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staarlight-snow · 9 months

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Murky Waters (part 2) - Island of the Slaughtered

TW: Gorey descriptions, Strong/Foul language

[Inspired by "last thoughts" by muridaecorps]

My take/interpretation of Noah's death

Part 1

"You know what? Fuck you." Noah blurted out. He gripped unto his book – quickly turning around. Storming off, heading towards the forest. "Noah! You can't just leave it's not safe!" Someone called out. "Tsk.. Let him be." Duncan crossed his arms, "He'll come running back in seconds." After all what kind of idiot would actually run off just like that.

Stupid island, stupid Duncan, stupid fucking Chris. He hated being stuck in a small island with a killer on a loose, who wouldn't? But he hated putting his safety in the hands of a jerky deliquent who does nothing but boss everyone around. Who does Duncan even think he is? Just because he's been in juvenile detention and he's punk doesn't mean he's right for a leadership role.

He continued to angrily make his way deeper into the forest. Stopping at his tracks. Fuck. He was lost. Shit. He was far away from the others. He quickly turned around, retracing his steps.

Noah you fucking idiot, he cursed himself. He quickened his pace, realizing the situation he was at. The sun was setting, the forest was getting darker and all the trees started to look the same.

Then there it was. His body froze up. Shit. He swear his heart dropped right down to his stomach. His breathing became frantic and his mind became hazy. The bushes started to rustle as the figure got closer. So he ran.

He ran, fast. He ran, for his life. No, no, no, no. It can't end like this. He promised Cody they'd get out of there. Not like this please. He still had plans for his future, aspirations and dreams. Of course! Everyone did.

He felt a stream of tears roll down his cheeks as he ran faster. He hated this so much. He hated himself for not participating in any kinds of sports. He ran as quick as he could.

He stopped by a tree to catch his breath. Bad idea right? He just needed a breather, even for a few seconds. His nails dug deep into the novel in his hands. His heart beated faster than he could possibly have ever felt. He looked behind him. Nothing.

He tried to steady his breathing. Just for a second. He started to regret everything, signing that stupid contract, arguing with Duncan, storming off. He regret it all. He closed his eyes. He just wants to go home. He just to leave. He wanted to get out of here. He wanted to get back to camp. He wanted to see Cody again, he seemed to forget every little thing he hated about Cody – cause right now, all he wanted was his friend.

He opened his eyes to a burning feeling around his neck. His eyes widened. Fuck. He dropped the book and desperately tried to get the rope off him. He caught a glimpse of the sickened man behind him, he grinned at the poor teen.

"P-please..." He choked out, "I.. I don't wanna die-" He cried. There was no point. Did he really think a cold-hearted murderer would spare his life?

The rope stung against his neck and it hurt more from the scratches he made attempting to get rid of it. He mind felt hazy and he was light-headed. He fell over, too weak to move from where he was. Fuck.

He was still breathing. Barely. But it gave him a slight taste of hope. He was in terrible shape but maybe he could survive this. If he pretended to be dead and out cold maybe the murderer would leave him there. Or so he thought.

He cried out, feeling a sharp pain in his shoulder. His vision was blurry but he saw it. The knife, deep into him. No. He felt light, he was being carried. Next thing he knew everything was cold, dark and wet. Fuck.

His blood pooled around the pond. He wanted to get out, swim. He knew he could swim but his body was too weak. Slowly, he gave up and succumbed to his death.

It's unfair.

Sequel ish

#total drama #td noah #tdi #total drama island #island of the slaughtered #total drama au #noco #td duncan #tw horror #tw death

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garnettfox · 1 month

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Miracubots AU

Sooooo, me and a friend reconnected after a few years of silence (Thanks depression) and discovered not only do we still share similar old fandom brainrot, but we share NEW fandom brain rot and have very similar opinions about the Miraculous series, which lead into the brainrots fusing and with their permission. I present. THE MIRACUBOTS AU

AKA What if we took the cool and interesting magic system and initial set up of Miraculous....AKA the only good bits, and put it in a show with great writing and characters who we love and who deserve to go feral on a villain every now and again?

The AU takes place instead of the canon season four, Cody is aged up a little to 14/15, Doctor Morroco never lost his Verns device to Madeline Pynch so he's still around to be a menace, and the Prime bots...We haven't fully established if Prime is still happening, or if it's after RiD but the Autobots are still around and mentioned occasionally. And since it's a different version of season 4, the bots are still undercover to the town, only the family knowing they are sentient.

Madeline takes stage as the main villain of the series having acquired the Butterfly Miraculous and after discovering Nooroo and it's power, forcing the Kwami to tell her all about the other Miraculous, including the fact that using two of them, the Ladybug and Black Cat together gives one the power to alter reality.

Seeing an easy way to get her goal of being the riches and most powerful person on the planet, she forces Nooroo to tell her where the Miracle box is, but the poor Kwami can only confirm he senses it on Griffin Rock. With her goal in mind Pynch uses the Butterfly to become Swallowtail creating her first Akuma to draw out the guardian and hopefully the Miraculous she seeks.

Master Fu once he realizes what is happening, charges Tikki and Plagg to find two children they resinate strongly with to become the new holders of their Miraculous, reasoning that Children will be easy to teach and control, and he'd be better able to take the Miraculous back from children if the pair chose poorly.

To no one in this fandom's surprise, Cody Burns is who's picked by Tikki to be her holder. He does try to convince her to go to his dad or siblings so they can protect her after she tells him she's what the Akuma is after. But Tikki insists that she picked the right person to be her holder able to sence Cody having a loving heart full of courage.

Cody becomes the new Ladybug Hero Beetletron! looking very much like a miniature version of one of the Rescuebots, though one with a beetle Altmord, when he asks about it Tikki explains that it's because well, the Rescuebots have more or lest become his mental image of what a hero should *be* and thus the Miraculous copied their form. The name comes from Cody trying to think of a Cybertronian sounding name and vaguely remembering hearing the bots talk about some important mech from Cybertron....something-tron? Well it sounds robotic and he's a beetle so, Beetletron!

Fighting against the Akuma he's joined by another hero, a girl in a cyber punk looking get up, dark leathers and neon greens with a head covering mask, she even has a USB cable acting as a tail that she can use with her tech knowhow to hack! The new Black Cat introduces herself as Felidae Fatale, named for the scientific cat family Felidae, and well, she might not be the classic version of a Femme Fatale, she'll prove she can be just as badass as they can be.

Working together feeling like they've known each other for years though they just met, they beat the Akuma, and when Swallowtail makes her threat to claim their Miraculous's they confidently announce they'll make sure a villain like her, never wins.

In the aftermath the pair meet up and agree, keeping a secret identity from the other would be pretty silly considering the life and death danger their in, so. Reveal themselves.

And Cody laughs crying as he hugs his best friend Frankie, as there really could be no other person it would be.

Feel free to tell me or ask me about this AU, We have a TON of stuff planned out, what Miraculous's people get, Akuma forms for almost everyone. Admitedly have some self-indulgent stuff like putting in OC's we love to use XD but it's all in good fun

#rescue bots #transformers #transformers rescue bots #cody burns #frankie greene #miraculous ladybug #miraculous au #ladybug miraculous #black cat miraculous #miraculous tikki #madeline pynch #tf #Transformers rescue bots humans #maccadam #rb

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juceynightmare · 1 year

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dating 101 (18+) part 7 - cody rhodes x reader

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pairing(s): cody rhodes x reader, roman reigns x reader

warning(s): swearing, alcohol and marijuana usage, dry humping, use of pet names, massive pda

genre(s): college!au, slow burn, fluff, some sexual content

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sprawled out on cody’s bed, comfy and warm under his sheets, was y/n. her phone was in her hands as she mindlessly scrolled through tiktok while cody was getting dressed for the party, and ted was preparing a presentation for one of his classes. she was already dressed and ready to party, a few shots already in her system to get rid of her nerves for when she would eventually see roman again. speaking of the devil, her phone buzzed in her hand as roman’s text appeared as a notification on her screen.

[roman] you ready?

[y/n] yeah, waiting up on cody though, he’s still getting dressed

[roman] alright, when should i head over?

[y/n] we’re pregaming right now, i think it’s fine if you wanna come over now. celadon 314

[roman] alright, i’ll see you soon, doll.

