#fix fic

[natalievoncatte]

Something, some instinct, told Lena that she wasn’t alone. She wanted to blame it on the whisky, but it was better to check. She grabbed the gun from its hiding place beneath a pillow, where she kept it in case of an intruder.

She wasn’t sure why she did that now; she was, in theory, safe from her greatest enemy. After all, Lena had murdered him in cold blood. She’d killed her own brother for a monstrous lie, and while there was little to mourn -the man he was died years ago by his own hand- it hurt. It hurt so much that the pain squeezed out of every pore, until she awoke in the depths of the night thinking the hot stains on her cheeks might have been from crying blood.

The one person she had truly trusted, respected, revered-

(desired)

-was a lie, an illusion. At least Lex had, at one point, been real.

Lena scouted her apartment. It didn’t occur her to check the balcony until she was about to go to bed. She was on the thirty-sixth floor. No one could get up here.

Kara was outside.

She hasn’t landed; she was hanging in the air with her cape lazily swirling against her legs as she hung in the nighttime breeze. She was far enough away that Lena couldn’t get a read on her.

“What do you want?”

She drifted closer, in that unnerving way she had.

“Hi.”

Lena sighed, and waved a dismissive hand.

“Go away, Supergirl. I’m not in the mood for another speech.”

Lena turned back inside, but stopped when she felt the soft gust of wind. Kara was a few feet away from the balcony now, arms wrapped tightly around herself.

She hated how things had changed when Kara told her. She no longer saw Supergirl, just Kara in a costume. It was impossible not to see her, and yet for three long years she’d done just that. Blinded herself. Refused to see the bitter truth. All she’d ever wanted was a real friend

(lover)

who respected and admired

(and loved and cherished)

her and with whom she could share those feelings, and she’d really thought Kara was it. She was the best friend

(the one)

that Andrea and Jack could never have been. She believed that so deeply.

(she doesn’t want me the way I want her)

“I’m not here to give you a speech.”

Lena looked up sharply.

“Then what? Here to stop me? Foil my evil plans? I’m a villain now, remember.”

Kara’s face turned hard. “Don’t lie to me.”

Lena barked out a bitter laugh, feeling that need rise inside her, that anger. She had lost everything. The love of her mother, the protection of her brother. No matter how wealthy she was, she could never have those back. There was no price for what Lena wanted.

“How dare you say those words to me,” Lena hissed. “You’re the biggest liar I’ve ever met. Everything you’ve ever said to me is a lie.’

“That’s not true.”

“You told me you’d always protect me. Who’ll protect me from you?”

Kara looked away, shuddering as she breathed, or silently sobbing. Lena smiled a thin smile, glad to twist the knife.

(stop it stop it stop it stop hurting her)

“Something happened to me tonight.”

“I don’t care.”

“A fifth-dimensional being came to me and offered to let me change the past. I could change whatever I wanted.”

“I don’t see any changes,” said Lena.

Kara shook her head. “His gifts were all poison. Every time I tried to fix what happened, it turned out wrong. I tried and tried and tried until I realized what was happening.”

“Which is?”

“I was supposed to learn that I can’t just push past my mistakes. I have to own them and accept the consequences. There’s no magic wand that can fix us.”

“There is no us, Kara. We weren’t meant to be.”

“How can you say that?”

Kara drifted closer, sank down so they were face to face with the balcony railing between them.

“How can you say that?”

“It’s obvious. Whatever this was, it wasn’t meant to be. We’re just too different.”

Kara shook her head.

“When I think of all the things that had to happen in order for me to be here right now, it boggles my mind,” said Kara. “Two species from two different galaxies evolved so close together. Just the chances of that happening are incredibly small, and…

“And then my people had to find this world, and Kal-El’s parents had to choose it for their son. This world, this world specifically, and then I had to get stuck in the phantom zone on my way here. All of those things and a billion others all had to happen in perfect, crystalline order just for me to walk into that office and see you.”

Lena has gone still, listening. Kara looked at her so intently, so reverently, that Lena felt something strain inside her, stretch against itself to the point of breaking. It took all her many years of carefully honed composure to keep herself still.

“Every moment I had with you was a gift. Every single one. There are times when… there are times when I think that if I could somehow have saved Krypton, I don’t know if I could, because it would mean losing you. I don’t know if that’s a choice I could make and I don’t know what that means.”

“That’s lovely,” Lena said, trying and brutally failing to keep her voice from cracking, “but it doesn’t change anything.”

Kara let out a soft, choked sound.

“I know that. I know I ruined everything and I can’t fix it. I just needed to say this because it needed to be said. I’m not here to ask you to forgive me. I’m here to ask you to forgive yourself.”

“Oh, please.”

“I can’t stop you.”

Lena blinked. “What?”

“I can’t stop you. I can’t fight you. I know that now. It doesn’t matter what you do, I won’t ever hurt you again. I don’t want to confront what that means.”

“That’s rich, considering that the last time we had one of these chats, your sister pointed an orbital fusion canon at my head.”

“If she’d fired that thing,” said Kara, “there would be no more satellite, and no more DEO. I would shatter the foundations and pull down the walls. I would rain destruction on whoever hurt you. I’ve seen what happens to me when something happens to you. I never want to see it again.”

Lena leaned on the railing. “Go away.”

“What you have planned, you need to stop. I can’t stop you, and if I can’t, no one can. Please, Lena. I’m begging you, don’t do this. Don’t become someone you’ll hate just to hurt me. I’m not worth it.”

“Not everything is about you, Supergirl.”

“Please. Don’t take away everyone’s choice. I know what that’s like.”

“Oh?”

Kara nodded, and in the moonlight, her tears sparkled on her skin. “On Krypton, we were assigned to guilds as children. We had arranged marriages. Everything about our lives was planned from birth. Here, people have so much choice. Yes, they make mistakes, but people choose life and art and love. You can’t take that away over me.”

“It’s too late,” Lena said, her voice cracking, finally. “I’m doing it and if you won’t stand in my way, it’ll be done.”

Kara took a deep breath.

“Okay. I guess I should go.”

Lena rocked back.

“What? No. I’m going through with the plan.”

“I know. I won’t fight you.”

Kara turned, about to rocket off into the sky.

“You can’t just leave!” Lena screamed, her voice ragged from liquor and tears.

Kara stopped.

“You’re supposed to fight me. You’re supposed to yell at me and tell me the truth, that you knew I was a monster all along, that you were just staying close to me to watch me, to get to Lex. You’re supposed to fight me! You’re supposed to fight me!”

“No.”

Lena let out an incoherent scream and balled her hands into fists, meaning to slam them on the balcony, but they struck the implacable flesh of Kara’s chest. Powerful arms gathered around Lena, sheltering her from the nighttime chill and the voiceless judgment of distant stars.

“I won’t ever hurt you again,” Kara murmured. “I promise. If you’ll let me, I’ll spend the rest of my life making it up to you for what I’ve done.”

“Why?” Lena whimpered. “Why won’t you just fight back?”

“Because you’re just like me. We’ve both lost so much. We both don’t want to see anyone else die.”

Lena should have shoved her away, demanded to be set free, screamed, protested, shoved. Instead her arms wound around Kara, drawn as if by gravity, and Kara’s gentle fingers began to stroke through her hair, her warm breath on the crown of Lena’s head.

“Come back to our life, Lena. To our friends. Come home.”

“I killed my big brother.”

“I know. I failed you both. I’m Supergirl. I’m supposed to find another way, a perfect solution.”

“I had to. He’d never have let you live if he knew how I f…”

Lena caught herself as the last moment.

It was Kara who sobbed now, her entire body shuddering. So much power with so much tenderness, her vast crushing strength kept at bay as she held Lena like one of the most precious of treasures.

“In one of the timelines that Mxy showed me, you… you told me how you felt as you were dying. I saw you die so many times, I can’t do it again.”

Lena tried to swallow, but her throat was too dry.

“I didn’t get to tell you before you died. I was scared. I never thought you’d want me like I want you.”

Lena went stock still, feeling Kara’s shuddering breath against her as she held her own. She couldn’t look up, afraid that if she did, this would be a cruel nightmare and she’d jolt awake in an empty bed and a penthouse full of bitter memories.

“Kara,” Lena began, finally. “Kara, what are you saying? What do you mean?”

“It’s so hard to say,” Kara sighed, and then, almost to herself, “even if I don’t have much left to lose.”

“Say it.”

“I love you.”

Lena’s heart soared, and a harsh sob exploded out of her. She’d dreamed of those words, longed for them, needed to hear them. So many times, Lena had almost let herself believe it.

“I want this to be real,” said Lena. “I just don’t know if I can forgive you, Kara. It hurt so much.”

“Can we try?” said Kara. “Can we give it a chance? Can you give me a chance?”

Lena finally looked up, and when she saw those tear-stained blue eyes filled in equal measure with terror and hope, she knew.

“Yes,” she said, simply.

Lena looked behind her, and was suddenly full of revulsion and regret. She hated this place.

“Can you take me back to your loft?”

Kara lifted her easily into a bridal carry and into the sky.

#supercorp #supergirl fanfiction #supergirl #supercorp fanfic #lena luthor #kara danvers #kara x lena #karlena #supergirl fanfic #ficlet #they’re soulmates but idiots about it #idiots in love #5x13 #It’s a Super Life #fix it #fix fic #self indulgence #angsty fluff

[factorialsotherfandoms]

Lucie is cold, and bleeding, and the monster is gone but there is nothing she can do. Adrenaline keeps her away but, as soon as it crashes, she knows she will succumb.

To the cold, to the blood loss, to the failure.

She is dying alone, and it is meaningless. Carol will throw Emi to the monster again, Benito will not care, Diego and Luis and Jeffery are too far away to save her… The monster… Oh, god, the monster - it is going to take them, too. She will die alone and for nothing and soon Diego and Emi and all of them will join her too.

"Lucie?"

She thinks, on the breeze, she might hear someone call her name. It is a dying hallucination - it must be.

"Lucie!"

Maybe whatever god exists has granted her mercy, letting her hallucinate Diego one last time. Even if Diego is crying… But of course he is, because he and everyone else is about to die.

"Meu Deus, Lucie…" she can almost smell him. "Wait. Jeffrey! Jeffrey, help, she's still alive!"

