#You'll never know which Dirk that is

[harpoonsnotspoons]

Gamer moment 🤯

#lil hal #hal strider #hal homestuck #lil hal homestuck #dirk strider #bro strider #You'll never know which Dirk that is #I find it funny #homestuck #sketch #obligatory art tag #epic gamer moment #YES MY TWO FAVORITE MOVIES ARE SPACE ODYSSEY AND SCOTT PILGRIM #IT'S A STRANGE COMBO I KNOW #BUT ONE IS SO GOOD AND THE OTHER IS TERRIBLE AND IT'S A HILARIOUS MIX #🕶️🔌

[yanderes-galore]

Thank you so much for accepting mine early, I'm not sure how to confirm that it's me but if you need any sort of proof lemme know and I can dm you I suppose!

Anyway I wanted to ask for either headcanons or a scenario (if you need me to choose I'd choose a scenario, but I'm happy with either!) For Cicero in skyrim!! Reader is the listener, as per usual (in regards to reader inserts involving Cicero I mean, hehe). I like to think Cicero is Quite the devoted little guy, with a slight crush even before they become listener (specifically if the reader helps him at the Lorieus(sp?) Farm). Them becoming the listener was simply the nail in the coffin Already for him to fully dedicate himself to them <3

(Bonus: I think Cicero has a shrine of the reader in some way. Just little trinkets and tokens that either represent the listener or that used to even Belong to the listener and went "missing".)

Hope that's good enough flavour text!!! Again thank you for the early request acceptance, I really really appreciate it <3 <3

- Dirk Anon!

I decided last minute to merge the two Cicero requests as they both wanted a concept, I'll probably do a scenario later with the ideas I make in this! Sorry for the sudden change but I hope you enjoy regardless.

Yandere! Cicero Concept

Pairing: Romantic

Possible Trigger Warnings: Gender-Neutral Darling, Obsession, Stalking, Delusional behavior, Worship yandere, Manipulation, Murder/Death, Violence, Some disturbing descriptions, Blood, Jealousy, Dubious/Forced relationship

Cicero is certainly the delusional yet devoted type.

What makes him quite bad is he's an assassin.

Which means he's quite skilled and used to murder.

In fact he gets excited about it in voice lines.

You could've met him when his wagon broke or met him at the Dark Brotherhood.

(Personally I met him at the Dark Brotherhood since I fast travel too much)

His obsession is quick when he learns you're the listener yet subtle before that.

His first impression are you're just another new assassin.

New like him to this location.

He has a feeling you'll be good for the job but isn't sure why.

It isn't until you get a few jobs done and are then instructed by Astrid to spy on him that things click.

It's here he learns you're The Listener.

One meant to fulfill an important role for the Dark Brotherhood.

His obsession develops from here.

He now knows why you're so important.

Mother has picked you! While at first he was envious... he begins not to mind much.

He waits for you to come back from jobs and put pieces of the big plan to get rid of the Emperor.

As he is not your follower yet he's still a bit tame.

His obsession is mostly kept under wraps.

He does indeed steal some stuff from your room to make a small shrine dedicated to you and your work.

It's filled with random trinkets, weapons... fluids (blood).

He often praises you for your recent work and holds you in high regard.

He loves that you please Mother!

Even with the fall of the current Dark Brotherhood he sticks by you.

He doesn't feel bad that he attacked some members for disrespecting you and Mother.

If anything they deserved it.

He doesn't understand why you look so upset about it, either!

You had come to hunt him down to the old location of the Dark Brotherhood, he could see the annoyance on your face.

What probably solidifies his obsession is the mercy you give him.

You allowed him to live, maybe even using a healing spell before leaving.

He didn't see you again until you moved the Dark Brotherhood location and became the leader.

It's then he decides to show himself as your servant.

After that he never parts from you.

He had already moved his shrine to the older location before the fire caused by the failed assassination of the Emperor.

He even continues to grow his shrine as he follows you about.

He collects souvenirs from your assassinations and never stops following you.

He is devote to the Night Mother and you.

He loves how you yourself are dedicated to the job.

Regardless on if you like him or not, Cicero promises to help serve you in your duties.

Cicero has no problems with targeting those around you.

They could be people attacking you, or maybe he's even jealous you're giving new recruits attention.

Either way... Cicero is rather trigger happy.

He feels the best way to impress you is being stained in the aftermath of a job!

Surely you don't mind the sight of blood, you're used to that!

Cicero insists on coming to every assassination job you do.

He wants to witness your work!

He would not abduct you, no, you have way too much work!

Instead he just wants to follow and help!

He soaks in every bit of attention you give him like and eager sponge!

He isn't a big one for intimacy.

Although the slightest touch you give makes him pause for a moment.

Maybe he does like this?

Cicero would do anything to help aid you...

He wants to kill for you... he wants to do it a lot...!

More than anything... he wants your approval and praise as The Listener.

#yandere skyrim #yandere cicero

[poorlydrawndirk]

We're on air.

More precisely, I was on air when I recorded this, but the details are largely irrelevant. Because I don't really feel like covering fuckin' introductory quantum mechanics and telling you exactly how the influence of the Skaian universe, when applied at the quark level and taken alongside the probabilistic effect of quantum behavior, superposes via particle states and results in the formation of what you might refer to as "overlapping timelines". And that's already getting real abecedarian about this shit.

Yeah, sue me. Try boning up on basic physics while you're at it.

So. I'm sure you'd love to hear about how I managed to rig this sick as hell channel-cum-blog up and get it to straddle the space-time continuum like an antediluvian Olympic gymnast doing mad splits over baby's first toy pony, but that ain't the point of this little exercise. Posting what's effectively a vlog is enough of an onanistic venture without adding Skaian Principles For Dummies: Electric Boogaloo to the schedule.

Where was I?

(Rhetorical question. Don't answer, if it needed to be said.)

The name's Dirk.

Strider. Yeah, that Strider.

I'd be more worried about internet safety, but seeing as there are only up to two people alive around here no matter how far you pull my timeline back, and I'm one of 'em, it doesn't exactly compute. Face it, brosephine: you aren't getting to year 24xx post-hilarocaust, and you sure aren't getting past that. Wasn't shat out of a lab yet when you were committing identity theft and scamming doddering old ladies out of their sadsack pensions.

(If you manage to get pizza delivered out here, I'll tip extra.)

Besides, you already knew my name, didn't you?

Maybe your next question's going to be:

"Why are you calling this a vlog when it's obviously just a blog?"

Or maybe,

"Why is your URL poorlydrawndirk when it's totally malapropos?"

Buckle in, kids. Strap yourself into that convertible toddler-safe harness and keep your ass glued tight to all the prime polyester-lined foam, because this ride's about to pull into the station and vehicular standards are some passé 21st century horseshit.

The first thing you have to understand is that even peering upon the brink of these echelons of irony is a skill that you'll never grasp in your life. But that's fine. I'm around. And if it puts your mind at ease,

I'll be the one pulling the strings here.

