#The Gravity Falls crossover nobody asked for

[the-unspeakable-tsar]

Kidnapping The Grunk

In 2018, I was 17. I wrote a Gravity Falls/Rick and Morty crossover fic called "Kiddnapping The Grunk". I'm 23 now, and I was looking at my ao3 account, and I saw it. So, I decided to rewrite the fic. The original person who wanted me to write the fic no longer exists on Tumblr. But here's the new version in its entirety.

Stan’s eyes opened up into complete darkness. He started to move but found his limbs stiff and wrapped in something. He was stuck and started thrashing around. He’d gotten it into his head that he was twisted up in his bedsheets again and started screaming.

“Oh god! Soos! Get the jaws of life! Get some snips or somethin’! I’m stuck!” he shouted.

“Nobody’s gonna help you out here, ole man,” said a strange voice from the dark.

“Who’s that?” said Stan. His tone was not so much panicked but annoyed. “Robbie Valentino, this better not be some stupid prank. I’m not playing around with you and Wendy’s games anymore!”

A new voice chimed in, making robotic tutting, “Nah, you don’t get it do ya?” We’re holding your ass for ransom.”

“Ransom?” said Stan. He considered the thought for a moment. “If you cut me in on this, I can get my brother to fork over some more cash. I know he’s good for it.”

“Shut the fuck up!” shouted the first voice. “If your scrawny boy toy doesn’t deliver the Smidgens we want, we’re going to slit your Cromdamned throat!”

“Boy toy? What the heck are you talking about?” he asked and received a smack across the face for it.

Everyone who surrounded him began to laugh as Stan’s head spun.

“Don’t play dumb,” he said. “You were rolling heavy with Rick Sanchez in this part of the galaxy for ten years. Suppose your spastic lust pet doesn’t show up; we’re going to cut your head off and bury you somewhere like a vampire.”

“Who?” asked Stan.

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A large green portal opened up into a land covered in prone grease grease-slicked grandmothers. Two aged scientists stepped out and into the town. The residents of the town looked at them with fascination. Stanford Pines looked down at his tracker pad, which pinged with a map of this area and the little tracker.

“I cannot believe that my brother has gotten wrapped up in your nonsense, Sanchez,” he said. 

“Better believe it,” said Rick Sanchez, punctuating his brief statement with a burp. 

“You’re lucky I didn’t kill you myself. What are they? Flansians? Predators? The Tall Whites?” asked Stanford, rapidly firing his questions at Rick.

“Beats the hell out of me,” said Rick. “If they’re after me through, Stan I’ll take care of them. Don’t worry your prissy little head about it.” 

Rick reached over and started tussling Stanford’s hair drunkenly, only for Ford to take his hand away. “None of that!”

“You can’t still be angry because I didn’t call you after our night of passion in the Hamburger Fields,” he said. Dismissing him.

“I can be, and I am!” he shouted.

“Oh blah, blah, blah! BLIGHITY BLAH!” shouted Rick. “Stan’s a better man than you anyways. He knows how to make a man feel appreciated. Y’know?” 

Rick then feigned ecstatic moans, “Ohh Stanley, yeah, yeah, yeah, right therreee!” 

“That’s lewd,” growled Stanford. His face flushed a deep red.

“You would know,” said Rick. “I recall you getting very into me sucking on your fingers.” 

“Nope,” Stanford walked forward. Stomping as he went. “Not listening. Just help me find my brother.”

Rick made a dismissive noise. “Bleh…fine….So, does he ever talk about me?” 

“Hmm?” began Stanford. “No, never.” 

“C’mon, i’m being serious right now. He must, right?’ asked Rick.

“Nope. Up until we got the note, I didn’t even know you two were acquainted,” said Stanford.

“What? We spent nearly a decade together, fucking and savaging around the country,” said Rick. “He must remember me.” 

“Well,” said Ford apprehensively. “There’s a chance that he genuinely doesn’t remember.” 

“Oh god, has he been hit with Alzheimer's?” said Rick, feeling his age.

“The truth is more…odd,” Said Ford. “Do you remember when i talked about Weirdmageddon?” 

“Dumb name, yes.”

“Ignoring that…To destroy Bill, Stanley allowed him to invade his mind…Then we erased it,” said Ford.

“You sick son of a bitch!” growled Rick.

“Oh, grow the hell up, Sanchez. I heard about how you regularly erase your grandson’s memories over minor mistakes on your end,” said Ford.

“How did you hear about that?” asked Rick.

“Summer and Wendy are friends on Tumblr,” said Ford.

“Goddamn, Summer,” whispered Rick under his breath. But then Rick smiled, “Hot Damn, Fordy baby, you’ve just given me a chance at this bullshit thing called love!” 

Rick pushed Ford over, and the old man fell on his ass. They opened up a portal that entered them into a dimension filled with bright blue slime bags, and they bounced off of them, weaving between each other as they fell. Rick blessed another portal into the wall of the dimension and it led into the back room of a bar.

Surrounding Stan’s tied-up form were impossibly tall robots and short dwarven aliens with big fly eyes. They all pulled their guns and started firing at the pair. They ducked behind pillars and exchanged looks. Ford looked ready to kill Rick.

“ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND!” he shouted.

“Relax,” Rick stepped in front of the scene.

His body was quickly riddled with plasma fire. The bolts of liquid energy passed through his scrawny form like butter, but he kept stepping forward. The aliens screamed at him in their native tongues—horrid insect chirping. Rick’s left arm unfolded, forming a kind of gun made of green semi-metal and flesh. The flesh gun sprayed the aliens with a horrible mist that caused their skin to erupt in horrible sizzling boils and caused the metal skin of the robots to erode rapidly.

“Come to me, everybody!” he shouted. “Look at me go! Your gods might not be real, but I’m sending you to him all the same!”

Ford stood behind the pillar, picking off stragglers with his pistol and resenting every word that fell out of Rick Sanchez’ stupid head. He didn’t have to do all of this. They could have just killed them; they didn’t have to cook alive inside their bodies.

Once this mad violence was over, Stanford dashed over to Stanley and tore the bag off his head; his brother winced at the light.

“It’s okay, Stanley, you’re going to be alright,” said Ford as he began to undo the binds.

Rick turned and flashed Stanley a look. He thought it was sexy, with is hip cocked to the side and the bulge in his pants prominently displayed. 

“Hey, hot stuff,” said Rick. “I’m Rick Sanchez, and I’m the rescue committee.”  

“Yeah,” said Stan. “I know who you are.”

Suddenly, Rick froze. Shit, he remembers all the scumbag shit I did.

Once up, Stan strode across the room and pushed Rick up against the wall, forcing his tongue into his mouth and dry-humping him against the wall. Ford stood by, irritated that it built up to this. He turned his head so he didn’t have to see the image of the two.

“You scrawny son of a bitch,” said Stan. “You made me remember that I missed you.”

#fanfiction #stanchez #stan pines #stanford pines #rick sanchez #rick and morty #pocket mortys #post gravity falls #spanish pines

[side-shuffling-hyperfixations]

CyberLife accidentally sends the Pines household a pair of ST400 androids instead of one. Filbrick ends up keeping them both, figuring an extra might come in handy, but it turns out the spare is full of surprises.

(Or: The Gravity Falls x Detroit: Become Human crossover nobody asked for)

#gravity falls #detroit become human #fanfiction #stanford pines #stanley pines #stan twins #filbrick pines #caryn romanoff pines #bill cipher #crossover #alternate universe

[allnightlongzine]

Finding Emo

Tammy La Gorce | Aug. 14, 2005 | nytimes.com

THERE is no shortage of cultural exports from New Jersey: the ethnic clichés of "The Sopranos," the tortured grotesques of the filmmaker Todd Solondz and those grand oldies acts Bruce Springsteen and Jon Bon Jovi.

Add to this list emo, or emotional punk or post-hardcore or pop-punk. That is, punk that wears its heart on its sleeve and tries a little tenderness to leaven its sonic attack. If it helps, imagine Ricky Nelson singing in the Sex Pistols.

Anybody old enough to have a full-time job can be forgiven for not noticing that New Jersey is home to break-out groups like Thursday, My Chemical Romance and Senses Fail, and that in the eyes of several national rock labels, the Garden State has become a hotbed for signing best-new-hope bands.

Turn on the Fuse network, the new generation's answer to the now-quaint MTV, and a single rotation of videos is apt to turn up a cluster of shaggy-haired New Jersey guys torturing guitars as they shriek about the bleakness of their callow lives. These bands share a sound (driving but desolate), an attitude (life's rough, man) and a history (gigs in basements, lodges and V.F.W. halls where they got their start).

Most of these bands haven't yet infiltrated the iPods of the masses, but they are sketching in the strong sense of New Jersey as a music scene the way Athens, Ga., was in the early 1980's and Seattle was in the late 1980's and early 90's. New Jersey and emo don't quite have that gravity yet, but more and more people are asking: "Where were you when Jimmy Eat World lit up the Wayne Firehouse in 2000?"

Richard Reines, who owns Drive-Thru Records, which is based in the San Fernando Valley in California, believes in the New Jersey scene; Drive-Thru's roster includes Hidden in Plain View from Stanhope and the Early November from Hammonton.

"We came back, because as label owners we couldn't be away from it," said Mr. Reines, who is from Fort Lee. He recently bought a house in Matawan and, for business reasons, now splits his time between the two states.

If you haven't heard of Senses Fail, a screamy Bergen County four-piece whose debut album, "Let It Enfold You" (Vagrant) made the top 40 last fall and has already sold more than 200,000 copies, you may have heard of My Chemical Romance, a punkier, goth-leaning band by way of Kearny and Belleville whose mainstream crossover came with last year's "Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge" album (Warner) and the hit single "I'm Not O.K.."

If you haven't heard of Armor for Sleep, a West Orange-Madison-Teaneck-Maplewood collective with a video from the album "What to Do When You Are Dead" (Equal Vision) rising on Fuse, you may be familiar with Thursday, the raging New Brunswick outfit that toured with the Cure last summer. The band's "War All the Time" (Island), released in 2003, has sold 332,000 copies, advancing the theory that it, along with a couple of other New Brunswick early achievers, set the stage for a scene that has grown so hot that some hipster purists argue that it has already burned itself out.

The Big Bang

Jimmy Eat World, the band responsible for what Gabe Saporta, who leads Midtown -- a West Orange-New Brunswick heavy guitar outfit -- calls "the Jersey scene's golden moment," is not from New Jersey at all, but Arizona.

Even so, for Mr. Saporta and his peers, when Jimmy Eat World played the Wayne Firehouse -- which is still a firehouse -- that meant validation for their musical scene: though the band could have played to sold-out arenas nationwide, Jimmy Eat World swerved its bus into Wayne for a spur-of-the-moment free concert based on the pull of kindred spirits.

