#unless a future companion actually has a customization i actually want for it

[greyias]

Well GEEZE achievement unlocked I guess.

Apparently if there's a broken droid next to the Jawa, touching it is an act of war. I only remembered this after clicking on the blue glowing item as I do practically on instinct now.

RIP Jawa Vendor. I probably wasn't going to buy anything from you anyway

[whispelanix]

Gameplay features we should have in a future Fallout title

Based on what we’ve had in previous games. Just some random storyline stuff and game stuff I’ve enjoyed so far:

Regions (Fallout 4, 76): Yes, I know every game has regions, but I'm talking about the difference in how life grows in certain areas and the level of radiation in said area kind of thing. The regions in 76 have so much personality. Fallout 4 only had the Commonwealth/Glowing Sea as its base game regions in how nature has evolved, but in 76 it's so diverse. Different mutated creatures are more native to different areas, and it has the flora to go alongside with it.

Plans (Fallout 76): Yeah, most of the 3D Fallout games has a few schematics for some weapons, and maybe a small variety of unique consumables, but I like how 76 makes you actually work and spend caps for Plans in order to know how to make something new. Not just weapons, but food, drinks, armor, workshop, etc. Because if this was real life, you wouldn't magically know how to make everything all of a sudden. They keep basic knowledge food items like deathclaw steak, which you can just cook up, as recipes you already know and you find recipes for more "advanced" dishes, and I really enjoy that.

Consumables System (Fallout 76): The amount of variety you have in regards to consumables in this game is amazing. There's so many mutated animals to cook up, so many plants to make soup, and you can make tea and even make juice out of something like mutfruit. I also love the additions we can put into consumables now (sugar, salt, pepper, honey, and we FINALLY have milk). So what they gave us in Fallout 4 with the better cooking aspects has been taken to new heights. Your food spoils now, and boiling water doesn't purify it, it just makes it boiled, which means you NEED a purifier to make it clean.

Eating/Drinking consumables without using Pip-Boy (Fallout 76): This is extremely useful, especially in an online game, and I think it'd work well in single player as well. You no longer have to hoard a bunch of stuff to just eat it, you now have the option to eat it on the spot as well, and move on with your life.

Layered Armor System and the ability to wear costumes over them (Fallout 4, 76): Fallout 4 introduced to us the layered armor system, which is one of the greatest things we've been given in regards to customizing outfits in the game, and now with Fallout 76 we have two different outfit options, armor and clothing. Now, not only can we wear underarmor and armor over it to protect us, but we now have coveralls as well to do so in style whilst retaining the effects of whatever else we wear underneath it.

Distant Weather Systems (Fallout 76): Pretty self explanatory - the ability to see storms coming from a distance as well as nuclear explosions along the horizon is pretty great if you ask me.

Faction Reputation (New Vegas, Fallout 76): I really like these features, because let's be honest, you can't stay on everyone's good side forever. There was only one case of this in Fallout 4, and that was the "You are now enemies with X faction". That ain't good enough. If we could get a mix of the faction reputation system in NV/76, I would be very pleased.

Karma and Affinity (Fallout 3, New Vegas, Fallout 4): The ultimate decider of good and evil. While in NV you had reputations amongst different factions, the karma system is the ultimate decider of where you stand in the wasteland. I like the individual Affinity system with companions as well, because it gives you the chance to either be a certain way, or pretend to act a way to gain trust. I can see why Karma was removed in 4 though, because Karma is based upon what everyone in the wasteland knows of you, so that would've limited the ability to stay on all the companions good sides if your Karma was at a certain level. If there was a way to balance it out though, that would be great. Or maybe they could find a way to make Karma separate from companions, and still make it work out nicely with their individual Affinity.

Maybe Karma in regards to companions could be the determiner of "first impressions", and then the Affinity you develop with them is the determiner of who you really are. They did a reversal of this in Fallout 4 where companions such as Cait, MacCready and Hancock have a more badass reputation when you first meet them, but as you get to know them you find they've been through a lot of suffering. But they still keep their initial reputation among outsiders. If it can be done with NPC's, who's to say it can't be done with the player?

"You are now dressed as a member of X" (New Vegas): The ability to disguise ourselves as members of different factions was a great addition, and really should be bought back. You can get into places you couldn't before, amongst people you normally couldn't, but I think if it's bought back, then factions you work alongside with should be able to detect whether or not it's you, unless you wear a mask or a facial covering.

Clothing is as clothing does (Fallout 4, 76): Suits shouldn't just magically turn into dresses just because you decided to play as a female. If you wanna alternate between "male" and "female" versions of an outfit, then let there just be suit/dress versions of certain styles of clothing. I liked how 4/76 did this, because now, if you wanna be a guy in a dress. Guess what? You can be a guy in a dress.

Workshops and C.A.M.P features (Fallout 4, 76): I doubt we're going to get the ability to make an obnoxious amount of settlements again (maybe), but I admire the chance we're given to build and really make a part of the wasteland our own, and I even more so love how 76 really gives us all those buildings and furniture and decorations to really personalize what you have. Who knows, maybe a future title will give us a combination of workshops you naturally have in place for construction, settlements to help build up (because saving the day always seems to be the job of the player), and then C.A.M.Ps that we as the player can move wherever we like. Maybe we could be given the option to build campsites for other NPCs as a temporary or permeant home. Maybe what we build up will have the ability to be destroyed like in 76.

Grey Morality/Politics (A bit over all titles, talking especially about New Vegas, The Pitt, things of the sort): The factions we were given in NV all had good and bad sides to them, making it sometimes difficult to have a truly perfect utopia. I hope we get back more morally grey choices as well as factions and politics, or instances in where there is no right answer other than wrong and a little less wrong. I don't really need to explain in detail, you've seen how things have played out across titles.

Old Dialogue System (Every game but Fallout 4): Options yes, no, no but actually yes and sarcasm aren't good enough. I love the cinematic aspect FO4 had, don't get me wrong, but conversation is so limited. I also loved the ridiculous way the camera would zoom right on someone's face (I feel sometimes in 76 you can just be way too far from someone talking sometimes) and I'd like to be able to walk out of the conversation whenever I want as well.

Certain Perks/Stats result certain outcomes (Most of the old titles): I wanna be able to get away with low intelligent speeches, flirt with people to get my way, things of the sort. Pretty simple.

That's all I've got for now since I've been working on this list for hours but yeah. Feel free to add things you'd like to see. Personality I'd just like to see the best features and aspects taken from all the games to create the "ultimate Fallout experience".

[loyalannister]

UNDER THE LENS : Eddard I, A Game of Thrones

Eddard I, A Game of Thrones, starts with the arrival of King Robert Baratheon and his retinue to Winterfell and ends in the crypts where the dead Lords of the castle stare with disapproving eyes as Robert asks Ned Stark to be his Hand.

• Tyrion is present in the King's party and not lingering in a brothel when we see him for the first time in the series. Tyrion is in the Winterfell library when we first see him in his own PoV. Book! Tyrion does frequent brothels often but it speaks volumes about what the author wanted the reader's first impression of Tyrion to be in contrast to how the writers of Thrones wanted to present Tyrion to the viewers for the first time.

• I know that this excerpt is often considered as foreshadowing for Jon Snow becoming King:

Ned jested [...] “Kings are a rare sight in the north.”

Robert snorted. “More likely they were hiding under the snow. Snow, Ned!”

But also it's ironic that Ned says Kings are a rare sight in the North when his own son Robb will soon be declared King in the North although Ned himself wouldn't be alive to see it :(

• This PoV is rich in imagery/references to the dead Starks, the crypts, the Others but also it provides hope : hope that the Starks will eventually triumph against against all odds :

“The Others take your mild snows,” Robert swore. “What will this place be like in winter? I shudder to think.”

“The winters are hard,” Ned admitted. “But the Starks will endure. We always have.”

Unbeknownst to Robert, his words will come true - the Others will take away the mild snows and bring a much harsher & fiercer winter which the readers will shudder to read about in A Dream of Spring.

Later when Ned tells Robert to return to the castle from the crypts as his wife would surely be waiting, Robert says, “The Others take my wife,” - will this come true as well? (This actually reminds me of a favorite personal theory of mine which I was lowkey hoping to see in the show - Jaime would kill Cersei after being converted to a wight, thereby fulfilling the prophecy of the valonqar making it seem less like a heroic deed on Jaime's part and more like a gruesome one!)

• George does an excellent job of giving the crypts of Winterfell a very horror filled mystical vibe in this PoV - the crypts are almost personified in every other line starting from the very stairs leading down to them :

He could feel the chill coming up the stairs, a cold breath from deep within the earth.

[...]

He swept the lantern in a wide semicircle. Shadows moved and lurched.

The stone statues in the crypts seem to come alive eerily as the light from Ned's lantern illuminate them:

The shifting shadows made the stone figures seem to stir as the living passed by.

When Robert laughs uproariously at a joke, his laughter echoes through the darkness and :

[...] all around them the dead of Winterfell seemed to watch with cold and disapproving eyes.

In fact, George chooses to end the chapter on a very ominous note, as if the inhabitants of the crypt know the fate of Ned if he fulfils Robert's wish to be his Hand:

He looked at the stone figures all around them, breathed deep in the chill silence of the crypt. He could feel the eyes of the dead. They were all listening, he knew. And winter was coming.

• Jon Snow's parentage has long been a subject of discussion and debate in the fandom. Although it's widely believed that he is Rhaegar's son, other theories claim that he is Ned and Ashara's son.

Robert Baratheon had always been a man of huge appetites, a man who knew how to take his pleasures. That was not a charge anyone could lay at the door of Eddard Stark.

If Ned had really been with Ashara and birthed Jon as a bastard, it's unlikely that he would think along these lines. Although the events occuring at the Tower of Joy unfold later as a part of Ned's fever dream, in this PoV, he distinctly recalls Lyanna in his full senses beseeching him to promise her something (it might not be about a son, some might argue, but then what is the 'promise' all about? It definitely seems like a dead end if it's not about Jon.)

• Aside from their beauty and wildness, one Arya/Lyanna parallel I always really liked was when Arya searched for some purple and green flowers & brought them to Ned while they were crossing the Neck on their way to King's Landing. This would have undoubtedly reminded Ned of Lyanna:

“I bring her flowers when I can,” he said. “Lyanna was…fond of flowers.”

• The long dead lords of Winterfell are associated with further ominous symbolism:

By ancient custom an iron longsword had been laid across the lap of each who had been Lord of Winterfell, to keep the vengeful spirits in their crypts. The oldest had long ago rusted away to nothing, leaving only a few red stains where the metal had rested on stone. Ned wondered if that meant those ghosts were free to roam the castle now.

Not only would the iron longswords keep the dead Lords at bay, they would protect any possible people hiding in the crypts from the Others as well! As Old Nan puts it:

“They [the Others] were cold things, dead things, that hated iron and fire and the touch of the sun...”

Interestingly, some swords are missing from the stone statues currently as they were taken by Bran and his companions while fleeing from the ruined castle.

• Early on in the series, it becomes evident that Rhaegar did not rape Lyanna; Ned doesn't harbour any ill thoughts about Rhaegar when Robert speaks about him. Furthermore, he remains silent & his inner monologue provides no ill feelings about the silver prince :

“In my dreams, I kill him every night,” Robert admitted. “A thousand deaths will still be less than he deserves.”

There was nothing Ned could say to that.

• Rhaegar's rubies are brought up time and again in the series with various people actively seeking them out:

When Ned had finally come on the scene, Rhaegar lay dead in the stream, while men of both armies scrabbled in the swirling waters for rubies knocked free of his armor.

Arya and Mycah later team up to look for Rhaegar's rubies on the ford and later in A Feast for Crows, the Elder Brother informs Brienne that six rubies have been washed up with the water. Might these rubies have any significance in the future? Can they be used as a glamour by someone to appear as Rhaegar?

• The Starks belong to Winterfell and Winterfell belongs to the Starks:

For a moment Eddard Stark was filled with a terrible sense of foreboding. This was his place, here in the north.

This is why, I feel extremely skeptical whenever I hear of King Bran endgame in the books. Bran is a Stark through and through, he is connected to Winterfell & the North like no one else. All signs point to him being King in the North rather than of entire Westeros. This is also why Sansa as Lady of the Vale in the end seems unlikely unless she marries someone from the Vale, given that Sansa herself has no claim to the Vale.

TRIVIA :

• Cersei Lannister rode to Winterfell in a wheelhouse pulled by forty (40) horses. It was too wide to pass through the gates of Winterfell.

• King Robert brought fruits from Highgarden for Ned to taste.

[sirloozelite]

A Review of SWTOR

So, not too long ago, a pair of friends (frenemies more like) of mine were playing SWTOR... and suffice to say they would not shut up about it.  I’d always been aware of the game in the back of my mind, but it had never really appealed to me. MMO’s don’t really, as I would always be worried about random players sticking their nose in whilst I was trying to keep to myself. 

Still, my friends would not shut up about it, and they kept recommending it to me, despite my internal aversion to it.  Now, considering that they had both foolishly taken my advice on games to play in the past, I decided to return the favour and give SWTOR a chance. 

And boy was I glad I did.  Is SWTOR a good game? Yes... and no... and yes. It’s not perfect, it’s got problems, but it’s still a lot of fun, and I’m glad I’ve done at least one playthrough of the game. 

Upon loading up I of course had to choose what storyline I wanted to follow. Since both of my buddies had gone Jedi Knight, (though I’d argue that a certain someone made their Jedi about as deplorable as Anakin) I decided to be the awkward one and went Sith Inquisitor instead, and honestly... I think I chose perfectly!

Oh and... for those interested... here is my Inquisitor:

His name is the Sixteenth Brother! What’s his backstory? Well... that depends on who you ask! Some say he’s the 16th sibling of a Zabrak family... others say he chose the name to hide his true one. Some even say he’s a time traveller from a distant future sent back in time after accidentally finding a Sith relic in his time. Whatever the truth is matters little. All that matters is that he was great fun to play as. 

Oh and for the record, this review is based on a Free To Play experience and completion of the class storyline only. I’ve not touched the expansions yet, but intend to at some point. Any criticisms I have that are solved by subscribing are a moot point. Furthermore, it goes without saying but all of the below is my own opinions of the game. Doesn’t make them right or wrong.

The Good

There are many good things about SWTOR, almost too many to name. That said, there are some things I’d like to highlight.

The Story 

The first and foremost best thing about the game is of course, the story. Being a Bioware written game created at the same time as the Mass Effect trilogy, I expected a good story... and I was not disappointed by the tale of the Sith Inquisitor. It was the standard tale of a protagonist coming from lowly origins, in this case a slave, and advancing up the ladder of society. Nothing too revolutionary, but add in the Sith and the Empire and it was made all the more better. Frequently, poor 16th Bro would get hounded for being an alien, and each and every time he’d beat the odds, and then usually show mercy to those who had insulted him. (I played him mostly light side... though there were a few times I surrendered to the dark and zapped people)

The world building within the story was also top notch. Plenty of detail is hidden away in the codex, much like Mass Effect, but that didn’t mean there wasn’t stuff in the actual gameplay and story as well. I’d never really been a legends fan, and whilst I’m still not, I do see why a lot of people love these sorts of stories. I was invested, and that’s what mattered. 

Outside of the Sith Inquisitor, the very fact that there are seven other unique storylines and classes to play, as well as heavy character customization and role play more than make the game worthy of revisiting. There is a little bit of something for everyone it seems. 

The Characters

Another great strength of Bioware games is usually it’s characters, especially the protagonists companions. I can happily report that, at least for the Sith Inquisitor, the vast majority of the characters in the story were great. 

The three standout characters outside of the Inquisitor to me were Khem Val, Ashara Zavros and Talos Drellik. 

That’s not to say that Andronikos, Xalek, Zash and Thanaton weren’t good characters either, I just didn’t enjoy them as much as Khem, Ashara and Talos. 

Each character felt like they had their own arc. Khem Val growing to accept you as a Master and true successor to Tulak Hord was great, even if he and 16th Bro were constantly disagreeing about 16th’s methods. Despite his dislike of the decisions, I still sided with him when the time came to choose who got to control his body for good. 

Ashara going from “I’m a Jedi and I won’t go against my teachings!” to “Peace is a lie!” was good development as well. I understand that some people don’t like this character much, but she was my go to companion most of the time. She’s not quite a Sith, but not quite a Jedi either, and that made for a perfect companion for the 16th Brother, as he was hardly a model Sith either. 

As for Talos... well... he’s an archaeologist and a historian... and I’ve got a degree in history... so of course I was going to love him! Plus he was eccentric as all hell and added a nice voice of humour to the crew. His personal story about him trying to find his old mentor and carry on his legacy was heartfelt too.

As for everyone else, I was invested in their characters, don’t get me wrong, just not as much as the others. Both Zash and Thanaton were good villains that I took pleasure in ending, and Andronikos and Xalek got their fair amount of use on the field and in the ship. Everyone was friends at the end after all. 

