#assassination attempts and all

[caernua]

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#assassin's creed #acedit #bayek of siwa #ac: origins #gamingedit #assassin's creed: origins #gameplaydaily #dailygaming #attempting to heal my mental illnesses by giffing this scene alone nad it is so adorable and wholesome #that it is in fact working #bayek has the most beautiful smile aaa <333 i love him sm #mine: all #mine: gifs #mine: ac #mine: origins

[lazycranberrydoodles]

i think the barbie movie would have a profound psychological impact on hua cheng

prev comic / next comic / follow for still more hualian barbie movie content because i am not done

bonus angsty version 🎉 i hate love expressions just a couple tiny lines on the mouth and eyebrows and it goes from silly to sad

:(

#this is a haha hua cheng devoted joke but idk it’s nice to think about how much of his identity and self worth is placed on xie lian #obviously since he was 10 most of his major life choices were to serve the crown prince #but in the interval time he became one of the most dangerous men in the world and decided it was his responsibility to create a ghost haven #he works on artistic mastery and alternatively brokers deals with and evades assassination attempts by heaven #if asked i think he would say he only does good for dianxia’s sake (What Would Dianxia Do) and is actually a bad person #and similar stuff about his combat and art skills #theres a question here about how much of his success is due to being such a determined person and how much #of it is luck from ‘the savior’ reversing the star of solitude #how much hua cheng is left when you take away xie lian? #he would say nothing #xie lian would say a billionaire genius playboy philantrophist etc #tgcf looooooves to talk about destiny and free will and so do i #all this to say if it was in character for hua cheng to cry at a movie hed be sobbing #this can be read as pre or post confession btw #the poll decided which version of the comic was the ‘main version’ above the cut #tgcf #art #comic #hualian #hua cheng #xie lian #tian guan ci fu #heaven official's blessing #hob #mxtx #my art #barbie #barbie movie #tgcf meme #lmao

[archonfurina-archive]

@flurrina asked: pairings - neuvillette/furina or cloud/tifa

#it's so symbolic that neuvillette always closes his eyes when furina is in pain #when they talked about the knave and she begged him to come with her bc she was scared after the assassination attempt #and then in the trial when she was begging people to believe her and they all turned away #and you know. the entire 400 years they ruled together #i love this ship but god did he do her dirty #it had to happen that way but she's suffered enough #genshin impact #genshinedit #neuvillette #furina #neuvifuri #focallette #gamingedit #mine #this or that

[teecupangel]

[Desmond Miles has successfully saved a Levantine village during the Third Crusaders after waking up in the past.]

Grateful civilian: Thank you, stranger! You have saved our village from the cruelty of war. May we ask who you are so we may know the name of our savior?

[Desmond Miles believes he cannot say ‘Desmond Miles’ because that might accidentally create a ripple effect in the future.]

[Desmond Miles believes he cannot use any of the names of the ancestors who haven’t been born yet especially the Kenways because of how important they are to his history.]

[Desmond Miles has not yet processed the shock of dying a painful death and waking up in the past and his brain is blanking.]

Desmond: Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.

[The people Desmond Miles have saved now believed their savior’s name is Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad.]

[Desmond Miles has committed identity fraud.]

[… and he will continue to commit identity fraud.]

#we interrupt teecup’s attempts to replying to all the pending replies + asks #to post this half-crack(?) idea #brought by joongdok identity fraud love language #im sorry guess ive been taken in by orv #one day i might even get an actual orv x ac idea #for now… #assassin's creed #desmond miles #teecup writes/has a plot #fic idea: assassin's creed #altaïr ibn la'ahad

[lavenderr-starrs]

I’m so freaking tempted to make an apothecary oc of a head lady-in-waiting for Lishu because I HATE those mfers who work “For her”

this is my BABY, she is a BABY! Leave her alone!! She’s 14!! She was nine when she was made the first Emperors concubine-

ive only seen the anime but i doubt she had a choice in becoming the second emperors concubine Leave my baby alone!!!

