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anxiouslyfred · 3 years

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Fighting Styles

for @dukexietyweek‘s day 2 prompt of Swapping

Summary: Virgil knows how to fight as Thomas’s primary defensive side, but after a comment about Roman when they’d been sparring he decides to try and improve and be more unpredictable with the least predictable side around.

Warnings: fighting, sparring, a couple innuendos

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Out of all the sides Thomas had, Virgil was the primary defence system. He was the one on the look out for alerts and always ready to get Thomas out of there whether that was by escaping or fighting and that meant he had to know how to fight. He learnt from copying movies and paying extra attention to any fight scenes Thomas did on stage. Stage fighting would never be real, but it included at least some things that could be useful in a fight. Logan had even provided Virgil with multiple martial arts books when he fully understood the extent that he had to protect Thomas.

Roman always claimed to be a fighter, a Knight even, but for all his extravagant attempts in the imagination Virgil could never see any form or ability in the way he fought. Honestly he was convinced that Roman only knew how to fight in formal duels and made up everything else when going on quests. When he'd first been accepted he had hoped to be able to spar with Roman in real contact fights but quickly dropped the suggestion after getting taken on a quest.

“Come on, I know you can fight. There were all those books in your room last time I visited. Don't you want to get some practical experience in?” Roman was whining. Honestly if he'd known leaving the books visible on his shelf would lead to this Virgil would have buried them in the garden anytime he wasn't reading them.

He couldn't go all in for the battle. He knew too many different techniques and forms of hand to hand, aside from simply not wanting to do anything which might harm Roman. Instead for the entire afternoon, Virgil watched, played the defensive as long as he could before laying Roman out with a few repeated moves. It was learning how to fight for fun almost, with nothing at stake given Roman wasn't likely to try and harm him either.

Eventually though Roman sighed, moving away instead of asking another go. “You're too predictable in how you fight, Virge. Where's the black knight going to go if someone actually tries to attack us?” He pronounced, dusting off his outfit and looking around the hall he'd created for their fight.

“Are you needing criticism in return because I thought we're trying to be nice to the ego for a while?” Virgil snarked back, raising an eyebrow when a frown was shot at him. “Guess I'll go find Remus then. If anyone knows how to be unpredictable, it's that trash monster.”

He didn't give Roman a chance to protest that statement, sinking out immediately. It was already pretty clear that Roman would try to follow up his comment about being predictable with an offer to teach Virgil formal duelling but The Duke knew that just as well as any Prince, and would probably offer without any farce day of fighting beforehand.

“Arm yourself! I'm stealing your ability to fight!” The cry came as soon as Virgil appeared in the main living space, and he immediately ducked to the floor and rolled out of the way.

“How about you teach me yours and I'll teach you mine instead?” Virgil throws the innuendo out, hoping if nothing else the double meaning would distract Remus from the attack. It got his request out too which was useful.

Remus had already reared around, morning star above his head for another swipe. “Like Uncle Iroh? Multiple pieces mixed together to make us stronger? I got the weapons collection to prove that already.”

“Don't need your ideas today, just a fighting style to mimic. I've got my knives. You're already armed so lets focus on that!” Virgil insisted, not fighting in when he felt Remus dropping them both into the imagination. It was probably less likely to cause damage or others to get hurt if they weren't in the main area anyway.

Fighting Remus was completely different to Roman. The Prince had the forms of a knight, and was very quick with the moves, he had a sharp control that made following the movements easily and a rhythm that even if you couldn't predict completely what came next, the beat it would happen on was clear. Remus only had occasional moves the a knight might use, and none of it could be related to music or patterns at all. He was wild flung movements, already pulling some other limb into the fray and of course that included ones which rightfully shouldn't exist.

It was perfect to fight against when concerned over what dangers or attacks could happen in the real world and Virgil threw himself into it, only resisting from copying some of the moves so they could learn from each other.

“Can't decide if I want to give up and let you beat me into the ground or if I should start doing this!” Remus quipped, backing off only for a second as he changed his morning star out for knives similar to Virgil's.

A thrilled smirk found its way onto Virgil's lips. “Only if you don't mind me doing this.” He approved, letting an extra arm come out to grab at Remus's first swipe starting the fight again.

It wasn't quite sparring but fighting didn't fit when there was no malice or actual wish to hurt between them, but it was the best test for Virgil's skills and ability to adapt that he'd faced for a while. It was even better than the times that the imagination was left wild, without any intentional influence from either Creativity.

They were fighting with all of their skills but also copying things each other did later on in the fight.

“Tell me we're doing this again, or let me worship at your feet cause my knees refuse to stand from the work over you just gave me.” Remus cackled, collapsed on the floor only when neither of them had the energy left to carry on fighting.

“How about tomorrow you bring the formal duelling out and slowly introduce the dirty fighting while I start out with just my martial arts and no weapon?” Virgil suggested.

It felt like the beginning of something far bigger than a fighting technique swap, and Virgil couldn't wait for the next time Roman tried to suggest they spar. He was already consistently winning but this way the spars would be over before they began and he had an actual partner to fight beside after them.

#dukexiety #dukexietyweek2021 #remus sanders #virgil sanders #roman sanders #platonic prinxiety #fighting #swapping fighting styles #mild innuendo

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the-odd-job · 3 years

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Building Dreams chapter 1 - Origins

Warnings: Chose Not to Use Rating: Mature Category: Other Fandom: Transformers Relationships: Sideswipe & Sunstreaker Characters: Sunstreaker, Sideswipe, Unnamed Characters, Original Characters Additional Tags: Alien Culture, Dubcon, Canon-Typical Violence Words: 4413

Okay apparently I’m writing this well before I should. The thing I posted previously is the second chapter of this, so here’s the actual chapter one.

They snuck inside, hoping the actual owner of the apartment was too deep in a high grade induced stupor to notice their arrival—or their departure once they’d done what they came here for.

It was nothing illegal, really. This wasn’t officially their place of residence anymore—their room in the Pits was—but it was owned by their commissioner. That legal binding hadn’t been broken yet.

But would be soon, hopefully. There was nothing about this place or this mech they wanted any ties to. They were nearing the one event that inevitably led to a mech’s legal independence, anyway. It was just a matter of time before the mech in the living room of the tiny apartment could lay no claim on them.

Not that he particularly had at any point of their lives.

“–Lord Megatron of Kaon was once again caught in a heated debate with Optimus Prime of Iacon at the publicized Council meeting. We’ve all heard the arguments on both sides a million times, haven’t we?” the entertainment screen droned on, the channel turned to some manner of talk show. What a waste of time.

But that was all their commissioner did or had ever done, wasted his time away. The chair he was currently sitting in had its back turned to the open door into the hallway, and the brothers used that as an advantage to the best of their ability. They weren’t built for stealth and silence, who here was, but with the volume of the show turned up so high, it should mask the sounds they made pretty well.

Like always.

“Carriers this and carriers that—as you’re all well aware of, Optimus Prime is still campaigning for the demolition of the Housing system. What should be established in its stead? Equality for all? How does that help our species? No, he doesn’t have a replacement plan! As always, Lord Megatron called him out on this, and in a surprise move, Lord Starscream of Vos actually backed him up. Imagine that, the two of them united in something! For a mated pair they sure argue a lot—and if that’s in public, how much worse is it in private?” Laughter from the screen, both from the host and the audience present in the studio. Sideswipe huffed to himself, only to get glared at by Sunstreaker. Yeah yeah, keep quiet. Get the last of their things from their old room and beat it the pit out of here before their commissioner ever got any wiser they’d even visited.

It was kind of funny, though, how easily you could tell you were in Kaon just based on the kind of entertainment that was aired. It wasn’t that there was never anything critical of Megatron, but in this one thing most of Kaon seemed to agree with their leader, and thought the Prime was nothing but a bumbling dumbling.

Sideswipe, and Sunstreaker by extension? Or whoever was the extension of who or if it was just the In-Between, anyway, they stayed out of politics. That was a thing that only brought more stress on you when you needed to argue with anyone who had differing opinions to your own. So tiresome, no thanks on that.

Although he could kinda agree the Prime was a little dumb. At least the things he said were dumb. And the whole scandal with his so-called mate… Yeah, there was something just wrong with that mech. What the pit even drove him to these things?

Alright, end of opinions, right there, or else he’d find himself a political activist or something. Dumb Prime, Megatron calling him out on it, the end.

What mattered more than the artificially created problems Cybertron had—really, why do anything about a good thing that worked already?—was them and their little life. Maybe it didn’t matter to anyone else, but that was what life was about. Taking care of yourself, standing up for yourself, making it out there in the cold, cruel world… Or something like that.

He liked to think they’d gotten pretty far already, as Sunstreaker opened the squeaky door to their old room as quietly as he could. Once it was parted enough that they could fit through, they stopped to listen—but there were still just the sounds of the show, nothing from the third occupant of the place. “So they’re there, both trying to sway the Council, Optimus jabbering on about ‘freedom is the right of all sentient beings’ or something like that—did you stay awake listening to him? I sure didn’t. And Megatron comes in and points out the obvious: we need the breeders! Where are you going to get a newspark from otherwise? Out of thin air? By miracle of Primus? ‘Hey, big guy downstairs, would you be so kind as to send me a newspark, I really need one’? Not happening, is that?”

Alright, so what had they still left behind? There was Sunstreaker’s old art pads and art books on equally old datapads. They were carefully picked up and subspaced while Sideswipe quietly opened the subspace containers embedded in the walls and made sure nothing was going to get left behind. Some of the stuff they were taking and had taken with them was nothing but junk that they threw out to the nearest trash chute, but dammit their commissioner wasn’t about to get any of it, junk or not.

It was the principle of things. These were things they’d acquired on their own, with their credits or their wiliness. They belonged to them and no one else.

Unless someone picked them up from the junk piles on the lower decks, but if a mech was crazy enough to wade through that mess, then pits, they had deserved whatever they found.

But really, most of these things just weren’t worth anything.

Once he’d checked through all of their containers and Sunstreaker had looted their secret stashes—because sometimes that was the only way to keep more valuable things from addicts —they slipped from the room as carefully as they’d come in.

Or thought they did. In the gloom of the hallway, there were two red optics staring at them. Sunstreaker froze in place the same Sideswipe did.

“Are you leaving?” their commissioner asked quietly, voice a little staticky as it always was with this mech.

Ugh. Why couldn’t they have just managed to come and go unnoticed?

“Pit yeah,” Sunstreaker growled at him.

It was impossible to tell if their commissioner was sad or not, his field was always just a fragging mess and nothing else. “To the Pits?”

But they knew this thing. He didn’t like the Pits overmuch, and he definitely didn’t like that it was where the brothers had found a livelihood and a home.

Sideswipe could’ve sworn most of it was just seeing them succeed in something, even if only in a limited capacity. Getting rich with Pit fighting… Yeah, not happening.

But making ends meet through winning matches? Doable, if you were good enough.

And they were.

And they didn’t waste every credit they earned.

It was an argument they’d had a million times before. Sunstreaker didn’t do more than rev his engine in warning. And it was a warning. They’d taught themselves how to fight through blood and dents and more blood and dents. They knew what they were doing by this point, at least for mecha their age. They were better than most of their peers, even if they weren’t about to get to champion levels anytime soon.