[y/n] see you soon roman <3

she smiled at her phone, her heart jumping in her chest. she shut her phone and reached over to place it on cody’s desk, turning over in the bed so she was laying on her side. roman and y/n had been texting nonstop the entire day, talking about anything and everything. so much so, that y/n had found herself distracted during her lecture times as she’d spend more of her attention on roman rather than the actual class material.

“roman’s coming soon.” she announced, looking over at cody just as he pulled a black compression long sleeve shirt on. y/n quickly averted her gaze once she found herself staring at the way cody’s back muscles had flexed as he put on the shirt, her mouth suddenly feeling dry.

“alright, i’m pretty much ready to go anyway.” cody said as he turned around to face her. “come on, get out of bed, you’re going to ruin your hair, sweetheart.” he said, walking over to where she was and watching as she pulled his blanket over her head.

ted glanced over at the two and rolled his eyes before turning his attention back to his work. “you guys act like an old married couple.” he commented.

cody had managed to pull his blanket off of y/n, and grabbed her hands so he could pull her up and out of bed. he scoffed at ted’s statement, and teased him, “you’re jealous that she keeps my bed warm for me.”

y/n laughed as cody pulled her up, eventually sitting up up his bed and pulling her hands out of his grasp. she flattened her hair and said, “don’t worry teddy, i’ll keep your bed warm!” her innocence in her statement and her gaze shocked the two men, and they were certain she had no idea what the statement implied.

before the two of them could ruin y/n’s innocence, y/n pushed herself up to stand up, reaching for the bottle of tito’s that was rested on cody’s table. she lined up the three shot cups, filling them all up as cody laughed, “you’re gonna be a mess by the time we get there, sweetheart.”

y/n shook her head, capping the bottle and handing ted his shot cup while cody grabbed his own. “i’ll be fine, codes. and if anything, i’ll have roman there” she assured him. she picked up her cup and held it out for the three of them to cheers to before they downed their shots.

y/n’s face twisted in disgust as she set her cup down. she grabbed the can of coke cody had held out to her, quickly chasing down the vodka with a large gulp of coke before handing the can back over to cody. “god that’s fucking horrible, it just gets worse everytime.” she coughed out.

besides her, cody laughed at her disgust, setting down his shot cup and the coke back on the table. he placed his hand on the small of y/n’s back, rubbing his thumb in small circles against her skin. “that means you’re one step closer to being fucked up.” cody pointed out.

ted reached up from where he was sat, pinching y/n’s cheek lightly. “and you’re already starting to turn red, you lightweight.” he teased. she shook her head in reply, leaning into cody’s side and shutting her eyes.

“not a lightweight.” she defended herself, feeling cody pull her closer to him. she turned herself slightly so she could wrap her arms around cody’s waist.

y/n was the touchy type of drunk, always wanting to be touched by, or touching someone else. ted and cody would often find themselves with y/n clinging on to them as if she were a koala, and would have to continue drinking and smoking with her in their lap.

a knock on the door caught their attention, although y/n didn’t budge from where she was attached to cody. she whined as he tried to pry her off, letting out a loud, “nooo why are you pushing me away? codyyy”

ted laughed as he stood up. “i got it codes.” he told his roommate as he walked over to the door and pulled it open.

at the doorway stood roman, jey, and jimmy, roman’s twin cousins. “what’s up uce!” yelled cody from inside the room as ted stood off to the side.

roman, jimmy, and jey all greeted ted and shook his hand before walking in, their eyes widening at the sight in front of them.

cody was still trying to pry y/n off of him, who had decided the best form of defense was to sit down on the floor and wrap both her arms and legs around cody’s own leg. the side of her face was pressed against cody’s knee, facing away from the guests that had just arrived.

“not everyday i see you actively trying to get a girl off of you, cody.” jey mused with laughter.

“is that the shy y/n that big uce keeps talking about?” jimmy chimed in, looking over at roman for his reaction to the situation.

for a second, roman’s expression was almost scary, not liking the way y/n was clinging on to cody and didn’t seem to want to let go. that was, until a loud, “roman!” rang through the room.

y/n had finally turned her head to look at whoever walked in, a wide smile appearing on her face once she saw roman had walked in. immediately, y/n let go of cody and stood herself up, bounding over to roman with a slight bounce in her step. she stood in front of him, swaying slightly. “hi roman!”

roman looked over y/n’s outfit, licking his lips and not even attempting to hide the way he was satisfied that y/n had stopped clinging on to cody just to walk over to him in such a cute manner. “hi y/n.” he laughed, his arm quick to wrap around y/n’s waist to steady her. “how many did she have?” he asked, turning his head to look at cody.

y/n wanted to melt right there, roman’s strong grip on her erupting butterflies in her stomach.

“uh,” cody began, grabbing a sharpie from off the table. he walked over to the two, focusing his eyes on y/n’a shoulder so he wouldn’t glare at the place where roman was touching her. “3 now.” he answered with a laugh as he grabbed y/n’s hand gently. he turned her hand to show the two tally marks that were on her wrist, before using the sharpie to add a third line.

“only 3?” jey gasped out, cody confirming with a nod and handing roman the sharpie.

“lightweight.” every man rang out in unison, much to the dismay of y/n who pouted out her bottom lip.

“i’ll take care of her.” roman assured, his gaze still fixed down on y/n in his arms. the way y/n’s cheeks had flushed a deep red at his comment had left roman content knowing that her blush was so deep because of him.

“good luck with that, she’s a real clingy one. don’t expect to pull anyone else while she’s clinging on to you.” cody laughed as he held out new shot cups to jimmy, jey, and roman.

“i already have my doll in my arms, why would i need to score another one?” roman mumbled under his breath, his gaze flickering down to y/n who had heard what he said. he winked at her, pulling her by the waist so she was tucked and pressed right against his side.

“alright boys, one for the road and lets get out of here!” cody whooped and hollered as he filled up their cups, before setting the bottle back down on his desk.

“let’s have a great night tonight and party hard!” jimmy yelled out, as the men brought their shot cups to the middle to touch before downing their drinks.

y/n didn’t remember how long they’ve been at the party, or even when they got there. her memory was already a blur, only able to focus on the way that roman had kept her pressed right up against him in any way possible since the moment they had met up at cody’s room.

y/n downed another shot of whatever roman was giving her, the cheap alcohol burning down her throat.

the frat house was packed, cody, jimmy, and jey no longer anywhere in sight from the moment they entered. roman was quick to pull y/n into the bar area where there was less people, and the music was loud enough for y/n to sing along to for roman.

currently, y/n’s back was pressed against roman’s front as she swayed her hips innocently to the song playing over the speakers. she felt roman grab her hand to mark another tally on her forearm, and she giggled at the way her skin tingled with sensation where he touched her.

“did i get a chance to tell you how beautiful you look in your outfit?” y/n heard him whisper against her eye, his words slurred from the countless drinks roman had already downed. she leaned back against him further as his arms circled around her waist, a giggle leaving her lips.

“no, no you didn’t.” she answered, tilting her head back to look up at him.

roman brought his hand up to wrap around her throat, using his other arm to turn her around in his grasp. he flipped them around so he could press y/n back against a wall, pressing his hips flush against her front.

y/n gasped, her body suddenly feeling weak as roman pressed her against the wall.

“you look stunning, doll. i know every guy here wishes he could be in my position right now.” roman whispered lowly, removing his hand from her throat to place it behind her head.

the breath was knocked out of y/n’s lungs once roman rolled his hips against her, his hand on her waist guiding her to wrap her legs around his own waist.

she jumped up slightly, wrapping her legs around roman’s waist as he fully pressed his body against her to keep her against the wall.

her breath was knocked out of her lungs once more when she felt roman’s mouth on hers, the man’s hands lowering to grab her ass as he continued to roll his hips into hers.

the kiss was messy, full of tongue, and tasted like alcohol. but the way that roman was grinding against her had y/n moaning into the kiss. her hands got tangled in roman’s hair, pulling and tugging at it and making roman moan against her.

roman pulled away too quickly for y/n’s liking, his lips traveling down the girl’s neck to suck and bite at the skin there.

“roman.” she gasped out, tightening her grip on his waist with her legs and grinding down against him.

