#at least he settled down

[possamble]

mickbell would not survive in post-canon melini. melini will be a pro-union kingdom because otherwise chilchuck would come and kill laios with his bare hands. mickbell would either have to abandon kabru and get the hell out of melini or abandon his scabbing and exploiting ways to start paying kuro a decent wage and letting him learn common

#third and funnier option: he gets fucking arrested and kabru has to deal with him #dungeon meshi #dungeon meshi manga spoilers #i know that at least rin sticks around so im assuming most of kabru's party is also settling down or finding other stuff to do #sorry chilchuck being a die hard union man and mickbell being a proud scab is so funny to me dsfkljvndsf

[wyvernity]

sss day my favorite national holiday WOOOOHHHH

bonus

#pokemon #trainer lyra #rival silver #soulsilvershipping #timeskip tag #bao beis #i had so much more planned. but alas. college. #ANYWAY. sss my everything. ohh. always thinking abt them. #this is very obviously lyra's room! all the pink! massive bed to fit all her pokemon! the champion paycheck gets you that much at least #and plants!!! no. 1 horticulturist in johto #she's living somewhere around the base of mt silver... decently close to the league and her hometown #so i like to imagine her with a huge greenhouse so she can take care of plants even in the harsher climate #meanwhile silver has one of those decrepit malelivingspace flats in viridian. he's making it work. #i can only see sss properly moving in together liiiike in their late 20s #after they get to enjoy young adult independence for a while #but before they permanently settle down they should go on silly adventures again... just once. or twice. or #as much as i like to entertain the thought of them being homebodies i think they'd rather spend their lives travelling haha #since silver never got to fully experience it as a kid on the run #being a wanted man and all #and lyra is itching for the getaway #they deserve to be in nature and responsibility-free and *frothing at the mouth* #BTW i put my whole wyvussy into that wall decor #lisia signed poster... rosa's resemblance as mei(!!!) in the totoro one... bell tower + whirl island pics // #pokemon constellations... and those gen 4 mail templates that no one actually used. probably from dawn. champion penpals :] #i debated doing a lance poster because celebrity idol funny but nah she'd bin that immediately after moving out #oh yeah the drawover was um. inspired by the nonebinary neochamp fit. so happy for my son. #i'm glad i managed to finish the big piece in time otherwise i would've just posted that LOL can you imagine #okey bye happy sss day

[ofoceansandtombsanew]

A Sight Second to None

tags: god!reader au, pre!relationship, pre!canon, god!reader and rukkhadevata aren’t siblings, happy lantern rite simps

a/n: it’s lantern rite time, i have to write something for the geo daddy so i figured why not give him something set in the god!reader universe. light spoilers for 3.2′s last act of the sumeru archon quest if you haven’t played it yet, and i’d give the first few bullets of god!reader’s lore guide a read here as well. other than that, enjoy, tell me your thoughts and talk about the god!reader cinematic universe with me.

"Is the décor to your liking?”

“I’ve told you once before, Morax, and I’ll tell you again,” you answer with a tone too stern for the question you were asked. “The sights of any country will always be second to that of my own.” 

Morax’s lips quirk into an amused smile. “I find second place to be better than last then if I have to ask Amur their opinion of my home.”

“This country’s geography has a lot of character.” Even if you’re the first to admit that Morax and yourself have never gotten along the best among the divine you knew, you wouldn’t be petulant enough to discredit his efforts.

You’ve seen many a fine sight in your centuries of living, Liyue is one of them. From the spears he cast to create the stone forest of Guyun to the lowest peaks of Liyue’s mountains; Morax worked hard to craft Liyue into its current image and he did a fine job.

“Just as long as you know Sumeru is the best. Our oases and forests are second to none.” Morax had seen them quite a few times due to your nations’ proximities to one another and the newfound allegiance of the Seven.

It was no longer an oddity to hear from your friend that she was being called to a small gathering Barbatos insisted she attend, nor was it odd when the other Archons found themselves visiting Rukkhadevata in Sumeru. What you presently find odd, however, is that this isn’t a gathering for the Seven.

It is simply you, merely one of the gods of Sumeru allied to the Dendro Archon, and Morax alone.

“Why not bring Rukkha here?” You finally bring yourself to ask. “She would love to see something like this, she’s interacted plenty with mortals.” You and the newly appointed Archon of Sumeru were similar that way, although your methodology differed. We’re old friends. Even more than that, perhaps both your similarities and differences were inevitable. We were born from the same tree, after all. Irminsul connects you both more deeply than could ever be expressed.