(There's the tired callback. It's not wrong, but it's tired. Worn out enough for it to be begging you to take it out back behind the shed and put it out of its misery.)

(I'll leave it at that for now, because self-referencing is one thing, but if I get any more meta, I'll have to start narrating in twelve-point Times New Roman.)

Anyway, I'll be breaking it down, just this once. Magnanimous as hell, I know. I could wax poetic and in doing so obfuscate the actual meaning once more from obtuse minds, thereby adding another strata to irony so layered that it's settled past sedimentary and is ready to unearth some fossil formations, but let's be real. That shit would fly over your head so far it'd be trying to dial ground control at Houston.

Here we go.

Vlogs aren't cool; making one ironically is.

Putting in this much effort into making a multiversal vlog makes it cooler, ironically.

Putting in this much effort to make a multiversal vlog when the doomed timelines are all inherently fuckin' doomed, as the name implies, and therefore functionally useless to communicate with, makes it more ironic.

I have Heart powers and am able to achieve my ultimate self through my alpha timeline. Therefore, not only is this pimped-out vlog functionally useless, but I actually don't need it at all.

Which means this wasn't too hard to set up to begin with. Ironic, considering the complex presupposed conditions necessary for bridging that 'verse gap.

And despite framing this as a vlog, this is obviously a blog.

Even though it's just a blog, all these drawings I've made had you convinced that I really thought I was posting a vlog.

And in a way, I'm still making one. It ain't the traditional format, but the almost videographic mannerisms I've been laying on you more than compensate for the fact that the video part of "vlog" doesn't exist.

Except it does, for me.

And because it does, none of these pictures are drawn to begin with. They're all film stills. Screenshots, if you prefer.

Which makes the qualifier of "poorly drawn" untrue.

But it's also almost true, because you can call them poorly drawn by virtue of them not even being drawn. Ride that definition of "poorly" down the one-way rail and you're here, selfie central, population two, me and you.

Of course, that means we have to cover the quandary of truth itself. What constitutes the truth? Titillate that thought for a second.

If I consider the attached files to be selfies, but you consider them to be illustrations, which is it actually?

An analysis of the "truth" means that we have to start delineating how much of this is subjective, tying us in bed with the concept of knowledge. The Socratic take calls for dialectical conversation and inquiry via questioning; therefore, if I just bequeath my knowledge to you on a pretty little metaphorical platter, it won't mean fuckall. So we have to keep digging. Get your pickaxe ready, 'cause we ain't hitting any diamonds of wisdom any time soon.

In fact, maybe that ain't the right direction. Flip it turnways. We gotta climb a li'l higher for what we need.

Maybe we gotta head to the roof.

now. brought cal.

where making this HAPEN.

Haha.

Just fuckin' with you.

Welcome to my blog, dude.

Want water? Imagine I got you a nice, chilled glass.

Let's get this parasocial relationship pumping.

Questions? Concerns? Misguided pseudo-parental queries about whether or not it's safe for your pipsqueak to be exposed to a full dose of radically Stridered bullshit?

Cool.

Make it all three and drop it in the asks, yeah?

#Dirk Strider #Homestuck #Homestuck Fanart #Bro Strider #Ask Blog #(( #No set timeline! primarily dirk but occasionally other splinters. yeah that includes scratch because why not. it sounds funny. #not a kinnie not a fictive! just a guy with a little bit of time and some bad ideas. #please note that it took dirk approximately five hours in the video to get ready. thank you. #yes the intro is one very lengthy quasi-shitpost. I was going to cover sincerity and the socratic dialogues even more #except it was already really long. lol. anyway I don't have 3 hours to write a more detailed explanation of all the layers of irony but #'trust me bro' #this is a regular askblog despite being named like one of the 'badlydrawn' ones. #im not gonna write long ass monologues at everything i just thought it'd be funny here #i'll spice up the actual blog layout later. for now - hope you enjoyed! #Also - runs not daily prob closer to weekly))

[turnstechgodhead]

well regardless of where you got it from i really love that line, i think it adds an interesting angle to their relationship. what do you think bro knew about the nature of the game and dave’s destiny for him to think of raising dave that way? im also curious about the subject matter of the fics you may have gotten inspiration from

thanks i think so too

i dont remember unfortunately; in regards to the fics. i dont really read fics nowadays and i do tend to read short ones to avoid This happening- where i absorb something and forget about it

more about bro under cut

i feel like bro knew some things; i like to keep certain parts of the 'game' aspect of their reality away from them

like for example: bro doesn't know EVERYTHING about what hes supposed to do. like he wasnt spawned in with I am A Guardian in his brain; he was a whole ass human person for 24 years until he got dave

growing up a lot of his information came from cal because since he was destined to be a guardian, he had nagging feelings in the back of his mind telling him to do certain things: get this apartment, do this that way, etc. and cal just enforced those

i think dirk's reason for raising dave that way is a combintion of the fact that thats the only way cal(iborn) referred to dave and that bro was never allowed to actually bond with dave (because caliborn made him believe that platonic affection is in fact not platonic at all and is instead sexual[the implications when bro is constantly carrying around cal with his arms around his neck btw. insane.])

i've talked about it a lil bit with input from error707-thatdude (whos training to dooooo... something w psychological development of kids or something? sorry i forgored) on stream and the lack of interaction/affection can be potentially fatal to human children

so every time dirk wanted to do what honestly, his instincts were telling him to do (hold dave, be gentle [even if stiff]) , he wasn't able to because he had caliborn in his ear whispering that he was being deeply fucking inappropriate with his goddamn son which . Jesus Christ. (ive come to the conclusion bc of this that the daves we see in canon are the daves that made it past childhood, as error707 said: the exceptions)

the fact that caliborn constantly told him about how dave was the knight and he needed to be the knight. he needed to enter the medium. if he didn't enter the medium then everything that dirk's entire life has been leading up to has been a disappointment, a mistake, and he doesn't want to disappoint his very dear best friend cal does he? hee hee hee.

he also told him about how dave is SUPPOSED to be. cool, stoic. that kinda stuff, bc calibrn has a bit of a gay thing for both of them im sure.

+ the deep feeling inside of dirk that he Knew cal was right (something something; destiny/fate/will of the universe/etc), that dirk existed to do this; to get cal into the medium, to get dave into the medium, to make them stronger, led to dirk thinking of dave as his goal instead of anything remotely resembling family-

all of that accumulates into his brain dissassociating dave from himself as family and instead as a goal and a figure of something he NEEDS to polish or it wont work when the gear is inserted into the frame

things like this are delicate and they HAVE to be taken special care of during assembly, or you'll be left with nothing. (go watch how its made- wristwatches. its like that.)

sorry if all this doesnt make sense; feel free to ask for clarification and ill happily provide

#homestuck #bro strider #beta dirk strider #mumbling #tsgw #tsgzv

[the-meat-machine]

is stridercest canon-compliant

Hi. I'm not sure how to answer this question, but like hell am I going to let that stop me from rambling on about it for far longer than anyone would consider reasonable.