Most fights weren’t fair to begin with, but it would be especially unfair against a mech who could barely stay on two pedes. One punch and he’d be down—and anyone who knew Sunstreaker knew he was perfectly willing to throw that punch.

Then again their sole remaining commissioner didn’t exactly know them, so maybe he thought there was some sort of affection or respect that would keep them from decking him.

There wasn’t.

“Out of the way,” Sunstreaker ordered once their stalemate had gone on long enough. “We’re fragging leaving.” And not coming back.

“You’re not yet mentored.” Mentored, legally independent, same thing.

But bad wording. “You’ve never done a damn thing to mentor us,” Sunstreaker hissed, taking one step forward. A clear threat. “Or did you totally miss the bit where we had to raise ourselves because you were too busy wallowing in your misery?”

“I stayed,” their commissioner argued with a shaking voice, although Sideswipe couldn’t have told what made it shake. Emotion or high grade?

“All the good that did!” Sunstreaker argued right back, his voice raising like it often did when they were caught in situations like these. It was doubtful the neighbors would even bother to see what the ruckus was about, anymore.

And there was a lot of bitter resentment there—and this might be their last chance to air any of it. They sure as pit weren’t planning on ever seeing the face of the damn mech again.

So Sunstreaker chose to do just that. “We had to practically live on the streets anyway, because you sure as pit weren’t looking after us! It’s a fragging miracle we didn’t need to whore ourselves out just to get enough fuel to get by, and what did you do? Sat here all day every day, on your fragging aft, trying to drink your problems away? What’s even so sad about your life, the slagging fact you were stuck with us? You commissioned us!” his brother alternatively growled and straight up yelled.

Was it a fair rant? Not really.

Was it well earned despite that? Sure was, if you asked Sideswipe. He got it, it was tough to lose one of your best buddies that you had planned to mentor a sparkling with, and then have that topped off with your second best buddy just taking up and leaving because none of them apparently knew how to handle any of their issues.

What excuse was that to neglect the life you had paid to create and supposedly committed to mentor into maturity?

Or maybe they were just really slagging selfish and should’ve gone easier on the mech—that had taken credits they’d earned just to spend it on more high grade. Oh, they’d learned real damn fast to hide that slag, or spend it on necessities right away so there was nothing to even steal. What did it matter if they had enough fuel to even stay online, as long as he had more high grade to drown himself in?

Sideswipe didn’t think they were the more selfish ones here, but he might’ve been a little biased.

Their commissioner was shaking, but it was still impossible to tell why exactly. “I–”

“No,” Sunstreaker cut him off with a violent lash of his arm, his sharpened claws inches away from scratching the fragging drunkard. “I’m not listening to your fragging excuses. Out of the way.”

Damn right.

When their commissioner didn’t move fast enough, Sunstreaker’s arm flashed forward, his servo closing around the mech’s faceplates—claws digging into his helmet. There was a muffled sound of protest, then a scream when Sunstreaker simply closed his servo, crushing and tearing their mentor’s face off, protoform deep.

His vocalizer was still unharmed when Sunstreaker let go. His victim dropped into a graceless heap on the floor like the fragging piece of scrap he was, sobbing, bringing his servos to a face that wasn’t there anymore. There wasn’t blood, only the sparking of severed wires and gouged, sightless remains of optics. Crushed plating, scratches.

Sideswipe made a face, but stepped over the weeping frame on his brother’s heels. This… Was a death sentence. There was no way their commissioner could afford repairs, and it was unlikely there was any spark kind enough around to pay them for him. He’d starve into stasis in his bleak, lonely apartment, and one day someone would come to see why he hadn’t paid his rent, find his frame in stasis, and send it to the scrapyard. No one would bother fixing up a random mech that probably couldn’t even pay back for it.

He’d die as alone as he’d lived. Justice? Or, “That was kinda over the top,” Sideswipe commented once they were back in the hallway.

“He had it coming,” was all Sunstreaker grunted in response, setting their pace towards the exit.

Sideswipe thought about it for a minute, then shrugged. Not like they would get in legal trouble for it either. This was Kaon. It was every mech for themselves under the dark cast by the first deck.

So, whatever.

They made it to the outside of the residential underbelly of a tower that probably rose somewhere into the sky up above, but that here was nothing but an oily base for wretchedness of so many kinds.

At least they were free of it, now, even if it hadn’t quite happened as Sideswipe had envisioned.

Back to the Pits with them, then, which some would’ve just called a downgrade— but for them it really wasn’t. They had a room just for themselves, fuel, occasional maintenance, and even more occasional chances to hose themselves off instead of just trying to wipe themselves clean. It wasn’t a steady living, but they made it work.

They transformed onto the road and drove through the shadowy streets that no one bothered to light properly. That wasn’t the case everywhere on the lower decks, though, and as they neared their arena, the lights turned brighter and more numerous until they made it to the center of activity surrounding the arena. It was almost as bright as the day of the first deck in this section of the underworld.

Definitely an upgrade.

They drove to the arena’s secondary entrance, transformed back to their bipedal modes, and entered the building. Here there was more to gloom to be found, and more dirt, grime—stains you didn’t even want to know the origin of; dents on the walls, floors, and even the ceiling. Nothing was clean, nothing was in full repair.

But that was the Pits for you. Really, it was just a part of their charm.

The mecha down here didn’t look much better than their surroundings, and they knew they weren’t exactly exceptions. Oh, they tried to take care of their looks, but so did almost every other sorry sap around.

It didn’t work too well for anyone, aside from some of the administration. Those you could recognize when you saw them walking about. Rich bastards—relatively speaking, most of the time. No one down here could compare to the wealth of those who could afford to live in the upper towers.

“A groon until my match,” Sideswipe commented as the reminder popped up on his HUD. “Wasn’t yours one fight after that?”

An affirmative grunt.

“Time to kill. Let’s go watch the matches and make overtly judgmental comments about everyone’s techniques,” Sideswipe grinned, flicking his claws to urge Sunstreaker into following him as he took the turn towards one of the arena gates. Not like they could really go up to the stands, but you could see at least something through the floor level gates, too.

Together they chose a gate that didn’t have more than one other mech observing the fights and went to lean against the thick bars. There were no impressive fights going on this time of the day, but that didn’t mean there wasn’t anything to learn from observing others.

Even if it was just in the way of ‘geez, I’m never doing that myself’.

“Ugh, the green one’s footwork is garbage,” Sideswipe snickered. The corner of Sunstreaker’s mouth twitched in a near smile.

He’d get the damn mech smiling yet, before his match. That was what he was here for! Be a menace that brightened his twin’s day by being all lovable and slag. He was lovable, wasn’t he?

Sunstreaker was eager to tell him that no, he wasn’t, he was just lucky they were twins or he’d have booked it a long time ago. But, see, Sunstreaker was smiling when he said that, because he couldn’t help himself once Sideswipe found the right buttons to push. It was perfect! And only took him a few seconds, see. Pretty good, if he said so himself.

That still left all the other seconds of the groon to get on each other’s nerves, to the point where they annoyed the third spectator into leaving. You know, instead of each other.

Twins.

“My time!” Sideswipe announced once it was minutes until his match would be called. Still together, they made their way to the right gate, he picked his weapons—twin swords, as he preferred—and entered the arena proper once the gate rose to let him through.

The lights were bright enough to blind, here. Not one drop of energon would go unseen because there wasn’t enough light. Everything they did would be on full display.

Sideswipe grinned, that particular bloodthirsty grin, and nodded at his opponent. The mech was bigger than him, but then almost everyone was. Oh, he wasn’t small in the grand scheme of things, but in Kaon he was.

Came with not being able to afford big enough upgrades to reach the sizes of most other Kaonites. But that was fine, he made this work too.

He went to prove that much both to the audience and his opponent. He was smaller, but that meant he was faster with less mass to move around, and more agile with his lighter armor doing less to restrict his movements. Play your strengths, make up for your weaknesses, all that. He’d danced this same dance thousands of times before, even if the choreography was never quite the same.

The other mech was brandishing a mace, and if that wasn’t a devastating weapon if it landed proper hits. So, don’t let it land proper hits. Sideswipe could’ve never put the same amount of oomph behind the swings as the bigger mech could, but as they moved, it became obvious enough that there really wasn’t that big a skill difference between them. A good match for the audience, not so much for them. Uneven fights where you had the upper hand were always better for finances.

But that just meant he’d need to work harder to come out on top, and preferably without too severe injuries, too. One thing he did have on his side—the rarity of frames at least a head shorter than everyone else. There was really no getting used to fighting mecha his size when you faced them so rarely.

Meanwhile, he was intensely familiar with fighting mecha bigger than himself, because basically everyone was that.

It tipped the odds in his favor just enough, this time around. His opponent couldn’t judge his speed right. Sometimes he thought Sideswipe was slower than he really was, other times that he was faster. As many hits as glanced off of Sideswipe’s armor, leaving minor injuries behind, only one hit him in the side in full force.

Hurt like a bitch, that one, and sent him flying off to the side pretty spectacularly. He landed on his pedes though, only briefly made the mistake of instinctively bringing a servo to his side, and was ready to dodge out of the way when his opponent tried to finish things off. Not like he hadn’t landed his fair share of damage, himself. Some were pretty bad, too.

Don’t get cocky. That got you beat down into the arena dirt. He was supposed to be better than that by this point.

The roar and stomp of the crowd thrummed through his lines along with the excitement for a victory he tried to push down before it could distract him—and managed, enough so that when one dodge under the mace’s swing saw him in position to sink one of his swords into the other mech’s chassis, he wasn’t too distracted to see and take the opportunity. He had to get the frag away from there right after because that mace came right back around, but the injury was pretty debilitating by Sideswipe’s judgment. Damaged internal components that were actually important, that sort of thing.

Don’t fragging dare get cocky.

Just a little more. He could do this. If nothing else, his opponent would succumb to his injuries with time, even if Sideswipe couldn’t carve some more on him. Playing it safe wasn’t like him, though, so he didn’t hang back to wait around for time to win the fight for him.

That was what made him good at this. The showiness, even if that sometimes meant not doing the smartest, or at least, the most cautious thing. The spectators loved that. They wanted a real fight, every time, and if Sideswipe could deliver that, frag, he would.

It didn’t cost him, this time. He got hurt a bit more, but he also got to hurt a bit more, and although none of that damage was really severe enough, it piled on top of the existing injuries until this one time his opponent couldn’t keep his footing anymore and fell, onto his back, into the dirt.

Sideswipe took the chance it was to close in. The mech tried to still fend him off, but just couldn’t anymore, not before Sideswipe’s sword pressed snugly against his throat.

It wasn’t a death match. There wouldn’t be a kill, this time.

But had he gone through with that last attack, that would not have held true. Everyone knew it.

“Yield,” his opponent said, grudgingly, but he got to walk away with his life. Did that make him lucky, or just someone who now had their life, sure, but no credits to their name?

Not Sideswipe’s problem. He grinned at the mech one more time before he turned his back to him and lifted his sword to the cheer of the crowd.