#the apothecary diaries #lady lishu #screw her ladies in waiting all my homies hate her ladies in waiting #i love her sm she’s so cute #not only that but she has to keep an eye out for assassination attempts 🥺 #mama bear go brrr when she’s on screen omg

[bonefall]

(dif anon) So is Ashfur grooming Shadowsight a plotline you would keep/rework in BB? I'm not so keen on the way canon used it to retcon his epilepsy, but I do think a plotline examining how clerics can be vulnerable to abuse from StarClan spirits is kinda compelling

Shadowsight's epilepsy is staying in BB, the Erins can try and take it away again over my dead body

Yes, that's staying and BB!StarClan was reworked with unfairness in mind.

This time around, I'm considering the idea that Ashfur didn't work completely alone. After the events of Squirrelflight’s Horror, Silverpelt's divisons are starting to crackle the stars.

Skystar and the other more traditional spirits are losing patience with the peace that Fire Alone brings, and the ways that the code has been bent.

They feel that honor is being lost in their descendants.

Even angels disrespect the collective; see how Skypelt has its own heaven? With a demon in its midst? There is blasphemy even in the skies.

Firestar and the more modern pantheon are ferociously defensive of the choices of the living. StarClan exists for them; not the other way around.

Meanwhile, Mousefur has gone missing. Others start to blink out, too. This is causing panic... and Ashfur keeps it quiet that he's the only one who knows where they've gone.

The angels that plan action probably were a small group to begin with, radical spirits. Skystar and Ashfur are two of them, and Ash is the "youngest." So when he comes down to the mortal plane and betrays them, very few other angels knew what had happened.

(I might even have a few angels be doing the various supernatural things in that first book, but slowly, Ashfur is wittling down their numbers until it's just him.)

I'm still working out specifics, but the other angels that Ashfur has consumed are giving him a massive power boost. He can use this to jump between planes freely, and he's able to do some whacky things like weave dreams and pull nightmares out of the Dark Forest.

The most important unique power he has, which he can do ALL on his own once he's absorbed enough starpower, is blast Shadowpaw with a bolt of lightning. The electric current runs through Shadowpaw's brand new scar, giving him a connection to StarClan like he's a little radio tower.

Thing is... when StarClan is blocked off, the only signal he receives is Ashfur's.

So, Shadowpaw.

From the time he was very young, Shadowkit has had an unhealthy relationship to life and death

He watched a lot of cats die before he was old enough to really understand it, and the only one who came back was Heartstar.

His epilepsy was so severe it would have been terminal. He was prepared to die as a kit.

Tawnypelt took him to the Tribe to learn more about treatments, bringing back a method of refining chamomile to manage the convulsions.

When people come back from death, it was to serve "a purpose."

He feels like he needs to be special, like he needs to find the great meaning in his life. The reason why he's still here.

In BB, there can be guardian angels. Cats you knew in life who decide to watch out for you in the afterlife. Moleflight is Jayfeather's, Shrewface is Squirrelflight’s. Ashfur poses as Shadowpaw's.

THAT is how I plan to address my criticism. Ashfur DOES build a very personal, trusting relationship with Shadowpaw, pretending to be the one who's here to give him the destiny he craves. Pretending like he's someone looking out for him.

I actually LIKE how desperate the situation was in-canon and I want to stress how none of this was Shadow's fault, so I also plan to keep that they had very little choice. Shadowpaw trusts his angel completely, and Ashfur coaches him on saying all the right things.

The older Clerics are suspicious, but... what else can they do?

Also, instead of framing this all as something Shadowpaw needs to "atone" for, I'm going to make certain cats unfairly scapegoat him for bringing the Impostor into the forest. Shadowpaw himself agrees with them, blaming himself, but he has to learn it wasn't his fault.

He DIDN'T let anyone down by failing to live up to great expectations, and there's no way he could have known that Ashfur was using him. This never happened before, he always made the choice he thought was right and tried to make up for harm done, and he's not responsible for what his abuser made him do.

