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recklesslycaffeinated · 2 years

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Are there any particular traits that draws the skeletons to the MC? Like what would their ideal partner be like? I need to know for... Research? 🙈😂 One more question to add on, how controlling would Sans be in a relationship? Thank you! 🙏

Research, right... 🤨😄

I'll start by saying none of the boys are looking for anything particularly physical. Sans isn't fussed, Skull is blind to it. Red comes the closest, but only in so much as he appreciates and enjoys physicality, but he's not looking for a 'type' of body.

Skull

Skull is actually pretty easy in many ways. He wants someone who'll eat his cooking, give him hugs, and just be with him in almost any form, even if that's just quietly sitting with him.

The audio @n01r-kn1ght used for their Skull animation is actually spot on "tell her you need her help. Tell her to rescue you, and care for you".

Skull doesn't want to be alone anymore. Skull enjoys Reader reading to him, but that's not necessarily compulsory. It's more the fact she wants to be there and interact with him. So if you wanted to draw him, sit and watch TV with him, or garden with him, he honestly doesn't care so long as it's with him. He'd go rock climbing with you if that's your thing.

It's not the most exciting of relationships, though emotionally rewarding. Trouble is, the phrase 'clingy' wouldn't do Skull justice.

Sans

Sans has basically found his match in Reader. He wants someone willing to listen and learn, so he can play the teacher. He wants someone who'll listen to his jokes. Ideally, someone who pretends not to like puns. Someone who'll sit and be lazy with him, but also kick him into gear when he needs it. Someone who has all the energy and joy in life that Sans just doesn't have.

He needs a companion and partner, more than he wants a 'girlfriend' or 'boyfriend'. Sans can't be alone and his superficial ability to make most people like him only goes so far to fill the hole.

Sans is very similar to Skull in the fact his key requirement in his partner is for them to be with him. At all times. Neither Sans nor Skull shares willingly. If Sans had his way, he'd absolutely put his partner in a castle and pull up the drawbridge. And on balance, I think if he let himself, he'd be worse than Skull.

Red

Red wants someone who can keep up with him. An outgoing flirt wouldn't be off the table for Red, so long as, behind the playing, they were still 100% his. Ideally, he'd love it if his partner was also involved in his family business. He's looking for the Bonny to his Clyde.

He's also not looking for someone to be on his arm 24/7. Red can't deal with that level of clinginess.

And, of course, he's the most physical of the Skeletons so his love initially is going to be more superficial than the other two. It's only after he lets himself look at someone as more than just their surface self will he really understands what he wants.

He's looking for someone who accepts him for who he is, but also pushes him to be more. Not 'better' as in pulling him away from his life of crime. But there's a true self to Red he often hides beneath humor or violence and that's what he needs his partner to bring out of him.

In many ways, Red is actually the more high-maintenance of the bunch because at least the other two know what they want and need.

Basically, Red is a fixer-upper, but once the work is done, he's an excellent long-term investment (if he doesn't get himself killed in a gang war). Sans is already a good investment, but there will always be jobs to do to prevent the foundation from sinking. And Skull is a knockdown and rebuild project that will take most of your life but somehow is still worth it.

#STES #saving three ex cell ent skeletons #red #skull #sans #askme

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fluffyprettykitty · 2 years

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themarcspector-hasmoved · 1 year

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title: pick something ‘you’ like who: marta roscoe (original) & reese (m00n kn1ght comic) fic idea: fear is the mind killer ship: marta & reese rated: pg-13 for like swearing & light mentions of violence. requested by: no one. it's camp nano & i felt like writing marta in her m*rvel verse & i'm basically just writing whatever keeps me writing to hit word goal. notes: i was inspired by a str*nger th*ngs gif set i lost & i was also inspired by the march c*mic where reese goes dancing. they are both 18 or 19 in this.

Marta looks in the mirror and admires herself for a little while, smiling genuinely with slightly red cheeks as she thinks of how pretty she looks. And truly it is a surprising sight for anyone who believes she’s unfeeling and unexpressive and not as empathetic and as cartoony in expression as she really is with those she loves and admires. Reese has taken her shopping in order to help her choose a dress for a night of dancing. It’s a bit strange in Marta’s mind to go out to do something so … normal… when there’s so much going on right now, but Reese insists that she needs a night out of fun because she’s young and she hasn’t lived enough for someone her age. Most of Marta’s life has been spent locked up.

Manipulated.

Lied to. Tricked, after all. And the people who did those things to her did not want her to enjoy fun in life. Reese even tells her that now that she’s out on her own – kinda – that she deserves time to go against what she was taught by those people.

Though Marta wants to tell Reese that she is potentially dangerous to others, despite everyone else's belief in her, Marta doesn’t tell Reese this. It feels a little too blunt to say out loud, even when she is a little too blunt with both Reese and Soldier at times. For once, she wants to try and be a normal person. For once she wants to attempt to figure out who she is away from ….who she was made to be and who…well, now, who she’s being guided to be. “When you said I should pick an outfit I liked, I was going to pick a dress, but I’m not really one for dresses….” Marta tells the vampire when Reese enters the room. “This…this is….I think…I’m sure such….is a very me outfit…and I like it very much.” The outfit is a skirt and a nice purple blouse that goes great with the leather jacket she tends to wear. It also goes great with the outfit that Reese chose for their night out. So they coordinate and Marta likes that a lot. It's fun for her. Reese nods and smiles, fangs showing. “Then, damn. If it’s you, you have taste and look great, Marty. Never let the others dress you in the shit they pick again. It always looks very out of place, when this works great for you.” She gestures to the outfit Marta wears. Marta tilts her head, and winces. Only hearing the part about her looking out of place. “I looked out of place?” Before Marta could continue Reese sighs. “Not really. Just like you were unhappy with what you were wearing." Reese waves her hand down, before walking over to Marta. “But whatever, the past is the past, you look great in that fit. Doesn't it feel great to find something that makes you feel …like yourself? You know, something that's you? You know, not anything someone wants you to be, but you?” Marta nods slowly and smiles softly, admiring herself as Reese admires her. "It's badass," Marta expresses, grinning now. "I'm badass!" "Very badass," Reese agrees. "You are, too, Reese!" "That I know. I've always been a badass." "We're both badass." Reese nods, and gently bumps Marta with her side, which causes Marta to freeze, and with anyone else, they may have been flipped over on their backs with a fighting move. But since it's Reese, she simply smiles. "Thank you for this, Reese," Marta expresses.

