#AND OP YOU GAVE US HOT ORC

[knowlessman]

bonko no honko I ran out of good jokes a long time agodemia (bnha)(if I ever had any) s3e1-3

(I forgot about the prequel minisodes but I'm already here, maybe I'll watch them later idk)

ooh this OP's got a pi-aner in it. I dig it. some of the opening bits sort of reminded me of homest - why is bakugo swole wtaf

(void teleport business slenderfrend watching all might on tv) patrick star: I hate this channel -- why IS slendervoid so fucking dapper tho

"worst character? worst-character-in-training?"

…"Vlad" has orc fangs instead of vamp fangs : \ huh

there's that "be a fuck[bleep]ng superstar" thing again. it's so jarring every time -- (going down the list of all of Class A's quirks) …like, yes, we do know all these things already, and it is recycled footage, but I'm not finding that I mind it -- I knew they weren't gonna do the same for Class B's but. I mean. idk

"you said you were gonna use the pool for endurance training, right?" already hovering finger over the right arrow key -- breaking news: anime school has girl's swimsuits that are actual clothes. granted, figures it'd only be for a joke

guy with literal jet engines in his legs: hey, who wants to do a race? -- oh come on, none of you are even touching the water -- iida you fuck 'XD I thought you were the rules guy

(flashback) the bit where deku says "you haven't put a single scratch on me yet" when all of his fingers are broken and todoroki is at full health is still fucking hilarious tbh -- (still flashbacks) "I am the younger brother of a hero you attacked" also still reminds me of that "do you have ANY IDEA how little that narrows it down" meme -- yes, yes, you're all protagonists, this is a recap episode huh

"don't hold back on me, half n half!" "okay" freezes bakugo and deku and wins easily -- (eraserhead butts in) hehehehehehehe -- ("pool's closed, go home") aw dammit, I wanted him to make them do the last race legit 'XD

…has this show been doing these Marvel-ass after-credits scenes this whole time? …well, hopefully it doesn't mean I've been missing any needed context when I didn't watch the credits all the way through

"what, Class A is taking extra classes? did you fail? did you fail?" oh shut up Ditto, I gave up liking you ages ago

who is this Charlie-Brown-side-character looking mfer, what's their deal 'XD

uh…… huh. well, the Jellicles have arrived.

who's the grumpy kid who looks like he wandered in from Bleach. …or Digimon. idfk. he their manager? is he hiding cat ears under that hat?

(wonders something, checks the dub) aw, I can't even comment on what they translated God Explosion Murder (you know, that guy who got kidnapped by the slime monster)'s catchphrase to in English because if I type it here FB will ban me : [ (also I'm too lazy to change these much before posting em to tumblr regardless of what order I do em in)

am here for action banjo I guess

kaminari that thing is literally made of dirt, it couldn't be any more obviously Ground-type wtf

…o-kay. mineta gets a new friend in superhell tier I guess

wheeeeeze 'XD what the fuck, I can't - what - why? fuckin' brat just punched mr nice guy in the balls -- guy whose sole defining trait is bullying deku: "heh, he reminds me of me"

"hey kota, can you bring those vegetables? they have a sticker on them that says Vegetables in English, but don't look at it too closely, you'll get a headache" what did the artist(s?) think we were gonna think was in that box anyway?

ugh, not hot springs, we just did this gag

deku looks pretty darn normal when his head isn't on an anatomy figure : |

yooo, class b's here too, hellyeah

(going through how everybody is trying to level up their powers) all choji and hagukure have to do is hide and seek, huh. all this support tech and all and they still haven't invented anything hagukure can, idk, wear or use that's as invisible as she is or that can become invisible?

swolecat might be okay

secret hideout? isn't that just the cave where they had tokoyami doing his crona-ragnarok training? -- (camera pans to show a hole in the cliff) is kota a cognate for kyle? also is that meme still funny? idk

literally a cenobite. who let clive barker into the writing room, this is a family show. …that occasionally says "fuck" in the background.

dancing boy is waiting for a full party

why does it not surprise me that bakugo's apparently good at cutlery. he probably says "die" in his head as he chops

("bravery test" game thingy) …yeah no I'd better not even try to understand this one, I still haven't gotten around to googling what a cavalry battle is -- "revelry in the dark" kthx sasuke allen poe or wever

'XD they passed up the opportunity to pair bakugo with deku and decided to stick him with half n half instead

is it zombies again. or midnight. -- oh, it's dancing boy making a move. hm.

no after-credits scene this time, only spoilers. maybe it's only for first and last episodes of a season, who knows.

got stuff tomorrow. …I think. stoppin here for now.

#knowless watches bnha

[awesomerextyphoon]

Charred Briar Roses - 8

Showdown

Summary: Things finally come to a head for the princesses and Sophronius. Who will win? 

Pairing: Orc!Bucky x Black!Reader (Fem), Orc!Steve x Black!OFC, Orc!Sam x Black!OFC 

Rating: 18+ 

Word Count: 1,395

Warning: Depictions of Violence and Sexual Harassment 

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The portal took you and Bucky to Brista, the new Resistance HQ. Njideka became the new leader while Oluchi and Fairuza were in the infirmary (Fuck!). She tried to have you killed for being a dumbass back at Eckrednst, but Bucky stopped anyone who got too close.