“i knew you were a slut under that shy facade, babygirl.” he mumbled against her skin, one of his hands trailing up to cup her breast. roman pulled away from her neck bringing his head back up to kiss her as he fondled her breast in his large hand. y/n gasped and moaned as he roughly toyed with her breast, causing roman to growl against her mouth, “good fucking girl. keep moaning for me while i play with you.”

the two got lost in themselves, the alcohol in their systems further fueling them. suddenly, it felt as if someone had bumped into roman rather forcefully, and forced y/n and roman to pull away from each other. roman turned his head to glare at whoever it was that bumped into them, only for his gaze to soften once he saw cody stumbling over his own two feet in a drunken haze.

“ah shit sorry guys, didn’t mean to ruin it. i’m heading back with lissette here. bring y/n back safe, roman.” cody apologized, his arm wrapped around another obviously drunk girl’s waist that was currently attached to cody’s neck.

y/n pressed her face into roman’s neck, feeling extremely embarrassed that her best friend had caught her in a heated moment with roman.

“go have fun, uce. i already told you that i got her.” roman shoo’d off cody, watching as the blonde man nodded and turned on his heel to leave the area. roman would miss the satisfied smile that appeared on cody’s face the moment his back was to roman and y/n. he’d also miss the way cody had straightened himself out and was able to walk out of the house as if he were completely sober, even with a girl clinging on to him and kissing away at cody’s lips and neck.

roman turned his attention back to y/n, setting her down gently. the nerves had settled in for the both of them, the reality of their situation kicking in to overdrive.

“roman, i feel like i’m gonna throw up.” y/n mumbled weakly as her head began to feel as if it were pounding. she pulled her face away from his neck to look up at him.

“yeah, you drank a lot, doll.” roman laughed, pressing a gentle kiss to y/n’s forehead. roman kept her held against him, his arms wrapped around her waist.

y/n leaned into his touch, bringing her arms up to wrap around roman’s neck as she rested the side of her head against his chest.

“want me to bring you back to your dorm? it looks like the party’s dying out anyway.” roman asked, rubbing circles into y/n’s back with his large palm.

it was as if she was caught in a trance in his gaze, her whole body feeling as if she were floating on the ocean waves. she was reaching the point of being unable to tell if the way her body was reacting was because of how drunk she was, or because of the way roman was touching her.

she nodded her head, and whispered, “pretty please.”

“of course, sweetheart.” she heard him say, her eyebrows furrowing together in confusion. roman picked her up bridal style, determining that she wasn’t able to walk on her own and carried her out of the house.

y/n could have sworn that for a second, it was cody’s voice calling her sweetheart and not roman’s voice.

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#cody rhodes x reader #cody rhodes #cody rhodes imagine #cody rhodes fanfiction #wwe x reader #wwe #wwe fanfic #wwe fanfiction #roman reigns imagine #roman reigns fanfic #roman reigns fanfiction #roman reigns x reader

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eldritch-nightmare · 5 months

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fuck it here's my friendship headcanons for the creeps bc why not

jeff, ej, and ben r all besties.

liu, helen, and ann r all besties.

liu wants jeff dead and jeff wants to b a family again but liu will never forgive him

og nina and jeff are Awkwardly friends. in a strained way.

og nina highly respects jane and liu but will not hesitate to get into a brawl w them

ej and sully are besties

toby and liu are friends

toby and natalie are friends in a way where they rarely ever speak to each other but they got a tight bond and will commit heinous acts of violence to keep the other safe

natalie and liu are friends to exes who hate each other to exes who get along bc that liu x natalie lore i had when i was younger is just too ingrained into my being for me to get rid of

lazari, sally, and ben are all friends.

slender and zalgo are friends idc i never understood why they had beef w each other in various different stories in the fandom to me they meet up with each other every week to have tea and discuss whatever comes up as a topic

helen and the puppeteer are friends

the puppeteer, jason, and vine are in a crafts group that meets up once a month

jane detests jeff, nina, and liu. hates all three of them with a burning passion.

laughing jack and jeff r friends

laughing jack and laughing jill are like that spiderman pointing meme but they hate each other

laughing jack detests sally, ben, and lazari

cody sees toby as an elder brother and toby has awkwardly accepted that.

jane and the puppeteer are friends in a 'this bitch scares me so i gotta stay on her good side' sort of way

liu is like an older brother to both sally and ben. he 100% is like 'you two may be dead but i don't give a damn you're getting an education whether you like it or not' and sally is excited while ben is groaning and complaining the entire time

zero hates everybody

ann hates everybody except for liu and helen. sully is on thin fucking ice

i think nina and natalie could potentially get along

natalie and jane arkensaw Have fucked they are friends w benefits

laughing jack thinks candy pop is annoying and candy pop thinks it's funny

laughing jill also thinks candy pop sucks this is the only thing jack and jill will ever agree on

candy pop doesn't really interact much with the others since he's sorta tied to the abyss and can't leave it for too long but i think he and jason get along.

kagekao and candy pop are friends. to me. can't explain why.

sully is indifferent about everybody. however, he's very close w liu for obvious reasons, and he's friends w helen and ann. a little less so than liu, but still. he's besties w eyeless jack. and he utterly despises jeff full stop period. he neither likes nor hates everyone else, he just finds them all to be boring. uninteresting.

nathan exists. in here. somewhere. sorta just watches everyone and keeps people at a distance.

dr smiley is the resident doctor everyone goes to but absolutely no one trusts him so they always go to ej afterward to make sure they were actually properly treated.

the animals. smile dog, grinny cat. and seedeater, i guess. they are there too. none of them get along w each other.

smile dog is very fond of sally and follows her everywhere when it's around. growls at laughing jack when he's nearby. will also growl at jeff if he's mean to sally.

grinny cat can be found perched up on eyeless jack's shoulders or cradled in natalie's arms.

laughing jack and seedeater get along real well. 'holy shit you eat children? hell yeah i like you'

and the entity known as the mansion is friends with everyone <3

that's it for now i may come up w more later

#archived mind of v: thoughts and opinions.#my personal headcanons #creepypasta

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jedi-hawkins · 1 month

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Bad Batch Season 3 Episode 9 Watch Thoughts

spoilers (duh)

Ahh Crosshair helping and getting thanked, I'm so soft.

They're brothers being brothers again, I'm going to cry.

Batcher I stg why are you letting her go in there??

VENTRESS!!!!

I noticed when the batch are standing together, there's still a space between Crosshair and Hunter. maybe symbolic of the space still between them (?) but I think this is somewhat resolved, even ouchier is I'm pretty sure that's where Tech usually stood. (apologies for bad quality)

Ahh! so that was Fennec's contact (why'd they frame it so spoopy last ep?)

Way to go Omega, good job keeping the front up 😂

Mother is confirming my personal theory! M-count gives you potential but you still need to be trained to be a Jedi (high m-count + no training = not necessarily Jedi, lower m-count + training = Jedi)

Ah! she said the line from the trailer!

Although I believe Ventress is genuinely testing Omega, I think she came up with this "test" just to troll a little

Wrecker I swear, thanks for the encouragement but babes 😂

Ventress is so hot

That jaw grab got me a lil 🥵

Tech mention I'm crying. And Crosshair holding Tech's datapad

Separatist Assassin, wouldn't it be in the files that she was a Sith or is that still a secret?

Oh this second test is just to get rid of her, she had to be trolling a little with the first.

That space between Hunter and Crosshair is still there (?)

"There's a Weeping Myre Tree." Jen, you did us so dirty with that tweet.... you had me sweating. She's just having fun watching up burn at this point. 😡

Stern Wrecker has me 😫

Oop- the way she snatched their weapons

Ahhh watching the boys fight as a cohesive team just makes me soft

Damn the way she just slapped Wrecker, poor baby

Crosshair's yell I'm dead

Her legs around his neck me too girl (and her little heel stomp was just like "stay")

I love our boys and they are very capable fighters, but it's so obvious Ventress was pulling her punches

Gah damn, the way she copied Hunter's 'grip the blade and throw' technique

Cross with his rifle, but is his hand any better?

Ohh the little foot flip and toss 🥵

"We're not big on following orders" He said it!!

YELLOW BLADE!!! And it's the same hilt as her red sabers! (a- did she lose a saber? b- did she get a new kyber crystal?)

Ayoo miss why you choking Wrecker?? (for the dramatic scene when Omega reenters?)

Crosshair just laying ragdolled on the ground... sweetheart I'm so sorry 😂

"We were pawned in the same war, and we all lost." MOTHER 👏🏼 IS 👏🏼 SPITTING👏🏼 FACTS 👏🏼

Why is she being so vague? Does Ventress not know that Palpatine is Sidious? I feel like she would know especially now since Emperor Palpatine looks and sounds exactly like the weird guy in the robe that used to boss Dooku around.

