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b7ngt4n · 4 months

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The Last Remaining | Part 06

-> South Korea was left abandoned after a 'zombie' virus sweeps the nation. Left to save themselves, Y/N and a group of seven men, who she's found safety in, rely on each other to stay alive as they travel to the south side of the country on the hunt for a rumoured 'z-free' haven. But nothing is ever easy. Especially when they find it's not only just zombies they need to watch their backs for.

-> A female reader x BTS zombie apocalypse AU

-> Genre: Post-apocalyptic, action

-> Warnings for Part 6: swearing, violence

-> Word count: 3,208 words

-> Interactions are greatly appreciated xoxo 💖

Part 06: Sensei Jimin🧟

“Are you alright? Did those bastards hurt you? I swear to God if they touched you in any way—”

Jungkook bombarded you with questions as soon as you all sat down to rest at a random intersection, after running at least two blocks away without a break. You were busy trying to catch your breath while Jungkook looked like he barely broke a sweat. You were still in shock and overwhelmed at what you’ve just witnessed. A disturbing doctor, nearly being tricked into eating zombies, cannibalism, the list can go on.

Just seeing Jungkook and being with him healed your soul. You were thankful to be alive and you were thankful he was alive too. So much so you had pulled him into a hug without even thinking about it.

It was one way to immediately shut him up. He stood paralysed, unsure how to breathe, think, or act. When the gears in his brain started to work again, you felt his strong arms wrapped around your waist bringing you closer to his warm body. Jungkook could literally feel your racing heartbeat through your back. And you could feel his through his chest. He was all you needed to remind you life was worth the little things.

“Thank you Kook,” you mumbled into his chest. Hearing you shorten his name like that had him feeling butterflies in his stomach. Only his close friends occasionally called him ‘Kook’, but it hit different coming out of your mouth. He wanted to hear you call him that ten more times. “Thank you for coming back and saving us. Saving me.”

He leaned his chin on your head, grateful you were safe in his arms, “always.”

“Is everyone okay? Nobody ate the soup, right?” Namjoon asked everyone, hands on his knees as he recharged his physical battery.

You and Jungkook pulled away from each other to join the rest. Everyone replied an exhausted ‘no’ between breaths to Namjoon’s question. You sat down next to Yoongi, checking up on him and thanking him for his rescue mission efforts. Jungkook went to go sit down next to Jin, who had some teasing tricks up his sleeve.

“Jungkook definitely had a spoonful or two. Did anyone see how fast he picked up that bowl?” Jin teased him, playfully nudging him as Jungkook hit him on the shoulder in retaliation. Hoseok and Taehyung bursted out laughing.

“Our Jungkook-ie’s a true gentleman now,” Jimin joined in on the teasing on his brother as the four of them all laughed together. Jungkook rubbed at the back of his neck in embarrassment. His round cheeks turned a faint rosy pink colour as he met your gaze. You were smiling at him, softly laughing along with the cheeky men. Seeing your smile made him forget he was ever self-conscious.

“Jokes aside, my arm feels like it's going to fall off,” Yoongi groaned, sliding off a chunky army backpack from around his shoulder and ditching it on the ground. He unzipped it to reveal handguns, ammunition, walkie-talkies, and body gear packed inside, "take your pick lady and gentlemen."

The boys were in awe of the different type of gems the duo managed to get their hands on. While they crowded around Yoongi, Namjoon gently pulled you to the side.

"I'm sorry Y/N," he apologised causing a puzzled frown on your face, but before you could ask any questions he continued, "you were right to be suspicious about those missing zombie parts. And I feel very ashamed I shut you down like that. I feel like if I listened to you, maybe we could've avoided that entire thing," he sighed heavily, looking down while burying his head in his hands.

You shook your head in disagreement, "there was no way we could've known any of that was going to happen. So please don't blame yourself," you tried to comfort him, but it did very little. He was still disappointed in himself and remained quiet, lost in deep rumination. That's when you had a thought.

"Who's idea was code purple?" you whispered to him softly after a moment of silence.

He glanced up at you, thinking for a second before answering, "it was mine."

"What's the reasoning behind it?" you asked. Namjoon didn't understand the sudden interrogation behind code purple but he answered your question regardless.

"I made it up in case we ever got split up and had to try find each other again. We decided if that were to ever happen, we just had to trust each other and that it'd all work out somehow and we'd all meet again," he explained to you nonchalantly. It was a very intellectual idea. You admired his sense of foresight.

"I think code purple is what saved us," you told him, giving him a small smile. He stared at you blankly like he didn't get your point, "you saved us Namjoon,” you clarified, emphasising on the 'you,' making sure your message got into his head.

"If you hadn't have set up that system, how could Yoongi and Jungkook have understood the situation? How could they have found us? With breadcrumbs?" you joked sarcastically, making him chuckle, a positive sign your pep talk was getting somewhere, "you make smart moves Namjoon. I understand why they look up to you so much," you referred to 'they' as in the boys. Briefly glancing at them, the younger ones were playing with handguns like they were in an action movie only to get scolded by the older ones.

"Don't let someone who deceived you doubt yourself and your abilities," you patted his shoulder just as Jungkook called you over, leaving him alone with his thoughts.

“Is he alright?” he whispered lowly into your ear as he kept an anxious eye on his brother.

“He’s fine,” you assured him, reaching out to rub his hand gently, “just needed a little motivation that’s all.”

And as if on cue, Namjoon stepped in to calm an overly excited Taehyung and Jimin from mishandling a gun before he addressed everyone, “it’s time we get the fuck out of here.”

According to a tiny tourist paper map Yoongi found back at the police station, the next city to pass through was Osan. There was no way of making it there before nightfall. And there was no way any one of you wanted to stay another night in Suwon.

Once you all had journeyed as far as the sunlight allowed you to, Namjoon declared to spend the night at an old camping grounds close by. The boys found their confidence levels boosting with every kill they made with their new equipment. It was a bigger upgrade from their last weapons — a rusty axe and pepper spray. You, on the other hand, were still incapable of properly killing a zombie.

The only thing you felt confident using was a taser. It was simple for a simple girl like you. Just aim and tase. But that wouldn’t be very effective if you were ever swarmed. Plus the batteries could run out at any time, making it a very unreliable source.

The only other things you’ve used in the apocalypse have been a baseball bat and your pocket knife — sort of. You used your baseball bat to push away zombies to create enough distance for you to run away rather than kill them. And the only time you used your knife was to threaten Jungkook and Jimin the first time you guys met. Which according to Jungkook didn’t scare them at all. Only the boys have been killing zombies. You, so far, have been a bit useless.

You weren’t proud of it. You were actually embarrassed about it. So when the boys got busy building a fire and trying to catch fish from the nearby lake, you took it upon yourself to get some training in.

About a minute away, you found a good empty space of ground next to the lake to practice your shooting. You weren’t very familiar with guns. You assumed the one you had taken was a handgun, considering it was one of the smaller ones that fit nicely in your hand.

“You got this Y/N, you know what you’re doing” you motivated yourself, trying to convince yourself you had it under control. You held the gun in both your hands, arms fully extended as you aimed at a tree trunk in front of you.

Just as you were trying to adjust to the feel of it and sussing out your aim, you heard a low groan that did not sound so human. Appearing from behind a tree trunk was a thin and very rough looking zombie. Its clothes had been ripped and its blue-ish skin was covered in dirt, perfectly camouflaging into the brown nature. It looked like it’s been lurking in the woods for a while based off the state it was in.

It was still a good distance from you, not in much of a rush to get to you. It gave you enough time to aim at it, making it your very first target. Closing one eye for the most accurate aim, once you were satisfied you could hit him you pulled the trigger. But to your surprise, nothing came out.

You frowned, pulling it again but nothing came out again. And the zombie only came closer, closing the gap between you two.

“Shit! Why won’t it shoot!” you yelled, your frustration getting to you as you prepare to run before it’s too late.

“Turn off the manual safety,” you heard a familiar voice call from behind you, glancing back to find Jimin coming out from the bushes. Before you could yell what safety he quickly specified, “turn down the lever on the left side!”

You didn’t notice it before, the tiny lever on the side of the gun. The zombie was only an arms length away from you as you immediately pulled the trigger without properly aiming. Luckily, the bullet shot right into the zombies chest, killing it for the second time.

“Shit,” you breathed out, panting from the adrenaline pumping through your veins. Jimin appeared at your side, shaking his head in disapproval as he slipped the gun out your hands.

“Do I have to start keeping an eye on you missy?” he raised a brow while tucking the gun away in his pants, but not before turning on the manual safety.

You rolled your eyes and crossed your arms as he chuckled at your clumsiness, “I was just getting some training in, no big deal.”

Jimin gave you that ‘are-you-serious?’ look as he placed his hands on his hips, “no big deal but you nearly got yourself killed? Yeah I think we will leave the gun training for later,” he responded sassily making you giggle.

He picked up two long sturdy branches lying on the floor, handing one to you while he kept the other.