“Look, I don’t care if you hate me, but we need to stop Sophronius before he gets the Nephrashim Crystal and cements his control over the continent.”

Njideka and some of the rebel sighed and groaned, “Fine. I’ll hear what you have in mind.”

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“Ya know, it’s a shame that you bitches are so willful,” Jeku, one of the demon princes head goons jeered, “There’s another bitch like you. Name’s Amani or some shit. Fucking hot with amazing tits and ass,” he roughly squeezed Fumnanya’s breasts, or what he could fit into his grimy hands, “Though she had nothing on you. I can’t wait until that smug bastard gets the crystal. The princes are going to fuck you up. Maybe, they’ll let me have a turn with ya. I’ll-” Jeku was stabbed repeatedly in the neck with a dagger that Ghada was able to swipe off him.

That was their life for lord knows how many days. If it wasn’t the fucking princes constantly groping them or Sophronius giving them the ‘kick the dog’ speech, it was their filthy goons constantly gloating about what they would do to them.

Well, not anymore.

“Let’s go.” Ghada panted as she and Fumnanya got themselves mostly covered and rushed for the exit.

Taking the back corridors they overheard the guards talking about, the sisters were able to locate where Sophronius was keeping the Fae. Fumnanya gasped at the what was before them. All of the Fae were imprisoned in energy drainers. Most of them were either completely gone or shells of their former selves. Luckily, some of the members of the Fae High Court and most of the children seemed like they would quickly recover.

Ghada tried to speak with some of the children in Fae in order to coax them while Fumnanya tried to figure out the mechanics of the energy drainers wishing their sister was with them when they heard a voice.

“There are two keys on opposite sides of the room. You will have to turn them at the same time for it to work. Please, save the children.” Titania pleaded.

“What about the others?” Fumnanya inquired.

“Leave us. We deserve out fat-”

“No! We’re going to get you out of here!” Ghada shouted as she and Fumnanya ran to the keys.

They were almost at the keys when a guard spotted them. He was about to cut off Ghada’s arm when he got decapitated by an axe.

The executioner and his comrade removed their helmets to reveal Steve and Sam. They hugged, kissed and would’ve done more if not for the urgent state they were in.

“How did you get here? Not that I’m complaining.” Ghada wondered as she got the last of the Fae children out of the energy drainers.

“It’s a long story, but we’ll have to explain on the way. C’mon, your sister needs us.”

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Meanwhile, you were leading a covert ops team in the capital to destroy the crystal when a corrupted pixie bomb went off beside the group. Fortunately, no one had any major injuries.

“The bomb came from one of the towers,” Aleka, an ops member, whispered.

You gave one of the other members the go ahead to take them out and scan the surrounding area. The rest of you were able to traverse the capital via underground tunnels created with earth magic once you found the target house.  

The team was able to make it to right outside the first section when they were attacked by a group of demons each riding a mutated saber-tooth lion. You, Bucky and a few ops members were able to cut down a couple of them while the others built another path.

The palace grounds were eerily quite and pristine. It was exactly as you’ve left it, not a leaf out of place. You would’ve thought that Sophronius would at least burned the gardens in a fury liked he did that one time when you were nine.

The doors to the royal hall opened on their own to evince Sophronius lounging on the throne like hw owned the goddamned place.

“Well if it isn’t my dear niece. How are you?”

“Cut the shit Sophronius!”

Sophronius sighed and rubbed his forehead, “Fuck it. Lay down your weapons and come with me, dear niece. Let us end this ‘childish rebellion’, huh?”

“Fuck no,  you demon asswipe!” you shouted as you pulled out Waning Swan and the fighting commenced.

The skirmish didn’t last long and it looked like your side was winning when Sophronius caught you off guard and put you in a chokehold.

“Drop your weapons. Now!” Sophronius barked. Bucky and the other covert ops did, and the head goon motioned for the others to detain the rebels.

Sophronius nearly dragged you to the throne, lifted up the seat, and forced out your right hand. An indentation of the Nephrashim Royal Crest appeared and disappeared when you touched it. A circle appeared and sunk into the ground creating a staircase to the crystal’s location.

“Down we go.” Sophronius giddily stated as his company and you descended the steps.

The steps winded down for who knows how long. Once you finally reached the bottom, Sophronius forced you onto an ancient Nephrashim Group Hover Board. The hover board led you to a good sized pond. In the middle of it was a small island with the Nephrashim Crystal being held by a leafless tree’s intertwined branches.

Sophronius motioned for one of the goons to get into the water. One did and was immediately and painfully dissolved into foam. You turned your head away as he screamed from having insides and skin rapidly rotting and dissolving. You almost felt sorry for him.

A glowing orb came out of the water and stated that only those of the Nephrashim Royal Line may go past this point. Sophronius grabbed you and made his way to the island. As soon as you stepped onto land, the tree’s branches started to unfurl and inscriptions in Ancient Nephrashim Script appeared on the bark right below the crystal.

