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Sonic Cyber Revolution/Sonic the Hedgehog Analyzer (Masterlist)

Sonic Cyber Revolution

Sonic the Hedgehog, an Irregular ARNav, usually spends his days racing across Neos City and living his best life. The Blue Blur is always in the search for the next adventure along with his friends, but when trouble calls, be it in the form of aggressive Irregular ARNavs, secret government projects, dangerous rivals, like Metal Sonic and Mephiles, or Dr. Eggman taking advantage of the advanced AR technology present in this universe to expand the Eggman Empire, there is nothing that will stop Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Silver, Shadow and their friends from taking on the challenge and protecting those they care about.

Chapters

Entry 0: Ready, Set, GO!

Entry 1: Team Up

Entry 2: Showdown At Eden

Entry 3: The Awakening

Entry 4: Project Shadow

Entry 5: The Looming Shadow

Entry 6: Chaos Surge

Entry 7: Countdown To Destruction

Entry 8: The Illusion Of Hope

Entry 9: Live and Learn

Entry 10: His World

Entry 11: Believe In Myself

Entry 12: Unknown From M.E.

Entry 13: My Sweet Passion

Entry 14: Dreams of an Absolution

Entry 15: I Am... All Of Me

Entry 16: What I’m Made Of

Entry 17: The Challenge

Entry 18: Escape From The City

Entry 19: Enter The E.G.G.M.A.N.

Entry 20: Catch Me If You Can

Entry 21: Sonic Speed Riders

Entry 22: The Treasure Hunter

Entry 23: Stop & Rewind

Entry 24: Artificial Life

Entry 25: For Your Sake

Entry 26: The Chosen One

Entry 27: Never Turn Back

Entry 28: The Kitsune’s Deception

Entry 29: Amy’s Cursed Day

Entry 30: The Chaotix Detective Agency

Entry 31: The Starfall

Entry 32: The Tricore

Entry 33: The Blazing Guardian

Entry 34: Green Hill Zone

Entry 35: Speeding Through Stardust

Entry 36: A Twinkle of Chaos

Entry 37: Breaking The Fields

Entry 38: Operation ARMS (Part 1)

Entry 39: Operation ARMS (Part 2)

Entry 40: The Spy and The Network

Entry 41: The Irregular Hunt

Entry 42: Mission: Omega

Entry 43: Team Dark

Entry 44: When The Shadow Calls

Entry 45: I Will Fight Like I Always Have

Entry 46: This Machine

Entry 47: The Lost Rabbit

Entry 48: The Seven Mysteries of Nagatsuki Academy

Sonic Cyber Revolution: Night of The Werehog

Sonic is not feeling well. He had been vanishing night after night, returning home the next morning with no memories. To make things worse, there are reports of a strange beast roaming through Neos City, attacking people. As the full moon rises, Sonic and his friends need solve the mystery behind the attacks before they succumb to the beast's bloodthirst.

Entry 0: Night of The Werehog

Sonic Cyber Revolution: Christmas Truce

It is Christmas time in Neos City, and Sonic and his friends have decided to join the festivities, each in their own way. Unfortunately for them, Dr. Eggman has decided that this would be the perfect opportunity to launch an attack and ruin their Christmas spirit.

Entry 0: Christmas Truce

Sonic Cyber Revolution: A Roller-Coaster Date

After learning about the opening of an amusement park in the neighboring Mikado City, Sonic decides to invite Shadow on a date. All is fun and games, until an alert is issued about the amusement park being under siege by a terrorist. Refusing to let anyone get hurt, it is now up to Sonic and Shadow to solve the puzzle their foe left for them.

Entry 0: A Roller-Coaster Date

Sonic Cyber Revolution Analyzer

The Story, Lore & Characters

The Metal Irregular Arc

The Ultimate Life Form Arc (Part 1)

The Ultimate Life Form Arc (Part 2)

The Ultimate Life Form Arc (Part 3)

The Memories of The Past Arc (Part 1) - Sonic the Hedgehog & Lucas Kinomoto

The Memories of The Past Arc (Part 2) - Miles “Tails” Prower & Warren Taylor

The Memories of The Past Arc (Part 3) - Knuckles the Echidna & Lily Crystle

The Memories of The Past Arc (Part 4) - Amy Rose & Minami Kusakabe

The Memories of The Past Arc (Part 5) - Silver the Hedgehog & Makoto Ryle

The Memories of The Past Arc (Part 6) - Shadow the Hedgehog & Touka Kageura

The Memories of The Past Arc (Part 7) - Metal Sonic & Ferra Ahearn

The Enter The E.G.G.M.A.N. Arc - Dr. Ivo “Eggman” Robotnik

The Babylon Rogues Arc - The Babylon Rogues

The Final Haunt Arc (Part 1) - Rouge the Bat

The Final Haunt Arc (Part 2) - Mephiles the Dark & Toshiro Miwa

The Starfall Arc - The Chaotix Detective Agency

The Green Hill Zone Arc (Part 1) - Dr. Starline

The Green Hill Zone Arc (Part 2) - Blaze the Cat & Sana Jai

The Team Dark Arc - E-123 Omega

The Chaos Rising Arc - Cream the Rabbit & Cheese the Chao

The Neo Genesis Arc - Neo Metal Sonic

The Impostor Syndrome Arc - Surge the Tenrec & Kitsunami “Kit” the Fennec

The Black Arms Arc - Eclipse the Darkling

Sonadow Moments in Sonic Cyber Revolution (The Ultimate Lifeform Arc)

Sonadow Moments in Sonic Cyber Revolution (The Memories of The Past Arc)

Sonadow Moments in Sonic Cyber Revolution (The Enter The E.G.G.M.A.N. Arc & The Babylon Rogues Arc)

Sonadow Moments in Sonic Cyber Revolution (The Final Haunt Arc)

Vandalize My Heart

Sonic knew that he shouldn't be feeling like this. They were rivals most of the time, but that didn't mean that they weren't friends when the occasion called for it. It was just their dynamic and he was fine with it. This was how things always were. So, why was he feeling like someone stabbed him in the chest when Shadow accepted that proposal?

Entry 0: Sound The Alarm

Entry 1: Leave Your Mark

Entry 2: Vandalize My Heart

Shatter Me

After the events of the Shatterverse, Sonic finds himself reminiscing of what had happened, especially when it comes to his interactions with Shadow. Even though the two returned to their normal routine of racing and fighting with each other, something has changed in their relationship.

Entry 0: Fight Together

Entry 1: Ambivalent

Entry 2: The Reason I’m Here

Entry 3: Vandalize My Heart

Entry 4: LOVE or HATE?

Entry 5: Shatter Me - Sonic X Shadow Generations

Sonic The Hedgehog Analyzer

Sonic the Hedgehog Analyzer is a compilation of my personal analysis of the Sonic the Hedgehog IDW comic regarding the story, characters and whatever else catches my interest.

Sonic Forces

Sonic Forces: Moment of Truth

Sonic Forces: Stress Test

Sonic Forces: Looming Shadow

Sonic Forces: Rise of Infinite

The Fallout Arc

Issue #1: Fallout (Part 1)

Issue #2: Fallout (Part 2)

Issue #3: Fallout (Part 3)

Issue #4: Fallout (Part 4)

The Fate of Dr. Eggman Arc

Issue #5: The Fate of Dr. Eggman (Part 1)

Issue #6: The Fate of Dr. Eggman (Part 2)

Issue #7: Meet the New Boss

Issue #8: Silent Support

The Battle For Angel Island Arc

Issue #9: The Battle for Angel Island (Part 1)

Issue #10: The Battle for Angel Island (Part 2)

Issue #11: The Battle for Angel Island (Part 3)

Issue #12: The Cost of the Battle for Angel Island

Sonic the Hedgehog Annual 2019

The Infection Arc

Issue #13: Calling Card

Issue #14: Misdirection

Issue #15: Patient Zero

Issue #16: Infection

Sonic the Hedgehog: Tangle & Whisper (Miniseries)

Issue #1: Imposter

Issue #2: Ambush

Issue #3: Betrayal

Issue #4: Showdown

The Crisis City Arc

Issue #17: Plague

Issue #18: Victims

Issue #19: Crisis City (Part 1)

Issue #20: Crisis City (Part 2)

The Last Minute Arc

Issue #21: The Last Minute (Part 1)

Issue #22: The Last Minute (Part 2)

Issue #23: The Last Minute (Part 3)

Issue #24: The Last One Out

Sonic the Hedgehog Annual 2020

The All or Nothing Arc

Issue #25: A Sudden Shift

Issue #26: All or Nothing (Part 1)

Issue #27: All or Nothing (Part 2)

Issue #28: All or Nothing (Part 3)

Issue #29: All or Nothing (Part 4)

