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call-me-aesthetic · 3 years

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If Twisted Wonderland was an American Public School

WARNING: There are some slight sensitive topics that are featured in here! Reader discretion is advised!

Part 2 can be found here

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Riddle Rosehearts:

- That one preppy girl who takes all honors and AP classes 😑

- Wants everyone to know that he’s becoming a doctor one day for his strict parents or he’ll dishonor the family

- Reminds the teacher about homework, knowing well that he’ll get slander for it

- Complains about how he got a 90 on his test or a B on his report card, a try hard much?

- Wears a cardigan with thicc but cute glasses since he’s one of those people with can’t see shit on the board so he has to move to the front of the class

Ace Trappola:

- The SoundCloud rapper, that’s it

- “Wanna listen to my mixtape? It’s pretty fire, my guy.” 😩🔥

- You will not miss him BLASTING out some song on his Bluetooth speaker, that shit be echoing through the hallways

- Tells you to stop what you’re doing only for him to either sing horribly or do a backflip, thinking that he’s so cool

- Wears a Supreme jacket with AirPods and waves on his head

Deuce Spade:

- Assuming that he’s still a delinquent, he’s that kid with the most fucked up school record

- Not much of a bully but will still talk shit to your face without caring, might even throw stuff at you during a lesson and you would be the one getting in trouble instead of him 🗿

- If he ever gets mad, it would be overdramatic like kicking the desks, punching the lockers, or walking out of the classroom unannounced and everyone would look at each other wondering wtf happened

- Covers the entire desks with drawings of skulls and those “s” if you know what I mean

- Wears Champion hoodies, wants you to know that he’s broke and rich at the same time

Trey Clover:

- The guy that’s not really popular but everyone knows him since he’s in all their classes

- Most people might have a crush on him because he’s REALLY nice 😳👉👈

- Gives off “older brother” vibes based on the way he looks and acts, like offering you a ride home if you beg ask nicely

- Secretly bakes creme brulee but doesn’t want to mess with the flow so he sticks to the status quo

- Wears the school’s hoodie just because he thinks it looks good on him, and the fact that he doesn’t know what else to wear

Cater Diamond:

- Hot Cheetos girl 🥵

- Has a whole buffet of food in his backpack and will not hesitate to eat them during a lesson, no sharing either sorry

- Excuses himself to the bathroom or full on skips class just to film a Tiktok

- Has about 100 followers on Instagram Magicam and brags about how he’s famous

- Wears a Thrasher hoodie with large hoop earrings and his hair in a bun

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Leona Kingscholar:

- The kid who flunked their freshman year that also sort of vibes with new classmates

- Always gets mistaken as a teacher by people since he looks and sounds old

- Knows the lessons but still fails them anyways, didn’t really give a damn either 🙄

- Captain of every sports club you can think of, never actually plays but has a lot of knowledge on them

- Wears the school’s letterman from years ago since it used to be his brother’s and that he’s too lazy to buy a new one

Ruggie Bucchi:

- That one kid who NEVER has money for the book fair or any other school event

- Always has to ask his classmates for some cash

- If he somehow does, then he’s one of those kids who buys Diary of the Wimpy Kid or the World Record books

- If he’s feeling cheap, he’ll buy the “cool stuff” like the chocolate scented calculator or fruit snacks 😭

- Wears oversized hoodies and basketball shorts that are clearly hand-me-downs

Jack Howl:

- That one athletic kid who’s both scary good and competitive when it comes to school games like football or soccer

- Literally the best player on his team and without him, they’re trash as hell 💀

- Tries his absolute best to support his teammates without yelling at them for how dumb they are

- “KICK THE FUCKING BALL! DO YOUR LEGS EVEN WORK?!”

- Wears the school’s jersey just to show off his “school spirit”

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Azul Ashengrotto:

- The kid who sell snacks for “charity” but everyone knows he’s keeping the money to himself

- If you don’t have cash or try to negotiate with him, the only thing he’ll do is raise the price up

- “What do you mean you don’t have ten bucks? I can see it in your pocket.”

- Just bring nothing with you, he’ll doing anything to steal your stuff 🤭

- Wears a collar shirt with a tie and khakis that have pockets to keep his glasses and money in

Jade Leech:

- The kid who puts on a goody two shoes facade but is actually a stoner

- Only does “safe” drugs like vape but occasionally smokes weed, mostly in the bathroom or behind the school 🌬

- Can play it off and hide the scent when he’s high, teachers never suspect anything from him

- No one really cares to stop him unless he gets caught or something idk

- Wears clothing that either makes him look like a businessman or a junky, there’s nothing in between

Floyd Leech:

- The kid that’s plays basketball or volleyball just because he’s hella tall, and is actually good at the sports but doesn’t put much effort into them

- Always stays behind after gym, even though the teacher tries to make him leave for his next class 😬

- “I swear after this one shot, I’ll go to class.” *He never made that shot*

- Will jump you no matter who or where you are, and will get angry if you step on his new shoes

- Wears the jersey of any famous team with the latest pair of Jordan sneakers

Scarabia

Kalim Al Asim:

- VSCO girl at best, don’t lie to me now 🤡

- The only words he knows are “And I oop– sksksk.” and “Save the turtles.”

- Walks during a track meet while everyone else is running and sweating hard, the teacher doesn’t care either

- Doesn’t really do anything in gym but talks to his classmates and stands near the water fountain to refill his Hydro flask

- Wears tie dye shirts with cute scrunchies

Jamil Viper:

- That one quiet kid who everybody thinks is a serial killer but he’s actually not, I swear

- He just wants school to be over and spend the rest of his summer relaxing 😔

- Although he shouldn’t abuse his “power,” he‘ll move his hands in his pockets or backpack to make it look like he’s about to pull a weapon out.

- “Chill, I’m just grabbing a pencil.” *Everyone in the class started crying*

- Wears dark colored hoodies that intimidates people but are actually comfy

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Vil Schoenheit:

- The baddie popular girl 😌💅✨

- Arrives to school late with a Starbucks in hand from his local Target

- Fixes himself every 5 seconds like reapplying his lipgloss or spraying Bath and Body Works cherry blossom perfume

- Uses acrylic nails and long hair extensions as weapons during a cat fight

- Wears a crop top with ripped jeans and those clout sunglasses

Rook Hunt:

- That creepy guy in the hallways who tries to get your attention, even if you don’t know him

- Scares people when he says, “Ayo, where my hug at?” 🥶💯

- Uses at least 10 cans of Axe body spray a week after gym class, which stinks up the locker rooms

- Waves at you if he passes your class, even walking into the room just to say hi

- Wears literally anything but always include a hat

Epel Felmier:

- The artist girl who just wants to be alone 🧑‍🎨

- Purposely draws in front of you but pretends like you’re not looking

- If you complement him, he’ll just brush it off and proceeds to diss himself

- “Thanks but I’m not THAT good at drawing, teehee.” *Insert Radio Rebel face*

- Wears a hoodie or a cardigan with big pockets to put his art supplies in

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Idia Shroud:

- I don’t even need to tell you who he is, y’all already know ahaha 🥴

- Sneaks a whole PlayStation in his backpack so he can play with it during lunch

- Is on his phone 24/7 even in class to the point where teachers don’t care anymore

- Tries to get people into anime but only to little success

- Wears a shirt of any anime character or that damn ahegao hoodie, girl bye

Ortho Shroud:

- The nerdy kid who’s known for destroying others at many games

- Plays classics like D&D, Yugioh, Pokémon, the whole shabang

- Daily Beyblade battles during recess with everyone surrounding him, the menacing aura radiates off of him

- Will steal your things if you lose to him but gives it back a week later cuz he’s sweet 🥰

- Wears light up Sketchers shoes and those Minecraft shirts you find at Old Navy

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Malleus Draconia:

- The theatre kid who also goes to band practice, change my mind 👁👄👁

- Takes his role seriously when it comes to school plays and concerts, even if he gets casted as a damn tree or doesn’t go solo

- Remembers the songs and their lyrics to any musical you name, a really good singer at that too

- Plays almost every instrument, you definitely know this since you can hear him down the hallways during a test

- Wears a white button up shirt, black pants with fancy dress shoes, and top it all off with a fricking Rolex watch

Lilia Vanrouge:

- The weird guy who pranks people and vandalizes school property in every way possible

- If you ever get a textbook with a message that tells you to go to a certain page only for you to found a picture of a dick, yeah that was him 😒

- When using a Chromebook, he’ll leave a tab open on YouTube so when the next person uses it, pray that your ears will still work by tomorrow

- During lunch, he is a literal DEMON that mixes milk with chicken nuggets together and having the audacity to eat it too

- Wears an oversized raincoat or a windbreaker but idk wtf kind of things he has hiding underneath

Silver:

- That guy in class who consumes Monster energy drinks and falls asleep 99% of the time but somehow manages to pass the class 🤷

- Whenever he’s awake, he’ll talk to the teachers since he’s basically friends with them for some reason

- Writes his name out of boredom on any desk you sit on but in different places, sometimes around the corners or the sides

- Has a sixth sense because he’ll wake up if you try to draw on his face and if you did get something on him, it’s on sight

- Wears those colorful hoodies that zips all the way up to cover his face with a matching backpack, it’s pretty cool ngl

Sebek Zigvolt:

- That kid who literally knows everything about historical wars and will show it off during class

- Also has knowledge on weaponry, which has people questioning him but he’s just very dedicated on serving his country and people

- Knows how to fight and defend himself from a bitch since he spent his summer at a military boot camp, put respect on my man’s name 😤

- Honestly a great partner for a group project, actually does the given work but not the whole thing for you

- Wears anything that has camo pattern and chunky combat boots

I only made this because me and my friends were talking about our school memories so yeah. This is based from my experience so they might not be exactly accurate. Might even be a part two if you want.

