bots.

Arabian Nights Island 

Scheherazade attempted to steal the player's soul… what the heck.

Graphic Novels

The kids almost died… several times. (A Saber tooth tiger and polar bear almost maul them, they almost fall to their deaths, they almost freeze to death, they are almost stabbed to death by Lieutenant Rogers, they almost got erased from history on the Ancient Egypt Island, they almost burned alive in a volcano eruption, etc)

The ancient Egyptians are erased from one timeline, and a bunch of people on earth died... and it's unknown if they were brought back, or what.

When Spencer Albright is murdered, Jonas is so overcome with grief that he completely loses it and becomes murderous like Octavian. Jonas is 18-20 btw.

The backstories for the main characters (Octavian is forced to let Paulla die, Mya's mom abruptly dies and she goes through depression, Oliver’s dad walks out on the family).

Octavian's fate at the end is this: he accidentally jumped through the portal before the universe he wanted to go to fully formed. Because of this, he jumped into the in-between point of universes, and was split into an infinite amount of versions of himself. Sounds complicated, but is incredibly messed up.

Mya was seriously considering leaving her own timeline, even though she would be leaving her family and friends behind. Whether or not she knew this is unknown, but if she did... kinda messed up.

And… that's it. No more dark things that stick out to me after that. Probably because after this, they fired the writer who was responsible for most of the dark undertones in the franchise. OOPS!!! >:(

I think the darkest stuff comes from Monster Carnival, Survival, and the graphic novels.

[writingdevil]

What are the friend groups like in the human au? I’m assuming for the most part they’re all friends, but you also mentioned how Shéamus got to be friends with the group through Sebastian, and you mentioned that those two hadn’t been talking as much in current times just due to life being busy. So I’m curious what the dynamics are like! Who’s close with who?

Like you said, all around, they're all a tight knit group, but some have known each other longer than others, and they don't become a proper 'flock' until Hudson and Oscar reconcile.

Excluding couples, these are who I think are closest to who:

Hektor is close to everyone, but he and Percy have known each other since high school, so they're like besties, and he hangs out with Connie a lot because he's one of the few to get him to stay out of trouble long enough.

Percy's particularly close to Hektor, Hudson, Calder and Shéamus. He also feels a soft camaraderie and closeness to Bee (Broken), so they talk a lot as well.

Calder's almost always getting into trouble with Connie, so they're besties as well- they are always wreaking havoc at night. He's also close to Percy and Hektor, he likes to playfully mess with them.

Connie's close to Hektor and Calder, but he also likes winding up Chester and Saber (Stubborn) a lot, so they're always up to no good, and he likes annoying Shéamus as well, like an exasperated teacher or guardian.

Chester's really close to Bee- he's got a soft spot for him and is very protective of him. He hangs out with Connie a lot, and pretends to hate it. He and Oscar, despite their attitudes, like to play card games for hours and playfully hurl insults at each other.

Hudson feels close and safe with Hektor, Percy, and Sebastian, but he's also real close to Saber and play-fights with him a lot. He's also close to his brother and will trail after him a lot.

Oscar's close to Chester- he likes riling him up and teasing him. He's also close to his brother, talking his ear off a lot. He and Sebastian are close too, and Oscar allows Sebastian do his hair whenever they do.

Bee is besties with Saber- they became friends very quickly because of Saber's intensity. He's also close to Percy and Chester- he feels safe and calm with the couple.

Saber's close to Hudson, and is always demanding they spar whenever they meet up. He's also close and very protective of Bee- he riots whenever he sees a single tear from him. He also likes doing dumb stuff with Connie as well.

Sebastian is close to his brother, despite becoming a little distant- there's still no one who knows him like Shéamus. Sebastian also loves to hang around Oscar and Hudson, to compliment and style their hair, and he enjoys their company. He's also close to Bee, and likes to spoil him a lot.

Shéamus is close to his brother, and also enjoys talking about various strange topics with Percy as well. He always finds himself falling for Connie's jokes and ends up following him to make sure he stays out of trouble.

That's all of them!!! I hope this answers your question, and I hope you have a great day!!

[the-insanity-clause-interests]

Interests

IF YOU LIKE THE LITTLE CLUB, or more specifically Tiny Turtle/Little Lizard/Scuba Steve/'s Minecraft Dragons series, then i Will literally love you forever and PLEASE talk to me, I'm begging you

ok so anyway. List of interests here we go

warning. This is really fucking long

in no particular order

franchise

Pokémon - everything until the goh series and onward. Including movies, games, etc. My number 1 special interest now and forever - my fav pokemon are Hatterene and Delphox tied for first, then.... actually, it's a long list

Beyblade - burst and metal fusion, but i haven't watched any series past the one right after Dante. Idk if there were any after that or if I’m forgetting something

How to train your dragon - everything including games (minus the modern age show, and while i have my misgivings with the third movie, i can still be normal about it. The live action however, i will not discuss.)

