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Yes! *Smacks him even harder* You can shove some religious trauma in here too.

*Smacks Xornoth on the back* This baby can hold so much body horror in 'em 😼

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One sided TigerFire

This is such an interesting dynamic to me, specifically if Tigerstar is the one with the one sided but indubitable love for the former kittypet. Like, not only does it feed into my "Firestar attracts cats who fall in love with him like a flame attracts moths" headcannon, but it also makes Tigerstar so much more interesting as a villain. There's the obvious element of Tigerstar having to struggle with "do I hate you because you're against me? Or do I hate you because you're against me?", torn between wanting to slit Firestar's throat and wanting to pull him to his side both literally and metaphorically. But there's also Tigerstar's whole issue with kittypets. His father abandoned him to be one, and he hates them for being weak and soft and useless...but here he is, falling for one. One who keeps proving him wrong and beating him. And to make it worse, Firestar hates him. Hates him in a way that makes it extremely clear that he will never see him as anything more than an enemy. So even if Tigerstar figures out what he's feeling on the matter, it won't mean anything because it won't change anything. Like, watching Tigerstar struggle with all of this would be so intriguing. And it would give him way more depth than just "villain who wants power and would do anything to get it."

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Zane sure is something...

Thinking about how I described Zane in a fic I'm working on... "He was Zane Ro'meave and he didn't surrender. But that wasn't true was it? He was Zane Ro'meave and he wasn't. The Shadow Lord had taken his oath and cut him to pieces for it, with blades sharpened on grudges well deserved. He'd put him back together in the end, yes, but with pieces missing and nothing placed back in the spaces it had once occupied. The sharp edges of his cut and torn remains had been left free to scrape against each other, heedless of the agony their passing left in its wake. And rot had settled over him, the sort that lingered in infected flesh or corpses left for scavengers. The thing that filled the space Zane Ro'meave had occupied was Zane, but it could be more accurately likened to his mangled remains. It should not have been. If the world had been a kinder or more just place, it would have been nothing but a nightmare. A fading flicker of the world's horror and revulsion at a monster of a man. And yet it was. It was enough to crawl out of the shadows that had birthed it, wearing stolen shadows like strength with determination in place of a heartbeat. It came back, pushed forward by nothing but rage at its failures and the will to fight a war it had long since lost. He hadn't loved it. He didn't need to. But it was what he needed to be to save the one's he'd left behind in fear of it. With a deep breath that sent a wave of agony through his bruised ribs, Zane fell givingly into the darkness that Called him home."

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ETN Xornoth and Stacy

So, I caved and made Escape the Night versions of Xornoth and Stacy from my MCYT fic. Mostly because I've had Escape the Night on the brain and these two would be so interesting as contestants. So, here they are. The era is 1920s, but in a Shadow Over Innsmouth kind of way. First off: Stacy as The Volunteer

Link to the picrew I used: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/227881 She's here, she knows, and she isn't afraid to call Joey out. I debated making her a member of the SAE, but I felt like after witnessing the SAE fail to save Joey over and over again, she'd have some second thoughts about joining. So instead, she's doing their job for them. And with her: Xornoth as the Wildcard

Link to the picrew I used: https://picrew.me/en/image_maker/1041191 He's not a vampire. He's not even a Champion anymore. And for this mission, he's taking great pains not to look like one. Hence the downright human glamour. He knows the pain Joey's been heading for since the Cursed God first laid eyes on him, and he doesn't want to do something stupid like advertise it. So he's here to fuck up the Cursed God's plans however he can.

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hehe

reblog if you wear glasses. too many mutuals don't know they have glasses wearers in their midsts

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Dude this is exactly how I picture these three's dynamic. Zane and the squishies (he loves them dearly).

They won't leave him alone at work

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CRK Concept

The Beasts and the Ancients are soulmates, in a way. Like, they literally have pieces of each other's souls. They dream of each other's lives. They just understand things about each other without knowing how. They feel hints of each other's feelings and injuries. But it's not a positive bond. Like the Beasts either ignore it, treat it like some minor annoyance, or exploit it to hurt their counterparts. As for the Ancients, it's more complicated. On some level, they all really want the Beasts to be a simple set of enemies that they can face, uncoloured by the emotions of the conflict with their former friend Dark Enchantress. But due to the bond, they can't. It could lead to some really viseral imagery. (Also Shadowvanilla soulmate trope when?)

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Warrior Cats Protags When You Ask to Copy Their Homework

Most of them are nice, helpful people who will either let you copy or help. There's the odd group who didn't do it or forgot. And then there's some people who just...didn't get the memo.

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Zana wholesomeness

Just...thinking about Zane helping Nana take her makeup off at the end of a long day. Seeing her roots grow in their natural colour. Thinking about Nana taking off Zane's mask. Helping him let his hair down. Imagining the two of them talking, really talking, and getting to know the versions of each other behind the masks that they put on around other people. Their relationship being based on really knowing each other, in a way no one else does.