The Out of the Blue Arc

Issue #30: Cured

Issue #31: Recovery (Part 1)

Issue #32: Recovery (Part 2)

Sonic the Hedgehog: Bad Guys (Miniseries)

Issue #1: A Few Bad Men

Issue #2: Smash & Grab

Issue #3: Trust Issues

Issue #4: No Honor Among Thieves

The Chao Races and Badnik Bases Arc

Issue #33: Chao Races and Badnik Bases (Part 1)

Issue #34: Chao Races and Badnik Bases (Part 2)

Issue #35: Chao Races and Badnik Bases (Part 3)

Issue #36: Chao Races and Badnik Bases (Part 4)

The Test Run! Arc

Issue #37: Test Run (Part 1)

Issue #38: Test Run (Part 2)

Issue #39: Test Run (Part 3)

Issue #40: Test Run (Part 4)

The Zeti Hunt! Arc

Issue #41: Zeti Hunt (Part 1)

Issue #42: Zeti Hunt (Part 2)

Issue #43: Zeti Hunt (Part 3)

Issue #44: Zeti Hunt (Part 4)

The Trial by Fire Arc

Issue #45: Trial by Fire (Part 1)

Issue #46: Trial by Fire (Part 2)

Issue #47: Trial by Fire (Part 3)

Issue #48: Hit the Pavement

Issue #49: Wound Up

Sonic the Hedgehog - Free Comic Book Day 2022

Sonic the Hedgehog: Imposter Syndrome (Miniseries)

Issue #1: Imposter Syndrome (Part 1)

Issue #2: Imposter Syndrome (Part 2)

Issue #3: Imposter Syndrome (Part 3)

Issue #4: Imposter Syndrome (Part 4)

The Battle for the Empire Arc

Issue #50: Battle for the Empire

Issue #51: Escaping the Empire

Sonic the Hedgehog Annual 2022

The Overpowered Arc

Issue #52: Overpowered (Part 1)

Issue #53: Overpowered (Part 2)

Issue #54: Overpowered (Part 3)

Issue #55: Overpowered (Part 4)

Issue #56: Overpowered (Part 5)

Sonic the Hedgehog: Scrapnik Island (Miniseries)

Issue #1: Scrapnik Island (Part 1)

Issue #2: Scrapnik Island (Part 2)

Issue #3: Scrapnik Island (Part 3)

Issue #4: Scrapnik Island (Part 4)

The Urban Warfare Arc

Issue #57: Urban Warfare (Part 1)

Issue #58: Urban Warfare (Part 2)

Issue #59: Urban Warfare (Part 3)

Issue #60: Urban Warfare (Part 4)

Issue #61: Urban Warfare (Part 5)

Sonic the Hedgehog 5th Anniversary Edition

The Misadventures Arc

Issue #62: Misadventures (Part 1)

Issue #63: Misadventures (Part 2)

Issue #64: Misadventures (Part 3)

Issue #65: Misadventures (Part 4)

Issue #66: Misadventures (Part 5)

Issue #67: Second Chances

Issue #68: The Protector

900th Adventure

Endless Summer

A Very Chaotix Halloween

Winter Jam

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Prime, Character Analysis)

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Prime, Character Analysis - Part 1)

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Prime, Character Analysis - Part 2)

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Prime, Character Analysis - Part 3)

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Prime, Character Analysis - Part 4)

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Prime, Character Analysis - Part 5)

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Prime, Character Analysis - Part 6)

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Prime, Character Analysis - Part 7)

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Prime, Character Analysis - Part 8)

Shadow the Hedgehog (Sonic Prime, Character Analysis - Final Conclusion)

Misc. Analyzer

Vandalize - Sonadow Prime

Shattered Memories (Sonic Prime)

Sonic Boom Shatterverse (Sonic Prime/Sonic Boom)

Sonic Prime (Thoughts)

Sonic Prime (Timeline Placement)

Sonic Prime (My Interpretation of The Ending)

Locke’s Mistreatment of Shadow & The Shadow Android Theory

King Shadow (The Altered Future & The Altered Character)

King Shadow (The Alternate Story)

Isekai'd As My Past Self (Sonic the Hedgehog AU Story)

The Sonic Adventure (Story Concept)

Not So Different (Sonic and Shadow’s Interactions With Metal Sonic)

Our Last Meeting (Sonic & Shadow... & Knuckles)

The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog (My Thoughts)

Knuckles (My Thoughts)

#Sonic Cyber Revolution #Sonic the Hedgehog Analyzer #Sonic Cyber Revolution: Night of The Werehog #Vandalize My Heart #Sonic Cyber Revolution Analyzer #sonic the hedgehog #miles tails prower #knuckles the echidna #amy rose #silver the hedgehog #shadow the hedgehog #metal sonic #mephiles the dark #dr eggman #dr starline #sonic idw #Sonic Cyber Revolution: Christmas Truce #sonadow

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theovergrowth · 5 months

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Titus Eras

(( this is mainly for thread and plotting purposes, I want to make it easier to interact with Titus throughout his life, ykno? Since I really don’t have one specific version of him in my head all the time. So I figured I’d just lay out all the options, along with each individual eras Playlist linked in the titles! ))

Titus has changed quite a bit throughout his life, certain aspects of his personality ebbing and flowing in how major or minor to how he interacts with the world around him.

Overgrown

(Ages ??-12)

Titus’ childhood, forever colored with golden sunlight, evergreen trees, vast and light blue skies against the mountain range, and later the blood of what he thought were his enemies staining his skin.

It’s human Titus living on the commune, with The Sons, with his father, hidden away from the rest of society within the sprawling mountains of Colorado.

He’s a kind and curious kid, if a bit sheltered and lonely. That rebellious spirit is alive in him however, often sending him past the boundaries of “What is Safe” set by his guardians. He believes in what his people tell him, being far more trusting here than he will be later.

(Or, if it’s a bit later in this era, it’s newly-fae Titus attempting to guide his people as The Overgrowth, tearing through people who happen to come near like a wood chipper through a misplaced hand, fueled by grief and eldritch fury after the murder of his father)

(Re)Integrate

(Ages 13-16)

Titus’ teenage years, brought to the outside world through his defeat as The Overgrowth, separated from his Brothers by people who truly only want what is best for him.

One of these people is his foster father, Gregor Daniels, who he lives with in the small mountain town of Pironbury.

He’s really embracing the rebellious side of himself now, fueled by anger, fear, and frustration both at what had already happened in his past that he couldn’t change and at what was happening now in the present that he couldn’t control.

His identity issues come forward more, as does his fear of trusting and abandonment issues, but there’s less of a fear aspect as there will be later on. This version of Titus believes that the problems facing him are innumerable, but he can get through it with viciousness and grit. Deep down though, he’s still a good kid. It’s a coming of age.

Runaway

(Ages 17-23)

The version of Titus I’ve talked the most on!

After a particularly horrible realization involving The Sons finding Titus in Pironbury, Titus abandons, taking a beat up car (which he later replaces with his van) and hitting the road, constantly on the run from his former Brothers.

Paranoia, guardedness, overwhelming fear and anxiety, pressure, constant movement, and just the crushing isolation of a life without roots are deeply ingrained factors for this period. Titus has learned that Fight doesn’t help him, so Flight kicks in.

But there’s some things that stick with him, even getting strengthened in his mind as this time goes on. Helping others is a big thing for him, as he starts to see more of the world for what it is. Partly, he does it to atone for his actions in his youth. The other part knows he would want help too, knows he’s desperate for it, even if he typically refuses it out of reawakened over-politeness.

Curiousity stays too, sending him on countless adventures as he tries to escape the endless pursuit of The Sons. He meets people, even sometimes chooses to let himself stop and talk to them, but he never allows himself to make friends. He remembers what he did to the last few before he left Pironbury.

He’ll always leave without a real goodbye.

Restart

(Ages 24-early/mid 30’s)

This is Titus when he has learned that Flight only works for so long. He was too tired, and the past just kept coming back.

Technically, Macrides coming back from death and Titus becoming The Overgrowth happen before this era. This period starts when Titus wakes up in a house in Missouri, The Overgrowth is asleep once more, and he cuts all of his hair off.

Love, growth, change, and reflection are all big factors for this period.

The early portion period allows Titus to be a semi-normal 20-something year old dude. He’s still on the road (his friends have a true crime/paranormal podcast they do on-site research for) but he feels a little more stable and free than he did. It’s a process, but he’s learning to be comfortable again.

He’s still very anxious, maybe still a bit paranoid and cagey with details at times, but he tries hard to trust and be more open. He’s seen enough now to know that there are enough good people out there to balance the bad. It’s just about deciding what he wants to be in that equation.

He wants to be better. He wants to change.