The Avatar - Korra and Aang are both great. Never played any games but they're probably cool

Ghibli - do i even have to explain?? I've watched a bunch of their movies

Star Wars - uhgggshahsgjsdujdhsj so good. I’m obsessed with it. I own multiple vintage lightsabers and an old cosplay a family member made back in the day. Once i save up enough I’m gonna buy a doubles blades yellow saber and maybe a sentinel cosplay to go with it. Qui Gon is my favorite character

Star Trek - huge trekkie. Fav will always be the og series' with Kirk and Spock, but I've seen most (except the newer) shows. Spirk is the ship of all time. Hell, they're ship is so good it's for for the stars (get it (sorry))

Tolkienverse - not sure where to list this honestly. So so good, deathly ill over bagginshield and gigolas

books (standalone)

To Sleep In A Sea Of Stars - i could go on and on. Havent read the second book yet (which is why i gave it in standalone)

The blue roan child - i love horses, and This was such a good dive into that for me. I love this book to bits and pieces

Pegasus, the Flame of Olympus

The Life And Death Parade - i have nothing to say, this book makes me speechless. Not even thee best written but oh man. Oh man.

books (series)

Wings of Fire - childhood favorite. I still reread these and look forward to all the new installments - i related to these book's and characters so, so much, esp when i was younger

Wolves of the Beyond - i have personal connections to these books. Jeez. I think it helped form my love and respects for Nature

FoxCraft - just good af. I think it's at fault for my alterhuman tendencies tho

The Inheritance Cycle - typical and mainstream of me i know. But doesn't change that it's good

The Poppy Wars - FOAMING AT THE FCKING MOUTH

Septimus Heap - haven't finished (yet)

Crier's War - pretty good, i ended up naming a weapon i custom built in dai (video game) "Crier's Assassin" because i wanted the name to be something that meant sobering to me, but was also, idk, kinda edgy sounding? Most people dong get the reference but those that do would probably say something like "but criers assassin didnt actually kill her (yknow when that happened in the first book) why would h name a weapon that" and the answer is because i can. :3

Tv series

Httyd rtte (+ riders and defenders of berk)

pokemon xyz - literally the most life changing interest of mine. I love this show with all my heart and more

Loki - i really like the soundtrack - OK and massive hes hot. Go lokius my beloved

Arcane - a friend of mine instructed it to me. Funny story, season two is how i got laid last year. Pretty good. Jynx is really relatable to me, like due to her mental stuff, that's probably not normal loll. But any way jayvik is pretty cool. Sevika deserved better. Zaundads are cool and silco is hot. Fav character is probably echo. Fav moment in the series was maybe Heimerdingers solo, i love that song now

The Dragon Prince - Yeah pretty good. Fallen Star / Aaravos is pretty hot, love the voice. The tropes going on between Runaan and Ethari are unparalleled, i absolutely adore them. Corvus and Soren's dynamic is the absolute best and i love them together, top ship and my two fav characters. Even just the plot of the site is just incredible, and the world building, and the literal poetry??? Divine

Voltron

beyblade Burst - Valt's version - i have so many thoughts. Lui and Free are just. Wow. I aspire to be them, simultaneously. Shu and Alexabder are pretty cool. Valt is an awesome main character, and his friends are peak, particularly Diago, Ken, Silas, and Wakiya just have SUCH ducking good character designs and arcs i cant get OVER it

SheRa

Lost Song

lolirock - vaguely remember it but i know i loved it At the time. Music

horseland - love love love love

Sword Art Online - emotionally devastating

my hero academia

seven deadly sins - i think i only watched like two seasons but it's really good regardless. Amazing storyline

Whichever version of Digimon i watched

Avatar The Last Airbender - home of my all time favorite episode in the entire franchise, The Cave Of Two Lovers, ep 2 s2 (i like the music) (and also the vibes of the nomads) seCRET TUNEL

heartstopper - gay gay homosexual gay (how i figured out my sexuality (not because i like either of them, but because it was there first time I'd seen two Real People tm that we're both guys just.... happy. In a relationship.

