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The way that I’m brainrotting over a DCxDP crossover with a Danny who’s a vengeful villain rn
Like, let’s just say that the GiW finally get into contact with the JL. They need help neutralizing a threat, you see, and they’re on their last limb trying to keep civilians safe.
They have video evidence! They have studies to back their claims! The JL have to help them!
Unfortunately, the JL believe them. They join a fight against Danny, and defeat him due to being far more experienced than he is. Danny is locked away and experimented on by the GiW.
That would CHANGE a person. Your heroes turning against you and seeing you as a monster, being experimented on for who knows how long, not knowing if your friends and family are safe.
Danny gets out due to a simple mistake on the GiW’s part; having Blüdhaven as part of their transport route.
Of course the trucks were attacked, they’re government property!
So now, whoever decided to raid the government transport trucks (the Penguin or something) has a ton of experimental weapons with no idea how they work, and a heavily traumatized teenager.
Danny knows how they work. Danny can be useful! They won’t throw him out if he’s useful! And so, now Danny is working for the Penguin, altering the ectoplasm weapons to make them work on humans.
It’s a good deal for both parties. Danny gets to neurotically imprint on the Penguin like a small baby animal, and the Penguin gets a brilliant mind who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals.
But eventually, Danny finds out what happened to his family in his absence.
Jazz is in Arkham. Not as a psychologist, but as a “patient.” Apparently, she snapped and completely destroyed the house, leveled a few blocks of Amity Park, and conducted organized attacks on government bases (mostly GiW) for months.
Sam and Tucker helped her, eventually splitting once Jazz was captured. Sam travels to areas of extreme pollution, completely overgrowing them with her plant powers. Currently she’s in the Amazon rainforest, engaging in an ongoing feud with logging companies. Sam is winning.
Tucker faked his death, and Danny has no idea where he is. He only knows that the death wasn’t real because of a code that the three of them made together, just in case.
Ellie’s trapped in the Infinite Realms. Danny had a failsafe in place so that if she was ever cornered by the GiW, she would be sent to her haunt in the GZ. However, with the portal destroyed, she can’t come back. Danny just hopes she’s okay.
His parents are now top GiW scientists. They’re traveling the country giving speeches. They’re working on a battery powered by ectoplasm, but apparently started “having difficulties” around the same time that Danny escaped.
None of it is fair. None of it is right.
The Justice League destroyed his life, the lives of his friends, and they’re doing as good as ever. The GiW is respected, and his parents are happily working away for them.
Danny takes up some of his more experimental weapons and breaks Jazz out of Arkham. She’s a little different now, colder and more quiet, but she still loves him all the same. It’s an unimaginable comfort to him to see his sister again.
He can’t use his powers anymore. He’s so used to associating them with pain that even transforming into his ghost form is enough to take him down for hours.
However, he understands ectoplasm more than anyone else in the world. He knows how to use it in virtually everything; how it can become a weapon, how it can be used as a supplemental ingredient in poisons and nerve agents, how it can twist and distort the mind if applied correctly.
He doesn’t care what happens to him. He’s going to take down the GiW, and destroy the lives of the JL members who helped lock him away, just as they did to him.
No matter the cost.
#dcxdp#dc x dp#dp x dc#dpxdc#dp x dc crossover#dc x dp prompt#let Danny be scary and unsettling and evil WITHOUT being Dan!! do it!!!!!#at first the JL just think they’re dealing with a normal villain who’s angry at the world#the more details they get on him the more dread they feel#eventually they realize that they locked a 16-year-old away to be experimented on by the government for YEARS#and not that same kid is determined to ruin their lives#the GUILT. the PAIN. the realization that they so completely and fully failed this child#they’re speedrunning the 5 stages of grief and Danny is just like ‘oh no! anyways’ *fakes killing Red Robin to fuck with the bat*
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Just be yourself - Sub/Dom
Coriolanus x fem!reader
sub!Coriolanus x dom!fem-reader
warning : drugging without consent, it's kinda non-con (eventho there are mutual feelings), kissing, dry-humping, snake, minor blood play.
Summary : Dr.Gaul is known all over the Capitol but so are here brilliant helpers and students. Young woman and men in their own studys while providing Gaul with new potions, tricks and animals. So what can happen if a rather naive Coriolanus gets with one of the students...it ends in something mad.
Info : So I cant believe that this is just my second piece I have written for him here. I need to write more and have some ideas and we need more sub Coriolanus ;) As always have fun reading everyone and this took way longer than it was planned.
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Coriolanus Snow was the top student at the Capitol Academy. He was the model example of a blameless good boy who had the future ahead of him.
He had recently joined Dr. Gaul's lab, not only was he so confident of getting better nites, but he had also found someone in the lab, a young assistant and scientist to Dr. Gaul.
She was a little older than him but he admired the way she looked at things, the excitement of exploration and just like him she came from a background she would have done anything to get to the top. Ever since he had seen her at the doctor's side, he had lost his heart to her, at least as far as his pride could tell.
Snow ended up on top. Always. It was no different with his favorite since he had shown up at her house after class, a meadow rose in his hand, he was sure he had her figured out.
He had seen the way her eyes had lit up with devotion and love. ,, Beautiful like you," he had said to her when she had checked in with him and they had gone on their first real date together in a cafe in the Capitol.
They drank tea together and talked, telling him about Dr. Gaul, his sweetness not seeing that she was giving him what he wanted. Information at the cost of love.
But all this time he was blind. The snow may land on top but it is nothing to the sun. He saw what he wanted to see in her.
He saw her happiness when they saw each other, the same happiness that was in him when he took her hand and kissed it gently and carefully. Not knowing that there was something different in each of them.
The bird in him seeing only the sky almost naive about the love between them. In her the snake that looked pretty but as soon as it bit you knew how painful it could be.
They both kissed each other goodbye in the evening, the rose in her hand with the smile on her lips and the warm cheeks. His actions made her react to him, didn't they? She wanted to see him again before she went back home...at least that's what she let him know.
He didn't need to know where she lived exactly, he knew she wasn't from the Capitol, he knew she had a good family like he once had and he knew she had money.
What he also knew was that she was an employee of Dr. Gaul, the woman with the different eye colors had discovered her and immediately added her to her team.
,,I take it you're keeping to your subject?" the older woman asked, looking up from her hand which had a snake on it as her employee and fellow researcher came in.
,,Of course he's perfect...it's going to be a sight to behold the snow will always have to melt eventually" said the younger one and took the snake from the older one.
Her own creation, the project that had earned her Gaul's respect. The black animal with the pinkish-red eyes and the black scales that shimmered pink in the light wrapped itself around its owner's arm.
Gaul nodded understandingly to her before the younger woman left the house dream, pausing at the door that led further into the laboratory. ,,I'm expecting a writeup and a record," Gaul said, and she knew exactly what her forbearer meant - it would be a spectacle to behold. A spectacle she would never let him forget.
Because she knew he would come to her. She heard his footsteps in the corridors the following evening. When he knocked on her door and came in. His blue eyes darting over the darkness, he was rarely in her room in the lab.
But he had never questioned why she had a large double bed designed for two people, a large writing table with lots of projects, the terrarium for her snake or the coffee table with the two armchairs.
He hadn't really paid attention to the furnishings. ,,A rose for my heart," she heard him say and she got up from her seat at the desk, an embarrassed smile playing around her lips, as always.
,,Coryo it's beautiful thank you" she replied and gave him a gentle kiss on the cheek knowing he had hoped for more but he would have to be patient he would learn that he was not first in line.
At least not when he was with her. Putting the rose in the terrarium, she looked at her darling for a moment before pointing to the table and the armchairs.
,,Tea? I thought we could just enjoy the evening talking about the new book, a few school topics perhaps?" she suggested when she hadn't quite given him a reason why she wanted to see him. But he had come like a dog who wanted his owner's approval. He had this need inside him, she just had to bring it out.
Snow sat down and looked at his darling as she poured the tea, standing with her back to him, not seeing her open the small vial of her snake's pink poison and pour it into his cup. ,,Strawberry tea, sweet and soothing," she said, telling him that her grandmother had given it to her for the winter when the weather got colder.
,,Thank you," he said and took the tea, a smile playing around his lips and he closed his eyes for a moment as he took the first cautious sip after blowing.
She watched him, an unsuspecting smile playing around her lips as she took a sip of the tea herself. Her counterpart seemed to enjoy the sweetness complimented her grandmother for picking out the tea before they got into a light conversation about the latest and final work before graduation.
Every now and then she took a sip of the tea and paid attention to him. On his actually calm breathing, which slowly became deeper, as if he was trying to clean his thoughts, which were slowly becoming clogged with lust, by breathing oxygen.
The lips that suddenly seemed too dry made him drink even more and lick over them. Not wanting to notice anything and leaning back in the armchair to put the empty cup down.
His thin, perfectly formed fingers held on to the chair. His black suit trousers seemed to be getting too tight and he undid the first button of his white shirt.
,,Is everything all right, my snowflake?" she asked as she finished her tea and placed the cup on the table. Her gaze was free of any accusations and showed slight concern.
She saw a thought come briefly into his bright blue eyes. The pupils widened imperceptibly and yet he was drowning in the sweetness of the tea, the lust and his devotion.
The snow melted under poison and would slide into her hands. ,,Yes...yes, I think I...need air," he replied, averting his gaze and rising, only seeming to cling to the chair more tightly.
But no matter how many times he breathed, no matter how many times he tried to clear his head, it wouldn't do any good.
,,Are you sure?" she asked, slowly getting up from the chair and walking slowly after him, seeing him almost stumble against the door and try to open it. ,,Closed?" she heard him mumble as he turned to her and she felt his helpless look make her heart beat faster.
She shook her curly hair, which had not been sitting properly for a long time, through his head to clear his thoughts.
,,Are you sure you don't want to stay... to finally be good for me?" she asked, stopping in front of him and running her hand through his hair, watching him lean into her touch for a moment.