“Do you know how to sword fight?”

Of course you didn't know how to sword fight. Just another thing to add to the list of talents you don't have.

Jimin shared he learned kendo for about 8 years when he was younger. He explained to you that it was a form of Japanese martial arts with bamboo swords. It taught him all the basics of sword fighting. He enjoyed the thrill of it, fueling his innocent little dreams of wanting to become a pirate.

As he grew older, so did his love and hobby for sword-fighting. When he became old and mature enough he began to learn kenjutsu and iaido, which were more comprehensive and traditional forms of japanese sword-fighting.

"So you're like a samurai?" you joked as he adjusted your awkward-not-very-samurai-like stance, laughing at your comment.

"I guess so?" he answered, not so sure if he'd ever consider himself to be. But now that he was actually using his sword-fighting skills in the real world, especially to kill, he figured he might actually just qualify.

You spent nearly two hours learning the proper stance, how to hold your 'sword', as well as basic attack and defense techniques. Once you managed to roughly memorise those skills, Jimin decided to put your knowledge to the test by making you spar with him. That's when the sweet and kind Jimin you knew transformed into the merciless sensei you never knew was hiding inside him.

He did not go easy on you. He was very strict, quick to point out when you weren't using the proper stance, or if you weren't hitting him properly, or even if you were being too slow. Nor did he allow you many breaks. He told you it was for your own good, and although you did agree with him, part of you just wanted to collapse on the ground and do nothing for an hour.

By the time Jungkook came to interrupt your training session to inform you both dinner had been cooked, the sun had already set. There was a cool spring breeze in the air that gave you goosebumps, but that didn't bother Jimin's teaching mode. The first thing Jungkook noticed about you was how exhausted you were. But from the brief moment he saw you sparring he could tell you've learned a thing or two.

You were impressed to find a well-lit campfire and grilled fish awaiting you. The boys were huddled around the campfire, sharing bowls they stole from the grounds keeper's cabin between each other. Yoongi stood up, handing you a bowl of grilled fish and what appeared to be vegetable soup.

"Hope it's not too early to be having soup," he laughed with a mouthful of food lodged in his mouth, comfortingly patting your shoulder.

The rest of the night was followed by conversations, laughter, and stories from what life was like before the apocalypse as you all sat around the fireplace. In that brief moment it felt like there no apocalypse to begin with. You actually felt a sense of normality after the longest time of the most bizarre things ever known to man happening to you. It just felt like you were with a group of friends who spontaneously decided to go camping one day. You felt like you've known the boys forever. In a way their presence soothed you. To hear Hoseok's contagious laughter, to listen to Jimin's expressive story-telling, to eat Jin's well-cooked dinner despite the circumstances, and to feel protected by Jungkook. The world could end but as long as you're surrounded by your new friends, you felt like nothing could hurt you.

As the night deepened and the boys dozed off one by one, you on the other hand were wide awake. You had never struggled to fall asleep this much before. Even after twisting and turning your entire body. Maybe it was the uncomfortable hard ground or the chilly breeze against your skin. But you just could not fall asleep.

The only other person who was awake was Jin. He was first in line to stay up and keep watch. You offered to take over his job for him and let him have a sleep. He turned down your offer, keeping you company as you both talked for a bit. Until his eyes became redder and drier, he knew he was losing the battle between him and his self conscious begging him to sleep.

You were lucky the moon was full and shining above you, blessing you with its moonlight. The fire had to be put out before everyone slept to prevent attracting attention from zombies. You used to be terrified of the dark. Yet here you were. Sitting in the dark, outside, in silence, with just yourself. Strangely, it wasn't as scary as you previously believed. Matter of fact, it was somewhat relaxing.

Where you had set up camp was right next to the lake. You left your spot from next to Jungkook and went to sit on the bank, next to the water. The lake was gorgeous under the moonlight, taking your breath away. It reflected the off-white moon, the clusters of stars in the sky, and the silhouette of forest trees on the horizon. You could hear the calming sounds of water, crickets, and frogs croaking. It sounds gross but having a break from hearing the groan of zombies or something being killed was a nice change.

"You still up?"

Jungkook's voice startled you out of your thoughts. You turned around to find him rubbing his eyes as he yawned and stretched his arms, before making himself comfy next to you.

"Couldn't sleep," you sighed, your gaze lingering on the moonlit landscape in front of you.

"I understand that, you've been through quite a lot," he whispered softly. You felt his hand rest on top of yours, his thumb caressing your skin.

You let silence fill the atmosphere. It was somehow the loudest silence you've ever experienced.

"The last time I fell asleep," you started, glancing at him to find his big brown eyes giving you their fullest attention. Even in the dark under the restricted moonlight, you could still see his sparkling eyes, "I woke up and you weren't there."

Jungkook's relaxed expression immediately melted into concern as he pulled you into him without hesitation, "I'm sorry I left you by yourself."

"It's not your fault Kook," you wiggled out his grip to see his face and look him in the eyes, "it's just the shit world we live in. I can't trust this stupid world and the stupid things they do."

You felt ridiculous tearing up as it was just something of the past, but you felt ten times more embarrassed as you felt the tears roll down your cheeks. You couldn't look him in the eye anymore, glancing down as your face turned an angry red in shame.

Jungkook cupped your hot cheeks, wiping away your tears with the pad of his thumb. You felt a sense of deja vu, thinking back to the first time you met. Except this time, you didn't try cut his hand off.

"You're right to not trust the world," he muttered, gently pulling you closer to rest his lips on your forehead, giving you a light peck, "but you can trust me, okay? I'll always find a way back to you."

You couldn't say or do anything but just quietly cry in his arms as he comforted you. You aren't sure what came over you. Nor did you understand why you were so attached to Jungkook and why he was so attached to you. Why was he so willing to protect you? To take care of you? And always come back to you as he says? And why do you let him? Was it the lack of love in your life that made you crave his? Was it because your self-conscious felt safe enough around him and the rest of the boys that you've developed an unhealthy attachment to them?

You weren't so sure or understood anything in life anymore. The last thing you remembered before finally drifting off to sleep was Jungkook's body snuggled up close to yours as he gently caressed your hair.

Until you jolted up the next morning to Hoseok's frantic voice piercing your eardrums,

"He's gone!"

(a/n: HERE SHE ISSS after a long weeks hiatus she has returned ladies & gentlemen!! i hope u enjoyed this part. honestly this part is lowk a let down after a weeks absence i’m so sorry like there’s no drama or action 🙄🙄 but don’t worry, as u can tell by my cliffhanger 🤭, the nxt part is for sure going to be more eventful!

i love u all thank u so much for reading n loving this series i rlly enjoy writing this series and can’t wait to write out all my ideas i’ve planned for this series 💖 till nxt time, stay sexy kids xoxo😛😛😘😘)

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tetrakys · 8 months

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Are we all secretly Argentinian? A brief history of VPN in Beemoov's fandom

Once upon a time, when only High School Life and maybe Eldarya TO were out, players were able to choose their own bank when making a purchase on the games websites. Some banks were extremely cheap compared to others, the cheapest of all being Argentina. This from the perspective of people living in other countries. As an example:

2800 Gold coins were worth 39€ or 49$ or 400 ARS 400 ARS were the equivalent of 27$ in 2016.

So, clearly, anyone given the chance would spend less with such a big discount. And the chance was indeed given, since it was easy to just select another country's bank on the website.

Fast-forward a few years, the option to choose a bank was removed, and people could only use the bank associated to the country they were connecting from. It didn’t take much time for people to realise that it was enough to change IP via a VPN to make the games think you were connecting from Argentina and still access its bank. Additionally, Argentinian's currency was getting more and more devaluated in time and prices were never really adjusted at the bank. So, those 2800 Gold which were worth 400ARS or 27$ in 2016, were now worth 11$ in 2019.

This VPN trick has been around for years now. Not all players were aware of course, and not everyone was comfortable in using a VPN or able to. But still, quite a lot of people were doing so. Some of them even made a business out of it, recharging other people's accounts using a VPN and taking a fee for their "service".

Fast-forward again, to 2022. The VPN trick escalated, the secret was not that much of a secret anymore, especially because people were freely talking about it everywhere, Discord, Facebook, all social media really, even TikTok videos were made explaining how to do it. Very simply, too many people were using it. Consequently, Beemoov worked on it and managed to remove Argentina's bank from most VPNs for people playing from Europe and North America. (NOT South America, as I vaguely remember it was mentioned that they were trying to protect the Argentinians living in nearby countries). This led to a crazy uproar, mostly from the biggest fandom affected, the French one. People were leaving tons of messages on all socials demanding the reinstatement of Argentina, and also sending curses and death threats to Beemoov employees. The most recurrent message was of people outraged that the company had blocked VPNs without telling their players and demanding dialogue and compromise. On the other hand, Beemoov replied that VPNs were never a functionality of the games, and they don't need to discuss it with players.