Demon slayer

the Mandalorian - AWESOME fucking soundtrack. Put me on that shit any day

Another Life - i am extremely obsessed with this one. Changed my entire personality fit like a month after watching. Peak soundtrack

Star Trek TOS - amazing

Heaven Official's Blessing - also good as the comic

Carole and Tuesday - did i mention how much i like music

Blue Period - more educational than any actual art class I've taken in my entire life. Thank you art gods for blessing us with this masterpiece

Movies / Movie Series

How To Train Your Dragon (excluding the third and the remake)

Dead Poets Society - emotionally devastating possibly intentional queer allegory. Watching it was a fever dream experience, staying up all night on a school night once in 8th grade to watch it free with ads on YouTube. Oh captain my captain, anyone?

V for Vendetta - i don't know why my mother let me watch this as a 11 year old. But. Oh well. It was pretty good, i heavily enjoy it and did the themes to be relevant. Plus i relate a lil bit to the Martin characters so there's that

Howl's Moving Castle - masterpiece, particularly memorable soundtrack with the most beautiful animation out there.

Bubble - it's just so pretty. Plus a memorable tune

Nimona - queer alllegory plus everything else allegory plus themes of everything u forgot to think of. Perfect. Gay. Shapeshifting genderfluid "i am today" boy that is pink. Wonderful

Drifting Home - great animation, idk, i just like this one

Wakanda Forever - mainly for the soundtrack

Pride and Prejudice - 2009 SPECIFICALLY

Avatar - the Navi, not the horrid live action movies for atla

The Hobbit - freaking love the hobbit. First movie has to be my favorite. Did i mention bagginshield? The misty mountains song + soundtrack is impeccable and without flaw. The credit songs are bangers

Pirates of the Caribbean - minus that one actors supposed stuff that went on their with court, don't know much about that and I’m staying out of it 😭 i just like boats and sailing and Pirates man.

games

DRAGON AGE: INQUISITION - i did a fem qunari rogue (daggers) that specialized in assassination (her name was Hera) and i had been making towards a romance with josephine (before my save files corrupted permanently........) - next was a (dagger wielding) dalish elf rogue who romanced Dorian (MY LOVE) and i haven't had time to start a specialization yet. Both times i sided w the mages, and left the queen in power. Though the second time at least on good terns w her lover. And uhhh the first one i think i sacrificed Hawk cuz i couldbt fuckkng remember which one was which and i will forever regretttt - the battle tactic's and strats are really in depth honestly with how u can customize bot only your own but also your companions' movepool, stats, armor, weapons, etc. plus there's actual incentive to stay interactive with them bc of the relationship/friendship/ mechanic, its actually really cool. Plus there are so many companions to choose from. And the sheer scope if character customization at the beginning is insane. Ive spent hours total just on that, holy hell, its so cool. And did i mention the SOUNDTRACK. And the bARD SONGS. anyway this is also a special interest of mine

robot unicorn attack

minecraft - need i say more? Ive been there since before the ocean update. Love c418

Pokemon X - first every pokemon game, picked fenniken for starter. Got that Delphox (nicknamed Fire (original, right)) to level 100. I miss pokemon amie. I loved being able to skate around and do little tricks. I lovr that game so much i cry thinking about it sometimes

pokemon omega ruby - idk i just loved this one a shit ton too. (Dont get me wrong i love ALL of them. These in particular just stand out). Latios is my favorite guy ever. I caught Heatron in that game. As well as Cobalion (and a number of other legendaries, those three just happen to b favorites). I liked being able to fly w latios and i liked the tune of the flute. Whole game is engaging and has so many fun things to do

pokemon games in general - X (&Y) through Lets Go, ive played it, and used it was Eevee or Sword, Ive played every version. I've also played pokemon rumble blast and pkmn silver. I own scarlet and Violet but haven't gotten around to playing them yet. I am like unsustainably obsessed with pokemon man. I've got binders full of cards too. And So many plushies. So many (but not enough)

Splatoon - played on wiiU and switch, i like it, its cute. I like the ink/squid cencept. And the "hair" (tentacle) styles are so so cute. Jealous

httyd -have a game on ds and also on ps4 (dawn of the new riders), theyre not bad. Might notve liked them so much if i wasnt super into httyd, but i like them

Life Is Strange - ughagsjjsdj so good, main character is cute too

My singers monsters - from my childhood

School of Dragons - WHAT DO YOU FUCKING MEAN THEY SHUT IT DOWN???????? I FUCKING LOVE MY SHOCKJAW and my monstrous nightmare and boneknapper and groncicle and all my other little buddies :( i miss them and being able to fly - i had been saving up gems for the expansion packs... i miss it so much

Cut the Rope - fav early childhood game. I love that little green guy. Omnomnom that candy all you want buddy

