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universe-in-the-void-in-the-cube · 27 days

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Nocturnal

Author: Iggwilv

Word Count: 4,304

Rating: T+

Summary: Prussia sees R’lyeh commit a dark ritual in the Dark Forest of Germany.

Notes: This is a Hetalia/Cthulhu Mythos crossover fic.

Disclaimer: Prussia is from Hetalia and is owned by Hidekaz Himaruya, Shub-Niggurath and The Young of Shub-Niggurath are all owned by H.P. Lovecraft. I own Raya.

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She was working on the dark and vile preparations for the dark rights she had been planning for a week now. The pungent smell of rank decaying mist and dragon’s blood incense filled the dark forest afternoon air.

Everyone in town had heard of a rumor of the place known as simply the Satan’s Thatch. A cursed and secluded meadow in the middle of the woods near an old dirt road that had a long history of having dark occult rights, satanic black masses and other things that should not be spoken.

Most of the people in the nearby town considered it an urban legend, an ancient wives’ tale that was told to make the kids behave since the first people settled in the area in ages past. But there was more to this place than most people knew about, more to the legends and dark rumors spoken in whispered voices in dimly lit homes, a lot more and none of it in God's great graces any good.

Gilbert Beilschmidt was wandering around the dark forests of the southern Germanic parts of the Holy Roman Empire just taking in the splendor of his father's home. The human personification of the Teutonic Knights was looking for anyone he could fight or just bother. His pet yellow bird, Gilbird, was flying in circles around his head happily as it could be before he just stopped in a gripping fear that led the small bird to fall gently onto Gilbert’s shoulder. Gilbert felt a strange and unnerving feeling as he started to smell something abdominal and repugnant. A smell that turned his stomach, but he wanted to see what and where the horrific smell was coming from. Gilbird chirped in protest, sensing that something evil was in the direction they were looking at, but Gilbert kept walking until he saw her. The sweet and kind young maiden he befriended years earlier, Raya Arlyeh.

Raya was looking an going over the various things that happened earlier on the cold and black slab that seemed to look like a sinister pagan alter. The slab had, what seemed, darkened brown spots in various places as well as pieces of raw looking meet and shattered bone. And in the young Gilbert Beilschmidt's eyes was a sure indication of previous, and extremely resent, sign of various blood sacrifices. She felt Gilbert's fearful and confused eyes watching her standing over the sacrificial alter and she sighed deeply.

"What is it, Gilbert?" she said in a quiet and calm tone knowing all too well that he was already judging her and her reasons for being in such and dark and evil place.

"Uh..." He was quite surprised that she knew he was there considering she didn’t even turn around. "I wanted to see where the smell was from. It’s really gross." Something was telling him in the back of his mind to not get any closer than he was or maybe it was the quickly queasy feeling that was rapidly festering in the pit of his stomach that was almost violently shouting at the poor boy to get away alive while he still could. Maybe it was Gilbird's frantic chirping in his ear that made him think that he should of came this way, but he didn’t listen to any of his feelings as he took a few steps closer to her. "What are you doing?"

"I am doing…” She paused. Raya wanted to tell him what she was up to, what she was planning to do later that night, but she knew that it would frighten him and since he was a Catholic crusader. “...things child."

It was his job, like other Teutonic Knights in the Holy Roman Empire, to hunt down and torture evil people. All pagans, Jews and Muslims as well as other non-Christian believers, were fodder to the Teutonic Knights in to confessing their sins. As well as any dark and depraved acts with Satan that would send their unholy souls to the deep abysses that was Hell.

"Please Gilbert, it is wise for you to go.” Raya's voice was low and shaking in heartbreak as she struggled to find the right words to tell the boy. “And please… don’t tell anyone what you have seen, smelled, heard, touched or said here. Swear this oath to me. Please I beg of you."

"What? Why? Are you doing something bad?" He was even more curious and stepped even closer now unsure it was wise to do such a bold thing at the moment. "Let me see before I go at least! You can’t deny the awesome me so show me!" he begged in his usual excited tone, that was a bit off because of the ever growing feeling of terror he was feeling the longer he stayed in the area.

"To your leader and your church…” She spoke in a quiet, yet hesitant tone, “...yes I am.” Turning to him, Raya saw the fear in his eyes and the guilt stabbed her heart like a rusted knife. “I am a bad person in their eyes. But… “

Gilbert felt confused about what Raya was saying to him, while Raya herself saw the increasing fear and the now horror of betrayal in the young boy's eyes.

Raya sighed as she finished, “...to the people that still practice your pagan rights… what I am doing is a good thing."

Gilbert couldn't believe what he was hearing as he started backing away from her. 'Pagan rights being a good thing? How could that be so?' His thoughts were racing. 'Was what she was saying true? That is everything I was told to fight against.' As he shook his head as he continued to back away from her scared of what she might do to him. “You’re… You’re one of… them? But… but…”

He suddenly turned around and ran away as fast as he could. He had trusted her. He has learned to care for her. He even started to have feelings that was more than just friendship with her. 'Raya seemed so nice! How could she betray me like this!!!' Gilbert ran to the nearest fort to report what she was doing but he stopped himself. ‘Is she really bad? I know that’s what I was told but… She’s so nice to me… I... I...’

"Gilbert… please; come back! There is a reason why I am doing this." She started chasing him till she caught up to him. "Please… let me explain. Please." She looked at him with tears falling down her face.

He turned to look at her with an expression of mixed feelings. He sighed and looked down. “Fine…”

"Gilbert… there…” Raya paused again. Trying to find the right words to explain what she was doing and what was really going on all in hopes to make the young nation understand her side of things. “There are things in this world that are ancient and dangerous. I am guessing that your father Germania told you stories of these monsters; creatures that have been known to harm and kill humans.”

Gilbert's head rose up as he met her eyes with his. All he could do was nod yes to her question. Yes, his papa Germania told him and his brothers about the monsters and creatures that were in the darkest places in the forests of their homeland. But Gilbert always assumed they were just stupid wife's tails and old folk lore that adults told children to behave.

Raya seeing him nod continued, “And there are some of these very creatures have to be appease to prevent them harming humanity." She bent down and looked at him, "Sometime people have to do bad things that others see as evil and wrong in order to keep the real evil away. Please understand."

"Aren’t those just stories? They can’t be real, right?" He was in denial and didn’t want to believe anything she just said but there was a part of him that old him that what she was saying was God's honest truth that the only righteous thing to do was to believe. His eyes were tearing up as he was starting to get scared. "They… They won’t come, will they? They won’t take me away if I’m bad like daddy said, right? Right?!?"

"No little one… I am going to make sure the monsters stay away. But to do so I must do bad things to make sure they stay away. I…” She was extremely hesitant to tell him anymore than she already had.

Gilbert cocked his head a little to the side as the first couple of tears crawled down his cheeks, “What? What is it? What must you do to keep the monsters away?”

Raya sighed as she lowered her head in guilt. She knew that Gilbert wouldn't stop pestering her till he got the truth from her. Looking up at him, her sea-green eyes meeting his crimson ones, Raya continued. “I must sacrifice a human."

The guilt gnawed at her heart like a starving wolf eating rotted carrion. Not because of what she had to do, but because she didn’t want Gilbert to see what she was going to do latter that night as well as what the Catholic church told the boy that was evil and satanic in their eyes.

His eyes filled with horror. “You… You have to sacrifice a human…? B-but… Why can’t you do that to an animal? Or… Or…” He was crying hard now. He never killed anyone in his entire life and the thought of killing someone, or anyone for that matter, in order to appease some damned monsters was beyond unthinkable to him. He was fighting to hold back the tears, but he couldn’t. He was just too damned scared and confused to do anything else but cry like a little child.

"I am so sorry little one, but…” She swallowed hard as she let out a small sigh, “I have to do what must be done or your country will be in danger. You and your family will be in danger. But I promise you one thing, the human I have to sacrifice will be a bad one… someone condemned to die because of their evil deeds."

Raya’s heart was being shredded on small part after another. She didn’t want Gilbert to know any of this, especially this much. Raya knew that what she was saying to him was a sure way of giving herself away, at least in her eyes, in a religious sense, the enemy. But she was also felt some sense of peace in confiding to someone she believed and deemed a good and dear friend.

Gilbert wanted to run away as fast as he could again and report her for heresy, but his legs wouldn’t move no matter how hard he tried to convince them to move. As Gilbert stood inform of the woman he deeply cared for as a friend, he wiped his tears away with the back of his hand as his head lowered down as he tried to gather the thoughts and things that Raya just said to him.

"For this I am deeply and truly sorry Gilbert, but to save your country and the other lands of the Holy Roman Empire, I must do this."

Gilbert looked up at Raya with anger and hurt that, he hoped, burned her soul deep. "I… I can’t be… I can’t be friends with you anymore!" He screamed at her as he turned around and ran away again.

Raya knew that she couldn’t go after him, not again. The consequences were too dire to go after the boy. Raya stood up as she saw him run off. Her heart broke and sank deep as she lost another friend. She knew the curse that the other primordial nations placed upon her was a dark and deep one. Curses of such magnitude were always dark and deep. Like everything else in her life.

He ran till he fell on his hands and knees onto the grass as he ran out of breath. Gilbert breathing was deep and almost caused him to vomit. Turning around, he laid down on his back and looked up at the clear blue sky. His thoughts were racing as parts of his mind was trying to collect everything that he didn't want to discover. Seeing his little bird friend fly around, Gil raised his arm up, holding his hand straight out so that the little bird could land. It wasn't too long after Gilbird landed and rested in the palm of his hand.

***

It was twilight when Raya and the other pagan followers saw the monstrosity that she and the others went out of their way to appease come into full view. Her sacrifice was tied to the altar, struggling and screaming as he cursed at his captors in Germanic while the pagans started to chant. As the chanting got louder, thunder was heard in the distance as lightning flashed over them as the approaching thunderstorm came closer to them. The wild and sinister howls of a dire wolf pack was heard nearby as if to help the pagan followers bring forth the creature. Soon a bright blood red glow of a circle with a pentagram inside of it surrounded the sacrifice as Raya and the pagans chanted louder. The haunting winds started to whistle and speak in a strange unknowable language while it whipped around them as Raya read aloud from the ancient and strange tomb.

“Ia! Shub-Niggurath! Ia! Shub-Niggurath! The black goat of the woods with a thousand young! We give you this sacrifice in honor of thee! Bless us oh mighty goddess with your dark kiss so we can sing your dark praises! Ia! Shub-Niggurath! Ia! Shub-Niggurath!”

Gilbert wasn’t too far away as he woke up hearing the strange sounds and chanting that was increasing in louder and louder sounds. He walked to where the chanting was coming from and ended up back near the strange alter, he saw Raya at earlier. Why he was still there, he had no idea other than the typical curiosity of a child. As he walked closer, Gilbert started to spy on the satanic ritual, sneaking around some nearby boulders and watched the dark ritual took place before his eyes.

Gilbert's eyes widen in fear as he saw the clouds start to part as what could only be called a blasphemous and monstrous mass of claws, sharp fangs, eyes and tentacles. As the strange and demonic thing came toward the sacrifice on the altar, Gilbert could hear the man that was tied up scream in bloody an unadulterated horror as black corrosive slime of putrid drool hit the sacrifice’s leg. As he kept watching a noxious smelling puss hit Gilbert's nose. Covering his face except for his eyes, he saw large black maggots to eat the sacrifice's raw flesh. Gilbert was numb from shock as he saw the excruciating manner that the sacrifice was in. Gilbert knew that if he was in that man's place that he wouldn't take any more pain at this stage, but then the pain the man felt could only increase in intensity as pieces of his body was slowly ripped from the bone.

Gilbert wanted to look away from this horror but he couldn’t. He stared, wide-eyed, at what was happening in total disbelief and awe while wondering what would cause Raya and other pagans to do such blasphemous things that was in total offence of the Lord. The boy could not wrap his mind around what he was seeing, let alone describe the monster eating the man that was the sacrifice.

The man on the slab was experiencing things that the physical pain he was having was nothing compared to the mental and emotional pain he felt as his mind and soul were being shredded and thrashed by beings that looked like insane trees with tentacles for branches and goat’s feet for roots. As these abominations feasted on his memories and emotions, they made him feel such sickening guilt that he wouldn't have been able to describe to any sane person. To the sacrifice the torture he felt was like an eternity of hell. The sacrifice only wished for death, but unknown to him it was going to be an unfulfilled one.

It was all so hideous night-terror that Gilbert was watching. What was that strange goat hoofed trees; and he didn't dare look at the monster that was the center of it all without being driven insane from the revelation. Gilbert couldn’t take the sight of that thing or that strange ritual that it surprised him that he was able to stand it this far. It was a blessing from God that eventually cause Gilbert to passed out and as he fell to the ground.

As the creature started to carry the sacrifice way to the depths of the unknown, Raya heard a thump behind her. Telling the others to say put, she walked to where the sound of the thump was heard and saw a passed-out Gilbert. Raya sighed as she picked the boy up. She guessed that he fainted from the horrific site of the monsters. Cradling him she sat on a bolder and kissed his forehead.

He eventually woke up and found himself in Raya’s arms. “W-what happened?”

"You had a nightmare sweetheart, but everything is okay, I promise." She lied to the boy. Raya didn’t want to have Gilbert know the truth… at least not yet.

"Oh, I did? But… but I swear to God, Jesus and the Holy Bible that is was all really real…" He was confused now. He swore it was real, but then again, he couldn't be truly sure what he saw as real or a wretched nightmare.

Seeing him fall asleep in her arms, Raya sighed as she dismissed herself from the others to take Gilbert home. As she walked, she saw one of the knights of the Teutonic order that was one of Gilbert's many human guardians walk up to them, as she handed Gilbert over to the man, “He fell and hit his head on a rock as I was gathering firewood. He is okay now, but it seemed he had a nightmare about monsters. He must be working very hard for the lord.”

Raya’s words and actions protected her and Gilbert from the eyes of the knight. Who, lucky for her; believed her being a maiden who lived with her parents in a nearby cottage.

Gilbert woke up and gave Raya a confused look as the knight carried him away.

"Goodnight fair knights; God speed." Raya said as she waved before gathering up fire wood.

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Time: 21st century.

Raya was in the dark forests of southern Germany at the location known as Satan’s Thatch. She was looking at the altar again, she had meany times before, and was preparing for another sacrifice to be made that night.

