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Genie Magnus
Magnus as a Genie.
Blame it on those open shirts he wears. I just suddenly had the oddest thought about him being a genie whose lamp Alec found and now they live together.
Magnus: "Welcome back, Master Alexander."
Alec: "You are not my slave, there is no need to call me Master."
Magnus: "Yes, Master Alexander."
Yes, Magnus does this 100% because Alec blushes when he calls him Master.
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Genie Magnus and magic bottle. Fic illustration
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#my art#shadowhunters#magnus bane#malec#concept art#fic illustration#1001 arabian nights#arabian nights#genie magnus#genie in a bottle
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Some sketches of my fire genasi Aberrant Mind Sorcerer, Abraxas son of Magnus, inspired by TMA.
Abra's a cranky, power thirsty diva with some homicidal tendencies, who turned his back on his previous adventuring party in pursuit of powerful artifacts. Some bullshit occurs, and he crosses the gith and ends up stuffed in a stasis flask and flung to the far reaches of the Astral sea. Nearly 300 years later, a rift in reality brings his flask hurtling to the ground at the feet of his current companions.
My DM homebrewed an eldritch amulet for me, connected to The Beholding. (He's also a TMA fan, so we had a lot of fun)
#dungeons and dragons#d&d#d&d 5e#aberrant mind sorcerer#the magnus archives#jonathan sims#the beholding#the eye#fire genasi#he's a genie in a bottle lmao#this started as a bad joke#please send help he's so sassy
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Starlight finishes her breather, she had just managed to avoid Discord ruining all her plans due to defending her position in a sort of mock trial in front of the draconequus, and she also very much has Fluttershy's close relationdship with Discord to thank. After one more deep breath, her smug confidence slowly returns as she starts lightly chuckling once more
“Well, I’ll admit Princess… you surely scared me with that last try… To think... if anypony else other than Fluttershy had been genified in that musical chairs game... you might have managed to pull it off... but now that not even the Lord of Chaos will stand in my way… you must know that you truly are running out of options~” Starlight’s smug smirk has fully returned, a sight that Twilight was hoping to never see again.
Twilight sighed before defiantly speaking “I… still have one more wish I’d like to try… I… don’t exactly have as much confidence in them actually stopping you in the way Discord could have… but at the very least… perhaps whatever wise and experienced advice they have may give me what I need to stop you… as they were the ones who first encountered your lamp originally… the Pillars of Equestria themselves…”
Starlight thinks for a moment before nodding “Ah yes, I actually wouldn’t mind seeing them myself, While I was filled in with the power of the genie, I wasn’t like… instantly filled in with the history of the lamp too. So I’m actually quite curious”
Twilight tilts her head in confusion “But… you know when they get here… they’re going to more likely want to stop you first before they ever speak up…”
Starlight raspberries “Please... even if they’re supposedly these legendary ponies. That’s the thing, they’re just ponies. Realistically, they are going to wonder what's going on the moment they're back, giving me plenty of time to assess whether I should retreat or not. The reason I was so worried about Discord is because he would have been a lot more difficult to escape from. But whatever the pillars have can’t be anymore difficult to avoid then what you girls had. If I need to go invisible again, so be it. To be honest, I welcome the return of the pillars. It’s six more ponies for us to transform eventually~. Maybe I should just throw caution to the wind and just genify the six of them mere moments after they get here!”
Twilight grimaces, that’s probably something she should have considered. “Wait! Starlight, before I bring the pillars here… can we make some sort of deal on them… can… maybe we link them to your game?”
Starlight puts a hoof on her chin to think this over, and gets an idea in her head. She nods in approval. “Sure, why not? Might be fun to include a few more ponies to the game, allow me to just write up a little… contract... shall we say... to amend the game a little…”
Starlight poofs up some glasses for herself, along with a scroll and a quill. She writes down an amendment to the current game she’s putting Twilight and her friends through. A few moments later, she’s written down everything, and levitates the scroll to give to Twilight. “There, now all you need to do is sign on the dotted line, and the addition to the game will be complete”
Twilight carefully takes the scroll “Before I do that… I need to carefully read every detail of this… I’m not signing onto this if there’s some little catch you added onto this contract…”
“Fair, go ahead and read every last letter on it until you're satisfied~” Starlight slightly smirked.
Twilight opens up the scroll and slowly goes over the document, making absolutely sure there wasn’t a detail written by Starlight that would inconvenience her, the pillars, or any of her friends. Nothing seems out of place so far, there’s even a detail that seems actually quite unusually generous of Starlight. About how the Pillars would not be allowed to be genified by any other pony other than their respective Element of Harmony counterpart. Twilight’s actually shocked that a clause like that was in there at all, if she acts quickly before Starlight realizes a potentially big mistake, she and the others might be able to take advantage of this by wishing that the same be done for anypony else not a genie yet.
The end of the scroll ends with the statement “I wish this scroll was certified as a part of Starlight’s game” with the word sincerely next to a dotted line where Twilight can sign her name. She gets right to levitating the quill and writes down her name in cursive. As soon as Twilight’s name is fully written down, the contract glows and floats toward Starlight who happily accepts the terms.
Starlight rears on her hindlegs briefly and claps her hooves once “Now that we’re in agreement, let’s bring the pillars back from limbo… you want to make the wish, Twilight?”
Twilight nods “I wish the Pillars of Equestria were brought out of Limbo, and brought here to Ponyville!”
Starlight gracefully poses, floating herself into the air as she spins with magic swirling around her. She’s closed her eyes as she focuses on bringing the legendary heroes of Equestria out of limbo, where they put themselves in permanent stasis in order to seal the Pony of Shadows. Starlight manages to pull the heroes without also bringing the evil shadow into Equestria, perhaps Starlight’s magic made it possible for the Pony of Shadows to remain in stasis despite the now missing heroes. In mere moments, all 6 of the legendary ponies each popped in not far from where the Elements were standing.
Everyone of them is a bit dazed as they all hit the ground prone, whether it’s from the sudden teleport and/or the more then a thousand years of stasis is hard to tell. In time though, they all slowly get up and look around them. They’re most certainly in a place unfamiliar to them, as Ponyville did not exist 1000 years ago.
“W-w-where are we?” Mage Meadowbrook speaks up first, a bit scared to be in a place unfamiliar to her and the others.
“Nevermind that! If we’re out… where in Equestria is the Pony of Shadows?!” Starswirl immediately makes all the rest gasp, and worried that if they’re out then surely who they were sealing was on the loose too.
“There’s no need to worry yourselves, oh legendary heroes from more than a millennium ago~” The pillars hear an unfamiliar and rather sinisterly confident voice..
“A MILLENNIUM AGO?!” Rockhoof reacted in shock.. though he stops himself “Wait, how long is that again, Starswirl? I swear some o’ me brain cells are still frozen…”
The wizard sighs “A millennium is 1000 years ago, what this unfamiliar pony… or well, all these faces are unfamiliar to be frank… means is that we’ve been gone for at least that long”
The rest of the pillars just about gasp, and what that means is noticed all too sadly by Flash Magnus “Then… our friends… our family… my squadmates… they’ve all long been deceased…” That realization hits hard for the pillars. They’ll be surrounded by unfamiliar faces, and at best, they’ll only find descendants of those they knew.
Starswirl himself lowers his head in a moment of silence for the many friends he likely lost over the time he’s been gone, but he determinedly puts his head back up. “We did what we had to do, thanks to us… It seems Equestria has survived for this long. Also, don’t forget… we won’t be entirely without familiar faces. Princesses Celestia and Luna must be still around” The other pillars nod, and are thankful there is indeed someone from their day and age that is still here to talk to.
The wizard then turns his attention to the pony who spoke to them first. He looks at Starlight, obviously noting her attire... though he at first thinks nothing of it. Perhaps that’s just the current fashion trend, at least in this part of this “future” Equestria. He also notices they are surrounded by many other ponies with similar such attire. Although, Starswirl knows this isn’t exactly an entirely new form of fashion. As he’s seen garments and rings for hooves like it in places such as Saddle Arabia, and even occasionally from Somnambula’s homeland.
Though, the group does notice that not everyone around them is wearing such attire. There’s another group of 5 ponies who are entirely clothes-less. Even in the Pillar’s time, this was a pretty common norm, though each of the pillars have their own sets of clothing to help identify them further. Starswirl can’t help but see what he first believes is a normal unicorn who looks nervous but also excited at the same time in Starswirl’s presence.
Starswirl raises an eyebrow at the pony staring at him awkwardly “May I… help you?”
Twilight’s pupils and irises shrink, in her sheer glee that one of the most renowned wizards in all of Equestrian history is speaking even one word to her. Even just the fact he said as little as four words to her is almost enough to make her feel like fainting like Rarity. But she tries her best to keep up any sort of composure she can muster. Even as she’s fangirling to unbelievable levels inside her mind.
She takes a deep breath before finally addressing the legendary wizard. “Uh… h-h-hi… Starswirl… my name is… t-t-Tw-Twilight Sparkle… I… or well… we... summoned you and the other pillars back because we have a really dire situation… that we hope you have some kind of secret solution to… especially since this is one that you’ve dealt with before.”
Starswirl nods “I see… and what is th-“ Starswirl then finally realizes something about the lavender mare in front of him. He gasps as he sees a pair of large wings on her side. Twilight sheepishly grins as she flaps them open briefly. This mare wasn’t just some unicorn, she was a young Alicorn. “Wait… you wouldn’t happen to be a family member of Princesses Celestia and Luna in anyway would you?”
Twilight raises an eyebrow “Well… no… why do you ask?”
“Then how in the world, are you an alicorn if you aren’t a direct descendent of them?” Starswirl stood there confused
“It’s… a bit of a funny story…” Twilight’s about to get into telling Starswirl about how she ascended after completing an unfinished spell of his before Somnambula nudges Starswirl.
“Explanations can come later, I think we should stop this “dire situation” that Ms. Sparkle mentioned.” Starswirl is obviously still curious about Twilight’s alicorn status, but he realizes his fellow pillar is right. From the sounds of it, the pillars were their last hope. So it was appropriate that the very bearer of hope gets them back on track. “You’re quite right, Somnambula. Apologies, if you went so far to summon us from Limbo... then Equestria must really be in dire straits”
“Oh you bet it is! The problem happens to be surrounding us right now…” Twilight pointing a hoof then going in a circle to get Starswirl paying attention to the group of ponies all around them
Though the old wizard seems rather skeptical. “These aren’t just regular ponies in fancy desert dancer wear?”
Starlight just shrugs and chuckles “I guess it isn’t too obvious without a little proof that me and the others in this attire aren’t anything more then costumes… but since you are the pillars of legend… perhaps I should help remind you of what I really am~”
Starlight poofs up her dark-colored lamp to her hoof and smirks “Does this look familiar?~” The moment the Pillars see the lamp they all collectively gasp, and each of their faces go a little pale.
“Oh no… no no no no no NO! Who dared to even so much as TOUCH the cursed Lamp of Catrina?! Was it you?! How did you even infiltrate the archives?!” He points to Starlight, while at the same time Twilight just lowers her head and backs away. Knowing full well she was the one who activated the lamp.
“Believe it or not, Starswirl the Bearded… while I did infiltrate the archives when all the royal guards, Celestia, and Luna were all… occupied. It was none other than your #1 fan here who was so desperate that she used it on me~” Starlight devilishly smirks as she metaphorically twists the knife of Twilight getting the ire of her historic idol.
Immediately, Starswirl turns around and has a very stern face as he stares down Twilight. “How… how could you have done this?! Do you have ANY idea what you’ve just done?! We put a VERY strict message that the lamp should not be used again under ANY circumstances! Can you not read?!”
Twilight’s eyes water as she struggles to respond “I… I… I…”
“HEY!” Rainbow flies up to the stern wizard to defend Twilight’s honor “Twilight’s the readiest pony you’ll ever know! She was just looking for a solution to defeat Starlight while at the same time the Princesses were kidnapped by the Storm King!”
“She activated an artifact that could very well place Equestria in a far WORSE position than whatever this Storm King was about! The real life genie that Catrina became was no joke!” Starswirl gritted his teeth responding to Rainbow. “I’d tell the story about Catrina, but I’m not even sure this genie will even let us have the time to…”
Starlight shrugs “Oh… go on ahead, I’m as curious as any pony else about the origins of my lovely lamp~”
“Even if you will let me tell it, why should we let you listen in on this, you wench!” Starswirl fired back
Starlight laughs some more “Well, if you’re not going to tell me. Maybe I SHOULD just overwhelm you with my power~” Starswirl grimaces, it’s either tell the story while the… “successor” of Catrina hears it or they’ll be fighting her straight on without any of their items.
“Fine… you can listen on in…” Starswirl taking a deep breath before explaining the past he and the pillars had with Catrina.
“Ahem… to get the obvious out of the way. Catrina was an evil sorcerer that was a menace to her home nation of Abyssinia, a nation home to this world's anthropomorphic cats. She used her magic for all sorts of misdeeds, Catrina wasn’t the strongest magic user in the nation, but she knew enough to be quite slippery from evading justice. Besides magical prowess, she was pretty nimble with her paws. A real jack-of-all-trades that was frustrating to contain regardless what kind of law enforcement came for her. Though her deepest desire was to break far past her limitations in use of magic. As she was quite jealous of any magic user stronger than her. She had dreams of becoming the most powerful sorcerer/sorceress in the world.
One day she used her skills to sneak into the forbidden section of the largest library in Abyssinia. Where she’d find information about a magic that was considered ancient by thousands of years even as far as back then. The source of this power was supposedly in a large temple in the middle of the Abyssinian desert. Though everyone in that nation knew how treacherous such a trek would be, enough to give even the normally daring sorceress pause about even trying. There wasn’t even too much evidence yet of this ancient magic being real either, so for a time, even Catrina wouldn’t risk her life for something that might not even exist.
She would soon however face perhaps one of her most humiliating defeats, she narrowly escaped an ambush by the authorities that was complemented with the nation's top sorcerers that would have most certainly brought her to justice once and for all. She had decided she had no other choice. For if she didn’t find a way to break her limits as a sorceress, she was soon going to find herself in prison. The sorceress determined she’d rather die trying to be something, then rot away in prison for the rest of her days having never achieved her dreams.
So she went along with the trek, the journey there being about as tough as she could expect. There’d be skeletal remains that became all too common the closer she got to where this temple purportedly was. While those corpses could have been there for any other reason. Inside her mind she was certainly thinking that many of these victims were others seeking the same ancient power she’s looking for.
Somehow she managed to reach the temple with plenty of energy and determination left. But what she found in the temple was a more harrowing sight than any dangers the desert brought. As the temple quite literally was filled with the smell of death. Inside the temple, she already saw more skeletal remains than she did throughout her entire trip to the desert. It seemed a majority of those that seeked the power did indeed get to the fabled temple. But with most of them likely having been exhausted by the trek through the desert. They were either not prepared, ill-equipped, or just unable to avoid the many deadly traps, and architecture that’d require a world-class parkour athlete to traverse across. Many areas in the temple had such perilous design that a single misstep would lead to falling down into inescapable spike pits.
