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neotomiccccc · 4 months

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All Saints Street Infection Au!

I know I cant be the only one whose tiktok fyp is full of mlp infection videos atm and if theres one thing i love its SMASHING my interests together like theyre fucking cymbals SO HERES THE FIRST POST OF MY WSJ VIRUS/APOCALYPSE AU...

The breakdown is this:

A virus breaks out which can affect humans and monsters alike. There is no known cure except for swift amputation of the infected area. Once a certain amount of time has passed, it's too late for this to happen, and the diseased will slowly succumb to a mutated state, before finally death.

Angels, for the first few weeks of the viruses existence, are found to be naturally immune to the disease. It's theorised that this is because of their purifying properties.

Neil is infected with the disease by the fourth week since the outbreak, and by week five is in the middle stages. He hasn't told anyone out of fear, and also out of denial and the belief he'll just get better. He doesn't. At some point, he struggles to hide his symptoms anymore and Lily is the one to discover his infection. Together they make the difficult decision that Lily will have to kill Neil as an act of mercy before he gets any worse and becomes dangerous. Lynn hears Lily crying, and finds her sobbing over Neil's body. The two return to camp and are forced to tell Nick what happened - they are unable to bring Neil back with them because of the infection risk.

Lily has taken the role of defending the makeshift camp from the mutated late-stage diseased. She is ambitious, but Neil's death is traumatic for her and she often finds her brain foggy and dull where she used to be concentrated and sharp. After a small injury, Lynn begs and even forbids Lily from fighting off the diseased until she is fully healed, but Lily can't cope with the thought of putting more people, especially her brother, in danger by not fighting. While defending the base, Lily becomes overwhelmed and while her death is brutal, it is at the very least, swift.

Nick is bitten on the lower leg very early on, and Lynn has to amputate in order to stop the disease from spreading. This is successful, but it does leave Nick with a severe disadvantage. Despite this, he is very resourceful, a fast thinker and a great resource at the base. After Neil's death, he goes into denial, partially blaming himself for not keeping a closer eye on his little brother. As time goes on, the nightmares and dreams about Neil become too much for him, and he almost stops sleeping altogether. This only furthers his worsening mental health, and he slowly becomes more impulsive and aggressive.

Lynn originally served as a medic and healer for the group, being the one to deal with wounds and examine potential infections. Despite being the most calm and put-together individual at the start of the outbreak, he suffers a brutal downfall. Shortly after the news comes out that the virus has mutated so that angels are no longer immune, Lynn loses the vast majority of his wings to a mutant - and only a few days after, Lily is killed in a similar incident. After losing Lily and suffering severe physical and psychological trauma, Lynn is reduced to a state where he very rarely speaks or does anything other than stare off into the distance. Nick and he still spend a lot of time together despite this, even if there is not much conversation to be had.

Characters that I haven't drawn in this AU yet:

Abu's anxieties become his saviour - by barricading himself in his own shelter and rarely leaving, Abu manages to survive despite minor injuries through sheer isolation. This does mean however, that he is needed more and more as others begin to succumb to the illness. Will he be able to overcome his fear, or is it better to stay holed up until a cure is found?

Ira gets infected during the fifth week, but the virus goes unnoticed in him for quite a while, as he does not show regular symptoms and is a bit of an anomaly. He also does not know he has been infected until he begins to lose himself. By the time Ira knows what's happening, he's already too far gone.

Damao is infected by a stray dog very early into the outbreak. He quickly notices his body beginning to rot and fearing for the safety of his friends, he runs away and goes into hiding. The next time the group sees damao, he has to fight for internal control in order not to hurt anyone, and does so for just enough time for the group to escape. The time after that, the group run into a horribly mutated monster that barely resembles a canine anymore.

Luis is confused at first about his potential immunity - he's already a zombie, but as it would seem, this virus is a different beast entirely, so he's not as immune as he thought. He manages to last a while, despite losing several body parts, but he too eventually is infected by a mutant, and transforms before the group.

Momo was one of the first to be infected, catching the virus from a stray cat. She is the reason that the group realise the severity and true horror of the virus - seeing her mutilated state is enough to convince anyone to abandon the city and run for a rural area to go into hiding.

Crystal is tough and is used to fighting. She doesn't hesitate to put mutants out of their misery, even though their screams haunt her later. By virtue of her toughness and perseverance, she is able to be one of the few survivors, but she struggles to deal with the amount of blood on her hands, even if she knows it was the only thing she could have done.

#all saints street #all saints street au #horror au #all saints street infection au #infection au #neil bowman #lily angel #lynn angel #nick hoult

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bluesyjean · 9 months

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TUA hot takes for 'Seven Bells':

The opening with Luther's time on the moon is the standout of the season for him. Love love love that they went deeper into what all those years were like for him. Luther got so much crap for talking about the moon too much, but it was legitimately traumatizing and I'm all for the reminder. Your moon trauma is valid, Luther. Also showcases some of his best acting, please let him be something other than an oaf way more often it's so much more interesting. (Also was extremely into his scene with Reggie at the end and the shock of what happens to Luther. It's Really Great and terrible and I love that they went there. Reggie is on fire this entire episode and I will talk about him more.)

You can be whatever about the Klaus/Ben implications, but it doesn't take away from the fact that Sparrow!Ben finally started getting a personality in these last episodes. I don't ship the siblings but I was happy they were sharing the screen again.

Reggie's response to Viktor saying "Jesus" when he looks out at the incoming apocalypse: "He's due any minute now" is one of my favorite things Reggie has ever said. Colm Feore is a treasure.

Speaking of: the scene with Five and Reggie talking at the edge of the world is So Good. I use this scene in my tumblr layout for a reason. I love this entire exchange; the fascinating dynamic unique to these two characters, how every line has layers of meaning. Reggie calling Five an 'arrogant son of a bitch'. Five's trademark razor smile. I could go on, it's my absolute favorite moment of the season and I could watch it one hundred more times and still find more things to say about them.

I will never get over Five eating cereal an entire box at a time. The little hints at his eating habits have always been consistently weird, what are you.

The way they shot Klaus' final moments in the White Buffalo suite and it fades to white instead of black. The visuals are stunning, it looks like a painting and it will be burned into my memory forever.

The end of s3 was really stellar. Started off strong with 'Footloose' and lost its way for a few episodes, but I was so into this evil hotel situation with the backdrop of the world ending. Once they got back to the core characters it reminded me of all that I love about the show.

...Even if I was a little WTF about 'should we die or not let's take a vote' but I give it a pass. It's this family's nature to disagree, why would that change when they're wondering if they should save the world? (Sidebar: older!Five seriously screwed with Five's head. He's so stuck on himself telling him not to save the world/always being right that he can't move past it.) Allison should not have had to try this hard to get them on board.

#tua #tuamre #five hargreeves #luther hargreeves #allison hargreeves #viktor hargreeves #reginald hargreeves #tua s3 #tua hot takes #oops I keep having more to say #love him or hate him you have to admit reggie is a great character (the correct answer is love to hate him)#hilarious how the series started with his death and he just keeps going #this is what I was here for

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disastertwins9000 · 1 year

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So I made an AU…

Multiverse AU: 2012/rottmnt crossover

Name: HOMIES IN A HALF-SHELL

After season five of the 2012 tmnt:

The boys continue to live life and protect New York, (I am a firm believer that the mutant apocalypse is a possible alternate future that doesn’t end up happening or else how tf would Renet be a thing?)

The 2012 Turtle Boys get to keep the dimension traveler from the 87 turtles and use it to check out other dimensions, then eventually meeting the 2018 boys and deciding to chill with them. The rottmnt boys are still settling from post movie events, and are thrilled to meet older wiser much more scarred versions of themselves and are eager to learn from them. Rise!Splinter ofc goes full papa mode on the tired/traumatized 12-boys and the Rise!fam is pumped to have four new older bros. You can also imagine the 12fam getting protective af of these colorful happy children they’ve now adopted. -ill post my hc’s and more specific info later-

Basically just a bunch of silly turtles interacting and living life, because I want to draw them together<3

absolutely never EVER NEVER any TCEST- this is familial love, so take that nasty stuff somewhere else.