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raven-at-the-writing-desk · 4 years

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Hello!~ May I request a imagine of MC playing twister with the first year boys? Playing this game always brings laughs hahaha

Hello, Anon~

I looked up the rules for Twister. It appears that the average amount of players is...2? And the maximum number of players is 4.

If we include the MC with the first years, that makes 6--so I’m not quite certain how that would work. As such, I have elected to write headcanons instead, with the MC playing against each first year boy. I hope that is alright!

Curiouser and Curiouser...

Ace Trappola...

...is such a competitive brat about it.

Not only does he brag that he’ll win, but he’ll demand a prize if he does! How does buying him lunch sound?

Damn him, he’s good. Ace throws you cheeky grin every time he successfully pulls off a hard move.

He jeers and pokes fun at you every time your turn rolls around--and it really throws you off your game, and your balance.

Ace snatches the victory--and he, of course, takes every possible chance he gets to rub it in.

“Sucks for you, (Y/N)! Looks like you owe me free lunch. I’ll be sure to get whatever’s the most expensive on the menu that day, believe me~”

Deuce Spade...

...agrees to play immediately.

There’s nothing he’d rather do than chill with a good friend.

Er...the rules are rather simple, but you need to explain them a few times before Deuce fully grasps them.

He squeals in excitement whenever he lands on yellow (you would think it would be blue, based on how much you associate the color with him). Yellow reminds Deuce of baby chicks--and he thinks baby chicks are sooo adorable!

Deuce plays well enough for a while, but as soon as Twister forces him into a...compromising position against you, he just gets red in the face and collapses onto the mat.

His mother and grandmother have always taught him to be a gentleman, after all! It would not do to stay pressed up against you! That should only be for your S/O!

Jack Howl...

...needs some convincing to even play to begin with.

“Why should I, when I could be doing school work or training instead?”

You do, however, manage to convince Jack to join in by framing Twister as a unique kind of training that tests your endurance!

He’s not screwing around. This wolf is determined to prove himself!

No matter what color or body part Jack spins, he maneuvers with ease--no part in thanks to his long limbs and athletic form.

It’s not long before you collapse from exhaustion and Jack claims the victory.

He confesses that it was fun training, and you two should do it again sometime!

Epel Felmier...

...is glad to have an excuse to skip his afternoon manners lesson.

“I’m going to hang out with some friends. Don’t come looking for me,” Epel told Vil and Rook before departing. They can’t stop him, after all--they’re not his Ma and Pa!

He’s excited for Twister. It reminds him of games he played in his childhood. There are not many forms of entertainment in his farming village, so Epel had to come up with many of his own simple games to pass the time.

Epel can’t last very long--his short stature and limbs fail him.

It is easily your win, but Epel is not a sore loser about it.

In fact, this only motivates him to work harder so he can, one day, defeat you at Twister!

Sebek Zigvolt...

...takes this WAY too seriously.

A retainer and knight of the Young Master shall never back down from any challenge, lest he bring dishonor upon Malleus’s great name!

Sebek is not all talk--he’s able to do anything the spinner requests of him.

Oh no, he has a habit of shouting (or, as Sebek would like to refer to it, “giving a battle cry”) every time he makes a move.

He ends up winning, but he does his best to lift your spirits. There is no shame in loss, after all! You should use this as an opportunity to grow.

“Hohoh! It was an admirable attempt on your part. No need to look so downtrodden!” Sebek will reassure you with a clap on the back. “You will only improve from here on out, human!”

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Tagged by @almost-annette! Here we are...a look into my OFF ITS FUCKING ROCKER BRAIN.

1) How many works in progress to do you currently have in progress?

Six. Three of those are fic, three of those are major school research projects for three classes. The Hypothetical Sequel and my Puerto Rico auction items are the others. There are other projects, obviously, I have many things sitting on the back burner (including an...odd...piece of original fiction), but I qualify “WIP” as something I’m ACTIVELY scheduling time to hammer out.

2) Do you/would you write fan fiction?

Obviously.

3) Do you prefer paper books or ebooks?

PAPER PAPER PAPER

4) When did you start writing?

When I was, like, TWO. There’s a copy of one of my first stories hanging on my grandmother’s wall, it’s a cute exercise in Baby’s First Mythopoeia. I have never not been a writer. Words kind of...run in my veins.

5) Do you have someone you trust that you share your work with?

Of course I share with @pyxyltheamoeba, but @accio-toffy is my wonderful Dishonored buddy and @luminis-infinite hears a lot of my FB stuff before anyone else does.

6) Where is your favorite place to write?

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7) Favorite childhood book?

Easy: The Legend of Drizzt, RA Salvatore. Formative.

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9) Pen and paper or computer?

I fucking love writing pen and paper.

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I can’t.

My brain goes too goddamn fast and the only way to keep up is on a computer because my typing speed can be 200 wpm if I go hard and that’s STILL not enough to keep up. I get behind. If I use pen and paper, it’s usually to jot out paragraphs while I’m in class or busy with something else. My notebooks are full of fragmented paragraphs...

10) Have you ever taken any writing classes?

Once, I hated it, never fucking again.

People try to box me in with diagrams and Hero’s Journeys and “don’t bother with all of that”.

Fuck no.

11) What inspires you to write?

I need it like I need air. I mean that, honestly and truly. Ask anyone: my greatest resistance to medicating my bipolar disorder is that I’m afraid of losing my ability to write, or crushing my drive to do it. There are stories inside of me; I’d be writing if no one was reading. The world’s a sandbox and I’ve been given a pail and a spade and that’s all I need. I want to write. I WANT to write.

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Super Mario Odyssey is Similar to Nier Automata?

Like thousands and thousands of people--basically everyone who has a Switch-- I have been playing a lot of Super Mario Odyssey in the past two days (I'm ranked somewhere in the forty-thousands for the jump-rope competition in New Donk City currently). Beyond being just generally pleased with the game, I couldn't help but notice that it bears a couple of striking similarities to my second favorite game of the year, Nier Automata. Now this is weird because Nier is ostensibly an action-RPG with relatively deep role-playing systems, a plethora of weapons and combos and nothing in the way of a certain plumber's whimsy and charm (though it does have it's own brand of charm in spades). And yet, there are two major mechanics in both of these games that are very similar, one of which is a bit of a spoiler for Nier, so click through only if you've already beaten Nier Automata once, or never plan to.

The one that is sort of a spoiler is the whole controlling enemies mechanic. This doesn't even become a mechanic in Nier until the second play-through when you play through as the dashing 9S. He has the ability to hack into enemies, entering into a twin-stick shooting mini-game (this game has a lot of that) before being given the option to switch the enemy over to his side, detonate it or remotely control it. And so in this way, both Odyssey and Automata allow you to take over enemies. This is a fun mechanic that isn't all that unique, as detailed in this nice write-up on the handful of games that have attempted something similar before. https://www.geekwire.com/2017/super-mario-odyssey-and-other-possession-games/ It's a nice mechanic in the way it ties in with the next thing that I'm going to talk about, because in its most extreme iterations, taking over an enemy not only gives you a new move-set, but can also nearly shift the entire genre of the game you’re playing. This doesn't really happen in Automata, because you mostly just get to use the enemy robots' guns or weapon but otherwise nothing drastically changes. In Odyssey though, certain creatures give you totally unique abilities that can almost feel like entire mini-games within the main game, in the way that whole levels or puzzles can be designed around these unique abilities which the bodily possessions allow for. My favorite one so far in Odyssey are the little caterpillar things that have shown up in a couple worlds. Slithering around, and stretching out my caterpillar body to reach a new platform feels great, and I could see a whole game being based around it (There is that snake-starring Nindie in the e-shop where you are a snake... looks like a fun puzzle-y plat former similar to these segments in Odyssey).

There's also the tank which temporarily shifts the game into full tank-shooter mode. Or the T-Rex , by which you become a monster from the Rampage games briefly. Each new monster you encounter in Odyssey leads to a whole new set of abilities and puzzles, and that's just part of the charm of Odyssey. But beyond that, there is the more strait-forwardly genre-shifting nature of the game, which is the second thing that Odyssey and Automata share. Both of these games do an amazing job of fluidly going a third-person, three-dimensional perspective, and a two-dimensional, side-scrolling one, at the drop of a hat.