Damn she laid our boys out

"We do" So why not just drop the "S" word and call her a Sith? I know squad 99 didn't work with Jedi regularly, but they were under Cody's jurisdiction, and they had to have heard the word before (whether from Obi-wan himself, or in debriefings, or even war stories passed through the barracks)

"We were just getting warmed up" Wrecker, I love you but PLEASE, she got y'all good 😂

Omega's little hand wave at "people can change" I don't think it was in Crosshair's direction, but it was framed like it was

Op- she gagged Crosshair with that. 🫢

Isit just me or does Ventress' shoulder plate look like the slillouette of a B1 battle droid?

Ventress being Omega's teacher would be oh so good (and Obi-wan would tease the shit out of her for it)

Omega automatically did the hand thing and I don't think she's ever seen a force-sensitive doing that. Natural instinct?

Oop- spotted. Ventress' little glare at Wrecker through the scopes I'm dead 😂

"This is different than being a soldier." YES MA'AM

I know Omega is frustrated here and people may bash her for being 'whiny' but I honestly appreciate the writers letting us see her in a more child-like frustration.

I honestly love that Ventress has seen both the light and dark side of the force and now has come into her own. She's almost looked relieved that she was able to call the creatures to her, kind of like an "I'm still worthy moment."

"Did you summon that?" "Not intentionally."

Ventress with her hair wet and slicked back oml

Crosshair co-piloting!!

Omega with wet hair! (NOW GIVE US HUNTER)

Okay my theory about the kraken, Ventress called it's food source, so it followed, but then it got curious about their boat. It wasn't trying to attack them, it was bumping their boat because it was trying to figure out what they were. Then Ventress cut off a tentacle (yes to rescue Omega, but I think the creature was just exploring) That spooked it, then the Marauder swings in and starts shooting at it. When the Marauder flies off, a tentacle kind of flicks in a 'yeah get out of here' kind of way. It doesn't immediately eat Ventress when it has her (does it even eat humans?), it brings her close to it's face to investigate and she takes her time channeling the Force. The animators specifically focus on the creature's eyes and the changes in it (pupils dilating). To me, it seemed like Ventress was communicating with it like "I'm sorry we startled you, we mean you no harm." Then the creature sets Ventress down so gently (it doesn't drop her) and goes on it's merry way.

Crosshair is the one on the ramp to get Omega!!!

Ahh! he reaches out to help Ventress too. He offered her his hand and she took it!! 🥰

I'm surprised we didn't get a comment from Ventress about Batcher.

Wrecker being the big brother we all need and taking Omega off to eat after a long day just makes my heart so warm.

The way Hunter and Crosshair are both standing with a hip popped is killing me. (again, sorry for bad quality) 😂

"You're lying" So perceptive, Crosshair.

Ventress is so smart and she sees how much the Batch cares about Omega, hence why she lied. AND Hunter and Crosshair know Ventress is right that if they acknowledge Omega is Force-sensitive, that means she goes away and they're not ready for that.

Her warning is so foreboding... (A Harbringer?) Next week is a double feature and I think that's when we'll get the Empire over Pabu.

Crosshair is so attentive to Ventress, I'm already shipping them (don't get me wrong, I'd fight Ventress for Crosshair, but they seem like they'd be a good match in-universe)

"I've got a few lives left." She's so cat. Just like Crosshair.

Hunter x Fennec // Crosshair x Ventress (I'm already thinking about my two batch husbands and their grumpy in-cannon girlfriends that want nothing to do with them)

"I've got a few lives left." Ugh she's so cat, just like Crosshair.

AHHH!!! This episode was so good. We got to see our boys fighting again as a unit. We got to see Ventress (which, during clone wars she was always just a 'mech' character for me. Didn't love her, didn't hate her, but this episode solidified her on my favs list. Her line of "We were pawned in the same war and we all lost." Just DAMN she hit the nail on the head and I don't even know she knows she did. If you made it through this entire post, scrolling back I didn't realize how insanely long it is, thank you!! 💕

#TBBspoilers #tbb s3 spoilers #tbb season 3 spoilers #tbb season three spoilers #the bad batch s3 spoilers #the bad batch season 3 spoilers #the bad batch season three spoilers #bad batch s3 spoilers #bad batch season 3 spoilers #bad batch season three spoilers #tbb spoilers #the bad batch spoilers #bad batch spoilers #tbb season 3 #tbb season three #the bad batch season 3 #the bad batch season three #bad batch season 3 #bad batch season three

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banannabethchase · 8 days

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40. Gritty eyes when you stare into fire too long CodySeth

Burn

Cody rubs at his eyes, trying to get rid of this feeling. His whole bus, up in flames.

“Quit rubbing,” Seth says, pulling him in. Cody rests his head on Seth’s shoulder, exhaling. “You’ll mess up your eyes.”

“They hurt,” Cody says, muffled into Seth’s shirt. “And I can’t stop seeing it burn.”

“I know.” Seth’s voice is soft and gentle, more than kind and less than authoritative, and Cody wants to melt into it. He can’t. It’s all hurting too much. “You can stay here tonight, okay? Or as long as you want.” Seth pulls the blanket over Cody’s body. It smells like Seth, subtle and almost woodsy. Cody starts to feel surrounded, but in a good way this time. “I’ll go get you some water. When you’re up to it, take a shower, okay?”

Cody nods, but the exhaustion starts to wash over him. He forces his eyes open to see Seth smiling down at him.

“You know,” he says, laughter in his eyes, “it’s kind of nice to be taking care of you for once.”

Cody manages, just barely, to flip him off, before falling into gentle, safe sleep.

I don't apologize for the mild angst

#wtf i like wrestling now???#CodySeth #in which sara writes #sarahcakes613

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alnoco-asks · 6 months

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Sorry for not dropping in an ask sooner, just couldn't think of anything ask. Glad to see this blog doing well! (for the creator, i like the art you made for this!)

For noah:

hypothetical situation, how would you feel if you accidentally ended up signing a contract which meant you needed to kill your friends on live TV.. (If you see a spare noah running around, give me a holler)

For cody:

Out of left field, how's the drama brothers going?

Thanks in advance if you answer these!

From, 🧶anon

Noah: should I be worried? Either way I'd find a loop hole in the contract to get rid of it of course. I'm not killing my friends...well maybe Justin but no one else!

Cody: and the drama brothers is going great. Noah is our manager and has not only gotten us music lessons witch we may of needed but also got us so manny gigs he's like the best!

Noah:thanks codes and as for if we see another noah

Cody:dont give the creator ideas last time they switched my noah for island of the slaughtered noah it was

Noah:strange

Cody: terrifying he just sat there staring at me with these sad eyes

Noah: at least he acnolaged you their cody kept saying I wasn't real witch ouch that hurt

(Pst creator here think you so much for complementing my art its something I really love so it means alot♡ amd I'm happy this blog is doing well too I kinda expected it to crash and burn lol)

#cody total drama #noah total drama #noah x cody #tdi #total drama #td noco #total drama noco

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notthestarwar · 10 months

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From: no children

“I'm your clone” Cody told him.

“What.” Jango asked, eyes wide as he looked Cody over.

Jango Fett wore fear just like every one of Cody's brothers. Cody swallowed, it wasn't an expression he'd ever seen on Jango as he'd known him, but here, in this place, he found that it fit.

Cody looked around the worn room and wondered how long Jango had been here. They were both sitting against the wall of this…room. Jango hadn’t volunteered an explanation for this place.

They were clearly on a ship, the hum of the engines comes through the walls, the floor, even the ceiling of this place; the metal allowing the vibrations to carry through, so they seem as if they are coming from all angles. This room though? Cody can think of little reason for why Jango might be here.

It is small, just long enough that they might lay down and have a little clearance, at head and foot, from the wall, and just wide enough that the two of them might lie, from head to toe, across it. When Cody had stood, shortly after arriving here, he’d found the place only just tall enough that he might stand, but to do so felt claustrophobic, even to a man raised in a tube.

This place is nothing like Kamino. Kamino was plain, unassuming. Everything from the décor to the temperature and humidity, were carefully controlled, to maintain a perfectly neutral environment.