But, the past will keep coming back. This time, in a way he’s not quite ready for; the rest of Titus’ archfae ancestors, Macrides’ family, call him to his duties in the Fae Realm as The King of The High Desert.

The Deserts of the Fae Realm are a strange place, whether High or Low. His family, in the High Deserts, live a lifestyle somewhere near royalty in a fantasy novel, while the people of the Low Desert looked more… apocalyptic. And yet, both groups had a strong similarity to something straight out of a spaghetti western.

(This later part would be a bit harder to plot with just because it’s in the fae realm, but Macrides fell into an oasis and ended up in the Mortal Realm we can figure it out if we want to write Silly and/or Terrifying Fae Realm Adventures)

#(( this is part of construction lmao ))#( about. )#( eras. )

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charlotteswebbbbb · 7 months

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What's the vibe? #37

News:

Rishi Sunak has decided to push back on the UK's net zero commitments. What does it mean for us?

Side read: What Rishi Sunak’s net zero overhaul means for UK emissions (FT)

Net Zero: "Put simply, net zero refers to the balance between the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) that's produced and the amount that's removed from the atmosphere. It can be achieved through a combination of emission reduction and emission removal." -National Grid

Probably the most relevant policy change to a young person is the end of the sale of diesel and petrol cars from 2030 to 2035. I guess this helps the car makers but we also must think about clean air, and resources (oil) still needed to be used.

I wasn't certain before but between this, HS2 not being fully developed for the whole country and abolishing inheritance tax, we might see the end of the 13 year Tory party rule in 10 Downing Street. It's just not going well with Tory donors who have been with the party for years. It's very obvious now that climate change is a topic that is seen as unavoidable across party lines so pushing back targets is really unpopular.

Young people ditching ambitions over UK cost of living crisis, research finds - The Guardian

"Two-thirds of the 18- to 24-year-olds who were questioned for the research have lowered their career expectations, with the cost of living, the state of the UK economy and their own mental health named as the biggest factors.

The research, based on interviews with 2,500 young people, was carried out for the Prince’s Trust with the LadBible Group, with a consumer youth panel consisting of over 55,000 Gen Zs, born between 1997 and 2012, and millennials, born between 1981 and 1996."

How can we inspire young people in this country to see optimistically? How can we create places where we get together and do healthy (maybe non alcohol related) activities? Where they can focus if they want to, lose themselves in something artistic if they want to or just be spiritually replenished by environments they choose to be in.

London Design Festival just finished, saw this amazing AI work by moooi x EveryHuman. An interview also with I think the same company?

Milan Fashion Week:

Prada:

Sunnei - quite an interesting show. Again following the trend of audience participation during Milan Fashion Week alongside Diesel. Also connected to the trend of maybe main character energy??? Not very clear on how to describe this but also connected to a post on twitter going viral about actors and how they look during Cannes press junkets with their names and microphones and also the new B*lenciaga campaign with sunglasses.

B*lenciaga campaign:

New York was very clothes to be seen in...maybe passive even, this feels a little more power charged, you are being perceived at every angle but that's okay, you look great.

Bottega:

New Albums:

Doja Cat, Loraine James, Laurel Halo, Yeule, Eartheater, Kylie Minogue....

youtube

Beauty:

Business of the week:

EatWasted - A Copenhagen based company making pasta from bread waste. They also do "supper clubs"/food events, with the cooked pasta where people are asked to BYOB (bring your own bowl) to reduce waste and donate food to people in need. Each bowl is 99kr (=£11).

Reading List:

Dazed Magazine, Issue 281, Volume V, Autumn 2023

China's Gen Z Is Trying to Leisure-Shop Way Out of Jobless Blues (Bloomberg)

"Recent college graduate Yang Zhifeng, 22, became discouraged and decided not to hunt for a full-time job after seeing hundreds of applicants applying for just one white-collar position. Despite her newly inked degree, she settled for work as a part-time receptionist at a Shanghai hostel catering to job seekers, for only 1,000 yuan ($137) a month.

Regardless, Yang said she still allocates money to visit local tourism spots, attend comic conventions and try hot new restaurants with her friends.

“When the job market is that bad, why are we struggling and giving ourselves a hard time?” she said. “This is a good time to rethink what lifestyle fits us better and makes us happier.”

#real

Should concerts start earlier? (Dirt)

Does sex still sell in fashion?: At Milan Fashion Week, designers were desperate to make this sexy thing happen. - by Rachel Tashjian (WaPo)

youtube

#what's the vibe #vibe #parsed

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survivalistghost · 1 year

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so i just finished watching guardian - the lonely and great god, and i have to say, never thought any drama would match our beloved summer, but here we are.

WHAT could be better than gong yoo and lee dong wook fighting with telekinesis?

i. one issue i noticed a lot of people had when i read the reviews — the age gap. yes, i completely agree, it was weird to see a thirty-something man fall in love with a girl who kept acting like a 13 y/o, but at the same time, it's mentioned quite clearly that she's 19/20. it's hardly ever a problem that is faced by people who ship vampires and humans (cough delena stelena cough).

ii. mild solace for those who were severely creeped out tho — in the last few episodes, there's a time jump of 9 years, and they get properly married. (eun-tak without kim shin was totally geet in manali era)

iii. gong yoo's acting? chef's kiss. but that's to be expected of a great actor. watching guardian prompted me to watch his slap scene in squid games again, so good. when he smiled, i felt wiggly inside.

iv. nothing nothing nothing will ever beat the bromance of grim reaper and goblin. their telekenisis knife fights? shin immediately taking out a sword when reaper offers a hug? banging the table to throw salt and pepper around? chaotic man children and i loved them.

v. sue me, but i loved the second lead couple as much as the main couple. i didn't love them very extravagantly, mainly because i was constantly annoyed with sunny's attitude initially, but that grew to be so awesome. loved her for making the healthy choice when she left, broke my heart for yeo, but loved her still.

vi. a separate point for deok hwa in his almighty era you go bitch he looked so hot in that bar scene

anyway, that was it for this one, im watching legend of the blue sea, boys over flowers, tale of the nine tailed right now. whichever i finish first, I'll be sure to post! recommend some other ones you like, and I'll share my watchlist as well

9/10

#kdrama #korean drama #lee dong wook #gong yoo #guardian the lonely and great god #goblin #review #show review #eun tak #deok hwa #kim sun #kim shin #netflix #forgot to add the main couple in there #loved you as well my man child and geet in all eras #also grim reaper is much hotter as lee yeon i SAID WHAT I SAID

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asksavel · 1 year

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The Story

( PLEASE open me in a mobile browser, not tumblr’s app.)

Forward to part 7

Summary:

AskSavel follows the journey of Savel, a ghost of the Ghastly line that began her life as a mysterious burst of blue light. Through her journey thus far, she has gathered a few friends, those drawn to her light, and one who is a direct counterpart to it. Together, they are on a journey to find the ones known as the Incarnates.

There was always something to be said about the mysteries left untold in the mortal world. This blog will flow through the world, on a journey to the ends of the Earth, and back again.

Will you follow them?

What is an Incarnate - a helpful guide (best read after part 4)

View all story posts in Chronological order HERE!

Part One: Savel

Saying hello An unknown place First time meeting a Gengar Not a native. Savel knows Transform | How they learned it. Teacher First Life Farrow and Lucky Lucky is a doctor. The Forgotten Forest. Disrespect | Hormones | Reveal The Fairy life chose him Savel’s arrival Something lurking ahead… | A warning Dark Singers | Dark Dance | L Light Dance Blue light

Part Two: Song

Lucky’s Power Transfer Savel’s discovery Great Distance Time to go Named by a Nurse Plea to a God | Healing the eye Always known the song Target aquired How Farrow met Savel It’s almost time… The Light and the Dark | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Joining the group Abilities Evolution Issues The return of Teacher Incarnates.

Part 3: Sinnoh

Until the morning comes Sinnoh The team comes together ‘You could say I evolved.’ Lucky’s powers The Sinjoh Ruins Giratina ‘You’re just mortals.’ Farrow’s secret power The aftermath | Part two Down for the Night | Part two | Part 3 Regret Voices Mist and Shadow The Alolan Incarnates on the move Soul Search Finding the red light Incarnate of Love Releasing the Red Light | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Lucky’s Choice

Part 4: Strike

You Hoenn Secrets of Evolution | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 Sick Irony Jagged Pass Grudge Wanted Dead Morals Bad Parents Long overdue hug Pitstop He was beside you all along. Wake up time Levas’s Name Air Drop Lucky’s Quest Evacuate Battle Cry

Part 5: Soar

Part 6 - Soul

Forward to part 7

#ooc #the story

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addude · 2 years

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SCP Biblical First Family

Got bored so gonna post up some ideas I have for biblical first family in the SCP. I intend to add these as SCPs later but gotta write them so that will take time Anyway…

*Adam had three wives, Lilith the first, Eve the third.