MASTERPOST

search HOMIES IN A HALF-SHELL AU in my tags for more<3

my twin @purpledisastertwin900 helped me with this idea go follow them

#rottmnt & 2012 crossover #rottmnt #2012 tmnt #my artwork #tmnt fanart #disastertwins9000art #HOMIES IN A HALF-SHELL AU #rise of the tmnt #tmnt 2012 #homieswelcome

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elliekima · 2 years

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This Love is Alive (Back from the Dead)

Pairing: Sparrow!Ben Hargreeves x gender-neutral reader

Warnings: swearing, mentions of death

Word Count: 2.7k words

Notes: Reader is AFAB gender neutral with they/them pronouns and was adopted by Reginald Hargreeves along with the original seven umbrellas. They have abilities similar to heartrenders in the Grishaverse. Their powers include control over one’s heart, lungs, and stomach, and other major organ systems (although the brain can be rather tricky).

I was blown away by the response to my first tua post, I really don't post my writing much but I just love sparrow!ben so much and this word vomit was the result. I hope you guys enjoy it too <333

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You took in the view of the half-destroyed farmhouse for the last time before closing your eyes and mentally preparing yourself for the next jump. If it was anything like the last one, you shuddered, your stomach may never recover. Of course, at least this time you were using an actual device made for time travel—even if it was weirdly shaped like a briefcase, seriously couldn’t they use a watch or something? It was so much less bulky and easier to carry around, not to mention harder to lose—instead of relying on your brother's dubious time travel abilities.

Klaus’ sudden interruption to grab a hat was dramatic, in the way he usually was, but even you could admit it helped lighten the mood. ‘No matter what happens,’ you thought to yourself, ‘at least you had your family.’ You ignored the pain that came with the thought of Ben, the one sibling you would be leaving behind this time. Even if he died years ago, which left you grieving and heartbroken, you knew he was still around. Unlike the rest of your siblings, you knew Klaus wouldn’t lie about seeing Ben. You even asked him once, about a month after Ben’s death, if you could speak to him or send him a message somehow.

Klaus, his eyes serious and clear for the first time since Ben’s death, responded, “He misses you too y/n, he’s standing right next to you actually. Sometimes he wanders over to check on you and make sure you’re doing okay.” He paused after that, head cocked and you just knew he was listening to Ben speak, which was almost enough to break you until you were suddenly swept into Klaus’ arms. It was unexpected but nice, even if his next words made you want to break down and start throwing things, “He wants you to move on y/n. I know it sounds impossible and crazy but you can’t let yourself obsess over his death and wither into nothing. You were meant for so much more than dad’s shitty plans for us. Keep breaking hearts y/n, never stop.” You laughed at that, hysterical and relieved because Ben was really there with you. You held on to Klaus as laughter turned into sobs because it was only then that it really sunk in, he was gone and there was nothing you could do about it.

You shook your head to clear the thoughts of him, you processed his first death a while back and there was plenty of time to process his second ghostly death once you were back home in your little apartment with plenty of tequila. Finally, Five finished checking the briefcase’s settings and made eye contact with you. He gave you a weak smile, and you couldn’t help but return it. The smile was forced—you’re pretty sure it looked more like a grimace, really—but it seemed to reassure him. He reached for the briefcase and you closed your eyes, taking a deep breath before the (hopefully) final jump.

The whooshing sound of time travel—and wasn’t that weird? You thought you and your siblings being traumatized child superheroes was as crazy as it got before adding the thought of alternate timelines and apocalypses into the mix—filled the air around you. It was as unpleasant as ever, although significantly less bumpy thanks to the briefcase. You mentally cheered your stomach on for surviving the trip this time around, and hoped it would keep up the good work. Less than a minute later you felt yourself landing on a familiar carpet, thankfully without the need to puke everywhere.

You stood there, eyes pressed shut, letting out the breath you were holding. You tried to force them open, but fear overtook you. For a moment, you wondered if you should even bother opening your eyes at all. You spent the last year or so running around trying not to die, first from the apocalypse, then from the bigoted idiots of the 1960s, and then from another apocalypse. Standing here, in what you hoped was your old house, felt too good to be true.

You could hear your siblings groaning and trying to orient themselves after the jump, but still couldn’t open your eyes yet and risk the chance that something went wrong. So your coping mechanism was avoidance, maybe if you never opened your eyes, you would never see what fucked up timeline you and your siblings landed in this time. You weren’t safe yet, not when you needed to fight again but holy shit you were so fucking tired and—

“What… what day is it?” Luther asked.

At his words, your eyes snapped open before your brain could convince you it was a bad idea and you took in your surroundings. It looked like your old house, but as you scanned the room, your instincts started to itch, warning you that something was wrong. It didn’t seem too bad though, so you weren’t overly panicked yet but you refused to let your guard down. Suddenly, your eyes locked onto a painting. You weren’t sure, since you never really paid attention to the art your father collected, but you could’ve sworn that painting used to be a castle instead of a mountain. Across you, Five scrambled for the newspaper in front of him and his next words shook you out of your stupor.

“It’s April 2, 2019,” he said, a smug grin already starting to stretch across his face, “the day after the apocalypse.”

The rest of your siblings started celebrating but you couldn’t shake the nagging feeling in your head, the voice telling you that there was something wrong. But Five was already heading to the living room, Allison was crying and talking about Claire, and Vanya’s looked dead on her feet. They all looked so happy, and that was enough to stop you from saying something about it. ‘Let them have this moment,’ you thought. After all, if they needed to run again, at least they had this one moment of absolute relief to keep them going.

You let yourself get caught up in their energy, swinging an arm around Diego and following the rest of your siblings into the living room. However, the good mood that was beginning to bloom died at the sight of the painting that hung over the mantlepiece. Diego noticed it too, asking the rest of your siblings if they could see it too. God, you wish you hadn’t. You stared at his face, one you thought you’d never see again. You couldn’t help but compare it to the last time you saw him, desperately searching the painting for any differences from his last appearance in the theatre in 2019 when Vanya first ended the world.

In the background, you noticed your father rising from his seat in some shadowed corner and your siblings arguing with him. Fuck the old man, all you could do was stare at the man you love so much. Granted, the two of you never really got around to admitting your feelings for each other before he died and other than that one instance with Klaus, he refused to be a messenger for any conversations between the two of you. The hope you’ve been pushing back started to grow again until you realized that there must be a reason Ben’s painting was there. After all, in your timeline, the painting was of Five, who disappeared one day and they all thought was dead. If Ben’s painting was in his place, who knows what could have happened to him. You began to spiral until a hauntingly familiar voice interrupted your impending breakdown.

“Dad, who the hell—” Ben starts, before pausing as he took in the scene in the living room. He stared at you, looking gutted and vulnerable, “…Y/n?”

You turned to stare at him the moment you heard his voice, as if on autopilot. His voice was a little deeper, but you guess that’s what happens when it’s been 14 years since you last spoke to him. You breathed out his name in shock and he started to smile, brittle and hopeful, before your brain restarted. You ran towards him and he ran to you, the two of you colliding in the middle of the living room. Your siblings paused their argument with your dad to stare at the new developments but fuck them, Ben was here and he was alive and that’s all that matters to you. He wrapped his arms around you and started spinning you around, your hair flying around you while you squeezed him back just as hard. You laughed freely for the first time since this whole mess started as you stared at him, categorizing all the changes. His hair was no longer gelled back like when you were kids, instead, he wore it spiky on top and all you wanted to do was run your fingers through it and mess it up. He lost the softness on his face from back when you were teenagers, growing into his features and you felt yourself fall a little more in love with him. He set you down and you buried your face in his chest—that was another change, when did he get so built?—and it was all you ever dreamed about since that fateful mission when you were 17.