Gilbert, now a man and know known as the human personification of Prussia and Eastern Germany, decided to secretly follow her and hid behind the boulders like he did that one time many centuries ago. ‘This is just like that nightmare I had when I was younger…’ he thought as he laid in wait, watching Raya's every move carefully.

Around her was a group of modern-day German pagans who just stripped and tied naked a man to the old sacrificial alter. The man was a local child molester and rapist that constantly had the damnest luck of escaping the German police. The cultists that were around Raya this night knew that this man needed to pay for his crimes and to do so they hunted the man down and made him the latest of a long line of sacrifices that were given to the Goddess of the Black Forest.

'What the hell? What are they doing?' Thought Gilbert as he hid a bit more behind the boulders but not too much so he could still see what was going down.

Soon an all too familiar chanting was heard from the pagans; thunder was heard in the distance as lightning was flashing over them as the approaching thunderstorm came closer to them. The wild and sinister howls of a dire wolf pack was heard nearby as if to help the pagan followers bring forth the creature. Soon a bright blood red glow of a circle with a pentagram inside of it surrounded the sacrifice as Raya and the pagans chanted louder. The haunting winds started to whistle and speak in a strange unknowable language while it whipped around them as Raya read aloud from the ancient and strange tomb.

His eyes widened when he saw all this unfold. ‘She… She lied to me!’ He continued to watch although he knew he should turn and run.

Gilbert kept his eyes on the ritual as he saw the clouds start to part as what could only be called a blasphemous and monstrous mass of claws, sharp fangs, eyes and tentacles. As the strange and demonic thing came toward the sacrifice on the altar, Gilbert could hear the man that was tied up scream in bloody an unadulterated horror as black corrosive slime of putrid drool hit the sacrifice’s leg. As he kept watching a noxious smelling puss hit Gilbert's nose. Covering his face except for his eyes, he saw large black maggots to eat the sacrifice's raw flesh. Gilbert was numb from shock as he saw the excruciating manner that the sacrifice was in. Gilbert knew that if he was in that man's place that he wouldn't take any more pain at this stage, but then the pain the man felt could only increase in intensity as pieces of his body was slowly ripped from the bone.

Just like the first man Gilbert saw on the slab when he was a young child, this man was experiencing things that the physical pain he was having was nothing to the mental and emotional pain he felt as his mind and soul were being shredded and thrashed by beings that looked like insane trees with tentacles for branches and goat’s feet for roots. As these abominations feasted on his memories and emotions, they made him feel such sickening guilt that he wouldn't have been able to describe to any sane person. To the sacrifice the torture he felt was like an eternity of hell. The sacrifice only wished for death, but unknown to him it was going to be an unfulfilled one.

Gilbert covered his mouth and nose to prevent puking. He just watched in horror because he couldn’t look away now. It wasn't long till the creature started to carry the man way to the depths of the unknown. The pagans sighed as the felt a good deed was done and justice was served. As the pagans finished their dark ritual and left as Raya heard a vomiting behind her. Turning around she stood at the altar waiting for Gilbert to show. “You can stop hiding Prussia.” Raya said with a light giggle and a sigh.

The Prussian peeked from behind the boulder and saw Raya looking at him, or in his general direction. He stood up and cleaned himself up the best he could and slowly walked out and toward her.

The look on her face showed guilt, but not guilt for what was done, but guilt for what she did to Gilbert all those centuries ago. “It had to be done Gilbert. There was no choice, but the sacrifice was one of Germany’s notorious rapists and child molesters. The bastard deserved what he got here.”

He didn’t say anything at all. He just gave her the same confused look he did when the Teutonic Knight was taking him back home all those years ago.

"What you saw, those strange trees with goat feet, …" she walked closer to him, "… they are known as the Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath and the creature from the cloud was Shub-Niggurath herself."

Gilbert furrowed his brow in anger and continued to stand in silence.

“It was either the pagans of yours and Germany’s homeland and I dealing with that sicko and killing him in a sacrifice or have all of the people in you and your brother’s homeland get eaten and killed, while destroying you and Germany. Sorry Gilbert, I will not let a god take my friends and the people I love away from me." She started to cry as the look of pure honesty and sincerity shown on her face.

His angered face softened a bit, but he stood still. It wasn’t that he was angry with her or anything, but he just couldn’t find any words.

She suddenly hugged him and held him tight as she cried. “I am so sorry I lied to you those centuries ago. I don’t expect you to forgive me, but I did it for you, Ludwig and your countries. Please understand I had to do evil things like this to prevent darker evil from happening.”

He was surprised at her sudden hug that all he could do was hug her back. He eventually started stroking her hair to hopefully get her to stop crying.

Looking up at him she smiled and felt some sense of ease for what had happen and what Prussia just saw. “Thank you, Gil, thank you so much.”

"Don’t mention it, Raya." He continued to hold onto her, trying to find comfort himself.

She kept hugging him and never let her friend go.

The End

#hetalia #hetalia prussia #hetalia fanfiction

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lumilasi · 1 year

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Update: Finally added the circle BG thing to this one

Also, I decided to change his og name as there was no real reason for him to be Japanese.

More info below:

Age: 19

Family: Foster father Angus Belmont, honorary aunt Franziska Belmont

Friends: Ichirou Araknos (A spider themed soul eater), Adam Knight (A chesire cat)

Love interest: Henrik, a human fisherman living in the human world

Currently home-schooled as he needs to catch up to his peers, but his power is too volatile - even by mirror world standards - to allow him to go to a normal high school.

Extra info:

Witch Covenant: The council that oversees all magic users, specifically witches, warlocks, wizards, mediums, etc. They mainly oversee those whose primary power comes from their magic, rather than their being (I.E, without their magic they'd be normal humans)

Blood Sage Warlocks: Powerful dark arts mages who specialize in magic able to affect one's body and mind. often includes transformations of some sort, such as in Angus' case he can transform parts of his body into dragonic type of things. (The term "Sage" is mainly used because blood mages are fairly rare and most still existing are old men/women. Angus and Clover's late 'father' are the few members of a younger generation)

Personality:

Clover is a temperamental, kind of a troublemaker teen whose temper leads him to end up in scuffles and fights a lot. Despite this he generally means well, and doesn't mean to cause concern to his loved ones. He has abandonment issues and trauma from his childhood, and doesn't like being left alone when sick for example, and tends to get overtly worried if he does something he perceives could make Angus mad at him. (it doesn't happen a whole lot)

Because of his isolated early childhood, Clover is very keen on going out and learning new things, and while he might call Ichirou and the like "nerds" he tends to actually listen to his ramblings closely, being genuinely interested. His social skills aren't the best, and Clover gets easily flustered when he's not sure what to do or how to act in a situation.

Fun Facts

His biological parents were french, and he still tends to curse in french the most or when he's grumbling about something all pouty.

Clover's style tends to lean towards punk and urban/sporty vibes, and he loves wearing a lot of green and black

His favorite patterns in clothing tend to be spiky vines, clover shapes and chessboard patterns. Or dragons, as dragons remind him of the person who rescued him, Angus.

His mother still sometimes tries to contact him, though indirectly as she's aware she could get killed approaching him directly. Clover doesn't really want her to do this and tries to ignore any messages she sends.

Clover was initially wary of women due to the only woman he was exposed to being his neglectful mother, but overtime he gained more positive experiences, such as through Franziska, later his friend's youthful grandmother Yui, and plenty of others.

he met Henrik by accidentally teleporting himself into the human world, and not knowing how to get back. He stayed with Henrik for a few days, until Angus found him. Angus agreed to let him continue visiting Henrik upon seeing how much the boy liked him, as long as he let them know if he did.

Clover swears like a sailor, though he tries not to do it around Ichirou and his family. If he does slip, he tends to immediately apologize for it.

He speaks four languages total, having learned through his new friends and family; French, english, german, and Japanese. (he's least fluent in the latter, but still understands it well enough)

Clover tends to look up to scary, powerful figures who still show incredible gentleness and kindness. Such as his foster parent Angus, Ichirou's father Jurou, and a wyvern Sebastian Kravchenko he meets through Angus' clinic, being a frequent patient there.

He would never admit it, but he actually really enjoys Quinn's music (Quinn is a bakeneko and a popular singer in their world that Ichirou is a fan of)

His patchy skintone is a result of his unusual and volatile magic combo, the dark patches representing the forest magic, and the pale parts representing the blood magic.

Due to his deformity, he can't eat a whole lot in a day - he will throw up if he tries - which puts him at risk of starving a lot. To combat this, Angus uses a special type of ambrosia to mix in his food that includes more than enough nutrients to make sure he's fed properly even with tiny portions. (This food would be bad for humans as it'd give them an overdose of several minerals and vitamins)

He gets cold easily as well due to his condition, which is also why he loves wearing oversized clothing; keeps him warm.

Despite his food issues and deformation, Clover is still physically fairly strong thanks to his blood magic, and can easily throw around guys twice his size with his vines. People often underestimate his strength due to how he looks.

#artist on tumblr #oc reference #character design #lumi’s art scribbles #lumi's chaotic creations #lumi's art scribbles #lumi’s chaotic creations #Night City Parlor #Clover Belmont #my oc #digital art #comic style

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paradoxiii · 8 months

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So yesterday I spent a bunch of time recreating D&D characters in BG3 (after having downloaded a bunch of cc mods)

FYI I wasn't paying attention & didn't actually change Evie's stats/proficiencies/etc. to mimic her actual character sheet before taking the screenshot, but everyone else's info is as close to "canon" as I could get them.

1) Brenworne Flashwing - High Elf, Fighter (Eldritch Knight), Noble. I used her for a campaign in college that only had a couple sessions. One of my ironic characters (a high elf from a noble family but she slings around a big axe & hates nobility). I'd like to reuse her one day.

2) Carla - Hill Dwarf, Bard (College of Lore), Entertainer. Used in a completed campaign with friends from high school! She originally didn't have a beard but partway through the campaign I was like "she only shaves once it starts getting annoying to deal with" so she ended up with a bit of a beard.

3) Ebony Way - Tiefling, Fighter. Used in a two-shot modern campaign held over Roll20! Here she doesn't really look very close to "canon" at all but I originally designed her on Hero Forge. Another ironic character (tiefling fighter but she's sweet & kind & wears pastel clothes).

4) Evie - Changeling (usually disguised as human), Sorcerer (Death Touched), Haunted One. Also used in a two-shot campaign with college friends! And also another ironic character (Death Touched & Haunted but wears a pretty white dress and make her hair pink).

5) Isil - Half-Elf (half human, half high elf), Sorcerer (Draconic Bloodline - Black)/Rogue (Thief), Charlatan. Not yet used & one of the rare characters that actually has a fair bit of backstory already. Also her scales usually only look like purple makeup & become black scales when she's using magic. No particular campaign preference, she's just kind of a fugitive & a mercenary.

6) Kallisto - Tiefling, Druid (Circle of Stars)/Rogue (Swashbuckler), Sailor (Pirate). The newest edition to my roster & not yet used! She also has a fair bit of backstory; ideally I'd like to use her in a campaign that starts with all the player characters having amnesia since that's where my backstory for her ends, but I can always adjust.

7) Qelira - Water Genasi, Ranger, Charlatan. Used in one campaign in college that only had like one or two sessions, then reused for another campaign that was technically also a redo of another more modern campaign. Qelira is my ADHD gremlin child & I'd like to use her again someday

8) Singe - Tiefling, Warlock. Not yet used. Her patron is a celestial being that actually made a pact with Singe's mother while she was pregnant with her. She died in childbirth & the patron raised Singe themself. I'm not sure how exactly I would fit her into a campaign, as I'm not sure why she would leave her patron. Something to discuss with the DM should I end up in a campaign that I'd like to use her for.

9) Vhinn Do'mtor - Air Genasi (child of a drow and a djinn), Rogue (Thief)/Sorcerer (Shadow Magic), Urban Bounty Hunter. Used in a campaign in college that fizzled out in "season 2". Part of me wants to reuse her one day, but I also don't think I could; she's kinda attached to that particular world in my mind. I did, however, make an alternate version of her where her mother never left the Underdark & thus Vhinn was born full drow (and named Vhana for the sake of differentiation). Her mother, Chalnitra, never liked drow society or Lolth & raised her child in the hopes that she might one day leave. Vhana, despite becoming a Cleric of Lolth (she is still a shadow magic Sorcerer as well, she gets that from her mother regardless of who her father was), does leave the Underdark. I imagine there would be some tension between her & other part members, & she wouldn't blame them for not trusting her. Regardless, who knows how long she can keep calling on Lolth's power before the goddess rejects her for turning her back on everything the drow stand for...

#tmi #i should see if i can make Vhana...#i love making d&d characters. really a shame that WoC keep doing rude shit though #i'd like to explore other ttrpg systems but from what i've seen most don't have such robust character creation #call of cthulhu's is decent but it's just human characters #i like having a lot of options to choose from without it being completely “do whatever you want there's no framework here”#i have other characters that i just haven't made in bg3 yet (notably Del who is a changeling but unlike Evie they aren't usually disguised-#-or Shel who's an aasimar artificer made bc my friend asked me if i wanted to play an antagonist in a campaign he was gonna run for his-#-friend but it never happened. also Lowan who's human & from a compelted campaign but her hair changes colors w/ her mood. I do want to-#-make Tamarie Percival who was my very first d&d character. i was only in a couple sessions of that campaign before it fizzled)

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insidious-journalist · 10 months

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[Snarl]

Vigo was familiar with the realms in the fog, but this was diffrent.

A little slice of urban normalcy, it reminds them of Lumpkin Lane, though they dare not go there for the grounds keeper of that place is terribly violent. It's times like these Vigo wished he hadn't had a stroke of bad luck and been in this form when he found this little house. Not that it stopped him, the inventor had manage to find their way in, mapping the house through. The thought of it being occupied hadn't crossed their mind till it was too late.

Turning his attention away from the photos that littered the floor, Vigo snapped his jaws at the sudden form that entered.

- @vigos-journal

In his time spent resting and taking time to himself, the overseer of this house had perhaps become neglectful. Neglectful enough to even allow one entrance for anyone to sneak in through, most likely a window in the back that had always remained loose even against his best efforts. Danny could spend all the time he wanted decorating the place but it's core foundations as a rotten thing persisted, so did it's quirks too.