What does it mean for a ship to be canon-compliant?

My first difficulty is this: what does it mean for a ship to be "canon-compliant"?

I tend to be of the opinion that you can come up with a justification for nearly any ship that, at the very least, doesn't contradict canon. Whether that ship is probable or not is a different story.

To give an example of a ship that's technically possible but canonically unlikely… let's say I were to posit that Nepeta had red feelings for Aradia. Well, we get fairly direct evidence of Nepeta's romantic interests throughout the comic, and Aradia never features in her self-pairing fantasies. Not to mention that if she had such feelings, you'd think it would cause conflict in her relationship with Equius, who does canonically have feelings for Aradia. But Nepeta never says she doesn't like Aradia that way, so for all we know they could have had a torrid romance offscreen that is never once hinted at in the comic. Highly improbable within canon, but not strictly impossible.

A level above that, there are ships where there's basically nothing to go on. Nothing to contradict it, but nothing to really support it either. For example, how would Dirk and John get along? Well, they only ever meet once in the comic and it's when Game Over!Dirk is giving himself over to the glitchy void, so who fuckin' knows. You'll have to base their interactions on a general knowledge of their characters. And hey, you can probably come up with a pretty convincing argument that they'd be great for each other! You can equally come up with an argument that they couldn't stand one another. There's really no canon basis to say either way.

That said, I think Stridercest is on a rung above that. These characters have had significant canonical interactions that revolve around one another, giving a richer basis to draw from. Or at least… Dave and Dirk have. Which leads me to my second difficulty.

What is Stridercest?

"Stridercest" can refer to quite a few possible ships.

For example, Guardiancest. Do I think Guardiancest has a basis in canon? No. Alpha Dave and Beta Dirk lived in different versions of the universe and both died well before the end of the game. They almost certainly never even knew that each other existed.

That said, Homestuck is a pretty wild canon as far as possible character interactions go, what with all the various ways characters can hop between universes, time travel, get resurrected, meet up in dream bubbles, etc. Trans-universal communication is canonically possible (see for example Jade and Jake's letters to each other), so who knows -- maybe Alpha Dave and Beta Dirk could have met each other somehow. Does it seem likely? Absolutely not. But it's not impossible.

Now, if you were asking about the original Stridercest, Bro/Dave, that's a ship that clearly is logistically possible, at least. They spent 13 years in the same apartment. Something could have happened. Did it? I don't know. I don't consider myself a Bro/Dave scholar, so I'll leave that as a question for the reader.

But one pairing I have significantly more to say about is Dave/Dirk.

Here are some things that are canon:

Dave has had, at the very least, passing attractions to a minimum of two of his ectobiological relatives -- namely, Rose and Roxy

Dave has evinced attraction to both men and women

Dave used to idolize his bro, but later came to have more complicated feelings about him

Dirk has had a lifelong obsession with his own long-dead bro. He studied all the minutiae of Alpha Dave's life and patterned his own life after what he's gleaned from that

Dirk is definitely attracted to men

Dave and Dirk had a long heart-to-heart during which they hugged each other

Here are some questions that cannot be directly answered by canon:

Do Dave's incestuous inclinations extend to Dirk and/or Bro?

Is there a homoerotic dimension to Dirk's obsession with Dave?

Now, you could plausibly answer these questions with "no". Maybe Dave's upbringing with Bro made it impossible for him to see Dirk in a romantic light. Or hell, maybe he only likes blond hair on chicks, not on dudes. And for all we know, maybe Dirk's interest in Alpha Dave is strictly platonic. (…ha, that one's hard to type with a straight face. But it's possible.)

Of course, I'm asking these questions because I think you can easily answer them with "yes". There's significant canonical basis to suggest that these suppositions at least could be true. At the very least, conditions are ripe for these two to have some very weird, complicated feelings about each other that are laced with incestuous and homoerotic undertones.

So is Stridercest canon-compliant? For Dave/Dirk, at the very least, I'd argue that it is.

#in which meat continues its tradition of giving essay-length responses to questions that absolutely do not require essay-length answers #meatmeta #that's not even getting into the post-canon where ult dirk explicitly sets up dave in a role that JAKE has played to dirk in other contexts

[reddeliciousauce]

✈ - an eye-opening memory

Your name is DAVE STRIDER, and you are SEVEN years old.

It's another day. Funnily enough, it's one of the few where you aren't constantly getting your ass handed to you in the Houston heat.

Dirk usually took these opportunities to scrounge up food for the house. That was always pretty cool of him. He seemed way better at being a self-sufficient coolguy than you. You suspect he shares his bounty with you to shove it in your face. Well, one day, YOU'LL be the cooler of the two.

As for you, you know what they say. Or rather, what you say solely to yourself for whatever reason: your room's your sanctuary. Basically all that you can take care of, you can do in your room, so there's not even a reason to come out half the time. Unless, of course, you're interested in testing your FRANKLY SHIT ability to not set off traps and get smothered with PLUSH ASS. You'll save that for when you have to piss, thank you very much.

Days like these are for feeding crows, making tunes, and updating your LATE GRANDPA'S WEBCOMIC.

Sweet Bro And Hella Jeff. Truly the greatest inheritance of your short life. The moment you turned six, your BRO shoved you in front of Dirk's computer and schooled you on your legacy of irony and post-surrealism. You enjoyed the movies and web series you were spoonfed by both of your bros growing up, so you were more than happy to take the metaphorical hammer of Thor—or in this case, CAR of DUNKASS—to carry on the single best series ever created.

You pored over the ancient texts, artifacted the shittiest of jpegs, smelted the dankest of panels. Basically, if your grandfather was GOD, you're JESUS FUNKING CHRIST.

You started posting pages a few months after your task was given. And so you've worked, for nearly two years now, at that.

It's something you're pretty proud of, all things considered. It's fun to have something to connect you with your departed g-pa. You wonder if he would be proud if he took a peek at it now. The internet sure has gone nuts over it, so you're basically a natural, right?

Rule one of Striderdom: don't get distracted.

You clearly forgot it. Headphones on, dappling your MSPaint canvas while jamming to some tunes. You basically left yourself wide open.

Doesn't stop you from startling when your door, which you thought you locked, is suddenly as gaping as the asscheeks of a certain jar freak.

You shove your headphones down to your shoulders, face-to-face with Lil' Cal, hanging off your Bro's shoulder. He's right next to you.

You nearly expect a call to arms, but your eyes flick to what he's got. Bunch of letters and packages.

Your mouth asks what all this shit's for. He says it's for you.

Oh. Oh, shit. For real? What the fuck?

Your excitement was too obvious. Lil' Cal's jaw unhinges, clacking about in a silent laugh. Euch.

And just like that, they're both gone. As quick as they came.

...huh!

You fidget a bit with the mail on your desk. YOUR mail. You never got mail before... time to take a look.

Fanmail. SBaHJ fanmail? Yes, SBaHJ fanmail!