I actually want to have him figure out some of this by talking to DF demons, towards the end. Cats faaaar more responsible for what they did in life than him.

Ravenwing in particular, who was also mislead by a rogue StarClan spirit, but... ultimately decided that if StarClan was right in their judgement.

He was told (by Birchface, but he still doesn't know who it was in particular) to make three kittens unsafe by revealing their parentage. His choice killed three innocent children, and lead to the Queen’s Rights.

And StarClan was furious that he'd ever believe they'd want something so CRUEL.

And even if they DID want something so cruel... "Then they wouldn't have been ancestors worth following. And that's why I believe it's right that I'm here."

As a Cleric, he had authority on their behalf. And if they would misuse it through him, he wishes he could have just given it right back.

And Shadowsight's lightbulb goes Ding!

The very last thing Ashfur does in TBC, when the jig is up and he's about to be killed by the Lights in the Mist and a bunch of Demons who have come to defend their home, is swallow a Founder-- Skystar.

He takes the level of a true god, and reaches a nearly undefeatable level of power. Instead of black water, he's so large, malicious, and has a gravitational pull so massive it starts destroying the afterlife. It shatters the purgatory (Meadow of Young Stars) into floating cosmic fragments, and Heaven and Hell are set to collide.

Shadowsight confronts Ashfur, politely explaining that he's, well... done a lot of thinking, and, he doesn't really want what he gave him. "You can, uh, have this back!"

And blasts the lightning from his scar right back at him, like a chain, holding the screeching eldrich horror in place. Every ally he's made, here in the DF, come down from StarClan, and as Lights in the Mist, jump to his side. They can't hold down Ashfur, but they can hold SHADOWSIGHT

While they're all supporting him, Bristlefrost sees the one chance to get rid of him, once and for all. A clear shot. She bolts, pounces, and SHOOTS right into Ashfur like a falling star, knocking them both off the edge of the heaven he destroyed, burning up in orbit with a monster a hundred times her size.

And after that, Shadowsight has to go home and live with this.

He gave up the very connection that made him so special, and now he has to go back to being a Cleric without StarClan.

but the other Clerics accept this. They have to. They were all complicit in the choices that allowed the Impostor to rise.

What Shadowsight learns is... everyone was part of this. From those who made the follies with him, to the supporters and rebels against the impostor, to those who helped him realize his worth, to Bristlefrost who ultimately killed Ashfur.

He is valuable because living is valuable.

Everyone, and everything, matters. All cats have a role to play, and he was never alone.

I want to close him out in BB!TBC on a tea scene that parallels the various points in his life. Others used to prepare his chamomile treatments FOR him, in careful doses, because it is a very serious medicine. Now, at the end, he's the one brewing it.

A fully fledged Cleric, who realizes he's never been alone. Cats who love him were around him the whole time, making his medicine, and they'll love him even after he's given up his powerful gift. So now he's at the stage in his life where HE can make that medicine, share his wisdom with others, and find fulfillment in the skills he's acquired over a hard life brightening.

#Ashfur was a scary and terrifying villain worthy of the WC hall of fame #I will make him WORSE #I should change one of the titles to the later books to The Black Hole as a reference to BB!Ashfur swallowing other stars #Maybe the last one since that's where his bossfight happens lmao #I love the vibe of all the morally gray and post-redemption cats of BB seeing Shadow like #''Youve done nothing wrong. Youre literally just baby.'' #Lmao Breeze like 'oh honey nooooo' #Lineup of guys like What Are You In For? #'Tyranny of an ancient civilization' #'Political assassination' #'Attempted murder of a child' #'Did what a bad person told me :(' #And they all drop their shit to be like 'its ok youre ok youve done nothing wrong' #I kinda want to give him an honor title that means 'Whole Shadow' #In reference to the way that when you stand with a dozen people behind you #You only cast a single shadow #better bones au #BB!TBC #BB!Shadowsight

