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transmogrified-in-the-void · 2 months

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Chapter 3

Cato gets to join in on a practice sesh of Bardic Inspiration! It goes great!

Virtue sips at their coffee as the TV broadcast plays. “Notorious villain The Disparaged Baron has finally been apprehended by A-Class hero Brass Dagger. While their fight left many without a place to sleep, many more will no longer have to fear for their lives. The Hero Agency of America has offered to help rebuild those who had their homes destroyed. My name is Daven Blockett, and this is the morning news.”

The TV then shows a short video of the end of the fight. Disparaged Baron, dressed as a Musketeer, runs at Bronze Dagger with a thin sword. Bronze Dagger sidesteps the charge, and throws Baron up 20 feet into the air. There’s a glimmer as Dagger throws something, and the footage cuts to the main news desk.

“I can’t imagine doing that.” Airael walks into the living room and sits next to Virtue on the couch.

“Doing what, Hero work?” Virtue asks as they take another sip.

“I guess. I mostly mean getting involved with Powered fights.” He clarifies. “I know my Power would technically be classified as Consumption, but it still gives me an exponential boost to my physical limits. Which means that if I got involved with a fight, no matter which side I was on, both villain and Hero would try and get me out of the picture first.”

Virtue nods along as he explains. “I couldn’t even imagine what they’d do to Gemini if she got into a Power fight, or Absinthe if they-” Virtue cuts themselves off, not wanting to finish the sentiment. Airael understands, though, and sighs.

“This shit sucks.”

“More than I could imagine.”

Gemini wanders in with a piece of toast, and she raises an eyebrow at the now glum mood of the living room. “Did the kid get into a car accident? What’s with the mood?”

“Powers.” Airael says. Gemini takes a big bite of her toast, and takes her time chewing it as she thinks over the implications of that word.

Gemini swallows, and stomps over in front of the TV. She faces the pair on the couch with a sharp glare. “We can get back to the doom and gloom of our life later. Absinthe has everything set up, so all we need is Kid Strings to get his ass over here. So get your asses in there right now.”

Virtue stands up and drains the rest of their coffee. “You’re bad at pep talks.” They note, and Gemini whacks them.

“Yeah, but I got you going so I win.”

Airael gets to his feet, and wraps Gemini up in his arms. “You’re right, we gotta go make some kick ass music.”

Virtue turns off the TV and moves to the emptied out master bedroom that has become the practice space of Bardic Inspiration. Absinthe is taking out her old beat up electric guitar and leaning it up on the wall. Everything else has been set up, there’s sheets of music that Michael left behind on the one and only table in the room.

Absinthe turns around and lights up. “Oh! Hey V, didn’t see you there.”

“Most people don’t.” Virtue shrugs as they make their way to the chair put up just for them. “It’s a gift.”

“Man, what I’d do for that.” Absinthe groans.

“For being unnoticed?”

“For having a gift.”

The familiar heavy click of the front door opening cuts through the conversation before Virtue can make a response, and they hear Gemini welcome whoevers at the door with a saccharine voice. Airael mutters something, and the voice of Cato responds monotonously.

Three sets of footsteps start to make way to the practice room, and Absinthe starts to move around.

“V, he’s here, oh my god he’s here, we get to play together, I can’t believe it, can you believe it? I’m so excited, you have no-” She cuts herself off as Gemini, Airael, and Cato show up in the doorframe. “Hi!”

Gemini slides into the room as Absinthe rushes forwards to greet Cato. She shakes his hand and drags him inside, making a wide gesture to the humble setup. “Welcome to where the magic happens!”

“Uh, cool.” Cato mutters as he steps out of Absinthe’s grip. His eyes flick around, first to Virtue, then to the drum set, then to the electric guitar harmlessly sitting against the wall. “You guys, uh, already have a guitar.”

“Told ya.” Gemini elbows Cato’s ribs, making him flinch. “We didn’t know if you only had an acoustic or not. There’s also some music for the songs we’re gonna practice today on the table, if you wanna look through them.” She gestures to the handwritten sheet music, and walks behind her drum set and drops down in the seat. She grabs her drumsticks and starts to idly rap them on the rim of the snare.

Airael makes his entrance quietly, and struts to the purple and gold bass on the stand next to the drums. As he slides it on, he glances at Cato. “Last chance to jump ship, kid.”

Cato’s hand twitches, and he storms to the guitar and slings it over his shoulder. “I’m not a kid. You guys aren’t that much older than me.”

Virtue raises an eyebrow. Airael turns around and shrugs, looking bored. “We’re all out of college, and by the looks of it you’d barely’ve started if you went. Kid.”