You are both one of many parts of it, a branch and a root respectively. Life and Death with the green of Dendro running through both your veins. She will always have your loyalty and you hers.

“Barbatos of Mondstadt has dragged you lot to plenty of parties.” you continue, pushing away your thoughts. If Morax picked up that your mind was bordering topics beyond his nation’s holiday, he doesn’t show it. If he has, you can appreciate him saying nothing. Perhaps Rukkhadevata wasn’t exaggerating when she said the Geo Archon had begun to mellow out since the last time you encountered him. “I’d expect an invitation like this from him. I thought you preferred the company of your adepti to anyone else.” Yet Morax requested your presence specifically. It was so abnormal you couldn’t help dragging yourself across the desert and forest of your homeland to your neighboring nation for answers.

The Lord of Geo’s face is unknowable. “I thought this sort of holiday would be to your liking.” At the curious raise of your eyebrow, Morax explains on smoothly. “Lantern Rite celebrates the lives of those who sacrificed their own for Liyue’s prosperity. Mortals, Gods and Adepti alike. Considering your philosophies, I thought you’d enjoy it.”

“Because we are alike,” you reply almost smugly. “Mortals and the divine. It doesn’t matter where we start, we all meet the same end. Every life on Teyvat is important.” It’s a point you and Morax could never agree on. Neither of you would yield even when Guizhong herself stepped in, finding the debate too heated even by her standards. Dendro and Geo are compatible elements by nature, that didn’t seem apply to you and Morax.  You thought him close-minded and stuck in his ways, he thought you young and inexperienced despite you only be a few millennia younger than him.

Oddly enough, however, that same Morax is sitting beside you with a look you almost deem fond.

"Anyway, even you should know that all the fun is down there,” you gesture broadly to Liyue Harbor. The lights of the lanterns shone similarly to the stars twinkling above the vast desert and you could hear the distant sounds of music. You aren’t surprised, however. Morax never interacted with his followers unless he had to and even then there was always a distance he placed between them.

“We can attend the festivities whenever you’d like,” Morax replies kindly and much too quickly for you to believe it.

You poke his forehead the way you would Deshret in his deep sleep, wondering if he dozed himself into an eternal slumber. “Is everything alright in there?” You query in disbelief. “Who are you and what have you done with Morax? Is there an imposter among the Seven? Should I alert all the Archons that the Lord of Geo’s been possessed by a fake?”

Grabbing your wrist, Morax halts your poking. Strangely enough, he doesn’t let go though his hold is gentle. “I’m not going mad, I’m simply taking a page out of your book, God of Festivals.”

A wave of embarrassment sweeps over you at the mention of what is becoming your most popular epithet and you gently tug your wrist from his grip. “I only started calling myself that so the people of Sumeru would stop balking at my ideal at the mere mention of it.” You and your friends all had your ideals, your own basis for what you considered wisdomー it was just unfortunate yours was the only one mortals had a primordial fear of.

“Life should be thought of as a grand festival”, you told your tribes. “Treat it like a celebration! Mortal children come into this world needing to be cared for by their elders and yet mortal elders become more like children the older they become, the youth taking their roles as providers. Your dreams, decisions and ambitions. Make them the games a child would play at a festival so they can return home without regrets! Mortals and the divine, we all return to the earth. Make sure you can return with no regrets! This is my wisdom.”

Morax chuckles at your sheepish expression and it isn’t the first time you resent his baritone voice. It should be forbidden for someone teasing you to have a voice so pleasant. “I like it, it’s very fitting of you.” At your sour glare, he reassures you his opinion is not in jest. “The gods of Sumeru all sought and continue to seek Wisdom, it’s the lifeblood of the nation. Even if our opinions have differed in the past, I’ve never doubted the wisdom you hold. I admire your tenacity, I’m not sure I would be able to find ways to make a subject most humans find taboo more palatable. At least, not in such a creative way.”

A quiet passes over the two of as you take in what was said. He isn’t joking, you’ve joked yourself in the past that the blockhead is too serious to joke. You find it unbearable to stare into amber eyes any longer, finding comfort in the warm glow of the capital in the distance. “You said if I wanted, we could see the festivities in person,” you begin after a few moments. “I’m considering this a contract from the Lord of Geo himself so let’s go.”

