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lizzie-is-here · 1 year

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lonely is a man without love

part ii- the scarab

“the moon taught me there is beauty in darkness too” - marine ashnalikyan

summary: you meet marc spector, and he meets the real you

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warnings: language, violence

a/n: yuhhh so excited for this. part three coming very soon hope y’all enjoy!!! also tfw your professors let you take finals early so you can go to the taylor concert. if any of y’all fellow swifties will be in nashville on may 7, i’ll see y’all there! feel free to leave feedback, i love it and love u all 🫶🫶🫶

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For all accounts, you think you’re handling the situation pretty well.

Your sort-of-friend sort-of-target that you thought was innocent and also British turns out to be not-innocent and American? Shocking.

He’s also covered in blood and tried to knife you when you broke into his apartment because he doesn’t know you’re secretly an ex-Russian agent turned Avenger that could kill him easily? Arguably less shocking. Reasonable, even.

“Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,” you say, holding a hand up. Steven- no, Marc, sighs exasperatedly, waiting. “You are a mercenary?”

“Why do you need to know?”

“Just answer the damn question!”

He rolls his eyes. “Fine. Yes.” You sigh, leaning against a bookshelf full of volumes on Egyptian history, mythology, and archaeology.

“So what? Was ‘Steven Grant’ just an alibi?” you ask.

You really hope not. One, because he’s sweet and kind and an absolute nerd. And two, because if he isn’t, then that means that Marc’s dedication to a cover is better than yours. And that simply will not stand.

“No, it’s more complicated than that. He’s, like, a facet of me. Another personality. We share the same body, but when the other is in control, it’s like the other is asleep. You’re stuck.” You perk up, visibly relieved.

“Oh, so he’s an alter? Like, you have DID?”

“Is that what it’s called?”

“Do you… Do you not know the name of your own personality disorder?” His silence speaks volumes.

You chuckle under your breath, watching him stammer to try and recover from his fumble. Taking out the gun from your waistband, you go to set it on the table. In an instant, Marc has your wrist in a death grip, attempting to jostle the gun from you.

“Again, seriously? This went so well for you literally a minute ago,” you snark.

With a dramatic eye roll, you effortlessly twist under his arms, kicking out his legs. He rolls over and stands back up, kicking the gun from your hands.

You take a moment to watch his fighting style, scanning him as he circles you. He’s good, yes, but his form is sloppy. Basic US military training, most likely nothing specialized.

Deciding to take one out of Nat’s book, you leap up, wrap your thighs around Marc’s head, and flip him over, holding him in place as he thrashes on the floor.

“Заткнись, ты такой чертовски громкий, Иисус, черт возьми, Христос [Shut up, holy fuck you are so damn loud Jesus fucking Christ],” you hiss. Eventually, he taps your leg, wheezing.

“Truce,” he sighs. You roll off of him, nodding.

“Sure, truce.”

He’s huffing as you stand, checking your gun and finally setting it down.

“So, why are you here?” Marc asks.

You shrug. “Heard there was a vigilante, so I was sent to check it out.”

“By who?”

“None of your business.”

“Why are you Russian?”

“Also none of your business.”

Marc rolls his eyes, but accepts that that is as far as he’s gonna get for the moment.

You frown, glancing around the room. All of the items in here seem very Steven-ish. Mostly Egyptian decor and books. You have a hunch, though you hope it isn’t true.

“Steven doesn’t know about you, does he?” you ask, already knowing the answer.

Marc shakes his head. “I was the… original, I guess? I set him up with a safe place here, but vigilantism is part of my job. Can’t stop, even if you want me to.”

“I’m not asking you to.” Observing the fish tank, you watch the one-finned goldfish happily swim around. You’ll have to tell a certain one-armed assassin about him. “I just need to make sure you’re hurting the right people.”

“That seems subjective,” he jokes. You chuckle, but shrug. He gets oddly contemplative before speaking again. “Do me a favor?”

You haven’t known this man for ten minutes, but you nod. “Sure.”

“Don’t tell Steven about me.”

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It’s not even a week later when trouble comes calling.

You get a text from Steven, who has been oddly silent this week. It’s asking for you to come to some storage lockers, promising to explain everything. He’s worried, and a part of you wonders if he’s more worried about the whole vigilant thing or about his alter.

Hopping on your motorcycle with no sense to put on your helmet, you speed through traffic in record time. Eyes flickering to signs as you zoom past, you finally spot him sprinting frantically out of the building.

He trips and falls as you skid to a halt.

“Shit! Steven, you can’t be running into traffic like that,” you curse, hopping off the back and grabbing your helmet from the seat compartment to give to him. “Hop on. We’ve got to get you back to your apartment.”

He awkwardly climbs on, holding your shoulders.

You raise a brow and drive off. “Why’re you grabbing my shoulder like that? I get you’re British, but come on, you’re not the queen.”

“Why’re you Russian, all of the sudden?” he asks.

You don’t respond.

Unsure about what to do, he wraps an arm around your waist as you speed up further, nimbly wearing between cars. Your breath doesn’t hitch and you don’t blush, but your heart rate quickens a bit anyways.