Distantly, you heard your family erupt into screaming behind you but all you could focus on was the man in your arms. You took a deep breath, inhaling the scent of him, the detergent mom uses, and—is that some new fancy cologne? Regardless, it was the most comfort you’ve felt in years and you’d rather kickstart another apocalypse than let go of him.

It seemed like Ben felt the same, because his arms only tightened around you and he tucked his face onto the top of your head. Suddenly, you realized you’ve been too busy saving the world to take a proper shower (So what, at least you made it out alive! The 60s had shit bath products anyway,) and tried to pull away. You heard a disgruntled sigh above you before he whispers, “Stop squirming y/n, you may smell like shit but it's the first time I’ve seen you in 13 years. Besides, I’ve seen you covered in blood and other gross shit after missions, you’ve had worse moments than this.”

Your mind was still fuzzy from seeing Ben, but something about his words seemed to alert your instincts. You replayed the moment in your head, it has been 13 years since he died but wouldn’t he have seen you while he was hanging around Klaus? But if he was standing here, alive, then he wouldn’t have died and hung around with Klaus all the time. You would’ve seen each other, grown up together the way you always planned to. The dots were starting to connect, and you hated the picture it painted. You stiffened and tried to pull away again, intent to ask him what he meant, when Diego’s voice cut through the bubble you found yourselves in.

“Woah woah wait, who the hell are you weirdos?” he exclaimed as he stared at the people filing in behind Ben. They were studying your siblings behind you but seemed to glance at the pair of you standing off to the side. The way they stared at you, all wide-eyed wonder and fragile hope seemed familiar. It was the same look you gave Ben, not the mention the look your siblings gave him too. Instantly, the dots fully connected in your mind and your heart filled with dread. You let your arms fall away from him as you stared at him, trying to keep your emotions from showing on your face but failing miserably. “You’re not my Ben, are you?” you asked, voice shaking.

He released you slowly, almost like he wanted to hold on to you and never let go, but the look on your face was enough to give him pause. Tension was building between the two families, making him tense up further as everyone seemed to stare at the two of you. He looked away from the rest of the room and stared at you, brown eyes reflecting your pain back at you as he said, “No, I don’t think I am. You aren’t my y/n either.”

It was a statement, one that almost broke you, but your father’s booming voice behind you gave you enough strength to pull yourself together. ‘We can break down later, once not!Ben isn’t in front of you and you aren’t surrounded by your siblings and strangers,’ you told yourself, facing your father.

He was ranting about your siblings being crazy assholes in 1963, which was fair because you were assholes to him, but in your defense, he was a shitty father and he looked and acted exactly the same way, how the hell were you supposed to be civil? You couldn’t believe he hated you all enough to just, not adopt you as children anymore. He even changed your name! Where the fuck did ‘Sparrow’ come from anyway? Distantly, you wondered how that affects the timeline but you filed that away for another day. First, you needed to regroup, preferably after a nice long bath.

You steeled yourself to join your siblings’ argument against your father and his new children but a hand brushing yours made you pause. You turned back to face him, you blinking your tears away as you studied him. This wasn’t the boy you grew up with, but you could read him just as easily as you read your Ben. His face was set in practiced neutrality, but you could see his eyes pleading with you to listen. He tugged you back towards him and whispered in your ear, “I don’t know what’s going on, but I watched you die once in my arms and there’s no fucking way I’m letting you walk out of my life again. If your siblings are anything like mine, this won’t end well. I won’t let anything happen to you, never again y/n. I’d sooner unleash the eldritch horrors on the world than lose you again. So please—” he took a breath, eyes meeting yours “meet me at our cafe when this is done?”

Your breath caught in your throat at his words. The rest of the room seemed to fade around you, all you could see and hear and feel was him, both the Ben you know but somehow not. You knew this was a test, and you were desperate to get it right. He may not have been the Ben you grew up with, but he still was Ben, wasn’t he? Sure, he grew up with another set of siblings—’another version of you,’ your brain supplied—but in the end, he was still the same person. Despite the thousand different scenarios running through your mind, hope started to build in your chest: all-consuming, traitorous, and pretty damn inconvenient. You gave him a tiny smile and whispered back, hoping to all the deities out there that you were right, “On the corner of 9th and 22nd? I’ll be there after kicking your ass babe.”

His growing smile turned into a familiar smirk and he opened his mouth, ready to retort when you quickly tiptoed and pressed a kiss on his cheek. “Don’t worry, I’ll go easy on you Squid Boy,” you added teasingly before hurrying back to your family, grinning at his blush. “Bring it on heartbreaker,” he replied with a wink.

Your heart pounded in your chest as you moved to stand next to Allison, ignoring the looks your siblings shot you. Besides, Luther was looking pretty damn smitten with the pretty girl standing near Ben, you’d get them to bully him instead. You grinned at Ben from where you stood, readying your hands together as he unleashed his tentacles, both groups of siblings facing off against each other.

#ben hargreeves #ben hargreeves x reader #sparrow!ben x reader #sparrow!ben #sparrow ben hargreeves #ben hargreeves imagine #ben hargreeves x y/n #the umbrella academy #the sparrow academy #tua

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anyadarlingsdomain · 7 days

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A while ago I did a little fic inspired by a fanficion I read a while ago. It’s a AU where if Sephora and some of her allies get sent to an alternative realty where she doesn’t exist yet the entirety of Order 66 still was initiated to happen. (Also this is after she is married to Rex and Order 66 happened many years prior in her time.)

“Okay.. so let me get this straight.” Anakin said while walking down the barrack hall.

“You and Rex are MARRIED???!!” He asked her in shock.

Sephora gave him a skeptical look. “Yes.” She plainly stated as if it was no big deal.

Everyone pretty much just coughed in the room.

“Way to be discreet.” Wolffe scoffed. Cody gave him a look.

“-And you’re a Jedi General??! No less on the HIgh Council?” Anakin exclaimed.

“Well yes..but that was years after that time—”

“RIght, right after the whole apocalypse or whatever. But you still did!!”

Sephora looked nonplussed by his insistent probings, she rubbed her temples. “You’re not taking this seriously.” She muttered.

“I am taking this seriously!” Anakin defended. “You married my Captain! That’s a BIG DEAL!!!”

Sephora slid her hand down her face. “Wow…”

“She’s so done with him.” Jesse snickered.

Poor Rex just looked traumatized by it all, he just did not know WHAT TO DO.

“I think she’s referring to the executed plan of Palpatine General.” Wolffe pointed out to him.

Sephora appraised him. “Thank you.” Wolffe just smirked in content.

“Okay, okay fine. That is a big deal. But still you can’t just expect me to remain kosher and not ask about this. He’s my Captain- like how did you two even fling???!!!”

Fives coughed. “Uhh I think you said they had a ‘force bond’ General?” Fives stated.

Rex coughed.

Sephora crossed her arms and glowered at him.

“Riiighhttt..yeah I guess that explains some things-”

“I just can’t with you…”

“--But not everything.” Anakin stated.

Sephora’s eye twitched. “How about I start talking about all your little escapades with Senator Amidala and start questioning you on how all of that fiasca started??”

The boys snorted in laughter, crying.

“She’s good, I like her.” Fives stated to Echo who was trying to hide his face.

Rex gave him a questionable look.

Anakin raised his hands in placation. “Alright, alright. Point taken.” He supplemented.

“Is it really?” Wolffe pressed.

“I’m sure it would be fun.” She said in a sing-song voice. At this Cody couldn't take it, he had to turn and cough.

“Alright, alright. I get it. I’ll yield.” Anakin stated.

“Good.” She stated.

It was quiet a moment, everyone was on the edge of their seat. It was OBVIOUS they had more questions.

“So..did you have any kids?” Anakin suddenly asked.

“Oh for the love of god Ani.” Sephora retorted, this made him cave in.

