#xen server

[thexenden]

The Xen Den

The Xen Den is an SFW, minor and system inclusive Discord server focused on creative works (art, writing, music, etc.) in the HLVRAI fandom! On the server you can enjoy such things as:

Bi-Weekly Prompt

Daily Video

Daily Post

Daily Character

Events

As well as host your very own gartic, scribblio, draw battle, and collab sessions! The community so far is very nice and everyone is so talented, I love you!

You're free to join and be as active as you'd like. Wanna be actively chatting? Go for it! Only here for the daily events? Lurkers welcome! Just want some cool emojis and content? Head right in!

This tumblr blog is where I'll reblog the dailies when possible!

"#The Xen Den Prompt" will be the bi-weekly prompt!

"#The Xen Den Daily" will be our daily posts.

"#The Xen Den CoTD" will be the character of the day.

"#The Xen Den Featured" will be any content made specifically for prompts or dailies! :D

Here's a playlist for the daily videos!

Who am I?

@harmonytre (also the artist of the icon/banner atm)

She/It, 24, autistic, asexual, etc. etc. You may know me for various artwork, animatics, currently hosting a multi-animator project, and even the upcoming @sweetvoicecafe !

See you around! >w<

[halflifebutawesome]

hi dyn same anon!! i would show it but it's for the contest in the xen den 💔 💔 you sadly have to be patient

WAIT IM IN THE XEN DEN. WHATS HAPPENING ! hold on

[virtualizationhowto]

XCP-ng: Home Server Build with Citrix Hypervisor

XCP-ng: Home Server Build with Citrix Hypervisor #homelab #XCPnghomelabguide #virtualizationwithXCPng #settingupXCPngserver #XCPngforbeginners #optimizingXCPngpowerconsumption #XenOrchestraandXCPng #DIYserverwithXCPng #XCPngvirtualmachinecreation

The possibilities are endless when you consider setting up your own home lab, including using multiple hypervisors and playing around with each feature. From running your own server for web hosting and experimenting with media servers to diving deep into Kubernetes, it’s a journey that’s both exciting and rewarding. Many are familiar with VMware vSphere and open-source hypervisor Proxmox for home…

[3m1l4rtch1v3s]

GOD I JUST REALISED I'M LIKE A MONTH LATE WITH THIS

HI! Hello, I'm in the uhh. Xen Den server right? very cool server check it out its on discord and uhh. @thexenden. And we have art contests every once in a while (monthly). And I COMPLETELY forgot to actually post the art i had made for it here!! BUT HERE IT IS!

I AM.. TOO TIRED TO DO CLOSE UPS.

[harmonytre]

IT'S FINALLY HERE WOOHOO!! This has been in the planning process for about 2 months, and is finally up and going!

A HLVRAI FOCUSED ART SERVER!

Art includes visual arts, writing, and music! Organize times to play gartic phone and scribblio! Enjoy the daily video and post, character of the day, and even a weekly prompt!

SFW, minor and system inclusive!

[alongtidesoflight]

more mass effect lore because i can (and it's kinda just rotting away on discord servers), separated by oc (alien version!)

koro'xen:

koro's deaf. i've always headcanoned that translators bridge a good part of the gap when it comes to his speech (and that admiral xen's drilled it into him to pronounce words very precisely), but at the end of the day he prefers sign language over speaking and lip reading and relying on his hearing aids UNLESS he's piloting his fighter. especially considering he's communicating with more aliens than quarians in his day to day life during the reaper war.

he's got more of a hardliner stance on the geth than he'd like to think. part of it is definitely his upbringing, but another huge contributing factor is that he believes he's stepped out of his mother's influence and therefore can't share as unhinged of a view on them as she does. that only holds up for as long as he doesn't share a space with a geth unit.

a huge science nerd. could've really made it in a STEM-related field but he just had to go run off and join the heavy fleet. (in another lifetime maybe he'd prefer the pursuit of knowledge over waging war, but part of having a highly future-oriented mind is knowing that fighting back against the geth and eradicating the reapers is the most pressing issue right now, and he's not bad at that at all. (find him in a quiet place though and he's probably doing a crosswords puzzle or decrypting code for fun))

he's unusually tall for a quarian. that he fits into a little fighter at all is nothing short of a miracle.

zreikh:

a member of an aristocratic clan, but not much interested in the lifestyle. much more of a blood-and-gore connoiseur. battlefield entrepreneur.

might or might not have been a member of the mercenaries who held onto shepard's body for a while.

