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vhstown · 8 months

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spider-teens ★ D&D HEADCANONS

— hobie, gwen, miles, pavitr (+ peter b & mayday!)

warnings: d&d jargon (there's definitions at the end if you're curious), shenanigans, miles being a NERDDD, a lil shorter than usual

a/n: how id imagine these lot playing d&d!!! ive only played / ran 5e so forgive me veteran players 😭 again feel free to add / disagree w me it's all in good fun

If MILES doesn't run the game, he plays a warlock for sure. Not because it fits him personality wise but because he wants to be a magic user but also not be held back by it. My man is thinking STRATEGY and takes every opportunity to geek out about the specifics of his abilities. He also definitely has a ridiculously fleshed-out backstory he's kind of too embarrassed to tell anyone about.

Either warlock or the nerd multi-classes and it confuses the hell out of EVERYONE... I feel like he tries a lot of the classes though so warlock is kind of a starting point when he's playing with his spider friends (he defo played fighter or sorcerer in the past)

Miles is the one who gets everyone together though (and jumps through universes to make sure everyone's on time 😭 he will NOT tolerate scheduling issues)

Peter B runs a lot of their games except he used to play 3e or Pathfinder back in the day (nerd...) so Miles is just like... gritting his teeth a little whenever Peter misses a little detail or a skill check. He probably used to play in high school / college I mean come on...

Speaking of Peter B OF COURSE he lets Mayday roll the dice. The entire party could depend on that roll and she's rolling it and everyone is TENSE (And he tries not to let her eat the dice... Tries.)

HOBIE plays a barbarian or rogue. He'd play a barbarian just for the hell of it (sounds cool) and would most definitely carry everyone by total accident because he's like... the only one alive.

Rogue also for the hell of it cause stealing is rebellious and that 😭 Though if he does play a rogue his character becomes one of the most unintentionally complex characters in the game.

Hobie would figure out the entire plot of the adventure completely by accident and Peter just laughs awkwardly and goes "You'll just have to find out next session!" and maybe dies inside (but it's not like he prepares for his sessions anyway 💀)

Absolutely crits at the most ridiculous times and derails the whole campaign because he decided to interrogate a minor political figure and now they're destabilising the region's government instead of fighting dragons

And he accidentally becomes the leader of like the whole village and maybe starts a revolution and Peter is sat there lips pressed together hands pressed together elbows on table like "...I guess that happens then."

Might cheat a little bit. Just a little. Not enough to ruin the campaign but enough to have Peter sweating 💀 A lil strand of web under his dice hurt nobody right? (Those goblins are DEAD dead)

Miles is gob-smacked and definitely a little jealous of him 😭

PAVITR originally wants to play a fighter because that sounds... cool as hell BUT when Miles explains the bard class to him he takes it and runs

I'd say Pavitr is relatively new to the game as are Hobie and Gwen but he hones in on the roleplay (not as seriously as Miles but definitely participates)

Probably leads the group and goes head-first into danger (Miles is literally pissing himself) and his character probably knows loads of languages cause he just conveniently picked a race with very useful languages for the adventure (as per Miles' suggestion)

But he goes out-of-character more than once to go "WTF????" when he doesn't manage to rizz up an NPC and they're have to roll for initiative (attempts to be a pacifist)

The goat when it comes to fights though he plays such a good supporting character and if he were to die everyone would totally be finished 😭🙏

GWEN plays either a monk or a wizard. I feel like she doesn't particularly mind but she plays wizard for a little bit before realising that she doesn't really like the magic stuff? Goes for monk and it's a lot simpler and more fun

More of an observer but is helpful when it comes to investigating areas and carries like EVERY item possible: potions, magical items, 20 rocks for some reason. Bag of holding girlie (like how she holds that trauma she has in real li—)

Has THE coolest weapons. Because her character can't rely on magic she's constantly upgrading or getting new weapons and her unique monk abilities come in handy again when exploring!!!

Totally makes fun of Miles (endearingly!) And maybe points out a plot hole in his backstory and he wants to curl up into a ball and disappear for a good minute (he rethinks his entire character for 2 nights straight)

Has an NPC she would protect with her LIFE. Barmaid at the inn? Anything for you sweetums 😁😁😁 *trips over and dies*

That's all given if they have an actually functional game... It takes them probably about like a year to finish a one-shot adventure

But it is SO worth the memories (albeit very chaotic memories.) Even when they're arguing over a roll (usually Hobie's) or someone's character has literally died they make it work through the power of friendship...! And a broken table

These guys are crazy I love them

"Embrace the chaos is the mood for tonight's session. AKA you guys are screwed... Roll initiative."

"What the hell?!"

"Don't swear in front of the kid!"

Jargon!

Campaign: A world containing one set of characters where different adventures take place

Dungeon Master / DM: The person who creates the story and runs the game

Skill check: Rolling a die to see if you've passed or failed a certain skill when performing an action (for example charisma when trying to persuade somebody)

Crit: Critical hit. When you roll a 20 on a 20-sided die. You deal loads of damage in a fight basically.

NPC: Non-playable character. Any characters who aren't the players within the universe. Controlled by the DM.

Initiative: The roll you have to make before a fight to decide the order of turns. "Roll initiative" means "you guys are in a fight now!!!! lmao!!!!"

🕸️🕷️💫

thank you for reading my insane midnight rant LMAOOO

i haven't played d&d in like 2 years so apologies if anything is diabolically wrong here 💀would love to hear your thoughts!

reblogs appreciated <3 read the rest of my atsv stuff here!

#pavitr prabhakar #spiderman india #gwen stacy #ghost spider #miles morales #hobie brown #hobart brown #spider punk #atsv headcanons #miles morales headcanons #gwen stacy headcanons #pavitr prabhakar headcanons #hobie brown headcanons #atsv #across the spiderverse #vhstown #dungeons and dragons #d&d

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fitzs-space · 1 year

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Watched Labyrinth last night with @galacticjay1, and my brain worms took over.

So woe, hermitcraft Labyrinth au be upon ye

Gem as Sarah, main character energy unfortunately but someone's gotta do it. she's the type to just end up in situations. that way the baby Toby can be her puppy Winnie. [alt option would have been Scott, cause Scott's got the vibe to just be in places, but he could not be bothered to actually go through the labyrinth]

Bdubs as Hoggle, just look at him. the tolken short guy whos forced to help and will complain every step of the way about it, and will completely kissass up to their boss. Also both having a prized possession always kept at their side [the Clock, and the bundle of jewelry]

Scar as Jareth the Goblin King, Yea. Who else.

Etho as Ludo, just vibes really. Quiet dude willing to help and can just do wild shit for no good reason. [alt option was Doc, cause he's got the tall brute force energy to him as well, by they said it didn't fit. Docs got more of a higher energy to him then what would fit]

Rens Sir Didymus, Dog Knight. eccentric mf who screams out soliloquys going on about saving the fair madden they have devoted their time and service to, is that Sir Didymus or Ren? yes. Ok those are the main ones, now onto the other characters met in the labyrinth in approximate order of appearance

Xisuma is the worm. look at that mf and tell me I am wrong, one of the lines is this dude asking Sarah to come in for a cup of tea. Id apologize to the Xisuma enjoyers, but this is tumbler and people know he's a bit of a wet paper bag kinda guy.

Impulse and Skizz are the door Guards, The guards have no idea what's going on and neither do those two. I know its Technically the "Four Guards" and It could be team Zits, but the vibe isn't there fully. the type of mfs to mislead someone by pure accident[Skizz], and also cause its a lil funny[Impulse]

Martin as the False Alarms, their entire roll is to dramatically shout false warnings at the people who pass. If I didn't make the man who abuses the voice effects on his GoXLR as the rocks who wait to shout at people, I'd be making a mistake. [listener ass bitch] Also there is straight up a line where one of them goes "oh please, we don't get to shout these very often, its only our job" in some posh voice, then go back to the deep dramatic shouting. and that's just Martin man.

Grian and Mumbo as the Door Knockers, vibes [its also funny to make everyone's favorite guys as characters only seen for five minuets at most] If any two guys are going to be subjected to living their life forever constantly shouting at each other barely being able to understand what the other is saying, it'd be those two. Grian would be the Left, would also scream if he couldn't hear someone [Watcher allegations also] Mumbo as right because the ring in his mouth could be drawn as his mustache

Tango's a Firey, look at him. Cartoon ass bitch, the entire scuffed greenscreen dance sequence is on par with his thumbnails. I know there are supposed to be five of the dudes, but shhhh Zedaph would also fit with these fuckers. the type of guy who could probably detach his head, but still knows that there are manners and its rude to throw someone else's head

Pearl as the Junk Lady, she's the cleaning lady and collects trash, was it ever a question? And Pearls gremlin voice is the exact same as the Junk lady's voice

Doc's the lil fairies at the beginning of the labyrinth, everyone say thank you to Doccy for butterfly truthing Doc.

Jellie as just all the goblins, Scar the Jellie king instead of the Goblin king. The threat of Winnie getting turned into a cat is kinda funny, also there's the Humongous? that's a Jellie panda

the only main characters Im missing is the Wise Man and the Hat, I just do not know who to put them as, maybe Xb and Keralis cause of vibe? or Xb and Hypno cause of the horsehead farms bit. I do not know.

All that will come from this is me maybe drawing Ren and Scar as the characters, feel free to do what you want with this, my brain just needed to scream about this really

#hermitcraft #hermitblr #labyrinth #dont ask man #Hermit labyrinth au #got my grubby minecraft enjoying hands on the silly david bowie puppet movie #im not tagging the characters

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magic-is-something-we-create · 3 months

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Hey Pax talk more to me about fantasy computers plus 👀

HI HELLO i posted that snippet and that call for discussion and then promptly got distracted, went to bed, and forgot to check tumblr pretty much all day. i wasnt sure id have much to say on the matter but i ended up rambling only half-coherently so <3 no hard feelings if its Too Much to read, let alone comprehend. im not proofreading it myself so good luck and thank u for prompting me to ramble <3<3<3

BUT

FANTASY COMPUTERS

aka normal real-world computers shoved into classic high fantasy land because i like to fuck with genre expectations like that. except like cyber/solarpunk future computers because again. genre is fake

anyways. the goblins of the ehlverse are a) the only people without either a magic source (see: elementalism, human blood runes, dwarven metallurgy, etc) or an inherently magical biology (see: dragonkin being literally made of magma, shara'i being feathered and mammalian and terrestrial and eyeless a la moles, etc) AND B) have been thus excluded from much of the world's politics and power due to magical inability for literally tens of thousands of years

so of course they invented computers and robots and sustainable electricity and gadgets and such that are capable of not only emulating certain commonly useful aspects of magic, but also of doing things no magic can, just to keep up

something that i've had in mind while building out the stories in the ehlverse (mainly TMS but it impacts whispers too) is the like. meta level of How the World Works. and technology like computers and such being a big huge useful innovation in real life!! and how to justify only the goblins and a scattered few other people around the world actively using them. and how politics and superstition and practicality for the majority all intertwine into the situation as it is in TMS and whispers

and like. a lot of the politics on ehl are like normal politics with magic added to the resources/skillsets of certain groups. so like that shit impacts trade and warfare heavily and it's basically useless to ally with another political entity that has nothing to offer you of the most important thing in the world, right? and so when it comes down to it, half of why computers aren't nearly as widespread as they could be is because the people in power in a lot of the world simply don't care to start trade negotiations for things that scribes and scrupulous bookkeeping and massive libraries can do just fine. because outside of the goblins, no one cares about like. the internet. the most enticing things are databases

superstition-wise, there's a lot of thinking in certain communities on ehl that if you spend enough time with goblins and only goblins, you lose your magic. and like there's no proof of it, but people believe it anyway, and oftentimes they extend that belief to anything goblins make, too

and THEN. practically speaking. the vast majority of ehlves (who are the global majority, probably ~70% of the people on ehl have recent ehlven ancestry) are fire, water, earth, or metal Elementalists. and guess what? elementalism means you have fun(!) ambient effects on your environment. like, say, a fire mage immediately overheating any computer they come in contact with. or an earth mage getting upset and causing microshakes that mess up the delicate stability instruments inside robots. or a metal mage's inherent magnetism completely ripping a phone apart from the inside out. or water mages doing some magic nearby and not realizing they made a full cup of water condense out of the air right onto their keyboard. and thats not even getting into light (aka electricity) mages and every way they can make things go wrong, even as a relative minority compared to the above

and until the superstitious (xenophobic) and political aspects get resolved, it's not likely that the practical ones will be solved. purely because you need lots of people to test these things to see if the solutions work