You'd think the house of the infamous Ghostface would perhaps be more grotesque, a monument to his infamy and bloodshed... But it more resembles a place frozen in time, haunted. Broken childhood photos on the wall with the faces torn out and scribbled on, peeling faded wallpaper and a flickering lightbulb in the hallway. Rotting carpet. Oh, if the walls could speak, they'd whisper out of fear of waking the old ghosts that stalked the halls.

But it seemed unoccupied. Vigo travelled through the bottom floor unimpeded, seeing the ghastly sights of this old yet clearly lived in home with the faint smell of food in the kitchen made sometime recently and no dust on the kitchen table. Upstairs was a different beast, with various closed and locked rooms that he most likely wouldn't be able to open on his own. Downside of a lack of opposable thumbs.

The only room that could be poked into was... Oddly enough, his office. A cluttered space with a desk directly opposite from the door and littered with papers and photographs and notes. The right wall had a cork board with more notes, mostly on newer killers like the Skull Merchant, Knight, and a sparse note of the Singularity with a big red circle around the name. The left wall was covered in drawers and filing cabinets, a bookshelf of journals cooped up in the corner. Each book had a name, survivor or killer, and a number. Dwight 25. Nea 14. Blight 1.

But as Vigo sniffed around and nudged the photographs, the door shut and right behind it stood the Ghostface himself. Black hoodie, black pants, mask and shroud up and absolutely glaring down at this... Dog. What? He thought he heard noises downstairs but blamed it partially on the cats... But once the noise began to track upstairs he opted to hide and let the intruder find him themselves, but this was a surprise.

He just glares down, trying to discern what the Hell is actually happening. Why... Was the dog wearing a green... Scarf thing? He tilts his head. "Oh?"

#( 𝕀𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕧𝕚𝕖𝕨𝕤 - ask answered )#( 𝕆𝕦𝕥 𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕋𝕠𝕨𝕟 - rp. )#( ℍ𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕖𝕤 - Starters/Ask Memes )#vigos journal #[omg its a puppy hiiiiiiiii]

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Earis Recs 4.1 - I Put A Spell On You

Witch!Rey has definitely put a spell on me.

When Rey is a witch, I know I'm going to have a good time reading. The identity of ‘witch’ serves as a great lens to look at Rey’s self-sufficiency, knowledge, and power - along with digging into her loneliness and lack of trust. Plus, I love stories about badass witches and Rey is such a good one. Most witch!Rey stories are au’s - usually historical fantasy or modern urban fantasy. They run the gamut from fun and cute to dark and violent. In many of them, Kylo Ren/Ben Solo is also non-human, such as a vampire, werewolf, or demon, but sometimes he is a human. I don't have any canonverse fic where Rey is a type of witch, like a Nightsister. So, if anyone knows one, please send it my way. Otherwise - enjoy!

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1. The Witch in the Wood

Authors: HarpiaHarpyja and Inmyownidiom Tumblr for HarpiaHarpyja Twitter for HarpiaHarpyja Twitter for inmyownidiom

This was one of the first ‘Rey is a witch’ fics I ever read and it’s enchanting, no pun intended. Set in a fantasy world, Kylo Ren is a knight who fights monsters to defend the kingdom and make up for his crimes. He takes on an assignment to rescue a beautiful princess from an evil witch. But when he makes his way into the forest, he meets Rey, a lovely, brilliant, independent young witch who happens to look like a woman from Kylo’s dreams. Rey is equally intrigued by Kylo and the way he makes her feel, but she also has to deal with an evil poisoning her forest.

Status: Complete Rating: Explicit Warnings: violence and gore, necessary patricide, angst

2. The Devil Is Not as Black As He Is Painted

Author: aemondkinslayerx (could not find other socials)

Rey is a young witch, and not quite as successful as she would like. Plus, she has finals and they are kicking her ass, so she tries to do a little spell to help herself out. Only she accidentally calls on a lord of hell named Kylo (or Ben) and now she is stuck in a small apartment with a demon trapped in a summoning circle until she can find a spell to return him whence he came. Good thing he likes scarfing Doritos and binging sitcoms.

Status: Complete Rating: Mature Warnings: A little bit dub-con, if you squint; Kylo gets a bit possessive

3. Nine in the Afternoon

Author: RamboBrite Twitter Tumblr

Rey is very happy working for Luke in his magical apothecary shop. The only fly in the ointment is Luke’s nephew, a snooty asshole who thinks he is too good for retail and too big for the shop. One day, however, Luke leaves Rey in charge of the shop, and in charge of his naughty nephew. The same day, the shop receives a shipment of a very potent batch of a very special pollen. Can you guess what happens? (n.b. This is also a sex pollen fic!)

Status: Complete Rating: Mature Warnings: Dub-Con due to Sex Pollen

4. Good Fences

Author: quamquam20 Tumblr Twitter

For me, this is THE Witch!Rey + Vamp!Ben fic. It’s got everything - independent, creative, brave, compassionate Rey and moody, mysterious, dangerous, but oddly gentle Ben. Magical artifacts, interesting rules, and of course, hot sex.

Status: Complete Rating: Explicit Warnings: Violence

5. Our Endless Numbered Days

Author: frito_reys Twitter Tumblr

This fic is not yet complete, but I HAD to rec it. One of my historical interests is the Salem witch trials, mostly because they are a truly bizarre moment in history and a revelatory glimpse into the worst of human behavior. Here, Ben is Magistrate Judge and is part of the witch trials, but his wife, Rey is definitely a witch. So, go read, and give love and comments to the author.

Status: Not finished, 1/3 chapters Rating: Explicit Warnings: Historical accurate misogyny, temporary character death, historical accurate violence and injustice

6. The Baker and the Lily

Author: steelandtemper

Werewolf Ben is very intrigued when a woman moves to the edge of the town where he is the baker, and learns that she is a witch. He is concerned for her because the town might now be very friendly to a witch, and because her cottage is dangerously close to the territory of his old pack.

Status: Complete Rating: Teen and Up Warnings: Some Violence

7. Unfamiliar

Author: SolarLilith Twitter Tumblr

Rey is a witch and binds a demon, Kylo Ren, as her familiar. After a horrible attack forces Rey to drop her wards, he reverses their situation and binds her as his familiar, bound to serve him and all his violent whims. DARK.

Status: Complete Rating: Explicit Warnings: Dark Fic, Dead Dove: Do Not Eat; Rape/Non-Con, Murder, Violence, Gore, Sexual Slavery, Forced Pregnancy, Forced Body Modification, Forced Lactation

#earis recs #reylo #star wars #ben solo #kylo ren #rey #fanfiction #fic recs #fanfiction recs #earis #witch!rey #star wars sequel trilogy

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how would you rewrite gl rebirth

I haven't actually thought about how I would rewrite GL:Rebirth much because the whole storyline just makes me uncomfortable and grumpy. I have thought about how I would rewrite the last arc of Kyle's run after Black Circle: Urban Knights (Green Lantern 1990 #165-181), but I'll try my best to answer this. I typed out an ENTIRE essay but accidentally deleted it, so I'm crying right now but I'll try to recall all that I wrote sldfgjshdfg

It depends on what you mean by rewrite it as well, it could be changing some aspects of the story but keeping most of the plotlines (minor changes) or keeping to the idea of trying to resurrect Hal Jordan and start up the corps but with a completely different storyline (major changes). Unlike Geoff Johns, I don’t think Hal needs another redemption arc when he already has multiple others and it’s more about what he continue to do for me, so it would more be about the resurrection of Hal as opposed to the redemption of Hal. I'll split my answers into two parts under the cut (because spoilers) - Keeping the Main Plot and Revamping.

Keeping the Main Plot

Changes to the plot

This idea is something I talked about with @fantajoseph where instead of having Parallax be there from the beginning (some parts of the story even seem to imply that Parallax had been there since Hard Traveling Heroes maybe which is ????), Parallax was only unleashed and took over when he absorbs the power battery. This doesn't absolve him of everything (which is boring), keeping some of his actions including killing Kilowog, but doesn't have him literally going for world destruction. It also could fit with the changing of motives from initially being bring back Coast City to literally going back to the Big Bang and starting the universe over with him in-charge and deciding how things go. It also puts the release of Parallax squarely on his shoulder for attempting the power grab (even if he did it unknowingly), instead of having it be a "it was always going to happen" thing where he is portrayed as "sad boy poor victim uwu" or whatever which takes away so much of his agency.

I’ll straight up remove John trying to reintegrate Spectre!Hal back to regular human society. I don’t understand what was up with that and I really dislike it. I enjoy Spectre as a mystical spiritual entity that can’t quite interact on the same plane back with regular humans and all that. The vibe of the longing and tragedy of how he is there but not quite there. With all this time between, they should’ve come to terms with this situation and not do whatever is going on, because it doesn’t make sense. Hypothetically, if this rebirth stuff didn’t happen, he would just be doing his Spectre stuff, atone for what he feels like he’s done wrong, find peace, and then go to Heaven. Hal is dead then, the whole baseball scene just takes away from that.

I would change Parallax’s control of people to be much more like Alexander Nero with the uncontrolled, wild, unpredictable, messy elements due to fear as opposed to the very controlled attack the Justice League stuff that was going on. I think fear should be more messy and dangerous, not whatever was going on. I think there should be a difference between Sinestro controlling / using fear for power and being controlled by a literal fear entity (having fear dictate your moves because it overwhelmed you).

I wouldn’t have all three of Kilowog, John, and Guy be controlled by Parallax, and I definitely would not have Ganthet controlled by Parallax. In the original apparently, Batman gets controlled too and shoots Robin (????) and as much as that kind of cracks me up, I probably won’t do that either. I’d maybe have 1-2 of them be controlled by Parallax, but I’d definitely have Kilowog, because he was just plagued by fears very recently in the most recent GL run and it would be interesting to bring back and haunt him with the Xadai. Most importantly though, whoever gets possessed by Parallax should break free and overcome it themselves, I don’t like the Ganthet cop out.

I’d also include Tom. I mean just a bit before this, Ganthet even acknowledges that Oa has 2 saviors - Tom who recreates Oa and reignites the central battery, and Kyle who brings back the Guardians. It just isn’t a proper rebirth story without him, especially since it’s Hal’s rebirth. Additionally, in the Green Lantern Legacy: The Last Will and Testament of Hal Jordan, they even said that if Hal had spoken to Tom, he might not have been able to carry out all the Parallax stuff, so who better to be there to bring Hal back and maybe force Parallax to GTFO once and for all?

I’d straight up remove Sinestro from the storyline, he was unnecessary in my opinion, and ends up making Parallax bug much less scarier than it could have been. Eldritch fear entity coming back into the world? Scary. Eldritch fear entity that is kind of manipulated and utilised by some dude (tm)? Kind of lame. Parallax is like the equivalent of Ion, right? Plus he’s LITERALLY the embodiment of fear, he should be WAY scarier. Having his first appearance be in some way influenced by Sinestro undermines the bug a little imo. At most, I’d have Sinestro’s presence with the yellow ring maybe awaken Parallax from his slumber, but he should be unaware of it. (Sort of unrelated, but I think Sinestro can totally try to control or utilise Parallax in future, but I think it should be difficult and he should maybe have to try multiple times and there should be unforeseen devastating consequences and have it perhaps even backfire a little.)

Instead of the battle with Sinestro, I think they should bring back some of the other GLs and perhaps some of them who disagrees with the resurrection of Hal, resulting in a bit of a stand off. There would be the faction that think he should stay dead and the corps should have a fresh start, and the faction that think he should be forgiven. It would also tie in very well with The Last Will and Testament and Kyle’s very recent run surrounding Black Circle, and have Hal face the grief and issue he’s caused personally instead of Tom and Kyle dealing with the repercussions. Parallax can enter the scene and take control over some of GL’s by amplifying their fears from what Hal has done and what he could do again and all that, causing havoc in general. It doesn’t have to be resolved straight away, but I think the decision to resurrect Hal could be decided based on “Parallax is the bigger villain and what we’d have to deal with first and Hal is both an extremely powerful GL and also the one person to really know Parallax which could help with his defeat".

I would change it so Spectre didn’t know about Parallax. I just feel like the literal embodiment of fear from time immemorial should be a little more mysterious and scary and not so easily identifiable. Maybe Spectre didn’t even exist when Parallax had been imprisoned. (But maybe not, I don’t know enough about Spectre.)

Remove anything that mixes fear and evil. Obviously fear can lead to evil but fear is NOT evil. As cool as some phrases like “Evil finally escaped Jordan’s sight. It hid inside him.” are, it equated Parallax to EVIL instead of FEAR and I think there should be a distinction. Plus I just don’t really subscribe to the concept of pure evil and all that stuff soooo

Minor things I would add/remove/change:

Kyle not knowing he could translate with his ring. Please he has been doing it since his Titans days and just a while back he went on some alien diplomacy trip, you really think he’s out here learning alien languages from scratch?

If the baseball scene is kept, I’d change the confession stuff where everyone just start falling over their feet to confess their sins to Spectre because it just makes me very EEK. I would have it a bit more supernatural with their sins overwhelming him, maybe the visage of the person committing their sins taking over his senses to the point he could not see or hear the baseball match and maybe even can’t feel John and Guy beside him. Basically a little more horror and a little less confession booth to a priest vibe.

Have John included into statues at the Warrior Bar because there is even a Guardian but not John and that’s ://

Include Helen (unfortunately I haven’t read Spectre 2001 so I don’t know how yet)! Increase Alan, Jen, Roy, Wally’s presence in the storyline, maybe either during the GL fights part or in discussions with Justice League or just other parts.

Remove Hal always having an authority-defying habit

Keep the Guardians as mostly children except for Ganthet. Actually have an equal ratio or maybe even some gender non-conforming guardians and definitely not 2:7 ratio because I don’t know who needs to be told that in DC, but 2:7 is not 1:1. Also, if they were going to make them all old, give the female guardians wrinkles too because apparently this artist decided that even alien ancient beings older than we can imagine cannot have wrinkles if they’re girls :)

Remove the part where they gave them temporary disabilities (John was blind, Kyle was deaf) for like ONE panel and then they fought harder or whatever and it was gone like WHAT??

Things I would keep:

Guy and John’s talks, I enjoyed it

Hikers that found and took care of Kyle, it was cute

Ollie-Kyle scenes, I think they were sweet

Reciting the Oath as they defeated Parallax

Detailing the distinctions between how the GLs used their constructs, I liked that part! I would change / polish a bit of Hal and Kilowog’s (especially Kilowog’s) but I liked the idea.

