#the diplomatic incident

[tailorvizsla]

A small intro to my current fic.

Title: The Diplomatic Incident Rating: M Universe: The Orville Pairings: Human f!OC x Krill m!OC Note: tfw when there is no more Orville so you decide to write a 150k+ fic so you can have a hot Krill husband

Under the cut for length. :D

The door swished open, startling her from her reverie. She managed to not drop her tea.

"Morning, Ensign," Captain Mercer said. "Did you sleep well?"

"Uh, not really," she admitted. "You?"

"Not at all," he said with a shrug. He looked down at the coffee. "You are a lifesaver." 

He grabbed one of the mugs and sat down before drinking it down. Once he appeared properly caffeinated, he spoke again. 

"Your report?"

Nia swallowed anxiously as she forwarded it to him. Captain Mercer picked up his pad and started skimming through it.

"I have read over Ambassador Crovrel's notes, and everything seems okay," Nia said. "I genuinely cannot tell what she could be doing that would be causing offense to the Za'ari. However, body language is quite important, so there may be subtle cues that she's missing or weird vibes that she's giving off, so to speak - "

"Captain, we will be rendezvousing with the Sarakev in eight minutes," came a voice over comms.

"How are we an hour early?" Captain Mercer asked.

Her stomach dropped through her feet. She hadn't even gotten through the first paragraph. She had no idea if her plans were even acceptable. What if she had made a mistake? Nia felt her heart starting to race.

"We have not altered course. The Sarakev has chosen to meet us here. They must attend to another incident."

"I see," Captain Mercer said. He gave her a look. "Well, let's go meet our guests, then."

Nia nodded in silence. She followed after him obediently, her stomach twisting tighter with each step. Commander Grayson came to join them about halfway there. She had a frown on her face, and her lips were set in a thin line. Nia noticed that her mug of coffee was much larger.

"Did you get a chance to review everything?"

"Nope," Captain Mercer said. "It should be fine."

Nia gave him a look of horror as she trotted along behind them. Commander Grayson sighed and finished the last of her coffee.

"Ensign Hreevan, could you do me a favor?" she asked. "Can you throw this into the recycler?"

"Of course, Commander," Ensign Hreevan said, giving them a curious look.

All too soon, they came to the shuttle bay, where a Krill vessel had just landed. The back ramp dropped, and a group of four Krill stepped off. A few more unloaded some boxes and crates behind them. They exchanged a few words. 

Just as quickly, the shuttle left, leaving the four individuals and a pile of crates behind. Captain Mercer stepped forward. Nia shuffled forward a step, trying her best to hide behind Captain Mercer and Commander Grayson without actually looking like she was trying to hide.

"Hello," Captain Mercer said, putting on his most welcoming smile. "Welcome aboard the Orville, gentlemen."

"Captain Mercer," said the Krill who looked like he was in charge. "My colleagues and I thank you for assisting us in our diplomatic mission."

Oh my God. The holographic videos had not done his voice justice, Nia thought to herself.

"It is our pleasure to help," he said. "Please allow me to make introductions. This is Commander Grayson, my second in command." Captain Mercer seemed less than impressed when he realized she was trying to hide behind him. "This," he said, shuffling her forward, "is Ensign Bridges, our resident expert on Za'ar and her people."

Nia suddenly felt tiny as they scrutinized her. She swallowed and tried to give them a welcoming smile. 

"Hi," she managed to say.

Their eyes met, and she suddenly felt like she could not breathe, an odd electric feeling starting at her toes and working its way up. He tilted his head in acknowledgement and diverted attention from her. Her heart thudded wildly in her chest. Her hands and knees felt oddly shaky after that brief encounter.

#tailor writes #the orville #romance #human f!oc x Krill m!oc #strangers to lovers speedrun #the diplomatic incident #fanfic #this is gonna be 150k+ words if i can ever finish the last chapter #hopefully there will be interest in this fic lol

[supertaliart]

Just thinking about the Skywalker Twins getting to develop that good sibling energy.