Though most would probably be worried about being attracted to someone who’s a vampire, Marta’s not. She's been told her own blood smells awful, for one. And secondly, she's just like, not scared of Reese or most others. So, really, if a cute girl around her age is going to help her figure out who she is, she may as well let her, right – vampire or not?

#fic shit tag #writing: marta dardashti-roscoe | fitmk au #fic idea: fear is the mind killer #ship: no last names | marta x reese #i only checked this once #but i'm posting it because no fear....#xD lol

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rebuilding-paradise · 2 years

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[Some CRK cookies meet some Demon slayer characters]

(Context: There's some cookies who share voices with DS characters so. Yeh. They not random meetings, They are meeting the characters they share voice actors with(English vers.) . Do note, there's more than the ones listed.)

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Devil cookie: Well well, you must be Ze-

Zenitsu, running-: AAAAAAA- FLYING RED DEVIL- STAY AWAY FROM ME-

Devil cookie, chasing after him: YOU CAN'T GET AWAY FROM ME, ZENITSU!!

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Almond:

Almond: you can't be serious...

Uzui: Oh, I'm serious alright! And you, sir, are not that flashy and flamboyant.. We can fix that though!

Almond: Please no, I have a job to do and a family to care for-

Uzui: TOO LATE!

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Akaza: so... You're not evil?

Clover: nope..!

Akaza: not even a little bit?- no demonic abilities or anything?-

Clover: not at all! Only magic I can do it healing my friends..!

Akaza:

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Espresso: ah, Hello again, Kamado..!

Tanjiro: Hello Espresso cookie!

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Sabito: so.. You're Red Velvet..?

Red Velvet: indeed... You must be Sabito, correct..? I am dearly sorry for what fate gave you... Getting your head crush must've been horrible. Quick but not necessarily painless.

Sabito: that is right.. Glad to see you are living still.

Red velvet: oh, I'm not going to let myself perish for a long time.. Giyuu is a nice human. He misses you greatly.. Hell, Apparently I remind him of you.

Sabito: ...mh.. I'm glad he's doing alright...

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night-waker · 1 year

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(NOTE: I'm reposting this bc the original didn't show up in the tags due to Tumblr being Tumblr)

Okay, but what if SB had included more interactions between the animatronics? Like, imagine you overhearing them discussing how to catch Gregory, or - if there are multiple in one area - every now and then you hear them go, "Have you found him yet?" "Not yet, but he's gotta be here!" You could even take it a step further and have them check in with Vanessa sometimes (ala that one cut line where she asks them all to report in). If you're inside Freddy and walk past one of them, there's a chance they'll say hi and stuff. Imagine these random encounter events you can stumble across, where you see two of them just talking and being buds. Overall, I think it would help flesh the Glamrocks, and their relationships/dynamics with each other, out a bit more.

Then on the flip side... there's the POTENTIAL FOR ANGST AND DRAMA! Imagine seeing and/or hearing their upset/horrified reactions to their friends being taken out one by one, and having their parts stolen.

Okay, now take all that angst and drama... AND APPLY IT TO THEIR INTERACTIONS WITH FREDDY AND HOW IT WOULD CHANGE AS THE GAME GOES ON!! At first they assume he's also helping them hunt down Gregory, but as the game goes on, they begin to grow suspicious... At one point you overhear them going back and forth abt whether Freddy is hiding something, with at least one of them (maybe Chica? Idk) trying to defend him.

The doubt and suspicion towards Freddy continues to grow until one of them confronts him directly (Monty perhaps? Again idk??) They tell Freddy they know he's helping Gregory somehow, and demands he tell them where he's hiding him. Freddy of course denies all of this, but it's clear the other isn't convinced, and maybe even feeling a little betrayed and angry he's seemingly choosing some random kid over his own friends (bonus points if Gregory was hiding in Freddy's stomach during this). While Freddy doesn't like having to lie to his friends, he knows there's something wrong with them, and refuses to let them hurt Gregory.

Afterward, there would be a lot more tension between Freddy and the band, since by now they're almost certain he's helping Gregory, but they don't have any solid proof. It's only when Gregory starts taking them out, and upgrading Freddy with their parts, that they finally turn against him and become openly hostile. Idk how that would work gameplay wise, buuuut yea. Anyway, my point is having more chances see the Glamrocks being friends, how the virus would affect that, and all the drama that could bring, would've been nice.

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dailyreverie · 2 years

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can you do 2 and 13 w/peter for the intimate moments prompts

A/N: Hi anon! This one's a combo blurb lol it also has the line "just get it out, let it all out" which was requested by @moon-kn1ght for the hurt/comfort prompts a few weeks ago (sorry this took so long!)

#2: breathing in the other’s smell

#13: playing with the other’s fingers

Pairing: tasm!Peter Parker x reader

Warnings: language

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The familiar red-and-black-masked face had been all over the news for the past few days, fighting and taking hit after hit from whatever creature had decided to make its appearance in Manhattan that weekend. The longer he took to answer your worried texts the more you worried over him, and considering it hasd been three days, you were on the verge of a breakdown.

Peter's footsteps outside your window made everything change, though. You felt rage washing over your body when you thought relief would make a comeback. "Hey," Is all he said through a wincing face, dried blood on his lips and his forehead. He could've replied, show any sign of him being alive instead of making your head spiral into the most terrible thoughts.

"What the hell, Peter?!" Your feet dragged you towards him as he climbed down the window, your hands shoving his chest with anger.

"I know, I know, I'm sorry." He caught your wrists even as you tried to fight his grasp, his bright red suit covered in asphalt and dirt matching his face. "I didn't want to come here and put you in danger." His apology was one you had heard many times, which only made your blood boil more.

"One text, Parker. I only asked for one single text in three days to know you were alright." Your hands keep pushing and shoving him, your angry state making try and be as far away from him as possible - even when you were asking for the exact same opposite thing from him.

"Please don't Parker me." He pleads, a small smirk drawing on his lips when your eyes rolled in annoyance.

"You have no right to ask for anything. I was worried sick, Peter! You were getting hurt and I had no way to know if you were alright! The whole damn country was watching you fight that thing and I could only sit in front of the TV and hope you were not dead somewhere in a cold street..."

"Just get it out, get it all out. I deserve it." With furrowed eyebrows he encouraged you to keep venting, his chest receiving shoves from your fists as your rambling kept going.

Your chest was heaving and your eyes burning with unshed tears when you were done. "Why the fuck are you smiling?" You asked breathless, looking up at his fond expression, his eyes looking at you with nothing but love in them.