Not for long, though; she knows it will not be long. The adrenaline keeping her heart going is leaking out of her wounds and into the snow. The pain makes her delirious, makes her see things she does not.

Lets her feel a warm hand on her cheek and harsh ones on her chest, something tight against her leg. She is in pain, she is in agony, and her mind has tricked her into not being alone.

"Lucie, can you hear us? Lucie!"

But he's only a hallucination, and Lucie does not want to stay.

It hurts, it hurts, it hurts so much… She's already failed, why won't it just let the pain end? Why won't it leave her be?

/The ice/ says a voice that sounds suspiciously like Diego. /People bleed slower in the cold./

Lucie doesn't think she wants to bleed slower - she wants to bleed fast, so she can die, so she can finally put an end to the pain.

For a moment she thinks she gets it, but then there is another sharp pain that shakes her core. Reality comes in flashes, barely understood; a blue coat, lights, yelling- She tries to call to the voices, to ask for Emi. Someone terrified slams a hand over her mouth, and she forgets to breathe.

A crackling radio, hysteria, something heavy pressed against her. She doesn't understand, she hurts and she hurts and its no longer cold but why hasn't she died, why won't the world just let her die and for a while the world fades out, but then there's Emi screaming her name and Diego stroking hair from her face and Benito throwing a fit over the amount of blood on her coat as he pulls out a needle and thread, and Lucie almost wishes it was real.

It isn't real, it isn't, the monster took her - she's a dead woman… not walking, but lying.

There's arguing all around her. There's screaming and yelling and she grabs the nearest trouser leg to try get attention.

It's Diego - ways Diego - who answers.

"Lucie?" He drops to his knees beside her, voice caught in a sob. "Lucie, Lucie, you're okay, we've got you, you're okay, what do you need?"

The words blur and she doesn't quite understand, especially when they're not in her own French.

Its hard, its impossible, but she must - she shakily presses a finger to her lips and pretends she cannot taste the blood.

It takes Diego a moment, before he turns and does his best to yell "I'll do it just be quiet!"

Lucie doesn't want Diego to leave, but he does, and she thinks, maybe, that dying alone might be kinder than hallucinations who abandon her.

They don't, however; Jeffrey takes the radio and Luis watches Mikael, and Emi is still clinging to her hand. Benito's hand is also taken by the girl, and his free one pokes bandages around her chest.

Lucie screams, and the world is black, and she thinks - finally!

But then reality crashes back, and she's being carried in arms she doesn't understand, and the carry must be real for she screams as footsteps shake her, but perhaps it is the monster back again, here again, unsatisfied with his larder and so moving her instead.

The jolting, the pain, being passed to someone - more yelling. So much more yelling, and agony as things are pressed to her wounds and her face and perhaps the monster means to smother her, but at least it means it is not touching the others.

The others, the others, who should not be here - who need to run and run and run and never look back because they are being chased and chased and don't they know they're all dead, all dead, all so so dead, but they //need. To. Run.//

A prick on her arm, and another scream - even if she is a failure, maybe she can bait the monster away and -

And Diego is there, and Emi, and Luis, and Jeffrey, and Benito… No Carol, no Mikael, and Lucie isn't sure that she cares.

There's more yelling and more loud noises, and the haze that is Lucie understands none of it, and the longer it goes on the more the haze grows.

Lucie doesn't remember the rest of it, just Diego and Emi sobbing, and that, perhaps, is how it always should have ended anyway.

---

Lucie wakes in a bed, with beeping all around. Diego is right there, at her side, more bandage than man but grasping her hand none the less. It is bright, too bright, but the world is only what it is.

Diego seems asleep, clutching her hand. Looking… Jeffrey lies in the next bed, Luis passed out on the floor between them.

And Lucie…

Lucie is covered in wires, and pain, and a blur, but she knows where she must be. She's… not dead? And Diego is hurt, but right here! They're safe, they're safe, they're safe, but where's Emi?

The panic comes back as soon as the thought occurs, dulled by the painkillers but still impossible to ignore. She wants to wreathe, to run, to find the girl and they need to get away before it comes back and-!

The beeping gets louder.

A doctor - not Bonito, someone she has never seen before - appears. He asks her things and she thinks she answers, he adjusts wires and makes notes and she doesn't understand. Diego is woken up - he looks exhausted - and clings to her hands, making her promises she doesn't think he can keep, as she panics.

When the doctor leaves, he pulls her into a hug, and sobs into her hair.

"Where's little brat?" she asks, shaking in his hold. "Where are we? What- I was dead, what happened?"

Diego holds her tighter, tucking her close and it isn't /safe/ but its /safer/.

"Benito took her to get food," he says. "It's okay, you're okay, we found you - Jeffrey and I got the bleeding under control, and Luis carried you back. Its… Its bad, but its okay! You're going to be okay."

With a shaking hand she touches one of the bandages on Diego's face.

"There were more infected," he takes her hand from his face, and gently holds it in his own. "It's okay, we got away. Well… Mikael and Carol didn't, but…"

"Fuck them," she whispers. "Fuck them both, fuck all of them." "Yeah," Diego agrees. "Even Jeffrey agreed to shoot them by the end."

Lucie feels light, feels giddy. The laugh bubbles forth, first a giggle, then a shriek, as stress pours from her soul into the void. "I was dying," she laughs. "I- I- I was dying, and Carol was going to kill Emi, and- and-"

The laughter gives way to sobs, and a door slams open. In marches the little brat herself, eyes wide and shaken as she clutches Benito with one hand, and a milkshake in the other. Benito seems much more relaxed, but for the glasses that hide his eyes - there's a large bag of MacDonalds over his elbow, and he tosses it at Diego.

"Lucie!" he calls. "See, Diego, I told you she'd live."

Diego flips him off, and leans over to wake Luis up.

Lucie is quickly distracted by Emi throwing herself on the bed, the girl scrambling desperately until she's pressed against Lucie and gripping her tight. Lucie surpressed the yells, the pain it causes, and hugs her back.

"You okay, little brat?" Lucie tries to soften her voice. "Did the dumb dumb doctor look after you?"

"Don't you dare do that again!" Emi screeches. "You're not- Dad's- you're not allowed to do that again!"

"I wasn't going to let you die," Lucie holds her. "We look after you, ok?" "No!" Emi sobs. "No, not okay!"

"Eh, chill out, she woke up so she's fine," despite his dismissive words, Benito is soft as he pets the top of Emi's head. "Well she's missing a leg, and her spine is fucked so she's probably losing the other one too, but its not like she can't live without legs. Will probably be faster on wheels than trying to run. So she's fine."

"Benito!"

Lucie isn't sure which of Diego or Luis - or Jeffrey, newly awake but looking very out of it - the screech came from. She doesn't really care, the reality not crashing in yet. All she can do is laugh at the flippant tone Benito says it in, like telling someone their cat got hit by a truck - or, no, a normal person wouldn't sound like that then either, so like someone telling you there's a bug in your hair. It's not right, it's not how anyone should say it, but in the short time she's known him it is so /very/ Benito.

Some idiot doctor she barely knows but who has survived hell with her just flippantly has told her she'll never walk again, and all she can do is laugh and think, perhaps, not walking is a small price for being alive with her Emi and her boys.

Because they are /hers/ now, if the universe wants them from her they can tear them from her cold, undying hands.

It will hit her later, the mess of her situation, in the dark and the alone, but for now she laughs in defiance of a world that tried to kill her. She grasps it with her teeth, just like teeth bit into her, and may not be a hero, but she won't let it win.

---

It will be many, many months before Lucie will be okay, but she will. The flat she and Diego share will need to be sold, but Luis' Abuelita will open up her home to all six of them strays. Lucie will get her own room on the ground floor, Emi on the first, and the boys all share the basement. Most nights, however, everyone will end up in Lucie's room - and nobody will mind.

Diego will help her up, and Abuelita will make them all breakfast, and Lucie will wheel herself out to the garden. She will drink wine and laugh and watch her Emi and her boys. Jeffery will be helping with the flowerbeds, while Benito heckles him instead of reviewing his textbooks. Luis and Diego will drag Emi into a game of catch, and Lucie will cheer for her girl.

At least, until a throw will be missed; Lucie will catch it and return it, and will join them - one hand to the controls for her wheelchair, the other to catch the ball.

There will be nightmares and horror and days she can feel the glove on her wrist or pain in a leg no longer there or the break in her spine will be agony, but those are not the only days for her future.

There will also be family, and love, playing ball in the garden and teaching Emi French and late nights on the patio where she falls asleep beneath the stars and in the arms of her boys. Benito will train to be licensed in Mexico, Jeffrey will get a job at a new pizza place closer to their new home. Diego will research and use the hush money to find parts of the world she can still explore, and they will go together - and never out of signal range.

Luis will see his grandmother again, and Emi will have a new home. They all will have a home, in each other, in blood.

Lucie may not remember being saved, but she remembers how it felt to die afraid and cold and alone and believing you had failed everything in your life forwards.

Lucie will look at her future, then, and for the first time in many years see hope.

#opq #opq fanfic #fix fic #um surprise? scene 3 is kinda more a bonus than actual part of the fic but eh #opq lucie #opq diego #opq emi #opq benito #the others are also here but less important #lucie lives au! #mikael and carol still die but nobody is especially upset about it #tldr of the other PoV: most of the show remains the same but Diego Luis and Jeffrey find Lucie on their way back #manage to stabalise her and leave her in the radio tower #mikael manages not to kill her while she's extremely out of it #when it comes to running to the helicopter Luis carries her #and then we're skipping the next facility and assuming pancea did actually have a cure for the infection itself just held elsewhere #and fluffing things a bit to get everyone staying in Luis' grandma's house

[dragonkeeper19600]

How I Would Fix Houseki no Kuni

By now, you guys are probably more familiar than you’d like to be with the numerous posts I’ve made about what I see as the many narrative failings of Houseki no Kuni.

I’ve already written extensively about my gripes with this train wreck of a manga, and as much as I’ve said already, I could keep going. However, over the past few days, I’ve found myself wondering what I would change to make the story stronger. After all, it’s easy enough to identify a problem with a story, but it’s a great deal more challenging to come up with a solution. I’ve already suggested some potential changes in other posts, but I thought I’d assemble all of my brilliant ideas in one convenient location.