Cells - educational. Semi regular updates. Thanks pewdiepie

Rolling Sky

Pokemon Go - obvious

Horizon: Forbidden West - actually really fucking good. Sci fi but simultaneously post apocalyptic. Graphics are beautiful to no end, i cant get over it. There is so much detail. I can see more on my tv screen than i can in real life man. It has a really good plot too while still being somewhat open world with lots of side quests. The fact that the character looks the way she does is important to the story so i dont care that much that there isnt character customization beyond the armor even tho it would rlly be nice (i say as a man). The battle tactics are cool as well

pikmin - i just love pikmin. Been playing it on the wii and wiiU since i was rlly young

Kirby's Epic Yarn- I fucking love Kirby. Another special interest. I could go On and on about Kirby. So cute. Pink. 2nd play is Prince Fluff. Cute ass come decorations. Cute music that i want to simultaneously bounce around as a ball of Joy and fall asleep too. Lovely plot. Literally the part of my childhood that wasn't shit. I love him for eternity in this game specifically 🫶🩷

[knightguilt]

task one ／ campus interview.

it comes off as a surprise when an interviewer abruptly approaches hwaryun with a small microphone in his hands. he isn’t someone who particularly likes these kind of things, but he’s also not someone who would refuse it either. as long as they’re happy, he guesses? it wouldn’t hurt to spare some of his time.

considering the vertical angle of the phone, it’s probably for tiktok or youtube shorts. he doesn’t knows what to expect—some random questions? nothing too weird, he hopes!

for 10k won, name 10 women.

hwaryun blinks, then gives off an awkward laugh as he shakes his head. “no thanks, but i could name some if you like? sailor moon, saber, han sooyoung, sakura, frieren….” and he goes on listing another five fictional characters, finishing off with a glowing smile. “how’s that?” thinking about it, it makes him sound like he’s some sort of an anime addict… but he’s a casual fan, really. it’s an odd question to him, but the interviewer didn’t say a specific category.

what’s your red flag?

“uuhh… i can’t see red, so i don’t have any?” he laughs again once more, scratching his head. hwaryun knows the interviewer meant something else, and before he lets the awkwardness get to the mood, he quickly follows up with another response. “i’ll say my red flag is probably taking up too much work on myself, according to my friends. does it count?”

would you date someone who still uses student discounts after graduation?

“i don’t really see why this is a question… but why not? whatever that happens, they were still a student of this institution and you don’t always get a job immediately after graduating. economy’s pretty bad, don’t you think so? so i don’t think stuff like that matters so much. enjoy the student discounts while you can, until they expire!”

what’s the best excuse for missing class?

hwaryun thinks for a while as he adjusts his bag on his shoulders. “classes are important, it’s best if they aren’t skipped. well… this is coming from someone who studies in medicine, haha.” he’s never skipped a class, unless he was extremely sick. “but you know: my dog ate my homework,” the boy gives a cheeky grin. clearly, it’s not the best excuse.

do you think your friends would like you if you didn’t have money?

“where i am right now comes from my efforts, topics of money doesn’t comes up often even in my circles. i’ll be a little sad if i had friends that doesn’t likes me for the lack of money… but can they be called friends, anyways?” hwaryun answers honestly. “it’ll be a good way to filter out those who are materialistic. as much as i would like to continue being friends with them… in the end, life is life. not everyone will like you; be it the lack of money, or your appearance, or something trivial, really. what’s important is how you approach the situation.”

with that, the interview concludes. seems like it’s enough content! hwaryun gives them a bow, thanking them for the interview opportunity before he heads his way.

[maverick-werewolf]

Daily Werewolf Thoughts - Days 24-30 (includes HUGE posts on berserkers and Peter Stubbe)

img: illustration for my upcoming huge novel release (Knightfall), by Saber-Scorpion

Day 24- So I just talked about how much I enjoy the werewolf concealing the curse, something that may or may not always go with that is having no memory of what the monster form did-- or, sometimes, not even remembering turning into a werewolf at all. It is, again, another fun layer of drama, character exploration, and meaning that comes with the wonderfully robust tale of the werewolf.

I really cannot emphasize enough how much I love this kind of stuff. Everything about it. But on the subject at hand, the scene of a man (or woman, as the case may be, since we do have those too) awakens in the morning and finds just a few things off - or has literal blood on his hands. Has no memory of what happened. Does he know? Does he figure it out? Or is he left in total confusion? How do things play out from there? What -did- he do last night, and how bad was it? Will anyone else find out? There are so many endless possibilities. It's something else that I, obviously, love exploring in my own fiction*.