(there is a solution. it will revolutionize all of the ehlverse once it becomes widespread. it is found out in TMS and present in whispers if you think about a very specific detail when you come across it. but it will rely on governments getting their shit together so anything i write using that specific state of the world will require it being much further down the timeline than ive explored so far so)

#a&a #talking with: alex #idk how else to tag this.#thank you for prompting the ramble alex!!! i appreciate u

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limpfisted · 8 months

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Thinking about the dark urge and intrusive thoughts and how the dark urge has a Little Weird Dude butler or something

And how the book that helped me was called "the imp of the mind"

And basically it said ocd/intrusive thoughts is like having a little goblin in ur brain that represents the id and base weird brain stem desire of all your worst fears and base human instincts just yammering on about stupid fucking bullshit. The ocd brain basically has an "imp" that has gone out of control and fixated on the worst broken brain thoughts. Everybody has them. But the imp brain focuses on them

And I see the durge and I go "my brother in christ. Your brain stem and imp are so crunchy"

Protip for anyone else with brain imps:

The only other thing that helped me was stopping my self-reassruances and trying to "check" if the thoughts were real or said anything about me

In the end u kind of have to force urself to just go "wow, brain imp. Thats sooo interesting. Jk I have more important things to do like play video games or Google milfs or go to work or some shit. That thought just doesn't matter right now, I have more important things to do"

Its disordered thinking in a literal sense, and u just have to learn how to prioritize the important thoughts, ur brain imp is making u prioritize and catastrophize about very human things that don't matter and that exist in all of us

But that your brain imp draws out of your subconscious

Because you are so afraid of even the possibility it might be true

But it doesn't matter if its true

And you don't HAVE to do anything, ever

You have to make the conscious effort to literally everything on planet earth

You wanna kill somebody? You even think you MIGHT kill somebody?

There are so many steps to that. Thats so many different dnd dice rolls. You can control your body, and not pick up the knife, or put the knife down. You can always do that

Your thoughts do not control you

YOU control you

And your restraint and your ability to keep going even when everything insides you says you're disgusting and horrid and a monster who doesn't deserve to live

Is what makes you so resilient and strong

Im sorry you're dealing with what you're dealing with

Im sorry you're hurting so much

But I promise you even tho the thoughts never really go away

You WILL learn how to deal with them

Because you're stronger than God tried to make you

And that's what the durge means to me even tho I will probably never play one bc if I miss a single check I will trigger myself so so so badly LOL

#intrusive thoughts tw #ooc

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istherewifiinhell · 1 year

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Hang on just cause my buddy reminded me. Probably the funniest subtle thing about the 2012 Turtles v. Dracula thing is. Donnie's agnostic symbol of protection.

[ID: 1. 2012 Donnie standing in "vampire hunting" gear: a brown leather duster, wide brimmed hat' and wooden stakes on his shoulder strap. He holds a wooden staff topped with a golden diamond with a red stone in the middle. 2. Same get up, holding the staff between him and Dracula, looking afraid.

END ID]

Like the whats said about the symbol is just:

"And, Donatello, your staff has a mystical seal of protection."

Mystic. Okay.

Donnie: "Man, I hope this symbol of protection thing is good for something!"

Dracula: "You have to have faith for that to work on me, goblin!"

And it doesn't work until

"I gotta try this "faith" thing. I gotta believe in this! The way I believe in my brothers!"

[ID: Dracula with a burn impression from the staff. It's round with little star bursts off of the four cardinal directions but not immediately cross looking. END ID]

So thats all to say... i think Nick probably said. Okay you can have your classic horror movie references BUT YOU CANNOT. Imply that Donatello has any feelings about religion. One way or the other.

#some shit #turbles...#you know what? fuck you. unpapals your ferula. and etc #-> i googled that idk if thats the right term im not fucking cath.olic #hey hi its wifi the dracula poster..... with a twist.#they did make this shit for me. SPECIFICALLY. actually i havent seen a single dracula movie.#i will fashion turtles later. after we finish the arc.... and i have my laptop.#theres some 800 images on the wikia gallery for this ep alone... thats like. one screenshot every 2 seconds. impressive even to me.#donnies look is my fav tho. and thats not the bias cause hes not my fav this series.

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musicfeedsmysoul12 · 2 years

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Sports Festival: AKA How Many Times Will Izuku Blush Chapter 4

Summary: With the future spelled out in multiple ways, Izuku now faces off in a series of battles to win the sports festival! Except you know, he’s facing off against all his future lovers and they’re all very interested in winning his heart. The stadium, Japan, and various others watch!

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The high from coming in second at the sports festival came crashing down

His mom had given partial custody to UA, to Aizawa-sensei and Mic-sensei. She’d told him she was sorry and told him her reasoning behind many of her actions. Izuku never knew about her cousin. He never knew how his grandparents died. He never thought of why his mother seemed so convinced of his breakability compared to other kids.

“I’m sorry,” Midoriya Inko whispered in Nezu’s office. Bakugou Mitsuki hovered in the background, looking worried as she stood there. “I’m so sorry, Izuku.”

“I forgave you,” Izuku tried. Inko shook her head.

“You did, but I can easily ruin that can’t I?” Inko asked rhetorically. “I can become the woman from the future who drove you away because of her own attitude.”

“From a future,” Izuku corrected even as his stomach tightened. Inko snorted.

“How many didn’t mention me that ended up with us not being in contact?” she asked. She wiped her eyes. “I love you, baby, and I need help. It’s probably a bit much, but I’ll be checking myself into an inpatient program for a few months. Mitsuki… she…”

“I’m divorcing Masaru,” Mitsuki said calmly. Izuku nodded slowly, remembering the future where she did. He still wondered why. They’d always seemed so in love. “I’ll be staying in your guys' apartment while it goes through. Katsuki… he might stay with me..”

Izuku bit his lip, looking down. A sharp stab of anger hit him. So Kacchan would get to stay in his apartment, in HIS room. It wasn’t FAIR. He didn’t say anything, though; he simply gave a nod.

“Due to the reveal of the future, Aizawa and Yamada are the ones who will be taking you in,” Nezu said simply, confirming earlier decisions. “As well, the young child whom was said to be Aizawa’s daughter will be coming. She was saved from a villain earlier by a civilian. Apparently, she was allowed to watch TV and had seen the future, which led to her escape.”

“I understand,” Izuku said quietly. Inko sniffed, rubbing at her eyes. Izuku’s eyes prickled, and he let out his own sob.

“Oh, Izuku,” Inko threw her arms around him carefully, and he hugged back, sobbing into her shoulder. The door opened to let in more people, though Izuku didn’t look up. He had a feeling he knew who it was.

“Inko will be checking in tomorrow to the facility,” Mitsuki’s voice said. “You can come grab his things then. I kicked Masaru out of the house for the night, so I’ll be fine there.”

“Thank you,” Present Mic’s voice replied. “We’ll have to move some furniture around our place.”

“Little Eri will be in the hospital for a few days,” Nezu chirped. “It gives you time. As well, I have an offer for Izuku here for his internship.” Izuku pulled away from Inko to look at the principal.

“Huh?” Izuku asked croakily.

“A friend of mine is going to another country for the week and reached out to offer to take you as an intern,” explained Nezu. “Their Japanese hero name is Info Dropper, but at the time, they will be operating under the name Goblin as part of the Fae Court.”

“The international hero group?!” Izuku asked in shock.

“Indeed!” Nezu beamed. “They’re currently watching over Ingenium but need to go to Otheon to help out with a case. Possibly Ingenium will be going as well in order to keep him firmly from Stain.” Nezu hummed thoughtfully. “It’ll get you out of Japan’s eyes and the media's grasp while allowing you some time to focus on your new ability. Goblin is doing more information gathering than fighting but has a sidekick named Statista who can help train you.”

“ID is going to have fun with him,” Aizawa said through his bandages. Izuku craned his head to look at his sensei.

“You know them, sir?”

“Call me Shouta or Aizawa,” Aizawa-sensei said. “While not in class, that is. And I went to school with them. They’re information, infiltration and ambush based. I think their sidekick is the same… I haven’t met her.”

“I have,” Present Mic said. “She is that but also combat-based.”

“So Izuku will be gaining a good education while out of the country,” Nezu said happily. “Letting everything hopefully blow over.” Izuku nodded as Inko sniffed, looking stressed as she glanced between Nezu and the teachers. She bowed her head.

“Thank you for looking out for him,” she whispered.

“It’s our job. As teachers, heroes and foster parents.” Mic told her. Izuku felt tears begin to trail down his cheeks again.

He didn’t know how he felt about them being called parents.

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If Izuku had wondered or participated in discussions about where his homeroom teacher lived, he’d have honestly thought it to be like under a bridge or in some rundown apartment. Likewise, if anyone asked about Present Mic, he’d have said a penthouse or fancy studio.

Instead, it was an apartment the two lived in, with a guest room, office, at-home gym, panic room and their room. Or, well, it had an office the two were changing into a second bedroom for the girl named Eri. Midnight, Snipe and All Might showed up to help, though they badgered All Might into taking it easy by just helping get linen for Izuku, who’d get the guest room.

“Are you going to be doing a press conference about One for All?” Midnight asked All Might. She wasn’t wearing her hero uniform, instead dressed in a baggy sweatshirt and jeans. It startled Izuku a little. Her bodystocking suit thing wasn’t that attractive, but it was form fitting which he’d felt suited her. The casual clothes felt different, more natural, or perhaps just another form of herself.

“I’m thinking about it,” All Might admitted. “I’m not sure if only due to the reveal of…”

“My dad?” Izuku said shakily. All Might winced, as did the others. “...No one’s said anything,” Izuku said softly. Snipe, also not in his hero costume but wearing a face mask to cover the lower half of his face, reached out to pat Izuku on the head. He had shaggy dark brown hair that hung around his face and dark eyes.

“Kid, being a villain’s kid ain’t the end of the world. From the sounds of it, this scoundrel is a piece of work, but that doesn’t mean you’re a bad kid, yeah?” Snipe said gently. “My own ma and pa were villains, and I only got out ‘cause Nezu found my message online.” Izuku nodded slowly in understanding.

“Indeed!” All Might said. “You’re a good hero in training young Midoriya! Don’t forget that while worrying of your father.”

“I understand,” Izuku said, smiling a little. It still plagued his mind but being told by heroes it would be okay made his heart warm. “Wait,” Izuku said, eyes widening. “My mom!”

“Your mother is going to be going to a center where heroes tend to go to for mental health issues, and their family members reside if needed,” Midnight told him. Izuku looked at her in surprise. “I overheard her talking about it. I go there for therapy twice a month, and I know Endeavour’s wife….” Midnight paused and then frowned. “I wonder if I should speak with the police on that.”

“You should,” Izuku said. “Todoroki… told me a bit earlier.” he swallowed. “It’s personal though, and since he’d getting help….”

“Of course.” Midnight waved her hand. “A confidant is important, so don’t stress. Knowing Thirteen, he’ll be in therapy anyway. Which frankly, I suggest you go to.”

