#was it worth the mission?

[mystery-salad]

The world is safe now.

You tell yourself that as Zhaitan clings to a tower of decay, crumbling beneath its claws as the canons aim true. The shots hit, cheers raise as the dragon topples down. Falling from view through the miasma it created below. No one can hear it hit the ground over the relieved shouts of victory ringing across the airships. But everyone feels it in a resounding rumble that shouldn't have carried through the air like that. The celebrating falters, confusion rising but not fast enough to prepare for what follows. The shockwave hits like nothing you've ever felt. Everything goes dark as the screams begin.

The world is safe now, Orr is not.

You wake up in the rubble as survivors try to make sense of what happened. The dragon is dead, but no one accounted for where all the consumed magic had to go. No one planned for this despite generations of preparation. Perhaps there's a reason for the dragons, you hear murmurs through the tents. But you didn't come this far to call it quits, and one land riddled with a decaying radiation can't stop the mission. The contamination in your blood won't stop you.

The world is safe now. Orr is gone.

Mordremoth stares you down from within his mind. You're like a weed that won't die, small and foreign but resilient and ready to take everything. The odds are against you with the team sent away, you can't face the gaze of the dead like last time. They're safe at a distance, you have to hope they got far enough as you defy the odds and strike another dragon down.

The world is safe, but there's a catch.

Trahearne shudders as your mind returns to your body, as you look around in wonder that there isn't a shockwave like last time. He's so calm as he explains the truth of it, defying how terrified he is of dying, of asking a friend to do this and stand at ground zero once again. But you stand just as calm, picking up the blade and telling him to close his eyes. You hope he'll rest well, wherever his life takes him next. As the blade cuts through, you know it's real as the shockwave begins just like last time. You brace for impact as much as you can.

The world is safe now. The desert is gone.

It's almost tempting to let Balthazar handle the rest, let the god walk a path of destruction to each dragon, sparing yourself further damage. But his path leaves so much unnecessary devastation...so here you are alone with another dragon. Well, not completely alone now. You have Aurene, though you're still not sure if that's truly a blessing any more. The two of you corner Kralkatorrik, the perfect trap laid deep underground in old sunspear ruins.

The world is safe now, until the dragon takes a last stand.

Waking up in wreckage is becoming normal to you. When did that happen, when did the panic vanish? No time to think on it as new plans have to be laid out. You chase him down, you and your dragon, to kill her grandfather and save the world again. Setbacks are numerous. It's harder to work alone on this one, so many soldiers are ready to see it to the end with you. You tell them they don't know what they're asking for and send them away again. Aurene, still a child, fights the dragon's minions nearly overwhelmed as you get to his heart and strike. You've never seen the explosion from inside before. It's so bright.

The world is safe now. The island is gone.

Is it worth it all? It has to be, you tell yourself, as people celebrate your victories in a shrinking world. Refugees who have fled the fallout zones don't seem to agree, but at least they're alive right? And you know you're almost done. Jormag and Primordus, opposites and twins, rise together and somehow feel like childsplay after the last one. Perhaps it's because aurene is an equal to them now. You don't dare to think of the devastation that would be left if she were to die now. Thankfully you don't have to as the siblings tear each other apart.

The world is safe now. The mountains are gone.

No one has seen the final dragon in ages, hidden away deep underwater until you stumble into the truth while chasing a lesser threat. Soo Won was so gentle once, but the void ravages all. It feasts on the magic you released so willingly into the world, your devastations have paved the way for this chaos.

The world is safe now, for the void to reform.

You've survived so much despite the odds, held together by the very magic degrading your bones and poisoning your blood. The void pulls at those strings as it taunts you through the voice of the dragon who started it all. It's the hardest fight you've ever faced. As Aurene pumps you full of power to survive, you wonder if your death would bring destruction too in this moment. But it's left a mystery as Soo Won falls and the void fades. There's a moment of peacefulness you've never felt before, the grandmother hanging on long enough to comfort her granddaughter. But she can't prevent the state of her death. The jade sea shatters beneath your feet as she dies.

The world is safe now. But how much of it is left?