The pair lock into a staredown, with Airael betraying no emotion in his eyes, while Cato’s are laser focused in to catch anything. Gemini stifles a snicker, and her green eyes light up with amusement as she catches Absinthe’s eye.

Her eyes dart between Cato and Airael, and wiggles her eyebrows with a large grin. Absinthe almost chokes as the laugh tries to escape her mouth, but she holds it back. Gemini and Absinthe try to hold it in, but it’s too much, and they burst into a fit of giggles and laughter, causing Airael and Cato to stop whatever they were doing.

“What’s so funny?” Cato asks, hands gripping the neck of the guitar.

Airael whips his head around to Virtue. “What did she do?” He asks with wide eyes. “What the fuck did she do?”

Virtue looks at Gemini, who tilts her head forwards and does an overexaggerated wink, causing Absinthe to break down with laughter. Virtue sighs, and pats Cato’s shoulder. “Don’t worry about it. They’re like this sometimes.”

They look back to see Airael now leaning over the drums and talking to Gemini, who’s grin has gotten larger as she shakes her head. Absinthe is leaning on a wall, trying to catch her breath, but sometimes still releasing a few giggles. They sigh again, bring their thumb and pointer finger to their mouth, and whistle. The band jump at the sudden noise. Airael clutches his bass, Gemini holds her drumsticks in an ‘X’ in front of her, and Absinthe takes an absurd looking fighting stance. Cato takes a step back.

“Get to practicing. We don’t have all day.” Virtue says, and they make direct eye contact with each band member. “And we certainly don’t have our guest here all day either.”

With that, Absinthe jumps into action. She double checks that Airael and Gemini are all good to go, and makes sure that the guitar Cato’s borrowing is in tune and works fine. Once everyone is set to go, she connects the microphone and takes out the piece of paper that has the practice “schedule” on it.

“Uh, it says we’re practicing ‘Truth or Dare’, ‘No Regrets’, and ‘Sandcastles’ today. Why does it say ‘Sandcastles’ in there, that’s a piano solo.” She looks back at Airael. “Rae, you wrote the list.”

Airael shrugs. “I thought that having your best song for our guitarist would be a good idea.”

Cato mutters something about not being a guitarist while Absinthe looks at the scribbles with narrowed eyes. Then she crumples up the paper and throws it at the table. “Okay, we can do that. But let’s start with a quick runthrough of ‘No Regrets’. We didn’t play that at the last venue, so I want to see what needs some work.”

Cato flips through the stack of papers, and his eyes flick over each page with the same sort of focus he gave Airael. Then he runs forwards, drops them on the table, and runs back into place.

Gemini raps the beat with her drumsticks, and then she and Airael jump into a hard and fast rhythm. She leans forwards into the microphone set up over her drums, and screams.

“OH MY GOD THIS REALLY FUCKING SUCKS! I STILL LOVE YOUR STUPID FUCKING MUG! GOT HIT BY A FUCKING TRUCK! AND YOU’RE HERE STILL GIVING FUCKING FUCKS!” Her voice is guttural and animalistic as her hands move wildly across the drumset. She holds the last vowel as the bass and drums stop and the sound drops away.

She closes the word harshly, and restarts her playing; albeit, more restrained. Airael joins in at the same time, playing the low and slow baseline as Cato takes a deep breath, and starts playing with everyone for the first time.

He plays incredibly well, and although the melody he plays on the guitar is different from what Michael played, it still fits well with everything else. But Virtue already knew that Cato was good, they knew that he would fit in with the band sonically. They’re waiting for Absinthe to sing.

Absinthe looks at Virtue, and nods. She rolls her shoulders back, stands tall, and opens her mouth.

“I cried alone again today.” Her voice is the winter sun cutting through the abyssal surrounding darkness. “It’s hard to heal this heartbreak. I’d rather have loved you here, but you decided to disappear.”

The weight of grieving a love and friendship suddenly lost shoves its way into Virtue’s chest as the words lilt off Absinthe’s tongue. Cato jolts, but doesn’t stop playing as he moves his eyes to look at the singer.

“Hey, it’s me, it’s about us. You said we’re still in love. And I cry curled in my bed, about the last text you sent. Who could have guessed that this is how our story ends?” Even through the waves of heartbreak and sadness, Absinthe smiles as she lowers the microphone. Gemini and Airael play their parts with the anger they’ve always infused them with, and Cato moves his fingers across the frets. He plays a dissonant melody, counteracting the smooth major that Absinthe had been singing. Absinthe’s grin gets larger.

As they continue through the song, it’s a constant fight of three emotions. Anger, from Gemini and Airael, grief, from Absinthe, and desperate confusion from Cato. The sound gets louder and louder, everyone fighting more and more, until Cato suddenly strikes a power chord, and the drums and bass stop. Airael and Gemini are looking at Cato with curiosity as Absinthe brings the mic to her lips one last time.

