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queen-scribbles · 1 year ago

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31. Catching the other before they fall

A wild Bry + Jonas appear to banter and flirt, with a dash of mild peril just for funsies \o/ ---

The wind cutting across the ridge made conversation difficult, but Briyoni had never been one easily dissuaded from sharing her opinion. Even by the weather.

"Why are we here?" she groused, staggering as the sand under her feet shifted.

"Because joint operations are fun," Jonas said glibly and not for the first time. "Also b'cause they know we make a good team, and we both have prior operational experience on Tatooine."

Briyoni snorted, squinting despite the goggles she wore to cut down sun glare as she peered along the trail. If you even wanted to call it a trail. "Way I remember it, your 'operational experience' was lounging around the spaceport while me'n Jorgan schlepped halfway across the planet to extract your agent."

"Highly editorialized, but you did a great job." There was a grin in his voice that made her want to turn around and bop him. Or maybe shove him down the sand dune. But the less time spent in the sun and heat, the better, so she restrained herself to an eyeroll.

"How much farther?" she said instead.

A brief pause, then, "Half a klick. Hope there's some shade wherever they're expecting us to set up..."

She'd never been one to pass up low-hanging fruit. "What, didn't your operational experience prepare you for this, Balkar?"

"Alright, I deserved that," he laughed, which turned into a cough as the wind threw sand in their faces.

"Sure did," Briyoni smirked, then turned her attention back to walking without falling over. They pressed on in silence for a few minutes, longing for more solid footing, before the wind subsided enough for conversation again.

"Number of Imperial ops you've wrecked out here, I'm a little surprised they're willing to risk this planet again," Jonas commented, drawing level with her to look ahead.

"One thing I do hafta give the Imps, they're persistent," she said drolly. She watched him as he looked between the holomap and the terrain along the dunes ahead.

"I think it's taking us there," he said, pointing to a pair of rock formations towering over the sand and what looked like the shadow of a crevasse.

"Look, shade," Briyoni needled, nudging his ribs with her elbow.

"Hope it's still there when we get there," Jonas muttered. He stowed the holomap and resumed course.

She could see the first tinges of sunburn on his cheeks as she fell in step. "Those pillars are tall enough, bet there's always shade of some sort."

"Tryin' to make me feel better?"

"I'm grumpy enough for two about this op." She wiped sweat off her neck and wrinkled her nose. "One of us should stay optimistic about it, and you're such a cheerful person you're the natural choice."

Jonas laughed. "I mean, a durasteel-clad excuse to spend time with you is all I need to stay optimistic about it, gorgeous. Even when you're bullying me."

"Pfft, if you think this is bullying, you need to talk to Jorgan." Briyoni said with a grin. "I give him way more crap." She tugged him close by the scarf protecting his neck. "I'm nice 'cause I like you."

"What a relief," Jonas deadpanned, so close she felt his chuckle whisk against her cheek. "Here I was worried you didn't. Would've been awkward, with the engagement and all."

"This you droppin' hints for some kind of reassurance?"

"Maybe."

She hummed a laugh, lips just brushing the corner of his mouth. "When we get where we're goin', handsome," she murmured, and stepped back.

"Okay, now that's mean," Jonas complained good-naturedly, but he did pick up the pace toward their goal.

"Call it motivation," Briyoni called over the wind as they drew close enough to get a good look at the designated spot. Plenty of shade, tumbled rocks to shield from wind and sensor sweeps... long as there was a good view of their target, she might have to give the SIS this one.

"Oh, I'm plenty moti-" Jonas' snarked reply cut with an abrupt yelp as the ground gave under his next step, sand sliding into the freshly revealed sinkhole. He teetered on the edge of it, losing the battle for balance as more of the ground cascaded away.

"Jonas!" Briyoni grabbed for his jacket, backpedaling the second her fingers closed around fabric to pull him with her to a rocky section of ground that would--hopefully--prove more sturdy. One of them tripped as they reached it, landing them safe but in a tangle of limbs, him half on top of her.

"Thanks," Jonas managed, breathless from her elbow digging into his ribs.

Briyoni nodded, shoving up her goggles as she stared at the sinkhole. "Well, y'know, would've been really boring to do this by mysel-"

He kissed her. "Bry. Shut up."

"Mhm." She grunted her agreement as she kissed him back, her fingers digging into his hair.

Now that the initial knee-jerk adrenaline and flippant snark-hiding-fear moment was past, she was dwelling on the warnings she'd heard--desert sinkholes swallowing people whole in a blink. No trace, no escape, only slower death was by sarlacc. She'd gotten lucky on her other missions here and never encountered one, but that had been way too close.

She finally pulled back enough to meet Jonas' eyes. "You want me to take point again, babe?"

He nodded, a tad sheepish. "If you don't mind."

Briyoni stole one more kiss before extricating herself and getting to her feet. She could feel a new bruise starting on her thigh from his knee(made them even for her elbow in his ribs). "At least it looks like it's a bit rockier the rest of the way."

"Good." He took the hand up she offered, a little shaky as he raked hair out of his face. "Thanks again for catching me."

"Sure," she nodded, shooting him a wink. "You are quite a catch, after all."

"Ha-ha," Jonas laughed sarcastically, but he still slid his hand into hers as they started off, warily eyeing the ground.

And she didn't blame him when he chose a perch up on a boulder once they were settled in their spot.

Just in case.

#queens fic #sweet prompts #briyoni nerai #jonas balkar #brykar #oh i have MISSED these idiots (affectionate)#obviously this is post-main-game #just not sure if it's before or after ilum #hence not mentioning bry's rank #since ilum's what gets her colonel in a world where she's not outlander

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myfanfic-urfantrash · 5 days ago

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hello again! i was thinking about going on vacation with my favs...i need a break man

For Mydei and Phainon, an amusement park vacation! I'm pestering them to wear the merch and try every single ride I think looks fun. Me and Phainon end up eating probably way too much food but I'm a foodie at heart and keep sharing anything I buy with him. mydei tries some too but he only a bite because he already knows what fate awaits us later on the thrill rides...so after that, we take a break on a little boat cruiser. Later that night we visit the bar and once again I feel the need to try the themed items. I totally end up passed out from drinking too much of some fruity cocktail and Mydei carries me out while simultaneously letting a tipsy Phainon lean on him.

Sunday is getting dragged to a winter wonderland. We'll watch the aurora borealis together and stay in a nice cozy cabin in the woods. There is a feeder for deer not too far from us so occasionally we'll see animals pop up here and there. I don't know but seeing his face flushed from the cold while his eyes light up while looking at something beautiful...id be in heaven lol. At one point we take a small trip because there are some natural hot springs nearby that we get to ourselves! Sunday is very flustered despite our towels covering us up and I tease him relentlessly about it (then proceed to drop my towel "accidentally" and hope he gets the hint) While on vacation, I also give him gifts like some earrings and a recording of a little song that Robin helped me write for him.

Next is Jing Yuan! Lazy vacation all the way! We dont really even go anywhere that crazy. There's a private lakehouse we stay at just to get away from it all but outside of some light hiking in the woods, we just take it easy fr. We have a spa day and give each other massages. Some swimming is required but we also have some hammocks swt up that we take naps in when the sun is just right. To keep entertained while our phones are turned off (no one is interrupting damnit), we play boardgames and read next to each other. My ADHD makes me fidgety still so one day I end up hanging a rope on a tree and Jing Yuan watches me make poor decisions by swinging myself into the lake. Jing Yuan also fucks me outside at least once. Probably more than once.

I'd do more but Im tired rn. If you want to expand on this, I'd love to see what kind of vacation you'd give other characters!

Not gonna lie my immediate thought was Blade in a sensory deprivation chamber I don't know why but that's his vacation he can feel like he's stopped existing for a little bit as a treat.

Another immediate thought I had was I'm taking Welt to the anime/game convention. Yeah that's it I'm taking his ass to the conventions we will get him mecha kits and build them together. Let him nerd out so hard and loose his mind when he sees fan art for the stuff he drew. I will absolutely enjoy his excitement to bits and take care of him when he eventually suffers from con fatigue.

As for others hmmmmmmmm I'm taking Luocha, Wanderer, Kazuha, and Albedo(so many plant nerds???) to the botanical gardens where we will see alllll the plants and hear the absolute nerd talk from Albedo as he draws each and every one. Wanderer looks bored but he's enjoying himself really taking in the plant life. Kazuha and Luocha comments here and there about various plants they've seen and where and what they're like in food or medicine furthering the nerd talk. Just a chill time at the gardens just vibing with some tea enjoying the sunrises and sunsets. For funsies we go mushroom foraging or go to the heckin strawberry/berry fields and get some fruit :V

Everyone cooks together and it's tasty as hell the end. :)

Taking Neuvillette, Kaeya, and Wriothesley hiking near a waterfall because two of them need the sun and we must always have water for dear Neuvillette as taking his ass to the desert is a no go. Honestly Wriothesley would be happy to go anywhere where he can feel the sun and enjoy fresh air and Kaeya seems to enjoy the outdoors especially the beach so we could just go to some tide pools and look at all the little creatures there. Maybe a photoshoot with mostly Neuvillette and Kaeya because they are gorgeous AGH Wriothesley helps with the photos and any taken of him are not by himself because he is camera shy to me. Lovely night walks enjoying the stars sharing some nice drinks alcoholic or not just chilling.

Yeah that's all I got I can't think of anything else :p

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boozye · 3 years ago

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I love your art style and your portrayals of the characters in general, but the way you draw diavolo in particular is so fucking cute. Love the dynamic Dani has with everyone! Question: going off from the anon with the pact mark theory, what kind of person would they be willing to make a pact with, if at all? What would be the conditions?

Warning: Mentions of addiction, alcohol, bad influences and toxic traits. IDK what to tag this other than to tell you Demon Daniel is just a really bad person. Also, to this day I still don't know WHAT demons get out of pacts with humans. So I've come up with my own reasoning to answer this. I'm still unsure of it though, might change it in the future.

I can't think of many scenarios where they would willingly make a pact with a human. (But I also still just don't get what demons get out of forming pacts? Is it like dibs on the soul when they die or...)

So then, a pact. So the human can order them around? In exchange for...? Nothing? Nah. Have you seen how many pubs there are just in Ireland? Even to a long-lived demon, it is an arduous task to visit them all. They're busy.