“Hound Dog is willing but would prefer to refer him to someone who specializes in his stuff. Hound Dog is more PTSD based with his training.” Aizawa said. Izuku sighed, not fully happy with this. “And the rest of the counsellors all agreed it would be best for a neutral party to be in charge. They’re all biased.”

“How?” Midnight asked.

“Betting pool,” Aizawa said. Izuku frowned at his teacher in confusion.

“Huh?”

“Oh, the one that opened up for the sprout’s future partner?” Snipe asked. Izuku’s cheeks felt on fire as he squeaked, covering his face. The adults laughed, leaving Izuku to pout. They were all mean.

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Class 1-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Pichu: Alright, so Midoriya, would you prefer us to have a chat where we gush over you or should we do it here?

Small Might: What?

Bass Boost: Dude, we all saw futures where we got with you. I so wanna get my flirt on.

Small Might: WHAT

Class Prez: Please do NOT push Midoriya right now please.

Alien Queen: Not pushing! Just we wanna gush, and with how red Starlight got, he’d be a MESS if we did in this chat.

Rock HARD: Starlight? We already having nicknames?

Small Might: Please make another chat, Present Mic is seeing my face and guessing.

Class Prez: Ah, you’re living with him and Aizawa-sensei now?

Small Might: Mom came to UA to sign papers. She’s going into inpatient care for mental health reasons. That’s all I’m saying. Though apparently, the kid from the future, the one with the horn, is going to be staying here to.

Dr. Dolittle: Oh, that’s good. I was wondering.

Alien Queen: Send pictures PLEASE. Aizawa-sensei being a parent to a little girl is adorable.

Sensei: Good to know, Ashido.

Alien Queen: Mistakes were made.

Kaminari Denki has created a group. Group Name: Simping for Midoriya

Kaminari Denki has added Ashido Mina, Sero Hanta, Jirou Kouyka +12 others.

Kaminari Denki: Anyone have any other of the numbers? Other than the obvious.

Nezu: :3

Nezu has added Togata Mirio, Amajiki Tamaki, Hatsume Mei +2 others

Kaminari Denki: How?!

Nezu: I made the social media platform Kaminari. I know all.

Shouji Mezou: And Izuku will be learning from you, so he’ll know all eventually.

Ashido Mina: Hot.

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The day after the move-in, Izuku went to the doctor who would help Izuku out. The man’s name was Dr. Anders, a German man who was in Japan for a conference but took the time to help him. Not out of awe for the future, the lanky blonde said dryly to Izuku as he’d checked the teen’s injuries but; “I respect Recovery Girl and all of the doctors here, but I know her well enough she’d have had to leave behind some lingering issues.”

“And you can do better?” Izuku asked.

“Well, I used to be known as Mage with the Grey Wardens group called Amaranthine. So yeah, I should be able to.” Anders grinned at the dropped jaw from Izuku. “Man, it’s great to get those reactions.”

“Mage?!” Izuku choked out. “I… you have the greatest healing Quirk in the WORLD. And…”

“And I got accidentally possessed by a comrade which made us BOTH insane.” Anders shrugged. “It’s why I quit, kid. Ran off to Kirkwall, and that was undoubtedly a dumb idea given their policies.”

“I don’t know those,” Izuku admitted. Anders hummed, checking some charts.

“They’re anti-Mutation Quirk, anti… anything not what the old Knight Commander, the hero in charge, wanted. She was a power-hungry, paranoid, egotistical and delusional woman. Eventually, it got fixed; I ended up in a hospital, got out and learned the Wardens sucked still, so I didn’t go back.” Anders told Izuku. “You get good hero organizations and bad ones, and the Wardens have various good cells, but the core is bad. Or it was. Last I heard, a few cells went rogue and started changing things.” Anders shrugged. “Not my problem anymore; let’s heal you.” After that, it took an hour to heal Izuku fully. Dr. Anders went through it slowly, knitting together the broken pieces. Izuku asked questions, but all he got was that the man could ‘connect’ to some sort of energy in the world to heal people. Dr. Anders called it ‘Magic’ with a wink that had Izuku groaning in annoyance. That wasn’t an answer!

However, Izuku figured he might not get anything with how tightlipped the doctor was.

Outside in the waiting room, Hizashi was fielding calls from his agency who were bombarded with messages from various media stations. Everyone knew Izuku had been placed in his custody. A leak somewhere caused it in one night.

“Look, I won’t be doing interviews or accepting them for him,” Hizashi told his PR manager, a guy named Sawada Tsunayoshi. A nervous kid but a good one. Hizashi also knew the kid was a vigilante, but they all pretended not to know.

“I get it, Present Mic,” sighed Sawada. “But there’s going to be gossip. Are you sure we can’t have him intern with you?”

“He’s got an internship with the Fae Court, taking him out of the country for the week,” Hizashi explained.

“Ah, keeping him out of the media may help soothe some of it, but I doubt it’ll last.” Sawada mused. “I can get Takeshi to run some numbers if you want? Or Hibari, but that’ll cost you. And me.”

“I would rather die than deal with Hibari, so Takeshi is good,” Hizashi said. He was not dealing with that monster. Bad enough that the others sucked at hiding their vigilante lifestyles, Hibari didn’t bother and was a violent brat.

“Alright then,” Sawada laughed. “I’ll talk to him, and we can figure it out. Of course, Hayato might also toss in his two cents, but well, it’s Hayato.”

“He’ll have already charted everything and figured out the best option,” Hizashi agreed. “Thanks, Sawada.”

“Of course, sir, have a good day.” Sawada hung up after, and Hizashi sighed, leaning back in his seat. God, taking in a kid was more complicated than he thought. Then there would be Eri when she came. Shouta had gone to see her after getting his bandages removed finally. He hadn’t even needed them but kept wearing them to mess with his students.

Hizashi glanced at the door where Dr. Anders took Izuku, thinking about the future. Not the one shown by the Quirk. But the one he’d be facing soon, where he would have two kids plus his husband. Honestly, it sounded like a fun time, one he was eager to see. Even if his eldest would have a few people after him romantically, it would surely be a promising future.

They saved Tensei; they knew where not to step, and things would turn out great! He just knew it!

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Sasaki Mirai, known to all as Sir Nighteye, left the hospital with lowered shoulders. The arrest of Overhaul had been brutal. So many lives were lost, and now his sidekick was in the hospital, injured enough that they wondered if she would continue her hero career. Plus everything else.

Mirai believed in fate. A one-track destiny. But now he’d been confronted with multiple futures and options for one person. It didn’t make sense. It couldn’t be possible, yet here they were. He questioned everything.

If he was wrong here, did that mean he was wrong about All Might’s face? Would the man live on? Or was he still trapped inside a fate of inevitable death? Or were there more paths than what Mirai knew? One thing he knew, though, was that he hadn’t seen this. Hadn’t seen a future where Mirio wasn’t at his agency, wasn’t his intern. Wasn’t his boy.

However, Mirio said he wouldn't return. Nezu’s sent an email to decree that all internships with Mirai’s agency would be terminated for now. He lost his boy. Over some green-haired brat! He turned down an alley, anger filling his gut as he thought about it. That child! Him, the future number one!? Mirio should be; how could Mirio just happily accept that? Was it the fault of the Quirk? Perhaps… Mirio would understand when the effects wore off; he had to-

A sharp slice crossed Mirai’s arm, and he jerked back, turning around. Yet as the hero turned, he froze, unable to move, eyes staring ahead.

“Hello, Nighteye,” snarled a voice. A man carrying swords and wearing a red scarf appeared. “I thought to let you live, being the sidekick of All Might once upon a time. But the future has shown me what sort of hero you are. A fake.” Mirai couldn’t move or flinch as the swords were raised and stabbed down at him. Once, twice, thrice. Stomach, arm, and leg. The man laughed as the paralysis that held Mirai failed, letting him fall to the ground. His hand twitched to his pocket, but the villain lazily licked the blood off his sword, paralyzing him again. “Goodbye.” the man lifted his sword.

Mirai watched with terrified eyes as the sword came down, only one thought in his head.

Mirio.

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Notes:

-Yeah, NaNo has turned into me writing fanfic. All very sporadic and random but… here we are!! This is shorter then the others due to being more of a wrap-up but the next few fics are currently plotted!

-I originally was going to use a canon hero but realized that with the intro of Info Dropper I had a way to get Izuku to Otheon while having it make sense as ID does work internationally.

-GROUP CHAT GROUP CHAT. I couldn’t resist. Expect a few one shots/asides of this.

- Anders just showed up. He’s more Awakenings then DA2 as Kristoff (Justice) was removed safely but he kinda just… appeared here ngl. He’s not the same as other fics I have where Justice is his Quirk. Here he has the healing powers from Dragon Age game series, so he’s very powerful.

-I very much need to like make a chart/post about all of the various hero groups/world building I’m doing. I 100% just keep using other franchises. Except the Court. That one’s mine.

-... *cough*... yeah Nighteye is dead now!... uhh don’t hate me? I wasn’t gonna but then I got to this and went: actually… this makes sense. So… yeah.

#bnha #mha #boku no hero academia #bnha au #photos and videos #midoriya izuku

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ennaku-sirri-da · 1 year

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Kamal writes bad fanfiction Kamal writes the WORST most CLICHE RIDDEN most SELF INDULGENT MEANDERING RIDICULOUSLY ELABORATE METAPHORS and he will Never Stop ( If you troll him he will cry). He's not super confident about them either but the love of the game keeps him coming back and he's been doing fic for a LONG time.

He uses events from his own life as fuel sometimes so he's on the edge of his seat when a friend or um HUSBAND 🥸( silly disguise emoji with big moustache and glasses ) is "proofreading"" through them

I was gonna post angst because I had a worse day but instead have some affectionate Kamal slander /lh

Uhhh for an example IDK have this thing I wrote that he would write about Habby PROBABLY when he's like. younger ( it's an AU!!):

"I woke up, batting my sunstone orbs, the sun shining on my wicked cute face while I ran a hand through my waves of candy donuts before I got up and walked out for work

On the way a small mysterious goblin suddenly appeared beside me at the doorframe. I was late already and had to munch the nutella bread in my mouth extra fast but I gave him a little kiss on the head before I started jumping on top of cars as fast as I could, cant be late to my first day of work OMFG !!!! "

[ GIF ID: Sailor Moon from the anime Sailor Moon is running to school with bread in her mouth, looking so worried and jumping in long strides. The BG is overlaid with pink sparkles and circles. The artist is 'rtil'. End ID]

Little did he know the small mysterious goblin was going to be of paramount importance to the plot as a shameless author self insert /hj

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HERES one more of the stuff I think he'd write/wrote( style evolves!!) like but from my own Dark Wattpad Repetoire only for your petty amusement/lh

( IM SORRY TREY SMITH I HAD TO KILL U TO CHARACTERISE ANOTHER GUY /LH)

(Plain text: Im sorry Trey Smith I had to kill you to characterize another guy /lh)

' Kamal Bora walked.

The almost ancient sidewalk of the presently lone and desolate streets was unforgiving, making the intrepid man's every determined footstep to it have an especially unpleasant meeting with the cold, unwelcoming exterior of its boringly dull and long-since worn tiles even more excruciatingly difficult.

[...SKIP]

Often his avoidance of the troubling situations at his hands were accompanied by a great big sigh of relief and more senses of alertness for any more dangerously deceiving footing steps, but even then the mischevious sidewalk had him tricked once again, as a rickety tile fell off dangerously close to the one on which he was currently standing on. " DAMMIT!!!" An annoyed voice tore it's way to the dull night sky, yelling curses at the trickery of the streets-- In fact, it was exactly the type of voice you'd hear from someone who was really pissed off because they were walking in an abandoned Hell of a street all alone with only the much undesired company of some son of a bish-- In Kamal's case, the tiles.'