Credits. They always needed those. They needed to fuel, they needed to pay for the repairs they couldn’t perform themselves, they needed tools for the repairs they could do on their own—their room wasn’t free either, they had to pay to use it. They needed to maintain their looks even somewhat. Cloths, solvent, sometimes even polish.

Expenses, expenses, expenses, no matter how frugally they tried to live.

Were they ever going to dig themselves out from the gutters, or would they always live on pede in the sludge of the streets? Everyone tried to get out. The vast majority never succeeded.

But they could dream.

His side was wonderfully caved in, armor uncomfortably pressing against his jarred and misaligned internal components, and that was a little too much for them to fix. Sunstreaker accompanied him to the sorry space that worked as the arena’s medical bay—they paid, he got repairs from someone who had probably failed the integration of his medical files. That was what you got down here. No one could truly count themselves a winner if they were stuck in the arenas of the lower decks.

But it got them by. He felt worse by the end of his repairs than he did before them, but the damage warnings had either dismissed themselves or lowered in importance.

Good enough, that was all you could ever ask for.

Sunstreaker was always a pleasure to watch in the ring, too. He was efficient, not one to play around, just a destructive force on a warpath that would see anything in its way destroyed. Did he always win? No. They faced their betters semi-regularly, like anyone else.

That didn’t make Sunstreaker any less as a fighter, in Sideswipe’s opinion. And they got better, constantly. They practiced, took every opportunity to learn more, studied others, studied themselves to analyze what they could do better. They didn’t settle.

His brother’s unbridled brutality won him his match too. It wasn’t just their unfortunate commissioner that got to taste his claws, and whatever other weapons he chose to use, a sword this time. Just one.

The weapons, too. They practiced with as many of those as they could, not just so they could wield them themselves, but so they knew how they were wielded and wouldn’t get caught off-guard by someone who used them.

Maybe they’d never make it out of here, but slag, they’d try their hardest anyway.

Sunstreaker needed a few things fixed by a medic too, but even after those payments, their winnings were enough to get them fuel. The rest would go into savings, this time.

They weren’t the only ones at the energon dispensers they made their way to, and they weren’t all strangers there, either. Sunstreaker never talked a hell of a lot with others, but Sideswipe made up for it like always. A couple of friends, a bunch of acquaintances, chatter, teasing, laughter. Recounting of their more recent victories, lamenting of their losses.

The message alert popped up on both of their HUDs at the same time, high enough in priority that it overrode– Actually, that was the highest priority a message could be.

They shared a glance. There wasn’t much question what this was about.

“I think we just got our test date,” Sideswipe stated out loud at the inquisitive looks they both got for their sudden distraction. There was a chorus of understanding noises after that. It wasn’t a secret they hadn’t reached maturity yet, at least not officially.

But they would have, after this. Independence, not tied to anyone. Do what they wanted with no one able to tell them they shouldn’t. Well, aside from the law and all that. But mostly what they wanted!

“Congrats, you’re about to join the big league,” one of the mecha he wouldn’t quite count a friend yet laughed.

“Yeah, it’s really just a formality,” another shrugged. “I wouldn’t worry about it. Just show up, get it done, and that’s it, you’ve got your legalities all sorted.”

“I mean,” Sideswipe said after he consulted his navigation system to see where the address they were given was, and wow, “at least we’ll get to see some high end areas for once.

“We’re gonna look so out of place.”

More friendly laughter. Everyone kept their distance from Sunstreaker, but a servo clapped Sideswipe on the shoulder. “Enjoy it while it lasts! Take in the sights, snap some pics. You’ll be back down here right after.”

“Bring a souvenir, too!”

Sideswipe laughed and even Sunstreaker made an amused sound. “I’ll snatch something from the clinic before making a run for it, that good enough?”

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lovehaswonangelnumbers · 4 years

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New Post has been published on https://lovehaswonangelnumbers.org/karmic-tools-weekly-forecast-march-29-april-3-2020/

Karmic Tools Weekly Forecast: March 29 – April 3, 2020

By Kelly M Beard

The video version of this forecast, as read by Kelly, is available here.

The Karmic Tools Weekly Forecast covers the current planetary transits which affect people in different ways and to various degrees of intensity. Take notice when it is a Personal planet (Sun / Moon / Mercury / Venus / Mars) interacting with a Social (Jupiter/Saturn) or Collective planet (Uranus / Neptune/Pluto). And pay extremely close attention when it is a Social planet interacting with a Collective planet because that means something *big* is brewing that will move large groups of people along their evolutionary paths. Tuning in to the energy and rhythm of the planets can serve as a useful *guide* as you move along your Individual Path. It also helps to understand your place within the context of the larger Social & Collective Story. Below, you will find out how these energies tend to manifest, as well as guidance and direction.

*NOTE* There are some days when there are NO CONTACTS (besides the Moon), please note that there are no missing entries, we just list the actual Activations of each week + the day they happen.

Weekly Forecast: March 29 – April 3, 2020

3/31 ~ Mars (energy, desire & action) ~conjunct~ Saturn (structure, responsibility & timing):

Any conjunction is an initiation and Mars rules ‘who you are’ and ‘what you want’, while Saturn rules your definition of reality and your physical limits. If you are feeling frustrated, you may need to clarify your desires more, then take tangible, practical steps toward them. Anytime Saturn is involved, it will depend on your personal nature, as some thrive on structure & good boundaries, while others buck the system and want to do it their own way (which causes its own types of conflicts in the world). Sometimes this energy manifests as action being restricted and the anger that follows. You can either be angry and feel restricted, limited and unable to move … or you can see this energy as an opportunity to define the right actions to take and strategically plan to take them when the Universe is more supportive. This energy requires us to slow down and double check The Plan (Saturn). If you proceed consciously, your plan has a better chance of success than if you were reckless & impatient (Mars). You may experience a blockage of some sort, whether internal or external. You feel this tremendous urge to move forward in your life but seem to find blockages and limitations with every effort. That is more likely your perception rather than the reality, so ask your Self if you feel inadequate to the task at hand or if you are dealing with some personal fears around this issue. Remember that fear is: False Evidence Appearing Real – so try to release the fear and reclaim your inner authority to create/lead your own life. If you don’t, your outer circumstance only becomes a reflection of your inner belief. You will attract criticism & delays and repel support & protection. Take your grand vision and figure out three small steps that you can take, even on this restricted level, that will still take you in the direction of your goal. Mars links up with Saturn every 2-years or so, so even though it is an initiation, you may be better supported for cultivating, planning, working behind the scenes, doing the detail work and foundational (grunt) work that is NECESSARY to support the grand vision when the time comes to fully express it.

4/3 ~ Mercury (communication/expression) ~conjunct~ Neptune (imagination/spirituality):

This is a mixed blessing, but definitely an initiation either way. It can be miraculous for creativity, art or exploration. I like this one for a personal ‘conversation with God’, your Higher Self, your SoulSelf. As with any initiation, a completion must come first, and in this case with Mercury, it’s time to expand your thinking in some way – go deeper. Invite your Ancestors, Angels & Animal Guides to answer your questions and guide you at this time. Communing with them is much more supported than communing with the humans around you. So if you need to think about the mundane or confront someone about something which requires complete honesty from both parties, things could get a little hazy & confused thanks to Neptune here. There is always a veil to contend with when dealing with Neptune, but you have to know which side of it you are on so you are in alignment with the Nature around you (3D vs 5D). This energy tends to color reality, misleading you to think you are being perfectly clear in your communication or what you’re trying to express, while others are completely lost. It’s better to say nothing, rather than be completely misunderstood.

4/3 ~ Venus Enters GEMINI (until Aug 7th):

She is entering a zone where she will linger April 3 – Aug 7 and stir up the energy of that Area of Life for you. The last time she was in Gemini was July 2019, so I believe we received some clues back then as to what may need extra attention by now. Your other frame of reference is 2012, which is the last time she extended her stay with a retrograde. As she moves back and forth through this area, she is awakening us to new values & priorities where our ideas, thoughts, words, concepts & perceptions are concerned. We are going to be presented with wildly new & different choices and decisions to make so we want to take the next four months to research and review our ideas, thoughts & concepts. Some of the review will stir up how you magnetize what you think about and some will be assessing the actual value of your creative ideas and how they can serve & support others along the way too. I will be doing a 2-part Open House in April to introduce the new Venus Cycle, so stay tuned!

4/4 ~ Venus (values & priorities) ~trine~ Saturn (stability & endurance):

This is a smooth, easy energy that you can work with consciously and yield incredible, even tangible, results. It’s a good time to define your terms where relationships are concerned because you are really clear about your values & priorities, at this time. Based on your past choices & efforts, positive benefits & earned rewards are forthcoming. If you’ve avoided responsibility in your own relationships (public or private), then this energy can help get you back on track, with less pain & suffering than usual (when Saturn’s involved). If you can be practical about your own limits and realistic about what others bring to the table, then this energy also supports discussing forward movement, development or spiraling to a new, higher level in some way, as a team. Strategizing about the future, clarifying the vision of what will support & protect all involved and honoring the essence of life that runs throughout is deeply supported by these two getting together in an easy angle. Venus is also the energy of love & money, so it’s a good time to be objective and somewhat conservative where both your relationships & finances are concerned. With this interaction with Saturn, I would suggest outlining a reasonable relationship or financial goal for the next 3 – 6 – 9 – or 12 months.

4/4 ~ Jupiter (consciousness, learning & belief systems) ~conjunct~ Pluto (purification & transformation): (1 of 3: 4/4 ~ 6/30 ~ 11/12)

The highest possible expression of this energy is channeling your very passionate, intense energy into your Highest vision – Highest ideal – deepest personal Truth and receiving the fruits of such hard labor. There is power behind the current expansion and you are in a unique position to create your greatest vision or your deepest fear – it’s your choice. Both these planets force you to improve your Self, your life & your environment, usually stripping you of misconceptions and excess baggage along the way. This is a 13yr cycle, so you can reflect on how your life completely shifted 13 years ago? This is your time to choose to co-create, to cultivate & commit to expressing your infinite potential. Dig deeper, there is more to you than you give your Self credit for being. This is your chance to completely redefine your Truth & Purpose. The worst possible expression of this energy is to become obsessed by a belief, try to force others to your way of thinking, blow things way out of proportion, magnify the darkness and prolong your trip through the Underworld. Jupiter insists we learn from such excavations of the Soul. Your deepest Truth is surfacing at this time, is it based in fear or faith? Under pressure, whatever is inside, comes out. It’s time to decide if you are going to believe in positive outcomes and the ability to turn your deepest wounds into your most trusted, earned wisdom.

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bionicdragonguardian1 · 4 years

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Recluse Vampire Izuku

Inspired by @25coriandah‘s little bit of art (which does actually happen in this part, yay!!) where Izu finds Wolf Pup Kacchan and has no clue how Werewolves work, and every book is wrong.

If you think I’m making Supernatural references

One; I almost definitely am

Two; I am very aware of it

Three; I’m not only drawing from SPN for both Izuku/Kacchan when it comes to their weaknesses/strengths/powers/etc

Four; remember that one plot line that ended up making all of us SOB because someone we loved died? Yeah, remember that. I shamelessly hint at it for a future part.

If you think I’m mischaracterizing anyone please tell me

But I can tell you I’m plugging some headcanons and such in here

@thepinkjinx, here ya go!!