Another chuckle escapes Morax’s lips and you can’t hold back a snicker of your own. “The last time I visited Sumeru I saw you dancing with the mortals,” it feels random when Morax tells you this but his eyes are distant, chasing a memory. This time his expression looks undoubtedly fond. “It looked fun. I want to experience things as you view them, if you’ll allow me.”

“You don’t seem like much of a dancer,” you murmur quietly but you don’t disparage him.

“This isn’t a holiday that calls for dancing, but this is only the fifth Lantern Rite to ever take place,” Morax stands, holding a hand out for you to grab. You find it too easy to accept his offer and feel too self-conscious of how closely you are standing beside one another. “Perhaps that can be a change made if the people are given a little guidance.”

“Oh stop, you old rock,” you say out of habit. You feel as if you’ve had one too many drinks, noting again how Morax makes no move to separate his hand from your own. It’s strange but you don’t find the urge to fight it. It’s only for one night, only to see the festivities of Liyue’s newest yet most important holiday. “I want to see how the people here celebrate things without biased divine intervention. Just lead the way to the Harbor before I start growing over with moss.”

His smile is light, familiar with your sense of humor by now. “I’ll be sure to lead at a moderate pace then.”

#look she's writing #or at least trying to get over my writer's block by forcing myself to write SOMETHING #zhongli x reader #morax x reader #god!reader au #genshin impact x reader #genshin x reader #basically things are starting to settle down after the archon war and zhongli wants to begin acting on his feelings #he's been smitten with the reader for a long time now #consider this the part of the main canon for zhongli's spinoff in the god!reader au

[yonemurishiroku]

Jason definitely bites Nico's cheek at some point I stand by what I said.

#after nico settles down he gains some meat and his cheeks just fill out and it's bitable. excuse u Jason's just a wolfboi #Feral or not Jason definitely bites his cheek at least ONCE #sometimes he just 'gnaw' at it like playfully i mean #it doesn't hurt as much as it tickles/ is messy tho. like when u bite at a baby's cheeks. this time he does leave a tooth print bc nico's s #is just so pale. hazel sees it. sees him doing it and the print after and flips bc 'wth jason??". but nico thinks it's cute #ya know that mental image of jason holding nico up by the armpit like freaking simba and then bite his cheek #im dead bye #nico di angelo #pjo #hoo #toa #yone rambling #percy jackson and the olympians #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo #jason grace #jasico #platonic jasico

[buildoblivionthenwewilltalk]

four to doomsday is a funny serial because it’s objectively kinda dull but it’s so SO good at showing us what makes fivey and his friends tick

#doctor who #especially because 5 is out of comission for a lot of Castrovalva #or at least he hasn’t quite settled into his rhythm yet #and 4todoom is an excellent example of how a ‘second ep’ is a vital part of a new doctors initiation #just plonk the doctor and Co down somewhere and see how they react! #we see his designated driver ‘oh shit where’s heathrow’ role #but also his energy and even a bit of mischief #making faces at the security bots and that little smile when he blocks the camera with his hat #and his tetchiness too - ‘ah! you’re spoiling my concentration >:( #I also love that scene where they’re watching the dancing and Tegan is like ‘what are we doing the vibes are off’ #but five explains that he needs time to think so just look like you’re enjoying yourself #before cheerfully waving at their hosts #it’s a nice microcosm of how his outward ‘politeness’ is very much a facade #also we get some good scenes to show how team 5 works #nyssa and adric being impressed with the logic vs the doctor and Tegan’s knowledge of earth (and dry humour) #‘how’s your ancient history Tegan?’ ‘like I feel - awful -_-‘ ‘not to worry mines pretty good!’ #iTS SO GOOD #I will defend this serial I have so many thoughts #fifth doctor #5th doctor #season 19 #Tegan #adric #nyssa #classic who

[martianbugsbunny]

I love when the hero chooses their loved one over the world, like to hell with saving everything if you can't be part of it, but I also love when the villain chooses their loved one over the world, like to hell with destroying everything if you have to go down with it

#cherik #charles xavier #erik lehnsherr #erik x charles #charles x erik #xmen #xmen movies #xmen prequels #xmen apocalypse #literally one of the few decent moments that horrible movie gave us #Erik defended Charles instead of helping apocalypse destroy everything you don't understand how much this means to me #he'd been trying to do that for years but he said yeah no if you're going to kill Charles to do it I don't think so bitch #because let's face it Erik would never have killed Charles (at least on purpose) #also say what you will I think that bit where he slams down the girders in the shape of an X barring apocalypse's way is dope #also that's the moment when Erik starts on his Journey to Frogs #aka the beginning of him settling down and just living with and caring for mutants in Genosha instead of trying to kill the humans #martianbugsbunny ships