HWGSHJ Idk if I'll do more of it this "excerpt" was Just a Joek but maybe ANYWAY IM SO TIRED GN

Fun character exercise even if I had to pull out my old unholy writing LOL

#kamal bora #headcanons #roseverse #au #sooo tired...#txt #gif #my headcanons #all /lh guys i wrote badfic too HAJJSS #fanfic #badfic #habismal

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ok continuations off spiderman au with exploration bullet points of either ben or darius as spiderman and just a general exploration of the world cause they would just be aus in the same set up

spiderman!darius

pros

-brooklynn the best friend. met her thru internet kinda like carmen sandiego situation and her internet presence is lower so she actually has time to work behind the scenes to help darius. not sure if i want them to be irls or not tho i would want them to meet up at one point. maybe school trip

-still loves dinosaurs. if he faces the lizard hes def gonna be like Holy crap real dinos (not sure if JP is gonna be a canon thing in this verse)

-ben being his irl childhood buddy still germaphobe (gets better as they age so not as extreme as before but are still traces) but maybe darius shows up injured/some spiderman situation happens and it kinda forces him to overcome it at that moment which jumpstarts the process of getting thru it. maybe multiple situations where he has to come thru for darius and one would be facing a villain straight up (hostage situation??) and he flexes it after lowkey but like “i did this holy crap but well i mean you save lives everyday and deal w bad guys so this isnt big”

-they eventually get together after one too many close calls. idk when he would find out abt spiderman darius would prob keep it to himself until an injury is too obvious and ben confronts him so he gives in cause he’s physically and mentally weak and that ends in a hug. confession happens when hes not mentally drained or injured. unless darius just tells him and they freak/geek out over it together

-ben screaming his head off when darius takes him swinging basically petermj happenings. darius just laughing and telling him to live a little. “NEVER DO THAT AGAIN” idk if hed be obsessed w finding out the id of spiderman but he’d def want to find out why darius is suddenly acting so distant and the cause of the changes (this is if darius doesnt just straight up tell him basically mj in mcu)

-kenji/yaz sibling figures w sammy in the friend group basically the camp fam is a firend group but only brooklynn is aware of darius’ identity at the start at least. darius just introduced brooklynn as an internet friend n she fit right into the group

-kenji green goblin would be crazyyyy esp since it fits w osborn stuff. he wld be against spidey, yaz would be neutral, and sammy would be a fan. Ben thinks spiderman is cool but also gross for the webs (darius defending spiderman’s honor)

-i think the bite situation would be on a school trip and he’d wake up feeling all weird. classic spiderman beginning scenario. not sure how old i want him to be i dont want to put a 12/13 year old thru this. Maybe 15 atp god thats still so young but you know how the spidermans roll. he’d probably think that its really cool but also yo wtf

-ben is 16 (theres a point bday wise in the year where ben is a year older and he makes sure to flex this. darius turns a week or two after) theyre in the same grade. kenji and yaz are 17 while brooklynn and sammy are also 16. kenj/yaz are sophomores, brooklynn is homeschooled but advanced learning so fresh-soph curriculum, and sammy is a freshman like the other two (yaz and sammy meet through a club)

-not sure abt the web fluid here darius is smart but not sciency smart but maybe he can overhear abt some process in science class and work on developing some. maybe kenji’s dad is working on some serum like that. maybe he comes up w the concept of swinging by webs on his own based on common sense of spiders being able to do that. maybe he just goes without it

update: just read up about the spidermans web fluids throughout all movies (and noticed amazing spiderman’s was basically the serum thing i mentioned up there) and i think both ways are equally plausible (organic vs synthesized) organic would solve a lot of issues tho on how to make it but synthesized would make things so much more fun

-idk if spiderman would exist in both universes but it wouldnt make sense if it wasnt a multiverse thing right....unless. ok if it did id have both of them inspired by the webs there and figure out how to cope by using the comics as an instruction manual

-idk how he’d tell brooklynn abt it maybe he went to some anon messaging site and texted her but also i want them to be established friends before the whole debacle so maybe therye friends but nothing too personal and no personal info so darius confides in her and shes like youre not pranking me right. ok cool can i be your girl in the chair i have skills

-his family would be worried abt his sudden change in demeanor cause the loss of the dad is still strong so they might think its a side effect of grief. maybe darius is so psyched and into it and taking it in stride bc it distracts him from his feelings but it also makes them intense in a way (cause new spider feelings too!) so we will have an emotional breakdown where the camp fam doesnt know whats happening but pick him up afterwards anyway

-school dance also happens here but its more of Finally a normal date that wont be interrupted and its a school dance /r rather than the spiderben scenario (it gets interrupted. maybe. both ways would cause angst if i made a preventable situation happen bc if darius went then ben would question his place in the way of a hero’s + his personal desire not to see darius hurt. if darius didnt go bc he didnt know there’d be some self blame for sure)

cons

-weight of the world once again even tho he’d be older

-spiderangst....even tho its a diff world where he didnt go through the stuff in jwcc (with his family situation the same in canon of course. not gonna kill off anyone) i dont want him to suffer sobs

-thats it really i think i came up w more stuff for spidey darius in terms of dynamics than i can for ben but lets see

-update ive delved more into ben’s state of mind than darius bc well. ben is something too personal too me to not do so so i added in the last pros bullet point to be fair but also cause ben not taking in in stride just gives me more to work w. however i assumed darius would take it in stride without giving it much thought which while he would there’d def be underlying causes for that so boom

spiderman!ben

pros

-so i think he’d def have a moment at the start where he just tries to ignore the stuff happening to him after getting bit. (he fainted on the school trip when he saw the spider on his hand and the bite) he’s like maybe im just paranoid that was just a common spider...but when things start sticking and he’s jumping way too high hes like oh goddddd esp one day where he wakes up on his ceiling bc his mother dropped a plate downstairs

-giving him the natural web fluid out his wrists would be so funny he’d pass out if that happened But spidermans usually dont have natural web (tobey exception) so ig he’d have to figure out how to make web shooters. after my update on reading up web origins for spidermans tho i think both would be plausible but organic web fluid is the best route for ben just for the initial reaction. darius would be like DUDE. HOW DOES THAT EVEN WORK

-i think the dynamics will be similar from above since theyd be taking place in the same world just diff aus in it ^^ childhood best friends benrius, pincusfadoula siblings (not sure if i wanna canonize it like step siblings or lost siblings or adopted...), good buddies with kenji, sammy is a new addition to the grp by yaz and gets along well w kenj....ben and brooklynn prob wouldnt talk much they’d be friends like in canon. i mean the prev spidermans didnt have ppl to help so i think ben would go that route just cause he thinks this is too much but he has to get through it alone cause he’s read hero books....he knows about secret identities and how important they are

-the ignoring his new abilities lasts for a week darius + camp fam def notice. yaz gets to him before darius does (pincusfadoula siblings...) and he’s just like im going through some changes itll be fine

-darius ben convo goes like the s3e1 one except ben just snaps and is like a lot of things are happening in my life okay and you cant help me no one can

-awkwardddd tension in the group after cause they all heard it and ben knows and just walks off its a bad day even worse when this old lady nearly gets hit by a truck but ben just doesnt think and speedruns her out of the way and hes like holy crap. i actually did something. this feeling is great (bc another reason why hes against being spidey is bc he doesnt think he can affect anything despite the powers he has now. his cleanliness is an attempt to keep himself safe from the rest of the world in a way bc if he cant affect the world might as well not let it affect him at least physically)

-he apologizes to darius after he gets himself in order + what he wants to do and obvs welcomed back w open arms

-one day darius just corners ben and is like okay i thought after getting space you’d be back but youre still acting off and atp ben is knee deep in spiderman things and hes like uhhhhh and he just lies his way out of it. darius is hurt obvs bc he can tell but he stops pushing. theres just a weird gap between them now cause they used to tell each other everything. this kinda happens in spiderdarius au too but cause of injuries rather than the purposeful isolation

-one day too close of a call ben swings into darius’ room riding on an adrenaline rush and is like darius its me im spiderman and i almost died today so i really need to tell you that i like you So thats how that confession goes contrary to spiderdarius’ tender comfort/healing moments. darius has to sit down and process these two drops of news

-darius would find the swinging fun but ben would be swinging way too much for his own stomach so he needs to take a breather at the top of a building and darius is like whoa check out this view!! ben’s like i’d rather not

darius: but youre spiderman arent you used to heights by now

ben: im working on it....

-they dont rly start dating since the i like you was served alongside of the identity reveal which is Huge but just small hints darius gives that he likes ben back. school dance comes up they get to go ben asks darius as a way of An Official More Thought Out confession (w yaz’s help)

-the preventable situation during the school dance...if i did go thru w that and not let them have a normal night. it would basically be the same emotional turmoil happening as i stated for spiderdarius bc hero’s guilt is universal yada yada

cons

-honestly none aside from the fact we miss out on spiderdarius cause we cant have both at the same time sobs

-id make sure not to overshadow other’s characterizations bc of my bias on ben and some on darius. the thing is i never want to focus on a ship so much that their interactions become unnatural even if my ideas stem from these two most of the time

idkkkk i kinda wrote all this to get out combined brainrot but i like what ive conceived of this world i could see it as a dual series like. idk which one of these would be the “original” and which one would be its “au” cause i dont want to give the og title to either so maybe if i ever wrote anything for it itd be similar summaries. yeah its swag. congrats if you got this far my brain just spits things out while i black out in a trance and then i come to and realize how much ive written

#benrius #jwcc #camp cretaceous #jwcc spiderman au #squid talks #squid hc #ben pincus #darius bowman #the fact i published this before my 3 other drafts #those being s1-4 benrius compilation bullet points #s4 benrius analysis idk if that's done actually maybe i didnt take notes on the last few eps but its written out #so keep an eye out for that i think #and then the pincusfadoula sibling compilation post bc. love them #squid au

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mythsandmagicfancast · 3 years

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This was the closest battle yet! After a legendary duel that possibly nearly destroyed Camelot, GOBLIN GAIUS WINS! It wasn't easy and actual Gaius doesn't remember it, but the goblin version of him fought well. The comments were funny as always so here are some of our favorites.

Uther took kilgharrah down the first time so he can’t be that tough By the time Kilgharah gains a sense of humour, Goblin Gaius will prank him and escape idk how but mf is gonna blow up kilgharrah He could lick kilgharrah to death

Thanks as always for participating and check out the rest of the answers under the cut. Look out for the next round of the Merlin Mini Arena coming this weekend!

Goblin Gaius could literally make Kilgharrah's scales fall off with a single potion and I would give him a gold metal for doing it.

Prank master

He has fire and gives no fucks

if this is a literal physical fight clearly kilgharrah would win, one fiery breath and goblin gaius would be a little steamy pile of ashes on the floor. especially since goblin gaius still has gaius' body so he cant really run away that well! if it was a battle of who could make merlins life the most difficult... ok maybe kilgharrah would still win. but battle of the dissaproving eyebrow and most stupid jokes made in an episode? goblin boy would take that title all the way :)

Goblin Gaius outwitted entire Camelot! Sure, Kilgharrah could try to fry him but he has goblin magic at his disposal. Goblin Gaius will snap his fingers, end up sitting on Kilgharrah's head, and with a "shoo! shoo!" ride Kilgharrah into the sunset. He'd make Kilgharrah his bitch. Not sure if he'd be able to kill a dragon but he'll just wear Kilgharrah down until the scaly bastard has had enough of his torment and decides to kick the bucket on purpose to escape Goblin Gaius.

he would roast the sh*t out of him. literally.