"I can't get mad at you, did you know?" Peter admitted with the smile you just had questioned. His gloved fingers let go of your wrists and began tangling one by one in between your fingers, feeling every inch as he played with them, the softness of your skin contrasting against the rough fabric of his suit. Peter's touch pulled you back to ease, but it wasn't until he embraced you that you were able to relax, his lips kissing the top of your head once he held you.

The last tingling scent of his lotion clung to his skin as you buried your face in his body. His head rested on top of yours when you returned the embrace, finally breathing him in, letting the thought of Peter being in between your arms set in your brain.

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cyantomatos · 2 years

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Even Stars Will Fall - Ch 4

Pairing: Eventual Oberyn Martell x fem!Reader x Ellaria Sand Word Count: ~3.1k Warnings: Not really much this time, vague allusions to Ellaria being pregnant and how many people both her and Oberyn sleep with Notes: Shhh it didn’t take me two months to get this out idk what you’re talking about. The visit mentioned at the end was actually supposed to take place in this chapter, but I got there and realized how long the chapter already was, so I’m moving it to next chapter. Which will hopefully be out quickly, since I’m actually really excited about writing it! Big thanks to @emmikmil and @moon-kn1ght for beta reading

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Several days pass before anything interesting happens.

You dream more, and although you usually can’t remember more than snippets when you wake, the feeling of importance tinged with anxiety is hard to shake after each dream. You try to ignore the way those snippets that you do remember tend to crop up in your life - the cook burning his hand, a prize horse getting loose from the stables, a specific blend of berries being served up in a jeweled bowl for breakfast.

Every time you wake from another dream, you push the anxiety that rises in you down. You don’t know what the dreams mean, and for all you know this could be your mind making things up, trying to make sense of the strange world you’ve found yourself in. You manage to convince yourself they mean nothing. Nothing is better than something, you don’t need more something on top of the already large something of being stuck in a world that isn’t yours.

You’ve taken to spending time in the gardens, fascinated by the plants you find there. There are some familiar plants, fruit trees and bright flowers that you can name from back in your world, but there are also plants you don’t recognize.

One of the gardeners, a kind older man named Solomon, notices your interest. He doesn’t complain when you begin following him through the many palace gardens, patiently answering all of your questions about the plants you don’t recognize, and a few about the plants you do recognize. He seems to like it, actually.

“Solomon?” You’re perched on the edge of a fountain, enjoying the bright sunshine as your new friend tends to a patch of vibrant flowers. He’d told you earlier they were called Crimson Woodbine, and you had listened with fascination as he listed off the uses for the different parts of the plant. Many of the plants in the gardens had medicinal or culinary uses aside from being ornamental, and you wondered if that had anything to do with the whispers you’d hear about Oberyn’s side projects.

The man grunts in response, concentrating on clearing the few weeds from around the base of the beautiful plant.

“Are you sure I’m not bothering you? I know everyone seems to think they have to keep me happy because I’m the prince’s guest, but if I’m a bother-” Solomon cuts you off with a wave of one dirt covered hand, stretching up from his hunched kneeling position.

“You are the furthest thing from a bother, my dear. To be honest, I enjoy your company. It gets lonely with only the plants to talk to, and I enjoy the enthusiasm you show in learning about them. I find it refreshing for someone so young to be so interested in something many see as boring.”

You’re about to respond when you feel a hand on your shoulder, and look up to see Ellaria standing next to you with a smile on her face. “I hope I am not interrupting, but it seems your new outfits from Maricel have arrived. I thought you might like to get out of borrowed clothing.” You’re on your feet before she can finish the sentence, and she covers a laugh with a hand over her mouth.

Before you leave Ellaria turns to Solomon, inclining her head apologetically. “I apologize for stealing your company.” The older man waves her off with a smile, turning back to his plants.

She leads you down the halls that you’re steadily growing more accustomed to. When you first arrived it had felt like a maze of opulence, but little things have started to stand out and aide you in moving through the palace. The decorations tend towards ornate vases and statues the closer you get to the official side of the palace, where Doran hosts visitors and conducts his business. As you get closer to the residential side there is a slow transition towards tapestries and paintings, especially of human subjects near Oberyn’s rooms.

There’s a gold vase with sapphire gems cut like blooms at the corner you turn to take to Ellaria’s rooms, set close to Oberyn’s. The painting of what you would assume to be an English countryside if you didn’t know any better signals the turn towards the kitchen, and a small statue of what you think is a horse sits close to your own rooms. You aren’t sure you will ever be able to move about the halls as confidently as Ellaria, but - as you remind yourself - you aren’t even sure you’ll be here long enough to get that chance.

The thought sobers you as you arrive outside Ellaria’s rooms, but the sight that greets you as she flings the door open is enough to sweep your melancholy mood away. It seems like every surface is covered in a riot of colors and patterns, the combination threatening to overwhelm you.

Ellaria chuckles from off to the side, picking up a pale pink dress that looks similar in style to the one she is wearing. “Is it a bit much, dove? I did say Oberyn wanted you to have a full wardrobe.”

You let out a nervous laugh, turning to her with wide eyes and a disbelieving smile. “I think Oberyn and I might have different opinions on what a ‘full wardrobe’ means.” You drift over, picking up a dress draped over the back of a gilded couch that seems to be made of liquid gold as it slips through your fingers. “There’s enough cloth here to make a circus tent. How much did this cost him?” Your voice takes on a slightly panicked note at the end, suddenly wondering if you’ll be expected to pay all this extravagance back.

Ellaria just shrugs, fingering the delicate lace edge of the dress she holds. “To be honest, I am not sure a number could be put to it. Maricel works for the family, as well as a number of other well-off families in Dorne. I doubt Oberyn even asked her for a price, and even she might not know.” She sinks onto the one spot on the couch not covered by silky fabrics. “Maricel makes, and Oberyn pays. Well,” She smirks, leaning back. “Doran pays, really.”

You stare at her, letting the golden fabric slip through your fingers. “Ellaria, I-” Glancing around the room you find yourself at a loss for words, unable to process.

Ellaria reaches out a hand, catching your fingers between hers with a soft smile. “Do not worry, my dear. You will not be expected to repay Oberyn or Doran for these clothes. They are a gift for a guest of the Prince of Dorne.”

It takes some prodding but Ellaria finally convinces you to try the dresses on. Despite their beauty, they end up being surprisingly simple to get on and off. The fabrics are all soft and light, perfect for the Dornish heat. They fit you better than anything you owned back home, and as you smooth your hand over the pale blue silk of one dress as it drapes over your hips, you find this another mark in favor of not leaving.

Not that you’re sure the choice will even be yours. If you don’t know how you got here, who’s to say you won’t leave just as suddenly as you arrived?