The Voice Acting

The other good point I’d like to highlight is the voice acting, particularly that of the male Sith Inquisitor. I’ve heard people say the female voice is better, but for my experience the male Inquisitor was the perfect match of sass and sarcasm. It made every scene with him in enjoyable to watch. RPG games were a single protagonist can get a bit boring sometimes. Commander Shepard suffers from this in Mass Effect at times. I never got that feeling with the Inquisitor though. He was hilarious from the second he stepped off the shuttle on Korriban and sassed Overseer Harkun (who I totally zapped to death) to the moment he took his seat on the dark council with a surprised Pikachu look on his face. 

So yeah... super credit to Euan Morton for making the Inquisitor the dark master of sass and sarcasm! 

Outside of the Inquisitor, I can say that all the other VA’s did a great job too. I can’t think of any character that had particularly bad voice acting off the top of my head. 

Other Good Stuff

Outside of the three things I mentioned, SWTOR also has plenty of content to offer for everyone. If you want to do main missions, sure! Side quests? Sure! Space combat missions? Yep! Whatever you fancy, it’s there. There is no shortage of content to enjoy for hours on end, even as a Free To Play player like I was. 

The Bad

And now to most likely upset some people... sorry about that, but no game is perfect, and SWTOR has some flaws that could put people off playing it. This stuff is by no means a game breaking deal for me, but it did annoy me and I felt like it needed addressing. 

The Game is Tedious

My biggest complaint is that at times, usually after an hour of playing, the game can become tedious and boring to play! There were times it felt like a chore honestly, and I hate saying that because SWTOR is a good game. 

The main reason for it feeling so tedious though comes down to how you move around the maps. When you can, fast travel is your best friend and can save a lot of time, however, not everywhere has a fast travel point near it. 

This is where speeders come into play. You can buy one for a reasonable amount of credits, and they are faster than walking for sure, but not by much. 

The problem with the speeders is that it is so easy to get shot off of one by one of the random enemies you are trying to drive past (and believe me there are hundreds of them!) that is becomes aggravating to move around the map from objective to objective. Avoiding enemies isn’t hard for sure, but sometimes you have to go right past them, and after hours of fighting enemies it can get a bit tedious being shot off your speeder in one shot just because you didn’t want to waste time fighting an enemy. Once you hit your level cap, fighting random enemies is pointless after all. 

Maybe that’s just me though. I’d personally make the speeders a bit more durable. One tiny shot shouldn’t disable your speeder. Heavy fire... sure!  Doesn’t help that sometimes you can tank a bunch of shots on your speeder and escape without being knocked off, but then on another occasion you’ll be knocked off by a sneeze. 

Either way, movement around the maps can get annoying as all hell, but at least the scenery is pretty. 

The Planets

Now don’t get me wrong, I like all the planets I went to... mostly... and my issue isn’t with the planets in general. 

It’s with how bloody long it takes to complete them all.

The Story Arc quest lines for each planet can take forever sometimes and they end up going on a bit too long if you ask me. Alderaan and Hoth are the two that come to my mind the most. It felt like I spent weeks on those planets driving back and forth between areas to do simple tasks for little reward. Plus the sheer number of side quests didn’t help. I stopped doing everything that wasn’t a story or Arc quest once I hit Hoth!

Don’t get me wrong, I like side quests for sure... I just don’t like them to drag on forever! In a lot of ways, SWTOR reminds me of Mass Effect Andromeda. That game too also had side quests that went on forever. 

My one piece of advice to nay new players for SWTOR would be to ignore the side quests and focus solely on your class story quests and planet Arc quests instead. If you try and do everything, you’ll burn yourself out quickly. Unless you are a completionist of course. In that case go nuts! XD

Other Bad Stuff

Aside from my two big gripes above, which are honestly minor in reality, the only other issues I really have with the game are the boring side objectives in some missions. Nine times out of ten they equate to ‘kill a bunch of dudes’. They are easy enough to complete, as you’ll be killing things anyways, so you don’t really need to put any real thought into completing most of them. They just feel tacked on and rather pointless honestly. 

The Ugly

And now the ugly stuff. This is stuff that is between good and bad. Bad as in they annoyed me, but good as in I understand why others like them or they improved over time. 

The User Interface

Oh god the UI! When I first started the game it was so overwhelming! Pop-ups everywhere! Hundreds of tabs and side bars and tutorial boxes being spammed my way. It was not friendly to a new player who had literally just jumped in. If I hadn’t played games like Civ or XCOM in the past I might not have been able to cope with how much stuff was going on at once. 

Luckily, after a few hours of play, I began to understand the UI a bit more and became comfortable with it. I knew what was where and what did what, as well as what I didn’t need. (any PvP stuff for example) Plus the ability to edit the interface to your own liking helped a lot as well, so it wasn’t a complete lost cause, just overwhelming at first. 

Flashpoints and Heroic Missions

So, these missions are designed to be played with other players online, clearly. They can be done solo, but they take forever to do so. Endless hordes of high HP enemies, including even higher HP boss fights is not that entertaining to me, and thus very quickly became boring to me. Artificial difficulty in a way. Plus if you do die, it ain’t half a pain in the ass to get back to where you were, only to find that boss that had 5% health left when it killed you is now back to 100%. 

I gave up doing these sorts of missions and have no intention of returning to them unfortunately, which is a shame as some of the flashpoints have actual important story content in them. 

Still, if unlike me you actually have friends to help you with these, then I get why you like them, and more power to you. I just don’t enjoy them much. 

The Soundtrack

And now to really upset some people. Look... I like John Williams music scores as much as the rest of the fandom does. That said, there were places in SWTOR where it showed up and really really did not work! It almost felt like the game was just spamming random iconic tracks that sort of fit the scene, but really didn’t. 

The biggest one for me that didn’t work was the final duel against Darth Thanaton in the Dark Council Chambers. During the cutscene between the two fighting, the music started on ‘The Final Duel’ from ROTJ when they were fighting, and they suddenly it shifted to the theme from Padmés funeral when Thanaton was overpowered! I mean, I get what they were going for with the music, but the sudden shift between tracks was unceremonious and didn’t work. If they were going to use licensed movie music then they should have just chosen one track and stuck with it rather than jumping between two!

Furthermore, to me those themes were written for specific scenes in their respective movies, and thus were created to fit those scenes, not random SWTOR scenes. If anything, the entire scene should have had it’s own score written for it rather than just reuse movie tracks instead!

That said, whenever the game does use original music that isn’t from the movies, it’s fine! The ambient background for the planets is great, Alderaan’s especially, and I hated that planet! They clearly had the talent of music directors to write Star Wars sounding music, so I don’t fully get why they didn’t just go with original music all the way rather than just reuse John Williams music instead. I don’t know if they didn’t have enough money or something. If that was the case then I’d understand. 

So yeah, the music is a 50/50 for me. The original music is great. The movie music is still great, it’s just not used right. 

Other Ugly Stuff

WASD controls. They aren’t game breaking, but I’m not a great fan of them. They make my wrist hurt. I adapted, like I did with the UI, so it’s not really a big issue, but I know it could put one or two people off playing it. 

Another minor gripe is a consequence of the game being an RPG within an MMO. Other players are running around, often doing the same objectives as you. They can steal your objectives before you, forcing you to wait around for them to respawn so you can do them yourselves. Luckily there is usually other stuff to do in the meantime, and the re-spawn timer is smallish, so it’s not a huge problem. Just an unfortunate consequence. 

Conclusion

So... would I recommend playing SWTOR to people? Yes! I would. It’s a good game, even with it’s flaws. I had a lot of fun running through the Sith Inquisitor’s storyline, and I learnt a lot about the game for any future playthroughs I do. I know what to expect now and what to stay away from, so hopefully whatever class I choose to do next will be full of less annoying little things. 

That said, considering how long it took me to do the Inquisitor’s story, I feel like I’m gonna need a serious break before I can play another class. I was almost burnt out when I finished the Inquisitor, and I’ve still got the two free expansions to go!

So yeah... all in all, SWTOR is a good game,. I’d recommend it, and I’m glad I gave it a fair chance. It’s not in my top 10, but it’s one to return to. :)

So, if you’ve ever thought about trying out SWTOR before but were apprehensive about it, then I’d encourage you to give it a shot. It is free after all! Unless you subscribe. But you can at least try it for free! Bonus I say! XD

[slytherinliththorne]

Lith Thorne’s Profile

New Template by  @cursebreaker-lilith​​

~BASICS~

Name: Ailith Thorne Rosas.

Nicknames: Lith, Witchling.

Name Meaning: Idk man I don’t remember :b

Gender: Female

Pronouns: She/her

Age: 16

Birthday: December 10

Zodiac: Sagittarius

Blood Status: Half-Blood

Sexuality: Biromantic asexual

Ethnicity/Nationality:  Mexican

~APPEARANCE~

Body:

Height: 1.65

Build: Slim

Eyes: Golden

Hair: White

Skin: White

Misc:  She has a rune in her chest product of her curse. A small scar in her forehead from when she was little and fell, it’s almost unnoticeable.

Material Items:

Clothing: Hogwarts uniform mostly. Lith has almost no fashion sense, so she resorts to comfy hoodies, plain shirts and jeans. She also owns a few stylish and girly clothes, but won't use them unless necessary.

Accesories: An amethyst earing in later years, a necklace with a feather of Talbott’s and a teeth of Jacob.

In their school bag: Her sketchbook, pens, pencils and chalks, a deck of cards, her wand, a woven bracelet,  her amethyst charm that becomes an earring in later years.

Reference:

Face claim: None

Voice claim: None

~PERSONALITY~

Traits:

Positive:

Lucky: For some reason, Lith has super good luck for the most trivial things, like managing to get a cauldron just before Potions class starts because she forgot hers. She assumes it must be the universe’s compensation for cursing her.

Resourceful: To any problem she encounters, from a forgotten homework to escaping death, she will always have a set of solutions already elaborated in her mind. They might not always work as she wants, but they certainly save her ass.

Intelligent: She is a nerd and an overachiever. She enjoys learning and hyperfixates on a lot of interesting subjects during the course of her life.

Neutral:

Introverted: While she can handle big groups, Lith gets stressed out quickly. She prefers being on her own or with a few friends.

Daydreamer: Lith’s head is always on the clouds, she has whole worlds inside, but never actually gets to express them, not that she minds. She also has a very vivid imagination.

Negative:

Insecure: She gains more confidence as she grows older, but she will always doubt her abilities and her own worth.

Workaholic: No matter what she does, she has to give her best. That causes many sleepless nights and some eyebags once in a while.

No emotional intelligence: When it comes to matters of the heart, she has no clue how to proceed. She finds it difficult to read the mood of a room or identify when someone is feeling down. In the same way that she has a hard time figuring out her own emotions and naming them.

Description:

Something something I’ll write it later

Other:

Likes: Solitude, art, books, muggle trinkets, sweets, winter.

Dislikes: Blood supremacy, loud places, summer, heat.

MBTI: INTP

Alignment: Neutral Good

~HOGWARTS~

Hogwarts House: Slytherin.

OWL CLASSES:

Astronomy: E

Charms: O

DADA: E

Flying: A

Herbology: A

History of Magic: O

Potions: A

Transfiguration: E

OWL ELECTIVES:

Care of Magical Creatures: A

Apparition: O

Divination: A

NEWT CLASSES:

Charms: O

Transfiguration: A

History of Magic: E

Extracurriculars:

Art

Muggle art

Best Classes:

Charms: Lith was taught charms by Jacob since he began Hogwarts when he noticed his sister had a particular proficiency with them, so when Lith arrived she was a bit ahead of her peers and continued to hone her skills on more advanced charms on her own.

History of Magic: Lith has always been a History nerd and History of Magic was a class she enjoyed and easily excelled in. Not much because of the Professor but Rowan and the study groups they would organize.

Worst Classes:

Flying: When in her human form, she is terrified of heights and hates flying.

Herbology: Lith and plants is something that is just not meant to be.

Favorite Professors:

Silvanus Kettleburn: He is eccentric, he is encouraging and he cares not about the world except for his beloved magical creatures. Lith admires his dedication and appreciates a non conventional teacher like him.

Patricia Rakepick: While Lith never fully trusted the curse breaker, she would be lying if she said that she did not enjoy Rakepick’s classes. She was probably the best professor of DADA she ever had.

Least Favorite Professors:

Severus Snape: Despite being her Head of House, Lith never liked Snape. He could mean well and she would be grateful for that but please be at a minimum distance of 6 feet apart. His attitude was the opposite of encouraging and she hated it.

Madam Hooch: She is scary :(( please don’t yell at her for not knowing how to fly she doesn’t need a broom anyway ;-;.

Affiliations/Organizations:

Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry

Slytherin House

The House of Thorne

Circle of Khanna

The Werewolf Support Squad (with Jae, Talbott, Chiara and Rowan)

The Silver Coven (with Summer Charn and Catherine Stark)

Professions:

Freelance curse breaker.

Independent Rescuer.

Part-time artist and painter.

~MAGIC~

1st Wand:

Willow wood

10

Surprisingly swishy

Unicorn hair core

“Willow is an uncommon wand wood with healing power, and I have noted that the ideal owner for a willow wand often has some (usually unwarranted) insecurity, however well they may try and hide it. While many confident customers insist on trying a willow wand (attracted by their handsome appearance and well-founded reputation for enabling advanced, non-verbal magic) my willow wands have consistently selected those of greatest potential, rather than those who feel they have little to learn. It has always been a proverb in my family that he who has furthest to travel will go fastest with willow.” (Pottermore.)

2nd Wand:

Macpalxochitl wood

113/4

Slightly Yielding

Huactli feather core

Disclaimer: this is my own lore.

Macpalxochitl, or the Devil’s Hand Tree, became a popular wood to make wands out of when the afrancesamiento of Mexico began. Old chroniclers would often refer to this tree as “worthy of any castle and palace”, so it was sought by wizards of high status. Nowadays it’s existence is very rare and only a few wandmakers are allowed to handle this tree. Wands of this wood tend to be stubborn, but they will remain loyal to their first owner. It is said that it’s better suited to healing magic, but that doesn’t mean it’s not able to turn to the Dark Arts.

The Huactli  is a strange eagle-like bird that feeds on snakes. Its peculiarity is that it’s is able to speak the language of men and predict their future. It is said that if you hear it laugh, it means good luck, but if it mutters sadly, it can translate in danger, sickness and death. Wands of this core make powerful spells, but are often unpredictable and difficult to tame. Their loyalty is easily gained and easily lost, though this may vary depending on the wood. 

Boggart 

Form: A big twisted grackle like humanoid with bright golden eyes.

Riddikulus: The grackle suddenly doing the chicken dance.

Amorentia

What they smell: Hot chocolate, books and oil painting (turpentine lmao).

What they smeel like to others: Mint, paint and parchment.

Patronus

Form: Jaguar (for Jacob), Eagle (after Talbott).

Memory: Family reunions on her Mother’s side of the family. All her cousins running around while the adults played cards.

What they see in the Mirror of Erised: Jacob and her, side by side, with the marks of their curse erased from their chests. As the years pass, more people are added into the picture behind them, like Chiara, Rowan, Talbott and Jae. After Rowan dies, their image takes Jacob’s place by Lith’s side.

~FAMILY~

Father: Daniel Thorne.Pureblood wizard.

Curly white hair (not due to the curse tho), white skin and golden eyes. Her dad is her greatest supporter, anything she wants to do he is right behind her cheering for her. He is a little bit eccentric but he loves to indulge his children's interests and spoil them. However, he is not available in the emotional department, he doesn’t know how to deal with those problems.

Mother:  Perla Rosas Villareal.

Muggle. Curly brown hair, brown skin and brown eyes. Her mom is strict but loving. Lith always seeks her for emotional support, she listens patiently and offers help only when asked. She is the one who makes her question things and they often get into arguments because of that.

Brother: Jacob Thorne Rosas

Half-blood wizard. The reason for all this mess. Curly silver hair, brown skin and golden eyes. An introverted and sweet guy, but very naive and trusting. The relationship between the Thorne siblings had always been good. Sure, they fought and argued, but they got along pretty well. After the Vaults, Lith became wary of her own brother, but when it all ended they began to reconstruct their relationship, though it will always be damaged.

Pets:

Onyx (Grackle): He is not exactly her pet, he is the other half of her soul aka her Companion.

Nox: A black cat that stayed back at home with her parents.

~FRIENDS~

Best friends:

Rowan Khanna

Chiara Lobosca

Jae Kim

Good friends:

Badeea Ali (they are art rivals but in a friendly way)

Charlie Weasley

Bill Weasley

Tulip Karasu

Friends:

Penny Haywood

Barnaby

Murphy

Andre

It’s Complicated:

Love Interests:

Talbott Winger (he is the only one I have a description for atm, the others are in another post if I remember correctly lol)

They met when Lith was trying to break her curse via the animagus potion, a thing that obviously didn’t work.