Approximate translation of Beemoov's official reply (neither French nor English are my mother tongues so feel free to double check):

"Goodmorning. The use of VPN isn't a functionality offered by the game, just like it isn't normal use of the game to circumvent the base tariffs. Thus it's normal and logic that the company would put a stop at this technique. (Without having to communicate it since it's not a functionality of the game that we are retiring or modifying, but the exploitation of a fallacy.) The tariffs that each country pays are established according to their buying power. Of the 2 euros payment that can be done by the players via VPN Argentina, the company only earns a few cents. And with just a few cents it's clearly impossible to cover the costs of the episodes production and business costs in general, pay our employees, and create new content for our players. Under these conditions, it's certain that the company would eventually go bankrupt. (Like many of you wish, but us not that much.) To give you a less abstract example, it's as if someone would accept to see their salary of 1329 euros (minimum wage, for example) drop to 44 euros. Do you think this person would be able to live without any problem? We are sorry if our base tariffs are not convenient for you and we understand that they are not accessible to all of our players, but these are what allow the company to survive and to make new content. Of course like in all free-to-play games you are not obliged to pay and you always have the possibility of playing for free (and this is thanks to the players who pay the normal price)."

Fast forward again to this year, August 2023. The economic crisis in Argentina has led to high inflation and 22% devaluation of currency. All businesses have had to up their prices, including Beemoov. Those 2800 gold coins that used to be worth 400 ARS ~ 27$ in 2016, and then 11$ in 2019? Are now worth 1.14$. Beemoov has had to up the prices and now these are costed at 6,800 ARS (or 19.43$), an increment of 17 times its original value (but still less than the 2016 dollar equivalent).

Consequently, we have seen now the rest of the fandom, the part that hadn't been affected one year ago, going ballistic. And the same kind of threats and complaints that were posted last year by the European fandom are now posted by the American fandom. One would assume that only the Argentinians are complaining, rightfully so, since they are the ones directly affected. But actually most of the complaints come from people living elsewhere who were either using VPNs for their own benefit or created a business out of it.

(these are from 4 different people I found with just a 5 minutes search, we really live in a capitalist dream lmao)

Additionally, people have been upset about the company's reply. This message has been circulating in several social media, and people wonder if it's true or fake.

I don't know who originally posted so I can't say if it's true or not. (Personally I tend to believe it is.)

(Using Google translate here because I don't know a word of Portuguese, so please correct me if this is wrong.)

"To be fair, Latin America is far from our biggest customer, but that's not the point. Beemoov was forced to take action after numerous abuses by players (and in particular 80% of purchases from Brazil) using VPNs to connect to Argentina and take advantage of this country's poor financial situation to buy APs and other in-game currencies. The few players currently residing in Argentina are unfortunately affected by the situation and we are very sorry, but we could not remain inactive in the face of a fraud of this magnitude that puts the company's sustainability at risk (payment of employees, office rent, work equipment, taxes, creation of new content, etc... Each of these must be paid in euros following the French currency - as we are located in France)."

People have been particularly offended by that "LATAM isn't our biggest customer" which isn't hate, it's a fact. Despite the LATAM fandom being big (second only to France by number of players), the currencies of all the countries involved are worth less than euros, and that's why it can't be the biggest client, it's just math.

Some math below for who is interested, but feel free to skip: For example 1300 gold are costed 200 in mexican pesos which is 10.7 euros. Similarly this same amount of gold is 30BRL in Brazil, which translates to 1.6 euros. Compared, 1300 gold in France are costed 19 euros. (On top of these there are also bank fees and currency exchange fees). This means that, if no one were using VPN, it would take two mexican players for Beemoov to earn the same amount as they earn from a French player. And even more, 12 Brazillian players to pay what they get from one single French player. (Again, I'm not considering bank fees, so these numbers should actually be higher). Of course this is just an example on one single purchase. It's not representative of the whole bank. But with some very hacky math, approximately I think that LATAM doesn't contribute to more than a quarter of Beemoov's revenue (and keep in mind that for the past year LATAM could use Argentina VPN and Europe couldn't). Of course, again, this is veeeery approximate, but I remember Brazil wasn't included in Uncoven, so I think that if they are cutting another bank in the future it might be that one. This is not the case for New Gen of course since we know Brazillian is one of the languages included.

So, where are we now?

VPNs are still being used of course, not Argentina but other countries (mostly Brazil, Turkey, and a few others). I don't think there's any stopping VPNs for good in the old games, but I'm pretty confident the company might've found a way for New Gen.

What do I think of all this?

These up here are facts. Now my personal opinion is that things aren't that black and white. I totally agree with the fact that the company has expenses and needs to pay salaries of their employees etc etc. At the same time it's also true that for whatever business when a product is faulty prices are lowered. Eldarya ANE has not the same quality as the other games, prices should reflect that but they don't. Similarly, some episodes are released very bugged, and people have to replay 3, 4, 5 times to get the illustration they would've been able to get in one playthrough and should be compensated for that. In Moonlight Lovers there was a crazy bug for more than a year, me and the friends I made guides with had to replay each episode at least 5-8 times. I don't even want to try to estimate the amount of money I wasted on that game otherwise I would curl in a ball and cry. The company should've provided compensation to us and all the players who played Moonlight Lovers during that year, but they didn't. So when episodes are bugged and people have to replay many times I see VPNs as morally justified.

But bugs asides, the point is that if VPNs were used only a few times, and only by those players who really would not be able to play otherwise, then nothing would've happened. But as always, when something is abused the "authorities" try to put a stop to it. (Because really it's crazy that a middle-class European via VPN spends only a few cents on each episode and then expects to see more content. This isn't only fraud against the company, but also disrespectful toward the players who pay full price and allow the games to keep existing.)

However, I want to end this post with a positive message, if anyone made it this far it's earned. During my deep dive in the fandom to write this post, I saw that the trolls, the haters, the death and violence threats against Beemoov workers or other players, the wishes to see the company go bankrupt and everyone left without a job, all these came from Europeans and Americans alike. Seeing all these curses and threats in english, french, spanish, brazillian portuguese etc warmed my heart. There is no racism when it comes to hate, humanity sucks everywhere 💕

#beemoov #eldarya #my candy love #mcl #peggy's corner

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the-moon-in-the-gutter · 2 months

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Thinking about Ifrit spending his free time in the smithing house that is on the property, working on large wrought iron pieces. Benches that curve along paths in the garden. Hand forging ritual daggers for each new antipope, creating intricate hilts that reflect each pope's rise to power.

When he's not working on major projects, he spends his spare time working with Dewdrop's jewelry making supplies. The fire ghoul carefully casting and engraving intricate coin charms, effectively breathing life back into an old tradition. One evening Ifrit was curled around Zephyr in bed, listening intently as the air ghoul recounted memories of his past life. There was a particular theme to that evening, Victorian love tokens, Zephyr had a habit of mentioning them whenever Ifrit was in search of a new project to take on.

Victorian love tokens were smoothed coins, engraved with images or a lover's initials. The tokens were bestowed upon a partner for multitudes of reasons, be it relationship milestones, commemorating a vacation, or as something to be remembered by while their other half was away. Zephyr recalls ones he had in his past life fondly, the coins on a chain bracelet that commemorated each of his roles in the theatre. Bestowed upon him by an admirer at the end of the final show in a run of performances.

This recollection sparked the idea in the fire ghoul's mind, setting out to the smithing house early the following morning to cast coins in gold and silver. Spending hours hunched over the small work table, engraving intricate designs before including his name on the back side. "Ifrit" engraved in the effortless, airy script of the air ghoul he called his mate. The delicate strokes that took the air ghoul seconds to scrawl onto a gift tag, but upwards of a half hour for the fire ghoul to mimic with a dremel tool.

Later that afternoon, he returns to the main grounds of the abbey with a simple box in hand. The box was hand carved from two pieces of silver ash, the inside lined in a pale blue silk. Ifrit had carved the box months before, when he had decided to take up learning wood working from Ivy. The fire ghoul knew exactly where his mate could be found, basking in the warm sunshine that settled on the garden. As he approached the winding path he laid eyes on the air ghoul, the sun glinting off his gold and silver jewelry, a halo cast by the few flyaways of ice blonde hair escaping his braid.

Each afternoon the pair would rest and recharge in the sun, something that Ifrit referred to as "lizard time" for the air ghoul who has spent his morning in the cold of the infirmary for pain management treatment. Zephyr would sit, eyes closed as the sun warmed his aching body, heating the black clothing and heavy flannel lap blanket he used when in his wheelchair.

Ifrit cleared his throat, alerting the air ghoul to his presence as he settled into his favorite spot. The warmth of the sun had heated the iron bench, allowing for the fire ghoul to find relief of the pain that found itself settling into his spine from being hunched over for hours.

"I knew it was you my flame" Zephyr smiled, opening his eyes slightly to take in the sight of his mate.

Ifrit laughed softly, "You never know, those pesky jackdaws might have evolved to shape shift and we just haven't seen it happen yet."