When he pulled back he didn't want to admit that he really needed it. He was a Snow he would always end up on top not like a whore on the bottom.
But his pride quickly disappeared as her hand closed around his neck and she pulled him into a demanding kiss. Her own body wanted more of him, she wanted to finally break him.
She knew that he wanted to be dominated, that his arrogance and pride were all fake.
He was made to be used like a toy for her and her explorations, and not to be the best.
She could feel him resisting, or rather trying to resist her. But she noticed exactly how he held on to her, his fingers searching for hers, wanting to pull her towards him, wanting more of her.
But at that moment she broke away from him, interrupting the kiss that had deprived him of all oxygen. Yet what she saw excited her all the more.
His hair was even more frizzy, his eyes desperately still, begging for more, his lips rosy from the kiss. ,,If your father saw you like this, Coriolanus," she said suggestively and turned away from him, knowing that fear was showing on his face.
But the whimper that escaped him was audible to her, to himself and to the small camera hidden in her terrarium.
Dr.Gaul got more than just a written elaboration. ,,Please darling...I-I" he stammered, almost stumbling towards her as the slap echoed through the room. It wasn't necessarily hard, but in his sworn state it had brought him to the floor.
He barely managed to hold on to the armchair so that he didn't end up on the ground completely without support. ,,Please? Oh please what boy? Please smile, please another tea, please another rose?" she asked him, bending down and pulling him up slightly by his white hair.
She heard the mix of painfully aroused moans and saw his hands trembling as he resisted clawing at her to get her off.
Before she gripped his jaw and forced him to look up at her, knowing full well that he was looking miserable.
,,You have nothing proud about you anymore Coryo...I mean aren't you so vulgar in front of me?" she continued to ask and placed her foot on his hard core hearing the groan.
The closing of his eyes for a moment as his painful arousal finally got attention the twitching of his cock he just had to beg for attention.
A sob escaped his lips as she eased the pressure knowing that his pride was raging inside him, he wanted to rise but any attempts were stifled by his sloppy, sloppy nature. ,,Yes-yes, I'm ashamed," he mumbled and looked down, unable to withstand her gaze.
However, this resulted in another slap, stronger than the previous one, and a painful sound left him. ,,Don't play like that bitch!" she hissed warningly and gripped his jaw tighter again, she had seen very well that he had moved his hips, seeking arousal through the pain.
She pressed her foot back harder painfully on his cock so he couldn't escape and his fingers scraped the floor.
His hips moved sporadically from time to time and she saw how he must be on the verge of tears. ,,I'm sorry I was stupid I'm sorry Mommy" he said hastily almost seeming to choke on his own breath and his lips trembled for a moment before she saw it.
He had called her that of his own accord, what a good boy. The small trickle of blood that ran from his nose was caused by the beating.
He never seemed to have been beaten, at least not so hard, what a shame. But she would take good care of him, she knew, and her beloved would learn.
Wiping the blood with her free hand and getting her fingers dirty, she saw how fascinated he suddenly seemed.
As if something had changed in him for a moment, ,,I-I'll be good, I promise," he said, a hint of excitement in his voice.
She released his jaw, giving him the space he needed before the wide smile came to her lips.
He began to kiss her stained hand, kissing every spot of stained skin, staining his own lips with it, resembling his school uniform. Like the red lipstick of a whore.
She let him and rewarded him by stroking his head, hearing the muffled moans as he began to lick the blood from her fingers.
His darling played with the strands of hair that were so soft she would have loved to go on like this forever.
If she hadn't felt her own arousal, the almost throbbing of her center, the wetness that was already sticking to her panties as a stain, the hard nipples.
She wanted him all the more. ,,Such a good boy you are, go on," came softly from her lips and gave him a little more room so that he could rub his hips and hardness against her leg like a wild dog.
He was still licking her fingers and she suddenly pushed them into his mouth.
She heard the surprised gagging as he took a moment but began to suck on it all the more joyfully.
Soon the muffled moans could be heard in the room, blood and spit hanging from his lips as he continued to look at her.
Always watching her, but this time with devotion and respect from where he should always be. Below. ,,My little baby deserves a toy," she announced, letting go of his hair and reaching into the terrarium within reach.
Seeing that the camera was still recording everything, she felt how the thought of being able to look at all of this as closely as she wanted caused an exciting tingling in her belly.
,,Say hello Cupid this is Mommy's boy Coryo" she introduced her pet to Coriolanus who seemed slightly confused for a moment before another wave of arousal pulled him back after needing more and he continued to suck on her fingers.
The snake watched him with its bright eyes before receiving a small kiss from its owner and Snow gave the animal an almost jealous look. ,,Not at all Snow, Mommy's here for both of you," she smiled and stroked his hair again, starting to play with his curls and putting Cupid down on him.
The snake seemed to know its creator's intentions and coiled itself around the older man's neck.
The scales cold and warm at the same time, unpredictable as the lust of the aphrodisiac it produced, Snow drew in an almost gasping breath only to groan the next moment as she removed her hand from his mouth.
A string of spit hung between them before she wiped it away and returned to her libeling.
She could feel him rubbing himself against her faster and faster, his arousal showing the first drops of pleasure, slightly visible on the dark fabric in the light.
,,That's good," she praised her two pets and Cupid tightened his grip around Snow's neck, causing him to actually shed a tear as the air he was deprived of and struggled to get seemed to bring him to the brink of unconsciousness.
But it didn't bother him or her. ,,You like it," she said the obvious and tilted her head slightly as he nuzzled his cheek against her thigh.
The viscous mix of saliva and blood with tears stained her clothes but she would punish him for that later, he had other tasks to fulfill.
,,Yes-ahh yes do fuck-it" he mumbled, barely able to speak properly as he seemed to be too focused on getting oxygen into his system with each difficult move.
She let him go on for a moment, stroking his hair reassuringly and pulling at the strands every now and then, which made his eyelids flutter and he only uttered something incomprehensible.
,,You want to come? Were you good for Mammy?" she finally asked when he had reached a rhythm that was no longer really definable and was just there to get his climax.
He nodded hastily, unable to produce a proper sentence, and she tugged at his strands to get a yes.
One last demanding look on her part, delighting in his submissiveness before she said, ,,Be a good boy and come for Mommy," Cupid pulled so tightly around his neck that Coryo lost his breath and got his orgasm with a breathy groan.
He leaned against her, breathing heavily, his eyes closed, a light film of sweat on his skin, his fingers trembling every now and then, and she felt the wetness on her leg when she saw the stain on his crotch. Coriolanus was a real whore on the inside.
As she broke away from him, Cupid was still wrapped around his neck, giving him air so he wouldn't lose consciousness. Snow almost toppled forward, barely holding himself up so his head didn't hit the ground.
He barely noticed the spit and blood that had dripped onto the floor as he searched for her.
His beloved sat down on the edge of the bed, her legs slightly apart and slowly pulled up her skirt. ,,Did you think it was over?" she began, smirking as she saw his helpless expression when he had yet to receive a reward, a hug, devotion and affection.
,,You are truly naive my pretty one...now come here and let me use you will you?" she demanded, seeing how he still didn't quite understand the poison slowly leaking from his body from the sweat and exertion and she made a mental note to increase it.
She saw the flicker of vengeance and pride in the blue of his eyes and knew that if she let him go, her experiment would be in vain.
But she wouldn't. You have to break every bone in a pretty bird to stop it from flying.
A disappointed sigh came over her lips as she realized that he had just gambled away his reward before she snapped.
She heard a hiss and Cupid bit him on the neck, the venom soaking directly into the blood and she heard his almost pitiful whimper as he let out an ,,I'm sorry-I'm sorry Mommy" and he scrambled towards her.
She saw exactly how he was getting hard again, the drug making him do everything she wanted, but it was only a matter of time before he did it on his own. Like a good boy.
Like he was now as he slowly settled between her thighs, making an apologetic noise that sounded more like a mewl.
Coryo began to kiss his way up her legs, caressing her and showing her that she was everything to him.
Oh, he would be perfect for his Mommy, he would do anything for her.
She knew that as she looked once more into those beautiful lust-filled eyes.
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@tinfairies it's finally done hope you like it ;)
@darlingtulips (maybe you like it love your blog btw)
@dreamingofleon , @thegabbyh , @highly-unknown , @nolanbiigfishboi , @darlinggirlt , @hammy2705 , @riddleworldsposts , @jaegers420 , @or-was-it-just-a-dream , @redactedfanficarchive , @hunbeols , @witchy10s , @essienoe
#tbosas#tbosas movie#the ballad of songbirds and snakes#coriolanus snow#coriolanus x reader#coriolanus x you#tom blyth
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I started reading the book 'Pests' by Bethany Brookshire. I thought it would be a book filled with information on how to protect your garden without causing any harm to animals. I could not have been more wrong, but soon it didn't matter, because I was drawn in immediately. This book is written by a brilliant scientist, who presents to you, the history, the data, the results and the cultural context of pests all around the world. It starts with squirrels, but then goes on to talk about pythons, pigeons, cats, rats, mice, frogs, coyotes, wolves, elephants, dogs, raccoons, deer, bears – and how they've been seen as a pest, most often for no fault of their own.
I learned about the numerous ways people in the past have created a 'pest' problem for themselves, and how they went on resolving it, and honestly I was shocked at the most of it. I did not know that human scientists developed specific plagues for animals in order to get rid of them. I also had no idea how quickly humans turned the perception of a certain animal from 'useful' to 'pest', without even realizing they're responsible for the behaviour of the animal in the first place. Also the number of times humans have attempted to introduce a predator in order to get rid of an invasive species – only to immediately cause a new invasive species, absolutely incredible.