#star wars #may the fourth be with you #luke skywalker #leia organa #princess leia #Luke was causing a diplomatic incident #so leia proceeds to cause a diplomatic incident about it #star wars fanart #star wars day

[sesamenom]

Gil-galad Variations, featuring all the gil galad theories i've encountered.

#silm #silmarillion #gil galad #gil galad son of plothole #<- best tag lol #personally i like the maglor theory #son of lalwen is probably my second favorite? #also that would make him the 16th known finwean grandkid #the aegnor/andreth peredhel variant is interesting #also i feel like when everyone meets him in valinor/the halls finrod would just look at aegnor like :/ #finrod: 'if you were just going to ignroe my whole speech you could have at least told me so i could get birthday gifts for the kid!' #the russingon one looks very much like nerdanel lol #both the maedhros ones' hair is *just* dark enough to not cause a diplomatic incident #the elured/elurin one is really funny #like. hes 0% noldor not even related to finwe at all. like. theyre descended from different cuvienen families. they literally are 0% relate #he was raised by cirdan who is also 0% noldor #but he is somehow a better king of the noldor than like 90% of the previous ones #even funnier if hes Just A Guy #did they accidentally switch the real finwean baby? did they just grab a random kid and go 'oh well close enough'? who knows? #i think princess-faelivrin has a FAQ about the leading version of fin-galad (gil galad being finduilas)

[eleneressea]

thinking about Aredhel—she goes to Celegorm and Curufin's lands and stays there for a while waiting for them to come back, then gets bored and wanders off and eventually comes to Nan Elmoth (and we all know how that goes) but I was thinking: what if Celegorm went after her? He tracks her to Nan Elmoth eventually, and…

Eöl's sorceries are powerful, but Celegorm has Huan with him and is blessed by Oromë, so I don't think he gets nearly as turned around as Aredhel was. He finds her and Eöl, murders Eöl and burns down the forest behind him rescues her from his enchantments, and sends a letter to Maedhros going "found Aredhel, might have caused a diplomatic incident, also I may have a son now."

#celegorm #aredhel #the fire was mostly an accident but only mostly #celegorm puts aredhel on huan's back and carries baby maeglin himself #celegorm is the third of seven he knows how to carry small children #and maeglin is way less squirmy than ambarussa were #maedhros fully believes the diplomatic incident is eloping with aredhel until he learns the rest #maedhros the tired: why couldn't you have just eloped. that would have been easier

[sleepyorchidmonster]

Once upon a time, NRC's Board Game Club decided to organize a chess competition. Thanks to Azul's marketing genius, the event became really popular, with plenty of students from outside the club participating.

However, due to an accident (Floyd was bored and Grim annoyed him, everything is now on fire), most of the club's chess sets were destroyed. To solve the problem, contestants were encouraged to bring one of their personal sets.

This idea made for an ecletic set up, especially since most students are crazy rich. Idia brought the set Leona gave him for his birthday, Malleus found an old heirloom from Briar Valley, Kalim isn't even a competitor, but he still got a set made of solid gold and encrusted with precious gems from the Scarabia storage room, and so on... (Cater took a bunch of pictures of all the different styles).

In an effort to make up for Grim's mishap, Adeuce also decided to help, remembering that Heartslabyul has a room filled with different games that students often used.

There were dozens of chess sets, but they just HAD to choose the pretty one atop of a pedestal, with a sign saying "NO!!" in bold letters (in their defense, Heartslabyul is nonsensical, also they were in a competition with Sebek and that was the best set).

A few days later, right before the event, the game club students began to organize the space for the matches.

Only for the Heartslabyul set to come to life and start fighting people, that is...

Apparently, the Queen of Hearts left a small contingent of her best soldiers to protect the school, just in case. Hidden as a deck of cards and a chess set, those soldiers can be summoned by simply opening their cases/boxes, though they shall only answer to the Heartslabyul housewarden.

She also forgot to tell anyone else about the plan, trusting that a single rule of "When in trouble, get the chess set or the playing cards" would suffice.