Fanart, little trinkets, even a Geromy plush that you don't hate all that much, honestly.

Letters suggesting new strips. Calls for another movie. Compliments on the new work!

Though no bounty is without its curses. Parts of this selection are obviously hate mail.

'New shit sucks. Just kill em off at this point.' Weird.

'Never reading this again! Hella Jeff's favorite color is obviously red, not purple. You clearly don't know what you're doing.' Wait, seriously?

'If the stairs come back I'm killing myself' Huh?!

'We should totally meet up! I'm eight years old too!' One year off! Kind of weird!

'Why haven't you made a statement for or agaibst the Alternian Empire like legitimately you disgust me.' Oh come on...

...wait, is that his address?

You stare at this blatant display of parasociality and, frankly, don't know how to feel. You don't think your lungs are working right.

The price of fame is steep indeed...

#ooc #answered asks #command prompt #sideblogstation #stalking tw #suicide threat tw #typical strider past trauma tw

[crazyexdirkfriend]

hi! i know you write fics but im not sure if you read too many! i thought i might ask for recommendations or if you have anything recent you have read and liked because i trust your taste!

I do believe that to try to be better at writing a form/genre/style etc you have to read a lot of it-- so I have read an obnoxious amount of fanfiction haha. I should try reading more academic journals so I can do my work but that's nowhere near as fun.

Anyway I have a lot of recs. I treat my bookmarks as a rec list of my favourite pieces, and you can filter these by fandom. Some were bookmarked a while back, and some are probably deleted since, but it's a pretty good starting point.

A more concise list would be that the following are my top five dirk/jake fics:

a thousand years

Probably the third DirkJake fic I ever read, and just objectively the peak Big fic. Every DirkJake fan should have read this fic, it’s really the only fic I reread on a biyearly basis. If I remember correctly, predicted BGD before that was canon?? Insane. Love this.

A Litany (In Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out)

Running theme here: I love a journey to the centre of the mind style fic. 

ten fold wild

I think about the Dave and Jake conversation in this all the time. Dirk towards the end as well...oof.

i’m sick, you’re tired; let’s dance

I loved that to really get what was going on here you have to read it twice. I still think about how clever that was and tried to emulate that multiple ways to interpret the ending idea later in my fic calvariæ. So really, I credit this fic for my one even existing.

We're All Friends & Family Here (And Frankly, We're Sick Of Your Shit)

I really enjoyed this fic when it came out in 2018. I remember thinking at the time it was the first time I’d seen someone handle Jane and Roxy with critical thought in yonks.

Bonus Epilogues content round!!!!!!

Opacifia’s epilogues fics are some of the best in the business. Warning: they are all DEEPLY upsetting (to me anyway!) and I have needed 1 business day to recover from reading any of them, before never managing to regain the emotional capacity to read them again. But they're amazing and offer a great perspective on the epilogues.

I, ironically, find a lot of Epilogues content difficult to read but you'll find more in my bookmarks. I may have missed more recent ones or some Big Fics of late. I read far more dirk/jake fanfiction pre-2019 than I have done since-- but I am always open for new recs myself!

#dirkjake

[pesterloglog]

Autoresponder, Jane Crocker

Act 6, page 4961

TT: Hmm.

GG: Welp, let me have it!

TT: Have what?

GG: A hard time for botching up the pooch!

GG: I think I just locked the door with that muttonheaded stunt. And now that mirrored obelisk is good as gone.

TT: I wasn't going to say nothin'.

TT: Hell, I was asleep at the wheel too while you were busy fucking up, and I have an IQ of, hold on, robo-calculating...

TT: Robo-calculating...

TT: Robo-calculating...

TT: Robo-calculating...

GG: Oh brother.

TT: Robo-calculating...

TT: About 500 billion.

GG: That is really, really robo-smart.

TT: Don't get human-fresh with me, Crocker. I'm about to bring all five hundo-billy points of my stringent cyborg IQ to bear on your dumb problem. Check it out.

TT: I took note of the captcha code to the thing, and recorded a digital flashsnap of its appearance through my photographic silicone memory canals.

TT: Which is to say I looked at eight alphanumeric digits a couple minutes ago, and remembered them.

GG: Ok?

TT: So give the bunny the wallet. I'll have him run back to the house and make you a new obelisk with the same grist you just collected from it.

TT: He can stash it in the wallet and run it back to you, and then you can open the door. You shouldn't be waiting around too long, cause he's real spry.

TT: Which is exactly why you should wait here. You'll just slow him down.

GG: Alright, I think I can do that.

GG: What should I do in the meantime?

TT: Let me think about that.

TT: Robo-calculating...

GG: Oh stop it!

TT: K.

GG: None of our friends will answer me. What could they be up to?

GG: You must at least know what Dirk is doing.

TT: He's slicing up some drones.

GG: Some what?

TT: Big red robots. He'll be busy for a while.

TT: Roxy I'm not sure about, but there is a pretty high probability as governed by the immutable laws of mathematics that she is preoccupied similarly.

GG: She's fighting robots too, you mean?

TT: I don't know. Maybe.

TT: Dealing with them, in some way, perhaps.

TT: If so, it wouldn't be a coincidence.

GG: Why?

TT: I think the Condesce is attempting to force the issue now.

GG: What? What issue!

TT: It's likely that it's a coordinated assault. Sending drones both to here and Roxy's place.

TT: She's probably trying to get everyone else to stop dicking around and join the game already.

GG: Are you sure she's not just trying to kill them?

GG: It wouldn't be her first assassination attempt.

TT: Yeah, but come on. Dirk has been a sitting duck here for years. Roxy too.

TT: She could have wiped them out any time with a swarm much bigger than this one. Or just nuked them.

TT: Her "assassination attempt" on you was pretty weak too.

GG: But it nearly worked!

GG: I would be dead right now if not for the whims of GCat.

TT: Right.

TT: Like I trust the motives of that fucking thing.

GG: So, you're saying she's only pretending to hunt us?

TT: I believe she probably would genuinely like to kill us. She is a psycho after all.

TT: But it's also obvious to me she needs us to begin playing this game, for whatever fucked up purpose she has.

TT: She might even need us to win it too, for all I know.

TT: Her antagonism is all part of the dance.

GG: Then you're saying Dirk and Roxy aren't really in danger from the robots?

TT: Oh, I wouldn't say that. They're still pretty deadly and they shoot missiles and stuff.

GG: Augh! I just want to talk to my friends and see if they're ok.

GG: What about Jake?

TT: No idea what's going on with him right now.

TT: I'm sure when the time is right, the witch will keep pushing him along to join the game as well.

GG: Then I guess I'll just sit here and worry about everyone quietly until Seb gets back.

TT: What about your troll friend?

GG: What?

TT: The alien whose name you don't know.

TT: You could talk to her.

GG: Oh yeah!

GG: I forgot about her.

GG: But I suppose that's because she's always the one to contact me. I never get a response when I message her.