I guess if they fell for the human? But most if not all humans they meet, it's while the demon is on task to lead them down the path of self destruction. (Yanno, "for funsies". And free drinks.)

Up ahead: A long winded ramble about demon Daniel that I ended up writing but I kind of missed the point of the question somewhere. So it’s just, a comparison between Human Dani and the Avatar of Vice and stuff.

To answer this I should first go into the key differences between human Dani and The Avatar of Vice. (first I'll say that Demon Dani is not an AU I've taken seriously enough to flesh out much, just had a fun string of "what if" thoughts about, hahah).

Dani isn't proud of their vice and self destructive habits. They have no interest in sharing them with other people, it's the last thing they'd want. You'll never hear them encourage someone to try alcohol, for example. Whether that person drinks it or not. They hate peer pressure from both ends and generally try to defuse such situations. Won't do anything of the sort in the presence of Luke, or most people. Socially, only under the condition of "ok, yeah, I know these people, and everyone here is old and responsible enough to get shitfaced every once in a while"

Daniel is upfront about their asexuality. Not very open, it's not something they'd declare to a room of people, because it's noone's business. But they'll never deny it. It is something they will state 1 on 1 with someone if it's deemed relevant, like if the subject comes up for example. They are frank about it but have no want to display it.

Vice itself though? Different story. Vice is their element. Their normalcy, more than a sometimes questionable source of comfort. And they delight in tempting people with it. Picking up hints, all to find an opening. The sort of shitbag that patiently looks for and finds the weakness in a person's resolve, and carefully, methodically, dismantles it. All the while telling their victim exactly what they want to hear.

They will not only do it all, it will also happen as the other person is inviting the drinks. And that is simply hilarious to them.

They are also asexual, but ,♡☆*toxic*☆♡ about it too. They will hide it, even when they don't need to, and lead people on intentionally (whenever some poor fool with god forsaken taste feels attracted to them), and reject their advances last minute. They consider the person's disappointment another form of self destruction, since it was that person's decisions to put those expectations on Daniel. It's not the demon's fault that it's so fun to topple those expectations like a house of cards!

And how long will this go on for? Well, as long as the demon is entertained. It could be a couple hours sitting at a bar, a couple months egging you on to do street races until you crash, a couple years betting daily at the casino, etc...

So who would ever want to wield that power? Who could find a target for it? Someone with enemies probably. But what's in it for the demon? Only a soul will do.

So it would have to be someone cruel enough to want this sort of card in their hand for some reason. Who is willing to part with their soul. This particular demon cares not whether the soul is pure or corrupted (and well, most people who would want a pact with them probably are the latter). It's the act of a person choosing to part from it, and losing it, one of the ultimate forms of self destruction, that they seek. But the realms are so full of people sabotaging themselves already, so they really don't feel any urge to form pacts. Specially if the human seems like someone who would order them around and be annoying. Hard pass on that.

#boozye did #boozye writ #look out mates this one's problematic #demon mc au

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gaylaughingdoves · 4 years ago

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I really love how you draw Dottore! he's my favorite character in genshin- do you have any hcs/ideas for how he interacts with the other harbingers? I find other people's readings of him really interesting!

take care, have a good day whenever you read this!

Aaa!! Thank you!! <3 :D And yes I absolutely have hcs about him and the other harbingers!!

(I'm gonna toss them under a cut because I have a tendency to ramble on and use a whole lotta Words-)

Alright, so Signora and Dottore:

Extraordinarily chaotic and evil sibling dynamic

They gossip, like, A Lot, it's mainly Signora talking while Dottore fidgets and works with whatever he's working on, but he gets invested in it pretty easily

Now they also can and will rat each other out when they want, absolute snitches the both of them, they find immense joy in it, however. They also know a decent number of each other's secrets and they aren't going to tell those unless given a proper bribe (which neither have received just yet)

Signora and Dottore also both do Not like Childe

They have bonded over this

Childe is gaslight girlboss gatekept from everything when Signora and Dottore are involved

Also, Signora usually isn't phased by whatever Dottore keeps in his labs, because, yk, she might be 500+ years old, which Dottore appreciates because usually people are constantly on edge in his labs

It's a pain for him to actually keep staff (alive and employed), but having another Harbinger there (even one with a reputation like Signora's) grants the people working for him an, admittedly false, sense of security. Nothing could go bad when two Harbingers are here, right?

So Actually many many things can go wrong with these two in a room with Dottore's experiments

Like don't trust them around fire? Ever? Signora knows her way around it a little bit too well to be safe, and Dottore just likes watching how things burn under different conditions soo a recipe for Arson, that's what that is

Signora also thinks Dottore is hilarious when he's angry, and Dottore just likes being antagonistic, which leads to a whole lotta bickering. It's usually lighthearted but it can get serious and it can get serious fast

But overall Dottore just sorta sees her as an older sibling-ish person? He knows if he lets something slip she's not going to go straight to the other Harbingers to gossip. Which he likes because he can just go off and rant about how stupid something is and she'll just use it as blackmail material, which he thinks is better than like. Having everyone know how much he hates a certain piece of old machinery or something-

However, he doesn't trust her too much, because?? Who in the Harbingers actually trusts each other???

Also he and Signora have Transmasc/Transfem solidarity I will not be elaborating

Dottore and Childe on the other hand:

Pure hatred from Childe's side, he straight-up despises Dottore.

After all, this is a guy whose family is one of the most important things to him, his siblings are children, children who do not know the weight of the world just yet.

And Dottore is the guy who is... well. He's known to treat kids like nothing but a base to experiment on

Now Dottore on the other hand literally just wants to dissect Childe, he's gone absolutely crazy trying to get permission to at least run tests.

I mean, What else was he going to do when the kid Pulcinella found on the side of the road started turning into an entire 10ft abyss creature??? That's part of his whole line of work!! This is literally something he studies!!!

Needless to say, he was not allowed to study Childe's Foul Legacy in any regard and it ticked him off

So yeah, just overall they Hate each other, they argue a lot, like, if the Tsarita wasn't there at meetings they would turn into fistfights

However, they both drink whatever the Genshin equivalent of Monster is

This is not a bonding point, they fight over flavors

Sounds like a dumb thing to fight over but Dottore can't stand Childe's and Childe can't stand Dottore's

This has lead to other Harbingers swapping their flavors around because they think it's entertaining to watch them fight

It actually got to the point where the Tsaritsa herself had to order them to stop switching the flavors around because Dottore and Childe are already prepped to murder each other at any moment, they don't need to make it worse

So Dottore just reserves himself to snapping at Childe with the annoyance of someone who is being blocked from something that could very easily be a big break that's being dangled over his head

For real though, Childe has so much potential for Dottore's experiments but Dottore isn't allowed to do so much as study what effect that the transformation has on Childe afterward, and he hates it

But he can't lose his funding from the Tsaritsa so he stays quiet and angrily compiles whatever information he can

Anyway, Dottore and Scaramouche:

Overall neutral actually?

Like they don't see each other much, with Dottore usually knee and elbow deep in some messed up science stuff, and Scara's work taking him out and about a lot of the time

They bicker and stuff, but overall?? They kinda just avoid talking to each other?

Sometimes, rarely, they do get put on a mission with each other, but when they happens they usually get along pretty well!

They actually have a good time snooping around places, what with Dottore's practically uncontrollable curiosity being easily triggered if there's... oh idk, dragon bones, or old machines, or abyss-related ruins, or anything in the typical Vindagyeran Architecture Style, and Scaramouche just likes to snoop and sneak around for fun, for funsies

There's been a few times when the both of them have bonded over chaotically messing something up (didn't impact them, but sure did impact whoever was living in those houses) and laughed over it, grabbed some drinks, and just hung out

They're sorta like buddies who don't see each other much so they're overall estranged but still have a good time, yk?

Scaramouche has hung out in Dottore's labs before, doesn't particularly enjoy them, what with all the machinery and people crying and whatever, thinks it's boring, but if he has to hang out there he'll find his way to Dottore's office and read his files

This gets on Dottore's nerves, but he knows a little better than to cross the minor god that is Scaramouche

And he would very much like to study Scaramouche, considering, yk, divinity abandoned by the divine?

What an odd predicament!!

What effects would that have!!

How does he still have any power!!!

The questions Dottore could have are endless!!

But Scaramouche is away enough to be sure that Dottore's interest is solidly in other things (mainly Abyssal, and Dragons, because there's always some Fatui around the dragon skeletons (Durin and Orobashi) and I have a feeling it's Dottore's doing)

And that's it so far I think? They'll probably change as more Harbingers/info on the ones we have already come out and such but that's what I have rn!! Just Dottore being a funny feral little angry science man with at least three sensible braincells, and yk what I love him for it :)

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incorrect-ikevamp-quotes · 5 years ago

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Imagine if the suitors went to the beach for a whole day in the modern world...what crazy crap do you think will happen

Here are a handful of crazy and/or cute headcanons that came to mind! :D

-Mozart swatting away seagulls because HE IS TRYING TO EAT IN PEACE

-Jeanne watching him, MC offering him two water guns with a silent nod (sunglasses on, we’re going full meme)

-Jeanne then proceeds to shoot at them (no gulls were harmed in making of this promotional video) and his aim is impeccable it would be disturbing if the thwarted squawking wasn’t so funny

-Little kids start swarming around Jeanne asking how he’s so amazing and wanting to play team battles, inviting him to join

-Napoleon encourages him, and even Mozart joins in despite not liking getting wet very much (he wants Jeanne to have some positive fun times bc he BIIIIIIIG depressy)

-In the end they both admit to having fun, and one of the kids even teaches Jeanne a special ten step handshake (Jeanne has no idea what that was but the kiddo was smiling so he figured he’d go with it)

-HE AND MOZART STILL SECRETLY USE THE HANDSHAKE FOR FUNSIES BUT TELL NO ONE BECAUSE THEY DON’T LIKE F U N DON’T LOOK AT THEM

-Dazai, alternatively, gathers the fallen gull army and becomes their god with a singular cylinder of Pringles. No I will not elaborate--THE SEA GULLS GOT HER!!!!!!!!