[lsleofthelost]

descendants tweets [19/?] Ben edition

#the aks will all have private accounts since their public ones are managed and stuff #yes he’s livetweeting his assassination attempt #descendants #descendants tweets #ben #benjamin florian

[qsmprambling]

Baghera saying 'Oh Bébou would love these chairs' was cute and she's so right

#qsmp #badboyhalo #bagherajones #people in Foolish's chat agreeing and saying the chairs made them miss Bad more ME TOO DOOZERS :'D #I hope he is having a fantastic time at vidcon! #but man he's going to get info overload when he gets back pfft #also also Foolish did not get to speak like AT ALL it was a shame! #I support his Gegg assassination attempt he deserved to have some fun

[carrotkicks]

WAIT. WAIT. fr the reverse au i just had a thought but. What if the Flags were a vigilante group totally seperate from the mafia and the ada. And they play a part in the 15 arc too. They want to recruit Chuuya to their team, meanwhile Daz is trying to convince him that the Sheep suck and he shouldn't stay with them, all the while Rimbaud and the Mafia are trying to kill him. So like. Three organizations playing hot potato with this one(1) fifteen year old child who DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THIS SHIT. (pspspstt the flags totally win. For now.)

#and then STORM BRINGER happens amd its a mess all over again #bsd #chuuya #the flags #you know how apparently Ice Man was sent to assassinate chuu during his sheep days #well that but actually he was scouting him out on behalf of Pianoman the leader. he did it Ice Man typical fashion of attempted murder ofc #i had a two hour train ride to think about the logistics of this lol #not art #reverse au

[starry-bi-sky]

Danyal Phantom Doodles uhhh i’ve got a handful of Danyal Al Ghul drawings that I like enough to share.

#dp x dc #dpxdc #danny fenton is not the ghost king #dpxdc crossover #dp x dc crossover #mediocre starry art #danyal al ghul au #danyal al ghul #dpxdc art #jumpscare appearance of shoddily done digital version of phantom done from mobile pocket procreate #he's looking at vlad fyi. that's why he looks like he's .5 seconds from committing a violence #second row middle is that one popular screencap of danny looking at lancer and iirc kwan. the fourth row middle is from a scene #where valerie as huntress tells phantom 'you're not the boss of me!' and he without saying a word. yanks off her mask right in front of #her dad. revealing her identity. before smugly sing-songing “no. but HE is~” and it was so funny i had to attempt to redraw it with Danyal #phantom was doing the soldier 'arms behind back' pose too which is like. somehow makes it funnier #those first four are recent. i drew all but the second one today. same with drawing 6. the rest are weeks old #anatomy practice is helpful but ANNOYING. wdym drawing the back profile is HARDER. why is it harder #also drawing front profiles my beloathed. how do i stop drawing you Prepubescent #out of all things Vlad was expecting from Jack's adoptive son. a sword was not one of them #shot myself in the foot with digi phantom by not doing lineart. but i guess him being hard to see is. Kinda The Whole Point LMAO. his suit #IS. after all. mimicking his dad + the whole assassin shtick. #its the brat himself. the bastard. he likes to climb things over flying.

[the--firevenus]

My interpretation Zutaraang ship dynamic is

Two sunshine protector x THE sunshine

But like that said sunshine is the equivalent of their world literal god and absolutely can wreck havoc but always choice kindness over and over again that they feel so strongly devoted to him that they DIE for him if asked but he didn't asked them that, he want them to learn joy and be loved because they too deserve so much love and the world was so cruel to them and his heart so so big and overflow with love that it kinda drown them in two seperate ways but it all feel the same and and *GET HIT BY A CABBAGE MERCHANT*

#venus rambling #atla #zutaraang #I personally think all three of them deserve to have a big cuddle session #But also those two don't place with their bald monk bf like 🖐️🖐️ #Dude zuko and katara can work so well with assassination attempts.. Personally I don't WANT to be their enemy idk #aang #zuko #katara

