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sunkissed-zegras · 7 months
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✮ 𝐦𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐝𝐚𝐲 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐬, zegras' have more fun
♡ ─ summary | media day pictures (NOT MINE AND IT'S NOT THE FC) and something makes the jack stans go crazy
♡ ─ warnings | light-hearted flirting/arguing, brief mention of hate crimes (ITS A JOKE THOUGH), hughes bros being dumb (not trev for once LMAO)
♡ ─ taglist | tbd
♡ ─ ev's notes | this lowkey eats I MISSED THIS AU
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stasszegras ann arbor, michigan
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stasszegras | media day pics, first (official) fnl + WENT LOWKEY VIRAL ON TIKTOK???? tagged: pchandler68, umichfootball, lucafantilli september 23th, 2022
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briesbagels | my favorite tiktok influencer 🤭
↳ stasszegras stop it. 😐
↳ briesbagels 3 million views on a tiktok IS CRAZYYY
↳ stasszegras it's only cus luke was in the video
↳ lhughes_06 clout chaser 😝
briesbagels | LAST PIC OF LUCA IS HORRENDOUS PLS STASS 😫😫
↳ lucafantilli ok this one hurts brie, i thought u were on my side
↳ briesbagels its either u or stass (im choosing my girl)
↳ stasszegras 🤭😏😍
↳ pchandler68 hmmmmm 😏😏
↳ adamfantilli 🥸🥸
↳ stasszegras what's goin on here.... 😥
umichwsoccer | THATS OUR GIRL! 🫡〽️
↳ stasszegras 🤞🏼🤞🏼
jackhughes | wowww okay stassie.. 🤞🏼🤩 woo 😮‍💨😮‍💨
↳ trevorzegras 😟😟 oh no
↳ lhughes_06 since when we callin her stassie????
↳ jackhughes WE?? get ur own nickname lukey 😑😑
↳ stasszegras k y'all let's just stick to stass or little zegras 😶
↳ trevorzegras @/griffinzegras
↳ griffinzegras bffr right now 📸📸📸 aren't you like 30 jack??
↳ jackhughes actually i'm 21 so calm the FUCKK down... and i was just being nice and friendly griff come on now
↳ briesbagels and thats why we wear sunscreen kids 🥴
↳ griffinzegras yea maybe a little too friendly..
↳ stasszegras guys im gonna disable my comments if u keep arguing like 12 year olds
↳ trevorzegras mhm yeah and thats the ONLY REASON why you would wanna disable the comments
lucafantilli | last pic should be considered a hate crime bro how'd u even get that
↳ stasszegras don't ask stupid questions like that luca
↳ adamfantilli 🥸🥸
↳ lucafantilli MY OWN BROTHER?!?!?!
↳ lhughes_06 i guess we are all getting betrayed by our flesh and blood rn 😪
↳ jackhughes be so fr rn lukey
↳ trevorzegras agreed luke
↳ jackhughes 😑😑
↳ pchandler68 interesting.. 📸
quinnhughes | you ate little zegras 🫡
↳ stasszegras thanks quinner 🫶🏼
↳ trevorzegras YEA this is really being friendly @/jackhughes
↳ jackhughes bro. let this go.
↳ quinnhughes leave me the fuck outta this guys, please 😁
lhughes_06 | gonna win us a jr world cup zegras ✊🏼
↳ stasszegras YESSS SIR 🫡🫡〽️〽️ but thats not how it works buddy
↳ lhughes_06 there's no jr world cup????
↳ jackhughes messi is rolling in his grave rn
↳ stasszegras messi is alive????
↳ briesbagels no way bro 😭😭
↳ quinnhughes LMAO PLEASE 😭
pchandler68 | LUCA LOL PLEASE HAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
↳ lucafantilli count your days chandler
↳ pchandler68 wait no luca im sorry
↳ lucafantilli its ur fault u introduced me and stass and NOW LOOK. all the hoes are gone
↳ stasszegras 😑😑😑
↳ adamfantilli not all of them.....🥯🥯🥯
↳ lucafantilli shut up adam.
↳ pchandler68 wait what??...
adamfantilli future manager AND she plays for our soccer team?? it's perfect 🤞🏼🤞🏼
↳ stasszegras hahaahaha no.
↳ nolan_moyle STASS PLEASE
↳ stasszegras stop harassing me nolan
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jhughesnews | jack hughes and anastasia zegras are reportedly going out after he comments a suggestive comment on her most recent post. thoughts???
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fan01 | WHAT?? NO WAY????? WHO WAS GOING TO TELL ME
fan02 | guys they are just friends, if u guys look at her other posts he makes those kinda jokes all the time
↳ fan03 nah bro did u see trevor and griffin's comments? they obviously know something we don't
↳ fan02 yeah but that's their humor
fan04 | good 😭😭😭 for😭😭😭 them 😭😭😭
fan05 | didn't she go out with luke too 😐
↳ fan06 damn she wants the whole crew
↳ fan07 who can blame her tho??? have u seen them 🤭🤭
↳ fan08 no she didn't lmao, those were also JUST rumors and it's obvious they're just friends
fan09 | guys stop it, these are baseless rumors and REMEMBER WHAT HAPPENS TO TAYLOR ALL THE TIME, stass is great just by herself 🫶🏼
↳ fan10 all right girl..
↳ fan11 its giving "coach is right guys... 😣"
↳ fan12 im crying BYEEE PLEASE 😭😭😭😭
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thisisnotthenerd · 2 months
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do you ever give yourself ideas that seem like they shouldn't take much time in execution and then end up taking up way too much time?
anyway we're back with the first real entry for thisisnotthenerd's d20 stats of 2024. this time we're talking:
cast appearances by episode count
season count is one thing; there's only 21 of those so far. by contrast, we've had 222 episodes of d20 as of 1/16/2024. by may 2024 we'll have finished fhjy and hit 241.
by the current count, the intrepid heroes' full seasons account for 128 episodes of the total 222, or around 57.6% of the total episode count. if you add the fantasy high oneshots, it bumps up to 59.4%, and if you consider that we're adding 20 to the count with fhjy, by may 2024, intrepid heroes episodes will make up 62.6% of the dimension 20 catalog.
anyway here's the cast list:
the uncontested winner is brennan lee mulligan with 211/222 episodes. 95% attendance. the only times he hasn't been there are: the 4 episodes of shriek week, the 6 episodes of coffin run, and the gencon mismag oneshot.
in second place is lou wilson, with 151/222 episodes. this is every intrepid heroes season (128/222), plus 3 sidequests (4+10+6) and 3 oneshots.
in third, sweeping her way with the most recent season, is siobhan thompson with 147/222, after the ih seasons, 3 oneshots and 2 sidequests (6+10)
in fourth, we have ally beardsley with 144/222, after the ih seasons, 2 oneshots, and 2 sidequests (10+4)
very close in fifth, we have zac oyama, with 143/222, after the ih seasons, 4 oneshots, and 2 sidequests (6+6).
in sixth is emily axford, with 138/222, from 126 ih episodes, 2 oneshots, and one sidequest (10)
and in seventh is brian murphy, with 130 episodes, from the ih seasons and 3 oneshots.
after this we have a steep drop off, since the ih episodes make up 57% of the total count, and will make up 61% by the end of junior year. anyway next is aabria iyengar, with 48 episodes, a little over half which she gm'd (26).
next is erika ishii, with 37 episodes. they've been in 5 sidequests (6+4+10+6+10) and one oneshot.
to finish off the top ten, rekha shankar and izzy roland are tied with 26, since both have been in three sidequests [(6+10+10) and (10+6+10) respectively]
the last of the three cree, in 11th place, is matthew mercer, with 18 (6+6+6) episodes, 6 of which he gm'd
after which is carlos luna with 12, though he's been behind the scenes as crew in many more.
13th is taken up with another tie, this time between danielle radford and becca scott, who each have 11, though their splits are different, since danielle has been in 2 sidequests and a oneshot (4+6+1), while becca has been in 1 sidequest and 1 oneshot (10+1)
after this we get into the mass groups:
with 10 episodes there's a couple of options for how they got to that point, but less options for 6 and 4
10 episodes: ify nwadiwe (6+4), lily du (6+4), katie marovitch (10), sam reich (10), raphael chestang (10), grant o'brien (10), persephone valentine (10), omar najam (10), oscar montoya (10), surena marie (10), rashawn nadine scott (10), and jasper william cartwright (10)
next is griffin mcelroy, with 7 episodes, because he did the RTX oneshot along with tiny heist.
6 episodes: amy vorpahl, justin mcelroy, travis mcelroy, clint mcelroy, jessica ross, marisha ray, krystina arielle, b. dave walters, jasmine bhullar (GM), anjali bhimani, alex song-xia, freddie wong, hank green
4 episodes: gabe hicks (GM), dani fernandez, monét x change, alaska thunderfuck, bob the drag queen, jujubee
and last but not least, our oneshot only friends: brian david gilbert, michelle nguyen bradley, noxweiler berf, and markeia mccarty
and that's all for this time! check out the spreadsheet to see where the data comes from and every individual checkbox that i had to click for this to be fully accurate.
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bcomic-blog · 4 months
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Tonight in El Goonish Shive
HOLY
SHIT
Okay, I'm not sure how people generally come across this post. I'm assuming MOST have already read the update first. But I don't doubt that for a few tumblrites seeing this in their dash is their reminder, "oh hey, I should check out the new page"
Just in case, I ain't saying fuck all about this page and especially not SHOWING anything from this page without a cut...
(Maybe I should always do this? But especially tonight.)
If you are not caught up with EGS up to the Wed 12/6 update proceed no further, this is your warning lol
WOW!
I wanna call this a HUGE update, where so much happens. But technically we learned almost nothing new lol. Most everything that is confirmed about Mist in this update we already knew, basically...
Quick review of all of the plot points that Mist is part of:
Alternate universes aren't all equally "alternate"
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The universe that the Griifins come from is inherently connected to the Universe the main cast live in. For simplicity, we'll call them Moperville and Avalon:
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Like Moperville. Avalon has Uryuom and Seyonulu people. In Moperville they live in secret, disguised as humans. In Avalon, they live openly, but as a distrusted and opressed minority. Evidently it is believed that they originally arrived with intent to conquer, and they are legally prohibited from touching tech out of distrust that they aren't STILL plotting something
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(Fuckin Dwight, man...)
So, on the Moperville side magic is a secret on the verge of coming out, but on the Avalon side, magic has been open for a long time. On the Moperville side humans believe they are the only sapients on Earth, and they aren't far off. Secretly, there are also some Uryuom and the Immortals, but that's mostly it. On the Avalon side, humans are one of a variety of sapient species, including Griffins, unicorns, and we haven't yet seen who all else. But the humans are a minority with a monopoly on political power, which is concentrated in those who have what is called a "royal aura"
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So, the ENTIRE point of everything that happens in the "Balance" chapter is that Liam (the owl griffin) is sympathetic to the plight of the oppressed Uryuom, so he arranges the entire rigamarole of himself getting mind-controlled to attack royalty all as a distraction to pull one of the guards (Dwight) away from the portal from Avalon to Moperville, allowing three insurgents to sneak through to our side.
Their plan is to use the fact the Uryuom can use magic on the Moperville side again meaning that over here they can use magic items, specifically:
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this thing, to allow them to STEAL the Royal Aura from someone over here, then go back with the aura that has always meant you are considered one of the powerful few on the Avalon side, and use that power to end the oppression of Uryuom and Seyunolu people.
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There are three members of our cast that it's confirmed have a royal aura:
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So in this page, Mist is looking for a way to supercharge the dream search, which is what happens in the NP chapter "Parable" which had been in a state of "canon, but it hasn't happened yet" but with tonight's upfate i assume it's going to finally happen!
Evidently, though, Seyunolu, unlike griffins. can't just see a royal aura. So that's Mist's part of the job: he can sense a being's auras and stuff, but only by entering their dreams, a process that wasn't finding their candidates very quickly. (Not too surprising,as they would have focused on the wealthy and powerful based on the mistaken assumption that if the Royal Aura people didn't rule openly here, they must be ruling from the shadows...)
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So-- as I said at the beginning-- we don't actually learn a lot that's totally new about Mist... except we now know for sure that he is a Tulougol Seyunolu with a combination of human, Uryuom, and Unicorn... but that always seemed the likely bet. And we learned what he looks like without his disguise (which is one hell of a cool character design!)
I mean, wow!
Before this, it seemed likely this character would look like some sort of Unicorn/Human, but we couldn't be sure if that would look cool
It does!
So, at first when I read this I thought this was a confirmation of the character's NAME, but no, that had been confirmed a while ago, i just missed it!
For a long time this character was known by a placeholder name: "Mystucorn":
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BUT, in passing, the leader called him "Mist" a while ago, as easy as this was to miss!
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Another cool thing this page does is give Mist's pronouns. This is helpful because he has a very feminine appearance, even more so than the androgynous Noah, and it would be easy to accidentally misgender him. BUT that one also isn't actually new info: Mist's gender was established WAY back in his first appearance:
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But there is one other COMPLETELY new thing established in this page: the NAMES of the other two Seyonulu involved in the plot to steal a royal aura, as well as their roles!
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Saou is the leader who the plan is to make into Seyonulu royalty, and Potestas is essentially the bodyguard.
At this point I think it is safe to say which is which in their various forms and disguises going back to their earliest appearances!
Mist:
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(note the uryuom antennae!)
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(the scene with different shaped speech balloons to distinguish different speakers)
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And finally:
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Now...
Saou:
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Potestas:
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So, anyhow, this is all super exciting, I can't wait to find out what happens next... I mean, evidently "Parable" happens next, but now that that's no longer "sometime later this year", we'll finally find out more what happens AFTER "Parable"!
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peter-guy · 6 months
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How Peter Griffin helped me realize I was trans.
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No, that title isn't a joke. My heavy Peter Griffin kin geniunely helped guide my path to realizing I was a transgender male.