[your-local-uwu-artist]

sleepover~

had a lot of fun with this, I wanted to practice poses, character interaction, and composition: + I wanted to try out a softer color scheme ...well as soft as my endless love for super saturated colors allows

#south park #stan marsh #eric cartman #kenny mccormick #kyle broflovski #kyukyudraws #what if i shared some drawing notes in the tags :o #dnfjka #okay well for starters the video game cases are supposed to be mario kart 8 deluxe cooking mama 2 and pokemon sun #I was gonna do the dinosaur pjs for cartman but then i was like “what if cats” #considered having kyle's book be one of those unofficial minecraft novels but then i remembered now they have official ones and that stunte #my thought process so instead he just gets vague purple book #kenny gets a loz shirt because of princess kenny's resemblance to zelda #sketches had like at least 5 different kenny pose ideas sketched out #some abadened kenny poses include: having him upside down : having him sideways laying on top of everyone else #anyways i evuentually found the pose i settled on #i had to adjust stan's pose slightly to balance it out #before kenny's was decided stans just had it so his spread out leg didn't go sideways #hope you know that while i drew those uno cards that one audio played in my head the entire time #the 1 where it's the angsty 'in the back of my mind' song then 'hey you guys wanna play uno real quick so i can make that my upload tonight #i saw a version where it was count bleck and nastasia for the back of my mind than mimi and mr.L for the uno bit #mr.l was the one with the oldest xbox known to man btw #i actually referenced that before on that mimi and mr.L doodles post

[marimeeko]

I'm gonna be real, I was kinda casually working on a drabble to sate my brainrot, but since the main idea of it was a shot of Katsuki taking izukus face in both of his palms at the end of the war(so lovingly)

I might have to slightly alter it 🤣 (bc that one arm may not make it)

#bnha spoilers #bakugou katsuki #bakudeku #bkdk #brainrot #i love writing my brainworms for a constantly evolving character lmao #and by this i mean at least that by the end everything settles down he wont be able to use it #like itll be out of commission #all the adrenaline wearing off #pain setting in

[isfjmel-phleg]

😶

#random personal stuff #I have just made arrangements for a trip that I know my mom would like to take too #to go to my late aunt's memorial #and I was really hoping Mom would come too #but it's like she's looking for every excuse not to make arrangements #says she doesn't want to ask my dad because he's sick/stressed/etc. #so she probably won't go but will later bemoan that she couldn't and I will feel like a heel for going #at least...I hope not but I suspect from long experience that this is how it will go down #I am this close to just calling Dad myself and asking for her and offering to help out #but that would be interfering #wish I could tell her to just communicate with Dad anyway #better to get it settled than assume anything and miss out #sorry you don't need to know this but I'm telling you anyway #this is an awkward position to be in with our family dynamics

[graincracket]

So like. You telling me the protagonist of Rain Code technically committed identity fraud

#master detective archives: rain code #master detective archives: raincode spoilers #imagine being the real Yuma Kokohead (ramen shop owner guy) and you're minding your own damn business #then the owner of the organization you're working for asks you to swap identities so he can like do sumn undercover #you get to Kanai Ward and settle down as a ramen chef #and then all of a sudden yOUR BOSS IS ALSO IN KANAI WARD EXCEPT HE DOESN'T REMEMBER YOU #SO YOU GOTTA BE A MYSTERY CLOAK MAN AND FOLLOW HIM AROUND TO MAKE SURE HE'S ALRIGHT #at least you make some bussin ramen

[poorlittleyaoyao]

As a former eighth grader, being an eighth grade boy is a serious crime

This is very true. However! The experience of being an eighth grader is also a serious punishment on its own, so poor Jin Ling is experiencing consequences for his crime in real time.

#CQL Jin Ling at age 16 has it easy bc at least his voice has settled down #all the other Jin Lings might be going through voice changes! #he might be publicly bursting into tears over Suihua AND having his voice crack into another dimension! poor guy

[spearxwind]

Hi Alex! I was wondering, since there's leviathans of all fuck off sizes, are there other species in this world? Like Wyverns that can fly above and swan dive to say hi to their leviathan buds?