When you arrive back at the apartments, you head in together. Steven locks the door, catching a glimpse of Marc in the fish tank.

‘She shouldn’t be here.’ He can’t really tell Steven that you’re not a civilian yet. He can’t freak him out more. And honestly, Marc himself doesn’t even know what you are. A special agent? A military operative?

‘You need to get her out of here. You’re way out of your depth.’

“I just want my life back,” Steven replies aloud.

You stand up from where you’re feeding Gus. “What?”

“No, sorry.” He waves a hand. “I wasn’t talking to you, just talking to myself. Sort of.”

“Marc?” you ask.

He nods. “So… you met him?”

“…Yes. I’m sorry I didn’t tell you; he didn’t want you to know yet.“

Steven doesn’t have it in him to be mad. Especially not when you pick up one of his books.

“Marceline Desbordes-Valmore?”

“Yep,” Steven mumbles. He begins reciting a poem, which you join in on. “She’s my favorite poet.”

You don’t have the heart to tell him you only learned her work for a mission in France, and every time you hear them you can see the gun you used to shoot down a politician that happened to be a literary buff. You’d gained his trust with poetry, convinced him to take you back to his home, and killed him.

You eventually smile and set the book down. “I’m more partial to Mahmoud Darwish. ‘ربما القمر جميل ‘فقط لأنه بعيد [‘Maybe the moon is beautiful only because it is far’]?”

Wandering over to his desk, you gesture at a paper.

“Why do you have Egyptian funeral rites here?”

“You speak French, Arabic, and read hieroglyphics, but have a Russian accent?” Steven seems almost in awe of you. No one looks at an assassin like that. “Who are you?”

“Don’t worry about it.”

Before he can respond to your smirk, there’s a demanding knock on the door. You’re gone by the time Steven opens it.

You hear him greet the officers, followed by them forcing their way into the apartment and searching the place. All the while, you’re climbing onto the roof and ducking from view with a bag of contraband clutched close to you.

It takes all of your strength to not just kill them when they arrest him, despite how easy it would be.

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You track the car easily. It leads you to a sort of community, almost cultish. You’re in a black tank top and cargo pants now, weapons concealed all over.

A man lets him out of the car and frees him from the handcuffs as you jump from roof to roof, watching and waiting. He guides him around, pointing out a goat and speaking butchered Mandarin.

You watch as strange things begin to happen. A stack of trays shakes and falls, trash goes up in a whirlwind. A shadow flickers just beyond your vision.

Down at the table, Harrow’s pushing for the scarab.

“Maybe you know someone who has it?” he suggests.

In a bowl, Marc shakes his head.

‘No, don’t give her up. She’s a civilian, she’ll get hurt. Just give me the body.’

People begin surrounding the table as you ready your gun. Slinging the bag of money, weapons, and a small scarab over your shoulder, you drop into the shadows.

“Sorry, is that… Is that what… You’re all into that, like, killing children and that?” you hear Steven say. “Maybe that’s just me, but that’s- I kinda draw a line there at child murder.”

The man stands, raising his staff that glows purple with power and demanding the scarab. Steven begins backing away as the man gets confrontational, and you decide enough is enough.

“Hey, dipshit. I’ve got your bug right here.” You hold it up, gun raised in the other hand.

“You couldn’t possibly understand the value of what you’re holding,” the man says. “Let me have it, I’ll keep it safe.”

You stand next to Steven, training the barrel of a polished gold gun on the head of this cult leader.

“Do you have a suit or something? That’d be really helpful right now,” you grumble.

“‘Do I have a soup’? What are you saying?” he whispers.

With an exasperated sigh, you hand him the scarab and start running. A man grabs your arm and you slam him into the wall, shooting him with little regard to Steven’s shriek.

You tuck the gun into your holster as you race up some stairs, attacking another man before throwing him off the high platform.

“That was awesome,” Steven gapes as you drag him along.

“Here, bolt the door,” you yell, backing away as you survey the room. A few windows are backup exits, but there’s not much here. Well, some dead bodies.

“Oh my god, I’m going to die in an evil magician’s man cave.”

There’s a pounding on the door as you start trying to calm Steven down. Admittedly, you’re a bit lacking in the social skills department.

“Ok, hey, we’re gonna be fine okay?” His breathing quickens. “Um, not to say that I don’t appreciate you, but is there a chance Marc could come out? He seems to be familiar with guns, yes?”

“No, no I can’t! Stop, please, both of you,” he begs, growing more panicked. Shit. You guide him to the ground as he rambles. “Please stop, leave me alone, both of you!”

You let him take a moment as the door starts splintering. It bursts open, but you don’t see anything?

“Jackal, jackal. Jackal!” Steven yells. Even though you don’t see any such dog, he gets tackled out of the window.

You run to the ledge, embedding a grappling hook in the ground and muttering curses in Russian under your breath.

The fall is familiar, and you land crouched as the hook retracts. Hurrying around, you finally see him, now in a white suit that covers his face, fighting the air.