In both titles, there are extended segments in which the camera swings out to your side and you enter into a side-scrolling segment in which all the controls are retained, but the game-play itself becomes considerably different due to the shifted perspective. In Mario's case, you literally transform into the Mario sprite from his Super Mario Bros. days, and the game briefly becomes a literal homage to the plumber's roots. In Nier, the hack-and-slash and shooting mechanics are retained, but instead of having a first-person reticle for your pod's gun in the center of the screen, your sprite--having been super-imposed over a two-dimensional plane-- becomes the source of your gun's blast. It's brilliant design in both of these games' cases that allow for such fluid blending of a central 3D-style game and old-school 2D scrolling. Nier goes even further and has tons of bullet-hell esque twin-stick and Galaga style segments in addition to the shifting perspectives, matching the way Mario features diversity in the way the Cappy mechanic works.

So while controlling enemies is found in a few other games-- including Dishonored from this same year (3 in one year?)-- this whole willful genre-bending thing might be even more unique. There's certainly a few other games that have different diverse modes-- like how Persona mixes slice-of-life high school dating-sim stuff with hardcore JRPG dungeon-grinding mechanics (Or how Catherine is a puzzle game by night, dating sim/lite novel by day-- but the unique way Odyssey and Automata handle it what with the subtlety of shifting perspectives seems pretty novel to me. I'm sure there's other examples, and Super Mario 3D World on Wii U certainly toyed with this, but I'm not sure it's ever been done to the extent it has in these games.

And so while the games are pretty different beyond these two similarities, I still thought it was worth mentioning that these two excellent games-- both released this year-- both happen to share some design principles. I’m all about on-the-fly genre-bending like this (insofar as you consider 2D and 3D platforming a different genre). Anyway, keep on body-jumping those goombas, dreamers~

#mario #super mario odyssey #odyssey #nier #nier automata #9s #possession #genre #video game #games

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Happiness is a Bed to Call Your Own

Fandom: D.Gray-Man Rating: E Pairings: Laven (Lavi x Allen) Total Words: 3.9K Tags: Modern AU; College AU; High School AU; Age Gap; Underaged; Sex; Oral Sex; Anal Sex; Dirty Talk Laven Week Day 5: (Five of Spades) Discord, Hollow victory, Dishonor

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Allen stood there, face red, coat and hair covered in fresh, melting snow. He had a bag packed to the brim and overflowing. Lavi couldn’t tell if he’d been crying or not, but he was certainly pissed.

“What are you doing out in this storm?” Lavi asked, concern lacing his voice. “It’s practically a blizzard out there.”

Allen didn’t seem to hear him, too focused on wrestling with his belongings. “I’m done. I can’t live with him anymore.”

Lavi stepped back, letting Allen storm into his apartment and closing the door after him. He shook his head. “You’re gonna have to be more specific, Al. Start from the top and tell me what’s going on.”

Read on AO3.

#dgm #d gray man #laven #laven week 2017 #allen walker #lavi #kitty bandit writes fanfiction

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lawful-evil-novelist · 7 years

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Lawfulverse Basic Timeline and Ages

So, when I start fics the Lawfulverse has a general time range of 2014-2016, but it occurred to me I have no set timeline for the verse, so you have no idea what that means, so I’ll make some clarifications.

Note: The Rogue Kids verse has a different timeline.

Basic Ages of the Rogues/Batfam from 2014-2016

Victor Fries: 48-50

Jervis Tetch: 30-40

Oswald Cobblepot: 34-36

Jonathan Crane: 31-33

Pamela Isley: 31-33

Victor Zsasz: 30-32

Waylon Jones: 30-32

Drury Walker: 30-32

Selina Kyle: 29-31

Jack Napier: 29-31

Garfield Lynns: 29-31

Edward Nygma: 28-30

Bane: 28-30

Harvey Dent: 28-30

Bruce Wayne: 28-30

Harleen Quinzel: 27-29

Barbara Gordon: 22-24

Dick Grayson: 21-23

Jason Todd: 17-19

Cassandra Cain: 17-19

Stephanie Brown: 16-18

Tim Drake: 15-17

Damian Wayne: 8-10

Timeline

Around 60,000 BC: The Tsath arrive on Earth as refugees from their home planet, which has been overtaken by the Reach, they take to Earth’s oceans in an attempt to hide from the Reach completely and take on the form of humans to throw the Reach off further.

Around 48,000 BC: Vandal Savage is born.

Around 3500 BC-Azathoth escapes the Dreamscape to Earth.

Around 30 BC-Azathoth returns to the Dreamscape.

1310-1410: Ra's al Ghul is born.

1889: Basir is born.

1904: Kent Nelson is born.

1921: Marion Keeny is born.

1923: Lyndon Keeny is born

1925: Diana Prince is sculpted from clay on Themyscira.

1939: Diana Prince becomes Wonder Woman.

1940: Chayton Crane is born.

1941: Ruth Crane is born.

1941: Lyndon Keeny enlists in the US Army.

1943: Lyndon Keeny meets R’as al Ghul during a barfight.

1944: Mary Keeny is born.

1961: Cinta Walker is born.

1963: Gerald Crane is born.

1966: Karen Keeny is born.

1966: Victor Fries is born.

1968: Nora Fries is born.

1973: Hugo Strange is born.

1976: Jervis Tetch is born.

1980: Oswald Cobblepot is born.

1981: Reagan Napier is born.

1981: Jeanne Napier is born.

1982: Roman Sionis is born.

1983: Azathoth returns to Earth to sire a child, and affects the parentage of Karen Keeny’s unborn child.

1983: Charlie McIntyre is born.

1983: Jonathan Crane is born.

1983: Pamela Isley is born.

1984: Victor Zsasz is born.

1984: Waylon Jones is born.

1984: Drury Walker is born.

1985: Selina Kyle is born.

1985: Jack Napier is born.

1985: Garfield Lynns is born.

1985: Emily Quinzel is born

1985: Karen Keeny leaves Arlen.

1986: Mary Keeny leaves Arlen.

1986: Abigail Curtis is born.

1986: Edward Nygma is born.

1986: Bane is born.

1986: Harvey Dent is born.

1986: Bruce Wayne is born.

1986: Kate Kane is born.

1987: Harleen Quinzel is born.

1987: Talia al Ghul is born.

1988: Jasper Curtis is born.

1988: Clark Kent is born.

1988: Zsasz is the sole survivor of a car crash that kills the rest of his family.

1988: Cinta and Drury Walker move to Sydney to live with Drury’s father.

1988: Edward Nygma’s mother, Elizabeth Nashton, dies of cancer.

1989: Lucio Kyle is born.

1992: Barbara Gordon is born.

1993: Jack Green is born.

1994: Audrey Brenner is born.

1994: Salem Jackson is born.

1994: Cinta and Drury Walker move back to Jakarta, Indonesia.

1995: Valerie Spade is born.

1995: Dick Grayson is born.

1995: Jonathan Crane and Charlie McIntyre meet.

1995: After urging from his school, Marion Keeny takes Jonathan to a psychiatrist, where he is diagnosed with bipolar disorder.

1995: Jack Napier witnesses his father being murdered in Glasgow, Scotland. Jack is left with a Glasgow smile on his face.

1996: Thomas and Martha Wayne are murdered.

1997: Jason Todd is born.

1997: Cassandra Cain is born.

1997: Jonathan Crane begins exhibiting signs of delusions and hallucinations during manic states.

1998: Jasper is taken to Hugo Strange for anxiety therapy, Hugo Strange instead performs experiments on him.

1998: Stephanie Brown is born.

1998: Nora Fries contracts a disease, and is frozen to save her life.

1999: Timothy Drake is born.

2000: Cinta and Drury Walker return to Australia.

2000: Zsasz begins exhibiting symptoms of severe schizophrenia.

2000: Jack and Reagan Napier move to the US.

2000: Garfield Lynns moves to the US to attend university at 15.

2001: Jack Napier meets Jeanne Napier.

2001: Jonathan Crane murders Marion Keeny.

2001: Charlie McIntyre moves to Metropolis.

2001: Damian Wayne is born.

2001: Leigh Crane is born.

2001: Drury Walker moves to the US.

2001: Edward Nygma runs away from home and immigrates to the US.

2001: Jasper Curtis emotionally retreats to avoid being manipulated by Strange.

2002: Jonathan Crane meets his paternal grandparents, Ruth and Chayton Crane.

2002: Drury Walker enlists in the US Army.

2003: Jack Napier marries Jeanne Napier.

2003: Jack Napier enlists in the US Marines.

2004: Kate Kane enlists in the US Marines and is placed in the same platoon as Jack Napier.

2004: Oswald Cobblepot opens the Iceberg Lounge.

2005: Bruce Wayne begins training with R’as al Ghul in Europe.

2006: Roman Sionis takes over a Gotham Syndicate and becomes Black Mask.

2006: Drury Walker receives an honorable discharge from the Army after his best friend is killed in action.