After the failure of the potion (of which Talbott is not aware), they began to notice they shared similar hiding spots, such as the Owlery, and started to acknowledge each other’s existence by simply saying hello.

Then Lith started to get closer again, asking him about the potion and being an animagus. He got suspicious and ended up discovering Chiara and Lith were trying to turn Jae into an animagus to accompany them during Chiara’s werewolf transformation.

He agreed to help them and became a member of the Werewolf Support Squad, a little bit against his will but he warmed up to them eventually.

They started to get close during those night escapades. They hung out more together (with the Squad) even after the full moons.  

Recovering Talbott’s necklace was the first time they got close one on one. It was also the moment they began to develop feelings for each other, even if they couldn’t name them yet.

They like being alone together, and started acting as a couple before they actually became one.

The moment Talbott realizes he has fallen for Lith is a morning after the full moon, when they are all in the Room of Requirement trying to get some sleep and the only thing he can look at is her.

For Lith it takes more time to realize her massive crush. It happened when Talbott fell asleep in the library while studying together. Tulip comes in and says something like “could you tell your boyfriend to wake up, Lith Thorne? We are having a House meeting soon.” Lith’s like “he is not my boyfriend tho??” and Tulip just answers “Really? Thought you were dating for months.” And leaves. That’s the moment when Lith looks at sleeping Talbott and omg he is cute and we certainly do look like a couple oh fuck.

Yet neither of them thinks the other is interested, so they continue like normal.

Until they stay behind in the Room of Requirement one time and they accidentally confess and bam guess they are a real couple now.

They graduate. Talbott gets his own place and works as an auror, Lith travels the world as a curse breaker. They meet sometimes and go on dates.

The year of Voldemort’s uprising, they have a fight and they both go their separate ways, though they never once mention breaking up.

They reunite in the Battle of Hogwarts, Talbott almost dies and they apologize to each other.

Lith moves in with Talbott after that and they marry and adopt two kittens.

Dormmates:

Merula Snyde

Ismelda Murk

Rowan Khanna

Doesn’t interact:

Merula Snyde

Ismelda Murk

Diego Caplan

Bea Haywood

Enemies:

Merula Snyde (formerly)

Patricia Rakepick

R

~STORY~

Childhood: 

Lith was born in a middle low class family in the Valley of Mexico, with a malediction in her blood. Her early childhood consisted of playing with the children in the same street and Jacob. Since insecurity was still not that high in the city, her mom would let them go out of the house on their own. They attended a public elementary school until Jacob received his letter. After that, Lith couldn’t bother with school anymore but was forced to attend. As she grew up, children started to distance themselves from her, all the neighbourhood thought it was suspicious that her brother had gone to a boarding school when they barely had the money to pay for all their expenses. It got worse when Jacob disappeared.

HOGWARTS:

1st Year: Befriends Rowan, Ben, Chiara and Penny. Makes enemies with Merula. Finds Ice Vault. The Werewolf Support Unit is formed by Chiara, Rowan and Lith.

2nd Year: Ben Cooper disappears. Befriends Bill Weasley. They enter another common room. They open the Ice Vault.

3rd Year: Befriends Tulip, Barnaby and Talbott. Tries the Animagus potion. Attempt to turn Jae into an animagus. The Werewolf Support Unit becomes the Werewolf Support Squad with new members Jae and Talbott. They open Fear Vault.

4th Year: Befriends Charlie Weasley. Patricia Rakepick arrives at Hogwarts. Sleepwalking curse. Open Forest Vault. Goes to the Celestial Ball with Rowan and on a “date” with Talbott.

5th Year: Befriends Jae Kim, Badeea Ali, Liz Tuttle and Diego Caplan. Detention in the kitchens. Beatrice Haywood is trapped in the portrait. Rakepick becomes the new DADA teacher. Lith realizes she has feelings for Talbott. They open the Portrait Vault.

6th Year: Ben goes dark. Lith and Talbott start to date. Rowan dies. Meets Ty Blackwood and finds out they are related. Circle of Khanna.

7th Year: Who tf knows?? :))

ADULTHOOD:

After graduation: Lith goes to become a cursebreaker, taking jobs others would not. She quickly gains a reputation among shady witches and wizards. She lives like this for a year, not having a stable place to stay and traveling from country to country carrying only her backpack. She grows tired of it and decides to drop it all. She goes back to Mexico and moves in with a few muggle roomies. She studies plastic arts at a university and graduates early. She goes back to England to return to her curse breaker activities when Voldemort comes back.

Order of the Phoenix / 2nd Wizarding War: Lith never joins the Order of the Phoenix. She becomes an independent Rescuer, working by herself or for third parties (the Order included) to rescue Undesirables and get them out of the country. She even crafter fake papers to get them out. She does get in contact with members of the Order sometimes, like Carewyn Cromwell, who is one of her main contacts within the Ministry. She fights in the Battle of Hogwarts and saves Talbott’s life after reuniting with him.

Post-War: She decides she has had enough adventures for a while and moves in with Talbott, who quits as an auror and becomes a poet. They get married in a small ceremony which basically was just signing the papers and getting dinner with friends afterwards. After Jacob dies and her nephew Icarus is left orphaned, she takes him in with Talbott and they all move in with Ty at his much bigger home. Lith returns to her curse breaking job to support the whole family, since she doesn’t want Ty to pay for all of their expenses. Charlie moves in too after dating Ty for a while, which was a surprise for all. And they all live together whoo.

Old Age & Death: After retiring definitely, Lith dedicates the rest of her life to art. She even sells some of her works. She paints until her hair starts to turn black and she grows feathers, she paints until her arms don’t obey her anymore. She dies on her bed, with her precious Companion resting on her chest, as they both merge together, accompanied by Talbott, Icarus and her loved ones.

MISC

When they were children, Jacob lost one of his fangs during a sudden transformation and a collision with the door. Lith keeps it as a necklace charm and gifted Jacob one of her own feathers. Because of this, she believes the first black quill is the one he carried as a necklace charm too.

Before they start dating, Lith gives Talbott one of her feathers, which he wears alongside her mother’s. Lith also wears one of his as a necklace, but when she grows older she turns it into an earring. This is one of the reasons why people believe they were already together.

Lith has a habit of drawing on her skin, which is why she sometimes has her legs covered in little doodles. She later starts drawing on her friends.

She hoards art supplies.

She is a gambling addict, so she will get intense during exploding snap games. She knows a lot of card games from her Mother’s side of the family, challenge her at your own risk.

She never learned how to drive.

She learned a bit of mexican magic from her cousins, who attended Aztlán (the mexican wizarding school) created by @tsikuri.

She definitely sings in the shower, but not during her Hogwarts years.

Her taste in music is broad, listening to almost anything except banda.

She has a sweet tooth and cannot stand spicy food, causing the teasing from her whole family, who all, as proud Mexicans, eat chili with everything.

After she graduates, her schedule shifts entirely. She wakes up at 2 pm and goes to sleep at 3 am.

Her love languages are physical touch, but she is too shy and hyper aware to actually approach people and touch them, and gifts.  

If you give her food, you will now be on her “Good human, Angel from Heaven :-:” list. 

Her wand core comes from a bird that can predict death and misfortune, this curiously can be linked to her manifestation of the curse.

Most people think her new wand is ugly, and she did too. But she had to carve it herself to obtain it from an old Mexican wandmaker. The form is also inspired in the flower from the wand wood tree.Lucky: For some reason, Lith has super good luck for the most trivial things, like managing to get a cauldron just before Potions class starts because she forgot hers. She assumes it must be the universe’s compensation for cursing her.

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DISCLAIMER: Before I begin I would like to establish that NOBODY has to agree with or even like my Lore, especially since this particular post is on a Canon Character. These are purely my headcanons and my thoughts on this character, I am not about to force these ideas/headcanons onto anyone.

After re-reading Spaghetti’s backstory and thinking over the little system I have in place for Food Soul ranks, I realised that Spaghetti would be a pretty interesting subject for this theory. So lets talk about him.

First of all, I have to say that the way Spaghetti’s backstory is written is a little strange, as it seems to imply that he both was and wasn’t with his Master Attendant while he was still living in poverty. However it’s also stated in his story that his MA’s true family took him in because of his potential as an Attendant, a potential that no one else in the family had, therefore giving him the ability to summon a high ranking Food Soul in the first place. So with that being said I think it’s safe to assume that the first part of the story can be believed, and Spaghetti was summoned directly into the estate belonging to his MA’s family.

Which starts us off on the topic of this post:

I’ve stated a few times that most UR Food Souls are of such a rank because they’re one of a kind, whether it’s due to them having abnormally high power levels or some other reason. One of these reasons is that they were customised for whichever Attendant summons them, these Attendants will most commonly be those of the upper class like those in government, and of course, royal families. Da bourgeoise basically. You guys will have to forgive me for not knowing exactly how this customisation process works yet, but I do definitely think that the custom Food Soul would end up as a physical manifestation of everything their Attendant wants in a companion. To give an example; a Guild official would like a professional and hardworking Food Soul who would also be a good ambassador to the Guild, so that’s what they would get. The process is by no means cheap, and the resulting Soul is often a bit of an anomaly, regardless of what line they come from, thus creating a completely one of a kind UR.

So; Spaghetti’s Attendant, what do we have? We have a young boy who started off very roughly in life, living in poverty, who has recently been sought out and adopted into this very high class family. No doubt his mindset is a little bit scrambled, he’s got one foot on the gravy train and the other is no doubt still firmly set in the place where he had lived previously as he tries to adjust. So as a result of these mashed up mindsets we get canon Spaghetti; a Soul who - considering the dish itself - probably wouldn’t be considered by a lot of upper class humans, but because of the influence of the family and his Master’s background, canon Spaghetti turned out very differently to how the rest of his line would typically be. I would imagine that the rest of the Spaghetti line are mostly M and R ranks because of the dish itself being a staple food. It’s a very well known and common dish, so you typically wouldn’t find a Spaghetti soul above a R rank because they’re common, like a Tom Yum or an Orange Juice. But, because canon Spaghetti was summoned into an upper class family by an Attendant who had roots in a far more humble background, that all mashed together to form him, a custom made Spaghetti.

An UR rank Spaghetti. At least at first.

My theory is that canon Spaghetti started out as an UR ranking Soul for a couple of reasons, one of the biggest reasons is actually highlighted in the post’s header, (the art is by the always talented @gearfilledgoggles so please go and commission them if you have the funds.) The reason being that he has violently purple eyes, and with the exception of just two other SR Food Souls, Spaghetti is the only non UR to have purple eyes, which incidentally is what lead me to think about this theory in the first place. 

The two other SR Souls I mentioned both could’ve been UR’s themselves, playing into this theory of purple eyes = UR. But I’ll get onto that later. But they both strengthen this theory.

The second reason is because of the environment he was summoned into. His MA got a protector and a father figure in a Food Soul, I have no doubt that Spaghetti was tailored to what his Attendant had been lacking in his early life, therefore he was customised, making him one of a kind within his own line and therefore a UR. 

The third reason is actually something I have to provide some quotes for. If you guys remember the Castle Mystery event, we’re introduced to the Fallen Angel Bone Knight, a pretty fearsome Fallen who’s on the same level as Tsuchigumo and the Enhanced Uke Mochi as we see in the future team ups. This would add absolutely nothing to this theory if Spaghetti just happened across Bone Knight and chose to use its power for his own gain, but that isn’t the case at all. If we look at some of the dialogue from the Castle Mystery event, we see quite a lot of evidence that points towards Bone Knight being a product of Spaghetti’s corrupted Soul Power, here we go:

1)

"Oyster pushed the door open to find Spaghetti sitting on the throne in the main hall. In his hands, he was holding a pale blue stone. Behind him was the Fallen Angel that had ambushed them.” - Castle Mystery Main Story Chapter 8.

2)

“Let me introduce you. This Fallen Angel here took me a lot of effort to create-- Actually, it seems that you've already met Bone Knight." He couldn't tell for sure, but it seemed to Pretzel that Spaghetti's voice was more downcast than usual, and it seemed to have a self-deprecating tone. - Castle Mystery Main Story Chapter 8.

And finally 3)

"A Fallen Angel made from human ill will concentrated in Bluestones." - Bone Knight’s wiki page.

Blue stones, huh? Like the one we see Spaghetti looking for in B-52′s backstory? Curious. I’ve seen theories floating around that these stones are essentially for purification, they’re vessels for holding impurity until they can be cleansed - kinda like how humans use crystals and other such things IRL. My theory? This Fallen Angel was born out of the corruption of Spaghetti’s Soul Power, and because of the - well - power contained within that Soul Power, Bone Knight ends up being what we see in the event, huge, terrifying and destructive. Personally, I think it’s a bit odd that Spaghetti - a Food Soul who in game isn’t that great of a unit - was able to create something like this, unless he wasn’t always a SR unit, and the power he is able to use has been stunted somehow.

And the reason behind his power being stunted is.. Pretty much why he needs to siphon off that corruption using blue stones in the first place. It’s because of his contract with his Master Attendant being severed in such a cruel way. That severance didn’t just leave him with scars, it left him vulnerable to corruption, it left him vulnerable to the possibility of Falling. Spaghetti has taken part in a lot of unscrupulous activities - including murder - so it’s no surprise to me that he’s picked up enough corruption to Fall. Not only has it left him open and exposed to the possibility of Falling, but because of how traumatic that severance was, it’s also dulled down his Soul Power. Essentially the family who took in his Attendant played themselves by killing him, they had a UR ranking Strength unit, but because of their selfishness they ended up with a far less powerful Soul than they started with. A less powerful Soul who’s also capable of producing a destructive monstrosity like Bone Knight out of the corruption he takes on.

And lastly, as for the two SR Souls I mentioned above who also have purple eyes, I’m of course referring to Marshmallow and Fried Chicken, both of whom I think could’ve been UR’s too because of these reasons: In Marshmallow’s case, she’s deathly afraid of fire, which implies that she may have been in a traumatic event to form this fear. Key word here being trauma, something that I believe can cut down Soul Power and leave the Food Soul at a lower rank than they started with. And as for Fried Chicken, we don’t know exactly how he ended up as a SR unit, but we do have this in his bio on the wiki page: “He's searching everywhere for ways to become stronger, so he can keep up with his attendant.”  He’s trying to become stronger, huh? This need to become stronger and burn brighter is highlighted very strongly in his voice lines, which gives me the inkling that he’s trying to regain some power of some kind. If he was previously a UR unit and suffered some trauma to bring him down to SR, of course he would be fascinated with gaining more power and possibly climbing back up to his original UR rank. It may seem far fetched, but I think there’s some substance to it, all things considered.

Tl;dr: Spaghetti strikes me as a far, far more powerful Soul than canon portrays him to be. Because of his ability to form Bone Knight, because of the circumstances under which he was summoned and because of his eye colour. Lets just take a quick peek at what the colour purple can represent: royalty, nobility, luxury, ambition and power.

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Fairy Tale Memoirs

Author’s Note: This will be a one-shot/AU companion story to Stars Dance & Falling in Temptation that will feature Avalon Reynolds and the Doctor (from 9th-13th Doctor) along with other companions + Lena Reynolds. (P.S. This is also my first piece with 13 and an implied f/f relationship so...be kind!)

[Current Masterlist]

Ch. 1: A Fairy Tale Girl

Summary: Avalon Reynolds bumps into a future incarnation of the Doctor, the 13th Doctor, and it’s pretty hard from the Doctor’s end to keep things...spoiler-free especially when she has a weakness.

There was too much to do and so little time! The Doctor raced around the console, her fingers dancing over the controls to punch in the right coordinates. The fam was waiting to get picked up from their brief interlude but of course the Doctor had gotten a bit distracted along the way. On the one hand, there was danger on a nearby galaxy that she just couldn't ignore. And then there was the fact that Avalon expected her to be back on Earth for Lena's birthday party.

"Oh wow..." the Doctor breathed when she remembered that she'd been tasked to bring Lena's present. "Oh no, no, no! Tell me I did not misplace it! Please tell me!" her hands curled into fists as she threw her head back, eyes shut. But soon her eyes opened up when a new thought had come across. "Or did she tell me that she would bring it! Gah! I can't remember!"

The TARDIS hummed but the Doctor still felt no better.

"I have got to stop taking calls in the middle of a worldwide saving!"

"Alright, alright, let's just take a risk and see if Avalon has a present. After all...how could she be mad I forgot the present if I was saving another planet!" the Doctor came to a stop to consider the answer and when it wasn't all that nice, she resolved for a different solution. "I do have a time traveling machine. I can just go back and get a present if I did forget it!" She landed the TARDIS at the cafe Avalon and Lena would be waiting for her. They would take Lena to wherever the party was going to be from there.

The Doctor came out of the TARDIS in a quick sprint towards the cafe. "Sorry I'm late!" she rushed into the building, waving a hand to catch Avalon's sight...but she found herself surrounded by odd stares from customers instead. The cafe seemed to be running like normal which, to be honest, kind of worried the Doctor off a bit. Even if the party wouldn't be at the cafe, Avalon would've made something for Lena there too. But there was nothing! People were buying things, taking their drinks at their tables, some of them were reading -- hold on.