"It was their way of acknowledging the kids here," said Alex Saavedra, owner of the Kearny-based independent Eyeball Records. "Nobody could see anything, and it probably wasn't easy for them to get their equipment in there, but they wanted to play to kids who were doing what they did, which was owning their own scene, doing it on their own terms."

Jimmy Eat World was among the most celebrated acts tagged with the now-unfashionable emo label early on, and its sound -- moody, melodic and marked by an obsession with doomed relationships -- started filtering through New Jersey high schools and sticking to more introspective teenagers in the late 1990's.

Around the same time -- April 17, 1997, to be exact -- Saves the Day, fronted by Chris Conley, assembled in Princeton and was also quickly classified as emo. Its music, which hundreds of "confused, unhappy kids," as Mr. Conley calls them, would pay $5 to listen to on weekend nights at places like the Manville Elks Lodge and the Princeton Arts Council, resonated with locals the way that Jimmy Eat World soon resonated with a country full of sullen teenagers.

For Saves the Day, which went on to sold-out shows across the country, a contract with DreamWorks and several respectable chart runs, the build was slower than Jimmy Eat World's. But it energized a scene that every player that has emerged with a record deal since recalls with emo-appropriate love and longing.

"It was really an incredible thing that for us started 10 years ago," said Mr. Conley, who is preparing for a fall tour with Saves the Day alongside Senses Fail. "Every weekend, we'd go to a show to see a local band. We'd go to a record store in New Brunswick and pick up a flier for a show at a V.F.W. or an Elks Lodge or in somebody's basement, and it would always be the same people. After a while we created a little community -- these were the type of kids who probably didn't have a million friends in high school -- and it was a safe haven for us. There was a real sense of belonging, and that was the seed of the scene that's today. Now I get asked about New Jersey a lot.

"We were so lucky that we had those places to play, that sort of community, and a lot of bands that are in the mainstream right now owe their momentum to that."

Thursday's lead singer, Geoff Rickly, never meant to manufacture a scene when his band came together in 1997. But a cluster of key players who at the time considered his basement New Jersey's answer to CBGB's maintain that he did, anyway.

As Mr. Rickly explained: "We just wanted to have a place for people in the area to come see music. It wasn't the most original idea, but I had a house in New Brunswick I was renting with a basement, and it just grew out of that."

Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance said that road-tripping to Mr. Rickly's basement "was a way to keep the focus on music, instead of going to bars where kids couldn't get in anyway and people were only interested in getting bombed."

Mr. Saavedra, of Eyeball Records, the first label to sign Thursday, Midtown, My Chemical Romance and other bands before they leaped into the mainstream, recalled a typical Friday night in Mr. Rickly's basement: "You could fit maybe 100 people in there, and then you'd have kids in the driveway, in the backyard, kids with their ears pressed against the windows trying to listen. It was the sweatiest, smelliest thing, but it was incredible."

Mr. Rickly added: "It was a little sanctuary of a place. So many kids would show up that we'd open the storm windows so they could hear. One time we flagged down an ice cream truck for 300 kids."

On the Brink of Nostalgia

Nowadays, people want to do more than flag an ice cream truck. They want to flag down fame.

Mr. Saavedra of Eyeball Records says he has been wading through calls from bands hoping to get in on what Mr. Way calls "the Jersey signing explosion."

"People are saying that if you break in Jersey, you break in the rest of the world," Mr. Saavedra said. "I've had bands call me from Tennessee, Colorado, asking me what part of Jersey they should move to."

Mr. Reines of Drive-Thru added: "It's not only the music, the fashion starts in New Jersey, too. Say every kid is wearing a track jacket, and other kids are wearing hoodies. In six months or a year, the rest of the country will get into it. That's what people think."

Other acts yoked to the New Jersey emo outbreak include Hidden in Plain View (Stanhope), which released its first full-length album, "Life in Dreaming," earlier this year; the Early November (Hammonton), which is releasing a triple-album this fall; the Milwaukees, a Jersey City band that will release its first full-length disc next year and is already gaining favor in Europe; and the Number 12 Looks Like You (Bergen County).

These bands' popularity has also spurred an infestation of promoters and representatives from national labels in the New Jersey suburbs. They now mingle freely among the high school upstarts originally responsible for booking the lodges, firehouses and community centers where bands played -- and, in some locations, continue to play.

Though most young bands would welcome the attention of a major CD label, the presence of the music business carries the whiff of a sellout for the original players. If anyone corrupted the underground greatness of the circuit, the band members say, corporate party-crashers would be to blame.

"It's the most unique scene in the world," Mr. Way said. "I look at it now in a very nostalgic way. I definitely miss it."

"It was my church, my way to connect," said Buddy Nielsen, leader of Senses Fail. "Everybody was there for the music, nobody was there just to buy merch. And after a show, you'd all go to a diner afterward. That was the New Jersey thing."

No Place Like Home

Among every erstwhile New Jersey hall player, and even among the label people, a sense that you can't go back again has taken hold.

"The success of these bands is really a tribute to the kids in the scene," said Rich Egan, owner of Los Angeles-based Vagrant Records. "They were fans first, and they've been so supportive of each other. Part of the reason that Jersey is producing bands is because they made a space for each other to get their sea legs. Places like the Wayne Firehouse were a way for them to get in front of a lot of other kids and play. Kids putting on hall shows is the very definition of D.I.Y. I don't think trying to turn it into the Hollywood Strip works."

Ace Enders, leader of the Early November, said: "It's a strong scene, and everybody loves it. But when every band's getting signed, something's bound to change."

Depending on who a confused, unhappy young listener or hopeful rock star asks, though, all may not be lost. "Everything happens in cycles," said Mr. Nielsen, whose hand is smothered by a cross-and-skull tattoo that reads "Jersey" beneath it. "This scene is strong enough that it will recycle itself and come again."

Mr. Conley of Saves the Day said: "There's a distinct change you can see. Whenever you catch a glimpse of success it starts to change the music. But out of the ashes of a smoldering heap of junk, people become creative again because they're so frustrated."

Mr. Saavedra, though no less hopeful, is not convinced that the junk-heap comparison holds currency yet. A 12-band show he helped stage at the Wayne Firehouse in June had him feeling as if he had entered a time machine.

"Every single band that came through here played the Wayne Firehouse," he said, "so it would be great if they started doing more shows there again."

If that doesn't happen, several members of New Jersey's own brotherhood of bands may one day resurrect the scene themselves.

At a recent Armor for Sleep show at Irving Plaza in Manhattan, the four members, who have a reputation among their fellow bands as likable kid brothers, took a break from setting up to talk about life in a touring van and home -- in their case, their parents' New Jersey homes.

"It's the perfect place to live," said the band's 21-year-old front man, Ben Jorgensen, to nods from his band mates. "It's not typically boring suburbia. Every town is busy. It's like a mini-New York, but it's really safe.

"I want to continue living there, probably forever," added Mr. Jorgensen, who is a native of West Orange. "It's great for raising a family."

A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 14, 2005, Section NJ, Page 14 of the National edition with the headline: Finding Emo.

#emo #nyt #outside

[steveart]

#bubbleless version under the cut! #can you guess where the original line comes from? #HA! JOKES ON YOU YOU CAN ALL GO DIE FOR ALL I CARE 'CAUSE IVE ALREADY MADE A STUPID CLONE OF YOU CALLED REI! Wait is the speaker on? #Monostan is apparently a thing #Monostan #I can't believe I'm really doing this #Monogram moving his stuff to Gravity Falls to live with Stan when he's not travelling the world with Ford? CHECK ✔️ #Mabel would definetly kick some sense into him #The Gravity Falls crossover nobody asked for #But that I still shall deliver #I'm def gonna work on an Undertale too... somehow. I don't know how to fit everything in piece #There's also the Rick and Morty option but it's gonna be a lot of work to make everything fit #[the last thing we need is a poly relationship between Mono-Stan-Rick like... Monostanchez] #oh anyway the pole saga isn't over #if you read till here I repeat the pole/stripping saga *IS NOT OVER* #Monogram #Monoscam #Major monoscam #major monogram #francis monogram #francis monoscam #gravity falls crossover #gravity falls #stanley pines #stan pines #stan x francis #phineas and ferb crossover #pnf #pnf crossover #gf

[marenwithanm]

Continuing the saga of Gravity Falls and Omori crossover, I offer you a whole fic! Here's the summary:

Sunny should really learn to fear the beast with just one eye. And no, not the one in the mirror.

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Or the post both series Gravity Falls and Omori crossover nobody asked for but got anyway.

#gravity falls #omori #crossover #sunny #mabel pines #dipper pines #writing #fanfiction #ao3 #bill cipher

[beelieveinfandom]

Convo from the 18+ discord about a very silly star wars crossover I wanted to share.

gremgeous the gem pillar Just had a GREAT idea for a star wars crossover Just dipper visiting the star wars universe for whatever reason (multiverse vacation maybe? Idk. Dipper maybe dusted off that old portal in a fit of nostalgia or smth) and palpatine finds him and tries to tempt alcor to his side by offering him power Standard stuff for the sith really Except Well If you offer a demon unspecified power, in what form are they going to take it if not in the one who is offering's soul? Biggest and best tasting power boost there is, really! And then maybe he takes over the empty shell of a body afterwards which may or may not grant him force acess and alcor has a grand old time making a mess out of running the republic (or at least running lose in the senate) This is like... early prequals or pre-preauals era maybe. When palpafucker is still undercover and being all covert and unsuspicious and stuff I call this.... "palpatines penechance for grand speeches and unspecific ominous statements to try and seem all powerful and cool and dramatic fuck him over" Or in shorter terms ... . "There's a demon lose in the senate" And it basically runs like that one john mullaney bit With a side dashing of that one journak 3 thing where bill posesses a guy, messes with a roman army and then makes a guys head explode Also like nobody knows who alcor is or that hes even there bc theres no demons or dream demons in star wars (that i know of) so he gets the run of the place Even moreso than back home in gravity falls bc no one knows magic, its all "force this" and "force that" Dippered probably spends a lot of time nerding out over the different alien species since they dont have those back in his dimension (theyve got aliens but theyre different kinds) and also about the laser swords (just like the one Grunkle Ford made for them all (Ford, Dipper, Mabel, Stan, Soos, Grenda, Candy, Grendas boyfriend, Pacifica, and even waddles and gompers)  back in 2017! Good times, good times.)

swbeeworm oh this sounds like fun

gremgeous the gem pillar Right???

swbeeworm if i was familiar enough with the star wars universe to write anything in it i'd give this a shot

gremgeous the gem pillar right???