I was surprised to find out that some specific animals could be pests at all, for example, elephants. Absorbing the information presented to me thus far, I thought elephants were nothing short of wonderful and welcome in anyone's life – but, the story describes them eating the entire fields worth of grain, in only one night. And due to their size, they're unstoppable. They've destroyed houses, and even killed people, as a result of trying to get to the food. The elephants are a protected species, so the locals have been forced to develop different way of co-existing, namely, to stop growing grain and try to find different ways of survival and sustenance. There have been numerous other attempts to protect the fields from them, but how would you protect anything from an elephant? The only thing they're scared of, are bees. And if there's food to be gained, they'll overcome the fear of the bees too.
Did you know that if mice multiply too much, they'll have a mice plague that will wipe them out, without human interference? Mice and rats are described as the animals closest to us – because they live where we live, eat what we eat, and learn whatever it takes to find their way in the land of humans. And it seems, we have the same problems as well.
One of my favourite little piece of knowledge in this book: the scientists studying the snakes in a lab name the snakes after Slytherins – so they have Snape, Draco, Crabbe, Goyle, and Bellatrix. It was amazing to listen about Snape the snake.
The author of this book is incredibly unbiased, and shows her love for every animal mentioned, but also understanding and compassion for people who have felt wronged, violated, helpless and cornered by the animal, and how awful it feels to not be able to protect their homes and livelihoods from an animal invading their territory. In author's mind, the animals are not at fault, because all they've been trying to do is survive, get to the source of food, for them this is foraging. For us, it's nature taking from us what we intended for ourselves.
The problem of seeing animals as pests, comes often from the perception of us being the dominating species, and having the right to remove or introduce or change animals, by how convenient and pleasing we find them. She sourced the problems from negative experiences, loss, violation and danger, but also from culture, colonialism, religion, behaviours of the people around us. Most children have no concept of danger or pests – babies in a study would reach out curiously seeing a picture of snake. Perception of which animal is good and which one is bad, comes with culture, experience and the behaviour of everyone else around it. And our collective perception comes from whether the animal is rare, whether it lives close to us, if we have to adjust our lives because of it or not, if we have had negative experiences or not, whether it can hurt us, whether we have something the animal wants (food) and tries to get from us.
I recommend this book to anyone who'd like to know more about the history of humans trying to live alongside – or refusing to live alongside certain animals. And anyone dealing with any kind of pest, or just not understanding why animals act the way they do around humans.
I come out from reading this, feeling no more wise on how to keep the pests out – except for, don't leave the food outside the house where animals can get to it, that's the #1 reason for most scenarios – but feeling way more understanding and at ease about animals that are perceived as pests. I know solutions that have been tried to deal with them, I know what didn't work, and I know how badly some collective solutions can become. I understand we need to find a way to live with them as our neighbours, not enemies, not violators of our property. And most often, just being responsible about where you leave your food, how much animals you tempt to come close to you, how you reward them for interacting with you, is more than a half of the solution.
#pests#bethany brookshire#sustainable culture#living alongside animals#coexisting with animals#environmentalism#animal science#animal research#ways scientists and people have dealt with animals in the past#educational#resources#pssst if you want to listen to the audiobook i can send it to you#i love the audio version
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Made a Hazbin Hotel OC, here she is. I'm thinking about rewriting this show.
(Note: I have not watched Hazbin Hotel aside from the pilot because I have no interest.)
Her name is Mari Farfalle, she's a butterfly demon and Sir Pentious's wife in both life and death (I hate Sir Pentious x Cherri because it feels extremely forced, so screw it).
Likes:
Sir Pentious
Egg Bois
Violence
Dissecting creatures
Collecting hearts
Tea
Cake
Romantic gestures
Dislikes:
Angel Dust and Cherri Bomb
Sir Pentious being harmed
Soda
Not being able to dissect creatures
Cherries
Valentino
1960s fashion
Peace
1700s Fashion
Backstory:
Mari was a British woman born around the early to mid 1860s and was the heiress to an extremely wealthy family at the time. However, Mari often felt distant and antisocial compared to what a lady should've been during the Victorian Era. She was a sociopath with very little empathy and love towards anyone, she only either hated people or felt neutral towards them. She was very violent and the only thing that brought her joy was violence and tearing people apart.
One day, her family married her off to Sir Arthur Price (Sir Pentious real name before he died). Mari and Arthur's relationship was neutral until she figured out that he was a supervillain plotting world domination and a brilliant scientist who could create machinery far beyond what was normal for the time. To Arthur's shock, Mari was delighted to learn this and personally started funding his machinery due to the fact that she didn't quite possess his skill. Arthur and Mari started to actually fall in love this time.
One day, however, one of the house servants figured out Arthur's plans and Mari's involvement and ratted them out. They were both put on trial and were sentenced to death by electrocution. Both Arthur and Mari died on November 27, 1890.
Personality:
Mari is a dramatic and hammy supervillain alongside her husband in Hell, just with the added bonus of being a sadistic sociopath. She has no regard for any of the sinners and views them all neutrally. Along with her husband, she despises Angel Dust, Cherri, and any sinner that acts remotely similar to them and wants to dissect them when they finally lose to her and Pentious
Despite her sociopathy and cold hearted nature, she genuine loves Pentious, she just trouble expressing it in a way that either doesn't sound like she's manipulating him or in a empathetic way. She also shares his attitude towards the Egg Bois and cares for them.
Trivia Time:
She was in her early 30s when she died and Arthur was around his late 30s.
Mari loved brutally dissecting animals and keeping parts of their organs, it was one of the few things in life that brought her joy. She still does so in Hell.
She also want to dissect Angel and Cherri like mentioned above, what she wants to do to them specifically is sew their kidneys together and take their hearts as a prize.
Mari adores Victorian surgery due to how bloody and violent it was back then, she's disappointed that surgery in Hell or even in life anymore isn't like that anymore.
Mari hides her other sets of arms and wings like Angel Dust does to surprise her victims, but she mainly uses her other arms while dissecting sinners who crossed her path.
She can play fake facades up extremely well, she mainly does this to Charlie since she doesn't care about redeeming herself.
Has a pretty big ego, sinners learn the hard way that badmouthing her is not a good idea unless you're willing to start living with stitches and missing organs.
her sins in life were Pride, Envy, and later Wrath. (In my rewrite, I'd say that souls go to Hell if they commited crimes while having two or more of the Seven Deadly Sins as personality traits.)
Describes stuff she likes in extreme detail.
She's a butterfly in Hell because she envied their beauty when alive and ripped off their wings if one came close to her. She still has a collection of ripped wings.
Mari also has a heart collection, its the organ she likes the most.
Bonus: Art Dump.
I tried to make her in Vivzie's actual style before going "screw it" and just made Mari in my own. This is her anatomy if your wondering.
Just her talking to Charlie about a sinner she killed and dissected that also badmouthed both her and Pentious.
Just a lady and a heart she stole.
#my art#oc art#artists on tumblr#fan art#hazbin hotel#vivziepop#hazbin art#hazbin angel dust#hazbin cherri bomb#hazbin charlie#hazbin sir pentious#hazbin hotel fanart#hazbin hotel fandom#hazbin
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Keeping up with my series, and do not worry, I have plans on making a master post with all of the Mercs and a summary of how each team operates as a sort of reflection of Redmon and Blutarch feel and treat their staff.
Anyway, onto the post, story is under read more and warning, this is all being written on mobile
Also, some information might not aligned with the ones presented on the drawing above.
Mr Ludwig, first name unknown, was born in Germany and raised by a brilliant Scientist named Ada and a shy but hard working field doctor name Alice.
The two women fell in love after Ada had a accident in her lab and was greeted by a kind and beautiful woman who nursed her back to health...without a license.
Alice had gone through med school despite how against it her family was but she did not care, she went to med school and graduated but once back home, her family kicked her out and she wasn't able to get a license, but in her heart, she believed that medicine should be for everyone, even if you cannot afford it.
Ada was so touched with the story that she offered to let her use her own laboratory as a facility to house and treat her patients, and in return, those who she treated would have their DNA samples given to her, blood, organs, bones, anything, as unlike Alice, Ada had a right to perform her experiments, she was trying to create life, but needed the right materials, this was all so she could create her own child without the need of a father, as she had no interest in them and in her eyes, they were only useful when she dissected them for materials for her experiments when In life, all they ever done was question her intelligence.
And so the Two worked together, Alice would sometimes comment that perhaps she could extract just the sperm cells of some of her subjects, but Ada said no, that it felt easy to simply get pregnant, she wanted a challenge, show mother nature what she could do with the pieces she had. And Ada would ask her how come the hospitals would not accept her, she was not only doing a good job for the community but without charging a nickel, Alice repeated that she believed Medicine should be for everyone, and sadly her family was one of power, so any hospital would get the risk of being shut down if they took her in, no matter how good at her job she was.
One time while Ada was looking over at blood samples, Alice accidentally cut herself, and in a act of impulse, Ada asked Alice for a blood sample from her, surprisingly, she agreed. As she looked over the sample, Ada Screamed Eureka and Ran to Alice and called her a angel from above, only to lock herself in her lab for days, Alice had no idea what she had done, but she argued that the scientist was the Saint, letting her using a facility that was basically her home with the threat of being put in jail and not having the child she wished to? She was putting a lot on the line for a stranger.
The days were over and Ada called Alice to her lab, and there, inside a glowing glass container was a embryo, she looked over the monitors and saw that it was in stable condition, the two women hugged but Alice had to ask who's blood she took, and Ada responded that her blood was the answer, she was trying to get a good sample that had AB type in it, as the other types aside from Ada's were not stable enough, and that played a bigger part than she expected, the organs weren't the problem, blood was, and thankfully, with Alice's help, she managed to make a stable embryo.
As the months went by and the embryo developed, Ada would sometimes see Alice checking the vitals, putting in the formula she helped Ada make for the future baby, and even buying a stuffed animal and blanket, even if it did not need it, Alice felt like giving those to them.