The Doctor rubbed her eyes so hard that after she lowered her hands, she saw stars for a few minutes. When her vision was back, though, she still saw the same person. It couldn't be. 

But she's right there. The Doctor stared wide-eyed at the ginger woman sitting in the corner of the cafe, her hand fervently writing across her journal. Avalon Reynolds would always have her trusty journal nearby. If she wasn't writing in it, she had it in a bag around her. How...?

She was in the past. She had to be -- the Doctor had accidentally arrived at the cafe in the past, the past where a younger version of Avalon was.

She's so young, the Doctor took in a breath. She took a step towards Avalon without realizing it. It had just been too long since she'd seen the mess of ginger hair. It brought a huge grin to the Doctor's face. All the adventures they had, had in the past...way in the past...it was all rushing back to the Doctor.

It widened her grin.

Avalon -- this Avalon -- was still living it. She was living their story. Ah, such a wonderful story. Even if there was some turmoil in the middle, the Doctor wouldn't give it up for anything. Avalon, her Avalon, wouldn't either.

I should really leave. I should turn back and go find my Avalon. She's probably getting mad if I'm not arriving at the right time! Go, just go! The Doctor took a step back, in that moment intending on making the full turn towards the entrance doors, but she bumped into another customer heading out and yelped when hot coffee landed on her shirt. "OW!" 

"Oh, I'm so sorry!" the customer, a petite brunette woman, exclaimed. 

The commotion pulled several other customers' attention, including Avalon's. The ginger woman looked up from her journal to see the Doctor rapidly trying to pat dry her shirt from the freshly made coffee. The customer she bumped into was helplessly apologizing, offering to dry-clean the Doctor's shirt.

"No, it's fine! I'm fine! Happens to me all the time! I'm quite an idiot! I'm all over the place!" the Doctor waved the customer off and thanked a nearby man for the few napkins he handed her. "I do that all the time! Least that's what my Ava says!"

Avalon raised an eyebrow when she heard that last bit. She put her pen down and focused her entire attention on the blonde woman who kept rambling on like there was no tomorrow. Blimey she could talk. And she was fast too! There was no way in hell anybody, especially the frantic brunette, was understanding what the blonde was saying. 

And then it hit Avalon. 

"No fucking way," she whispered with wide, albeit fascinated, eyes. She rose from her chair and made her way towards the blonde woman. 

"Really, I'm fine. I'd pay you for the coffee--" the Doctor smiled apologetically at the brunette woman, "--but I never carry money with me." The poor customer was so rattled that she took the Doctor's words as a sign for her go before things could get worse.

"Doctor?" 

The Doctor froze in her spot. Maybe if she stayed completely still things might go her way. But she should've remembered who she was dealing with.

Avalon Reynolds didn't just let things happen if she didn't like them. She reached a hand for the Doctor's arm and once she touched the smooth fabric of the Doctor's gray coat, the Time Lady swallowed hard. Different Avalon, same touch. 

Avalon slowly turned the Doctor around and when they were face to face, the Doctor didn't know what to expect. This Avalon was really young (not that she would ever call her Avalon old, ever) and she hadn't lived their story a lot. By the Doctor's calculations -- which honestly wasn't that much -- this Avalon could be somewhere between the time they met the underground Silurians all the way to just before the Silence. It was hard picking the right moment in her time line with so little information. 

But she was still so beautiful. The Doctor couldn't help the blush that ran through her face. 

Stop it! she berated herself. This isn't your Avalon, not yet! Don't freak her out, you idiot!

"Hello," the Doctor finally found her voice, still she did have to clear her throat in the end. "A-Avalon..."

Avalon's eyebrows raised upwards, her mouth opening slightly but nothing came out. She looked the Doctor over at least two times and the Doctor only lost count because she was trying to keep herself cool. She could be cool -- she would ignore the fam's opinions though because she didn't need that negativity right now.

And then Avalon finally spoke but like the Doctor, her words failed a bit in the beginning. "Doctor? It's...it's really you?"

"Uuh...yeah..." the Doctor cleared her throat again. "I-I shouldn't be here. I really shouldn't be here. I-I got the time wrong."

"Ah, so it is you," Avalon took that and the fact that she had mentioned she never carried money as a true confirmation that she was indeed the Doctor. "I can't believe it!" Avalon laughed. "You changed! And you're a woman!"

"Is that...are you good?" the Doctor asked, rather nervously because in her time Avalon was much more used to the implications of being a Time Lord. Everything could literally changed. This Avalon was still getting to know her version of the Doctor. Things had yet to be said and thoroughly explained.

"I'm laughing aren't I?" Avalon brought her hand to her chest as she sobered. Her eyes looked the Doctor over and she did a slight tilt of her head that made the Doctor blush. In the future, when Avalon did that tilt, it meant she was basically checking her out. 

This is not your Avalon! the Doctor hissed at herself. She had to stop thinking like that because she this wasn't a version of Avalon she could be like that, not yet.

"I like it," Avalon said then suddenly blinked when she caught herself, "I meant, you know...you're looking nice. Good. You kept the suspenders?"

The Doctor quickly checked herself to remember if she was wearing suspenders. She was. "Right!"

Avalon laughed at her goofy grin. Yup, that was still the same too. "Well, I like the red ones but the yellow look nice too. So then...this is you? Like...the next you?"

"Aaah," the Doctor put her hands inside her coat's pocket, "Not-not quite."

"Oh, you've died twice?" Avalon asked, her face softening. How could she let her Doctor die twice? What was she doing in those times?

"Do you want to sit down for a bit?" the Doctor asked her, presuming where Avalon's thoughts were going. She couldn't tell Avalon everything but she could tell bits to ease Avalon's concerns.

Avalon was initially confused since, according to time line rules and whatnot, she shouldn't be interacting with a future Doctor...unless she no longer traveled with the Doctor! "Oh my God, do we stop travelling!?" the question blurted from her mouth.

"Oh no, no! Don't worry about that," the Doctor exclaimed. "I was actually going to meet you here -- well," she bobbed her head, "I was supposed to meet the future you in a future version of this shop. I got the dates wrong."

"So...we're still traveling together?"

And more, the Doctor smiled. "Yes," she said, having to bite her tongue to leave it at that. "But I can spare a few moments here with you -- actually, I can always give you the time you need."

"O-okay," Avalon slowly turned away -- and as soon as she did she allowed herself to smile with a blush -- then slowly led the Doctor back to her table. She took her seat and watched the Doctor sit across her.

Actually, she studied the Doctor. She was Avalon's height now, which meant she had to have lost about four inches because the Doctor she knew was several inches taller than her. Her short blonde hair seemed straight but it also seemed a bit messy which made Avalon wonder where this Doctor had been to recently because it had to have been some adventure. Her eyes were still green but unlike her previous incarnation (or 2 incarnations ago, apparently) these eyes were a bit lighter on the shade and Avalon was sure she saw flecks of light brown around them. She still retained the same grin -- Avalon wondered if this was just a feature every Doctor had? -- and slim cheeks. Avalon thought her nose was a bit...button like? It was adorable. 

"I do have to ask..." Avalon's way of beginning the conversation led the Doctor down another nervous road, "...do you always pick weird clothes? Is that like...a requirement for every incarnation?"

The Doctor laughed. It definitely broke the ice between them. "Funny, you're so funny."

"Of course I am, but I'm also very serious," Avalon gestured to the Doctor's current clothes. "I'm digging the colors but the suspenders are questionable and the boots..." she checked under the table to give the brown combat boots another chance, "Nope, I don't like them."

The Doctor's face scrunched -- something else Avalon immediately deemed adorable -- with offence. "Other you does!"

"Then I would wonder if I've been replaced by a clone or something. I'll let the rainbow shirt pass because I really like those trousers and the coat. I think I like your coat -- can I steal it?"

"What? No," the Doctor tugged her coat closer to her as if Avalon would take it right there and then. "Why would you even ask that?"

"Because I'm trying this thing where I ask people if I can use something of theirs before I take it."

"You mean borrowing?"

"Is that what it's called?"

The Doctor struggled not to laugh again. She forgot how this younger version was. "Oh boy."

"So that's a no...?" Avalon still waited for the answer but instead of getting one, the Doctor tapped the open pages of her journal on the table.

"You looked so focused when I came in. Writing a good story?"

"Uuh...not really. I mean, I just write," Avalon shrugged. "But you tell me now where you're from. And you said this you--" she pointed at the Doctor's face, "--isn't the you that comes after my Doctor. It's two incarnations later. So there's one in between I'm missing?"

"Ah yeah, he's kind a of broody one too," the Doctor bobbed her head as she thought of her previous incarnation. "I'm a bit more blunt..."

"More?" Avalon genuinely gawked. "How can you be more!?" The Doctor was always getting them into trouble because of what he said to people. She wasn't the best around people but he -- who had more than 900 years of social interactions -- knew far less. And now she was learning that the next him was even more blunt? 

"Just you wait," the Doctor smiled nostalgically. "The people you've yet to meet...the adventures...it's all waiting for you."

Avalon smiled warmly. "You still like to travel with me, then? Didn't drop me off for being too rude? Or messing with you?"

"Leave my Ava behind? Never," the Doctor said on instinct but she didn't regret it when she saw Avalon's blush. "I told you I meant to find other you here. You don't get rid of me that easily."

"Well, tell me something about the future," Avalon leaned forwards on the table, biting her lip excitedly. "Tell me what we're doing in the future!"

The Doctor would've answered her in that moment but she got a little distracted with the lip biting. She was over 2000 years old and this girl who wasn't even 25 years old had her completely enthralled. 

"Doctor?" Avalon called.

The Doctor was following the way her lips were moving and when Avalon had to call her name a third time, she snapped out of it. "Sorry, what!?" Her face was pretty crimson right now.

"What were you thinking about?" Avalon asked since there was no hiding that type of blush.

"I-I don't...I have a...there's a l-lot going on in this head of mine!" the Doctor nervously tapped the side of her head. She was completely flustered and suddenly the only thing she wanted to do was go see her Ava right now! Right now. 

"When isn't there?" laughed Avalon. "I wonder how many voices you got inside that head of yours. How old is this you right now?"

"Way old," the Doctor left it at that was and was super grateful that the conversation had moved along. "Now you tell me why you're here all by yourself? Did other me mess up or something? Are you mad at him?" she leaned forwards, leaving a bit of a gap between them since Avalon was still leaning herself. "Did he do something?"

Avalon took pleasure seeing her angered face. "No, not today anyways. I told him I wanted to come here for a moment to write. Plus, they make some really good croissants here. Bit of a French food lover. Or France lover. I just love it all."

"Yeah you do," the Doctor mumbled, once again growing a bit red in the face. She couldn't take this. She needed to go home quick. "Avalon, it was really nice seeing you...this version of you...but I should get going. I have other you waiting for me."

"Waiting, is that a still thing for me then?" Avalon once again bit her lower lip. "Am I still waiting for my fairy tale man -- girl -- to come get me?"

"Not...anymore," the Doctor answered in a rather shaky breath. She was staring at Avalon's lips despite her best efforts not to. "Sorry for those twelve years."

"Fourteen--"

"--right..."

"You still haven't told me what we're doing in the future," Avalon reminded, but she got an odd answer in return.

"Whatever you want..."

"What?"

"What!?" the Doctor shook her head really hard -- she might have seen stars again afterwards -- and then forced herself to look at Avalon's eyes. She could handle the eyes...hopefully. "Something we're doing in the future?" Avalon nodded her head. "Well, uh, we have this fam -- friends! They're, um, they're really nice and...and you like them."

"So no more Amy and Rory?" Avalon was a bit disappointed to learn that neither of her friends was still travelling with the Doctor, but at the same time she could see that happening in the later future. Amy and Rory would eventually want to settle down at some point. "I guess they're living on Earth now."

The Doctor forced herself to nod. That was technically true, just not the way Avalon thought. This unintentionally indicated, though, that Avalon was somewhere after Amy and Rory got married and judging by Avalon's carefree demeanor it had to be before the Silence and Kovarian struck.

"What are their names?" Avalon continued to ask, her excitement practically radiating from her face. "This, uh, fam of yours."

"Ours," the Doctor corrected softly. "Ours."

Avalon nodded. "Okay."

"There's Yaz, you and her get along really nicely. She's a policewoman -- well, she's working on it."

"Wait I'm friends with a cop!?" Avalon gaped. "In all my space travels that is the last thing I would've expected."

"Then there's Ryan and his granddad, Graham. You and Ryan are like siblings -- Lena says now you have the 'brother' though the 'big brother' might be questionable. And Graham, well, you say he's like your grandfather too. A cool one too."

Avalon beamed. "That sounds so cool! I can't wait for that! Actually, I can't wait for all of it!"

"Don't wait, just live it," the Doctor advised, exhaling deeply as she studied Avalon's entire self. Things were still so new to her, she had no idea all the things she was going to live. It wouldn't all be nice and it wouldn't be happy sometimes, but things always got better in the end. "Just live your fairy tale, Avalon. And I -- other me -- will try to be the best fairy tale man for you."

"I think you are," Avalon nodded. "I mean, you listen to me when I demand things...like this morning. I sort of demanded to be brought here to write. You could've argued but you jut say 'yeah, okay'."

"I don't argue when it comes to your writing, dear. You are simply the best writer and I will always bring you to where you need to go and write."

"Right," Avalon looked down at her open journal. "I mostly ramble. I-I'm not that good."

The Doctor put a hand over Avalon's and let their intertwined hands rest over the open journal. "Avalon Reynolds, you are the best writer I have ever met. Don't for a second doubt your talent. I always listen to your stories, I read your stories...and every time you manage to surprise me. This journal is sacred because this is where it all started. So just keep writing, Ava. Always write. And I will always read them."

This time it was Avalon who gained a deep crimson blush on her face. She couldn't take the Doctor's intense gaze but she wasn't intimidated by her. She felt her heart swell that somebody had that type of belief in her writing. Leave it to my fairy tale man. She inwardly laughed. Did that still fit? Or had she changed it? Or did the Doctor even care?

"I have to go, Ava," the Doctor said when she finally let Avalon's hand go. "For real this time."

Avalon nodded, understanding that this couldn't last long for the sake of time lines. "Right. I guess...we can say 'see you later'?"

The Doctor agreed. "Yeah." She got up from her seat, prompting Avalon to do the same. "I'll see you later, Ava."

"See you later, Doctor." Avalon gave an awkward wave of her hand which she then scolded herself for. She brought her hand down and, feeling brave, she moved around the table and hugged the Doctor. It was done rather brashly which forced the Doctor back a few steps but once she had her balance, the Doctor hugged her back too. She hugged Avalon tightly and smiled against the curly mess of her ginger hair. This was her Ava, no matter what time she'd be in. 

Avalon felt this hug was no different than the hugs she would get from her version of the Doctor. She wondered how that worked through each incarnation. Would the next Doctor hug her the same too? She'd have to wait and see, she supposed.

The Doctor pulled away first and bopped Avalon's nose. "See you around my Ava. Try not to get into trouble."

Avalon smirked. "You know what happens."

The Doctor did. "I do. And to this day we still do the heists."

"What?"

"Spoilers..." the Doctor shook her head. She had to go before she said something really big. "Goodbye, Avalon." She surprised Avalon with a kiss on the forehead, but it wasn't anything her Doctor didn't already do. The Doctor gave her a soft smile, using the moment to take Avalon's appearance one more time. That part of their story was over for her, but for Avalon it was just beginning. 

And then she turned to leave. She was a bit sad to go, yeah, but she was even more excited to get back to her Ava waiting for her in the future; the one that would understand her feelings.

Avalon watched the Doctor leave the shop and couldn't help feel a bit low spirited. That Doctor had so much knowledge of what was to come and there was just something about her that made Avalon...blush a bit more? Feel a bit different? Avalon blushed just remembering how close they'd been at the table, when they'd leaned forwards...

Control yourself dammit, Avalon blinked and turned back for her journal. Or maybe one more chat wouldn't kill me...She stuffed her journal into her bag and slung it over her shoulder. She dashed out of the shop but when she was out on the sidewalk, she couldn't see the Doctor anywhere. No matter how much Avalon looked, she just wasn't around anymore.

"Ava?"

Avalon spun around to see the Doctor coming towards, but not the Doctor that had just been with her. It was her version coming towards her, the one with the floppy hair, the red suspenders and the stupid bow-tie...that she also liked. He was her Doctor. And that was just fine too. She sprinted to meet the Doctor halfway and threw her arms around him.

"O...kay..." the Doctor hugged her back, not expecting his return to be marked by such enthusiasm. "Is this because I was on time?"

Avalon laughed and pulled away only the necessary to look up at him. "No, I'm just happy."

"I can tell," the Doctor nodded and waved his finger over her grin. "Are the croissants that good?"

"Yeah, and, you know...it's a place to meet people..."