swbeeworm like i know star wars?? but i don't know star wars n i have to know something to be confident in writing it

gremgeous the gem pillar Sadly everything i know comes from time travel fixit and semi-salty pro-jedi meta

swbeeworm but just.... the sheer chaotic potential of this...

gremgeous the gem pillar Gosh yes....... Oh its be so good..........

swbeeworm oh mood it would be

gremgeous the gem pillar @Abigor u like star wars too gimme ur thooooughts When ur awake and have them to give

swbeeworm ugh i should. probably not be awake, i have stuff to do tomorrow n i have a headache but this is fun to think about

gremgeous the gem pillar I had another thing thats fun to think abt too Clone wars era, alcors there and everyon thinks hes a brand new sith player b/c gold eyes

swbeeworm just the shenanigans. the bullshittery. the sheer what-le-fuck reactions of everyone from the senate to the jedi to the people ooooooooo

gremgeous the gem pillar YES!!! Exactly.

gremgeous the gem pillar Oooooh jedi can do mind things i wonder what alcor wpuld feel like to them

swbeeworm my first instinctive responses were: 1) constant Screaming and a whirlwind mishmash of colors/concepts/etc that makes everyone who 'looks' too long start bleeding thru the nose/eyes 2) wii music on loop and these are VERY different prompts to have back to back but that's what i got

gremgeous the gem pillar AKDHSGGSHD I LOVE IT Oh what if its both at the same time Ajdhegdhdj what rven is the music like in star wars anyway

swbeeworm the fkin,,,, cantina music

gremgeous the gem pillar Like how would they react when confronted w wii music

swbeeworm is the equivalent i would think

gremgeous the gem pillar Do they even have the same sorts of instruments do they even know what electronic music is

swbeeworm just. that spawned another Thought imagine that the cantina music from That One Scene is the sw-equivalent of the wii music and just.  just imagine that same scene playing but with wii music on loop in the background

gremgeous the gem pillar Gosh "wii music on loop" i love it AODHDHSHSJD

swbeeworm it would probably FIT they have the same vibe

gremgeous the gem pillar Im crying Mits so good

swbeeworm sdjlksdafj i saw a post the other day that was talking abt the music there n how it kept playing on loop n the poster joked that it might have been like,, the john mulaney salt-pepper-diner-story situation which is only tangentially related to this topic but i had to recall it

gremgeous the gem pillar AJSHH i love that Gosh ok i feel like take 1 would fit with the new sith in town scenario And take 2 fits with theres a demon lose in the senate

swbeeworm sfsdkfjh yES

gremgeous the gem pillar But how FUCKING HILARIOUS would it be if in the senate story its the former, and in the oh so serious sith story its the wii music on loop im akdhsjdvsjdhsjbd

swbeeworm ASLDJSLKFJ plEASE take 1: gritty, serious, angst, deadly miscommunications--and fucking wii music on loop take 2: lighthearted, cracky, shenanigans and bullshittery--and fucking bleeding out the eyes if you try n read the guy talk about dissonance

gremgeous the gem pillar "Big scary sith! Look at the yellow eyes! What dastardly plots cpuld he be thinking/partaking in....." [Hard cut to alcor pov/inside alcors head] wii music plays as he stares off into space during a supposedly very important meeting

gremgeous the gem pillar OH I DO LOVE THE DISSONANCE Gsjdgysgsvsjgd wheeze its so good i love it

swbeeworm me tooooo .....for the sith one. would ppl see blue fire n think lightning

gremgeous the gem pillar Theyd probably think its some other secret sith technique

swbeeworm fair enough

gremgeous the gem pillar Everyone thinks one of the other sith lines that was supposedly wiped out had it since this sith deffs aint the line of bane- even the cirrent sith wanna know where alcors popped in from "Lightning was the bane line specialty.... guess where ever this kids guys from fire was theirs"

swbeeworm= adjlsdfkjlfkjf the shenanigans n bullshittery one imagine alcor-as-palpatine just. going incorporeal, still visible but not able to be touched, and the jedi go from "what the fuck is going on"  to "why the fuck is he  a force ghost"

gremgeous the gem pillar AJSGSHSGSHSA

swbeeworm alcor, who'd done it only bc his ~ornate robes~ had got so caught/tangled on something he could only get free by phasing through it: ??????

gremgeous the gem pillar wheeze Alcor: how the fuck did this guy move around in these AJDHSGDH ALCOR NOT KNOWING ABOUT THE SITH- SHOWS UP TO THE SENATE IN THE SITH ROBES

swbeeworm asdlkjsfkjsdfdf

gremgeous the gem pillar CALLS IT A "FASHION STATEMENT" WHEN CALLED OUT ON IT

swbeeworm a fASHION STATEMENT YES alcor: :blobsweats: alcor: what the FUCK is a sith alcor: and why do they have better style than the jedi

gremgeous the gem pillar WHEEZE He doesnt know jack shit abt the jedi or anything hes just vibing!!!!!!

swbeeworm yesssssss

gremgeous the gem pillar AJDGSGGDJS YOU KNOW WHATVWPUKD BE EVEN BETTER ALCOR THINKS THE SITH LOOK IS TACKY AF

swbeeworm alcor: no listen. listen. i picked these space robes out of my space wardrobe because they looked cool, not because i'm part of some. some space cult ljflskdajfslkdfjsd

gremgeous the gem pillar BUT HE STILL THINKS ITS BETTER THAN THE JEDI

swbeeworm that's even better

gremgeous the gem pillar space cult im HOWLING

swbeeworm you KNOW he'd be so excited at being in space this DORK

gremgeous the gem pillar Ph gosh imagine it starts out all dark and serious and angsty and creepy in the whole beginning exchange But as soon as the day after alcor takes up palps role hits it takes a sharp turn into crack terriotry

gremgeous the gem pillar OH HE WOULD

swbeeworm yESSSS

gremgeous the gem pillar Alcor takes one look at dooku and is like "youre the only one aroynd here with any sort of fashion sense" "And its HORRIBLE"

swbeeworm sljflskdjfsd

gremgeous the gem pillar Just roasts him And by extension everyone else too

swbeeworm dooku has NO IDEA what's going on but at this point ""palpatine"" or whatever's taken over him is ten minutes into a rant abt the layers on layers of boring robes jedi wear and at this point he'll take the backhanded compliment about his own style

gremgeous the gem pillar Akehdsjfssksgsjd

swbeeworm just to shut him up

gremgeous the gem pillar AKDHDJDGDJDHD Alco goes on a 30 minute rant on why suits are SO much more professional

swbeeworm snaps "palpatine" into a suit and goes "...except maybe for this guy idk if anything could make him look good"

gremgeous the gem pillar And its more of a backhanded insukt than a backhanded compliment but anything to shut the guy up, right?

swbeeworm how much we roasting palpatine here

gremgeous the gem pillar To a blackened crisp

swbeeworm as it should be

gremgeous the gem pillar Its better than his wrinkly old rasin look anyday

swbeeworm lskjdlsakjfdf agreed

gremgeous the gem pillar Be hard NOT to improve on that honestly But the dude sinks so low i bet hed somehow manage it

swbeeworm --alcor getting fed up w palpatine's body and just. showing up to the senate meetings, full alcor, eyes n his normal face n everything, in palpatine's robes, and when someone rightfully asks him who the hell is he, he just deadpans "i'd think by this point you'd recognize your own chancellor" and just straight insists he's palpatine (and has the knowledge to back it up) every time someone sputters

gremgeous the gem pillar Also i included the bit abt the journal 3 thing bc my saga of alcor repeating bill's patterns, behaviors, and ideas unknowlingly and without awareness that that is what he is doing shall continue >:3c

gremgeous the gem pillar AODHAJDBAKWJHEVEJDJDHSHSHSJWOWKJEHEE I LOVE IT OH HOW I LOVE OT ALSOWHSKJDISOSOAJAIW Oh gosh what if he fuckin

swbeeworm because at this point it's less about blending in and more about trolling the whole senate and being as distracting as possible  because with everyone paying attention to his trolling theyre less likely to notice the bills for clone rights n abolishing slavery n such that he's pushing thru in the background misdirection at its finest

gremgeous the gem pillar I was gonna say a thing abt alcor replacing palps b4 the election and so they did elect alcor to chancelorhoood But it might be funnier if he took him over AFTER abd still says that bit abt recognizing their own chancellor Oh gosh in that secind scenario it would be hilarious if the jedi are all  :blobglare: @alcor except for obi-wan who is all like "i am looking away" bc at least THIS guy (whiever the hell he is) has stopped being such a creep abt anakin

swbeeworm the jedi are sent in to figure out wtf is going on and. they, unfortunately, bewilderingly, confirm that this is the same person as the chancellor who'd been showing up recently??? same wii music/bleeding effect??

swbeeworm alcor, finding appointments with some random jedi kid on palpatine's calendar: wtf why is this creep trying to meet with a kid alone, yeah how about i cancel that

gremgeous the gem pillar AKDJDJD Alcor, looking at palpatibes planner: "every day i am more and more glad that i ate thig guys soul" "Like i knew it was oily but im suprised i havent got an upset stomach from it yet"

swbeeworm sjlskdfjsdf alcor the next day, after finding stuff abt the order 66 chip things, gagging: "i spoke too soon"

gremgeous the gem pillar Obi-wan to the council: hmm? Yes this is totally the chancellor, i know this because of all the previous meetings and close relationship he has had with my padawan which you allowed and helped facillitate- "Palpatine":[has a completley different body type, height, and face. Plus he actually has hair and is maybe even floating a little but its hard to be sure in those black and gold robes- and with a completely different voice] oh, yeah, totally, Im the chancellor and i totally know who this guy and that kid is yup yup yup-

gremgeous the gem pillar [UGLY LAUGHTER] AkdjskkdkdjsysAODJSJEUEIEIIEF

swbeeworm ASDKAFDF "palpatine": [grins with very sharp teeth at a nervous senator] council: "okay that is NOT normal" obi-wan, deadpan: "i'm sorry, it sounds like you're discriminating against non-human beings? that's not very jedi of you now is it"

gremgeous the gem pillar ALDHDJDHD Wait wait no what if its "This is completely normal behavior. I, as a human, know this for certain" "I can do this too, but i dont, because it is impolite, but hes the chancellor he can do whatever he wants"

swbeeworm asldksajflksdfjsdf;jsdf yes yes beautiful

gremgeous the gem pillar Alcor and obi-wan team up to be passive agressive at everyone who allowed palps and anakin to hang out ABOUT them letting an unsupervised minor chill w a suoer duper old guy Shoulda had a chaperone at LEAST Butalso

swbeeworm the other humans on the council: "uh, actually-" obi-wan: [manages to sip tea (which he shouldn't even have access to in a council meeting btw) with an aggressively polite smile and silent Threat] the other humans: "....um."