So, without further ado, here’s how I would fix the garbage fire that is Houseki no Kuni:

First, I’d have Phos keep the encyclopedia job longer. It always seemed weird to me that this story mechanic was dropped so soon after being introduced, and I don’t think that was to the story’s benefit. Phos becoming more devoted to and more competent at the encyclopedia job would showcase his growing maturity, plus it would lead to a growing curiosity. A big part of what sets Phos apart in the original story is how willing he is to question things that the other gems don’t, such as Sensei’s possible connection to the Lunarians or whether there’s another job for Cinnabar. You could have his desire to learn more come from his desire to get the encyclopedia job right because he’s already fucked up everything else he’s ever attempted, so this is his last chance to be good at something.

Similarly, I would not make Phos a fighter, or, at least, I would wait until later in the series to make him a fighter. Manga and anime is already oversaturated with stories about people who learn how to fight. Having a protagonist who’s strong suit is not fighting would make Houseki no Kuni stand out from other seinen series. Instead, Phos’s usefulness to the war against the Lunarians would be as a tactician, using the information he’s collected from other gems (such as Alexandrite’s obsessive knowledge of the Lunarians) and his own observations to help the other gems fight more efficiently. Phos accepting that he isn't cut out to be a fighter would be yet another sign of his maturity. In my version, after he gets his new agate legs, he decides he can ditch the encyclopedia job and become a fighter like he’s always wanted, just like in the original story. However, after he sees the Amethyst twins shattered by the Lunarian weapon made from Sapphire, he realizes battle isn’t cool and badass like he thought but scary and really tough, and he decides the encyclopedia thing is where he’s needed.

Of course, Phos would be forced to take up arms and finally fight later in the series as the war with the Lunarians is ramping up. Phos would have a moment to muse on the irony of finally getting to be a fighter just like he always wanted after already deciding he didn’t want it anymore.

One more thing about combat is that the gems would wear actual armor into battle. Red Beryl’s job wouldn’t be just to make cute moe moe outfits for the gems to strut their stuff in but to forge armor to protect the gems from the Lunarians’ weapons. The Lunarians would find ways to get through the armor, of course, but it would be better and more believable than sending these rocks into a war zone wearing but ties and shorts too tiny to pass a public school dress code. The gems can still wear their uniforms when they’re just hanging out at the school, that’s fine, but when they go on patrol, they suit up in fucking armor. The fact that they don’t wear their armor around the school could actually lead to some tense scenes where the Lunarians attack the school directly and the gems there are caught unprepared and underdressed.

Phos’s motive for not hibernating during the Winter Arc would be, again, to observe Antarcticite and the winter season for the encyclopedia. However, and this is big, by the time winter ends, Phos would come to blame Sensei for Antarcticite’s shattering. This is a change I suggested in a previous post. The exact scene I described back then is that Phos sees Sensei shatter Antarcticite himself, but I don’t think you need to go that far. Phos’s blaming of Sensei doesn’t even need to be justified; he could just be lashing out at Sensei out of misplaced grief. But something needs to happen during the Winter Arc, while everyone else is asleep, to make Phos suspicious of Sensei. Perhaps Phos actually sees the Lunarians surround Sensei and tug pleadingly at his clothes, like they did in the actual manga, and comes to realize that the Lunarians and Sensei are connected. Perhaps Sensei hesitates to strike back against the Lunarians, because he’s guilty about not being able to help them or whatever, and that hesitation leads to Antarcticite being shattered.

At any rate, by the time winter ends, Phos is the only witness to this suspicious side of Sensei, and he finds that nobody will believe him about what he saw because the others are all refusing to accept that Sensei is less than perfect. The only one who’s willing to listen to Phos at all is Cinnabar because Cinnabar is grateful to Phos for listening to him. Plus, since Cinnabar is already isolated from everyone else, he’s less willing to keep so strictly to the party line. While he still loves Sensei, he’s less complacent than the others. I suggest these changes to the Winter Arc and its fallout because I always thought the chain of events that led to Phos being suspicious of Sensei in the latter half of the anime was pretty week, plus Phos being able to turn to Cinnabar for support would make Cinnabar a more prominent part of the story instead of getting shunted aside like he is in the manga.

Speaking of the Lunarians, I would change basically everything about the Moon. The Moon is not a high tech, utopian society full of karaoke bars, ramen joints, labor unions, advanced laboratories, and all that other stuff, but a surreal, Lovecraftian landscape that looks as beautiful as an ink painting of the Pure Land but is actually nightmarish and hostile. The Lunarians are supposed to be the tormented souls of human sinners unable to pass on to the afterlife, and their world should reflect that. In my version, the Lunarians have been driven insane by their long perdition, and while they look like divine figures from a Buddhist scroll, their behavior is so weird and alien to the gems that they find it hard to believe that these creatures were ever human. They can’t even communicate with the gems because their minds have deteriorated to the point that they can’t even understand language. The only Lunarian who’s coherent and rational is Aechmea, and even he’s starting to lose his sanity after running the asylum by himself for so long. 

Aechmea himself would also need to be radically changed. Somewhere along the way, the manga kind of forgot that Aechmea was supposed to be the villain. They try for this reveal that Aechmea was actually benevolent all along, and it 100% doesn’t work because A. a lot of his wicked acts are just gratuitously cruel and don’t further his supposedly well-meaning goals at all and B. the Lunarians aren’t really suffering anyway. To fix Aechmea, his sympathetic qualities and his villainous qualities both need to be enhanced.

So, my version of Aechmea is a well-intentioned extremist who chose the path of the bodhisattva but doesn’t have the supernatural patience and wisdom necessary to handle it. His backstory would be the same, but because my version of the Moon is a hellscape where he’s the only sane person around, his desperation to get Sensei to pray to free both the other Lunarians and himself is way more understandable. At the same time, the story would condemn the cruel things he’s doing by pointing out that he’s got no right to make the other races suffer just to save his own people. Aechmea would be portrayed as a lost soul, pitiful, yet misguided. And, above all, the Lunarians’ salvation cannot come about because of Aechmea’s manipulations. The story needs to show that the path Aechmea is choosing to try and save them is the wrong one.

On a similar note, Aechmea can’t make Phos into a human. I’ve already made a separate post about this note, and the reception to it was pretty positive. If Phos becomes a human/enlightened/bodhisattva/whatever, it needs to be in spite of Aechmea, not because of him. Phos needs to become human through his growing experience and his own choices, not Aechmea’s. 

Instead, in my version of the story, Aechmea chooses Cairngorm as Sensei’s replacement. Aechmea chooses Cairngorm because Cairngorm has been sealed inside of Ghost Quartz for most of his life, and thus, has never had any real agency. Hell, maybe Ghost Quartz is shattered specifically so Aechmea can then swoop in and claim Cairngorm, all so he can groom him into becoming a new prayer machine. It’s a sad fact that abuse victims are often abused multiple times in their lives by different people, and oftentimes, their current abuser is someone who “rescued” them from a previous abuser. When Aechmea “frees” Cairngorm from Ghost Quartz’s influence, he portrays himself as a savior who will show Cairngorm what he’s “really meant to be.” Aechmea and Cairngorm’s relationship in the manga already comes across as super predatory and sus, so I think the story would be better if it actually acknowledged that Aechmea grooming Cairngorm is bad instead of portraying their wildly unequal marriage as the “happily ever after” that it does.

Phos, on the other hand, would become a foil to Cairngorm because their growth and change happens because of their own choices and not because of Aechmea’s (you know, like the opposite of how it is in the manga). Phos would also choose to replace his body parts, instead of his body parts being lost through circumstance or being swapped out for him by other people. Him losing his legs can still be an accident, but it has the effect of showing Phos that his inclusions are special because they can assimilate basically any other material while still leaving Phos’s consciousness in control. However, after he gets his agate legs, every other new body part has to be a deliberate acquisition. For example, when he finally decides that he has to fight, he intentionally seeks out the gold alloy to replace his arms, whereas in the manga and anime, his arms were taken away by the ice floes, and replacing them with gold alloy was Antarticite’s idea.

Finally, the ending. In the manga, Phos is essentially tricked into enduring 10,000 years of mind rape to become the new prayer machine. In my version, Phos chooses to undergo the 10,000 year transformation, knowing that it’ll be tortuous and awful, because he’s willing to make that sacrifice to bring the Lunarians peace and finally end the conflict. The gems don’t become Lunarians in this version. My version of Lunarian society isn’t idyllic the way it is in the manga, so the gems wouldn’t want to join them, plus my Lunarians don’t have that kind of technology anyway. The sacrifice in this case is that Phos praying will also cause the gems that have been shattered to pass on as well, meaning Phos will never see Antarcticite again, and all the other shattered gems will be dead for good. But Phos is okay with that because 1. They realize from their interactions with the Lunarians and Yellow Diamond’s declining mental state that immortality is a curse and 2. They’ll still be around, and they’ll still remember Antarcticite, which is specially poignant because Phos has lost so many of their memories by now. 

There’s also some tension because when Phos makes this choice, no one is sure that he’ll be able to handle the nightmarish transformation without going insane the way the Lunarians did, and there’s a chance he’ll emerge after the 10,000 years as some kind of monstrous eldritch abomination. And because he looks so weird and alien after the transformation is complete, the surviving gems aren’t sure if he’ll actually be able to pray the Lunarians away or if he’ll become a new threat.

But, ultimately, he shows that the transformation was a success, and he prays all of the Lunarians away. Yes, even Aechmea, because for all the evil he’s done, he also lived every day in pure agony, so there’s no point in punishing him any further.

The surviving gems would still be alive, as would the Admirabilis. (Yeah, the plot point about the living races descended from humanity also being wiped out in the prayer is really contrived and makes no sense, so I’m chucking it entirely.) Phos, however, would no longer live among the other gems because he’s become so enlightened that the other gems can’t relate to them anymore. So, Phos remains aloof. But the other gems know where he is. When a gem is finally ready to die, they seek out Phos, who will ensure that they pass on. Phos vows not to pass on himself until the last gem has been shattered. Phos, the little gem everyone called worthless, has become the benevolent bodhisattva that both Aechmea and Sensei failed to be. End.