Strangely however, the fact this all existed actually gave the sorceress more determination. As this power must really exist if so many had tried. Not to mention the civilization that built this place must know what kind of magic they sealed within the temple if they went this far to protect it. And luckily for Catrina, not only was she nimble enough to maneuver through the temple. She was smart enough to get an idea of how each of the temple's victims failed, and adjusted accordingly to avoid making the same mistake.
The sorceress eventually managed to find what everyone else that perished was trying to get. It was, of course, the very lamp that Starlight is currently holding. However, all those acrobatics left Catrina exhausted. She knew that if she tried trekking through the desert to take the lamp back with her. She was most certainly going to die, Catrina cursed the ancients who thought so far ahead that even if someone eventually got the prize inside... they might still not be spared from death. Up until after an apparent accidental rub, where magic smoke swirled around her, a voice within her mind asked her for a desire. At that point, Catrina’s strongest desire was getting back home safely.
Within a blink of the eye, she and the lamp together were transported to her secret hideout all the way from where the lamp was in the temple. Shocking not just Catrina herself, but her assistant. Who had thought that Catrina was certain to be dead by now, as they too were very aware that no one ever returned from seeking the artifact Catrina was after. Once Catrina replenished her energy with some food and a drink, the sorceress laughed maniacally as she triumphantly found her way to prove herself. She and her assistant slept that night, just itching for tomorrow for when the sorceress would begin her conquest.
Upon the next morning, events happened that the sorceress was not prepared for. When she rubbed the lamp to begin her conquest the next morning, the lamp’s magic swirled around her again to seek her deepest desire. That of course was to be the most powerful magic being possible. The lamp obliged, by sucking her completely inside. The sorceress purportedly scared for her life as it brought her slowly in, though some purportedly a really strange mind change happend as soon as her what was her feet was siphoned in that only got more and more intense until she was fully inside the lamp. Her assistant frantically went to get her out, which was done with yet another rub.
When she came out, she was no longer the mischievous sorcereress she was before. She was something far more monstrous, a genie bent on putting everyone standing in her way under an iron claw. As she desired, she was most definitely the strongest magic user in her nation, and quite possibly the world. The Abyssinians trying to resist Catrina had to reach out for outside help. And that’s where me and the rest of the Pillars came in. At the time.. our Elements of Harmony were renowned as world savers, though the magic of the elements were relatively new. Not even we knew the limits of it's power yet. We knew however that if Catrina took over all of Abyssinia she’d seek to expand ever further, so we agreed to make the long journey to deal with her before she could ever get to Equestria. We also had to be extra careful, as with the kind of power Catrina had. It was going to be difficult to find a good spot to hit her with the elements.
Though thankfully, Catrina proved too cocky for her own good. We weren’t able to sneak up on her as we hoped. But instead of seeking right away to stop us. She laughed us all off, and dared us to blast her. Admittedly, we weren’t sure if it’d even work. It was as much of a shock to her as it was us that we successfully broke off her connection with the lamp. Flash Magnus used his speed to make sure Catrina couldn’t genify herself again. Though she certainly still lunged at him trying to get it back through whatever means. She went absolutely bonkers once she was mortal again. She even begged us to please let her be a genie again, and tried to bargain with us by promising she wouldn’t try to take over the world again if we allowed her to get the lamp back. We called her bluff and refused. It wouldn’t be long til’ local forces arrested Catrina, having to put her in a strait jacket as she persisted to try to get the lamp from Flash Magnus’s hooves in continuously desperate measures.
After which, we were thanked by the leaders of Abyssinia for subduing Catrina. We don’t know what became of Catrina afterward, though from what I hear, she was never the same again. Serves her right however, for her evil deeds…
As for the lamp, the Abyssinians felt the lamp would be best under our protection. Aside from what happened with Catrina, too many living beings have died on their soil in pursuit of this one lamp. We worked together to cover up as much as we could about the lamp, the Abyssinians destroying any mere mention of either the lamp or the temple it was in from any remaining sources. And while we put warning labels for the lamp for the archive, we kept the name of Catrina a secret. It didn’t really have an official name beforehand, but for those allowed to be in the know. We called it the Lamp of Catrina, but the hope was we’d never have to actually explain this ever again…
Which is why I’m so disappointed in our newest… “princess” that she allowed this to happen…”
Twilight lowers her head again in shame, as Applejack pats her on the back and sternly looks at Starswirl for knocking Twilight down while she’s already feeling awful enough for how things have escalated. Starlight chuckles a little after hearing the story of her 'predecessor'. “So... the previous occupant of the lamp before me was a literal catwoman, huh? I guess that explains all that cat food in the kitchen~”
As miffed Applejack is with Starswirl, she sighs and knows they kind of have to depend on him on some level to reverse all this. “So… uh… Starswirl, Ah don’t suppose y’all have the secret t' defeating these genies?”
“Well it’s as simple as… wait a moment, did you say… genies… as in PLURAL?!” Starswirl and the pillars once again all go wide eyed.
“Uh… duh! What did you think the other oddly dressed ponies were? Backup dancers?” Rainbow responded in an annoyed tone.
“Oh this is bad… this is really bad… this isn’t something Catrina did at all… she kept all that power for herself…” Starswirl frowned. One genie was bad enough, waking up to a scenario where there's more starts to wash the color from the wizard's face.
“Hehe… it seems Catrina was not as forward thinking as I~. Sure, I get having all this power on your lonesome would allow you control over everything… but I think giving every pony the same benefits I enjoy is far more beneficial~. I’m not putting ponies under an iron hoof, I’m only allowing them to achieve all of their desires and more… is that really so wrong?~” Starlight smugly grinned
Starswirl grinded his teeth “How many have you transformed, you demon!”
“Oh just a few friends & allies here and there… but also the entirety of the Crystal Empire, I assume the bulk of the Royal Guard in Cloudsdale, at least some of Manehattan, and I even got Princesses Celestia and Luna taking their fair share of orders from me~” Starlight smirks deviously once more
“WHAT?! NO!” Starswirl is shocked that even the alicorns he knew have fallen to Starlight’s notorious genie plan. “Curse you, Starlight… no… not just you actually… curses to you too for letting it get this far!” He points a judgmental hoof right at Twilight
That's where Rainbow swoops down in defense of Twilight once more “That’s enough out of you, I don’t care if you’re some legendary wizard of the past. Twilight’s our friend, and we’re not going to take you disparaging her lightly!”
“Ah concur with Rainbow, our enemy is Starlight… not each other. Whether Twilight played ah role in the current situation is irrelevant, so long as Twilight’s actively tryin' her best t’ fix her mistake. Frankly, ah’m not sure y’all would have been able t’ do much better” Applejack raised an eyebrow.
“I’d beg to differ… but fine, I suppose accountability can wait until this situation is dealt with…” The stern wizard gives Twilight a not-so-subtle cold shoulder.
Rainbow growls “Screw you and your accountability! If it weren’t for Twilight, you six would already be getting consumed by genie bottles this very moment! She made a deal so that Starlight would not transform you all shortly after bringing you here!”
Starswirl admittedly had glossed over the fact that they could have simply been transformed into genies this very moment. “Is… that… so… well… I’ll at least tip my hat in gratitude for your thoughts to protect us… though I must ask if there was a catch to this… there’s always a catch to making deals with villains like these…”
“Well… just to get some of the context… Starlight’s forcefully putting us through some kind of game. Where she’s letting us have any wish from her and her alone, with some notable restrictions… the problem of course being that if said wish can be at all interpreted into a genification… that will be the default interpretation by Starlight. But uh… we reached a deal where as long as one of us is not a genie, our counterpart of the Pillars can not be genified”
“I see, well... that should give us plenty of time to seek out each of our mystical items then and begin reversing all the genifications. As long as you and your 4 other friends don’t make any foolish wishes that is. But regardless, come on my friends. We must retrieve our items from our homelands!” The pillars start walking together to go on their long journey of seeking out their items.
Though one of them is suddenly distracted by an interesting sight. Meadowbrook is startled as she comes across what seems to be a flash bee. Though it looked different from any flash bees she’s ever seen. The bee was of a paler yellow then usual, and the stripes that were normally an electric blue were now a light pink. Not to mention it had a more lion-esque mane that was also colored pink.
“Oh hello there, little flash bee! Ah suppose y’all don’t know that ah’ve taken good care o’ y’all ancestors t’ make mah medicine. Y’all stings surely hurt, but y’all really helped out with healthcare fo’ all pony kind and ah can’t thank y’all enough!” Meadowbrook smiled, while the little flash bee seemed to… chuckle?
As Starswirl walks away he notes something to the other 4 that weren’t being confronted by a flash bee. “We should be slightly thankful that Starlight can’t count it seems, there’s only 5 of Twilight and her friends and 6 of us. So even in the worst case scenario where they’re all genified, there will be at least one of us to try to set things right!”
Though Twilight just manages to hear Starswirl confidently saying that, while grimacing knowing where all of a sudden this was going. She turns over to Meadowbrook’s position and gasps as she sees the flash bee of an oddly familiar color scheme. “MEADOWBROOK, LOOK OUT! THAT’S NO ORDINARY FLASH BEE!”
“Huh?” Meadow brook turned to react to Twilight’s words. Then the flash bee quickly zipped around the mage, flying beneath Meadowbrook’s green dress and stinging her twice, once on each of her hindlegs. Meadowbrook yelps in pain and jumps backward landing on her back. As she winces from the pain, she instantly lifts her dress to inspect the pain of the stings. Strangely, she saw no inflammation, nor was there any electrical shock that was normal for flash bee stings. Though Meadowbrook still didn’t feel right, she begins to feel woozy before she focuses and shakes her head, it takes a minute before the mage of legend begins to fear the worst.
“Oh no no no… was that some sort o’ new poisonous, even mo’ aggressive type o’ flash bee that’s evolved in the past 1,000 years?! Quickly! Get me t’ the nearest hospital, who knows how potent the venom is!” Meadowbrook pleaded to everypony nearby, scared for her very life. Although her body’s reaction is actually rather inconsistent with cases of deadly venom she’s had to treat before. But she couldn’t exactly discount the possibility that the venom itself has evolved itself in the time she's been trapped in Limbo.
Then a voice unfamiliar to her, but comfortably soft replies to the mage’s pleas for help. “Don’t you worry Ms. Meadowbrook! Your life is in no danger, in fact, soon nothing will ever endanger your life ever again.”
“W-w-w-who said t-that?” Meadowbrook turned her head from side to side quickly looking for the pony who just spoke to her. The only living thing in her sight that could have been close enough to speak to her from where she could hear the voice from was the same flash bee that had just stung her. But the bee couldn’t have talked… right? Now she was afraid that maybe her life isn’t in danger, but somehow this new flash bee is capable of a type of venom that puts her into some sort of high, and she’s now suffering some pretty heavy hallucinations.
Then the flash bee popped into a puff of smoke that got larger, startling the mage. The smoke then started taking the shape of a pony, as the smoke condenses and color fades in. The true identity of the flash bee is revealed, it was Fluttershy who had transformed herself into a flash bee.
Starswirl turned to Twilight. “Who is this pony? You seem like you know them…”
Twilight just frowned and lowered her head “That is Fluttershy… she… is the friend who was genified not too long ago. She is the Element of Kindness. But now that she’s a genie, she doesn’t want to bring things back to normal… as somehow she loves it too much… and judging by the process of comparing each of our elements with those of you and the other pillars… she’s also Meadowbrook’s counterpart”
Starswirl’s face goes pale “Please… tell me that your friend isn’t counted as part of this “game” is she?! We can’t reverse things as easily without Meadowbrook!”
“I can ask… but… I have a feeling you won’t like the answer” Twilight approaches Starlight “Hey! Starlight, you genified Fluttershy before you even started this game. Wouldn’t it not be fair if you allowed her to genify Meadowbrook when this game didn’t even apply to Fluttershy’s genification?”
Starlight devilishly smirked before giving her blunt answer. “Nope! This. is. fair. game~”
Starswirl acted quickly “Then I wish for an amended rule to give us another chance! if we’re as much as part of the game as the others then you’re bound to grant our wishes too!”
Starlight just chuckles “Not necessarily~”
“WHAT?! What do you mean?!” The wizard frantically replied.
“I’m afraid there’s some fine print that Twilight missed upon SIGNING OUR CONTRACT herself!” Starlight grinned
“WHAAAAAT?! Fine print?! I didn’t see any fine print, Starlight!” Twilight insisted that she saw nothing of the sort that indicated the Pillars did not apply to the “cannot refuse wishes”.
Starlight poofs up a pair of glasses and floats them onto Twilight’s eyes. “Take a look through these, they’re microscopic glasses. You’ll find the related text just below your signature~”
Twilight takes a look at the area of the contract, she ignored it the first time because from appearences it just liiked like 3 lines and figured that was just Starlight testing if her quill was working. But as she looks with the microscopic glasses, ehr face goes pale as she sees there was indeed more text that she had missed.
There were 3 things listed:
The first being that the Pillars are not participants on the same level as Twilight with the rest of her friends. They are linked to their counterparts for when it’s time to genify them. But they are by no means given the same rights to ask for wishes. They may give suggestions to the 5 actual players, but only through those said players will the wish be granted for
The 2nd was while Fluttershy’s genification took place before the game was settled. She’s still as much retroactively a player as the rest, meaning her counterpart in the pillars is allowed to be genified by Fluttershy mere moments after their arrival, if she so chose to.
And the last one which sank Twilight’s heart more than anything. She and the others aren’t allowed to give the same sort of protection offered to the pillars to anypony else. Starlight was aware of the potential loophole all along, Twilight fell for her trap hook, line, and sinker. Thinking that Starlight had made a mistake, when in fact she was only giving Twilight that hope, only to secretly hide the detail closing such a loophole. And Twilight had already signed off on it.
Twilight just took the glasses off, sat down, and lowered her head in despair.
Meanwhile, Starswirl acts quickly knowing full well Twilight’s expression means Meadowbrook is in the sights of being genified. “Come on! We must save Meadowbrook before it’s too late!” Much like how Twilight and her friends acted to try to save Fluttershy, the Pillars quickly ran up to try to help Meadowbrook. Though this time something very different took place. As they get close to where Meadowbrook is, a magical shield pops around them, created by Starlight. Resulting in all of them bumping into the sudden magical wall that now surrounded them. They don’t give up however, Starswirl and Mistmane try to break through with their magic. Somnambula and Flash try many repeated kicks using however much speed they can muster with flight within the small space. But given not even Rockhoof’s fabled strength is making any sort of crack. It seems unlikely they will be able to even get the chance to try to save Meadowbrook.
Meadowbrook herself became distraught seeing her friends unable to help her. She whimpers in fear of whatever Fluttershy has in store for her. “W-w-w-wh-what are y-y’all going t’ do t-t’ me?”