“Man..she shorted his name that must be bad.” Kix stated.

“I’m sorry but I’m insanely curious!” He defended. “Wait, did I have kids?”

Sephora pursed her lips unblinking.

“I’m so done with you..”

“But did you though- or me?” He asked excitedly.

The clones were losing it at this point.

“I don't know how much more of this I can take before I'll lose my composure.” Wolffe stated with a slightly amused look on his face.

“You haven’t lost it already??” Cody asked him. Wolffe glowered at him.

“I’m not sure if I should be telling you any of this..” She admitted.

“What’s it going to do?” He asked. “I'm not going to die.”

Sephora face palmed. “You already know the risks. I don’t need to repeat them to you.”

“Any kids? Any?”

“Anakin..”

“Yes?”

“No..”

“Wait..we have no kids? Or no you won’t tell me?”

“Anakin I’ve been married for 9 yrs..I have children.” She nonchalantly stated.

All the clones coughed in triumph. Poor Rex was in shock, the poor man was mystified.

“Wow.” He put, blinking, “Wait…how old are you???”

Sephora just stared at him. “I am so kriffing done with you.” The clones snorted in laughter. Some of them had to get up and leave.

“I can’t.” Fives said his face beet red, he coughed.

“You don’t ask girls that question Ani..it’s against the rules.”

“Why how old are you?” Anakin smirked crossing his arms.

Her eye twitched. “There’s no way you're fifty you look too youthful for it..wait how much older are you than me?”

“End of discussion.” Sephora closed.

“No I’m not-”

“Yes end of discussion. I am older than you in general so shut it.”

Cody was trying to hide a wheeze. Wolffe snorted, he was quite enjoying all of this comedy.

“Wait how much older?”

“Near the end of the CW I was 26 you were 21. I’m five years older than you.”

Anakin’s jaw dropped. “That’s not fair.” He finally stated.

“Yeah you thought that then too.” She stated now sitting down and randomly going through an archive.

“So…you were placed on the High Council before me then?”

Sephora raised a skeptical eyebrow at him. “Maybe? What if I was?”

Anakin scoffed. “Why are you being so cryptic about it?” He asked confused.

Seohora just smirked slightly. “Maybe because I want to be.” She stated.

Anakin frowned, the Commanders and Rex snickered.

“You’re so irritating.” He stated, crossing his arms. He was pouting to be honest. The snot.

“If you knew half of what you did to me all those years ago..you would probably take back that statement.” She stated.

Anakin raised a skeptical eyebrow. “What did I do to you exactly?” He smirked slightly.

“My lips are sealed.” She calmly stated.

“You are something else you know that?” Anakin stated.

“Yeah…something else..” She repeated like there was something in her train of thought.

“Maybe you should your check on your Padawan don’t you agree?” She calmly suggested. “1600 is generally training time.”

Anakin opened his mouth. “Wait how did you..” It clicked. “Yeah, yeah right. It was the same I take it?”

Sephora raised her eyebrow at him, smirking a little. “Are you going now?” She questioned of him.

Anakin huffed. “Fine. But I want answers later.” He stated pointing his finger at her and leaving the premises.

Sephora shook her head and sighed. “I forgot how exhausting he can be.” She stated, looking back to the still there clones.

She smirked slightly. “Still inquisitive? You can ask, but it doesn’t necessarily mean I’ll answer.” She admitted.

“You got beef with Skywalker?” Wolffe inquired but it sounded more of a statement.

“Let’s just say, we didn’t get along very well.” She stated looking back to the archives.

“Yet you added up marrying Rex?” Cody asked looking a little skeptical himself.

“Well Rex isn't exactly Skywalker now is he?” She stated.

501st snickers. Rex glowered at them.

Wolffe smirked himself. “No not really.” He stated smirking at Cody.

“You seem more open with us then answering the General” Jesse stated, “Is there a reason, may I ask?”

At this they seemed genuinely curious.

“I’ve always felt more relaxed around your brothers I guess. I was used to staying around you for many years. I was with my Master before the CW began upon Kamino. I guess you can say I don’t think as much about it.” She stated looking back to him.

“Anakin…well we always butted heads so..I’ll let you decipher that.” She replied, trying not to hint at anything too much.

Most of them smirked.

“So…if you’re here. Then what does that mean for all of us?” He asked of her.

“I’m..not entirely sure Jesse. But I’m hoping that maybe I can put a stop to this event before it even starts.” She said gazing at him intently. “From what I can tell thus far…things are very similar..in fact scarily so. Yet my existence along with Battalion seems to be naught. In this regard..I am not sure. But perhaps it is good for me..so that I won’t have any recognition.”

They were quiet a moment. “How bad was it?” This time Fives asked. “During you know what.”

The light in her eyes faded. “It was terrible..it was horrible. But if there’s anything I can promise now I won't let it happen again. That’s a promise I plan to keep, as long I am here..I will make certain you don’t experience what I did then. You have my oath.”

They seemed transfixed by this statement. It was obvious they were not expecting this much dedication from her. Rex was looking at her differently at the moment. He was really thinking more into it now..

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I’ll upload Part Two later since this is so long 😆

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Dear Vector Prime, what would have happened if Dinobot 2 had survived and joined the Maximals on their journey back to Cybertron?

Dear Sempiternal Saurian,

In one reality, Optimus Primal was able to successfully rescue the cloned Dinobot from the Nemesis and carry him to safety, moments before Rhinox’s shuttle obliterated the ship’s bridge and foiled Megatron’s final gambit to win the Beast Wars. Initially, the jubilant Maximals believed that their old friend had somehow returned to life, but were dismayed to find that this was not quite the case. While this “new” Dinobot had indeed inherited some jumbled memories of his genetic template, he also bore the scars—both literal and metaphorical—of serving Megatron throughout the last third of the Beast Wars. Worse yet, he still carried the spark of Protoform X, itself a failed attempt to mimic Starscream’s immortal spark. Suffice it to say, the second Dinobot was a traumatized, empty shell—a living weapon bereft of purpose, forced to work alongside the same ‘bots he’d been conditioned to hate, and perpetually at war with himself as competing instincts vied for dominance. The Maximals quickly learned to give their nominal ally a wide berth, and none of them were particularly enthused when he declared that he would join them on their voyage home, in the hopes that he could find some kind of new purpose on Cybertron.

As in many of the timelines you know, Megatron slipped his bonds during their voyage back to Cybertron, conquered the planet with an army of mass-produced Vehicon warriors, and infected his captors with a paralyzing transformation virus. Thanks to his Transmetal 2 body, Dinobot resisted the virus, but was forcibly devolved back into a simulacrum of his genetic predecessor. Soon enough, Optimus Primal found him, Rattrap, Blackarachnia, and Cheetor; guided by Primal’s supernatural visions, the five ‘bots fled into the depths of Cybertron, and eventually encountered the mysterious Oracle. Dinobot emerged from the computer with a new, technorganic beast mode: a crimson Guanlong with steel-grey plumage, his teeth and claws could easily penetrate Vehicon armor. As he had never truly “known” Cybertron before the Vehicon apocalypse, Dinobot fought not for any kind of higher ideal, or to rescue the populace of Cybertron, but merely to survive; when the Maximals learned that Megatron had engineered the entire disaster and taken control of the planet, Dinobot decided that he hated Megatron more than he hated the Maximals and grudgingly stuck by their fledgling resistance movement, defiantly wearing a modified Predacon insignia for no other reason than to incense his creator.