#gw2 #guild wars 2 #gw2 fan submission #quaille #hiiiiii this is specifically about quaille's au #where each dragon's death leaves a monumental magic explosion and essentially #a radiation zone that reflects their element #orr kills and revives and degrades everything in it like a recording played too many times over #maguuma strangles itself with too much growth choking out its own light #the desert crackles with an electricity that consumes anything that holds life #the mountains rage against themselves with deadly storms that tear apart anyone who gets caught in the middle #the jade sea has shattered and flooded cantha #quaille is a mess of these aftershocks from within #was it worth the mission?

[lovedeltaa]

gooby and his friend goobert

#sth #sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #au stuff #me and my friend gone a little crazy w the illusion stuff in forces #tails works with omega during sonic's absence #he doesn't respond well to sonic 'dying' #sorta lets his bitterness and resentfulness surface #and questions his self worth big time #he's really self destructive and sort of on a 'suicide mission' where he doesn't care if he dies #just that he gets his job done and ends the war going on #also hes like 15 LMAO #anyway dorito engine #luc arte

[yumethefrostypanda]

Simon "Eyes" Riley

#i had to do this mission 2 times #came in blastinn #buggy game #but worth it #simon ghost riley #simon riley #lieutenant #ghost #call of duty #modern warfare iii #modern warfare 3 #cod mw3 #mwiii #his eyes

[muckyschmuck]

draw nun but the worst 2 forget file corruption whatever

#my hairs been up for like 24 hours heres whta eli would look like if they were. had their hair up idfk hi #never beating the only wanting to draw my favoriye gilf allegations #no auxiliary mission is worth all of htat but ok dear #aboit 2 evangelize a nardcore show or what #my art #oc art #digital art

[dammarchy211]

THE COMMITTEE FOR RAPACIOUS INTERLOPERS AND MANIACAL ESPERS !

drawing dump I definitely can’t fit all of them in but here’s most of em lol. Neo Cortez the founder and Head of C.R.I.M.E. Got a complete redo which I actually Like now so’ll probably expand on him more

#for all of you Ant fans out there I have a bunch of ant related memes I have drawn/am going to draw them with so . there will be Ant #for all of you Cheri fans out there sorry u don’t see her as much it’s just so much easier to be able to the pile three ocs worth of #drawings into one post than just one oc</3 #there is stuff of her I need to finish or post dw tho 🫶 #my art #psychonauts #psychonauts fanart #psychonauts art #psychonauts oc #character design #psychonauts original character #psychonauts ocs #Dexter Fahrenheit #Dr. Batty Sawbones #Wanda Whelk #Neo Cortez #the SpongeBob meme is when Dexter follows them back into CRIME HQ and they’re like …. well we can’t just let this ten year old leave #he knows where our base is— #he actually snuck back onto the Tiltrotor CRIME uses for missions sometimes rather than sneaking directly into the base fun fact for u #CRIME HQ has cloaking psychic-tech . the Tiltrotor not *as* much #tw alchohol mention #hi sorry thes tags are getting long #the one with Dex in the red shirt is a good few months before he left to join CRIME #he’s still kinda got a black eye and he is not being supervised at home-

[enden-k]

the way i snorted at aventurine switching off his voice changer and he sounds like a teasing fruity lil shit hhhhfh perfectly fitting

#got my ass moving to finish some missions yeeee worth it #babbles #tbd

[mgrover]

So, a fun fact about the missing sub is that it lived in the workshop that my robotics team works out of. And may I say that when you leave a very cool piece of tech completely unsupervised with a group of nerds with the door propped open you bet we gonna crawl all over that shit.

So when I say that sitting alone in that thing as a 5”5 person I felt cramped that’s saying something. Like it’s fucking tiny I can’t express the amount that that thing sucks to be in. There aren’t any seats the floor feels like those foam puzzle piece mats.there’s one computer monitor kinda attached to the wall, and this may have changed for the actual expedition, but there was a gaming controller attached inside.