He’s literally punching the air. His eyes are also glowing.

“Ok… what the fuck what the fuck,” you hiss. Firing off a few rounds, they embed in the air as something yelps.

A force grabs you by the throat before you stab at it with a shattered bottle on the ground, rolling away as heavy footsteps beat the rain-soaked pavement.

It drags you back as you cuss, firing off shots into air that occasionally connect. Letting you go, it targets Steven instead, knocking him against a car.

The man seems to have a conversation with his alter before rising.

“Get away from her, you.” He’s bouncing on his toes like a boxer. “Yeah, I see you, you plug-ugly coyote.”

This was about to end horribly. This random Brit was about to get absolutely murdered trying to keep whatever it was away from you.

“You’re in the wrong ends, mate. You’re in my yard now.” He throws his rather nice jacket on the ground as he continues taunting the beast.

“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee, my name is Steven with a V,” he says at the same time you hiss, “Отлично [Perfect], he’s gonna die before I even recruit him.”

He throws a punch that seems to knock him off balance, cheering and whooping before, if unsurprisingly, getting kicked across the street.

Then it happens. Steven turns around, something about him changing. The suit morphs, becoming almost like mummy wrappings. Marc.

“Get it away from the civilians, I’ll follow,” you call.

He dashes away, with you following behind on the ground.

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Marc lands on the ground once the creature is dead, staring into the mirror.

He doesn’t trust this situation. Harrow, Khonshu, you. He doesn’t know who’s lying, who’s honest, and who’s halfway in-between.

Steven appears in the mirror, disrupting Marc’s train of thought. They go back and forth, bickering as the wind grows stronger.

“You told (Y/N) to keep you a secret from me, and then we left her behind,” Steven accuses, growing more frustrated in the glass.

“Oh, please, what do you even know about her? What do either of us know about her?” Marc yells. “We can’t trust her.”

Steven shakes his head, pacing. “She’s my friend. She needs to stay out of this, you don’t need to drag an innocent civilian in.”

“She’s not a civilian!”

“…What?”

“The night she found out about me, she disarmed me like it was nothing. She had a gun.”

“That doesn’t matter, I trust her, she’s helped me and saved me from muggers, and-“

Steven’s argument doesn’t provide much solace for Marc, who groans and runs a hand over his face.

The arguing continues, growing louder and louder as they start talking over one another.

By the time you’re there, Marc’s glaring at the ground. The chairs are scattered around (the work of Khonshu, but you don’t know that) and he’s ready to start his third fight with you that he knows he’ll lose.

“Who are you?” he asks again, eyeing the weapons covering your person. The Black Widow buckle on your belt should give it away, but you suppose the public isn’t quite aware of you, yet. “Why are you following me?”

You tap the buckle and watch him instantly tense up. “I’m with the Avengers. And you are my mission.”

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thestalkerbunny · 10 months

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TFW you wish to be a livestock guardian dog, but the chickens KNOW you were bred to hunt and fight wolves.

I was trying to draw like an Animal Crossing Style Granny Beets-but she ended up looking like 'GRANDAUGHTER Beetroot.' She has always been an old woman, more or less.

#TSB Draws #Grandmother Beetroot #Granny Beets #Babushka Beetroot #Chicken

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autisticlancemcclain · 1 year

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What are your thoughts on autistic Lance and adhd Keith? I’m neurotypical so I don’t have a lot of knowledge on these things, but I think I understand some reasons why u have those headcanons. I’d love to hear a more in depth explanation though!

Alrighty, so disclaimer: I am an English major. Not a doctor. I’m not diagnosing anybody, and I'm basing my thoughts on my own experiences, opinions, and this one dope venn diagram I found from a bio-psychology student (@tfw-adhd ). So take that as you will.

When you think of ADHD, most people think of two traits: impulsivity and hyperactivity. That’s of course not all there is to ADHD, but they’re pretty major parts! And most people in the fandom consider Lance to be the poster boy of ADHD. But when I asked you guys who the most impulsive character of VLD was, only one person said Lance. Every other person said Pidge or Keith.

And I have to agree.

In a lot of our fics, we associate the ‘fiery red paladin’ with Keith, in his split-second decisions and crazy things he pulls off mid-battle that always work out for him and terrify everyone else. When I asked you guys for your input, many of you said that while Keith and Lance are both impulsive, Lance is only really impulsive when he’s competing, or trying to prove a point — like when he and Keith drove their lions into the ground trying to race blindfolded. Keith, though, is impulsive a lot, and either doesn’t assess the risks when making a decision or has a tendency to take very big risks without question (like Naxzela, or when he left the team to chase after Lotor).

As for hyperactivity, each an every single one of you told me the same thing: Keith has allotted a certain amount of activity for himself for stress release, and if he fails to meet this quota he struggles to regulate his emotions. He trains regularly because he needs it to feel healthy and happy. Lance, on the other hand, is prone to more stim-like activity (like the GIF that goes around every couple of months where he’s lying on the ground and doing that bicycle thing with his legs).