I'm not gonna lie- I used to make fun of kinning when I was younger when I was a kid with unrestricted internet access & made fun of all these concepts that were fairly new to me at the time. I think I realized kinning wasn't bad when I was 12 but acted like I hated it because I didn't want my friends to make fun of me. Said friends donot talk to me or atleast changed their mindset on kinning. When I was around 14/15, I became more invested in the kin community. I realized that most of the things that described kin fit me perfectly. I always related to Peter Griffin- He was my favorite character in Family Guy, besides Brian & Lois. Yet, the word "relate" didn't fit strong enough to me. I felt "related" to Peter to a more spiritual connection sort of way. Even to this day, it's a bit hard to explain but that's a story for another day when I can find the words to say it. Anywho, I eventually realized my feelings aligned with kin. I won't lie, I was in heavy denial since kinning Family Guy is considered cringe & we're not quite at that point where it's considered normal. I tried to identify with my kin of Stan Marsh more since South Park kin is considered less embarassing. I do kin Stan, but it's not as heavy as Peter so I felt like I was being someone else. Sounds familiar to another experience of pretending to be someone you're not, right? Anywho.. I was known as a Stan Marsh kin for about 3-ish years or so. Yet I couldn't hide the Peter kin I was hiding. By the time I was 18,I accepted it. I realized I can't hide who I truly identify with, and accepted it. I told some friends- They were more accepting than I expected. I felt so happy. I decided to go by Peter as a second name (Keep in mind, I identified as a female at the time but I thought of Peter as a gender neutral name (If you think about it, all names are inherently gender neutral.). Yet, I still didn't feel right. There was a weight off my chest, but it wasn't fully off. I started feeling uncomfortable with my deadname being used & started using Peter as my first name. But then I realized she/her pronouns weren't working for me either once I made the leap to being called Peter- I asked people to refer to me by any, but secretly I meant don't call me she/her. I started asking those close to me to use he/him and they/them interchangeably for a week, and I realized he/him made me more comfortable than both she/her and they/them. It was at that moment I realized I wasn't a female. I was a male, born in the wrong body. (I know I realized I was FtM pretty late in life, but keep in mind during my teen years I was coerced into following some pretty crappy ideologies + the environment I grew up in IRL just wasn't for trans people + Just had an incredibly low self esteem growing up to realize the reason I felt miserable was because of dysphoria.). And then I realized.. Embracing my Peter kin was the core reason that led me to figuring out my true identity. If I hadn't accepted it & let cringe culture take over my life, I would've never realized my true self. I would've stayed closeted and self conscious my whole life. I'm proud to say I'm a happier person now after coming to terms with both things.. I'm planning on starting testorone once everything in my life is settled- I'm currently in college and work a 9-5 job, so once I graduate & move from my state I'm excited to start the path of turning into my true self. I'm glad I got to share this story with yall, I used to be embarassed about it but I've learned to embrace the "cringe " sides of me, realizing I was much happier.
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DUNGEON MESHI CHAPTERS-PER-EPISODE PREDICTIONS
This post is going to have full manga spoilers up to chapter 57, AND also it's going to be long as hell. You are Warned.
This post is being written when 12 episodes are out, covering 28 chapters total. There's 24 episodes in season 1, and they run at a pace of 2 or 3 chapters per episode. I will be keeping that pace for this prediction !!! Though it's 99% likely they'll do something I don't predict that throws this whole list out of wack. It's fine.
There's going to be a couple lists here. One for if they have 2 chapters per episode for the rest of the season, and stop at chapter 52, and one for if they do a few 3 chapter episodes and stop at chapter 55.
Reasons for the chapter endings I've predicted:
52 (Bacon and Eggs) is a good ending point. Laios considers his feelings about Falin, and the group all decide how to save her together! It's the perfect stopping point for a season... but it would also require ALL upcoming episodes to be 2 chapters, which doesn't seem as likely considering the pace they've been going. It's still possible, though, so it's on the list
55 (On the First Level III) is the end of the Canaries coming into the dungeon miniarc, following Kabru instead of Laios. Is it a good ending for the season? Maybe not as much as 52 would be, but I think the pacing lends itself to a really good place to stop for the way things are heading. My prediction (though it's entirely unfounded) is that they'll do the Canaries miniarc and then take 52 and place it at the end. But who knows, honestly?
57 (Stewed Head) is my final but less likely predicted ending--it would require even more 3 chapter episodes, but a final episode focusing on Chilchuck's marriage (and him lying about cheating) and then going onto the Laios meeting Marcille for the first time flashback would be a LOVELY episode to stop on. That being said, I think it would be better as a season 2 opener episode, so... Not sure they'd go this route. I won't be making a full episode-by-episode list for this one, but it IS a route they might go?
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(Chapter 52)
With that out of the way, here's the ways the episodes MIGHT pan out:
ENDING AT CHAPTER 52: (2 chapters per episode)
Episode 13: Red Dragon VII and Good Medicine: Falin gets taken by Thistle and the rest of them meet the orcs
Episode 14: Serpent I and II: Kabru time!!! Finally, we'll learn more about Kabru's party in the anime
Episode 15: Dryad and Cockatrice: Two fun, standalone chapters!
Episode 16: Cleaners and Dried with Sweet Sake: Meeting back up with Shuro and Kabru's parties! Ends with chimera Falin appearing for the first time
Episode 17: Harpy and Chimera: Fighting against chimera Falin :( There's no way they'd break these episodes up from each other. Given how they adapted the red dragon chapters they COULD add a third chapter in the action here, but we'll see
Episode 18: Shapeshifter I and II: Shapeshifter chapters are EASILY going together, of course ^^ Ends with Izutsumi appearing
Episode 19: Hag and Nightmare: Izutsumi properly joining chapter and then right into Marcille and Laios's nightmares...
Episode 20: Ice Golem and Barometz: More Izutsumi!!! She's becoming part of the group!!!
Episode 21: Egg and Golden Country: Kabru meets the Canaries for the first time, and then we're RIGHT into the Golden Country miniarc
Episode 22: Griffin and Familiars: Begins with them still in the Golden Country, before being dropped into the lower level with the griffin... Ends with Senshi about to talk about his backstory.
Episode 23: Griffin Soup and Dumplings I: Senshi backstory and then into the race swap chapter. I honestly can't see this actually happening because this would be splitting the Dumplings chapters up weirdly........
Episode 24: Dumplings II and Bacon and Eggs: The rest of the race swap, and then they talk about Falin and what they're going to do! A really good ending, obviously, but it would be difficult to pace it correctly with the chapters right before it being so interconnected, and Dumplings II being completely unrelated.
ENDING AT 55: (very speculative)
Episode 13: Red Dragon VII and Good Medicine: I think this is perfect pacing as it is!
Episode 14-15: Serpent I and II, Dryad, Cockatrice, Cleaners: Not sure exactly how these would be split up into a 3 chapter episode. I can see them adding Dryad to Serpent, just to make sure the main party gets focus that episode, but I could also see Dryad and Cockatrice getting Cleaners as part of it...
Episode 16: Dried with Sweet Sake, Harpy, and Chimera: Because it has a lot of action, it could mix these ones together... maybe? Alternatively, Serpent I, II, and Dryad could be together, and Cockatrice, Cleaners, and Dried with Sweet Sake could be another 3 chapter episode, leaving Harpy and Chimera alone
Episode 17: Shapeshifter I and II: The shapeshifter chapters obviously have to go together.
Episode 18: Hag and Nightmare: Hag could MAYBE be part of the previous episodes here since Shapeshifter II introduces Izutsumi and Hag is her proper joining the party moment, but that leaves Nightmare without a good spot... For now I'll say they're still in the same episode, I guess?
Episode 19: Ice Golem and Barometz: Izutsumi focus episode!
Episode 20: Egg, Golden Country, and Griffin: Egg is partially about Kabru on the surface meeting the Canaries, which of course is largely unrelated to the rest of it, but it ends with them being pulled into the Golden Country... and then the beginning of Griffin has them in the Golden Country too, so it would flow nicely I think!
Episode 21: Familiars and Griffin Soup: Them fighting the griffin AND Senshi backstory in the same episode this way
Episode 22: Dumplings I and II: Keeps the race swap chapters together! As they should be for proper pacing imo
Episode 23: On the First Level I and II: Onto the Canaries invading the dungeon arc, giving us a proper climax and more information for a potential season 2...?
Episode 24: On the First Level III and Bacon and Eggs: Bacon and Eggs is a good stopping point, so like I said above I'm taking it and putting it after the Canaries, to finish out the season, and especially because the two events are unrelated so the timing can be swapped out... But I have no idea if the anime team wants to do something like that, so they probably won't :P But this is my prediction
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pandoramsbox · 5 days
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Sci-Fi Saturday: The Invisible Man
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Week 12:
Film(s): The Invisible Man (Dir. James Whale, 1933, USA)
Viewing Format: DVD
Date Watched: August 13, 2021
Rationale for Inclusion:
After a diversion into aeronautic sci-fi and a post-apocalyptic narrative, our survey returns for one last example of a Pre-Code horror hybrid: The Invisible Man (Dir. James Whale, 1933, USA).
As with Island of Lost Souls (Dir. Erle C. Kenton, 1932, USA), The Invisible Man is based on an H.G. Wells novel. Unlike when Paramount Pictures bought the rights to adapt The Island of Dr. Moreau, however, Wells demanded script approval as part of the deal with Universal Studios for them to adapt The Invisible Man. Wells had hated the adaptation of The Island of Dr. Moreau, finding its emphasis on horror and lack of imagination miserable, and was not going to let a similar fate befall another one of his novels.
Although the rights were secured by Universal not long after the success of Dracula in 1931, it would take two years for the studio to assemble a satisfactory crew, script and cast. James Whale signed onto the project in 1931, but after the huge success of Frankenstein (1931, USA) left the project, not wanting to be associated as a horror director. However, after his return to romance with The Impatient Maiden (1932, USA) failed at the boxoffice, Whale returned to horror, first with The Old Dark House (1932, USA), which reunited him with Boris Karloff, and then signing back on to The Invisible Man. During Whale's absence from the project many screenwriters and drafts of screenplays, some of which used elements from another novel that Universal bought the rights to, The Murderer Invisible by Philip Wylie, had come and gone and failed to meet with Wells' approval.
In June of 1933, a script that finally met with Wells' approval was produced by R. C. Sherriff, who had written the play Journey's End, which sent Whale's star on the rise. This screenplay originated the idea that the experimental monocane serum that Dr. Jack Griffin (Claude Rains) produces not only makes him invisible, but slowly destroys his sanity. Similar to the lab setup and lightning power in Whale's Frankenstein, insanity as a byproduct of the invisibility would inform later adaptations of the Wells novel, including the early 2000s television series, which also featured a clip from the 1933 film in its opening credits sequence.
Reactions:
As resistant as Whale initially was to making horror films after Frankenstein, he proved with each subsequent one that he made how good he was at it. With the help of a group of repertory creatives both on and off screen, Whale put a pathos and humor into his horror films in a way that no other director working in the genre in the 1930s did. It's why over 90 years later Frankenstein, The Old Dark House, The Invisible Man, and The Bride of Frankenstein (1935, USA) are some of the best horror films of their era and amongst the most influential of all time.
Yet, the horror genre aspects in The Invisible Man are not as prominent as its science fiction categorization. Griffin is a mad scientist, that is an otherwise average person, whose hubris and curiosity makes a monster out of him. My partner noted that he considers The Invisible Man to definitely be a monster movie, but more of a suspense or mystery film than a horror film. Any movie that features a serial killer is at least partially horror in my reckoning, but the way the narrative of The Invisible Man unfolds, it is closer to a suspense film like M (Dir. Fritz Lang, 1931, Germany) than an unquestioned horror film with a fantasy monster like Dracula (Dir. Tod Browning, 1931), despite all three having narratives that boil down to "what is the mystery surrounding this man" then "this man is a monster and must be destroyed for the greater good."
The mystery and monstrosity around Griffin is rendered possible through the performance of Claude Rains and some inventive special effects. As with Whale's casting of Karloff in Frankenstein, his role as the title character in The Invisible Man was a star-making role for theater actor Rains. Having to rely on his voice and physicality, but not his face, gave Rains some trouble during production, but he ultimately created a character that oscillates between aloofly mysterious and a madcap lunatic. 
A combination of post-production optical work, clever blocking, and use of wires rendered Griffin invisible. The special effects used would remain the standard way of conveying an invisible entity prior to computer generated imagery and post-production work becoming dominant in the industry. As silly as it may feel knowing that Griffin unwraps his head revealing nothing beneath is achieved by something as simple as Rains wearing his shirt and jacket above his head as he removes the bandages it remains visually iconic.
My only issue with the practical special effects comes at the film's climax when Griffin exits the cabin where he is hiding out and he leaves shoe prints in the snow, despite it being previously established that to be fully invisible (as he is in the scene) he must be totally naked. What baffles me if the use of shoe prints instead of footprints was a question of deliberate censorship or thoughtless oversight. I usually don't get nitpicky about these types of goofs in movies, but it stands out sharply in an otherwise carefully engineered film.
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beehindblueeyes · 2 years
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Missing poster update! Promo mistakes? Details 6!-
So I absolutely went nuts when seeing this promo package someone had received on Instagram considering it allowed us to see the missing posters we don’t see clearly (Vance, Billy , Griffen) however there’s some… discrepancies with the movie itself and what we know. But also stuff I really like so let’s jump in
New dates!
So these missing posters go so far to have had some of the boys missing since 76! Which at first was a bit of a shock to me but makes a little sense. It also notes that My headcannon of Griffin being the youngest/ 12 years old as correct! BUT it says he went missing in April of 76’ but Gwen said - at least I could’ve sworn she said “last winter” but I know for sure Vance was “last spring”
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These posters might be from before they were finalized for the movie because both Robin and Bruce have the wrong dates! Neither of them went missing In 76, they both went missing in 78! It also has the mistake of the newspaper trying to say Bruce was taken before Vance when it’s straight up wrong? Vance was “last spring” and Bruce went missing July of 78.
This is Robin and Bruce’s posters IN MOVIE:
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All Info lines up except the dates they went missing. I’m assuming that earlier drafts of the movie would’ve been in 77? This is my best guess considering these are the ones in the movie. Maybe Vance was the last in a earlier draft of the movie?
These two I believe completely, as we get a shot of Billy’s in the opening and it lines up and Vance also lines up apart from it being in September and not spring. (Lines up with Max’s notes. Taken on a Monday etc)
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Only thing I don’t agree with is Vance being 13. I’m more inclined to believe he is 14 as he was cannonically held back twice. UNLESS he’s actually a grade below the other boys because of this? So he’s in 7th grade instead of 8th? Idk I think he’s 14. It also says he has brown eyes so I’ll take everything with a grain of salt lmao
New timeline-
Personally I like the idea of it being ? Slightly more spread out. besides some of the dates being straight up wrong in this promomaterial it DOES make a lot more sense for there to be greater stretches of time.
Griffin- Late summer 1976 (don’t like poster date/feels wrong)
Billy- Fall- winter 1976 (poster date also feels wrong)
Vance- Spring 1977 (stated by Gwen)
Bruce- July 18th, 1978 (seen in movie)
Robin- November 9th , 1978 (seen in movie)
Adresses?
So I didn’t know that missing posters (at least used to. I’ve only seen one in reality and it was a kid who’s been missing since like 1987? So a really really old case) contained the kids address? At least these ones and what I’m assuming to be. The adresses that are across the top before the rest of the information. As it later states “last seen” and vauge locations, so fake the  Address info as you will writers.
The constant date mix up’s are giving me “Finney Shaw”* vibes. Where it’s wrong and no one knows how it got that way.