I have no understanding how they sold that as an experience, it’s terrible to be in there and there’s one Tiny porthole at the front. Like fuck this whole thing is fucked

#titanic #oceangate #like you do not fucking understand how terrible and claustrophobic that damn thing is #like why the fuck was that worth 250k #they weren’t even going to do manned missions this season cause the weather has been so astronomically shit this year #but apparently a window “opened up

[labyrinth-archive]

thinking about turn left and ten sitting across from donna in that alien bazaar and donna offhandedly saying she’s not special and ten arguing yes, you are without a single moment of hesitation, like it’s a solid fact. how the alternate universe version of ten in turn left doesn’t even get to talk to donna but his words reach her anyway when rose tells donna that he thought donna was brilliant. the way one of the first things tentoo the metacrisis doctor does is tell donna she’s special like it’s so blatantly, wonderfully obvious when she can’t even see it herself. and then fourteen comes back with the same unending love for his best friend and looks her in the eye with such raw honesty and says i care about you and when donna dares try and think she’s no one, he shouts no. she’s not no one, never no one. the doctor really said every iteration of me will love you and every life i get lucky enough to meet you in, i will tell you you’re amazing and worth the world and i won’t stop until you believe it.

#every version of him adores her!! every au variation of them would still be best friends!! #and it’s his personal mission to make sure she knows her worth!! #doctor who #the star beast #tenth doctor #tentoo #fourteenth doctor #donna noble #turn left #journey’s end #dw spoilers #text #and they said speak now

[blueskittlesart]

i just modded my ds bc of you. i’ve been procrastinating and it’s been on my mind. i did it and man it was so worth it ily

GOOD. EVERYONE DO THIS RN

#cannot stress enough how fucking easy it is. takes maybe 30 mins and that's only if you fuck up once or twice #romhacks. custom themes. cartridge dumping. reliable backups. #even if you want to pay for games it's worth it for the quality of life improvements. i promise #if you have questions about 3ds hacking please let me answer them. it's my mission in life to make everyone hack their 3ds #asks

[laesas]

RamKing + Venus Flytrap || by kinnbig

#HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO VENUS FLYTRAP ON AO3!!! Happy 1 Year of fic posting to my very cool and very smart and very talented wife!!! #My Engineer #RamKing #Perth Nakhun #Lay Talay #KingRam #tumblr user kinnbig hiiiiiii #ram myen #king myen #myen #bee.gif #we are SO BACK babyyyyy #if you havent read it!!! go do that now!!!!! please!!! its just!!! lovely!!!!!! and perfect!!! and linked in the description hehe #Your mission should you choose to accept - is to gently bully darcey into finishing the rest of that series #by leaving soooo many nice comments on the fic that she has to complete it hehehe #also big thank u Rissa tumblr user divorcedmalewife for being so so niceys about my idea and being the bestest sounding board hehe #I suffered more than god to get the colouring lookin pretty on these bad boys but OH it was worth it!!! #it's what ramking and my lovely wife DESERVE <3 #also did anyone notice the photo frame and ram and king staying saturated in the photo frame while everyone around them fades??? did you??? #do u see the visual metaphor of it all #do u understand #I'm insane about them forever thanks for asking #I love themb #flashing gif cw #lgbtedit #thai bl #thai bl edit #ql edit

[kawoid]

SPIDER-WRENCH

#fanart #art #my art #illustration #watch dogs #watch dogs 2 #watch dogs legion #watch dogs bloodline #wrench #wrench watch dogs #reginald blechman #character concept #character design #spiderman #spidersona #i MEAN he IS canon #imagine spiderwrench and spiderpunk meet... #after this tag spoiler alert?.. kinda #i f___ed with last mission for THIS. it was worth it #i hate rempart. #like cmon dude TWO phases without saving in-between????? #just because of this mission i needed to replay the whole game cuz i didn't upgraded my weapons......