I always address whether or not such a concept existed in folklore, and in this case, the answer is pretty much no. This is yet another thing we can thank The Wolf Man (1941) and writer Curt Siodmak for. So, thank you yet again, Curt Siodmak, for adding another layer onto such a fantastically tragic story.

*: shameless plug for my book coming later this year, Wulfgard: Knightfall, so please stay tuned and check that out when it releases; I am currently dying during the editing process and every copy contains a small shard of my soul

Under the cut are some BIG POSTS on berserkers (and how they are not "bear warriors") as well as Peter Stubbe (who was not a werewolf), other thoughts, me freaking out about how cool werewolves are, and more!

Day 25- A hill I have chosen to die upon is that portrayals of berserkers as "bear warriors" are wholly inaccurate, preposterous, and baseless. This is considered a sweeping statement in the academic community (because they are the ones who first proposed this utter nonsense, in search of a "new argument" for "the conversation" in the 19th century; before this, everyone accepted that "berserker" means "bare of shirt"), and yet, when I made it, I received support and even a stamp of approval from a lifelong Old Norse and Icelandic scholar and professor. Let me tell you why…

Snorri Sturluson, the historian to whom we owe knowing about almost any of these legends and the preservation or creation of many Sagas and the Eddas, who lived from 1179-1241 AD, has always been the foremost source for all things Norse. It is he to whom we owe a great deal of, and likely even the majority of, our knowledge of Norse mythology. And yet, today, scholars love to disrespect Snorri and claim he was wrong about nearly everything. It's absolutely absurd.

Snorri said that "berserker" means "bare of shirt," and I've heard many native Icelandic speakers reinforce this theory and other scholars agreeing as well. It refers to throwing off their armor in battle upon entering their rages, or perhaps even fighting shirtless; there are arguments about that too. Many scholars still refute this idea of berserkers being bear warriors (there are numerous examples, such as Anatoly Liberman), and some don't even bother acknowledging it; you can find some things today that, thankfully, don't touch this bear concept at all, especially outside of America. Huge props to Robert Eggers for his incredible research for The Northman film and an execution that resulted in the coolest portrayals of a berserker that we have ever gotten, and that feels accurate to the sagas. Modern scholars like to say that Snorri was very wrong and that "berserker" means "bear shirt." They refute Snorri for saying that his theory has been abandoned because of "lack of supporting evidence," which is so rich because they have no supporting evidence for their "bear warrior" etymology, either.

Long story short, I will not stand for Snorri disrespect. We love Snorri in this house.

Now, on to berserkers themselves. Why do I insist, then, that they are wolf warriors? We have many examples of what are sometimes called the ulfheðnir, or "wolf-shirts." Note that you recognize the Old Norse form of wolf in "ulf," same as you generally would recognize "bjarn" or "bjorn" for bear*. An ancient Roman account describes them thusly: “Their eyes glared as though a flame burned in their sockets, they ground their teeth, and frothed at the mouth; they gnawed at their shield rims, and are said to have sometimes bitten them through, and as they rushed into conflict they … howled as wolves.”

Berserkers were described variably as "strong as bulls," "howled like wolves," and other animal comparisons. But, more often than not, we see berserkers associated with wolves across the sagas. They were said to enter mad rages, their berserk state, during which they endured impossible amounts of pain, were unharmed by fire or iron, and performed superhuman feats of strength and bravery. They were sometimes called hamrammr, or shape-strong, and it is implied they are stronger than an ordinary man no matter what shape they currently took. Some were associated with shapechanging, such as Kveldulf the evening-wolf, a highly intelligent man sought for his wisdom - but, around dusk each day, "he became so savage that few dared exchange a word with him … People said that he was much give nto changing form, so he was called the evening-wolf, kveldúlfr." Kveldulf appears in multiple sources, such as Egils saga and more. Other ulfhednir appear in the Vatnsdæla Saga and the Holmverja Saga, among others, with several being cited as capable of changing forms and "wolf-shaped."

Also, not only is there a suspicious lack of named bears in Norse myth as a whole (though we have many named wolves, a named boar, named goats, ravens, and even named roosters, squirrels, and more) to claim they are so important to their culture historically, but again, we are notably lacking in direct evidence of this "bear warrior" concept. Some love to cite Bodvar Bjarki from Hrólfs saga kraka - a warrior who could assume the shape of a bear - but he specifically was NOT a berserker, and in fact he frequently came in contention with berserkers and talked down about them.

As you can see, I could go on about this for quite some time, and I plan to at some point. There's a lot more to say and discuss, but I'll leave it off here for now.