There’s a knock on the door just as Ellaria is doing up the back of a burnt yellow dress, the edges of the flowing sleeves trimmed in tiny suns. As she works at the laces, she calls for the person to enter.

You hear the door open, too preoccupied with examining the beautiful embroidery on the hem of the sleeve to look up right away, but you recognize Oberyn’s voice. “I heard the new dresses have arrived, I trust Marciel has crafted-”

After a moment of silence, and Ellaria stilling behind you, you look up to the mirror she has you positioned in front of. She’s looking over your shoulder off to the side towards the door, a smirk you’ve come to associate with her winning an argument on her face. Slowly you turn towards the door, unsure if you want to see why she’s aiming that smirk at Oberyn.

You’ve yet to quite place why the prince seems to have a never ending parade of people in and out of his bed. He’s attractive, you can’t deny that, and while it doesn’t lure you, the promise of claiming a night in the bed of a prince is an undeniable draw for some.

But still. So many people?

As you finally feel the weight of his gaze settle on you, however, you also feel yourself beginning to understand.

There’s a paper clutched in one of his hands, although he seems to have forgotten all about it. He almost looks surprised, like you’ve caught him off guard, although you know he had to assume you would be trying the dresses on if he came to see them. As your eyes meet his the weight of his gaze shifts. You watch as he scans down your body, snagging for a moment you think on the suns embroidered on your sleeves.

When his gaze finally meets yours again, you feel pinned in place, reminded vaguely of the frog you dissected in 8th grade science - exposed and incredibly seen by a man standing completely across the room from you.

You want to say something, to make a joke about his seeming inability to speak, but you find yourself just as unable to form words. The only thing you can seem to focus on is the solid warmth of Ellaria behind you, and Oberyn’s almost possessive gaze pinning you in place.

“Love, you’re staring.” Ellaria’s voice seems to break both of you out of the spell holding you in place. You just barely catch a somewhat flustered smirk coming across Oberyn’s face before you’re looking away, ignoring the heat creeping up your neck.

“How could I not stare at such a beautiful sight? Maricel has truly outdone herself again, our dove looks even more radiant than before.” Long strides eat up the space between the two of you, and you find yourself looking up to meet his gaze once more. There isn’t the same weight as before, you don’t feel pinned and helpless to look away, but there is still a pull that wasn’t there before.

Before you can be sucked back in, Oberyn lifts the hem of your sleeve, gaze dropping to the embroidery. He rubs a thumb almost thoughtfully over the gold thread, glancing up at you from beneath unfairly long lashes with a small smile. “It is a good color for you.”

There, sandwiched between the two of them so close you feel surrounded by them, you feel that belonging from the dinner days ago begin to seep in again. It feels right, having them both near you, their attention on you, and you find yourself wanting it to never end.

Oberyn straightens, soft cloth slipping from between his fingers, and although he really only moves a few inches away you feel yourself lean forward to close the distance again. Ellaria’s fingers still twisted in the laces at your back keep you in place, ensuring you don’t embarrass yourself by chasing after the prince.

He holds up the paper in his hand, the smirk on his face making you almost certain he knows how being in your space is affecting you. “I will be gone for a few days, boring matters of state to attend to. I trust you will be absolutely crushed by my absence, but alas, duty calls.”

Despite the fact that you know he’s right, you will miss him while he’s away, something about the smug tone his voice takes on has you leaning back into Ellaria and away from him, letting a smug smile bleed onto your own face. “I suppose we will just have to find a way to entertain ourselves without you.” Ramping up the dramatics you tilt your head back onto Ellaria’s shoulder, eyes closed as you drape a hand over your forehead. “It will be such agony being deprived of your presence, my prince.”

You feel Ellaria shaking against your back, and crack one eye open to see her covering her mouth with a hand, attempting to stifle her laughter at your dramatics. One look at Oberyn shows similar amusement playing out across his face, and the combination cracks your resolve to hold up the act. You collapse into a fit of giggles against the other woman, the room quickly filling with laughter from both of you.

Oberyn holds up his hands, shaking his head with a grin. “Alright, I get the picture.”

With one last lingering look at the suns embroidered on your sleeve he lifts your hand, pressing a lingering kiss to the back that has your breath catching in your lungs, your laughter dying on your lips. His eyes never leave yours, an emotion you can’t quite place shining in them.

“Until I return, beautiful mystery.”

This time when you shoot up in bed, sweaty and panting with a feeling of doom draped about your shoulders like an insistent cat, you can’t shake the feeling off by the time the sun rises. These dreams are something, you can’t pretend otherwise anymore.

You seek Ellaria out, finding her on the balcony of her rooms. You had originally found it odd that Ellaria and Oberyn didn’t share rooms, what with their obvious closeness despite not being married. She had explained that while usually they did share a bed and their conquests, there were times where one or the other or whoever they brought to bed didn’t feel like sharing or being shared, which made separate rooms convenient.

She also smiled and told you that there were times, much as she loved him, that she just needed space from Oberyn.

Despite the separate spaces, you find both of them on the balcony of Ellaria’s rooms, Oberyn freshly back from his trip the night before, a spread of breakfast food on a tray resting on the built-in bench between them. Ellaria sees you first, and a warm tingle spreads through you at the smile that lights up her face as soon as she spots you.

“Darling! If I had known you were going to join us this morning I would have had more food brought up.” You quickly shake your head, cutting her off before she can call for someone to bring more food.

Instead you settle on the other side of the bench that stretches around the edge of the small balcony, nervously tucking your legs beneath you. “Thank you, but I um…I actually wanted to ask you about something.”

Even staring nervously at the floor, you don’t miss the way they both straighten, twisting to look more fully at you. Oberyn sets the glass of wine in his hand down, and you have to resist the urge to squirm under the full weight of both their attentions.

“It’s…god I’m going to sound insane, but magic is a thing here, right?” You look up and the two of them glance at each other.

“Somewhat, yes. Why do you ask?” Oberyn is the one that answers you, a wrinkle forming between his brows.

You twist your fingers together in your lap, partially out of nerves and at least somewhat to resist the urge to reach out and smooth the wrinkle down. “Well, I uh…I’ve been having these dreams? And at first I didn’t think anything about them, I just thought they were nightmares, but then I remembered I had them as a kid too, and they always ended up coming true. Which didn’t really mean anything, I thought maybe I was just making connections where there weren’t any, but I had a dream the other night and the only thing I could remember from it was one of the cooks burning himself on a pan, and when I went down to get a snack the next day he burned himself while I was down there in the same spot, which I know sounds insane but I swear it’s true and-”

You don’t realize you’re rambling until Ellaria leans forward, covering your increasingly twisted fingers with her own. The feeling stops you short and you draw in a deep breath, suddenly aware of how low on oxygen you had been running. You lower your eyes from the pretty blue sky where they’d drifted, unable to look at either of them as you rambled.