*Literally every info talking about the movie says Finney’s last name is Shaw but it never was. It is Blake. In the short story his last name is Finney so Shaw literally came out of nowhere.
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furrylibrarian · 17 days
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Alright so here's the team I'm taking into endgame for my Fire Emblem Engage Hard Mode run. I don't think any of my class picks are too weird, but I barely did any reclassing on my first run, so it feels significant to me. Units are listed in order of recruitment. I'm putting down a "read more" in case people are worried about getting late-game recruits spoiled, any also just so this big long post doesn't clog up people's feeds too much.
I hope you like Canter, because I sure do
Alear (I named her Syldra)
Sword Griffin Knight; S-Rank Xander; Sword Power 4, Canter
Since Alear gets her Emblem form, I was comfortable switching her off an Emblem Ring. I consider this a pretty straightforward build; Flyer mobility and Canter enable her personal skill very well, and then Sword Power and Chivalry ensure that she'll do solid damage. My only complaint is that I didn't think of reclassing to Griffin (and necessarily unlocking staff proficiency) or of using Sword Power until after losing the first batch of rings, so I didn't get to use Alear in her final form until the lategame.
Clanne
Lance Hero; Sigurd; Dual Assist+, Reposition
I like this setup a lot. Brave Assist, Dual Assist, and the movement boost from Sigurd make Clanne effectively a damage boost for the rest of my army.
Framme
Martial Master; Lucina; Canter, Staff Mastery 5
First and foremost a utility setup. Debilitate with staffs, protect allies with Chain Guard/Bonded Shield, and occasionally bash some kneecaps with Flashing Fist Art.
Anna
Sword Mage Knight; Byleth; Canter+, Momentum
I like Byleth on a mounted character because more movement is good for Goddess Dance. Plus, the big Luck boost helps trigger Make a Killing, which is helpful for me specifically because I am not good at making financial decisions in video games nor in real life.
Yunaka
Thief; Corrin; Canter, Gentility/Bravery+
Daggers+Draconic Hex can cripple most targets, and Fog Dragon Vein+Trained to Kill with a crit-boosting engraving on her weapon means she is occasionally really good at securing kills. Bravery ensures that she can always deal some damage, therefore ensuring that her daggers properly debuff things.
Diamant
Successor; Roy; Canter, Speed +5
Honestly kind of a filler pick when I realized that I had 14 deployment slots for the last few maps and not 12 like I thought. I went with Diamant because he can use S-rank swords and I wanted to start using my legendary weapons.
Ivy
Lindwurm; Celica; Canter, Speed +4
The other character I added to my lineup to fill a newly-acquired vacancy, but unlike Diamant she fills a genuine niche, since I didn't have a good fit for the Celica ring on my lineup that didn't have a different Emblem I really wanted on them.
Kagetsu
Sword/Axe Wyvern Knight; Lyn; Canter, Gentility/Bravery+
Very much a meta pick. I took who seems to be considered the best physical combatant and put him into what seems to be considered the best physical combat class. Lyn ensures that he can double enemy speedsters like Swordmasters and Wolf Knights.
Fogado
Cupido; S-Rank Leo; Canter+, Bow Focus 5
Fogado exists for one purpose and that is to annihilate flyers with the Radiant Bow. Ideally I would have a Claude bond ring for Wind God, but the RNG just didn't pan out.
Panette
Warrior; Ike; Vantage+, Pair Up
Blood Fury+Wrath+upgraded Killer Axe=consistent 100% critical rates. Vantage and Pair Up help to prevent my hubris from killing her.
Hortensia
Sleipnir Rider; Micaiah; Canter+, Staff Mastery 5
Here pretty much exclusively for wacky staff shenanigans, using Micaiah to warp and debilitate en masse. My only regret is that I used up most of my Freeze staffs, and the shop never got them in unlimited supply like I thought it would.
Seadall
Dancer; Leif; Canter+, Quality Time+
Just straight grooving. He gets Leif because I struggle to find another unit that really wants his skillset more than another Emblem's, and Arms Shield protects Seadall from bows and tomes, which are most of the weapons directed at him whenever I fail to move him out of the danger zone.
Mauvier
Royal Knight; Eirika; Canter, Lance Power 4
I gave him a Brave Lance to take advantage of Lunar Brace. I've moved him and Alear to healing duty so that Framme and Hortensia can devote more of their inventories to wackier status staffs.
Veyle
Sword Wolf Knight; Marth; Canter, Gentility/Bravery+
Levin Sword Lodestar Rush goes brrrrrrrrrrr. She can't debilitate as well as Yunaka, but she still can add to poison stacks, which is neat. I also made her Alear's S-Support, and the two of them have tag-teamed a healthy amount of chapter bosses so far.
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What's THIS? A Princes snippet at 12:50 in the morning on a Tuesday? Absolutely <3
Claude was actively sorting through and aligning what he’d just learned with what he’d already known as he asked, “You said you’d only known ‘her’ as Patricia. Who is ‘her’?” “The woman I consider my mother. The woman who actually was Edelgard’s mother. She came to Faerghus. Probably she was running from something rather than toward.” “The Insurrection,” Claude filled in. “The same reason Edelgard was there?” “I can only assume. Though as far as I know, they were never aware of the presence of the other.” Claude balked. “How does that work?” A twist took hold of Dimitri’s lips. “I was hoping to answer that and questions like it in the coming months. Preferably before I become a fugitive in my own country.” Footsteps— “Man, Your Highness, you’re a riot! Remind me to pick your brain about the extremely intricate courting rituals of griffins the next time we see each other.” Dimitri stared at him like he’d sprouted antlers. “Where do you even come up with things like that?” he whispered. “It’s called having an imagination, Dimitri. Try it some time.”
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hopefulstarfire · 1 year
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Here it be, the complete outline for the ocs adventures in what would be my yugioh fic series if I ever have time and or a life outside of my job and podcast again enjoy. General trigger warnings but I will also be tagging any and every one I can think of and if I miss anything lemme know.
Pre Series
All of the OC backstories go here, as seen in their profiles.
Something worth noting here is that Chelsea, Mason, Wes, Jonathan and Rosalie Gayle (Alisters parents) and Robert Knighton (Raphaels father) had been friends for years and years and basically considered each other family (especially bc Mason and Wes's parents Bo and Josie considered them all their kids) and so their kids became the "cousins".
It just kinda worked out that Robert and Mason married girls that were in fact first cousins so their kids are actually cousins 😂
Another is that Solomon, Arthur and Iris's grandfather Cillian are old, old friends, who went on several archaeological expeditions together. Cillian also officiated for Solomon and his wife Hinas wedding, and did the same for Arthur and his wife Faye. All three of them have attempted solving the Puzzle as well, all three have failed. Cillian even spectacularly so; he made a giraffe with the pieces. Atem was Very Confused.
Maximillion meets Cecelia at a gala his father hosted, and he met her through her Uncle Robert.
Cecelia starts battling health problems when she's 12 and at some point during her extended hospital stays, Max comes up with the very first rough draft of what would become Duel Monsters, inspired by dreams (that are 100% connected to his future destiny as a Millennium Item wielder) and the cards he make have their own lore and the game is more of a loose dnd with cards and the rules followed solely the rule of cool.
The Harmonia sinks and kills off most of the Knightons and Max's own parents, leaving him to basically move in with the Mercers. Raphael is found alive just in a matter of a couple months before Cecelia passes and he does not get to say goodbye to her.
Wes and the Griffins fight to try and gain custody of Raphael, knowing that he's miserable and that he was actually supposed to go home with them. However, they found that the Allards had put up a fight, the courts were very suddenly not on their side and a restraining order got placed against them, while Raphaels relatives made him believe everyone forgot about him and hated him for living instead of his parents and siblings. When Duel Monsters hits shelves, Max releases the Guardian Cards to try and let Raphael know they never forgot about him and love him but it's not taken that way. At all.
Seto and Mokuba get adopted when Seto is 10/11 and he sees the first Duel Monsters tournament on TV in the orphanage and he thinks Kat, the winner of the tournament, is the coolest. They actually meet at a gala after their adoption and they bond for that one night and he can't ever forget her. Max even sticks up for them, as he's the one that brought Kat, and it makes Seto even more open to trust him...something that is going to hurt all the more later on.
They meet River and Iris when Nesbitt and Gozaburo try to arrange a marriage contract to be fulfilled once Seto is 18. The four find themselves becoming an unlikely family and have to survive everything together. Including what Gozaburo pulls when Seto takes over the company.
Roland and Meredith are there early on for the boys and basically become like their parents, with Roland especially taking on a role of father for both the Kaiba brothers and the McGinnis kids. Having at least a semblance of stability prevents Death-T from happening. But Kaibas still gonna be Kaiba, just more in line with the anime route.
Alister goes undercover and begins working for KaibaCorp about a year and a half to two years before Duelist Kingdom and eventually finds himself befriending Iris as a means to an end of getting to Kaiba and the Big 5.
"Season 0"
A lot of it will follow the Mangas storyline and villain of the week format with some additional Filler.
One of the biggest changes is that Hanasaki and Miho are actually gonna be present for the stories and become part of the main gang themselves. Because they're the best and they were underutilized and I am FIXING THAT!!!
Nana is basically just growing more and more concerned about what the fuck is happening to her brother. She's happy he's making friends, but the Puzzle seems...off to her, now that it's complete and Yugis gaps in memory and all the insane shit happening to them makes her start to believe something is wrong with the Item, but the ony person she really has to confide in that is her best friend Harue, so it's a case of trying to figure out "what the fuck is going on here".
Duelist Kingdom
Kaiba kidnaps Grandpa and beats him in a Duel and tears up Blue Eyes. Nana, typically the voice of reason, has to he held back from hurting this idiot for what he did.
After he loses, Mokuba immediately reaches out to the rest of the family, pulling Iris away from a date hangout with Alister to come help her younger brother through being genuinely shaken that he lost.
Max is hanging out with Kat and the Griffins for movie night when Croquet delivers the news of Kaibas defeat. Kat is Pissed and goes to dig into who this kid is, only for the both of them to be shocked and confused when he's got the Millennium Puzzle, which looks eerily similar to the golden eyeball shoved into Max's head.
Three weeks later, Max announces the Duelist Kingdom tournament at regionals. Kaiba runs off early that morning, before the tournament, going to try and clear his head. The board calls Max that night, after he's already sent the tape to Yugi, so that they can have their little chat the day after next when and where he kidnaps Mokuba for them.
Nana is like. 5 seconds away from a panic attack because the guy who's art she has like idolized for years now just kidnapped her Grandpa's soul and everything is connected back to the Millennium Items and she very quickly realizes they're in over her head so ofc she's sneaking on board with Téa and the others. Somebody has to keep these idiots safe.
Max had basically barred Kat from entering the tournament because aha she doesn't need to know what's going on clearly, and he also enlists the Big Fives security detail as supplied by Leichter, versus using Griffin Security, with the claim it was to make investors happy only. Maddox, who has been his best friend since they were eight and knows Max usually does not care about that shit at all, is Suspicious.
When Mokuba gets kidnapped, Roland and Iris mobilize to figure out what happened and just how the Big Five are involved and drag their names through the mud. Alister is either going to be helping them from the get go to ger information and be the one to stop them first or is brought in right after they finally get a hold of Seto because he's conveniently turned his phone off to go and be emo for a while and only reaches back out after he had an assassination attempt on his life by and realized the man he saw as a mentor, as someone who might have actually cared about him and his brother, was the one who sent them after him so Max could get control of KaibaCorp from the Big Five.
Kat sneaks onto Duelist Kingdom island on the day the tournament starts and Max is greeted by her right after the opening ceremony and he is sweating bullets bc oh God she can't know what I'm doing she will stop me. He does allow her to stay to watch the Duels commence, but tells his security to keep a close eye on her and make sure she doesn't snoop.
He doesn't seem to realize that the security that the Big Five really aren't shit and weren't trained to deal with her, aka someone who was raised by the owners of one of the biggest security companies in the world. So she's walking around with her dog Lola and hears something coming from one of the rooms and discovers Mokuba.
After hearing what happened and being in complete shock Max would ever do anything like that, she still decides Mokuba is probably telling the truth but she needs to know the full story as to what the fuck is going on. She helps smuggle him out and hides when one of the guards comes to check on him and then promptly goes to sneak out herself and yes she brings Lola with her. She has no idea what is going on in her brothers head and she doesn't trust any of these guys to take care of her baby or even remember to feed her. She loads up her backpack with dog food and treats; it's her and Lola til the end damnit.
While still trying to hide the best she can from the goons, she does run into Yugi and the gang after Kemo nabs Mokuba again and obviously Yugi recognizes her since she's kind of. Yknow. Famous. The others don't trust her because of her name but Yugi and Ryou both point out Mokuba said he had help escaping so she challenges Yugi to a pick up Duel with no star chips on the line and no Duel Arena (she can't let Max know where she is) to talk it out.
Ryou is also wondering why, for the first time, the spirit in the Ring is completely silent. No smart comments, no pushing to take control, nothing. Like he actually feels just how stunned and weirdly nervous he is during them meeting Kat.
Kat explains how she has no idea what's going on, but the Max she grew up with would never have done anything like this; how it's been him, Maddox and her against the world since she was eight. But, she also believes Mokuba and now Yugi hearing his story, even as she's trying to wrap her head around the fact her brother even had the powers to do what he did, and she wants to help get to the bottom of it. The gang decide they can trust her and she and Lola join up with them.
Maddox gets a hold of Max to check up on how the tournaments going and Max is acting the best he can like everything's not on fire, and promptly makes up a quick excuse when Maddox says he can't get a hold of Kat (her having left her phone in her room to keep from being tracked) and hangs up. Maddox realizes somethings fishy so he goes to talk to his parents.
The Duel between Joey and Rex goes the same way, and then when Mai decides to camp out with them that night, Kat borrows a phone to go and call Maddox and tell him what's going on. As the VP of I2, she's also able to give the go ahead for him to do a deep dive, proper investigation into what exactly has been going on at I2, not just security wise, but business wise and figure out what Max is planning and why.
Rather than Bakura challenging the others to the Duel he does in the anime, as the TTRPG has happened in this timeline, Bakura puts on a show as Ryou and takes Kat away for a bit to meet with her and figure out if she remembers anything from her past life as Kema. He does explain to her more about the powers and origins of the Items to give her a tip on what her brother could ultimately be planning by trying to take the Puzzle and more about himself and Yami as spirits trapped in the Items, but tells her not to trust the Pharaoh. Kat asks why he's telling her all this and he tells her that he knows her eyes better than anything else and in a past life, she was the person that mattered to him. He's vague and cryptic about it, but, the part of him that is still Bakura (as he did fuse his soul with Zorc) wanted to tell her, to reach out, to hope because he's spent 5000 years trapped alone and he had lost Kema and it devastated him and pushed him further towards his goals.