he narrowly escaped reaper indoctrination while guarding a team of scientists working on the leviathan of dis, but didn't do jack shit to stop the higher ups of the hegemony from being infiltrated. he'd rather have taken some of them out himself but a dead official who's wronged him is a dead official who's wronged him and that's good enough for him.

during the reaper war he acts as an agent between the batarian survivors and the rest of the alliance, although he and responsibility got a really loose relationship and he really doesn't care much for diplomacy.

not that he'd ever admit it but humans are growing on him (or at least some of them are. as long as they don't anger him. (he's very quick to anger.))

his armor is of the custom made kind. the gauntlets have spiked straps that can be undone for quick lashing. many such modifications to several armor pieces of his.

he might be getting on in age but those muscles of his are still very much lethal, to a point where he prefers hand-to-hand combat over shooting.

his slaving days are over. no for real this time. he promises.

[in-faithwe-conquer]

Legion: Shepard-Comander. We are prepared to offer assistance. Admiral Raan: What the hell is this? Shepard: Wait, wait -- everybody calm down! Its name is Legion. It helped me destroy the Collectors. The Reapers were using Legion like a signal boost to broadcast commands from the dreadnought. We freed him. Tali: It. We freed "it."

[ Full transcript ⇩ ]

Admiral Hackett: They fired on the dreadnought while you were on board? Shepard: They were supposed to pull their fleet out safely. Instead... Admiral Hackett: I know. Admiral Gerrel's been causing trouble along the turain border for years. But I cant understand their desperation. We only lost Earth a few weeks back. Shepard: We haven't lost Earth yet. Admiral Hackett: We nee help, Shepard. We need a fleet. And the quarians have the biggest one out there. Shepard: I'll get it, Admiral. Admiral Raan: Your unilateral strike endangered us all! I should charge you with treason. Admiral Gerrel: I was within my authority as admiral of the Heavy Fleet! Admiral Raan: And what of Shepard? And Tali'Zorah? Admiral Gerrel: They escaped unharmed! Shepard, the mission parameters changed. You're military. You understand that. Shepard: [I agree]: You did the right thing. JUst give me a heads up next time. Admiral Gerrel: Thank you, Shepard. I'm glad there's at least one other soldier in the room. I've got to get back to the Heavy Fleet. Raan, we'll talk later. Tali: Bosh'tet. Admiral Raan: You must understand, the geth inflicted heavy casulties before you disabled the Reaper signal. Shepard: You said they have a planetary defense cannon? Admiral Raan: Had. Admiral Koris sacrificed his own ship to destroy it. He crashed-landed on the homeworld. Shepard: The Normandy can assist with rescuce efforts. Admiral Raan: Thank you, commander. I think the worst is over. The geth no longer possess the programming upgrades they had while enslaved by the Reapers. Legion: Shepard-Comander. We are prepared to offer assistance. Admiral Raan: What the hell is this? Shepard: Wait, wait -- everybody calm down! Its name is Legion. It helped me destroy the Collectors. The Reapers were using Legion like a signal boost to broadcast commands from the dreadnought. We freed him. Tali: It. We freed "it." Admiral Xen: This is a fasinating prototype. With some study, I may be able to use it to find a weakness in the geth consensus. Shepard: Legion helped me in the fight against the Collectors. Admiral Xen: So did your pistol. Should I worry about its feelings as well? Shepard: I don't think you want to continue this line of thought, Admiral. Legion is my friend. More importantly, it's our best source of information on the geth. Admiral Xen: The scientific benefits-- Shepard: ... Are off the table. Admiral Raan: What can you tell us about the geth? How will they react without Reaper guidance? Legion: This is a false assumption. You have cut off long-range control, but the Old Machines placed a base on Rannoch for short range direction. Admiral Raan: The geth still have Reaper upgrades? Legion: Correct. They are currently disorganized, but once the short-range signal is in place, they will recover. Admiral Raan: Keelah... I need to warn the fleet. Xen, coordinate with Gerral. Move! Shepard: We need to take out the Reaper base. Where's it located? Legion: Unknown Shepard: Find it. Legion: Understood. We do know the location of a server from which the geth fighter squadrons are controlled. The squadrons are targetting creator liveships. Disabling them will limit casualties. We offer assistance. Shepard: Thanks.

[xenosthetechnomorph]

Xen emoji pack

A lil pack of emojis I made for my Discord server! You can join here.