#houseki no kuni #hnk #fix fic #alternate ending #phos #phosphophyllite #antarcticite #aechmea #kongo sensei #adamant sensei #cairngorm #lunarians #cinnabar #the thing about the armor is particular is a real pet peeve of mine #red beryl is so terrible at their job i'm surprised the other gems haven't tarred and feathered him already #i don't plan to make any more posts about houseki no kuni #because i'm so sick of this series taking up valuable brain space without paying any damn rent

[atarahderek]

As the all-knowing singing narrator, Clopin gets to enjoy being spared by the adaptation. But what if he hadn't been? This is my interpretation. For context, enjoy this fic.

My lighting needs work. My lighting always needs work.

#Hunchback of Notre Dame #the hunchback of notre dame #Disney #Victor Hugo #Clopin Trouillefou #Esmeralda #fan art #fanfiction #fix fic #HoND #jester #Roma #Romani #yes I killed the jester off #none of you were brave enough

[shakibone]

Ok, it's time. You may now infodump about The Rise of Skywalker

So I've thought a lot about Star Wars Episode 9

...not just as the actual film that got made, Rise of Skywalker, but everything that led to that film's flaws, and everything I would have done with the ninth episode of Star Wars and culmination of the Sequel Trilogy (but would not have been able to do due to the laundry list of executive meddling).

I am far from the first person to have tried to run a fix-fic on this trainwreck, and I'm far from the last. I'm pretty sure the last person will be Dave Filoni, engaged as he currently is in trying to build support beams beneath that film so that the whole franchise doesn't collapse when it decides to explore that era again. Good luck to him on that endeavor!

Before going in on my bulletpoint plotpoint list (because writing it up as a full fic is not worth anyone's time) for Shakibone's Episode 9, I'll clarify one thing: I enjoyed Episode 8 a lot and hold it up among my top three favourite Stwarses. That being said, it had some huge flaws that could be amended... I liked Canto Bight and Finn's character arc being about getting him from merely supporting the Resistance to protect his loved ones to fully wishing to fight the First Order, but I didn't like how that plot was executed by denying him any Jedi and Force business. With that in mind:

Finn is a jedi now (or at least training) and Rey has got a double ended lightsaber. Maybe she used the broken Khyber crystal from Luke's to make her double ender, or maybe who-gives-a-dang. It's cool and matches her previous staff-based fighting style.

Kylo Ren is our primary antagonist, and he hasn't rebuilt his stupid helmet. Assuming Disney mandates a redemption and a new helmet for merchendising, I have a redemption plan explained below).

Leia is either dead from the start, or offscreen throughout. No making a CGI Corpse Actress for Carrie Fisher, and no reusing previous footage to pretend she's there throughout. The film either opens with her dead (and the opening crawl starts with "THE GALAXY MOURNS" which I think is a solid opening line), or she's away on another mission and we see her through holograms and once at the end (via limited use of prior footage and a voice double).

With the New Republic HQ blown up and the First Order's flagship blown up, the Galaxy has descended into factionalism. The First Order is still strong enough to get these new factions to bend the knee, however.

Kylo is the Supreme Leader of the First Order, but he doesn't actually do his job. Hux is left with the actual day-to-day running his "Empire", which suits Hux just fine.

In case it needed to be said: Hux, the true believer frothing-at-the-mouth fascist is not a mole for the Resistance. That's dumb.

What's got Kylo distracted from ruling the First Order? He's busy hunting down ancient Jedi and Sith artifacts, and destroying them! Burn the past, remember?

Either that or he's hunting the Resistance.

Following Luke's big sacrifice, the Resistance actually has a decently equipped military as their allies have risen to join them.

By the end of the film there is no New New Republic, or New New Jedi Order. We gotta build something different for the franchise going forward, not just return to the Status Quo. The Galaxy is divided, albeit not destructively so. Focus on the idea that maybe the Jedi Order and the Republic, which gave rise to and were destroyed by Fascism twice, are not necessarily great ideas.

Palpatine cameo via pre-recorded message or Sith Holocron because Ian McDiarmid is a delight to see and I am no more resistant to clapping at the things I remember than anyone else.

On that note, Hayden Christensen shows up as a Force Ghost to give Kylo his (potential) redemption talking too. Speaking of:

So, assuming that Disney will mandate that Kylo be redeemed (because even in my fanfic I assume Star Wars will have executive meddling), here's my plan for Kylo's redemption:

Kylo does a big redemption moment of saving Rey and the Resistance or whatever. Maybe he had a heart-to-heart with Grandpa Anakin and saw the error of his ways.

Kylo, as his Empire burns: "Grandfather, I called to you for aid! Why did you never answer!?" Anakin: "I did answer. I was there every time you heard a voice telling you stop and go home." Kylo: "It's too late for that now. There is no saving me." Anakin: "Maybe… But it's not too late to stop, even if it won't earn you redemption."

What is important is that Kyle gets massively fucked-up-mangled in the process and is presumed dead. Then at the big Resistance party before the credits Rey turns around like she's gonna look at some ghosts smiling at her, but it cuts to a planet where some First Order Remnant trying to enslave some kids to be stormtroopers. Ben shows up in a suit like those Redeemed-Vader concept art that the scrapped Star Wars Battlefront 3 was gonna use and saves the kids. When they ask who he is he says: "Ben… from Nowhere". Ben turns around, sees Rey in the scene watching him, she smiles, he leaves. Ben gets to survive and redemption, but he's gotta spend the rest of his life dismantling the evil regime he built, and he'll get no fame or acknowledgement for it except from Rey.

Anyway, that's the sickness in my brain.

As a reward for having sat through my rambling, here's the cool Redeemed vader concept art:

#Star Wars #Episode 9 #fix fic #Rise of Skywalker #here's how I woulda done it!

[greensword101]

So, I just read a ficlet about the traditional Hallmark "villain" being dumped in the end and they're actually pretty rational. What I saw involved two "villains" meeting after their "girlfriends" have dumped them after being unfaithful and then starting to fall for each other.

What I really want is for CONSEQUENCES to occur from Designated Heroine's actions. So, here we go.

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Sasha lives in Boston and she is stuck in what she deems to be a bland relationship with a guy who is working a lot and doesn't spend as much time with her as he ought to be. Things seem to look up when he proposes and she accepts, but Sasha is still feeling restless and decides to head back to her hometown for Christmas. Her now fiance, John, is unable to make it because of his schedule, and so she goes by herself, frustrated and alone.

She sees John as a boring workaholic, who doesn't give her a passing glance nowadays and doesn't even notice whenever she does her hair. What she DOESN'T recognize is that John HATES his job. He is working many hours because she is a shopaholic and now has dragged them both into debt with her spending habits. He even had to take a second part time job just to make ends meet.

The new scarf she bought for Christmas? That was NOT in their budget plan! The fashion designer clothing she bought in the spur of the moment? She used the credit card meant for emergencies only and now he has to scramble to put out that fire. The new hair style he "didn't notice"? He's been working so many hours on a big project, it was so late when he came back to their apartment, how was he supposed to notice when he was so focused on not collapsing onto the floor?!

And she treats HIM like the bad guy when he complains about her spending habits! Even called him a Scrooge under her breath when she thought he didn't hear her. He mentioned this to his friends and coworkers and family and wonders AITA for being concerned about money and not being kicked out of their nice apartment and onto the streets? And their credit score will be affected too, if she doesn't stop with using their credit cards so frivolously.

There are a few naysayers, but the majority of his audience had told him he's NTA and needs to talk to Sasha about his concerns. Not that she's listened and only seems to dig in her heels even further, no matter how patient John has been.

So, the trip to her hometown that he couldn't make? Fine, let her cool down for a few weeks. Let her catch up with her family. Maybe she's just been as stressed about bills as he has been and is trying to break out of her bad spending habits. They can both cool off and when he can meet up with her on Christmas, things will look up. Or so he hopes against hope.

The most he was expecting was just a short term peace before their problems start up again. After all, she did get a FIRST CLASS TICKET back for some reason - why did she need a plane ride home, the bus would have been cheaper and she could have looked at the scenery. But he refrains from texting her about it. He is going to give her space, he is not going to be nitpicking every little thing she does because if he can succeed with this project at work, it will mean a big promotion and pay raise.

As stated before, he hates his job. It's draining him emotionally. If he were in a better financial state, he would consider reaching out to a therapist, but Sasha would start nagging him about how "overdramatic" he's acting and to "get over it".

So, aside from the plane ticket, there are no further issues for the next two weeks. He texts her once in a while, just seeing how she's doing and also called her when he got out of work early one day. She never responds to his texts or his one phonecall. Okay, he chalks it up to bad wifi at Cape Cod, maybe she isn't able to get a reception there.

Project is done and he is even promoted! He calls Sasha again to inform her of this, but she doesn't seem to share his enthusiasm. John is confused. He is going to get paid more and one of his supervisors has noticed that he's been working a lot of hours and promised to work out a more reasonable schedule. He thought she'd be happy about that. And there's the Christmas bonus, too, it was a good chunk of change. She seems happy until he admits that he had to use it all for the bills and that's when she gets snappy with him and hangs up. She gives a flimsy excuse - "my mom's calling me" - and he knows it's about the money.

John thought she'd be relieved about their financial woes being lessened by a nice little windfall. 'Probably thinks I'm being a Scrooge', he thinks with a little more bitterness than he anticipated. The day comes when he can get to her hometown and because they are still not out of the woods with the debt - there is still a few bills they are still going to have to pay off - John decides to take a bus. It's long and cold, but he's fine with that. Snow won't start falling until the evening, right around the time he gets there. It will be a white Christmas.

Sasha is at the stop and seems to be completely surprised that he was on the bus altogether. John starts to get a headache already. She KNEW he was coming when the project was done, why is she acting like he was stalking her? Was she thinking he was going to decide to stay in Boston and spend Christmas by himself while she was with her family here?

Things remain tense as they head to a party her family was hosting. It looked like a nice house. Why didn't she ever bring it up with him in the past five years they were together? And then things just become awful John meets this new friend of Sasha's. Some weird guy named Jack who seemed to have aspirations to become the next Joker with all of the smiling he was doing. And acting so intimate with Sasha too, like they had known each other for years. And Sasha didn't seem to mind, either, when she would NEVER let John give her so much as a brief hug once in a while.

'Who the fuck is this creep?!' John thinks, dread filling him more by the minute. When he introduces himself to Sasha's family, none of them seem that enthusiastic about him. Did Sasha ever tell them about him at all? He had introduced her to his parents and brought her over for family gatherings and Thanksgiving this year too.