There’s this thing I read on wiki’s and other people’s comments about how Kyle wasn’t taken over by Parallax because he knew fear and the others didn’t which always never made sense to me because SURELY they all have encountered, dealt with, and know fear. After all, it is something that they all grappled with in their own storyline?? But then when I read the story, it seemed a lot more like it was that Kyle was familiar with fear. That he felt it more regularly, could identify and understand it, and therefore was less likely to be controlled because when Parallax started to try to control him, he recognised it. The advice Hal gave was “Listen for fear. Remember fear.” I really liked that, because sometimes we need to be able to identify our demons and recognise it so that we can deal with it, it’s something that is applicable irl too, even though usually it’s not because a bug demon would take control of us.

There’s this THING that I don’t even know if I want to change or remove or what, but Hector Hammond in this storyline!! What is he doing there?? Why are there multiple panels of him locked up in his facility being oddly creepy, mostly towards Kyle? Like he’s all “Sing for me, Kyle” and then pops up again at the end being all ah I didn’t expect Kyle to be able to do it?? I don’t think he’s even met Kyle? How does he even know what is happening?? This doesn’t even seem to pay off in this storyline, nothing happens?? Do they go somewhere with this in another story?

Revamping

Resurrection stories are sometimes a little EH with me, so I’m not sure how I'd like to go about it best per se, but I do have a few ideas floating around.

Either way, to resurrect Hal, something to think about is how he could have a body. GL:Rebirth went the “his body was somehow preserved and someone (Kyle) brings it back from the sun” route, but there are other options like someone reconstructing his body.

In Kyle’s first run as Ion, he explicitly offers to erase Parallax (no bug demon at this point, just Hal as Parallax). Spectre!Hal tells him that it’s not wise basically and Kyle (a creepy god boy at this point) is like oooh cool, you really can’t lie huh, guess I can do it. But then he doesn’t do anything with that information.

Kyle has ANOTHER Ion run less than 2 years after Rebirth, so one possibility is to just shift forward that Ion run and to have him bring Hal back. I wouldn’t have him retcon Parallax!Hal out of existence, but perhaps being the Spectre was somehow eating into Hal’s soul and his very soul was in danger and could possibly disintegrate for good and to save him, Kyle resurrects him. I don’t know enough about Spectre, but I know Hal tries and fail to turn it into a spirit of redemption as opposed to a spirit of vengence, and some angry evil spirits are loose (?) because of that, so maybe Hal’s potential loss of soul could have to do with that.

The other (and more fun imo) possibility is to have Lianna resurrect Hal. Towards the end of Kyle’s run, he fights and defeats Amon Sur and when he was probably about to murder that guy, Lianna pops up and stabs Kyle and murder Amon instead, citing the reason that “bad stuff will happen otherwise” basically. This confuses me for so many reasons because

The guardians generally have a non-interference policy and don’t personal get involved in stuff which this is VERY involved (although of course, Lianna has kind of been flouting this rule a lot but STILL, murdering 1 or 2 dudes?)

The guardians don’t allow the GLs to kill in general, and while they are for sure more lenient with themselves, Ganthet is in charge at the moment and I can’t see him being very pro-murder

If she was trying to kill Kyle, she most definitely did not succeed, and if she really wanted to kill Kyle, surely she could’ve done a better job as a guardian?

This is because of her “prophecies” but even within the story, quite a few of her prophecies didn’t come through??

Anyway, I propose that Lianna wasn’t trying to KILL Kyle, she was trying to prevent Kyle from killing Amon because she doesn’t want him to walk down a darker path that he had kind of been heading towards. She knew he’d be able to survive (or maybe even gave him a boost that helped him survive), but she chose to interfere to stop him.

With this logic, I think it could be written that instead of straight up disobedience and killing Amon herself, she could decide to bend the rules a little and try to involve Hal so he could stop Kyle and help to capture Amon instead of killing him. From her perspective, this would work well because Hal is a good example of why you shouldn’t do that maybe, and he is powerful enough to deal with Amon! However, I imagine Spectre!Hal would be like “I can’t interfere” and all that and so she frees his soul from the Spectre and resurrects him.

This brings up multiple things that I think would be fun!

This forced resurrection is KIND OF what he did to Ollie in GA 2001, which sets up a fun “should you do this?”

This might not actually be the best thing for Hal, and maybe Lianna even knows it, but she might have done it because Kyle sort of sometimes raised her and she clearly cares about and wants to help Kyle. Before this she’s done a lot from pause planet destruction when she recognised him even while kind of crazy, help him record a message for his friends, personally deliver that message to Earth, help encourage his friends to record a message back, run interference in Jen and Kyle’s relationship, try to stop him from going into a dangerous situation, and intervene with and kind of threatened someone who was hired to kill Kyle. It would fit into the thread of things she’s been doing much more than... stab him.

Powerful Green Lanterns being brought back to the guardians’ service (Kilowog and Hal), this one actually by a guardian, which could bring up the whole “are you going to be a guardians’ puppet again?” and like topics of whether this is the direction the new corps wants to be heading, especially with all the guardians basically being younger than the GLs technically.

Hal fighting Amon Sur would be so interesting because Hal is everything Amon wants to be! Got his father’s (Abin Sur) recognition, got his father’s ring and became GL, destroyed the corps, almost cause a world destruction. Amon would detest him so much and Hal would hate Amon for tarnishing Abin’s name as well and it would be fun to see them interact. I just realised three people relating to Abin Sur (Sinestro, Hal, Amon) have all gone the villain route oh wow

Kind of unrelated, but I also like the idea that Lianna's simply actually far more powerful than Ganthet and that's why Ganthet's powers were unable to limit her powers even when she is a baby.

Rebirth also seem to want to bring Guy and John back into the corps. The easiest way is to have the Amon VS Hal & Kyle fight closer to earth, have the Watchtower notice it, and John is dispatched to check it out. Guy can get involved either because they suspect it has to do with Kyle and he insisted on coming or John dragged him along, or Ollie somehow knows or suspect it has to do with Hal and forced the ring Hal left him on Guy and pushed him to go, or something along those lines.

Alternatively though, John is already a GL again anyway so when the corps start, he would probably be automatically be part of the corps. I don’t know how the arc where he becomes leader of GL happens, but I’d definitely keep that for him.

For Guy, one possibility is to have him join the GL back to train rookies with Kilowog (also something I talked about with @fantajoseph). I’d imagine there could be a lot of recruitment (since they’re starting all over) and so they’d want to have more than one trainer, and perhaps Guy could be a little unwilling at first (his whole “GL is the past for me” thing), but something could make him feel the obligation to join again? (Also, I don’t know why but I haven’t seen much about his Vuldarian heritage thing and I don’t know if they just didn’t let him keep those powers or something or I just haven’t seen it, but I’d definitely keep those because who doesn’t want more superpower. I think it’s fun.)

#callie answers #green lantern #hal jordan #kyle rayner #john stewart #guy gardner #ganthet #lianna #dc thoughts #i would re-read but i did retype this whole thing from memory and probably missed out some stuff and my brain is basically dead #so deal with all the errors i've typed i guess #did i ever mention wanting to rewrite gl:rebirth i don't recall that slfkjsdfgshdfgaflskd #but anyway i had fun thinking about it #me: oh this will be short i haven't even thought much about it #me after: ... T.T

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The Chaikovskii Circle and "going to the people"

'In 1869 Mark Natanson set up a circle at the St. Petersburg Military-Medical Academy, and after his arrest in 1871 it was continued by Nikolai Chaikovskii. Its members rejected the "Jesuitism and Machiavellism" of Nechaev. Chaikovskii used to call the circle "an Order of Knights" and insisted: "We must be clean and clear as a mirror. We must know one another so well that, should there arise difficult times of persecution and struggle, we are in a position to know a priori how each of us will behave." The circle began by collecting socialist books, at first for their own use, then for distribution among workers. They included Marx's Das Kapital, Lavrov's Historical Letters, Louis Blanc's History of the French Revolution, and works by Herzen and Chernyshevskii. Distribution was supplemented by the formation of clandestine study and discussion groups which proved popular. By 1873 members of the circle felt it was time to go out to the heartland of the narod (the people), the villages. This was a much more drastic step than urban agitation, for it meant abandoning one's studies and any hope of a career, and probably breaking with family and friends. All the same, several thousand young people took that decision. They were going to try to reknit the torn ethnic fabric of Russia by living among the peasants, learning about their way of life, but also bringing them the fruits of socialist theorizing from all over Europe. They indicated their longing for ethnic unity first of all by the clothes they wore. The young men dressed in red shirts, baggy trousers and overalls, and kept their hair long, while the women trimmed their hair short and wore plain white blouses, black skirts, and heavy boots. They were not only imitating workers but also deliberately blurring gender distinctions in defiance of social convention. Some of them learned a trade which could make them useful in the countryside: cobblery, joinery, stove-setting. Others took jobs for which their studies had prepared them, as schoolteachers or medical orderlies, or became volost clerks.'

Russia and the Russians, by Geoffrey Hosking

#going to the people #populism #chaikovskii circle #socialism #Khozhdenie v narod