Fluttershy gently smiles “Nothing you should concern yourself over, I promise you. Just the permanent empowering cure for everything that plaques a mortal life. Certainly as a legendary icon of healthcare, you might be curious what it might be…”
“W-w-w-wh-whatever this is… t-this has t’ come at a t-tremendous p-p-price!” Meadowbrook interjected
“I not too long ago thought the same, but I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised~” Fluttershy lifts a hoof up, charging some magic, soon poofing a rather different item than expected. Instead of the typical vessel that Starlight’s used for most ponies, what Fluttershy has in mind for this famed pony of healthcare, is connected to her most well-known story.
She had poofed up something resembling a flash bee hive. It’s a little smaller than most hives are, as many grow about to be as huge as a pony could be. But as a vessel it serves just fine with the opening serving as the entrance.
“A… a… a… flash bee hive?! Ah thought y’all said this is something not t’ be concerned over! Even normal flash bees can be deadly if too many sting ya at once!” Meadowbrook was suddenly scared that Fluttershy intended to kill her.
“Sure, it looks like a Flash Bee hive. But I promise you there are no flash bees inside! It’s not the bees that’ll be the main occupant of this little hive anyway~” Fluttershy smirked
The mage was confused “H-h-huh? What else w-w-would occupy a b-b-bee hive other than… w-well… b-bees?”
“I’m glad you asked~, because… it’ll be none other then… YOU!” As if on cue, Meadowbrook’s pony tail started to wave and stretch towards the nest’s entrance.
The mage screams “NO! NOOOO! NOOOOOOOO! LEMME GO!” She quickly tries to drag herself away from the hive, though her hindlegs are still a little numb from the stings Fluttershy did while she was still a flash bee, so she can only manage some crawling with her forelegs. Soon her movements slow ever further as gradually she has no hindlegs to drag anymore, they and the bottom of her green dress start moving towards the nest vessel’s entrance. She is even lifted up in the air, where all she can do is flail her hooves and whimper as nothing will block her inevitable slide into the beehive.
As the Pillars still try their hardest to try to break through Starlight’s shield, they notice that Twilight and the others are not surrounded by the shield. Yet all they’re doing is comforting the distraught Twilight while just behind them, Meadowbrook is being brought into the vessel. This makes Starswirl nearly pop a blood vessel in his head. “What are you 5 doing?! You’re not behind this shield! There’s still time to save Meadowbrook! DO SOMETHING!”
Twilight sheds tears from her eyes “I’m sorry Starswirl, but no… there is no time…”
“What are you talking about?! She’s right there! There’s still hope in all of you to save her!” Somnambula insisted
Pinkie turns toward the bearer of hope “I’m afraid Twilight’s right… we tried our best to do the same for Fluttershy when she was being genified… even if all 10 of us were to work together… it’d be futile… there is no hope...”
“You can’t possibly know that for sure!” Rockhoof replied
Applejack takes off her hat and puts it on her chest to signify sincerity “No… ah’m afraid we do… no feat o' strength, magic, or any other kind o' effort t' will work… Ah’m still ah little sore from exerting so much o’ my might trying t’ save Fluttershy… but it was still all fo’ naught…”
“You could at least still try anyway! Show us that you care about saving the world!” Flash Magnus commanded
Rainbow snapped back “Fluttershy was my friend since childhood! If you don’t think I didn’t try my very hardest to prevent this, then you don’t know me or my friends at all!”
Mistmane and Rarity don’t even say a word to each other, Rarity had been the one to resign to Fluttershy’s fate just as she and Twilight were the last line of defense. Mistmane is the first to realize that these ponies probably did try their very best, but with it being so recent. And how they likely know more about the power of these genies more than even the pillars do at this point. She sighs and stops herself, too.
Meadowbrook continues to try to struggle, but there’s nothing to hang onto, nor is there any pony trying to slow her descent. Her full tail is already in the vessel as now her hind legs and green dress merged into a curvy, smoky tail just inches from the nest’s entrance. For poor Meadowbrook, it was like a less dirty slow descent into a murky bog from the bayous she lived in.
“p-p-p-pl-Please! Somepony h-h-help m-m-m-me… a-a-AAAAH!” Her extending lower half finally reaches the opening of the beehive she was slowly being dragged into. Upon that moment. Meadowbrook could only compare her feeling to a miracle cure beyond anything else she’s ever had.
Within just seconds, her fear and apprehension is replaced with a more calming and relaxed feeling. While an ebbing flow of sheer pleasure flows through her body. She still felt like she was sinking, but she wasn’t reacting like she was sinking into cold, deep mud that would drown her. More so a type of mud that’s more controlled, warm, and more therapeutic. She felt much safer under this sort of embrace, Her cheeks were blushing as her eyes went half-lidded and she managed a smile.
Even the other pillars from behind the shield could see a drastic shift in Meadowbrook’s reaction. “Huh? What in Equestria’s come over her?! She was fearing for her life just moments ago… why does she seem… happy now?” Somnambula asked in her confusion
Star swirl shakes his head. “This must be strongly influencing poor Meadowbrook’s mind… there can be no other explanation for this… we’re losing her…”
“NOOOO! Brook! You have to fight it! You’re stronger than this!” Rockhoof yelled out
The viking’s words however fall on deaf ears, as she doesn’t respond. She just coos and moans as more of her body enters the hive.
"There, that's not so bad is it? Genification is truly the cure-all for everything... you're the Element of Healing, you must truly feel the true nature of this magic. Nothing hurts right? And how about your mental health? Tell Dr. Fluttershy what's on your mind~" Fluttershy softly talks to Meadowbrook, who may as well now be a really relaxed patient right now.
"a-a-a-ah f-feel... a-a-am-amazing... h-How... i-is this p-possible... Ah'm being fitted into this h-hive... b-but... it doesn't h-h-hurt... and mentally... ah'm not sure... as ah've never ever f-f-felt quite like this b-before... but somehow, ah mean that in a g-g-g-go-good way... Whatever y'all doin' t' me... p-please... don't s-stop..." Meadowbrook sighs in deep pleasure, she puts her hooves to her sides so they go in faster.
By now her hips have entered, her dress fully within the hive. She sighs deeply some more as her moans get louder and more intense as she’s whittled down to her neck, then the rest of her head waves and shrinks to fit into the hive, one more long moan is heard that echoes throughout the area, that becomes muffled, and then silent as the rest of the mage is brought fully into the vessel.
The rest of the pillars just about cry out in despair. Though Starswirl quickly turns his sadness into utter anger at Twilight and her friends for doing absolutely nothing during the mage's slow transformation..
“I hope you’re proud of yourselves… you ruined everything with your apathy! Now our most effective way of defeating these genies is gone! What kind of princess are you that just lets this happen… whoever you are, you are no leader… especially since this was ALL. YOUR. FAULT!” Starswirl banging on the shield to put emphasis on how much he’s blaming her now.
The princess' eyes well up in tears in seconds, already having seen so much happen in so little time. Before this genie crisis even started, she and Equestria had been on edge with the Storm King's abduction of Princesses Celestia and Luna. Her very desperate move to use the lamp as a quick fix to deal with Starlight so she could focus on the Storm King, many of her closest friends including some very important figures such as her brother, Princess Cadence, and Princess Celestia already genified by the time she met again with Starlight, Fluttershy's genification in which her and the others were powerless to stop, all three of her ideas for wishes countered by the genies in one way or another. And to top it all off. now her longtime historic idol is tearing her a new one.
She runs away, heading towards her castle, sobs and whimpers are heard from the lavender princess as she seeks to get herself some space from this terrible situation Equestria is now in. As Twilight runs away, Starlight deactivates the shield separating the Pillars from the Elements.
“TWILIGHT!” All of her friends call out to her as she runs away. The rest of her friends sternly turn towards the famous wizard. Rainbow Dash just about sets up to pummel the wizard for daring to make Twilight upset, before a cloud of yellow smoke stops her. Followed by a yellow hoof that boops Rainbow on the nose. “Let me deal with him…”
“Fluttershy…?!” Rainbow still is not quite used to her childhood friend taking charge more often. Though this attitude from her childhood friend was somewhat familiar, having remembered when she stared down a giant dragon. And with Fluttershy being far more confident, she probably should have expected her to more quickly turn her ire towards Starswirl for his attitude towards Twilight. Not to mention Starswirl’s no dragon, and Fluttershy’s genie abilities means she outmatches any sort of magic that even this legendary wizard could perform. Rainbow nods to let Fluttershy give Starswirl a piece of her mind.
Fluttershy teleports once more, straight in front of the wizard with a determined and focused angry stare. The wizard just slowly lowers her head to look eye-to-eye with the genie pegasus. “What do YOU want? Genie scum…”
Fluttershy spit takes to the side while still keeping an eye on Starswirl. “You know, Twilight had so much high praise for you… she’d tell almost every story there was about your heroic exploits and talent in magic. She made you seem like one of the most righteous ponies that has ever lived… but clearly you’re the kind of pony that gives credence to the 'Never meet your idols' phrase. You have no idea how stressed Twilight’s been this past week, not to mention she already knows full well that she bears some responsibility for what’s happened. She doesn’t need a snob like you in her face about it!”
“Why do you care?! You’re not even on her side anymore!” Starswirl snapped back.
“You’re not as wise as you look if you think this is about ‘sides’. Sure, we now disagree about this whole genie thing, but I am still her friend. And as long as that is the case, I shall stick up for her from stubborn ponies like you!”
“Baaaah! I refuse to take your word for it, you crammed Mage Meadowbrook into that beehive and have turned her into one of you. Why should I believe what you say?!” Starswirl raised a skeptical eyebrow
“Well, perhaps you should see how she herself feels about all this then...” Fluttershy lifts up a hoof and floats the hive that had not long ago sealed Meadowbrook inside. She gently rubs the hive, beginning a magical reaction. The hive shakes almost as if hundreds of flash bees were about to come out and overwhelm the wizard. Initially, the Wizard actually raises up a magical shield in case flash bees are in fact going to rise out and attack him. But there’s no buzzing from the hive, the hive simply spins around and pulses as the genified mage is bound to make her dramatic re-entrance. The hive compresses briefly before…
FWOOOOOOOOSH!
A cerulean column of smoke pours out of the hive’s opening, with light red and green sparks popping around it swirling all above the hive, coming to a stop a few feet above the hive, where the end of the smoke condenses into the silhouette of the legendary Mage. She fully fades in, her green dress and brown bracelet and necklace are gone. But she now has a green veil and leggings on her forehooves.
A relaxed and extended sigh could be heard from the newly refreshed and awakened genie.
“Ooooh~. Mah gosh, is this how Catrina felt? All o’ a sudden ah understand why she was so desperate t’ get this power back… it’s absolutely intoxicating! Ah don’t want t’ part with this feeling ever…” Meadow brook puts hooves on her cheeks with stars in her eyes. She then flies gleefully to approach Starswirl.
“Starswirl! You have no idea how wonder-“ Starswirl cuts the genified mage off, as he backs away “SHUSH! Get away from me! You’re not Meadowbrook!”
The mage genie gasps “h-h-h-Huh? What do ya mean? Ah’m still very much mah self! And ah’m still ya friend!”
“No, we’re not friends. Not anymore...” Gasps are heard from the rest of the pillars, as well as the currently still present members of the Elements.
Meadowbrook herself just about looks heartbroken “y-y-Y’all are abandoning our friendship… all cuz o’ something that wasn’t mah fault?!”
Starswirl doesn’t budge and drives the point bluntly. “Yes, because I told you… YOU. ARE. NOT. MEADOWBROOK!” Starswirl turns to the rest of the pillars “And I urge you all to avoid speaking to her, she’s just another enemy right now… anything she tries is purposfully trying to prey on our empathy for Meadowbrook...”
In a desperate move, Meadowbrook floats closer to the other pillars, she knows how stubborn Starswirl is when he gets a certain way but she tries to get through to the others. “Please! Listen t’ me! Ah’m still myself, and your friend! Rockhoof and Flash, ah’ve healed your combat wounds, Somnambula... ah’ve made your favorite tea that ya drink before every meditation, and Mistmane… the many plants from your homeland have been essential t’ some o’ mah best medicines”. To her credit, the rest of the pillars don’t react as coldly to her as Starswirl just did. But they either lower their heads, or just look off to the side to avoid eye contact. They want to believe that this genie Meadowbrook is still her, but a combination of not knowing quite enough about how much the transformation affected her mind, plus Starswirl is certain to be very stern with any one of them that tries to communicate. They just stand there, not saying a word.
Meadowbrook’s lips quivers, and her eyes flow with tears at the response from her friends. She sniffs and sobs. “f-f-f-f-fi-fine t-t-then… a-a-a-ah g-guess ah’ll j-just go back into the b-b-beehive…” The newly genified mage whines and whimpers before flying back into her vessel, muffled cries still being heard as her face enters.
Just seeing Meadowbrook cry like that makes most of the pillars worry about her, at least one or two of them think about rubbing Meadowbrook’s hive to get her out to apologize. But Starswirl speaks up first “C’mon, we’re leaving this place. We’re going to look for our magical items even without Meadowbrook, and maybe see if there’s some other solutions we can count on. Because it’s clear that our so-called ‘successors’ aren’t going to do anything about it…” Growls could be heard from Rainbow Dash and Applejack as he trailed off on the last sentence.
The Pillars walk off together, some of them take brief moments to look at the hive vessel Meadowbrook went back into. But nonetheless, they follow Starswirl’s lead to leave the area. Some of the Crystal Ponies talk to Starlight on whether they should do something about them. But Starlight tells them to let them through, as they are of little-to-no threat to Geniequestria in her view.
“Girls, I think I’m beginning to understand why that spell book that Twilight completed before she become an Alicorn wasn't complete in the first place…” Rarity notes once the Pillars are far enough away to not hear her.
Fluttershy then returns to face the group. “The four of you should head to Twilight’s castle to comfort her, she needs all of you right about now.”
Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie, and Rarity concur. “Yeah, what Starswirl said t’ her was uncalled fo’.”
“Though what will you do, Fluttershy?” Rainbow curiously asked.
“I think I’m going to speak to Meadowbrook and cheer her up, I was the one that genified her, so I’m ultimately responsible. She herself got a rough tongue lashing from Starswirl too. She just got abandoned by her friends. She deserves to know that she shouldn’t feel ashamed for feeling great about becoming a genie. Even if I know you girls probably don’t want more genies to deal with…”
“Eh, honestly the way Starswirl treated Twilight and his supposed friend, I think this is a case where I’m actually rooting for you to help her out. Even if it means another genie is on the loose, because frankly I’m starting to feel like I’d rather not owe that jerk any favors should he somehow save Equestria without us…” Rainbow pouted
“Now Dash, if he turns out t’ find the solution t’ all our problems... we’ll have no choice but t’ have him help. Starswirl’s definitely not the type o’ pony Twilight builded him up t’ be. But if he’s anything like the legendary wizard that Twilight’s said, he may very well be one o’ our last means o’ returning Equestria t’ normal. Even if ah would not look forward t’ him lording that over us either…” Applejack clearly still a bit irritated with Starswirl.