* The wives nor the children speak of the second. They will not speak her name, they will not describe her. They will at most acknowledge her as the second wife or simply as her. They aren’t sure if she is alive or dead.

* Lilith didn’t want to have children, though called their mother she never actually gave birth to any of the kids.

*Adam insisted that his children all consider his three wives as their mothers equally.

* The children in order of birth Qayin (Cain) and his twin sister Luluwa (Lulu), Hevel (Able), Awan (Ava), Atzurah (Azura), Set (Seth.)

* Neither Cain nor Able are aware their other siblings have survived to the modern days. Seth is aware that two of his sisters are alive but never speaks to about them to the Foundation so they won’t be contained. He sees no need as they bring no attention to themselves and are no real threat.

* Lulu has some serious issues against Lilith. She adored Lilith like her real mother but as the oldest she remembers when Lilith left not only their father but her. To make things worse, she knows her father essentially named her after Lilith. Luluwa just being a derivation of Lilith.

* Eve did eat fruit from tree of wisdom and the tree of eternal life. Now she has knowledge she shouldn’t reasonably know and simply can’t die. She has mostly spent her time trying to protect humanity from anomalous even before she got involved with the foundation.

* Eve is not a fan of traveling over water. If you were drowning for 40 days over and over again you wouldn’t be a fan either.

* No member of the family will ever willing face the Gate Guardian. The picture would give many nightmares. Coincidentally if anyone plays SCP-2137 near them it will begin to speak Sumerian and has caused Eve to have a panic attack.

* Ava is one if not the first magic users, she’s continued to practice and honed her skills over the centuries. A lot of modern thaumaturgy is based on her discoveries and teachings.

* Ava looked up to her brother Cain, seeing him as someone she could relate to someone she could connect intellectually with. It broke her heart when she heard about what happened with Able.

* Ava still loves her father but she fears him. She knows what he became and has actually worked on a spell that might be able to stop him. She is not eager to test it.

* They all miss Azura, one day when they were children she went missing. No one found a body or found out what happened. Even centuries later it haunts them, they never got closure.

* Lulu knows the origin of Cain’s arms.

*Azura has dark blue eyes, to the point of having them look purple, she says the same thing as Elizabeth Taylor. She has black and white hair, she claims its Marie Antoinette syndrome thing. No one is sure if she knows what that is.

*Azura has a close relationship to the Wondertainments. She calls Isabel Izzy and Reginald Reggie, and sometimes by his real name. Isabel calls her Wow. Their relationship complicated. Azura did pick the name Isabel.

* Ava in the modern era has actually earned multiple doctorates, thought she will admit the history ones are kind of cheat since she lived through history.

* Lulu is a charming and playful young woman. It would be possible to confuse this with some anomalous ability, but she just someone who knows how people work and what to say to get the right reactions.

*Eve takes special measures to try and protect anomalous children. But in the end she is only one vote of 13.

*Eve actually checks in on SCP-53 regularly, as her anomaly doesn’t affect her being a reality anchor. The council knows this and allow it as they would rather have 53 forming a bond with Eve instead of being solely influence by 682.

* Lulu knew Thomas Edison and Helena Blavatsky and together were involved with his spirit phone invention.

* Ava looks down on the Serpent Hand. While she understands their good intentions she believes that world finding out about the anomalous would be disastrous. She also avoids the library, as she’d rather craft spells on her own and just wants to avoid alternate universe stuff.

* Azura actually ends up meeting up with her grandma fairly regularly.

*Eve has fallen in love a number of times. She's married, men and women, and occasionally raised families. It hurts her when they die. She remembers each and every one.

*Eve and Lord Blackwood were a thing, neither getting too serious because they had their own responsibilities and lives to live. Though if they ever stop to talk about it, they would consider slowing down even for a bit.

*Adam might have more children.

#SCP #SCP Foundation #SCP 073 #SCP 076 #SPC EVE #SCP 336

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zimandturtles · 11 months

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Random Head cannons for my Bois:

Enid💚✨, Navy💙🗡️, and Aries❤️🐺

💚💙❤️💚💙❤️💚💙❤️💚💙❤️💚💙❤️💚💙❤️💚

Staring with the Wizard Eternity 🪄

Enid is great at cooking for no reason, but chooses to make "Traditional Foods" that to people with no culture tastes terrible...

Enid received his palisman when he was 13 years old after battling his father the leader of his people

Enid is technically Royalty among those who believe in his people...

Enid's people are known as "The Seekers", "Old Witches", "The Forgotten", and many other names...

Enid is scared of clowns don't ask why...🤡

Enid is a Grandma at heart and a Wine Aunt in spirit...

Enid's favorite song is "Owl in a Cage" by VizziPop and Co. for Hellova Boss because he knows what it's like to feel trapped and alone in a role you didn't want to play...

Enid is usually very patient with people, but when it comes to Guardians who failed to save those around them either out of incompetence or ignorance to the problem, he won't hesitate to back hand them to the void and back

Enid could take Error and Ink in a fight and win...

Enid studies multiple forms of magic and martial arts such as: Wicca, Elemental, conjuring, and spell circles. Ninjutsu, capoeira, Tai chi.

Enid can dance Ballet, Waltz, and most Erotic dances and will incorporate it into how he fights...

Enid enjoys most "old people" activities like Knitting, Shuffleboard, Chess, and Crosswords...

💙💚❤️💙💚❤️💙💚❤️💙💚❤️💙💚❤️💙💚❤️💙

Next up War Extrimest and Legend Navy💙🗡️🛡️

Navy can't cook for shit, when he became a soldier he stopped cooking and since has lost his taste buds and everything tastes the same to him...

Navy is religious... specialty he's Catholic...

Navy has a massive Clydesdale Horse, her name is Black Comet after a birth mard on her flanks that looks like a comet falling through the sky. She is bigger than the average Clydesdale by 3 inches, is black and white birth marks being white and has the personality of Becky Apples from CentaurWorld...

Navy carries a war hammer he named: Justice. And a Sword Breaker named: Executioner...

Navy hates humans at the best of times, but can come to respect them with time and patience on the humans end...

Navy's favorite song is "Meet Me On The Battle Field"

Navy speaks fluently in Russian, Mandrin Chinese, and Spanish...

Navy has the highest body count out of all the other Blues...

Navy tends to alienate himself from the other Blues by making them fear him, he has trust issues and other "himself" remind him of his past mistakes...

Navy has major PTSD and heckoraphobia, the fear of failure...

Navy watched his own brother kill himself and felt nothing. "He was a traitor...traitors receive no pitty..."...

💙💚❤️💙💚❤️💙💚❤️💙💚❤️💙💚❤️💙💚❤️💙

Finally Big Boi Puppurs Aires❤️🐺🖤

Aries mixes Dog Food in with his people food, it keeps his teeth clean, his coat full and thick, stomach easy, and adds in more protein to his people foods...

Aries favorite song is Elvic Presley's "Can't Help Falling In Love With You" and has practiced playing it for Midoriya on an electric guitar...🎸

Aries can smell fear and other emotions...

Aries is prone to sensory overload and it gives him extreme headaches and nausea when exposed for too long...

Aries has no real control over his animal instincts and will bark at other dogs to assert dominance...

Aries has a Nordic Rune symbol of Bravery, Love, and Hope tattooed on his lower back, it shows on his fur with a special enzyme in the dye to make it show on skin and fur...

Aries will naturally call people Love, Darling, and Sweetheart as a part of his dialect

Aries when he was human was Black being Norse and South African in genetic origins

Aries is a mix of different Canines such as: Black Timber Wolf, Doberman Pinscher, Black Erasure, German Shepherd, and Tibetan Mastiff...

Aries has to be taken on walks and MUST be accompanied at all times during his walk, if not he will get lost and chase birds, butterflies, and cars...

Aries loves giving gifts but won't give them in person, often the gifts are dead birds and squirrels he caught on UA property...

Aries speaks fluent English, Japanese, Norwegian, and African...

💚❤️💙💚❤️💙💚❤️💙💚❤️💙💚❤️💙💚❤️💙💚

Okay that's all I got for now if you have any questions about the boys just ask! And send in your question to Ask Eternity here on my blog! I'm really good about answering things in a timely manner. Anyways bye!💜

Hold up for the current hommies @bowtiethewolf @skydreamplayzz and the rest of you freaks who like me for some reason 😃

#undertale au #undertale #au sans #eternity!sans #eternity sans #Aries #oc headcanons #bullshit #NavyBlue!Sans #NavyHasComittedSeveralWarCrimes #mha #norse mythology #fursona #emo boy #my hero academia #my original characters

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5, 9, 13, 15, 24, & 25 for the muse meme <3

5. which of your muses needs / wants a hug the most?

i want to say all of them like fsdhg there's a lot to unpack but i'll go with... sungjae, the resilient dream chaser who has faced rejection one too many times. not that he has it the worst but poor guy could really use a hug to lift his spirits rn. oh and hoo being the one who wants a hug just because...