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Tailor - Somewhere In Paradise 22:52 A.m.r - Light-years From Here 22:52 C H I L L T R A X - Magnifyingglasssogood4u 22:48 Elderbrook - Wasted On You 22:43 Circle Sky - Your Name 22:38 Il:lo - Cynnes 22:35 Tep No & Noak Hellsing - I Won’t Need You 22:31 Fabio Vee & Mike D' Jais - Consolation 22:31 C H I L L T R A X - Comes To Chill Out 22:26 Above & Beyond - Believer (Marsh's Guatape Remix) 22:21 Alison Goldfrapp - The Beat Divine 22:17 Sasha - Bygone 22:15 Flexible Fire - Marea Turquesa 22:10 Deep Sound Effect Feat. Svetlana Voice - Dreaming About You (Dj Aristocrat Remix) 22:07 Jones Meadow - Expect 22:07 C H I L L T R A X - Twcc High Standard Of Quality 22:03 Approaching Black - New Life 21:59 Two Lanes - Searching (Ct Fixup Mix) 21:55 Lliam And Latroit Feat. Brea - Someday (Latroit Edition) 21:51 Nils Hoffmann Feat. 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Tessa Rose Jackson - Riptide 20:52 Arto - Now You're Gone 20:48 Morcheeba - The Moon (Kutiman Remix - Version B) 20:45 Moby - Porcelain (Arty Remix) 20:45 C H I L L T R A X - Chilltrax - Chill Out Piano 20:41 Giants' Nest - Heart Void 20:38 Kx5 & Sofi Tukker - Sacrifice (St Mix) 20:34 53 Thieves - Two Days 20:29 Volen Sentir & Makebo - Into The Stars 20:29 C H I L L T R A X - Valante Io Toh 20:26 Melosense - Can't Replace You 20:22 Booka Shade & Satin Jackets - Fusion Royale 20:18 Elderbrook - All My Love 20:14 C H I L L T R A X - Take Me Away! 20:09 Eli & Fur - Better In The Dark 20:05 Kelela - Enough For Love 20:00 Roma Moss & Holy - Too Late 19:55 Billion Watchers - Rainman 19:50 Boerd - Blind 19:50 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Dzihan 19:45 Nicholas Gunn & Alina Renae - Angel Eyes 19:42 Leisure Feat. Muroki - Summer Season 19:39 Ran The Man - Yucatan 19:35 Reel People & Paula - Vibe (Moods Remix) 19:31 Che Jose Feat. Jodie Knight - Freedom (Mass Digital Remix Edit) 19:31 C H I L L T R A X - Organ The Chillout Channel 19:28 Finding Mero - In Loving Memories 19:24 The Knocks Feat. Muna - Bodies (Tycho Remix) 19:20 Fløa (Floa) - Pictures Of You 19:17 Sum Wave - Milkyway 19:13 Heard Right Feat. Phoebe Tsen - Pulling Me Under 19:13 C H I L L T R A X - Glitchy Toh 19:10 London Grammar - How Does It Feel 19:06 Lar - Collide (Jody Wisternoff & James Grant Remix) 19:03 Blonde Maze - Daydream (Otherwise Fine Remix) 19:00 Cannons - Loving You 18:56 Toka Kakabadze - Urban 18:55 C H I L L T R A X - Jimpster 1 18:50 Max Cooper - A Model Of Reality (Tor Remix) 18:47 Gareth Emery - St Mary's 18:42 Palladian - Zagara 18:38 Eloi El - Stick Together (Blonde Maze Remix) 18:34 Odesza Feat. Olafur Arnalds - Light Of Day (Parra For Cuva Remix) 18:34 C H I L L T R A X - Escape 2 Music 18:29 Floa & Ra5im - Give Me A Second 18:25 Feiertag - Didn't Know Why (You Lost Your Soul) 18:21 Washed Out - Time To Walk Away 18:17 Fakear - Crystal 18:12 Steven Weston Feat. Lapsley - Like I Used To 18:07 Northern Form - Mend 18:07 C H I L L T R A X - Backward Rvb Where World Comes 18:02 Edapollo Feat. Kendl - Afterglow 17:59 Everything But The Girl - Forever 17:55 Rezident - Wellenlainge 17:52 Satin Jackets & Panama - The Future 17:48 Flexible Fire - Amatista 17:45 Telepopmusik, Juicy Cola - Breathe (Juicy Cola Remix) 17:45 C H I L L T R A X - Cleanliness Don't You Agree 17:41 Vandelux - All I've Ever Known 17:38 Tep No Feat. Starzun - Hold Me 17:33 Forty Cats & Arentis - Zen 17:28 Kaskade - Find Love 17:28 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Freesound 17:24 Jan Blomqvist & Malou - Alone 17:21 Farius - Coming Up (Hold On) (Dokho Remix) 17:18 53 Thieves - Waves 17:14 Wassu & Mimi Page - Within Me 17:09 West & Zander - Silfra 17:09 C H I L L T R A X - We Are The Music Makers 17:05 Reel People & Muhsinah - Something New (Kraak & Smaak Remix) 17:02 Otr Feat. Shallou - Heart 16:56 Blank & Jones - Floatation 16:52 Jean Vayat & Evelynka - My Soul 16:47 Zero 7 - Destiny 16:46 C H I L L T R A X - Street Life Worlds Cc 16:42 Sons Of Maria - Outbound 16:39 Jones Meadow & Clara Mendes - Em Baixo 16:35 Monkey Safari - Temple 16:31 Melosense - Nous 16:31 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Cymbal Roll Bass 16:28 Leisure - Be With You 16:25 Lp Giobbi Feat. Caroline Byrne - Another Life 16:21 Odsen - Retrospective 16:17 Catching Flies - Daymarks 16:17 C H I L L T R A X - This Is The Way 16:13 Heard Right & Oracle - There For You 16:10 Emmit Fenn - What Falling In Love Is For 16:06 Kidnap - Start Again (Kidnap Piano Mix) 16:02 Sultan Shepard - Sirens 15:57 Christine And The Queens - Tilted (Paradis Remix) 15:57 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Moon Boots 15:52 Arley & Sirolf - One Day 15:48 Royksopp - Me&youphoria 15:43 Arto - Para Mi 15:39 Two Lanes - Searching (Ct Fixup Mix) 15:34 Nicholas Gunn Feat. Chris Howard - Thought Of You 15:34 C H I L L T R A X - E-chilled-music 15:31 Aftruu - Falling Asleep 15:26 Mishegas - Temporary Love (Il:lo Remix) 15:21 Alison Goldfrapp - The Beat Divine 15:17 Approaching Black - Sensitive 15:13 Alampa - The One 15:13 C H I L L T R A X - Slurry Toh 15:08 Ferr By Ferry Corsten And Rich Walters - Limbo 15:04 Cahelo - Bananaquit (Mass Digital Extended Remix) 14:59 Chris Malinchak - Saving My Love 14:55 Monolink - Turning Away (Parra For Cuva Remix) 14:50 Thievery Corporation - Liberation Front 14:50 C H I L L T R A X - Cool Refreshed Smooth As Can Be 14:45 Eli & Fur - Where I Find My Mind 14:40 Kraak And Smaak Feat. Izo Fitzroy - Twilight 14:36 Rocket Empire - Astoria 14:32 Mango & Cloudcage - More Than This 14:29 Khotin & Tess Roby - Fountain, Growth 14:28 C H I L L T R A X - The Chillout Channel Redux 14:25 Sum Wave - Evening Mood 14:21 Sebastian Davidson - Nomads 14:17 Christian Burns - Everywhere 14:12 Leaving Laurel - The Family We Find 14:09 Vandelux - Tulum 14:04 Sound Quelle & Tailor - Where We Should Be 14:04 C H I L L T R A X - Escape The Noise 14:00 Flexible Fire - La Cumbre 13:56 Floa & Phonic Youth - Falling Away 13:51 Sg Lewis Feat. Lucky Daye - Feed The Fire (Kassian Remix) 13:48 Odesza Feat. Maro - Better Now 13:43 Sons Of Maria - It Takes So Long 13:38 Claptone - Under The Moon (Cassius Remix) 13:38 C H I L L T R A X - Magnifyingglasssogood4u 13:33 Steven Weston Feat. Tae - Same Dream 13:29 Kelela - Contact 13:25 Il:lo - Ink 13:20 Rufus Du Sol - See You Again 13:20 C H I L L T R A X - Valante Io Toh 13:15 Booka Shade & Satin Jackets - Fusion Royale 13:11 Duckmaw - Distant Worlds 13:06 Royksopp Feat. Astrid S - Let's Get It Right 13:02 Cinnamon Chasers - Surviving The Fire 12:59 Melosense - Lost In Gruvv 12:58 C H I L L T R A X - Tcc Warm And Tender Ocean 12:55 Everything But The Girl - Run A Red Light 12:50 Roisin Murphy - Assimilation 12:46 Pableno - Heights 12:43 Armin Van Buuren & Matoma Feat Teddy Swims - Easy To Love 12:37 Bob Moses - Days Gone By 12:37 C H I L L T R A X - World Comes To Chilltrax.com 12:32 Emi Ca - Just Breathe 12:28 Xixi Feat. Kwesi - Close To U 12:24 Joachim Pastor Feat. Nathan Nicholson - Saint Louis 12:20 Chill Cole - Liquid Life 12:20 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Dzihan 12:17 Lapsley - 32 Floors 12:14 Fløa (Floa) - Pictures Of You 12:10 Tomb - Unbound 12:07 Twoworldsapart & Panuma & Nina Carr - Slippin' 12:07 C H I L L T R A X - Fresh And Fascinating 12:03 Kidnap & Pinkpirate - Things Change 11:59 Jos & Eli & Eli & Fur - Riffs Of The Night 11:55 Attom - Distant Memories 11:50 Zaven - Voliere Amplitude 11:46 Parra For Cuva - Paspatou 11:46 C H I L L T R A X - Glitchy Toh 11:41 Morgin Madison & Ryan Lucian - From The Start (Mm Chill Remix) 11:36 Mango - Skyline 11:32 Jones Meadow - Need You Now 11:29 George Fitzgerald & Syml - Mother 11:25 Phello - Timelapse 11:25 C H I L L T R A X - Worldschilloutchannnel Orbit 11:21 Dex 1200 - Ongea Nami 11:16 Missfeat - The World Before (Niko Garcia Remix) 11:12 Feiertag - Didn't Know Why (You Lost Your Soul) 11:09 Vintage & Morelli - Once Upon A World 11:03 Zero 7 - On My Own 11:03 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Freesound 10:59 Above & Beyond & Marty Longstaff - Gratitude (Aname Pm Mix) 10:55 Flexible Fire - Amatista 10:52 Tep No - Say What You Wanted 10:48 Kx5 & Sofi Tukker - Sacrifice (St Mix) 10:44 Tycho - Into The Woods 10:44 C H I L L T R A X - Take Me Away! 10:39 Elderbrook - Wasted On You 10:35 Rasmus Faber Feat. Metaxas - Be Real (Satin Jackets Remix) 10:31 Arto - Now You're Gone 10:28 Forester - Saint (Shallou Remix) 10:23 Chris Malinchak, Kiesza, Malin - Tree 10:23 C H I L L T R A X - Chill Out Chilltrax 10:19 Giants' Nest - Purple Beach 10:15 Jan Blomqvist & Malou - Alone 10:12 Sault - Wildfires 10:08 Farius - Coming Up (Hold On) (Dokho Remix) 10:05 Edapollo - Standing There 10:01 Satin Jackets Feat. Mandy Jones - In This Life 10:01 C H I L L T R A X - The Chillout Channel, Chilltrax 09:56 Electronic Bodyguards - Stronger (Pete Herbert Remix) 09:53 Alampa - Playoff 09:50 Bronson Feat. Gallant - Know Me 09:45 Royksopp & Susanne Sundfor - Oh, Lover (Nto Remix) 09:39 Volen Sentir & Makebo - Into The Stars 09:34 Be Svendsen - October Letters (Page 2) 09:34 C H I L L T R A X - Something I Should Tell You 09:28 Arley & Sirolf - One Day 09:24 Leisure - Take You Higher (Serebii & Arjuna Oakes Remix) 09:20 Jones Meadow - Fences 09:15 Darius Feat. Wayne Snow - Apology 09:15 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Cymbal Roll Bass 09:12 Lp Giobbi Feat. Caroline Byrne - Another Life 09:09 Lar - Collide (Jody Wisternoff & James Grant Remix) 09:05 Embliss & Lumynesynth - Phases Of The Moon 09:00 Dj San & Sebastian Moore - In Your Eyes 08:56 Ran The Man - Swimmingpool 08:56 C H I L L T R A X - Parents Magazine Seal 08:53 Jako Diaz & Leyet - Only You 08:48 Pines - Dawn 08:43 Il:lo - Cynnes 08:38 Nils Hoffmann Feat. Julia Church - 9 Days 08:34 Rufus Du Sol - Hypnotised 08:33 C H I L L T R A X - Escape 2 Music 08:30 Heard Right & Fløa - Enough 08:26 Reel People & Paula - Vibe (Moods Remix) 08:23 London Grammar - Baby It's You 08:19 Aftruu - Falling Asleep 08:19 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Moon Boots 08:14 Blonde Maze - A Break In Continuity (Forty Cats Remix) 08:09 Alison Goldfrapp - The Beat Divine 08:06 Rocket Empire - Lima 08:02 Two Lanes - Searching (Ct Fixup Mix) 08:02 Shallou - Fading 08:02 C H I L L T R A X - We Are The Music Makers 07:57 Two Lanes - Searching (Ct Fixup Mix) 07:54 Jimpster & Oliver Night - Ascension 07:50 Faodail & Plya - Strangers Gone Missing 07:46 Holen - Breathe 07:43 Tycho - See (Beacon Remix) 07:42 C H I L L T R A X - Slurry Toh 07:38 Monolink - Turning Away (Parra For Cuva Remix) 07:33 Pilots Of Peace - Fallin 07:29 Feathervane & Oreonic - Overcast 07:26 Everything But The Girl - Forever 07:22 Fabio Vee & Mike D' Jais - Consolation 07:22 C H I L L T R A X - Be Svendsen World Comes 07:19 Finding Mero - In Loving Memories 07:15 Feiertag Feat. Tessa Rose Jackson - Follow 07:12 Sebastian Davidson - Nomads 07:08 Woven - Brushes 07:05 Liz Cass - Blue 07:05 C H I L L T R A X - Valante Io Toh 07:00 Elderbrook & Emmit Fenn - I’ll Find My Way To You 06:57 Melosense - Nous 06:53 Lp Giobbi Feat. Dj Tennis & Joseph Ashworth - All In A Dream 06:50 Jones Meadow & Clara Mendes - Em Baixo 06:45 Massane - No Return 06:44 C H I L L T R A X - Jimpster 1 06:41 Kidnap & Pinkpirate - Things Change 06:36 Hausman & Lumynesynth - Faded 06:33 Flexible Fire - Marea Turquesa 06:30 Baynk Feat. Drama - 1 Chance 06:26 Evelynka - Letting Go 06:26 C H I L L T R A X - Twcc High Standard Of Quality 06:21 Jean Caillou - Signs 06:16 Booka Shade & Satin Jackets - Fusion Royale 06:13 Cannons - Footsteps In The Dark 06:08 Blank & Jones - Floatation 06:04 Nightcap - The Two Of Us (We Only Need) 05:59 R Plus & Faithless Feat. Amelia Fox - It's Enough (The Last High) 05:59 C H I L L T R A X - Chilltrax - Chill Out Piano 05:55 Logic1000 Feat. Big Ever - Natural 05:51 Heard Right & Oracle - There For You 05:47 Forester - Symphony 05:43 Sg Lewis - Lifetime 05:40 Dex 1200 - Ongea Nami 05:34 Delerium And Mimi Page - Blue Fires 05:34 C H I L L T R A X - Retsyn 05:30 Xixi Feat. Kwesi - Close To U 05:26 Vintage And Morelli Feat. Arielle Maren - The Light (Flexible Fire Remix) 05:22 Holen - Not Too Late 05:19 Solomon Grey - Home 05:19 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Dzihan 05:16 Fløa (Floa) - Pictures Of You 05:11 Cahelo - Bananaquit (Mass Digital Extended Remix) 05:06 Mass Digital - Thoughts Of U 05:01 Northern Form - Mend 04:57 Alan Cerra - Radiant 04:56 C H I L L T R A X - Magnifyingglasssogood4u 04:51 Nicholas Gunn & Alina Renae - Angel Eyes 04:48 Ferr By Ferry Corsten And Youth Novels - Hands 04:44 Rocket Empire - Astoria 04:40 Pines Feat. Fractures - Rewrite The Ending 04:37 Goldfrapp - Moon In Your Mouth 04:36 C H I L L T R A X - Ct The Backward Chillout Channel 04:33 Giants' Nest - Heart Void 04:28 Eli & Fur - Better In The Dark 04:25 Darius & Amaria - Faded 04:21 Chill Cole - Liquid Life 04:21 C H I L L T R A X - Glitchy Toh 04:17 Flume Feat. Emma Louise - Hollow (Logic1000 Remix) 04:13 Feiertag - Didn't Know Why (You Lost Your Soul) 04:08 Ghenwa Nemnom - Story Of A Battle (Chris Zippel Remix) 04:04 Ross Quinn - Away With Me 04:04 C H I L L T R A X - This Is The Way 04:00 George Fitzgerald & Syml - Mother 03:56 Andrew Nagy & Joel Winterflood - Little To None 03:51 Rodriguez Jr. Feat. Liset Alea - What Is Real (Deep In The Playa Mix) 03:46 Palladian - Zagara 03:42 Washed Out - Face Up 03:42 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Freesound 03:37 Reel People & Muhsinah - Something New (Kraak & Smaak Remix) 03:34 Mansionair & Kim Tee - Next High 03:30 Chris Malinchak - Control 03:26 Floa & Phonic Youth - Falling Away 03:22 Elderbrook - The End 03:22 C H I L L T R A X - Escape The Noise 03:18 Flexible Fire - Amatista 03:13 Meeting Molly - Gerda 03:10 Jan Blomqvist & Malou - Alone 03:05 John Monkman Feat. Liz Cass - Open Frontier 03:00 Mahalo - Nothing Matters (Lipless Remix) 02:55 Billion Watchers - Rainman 02:51 Sons Of Maria - Don't Tell Me I Can't Have It 02:48 Jones Meadow - Expect 02:48 C H I L L T R A X - Comes To Chill Out 02:43 Dim Kelly - Nocturna Animal 02:39 Satin Jackets Feat. Tailor - Somewhere In Paradise 02:35 Two Lanes & Panama - Rolling Back 02:31 Passenger 10 - Voices In Her Head 02:26 Volen Sentir & Makebo - Into The Stars 02:26 C H I L L T R A X - Cleanliness Don't You Agree 02:21 Max Cooper - A Model Of Reality (Tor Remix) 02:17 Blonde Maze - Night Light (Hessian Remix) 02:12 Valante - Vana 02:09 Henry Green Feat. Andreya Triana - Tide 02:09 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Cymbal Roll Bass 02:06 Lp Giobbi Feat. Caroline Byrne - Another Life 02:03 Lar - Collide (Jody Wisternoff & James Grant Remix) 01:59 Alex Hook Feat. Rene - You Showed Me 01:55 Everything But The Girl - Caution To The Wind 01:51 Tensnake - Adams Hill 01:51 C H I L L T R A X - Take Me Away! 01:46 Eli & Fur - Where I Find My Mind 01:41 Royksopp - Beautiful Day Without You 01:37 Pableno - Heights 01:34 Flight Facilities Feat. Your Smith - Heavy 01:30 Beacon - Im U 01:30 C H I L L T R A X - Street Life Worlds Cc 01:25 Eric Hilton Feat. Brian Jackson - Something For Byrd 01:22 Alampa - Playoff 01:18 The Knocks Feat. Foster The People - All About You (Equal Remix) 01:15 Aftruu - Falling Asleep 01:15 C H I L L T R A X - Toh Moon Boots 01:10 Nicholas Gunn Feat. Derek Luttrell - Lose Control 01:05 Alison Goldfrapp - The Beat Divine 01:00 Forty Cats & Arentis - Zen 00:55 A.m.r - Sailor's Cry 00:55 C H I L L T R A X - Tcc Warm And Tender Ocean 00:52 Reel People & Paula - Vibe (Moods Remix) 00:49 Chris Malinchak - Happiness (Eternal Moment Mix) 00:45 Attom & Kwesi - Rogue 00:40 Zaven - Voliere Amplitude 00:40 C H I L L T R A X - Slurry Toh 00:36 Vandelux - All I've Ever Known 00:32 Farius - A Big Life (Sound Quelle Remix) 00:28 Duckmaw - Nox 00:25 Cannons - Loving You 00:21 Che Jose Feat. Jodie Knight - Freedom (Mass Digital Remix Edit) 00:21 C H I L L T R A X - E-chilled-music 00:16 Sons Of Maria - It Takes So Long 00:13 Feiertag Feat. Tessa Rose Jackson - Ambivalence 00:09 Sebastian Davidson - Nomads 00:06 Sum Wave - Milkyway 00:03 Fkj Feat. Little Dragon - Can't Stop 00:02 C H I L L T R A X - Valante Io Toh