“Let’s go see Twilight as Fluttershy suggested. I may still blame myself a little for what’s happened… but Twilight should know that we still stand behind her!” Pinkie said in determination
“Right! Let’s go!” Rainbow starts flying to the castle. Applejack, Pinkie, and Rarity begin to follow. Though then a yellow poof suddenly appears in front of Rarity.
“Rarity, could you stop for a moment?” It was from Fluttershy
“Yes…? Fluttershy, darling?” Rarity is quite curious what Fluttershy specifically stopped her for.
“Once I’ve cheered up Meadowbrook, I’m probably going to go transform some ponies I personally know for a little bit. But when I get the chance, I’d like to speak to you privately, if that’s ok with you” Fluttershy whispered
“I… suppose that’d be alright… where do you want to meet up?” Rarity asked
“Just come to my cottage when you’re ready to speak with me. I’ll soon take my vessel there, chances are I’ll be inside when you decide to come by. You’ll just need to lift the top open. Deal?” Fluttershy gently smiled
Rarity nodded “Deal, I’ll see you later then!” Rarity waves as she leaves to trail the others that went to comfort an upset Twilight. That only left Fluttershy, Starlight, and the crystal pony genie army. Starlight admittedly can do nothing but blink having just seen what happened.
“Well uh… that was a thing… huh…” Starlight certainly scored her victory over Ponyville today. Though there were certainly a few parts of this she wasn't expecting to see or feel. Such as a little pity for Twilight the way Starswirl berated her.
“Starlight, tell me. What did you think of Starswirl’s treatment of Twilight and Meadowbrook just now? Just warning you now,this is very important to me…” Fluttershy sternly asked
“Well… I would be lying if I said I didn’t find it a little funny at first the one pony Twilight historically looked up to was taking her down a peg… but even I’m feeling like maybe he went a little far there at the end… of course… don’t expect me to go with your other friends and cheer her up myself…” Starlight lifts an eyebrow and crosses her hooves. "But the way he spoke to Meadowbrook, rubbed me the wrong way more... his accusation of brainwashing is WORSE then Twilight's. He thinks we're not even the same pony we are once genified! UGGGGH, I almost regret letting the Pillars only be genified by their counterparts... the moment he said that, I felt like slamming down a vessel straight on his head..."
Fluttershy just smiles “That’s good enough for me, you’re proving you still have some form of morality despite that crystal of corruption in you. And if you still have morality, you can be taught some things. Hey, do you want to join me to go see Meadowbrook in her vessel? Could be some solid experience for you!”
Starlight rolls her eyes on the subject of being taught “No, I have some things to do. I’m curious to see see how much of Canterlot, Manehattan, and Cloudsdale is currently genified. And then I'll return to Ponyville, maybe get pampered by this town's spa, and genify a few other select ponies here and there. Which reminds me…” Starlight turns toward her genie army.
“You all may disperse and do whatever you want now, I mainly brought you all as a way to make things difficult as Twilight and the others still had the elements at their disposal. Now that the elements are no longer a problem, we can relax and do whatever we want. Have some friends here and there from outside the Crystal Empire you’d like to genify? Go for it, or if you’d like to simply go back up north to the Crystal Empire or at least in your respective vessels to relax. That’s just fine too, there’s no rush to genify every pony right this second, or even by the rest of today. What you do with your genie powers is your choice, I’ll at least recommend keeping away from some ponies that are known to have strong association with any of Twilight and her friends as I would like to leave them something left to genify themselves once they’re genies. But otherwise, go nuts~” The entire army bows and proceeds to either disperse around town, head into their vessels, or teleport far away.
“Ok Starlight, I’ll catch you later.” Fluttershy gently smiled once more
“Heh, I’ve already caught you remember… in a manner of speaking~. That phrase may apply more to your friends.” Both Starlight and Fluttershy chuckle a little
“On that subject though, I do really sincerely thank you for turning me into a genie. There’s still some things I want to work with you as we get to know each other better. But I will proudly tell you that you were right, my genification was certainly one of the best moments of my life. And I have a feeling much of what else you said to me during my transformation won’t be too far off the mark either” Fluttershy nods her head in thankfulness
“Heh, you’re too kind, Fluttershy. You surprised me when you denied my order to spy on your friends,, but I’m at least happy to have you as a somewhat willing ally when it comes to genifications. Speaking of which, how did your first one feel when you were transforming Meadowbrook? I’m quite curious about your opinion~” Starlight raised an eyebrow curious how the kind pony might take forcefully transforming some pony.
“I’ll admit a small part of me was kind of concerned at the beginning with how ponies aren’t normally willing to such a process, but it does get better as the transformation gets further along. I’ll admit being on the other side of a genification feels sort of exhilarating… I felt like I was in charge for once in my life while transforming Meadowbrook… while at the same time I know I’m helping ponies by giving them the kindest gift I know I can give them! I can’t wait to show my family and a few friends I know the way of the genie~” Fluttershy grins proudly
Starlight claps her hooves “Very nice~. Maybe I’ll pop in a few times to see a few more of your genifications if I can”
“I’d be more than happy to have you around for some of my own genifications, for now though. I need to go comfort Meadowbrook, I’ll get her in a much better mood. And soon you’ll have none other than a legend of healthcare to spread the word of Geniequestria!” Fluttershy does a flip to start flying in the air with her wings and then she zooms and shapes herself to enter the hive.
With that Starlight smirked, and expressed a deep, and long satisfied sigh. This trip to Ponyville went about as well as she could have hoped for, even if there were a few scares or unexpected moments here and there. With the Elements of Harmony out of the way, and not even Discord or the Pillars to be much in getting in the way of the spread of Geniequestria. Starlight could now afford to take things at her own pace and let things fall as they go. Now every subsequent minute, day, week, and month brings Starlight’s dreams of a genie utopia closer to fruition.
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FOLLOW FLUTTERSHY INTO MEADOWBROOK’S VESSEL
FOLLOW STARLIGHT TO THE PONYVILLE DAY SPA
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Murf's Top 50 Mods - Part 3 (2020 - 2023 Edition)
I made a Top 50 list (Pt 1 and Pt2) back in 2016, talking about mods that I've used & love. But with all the goated content that the amazing TS3 community continues to churn out, I NEEDED to update my list! This one in no way diminishes or negates the other mods I've already listed--like, I shouldn't have to sit here and explain how NRAAS continues to carry TS3 on its freaking shoulders, ok. This is just MORE mods, the Top 50 most RECENT ones I've tried out since, like, quarantine.
I am a VERY niche simmer--I love fantasy gameplay, so my fave mods are the ones that not only offer general quality of life improvements, but also add new abilities and interactive objects inspired by different cultures, time periods, or genres. So y'all already KNOW which ones have earned my top spots. They're not based on which mods are "better," just which ones I personally have been using the most.
1: Smooth Patch, LazyDuchess
I've already gushed about this mod, but oh well. Like--I use an EFFTON of CC. My Live Mode gameplay itself doesn't tend to lag so much as my game's slow to LOAD, slow to save, CAS is a nightmare, I can do my taxes waiting for the Misc Decor section to open, etc etc. But the Smooth Patch loads everything so much quicker for me! 😭
One thing is that on the EA App version (curse you, EA) the Master Controller package didn't work on my end, so I took it out, but everything else has been great!
2: Search Mod, LazyDuchess
Speaking of the Misc Decor section -- HOW LONG did we ask EA for a Search function y'all? Only to be ignored. Then the second TS4 is released, it ain't got a effing thing in it, but it's got a Search function??? 🤔 ISTG it's like the simgurus were told to take all of the TS3 community's best suggestions, and poach them for TS4 (like vampire coffins--NO I'm not over it!). WHY do modders have to do your frikkin job for you, EA?! I call EA lazy all the time cuz EA you suck, so it's the most ironic thing ever that LazyDuchess is out here KILLING IT.
My ONLY "complaint" about the Search mod is the position of the icon. I use A LOT of Collection Files, and I noticed that the Search icon actually covers the Delete button when in the Collection viewer. So I can't delete items in collections with the Search icon in the way.
But this is a MINOR nitpick--I almost never delete items, it's just something I noticed is all.
3 - 8: OCCULT MODS: EVERYTHING by @puddingface1902
Y'all already know the Enhanced Witches mod is my favorite mod ever made. But PF1902 also made cool enhancements to the Fairies, Genies, Vampires, Werewolves, and Mermaids too! My sims are usually Nraas hybrids (e.g.: Sakura is a faery, witch & plantsim; Magnus Bane is a witch & genie; etc.), so it's FANTASTIC having so many new abilities for my magical occults. 😍
9 - 11: OCCULT MODS by xantak22
Even more occult mods at MTS are for enhanced Plantsims, Ghosts, and Mummies! I was dying for more Plantsim abilities, omg, they're my 3rd fave occult after Witches & Fae.
12: Sim Control Tools by Knight
Sooooo many quality of life mods have come out! ^0^
I've been ABUSING the Teleport To Me function, to quickly get sims off of lots & where I need them to be. It also lets sims unlock more Social/Romantic interactions. (Now all we need is a way to interact with sims from EA's useless thumbnails.)
13 - 18: @anitmb's mods
There are SOOOO many--most I've yet to even try. But so far newer ones I've been using are the Deck of Cards (FINALLY something other than EA's bulky AF poker table!), Farm Mod (look at all these CHICKENS!), and Hunting mod so my 8000 archer sims can actually hunt! (Ofc I've also used the Woodcutter and Anvil mods in my older gameplay posts, too.) And @mspoodle1's edit of the Cup of Tea mod is so pretty.
19: @mspoodle1's Poker table
Another excellent cards mod is this medieval style poker table I use a lot now, too.
20: @omedapixel's Wildflowers DR
I like EA's default wildflowers from SSNS, but Omeda's are just sooooo much nicer. (I haven't gotten around to trying out their Harvestable Plant DR yet.)
21: Swordfighting mod by CyrusBanefort
En garde! This mod is so freaking epic!
One thing I've noticed is that the game lags while it waits for the mod to boot up (a message has to first pop up saying it's running when you first launch your saves). But other than that this mod is excellent.
22 - 24: Yoga rugs
I've long been using the yoga rugs by Kitabalibar and the edited one from @mspoodle1. But now there's the newest one by @twinsimming, with brand new animations & features. The more the merrier I say, LOL. What's especially neat is the kids wobbling around as they try to do yoga! :3
25 - 30: TheSweetSimmer's mods--so cute! :3
Omg so frikkin many, I can't even catch up! The interactions are so freaking precious, like from the More Toddler Interactions (cuddle, look at, etc) & Biggest Little Mod (hug legs), I've never had so much fun playing with kids! <3 And I LOVE that they can Catch Butterflies and Pick Flowers--you'd think plantsim children would be able to do this by default, EA! Honestly, just grab everything by TSS, your kid sims will thank you!
31 - 33: @spheresims Medieval/Nature/Tribal mods
Y'all know I'm crazy about the Functional Fireplaces mod (the cauldrons, baby! 😈), but the One with Nature and Wildlife Hunting mods are great too, perfectly complimenting the off-the-grid realness.
34: @olomayasims/Cmomoney Smoking Mod Overhaul
The original smoking mod was on my first Top 50 list, so it's awesome seeing it get new upgrades, interactions & animations.
I've never smoked IRL, but sooooo many of my sims just puff-puff away; I'm such an enabler. U_U Now all we need is cigars and pipes!
35 - 38: Callia-Evergreen/Camkitty's CAS CC for animal hybrids at MTS
Not a "mod" per se, but whatever--my list my rules! I love ALL of their CC, but I get SO MUCH use out of animal-themed CC like the digitigrade sliders, wolf feet, lizard tails, and fae wings. Do check them out if you like to play with horror and monster-sims!
39: @greenplumbboblover's Sheep
EASILY one of the most incredible mods I've ever seen. Like....HOW? (Once @omedapixel's Goats are done I'm gonna start screaming someone do llamas pleeeeeaaaaase!!!)
40: Arsil's musical instruments mod
I used the sax most recently in my IWTV gameplay, and it was excellent, perfect for the NOLA vibes! However, although I use the flute A LOT more (for my Untamed gameplay--it's been such a GODSEND!), I really wish the hands were positioned better, preferably using the poses from Chisims' flute poseset. (But I don't eff with poses/animations, otherwise I'd do it myself. U_U) Ah well, it's still one of my fave mods though.
41 - 42: Flower Arranging mod by zoe22 + @mspoodle1's Florist Collection
Guys, I've been wanting this mod since FOREVER! ^0^ (I swear, the best thing about TS4 is all the 4t3 conversions, LMAO!) I just wish Teens could Dabble and use it, too--all they can do is stock the table.
43: Just Sit/Nap Anywhere by FloTheory
Sometimes you just want sims to fall asleep anywhere, DANG, EA!
44: @sweetdevil-sims' Toddler Food DR
Cuz EA's food is UUUUUUUUGLY~! I kept forgetting to install it, only to be rudely reminded every time I had to look at my toddler sims eating MUD.
45 - 46: @mspoodle1's mail pen quill DR and @omedapixel's pencil quill DR
I looooove quill pens IRL (ballpoint pens, not the fountain pens--I'm way too messy), so having mods that let my sims use them too is 👌
47: Fireflies Enhanced! by Canibal_MLO
I love anything that enhances the wildlife and collectibles/harvestables to be more dynamic and interactive. And I was JUST about to do a firefly catching scene for my IWTV insp. gameplay, so this came right on time! The falling leaves effect is delightful, but I kinda wish it was falling flower petals instead, cuz ofc I do. 🌸
48: Unicorn Aurora DR by Canibal_MLO
GORGEOUS. This mod replaces the unicorn mist with northern lights, like.... I love the genius ideas simmers have.
49: Custom Plumbbob Color tool by CrossTheMersey
What a neat idea! Although the default Maxis colors are ingrained in my psyche, with the iconic green plumbbob, as soon as I saw this mod I knew I wanted to at least try something different and play around with it.
50: @aa6x7's Teru Teru Bozu + other edits [Honorable Mention]
I rave about Cmomoney's Time/Weather Mod all the time, I use it constantly. AA6x7's Teru Teru Bozu (Japanese "Sunshine Monk" charms) is kinda like a simpler version of it, as it just resets bad weather back to Sunny. But it's such a cute idea and perfect for my gameplay. Plus, AA6x7 makes all kinds of neat edits/mods to EA's bulky AF meshes, so if you haven't checked them out already, DO!
And that's all the mods I've managed to try out recently!
I don't have anywhere near the kind of free time that I used to, so my simming has been put on the backburner and I've missed all kinds of cool and exciting releases. But trust: I am taking note, so that I know what to try once I have time.
All my deepest & sincerest gratitude & love to the entire sims community, for keeping The Sims 3 going--this year was the 14th anniversary! Here's to 14 more! 🥳 Happy Simming!