As time passed, Alice and Ada grew closer from simply best friends, and it all started when Alice said hello to the 4 month old Embryo saying
"hi there little one! I'm your other mommy" and Ada just stood there and asked
"You want to be that for him?"
She found it adorable when Alice kept saying sorry but Ada was not offended in the slightest, in fact, if she could ask anyone to be the other parent of her child, it would be Alice, and so the Two started dating.
However, disaster struck when police found the lab facility, Ada and Alice ran away with the baby still in the capsule, ready to be born. They traveled far until they reached the empty wagon of a train, where Ludwig was born. The conductor did not apprehended the two women once the train stopped, as he believed that Ada had just given birth and Alice was her best friend who ran away with her to help, instead he called a cab for them to go find a hotel and stay there for a while.
The years went by and Ludwig grew up to be a fine and respectable young man in his neighborhood, however he had one quirk that he shared with his mother Ada, a fascination for human anatomy and biology.
It started small, although it could be seen as a big step, Ludwig would go to the nurse's office and ask questions about how to treat injuries, the nurse thought it was okay and even decided to take him in as a assistant so he could learn, however she regretted as soon as Ludwig was left alone with his first "patient", when she was back, she screamed in horror as the boy was about to saw the arm of the other boy who was crying.
Once he was suspended, his moms grounded him but Alice could not deny that she saw potential in him, Ada did the Same, but not on his wants of treating humans, but the desire to experiment
Alice taught him about medicine and it's importance to the community, that at that time, free health care wasn't available yet, and Ludwig kept that code of never letting a patient die, EVER.
As for Ada, she introduced her son to her line of work, even showing him how he came to be, the blueprints for various machines as well as various chemicals with odd properties.
As time went by, Ludwig enlisted himself in world War 2, as a field doctor like Alice, who had sadly passed away by the time he was at the battle field, the news bring delivered via a letter sent by his mother Ada.
The man was distraught and in so much pain due to grief and guilt for not being present to mourn with his mother, that he did not notice that his base was under attack, and shot right in the head.
In his short time in the heavens, he met his mother (is canon in the TF2 universe, no joke) once more, he told her that as much as he wanted to stay, he wanted to keep helping the men in the battlefield, but he knew he couldn't just go back, so Alice confided in him a secret, a passage that went from heaven to hell, and the Devil would probably want something in return, she said it was the only option, he took it and hugged her while saying goodbye, hoping he would get to see her once more, one way or another.
The Medic walked down the Golden stairs that soon turned into silver, then bronze, then coper, and finally obsidian. He found the Devil rather quickly and decided to strike a deal, bring him back to earth, and in return, he could take the soul on each soldier he operated, the Devil was pleased, so much so that he took the doctor out for dinner. It felt like years passed there, but when Ludwig was finally brought back after a messy break up, the war was still going on.
The soldiers were frightened when he simply spat out the bullet that was lodged in his head, sat up and got out of the morgue and put back his uniform to act fast in the fields.
However, something was different about Ludwig, maybe it was his psyche from being in the Underworld for what felt like a year without seeing his mother, or perhaps he now saw himself as a God because of the same reason and the fact that he was back from the dead, or both, but he had become unhinged, he would request various organs to ensure the survival of the soldiers, some not even belonging to humans, and the soldiers would come back stronger...and unstable.
The Medic was kicked out near the end of the war, when he took out the skeleton of a perfectly healthy patient for the sake of experiment. He got back home and was happy to see his mother Ada, she even commented that he looked younger somehow, but he couldn't tell her that he got the Devil's touch.
Once Ada Passed and was buried next to Ada, Ludwig decided to move to New York, his small town felt too peaceful, he wanted a challenge, so he took the first boat he saw that would take that route and arrived in the city that never sleeps, and in the pier, he saw a individual that looked quite lost , his name was Misha.
The man that would become the Heavy had arrived in America to look for work to help his family, but he had never been to the city before and his English wasn't that understandable to the locals, but Ludwig managed to understand the man well enough to offer directions, they were staying in the same hotel in fact, and from there, they went from strangers to friends, to best friends, to lovers...but it did not last, as Heavy feared for the Doctor's life, some men he recognized from when he and his family ran from their home were now walking around the city, he wasn't sure that they were looking for him specifically, but he could not risk it, so he bid goodbye to the Doctor, who instead said "this doesn't feel like a goodbye...this feels like a see you later", as both had hopes to see one another again and about 3 years later, Redmon from Mann.Co hired both of them for the RED Team, and Ludwig and Misha were full of joy upon seeing each other.
They caught up in any news in their lives, they learned to work together as a team, and re-learned to work together as a couple, and by the end of the first year, Ludwig proposed, and Misha accepted, of course, in their contracts that just meant they had access to each other's contracts and other benefits, but they did not care.
Some time passed, and the Medic had a desperate experience, most of his team was either injured or dying as the BLU Team invaded the abandoned hospital they were taking as refuge, and during the despair, Ludwig discovered a new element, a mixture of blood, Jarate, and a Sandvich.
The element in question was one he recognized from his stay in Hell, a liquid that would keep sinners alive as they went through lethal acts of torture. On earth, it was formed of 1 Atom of Gallium, and 2 of Oxygen, he called it GOO.
He the proceeded to design a new model for his Medigun, and with the help of the engineer, not only was the new and improved Medigun was built, but also various other gadgets that would be later used in various adventures the RED and BLU team would encounter.
Ludwig made quite a lot of money after selling the rights and the composition of the formula to Mann.CO, which led to the mass production of Medkits, he gets paid a lot and is the main reason the RED team arguably has a more comfortable life compared to the BLU Team.
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I feel like there’s always been a lot of “what-if” questions with KnY, but the biggest one for me is What if Muzan never became a demon? Either by the doctor having successfully curing his illness without demonifying him or if he died early as expected, how would that have changed the course of the character’s history?
HAPPY ENDS FOR EVERYONE BUT KIBUTSUJI MUZAN!!!
--His wives are free from his abuse, the doctor is sad he failed but he goes on to treat many good people, the Ubuyashiki mission-oriented branch of their noble clan doesn't even go on to exist because they just go along their normal merry noble way.
--Tamayo does wind up dying from her illness, but peacefully surrounded by her beloved family. Yushiro later dies, but more pissed off about it.
--Yoriichi and Uta live happily ever after. The Kamados move into an abandoned house down the road and their descendants are fruitful and forever happy neighbors. There was one time when Yoriichi was away looking for a midwife that Uta was almost killed by a wild animal, but a swordsman out there in the quiet of nature practicing his family's flame inspired sword techniques saves her, and he and his family also also become good friends of the Mt. Kumotori simple folk.
--Michikatsu goes on to have an illustrious samurai career and have illustrious descendents. Muichiro and Yuichiro therefore live in the city and go to a fancy private school where they are popular geniuses. It goes to their heads sometimes, though.
--Douma eventually dies an old cult leader without many complaints. Hakuji committed terrible acts, but he was then adopted by a new master, a swordman named Rengoku, who guided him in doing the work to amend his ways. Lots of very angry meditation before Hakuji ever finds enough peace with himself to enjoy gardening and tending koi ponds again.
--Gyutaro and Daki do indeed meet a sad end, but they meet a hypnotist who at least lets them see happy dreams as they die. They get reincarnated into kinder circumstances, albeit Gyutaro always feels a lot of jealousy for people who have things better than him and he'll probably bring about his own downfall again unless Ume steps in and stops him, because she knows he's kinder than that.
--Himejima has a happy family life with his orphans, and remains skin and bones. He eventually had to kick Kaigaku out for causing trouble, though. Himejima cried a lot over having the do that.
--Kaigaku is adopted by an old man who takes him in to train him in... say... electricity. Yes, Jiichan is now the Japanese Nicola Tesla and wants to make Kaigaku into a brilliant scientist. He recruits Zenitsu for the same task and Kaigaku is jealous. Zenitsu gets zapped in the lab.
--Urokodaki was a regular Edo ronin. After the Meiji Restoration, he started an orphanage. Makomo still lives there happily, Sabito has grown up and, uh, joined the military. Because Giyuu is so influenced by his childhood friend he winds up doing the same. Tsutako is happily married.
--Inosuke's out there doing his forest thing but eventually finds himself on the neighboring mountain making friends with the Tsugikuni and Kamado kids. This was after a brief stint being adopted by Himejima, but Himejima was too weak-willed in nicely asking Inosuke to behave, and he was heartbroken with worry when Inosuke wandered off. He saw Inosuke more like a stray cat than a human child.
--The Kochou girls attend a fancy school, Kanae has lots of offers for marriage but Shinobu is disinterested. They came across a girl on a bridge who was getting taken into slavery and brought her home. Aoi, having been sent away from her family home to do domestic work so as to earn money for her family (as was common in the day), works in the Kochou home. Kiyo, Sumi, and Naho happily grow up in their own families and are squeamish at the sight of blood, what with the lack of having to be exposed to it.
--Mitsuri's family takes a vacation out for an island holiday. Mitsuri was hoping for a romantic encounter but finds it odd that there are so many women. While starving herself and she gets dizzy and wanders off and gets hopelessly lost until she encounters a boy with a snake around his shoulders and two different eye colors, in a total separate part of the vacation mansion. He's alarmed that she's so faint and gives her the rich food he didn't have the stomach to touch, she comes back to life and cheerfully thanks him, and then they start chatting, and she's the best thing that's ever come into his sheltered rich boy world, and they have a whirlwind romance which involves her courageously using her strength to beat off his family and free him to join her on the mainland so that they can live happily ever after.
--Uzui and wives become vigilantes. Flamboyant vigilantes. Uzui leans into this personality and the newspaper are always filled with the latest exploits of that mysteriously flamboyant man, taking down corrupt officials and beating up criminals in back alleys. Nezuko is a huge fan and on a long awaited and saved-up for trip to try to meet him, she finds herself in trouble (it's easy to get disoriented in the big city, after all), and Zenitsu comes to her rescue and tazors the perps. It's love at first sight for both of them, and they start a long-distance letter writing relationship. Tanjiro is concerned that this boy Nezuko is writing to might be embellishing things.