The Duels against Panik, Bonz and the Paradox Brothers go pretty much like normal, with the gang cheering on their friends.
However, after Joey Duels Kaiba, Kat actually offers to help him and he rejects the offer. Max's betrayal cut deep and he doesn't fully believe the Yugi gang when they tell him she helped Mokuba escape, because he knows Kat would do anything to protect her brother-in-law.
Maddox does more thorough investigation and gets confirmation on the investor deal between Max and the Big Five; he knew Max had met with them, but not what it was about. He does know about Roland being Kaibas right hand man, through Max and Kats interactions with the Kaiba brothers and reaches out to offer assistance in getting this cleared up. Iris and Roland are distrustful at first because of his connection to Pegasus and Alister even more so because he's worked with Raphael for years and knows about the whole Raphael believes his family forgot about him bit so he tries to steer them away. Maddox however shares all of the information he has and tells them that he wants to figure out what the fuck his best friend is up to because it could directly put his little sister in danger because he's acting crazy and if a kid got kidnapped and another had an assassination attempt on him, why the hell would he cover that up? So, they agree to work together to get to the bottom of this.
We also get to see some of Alister and Iris trying to snoop around in some specific places and almost get caught snooping and Alister is like "we need an excuse" and knowing that everyone at KaibaCorp is about 98% sure those two have been hooking up for months now bc everyone sees the chemistry he kisses her and makes it look like they snuck off for a quickie rather than to get dirt on the Big Five.
"Get a room, you two." "That's exactly what we did. Now, if you'll excuse us." And then just slams the door on the goons face and Iris is still processing what the fuck just happened.
On top of the confirmation of them meeting with Pegasus and being able to hack into email and phone records, they find some other little projects they were hiding from Seto in their attempts to regain proper power. And while doing so, Alister finds some interesting information about a certain Cyber World that a certain somebody is being kept alive in and a plan to use this for profit as well as a way for the elite to cheat death and live forever. There are many peoples names he deletes off of that first chance list including Raphaels aunt and uncle because fuck them. He covers this up from Iris and Roland and decides to keep an eye on it in case things go south.
Maddox also gets a warning from Shadi about what could happen if he keeps investigating this and trying to uncover the truth about the Millennium Items and what will happen to Max.
When the Seto and Yugi rematch happens, the others are still confused why Seto is acting like this and Kats literally like "gee it could have to do with my brother. Yknow. Being my brother, I guess." And Nana even reminds them he's probably stressed out and still offers up the chance for them to help him.
When he gets up on the ledge, Kat literally has a panic attack yelling at him to come down. Even with as much bad blood as there was between her and her mother, losing her mom to suicide ripped a part of her heart out and she cannot stand to see Seto go the same way or let Mokuba have to experience that same level of grief she did.
Téa yells at Kaiba and Kat tells him that she knows he'd do anything to save his brother, but that his life isn't worthless if he lost; that if he threw away his life, Mokuba would lose everything and they aren't gonna let that happen. Him, finally also knowing from Mokuba that she did in fact help him, decides to let Kat join him in confronting Pegasus and rescuing his little brother and she leaves the gang to go with him.
She also begins to see why Bakura told her not to trust Yami and she's now a little more open to at least somewhat trusting the vague and cryptic spirit with any new information he could offer her.
Nana, meanwhile, is at that same level of distrust Yugi is at. She's seen the dangers of the Puzzle and she sees how practically catatonic her little brother is and she gets the Puzzle off of him and is at a point now where she wonders if maybe they should just trade it off to get their Grandpa back because she is terrified of what the spirit inside of it will make her brother do.
Like, on the other hand, she doesn't know what Pegasus would do with this type of power and doesn't trust him but also like. She just doesn't want it around her brother. She doesn't even trust the Spirit of the Ring and now Yami has proven to her She can't trust him. She thought he was doing better and he's not SO. And if they haven't started connecting the pieces of like Yamis definitely murdered people before, it all kind of clicks now and she just is Over It.
When they finally get into the castle, they watch the Duel between Kaiba and Max and the entire time Kats standing behind Seto just demanding answers from her brother and when Seto loses his soul, she tries to run to grab him and Kemo and a couple other goons grab her and drag her away to Max's office.
They also muzzle Lola to take her with Kat and Max is like "that is not a good idea" and Kat straight up bites Kemo to try and get to her dog because fuck that.
She and Lola still get taken to Max's tower and she's demanding answers and they get into a huge blowout and then he finally confesses that he is doing all of this to revive Cecelia and goes through a state of both shock and horror. This also causes an even bigger fight because Cecelia would not have wanted him stealing people's souls, a CHILDs soul, just for him to play God trying to bring her back.
She gets locked in her room because Max refuses to listen to that. At this point, he's worked far too hard and it's far too late to stop. He has to do this. Not just for his own sake, but because Kat and Maddox need Cecelia back and even if they're mad at him for now, it'll be worth it in the end.
That night after the dinner, Mai actually manages to sneak Kat out of her room and Kat tells her she's gonna go and try to find the boys and then figure out where Max is holding people's souls and how. Mai makes her promise not to tell anyone how she got out and Kats just happy she got somebody; though, she does ask Mai to borrow her phone so she can call Maddox and tell him to get out there right the fuck now.
Hanasaki and Miho go with Tristan, Téa and Ryou to figure out how Max is cheating in all his Duels and are with them at the tower.
Bakura finds Kat trying to avoid the guards and get her way towards the dungeons and yanks her back to his room to since he knows the guards are really gonna be on high alert after his and the gangs stunt. They get more of a chance to talk though he's still. Odd to her. Though she does get bits and pieces of more answers out of him.
Nana basically holds on to the Puzzle until the matches the next day and Yugi asks for it because he doesn't want to risk anyone else's safety if they have it, and especially not his big sister. He thinks he has to try and control the Spirit, no one else. The night before however she stays up trying to figure out what exactly is going on with it and why it's acting like this. To the point she starts talking to Yami, knowing she's not gonna get an answer because she's not wearing it and she doesn't trust him enough to do so but it does leave an impact on him.
Hanasaki goes off with Tristan the next day when he goes to look for Mokuba because it's what a hero would do. Nana and Miho stay with Téa and Joey, mainly because Nanas still worried about her little brother.
They run into Kat while trying to do their rescue and then Bakura shows up and then it's just that whole mess.
Meanwhile, Maddox reached the island that morning after having to get some sleep and get some other things squared away and was fighting past the goons to get to the castle and gets there after Max and Yugis Duel.
Him and Kat both hurry after Croquet when they find out Max is hurt and is missing his Eye. Kat realizes it couldn't have been Yugis other self since they were with them this whole time. Maddox thinks it could be Shadi, given the cryptic warning he received. But Kat starts to believe it could be something else.
The gang also read Max's diary and find out more about Kats older sister and some more hints about the tragedies in her life and they understand more of why Max did what he did; it doesn't excuse it by any means, but they have their answers at least.
Iris, Alister, River and Roland, once they get confirmation that Seto and Mokuba are safe, confront the Big Five with their findings and tell them that they're currently suspended pending further investigation and will be fired once Seto is back and fully rested for the next quarterly meeting. Roland also gets to just fucking deck Nesbitt when he goes to attack Iris for daring to stand up to him.
Seto (begrudgingly) flies the gang all back to Domino with him and Mokuba and after they land Nana tells him he should come by the card shop sometime...and...yknow...maybe apologize for ripping her Grandpa's prized possession. Just uh just a thought there Kaiba.
Cue the Rebecca meeting and Nana invites her and Arthur to have dinner with the family and she'll cook. They get to hear some fun stories too about all of their old archaeology days, especially with their other best friend.
Iris hangs out at Alisters house (which is just one of the safe houses Paradius has) after everything happens and they find themselves taking the next stages in their dynamic together and become romantically intertwined; he argues it's to help further his goal and his justice, but he also finds himself genuinely falling for her where as Iris has been on that boat for a while just in absolute denial about it.
Kat is put in place as acting president of I2 while Max is very much recovering and decides she needs to further investigate what happened. So, she asks Maddox to go with her to Domino to at least figure out what's going on, because she knows her godparents aren't gonna let her do this alone. Originally, it's just supposed to be staying there for a few days, but, they soon realize they're gonna need to relocate to Domino City altogether with this situation.
Kat confronts Bakura and finally gets more of a full picture of their past life connection on top of more explanation to the Items. He points out that there's a strong chance the Eye had been corrupting him and he should be learning to see the error of his way by the time he's recovered fully. And, after all, the Pharaoh did almost kill Kaiba and he's done other shady things; who's to say the Puzzle didn't have some corruptive influences of its own?
"You keep saying this like you're the good guy in all this." "Darling, I'm far from it. I'm just the lesser of the evils in all this. I'm fighting for the right reasons."
Maddox doesn't trust him as far as he can throw this guy. He still wants a proper explanation to the Items and he's certainly hiding quite a bit of knowledge.
Kat slowly begins to trust him, however and decides to give him a shot.
Legendary Heroes / Dungeon Dice Monsters
After an entire debate, Kat wants to settle in Domino for a while and get everything straightened out and get to hang out with her new friends. Chelsea and Vance decide to keep the main office in San Fransisco, but open up a new one in Domino, and can do it if Maddox is able to square a deal with KaibaCorp and some other businesses in the area if he can manage it.
He's set to meet with Kaiba after the start of the new quarter and so he gets an apartment for him, Kat and the twins while they reconfigure everything. Kat gets enrolled into Domino High, which is her first time back in public school.
The start of the new quarter brings the meeting and Kaiba does fire the Big 5 still, however, they still manipulate him into going to test out his new game before he does; something Iris thinks is a big mistake and tells him not to do, because she doesn't know what they're up to. But this game is important to him; while he hasn't told anyone but her, this game was a way to honor his deceased mother and for Mokuba to see the kind and loving person she was in the only way he can.
Iris and River are with him and Mokuba when Seto gets trapped and Iris has to basically fight their way out of there. Mokuba convinces them they need to go find Yugi and his friends and Iris debates on making a call to Maddox after all his help, and also to Alister but he's out doing work for one of the other KaibaCorp offices (aka he's out on a mission for Paradius and used it as an excuse). Thankfully, Maddox is there with the rest of the gang at the card shop so they all get caught up to speed.
They get to the pods and Iris goes with Yugi, Mokuba and Joey; they instruct River to be on standby in case anything happens, as River actually helped Seto with coding some levels for practice. Maddox is to help him break back into KaibaCorp security measures and try and get that part of everything sorted out.
Maddox also is Packing Heat for this and does fire a warning shot at Kemo and his lackies when they try to break in.
Iris is basically scrambling having to use her ace monster and River's deck because she does not carry the one that she used just to Duel them on her, just the one card, so she's struggling a bit in this but doing her damndest.
She's still the second to last one to get gunned down by the Big Five, trying to keep Mokuba safe from an attack.
Once they're out of the Virtual World, Iris gets a call from the Big Fives doctoral staff, asking her to hell and saying that they need to try and save them, and she asks them point blank if they have any brain activity. When they say no, that the voltage was too much, but their heart rate is still there, she reminds them that without brain activity they would be dead and keeping them alive wouldn't bring that activity back. It's more merciful to let them die and even still there's a large amount of guilt she has in the relief that Nesbitt specifically cannot touch her family again. Their death is simply labeled as suicide and its not anything anyone would question at their company after what Gozaburo did.
Iris decides the Yugi gang may not be all that bad and Nana actually helps set her up with a job at the card shop; Solomon figures out who she is because she and her grandmother share a lot of similarities and when he hears the name McGinnis, he realizes she's most certainly his old friends granddaughter and is more than happy to have her there.
Maddox gets a meeting with Kaiba and manages to convince him to use Griffin Security for his newer security measures in this newer era of the corporation. He also is willing to still keep a business relationship with I2 after meeting with Kat and they both begin discussing what they want to pursue to create a better way to play Duel Monsters aka actual rules.
Maddox almost weeps in relief because God Max made it so looney tunes just to spite him.
The Dungeon Dice Monsters Arc there is two things worth noting.
One; Miho gets the fattest crush on Duke, because of course she would.
Two: Kat is standing there this entire time like knowing that name sounds familiar and he kinda looks it why does she know-- OH SHE WAS SUPPOSED TO CALL HIM AND TELL HIM MAX WAS RECOVERING FROM THE EYE BEING STOLEN AND HE STILL WANTS TO MAKE A DEAL WITH DUKE OH NO.
Kat chooses not to move forward to try and fight to stay president once Max recovers, but does decide to keep being the VP, just working from home.
Battle City/Cyber World
Battle City gets announced with the new rules implemented by Kat and Seto in their joint venture.
Both her and Maddox receive invitations to compete in the tournament, both of them with high ranking stars. Kat's all for it, ready to test out her new cards Max had done up for her and her Deck since it's been restructured. Maddox ultimately decides to sit this one out and he's glad he does, because he finds out he wants to focus more on trying to figure out what the deal with the Rare Hunters are and investigate more into the Millennium Items.
Iris does not get an option. Seto enters her in knowing she's got a Deck that actually holds potential and she needs to take her mind off of what happened with the Big Five.
Also it's better to have two of the siblings in this. So they have an even higher chance of getting all the God cards. It's science.
River gets to be co-commissioner with Mokuba and their baby sister Flora gets to be the unofficial tournament mascot and her big brother and sisters cheerleader.
Maddox and Nana both swing by the museum right before the tournament starts up to do some investigating, and Nana meets Ishizu and she's instantly smitten. Maddox is gonna Regret laughing and teasing her Later.
The tournament gets under way and Kat heads off with Maddox to go do matches and Iris heads out on her own, though they do all meet up with the gang here and there.
Miho actually goes with Tristan to help Serenity post surgery and they become quick friends. Tristan is very confused tho when Miho also just is not phased when Duke starts hitting on Serenity and she's like "Tristan were both poly; as long as were both alright with it, Dukey-kins can flirt with whoever, just like I can. Besides he's so cute when he tries to put on the charm!" and then he's just later on like "can you please control your boyfriend and tell him to back off" "Oooorrrr Renny could figure out for herself if she wants either of your guys attention. Kinda seems like you got friendzoned. And I don't think you're her type, honey."
I don't have many ideas on the Duel match ups, but Iris and Mai actually have a draw when they meet up and promise to see each other in the finals for a proper rematch.
Hanasaki pulls his Zombyre cosplay out of retirement so that he can fight against the Rare Hunters to help Yugi, like in the video games. Because it's awesome.
Nana will just fucking tackle them. She's Strong and somebody's gotta help Maddox handle these clowns.
She's also with Joey when he goes and Duels Mako, and runs into her childhood best friend Nami (@icychill), and they have a really time together and promise they're gonna get Harue (@kohakuhime) next time, once Battle City is over and go out for a girls trip.
This is also why Marik isn't able to nab her like he does Téa and Joey, she's with her other girlfriend and soulmate bestie.