The Doctor's face immediately turned into a frown. "Who did you meet? I thought you were going to write? That's why I kept Amy and Rory in the TARDIS all this time with no trips because I couldn't run the risk of coming back for you too late or something."

"I met...well...you," Avalon said with a chuckle. She was sure that just telling him a brief explanation wouldn't be bad for the time lines. "I met a future you."

"Seriously? What's another me doing here if they know that you're here! Honestly, irresponsible," the Doctor shook his head.

"Oi, you leave her alone! She was wonderful!"

"Her?" the Doctor caught on fast and the look on his face was priceless.

"Yeah, and she scrunches her nose in this adorable way!" Avalon said just as she tried replicating said scrunched nose.

The Doctor laughed. "Ava, you can stop." But in reality he thought she looked pretty adorable right now.   

"No, really, it was so cute! Gah! I can't get it, can I!?" 

"Why don't we go get some croissants? I'm thinking France or, if we want to go back to the original we could go to Austria!"

Avalon stopped her attempts to scrunch her face when she heard the revelation. "Croissants are from Austria, not France? What!?"

"I'll tell you the story on the way, c'mon," the Doctor pulled her in the direction of the TARDIS. "But, uh, this other Doctor you saw...it's important that you answer correctly. Was she...ginger?"

"No, she was blonde," Avalon grinned at the reminder of his future version. "But she was cute. I like her."

The Doctor was smug to hear her thoughts. He could gladly take that compliment. "Yeah?" he slipped an arm around her shoulders during their walk.

"Wipe that smirk off your face right now, fairy tale man," Avalon warned but she looked away to hide her blush. She truly hoped that in the future she had a better handle on the blushing problem. She couldn't help it sometimes! The Doctor was just too...Doctor!

[vanaera]

Just Say Goodnight and Go

Synopsis | The spirit of Christmas is yet to be felt as a blackout on a chilly December night becomes the icing on the cake of your horribly shitty day. You just really want to sleep tonight but your neighbor seems to have lost his mind again when he comes knocking on your door to demand for an uncalled sleepover. Said neighbor is Kim Seokjin, the famed crush of the university, and no, he’s not your friend. He’s most definitely not your crush and he’s absolutely not the reason why warmth invades your chest when it’s not even summer  Characters | annoying neighbor!seokjin x tsundere!you Genre | Fluff and humor (college!au / neighbor!au) Wordcount | 4,237 Play goodnight n go by Ariana Grande A/N | Happy birthday to our one and only worldwide handsome! To @ifntelyinspirit, here’s your request! Thank you so much for your support! I love you, hon!!!

           You know better than to expect you'll have a normal day—or even an evening—when you have a neighbor as obnoxious and infuriating as Kim Seokjin.

           "But he's so nice and so good in swimming and if you cannot see–he's goddamn handsome!" your friends always reason, trying to prove you wrong that the university crush, the self-proclaimed “worldwide handsome” Kim Seokjin cannot be pesky and annoying as hell. In fact, it is quite understandable why they would think of him that way. Athletic physique, handsome face, stellar academics—who wouldn't fall for that? Well, not you. You'd like to put yourself in that seemingly aberrant category because you don't want to fall in the mainstream and oh, you know him better - better than anyone, actually in the university - because God destined him to be your fucking neighbor.

           Just a half meter from your little home in Happy Apartelle resides the famed wonder boy of your batch probably cooking up some shit or dragging you into situations you didn't ask for. It ranges from being forced to be his unwilling food critic or his companion of the day in some hangout spot because "Damn it, Y/N you need to go out! You need the sun!" You'd like to say otherwise because technically, you have a 7 to 10-night shift at Annie's Diner just two blocks away but he's Seokjin and he wouldn't be Seokjin if he won't fiddle his way around you to tell you that your introvert ass only goes out during the night.

Your life unfortunately always starts on a bad note and adding him in the mix only worsens your depleting hope in the future. It only hit worst just two weeks ago when he was offered an internship in a local radio station and god only knows how the hell he made you agree to accompany him in The Bistro. You won't ever speak of that night again.

           Seokjin always had this tendency to annoy you and make you regret your life choices and today—tonight—is no different the moment you heard four successive knocks at your door.

           You turned to your side and pulled your blanket over your head, filling your vision with hideous magenta flowers that only irritated you. To say you’re fucking tired and upset would be an understatement. You spilled coffee on your favorite shirt first thing in the morning, the results of your Philosophy midterms did you quite badly, and as if to add salt to your injury, an insufferable customer called you stupid just because you stared at him dubiously when he uttered his order too quick for you to catch. You almost broke down in an angry fit in the diner so you did yourself a favor and clocked out two hours earlier than the usual. You’d probably regret your impulsive decision when you go to work tomorrow but tonight, you really didn’t care. You really just want to fucking sleep now but the other side of the door won't just stop.

           It will leave soon, you tell yourself, turning and snuggling deeper in your fabric but after almost shut-eyes that occurred in five-minute intervals that are also consecutively disturbed by the persistent knocking, you already knew you had no other choice than to address the person that is already very unwelcomed in your humble abode.

           Begrudgingly untangling yourself from your sheets, you treaded across the short expanse of your room in heavy stomps. Without even bothering to check your always-unruly hair and maybe-unruly face, you throw your door open and greet the person who’s been bugging you in almost fifteen minutes with the meanest scowl you can pull on your face.

           “Hi?” Seokjin says with a sickening smile and makes a little wave with his big ass hand. You almost crushed his face with the slam of your door in an attempt to not deal with him before he found it actually intelligent to stop that from happening with his freakish big foot stuck between your door and the wall.

           “Hey, you almost ruined my face!”

           You roll your eyes, your left hand already positioned to push the door close. “Who cares, Seokjin? Just go home and let me sleep.”

           “’Who cares’?” he repeats, eyes growing wide as if your statement is the stupidest remark a person could utter. “It’s my goddamn face, of course I care for it! Everybody cares about it! And why are you sleeping already, it’s like,” he pushes the door a little wider, his movement too quick for you to follow, and before you knew it, he’s already let himself in–to check the time on the wall clock he knows you hang on the wall above your door. “It’s eight forty-five. Too early to sleep!” he grins and you’re flabbergasted he’s fucking inside your home now. Maybe you’re really too slow to catch on things, fucking stupid, Y/N.

           “Yeah, I know the time, Seokjin. I can sleep whenever I want so would you please let yourself out? I didn’t even ask you to come in.” You open your door this time, so wide that you wish your problems could go away with him.

           His chestnut-dyed fringes sway when he shakes his head in a stubborn no. “I don’t wanna. Why do you always drive me away; aren’t we friends?” He asks, accompanying it with his swoon-worthy smile that makes the female population weak in the knees and oddly only irritates you.

           “It’s my house, my rules, so I tell who and when to go. And who said we’re friends?”

           “But we’re friends!”

           “We’re not, okay. Just go, Seokjin.”

           Seokjin does not relent and makes his intention to stay clear when he plops his fat ass on your chair by your small dining-study table. “Whether you deny it or not, we’re friends Y/N. We’ve helped each other too many times.”

           “But that doesn’t mean we’re friends.”

           “But you didn’t deny we’ve helped each other too many times so that’s something, right?” he wiggles his perfectly shaped eyebrows.

           You purse your lips. You can’t deny his statement when it’s actually true. Seokjin, quite questionably, always happen to be right there when you're in a sticky situation. That is really something as trouble attaches itself to you on more occasions that you'd like to admit. When your bathroom became infested with spiders, when you left your report about inflation push on your dining-study table, when you can't go home from the diner because you missed the last bus ride. Seokjin is just conveniently and undeniably, the person you could easily reach. He lets you stay in his much spacious unit, offering you to sleep on his bed no matter how many times you denied his generosity. He easily comes to your calls of "Hey, I know this sounds embarrassing but can you like—uhm, bring the document I left on the dining-study table? Fuck, forget it—okay, sorry, nevermind," with his ever carefree air and teasing that is also borderline flirty “Don't need to deny you actually need my hand. I got your back, mate." And an urgent call for a car ride is something he attends to at the speed of light. Hell, he even proposes to give you car rides to and from the university and the diner to which you adamantly refuse even though the offer is really tempting. No one in the university knows you're neighbors except you two and you'd like to keep your embarrassing situations to yourself, not to say you steadfastly hold onto the privacy to avoid drama from the hundreds of girls who'd probably skin you alive once they knew their Seokjin oppa is friendly with another girl, which is actually really normal for any civilized person.

           Actually, you don't even get why the hell almost every girl you knew fawns over him. He has weirdly long limbs that he doesn't put into good use unless he's in his swimming competitions, his wide-as-the-fucking-Pacific-Ocean shoulders is too bony to give you comfort when he piggybacked you on that fateful night you sprained your ankle, and his attitude is goddamn annoying and frustrating. Daily life with him is tedious when he has to mutter stupid pick-up lines 24/7 anywhere any day, when he forces you to go with him at night markets to stuff your faces full, when he routinely insists his skincare regimen into your already hectic life, and  when he pays for your lunch as if you don't have enough pocket money you actually worked for. He always greets you with stupid pick-up lines And he's painfully persistent to make you laugh at his pitiful dad jokes. You can’t even understand how the hell girls almost faint at the sight of his “washboard” abs when he disgustingly squishes his small belly fat to make faces to show you how flexible his tummy is, and he's so—

           "So you're letting me stay, right?"

           You shake your head and glance at his way again, recognizing how your arm has gone numb from holding the door open. You close the door and slid your hands inside the pockets of your hoodie to warm them up. Yeah, they’re trembling from the chilly December wind outside; why the fuck you just zoned out thinking about your overbearing neighbor, you don't really know. God, you just really want to just go to sleep. "No, you're not. I'm tired. Super tired," you repeat, "believe me so do ourselves a favor and go back to your unit."

           If he actually noticed the irritation behind your sigh, he didn't acknowledge it as he comfortably sets his feet on top of your table. At the sight of your passively vexed face (which he thought was impossible until he met you), he gives you a lopsided smirk. "Why are you being so grouchy, Y/N? Let the Christmas spirit take over you and be generous to my poor soul."

           You already feel your blood pressure spiking at an unreasonable level. "Hey, FYI, It's 21 days before Christmas–which is too early for the Christmas spirit, and I don’t want to be possessed by any spirit if you would mind. Also, what do you mean you have a poor soul? Your room is much expensively furnished than mine!"

           He shrinks himself in your seat and if he's trying to make himself smaller, it's not really effective because the pointy edges of his shoulders just stick out more. "But I locked myself out.

           "What's that got to do with me?!”

           “Okay, fine. I’m scared of the dark."

           “First, what you said doesn’t make sense. Second, you can just call management and then turn the lights on your room!"

           He suddenly stretches and puts his hands on your table, looking at you bewildered. "Haven't you received the note?"

           "What note?"

           "The landlord sent a memo that there would be a blackout at around eight or something for safety, there’s a complication with the electricity supplier that they will fix tomorrow.”

           Right after he closed his mouth, all the lights went off, the whirring of your heater can be heard as it starts to cool down, and the light of your phone turns after being denied any electricity from its charger. From your position, you can make out from the notification on your phone that you only have ten percent of battery.

           You run your hand over your face, dragging it to prevent you from screaming. Why name it Happy Apartelle when you can’t be at least fucking satisfied with their services?  As if your shitty day can’t get any worse, now you have to worry about your lack of battery charge and a cold room—

           “See? Blackout.”

           —and your fucking annoying neighbor.

           You hold your tongue and onto your thin thread of sanity as you walk over to your cupboard to pull out some candles you store for emergencies. The mechanical sounds of your heater have ceased into quietness and you can only hear the sound of your heavy breaths as you navigate through the unit plunged in complete darkness. The -ber months had really fluffed up a thick blanket of darkness for nightfalls and the silence provided by your circumstance was almost therapeutic as quietness is always effective for your past breakdowns. You hope it is still effective now to prevent you from hitting your neighbor with some sense. You hear him shuffling around your room, the pads of feet heavy on the still tranquility. Lighting up your candle, you wouldn’t have cared to address his presence if his voice wasn’t shaky as he calls out, “Y/N, w-where a-are you? What a-are you doing? Hey, speak up-“

           “I’m here, Seokjin,” you near his semi-crouched figure on the floor, bringing the lighted candle towards you to illuminate the black-dark room. You could see perspiration dotting his hairline and the slight quiver of his hand so you reach out, unsure, before you decided to hell with it and just hold it firm to provide some comfort. Your mother always does this right before bed when tales of Halloween painted your closet in nightmarish colors. You hope this technique could help thaw the cold trembles on his frozen hand even though you find it really weird you’re actually, voluntarily touching his hand—without complaining or sputtering obscenities. This is so not you.

           Under the amber glow of the flame, you watch his eyes drift to yours and the air was really awkward but you notice how he seemed to be holding his breath, and his mouth slowly part as if to say something. Even though you find your situation with him quite stupendous, you still had the heart to listen to someone who’s in need of some kind of moral support. He motions for you to come closer and you adhere, barely noticing how your nose almost grazes his cheek.

           You lean awkwardly waiting and before you decide to step back and regret what you did, you hear him whisper, “If you wanted to hold my hand, you could have just said so in the first place you know?

           You hastily tear your hand away from his as if burned. “What the fuck? Do you absolutely think I actually dreamt of holding your-your-your gross, icky hand? Get a hold of yourself, Seokjin. Not everyone is a fan of your weird charms?”

           He flashes you his toothy grin before breaking out into snickers. “But you recognize them as charms, hmm?”

           Seeing no hope in him actually taking you seriously, you lean back on the floor, hands supporting your weight, to settle his deal once and for all. “Nonsense aside, why are you still here? Can’t you just goof off in your own unit?”

           “I already told you I locked myself out.”

           You don’t even want to ask how that happened. “How the hell do you manage on your own?”

           It was actually a rhetorical question which he answers anyway. “I ask Hoseok to accompany me or something,” he says nonchalantly, attention focused on the shadows played by his huge ass hand on your wall.

           “Then go ask him to be your buddy for the night! Why the hell are you even here—”

           “Hoseok is away with his girlfriend and it’s my birthday today,” he stops his shadow play to look at you. “I don’t want to be alone on my birthday.”

           “You’re bluffing.”

           “I’m not!” This time, his eyes look like they’re going to bulge out of his sockets and even if your entire room is blanketed with darkness, the small light of your candle enables you to make out some reds forming on the tips of his ear.

           He looks really ridiculous now with him all riled up and huge ass hands curled into tiny fists. What a baby. You try to hide your chuckle. “How do you expect me to believe this. You? Seokjin? The greatest boy in the university alone on your birthday, how—”

           “Look!” He thrusts his phone towards your face.

           There flashed on the screen is his Facebook wall, all decorated with birthday wishes from Yoongi, Namjoon, and the rest of the guys he hangs out with and some of the people you know at the university.

           When you look back at him, he quirks his eyebrows, “Believe me now?”

           “Guess so,” you shrug your shoulders, pulling yourself up on your feet. Well, it’s his birthday and he’s alone…with you now and it looks like he really doesn’t want to go back to his unit with the way he positions himself comfortably beside your dining-study table. You don’t have the heart to drive away a birthday boy who’s this desperate to seek a fellow human.

           “So…can I stay?”

           You sigh. “Does it look like I have a choice?”

           With the sound of your passive-aggressive affirmation, he makes out an enthusiastic “yay!” He jumps on his feet to near the cabinet where you’re currently crouched in. You didn’t think the extra comforter and sheets you packed from home will be used for an unplanned sleepover, much less for your neighbor which weirdly makes your life a thousand times easier and harder for you at the same time.

           “Just for the record, I practically have nothing in my ref now so I hope—”

           “Don’t worry, I already had my celebratory feast with my folks.”

           You tossed the bundle to his way without sparing him a glance before you marched back to your abandoned bed, ready to dive in your long-deprived sleep. So much has happened today and you can’t believe your annoying neighbor has settled on the floor just a few inches away from you. You’ve spent a night in his unit before when your room was subject to intense cleaning by the management because of the spider infestation. Even though you don’t completely know all his sleeping habits, you’ve got a glimpse of them that misty night of April – how he snores in intervals just like how he laughs, how he curls and turns and tosses in his sleep, how he clutches his blanket a little too tight. You weren’t really staring at him that night; you just observed his mannerisms which enabled you to conclude he is not the top candidate for an easy-to-get-along-with roommate. Anyway, you won’t see his face when you turn to your side so at least there’s that silver lining.

           Just when you’re about to finally close your eyes, you hear him speak up.

           “Y/N?”

           You groan. “What now, Seokjin?”

           “You know I am cold right?”

           “But I already gave you sheets—”

           “I want you to catch me.”

           Ugh, the puns, the horrible puns. You don’t have the energy to deal with him. “Just go to sleep, Seokjin.”

           “Y/N?”

           “What?”

           “I really meant it.”

           “...whatever.”

           Silence makes its way in between your exchange and you smile, finally happy of the opportunity to sleep. But just before your eyelids drift to a close, Seokjin starts again.