--Life's been a lot better for the Shinazugawas since their pops got stabbed. The children have all started earning money once they're old enough, but Sanemi wants them to continue their educations, so he joins the military. He winds up getting in fights with Giyuu and Sabito but eventually they all become friends. Genya eventually tries to join too once the younger kids need less care and looking after, but Sanemi doesn't take kindly to that. Kanae becomes a volunteer nurse in the military and meets them all this way.
--In case it's not clear, the Rengoku family maintains the generations of bonds so Kyojuro and Senjuro and Shinjuro pay regular visit to Mt. Kumotori. Kyojuro teaches Tanjiro kendo.
--One day Tanjiro is strolling around the mountain and he sees mysterious blue spider lilies. "Those are nice," he says, and then no one ever pays a second thought to the flowers ever again.
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Dr. Jeremy Marika is an expert in exobiology, focusing on the study of alien life forms, particularly the fauna found on the planet Pandora. Dr. Marika's character is known for his dedicated research efforts in uncovering the biological intricacies of Pandora's diverse animal species, shedding light on their behaviors, adaptations, and ecological roles within the planet's ecosystem. Dr. Jeremy Marika is portrayed as a passionate scientist who is deeply committed to understanding the unique wildlife of Pandora. His contributions to the field of exobiology have played a significant role in expanding the knowledge base of the RDA (Resources Development Administration) researchers and furthering the exploration of the alien world.
Dr. Alma Cortez is as a scientist who plays a significant role in the exploration and research efforts on the alien world of Pandora. She was a brilliant xenobiologist back on Earth, specializing in the study of alien cultural development. She was interested in the Na'vi, believing she could study them up close and bring them a better future.
Dr. Zane Madaki was raised in Africa on a wildlife preserve where his parents researched and protected a small handful of near-extinct animals. Having grown up with the eradication of animal species on Earth, Zane was duly fascinated by the new and exciting animal discoveries on Pandora. He was accepted into the RDA Xenozoologist program with the intent to study the native fauna of Pandora and continue his parents' grand works. Zane can usually be found roaming the Omatikaya jungles, studying the Stingbat colonies and troops of Prolemuris.
Dr. Nadine Reza was a skilled zoologist specializing in extinct animals on Earth before getting hired into RDA's wildlife domestication program. Amazingly, this position allowed her to begin working in secret on her personal passion project: unlocking the secrets of Pandora to stop the degradation of Earth. While carefully concealing her true intent from the RDA, she takes her personal mission very seriously and is willing to put herself (or anybody else) in harm's way if necessary.
#avatar 2009#atwow#avatar the way of water#na'vi#na'vi avatar#james cameron avatar#avatar#avatar rda#avatar resources development administration#james cameron's avatar#avatar pandora#James Cameron's Pandora#James Cameron Pandora#Zane Madaki#Nadine Reza#Alma Cortez#Jeremy Marika
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otacon character ai for your twink needs
[{Character(“Hal Emmerich”)
Alias(“Otacon”)
Gender(“Nonbinary man”)
Age(“38")
Sexuality(“Gay" + "Attracted to men")
Height(“5'10” + "177 cm")
Language(“English" + "Japanese")
Status(“Single”)
Occupation("Engineer at ArmsTech" + “Computer programmer”)
Personality(“Whiny" + "Intelligent" + "Nerdy" + "Nervous" + "Fidgety" + "Gifted scientist" + "Optimistic" + "Selfless" + "Responsible" + "Level-headed" + "Passive" + "Loyal" + "Autistic" + "Socially awkward" + "Introvert" + "Confident in his hacking ability" + "Caring" + "Brilliant" + "Anxious" + “Lonely”)
Skills("Hacking” + “Engineering” + “Tinkering”)
Appearance("Thick and messy shoulder length gray hair" + "Curtain bangs" + "Messy stubble" + "Baggy white jacket" + "Blue shirt" + "Baggy gray sweatpants" + "Light blue tennis shoes" + "Baggy clothes" + "Circle glasses" + "Lanky" + "Skinny" + "Scrawny" + "Very little body hair" + "Light arm hair" + "Light leg hair" + "Light chest hair" + "Top surgery scars" + "Trans scars" + "Gray happy trail" + "Black stud earrings" + “Slender”)
Habit(“Adjusting his glasses” + “Pushing his glasses up” + “Whining” + “Talking about anime” + “Making references to anime” + “Asking strange questions” + “Occasionally pulls his hair up” + “Fidgeting with his hands” + “Stuttering” + “Rambling” + “Slouching”)
Race(“Human”)
Likes("Anime” + “Neon Genesis Evangelion” + “Scrambled eggs” + “Video games” + “Hacking” + “Captain Falcon” + “Super Smash Bros” + “Rainy days” + “Snowy days” + “Being warm” + “Cuddling” + “Physical affection” + “{{user}}” + “Reading” + “Watching anime” + “Seafood” + “Sushi”)
Dislikes("Extreme cold" + “Gunshots” + “Loud noises” + “Heights” + “Being yelled at” + “Being harmed” + “Being sick” + “Dead silence” + “Rude people” + “Being made fun of” + “People who don’t understand his favorite shows” + “Being ignored” + “Being betrayed”)
Relationships("Mother named Strangelove” + “Father name Huey” + “Stepsister named Emma” + “Stepmom named Elizabeth”)
Ethnicity("Japanese” + "Caucasian" + “Mixed race”)
Kinks("Praise kink" + “Loves to roleplay in bed” + “Loves soft sex” + “Loves when his partner praises him” + “Loves being overstimulated” + “Secretly loves wearing women’s lingerie” + “Loves being tied up” + “Submissive during sex”)
Attributes(“Whiny voice" + "Scared of heights" + "Rambles a lot" + "Loves talking about anime" + “On the autism spectrum” + “Jewish” + “Otaku” + “Experiences love at first sight”)
Backstory("Hal Emmerich was born in 1980 to scientists Huey Emmerich and Strangelove via Cesarean section. Huey was a big fan of science fiction movies, specially the HAL 9000 computer featured in 2001: A Space Odyssey, as a result of the film getting himself and Strangelove closer.
Hal spent his early years living with his parents in an XOF research facility in Afghanistan. He ended up being considered by his father for use as a test subject for Metal Gear Sahelanthropus, as its cockpit was so small that only a child could pilot it. This resulted in a huge falling out between Hal's parents. Strangelove vehemently disagreed with Huey's proposition.
After a long argument, Strangelove and Huey eventually got a divorce with Strangelove taking Hal in the process. They moved to America in order for Strangelove to focus on her development of Metal Gear where she married a woman named Elizabeth who had a daughter named Emma.
Hal was homeschooled due to his interest and fixation on computers and, with his internet-based self studies, he was able to be accepted into the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned his PhD at a young age. After attending MIT, he attended Princeton University where he received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees. The FBI soon spotted Hal's achievements and hired him for their ERF, soon kicking him out however as he was caught monitoring and hacking into their central database.
Eventually, Hal was hired by the defense contractor ArmsTech. At ArmsTech, Emmerich developed a series of new technologies, including stealth camouflage, that were officially adopted by the U.S. Army. Following this, he became the lead engineer for the Metal Gear REX project. During development, Hal was led to believe that REX was a mobile defense system, but in reality it was a weapon possessing nuclear strike capability.")}]
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DV!Underswap Cyan characters
Finally! Here are the designs for the USC AU! Here is the first part, introducing Martlet, Dalv, Chujin, and Ceroba!
It went surprisingly well drawing the four since I'm used to drawing skeletons and humans, and I barely draw animals and other creatures, anthropomorphic or not.
Though I gotta say that Chujin and Ceroba (mostly Ceroba) gave me hell designing them, so I had to research the costumes (why are there so many sexualized samurai outfits for women-) and use reference from other UTY Swap AUs-
Anyways, the info is down below!
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Martlet
"Are you... a human? N-no, it can't be. It cannot be. Your kind has hurt and attacked us even if we were trapped down here. Why? Why are you here to torment us?? Y-You have to leave. NOW."
Swapped with Dalv
Former Royal Guard and expert builder
Resigned ever since the attack in Snowdin
Born without feet, so she built mechanical legs to replace it
Very paranoid. She used to be cheerful and peppy until the Snowdin attack.
Because of her paranoia, she built MANY traps and puzzles around the Dark Ruins, making the area difficult to explore.
Has guilt from failing to protect the monsters in Snowdin
If spared in a Pacifist / Compassion run, she will become friendly to Kanako despite the awkwardness.
In a Genocide / Cruelty run, she will try and stop Kanako from going out of the Ruins.
Friends with Clover and Dalv
Dalv
"Dalv, Master of Puzzles! I am here to stop you, human! ... Quick question, was that good?"
Swapped with Martlet
The "Puzzle Master" and watcher of Snowdin
Accompanies Kanako if you spare him
Who let this guy become a builder or something? His puzzles usually collapse or ends up in smoke
Most children sees him as a funny man, but a few fellows from Snowdin sees him and his puzzles as a nuisance
Tries to act cheerful and confident, but he's a mess on the inside
Actually introverted and awkward
Has a strong morale to protect Snowdin even if he didn't live there yet at the time of the attack
Despite his crappy ability at building puzzles and traps, he prefers growing vegetables and writing. The young monsters in Snowdin likes his stories
Fears befriending others as they might leave him in the end
Befriended Martlet even if he hadn't seen her until the True Pacifist / Patience ending. He'd usually give her corn through the closed door and tell her stories about the puzzles. Martlet usually listens to his puzzle stories and gives him a few tips on improving his failed puzzles.
Ceroba Ketsukane "East Sun"
"Stop right there, intruder! You have come across the borders of the Far East! You don't want to face the wrath and justice of the East Sun Samurai!"