He needs some fresh air, it was so noisy and he needed to clear his head. Maybe something bad had happened? Maybe Jack was just an old friend. And gay too! Not that there was anything wrong with that. Because there was no way Sasha had been CHEATING on him and had suddenly fallen in love with someone she had known for two weeks at best, right? Right?!

But this somehow seems to send a different message to Sasha, as she saw him leaving the noisy party filled with complete strangers and assumed he was being bitter at Christmas.

Sasha catches him right as he is decompressing outside in the cold. She acts awkward with him, and evasive when he tries asking her about how she's been enjoying herself. And hoping that she will act like the supportive fiance and future wife he is hoping to spend the rest of his life with. The one thing she doesn't bring up at all is Jack. And all he did was ask her about him. Were they childhood friends?

She gets aggressive with him all of a sudden. Telling him to stop "ruining" her life and to "grow up", whatever the hell that was supposed to mean. John is feeling his blood boil. He had been in a bus for hours, cold and hungry. And he had just about had enough of her behavior and started to verbally push back at her and calling her out on HER selfish behavior. If he wasn't about to end the engagement right then and there because he realizes that she never loved him, then seeing Jack come out and physically assault him while Sasha stands there doing nothing certainly did.

She looks triumphant, begins to tell him that the engagement is over and that she loves Jack.

Only she didn't realize that the commotion from their yelling and Jack assaulting John had people coming out of the house and crowding them. John is absolutely humiliated that a crowd of strangers is seeing him bruised and sobbing uncontrollably. He was in a town with no friendly faces, his fiance had been cheating on him and had her two week lover attack him. He's expecting cheers from the crowd. What he wasn't expecting was for Sasha's mother to ask her in a chilly tone.

"You're engaged to this man?"

And he realizes as someone comes to his aid and starts checking on his bruises while someone else starts to call the police, Sasha's mother wasn't upset about him or his supposed failings. As it turned out, Sasha hadn't told her family that she was seeing anyone at all and that her sister had unwittingly introduced her to Jack because she thought they would get along.

And said sister was the one checking him over and looking white in the face, apologizing over and over again. That she had no idea, she wouldn't have done that if she had known about John in the first place.

Sasha acts defiant towards her mother, but finds herself without allies now. She thought she had been bonding with the townspeople and reconnecting with old friends and making peace with some quirky enemies, like some grouchy old man who as it turned out, was annoyed with her antics because he was Jewish and didn't celebrate Christmas. He had only started relaxing when he thought she was getting the message, but it turned out she thought he had suffered some tragedy on Christmas and that it was her duty to help him regain that "love" for the holiday.

Sasha's antics with the town were actually quite grating and the people only held their tongues for the sake of her family. But this last stunt was the last straw now that they realize that she had been hiding quite a few things from her. Her protests are ignored when the police arrive to arrest Jack and take statements and John doesn't even let the officer finish asking if he wants to press charges or not with a loud "YES!"

Sasha attempting to appeal to the police officers to let Jack go and let Christmas back into their hearts only leads to herself getting arrested for obstruction of justice when she tries to make it out that John had somehow been harassing her and stalking her. Only for her engagement ring matches the one John was still wearing and her phone showed their pictures together.

As she is forced into the police car, John throws his ring at her head and stalks off. Her family feels horrible about the whole situation and apologize profusely, the sister particularly so. They had no idea what Sasha had been up to for the past several years, nor were they pleased when they learn about her spending habits putting so much strain on John.

The sister is a big help with helping box Sasha's things from the apartment, and turns out to be a pleasant women, if a little shy. The family help with the bills, promising that Sasha was going to pay him back every cent and return the things she had so carelessly purchased this month. Only good thing to come from her shopaholic tendencies was that she always kept the receipts.

John and Sasha's sister - Anya - do become friends in spite of what happened. But considering the stress he had endured from Sasha and the therapy he was now free to undertake, he needed a long break from romance for a while.

He had to move out of the apartment and quit the part time job. His promotion might have paid more, but it wouldn't cover the cost now that Sasha wasn't living there anymore.

It took three years before Sasha finally paid him back for everything she purchased under their credit cards, especially with her family browbeating her into doing so. She and Jack did marry for a time in the end, but his charm had only been an act and they were unhappily married for about another year after the debt with John had been cleared before they filed for a divorce for irreconcilable differences.

As for John, he did find love again after much space and healing. And with another guy, too, with a similar tale with a court case that was still going on. But his lawyers were confident that they would win it, considering the amount of evidence proving the crazy ex girlfriend had wrecked his car, assaulted his person and even stole his stuff when he confronted her for cheating behind his back.

What was it about going to small hometowns for the holidays that brought out the worst in people?!

#hallmark christmas movies #how it should have ended #fix fic #perspective flip #christmas #romance #hallmark channel

[davekat-sucks]

The common flaw with every single Post-Canon fix-fic is that it treats the Epilogues and ^2 as works with actual artistic merit and not a glorified Bernie 2020 campaign ad.

Out of all the things to start with Post Canon, why couldn't be like Credits or even the retconned Snapchat?! Either one is a better starting point than taking Epilogues and HS^2 as canon and going from there.

#Homestuck #Homestuck fandom #Homestuck Epilogues #Homestuck^2 #HS2 #Homestuck2 #Homestuck 2 #fix it fanfiction #Fix Fic

[random-thought-depository]

Thinking this morning about the deep and unexpected love I developed for Sil the first time I watched Species, she is very blorbo to me. Some of my headcanons about her:

- Her very rapid learning is aided by low-key telepathic abilities (we know those exist in the Species universe! One of the human characters has approximately the same abilities as Deanna Troi on Star Trek!). She can tune into surface thoughts a little, enough to do things like watch somebody use a credit card and pull from their mind a rough picture of how buying and selling, money, and credit cards work, and also their PIN. She's also an empath the same way that guy in the team trying to track her down is. She can't look through people's minds in classic sci fi fashion though, she can only read emotions and inconsistently read surface thoughts and she has little control over it, so she has enormous gaps in her knowledge. One potential fridge horror implication is she knew they were planning to kill her at the beginning of the movie.

- She broke her hand when she punched her way out of her enclosure at the beginning of the movie; it healed almost immediately, but she is in considerable pain in those scenes, she was just ignoring it because she was terrified and very focused on survival and escape.

- As sometimes happens with precocious children, she was functionally socially and emotionally neglected because her caregivers didn't realize how quickly her mind was developing and so didn't provide developmentally appropriate socialization and enrichment. She's basically semi-feral. For instance, she was never really socialized to have a sense of morality or to be pro-social at a level beyond things like "shit in the toilet instead of on the floor." This is 100% the reason she became the kind of person who thought ripping out somebody's spine was an appropriate reaction to sexual jealousy.

- Continuing from that last point: she isn't inherently violent, she kills people because she has the social skills and emotional regulation skills of an emotionally neglected toddler combined superstrength and the intelligence and appetites of an adult woman. Also, her actions are informed by a lived experience that humans are extremely violent to her; her caretakers try to kill her at the beginning of the movie, she spends the rest of the movie being hunted, and the first person she approaches as a potential sexual partner tries to rape her! If she'd had a less messed-up upbringing she'd have been a much better person, and I think if she'd won at the end of the movie (if her attempt to make the government think she was dead had worked, or if she'd been able to escape from or kill her pursuers in that cave and she and her son survived) she might eventually have become a much better person.

- Smells are much more prominent in her perceptual world; she experiences a complex landscape of scents, a person's scent is distinctive to her in the same way their face is, etc.. I base this on her being able to smell that someone's diabetic in the movie.

- She does have an instinct to survive and reproduce, but mostly she wanted a child in the same way Frankenstein's monster wanted a wife: an offspring would be another of her kind, and somebody who'd love her by default; an offspring would mean an end to loneliness. Related: if she'd won at the end of the movie, I don't think she'd have been a good mother, but she would have been a very loving mother; she'd have deeply and passionately loved her son. Watching her son get torched was probably the worst moment of her life.

- That thing where she basically kidnapped, tortured, and murdered a woman as part of the process of faking her own death was a very "I'm experiencing empathy and I don't like it" situation for her. She had no idea how painful and traumatizing having a thumb amputated with garden shears would be for a human (hers grew back!). She doesn't really have an idea of morality, but she does have affective empathy, so internally she was like "Wow, I didn't think it'd be that bad for you. Not sorry, but I'm experiencing empathy and I don't like it." I think the idea of being bound and mutilated and fearing what might happen next would also remind her of when people tried to kill her with poison gas while she was locked in a box, so that would be another "I'm experiencing empathy and I don't like it" aspect.

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Some thoughts on an AU where Sil won at the end of the movie:

Note: I am emphatically rejecting the sequel films, especially the second movie, which was just awful; for purposes of this exercise the sequels didn't happen and I will freely contradict their narrative and worldbuilding choices (such as the second movie's decision to answer "what would a male version of Sil be like?" with "he'd be a rape werewolf and his kids would be basically chestbursters, we'll be ripping off Alien but making the sexual subtext just text and straightwashing it and slathering an incredibly rancid sex-negative but horny vibe over it").

I doubt Sil want to give birth to endless offspring. For one thing, she almost got killed and had some pretty awful experiences during the first attempt. Also, I bet that fifteen minute pregnancy was a really unpleasant experience she wouldn't be in any hurry to repeat. Like, I think that would have to be a pretty physiologically extreme event. She'd probably have had to, like, firehose protein and calcium and fats and sugars at the fetus by literally liquifying a double digit percentage of her own body and process and expel a proportionately obscene amount of metabolic waste dumped into her bloodstream all while being in danger of being literally cooked alive from the inside by all the metabolic waste heat. I bet it hurt and she wouldn't be in any hurry to do it again.

I think Sil would get a lot less aggressive when the stressors of being hunted and trying to find a sperm donor were removed. I guess she'd sometimes mug people for money, but she's inexperienced but smart, I think she'd sooner or later catch on that leaving them alive and uninjured attracts a lot less attention than ripping out their spines or skullfucking them to death with that tongue-thing. So I think sooner or later, very possibly immediately, she'd stop killing people and become a relatively inoffensive drifter and petty criminal, and eventually enter the labor market on approximately the same level as undocumented immigrants (she and her son would be in a very similar position, having no ID or social security numbers and being essentially legally unpersons).