"Even if they have evolved that ability, I doubt they'd be able to mimic scents. I'd know it wasn't you because they would smell of Sunny's wineberries and not of the charcoal used in the smithing house" the air ghoul jested, turning slightly to face his partner.

"One of these days I'm going to find a way to smell like wineberries just to trick you" Ifrit grinned, watching the sunlight dance off the air ghoul's jewelry in mesmerizing waves.

The fire ghoul placed the small ash box into the hands of his mate, the exchange of gifts were always wordless between the pair, as all that could be said was already known. He watched as the air ghoul carefully lifted the lid of the box, lithe fingers caressing the silk lining before lifting the bracelet from the box. No words were spoken as the air ghoul studied each of the tokens, only four had been placed upon the simple chain bracelet.

"Ifrit... you did all of this just for me?" Zephyr spoke after a long moment spent in awe. Each thin coin was cast from silver and gold, the intricate designs that represented milestones to the pair of ghouls.

"Of course, it was the way you were describing them last night put the idea in my head and I had to see it through" Ifrit spoke, carefully clasping the bracelet around Zephyr's wrist, ensuring the fit was perfect.

Zephyr turned his wrist slowly, getting a feel for the material of the bracelet. "It's far lighter than I remember them being" the air ghoul chuckled softly, the jingle of the charms accenting the love brimming in his tone.

"I made sure to cast the coins thinner than usual, which does make engraving a bit more difficult. But I wanted it to be a piece that was comfortable for you to wear," Ifrit said, his hand finding one of the charms and turning it to the back to show his name.

Zephyr smiled, the light jingle of his bracelet as he moved his hands to the wheels of his chair to test his movements, "And they don't hang too low so I can wear it when I'm in my chair"

"I made sure to keep mobility aids in mind when I made the charms and attached them, I wanted you to be able to carry a piece of me everywhere you go. No matter what" the fire ghoul explained, watching as his mate marveled over each of the coins.

Zephyr pulled Ifrit closer by the lapels of his thin jacket, lips capturing the fire ghouls and stealing the words away from his mate. No other words were needed, just an expression of love and gratitude.

#the band ghost #ifrit ghoul #zephyr ghoul

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astudyinchocolate · 1 year

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TLOVM season 2 bingo! (C1 spoilers)

Watched Campaign 1 and kept a running list of moments I hoped to see in s2. Tried to pick some obscure ones instead of just the obvious hits! Makes it more challenging.

Image description below the cut.

[Image Description: Bingo chart. “The Legend of Vox Machina Season 2″ is written at the top in fancy black font. Below it are the letters for “BINGO” in fancy purple font. The B column has the following entries, from top to bottom: “Grog talks to Craven Edge in an outhouse,” “Vox Machina laugh at ‘Purvon,’” “Vax walk of shame from Keyleth’s room,” “Percy electrocutes himself trying to recharge Diplomacy,” and “Vox Machina is a bad influence on Velora.” I column has the following entries, from top to bottom: “Cannonball contest,” “Percy makes a seat for Vex’s broom,” “Grog gets to wear his unicorn horn hat,” “Vax refers to Percy as ‘Freddie’ or ‘Whitey,’” and “Percy knows Craven Edge is cursed and doesn’t say anything.” N column has the following entries, from top to bottom: “Vax shaves half of Grog’s beard,” “Pike is referred to as a ‘monstah,’” “Free Space: ‘Lady Vex’ahlia, Baroness of the Third House of Whitestone and Grand Mistress of the Grey Hunt,” “Life needs things to live,” and “Grog briefly gets more intelligent as a giant eagle.” G column has the following entries, from top to bottom: “Percy makes some trick arrows for Vex,” “No theatre!” “Vex and Vax childhood flashbacks,” “Keyleth gets to be a flaming meteor (Keyteor),” and “Vaxleth kiss.” Finally, the O column has the following entries, from top to bottom: “Vex accidentally shoots Scanlan in the neck while she is riding her broom,” “Kash is interested in Keyleth,” “Vex wears a pointed hat,” “Polymachina joke,” and “Your secret is safe with my indifference.” End description.]

#the legend of vox machina #critical role #tlovm #critters #lovm #c1 spoilers #cr1 spoilers #campaign 1 spoilers #my posts #image described #i watch cr #vox machina

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beehindblueeyes · 2 years

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Ghost lore

Most of this is taken from the movie and then further speculation. It borders on headcanon and actual canon. This one might also be a long one.

It all stems from Energy-

Ghosts require a LOT of energy when it comes to interacting with the living world. For example they can’t be throwing bottles all day and show up whenever they please. It takes time to build that up. Time or emotion. (Vance’s anger, Billy’s annoyance. All of their stress in the moment to get Finney out). The basement boys have less of a recharge time then id imagine to be normal… I believe this is because of the phone acting as a conduit. it’s one big spirit box! Literally. (In this sense also acting like a ouija board punching a hole for easy communication)

Appearing-

Likewise - becoming a apparition is about the biggest energy consumer of them all. It is not easy and guaranteed to be a short window of time. They can’t talk when they physically appear either as all focus is on being visible, talking would almost instantly drain you. (Thus why they only appear for two seconds In front of Gwen instead of yelling ‘over here’ or ‘this way’ or something)

In Griffins case, someone mentioned this in the comments of one of my posts. But there’s the idea that, since his throat is slit he can only speak if spoken to. Thus pointing to the phone or generally being more focused on appearing. Which- to that I think he does the trick the most out of the boys. While they prank call he appears in corners etc. this actually makes him one of the more powerful boys next to Billy and Vance! Even if he can’t speak well/horrible mental state.

Free roaming apparitions-

The boys have full range of either of the Shaw properties. Dying in one basement, burried in the other. They are tied to both homes/the road out front. Stemming from trauma, I find they’d be unable to leave beyond this.

Memory-

This one is tricky. Bruce loses himself quickly, billy is pretty lost but Vance , Robin and griffin ultimately know who they are (or have a base idea…) as your name is “the first thing you loose” yet Vance is a victim much earlier than Robin and still knows his own.

It’s a futile effort. No matter what you are going to boil down to a feeling, a breath of a memory, a vague idea of a kid that you used to be. Even if you know your name- you won’t know your life past a few blurry details and it’s sad!

The boys are always there. They talk, they mess things in the house they find some way to talk and take their minds off things. Talk about the little things they do know. Probably referring to each other as such (like how Billy’s paper boy, I imagine the rest boil down to similar concepts.

This post is getting long, I’m going to save Gwens whole thing for a later date. Look out for it

#ghosts #the black phone #black phone #the black phone 2022 #griffin stagg #billy showalter #vance hopper #bruce yamada #robin arellano #finney blake #writing ref #writing reference #lore #the black phone headcanon #headcanon

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lokisasylum · 5 months

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OKAY LISTEN UP!

Its obvious that something sketchy is going on with the other fandom, cause the rules strictly say that we SHOULD NOT be using multiple IDs to cast votes. Yet they continue to have HUGE increase in votes per day and hours. So either jk-akgaes ARE voting for the other guy out of spite like they said they would, or someone's doing foul play...

The website DOES allow to switch to English unlike the app, but it doesn't let you recharge the hearts.

100 ❤️ = 1 Vote

And the site says we're allowed to make 15 votes per user/IP address.

So 1,500 ❤️ = 15 Votes

Do you guys know how long its taken me to collect/recharge ❤️ in ONE account? Approximately 3 and a half hours just watching ADs and I'm still only at 1,030 ❤️s

But someone mentioned a very important trick:

This is in fact TRUE, I managed to register over 20 emails through the website and you already get those initial 100 free ❤️s every day anyway.

Meanwhile I AM collecting ❤️s through the mobile app for an additional acc I first made. And will from now on only vote with mobile data on web too.

And I do recall a K-Army mention that they met one of the ahjummas who's voting for the other guy and she was purchasing 9 phones specifically for this voting!

So PJMS, get off your lazy asses. We got work to do!

#jimin #park jimin #bts #bts jimin #pjm #jiminie #pjms #Like Crazy #jimin face #jimin bts #face by jimin #FOCUS ON JIMIN #VOTE FOR JIMIN

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caspersickfanfics · 1 month

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Heya <3 it's Aery. I hope everything's going okay! (both with the previously mentioned cat stuff and the Life Stuff). Things get busy so don't worry and take your time!

I've been thinking a lot about Cyno coping with a sick Tighnari (totally not for fic purposes nope [/joking]) especially centered on Tighnari trying really hard not to let him be told? Because like! The distance means Nari can get away with A Lot. So Cyno finds out Nari's been ill, but like because a third party sent him a message.

I can't get out of my head the slight "I always call for you why wouldn't you tell me you needed me here" that has tucked into my brain and I don't know if it fits Cynos personality??? I don't think he'd say it but I've been chewing on it a lot idk. All that to say - I'm Extremely curious for your take on such a thing if you feel up to giving it! Cyno finding out, second hand at best that Nari's been sick for days. (also aha I figured out how to trick it into letting me send long anons x.x maybe???)