There isn’t anything here, only Cody, Jango, and a rough looking blanket, cushioning Jango from the worse of the floors chill, but still, it stands as Kamino’s opposite.

Where Kamino was clean, this place is dirty. Where Kamino was smooth, this place is rough. It’s cold here. Cody supresses a shiver.

This isn’t the kind of place you choose. Here, like this, in this place, with a face that is too young and wearing an expression like every single little brother Cody has ever known, Jango brings about something like sympathy within Cody. He pushes it down.

“You get out of this place eventually. You make yourself a name as a bounty hunter, and then, one day, you're offered a job.” He told him, voice empty. “You go to a planet called Kamino. Its an ocean planet, forever raining. Its not a comfortable place for a human to live. The Kamineese are an aquatic species. They are also, expert cloners.”

“In exchange for credits, you allow them to take samples of your dna. From those cells, they grow a child, and then another.” Cody looked at him, gaze still. The thought comes to him that maybe if he looks for long enough, he’ll find himself indifferent to familiar eyes, carrying a familiar fear. “I had over 3 million brothers, we were all trained as soldiers from day one. Grown in tubes, fed the information we would one day need, to fight for the Republic. You helped train us from birth.”

“They sped up our development.” He continued. “At 9 standard years I looked much like you do, now. That's the year the war started. I was deployed and I fought for 3 years, alongside Jedi, for the Republic.”

When he tells the rest, he means it to cut. This part of the story lives in Cody, a knife imbedded in a wound that can never heal. He can never be rid of it, no matter how many years pass. “And then, one day, a chip inside my brain forced me to turn on the Jedi, betray them. There was no fighting it, it had been there my whole life, it had control.”

He does not let up his stare, he wants Jango to feel it, he wants to see it burn. “With the Jedi gone, an Empire rose in the Republics place. They'd elected a Sith as Chancellor and now, he was emperor. Your revenge against the Jedi was complete, enacted years after your death.”

“This was not the end. Not for me, not for my brothers.”

“We fought, as we always had. Now, for the empire. Helping subjugate those we'd once been fighting to free. To the empire, we were canon fodder. My brothers fell one by one, but not me.”

“I was a Commander. I ordered my brothers in to battle, but was not afforded the chance to fight by their side, to fight those that might mean them harm. It was dishonourable, to watch from afar as I sent them to their deaths, but that is how it had to be.”

“I had no choice. He wanted me alive.”

“There was a man. He had once been a Jedi, and I had fought beside him, for the Republic. He was weak, and thanks to that he lost all that he had ever loved, he helped kill it. He hated himself, but more than that, he hated the man he had been. He kept me alive for 20 years because I reminded him of himself. He would not let me die.”

“For every sin, I was by his side, committing the same. I lived by his side for 20 years, I saw his will enacted. I did not try to escape and I did not consider moving against him.”

“Eventually, He aggravated the wrong woman. She was touched by the Force, but with the fall of the Jedi, had gone untrained. A end of his own making. She could not control herself and after seeing her people die, after seeing a good man die for her; in her grief, she began to tear at the fabric of the station around her, the people manning it.”

“It took 20 years, for my superior officer to secure our deaths. In any fair universe, it would have happened sooner. We would have died before we wrought almost 2 decades of devastation upon undeserving people. But I had always known, the galaxy I lived in was not a fair one.”

“Both of us at once. A clean break for the Galaxy.”

“It was indescribable, the feeling that faced me, on that bridge, on that station that never should have existed. She was ripping apart the very making of the place and all the people in it. Their atoms, were swirling around her, gathering momentum. I was sure of it and yet, it was unlike anything I had ever felt before, I couldn’t see any of it.”

“The viewport began to crack, the vacuum of space was pulling at it. I saw our end, I welcomed it.”

“I was ready to die. It was no less than we deserved.”

“I watched the cracks spread outwards and I waited for our end, me and him. The galaxy would finally be free of us. Better things would grow in our place, I was sure of it.”

“I watched that viewport and waited. Then, there was a noise unlike anything I’d ever known. It was something like a shot from a slugthrower, sudden; something like the snap of the brittle rung of a ladder, breaking beneath your weight; and it was something like a glass, the moment after you drop it, right when it hits the floor but before any of the shards have burst outwards. It came from the transparisteel, I knew it.”

“I heard that noise and I felt it too, and I knew in my heart that this was it. This was our end, the one we’d been walking towards all those years, without even knowing it. I welcomed it.”

His eyes had lost focus.

He wasn’t thinking about Jango Fett any longer, he wasn’t thinking of his unfairly innocent face and the need that Cody felt to break that part of him, to inflict on him only a part of what he had once inflicted on Cody.

No, in that moment, Cody was reliving his time on that bridge. Reliving the moment of surety he’d felt, knowing that death was rushing to meet him. The peace he’d felt in that moment. The wait for something certain, how it had hung there between them all.

--break--

Jango watches the strange man, sitting by his side. He’d been talking and talking and talking, Jango wouldn’t have managed to get a word in edgeways even if he’d wanted to, but now, the man had stopped.

Just on the cusp of it.

He’d lined up the ending and there was surely only one way such a story would end and yet, he had stopped, just there. Jango feels as if the man has dragged them both to the edge of a clifftop and is now, refusing to say a word. He doesn’t recognise the expression on the mans face. He doesn’t know if he wants to ever recognise it.

“And then?” He asks, finally, breaking the tense silence. “What then?”

Recognisable emotion rushes back in to the mans face, he is angry, furious even.

“Death was there, I had felt her touch, within reaching distance, and then, she was gone.”

“You stole my life and now, you have stolen my death.”

Cody feels the anger within him break at the words, as if he’d been walking on water, dependant on surface tension and hope, but now, he finds himself crashing through the surface, just like he’d done to get here.

He wants to be angry but he is finding anger hard to reach.

Largely, he just feels empty.

“I fell through the gap between reality. I fell and I landed here, in your past, Jango Fett.”

Cody finds himself staring blankly at a wall. “Why am I here?” He asked it, like a wall might have any such answers.

Jango was watching him, eyes wide. “I don't know.” He whispers, as if Cody had been asking him.

The silence between them held long enough for a skin on its surface to form, freezing in the chill of this place.

Cody took a fist to it, shattering the ice before it could grow. He found his cold gaze returning as he watched Jango.

“You took my life, for your revenge. You got that, I didn’t mean to give it, but I secured it for you all the same, without even knowing it. It isn’t the kind of thing you forget, what you did to me and my brothers.

“Even years after their deaths, I couldn’t forget what you took from them. You are a hard man to escape.”

“Jango, I found you in every mirror, years after you got yourself killed. However, I did think, in those decades after your death, that the chip was your last betrayal.”

“How many times can a dead man betray you? Not that many surely. Not all those years later.”

“I did think, in that moment waiting for that viewport to burst, waiting to be sucked in to space, that I might finally be free of you.”

“And yet, here I find myself.”

“You have never been anything but consistent Jango, I will give you that. More the fools me, I suppose, for thinking that even after you stole my life, my death might be beyond you.”

Cody felt tired. The whole day, starting when he'd opened his eyes, waking up in a cold bunk ending...It hadn't ended. That was the problem.

He finds himself still living the same day, even if Cody himself seems to have moved, his body’s internal rhythm knows it only as the same day.

Cody had opened his eyes that morning in 19AFE and now, a matter of hours later, he found himself leaning against a wall, sitting on the floor of an empty room, in this strange ship, next to a man that should be 20 years dead.

Jango is anything but dead, though he looks less than healthy, he is young and he clearly manages to survive this place, because he has to, so that Cody might have the misfortune of knowing him, decades from now.

This whole situation is infuriating and yet Cody can only find it in himself to feel exhausted. He’s too tired to be angry.

There isn’t any Karking point to being angry. This Jango, isn’t the man that betrayed Cody, brought him to life only to steal everything he might manage to find, this is just the child that would one day grow to be that man.

There was no point in punishing this Jango Fett. Any revenge would only be made empty, by him not yet deserving it.

Was that why he was here?

The universe wanted to rub it in his face that his Jango was gone, he always had been gone. He’d died before Cody and his brothers knew half of what he had done to them. Cody could never ask him to answer for any of it, could never even ask him why.

Jango had died and found peace without ever living with the weight of what he had done.

There would always be a part of Cody that would ask if Jango would have been able to see it through, had he survived and that, made him furious. He felt as if it were a betrayal to his brothers to even think such a thing, and yet there it was, he couldn’t be free of it, even now.