[archiearchiearchiearchie]

What happened in the Xen Den? I heard about the server but idk anything about what happened

nothin really just don't fw the owner

[owlhead650]

🔥 🌅 ✴️ 🐦‍🔥 for any of your ocs

Okay so first of all, thank you very much for the wonderful ask, finally someone decided to play an oc ask game with me. I've seen people like Kiroons and Sleepy do this and now it's my turn. Second of all, even though this ask was non oc specific and could potentially be answered with all of them, I will answer only with Asopo because he's the one I have the most lore for. He's the one I think about the most so my good old interceptor oc Asopo will be the focus. I've explored Asopo through writing, oc rp servers and artwork. He's been the interceptor, a normal gym challenger in hyburna and a gym leader. Not all of these scenarios connect to the same continuity but I'll refer to all of them while answering the lovely questions you were nice enough to send.

I got carried away for two hours and had a sort of oc moment. Below is an insane 4151 word ramble about my precious oc Asopo who I love. Massive spoilers for all of Pokemon Rejuvenation included. Both routes.

🔥 (fire) - What drives your character in life? Is it a belief? A person? A goal? Whatever it is, what do they want from it and what are they willing to do to get it?

For Asopo this has changed a lot over time. All three of these things have driven him in different scenarios. In the Hyburna version of his story Asopo isn't the interceptor but he's still very driven as a pokemon trainer. In all scenarios Asopo has had a very loving family whether that's his biological family in Hyburna or his eclectic mixture of human connections in Aevium. So basically Asopo was art first driven by his love for Nancy. The whole boat around him was getting destroyed and the most he could do is run away. Except he couldn't even manage that without a bunch of help from his mum and piano lady. (I fucking loved the dropping piano on deoxys bit.) Basically at first he was driven by wanting to save Nancy and be strong enough to not be helpless anymore. Then Melia "dies" in amethyst cave even though Asopo was stronger this time. So now it's not just about saving his mum but also getting revenge against the evil people that keep taking things away from him. Except that didn't immediately happen, he had to sit around grieving with Venam and Ren first. Asopo is "The Interceptor of Persistence" but this was his first experience with actually mouring a loved one. It was his first taste of the reality of death. At that point he hadn't lived much life and simply wasn't ready for it.

Skipping ahead in time a bit, Asopo finds that Melia is still alive and can be rescued yet his mother Nancy died and no matter how strong he was he couldn't prevent that. Asopo felt a primal sense of terror while looking at the Yveltal on blacksteeple castle, I headcannon that legendary pokemon like Yveltal and Xerneas emmanate this aura of whatever concept they represent. In the case of Yveltal and Xerneas they literally has abilities with 'aura' in the name. As a tangent I'll explain that in my headcannon staring at Yveltal is like staring at something that makes you instinctively think "I am going to die." Like there's an overwhelming dread that accompanies Yveltal's simple appearance that would break most people. Asopo fought against it, and won. We know that any player can use the focus sash to maybe beat Yveltal by toxic stalling or something, but in world I imagine it's the interceptor sending out multiple pokemon at once and using genuisly co-ordinated strategies to push their pokemon past their limits and do the impossible, defeat Yveltal, or at least push it back enough for Madame X to feel like she had been bested.

The whole point of this tangent about Yveltal is to say that Asopo tried and tried and tried and tried and tried some more to save his mother and it still wasn't enough. That's crushing. And now his desire to take revenge against team Xen was made into a joke by Melia still being alive. He'd be ashamed to admit it, but for a short period of time Melia's survival actually made Asopo feel bitter and cheated in a weird way. Of course, once he shook off the blinding miasma of despair around him he felt horrible about thinking that and was ready to embrace Melia as a best friend that he's delighted to be with, but still. Asopo's persistence never really falters on either the paragon or renegade route, but he has a lot of anger inside of him. It builds and builds until reaching a fever pitch at a certain point I'll discuss later. How Asopo deals with it is the real difference maker when it comes to who he becomes.

So basically on Terajuma Asopo is still mourning Nancy and wears a black t-shirt with a pink pokeball symbol on it to sort of show that. (I did a drawing of Asopo's terajuma design you can look at. I tried to give him a very tired expression.) For this arc his driving purpose in life is simply to survive terajuma and protect the new friends he made. At the same time he gradually gets more angry with Team Xen and its members. People like them. All they do is hurt others. All they do is make his life hard. All they do is define his life with endless hardships. He had to bloody his hands by killing a rift pokemon because of them. They make everything worse. They make him worse. He suppresses most of this anger and sadness, not to appear stoic or for any conscious reason, internalising negative emotions is simply his way of coping. Yet there's no denying that the dark side of his motivations in Act 1 of rejuvenation is that Asopo is driven by anger.