Hiya! There arent any dragons if that is what youre asking, nor any other massive species.

Besides the leviathans and all the regular sealife, fauna in CD is mostly avian (primarily seafaring birds and jungle fowl on the islands)

There are some bigger birds around but they are nowhere near as big as the leviathans are. I think the max size for birds would roughly be around cutter class sized (the smallest leviathan class), and those DO dive for fish like ospreys, though leviathans might chomp at them if they get too close (the same would happen with wyverns too)

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As a note, there's a non-lore adjacent reason for it too, it's that I do not want the focus to shift away from the ocean and the leviathans. If I made giant flying things there would have to be logistics around that and I would not want them to interfere with what I already have.

Though now that I'm thinking about it, it could be really swag to have hunters who ride on big birds (I am immensely biased), though as much as I like it idk if I can make it work without pulling too much focus from the CD vibe haha

#it could be a small regional thing? limited to a biome hmm #I doooo really like the idea of big water beasts snapping things up out of the sky if they fly too close to the water #with talas specifically when he was in an older headworld that DID have dragons in it he would do that so i bet he would do that here too #and so would a myriad of other sea monsters #talas also has an ice beam attack so if something is flying high he can actually beam it and make it fall :) i do think about that a lot #theres uh. this one scene in the eragon trilogy where saphira is resting on the waves like a massive seagull after a long flight #in the middle of the fucking ocean. and suddenly they all get a chill down their spine and she takes off as fast as she possibly can #and then this massive monstrous maw just opens up beneath them and closes just SHY of her tail and wingtips as she ascends #i have thought about that vibe for A DECADE since i read that. its one of my fave things ever even tho it lasted for a paragrapth #and im still mad that glaedr or whatever his name was said 'after all this is over ill gladly settle down and tell you about those beasts' #AND HE NEVER DOES!!! AT LEAST WITH THE READER!! UGH!!! I WANTED TO KNOE ABOUT THAT THING SO BAD #anyway this is my mega random tangent hi hello good afternoon. thank u for asking !! #ask #anon #challenger deep

[tariah23]

He apparently has 2 kids with 2 different women and doesn't take care of either of them

Women, I will protect you-

#a damn shame… I’d expect nothing less from someone with those ideologies though #they shame women for having children and not ‘settling’ with these men who treat them like garbage #because for them it’s not REALLY about the women themselves it’s about a woman having the audacity to leave them #so they talk down on them for having kids and not being married while these same dudes would have like 20 other kids who they don’t even #know exist and will still think that they’re a good personsjjsj #the patriarchy has these negros and just men in general cooked #they wield it the same way white ppl use their whiteness to get ahead and punch down on black and brown ppl #and when it comes to black men…. I have sm to say but I don’t even feel like getting into it dkkssjm #they want all of the perks white men have and treat BW like diarrhea for free though #then when race is brought up with how they treat nb women vs black women they bash them #but whenever white women and nb ppl confront them about how they treat BM it’s crickets #or when other prominent bm actually challenge their misogynoir #they literally have nothing to say back other than ‘BM got attitude problems and they’re MEAN to us 🤕-‘ #skksksk #so imagine having a kid with someone who thinks like this… I’m sure they aren’t black 😭 #if this is all true about this loser than I think he has more important things to think about than getting on tik tok to bash women for not #being in a relationship and having kids 😭…. weirdo #tkf replies #spaceshipsandpurpledrank #dr umar is…. a lot of things lmfao but I still like those videos of him getting in the asses is other black men with Kevin samuels brainrot #at least the nigga is hilarious

[remitro]

feeling shrimp emotions about cbee again. sorry it will happen again

#postcanon ranboo revival is real to me. thinking a normal amount of thoughts about them when everything is over and the dust settles #full believer that they get like. married married after ranboo is revived because goddammit they never got a wedding the first time #and maybe ranboo's ghost was a little too haunting because tubbo can never quite forget it the bloodstained wedding dress the ruined veil #the way their hair hung in front of their eyes #down in the way that ranboo always hated with he was alive because of how it touched her neck #about those empty empty eyes about something in the shape of someone you loved more than anything that doesn't understand. OK #really normal about replacing something that haunted you for so long with something happier. with something joyous #michael gets to be ring bearer. tommy is the flower girl AND the best man because he's just cool like that #ranboo's bouquet is pink tulips. jasmine flowers are braided into their hair. Does Anyone Hear Me. Does Anyone Fucking Hear Me #hm. i need to draw this will i probably not. but i want to. GOD i want to #they have the first set of rings on their horns but i think they order a second set for their actual hands #tommy spends at least five minutes laughing when he sees how much bigger ranboo's ring is in comparison #look. to me tubbo is maybe 5'4 if we're being nice about ranboo has AT LEAST a full foot on him if we're being generous #he never had a chance

[umbracirrus]

Look at these idiots. They're holding hands. I just didn't wanna draw said hands.