#simblr#sims 3 mods#sims 3 content list#the sims 3#sims 3 medieval#sims 3 fantasy#sims 3 supernatural#EA you suck
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Sorry for the late post (I work nightshifts) but I figured I should give more info on the Hungers thing. It's a theory I've mostly seen being floated in the youtube comments or one-off tumblr posts, so I'm not sure where it originated. It's one of those "this is either the key to the whole series or a fan-created red herring that will be discredited by the end of season 1".
The primary evidence of it is the fact that for the first 5 episodes the horror has been entirely driven by a passion or desire of the statement give, and their desires have gotten more focus then their fear.
Harriet wants to see her dead husband again, even if he's come back wrong. RedCanary seems driven by the thrill of urban exploration and a desire to clear the magnus institute first. Darla has body image issues (hence why the probable flesh avatar ink5oul can get her) and thus wants to feel pretty (ink5oul also is only willing to work on her when she states a clear desire). Samuel Webber wants to be with the wife he murdered. Voilin guy from episode 4 (who tumblr user fandom-geek stipulated might be James Smithson of the Smithsonian museum) wants his musical talent to be recognized even if it costs blood (and Stranger McArtifact gives him his deepest desire rather than his worst fear). Tom the horror fan is ecstatic to get a personal screening of an obscure horror movie he's been searching for.
Again, any theory based on the first 5 episodes should be taken with a grain of salt. Needles doesn't really fit into it (I guess he wants people to be afraid of him?) and the stranger and buried's charity auction from hell in episode 7 certainly doesn't fit in (unless the "good cause" is playing ironic genie to the people the artifacts are being sold to). It's just an idea I've seen being floated around about how the powers might be different in this timeline.
Thank you so much for the extra info on the hungers/desires theory! when discussing it with my roommate we are starting to beileve that what we're seeing in this world is the birth/ creation of avatars and they had the theory that avatars (at least in protocol) are born from a strong desire I really love this idea so I'm gonna try to prove the few from the newest episode under this theory that
EP 8: Give and Take - for this one we actually can't fit that cleanly into the theory (if you have a theory about how it could fit in please leave it in the comments or send a ask :D ) we are thinking that the inccident read in the episode about the brutalist liminal spaces was a ritual, rather than the birth or the individual act of an avatar.
EP 9: Rolling with it- this avatar (Evil dice dude) was born from a desire to control his luck.
Ep 10: Saturday night: Neil Dickerson is tricky i still have no idea if he's an avatar himself or if it's just Mr Bonzo but either way Bonzo was created from Nigels desire to be famous,
I'll be interested to know if this pattern continues into future episodes. So far I see the Desire theory being a pretty strong case to explaining the origin of the esoteric inccidents the O.I.A.R files.
also just a quick update: I'm working on a Episode 10 breakdown but Its taking a while because I wanted to illustrate some scenes to add some visual flair :0 it will hopefully be out by tomorrow or monday!
-Echo
#augustus tmagp#chester tmagp#gwendolyn bouchard#jonathan sims#lena kelley#martin blackwood#norris tmagp#the magnus protocol#tmagp#tmagp theory#alice dyer#samama khalid#sam khalid#mr bonzo#nigel dickerson#gwen bouchard#jmj error#jonah magnus
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THE BRACKETS ARE HERE!
And our Characters are:
Crona (1/2 Human, 1/2 Ragnarok)
Kamen Rider W (1/2 Hidari Shotarou, 1/2 Philip)
Lloyd Garmadon (2/4 Human, 1/4 Oni, 1/4 Dragon)
Dronkeys (1/2 Dragon, 1/2 Donkey)
Shadow the Hedgehog (1/4 Hedgehog, 1/4 Mobien, 1/4 Black Arm, (possibly) 1/4 Chao)
Minotaur (1/2 Human, 1/2 Bull)
Jackson Jekyll/Holt Hyde (1/2 Human, 1/2 Fire Spirit)
Chimera (1/2 Nina Tucker, 1/2 Alexander)
Luo Binghe (1/2 Human, 1/2 Heavenly Demon)
Olala (1/2 Human, 1/2 Monster)
Magnus Bane (1/2 Human, 1/2 Demon)
Shantae (1/2 Human, 1/2 Genie)
Vax'ildan & Vex'ahlia (1/2 Human, 1/2 Elves)
Tony Tony Chopper (1/2 Human, 1/2 Reindeer)
Dante (1/2 Human, 1/2 Demon)
Rin Okumura (1/2 Human, 1/2 Demon)
Danny Fenton (1/2 Human, 1/2 Ghost)
Elrond (3/8 Human, 9/16 Elf, 1/16 Maia)
Spock (1/2 Human, 1/2 Vulcan)
Raven (1/2 Human, 1/2 Demon)
Ochette (1/2 Human, 1/2 Beast)
Inu Yasha (1/2 Human, 1/2 Demon)
Percy Jackson (1/2 Mortal, 1/2 God)
Half Green Half Silver Dragon from this post: https://www.tumblr.com/meu-meu-kissy-ceutie/672562392911249408/readerofthewilderwest-worddevourer (1/2 Dragon, 1/2 Dragon)
Grover Underwood (1/2 Human, 1/2 Goat)
Steven Universe (1/2 Human, 1/2 Gem)
Alucard (1/2 Vampire, 1/2 Human)
Superboy (1/2 Human, 1/2 Kryptonian)
Youmu Konpaku (1/2 Human, 1/2 Phantom)
Ken Kaneki (1/2 Human, 1/2 Ghoul)
Vash the Stampede (1/2 Human, 1/2 Power Plant) DISQUALIFIED
Samus Aran (1/4 Human, 1/4 Toha, 1/4 Mawkin, 1/4 Metroid)
Please Correct me if you think I’ve made a mistake somewhere, I’m unfamiliar with most of these medias so errors are likely to happen!
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LINEUP
I am currently making matchups+brackets, here’s who’s competing
Also if you guys have image suggestions for anyone listed below please send them in asks!
Fandom- character(s)
1. She-Ra - Double Trouble
2. Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard- Alex Fierro
3. The Owl House- Vee
4. Pokémon- Ditto
5. Skullgirls- Double
6. My Little Pony- Queen Chrysalis
7. Star Trek Deep Space 9- Odo
8. Ben 10- Ben Tennyson
9. Teen Titans- Beast Boy
10. CPU Kerfuffle- Larry the Florida Man
11. Super Paper Mario- Mimi
12. Sanders Sides- Janus Sanders
13. Norse Mythology- Loki
14. Adventure Time- Jake the Dog
15. Ninjago- Mystaké
16. Lego Monkie Kid- Sun Wukong
17. Journey to the West- Sun Wukong
18. Wild Kratts- The Kratt Brothers
19. The Shapeshifting Detective- “Sam”
20. Val & Isaac - Space Dread
21. DC- Martian Manhunter
22. Blaze and the Monster Machines- Blaze
23. Final Fantasy 7- Vincent Valentine
24. El Goonish Shive- Grace Sciuridae
25. The Shapeshifter- Dax Jones
26. Encanto- Camilo Madrigal
27. Aladdin- Genie
28. Welcome to Demon School Iruma-Kun- Alikred
29. Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure- Mikitaka Hazekura
30. Odd Squad- The Shapeshifter
31. The Thing (1982)- The Thing
32. Critical Role- Yu Suffiad
33. Fullmetal Alchemist- Envy
34. Pizza Tower- Fake Peppino!
35. Star Twinkle Precure- Yuni
36. Sonic the Hedgehog- Mimic the Octopus
37. Sky High- Magenta
38. Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves- Doric
39. Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess- Link
40. XMen- Mystique (Raven Darkholme)
41. Splatoon- Inkling
42. Steven Universe- Amethyst
43. Lovecraft mythos/Call of Cthulhu-Nyarlathotep
44. Heroes of Olympus- Frank Zhang
45. Gravity Falls- Experiment #210
46. Half Life but the AI is Self Aware- Benrey
47. Prototype (2009)- Alex Mercer
48. Danny Phantom- Bertrand
49. Transformers- Starscream
50. Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared- Stain Edwards the Forever Boy
51. A Hat in Time- Shapeshifter
52. MCU- Loki
53. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door- Dooplis
54. Marvel comics- Loki
55. Animorphs- Tobias
56. Howl's Moving Castle- Howl Pendragon
57. Fairy Odd Parents- Wanda and Cosmo
58. Kirby- Kirby
59. Deltarune- Jevil
60. Ranma 1/2- Ranma
61. My Hero Academia- Himiko Toga
62. Ace Attorney- Maya Fey
63. Undertale- Mettaton
64. Celtic Mythology- Selkies
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I hate it when Muslims are misrepresented in books.
I remember getting a book one time from the library. It was a book about magic and dreams and clouds and all that cool sh!t. I was pretty excited to read it.
One of the MC’s roommates was a Muslim, which I thought that was pretty cool.
The girl was sitting on her bed in her pajamas, wearing a hijab still, around her all-female roommates at night. I found it kind of odd, but I ignored it. Then she went on to talk about her two Arab mothers, one whom she called “my ummi” which I found REALLY weird seeing that “ummi” literally meant “my mom” so she was saying “my my mom”. Once again, I ignored. Then, the final straw was her saying she believed in genies and their wishes as a Muslim. Like, what??? I was just REALLY disappointed, you know?
that’s why I love Samirah al-Abbas in Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard. She’s so real, so normal, and I found myself loving the fact that she was just an important character like any other.
that’s what I love to see
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New post on http:boosty.to/Grizzlyhare
It's mostly malec and updated once a week at least
#my art#shadowhunters#magnus bane#malec#art#concept art#portrait#1001 arabian nights#1001 nights#arabian nights#genie magnus
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Mag 29
This serves as a correction to one of my previous comments from the statement about the Dark roomate who kept unscrewing lightbulbs: apparently the written statements are sometimes dictated and transcribed in the moment. I stand corrected! That seems like a wild way to take statements to me, but who am I to criticise the workings of the Magnus Institute?
Okay let's start with some basic thoughts in the End. It's cool that as the original Fear, basically all of the other Entities began in the End. The fear of death is both the root of all other fears, and as far as we know, the only Entity capable of killing/consuming the others, which makes it unique amongst the Entities. It's the most passive of all the other Entities by far, because it can afford to be, and we're lucky this is the case. If the End was actively invested in killing everything, all life would basically be screwed (which I guess is the idea behind the Extinction).
I think we can see that in the episode here, where the battleground is a mix of many different possible fears (Slaughter, Desolation, Lonely, Corruption) but the only thing that makes the soldier run is dying. The core of every other fear is that he doesn't want to die; all roads lead to the End.
Yes, everyone does fear death. Even people who desire or have made peace with their own death must still have some level of apprehension over it. No one knows what happens after we die and we all have to face it eventually. Of course we're afraid; of course a thing capable of surviving off that fear would be basically the ultimate power in all of creation.
That said, I did find it strange that the way this is phrased in the episode immediately spoke to the opposite fear for me. The episode talks about death being fearful even to those with faith in an afterlife, because existing for eternity is horrifying. I kind of agree? But for me the idea of immortality is horrifying for this reason. I don't want to exist forever! Time is the cruelest thing in the universe; it strips all meaning from everything. Death would be preferable to living forever, which is why I really hope there isn't an afterlife.
I'm definitely not like the soldier, panicking over the idea of death and trying to avoid it at any cost. I want to die someday (just hopefully not any time soon) because otherwise what is the point of anything?
Anyway this rambling is getting way more incoherent than usual, I will try to keep the existentialism to a minimum from here on out.
I originally took the age of the bones to be an indication that this version of Death has been stuck in his role for an incredibly long time (maybe millennia), before realising that he probably wouldn't be a monk if that was the case. I googled 'when did monks start' and apparently they've been around since the third century, so the oldest he could be is 1500 years. Which is very old obviously, but hardly 'older than you could possibly dream', and also if his clothes are instantly recognisable as monk's robes to this uneducated soldier, than he is probably much more recent than that.
So I think the real clue is in the phrase 'Death was no more a skeleton than you are a woolen suit'. These aren't the monk's actual bones that we're seeing, it's more like an outfit that he is wearing. He's dressed up as the embodiment of Death.
Poor idiot. Don't you know the cardinal rule of making a deal with any kind of supernatural power is to make sure you get the wording exactly right? It's basic stuff. Demon deals, fey bargains and genie wishes all operate by the same premise as a game with Death. Don't just agree without negotiating your terms! Get it in writing and make sure you understand all the terms and conditions before you enter into a formal agreement. You probably shouldn't even be discussing this without your attorney present.
Love that he's like 'Well, obviously Death's games are all rigged, so instead I'll get him to play my rigged game.' And it works!
Adding the Eye to the list of Entities that the End can embody.
Cheat Death! Cheat Death! Cheat Death!
There's no possible way this could turn out badly!
So... Death let him win, right? It would be against whatever rules bind him to outright throw a game and lose on purpose, but if the other player attempts to win by cheating, I think he can just allow it to happen. He's probably been waiting for centuries for someone to pick a game they can cheat at in such a way that he can pretend not to notice.
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The Video Game Heroes Movie (The Lego Movie Parody Casting)
Gintoki, an ordinary cartoon character who always follows the rules, is mistakenly identified as the Special -- an extraordinary being and the key to saving the world. He finds himself drafted into a fellowship of strangers who are on a mission to stop an evil Koopa’s plans to conquer the world. Unfortunately for Gintoki, he is hopelessly -- and hilariously -- unprepared for such a task, but he'll give it his all nonetheless.
The citizens of Bricksburg face a dangerous new threat when LEGO DUPLO invaders from outer space start to wreck everything in their path. The battle to defeat the enemy and restore harmony to the Video Game universe takes Gintoki, Samus, Captain Falcon and the rest of their friends to faraway, unexplored worlds that test their courage and creativity.
Gintoki Sakata as Emmet Brickwoski (Gintama)
Samus Aran as Lucy/Wyldstyle (Metroid)
Bowser as Lord Business (Mario)
Bowser’s Army as President Business’ Employees (Mario)
Ultra Magnus as Vitruvius (Transformers)
Kamek as Good Cop and Bad Cop (Mario)
Brineybeard as Metalbeard (Cuphead)
Kaylo as Unikitty (@kayssweetdreams)
Captain Falcon as Batman (F-Zero)
Kazuya as Superman (Tekken)
Terry Bogard as Green Lantern (Fatal Fury)
Shantae as Wonder Woman (Shantae Half Genie Hero)
Haoyu Chang as Benny (Balan Wonderworld)
Bowser Jr as Finn (Mario)
Shadow!Gintoki as Rex Dangervest (Gintama)
Cure Cosmo as General Sweet Mayhem (Star Twinkle PreCure)
Inkabelle as Queen Whatevra Wanabi (Balan Wonderworld)
Various Characters as The Citizens of Brickburg, Old West, Master Builders, and Systar System
And here’s your hint for the next casting (It’s Barbie, and the sequel to Fashion Fairytale):
🧚♀️🌆🦋
#crossover casting#parody#the Lego movie#tlm#lego movie#Gintama#Metroid#super Mario#Mario#transformers#Cuphead#ocs#f zero#tekken#fatal fury#shantae half genie hero#Shantae#Balan Wonderworld#bww#precure#Star twinkle PreCure#this was an insanely fun one to do!#ever since I watched this movie over and over again!