#Chilltrax #Chillout #Lounge #Downtempo #Ambient #Trance #Deep House #2023 #May 2023

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spectral-apparitions · 2 years

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I've got a fun one for the spooky season! What would the main NSR characters dress up as for Halloween (assuming they celebrate it)?

Here's a fun fact, anon: I spent some time looking up Halloween celebrations worldwide, particularly paying attention to Malaysia, because I was wondering about this exactly. Seems like it’s mostly a Western thing with some different holidays observed elsewhere, so I’m not sure if these characters would celebrate it.

But hey, NSR is a fictional setting, so why not be creative? Or consider it an AU. It’s all just for fun!! :D

Spoilers for: Zuke, Yinu, Eve, and Tatiana

Mayday: She picks a different costume every year, going as whatever excites her most at the moment. This is usually some animal-like monster such as a werewolf or a dragon. She likes to dress up even if she isn’t going out! She enjoys staying inside and marathoning Halloween and horror movies, and eating all the sweets she can get.

She dresses up Ellie every year too! Sometimes she can find a dog or cat costume that fits her gator, other times she puts something together herself. Sometimes she coordinates their costumes - her personal favorite is the year she went as a dragon and Ellie as a knight.

Zuke: He’s the type to dress as a pun or as a historical figure. Sometimes he gets a little discouraged from having to explain his costume to people, but the people that do get it are impressed or get a chuckle out of it, so he’s satisfied. He tried coordinating costumes with Eve once, and while he enjoyed it, it wasn’t his taste of costume. Sometimes he tries matching with Mayday; they find funny pairs to do together or two halves of their favorite fictional duos.

Kliff: When he was younger, he liked to go to Halloween parties to socialize and listen to music. He liked making his own costumes by taking pieces of different costumes and combining them for a genre blend look, like a punk werewolf. And a few times he dressed up as his favorite artists (Kul Fyra a few times). These days he doesn’t go out or dress up as often. Occasionally if he finds an event he’s particularly interested in, he goes, and now he goes for an artist look alike costume.

DJ Zam: Puts on a Halloween special where his show is longer than usual and talks about urban legends and tells horror stories. He spends most of his time inside, so he doesn't dress up. But he does put on a tacky Halloween-themed button shirt. Also likes to decorate his home and office with cute and corny decorations.

DK West: Not one to dress up, so he doesn’t usually unless he’s going to a costume party. He goes with something easy and classic in such case. He’s a pretty darn good storyteller, and people know this, so sometimes at parties or just hanging out, he’s asked to tell scary stories.

DJ Subatomic Supernova: Not one to put in a lot of effort to dress, but still the holiday appeals to them. Shows up toting black cat ears and tail, of all things. Nobody expects this. Otherwise a black hoodie with a glow in the dark ghost on it. Sometimes changes out for other hoodies or shirts with a Halloween-relevant graphic.

His outfit may not be all that impressive, but that doesn’t stop fans from taking pictures and gushing online about how cute he looks. And Club Planetarium, on the other hand, is all decked out with ghosts and bats circling the ceiling, and a change in colors to purple, orange, and green, and blacklight. Featuring the eeriest and darkest tracks by DJSS.

It surprises a lot of people, but he will hand out candy for trick or treaters.

And he buys lots of candy for himself, too.

Sayu+team: Sayu gets a cute redesign each year. Previously she has been a vampire, a wereshark, a merwitch, and a few outifts that aren’t a character but simply an aesthetic. There are a handful of Sayu songs about the joy or the spookiness of the holiday, or about loving your friend who’s a monster. These songs get played a lot on Halloween night and surrounding concerts, but there isn’t a concert that’s solely Halloween themed.

The team themselves love dressing up every year, looking for somewhere to wear their costumes (and if not, at least for a photoshoot). Dodo likes object and human horror characters (esp puppets) and works hard to make a detailed costume and to copy the movements of the character, Sofa usually goes as an animal-like monster (and loves obscure ones), Remi usually is an anime villain or monster, Tila usually is an anime protagonist (and likes a fancy outfit). They stock candy and try to save it for Halloween night, when they likely make themselves sick from eating nothing else.

Yinu+Mother: Yinu goes trick or treating and picks a different outfit each year! When she was littler, her mother would dress her as a flower or a butterfly. But now, Yinu asks to be something like a good witch or a bat.

Her mother (and previously, her father) dresses up as something to match her, like a gardener. Her parents would make costumes or add on to ones they found, and as Yinu is a little older now, she helps with crafting too.

Other than on trick or treat night, Yinu likes to decorate. She loves carving or painting pumpkins (with her mother’s help, of course), and they roast seeds from carving.

Neon J+1010: Two words. Vampire. Coven. Each boy has sizeable fangs, the classic vampire cloak, and bat ears. They promise they won’t bite anyone too hard~

Neon J himself has a fancier looking cloak with a high collar, and bat wings, and carries around a shiny black cane topped with a golden bat. Since he doesn’t stay in the spotlight much, his staying behind in the shadows seems in character.

The stage doesn’t change much save for giant jack-o-lanterns. But 1010 has a list of songs all about comforting a frightened datemate or being lovable monsters to sing the night away.

Barraca Mansion is THE house to visit for trick or treat, you get cooed at by celebrities and king size candy bars.

Eve: Her brand of horror is psychological and it shows. She likes reading stories or watching movies about tasteful psychological horror during the season (she’s partial to poetry and short stories). She’s carved a pumpkin every year since a young age, and keeps up that tradition. Except now she usually has multiple pumpkins, carved and/or painted, and sometimes makes displays with them.

For dressing up, she has several outfits that she rotates each year. She goes for artsy, kind of abstract Halloween aesthetic. Her favorite components are dresses, intricate shoes, or interesting hairstyle + hairpieces. Her favorite designs to incorporate are spiderwebs, bat wings, and the colors purple, black, and white.

She likes to host a gallery or concert each year with some unnerving music of her own, showcasing some of her more off-putting art (she leans into expressing what seems the most frightening to her, which tends to be some abstract concepts),

Tatiana: She’s always been a fan of classic monsters, particulary feminine or feral ones. So, witch, harpy, werewolf, vampire, etc.

While she likes to change it up, she eventually settled as often going as a fire demon when she was Kul Fyra, combining punk fashion, some homemade horns, and some killer makeup effects, and of course her own fire powers, for a pretty badass look.

The Goolings never did specific concerts for the season, but a few of their songs would have a small spike in popularity as they had some spooky vibes.

Tatiana now goes for a gothic look, something tamer than how she used to be. She often goes now as a recognizable classic witch or vampire to office parties, or sometimes simply just wearing something black and old formal looking. She doesn’t discuss it much, but she still enjoys watching horror movies.

Tatiana happily hands out candy to kids (and occasionally the wanting adults), too. Plenty of people are intimidated to approach her house, but she’s kind to kids and has some awesome treats for anyone who shows up. Although she’s often busy keeping an eye on energy levels in the city with all the festivities happening.

#writing #Headcanons #no straight roads #halloween #mayday #zuke no straight roads #kliff #dk west #dj zam #dj subatomic supernova #sayu no straight roads #eve no straight roads #1010 #neon j #Tatiana #yinu #Cries sorry this wasn’t posted until after Halloween #I started working on it before even ;-;

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thequiver · 3 years

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Hello! Do you mind making a reading guide for connor hawke

So all these except the last one are actually courtesy of the lovely @rainbow820 who is both a bigger Connor Hawke fan than I am and not currently stuck in Grell Run Brainrot (tm)- but when I was looking through the comics to make sure I remembered these they were also some of my all-time favorite Connor appearances so the recs are under the cut

Green Arrow vol 2 0- Connor’s first appearance!

Green Arrow vol 2 91-105

Green Lantern vol 3 64

Green Arrow vol 2 104

Robin vol 2 25

Hard Traveling Heroes- Next Gen Arc- Looking for Kyle’s dad- Roadtrip (July & Aug 1996)

Green Lantern vol 3 76 (1)

Green Arrow vol 2 110 (2)

Green Lantern vol 3 77 (3)

Green Arrow vol 2 111 (4)

JLA 5- Recruitment time

JLA 8-15

Green Arrow vol 2 125 (1)

Green Lantern vol 3 92 (2)

Green Arrow vol 2 126 (3)

DC Universe Holiday Bash 2- Dec 24th 1997

Green Lantern vol 3 96 (1)

Green Arrow vol 2 130 (2)

The Flash vol 2 135 (3)

Green Arrow vol 2 134 (1)

Detective Comics vol 1 723 (2)

Robin vol 2 55 (3)

Nightwing vol 2 23 (4)

Green Arrow vol 2 135 (5)

Green Lantern vol 3 117

Green Arrow vol 3 10- (Nov 28 2001)

Ion Arc- Omnivore or something (December 5 2001 - May 8 2002)

Green Arrow vol 3 13

Green Arrow vol 3 14

Green Arrow vol 3 15

Green Lantern vol 3 153

Hate Crime Arc- (October-November 2002)

Green Arrow vol 3 19

Black Circle: Urban Knight Arc- Daddy Disapproves (April 2003)

Green Arrow vol 3 23 (1)

Green Lantern vol 3 162 (2)

Green Arrow vol 3 24 (3)

Green Lantern vol 3 163 (4)

Green Arrow vol 3 25 (5)

Green Lantern vol 3 164 (6)

Green Arrow vol 3 31

Boys Night Out- Green Arrow vol 3 32 - January 2004

Green Arrow Quiver #10

#connor hawke #comic recs #reading lists

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Overblown incontinent fossil!!

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Ravenwing Veteran

So, there are a few things going on here

I wanted to play around with the persistent notions of Dark Angels going to great lengths to conceal their numbers and organization. The Deathwing Knights and Ravenwing Black Knights all consist of unknown numbers, and there are notions here and there of inner circles within inner circles and secrets within secrets. So this guy is an exploration into the non-standard forces that might exist outside and above the official organization.

I also wanted to play around with the notion that the Ravenwing “always” fight on bikes and landspeeders; surely given their mission to hunt the Fallen and the vagaries of a permanent galactic war the Ravenwing could find itself in a situation that necessitated dismounting; for example, having to chase someone into a building in an urban fight. Or maybe a few guys had to be left on a planet to keep an eye on things and look for signs after a trail went cold.

At least one codex talks about Dark Angels having obscure signs and symbols of rank the meaning of which are not readily discernible by outsiders, so I thought I’d riff on that. So, this guy is wearing robes (inspired by Orthodox Great Schema monks) individually crafted for unknown purposes and has no squad number on his shoulder.

In my mind, this marine could be representative of a very small purpose-built order within-yet-outside the Ravenwing tasked with hunting down a specific renegade. Could be the pretense for a new successor chapter, or maybe just one of many small orders and secret missions hidden in the esoteric hierarchy of the Inner Circle.

Or, I don’t know.

Sidenote, I was going to paint a company badge on the right shoulder as a nod to the marine’s previous service but it clashed too much with the style of the robes.

#warhammer #warhammer 40k #dark angels #ravenwing #inner circle #in the future I think I will do a full squad of dismounted Ravenwing veterans in regular robes #using the Dark Angels Veterans box #gallery

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Transformers Animated: DnD Headcanons

Some of these were a bit difficult because I don’t recall TFA super well and what I can recall is a bit basic. I also decided to cut off some people from the list I originally had. If someone has a specific request for a certain character, feel free to ask me and I’ll respond with my answer for that character. For now, part 2 of my DnDformers!