-Spends most of the beach day wetting his feet in the tide pools and talking very earnestly to the gulls about this new thing he learned about called tax evasion while people pass by this fucker in full kimono at the beach and are convinced he’s lost it

-Dazai is very much not sane but we knew this already, offers sea shells to little kids that ask him what he’s doing and tells them to listen to the secrets bird friends can tell them

-If Dazai sounds like an Animal Crossing Villager, that was entirely by accident but remains no less true

-Surprising absolutely no one, Arthur suggests volley ball after watching people play and invites some pretty ladies to join him

-Arthur ends up needing two more people to play, so he invites Vincent and Theo (Vincent is so excited about trying something new that Theo can’t say no despite wanting to make a volleyball-shaped crater in Arthur’s face)

-The funniest part about the volleyball game is that not only is Arthur a shit player (CANON WEAK ARMS FOOL) Theo destroys with his spikes, and Vincent’s reach is insane--the two brothers end up becoming the talk of the beach

-I just laugh imagining Vincent sincerely complimenting people around him and the ladies swooning because he’s just so nice and pretty is he even real

-Men aren’t happy about that^TM but at the sight of Theo’s defensive glower they keep their malicious traps shut--which turn on whichever girls weren’t interested in Vincent jahkslgjh

-**Kaguyasama narrator voice** Today on Arthur Shenanigans: Arthur loses

-Poor Isaac is hiding under the umbrella clutching sunscreen bc HE IS A PASTY BOY HELP HIM

-MC brought a few of the newest Maths/Physics books in her time for him to read, and while he doesn’t enjoy the intensity of the sun--not like vamp weakness, it’s just the strain on his body (too many stimuli too many people too much noise) that makes him tired and ultimately thirsty bc aberrant. But the change of scenery's not so bad.......

-MC laughs when she gets out of the water and the salt dries visibly on her skin, Isaac’s eyes bug out and he asks if it hurts (startles when Leo flicks sea water at him and asks how on earth they got in the water when it’s so cold!!!)

-Leo chats with him and he likes being able to draw theorems and the like in the sand, it’s like one big chalkboard (until a kid tramples across them in the middle of writing, POPPYCOCK!). Isaac ultimately has fun but prefers to stay inside poor bub

-Leonardo, surprising no one, falls asleep in the sand the second he gets there HE IS HOME (Italian beaches, amirite)

-MC decides to, after a point, bury him fully in the sand for shits

-Comte notices and aids in her shenanigans from his beach chair, snickering the whole time

-When the two are satisfied they go for a swim together, trusting Leo to look after Isaac if need be (even if he’s a mummy rn)

-Comte is relieved to hear that she knows how to swim, but also watches carefully and doesn’t let her drift out too far by keeping closer to the shore himself (riptides!!!! can be!!!!!!! dangerous!!!!!!!!!!) if he had his way (he would never impose but he worries ;-;) she’d be wearing floaties SAFETY FIRST

-They splash at each other like maniacs and chat amiably until they start swimming away as fast as possible when Leo wakes up, laughing

-How do we know that Leo woke up?

-Because he sat up ramrod straight and a tower of sand fell. He then proceeded to jump up and sprint to the water despite Isaac’s startled cries about being careful, and swam after them like a shark to get his revenge (it was like something out of an anime s2g)

-Mostly just tugs on MC’s leg, picks her up in the water, and yeets her across in retaliation; really harmless, she’s cackling the whole time

-Dunks Comte’s head in the water while he’s being scolded, and MC has to de-escalate their increasingly dangerous shenanigans before the life guard comes after them LMFAO

-They concede only bc MC looks sad/worried abt being kicked out, and agree to keep things fun FIGHT TO THE DEATH LATER TONIGHT

-Napoleon goes for a nice long walk along the shoreline and climbs the rocks if he finds any til he gets to the top (he does not go to his happy place HE GOES TO HIS HIGH LONESOME PLACE) wishes that Jupiter could be here to enjoy the brine

-Our boy Napoleon is simply just vibin he loves the beach. A little further off the sound of people is p muted, it’s just the crashing waves and crisp smell of salt, the light breeze ruffling his hair

-Sebas is absolutely watching through binoculars and writing down how majestic Napoleon is while making sure no one gets lost/wrecked as he takes notes

Bonus: since volleyball games can often happen back to back on a sizable beach, the boys^TM were playing and Arthur called out “Theo duck!!!!” and just as Theo was saying “Are you fucking kidding me did you really think I’d--T H W A C K” Theo gets nailed in the back of the head (Arthur later died after being put in a headlock)

Shakespeare didn’t feel like playing volley ball and didn’t have much else to do (can’t swim and has no interest), so he just sat back and tried to throw Theo off his game as much as possible

Por ejemplo: Theo misses a serve and Shakespeare just “For never was there a story of more woe; O bard Alexa, verily, play us Despacito” “SHUT THE FUCK UP”

Jeanne also gets hit by a stray volley ball, but when Vincent said “Oh no, Jeanne, duck!” he has one of either two reactions: 1. Boulevard of Broken Dreams plays obnoxiously loud as he dodges inhumanly fast 2. he quacks, gets nailed, and doesn’t react because he doesn’t have any brain cells to damage

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red-becca · 4 years ago

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The History Of Wrong Guys

If you wanna know where I got inspiration for this, either listen to the song with the same title or watch a Creek animatic with the same title, as well. I actually did write a Creek one before. Back when Red was just a background character and a Craig punching bag. But now, Red is her own character for me. I actually wish I could draw/ animate bc I want an animatic of this. But writing about it is good too.

Second, I see Tweek and Red as besties... Just cause. For funsies. I did it back when Red and Craig were cousins and I still do it now because I see it as an interesting dynamic.

And last thing, before you go at me, the list of wrong guys at the near end is just crackships I may have shipped at some point and just put there for fun, hehe. So, yeah. Please, don't come at me.

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"Thanks again for managing to get me a job here, Tweek! Now, we get to hang out twice as much now without me feeling like I disrupt your work!" Red laughed as she waited for Tweek to finish tying her apron from behind.

"Pft..." Tweek jokingly tied her apron really tight on her waist, making her let out a small noise of pain. "Yeah, well... You can thank me for getting you this job by working hard, alright? Not by ogling at boys. Which I know is the real reason you got this job..." He playfully rolled his eyes before giving her a wink. "Also, you never disrupted me at work, girlfriend. In fact, I'm glad to have a girl best friend like you who takes the time to visit me during work."

Red let out a long breath as she untied the tight knot he made, tying it up herself properly. "So much for helping me with this apron..." She pouted then snickered, giving him an eye- roll back. "And please... That is the last thing I'll be doing. I am so done with guys now after what happened with my last boyfriend. I've had too many boyfriends at this point that I could write a whole book about them." She rolled her eyes again, putting her hands on her hips.

Tweek just gave her a pat on the shoulder. "Red, don't you worry. You'll find that right guy who'll sweep you off your feet, I just know it. I mean, just look at me. I'm not exactly the typical uber masculine male nor am I... Okay, you get the point. I don't want you berating me about bringing myself down and all. Ironic, really, since you do it a lot to yourself." He rolled his eyes afterwards.

"Mmm, no, not really..." Red laughs softly at him, making the blonde sigh heavily. "What? You didn't really make a clear point, okay?"

"Fine. My point is that... We all get a chance at finding the right person for us, no matter who we are." Tweek smiled before snickering. "Like take Craig as an example... For being such an asshole, he got a long- time boyfriend. Then again, I'm not that purely nice, either. But you get my point now, right?"

The redhead just rolls her eyes at the mention of the raven's name, making her exit the employee's room before him. "Ugh, please... Asshole is an understatement to what Craig is. Fucking asks me to be his girlfriend and yet he never treated me like I was... Why I stupidly said yes back then, I have no idea..." She sighed as she sat behind the counter, resting her head on the palm of her hands. "And how you get him to treat you so nicely, I don't know either."

Tweek just chuckled at her actions. "Well, that's how true love works. This might sound really corny but we end up acting differently around the person we love."

"So, what you're saying is that Craig never loved me when he asked me out back then?" She playfully pouted at him as he nodded at her. "Okay, ouch. Brutal honesty that I already knew. But still, ouch." She pretended to look hurt, putting a hand on her chest.

"Mmm, yes. No point in sugar coating things for you, Red." Tweek pinches one of her cheeks hard. "You're a big girl now, after all."

"Gah! Hey!" Red groaned, slapping his hand away. "So, are we working or what?! Seems like I'm just even more of a distraction now that I'm working with you!"

He snickered. "Well, yes. Go on and do the honors of opening up, then. Since you're so excited to get to work and stuff..." Tweek stood behind the counter, right next to where she was standing.

"Tch, well... I don't just want to paid for not doing anything, you get me?" She raised a brow at him, turning the sign at the door as she did so. And she was gonna say more to him until she heard a thud from the door, making her jump. "Jesus Christ!"

A tall looking male wearing glasses was the person who bumped into the shop's doors, giving the girl who was looking at him from inside a small wave before going inside himself. "Heh, sorry about that, Red... Still getting used to these glasses of mine..." He said as he adjusted them. "Ironic how I need them to see yet ever since I started wearing them, I bump into stuff more..."

Red blinked rapidly, giving the stranger in front of her a confused look. "I, uh... It's okay, I guess?" She let out nervous laughter. "I'm sorry, but who are you? And how do you know my name?"

"Red, are you serious? I get glasses and suddenly you don't recognize me? Wow, Superman's disguise actually works, then." He snickered, taking off his glasses for her to recognize him. "It's me! Kevin!"

The female went red soon after she realized who it was, giving him a quick onceover. "Kevin?! As in... Kevin Stoley?! No way! When did you get so much more taller?! And hotter too?! I mean-!" She immediately covered her mouth after she said that.

Kevin started blushing with her, nervously rubbing the back of his neck as he puts his glasses back on. "Heh, yeah... That's me. Kevin Stoley, the name my parents gave me. And wow... You really think I'm all that? Thanks, I guess... We've only not seen each other for like a month... I couldn't have changed that much, have I?" He looks back at her with a shy smile.

His smile got her heart racing, opening her mouth as she tried to say something but nothing came out. "I... Uh... Yes?" She managed to squeak out, giving him a few shy giggles as she rubbed the back of her head.

"Well... As long as it's a good change, I guess it's fine..." He replied, chuckling once before everything between them suddenly became awkwardly quiet.

That was until Kevin's friends came into the store after him, Bradley smacking him behind his back as he passed him. "We're gonna be sitting over there if you need us, alright?" He said, pointing to the table where two other people have just sat in. "Though we don't mind if you take a while... What with you being distracted and all that~" He teased which immediately got him a punch on the shoulder from Kevin.

