one day i will write the zero day haunting au ive been dreaming of. cal’s gone and andre’s spent the last 4 years living in cal’s memory. whatever. andre think he’s going crazy when he starts seeing weird shit at night. he gets coffee with eric and does *not* think about how eric and cal have the same eyes. he tries to throw out cal’s old things and it doesn’t work. him and rachel talk, sometimes, that stilted awkward bond of “we both used to care about someone who isn’t here now, where do i put all that love?”. he gets into an argument with his dad and every lightbulb in the room burns so hot they shatter. everything spirals. cal’s dead and cal’s dead and cal’s dead and nothing andre can do will bring him back. are you walking with me here!
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Okay no I've got it. I've said all along Durge and Orin's places could so easily be swapped, that the only difference was that Durge got the chance to start over fresh away from their muder cult, and that I want to be able to spare Orin, damn it. But now I've figured out how to make it work.
Durge and Orin fight in single combat at the altar of Bhaal. (Orin gets a second phase of her fight where she's herself, because she deserves a more satisfying boss fight and also to not just have Bhaal wipe her mind when you try to talk to her about her abusive backstory, jesus fucking christ that was nasty.)
Durge disarms Orin, gets her too injured to fight back, is the clear winner of this fight... and throws their weapon away, because they're not going to kill for Bhaal again. They're not going to continue the cycle of violence they and orin have been stuck in since birth.
Bhaal, of course, kills them for rejecting their birthright. And kills Orin for good measure; she failed, she's not worthy of him, this whole generation is a fuck up and he's better off starting over again elsewhere with a new generation of murder babies who'll actually be competent at this.
And as in the game, Withers comes in, resurrects Durge, tells them Bhaal could only kill the part of them that he knew, but they've changed and grown so much since the nautiloid, and Withers brought back everything that Bhaal didn't know.
Durge asks him--begs him probably, but damnit if Larian's resolving their plot with a huge deus ex machina then so can I--to bring Orin back too.
Except Orin didn't have those last few months free of Bhaal's influence. Everything she's ever done is tied up in trying to please Bhaal. When Withers brings her back, at Durge's request somewhere outside the temple, she's waking up covered in blood, nerfed back down to level one, and with no memory of anything except her name.
And the chance to start over fresh away from the murder cult. Orin can make her own decisions from there. Maybe she'll become the person she was before, maybe she'll be worse than ever, and a new party of adventurers will have to take her down to stop a new killing spree in a few years time. But maybe she'll change, and grow, the way Durge did. Maybe she'll become someone better. Whatever she does, she deserves to have a chance.
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Sobbing why are Zillah and Nour so close to the bottom what did they ever do to you!!! The two sweetest cutest most gorgeous characters from your WIPs!!!! They're so hot what are you talking about /lh
I'm putting these two together simply cos they talk about the same thing.
It's not like they came last in a Beautiful to Ugly challenge. Just last in a really tough Most Gorgeous challenge. Like the fact that they're even in a competition with the likes of Sydero and Ozara says they should be grateful to just be here in the first place.
And no, Nour's personality does not make up for it. If you guys had me rank LI's on their personalities guess which two would be at the bottom again. Yep.
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How is asexuality viewed in society in PoF? Is it considered normal for some trolls to just ignore concupiscent quadrants?
I mean, as an ace person writing an Id-fic sex-drama I'd love to say "oh I'm sure people would be cool about it!"--and to be fair, I don't know that anybody outside your quadrants would care much if you liked sex, as long as you could still Do Your Duty To The Empire? But there is a HARD minimum amount of fucking for trolls and that is: when the Mother Grub's drones come around, you give them your bucket of slurry or you die.
Being sex-repulsed or dragging your feet too much to figure out concupiscient partners is actively putting yourself in danger of being culled--as well as any partners you do find, if the drones show up and you can't contribute. So like, unfortunately no, man, I don't think being ace would go over super well with trolls. And tbh, they're kind of culturally awful to each other about everything, so they'd probably be dicks about it like they're dicks about a lot of things haha.
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Tell Ed I'm proud of him 😍
I told him! He would probably appreciate it except he's been pouting all day yesterday & today bc I put stuff besides arugula in his salad. I was hoping to get a cute picture to add to this answer but alas:
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Imagine a murderbot point and click adventure. It has the perfect kind of inner monologue for a protagonist of these kinds of games and you could have both murderbot and ART make sarcastic commentary on everything
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