gremgeous the gem pillar "Thats not very jedi of you now is it" AODHSJSIDHALSVD IM HOWLING I LOVE IT THE SASS wheeze*

swbeeworm i live for obi-wan sass it gives me LIFE

gremgeous the gem pillar SAME oh its so good Love that one post where obj-wan is on tatooine and calls all the force ghosts to view his powperpoint presentation about how letting palps have acess to analin was a bad idea as hed been saying all along-

swbeeworm u need to know i wrote this with the "that's not very plus ultra of you" meme, which is a bnha offshoot of the "that's not very cash money of you" meme, in my head on repeat

gremgeous the gem pillar Ph him terrorizing all the people palpatine had in his pocket...... Ok this is veering into even MORE crack territory but at some poibt alcor replaces, uh, whats the dudes name, palps second in command - mess something-or-other? - with a nightmare Not just ANY nightmare But a DIFFERENT nightmare each day

swbeeworm ASDLSDFKLDJF PLEASE

gremgeous the gem pillar They took it upon themselves to go on rotation They couldn't decide who should go when alcor proposed the idea so its everyone One at a time They dont even look REMOTELY human Or like anything the galaxy has ever known or seen And theres no "secretive supernatural species" excuse for them to fall back on here lmao

swbeeworm random dude: "what is that???" alcor, cheerful: "that's my assistant" rd: "is that--is that supposed to be a sheep?" alcor: "no they're my assistant" nightmare: [sound that, if you ignore the reverb and microphone-screeching and kazoo effects, might be a "baaa"] alcor: [smiles aggressively wider with sharp teeth] rd: [sweats nervously]

gremgeous the gem pillar ALDJDKSIEJEHAJWJWHEI Obi-wan: i am still l :eyes:king away Anakin: oooh, the wool is so soft master. Come feel it! Obi-wan: really? Ooh youre right The council: ....

swbeeworm rd: "okay but this is a DIFFERENT one than yesterday right?? right???" alcor: "i have absolutely no idea what you're talking about :)" obi-wan, still with tea he should not have, this time with space whiskey mixed in: "sir i think you might be seeing things, they are clearly the same individual as yesterday"

gremgeous the gem pillar Mace: ...hrm it is quite soft- The rest of the council: ??? When did he get-

gremgeous the gem pillar AKDJDJDHDHD JUST LYING THROUGH HIS TEETH ALDJDHFJF

swbeeworm obi-wan looking mace dead in the eye and chugging his spiked tea which is more whiskey than tea at this point: "how dare you accuse me of lying.  me, after everything i've done for this council.  i am betrayed.  heartbroken.  never shall trust again.  i am leaving until i recover" -and promptly fucks off on a vacation with anakin

gremgeous the gem pillar The jedi start getting a LOT more missions about busting slave rings and giving aid in the outer rim - plus some more dimplomacy docused ones in regards to solving teeaties instead of putting down rebellions

-alcor shows up on the vacation with zero explanation and obi-wan at this point is like "fuck it why not" -a nightmare takes his place in palpatine's robes in the senate for the week they're gone

gremgeous the gem pillar ALSJSHDJDJSKDHEE Weirdly enough some of the more corrupt senators go missing after that week No one knows what hapoebed to them but the robes the "chancellor" wore that week have some awfully suspicious stains WAIT WAIT WHAT IF ITS NOT A NIGHTMARE WHAT IF ITS GOMPERS alcor didn't even ASK gompers to be there he was planning to not even warn anyone n just vanish but gompers just SHOWED UP the nightmares were the ones who put the robes on him

gremgeous the gem pillar Alcor doesn't even KNOW gomoers is there He gets back after the week and is like "what the heck" The nightmares are pretty proud of themselves for that one

swbeeworm the nightmares, collectively: "this is gonna be HILARIOUS" alcor, halfway across the galaxy, sees a newsfeed of a senate meeting with gompers in the robes in his place, and spits his drink clear across the room

he's only mad because he didn't think of it in the first place

gremgeous the gem pillar wheeze Hes proud of them

swbeeworm he IS

gremgeous the gem pillar Its so HILARIOUS

swbeeworm i pity anyone trying to read this mess later but i hope we at least make them laugh once

gremgeous the gem pillar Same Its such a joy Alcor teaches anakin the secret to mabel juice

swbeeworm oh no

gremgeous the gem pillar Only the children thank him The minders.... not so much

swbeeworm alcor: "okay so what i'm hearing is, the adult jedi have been making Stupid Decisions and not paying as much attention to the kids, as evidenced by them letting that one kid have meetings one on one with the creepy older guy i stopped putting effort into impersonating a month ago. so, clearly what needs to happen is something that forces the adults to pay attention to the kids and start keeping a closer eye on them, but it can't be something that actually hurts the kids because then i'd feel bad" alcor: "...." alcor: :blobamused:

gremgeous the gem pillar akdhdjsgshsjhdsjdjdj

swbeeworm alcor in a totally not suspicious trench coat and sunglasses: "hey. hey, kid. you wanna try some mabel juice?"

gremgeous the gem pillar AKDJDJDJDLFKFIFJIF WHEEZE "With the creepy older guy i stopped putting effort into impersonating a month ago" ALDJDBDJDJDDHDHDJDJDJDJDJDJDJSJDJEJEJE

gremgeous the gem pillar AKSJSHDJDJF

swbeeworm star wars kids: "mr chancellor why are you wearing that" alcor: "because i think it's funny" kids: "it isn't" alcor: "look do you want the juice or not"

gremgeous the gem pillar I LOVE ALL OF THAT LOOK DO YOU WANT THE JUICE OR NOT

swbeeworm i am having WAY too much fun with this ldjsldkfjdsf;

gremgeous the gem pillar "Were not supposed to take drugs from strangersl" "Its not- just take it!"

Hooooh man thats so funny Oh gosh Alcor uses a different time/date system

Than the star wars one

swbeeworm ooooooo yes

gremgeous the gem pillar Nit super sure where im going with this but.... Pretty sure he woukdnt know the star wars one At all Maybe the in-umuverse knockoff calendar maybe Hes wnough of a nerd to have that memorized But the star wars proper one

No, no i dont think he knows that one

swbeeworm nope no chance

gremgeous the gem pillar Omg yes

gremgeous the gem pillar Well its a good thing we have this..... and the mistaken sith version too :blobamused:

WAIT WAIT QAIT FLASH OF INSPIRATION ALCOR GIVING ANAKIN THE STRANGER DANGER PPT

swbeeworm i have 1 scene i can think of that actually almost made my friend cry and i have 1 au scene of a different au of mine where a character who canonically dies and gets brought back to life...doesn't come back (which is extra angst bc this is a Ghost Seeing Fic) and both of these i wrote at like 3-4am

swbeeworm SDFJKSDLFSJf YES :blobamused:

gremgeous the gem pillar Alcor: "you know, i usually save this one for the kids who followed the stranger with the nice candy into the alleyway and end up as sacrifices but I feel like you could benefit from it too"

swbeeworm alcor: "no talking to suspicious ppl" anakin: "except you right?" alcor: "....in any other situation i'd say no but if i say that you're just gonna up and leave (i see that grin thanks very much) so in this one singular personal case it is fine that you trust my very suspicious self"

gremgeous the gem pillar AKSJSJDJJD "My very suspicious self" Aksjdhdd

swbeeworm obi-wan, straight up knocking back shots now: "the man has a point anakin"

gremgeous the gem pillar Haha nice Obi-wan is taking notes Hes also re-inventing alcoholic mabel juice He weaseled the recipie out of the kids

swbeeworm asldfkjsdlkfjd imagine if somehow SIDIOUS CAME BACK and tries to take back over the senate but everyone at this point is used to alcor and one of two things happens: 1) they assume this is alcor messing with them with a clone/double (they don't know how he'd do it but at this point given his "assistants", the goat that somehow made more eloquent speeches than the "human", and the other things involved, they wouldn't put it past him) and just ignore him 2) they look between the real palpatine who'd been pushing thru some very sketchy bills, and between alcor who's been sneaking through law after law protecting all kinds of sentients, and they turn back to palpatine and go "how dare you impersonate the chancellor" and kick him out

swbeeworm at this point he deserves it tbh

gremgeous the gem pillar AKDJDJDHFDJDJDJD Ok i preffer him dead and gone and forgotten in favor of alcor (its what he deserves) but oh those are hilarious

swbeeworm agreed to both counts alsdjalsdk

gremgeous the gem pillar ESPECIALLY if the senate chooses to keep alcor over palps XD Ph man we can work that into him being dead and gone too- alcor starts dispersing the power and the other half of the senate w bail and padme are like "yeah seems legit" along w obi-wan The jedi only put like, a token effort into investigating and are more put out by trying to figure out what happened to the real palpatine and all his past shady dealings than exposing the current "palpatine" for a fake

swbeeworm palpatine: "excuse me?? i am the chancellor of this republic" councilmembers, with the same deadpan as alcor's been pulling on them all year: "sir, i think you're confused. this is the chancellor" [points to alcor, in palpatine's robes from his closet, making no attempt to hide his lack of resemblance to palpatine, with a nightmare at his side wearing a small top hat that proclaims its position as "chancellor's assistant"] palpatine: [screams of frustration]

gremgeous the gem pillar Once they reaize the shift in mission assignments can be attributed to new palp

gremgeous the gem pillar AKDJDJDJSJSJSBEJSJSJSHSJSKS

swbeeworm yesss this

gremgeous the gem pillar I wanna say maul gets the joy and pleasure of offibg palpatine the second time in that version

swbeeworm FINALLY they get a chance to pull one back over on someone, pass along the suffering a little bit

swbeeworm oh definitely

oh shit we've been at this for an hour

gremgeous the gem pillar Maul comes back and offs palps and evrryone is jist like "Maul!!! How?!?" And completley ignore the palpatibe corpse 2.0 Ajdhhd so we have Niiiight book