If someone can beat Kilgharrah, it's Goblin Gaius

He may be annoying as hell but he is a dragon

Without restrictions on what can happen I think it'd go like this: Kilgharrah tries eat goblin Gaius, goblin leaves Gaius' body before death can occur, picks a new host... we now have goblin Kilgharrah. Since goblin Gaius no longer exists (eaten), in my, opinion, this is technically a win for Kilgharrah (now goblin version). If there IS a restriction on the goblin leaving Gaius' body, then Kilgharrah still wins because the goblin is eaten along with Gaius.

because Kilgharrah was chained in the dungeons while the goblin was free. Which means goblin gaius has more space to run around. also goblin gaius doesn't speak in riddles. Which is why i like him :)

The dragon would win but I would delight myself watching him get X Games pranked

kilgharrah would MURDER him. absolutely annihilate him on the spot. old goblin man holds no candle to mr cryptic dragon uncle

he’s smarter

Kilgharrah is a fire breathing dragon filled with spite and the goblin is merely a trickster. Best case scenario for the Goblin is he would try to prank Kilgharrah, as he did with my poor Gwen, and it would backfire, literally, when Goblin Gaius is roasted alive by a fire coming out of the dragon’s rear end

Fire, baby.

Kilgharrah would absolutely feel NO hesitation in roasting little Goblin Gaius. Would probably actually be quite satisfied in finally settling the issue between him and Gaius from the days of the purge and Gaius actions (or lack thereof) by turning him into little Goblin Gaius dust. Plus he'd go with fire, purely for the quick death aspect - a gift for turning Uther bald and giving him the head slap we all wish we could have.

pure chaos. also less i think theyd win and more id rather they win.

The sheer chaotic energy

I feel like goblin gaius wouldn’t have a problem inserting himself into kilgharrah’s orifices and Starting Problems

#bbc merlin #merlin #kilgharrah #gaius #merlin mini arena #mma5 #mythsandmagic

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rpgsandbox · 3 years

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Part homage, all farce, the AWFULLY CHEERFUL ENGINE! is an irreverent, affectionate parody of pop-culture tropes and a love-letter to 80s roleplaying games in a new, modern comic-book sized format! It’s a wacky roleplaying game of action comedy!

Hardcover collector's omnibus, softcover rules and adventures, blank ID cards, monster cards, hero role cards, VTT tokens

Are you a fan of the Ghostbusters RPG from the 1980s? Danger Mouse or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Bill & Ted or Rick & Morty? Back to the Future, Indiana Jones, Dracula, or sci-fi adventures on the final frontier? Do you enjoy chortling at TV tropes or chuckling at pop-culture parodies? Then the Awfully Cheerful Engine! is here for you!

ACE! is brought to you by Russ 'Morrus' Morrissey (EN World, WOIN, Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD), Dave Chapman (Doctor Who, Star Trek Adventures), and Marc Langworthy (Hellboy, Judge Dredd & The Worlds of 2000 AD). With a foreword by Sandy Petersen, co-author of the Ghostbusters RPG!

ACE! is designed for everybody! From talking animals to pulp heroes to eldritch horrors, kids and adults alike will find adventures to love with the Awfully Cheerful Engine!

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Are they comics? Or are they RPGs? (They're RPGs)

ACE #1: Introducing the Awfully Cheerful Engine! With a foreword by Ghostbusters RPG author Sandy Petersen, this book tells you the rules, how to create your Heroes, and gives you a bunch of Extras (NPCs & monsters) to use. By Russ Morrissey.

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ACE #5: Beam Me Up! These are the voyages of the starship FSS Brazen. Its continuing mission: to recklessly go where plenty of people have probably been before… and hope a major interstellar incident isn’t sparked in the process. In this highly illogical adventure for the ACE! roleplaying game, you’ll explore frontiers you never thought you had. By Marc Langworthy.

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In A.C.E! each Hero (that's you!) has a Role. Your Role gives you a special ability only you can use. Here's a quick look at some of the Roles you can play!

Talking animals like Ape, Cat, Crow, Dog, Kangaroo, and Turtle.

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Even a couple of superheroes like Speedster and Vigilante!

Yep, you can play a Ghost. You don’t take damage unless its from a holy source or some special sci-fi ecto-gadget. But you also can’t pick things up. So there’s that.

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Spirits of Manhattan adds Ghost, Demonologist, Doctor, Engineer, Exorcist, Inventor, Priest, Professor, Scientist, and Student.

Raiders of the Cutty Sark adds Botanist, Double-Agent, Socialite, and Witch.

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Beam Me Up adds Captain, Chief Engineer, Comms, Hologram, Gunner, Counsellor, and Pilot.

ACE! is a pretty fast, light game. If you played 1986's Ghostbusters RPG, you'll see the influence immediately.

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Trait! You choose a trait, like Angry or Cheerful or Rebellious or Despondent. This, combined with your Role, makes you a Gullible Vampire, a Brave Turtle, or a Squeamish Scientist.

Karma! Finally, you have a bunch of Karma points. These can be spent for extra dice or to absorb damage from attacks, and they're recovered by using your trait.

*Fun fact -- did you know that 1986's Ghostbusters RPG, by Sandy Petersen, Lynn Willis and Greg Stafford, was the first ever dice pool RPG? Also Sandy Petersen has written an awesome foreword for the AWFULLY CHEERFUL ENGINE!

What, I hear you ask, is a CALAMITY DIE?

The Calamity Die is how you find out that your friends really aren't your friends. You see, when you make a roll, one of those dice is a different color, and is called the Calamity Die. And if your roll fails, and also the Calamity Die rolls a 1, your so-called 'friends' decide what happens to you. It won't kill you or anything, but...

Well, we'll leave that thought with you.

Nooooo! And it was all going so well!

Kickstarter campaign ends: Fri, June 18 2021 10:00 PM BST

Website: [Awfully Cheerful Engine] [EN Publishing] [facebook] [twitter]

#RPG #kickstarter #Awfully Cheerful Engine #EN Publishing

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kintatsujo · 3 years

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LoZ AU: The Courage of Running Away Supplementary Post TWO

#AU August

#LoZ AU: The Courage of Running Away

We have only barely talked about monsters in this AU so here's Safee doing some lore dumping

[image description: Safee is lit by firelight and doing ooky spooky hands, saying "they say the moblins, bokoblins and ku once were men!! OooOOooOOOooo!" In the next panel Link is smiling in a strained way, and says “Hm! Don’t like that!” He has a label pointing at him that reads “Has been killing all three since he was six.” Volta is staring at him in some horror and sympathy. Safee, distraught, cries “Oh noooo did I stumble on trauma AGAIN?!” End ID.]

This is pretty much the only picture I’m doing for tonight’s post because I want to try and catch up with myself a little, lol

Anyway this isn’t Safee’s ONLY fireside theory; she also suggests that maybe some of the more goblin like monsters (Ku, by the way, are kappa-like cyclopses that showed up in Alttp and LBW in the place of Zora in the other worlds) actually started as animals and were transformed to become more like men instead, that they were some kind of mortal demons, that they were native to the twilight worlds and now wander this one, lost.

Link is not especially comforted by any of these ideas even when she points out that some of them eat people. (Seriously, especially BotW hinoxes.)

LoZ doesn’t ever bother trying to explain much but I think sometimes providing too many explanations is just as good for generating mystery as providing no explanations at all.

“A lot of Lizalfos, however,” Safee says, “Just wake up every day and choose violence.”

I think in this AU “Lizalfos” is a catchall term for any kind of lizard person; the peaceful Tokay are technically Lizalfos, the Geru are technically Lizalfos, the Daira are technically Lizalfos, there’s a difference between what the Lizalfos call themselves and what everyone else calls them. They’re generally just people but whether they’re friendly is very dependent on the Lizalfos in question (I probably will do an art heavy post about this at some point just not tonight.)

(The various lizard people versus the Zora are interesting because like.... what made them decide the fish men got to be people? This is why the Zora are my favorite.)

Chuchus and other slime monsters have practical uses and are therefore shipped around in barrels and generally cultivated like some LoZ themed version of Slime Rancher. They’re the most notable ingredient in potions but they’re also useful for things like refrigeration.

Moldugas are actually some of my favorite BotW bosses so naturally I was keeping them around. I’m also inordinately fond of Moldorm and I think the mini-moldorms are a mountain monster.

The line between “monster” and “just an animal” gets blurred a lot in LoZ so there are definitely bears that are scarier than bokoblins.

As for the “forces of darkness” or whatever, well, they’re in waiting.

#au august #loz #loz au #Loz au: the courage of running away #my art

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candyradium · 3 years

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Finally got around to typing up my Technoblade D&D build!!! I’ve been working on making these for a lot of the Dream SMP characters, and I thought it would be fun to have him in stat block format, so you too can throw c!Technoblade at your players as a final boss! (Disclaimer: I don’t know how accurate the CR level is, I just set it to 8 since the build is a lv8 build PC build.)

Image description and explanation/rambling below the cut!

[Image ID: A D&D stat block for Technoblade. It reads:

Technoblade

Medium humanoid (firbolg), Lawful Neutral

Armor Class: 18 (Half plate, defense fighting style)

Hit Points: 72 (8d12+24)

Speed: 40 ft.

STR: 18 (+4)

DEX: 14 (+2)

CON: 16 (+3)

INT: 14 (+2)

WIS: 13 (+1)

CHA: 6 (-2)

Saving Throws: Str +7, Con +6

Skills: Athletics +7, Intimidation +1, Perception +4, Survival +4

Damage Resistances: bludgeoning, piercing, slashing

Senses: passive Perception 14

Languages: Common, Elvish, Giant, Goblin

Challenge: 8 (3,900 XP)

Innate spellcasting. Technoblade's innate spellcasting ability is Wisdom (spell save DC 12). He can innately cast the following spells, requiring no material components:

1/short rest each: detect magic, disguise self

Speech of beast and leaf. Technoblade has the ability to communicate in a limited manner with beasts and plants. They can understand the meaning of his words, though he has no special ability to understand them in return. He has advantage on all Charisma checks he makes to influence them.

Powerful build. Technoblade counts as one size larger when determining his carrying capacity and the weight he can push, drag, or lift.

Unarmoured defense. When not wearing any armour, Technoblade's defense equals 15. He can use a shield and still gain this benefit.

Reckless. At the start of his turn, Technoblade can gain advantage on all melee weapon attack rolls he makes during that turn, but attack rolls against him have advantage until the start of his next turn.

Great weapon master. When Technoblade scores a critical hit with a melee weapon or reduces a creature to 0 hit points with one, he can make one melee weapon attack as a bonus action. Additionally, before Technoblade makes a melee weapon attack with a heavy weapon that he is proficient with, he can choose to take a -5 penalty to the attack roll. If the attack hits, he adds +10 to the attack's damage.

Warrior of the Gods. If a spell, such as Raise Dead, has the sole effect of restoring Technoblade to life (but not undeath), the caster doesn't need material components to cast the spell on Technoblade.

Divine fury. While Technoblade is raging, the first creature he hits on each of his turns with a weapon attack takes extra necrotic damage equal to 1d6 + 3.

Action surge (1/rest). Technoblade takes one additional action on his turn.

Combat superiority (4/rest). Technoblade can apply the following maneuvers using his four superiority die (d8s):

Feinting attack: Technoblade expends one superiority die and uses a bonus action on his turn to feint, choosing one creature within 5 feet of his as his target. He has advantage on his next attack roll against that creature before the end of his turn. If that attack hits, add the superiority die to the attack's damage roll.

Menacing attack: When Technoblade hits a creature with a weapon attack, he can expend one superiority die to attempt to frighten the target. He adds the superiority die to the attack's damage roll, and the target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it is frightened of him until the end of his next turn.

Trip attack: When Technoblade hits a creature with a weapon attack, he can expend one superiority die to attempt to knock the target down. He adds the superiority die to the attack's damage roll, and if the target is Large or smaller, it must make a Strength saving throw (DC 15). On a failed save, he knocks the target prone.ActionsHidden step (1/rest).