So impulse and hyperactivity, the most well-known pillars of ADHD — so far we have Keith as the poster boy for both, and Lance for one.

The other most popular sign of ADHD, I would say, is disorganization. That’s definitely a mixed bag — organization is really subjective. But when I asked you guys which of the two had the most disorganised fighting style — something you do with very little preparation, when you have to make split-second decisions with the information that you have and the habits you’ve already formed — most of you said Keith. A fair argument was that Keith has such a disorganized or chaotic fighting style because he has a sword, and that’s inherently kind of messy, whereas Lance’s sniping/shooting requires a specific sort of particularity that requires him to be organized and steady.

I would like to argue that that’s the whole point. The bayards are a reflection of the paladins. They summoned these weapons because that is what they use best, that is what suits their fighting style best. Keith gets the sword because although he has some training, his thoughts are all over the place — he’s picking up on a hundred little details at once, thinking not only about the fight he’s currently having but about the fight that’s going to be next. The sword suits him best because it allowed for his natural disorder to be a huge advantage, rather than a hindrance. Whereas Lance consistently summons a long-distance weapon, and even a sniper rifle — a weapon that requires you to focus on one thing at a time, intensely, until the threat is eliminated and you can move on to the next thing. I have no doubts that Lance is constantly hitting targets and noticing new ones as fast as he can, but the whole point of a sniper is that you are lying in wait and hidden because you’re so focused on your one target that you can’t be in the open because you can’t defend yourself.

This level to detail translates outside of battle as well, for both of them. When I asked you guys who was more analytical, 33% (ish) more people said Lance than Keith. The general consensus was that they both have analytical skills, but Lance is better with small and fleeting details (especially when looking at common behaviour — think of the Rover incident, where he was the only one to recognise the dupe for what it was, or even how he was the first to see that Shiro wasn’t quite right). Keith is better at choosing certain goals and trying everything he can to get those goals — like with his quest to find out about his past; he had several different plans that lead to different outcomes (finding the energy in the desert to matching the symbols on his knife to pushing the Blades for answers), and used the information he got to think and overthink about what he was going to do next. While Lance tends to wait for as long as possible with his information until he can come up with the best possible solution (hence why he didn’t act immediately on his suspicions for Shiro and instead made separate note of all the different oddities), Keith tends to use his information immediately and then use the reactions he gets to piece together more answers (the knife incident at the space mall is a pretty good indicator of this specific process).

Okay. So far we’ve outlined a few specific behaviours for the paladins: Keith tends to be really impulsive, with chaotic decision-making skills and an ability to read the room very quickly and notice small, fleeting details. This is reflected in his bayard choice and the way he seeks out and analyses information. He doesn’t plan things out for the long term, and instead acts immediately on the information he has and forms conclusions that way. He has difficult assessing risk (or doesn’t take risk very seriously), is very focused on things he cares about, and when he’s understimulated or doesn’t make time for vigorous physical activity he becomes unregulated and emotional.

I would call that pretty textbook ADHD, although he certainly also has traits for ASD, and I wouldn’t write that off. But when I think of the more autistic of the two of them, I think of Lance, and I don’t think I’m alone in that.

Like ADHD, autism has some traits that are common in reputation: logic and routine. I went over analysis already with you guys, with the conclusion that Lance is better with small details. Not only is that a common finding among people with ASD, but I also think that Lance’s ability to read people and identify when their behaviour is off is a very autistic thing to do. I know that people think that people with ASD can’t read social cues or human behaviour, and in my experience, I find that it just doesn’t come naturally. I do often miss social cues that some people find inherent — like knowing when someone is bored/annoyed with me and when to stop talking — that lead to ostracization (something Lance also faces frequently and has anxiety about, as I’m sure you’re all familiar with in regards to the ‘7th wheel’ debacle). But it was because of this frequent problem that I learnt to categorize micro-expressions and really small changes in behaviour. I had to learn them, because I didn’t recognise them intrinsically. Like you guys pointed out, and like canon has made clear, Lance is very good at identifying these behaviours. He knows when people are acting differently, based on details that may be unnoticed to someone who doesn’t struggle to read social cues and as such doesn’t frequently analyse behaviour. Also, I think Lance may also use obnoxiousness as a defense mechanism — unlike Keith, who gets defensive about his struggles to appear ‘normal’, Lance tends to butt in and annoy people on purpose (like when he interrupted Allura when she was about to list the common traits of a blue paladin) so that he has more control of people’s perception of him. If he grew up struggling to understand why people found him weird or annoying, it would make sense that he would be annoying on purpose so at least he understands why people think of him the way they do.