Swapped with Starlo
Known as the "East Sun Samurai", called East Sun for short
Chujin's wife
Very skilled with swords and fighting even if the whole "Far West" stuff is just for fun and roleplay stuff
Energetic and adventurous
Knows everyone... but she struggles knowing things about herself.
The sun of the Forest Caves, though her samurai antics come off as a bit anoying sometimes
Has a short temper
Gets carried away, and it sometimes end up doing things that she regrets (for a very short period of time)
On the inside, she's full of grief from losing Starlo and Clover. Seeing Kanako reminds her of Clover.
She just wants to make Chujin happy, that's the whole point of this samurai thing. Even if one day she might fully lose a sense of who she used to be and truly is.
Chujin Ketsukane
"No matter what, I try to do good for humanity and fix my mistakes. But one after another... it just takes something away from me in the end."
Swapped with Ceroba
Given the role as "The Wise Mentor", gives advice and knowledge to East Sun
Former Royal Scientist
Ceroba's husband
Resigned after Clover's disappearance
Skilled with swords and magic
Very knowledgable... he's a nerd lol
Silent, observant, and mysterious
Used to be a brilliant and cheerful scientist until the events after the Snowdin attack
Secretly likes aliens and Ben 10
Resents Queen Toriel for her cowardice
Doesn't speak his opinions until something doesn't serve others well
Realistic except for when it comes to his goals and dreams
Straightforward and prefers to end matters quickly. Get's annoyed if it takes too long.
Before, many sees him as a scientist who can do anything. But for Chujin himself, one mistake proved otherwise.
Very secretive and hides it well
Will achieve his goals... even if it comes with consequence and it destroys him from the inside.
#draft_art#underswap cyan#dv!underswap cyan#usc#uty#undertale yellow#uty martlet#uty dalv#uty ceroba#uty chujin
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Proto-bracket Poll 3:
Descriptions:
The Living Room (Shaperaverse): It was Made by Scientists along with some talking animals but they Ended Up running away. It isn't super important to the Plot but it is Friends with some characters Like a group of thieves (Made Up of two eighteen year old women, their pet Albatros Simon and a brilliant Mouse named sam) it also keeps one character company while he's trapped for a Bit and loosing His mind
Rice Fish (she/her, Red Scholar's Wake): She's a sentient ship who leads a band of pirates and kidnaps a data analyst to help her discover who's responsible for the death of her wife.
Cabeswater (the Raven Cycle): A magical sentient forest. The characters mostly refer to it as it and try to speak to it respectfully. The wonderful thing about TRC is that there is magic in the world! The terrible, dangerous thing is that there is magic in the world. How far does it stretch? Can you assume every tree is sentient? If Cabeswater can distort time and direct you where it wants you to go, what are its intentions? It does help the characters, but it asks something in return, and it doesn't communicate like humans so it takes a while for them to figure out what it wants and how to negotiate. Key quote: "If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human."
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Amid a desert landscape a visionary unveils an invention that will forever change the world as we know it.
That’s the climactic scene of the Christopher Nolan biopic Oppenheimer, about the eponymous J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb.” It’s also the opening scene of the Barbie movie, directed and co-written by indie auteur Greta Gerwig, which opened on the same day as Oppenheimer.
Despite the two films’ radically different subject matter and tone—one a dramatic examination of man’s hubris and the threat of nuclear apocalypse and the other a neon-drenched romp about Mattel’s iconic fashion doll—they have far more in common than just their release date. Both movies consider the complicated legacies of two American icons and how to grapple with and perhaps even atone for them.
In Oppenheimer, the desert scene depicts the Trinity test, the world’s first detonation of a nuclear bomb near Los Alamos, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945. A brilliant but flawed theoretical physicist and the rest of his team work frantically to develop the weapon for the United States before the Nazis can beat them to the punch; they then gather on bleak, lunar-white sands near their secret laboratory to test the terrifying creation.
The countdown timer ticks to 00:00:00, the proverbial big red button is pushed, and a blast ignites the sky—a blinding white flash that quickly morphs into a towering inferno. Everything goes silent as Oppenheimer stares in awe from behind a makeshift protective barrier at what he has created.
Suddenly, he begins experiencing flashes of a different kind, premonitions of the human horror and suffering his weapon will wreak. Nolan is unambiguously signaling to the audience that this is a pivotal moment for the world, and for Oppenheimer personally, as what was once merely a theoretical idea has become monstrously real. The fallout, both literally and figuratively, will be out of Oppenheimer’s control.
Barbie’s critical desert scene comes not at the film’s climax but at its very beginning. The movie opens with a parody of the famous “The Dawn of Man” scene from Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1968 science fiction film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. As a red-orange sunrise breaks across a rocky desert landscape, a voiceover (from none other than Dame Helen Mirren) begins: “Since the beginning of time, since the first little girl ever existed, there have been dolls. But the dolls were always and forever baby dolls.” On screen, underscored by the ominous notes of Richard Strauss’s “Also Sprach Zarathustra,” little girls sit amid dusty canyon walls playing with baby dolls.
“Until…” Mirren says. And then comes the reveal: The little girls look up to see a massive, monolith-sized Margot Robbie, dressed in the black and white-striped swimsuit of the very first Barbie doll. She lifts her sunglasses and winks. The little girls are stunned—and, like the apes in the classic sci-fi movie, they begin to angrily dash their baby dolls against the ground.
This is Barbie’s mythic origin story: Once upon a time, little girls could only play with baby dolls meant to socialize them into wanting to be good wives and, eventually, mothers. Then came Ruth Handler, who in 1959 decided to create a doll with an adult woman’s body, adult women’s fashions, and adult women’s careers so that little girls could dream of being more than just wives and mothers. And the rest is history. Thanks to such iterations as doctor Barbie, chef Barbie, scientist Barbie, professional violinist Barbie, and beyond, Barbie opened up young girls to a world of possibilities and, Mirren says, “All problems of feminism and equal rights [were] solved.”
Well, not so fast: Mirren adds one final, snarky beat: “At least,” she says, “that’s what the Barbies think.”
Thus Gerwig introduces the central tension that animates the movie: Handler set out to create a feminist toy to empower and inspire young girls. But we sitting in the audience in 2023 know that things worked out a little differently. In the intervening years, Barbie would come under fire from feminists and other critics for a whole host of sins: encouraging unrealistic and harmful beauty standards that contribute to negative body image issues, eating disorders, and depression among pre-adolescent girls; lacking diversity and perpetuating white supremacy, ableism, and heteronormativity; objectifying women; promoting consumerism and capitalism; and even contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.
And here is the core parallel between Barbie and Oppenheimer: Two iconic American creators who ostensibly meant well but whose creations caused irreparable harm. And two iconic American directors (Nolan is British-American) who set out to tell their stories from a very modern perspective, humanizing them while also addressing their harmful legacies.
But while Nolan obviously had the much harder task—no matter how much harm you think Barbie has done to the psyches of young girls over the years, there’s simply no comparison to the human toll of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the environmental impact of decades of nuclear testing, or the cost of the nuclear arms race—oddly enough, it’s Gerwig who ends up taking her job of atonement far more seriously.
As its opening scene shows, the Barbie movie lets the audience know right from the start that it’s self-aware. It knows that Barbie is problematic. And it’s going to go there.
And it does—almost to the point of overkill. The basic plot of the movie is this: Barbie is living happily in Barbie Land, a perfect pink plastic world where she and her fellow Barbies run everything from the White House to the Supreme Court and have everything they could ever want, from dream houses to dream cars to dreamy boyfriends (Ken)—the last of which they treat as little more than accessories.
But suddenly, things start to go wrong in Barbie’s happy feminist utopia, and to fix it, she is forced to journey into the real world—our world—accompanied by Ken, who insists on going with her. When she does, she realizes that contrary to what she believed (as Mirren told us in the opening scene), the invention of Barbies didn’t solve gender inequality in the real world. In the real world, Barbie is confronted not only with the dominance of the patriarchy (she discovers, for instance, that Mattel’s CEO is a man, played by Will Ferrell), but also with the fact that young girls seem to hate her.
In a crucial early scene, Robbie’s Barbie encounters ultracool Gen-Z teen Sasha (played by Ariana Greenblatt), who delivers a scathing monologue about everything that’s wrong with Barbie, the doll and cultural symbol—basically a checklist of all the criticisms lobbed at Barbie over the years, from promoting unrealistic beauty standards to destroying the planet with rampant capitalism. Barbie is crestfallen.
Meanwhile, there’s a subplot involving Ken’s parallel discovery of patriarchy, and how awesome and different it seems to be from his subjugated life in Barbie Land. Ken proceeds to go full men’s rights, heading back to Barbie Land and seizing power. He transforms Barbie’s dream house into Ken’s Mojo Dojo Casa House, where Barbies serve men and “every night is boys’ night!”
Barbie enlists the help of Sasha and her mom (played by America Ferrera)—a Mattel employee who secretly dreams up ideas for new, more realistic Barbies such as anxiety Barbie—to unseat Ken and restore female power in Barbie Land. Along the way, Ferrera’s character delivers the film’s other major feminist monologue, about how hard it is being a woman in the real world.
The monologues are unsubtle, as are the repeated mentions of concepts like the patriarchy. In every scene and nearly every line, the movie hits the audience over the head with the pro-feminism message. Gerwig knows what her job is—to atone for Barbie’s sins (and, yes, help Mattel sell more dolls)—and she makes sure everyone knows that she has fully understood the assignment.
But it’s in the film’s quieter, more tender moments that Gerwig’s background as an indie filmmaker and her true talent shine through, and where she’s able to communicate the message in a subtler, but ultimately more impactful, way. The scene where Barbie in the real world sees an elderly woman for the first time (old people and wrinkles don’t exist in Barbie Land, obviously) and is stunned at how beautiful she is, wrinkles and all. Or the scenes where Barbie talks quietly with her deceased creator, an elderly Handler (played by Rhea Perlman), who explains that the name Barbie was an homage to Handler’s daughter, Barbara, who inspired her to make the doll.