[sushis-brainrot]

So, I finished AC The Golden City. And I have thoughts:

Hytham is baby

Basim is a sassy tease

Hytham is bABY

Basim cares more easily for people than he cares to admit

Hytham is my boi, my big-hearted loving boi

Basim will most likely take anything you say he can't do, turn it into a challenge, and prove you wrong

HYTHAM QWQ

Basim calls Hytham "my friend", after almost every sentence <33

I didn't think I could love Basim's brain and Hytham's heart more

"In the grove you were elegant - the picture of grace," Basim said. "Now you fight like a vicious dog. I can't decide which version of you I like more."

"Really?" Basim grinned. "You know I do so love a challenge, Hytham."

"You'll be shocked, I'm sure, to learn that arrogance is a fault of mine." - Basim, and no, we're really not that shocked

"If we're lucky Isaac thinks he's taken me out of the fight." "Should you be out of the fight?" Hytham couldn't help but observe, as Basim winced again when he tied off the bandage. Basim smiled at him, and it was not a pleasant expression. "Your sense of humor is one of the many things I like about you, my friend."

#assassin's creed #assassin's creed the golden city #ac #ac the golden city #basim #basim ibn ishaq #hytham #jaleigh johnson #thought #my thoughts #overall I enjoyed the book it was a fun read #nothing world changing but entertaining #honestly I'm just attempting to consume all the Basim content I can get my grubby little hands on #and I'm certainly falling more in love with Hytham in this process precious boi #I'm calling this research

[danwhobrowses]

Okay sure just split the group again I'm sure nothing could go wrong this time dividing them into sub-groups to sting at high levelled and relatively unknown areas with high risk and high threat of boss level enemies in the vicinity and then go on another break to make us stew on that, it's fine IT'S FINE!

#critical role #bell's hells #cr spoilers #c3 e89 #critical role spoilers #the volition #ruby vanguard #the imperium #ruidus #unseelie court #universe really gotta hit me with Frieren season finale and CR going on a break AND One Piece going on a break! #it's like you want me to have nothing to do on Friday #honestly how many times in all 3 campaigns has splitting up worked? Not a lot Matt it's just evil PCs have died #my Callowmoore heart of course is relieved that Ashton and Fearne are in the same group this time - they're not gonna lose her again #maybe we can sneak in some combo moves for Bearne and Bashton - play a bit of holies #but still it's difficult to gauge how to deal with Athion plus maybe a dragon indoors plus Ira's willingness to leave people behind #Otohan and Ludinus can be lurking anywhere too #we still have no idea where Ryn is being kept either #the Liliana assassination attempt is doomed to fail and as much as it's a terrible choice I think Imogen needs to let her go #she talks about Ludinus like an abusive lover but acts blind to the cries of the people she says she's protecting #like woman go home! If they need you then removing yourself from the board stops them that's why there's a target on your back #but we all believe in Gaz supremacy at least #and more moon lore always gotta have the moon lore #tag reader's bonus: turtles live in every continent except antarctica #idk usually I have this many tags in ship posts so I drop a headcanon but this is more just panic so you get a nice turtle fact

[lurafita]

Arranged Marriage Malec fantasy AU with dragons. Because DRAGONS!

Fantasy AU, strangers to friends to lovers, arranged marriage (but the twist is, the marriage isn't arranged by the parents, but by the couple themselves) When Magnus was a child, a group of (wild/untamed, evil, controlled?) dragons attacked his kingdom and caused immense loss to all of its inhabitants. Magnus himself had to witness his mother's brutal death at the teeth of a three headed dragon, traumatizing him greatly and leaving him with a perpetual and insurmountable seeming fear of dragons. While the dragons were eventually fought back, and the kingdom slowly rebuilt itself, Magnus' father, the king, went the opposite side of the scale to his son, not fearing but hating all dragons and wishing them dead. Years later, it seems that King Asmodeus has made enough alliances with other lands to launch an attack on all dragons; including those belonging to the mountain kingdoms, that have been tamed by the people there and live in harmony with the humans. Now Magnus is no less afraid of dragons in his twenties, than he was as a child, but he doesn't wish to eradicate an entire species for the crimes of a few individuals. So he travels to the mountain kingdoms, in hopes of convincing the reigning king/queen/prince/princess to agree to a marriage with him. Because this way, King Asmodeus can't go around killing all the dragons, if his son and heir is married to a dragon rider.