Your hand almost touched the crystal when Sophronius was shot with a blaster. You turned your head to find Fumnanya and Ghada running towards you.

“You’re alive!” Fumnanya exclaimed while pulling you in for a bone crushing hug.

“You’re not getting rid of me that easily,” you responded burying your head in her hair as to hide your tears.

Your moment of joy was cut short when Sophronius stabbed Fumnanya in the hip with a dagger.

“I will NOT be denied my path to glory by a bunch of stupid, spoiled little girls!”  he bellowed as he dragged Fumnanya to the crystal.

“We have to get him to touch the crystal! If he touches it then he will burn.” Ghada hissed.

Jackpot.

“I have a plan.”

Sophronius is close to realizing his delusions of grandeur when Ghada attacks him with a Cross Hock causing him to drop Fumnanya. He responded with a Front Parry and attempted a Roundhouse Kick but stopped it with a Leg Block and brought down with an Indian Death Lock.

Concurrently, you and Fumnanya darted over to the tree so that Fumnanya can decipher the instructions to safely remove the crystal.

With a sardonic grin, you strode up to Sophronius, “Since you wanted this so much, take it!”

The crystal phased into Sophronius’ skull and his whole body started to crystalize and crack. You and your sisters immediately fled the island and your group bolted towards the exit.

The whole capital was starting to crumble in multiple earthquakes and aftershocks.

Your group was about to swallowed up by a sudden tremor when a Nephrashim Army Arial Vessel came to their rescue, “Get In!” Karim ordered.

You watched in awe and horror as the capital, your former home, was utterly wrecked by the earthquakes and vanished in a blinding light.

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After the air vessel returned to Brista and everyone did the required assessments with the remaining members of the Resistance, one member - a boy no older than 12-  asked, “What now?”

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[hildorien]

Edain Memes

(Sees tree and says to elf) “I’ve found yor missing family.”

(Dealing with Elvish Nonsenese) “Andreth give me strength.”

“My friendship has ended with Morgoth, the Sun is our new god.”

“Our backs don’t hurt from getting old, they hurt from holding the weight of every age’s war effort on them.”

[Something goes wrong] “Morgoth”

“Don’t Túrin-it dude.”

Screen caps of Haleth, Andreth, Túrin and etc dealing with Elves and they look like:

Or this:

Implying elves don’t fuck

Implying elves do fuck, but the sex is horrible

Acting like Shane Madej on a ghost hunt when it comes to random magical shit: 1) sitting in a Morgoth pentagram, “Let’s go backaroo” 2) Goatman = Morgoth 3) Goes up to Orcs, “Hello demons, it’s ya boy.”

(Does something stupid or brave) “Wild card bitches.”

“I’d probably sell you to Morgoth for a corn chip.”

(Sees Blonde immortal) “oh look, the devil.” Because Sauron

Haleth, the queen of lesbians.

Elf fuckers are basically furries

“I’m gonna Húrin it.”

“You gave up paradise for fucking rocks?”

“Oh this box is empty? Just like the valar’s love for us.”

One of the groups of edain blocks the other on social media just to start drama

“I saw Húrin once, I heard he had nine pack.”

(Caption on the beorian sigil) “Defends Finrod knowing the fucking idiot don’t deserve it.”

(Caption on the Hadorian sigil) “defends the Nolofinwes knowing they don’t fucking deserve it.”

“Op looks like a walking tree mixed with a fluffy eyebrow having baby but go off I guess.”

Op is an elf claiming they are the most beautiful creatures on earth.

Starting beef with distant relatives still in the east.

(Dealing with elf nonsense) “we should have never left the east.”

“Elf-friend? No elf-enemy, square up Bitch ass.”

“The Valar? Sounds musty.”

“The Valar? I don’t know her”

“Eru can stay but your one thin ice.”

“Floppy eared fucks.”

Humans in Every Age:

All the elves hold up in beleriand? Everywhere else in middle earth, humans: ITS FREE REAL ESTATE

Edain when they suddenly get Númenor and are now the biggest bitch in school:

“Elves....were a mistake.”

Men when Elves suddenly start dealing with death:

maglor: maybe...all the things we did....were wrong........and we didn't have to do them..........

humans:

Elf fuckers be like:

The people of Haleth with Elves and Men and just about anyone:

Beorians and Hadorians and People Of Haleth coming to beleriand and having to now deal with some elvish blood fued:

“Eru shits in my dinner once again.”

“Ulmo for the last time we don’t speak Ocean stop sending us floods.”

“For the last time I don’t want to hear the word of the Valar.” / “But you’ll be saved.” / “There is no saving this hot price of ass.”

Eru says it’s yeet or be yeeted

“That is just how it be on this bitch of a Arda.”

Men send elves this yearly:

#tea with milk #edain philopshy 101 #feel free to reblog with more #silmarillion #edain #race of men

[shcharrigan]

Humbled Service: The Dead Never Stay Dead

{{ From 5/4/2012 - the fall of Harrigan continues }}

Harrigan watched the fire through a haze of alcohol.  He knew his sergeants were on a fishing expedition, but he actually enjoyed sharing stories and whiskey with them.  Maybe they should do it again sometime, only without the ulterior motives.