More on this in a huge article sometime next year, probably. Way too much work left in this year. I do have this one, however, that I wrote many years ago now and have expanded upon some since, though it requires far more expansion and specificity (some of which I did here instead): https://maverickwerewolf.com/werewolf-facts/berserkers/

And this is also discussed in my book, The Werewolf: Past and Future, which I will always shamelessly plug as a great way to get started with the werewolf legends throughout the march of history: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1949227022 And also my own edition of Sabine Baring-Gould's fantastic work from the 1800s about werewolves, includes footnotes, translations, etc by yours truly; he discusses the sagas quite a bit: https://www.amazon.com/Book-Werewolves-Superstition-Annotated-Translated-ebook/dp/B0CK4YY16Z

*: why aren't they called "bjarnskins," then? Why would berserker begin with a Proto-Germanic "bero" for bear when "berr" is Old Norse FOR BARE, like "bare of shirt"?? A form of "berr" meaning "bear" did not exist in Old Norse. Why does anyone even believe this bear warrior berserker crap?

image: helmet plate from the Vendel period (540–790 AD) depicting Odin and a wolf-cowled or wolf-headed berserker

Day 26- A huge pet peeve of mine is werewolves that turn utterly brainless when they assume their monster form. You see this a lot in media, like a werewolf that becomes so angry after transforming that it will bash its brains out against a wall trying to reach a person. I'm all for uncontrollable and furious werewolves, but they shouldn't just be idiots. How do they even still feel threatening when they're so earthshatteringly stupid?

Creating a sense of threat with a werewolf is incredibly important to conveying a good, serious, and earnest werewolf story. If the werewolf is that braindead, it will never feel like a real threat. In folklore, as well, werewolves retain their human intelligence (whether they are capable of speech or neutral/good-aligned or not), and this is very much a mark of what makes them so dangerous and terrifying. I can't think of any justification for making the primary monster and/or primary threat in your story so dumb that it will accidentally kill itself against a solid object or run headlong into a mirror or not understand doors and trees. It's plain old bad storytelling.

image: William Corvinus from Underworld again - I know that some Underworld comic or another suffered from the extremely stupid werewolves trope, because at one point Selene perches on a building and watches the "lycans" kill themselves bashing against a wall trying to reach her. Just typical Underworld things.

Day 27- Alright, remember how I'd die on that berserker hill? This is my other hill. "The Werewolf of Bedburg," Peter Stubbe or Peter Stump or Stumpp, is considered one of the most famous werewolf legends. Problem is, it is not a werewolf legend. Let me tell you why.

Firstly, let's begin with the legend itself. I will be pulling quotes from The Werewolf in Lore and Legend by Montague Summers. It's a good werewolf book, but Summers sometimes contradicts himself in his ramblings and sources, so you have to study it carefully. Overall, though, it's a very good work and very good for cross-referencing. His account of Peter Stubbe is one of the best elements of the book.

Peter Stubbe was a man who used satanic magic ("Damnable desire of magick … and sorcery") to assume the shape of a wolf and commit terrible crimes. The works specifically say that the devil may grant followers "the shape of some beast" (it was not always a wolf; witches took the forms of many, many animals) inorder to "live without dread or danger of life, and unknown to be the executor of any bloody enterprise." Stubbe asks for the shape of "some beast," not a "wolf" specifically. However, the devil gives him a girdle that allows him to "transform into the likeness of a greedy devouring wolf, strong and mighty, with eyes great and large, which in the night sparkled like unto brands of fire," among other description. Should he remove the girdle, he would become human once more.

This separates him from other werewolf accounts and tales of his era in that he asks for no specific animal and the court ruled him a "sorcerer," not a "werewolf," unlike - for example - Jean Grenier, whose tragic tale took place in 1603. Stubbe would "ravish" children and women and devour them, as well, something never before associated with werewolves. And not since, either, until these wonderful modern scholars latched onto Stubbe and decided his trial was a werewolf trial, even though it wasn't. So we have even more quotes about how he committed "devilish sorcerie [sorcery]," no reference to lycanthropy or werewolfery or anything else as such, while he went about performing atrocities like killing, devouring, and violating women and children, including Stubbe's own sister. And no matter how many times he is referred to as a "wolf," he is never called a "werewolf" even once.

Tales of "witch-creatures" exist that are apart from werewolf legends and other sorts of monster legends due to the fact that witches and/or sorcerers were very unique and important entities during their time. Stubbe's account concludes,

"Thus Gentle Reader haue I set down the true discourse of this wicked man Stub Peeter, which I desire to be a warning to all Sorcerers and Witches, which vnlawfully followe their owne diuelish imagination to the vtter ruine and destruction of their soules eternally, from which wicked and damnable practice, I beseech God keepe all good men, and from the crueltye of their wicked hartes. Amen." Note: sorcerers and witches again. No mention of werewolves.