TT: Well, you could give her a try. Maybe things are different now.

TT: I could hack into her system to get her attention, if you think that would help.

GG: You can do that??

TT: Nah, just messin' with you.

TT: Later.

timaeusTestified [TT] ceased pestering gutsyGumshoe [GG]

#homestuck #autoresponder #jane crocker #homestuck act 6 #page 4961 #homestuck act 6 act 3

[marsti]

9 to all 3!

9. What do you think are your biggest differences from/similarities to your source?

nagito: well first i'm kind of a combination nagito and hajime so there's that. it's like 80/20 but it's enough for me to be pretty different from both! also i'm not a eugenicist lmao. similarity wise i do talk way too much about hope and despair for our own good and you'll literally never catch me showering and also i hate nagito komaeda <3 hope this helps

jade: im way meaner and also my middle name is laika!! half of the time im literally a big anthro dog too :) similarities... im doggy lol

dirk: Listen bro I'm basically the least Dirk out of all the Dirks in this system, there's seven of us but I'm just the only one actually named Dirk Strider you feel? Being Rainbow Dash fictionkind makes me pretty separate since I've got all these kin memories and shit and I'm literally a horse, which to be fair is pretty Dirk-coded of me but you know what I mean. Anyway I much prefer the pen to the blade nowadays since I've discovered I'm pretty fucking good at drawing so that's a difference I guess.

#ask #anonymous #ask game

[angxliquel]

TOH AU!!

Quints a human who magically ends up in the Boiling Isles (to be determined exactly how he gets there) and wants to learn magic because. of course he does. He's overall fascinated by the coven system but also just how magic in general works. He falls into the care of (you'll never believe it) Yursl!! I don't know if she'd be something different than the owl lady, but the owl lady would be cool because imagine Johnny Steve as Hooty or something 😭

I don't know if there'd be a "King" in this au since it's technically just if the tlkoe kids were inside the TOH universe, and it's not necessarily a "Quint is Luz" or "___ is King" AU. Quint IS kind of like Luz but their motives for learning magic are slightly different, and besides Yursl being a bit of an insert of Eda, that's kinda where it ends. (watch me contradict this in like two seconds) Mainly what I'm trying to say is that this storyline doesn't follow either the toh or tlkoe cannon ones to a tee, but still has elements of both

Jack is in the Illusion Track, but I feel like later on he would start to dabble in Abomination (since it's the closest thing to his zombie powers). He's still an orphan lmao, and lives at the Boiling Isles Orphanage. He transfers to Hexide from another school about a year previous to Quint's arrival. He comes across a poorly disguised Quint who was on a supply run for Yursl, and is absolutely AMAZED by him. The boys get along immediately and begin to hang out. Jack then tries to convince Quint to enroll in Hexide, which Quint finally does later in the future. Jacks Palisman would def be Rover, who, when not in palisman form, can (maybe,idk) switch between the normal palisman size and normal Rover Size.

For June, I'd say she'd be In Abomination or Beast Keeping. I say Abomination because 1: it's cool, and 2: Blasty could be like the spiky abomination glove Amity does in Eclipse Lake when fighting against Hunter. June wouldn't keep it on as near often as she does with Blasty in the books, but she would bring it out for fights. And if she WAS in Abomination, she'd be able to help out Jack when he starts to get into it (again, doesn't follow the tlkoe canon). She's still head of the Newspaper Club, and her Palisman would be Neon

Dirk is easily the Plant Track. He COULD be Construction, but idk I just see Plant more. Imagine him doing the Plant/Whip thing Willow does in the beginning of "Any Sport in a Storm." Almost like how he was into lassoing and cowboy stuff in Book Three (I wanna say three) His palisman is Drooler!!

So basically, how everyone would meet:

Quint arrives at Hexide under the disguise of a regular witch with Jack's help. (Quint pretends to be a witch during the entrance exam, in which he barely scrapes by. Obviously this only makes him more determined) Jack brings Quint to the newspaper room (since jack is still in the newspaper) and introduces him to the club. Quint catches Junes attention cause Quint sucks at lying and she can tell somethings up. She doesn't pry into it then and there, but still keeps it in her mind. At Lunch, June talks to Dirk. Dirk and June are friends; they have sort of a sibling dynamic and confine in each other. Dirks not really a bully per say, but he still gets into trouble and June's always there to get him out of it. (As she'll do with the rest of the group, until later when she unmasks a bit and gets a lil silly too) June proposes her theory to Dirk, and of course, she's right. At first, Dirk's like "You're ridiculous", but then he REALLY starts to look at Quint and thinks it may be possible. They both decide to look into it and go full sleuth mode- or rather June does and Dirk enables it- and find out that Quint is, in fact, a human. Chaos ensues.

"You're HUMAN??"

"Uh- yes."

"I knew it!! Dirk, see, I told you-"

"June. Not the time. "

"Right, sorry."

More Chaos- June and Dirk both swear not to tattle, but uh oh! Someone else overhears the conversation and gives the principle (tbd) the headsup. All four of them are called to the office and interrogated, before Quint's disguise falls apart and they make a run for it. Like in "I was a teenage abomination", the school goes on lock down and the gang has to use their magic to get them through the school and out the exit. After all is said and done, they don't really go like "we should be friends!" but rather they start hanging out with one another more, and soon they're thick as thieves and getting themselves into all sorts of shenanigans.

(Quint is still allowed to stay at Hexide, but he tries to stall getting assigned into a coven for as long as he can. This half-works because since there's no inspector like there was in "The First Day", there's not really a need for him to pick a track immediately.)

#the last kids on earth #this is my excuse for wanting to write them doing magic #also I love TOH #tlkoe #june del toro #jack sullivan #dirk savage #quint baker

[unwillingadventurer]

Tagged by @missholson to say ten fave films. Thanks for the tag. It was cool reading your faves.

Ok so we pondered on it as there are so many faves but we've narrowed it down to ten that we both really love and mean stuff to us and a few different genres/eras.

In no particular order:

The Servant

Not only does it feature our fave film actor Dirk Bogarde but also the amazing James Fox too. We just love the exploration of the servant/master dynamic and the role reversal in this film. It's so tense, so sad, so gripping. And the film looks amazing too. Dirk and James play off each other so well. It also inspired us to write Linksfield just because we wanted to play on the same kind of dynamic but not so sinister.

Back to the Future

Honestly it makes us so happy. Kinda including the whole trilogy in this because when we start one, we watch them all. It's just so fun and adventurous and we love anything with time travel. Have loved it since we were kids. Have always loved Michael J Fox too. It's just iconic.

It's a Wonderful Life

This is in our opinions not only the best Christmas film but one of the best films ever. Watching George's journey through life, helping others, finding happiness, feeling frustrated to becoming broken and wanting to end it all, to finding hope and realising he has touched the lives of so many. It makes us cry every time and makes us feel better when we're feeling low. It's just so hopeful and we all need that sometimes.