           “You know, you smell like trash.”

           You don’t even want to answer.

           “Let me take you out,” he giggles and you turn further towards your side of the bed, almost planting yourself as close to the wall and as far from him. You could feel his fingertips reach for your back, beckoning you to face him, and you shook them off.

           “Hey, don’t be like that. I just want to go out with you.”

           “GOOD NIGHT, SEOKJIN!”

           “Sweet dreams, YN~”

           The seconds passed in silence with the tic-tocs of your wall clock filling the stillness of your unit. It’s only when you hear his soft snores did you finally relax your back and turn around. You can’t really sleep on this side of the bed so you’d rather bear the sight of your bothersome neighbor sleeping just an arms-length away from you. You dig your elbows on your mattress, pulling yourself up to re-position your pillow. Laying down much comfortable now, you look at your neighbor’s frame curled towards you. Oddly, you can’t feel the lethargy and the weight of the world that heavily hang on your shoulders a couple of minutes ago. You watch the steady rise and fall of Seokjin’s chest which is kinda therapeutic and really weird but anyway, you can’t sleep, so might as well help yourself to get sleepy again.

           Looking at the tender slope of his neck, you remember the day you wrapped your arm around it in an attempt to not fall over on the thousands of boxes that you carried upstairs. It was some kind of a first meeting for two neighbors and it was somehow the premise that your college life will be far from normal. Sure, the tremendous workload and part-times are not a shocker, but you’ve never been this frustrated, conflicted, and confused with a person before. His outrageously ethereal looks that were just too stereotypically cliché when you first saw him in the staircase of Happy Apartelle was something you wouldn’t dare call attractive until now. His unbelievably good nature was too good to be true and felt too genuine to be mere heresy when he’s willing to go at lengths just to help you out at the slightest call of his name. His corny pick-me-ups in the hallways, in lecture halls, and doorsteps started to grow on you that you find it hard to admit how endearing they actually are.

           Even when closed, you still remember how gentle his eyes look, how they crinkle in the slightest of smiles, how they sparkle when he talks about his dream of being a news reporter or when he pokes fun at you by telling you how pretty you looked. The former situation is unfavorable on your part but you can’t deny you’ve never seen such youthful glimmer in the eyes of others like his. It only makes it hard not to believe the compliments he showers on you when he looks at you with such tenderness unmatched by any person you’ve met in your life.

           The pink flush on his cheeks was ever-present and sometimes it makes you jealous how he’s got a natural rose blush even though he denies it and opts to say that you’re the one who’s got the beauty of the rose. Although what he said never really made sense to you, your heart only softens how the pink tint on his cheeks deepened when he smiled after complimenting you. You even dare to say it looks cute how the warm color will be reflected by the tips of his ear, especially when your hands accidentally brush on one another during the dinner-outs he drags you to.

           And his lips–the soft, thick plush of his lips that felt like velvet on your own when you unreasonably pulled him to you to to just feel if they were really as soft as they looked like. You don’t think if the sweetness that overwhelmed your being that midnight of November was because of your fruit cocktail or because of how he gently caressed your cheeks while he lays his kisses on your lips in soft feather touches and—

           “You’re daydreaming about our kiss in The Bistro again, hmm? Don’t worry, I think about that a lot, too.”

           You feel the temperature rising rapidly on your face. “N-no. I was just drunk that day, okay? Forget it! Goodnight!” You don’t particularly regret that night when you experienced so many firsts—your first drink in a bar, your first dance with a guy, your first time to realize your annoyance was practically unreasonable, your first time to view your wonder boy neighbor in a different light, and the first time you actually had the courage to act on your feelings without being contradicted with your words.

           Turning around once again, you convince yourself that the rapid beating of your heart was because of your irritation. You can’t possibly have a crush on Seokjin—your stupidly handsome, stupidly nice, stupidly amazing, stupidly witty, and stupidly annoying neighbor.

           Shaking your head, you closed your eyes taking another attempt to sleep. You’ve been thinking things that you’ve never minded before and you tried to tell yourself that it’s just because of your lack of sleep, not because of the certain someone who managed to place his open hand on your bed. You don’t have the heart to push it off so you fit your fingers in the spaces to intertwine them in a firm hold. For body heat, that’s all.

           The night wasn’t too cold for your bare feet as the warmth on your chest and on your hand was enough to put you in the best sleep you’ve ever had in your life.

           When you wake up, the subdued daylight fills your unit with the six o’clock morning haze. You find Seokjin’s house keys and two folded memos from your landlord from the day before beside his sleeping form. The after-effects of last night’s wondering bloom in the morning dew as summer-like warmth only seeps in the crevices of your chest.

           Slipping on your shoes, you look behind your back before grabbing the knob of your door. He’s still curled up in your blanket, clutching the fabric painted in your favorite lilac clouds close to his chest.

           You smile. You’re going to buy him a birthday cake and hot choco before he wakes up.

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[lobsters-on-their-heads]

OB Rewatch: Guillotines Decide

Pretty sure I used this shot for my first watch review, as well. It’s just too good.

You can read my first watch review, in which I wonder about Delphine’s shirt and her purpose at Rachel’s hotel, here: https://lobsters-on-their-heads.tumblr.com/post/163602794911/guillotines-decide

I loved

Cozy domestic Cophine. We need more of that.

Delphine getting a compliment from Siobhan in front of four members of clone club, including Cosima.

Both shots of Delphine in the hallway

Dude. DUDEEEEE, check it out! Delphine has the same gray shoulder bag here that she has in the elevator scene with Rachel in 2x10.

Since we know she didn’t take it to the island with her, I like to think Cosima got it from her apartment or something and saved it. There’s a ficlet idea in there somewhere.

Felix seeing Cosima again for the first time since she got her cure.

Adele - “Are you gonna get dressed?”

Sarah - “I am dressed.”  #relatable 

Speaking of Adele, I love her calling out Sarah. “She's thinking about your brother. Are you?” Because of course Sarah can't be happy for Felix for a day.

Delphine and Felix – a pairing we need to see WAY more of, as well. “I don't know Felix, maybe it's because we are up to something.” Indeed.

This shot. Look at those puppy eyes:

Felix's transition from reacting to Sarah's news about Ferdinand to shoving her into the gallery. Because he was totally right, it wasn't the time to be talking about any of that shit.

I usually hate watching people in embarrassing or cringe-worthy positions, but I LOVED seeing Ferdinand when he realized the flashdrive was empty.

Siobhan being such a mom at Felix's art opening, cheering the loudest, taking pictures or videos or both. Siobhan is the perfect example of a supportive parent of queer kids.

I did love Felix's Galaxy of Women speech. (And here’s a shameless pitch for the fic named after it: https://archiveofourown.org/works/11836590 )

Siobhan, regarding Rachel, to Ferdinand, “She just.. wasn't that into you.”

The scene at the laptop, even without knowing that Tat wasn’t supposed to cry. (also interesting to note that it’s Delphine’s laptop, not Cosima’s)

I liked

Kira's shirt has a great message for a show about clones.

Nice to have Gracie saying “after they cut out her tongue,” as Helena scraped her butter knife against the edge of the plate. It’s the little details that make this show so great.

Donnie offering Ezra a glass of champagne and then, realizing he didn't have any more, offering his bearded companion a napkin.

So, the “You own me” line. I am totally okay with it ON THE CONDITION that these two have had a long conversation prior to this scene in which any “ownership” or “belonging” is completely, 100% mutual. Like, Delphine said something about Cosima owning her or some shit like that, so it's bidirectional. Otherwise, it's terrible phrasing considering Cosima's issues with ownership at Dyad.

“I smell Neo shit!” oh, Helena

I didn’t like

I didn't need the drawn out scene of a doctor sewing up Rachel's eye. She could have just as easily collapsed in front of the elevator, then woken up bandaged. It was gore for the sake of gore, not for any kind of character development.

The opening scene lacks any sort of cliff-hangey punch to lead up into the credits.

There was a editorial or directorial slip when Felix starts off talking to Cosima about why she can't come, whichall people will be there, and then “you can totally come later if you want,” and then SARAH answers, “I do wanna come.” Sarah, no one asked you.

And Gracie's still around. It would have been better to have the scene with her and Helena first, and then show Mark on the island AFTER Gracie tells Helena that he's dead.

Don't like Siobhan brushing Sarah aside, especially since it was, I believe, JUST last episode that Siobhan was getting ready to storm Dyad with a couple of hand guns. I mean, she finally does say, “You're right, we can't stand down,” but it's very dismissive.

I don't like the line “it made me sick to work with the man who killed MK.” Just rubs me the wrong way. Not the sentiment, but the placement. Up until that point, as far as the audience was concerned, Delphine might’ve had no idea MK ever existed. And anyway, Delphine had reason to hate Ferdinand without knowing about MK (though poor MK’s situation certainly ratchets up the hatred). Plus, it’s a character stating their feelings rather than showing them.

Hell-Wizard as DJ / rapper was... fine, I guess. It didn't excite me nor upset me, but it was interesting to see a guy who's a security guard / comics shop owner and is also a DJ. But then, we just don't know Hell-Wizard very well. I do think the little rapping set was just there because someone wanted to give Calwyn Shurgold some screen time. It did not do much for me.

Felix fucking interrupting Cophine. Can these two have an on-screen conversation that doesn't get cut short, please?

I really didn't like the extended, dramatic shot of Siobhan getting the flowers ready and writing the letter. Siobhan’s death would have carried a huge emotional impact no matter how they did it, but these scenes are just ham-fisted.

Other notes

Starting shot = closing shot

I'm not sure I would recognize a kid who looked just like my mom did at 11. Not immediately like Kira does. But then, Kira had a bit of a head's up, perhaps.

It must have been really amusing for Siobhan to hang out with Charlotte, even for a moment, having known Sarah at that age. I have a feeling it would have been a trick getting Sarah into pigtails like that, though.

Look at this living space:

Three lamps 

old school radio (seriously, I think my grandparents had that radio when I was born) (no wait - actually it's a record player, and I hope it's the same one from the yurt in 4x09 and that Delphine just fucking took it with her when she went to Sardinia / Geneva)

a mysterious wall-door

swoopy bookends

candles (obvs)

fucking peacock feathers. 

But I LOVE Delphine's outfit here. I love it more than what she wears to the art opening and more than most of what EBro wears to fancy events and photo shoots.

They MUST have fucked before this scene. There's no way in hell Delphine would be this calm about Cosima's touch and proximity unless that itch got good and scratched. (Also, shameless plug for my first ever fic, Talk to Me: https://archiveofourown.org/works/11697588 , which takes place the day before this scene)

I know Cosima's looking at Delphine's mug of tea or coffee or whatever, but she is ALSO looking at Delphine's crotch, and smiling.

Hilarious, if kind of odd, that Felix addressed Sarah and Siobhan as “North American Scum.”

They have 144 doses of the inoculate ready to go in this episode. Just for, like, future reference.

Delphine's boots go over her knees. Women's fashion confuses me. Her coat is hot, though.

Adele says “We spiked our Glühwein with vodka” like that isn't something Swiss people would also totally do. Okay, they might use amaretto or something instead, but whatever.

For just a hot second I thought that was René Auberjonois from Star Trek: DS9. It isn't.

Both a like and a dislike, so here: I thought the concept of the clone swap as part of the show was clever, and very tongue-in-cheek. I have no idea how he'd replicate that anywhere else, or if it's even worth trying, which makes it strange when Ezra says it'll work in New York. Also, Alison (the first clone we see in this little line up) is super awkward, and it was hard for me to watch again.

Felix, you know damn well how Cosima feels about being shoved in front of a group of people. At least this time she doesn't have to give a speech.

Rachel thinks that Ferdinand “really loved” her. How sad is that?

Gracie didn't deserve to die, but I'm not upset about losing her. I'm more upset that Helena had to witness another murder.

I have questions

Was Sarah not informed of Felix's return? Or did she just forget? His art gallery opening must have been advertised, so it's not like anyone was keeping his presence in the city a secret.

“We bought a shit mountain of cheese.” God bless Adele. I want her in more of my fic. Let me find a way to make that happen. However, could they really bring cheese so easily through customs? Or did Adele mean that they bought it AND ate it in Switzerland?

What the hell order of nuns is Sister Irina in?

I don't know much about gallery openings, but are they usually set up, like, a few hours before the actual opening? Especially considering that Felix JUST got back, and before he left that was entirely his apartment.

When and how did Delphine learn about MK's death? For that matter, how did she learn about MK? Did Felix fill her in in Switzerland?

Where will Delphine and Cosima put that painting that Delphine bought?

Van Lier says they're no longer taking direction from Mr. Westermoreland. Which leaves the question, who is in charge? Who are they taking direction from?

Where is Siobhan's backup? Where's Benjamin? Why doesn't she call in some people to help her deal with Ferdinand? Hell, why not tell Art? I can understand her not telling Sarah. Did she call Delphine to give HER a head's up? I mean, I guess Ferdinand doesn't know about the Rabbit Hole? But still, I feel like Ferdinand would be pretty keen on fucking up Delphine's shit, too.

I don't know much about gun shot wounds to the chest (left ventricle, specifically), but... can people really hold conversations after being shot that close range in the heart?

I would’ve liked to have seen

Everything I wrote in Talk to Me - Cophine talking about everything that happened. I want to see them talking afterwards, too, about everything. They love each other, let’s fucking show it.

Ferdinand and Delphine left the hotel room together. How did THAT little hallway trip go?

I need to know how the hell Felix and Colin got back in contact. They are NOT over things, and their last meeting certainly ended on a sour (and slippery) note.

MAJOR missed opportunity not showing us Delphine watching Cosima dance. She wouldn't have needed to be in the main shot – she could have just been off to the side, looking all happy and puppyish.

[factdesk88]

Indicators on Photographer You Need To Know

When it works, the experience is truly epic. "Planners as well as professional photographers will certainly interact on timing and also implementation so it all goes off without a hitch," states Erin Marton, owner as well as lead digital photographer for Erin Marton Digital Photography. "Directly, I offer this [added] solution for an additional cost so you can involve me straight for every little thing included.

The primary criteria for picking a proposal photographer: experience as well as area. You require an expert that has done this before (the planning, not the suggesting) and also has actually done it at the location where you are intending on making the proposal.

If you are taking a trip for your proposition, you can have a local wingman aid ensure points go smoothly. "Things like crowds, weather and various other hiccups can be stayed clear of by obtaining neighborhood pointers from an expert," states Smith. They also know how to deal with potential photo-bombers and also other concerns that can hinder of recording the moment.

As wonderful a suggestion as working with a proposition photographer can be, it's not one that is mosting likely to benefit all pairs. " https://twigfreon73.edublogs.org/2022/05/20/8-easy-facts-about-photography-shown/ think unless your companion has actually shared they do not want a photographer existing, or they are super-private, recording the proposition discretely is a wonderful suggestion," states Smith.

If you are firing in a dark, crowded dining establishment, it's most likely not optimal either as the illumination will be bad. We do 99% of our proposals in natural light." Some pairs aren't necessarily attracted to public propositions and would love to intend something a bit more intimate, so a shoot isn't required if you're seeking to suggest in the house or someplace exclusive.

You're assured to discover much better as well as much more in-depth details many thanks to their video clips as well as listing information. Ditch the Suggestion Factor to consider needs to be made in the timing of daylight for the proposal. "At evening, flashes would certainly need to be utilized as well as be in close variety of the pair to set them up so the proposal requires to be in a well-lit location or unbelievably calculated to make the proposal take place in a precise spot," states Spencer.

"Flashes might also be very distracting during this special minute, so I encourage trying to steer clear of from night-time areas that are not well lit currently," claims Spencer. According to their website, Flytographer costs begin at $350 for a 30-minute shoot as well as this includes all the planningincluding maps and also mock-up images for your testimonial to make certain that the details of your proposition are confirmed ahead of your proposal day.

If it's a location proposition and you would certainly like them to be existing, you'll need to cover their costs, as well, notes Phillips. Pros & Cons You're obtaining professional pictures. This is a minute that should have greater than selfies. "It will certainly go by so rapidly as well as you will certainly be so thrilled that it's difficult to even bear in mind the details.

"Do it for Mother. And your Father, your friends, your future youngsters!" she adds. Everybody wants to commemorate with you, and also while usually they are not there in the minute, this is one method they can share in your exhilaration via the photos. "As the decades go by, the value of this memory will skyrocket," stated Smith.

"You will be so pleased as well as ecstatic as well as it's the perfect time to capture interaction photos by extending your shoot time. For people that are not into doing the official "engagement photo shoot," you can tick this off the list," claims Smith.

The videographer could catch her stating "no.".