As with previous OC sketches, details about them are under the read more. There's a lot of overlap because, obviously, Edwyn and Ingja are a couple.

Edwyn Verne

Edwyn never felt the strongest of ties to his homeland of High Rock. He had no family so to speak of, and never really had the confidence to settle down anywhere for long. It was just him, his handful of books, and his conjurations for company and had been that way since he was a young teen... but even then, he had difficulty controlling the conjurations.

Once the Great War was over, just as he reached adulthood, he decided to try and hone his magic, and ventured over the border into Skyrim, to join the College of Winterhold. His studies were going incredibly well after just a few months there, and he had made extensive progress in taming his wolf familiar, Spectre. But one day, a little rabbit interrupted them, sending Spectre crazy as he began to chase the creature - unfortunately injuring Ingja, who had been out hunting in the frozen lands around Winterhold, in the process.

After helping to return the injured Ingja to Winterhold, she begrudgingly offers to thank him with a drink at the inn. One drink turned to two, and a night out in thanks turns to numerous nights out, and even a few days, as a curiosity in magic had been ignited in her and he had offered to teach her.

He falls for her hard over those few month - just as she did for him. Unfortunately, their first kiss gets disturbed by her brother, and Edwyn ends up with a bounty on his head for 'clearly controlling Ingja with his foul magic', when he didn't know an ounce of illusion magic - not that her family knew or cared for the differences between the schools of magic, it was all the same for them.

But that doesn't deter them from seeing each other. Or running away from Winterhold together, for that matter. Or getting married and even having a child, their beloved daugher Elyse.

They find themselves in High Rock once more, and he takes on various teaching positions to try and earn money whilst Ingja takes on more dangerous tasks as a hunter and mercenary for hire. He would constantly fret about her any time that she was gone for more than a day, though always hid his worry from the ever-curious Elyse, and would relish in the relief whenever she would return home.

As soon as they had enough money to do so, the family moved to somewhere more stable - Chorrol. Life almost seemed perfect... until the love of his life began to fade away before his eyes.

Ingja Frosthand

Ingja had always been taught never to interact with and never trust the mages in the College, and she had no reason not to believe that. Unless it came from her mother, who always seemed to have a bone to pick with her and only seemed to care about her younger brother. She only really cared about what her father thought on matters though, and that was what he believed.

One of her favourite pasttimes had always been hunting from as soon as she was taught to wield a bow, which even in spite of the lands around Winterhold being sparce, she could easily spend days upon days exploring the environment and making sure that her family could eat well for a time. On one of her hunting trips, following an argument with her mother, she ends up getting injured as a result of Edwyn's experiments with his conjurations. He helped her return to Winterhold, and though it went against every instinct in her body, because he was a mage, she offered to buy him a drink in thanks.

Much to her surprise... she realises that Edwyn, and in turn the mages in the College, were just as much people as she and the other residents of Winterhold were. And she found his clumsiness and enthusiasm to be endearing... and she fell in love with him after asking him to teach her how to use magic herself. On the day that she finally created a flame with his tutelage, she couldn't help but pull him in for a kiss... just for her brother to witness it, freak out, and run to tell her parents.

Enraged that her father had the gall to get a bounty placed on Edwyn's head, and to ground her in spite of her being an adult in her own right whilst also planning to have her sent away from Winterhold to distance her from Edwyn, she manages to earn her way into the College before planning to run away with Edwyn so that they could be together.

Putting Winterhold behind her for Edwyn was one of the few reckless decisions she knew that she would never regret, especially from the moment she held their daughter in her arms for the first time. She only returned to Winterhold after thirteen years, Elyse in tow, on the day of her father's funeral. Edwyn kept himself hidden away in Windhelm on that day on her request, knowing full well that the bounty had never been removed from his head.