As a bonus action, Technoblade can magically turn invisible until the start of his next turn or until he attacks, makes a damage roll, or forces someone to make a saving throw.

Greatsword. Melee Weapon Attack: +7 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) slashing damage.

Heavy Crossbow. Ranged Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, range 100/400 ft., one target. Hit: 7 (1d10 + 2) piercing damage.

Multiattack. Technoblade can make 2 weapon attacks.

Rage (4/day). As a bonus action, Technoblade enters a rage that lasts for 1 minute, ending early if knocked unconscious or if Technoblade's turn ends and he hasn't attacked a hostile creature since his last turn or taken damage since then. He can also end his rage on his turn as a bonus action. While raging, Technoblade deals +2 damage, has advantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws, and has resistance to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing damage. Technoblade cannot cast spells during a rage.

End ID.]

Okay. Rambling time.

Holy SHIT I loved making this. I tend to play spellcasters or dex based characters, so it was a lot of fun to make a str character for once.

Stats first. As a barbarian/fighter and also as a force of nature, str is his highest stat. I could have made it 20, but I have a weird aversion to writing up characters with maxed out stats for some reason? Anyway, that’s what he has. He can always boost it if he takes another level in fighter. I also decided to give him pretty high intelligence and wisdom, which are rare in barbarian characters, since, y’know, their main point is to hit things very hard. But Techno is so, SO resourceful, and one of the main reasons that he’s so good at fighting is because he does his research and acquires the best items for it and puts himself in the right place at the right time. Hence the high-ish int. I feel a little bad making his charisma so low, but cha represents several things, most notably the ability to talk to people and force of personality. Also known as: how hard it is to be swayed or controlled, magically or otherwise. Remember what happened at the festival? That’s low charisma. Also I had to give him a low stat to balance the fact that he’s insanely good at so many fucking things. Why.

As a side note, when picking his proficiencies, I was using the homebrew rule that you can use your strength modifier when you roll for intimidation. So his Strength (Intimidation) check would actually have a +7, which is MUCH better than the Charisma (Intimidation) check of +1. Big strong characters are absolutely scary, damnit, and I will die on that hill.

Next up: race. I HAD to make him a firbolg. They’re connected with nature and are often portrayed with animalistic features (e.g. Caduceus Clay from Critical Role), and it means we can have both pig Techno and anime Techno, since firbolgs naturally have the disguise self spell. I just think that’s neat. They also get the ability to turn invisible! Which Techno has been doing a LOT recently! Sure, firbolgs can only do it for a turn, but it still fits.

Onto classes. Barbarian was a dead certain for Techno, honestly - his battle prowess, how he acts when he fights, it just fits so well. Even his use of potions - he gets a lot of buffs from them, increased damage and damage resistance being the two most notable and the two that best translate to D&D rage. Even speed potions - barbarians get +10ft movement speed at level 5. And barbarians are made for two-handed weapons, so obviously I HAD to give him a greatsword. The Orphan Obliterator is a deadly weapon. He also still favours swords even when axes are better in the newest version, so a greatsword was a must. Also I just really like greatswords.

I wavered a bit when picking a subclass, to be honest. I’m not really a big fan of any of the official subclasses (they don’t really fir my playstyle, which is why I homebrewed an entire new subclass for my barbarian character, but that’s a post for another day), but looking through, there were a few that could work. Originally, I picked Juggernaut - this was because of how he fought during the Dream battle, moving Dream around the arena into a more advantageous position for Techno, which is the Juggernaut’s 3rd level ability in a nutshell. They also can’t be knocked prone, and both of these things work INCREDIBLY well for skywars/bedwars style combat - staying put on this island and knocking off your opponents.

However, in the end, I decided to go with Zealot. It was inevitable after he REALLY started building his character on the Dream SMP, which is what this is mostly based on. Zealots have two main points: they follow a God, and it’s very, VERY hard to kill them.

Sound familiar?

Techno isn’t just a barbarian - he also has three levels of Battlemaster fighter. The barbarian/fighter combo is one of the best there is for sheer combat power (bested only, in my opinion, by barbarian/moon druid - those characters are actually unkillable) and the choice of Battlemaster specifically opened up so many options in combat. I had debated going with champion, just for the crit probability boost, but ultimately decided that Battlemaster was infinitely more fun. The three maneuvers were picked for a combination of reasons - they’re all incredibly useful in combat, but I also just thought they were thematically accurate and/or funny. I just had to give him Menacing Attack, because one of the few constants in Technoblade’s combat is people running the hell away from him during competitions. Feinting is for pure combat ability, and Trip is just. Really funny to me. It worked better when he was Juggernaut and literally couldn’t be knocked prone, but I just like the idea of someone using their full action to try and knock over this eight foot tall firbolg (they’re so fucking tall! This bitch is massive!) Technoblade just. Looking down at them before knocking them clean off of their feet with one swing of his Greatsword.

And finally, weapons and magical items. The magic ones didn’t actually make it onto the stat block, because I wanted it to be purely basic character building, but I absolutely had some ideas. Some of these were rolled on loot tables, some were completely homebrewed to fit Techno’s canon weapons. Guess which ones lmao.

magical heavy crossbow (use charge to fire 3 bolts simultaneously, using only one arrow, rolling an attack for each. Each target must be within 10ft of each other. 7 charges per day)

explosive bolts (10ft radius, double dice of the weapon it’s fired from, dex save)

mithral half-plate

ring of feather falling

trident of flight (attunement) (30ft swim and flight speed, 120ft flight speed when its raining)

upgraded cape of the mountebank (8 charges, 2 for misty step, 4 for dimension door) (yes it looks like his normal cape)

bag of holding

sword of life-stealing (attunement) (I don’t know why I added this except Techno’s canon sword would be VERY hard to homebrew and also he can do enough damage with a normal one so he could literally just have like a +2 or something. Do what you want)

#candy posts #dream smp #technoblade #dnd #dream smp dnd builds #ive been working on these fucking things for MONTHS i cannot wait to post more #i have dreams stat block made too and i have a lot of other builds finished that i just havent typed up yet lol

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staggeringsmite · 2 years

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diane and shrimp please 🥺🍤

[image id: another ask that reads "dia not diane fucking autofil" in all caps / end id]

for dia! control by verite:

i'm in love with control x 4 / though i like the idea of providence, i know i can't see straight with my head through the table

oh dia my bestie dia you're soooo fucked up and i love you, this was an early dia song so not much analysis beyond woooooweee sometimes you play one calculating wizard/cleric with such a, such a relationship to god and magic and themself <3

for shrimp! cairo by san fermin:

cairo come back home, twenty-eight days of delirium / three is a crowd, and two is in love, and i can't sleep alone / you read it wrong, a bold-face fever, you've stolen everything that you believe

most recent song on the shrimp playlist, get ready for me way overnalyzing music for my little guy because i can! for the first part i've been vibing with lyrics about coming home for shrimp, part of the redetermination to figure themself out and reconnect with the curious nature of his stew pot but for introspective purposes (turning into oath purposes for the paladin journey, taking an oath for and of himself entirely and making that divine in nature <3).

second part: been thinking so much about how shrimp defines his relationships because like? goblin culture is super not conducive to creating nuclear family dynamics, like shrimp has caretakers in the community who raised them and 11 siblings and plenty of other goblins around her age they grew up with who were basically siblings, but like, when you all crawl out of a stew pot and then live in a very separated community with other goblins? relationships and connections are probably labeled very differently around here i would think. anyway i think i'm just doing an atlas aroace revelation in reverse but this time it's not "wait, you can do that?" and more "there's like? a word? and a thing i need to say for that?" - reading the lyrics as very like "well! i guess! weird!"

third: foaming at the mouth, basically just,, shrimp who doesn't know how to pray but is searching for answers who sits at an alter of many things with objects inspired by the only two religious people she's been traveling with -- that turning into the mirror shrine and "this is not an offering. i'm taking this with me." -- all of this really kicked off by seeing a Side of adva he'd been unable to see yet -- ough just "you've stolen everything that you believe" but not like it's wrong like Shrimp Has Taken These Things Like All of These Objects as part of their story and their person and has been shaped by them and claimed them rather than just walking alongside them anyway i love him <3

#ask #thank you jack!!!#dorsalfin #c: heaven's rim #c: dragonshards

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musicfeedsmysoul12 · 1 year

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Names, News and Nominations

Summary: After the sports festival, things should be smooth sailing. Except, of course Izuku finds that it’s not true. The news of Sir Nighteye’s death is a hard one, but he’ll pull through as he and his classmates get ready for their internships! Even if they all seem eager to make him blush still!

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After school, Izuku headed to the principal’s office, where Nezu happily let him inside, the mammal’s eyes shining.

“I am eager to work with you later on,” Nezu said to Izuku cheerfully. “But ID here will be a good substitute for me.”

“You’re just saying that 'cause you taught me to,” snorted one of the people in the office.

Info Dropper, or Goblin Izuku supposed, did not draw the eye. They were average height and bulky with muscle but otherwise looked utterly plain. They wore a black face mask and circular glasses, which made their dark eyes seem wider. Their hero costume consisted of a dark jacket and a pair of blue jeans. Under the coat glinted a leather harness holding multiple items, a gun one of them. But only when you were close to them. Otherwise, they looked like any other person on the streets.

“Nice to meet you, kid,” Info Dropper said, bowing their head. “I’m Info Dropper or ID. Goblin while on duty in Otheon, but ID otherwise.” They motioned to the woman beside them. She wore all black, a turtleneck bodysuit, a trench coat and boots though some iridescent decals were on them. A visor with the same colouring as the decals covered her face.

“Hi! I’m Statistica or Elric Aria!” said the woman, bowing her head too. “ID here doesn’t use names or give theirs out due to their Quirk, so don’t be offended by any nickname.”

“Oh? I tried to search it up, but the Court doesn’t list Quirks for their members….” Izuku said slowly.

“It’s called Name Drop. I say someone’s name, chosen ones work too, and I know five random things about them I didn’t before.” ID explained. They closed their eyes with a shrug. “Doesn’t work on animals, so Nezu and I are friends.” Opening their eyes again, ID looked Izuku over. “Midoriya Izuku…” the words felt like a weight on his shoulders as their eyes glowed white. They blinked and hummed. “That’s interesting….”

“Stop messing with him!” Statstica said, smacking their shoulder.

“Bad sidekick.”

“You raised me for the past ten years. I ain’t scared of you!” Statstica sniffed. She turned to Izuku. “So we’re going to be leaving on Friday morning, so you know, with the agency plane. ID knows where your guardians live.”

“Oh, right! Aizawa-Sensei said you went to school together.” Izuku nodded.

“Yep. You’ll find that while most high school classes do end up drifting apart, it’s rarer for a hero class to do so.” ID remarked. “We bond deeper. I may not be too close with everyone, but we keep in touch.” They shrugged. “Plus, I dated Done for a few weeks before he figured out he was fully gay.” Izuku blinked at ID, who bulldozed on. “So we’re close along with BDSM. And I dated Sonic Man to…. Huh, did I date everyone but the Banana in that friend group…” ID stared at the wall as Nezu chuckled, stirring his tea.

“I believe you did,” he remarked.

“Eh.” ID shrugged. “Anyway, so we all bonded. So… we got off track. Right. You’ll be coming with us on Friday to Otheon, where I’ll be investigating some stuff. Kiddo here,” a pat on Statistica’s shoulder indicated whom they spoke about. “Will be doing physical training mostly with you. I’ll also be sparring with you, and we’ll sic you on Sonic Man’s brother to spar ten to one. I think… no, wait, Skeleton Muscles said he’d also talk to his old homeroom teacher. I spoke with my bosses, and they’re fine with another pair of hands given the cases he used to work.”