Also from a tumblr post the phrase "your pal friendpatine" is hilarious and i think yall shoukd enjoy it too As is "SOMEHOW... MAUL RETURNS" Both taken from the same post lol Okokok so switchibg tracks for a bit Revisiting Some groundwork for the mistaken sith version Alcor is there..... because al-v was there first, made friends with the droid army mid clone war, and caled his dad in to help Which puts alcors initial point of contact as the separost foot soldiers

gremgeous the gem pillar No matter what the dominant language alcor has most recently been using OH OH OH ALCOR WITH ACESS TO OTHER UNIVERSE SLANG CONFUSING ALL THE SENATE WITH HIS NONSENSICAL PHRASES AND IDIOMS AND SLANG/PROFANITY LIKE "over the moon" AND "hot belgian waffles" AND "fuck" "Palpatine": [drops paperwork he JUST spent so much time disorganizing (as in putting in a dissaray)] FUCK Senator: .... sir, what is a 'fuck' "Palpatine": ......... im not explaining that to you Or conversley he makes smth up Alcor, upon realizing the most common swear word is "kriff': yeaht hats stupid im not saying that Alcor mercilessly roasting the star wars profanity And how stupid they all sound. This one is great for the al-v and alcor make friend w a droid army and maybe-sorta steal them while massivelt confusing and mystifying everyone along the way, bc why not add a language barrier on top of all the other assumptions and misunderstandings >:D But also at the same time it would make sense for him to have got thw local language in an infodump somewhere along the line (maybe an older version) if its located in a different galaxy but the same universe........... but also what if theyre just suoer far away so he didnt get priority acess...... or even if he traveled back in time ............. [Shrug] idk Mwanwhile inexplicably having the same language is hilarious in the demon lose in the senate ons but also imagine alcor pretending to be palpatine while unable to speak the common tongue lolol I know it wouldnt work (he has to be able to understand palpatine on some level to take MASSIVE advantage of him and eat his soul) but it is hilarious to think abt the shenanigans............ OH GOSH ALCOR TAKING CONTROL OF THE SENAT BUT BEING UNABLE TO R E A D AKDBSKSKJFF Okokok Imagine the basic/english language inexplicably being the same structure w a few different words and concepts...... when spoken And completley different when written down SO ALCOR CAN SPEAK BUT HE CANT READ Meanwhile in mistaken for a sith land alcor either doesnt have any knowledge of the local language or else gets a SUPER OLD AND POSSIBLE DEAD LANGUAGE in an infodump (to help feed the misunderstandings and rumors and future clashes w the sith and the jedi hehhehheh) bc semi-omniscience is not total omniscience and so is not everything and, once again, is not very helpful But ill leave off for tonight on the thought of alcor, lose in the senate, in the seat of the chancellor, lord of all paperwork for the galactic republic....... and able to read NONE of it And barely understands it too (demons are not ones for politics, Brian the Organ Duck and his 200 year sucessful presidency run aside) (his is soemthing of the exception, not the rule.) Meanwhile all those humanitarian aid bills and the like are all being passed by bail and padmes group all over the place bc their strange and inexplicable source of resistance was devoured like, a week ago Not ones to look a gift horse in ths mouth until AFTER they get what they want the group passes a ton of bills without delay - and manages to break up a few monopolies along the way Now im not saying that "palpatine" suddenly acting off and the bills facing a lot less resistance is a noticeable coincidence...... and around the same time he stops asking after anakin ............... but im totally saying they notice it and realize its probably, absolutely, not a coincidence and theyre not going to say anything bc they like this new "palpatine" better. Despite all the other mindbending weirdness and mindfuckery going on there The jedi are only mad abt alcor bc a few of their own started bleeding from the eyes nose and ears when they tried to investigate initially so theyre a little ticked off abt that, which, fair.

Also the blantant lying and lack of trying on alcors part is a little insulting to them as a whole ("does he think we'll really fall for that") and is slightly concerning to them ("who the heck is this, someone is inpersonating the chancellor of the ENTIRE REPUBLIC-" Which is, admittedly, a little concern worthy)  but if the council is honest (or some of the council anyway) with themselves its pretty much the darn best entertainmnt theyve had in a good long while, headaches aside, sot ehyll focus more on the okd palpatines dissapernace and dealings than the new "palpatine" so long as he doesnt start doing anything ACTIVELY damaging to the republic. A little mischief doesnt technically count as harm- and hey theys preffer to find the og chancellor b4 upsetting and potnetially causing the new one to do smth drastic by attsmpting to out him (not that alcor would, its so much funnier to deny everything to their faces while blatantly lying but they dont know that. So caution (and stress) it is)

#Transcendence AU #Discord Convo

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

This is a masterlist of all my writing projects, both original and fanfic, so that they’re easier to find.

Original Works- The Restoration Saga:

The Tale of Mozarita the Meerkitten (published) - Mozarita, a kitten, and her siblings, find themselves fighting in a war against the terrible Wolfking, Cogg, who wishes to rule the Forest.

The Fire Kitten (written, unedited, unpublished) - Firesong and her brother Jakito are kittennapped and taken on a great journey before finally being made slaves in the dark, terrible city of Ventargo.

Catlition (2nd draft done needs rewritten again) - After losing their mother, Ribbony and his siblings find themselves in a series of wild adventures that take them from their home in Ventargo through frozen mountains, dark tunnels, snowy countries, and burning deserts as they strive to protect their friend Kristoren from assassins.

The Wolfprince’s Revenge (1st draft only) - I cannot say anything about the plot that won’t have spoilers for the other books, but it is a story about courage, redemption, and hope in the face of despair and terrible darkness, just like my other books.

Original Works- The SOS Chronicles:

Mayday (first draft in progress)- An escaped slave boy named Oliver finds refuge on the spaceship Catacrome, which has just been called off on a mission to investigate the mysterious disappearance of another ship. When the Catacrome comes under attack from an unknown species, Oliver- and the mysterious entity talking to him from the walls- must find a way to help the crew and save the ship if he ever wants to return to his home planet and rescue his best friend Silas.

Fanfiction:

Hope will (Estel and Maglor stories) - Stories about young Aragorn and Maglor (series, finished)

Wingfeather Madrigal Falls - Crossover stories between Gravity Falls and The Wingfeather Saga, now also includes Encanto (series, in progress)

The Throne Warden’s Redemption - Artham tells his family what happened to him and Esben in the Deeps of Throg (finished)

The Misadventures of Artham Peet Wingfeather - Stories about Artham Wingfeather/Peet the Sock Man that sometimes include the Wingfeather children. Formerly “A Birdman and the Jewels of Anniera” (series, in progress)

Anniera Falls - A retelling of The Wingfeather Saga with Gravity Falls characters, or Gravity Falls AU in the fantasy world of Aerwiar (in progress)

Stranger Falls - The Gravity Falls/Stranger Things crossover where the Mystery Trio adopt Eleven that nobody asked for but I wrote anyway. (finished)

The Sons of the Dark One - Harry Potter/Once Upon a Time crossover where Baelfire and Sirius meet as children and cause massive changes to both their stories. (in progress)

The Chronicles of Undertale - Narnia/Undertale crossover no one asked for but I decided to write anyway. (in progress)

#the restoration saga #lord of the rings #stranger things #gravity falls #the wingfeather saga #the tale of mozarita the meerkitten #the fire kitten #catlition #the wolfprince's revenge #my books #my fanfics #estel (young aragorn) #maglor #wingfeather falls #anniera falls #stranger falls #original stories #fanfic #crossovers #writing #the sos chronicles #mayday #undertale #Narnia #harry potter #once upon a time #updated in february 2023

[spotty-bee]

( @mystery-gems Sorry this was too long for the ask!)

One thing I have been seeing around Tumblr a lot about the SUF GF crossover is that people think it wouldn't be good for Steven. That he’s trying to get away from all the stress of Beach City and that the stress of Gravity Falls is much the same, just add in taking care of Dipper and Mabel.They are right, in a way, but I think it's also good for Steven because it gives him a new perspective. 

Throughout Future I get the feeling that Steven, on some unconscious level, blames the adults in his life for letting these bad things happen to him. It especially comes up in the episode “Mr Universe”. That being said he knows it was a tough situation and nobody had the answers. However knowing and experiencing are two different things. In having to take care of Dipper and Mable, two kids you could argue that also have a sorta heroic, troubled family destiny, he could have a very empathic experience of what his caregivers had to go through.

Course that's just my two cents. I dunno. You got an opinion on this?

#gravity falls #steven universe #steven universe future #Ask #Too long to send in normally #Sorry for any spelling mistakes #mystery-gems

[simplyshelbs16xoxo]

Kim Possible meets Gravity Falls: The Crossover Nobody Asked For

#kim possible #gravity falls #kpedit #drakgo #gravity falls edit #my edits

[rooberrystar]

I started watching My Hero Acedamia so here’s a hot new mha x critical role crossover nobody but me asked for cause I had a brainwave and I will stop making crossover aus when I’m dead

The mha au Mighty Nien

Fjord

Quirk: Ukatoa

Ukatoa is a dark shadow like entity but more aloof evil and controlling of fjord. It can give fjord abilities by acting through him briefly (when this happens his eyes glow and he secreats seawater

As he gets more powerful and a big problem fjord shoots him self with a quirk eraser bullet killing the beast or at least banishing it. He is then quirkless and given a sword and training to keep doing cool stuff

Essek

Quirk: Gravitation

Can alter gravity’s effect on a thing or person he can see to make them heavier, lighter, weightless or so dense it implodes on itself tiny black hole style though that takes a ton of energy

Jester

Quirk: Imaginary friends

Can bring imaginary friends that she draws and personifies to life and summon them to the real world. Making them physically able to interact with the real world takes a lot more energy than just having them visible to the world (she can make them visible to only her as an energy saving alternative)

He can fuel and power her quirks ability by eating sweets

Her imaginary friends include the traveler(her first friend) her army of hamster unicorns and her giant lollipop, which now has sentience, googley eyes and a thirst for bloodshed

Beau

Quirkless

Can throw a real good punch and we’ll trained in hand to hand combat, trained with monks and learned marshal arts of far before quirks began manifesting

Caleb

Quirk: Transmutation

Can change the appearance, abilities and qualities of any creature or object including himself as long as he knows the molecular structure and such of the thing really well, he uses this to shift into animals and shift his cat into other creatures

(His signature move is transmuting the water or air in/around something into an incredibly reactive element to set things on fire instantly)

Caduceus

Quirk: Heal/decay

Can rewind life’s effect on cells to undo/heal an injury or fast forward the decaying process on a dead body he needs to do equal amounts tho or he runs out until he can even it out

Kiri

Quirk: Mimicary

Can mimic any sounds she hears including speech

She is nonverbal except using her quirk

She also has a blackbird appearance from her parents quirk

Yasha

Quirk: Thunder wings

Can sprout wings that can summon thunder and scare people, wings gain feathers based on her mental state or mood and having feathers means she can easily fly and carry more in the air but having less feathers allows her to make foes afraid of her

Nott/Veth

Invisible hands

Can summon spectral invisible silent hands that can steal things real easily, can hold a falling person to make them fall slower and can cover her up making her invisible. Only her and her close friends and loved ones can see the hands (to semi quote a friends d&d moment((thanks @sleebyfrogs )): “I see the weird floating hands. #squadgoals”

Mollymauk

Quirk: Blood magic

Can use his blood to produce various effects (basically most blood hunter stuff) wip

Frumpkin

Quirk: Cat

He is a cat

Imagine walking into your 4 or 5 year old child only to find out he is a cat

Shits wild dude

That’s a whole cat right there

Frumpkin is a person who is in the body of a cat and lived most of his life as a cat but was once a human so he is smart as an uneducated human and can understand human speech and instructions

The Ruby of the sea

Quirk: ambience

She can create visual and auditory effects like dimming lights, illusion decorations and voice amplifying

I live for this shit!