Kevin gave out nervous laughter, dismissing what Bradley said with a frantic waving of his hand. "Ignore what my friend just said there, Red. I'll be back with all my friends' orders, okay?" He gave her the same smile from earlier before running off back to his friends.

Red sighed happily as she watched him walk away, a hand on her chest as her heart started to race again and a small smile formed on her face.

"Well, well, well~ Guess who's ogling a guy at work after she said she wouldn't?" Tweek teased as he stood behind her. "Also, told ya that you would find the guy that would sweep you off your feet, Red~ Just didn't think it would happen right after I said it." He chuckled, patting her shoulder.

Red scoffed out loud as her hair matched her face, brushing his hand away from her shoulder. "Tch! No, I'm not! What are you even talking about? Nuh-uh! No way! I'm just surprised to see him again! That is all and it! End of story!" She huffed, grabbing a broom and started to angrily sweep the floor.

Tweek sighed at this, playfully shaking his head. "Alright, you fucking tsundere. Whatever you say there..." He gave a playful eyeroll before walking back to the counter.

"I am not a tsundere!" Red yelled on the top of her lungs, making Kevin and his friends look her way. "Oops, sorry about that, you guys!" She nervously laughed at them.

Tweek chuckled softly at this, trying not to burst into laughter at her actions. "Pft, sure, you aren't a tsundere... But you definitely are an idiot with how you're holding that broom in your hands..."

"Huh?" She looked at the broom in her hands and went bright red when she saw that she was holding it upside down. "Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!" She mumbled to herself as she cleaned the floor while holding the broom properly this time.

"Okay, girl... Time to focus on doing a good job at this job of yours... No distractions..." She said inside her head, only to immediately get distracted to wave at Kevin. The redhead shook her head and slapped her face repeatedly in hopes of getting her to focus. "Oh, no! No! Girl, don't you dare! I swear to God, I am warning you!"

She groaned at her thoughts, making her look back at Kevin again. "Fuck... No... You are definitely crushing on him, girl! But you can't! You shouldn't! And yet... Here you are falling for him..." Red bites her bottom lip as she looks and stares at Kevin before shaking her head again, a small smile on her face. "I mean... Why not, right? This shouldn't hurt..."

Red continued thinking to herself as she went back to sweeping the floor, her thoughts being on how women have been making bad choices since the beginning. And she wondered if Kevin was going to be another one of hers, making her sigh and get lost in her thoughts.

So lost in her thoughts, she was unable to notice Kevin walking over to her again which makes her bump into him accidentally. "Oh my God! I am so sorry!" She shouted, panicking as she got back into reality and also, continuously apologized to him.

Instead of being weirded by this though, Kevin just chuckled. "Red, Red... It's okay, calm down. I did just randomly sneak up on you and all that..." He reassured her, putting a hand on her shoulder. She let out a small squeak at what he did, making her blush heavily and shyly look away from him.

"Anyway... I was going to tell you my friends' orders and mine but seeing as you seem to be not feeling well, I might just tell them to Twe-" Kevin was about to walk towards the counter but Red was quick to stop him by grabbing him by his arm.

Red immediately cuts him off, grabbing a notepad from her pockets and then the pencil from her ear. "Oh, no! There will be no need for that, Kevin! I'm fine, really! So, please... Tell me what your order will be." She gave him a small smile.

He gave her a smile back along with a nod before telling her what him and his friends have ordered. "You got everything?" He asked as he finished with telling his order, raising a brow when he saw Red just staring at him. "Umm, Red? Everything okay? Is there... something on my face? In my teeth, maybe?" Kevin wiped his face to see if there was anything on his face.

"Hmm?" Red snaps out of her dazed state, shaking her head to get herself feeling normal. "Oh, no! You have nothing in your face, Kevin! You're fine! So fine even!" She yelled at the top of her lungs, blushing madly in realization at what she yelled. "Anyway! Yes! I got everything you told me written down! I'll be the one who personally delivers your order to you once it's ready!" She nervously laughed and gave him a quick wave before walking back towards the counter.

As Kevin watched her walk away, an idea suddenly came to his head. "Hey, wait! Red! Can I ask you for one more thing?"

"Kev!" She suddenly yelled in shock, making her cover her mouth again then turning to face him again. "Oh my God, I'm so sorry about that... Yes? What is it, Kevin?"

"Well, uh..." He suddenly got tongue tied, laughing nervously while rubbing his neck. "I was hoping that maybe... I don't know... Hang out during a break or... You know, after your shift is done with..." He nervously swung one of his legs back and forth. "That is if you want to, obviously..."

"Oh, wow... Really?" She got flustered at his request, a small nod coming from him at her question. "Why, yes! I would love to! Sure thing! You got it!" She gave him a few awkward finger guns while walking backwards.

"Alright! Sounds great!" He gave her a small smile along with a thumbs up before heading back towards his table. "See you later, Red!"

Red gave the Kevin's order to Tweek before looking back at Kevin with a loving stare. "Kev..." She took in a deep breath as she sat behind the counter, thinking about nothing but Kevin.

"You know, I used to think you were quite the nerdy, dorky geek... That was a month ago... Look at you now, though! Who exactly is brand new handsome guy I am looking at?" She giggles at her thoughts. "You're actually kinda cute when you're not so shy, Kev..." She sighed happily before turning to Tweek, who had yet another teasing look in face which made Red frown then start helping him with making Kevin's order.

"Are you literally forgetting what you were just lamenting about earlier today, girl? You've literally just been here before! Have you really come back for more?" She looked over at Kevin while still working on the order. "He might just end up being another chapter in your book about the history of wrong guys..."

"Well, then again... He used to be not that much of a catch, right? Not your type whatsoever... But look at him now! He's changed into something I just can't ignore so easily!" She groaned to herself at her dilemma. "Oh, Kevin! Honestly! If only you knew how much I've been hurt like this before! Is there something more to you than what I've always thought?" She huffed before turning her back to Kevin and started helping Tweek with the order. "Oh, whatever... I'll just see if you can surprise me any more than you already have..."

"Hey, Red?" Kevin suddenly approached the counter again, making Red gasp in shock and quickly fix herself before facing him. "Hope I'm not being too much of a bother for telling you this..."

"Oh, no! Are you kidding me? You could never be a bother! So, what is it that you need? If it's about your order, well..." Red grabbed the order that she and Tweek just finished. "Why, we just finished it, actually. Here you go." She smiled as she gave him a tray of his order.

"Oh, why thank you! I'm impressed you two got this to us so quick! What with it being just the two of you..." Kevin laughs a bit while one of his friends grab the tray and bring it to their table. "But, no... You see, in all this excitement, I had completely forgotten to order for Esther. She wants a tall skinny mocha..." He nervously rubbed the back of his neck. "So, yeah... I hope it doesn't bother you and Tweek much if I gave you another order to do..."

"Esther? Who is that? Most likely his girlfriend, right?" Red looked over to Tweek, who just shook his head and had an annoyed look on his face. Then she looked back at Kevin with a smile. "Like I said earlier, you could never be a bother! I will personally do Esther's order myself!" A faint groan from Tweek could be heard. "Esther's mocha... A mocha for Esther... Alright then, no more surprise orders, right?"

He shook his head. "Nope! No more surprises here! And oh, be sure to get it out as soon as you can, if you don't mind? The last thing I want is for Esther to be really mad at me..." Kevin finishes with a hearty laugh.

"Yep, definitely his girlfriend..." She thought to herself, a fake smile hiding the pain she felt. "Oh, don't you worry! I promise you we will get Esther's order ready quickly!" She does the same laugh he did.

Kevin didn't say anything more, just gave her a small nod in response before going back to his table.

Tweek slowly scooched right next to her, leaning close to whisper into her ear. "Yo, Red... I don't mind getting an extra order all of a sudden but... Did you have to reassure Kevin that we could get it out so quickly?" He raised a brow when he noticed that Red wasn't moving. "Uh, Red? Everything okay?" He yelped when the girl suddenly puts her hands on his shoulders.

"He has a girlfriend, Tweek! Waa!" She shook the male around as she freaked out about the revelation. "Why do they have to be so nice when they're..." Red lets him go then looks back to Kevin with a frown. "Unavailable?"

"Kevin? Unavailable? What? Pretty sure he is available because-" Tweek tried to explain to her what Kevin and Esther's relationship but gets cut off by Red.

"Oh, Tweek! Don't get my hopes up like that! I couldn't possibly steal another girl's man! Not again! I am a changed woman, after all! The last thing I wanna be with Kevin is star- crossed lovers! Because well... We all know how that ends..." She made a slicing motion across her neck.

The blond took in deep breaths as he puts a hand on her shoulder. "Look, Red... Listen to me, Esther is-"

"His girlfriend! I know, I know! No need to rub more salt in my wounds!" She whined while Tweek groaned, completely giving up on trying to explain that Esther and Kevin were actually siblings. "But you know what? I'm not gonna let this bother me! In fact, I'm better off without him! We're better off as friends!" She beamed before immediately hugging Tweek and turning into a sobbing mess.

"Shh, shh... It's okay, Red..." He sarcastically cheered her up as he slowly pats her back, hoping she would figure out the truth later seeing as he couldn't be the one to tell her.

Red sniffed as she pulled away, wiping away her tears. Meanwhile, Tweek went back to work in order to get to work on getting Esther's mocha to her. "Damnit, Tweek! I've been hurt like this before! Why does it hurt so much more when it came to Kevin?!" She groaned loudly again before grabbing a photo album from under the counter. "When I said that I have had so many boyfriends that I could make a book about them, I meant it. I really have a book about the guys I have dated who were just the wrong guy..." She sighed as she flipped through the pages of the book where there were old pictures of Red with her exes who were Kenny, Pete, Jimmy, Stan, Craig, Token, Bridon, Kyle, Clyde and Butters. To name a few examples...

"And now, a new addition to the book... Kevin Stoley... Who has a girlfriend named Esther..." Red grumbled underneath her breath, tearing a piece of paper from the book she held in her hands. "Damnit, why am I so damn stupid and easily fall for guys like this?!" She huffed before finding herself angrily eating the paper she tore up.