Love and hate are both the forces tugging Asopo along for this part of his journey, one of them wins by the end of the arc.

I'll explain the whole thing about Asopo's end of terajuma arc character development under the Pheonix ask because that's a more fitting place for it. You can skip to there for the end of this thought.

So Asopo's main goal by .karmafiles is liberation. He's matured into his interceptor role and he's proud of it. He's happiest during pokemon battles, when the struggle for his ideals is exciting and tangible. He always fights to win but somehow he's never afraid of losing either. He fights like he isn't at all intimidated by the prospect that defeate means death in most cases.

In Asopo's mind 'liberation' is the state of being wear outside pressures like danger and societal injustice aren't weighing him down. During the regirock sidequest he didn't hesitate to destroy the terminal and free the envoy souls, he doesn't see life as an inherent good even if he's trying to prevent death as much as possible. The space hags tried to teach him and Melia to always choose the millions over the beloved few, but if you put a trolley problem in front of Asopo he'd simply take the people off the tracks. If that wasn't practically possible he'd force a way for it to be possible or at least try. His goal is liberation and to get that he's willing to do basically anything. He plans to destroy Karma, the ai controlling rejuvenation's world. Right now he views it as the ultimate inherent evil that he'd do basically anything to stop.

In Asopo's mind the interceptor's role is to act as the ultimate paragon of freedom and extend that freedom to everyone else.

In the renegade route Asopo's anger at the world gradually turned him into the sort of person who isn't capable of saving it. When the androids Clear and Kieren offered him a spot on the team that fights for oblivion, he was at first very offended. How dare they imply he's bad at stopping evli?! Kieren's nonchalance and Clear's callous stoicism make them the most punchable faces he's ever seen. Even Madame X has a less punchable face, although that doesn't really count because she's wearing a mask. After some self reflection he realised that maybe Clear and Kieren and the weird red cube that led him to this room all have a point. Asopo didn't feel very motivated to save the world, he didn't even like most of the people in it, except for a few. Hell, he earlier learnt that Melia was dying of genesis syndrome. Someone he fought to protect the whole time, who he mourned at one point, who he tried to avenge at one point, she was dying the whole time. Everything about his journey is kinda pointless when you take a step back and think critically about it. But he doesn't want to admit defeat. He wasn't ready to give up. He wanted to win, if nothing else. The interceptor of persistence never gives up.

So basically he decides that because he isn't the sort of person who can save the world, he's probably the sort of person who can end it, and as Erin discovered in the Blakeory Athenium, destroying the world is a totally valid option for the interceptor. He's meant to judge this world, and he judges it as a disappointment. At the same time he's willing to entertain the logical possibility that if life were bettre than he probably wouldn't want to destroy the world. He doesn't think a happy life is undesirable or impossible, he just doesn't consider it feasible.

We don't know for sure what the connection between paragon and renegade is, we're at the point where even our playable character is hiding secrets from the irl player. But right now the likely theory is that renegade is helping and funding paragon by giving them stuff like the red chain. With this interpretation I think that Renegade Asopo's purpose is first and foremost to experience some sort of victory, but while he's at it he wants to ensure that at least some version of himself gets the much better victory he truly wanted from the beginning.

Both Asopo's are pretty much willing to do whatever it takes.

🌅 (sunrise) - What does your oc look forward to every day? Do they have something to look forward to in the first place? What makes them wake up in the morning? Why do they want to be alive?

Why does Asopo want to be alive? Well there's not shortage of reasons for Asopo to live. First off I'll explain that his most powerful character trait in every portrayal of the character is persistence. Even if he's not the interceptor of persistence, he still has that as part of how he is. I don't think he'd give up on life for anything. Maybe renegade and Hyburna Asopo would have their limits, but paragon Asopo virtually wouldn't have one. A paragon of persistence.

To answer the question in a less serious way, both Hyburna and Paragon Asopo have lots of people they love dearly. They really get a kick out of life, even if it's just a mundane or boring day. Hyburna Asopo really loves and admires his older sister Atlanta, he loves his mum Loraine and hugs her at least once a day, he also has some good times with his dad Alon. He also has a friend called Zorina who's been his neighbour for a while. He enjoys swimming, pokemon battling, fashion, (he's willing to wear all sorts of clothes, even more traditionally feminine ones like dresses and skirts but he'll wear male clothes more often) listening to and watching rain fall, maybe watching whatever new movie or TV show that Zorina has started talking about, he enjoys all sorts of things.