2006: Edward Nygma becomes the Riddler.

2006: Bruce Wayne returns to Gotham.

2006: Damian Wayne is born.

2007: Jack Napier returns home from active duty.

2007: Drury Walker is sentenced to 15 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter after shooting and killing a man.

2007: Bruce Wayne begins his crime fighting career at 21.

2007: Roman Sionis and Oswald Cobblepot form an alliance.

2007: Harvey Dent is disfigured, becomes Two-Face.

2007: Jeanne Napier and her unborn child die in an electrical fire.

2007: Jack Napier becomes the Joker.

2007: Waylon Jones becomes Killer Croc.

2007: Selina Kyle becomes Catwoman.

2008: Kate Kane is dishonorably discharged from the Army.

2008: Dick Grayson’s parents are killed. Dick is adopted by Bruce and becomes Robin.

2008: Jervis Tetch becomes the Mad Hatter.

2008: Garfield Lynns sets his boyfriend on fire for an unwanted advance, is sent to a halfway home for abuse survivors.

2008: Clark Kent moves to Metropolis.

2008: Jonathan Crane meets Clark Kent in Metropolis and becomes friends with him.

2009: Nora Fries dies in cryostasis, Victor Fries becomes Mr. Freeze as revenge.

2009: Clark Kent meets Diana.

2009: Kate Kane becomes Batwoman.

2009: Drury Walker is released from prison after it’s proven the shooting was both provoked, and triggered PTSD dissociation. Drury is placed in a halfway home for Veterans.

2009: Clark Kent becomes Superman at the age of 21.

2010: Garfield Lynns becomes Firefly.

2010: Jonathan Crane is fired from Gotham University for firing an unloaded gun in a lecture hall. Jonathan becomes the Scarecrow and takes revenge.

2010: Bane arrives in Gotham, defeats Batman.

2010: Drury Walker meets Garfield Lynns at an Arkham group therapy meeting for trauma survivors.

2010: Drury Walker becomes Killer Moth.

2011: Basir Mihael moves in with Jasper and Abigail Curtis.

2011: Harleen Quinzel becomes Harley Quinn.

2011: Dick Grayson quits being Robin, becomes Nightwing.

2011: Jason Todd becomes Robin.

2011: Pamela Isley becomes Poison Ivy in a lab accident.

2012: Jason Todd is murdered by The Joker.

2013: Tim Drake becomes Robin.

2013: Barbara Gordon is paralyzed by the Joker, Barbara becomes Oracle.

2013: Cassandra Cain becomes Batgirl.

2013: Stephanie Brown becomes Spoiler.

2015: Tim Drake becomes Red Robin

2015: Stephanie Brown becomes Robin.

2016: Stephanie Brown becomes Batgirl.

2016: Damian Wayne becomes Robin.

#lawful-verse #lawfulverse #timeline

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suiteofspades · 2 years

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[Void knocked on the door to spade's office, with the container they'd borrowed earlier in their hands]

@non-finite-void

[He types at a laptop on his desk.

“You may enter.” Looking up, he sees Void and their face twists into a softer expression.

“Void, hello. What is the meaning of this visit, my protégé? ]

#suiteofspades #ask/rp blog #spade's school for the dishonorable

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non-finite-void · 1 year

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for this ➡ https://inky-duchess.tumblr.com/post/672861152813973504

🍾: Does your OC believe in luck? If so, do they have any charm or ritual they do before a stressful event?

You're asking whether I believe luck? [Void sighs, as they pinched their temples] What next? Magic? Or perhaps Atsrology?

Sarcasm aside, I do not believe in anything as farfetched as luck, spirits perhaps, but luck?

I firmly believe that everything that happens, is due to what you do, and how hard you work for it, and maybe even perhaps something someone else has done, but never luck.

Thank you for the question, though.

#non finite void #spade's school for the dishonorable

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ask-strawberry-anon · 2 years

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are you okay?

i.. i don't know

i feel uneasy and nauseous.. my phone isn't working, i can't text anyone..

and.. and dad's blog isn't showing up.. what... what happened to me?

#ask/rp blog #ask-strawberry-anon #spade's school for the dishonorable

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mrsliebgott · 8 years

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Who wants to get to know me?

Here's 100 things you guys might not know about me.

1 - My hero is Niki Lauda.

2 - If I could live anywhere besides where I live now it would be Finland.

3 - My biggest fear is vomiting.

4 - My favorite place to go on vacation is Disney World.

5 - If I could change anything about myself it would be my nose (It's the size of Ringo Starr's).

6 - What really makes me angry are ignorant people.

7 - What motivates me to work harder would be knowing I'd be getting paid soon.

8 - I'm unemployed.

9 - The worst thing about my day is all my schoolwork. I have some problems comprehending what I'm reading, it's probably ADD, but I don't know.

10 - My biggest accomplishment is beating my depression. I've been happy for a year and a half now. :D

11 - I'm of Polish and German decent on my father's side, and of Irish, Danish and Cherokee Indian on my mother's side.

12 - My favorite book series is The Last Dragon Chronicles. They're kind of for kids, but I'm five year old in an eighteen year old's body, so...

13 - What makes me laugh the most is my brother.

14 - My favorite movie of all time is Reservoir Dogs.

15 - The first thing I ever wanted to be was a Veterinarian.

16 - I want to be either of Cinematographer or Screenwriter now.

17 - If I could do anything for a day I would want to be a Superhero.

18 - I love Formula 1 and baseball.

19 - I'd take riding a bike over driving a car any day. (I suck at driving).

20 - My favorite song of all time is The Good Life by Weezer.

21 - I listen to Alternative Rock, Classic Rock, Pop-Rock, and whatever genre twenty one pilots are classified as.

22 - I can't cook anything unless it's a grilled cheese sandwich or pizza quesadilla.

23 - Tim Roth is the most attractive person on the planet. (In my opinion, anyway).

24 - My favorite food is my parents homemade chili.

25 - Charles Dickens is my favorite author.

26 - My dad used to call me tater-tot when I was little.

27 - I have flat feet and have something wrong with my ankles, causing me to stand on the inside of my feet.

28 - I watch Netflix way too much.

29 - I want to visit Paris.

30 - My dream is to win an Oscar for Best Screenplay or Best Cinematography. (I dream big).

31 - I had a dream about Tim Roth last night. (And my God, was it glorious).

32 - I have a few cats, two dogs, three turtles, and two hamsters. (Who are currently running like mad in their wheel).

33 - If I could live in any other time period it would be either the 60's or the 90's.

34 - On Tumblr I'm usually described as sarcastic, curious, and chatty, but in the real world people view me as socially awkward, quiet, and a loner.

35 - I can play the piano, guitar, bass guitar, harmonica, ukulele, and a little bit on the drums, but I mostly just play my piano and ukulele.

36 - The best gift I ever received was my piano last Christmas.

37 - I don't think I've ever received a bad gift. My family and friends know what I enjoy pretty well.

38 - I couldn't go a day without listening to music.

39 - I hate when people smack their lips when they eat and I when people talk while I'm trying to watch something.

40 - In five years I see myself getting ready to graduate film school.

41 - Thirteen I think. Most of them are converse shoes.

42 - If I could have one power I would want to bend fire.

43 - If I won the lottery I would pay off everything I have and then donate the rest to charities. (Ex. Male Domestic Abuse Shelters since they don't get a lot of funding, Animal Shelters, and I'd probably give a lot of it away to other countries with a lot of poor families who need clean water and places to sleep).

44 - I don't own a car or even have a drivers license.

45 - My favorite animal is a fox.

46 - I feel like I'm too harsh sometimes.

47 - If I had could have a meal with four people, living or dead, they'd be - Carrie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds, RFK, and Tim Roth. (Tim could stay after dinner if he wanted).

48 - I wake up at eight o'clock every morning. (Thank you, homeschooling).

49 - I get tired easy.

50 - I live in a tiny town. (Population is barely 800 and full of mostly middle aged and elderly people).

51 - People tell me I'm attractive, but I think I'm just average. But then again, I don't think anyone thinks they're good looking.

52 - I buy clothes at least once a month.

53 - I've had a secret admirer before. (Or at least he thought he was, I knew who he was).

54 - I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

55 - I used to get bullied for my height when I was younger. (I'm 5'3 and haven't grown since I was fourteen).

56 - I'm currently watching Lie To Me on Netflix and I only have twelve episodes left. I'm sad.

57 - The last book I read was German for Beginners. I still can't speak it either.

58 - I love Chinese food.

59 - I'm a clean and messy person if that makes sense.

60 - My favorite Actor is Tim Roth (of course) and my favorite Actress is Carrie Fisher.

61 - It takes me about twenty minutes to get ready in the morning, sometimes thirty depending on if I want to blow dry my thick ass hair.

62 - I eat cheddar chips dipped in ketchup. (Yeah, I'm weird, I know...)

63 - I hate corn.

64 - My favorite album of all time is Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

65 - I love rollercoasters.

66 - I tell my mom everything.