"Uh, Red?" Kevin suddenly spoke up once he noticed what Red was doing while he picked up Esther's mocha, very confused at what he had just seen and wondering if he had seen something he wasn't supposed to see.

She froze at the sound of his voice, turning to face him then spitting out the paper in her mouth. "Hey, Kevin... How's it hanging?"

"Pretty good, really. Hope you found that paper delicious..." He laughed which makes her blush in embarrassment. "Anyway, I came here because well... My sister would like her receipt, please..."

The word "sister" started echoing in her mind, a smile slowly forming on her face in excitement. The exciting thought in her head caused her to completely space out.

"Umm, Red?" Kevin waved his hand in front of her face, even more confused at what was going on. "Can I get my sister's receipt, please?"

Red simply put a finger up. "Excuse me for one moment, please..." She turned to Tweek with an annoyed expression. "Hey! Did you know that Esther is Kevin's sister?! If you did, why didn't you tell me?!"

Tweek sighed and shook his head. "Look, I tried to tell you earlier about it. But no, you were just too caught up on being heartbroken and stuff..."

"Hmph..." Red huffed, giving Kevin the receipt he wanted. "Here you go, Kevin..."

"Thanks, Red." He smiled at her. "So, uh... Me and my friends are gonna head out now... See you later, I guess?" The male waved before starting to head out.

Red gasped at what she heard, turning to Tweek with a cheesy grin. "Tweek, you know I love you, right?"

He sighed at her words. "Just go on your damn break already, Red... Don't let me stop you..." Tweek chuckled as he shook his head, giving the girl a few pats on her shoulder. "Also, have fun..." He smiled at her.

"Thanks, Tweek! Like I said, I love you!" Red happily beamed, quickly taking off her apron and running off to Kevin. "Hey, Kev!"

"Yeah, Red-?" Kevin yelped when Red suddenly tackled him to the ground with a hug.

#sp red tucker #red sp #red x kevin #red mcarthur #sp kevin #kevin stoley #kevin x red #sp red #red tucker #south park red #sp revin #revin #south park #south park ships #sp ships #oneshot

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sarenhale · 4 years ago

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Honestly, relating to your WoW/FFXIV post, I wonder if the 'great community, by the way' thing only has become what it has because the influx of WoW players? I hope it stops because acting like everyone in XIV is a perfect saint is only going to upset people even more if someone is even slightly less positive in game. I don't know I hope the whole WoW vs FFXIV stuff dies down, even Yoshi-P had to basically say 'shut up, WoW is what we want XIV to be, and we'll never even touch the heights WotLK had.' I just think if Blizzard hadn't been ousted as a bunch of sexual abusers it wouldn't be this extreme, like trashing WoW is kind of 'slacktivism' in a way. Sorry this is so long you're just the only person I've followed that did the WoW -> XIV jump and you haven't really done the extreme 180 everyone else has, and I think you have good opinions on things. Also I hope you have a good day :)

Thanks for the kind words! I'm flattered to hear that you like my opinions and attitude. I do try my best to not be grating over things like games.

I will put a 'read more' because I do get into a bit in detail for this ask.

I personally do get a bit tired of the costant ffxiv and wow comparison and debate too. That's why I sometimes make fun of it in a light way, and make jokes or memes about it, but also keep to myself when debates come out and people start complaining or piling up discourse over discourse. I'm just glad to enjoy my game and see people enjoying it too, that's enough for me. I honestly don't have the patience or age to withstand game discourse anymore lmao.

I completely understand why people would want to switch games because of the recent Blizz horrifying actions, the fact that the game apparently hasn't been fun or well curated in a long time, or just for funsies and switching things up. I'm absolutely not complaining about the switch in games, if anything, I'm glad people are giving other games a chance. But I am a bit tired about the costant comparison, discourse, and millions of videos essays where people try to defend wow (as if you needed to defend a game you like... you can enjoy that game, period, and not create wars over it), or people making huge ffxiv against wow essays. Like I said some months ago, I studied the whole 'wow effect' for my thesis years ago for my Uni degree and I don't plan to go back at studying the phenomenon cause I just don't care about it anymore, to be honest.

I think sometimes people are just way too over protective of things they care about, like games, and when change occurs they react with panic and overprotection over something they can't control - people migrating over games, new influx of players, etc - instead of seeing the whole thing as something of a natural process all games and popular media are subject to. Like, imagine how bad things would be for every game or media if stuff NEVER changed. Especially for MMOS, that's a death sentence. And you don't want that for your favourite game. Even WOW suffering player loss might be a good thing in the end, it might force the companies to rethink their approach to games and community, since a lot of problems laid in there.

I played my fair share of WOW during my Uni years. I played for around 3 years or something, on and off with friends irl and online, and enjoyed my experience. Overall, I still have very good memories of fun and friendship in WOW, and it's a game I still like aesthetically a lot, along with its story and fantasy races. Hell, sometimes I think about how much I miss my WOW ocs, and drawing WOW related stuff.

But I don't think my relationship to WOW was as intense as some people's - I did transition from WOW to FFXIV, but I spent something like 2 years when I stopped playing WOW (I started in mists of pandaria, stopped around the beginning of battle for azeroth times) playing almost no videogames. So it wasn't like I switched from a game to the other immediately, I think mine was more of a timed and organic switch, I didn't start playing FFXIV until quarantine hit and I had nothing to do (and was feeling really bad and needed a distraction from the imminent doom), and I also got my new desktop computer knowing I could start playing a new game comfortably, and not on a toaster-like computer like I was doing during the WOW days. (computer shutting down due to overheating mid-raid, it was fun)

So maybe the fact that I didn't do the 180 turnaround switch like some other WOW players is what makes the difference in attitude and thinking. When I started playing FFXIV, I didn't have WOW fresh in my mind so I could do costant comparisons between the two games, or my affection towards WOW kinda like... influencing my taste, or opinion of the new game in any way.

WOW was a good memory but nothing more. I never forged a huge relationship with the game anyway, so it's probably what's different between me and other players that maybe (understandably) have more history with it. I engaged with it, liked it for a game I could spend some free time on, and then moved on when I got bored with it. That's kinda it. I understand that some people who have been playing for way more years than me might have a more affectionate memory or relationship with WOW, and that might be something that influences their reasoning sometimes. But it's also a bit of a common thing withing some communities like WOW- something that people could definitely abandon and move on, change attitude. Time and game change. There's no point in getting stuck in the past with the old WOW glory days, and that kind of sentiment- we're not getting back in time, and change should always be something to be embraced, especially in games and MMOS. Changing views, games and opinions is the base of not getting stuck in the same state of mind and I highly encourage people to do it.

As for the ‘critiquing WOW has become super extreme and almost like it’s a rule’... I mean... yeah? That’s the effect that often times ‘problematic’ things have on large crowds of people online. It’s to be expected, but it doesn’t come from nothing- a lot of bad things piled up in the game, the company, the community and their attitude- and it just so happened some things tipped the waters over and everything came out in a costant flow during the past year or so. But it doesn’t come from nothing- it’s just a result of people being genuinely critic of the game they engaged with, which is something good to do.

So yeah, I appreciate the ask! I like hearing from people that follow other games too and may have experiences similar to mine, and I'm also grateful that you've been following me from so many years since I was playing WOW, to now.

That said... I would like to keep asks like these to a minimum. I enjoyed this ask because it gave me a point of inspiration to think about my journey from games, and the chance of talking about something I care about (and I would like to think I know something about too, degree and experience and all...), but I don't plan to respond to more comments or asks that might move towards a more 'discoursy' tone of this same "ffxiv and wow" topic. I do enjoy asks like these but you can't count on everyone making a good and civil argument when asking questions, so I do have to keep a firm hand on asks and topics sometimes, or people get rowdy and think my tumblr blog is the new reddit. It has already happened with some people coming to my askbox to complain about shit I genuinely couldn't care less about. That will just get your question deleted, go to reddit if you want to complain or fuel the flames. I'm just here to vibe.

#thanks for posing the question in a genuine and mature way- i enjoyed talking about this #answered

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xaspiringbeamoflightx · 4 years ago

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Wanted Plots / Threads / Connections

A fair few of my threads are ending at the moment, so I thought rather than asking everyone what they’re looking for I’d throw some ideas out into the void instead. If you see anything that catches your fancy, or if you can think of anything you would want yourself, send me a DM! Or reply~ Under the cut you’ll find things for all the characters, but it’s just easier for me to keep track of it all on this blog.

Rachel

Once I’ve wrapped up this thread with Flynn, Rachel is gradually going to be sliding back into society again. Probably toe dipping a little bit at first, but I’d like some new things with her. Plot A: Rachel ropes someone into attending a summer life drawing class in the Redwood College art department, not realising what life drawing classes actually involves. (Hint: it’s eye bleach inducing but hilarious, speaking from experience) Rachel is very naive and probably hasn’t seen, uh... unclothed bodies before. Its even funnier if the other person has never taken an art class! or even funnier still, your character is the model, because making characters awkward is fun.

Plot B: Again, Rachel is very naive. She is always willing to go along with what most people ask of her, because she is desperate to make friends and never wants to disappoint anyone. This idea can go a few ways; either someone convincing Rachel to get in on some trouble making (either because they find it funny or they just need someone to help in shenanigans) or someone taking advantage of Rachel’s good nature by either using her for gain/ to avoid doing something.

Plot C: Rachel really wants to be friends with someone Not NiceTM and can’t understand why said person doesn’t like her. Rachel then becomes determined to find out why and set it right.

Plot D: For funsies; someone get Rachel drunk? idk

Wanted Connections:

all the friends!!! perhaps an enemy?

Alice

Plot A: Alice is #curious and #careless. Alice is convinced that there is something worth investigating in a certain place (the woods, an abandoned building, etc). They’re either looking for something specific [see: crocodiles in the sewer drabble] or just really want to see inside. Alice convinces someone to go on the investigating with them. Anything can happen here; either an almost accident, or getting spooked, that kinda thing.

Plot B: Alice gets caught snooping in a place they shouldn’t be. Similar to the above, except this time Alice is on their own (unless we do a triple thread and link to the first part *eyes emoji*) and gets into serious trouble for being where they aren’t supposed to be. Plot C: Give Alice some friends they can hang out with maybe?