Kat runs into them when Marik carries over a stabbed Ryou and she's instantly concerned over her new best friend so she goes with him and Grandpa to the hospital.
She is Not Happy when she finds out it was her boyfriend that did the stabbing. He gets an earful and he gets the Angry Southern Accent.
"Alright, I have all the locator cards I need-- why are you looking at me like that?" "Technically, it doesn't matter because you didnt enter the tournament properly to begin with." "Rouhi, it doesn't matter. I've got the Duel Disk, I've got the locator cards. If Kaiba throws a bitch fit, I have you and you're the one person that can make him shut up and deal with it."
Iris is like. This close to strangling her brother the entire time from the semifinals all the way to the finals and it all starts with him being like "yeah we're Dueling on a blimp" and he knows she has a fear of heights.
He made her enter to torment her she's pretty sure.
Kat and Iris also make it to the semifinals and they have to Duel each other. Kat comes out the winner, but Iris has a good shot in with it. She also gives Iris her card back on the downlow like "Nah, Gramps helped help you build this Deck, I don't wanna make you lose any of your cards."
Maddox sees Rishid for the first time by the way and immediately he's just the "Oh no he's hot!" Bit from SpongeBob. But he figures out Rishid isn't Marik, but nobody believes that until Joey tells them this isn't Marik and he's like "really? REALLY?" "Maddox you've been staring at him, you're biased cause you think he's hot." "SHUT UP."
But his big give away is Rishid is polite and keeps calling Joey Mr. Wheeler instead of Little Joey.
Also when Shadi shows up and Maddox sees him he's immediately on sight like "No, every time you show up, our lives get worse, GO AWAY, NO, OUT--"
There is a thing that they are gonna have to make two of the semifinalists compete for that 4th finalist slot. The unlucky selected contestants are Yami Marik and Kat.
So.
Yknow how he made Mai forget everyone important to her?
Yeah
Uh.
He makes Kat have to remember and relive the worst and most traumatic memories she has.
Including the one that happened a week before her mother took her own life, that basically shattered any chance at those two having any sort of relationship and got Evie kicked out of the house by Wes.
Because she hit Kat and told her that "the wrong daughter died".
Everyone is freaking out bc she's clearly having a traumatic episode and even Kaiba tries to tell Roland to end the match but Marik delivers the final blow before anything happens and Kat is banished to the Shadow Realm.
Lola refuses to leave Kats side after that and almost doesn't let any of the doctors near her and has to be calmed down enough to let them check her over.
Kaiba actually tells the others the only way to take down Marik is to beat him at his own game and strip him of his power, rather than just stopping the tournament altogether. He also tells him his want to beat Marik is "entirely selfish". The others think it has to do with just the God cards, but his siblings know better than that.
Bakura also wants to doubly murder Yami Marik because of this when he wakes up.
Iris has been having a Time and a Half with her brother and then finding out they're having the finals on Alcatraz only makes her want to throw herself out into the ocean and swim back home.
Then Noa shows up. And surprise the Big Five are still around.
Flora is left on board with Roland, though Roland is more desperate to try and get everyone out of there. Especially because he knows Noa is supposed to be dead and it stirred up some old grief.
This specific Arc causes a lot of emotions stirring with the siblings and they have some struggles with each other and in their shared pasts with Gozaburo and Nesbitt and what they each individually had to experience in their trauma.
Iris has to face things she has kept hidden from her brothers on her own, still managing to keep the secret from them, but maybe not some of the others. I.e., how the marriage contract got changed when she was sixteen, just two months before Seto took over KaibaCorp.
Iris and River are just floored to find out Noa even existed and River later asks Roland in private if he knew Noa and he says yes; he never brought him up because it was one of the worst things most of the staff experienced, seeing him pass, and he always worried it would just cause further pain for Seto and Mokuba if he even brought him up, especially when Gozaburo was alive.
Maddox is just ready to get out of all of this and go home. He's tired of Kaiba Family Drama.
The rest of the tournament goes as expected, and Iris and River leave with the rest of the gang and when Seto and Mokuba appear to be dead Iris just crosses her arms, frowns and goes "Give it a minute."
She's just glad to see that fucking island reduced to rubble.
Maddox exchanges contact info with the Ishtars, specifically Rishid, and promises they're all gonna stay in contact as friends this time around.
Camelot / King Arthur (Original Filler Arc)
A few weeks after Battle City, Iris's granddad Cillian comes into town for a museum exhibit involving Celtic and Welsh lore and there's an entire area for King Arthur era items. She brings Yugi and the gang with her so Grandpa can reunite with one of his old friends. He tells them he's about to go on a trip to Wales to investigate some ruins they found and invites them to come along with him.
Right before they leave, Maddox basically makes Iris take a pregnancy test because she's exhibiting a lot of symptoms and this arc also has her facing if she wants to go through with this or not and she doesn't wanna tell Alister over the phone bc she's going on a trip and he's "on vacation" (on a mission for Dartz).
Said ruins were found to be the remains of a castle and with a battlefield. There's tomes in there and a very conveniently placed item that would essentially free Mordred from his slumber.
Merlin also awakens and basically recruits the others into an adventure to be their own knights of the round table and compete to try and take down Mordred and stop an enchantment that washes over the area to hurl it back into Arthurian times.
So we know with some of the games it shows the gang having certain other past lives and its kinda hinted that Hermos, Critias and Timaeus were probably the big 3s past lives. Something similar happens here with Yami/Yugi with Arthur, Mordred with Bakura, Kat with Guinevere, Kaiba with Lancelot, Iris with Morgan le Fay, Joey with either Percival or Galahad, Tristan with Tristan (bc it's Funny gdi), etc.
It's also hinted Maddox is a descendent of Merlin and this becomes relevant towards the end of this arc when he basically has to perform a spell with Merlin and he gets to fulfill his childhood dream of being a Magician and he's just kinda blown away by it.
Kat does the jousting tournament that's set up to be her own knight against the black knight and just owns it like a badass.
Yami and Yugi have to pull the sword from the stone and harness the power of Excalibur and use it in the games.
The last trial is probably gonna be used to find the Holy Grail bc that was another big thing in Arthurian myth and it would be giving Joey time to shine because HE DESERVES IT DAMNIT.
Ultimately it's a break from having to play Duel Monsters but also there are Duel Monsters spirits there to tie everything back together.
Towards the tail end of the arc, Alister gets a suggestion from Dartz as to what happened with Noas virtual world and why it was destroyed and finds out the VR incident and what happened to the Big Five, realizing Iris was there for their deaths and told the doctors to pull the plug to begin with since they would have no quality of life. Not knowing the full story of what happened, he gets obviously upset and pissed off and even more motivated back onto his mission and he just ignores any call she sends his way.
This hurts Iris all the more, because she has no idea what's going on and why he's blocked her out, and she specifically tries to reach out to him after the events of this arc, originally, to tell him about the pregnancy. But, about a week before Waking the Dragons kicks off, she has a miscarriage and she's just both trying to get a hold of him so she can ask to see him in person to tell him and maybe not feel so alone and get comfort from her boyfriend.
Mai also was talking to the gang at the beginning of this arc / in bw this and Battle City, but didn't know how to bring up any of the shit she was going through. She actually does try to reach out at one point bc she can't handle the nightmares anymore and they literally have no service bc of their situation so they have no clue and it's pretty quickly after that that Valon finds her.
Waking the Dragons
Welcome to the Angst Zone motherfuckers.
This is my favorite one. Because the ocs get to go through so much fucking Pain bc this is my favorite Arc besides Death-T and since Death-T doesn't happen in this? I get to put alllllllll my energy into this.
Maddox and Kat are with Nana, Yugi and the others when the God cards get stolen and Kats frazzled trying to figure out why the monsters appeared and dealing with frantic emails because the public thinks if it's not KaibaCorp, then it's I2.
Maddox gets footage from where the Duel was and gets a close up of the three bikers and his and Kats heart sink when they see the faces of their cousins, now so much older than the last they saw them, but there's no mistaking it; Alister and Raphael both look so much like their fathers, it's hard not to tell it immediately for them.
Until they get to the bottom of this, they agree to keep it on the downlow from Chelsea and Vance and go to investigate.
Kat and Bakura go to San Fransisco separately from the others; Maddox and the gang are to go to I2 and Kat and Bakura are going to Max's penthouse to divide and conquer.
Meanwhile, Seto has to deal with Alister and it takes him a minute to even realize who it is but Mokuba knows right off the bat.
They get a hold of Iris and she's shaken to the core because why would Alister go out and try to hurt them? It's her first time hearing about his past and now she realizes she has to step in and do something.
Her confrontation with Alister basically is their big break up and him telling her she's lied to him, that he's worked hard to take down everything connected to KaibaCorp and he stupidly thought she was different. He tells her that she's just like Nesbitt and it digs a knife deep into her chest.
He takes her soul when he wins the Duel, but he hesitates to complete the finishing blow, even if only for just a moment and still drops her body off at her house for her mom to take care of her.
Flora doesn't understand why her sister won't wake up and River decides to go off with Mokuba and Seto and help them when they stop back, hearing Iris is in the hospital. He feels betrayed and angry and he wants to do whatever it takes to get Iris back, and Seto is in that exact same boat.
When Kat and Bakura reach Max's place, they're met with a shock of their own;
There's a fourth swordsmen (not including Mai and uhh another character but that's for my friends to share 😉); Mason Mercer himself.
Turns out, he survived the car accident, but suffered from amnesia. Dartz saved him and told him that his wife had his car sabotaged so he would die and she could be rid of him. He's gotten select memories back over the years, and now his goal is to get his surviving daughter back; he believes Cecelia died the same day he did or shortly after, and he has been led to believe the Griffins and Maddox took her and used her for fame, just like Evies mother did to her and he wants to save her.
Bakura and Kat tag team to Duel Mason, while Kat tries to talk some sense into her father. Bakura awakens his own dragon, Socrates and, he tries to get an edge in with this card.
This, however, fails and Mason goes to finish him off but Kat uses a card that allows all the damage to go to her instead and before Mason can break the seal, Bakura lashes out and Kat loses her soul. Mason takes his daughters body and flees, going to see if he can plead with Dartz to get her soul back.
Bakura is especially lashing out because Kats last words to him before the Orichalcos took her was "If one of us has to survive, I'd rather it be you." Which were Kemas very last words to him before she died and he can't go through this again.
Dartz does tell him that the Leviathan needs souls, but, he may be able to make a wager and trade, should Mason acquire Bakuras soul.
Maddox is just. Fucking Stressed as Hell. His best friend and sister are now without souls, his cousins are in a cult, Alister doesn't seem to remember shit from what he understands, Raphael hates him and thinks they abandoned him, and now also his Uncle Mason is alive.
He's thankful his parents are watching the girls because Ahaaaaaa. Ahaaaaa.
He also has to explain to them what happened and Chelsea, Vance and now also Wes, who gets looped in, are out for blood with Dartz.
Nana is also going through it. One of her friends has joined up with the Doma bikers and then the next thing she knows YUGI'S GONE AND ITS YAMI'S FAULT.
She has a much harder time forgiving this one. Like she eventually gets to that point but hoooooo boy.
She and Miho are with Joey and Tristan when the train issues happen, as is Maddox. Bakura, Yami, Téa and Hanasaki are all together.
Tomoya and Téa are just trying to stop Yami from killing Weevil and Bakura is just like "who the hell cares, let the little twerp die, we've got more important matters, wrap this up".
Seto tells Alister that he's angry that Iris got the revenge against Nesbitt when he didn't and she's not the one to be mad at; Alisters mad at himself, sure, but if he wants to be angry at someone for the Big Five stuff, he can be mad at Seto for ending those fuckers twice over himself.
And Gozaburo for that matter.
Rivers still angry but Mokuba is the one that's probably the first and only one to forgive Alister at that point or at least meet him with visible sympathy.
They get to Florida and then the other Duels commence.
Bakura Duels Mason and wins and gets Kats body back, but sees she doesn't come back, unlike how the Shadow Games tended to to operate and its the first time Yami actually sees the human, vulnerable, breaking side to Bakura, because he just wants her back.
This gets replaced with the Murderous Rage Bakura that comes with the Zorc side and he decides he's gotta go all the way to the top. So he runs off and ends up confronting Raphael and loses.
Maddox is with the others when Yami Duels Raphael and desperately tries to reach out to his cousin and tell him what actually happened and that they never stopped trying to bring him home.
Maddox also just about Murders Dartz where he stands when he finds out that all of the bad things in his Uncle and cousins lives were his fault. That his aunts and uncles and three of his cousins are dead because of Dartz. That Mason was supposed to actually die in that accident and Dartz was gunning to make Kat the fourth swordsman, but, when Mason pulled himself out, decided hey waste not want not.
Bakura gets to help Kaiba, Yugi and Joey in their struggle with Dartz at the end and then the gang all reunite together.
Kat and Maddox are both just. Drained emotionally and trying to pick up the pieces and Bakura doesn't leave Kats side. As much as he hates Mason, he wants to be there for her and when she says she wants to find them and bring them home, he tells her that when the time is right, he'll help her do just that.
Nana becomes determined to find her best friend friend again and do better this time around.
Iris wakes up in the hospital and when her brothers and sister come to visit her and Mokuba tells her he thinks Alisters finding peace now, that Seto broke through, she weeps.
For the first time in her life, she cries in front of her siblings and let's herself break.
KC Grand Prix
In the weeks in between Waking the Dragons and the KC Grand Prix, Iris basically takes all of her depression and focuses it into the only thing that family knows how to do to chase any emotions away; Dueling. She actually wins some different tournaments and it's enough for Seto to invite her to participate in the Grand Prix. Because he also knows she needs something to help her rn because she's drowning and this is the only way he actually knows how to help his sister right now because haha she's never cried and he's at a loss.
Mokuba invites Yugi, Joey, Rebecca and Kat to all participate in the tournament, with Yugi being the big finale match up.
The lineup will look Different. Namely because I hate how many no name unimportant characters there were and we know nothing about them.
So, the participants go as follow; Joey Wheeler, Rebecca Hawkins, Kat Pegasus, Iris McGinnis, Apdnarg Outum (bc Kaiba figured it out like that and thought why not this'll be funny), Mako Tsunami, Leon "Wilson", Vivian Wong, Shepherd (who becomes chancellor of the later established Duel Academy), Kagemaru, Koyo Hibiki, Ziegfried "Lloyd", Midori Hibiki, Ryuichi Fuha, Aileen Rao and Ridley Sheldon.
I'm still figuring out how the match ups will go. I just know for a fact Iris mops the floor with Shepherd and Kat gets to Duel Mako for that first round. But they will both ultimately lose, though Kat gets a bit farther in this one than she did Battle City so win for her.
No Weevil and Rex don't show up in this they try to sneak in and get kicked to the curb. I don't have time for their bullshit this arc. We should have let Yami kill Weevil back on the boat to Duelist Kingdom.