Like I said, I don't think she'd be a good mother, because she has poor social skills and no sense of morality, but I think she'd be a very loving mother; she'd deeply and passionately love her son and be very caring and indulgent. On the not good side, I think she'd be a combination of neglectful-permissive (loving but poor social skills) and sometimes physically abusive (violence is one of the not many tools she has for conflict resolution). I think she'd probably give her son a better childhood and rearing than she got, because at least he'd have an actual parent and people wouldn't be trying to kill them, though it'd probably still be kind of messed up and awful by human standards.

When her son cocooned for metamorphosis she'd remember how she was scared when it happened to her because she didn't know what was happening, so she'd explain the process to him beforehand, and when it happened she'd stay in the room with him and reassure him, and she'd be waiting to help him out of the cocoon and clean him up when his metamorphosis was finished. I... have feels about this idea.

I think she and her son would stay very close when he was an adult, at least for the immediately foreseeable future. Given her experiences with humans so far I doubt she'd get close to any of them any time soon, so that leaves her son as basically her only friend, and their shared difference from the people around them would encourage a close bond between them.

I think Sil could become a better person over time, like human morality might eventually rub off on her and stuff. I think her relationship to her son (and possibly other kids she ends up having) might be good for her here; a positive relationship would encourage her to develop social skills and emotional regulation and would encourage her to get in the habit of, like, caring about other people. Her son would probably be less traumatized than her and therefore have less of a default assumption that humans are hostile, and that might rub off on her.

The squicky side of that: Sil and her adult son would be very close to each other and distant from everyone else, they're probably human-like enough to want sex as a social and recreational activity, Sil has not been socialized to human sexual taboos, if he takes after his mom in looks they're probably both hot... Yeah, I think they'd have sex with each other. Not for reproduction (at least not primarily), but for bonding and pleasure.

If Sil does end up having a lot of kids, I think it would be out of desire for community. Like, with her potentially very fast rate of reproduction I could see her eventually ending up the matriarch of a village-sized clan of her own kind, and I think, as someone who was probably lonely early in life, she might like that. I think my take on what that community would be like would probably be that they'd have a sex-asymmetric semi-eusocial thing going where males mostly don't reproduce because bringing a new member into the community through females is "find a human sperm donor, an excuse to leave in five minutes, and a discreet place to give birth" but options for bringing a new member into the community through males is "form a real partnership with a human woman, you better be able to trust her because when she gives birth four months after getting pregnant and her kid is talking in complete sentences at one month old she is going to notice something not normal is happening" or "do horrific kidnap basement sex slavery shit" (the latter is really not a place I'd want to go, and in-universe would be stupid for a probably not resource-rich community trying to blend in and keep a low profile, in the same way leaving a trail of corpses is stupid). A kind of semi-eusocial thing fits with the insectoid aesthetic of stuff like the cocooning.

I remember reading somewhere that there are some species were hybrids discard the DNA of one parent during meiosis. I like the idea of Sil being like that (so, e.g., if her son reproduced, he would only pass on Sil's DNA, not the DNA of his human father), so she theoretically could found a viable population that could remain biologically distinct from humans indefinitely. Seems kind of charitable to the movie's assumption that she's a potential threat to the human species as a whole, and more interesting if her kind could eventually become something kind of like an ethnic minority.

I wonder how long Sil would live? She has very accelerated development, so she might have a short lifespan; cancer would probably be a huge problem for an organism with a growth rate as fast as Sil's. On the other hand, I kind of like the idea that the alien message was not intended as a hostile act, they basically just sent us a transhumanism update and intended it as a favor, in which case she'd probably have a long lifespan (maybe longer than ours).

Man, "it's like twenty or fifty years later and Sil's descendants have formed a weird close-knit secret subculture within southern California's underclass" sounds like a way more interesting sequel idea than the stuff we actually got, and given that the original movies were made and presumably set in the '90s you could actually set a sequel like that in the present day. I've got some ideas for a Species II rewrite fic based on the thought that maybe Sil actually had twins and one of survived by hiding from the humans, maybe I could do the "secret society of Sil's descendants existing in the 2020s" idea as a sequel to that/a Species III rewrite fic.

#Species #headcanons #fix fic #cw: death #cw: injury #cw: rape #cw: childhood trauma #cw: childbirth trauma #cw: incest #cw: spoilers #cw: mutilation

[mmusicofmysoul]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Game of Thrones (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire - George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms Rating: Mature Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sansa Stark & Daenerys Targaryen, Jon Snow & Daenerys Targaryen, Jon Snow & Sansa Stark, Jaime Lannister/Brienne of Tarth, Arya Stark & Sansa Stark & Lady Stoneheart, Daenerys Targaryen/Young Griff, Jon Snow/Daenerys Targaryen, Tyrion Lannister & Daenerys Targaryen, Elia Martell & Lyanna Stark & Rhaegar Targaryen, Grey Worm/Missandei (A Song of Ice and Fire) Characters: Daenerys Targaryen, Jon Snow, Sansa Stark, Young Griff (ASoIaF), Lady Stoneheart, Cersei Lannister, Melisandre of Asshai, Brienne of Tarth, Arya Stark, Asha Greyjoy | Yara Greyjoy, Tyrion Lannister, Barristan Selmy, Jeyne Westerling Stark, Theon Greyjoy, Arianne Martell, Doran Martell, Rhaegar Targaryen, Lyanna Stark, Elia Martell, Catelyn Tully Stark, Bran Stark, Jaime Lannister, Missandei (A Song of Ice and Fire), Daario Naharis, Jorah Mormont, Grey Worm (A Song of Ice and Fire), Night King of the White Walkers (Game of Thrones), The Others | White Walker Character(s) (A Song of Ice and Fire), Other ASoIaF | GoT Character(s), Stannis Baratheon, Davos Seaworth, Gendry (A Song of Ice and Fire) Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Fix-It, Game of Thrones Fix-It, Westeros (A Song of Ice and Fire), Canon - Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire Combination, The Long Night (A Song of Ice and Fire), Post-Canon Fix-It, Azor Ahai Prophecy | The Prince That Was Promised Summary:

After guaranteeing House Stark’s victory with House Bolton’s downfall, Sansa Stark, the legitimate daughter of the late Eddard Stark and King in the North Robb Stark’s older sister, is chosen Queen in the North.

Her bastard brother, Jon Snow, keeps eerily talking about great Horrors to come. He has rejected his place in the castle as Ned Stark’s son and grows disconnected with the reality around him, the reality that’s not far beyond the Wall.

He manages to convince his sister, now Queen of a highly disintegrated North, larger dangers across the Wall are coming. Winter is here, and nothing shall be left of them if they fall short of allies for petty political reasons.

Warning Westeros is imminent.

A raven comes. As it comes with hope.

For the first time in hundreds of years, far into Dragonstone, Westerosi days come alive again with the music of dragons, and, if stories are true, with the potential biggest ally they might ever meet.

~ Or ~ My attempt to fix and re-adapt the last two seasons of Game of Thrones with elements of A Song of Ice and Fire.

#got finale #got fanfiction #got ff #jonerys #jon & sansa #daensa #asoiaf ff #fix fic #daenerys targeryan #daenerys deserved better #jon snow #sansa stark #my writing #my fics #lucy writes ff #mine #fic: the long night

[hpmort]

In this current state of intoxication I realize that my thematic issues with the Steven Universe finale were reliant on projecting Pink Diamond onto Steven, and that it was all based on how it was pulled off- especially how easy it would have been to fix!

Change White Diamond’s pink lighting that makes it look like maybe Steven took control of her to being multicolored, making it more clear that she’s not had her abilities turned back on her, but rather whatever the flushing was supposed to symbolize (which I can kind of identify but can only gesture towards, perhaps not only because I am on drugs), and move “Change Your Mind” from its clumsy placement at the end, and make it play over White Diamond changing hers.

Then, have Sadie Killer and the Suspects play over the part that has the Off-Colors landing and meeting the Diamonds; then, the song ends after the fast version of the the scene with the Diamonds and the Off-Colors.

Everything is the same after that, minus the clumsy implementation of the song “Change Your Mind” into the show, so it ends with the reprise of the theme song.

#i am currently stoned #Steven Universe #su #fix fic #or something adjacent to it #concept doctor #steven Universe ending #steven Universe rewrite #or kind of #this has so little bearing on anything that it wouldn’t change anything that comes after #it’s just conveyed better #I’m not an SU Critical #I liked Steven Universe Future better than Season 1 #(which is the one they seem to like??? why) #I have nothing against the morals and my prior beef with White Diamond’s face turn has been mended through cannabis #and also exposure to Encanto and other stuff about generational trauma #the problem with the Diamonds’ redemption arc has always been time but time and conversations can be skipped over through montage #(which is basically just adding some montages to the real version) #and there really wasn’t anything they could do about the other Diamonds #given the show’s cancellation #it’s not a perfect show and I am not a super fan #but it’s decent and I appreciate what the show did for the queer community

[atonedfor]

Ogata Hyakunosuke & Hasegawa Olga

Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

Promotional image for an in-progress Golden Kamuy fanfiction, i.e. writing a “golden ending” for Ogata. He just needs some helping getting there: namely, from a girl who fell through time, one alternate world to the next.

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Spoilers for manga chapter 177/anime episode 33 onward:

Two years after losing her father in a workplace bombing, fifteen-year-old Hasegawa Olga is hit by a speeding truck and transported from the year 2007 to 1907, where she finds a soldier lying close to death on a frozen riverbank. While trying to drag him to safety, Olga encounters an army officer who greatly resembles her deceased father, Kouichi, and has scars matching her father’s fatal wounds. Although the officer, First Lieutenant Tsurumi, denies any relation, Olga speculates, wrongly, that he really is her father, who time-traveled after dying like she did, leading to a series of mutual misunderstandings.

In the end, Tsurumi gives the impoverished girl a male identity as “Hasegawa Osamu”—allegedly for her own safety—and the paid job of caring for the soldier she rescued, Superior Private Ogata Hyakunosuke, during his stay in the hospital, but on the condition that she leave the city once he recovers.

With his teeth wired together while his fractured jaw heals, Ogata receives the assistance of a teenager named “Osamu”, whom he believes to be Tsurumi’s unwanted illegitimate child—a parallel of Ogata and his own father, the late Lieutenant General Hanazawa. During their six weeks together, the aloof and guarded soldier, a hardened veteran of the Russo-Japanese War, begins warming up to his kindhearted caretaker.