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Not only does that need me to have the devices for the task (as well as back-up!), however the knowledge of just how to use it. To my knowledge, no video camera or light has ever before gotten with each other and also produced a picture session on their very own Ha! Any type of professional you work with need to have the needed equipment to be able to give you with the top quality you expect, as well as offer you self-confidence in knowing they come prepared on the day of your session.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season Six

-I am indefinitely grateful for your patience awaiting my semi-annual Star Trek: The Next Generation season recaps. Today I bestow upon you all my thoughts for the penultimate sixth season (trailer) of TNG. It is already a little jarring to realize I am down to one season left on this series I have gradually-yet-steadily been picking away at the past three years. Once again, all the screens here are courtesy of me pointing my outdated Samsung Galaxy S7 phone at the TV screen so you have my apologies for the questionable fidelity of the pics! -For notable cast changes, there are several I want to make sure to address. Transporter Chief O’Brien (Colm Meaney) departs midway through this season to be a regular cast member on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine which started in January of 1993. I knew of Colm’s switching shows during this season for a while now and was anticipating some big episode or climactic scene explaining his departure from TNG. While there was a crossover episode introducing some of the new Deep Space Nine characters right before its debut, there was never a scene this addressing O’Brien leaving the Enterprise….unless it was a quick passing line of dialogue that went right over my head! Another notable change is halfway through the season Counselor Troi (Marina Sirtis) gets chastised by a new interim commander for her unorthodox uniform and makes her fall in line wearing matching Enterprise uniforms with the rest of the crew. In the bonus interviews on the BluRay, Marina states how she had to fight for a matching uniform for many years and it was one of the few things the higher ups finally granted her.

-I am glad TNG compensated for the lack of a Q (John de Lancie) episode last season and had him in two episodes in season six. The first episode is a middling affair where he steals a Starfleet prospect who discovers she is a long lost member of the Q Continuum. The second Q episode fares much better where Q helps a stuck-in-purgatory-Picard (Patrick Stewart) after Doctor Crusher (Gates McFadden) has a return of poor doctoring and loses Picard on the operating table. The two travel back to pivotal moments in Picard’s younger days to see if he would change the past in order to get a second chance at the future in an investing episode. Speaking of Crusher’s poor doctoring, there is another episode this season where it feels like the writers are in on the joke and have an episode where Crusher is disbarred after some major bad doctoring again on her part….but of course Crusher manages to change that by the episode’s end. If my notes are accurate (no promises!), than I believe this is the first season with no appearance from Troi’s mother, Lwaxana (Majel Barrett)! I would not be surprised if she has two episode next season. Season six also does not feature an appearance from Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton), but I understand he will return in time for the series finale in season seven. A recurring character who does return is everyone’s favorite engineer, Reginald Barclay (Dwight Schultz), who is in a couple episodes this season, with him playing a key part in a holodeck episode with another long overdue returning character I will touch on soon.

Not only does Worf has some killer episodes this season, he also demonstrates his prowess at Yoga this season....while Crusher continues to demonstrate her prowess at poor doctoring. -There are a pair of excellent holodeck episodes this season. The first one is easily the best named episode of the entire series in “Fistful of Datas.” It sees Troi, Data (Brent Spiner), Worf (Michael Dorn) and his son, Alexander go on a wild west adventure where problems with the holodeck causes Data to take over nearly all the AI personas in the simulation. Swashbuckling hilarity ensues! The other holodeck episode sees the return of Professor Moriarty (Daniel Davis). This was long anticipated since Moriarty’s last appearance in season two as the Sherlock Holmes antagonist who became self-aware and whose consciousness became trapped in the holodeck in the following four years. In “Ship in a Bottle,” Moriarty attempts a master plan to connive his way out of the holodeck as a program and as an actual living being. The twists and turns that lead up to the gratifying resolution for everyone was a memorable ride and sadly Davis’s last guest appearance on the show. Daniel Davis and Patrick Stewart have a natural chemistry with each other that shines whenever those two share the screen, so I highly recommend tracking down and viewing both of his episodes!

-The flute that Picard was gifted in the previous season once again returns for a couple of memorable scenes when Picard starts courting another crew member who plays keyboard. Naturally this leads to the two having an emotional duet together that starts off kind of hokey, but by the end the pair had me reeled in all the way! Just click or press here to see for yourself. -Worf has a few notable dedicated episodes this season. A two episode arc sees him track down a long lost colony of Klingons imprisoned by Romulans that has Worf encouraging them to relearn and embrace Klingon customs. Another episode has Worf dealing with the fallout of seeing the return of the Klingon god, Kahless, and the fascinating drama that unravels with another satisfying conclusion for all conflicting parties involved.

-Even though by season six nearly the entire cast and writing team was firing away on all cylinders, I would be lying if there were not a couple clunker episodes. Riker (Jonathon Frakes) portrays a mental patient in a play he is rehearsing for, but the play starts going to his head and he starts losing it for real, but the way the plot unfolds is a mess and a half to follow along with. The other dud is TNG’s homage to The Thing which sounds promising on paper, but instead features lousy CG of its “Thing” and a groan-inducing twist that was not entertaining whatsoever. -As much as I enjoyed Leonard Nimoy returning to play Spock last season, I was delighted even more with The Original Series star James Doohan dusting off his communicator to portray Scotty. Watching him overcome his differences and exchange engineer expertise with Geordi (LeVar Burton) was a treat. The scene with Scotty and Picard sharing a drink on a holodeck reimagining of the original Enterprise gave me nostalgic goosebumps throughout.

-Season six started off with the conclusion to “Time’s Arrow” that saw the TNG crew time travelling back to the 1890s where they first encountered Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg) and were forced to alter the timeline to rescue Data, and win over an aggressive Mark Twain. While not on the level of the “Best of Both Worlds” two-parter season finale, it was still a highly entertaining two-parter in its own right, and as I alluded to earlier, I am all for seeing the TNG crew in an old west setting. Season six ends with another cliffhanger that sees the Enterprise encounter the Borg again, and they manage to convince Data to flee the Enterprise to seemingly join the Borg as their new leader. Suffice it to say, I am intrigued to see how this pays off in season seven! -I referenced a few times before here how I was keeping up with podcast reviews of every TNG episode with the show, Star Trek: The Next Conversation. It looks like I have finally caught up with where hosts Andrew Secunda and Matt Mira have recorded their latest shows just a couple episodes before the end of season six. It looks like they took a few extended breaks this season, and I cannot fault them for that at all when dealing with everything the pandemic has wreaked upon us all this past year. I still enjoyed their takes as usual, and plan on going back and listening to whenever they post new episodes to catch up with their remaining casts covering TNG. I understand they have a Patreon companion with exclusive podcasts dedicated with them marching through both Deep Space Nine and Voyager now, so who knows, I may have to start working my way through those series down the line.

-You know the drill by now, this BluRay is loaded with carried over DVD extra features and all new ones for the BluRay. Not including three commentary tracks for this season, there are just over three hours of behind-the-scenes interviews and documentaries. Almost all of them are informative, but I will only recommend a few of the must-see ones here. Mission Overview: Year Six has introspective reflections from Whoopi on “Time’s Arrow” and James Doohan on “Relics.” Bold New Directions has some fond insights on “Fistful of Datas” and fascinating memories from Stewart and Burton from getting their shot at directing episodes this season. Beyond Five Year Mission – Evolution of Star Trek: The Next Generation is the headlining all-new bonus feature. It is an hour and a half, and split into three parts. Part one has plenty of love for being the cast and crew’s personal favorite season of the show, debuting Deep Space Nine concurrently during this season and trying their best to work within Gene Roddenberry’s “no conflict” framework of the series. Part two is themed around TNG being more serious when compared to TOS, and highlighting how several episodes were scored. Part three stands out the most with an awesome story from Whoopi on what lead to her becoming involved on the show, Sirtis dealing with a lot of pushback from studio executives and Spiner’s love/hate relationship with the cat that played Spot.

There may be many hours of bonus interviews to sift through, but most of it is worth it for endearing moments above like Burton and Frakes sharing a laugh, and Spiner sharing his disdain for a certain feline. -Season six is a step up from the minor-yet-noticeable dip in quality from season five, and brings it back to the high bar established with seasons three and four of TNG. The highs were remarkably prominent this season with some standout holodeck episodes, memorable two-parters, and a scintillating season finale that has me anticipating the kickoff to the season seven. I cannot believe it, after a few years of starting this, I am finally down to just one season left of this legendary show. Please join me one last time here in a few months for my thoughts on the final season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

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The concept of the quality develop will be popular to most experts of the Dark Hearts collection.

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If want to have a strength construct, you have to buy toughness (obvious) + endurance (to make sure that wielding hefty weapons/armour will not take way too much lots as well as endurance) + vigor.

I recognize many differ with this concept, however I've actually make use of LSOS in my top quality develop.

Its purpose is to mainly construct a personality that is versatile and also can utilize most tools with ease, taking advantage of the scaling in the direction of the later phases of the video game.

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Stan:Hey wastelanders! So,we don’t have a picture for this post yet…

Max:The nerd running the blog is too tired to stay up until 1 AM to finish a picture again so no picture..

Stan:But,we wanted to share just some randomass facts about our little crossover-alternate universe since there aren’t any questions to answer at this point…

Max:Well,there is one,but it’s for this person named Wendy who Stan knows,but I don’t.This Wendy isn’t open for questions yet,as stated it’s only me ‘n Stan,so yeah,no questions.

Stan:And we’re bored.

Max:Sheila has a four-drinks-per-customer thing so we don’t even have alcohol or anything.

Stan:Thus,have some boring pointless facts.These are about all the characters,some locations,some shenanigans we get up to later down the line.This doesn’t mean the characters are open for questions yet,you’ll have to be patient for that.

In this universe,a lot of characters that have died in the show or have little screen time make appearences,like Chef,Christophe,Gregory,Damien and Pip.

Kenny is still immortal

Will we have giant guinea pig like creatures and robots attacking? Yes

So,some time after the gang meets the Freeside and Vegas dwellers,Stripe and Sparky get kidnapped {petnapped?} by some Freeside thugs/raiders.Max,along with Craig,Kenny and Scott {weird choice I know} go on a mission to track them down and save the animals.Originally Max wanted to go on his own.He didn’t mention it to anyone else.When everyone was asleep,he snuck out to go get the animals back.To his surprise he found Craig sneaking out on the same mission.”Are you fucking kidding me?” is all Craig could say when the duo stumble into Scott,who was just patrolling the area before heading to bed and Kenny,who was smoking outside {and checking out the Vegas ladies}.They couldn’t lie,and so the four went on the mission.It was a good thing Scott was with them,because with his tracking skills,he tracked the raiders to a building on the outskirts of Westside.They took the truck just because there were some Vegas brats trying to graffiti it,and to ram into the door if it was needed.Long story short,they find out it’s an underground dog fighting ring,with one or two animals mixed in between.They saved Sparky and Stripe,met Hunter and found Rex,Clyde’s dog who has been lost for a few months.They got most of the dogs on the truck and took them to a sanctuary outside Novac,which took the whole night.Tired,Max decided that the whole crew has an off day,where everyone can go do what they want to,whether it be giving the truck a new paint job and fixing it up or getting some treats for the pets.{One can expect a oneshot of this in the future}

I find it funny that Gregory was given the role of Daniel and Christophe the role of Joshua {Honest hearts},since Christophe has a huge thing against God,while Joshua is pretty religious.

It’s still not decided who shot Max

Which South Park characters will/will possibly take on the roles of faction leaders?

NCR - Mayor McDaniels

Legion - Mr. Garrison {Just so we can rid the world of him} 

Brotherhood of Steel - Stephen Stotch {Butters’ dad}

Followers of the Apocalypse - Possibly PC Principal

The Boomers - Gerald Broflovski {Kyle’s dad - just because of that ‘ultimate’/attack in TFBW}

Vegas {Mr.House} - ?? {Maybe Randy? That wouldn’t make sense tho…unless Mr.House died to Randy and Randy just took over,pretending to be the legend for a year or two,eventually believing he is him,and continuing with his goals to take over the Mojave.}

Independant Vegas - Max {with the help of Yes Man}

Great Khans - ??

The Kings - The King {obviously.Not sure who’d take on that role.Mr Mackey?}

Carnies - ?? {Maybe one of the vamp kids?}

Cartman is still called Fatass by the others

Max knows a few swear words in other languages.

Eventually there’ll be a poll or something to determine which other ships will be in the AU,and who Max’s love interest’s gonna be {If he’s gonna have one}

With the boys being a lot older,their personalities changed a little,but not much.Cartman’s still an asshole,Craig still doesn’t care,etc

There are a lot more casinos ‘n shit than there is ingame.Chef owns a casino,Mr.Kim has one,Mr.Slave ‘n Al have one,who ever shot Max has one

We’re going Mad Max on this one in saying that there are cars,trucks,busses,motorcycles and four wheelers that are drivable.Raiderified/raider proof,but drivable.Just because it’s strange how these wastelanders have actual flying helicopers {vertibirds},managed to get a plane that was at the bottom of a lake for 200 years to fly, and a giant ass robot that talks,but don’t know how to fix up old cars.

Independant Vegas here we come

Stan and Wendy were together for a good 3 or 4 years before making the decision to remain best friends.There’s a whole story behind that,but,that’s for another time.These two would literally die for each other.

Some religions managed to stay alive for 200 years.There are new ones too…some are just really weird,like for example,the Children of Atom.

Can you believe Kyle’s mom sent her kids off to boot camp and became the leader and bartender in a little ghost town?

Will Craig ‘n Tweek eventually have their wedding? Absolutely

Max has amnesia from the shots to the head,but,as his journey continues,he starts remembering more,like his past.Why his parents sent away to be a courier,why they didn’t even bother to go look for him,why the Divide got blown to bits.

It’s not clear what Terrance and Phillip’s roles are gonna be.Maybe they should lead the Khans.

Kenny and Stan have a drinking contest while in Jacobstown and Stan manages it better than Kenny.The townspeople asked the crew to remove Kenny from the town.

Wendy has in fact,beaten up a deathclaw.

The siblings of the characters also make their appearances,all in different locations.Ike almost always follows after Kyle,so he’s part of the crew {the main crew,who travels the wastes with Max}.

Ike tried to help Christophe get over his fear of dogs.It was partially successful.

Another Ike one - Ike has a penpal.He writes letters to this penpal when he’s not training.Little does he know,it’s Firkle.He discovers this while the crew’s in Jacobstown.

Some alternate outfits for the crew have parts from their superhero/humans ‘n elves costumes.

Max:A’right,that’s enough facts and rambling.While I don’t expect this to be of use to anybody,it’s at least more fun than sitting here staring at this blue eyed companion of mine.

Stan:Maybe we should post some story stuff tomrrow,like how we met? 

Max:That could be a fun experience.Maybe we should also see if we can get a better profile pic up.Maybe one of you,me and the dog?

Stan:Max,it’s already a pain in the ass to draw us.How the hell is she gonna draw Sparky?

Max:Determination?

Stan:That could work.

Max:Honestly,there are a ton more,cooler AUs out there.Why do we exist?

Stan:I think you should get some rest.Sheila gave us the keys so we can stay here.Just have to lock up.

Max:But I don’t want to sleep.I’ve been out cold for a few days.The dirt nap was good enough.

Stan:You have to get some rest,Max.Whether it’s sleeping on the table,on one of the seats,or on the bar itself,or on the floor if you really want to.I’ll even put out my sleeping bag for ya.

Max:What about right here,next to you?

Stan:I wouldn’t advise that.People might start shipping us…or worse…they might attack you.We’ve got a lot of Style and Stendy shippers,and some others like Stutters and Staig.

Max:Why do people always assume two people are dating when they’re just in the same place?

Stan:That’s this hellsite in a nutshell…so..just get some rest or whatever.I’ll answer any questions,if there are any,after this.I’ve seen a lot in my life time,so I don’t get intimidated.

Stan’s up for questions,and Max’ll also give some sleepy answers

So many tags to do but I can’t write em all,I apologise.

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What Do They Offer?

MoneyPatrol is a money management service with the goal of helping people improve their financial health. For people who are a bit more disorganized with their finances, they will likely benefit the most from MoneyPatrol. The service helps improve financial health through analysis of your spending and sending reminders of upcoming payments.

On Money Patrol’s homepage, they say that “our users have reported an average of $5K+ positive impact on their personal finances.” However, it's tough to decipher what that really means. After signing up, you can start linking your bank accounts and credit cards. Money Patrol is able to link with a large number of financial institutions, which means you should be able to find most of your accounts. Once your data is pulled in, Money Patrol will begin performing analysis. The analysis will provide you with insights into where your money is coming and going through its “Money Out-flow” and “Money In-flow” features. You’ll be able to see where you spend the most and start making immediate adjustments. Additionally, you can view spending by category and see trends across a one-year timeframe. 

MoneyPatrol Dashboard

Budgeting

Budgeting and viewing your spending is where you are likely to spend the most time. After logging in, you’ll see the budget graphic on the homepage with all of the other quick glance graphics. It’s a great snapshot of how you are doing for each merchant based on the budget you’ve set.

Clicking the Budget tab will bring you into the detailed budget. Here, you can view the current month and last six months budget by category. This page provides far more analysis than the quick snapshot on the homepage. You can create a new budget as well. When creating a budget, you can choose from the available categories or create new ones.