Aery!! Thank you!! Things are still chaotic but we're getting there haha, I appreciate you and your patience <333

This is so interesting to me because yes!! I love this vibe and I think there's a place for it in a CynoNari fic but I also agree that Cyno wouldn't say it out loud??!? So I've been mulling it over and I wonder if Cyno would go more of the internalizing route. Instead of "why didn't you tell me?" it might be more "what did I do wrong so that Nari didn't trust me with this?"

Because yeah, Cyno goes to Nari to recharge and feel better and get taken care of, so I think he is gonna worry when Nari doesn't do the same with him. I imagine that his first reaction is panic - Is Tighnari okay? I need to be with him, right now. How can I fix him? And then there's some hurt - Why didn't he tell me? And then some internalized guilt - Have I done anything to break his trust? Or even: Are we not as close as I thought we were? Doubts and second-guessing.

Damn, I'm picturing Cyno being there caring for Tighnari and thinking he's selfish for it. Thinking that once Tighnari's more lucid, he won't want Cyno there. And then when Nari is more lucid, Cyno apologizing and moving to leave before Tighnari even says anything. Nari's confused, and like "Wait– Cyno. Why are you apologizing?" And then they chat and it comes out that Tighnari really didn't think he was in such bad shape, and he didn't want to bother/worry Cyno, but like - he's so glad that Cyno's here. He never feels safe like he does when Cyno's around. He's sorry for not being more open and honest with him from the start etc etc.

Agh I love this!! I'm sorry I derailed it a bit XD Feel free to disagree, too!!! I'm curious if you'd take it a different direction!

#aeryssickfics #cas chats #cyno hc #sick tighnari hc #genshin hc #genshin impact hc

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magicmindless · 3 months

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Yknow what gonna ask for skip hcs. If possible

A HC list but it’s just Skip

- Totally a dad type. Charming, levelheaded, all around a great guy

- Has a New York accent. “Ay I’m walkin’ ‘ere!” And all

- Never knew his birth parents. He’s been in an orphanage ever since he was a baby, and then later lived in a foster home until he was 18. Though he was never officially adopted by anyone his foster guardians were usually kind and took care of him well

- He got his RV from some guy on Craigslist (or what the Flipline equivalent is) who was giving it away practically for free. It wasn’t exactly in the best shape when he got it but a deep-cleaning, a few repairs, and some help from friends did the trick. He even managed to live in it for a couple of years before getting his apartment

- He’s always wanted children of his own, and even not being married he wanted to adopt children. He eventually adopted James and Mary when James was 7-8 and Mary was a toddler

- (If you don’t like the thought of them being family then we’ll just say they’re all friends and Skip is like a dad with his 2 dumb children in this case)

- Master on the grill. He can grill anything, steak, kabobs, you name it. He even grilled a watermelon once (it was awful, but he did it)

- Didn’t always know how to cook the way he does though. Back then he relied on mostly instant food or things he knew were easy to cook like hotdogs. He took cooking classes later in life though

- He can’t bake though. He can’t bake at all, his skill in baking is like the complete opposite of his cooking skills

- Not much of a sweets fan. He likes salty stuff

- Aside from tailgating, he also likes to drive his RV out of the city to go glamping. It’s a refreshing way to spend some time alone and away from the busy city life, just in nature and silence

- Extroverted introvert. He’s the type of guy who gets along with everyone and can be the life of any party, but he never overstays his welcome. He gets tired pretty easily and needs to take time to himself to properly recharge

- He really likes his naps. He works hard all day, so if he’s not hanging with his pals, watching tv at home, or taking care of Pastrami, he’s probably taking a nap. He’s like a grizzly bear (oh he also snores VERY loudly)

- Besides sports, he also likes watching sitcoms and comedy shows, action movies, and documentaries about kinda niche topics

- Speaking of Pastrami, Skip adopted Pastrami from an animal shelter long after Mary and James moved out. Pastrami was a pet rat abandoned by his previous owner and left in the streets of Oniontown. Skip felt bad for him, so he adopted him. Unexpectedly, their bond grew quickly, and now they are inseparable

- Pastrami is pretty attached to Skip. He’ll whine sometimes if Skip tries to go somewhere without him. Also, despite being blind, he has an excellent sense of smell so if they do somehow get separated then Pastrami can trace his scent to find him. He loves cuddling, though just be careful that he doesn’t try to crawl into your shirt (it’s happened before)

- Skip is thinking of getting another rat for Pastrami. Just as a little friend to keep him company when he couldn’t be around

- Used to volunteer at a library as story time reader and a tutor for kids and teens. He even tutored Allan when he used to live in Oniontown. When they met again for Mocharia, Skip recognized him which caught Allan by surprise as he didn’t remember him at all

- A popular guy in Oniontown. Pretty much everyone in the city knows his name and he’s respected by peers, even by Radlynn and Sarge Fan

- Though he’s usually nice, he’s been known to be snarky towards tourists. When he was talking to Koilee and she told him about her getting scammed he laughed right in her face about it, and still thinks she’s an idiot to this day. And when NuMarcus’ brick scam was going on he didn’t even bother to tell anyone they were wasting their money

- He was always a builder at heart. Back in his youth he used to hang out in Oniontown’s junkyard with his friends scavenging for stuff to make things with. A couple things they built were a tall platform they could climb on and even an incredibly janky go-kart out of scrap metal and spare parts. It wasn’t safe at all but it was fun

- The worst injury he’s ever had was when he drove the said janky go-kart down a hill of junk. He broke his arm so bad he had to get a metal rod inserted in for it to heal properly

- He likes the thought of being in a relationship and getting married, but isn’t totally sure about it. He’s had crushes but has never been on any real dates before. He doesn’t even know where to start when it comes to romance so he’s thinking of asking a friend when he’s ready

#papa louie #papa louie headcanons #flipline studios #asks #amii #papa Louie skip

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teaabun · 4 months

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I realize that I have a few posts of my IDV OC, Cas… But I haven’t talked about Cas. So!! I’ll talk about him so my followers actually know who he is when I show him 🥹

STORY 📚

This is Casimir Valentin, otherwise known as The Tailor. Before he went to the manor he owned a boutique in London. This boutique was mysteriously burned down one night after something (or someone) caused a fire. His hands, shoulders, arms and chest were burned (some of my works of him is outdated I’m very sorry-) in result of this. After loosing years of work, and no idea what could have possibly caused the fire, he was absolutely devastated and fell into a depression of his lost work.

Many theories of what happened to Casimirs Boutique floated around his area of London for a short time, some saying that he could have possibly burned his own building down to earn money after he was starting to lose business. Others say that Casimir was fully unaware of what was going to happen to his Boutique that night. These theories quickly faded as most peoples attention were drawn to the recent murders that happened around the same time as the Boutiques burning.

At some point, Valentin got a letter in the mail from a mysterious “Otelus Manor”.

The manor found interest in his work, and the many outfits and designs that he created would be wonderful displays for the manor. If he could possibly… come and work for them, they would pay him wonderfully in exchange.

Not only would they pay him, they would also reveal the true culprit behind the burning of his Boutique.

With a family he needs to help support, and years worth of outfit designing under his belt, he entered into the manors game, not knowing much what to expect…

PERSONALITY 🎭

Casimir’s stoic and brooding demeanor often intimidates others at a glance. However, he can be pretty gentle and cater to others. It’s the customer service mentality. He’s soft-spoken, yet blunt at times, unafraid to speak the truth.

EXTERNAL TRAITS 👤

( Just as a warning, I do not know if these traits are balanced AT ALL. This is just for fun! )

- Outfit Switch - Casimir is a incredible tailor with many tricks up his sleeve. When entering into a locker you have the choice to “change” into another character. You temporarily disguise as another player. You do not get this other characters abilities, however you are an exact visual copy until you are hit by the hunter or enter into a locker again. If the survivor you took the appearance of was hurt when you “change” into them, you will appear hurt.

[ Awareness ] - Casimir was cautious when walking home alone at night with a murderer on the loose, and always thought of good places to hide. Upon entering into a lockers radius, your trail entirely disappears, and will be active for around 5 seconds. It takes 60 seconds (1 minute) to recharge.

- Urgency - Casimir works well under pressure, entering and exiting a locker speed is increased by 50% (he has a different animation so it doesn’t look as silly in my mind but also feel free to imagine the regular locker animation just incredibly sped up)

- Intricacy - Detail is important in his work. Casimir can only heal in 12.5% increments. Healing is slower but can also heal chip damage.

- Exhaustion - Finally… a break. When not near the hunters radius, running/walking/crouching speed is reduced by 10%. When not in the hunters radius, the scope of success in calibrations are reduced by 40%

GENERAL INFO. 📋

- Likes: (Andrew, Aesop.) Dimly lit rooms, acknowledgment of his work (it doesn’t happen as often as it should), designing.

- Dislikes: Jack the Ripper, fire, the smell of gasoline.