Going off that — Lance frequently needs justification for things. He needs there to be a reason, he needs to explain things that may not be explainable. I didn’t pose this question to you guys, because I forgot, but I think Keith is more emotional and Lance is more logical, in only that Keith seems to allow himself to feel his emotions (he is the one to tell the other paladins that he is honoured to have served with them, he is the one to frequently and plainly express his anger or frustration, he is the one to outline to Shiro in no uncertain terms that he does not want to be leader because he doesn’t feel ready, etc. Keith is very in tune with his emotions and feelings, he just is also very uncomfortable with people and isn’t sure if he can trust them enough to express himself). Lance, on the other hand, frequently has to explain away his emotions. He feels strongly towards Keith and has a common urge to be near him or talking to him? It must be a rivalry, and he must do everything he can to keep this rivalry going so he can continue to justify his desires. He feels left out and abandoned? He must count himself as a seventh wheel and assign each paladin to a lion and a value in Voltron so that he has a reason to feel left out. He’s jealous of Lotor? He has to convince himself that Lotor is all, 100% evil, so that jealousy doesn’t come from nowhere. Lance does not allow himself to do anything without explanation. He has to have a reason for everything. Everything has to make sense. Everything has to be logical.

His struggle with his own emotional response to things mixed with his intense need to be loved and be social also leads to a lot of misunderstanding and mistakes within his relationships. When I asked you guys whether Keith or Lance is more likely to make a social blunder, most of you said that both of them are socially awkward but Lance puts himself in more social situations and so he makes more mistakes by volume. I’m of the same opinion. Lance wants to be social and understand people and fit in with people, he’s just not very…good at it.

One thing Lance is good at, though, is routine, and about half of you agreed with me on that. Both Keith and Lance have several rituals/routines that are important to them (as previously mentioned, Keith’s training schedule is important for him to help regulate his emotions and keep himself stimulated), but Lance has more routines, and seems more particular about them. The best example would be his skincare routine, which he mentions more than once and expressed agitation when the routine was disrupted. Also, in the few canon shots we have of him sleeping, he has a very specific set of mannerisms (music, eye mask, sleep mask, pajamas, slippers, robe, must sleep for a certain amount of time for said 'beauty sleep') and complains both in the show and in other canon materials (like the Voltron handbook or the comics) when this doesn’t go as planned. Whereas Keith literally sleeps in his boots and seems to be fine dropping wherever.

ASD and ADHD are very similar. They share more symptoms/behaviours than they oppose, so you can certainly choose whatever feels right for you. But I do find it strange that Lance is almost always the one with ADHD and Keith is almost always the one with ASD, when in both fanon and canon (Keith is the impulsive one with poor planning skills, reliant on physical activity for regulation, low sense of danger and high tendency towards risk, low motivation for tasks he doesn’t care about; Lance is the one with all the wacky plans, who reads behaviour exceptionally well but makes frequent social blunders, specific about several rituals and routines, takes people at their word), their characters show the exact opposite. I just think that somehow in the start of the fandom, we switched them around and just rolled with it. But I love subverting fanon expectations, and I am happy to die on the ASD Lance and ADHD Keith hill!

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randomnameless · 7 months

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@kyogre-blue

I finally watched the paralogue about Lorenz's dad and I correct myself

The plan was not to ask mercenaries to dice merchants coming from Riegan, because uwu poor mercs couldn't stomach killing poor, unarmed merchants :'(

So instead they set wild beasts on their way :')

Obviously it's way more safe for those merchants, to rely on a wild beast's instinct of not slaughtering them all but only to frighten them than for mercs to, just, beat up those merchants without killing them.

100/100 foolproof plan !

But...

Claude's uncle, that imbecile, instead of running away, tried to fight against the beasts to protect the merchants, and died, just like said merchants afterwards.

People wonder if this stupid order was sent by Gloucester Sr.

It wasn't lord Gloucester who ordered those mercs turned bandits to proceed, but another unnamed member of the House.

Which is funny, because much like Naruto, you never meet members of various Houses/Clans save for the heir and maybe the current Leader, but suddenly other members of the family exist to make sure the named characters aren't BaD.

They warped Agarthan style ?

Sad uwus for those poor mercs, they only set up defenseless people to be eaten by wild beasts, but they were really upset when their employer betrayed them :'(

Tfw you can't enjoy an "ancient Adrestian spectacle" anymore :(

Morale of this story :

An unnamed guy ordered mercs to set loose beasts on defenseless people "only to scare them uwu", Claude's uncle BaD because he didn't wanted to run away and wished to protect the merchants so he fought and everyone died.

But it's not those poor mercs's fault :'(

They were betrayed by their employer :'(

Because they thought Erwin asked them to set those beasts loose, and when people died he turned against them for, uh, having fucking killed people-but it wasn't them it was those beasts, and the order was to scare them, and anyways it wasn't their fault they were supposed to run but stupid Godfrey wanted to protect his people :/

And ultimately the blame doesn't lay on those poor mercs who only "listened to orders" as people were brutally killed, but on the unnamed Gloucester member who gave that order that is totally not Lorenz's dad.