Reporting

Reports are another nice feature of Money Patrol. You can view reports for:

Categories

Merchants

Recurring Transactions

Large Transactions

Weekly

Monthly

Cash Available

Credit Usage

Alerts and Granting Access To Others

A couple of other features worth mentioning are the large number of alerts that you can set. These alerts can be sent as a text message, e-mail, or both.

You can also grant someone view-only access to your account but they will need to have a Money Patrol account to use this feature.

Where's the Mobile App?

Good question. Most financial management services offer a companion mobile app. That’s not the case with Money Patrol. For whatever reason, they elected to forego a mobile app offering. Although the website states, one is “coming soon.”

What Are The Drawbacks?

MoneyPatrol is pretty new, and as such, it isn't perfect. We really like how it's developing - we love the dashboard, the cashflow tools, and more, but some things make it really annoying to use.

First, you can't name your accounts. All of your accounts use their official name:

Another annoying feature is that a lot of transactions get duplicated for some reason. One of the systems implemented into MoneyPatrol is that you need to review all your transactions (which we love), but it's extremely annoying when it duplicates every transaction so you're spending most of your time deleting things.

Finally, it doesn't have a mobile app, and the web interface is a bit slow. I'm sure these will get worked out with future development, but realize this app is still pretty new compared to others like Personal Capital.

What Does It Cost?

The service is $7/mo, billed annually at $84. It has a free 15-day trial but you’ll need to enter your credit card upon signing up. If you don’t want to be charged, set a reminder to cancel before the 15-day trial expires.

Note: we don't like how they advertise it as $7 per month, but bill annually. It should be advertised at $84 per year unless they do actually offer a monthly billing option.

Second note: You cannot cancel your free trial on the same day you started it (which we've never seen before and is very annoying). Make sure you set a reminder to cancel if you don't think it's a good fit. When companies offer a free trial, we don't ever believe they should take a credit card up front.

MoneyPatrol does offer a free demo. The demo does not require that you sign up. MoneyPatrol has put lots of data into the demo account to make it look like a real account. This lets you view all of the various analysis, graphics, and navigation features.

We think this cost is a big drawback, especially at this point in development. Other robust programs, like Quicken or Simplifi are about half the price.

How Do I Open An Account?

You can open an account at https://www.moneypatrol.com. 

Is My Money And Information Safe?

MoneyPatrol’s website does use 256-bit SSL encryption. There aren’t any details about how MoneyPatrol connects to banks or other third party services (we're assuming a service like Plaid but it doesn't say).

Unfortunately, it has not made the terms of service or privacy policy web pages available. It’s unclear what happens to your personal data as well. There is no FAQ either to help with these questions. On the plus side, information such as your name, address, and social security number are not collected.

If Money Patrol is like other aggregators, it will use a reputable third party to connect to financial institutions via tokens. This means your bank login information is not passed around or stored with any entities involved with the connection.

Is It Worth It?

MoneyPatrol offers lots of great analysis and will benefit anyone who needs more insight into their spending. Whether that is enough to offset the annual fee is another question. As of today, we don't think so. There is a lot of potential in this app, but they are pricing it as if it was a complete game-changer. It probably has 1-2 more years of iteration and improvement before it could justify this price.

Another issue is that MoneyPatrol does not disclose what happens to your data, including bank login data. This may be an immediate no-go for some. 

With a free demo that doesn’t require you to sign up, anyone can find out if MoneyPatrol is right for them.

Check out MoneyPatrol here >>

The post MoneyPatrol Review | A Robust Personal Finance App? appeared first on The College Investor.

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MoneyPatrol is the latest personal finance tool that is focused on helping you budget and manage your money better by combining all your accounts into one dashboard. 

The MoneyPatrol dashboard is honestly one of the best we've seen from an online tool. However, there are other gaps that aren't quite on par with other financial tools yet. Plus, it is quite expensive compared to other budgeting and financial tools.

Should you consider MoneyPatrol to manage your money? Find out more in our MoneyPatrol review below. See how MoneyPatrol compares to our top money and budgeting apps here.

Quick Summary

Wide range of analysis to help improve your financial health.

Connect your bank and financial accounts and import your information

15 day free trial, then $84 per year

Get Started

MoneyPatrol Details

Product Name

MoneyPatrol

Services

Budgeting And Financial Planning Dashboard

Cost

$84/year

Promotions

15 Day Free Trial

Quick Navigation

Who Is MoneyPatrol

What Do They Offer?

Budgeting

Reporting

Alerts and Granting Access To Others

Where's the Mobile App?

What Are The Drawbacks?

What Does It Cost?

How Do I Open An Account?

Is My Money And Information Safe?

Is It Worth It?

Who Is MoneyPatrol

MoneyPatrol is a financial health company that helps its customers improve their financial well-being. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Newark, CA. It is a privately held company. 

Beware that the people behind MoneyPatrol have gone to some effort to keep themselves private. Additionally, clicking on their privacy policy and terms of service links don’t go anywhere.

What Do They Offer?

MoneyPatrol is a money management service with the goal of helping people improve their financial health. For people who are a bit more disorganized with their finances, they will likely benefit the most from MoneyPatrol. The service helps improve financial health through analysis of your spending and sending reminders of upcoming payments.

On Money Patrol’s homepage, they say that “our users have reported an average of $5K+ positive impact on their personal finances.” However, it's tough to decipher what that really means. After signing up, you can start linking your bank accounts and credit cards. Money Patrol is able to link with a large number of financial institutions, which means you should be able to find most of your accounts. Once your data is pulled in, Money Patrol will begin performing analysis. The analysis will provide you with insights into where your money is coming and going through its “Money Out-flow” and “Money In-flow” features. You’ll be able to see where you spend the most and start making immediate adjustments. Additionally, you can view spending by category and see trends across a one-year timeframe. 

MoneyPatrol Dashboard

Budgeting

Budgeting and viewing your spending is where you are likely to spend the most time. After logging in, you’ll see the budget graphic on the homepage with all of the other quick glance graphics. It’s a great snapshot of how you are doing for each merchant based on the budget you’ve set.

Clicking the Budget tab will bring you into the detailed budget. Here, you can view the current month and last six months budget by category. This page provides far more analysis than the quick snapshot on the homepage. You can create a new budget as well. When creating a budget, you can choose from the available categories or create new ones.

Reporting

Reports are another nice feature of Money Patrol. You can view reports for:

Categories

Merchants

Recurring Transactions

Large Transactions

Weekly

Monthly

Cash Available

Credit Usage

Alerts and Granting Access To Others

A couple of other features worth mentioning are the large number of alerts that you can set. These alerts can be sent as a text message, e-mail, or both.

You can also grant someone view-only access to your account but they will need to have a Money Patrol account to use this feature.

Where's the Mobile App?

Good question. Most financial management services offer a companion mobile app. That’s not the case with Money Patrol. For whatever reason, they elected to forego a mobile app offering. Although the website states, one is “coming soon.”

What Are The Drawbacks?

MoneyPatrol is pretty new, and as such, it isn't perfect. We really like how it's developing - we love the dashboard, the cashflow tools, and more, but some things make it really annoying to use.

First, you can't name your accounts. All of your accounts use their official name:

Another annoying feature is that a lot of transactions get duplicated for some reason. One of the systems implemented into MoneyPatrol is that you need to review all your transactions (which we love), but it's extremely annoying when it duplicates every transaction so you're spending most of your time deleting things.

Finally, it doesn't have a mobile app, and the web interface is a bit slow. I'm sure these will get worked out with future development, but realize this app is still pretty new compared to others like Personal Capital.

What Does It Cost?

The service is $7/mo, billed annually at $84. It has a free 15-day trial but you’ll need to enter your credit card upon signing up. If you don’t want to be charged, set a reminder to cancel before the 15-day trial expires.

Note: we don't like how they advertise it as $7 per month, but bill annually. It should be advertised at $84 per year unless they do actually offer a monthly billing option.

Second note: You cannot cancel your free trial on the same day you started it (which we've never seen before and is very annoying). Make sure you set a reminder to cancel if you don't think it's a good fit. When companies offer a free trial, we don't ever believe they should take a credit card up front.

MoneyPatrol does offer a free demo. The demo does not require that you sign up. MoneyPatrol has put lots of data into the demo account to make it look like a real account. This lets you view all of the various analysis, graphics, and navigation features.

We think this cost is a big drawback, especially at this point in development. Other robust programs, like Quicken or Simplifi are about half the price.

How Do I Open An Account?

You can open an account at https://www.moneypatrol.com. 

Is My Money And Information Safe?

MoneyPatrol’s website does use 256-bit SSL encryption. There aren’t any details about how MoneyPatrol connects to banks or other third party services (we're assuming a service like Plaid but it doesn't say).

Unfortunately, it has not made the terms of service or privacy policy web pages available. It’s unclear what happens to your personal data as well. There is no FAQ either to help with these questions. On the plus side, information such as your name, address, and social security number are not collected.

If Money Patrol is like other aggregators, it will use a reputable third party to connect to financial institutions via tokens. This means your bank login information is not passed around or stored with any entities involved with the connection.

Is It Worth It?

MoneyPatrol offers lots of great analysis and will benefit anyone who needs more insight into their spending. Whether that is enough to offset the annual fee is another question. As of today, we don't think so. There is a lot of potential in this app, but they are pricing it as if it was a complete game-changer. It probably has 1-2 more years of iteration and improvement before it could justify this price.

Another issue is that MoneyPatrol does not disclose what happens to your data, including bank login data. This may be an immediate no-go for some. 

With a free demo that doesn’t require you to sign up, anyone can find out if MoneyPatrol is right for them.

Check out MoneyPatrol here >>

The post MoneyPatrol Review | A Robust Personal Finance App? appeared first on The College Investor.

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Pucks & Altitude

Warnings: None

Words: 1486

A/N: Sorry i didn’t update this story for quite a while. I’ve been busy preparing for university admissions since I’ll be in this fall. Hope you guys enjoy this chapter :) And, i secretly hoping to do some double update or so in the future.

Chap I // Chap II // Chap III

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Chapter IV - Morning Rush

At random hour, Hannah would wake up too early than normal hour she would wake up but, that has been her thing before she even gets her aviation license. Not to mention that she had a bad dream, but her body clock doesn't really work well since she was a kid. It's like shorter sleeping hours made her felt okay. The Adidas long sleeved training top matched with jogging pants, covered Hannah's semi-cold body. All she wanted was peace and maybe tiring her body little bit for the night later. She got caught with her company's phone call yesterday, letting her know that she'll officially be on duty starting today after officially changed her home base flight and further notice will be email to her. Looks like she'll be gone for a short 3 days flight to LAX.

    6am isn't a rush hour and it's a good start for a runner like her who doesn't run very often on a free time. Well, despite her stay always accommodate with indoor gym, she preferred to have a run around the public park like now. Little did she know, another soul, also running around the park on his daily routine. In and out, her breathing circulated fast and evenly within her breathing cavity. Every step of her Under Armour training shoe hit the ground, she felt a relieve lifted from her shoulder. That's just how Hannah likes to start her day. Later on, Hannah's pace grew slower each time she winced at the sudden cold morning breeze. It's almost as the nature told her to slow down and take a deep breath.

    She walked to a nearby tree, facing the blue lake and her tracking app on the phone beeped with a notification 'Congratulations! You've recorded a new personal best of time for the running distanced you've had.' Hannah locked her phone and did a mini yoga under the shady tree, to ease her breathing.

    Hannah stayed for a while and traced the view of the lake in front of her. Suddenly she was fully awake from her semi-conscious mind with a voice entangled with excitement. "I didn't expect to see you here. You run here too?" Hannah turned to her side and met the unexpected blue set of eyes, smiling and walked towards her direction. "I could say the same thing. This is my regular running tracks and good morning, Morgan.” he giggled and sat next to her. Morgan's gaze shifted from the view in front both of them back to Hannah, "It seems like you're a morning person or you got a flight?"

    She nodded, "Yeah, both. Later in the evening and 2 days straight later." Morgan have his train of thoughts catching and wondering if it's a good thing or not. "Where will you go?"

    "Toronto to LAX this evening. I’ll have 2 days layover since it’s a long-haul flight. It's not a big deal actually." She laughed at Morgan's surprised face. "I call that a tiring job. Sorry. How do you deal with such schedule?"

    "I don't because that's how an airline pilots work." He softly sighed and Hannah and Morgan back their gaze to the view, tracing the magnificent blue lake that has been the main attraction of people to the park. Seconds turn into minutes and minutes turn into an hour - both Hannah and Morgan have stayed long enough until they heard voices of people 'interrupting' their quiet morning. "I guess we should go. It's been an hour since we sat here." Morgan shrugged and walked next to Hannah, side by side.

    "Are you up for a breakfast?"

    "Is there even a morning place around here?" She gave Morgan a questioning look. From what she knew, this place that once she called home, has never have any morning places. Like the earliest hour they would open their restaurants is by 10am not 8.30am. Morgan smirked, "I know a place and it's the best. So, breakfast?"

    "I don't mean to be rude, but I'll be fine, making my breakfast at home." Hannah politely decline his offer. It's not like, she doesn't want to but, her brain did the talking just now. "Nah, come on! Make it as a way I repay you for the amazing dinner few days ago. It’s my treat." he wriggled his eyebrows and waited for Hannah's response.

    Hannah thought for a while, since she's kinda lazy to make her own breakfast at her own apartment, it's not a bad thing to have a breakfast with Morgan. She nodded and Morgan lead the way to his black Audi Q5. "You didn't drive here?"

    "It’s just a couple blocks away from my apartment, so, I walked." Morgan drove to an outskirt, slightly away from Hannah's normal distance for breakfast hunt that she usually has. "It should be here." Morgan parked in front of a mint coloured restaurant that served as early as 7am - stated on the window. Although the restaurant is only filled with few numbers of customers, the smell of omelette, baked chicken and coffee already filled their nostrils once they stepped in. A waiter assisted them and hand them the menus.

    "What's good around here?" the menu offered various kind of orders and customers can order their own personal menu - if the ingredients are available in the kitchen. She blew her invisible bang before the waiter with the name 'Linda' replied, "We have English breakfast as our top ordered and homemade Italian sausages with coffee."

    "I'll have the Italian sausages and cheese omelette with red beans as the side dish and do you have berry smoothie?" Hannah looked at Linda while she scribbled the order. "Yes, we do. Regular or large cup? Regular is 8oz and large is double in size." Obviously, Hannah picked the regular sized cup. "What about you, Mo?"

    Hannah went slightly surprised over the name that Linda called Morgan, "I'll have the regular but no cheese and lemon tea, please." Linda took the menu and left them both at the booth, looking at each other back and forth to the view on their side. "Mo, huh?"

    Morgan rubbed his neck sheepishly and try to avoid Hannah's gaze, "It's just a name that my mom and dad used to call me when I was a kid."

    "Wait, are you telling me that this is your family restaurant?" Hannah whispered and slightly surprised and unprepared for another surprise. He shook his head, "No. I'm just close with the restaurant's owner since I always have my breakfast here since I was a teen." she nodded and apologised for the misunderstanding. More or less, Hannah did ask about Jake, about his being. Since they both shared apartment together, wouldn't it be weird if only Morgan is here alone? "Jake is more of a home boy. He preferred stayed inside."

    "Unless it's a free food." Hannah teased before Morgan burst out laughing. The waiter came to their table few minutes later with their ordered foods and drink. "Bon Appetit." she grinned and they both dug into their food. The portion of one plate is a lot and Hannah quite surprised herself that she could finished it all in one go, same as Morgan. Well, she couldn't blame Morgan since men normally has a higher metabolism than women. After all, this is better than flight food. She doesn't have to worry about flight foods anymore since domestic flights doesn't take too long of time.

    "That was good!"

    "I know right! We should have breakfast here together if you're free and no morning flights, of course." he smiled. Hannah nodded and she definitely will come here soon. Morgan later dropped Hannah at her apartment complex. She halted before stepped out of the car when Morgan called her.

    "Are you free? like when you get back home after 3 days?" he asked, with a hint of shyness in his voice. Hannah looked at him, "I think so, why?"

    "Do you by any chance wanna go out with me? Whenever you’re free …" Hannah restate his words of 'go out'. He awkwardly laughed before he replaced the word with date.

    "I'm sorry if it's too early. Just forget what I just said."

    "No. I'm just ... thinking about the date that I'll be coming home from. Yes, Morgan, I'd like to go on a date with you." She smiled leaned for a small peck on his cheek before stepped out from his black Audi.

    "I'll call you once my flight schedule is cleared."

    With then, Hannah rode the elevator upstairs to her apartment level. She smiled contently, knowing that her 'first' move texting him in the first place did something great in her life. Maybe, it's the right time to have a companion in her life, despite all the dilemmas she's having right now.

    Morgan, you've won the first level.

    Hannah, welcome to the reality and beginning of real relationship.

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