They were asking about her, of course.  Everyone was. He understood they needed to know, but he had to make sure they used their own eyes to look at things and not his version.  She knew what he saw and how he thought; if he influenced their actions they had already lost.  Besides, how much could he tell them anyway?

She was put under him at Honor Hold.  Name she used was Crystal.   Preferred close combat.  Dark hair, average height, looked best from behind.

She seemed like just another green soldier; she’d seen battles but not war.  But something about her raised the hairs on the back of his neck. She rode with them for a year, then wrangled a transfer to somewhere else.

Their paths crossed again four years later.  Her arrogance now rivaled her intelligence and she was almost as cold as he was. She handled special ops and where she went good people died.  She was careless with people, wasteful of blood and lives.  It was all a game.  And she loved it.

She finally died on a mission near one of the northern demon camps.  Or so everyone thought, including him.  She started showing up after he took command of the Dragoons.  She toyed with him, used him as just another game piece. But she knew him well enough to predict his moves.  And no one could find her if she didn’t want to be found.

The only thing he hadn’t told them was how she “died”…

“What the fel were you playing at, girl?!  I’ve got two dead from this stupid-ass plan of yours!”

“I got what I came for, Ben. That’s the only important thing.” She turned to walk away, but Harrigan grabbed her arm and swung her around.

“Every damn time you come to me I lose people!  People that didn’t have to die!”

“I do my job, Ben. That’s all they care about.  They may be your people, but this is MY game,” she said with a smug smile.  “And I always win.”

The smile vanished behind a burst of blood as Harrigan’s fist slammed into it.  She landed on the ground, narrowly missing one of the ubiquitous fissures that belched flame and molten rock.  “Not with me.”

She slowly regained her feet, laughing.  “You’re such an idiot, Ben!  You think everything is solved with strength and weapons.  You can’t get it through your head that I decide who lives and who dies. I have the power because THEY give it to me.  And they give it to me because I pull the strings to get it.”  She licked the blood running from her lip.  “And you just made a very big mistake, Ben.”

He didn’t even see her kick, but the blow landed right on the gash an orc’s axe had given him on his hip. He fell on one knee until another kick, this one to the head, drove him to his hands and knees.

She was on him in a flash, one arm around his throat while the other gave her the leverage she needed. She pressed against his back, her breath was hot on his ear.  He clutched at her arm while black spots began floating before his eyes.

“I’m not going to kill you, Ben.  It wouldn’t suit my purpose.  However,” she said, her voice as sweet as honey.  “You and your unit will be mine to use from now on.  I’ll see to that.”

She was prepared when Harrigan reared up in a last-ditch attempt to unseat her, and pushed back against him.  The forward somersault took her by surprise.  Her grip loosened when her head struck the ground and the weight of his body drove the air from her lungs.  She recovered quickly and managed to be on her feet by the time Harrigan reached his.

Harrigan drew his sword, only to have it kicked away as soon as it cleared the scabbard.  He rushed her and caught her in a bear hug, squeezing the air from her lungs and cracking her back.

She clapped her hands over both his ears and broke his eardrums.  The pain made him slump forward before he staggered back.

“To hell with this. It’s over, Ben.”  Her hand dropped to her knife.  It was a beautiful blade, designed to penetrate deeply and tear when pulled out.  The poison she coated it with caused paralysis, so her victim would be helpless while the life drained away.  Her fingers closed on empty air.

“It is, bitch,” Harrigan said as he drove her knife upward, under her rib cage and into her chest. He twisted it as he pulled it out again.

She staggered back as her life’s blood poured from the wound.  The poison worked quickly and her legs gave way.  She fell into a fissure.

“Burn in hell,” Harrigan said, dropping the knife and recovering the bag.  He turned and started walking to rejoin the unit, never looking back as a gout of fire erupted beneath her body.

  Harrigan drank the last swallow from his bottle and dropped it on the floor.  “Next time you’ll stay dead.  I promise that.”  He rose unsteadily and staggered to bed.

#the silver dragoons #humbled service #hellfire harrigan

[caraidean]

Genealogy of the Holy War: Shadowrun AU

This is very possibly one of the most self indulgent AUs I've ever put together, but the tone and lore of the Shadowrun RPG setting fits Genealogy really well at some points - also I love it, please play Dragonfall or Hong Kong if you have something that can run it.

The first bit is frontloaded with a bunch of general info about the setting, so feel free to skip past it if you already know or don't care that much.

THE PITCH & BASIC CONCEPT

Shadowrun is a tabletop RPG setting taking place in our world, in the 2070s. It's a cyberpunk setting, where corporations have more power than the nations and money (specifically, the 'Nuyen') is king. It's filled with fairly standard cyberpunk tropes, such as rebelling against society, capitalism, faceless corporations grinding people into dust, etc. There's also a lot of advanced technology, with cybernetics and a wireless Augmented Reality based internet replacement called the Matrix permeating the world on every level.