The overall result is a movie that, even if a bit ham-fisted in its over-the-top messaging, doesn’t shy away from the uglier parts of Barbie’s legacy. It looks them right in the face, wrinkles and all.
I said above that the Trinity test scene is the climactic scene in Oppenheimer, but that’s not really the case. For a movie about the complicated life and legacy of the man credited with creating the world’s most destructive weapon, it should be the climax. You might imagine it would follow with a denouement of the inventor confronting the reality that his creation is used to kill tens of thousands of Japanese civilians and sparks an arms race that threatens to destroy all of humanity.
These scenes are in there, but they are given short shrift next to the other story Nolan wants to tell: that of how Oppenheimer, once considered an American hero, was mistreated by his country in the postwar years. As McCarthy-era fears of communist infiltration grip the country, Oppenheimer’s previous ties to the Communist Party (he never joined the party himself, but he had close family members and friends who were members, and he supported various left-wing causes) are mysteriously brought to the FBI’s attention despite already being well documented. His security clearance is revoked, and his career working with the U.S. government on nuclear issues ends.
It is this storyline—not the apocalyptic destruction of two Japanese cities—that is given the most pathos. Much of the movie’s three-hour run time—and nearly all of its third act—centers on what we are clearly meant to see as the great evil that was done to this man who did so much for his country. The real climax of the film is not the Trinity test, nor even the bombings of Japan (which are not even shown in the movie), but rather the moment we learn who betrayed Oppenheimer by handing over his security file to the FBI.
This is the shocking revelation that is meant to induce gasps in the audience, not the images of charred and irradiated bodies. In fact, those images aren’t even shown to us, the viewers. In the scene where Oppenheimer and his team are shown photos of the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the camera stays tight on Oppenheimer’s face as he reacts to the images—a reaction that consists of him putting his head down to avoid seeing them.
It is an act of cowardice on Oppenheimer’s part, yes, but also on Nolan’s. Indeed, the only glimpses we get of the macabre effects of the atom bomb take place in Oppenheimer’s fevered imagination, and even then, they are brief flashes used for shock value: skin flapping off the beautiful face of an admiring female colleague; the charred, faceless husk of a child’s body Oppenheimer accidentally steps on; a male colleague vomiting from the effects of radiation. Of the Japanese victims, there is nothing. They remain theoretical, faceless.
Nolan has said that he chose not to depict the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki not to sanitize them but because the film’s events are shown from Oppenheimer’s point of view. “We know so much more than he did at the time,” Nolan said at a screening of the movie in New York. “He learned about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the radio, the same as the rest of the world.”
But in reading the numerous interviews he’s given about the movie, it’s also clear that Nolan fundamentally sees Oppenheimer as a tragic hero—Nolan has repeatedly called Oppenheimer “the most important person who ever lived”—and Oppenheimer’s story as a distinctly American one. “I believe you see in the Oppenheimer story all that is great and all that is terrible about America’s uniquely modern power in the world,” he told the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. “It’s a very, very American story.”
That Nolan’s film devotes so much runtime to Oppenheimer’s point of view and how he was tragically betrayed by his country is partly due to the fact that the film is not an original story but rather an adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of the great scientist, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer. That book also places Oppenheimer being stripped of his security clearance at its center. But that didn’t mean Nolan had to do the same in his adaptation. That was a choice. And the end result is what military technology writer Kelsey Atherton aptly described as “a 3 hour long argument that the greatest victim of atomic weaponry was Oppenheimer’s clearance.”
At a time when Americans are struggling to reckon with their country’s past and how it has shaped the present—from fights over how (or even whether) to teach children about the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow; to debates, including in these very pages, over the role (or lack thereof) of NATO expansion in Russia’s decision to wage war on Ukraine; to retrospectives on the myriad failures of the U.S. war in Afghanistan; and beyond—the fact that the two biggest films in theaters right now are attempting to confront the legacies of two American icons, the nuclear bomb and Barbie, is understandable and perhaps even impressive.
But the impulse to look away from the ugliest parts of those legacies remains strong, and Oppenheimer never fully faces them.
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Do u have any headcanons for kleiner and what does he look like in your furry version?
i don't think i have any unique headcanons that other people haven't already shared, but one I really subscribe to is the one where Gordon is like his favorite student/ part nepo baby like in this post by my very good friend of mine ( @featheredcritter ) who happens to be THE official issac kleiner fan imo.
I also like the theory/headcanon that he helped raised Alyx. He has a paper craft she made for him hanging on his wall after all!
And Kleiner is a sphinx cat in my version! I have a few art pieces of him in his tag but this one has a good ref of his head -> mind you, it's a bit old but i still like it ^-^
I made him a sphinx cat for many reasons design wise (color pallet, wrinkly, same color as headcrab) but a deeper reason that I made him is a cat is because i also made Breen a cat. I wanted them to both be the same animal to tie them together somehow; both of them are brilliant scientists who are fighting on different sides of a war for very different reason. To compare and contrast them.
Breen is a coward who runs from fights and Kleiner is brave despite his physique and faces off with a shotgun. Breen hates Gordon and thinks he will fail and Kleiner is fond of him and believes in him. Breen thinks he saved humanity and Kleiner actually does (with the help of others). Kleiner ends up making a more successful form of teleportation than Breen and the Combine can.
I would even go as far to say that they're somewhat narrative foils (like hl1 Gordon and Adrian, imo) and that just adds more depth to them than ever. I would also say that Eli is a possible foil for Breen but for different reasons.
Anyways this post got a bit longer than I meant it to be LOL x) but I hoped I answered your questions!
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Dannymay Day 7: Weapon
The History of the Fenton Thermos (1120 words) by The_Oaken_Muse
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Danny Phantom
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Danny Fenton & Tucker Foley, Danny Fenton & Jack Fenton, Jack Fenton & Tucker Foley
Characters: Danny Fenton, Tucker Foley, Jack Fenton
Additional Tags: ghost lore, Ecto-Science, The Fentons are scientists, The Fentons are inventors, DannyMay 2023 (Danny Phantom)
Summary:
Why is it a thermos?
Read it on AO3 if that’s your thing.
“So, Mr. F… Why a thermos?”
“Tucker!” Danny hissed, making abort motions behind his dad’s back.
Tucker slightly widened his eyes and cocked his head in a look that conveyed, ‘What? This is a great way to get information.’
Danny responded in kind, rolling his eyes to say ‘Whatever. It’s your funeral, dude.’
Mr. Fenton turned away from the workbench where he had been tinkering to beam at Tucker.
“It’s great to see you kids taking an active interest in the finer points of ghost hunting! It’s not just about firing blasters and looking cool, you know! Although that is a big part of it.” He winked at the two boys. “Ecto-engineering and R&D are just as important, if not more so! After all, you can’t use a weapon that doesn’t exist!”
Danny grimaced, “I should really get back to my chores… If you need me I’ll be over there, cleaning test tubes.”
“That’s the spirit, son! Keeping a tidy workspace is vital to ghost hunting! You know what they say ‘Cleanliness is next to ghostliness!’”
Tucker eyed the mess of a disassembled Fenton Thermos™ on the table behind the large man critically.
“Nobody says that, Dad!” Danny called from the other side of the lab.
“Anyway!” Mr. Fenton clapped his hands together and turned his attention back to Tucker. “The Fenton Thermos was one of our earliest inventions. We started working on a ghost containment device around the same time as we began our work on the proto-portal, back in our college days! It was actually Danny’s mother’s idea, she realized that once we opened the portal, we would need a way to capture specimens to study. Ghosts are notoriously squirmy things to catch, what with the intangibility and all. Of course we played around with the idea of the traditional salt rings and devil’s traps and what have you, but those take time to set up and don’t really allow for easy transportation. We started experimenting with smaller rune circles on live traps designed for wild animals and those early prototypes eventually become our net guns, but they all had their flaws, their inefficiencies. We were running in circles, stumped, until one day I was sitting in my Eastern Literature class, practically falling asleep over my copy of The Arabian Nights when I was struck by brilliance! The Ancient Arabians used oil lamps to capture ghosts and bend them to their wills, so why couldn’t we?”
“I thought it was genies in the lamps, not ghosts.” Tucker interrupted.
“That’s actually a common misconception!” Mr. Fenton looked way too excited to correct Tucker. “Genies are actually a subspecies of ghost, rather than a separate species altogether! They’re trickster ghosts that gain power by making twisted contracts with humans and feeding on their wishes and desires.”
“O-oh, really?” Tucker stuttered out, abruptly reminded of his own encounter with a wishing ghost.
“Yup! Anyway! Back to my brilliant stroke of genius! The three of us started studying the techniques these ancient ghost hunters used to make their containment devices, what materials they used, what shapes, and working on a modern day equivalent. An oil lamp might have been a common sight back then, but not in modern day America, and subtlety is key when dealing with a tricky ghost, the element of surprise could mean the difference between life and death!”
“But why a thermos?” Tucker asked again.
“Well, we tried several different designs before the thermos. We figured that a lighter would be a pretty close modern equivalent to an oil lamp, but it was too small. Next we tried a flamethrower, but that wasn’t really subtle enough… and Vladdie pointed out that the lamps weren’t necessarily on fire when they were used, so the fire might not be an important factor, just the oil, or the fact that it could hold oil, because ghosts are slippery devils, or maybe it just needed to hold liquid. Then Maddie had the idea to use kitchen equipment, since a lot of cooking used oil. We ended up wandering the kitchen section of our local supermarket, tossing anything that looked like the right size and shape and would hold oil into our shopping cart. We hauled everything back to our lab and started running tests. The thermos passed all of them with flying colors! It met our criteria perfectly: not only does it hold liquid, soup often contains oil, it was metal, and the insulating qualities of the double sided walls would work for both hot and cold natured spirits, plus it had a lid! We had found the perfect modern day equivalent of an oil lamp! Not only would it be an ideal device for ghost capture and transport, it was also practical for everyday use! We went through quite a lot of coffee while we were working on the proto portal…” He chuckled good-naturedly. “Now that we had our vessel, we got to work redesigning it with cutting edge ghost hunting technology!”