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Competitor Reveal!
I had initially only wanted to include around 64 characters but with all the submissions I got I wanted to try to include as many as possible and as many different kinds of nonhumans as I could! But I also kept it to 3 characters max per media/franchise and also tried to include both popular and lesser known characters/media. I still ended up with a bigger bracket than I intended--
I'm very sorry if a character you nominated didn't make it in! But I hope you'll all still enjoy the competition and maybe even discover some new characters/media you haven't heard of before!
Here is the list of the competitors! Creating the actual bracket and the graphics will take me longer so please be patient with me! In the meantime feel free to make propaganda if you'd like, even if you don't know the match-ups yet I'd love to see why you think your favorite nonhuman(s) is the most attractive!
Venom (Marvel)
Dahlia Aquino (Monster Prom franchise)
Milo Belladonna (Monster Prom franchise)
Aaravos (The Dragon Prince)
The Beast (Beauty and the Beast)
Hordak (She-Ra)
Hexxus (FernGully)
Gabriel (ULTRAKILL)
Louis (Beastars)
Death (Puss in Boots)
Cybersix
Frankenstein's Monster
Agent Smith (The Matrix)
Terminator
Warper (Subnautica)
Minotaur
Castiel (Supernatural)
Superman
Aziraphale (Good Omens)
Crowley (Good Omens)
Lucifer (The Bible)
Jesus (The Bible)
Glados (Portal)
Fjord (Critical Role)
Sylas Briarwood (Critical Role)
Planerider Ryn (Critical Role)
Curie (Fallout 4)
Nick Valentine (Fallout 4)
Magdolene (Awful Hospital)
Enjou (Genshin Impact)
Midnite (Mario Rabbids)
Yautja (Predator)
Xenomorphs (Alien)
Godzilla
Tiamat (D&D)
Spock (Star Trek)
Worf (Star Trek)
Bowser (Mario)
Thrall (Warcraft)
Thrawn (Star Wars)
Legion (Mass Effect)
Aria (Mass Effect)
Tali'Zorah (Mass Effect)
Sauron (Lord of the Rings)
Gimli (Lord of the Rings)
Legolas (Lord of the Rings)
Alucard (Castlevania)
Bigby Wolf (Fables)
Poison Ivy (DC)
The Count of Monte Cristo (Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo)
Dream (Sandman)
The Corinthian (Sandman)
Bast (Sandman)
Sesshoumaru (Inuyasha)
Paintbrush (Inanimate Insanity)
Bubbles (Questionable Content)
Vash the Stampede (Trigun)
Pei (The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet / The Wayfarers)
Sissix (Wayfarers)
Madame Vastra (Doctor Who)
Jabe (Doctor Who)
Silas (The Graveyard Book)
Mad Sweeney (American Gods)
Genie (Aladdin)
The Tin Man (The Wizard of Oz)
Robin Hood (Disney)
Magnus Bane (Shadowhunters)
Mazikeen (Lucifer)
Geralt (The Witcher)
Petrichor (Saga)
Gwendolyn (Saga)
Prince Robot IV (Saga)
Nick Hoult (Wan Sheng Jie)
Baron Humbert von Gikkingen (The Cat Returns)
Madhouse Mike (Cryptid Crush)
Oz (Cryptid Crush)
August (Cryptid Crush)
Shirou Ogami (BNA)
Funtime Foxy (FNAF)
Montgomery Gator (FNAF)
Roxanne Wolf (FNAF)
Radu Basanko (Blades of Furry)
Symbiosis (I Was A Teenage Exocolonist)
Slenderman
#i did bend my sentience rule a lil for the xenomorphs and probably godzilla but they're both just so classic#and also i am so sorry for putting Jesus in but the submission was so funny to me especially after someone had already submitted Lucifer--
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Chapter 11: GROVER GETS A LAMBORGHINI
"Did Grover win the lottery?" Percy asked swiftly this time when Rachel read the new one, getting his guess in first. At least if this was a game he wasn't getting out of he might as well play, and for once it wasn't about him.
"And buy a gas guzzling vehicle that's destroying his precious environment?" Alex looked at him blankly. "You really are the worst at these Perce."
"The obvious answer is he gets a magic lamb and names it Genie," Magnus nodded sagely.
Thalia busted out laughing, not having trusted herself to offer up a solution this time since she vividly remembered what led them all into those cars. It was hard to even pretend be mad at Apollo when he flirted with the rest of the hunters when she remembered him in that grimy look.
We were crossing the Potomac when we spotted the helicopter. It was a sleek, black military model just like the one we'd seen at Westover Hall. And it was coming straight toward us.
"They know the van," I said. "We have to ditch it."
"And walk the whole way?" Jason asked dubiously.
"I was going to stop and ask them for directions," Percy said with the pen in his hand. He still remembered from the last book something about Annabeth and a helicopter. That horrible premonition had come to pass, but it still lingered in his mind. If he had to get kidnapped to get to her faster-
Thalia socked him on the shoulder however to show how she felt about that plan, so he instead sighed and tried another answer. "I vote train again," he said wistfully, remembering Annabeth falling asleep on her bag, her fair hair falling into her face. Nothing bad had happened to him on one of those yet.
Then he grunted in pain and pressed a hand to his temple, glaring at his nose in betrayal. How did everything come back to smite him?!
Rachel started reading very fast to help alleviate that look away.
Zoe swerved into the fast lane. The helicopter was gaining.
"Maybe the military will shoot it down," Grover said hopefully.
"The military probably thinks it's one of theirs," I said. "How can the General use mortals, anyway?"
"Mercenaries," Zoe said bitterly. "It is distasteful, but many mortals will fight for any cause as long as they are paid."
"But don't these mortals see who they're working for?" I asked. "Don't they notice all the monsters around them?"
"Exactly how do you think the Mist works?" Rachel asked in confusion, rather than trying to call Percy an idiot. She really didn't know, she'd never been fooled by it.
He had been called that enough times he insisted, "they'd see strange things they couldn't explain and ask questions!" He'd heard the implied part of her question too and couldn't figure out why he was the only one ever concerned with that when it could fool half-blood's as easily as mortals about what was going on. Tyson had been under the Mist for a whole school year, half his child hood was filled with unexplainable things the Mist had disguised, but he'd always seen just enough to make him scared of the monsters until his mother brushed his tears away with a too understanding smile.
"If you pay a man enough he'll walk barefoot into hell,"* Will quoted from one of his favorite shows with one of those sad smiles that never quite reached his eyes.
Nico watched him critically for a moment, and Will whispered at once, "show on an old VHS tape hidden in the break room behind the orientation film."
Nobody had ever shared a secret like that at camp with him before, and Nico found an easy smile come out erasing entirely his unease that wasn't a crack at him.
It was the only answer Percy was going to get, and he didn't think much of it.
Zoe shook her head. "I do not know how much they see through the Mist. I doubt it would matter to them if they knew the truth. Sometimes mortals can be more horrible than monsters."
The helicopter kept coming, making a lot better time than we were through D.C. traffic.
Thalia closed her eyes and prayed hard. "Hey, Dad. A lightning bolt would be nice about now. Please?"
But the sky stayed gray and snowy. No sign of a helpful thunderstorm.
"Did you expect anything else?" Percy asked harshly. His ire stemmed from a sudden certainty that lightning bolt was delivered, that Zeus favored his daughter when his dad couldn't bother to send him more than a stupid two word letter for communication.
Thalia gritted her teeth and forced herself not to say anything back. It would come out all wrong. That she still wasn't sure some days if it had been Zeus to try and strike her out of the sky and grant her prayer days later on Mount Tam. Percy had no idea how lucky he was his dad had ignored him instead.
"There!" Bianca said. "That parking lot!"
"We'll be trapped," Zoe said.
"Trust me," Bianca said.
Zoe shot across two lanes of traffic and into a mall parking lot on the south bank of the river.
Jason puzzled over that critically for a moment. Zoe at least trusted her fellow Hunters to take blind orders from. If she was helping the other side she could be doing more to delay getting caught. He felt he had no choice but to scratch her off the list, it no longer seemed likely if the General had offered her Artemis in exchange for Bianca it would happen.
That left him no more answers how Luke and the General had just appeared in DC with them, and it left him feeling queasy like nothing of this strangely parallel world ever did who the real stranger in the midst could be. Nobody at Camp had known they'd be stopping at that museum, so it must be the simplest solution that they'd just been followed the moment they left the magical boundary and Luke with his cronies had met them there too fast, somehow. Luke had once used Backbiter to open a portal, it was the last rational conclusion he had.
We left the van and followed Bianca down some steps.
"Subway entrance," Bianca said. "Let's go south. Alexandria."
"Anything," Thalia agreed.
We bought tickets and got through the turnstiles, looking behind us for any signs of pursuit. A few minutes later we were safely aboard a southbound train, riding away from D.C.
As our train came above ground, we could see the helicopter circling the parking lot, but it didn't come after us.
Grover let out a sigh. "Nice job, Bianca, thinking of the subway."
Bianca looked pleased. "Yeah, well. I saw that station when Nico and I came through last summer. I remember being really surprised to see it, because it wasn't here when we used to live in D.C."
Nico's smile was darker than usual. The smirk was really only for him. They'd been to young and stupid to put the pieces together subways didn't pop up like that, but maybe coming back had forced Bianca to keep thinking about it, start questioning things that distracted her, causing...
Grover frowned. "New? But that station looked really old."
"I guess," Bianca said. "But trust me, when we lived here as little kids, there was no subway."
Thalia sat forward. "Wait a minute. No subway at all?"
Bianca nodded.
Now, I knew nothing about D.C., but I didn't see how their whole subway system could be less than twelve years old. I guess everyone else was thinking the same thing, because they looked pretty confused.
Which matched, as usual, pretty well in here except the three Greek kids suddenly avoiding each others eyes. Percy and Jason were glaring at Nico more than ever, and he couldn't keep waving off how he got his memories restored while being a freak out of time forever if they started asking questions.
"One story at a time guys," Will swiftly said into the awkward silence. "I promise it is less confusing that way. You should never ask Connor and Travis for a story, they bounce around from end to middle to start and try throwing in three others, it's a mess."
"Right, yeah," Jason reluctantly agreed, but he again couldn't help but wonder how Nico knew of his home if his own past had so many questions splashed on it. He said the problem had already been resolved, but then what was he looking for in California while stumbling across another camp?
Percy nodded and turned back quickly though. Annabeth would have solved this puzzle by now if she'd been here while rattling off fun-facts about the subway again.
"Bianca," Zoe said. "How long ago..." Her voice faltered. The sound of the helicopter was getting louder again.
"We need to change trains," I said. "Next station."
Over the next half hour, all we thought about was getting away safely. We changed trains twice. I had no idea where we were going, but after a while we lost the helicopter.
Unfortunately, when we finally got off the train we found ourselves at the end of the line, in an industrial area with nothing but warehouses and railway tracks.
"I'm vaguely concerned they just let a bunch of kids get off there alone," Magnus muttered. It sounded like only the kind of place somebody would go to get away from the world and wouldn't be surprised if Percy came across a few people wrapped in ratty clothes and garbage bags out there. He didn't really want to know what new comments would be made about it.
And snow. Lots of snow. It seemed much colder here. I was glad for my new lion's fur coat.
We wandered through the railway yard, thinking there might be another passenger train somewhere, but there were just rows and rows of freight cars, most of which were covered in snow, like they hadn't moved in years.
A homeless guy was standing at a trash-can fire. We must've looked pretty pathetic, because he gave us a toothless grin and said, "Y'all need to get warmed up? Come on over!"
Percy's smile as all sympathetic and sad though. He told them with the same catch in his voice as he always spoke about his mom, "he seemed familiar, I don't know why. Like someone my mom would have given an extra free sample too and he tipped her a secret twenty in a stack of ones." Like a memory he shouldn't have just from her describing it, but one he'd swear he knew.
"We all find hope in the strangest places," Thalia's tone was much more quiet, pulled back in time. This was not the first homeless person who had taken pity on a group of kids she'd known. The last time she'd huddle around a fire was with Luke smooth talking his way into being the center of attention while Annabeth had both of their coats on and had been clinging to his leg. Thalia has used the distraction for a few extra sparks to help feed the flames. None of the homeless people had batted an eye, they'd seen stranger things, like the monster that had chased them away only a few hours later.
We huddled around his fire, Thalia's teeth were chattering. She said, "Well this is g-g-ggreat."
"My hooves are frozen," Grover complained.
"Feet," I corrected, for the sake of the homeless guy.
"Not the strangest thing a homeless person had heard," Alex assured. She was pretty sure even if she did go back and tell this story, some other guy at the soup kitchen would find a stranger one about the DMV he believed just as much.
"Maybe we should contact camp," Bianca said. "Chiron—"
"No," Zoe said. "They cannot help us anymore. We must finish this quest ourselves."
"I'm not even sure what else he could do," Will agreed with all the miserable energy of wishing that would change. "By the time he found out where you were to send another bus, it would be to late to make the trip."
"You need to keep moving," Rachel agreed with her own restless energy. Percy had always been great at that, but she smiled to herself as she realized this was a problem she couldn't have thrown money at to fix and help. You couldn't offer to buy the homeless guys car to get out of this. Her kind of problem she wished she had been there to help solve.
I gazed miserably around the rail yard. Somewhere, far to the west, Annabeth was in danger. Artemis was in chains. A doomsday monster was on the loose. And we were stuck on the outskirts of D.C., sharing a homeless persons fire.
"Thank you for that summary," Nico said sullenly, biting back the rest of the words that was the last good one he'd probably get. He knew Bianca hadn't made it to California.
"You know," the homeless man said, "you're never completely without friends." His face was grimy and his beard tangled, but his expression seemed kindly. "You kids need a train going west?"
"God," Alex muttered at once, not loud enough Percy could hear, but with her usual confidence. Now the question was which one, and what did they want for this ride he should know nothing about.
"Yes, sir," I said. "You know of any?"
He pointed one greasy hand.
Suddenly I noticed a freight train, gleaming and free of snow. It was one of those automobile-carrier trains, with steel mesh curtains and a triple-deck of cars inside. The side of the freight train said SUN WEST LINE.
"Apollo!" Jason yelped in surprise. Percy groaned and fisted his hand in his hair, but he felt that pain in his gut telling him the right answer had just been shouted near his ear.
Thalia smacked Jason and scolded, "thanks, we got that," while Rachel read faster.
"That's... convenient," Thalia said. "Thanks, uh..."
She turned to the homeless guy, but he was gone. The trash can in front of us was cold and empty, as if he'd taken the flames with him.