#Kyogre-blue #Ffs #The more I watch the non AG paralogues #The more I realise I really don't like Nopes #What's with this game and victim blaming ?#Why Barney gives us a woe to those poor mercs when their plan backfired and killed people #While they didn't move to do a thing like help them ???#Especially as they felt supposedly bad for killing unarmed merchants ?#3 Nopes #Eff that route

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msweebyness · 7 months

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Artzy's Awesome Art- Darcy & JJ

Hey ya’ll, it’s the second installment of our Nightmare Before Christmas 30th anniversary special! A MASSIVE thank you to Artzy for doing this amazing art of my Descendants OCs, Darcy, the daughter of Oogie Boogie and Jack ‘JJ’ Skellington Jr, the son of Jack and Sally. They’re *gasp* a couple! Keep an eye out for the last surprise, and below I’ve enclosed some background about these two!

Darcy Boogie:

Adorable but also terrifying

Shortest of the VK’s (She's 4'9" and a proud tiny queen!)

Swears like a drunk sailor

Feral, Abrasive, Sarcastic, Brutally Honest Gremlin

One of the best fighters on the Isle, can and will kick anyone’s ass

Would not wear a dress if her life depended on it

Loves to scare and is damn good at it

Rare Find: Good Isle Parent Relationship

Loves her Papa, so don’t talk shit

Learned how to count cards when she was five

Has a six-year old brother, Nash, will protect him with her life

Lock, Shock and Barrel are (annoying) older siblings

Uma’s sister in all but blood, enforcer of the pirate crew

Fights with Harry all the time, but it’s out of love

Will also protect Gil with her life

Not good with affection, except if it’s her family, JJ, Uma, Gil and sometimes Harry.

Will deck you if you diss her man

Acts like a tsundere, but likes it when JJ is romantic

TFW you have to remind your dad at least once a week that he can’t kill your BF

Protective Queen

Will END you for killing bugs on purpose

JJ Skellington:

Might be a little overdramatic (read the sarcasm)

Gets V excited about things he likes

Has trouble holding still

Loves his snazzy suits, his dad’s style is on point

Don’t make fun of his fedora (Darcy is the only one who can steal it without sustaining serious injuries)

Has weird tastes in food

✨Flexible✨ Boi

Knows everyone in Halloween Town by name. They will fight you to the death to protect him.

Just as good at scaring as Darcy, she hates it

Jack’s Mini Me, helps him around Halloween Town

Tells his mom everything

Has three little sisters, Jennifer, Sylvia and Holly

Bullied in Auradon for not looking “Heroic”

Cannot hold a grudge to save his life

Only had four friends (Ben, Doug, Jane and Lonnie. He and Lonnie have been like siblings forever.)

Sweetheart™️

Gentleman™️

But also a snarky king

Deals with a lot of anxiety, has attacks on occasion

Knew he was going to marry Darcy within five minutes of meeting her

WILL write and perform an entire song for his wonderful girlfriend

Very scared of his future-father-in-law

I love my babies and I hope you do too! Leave your thoughts in the comments and reblogs!

#descendants #disney descendants #the nightmare before christmas #oogie boogie #jack skellington #Sally #JJ Skellington #Darcy boogie #descendants OC’s #son of jack Skellington #daughter of Oogie boogie

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myrddin-wylt · 1 year

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disclaimer that I know nothing of early modern history of the Nordics but I feel like the 16th century would be the weirdest deja vu for Mathias. like he’s struggling with yet another personal union that’s fallen apart, this time the Kalmar union, and now the Protestants and Catholics are fighting and the Reformation is in full swing and so on and so on, so Mathias is a little distracted but like. at some point he looks over his shoulder to see his other ex-husband, Arthur - also an excommunicated Protestant (but like dude went out with style goddamn) - torching the Spanish Armada and pirating and looting his way across the Atlantic and Mathias has never been so envious in his life.

tfw your ex-husband is living your dream but even worse, he’s doing in the goddamn Caribbean. also his new baby is just so unbelievably cute. like yeah this is an incredibly tumultuous time in Arthur’s life but at least he’s doing it with an insane amount of style and for just a moment, Mathias wonders if he can get in on that too.

#deneng #north sea lovers #Mathias NEVER cyberstalk your ex!!!! bad idea!!!!#next thing you know you're gonna call him up!! don't do that!!#mathias: denmark #I feel like that's obvious but jic

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afklancelot · 1 year

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tfw youre a male servant with different art styles compared to other servants and have Unclear Motives which are later revealed to be wanting to end the world and is in a different class from the playable version for most of story mode and serves as the final fight right after a very difficult fight against a colossal entity. and also you have banger battle themes

#fgo #fate grand order #oberon vortigern #tezcatlipoca #this is mostly just Generalizing #go listen to tezcat’s battle theme tho it’s fucking fire #the guitar…

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shallowseeker · 1 year

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One of Cas’s signature fighting moves is a headbutt

a Glasgow kiss

it works well for him because he’s so fucking hardheaded

#it’s forbidden in many contact sports #very effective but risky maneuver #cas + recklessness #cas + violence #castiel #cas #tfw key traits #tfw + fighting styles #cas + fighting #cas + warrior attributes #cas + headbutt #cas + stubbornness

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demonsfate · 9 months

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tfw we will have another latin american character in Tekken but it's a goddamn Mishima!!! put on a damn condom Heihachi you old whore!!!!! fuck!!! I'm SICK of the Mishimas!!!!! except Jin I love my boy and Lars is cool too =Maybe because they're only half Mishimas lmao)

Apparently Harada once said this. So just imagine. There are way, way, way, way more children out there potentially. In fact, so many, Tekken could have an entire roster of solely Heihachi's children.