So now we have a bunch of gigantic marble statues wandering around campus, looking for hostile forces or their leader...

After a few fights, a statue crashing a dormhead meeting and kidnapping Riddle, and plenty of discussion, the students FINALLY manage to calm the statued down, explaining how it was all a misunderstanding.

All's well that ends well, but now the chess pieces want to watch the actuall chess matches.... something about wanting to know the prowess of great warriors and future leaders...

And that is how we get an chess event in twst, with a few extra cards and special outfits, since this just became a formal event, what with the piqued interest of a bunch of ancient royal guards.

The main event cards would be Leona, Idia, Azul, Malleus, Lillia and Jamil, since they're the actual contestants for the competition, while Riddle also gets an SSR, since he is supervising the gigantic chess soldiers, in a role similar to the Queen of Hearts.

Since the statues insisted on participating in the competition's finale, the last match is held in the school's Coliseum, with a cute twstune to wrap things up.

Then the victor gets crowned and the chess pieces leave.

#the chaos actually helped. since malleus would've missed the date of the competition... #the soldiers remember lillia #the card outfits were designed by Crewel #the chess soldiers thought this could be a diplomatic event to strenghten ties between nations. also they were bored #the “riddle kidnapping incident” wasn't even a kidnapping #the statue took like four steps before getting collared by Riddle and attacked by the other dormheads #adeuce had to act as referees as punishment #twst #riddle rosehearts #leona kigscholar #idia shroud #azul ashengrotto #floyd leech #kalim al asim #malleus draconia #lillia vanrouge #jamil viper #after that whole mess is over the students made the executive decision to revise all the queen's rules #just to check if there are any other surprises #deuce spade #ace trappola #cater diamond #sebek zigvolt

[imakemywings]

Aroace Maedhros is so excellent though...he does not want any part of sex or romance, he wants to be left alone with his battle plans and you can call him if you have useful intel or if you’ve written a sufficiently amusing insulting ballad about one of his family members

#maedhros #he does NOT understand Maglor's constant romantic woes and he does not want to #BAFFLED by how Celegorm wanted to bone a chick so bad he caused a major diplomatic incident #perhaps with Fingon as the only/first person he actually said ''I don't get it'' to #I ship him sometimes but most of the time I think of him as aroace sex repulsed #he is just Not Interested #eldest child and heir or not

[eldritch-bisexual]

I have a headcanon for after TaiSui was defeated. I think Xiyun/Lanhua just plain collapsed. From exhaustion, from grief, a combination of both... It doesn't matter, she's just down.

The fairies try to get to her. Because, you know, she was one of them. She's Changheng's almost-wife. They got to see if she's fine.

Except the Moon Tribe has opinions about it. And their opinion is that the fairies should leave their Yuezhu the fuck alone.

Anyway, I want Shangque to go dragon and abscond with the offline Xishan Goddess while Xunfeng bitches at Yunzhong (backed up by Changheng after a bit of coaxing).

#diplomatic incidents in the first our of the truce #i just think the Moon Tribe would be exceedingly protective of her #bitch went into the iron maiden just to prove she's cool #she shanked herself for the good of the people #they MUST respect her a whole lot #love between fairy and devil

[kat]

babylon 5 season 2 episode 14: there all the honor lies

"... so you feel like you're being symbolically cast in a... bad light."

#babylon 5 #b5 #londo mollari #doll without genitalia results in narrowly avoided diplomatic incident

[ria-starstruck]

hollow knight au where ghost (and hornet) travel to the past to do fuckall and in ghost’s case this includes antagonizing pale king for funsies ✌️😜

#i stand by the when there's an action in a video game u can choose to take it says a lot about the character who takes it #the option to sit in the pale king's throne is one of those #so yeah #hollow knight #hollow knight fanart #hollow knight comic #hollow knight au #hollow knight time travel au #hollow knight time travel #hollow knight ghost #hollow knight pale king #hollow knight herrah #im sorry herrah i didn't do u justice </3 #art #artists on tumblr #traditional art #herrah knows abt the whole kings brand shtick bc hornet told her. MAYBE. last comic is a little ooc i think #re: i did say hornet causes diplomatic incidents but that was just for funnies. i do not think she would actually be doing so #most of the time anyway