Extra things

- when fjord loses his powers Beau takes him under her wing and trains him to fight without a quirk (workout training couch bearagard) team quirkless for life!

- The m9 are not with the hero guild or league of villains but do their own thing for their own reasons

- Frumpkin likes most things about being a cat but is still a person, he likes Caleb cause he makes sure he is treated and talked to nicely and with respect while still giving him those good good scritches he loves so much

- Frumpkin acts and thinks like a cat cause cat instincts are part of the deal

- Caleb and Esseks quirks rely on science knowledge and understanding to work and have had to work and study real hard to use it. Jesters quirk baffles them both big time

- Only Caleb knows about Frumpkin. Everyone thinks he’s just a super intelligent cat on whos behalf Caleb gets very defensive

- Beau seeks to uncover the corruption of the hero agencies

- ⚠️spoiler alert⚠️ Essek did some shady stuff with the lov for science knowledge

- Fjords quirk manifested once as a kid and scared the shit out of some bullies and then fucked off for the rest of his life except sometimes making him sleepwalk and have ocean dreams that have him spit up salt water. When he nearly drowned when his ship got wrecked it awakened something and ukatoa saved him and stuck a weird deal fjord doesn’t remember and now is more present

- The Nien are all human and traveling around on various dangerous missions and objectives and do their glorious thing

#the mighty nein #my hero academia #critical role #crossover au #critical role au #mha #tmn #critrole #fjord stone #essek thelyss #jester lavorre #beauregard lionett #caleb widogast #yasha nydoorin #kiri #caduceus clay #nott the brave #veth brenatto #mollymauk tealeaf #frumpkin #ill draw stuff later but feel free to shoot me ideas

[omnifalls-10]

Why did you make Omni-Falls 10? And what inspire you to make it? When did you started it before starting the production of it?

Well there were many facets to why I started it but there were three big reasons. The first one was me binge watching the original Ben 10 Series before re-watching Gravity Falls not long after. When you watch them next to each other, you begin to notice how they share some interesting similarities with the other:

1.) The setting takes place in the summer.

2.) A siblings that share different interests, but still love each other no matter what. 

3.) Supernatural/Extraterrestrial experiences happening in a natural setting.  

4.) A tool that helps the main character solve problems that occur, whether it’s physical or puzzle-solving/mystery-solving.

5.) The elder figure has secret that changes the foundation of the family’s relationship.

6.) A villain that is tied in way to the main character.

The second reason was because in the realm of fanfictions, Ben 10 has been used to versatile degree with what’s possible in a crossover fanfiction. You can have Ben or even the Omnitrix itself in another setting and you would get some interesting scenarios that feel cool as shit. But this works as a double-edged sword if you don’t balance the level of power something like Ben or the Omnitrix has at their disposal, yet the pros outweigh the cons so it’s not that big of a deal.

The third reason was simply because I was inspired these fanfics, Loud 10 by Ninjamon1228, My Alien Academia by The Incredible Muffin, and last but not least, Universe Falls by @minijenn.

I’m surprised nobody asks about the behind scenes with Omni Fall this frequently. Keep it up.

#omni falls #inspiration #asks

[zenzenzence]

What are the fanfics you keep going back to again and again when looking for something comforting and familiar to read?

Hi Anon! Thank you for this ask!! :D I’m not usually one to re-read fics, but these are a few memorable fanfics that I have read that have definitely stuck with me and that I think about often, very fondly. Some I discovered a few months ago, others I read years ago. They’re for a wide range of fandoms.

There are more that I think about often, but I didn’t want this post to get too long. Please feel free to ask me for more though!! :D

Kimi No Na Wa. (Mitsuha/Taki):

“Deep Tie Knot” by NRGburst - Rated T, Happy Ending, Reunion, Crossing Timelines, One-Shot, Complete. Because some bonds are soul deep.

“Self-Medication” by anjumstar - Rated T, Depression, Anxiety, Medication, Misdiagnosis, One-Shot, Complete. Mitsuha doesn’t think that she has depression. After all, how could she be depressed when a simple cheesecake is enough to fix any problem? But her friends are concerned for her. And what’s their suggestion? Therapy.

Mario & Luigi RPG (Luigi/Peasley):

“The Rose” by LadyKeane - Rated T, Love Triangles, Love Confessions, Pining, Politics, Music, Canon-Divergent, Multi-Chapter, Complete. A romantic fairy tale centering on a green-thumbed minstrel, a prince who learns how to love, lose and reawaken, a brave and selfless princess, and a glowing golden rose.

“Need” by Zarla - Rated G, Romance, Adventure, Fluff, Canon-Divergent, One-Shot, Complete. Prince Peasley is bored, so he invites Luigi to stay at his castle for a while. The problem arises when Luigi has to go home.

Dear Evan Hansen (Evan/Connor):

“Nine Dollar Tip” by howboutinotdothis - Rated G, Alternate Universe, Nobody Dies/Everybody Lives AU, One-Shot, Complete. It all starts in the spring of his junior year. Evan’s puttering around the kitchen, laptop opened on the counter, checking the cabinets and the refrigerator for what must be the third time in the hopes that food will magically appear and he’ll be able to avoid ordering anything. Sadly, the only thing resembling sustenance is a package of freeze burned fish sticks and eating those would be a one-way ticket to Dr. Sherman’s office. Or the emergency room. Preferably the emergency room.

HTTYD / ROTG Crossover (Hiccup/Jack Frost):

“Youth” by Guardian of Heart - Rated T, Crossover, Modern AU, Childhood Friends AU, Multi-Chapter, Incomplete. Jack lives next door to the Haddock family who recently moved in. He meets their only son, Henrik, who he nicknames Hiccup and befriends. They surpass a great deal of hardships, and over the years, their friendship blossoms and flourishes into something more.

Naruto (Boruto & Himawari):

“Expectations” by Alabaster Ink - Rated T, Post-Epilogue, Multi-Chapter, Incomplete. Boruto and Himawari were expected to be great. What wasn't expected was how they went about doing it.

Gravity Falls (Stanley-centric):

“Pet Humans” by thesnadger - Rated G, Canon-Divergent, Complete. Many people have heard that black dogs are harbingers of death. Stan hasn't. And if you call his new best friend a harbinger of anything, he'll knock your teeth out.

If you decide to read any of these, let me know if you liked it! I love getting asks. ;v;

#zence.ask #anonymous #fanfiction #fic rec #ask to tag

[minijenn]

Random Keys/UF Crossover Ideas

Because I’m torn between both of my projects right now and I hate myself, here’s something that’ll only really appeal to the very niche audience of people who read both Universe Falls and Keys to the Kingdom. Basically its a list of somewhat spoilery (for Keys more than UF) headcanons of what it might be like if the Gravity Falls world scheduled to be in Keys was a Universe Falls world instead (in the sense that it still takes place in Gravity Falls physically but like... its set in the universe of Universe Falls (oy I’m explaining too much lemme just start rambling off the random ideas that have been popping into my head over the last several days of this hypothetical crossover of my two stupid fanfics):

For reference’s sake, on the UF end of things, this would take place somewhere around the middle of arc10ish, pretty close to Weirdmageddon as the GF world in Keys is gonna take place pretty close to Weirdmageddon too. 

For Keys, the trip to this world would still take place in the same spot the GF world does, so semi close to the end of the story, as one of the last Disney worlds of the fic (guess it wouldn’t really be a “Disney” world here but ehhhhhh) 

Guess I better give some context about what’s going on in each fic around that time; UF’s is easier to do so we’ll start with that; basically without spoiling a certain upcoming arc ender too much, during arc 10, everyone’s sorta frazzled what between all of the interdimensional travel, worries about Bill coming back and causing chaos, worries about the Diamonds possibly getting involved in stuff, shaken by the recent revelation that Rose allegedly shattered Pink Diamond and so on (basically there’s a lot going on in the leadup to UF’s ending hahaha) 

Context for Keys (again without getting too spoilery (gotta tread even more careful here) is that by this point in the story Sora is basically in nonstop Panic Mode about the whole norting thing thanks to a certain encounter with one Bald Old Fuckhead during the Aladdin world immediately before this; so Sora’s on the run from basically his entire support system cause he’s all worried about unintentionally hurting his friends (and he also just doesn’t want Riku or Kairi in particular to see what’s happening to him cause Disaster Bi). 

Cont. Context for Keys cause that last bullet point was Long: Despite all this fuckin Angst, Sora’s still out searching for the Keys on his own in the hopes of securing the final few for the guardians of light before he can be fully norted and forced into handing them over to the Organization instead 

Not to mention those freak relatively dark/light powers of his are alll outta whack cause he A. Doesn’t know how to control them At All and B. Is Emotionally Distraught so that’s only making things worse

And the entire gang is more or less out searching the worlds tryin’ to find Sora (he yeeted his Gummi Phone off a fuckin cliff or something just so nobody could get in touch with him smh what a waste of a perfectly good cell phone); among the teams that are out doing so include the one we’re gonna focus on here, Ven and Roxas  

Back to the UF end of things, I wanna talk about where each of the Mystery Kids are at this point; Steven is sorta all over the place with, again, the revelation that his mom could have been a murderer; Dipper is hella nervous about the idea of Bill getting his hands on the Rift (even moreso after RMD cause PTSD is Somethin Else kids), Mabel is in that mindset of not wanting the summer to end so they can all stay together, and Connie is basically (as usual) the only one with any brain cells as she’s trying to hold the gang together

(lowkey spoilers for the Keys GF chapters start here) So Sora arrives in Gravity Falls, suffering from all the angsts and anxieties and whatnot and just Not Having a Very Good Time Emotionally/Mentally as he starts lookin around for the Key in the woods or whatever

But lo and behold everyone’s favorite Evil Corn Chip just so happens to be spyin’ on him, and before too long Bill makes his appearance and acts all friendly to Sora, claiming that he can basically undo the whole norting thing (which he knows all about because of course he would, this is Bill Fucking Cipher we’re talking about here)