Paragon Asopo looks forward to each day he gets alive because they seem so focus precious to him. The fact that he's here, the fact that his friends are somehow still here with him, that's enough sometimes. Interceptor Asopo also has an interest in fashion. Doing the Odessa sidequest resulted in him getting body swapped with a pretty princess who was maybe a bit silly and wanted to steal his identity but he totally forgave her for it. (God forbid a princess who gets locked in the basement do anything right?!) Basically after some time in Odessa's body Asopo realised that wearing a dress and looking pretty felt kinda nice. It wasn't a gender altering experience for him, he's decisively a man, but they say that cross dressing is the manliest thing a person can do because it's something only men are capable of. Cause if you aren't a man who puts on the dress then it's not crossdressing it's just dressing. This tangent is me saying that I want to draw my oc looking pretty and/or cute sometimes without questioning his or my own gender identity. That's all. Back to the point. When he gets his act 2 redesign he actually got Melia to help it pick it out for him. He thought that Venam and Melia suddenly looking different was really cool and he wanted to look different too. So basically he asks Melia to dress him up as well and she basically comes up with his Act 2 redesign that he loves. He and Erin also share a lot of discussion about clothes and aesthetics they like later on.

Other than stuff like swimming, walking through the rain, fashion, his friends, Asopo got through the really hard times by doing a handful of things that help him get up in the morning. The help requests in paragon are really healthy because by helping those other people he learns how to help himself in a way. Even if the help requests get a bit funky he finds joy in them. They make his life better. They make him better. Another thing is that Asopo stays silly. Through all his time of being on the listening side of a conversation and being super quiet (about as quiet as the canon interceptor) he has developed really great comedic timing. I interpret the random funny dialogue options in rejuv as a hint at the Interceptor's personality. When Kieren talks to him at mount valour, Asopo says "No Autographs" after Kieren had prefaced the conversation by talking about Asopo as this notorious trainer who fought team xen and caused so much trouble. He comments on how a "kitty kat" with a sense of humour is rare, and that's sort of true I guess. Why not pretend you're some random person you made up called mildred mcanny? Why not improvise an overly elaborate therapy session for this gurdur? Sometimes the first thing he says in hours will be a quip of some kind like that. This is something he appreciated about Nim early on, maybe he even learnt it from her. The "fun games" that Nim set up were designed to cheer Asoop up and it succeeded. Maybe that's where he learnt it from.

Overall Asopo learnt how to make a better life for himself by being kind to others, by making friends and keeping up his purpose of getting stronger. If all else fails he still feels like he has a responsibility to live and fight for the future no matter what. He understands Karma as an ultimate evil only he can stop, throughout his whole journey he's felt that if he isn't the one to save the day, then the day isn't getting saved. He thinks he's too important to die and even in a pit of despair where he's lost everything else, he'd cling to life for no other reason than the fact that it's not his right to deny this world its interceptor, its last bastion of free will that can change fate.

✴️ (eight-pointed star) - Is there anyone your oc admires or looks up to? What qualities of this person does your oc admire? Do they want to be like this person one day?

Yes actually. Asopo has quite a few people he looks up to, it's different depending on whether it's Hyburna or Paragon Asopo, but there's a sort of theme when it comes to who he looks up to. Oh but Renegade Asopo doesn't admire anything. Maybe renegade Asopo admired Crescent for a while but eventually he just considered her a bit sad.

So basically Nancy was Asopo's hero. And that's not exclusively because she sacrificed herself to save him. A lot of the reasons why he admires her are all back construction, reflecting on events and thinking about it. So basically Nancy is not even Asopo's biological mother, and she at first only acted as his mother because Crescent told her to, but both Asopo and Nancy's love was real. This is canon lore by the way, Nancy's love for her child was real there's dialogue that implies she outgrew her original orders. Definitely the interceptor's mother. So basically what Asopo admires more than just someone being strong is someone being protective and caring. Tesla, Maman and Nancy are people he really came to respect. Tesla offering to take him in definitely reduced him to tears, he wouldn't of cried immediately but when he had a quiet moment to himself he would've. He thinks that the way Tesla uses her strength and the way she treats others is the most heroic thing he's ever seen. He had a feeling he was going to love her from the start of act 1.