67 - When I was a kid my friend used to shove me into small, cramped spaces like trash cans and closets. It's probably the reason I'm claustrophobic today.

68 - My favorite TV show is That 70's Show.

69 - I was ten or eleven when I found out Santa wasn't real.

70 - My favorite flavor is Strawberry.

71 - I'm hyperactive.

72 - I have a blanket I have to have when I'm having a panic attack.

73 - My favorite subject in school in History, probably because it's the only thing I'm decent at.

74 - My family didn't have a lot when I was a little.

75 - I collect pins, buttons and rubber bands. Yes, I know, I'm odd.

76 - I wish the grunge fashion scene would come back, or maybe the brit pop fashion scene.

77 - I'm a major introvert.

78 - I have a hard time washing my hands because I don't like them to be wet and touching each other. It's some weird sensitivity thing I have.

79 - I asked my parents to stop throwing me birthday parties when I was nine and I haven't had one since. (I don't like being the primary focus of everyone).

80 - My family name has been in the States since the early 1700's, mostly residing in Pennsylvania.

81 - I dance a lot.

82 - I have a dark sense of humor.

83 - If I were the leader of a country there would be equal rights for everybody no matter your sex, religion, race or sexual orientation. Abortion would be legal, but there would be certain limitations. People would have the right to bare arms, but there would be strict background checks and it would be harder to get one. And there would be strict border control, but of course you could legally immigrate to the country if you pleased.

84 - I suck at Math and Science. Did I already use this one?

85 - The three things I think of the most each day are, music, my family, and Tim Roth. (Jesus Christ, I have a serious obsession).

86 - If I had a label if would be 'Socially Anxious.'

87 - The song that I relate to the most is Migraine by TOP.

88 - I used to draw a lot, but I've recently focused my attention on other things that peak my interest.

89 - My first crush was either Steve from Blues Clues or Alladin.

90 - My favorite video game is Dishonored.

91 - My favorite comedians are Bo Burnham, Russell Howard, David Spade, and Jim Breuer.

92 - In ten years I see myself with hopefully a husband or wife and a kid or two and doing what I love.

93 - I've never had a job before, but I just sent in an application and they didn't deny it, so... Fingers crossed.

94 - If I could see any band of any time period live it would be Led Zeppelin.

95 - I speak English fluently, I understand a little German and know very little Spanish and French.

96 - Ohio is the greatest state in the US. O-H-I-O!

97 - I've not been officially diagnosed, but a lot of people think I have Asperger's Syndrome. (I wrote a report on it one time and my mother told me it sounded like my autobiography).

98 - I have OCD. (Diagnosed).

99 - I've never had a boyfriend or girlfriend. (Again, I live in a tiny town with barely 800 people, I'm homeschooled, and I'm socially inept).

100 - My best friend is my brother.

I'm going to tag @the-nerdy-girl-next-door and @thedavanity to list off a few little facts about themselves. It doesn't have to be 100 like I did, it could be just five for all I care, but I'd like to know more about you guys.

#personal #me #I talk about tim roth a lot #jesus

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The best PC games around – essential pick-ups from every genre

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The best PC games around – essential pick-ups from every genre

The best PC games

With unparalleled accessibility and endless upgradability, it’s no wonder that millions of gamers around the world think PC is the best place to play. Because of the platform’s history, curating a list of every great PC game throughout the ages would be a tough task, so we’ve put together a listing of modern titles that’re the best PC games to spend your time with right now.

So, in alphabetical order, here’re 50 of the best PC games around.

Cities Skylines- Honorable mentions: Prison Architect, Tropico 5

In an alternate universe where EA and Maxis didn’t drop the ball, this slot is occupied by the latest and greatest SimCity release. In fact, Cities: Skylines developer Colossal Order was miserably certain its project wouldn’t be greenlit thanks to SimCity’s announcement- but its subsequent pratfall only stimulated Paradox more eager to bring PC gamers what they wanted most.

The best way to describe Cities: Skyline is” SimCity but make use of people who liked the same things about the series as you did “. The indie squad has demonstrated tremendous commitment to ongoing support, too.

Civilization 6- Honorable mentions: Total War Rome 2, Endless Legend

Dissatisfied with the style of the world right now? Fire up Civ 6 and it’ll be 2019 before you know it.

This latest entry into Sid Meier’s Civilization series is an astonishing day sink, with the possibility to spend more than 1,000 hours across multiple games scrapping your style to global domination using strategy, diplomacy, and, when everything else fails, all out war.

The AI can be shonky at times- confounding itself and get stuck in the same flurry of actions- but there’s a lot to love here. Each of the present 24 civilization leaders are colourfully animated and bursting with personality, and there’s enough variety in their strengths, weakness and unique divisions to make playing different nations fun.

CS GO- Honorable mentions: Arma 3

To be honest we didn’t think anything could ever out Counter-Strike: Source as the go-to competitive shooter on PC( and for some people, both CS: S and the original CS remain their primary shooter ), but good ongoing support on top of the experience and panache of Valve’s development team has proved us wrong. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive is now one of the top eSports titles in current circulation, and a damn good time even for the less competitively-minded.

Global Offensive was also available on consoles but like every Valve game support outside of Steam was restriction. Steam is where you’ll find the best of the best, if you fancy being humbled.

Cuphead- Honorable mentions: Nuclear Throne, Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth

Because of its unique art style, Cuphead has been on just about everyone’s radar for years. Thankfully, when it ultimately reached, the game was just as good at it seemed.

Cuphead is tough but accessible, and while the amount of projectiles on-screen can reach near bullet-hell different levels of madness, it entirely nails that artery-bursting, desk-smashing difficulty that has you fistpumping with every hard won victory.

DOOM- Honorable mentions: Wolfenstein 2, Bioshock Infinite

If your rig can run it, DOOM on max sets is a beautiful sight to behold. Well, as beautiful as monstrous demons from hell getting ripped to pieces with a chainsaw can be.

Fast-paced and ultra-violent, DOOM isn’t for the weak of belly- not just because the enemies leak strawberry jam like a poorly packed barbecue, but the ardor with which Doomguy doles out infernal punishment from a first-person view can leave some feeling nauseous.

This is no-holds-barred action at its eye-widening, engrossing best.

DoTA 2- Honorable mentions: Heroes of the Storm

DoTA- and MOBAs in general- might have started life as a Warcraft 3 mod, but with DoTA 2, it’s blossomed into a fully-fledged cornerstone of the eSports MOBA scene- with nearly $140 million won as prize money to date.

There’s a vast amount to get to grips with in DoTA 2, where developers Valve attained the trade-off of a steep learning curve for unparalleled depth. Once you’re up to velocity with the meta heroes and builds though, DoTA 2 offers a tense and engrossing competitive experience.

Dark Souls 3- Honorable mentions: Nioh, All of Dark Souls

Souls is a special series, and picking simply one game to represent it on a list is tough. It’s fitting then that Dark Souls 3 plays like a greatest hits, with all the strengths and weaknesses that come with that tag. It might not be as zeitgeist-shaping as the original, or have the same context or subtlety, but everything that you fell in love with is there in spades.

Dark Souls 3 also manages to be the most accessible Souls game, but doesn’t lose any of the challenge. The motion velocity might be quicker and some of the systems streamlined to be less confusing, but that doesn’t detract from the same core loop-the-loop that sits as the foundation for the whole series- die, and get ready to die again until you achieve glorious victory.

Dishonored 2- Honorable mentions: Deus Ex Mankind Divided, Prey

Immersive sims are synonymous with PC, and Dishonored 2 utterly nails the genre. Each map is a rich sandbox where you’re given a simple objective and how you reach it is your choice- leaving you to use every weapon in your arsenal as you see fit.

This means that every level plays almost like a puzzle to be solved, and you’ll be constantly be thinking, “what happens if I do this”, and “what happens if I go over there? ”

Dishonored 2’s dual playable results, Emily Kaldwin- the usurped queen- and Corvo Attano- the grizzled royal defender- have distinct power defines. Emily’s youthful indignation lends itself to a more destructive, violent playstyle, whereas Corvo is more adept at remaining undetected. This only adds even more replayability to a game that are currently has a whole host of different solutions.

Divinity: Original Sin 2- Honorable mentions: Tyranny, Shadowrun Dragonfall

For more than 15 years, Belgian maestro Larian Studios has been churning out quality RPGs in the old-school mould of genre classics. The recently published entry, Divinity: Original Sin 2, is a sequel to 2014 ’s Divinity: Original Sin- which itself is a prequel to the 2002 OG Divine Divinity- and a high water-mark for the already acclaimed series.

Original Sin 2 expertly mixes its nuanced tactical combat and memorable narratives and side quests with an incredible sum of option. The variety of potential interactions that can arise in every situation mean that the game’s formula bides fresh for the entirety of the its considerable length.

What’s more, you can party up with three friends and explore in four-player drop-in co-op, and this is an experience well worth sharing.

Dream Daddy- Honorable mentions: Huniepop, Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havok

The world of dating sims can be a strange one, but the best in the genre approach their characters with a heartwarming earnestness that makes them a pleasure to befriend.