Zana is mutual vulnerability and understanding unlike almost any other ship in the Aphverse and honestly I love them so much.

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More Harry Potter Au out of context

Harry: Wow, what nice vandalism!

Hermione: If we get caught we're going to get sent to prison. Tom: Prison's not that bad actually. Harry: I mean, it depends on the prison. Draco: I've never been to prison. Makes me feel like kind of a looser. Ron: We should go to prison.

Ron: You have a nice house. Draco: What say we blow it up?

Snape: So yes, it was I who murdered-are you exchanging money!? Tom: Yeah, Ron and I just got twenty galleons richer. Dumbledore: I'm concerned for Harry. He's spending far too much time with Riddle. MacGonagall: If anything, I think we should be more concerned for the safety of the school should those two become friends. Hermione: How do I look? Tom: Like you eat corrupt purebloods for dinner. Hermione: Good. Draco: Can I take some creative liberties? The London weather doesn't exactly lend itself to dramatic rays of light breaking through the clouds, illuminating the dawn of a new age... Hermione: You're good at this whole propaganda thing. Can I interest you in a- Draco: NO!

Tom: *in the middle of class* Dang it! I forgot to close the Chamber of Secrets! ...ah, it's fine.

Ron: Ten points if you set Umbridge on fire. Draco: I expected this, and yet I am somehow still disappointed. Tom: YOU EXPECTED THIS?! THEY BLEW UP A BUILDING! Draco: The plan was to blow up half a building.

Fudge: *breathes* Hermione: Fucking bullshit!

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Eternal Sugar is sus

So, the new Cookie Run Kingdom update just dropped, and I have some thoughts. First things first, does Eternal Sugar give cult leader vibes to anyone else? Like her whole shtick of acting all caring and motherly to everyone in her garden, telling them they can leave whenever they want, but punishing/killing them if they try to...that's cult leader behaviour. Also, the way everyone else in the garden seems to obey her, her orders being law, making everyone around her feel special and cared for...seriously, this is looking more and more like a cult by the second. Secondly, is anyone else kind of scared for Pavlova Cookie? The mention of "berries of desperation" in his dough that he's trying to hide, the way Eternal Sugar said he needed to be "reeducated" (which sounds like more cult talk), the fact that he keeps upsetting Eternal Sugar...I can totally see her lashing out at him. Why else would he be so desperate? Third, Tiger Lily is kicking butt and I'm so proud of her. Are they finally going to figure out she's a lost princess? That might be in the cards...I'm excited. Finally, the adventurers assuming that Hollyberry is from the Dark Cacao kingdom? Priceless. The way the rest of the world responded to the Ancients basically having a group mental breakdown? Tragic. Kingdom continues to bring the feels.

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#(would just like to add on that since scott is scottish high school begins at like. 11. could've been younger. okay that's all great post) Well...I stuttered for a few seconds after reading that. That is...certainly a thing that makes the lore implications of this even worse.

(But I'm kind of glad you found this. I'm half going "angst is delicious" and half going "Exor, Aeor wtf")

The Martyrification of Scott and Xornoth

Thinking about how both versions of the Champions of Aeor and Exor are siblings, perhaps even implied to be twins. Thinking about how those two are the only ones we know of, how many other cycles has this story gone through, how many other siblings have torn each other apart over the gods' hatred of each other?

Thinking about how uncorrupted Xornoth was a genuinely dutiful and caring sibling who wanted to be a good ruler and never went further than mildly teasing Scott. And remembering that in the musical, it was implied that he was corrupted at the age range of a high schooler (which could mean around 14-15 years old at the youngest).

And, thinking about how, in the Clash of the Great Stags, it's implied that Conal began to be corrupted as a child. I don't think Aeor is truly a kind god. I think he might have been, once, but time and his conflict with his brother has definitely changed that. I mean, he continually takes memories from his Champions, those memories being of their family, he is one half of a cycle of constant conflict that rips apart genuinely caring sibling pairs, and he doesn't ever seem to try and warn Scott about what's coming or prepare him for it. (Aside from showing him the book, but that seems like too little too late in context.) And I don't think that Xornoth became a demon willingly. I think there's some part of him that genuinely regrets what happened to him and what he's become. Some part of him that mourns the child he was and the king he could have become if not for the intervention of the gods. ...Maybe all this is why Scott doesn't play the Watchers' games "properly" in the Life Series. His time as Alinar and the King of Rivendell and whatever else Alinar's soul has become has desensitized him to divine or divine adjacent beings wishing for his suffering. This is his constant. This is what he's used to. He knows the rules of the game and he knows how to play around them.