Will had never been very good at suppressing his good mood, he'd never tried, but he did with all his might now as he turned his face away and buried his mouth into his shoulder to pretend muffle coughs so Percy wouldn't see him swallowing laughter. He knew his dads touch when he heard it, and he didn't want to give Percy more of a headache by lingering on this.
He'd unintentionally turned his face right towards Nico, the two were practically nose to nose for a second as Nico's dark brown eyes glimmered right along with his. He'd clearly caught onto the joke and it took Rachel reading after his false fit was done to remind himself to turn away.
An hour later we were rumbling west.
Jason was still looking blearily at the book like he was waiting for the trick though. Yet another god had interfered on this quest. No angle? Didn't even appear as himself? Not even an offering in that trash can fire to summon him?
There was no problem about who would drive now, because we all got our own luxury car. Zoe and Bianca were crashed out in a Lexus on the top deck. Grover was playing race car driver behind the wheel of a Lamborghini.
There was at lest a friendly chuckle circling the room for such a mild use of the chapter title not apparently having bad consequences on anyone for once.
And Thalia had hot-wired the radio in a black Mercedes SLK so she could pick up the alt-rock stations from D.C.
"Now there's a useful skill," Alex nodded along.
"The one thing I missed about school, access to good music," Thalia grinned. She even risked wearing headphones now to stay up to date on new tunes when they weren't actively hunting.
"Join you?" I asked her.
She shrugged, so I climbed into the shotgun seat.
"What were you going to do if she said no?" Jason asked cautiously.
"Stand there awkwardly until she changed her mind," Percy shrugged with no real clue. Thankfully she wasn't that mad at him then or now as she rolled her eyes at the two.
The radio was playing the White Stripes. I knew the song because it was one of the only CDs I owned that my mom liked. She said it reminded her of Led Zeppelin. Thinking about my mom made me sad, because it didn't seem likely I'd be home for Christmas. I might not live that long.
Melancholy floated into the room like an extra wave for a moment as Rachel hesitated to long and swallowed that. Not one of them besides Percy could claim to have even had a good Christmas in recent times.
It didn't help it was the same time of year up there, and all Rachel could think was if her dad would bother to leave a meeting if he found out she was missing from school. He'd probably just think she reneged on their deal and was ditching.
Will had a smile as bright as any star though as he said, "well obviously you did live through it, but I can still say you haven't lived until you've had Christmas at Camp. Mr. D put's this massive tree in the center on Christmas Eve, he claims it's to annoy us and be in everybody's way, but then the kids that are there split off to decorate it all with anything we can get our hands on before midnight and Chiron lets us play songs on his radio, it's a lot of fun. Last year Selina somehow coaxed a reindeer into Camp and Connor tried to strap a rocket to it."
Talking about orphans having fun was still pretty depressing, but Will really made it seem like they'd forget that while being there.
"Nice coat," Thalia told me.
I pulled the brown duster around me, thankful for the warmth. "Yeah, but the Nemean Lion wasn't the monster we're looking for."
"Not even close. We've got a long way to go."
"Whatever this mystery monster is, the General said it would come for you. They wanted to isolate you from the group, so the monster will appear and battle you one-on-one."
"He said that?"
"Well, something like that. Yeah."
"That's great. I love being used as bait."
"I can see you now wiggling on a hook like a good worm," Alex snorted Thalia was more likely to shove that hook in Luke's eyeball.
"Glad you know me so well," Thalia nodded along.
"No idea what the monster might be?"
She shook her head morosely. "But you know where we're going, don't you? San Francisco. That's where Artemis was heading."
I remembered something Annabeth had said at the dance: how her dad was moving to San Francisco, and there was no way she could go. Half-bloods couldn't live there.
"Why?" I asked. "What's so bad about San Francisco?"
"The Mist is really thick there because the Mountain of Despair is so near. Titan magic—what's left of it—still lingers. Monsters are attracted to that area like you wouldn't believe."
Jason felt such a sharp electric tingle race down his spine he expected it to be Thalia shocking him for some reason. Glancing down he even saw his hair was standing on end, and that had nothing on the throbbing in his temple. He was convinced he could go slam his head against the wall to make it feel better if his legs wouldn't stagger him over to it.
Thalia did look over at him, all of them did which meant a sharp hiss of noise must have escaped, but there was nothing but concern on their face again for him. A stranger in every way. There was something about that making his mind fracture more, on a foggy peak where so many looked to him and his voice didn't croak, the speech he used to rally them came from Jupiter speaking through him-
"Jason?" Thalia had tried to shock him apparently, her choppy black hair was standing on end along with everybody else's as the static in his mind faded. He thought she'd just over done it like everyone else. He oddly didn't hurt though. Maybe he was in shock at such a vivid, specific memory he didn't know how to connect with anything.
Except she hadn't, Jason had been making such a painful noise in the back of his throat she'd merely touched his shoulder and felt the energy course through her and seep out like a conductor.
There was no doubt left in Thalia's mind as she flexed her hand and checked the souls of her boots while waving Rachel on.
She couldn't tell him now. Not when he was fighting the same memory glitches as Percy. She couldn't imagine guessing what right or wrong thing to say to him to help, she was barely making it with the friend she knew. She didn't know how he was even alive, let alone why such a place should have meant his death.
Jason was smoothing down his hair with troubled eyes on the book for more now that he'd stopped torturing himself, and she couldn't begin to find the words right now for her little brother in the flesh as her traitorous hand still longed to reach out and touch his face lest he vanish again. It wasn't possible.
But here he was.
"And Uncle Fredrick knew that!" Magnus sounded just as frustrated as Jason looked examining his own hands, if for an entirely different reason. "He wanted to just pack up and move her to a place she'd somehow be attacked even more often?!"
Thalia's grim expression only made it all worse as she silently wondered how Jason had survived there so long. Annabeth's fretting and worry in their dorm as she'd vented about her dad doing this to spite her, how Thalia had sat beside her on those beds and comforted her it was all for his work and Athena probably admired his dedication, but Annabeth didn't have to go with him.
She hadn't readily agreed with Annabeth's curiosity to join the Hunters to escape the constant disappointment of their life, but she hadn't been as vocal turning it down as she'd once been all those years ago when she'd first met Zoe. Annabeth was old enough to make that decision for herself where she wanted to spend the majority of her time.
Percy looked from Thalia to Magnus feeling as useless as usual as he wondered what other parts of Annabeth's life he had no idea about. She'd rather join the hunters because her own dad cared more about his work than her?
"What's the Mountain of Despair?"
Thalia raised an eyebrow. "You really don't know? Ask stupid Zoe. She's the expert."
She glared out the windshield. I wanted to ask her what she was talking about, but I also didn't want to sound like an idiot. I hated feeling like Thalia knew more than I did, so I kept my mouth shut.
"Argh!" Magnus flopped so hard into his seat in exasperation it moved back a few inches. "I'm going to bash both of your heads together and suffer the consequences!"
"Come give it a shot man," Percy raised a challenging brow and a playful smirk, even beckoning him over with his own sign he knew quite well with his four fingers. "See if that'll knock the memories in faster."
"What do I get out of this head trauma?" Thalia asked, her mind clearly else where and distant in the halfhearted tone.
"Peace of mind?" Magnus groaned, though he obviously wasn't moving anywhere.
Thalia gave a hollow laugh. Considering her first priority when getting out of here was confronting Zeus and Hera to find out what the hell had been done to her little brother, she didn't think she'd ever get that again.
"I don't think the best brain surgeons in the world have figured that out yet, but let me know if it works," Will chuckled.
The afternoon sun shone through the steel-mesh side of the freight car, casting a shadow across Thalia's face. I thought about how different she was from Zoe—Zoe all formal and aloof like a princess, Thalia with her ratty clothes and her rebel attitude. But there was something similar about them, too. The same kind of toughness. Right now, sitting in the shadows with a gloomy expression, Thalia looked a lot like one of the Hunters.
"Literal foreshadowing going on there," Rachel busted out laughing and even applauded him.
"Maybe the homeless guy slipped something in that fire I was inhaling," Percy shrugged as he still glanced worriedly at her silver jacket. It caused a larger rock in his throat every time he pictured Annabeth in the same. The pensive, tight look on her face like she was studying a gravestone in the cracks in the ground only convinced him all the more she just wasn't telling him that part had come to pass.
Then suddenly, it hit me: "That's why you don't get along with Zoe."
Thalia frowned. "What?"
"The Hunters tried to recruit you," I guessed.
Her eyes got dangerously bright. I thought she was going to zap me out of the Mercedes, but she just sighed. "I almost joined them," she admitted.
Nico gave a sardonic laugh. "It's almost easy to forget sometimes you weren't always a Hunter, it's how I've always known you."
Thalia's bow appeared in hand, and Nico's heart skipped a beat in shock for a moment before she merely began twisting the silver wood about in the faint light. She twanged the string and murmured to Rachel to keep going, clearly this wasn't a memory she wanted to share anymore than necessary.
"Luke, Annabeth, and I ran into them once, and Zoe tried to convince me. She almost did, but..."
"But?"
Thalia's fingers gripped the wheel. "I would've had to leave Luke."
She wasn't getting a choice though as the smell of that bog came back, the broken branches snapping loud in her ear, pain flaring sharp in her arm that could have been their doom.
The Hunters had shown up just as conveniently as they did years later, silver arrows heralding their arrival and disposing of Lamia conveniently after Luke had nearly fallen victim to her seduction.
He had tried to win them over with his charming wit, but Zoe had been immune and pushed Luke aside to heal Thalia's broken arm that had stopped her summoning Aegis. Annabeth had been fascinated with them and been gung-ho to join, until she found out what it meant too.
Then she'd brought her knife out on them, making the two smile like proud parents as the child of Athena told Zoe where she could shove her answer.
Zoe had tried to insist on reasons to at least take Annabeth somewhere safe, the fight had almost become physical until Phoebe had stepped in and promised it wouldn't come to that. Zoe's parting words hadn't phased Annabeth, but the lieutenant had looked right at Thalia when she promised, "he'll let you both down some day."
Percy's were the first words she'd heard upon waking up that day. Annabeth's broken answer of what Luke had done were the last before she moved into her own Cabin, Zoe's vow keeping her awake all night.
"Oh."
"Zoe and I got into a fight. She told me I was being stupid. She said I'd regret my choice. She said Luke would let me down someday."
I watched the sun through the metal curtain. We seemed to be traveling faster each second—shadows flickering like an old movie projector.
"That's harsh," I said. "Hard to admit Zoe was right."
"She wasn't right! Luke never let me down. Never."
Percy swallowed the harsh words Luke had done plenty to Annabeth, just because she wasn't around to see it didn't mean it hadn't happened.
"We'll have to fight him," I said. "There's no way around it."
"This boy!" Alex made a motion like she wanted to claw her own face off with frustration. Or his. "Can you not speak every thought!"
"I cannot not," Percy fibbed, apology clear in his tone for his friend.
Thalia just looked miserable. That day on Mount Tam had helped her to see there was no saving him. She'd spent that trip west convinced she'd be able to save her family, and Percy would finally take a hint he wasn't needed. Nothing had come back as planned.
Percy wished more than anything he could do something for her, but he had no idea what had ultimately come to pass. What he could say that would make it better or worse.
Thalia didn't answer.
"You haven't seen him lately," I warned. "I know it's hard to believe, but—"
"I'll do what I have to."
"Even if that means killing him?"
The expression that flashed across her face made Percy brace himself to have an electric eel around his throat any second and still have time to wonder if he'd be immune to that before a shaky breath passed her lips and it faded back. Her bow was flickering in her hands, making a cracking noise threatening to break the blessed weapon.
She hadn't killed Luke, she hadn't been there when it happened.
But for one horrible moment, she'd thought she had, and that had never left her to this day.
That she didn't regret it.
That she'd do it again and hate herself for it every time.
"Do me a favor," she said. "Get out of my car."
I felt so bad for her I didn't argue.
As I was about to leave, she said, "Percy."
When I looked back, her eyes were red, but I couldn't tell if it was from anger or sadness.
'Both,' Jason knew from seeing that in here now. He didn't know who exactly Luke was to her, friend or more. He did know he'd personally stab him in the face right now just for making that look flash across Thalia's face again.
Finally, a fact about himself he was sure of.
"Annabeth wanted to join the Hunters, too. Maybe you should think about why."
Before I could respond, she raised the power windows and shut me out.
Rachel winced, and said in a breathy voice, "I'll pause for your excellent use of props there." Her uneasy voice was all for fearing Thalia was about to storm out of here from all of this being shoved in her face, but it suited Rachel well to keep Percy just as on edge about the answer to that.
Thalia's point about his blunt words didn't concern Percy so much as the idea of being a guy. Was Annabeth unhappy? Felt unloved, without any true friend or family? He didn't know if he'd been enough for her.
Thalia remained in her seat though, swallowing it all down as her past fought to keep rearranging itself like a thread that wouldn't stop unwinding, one the fates kept tightening around her neck.
Luke brushing tears off her face as she cried on her brothers birthday.
Her brother beside her, alive and no idea who she was.
I sat in the driver's seat of Grover's Lamborghini. Grover was asleep in the back. He'd finally given up trying to impress Zoe and Bianca with his pipe music after he played "Poison Ivy" and caused that very stuff to sprout from their Lexus's air conditioner.
"Can he do Firework on command too?" Alex asked eagerly.
"I didn't have a spare car to ask," Percy shrugged.
As I watched the sun go down, I thought of Annabeth. I was afraid to go to sleep. I was worried what I might dream.
"Oh, don't be afraid of dreams," a voice said right next to me.
I looked over. Somehow, I wasn't surprised to find the homeless guy from the rail yard sitting in the shotgun seat. His jeans were so worn out they were almost white. His coat was ripped, with stuffing coming out. He looked kind of like a teddy bear that had been run over by a truck.
"If he was going for a look Zeus finally wouldn't look twice at, I guess he found it," Nico said in quite a bit of admiration a god had lowered himself to such a state.
"Let's hope he never shows up to Camp like that," Will kept blinking in concern his dad was still going around in that getup and it was hurting his head more than if the sun were in his eyes.
"If it weren't for dreams," he said, "I wouldn't know half the things I know about the future. They're better than Olympus tabloids." He cleared his throat, then held up his hands dramatically:
"Dreams like a podcast,
Downloading truth in my ears.
They tell me cool stuff"
"The god of Prophecy gets his knowledge from dreams?" Magnus asked in concern.
"If they're anything like mine where I'm battling a tick in a forest of fur, he can keep his future to himself," Alex nodded, and those were her light dreams. Loki's made her dread sleeping every night.
"Apollo?" I guessed, because I figured nobody else could make a haiku that bad.
"Your stellar deduction skills are at it again," Jason snickered.
He put his finger to his lips. "I'm incognito. Call me Fred."
"A god named Fred?"
"You know a cyclops named Tyson and you mom's dating a guy named Blowfish," Magnus said with a shrug.
"What are names but a choice of who we are," Alex agreed.
Will snorted and said, "say all the wise wisdom you like you two, I will not stop laughing at my dad, Fred the God."