Wanted Connections:

Alba Laplan / Bring Me All the Trouble Makers and Adventure Seekers

Nani

Plot A: Nani is trying to balance still wanting to look after Lilo, and potentially trying to kick start her own social life again now that Lilo has decided to be more independent. This isn’t very fleshed out, but Nani could do with some friends? I’d like to explore how Nani feels about her sister growing up and not having to be a constant care giver anymore.

Nani is more open to working around other people’s wanted plots or connections, so if you have anything in mind let me know. She is missing some conflict, but I really haven’t thought much further than that.

Wanted Connections:

Any and all options here

Deziree

I realised Deziree doesn’t have any actual real legit friends??? So far, all of her “friends” are purely superficial and no one actually chooses to hang out with her because that shit is toxic AF. She doesn’t have anyone to actually talk to and fall back on (other than maybe Travis at this point). It will be like pulling teeth trying to get her to actually open up to a real friendship with anyone, but she needs to be humbled. She also needs a job again and I think it would be funny if we made her work a shitty job idk Again, Deziree is good for filling out other connections for your characters so if you have something, lemme know!

Wanted Connections:

More frienemies / An actual friend...?

Tina Bell

Listen, Tina’s about to lose her shit, I don’t know what else to tell you all.

I don’t need anything for her, but I can absolutely throw you threads pre-Peter banishing her until me and Penny have finished that thread, or we can plan stuff for after she’s banished again! (cause lord knows tina will be an absolute riot at this time). She is defintely going to have a meltdown in the immediate aftermath (#funtimes) but I haven’t decided if she’s going to run straight home to James or if she’s gonna freak and not go home on purpose and just go bananas in the woods or something???? so if anyone wants to help me figure that fun stuff out feel free!

#ooc #wanted plots

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have-theory-will-headcanon · 6 years ago

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Aaravos/Dark Magic Theory

So, I see a lot of posts about how Aaravos helped humans discover Dark Magic, and how he was placed in the mirror as punishment by the Xadians as retribution for allowing the humans to develop such a dark, dangerous form of magic for their own.

BUT

I have a few ideas (that could be totally wrong) but I want to throw them out there anyway. For funsies. And maybe someone has done this already and I just haven’t seen it in the tags but, hey, it’s fun. And long.

So here’s my theory:

Dark magic was used to create the mirror Aaravos is trapped in. Dark magic was also used to actually trap him in the first place. As the master of the Six Primal Sources, if anything but dark magic was used, it stands to reason that he should be able to undo it. But as a Xadian, and as the Archmage of the original sources of magic, what the hell would he need to use dark magic for? Chances are good he doesn’t even know how to use Dark Magic. But even without Dark Magic, human mages knew they would need something especially powerful and magical to hold him.

Let’s operate with the idea that Aaravos was sealed into the mirror around 1000 years ago (that seems to be the most popular theory for how long he’s been trapped). That would pretty much fall right within the timeline of when humans first discovered Dark Magic. Humans knew how powerful Aaravos was, and potentially wanted to prevent him from stopping them using Dark Magic. He was probably the only one who could, considering Dark Magic simply sucks out the magical force in most other Xadians, effectively killing them. And he’s clearly seen standing with the elves against the humans at the start of the Dark Magic ruckus.

But more than just a prison, the humans wanted to have a way to tap into pure, magical power to use for Dark Magic, since they probably knew they were going to be going to war with Xadia over the entire ordeal and would need a way to keep their own magic flowing. Runaan looks at the mirror when Viren shows it to him and say it’s something “worse than death”. Some people think he means Aaravos. But what if he literally just means the mirror? The mirror, which is more than a prison.

Dark magic siphons the energy within magical creatures. We see that Aaravos can use magic from within the mirror and channel it into Viren. If he could use Primal Magic from inside the mirror, what good would it have done the Xadians to imprison him in it in the first place? But what if humans, on the other hand, deliberately set the mirror up to be able to draw his magic from him and into themselves, except rather than when Viren did it and Aaravos voluntarily helped him, they forcibly sucked the magic out? As the Master of all six Primal Sources, he would have been an excellent magical battery for their Dark Magic.

Also, Rayla explains that Xadians have a connection to a Primal Source that almost equates to a connection of the soul. Now imagine Runaan looking at this mirror, this magical siphon, and knowing what that really does to a magical being. Of course he would think something like that was worse than death.

And as for why the Dragon King and Queen kept the mirror so close to them, what if it wasn’t to keep Xadians safe from Aaravos? What if was to keep Aaravos safe from humans?

Let’s say humans created the mirror and trapped Aaravos around 1000 years ago. The Dragon King gets wind of what’s happened to the archmage and goes to retrieve the mirror from human mages. He keeps the mirror in his lair under close guard to ensure it doesn’t get stolen again, or damaged, so humans can’t use Aaravos and his magic again, or prevent him from being released. But since the mirror was made using Dark Magic, the Dragon King has no idea how to free Aaravos himself. Nor does anyone else in Xadia.

Humans lose track of the mirror and eventually forget about it as the war against Xadia rages on and new problems come to their attention. In the current time, Viren finds the mirror after the death of the Dragon King (<10 years ago) and has no idea what it is, so he doesn’t know it works as a magical siphon. Remember when Runaan told Viren he would never help him learn what the mirror was? What if he meant he’d never help Viren figure out how to turn it into a magical power bank again?

Also, Aaravos clearly suspects when he first meets Viren that Viren has no clue what the mirror is. And he’s not about to let him find out. So when Viren goes running off to check Aaravos’s name and history, he wipes the information before Viren can read it. He’s not about to risk going through the same hell he experienced from previous dark mages. But he also knows he needs a dark mage to get him out of the mirror. Dark Magic got him in, and Dark Magic--he has probably figured--is the only thing that will get him out. He needs to earn Viren’s trust, or at least get Viren to stop trusting other humans to the point that Viren needs him as much as he needs Viren.

Hence why Aaravos willingly cooperated with Viren, at least at first glance, to give him what he wants. But he still wants someone to pay for what’s been done to him. By having Viren attack the guards, and even kill a few, Aaravos makes it so that humans will never trust a dark mage again. Two birds with one stone. Aaravos has Viren ostracized, then convinces him to free him from the mirror, but also makes it so that humans may never ever use dark magic again because they realize how dangerous it can be against their own people. But he stops short of having Viren killed. For all he knows, Viren is the only dark mage able to get him out of the mirror (assuming he didn’t see Claudia trying to use magic on the mirror in Season 1), which is also the reason he orders Viren so forcefully to stop when it looks like the mage might get himself killed trying to escape.

Also, Viren has no clue who Aaravos is. But King Harrow did. How does a dark mage not know about the Archmage of the Six Primal Sources? But the King of Katolis, a king who eventually comes to resent Dark Magic for everything it has cost him, does? And also, why does Harrow speak almost reverently of Aaravos? You’d think if Dark Magic had been Aaravos’s contribution to humanity, it would be the human mages who remembered him and spoke highly of him, rather than a King of Katolis who has little to no love left for dark magic.

I seriously think Queen Sarai had something to do with Harrow knowing about Aaravos. She was super outspoken against Dark Magic, and had a very humane approach to how she viewed Xadia and its occupants, at least to a point. After all, she did ask Harrow if that magma monster was intelligent or had a family. She wasn’t ready to call something a monster just based off of a first opinion or ancient prejudice.

TL;DR:

Dark mages made the mirror and imprisoned Aaravos to protect themselves and their magic. The mirror acts as a magical power supply using Aaravos as the charger. The Dragon King was keeping the mirror safe to prevent humans using it. Aaravos is playing Viren like a fiddle to get out of the mirror and turn humans against Dark Magic because he’s fed up with their BS.

#The Dragon Prince #Aaravos #Headcanon #Theories #Very Long Post

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ettadunham · 5 years ago

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A Buffy rewatch 7x09 Never Leave Me

aka tired of subtle

We did it, guys! We made it to the last season! Also, hello if you’re new, and stumbled upon this without context. As usual, these impromptu text posts are the product of my fevered mind as I rant about the episode I just watched for an hour (okay, sometimes perhaps two). Anything goes!

And I prefer today’s episode to Sleeper as a post-Big-Bad-reveal kick-off to our season’s main arc in multiple ways. Also, Willow drags Andrew. Literally.

Season 7, as a whole, struggles from the main story arc taking up too much of its time. People often hate on filler episodes, but the truth is, you can’t fill out 22 episodes of television with a singular, focused story arc. And you shouldn’t.

Not to mention that fillers are a great way to explore characters without being bogged down by an overarching plot. (So stop hating on their concept, just because some shows do them badly.)

Buffy at its best realized that these things – your main arc, your character stories and your fillers – can coexist in the same episodes. Some of the best episodes of the show are one-off stories, using a unique set-up or villain of the week while focusing on characters and pushing the season arc on some level.

Unfortunately, the structure of season 7 makes it much harder to tell these kinds of stories. Our Big Bad is ever-present, and the battles and confrontations with it are constant throughout the season, once the reveal happens in episode 7.

I’m pointing this out not to criticize Never Leave Me, but to emphasize how good it is, and why the issue of the season has more to do with trying to keep up with the pace this episode sets.

Oh, yeah. Hot takes I guess about the episode that ranks 98th on iMDB. Never Leave Me is pretty good.

(I kinda wanna look up each episode’s iMDB ranking at this point before writing up on them, just for funsies, but I also don’t want to be influenced by the popular opinions? The struggle.)

To be fair though, part of my fondness for this episode comes from my feelings regarding the previous one. Watching it, I felt like I was seeing a much better version of what a follow up to Conversations with Dead People would look like.

And a lot of that has to do with Spike. And Buffy.

I spent the last time ranting at length about how I just don’t connect with Spike, and that’s okay. Pretty much all Buffy characters are incredibly flawed, and we all relate to and/or gravitate towards different ones, based on our own experiences. I love that. I love that these are well-rounded characters who change and grow in both surprising and consistent ways.

I also like Spike much better in this episode, because his story relates to Buffy much more strongly. Which does seem to be the best way for me to find a connection to Spike in any given episode (see also: Fool for Love).

I guess another aspect is that unlike Sleeper, this episode focuses much less on his romanticism. He instead talks about his past. About the horrific things he’s done. About his and Buffy’s self-hatred. About how he understands it and that she used him now, and how he didn’t back then.

More importantly, Buffy gets to fire back. She did tell him all those things last season. It’s why she ended things with him in the first place. She also challenges his assumptions about that self-hatred as a current motivation in what’s decidedly my favorite scene of the episode.