(NOTE: The likes and dislikes are generally these general concepts and tend to be oversimplifications of a characters personality, and should not be seen as only this. Thats just me writing in the IDV format.)

- Name: Casimir Valentin

- Nicknames: Val, Cas

- Birthday/Character Day: February 14th

- Nationality: British

- Character Type: Assist/Contain

- Height: 4’11” (149.86 centimeters)

- Occupation: Tailor/Outfit Designer (He’s more specifically an outfit designer for the manor) (He’s basically like my weird in game reason for the costume essences)

MISC. 📑

- There is a sort of joke theory around the manor that he’s a vampire. He is not. He just wears black and walks around with a lace parasol. He’s just a guy.

- He wishes to be called Mr. Valentin, but most of the time people in the manor just call him Cas or Val. He doesn’t mind, but he would prefer that if you are professionally referring to him, please call him Mr. Valentin.

- A lot of the general outfit themes are created by the manor Baron himself. The Baron commissions both Ms. Nightingale and Casimir to create outfits for essences. Both create designs and bring them to the Baron to see what designs he likes best. Then, Cas usually is the one who does a lot of the sewing and creating of the outfits. In order to get alot of these outfits done, he pulls all nighters… quite often actually.

- In order to give Cas more time to create commissioned works, Cas does not appear in games as often as other survivors do. He has ran in last minute for matches multiple times because he had to run halfway across the manor to get to where hes supposed to be.

- Speaking of, Cas has to run around. A TON. He typically is the one calling hunters and survivors from their rooms to do measurements for outfits, and at this point anytime someone gets a knock on their door its like… 40% Cas asking them to do quick measurements.

- He is very stoic somehow despite all of this work. He takes alot of pride and joy into all the work he does for the outfits of the manor.

- However he is very overworked and tired most days. Days he does have where there is NO work is a rarity and god does he appreciate them.

- He enjoys coffee with some nice sweet creamer in there… its something to look forward to.

- In… some timelines, I def do like to put him in a poly relationship with Andrew and Aesop as his two other boyfriends. They are in love and holding hands. Only in my mind. You might see some posts come up of designs based off of other essences that involve Andrew and Aesop, its me inserting my Very Cool And Fun OC into the mix and having fun with it.

- Andrew and Aesop love him to death and hate to see him overworked so sometimes they try their best to take over designing for him. This comes up with very… uh… mixed results. Its not that they’re bad ideas! They’re just not executed in ways that are exactly viable or workable sometimes…

- All of them (Aesop, Andrew, and Cas) have a tendency to stay up at night and tend to all work at night, Cas just stays up during the day. AND the night. And YES its unhealthy he is very aware.

- He is very stoic and very calm most of the time, HOWEVER he has the ability to be very blunt and is not afraid to correct or openly defend something. He is not that much of a doormat, thank you very much.

#idv #idv oc #identity v #oc #original character #acryltalks #casimir valentin #the tailor

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ellenoir · 1 year

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i wanted to share a few tips, tricks, and habits I've learned from Genshin that might make your life a little easier playing. they'll be most handy to early game players, but some of you might have gotten mid-late (per version 3.3) without learning all of these. I hope they help someone. there are a LOT so I grouped them into categories to make it a little easier to track.

Party Building:

some 4* are honest to god more valuable to your team than 5*. Even your starters. Kaeya works both as support and reaction factory if you don't want him as a dps, Amber is helpful for hunting and early game puzzles, and Lisa is actually amazing as a DPS on- or off-screen. you have every right to keep your Primogems to yourself until you feel like using them and to hell with what anyone on the servers says.

Noelle is, in fact, designed to be a DPS and not a shield support unit. her best artefacts aren't unlocked until Inazuma, but loading her up with Berserkers and Gladiators will help her until you can reach her full potential.

in the early game, build one or two DPS characters and make use of the free 5* gifts that are Barbara and Xiangling. building Kaeya and Xiangling with high energy recharge and putting them with Barbara means you will have a fairly consistent reaction factory going on around you, providing Freeze, Melt and Vaporize depending on which part makes first contact.

battery is an unofficial character role that you ought to try take advantage of. these characters generate extra energy particles that get your characters' bursts ready faster. using The Exile series on these characters is an easy early-game way to take advantage of this effect. some characters are known as 'flat batteries', so all off-screen characters gain the same amount of energy, while others are 'elemental batteries' where shared elements get a higher bonus and other elements have diminished returns. Raiden Shogun is the queen of flat batteries, but other good characters that you'll likely already have are Bennett, Sucrose, Diona, and even Kaeya if you're okay with the elemental deficit. here's an in depth breakdown of how energy works and a list of good batteries as of sept 2022, which was the most recent list I could find.

Things You Really Must Acquire:

head up to the end of Stormbearer Point and find the nun there. exhaust your dialogue trees with her and receive the Barbatos Ratatouille recipe. normal yield is a 20% stamina reduction for sprinting and gliding for 900 seconds. that's fifteen minutes of reduced stamina consumption. delicious yield gives a 25% reduction. if you happen to have Venti and he cooks it, he may make A Buoyant Breeze - the results are the same stamina reduction for thirty minutes. at this point it's purely a flex that you can do it, you will never need that much time!

solve the puzzle at Quinyun Peak and access the Luxurious Chest on the floating island. collect the recipe for Adeptus' Temptation. take the time to unlock auto cooking and use Xiangling to make it. normal yield is +316 ATK and +10% Crit Rate for 5min to all characters, delicious yield is +372 ATK and +12% Crit Rate for 5min. there is no character specialty version as of writing in 3.3.

after reaching adventure level 40, buy the recipe for Pile 'em Up from Sara at the Good Hunter. Xiangling is a good cook for it, but if you get a Diluc, immediately make the switch. normal boosts crit rate by 15% for 5min, delicious boosts it by 20%. Diluc's Once Upon a Time in Mondstadt will boost crit rate and crit damage by 20% for 5min. Cured Pork Dry Hotpot and Baklava both have the same crit rate increase, but do not have a character specialty as of writing in 3.3, so Pile 'em Up is still standing superior.

make sure to talk to Sister Victoria in the Favonius Church and exhaust your dialogue trees with her, because she will give you an artefact that you won't be able to try and farm until you're halfway through Liyue.

talk to everyone, honestly. there are good things to find everywhere. probably a number of which i haven't found because i gotta go fast.

collect all of the shinies. yes, the weapons and artefacts are usually grey or green. if i hadn't ignored them in the early game, i wouldn't be short on resources to level up my actually good artefacts, and now i can't find them all again and and have a very limited supply. don't be me wasting Mora on the artefact merchants.

Wishing:

i had to google the mechanics of pity, so if you also don't completely understand what the hell soft pity means, let me explain. every 90th wish without having a 5* result is guaranteed to be 5*. 'soft pity' refers to when you start getting an increased chance of a 5* at around 70 wishes. this is why the wish history is so valuable to you if you have limited primogems. if you have already received a standard 5* from the special character banner, your next 5* is guaranteed to be the banner character. effectively, from the last time you received a banner 5* character, every 180th wish is guaranteed to be the banner 5* unless you receive it sooner.

most of you shouldn't bother on the weapon banner if you don't plan to be a whale, because the pity system there only guarantees your course charted banner weapon after 270 wishes. you are more likely to end up with the other banner weapon than the one you actually selected at your 90th or 180th wish. the only mercy here is that reaching the banner weapon you didn't select doesn't reset you to 0 out of 270.

i haven't seen anyone actually compile or compare the costs of reaching full potential on a weapon or character, so i'm going to do that now. you need 5 of the same weapon to reach full rank up and unlock 100% of the weapon's stat boosting ability, and at 160 primogems a wish, we are talking about a potential of 216,000 primogems to guarantee that you reach full potential. since there is no work around with rank 5 being the most useful a weapon can be, as rank only increases the numeric value of their secondary effect, this shows just how expensive the weapon banner actually is if you want full use of a BIS. meanwhile, if you say C6 is the highest value a character can have, you need 6 copies. at your worst possible luck, 6 runs of 180 at 160 a pop makes 172,800 primogems if you really feel the need to hit C6.

regarding Constellations and value, most characters actually do not C6 to be most useful on your team. Constellations provide additional effects to abilities or boost the power of certain secondary effects in abilities, but rarely does anything past C4 cause a truly worthwhile improvement to the core abilities of a character.

and now jumping off of how useful Constellations are, some characters should never be C6'd. Bennett is the most famous example. his C6 Burst applies Pyro to every weapon your team may use until his Burst ends. this means you cannot apply other elements, and he may weaken the damage of non-Pyro DPS units like Eula. thankfully you have to manually apply the Constellation after you receive them in a wish, so always read the changes before you apply them, especially on the even numbers as they tend to have the larger changes.

already C6'd a character and got another copy, like my legendary C12 Heizou? you get enough Starglitter to buy a free wish. this is actually more than just money back, because that wish still counted to your pity. I am now realising that Heizou was, in fact, helping me to C1 my Murder Narwhal.