Race - Background - Class (Subclass)

AUTOBOTS

Optimus Prime: High Elf - Knight - Paladin (Oath of Redemption)

Ratchet: Hill Dwarf - Soldier - Cleric (War Domain)/Artificer (Battle Smith)

Bumblebee: Tabaxi - Folk Hero - Sorcerer (Storm Sorcery)

Bulkhead: Half-Orc - Guild Artisan - Fighter (Rune Knight)/Artificer (Armorer)

Prowl: Eladrin (Summer) - Urchin - Ranger (Fey Wanderer)/Rogue (Thief)

Jazz: Dragonborn (White) - Entertainer - Bard (College of Swords)

Sentinel Prime: Aasimar (Protector) - Athlete - Fighter (Cavalier)

Jetfire: Half High Elf - Inheritor - Monk (Way of the Four Elements)

Jetstorm: Half High Elf - Inheritor - Monk (Way of the Four Elements)

Blurr: Tabaxi - Investigator - Monk (Way of the Open Hand)

Ultra Magnus: Eladrin (Winter) - Noble - Fighter (Champion)

DECEPTICONS

Megatron: Dragonborn (Silver) - Gladiator - Fighter (Eldritch Knight)/Paladin (Oath of Vengence)

Starscream: Air Genasi - Noble - Artificer (Alchemist)

Lugnut: Orc - Soldier - Barbarian (Path of the Zealot)

Blitzwing: Feral Tiefling - Faceless - Druid (Circle of Wildfire)

Black Arachnia: Aasimar (Fallen) - Haunted One - Rogue (Assassin)/Druid (Circle of the Shepard)

Shockwave: Changeling - Spy - Wizard (School of Illusion)

Swindle: Tabaxi - Smuggler - Bard (College of Whispers)

OTHER/UNAFFILIATED

Lockdown: Drow - Urban Bounty Hunter - Rogue (Mastermind)/Blood Hunter (Order of the Mutant)

Wasp: Dragonborn (Green) - Haunted One - Druid (Circle of Land (Underdark))

Grimlock: Goliath - Fey Lost - Barbarian (Path of the Berserker)

Swoop: Aaracokra - Fey Lost - Barbarian (Path of Wild Magic)

Snarl: Minotaur - Fey Lost - Barbarian (Path of the Battlerager)

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connorkyle comic recs???

Yes! Okay so this spans from the mid 1990s to 2003 where Kyle and Connor interact for the last time.

Green Arrow vol 2 104- First Meeting

Hard Traveling Heroes- Next Gen Arc:

Roadtrip (July & Aug 1996)

Green Lantern vol 3 76 (1)

Green Arrow vol 2 110 (2)

Green Lantern vol 3 77 (3)

Green Arrow vol 2 111 (4)

JLA 5-15 (kinda happens over the next few arcs it's read it on it's own lmao it doesn't matter the when)

Hate Crimes Arc:

Green Arrow vol 2 125 (1)

Green Lantern vol 3 92 (2)

Green Arrow vol 2 126 (3)

DC Universe Holiday Bash 2

Three of a Kind Arc- You, Me, and Wally:

Green Lantern vol 3 96 (1)- “Idk she was probably a ghost”

Green Arrow vol 2 130 (2)- “Ding dong- Moron calling”

The Flash vol 2 135 (3)- So we kind of dropped the people here

Green Lantern vol 3 117

Green Arrow vol 3 10

Black Circle: Urban Knight Arc:

Green Arrow vol 3 23 (1)

Green Lantern vol 3 162 (2)

Green Arrow vol 3 24 (3)

Green Lantern vol 3 163 (4)

Green Arrow vol 3 25 (5)

Green Lantern vol 3 164 (6)

#dc comics #reading list #pegasus date boys

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Shingeki no Danganronpa

Chapter 1, part 1

So I started this story last year when the Danganronpa craze happened but I still wanna post it because I think it’s a pretty alright take on the game. I put a hashtag of the name of this series so the parts are easy to find. (ie. Shingeki no Danganronpa Chapter 1)

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Hope’s Peak High. A school so large that it towers over all the other buildings in this bustling urban area. Some people say that the school is like it’s at the centre of the world, which I agree to. Except, it is at the centre of the entire world. Everyone knows about this school and how prestigious it is. Anybody who’s anybody dreams of getting that fateful acceptance letter from administration. They say that if you come here and manage to graduate, you’ll be set for life. I’m not the most interesting person in the world, so it was a complete shock when I got a letter saying that they want me to attend. The only award I’ve ever won was a runner’s up ribbon in a fishing tourney. My letter told me that I’m the ‘Ultimate Lucky Student’, which sounds like complete horse shit in my opinion.

I get good grades, sure, but nothing as skyrocketing as some of the people who get in for a purpose. I still accepted the opportunity because I’m not an idiot. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity and there’s no way that I’ll give it up because I feel like I don’t belong there... which I definitely feel like. I would’ve just assumed that they got the wrong person but they don’t send acceptance letters to the wrong house, it hasn’t happened in the fifty years the school’s been running for, and I’m pretty sure that the name (f/n) (l/n) isn’t common in this area. So here I now stand, in front of the massive school. It’s even more impressive and intimidating in person. Before I arrived, I did a small Google search on who was going to be in my class and it ranges from more mundane things like the Ultimate Cleaner to the Ultimate Strategist. But, despite my uncertainty of my presence, I put on a brave face and walk through the entrance gates... only to start feeling dizzy and nauseous, like I’m in one of those crazy amusement park rides where you spin in a circle very quickly and the floor drops. No sooner do I start feeling this way, do I black out.

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“The hell just happened?” I ask myself as I open my eyes and take a look at my surroundings. I seem to be in a classroom because of all the desks and the blackboard up front, but there’s no windows. Just big metal plates with even bigger bolts and screws holding them in place. “Huh. Weird. Maybe that just shows some new part of the school they’re building and they don’t want any one to see it until it’s finished?” I wonder as I stand up from the desk. I look around but don’t see any bags, even mine is gone. When I turned back to my desk, I notice a slightly folded piece of paper on it, so I pick it up out of curiosity.

Hey there, new kid! The next semester is about to start. Starting today, this school will be your entire world.

“Knew it was the centre of the world.” I think to myself and then place the card down. It didn’t look very professional as it was written in black and red pencil crayon, but it’s a high school so I doubt there are any kids. And if there were, I would have to report them to cops for child labour. I look up at the clock and see that’s it’s eight. “How long was I out for? An hour probably, maybe less. Wait, doesn’t this school start at eight? Where’s all the students? And the teachers? Maybe I read the time wrong on the letter.”

I then go out of the classroom and notice the weird magenta and purple look of the halls and cringe at the contrast. “Ok, what the hell is with this hallway? And, again, where are all the people? I know that eight am isn’t very early, at least not so early that it’s a ghost town. Oh, shit, maybe there’s an assembly!”

I begin to race down the hall and pass by a red door that feels too eerily out of place but I shake the feeling off and head towards the main hall. Once I arrive, I see that everyone else is already there. “Hey, look! Someone else is here!” Someone says. “So that makes fifteen of us.” Someone else points out. “So, you’re all new as well?” I ask them. “No, we’re here for shits and giggles.” A boy with black hair and sharp steel grey eyes rudely answers. I laugh awkwardly. “Who shoved a stick up your ass?”

He clicks his tongue in annoyance. “Anyways, I’m (f/n) (l/n).” I introduce myself. “Sorry I’m late. When I entered the school I just blacked out or some shit. It was really weird.”

“You too?” A short blonde girl asks. “That’s what happened to the rest of us! At first, I thought it was just nerves. But then everyone started to realize that we all blacked out.”

“Yes. This is rather a strange situation.” A boy with blond hair that’s tied back a bit and glasses says. “I’ve never heard of fifteen people blacking out at different times at the same place on the same day.”

“We were drugged!” Someone speaks up. Everyone goes quiet as we turn our attention to the person who spoke. She’s rather tall and has brown hair, and wears glasses. “Oh, come on! I was just joking to lighten the mood! And ease the tension that’s growing because it’s making me a biiiit uncomfortable.”

“So then how about we just introduce ourselves then?” A black haired boy with freckles suggests. “That way we can ease the tension without freaking everyone out.”

I immediately feel calmer after he speaks. He’s got some kind of... energy or something around him. The first person I go up to is the short blonde girl with blue eyes. “Oh, hello! I’m Krista Lenz.”

Krista Lenz. She’s the Ultimate Volunteer. She volunteers all of her free time to shelters, reading to kids, helping the city, going in to retirement/nursing homes, helping out in hospitals and keeping veterans company. She’s even gone abroad to help build homes. She’s known online as Angel, and I can totally see why. Not just because of her noble acts, but because she looks so pure and innocent. Like a little angel. “Well, it’s actually Historia Reiss but that’s hard for kids and seniors to pronounce and spell so I just came up with the fake name.” Krista explains. “No way, seriously?” I ask her. “Doesn’t it bother you that you’re popular with a name that isn’t technically yours?”

She giggles cutely. “Singers do it all the time, don’t they? Katy Perry’s last name is actually Hudson but she didn’t want to get confused for the actress, Kate Hudson.”

“Oh, right, yeah.” I say awkwardly and then move onto the next person.

I decide to go up to the the boy who suggested introductions. “Hi! I’m Marco Bodt. It’s nice to meet you!”

Ah, yes. Marco Bodt, the Ultimate Peacekeeper. He tries to help different countries bring peace to them so no more wars break out. He’s also proposed that they follow England in having a special force of officers who carry guns while the majority only carry nightsticks. He’s also won a Nobel peace prize. “So, what are you here for?” Marco asks me. “Oh, nothing special. I’m not that important.” I say. “Nonsense! You were accepted, right?” Marco says. “I got chosen by chance to be the lucky student.” I tell him. “See?” Marco says. “Out of everyone in the world that they put into chance, you got chosen! Not Diana across town. And the letter even said you were the Ultimate Lucky Student as a result, that accounts for something, right?”

I smile thankfully and go to say something else but hear shouting instead. “What the fuck did you call me, you suicidal bastard?!”

“I called you a horse face, horse face!” The other person responds just as angrily. “Oh, geez.” Marco says. “Sorry, I’m gonna go break them up so there isn’t a murder or anything.”

Marco then heads off to go calm the two boys down. I roll my eyes. “Teenage boys. Why are they like this?”

I head off to another boy, but he doesn’t have any hair. Or at least very little, short, stubby hairs. “Hi, I’m Connie Springer!”

Connie Springer is the Ultimate Prankster. He’s pulled pranks on a various number of people, none of which were very tame. He’s pranked politicians and celebrities. He’s helped talk show hosts prank their audiences and even pranked a military general. I honestly don’t know how he got away with his life for that one, especially since I heard how strict and unforgiving the general is. “It’s nice to meet you, Connie.” I say. “How’d you even escape General Shadis after putting Veet in his shampoo and then switching his toothpaste for actual sewerage?”

“Not easily, I’ll tell you that.” Connie responds with a laugh.

I then move onto the next person. A girl with black hair and grey eyes standing beside a boy with brown hair and beautiful turquoise eyes that I’m honestly jealous of. “Hi. I’m Eren Jaeger and this is Mikasa Ackerman.”

Eren Jaeger. The Ultimate Freedom Fighter. He leads various protests to allow people more rights and be more free, and he also runs different projects that aid in getting people free from their situation. Mikasa Ackerman is his adopted sister and is basically known as his knight in shining armour because of her saving Eren from all the aggressive people he’s encountered. She’s the Ultimate Protector. She protects students at school from bullies, and protects her brother, Eren, from everything. She’s been known to intimated police and SWAT teams, who are already trying to get her to join their force. Marco’s even been seen with them from time to time when he knows it could get very ugly. “What you’ve been doing is quite admirable, Eren.” I compliment him. “It’s great of you to stand up for complete strangers.”

He bashfully puts a hand on the back of his neck with a light blush and smile. “Thanks. Everyone deserves to have freedom so I just stand up for those who’s voices are drowned out by every day noise.”

I turn to Mikasa. “And you’re pretty brave to tell SWAT officers off.”

She just shrugs. “I don’t see it as brave.”

I nod and then go to the next person. Well, group. A tall boy with dark brown hair who seems to be sweating a lot, a blond boy who’s pretty buff, and a short blond girl who gives off as much warmth as an iceberg in a blizzard. “Hi. I’m (f/n) (l/n).” I introduce myself to them. They all look at me and I see the blond smirk. “Nah, cute is what you are.” He says to me. I can feel my cheeks start to burn at his pick-up line. “Oh, well, uh, thank you.”

“I’m Reiner Braun. This guy here’s Bertolt Hoover, and this is Annie Leonhart.”

Reiner Braun’s the Ultimate Blacksmith. He looks much more like a sports guy but when you see what he makes, you know that his talents lie with making armour and weapons. He makes them professionally for people who want a real replica of what medieval knights had, cosplayers, and medieval dinner shows. He’s won more than fifty competitions for blacksmithing. Bertolt Hoover is the Ultimate Deceit. He’s gotten away with a bunch of different crimes because of his shy and timid nature that makes him fade more into the background. Annie Leonhart is the Ultimate Fighter. Her father put her into boxing when she was a kid and beat the instructor on her first day so she started to train professionally. “So, what do you think about us being a thing when school really gets started, huh?” Reiner flirts. “Reiner, shut up.” Annie orders her friend. “Thanks for the offer.” I say. “It’s really tempting, but I have to decline.”

I quickly leave the trio to go introduce myself to a girl with auburn hair tied up into a ponytail. “Hi! I’m Sasha Braus!”

Sasha Braus runs a successful food critic website and tries food from all over the world including octopus, fried spiders and escamol. She’s friends with a bunch of different famous chefs like Gordon Ramsey and Rachel Ray. She’s also judged on a number of cooking shows and won every eating contest she’s competed in which is why she’s the Ultimate Foodie. “So, uh, when do you think we’ll get to eat?” Sasha asks me. I think for a second. “Not sure. We’ll probably have the orientation meeting and then be given a tour of the school, which will take a while, so probably not until at least eleven.”

She pouts. That’s when I notice a smell. “What the hell is that?”

“Oh, it’s a potato.” Sasha says and pulls out a whole baked potato from her jacket pocket. “Where the hell did you find a potato?!” I ask her. “Well when I woke up, I was really hungry. But my bag wasn’t with me that carried all my snacks. So before I came to the main hall, I decided to go find the dining hall. The potato was just kind of... there. Like it was waiting for me to eat it.” Sasha says and then breaks off a piece. “You want half?”

I look at the piece and see that it’s more like a quarter but I’m not hungry anyway so I politely decline. “More for me then!”

I laugh at her and then turn and see the black haired male with the stick up his ass. “Let’s get this over with.” I think to myself as I make my way over. “Hi.” I greet him. His cold eyes land on me and I instantly feel like I committed a felony or something. “Levi Ackerman.”

Levi Ackerman, distant cousin of Mikasa Ackerman, according to tabloids, who’s the Ultimate Cleaner. Apparently he grew up in the shittiest part of the city where the rats are almost the size of feet, which is where his obsession for cleanliness came from. He cleans up any vandalism from the streets and enforces no littering. He’s run mass city, beach and ocean clean ups. I decide that it’s best to leave him alone so I turn to the brown haired girl beside him who’s wearing glasses. “Hiii! I’m Hanji Zoë! The Ultimate Scientist! Also I’m non-binary, just so you know.”