#magnus bane #alec lightwood #malec #shadowhunters tv #malec prompt #and the dragon rider in question is of course Alec #because of course it's Alec #Magnus is having a really hard time among all those dragons at first #and his trauma doesn't get cured because he pets Alec's dragon a few times or something like that. #because such deep seated trauma isn't so easily overcome #but they will get to a point where Magnus can be comfortable among dragons #just takes a while #and meanwhile they may need to stop a few assassination attempts or whatever #and other magical fantasy things that should be in a setting like that. #because fantasy and dragons and magic gives so much opportunity for so many plot things

[wooawi]

gave in and watched confrontation, wish i didn’t.

sabrina getting a redemption arc (or episode?) after it’s been shown she was completely on board with doing chloe’s dirty work and hurting others until season 4 is insane. she didn’t apologise for her previous actions nor did she try to make things better, she just cried to marinette and suddenly it was all good? she literally grew a conscious in five minutes, im so 😭

anyway, i’m still balking in horror at having marinette put a double sided mirror in a bathroom. “but it was for the greater good of exposing lila and chloe” yes but it’s also illegal. bad things for good reasons r still bad things.

tbh, i don’t even see marinette anymore. just the writers in a blue wig.

i don’t think bustier should get to have a kid. i really don’t understand that specific writing choice when she’s notorious for not knowing how to deal with children. “if i give chloe attention, she’ll become a better person” and was surprised when that didn’t help at all. new flash, u did exactly what her father does. and now all of a sudden she’s putting her foot down?? bffr. if ur way of parenting is to throw morals like “be kind” and “treat people better” at a mean child like chloe expecting something to be different, then get angry when it doesn’t work and switch to a harsh and commanding style, don’t have children.

Damocles is gone 🥳 he shouldn’t have been redeemed but whatever. a win is a win.

lila taking her hair off gave me a solid giggle. i respect the grind, cerise

#all i ask #if for chloe’s arc to be over and done with #u can’t make her look worse #u just end up assassinating other characters in that attempt #ml salt #confrontation spoilers #miraculous season 5 spoilers #i should just go back to ignoring season 5 #this isn’t good for my mental health lmao #ml leaks

[bookshelf-in-progress]

It's so nice to have this tiny little selection of WIPs to prioritize. Really helps me to keep my focus where it should be.

Wait, what's this?

IT'S A LONG-ABANDONED WIP WITH A STEEL CHAIR!!

#so two days ago i was looking back at some of my stories i like and thinking that they were all garbage #well then yesterday (actually at 3 am shh don't tell) i was looking at some things i liked less and found that they were surprisingly good #(my imagination kicked in during the interim and supplied some really nice mental movies that made the stories come alive) #and guys that arateph princess and the pea retelling has me going feral #both povs have fantastic conflicts #the fairy tale gets to tie in perfectly with the politics and philosophy issues in this world #and now i really really want to get to the core of this story and try to figure out how to finish it #because there's a ton of thematic and internal things happening #but how to realistically tie it in with the need for action is logistically difficult #i've got at least three threads here and the 'assassination attempt' thing is the most concrete possibility but also the hardest to fit in #i may just have to open a new doc and rubber-duck it to see if something comes together #incidentally the fact that this kind of thing regularly happens with my backlog of seasonally-specific ideas is why i rarely finish anythin #ah well what do you do? #adventures in writing