Already torn between so many states of being, it should come as no surprise that Dinobot struggled to master the art of transformation. Because of this setback, however, the Rattrap of this timeline—who’d already taken a very real dislike to the “cut-rate knockoff”, and could now look down his nose at someone even worse at transformation than himself—never faced the same kind of crisis of conscience that many of his alternate selves struggled with, and learned how to transform by himself. When Dinobot found that “emotional still point” and unlocked his robot mode, he was a mighty warrior indeed: not only could his optics project a wall of telekinetic force to cover his allies and send enemies flying, but his mighty two-handed claymore could also open tectonic fissures and create localized earthquakes. Tormented by his own demons as he was, however, those moments of emotional lucidity were fleeting at best, and Dinobot spent most of his time trapped in beast mode: in his worst moments, the other Maximals had to physically restrain him as his old Transmetal instincts overwhelmed him and he reverted to a feral state of being. Even while trapped in beast mode, Dinobot proved an ambitious and cunning warrior, and he and Cheetor repeatedly butted heads over the position of leader while the Maximal leader was indisposed.

In this timeline, Dinobot’s warrior instincts and animalistic thirst for vengeance helped push Optimus Primal, already convinced that his mission was to revert Cybertron to its primordial organic state, further and further down the road of extremism. Thanks to his influence, by the time that Tankor’s true consciousness reasserted itself and made a play for power, Optimus had already discovered the Plasma Energy Chamber and used it to send an ultimatum to Megatron: leave the planet now, or perish. This time around, it was Megatron who had to go on the defensive; despite these minor changes in the timeline, the end result was largely the same—the clash between the Key to Vector Sigma and the Plasma Energy Chamber resulted in near-deaths for both Optimus Primal and Megatron. The other Maximals realized that their comrade had played a major role in Primal’s death and turned their back on him. While the other Maximals eventually revived Optimus and dealt with the strange Savage/Noble creature, a grief-stricken Dinobot, convinced that he had permanently killed the first being who had ever treated him kindly, buried his higher functions beneath his animal instincts and turned feral, indiscriminately roaming the empty tunnels and savaging any wayward Vehicons who deviated from their patrol routes.

Finally, after many cycles of exile, Optimus Primal—who had dedicated all his time to meditating in front of the Oracle and casting his own sensory net across the planet in the hopes of finding their most troubled comrade—finally reached Dinobot’s sleeping mind and pierced his layers of mental armor. In this shared dreamscape, a jumbled nightmare world of Transmetallized bones and a burning valley—Dinobot admitted that he had no idea who he was. Was he a warrior or a monster? A beast or a robot? A Maximal, a Predacon, a Decepticon? Would he forever toil in the shadow of his progenitor, desperately trying to live a life he’d never known? Or was he nothing but a freak of nature who concealed his monstrous nature beneath the veneer of an honorable warrior?

Inspired by his own recent voyage through the Matrix, Optimus offered his own opinion: just as the Matrix had chosen them to bring nature and technology together into a single, harmonious whole, so too was Dinobot more than the sum total of his origins. He was not the original Dinobot, nor was he Rampage; he was himself, a loyal ally and just as much a part of the Oracle’s grand plan as the rest of the Maximals.

It would take time before the Predacon warrior learned to channel Primal’s sense of balance into his own fighting style as he rigorously trained in private—aided by Primal’s occasional remote coaching sessions—and longer still before he worked up the courage to rejoin the Maximals. When he did, however, he returned not as Dinobot, but as his own ‘bot—he was now Preditron, a courageous and honorable warrior who combined his bestial instincts with the experience of two lifetimes lived. Preditron fought bravely alongside the Maximals in subsequent campaigns, stood by as they welcomed Botanica and Silverbolt into the fold, and made a courageous stand in the final battle against the Vehicon hordes.

Many centuries in the future, long after the Great Transformation that saw Cybertron reformatted into a technorganic utopia, young technorganic Cybertronians still whisper tales of the reclusive Last Predacon, whose immortal spark burns forever. When all else fails, it is said that the Last Predacon will emerge from his secluded jungle home to take young Cybertronians who struggle to master transformation under his wing, and teach them to find the balance within, as he once did himself.

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singing-melliot-headcanons · 1 month

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Demon AU.

This AU takes place sometime in the mid to late 1980s

Alright, timeline

-Quincy dies from jumping off Stutton Hall their junior year, they’ve met Vincent, but never formed a romantic relationship. They had crushes on each other, but that was it. Quincy becomes an Angel.

-Vincent is still nominated and told he can kill for his project, ends up killing Ambrose and the Marmorius before the marble incident can happen. Ambrose becomes an Angel.

-Vincent kills Portia for getting too close to stopping him, Portia becomes an Angel.

-Beatrix and Portia are on good terms, but never start dating due to Portia dying. It devastates Beatrix, they blame themself for Portia’s death, and are determined to stop Vincent at any cost.

-Vincent has a nervous breakdown from never having the news article written on him and loneliness, never gaining the recognition he thought he deserved.

-During the pyre scene Vincent manages to kill Beatrix with a scalpel in his pocket, but later succumbs to the head wound from Beatrix hitting him with the magnifying glass. The fight is bloody and long, Beatrix fueled by a want for revenge instead of justice. The two die and become demons.

-Sometime in the early 1950s Vincent and Quincy find each other again by accident, demons and angels are less enemies more supernatural coworkers that kind of avoid each other due to the nature of their work. They found themselves drawn to each other for some unknown reason, and ended up becoming lovers sometimes in the mid 1950s. Quincy gave up their role as an angel to be with Vincent, angels typically having to be pious and never date due to their positions of power.

-Angels grant blessings, watch over humans, keep the world in order, make sure things don’t go full hellscape apocalypse mode.

-Demons work to keep the world from being too perfect, causing general chaos, being able to be summoned by especially talented humans, making sure that the world stays interesting, and they “put down”

-Angels and demons are people who had death’s so traumatic that they lost all memory of life, so just kind of got slotted into supernatural bureaucracy since they have no memories of loved ones or a pat life to hold onto, and it’d be bad to just have them aimlessly wandering around the afterlife.

-The moral code that puts them in an Angel or demon role isn’t known to anyone, it just kind of happens, and people are mostly guessing causes for it.

-Beatrix and Vincent work together sometimes in the 1940s, Beatrix is trying to figure out how she died, finding Vincent oddly familiar, but unsettling.

-During the 1970s is when Beatrix and Portia meet, Beatrix feeling horribly guilty looking at Portia, while Portia feels G A Y

-The main Adamandi five all finally connect sometimes in the early 1980s, universally tied together by their odd connection, and really freaked out by the fact Beatrix, Portia, and Ambrose all feel weirdly hostile towards Vincent for no apparent reason. Quincy is just vibing, but also has horrible Catholic guilt.

-They all decide to work together to figure out how they died, curiosity at the lives they lived eating away at them slowly.

oh im so drawing art for this au

#adamandi #adamandi musical #headcanon #vincent aurelius lin #beatrix valeria campbell #quincy cynthius martin #portia elizabeth harper #ambrose wellington bassford #demon au

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pretending for a second that theoretical TUA S4 is going to be real, any predictions you wanna share about it whether its stuff you want or stuff you just think is gonna happen?

This feels like the perfect time to finally get around to answering this, with our now non-hypothetical S4 on the way!

I haven't thought too much about S4, just sort of rotating things in my head, microwaving them. The two thoughts I've really had are:

I want Abigail to be terrible. I want her to be even worse than Reggie. We can have a twist where she's kind and we think she's good with the Umbrellas but then BAM! she's been manipulating them the whole time. None of this "Oh, Reggie used to be such a good person before he was twisted by his grief to get his dead wife back", "oh, Abigail is Good and if only she hadn't been trapped in a box the Umbrellas would have had such a better life". No! I need her to be fucking evil. Please.

I'm really open to whatever the Umbrellas are doing with their New Normal Lives. They're bumbling along, they're figuring it out. I hope they're in contact with one another. What I want that to be for Five is a nice montage of him having no fucking clue what to do. Bouncing between siblings, trying hobbies, trying to figure out how he fits in the world as a 58-year-old-13-year-old, and failing badly at it. Around this, he's drinking. His liver may not see 14, it's a real problem. But like, how does a man that's lived the life Five has had just... Stop? Klaus said it S1, he's "addicted to the apocalypse", and I think it's more Five doesn't know how to live without the apocalypse, as much as he'd rather otherwise. Where I think this settles is eventually him finding a new purpose in investigating the monopoly Reggie seems to have over every industry in the world - he needs something and he doesn't trust Reggie.