SPIKE: “Have you ever really asked yourself why you can’t do it? Off me? […] You like men who hurt you.” BUFFY: “No.” SPIKE: “You need the pain we cause you. You need the hate. You need it to do your job, to be the Slayer.” BUFFY: “No. I don’t hate like that. Not you, or myself. Not anymore. You think you have insight now because your soul’s drenched in blood. You don’t know me. You don’t even know you. […} Listen to me. You’re not alive because of hate or pain. You’re alive because I saw you change. Because I saw your penance. […] You faced the monster inside you and you fought back. You risked everything to be a better man.”

I love this scene, because Spike posits something that’s in line with Buffy’s own fears about her relationships, something that she voices as far back as season 4. That maybe she herself seeks out these painful, dramatic romances.

…But this discussion isn’t really just about that, isn’t it? And even if Buffy hasn’t quite landed yet on how to approach her romantic history, she has plenty of self-knowledge. She knows why she hasn’t and won’t kill Spike now.

Buffy sees and believes in the best of people. Even when they don’t. And here she shows the same compassion to Spike that she did to Angel as far back as season 1.

See, she’s a protector, not a killer. And one with a huge fucking heart at that.

That’s why she didn’t kill Spike. At worst, she saw him as non-threatening to others after his chip debacle, at best, she saw a potential for him to become better.

Still. How does one reconcile this characterization of Buffy with what we see in Selfless? Has Anya not proved more than enough times that she can be better? That she’s more than just the vengeance demon she used to be?

Worse, when Buffy and Xander argue about the difference between stopping Anya then, and Willow at the end of season 6, Buffy’s argument doesn’t really make sense once you think about it. She says that they weren’t planning on killing Willow, because Willow’s human. But from everything we know of vengeance demons, there really isn’t any distinction between them and a human with powers. They still have their souls.

So the distinction Buffy makes between Anya’s and Willow’s case feels arbitrary. And so does the decision to not kill Spike at certain points of the story.

But that’s what Buffy says in Selfless, isn’t it? “Someone has to draw the line.” And in a world with no clear-cut black and white morality, that line is arbitrary.

Buffy’s been acutely aware of the fact that the world she operates in is full of grey areas ever since Lie to Me. There are no easy answers or choices, even when you’re fighting literal creatures from hell, but someone has to makes these decisions regardless. Someone has to draw the line. And that’s Buffy.

But I think that’s why she finds it all the more important to choose hope sometimes. She has to be prepared, yes, and she can’t rely on the power of love alone, as discussed before. Her responsibilities come first. But she can offer a choice.

Even in Selfless, one of the most important moments for Buffy is when she implores Xander to find her another way to deal with Anya. Which is what Willow ends up doing, by asking D’Hoffryn to offer up the same kind of choice to Anya, that Buffy felt unable to in this situation.

Never Leave Me is also the episode where the gang meets Andrew again. More accurately, Willow runs into him, and he’s terrified. As he should be.

ANDREW: “Warren killed Tara. I didn’t do it. And he was aiming for Buffy anyway.” WILLOW: “Not making it better.”

In case you missed it, this was a direct callback to another scene:

WARREN: “It was an accident, you know.” WILLOW: “Oh. You mean, instead of killing my best friend, you killed my girlfriend.”

Listen, all I’m saying that if Willow flayed Andrew after that line? I wouldn’t have blamed her.

But Willow these days is less about the murder, so instead she just stares incredulously at Andrew after that little moment of rage-inducing blunder. And they both nerd-monologue at each other, I guess?

(Sidenote: I don’t think I ever got around to mention this with the last season, but there’s an interesting and somewhat uncomfortable interpretation of the Trio, as a mirror to Willow’s own character. Mostly the worst parts of her at that of course, but there are definitely some parallels here; particularly to Warren and his tech savviness, and Jonathan and his magical abilities. Andrew is probably the least obvious example though – unless we take his relentless gay-coding as a nod to that.)

This whole storyline of course ends up being played mostly for comedy, as Anya and Xander take it upon themselves to test their interrogation techniques on Andrew. And it’s fun, too, seeing them work together without the added baggage that was their romantic relationship. It makes me both root much more for them to get back together, and wish that they wouldn’t, because they work so much better like this.

Even if Xander’s speech to Andrew is obviously supposed to be about himself, and how he’s still not over Anya.

XANDER: “There was this one guy, her hurt her real bad, so she paid him back. She killed him, but she did it real slow. See, first she stopped his heart, then she replaced it with darkness, then she made him live his life like that. But he still had to go do his job, and see his friends, and wake up in the morning, and go to bet ad night, but he had to do it all empty. Without anything to look forward to. Ever.”

Honey… I know you know this, but you did this to yourself.

Oh, and isn’t it fun that when the Harbringers attack, one of the first things they do is knock Willow unconscious? It’s almost as if the show is trying not to call attention to the fact, that she could probably take these guys out in a second with magic.

But at least this gives Dawn some chance to kick ass, so that’s always a plus.

Another side-plot that’s happening is with my boy, Robin, who finds Jonathan’s body in the basement. And decides to bury It instead of telling anyone about it.

I’m sure there’s an explanation to this other than making us believe that he’s a bad guy, but I honestly can’t even remember. We’ll see, I guess.

The episode ends with Buffy making the connection that they’re up against the First, and the First itself monologuing at Spike about how it’s tired of being subtle. Which feels very meta in an ironic kind of sense from the show, but also marks a questionable turn in the season arc.

There’s a lot of cool concept and potential (hehe) in the First as a Big Bad, that we’ve seen demonstrated in Conversations with Dead People. It knows things. It can appear as anyone you know who died. It can mess with you in infinite ways.

In this scene though, the First is talking about bringing these Uruk-hai vampires to the surface, and that’s just not as interesting as those other tactics. Even if Buffy gets to have cool fights with them.

But that’s still to come. Who knows, maybe I’ll appreciate the super vampires after all.

Also appreciated – those scene of Quentin and the Watcher’s Council being their usual, holier-than-thou selves, keeping information from Buffy, and relying on empty platitudes... immediately followed by them getting blown up.

Yeah. This show’s anything but subtle, that’s for sure.

#buffy rewatch 2k19 #btvs talk #btvs

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forte7 · 6 years ago

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Forte’s Fan Character Flashback Friday - #11

Name: Kaede Hatake Series: Naruto Background: So, this is probably the last Flashback Friday; turns out I'm kinda out of fan characters to really bring back - at least those that I really remember or have images of. But I will be ending this series off with a bang, I guess, cause today we're going to talk about one of my favorite fan characters who has way more development than a fan character really needs, but hey, I enjoy it and it's fun.

Anyway, I've posted stuff for this character before, but have a lot more I can share and have been kind of holding back for this post.

This is Kaede, my long-lived Naruto fan character. As cliche as it is, she supposed to Kakashi's adopted daughter, who of course, also happened to repress her memories of her actual family and birthplace and thanks to the Third Hokage's permission and whatnot, was able to just more or less seamlessly mesh into living in the Hidden Leaf village.

She was created right after I really got into the series, which was back around 2007, which correlates with one of the earlier images I have of her on my dA. You can see that one here, actually: https://www.deviantart.com/forte-girl7/art/Hatake-Kaede-69525304

Fun side note for that, I had done that image all on the free program GIMP and with a mouse and I'm still amazed at my younger self for having the patience to do all the things I used to do with just a mouse. I've been spoiled by my tablet, haha.

Anyway, one reason why I've been so attached to this character is because, like Rey a while ago, I used to RP with this character on a Naruto RP forum. However, this forum was much more active and the person who RPed as Kakashi was super into the idea and we really ran with the different scenarios we could put the two in. I'm actually still friends with that person and we talk about it from time to time and after the forum itself had gone under, still wrote fanfiction things together, just for funsies.

There's another reason why I got attached to the character and it's kind of a weird, personal, psychological reason, but could really be applied to a lot of my fan characters. As you may have noticed over the course of this series, a lot of my fan characters are either a character's daughter or younger sister. I never did the love interest thing; it wasn't and still isn't a thing that I was into. Not sure why, really, but not my thing.

The gravitation to having characters with older brothers or I suppose "idealized" father figures, however, I can totally explain. The brother thing is simple: I've always wanted an older brother, but as the eldest of the family, that was never going to be a thing. So, I guess I tried to find some kind of surrogate relationship with my fan characters. The same can be said with the father thing, too, but I do still have my dad around and while he isn't the worst dad, I guess he could have always been better. I don't want to paint my dad in a bad light, but he's always been a bit overbearing and had a lot of expectations for me that he pushed so much, I'm sure it didn't help with how my mental state's progressed through the years. Really, it's still a thing I deal with to this day and the more I think about it, the more I understand my younger self's need for "better" father figures to attach myself to.

Kaede was definitely one of those characters, and with someone like my old RP friend fanning the flames, it was hard not to get attached to a source of escapism that I really craved and needed at the time. That and having a set up like that and also have a friend who funnily enough cosplayed as Kakashi at one point saying "she should be canon", well, that's how you make a 14/15 year old's day, haha.

Anyway, I do have a lot of older art for this character (plus a lot of newer stuff), that I'll put next. I'll try and put them in chronological order, starting with some of the older stuff I have.

Old Drawing 1

Old Drawing 2

Old Drawing 3

Old Drawing 4

Old Drawing 5

Old Drawing 6

She's had a few different outfits over the years, though I do have a lot more stuff of her in more random outfits not really connected to her "actual" design. You can tell I was going through that "young weeaboo" phase looking at them, cause there are some of her as kitsune, some of her and Kakashi transformed into dogs, lots of them with bad fashion sense, and even here, she used to have a giant, paper fan as a weapon, cause "they have those in anime". And yes, I know, Temari has a giant fan, but her's is actually like.. a bamboo folding one, while the one here is obviously just a silly paper one that again, you would see in anime as a gag item.

Also, a few notes about some of her outfit inspirations: her earliest outfit looked way too much like Sasuke's, which I wanted to stray away from, but was hard considering I insisted on keeping her color palette the blue/tan mix.

One reason for wanting to stray from that is because of Kaede's odd stance when it comes to Sasuke. Personally, he's not my favorite, but Kaede herself is at odds with him, because of Kakashi's focus on training Sasuke in the earlier part of the series, mainly because of their mutual connection that is the Sharingan. Kaede has a slight inferiority complex when it comes to this relationship and is a major source for her lack of self confidence in her abilities.