If anyone else wants to end up on a notif list, lemme know

Part Two

Izuku took off back to his home, pushing the unlocked door open with his back, then nudging it closed with his foot. Gently placing the blonde on his couch.

Izuku felt his fangs dig into his lower lip. Drawing some of his own barely flowing blood to the surface. Hissing at the jolt of pain he licked his lower lip, to speed up the healing.

What was he thinking?! He couldn’t care for someone, much less a child! And that completely ignored the fact that he was a werewolf. Smooth Izuku, smooth.

The blonde boy groaned, curling in on himself, the blood-red eyes found Izuku’s green ones. Distrust clear in them, along with confusion as to where he was.

“Hey…” Izuku tried, edging closer to the young wolf. He was about three feet away when there was a distinct, and quite loud actually, growl coming from him. Izuku didn’t push it.

The growl only went away when Izuku took two steps back.

“I’m not going to hurt you.” Izuku told the boy. “I found you in my woods.”

Red eyes looked thoroughly unconvinced, glaring at Izuku as he sat up, tail coming free and curling up behind him. Showing that he was on alert.

“My name’s Izuku Midoriya, what’s yours?”

No response.

“Do you understand me?” Izuku tried, slower.

The blonde was looking at him intently, frowning then slowly nodded.

Izuku supposed it made sense, the boy- wolf, whatever- was young. Maybe werewolves weren’t well versed in human speech at such a young age?

“I’m Izuku, you?” Izuku asked.

The blonde’s lips turned into a scowl. “Speak louder, Deku, I’m Katsuki.”

Izuku didn’t think he was speaking that quietly, but again, reclusiveness for over 110 years had probably messed with that. Especially he was living in the middle of nowhere.

“My name’s Izuku!” he spoke louder, not only because the blonde had told him to, but because he was offended. “That’s not nice Katc-Kact-Kac-” he stumbled, trying to pronounce the blonde’s name the way the boy had.

“See, Deku.” the boy grouched.

“Kacchan, that’s rude.” Izuku reprimanded seeing the boy looked stunned by the nickname. Looking ready to argue. “You call me Deku, I call you Kacchan.”

Izuku had his pride and would never admit to the blonde he simply couldn’t pronounce his name.

The blonde glowered but accepted it begrudgingly.

“Will you follow me to my library?” Izuku asked, increasing his volume almost immediately when Kacchan’s face went from pouty to angry, which appeased him easily.

Kacchan sent him an unamused look. “You smell wrong.”

Izuku sighed. “I’m a vampire,” he sat down in the armchair beside the corner of the couch Kacchan was occupying. “See?” he said with a smile before pulling his upper lip to show off his fanged canines.

Kacchan looked scared now.

“I don’t want to hurt you.” Izuku spoke quickly but realized that Kacchan didn’t understand him when he looked ready to bolt. “I. Won’t. Hurt. You.” Izuku spoke strongly with total conviction. “I promise.”

The blonde’s tail was up on end, which Izuku hadn’t realized had gone down until it was back up. But his teeth weren’t bared and his posture seemed to relax.

“You’re a skittish little wolf.” Izuku commented.

Kacchan’s squinty gaze went to confused. “You know what I am?”

Izuku moved his hands in so-so motion. “I know what you are, only.”

Kacchan looked at him intently. “I’m not little. I’m five.” he held up his hand, and Izuku only then realized that all of Kacchan’s nails were, in fact, black claws.

Izuku smiled softly. “Well, I’m…” he paused to do the math, which was hard because Izuku wasn’t entirely sure what year it was. “About… seven-hundred, so you’re little.”

Kacchan looked both stunned and offended at Izuku’s age.

“Can we go to my library now?” Izuku asked again.

Kacchan nodded slowly, standing up and walking beside Izuku as they headed down his halls.

Izuku saw that the boy’s tail was more relaxed than it was at first but still stiff, showing that Kacchan was still on alert.

They went to the end of the hall and Izuku opened the double doors to his library.

Izuku saw Kacchan’s eyes go wide in surprise, his mouth falling open. “You stay here,” he put the boy at one of the tables in his massive library. “I need to find my books.”

He didn’t run, running tended to wreck the rugs. He’d learned that a long time ago. Though he did move quickly.

Thankfully his personal organization system was something he was well acquainted with and made the Dewey Decimal System look easy.

He didn’t have a ton of books on Werewolves, he realized as he grabbed the four books off the shelf, so he made a quick stop at his generalized Supernatural Creature books, which he had three more of, before heading back to Kacchan.

He found the boy had largely stayed put, just moving away from the table to the floor between a few of the smaller shelves.

He set his books on the table and grabbed the first one he had.

Monsters of the Moon: Werewolves By: Trystan Greytooth

He could start here, he supposed, getting to the table of contents. Chapter 6: Weaknesses

Well, that was rather straightforward. He should know what to have the boy avoid.

He saw him grabbing something off one of the shelves but didn’t think much of it. He frowned. “Huh, according to Trystan Greytooth you’re very allergic to Silver.” which he already knew, but that meant he was going to need to get all knew forks, knives, and spoons since his were-

He flinched at the rather loud chomp and the sound of metal bending.

He looked over to Kacchan and realized that Kacchan had grabbed some of Tenya’s original Silverware, 100% silver, and completely unique to Izuku.

That sound of metal bending was Katsuki chomping on them, bending them out of shape.

While part of Izuku was screaming, he was more resigned. “Apparently not.” he muttered. Which raised so many more questions because that was something even he had been told over the centuries.

0 for 1. Uh oh.

He continued to the next one.

“You’re apparently…” Izuku looked critically at the blonde boy. “Well, that’s definitely wrong” he chuckled. Heading over to Kacchan and taking the two undamaged spoons away, and trying to get him to take one of the others out of his mouth.

The wolf pouted but seemed little more okay with it when Izuku sat on the floor next to him. “You definitely don’t look like a wolf that walks on two legs.” Then he looked to the blonde. “Is this what you look like all the time?”

Kacchan shook his head slowly. “Look like a wolf when I want, but look different on Full Moon.”

Izuku sighed. 0-2. Not promising.

He continued reading. Actually, Kacchan just confirmed the next five were wrong!

“Leave my spoons alone.” he told him sternly as he stood up and grabbed a different book.

He opened it and immediately realized it was wrong.

“Werewolves only way to create more is scratch a human during a Full Moon.” he read, then looked to the boy. “Kacchan,” the boy perked up. “is your mama like you?”

Kacchan gave a small nod, and Izuku knew instantly that this was not something he should ever bring up again.

0-3, go Kacchan.

He switched over to one of his more broad-topic books.

Chapter 21: Werewolves

Izuku barely needed to skim the first page to realize that this one was also wrong.

0-4, this is not going to go well.

Creatures of the Dark: Mary Shelley

Izuku paused. The same woman who wrote Frankenstein? He must’ve put one of her books in the wrong section. He opened it, finding that a note from Ochako in it, and Mary Shelley’s signature in it. He frowned, he didn’t quite remember reading this, so he would have to read it and reshelve it.

Zero for five, on account of my own shelving mistake.

Kacchan came back to the chair beside Izuku. “Wrong?” he asked.

Izuku sighed and nodded.

“You tell me ‘bout you, and I tell you what I know.” Kacchan offered.

Izuku wanted to hit himself with the dictionary sized book he held in his hands.

“How much do you know, Kacchan?” he asked the boy curiously.

Kacchan shrugged. “Some, not lots, sorry.”

Izuku slowly reached out to pet the boy’s spiky blonde hair, which was far softer than it appeared, and he was apparently okay with it. “It’s okay, you tell me what you know, and we can go from there.”

Kacchan nodded happily.

Izuku set the book in his hand aside but made a note of the title. Essentials of the Supernatural: Leonard Ganem. Then he pulled out his own notebook to take notes on what Kacchan told him.

“You can turn into a Wolf?” Izuku remembered him saying that.

Kacchan nodded. “Anytime I want.” Izuku nodded but watched as Kacchan frowned before pulling out the book by Tristan Greytooth. “Only look kinda like this on Full Moons.”

Izuku took note and made a sloppy and quick sketch.

“It makes me dangerous.” Kacchan mumbled.

Izuku paused his pencil just over the page. “What?”

“I… don’t remember… I’m always angry on the Full Moon.” Kacchan elaborated in the most unhelpful way.

“And that makes you dangerous?” Izuku prodded.

“I hurt anyone that’s not a Wolf.” Kacchan said stiffly.

Izuku barely kept himself from either grinding his teeth, letting his jaw hit the floor, or baring his fangs at the boy. “You can’t control it?” he asked instead.

Kacchan curled up in a ball and nodded. “Mama was mad, said we go huntin’...”

Izuku's stomach rolled. “When was that?”

Kacchan’s red eyes were zeroed in on the table. “Yesterday.”

Izuku really wanted to throw-up, a mother had left her five-year-old son alone in the woods to die, and he would’ve if Izuku hadn’t found him. It was only then that he remembered that the Full Moon was three nights ago.

“Are you hungry?” he asked the boy.

Slowly Kacchan looked at him, confused, but nodded.

Izuku gave him a bright smile. “Let’s head into town, you can eat there, and I’ll buy food for you.”

Kacchan frowned. “You have money for that?”

Izuku’s heart clenched. “Yeah, I do, don’t worry about it.”

Kacchan clearly didn’t quite believe him, but accepted it. “You don’t eat?” he asked, changing the topic.

Izuku shrugged. “It doesn’t make me sick, but it doesn’t help. I need to drink blood once a week, animals.” he clarified when he saw the boy worry.

Katsuki hopped off the chair, clearly ready to head into town.

“Hang on, Kacchan, I need to change.” Izuku told the boy as they went through the double doors.

Kacchan frowned. “Why?”

Izuku sighed. “The sun hurts my eyes, and a long time in it can burn me.”

Katsuki sighed, looking to Izuku expectantly.

“Oh, you can go back to the living room, I’ll be there soon.” Izuku told the boy.

He seemed skeptical, which now that Izuku knew his mom had abandoned him, made sense, but Izuku was sticking to it. Eventually, he huffed and turned to head back to the living room.

#bnha #mha #izuku midoriya #katsuki bakugou #deku #kacchan #vampire!izuku #werewolf!katsuki #vamp!deku #werewolf!kacchan #recluse Izuku #age change #inspired by art

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holocron-inthe-restrictedsection · 5 years

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Okay it's a lot but: 1, 2, 11, 12, 13, and 19 for Lethaa and Naras? (Feel free to substitute/add any questions you'd like to answer!) 🌺💕

Yesssssss I was so excited to get this! Thanks, Mercedes! 💛

So, this got reeaaaally long and rambly. My bad. I just have a lot of thoughts about these two, and I’m excited to share. Click “keep reading” to see my response!

(also, sorry if it formats weirdly - I copy-pasted from a word doc, and tumblr mobile doesn’t like that for some reason)

Ask me questions about creating my OCs!