A tangent of the above, the thing that Cannot Happen is Five in high school. I'm sorry to those of you who like those fics, that concept, you do you but I fucking hate it. It makes me so uncomfortable. I will riot if they do a "haha! he's a kid so he's in school!". He is a 58-year-old man, just give him his GED and be done with it. I'll beg, if that will help make this not happen. The flip side of this that I dislike but don't viscerally hate is Five doing some normal, adult job and no one is blinking an eye that he's a kid. Let there be an actual consequence to the fact he's a kid, because that is genuinely a very traumatizing thing to have have happened to him and it deserves at least some acknowledgement for how much that would fucking suck.

Adding an unplanned part four, in that I think it would be interesting if Allison is the only one still with her powers (until they do some whatever to get their powers back because there's no way they go an entire season with no powers). She's going to have a redemption, reunite with the siblings. I think there's going to be some Realizations on her end that she is not in the perfect life she thought she was when she got Ray and Claire - she's changed both their contexts and lives, there is going to be things that aren't Quite Right to the versions of them she knows. She loves them, they're real, but they are Different.

We're in uncharted territory with S4, no comic book we can read for the season to be very loosely based off of. It could be literally anything. But neat you wanted the few thoughts I've had about it :)

#thank you for the ask!#i feel like i need to rewatch s3 again to get a better handle on where everyone is in relation so one another for further thoughts about s4 #and to write that post s3 fic i keep poking at with five and allison #tua #ask response #shark's tua thoughts

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mattholicguilt · 2 years

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Timeline of Scott and Jean’s Marriage Falling Apart (part 1)

(New X-Men #131)

I’ve been rereading New X-Men and I really want to dig into all the stuff that went down between Scott and Jean (and why they SHOULD have gotten a divorce). I feel like everyone has a tendency to just blame the affair with Emma but there was so much shit going on before that. Let’s take a look.

The Search for Cyclops #4. Jean saves Scott from possession by Apocalypse, and Ozymandias seems to foreshadow that Scott will not fully recover from the trauma of possession. Ozymandias is correct.

Uncanny X-Men #393. Logan asks Scott how he’s doing since the possession stuff and Scott lashes out at him for invading his privacy. On the Scott-and-Jean front, it’s mentioned that they no longer have their psychic rapport but that Scott knows his wife well enough to know her plans.

Uncanny X-Men #394. There’s trouble in paradise and Logan can tell. He brings it up to Jean.

“Everything’s fine,” she lied. (Logan also kisses Jean in this issue because he thinks they’re about to die. Stop doing that, Logan. Jesus.)

New X-Men #114. Once again Logan decides that Scott and Jean’s increasingly strained relationship is his business. (This is OUR failing marriage.)

(Hank also notices that all is not well in the Summers-Grey marriage.)

New X-Men #116. Scott takes marriage advice from some bugs.

We finally get some more context on what exactly is going on with Scott and Jean. They haven’t had sex in five months (probably not since before Scott’s possession by Apocalypse.) Scott is cold and distant, according to Jean. Scott is traumatized and all Jean wants to do is help him, but she can’t. (Sidenote: Jeannie baby you ALSO don’t know what it’s like to be POSSESSED by an evil spirit. Grant Morrison I am sending you a copy of Fantastic Four #286.)

New X-Men #117. Jean is lonely so she seeks out Logan, who explains that Scott and Jean are perfect for each other. Then Jean kisses him and he’s like, “You and me are never gonna happen.” (For some reason I remembered this kiss happening AFTER Scott and Emma first hook up, but look at that! Jean’s infidelity came first.)

New X-Men Annual. Emma taunts Scott about the fact that he and his wife aren’t having sex.

New X-Men #139. (Flashback)

Emma propositions Scott and he turns her down.

New X-Men #118. Jean asks Scott if he messed around with Emma during the annual. This is building up to be a really terrible cocktail of trust issues and intimacy issues. Like I think Jean’s paranoid (and projecting, considering she had just tracked Logan into the woods to kiss him) but also she’s not entirely WRONG because Scott IS having/going to have an affair with Emma.

New X-Men #120. Somehow, the Phoenix returned. Possibly to salvage Jean and Scott’s marriage because, as we know, the Phoenix Force looooooves Scott.

New X-Men #121. Same energy as the “Love you, wife” panel from Uncanny 394.

New X-Men #122. The girls are fightingggg. Scott’s concerned about the Phoenix returning (as am I, but my concerns are rooted in the fact that Grant Morrison forgot about the Phoenix retcon.) I wonder if Jean’s desire for psychic and physical intimacy/closeness is somewhat being fulfilled by the Phoenix at this point? Her husband won’t touch her, but the Phoenix wants to be fully entwined with her.

New X-Men #125. Cassandra Nova digs around in Scott’s head and says that Jean expects him to be so much better than he is. Scott powers through.

New X-Men #126. They love each other so much.

Cassandra Nova messes with Scott’s brain again. Did the bugs tell Scott he’s going to sleep with Emma? Also: interesting here that Scott might be afraid he’ll let Jean down as an X-Man, or as a husband, or both.

“Well! Now that Cassandra Nova’s dealt with! Back to the matter at hand: we still can’t be intimate with each other and we need so much goddamn therapy.”

Cyclops #3. Scott tells some Savage Land cavepeople about his marriage difficulties. (Choosing to interpret “leader” as in Scott being leader of the X-Men, a team Jean is on, and not that Scott is somehow the leader of their relationship.)

New X-Men #128. For some reason, Scott thinks that bringing his marital problems to Emma is a productive idea. He also makes two really annoying references to wanting Phoenix and being unsatisfied with “just Jean.” (They’re not. the same. person.)

But I do think what Scott says some very illuminating stuff here about “faking teenage unconditional love in the face of unstoppable chaos and change” and “I’m not who I was and I can’t tell her who I am... in case she hates what I’ve become.”

It’s easy for Scott and Jean to be Scott&Jean when everything’s going to hell and the X-Men are getting thrown into high-stakes mission after high-stakes mission. But it’s hard to find a balance when things are relatively quiet. (🎶 But at least the war is over...)

New X-Men #131. First of all, I love how much Emma looks like Generation X-era Emma here. The little glasses, the big fur robe. Second of all, it’s been interesting to see how much Hank, Logan and Emma all become involved in Scott and Jean’s marital problems.

For example, here’s Logan pointing out that Scott and Jean need to communicate better.

Scotty you’re a master strategist. WHAT was the plan here? Emma is not a therapist. Of any sort.

She’s definitely not a qualified sex therapist. Also I agree that yeah, Scott’s possession trauma seems to be affecting him in much the way a sexual trauma would. So he should see an actual, licensed therapist. Who isn’t trying to mindfuck him and actual-fuck him for a laugh.

This is actually so disappointing because I want them to be having these messy, invasive conversations about JEAN. But they’re just talking about the Phoenix.

Once again Scott expresses that he doesn’t want to hurt Jean, and he feels that telling her the truth about his feelings will hurt her.

[Narrator voice] They were in fact having some kind of weird affair.

New X-Men #134. Hank is very concerned about Scott being unfaithful. It’s almost as if he cares more about preserving Scott and Jean’s marriage than Scott and Jean do.

New X-Men #138. Scott says that Apocalypse’s possession made him feel like his life and his marriage were small and boring.

(I’m gonna post this now before Tumblr can eat it again. More to come.)