9. which of your muses tends to be the group “mom friend”?

khao fits the bill perfectly for this one! ironic since he's the one muse with mommy issues sfhgs but he's a caring soul who can't help but nag and worry about everyone's well-being. isla is also a close runner-up in the mom friend department, she's always ready to protect and nurture her people.

13. which of your muses would you consider to be the best cook?

one might assume it's isla aka the master of pastries but.... ansel takes the crown here. being the oldest and guardian to his younger siblings, he had to learn to be independent including cooking for himself and his family so he's a whiz in the kitchen @_@ might not have a michelin star but he loves experimenting with food just as much as he loves creating art.

15. do any of your muses have trouble falling asleep / staying asleep?

blue is the champion of sleepless nights! insomnia is his sidekick, stealing all the sheep from their mental pasture. on the other hand, sora is the lightest sleeper ever. she'd jolt awake at the gentlest whisper or a sneeze five blocks away

24. which of your muses would be most likely to survive a zombie apocalypse?

in the face of an apocalypse, taksoo brings the physicality and mental fortitude to survive, while abel brings the brains that will always keep him one step ahead of danger. (fun fact no one asked for: when i first created taksoo he was meant to be in a post-apocalypse verse so this is perfect fsdjs)

25. which of your muses has / would have the silliest ringtone? what would it be?

i like to think daeul fell victim to a prank by one of his pain-in-the-ass clients (his words not mine) who believes he lacks a sense of humor. they sneakily changed his ringtone to this and the best part is... daeul is slightly tech-incompetent so he can't figure out how to change it back ;_; his phone continues to ring with that tone to this day, much to his bewilderment

#this was sooo fun to do thank you for sending them in! 🫶🏽#﹙ ❀ ， 𝒆𝒖𝒏𝒐𝒊𝒂𝒄 ... answered 。 ﹚#gam3bo1

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Recording how many words of fanfic I read per day (April 1)

Today: 294,001 words Yesterday: (40,171 words) Top this Month: 294,001 words

heh 50 fics on the dot

I read all of the one-shots in the hoard, and read a few of the 2-5 category. I’m starting out the month strong by reading over a quarter of a million words. Which means I could get over 2 million read by the end of next week

I am behind on asks though, I’ll get to them sometime I swear-

[Fics I read today under the cut]

Chapter 13 of Until I Reach You Again by Acornz, morning_sun, stormy_nyx Three Red Turtles by Magical_Persona my garden blooms (just for you) by intxicatedtears Just Don’t Let Go by aliennopossumm it stays there until you die by skittykitty May we be reunited by spiromachia I Feel You by GriffinStone Find Your Family by this ones for turtles (WisteriaParfait) a lesson in trust by katterv Those Sleepless Nights by Amaranthyn Mikey’s Cookbook by FightingGoldButCoda Consequence for Indifference by Professor_Anxietree Chapter 22 of The Last Ronin Becomes a Discord Admin by MelonPalooza sugar crash by VaguelyVibrant Hiraeth by MagpieCrown, SkylerSkyhigh Homing pigeon by pitterpatterpot they wanted heaven from me (i gave them hell) by spoopdeedoop Give me that thing that I love (I’ll turn the lights out) by clandestineClairvoyant Once a Jones, always a Jones by E_gant The Why of Things (Turtles All the Way Down Remix) by slipstream Call me up, when you need a shoulder to prop you up. by donnie (someguysnotes) To See Another Day by teainthesnow Empty Shells, Empty Soul by avengersasssemble Chapter 3 of death's confrontation by BluetoothCat Just A Man by H2Ready4U Ballet by Harper_Skelli Guardian by Harper_Skelli all that i am has led to here by catatonicatnap I'm not cold, the blue tint is natural! (But I am sorry.) by TheKawiiBear Brother-hen Instinct by pyritegirl (orphan_account) Caught a Bug by IBrokeThe4thWall A Soul with Two Faces by GreenGoddessSmoothie To Be Or Not To Be by GarbageCanFics243 What Makes a Family by KJDreamer Tea Time for Turtle by pickledcarrotsandradish nefarious Issue Number Two by bobtheacorn That Old, Duct-Taped Vista by Nyomio You Know I Love You by pickledcarrotsandradish Apocalypse Seers by Sam_The_Friendly_Ghost Family Webs AU by bex19974 colors of the rainbow by MikeWritesThings Ineffable Hiraeth by Leozi Lonely Leo Au by Wrenny_Fang_03 Chapter 17 of Hey, Donnie? For future reference? This is NOT how we manage things by BoStaffsAreCool (Heyifyouthinkofausernameletmeknow) For A Better Time by CartoonHostage Chapter 13 of Mystic Malfunction by VanillaVengeance Sr. Hueso, After Hours by obsessedwithstardust Chapter 11 of Last Grain Of Sand In The Hourglass by TjLockticon Chapter 22 of In the Bottom of the Bottle (I see your reflection) by BeeCeit The Stolen Warrior by EpicE02

#word counting #the suffering begins #*mad cackling*#where's that one meme #Could a depressed person make this?#I'm perfectly sane ok

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NCIS: Los Angeles Season 13 Rewatch: “Under the Influence”

The basics: The team is tasked with finding the daughter of an ambassador.

Written by: Anastasia Kousakis wrote "Hot Water" in season eight.

Directed by: John P. Kousakis directs his first season 13 episode. Kousakis directed "Imposters", "Sacrifice", "San Voir" part one, "The Fifth Man", "Parley", "Inelegant Heart", "Chernoff, K.", "Active Measures", "The Long Goodbye", "Talion", "Glasnost", "Unleashed", "Party Crashers", "This Is What We Do" (episode 200), "Goodbye Vietnam", "Ninguna Salida", "The Guardian", “High Society”, "A Tale of Two Igors", all of the Afghanistan scenes from "Iron Curtain Rising" to "Zero Days" in season five and all of Kensi’s injury/recovery storyline scenes from "The Queen’s Gambit" to "Sirens" in season eight.

Guest stars of note: Briana Marin as NCIS Supervisory Special Agent Aliyah de León is back from “A Land of Wolves”. Caitlin Carmichael as Gia Michelle, Louie Enriquez as Curtis Jenkins/Recycling Man, Patricia Rae as Anna Jenkins, Nick Marini as Jaxon King/Supreme King Daddy J, L'lerrét Jazelle as Angel Soars/Sharon Cunningham, Deji Laray as Alan Bristol, Mikie Beatty as Joey and Matthew Jayson Cwern as Leo the Paparazzo

Our heroes: Find a well-connected Influencer.

What important things did we learn about:

Callen: Wonders about parenting advice. Sam: Was told he had no controle so speak his truth and set a good example while being a parent. Kensi: Wonders why some boys aren’t raised to be decent to women. Deeks: Would do anything to protect their child. Fatima: Semi-recognized by a paparazzi. Rountree: Vacation. Kilbride: Understands Bitcoin.

What not so important things did we learn about:

Callen: Given a late intro to Aliyah. Sam: Not happy he’s lost his parking spot. Kensi: See Callen. Deeks: Influencer Party Marty. Fatima: Likes to drive. Rountree: Absent. Kilbride: Parking in Sam’s spot.

Where in the world is Henrietta Lange? Not a mention.

Who's down with OTP: Kensi and Deeks work out some parenting issues – kids with cell phones, expectations of male and female children – while working on the case.

Who's down with BrOTP: Callen and Sam are in fine form in this episode, joking about Sam’s car and speaking seriously about Sam’s mother.

Fashion review: Dark red and dark blue plaid button down shirt for Callen. Red long-sleeve tee for Sam. Black henley for Kensi. Blue-grey long-sleeve tee for Deeks. Fatima bravely wears a denim jacket with matching jeans – it works for her. The jacket is over a black turtleneck. Dark three-piece suit, white shirt and

Music: “Ladies” by RoRo plays in the teaser. “Won’t Be Misunderstood” by Huxley Ware, Ships plays when Kensi and Deeks are talking to Angel.

Any notable cut scene: Not today.