Oh, also magic is real, in a BIG way. Wizards exist. One of the world's biggest megacorporations is run by a literal Dragon. Chicago is a hellscape overrun by unkillable Insect Spirits. People have a chance to turn into Elves, Dwarves, Orcs, Trolls or any other kind of fantasy creature at birth or puberty. The result is a mix of William Gibson, Tolkien and pulp fantasy that results in a setting not quite like anything else.

Players take the role of 'Shadowrunners', deniable assets. Criminals for hire, mostly by the other corporations in covert operations against each other. They can exist to make a quick buck, or to further their own political agendas long-term. In this AU, I fuse this hot mess of a setting with the plot of Fire Emblem 4, with a focus on the second generation.

"Watch your back. Shoot Straight. Conserve ammo. And never, ever, cut a deal with a dragon." - Street proverb.

BASIC SHADOWRUN TIMELINE

In the early 2000s, corporations of a certain size were granted rights as micronations and a great deal of power due to an incident during a trucker strike in New York. The rest of the 2000s was fairly standard cyberpunk fare, with the ascent of MegaCorporations and hypercapitalism taking place, as well as great leaps in augmetic research. Then, in 2011, everything went straight to hell. VITAS, an unexplained virus, took out ten percent of the world's population - and children started being born with strange genetic changes, resembling stereotypical Dwarves and Elves from western fantasy. Multiple civil wars erupt as countries lose more and more power as corporations become more dominant, Scotland becomes highly irradiated, the Korean War resumes, and it just keeps getting worse and worse.

Then, on December 24 2011, The Awakening happened.

The Great Eastern Dragon Ryumyo erupts from his sleeping place underneath Mount Fuji in Japan. Daniel Coleman leads a group of Native American protesters into the desert, while manifesting a magical forcefield that prevents the US Army from shooting them. Leylines and other magical phenomena start appearing. Regular human people undergoing adolescence start to undergo Goblinization, turning into Orcs, Trolls, Oni and other such races. Several other Dragons appear and start attacking or aiding humanity, and everything is descending into outright chaos and confusion until finally the Western Dragon Dunkelzhan lands outside Denver and gives a twelve hour interview explaining what was happening.

Every few thousand years, magic either manifests or leaves the Earth, creating a new Age. In the 2000s, Earth was entering the newest Age, with magic returning in violent form. People began to become mages of various kinds, spirits appeared, paranormal creatures from all kinds of mythologies manifested - and the Dragons were the most important part. Dunkelzhan became known as the greatest ally of humanity, Ryumyo made it clear that nobody was to ever attack Japan, Hestaby became the protector of the Elven race and set up the nation of Tir Tairngire, and most importantly Lofywr - arguably the main antagonist/protagonist of the setting - gained control of one of the ten MegaCorporations forming the Corporate Court, Saeder-Krupp in Germany.

Rather than go too far in detail on what happened between the 2020s and the 2070s in which this AU is set, I'll hit a few more major events. The Internet was destroyed by the Crash Virus, resulting in the creation of the semi-wireless VR based system called the Matrix; the United States fell apart, forming the United Canadian & American States (UCAS, Canada and eastern seaboard USA), Confederation of American States (the south), and Native American Nations (NAN, mostly the western seaboard); The corporation Aztechnology managed to unite all of South America into one nation they called Aztlan, essentially setting up a dictatorship with very good PR; Dunkelzhan was voted President of the UCAS, only to be assassinated shortly afterwards; the other nine members of the Corporate Court and many minor corporations gave Aztechnology a bloody nose with Operation RECIPROCITY, a joint military strike warning them against expanding past Mexico; A second Crash was initiated by a terror group, causing the end of the VR Matrix and its eventual replacement with an Augmented Reality and fully wireless version; and Chicago falls victim to the Insect Spirits, a malevolent magical force that can't really be stopped, only delayed. It becomes a hell on earth called 'Bug City' that nobody ever goes to.

For more detailed information, I suggest picking up one of the Core Books (20th Anniversary Edition and 5th Edition are the ones I use most), listening to a few episodes of the Neo-Anarchist Podcast (an in-character history podcast from the perspective of a Neo-Anarchist Crow Shaman, Opti) or bugging me on Discord because I am always down to talk Shadowrun lore.

SHADOWRUN GLOSSARY

MEGACORPS AND THE CORPORATE COURT: Corporations that are large enough to have Extraterritoriality, which essentially means that while on ground they own, you follow their rules. The ten largest corporations are referred to as AAA Corporations, and have a seat on the Corporate Court - the closest thing the world has to a ruling body or oversight committee with the complete irrelevance of any individual country or the UN. The current corporations on the Corporate Court circa 2070, ranked from most powerful to weakest, are:

Saeder-Krupp: A German conglomerate based on steel, heavy industrial goods, cars, arms and communications, particularly in Europe - where it has a monopoly on all those markets. Its majority shareholder is Lofwyr, a Great Dragon and the most powerful individual in the setting.