Hanji Zoë definitely lives up to the title. They found a new element when they were ten and they had to do their science work from home so a university chemist and biologist could come tutor them. They even created a new cell that can protect the body from diseases like TB, certain cancers, and certain joint problems. She also won a Nobel prize. “It’s nice to meet you.” I say. “Great job on getting that Nobel prize for your cell creation!”

“Thank you, but it was nothing.” Hanji brushes my compliment off. “I don’t need an award to tell me that I helped millions of people for me to know it. Sorry, did that sound cocky?”

“No, no! It’s ok! I understand what you mean.” I tell them and then go off to the blond boy with glasses. “Hi. I’m Armin Arlert.”

Armin Arlert. The Ultimate Strategist who came up with his first strategy to get out of the orphanage he was placed in and go completely unnoticed when he was eight. After that, he started working with the military and with him on their side, there are much fewer casualties for them... but not for the other side. “So, your strategies are pretty damn good.” I say. “How on earth do you come up with them?”

“Oh, I don’t know. It just kind of happens.” Armin says awkwardly. “You get nervous about speaking about your brain, don’t you?” I ask him. He chuckles with a small blush. “Was I that obvious?”

“It’s ok. I get it. You help the military to make sure that they don’t lose as many soldiers as the other side.” I say. He nods shyly, so I move onto the next person. She has brown hair tied back into a flat ponytail. “Hi. I’m (f/n).” I introduce myself. “Ymir.” She introduces herself.

With the lack of a last name, and not hearing about her at all online, I just nod my head awkwardly and go introduce myself to the final person. He’s talking to Marco and has interesting hair. It’s ash blond with a brown undercut. “Hi, I’m (f/n) (l/n).” I introduce myself. The boy turns around and I get bit startled by his amber eyes. Eren has pretty eyes, but this guy is a full on pretty boy. He gives me a grin and I can tell he knows it, too. “Hey, Jean Kirschtein.”

Jean Kirschtein is the Ultimate Equestrian. He’s been riding horses ever since he could walk because he grew up on a farm. He entered his first equestrian competition when he was seven and has won first every year. He helps take care of horses from his own to others and even helps beginners with picking out which horse they should ride first. He even runs riding lessons at the farms for said beginners. “So, I heard that you’re the Ultimate Lucky Student, eh?” Jean asks. “Could I have some of that luck to take you horse riding?”

“Keep it PG at school, horse face!” We hear Eren mock. “I don’t have a horse face!” Jean shouts at him. “And I wasn’t implying anything!”

He’s obviously a bit embarrassed and flustered. “Alright, alright. Calm down. He’s just doing it to rile you up.” Marco says to Jean. “If it’s any consolation, I don’t think you look like a horse.” I tell him.

Just as I finish saying that, a bell goes off. “Ahem! Ahem! Testing, testing! Mic check, one, two! This is a test of the school’s broadcast system! Am I on? Can everyone hear me? Ok, well then...!” A voice speaks through the PA system. “Ahh, to all incoming students! I would like to begin the entrance ceremony at... right now! Please make your way to the gymnasium at your earliest convenience... That’s all. I’ll be waiting!”

“Is that voice not sitting well with anyone else or is my stomach feeling squirmy because of the potato I stole?” Sasha asks us. “No. It definitely feels odd.” Marco agrees with her. “We don’t have time for this, brats. Let’s just get on with this so I can clean. This place is absolutely filthy.” Levi says monotonously with a hint of disgust as he walks away from the group and towards the gym. I look at Jean and Marco and the three of us follow him, followed by everyone else. We all make it to the gym in a few short minutes. I see Hanji go towards the trophy case and look straight at this gold and purple katana. “Oo, pretty!” They exclaim and then touch the handle but immediately retract their hand. “Damn, that thing is absolutely coated in gold dust! My hand looks like El Dorado!”

“Um... anyone else find it weird that the hall’s are completely empty?” Krista asks as we enter the gym itself. “I haven’t even heard any other classes going in the classrooms.”

“Yeah, man. I’m getting weirded out, now.” Connie agrees with her. “And did anyone else notice that there were machine guns in front of the entrance which looked like a vault door?” Eren asks. “It’s probably nothing, Eren.” Mikasa says. “Why would they have machine guns in a school?”

He nods but I see him shift uncomfortably. “Hey there, howdy, hello!” The voice from earlier greets. “Is everyone here? Good! Then let’s get things rolling!”

We all look towards the stage which has a podium in the centre and the school crest above it, which are two wings; one white and one blue. As we await our headmaster to walk on stage, a black and white teddy bear pops up and lands on the podium. I hear Connie snort back a laugh. “A teddy bear?” Krista asks in confusion. “I’m not a teddy bear!” The bear says lowly. “I... am... Monokuma! And I am this school’s headmaster!”

I try to wrap my head around what’s happening. A teddy bear- er, uh, Monokuma is our headmaster who’s mouth doesn’t even move when he’s talking. I look around at all my classmates, particularly Connie, to see if this is a joke of his, but everyone looks just as confused as I am. Except Annie but she’s devoid of all of emotion. Hell, even Levi has an eyebrow quirked at the oddness. “Nice to meet you all!”

“Ok, Connie.” Reiner says. “This was hilarious, best prank you’ve ever pulled! But can you turn off the teddy bear now?”

“I’m not doing this, I swear! You guys can search me for a remote or whatever.” Connie responds. “I don’t think he has the intelligence needed to build that. No offence, Connie.” Armin says. I see Connie look slightly offended at the words. “I told you already, I’m not a teddy bear... I’m Monokuma! And I’m your headmaster!” Monokuma shouts angrily as he moves his arms up to display further emotion. “AH! It moved!” Sasha screeches. “No shit, Sherlock.” Levi mumbles. “Oh, calm down, everyone! It’s obviously just a remote controlled toy!” Hanji says. “How dare you compare me to a child’s plaything!” Monokuma says. “You’ve cut me deep. Deeper than the Mariana Trench... My remote control system is so complex, even the folks in the Military Police can’t recreate or even comprehend it! Then again, that place is full of nitwits! Now then, moving on! We really must hurry and get started... Everyone, stand at attention and bow! And... good morning!”

Marco does as he’s told. “Good morning, sir!”

“Marco, stand up.” Jean whispers and pulls the boy up from his bow. “Don’t fall for this shit.”

“Now then, let us commence with a most noteworthy and memorable entrance ceremony!” Monokuma says. “First, let’s talk a bit about what your school life here will be like. Now, ah, make no mistake- you few students, so full of potential, represent the hope of the world. And to protect such splendid hope... you will all live a communal life together solely within the confines of this school. Everyone will live in harmony together, and adhere to the school’s rules and regulations. Ah, now then... regarding the end date of this communal life... there isn’t one! In other words, you’ll all be here until the day you die! Such is the school life you’ve been assigned.”

“Until we die? What kind of fucked up bullshit is this?” Levi asks. “Oh, but fear not!” Monokuma assures us. “We have quite an abundant budget, so you won’t lack for all the common conveniences.”

“That’s still not very comforting.” I tell him. “You gotta be screwing with us!” Connie says. “I am not screwing with you!” Monokuma shouts angrily. “I am no liar, of that you can be 100% sure. Ah, and just for your information... you’re completely cut off from the outside world. So you don’t have to worry about that dirty, dirty land beyond these walls ever again!”

I feel my pockets for my phone. “They took our phones!” I announce. Everyone then starts to check themselves for theirs, too. “So, then... all those metal plates all over the school... they’re there to keep us trapped in here?” Reiner asks him. “That’s exactly what they’re there for.” Monokuma confirms. “No matter how much you may yell and scream for help... help will not come. So with all that in mind, feel free to live out your life here with reckless abandon!”

“Come on, what the hell is this? It’s not funny!” Eren asks. “You all keep saying this is a lie, or a joke.” Monokuma says. “A bunch of skeptics, all of you. But I guess you can’t help it, huh? You all grew up in an age where you’re taught to doubt your neighbour... Well, you’ll have plenty of time to find out whether or not what I say is true. And when that time comes, you’ll see with your own eyes that I speak the undeniable truth.” Monokuma answers Eren.

“I don’t want to live here forever! This is bullshit!” Jean shouts nervously. No one else looks pleased with the news. “Come, now. What’s the matter with all of you? You decided of your own free will to attend Hope’s Peak Academy, didn’t you? And now, before the entrance ceremony is even finished, you’ve already decided that you want to leave? Oh, but you know... I guess I did forget to mention one thing. There is one way for you to leave the school...” Monokuma leaves us in hopeful suspense.

“Spit it out, already.” Annie orders. “Ok, ok! Calm down!” Monokuma says. “As headmaster, I’ve crafted a special clause for those of you who would like to leave! I call it... the Graduation Clause! Now, let me tell you about this fun little rule. As I mentioned, in order to maintain an environment of harmony here, we rely on a communal lifestyle. And if someone were to disrupt that harmony, they, and they alone, would be allowed to leave the school. That, my students, is the Graduation Clause!”

“So by disrupting the peace, all we need to do is fling shit, literally, at people and we can just... go?” Levi asks with a hint of skepticism in his voice. Monokuma laughs. “No. Not exactly. But... if someone were murder another. (“Murder?!” We all repeat in shock) Stabbing, strangling, bludgeoning, crushing, hacking, drowning, igniting, how you do it doesn’t matter. You must kill someone if you want to leave. It’s as simple as that. The rest is up to you. Give it your all to achieve the best outcome in the worst way possible!”

The air goes suffocatingly thick as we all process the situation at hand. We’re trapped in here for life unless we commit murder. There’s no way to contact the outside world, all the windows are boarded up with giant plates of metal, and our headmaster is a complete psycho. No one wants to believe this. It’s something straight out of a horror movie or a TV show created by someone seriously fucked up. Monokuma’s laugh brings us all out of our stupor. “I bet that got your brain juices flowing! Beats the heck out of a human catching a salmon, huh? Like I said before, you guys are the hope of the world. But you know... taking that hope and seeing it get murdered creates a darkened shadow of despair. And I just find that so. Darn. Exciting!”

“You’re insane!” Krista exclaims as she starts to cry a bit. “You guys just don’t get it, do you?” Monokuma asks. “‘Let us go, let us go!’ You keep on saying the same thing over and over and over and over...! Listen. From this moment on, this school is your home, your life, your world. Got it? And you can kill as much as you wanna kill! So go ahead! Go on a kill-kill-killing spree!”

No one makes a move, or a sound, for a good few seconds until Mikasa walks up to the podium. She just stands there. “Eh? Well what do you want?” Monokuma asks her. When he finishes speaking, she grabs him by his little bear neck and lifts him off the ground. Monokuma waves his arms up and down. “I don’t know if you’re a toy, and, frankly, I don’t care, but you just threatened myself, Eren and everyone else here with murder. If it’s murder you want, it’s murder you’ll get.” Mikasa says and pulls out a pocketknife from her pants pocket. “Waah! Violence against the headmaster is in violation of school regulations!” Monokuma shouts. “You never said that before.” Mikasa says stoically. “And all we need to do is disturb the peace to leave, right? So all I need to do is pull out your stuffing and I’ll get to leave. And since you won’t be around, I’ll take everyone here with me.”

He doesn’t respond except for some kind of beeping. “Is he shutting down?” I question. The beeping then gets louder and more frequent. I then hear a gasp come from behind me. “Throw it!” Hanji instructs. “What?” Mikasa responds. “Throw the damn bear! He’s gonna explode!” Hanji explains. Mikasa immediately throws the bear away and then throws herself onto Eren so he doesn’t get hurt as Monokuma explodes.

I jump from the sudden sound and hear Krista squeak in surprise. “Well, shit. That really throws the reality of this situation in our faces.” Levi says with his usual emotionless voice, but there’s a hint of nervousness behind it. “Wait, guys, Mikasa still killed it!” I point out. “Yeah! The bastard bear’s destroyed!” Eren cheers. “Uh... I-I wouldn’t be so sure...” Armin speaks up as Monokuma reappears on the podium. “Nice try! But it’ll take a lot more than a silly explosion to kill me!”

“Oh, come on! What the hell is this?!” Reiner shouts. “So I was almost killed for nothing?” Mikasa asks. “Of course! You violated one of the school regulations, after all. I’ll let you off with a warning this time, but you’d better be careful from now on. Any naughty boy or girl who violates my rules won’t get off with just a little swat on the butt.” Monokuma threatens. I swear I see a vein on his forehead pop out from the anger. “Wait... if you exploded... and you’re back... does that mean that there are more of you?” Hanji asks him. “Mhm! Yup! There’s also surveillance cameras installed everywhere so I’ll be able to see if you break the rules. Then it’s bye-bye birdie! Now that that’s out of the way, to commemorate your joyous entry into our school, I have a little something for you...” Monokuma says and then flat tablets appear before each of us from the ground. “This is your official student handbook! Pretty cool, huh? As you can see, it’s fully digital. So naturally, we called it... the E-Handbook!”

“Wow... I wonder how many brain cells it took to come up with that?” Hanji says sarcastically. “Ignoring that rude comment, this handbook is absolutely vital to a healthy school life, so don’t lose it! When you start it up, it will display your name. Always make sure you have the right one! Now, this is not your everyday notebook. It has so many more uses than that! Also, it’s completely waterproof. Splash it, wash it, drown it, it’ll keep ticking! And thanks to its space-age design, it can withstand an impact force of up to ten tons. It’s very resistant! It contains all of our school regulations, so make sure you review them thoroughly! You’ll hear me say this a lot, but any violation of school regulations will not be tolerated.”

“This is gonna get pretty fucking annoying.” Ymir groans. “Well, then, don’t violate the rules and you won’t hear it often, sweets. (“Sweets?! Why you-!” Ymir growls but refuses to move so nothing else happens.) Rules restrict, yes, but they also protect. Society, for example, would be utter chaos without laws. (“It’s got a point...” Annie agrees with Monokuma). The same thing applies here! Which is why it’s crucial that we have strict punishments in place for violators. Ok, well... that brings our entrance ceremony to a close! Please enjoy your abundantly dreary school life! See ya!” Monokuma says before disappearing.

With him now gone, we all have time to properly process what we were all just told. I can feel the fear lingering in the air. This school is wrongfully named after Hope. Like he said, the opposite of hope is despair... which is the state that all of us are currently in.

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