#new x-men #jeanscott #broke ass marriage!#less phoenix force more scottjean divorce

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obsidianstrawberrymilk · 1 year

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You know what, I wanna see Diego do something awful S4. Boardroom massacre, betraying-siblings and -causing-the-apocalypse, consistently manipulating those around you to the point of making an actual cult and abusing your abilities over your sibling to effectively cut them off from everyone else despite their repeated desire to actually let the rest of your family know they exist, levels of awful. I wanna see, like with Allison, how fast the fandom turns on him - because everyone was fine with Allison until she dared to be something more than virtuous, supportive towards your white favs - and then the second she did something on the same scale of fucked up as Viktor, Five, and Klaus, she was the Devil, irredeemable.

And you can give any justifications you want, but that’s what happened - Viktor, Luther and Klaus abuse their powers to take advantage of other people physically or otherwise (Viktor nearly killing his whole family and lowly sucking the life out of them in the S1 finale while forcing them to relinquish control over their bodies and enjoying it; Luther manipulating Vik’s trust in him to lock him up in a very traumatizing place for him against everyone else’s wishes; Klaus using everyone in his fucking cult and then leaving them to rot with the heavy implication he also used them for sex and also how he treated Ben; for that matter, Ben using Klaus’s body to try and have sex with Jill) and they’re still the fandom saints (sans Luther bc he’s not a skinny little white boy) - but Allison dares to (for an arguably more valid reason) and she’s got people calling her an irredeemable bitch, accusing her of being as bad as Reginald, and everything in between.

So yeah, I wanna see Diego do something bad. And I wonder how fast white fandom will turn on him the second he’s not just the ‘lovable himbo protector’ to be used as a prop for their white favs.

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babblingbear09 · 2 years

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Reginald Lied — He Didn’t Purposefully Adopt New Children

At the end of S2, the siblings make it to 2019 only to discover that their father has adopted 6 new children (plus Ben). We all assumed that due to their disastrous dinner back in 1963 (and potentially Diego’s words to Grace) that Reggie decided the Umbrellas were failures and not worth adopting again.

But, in S3, we learn new information. All the Umbrellas’ mothers died before they were born. This means that Reggie lied, or at least bent the truth when he said he picked different kids — he never even got the chance to adopt them in the first place.

Now, you can say, but he could have still planned to adopt different kids so what does it matter? But I don’t think that was even the case. Bear with me, this is a little long.

In the UA universe, changes to the timeline happen immediately.

What I mean by that is that is if you make a change to the past and jump forward, you see that change applied — you don’t have to wait 50 years for the timeline to catch up. Once a decision is made, time adapts around it and the future automatically reacts to that change. Whatever butterfly effect, whatever new decisions made, are automatically played out. We see this when the Umbrellas mess around in the 60s and then jump to 2019 and all the changes they made effected the timeline.

The only thing that we’ve seen that changes a timeline once it’s set in motion is time travel. In S1, Five shows up and tells Luther about the apocalypse then goes off with the Handler. This changes the timeline. From there, we see that change automatically effect the timeline in the Day that Wasn’t.

Then Five comes back and undoes the day. If he’d jumped to the end of the day, he would have automatically landed in the events we saw — Klaus finding Dave, Vanya finding the book, Allison and Luther dancing in the moonlight, etc. Instead though, he jumped to the beginning of the day and changed the whole thing.

Okay. Changes to the timeline automatically and instantly affect the entire timeline. The only thing that derails that is more time travel. Back to the main point.

Reggie still planned to adopt the siblings even after they met in the 60s.

The fateful “Light Supper” happens midway through S2. The Umbrellas make a bad impression and then DO NOT interact further with their father. So any changes they made should have already changed the timeline as the season progresses.

Except they dont.

A few episodes later, Five and Luther confront Old Man Five and OG Five opens a portal home. And notably, NOTHING HAS CHANGED. The Umbrellas are still adopted, Klaus still throws a fire extinguisher, Viktor is still poised to destroy the world. You’ll note that the apocalypse in the 60s also didn’t happen. That’s because Diego already time traveled in with the info they needed. So while the rest of the siblings were trying to reach LSD Viktor, they’d already saved the world as far as the timeline was concerned. Five opening the portal proved that. From the moment Diego landed in Allison’s living room, the world was effectively saved.

At this point in the show, they’d already had the disastrous dinner and never met their father again, but we see he still adopted them and raised them the same.

What Changed?

So what changed the timeline? The only thing that could have — more time travel, namely the Commission. This is speculation of course, but the Commission attack on the barn must have changed something for Harlan. Maybe in the original timeline Viktor is less tired from killing half the Commission and gets the whole marigold. Maybe without seeing the danger first hand Sissy and Harlan go to 2019 or maybe Harlan is just less traumatized and handles his powers better. We don’t know.

But we do know that the future only changed after the Five v Five fight which was after the dinner with Reggie. If given the choice, he would have still adopted the Umbrellas and just lied to save face after he couldn’t find them as babies.

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rp-pine-tree · 2 years

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(This is a side RP blog for when you wanna rp with Dipper "Pine Tree" Pines from the infamous Gravity Falls. Feel free to send a starter or ask! Those are always welcome! M!As are also accepted, but be prepared for what happens after >:)

You can RP with the following Dippers [Yes, Dippers]

-Normal Dipper (Nickname Dip; abbreviation ND)

-Alien Dipper (Nickname BD, Big Dipper; abbreviation AD)

-Werewolf Dipper (Nickname Wolfy; abbreviation WD)

-Ghost Dipper (Nickname Ghosty; abbreviation GD)

-Tyrone

-Swapped Dipper (Nickname Dibble; abbreviation SD)

-The Plushie Friendships Dipper (Nickname Dippy, Dips; abbreviation FD) (@trying-my-best-always Au)

-Apocalypse Dipper (Nickname Blot, Scar; abbreviation APD)

Please respect the blog and have fun!!)

Info on the Dippers:

Normal Dipper usually has his journal and flashlight with him. Beyond this, unless he finds something in an RP, he doesn't have any special powers. Only Dipper who isn't vaguely aware of the other Dippers. Will freak the heck out if met with another Dipper, or mention of one. Easy to freak out >:)

Alien Dipper can fly, breathe in space, and has a limited telekinesis (can only use it five minutes at a time. Needs ten minute cool down). Eyes glow in intense emotion or focus. Don't talk to him about his uncle Ford. He doesn't mind talking about where he actually came from. Says he likes Earth better. Easily 6' tall.

Werewolf Dipper is just that. A werewolf. Besides some enhanced strength and smell though, he doesn't have many powers. Has a fiery temper and a short fuse. Usually goes barefoot since where he's a wolf he always destroys his shoes.

Ghost Dipper can fly, phase through objects, and 'possess' items. He usually needs something to puppeteer, otherwise people can't see or hear him. There are special cases where someone can see him naturally, but those are rare. He does not 'possess' living things. Usually using a sock puppet or a stuffed toy he found. Loves to play pranks.

Tyrone is more or less like ND, except he CANNOT GET WET. Always wearing an oversized raincoat if he HAS to go out in the rain. Not as easy to freak out as the original, BUT you can freak him out if it gets too weird...

Swapped Dipper is his world's Mabel. He still loves adventure and mystery, but Mabel is the one with the book and craving answers. He'd rather spend his days watching TV and solving cipher puzzles. Most open minded.

TPFS Dipper is a traumatized little bean. The youngest at age 9, Dippy here has no family and is living on his own in the woods in a tree house. He owns one singular plushie that looks like his old sister. He does have an imaginary friend named Bill, but he's not aware how NOT imaginary Bill is.

Apocalypse Dipper is simply pulled from Weirdmaggedon. His Weirdmaggedon never ended, and he's had to adapt. It has... not been kind on his mind.

Images of the Dippers.

In order: Tyrone, GD, AD, WD, ND

In order: APD, FD w/ Mabel plush, FD, SD

#rp pine tree #dipper pines #gravity falls

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dont-tell-them-i-died · 2 years

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Does anyone else kinda hate what they did to Five's character this season? Not saying that I hate Five, he's still my favorite, I just hate what the writers did to his personal storyline, and I can list plenty of reasons why.