[winepresswrath]

congratulations i've never been a fan of sangcheng mostly bc i TRIED but i'm not really interested in their early days dynamic and post-canon i find it hard to believe it could ever happen. but the weird messy version which may or may not lead to wwx-jc reconciliation but imo cannot end happily if jc finds out about the whole jin ling thing IS interesting to me!! Actually I think I only like this if it doesn't work out between jc and nhs so I don't think I can call myself a sangcheng shipper now if I only want mess and an unhappy ending but you know. i'd read a fic about them now if this specific one existed!

In theory I'd be down for either, but I always manage to trick myself into wanting a happy ending by the end of a fic I'm really enjoying. I think they're both really exhausted post-canon and in most universes they just avoid each other but there's one or two where Nie Huaisang tricks Jiang Cheng into doing his homework, which makes Jiang Cheng feel needed, and dangles him in front of Wei Wuxian for sport, which makes Jiang Cheng feel wanted, and they're the only two major sect leaders who are both adults and not in seclusion so I can see them getting stuck eating lunch together enough for Nie Huaisang to develop ideas.

#the jl thing is a real sticking point it's very possible this all ends in hysterical tears and what would be a diplomatic incident if anyone #involved had the energy for that #early days they're just both here for wwx and really only hang our alone when he ditches them for lwj #however!!! i think they are genuinely fond enough of each other #like they might not have hung out without wwx but now that they're here they're having fun with it #especially again in cql they clearly genuinely care about each other #nhs is throwing that party for both of them! jc huffily throws nhs out of the room so he can't see him cry. it's cute

[kissingdeadgirls]

miles really woke up on the shuttlecraft and chose violence. and has now decided to go around asking stupid questions until he learns enough to ask the right ones.

if he doesn’t start a war first. by like. accident.

#miles’ 3 brain cells not yet aware of the fact that he’s a diplomat lowkey causing an Incident #reading vorkosigan

[tailorvizsla]

Ayhrov is such a tired man 🥺❤️

Procreate 2024

#the Orville #tailor’s art #oc #krill #krill oc #the diplomatic incident #hot krill hubby

[theloopus]

back in the 80s and 90s they kept trying to shoehorn Scott Bakula into Manly Man male lead roles because he was built like a cartoon action hero and he is so extremely miscast in all of these roles because despite said body he has the vibes of a man who apologizes to furniture after bumping into it

#im posting this here too for the bakumutuals and because it is important. it must be said #txt #this is also why his best lead roles are Sam (apologizes to furniture because he is a good Christian boy and was raised to be polite) #and Archer (apologizes to furniture because otherwise it would cause a diplomatic incident. again)

[mountainashfae]

Owlcatober Day 6: Family

"Have you heard? The King of the Stolen Lands is the Knight-Commander's son. They never speak of each other, so I wonder what their relationship is like."

When the Councilor of the Stolen Lands makes a visit to Drezen and the King decides to tag along, a grudge held for almost a decade comes to light.

#I think about the Sword Incident a lot #Vio Causes An International Diplomatic Incident #owlcatober #owlcatober 2023 #my art #oc stuff #vio miette #aurien florence #probably not the way to interpret Family that most people expect

[hoiist]

Dorian and Aquinea, post Trespasser  based off this

#dorian pavus #Aquinea Thalrassian #dragon age #dragon age fanart #dorian was born to be a diplomatic incident

[fooltofancy]

betrayal.jpg

#nobody lets me do violence when i WANT to do violence but all of the OTHER times it's FINE ass moment #xiv blogging #screenshots #i had to watch this stupid cutscene like nine times and i STILL didn't get the exact moment he decides okay fine maybe i won't #cause a diplomatic incident #but i am gonna pout about it.