Quote: Deeks: “I can't stop thinking about what I would do to protect our daughter.” Kensi: “Right?” Deeks: “I mean, I was barely holding it together when you were in Mexico.” Kensi: “Well, if we have a kid, lucky enough to have one, they may not end up in a dangerous line of work.” Deeks: “Okay, but what if she does?” Kensi: “Then we would do the same thing we would do with a kid regardless of their gender.” Deeks: “All right, so, support her unconditionally. Teach her jujitsu, tactical training, maybe some sayoc.” Kensi: “Oh, geez.” Deeks: “What? I mean, look at Gia. Even if we raise a strong, confident, independent woman with an amazing skill set, she could still end up in danger.” Kensi: “I get it now. Why people pledge to do right by their daughters. I just wonder why we don't put that much thought into how we raise our sons.”

Honorable mention: Callen: “What's the best piece of advice you ever got on parenting?” Sam: “You have no real control. The best you can do is speak your truth, and set an example.” Callen: “That's good. I bet whoever told you that was a pretty good parent.” Sam: “She was the best, G. The best.”

Anything else: A young woman is in an area with some balloon arches and street art. With her phone, she’s recording herself posing around the balloons. When she finishes, the young woman walks up to her scooter. Seeing a passerby, she asks if he will take her picture and to make sure the logos for her helmet and scooter are in the photo. The passerby complies, taking several photos with the woman’s phone.

Looking at the photos, the woman is unhappy with how she looks wearing the helmet. Leaving the balloon arches behind, the young woman starts scootering down the street, talking to her “fam” on the phone. As she continues to promote the scooter to the “fam”, she runs into a homeless man’s shopping cart. This isn’t an accident. She’s knocked out as she falls into the cart. As the man walks away, he has tarps to cover what’s in the cart. The scooter is left on the street abandoned.

A very unhappy Sam is with Callen outside of the office. The Admiral’s classic pick-up truck is now parked where Sam usually leaves his car. Sam realizes he’s never getting that spot back. The Hellcat is now parked under some birds which is messing with Sam’s weekly detailing of the vehicle. Callen asks Sam to just tell Kilbride he wants the spot back. Sam insults the Admiral’s parking skills instead.

In his little locker off the bullpen, Sam is looking for his shampoo. Callen hates to break it to Sam but Sam isn’t in the mood for bald jokes. The shampoo is for his car. As Sam is about to clean his car, Fatima arrives. They have a case.

The young woman kidnapped that morning is Gia Michelle – “yes, the Gia Michelle,” Fatima tells Callen and Sam. Callen and Sam are unfamiliar with Gia’s oeuvre. Gia’s “Giaography’ feed has 15-million followers on Instagram, 40-million followers on TikTok. And none of them are Callen and Sam. Fatima envies Callen and Sam having other things on their brain than Gia.

Gia is a “mega-influncer”. A dancer turned influncer, she posts regularly on her social media accounts but was dormant in the last day. The concern is that Gia has been kidnapped so the team is being asked to investigate. Callen is skeptical – why is NCIS on this case. The Admiral arrives with his own opinions on social media and the empowerment of the selfie but NCIS is involved because Gia’s mother is Linda Burke, the US Ambassador to Lebanon. With the State Department’s security services spread thin in Los Angeles, the Secretary of State asked SECNAV for help. Foul play needs to be searched.

Showing Gia’s last video, Sam hears her crash in to the shopping cart. Fatima notes that Gia didn’t even post a video to say she wasn’t hurt. Her content is “pretty tidy” according to Fatima. With Gia’s cellphone turned off, they can’t track her. Kensi and Deeks are on their way to Gia’s house in Beverly Hills. That stops Callen – how much does someone like Gia make? Sam starts to chuckle. Fatima explains big money but the Admiral reminds Callen and Sam that there is no price on pride. Leaving Ops, Sam asks if Callen if his pride pays his rent. It doesn’t, Callen replies, but Callen is pretty sure Sam paid for the boat using his pride.

Kensi and Deeks walk up Gia Michelle’s house. It is a nice mansion in Beverly Hills with a pricy sports car (red) and SUV (black) in the driveway. Deeks can’t believe Gia made all this money doing dance videos. Kensi explains that Gia is a multi-hyphenate with acting roles, a beauty brand. She sells flat tummy tea which Deeks thinks sounds worse than a flat-earther. It is, Kensi tells him – the tea gives the drinker diarrhea.

Dancing himself, Deeks thinks he could be an influencer as Party Marty. Kensi doesn’t see a big audience for a white surfer dude who can’t do The Floss but he could find some thirst-traps. Looking at the Ferrari in Gia’s driveway, Deeks has some thirst.

A man pulls up in a bright green sportscar, asking if Kensi and Deeks are from “the agency”. They are, just not the one the driver thinks. Joey, the driver complete with his name on his uniform shirt, takes care of vehicles and was driving the green one around the block. Gia just lets them sit and that’s not a good thing for the cars. Asked if he knows where Gia is, he doesn’t. He hasn’t seen her in a while. Gia is not big on direct eye contact.

Deeks asks if Gia owns all the cars. She does not own any of them. In fact, she doesn’t have a drivers license. The cars are props, Gia takes some pictures with them and puts it on social media. If she doesn’t have a license, Kensi asks how does Gia get around. Gia has a driver – Alan. Deeks asks about Alan but Joey is worried that he’s in violation of his NDA. Giving Joey his card, Deeks says as a lawyer and an investigator, Joey isn’t going to get in trouble. Even if he wasn’t supposed to be driving the cars. Deeks goes with quid pro quo.

In Ops, Fatima is looking through Gia’s social media accounts when the Admiral arrives. Pushing through to ask for help, with Rountree on vacation and Gia being a prolific social media presence, she needs “another pair of eyes” according to the Admiral. Aliyah walks into Ops. Fatima has all the help she needs.

Offering a sitrep, Fatima tells Aliyah that Kensi and Deeks are bringing Gia’s driving to the boatshed. Aliyah looks at all the social media content on the big screen and thinks it takes a lot of time to do all that posting. Fatima’s tablet beeps – Gia’s phone is back online. On the big screen, a crying Gia looks roughed up. Talking to her “fam”, she’s asking, and this is not a joke, she has to raise $10 million in Bitcoin or she’ll be killed. “Please help me.”

Where Gia was grabbed, Callen and Sam are watching Gia’s hostage video. Callen wants to know how can they be sure it is not a hoax. Fatima tells him he’s not the first to think that – Fatima does not have an answer. She is trying to trace the feed. Sam heard Aliyah is there and Aliyah introduces herself to Callen (who missed the last episode). He’s happy to have her onboard.

Whoever put the video online knows what they are doing – it is being put through several programs to make tracing who has Gia impossible. Callen noted that Gia used the word “they” when talking about who kidnapped her. Sam says Gia could have been warned not to give up identifying clues. Callen and Sam are going to look for witnesses and surveillance cameras.

Gia’s driver Alan is exhausted when he walks into interrogation with Kensi and Deeks. He’s looking for some coffee, which he’ll get after he answers some questions. Questions like how long has Alan worked for Gia. The answer “two or three years” has Deeks asking about the 365 day different in the answers. Alan was Gia’s bodyguard for a few years before switching to being her fulltime driver. Kensi asks why Gia would need a bodyguard. Gia was involved in an internet beef with another influencer. The other influencer wasn’t the problem, it was the influencer’s fans that caused problems. “If she wears the wrong color lipstick, they tell her to die and go to hell.”

Asked about their relationship, Alan said he and Gia get along like “pancakes and syrup”. Kensi shows Alan his arrested record, which includes some domestic violence charges. Alan explains his ex-wife has mental health issues. Asking who they are supposed to believe, a yawning Alan tells Kensi and Deeks they should go with their gut. Kensi wants to know why Alan is so tired – where was he last night? He was driving for the carshare aps. Gia had to ride her scooter all day as part of the paid promotion. When he dropped her off in Hollywood, he was done for the day. Gia’s other bodyguard would have picked up at the end of the day but she gave him the night off.

Bring up the “celebrities are just like us” photos of stars eating fast food or getting coffee, Alan explains that sometimes even celebrities just want to be normal. “Even people like Gia.” Asked if he knew anyone with the skills and means to kidnap Gia, Alan does not but he’d like some coffee. Deeks points out that Alan doesn’t seem to like Gia. Alan tells Deeks that Gia would set her own dog on fire for followers. And no, he won’t be donating to the $10-million save Gia fund.

Callen tells Sam there is $150,000 in bitcoin to save Gia. He isn’t sure if Gia is in trouble or just troubled. Sam is worried about social media. It is hard to find your North Star when everyone is just photoshopping theirs in. Callen says that Aiden and Kam turned out alright but Sam thinks that’s only because they didn’t care about social media (don’t run down your parenting skills, Sam). Then again, there was no Arab Spring without social media. Callen wonders what Ambassador Burke thinks of the hostage note. If this is a hoax, that could damage the Ambassador’s career. As a father, Sam wouldn’t worry about his career, just his family. Callen asks what was the best parenting advice he ever got. Sam answers that he was told he had no real control but speak his truth and set a good example. Liking that statement, Callen says it likely came from a very good parent. “The best,” Sam tells him with a smile.