The fact that Asopo really admires protective caring figures definitely gives him a complicated view of people like Keta, Nymiera, and forgive me Meteors, but also Neved. Let's start with Neved. The whole thing about Neved wanting to save his daugther reminded him of Nancy, but in sort of an ugly way. He didn't want to think that Neved and Nancy were even vaguely comparable. No one who tortured Aelita just to have revenge on Kenneth deserves to be compared to his Mom. If Asopo hadn't sworn to not hold a grudge against anyone anymore, or if Maman hadn't told him about how much she loved her husband, Asopo would actively hate him. Especially for that incident in Terajuma where Neved tried to guilt him and Melia into turning themselves in to team xen so that the war on Terajuma would just end. It actually shook his resolve for a moment as he wondered about the ethics of his big quest, and it seemed to have the same effect on Melia, but then a real hero called Tesla interrupted and told him to keep going. Later he was angry at himself for actually taking Neved seriously. If Renegade Asopo ever made a (s)hitlist (and didn't consider pursuing revenge a totally inane waste of time when he has a world to end) then Neved would be one of the names written on it. I'm sorry Meteors but it's true. XD (see how quirky I am using the xd)

Keta. Oooohhhh boy Keta. Asopo did not view Keta's sacrifice the same way he viewed Nancy's. Keta cried out about how this was his redemption and that he was doing the right thing, but because Keta took so long to take action against Team Xen a baby volcanion was turned into a rift and Asopo had to kill it. Asopo had to kill a pokemon because of Keta's inaction. Keta was strong, at this point inaction inspite of possessing strength and power is something that Asopo is too naive to understand. He's disappointed when Keta 'redeems' himself by sacrificing his life. He thinks that Keta should've redeemed himself by surviving instead and living to face his mistakes. One thing that Asopo never manages to stomach is other people sacrificing their lives. He'll make an exception for Nancy's sacrifice, and in the most extreme situations he has a few times considered sacrificing his own life as fair game. (think of when he pushed Melia out of the way of the Yveltal decimation during bad future arc) Yet broadly Asopo doesn't consider self sacrifice a virtue. When Vivian asked him if he'd give up his life for those he loves, he said yes, mainly because he had already done so in the past, but he was appalled that Vivian was actually going to do it himself. He's really afraid that Melia might try to sacrifice herself at some point and he won't stand for it. It's a sort of double standard he has.

And Nymiera. Asopo at first admired Nymiera when he only understood her in legend. A brave queen who fought with two swords to protect her people, queen life and humanity. The mural in the bad future arc depicted her as a motherly and noble figure, and I guess Asopo just projected his perceptions of Tesla and Nancy onto her. For a lot of time he was content to just believe that she was the big good to Vitus's big bad, but then the regi trio sidequests happened. Nymeiera isn't Asopo's ideal of someone protective and caring, she is simply a champion of life. Life, with all its joy and beauty as well as the senseless cruelty and struggle for survival. By .karmafiles Asopo views liberation as the ultimate good, but it's clear that Nymiera simply views preserving life as the ultimate good. Asopo saw the Garufan sanctuary as an example of Garufan arrogance, the refusal of the old to let the world change, and the insistence to cling to life even when life sucks and isn't worth living. Of course, Asopo is sort of stubborn and foolish in the same way, but he's the interceptor he needs to be that's different. He felt that if he didn't free the envoys then he'd never be able to face Aelita and act like they're friends. He thinks that Nymiera is an effective protector, like how the space hags were effective protectors, but not a good friend. He really pities Nymiera because he understands the difficult position she's in, but it was still an overall very disillusioning experience for him.

🐦‍🔥 (phoenix) - What has your oc had to overcome to get to where they are now? Were the challenges emotional or physical? Would you say they had to go through a “rebirth”? How did they change, if at all?

Asopo had to go through a lot to get where he is now. In Hyburna he had the healthy and 'normal' trials of the pokemon league and competing against his rivals. His best friend Zorina and his not so friendly rival Everest (That's an oc I still need to work on. Silver haired dragon specialist enby.) who both pushed him to become stronger. His toughest battle in the Hyburna league was fighting his sister Atlanta, who is part of the elite four in his region.