Resources:

every day, hop up to at least the Liyue General Store and get a full allowance of Wheat, Milk, and Rice. consider hitting a couple more stores for Milk specifically because you can refine it into Butter, Cream and Cheese. these will give you the widest variety of meals to make.

also regarding refining ingredients - don't bother with Bacon or Sausages. at least not until you learn Cold Cut Platter, More-and-More, and Rice Cake Soup. those are the only 3 recipes that require them, and you can make much better use of Raw Meat and Ham for the same or even better effect.

you can reach Sumeru early by going over the Chasm in Liyue. if you're okay with possibly messing with the very first quest in Ghardaville, I highly recommend passing through and unlocking most of the rainforest area of Sumeru (or you can use the quest navigator to keep away from the quest trigger). this area is insanely resource rich, especially for hunters. Rishboland Tigers, Spinokroks, and Sumpter Beasts all drop 3-4 pieces of Raw Meat when killed. Spinokroks are easy to find in any of the watery ravines throughout the area, while Rishboland Tigers prefer to hide where there's lots of trees to plan ambushes from. use your pins when you find a spawn location and you'll never have to worry about lacking meat again.

while in Inazuma, reach reputation level 3 to automatically gain a quest called the Art of Horticulture. this quest gives you the Seed Dispensary. while it's equipped, any time you harvest plants from the game, you'll also gain a Seed for that plant (some plants don't count, any rewards or crate loot won't count, and Whopperflowers are still Whopperflowers). you can store up to 20 of each seed. when in the Serenitea Pot, you can purchase places to plant these seeds, which may take up to 3 days to grow. effectively, this allows you to double your yield from picking plants. even using Nahida's skill will still yield seeds if the Dispensery is equipped, and some of the included plants are Small Lampgrass and Sea Ganoderma. go grow you some DPS units honey.

food buffs of the same category do not stack, nor does one number overrule a portion of the other's effect. I would know, I've been trying to pair Adeptus' Temptation and Once Upon a Time in Mondstadt for over a month now. the new one simply overrules the old one.

hold your fragile resin until you hit adventure level 45. the highest level domain runs guaruntee you at least one 5* resource.

for the love of Morax make yourself some Condensed Resin. i wish they would raise the limit on how much you can hold at a time. you get double yield from domains and Ley Lines when you use these.

if you're gathering crystalflies, this is the best method i've found; go to the Anemo Archon Statue in Windrise. select a tall male character to run around the tree very fast. this is best performed with a Sayu in the team if you have her, as her passive causes crystalflies to be slower to try and flee. other Archon statues, very large trees, and unique natural structures that relate to the Archon of the area (ex - caverns in Liyue, windy forests in Mondstadt) are all good crystalfly hunting areas, but I've found the tree in Windrise is best as the crystalflies are spread out and you can grab one without the other 3-4 immediately dipping.

tapping the sprint button is measurably superior to holding it. over the same distance, you will use less stamina and go much quicker.

if gathering fish is as frustrating for you as it is for me, I have two work arounds. the first is to go to the little ponds in front of Bubu Pharmacy, which will have 3 fish each and which you can mostly walk if you use a tall male character. the second is to make use of Lisa and unleash charged attacks on the water - any fish that swims into the electrified area will immediately turn into a fish fillet that you no longer have to chase. any Electro character works but so far Lisa is an easy win even on Yae. just be aware that it will take a while for the Electro to clear, and you can take damage swimming through that field.

need to mine harder ores like Crystal or Amythest, but no Geo or Claymore? I get it, they can be pretty slow to attack, you might not wanna get jumped while using them. find something to climb on and do a dive attack. I swapped Zhongli for Layla to take advantage of Cryo app shields while paired with Tartaglia and Keqing - she can mine an Amythest lump in 2-3 very short dives.

#genshin #genshin impact #genshin impact tutorial #genshin tutorial #genshin impact tips and tricks #genshin tips and tricks #genshin tips #genshin impact tips

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Trick or Treat! -@antimony-medusa

This is my dog Blade (Named after Technoblade, yes<3) and he was my best friend. He recently came to visit us from the afterlife and played with his siblings at home, had his favorite meal and made us company for a day. Let me tell you about día de los muertos or day of the death.

TLDR: One of many versions of the myth of day of the death, what it often means and why it's cool.

ALSO! I'm (unfortunately) not a historian. I just got mexica/aztec history, mythology and cosmovision as special interests of mine since my senior year or highschool so most of my knowledge is for classes, asking my teachers, studying for exams and researching on my own. There's a lot of myths and legends about this beautiful tradition and this is just the one I know, so if you're interested, please feel free to be curious and do the same!

Back when the Aztecs were the biggest empire in America, whenever a person died by natural causes, it was said their souls were going to travel to the Mictlán (Nahuatl for place of the death), which is similar to hell but not as such as Hell, since Mictlán is the death new home, rather than a punishment. And it too has 9 different levels with 9 different tests by the god mictlantecuhtli and his wife mictecacíhuatl (god and goddess of the place of the death, respectively) for the souls to reach eternal rest.

(This is the place where most people would go, but there's, if I remember correctly, around 3, maybe 4 afterlife places souls would go, but that's a ramble for another time.)

The very entrance of the Mictlán is a river that souls need to cross in order to get in. Here, xoloitzcuintles (xolotl means monster/weird thing and itzcuintle means dog, so literally translating it means weird dog or dog monster. As a fun fact, axolotl literally translates to water monster since it has -xolotl) would help them to get across, but only and ONLY IF souls, when alive, were kind to animals. Thus Aztecas having xoloitzcuintles as lower deities.

But the 9 trials were tough, and mictlantecuhtli didn't know what to do to motivate souls to get through all of them. So then he allowed for them to go back to the world two days a year. November 1st is the day for the children to go visit their parents and siblings. November 2nd is the adult's turn to go visit their families. Aztecs were pleased by this and started making their favorite dishes to help them recharge<3

Apparently, it was the people around 2019 who decided that it was pets' turn to come and visit us October 27th, and we all embraced it. A lot of people's first experience with grief was with pets, and I think they deserve the same treatment. Like with humans, a candle is lit to light their way home along with cempasuchil flowers to trace their path. They're all welcomed with their favorite meals, water, and in some cases toys or their favorite things when they were alive.

As a kid I never had a reason to celebrate día de muertos, but now I do. And rather than that being sad, I took the opportunities to reflect about life, death, afterlife and memories. As long as we remember them, they won't ever die. They'll always live with us, in our hearts and the happy memories we shared with them. Grief is the price to pay for loving in life, and I think every second of pain I've ever experienced, was worth the smiles my loved ones drew in my face when they could.

I encourage anyone of any nationality who feels curiosity to research and put together an ofrenda, share memories about your loved ones and remember how happy you were. Tysm for reading<3

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mythicaldemigoddess-of-deltarune · 11 months

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FNAF Theory: Eclipsedrop & Roxy Will Co-Guardian (And Co-Parent) Cassie...

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this is just a theory, but I believe that it could be possible that both Eclipsedrop (that make up fusion of Sundrop and Moondrop’s different personalities fused together...) and Roxanne “Roxy” Wolf, might end up becoming co-guardians and protectors of Cassie, possibly protecting her from Monty, Chica and Freddy.

I’m not sure if this theory will be 100% true and it is possible it might get debunked once the Ruin DLC comes out on July 2023.

which once again, I got so excited about it, I had forgot that after May, it will be June next....so it will be a bit longer, but once it does become June, then it will be one more month to wait for the free DLC.

which if it does end up on the Xbox One, I hope I can get it for the Xbox One.

so yeah my theory is that Eclipsedrop or we can just call “Eclipse” for short,

and even Roxy, will end up becoming co-guardians of Cassie, it might not be known if Chica will end up becoming Cassie’s guardian...

even if there is the fan theory that she might become one.

but maybe in theory, if Roxy, Chica and Monty do change back into good, because Cassie helped them, then those three along with Eclipsey will have to protect Cassie from Freddy.

so maybe if Roxy and Eclipsedrop starts out as Cassie’s first two guardians and before Chica and Monty are added in once she saves them.

that would make them Mama Roxy & Papa Eclipsey.

cause that makes Monty the cool Uncle and Chica the Sweet Aunt.

if Gregory can get a Adoptive Dad that becomes his FazDad...

then Cassie gets a Wolf-Mama...