They’re both frowning, and panic fills you. They don’t believed you, they think you’re insane, what kind of crazy person thinks they have dreams that come true how stupid is that-

“That sounds similar to Amphise.” Ellaria’s voice breaks your spiraling train of thoughts and brings you back to the present to see her looking at Oberyn. You realize now they both look thoughtful, not judgmental, and you sag with relief.

Then Ellaria’s words register, and it’s your turn to frown.

“Amphise? Who’s Amphise?”

Oberyn leans back, resting against the railing of the balcony with arms crossed. “Amphise is what I suppose your world would call a witch. They are called seers here in Dorne, but have different names in different parts of the world. Seers have prophetic dreams similar to yours, among other abilities.”

“She is the one that confirmed Oberyn and I were soulmates. It is one of their abilities.” Ellaria turns to you, and you shove down the sting at the reminder of their bond. “Normally signs manifest in early childhood that someone is a seer, and they would be trained on how to harness their powers. But since you were not born in our world…”

“It was never seen, so I was never trained.” You finish her thought for her, and she gives you a small smile of confirmation. “So I’m not going crazy? I’m actually having dreams of the future?”

Oberyn laughs, shaking his head. “No, dove, you are not going crazy.” He leans forward, snagging a grape. “We should take you to see Amphise. She lives here in Sunspear, Doran likes to keep her close since her abilities are so useful.”

You sit up, nodding excitedly. “Can we?” You can finally get answers about these dreams, and the thought occurs to you - what if Amphise might know how you came to be in Dorne?

It’s Ellaria’s turn to smile. “We can leave now, if you’d like.”

Another thought occurs to you as you look at both of them, one that when you first arrived would have filled you with more excitement but now fills you with a confusing mix of emotions you can’t quite parse out.

What if she knows how to send you back?

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moon-kn1ght · 2 years

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leering/cheeky/dour with matt murdock 😎

okay fuck i'm sorry this is not want you wanted probably but it's what popped into my head. and i just went with the first word. thank you for requesting this!

Leering is the best way to describe that strangers eyes on you from across the block. God, the way he stares makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up on end.

It's like that something inside of you, something innate, deep in your gut, could tell something is wrong with the owner of the stare.

But when you track down a face that was pointed to you, you're surprised to find that the owner is blind. (Or at least is trying to present as a blind person with the cane and the darker glasses).

But then, when you let out a small chuckle at your seeming mistake, you see the corners of his mouth turn up slightly. Like he's laughing at your realization.

Your heartbeat ticks up.

How the fuck could he know that? How the fuck could he be reading you from down the block even if he wasn't blind?

Saliva floods your mouth. You press your fingernails into the pads of your palm to ground you.

This can't be actually happening.

What the fuck is happening?

Then the stranger tilts his head up and sniffs at the air. A devilish grin breaks out across his face. He picks up his cane and walks the opposite direction of you.

#matt murdock x reader #matt murdock x you #matt murdock #marvel #marvel reader insert #marvel fanfiction #matt murdock x gn!reader #for one kn1ght only

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discoursecatharsis · 6 years

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Ooh I am actually writing an enemies to lovers fanfic for V4mp1re Kn1ght. Well, more like attempting to. I don't think it's good, but people seem to like it and i only got one rude comment on it. But that person was a dick and told me I wasted their time with my shitty story telling essentially. Anyway, it's Z3ro and K4n4me together and their kind of relationship I'm going for is ant1s hate. I'm glad there aren't ant1s in the fandom as far as I know. At least i can update this fic in peace. 😂

Yay I’m glad you can write that fic in peace! Sorry for the one jerk, but I’m glad others like your story~

#ask #crystallinekai

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oarfishfever · 7 years

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QUAG DUMPS MUSIC MASTER POST 7

i had to sweep through all of these and fix a bunch of links. here’s a new this one’s a doozy because im lazy.