Stubbe was executed in Bedburg, near Cologne, on the 31 of March 1590. He has a pamphlet from the time period, as his case and execution created quite the stir…

"A true Discourse. Declaring the damnable life and death of one Stubbe Peeter, a most wicked Sorcerer, who in the likenes of a Woolfe, committed many murders, continuing this diuelish [devilish] practise 25. yeeres [years], killing and de- uouring [devouring] Men, Woomen, and Children. Who for the same fact was ta- ken and executed on the 31. of October last past in the Towne of Bedbur neer the Cittie of Collin in Germany."

Note that he is referred to as a "Sorcerer," and again, another discourse about the case from the period refers to him as "Stubbe, Peeter, being a most / wicked Sorcerer." Works from Stubbe's time period and covering Stubbe's trial never once refer to him as a "werewolf" or reference "werewolfery" (a term seeing relatively frequent use in this era). He is repeatedly referred to as a sorcerer and using sorcery, and he is even once called a "hellhound," but he is never directly called a "werewolf."

Here's where the issues start. Peter Stubbe lived during a time period when people were, in fact, still using the term "werewolf" (and/or "loup garou" and other terms) in a fashion almost as categorical as what we use today. This is in opposition to older time periods that didn't collect and classify legends and monsters and declare they're all madmen and rationalize them in the face of scientific thought. This was entering the Early Modern Period, when werewolves became seen as madmen and belief in them justified via diseases and insanity. Many other werewolf trials occurred before, after, and during the time of Peter Stubbe, and they were specifically called "werewolves" in their trials. For example, a decree issued by the parliament of Franche-Comte in 1573 - years before Stubbe's trial - specifically orders that people "chase and pursue the said were-wolf in every place where they may find or seize him" (after properly arming themselves with "pikes, halberds, arquebuses, and sticks" of course).

Peter Stubbe, however, was not. He was only ever referred to as a "sorcerer." If you've read the Malleus Maleficarum and other, similar works of these eras, you would know how important classification of such things was during the time period, and why it is important to recognize the differences among witches, "witch-animals," werewolves, and other beings ranged from cursed to satanic to insane to everything else. His case also lacks integral elements to werewolf trials of the time period, such as the lack of self-control and declared insanity (remember, werewolves were associated with madmen at this time).

Scholars only started referring to Peter Stubbe as this "Werewolf of Bedburg" in later time periods. Calling him a werewolf at all is very much a machination of modern scholarship and academia and a distortion of werewolf legends that has in turn led to some misconceptions about werewolf legends as a whole.

And if you think I'm just being pedantic, I'm a scholar and historian. It's what I do. Preserving things as they were actually believed in during their own time periods is important. Calling this a werewolf legend and/or account is simply inaccurate, and it never should have happened. Peter Stubbe's trial was not a werewolf trial. It was a sorcerer trial.

There is a very large Werewolf Fact for this. I go into laborious detail here, with many quotes, citations, and further discussion of this entire concept and its lasting importance: https://maverickwerewolf.com/werewolf-of-bedburg-peter-stubbe/

This is, again, also something I discuss in my work, The Werewolf: Past and Future: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1949227022

img: woodcut depicting "The Life and Death of Peter Stubbe," 1589

Day 28- I have all too often seen assertions that "werewolves don't have tails," as if there are facts to be had about a mythical creature at all and as if this is a certainty. If we could theoretically have any facts about werewolves (as is my nonfiction branding), we would turn to folklore - which explicitly states that yes, werewolves have tails. What's more, having a tail is what separates a werewolf from other mythical beasts.

This begins not only in the fact that werewolves in folklore are often described as being wolves, often very big ones, without mention of lacking a tail, but more specifically in that the Early Modern Period, a differentiating factor between werewolves and witch-creatures was a tail.

In 1590, Henry Boguet in his treatise "Of the Metamorphosis of Men into Beasts" says specifically that the difference between a werewolf and a witch that has turned into a wolf is that witch-animals have "no tails." This is in fact true of every witch animal, apparently. And yes, in this time period, again, they did in fact differentiate between a werewolf and a witch who turned into a wolf. This specificity persists in the Malleus Maleficarum, specifically question X of part I, "Whether Witches can by some Glamour Change Men into Beasts," which states, "the devil can deceive the human fancy so that a man really seems to be an animal." This is a deception, not a transformation, as we generally get with a werewolf. Furthermore, "no creature can be made by the power of the devil, this is manifestly true if Made is understood to mean Created. But if the word Made is taken to refer to natural production, it is certain that devils can make some imperfect creatures."