In Aevium Asopo's "Rebirth" happens on Mount Valour. His literal death and rebirth after Geara pushes him into lava. As I explained under the heading "fire" Asopo is driven both by love of his friends but also by anger at his enemies. There is a very critical scene on Mount Valour that sort of shows who he's becoming before the actual rebirth. When Eli and Sharon are defeated, then Sharon tries to kill herself by jumping off a cliff Asopo has some thoughts. He thinks that Eli and Sharon are just going to get stronger over time, they'll just continue being a nusance whenever he fights team xen and they might eventually contribute to he and/or his friends losing and dying. So basically Asopo starts to hope that Sharon will go through with it. He starts hoping that Sharon is about jump.

Then Crescent pushes her.

Asopo has an immediate and intense stress response. Oh look. It's exactly what you asked for. Good helpful ol' Crescent is here to do your dirty work for you again. She'll teleport you out of danger and do exactly what you want to do, but won't do for yourself. Seeing Crescent actually act on what he only thought of, and then say aloud the things he had been thinking for weeks on terajuma, how every team xen member is destined to be destroyed and die. How they all deserve it. Seeing this mirror of himself completely snaps him out of it because Asopo imagines Crescent in this moment as the worst version of himself. Calm and in control, and ready to punish evil. On the paragon route Asopo learns the value of mercy and feels intense relief when it turns out that Sharon was alive. That's why he called Crescent cruel afterwards. He was saying it almost more to himself than to her.

On the renegade path... Asopo approves. Yes. Kill Sharon. She shouldn't have joined team xen, she deserved that. Asopo will show them all the same mercy Madame X showed his mother, that is to say, none at all. Asopo gradually getting angrier at team xen eventually extends into him becoming more jaded and cynical and a worse friend. A worse person who doesn't care as much about saving others, simply about "defeating evil" and "surviving".

This attitude is cemented after he dies and comes back to life by being thrown into Mount Valour's lava. On paragon Asopo's death and rebirth on Mount Valour sort of... clenses him. All his anger at team xen had been burned away into ashes, he still viewed them as antagonists, but by now he realised that they were people not enemies.

After Mount Valour his trainer class changes to "Reborn" because that's the only accurate way to describe the state of being he reached after that. Mount Valour is practically a baptism of fire for the interceptor, either being baptised as a paragon or a renegade.

[unvale-io]

Hey there! I've been experiencing some troubles with the site. Today the site froze and crashed my entire computer. I am using Firefox and a 2020 Macbook Pro. No other window or app has done this except for Unvale. I hope it gets fixed soon!

So sorry to hear you've experienced this! I would suggest report this in a support ticket via our help center (https://help.unvale.io/en/) or in our discord server. - Xen

[restless-smp]

Hello! Hola! Oi!

I'm Xen, and me and some of my friends are making an SMP called Restless SMP! This is a multi-lingual modded minecraft server!

It is semi-based off the QSMP in some aspects, with inspiration from many others, and has been a work in progress for a few months!

More info below the cut!!

We're looking for all sorts of players to join us, from every background, and every play style!

We're looking for some regular players, and for some to play the eggs we plan on introducing soon!

And perhaps a couple people who want to work on the behind the scenes!

(Ft. One of the eggs that will be around!!)

We have so much planned for everyone! Different events to keep you occupied, lore and mystery for those who prefer to find the truth, and so much more that I can't reveal just yet! But I promise it will be such a great time!

So if this sounds like something you'd want to participate/ join in, come join us! The discord server for applications will be linked below!

We can't wait to meet everyone :D

https://discord.com/invite/MKCbd3k5Sa

Feel free to join even if you don't want to play and just want to watch!

[dedisgone]

copying and pasting something i REALLYYYYY wanna talk about. all this is from a multifandom rp server i got silly about char subs in

uhhh i think theres spoilers somewhere in here, tldr is all in short, benry, although depicted to be, in reality, is not a barney clone!

HLVRAI IS AN IMPROV SERIES. SCORPY, WHO PLAYS BENRY, DID NOT KNOW ANYTHING OF HALF LIFE BEFORE HAND. ENTIRELY, HE IS USING A GUARD MODEL, THE SAME USED THROUGHOUT THE *ENTIRETY* OF THE GAME. all the guards have that uniform, and more often than not, benry's design is COMPLETELY different! [edit: fan designs play into his alien-like nature, exploring a xen origin, and nearly all have very little semblance to barney or his "clones."]

when scorpy picked out benry's name, it wasn't based upon barney. this implies that, no, benry is NOT a barney clone, as is beauty calhoun or barmey for example! beauty and barmey PLAY barney's role in half life (2 for beauty.) they both DIRECTLY take barney's place for that series, using the same name, title, storyline, etc. [edit: GRAAAHHH i love that coincidence. its so cool... ALSO! NOTE! barney's variants usually associated with a play on their last name as well, like how gordon's variants do, or keep it entirely. benry doesnt have that. its benry benry benry... all the way through. hes also not located in the spots that barney is in! hell, we dont even see the tram scene that you DO find barney in!]