He wanted to be able to hate him, without a second thought. it’s always been harder to hate jango than it should be. another betrayal.

As Jango looks back at him with the wide eyed stare of a little brother, Cody finds it’s harder to hate him than ever.

He stands and makes his way to the furthest edge of the room, only a step and a half away from where he and Jango were sitting, dead centre. Then, he lowers himself to the floor.

The cold metal is rough. He turns away from Jango and the door, no longer caring for his own defence, and shuts his eyes.

He can feel Jango's gaze, heavy on his back. He pays it no mind. Only a moment later, sleep weighs upon him, heavy and smothering.

He does not dream.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/46831285/chapters/117961465

i was going to post a snippet from chapter 1 but I edited it, made it much better, and then deleted the edit accidentally. it was a few days back and i’m still mad about it lol, whenever i read it i remember and get annoyed again. so i couldnt use that one. this is from chapter 2

Cody has lived as a purge trooper beside Vader as his second, for almost 20 years, but the death star went differently and when Leia saw Obi Wan die, she lost control in the force. Cody has been sent back in time and now finds himself, with young Jango, on the spice ship. Cody’s time with Vader has messed him up significantly and he is pretty angry and not particularly nice at this point in time

#jango #commander cody #fanfic #canon divergence #time travel #my writing ntwyw #snippet #jango fett #purge trooper cody #it's torturing cody hours 24/7 here #fic #is the formatting broken here too???

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silkling · 2 years

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Of New Forms and Welcome Revelations

Of Moments of Life AU

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Cody Burns was….an odd organic, to be sure. Dreadwing didn’t know what to make of him. The rest of his family stuck with their respective partners, but young Cody flitted between all the bots with an ease that surprised the Seeker. It surprised him even more when Cody approached him one morning with a thoughtful look.

“You need a new vehicle mode.” The human stated.

“Pardon?” Dreadwing wasn’t amused.

“You want to come out on rescue missions with the team, right?”

“I do.” He’d said as much when the younglings had returned from their latest mission a little worse for wear.

They hadn’t been injured, but they’d needed a day to recover all the same. Apparently, a sinkhole had opened under one of the human’s houses and Blades and Boulder had fallen into it, as it’d widened under their pedes while they’d been trying to help with evacuation. After they’d all returned home safely. Dreadwing had mentioned a desire to start accompanying them.

“Well, you’ll need a new vehicle mode.” Cody repeated. “Your current one is really cool, but it’s too obvious as a military jet. If you want to be on a rescue team, you’ll need a vehicle mode that’s less…” he trailed off, clearly trying to find the right word. “Intimidating.” he decided on.

“I will not be getting rid of my weapons systems.” Dreadwing said firmly. Though the human had a point. He supposed his current alt-mode wasn’t exactly appropriate for rescue work.

Cody just grinned. “Yeah, I know. We aren’t expecting you to. That’s why I asked Doc Greene to develop a vehicle that might suit you. He has the prototype done, if you wanted to see it.”

Dreadwing blinked rapidly. “You…what?”

“Well, Doc Greene and Frankie are the only other ones who know about the Bots. I told Doc about you, and said you needed a new vehicle mode so you could do rescue work with the team. When I told him you turn into a fighter jet and used to be a soldier, he offered to design a prototype.” he smiled. “It’s not functional, but it has all the necessary parts, so you can scan it and use it as your new vehicle mode, if you want.”

Dreadwing had no idea how to respond to that. After a moment, he simply nodded.

“Great!” Cody beamed. “You have a map of the island uploaded, right? Do you want to meet me at the lab? Doc has a runway you can use to land.”

“That would be acceptable.” Dreadwing nodded.

He watched the human grin again, then turn and leave. He didn’t know that to do or what to think about this. It was…a type of kindness and generosity that was unfamiliar to him. A human he had never met had designed a new alt-mode for him, and even gone so far as to build a prototype, all so he could participate in rescue missions. He felt like there had to be a catch, but the Seeker knew better. These weren’t Decepticons. They didn’t operate like that, but the sheer compassion and friendliness without any expectation of getting anything in return…it left him reeling.

After several long minutes of staring in the direction the human had gone, Dreadwing shook himself and started forward. He left the firehouse, and then transformed and took to the sky as discreetly as he could.

It didn’t take him long to arrive at the lab. When he did, he was greeted by Doctor Greene, and the human was practically buzzing.

“Ah, Dreadwing!” He called in greeting. “Excellent! You’re here! I presume Cody told you about the prototype I built for your new vehicle mode?” At the Seeker’s nod, his grin widened. “Marvelous!” He perked up when there was a quiet hum, and a moment later Cody came around the corner on his hoverboard. “And Cody is here too! That’s perfect! If you’ll both follow me, now.” He said, and waved them after him.

Dreadwing followed, still silent even as Cody spoke up. “Thanks again for this, Doc! It means a lot that you’d do this.”

“But of course! Anything for your bots, my boy! They’ve done too much for Griffin Rock for me to simply ignore them when they need assistance!”

They arrived at a large clearing a little ways above the lab, and there on the pavement was a sleek jet. It was clearly amphibious, as the belly was shaped in such a way to float on the surface of the water, but there were also very obviously retractable wheels. And curiously, it was much smaller than most amphibious planes Dreadwing had seen, it’s shape and form clearly only build for a single pilot and perhaps two passengers seated behind said pilot. There was no hold, no area for a greater number of passengers, though the faint panels along the bottom of the plane near the wheels suggested there was at least a small storage area. Likely for water, Dreadwing reasoned. All together, while the plane was very clearly not built for combat, it was also startlingly close to his current alt-mode and he would not be forced to sacrifice any of his speed of agility in the air with it.

He blinked slowly, then looked to the inventor. “This is much more than I was expecting. Thank you, Doctor. You have truly outdone yourself.”

Greene beamed at him. “Yes, well, I did my best! I talked to Blades about what you may need in a vehicle mode, and he explained to me how important it is for your type to have seen and maneuverability! So I scaled down a typical amphibious plane, altered the design to be closer to a fighter jet to allow for your needs, and also ensured you’d be able o have the parts you needed to perform all kinds of rescues with the others!” He said cheerfully. “And I even made sure to keep in mind your weapons systems, so you shouldn’t lose them when you take on the new form.” He explained. “You’ll look just civilian enough to not be mistaken for a military plane, but also just enough specialized that any questions asked can be explained away as a new design for future rescue work.”

“Very sensible.” Dreadwing mused. “You have my gratitude. I was not expecting this, and I am very thankful for the work you put in to accommodate me.”

“But of course, Dreadwing! You’re a member of the Burns family now, and that makes you a friend.” He smiled up at the former Decepticon. “I look forward to seeing all the good you can accomplish with it.”

Dreadwing felt something in his spark clench, and he bowed his helm before turning is attention to the plane. His optics flickered, and then they scanned the new plane. A moment later, his systems integrated the new form, and he transformed. Once he was done, a copy of the silver prototype sat in his place in gold and blue, and Cody laughed in delight.

“Noble!” He said loudly. “Dreadwing, you look great!” He said brightly.

“Thank you.” He shifted his senses to the doctor, next. “And I must thank you as well, Doctor. This form is very well built. It will suit my needs quite perfectly.”

“That, my friend, is very good to hear.” Doc Greene chuckled. “Now, why don’t you go for a test flight? See how everything feel in the air? And perhaps take Cody.” His eyes glittered with a playful mirth. “After all, you can’t be seen without a passenger.”

Dreadwing gave a sot, amused huff. “Quite.” He agreed. His cockpit popped open. “Come on then.” He told the younger human.

Cody grinned even brighter, and hurried over. Thankfully, the jet had been designed in a way that allowed someone board without need of a ladder, so Cody was quickly seated in the pilot’s seat and buckled in. The cockpit shut, and with a final farewell to the inventor, Dreadwing was powering up his thrusters. He kept the takeoff easy, to account for his passenger, and soon he was rising up into the sky.

After a few minutes, Cody spoke. “So, how does it feel?” He asked eagerly.

“Very good.” Dreadwing hummed. “I must admit, I did not expect such effort to be put into this.The Doctor has never met me. It is…surprising, he would do something so kind for one he does not know. You are sure he expects nothing in return?”

Cody laughed. “I’m sure. That’s just what Doc is like. We all wanted to help.” He said brightly.