In Dream Daddy you play as a single Dad who’s upped sticks to a new township with your daughter, Amanda, in tow. In a fortuitous turn of events, your new home Maple Bay is stuffed full of eligible daddies just waiting to be wooed. With Amanda’s blessing, you can choose to date any of seven hunky parents, revealing more and more about their personality as your relationship grows.

There are normal and secret ends to unlock for each perfect pop too; enough to keep any would-be matchmaker busy.

Elite Dangerous- Honorable mentions: Star Citizen

A few years ago it felt like you couldn’t move for all the upcoming space sims, but very few of them have materialised in any form a sane person would pay a retail price for. Elite: Dangerous practically wins over its genre buddies by default just by being a playable, full-featured game you can buy as opposed to something you’re allowed to look at in trailers while gibbering for a release date.

It’s also great, though, which is why it’s here. We don’t have much hope for the console constructs, to be honest; what you want is a powerful old beast of a PC, all the situates turned up as high as they can go, and a gorgeous universe to go and explore. At least one of those things is yours for the taking, courtesy of Frontier Developments, and nearly justify an investment in the first one so the second becomes a potential.

Europa Universalis 4- Honorable mentions: Hearts of Iron 4

Ah, grand strategy. How better to live out your imperial fantasies than at the helm of an endlessly growing empire that responds totally to your beck and bellow.

While Civilization V also occupies this list, Europa Universalis 4 stands out because of its straighter representation of history and the world as we know it, rather than a haphazardly made map each time. You’re still guiding your nation through centuries of diplomacy, trade, and warfare, but now there are random events to contend with as well. These can reflect the real world challenges that a nation in your opt part of the world might face, or come entirely out of leftfield- meaning there’s always room for a spanner in the works of your best laid plans.

To deplete Europa Universalis would take hundreds of hours on its own, but add the ceaseless release of new DLC packs and- even if they’re a bit pricey – you’ve got a strategy game for the ages.

EVE Online- Honorable mentions: Warframe, Black Desert Online

EVE Online is like nothing else out there. Where most games are lorded for their deep worldbuilding and painstakingly crafted lore, EVE’s greatest legends played out in real period between real players.

Hardcore members of this profession-based space sim have formed sophisticated corporations which fuel the game’s functioning economy. In times of peace the organic-feeling world is a marvel of role-playing. But when shit makes the fan, EVE Online plays host to more political intrigue and calculated backstabbing than a glossy series of HBO drama.

If you’re in the market for a “living, breathing world” that’s more than a marketing buzzword, EVE might be your purse.

Fallout 4- Honorable mentions: Skyrim

One of, if not the, best thing about Bethesda RPGs is the exceptional community of modders that painstakingly add hundreds of hours of fun to the vanilla experience with their hard work. So when the “Enhanced Edition” of Softworks’ previous highwatermark, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim, was released and broke years of mod support, it was a weep shame.

It induces sense then to recommend one of Bethesda’s more recent endeavors, Fallout 4, which not only offers another romp into the transcendently awesome Fallout universe, but updates the underlying game mechanics enough to finally make it a competent shooter as well.

While the newly-voiced main character hampers some of the game’s ability to provide flexible role playing, the main narrative is interesting, the side quests are superb, and there are plenty of secrets and pop-culture references to unearth in all regions of the Commonwealth.

FF14 – Honorable mentions: Elder Scrolls Online

Final Fantasy 14 is one of the greatest redemption narratives in gaming. After a bumpy launch which find the game scrapped just after release in favour of a wholly revamped version, Final Fantasy 14 re-emerged with a reworked interface and gameplay, better optimisation and a snazzy new tagline: A Realm Reborn.

Now with virtually 12 million characters generated worldwide, FF14 is a thriving MMO community that’s merely been bolstered by the release of the critically-well-received Stormblood expansion.

The main depict for new players is the story missions, which tell the suitably grand tale of war between the adventurers of Eorzea and the invading Garlean Empire. But there are plenty of side quests- called Leves- to combat through as well; each oozing with that trademark Final Fantasy panache.

Fortnite- Honorable mentions: Team Fortress 2, Totally Accurate Battlegrounds

Fortnite is the biggest game running, and it’s not even on Steam. It’s been a slow-burn, but right now, Fortnite seems unassailable in its global domination, violating well and truly into the mainstream thanks to its popularity on mobile and with kids and streamers alike.

While the paid Save the World PvE game mode is fun enough and a good way to earn free V-bucks, it’s the F2P battle royale mode that’s taking the world by storm. The combining of a low barrier of entry, a simple to learn but hard to master gameplay loop-the-loop, and tense player-versus-player opposes constructs Fortnite a compelling proposition.

GTA 5- Honorable mentions: Saints Row 4, Sleeping Dogs

Yes, GTA 5 is on our PS4 and Xbox One best of listings. Yes, it’ll likely go on every listing we ever stimulate. It is just that good. It is a titan of our times.

But also it’s especially good on PC. Even though Rockstar has not been staggeringly supportive of modding( arguably fair enough, given how hard it must be to police GTA Online ), the GTA 5 mod scene is a gift that maintains on giving. The video editor has enabled some cracking bits of art and craft. And, of course, on Ultra decideds the PC version of GTA 5 outshines all the others. Sorry.

Gunpoint- Honorable mentions: The Swapper, Sperlunky

First there was nothing. Then there was Gunpoint. Now there are imitators- but nothing does it quite as well as Tom Francis did that first time, even if you can knock it over pretty quickly with your whizz-kid brain.

Gunpoint is a sort of stealth puzzle game in which players must infiltrate various houses without being identified by guards. Making use of existing securities systems and eventually even rewiring grids altogether is far more satisfying than merely ninja rolling across a doorway.

Hearthstone Witchwood expansion- Honorable mentions: The Elder Scrolls Legends, Chronicle: Runescape Legends, Gwent

Hearthstone, with each passing expansion, cements its place at the head of the card battling table further and further. While its original appeal might’ve had more to do with WoW nostalgia than anything else, it’s grown into its own distinct entity, and is now just as popular with gamers that’ve never set foot in Azeroth.

Regularly updated with new cards- like the most recent Witchwood expansion- Hearthstone manages to stay fresh by constantly introducing new mechanics. The RNG can be frustrating and the implementation of the new standard competitive format, which rotates cards out of circulation after a certain amount of time, can make it difficult to maintain a competitive deck if you’re not playing all the time. But the additions of the Dungeon Run solo adventure Monster Hunt mode have stimulated it immeasurably easier to enjoy the game for cheap.

Hollow Knight- Honorable mentions: Ori and the Blind Forest, Owlboy

Hollow Knight is a beautiful indie Metroidvania filled with lush animation, tight platforming and tense action. You play as The Knight, a mysterious character exploring the ruinings of the insectoid kingdom of Hollownest.

Despite its nebulous narrative, Hollow Knight is gripping thanks to its absorbing environments and original character design.

It’s not an easy game either, owing to some twitchy platforming and combat. A lot of foes won’t go down without a fight, and you’re almost certainly going to die a couple of times on some of Hollow Knight’s more difficult boss.

Homeworld Remastered Collection- Honorable mentions: Stellaris

If VG247 expanded its editorial remit to cover classic games, this would be a very different listing- but in both parallel cosmoes, Homeworld builds the grade. One of a number of properties put up for auction when THQ folded, support for Homeworld had well and truly ended and you couldn’t even buy the classic games any more, so the fanbase was hungry both for a re-release and for something new.

Gearbox’s Brian Martel was one of those fans, in the enviable position of being able to do something about it. The developer is not merely gave its boon and financial support for spiritual successor and now official sequel Homeworld: Shipbreakers, it put together a wonderfully tasty package in Homeworld: Remastered Collection. Both games in classic and updated kind, with a combined multiplayer suite? Yes, please. The classic gameplay is as strong as ever, by the way.

Into the Breach- Honorable mentions: Invisible Inc

From the sadistic minds behind FTL: Faster than Light, Into the Breach is an addictive turn-based strategy where you squish bug-like foreigners with giant fighting robots. What more needs to be said?

You fell your mechs onto a square grid populated not just with foes, but obstacles and objectives based on the type of mission you’ve undertaken and terrain you’re battling on. Your task is then to clear the field of hostiles in a certain amount of moves, involving considerable forethought and planning to get the job done effectively. While the premise is simple, completing the hardest challenges Into the Breach has to throw at you isn’t- and once you factor in the scalable difficulty modes, there’s some serious replayability here too.

Kerbal Space Program- Honorable mentions: RimWorld

In Kerbal Space Program you design, build and launch rockets from first principle. If this sounds like a doddle to you, you’ve been playing too many crafting survival sandboxes; constructing things takes more attempt than slapping the appropriate number of resources down on a blueprint.

Getting Kerbals into space is hard, but every time you blow one up or leave them endlessly orbiting the moon as a corpse, you’ve gained something: you’ve learned what not to do. It’s almost like a rogue-like with persistent character progression, only what’s being carried over is your knowledge. Get your little Kerbals to new reaches of the solar system, and then get them back again, is an absolute triumph.