Also, one of the later designs is an obvious rip-off of Kakashi's outfit from the Gaiden storyline (the bit where he actually gets his Sharingan). I liked elements from it, but again, would go on to tweak it so it wasn't just stealing from another character. Of course, if you look at the designs (and naming conventions) for a lot of the characters that are related... well, sometimes it seems like they didn't try much harder, hahaha.

And as another note, the reason why some of these images have the dA watermark on it was because I got these from my storage on there and they had those enabled. For the next few, which aren't in storage, I'll just link to the actual dA posts. These are still fairly old at this point, cause I haven't posted a lot of the newer stuff on there or anywhere yet, cause I've been... just going crazy on making new stuff and not posting it.

https://www.deviantart.com/forte-girl7/art/Daddy-s-Girl-126086387

https://www.deviantart.com/forte-girl7/art/Naruto-Kaede-326539607

Those two are from 2009 and 2012, while the ones earlier were posted in 2007ish. Also, the age progression there is pretty similar to the current one, though in the most recent, her older outfit reflects the changes to the general Konoha shinobi found in Boruto.

Now, this is just all visual development for the character. When I say a lot, I mean, a lot, cause there's also a written development to go with this. Granted, a lot of it is more recent, but that's because of me being weird.

Some of the posts there on dA do have the startings of a character profile, but they always say "I'll post most later" or "I'm still working on her profile" or whatever and that never came to light. That's mainly because, as I've mentioned before, I'm oddly pick about how plausible my characters may be in the canon universe. Kaede is no exception and may be the one that really sparked how particular I am about it.

I've been meaning for the longest of times to actually write a fanfiction that more or less adds Kaede to the story, though through research/rethinking, I would now add events not directly connected to the manga/anime, which would be needed either way, cause it's not like I was gonna shove her in the background of every actual scene from Naruto's story. However, because Naruto was still ongoing when I got into the series, I decided to bide my time and wait until it ended and how things unfolded.

While now that it's ended, that means I can comb through everything and actually make sure everything's covered, but it was quite an thing to tough through, considering some of the things that happened in the later chapters of the manga. I don't want to spoil anything for anyone really, but the series is pretty old now at this point and into their next series anyway, and some of the stuff that they pull off and hope you accept in the end game of Naruto is a bit much and trust me, you do not want to get me started on THAT topic, hahaha.

Anyway, now I'll be sharing some of the stuff I've been working on the last bit of time to actually maybe see that long-form fanfiction come to fruition. Please note that a lot of them are still a work in progress, but they have come a long ways since those earlier profile/backstory promises. It turns out that sitting down and combing through stuff, even after the fact, is a lot of work and very time consuming, because again, there's a lot of baloney that Naruto really hopes you'd be fine with, when sometimes they themselves don't stay the most consistent, especially when it comes to their actual time line.

I'm trying really hard not to go on a rant here... so let's move on the links and I'll explain them one by one if needed.

Profile Here's Kaede's current overall profile. It includes the general things on a profile sheet, like name, appearance, personality, backstory, and the likes. This also covers the same parameters for Kaede through the year, because I want to be thorough cause I'm weird like that. I also have little skill charts that use the same ranking system found in the Naruto Character Guidebooks, because I guess I like to waste time, hahaha. The backstory part of this is also kind of serving as a rough draft/abridged version for certain story events I'd like to write out, so sorry if they read... weird.

Relationships This document goes into more detail of Kaede's relationships to other characters. Kakashi's isn't full filled out yet, though it should probably be one of the longest ones, but I've been focusing on other characters, mainly her extended family, that I've been adding to bolster her backstory. There are line breaks between certain groups of characters, and the order after Kakashi should be Kaede's actual parents, her extended family (mainly a lot of her mother's relatives), Kaede's teammate and sensei, Naruto and the others of Team 7/Kakashi, and then other characters from the show.

Supporting Profiles Now, because I'm making up a whole gang of extra characters for my silly little OC, that means they also need profiles for a bit more fleshing out of their own, so that's this document, cause I just don't know how to stop myself sometimes. These again follow an order in their appearance, going from her biological parents to extended family, then teammates, followed up by teammates/colleagues of her biological father.

Technique/Skill List Pretty self explanatory. There are technically two versions of this list, where the other is really just a list. This one is the spreadsheet that covers other parameters of the various techniques/skills/jutsu/whatever and where I keep other notes.

Timeline This one is pretty much the biggest pain the neck for me, because again, it's taking time to cross reference the canon timelines that sometimes muddle themselves up anyway and can be annoying, yet amusing to read. This timeline focuses mainly on characters directly involved with Kaede, such as her extended family/what have you, so it's not the same in-depth one that I've been using on the Naruto wiki. Again, I'm trying to put her into the story, but that doesn't mean she's present and/or relevant to everything, cause she wouldn't be, hahaha, though there are some events present that are only there as kind of reminders for what's taking place in the main storyline.

As seen in the supporting profiles doc, all the characters I've come up with have designs, too, or are in the process of getting them and I've posted sketches and finished versions of them on my Patreon, cause those are also still a work in progress. I want to say I'll post them when they're done, but with me, who knows when that'll be, so I'll just some of them here now:

Supporting Character Drawings

Anyway, I think I'm gonna wrap this one up, cause I've blabbed for long enough. I know not a lot was actually covered Kaede-wise here, but that's because a lot of it would just be repeats of the stuff covered in the way-too-many-documents-for-a-fan-character up there.

Also, like I said, this is probably the last Fan Character Flashback Friday, so I want to thank you all for taking this journey with me to the past to revisit some rather fond memories and fun designs.

#forte's art #forte's fan character flashback friday #fan character flashback friday #fan character #oc #original character #naruto #naruto oc #kaede #kaede hatake #kakashi hatake #fanart

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crplpunkklavier · 2 years ago

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well two (2) people have expressed interest, so you know what that means:

let's talk bullwhips

under cut: details about whips, getting whipped, and doing the whipping, pictures are included but all cropped (PUN INTENDED *DABS*) to protect your eyes and my privacy

the name

franziska has a bullwhip. it is one single strand, it looks very long, and has a short handle. that's a bullwhip, babey. there's other types of whips, like a stockwhip which is the same but has a longer stiff handle, or a blacksnake, which is much shorter and certainly couldn't reach across a courtroom to hit a poor defense attorney in the chest.

2. bullwhip anatomy

yeah yeah yeah, i'll get into the ouchies in a second. we just need to talk vocabulary real quick so we don't get confused.

first of all, these are all hilarious. butt knot?? thong??? i'm going to be calling my packer a transition knot from now on.

anyway, in lieu of a formal image description, lemme just say this: a bullwhip starts with a butt knot, which is a nub at the butt of the handle, which is connected to the thong (that's the length of the whip) with a transition knot. it ends in a long, thinner piece of material called the fall, which ends in a feathery small piece called the cracker.

bullwhips are made of leather. traditionally kangaroo, but not always. the fall and cracker can be made of other materials. there's more variety here than i need to get into for the purposes of this post.

3. the ouchies

the funny thing is, bullwhips weren't even made to hurt anyone or anything. the cracker is called a cracker because it cracks. you know, a whipcrack. bullwhips are made to be loud. there's an indiana jones mythbusters special where they test it, and that very tip of a bullwhip literally breaks the sound barrier. in their original purpose of cattle herding, bullwhips are for making noise. they are NOT supposed to hit cattle.

wanna know why?

because you don't wanna do this to your cattle.

the above picture is a part of my back immediately after a session. i'm talking RIGHT afterwards here. and, well, keep in mind that this was a session where we did this on purpose and for fun, and while i like my impact play, i'm not yet as used to it as other people are, so this is comparatively harmless. getting whipped by someone who wants to hurt you out of malice instead of funsies will look even worse.

the point is, whip marks look and feel a lot like scratches. if you'll remember, there are no actual sharp parts in a bullwhip. that would defy the original purpose. you don't need sharp parts in it. however, whips are so damn fast that they still leave ~wounds like this. in my case, no skin was broken, but depending on the whip, the person wielding it, and the part being hit, you very much CAN cut skin and draw blood with a whip. this usually isn't administered through the leather part, but through the fall and cracker.

here is a small welt on my thigh the day after a session (yes im very hairy thank you for noticing). see how there is a thicker end point that looks scabbed over? it was never fully open and bleeding, but it still was irritated enough to look like a small abrasion.

so, how much does all this hurt?

a lot.

it hurts a lot.

it feels like being cut open, and again, you CAN get cut open by these. i wasn't cut open and it still felt like it. it feels like being scratched by very sharp claws, and after some of the lashes, i actually was surprised to learn that i wasn't bleeding, because it felt like i was.

that said, the pain is punctual. it hurts where the whip lands. this might seem obvious, but i'm saying it because there are other impact play tools, like the paddle or just a bare hand, that create a very different pain, and that some people might be more familiar with (good for you). but we aren't talking about blunt force bruises here. i'd say imagine a cat scratch and multiply it by 10.

and how long does it hurt?

well, actually, not so long. again, this depends on the severity. if you get actually cut open by a whip, then yeah, you're gonna feel that for a while. my welts, as bad as they looked, did not hurt anymore by the time i got home. i could still feel them in the sense that the skin was elevated when i ran my hand over it, for about 3-4 days afterwards, but it didn't hurt.

welts the same day, and 1-2 days later:

so, yeah. actually looks worse than it feels. which is part of why it's so fun. but you didn't hear that from me.

4. closing remarks

moving away from my nasty experiences, i wanna go back to that mythbusters special real quick.

it's not easy to use a whip. they're very long, and somewhat heavy due to the leather, and to really aim it where you want it to go takes practice. if you HAVE practice, you CAN be very precise with them. they managed to wrap it around a gun and pull it from someone's hand, for instance. that stuff is difficult, but not impossible.

soo.... do with all this what you will. lmk if you have questions :)

sometimes i think i should use my experience as an occasional impact play sub to write up a guide on how it looks and feels to get hit by a whip like the one franziska has, for fanartists and writers, other times i think i'm just trying to show off how cool i am for knowing people with real bullwhips

#ok just reblogged from u for this so u see it lol #this isnt necessarily a meta post but i suppose ill put it in the tag anyway bc idk where else to put it #imco

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