“Then your family are some of the oddest beings I have met. Kindness without expectation of reciprocation is…fairly new, to me.”

Cody hummed. “Well, that’s what we’re like here. On Griffin Rock, I mean. We all have to help each other, cause if every act of kindness comes with strings then we wouldn’t last long as a community.”

“But not every human shares that ideology. It’s naive.”

Cody shrugged. “Maybe.” He agreed. “But it works for us here.”

“Here, yes.” Dreadwing stated. “But most places are far crueler than Griffin Rock.”

“You’re not wrong.” He admitted. “People can suck. But I never liked the belief that humans are inherently evil.”

“Oh? That seems to be a popular belief on your planet. Why do you not take to it?”

“Well, are all Decepticons inherently cruel?” Cody asked.

“No.” He stated honestly. “Some are. But most…most are not.”

He thought of Breakdown, who’s only fault had been in his anger over his station in life before the war, in the resentment that had built and eventually turned him away from the Autobots. He thought of Knock Out, who had once been deemed too glitched for his function because of his vanity and lack of deference for authority, and who had been slated for reprogramming before the rise of the Decepticons had given him somewhere to go to be safe. He thought of Soundwave, who had been created to serve Senator Ratbat, and who had been thrown into the gladiatorial pits when he had disobeyed one too many orders, who had once had more Symbiotes than just Laserbeak, who had loved each and every one of his creations so deeply and dearly that their deaths, one by one, had lead to a fundamental break in his processor that had hardened his spark against a world that had cost him everything. None of them were inherently cruel, but they had all been forced to learn cruelty and wear it like a mask and cloak to shield themselves against a world that had sought to see them broken.

He thought of himself, of Skyquake, and how they had been forced to learn cruelty, forced to wield it, in order to rise against an order that wanted to see them forced into line and brought to heel because of their frames and their coding.

He thought of all he’d lost to cruelty, and his spark ached.

“Yeah.” Cody said softly. “Humans are like that too. We, as a species, have the potential to be cruel. Really cruel. But we also have the potential to be good. To be really good. To make the world better, to help others, to be kind. We aren’t perfect, but we aren’t defined by all the bad we’ve done. We can grow, we can learn, and we can be better. I think that matters a lot more than the handful of humans who want to be cruel.”

Dreadwing hummed, thinking. “Yes.” He said softly. “I believe you are right, Cody Burns.”

Cody smiled, nodding. “You know, Dreadwing….”

“Hm?”

“I think you guys are the same. Cybertronians, I mean. I think you can all be good too.”

“Is that so?” He wasn’t fully convinced. Perhaps for Bots like the mechlings of Sigma-17, but for those who’d fought in the War? He doubted very much.

“Yeah.” Cody nodded. “I mean, look at you.”

His engine almost sputtered from shock and only sheer force of will kept it from happening. “What?”

“You did bad things. You told me so yourself. You hurt others. Killed people. Destroyed homes and lives.” Cody listed. Then he put a hand on Dreadwing’s dashboard. “And now, you’re helping the Bots. You’re teaching them, guiding them, protecting them. You’re being better than your past. You’re growing past the cruelty of who you used to be and learning to be kind.”

Dreadwing was silent, shocked to his core. “That is not…”

“Isn’t it?” Cody said, head tilted. “You’re teaching Blades to overcome his fears and giving him someone who really understands him. You’re helping Chase learn to be flexible and compassionate even when it doesn’t understand why things are happening. You’re giving Boulder a shoulder to lean in so he doesn’t have to shoulder the burdens of the team and the past alone. You’re teaching Heatwave to be more open-minded, and giving him an outlet of someone he can be vulnerable to. You’re being good, Dreadwing, and the others are better for it.”

The Seeker didn’t have anything to say to that. He didn’t know if there was anything he could say to that.

After a moment of silence, he hummed. “You’re very intelligent, for an organic.” He remarked.

Cody blinked, then chuckled. “Thanks. But remind me to talk to you sometime about underhanded compliments.”

If he was in his root mode, Dreadwing would have blinked in confusion. “What? Why?”

Cody only laughed, shaking his head.

Dreadwing sighed, and found that to his surprise, he didn’t mind to lack of a reply.

And as the small human calmed down, the Seeker flew on towards home.

Yes. He was better.

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Hey all. I’d like to apologize for taking so long with this. Stuff happened. University kicked my butt, and I didn’t have as much time to write. And when I started getting a handle on things, writer’s block hit. I know what I wanted to write, I had the ideas, but I couldn’t find the inspiration or motivation. But now it’s starting to come back so I should be able to put out some more fics. Thank you all for your patience.

Also for anyone who might be confused, this is part of a series. You can find the rest of the series and it’s related posts under the tag “of moments in life au”.

Anyway, I hope you like this one! The next installment is already planned and will feature Blades and Dreadwing, and after that it’ll be time for my big plans with the Protectobots!

Let me know what you thought of this, and I’d welcome any comments y’all have!

Until next time, folks!

#of moments in life au #tfp #transformers prime #transformers rescue bots #rescue bots #cody burns #tfp dreadwing #dreadwing lives #he crashes on griffin rock #discussions of humanity #cody is a good boy #doc greene #the innate kindness of humanity #discussions on the philosophy of goodness #Dreadwing is learning #he’s getting better #Cody is best human #maccadam #transformers

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sankt-jesper · 1 year

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hello!!

i’ve been wondering about this one you mentioned so i hope u dont mind if i take the opportunity to ask about it?

Fox/Cody/Neyo (and variations thereof) & Dedra Meero

The editor crashed when I was answering this. My post was long af everything's peachy 🤠

Get ready because this is going to be a wild ride, and everything I say should be seen as a rambling prompt >:)

Fox/Cody/Neyo (and variations thereof) & Dedra Meero: Ship It | Don't Ship It

1. What made you ship it?

These combos have practically everything I love. A poor little meow meow (Dedra), cherished blorbos (Cody, Fox, Neyo), the potential for murder and/or disaster, and they're practically the perfect conduit for Marxist and Hegelian forms of alienation. I think if I ever wrote something with them it'll probably be a thinly-veiled essay on Kierkegaardian estrangement in the wars and the stars during the Imperial Era. They just have so much potential for fun!!!!!1!!!

2. What are your favorite things about the ship?

Fair warning: I have no idea what fanon is like for any of these characters and I'd rather not know, so their characterizations might vary drastically from the usual.

Clones & Dedra

She's fresh and new and so hungry she'll devour the whole galaxy to get what she wants. They're aging and eaten by grief, rage and the urge to do something meaningful. She'll either find them useful or some of her toughest challenges; they'll follow her to hell and back or will raise hell to see her fail. She's the poster girl for Marx's theory of alienation, and the clones encompass Camus' views on estrangement to a worryingly great degree.

Cody & Dedra

Mentor & Mentee. He's going to shape her to become who she is on Andor, and he'll do it so well no one will ever know and she'll surpass him; it'll be too late when he notices. Some sort of build-a-bear story when speedrunning alienation. Favorite mental image: Cody in armor, saluting Dedra while she smiles. He knows she'll try to get rid of him as soon as she can and he's right.

Fox & Dedra

Paladin–Deity. He's lost and depressed and refusing to deal with anything that isn't work or menial day-to-day tasks, and she comes in and becomes his purpose. He tells himself he'll follow her to hell and back, and maybe he will, or maybe someday she'll do something that will shatter his misplaced faith. Favorite mental image: Fox taking her in his arms in a rare moment they'll never speak of, wondering if he can stop her or if it's too late for the both of them.

Neyo & Dedra

Wicked and Evil. They're awful. They're successful. They're having the time of their lives. If one goes too far the other will simply erase the limits. They'll be unstoppable until they crash and burn on an unlucky day. Favorite mental image: Neyo slouching in a chair and lazily grinning at Dedra while she stands next to him. She realizes there's nothing he won't do as long as she's the one giving the order.

CodyFox

They both work with her. They're together; they love each other in their own ways. The problem is that one of them wants to see her succeed but the other knows he needs to stop her before it's too late. Favorite mental image: both of them lying in their bed in a mess of tangled limbs, each staring into space and unable to fall asleep.

FoxNeyo

Neyo resents how much he loves Fox and Fox can't stop wondering why he doesn't love Neyo as much as Neyo loves him. It's unhealthy and awful and bad for both of them—and Dedra ends up being another way to torment each other and themselves. Of all the combos I think this one is the most likely to be able to leave the Empire unscathed and together. Favorite mental image: Neyo tenderly kissing Fox's palm when they're on their own, because despite everything they still love each other very much.