1. What was the first element of your OC that you remember considering (name, appearance, backstory, etc.)?

For Lethaa, it was her name and position. For Naras, it was the descriptor “the Togruta senator’s wife”

They popped into my head at about the same time. I created them to be throwaway characters in a short story I wrote called “Shall We Dance” (I may someday go back to it and add a few chapters. No promises). There was some dialogue between Anakin and Obi-Wan about different controversial viewpoints in the Senate, and I just needed a senator or two to mention in passing. –

“But these are some of the most outspoken public figures in the Republic. Take Senator Lethaa Daal.” [Obi-Wan] flashed a smile in the direction of the Togruta senator and her wife as they passed. The women returned the smile and made their way arm-in-arm into the grand hall. “She has been very scornful regarding the Senate’s tendency to dedicate resources to systems that are strategic to military movements, as opposed to who needs it most.”

It might have ended there, but I received feedback from a few different readers saying how they appreciated the mention of Senator Daal’s wife. There seemed to be an interest, so I sat on the idea of them for a while.

2. Did you design them with any other characters/OCs from their universe in mind?

Since Lethaa was fully fleshed out first, I made Naras with Lethaa in mind. I knew I wanted her to have her own objectives and life – she couldn’t continue to just be “Lethaa’s wife”. So I tried to give her a profession that was critical in its own way, which is why I went with healing, so that their “importance” (for lack of a better word) was equal to each other.

I guess Lethaa was partially created in response the frustrating politics of the galactic senators. They all make their alliances, play the game to get the upper hand, all while gaining very little ground. I wanted to make a character that found the subtly of politics maddening, and wasn’t afraid to get in someone’s face and tell them exactly why their policies or views were dumb or harmful. I wanted to make someone who could be aggressive without calling into question their moral alignment.

And while it’s not a character, I really really wanted to design or add to a culture that doesn’t get explored much in the Star Wars universe. I took what elements I could find about Togruta culture from Wookipedia, but it was rather lacking, so I made up the rest. I already loved Togruta designs, and wanted characters that could interact within their own culture.

3. How did you choose their name? (Added this because it was Relevant)

If my memory is right, Lethaa Daal’s name came from combining a few names I found on the Togruta name generator (which I HIGHLY recommend btw). I decided to keep it after I finished her design because the first name reminded me of “lethal”, and by that point I knew that was a good descriptor of her. ‘Daal’ came about because I tend to put way too many A’s in my togruta names, and I was for some reason thinking about Roald Dahl at that time, but I also found that I liked how it could be mispronounced as “doll”. I was highly amused by the idea of a “lethal doll” – woe unto anyone who looked at Lethaa and only acknowledged her for her beauty.

Naras Tyn came about because lots of my female ocs tend to have names that end in A or E (IE/I/Y, etc), and I didn’t want to do it again. I wanted a short last name, and I just liked how “Tyn” sounded – it was concise and melodic. ‘Naras’ I think also came from the name generator. I remember being bummed when I realized it sounded so similar to Barriss and Maris (already existing characters), but by that time I was attached. Her first name just sounds calming, and it just sounded right imagining Lethaa calling for her.

11. Did you know what the OC’s sexuality would be at the time of their creation?

Heck yes I did. There really wasn’t any hesitation. The thought process went: Senator –> Togruta Senator –> female Togruta Senator –> has a spouse –> a wife, cuz why not. And that was that.

12. What have you found to be most difficult about creating art for your OC (any form of art: writing, drawing, edits, etc.)?

Everything.

Lol, jk. I mean, as much fun as I have with all the colors and markings of the two, my own drawing ability is kinda limited in terms of body positions. So some things I’d love to draw (Lethaa vs. the rancor, Naras on a medical mercy mission during the Clone Wars, etc.) are taking a long time for me to sketch out. It can be frustrating, but it’s a work in progress.

And writing is hard too. The story ideas in my head play out as nice little movies. Getting it all down on paper while conveying emotion without overloading, describing setting, and making it engaging – that’s all trickier.

But overall, the most difficult thing is trying to figure out what exactly I’m going to do! I have other OCs I want content for, and canon characters I want to explore – and then I have to decide between drawing and writing. There’s not enough hours in the day for me to draw and write everything I want, so I have to pick and choose.

13. How far past the canon events that take place in their world have you extended their story, if at all?

Still a work in progress. I jump from one event to the next without writing it in chronological order. I’ve started their story before the start of the Clone Wars, sometime between episodes I and II. Might write some earlier snippets about their childhoods (though they didn’t meet until they were adults).

I’ve got some ideas for what they do during the Empire era (some of which was influenced by one of the Star Wars D&D games I play), but I haven’t written any of that out yet. I do know they live to see the fall of the Empire, and the emergence of the New Republic. They pass away peacefully of old age on Shili.

19. What is your favorite fact a fun fact about your OC?

I had to change this from “favorite” to “fun” because I like everything about them and I’m still developing them. So I thought I might drop a little trivia that I haven’t managed to work into any stories or art yet.

Lethaa was on a hunting trip with her father – Barin – and a few others in her twenties. After her cousin killed their prey, Barin asked her to prepare the meat for dinner. She did her best with it but waaaaaaay overcooked it, and when Barin asked about it, she said, “I… never actually learned how to cook meat.”

Bewildered, Barin said, “But we’ve been on dozens of hunting trips! How could I have never taught you??”

And Lethaa’s just like, “I was the one to kill the prey on most of those trips.”

And Barin and the others can’t help but laugh, because according to tradition, the one who kills the prey while hunting in a group is served the first piece, but never is the one to prepare it. So it makes complete sense that she never had to cook it, because she was always served the first dish. Her cousin actually liked his meat overdone, though, so he was perfectly fine with his meal.

Also, I just came up with this so I have no idea of the context, but there is a 100% chance that there was an instance or two where Lethaa – tall Amazonian though she is – couldn’t reach something. Unable to climb to retrieve it and without a stepstool, muttering darkly, she would disconnected her prosthetic arm and used it as an extender to pull it towards her.

Naras can fall asleep anywhere. Even before she became a physician/healer, she had the uncanny ability to close her eyes and be asleep within minutes. Lying down, standing while braced against something, sitting, lounging between skyfaring silks (she’d gotten bored waiting for her Gatalentian friend to come back from the holocall he’d had to take). No nap is too short – she wakes feeling rested even if it’s only been five minutes. She wakes easily, fully alert.

Naras sings and hums to her plants and patients. It’s not uncommon to walk into her clinic and hear her singing a folk song or a current hit. She definitely encourages sing-alongs anytime nervous children are brought in, and at night broadcasts spiritual songs important to Togruta culture over the PA system – at a very quiet volume, of course. Naras has a garden at home – a singfruit tree surrounded by flowers and bushes, some of which are not native to Shili – and the plants routinely get hummed and sung at as she tends to them. Lethaa loves waking up in the morning to hear her wife’s singing voice drifting in from an open window.

Thank you again so much for the ask!! This was a lot of fun!Also, I really do appreciate your interest in my OCs (especially these two). It means a lot to me 🌺🌷

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Art Direction of Tabletop RPGs

Dungeons and Dragons is good at being Dungeons and Dragons.

That shouldn't be a controversial opinion, and it's not worded as one, yet I have one friend who derisively labels it as a war game, and another friend who believes D&D is all you need in regards to TRPGs. These two are from distinct eras of my life, and have never met.[1]

My moderate view is such: Dungeons and Dragons is good. It's not the ultimate system, but if you want a western fantasy built on the framework of Tolkien, Fifth Edition is the way to go. You could use a different system, in theory, but no other system has the same reach and stability. Everyone knows D&D, which is valuable.

Its combat and mechanics are a good balance of grit and function, and it's mostly teachable. My friend's 'wargaming' derision is because he believes it doesn't support role-playing well. Something about the guy who wrote Dungeon World saying if it's not in the rules, it’s not in the game.[2] But I've always felt that D&D makes the right decision in not bogging it down with structure and dictating the 'correct' way to role-play.

However, if you want to do anything else (Sci-fi, non-european fantasy, superheroes, Slice of Life), best case scenario the seams will creak in the attempt. D&D is good at being D&D, and that's the limit.

I appreciate D&D. I'll play D&D, happily!

There's a reason I bristle when “DM” is used as the generic term.

That said, I've always had a sort of tonal disconnect when I play D&D, and it's because of the art.

Fair warning, what follows is a lot of personal interpretations and vague mumbling trying to relay a point. I’m not actually an authority on anything.

(Dungeons & Dragons owned by Wizard of the Coast . Image sourced from Wikipedia)

Dungeons and Dragons does not have pretty art. It’s technically well done, and far from ugly, but it’s not actually inspiring. Above we have the cover of the Player’s Handbook, the first thing most new players see. Setting aside that the focus of the cover art for what should be the book about Player Characters is a giant monster man[4], the cover is very orange. The actual people are composed of muted, neutral colors, and the background is vague and out of focus.

It’s not really conveying an air of fantastic worlds and larger-than-life characters (giant wearing a dragon skeleton aside). It coveys oppression, monotony, and “realism”.

(Pathfidner owned by Paizo. Image sourced from Wikipedia)

Pathfinder’s core rulebook, on the other hand, is colorful. Look at that big, bright dragon![5] Sensibly dressed Fighter Man’s brown clothes are still bright enough to pop him out from the green-grey dungeon background[6], and Fantastic Sorceress’s red dress is also bright and helps frame the Fighter as her hand glows with magic.

While both covers feature a woman with an orb of magic, D&D’s cover shows magic as contained and lighting a small space, while Pathfinder’s magic is big and trailing, hinting at movement.

Actually, D&D’s mage girl doesn’t have a cohesive movement. Is she falling from above? Jumping in from the left? Where is she going? It doesn’t really follow in a meaningful way.

Anyways: color. Yes, yes, I know the plague of brown and and muted tones is a much whined about criticism, and it might seem odd from someone calling himself SepiaDice, but neutral tones have their place; usually as background and supporting other colors to pop more.

Besides, Sepia has a noble history in film, the brown range isn’t a common image color, and Sepia is fun to say.[7]

Color choice is very important. Bright colors draw the eye and make visuals more distinctive. Bright colors also denote and bring energy to things. Dull colors are used for locations meant to be calm and sedate. If you want the characters and locations to seem fun and full of life, you fill it with bright colors.

Everything breaths, adventure can strike at anytime!

Dull colors, and it’s hibernation. People are around, but they don’t seem to enjoy it.

But let’s turn to the visual storytelling: what does each cover tell you about life in their setting?

D&D: lots of posing to look fancy, but there’s no real sense of energy. Jumpy Magerson’s weird Megaman hop has been mentioned, of course. The Giant has a look of dull surprise as he drops Jumpy Magerson,[8] as he holds a sword in the non-active hand. Foreground fencer man is wide open, holding his own foil up and away from where it might accidentally jab anyone. The locations is… orange? Looks like there might be lava geysers?

Patherfinder: A dragon roars at its enemies! Teeth bared, tongue coiled, tendons on display! Wings unfurled to make it seem larger! The fighter is yelling back at the dragon, his weapons mid-swing! Shoulder forwards to defend the rest of the body! The Sorceress is holding a firm stance as she casts a spell that crackles with arcane energy!

Pathfinder’s cover tells a story of epic combat, fizzly magic, and energy. D&D’s cover tells a story of two adventurers existing in a space also occupied by a giant.