Maddox helps Kaiba figure out what's going on as to who tf is hacking into their secure systems and he just wants to fight Ziegfried.
Everyone wants to fight him actually.
Iris comes this close to beating this man on national television.
(On the other side of the world, Alister is still watching it while trying to remind himself Iris isn't his girl anymore, he fucked that up, but also very much yelling "Let her at him! Forget this guy!")
All in all, it's build up goes to the same place as a nice final tournament for the gang and it ends just about the same.
Capsule Monsters
The same batshit crazy adventure but now featuring Kat, Miho, Hanasaki and Ryou!
All Roads Lead to Tiamat (Original Filler Arc)
This is the one I'm still fleshing out the most ahaaa.
Basically the gang are gonna be whirlwinded into an adventure based around the Mesopotamian pantheon, and specifically Tiamat.
Why? Because referencing Tiamat is a staple with me and my friend group. We love our favorite mother of Monsters.
It would be tied into fleshing out some more lore in the worldbuilding of YuGiOh and the Duel Monsters as while they were the Ka for for Atems time, we also know they connect back to Atlantis and in my head it would make sense that they span back to Mesopotamia and with Tiamat being a mother of Monsters I thought it'd be interesting if there was a connection back to that as well and maybe even to Zorc. Because it makes sense in my brain.
Listen all I'm saying is import gods are a thing and also they keep saying Zorc is the/an underworld God but he's not Osiris (who is chilling with Atem over there) or Anubis so. Putting him in the category of we don't know where the fuck he came from or why he looks like that.
Also Gilgamesh would probably show up bc he's an og hero.
Ride of the Sacred Beasts
This is an optional Arc that will either follow the Tiamat Arc or replace it. Haven't fully decided yet on that.
Would explain the whole thing with the Sacred Beast cards and how/why they were locked underneath what becomes Duel Academy Island and they have to fight a version of what would later become the Shadow Riders.
Should we do this arc, Mai would actually reunite with the gang a bit and start to make amends and help them take on the rough draft of Shadow Riders.
I may explore and expand upon them being counterparts to the Egyptian gods and specifically what Armityle would be in contrast to Horakhty.
Also can we talk about the fact that it would have made for a better Zorc design imo.
Also if I do go with this arc we'll see more of Kagemaru and Shepherd in this arc as well.
Either in this arc or the Tiamat Arc (depending on if I still go with it), Maddox and Rishid will get together as well because fuck yeah.
I'm leaning more towards this arc vs the Tiamat Arc but we shall see.
Also if I do go with this arc since they did fight Alexander the Great I do wanna add in Julius Caesar or a guy who thinks he's Caesar reincarnated for them to fight and Bakura wanting to go for blood and Kat's holding him back and just;
"But, darling, it's like that one movie you love says; we should totally, like, stab Caesar!" "Don't you dare bring Mean Girls into this--"
Millennium World
The night before they're set to go to Egypt, Yugi and Nana hear Grandpa's story on how he found the Puzzle.
Also on that night, Bakura forces control back and bargains with the Zorc half of his fused soul to get one last night with Kat and try and push her from going to Egypt as he doesn't want her hurt in this. He also presents her an engagement ring and has her take the Millennium Ring for a night so she can meet him in his soul room and truly see him for the first time. He also fulfills his bargain with Zorc in this by sealing a piece of his soul away into her as a "backup" (this does not goes as planned, we will discuss why later).
She wakes up the next morning, alone, with both Ryou and the Ring gone and she gets a bad feeling about everything; it pushes her to still go on the trip.
Her and Maddox go with Nana and the rest of the gang, but they're worried about why Ryou hasn't joined them. They get a text saying he's not feeling well but Kat doesn't know what to make of it.
Yami gets thrown into his memories, where he meets a cast of old and new faces, and gets properly introduced to Kat and Maddoxs past lives of Kema and Masoud.
During Bakuras confrontation with Mahad, we also ultimately find out what led to Kemas fate and final momenets; she got him shoved out of the tomb fast enough to keep him alive to escape and fight another day, and sacrificed herself to save him. Bakura reels when he has to relive it, especially because in the present day he almost lost Kat the exact same way, and it's enough for the Zorc half of him to regain more control
Masoud meanwhile grieves the death of Mahad and works hard to try and help Mana through it, taking on a mentor role for her.
Iris arrives in Egypt with Seto when he finally decides to investigate and ends up in the Memory World as well. She's shocked to see Kisara and starts putting two and two together about who she is in relation to Seto and his past life when she sees a similar shock on his face.
When Bakura reveals himself to be possessing Tristan, by that point Zorc has fully taken over their fused spirit and is merciless in trying to kill them; even Kat, which devastates her and Maddox has to try and be her rock for the rest of the adventure.
Also worth noting; Yami gets actually visibly angry when he finds out about the people of Kul Elna and tries to take accountability for his family's actions and apologize to Bakura. Because that would have helped fully resolve his arc and also Bakura deserved that much and it shocks him. He doesn't expect it to be different this time and before he can even react, he is pulled away immediately and his side of the personality loses any ounce of control that was left and Zorc becomes all that's left at the moment.
Iris, the one who tried to help reason out magic with Seto, tells him straight up she doesn't want to believe in it anymore after seeing Zorc. Because she does not want that to be real.
When they get on the boat, Atem has found out what happened to the others with Bakura and he tells Kat what he saw and that he believes it was not her Bakura that tried to kill them, that he was gone and out of control by the time it happened and he's sorry for both of them that their story ended in tragedy. Kat kind of locks herself in her room on the boat, hiding from the others so she can break down and mourn. The only person that manages to get his way in to try and help her is Seto, and that's because he threatened to stay out there the entire night until she did let him and she knew he'd follow through on it.
Nana meets with Atem that night and tells him that while they had their own difficulties at times (something Atem does apologize for as well), she tells him that he's become family and she sees him as her brother just as much as Yugi is and she is going to miss him terribly. She also gives him an art piece she made that shows all of their friend group together with him and she wanted him to have it as a memento, a reminder of their beautiful bond that came with him. She'd been working on it for a while and she had finished it that night, with some tweaks to make Atem look like Atem. And he's grateful to have it and makes sure it goes in his pocket when he's given his own body to Duel Yugi.
When they get home, Nana gets into a video chat with one of her best friends and promises that all three of them are going to ger back together soon, and she's just thankful for the bonds she has and can keep up.
Maddox and Rishid both take the twins to go out for a day, to help them as they process the loss of Atem and take some bonding time together and the twins just absolutely latch onto Rishid and Maddox knows that he's made the right choice in love this time.
Iris brings River home and Meredith tells her that she had something left on the door for her. It was flowers with a card that simply read I'm sorry and the first edition of a book she'd been trying to find for herself but was a rare find. And she knows exactly who sent it and finds herself in her own mental debate of where to go from there.
Kat comes home to find Max and he goes to comfort her with Vance, Chelsea, Wes and her Memaw. She's thankful for them, and curls up and cries with them but they also know how much she needs her Dad home and Vance promises her they're gonna bring his stupid ass home soon.
There is some post series and next gen ideas I have locked and loaded too but this post is long enough and if anyone wants to hear about those I will gladly share but uh yeah that's the whole outline I hope yall like it.
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I hope it won't bother you, but I wanna ask a few questions about Valkyrie. I am very curious about what was Valkyrie like before. Who she dated before Flora. How she became friends with Crystal, Helia and Kota. And also, I am curious about who she had a crush on and has a crush on her. Does some specialist or witch(and maybe even a fairy) like her.
This will never bother me! I love getting to talk about my characters. (Or getting to talk about things like this in general. XD )
This is gonna get long, so I'm going to put this under a read more. :)
Young Valkyrie:
She's one of the smaller kids in her class, and smaller than most of the people in her family. (In her defense, her mother was under a lot of stress while pregnant, and Rancorians and Obsidinites don't tend to mix well due to internal body temperature differences, but still...)
Valkyrie comes from a long line of researchers and curious people, so she definitely inherits their inquisitive natures and their curiosity and need for knowledge.
Big animal lover! (Except for snakes/serpent like creatures, which will be explained later.) Her favorite will always cats though, as her familiar and her grandmother's familiar are cats.
Close to her cousin Morgan. Almost like sisters, considering they essentially lived together most of the time due to their parents working in Magix while they lived and went to school on Rancor. (Nana Theodora took care of them. Griffin and Salvador's mother.)
Valkyrie is very much like her mother in that she doesn't take slights or insults lightly. However, she's like her father in that her retaliation tends to be immediate. (Though pretty well thought out, like Griffin's revenge stories tend to be.)
She hates horror flicks. Always has, always will. (Though she can stick it out when need be.)
She writes. Though it's mostly to keep her thoughts and her memories separate from that of her Dragon. They tend to blend their souls together often, especially as she grows up, so this is her way of keeping them separate.
Valkyrie has done more elaborate revenge/"lesson teaching" plots similar to her mother's plans over the years. (She's gotten a teacher fired over their inherent biases that they allowed to blend into the classroom back in middle school, has shown up a sexist guy and his dad at her sword-fighting league tournaments, and has caught a creep in the act of creeping and essentially shamed them pretty publicly.)
While she's never actively wanted to get into trouble or get involved in certain issues, she's never been able to back away when something is going down. She's always been quick to shutdown bullying/harassment. (Which can be good or bad depending on how you look at it. Griffin, while proud of her daughter, is not thrilled that she puts herself into potential danger.)
Like her father before, Valkyrie really got into sword fighting. She was one of the few girls in the Junior Sword Fighting League (typically kids between ages 5-13). She loves sword fighting. Loves it. Even to this day she still practices her swordsmanship.
Valkyrie figured her sexuality out fairly quickly, at around 11. Most of the girls in her class were getting crushes on the boys and she was looking at them instead. (Or their older sisters...)
She used to have long hair, but decided to cut it when she was about 10. Shorter hair is better for sparring and her magic had her running hot.
When she was about 12, she obtained a major scar on her shoulder from sparring unsupervised with her friend Kota. An illusion went wrong on Kota's part and Valkyrie freaked out, which caused Crystal's shielding (she was supposed to keep their magic from spreading outside of their 'sparring ring') to cut them both on their shoulders. Yes, they do call themselves "scar buddies" based on that.
She has a fondness for history, particularly Dark Magic History.
She's also big into Astrology, much like her mother. (They love stargazing together.)
While she can play chess, it's more her mother's thing. She's not the biggest fan, but she does enjoy playing with her mother.
Ever since she was little, she and Griffin had kitchen wars. They've yet to get through baking any treats without flour and sprinkles and dough scattered everywhere.
They also love snowball fights when the Rancorian Winters hit. (As do the rest of the family.)
Competitive. That's all you need to know when it comes to games. (Video, board, live action. Doesn't matter. If it's a game, she wants to win.)
She was about 9 when she found Cheshire. Those two have been bonded ever since. Even Griffin admits he's a big help to her.
This is also the time her eyes started getting bad. (The Sylvane curse as Uncle Salvador put it.)
Valkyrie doesn't like being told she can't do something. That it's impossible for her to do it. (She can and she will. Watch her.)
When her magic first came in, she did burn one of the other kids in her class. It was mostly an accident, but it still wasn't pretty. And she almost got expelled.
(She's also almost gotten expelled over little pranks she's pulled over the years. One of which almost burned down the middle school.)
Crystal:
Valkyrie met Crystal their first day of elementary school. Crystal and her family were still new to the realm after moving from Isis and she was getting harassed by some of the older kids who thought they were being 'cool' for picking on the new girl.
So, Valkyrie promptly threw stones and the rest is history. (They became quick friends after Crystal realized Valkyrie wasn't throwing the rocks at her, but at the older kids.)
Crystal is more the voice of reason behind some of Valkyrie's schemes, having realized early on that the smaller witch was prone to getting into trouble.
Not that she doesn't cook up a few plans of her own... She has triplet younger brothers, she's got some great prank ideas.
But really, they just sort bonded and grew close after their initial meeting. And even closer when Valkyrie's magic really came in and they talked about her being the keeper of the Dark Dragon Fire. (Which was mindblowing for Crystal. Her best friend had primordial magic. That's wicked cool.)
(Until it isn't and she quickly realized that it can be a hassle. But it is what it is.)
Helia:
Valkyrie's first friend outside of the family. They were essentially pushed together due to Griffin and Saladin's friendship. (Saladin often helped his sister, Helia's mother, with her son, so he'd take Helia places with him.)
It was always him, Morgan, and Valkyrie. At least, before Crystal and Kota joined in.
He quickly became the shy older brother to Valkyrie, trying not to let her talk him and Morgan into things, while also going along with it because someone had to be responsible.
Helia's actually the first person Valkyrie came out to, though it was partially to help get him to stop focusing on his parents' divorce. (He needed a distraction, so she distracted him.)
Which is funny, because it brought them closer together, prompting the others in their group to wonder if they were 'together'. (Which hurt Morgan who always had a crush on Helia.)
(That was fun to explain. But they managed.)
Helia is the reason Valkyrie got into the Junior Sword Fighting League. His uncle had enrolled him and when he talked about it with Valkyrie, she got interested herself. (She was far better suited for it, he didn't like sword fighting, but he enjoyed being part of the team and getting to cheer her on.)
Helia's also part of the reason Valkyrie has the fear of serpents/snakes that she has.
The adults (his uncle Saladin, Morgan's dads, Griffin, Kota's parents, Crystal's parents, and Faragonda) decided to take the kids camping in the Wildlands when they were about 12ish.
While the adults were busy talking/setting up camp, Valkyrie had the idea to go and explore. Kota and Morgan agreed. Crystal and Helia hesitated, but decided to go. After all, there were plenty of hiking trails and the adults had signed off on them sticking to the trails and siteseeing.
Things took a turn when Helia was talked into trying out his magic. (His mom is a witch and his uncle is a powerful wizard, surely he had some magic inside of him.)
Which, he does have magic, just a strong connection to it. Best he can do is a few location spells and some note-sending. (Also spells regarding his art. Like keeping his sketchbooks in proper care, his brushes never bending, that sort of thing.)
His magic ended up sending the kids into a Basilisks Den.
Needless to say, things didn't go well. The basilisks tried to eat the kids, the kids were struggling to protect themselves, and things got messy after one wrapped itself around Valkyrie and had her paralyzed with fear. (NOTE: in my Winx world, basilisks are snake like creatures that, if you lock eyes with them, they will look into your soul and pull out your worst nightmare, paralyzing you so they can eat you.)
Morgan managed to get her Winx form in order to protect her cousin, and she and Helia combined magic to summon help from the adults.
(Who did save them pretty quickly after. And then gave a good lecture on why you shouldn't stray from the trails...)
Kota:
Kota is a bully turned friend.
When the girls were in elementary school, about their third or fourth year, (4th grade if your American), Kota and his family arrived into Rancor.