“…” Izuku turned to the only woman in the room helplessly.

“They mean that I’ll spar with you, and you’ll end up sparring with Inegnenium’s brother and then. Plus, All Might’s old teacher is probably coming. The Court doesn’t mind him along due to his own history of investigation.” Statistica chirped.

“...Skeleton Muscles?” Izuku asked.

“It’s impossible to keep a secret from me,” ID sniffed, sticking their nose in the air. “I know everything.”

“No, you don’t. They like to claim it, but they’re lying. No one is omnipotent… well, Nezu comes close.” joked Statistica. “But yeah. I think they say random names when bored.”

“Free entertainment,” ID shrugged. Izuku snickered, a little amused at least.

“So why have me come to the office?” Izuku asked.

“To update you. I’m busy the next few days helping track Stain,” ID explained. “Issue is my Quirk is random enough that it’s hard to track him with it, and he moves around quickly.”

“But Otheon is more important?” Izuku asked.

“A possible global terrorist organization is always more important than some serial killer,” ID said honestly. Izuku’s mouth dropped open. “I know, kid, I know. It’s essential and honestly personal for me to go at this.” ID shrugged. “I wanted to meet you and say your name to confirm you’re good before Friday.”

The door to the office opened suddenly, startling the group. Aizawa stepped in, Eri following him happily.

“Sup, Done!” ID said, sounding amused.

“Shut up, ID,” Aizawa said grumpily. “I’m here to ensure my ward is okay with you.”

“He’ll be fine. Casanova will have fun with us… Nah, that’s not a good one. Ah, Bait.” ID nodded.

“Bait?” Izuku asked, realizing what they were saying.

“It fits,” ID said. “Put you in a room, and your lovers will go crazy.” Izuku went red as Eri giggled.

“Hi, I’m Eri.” the little girl said softly, waving at ID, who blinked.

“Oh my god, she’s so cute!” Statistica said in a squeal.

“...Hi, kid,” ID said. Eri blinked, a pout forming.

“No! You call me… oh, it hasn’t happened.” Eri hummed. ID paused, tilting their head to the side.

“...Eri…” they said. Their eyes didn’t change. “...Aizawa Eri.” their eyes flashed then. They outright jerked their head back, eyes wide in shock. “Oh wow.”

“Wow, what?” Aizawa asked, glaring at the other hero.

“She’s got a temporal Quirk, right?” ID asked. Aizawa crossed his arms, waiting. Izuku looked at ID curiously. “Look, Bait here got hit by Cupid, whose Quirk is also temporal based. We saw the Unicorn in the future, meaning that the Quirk briefly touched her. It forced a bit of a Quirk evolution.”

“You got that just by saying her name?” Izuku asked in awe, going for his notebook to write it down. ID glanced at them and sighed.

“I’ll teach you coding later. But anyway, yes. It’s one of the bigger things I didn’t know about her before, so I got a dose of info about her Quirk and the knowledge it evolved recently. The rest I already know. I research everything before using my Quirk. Easier to narrow the margins. Unicorn here; I did get a dossier on. But temporal Quirks are rare enough that they get studied to hell and back. Superstrength is such a common thing that it’s not worth studying. So we know that temporal Quirks can react to one another in strange ways. Clock Eyes… Sir Nighteye reported a temporary increase in Quirk power after going against a villain who could see the future when they ate some sort of food. He could use his Quirk three times a day for two months.” ID said. Izuku wrote it all down, bouncing.

“I read about that. Wow, I didn’t think Matchmaker was temporal, but you’re right! It sees the future and shows us glimpses! So when Eri was shown, it attached to her?” Izuku asked. “What is happening now?”

“Well, apparently, she might know something from the future or at least can feel a timeline out.” ID said. “My Quirk said so… Aizawa Eri… oh wow, that’s cool.”

“Oh?” Nezu asked, leaning forward.

“She could already do it and knew she could, but it never stayed. Right Unicorn?”

“Uhuh,” Eri nodded. She hummed. “Will it stay? It kinda hurts….” Aizawa placed a hand on her head, frowning.

“Dunno. It’s possible the Quirk just woke up the paths in your brain so you can remember. Maybe you’ll go back to random bursts of information. Maybe you’ll end up only remembering each day. Temporal Quirks are weird.” ID said.

“Wouldn’t it make more sense if she could know something from the past rather than the future?” asked Izuku.

“Not necessarily.” Nezu voiced. “Time isn’t linear. As a great doctor once said: it’s more wibbly and wobbly than that. As well it’s a social concept. Eri may only be able to remove the years from something, but may be able to see parts of the future, experiencing it as memories.”

“... most of the class feel more protective of her than we should theoretically,” Izuku said. Eri winced, looking down upon hearing that. “Ah! Nothing bad about that!”

“My Quirk makes you,” Eri muttered.

“Nah, it’s just giving us the emotions we’d feel in the future,” Statistica said. “If I understand what the Quirk nuts are saying…” she looked between the group. Aizawa looked exhausted. He had already been dealing with Izuku and the many crushes on him. Adding a possible future seeing child who could rewind time did not make things easy for him, more so when she knew things about the future.

He made a mental note to stalk up on headache medication in the future.

-0-

“So… we have an omnipotent daughter now,” Yamada said as he glanced at Eri. They were back at the apartment, Yamada finishing some paperwork for his acceptance of Kaminari as an intern. According to Yamada, one of his sidekicks’ Quirks could let him direct electricity from an external source. The internship made sense with the reveal of Kaminari gathering electricity instead of producing it.

“A somewhat Omnipotent daughter,” Aizawa groaned from where he was going through some paperwork himself. He wouldn’t tell Izuku what it was. “It might not last.”

Eri shrugged at the looks she got, busy colouring at the coffee table where Izuku sat, working on some homework. “I dunno,” the little girl said calmly. “I know it makes me less nervous cause I remember being ten and tackling Dekiru and his wife during a game, but I know it hasn’t happened yet.”

“Which wife is that?” Yamada joked.

“Uravity,” Eri said, making Izuku groan. “Huh? Did I do something wrong?”

“Just embarrassed, Eri,” Izuku muttered. Eri reached out to pat his head. Izuku sighed. “Thank you.”

“Welcome, Dekiru!” Eri said happily. She went back to colouring. Izuku returned to his homework, finishing his math before pulling out his phone, which had been vibrating for a while.

Class 1-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Pichu: Okay if I’m gonna be the next Present Mic, Aoyama is gonna be the next Midnight… who is the next Aizawa?

Bass Boost: That Shinsou kid probably. Has the same vibe in the other chat.

Alien Queen: Hell yeah!

Office Supplies: I can see it. Also, should we have a chat with Midoriya in it and all of his potential spouses?

Dr. Dolittle: Adding them here?

YaoMomo: This is the class chat. I doubt sensei would be happy to add them here.

Rock HARD: plus like Bakugou and Mineta are in the chat.

Bass Boost: Mineta got removed like this afternoon and Bakugou has never, ever BEEN in this chat. Do they count?

Class Prez: I am willing to be in another chat with everyone.

Pichu: lol sorry but imagine like somehow Shigaraki managing to get into the chat

Alien Queen: that’s terrifying. Man might be able to go vigilante but right now he’s a villain o.0

Out of the Kitchen: I vote no. Unless the man goes through his redemption arch fast.

Frog: Would any of us actually be willing to be around him though? Redemption or not he tried to murder us.

Pichu: Ehhh… Grey area? Man apparently got manipulated by his overlord and can snap out of it.

Rock HARD: Forgiveness is MANLY.

Frog: even if forgiving people is good I don’t know if I can. Not unless he proves he changed you know? Like if he never attacks us ever again with intent to kill I mean.

Edgy Bird: If he truly wishes to change in the future and has shown he is willing to offer it then I would be willing to accept him as friend and not foe.

However if he perchance claims to change but goes right back to his normal behaviour then it is not change that drives him. Not out of habit but out of a true disregard for wishing to change.

Pichu: It probably is different for Tsu given she nearly got killed by him to.

Frog: True.

Gravity Queen: I just realized that we’re discussing an actual villain and not just some rando. And it’s getting heavy. So I vote we do make a chat for all of Midoriya’s potential lovers. If he’s okay with it.

Izuku blinked at the chat, surprised by the direction it took before texting back.

Small Might: I have no idea how to react to that. I mean… I guess it would be nice to talk to them. I didn’t see Shinsou or Monoma or Hatsume or anyone all day. We’re all so busy.

Small Might: though I only ask NO ONE FLIRT in the chat. I’m not near ready for that 😖

Pichu: No problem! I think Sensei would murk us if we did even if you’re terribly cute and we love your blush ❤️

Sensei: Extra classes seem to be just giving themselves out.

Pichu: Ha. I’m in danger.

Sensei: Make the chat but put an adult (not me) in it. So if anyone does make Midoriya uncomfortable we can know.

“Thanks, Aizawa,” Izuku said, glancing up at the man who snorted.

“The rat probably monitors the other chat. But I’d prefer an adult in this one,” he said.

“Chat?” Yamada asked.

“The hellions want to make a chat with Midoriya and everyone else he could end up with,” Aizawa explained as Izuku’s phone chimed with the announcement that he’d been added to a new chat called…

“Midoriya’s Harem and Adult Supervision?!?” Izuku squeaked. The adults looked at him before they began laughing.

It was pretty funny.

-0-

He felt tired. So tired as he sat there in the room with the TV playing. The bodies of the previous owners of the apartment were king gone, destroyed so they couldn’t smell. After fleeing the doctor, he’d been trying to figure out how to continue his plans. Shigaraki no longer seemed reasonable to follow with the future, showing how he could abandon the goal of All for One.

He needed to find a new Quirk. One that could help him survive. A healing Quirk would work, one he could use himself. Recovery Girl was out. He had heard of a young boy on Nabu discussed in the doctor’s labs…

“Breaking news: Dr. Anders, former hero and skilled surgeon, has declared he will be staying in Japan for the next few months as part of a task force being created by All Might to deal with the villain who injured him,” the broadcaster said. “His Quirk, Spirit Healer, enables him to heal any wound while preventing things such as cell degeneration which has led to wonders in curing….”

He lifted his head, watching the news. He felt a smile cross his face.

It seemed as if fate had delivered his salvation.

-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-

Notes:

-MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Hope you guys like this double update!

-Hope you guys liked it! This 100% was because I wanted to introduce everyone, lol.

-Eri’s power will degrade as time goes on. She’s still going to be able to say random things that are a little weird. But yeah… look, this was fun to think of, and also I love Eri. But the cute little girl whose so shy and timid gets boring compared to a mildly Eldritch being.

-Group chat was 100% me setting shit up.

-As an aside: Bakugou would never talk in group chats, and you can’t convince me otherwise.

-Look… I don’t know if I CAN add Shigaraki without it being weird. Sorry.

-I wonder who is talking…

#bnha #bnha au #videos of the future #photos and videos #boku no hero academia #izuku midoriya #aizawa shouta #yamada hizashi #eri #oc: info dropper

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It was a small patch on his knee, like a scrape, but it wasn’t a scrape. It was stone. Blue stone.

And suddenly, worries and anxieties he hadn’t felt for CENTURIES came flooding back in a rush.

What if they saw?

What if they found out?

What if they realized that he wasn’t the real Hisirdoux?!

And now, now there were new anxieties, things he hadn’t worried about centuries ago.

What if they hated him?

What if they turned him away?

What if they never wanted to see him again?

What if Zoe’s face curled up in disgust as she realized she’d been kissing a troll mouth. Worse, a changeling mouth?

What was going on?! Why, why now, after centuries of no problems, was he turning to stone? He hadn’t once transformed back to his troll form—what if he was supposed to do that every so often, or it would start to leak through?