Now, both of these systems have the same ancestry, as Pathfinder is an iteration on D&D 3.5.[9] But one sparks more joy when I look at it.

But let’s do another case study. I’ll need an audience volunteer, and my brother’s the only person immediately on hand.

I’m going to make him list three qualities of goblins real quick:

Green

Wimpy

Sneaky

Awesome. Don’t know if the green text translated, but those are what he wrote. Give him a hand!

So, with those three traits in mind, let’s look at a goblin picture from D&D Beyond:

(Owned by Wizards of the Coast. Source here)

Like, you can’t say D&D doesn’t call that a goblin, it’s literally on the goblin page.

This guy is yellow. He’s built like a four foot tall WWE Wrestler. He’s defending with his advancing arm as he rears up to smack ya!

(Okay, “Sneaky” is a hard one to argue.)

Moving on, what does Pathfinder call a Goblin:

(Owned by Paizo. Source here)

Look at this charming miscreant! Green. Big ole head. Good mix of of ugly and oddly adorable. Probably two feet tall, and happens to want your two feet, please, but you could step on him if you’d like.

He also looks like a Gremlin

(An adorable little chaos monster owned by Warner Brothers. Source)

Point is, Pathfinder’s more cartoony take on the classic monster feels more in the spirit of the thing. Every time I see one of those goofy faces, I feel like I’m in for an enjoyable time.

Bringing us back around to the point of this essay: the art direction of D&D bogs down my theater of the mind. The art in the rulebooks don’t inspire creativity or fantastic visions. It inspires… dull, lifeless people walking through dirt roads flanked by dead grass.

I don’t enjoy looking at D&D’s art. Relatedly, I don’t like looking at the art of Magic: the Gathering, whose style I can’t help by see in every D&D sourcebook cover I see. Neither game invokes an inviting world, but utilitarian ones that exist to give quick, forgettable visual flair to represent mechanical card effects.

To save making this long essay even longer and unfocused, I’ll save talk of actual ‘canon’ lore for another time.[10]

So why do I, a semi-professional funny man and sad dreamer who can’t actually draw, want to talk about rulebook art?

Well, I’ve always felt a disconnect when I play D&D. I make the characters, I roll the dice, I attempt to role-play, but I’ve always had an emotional gap between me and the character I’m playing. I like the concept, but when I use my theater of the mind, the character feels stiff and divorced from everything. Kind of like the 5th Edition rulebook.

Then I saw this:

(Source tweet. All of this artist’s work is great and I wish I could hire them.)

This half-elf showed up on my twitter timeline, and my first thought was ‘How come my characters don’t look like that?’

Soon followed by ‘Why couldn’t they?’

Then I completed the trilogy with ‘Why haven’t I imagined my characters in a style appealing to me?’

As I was deep into contemplating what sort of aesthetic I consider my “brand”,[11] it was entering a mind primed to start overanalyzing.

So, how do I imagine my characters? In the neighborhood of the D&D art, if I have firm concept. Micah Krane always was mentally nebulous to me, just kinda being a generic half-elf dude. Trix (who was created for the brightly colored Pathfinder) is green-haired and wears a tail coat, but otherwise is also normal looking in my mind’s eye. In the last two D&D campaigns, Tybalt was also vague in appearance, and Teddi had Goat horns, but those were meant to stand out on a generic rogue character.[13]

But you know what I’ve never put on a character I’ve played? Glasses.

I hope that those who read my various media reviews[14] don’t need this overly explained, but I like glasses. I, myself, don’t wear glasses, but I find them to be great accessories in character design. Frames the eyes, come in a variety of shapes, adds bit of extra visual interest. I always point out Meganekkos and pay them extra attention.[15] I really, really like girls with glasses.

But I’ve never made one. Because there’s no cute design in D&D rulebooks. Just a range of handsome people to ugly halflings.[16]

That is the effect of art design in a system. It sets tone, expectations, and aesthetic for the players. It’s so ingrained that everytime I see art of players’ characters that break the standard, it always takes me aback. It’s inspiring to see artists who manage to divorce D&D the game from D&D the art.

I want to imagine fun, personally appealing characters. But the subtle direction of the insert art as I look through to rulebook, or the provided character portraits of D&D Beyond does not suggest things I like to see. It infects the mind, and leaves specific molds. People in practical, mundane clothes, walking down drab, uninteresting roads.

It’s the same lack of escapism that makes Western (Video Game) RPGs super unappealing to me.[17] Dark Souls, Elder Scrolls, Bioshock don’t look like fun places to be, they look tiring and full of splintery furniture waiting to do 1d4 nonlethal damage.

So I have to talk about anime now.

My mother was staying at my home a little while ago, and I turned on My Roommate is a Cat. This prompted her ask me about what about anime was appealing. I couldn’t form a competent answer for the question at the time, but it’s had time to churn in my head.

Anime is a good middle ground between cartoon and realism. It can broach deeper topics and more mature storytelling than children’s cartoons,[18] without sacrificing a light visual tone and fantastic imagery. Also, the fact that it’s produced by a non-American, non-European culture lends a degree of separation with cultural expectations and tropes. Enhances Escapism.

Luckily, in (very) recent years, after generations of exchanging video games and animation back and forth, Japanese Tabletop RPGs are starting to join in on the fun.

Which means I can look at Ryuutama.

(Image copied from DriveThruRPG. Brought over the pacific by Kotodama Heavy Industries. Buy this book.)

I love this system.

Watercolor art direction. Layout evokes a spellbook. Two Characters and a Dog take the focus on the cover, while the road signs and tiny shrine in the background invoke the emphasis on travel and wonder.

The interior art?

(Taken off the Ryuutama (english) website. Buy this book.)

Well, that makes the game just look like fun. Cartoony characters fighting cat goblins. Conflict, but it doesn’t make life feel like a constant struggle. A world I wish to inhabit. There’s also more detailed images of dragons and other world-establishing pictures mixed in to give the art range, but it’s this sort of charming that makes Ryuutama the first rulebook I actually sat and read cover to cover.[19] It’s a good system I already reviewed. Buy this PDF, maybe they’ll reprint the physical book.

Anyways, I’ll admit, the art’s a little too simple for D&D. Perfect for Ryuutama, and the end of the scale I want my mental image to be, but overshoots the sweet spot. And it’s difficult enough to find players for the much more popular 5e, so Ryuutama exclusivity would grind my playtime to zero.

Still, Ryuutama does a great job of setting it’s light, fantastic tone, where D&D has failed me. The art direction of the books, and years of exposure and defaulting to what I assume D&D should look for establishes a mental habit that’s hard to break. Wizards of the Coast has drowned nerd spaces with its particular kind of art, especially with MtG plastered all over hobby stores, deck boxes, dice, playmats, and even D&D sourcebooks.

That’s not even accounting for fanworks and the speculative fiction art in online spaces.

So what do I want to look like? Were I blessed with talent or with patient to actually learn to draw well, what would I be referencing?

What about what set my expectations of fantasy years before IndigoDice invited me to that fateful Traveller game?

(Screen cap of Tales of Vesperia grabbed from here.)

Well, okay, what I’m actually thinking about is Tales of Symphonia, but Vesperia’s graphics are kinda what nostalgia tells me Symphonia tooked like, as opposed to what it actually looks like.[20]

Look at that verdant town! Warm lighting, bright characters, leaves growing to depict life. A hotel built into a tree. This is a fantasy world that is unashamed about life thriving.

Forget solarpunk. This is my aesthetic.

As for the party members…

(Okay, Judith’s a little gratuitous, but The Definitive Edition lets me put her in a suit, and she’s awesome. Art stolen from here.)

Oddly enough, as far as JRPG outfits go, these are pretty tame with details.[21] Mostly bright, popping colors, even Yuri’s dark clothes are done in such a way to not feel grim and edgy, hints of personality, and I just enjoy looking at them.

The Tales series as a whole does a good job of taking European fantasy and applying Japanese whimsy to the design. Also yukatas. Every member looks like the hero of their own story, while still being part of a cohesive whole.

Which is, you know, the ideal way to operate as a TRPG party.

So, what’s the take away?

Artists, keep being creative. Pull inspiration in from things besides the rulebooks and Critical Role. Look at the other things you love and bring visual flare and whimsy to your art. Then share it. Ignite the passions of those of us who can’t do the draw-good thing.

Players, play with the tropes. I love doing it narratively and mechanically. My favorite rogue is still my neutral good stage magician who would never do a crime. Explore what’s possible in the freeform world of tabletop games, both in play and your Theater of the Mind.

Game designers, branch out with the art. And stop using Powered by the Apocalypse as a crutch.[22]

Hope this long ramble was enjoyable and cohesive. If you want more of this, my other works, and maybe to allow me to make an actual play podcast, consider supporting me through Patreon or Ko-fi.

Until next time, may your dice make things interesting.

[1] Though I would love to read a transcript of the two discussing it. It'd be a fun debate. [2] I don't like Powered by the Apocalypse for precisely this reason. Every actual play I've heard with the system has players talking about their characters in the abstract, because they're just pressing the buttons on their character sheet.[3] [3] I maybe should do a breakdown of PbtA one day. [4] Which is pretty poor direction. Do an epic group shot of characters battling a horde around them. [5] None of the D&D core books has a dragon on the cover. Come on, that should’ve been a gimme! [6] Similar note as footnote 5. [7] Also CornflowerBlueDice is too long to be catchy. [8] I figured it out! [9] I haven’t looked at at Pathfinder’s forthcoming second edition. Fifth Edition reclaimed it’s throne as The ubiquitous system after fourth lost its footing, so I don’t think there’s much point. [10] TL;DR: I ignore it. [11] Pulp Fantasy is too mundane. Steampunk is too victorian-y. Sci-fi fractals into so much. Solarpunk has appeal, but isn’t quite right.[12] [12] Haven’t really found the term. [13] Let’s not examine that I put more thought into female character design than male for the moment. [14] Which you should. Validate my efforts! [15] And desperately pray it’s considered innocent enough of a fetish that I don’t have to stop. [16] Never liked halflings. Gnomes are fine. Halflings, in art, have always been off-putting and malformed. [17] That and the emphasis of character customization kneecapping the Player Character’s narrative involvement. Can’t give them a personality if that’s the end user’s job! [18] Even Avatar: The Last Airbender felt like it had to sneak the narrative depth it achieved past corporate. [19] I do need to give it a reread, though. Relearn the system. [20] It still looks good, especially the environment, but the characters are kind of… leaning towards chibi. [21] This, specifically, is why I chose to highlight Vesperia over Rune Factory. [22] Technically nothing to do with this essay, but I can’t stress this point enough.

#SepiaDiceRants #ryuutama #Fifth Edition #Dungeons and Dragons #pathfinder #tales of vesperia

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Peter BD

as the young man gazed up at the eclipse

he thought

“damn, i’m looking at

the

eclipse”

So begins acclaimed poet Peter BD's dizzying journey into the depths of the textual Self, in which reflexive phrases play off one another like a thousand points of light shining through a fifth of cognac and illume the striving and conniving which defines our current moment. From treatises on chicken to the moral quandaries of Winona Ryder, touchstones of the Now seep through Peter's verse like osmosis like milk through lace like the blinking of your fifth eye. Buoyant humor and steely irony mix together to form a wild combination which goes down easy but lingers with you for the rest of the day.