Following an abrupt attempt on both his life and Olga’s, Ogata leaves the hospital prematurely and decides to bring Olga with him, no longer as alone as his nickname of “Solitary Wildcat Sniper” would imply.

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Have been working and researching since May, with eight chapters total and many fragments waiting for assembly. /i’m basically going to rewrite the entire story, pls wish me luck.

#golden kamuy #ogata hyakunosuke #golden kamuy ogata #gk fanart #golden kamuy fanfic #gk spoilers #fanfiction #ao3 #fix fic

[mabeljonesrock]

FRO6

Happy 30th anniversary of Freddie as FRO7 movie, Here my take on Freddie the Frog.

Many years ago when the French first settled in Australia, a very wealthy French nobleman named Leroy Kingsley met an aboriginal woman named Lowanna. She is not just beautiful and kind but also brave and strong. They later fall in love and Lord Kingsley decides to stay in Australia to be with her. Her younger sister, Messina, disapproves of this. She always envied her brother for years because he is the heir and her parents greatly favored him while treating her like she never existed. She also doesn't get why Leroy chose to marry a “poor, dirty Aborigine” when he should at least pick a rich, beautiful woman.

Lord Kingsley and Lowanna soon got married and moved into a beautiful mansion by the ocean. Lowanna loved Leroy dearly but she had a secret of her own. Lowanna came from a family of powerful magic users and was taught how to use her magic. Messina later discovered Lowanna’s true origins and she began seeking magical powers for herself. She then uses a dark ritual to summon the aboriginal god of evil, Marmoo. She made a deal with him in exchange for magical powers and immortality.

A year later, Lowanna gave birth to a half french half aborginal baby boy and was given the name, Frederic. Lord Kingsley then went away on his business trip to France and promised to return to see his beloved wife and son. Unfortunately on his way to return to Australia, A powerful lightning from the storm struck and destroyed the ship Lord Kingsley was in. He tragically died by drowning at the sea leaving his grieving wife, widowed.

Ten years later, Frederic grew up into a happy boy being raised by his single mother. He inherited her mother’s powers and Lowanna teaches her son how to use his magic for good. She also taught him fighting skills so he can defend himself and his loved ones.

One day, while the two are out hiking in the desert, a strange red serpent attacks them. Lowanna sacrificed her life to save her son from getting bitten by the red serpent. Frederic watches it slither away; he had never seen one of those in the desert before. He tries to save his mom by going to the medics to treat her injuries but the venom turns out to be too strong and poor Frederic had to watch his mom die before his eyes. As a last gift to her son, She gave Frederic her ancestors’ magical wooden staff that activated whenever he was in great danger.

Now an orphan, Frederic is taken in custody by his aunt, Messina. She had already taken over her deceased brother’s duties, but only as regent, until Frederic came of age to assume responsibility as the next lord when she must step down.

Soon Frederic realizes that the serpent he saw in the desert was Messina (also responsible for conjuring up the storm that took the life of his father). Messina turned into her serpent form and planned to kill him with her venomous bite just like how she killed Lowanna. Remembering his mother’s last gift, Frederic activated the wooden staff and let out a mighty magical blast.

The magical blast causes them to fall from the house’s window and into the raging ocean, and the magic staff turn Frederic into a tiny egg to save him from drowning. Messina woke up and found herself washed ashore. Messina tried to turn back to her human form but couldn’t. The magical blast from the staff had trapped her in her serpent form and she was unable to turn human again. Unable to find her nephew and the magic staff, The furious Messina vows to take over the world and take revenge on Frederic for trapping her in her serpent form. Meanwhile, The egg falls deep into the ocean and is stuck for many years until someone finds the egg and activates the magic staff.

A Loch Ness monster named Nairne was swimming away on her vacation to Australia. To avoid humans finding out, She disguised herself as a human tourist and went to a museum. The tour guide talked about ancient artifacts including the newest addition, the magic staff.

Few weeks ago, an Archaeologist found the magic staff while looking for artifacts and fossils.

After the museum tour, she meets a security guard couple and their daughter, Daphne.

At night, Nairne was swimming happily alone by the beach when humans were not around. She took a deep dive to explore the great barrier reef and saw many fishes there. While exploring, She saw something shiny underneath the sand. She digs it and finds a tiny egg that she mistook for a shiny pebble. She decided to put it on her pebble collection.

She gets out of the sea, dressed into her human disguise and looks for something to eat. She spotted a fish and chip shop and went there. While she was having dinner, She saw two suspicious-looking men picking up their takeaway.

Thanks to her great sense of hearing, She could hear them whispering about their plan to break into the museum to get the magic staff for their boss. She gets very bad vibes from them and secretly follows the two shady men when she finishes her dinner.

The two men drive to the museum and Nairne watches as the two men break into the museum. Realizing they were up to no good, Nairne sneaks inside the museum to stop the two thieves. While she wandered through the rooms and tried to find the thieves, she heard yells and gunshots. She dashed in there and saw the thieves had already killed Daphne's parents and taken the magic staff. Nairne then fought off the thieves.

A tiny egg drops out from Nairne’s pocket and the magic staff sense his presence. The magic staff activated and in a flash of light, the tiny egg hatched into a tadpole who turned out to be a resurrected Freddie.

Nairne and the thieves struggled and fought until the magic staff broke in half. Suddenly, they heard police sirens. The thieves quickly escaped with the top half of the staff leaving Nairne with the bottom half of the staff. Nairne saw Freddie who was still sleeping. She carefully picked him up and escaped the museum by jumping out of the open window and into the sea.

Once the police cars and the ambulance cars left, Nairne found her tail became trapped under a boulder. Freddie woke up and saw her struggling to free herself. She befriended Frederic, who in turn used his powers to free her tail from the boulder.

She learned the magic staff belonged to Freddie and she gave the bottom half of the staff to him. Freddie vow to find to top half of the staff and bring the pieces together.

Frederic asks her how long he slept after being trapped in an egg. Nairne hesitantly answered Frederic which shocked him. Frederic is very sad that all his friends and everyone he knows are now gone. Nairne comforted the poor, heartbroken tadpole and told him that his friends may be gone in the past but he can make new ones in the future.

Nairne took him near dry land, and quickly disguised herself as a human before humans saw her. She went to the park and put Frederic into the pond where tadpoles reside. She notes that if Frederic ever needed her, he would whistle. He then spent the rest of his childhood in his new life as Freddie the Frog.

Freddie eventually grows up to become one of the most competent members of the Australian secret Service, known as agent F.R.O.6.

To hide his identity from the public as a secret agent(Also being a humanoid green frog in the public can cause a lot of attention), He uses an illusion to make civilians think he is human. He also owns a robotic high-tech car named Nicole.

He is then called to London, England by the British Secret Service, as some major famous buildings in the United Kingdom are vanishing. By the time Freddie arrives as he leaves Perth, Australia. Nelson's Column, Tower of London, Buckingham Palace, St. Paul's Cathedral, and Stonehenge are already missing. Freddie meets the Brigadier, who seems to have trouble keeping himself and his comrades from getting tangled up in the phone cord.

Freddie is introduced to Daphne Daffers AKA agent W.E.E.K.7., a strong-willed, tough as nails and athletic Thai-british woman who is an expert in martial arts, and Arran Scott AKA agent F.R.I.D.A.Y.5., an introverted, shy and nervous Irish man who is an expert with weapons. Daphne joins the secret service in order to avenge her parents’ deaths while Arran joins the secret service to take his proud father’s place as the new weapons expert.

Things take a turn for the worse as Canterbury Cathedral disappears. Freddie also meets Tom Trilby AKA agent M.O.R.N.I.N.9. who happened to be the most popular, charming and attractive James bond-like member of the secret service and also the boyfriend of Daphne. He was originally supposed to be on a mission to find out about the missing famous buildings but he refused and said he had other plans. So Freddy takes his role instead.

During a trip to Ascot, Freddie discovers that the villain capturing the buildings turns out to be El Supremo, and he's working alongside Messina. El Supremo was once a italian-spanish scientist and inventor named Professor Elladio Salas and used to work for the secret service. Tired of being treated like a nobody and everyone praised the other scientists instead of him, he developed an inferiority complex and a desire to rule the world as their beloved ruler which led to him falling to supervillainy. Freddie also learns that El Supremo is planning to steal Big Ben next.

Knowing Daphne and Arran won't want to be taken, Freddie tells them the next target is Windsor Castle and they hide on Big Ben but they get captured by a giant robotic snake. They go to a secret island in Scotland and discover that El Supremo plans to use the buildings, by shrinking them to a size of a trophy and using them as batteries to the top half of the magic staff, which will send a powerful sleeping virus across the world (starting with the UK), which will put people to sleep, allowing him to invade and enslave them. Arran then freaks out as the last required building is captured: Edinburgh Castle.

Freddie and Arran are thrown into a pool of sea monsters(captured by El Supremo), while Daphne is taken to be brainwashed into a mindless follower of El Supremo and Messina. El Supremo uses the crystal to send his sleeping virus all across Great Britain and the whole country shuts down. Freddie whistles and Nairne appears to save them both from being devoured, and Arran is saved from drowning. Freddie cast a spell on Arran so he can breathe underwater like him and Nairne. She then invited them to her family reunion party. Nairne shows her family to Freddie, who then asks them to help defeat El Supremo by submerging the patrolling submarines.

Freddie saw Arran looking glum at the table. He asked him what was wrong. He explained to him he was sad that he didn’t think he was as good as his father who was the best weapons expert and was famous among the secret service. Freddie encouraged him that he didn’t need to be a copy of his father he just needed to be himself.

Meanwhile, Daphne was locked up in a cell and was forced to undergo a brainwashing theory, ala Clockwork Orange. She tries her best to resist the brainwashing. Just as she was about to succumb to her brainwashing, She remembered the memories of her parents and it gave her enough strength and will to resist it and destroy the brainwashing device.

She escapes from the cell but is found by Tom who is later revealed to be working for El Supremo and Messina. He betrayed her by ordering the snake guards to capture her. When she confronted him about why he is working for the evil organization, Tom revealed he started working for them as a double agent when they bribed him with a harem of highly attractive women, unlimited supply of expensive wine and a free membership card for Cryptoland. Angry and heartbroken by the cruel betrayal and seeing her boyfriend’s true colours, Daphne broke up with him by declaring it over between them as she was sent away to her cell by the snake guards.