previous posts: 1 2 3 4 5 6

Chet Baker - I’ve Never Been In Love Before [Jazz] Hiromi Mine - Akutagawa Ryuunosuke’s Kappa ~ Candid Friend [Touhou/Piano] Macross 82-99 - 葛城ミサトYEBISU (YUNG BAE EDIT) [Future Funk] マクロスMACROSS 82-99 - NEW DAWN [Future Funk] architecture in tokyo - ヒスイ MARBLE (ft. ULTRA ウルトラ) [Future Funk] architecture in tokyo - CITY (ft. マクロスMACROSS 82-99) [Future Funk] Logic - Under Pressure [Hip-Hop] Perturbator - Meet Jimmy (ft. Le Cassette) [Synthwave] Ox - Soul [VGM/Hip-Hop] Masayoshi Furukawa & Apollon Quartet - But Not For Me [Anime/Jazz] Naofumi Hataya - Burning Depths [VGM] Grant Green - My One And Only Love [Jazz] Lupe Fiasco - Mural [Hip-Hop] Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town [Rock] BLΛNK BΛNSΗΣΣ - Eco Zones [Vaportrap] SAINT PEPSI - Cherry Pepsi [Future Funk] Carpenter Brut - Roller Mobster [Synthwave] The Green Kingdom - Untitled [Ambient] Magna - Divide (Miami Edit) [Synthwave] El Huervo - Rust [Electro] Riyou Kinugasa, Takuya Kobayashi & Hiromi Mizutani - Life Is Beautiful [VGM] Obadiah Parker - Hey Ya [Cover/Acoustic] Shibayan ft. nachi - Turn Back Time [Electro] iamthekidyouknowwhatimean - Run [Electro] El Tigr3 - She Swallowed Burning Coals [Synthwave] M|O|O|N - Dust (Carpenter Brut Remix) [Synthwave] Towkio - Heaven Only Knows (ft. Chance the Rapper & Lido) [Hip-Hop] YUNG BAE - Honey [Future Funk] Harrison - Sure Ain’t News [Future Funk] マクロスMACROSS 82-99 - Fun Tonight [Future Funk] Flamingosis - Outside/Grounded [Beats] Rika Muranaka - The Best Is Yet To Come [VGM/Gaelic Folk] ❀ Harrison ❀ - Comfort Cruise [Future Funk] Stevie Wonder - Higher Ground [Soul] Vanilla - The Winter [Instrumental Hip-Hop] コンシャスTHOUGHTS - Take Control [Future Funk] DJ Okawari - Represent (ft. Chieko Kinbara) [Instrumental Hip-Hop] BLΛNK BΛNSΗΣΣ - Ammonia Clouds [Vaportrap] BLΛNK BΛNSΗΣΣ - Teen Pregnancy [Vaportrap] ❀ Harrison ❀ - Down, B, Up, B [Chiptune] LCD Soundsystem - Get Innocuous! [Dance-Punk] Flamingosis - Football Head [Beats] SAINT PEPSI/Skylar Spence - Fall Harder [Nu-Disco] Machinations - No Say In It [Disco] Tohru Minegishi, Shiho Fujii - Staff Roll [VGM] Al Stewart - Roads to Moscow [Folk] The Long Winters - The Commander Thinks Aloud [Indie Rock] Ray Bryant Trio - Misty [Jazz] 悲しい ANDROID - APARTMENT¶ - の主人公 Heartbeat Soap Opera 恋に落ちます [Future Funk] Dance With The Dead - Nightdrive [Synthwave] Perturbator - Humans Are Such Easy Prey [Synthwave] Perturbator - Perturbator’s Theme [Synthwave] Jan Hammer - Crockett’s Theme [New Wave] マクロスMACROSS 82-99 - Lynn Minmay [Future Funk] Pete Rock & C. L. Smooth - They Reminisce Over You [Hip-Hop] Jungle - Busy Earnin’ [Neo Soul] 猫シ Corp - Ocean Beach Highschool Prom 1984 [Vaporwave] Nujabes - Voice of Autumn [Chillhop] Disconscious - Endless Escalation [Mallsoft] 死夢VANITY - kiosk centre [Mallsoft] B L U E - ☕ Coffee Break ☕ [Mallsoft] 식료품groceries - Interlude (Lost in the Freezer Section) [Mallsoft] B L U E - \ \ Visual \ \ / / Entropy / / [Mallsoft] Toby Fox - Nyeh Heh Heh!/Bonetrousle [VGM/Chiptune] Toby Fox - Spider Dance [VGM/Chiptune] The Specials - A Message To You, Rudy [Ska] Infinity Frequencies - Lotus Bloom [Vaporwave] Skylar Spence - Can’t You See [Nu Disco] Chance the Rapper ft. Saba - Angels [Hip-Hop] Soul Purpose - Survival [VGM/Hip-Hop] Flamingosis - G E T - L O W [Hip-Hop]* NOVA - Agua de Beber [Cover/Lounge] Thomas Happ - Trace Awakens [VGM/Synthwave] Boom Boom Satellites - Shut Up and Explode [J-Rock] Hideki Okugawa - Let’s Get It On [VGM/Hip-Hop] Run The Jewels - Lie, Cheat, Steal [Hip-Hop] ２８１４ - 恢复 [Vaporwave] Floème - Joanna [Instrumental Hip-Hop] Chet Baker - Let’s Get Lost [Jazz] Vince Guaraldi Trio - Christmas Time Is Here (Instrumental) [Jazz/Piano] Masato Nakamura - Star Light Zone [VGM] Meiko - Leave the Lights On (Silent Gloves remix) [Synthpop] Herb Alpert - The Midnight Tango [Jazz] Leslie Odom Jr, Daveed Diggs, Okieriete Onaodowan - Washington On Your Side [Hip-Hop/Musical] Carpenter Brut - The Good Old Call (ft. Franky Cadillac) [Synthwave] Tame Impala - The Less I Know The Better [Synthpop] VHSテープリワインダー- showering together [Vaporwave] Infinity Frequencies - As Darkness Falls [Vaporwave] Skylar Spence - I Can’t Be Your Superman [Nu Disco] Masafumi Takada - Steel Python [VGM] Mitch Murder - Ocean Avenue [Synthwave] Run The Jewels - Run The Jewels [Hip-Hop] コンシャスTHOUGHTS X 悲しいANDROID - APARTMENT -『ダンス! ダンス!』 [Future Funk] ceruleancerise - cosmic space latte [Future Funk] C2C - Happy (ft. Derek Martin) [Electronic] DKO - School Pop Machine [Beats] Kamasi Washington - Miss Understanding [Jazz] Hiroshi Kawaguchi - Passing Breeze [VGM] Run The Jewels - Rubble Kings Theme (Dynamite) [Hip-Hop] Tsukasa Saitoh - The First Hunter [VGM] SAINT PEPSI - ENJOY YOURSELF [Vaporwave] Masahiro Aoki, Keiki Kobayashi - Theme of F.A.N.G. [VGM] The Seatbelts ft. Tim Jensen - Ask DNA [Anime/Jazz] The Seatbelts - What Planet Is This?! [Anime/Jazz] POCARI ステューシー - Adorée [Vaporwave] Saint Pepsi - Better [Future Funk] 식료품groceries - s o f t drinks [Mallsoft] Televisor - The Pressure [Nu Disco] Disasterpeace - Vignette: Panacea [VGM] Disasterpeace - A Chorus of Tongues [VGM] L'indécis - Staying There [Triphop] Emapea - Smooth Walk [Triphop/Funk] Boho Fau & Elevated Soul - Really, Truly (INS) [Triphop/Instrumental] saib. - hawaiian flower. [Chillout/Tropical] Hiroki Morishita, Takeru Kanazaki, Yasuhisa Baba, Rei Kondoh, Masato Kouda - Road Taken (Roar) [VGM] Digital Voyager - Introducing Your New Spaces! [Vaporwave] ２８１４ - 悲哀 [Vaporwave] S U B W A Y S - アイスクリーム [Future Funk] Disasterpeace - Cascades [VGM/Ambient] Perturbator (ft. Greta Link) - Venger [Synthwave] Takeshi Terauchi & His Blue Jeans - Diamond Head [J-Rock/Surf Rock] The Avalanches - Frankie Sinatra [Plunderphonics] Ryo Fukui - Early Summer [Jazz/Piano] Takuya Kuroda - Everybody Loves The Sunshine [Jazz] Daisuke Ishiwatari - Starry Story [VGM/Rock] Trevor Something - Summer Love [Retrowave] Ronnie Jones - Video Games [Disco] Masafumi Takada - When The May Rain Comes [VGM] Ryan Amon - Hail The Nightmare [VGM/Choir] tyDi - Die This Way (ft. The Ready Set) [EDM] Spyro Gyra - Morning Dance [Jazz Fusion] The Who - Eminence Front [Rock] Kraftwerk - Computer Love [Synthpop] DJ Shadow ft. Run The Jewels - Nobody Speak [Hip-Hop] Barns Courtney - Fire [Rock] BLΛNK BΛNSΗΣΣ - Dreamcast [Vaportrap] Terukazu Hiroki, Yumiko Hagiwara - Transvestite (Boutique) [VGM] DJ Okawari ft. Agehah - Chocolate [Chillhop] Waveshaper - Wisdom of Rage [VGM/Synthwave] Kn1ght - Something Memorable [VGM/Synthwave] Blazo - Essential Violet [Jazzhop] 死夢VANITY - moonlight [Mallsoft] 死夢VANITY - ガレリア [Mallsoft] milo - Going No Place (ft. Elucid) [Hip-Hop] Ashtar Command - Deadman’s Gun [VGM] LCD Soundsystem - you can’t hide/shame on you [Indie Rock/Live] Tatsuro Yamashita - Magic Ways [City Pop] Hiroshi Okubo - Disco Ball [VGM] Nujabes - Sea of Cloud [Chillhop] LCD Soundsystem - New York, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down [Indie Rock/Dance-Punk] Gorillaz (ft. DOOM) - November Has Come [Hip-Hop/Triphop] Shibayan - 躍る夜雀～Invitation to evening [Touhou/Electronic] Bill Evans Trio - Nardis [Jazz/Piano] Carl Norén - DonAcDum [VGM] Daisuke Ishiwatari - Jack-a-Dandy [VGM/Rock] Run The Jewels - Down (feat. Joi) [Hip-Hop] Mitch Murder - Breeze [Synthwave] マクロスMACROSS 82-99 -『82.99 AM』 [Future Funk] Masafumi Takada - Season of the Samurai [VGM] Rui Sato, Kokoro - No More No [VGM] MatrixMarioX - Oldies But Happiest [Mashup/VGM] Carl Norén - Bullet Rain [VGM]