Bear in mind that there were some works in this time period that considered werewolves to be related to witchcraft but not entirely equal to it. Generally, a werewolf becomes a werewolf and is out of his or her own control, unlike a witch, who undertakes such practices willingly. The idea of witches being "imperfect" animals persists in many works of this time.

Not saying this to rip on the tailless werewolves of popular culture, though. Just providing context. I actually fully understand not wanting your werewolf to have a tail. While I don't think having a tail inherently makes a werewolf "cute," and I personally will always battle tooth and nail against that, I also understand that having a tail could insinuate "cuteness" to certain modern audiences in particular. Perceptions change over time, and this is definitely one that has. I also realize that tails are frequently left off of film werewolves because they're very hard to create in a convincing way, and then regardless of anything someone might be capable of creating today, the design concept kind of stuck in film.

I also often hear excuses that "people will be attracted to the monster" (to put it in more socially acceptable terms, but I'm sure you know what I mean) and that's supposedly a justification for making werewolves look like naked mole rats with scabies and mule faces and bulging eyes and arms longer than their legs, but honestly, someone's going to want to screw even that thing. And tail or no tail, regardless of design, this definitely still applies. I don't think such a discussion has ever been held in the boardroom of a major film project (no one cares), but I've seen it discussed on the internet, and I don't think those internet people should let other internet people dictate monster design or perception to them.

I also still think a tail as a sign of inhumanity can still hold frightening power, as long as it is presented properly. A tail is something humans do not have - only beasts have tails. To grow a tail is a sign that one has truly become something other than human - a werewolf turning into a monster.

I will continue the fight. My terrifying werewolves have tails… mostly just because I think it looks better as a design choice instead of a tailless human rear like a donkey without a pinned tail, as pictured here on The Howling werewolf.

Day 29- It's almost Halloween! Honestly, my very favorite kind of werewolf could essentially be summarized as "the Halloween werewolf," which is of course very inspired by The Wolf Man (1941). I love the spookiness, the classic horror, even the way they're generally lit. I love the dead black trees, haunting graveyards, the full moon, the tattered clothing, the bite that can make you share in its curse… and the promise that behind that terrible wolf-beast is an innocent man.

Even just seeing werewolves like the classic Halloween kind inspire me to an incredible degree. They fill me with joy and set my imagination aflame. They always have. I love their motifs and how they're portrayed, everything from scary old horror movie werewolves to spooky Halloween setups with fog machines to silly cartoon Halloween werewolves. I've adored them since day one, and really, the werewolves that come out at Halloween are the ones that made me fall in love with the concept and legend of the werewolf.

I've always used these classic motifs to inspire my own fiction (and Halloween monsters and atmosphere is like my entire thing) because they do make me so happy and give me so many thoughts and ideas and put so many stories into my head. Did you know, too, that the idea of a werewolf stalking a graveyard (as Halloween werewolves often do) also comes from folklore? Werewolves were often associated with sites of the dead - like many other wolf entities - and could be found in graveyards digging up graves and devouring the corpses, in many stories.

So, although I have so many thoughts and rants and raves and research and countless stories to write and folklore to preserve, I'll always be inspired the most by the simplest werewolf concept: the ones that come out at Halloween.

Day 30- This one might seem like it's coming out of the left field, but I overthink every single aspect of werewolves and also their designs, so naturally I have thought long and hard about what ears look coolest on a werewolf. I've come to the conclusion that a werewolf needs big, scary ears. They're just badass and really emphasize the wolf aspect.

No, I'm not talking about cute ones or the silly ones or the big lynx-bunny ones (sorry, The Howling, but you went seriously overboard). I'm talking about horror werewolf style emphatic beast ears. If your werewolf has short, squat, or rounded ears, it ends up looking more like a bear. I'm talking much more like Anubis. Man, those werewolves look so awesome. But, obviously, the usual wolf ears are great, too. I also have gained a considerable fondness for the Underworld like William Corvinus style side-of-the-head ears, as long as they're sufficiently long and pointed.

But these werewolves that have really small and de-emphasized, rounded ears? Yeah, they mostly just look like bears or something. Ears are so important. Even on wolf-men, I think bigger, pointed ears help emphasize the inhumanity and the wolfishness. It makes them scarier.

img: some werewolf from a thing called Horror Legends? I actually have no idea what it is, but I've seen this image going around and I just really love this design