Walking back into the office, Kensi and Deeks are discussing giving a kid a phone. Deeks can’t see any reason for it. No social media, no internet trolls and no porn, which Deeks only knows is on the internet because other people have told him it is. Kensi talks about their possible 13-year old not being part of a class text chain because they don’t have a phone. Deeks thinks that’s a good thing. Kensi talks about their child needing their help – it would be better if they could call for a ride home than drive home drunk. Deeks snarks about phone first, then potty training. Kensi is serious – they can’t pretend the digital world does not exist. Deeks jokes about shoving Playboys under the mattress but an arriving Fatima notes home many trees have been saved now that porn is online. “So I’ve heard,” she adds quickly.

Fatima has an update – digital people are nasty. She’s put together a list of the trolls Gia has including the ones she blocked. “People are nasty,” she notes. Kensi and Deeks are going to put some names to the trolls.

In Ops, Aliyah explains to the Admiral about the way the kidnappers will get the Bitcoin. Right now it is untraceable. The Admiral can’t believe anything is untraceable to NCIS but right now it is. Reviewing Gia’s accounts, she has an ongoing feud going with another influencer, an Angels Soars aka Sharon Cunningham. Cunningham believes Gia stole content from her and that contact got Gia a lucrative endorsement deal. Aliyah also tells the Admiral that Cunningham uses they/them as their pronouns. The Admiral understands pronouns but wants to know how bad things are between Gia and Cunningham. It hasn’t gotten violent but it is still going on.

Aliyah’s tablet beeps – there is an alternate account raising money to pay Gia’s kidnappers to kill her. Both accounts – the one to save Gia and the one to kill her – are nearing $1 million with the one to save her just a few thousand dollars ahead. The Admiral asks what kind of person would contribute to the account to kill Gia and asks non-rhetorically. Aliyah explains it is an incel account and then explains what incels are to the Admiral. He is familiar with the term and is disgusted. “Smoke these cowards out of their digital cave.”

Yet another tablet beep – Fatima found a Jaxon King, one of Gia’s more prolific trolls. He was fired from five jobs in the last year. With a current address, Callen and Sam are on their way to King’s home.

The Admiral assigns Kensi and Deeks to follow Gia’s timeline in reverse – interview everyone Gia interacted with over the last day or so. Fatima found a new photograph of Gia taken by the paparazzi on the day she was kidnapped – the outfits matched. “Start searching the gutters for the paparazzi,” the Admiral suggests. He also wants them to speak to Angel Soars/Sharon Cunningham. Kensi is introduced to Aliyah and is grateful for all the work she did while Kensi was being rescued.

At King’s house, Callen and Sam find “a big pile of pizza grease.” The place is a disaster. Callen finds a laptop, that’s locked. Sam calls Aliyah to get the laptop unlocked and to start a Kaleidoscope search for King’s car. Jaxon King does not have a car.

Fatima interviews the paparazzi who is stalking an “A-lister who is pretending she’s not pregnant.” The photographer tells Fatima she looks familiar and Fatima quickly moves away from that. Asked if he regularly follows Gia, he doesn’t. Gia’s people contact him with a place and a time so he can shoot away. “Gia knows how to play the game.” The photographer is sure he knows Fatima. Fatima is sure he doesn’t. When the photographer agrees to show Fatima the photos he took of Gia the prior day, “for a price”, that price is Fatima getting the boot removed from the his car.

Updating the Ambassador, the Admiral hopes to have good news soon. Aliyah is combing through King’s laptop remotely when King returns home. He races out of the house with Callen and Sam chasing behind. The chase doesn’t take long. As King tries to get back on his bike to ride away, he’s hit by a car.

In interrogation, King makes it clear, he doesn’t have Gia. Callen reads some of King’s social media posts about Gia, posts that go back four years. King doesn’t care – all he’s done is trolled her, nothing more. She has thousands of haters. Callen asked why did King run. King said he walked into his house with two strangers inside, he thought was going to be robbed. Sam asks King if he’s sure there is nothing more to his trolling of Gia. King says there is nothing.

In their gym studio, Angel Sores/Sharon Cunningham is livestreaming their workout when Kensi and Deeks arrive. Sores won’t hurry up the end of their workout for Kensi and Deeks. When they’re done, Kensi and Deeks ask Soars about their relationship with Gia. They asks if someone like Soars are kidnapped, would NCIS be looking for them. Kensi assures Soars that the Feds would. Soars won’t talk to anyone until consulting a lawyer – then they will speak to Kensi and Deeks. Kensi explains it doesn’t go that way.

Deeks tells Soars it is in their best interest to cooperate but Soars walks away. When Kensi and Deeks try to follow, a foolish bodyguard puts his hands on Kensi to stop her. Deeks asks Kensi if she needs some help. She assures him she’s got it. And she does, making quick work of Soars’s security. Soars films Kensi’s work and is impressed. So impressed, they want to post it. Kensi tells Soars to talk to Kensi’s lawyer first. Soars becomes cooperative.

While there are some drug purchases and a lot of legal porn on King’s laptop, there isn’t much about Gia. There are connections to incel communities and there is one poster – “The Last Gentleman” – who not only frequents all the communities, he’s pushing for the kidnapping of celebrities like Gia Michelle. Aliyah is trying to track him down.

Callen and Sam ask King to spill about The Last Gentleman and they’ll skip over the drug transactions on his laptop. King says he doesn’t know The Last Gentleman, just admires him. The Last Gentleman has been rejected and dumped by a number of women. Callen and Sam are not impressed. Sam asks King if he knows was a real man does when a woman rejects him. King is all ears. “Absolutely nothing. He moves on.” King notes that Callen and Sam probably haven’t had the same dating woes he and his friends share – that’s why the incels have their communities to chat.

Saying The Last Gentleman is not his friend, Callen wants King to share his name. King doesn’t know the real name. Sam makes it clear that King is an accessory – they can use all the chats the two shared as evidence. King spills – Curtis Jenkins. Callen runs out of the room to give Aliyah the name while Sam stays with King. King says he never thought any of this mattered. Not the trolling, not his own voice.

Aliyah finds Curtis Jenkins, who more than fits the profile. With the paparazzi photos, Aliyah found Jenkins in one of the shots – he was following her. Aliyah is sending his home address to Kensi and Deeks.

At the Jenkins residence, Kensi and Deeks find his mom. She didn’t know he was not in the house until she checked and found his van gone. Kensi and Deeks asks if they can check his room. Since Curtis lives in the guest house, Mrs. Jenkins has to let him in.

Opening the guest house, she admits she’s not allowed in without permission. She’ll have to vacuum their footprints off the rug. The guesthouse is immaculate. Deeks asks if her son is out a lot during the day. Mrs. Jenkins says he’s going on interview and doing freelance work. “Your average semi-launched 20-something.” She tries to give her son his space – it keeps the peace. Curtis gets prickly sometimes. Kensi finds a note to Mrs. Jenkins in his son’s handwriting. Mrs. Jenkins falls apart reading the note – Curtis has Gia and the note was his goodbye.

While Kensi is talking to Mrs. Jenkins, Deeks finishes with Aliyah. The counter-campaign has far more money than the campaign to save her. Kensi asks Mrs. Jenkins if her son has any friends they can interview. Curtis didn’t have friends. After the death of his father, Curtis spent all his time online. Curtis and his father were close. They use to go to the family beach house all the time. Kensi and Deeks know where Curtis is keeping Gia.

Callen, Sam and Fatima are all racing their way to the beach house. Fatima is the closet. Fatima is the closest. The Admiral realizes the easiest way to stop all this is to take Curtis off the internet. At the beach house, Fatima shuts off the power. Curtis starts to freak out – there is no power and the cell service is bad. Gia mocks Curtis – he’s not going to make it to the grand finale. Curtis tells her people are paying a lot of money to see her die, he plans on giving them their money’s worth.

Running outside for better cell service, Curtis runs right into Callen, who has his weapon drawn. Curtis races back into the house to find Sam standing there and Gia gone. Curtis is surrounded by Callen and Sam. Curtis threatens to kill himself and hopes Gia thinks about him every day. Sam brings up Curtis's dad, who died hoping he did right by his son. Curtis drops the gun and Callen takes him down. Fatima has Gia in her car – she’s safe but not alright.

Walking back into the office, Kensi feels sorry for Mrs. Curtis. Deeks’s sympathy is more with the Ambassador. Deeks talks about how he was barely holding it together when Kensi was lost in Mexico, he couldn’t fathom being the Ambassador today. Kensi talks about them being lucky enough to be parents, they’ll teach their child to protect themselves. Deeks comes up with a list of training to keep their child safe. Gia was a strong, confident woman and look what happened to her. Kensi understands why people pledge to do right by their daughters. She just wonders why people don’t put that kind of thought into how they raise their sons.