*the link is no longer available on SoundCloud; to keep the order correct, instead of deleting and remaking the post, i provided a youtube link to the song in the text of the post

#quag dumps music #master post #this shouldn't have taken so long to do #look at the size of this fuckin thing

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sayakuro-remade · 7 years

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1 + 7 for risky n 2 for really risky!!!

1. “@” people you want to be friends with

oh llord uhhh @kn1ghts @mukusaklsaka @ouharas umm yeah that’s all i’m doin g

7. tell an embarrassing memory or story

so a few years back (my freshman year) i played field hockey and at my school sports teams would have team dinners where they’d all go to someone’s house and eat and bond and shit,,so one team dinner the hostess like just got a new puppy recently and i forget his name but he was a yellow lab,,,anyways we were all outside playing with him andd then slowly girls started going inside,,so at some point the only ppl left outside were me, and this girl colleen who i had a HUUUGE crush on at the time (shoutout to her for making me realize i’m a lesbian and dropping all attraction towards men i previously thought i had lmao) and so i’m just petting this fuckin cute ass dog with her and neither of us are saying anything when this lITTLE SHIT OF A DOG STEALS MY FUCKING SHOE???? HE TAKES IT ABD FUCKING RUNS!!!! imagine the first time ur alone with ur crush and she’s gotta help u get ur shoe back from an evil puppy while u hop around on one foot bc u hate when ur socks touch the grass,,,,freshman year was terrible

2. whats your favorite flavor of ice cream?

hmm probably coffee or cake batter!!!!

#asks

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oblivianclassic · 7 years

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Game Ramble: Furi

Furi, by The Game Bakers. Available on PC and PS4.

Come to think of it, I haven’t actually finished all that many video game stories in my lifetime. It wasn’t until I began to deliberately set out to finish games that I realized this. Half-Life 2: Episode 2 sat fallow for months before I finally picked it up to see why everyone wanted Valve to make Half-Life 3 so badly (other than the fact that the Half-Life games are still a high standard of single-player shooter design). Mass Effect 1 and 2 were a pair of rare titles that I played straight through because Shepard/Garrus is my perfectly-calibrated OTP, but I still haven’t gotten around to importing my save into Mass Effect 3. I’ve played through the opening bit of Dragon Age: Origins twice now as two different characters, and stopped shortly after. My Planescape: Torment playthrough is forever stuck at the bit where I think I’m supposed to join one of Sigil’s factions. I got caught up in some massive conversation trees instead. I almost finished all 4 of Warcraft 3’s Reign of Chaos campaigns, but I lost my saves shortly before the last stand against Archimonde. I still feel bad about not seeing Dishonored through to the end. Dark Souls… I might actually return and finish that one day. Playing a Souls game is like riding a bicycle--more muscle memory and mental approach than remembering the plot--and I’m not ready to go Hollow just yet.

There’s just something about playing a game with a linear story that makes me loath to actually finish. Maybe it’s a fear of endings, of seeing something finished and put away, or maybe it’s my tendency to get distracted by new and shiny things promising innovative game mechanics.

So please understand that when I’m saying that Furi defeated me, there’s actually a lot of precedence.

That all said, Furi has defeated me. This isn’t to say that I don’t like Furi, or that I don’t appreciate its challenge. Far from it. But when it comes to Furi’s mix of bullet hell and character-action hack-n-slash, I seem to have run into a wall, figuratively speaking.

Furi is an indie attempt to make an action-y character action hack ‘n slash game - the kind that normally gets made by a Japanese studio and features a lot of physics-defying, animation-cancelling and enemy-juggling action. Furi is a little different, in that it’s made by a French studio called The Game Bakers, and it doesn’t have the bits you’d find in your average Devil May Cry where you fight groups of weaker enemies. Furi is a boss rush game, which is to say that the entire experience consists of a string of big single-enemy set piece boss fights, with bits in between where you walk slowly through some pretty environments while a man wearing a purple rabbit helmet exposits angrily at you.

All you know in the beginning is that you’re some kind of prisoner, fated to be repeatedly brought to the edge of death. You’re then released by the aforementioned purple rabbit-head man, given a sword and a gun, and told that the jailer is the key. Kill him, and you’ll be free. Of course, in a plot twist nobody saw coming, things aren’t quite that simple. You’ve only escaped your initial jail cell, one section of a whole sky-bound prison. There’s a gauntlet of floating islands to traverse, each housing their own jailer, each with their own reason for wanting to keep you locked up. Or perhaps they’re fellow inmates? The story of this game turns out to be fairly straightforward despite a few twists and turns crossed with the rabbit-man’s best attempts at keeping things vague. That said, I will give the game credit for taking risks with one late-game boss and committing to a theme. That as well as taking a page from Spec Ops: The Line and giving the player a not-entirely-obvious choice in a situation where most video games wouldn’t risk it. The story obviously wants to be great, but only manages to be pretty good.