He tried to be the bully to avoid being picked on, and ended up trying to turn his 'bullying' onto Crystal.
It didn't end well and he and Valkyrie ended up at each other's throats.
After a few of these 'altercation and detention' periods, they got to talking and found they actually had things in common. Which led to Kota being brought into the friend group.
(He's still quite the instigator though, and tends to hype up the bad ideas Valkyrie has.)
(They also tend to hype each other up into doing stupid/I'll show you styled challenges and dares. Crystal, Morgan, and Helia stay exasperated at them.)
Kota is also one of Valkyrie's best sparring partners for sword fighting. They were even on the same Junior Sword Fighting League team. He joined a little after they finally became friends at her insistence. (He's thankful now, imagine how behind he'd been at RF without that training.)
Relationships:
Outside of Flora, Valkyrie's had little dating history. Not that she didn't want to date or have relationships, it's just she was always involved in something. (Usually school-related. I may talk about her being a bit of a trouble-maker, but she was also one of the top students. She couldn't handle not being at the top.)
There was her first crush on Crystal. Though that quickly fizzled out. (Friendship first. Always.)
Then there was the girl she ended up outing herself over: Mary. Didn't end well because Mary wasn't exactly a nice girl and practically broadcast the whole situation to the school... But she did think Mary was beautiful.
During her time doing tournaments with the Sword Fighting League; she had flirted with and asked out a few of the sisters of the other competitors. Just a few dates from them, never anything too serious. But it was cute. (Griffin had to refrain from talking about how much like him she was being.)
Anya was her first big relationship, though it ended before she left for CT due to finding out Anya had been cheating. Not a fun time.
She briefly dated another CT witch, Hecate. (But it wasn't a good relationship. Even she'd admit this: she was sort of using Hecate to keep from thinking of Flora, who she thought was a bit too-good for her and her family's history.)
Chimera, Stella's almost step-sister, had a sort of crush on Valkyrie, though it could have been considered an obsession. It all started with Valkyrie trying to protect Chimera and Cassandra from Valtor (or she thought she was protecting them from him) and Chimera just adored the attention. (Valkyrie was just trying to be nice.)
There are probably a few fairies or witches who had their crushes, though Valkyrie didn't notice much due to having her attention either on Flora or trying to protect the Magical Dimension.
The only specialist with a crush on Valkyrie that I can really think of is Harlan. And that could also be considered obsession because she has told him repeatedly (and nicely) that she is a lesbian and only wants to be friends.
(He sort of fixated on her after an incident when they were kids. His dad owns one of the stores in Magix and she was with her mom doing some school supply shopping. He was having issues with a creature that had broken out of one of the books and Valkyrie was quick to try and keep him safe. Yeah...)
There were also a few guys during their Earth stint, but again, she wasn't noticing.
(Though she does notice when others have their eyes on Flora, and she makes a big point to let them know who the fairy is with. Usually either by a big PDA scene, or by a small, subtle burn starting on their skin.)
That's Valkyrie! Hope this answers your questions.
(Sorry it took so long. I just wanted to get my stuff together to answer this properly.)
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BERNARD "BERNIE" D'ACQUISTO - "THE IMPENETRABLE INDIGO WALL" ATTORNEY (FNF OC)
For the sake of avoiding spoilers, when the mod gets made, avoid from posting his backstory on the wiki page.
Say hello to Bernie! I've had him for a year now, and I'm happy to introduce him to you!!
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W/ text and w/o text. This ref was made in January '22, so it’s not the best artwork I have.
Details about him below. Some things may not be included from my oc book on wattpad due to this being a summarization. PS, several descriptions have been changed, and might be changed on my wattpad to be more accurate.
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Bernard "Bernie" D'acquisto - Male, Cyborg, Attorney at law.
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Normally seen as snarky, frigid, and overbearing by prosecutors who've faced off against him, he's known as "The Impenetrable Indigo Wall", or "The Blue Wall" or even "Bass Dropper" for how heavy he lays his evidence and reasoning against his opponents.
However, outside of court, he is almost notorious for how socially inept he is, and how oddly kind he is, especially when he doesn't realize it. He does not have any trouble communicating, but it's well-known that he can get flustered easily if messed with right.
... He would like to be your friend too. Please be nice to him.
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Currently 23 years old, 250 centimeters (8''2, 98.4 inches, rounded). Speaks English, but uses a translator for other languages. His in-game voice (if he ever is even featured in a mod lol) would be similar to Ruvyzvat's, except more elegant and somewhat robotic, to fit the titles he's been given.
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Likes: SUSHI!!! (Temaki, Nigiri preferred), Cold Foods, (When he's warm), Boyfriend, Fuchsia, Kyuunolo, Science, Light Novels (that make you cry), Sleeping, Working Out, Orchestra, Gladwyn
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Dislikes: GLADWYN, Sports, His tubes being taken out, Being cold, 'Childish' Things (he considers Christmas to be childish, and that's it. And he still celebrates it. With no shame.), Drugs
BDay? December 31st/January 1st. Born exactly in between 12:00 and 1:00 AM. He states that his birthday is January 1st however.
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Considers Boyfriend [Nickname: Effy] to be more than just as a childhood best friend, and likes him in a way that's considered to be in between platonic and romance. Fears Gladwyn, but still considers him a childhood friend. Likes Dr. Ritto von D'acquisto as a semi-father figure. Loves Ritsu von D'acquisto like a father. Loves Fuchsia Mizzta. Likes Kyuunolo [Nickname: Kyuu] as his best friend since law school.
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━━ Summarized Biography (boring) ━━
Born to an unknown family, he was doomed to die as a failed childbirth within the few minutes he could live, due to his body being too weak to support him, and his head being too small. He was then saved by the top doctor at the time, Ritto von D'acquisto who readjusted his body and replaced his head and neck, all the while keeping him alive with his... black magic. Bernard's biological parents refused to accept him due to him being 'the robot monstrosity they never wanted'.
And so, Ritto took him in and gave him the name: ''Bernard'' along with giving him his last name, ''D'acquisto''. Bernard stayed with Ritto for the first two years of his life, before then living with Ritsu, who would be considered his uncle.
Bernard had lots of trouble at first in school due to being socially crippled and inept, but with the help of Boyfriend, he was able to open up bit by bit and make many friends, such as Gladwyn Griffin, and other fellow students.
After a... falling out (lets just call it that) between the three in high school, the three refused to communicate to each other, (or rather, Bernard didn't want to communicate with Gladwyn, and vice versa. You mind as well say Gladwyn's hatred is as powerful as a tyrannosaurus rex.) unless they were communicating with Boyfriend.
Meanwhile, Bernard was inspired by his uncle to pursue the profession of a lawyer, and after graduating high school, went to a law school to pass the bar exam. At that school, he met Kyuunolo Nimbus (not related to the nice weather lady), a man as stubborn as his cloud-locks were thick. They were like stubborn rivals to each other, each not giving in to each other's intellect, no matter how intense the assignment was. However, week by week, month by month, they slowly started to grow in proximity of one another, and were forced to besties. However, after they graduated, Kyuunolo announced to Bernard that he was going to be returning to Germany to become a detective. Their goodbye... makes me cry! Oh, and they cried too.
Years later, Bernard accepts a case from the 'next fashion sensation' Fuchsia Mizzta regarding her sister: Aubrey City, which happens to be a homicide case. Little did Bernard know that his journey would bring him to reunite with all whom he considered friend...
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Fun fact section (yyaaayaayyay)
Bernard doesn't swallow through his throat most of the time, he swallows through his tubes. He can swallow through his neck, but if the amount is too big for it, it... spurts out a little blood, and hurts like hell.
Bernard doesn't know how he feels with his parents. He says that he hates them for how 'cruel and country-bumpkin they are', but really is conflicted with himself.
Bernard severely misses hanging out with Gladwyn and Boyfriend like old times.
Says he hates Kyuunolo, but really does cherish and miss him sometimes.
Very self-concsious about his human parts when communicating with fellow robotizens. He worries that he cannot connect with them if he isn't as 'robot' as they are.
Vice versa with humans. ^ he really just wants to be accepted for who he is, okay?
He's really subconsciously protective of Boyfriend, due to them being childhood friends and having doubts about the girl he's dating.
His skin was influenced when Ritto tried to keep him alive, which is why it's mostly pitch-black with gray stripes and patterns.
His eyebrows are 3d, despite being shown on his monitored. However, your hand would phase through them.
If Bernard experiences too many emotions at once, or is overwhelmed by one or several, an 'Emotional Override' occurs, which causes his neck to explode with blood. It hurts terribly, but can regenerate after an hour or so.
His television-head has many compartments-- such as switching to certain TV stations/channels (i.e. news, cartoons, telenovelas), and most importantly, the Soul Soother. Look down here for more infoooo.
His Soul Soother is a feature that allows him to connect to one's 'soul' or more specifically their mind, and can broadcast their thought to the court or anyone in close proximity, along with materializing them into concrete images for Bernard to point out contradictions in. He can only connect to one person, or he will faint from exhaustion. His Soul Soother also enables him to be more sensitive to emotions around him, and is similar to a lie detector. However, his lie detecting compartment only works 88% percent of the time. (Inspo. Athena Cykes's Mood Matrix, Maya Fey/Pearl Fey's Magatama)
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... This is no longer a summary of Bernie. This is just a short biography.
Hope you like this socially inept robot though. I think he's kinda cute in a handsome way. (Kenshin has been renamed to Ritto in order to differentiate him from CORY)
6/19/22
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Anyway it’s S20E14 time, which means the arrival of Queen Abigail Tate :)
Edit 1: Ooh, I’d forgotten this was a Joe Ainsworth one!
Also, remember when stuff that happened in Holby actually had consequences for the hospital? In late Holby, Ric would’ve been right back to normal the minute he arrived at work, despite just having spent months in prison.
Edit 2: Abigail saying she could ask Henrik for advice on being CEO. DON’T, Abigail.
Edit 3: JASON’S HERE, SEND HELP. Also argh Serena going “why don’t we leave Mr. Griffin here to do what he does best??” Jason’s not a child, Serena, even if the writers think he is.
Edit 4: Extremely funny how obsessed these writers were with the word “sapphic” solely to avoid having to decide if Serena was a lesbian or bi.
Edit 5: Fantastic little bit of dialogue. Roxanna, regarding a patient’s risky surgery: “A risk only an addict would take.” The patient: “What does that make John Gaskell?”
Edit 6: Fun fact: you don’t need a risky surgery to have your sense of joy and happiness destroyed, you just need to watch the last 4 years of Holby.
Edit 7: JOHNRIK
Edit 8: I love Johnrik flirting. Also - Henrik wearing pinkish-purple and John wearing blue. Love that.
Edit 9: John talking about “knowing when to stop” like he’s ever been able to do that in his life.
Edit 10: Abi and Fletch was the most forced het romance.
Edit 11: John being baffled by the patient calling Rox “Foxy Roxy”. I tell you he’s gay.
Edit 12: Very early-Henrik esque behaviour from John regarding pushing the patient to have the operation.
Also I’d forgotten what the fuck Abi did to the CEO office. Guy Henry hated it too, actually - the reason they didn’t stick with the green paint was because Guy demanded they change back to a more subtle design once Henrik returned to being CEO.
Edit 13: I checked the interview, it sounds like he actually meant he didn’t like the design of the CEO office around the time he first came back for his second stint (so in 2015). Whatever. The 2018 design still sucks.
Edit 14: Anyway I swear I’m about to start screaming at this patient’s ableist mum lmao.
Edit 15: Serena very hypocritically trying to confront the ableist lady in question lmaooo.
Edit 16: The John and Rox relationship was really fascinating. Do wish so much of the storyline hadn’t been spent on repetitive arguments between the two of them though lol.
Edit 17: “You said ‘thank you Henrik’. What did you mean?” “Let’s focus on the task at hand.” I’d forgotten entirely about this scene! Probably because this one is another episode I haven’t seen since 2018.
Edit 18: John being crazy (affectionate) on main in this episode.
Edit 19: HENRIK
Edit 20: “John, if I hadn’t been there... would you have carried on?” :’))
Edit 21: Abi deserved better than the forced Fletch romance.
Edit 22: Ah, the archetypical Holby “patient makes their injury worse in the middle of an emotional outburst” scene.
Edit 23: The first of several Frankenstein comparisons with Gaskell.
Edit 24: When John says they could try the surgery again, the patient says “So he can still get the headline?”. John bows his head and doesn’t respond.
Edit 25: This whole scene with Ric wondering whether he still fits in at the hospital and considering leaving is really, really sad in light of Hugh Quarshie leaving the show because of how much it changed.
Edit 26: Love John inviting Rox onto the trial because Henrik suggested it.
Edit 27: This patient’s mum is driving me mad.
Edit 28: I had COMPLETELY FORGOTTEN this John and Abi scene existed.
Also lol. Abi saying to John “if you screw up, we all go down”. Actually he screwed up majorly and there was no aftermath to it.
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February 2024 Wrap-Up
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Current AI ‘art’ is created on the backs of hundreds of thousands of artists and photographers who made billions of images and spend time, love and dedication to have their work soullessly stolen and used by selfish people for profit without the slightest concept of ethics. – Alexander Nanitchkov
February’s Artist Shout-Outs
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February’s Streams and Videos
Let’s Discuss Some $#!7 — Behind the Scenes
Banned Books Edition: Let’s Read Some $#!7 by Kurt Vonnegut & Angie Thomas
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Black History Month Quotes of 2024
QUOTE 1: Marian Anderson
QUOTE 2: Ta-nehisi Coates
QUOTE 3: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
QUOTE 4: Martin Luther King Jr.
QUOTE 5: Mikki Kendall
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February’s Neverending Reading List Shares
The Neverending Reading List: Book XXXIV — The Invisible Life of Addie Larue
The Neverending Reading List: Book XXXV — The Rules of Magic
The Neverending Reading List: Book XXXVI — Practical Magic
The Neverending Reading List: Book XXXVII — Save Your Breath
The Neverending Reading List: Book XXXVIII — The First Girl Child
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Poems Written
“School Prepares You”
College
“Look At Me!”
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Bibliophile
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So?