Sora’s skeptical but at the same time he’s sort of willing to do whatever he can at this point to keep his heart from being taken over by Mr. Bald Old Fuckhead and all Bill is asking for in return is for him to nab some sparkly snow globe that he claims already belongs to him but was stolen by some local family who Bill makes out to be pretty bad so hey, why not at least give it a shot? (dumb, the kid is dumb this is something we’ve established many times over by this point)

So Sora sets out to look for both the rift and the Key (while also being harangued by Xemnas who’s the Org. baddie of the GF world but errrrr i don’t have a ton of ideas about what he’s gonna do yet so we’ll just skip over that for now and focus on somethin else)

Something else being the fact that Sora happens upon a bunch of kids being attacked by a group of Nobodies, so he swoops in to save them even though the kids already look like they’re holding their own pretty well against them (two of them are out here swinging swords around, one’s really handy with that grappling hook while another one has some sort of magical shield? Its weird??? But cool imo) 

So they all team up to take the Nobodies out and following that, Sora meets and mostly hits it off with the Mystery Kids

Mabel is super hype (she kinda instantly crushes on Sora as soon as she sees him even though he’s too fuckin old for her); Steven and Sora radiate the same sort of Sweet But Sad energy so of course they’re best friends immediately 

Connie’s a lil bewildered by Sora (who the hell goes around swinging a giant key like its a sword, that’s just not practical???) but Dipper’s distrustful radar is instantly raised for a a number of reasons, but the biggest red flag he notices about Sora by far is that his eyes are yellow (btw by this point his eyes will more or less be completely yellow and his hair almost entirely white; he usually wears his hood up to try and hide that, but it got blown off during the forementioned fight) 

So the kids were out and about in the woods for mystery hunting reasons, mostly cause they were trying to cool their heads from all of the stress they’re under mentioned earlier (and cause hey, the summer’s ending soon and they gotta spend all the time they can together at this point) 

However, they quickly change gears when they learn about Sora’s quest to find some magical Key and they all eagerly decide they wanna help with that cause it sounds hella rad; Dipper would likely be the only dissenter to this plan, but he’d be lowkey about it, kinda deciding to keep a suspicious eye on Sora all the while (he doesn’t really act like he’s being possessed by Bill, but ya can never be too sure nowadays...) 

So they all set out in search of the Key (Sora decides not to tell them about Bill or the rift just yet, but even so right off the bat he’s basically decided “yes I’m adopting all four of these kids as my new little brothers and sisters and no one can stop me”)

So cut to the other end of things and we have Ven and Roxas who have basically only just met each other face to face for the first time (they’re both basically constantly doin that spiderman look alike meme); they’ve been more or less teamed up to look for Sora together tho, and they both got a massive guilt complex about the whole thing cause they used to be able to directly protect him inside his heart but now they can’t since they’re out of it so they’re determined to find him and make sure he’s OK

They also show up in Gravity Falls, arriving much closer to the Mystery Shack and the Gem Temple than Sora did; since its the closest thing nearby, the boys decide to venture over to the Mystery Shack to look first 

After some brief, confused yet fun conversation with Soos and Wendy, they bump into Stan and that initial meeting goes something like: 

Stan: Who the hell are you two supposed to be? You twins or something?

Roxas: No??? What the fuck is a twin??

Ventus, realizing that Roxas has like 0 real world experience or regard for world order at that moment right fucking there: (oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck) Ummmm YES WE ARE WE’RE TOTALLY TWINS AHAHA AREN’T WE BROTHER?

Roxas, immensely confused: What the hell is a brother??

And then Ford shows up and Roxas looks between him and Stan is just like “ooooh ok now I get what a twin is” and Ven is just like “oh my god I think Roxas managed to catch some of Sora’s stupidity after all asdkjalsdkalsd” 

Anyway after all this awkward confusion is over, Roxas and Ven bring up that they’re there looking for someone, and while neither Stan nor Ford are that invested, they do offhandedly mention maybe the Crystal Gems can help

Ironically enough, the Gems happen to burst into the shack right then and there, taking refuge from the surge of strange creatures swarming outside (Nobodies & Heartless); the Gems are rather overwhelmed by them since their weapons don’t work that great on them so they’ve come to seek Ford’s help (since he’s got all those weapons and lasers and shit he keeps stockpiled) 

In this Ven and Roxas end up meeting the Gems and both of them are just like :O (Ven’s lowkey like, “Aqua would get along great with these ladies, they’re total badasses just like her!”) and the Gems just kinda pass the boyos off like “yeah whatever there’s a fuckton of monsters outside meanwhile where are our kids?”

Stan and Ford are like *shrug* cause neither of them are very good at being Responsible when it comes to keeping an eye on these danger-prone kids and the Gems are just like *facepalm* “Morons” so they set out to find the kids and Ven and Roxas are like “well they know their way around here so why not go with them to see if we can find Sora too!” and so they all head out on a lil adventure

Then a whole bunch of stuff happens on both sides of the plot that I haven’t bothered to figure out; bunch of cute character interactions and whatever; insert possible second encounter with Xemnas in here somewhere where he basically shows up just to intimidate Sora but Sora’s like “no way jose, you touch any of these precious kiddos and you’ll Die” 

Somewhere in here, under... some circumstances, Sora and the MK make it back to the shack but like... everyone’s gone? (cause they all went out to look for them, didn’t even leave a note, fuckin rude) 

They search the house for anybody and then, on complete fuckin accident, Sora finds his way down into the basement (the portal room to be exact) and what else does he find down there but that thing Bill asked him to get (the rift)! 

Though he’s a little confused about why its there (Bill did say some awful family “stole” the rift from him, but none of the MK are awful, they a bunch of Good Kids); Sora still pockets it like a desperate dummy dumb anyway and doesn’t say a word about it to the kids because he thinks they might be too innocent and young to know anything about it anyway (he’s wrong of course because much like him these kids are Traumatized with a capital T but we’ll just ignore that for now)

Still on the search for that Key, Sora and the kids head out only to run right into Stan, Ford, and the Gems on the way out; course, Ven and Roxas are still with them and they see Sora and they’re like :D while Sora’s just like “aw fuck” and runs away from his problems like always

So he rushes off into the woods and who else would show up but that Motherfuckin Evil Corn Chip again who’s like “yo kid ya got the stuff” and Sora’s just like “brb having a panic attack rn” but then he ends up obliviously handing the rift over anyway cause again he’s incredibly desperate for any way out of his current horrible situation

Of course because I’m a sap for Drama, he happens to do so just as all four of the MK show up, having followed him into the woods and ohohohoh boy oh boy let’s just say them seeing Sora just up and giving the rift over to Bill would be a Moment (well, at least for Steven and Dipper cause they actually know what the fuckin rift is unlike Mabel and Connie who still wouldn’t at that point) 

So basically Bill is a little shit and takes the rift, but he can’t actually fuckin do anything with it cause he’s a physical object and he’s still intangible (or somethin like that idk I just don’t want Weirdmageddon to happen cause it would make things too complicated) so he’s like “fuck gotta find some stupid sap to possess so I can smash this dumb thing” and he nearly targets Sora (cause the kid was already stupid enough to help him in the first place so why not?) until Steven ends up being the one to fend him off using his shield 

Bill shrugs it off and makes off with the rift anyway (its like... hovering or something? idk I’m running out of steam) and everyone panics of course, especially Sora cause he’s just like “well shit I certainly Fucked Up didn’t i?” and the MK are both a mix of “YOU THINK?” (from Dipper and Connie mostly) and “imo not your fault Bill’s tricked just about all of us he’s an asshole” (from Steven and Mabel)

Amidst this a bunch of lil things also happen; the Stans and the Gems show up (along with Ven and Roxas), basically everyone is immensely confused (aka those who have no idea what the fucking rift is) and alarmed (those who do know what the rift is) that Bill has what he needs to more or less fuck the entire world over 

So everyone just decides to put everything aside and team up all together to track Bill down and get the rift back before he can break it (there’s a lot of heartwarming trust moments in here, mostly cause trust is like... the cornerstone theme of the GF chapters in Keys for obvious reasons) 

They eventually do find him and *insert big epic battle scene here* where everyone teams up to basically beat Bill to death or whatever (don’t ask me how they be doin that if he’s intangible, again I.... I’m tired and this post is long enough as it is) 

Yadda yadda yadda they beat him, get the rift back and effectively prevent Weirdmageddon from happening to begin with (which just does SO much wonderful fuckery for UF’s timeline moving forward but whatever, this ain’t about that) 

Oh and during that Climactic Battle Scene somewhere there’s some bit about Sora learning to better trust others/himself that leads to him getting the world’s Key? I-I I dunno its a work in progress...

Anyway after this there’s a lot of good character interactions all around, reconciliations between the UF characters and the Keys characters, particularly between Sora and the MK (again he’s adopted these kiddos and don’t you forget it)

So with the Key in hand, Sora starts to leave and Roxas and Ven almost convince him to go back with them until *insert Big Keys Spoiler here that results in the Organization getting their hands on that Key Sora just got and also results in Sora running away again cause... reasons*

And that’s the end of the chapters or whatever idk 

There’s probably more ideas I had in mind for this but I literally can’t do anymore my brain is dying 

I might possibly write this for reals someday i dunno I’m stuck in two personal hells here so I might as well combine ‘em

Yes I’m aware this post leans more heavily on Keys than UF but its set in the world of UF so fuck off 

Feel free to add on with any thoughts you might have about the idea

I’m tired

Amen 

#jen writes #universe falls #keys to the kingdom #long post is loooooong #headcanons #ideas #who am i kidding i will literally never do anything with this idea ofther than this very fucking post #then again... i like Angst :) #and UF and Keys both got plenty of it

[steampunk-magicalgirl]

What should have been a normal summoning turns out to be part of something much greater when Alcor suddenly finds himself face to face with a powerful new enemy and a situation that he has no idea how to handle.

aka the TAU x Soul Eater crossover that nobody asked for but that I’m more than happy to write anyways! 

#soul eater #transcendence au #gravity falls transcendence au #alcor the dreambender #dipper pines #crona gorgon #medusa gorgon #fanfic #My writing

[asliverofsun]

‘It’s part of an entirely new category of ghosts!”

Dimple meets Dipper and Mabel, dipper is very confused

#the crossover nobody asked for #gravity falls #gf #mob psycho 100 #mp100 #cross over #digital art #color

[cosmiciaria]

World of Final Fantasy Review! (Spoiler free)

I know the game is pretty old by now. It was released in October, 2016, before Final Fantasy XV wrecked the fandom. I've always wanted to give it a shot, but the apparent light-hearted approach didn't suit me well – so I waited for a decent discount in PSN, and I finally managed to get it in my hands! Disclaimer: this is a review of the vanilla version of the game. Saw there's a big expansion adding quite a a lot of stuff, including gameplay mechanics, so… either way, the game is quite enjoyable as it is, I don't deem an expansion necessary in my case to make me like the game more.