The Third Man

From the shadows and cinematography, the music, the introduction of Harry Lime, the mystery, the Ferris Wheel scene, there's nothing about this film we don't love. Just the way all the elements come together and capture you to find out this post-war mystery.

The Sixth Sense

We wanted to include something more horror/thriller and we're suckers for anything with ghosts or psychological horrors. We actually are obsessed with this film and watch it every year to pick up new details. We remember first watching it as teens, renting it and just loving it as we didn't know the twist, spoilers or anything. It was fun back then not knowing. It's not just the horror elements but the relationships between Cole and his mum and Malcolm are wonderful. The performances are some of the best in cinema.

Brief Encounter

First watched this with a friend when we were teens. It really struck us right away. The atmosphere, the dilemma, the romance. It's just a beautiful film and we really felt what they were going through. The ending gets us every time and their story is just something that captures that period of time and the restrictions of life so well.

Singin' in the Rain

We're massive musical fans so it was hard to narrow it down to picking just one, especially when Mary Poppins, Sound of Music and West Side Story exist. But we've chosen this as not only is it a great musical, amazing dancing (likes you'll never see again on film) and just joyous but also it's just a really amazing film with a great setting, hilarious moments and simply tells a story of an interesting and chaotic time in film history. This started our love of Gene Kelly and old Hollywood musicals.

Rope

Had to pick a Hitchcock film and to be honest we could have picked a number of them, they're all so brilliant. But we have a soft spot for Rope because it's like a play and is a really intimate intricate exploration of the psychology of murder. Brandon and Philip are such interesting characters and are based on real life killers which makes it more fascinating. The build-up throughout and the use of camera is just brilliant.

1917

Sometimes you go to the cinema and you're captivated and still talking about it for days. This was one of those films for us. We do love war films especially WW1 and 2 so this was something we felt we'd like. But it was so gripping and so heart thumping not knowing what was around ever corner as it was made to look like one entire take. It was a personal story too, following just two guys. And it was just so sad and moving. The music and cinematography were just breath-taking and though it was a war film, it felt anyone could enjoy it, just following this journey through hell to deliver one single message that could change the fate of many men.

A Matter of Life and Death

We've always been fascinated by film depictions of heaven/hell/the afterlife and ghosts and angels so this film was right up our street. Just love the use of black and white in comparison to the colour scenes and the exploration of how important life and love is. It's funny too and really sticks with us. We also studied at uni in the 'Powell' building named after Michael Powell and there was this big picture of this film on the wall and we just used to look at it every day and be like, amazing.

Thanks for tagging that was fun.

Tagging any/all film fans who want to do this :)

#film meme

[crappy-homestuck-confessions]

Headcanon Anon with the kids' entire deal summed up in song lyrics(Totally not a parody of Uquiz questions)!

John-Maybe I'll never die, I'll just keep growing younger with you, and you'll grow younger too/Now it seems too lovely to be true, but the best things always do (Wraith Pinned To The Mist And Other Games) Rose-Into the flame, into the fire/With no regard for a thing/Fuck that, I'm the Lord of the Game/I rule this empire/I AM THE GOD OF HELLFIRE! ( Lord of the Game) Dave-Same outfit every day like a cartoon (That's me!)/Uh, they'll never find you in a shark suit/And there will never be a part two/Shit, you're looking at some motherfucking art, boo. (The Chairman's Intent) Jade-Once we've made sense of our world/We wanna go fuck up everybody else's, because his or her truth doesn't match mine/But this is the problem/Truth is individual calculation/Which means because we all have different perspectives, there isn't one singular truth, is there? (To The Bone) Terezi-The honey tastes sweeter when you anger the bees/the moon is disgusting, it's made out of cheese/it's a wet cheese, left out in the cold/the moon is disgusting, or so I've been told. (The Moon Is Disgusting) Kanaya-I wish you told me sooner/I already kind of knew/I can't believe/I don't hate you/You're not a liar/You just didn't say the words/Or I'm just stupid/Or I just misheard. (Misheard) Tavros-But just because I'm weak/You can steal my dreams/You can reach inside my head/And you can put your song there instead. (The Raven That Refused To Sing) Karkat-You say the ocean's rising like I give a shit/You say the whole world's ending, honey, it already did/You're not gonna slow it, Heaven knows you tried/Got it? Good, now get inside (All Eyes On Me) Sollux-'Cause I'm just like everyone else/I leave my door closed shut, in case you come kickin' it down (Freight Yard) Feferi-Mister Sun deliver your magic/I'm living in the Epipelagic/Never felt so close to my dream/With some luck and some perfect weather/This could be the best day ever/Everything is music under the sea (Help Wanted) Eridan-'Cause you were out of my league/All the things I believed/You were just the right kind/Yeah, you were more than just a dream (Out Of My League) Nepeta-I like myself most of the time/is that a crime, is that a crime? (I Like Myself (Most Of The Time)) Equius-If I could begin to be/Half of what you think of me/I could do about anything/I could even learn how to love (Love Like You) Meenah-Give it to me, I'm worth it/Baby I'm worth it/Uh huh I'm worth it/Gimme gimme I'm worth it (Worth It) Vriska-Don't go wasting your emotion/Lay all your love on me (Lay All Your Love On Me) Jane-It's anyone's guess what then happened next/But most think she died/But I think we ought to believe that she got to/The other side (The Chicken) Jake-Like a cat and a mouse (cat and a mouse)/From door to door and-a house to house/Don't you pretend you don't know/What I'm talking about (Jane) Roxy-Shining in the limelight/Bright minds think alike/That's how we form a team/Now it seems that we be ready for the real thing (Demi-Gods) Dirk-'ll live now 'cause the bad die last/Dodging bullets with your broken past/I can't hear you, I don't fear you now (Could Have Been Me) Aradia-I burned all the trees down/I'll get used to all the sun/ Will you start the new day with me? (What's It Like There, Tomorrow?) Gamzee-I pay my bills/right on time/I'll be a good boy 'till the day I die/And if a corpse/washes ashore/They'll never ever trace it back to my door (The Third Little Piggy) Damara-You're broke/You're a joke/You can't smoke/And you can't fuck either (Unhappy) Rufioh-Flying high above/Soaring madly through the mysteries that come/Wondering sadly if the ways that led me here/Could turn around and I would see you there (Ticket To The Moon)

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#homestuck confession #mod pepsi #headcanon anon!