“I hold no regrets.” She sings lightly. “You were my best friend. But this is the end.”

There’s a still, anticipating moment. The air holds its breath as the last of the grief fades into acceptance, and fades into nothing. Absinthe breaks the silence with a ragged gasp, and she rubs at her eyes for a moment before looking at Cato.

“Are you sure you don’t want to be our guitarist?” Her voice is no longer crystalline, but instead thick and heavy. Her fingers pick at the edge of her skirt and the jeans beneath it.

Cato takes a moment. He looks at Gemini, then Airael, then to his own hands holding a guitar that isn’t his own. “I- uh.” He stammers, and clutches the guitar tightly. “I, I think so.”

A shuddering weight is released from Absinthe. She grins, nods, and turns to the rest of her bandmates. “Cool! So I think we did really good at the first few verses, but at the second chorus we accidentally got a little lost in the middle of everything and it took some time to get back, so let’s start around there.”

Virtue huffs a laugh and shakes their head. They knew, of course, that Cato would say yes. Absinthe is the golden apple just out of reach, the clear water you’ll never drink, but just knowing it exists is enough to sate an appetite.

#p bangs the keys #original writing #my writing #tpu #the powered universe #gemini #airael #absinthe #virtue #cato #bardic inspiration #bardic inspiration band

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mythicaldemigoddess-of-deltarune · 2 years

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The Man Who Speaks In Hands Is Fun-Girl’s Puppet (2021)

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Credit for Bendy Series goes to Joey Drew Studios Inc.

Credit for Cuphead Series goes to Studio-MDHR

Credit for OK K.O. Let's Be Heroes goes to Ian Jones-Quartey

Credit for The Powerpuff Girls goes to Craig McCracken

Credit for Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi goes to Vinson "Bleedman" Ngo

Credit for The Owl House goes to Dana Terrace

Credit for Star Vs The Forces of Evil goes to Daron Nefcy

Credit for Amphibia goes to Matt Braly

Credit for Codename: Kids Next Door goes to Tom Warburton

Credit for Gravity Falls goes to Alex Hirsch

Credit for Steven Universe Series goes to Rebecca Sugar

Credit for Undertale & Deltarune goes to Toby Fox

Credit for Yandere Simulator goes to YandereDev

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I wanted to put a few more characters into this, but I guess it is fine this way.

I kind of want to add that new character I found out about that is from that Learning With Pibby, I think it was yesterday when I found out about her and the Crossover show.

anyway this is a crossover drawing, but it also shows a theory I have about Gaster, like how the Red Soul that acts as our Proxy Soul,

is being used as a Puppet by Gaster, who we don’t know is using us as a puppet, and that gives him control of Kris as well.

but what if Gaster is Fun-Girl’s Puppet,

who is also using Chara as a Puppet as well...?

this took three days to work on, though maybe if I didn’t take that nap yesterday I could of finished this yesterday....

and yes the guy next to Fun-Girl, is Ayato Aishi.

I decided to give him Red Eyes, I still think that while we do have a choice to make Ayano Aishi go down the Pacifist Route and befriend her rivals who would then become a part of her party to save the school...

but if we choose to play as Ayato, there is no Pacifist Route and it’s full on Geno Route, you can’t even do a favor for the rivals or even befriend them.

what makes me believe this, is because of the info that I read about Ayato.

I’m still holding on to my Headcanon about Taro Yamada, that even if we do get a Game Over when we fail to stop Taro from accepting the rival’s love.

what we don’t know is that it is a trap and he plans to use the rival as a pure maiden sacrifice for the Lust Demon or Fun-Girl.

if Ayano frames a rival or spreads bad rumors about them, then Taro will turn them down because he needs a pure maiden to offer to the Lust Demon or Fun-Girl, it has to be either one of those two.

even if it isn’t perfect, I only added Blossom and Buttercup from PPGD, and Blossom from PPG.

The PPGD has been around before PPGZ, and it is the longest to run and to me, it is the best PPG Ever.

I still love the original PPG as well as the other versions of PPG, but because of certain reasons....Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi is my most favorite out of all of them, and like I said, The PPGD has been around before PPGZ even started, the Demshita! Powerpuff Girls Z first started around 2006, but the Crossover Comic series known as Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi started around 2004 and is ongoing.