[nixoon-again]

what if..... tails and sage rivalry

#on his solo mission arc #what if sage also solo mission-ish arc #where she tries to prove her worth to eggman and how he doesnt need to be protective(?) of her after she almost died at starfall #what if they cross paths between travels #what if i traumatize both of them and make their respective families worry like crazy huh #what if something Bad happens #what if theyre both snarky know it alls trying to Cope by making sarcatic remarks #what if they get worse #what if— *gets pulled off stage* #miles tails prower #sage the ai #or is it sage robotnik? idk

[pekoeboo]

a silly thing based on some Hitman shenanigans from a while back. 47 wanted to go inside the Party House™ but he wasn't allowed :c

#hitman #hitman fandom #agent 47 #hitman world of assassination #hitman woa #videos #flashing lights #caramelldansen #music #memes #there was like. this one house on ambrose island that had funky colors coming from the windows #but you couldn't get anywhere near it unfortunately #my friend and i joked that caramelldansen was playing inside #and that 47 wanted to be part of the fun but couldn't because he had a mission to complete #so that's where this came from haha #i spent hardly any time on that art because i was laughing too hard when i drew it #but it was worth it lol

[magpie-trove]

^

#fun fact I was offered a position as aide to a young guy running a small time kind of crusade on a college campus and I was like !!!!!!!!! #wow life is worth living oh yes!! oh yes!!!!!!!! #but I don’t think it’d work out how it is in my head. hm. idk we’ll see #but I’m fascinated by the way my soul leaps up rejoicing when it’s like here is a Mission someone has do you want to be their support? #something in me is just like *slams that yes button* aha! aha!!

[heldenherzchen]

wednesday, august 9 day 3: hurt/comfort (@benthan-week-forever)

Late at night, Benji sat at his laptop, frustration evident on his face. He had been working tirelessly on a complex task, and it seemed like everything was going wrong.

Ethan noticed the distress in his partner's eyes and approached him with concern. The brunette gently placed a hand on Benji's shoulder, offering comfort and support. He knew that sometimes all it took was a few sweet words and gestures to ease the frustration and bring solace to a troubled heart.

"Hey, Benji," Ethan said softly, his voice filled with warmth and understanding. "I know it's been a tough night, but remember, you're brilliant at what you do. You've overcome challenges before, and I have no doubt that you'll conquer this one too."

Benji looked up at him, his eyes searching for reassurance. Ethan smiled, his touch lingering on Benji's shoulder, providing a sense of stability and love.

"You're not alone in this, Benji," he continued. "We're a team, and I'm here to support you every step of the way. Take a deep breath, clear your mind, and remember how capable you are. You've got this."

As the older spoke, his words resonated with Benji, easing the tension that had built up within him. He felt a renewed sense of confidence and determination, knowing that he had someone like Ethan by his side.

Ethan leaned in closer, his hand now gently cupping Benji's cheek.

"You're brilliant, talented, and I believe in you," he whispered, his voice filled with love and encouragement. "Don't let this frustration define you. Take a break, clear your mind, and when you're ready, come back to it. I'll be right here, supporting you every step of the way."

Benji felt a wave of gratitude wash over him as he looked into his lover's eyes. In that moment, he knew that he was not alone. With Ethan's love and support, he felt invincible, ready to face any challenge that came his way.

Together, they closed the laptop, leaving the frustrations of the night behind. They embraced, finding solace in each other's arms. In that moment, Ethan's sweet words and comforting gestures reminded him of the strength of their love and the power it held to overcome any obstacle.

And so, with renewed determination and the unwavering support of his lover, Benji took a deep breath, ready to face the challenges ahead, knowing that Ethan would always be there to comfort and guide him along the way.

#mission impossible #benthan #benthanweek2023 #benji dunn #ethan hunt #my art #i am a sucker for hurt/comfort ok #but i wanted to keep it light??? #like idk #my first idea was different but i changed my mind and remade this day #lmao #i lost sleep because of this because i did it last minute but i like to think it was worth my sleep deprived state??? #i'm still trying to get a hang of drawing again haha #pls bear with me #thank you 💖 #and i like to think that ethan would 1000% comfort benji like this #telling him how amazing he his as benji cannot see that for himself sometimes #and yeah #i just love them ok #😭😭 #also: i wasn't really sure on what stickers to put on benji's laptop so yeah #might not be accurate but i like to think that they fit him well #🙃 #oh well 🙃

[earthlydispleasures]

thought abt Laika the space dog for less than a min, day ruined :(

#even tho she was very loved it makes me profoundly depressed on an existential level. im normally not even an existential doom person #ive read so much abt her throughout my life and it wasnt worth the mission regardless of age or literally anything else 😔 makes me so upset #im ugl y sobbing as i write this #thoughts