[paradoxkinspace]

Hello. I'm here to inquire if I could receive a shufflemancy? I'm Dirk English, and I'm curious as to what my relationship with the other alpha kids were. Especially if... trickster mode happened. If a tarot spread would be better for a question like this, you can do that instead. I apologize for being flighty, I just... Hm. I don't know. I'm seeking answers and you guys seem to be the experts here.

no worries dirk! i decided a bit of a fusion in terms of divination might help you since you seem unsure.

the radiowaves brought me Kill The Lights by Set It Off and Put Your Head On My Shoulder by Paul Anka as a generalization for your timeline’s interpersonal matters. (if you’d like a more detailed look on individual dynamics between you and the others on a 1-1 basis 

💫

As you're tongue-tied, did you believe it? / False pride never existed / Now I am cutting ties clean off / And I can breathe at last [...] Stop there and peer inside of me / You'll find a man once lost at sea / But all the while I would think to myself / It's not the end, it's not the end at all / So sick of nothing going right / Sail on along into the night / Not even death could stand in the way / You never even tried in the first place

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Put your head on my shoulder / Hold me in your arms, baby / Squeeze me oh so tight / Show me that you love me too [...] People say that love's a game / A game you just can't win / If there's a way / I'll find it someday / And then this fool will rush in

well, surprisingly it seems the ordeal of going trickster actually aided your group in the long term. at least from an emotional standpoint. 

from what i can tell, prior to the trickster thing, there was a lot of distrust between you lot. everyone hiding behind masks and nobody very happy about it. which meant a lot of unaddressed issues, underlying resentment, and possible backstabbing. yall were so closed off and sunk in emotional distance your hearts and minds might as well have been on opposite sides of the goddamn planet.

but, after a group ski drip down candy-drugs mountain, it seems the whole situation ended up oddly flipped. one thing about trickster mode, no more hiding emotions. sure, all the negatives generally get pushed down so far they temporarily stop existing and then come back to hit you like a speeding freighter once ya come down, but that also means all the rest of the emotions come to the surface and start throwing off fireworks of ‘HEY GUESS WHAT!!!’. 

i’m sure it was an awkward adjustment period immediately after the trickster thing having to sort out all the emotions and harsh truths and secrets and lies that ended up getting revealed because of it 

but in the end it let you all open up and become closer as friends instead of feeling like you all constantly had to hide from one another

#mod clowncAR #shufflemancy #divinatons #kin divination #kidswap kin #alpha kids #dirk english kin #dirk strider kin

[daedalusdavinci]

👩‍💻🐏🎠🎡 (roxy and aradia, non romantic)

send me 3-5 emojis and ill write a drabble based off of them

dea i love you terribly but this is the hardest ask in my whole inbox are you trying to make me write a carnival scene. this is short and not good but im blanking so hard on this one alkjndsf

Aradia is, for the most part, a mystery to you. You know her boyfriend, who is probably the best person in your major, aside from your twin. You mostly see her because of him, when she walks him home from class, or when you're over at his dorm, trying to sort through the latest inscrutable project together. She's friendly, but like she never learned how to do it right, smiling too widely and telling you things in a cheerful voice that aren't very cheerful at all. In some ways, it reminds you of when Jane tells you about her latest true crime podcasts, absurdly cheerful about a horrific murder that she's sure she can solve.

You like her alright. You think the way she manhandles Sollux around is funny, and the way he just accepts it is even funnier. You like that she's loud and takes up space without being rude about it, just confident in herself and her interests. She has a tattoo of an anatomically correct sheep skull and wears hiking boots that seem constantly dusty, like she spends every moment she can on trails. She's an archaeology major, and she dresses exactly the way you think an archaeology major should.

You're surprised, though, when Sollux invites you and your twin to a fair with them. He says he wants someone sane around while Aradia tries to drag him on every ride there is, and you tell him that you are completely the wrong choice for that, and that you'll abandon him in a heartbeat. He tells you he was talking about Dirk, and you think that's probably fair. People never mark Dirk as the adrenaline junkie that he is, which just makes it all the more funny when they see Dirk ride, straight-faced, on one thrill ride after another.

You are a little apprehensive about going to a fair with Sollux and his girlfriend, but Dirk agrees to go when you beg him, so you think it'll be okay.

#asks #i dont think i can write out the whole carnival scene wo getting carried away and rlly blundering my way through it #but they end up going on a lot of rides together and becoming friends #my fics #tumblr drabbles

[rabbits-of-habit]

Howdy again! I hope ur doing well also idk if I asked this HC already (I think I asked 2 people this HC but I’m not sure which one 😅) so I apologize if I’m repeating myself. But can I have an HC w both the EMH & TT boys where their so is in art school (specifically animation major). And their s/o needs them as a reference for an assignment? Idk the thought a few of them having to sit there in a complicated ass pose for like 2 hours while their s/o draws them or animates them is hilarious to me. 😂 cuz I know damn well some of them would have no patience for that!

You did not ask me so you're all good! Also im doing awesome. I got to go to the zoo yesterday and I'm still pumped by it. -Mod Dirk

Evan:

When you asked him if you could use him as a reference he said yes absolutely.

He would try pulling some manly pose like flexing his muscles. To which you would roll your eyes and laugh.

"What? I have to show off my muscle tone so you can get it right!"

He can't stay in the pose. 5 mins in he asks to switch poses.

Sad for you he does that every 5 mins.

You finally have to just stand him straight up and make him wait.

You get a c+ because most of your time was spent getting him still than using him as a reference.

Vinnie:

You went to him and it took a bit of resistance. Only a few pretty pleases and he caved.

He sits like a normal person. Always the lawful neutral.

"Is sitting okay? Or do you need me to stand? How long will we be doing this?"

He continues to ask questions and partially distract you.

He cannot handle a quiet room I am so sorry.

You get a B because you were able to get the work done but not focus fully.

Jeff:

You made sure to hit him in a moment he wasn't busy with Alex. It was a definite yes of course.

The tamest boy out of the three.

Can stay still and be in a quiet room.

Just happy to be able to spend time with you like this to be honest.

Also happy to have a moment of fuckin peace.

"This is the nicest break I've ever had."

You get an A and your animation studio prof shows it to other classes as an example.

Habit:

This asshole only said yes because his ego.

Has knives on a belt and an axe in his hands.

He can stay still but will he shut up? Absolutely not.

"You better make sure to get every angle right"

That is indeed a thinly veiled threat.

He also had an exception it had to be a small animation about him completely.

You got an A but only because the teacher was freaked out by the animation. And Habit threatened them.

Noah:

Oh boy...You love him to death but it was kind of hard to get him to agree.

He knew he wouldn't be able to stay still very well and tried to tell you no so you wouldn't waste your time.

He stands awkwardly and stiff.

Hes trying his best okay? He's never done this before.

"Well how am I supposed to stand?" To which you respond with, "Like a normal human?"

He doesn't move on purpose but he twitches and shakes. He cannot physically stay still.

You get a B+ and you start using him for references more often.

Kevin:

This boy was so flattered when you asked him.

Honestly? Super excited and was just waiting for the moment you could use him as a reference.

But, he asks you a lot of questions.

"Do you think you'll get a good grade? How long have you been doing animation you've never told me before."

He just wants to learn more about you and saw this as the perfect opportunity.

Of course you answer them. But you only get half done.

You get a C and a week to redo. But you tell him you got an A.

Firebrand:

Cocky. Said he knew you'd ask him eventually so sure.

"How long do we do this for? I mean I have all eternity."

He stands less awkward and more confident.

Doesn't twitch but does like teleporting away when you aren't looking to do something else.