Ares Macrotechnology, a Detroit-based mix of automotive, steel and arms companies. Corporate culture is based off the US Military

Aztechnology: Based in consumer goods, chemistry and magical research. Owns South America as a country they call 'Aztlan', steeped in Aztec culture.

EVO (formerly Yamatetsu): Shipping and infrastructure. Originally Japanese, later became Russia- based.

Horizon: The unholy fusion of Disney and Facebook. A multimedia and social marketing nightmare.

Mitsuhama Computer Technologies: A money laundering op for the Yakuza that became succesful enough for them to go straight.

NeoNET: Formed from the merger of Transys Neuronet, Erika, and Novatech following the Crash 2.0

Renraku Computer Systems: Japan-based computer and arms company.

Shiawase Corporation: The first megacorp. Energy production, biotech and environmental procedures.

Wuxing: a Hong Kong-based company based on shipping goods.

SHADOWRUNNERS: Criminals for hire. Actually exist in a quasi-legal state, as mercenaries - and can be hired for entirely legal jobs. This normally isn't the case.

MR. / MRS JOHNSON: The moniker used by those hiring shadowrunners, for deniability. Occasionally changes name based on region. 

THE MATRIX: Currently, an Augmented Reality wireless network that replaced the internet and the first, VR-based matrix. Accessed by everyone wearing contacts or other eyewear (cybernetic or glasses) and either special gloves or implated electrodes in their fingers that let them interact with it. May be quasi-magical in nature, but that is still up for debate.

COMMLINKS: Smartphones that let you run your own personal 'node' on the Matrix.

DECKER: Hackers, who use special edited commlinks called Cyberdecks to access parts of the matrix denied to others.

CYBERWARE: Cybernetic enhancements of any kind.

BIOWARE: Biological enhancements of any kind, such as genetically engineered muscles.

TECHNOMANCERS: People who don't need Commlinks to access the Matrix.

MAGES: Magic users who manifest magic in the traditional sense.

ADEPTS: Magic users who manifest their abilities by changing their physical form - shapeshifting, increased strength, changing voice and appearance, etc.

ESSENCE: The 'soul' of a person, which also determines magical ability. Too many augmentations eats away at your Essence, making it harder for you to cast or resist magic.

STREET SAMURAI: The ‘muscle’ of a shadowrun team, normally with cyberware and bioware up to their eyebrows. 

RIGGER: Anyone who drives vehicles or pilots drones. 

FACE: The member of a shadowrun team who does the talking. 

GEN 1 PLOTLINE

The first generation of FE4 is kept fairly uneventful in comparison to the game. Most of the major houses are transitioned into A- or AA-level megacorps, not large enough to be part of the Corporate Council but with a high amount of power in their own rights. These include:

The Grannvale Collective, a collection of A-level corps who manage to operate at the AA and fringe AAA level by consensus. They consist of Friege Energy (an alternative energy distributor), Velthomer MagiTech (magical theory & equipment), Barhara Heavy Industry, Edda Medical, Chalphy Security Solutions (a private police force), Dosel Dynamics (a spinoff of Edda Medical, focusing on augmetics) and Jungby Mobility (vehicles and alternative personal transport).

Silesse Aerodynamics, one of the largest non-Ares investors in the new Space Race.

Thracia Group Solutions, a multimedia company that was on the verge of qualifying for the Corporate Cort before internal power struggles between Thracia itself and its rapidly rising subdivision Manster MMT, a private security force and magitech developer.

Verdane Agriculture, one of the few distributors of fresh food to the UCAS outside of Aztechnology.

Miletost Mercantile Solutions, a trading & gambling company that barely scrapes A-level status.

Isaach Industries, creating experimental weapons and armor with a focus on close-range urban environments.

Agustria Analogue, an entertainment company.

The only major shakeup during the 2030s through early 2060s is the capturing of Sigurd's wife Deirdre, by a team of shadowrunners hired by the Great Dragon Loptyr (more on him in this AU later). She is kept in hiding while a team of mages carefully wipe memories from her, working to set up the next stage in Loptyr's plan. Sigurd devotes a large amount of time and Chalphy's resources to trying to find her, resulting in it beginning to falter as a company and losing several lucrative contracts to LoneStar or Ares Knight Errant. It looks as though the other members of the Grannvale Collective are preparing to eject Chalphy from the collective, until late 2064 rolls around.

On November 2nd 2064, the terrorist groups Winternight and Ex Pacis initiate the Crash 2.0, destroying the VR Matrix and causing untold damage to corporations, nations and individuals worldwide. This works as the 'Barhara' equivalent, even without the direct involvement of Velthomer Magical, and results in the death or un-personing of many of the first generation characters. The few weeks with no real matrix capabilities are chaotic, but when the dust settles a new status quo has emerged.

Silesse Aerodynamics is no more, having been dissolved and its assets acquired by Ares. 

Manster MMT has split from Thracia Group Solutions, becoming its own corporation att odds with TGS

Agustria Analogue was bought out by Horizon Media during their ascent to AAA status. 

Verdane Agriculture and Miletos Mercantile Solutions were bought out by Aztechnology. 