I’m not sure if this theory will turn out to be true or not, but it would be nice if Cassie did get some form of protection and isn’t trying to save Gregory on her own, like she was originally going to, but ends up befriending Eclipsey and even Roxy, and the three of them end up befriending and saving Monty and Chica...but aren’t able to do so with Freddy and the four of them have to keep Cassie safe while she tries to find Gregory....

but it could turn out the Freddy chasing Cassie, isn’t the same Freddy...

like there could be a reason for those other Alternate Endings, and the one where Vanessa is free and Gregory had went with her, with Freddy...

that could be the real Friendly Freddy, and the one who wanted Gregory to despicable Vanny, might of been the Bad Freddy...and who tricks Gregory into believing he got a second wind, but really he didn’t....and Moony might of took the real one to a recharge station.

and we might of been playing two versions of Gregory this whole time, well not everyone has to agree with that theory.

but it might explain why there was two of Vanessa in one of the endings, one being in the Vanny outfit and the other on the roof.

and it could turn out the Gregory that Cassie is trying to go save, isn’t really the real Gregory, and the real one is living happy with Vanessa and the Real Freddy that he befriended and was able to reunite with even after the Bad Freddy did fool him for a while, but lucky Gregory got separate from but he is still in the Mega Pizzaplex, and it could be possible that Cassie is in danger.

if Cassie went missing, Gregory might of thought she was at the Mega Pizzaplex.

but it could turn out she fell into that ball pit that let’s you travel through time.

and it takes her a while to get back, because she was being kept captive by Henry Emily, who thought she was Charlotte Emily, like if there was a mini-game, it could have Cassie try to escape Henry, but also find out some dark secrets about Henry that no one would suspect.

it could turn out that Henry was responsible for the missing children, because he wanted his daughter back. or he didn’t cause the missing children incident, but still might have some form of connection to it, even if he might of not meant for it to happen....and how did Charlotte even get outside where William Afton could get her in the first place, and who even kept the Puppet in the box and kept them from keeping Charlotte safe...?

but the green eyes of the puppet in that mini-game, it is like when Circus-Baby’s eyes went from blue to green....

it could mean that the security puppet, might of had Elizabeth’s soul inside it, and Henry knew this whole time.

like the good part that was taken out of Circus-Baby, might of been the part that was Elizabeth Afton, and it was then placed into the Security Puppet that would end up being tasked in protecting Charlotte Emily.

if Gregory and Cassie were robots, or like some form of bio-synthetic humans.

they might of been both based on The Crying Child (William Afton’s Son) & Charlotte Emily (Henry Emily’s Daughter) and at some point the two became adoptive family to each other, becoming brother and sister, and not knowing their true origin.

Cassie worried about Gregory, might have to do with them being either just a friend or a sibling to him.

we wont know their relationship until we see it for ourselves in the ruin dlc.

but it wont show until July 2023, so we will have to wait.

I still like the idea about Roxy & Eclipsey Co-Parenting Cassie, and both of them becoming her guardians, but we don’t know if they will or not and we can only guesses and theories.

guess we could see this as a Eclipsey x Roxy Ship, and now they have a daughter. XD

also I am only placing the “No One Is Allowed To Reblog This” Note, on certain posts, because of someone seeming to ignore the “Note: Don’t Reblog Without Permission” and end up making me feel not too happy yesterday...

so this one will just have the “Note: Don’t Reblog Without Permission”...

anyway I’m going to go watch Transformers Animated, I will sign back on later to check out some more stuff on here...and after that, I’m going to watch Transformers Prime and then RWBY...like I had plan to yesterday, but ended up going to bed a bit early because I was feeling not happy because a certain reason....

anyway hope some like this theory about Roxy and Eclipsey becoming Cassie’s guardians and technically Mama-Wolf & Papa-Eclipse.

#fnaf theory #fnaf security breach #fnaf ruin dlc #cassie fnaf #eclipsedrop fnaf #sundrop fnaf #moondrop fnaf #roxanne wolf #roxy fnaf #co-parenting #guardian #mom and dad #adoptive family #may 2023 #do not reblog without permission

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Track 12 - Bittersweet Break

Content Warning!

Gender Dysphoria

If this makes you uncomfortable, I advise you to skip this one.

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Fandom: Hypnosis Mic

Character: Ann Wolff (OC)

Synposis: It is unbearable. All of it. And yet, ‘she’ is there. So it will all be fine in the end. Yeah, as long as ‘she’ is around.

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Back to everyday life, back into the crowd. And the feeling became even more apparent. No incident had left Ann’s mind since then, she thought more and more about it. This has been one of the most unusual experiences she ever had. It was a one time thing to be honest, never had she experienced this again. The days had passed on as always – Her doing her work, talking about the usual with her friends and making sure to report back to her mother. It was the same thing over and over, no doubt about it. All while that time was drawing nearer…

She had talked about it with her boyfriend over the phone. “You sure you can do it that day?” He had asked, annoyed yet desperate. His voice had become even more ear piercing to listen to and the sound of it alone made her want to hang up and run to the bathroom. Her face had made a grimace ever since. Luckily he didn’t see her so he would not be able to tell, not with the usual voice she was putting on, all to keep the illusion up. All to act accordingly.

“Yes. I made sure to talk about it with my boss as well.” She assured him ever so softly yet there was nothing soft about it. This was just disgusting to her ears. In fact, his words and tone turned into noises. Annoying, ear bleeding noises. Nothing more, and nothing less. She felt guilty about it… Because why would she think that about her own boyfriend? This was wrong! Right? Something was up with her… Something… Ugh, why does this have to be so complicated? “I should be free and recharged for the weekend.”

“Really? No tricks or lies?”

“Yeah. No tricks whatsoever.”

She had promised. Well, she had never literally promised nor said it out loud. But it may as well be the equivalent to a promise. Yeah, that night… It made her swallow, right at the thought of it. The image flashed in her head all the same. Inside a dark room, she has to be all vulnerable as he touches all over… Wanting to devour… How she would tremble and he would think it was a sign of excitement. His voice whispered into her ears, making her shake even more, and even more when feeling his breath. It was a night how any woman would imagine it, right? Being treated like a woman… No, turning into a ‘true woman’... This is what this night is… It should be… But becoming a ‘woman’... A woman… A… wo… man…

“ You're a woman. Your boobs are saying it all. And last time I checked beneath that dress… Well, you know. ” – No… That’s what he sees. That’s what he thinks. Only he believes such a thing.

This guy she has to call her boyfriend. This pervert… This literal pig. This piece of trash who just keeps on going and going… As long as he gets what he wants it’s fine. As long as he is satisfied. As long as he gets to touch… ‘Her’. Yeah, this pervert of perverts who—

“Ann? Are you alright?” One of the brunette’s friends asked, the tone of this friend’s voice bringing her out of her thoughts, feeling dizzy. What was she thinking? What had she just gone through in her mind? This is not how Ann is supposed to think, at least that was what she had been taught. And yet, getting into this tangent– No, this made no sense. And yet, these thoughts had increased over time.

Alright? No, she wasn’t. Of course she was not. Who would be alright in her position? Always playing a game, day by day pretending to be ‘her’. ‘She’ was nothing but a facade, a role Ann had to take on. ‘She’ is only here as a mask-. Yeah, ‘she’. Ann has to be ‘her’. Or else things might get ugly. But Ann… Ann has to accept it. Embrace ‘her’. It’s the only way… But Ann should be numb to all of this- ‘She’ has been there all life. Yeah, it’s fine. It’s alright. It will all be fine. It’s ok. It will all be ok. Ann will be ‘her’. ‘Her’. ‘She’. Yes. As it should be…

“Y… Yeah, I am.” She responded, smiling, even if nervously. “Work is just a little tiring sometimes.”

“Haha, busy? I’ve heard~” Her friend chuckled, the laughter and smile ever so innocent. “It’s ok though. Take it easy, alright? And if you got any worries, just say so. I’ll help you.”

“Thanks. I’ll keep it in mind.” She said, nodding. She is fine, there is nothing to worry about. She is always ok after all. Although… “I’m just a little excited about tonight.”

“Tonight? Why’s that?”

“Ah, my boyfriend and I have… Plans.”

“Plans? What do— Ooooh~ Is it finally time~?” Her friend asked with a smirk.

She only nodded softly, her cheeks turning a little red. “Yeah… I don’t want to mess it up you know… After all—”

“Haha, you got this! Don’t worry! If you keep thinking about it, it’ll only get more tense. Just relax for now, ok?”

“R… Right… Sorry…”

“Hehe, no problem. How about I help you relax while we still can? I’ve heard a new shop opened down the street! Let’s check it out together! The clothes are super cute too~ Maybe we will even have luck meeting the designer. Heard he’s a cutie!”

“A new shop? A designer? Would he—”

“He’s always scouting! Maybe he’ll hire me as one of his models! Or you! You look super cute! In fact, you could throw your job away and become a model! You totally should!”

“I–” She said at first, a little surprised yet only chuckled at the end, softly. “Maybe. I… Might consider it. If we even meet him.”

“Great! But don’t be too charmed! You already got a boyfriend!”

“I wouldn’t think of it.”

Yeah, ’she’ spoke. And ‘she’ has to keep speaking. Or Ann is going to drive insane.

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#Deep Waters #fanfiction #fanfic #fic #hypnosis mic #hypmic #hypnosis microphone #hypnosis mic oc #hypmic oc #original male character #tw gender dysphoria #cw gender dysphoria

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