The visuals are much like the story in this respect. The character design work of this game was done by Takashi Okazaki, the man who gave us Afro Samurai (the manga, not the video game), and the game bears a strange but distinctive sci-fi look as a result. Everyone has long, lanky limbs and our main character bears a stream of wavy white locks that drift like seaweed in a gentle current. He also doesn’t seem to wear shoes, which bothered me for a while, though I’m really not sure why. Unfortunately, low-res texture work and model clipping issues don’t do the concept art justice. Judging by the shaders, Furi is attempting to take on a smooth and stylized aesthetic similar to that of something like El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron. Unfortunately, I’m guessing that the limited budget and small team are to blame for the stiff animation work. I understand just how time-consuming animating a game of this type can be, but that doesn’t change the fact that the striking, memorable, and distinct visuals could do with a lot of polish. Then again, considering the size of the dev team, this category could probably be given a pass. Perhaps it was in all in service of the framerate, which stays at a smooth 60 no matter what; an essential part of any fast-paced action title. If so, it was a worthwhile tradeoff. I’ll take a smooth framerate over shinier graphics in a game like this.

Fortunately, both the soundtrack and the gameplay are exceptional. The soundtrack probably deserves its own article and easily stands on its own as something worth buying. Right now. I mean it. Composed by Carpenter Brut, Danger, The Toxic Avenger, Lorn, Scattle, Waveshaper and Kn1ght, it’s a thumping tribute to retro electronica and the perfect accompaniment to energy-ball-dodging, pew pew pew-ing, and laser-sword-swooshing. Whatever atmosphere was lost when I saw an awkward animation was more than made up for by whatever music happened to be playing at the time. My favorite tracks are probably “A Picture in Motion” by Waveshaper, and “What We Fight For”, by Carpenter Brut.

Furi is built around a core set of abilities. The player can dodge, string together up to four strikes with his sword, and make rapid-fire shots with his energy pistol. Each of these moves can be charged up for greater effectiveness. The dodge will go further, and the charged strike and shot can interrupt certain enemy attacks. The player also has a parry move that if timed properly will block melee attacks, reflect projectiles, and open up opportunities to unleash a counter strike on their opponent. It seems like a simple enough system at first glance, but there is a lot to master once the player has a basic grasp of the controls. Parry timing is critical, not only because your health is healed a small amount with every successful parry, but a perfectly timed parry will stun your opponent and allow you to carve off a chunk of their health. Timing charged strikes to interrupt certain boss attacks and knowing when to charge a dodge become important too, though not absolutely essential. The controls are snappy, precise, and perfectly tuned for the sort of exacting and demanding game that Furi is.

With mastery of the controls, I’d imagine that this game will become appealing to speedrunners. Absolute mastery of all the various attack timings and patterns isn’t required to beat the game. Rather, cutting down a boss’s health bar becomes much faster once you figure out a few tricks, and I’m sure there are a lot of people who will make it their mission to go through each boss as quickly as possible.

There are nine bosses total, plus one optional “secret” boss, each with their own theme, arena, gimmick, and twist to the formula. I’ve heard that Furi plays a bit like a last-gen cult-classic game called NieR, and this is true to a certain extent. Like in NieR, each fight is a blend of character-action/hack ‘n slash and bullet-hell gameplay. Each boss fight goes through several phases, indicated by blips below their health bar. Each phase of the fight requires the player to work through two health bars. Two sections to the fight, essentially. Generally speaking, in the first half of a phase the boss will engage the player with a mix of bullet hell projectile patterns and melee attacks, while in the second half of the phase the player is locked into a small area around the boss and the fight becomes melee-focussed. That said, each boss after the second one will start mixing things up, each one with a twist to the formula. The third, for example, has no melee section to the first phase of his fight, instead putting up a series of rotating shields that the player must shoot through, but saying much more will definitely ruin a fair amount of the experience for you.

The difficulty curve from boss to boss is, unfortunately, rather uneven. The third fight seems to be a common difficulty spike for many. He’s not exactly tough, but seems designed to test the player’s patience to a breaking point, while the fifth fight is a breeze after the quick reflexes and more precise positioning required by the fourth boss. While I never made it quite so far on the default difficulty level, the ninth fight is apparently quite easy after the extremely tough seventh and eighth bosses (though I’d argue that in this case it’s necessary for thematic reasons).

Fortunately, the game is actually quite forgiving in terms of allowing the player to learn while keeping up the pace of each individual fight. The player themselves has three lives, and losing a life only resets whichever phase of the battle they’ve currently reached. Successfully finishing a phase will restore a lost life and replenish the player’s health. The player must lose all three lives before being forced to start the fight from the beginning. The game may be demanding, but it has a fair amount of tolerance for mistakes.

Unfortunately, my own tolerance for the game was worn down by just how demanding later fights were. Taxing melee combat, that I can handle. I’m even okay with the occasional bullet hell game, though I can’t say I particularly appreciate the genre. Furi’s blend of both, on the other hand, seems to be geared to break me down into incoherent rage. Switching between the two modes of action on the fly simply proved too taxing for me. It might be argued that I had ruined the experience for myself by getting fed up at one point and switching the game to “Promenade” difficulty so I could essentially skip ahead and finish the story, thus removing a lot of my motivation for continuing the game. That may be true, but I do feel that by that point I’d already seen most of what the game had to offer, mechanically speaking. I’ve got a good look at what Furi does, and, frankly, I’ve got a lot of video games on my plate here.

This isn’t to say that Furi is bad, far from it. It’s an admirable effort, something that’s striving for greatness and bumping right up against the hard limitations of a small team and budget, especially for the kind of game it’s trying to be. To achieve Devil May Cry 3 levels of polish, you need much bigger teams of animators and software engineers, but the core of Furi, the fast and challenging combat mechanics, is rock solid. For those who want a precise and demanding series of fights, where a neat art style and kickass soundtrack are bonuses, Furi is definitely a game for you. Though lacking in terms of visual fidelity, Furi has tough boss fights where good reflexes and patience will win the day. No filler, just your character and your opponent. The experience wore thin for me about two thirds of the way through, though, for more or less the same reason. Furi knows what it wants to do and does it very well, but the things it does ended up driving me up the wall.

I will say this, though: playing the deceptively hardcore Hyper Light Drifter after bashing my head against Furi feels so much easier. Situational awareness? Dash timing? Juggling ranged and melee combat? I’ve got it covered.

Tune in next time when I drift on blades of the hypest light.

-Taihus “Enough talk, let’s fight!” @raincoastgamer

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