So yes, this is a GUD game. Even GUDER than I'd thought it would be. Like REALLY. Real good.

I'm not explaining myself. You see, this game seems made for younger generations. It was the result of the 30th Square Enix Anniversary, and it's the cocktail boiling in the cauldron every Final Fantasy fan wanted to have. It's a crossover, it's the perfect fanfiction across all the universes we've learned to love and care in this franchise. It's a love letter to fans, and I want to stress this idea, because… this game is great, is awesome, is moving, but only if you're an FF fan.

I mean, you'll still enjoy it for what it is, but… there are a thousand nods and references to the previous FF games that you won't get if you at least are not familiar with their premises. I, for instance, haven't played many of the mainline FF, including I, II, V and XI. I knew about their characters and some of its most characteristic thingies (like Gilgamesh being from FFV), so I still could get some of the references, but it's not the same.

It's not the same, because, like I said, this game is a love letter to fans. And it shows.

But – wait, are those chibis? Is this a children's game? What are you talking about? I know it's hard to take chibis seriously, but hear me out – this game is more serious than it seems at first sight. I expected nothing but RPG tropes and I did get many of those, but DUDE (pun intended) did I had a great (TRAGIC) time with those twists and turns!

So we follow Lann, a fifteen year old ginger boy who goes to work at his usual café. He doesn't seem to notice the Pokémon – I mean, the Mirage on his head, a cute white little fox that seems to defy the laws of gravity by gripping to his hair. In the café, Lann meets Enna Kros, a mysterious woman who asks for a very sugary coffee. Minutes later, we meet our other protagonist, Reynn, Lann's twin sister, who crashes into the place to tell her brother that there's nobody anywhere. Lann is like, hey, there's this woman over here, but truth be told… the neighborhood is empty.

So this woman, Enna Kros, introduces herself and tells them that she's a goddess of some sort (her nature is, eh, well, never fully explained and that's fine). She reveals they are in a place called Nine Wood Hills, a land that looks like it's stuck in time and space. Lann and Reynn had forgotten what the hell they're doing there, or who their parents were, or anything, so Enna Kros gives them (or more like, reminds them of) the Prismariums: the ability to imprism Mirages, like the little fox I mentioned, and bend them to their will. The purpose, she says, is to catch as many Mirages as they can, across Grymoire, the world she's the goddess of, and collect memories about their past. Then the little fox is introduced as Tama, a very important Mirage that is going to accompany the twins for the rest of the journey.

Off they go to Grymoire, and this is where the crossover starts: here people are tiny (chibis) called Lilikins; Reynn and Lann remain normally proportioned (Jiants), but they can turn into Lilikins whenever they want. Jiants had disappeared from this world a hundred years prior, so the twins kind of attract everyone's attention. This only feeds the mystery that shrouds this pair.

Grymoire is full of towns, regions and dungeons. Across all these places, the twins will irremediably come across the chibis we all know and love: the FF characters. Their storylines are so well intertwined that you forget that they belong to an original game, for their personalities and backgrounds fit this story very well. We have a Bahamutian Federation who's conquering everything in its stride, except for a few kingdoms that still fight against it. The League of S, the resistance group, wants to recruit as many people as they can, and it's up to the twins to help this insurgence grow. But this is not everything: it seems that in the Federation there's a prophecy, a Crimson Prophecy, that foretells the arrival of two Jiants twins who are Mirage Keepers…

The story gets more and more complex, until it reaches a point where I couldn't believe my eyes. And this was a game for "children"! But I won't spoil it for you. Instead, let's talk about the gameplay first!

I said Pokémon earlier – It's the closest approximation and I'm not lying. If you wanna be the very best, you gotta catch 'em all. Mirages will appear as your ordinary enemies in dungeons, and every first time you encounter one, Enna Kros will give you a new prismarium to imprism them in it. But to do this, you first have to create a prismunity: a chance that leaves the Mirage vulnerable to the imprism. This prisminuty is quite easy to achieve in the early levels, but they get more and more difficult and specific to attain as you progress. Each Mirage has an ability tree to develop, in which you'll spend SP points, and most Mirages have also evolutions (is it Pokémon enough yet??) that you'll be unlocking once the requirements are met.

Catching Mirages is not everything, though. Mirages are actually useful: you can equip them. Since we don't have equipment or ability tree for the twins, the Mirages are our only source of power, so their stats and their abilities become our own when we fight. Each twin in Jiant form can 'stack' on their heads a Medium and Small size Mirage, and in Lilikin form, they can stack on a Large Mirage and still have one Small Mirage on their heads. The stack becomes your shield in battle, and at first it looks ridiculous, but once you understand how it works, you can create MAGIC out of its mechanics. Careful because the tower you form can topple and your Mirages can fall from your character's head in a quite funny animation.

Twins don't have ability trees, I said. Well, that's partially true. You see, in the ability trees of the Mirages, every now and then you can come across a Mirajewel: this is the equivalent of a skill card in the Persona franchise – meaning that you can equip that Mirajewel into Lann or Reynn as you please. The Mirajewel doesn't lock to just one character, you can switch it between the twins as you like. The slots for these Mirajewels take a while to unlock, though, and it's related to the twins's levels.

Battles are your good old friend turn base combat. And it's great. IT'S GREAT. Like really. They can STILL do this and it's still loved, I don't know why people say that turn base combat is outdated and old fashioned. It's pretty slow paced, but fear not, because there's an ACCELERATOR button that lets you fast forward battles. Isn't it convenient? In fact, everything in this game is so convenient it makes me wanna cry: you wanna leave the dungeon? No prob, just use this unlimited teleport stone; wanna change your Mirages for others? Never fear, you have a save point every half hour. You wanna fast travel to this place? Nine Wood Hills got it covered for you. You're not enjoying this minigame? You can skip it and still advance in the main story! You kinda not dig this new menu we created for this game? Try the old style FF menu and play like you did in the old FF titles!

Really. Everything is there for you, at your disposal. The option to choose how and when you play is available, and it's kind of heart-warming they did this. I just wish every new FF could work like this one, on terms of gameplay! This game is SO Final Fantasy that I wanna cry a river.

Alright! Too much gameplay. What about characters?

Lann and Reynn are just hilarious. Their interactions are natural and casual: they truly make us believe they're twin brother and sister who deeply care for each other. Each of them has their own quirks, like Lann being quite slow, always saying "dude!" and protecting his sister at all costs; and Reynn being determined, direct and fearless, but also hiding her nervousness behind blurting trivia into the void whenever things seem to get nasty. There's one particular funny scene in the game where Reynn is angry with a Cactuar and she wants to, basically, punch it to death, which she can't, because Cactuars have their agility skyrocketed to high heaven more or less, and her hysteria is so relatable that you want to get yourself inside the screen and pat her on the head.

On that note, voice actors for the main protagonists were a delight. I was kind of surprised to discover that the guy who voices Lann also voices Shiro from Voltron: I couldn't recognize my favorite gay spaceship leader anywhere in this upbeat character, but there were moments where Lann became serious and angry, and damn, did that Shirogane emerge! All the other FF characters that we know have their original actors returning –not only that, but also we hear some characters from the older FF games that had never ever had, in any other media, voices. I swear my control almost fell to the floor when I heard Vivi f*cking SPEAK.

The FF characters remain in their personalities and they're never out of character. They bring about a thousand references from their original games, that are not forced at all. The script is clever enough to blend these moments inside the main story in such a way that you never see them coming, and more than once I was at the verge of tears, specially with Tidus and Yuna who belong to, I may very well say it now, my favorite Final Fantasy game (Oh I never wrote a review for FFX, even though I played like six times). I won't tell you, just play the game and discover these scenes for yourself. They make the game ten times more loveable. There are also instances of 4th wall breaking so beware yourself for a good laughter. Read the Mirage's Manual, I fully recommend it.

The game has all the RPG tropes you can ask for: the mandatory ice, fire and water levels, the really really bad guy you can tell he's bad because of his demoniac appearance bad villain bad oh bad he's bad because reasons, treasure chests, chocobos, cactuars, tomberris, flans, malboro menaces and anything you can expect from an FF game. But this isn't a copycat of previous installments. Towards the second half the game shows its true colors and we're faced with an original story, with huge twists that left me open mouthed, and you forget about the first few hours of the game that seemed taken straight out of any other FF, because, you know it, honk's got real. (Oh, btw, Lann used 'honk' every time he should've used the f-word, it was so funny, once he says 'shut the honk up' I'm cryinggG)

On the music department, I just couldn't really get into it. There were some boss fights that caught my attention but that's all there is to it. Nine Wood Hills background music gets under your skin after a while of continually listening to it, and sometimes it plays during important sequences, so I guess it's the most memorable piece of music. On the other hand, we have remixes of all those FF's themes we liked so much that play during certain characters' arcs and they may bring more than one tear to players' eyes (I did NOT cry when Suteki Da Ne started playing I did NOT). Visuals are nice and all – you can tell it had less production than, let's say, FFXV, its contemporary companion in release dates, but damn, some places were vivid and realistic! And lighting and shadows were real enough! And who cares about an anime appearance or chibi characters when everything SHINES and the story is good either way!

This game made me for some reason ship Cloud with absolutely everyone? What the honk?

All in all, this is a Final Fantasy game in all its glory, and it shines bright in many aspects I believe it was done even better than most of the newest games in the mainline. I just wished it had a more 'independent' story, in the sense of what I first mentioned: that this is a game for fans, that the experience would be very different if you haven't played the majority of the FF titles (and even some spin offs!). Still, the main story holds up well and at the end of the day, the main characters are the twins, not Cloud or Squall.

I do have one or two tiny complaints: there are some FF titles vanished to oblivion in this vanilla version. Firion from FFII only appears in the expansion and Balthier from FFXII, although he is a free dlc, he's not part of the story and he doesn't even have a page in the people's compendium, his appearance being the only silent presence of that title in the game. Also there's something spoilerish I wasn't really fond of – I'm just gonna say, without revealing anything, that I don't like how certain character was handled. And no, I'm not speaking about the masked woman. Anyway, that's all I can complain about, actually.

I think credit must be given where credit is due. And this game is due a lot of credit. For its amazing gameplay, giving us a taste of what we've been asking for years, and for the good use of the Extrauniverse to weave this story for us. Interactions between characters are a delight because of how well written they are. And there's a lot of post game content so, here I go, the route to platinum!

If you enjoy FF, then you'll love this game.

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