The Purple Addison in this drawing, has the Blockette Twins with him.....

at first I wanted him to be just a OC, but I guess he would still kind of be that...

but I just thought about it today, that that Purple Addison,

could be how Spamton looked before, not sure if everyone would like that idea.

and yeah the Blockette Twins with him, are Add Blockers.

anyway while Gaster might be using the Player’s Proxy Soul as a Puppet,

it could turn out that Gaster is someone else’s Puppet.

and in a Crossover, the one who is pulling Gaster’s strings is none other than Fun-Girl from Yandere Simulator.

but in the canon of both Undertale and Deltarune, it could be someone else who is making Gaster use the Player’s Proxy Soul as a Puppet.

when I can, I will post this up over at the other place I post fan art at.

also if you look closely, you can see what looks like a small nameless OC next to Bill Cipher, haven’t really picked a name for them yet and I’m not sure if I will draw them again.

also Luz is holding the Magic Wand from Star Vs The Forces of Evil,

while she is also holding Amity’s hand, too.

in this drawing, Blossom from PPGD, is helping Lenny who is one of the Delightful Children From Down The Lane.

it be nice if they make that Galactic Kids Next Door, if it has some mature stuff in it, then they can show it on Adult Swim.

I can only hope that there be a new season of Disenchanted soon....

and enough of the Simpsons, Teen Titans Go and Spongebob.

I would be okay if they just all put those shows on DVD Collection.

I mean even if there are some parts in Teen Titans Go that I am not a fan of,

but some episodes are still okay, and one of my favorite characters on there is Raven.

the crossover movie that has them meet the other Teen Titans, was in my option awesome.

at least both versions of Starfire and Raven were more mature and better than the Classic Teen Titan Boys...

and they did show the other alternate reality versions of the Titans too.

even if I still like the Simpsons, and might watch them once in a while.

the stuff that involves them “predicting” future events, is just kind of scary.

it isn’t even the fun type, like with Kris eating the Pie from Deltarune.

I seriously would rather have Futurama get a new spin off series,

as well as have another season of Disenchanted very soon, and I can only hope it will be soon.

I mean some can get away with the super long series,

like Red Vs Blue, RWBY, Transformers, Pokemon, My Little Pony and any other series that makes it work.

but with Spongebob, the original creator wanted it to end but those who ran Nickelodeon went against his wishes, and he isn’t among the living anymore.

I’m okay with watching Spongebob once in a while, but the broken marathon that started months ago, pretty much ruined it for me.

it was so bad before, that I ended up crying....I really couldn’t take it.

it’s like I still like it now, but at the same time I hate it because those who had run it during that time, only showed the same episodes over and over, and didn’t try to change it to different episode for each day.

I can’t tell my family how bad it got for me, but I have gotten better so that’s good. but I have to put up with it most of the time or like go in another room.

I just wish they could just place the show on full season dvd collection.

I know I wish they would just hurry up and put all the seasons of SVTFOE on DVD or Blu-Ray on Amazon, but it doesn’t look like that is happening any time soon.....my Mom makes some “good points” about the Prime on there.

but it still makes me unhappy, I might not even get all the seasons of the series I watch if it isn’t going to be physically sold on DVD or Blu-Ray, if they are always gonna put it on Prime.

someone get Megatron....-_-

well I guess I can try to wait and hope things get better, and they stop misusing that Prime stuff for everything....

I might not like it, but it is viewed as good by my Mom and most of everyone else.

maybe things will get better, and I can only hope that SVTFOE will be on DVD or Blu-Ray soon....as well as any other Disney shows too.

and they stop making Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy as well as the Classic Powerpuff Girls so dang expensive, and make the prices a bit more fair.

I mean $40.58 would seem a bit more fair than how high then the prices I have seen for them before, which was really high....

at least the high price for that Season of Red Vs Blue was removed,

but I can only hope they restock it soon, doesn’t matter if it is just a DVD or Blu-Ray......so long as it isn’t freaking Prime only....

if something I want ends up being on Prime Video Only, I will have to wait for it to come out as DVD or Blu-Ray....

maybe I’m the only one who feels this way, I mean I guess not many would have a problem with that Prime on there.

just got to hope things get better and hope the series episodes I want to get,

will be sold physically and will be on DVD or Blu-Ray.

anyway I hope some of you like the theory about Gaster being the one who is using the Proxy Soul/Player and Kris as a Puppet, but then it turning out he too is a Puppet against his will as well, and the one who is using him as a Puppet could be anyone in the game, but in a crossover between Undertale/Deltarune and Yandere Simulator, it is Fun-Girl who is using him as her Puppet.

anyway I have to go now, I will try to sign on later to check out some art and other stuff on here.

so see ya later and stay safe everyone.

#yandere simulator #ok ko let's be heroes #powerpuff girls #powerpuff girls doujinshi #deltarune #undertale #steven universe #the owl house #amphibia #codename kids next door #gravity falls #star vs the forces of evil #crossover fanart

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