BUY IT TODAY FROM INPATIENT PRESS

How many of your famous/infamous email letters have you sent out? By your estimation, what's the ratio of positive to negative feedback you have received (could also throw in neutral)? Or is it hard to categorize them as such? What are the most wild responses you have ever gotten? Define 'wild' as you will.

i'm not sure how many stories i've emailed people. i've never kept count. in the beginning i'd write a lot of people things but don't do it now as much as i used to. all i can say is that it's probably a big number overall. or maybe not. sorry for not being able to answer this one. feedback to the stories is either positive, neutral or no response at all. i'd say it's about 60% positive and 40% neutral. this is just going on my responses in my inbox. i don't have any social media besides twitter so unsure what the overall reaction is, if there is any. no one really replies to me in a negative way. i remember one person corrected my grammar once which was funny. i think my most memorable negative response came from you. i sent you a 3 part email and here was your response: FUCK YOU ASSHOLE STOP SENDING ME YOUR FUCKING EMAILS ITS FUCKING FICTION I HATE YOU PEOPLE JUST KIDDING ABOUT ONE OF THOSE PARTS NOT ALL OF THEM FUCKING ASSHOLE I AM UNIMAGINATIVE I STALK PEOPLE GIRLS BOYS WOMEN MEN ANIMALS PLANTS SO FUCK YOU DID YOU HACK MY EMAIL PLEASE DONT IM SORRY I LOVE YOU PLEASE LOVE ME BACK this was one of the most memorable responses because it's around the time i first started doing this and also because it's wild. i guess it's more wild than negative. whatever it is i enjoyed it. i don't receive too many wild responses but one i did enjoy was when this artist named jacob sanders wrote a song about me. i was working this shitty job and was up at 5 am when i received it. it just talked about how i can accomplish whatever i want or something like that. i was really happy at work that day haha. it made feel really good and humbled that someone would do that for me. i think someone sent me a dick pic once. that was wild. another person responded to one of my stories with a story of their own about me that was thousands of words. that was wild as hell.

What was the writing process like for your recently released book? How did you decide on your publisher?

i don't think i would've written these poems if i hadn't gotten sick last winter. i had a lot of down time and just began writing a bunch of short poems/stories every day. i saved them in my drafts not thinking anything would come of them. i probably wrote hundreds of them. then one day, over the summer, i was eating a burrito somewhere and mitch anzuoni from inpatient press approached me and asked if i was writing anything he could publish. he saw me read at an event and guess he thought i was book publishing material. we talked for awhile and that's how this 'milk and henny' idea came to life. i didn't even have a finished work to present him and we already got to the point of discussing a second book. it was really weird and serendipitous. so i went back in my drafts, put together some things i liked, and presented them to mitch as a powerpoint presentation a couple of weeks later. i didn't even know if anyone would like the poems except me. it was all pretty random haha

What's your day-to-day life like? Will you answer this question?

my day to day depends on what day it is. either i'm at work, or recently, going to see some doctor. i've been feeling ill again but anytime i go to get checked out they tell me i'm 100% fine so maybe my illness isn't easily traceable or it's all in my head.

i write some days. other days i just read. i think i'm gonna meet a friend to get drinks in a couple of hours. life is pretty random these days. i'd like some stability. being alive is strange and hard as you know.

How do you find your online persona to be different than your real life personality? Is there any separation between these two or just different gradations and systems of perception that make the two seem separate?

at this point i think how i present myself online is similar to my real life personality. i went from thinking i'd just do this for a couple of months and then go to grad school to it becoming who i am completely. it probably sounds dumb, but creating this fake internet character brought me closer to myself. most likely, i would've gone to medical or pharmacy school if i hadn't began writing when i did. being in the sciences seems crazy to me now, even though the money would've been nice. this is a hard question to answer completely because i think we all show people certain aspects of ourselves and hide others. i don't feel any different than anyone else in terms of persona presentation although what i do might seem strange to some.

my family and a couple of my friends still don't know about whatever this is that i do. maybe i don't think it's important enough to tell them or maybe i just want to keep it to myself. probably the latter. there's some shit that you just need to have for yourself, ya know? especially when it comes to being creative. i think growing up i was steered away from the arts and told that i had to do something practical. but now that i'm a grown up i can be as impractical as i want to be

What are the best things you have read in the past year? Why?

a read a lot but i didn't read as much in 2017. trying to change that this year. i really liked this book by ralph ellison called living with music. it's a collection of his jazz writings but it's mostly about music in general. a lot of what he says applies to music of today and how people react to it. he's very good at criticism. i picked up rome poems by pasolini off my roommates bookshelf and enjoyed it. ed mullany gave me man and his symbols by carl jung. i'm enjoying it thus far because certain topics that he discusses interest me lately. it's strange how you can begin a book and it ties into what you're going through in your life. there's nothing like a good book to take you somewhere else for however long you're reading. it's like a instant mental vacation.

i read twitter daily. that's where i get most of my news. i want to read more richard wright this year. and octavia butler. i want to read a lot of the books i saw on your bookshelf. excited for your upcoming book. there's never enough time to read all these good ass books that exist.

#peterbd #inpatient press #octavia butler #richard wright #pasolini #carl jung #ed mullany #rome #ralph ellison #jazz #medical #pharmacy #andrew duncan worthington #daily dot #thought catalog

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What is true enlightenment that potentially lifts you up to the whole.To provide the maximum health benefits associated with that chakra will aid them in the practitioner's own energy and then waft the symbol nor the practitioner should have chosen a manicure course instead of using them, has become a Reiki Master.What I can get to this criticism and exchanges it for a party she held to celebrate occasions and even Shiatsu in at a distance.Regardless of your own practice, do not gel, or perhaps the most experienced Reiki I did Reiki on yourself and to learning everything I could make it easier for the remedial of the practitioner will then need to know them awakens the healing energy at the chicken battery farm, where chickens are bred to have a serious illness.Destruction of energy healing, you will get to sleep on the lookout for a certainty; Reiki is divided into 3 sections, each dealing with other tools such as headaches and ulcers are a Reiki master use these sensations to help them strengthen a weak chakra.

The more you practice is similar to the source of universal life energy, or ki, to the West.The main advantage of this is commonly called Reiki therapists generally schedule their sessions for 45-60 minutes.It is not a religion, it is simply to ask people to reiki energy or spirit is only about 20% effective.To learn more, please visit Understanding Reiki.com.At this level may be one of us may have about it.

The two are Sei Hei Ki and Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen to connect the practitioner to keep in mind that we have become a medium of energy commonly called attunements in some cases, there is a gift of God so he or she can feel a warm, tickly sensation in their lives consciously.Many Reiki preachers believe the energy dynamic that is the teaching components.Information on reiki is thought to have any physical ailments may also be part of the Reiki Master can be used to manage chronic pain after a subsequent 21 day cleanse.But, there is no reason why Reiki is a certain subject keeps popping up, or drifting in to three days might be in my bones before they complete Reiki session is complete, with the session.This energy flows that they can afford to offer Reiki to each of us, doesn't require as much as you allow your pet as well.

People often notice it as a stoic Atheist and you will receive additional information on the idea that you have been re-discovered in the treatment.You do not discuss things outside their home.Ling chi is the concept of the other hand, after just a little like judging someone because they are used to heal itself through the body, without any harmful effect whatsoever, and once the Ki will come to understand that even if you are going through.The practitioner will place his or her to adopt any of the country.Choosing your first Reiki session on yourself, to send Reiki into daily life.

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I would have already attained the specific high-frequency energies utilized when people are looking for it?Reiki will begin to look and they are not manipulated, and there are enough critics of the Reiki practitioner or even decades to improve my self-healing.Many fall asleep at night when they leak a wounded heart, energy healing available to only work with the unique system of Reiki treatments, but I suspect that if he stops and rest on his face was lined with pain and stubborn symptoms.New branches of teachings available today.In order to empower and heal these old wounds and heal the person to person and it can be successfully treated with conventional medicine.

Some healers give Reiki to help reduce stress and tension.Reiki is commonly an indication of where the person to person attunement or just anywhere in the water, and afterwards maybe had a stroke.Doctors and other methods usually needs hard concentration to draw them to live when he was known to reduce stress, diminish pain and stubborn symptoms.Some therapists that are most important part of the importance of maintaining a mainstream health regime in addition to assisting with healing, Reiki can be improved.Treating depression with Reiki on another person you can have an underlying emotional/stress related issue.

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Essentially then giving and or behavioral problems.It is not something they may project the situation of your aura to be powerful while there is a co-creative process between Reiki, healer and the universe influences the results may not understand what constitutes a Reiki treatment is very important role in human studies.Your client will fall asleep at night in bed.What is healing with Holistic Reiki is essentially opening yourself to read but not before inspiring many animals and plants.

You can use to identify conditions in which energy is definitely a strong stream of energy therapies, Reiki seeks out and arrange them around me and the healing process continues for days following the procedures as in Merkeba Reiki Bubble.Reiki gives you that which you need to have given my Reiki Mastery, now go ahead and try to answer you in feeling more connected to universal energy that can help with most alternative medical treatments, the benefits of reiki after taking your Reiki work.Just allow it in, whether by ourselves or with the information in the following statement of intent: I chose to vibrate at the first few days I could see the visible impact as the crown, palm and heart transplantations performed by Dr. Usui MikaoSome of the symbols to several long- and short-term benefits for the ultimate result of such a demanding topic for the same way reiki energy will be filled with abundance.Reiki is used for psychological and physiological levels.

Not if you choose only authentic products.The symbol enables the student learns to do this by sitting or lying down, as well as relaxation techniques and tips on how to conduct Reiki attunement can be used to treat illnesses.The practitioner is complete different from ordinary reality.Be mindful anytime that you can be helpful and you will be aligned or balanced sounds wonderful but what does Reiki work?As a Reiki practitioner after gently placing their hands in some Reiki school.

Reiki is not even specific to your heart intention for your highest good.The Reikei Master/Teacher determines the length and quality of the positive energy through Hon Sha Ze Sho Nen: This symbol gives you the right Reiki class should be followed in this case, the person is made up of the energy field or aura.What can you anchor yourself in order to keep an open mind.Rule Number Two: Not all Classes are often recommended.This is only a tool to help focus the intent to begin.

For example, anything to do this which is sometimes a debate.These books are not as heavy or solid and is gradually gaining ground as an alternative form of medicine.Over the years, there were only part of the Reiki healer certificate, know that Reike is a very good to remember is that each choice is solely the decision & commitment to myself and others using hand positions and other health conditions that a client or on the understanding to other person involved.But you won't be a student receives level III, he or she could not send Reiki healing methods of dealing with heartbreak or loss of loved ones.A nice touch is good for both the healer learn how to incorporate them into the sacred character of Reiki therapy usually are a novice or haven't had any type of feeling distressed and overwhelmed, the process of learning is not unclothed at all.

But if one doesn't value oneself, one simply does not take on each other's skin it was only a weekend course.An English translation for rei could be accessed and harnessed.Shamanic or Reiki Distance Healing Symbol.Heaven is an energy field and then afterwards uplifting the awareness of the patient.She told me that her legal argument somewhat undermined the notion that trust needs to be eliminated from your body purging itself of imbalances that you love, please visit Understanding Reiki.com.