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February’s Video Game Quotes
QUOTE 1: Silent Hill: Downpour
QUOTE 2: Okami
QUOTE 3: Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
QUOTE 4: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
QUOTE 5: To The Moon
QUOTE 6: Final Fantasy X
QUOTE 7: God of War III
QUOTE 8: Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
QUOTE 9: Pokémon Black and White
QUOTE 10: DOTA 2
QUOTE 11: Wing Commander IV: The Price of Freedom
February’s Literacy Quotes
QUOTE 1: Clifford Stoll
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QUOTE 3: Mokokoma Mokhonoana
QUOTE 4: Luisa Capetillo
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QUOTE 11: Peter van der Walt
February’s Stupidity Quotes
QUOTE 7: Kurian Mathew Tharakan
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QUOTE 9: Apuleius
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QUOTE 11: Vincent Okay Nwachukwu
QUOTE 12: Izumi Suzuki
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[ad_1] As awards season marches on, celebrities are parading throughout our screens with their hard-won loot –– little golden gramophones, globes and collectible figurines. The extremely rich — the Larry Ellisons, Jeff Bezos and Ken Griffins of the world — have their very own trophies they compete for. However the prizes don’t slot in a show case.  It’s trophy actual property, a tier of extremely luxurious residential properties that commerce for $50 million or extra. The marketplace for these eight- and nine-figure estates has exploded prior to now decade. New York Metropolis, the Hamptons, Malibu, Los Angeles, Aspen and Miami have all seen a sudden and profound transformation within the worth of probably the most coveted houses. However nowhere within the U.S. compares to Palm Seashore. “It’s this area of interest market that has constantly one of many highest concentrations of what we might name trophy properties,” mentioned Miller Samuel CEO Jonathan Miller.  The 16-mile-long barrier island is a fraction of the scale of its trophy market friends, with fewer than 2,500 single-family houses. But, six houses bought for $50 million or extra final yr, with Florida’s two most costly house gross sales of 2023 on the island. Presently, 13 listings are every asking over $50 million. Two brokers characterize a majority of those listings, Christian Angle of Christian Angle Actual Property, and Lawrence Moens of Lawrence A. Moens Associates. Angle’s trophy listings whole $252.8 million, and Moens’ whole $191.4 million. Neither agent responded to requests to remark for this story.  Because the housing market is broadly underperforming, exercise on this extremely luxurious market could seem stunning to some. “I suppose the energy of the tremendous prime markets has presumably taken individuals without warning,” mentioned Liam Bailey, Knight Frank’s international head of analysis. “Wealth creation hasn’t stopped within the final 12 months. There’s a lot of individuals with new fortunes who’ve been wanting to take a position and get into these markets.” Trophy patrons additionally aren’t tethered to volatility in rates of interest or the inventory market like different homebuyers. They’re no strangers to astronomical bills, both, brokers say. “They might have a chunk of artwork on their wall value $50 [million] to $100 million,” mentioned Corcoran agent Shelly Newman, who has a $150 million itemizing for 1980 South Ocean Boulevard in Palm Seashore.  Winter is Palm Seashore’s busiest season, when its rich residents return to the tropical local weather. Many come ready to buy actual property, and this yr extra trophies are available on the market than anyplace else within the U.S. The island’s most costly itemizing is without doubt one of the priciest within the nation, 2.3 oceanfront vacant acres with an asking value of $200 million. Cosmetics inheritor William Lauder put the land available on the market after shopping for late Rush Limbaugh’s oceanfront teardown for $155 million final yr.  Palm Seashore has all the time been a hub for the wealthy and highly effective, however it’s been remade within the post-pandemic world. Amongst American trophy markets, consultants say the island’s growth is unmatched. .  “I can’t consider anyplace besides Dubai that’s seen the identical degree of transformation because the Palm Seashore market,” Bailey mentioned. The explanations fluctuate. Brokers say luxurious patrons like that the island is protected, that it’s a tax haven, and that it has a tropical local weather with all the trimmings of upper-crust life –– designer retailers, advantageous eating and storied non-public golf equipment. The island’s historic position as an epicenter of American excessive society doesn’t damage both.   Patrons flocking to the island now, although, aren’t all from that world. Douglas Elliman agent Chris Leavitt, who together with Corcoran’s Suzanne Frisbie has the $187.5 million itemizing for Tarpon Island,
mentioned that extra individuals from a broader vary of industries and backgrounds are coming than ever earlier than. “Palm Seashore is attracting a wider internet of worldwide trade heads,” Leavitt mentioned. “Generally, you’re like, wait, they’re coming?” Promoting the island’s luxurious actual property to newcomers has its challenges, with brokers typically having to teach patrons on not simply the property, however Palm Seashore itself.  “They don’t essentially know the place they're,” Leavitt mentioned. “It's actually essential to have your information straight always.” The inflow of outsiders has created some stress with the outdated guard, as captured by C.Z. Visitor’s great-niece Daisy Prince in a current Vainness Honest piece. Tarpon Island developer Todd Glaser mentioned the antics portrayed within the story confirmed Palm Seashore isn’t all stuffy outdated parents like individuals would possibly assume. “Somebody was having intercourse within the rest room,” he mentioned, referring to an episode on the Carriage Home, a non-public eating membership. “That hasn’t occurred in Palm Seashore since what’s his identify –– since Frank Sinatra was there.” Glaser mentioned after it was printed, he obtained a name from a rich Californian who learn the story and wished to tour Tarpon.  Whereas outdoors curiosity is rising, the trophy market in Palm Seashore has additionally been bolstered by re-investment from present residents, typically within the type of upgrading their island houses. For instance, luxurious automobile seller Michael Cantanucci paid a file $170 million for an oceanfront property in April, and bought his smaller non-waterfront house for $32.4 million in July. Designer Tom Ford dropped a file $51 million on a non-waterfront compound in December of 2022, then swapped it out for a megamansion in Might, in a deal valued over $100 million.  It could be these patrons’ confidence in Palm Seashore — or they’re simply not shy about their wealth nowadays, Glaser mentioned.  “They don’t care anymore,” he mentioned. “They don’t care in regards to the public notion of what they’re shopping for.” For these purchasing, listed below are the 13 trophies up on the market in Palm Seashore this season: $200M | 1063-1071 North Ocean Boulevard | Vendor: William Lauder Lauder, son of late cosmetics mogul Estée Lauder, is asking $200 million for 2 oceanfront vacant parcels spanning 2.3 acres, with 360 ft of waterfront. He purchased the websites in a pair of offers totaling $135.4 million in 2020 and 2021, information present. Jim McCann of Premier Property Properties has the itemizing. He didn't reply to a request for remark for this story.  $187.5M | 10 Tarpon Isle | Sellers: Todd Glaser and companions 10 Tarpon Island (The Corcoran Group, Getty) Glaser and his companions purchased the two.3-acre man-made Tarpon Island for $85 million in 2021, and following an intensive renovation, listed it for $218 million in 2022. After a “summer season break” from the market, Glaser relisted the island with Leavitt and Frisbie in November. The mansion was designed by Howard Majors in 1930. Initially 12,000 sq. ft, the builders expanded it to just about 24,000 sq. ft, with 11 bedrooms, 15 loos and 7 half-bathrooms. The property has two swimming pools, a dock, lighted tennis court docket, chilly plunge, steam room, sauna, salon parlor, therapeutic massage room, health club and catering kitchen.  $150M | 1980 South Ocean Boulevard | Vendor: Nathan Silverstein 1980 South Ocean (Residing Proof Images, Getty) Actual property investor and lawyer Nathan Silverstein listed 2.3 undeveloped acres on the finish of Billionaires Row for $150 million. Silverstein, who was one of many 5 homeowners of the Flatiron Constructing that bought at public sale for $161 million in Might, has held the ocean-to-lake property since 1966, information present. Newman has the itemizing, which first hit the market in March of 2022, Redfin reveals.  $77.9M | 1610 North Ocean Boulevard | Vendor: Bryan Mattson
Angle has the $77.9 million itemizing for 1610 North Ocean Boulevard, a waterfront 0.9-acre property that faces the Palm Seashore Inlet. Information present hedge funder Bryan Mattson homesteaded the 8,100-square-foot mansion, which a belief named for the tackle purchased for $25.5 million in 2019. In-built 2018, the home has 5 bedrooms, eight loos, two half-bathrooms, a pool and dock. It additionally has a library, health club and workers kitchen, the itemizing reveals. $74.5M | 965 North Ocean Boulevard | Vendor: Brian Okay. Inventory Brian Okay. Inventory, CEO of Naples-based Inventory Improvement, is searching for to promote the 1.2 vacant oceanfront acres at 965 North Ocean Boulevard, three years after shopping for the property for $34.2 million. Moens has the $74.5 million itemizing. The property spans 150 ft of oceanfront, and hit the market in April, Realtor.com reveals.  $60M | 101 Jungle Highway | Sellers: Property of Gerald and Elaine Schuster The property of the late Gerald and Elaine Schuster is asking $60 million for the couple’s oceanfront mansion. Angle is itemizing the property. Gerald Schuster was the founder and longtime CEO of Continental Wingate, the Newton, Massachusetts-based actual property funding and improvement agency now generally known as the Wingate Corporations. The Schusters have been longtime boosters and buddies of Invoice and Hillary Clinton. In-built 1955 on 0.9 acres, their Jungle Highway house spans 10,000 sq. ft, with 5 bedrooms and eight loos, in line with property information. The Schusters purchased it for $7.7 million in 2001, information present. It spans 200 ft of oceanfront, in line with the itemizing. $60M | 315 Chapel Hill Highway | Vendor: Property of William Flaherty The property of William Flaherty tapped Angle to record the waterfront home at 315 Chapel Hill Highway for $60 million. Flaherty, who died final yr, based the Horsehead Company, now generally known as Pittsburg-based American Zinc Recycling. Flaherty purchased the Chapel Hill Highway home for $1 million in 1990, information present. In-built 1987 on 0.8 acres, the property features a 5,600-square-foot primary home with 4 bedrooms, six loos and one half-bathroom, and a 3,300-square-foot visitor home with 4 bedrooms and two loos, in line with information and the itemizing. It spans 200 ft alongside the Intracoastal Waterway, the itemizing reveals.  $59M | 200 South Ocean Boulevard | Sellers: David and Becky Gochman David and Becky Gochman listed their oceanfront home for $59 million earlier this month with Jim McCann of Premier Property Properties. David Gochman bought his household’s sporting items empire, Academy Sports activities & Open air, to the non-public fairness agency KKR for $2.1 billion in 2011, in line with Forbes. He based Palm Seashore-based Inclenberg Investments in 2012. The Gochmans purchased the South Ocean Boulevard home for $15.4 million in 2014, information present. They constructed a brand new home on the 0.9-acre property in 2018. It spans 5,800 sq. ft, with six bedrooms and 5 loos. It additionally has a pool. $57.9M | 200 By way of Palma | Vendor: Jeanne Siegel Jeanne Siegel, widow of late media mogul and billionaire Herbert Siegel, listed her lakefront Palm Seashore mansion with Moens for $57.9 million. The Siegels purchased it for $29.9 million in 2015, information present. Herbert Siegel died final yr, with an estimated internet value of $5 billion, Bloomberg reported. The ten,100-square-foot mansion was inbuilt 1952 on 0.9 acres. It has seven bedrooms, seven loos and one half-bathroom. The house additionally has a pool and a dock.  $57.9M | 1620 South Ocean Boulevard | Vendor: Anthony Lomangino  Anthony and Lynda Lomangino are asking $57.9 million for the oceanfront mansion they purchased for $12.7 million in 2019. In 1999, Anthony Lomangino based Southern Waste Techniques, a South Florida rubbish and recycling enterprise, which was acquired by Waste Administration in 2015. In-built 2006 on 0.
7 acres, the 8,700-square-foot mansion contains six bedrooms, eight loos, one half-bathroom and a pool. Moens has the itemizing. $55M | 940 North Lake Means | Vendor: Harvey Jones Nvidia board member Harvey Jones is asking $55 million for a 0.8-acre lakefront lot. Jones purchased the property for $50 million in July and demolished the prevailing home. Todd Peter of Sotheby’s Worldwide Realty has the itemizing.   $54.9M | 710 South County Highway | Vendor: Joan Granlund Joan Granlund, ex-wife of billionaire Invoice Koch, is trying to promote the previous house of late Palm Seashore type icon Lilly Pulitzer for $54.9 million. Angle has the itemizing. Granlund purchased the home from Pulitzer’s kids in 2013 for $8.2 million, information present. She renovated the home in 2014. In-built 1983 on 1.3 acres, the non-waterfront 7,200-square-foot home contains 5 bedrooms, seven loos, one half-bathroom, a pool and tennis court docket, in line with information.  $52.9M | 690 Island Drive | Vendor: Diana Barrett On Everglades Island, Diana Barrett listed her lakefront Marion Sims Wyeth-designed home for $52.9 million. The home, inbuilt 1949 on 0.8 acres, spans 6,300 sq. ft, with 4 bedrooms, 4 loos, one half-bathroom and a pool, information present. The couple’s son, Christopher Anthony Vila of PB Realty Advisors, is the itemizing agent. Barrett is a former professor at Harvard Enterprise Faculty and the spouse of Bob Vila, star of the renovation present “This Outdated Dwelling.” Individually, the couple purchased a 4,300-square-foot home for $12.5 million in Palm Seashore in December.  [ad_2] Supply hyperlink
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Ryan Terrigno Releases Two New Songs
Ryan Terrigno recently released two new songs “I Can Still Break Your Heart” (a love song, despite the title) and “Get Lost” (ndie-pop anthem with stomp-clap choruses). Both of these songs come from the upcoming album Alive & Well, produced by Alex Dezen. Ryan has a long history in the music industry and after taking some time away to start a family is just now finding his way back to making music. Check out the lyric video for “I Can Still Break Your Heart” and the full bio below. Ryan Terrigno is an indie singer-songwriter from Anaheim, CA - five minutes down the road from Disneyland. A musician since 13, songwriter since 16 - Ryan spent the first 12 years of his career fronting local Orange County rock bands Wester and We Are The Arsenal. On the strength of 2 full-length albums and 4 E.P.s, he toured across the U.S. and Japan with stops on the Vans Warped Tour, and opening slots for Lit, Angels & Airwaves, Senses Fail, Hawthorne Heights & others. In July of 2022, Ryan entered the studio to record his debut solo album, "Alive & Well." The LP was produced by Alex Dezen, an industry veteran known for his work with The Damnwells & Justin Bieber, and mastered by Whynot Jansveld, whose recent resume includes Dave Matthews Band and Butch Walker. The album is a stunning collection of heartbreakingly-beautiful songs that blend a variety of genres, from Folk and Indie to Pop and Alternative. Ryan's sound is further enhanced by an impressive lineup of world-class musicians, including Zac Clark (Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness), Brian Griffin (The Black Crowes), and Rich Hinman (Sara Bareilles). "Alive & Well" is a career-defining moment for Terrigno, and an artfully-crafted love-letter to the human condition. Ryan\'s lyrics are deeply personal and highly relatable, touching on themes of life, love, work, mortality, and everything in between. The album is set to be released in Fall 2023, with singles to be released throughout the summer. Around the Web * Spotify * Instagram * Official Website This post is provided by our weekly sponsor. More information about sponsored posts and advertising on this website can be found here. --- Please consider becoming a member so we can keep bringing you stories like this one. ◎ https://chorus.fm/sponsor/ryan-terrigno-releases-two-new-songs/
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