The Grannvale Collective is reduced to a total of three corporations - Velthomer MagiTech, Friege Energy and Barhara Heavy Industries.  Velthomer has absorbed Chalphy Security Solutions as well as Edda Medical and Dosel Dynamics, with Friege acquiring Jungby Mobility. The sudden reappearance of Deirdre results in her remarrying to Arvis, resulting in the merger of Barhara Heavy Industries and Velthomer MagiTech into the renamed Velthomer-Barhara Corporation. VBC starts applying for AAA status, and becomes seriously considered for it. 

Notable survivors from the first generation of the game include Finn, Quan & Ethlyn - who manage to keep Manster MMT afloat as its own corporation despite heavy pressure from Thracia. Sigurd died during a hit by a shadowrunner team hired by Arvis on advice from Manfroy. Deirdre, instead of dying at Julius' hands, is assassinated by Manfroy's shadowrunner teams after she starts digging into the past life she forcibly forgot about too far. Manster MMT tries its best to find Seliph, but he seems to have vanished off the face of the earth. Ethlyn never stops looking.

GEN 2 PLOT HOOK

By the 2070s, we have entered the second generation proper. The new Matrix is well in effect, and Velthomer-Barhara has begun talks with Friege Energy to merge into Granvalle Incorporated, headed by Julius and Ishtar post merger. Such a move would bring them onto the Corporate Court for sure, furthering Loptyr's shadowy plan. Most of the rest of the second generation and any survivors from the first generation have been forced into the shadows, when someone starts leaking information to them regarding the merger - and the possible motives behind it. 

Oifey starts acting on it, gathering those he can find and getting funding from Manster MMT to equip and train these Shadowrunners to start acting against Velthomer-Barhara directly.

LOPTYR'S PLAN

Like some of the other Great Dragons, Loptyr despises humanity. Instead of retreating into seclusion or rampages like Sirrug or the Sea Dragon, however, Loptyr takes a page out of Lofwyr and Hestaby's books - he will bring about the downfall of humanity with them as his implements. He identified Deirdre and Arvis as relatives, using this connection to create Julius and Julia both - the resulting twisted nature of their bloodline making them highly susceptible to becoming hosts to the destructive Insect Spirits that led to the fall of Chicago. He intends for Velthomer-Barhara to obtain AAA status, become one with the Corporate Court, and then use that position to destroy the AAA Corporations through an Insect Spirit conspiracy and leave the world leaderless, falling into chaos.

CHARACTERS

ISHTAR is the heiress of Friege Energy, who goblinized into an Elf during puberty. Her brother Ishtore remained unchanged, which resulted in her mother Hilda focusing on her as the next great thing for Friege. She eventually also manifested abilities as a powerful Technomancer, capable of interfacing with the AR matrix without use of a Commlink or other devices. She is engaged to Julius, waiting for the paperwork to go through before marrying him and resulting in the eventual merger of Friege and Velthomer-Barhara into what they plan to call Grannvale Incorporated, certain to replace NeoNet as the tenth AAA corporation on the Corporate Court. Recently she suspects that all is not right in Velthomer-Barhara, and has begun digging into the shady deals of Arvis' 'Head of Human Resources', Manfroy. She's the one who leaked this information to Oifey and Tine, hoping they can act on it some more and right things before they get out of hand. 

JULIUS is the heir of the Velthomer-Barhara Corporation, and a child marked by Loptyr's breeding program as a perfect host to an Insect Spirit. Manfroy manages to get him possessed by his fifteenth birthday, resulting in him becoming the same kind of twisted individual he is in canon - just now with the regenerative and magical powers that the Insect Spirits gift to their hosts. 

SELIPH and many of the other Second Generation units lost their SINs and resources during the Crash 2.0, being forced into hiding as unpersons while other corporations looted their homes and lives. They either live homeless, or turn to the quasi-legal life of Shadowrunners to survive and perhaps seek justice against those that wronged them during the Crash. 

CED was the heir apparent to Silesse Aerospace, before the Crash 2.0. He was unpersoned like his sister following the Crash, his parents dying when their spacecraft lost computing ability and crashed into the ocean. He uses his impressive magical abilities as a Shadowrunner to great effect, generating quite a reputation in the Seattle area as he begins to gather allies and resources for his ultimate goal: exposing and bringing down Damien Knight, CEO of Ares. 

TINE is a former heiress of Friege, who lost her SIN during the Crash and due to the machinations of Hilda never managed to recover it. Ishtar has been keeping close tabs on her since the Crash, trying to send help whenever she can and acting as a high-level corporate contact should she decide to turn to Shadowrunning to survive.

NANNA lost everything but her father when Agustria was bought out by Horizon, including her SIN. Fortunately, Quan and Ethlyn managed to move to protect her on Finn's request - bringing her into Manster MMT by wedding her to her childhood friend and longtime crush, Leif. She now works as a high-end PR agent for the firm, keeping an eye open for her half-brother Diarmuid should he ever resurface.  