League of Legends- Honorable mentions: SMITE

Another of the heaviest eSports hitters around, League of Legends is easier to get into than Dota, but is still retains a high level of strategic depth.

LoL has the largest roster of heroes of all the major MOBAs, with original and interesting champion designs that mean you’re pretty much always going to find someone new you want to try out. That choice is limited somewhat if you really want to play the metagame, but there’s still decent variety in the top pickings.

In terms of gameplay, we’re talking bread-and-butter stuff- two teams try to destroy each other’s Nexus while working to raise their individual power level- but here it’s executed brilliantly. The delicate balance that League of Legends manages to create between fast-paced action and strategic positioning attains it one of the best in the genre.

Life is Strange- Honorable mentions: Dreamfall Chapters, TellTale’s The Walking Dead

Originally episodic but now totally bingable, Life is Strange is an engrossing narrative of high-school drama, rekindled friendship, and day travelling. What’s better is that the first episode is now free, entailing you can get a savor of the waterside township of Arcadia Bay with no strings attached.

As Max, an 18 year-old wouldbe photographer, you explore the parallel mysteries of your new-found powers and the disappearance of fellow student Rachel Amber, all the while trying to fit into a new school and make friends.

From its drizzly Oregon setting to its jangly hipster boulder soundtrack, Life is Strange perfectly captures the feeling of teenage angst and adds a supernatural twisting that’s interesting until the credits roll.

Minecraft- Honorable mentions: Terraria

You can argue that it wasn’t until its Xbox 360 release that Minecraft entered the public consciousness, but it was and remains a culture phenomenon on PC. More than 20 million purchases on a single platform is a huge amount by any measure, but the PC version of Minecraft is also where updates drop-off first, where mods and custom servers happen, where most of the amazing video content is attained, and where educational programs are carried out.

Minecraft is also credited with kicking off or at least popularising a bunch of industry tendencies- paid early access schemes, crafting sandboxes and of course indie as multi-million dollar success tale.

Overwatch- Honorable mentions: Team Fortress 2

Overwatch’s charming cast of playable heroes inspire undying fealty in their legions of fervent fans- and it’s easily to find why. The visual design of this lavish and slickly presented competitive shooter is as stylish as its gameplay is tactical and engaging.

It might’ve been a bit light on content when it first made shelves, but Acti-Blizz’s ongoing supporting has consistently refreshed the competitive meta with tweaks and new heroes. There’s something for everyone the roster, with strong heroes in every architype- from twitch-heavy offensive characters like cyborg-ninja Genji, to slower-paced, defensively minded characters like the mounted gun Omnic Bastion.

Recently Blizzard has doubled down on Overwatch’s esports potential with the multimillion dollar Overwatch League, where teams representing cities from around the world compete for a huge award pond.

Papers, Please- Honorable mentions: Her Story

Papers, Please starts off simple- check the documents, stamp them or reject them- and get very hard very, very quickly. It’s not just the increasingly finicky regulations handed down by your government overlords and the constantly ticking clock; the misery of applicants and the escalating political tension stimulates your role as a border guard feel like a penance. Of course, it pays the bills- if and only if you do a good enough job.

Channeling a kind of generic Cold War East European flavour, Papers, Please isn’t really about any specific place or time so much as it is about depressingly universal themes of hope, hopelessnes, bureaucracy and everyday people whose lives are just grist in its mill.

PayDay 2- Honorable mentions: Hotline Miami

Oh sure it came out on consoles, including current-gen, but the PC version is simply the best PayDay 2 experience. Not to get all Master Race on you, but PC multiplayer aficionados are generally better equipped to deal with the kind of gameplay PayDay 2 fosters and often demands- leadership, teamwork, communication and patience, as opposed to racing to get the most kills.

Overkill Software has kept up support with new content and patches for PayDay 2 over the years, and you are able to even play the game wholly in VR. There’s always something new to find and collect, and the nature of the game means even running the same missions repeatedly can have wildly different results. Get a crew together, example the joint, and go for the loot.

Pillar of Eternity- Honorable mentions: Planetscape Torment, Wasteland 2

Once again, imagine if this were a list of the best PC games of all time. Clearly it would not be complete without a bunch of Infinity Engine games like Baldur’s Gate and Planescape Torment , not to mention other classic CRPGs like Fallout. In the absence of these vintage treasures we offer Pillars of Eternity, a love letter to a golden age of PC RPGs, crowdfunded to be the successor fans wanted even if they did have to wait ten years for it.

Pillars of Eternity is remarkably faithful to the formula, with a huge casting of diverse, complex characters, robust customisation and oodles of compelling content. If you’ve never tried a classic CRPG it may not be the very best basic starting point, but if you’re even partly interested you’ll find plenty to love.

It’s sequel, Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, is a brilliant game too- and well worth the investment if you enjoyed the first.

Portal 2- Honorable mentions: The Witness, SUPERHOT

Portal 2 is a victory of clever design and exceptional world-building, managing to make the player feel like they’re ingeniously breaking the game at every turn, when that was the correct solution all along.

It’s not just top-quality puzzles that constructs Portal 2 stand out from the crowd though- there are plenty of laughs from Ellen McLain’s star turn as GlaDOS, writer of The Office and Extras Stephen Merchant as Wheatley, and the lovably stupid turrets.

Project Cars 2- Honorable mentions: DIRT Rally, Assetto Corsa

When you think of the lackluster recent efforts from once great racing series, it’s brilliant to ensure new names lining up at the grid. Project Cars 2 is a strong racing sim that offers a solid driving experience, great visuals, and tons of licensed supercars to push to the limit.

Racing fans are notoriously hard to please, but there are some growls that have to be aired. The aggressive AI is sometimes difficult to deal with and penalties can feel unjust, while some players report issues with graphical stuttering. If you can get things tuned how you like them though, Project Cars genuinely hits the place.

PUBG- Honorable mentions: H1Z1 Battle Royale

Though the fervour around PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds may have cooled somewhat in recent months, it was better provides one of the tensest competitive shooting experiences around.

With a stronger focus on realistic weapons and environments than it’s cousin, Fortnite, PUBG laid the groundwork for the battle royale genre to take the world by storm. Not merely does it require intense concentration to hold your nerve as you stalk the large surroundings in search of unsuspecting prey, but the bursts of explosive activity require deadly precision and lightning-fast twitch skills.

It’s still buggy and rough, but there’s tons of fun left to be had.

Rainbow Six Siege- Honorable mentions: Insurgency

When it first released to decent reviews, we don’t believe anyone expected Rainbow Six Siege to have the sheer staying power it’s demonstrated since it dropped in 2015.

Now in its third year of consistent content updates, Six Siege offers something different in the competitive shooter space. There’s less emphasis on all-out fragging, in favour of coordinated team maneuvers in tight, destructible environments. Get used to constantly evaluating the bullet-repellant abilities of every surface around you- and try not to let the habit bleed into your everyday life.

You choose from nearly 40 Operators- each with their own kit and special abilities- and fighting in various categories of small squad game modes. Year Three kicked off with Operation Chimera, which added a new PvE horde mode where you fight infected zombie-ish animals.

SOMA- Honorable mentions: Outlast

Back when YouTubers only attained hundreds of thousands instead of millions of dollars, squealing at jump-scares was in vogue and Frictional Games’ Amnesia: The Dark Descent was many content creator’s go-to. But while it won popularity for its noisier moments, what Amnesia did better than pretty much anything else was create a creeping gothic ambience that dripped tension and menace- so that when something did inevitably emerge from the dark “youre ever” good and ready to shit your gasps.

Five years later, with a few lessons learnt and a new sci-fi setting, Frictional re-emerged with SOMA, an exceptionally immersive and unsetting experience that stays with you far past the game’s near ten-hour runtime.

SOMA improves on everything that stimulated Frictional’s back catalogue great, as well as being mechanically tighter too. As you explore the underwater PATHOS-II research facility, solve light puzzles, and investigate the mystery of your surroundings, things start to get weirder and weirder before the tension reaches its crescendo at the game’s disturbing conclusion.

Starcraft 2- Honorable mentions: Warhammer 40 K Dawn of War 3

The StarCraft franchise was essential to the growth of the eSports scene. Shooters have always been important, and MOBAs have risen to prominence these days, but the tens of millions of dollars handed out at prizes at tournaments today would never have passed without Starcraft. What says eSports more than a packed arena of cheering Korean fans threatening to Zerg Rush their heroes on the stage?

Starcraft 2 is the template that most modern competitive RTSs follow, and has earnt the reverence that it’s afforded in the gaming community.

Stardew Valley- Honorable mentions: Slime Rancher, Farming Simulator 17

Stardew Valley is simply the best farming sim around. While it might not be the most realistic, or the most visually impressive, Stardew Valley more than induces up for those working deficits with exceptional charm and oodles of magical moments.