Though life was incredibly unstable whilst Elyse was young, her jobs putting her into increasingly dangerous situations, the day that she and Edwyn paid for a house of their own in Chorrol was enough to make her cry because she no longer needed to put herself in danger. She actually picked up some hobbies, like alchemy and baking, but never put down her bow... at least until her bones grew weary and weak, before she fell into death's grasp.

To say that she was horrified when her daughter appeared in Sovngarde saying that she was Dragonborn, and there to defeat Alduin, was an understatement.

#meg has done some drawing #skyrim oc edwyn #skyrim oc ingja #unhappy with edwyn's hair but I'm hoping adding colour will help with that..... #i've drawn them at a point in their lives where they've just about started settling down in chorrol? so they're like. early thirties? #about the time where elyse was just about a teenager or thereabouts. #elyse has the same facial features as ingja whereas almost everything else comes from edwyn because fuck the lore #if i had to pick on the spot a part of tes lore that I would get rid of it would be that 'notes on racial phylogeny' book #anyway! these two fuckers!!! they're very in love!!! they make their daughter cringe with how sappy they get with each other #edwyn is freezing cold. he is wearing a shirt which covers his neck and at least two sets of robes. #whereas ingja is just like 'let me just roll up my sleeves to cool down'. #they have vastly different temperature tolerances but he loves his ice cube of a wife and she loves her boiling hot husband #was going to draw the whiterun guard squad but not arsed at this point of the day now!!!! might even leave them be for a time..... #whoops forgot ingja's info added that in now....

[eorzeashan]

Minister: Imperial Intelligence is not being rebuilt. The secrets were your chance to buy protection; now you'll be branded a renegade working unsanctioned missions.

Minister: There will be power struggles. Dark days are coming for the Empire, and I can't protect you.

DAD PART....2!!!

In all seriousness, that's what you're worried about Minister? That's why you really wanted us to retrieve the Black Codex-- just to protect your Cipher, not for anything else?

Excuse me. I need a tissue.

He can pretend it's for the Empire all he wants but the fact that he says it was leverage for you first makes it clear he wanted the Agent to have a way out.

Not for the Sith. Not for the Empire. You.

Thrice over he wanted to protect his agent, and he's lost every chance to so far. Because this agent didn't even hesitate not to put himself dead last in the face of the galactic scheme. Eight was born and raised and taught never to do so, the exact opposite of the self-preservation Keeper extolls, and this is the result. He didn't care about freedom. He sought danger at every turn, and dove headfirst into the worst of the worst just to do what he was made to.

That is most definitely what Keeper regrets: not giving him the opportunity to value himself more, and he continues to fear for his safety even now after it's all said and done.

It was a little too harsh for my liking, but Eight says he doesn't need his protection. It's true; he never has. Keeper wishes he did. Maybe it would've prevented the person Eight became.

Minister: Fair enough. I'll ask the Sith to invite you to my hanging, but a word of advice: renegade or not, you will be needed. Don't share my fate.

There he goes again. Every next sentence is so incomparably guilty in this playthrough as compared to my LS Neutral run as Nine.

Then my agent gets to say goodbye, but not before thanking him for everything he's done, and that he won't be forgotten. It's not enough for me or Eight personally, but I'll take it (for now). Because I think all of us know Keeper cares a great deal more this time around in a personal sense, and he deserves that closure. You are my daaaaad boogie woogie woogie

He'll give him a long-overdue hug when I get around to writing that scene.

Oh, and other honorable mentions now we're at the roll credits: Eight did give the codex to Ardun Kothe and he did kiss Hunter, but man what a dumb death. He definitely yoinked that electrified power glove from him like "don't you dare find a way out now, I'm not done with you" and promptly knocked Hunter tf out.

It's going to be interesting going forward as both the Hand of Jadus and a double-agent for the Republic. But I headcanon that he definitely zipped off to join his Lord in seclusion now that he's free to.

They have their eyes set on something interesting brewing in the far reaches of Wild Space. Something to do with their lost Emperor. ;)

#swtor #agent replay #it's interesting to me how many agents blow him off here and tell him to eat shit #like he really does care that much to look out for you in the only way he knows how huh #and now he's forcibly retired and still hoped you could protect yourself #eight's no stranger to having the world against him. but keeper wanted so badly for him to settle down #sniffs #it's ok keeper that's what jadus is for #keeper: that does not reassure me in the least #another parent who mourns their child after losing them to the spy game and being burned: ah shit it's happening all over again