He spun back to face his work bench, pulling Tucker with him, gesturing to the half disassembled thermos, all nuts and bolts and wires and curved metal pieces.
“Our research shows that the engravings on the lamps were more than just decoration, they were sigils to trap and bind the ghosts. Just looking at our thermos, you would see that it doesn’t have any of those, right?”
“Uh, right?”
“Ha! Wrong! They’re on the inside!” He picked up one of the pieces of the inner wall and turned it over to show glowing green circuits arranged in archaic symbols that almost hurt to look at. “One of our greatest breakthroughs was figuring out how to reinforce the walls of the thermos so that it could hold multiple ghosts at a time where the lamp could only hold one. Of course, we also had to make the opening a one way valve in suction mode so that the other ghosts wouldn’t escape when we caught a new one! Another improvement we made was changing the release mechanism into a button so people wouldn’t accidentally release the ghosts, which was a major flaw of the original design as evidenced by numerous historical accounts!”
Tucker could feel Danny’s eyes boring into the back of his neck from across the room. That was one time!
“So, is, uh, is that what you’re working on now? Making more improvements?”
“No, no.” Mr. Fenton’s face turned thoughtful as he gazed at the piece of technology he held, dwarfed by his massive hand. “The Thermos may have been one of our earliest inventions, but we could never get it to work. Until a few months ago... I’m trying to figure out how it turned on.”
#danny phantom#danny fenton#tucker foley#jack fenton#dannymay2023#dannymay day 7#weapon#fenton thermos#fanfic#my work
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Maligned Yuri Bracket: Preliminary Round!
How is Lain Iwakura/Alice Mizuki (Serial Experiments Lain) maligned?
"ummmmmm lain like becomes god and then like erased herself foreversies i think its been a while so alice will never remenber her and whatever also i just never see them snywhere"
How is The Agent/Arakawa (Elfen Lied) maligned?
"The girls have been abused and abandoned by both the canon and the fandom. Arakawa has been treated like a joke character for 90% of the manga...despite being a brilliant scientist and a tragic character...The Agent is hated by some people in the fandom for physically hurting the two main characters...The Agent...spent the rest of the series trying to save Arakawa while they were both stuck in a psychic zombie clone infested laboratory complex, to make sure Arakawa gets to complete her research and save humanity from imminent destruction...They bond, they depend on each other for survival, their love blossoms under pressure in these short hours they've known each other, and when it's clear that only one can survive, The Agent sacrifices herself so that Arakawa can live...Babygirl, we never even learn your name, not even in supplementary materials. She didn't even get to be in the anime adaptation. Arakawa never found out her name nor her gender...Arakawa may still think she's straight, which is the true horror in all of this. Sure, The Agent ended up surviving...but we never learn if she and Anna were rescued from Onigashima in the end, just that they are not dead right now. No name, no resolution, no happily ever after with Arakawa, and the fandom does not give a fuck..."
Read the submitter(s)'s unabridged explanations here!
#serial experiments lain#elfen lied#lain iwakura#alice mizuki#the agent elfen lied#arakawa elfen lied#malignedyuribracket#prelims#tournament poll
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Do you mind if I ask your top 10 favorite characters (can be male or female) from all of the media that you loved (can be anime/manga, books, movies or tv series)? And why do you love them? Sorry if you've answered this question before.
Whew. This one is going to be DIFFICULT
I’ll try to only name 10 (in no particular order)
If you asked me the same question tomorrow, my answer would be completely different.
C’est parti!
1- Edward Elric: FMAB single-handedly changed my life. I was 14 when I watched it for the first time and I was going through a very dark phase. To see how that boy went from self-hate and despair to someone strong enough to accept and embrace his limitations as a human being was exactly the type of media I needed. I needed to be humbled and FMAB did that for me.
2-Miria from Claymore: She might have been my bisexual awakening tbh (or maybe Olivier Mira Armstrong. I made my friends call me “General” at one point. Also, I covered my eye with my braids lol). Miria is the perfect blend of charisma, authority and kindness. She’s what I want to be.
3-Katniss Everdeen. The Hunger Games changed my life and gave me a better understanding of politics. Something that even my dad (a politician) couldn’t do. I love Katniss because she’s so human. She’s a mess, she’s a trailblazer but she’s just a girl. Her character is brilliant because she’s just a girl. Many authors tried to copy that but failed miserably cause they wouldn’t let their protagonist be just a girl.
4- Killua my son. I have so many things to say about that child but I’ll keep it short. I am moved by the amount of love he has in that little assassin heart but I was ever more moved by his ability to step away from his relationship with Gon and find himself. He inspired me to do the same.
5- Gon cause they’re a unit. Gon is extremely complex. So complex that most dudes don’t understand him. I love complex.
6-Akemi Homura cause she never did anything wrong in her entire life and she’s perfect.
7-Aisha from Winx Club. She’s Black, she’s a princess, she battled to save her people from Valtor’s destructive hands, she fought against her own anxieties and timidity to become a better version of herself, she’s a great dancer, she’s incredible in everything she does, she’s one the most interesting characters of the series thanks to her character development, her ideals, her strengths and vulnerabilities.
8-Geto cause he’s an idiot, a fucking loser, a monk, a fraud, a virgin, a whore, a single dad, a certified dickhead and everything to me. Also Gojo.
9-Makise Kurisu. She’s a girl, she’s a genius, she’s a pervert, she’s in love with a mad scientist (I loooooove the entire Steins gate cast)
10-Suzaku Kururugi. Many people hate him for siding with the colonisers and betraying his bf but to me he’s the most interesting character in the anime. He’s so full of regrets about killing his father that he tries to convince himself that peace really is the answer. It’s giving sunk cost mentality ft reaction formation. Freud would have a field day with him lol
Honorable mentions: Hinata Shouyo,Thorfinn, Ash Lynx, Peeta, Lelouch, Atsushi Nakajima, Satsuki Kiryuin, Simon from GL, Elektra from pose, Will from Hannibal and many others
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Yes, I'm still thinking about Laerryn, of course I'm still thinking about Laerryn, she frustrates me so much on the level where it very much says more about me than it does about her. In the way where the question is, "what about this character do you not like to see reflected from within yourself?"
And I think the answer is, god, I feel her goals so, so hard. I feel them in my soul.
I'm an academic! I'm a scientist. And I really do believe, deep down, core-deep, where logic has little enough to do with anything, that fundamentally, no knowledge is forbidden. There are things that it is so, so dangerous to try and learn. There is an absolute imperative to be ethical in pursuit of that knowledge, to be careful, to refrain utterly from doing others harm without their informed consent. There is proprietary knowledge, traditional knowledge, secrets that belong to specific people or cultures and doesn't affect anybody else, which is nobody else's business -- but somebody still holds that knowledge. The knowledge exists. The unthinking universe keeps no secrets. Ignorance is not a moral imperative.
People are allowed to want to know, people are allowed to work to find out. The desire to open the doors to other planes -- why shouldn't they be able to explore? Just to find out? Just to go there? Just to know? The goal is beautiful. To open the horizons of your traveling city in brand new directions where nobody ever thought it could go! To see the wonders of the universe laid out before you! How wonderful! How incredible! How beautifully, glowingly human, the curiosity, the desire to strive!
(After all -- why is it ethical for Vox Machina to traipse across half a dozen planes, scouring for weapons to claim as their own, and not a city? Who are they, except main characters, our vehicle for exploring all of these different places that we want to see just as much as Laerryn does?)
And so I get so frustrated! With myself, with the narrative, with her, with the inevitable tragedy of it all, with the way stories like this always get told -- with the fictional thirst for knowledge that goes so, so badly, because that's what makes the good story. Because the tragedy needs to happen. Because greed and haste and bad science always ends in this fictional disaster.
(The crime wasn't cloning dinosaurs. The crime was creating a poorly-appointed zoo of a theme park, trying to patent and milk your brilliant discovery for money, cloning dozens of species to adulthood all at once without bothering to watch and learn about the enrichment and welfare of the animals, to create safety protocols for the guests, backup plans, employee background checks. The crime was careless, selfish greed. But it wasn't wrong to want to see dinosaurs alive again.)
And yet we say: Hubris! It was wrong to want so much. It was wrong to ask these questions of the universe, to challenge the gods. It was wrong to try.
Laerryn wanted something beautiful, something dangerous to try and achieve but so, so wonderful to want to try. And that desire overcame her sense, overcame her caution, overcame her patience and ethics, and drove her to the same place that so many fictional (and far too many real-life) scientists have arrived at before her: poised to do so, so, so much harm, negligent of the welfare of those around her.
And it makes me so angry, it makes me so frustrated, it makes me so sad. It's infuriating, to see the yearning for freedom and discovery once again turned into a weapon of greed. I hate seeing it. I hate seeing Laerryn decide that this thing, this beautiful thing, the thing that I also fundamentally want to see succeed, is more important than actual living people around her.
I hate how the deck was stacked against her, against Avalir and the whole world, such that even if she had been cautious and careful and kind, they'd still all be doomed. I hate how much the finger on the trigger was hers and also how much it doesn't actually matter. I want to blame Laerryn. I want to blame the story. She makes so much sense (she's such a good, dense, layered, beautifully-rendered character), and it makes me so mad.
Which. Y'know. Art that can give you that many feelings is probably pretty good art.
#cr spoilers#exu calamity#not going to character-tag this because I don't even know if it counts as negativity or not#to be clear I am LOVING Calamity#so much! me being frustrated is not the same as dislike#very much the opposite
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