You catch him once. He laughs and promises he won't do it again. He does several times more but you don't catch him again.

You get an A- and boy he's fucking proud.

The observer:

Think Habits ego and Firebrands cocky attitude and you see why he agreed to this so fast.

He crosses his arms and does a wacky pose.

Which would be great.

But everytime you look back up he's in a slightly different pose.

"I'm not doing anything!"

You get an A because like Habit, he scares the shit out of your prof when he sees you almost got a D.

Milo:

Flustered but said yes because you asked so sweetly.

Hes tame and good at sitting still.

Has idle conversation with you the entire time. It's like a nice date.

"Can I see it when you're done?"

Of course you show him and he has stars in his eyes.

You get a B+ and Milo asks you all the time if you need a reference now.

Prebrand (As a treat)

Agrees to agree.

Cannot stay still.

Forgets why he's there so you have to consistently remind him.

Talks so fast you can't even understand what he's saying.

Do not pass go, do not collect 200 dollars.

You don't even finish the project and you get an F. :( Sorry babe.

#mod dirk answers #cw tribetwelve #tw tribetwelve #firebrand tribetwelve #the observer #noah maxwell #evan emh #habit emh #emh vincent #emh jeff #kevin haas #milo asher

[captainkurosolaire]

Prompt #7 ~ A Tale Saved

Previous - ♫Raccoon City♫ - References

(Third Person: Narrative) "I never speculated. It'd be you who saved my life... again. In youth an unsung hero emerged and rescued me. Showed me hope and taught me to be brave. When I seemed to be sentenced to abuse. 'You're going to learn overtime you'll be in power, and th' Captain of yer fate!' This stuck with me. I dedicated to learning medicine, so I could spread in healing people, like you affected me." A quill bronze-skinned feminine hand took pause from her diary entry. -- Sometimes those who hurt the most, are those wishing to prevent others from experiencing the same struggles, prevent from suffering in that horrible realm, that seems nearly inescapable. They put on tough faces for others to prevent showing old wounds that still linger, trauma doesn't disappear instantaneously. It's a processed mend which paces in everyone's unique recovery. When finding work in a free clinic underneath the slob, mangy, putrid soul's of the lower and less regarded, she always held work with suturing and stitching up squabbles between pirate's, rowdy uncontested foul. A place in which her past carried the most wounds, she returned wanting to find more. While redefining that place. The learning experience and challenge of continuous work, left her unknowingly developing remarkable skills. Of course her failure's in saving netted her many unpleasant threats from Crew-mates, Captain's, she couldn't fix up or yells. It was easier to lay the fault of the healer in grievance. Then a fool or unwise decisions caused by the injured and the company responsible for securing the well-being of their fellow. Bottling up and stacking her shortcomings, she woke up with only her will in activity, reinvigorated to hone better, determined and reciting to herself, that fateful day she was shown kindness in a cruel world if it existed, at all... Slowly steadily she earned a reputation and whispered rumors of her talents in the realm of an underground circuit of criminal's, heathens, outcasts. Though she never heard this appraisal or bolster at first because of the nature of her clients.

Remembering that maintaining positive influence is a battle. It's more likely to be uncovered and swallowed with misfortune and realism because it comes in more dreadful abundance. Helplessness felt like strangling her chest. It didn't matter how much she cauterized and bandaged, or fixed, it kept spilling over the staples that never lasted. She felt eventually her passion was becoming aimless and starting to wither again. The First Crewmate brandished in gold appeared at the clinic with a cutthroat approach. His motions were proposed. "I require you... My grandmother is gravely injured and cannot use the function of her arms." Naturally she rejected sweetly, "You'll have to bring her during business hours and follow the queue." The seemingly unreadable only registered as another barbaric brute who couldn't get what they wanted sighed out and pulled out a deadly knife. "You'll find the time to save them." I was reminded of my past, the same abuser and all those I walk aside that run quantities in Limsa, I felt pitiful that my voice remained mute. Then as that First Crewmate honed in a linkpearl call to demand their client. I never suspected it'd be a Captain; the same one from my childhood and neither did I suspect you also recognized me. Damaged and appendage arm's that couldn't be lifted ton's more scars, scrapes, wounds and I could tell was also conflicted approached. And instead you rejected and redefined everything one would assume by the surface. "Judas... Ye really holding her hostage? I'm sorry mate, but this isn't how I'll be treated. I'd rather remain, armless and dysfunctional... You haven't any clue what the sacrifice cost a healer or how they're never given proper gratitude for the lives they save, especially under this rat-sack of a City-State. Long ago, I wouldn't have been any better, I'd selfishly desire only t' see myself conditioned. I owe my past. Debt's aren't a pirate's comfort." Confused, the two bickered against each-other. It's when I saw the frustration and panic, the First Crewmate who was forced to disarm, was doing this out of not only reason, but admiration and love. He stormed off irritated with almost a disappointing and deadly dirk-gaze. Then I watched heels beginning to leave determinedly willingly to go without preserving themselves selfishly, rather be shattered, while also an apology was muttered low. I froze as if time was halted. The curiosities and you disappearing again, like almost, as if you were a ghost. There once, then vanishing without a trace of peep. Eventually that's when I found myself first following. Finding out you were troubled too like myself. I couldn't fix the arm's entirely but instead you praised me for my attempt and then you offered me a job, or to join your Crew. To explore mending outside and maybe expanding out would do me better, you said. I struggled joining for a while, but because it was you, I saw you held hope for me. The Crew is assorted with amazing wild people, from all acts of cultures, each carrying such lofty dreams, grand visions. Most larger than themselves. I felt like an outcast, and when you needed me the most and the Crew. When that dark-caster appeared, Silv'a, on the seas, turning me to a sheep, I once again felt useless and discouraged, defeated. Tried silently to vanish and not be a burden. I felt only the emotion of drowning under the pressure. Attempting to plunge deep down under the seabed. But you showed up on the decks even at night when all others were asleep, you saw how I shut myself in days and became more quiet and reached to me. Like I was a star, you once already saw loss. "...Casta, it's because yer ordinary. You fit with us. You remind us ov' everything we may forget or miss. You're special beyond all. We-- I need you upon this sea-vessel in my life. I don't need you to become violent, or monstrous, I need you to be yourself, and remind me what it's like not to be one." "You exist as a world, only you can Captain and show me. I will follow and always b' there t' see yer wonders and secure t' protect; you

and I... Believe we can heal together. Though your steps are yer own, what do you wish?" You said with an arm extending out, ready to give an embrace, or still chase to throw yourself under with me. I could see in your eyes that you knew what it felt to be alone and tried hoisting others from the same. It was a step away from walking overboard, or turning to you and the sail. I'm writing and devoting these chapters to this journey, this is my diary logs reciting, The Tales of the Goldbrand... I want all to know even though you believe in fading like the pirate's of old. I chose to live, Captain... You showed me what that means, again... - My Captain, who saved your Crew Surgeon, Casta. <3

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