There had to be someone he could contact to find out. The Janus order—they’d know. Right?

So he snuck out.

When Archie’s snoring started, and Zoe’s breathing slowed down to the little puffs he knew meant she was deep in dreamland.

Douxie felt a weird ache in his chest at the thought of not hearing those little sounds again. He needed to fix this problem. Now. Before it spread.

So he crept through the streets, almost certain that he’d seen a bar with a sign that had two faces on it. Two faces. The Janus order. It was worth a shot, right?

So he went inside. There was only one solitary bar girl, and she gave him an odd glance. “Sorry. We’re closed tonight, kiddo. Reserved.”

“Gunmar,” he blurted. He didn’t know any changeling code, because that wasn’t one of the things Dictatious—Dictatious, he hadn’t thought about the many-eyed troll for so long—had told him. So he just blurted out the first thing that popped into his head.

The bar girl’s eyes widened. “Oh! Sorry. What’s the problem?”

“I’m turning to stone,” Douxie babbled, “I’m turning into stone, but I’m not trying to transform, it just happened, and I don’t know what’s going on!”

“Ooookay, you’re obviously new to this. Slow down. Show me.”

Douxie rolled up his pant leg to show her the blue stone spot on his knee. “Why’s it doing that?!”

She peered closely at it. “If I had to guess? I’d say your familiar scraped a knee. Weird. Normally the goblins take such good care of them.”

Douxie grabbed her sleeve as she turned to go. “How do I find out?”

She blinked at him. “Wow. You really don’t know anything about being a changeling, huh? Okay. Look. You can check in on your familiar any time you like. You just gotta.” She screwed her face up, made a retching noise, and spat at a mirror. Douxie jumped back.

“That’s disgusting!”

“Nah, look!”

Douxie steeled himself to look at the glob of spit on the mirror, and saw that it had transformed into an image of a little baby girl, asleep in a crib. “That’s…”

“My familiar. Cute little thing, isn’t she?” The image faded away. “You try.”

Douxie’s spitting wasn’t nearly as impressive as hers, but the image appeared. Hisirdoux was in a stasis trap, a bloody scrape on his knee. “That’s him!”

“An adult? Wow. You are a weird little changeling, aren’t you?”

“I wonder what happened…”

“Well, usually the familiars are babies. They don’t go anywhere. Yours probably just got loose, and fell before they got control of him again. If it’s really bothering you…” The changeling looked around. “Go to America. Arcadia Oaks. The leader of the Order lives there, Waltholomew Stricklander. He might be able to figure out what’s going on. Watch out, though, there’s a troll colony living there, and it is the homeplace of the trollhunter. Good luck.”

Douxie nodded and slipped away, creeping back inside the house he shared with Archie and Zoe before they woke up. It was just one scraped knee—like the changeling bar girl had said, it was probably just a problem with doing the sleeping spell on someone a little older. Nothing to worry about.

Until he woke up with thick lines of stone lashed across his chest.

No. No, no, no, no!

Douxie touched the stone lines delicately. They were just the right distance apart for a set of Gum-Gum claws. He yanked a shirt over his head, fast before Zoe or Archie saw. This was getting out of hand. He needed to get in contact with Stricklander.

Xxx

“America?” Archie asked, sounding slightly-disgusted, “Why America?”

Zoe grabbed his hand. “New York?! I’ve heard things about New York—we could be vigilantes! Do you know the crime rates there, Douxie? And we have to go to at least one rock concert, promise me!”

“We��re already vigilantes,” Douxie laughed, “Just the magical kind. What, you want to add muggers to our resume? No, not New York. I’ve got somewhere else in mind. Arcadia Oaks. Supposedly, it has a troll colony. And where there’s a colony of trolls, there’s bound to be… pest problems.” He gave Zoe’s hand a squeeze, some of her excitement leeching into him. And it was exciting! Leaving Europe for a totally new continent? Once he got this whole familiar thing sorted out, there wasn’t any reason not to have fun. “But I promise that we will go to New York and see a rock concert first.”

“Yessssss!”

Xxx

“Okay. Our first order of business ought to be looking for stable employment and—”

Douxie and Zoe both ignored Archie, hopping off of the bus and tearing around the city. “It’s so sunny here,” Zoe complained, “It’s like Italy all over again!”

“Oh, you liked Italy,” Douxie replied, “It is a bit bright, but—”

“Hey! What are you two kids doing out of school?!”

Douxie jumped as a police officer approached them. “Oh—we’re… new in town?”

The officer snorted. “I can tell.”

“I’m an adult. Actually.” Zoe offered, “I don’t have to be in school.” She pulled out an ID—when had she gotten a driver’s license?!

The officer squinted at it, then shrugged. “Alright, Miss Zoe, you’re off the hook. What about Skippy here?” He jabbed a thumb at Douxie.

“Wha—Skippy?!”

“Him?” Zoe said with a grin. “Oh, no. He’s a minor. Tiny little baby. Ship him off to school.”

The officer nodded, turning to Douxie. “And which school are you enrolled in?”

“Uhhhhh Aaarcaaadia Oaaaksss…. Academy?” Douxie tried, shooting Zoe a dirty look.

“Haven’t gotten your uniform yet? Alright, come on, in the squad car, I’ll take you to school. And you, Miss Zoe, try to be a better influence on him, will you?”

The officer dragged Douxie into the car, and Douxie mouthed “I’ll kill you” at a snickering Zoe. Actually, though, this was a good opportunity, while he was separated. “Hey, do you know anyone named Waltholomew Stricklander?” he asked the cop as he drove through the streets.

“No. Odd name. Closest we’ve got is a Walter Strickler. Teaches at the other school. Why?”

“Uhm. Just… looking for an old family friend. Thanks anyway.” Just his luck that there really was an Arcadia Oaks Academy, he thought gloomily as the car pulled into a school. He got marched to the principal’s office.

“Are you missing a new student? Possibly an exchange student?”

Right. The principal would say no, he’d make a getaway, and then he’d hunt Zoe down and throw her into the nearest body of water.

“As a matter of fact, we are! We didn’t have time to get his uniform, but…” A schedule, a map, and a stack of books was thrust into Douxie’s hands. “You should be in Calculus right now, young man.”

No way! Seriously? Douxie gave him his best apologetic grin. “Yes sir!”

Great. Now he just had to figure out what calculus was.

Douxie would have bolted, but the cop was watching him all the way to the classroom, so he edged inside. The door creaked far more than he thought was necessary, and the teacher turned to face him.

“May I help you?”

Douxie brushed his bangs back behind his ears nervously. “Um. Hello? I’m… new here?”

“Ahhhh, the transfer student! We weren’t expecting you until tomorrow.”

“Heh. Well, try telling the cops that.”

“Hm, yes. Set your things down, and then why don’t you come up to the board and fill in the radian coordinates on this unit circle!”

Douxie could speak elvish, orcish, trollish, a number of human languages, and decipher wizard code, but he didn’t have any idea what she’d just said. He scooted ever-so-slowly to the back of the classroom and set his books down, then shuffled to the front of the classroom, taking the marker from the teacher like it was a poisonous snake. The giant circle covered in indecipherable markings loomed up at him. He hesitantly wrote a 2 on one of the blank spaces, earning a snort from someone in the front row. He ignored them and kept writing random numbers in the blanks. More snickers made his ears burn, and finally he capped the marker and set it down.

“Alright, class, hands up if you think he’s right.”

No hands went up.

“Sit back down, please.”

Douxie trudged back to his seat in what was possibly the most shameful walk of his entire life while the teacher spouted more calculus nonsense that went over his head. He tried to pay attention for a bit—he really did—but it became pretty obvious pretty fast that he was missing about 4 years worth of previous math that he should know in order to understand this, so he put his head down on the desk, praying for it all to end.

“Didn’t anyone ever tell you that punk’s dead?” someone else in the back hissed to him with a snicker, “Where’s your uniform?”

“Hank, shut up!” someone else responded, “I’m pretty sure he’s one of the public school kids sneaking in! His accent is so obviously faked!”

“My accent is not—” Douxie shook his head. What did it matter? He was a centuries old magician who knew arcane secrets of the universe that the Calculus teacher could never hope to understand. The opinion of a few regular human teenagers shouldn’t have mattered.

It shouldn’t have.

At lunch, he hopped the fence and ran for it, beelining for the public school. The academy kids whooped and cheered as he ran away. Excited that something interesting was happening? Or glad that he in particular was leaving? Not that it mattered to him.

He had to check in on this Walter Strickler, just in case. And sure enough, when he peered in the office windows, he could spot magical items lying about with regular things. Douxie cracked open the window and slipped inside. Wow. This guy really did have quite the collection of magic books. It wouldn’t hurt to read a few while he was waiting, would it?

He was halfway through his third book and the last school bell had rung for the day when he heard footsteps echoing down the hallway. He hastily shoved the books back in their spots and waited, suddenly realizing that if Walter Strickler wasn’t a changeling, he was going to have to talk his way out of a nasty breaking and entering situation.

But when the door did open, Douxie could recognize the changeling in him—it was something about the way he carried himself, like he had centuries of experience.

“Hey there,” Douxie said casually, “Got a little changeling question for you.”

Strickler didn’t seem too concerned by his presence, fiddling with a pen. “You are drawing far too much attention to yourself. Getting dragged off by the police? Skipping school? And that accent-! What kind of a sad excuse for a changeling are you?”

“No one exactly gave me a crash course in being a changeling!” Douxie protested, “And besides, I’m a changeling masquerading as a wizard masquerading as a human. I think I’m doing pretty well, all things considered!”

“The special assignment. Hisirdoux. I thought you were a myth. What with having no way of contacting you and all.”

“Uh—well—yeah. Not the point. I’ve got a bit of a situation. My familiar seems to keep injuring himself somehow? I want to contact Dictatious. Make sure everything is alright.”

Strickler snapped the pen shut. “Contact the darklands?!”

“Uh… yeah?”

“No one can do that! Do you think I’d be searching tirelessly for the eyestone if I could simply ring for Gunmar on the telephone?!”

“How come? Changelings seem to get in and out pretty easily.”

“It’s not the same. I’m afraid I cannot help you—it may be frustrating, but you will simply have to operate on less than ideal information. And, ah, Hisirdoux? Do try not to draw any more attention to yourself.”

Xxx

“You are not funny,” Douxie grumbled as he pushed open the door to some kind of tech shop.

Zoe grinned, hopping off of her place on a bench and going on tiptoes to give him a kiss on the cheek. “Awww, did someone not have a good day at school?

“No kisses. According to you, I’m a minor and you’re an adult.”

“Don’t be irritated at Zoe,” Archie piped up, “I’m the one who enrolled you in school.”

“You did what?!”

“There are things I cannot teach you, Douxie!”

“Like calculus?! Get real, Arch, I’m never going to need calculus! Besides, when am I going to have the time?! I’ll need a job, and—wait a second, why are you talking in here?”

“Oh, this place?” Zoe said affectionately, “This is run by hedge wizards. Aaaaand there’s no customers at the moment, so we’re good. I have a job here now, actually. They’ll be able to use more money for their magical projects now that they won’t be paying an electric bill anymore.”

“Okay. Fantastic. School, Archie?!”

“Just stick it out for a year, alright? You’re listed as a senior, so you’ll graduate, and you can do whatever you want after that.”

“Assuming I can graduate! I don’t know any of this stuff, Arch! I’m going to fail everything!”

“You’re a quick learner. I’m sure you’ll figure it out. You’ve spent centuries doing nothing but bouncing around the world hunting monsters. I’m sure one year of schooling will pass in a flash.

#i am still filled with rage that i ever had to waste brain space memorizing the unit circle #toa #tales of arcadia #my oc #my writing #my fanfiction #swapped #changeling!douxie au #dalmar #douxie

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