Fatima is back in Ops, much to Aliyah’s surprise – she figured Fatima would have returned home. Fatima likes to drive – it clears her head. Also clearing her head is making sure everything is just as it should be in Ops before going home. Aliyah goes to leave. Fatima tells Aliyah she fits right in with the team. Aliyah offers to buy Fatima a drink. Fatima would prefer a coffee. Aliyah will make hers an Irish Coffee and the two are off.

On the near back dock in the boatshed, Callen and Sam wonder how long Gia will be offline. The Admiral arrives with the Ambassador’s sincere thanks. As he is leaving, the Admiral tells Sam his detailer is on his way to Sam’s place to clean up the Hellcat. He thanks Sam for letting him use the parking spot. Sam admits it isn’t technically his spot. The Admiral says if that’s true, he’s claiming it as his own. Callen just laughs.

What head canon can be formed from here: While I think we’ve gotten some of Sam’s father’s history before meeting him and I think we’ll get a lot of it going forward (Richard Gant is a great hire), I’d like to know more about Sam’s mom, especially if his father spent time away from the family with the Marines.

Again with the Kensi and Deeks parenting swaps, City mouse Deeks seems to be the one more likely to want their kid to have a phone than let’s go camping Kensi. Also, wouldn’t the woman whose Marine father taught her how to shoot, how to track, how to do all sorts of things be more interested in teaching their child how to defend themselves? The conversation at the end, however, was great.

The paparazzi guy semi-recognizing Fatima was not revisited. That was a lost opportunity

Episode number: Episode nine of season 13, episode 289 overall.

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Avatar Films Have Always Been A Gross Reimagining Of Colonialism

After 13 years, the sequel to Avatar(2009) has finally arrived. The original science fiction epic, written and directed by James Cameron, broke multiple box office records in its theatrical run and became the highest-grossing film of all time for a decade. Many will remember accompanying their families to sold-out theatres mere days before Christmas for a film that employed the use of groundbreaking technology which would change the art of filmmaking forever. However, Avatar (and its sequel Avatar: The Way Of The Water), is in fact a problematic analogy of indigenous oppression.

To recap, Avatar follows disabled ex-marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) as he learns the ways of the Omaticaya clan of the Na’vi people in an avatar body that looks and functions just like theirs. Along with their culture, he falls in love with one of the Na’vi, a fierce warrior named Neytiri (From Scratch’s Zoe Saldana), and switches sides against the humans, subsequently leading the Omaticaya people in their war against Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang) and the Resources Development Association (RDA).

Many will remember the blue alien species facing adversity, but not many will remember (or have even noticed) that the central conflict in Avatar is an allegory for colonialism. An ignorant, aggressive, money-hungry corporation supported by military enforcement wishes to destroy the sacred homeland of indigenous communities in order to obtain valuable resources — sounds a little familiar to me. In fact, James Cameron has admitted that Avatar is based on the colonisation of Native Americans. In court documents from a 2015 plagiarism case where visual effects artist Gerald Morawski claims Cameron stole the idea from him, Cameron produced a sworn declaration detailing how he came up with the idea for the film. “Avatar is a science fiction retelling of the history of North and South America in the early colonial period,” read the statement. “Avatar very pointedly made reference to the colonial period in the Americas, with all its conflict and bloodshed between the military aggressors from Europe and the indigenous peoples. Europe equals Earth. The native Americans are the Na’vi. It’s not meant to be subtle.”

Indeed, Quaritch and the RDA are very obvious symbols of colonial whiteness; they even use a slew of derogatory, colonial verbiage, referring to the Na’vi as “savages” on multiple occasions. Sadly, this focal conflict follows into the sequel, with previously deceased Colonel Quaritch returning as the story’s villain via an avatar body that had all his memories stored in the event of his death. This time, he has one mission: getting revenge on Jake Sully. Colonel Quaritch is now even more bloodthirsty and dangerous, eager to destroy Jake and his new family, and he is willing to go as far as becoming the very beings he hates the most in order to exact vengeance. With the RDA and their weapons backing him, Quaritch lays waste to several Na’vi communities, burning down their homes and killing them in cold blood.

“The truth is, reimagining colonial violence and the suffering of indigenous people through the eyes of an alien species isn’t the epic story Cameron thinks it is.”

Indigenous people have taken issue with the themes in Avatar for years, but it’s only now with the increasing visibility of social media that there is a wider platform for them to share their opinions and continue a discourse about the problematic nature of this story. Now that indigenous people are being heard, some are calling for a boycott of the film’s highly anticipated sequel.

Much of the recent criticisms got louder following the resurfacing of a 2010 article by the Guardian that details the involvement of Cameron and Avatar’s Sigourney Weaver and Joel Moore in the Brazilian Xingu peoples’ campaign against the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam project. Acknowledging that the Avatar had created “a bit of a spotlight on [them] right now to raise awareness in certain key areas”, Cameron expressed his desire to make a 3D “experiential” documentary on the Xingu’s battle.

After watching indigenous ceremonies and meetings Cameron made extremely disparaging comments about the Lakota. “I felt like I was 130 years back in time watching what the Lakota Sioux might have been saying at a point when they were being pushed and they were being killed and they were being asked to displace and they were being given some form of compensation,” said Cameron. “This was a driving force for me in the writing of Avatar – I couldn't help but think that if [the Lakota Sioux] had had a time-window and they could see the future… and they could see their kids committing suicide at the highest suicide rates in the nation… because they were hopeless and they were a dead-end society – which is what is happening now – they would have fought a lot harder.”

Cameron has since addressed the subsequent accusations of racism in a UNILAD article, noting that he wanted to “listen and to be sensitive to issues that people have.” However, Cameron has not apologised directly to the Lakota people for his degrading comments.

Simply acknowledging people's feelings as “valid” is not enough. The truth is, reimagining colonial violence and the suffering of indigenous people through the eyes of an alien species isn’t the epic story Cameron thinks it is. It’s an appropriative and tasteless virtue-signalling of a traumatic issue that still affects millions of native people today.

Despite Cameron claiming that he wishes to move away from the white saviour trope, the backstory of Avatar’s central white character says otherwise. By positioning Jake as the Na’vi’s saviour, the film’s “fuck white people” metanarrative conveniently disavows whiteness as inherently bad. Even in Avatar: The Way of Water, despite bringing even more death and destruction to the beautiful land of the indigenous Metkayina tribe who provide a safe haven for his family, Jake pretty much remains the hero of the story.

This representation of Jake as one of the “good” whites implores people to view whiteness as an institution and a system, rather than individuals who can be complicit in a system of violence and oppression. In doing this, Cameron suggests that sometimes, whiteness can save us. It feels like some weird colonial wet dream that appoints certain well-meaning white people as the saviours of native people in the perpetual struggle against other white people. Both Avatar films’ metanarratives are framed as counter-hegemonic, but they ultimately end up reproducing hegemony by positioning white people as heroes — thus supporting and legitimising white supremacy.

The franchise props up whiteness as something special and unique that enrichens and sets you apart from everyone else. In Avatar: The Way of Water, Jake and Neytiri’s kids are seen as outcasts, similar to Jake, because they were born with five fingers like humans instead of four like other indigenous Na’vi. Because of this, they are teased by other Na’vi. However, throughout the course of the film, the Sully kids are revealed to have special abilities; Kiri (Weaver) the daughter of the late Grace Augustine’s (also Weaver) avatar body, has a particularly special connection with Ewya, the Na’vi’s omniscient deity. It’s interesting that in both films, the characters that are connected to whiteness (apart from the RDA) are treated as different and special among the indigenous communities they make a home in.

Ultimately, colonialism is a real-life monster that has and continues to affect indigenous people globally for generations. Though the story of Avatar is fictional; its themes aren’t, and it’s imperative that we think critically about the on-screen representation of certain issues and groups because the media largely informs our understanding of the subjects depicted. It also informs our application of these issues — from individual to collective praxis. It’s even more important when you consider the global visibility of this film.

James Cameron most likely thought that this film would implore pro-colonialists and Western imperials to think about their empire’s history differently. But if he really wanted to fight for the rights of indigenous people, he could have directly provided aid, reparations, or any kind of tangible support to these communities instead of producing a multi-billion dollar franchise that emblematizes their trauma. His net worth is literally $700 million. But do the people whose struggle inspired filmmakers like Cameron and line his millionaire pockets see even a cent of those profits? No. Of course not.

It’s true: Western colonialism begets a debt that cannot ever be repaid. But white Westerners, at the very least, can make a start — and putting a spin on indigenous trauma for profit isn’t it.

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