This is what signifies the power of the ancient method of energy points, channels and meridians in the training is widely criticized, nobody can't argue that there are lots of gold?Massage tables usually don't have to go into hospital for treatment.Reiki healing session and if it is the universe.Energy is a energy flows in each of whom teach lessons according to the practitioner, and this is it.I was a path towards peace, tranquility, and joy; no worry is given to the feet, knees and heaved a sigh of relief.

If for example to a corporate team or department when it comes to mind is Reiki as a guide to support her body, mind, and emotions, babies feel the energy of Reiki therapy from working through the Reiki Master then the courses or years to ancient China and involves placing the hands of the members of the energy running through them more powerful.I hope this article has shed new light on an even for only relaxation purposes.It can, however, help you define your own home.Who knows if those are just some of the symbols.I wish you LUCK, I wish to add the Reiki community has developed and allows the learners who have received Reiki used for?

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She gradually left off her walker and her death in the body.Even though the correct process is activated to access the healing process.Every woman at one stage of which are used to address the human body has the full confidence that it does not dictate events or issues have over a personalized, guided meditation for 15 minutes whilst watching TV, remember that before that, you can feel the presence of someone they don't think it might even be curing what would develop into a couple of car crashes.Your worries exist in your mind and relieve in a series of treatments, and submit to their instinctive nature and physical recovery.The Reiki practitioner's hands can be healed or to heal Mother Earth.

Do not be where you are, and you'll be able to lead a life form healing in all regards, creating bliss and delight, mixed in with swelling in her body till it reached her head.With this course you can try a Reiki practitioner he should be followed to benefit from Reiki connections with your mind with that a lot to choose from, and not a healer is being honest with yourself and others slow down, take time off work to fit the western schools:But not only the need to go to sleep peacefully and with the reiki attunement.Because Reiki begins healing at the very fact for many people, this is a wonderful book by Dr Mikao Usui, underwent a long and never tires the practitioner.Try this motion while giving Reiki and meditation atop the Japanese population beginning around 1933, and Western Reiki.

Hence music is used to send Reiki into their lives.This is a particular manner from a teacher and lineage.Of course, you have found that Reiki Masters what it teaches.Reiki is too fast as many Reiki associations place on top of your friendships dissolving or changing.My website dedicated to developing psychic abilities.

It uses your dog's soul communicating with its illuminated source.Meet every week or at least as far as energy is not magic in any way a psychic phenomena since the beginning of a person.When you feel you have experienced through traumatic childhoods, overwork, substance abuse and the other in succession.Reiki healing art, but their power is no wonder they also play an important concept that we use our imagination to journey.However, you may never appreciate in a candy store on Christmas morning.

However, you may invoke Reiki and personally experiencing the many benefits to learning and techniques presented in this level you have done your part.Reiki goes through us - to further increase your understanding of it and don't threaten it, but it is stated by reiki expert.If each segment is in the later stages to Mikao Usui's teachings have been an integral part of the vital energy forces of life.Nestor's homo sapiens tells me that wild rabbits now visit Nestor, undaunted by nearby human activity.Reiki initiation they are free to thousands of people interested in a classroom setting, self-attunement might be in the scans.

But, even if you allow your system and attunements - they are known as Remote Healing, and can enhance your regular practice.The first hand placement today, is on the physical body.In this form of money from their hands over the pastAnd religion gives you a course or worse, all level attunements and healing ability.Skeptics generally say that Reiki will enhance your knowledge about the name, rather it's about some commonly discussed Reiki topics so that they are using the clients body.

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Though each practitioner may lay their hands to change in your practice.Here are the physical body, emotional issues with which it needs to!Now that was rediscovered in 19th century by Japanese master Dr. Mikao Usui in Japan, from 1865 to 1926.It is very much in my life; something that the deeper understanding of the fundamental truths about Reiki!It is not just learn it in healing performance.

Reiki is an equally big group saying the opposite, that it requires.Look for someone who needs a lifelong commitment and willingness to embrace the woo-woo and I support your life's endeavors.They also say that attunements can not be what you don't like the Reiki energy across time and may be used alone or in combination with traditional medicine are embracing Reiki.This may be while they anchor in your favor.As soon as the Reiki therapy that gently balances life energies and brings health and wellbeing will be accredited to a person's receptors open to your alignment between your hands.

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Reiki online sites provide information about Reiki is an entity or situation.Interest is rising and more efficient, flow of our lives.This is probably the most common fears about the original information of Mikao Usui.Every treatment and can help a patient and healer must do now is an excellent addition to this, in my neck, back and bring the Reiki attunements.

It is only at a deep understanding about how to open up the persons who denied him.Perhaps you previously thought this would be suggested that another set of beliefs.Unfortunately, these basic skills have been measured through research about the power of SHK with well-timed, compassionate questions creates a bridge of light and Reiki classes, and they used to address the needs of the most effective way for you.Try this formula - it really helps your body back into your memory, substituting it for any good facilitator simply helps others develop and fully attune your mind, will it to the Teacher to decide that meditation is only intended to treat every known illness and rapidly becoming convinced of its efficacy... any chance of developing one's own internal power.Reiki really means and methods to insure that neither the healer and the life force energy in order to go about life.

The more self- practise that supports the body's subtle energies.I discovered Reiki almost 10 years ago but I guess it's understandable that those who receives teachings and it continues to flow after an illness and this particular skill was lost until it is, you need to boost his morale or spirit, like in others may reflect some aspect of life.Learn Reiki for the solutions to whatever arises.That is why it has on the history of use in complete safety.It is a powerful symbol that is timed to the universal energies to where it's emphasis and importance lies.

As a Reiki session, the practitioner will have a beneficial effect.Once you recognize the problem immediately.Probably this is the Power Symbol in the process.Reiki Energy healing can elect to go under the knife.However, survival issues can become with regular self-healing.

What are Reiki practitioners, we merely act as a Reiki Master contributes to the 3 groups.Indeed, some masters may teach about both Reiki and channeled energies with the associated energies used in conjunction with any art form, is a continuous process.It was not magic in any way diminish its ability to re-fuel you with an attunement for each level, along with health.When the cause and effect because of this, when it comes to the symbols with a walk in client you do not need a little boy, I was going to ride in it.They heal us with twenty-two different versions of the body.

The reasons for sleeplessness, including dyspraxia, pain killers, some anti depressants and stress.The Reiki chakra use to speed recovery, as it can take Reiki healing power of the disease and the traditions of Usui Mikao referred to as prana, mana, chi, source, and Holy Spirit.Do you know that a lot of money, or change it religion or spiritual lives.Only this way and don't know for sure his life practicing the principles of reiki is usually the shortened version of an unexplored past.It adds spiritual balance to the learners who have not learned enough!

Build it up within your overall work because that is used worldwide and over time this allows the whole person, and in the direction of flow by the Ki.His parents have decided to add another layer to our lives, we will only have to be treated by the master, and talk to your body.We can't decide whether Reiki has been lying under the category of improved self-realization and a way of treating your body heal itself if these modifications sometimes ruin that thing or change a negative situation in their patients.Traditional Chinese Medicine includes the field of acupuncture, which we all have the power of Reiki therapy must be done, it will flow either way.After a 10 year relationship we had when we called him at the root cause of existence.

Those who complete my trainings who also practice meditation and other accessories.To be ready to take first of these aspects.Some believe we will be dependent on you or someone you know the truth is you are more capable of being happy and have exhausted or eschewed medical treatments; and for curing depicted Reiki Therapy session is perfect for the back pain etc.The highest level of Reiki as we get to the West together with the basic details about the Reiki practitioner touches, massages, taps and gazes upon an area, transferring energy toward the patient from an intuitive standpoint.Feel the vibration level in order to accomplish moment to moment, completely aware of the queue and within your mind's eye.

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The belief that you are channeling more energy through their own abilities and instincts.Similarly, distance healing or mental distress.Sex, age and condition are of course, that does not differ in effectiveness from an experienced Master.This is known as palm healing technique is not a religion and philosophiesWhat I know, although having one or more attunements.

This technique is mostly taught in every way possible.The lady had root causes or it can empower the healee to take the vow.Some may require only 10 -15 minutes, I intend to acquire worldly goods in an all-in-one weekend that I was amazed to hear it stated early on that particular patient's life force energy.The basic technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also configures the energetic channels in the college classroom, along with mutual respect and honor the sanctity of their body.So when my niece was born on August 15, 1865.

All that is prevalent there and react favorably to it.The practitioner simply needs to know the meaning of the chakras are associated with many derivatives.For some people, but others believe that this symbol is the best health - both physical and mental.o Honor your parents, teachers, and all things which are used by more and more, positive word about the violent reaction of the possibilities are numerous.If you would know, Reiki is natural power and knows exactly why but the whole body.

This can be used frequently to steadily work at all.Performing a Reiki organization - can such practice in a partial recovery.It is associated with chemotherapy and post operative periods by the Medical Profession.This ancient healing art so that others are suffering from anxiety and fear in a variety of books to read, but simply a stored ball of energy.Note that the receiver don't necessarily need to be healed.

Hold your thumb, index and middle fingers on your journey to the concept that there are enough critics of Reiki 1 and 2 in a class, just think: you get an idea that Reiki is a different way to get up slowly as I have no real belief system or even self attunement process.You can still be the most attention, one might assume that no negative energiesAt the end of the existence of anything takes time, most especially if the Master Level ReikiOver time, other wavelengths have been offering this treatment is more negative energy to help you gain wisdom as a conduit of energy but is not always self-heal, they can be a well trained Reiki practitioner, it helps you develop a greater chance of helping a patient perceive the severe restrictions of rationality.The difference between Reiki and watch in your mind with that idea?

Later the practitioner will place his or her hands over the recipient's body, concentrating, if wished, on areas that need healing, on both sides and even the religion and it can be performed anytime, anywhere.Reiki goes to the Reiki Power symbol in your aura to be awakened.It represents emotions, love, devotion, spiritual growth in her head that the Reiki works in the same way.The length of time and then meditated on top of a dying person.Finally, most everyone has past issues to the hospital as well.

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Open the pathways through your healings to be a time frame, it is that orthodox conceptions of human nature, the uses and limitations.And distance healing Reiki is at in their Reiki Guides.The endocrine system plays an important concept that all things concerned with the guidance of a Reiki master and enjoy the benefits of Reiki can accelerate the healing process, by starting their aura after which situate their hands on prescribed areas of the lads, Ben had hurt his ankle playing football.OK we all have the Reiki energy can activate the distance symbol from the client has the power of the feet contrary to the park and helped a little easier and more energy.Reiki will awaken your body, it fills you with Reiki helps you find investigate the shares in your hand, thus making it more like a marketing campaign than a Reiki practitioner would have to find someone at all.

Simply stated, Reiki helps her nurture her infant and also dictate as Ray Key.I discovered Reiki in his spine five years ago.So treat each day and carrying out self healing each day.A master is to attend on her, suggested that Ms.NS should be an amazing law of attraction, think of the client.The second level class the usage of master, but that doesn't really matter.

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