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It's even funnier if everyone knows, but no one is brave enough to say anything. Mostly because Janus is menacing af, but also because Zane knows everything and is not afraid to destroy someone's life. So no one points it out for fear of offending them. Also because if you mention it in front of any of the other Jurors, they will groan dramatically and spend the next half an hour to hour and a half complaining about how they don't want to hear about those two and their lack of professionalism.

Listen, Zanus is soo forbidden relationship sure, whatever–but! What if the entirety of O'kasis just knows. Everyone can see how Janus is so completely, absolutely unbearably down bad for Zane. Like sure Janus is the Silver Death, but cmon, we all can see you want his Highness to fuck you, okay.

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Some Diaries Janus backstory

(Because I wanted to give him some kind of backstory for my au, and because Janus as a hopeless romantic is an interesting angle that deserves more exploration tbh)

Janus is born to a dirt poor family with eight kids already and no room or money for another son, especially a loud and violent one that quickly outgrows his siblings. So, before Janus is even in his teens, he finds himself on the streets. The other street urchins learn to stay well away from him, and word quickly spreads around of the boy who can throw a punch hard enough to dislocate your bones. It spreads far enough that a member of a certain local gang hears of it. And soon enough, that gang seeks a now teenaged Janus out with a proposition and a job offer. Janus, tired of sleeping in the gutter, accepts and begins a career as a pit fighter. He's good at it, even and especially for his age. Word has already spread about his skills, but now it spreads even further, the words on everyone's lips about the boy with an almost supernatural gift for violence. Rumours begin that he's not human at all, that he doesn't feel pain or fear, that he has knives for teeth...something is deeply wrong with that boy, everyone agrees. Janus's fate changes once more when an old guard, long retired but still respected for the skills he once possessed, travels through the town where he's been living, and hears the rumours. He stops by the fighting pits, sees the potential in Janus, and takes the boy with him to Brightport. Janus is given a new, made up last name, and entered into the guard academy. He doesn't make any friends, the other students find him off putting and scary, but the streets have taught him to be cunning and the pit has taught him to be ruthless. So he excels in his classes, even if the teachers whisper amongst each other, not quite sure how to handle his lack of empathy or his brutal tactics. He graduates with honours, and is promoted as a candidate for the Jury of Nine. And that is when he meets Zane. Another alienated young man, too sharp and cold and cunning for the world to understand. They become fast friends (and maybe more), and Janus finally, finally, understands what people were whispering about all that time. What was so wrong with him. Some people are just born wrong, incomplete souls wandering the world. They can only be whole if they find their missing piece, and Zane, cold, cruel, beautiful, cunning Zane, is his other half. He swears his sword to Zane that day, elevated to the rank of Juror in a heartbeat.

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Justice for Stacy

Stacyplays should so have been in a season of Escape the Night.

Think about it.

She's smart enough that she'd probably be really useful in challenges, and she's level headed enough that she probably would do a lot to keep the group in check/not get into too much drama. She's also funny, but in a way that's not obnoxious. Like, her snark would probably lead to a lot of iconic moments, Tana throwing her lollypop at the sorceress style. And lastly, she's Joey's friend, but not above calling him out when he does stupid stuff. I think that would make an interesting dynamic, especially since Escape the Night Joey usually just kills off whoever messes with him. I can imagine him hesitating a lot more when it's Stacy though.

Also, they're just an iconic duo and we need more of them interacting. (And unlike some people, she'd actually be professional during filming.)

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That is the best explanation for what happened during the empires season 1 finale I've ever seen.

And the best part is that it's cannon.

My stupidest headcanon is that Esmp s1 Gem and fWhip cannot cook.

They're great at what they do. They're smart as fuck. They just can't cook. Put them in a kitchen and tell them to cook something and nothing will get done

Sausage cooks for them.

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Jayfeather my beloved

Jayfeather is simultaneously the most murder-coded character in all of Warriors, and one of the least. Like, if you look at him on the surface, this is the classic sarcastic jerk who bullies literally everyone around him and has a generally low opinion of his Classmates' intelligence. He hates kids for Starclan's sake! Everyone in the Clans probably sees him as the most likely of Leafpool and Crowfeather's kids to snap and kill someone, and there's a good chunk of the fandom that, on some level, probably feels the same way. And while he has probably considered murdering someone, he'd also never do that. Because when you pull away the layers of anger and snark and sarcasm, you get what is basically Firestar. This is the same cat who didn't care at all about loosing his special powers but broke down because, no matter what he did, he just couldn't save his patient. This is the same cat that broke down delivering a speech at a funeral to the point that he temporarily lost the ability to speak because he was that close to the deceased. This is the same cat that literally invented new ways of healing to save his patients when he was told it was impossible. He loves everyone, even if he won't ever admit it, and he's not capable of killing someone unless he truly has no other choice. I love that duality, honestly. Jayfeather is capable of being both a big jerk who hates everyone and a big sweetheart who'd die for the cats around him without a second thought. And it honestly makes him a much more interesting and multidimensional character then if he was just one or the other.