(Season 3 spoilers ahead)

• They literally changed his character completely. He turned down Reginald's plan to stop the apocalypse, literally his only goal in life for almost fifty years, just because his future self told him not to. When he found out that there was supposedly no more apocalypse, instead of continuing to make sure no apocalypses were happening he just... stopped caring. Also, I feel like he should have been smart enough to consider any time paradoxes, given that it was literally his job to prevent them at one point. And he didn't care about how his siblings felt about the new timeline, despite the fact that his main goal was to keep them safe and happy.

• There were plenty of opportunities to explore his emotions and his trauma without ruining the plot, but they just didn't (I could give at least three examples). Whether it was for convenience, or just because they like to downplay his traumatic experiences is beyond me.

• This might be an unpopular opinion, but I feel like they tried to separate him from the plot, despite him being the most plot-driven character in the show. In fact, they made him try to separate himself from the plot. Again, he as a character is literally meant to drive the story forward, as he is the one enforcing the main goal of himself and the rest of the characters.

• I know I mentioned this before, but I really don't like him being the commission founder. First of all, the commission is clearly made out to be the villain, and although it is sort of an interesting idea for the protagonist to have created the thing that's repeatedly stopping them from achieving their goal, it just feels like sort of a last minute reveal for shock value. Second of all, (and this might just be a personal opinion, but then again, most things are,) the commission just works better as a nameless, faceless, evil mystery corporation. Also, I feel like five is smart enough to just... leave a note for himself? To clarify his plan? Instead of just a few cryptic and vague messages? Why tf go through all that trouble when you could just leave a letter of a video recording or something instead. He's definitely smart enough to think of that.

Now, I'm not saying I hate everything about what the writers did to him. There were definitely some good parts, but it just makes me so mad to see basically his entire character and background completely thrown out in favor of, well, everything else.

I have lots of other opinions on Five in general, and some specific examples of things that frustrated me, but this post is just about how much the writers messed up his arc in season three. If anyone wants to hear my other opinions and ideas, just ask, I would be happy to discuss.

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Hellsite Nostalgia Tour 2023 Day 92

I Believe the Children Are Our Future/The Fires of Pompeii

“I Believe the Children Are Our Future”

Plot Description: investigating series of odd murders that resemble fairy tales and urban legends, Sam and Dean track down a dangerous boy named Jesse

Would I Survive thr First Five Minutes?? 1. Who sits THAT CLOSE to the TV?? 2. Nah, girl. Don’t look outside, don’t you know what show you’re on? I’m good

Sometimes, I don’t think Dean could get by without Sam. I don’t think he would have come up with them having server issues as to why they didn’t get the coroner’s email

Deannnnn, don’t traumatize the kidddddd

So all these very childlike pranks are going haywire and actually killing people?!?!

I want a compilation of clips of Dean being mildly gross while eating

“All these kids care about are their iPhones and those kissing vampire movies” this shop owner is hilarious

Honestly, good on this kid for taking home invasion seriously…actually, I take it back. She just didn’t want the tooth fairy in HER room. Sure

It took ALL HIS TEETH?!?! And got $8 for his trouble

Dean still eating this ham they legitimately cooked with the electricity from the freaking hand buzzer thingy is just PRACTICAL, Sam!! He’s right, y’all don’t have a fridge, and you shouldn’t let a perfectly good ham go to waste

This kid’s sass is off the charts

Oh my god…this poor woman. This is HORRIFIC. A demon possessed her, got pregnant, and birthed the child…is this kid the Antichrist?? Like Adam in Good Omens?

Oh no. Yeah. I knew Cas would say they have to kill the kid

Eeuugghh can Dean NOT be caught between someone and Sam just ONCE?? There’s no winning for him. Either they truly believe this kid can make the right choice to just not be the Antichrist or whatever so he doesn’t nuke all the angels. OR Cas is right and they have to kill him. And Castiel can’t gamble that. This is his life on the line if this random kid who would only NOW be introduced to the whole concept of Armageddon. When even a seasoned hunter like Sam couldn’t resist

Oh…Cas. Cas, no. Please. Jesse turned him into a toy???

I mean, I can understand Jesse’s hesitance in turning Castiel back. He did try to kill the kid

Oh…Sam saying everything he’s ever needed someone to tell him when he was a kid.

Did he just disappear to Australia?? I mean, if you’re gonna have the apocalypse in midwestern USA, best place to be IS Australia I guess?

“Been On My Mind…”: nothin. 6

"The Fires of Pompeii"

Plot Description: Soothsayers and beasts of stone run riot in the streets of Pompeii as the volcano boils. Can established history be changed, or must the Doctor let everyone die?

Couple things...can you IMAGINE if he DID just go "fuck it" and saved everyone at Pompeii?? Like...I wanna see an au where those effects ripple out. Two, I don't know if I'll get through a single episode of this season without thinking (and talking) about how much I LOVE Ten and Donna's friendship. Just seeing the hug she gives him for bringing her to what they currently both believe is Rome? I go FERAL for particularly THIS PLATONIC RELATIONSHIP

"Are we in Epcot?" I'm...obsessed with her.

Hi, Amy...sorry, Not Amy. I do still wish they had worked a call back to this episode into either Eleven or Twelve's time

I love how hung up she is on how they're speaking in Latin

And hello Not Twelve

This poor girl is going to have burnt out gifted kid syndrome later, I swear. Though, after surviving Pompeii, she's mostly lucky to not have burnt UP gifted kid syndrome

I think the thing about Donna and Ten I love most is that she CHALLENGES him. It's much less of reassuring others that the Doctor will find a way to get whatever needs to happen done. It's "You're going to do this thing. I care how you get it done but what I don't care about is hearing how you can't. It's the right thing to do. It's the thing you're SUPPOSED to do, Doctor!" I'm not dunking on Rose or Martha, but Donna will challenge his authority TO HIS FACE. It's not the "he told me to stay put, but I'm too curious to do so. I need to do something!" It's "what and you're in charge?" "TARDIS. Time Lord. Yeah." "Donna. Human. No. I don't need your permission!" Fuuuuuck I love her so much.

The fact that they're BOTH so offended to be thought of as married AND thought to look so much alike they they could be siblings. Love that for them

AND AGAIN!! "I don't know what kind of kids you've been flying around outer space with, but you're not telling me to shut up." Miss Noble, I would LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU

One...this epic psychic battle of history is every bit as funny as it is terrifying. Like, just the concept is hilarious. This old dude battling a teenage girl at who can say the wildest shit about the Doctor and Donna while being right. But also, they ARE also right BUT ALSO we get the first mention that there's something on Donna's back, and listen...I JUST GOT DONNA!!! I'M NOT READY FOR HER TO GO!!! I DON'T WANT HER TO GO!!!

This kid is so easily bribed. Not that I know how much that coin is worth.

Not Donna coming in with the TJMaxximus...

I thought you wanted them to get out of the house, why are you all just STANDING THERE. No one listens to the Doctor when it comes to moving or not moving

You SAY THAT like it's a bad thing, but you RELY on it, Doctor. "This prattling voice will cease forever" "Well, that'll be the day"

And they're so sarcastic together. Will I truly spend his entire season gushing over how much I love their friendship? And what if I do??

Him fighting off the pyrovile with a water gun is always fantastic

(I've been informed by imdb that Peter Capaldi's appearance in this episode DOES get touched on during his time as the Doctor)

Oh, it's an even worse version of the trolley problem. If the Doctor does NOTHING here the whole world gets destroyed, but if he stops the pyroviles' plan he has to make the choice to kill everyone in Pompeii. He's got to personally choose to let twenty THOUSAND people die.

The fact that she can change his mind, can change some small part in A FIXED POINT IN TIME, can make him save SOMEONE. And how she'll still claim she's not important at the end of the season...

Doctor, of COURSE Donna's right. Come on.

#hellsite nostalgia tour 2023

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