And it's like - I do enjoy the Mishimas. They're all entertaining and have an interesting story. But it gets really tiring when they keep adding more and more family members that we've never heard about, and that's less interesting LOL. Like Jin was ok because it was a timeskip - so it makes sense. But then like. Lars - many people were on the fence about him, and even some believed him to be a bit silly to be a Secret Mishima. But now we're getting ANOTHER one?????? Like I'm guessing she's so they can have somebody with Heihachi's fighting style. But why didn't they just do what they did with Kazumi... just have Heihachi be in a flashback in the story, so they can add him to the roster lol.

#n ✏️ - ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏsᴛ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍᴏsᴛ // (ooc)#✏️ - ᴡʜᴀᴛ ᴅᴏ ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴀɴᴛ ? // (inbox)#// I'M SO TIRED....#t8 spoilers

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oraclesights · 6 months

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tfw you finally finish a piece you’ve been dragging your feet on

all it took was a month, woo! This is a finished defense for a friend in an art fight– I adore their character! I wanna open commissions soon but finding a consistent style is more difficult than you think it would be. Who knew.

prepare to see my sona in all her glory soon 😼

also everyone Is so nice on this site. Like. I wasn’t expecting any interactions (positive or not) when I posted… tbf I’m coming from Twitter

#warrior cats #digital painting #uhh #um #cat art #what else do i tag

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I'd love to hear more about your fic Cross Contamination. I read it after I wrote my contagion series and thought it was neat how we kind of explored a lot of the same things about the Bakurae but still came with different perspectives. What was some of the inspiration? The writing style was absolutely A+++.

Thank you! My brain has so many bits of Bakurae headcanon stuffed into it (actual canon has so much room for interpretation that I can't help myself), and Cross-Contamination was sort of me making a collage out of it all! The way that the various Bakurae pieces interact in the Memory World arc is fucking wild, with the bit of YB that was sealed into the Puzzle bowing to Zorked!Akhenaden being my personal "sir how do you WORK" moment. Tfw when you have internal hierarchies of yourself, by yourself, for yourself. It's also always been very interesting to me that TKB's quest to avenge Kul Elna ends up entangling him with the entity that needed the Millennium Items to be created in order for it to exist in the world. Classic "uh-oh babygirl you played yourself."

So I like that idea that Yami Bakura being a muddle of Zork and Thief King Bakura creates a fundamentally conflicted entity that wakes up functional and cohesive after a few millennia of stewing in the Ring, then starts to fracture as those component pieces regain their memories and senses of self. There's sure something going on with reincarnation in this series, and in the cases of Yuugi and Ryou Bakura, I like to think it's the result of most of the pieces of their souls getting sealed into Millennial Items, but not all of them, and then some pretty intense resonance when the bits that got reincarnated come into contact with the bits that got sealed. This is mostly because I really like the idea of the TKB portion of YB eventually puzzling some of the situation out, and it adds a little extra flavor to the way that YB uses himself as a tool--not just because Zork thinks of YB as just another piece of itself that is disposable once it serves its purpose, but also because TKB would be more than happy to destroy the entity he constitutes half of in pursuit of his revenge.

Anyway, we get to see the influence that Yuugi has on YY over the course of series (ilu, gleefully violent vengeance gremlin era), and I think there's a lot of fun to be had with Ryou Bakura being enmeshed in his own weirder way with the TKB part of YB. The parallels are pretty intense!

Style-wise, I've written several short fics that play around with a narrator struggling to stay fixed in time, so upgrading that to a narrator struggling to stay fixed in identity was a blast, especially when the various identities actively fight each other. Executive dysfunction, but make it a contact sport.

I still need to read your Contagion series (my Marked for Later list is... out of control, and this summer is kicking the ass of my free time), but I am VERY excited to see how you tackle the Bakurae situation! They're a fucking disaster and I love them.

#writing #yugioh #uh-oh babygirl you played yourself: the thief king bakura story

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bitegore · 2 years

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Red Dragon's 08-08 Fic Wrapup

So if you follow my ao3 you may have noticed that I posted something to the tune of 20+ fics today. and also if you were paying attention you may have noticed that I was also asking for prompts today and all the fics are short as hell. yes i did write these all today and then posted them as i went.

Since there are so many, i'm just gonna post them all in one big megapost. Mind the warnings on the ones with warnings, please.

1. watch your step - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40885263 Wheeljack fucks up his knee trying to get the job done, but he's not going to let that stop him. Warnings: Non-graphic injury

2. impotent threats - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40886244 you've got a murderous helicopter tied up in your bed. This can only end badly, but before that… well, before that, you might as well enjoy yourself. Second-person reader-on-Vortex "in media res" violent rape that's established to have been going on for a while and he's really mad about it. Warnings: Rape/Noncon, Non-Graphic Injury, Non-Consensual Bondage

3. way above me, find you there - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40886871 Onslaught thinks about Blast Off and whether or not they count as "friends".

