POV I scrap my old MLP next gens and do new ones lmaoooooooooo whateverrrrrrrrrrrrr,,,,,,
Been wanting to do a Chrysalis/Shining Armor next gen that Cadence and Shining Armor raise (mostly Cadence). General idea being that he's conceived/born around the Chysalis season 2 arc. Cadence and Shining Armor end up taking him in a bit reluctantly, but Cadence warms up to the little grub baby quickly; Shining Armor takes more time and remains distant with his son. While he isn't biologically related to Cadence he ends up kinda metamorphically inheriting her traits as he ages. Cadence calls him Lovebug :)
Bit of a filler concept for now, I used the canon colors for Chrysalis and Shining Armor which I'm prone to changing when I have a chance to focus on them.
Disaster lineage this and Obi-Anakin-Ashoka that, but where is my unhinged disaster grandfather Yoda content? XD
Well, he is with my Green Company family now, that is where. So please enjoy a youngster from Promise squad giving Gree high levels of concern, my OC Petal a small heart attack, and Yoda an excuse to be exhausting for his commander.
Oh, and Dumpy. He has no idea what is really going on, but no one has hurt him yet so he will hold off on the poison for now.
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John/Delenn AU │ Married during the Earth-Minbari war
Both of their ships were crippled; John knew it was only a matter of time now before ships from either side would answer their distress calls and finish the job.
“We have a lock on target.” When John didn’t respond, his crewman insisted, “Sir?”
“I hear you, Ensign. But my wife’s on that ship.”
Have you seen the Sarah Z video essay "You Should Watch Buffy Season 6"? I haven't seen that particular video, but I usually enjoy watching Sarah Z's stuff, and I thought you might be interested in the Buffy video. Especially as Tara died in Season 6 and you retconned that in your RP stuff.
I haven't seen it! I looked it up, though, and it's...really long? So I might not!
But I will say that Buffy season 6 is honestly hands down my favorite season of Buffy (followed by season 3, oddly enough), and I highly recommend it. Willow's addiction to magic - particularly dark magic - as a metaphor for drug addiction and how that bleeds over into how she treats other people (particularly Tara) and the effort she goes through to get over that addiction is so absolutely beautifully done, as is Buffy having to deal with her grief and numbness after literally dying at the end of s5 and her friends ripping her out of heaven at the beginning of s6 because they thought she'd end up in one of the multiple hell realms - and the toxic relationship she begins with Spike (and Spike's reaction when he realizes what's going on)—
Buffy s6 might be really dark, but it's GOOD.
Honestly my favorite season, and I highly recommend it.
I was talking to a friend and realized I never explained my bonkers “Plague Doctor is building up to an X-man storyline” theory, so here goes:
1. The first arc introduces the central conflict of Sergey trying to get the orphanage reopened. This gets sidetracked by chasing the Dagbaevs and is never resolved.
2. The crossover arc introduces a bunch of superpowered kids with no families and malicious adults in charge of them. Three kids are shown, and it’s suggested that experiments are continuing on children. All the people Lera has rescued from Machaon so far are adults, so an unknown number of superpowered orphans are still out there somewhere.
3. The Machaon arc has a whole aside making sure we know that there are two guys with superpowers hanging around who would, in an ideal world, be teachers.
peach I'm not even done chrysalis yet but omg I'm dead I have already felt the entire spectrum of human emotions I just want to give Adrien a hug I want to shake him by the shoulders he makes me want to cry why is this even more angsty and harder to read/see Adrien like this somehow Adrien is even the most metamorphosis Adrien he's ever been like you are ripping my heart out I want to sob it is so him and this thinking makes it worst and gsjdk
now this is a real chrysalis experience !
i would say it may be harder to read because of how condensed everything is - in metamorphosis there were breaks where plot or other characters could break the tension, and, while chrysalis does have that to a degree, it’s not nearly the same here. in chrysalis there’s just him, and there’s just her.
i watched chrysalis again for (possible) fic research and wow that episode is fucked up in so many ways. that poor woman faked going all flowers for algernon to get out of a relationship and that is sad. also she has no friends now, because the only people she knew well aren't allowed to be with her anymore because she's "normal" and they're not. it's like. horrible. but i like how horrible it is, it's interesting to me that all these people are so terrible to themselves and each other. i know fandom tends to think julian can do no wrong but damn he fucked that one up. dude, she's not the woman you've been waiting for your whole life, she's the you you've been waiting for your whole life, except obviously she isn't and it's awful that you don't realise that. also i know what happens at the end of the series and if he's lonely at this point then how's he going to be with all his friends gone? the angst is immense. but it's not like it'd have been fixed if he had a compliant girlfriend who was only with him out of a sense of gratitude. also miles totally knew that it was doomed and just didn't want to break his bff's heart even though that was inevitably going to happen. but like. it's messy. very messy.
anyway the moral of the story is don't genetically engineer your kids, it'll just fuck them up one way or another.