The game centres around the player’s revival of their grandfather’s dilapidated old farm, raising livestock, sowing crops and making food to sell at marketplace. There’s also a number of light RPG parts where you can fight through dungeons filled with ogres, craft items and forge relationships- some of them romantic- with the townsfolk in surrounding villages.

Developed almost single-handedly by designer and programmer Eric ” ConcernedApe ” Barone, Stardew Valley shows how a clear vision exacted by a lean team can produce something that’s severely special.

Sunless Sea- Honorable mentions: Don’t Starve

“Eat your crew” is a hell of a tagline, and you will eat them, at the least once. This unusual rogue-like is set in the same fascinating universe as browser-based escapade Fallen London, but in addition to the darkly beautiful fiction this time there’s a stressfully difficult survival and exploration game to conquer as well.

Roaming the Sunless Sea in silence as your food and fuel ticking ever downwards, eyes and ears straining for any sign of ogres or pirates, hoping to find a port in need of whatever bizarre cargo you’re carrying – it’s a unique and challenging experience. Survive long enough to pass a trait to your successor and begin constructing a heritage of captains; Sunless Sea is not a game to be conquered in a single lifetime.

The sequel, Sunless Skies, is currently out in Early Access, but due a full release soon.

The Forest- Honorable mentions: Ark, Dying Light

Early Access survival-crafting games were all the rage in 2014, but while some remain in a perpetual state of beta, others are actually coming out as full releases and starting to look properly good.

The Forest situateds itself apart from its contemporaries by being both a fulfill resource-gatherer and spoopy as flippin’ heck. You find, the wooded peninsula that your player-character determines themselves on isn’t as idyllic as it first seems. Infesting the woodland and network of subterranean caves is an intelligent society of cannibalistic mutants that grow more twisted and freaky the deeper you delve.

During the working day- while the mutants are less aggressive – you have to stockpile your resources and craft a fortified base, because come nightfall you’re going to need everything you are able to lay hands on to fend off the ravenous beasties.

The Stanley Parable- Honorable mentions: The Beginner’s Guide, Firewatch

Nominally a game with a very straight forward if surreal story line and a clever narration gimmick, The Stanley Parable only opens up for those who wilfully play with it. While many games expend a great deal of effort ensuring the player knows they have to go from A to B and trying to prevent them doing anything else, The Stanley Parable openly engages with the tropes of modern story-driven gameplay by rewarding you for doing the things a few gamers will always do: disobey. Wander off. Fiddle. Wall hack.

In this sense, The Stanley Parable is one of the very few gaming experiences with a narrative to tell and respect for its players as more than a passive vehicle for the creator’s artistic vision. Also, it is hilarious.

The Witcher 3- Honorable mentions: FF 15

Few games are lauded with as much ardor as The Witcher 3, and it truly deserves every plaudit. This is the high-watermark for character-lead RPGs, constantly telling richly layered and engrossing tales across its main quest, side missions and narrative DLC.

The Witcher 3 follows Geralt of Rivia throughout the Northern Kingdoms on parallel quests to find Emperor Emhyr var Emreis’ daughter, Ciri, and solve the mystery of The Wild Hunt.

Geralt’s world is densely populated with Monster Hunts, hidden rich, and secrets to uncover, entailing you are able to spend well over 100 hours finding it all- as well as mastering the deep potions and crafting mechanics and combat ability tree.

The DLC packs are some of the best around too, meaningfully upgrading the core experience with even more quests to devour and areas to explore.

Titanfall 2- Honorable mentions: Battlefield 1

In 2010, some of the top brass behind the world-conquering Call of Duty franchise left Infinity Ward to find their own studio: Respawn Entertainment. After a spluttering start with the multiplayer-only Titanfall, they found their feet- critically at the least- with the brilliant Titanfall 2.

By blending the same frantic action and eye-bulging set pieces that stimulated Modern Warfare’s campaign live so long in the memory with an affecting buddy-movie storyline, Respawn crafted one of the best shooter campaigns in years.

It might not be the longest, but is often on sale for cheap.

Total War Warhammer 2- Honorable mentions: Warhammer: Vermintide 2

For years, Creative Assembly has been king of the historical strategy war game. With Total War Warhammer 2 they’ve brought the same ingenuity and depth to the table, just this time you’ve get Lizardmen instead of Carolingians. And when is anything not improved by the addition of Lizardmen?

Owning the first Total War Warhammer as well as the second is pretty much a necessity, since it unlocks a ton of content in this more recent game, but it’s worth it for the life-consumingly awesome campaign mode where you take part in an epic battle to control the Great Vortex.

Undertale- Honorable mentions: Kentucky Route Zero

The breakout indie hitting of the last few years, Undertale won hearts the world over by perfecting the delicate balance of in-joky, referential witticism without overdoing it.

Developed virtually single-handedly by inventor Toby Fox, it’s not just the story that induces Undertale special, but also the variety of its combat mechanics and puzzles. It might look like a typical retro JRPG throwback, but there’s a lot more going on than first satisfies the eye.

There’s also an entertaining meta-narrative that gives you a properly compelling reason to run two or three different play-throughs, and memorable soundtrack that blends classic game sounds with haunting piano and guitar.

West of Loathing- Honorable mentions: Jazzpunk

Back in the working day, flash adventure games were awesome. They might not have been the most graphically impressive, but they more than made up for it with sharp humour and chuckles-a-plenty.

West of Loathing is like the best flash comedy-RPG you’ve ever played- full of silly jokes, clever puzzles, and a simple combat system that’s fun without doing anything too fancy. Every area across the stick-figure Wild West has the potential for chuckles, and- like the best cowboy gunslingers- the jokes reached more than they miss.

What Remains of Edith Finch- Honorable mentions: The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, Gone Home

Modern narrative adventure games- sometimes pejoratively referred to as” walking simulators”- can often prioritise style over substance and start to crumble under their own pretence. What Remains of Edith Finch however, is a exceptional journey through the lives of the Finch family, as told through a series of varied and delightful vignettes.

One minute you’re exploring the eerie rooms of the Finch household, then you’re flying through the air as an owl, or swimming as a shark in the ocean. The narrative is still at the center of its own experience, but the new levels of interactivity and inventive storytelling that developer Giant Sparrow has managed to craft into What Remains of Edith Finch make it a real standout.

World of Tanks- Honorable mentions: World of Warships

A former VG24/ 7 editor once called World of Tanks ” niche” on Twitter and was wailed at for days. The competitive online shooter has a huge and devoted playerbase from all over the world, because, it is about to change, the desire to get in a tank and blow up someone else’s tank is quite universal.

If you get really into it, World of Tanks can be incredibly expensive. There’s a massive variety of premium tanks available for buy, and its premium model in general is particularly aggressive. However, the glacial firing rates of your hulking war machines make for something truly unique in the online shooter space, forcing players to stance themselves strategically and overcome foes tactically rather than with brute force.

On PC, the piece de resistance is World of Tanks’ recent 1.0 update. By some miracle Wargaming kept the same minimum requirements while entirely overhauling the game’s graphics engine to bring it in line with current gen gaming. You can run World of Tanks on a potato too, so it’s good for those of us that aren’t blessed with infinite coffers.

World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth- Honorable mentions: Guild Wars 2

There’s life in the old girl yet. While it might not be at its pre-Cataclysm peak, World of Warcraft continues to be played by millions of subscribers around the globe.

Endlessly imitated, WoW streamlined and standardised the blueprint for a modern MMO with its rich lore, differed action-RPG gameplay and deep roster of high-level and endgame activities. As a new player, the sheer quantity of content to slog through is a daunting proposition- especially when you’re forking out $15 a month for the privilege- but there’s a reason this game is venerated above all others.

The upcoming expansion, World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, introduces four new races to the mix, raises the level cap to 120, as well as adding a host of new dungeons and raids including the golden city of Atal’Dazar.

XCOM 2- Honorable mentions: Templar Battleforce

PC has always been the home of turn-based tactics, and there are few games out there that do the genre better than XCOM 2. Set 20 years after the first XCOM reboot, Enemy Unknown, XCOM 2 freshens up the formula with a higher tempo to the gameplay and new mechanics like the concealing phase, which lets you carry out covert missions while you remain undetected.

XCOM 2 is a tough game, and it can feel a little capricious when your highly-trained super soldiers miss their target from point blank range, but it’s that moreish difficulty that keeps you coming back for time and again.

Your soldiers are vastly customisable, so it’s great fun to give your squad their own panache and personality- or recreate your favourite characters from other games. The only drawback is that it’s all the more heartbreaking when their head is inevitably squished by a hostile foreigner.

Battlefield 5- honest mention

The latest title from DICE assures us return to WW2 for some truly innovative and exciting FPS action. While items like the Union Jack gas mask might be a bit tone deaf, Battlefield 5 captures the camaraderie described by those who survived through the war, whilst giving you a taste of the horrors that would have ensued on the battlefield. War is hell, after all.

You can play the single-player War Stories that take you across different theatres of war or leap straight-out into its multiplayer, with an emphasis on tactics and positioning over twitch skills and a keen focus on team-playing and support classes.

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