4. same old story - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40887144 Literally just Megatron and Optimus fighting, g1 grapple-on-the-ground style. Warnings: violence.

5. I swear this time I'm getting back to good - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40887330 Impactor decides to work with Carnivac. Double drabble, set around the end of Sins of the Wreckers.

6. Negotiate This - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40887678 Megatron wants the Autobots to surrender. After all, he has their Prime. Prowl knows better than to accept these ridiculous terms, though. No matter what Megatron does to his leader, he knows better than to think Optimus would ever be okay with them. Warnings: NSFW, Rape/Noncon, Non-Graphic Violence, what may be the world's cruelest fade to black honestly

7. The Joy of Consumption - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40887918 Tarantulas eats someone, like he wanted to do to Cheetor. Warnings: NSFW, Graphic Injury, Cannibalism/Hard Vore, debatable noncon/rape depending on how sexual you want to read it

8. Stop Moving - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40888308 No one wants to do Vortex's tune-ups, but someone has to. Today that someone is Hook. Warnings: NSFW, One-sided Attraction, Vortex being a sex pest in Hook's general direction

9. I told you to hold still - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40888824 TFW this fucker keeps coming into the medical wing because he's injured and will not stop trying to get you to jerk him off about it Warnings: NSFW, Self-Inflicted Injury, One-sided Attraction, Vortex being a sex pest in Hook's general direction

10. Old Traditions and New Experiences - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40890102 it's take your not-quite-rehabilitated knife catboy to temple day in New Crystal City and Wing is going to make sure Drift participates. Projection train goes brr, I'm Jewish and I'm making the New Crystal City's religious practices feel like going to shul and you can't stop me.

11. Great. - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40891410 Bumblebee gets shot with an experimental weapon. Time to figure out what it's done to him. G1-style silliness.

12. just another lab accident - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40892865 Wheeljack's blown half his torso off. How come he and Ratchet are so chill about all this? Or: Ratchet and Wheeljack have an arrangement, much to the bafflement of some of the other Autobots. Warnings: NSFW, Graphic Injury

13. quick tour - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40894308 Skullsmasher and Hun-Grr get along from the get-go. Warnings: Non-Graphic Violence

14. deterrent - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40894548 Some idiot's laid hands on First Aid and Buzzsaw and Vortex are here to show the entirety of the galaxy why that is a very bad, very fatal idea. This one is set in @cleverthylacine's Voice of Stanix AU which I enjoy a lot! You can find it here. Deterrent has been officially canonized to VOS which I'm very excited about haha. Warnings: Major Character Death, Non-Graphic Injury, implication doing heavy lifting

15. go on, Doctor, smile. - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40894959 Pharma needs Tarn to let him put a sabotaged part in his chest. How better than to play like he'd been beaten? And how better to pretend (ugh) that his pride had been beaten out of him (ugh, Primus) than to let the fucking asshole fuck him? One of probably several attempts to kill Tarn before Pharma went fully scorched-earth and tried out killing all his patients in order to maybe get Tarn with a virus. Warnings: NSFW, Noncon/Rape, Graphic Depictions of Violence, general emotional Bad

16. "I'm gonna die if- " - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40895442 Vortex is one good hard rub away from an orgasm and he needs it so bad, First Aid, please stop worrying about the near-fatal wound in his chest, please please please. First Aid would really appreciate it if his fuckbuddy would have one iota more self-preservation and stopped begging him to jerk him off so First Aid could keep him from offlining on the spot and THEN jerk him off. Please. Warnings: NSFW, graphic injury

17. you've got to be kidding - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40895661 Seriously, can't Megatron ever just stay dead?

18. Favorite - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40896126 Shattered Glass - Impactor and Bulkhead are playing all sorts of games with each other. Well, mostly just Impactor. Bulkhead is just having fun with the game. Warnings: NSFW, Noncon/Rape, general SG!Autobot crunchiness

19. stop going off into trouble. - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40896459 oneshot of Redshift and Astrotrain cuddling and talking after the events of Transmissions from Cybertron

20. Sharing Stuff (Sharing Snuff) - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40896717 Vortex and Dead End share an interest. Vortex might as well help him get hooked up with some of the good shit. It's just so interesting to see from the outside. Warnings: NSFW

21. Sit and Stay - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40897065 Hook knows how to deal with Vortex now. Followup to "Stop Moving" and "I told you to hold still", contains less of Vortex being a sex pest. Warnings: soft NSFW, injuries

22. HURRY UP - https://archiveofourown.org/works/40897698 Vortex and Wheeljack both have an interest in some fairly extreme painplay. Except Vortex is essentially on parole, and he's worried that actually doing anything might reflect badly on him. Wheeljack just kind of really wants to get this show on the fucking road immediately because come on, just fuck him already please. Warnings: NSFW

sorry about accidentally posting this half formatted. here we go

#my writing #bitegore fic

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