BENRY DOES NOT [TAKE ON HIS ROLE]! benry is an entirely separate entity, a piece within the code, that exceeds the game's expectations. even in non-game aus, hes still not. taking barney's place. he never does. [edit: id like to add on, he doesn't lead the resistance [barney and beauty(?)], or run through blue shift [barmey]. he isn't an old piece within the story to recall [beauty]] because scorpy doesn't have the knowledge of that role, and never takes it on. benry is writen to be the antagonist. the final peak of the game. he works alongside feetman, something NEVER displayed in adjacent media! all he REALLY shares js the same uniform, but all the guards in black mesa do!!

[bbeeohazardd]

[stares at tumblr while shaking my head disapprovingly] they don't even know IRATE's a creature now and that he's in love with Darnold(<- he has not shared any of the IRATE lore outside the re:y2kvr server)

n e ways uhhhh fuckin lore dump

IRATE (ECMS-4-Xen) is a failed prototype for a Black Mesa project, where they were basically trying to make genetically advanced soldiers with Xen DNA. He was the first to actually survive and kept around to be studied to improve upon future generations.

He's a defect due to being tiny and very alien looking with little to no alien abilities aside from shapeshifting.

He was then later stuck together with Benrey due to the two meeting and immediately bonding, Forzen was able to keep Benrey calm and mostly cooperative, so the scientists just said "fuck it" and let them stick together.

Forzen and Benrey are not the same type of Xen creature, but they're very similar.

Then, once the main scientist he was under the care of (Dr. Reece) retired, he was separated more from Benrey and got put through more of the military stuff due to not really having anyone to advocate for him.

Also, he and Dr. Reece do not have a parent-child relationship, while Reece did care about Forzen he didn't see him as his own kid or anything.

He was only there during the ResCas due to the project higher-ups just sending any of the rejects to be death fodder to keep the successful ones alive. He was very much freaking the fuck out during that and just trying to stay alive til he managed to get out.

Once the shit with Gordon happened, he was kept updated by Benrey and only brought in once Darnold (Dr. Right) contacted him due to needing help with Joshua. They became close, but due to Forzen being very much an outsider he more so saw it as just an "oh I'm just helping the Science Team" thing.

Forzen wants to help to prove that he's good, he has a lotta fuckin guilt from being a product of Black Mesa and a very strong moral code. He was created to be nothing more than a weapon, and he doesn't know how to be anything more than that, along with not having any time to adjust or get help for his issues.

Forzen goes into "I have to fix this" mode and tracks down G-Man to make a deal with him to take Freeman's place, though G-Man isn't known for having an honest nature.

The rp and lore stuff has yet to continue, but IRATE now works under G-Man with basically little to no memory of who he was, Freeman is still Freeman and now Darnold is gonna have to figure out what happened and what to do

[inkblot-app]

InkBlot Feedback!

Hi everyone! Xen here asking for feedback via poll.

We've noticed folks are hesitant to join the Outverse forum that homes our feedback board, status updates, changelog, etc. In that regard, should we move everything to discord or stick with outverse?

Please throw your votes in the poll and share your thoughts! I'll be around of course to read what y'all have to say 🙂

Happy Wednesday!

-Xen (aka Angel) Community Manager

[skeleticals]

haiii new twt refugees ^_^ I'm xen but I also go by dia and several other names <-(chronic name hoarder) + he her and neos :3

I speak spanish n english + a little bit of portuguese! 🇦🇷

U might occassionally see me on the tag either liveblogging about roier, carre and quackity (whenever he n carre r on.......). I draw .... Sometimes ..........

As mentioned before, I main roier, carre and quackity, if neither are on I either go to cellbit, bagi or foolish !! Aside from posting liveblogs, I write small analysis posts on the aforementioned ccs I main since they're the characters I most rotate around in my head

Of course I don't just liveblog roier, I liveblog anyone I'm watching and sometimes post about other things that occurred in the server (agent 18s "small" crush on foolish being the one example I can remember rn)

I enjoy spiderduck and spiderbit as a ship + those small crumbs I had on purgatory of carrebit ......

qroier makes me ill int he head and I miss qcarre ....