CodyNeyo

Neyo is everything Cody is afraid of being and Cody is everything Neyo wanted to be but couldn't become. I'm ngl for me this is a DC's TwoBats variant in which neither can get what they want but still hope they will. By default I'd say Neyo would be the one to do something with Dedra that'd break Cody's resolve, but I think it'd be much more interesting if Cody is the one to take a step too far—because if Neyo can't handle that, then what does that say about the two of them? Favorite mental image: Them sitting at a table, facing one another and looking at each other with unreadable expressions.

CodyFoxNeyo

All the previous combos smudged together. Which means it's disastrous and chaotic but there's love and hope and good luck Dedra Meero, you're going to need it :) Favorite mental image: the three of them running away from an explosion in full armors, but you can definitely tell Neyo is the only one cackling.

3. Is there an unpopular opinion you have on your ship?

It's a crime none exist yet!!!!! They should!!!!!!!

#// asks #ask game #// cowboyspeak #trudemaethien #codyfox #codyneyo #foxneyo #codyfoxneyo

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mslorelai · 2 months

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3/10/24

Five full days left in NM.

Ate my spaghetti dinner out back in the dirt yard, burning trash and your stuff that isn't coming with us. While it's somewhat cathartic watching it burn, I suppose as a metaphor for your own ending, I'm still riddled with anxiety for the future.

Will I have to just declare bankruptcy to get rid of the thousands of dollars of debt you left me with? Debt that I had no idea you had? Will I ever be able to afford my own small house for me and the boy? Will I be able to afford even a rental? Will I wear out my welcome at my sister's for the stay of God's know how long I'll have to be there to get my shit together?

I'm only forty fucking two. I shouldn't have a dead husband. Really I shouldnt have had an abusive, incredibly useless, asshole of a husband either I suppose, but I digress.

At any rate, once I'm out of here and with family, this goal is to also work on myself while I'm there. Hopefully find a better job. Enjoy being single again, being able to do what I want now without extreme oppression and control that he brought to our marriage.

Is it single again after a spouse dies? I know it used to be called widowed but I feel like that's an old lady concept. I don't want to be a widow, I'm only 42.

I just want my life back, which I know I'll have again. I want to have and enjoy peace and serenity and freedom. I just hate that I'll be doing it without Cody and Dee.

#Widow #grief #dealing with grief #emotional abuse #Suicide #Death

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harrystormauthor · 3 months

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READER RANT FROM HELL

Harry will just move out of your way, with thanks. The plot of Cody Blossman. Main goal first, undo and fix everything Steve January did as chief. First things first, get rid of William Hitch who Steve promoted to Lt ✔️ second, get rid of Rebecca Eubank ✔️ third, take Tiffany Burns out of the mental health supervisor position and harass her in front of mental health professionals (as them) ✔️. …

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strwberriehore · 5 months

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Talk about my cold sores like that and I’ll give them to you, there’s no cure so you’ll look dumb after I give it to you

Creepy to make fun of me getting molested as an 8 year old child, do you have pedo thoughts you’ve been repressing?

Why do you want to talk about the sexual abuse I went through as a child? Does it make you feel good? Are you a child predator?

Idc if you’re embarrassed about Kelsey giving you STDs

Kels is disgusting

Get rid of IT

Be fucking respectful and I will too

Or I’ll burn everything down

wtf is wrong with you

I was the mother of your child

Making me think you’d be a bad father lately:(

We were supposed to be a family Cody wtf

You got me pregnant and that means a lot

I need a hell of a lot more than just an apology

From you and your rat horse faced ex boyfriend that wishes he was pregnant 🫃

#kelsey kreppel #hermaphrodite #cody ko #tmg lyrics #tmg podcast #tmg posting

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winderlylandchime · 7 months

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1/2We are at 4x02. He took a 30 minute break to call his ‘girls’ and came back with a ton of gossip. I am now wondering what kind of life he lives back home ngl. ‘Hit play! Lets get this party on the road!’ *starts dancing along to the intro* ‘oh i really fuck with this intro. Itd be better with more Brian and Justin but I’m willing to settle’ ‘SHANDA IS ALIVE! Oh poor baby, you will heal. And i will burn the world down to find those fuckers. Justin being friends with a drag queen makes sense…no offense Justin but that sandwich looks sad as fuck’ ‘THEYRE GOING TO THE FAIRY THING?! I WANNA GO TO!..what center? Is it that gay and lesbian center that supported that homophobe that covered up a gay mans murder? Because if so benny…it will happen again unfortunately.’ (I looked away for two seconds and he grabbed my face and squished it and turned it to the tv* LOOK AT BRIAN AND JUSTIN! Oh shit Brian is turning down jobs. So he’s not going solo? OH WAIT HE IS. Hell yeah THE BEYONCÉ OF THE GROUP!’ The fairy thing is happening ‘….i dont know what i imagined this would be but boy, was i wrong. *looks at me* what would my fairy name be?’ ‘Of course he immediately went to a sex shop. I feel so bad for him but we all gotta start somewhere. He’s gonna hate this though because of the whole noble thing’ ‘OH TED IS FINISHING REHAB! HELL YEAH BABE! You did it and im so happy for you. I love Blake, please dont let this be the last time i see him’ ‘ITS THE FEMALE BLONDIE! She IS SECRET AGENT! She wants to help Brian HAHA I KNEW I LIKED HER! *looks in amazement at Brian* Damn, he really looks good. YEAH BRIAN STEAL THE CLIENTS AND THE ASSISTANT. Okay this will sound weird but I really like his hair. He looks good poor.’ ‘Is the Team Brian shirt my fairy outfit? I need to figure out my name. They did Emmett dirty, he would’ve come up with a way better outfit. DUMPLING? I like it’ The center scene is up and it just showed Cody, please note this is the moment I officially start dying inside ‘HEY! My mom told me you cant whistle indoors cause its bad luck! Who’s he? I DONT LIKE THAT THEY KEEP SHOWING JUSTIN. This better not be this seasons Ethan. I dont like him. Get rid of him. Justin stop being impressed by stupidity..so his plan is to become the attacker?’ ‘Brian being a little shit to Ted.. feels like old times. (Brian does that up/cup thing) *starts pointing to the tv* UP! UP! I KNOW THAT!’ That scene with Ben and Hunter in the gym is on ‘Brian looking out for Hunter. What did i say about my uncle nephew duo?! I hope the boring doesnt rub off on Hunter’ ‘high alone in the woods dressed like a fairy? Emmett might be living my new fantasy. Of course the only friend he finds is some random old dude’ ‘ugh Bald Ad dude, go fuck yourself. BRIAN! go do your thing! Oh shit, thats fucking insane. DAMN BRIAN. I love that he knows the first ad is shit. I like this version of Brian, i fuck with this’ ‘Shanda baby, come on. (Justin says chicken is for lunch) damn. Him telling people off is kinda cool. HEY! Justin was a baby! He was a child! ITS FUCKED UP TO EXPECT HIM TO DO ANYTHING! He was a BABY!’ ‘BLAKEY! I really need him to be happy and healthy forever. I’m so happy for him’ and now the britin scene where Justin is drawing is on ‘Blondie, are you okay? his hand hurt- aw Brian to the rescue. Why does everyone keep forgetting that Brian was also at prom? This whole couple thingy they got going on this season, is *he makes a fist and smacks his chest twice and does like a pouty face(?)* making me emotional. HEY JUSTIN YOU WERENT A COWARD YOU WERE A CHILD! 18! Nobody expects an 18 year old to save the world’ Brian tells Justin how to get even ‘now that is a good advice. Im starting to realize that every advice he has, has something to do with education. Aw Brian is upset because his blondie is upset. SEE?! A COUPLE!’

I am so intrigued by your brother's life back home.

And yes, Justin being friends with a drag queen. I know we don't want to spoil anything about this for Brother but at some point you must tell him that Randy watches drag race.

The Fairy Gathering is real! My friend Jack went and has a fairy name and everything.

Your brother is right! Justin was a baby! He didn't owe anything to anyone after nearly being killed.

#ask winderlylandchime #dear sweet anon #queer as folk #a straight man watches qaf us 2000 in the year of our lord 2023

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