FINN is Manster MMT's head of security, responsible for their own sites and their hiring of Shadowrunners - as a result, many of Gen 2 know him by the moniker 'Mr Johnson'. He is a combat cyborg, heavily augmented and mourning the loss of his wife Lachesis during the Crash. Notably, he has impressive combat experience thanks to time as a field commander in Operation RECIPROCITY, giving him an intimidating reputation in the security field. 

LEWYN survived the Crash, but only barely. He later resurfaced in Tir Tairngire under the new name of Holsety, using his status as an Elf to apply for new citizenship. He has no idea that Ced and Fee survived, and manages to get a job with Horizon Media as a magical consultant.

#Notes;AU Primer #Running The Shadows;Shadowrun AU

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So now that I have binge watched the half of season 2, I’ve gotta say it’s still not going to be something I look forward to every week for new content. The attempted writing course correction is off kilter. First, why are they trying their hand at writing Doctor Who-ish Star Trek? That’s just...not compatible. I mean sure if you try your hand at fanfic crossover but for something that one would call canon material, it’s just...nope. 

Trying to shove, at times, four different seemingly important narration pieces into one episode time frame is not a good thing; especially since they didn’t start that way. The only pros that I can see that they have tried to expand somewhat and give time to the rest of the bridge crew and maybe Pike (though they are trying too hard to make him a polar opposite of Lorca). 

That being said, is every season going to have a captain change? Because we know Pike is not going to be here for more than season 2. Also, the red angel thing? It will probably be some crew member or use-one-time-and-throw-away character we may have heard of or seen once but more likely Michael Burnham because everything and everyone seems to spin on all their axes around her. Personally, the design somewhat reminds me of Iconians that I have seen in STO game. But I seriously doubt it will happen. Connecting it to Spock and him having a la Motion Picture experience but like 10x over is just...eh? 

Related to Spock, what is it with writers trying to make Sarek look like a heartless douchebag of a parent and the rest of the Vulcans racist, xenophobic and apparently ableist assholes? Like, how did they even come to that decision? We went from enigmatic people who prefer to employ logic and supress their rather strong emotions, to somewhat layered society where all is not shinny and perfect as they would have liked to project to intergalactic society to blatantly being asshatsTM right next to Klingons? Just so Amanda can ‘drag’ Sarek and the rest of the society for like five minutes? 

And don’t get me started with Klingons. Now they apparently more-less have hair so they resemble LOTR orcs even more so, they still like to eat flesh of their enemies and I feel like L’Rell is gonna be seeing chopping block very soon. Plus the whole L’Rell and Voq’s son thing written just to get ‘Ash Tyler’ off of Qo’noS was just unremarkable. I forgot the baby even existed by the time I started the next episode. 

Which leads me to Ash Tyler and Section 31. What? That is in no way a good combination. That man needs time off and extensive therapy; not being involved with a bunch of paranoid backstabers and wannabe genocidal maniacs. Section 31 has never ever been a good thing and I hope writers are not expecting people to cheer for that particular organization as if they are good guys. They are not and will never be. Also, that dumbass comment Cornwell gave to Pike about ‘nation building is messy is never pretty’ just had me facepalming so hard.

I mean, I would ask why she is even commanding Section 31, but this is the woman who was all for genocide of Klingon people just like a week ago so I guess those are waters she’s is comfortable swimming in. (The only thing I am not sure about her is if this is her pre or post POW character trait.)

Also, though I can realize they did it solely for purpose of creating drama because they don’t know how to effectively do it otherwise, the dick measuring contest between Ash and Pike was just fucking dumb and why they decided to have PIke as a captain who everyone can walk all over like 98% time confuses me. I cannot imagine Picard, Sisko, Janeway or Kirk tolerating Ash’s nigh constant disruptive behaviour for one hot minute. Hell, Archer had Malcolm Reed, a man he had known for years, relieved of duty and thrown in the brig after covering up the fact the Klingons had Phlox kidnapped via Rigelians. 

So Pike being absolutely wary of the man he does not know and is by all accounts a murderer now working in black ops organization, that has very little to no oversight and involves killing and sabotage as routine jobs, is entirely justified. ‘You owe me an explanation.’ Huh? I just knew that seventh episode would have Ash and Pike ‘reconcile their differences’ but honestly, I would have had Ash in the cooling tank and in therapy session which still wouldn’t excuse him acting like a jackass on the bridge of all places. Like weee, here’s my black badge which means I am entitled to every piece of information that may or may not be related to the mission at hand. No. 

What exactly are they hoping to do with his character? Obviously, not to get him or anyone else better because counselor is simply error 404: Discovery counselor not found. This section 31 thing should not last until the end of the season. Should not have happened in the first place but oh well. Are they aiming to have some sort of retcon happen via red angel thingy? Perhaps trying to reintroduce the whole time war story thing? If they are, it’s a messy, shoddy way of doing it. I guess it will be show by the end of the season. Also, they might want to work on Michael experiencing/doing something other than angst.

#star trek #star trek discovery #it was a mess and it is still a mess #it doesn't say much that your probably most interesting characters are yet again a captain and a killer from mirror universe #right next to sylvia tilly and paul stamets