Freddie and Arran save Daphne from the snake guards in disguise and the three return to stop El Supremo from conquering the world. During their mission, Daphne and Freddie bond over being orphans who lost their parents to the villains and why they join the secret services.

They have to battle an army of soldiers, but in the process, Daphne and Arran come too close to the top staff's energy and fall unconscious. Freddie manages to infiltrate the top staff's energy with his mind powers. He threw the bottom half of the staff at the top half of the staff, putting the pieces together and turning back into the single magic staff again. Unfortunately, Freddie also fells unconscious.

El Supremo and Messina (who are preparing to attack their next target - The United States) arrive to kill Freddie, but he, Daphne and Arran defeat El Supremo by shrinking him down to an ant's size and trapping him in a matchbox.

A final battle then ensues between Freddie and Messina, who attacks by shape-shifting into a bat, hyena, scorpion, and boa, taking each form in the previously mentioned order. As Messina begins to crush Freddie in her boa form, Freddie remembers comforting words from his late mother and finds the strength to escape and toss Messina into an electrical pole high up.

Fueled by vengeance, Freddie decided to kill the unconscious Messina out of bloody rage for the murder of his parents. He raised his magic staff and was about to give her the finishing blow but stopped when he saw his friend's terrified eyes and pleaded with him to stop. Their reactions remind him about how he was forced to watch his mom get bitten by Messina as a child. He turned to look at his reflection from the puddle and gasped in shock when he saw his eyes.

It was not the eyes of a heroic, friendly frog…

…but eyes of a murderous, deranged Snake.

Horrified by his actions, Freddie realized killing Messina wouldn’t bring his parents back and it only brought more pain and suffering. While Freddie is distracted by his thoughts, Messina wakes up and is then turned into a buzzard and vows to get revenge on Freddie one day before fleeing.

Freddie learns killing isn’t going to solve anything and he decides to arrest her aunt instead. The Brigadier and his team arrive in time to see Freddie and his friends. They then arrested El Supremo, the evil organization and Tom. Britain is restored to normal and Freddie heads off to deal with some bad guys in the United States.

Trivia:

1. Freddie will be of french/aboriginal ethnicity. Unlike the original, he is not a prince but instead the nobleman’s son. The magic part goes to his mother, not his father.

2. He lives in Australia instead of paris.

3. Instead of a sapient magic car for no reason, Nicole will instead be a hi-tech robotic car created by the scientists of the secret service. Unlike her counterpart, She did not have a crush on Freddie.

4. The crows are replaced with human men instead.

5. Freddie will be more developed than his counterpart. His personality seems to be similar to the original…except it was all just a mask. Behind the curtains of a charming, idealistic and happy spy was a cynical, unenthusiastic, easily irritable and bitter man suffering from depression and fueled with murderous batman-like vengeance against his aunt for what she did to his parents. However, he did truly care for his friends and try his best to hide his true personality from them. In the end, his true personality slipped when he tried to kill his aunt in front of his friends. Seeing his friends’ horrified faces and his murderous look from his reflection made him come back to his senses and was appalled for what he done. He later resolved to be a better person in the future and learn to let go of his trauma. Think Bojack Horseman if he is a badass spy instead of an actor and he hides his true personality by using mannerisms and behaviors of Mr Peanut butter.

6. Daphne and Arran will have bigger roles. Unlike her counterpart who fell for Freddie only because he is French, She grew to have feelings for him after breaking up with Tom and bonding over being orphans. She will be the one who managed to stop Freddie trying to murdered her aunt by asking him what will his dead parents feel if he killed someone. Arran’s arc is about becoming his own person rather than being a copy of his father and learning to try harder at making weaponry.

7. It will be a miniseries.

8. Unlike the original, it is for adults instead of kids.

#au #Freddie the frog #Freddie as fro7 #FRO6 #fix it fic #Fix Fic #remake idea

[dragonkeeper19600]

Hey! Hope you’re doing good! Cuz um the notes and inbox of yours has been interesting lately-Anyways

I wondered how you would write if Steven Universe had not been canceled and got a different ending, since being a former SU fan and got to the good side of the fandom lately and started to do my own little rewrite of the lore and ending + planning to do a hnk and SU crossover story too

I also think Volleyball needs more attention too as the lore for her is very interesting and missing ALOT, and tbh she + her and pearl’s fusion/relationship are the only reasons that I like after losing interest in the show and it’s downfall

That’s all thank you! (Oh and English isn’t my first language so sorry about the grammar mistakes here)

Okay, I really don't think you're gonna be happy with my response because I actually like the ending to Steven Universe.

I'm dead serious. As a Steven Universe fan, you're probably already aware of this, but Rebecca Sugar basically made a deal with Cartoon Network where the only way she'd be able to include Ruby and Sapphire's wedding in the show (which was, to my knowledge, the first gay wedding in western children's animation) was if she wrapped up the series in six episodes afterward. Considering that restriction that was put on her by the studio, I think it's nothing short of a minor miracle that the ending turned out as well as it did. In my mind, the ending achieved its most important goal, which was to complete Steven's arc and resolve his doubts and fears about his own identity and how it relates to his mother.

However, I do agree that six episodes is really not enough time to cover everything the story wanted in satisfying way.

So, my fix is pretty simple. I would make the wedding the season five finale and then devote all of season 6 to Steven living on Homeworld.

How it would work in my mind is that the last episode of season 5 devotes more time to the actually wedding before it's interrupted by the diamonds. Hell, maybe there'd be a few episodes before that covering wedding planning, which is always a really stressful time and has the potential for good comedy and good stories. It would also function as a breather after the drama of "A Single Pale Rose" and its fallout.

The last episode of season 5 would be mostly lighthearted, but it would take a serious turn when it's interrupted by the Diamonds' invasion. The Diamonds' invasion would not be resolved within the episode. Instead, it would be the cliffhanger for season 6.

Season 6 opens with a two-parter devoted to the invasion. Steven and the Crystal Gems know that they don't have the resources or manpower to fight off a massive attack from Homeworld, but Steven has a plan: Get to the Diamonds and show them that he's got Pink Diamond's gem. Nobody likes this plan, and they think Steven is basically suicidal for wanting to deliver himself to the Diamonds on a silver platter, but it's the only one they've got.

So, the Crystal Gems split into two teams. One is devoted to getting Steven to the Diamonds' ship, the other is devoted to fight off the Homeworld forces on the ground.

At some point, however, the group fighting notices that the Homeworld forces are lighter than they should be, and they quickly realize why: The Diamonds' main goal is actually to awaken the Cluster. The soldiers on the ground are just a distraction.

So no, there's a ticking time clock for Steven to get to the Diamonds before the process is complete and the Cluster wakes up.

I'm also imagining a scene where Steven thinks he's too late and the Cluster starts to emerge, only for the result to be the same as it is in canon: The Cluster actually joins the fight with the Crystal Gems and reenters dormancy once the Homeworld forces are given off.

Afterward, Steven would reach the Diamonds and show them who he is.

The Diamond's reaction would be the same as it is in canon. They think Steven is Pink Diamond and decide to take him back to Homeworld. But now, we have a whole season before the end of the show. That means more time to develop Steven's relationship with the Diamonds, more time to get to know Homeworld, and more time to explore the Crystal Gems' reactions to being back on the planet they rebelled against so long ago, not to mention the culture shock of seeing how it's changed over the thousands of years since they last saw it, and more time to flesh out the Diamonds' redemption arc. In the show, it really seems like the Diamonds mostly changed their ways because Steven told them to, which is kind of funny but not completely satisfying. I'd like more time to see the Diamonds really realize the weight of their actions, and I'd like the show to be able to fully explore how Blue and Yellow Diamonds' insecurities and their position skewed their perception and crippled their empathy.

One other thing, I'd also like to see Lapis and Bismuth realize that Bismuth was the one who poofed Lapis during the war, which ultimately led to her getting trapped in the mirror. They seemed like they were building toward that reveal in the show, but they never got around to it, probably because of the time constraint put on them by Cartoon Network. Perhaps Lapis sees Bismuth fighting during the Diamonds' invasion and gets a war flashback that makes her realize Bismuth was the one who attacked. Bismuth, in general, has a lot of potential in this hypothetical season 6. Her redemption also felt like it was rushed, and seeing her struggle to make up for what she did to Lapis in the past while the Diamonds struggle with their newfound empathy would be pretty narratively rich.

So, yeah, that's what I'd do. Honestly, I don't think that whatever I could come up with would be as good as whatever Rebecca Sugar's plan was before her vision got truncated to six episodes, but the reality of being a television writer is that you often have to work within studio restrictions. In this case, the restrictions were placed for a completely bullshit reason, but under the circumstances, I think Rebecca and the rest of the team did the best they could.

#steven universe #su #rewrite #fix fic #yellow diamond #blue diamond #bismuth #lapis lazuli

[atarahderek]

Exactly what it says on the tin. I completely rewrite the sequel to Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame. Watch me weave a story that demands animation that's at least marginally better than what we got in the sequel.

Plot summary: Paris is preparing to welcome the pope, and Quasimodo has been charged with the safekeeping of a new bell to be dedicated to the pope. Meanwhile, an old enemy of Clopin's returns to Paris to seek revenge, and a girl in his possession stumbles into Quasi's life, giving him the opportunity to be her knight in shining armor.

#Disney #Hunchback of Notre Dame #HoND #Notre Dame de Paris #animation #Quasimodo #Esmeralda #Phoebus #Clopin Trouillefou #Clopin #rewrite #fanfiction #fix fic #the hunchback of notre dame

[yeehawpim]

a comic about fix-it fanfics

#original comic #fanfic #fix it fic #fandom #dr who #bbc sherlock #avengers #my comic #my art #been thinking about the truly dumb amount of time I've spent reading fanfic #i started writing fix-it fic like a couple months ago and I Get It #teenage pim was a dumbass

[finleycannotdraw]

we need all types of art in fandoms

#angst #fluff #fanfiction #ao3 #fic writers #fix its #whump #what do I tag this as💀 #fandom #good omens #loki series #legend of zelda #sherlock