"Eh, well... Zeus insists on certain rules. Hands off, when there's a human quest. Even when something really major is wrong. But nobody messes with my baby sister. Nobody."
Percy felt a bit chuffed at that news. He forgot sometimes that the gods, as unhelpful, useless, and even cruel as they felt to him, were a family. Maybe not a great one to their kids, but at minimum to each other. They argued and clearly didn't always like each other, but he found himself smiling all the same Apollo spoke of Artemis as he would of Thalia.
"Can you help us, then?"
"Shhh. I already have. Haven't you been looking outside?"
"The train. How fast are we moving?"
Apollo chuckled. "Fast enough. Unfortunately, we're running out of time. It's almost sunset. But I imagine we'll get you across a good chunk of America, at least."
A cold sweat broke out on the back of Nico's neck, his stomach churning already. The last time a God had helped Percy across the country he'd wound up in Vegas. A sure enough land without rain, the very same? Was it coming already? No, he had to have more time, more words, more pages...
"But where is Artemis?"
His face darkened. "I know a lot, and I see a lot. But even I don't know that. She's... clouded from me. I don't like it."
The enormity of the situation gave them all a chill in place. If any of them would have hoped a god going missing would have kicked Zeus's butt into gear, pitching his own battle and stopping this war in its tracks, it was dashed. The Gods couldn't find her, the rest probably wouldn't even know to look for her until it was to late.
"And Annabeth?"
He frowned. "Oh, you mean that girl you lost? Hmm. I don't know."
Percy tried not to let his resentment spike to high. He wasn't like Luke. He knew the gods weren't like this on purpose. They cared just enough it would get him to the end of this quest and survive another day, a lesser of two evils than Kronos who had taken Annabeth away and was using her for a pillar in his weird cave, bait, and anything else he could want.
I tried not to feel mad. I knew the gods had a hard time taking mortals seriously, even half-bloods. We lived such short lives, compared to the gods.
"And dogs live such short lives compared to us," Rachel sighed, "but we still love them every day of theirs."
"I think this is him throwing you a bone," Jason muttered, but his eyes were closed and he was kneading his forehead. Apollo was the one name he hadn't flinched and done a double take over in this Greek pantheon, and yet to hear all this still made his brain feel on fire.
"What about the monster Artemis was seeking?" I asked. "Do you know what it is?"
"No," Apollo said.
"Does he know anything to help you guys out?" Alex asked with plenty of frustration. Here was an actually helpful god, wallowing around with the best of them, and still not able to answer a single question. She could paint that annoyed pucker between Magnus's eyes all day onto herself.
"But there is one who might. If you haven't yet found the monster when you reach San Francisco, seek out Nereus, the Old Man of the Sea.
Jason shivered, the name nagged sharply in his mind, even more painfully than Hylla's had. Like someone he might actually know in person?! His attention was riveted, he couldn't wait for Percy to wind up there now!
Both Thalia and Nico watched him with great confusion why he'd know of some old sea God.
He has a long memory and a sharp eye. He has the gift of knowledge sometimes kept obscure from my Oracle."
"I have so many questions about that entire info dump," Magnus said with a concerned look around. "Is he related to Poseidon? Is Percy going to start spouting prophecies? He's not going to show up down here is he?"
"No, no, and no," Percy said with whatever confidence he could, which admittedly wasn't a lot. He just hoped those were the answers.
"But it's your Oracle," I protested. "Can't you tell us what the prophecy means?"
Apollo sighed. "You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear through the search."
"That's a really fancy way of saying get wrecked," Alex nodded, "might have to borrow that."
"He'll be glad to sign whatever you like as long as you credit him as saying it first," Rachel chuckled, they had a lot of pleasant conversations that ended this way.
"In other words, you don't know."
Apollo checked his watch. "Ah, look at the time! I have to run. I doubt I can risk helping you again, Percy, but remember what I said! Get some sleep! And when you return, I expect a good haiku about your journey!"
"I would reread all of these books before I turn in homework given to me by Apollo," Percy said nauseously.
"I volunteer," Rachel offered with delight.
I wanted to protest that I wasn't tired and I'd never made up a haiku in my life, but Apollo snapped his fingers, and the next thing I knew I was closing my eyes.
In my dream, I was somebody else. I was wearing an old-fashioned Greek tunic, which was a little too breezy downstairs, and laced leather sandals.
Alex gave him a catcall whistle while Percy was looking a little flush and mercifully running his hand down his actual pants.
The Nemean Lion's skin was wrapped around my back like a cape,
"Oh gods, you don't dream of all the trophies you get do you?" Magnus asked with whole new concern. "Is that why Annabeth gave up that scarf? Do you dream of the minotaur?"
Percy opened his mouth. He wanted to say it was just a coincidence, but the words wouldn't come out. These dreams always meant something to his quest.
and I was running somewhere, being pulled along by a girl who was tightly gripping my hand.
"Hurry!" she said. It was too dark to see her face clearly, but I could hear the fear in her voice. "He will find us!"
Rachel was really good at infusing dread into her voice like that. Percy wasn't even the one in danger for once and he still shivered and wondered if she'd ever done any acting.
It was nighttime. A million stars blazed above. We were running through tall grass, and the scent of a thousand different flowers made the air intoxicating. It was a beautiful garden, and yet the girl was leading me through it, as if we were about to die.
"The prettiest scenery in the world doesn't stop death," Nico agreed morbidly.
"I'm not afraid," I tried to tell her.
"Well we have confirmation this guy isn't you Percy, maybe just a reincarnation," Will snorted. "Same death defying stunts, you just admit to nearly pissing yourself when it happens."
"Thank you," Percy said, puzzled if that was a real compliment or not.
"You should be!" she said, pulling me along. She had long dark hair braided down her back. Her silk robes glowed faintly in the starlight.
We raced up the side of the hill. She pulled me behind a thorn bush and we collapsed, both breathing heavily. I didn't know why the girl was scared. The garden seemed so peaceful.
"Have you ever read Alice in Wonderland?" Alex scoffed. "Hell, I bet you've seen Avatar, I can list a million more examples. The pretty worlds are the deadliest."
"Remind me to never go to the Demeter cabin again," Percy nodded.
And I felt strong. Stronger than I'd ever felt before.
"There is no need to run," I told her. My voice sounded deeper, much more confident.
"No, no, there's our real proof," but Thalia's smile was as strained as it had been for hours now. She'd never wanted to hear of this in such detail. This was not a memory any other Hunter should have to hear if Zoe hadn't wished to share it. The cold girl who had sneered at Thalia for trusting Luke had never really seen Luke standing there.
"I have bested a thousand monsters with my bare hands."
"That's more terrifying than impressive," Jason shook his head. Hands were capable of both creating and destroying, but the tools were an extension. Someone bragging about doing that with just raw power felt unnatural.
"Not this one," the girl said. "Ladon is too strong. You must go around, up the mountain to my father. It is the only way."
The hurt in her voice surprised me. She was really concerned, almost like she cared about me.
Percy started shifting around uncomfortably in his seat, touching his ear and studying the book with a nauseous feeling. That voice, he knew that voice, but he'd never heard her speak in such a way, didn't think she was capable of it before now...
"I don't trust your father," I said.
"You should not," the girl agreed. "You will have to trick him. But you cannot take the prize directly. You will die.'"
I chuckled. "Then why don't you help me, pretty one?"
"I... I am afraid. Ladon will stop me. My sisters, if they found out... they would disown me."
"Then there's nothing for it." I stood up, rubbing my hands together.
"Wait.'" the girl said.
She seemed to be agonizing over a decision. Then, her fingers trembling, she reached up and plucked a long white brooch from her hair. "If you must fight, take this. My mother, Pleione, gave it to me. She was a daughter of the ocean, and the ocean's power is within it. My immortal power."
The girl breathed on the pin and it glowed faintly. It gleamed in the starlight like polished abalone.
"Take it," she told me. "And make of it a weapon."
I laughed. "A hairpin? How will this slay Ladon, pretty one?"
"It may not," she admitted. "But it is all I can offer, if you insist on being stubborn."
The girl's voice softened my heart. I reached down and took the hairpin, and as I did, it grew longer and heavier in my hand, until I held a familiar bronze sword.
Magnus shivered uncomfortably as Percy grew more pale. These dreams were never described for anything good, and there was a pit in Magnus's stomach this could be what Annabeth could be going through, some horrible mind game with intoxicating flowers where she was destined to keep getting hurt over and over to save a hero.
"Well balanced," I said. "Though I usually prefer to use my bare hands. What shall I name this blade?"
"Anaklusmos," the girl said sadly.
The name of that sword had been mentioned to many times to be anything else, Percy's death grip on it now only drove the point home as he looked like he'd been punched in the face. Chiron had warned him this sword had a past, Mr. D had said much the same. It was an answer he still had no idea what to do with.
"The current that takes one by surprise. And before you know it, you have been swept out to sea."
Thalia swallowed the snide comment how a son of Zeus would dare use such a weapon associated with Poseidon. Whether Hercules had been loyal to anybody but himself was not an ancient question she cared to think on.
Before I could thank her, there was a trampling sound in the grass, a hiss like air scaping a tire, and the girl said, "Too late! He is here!"
I sat bolt upright in the Lamborghini's drivers seat. Grover was shaking my arm.
Percy gazed at nobody in here as he tried for a strained smile, his groggy thought that had come and gone to slow back then. Grover would wish for the dream he had, and it rivaled all of the horrors of that cyclops cave.
"Percy," he said. "It's morning. The train's stopped. Come on!"
I tried to shake off my drowsiness. Thalia, Zoe, and Bianca had already rolled up the metal curtains. Outside were snowy mountains dotted with pine trees, the sun rising red between two peaks.
I fished my pen out of my pocket and stared at it. Anaklusmos, the Ancient Greek name for Riptide. A different form, but I was sure it was the same blade I'd seen in my dream.
And I was sure of something else, too. The girl I had seen was Zoe Nightshade.
"Whoa," Alex said softly, pity in her voice for how that must have turned out.
"I guess she did have her own past with a guy before turning on all of them," Magnus agreed with an uneasy wince.
PJOPJOPJOPJO
I know, big revelation in the middle of the chapter, but Jason had to react to that the same way Thalia couldn't keep denying who this guy is, it just wouldn't make sense any other way. I cannot wait to keep going with these two, even if I have to keep putting them on pause.
*If you know what Will is quoting then you have the same love of an old TV show I do. I still rewatch it once a year.
#pjo#Percy Jackson#reading the books#fanfiction#thalia grace#jason grace#alex fierro#magnus chase#nico di angelo#will solace#Titan's Curse#percabeth#solangelo#fierrochase
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thoughts as i read Chain of Thorns so spoilers duh and it got long so under a read more (also as a safety measure against spoilers and tumblr tags not working) feel free to chat with me about it
In april i will change the tags to something more general (I say April because not all versions of the book are out yet I think Italy doesn’t get their editions until March so)
James honey tell your Dad.
Matthew fight me and get help outside of Cordelia asking you not to drink in Paris
did i mention how much i hate the misunderstanding of chain of iron? yeah still hate it... quick moment
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honest about his love for Grace for the love of god Cordelia
Matthew is not keeping to his promise is he? one way or another he is up to something and I don’t like it
23 lmao Will same Magnus i can’t believe it either and lmao James “I haven’t not since last Thursday“
why is Grace arrested? was she arrested? I very vaguely recall her admitting to the shenagins
i love Kamala by the way I hope she goes back to her true name... what was the letter
Lucie is up and atom
*through gritted teeth* what good reason? to dislike Allistair? *eyes twitch*
Thomas’s note *clutches heart* I want to watch that scene in 10 things i hate about you again but also lmao i think the message would get to who its addressed to
Tatiana can fight me... poor Grace
oh Malcolm
Jessamine mention!!!!. finally adults knowing what do. Aww Will singing to James in rusty welsh
back to Matthew and Cordelia *grits teeth* ohh poor faeirie having to deal with this shit. Cordelia admitting that Matthew and Allistair don’t like each other and I loathe it, I loathe her not defending her brother
MADAME DOROTHEA???? oh the waking up theme is back (Madame channeling Elias). wow fun
Malcom don’t steal food... I feel uncomfy please for the love of god grab the poker and impale me with it... Dad has arrived
No you won’t conquer the pain in Paris Matthew. It wouldn’t be that easy to overcome pain WITHOUT THE ONES CAUSING YOU PAIN
.... the truth will out with the Herondale family reunion (Tessa is there we just don’t see her as she’s yelling at Malcolm) and Magnus being upset at not being asked for help as he is the warlock they usually annoy first lmao i love him
73 yes be proud of Jesse “the last bulwark of Englishman under stress. Tea? he suggested“ lol Malcolm
ah the letter Kamala found was blackmail... towards Charlotte maybe?
80 laughing hysterically
Jem is here.... Allistair! i knew the note would be read
97 Matthew are you sure you’re not a idiot
a good plan i suppose... good old Ezekiel
Alexander Bridge (another song coming on)
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110 FINALLY SOME DEMONS... fuck off both of you (also I thought Matthew got bitten by the demon?)
Aw Kit/ Christopher best boy
yay back to this hell and now James is here (also looked at later at art so accidently spoiled myself to some dark haired guy wearing a crown)
Thomas I love and LMAO Will and Magnus best bros
I knew Matthew was lying... can i bang Cordelias head off a wall? Oh James... Eugenia! I missed you baby
I don’t wanna go back to Cordelia... yes it was as painful as expected
Matthew shut up. James use your fucking words
Magnus I love you... I wish I was Balios right now
Jesse’s “helpful fellow called brother Zachariah“
Cordellia is annoying me
tell it like it is Allistair they are idiots
@ James (image id: GIF of the Genie from Aladdin in front of white board reading tell her the truth)
I love you Allistair and Risa never leave me with these three again (Magnus, Efffie and Eugenia as well)
Oh Christopher I love you, Thomas yay
actual footage of Cordelia getting Allistair into the carriage
image id: dog on a leash being dragged text around it reading “um no/no mean no/ do not want/ heard you say vet/ wow no/ such abuse/ um wtf r u doing/ not wow/ so forceing“ end id
185 Cordelia and Matthew not planning on saying anything yet why
good idea Allistair and plans on how to find out who is being blackmailed. hatred of ducks is a noble cause
BRIGDET I LOVE YOU
Will is being great embarresing James and scolded by Tessa for quoting Charge of the Light Brigade at the table
I like Jesse I think, lemon drops? lemon drops
Albert Pangborn is great... Lucie you’re making me feel cold and Cordelia i know you are going through it but why
With Jesse and Lucie I am kinda hoping for a Pushing Daisies scenario
Oh Kamala why lie to yourself... Poor Grace kinda... 231 happy place Christopher and Alistair talking about books and languages (showing their brain works)
new day
Jesse spill the beans?
yay back with Cordelia *sigh*... poor Jesse.... No Cordelia you do not know what you saw you are a coward who is certain what you saw was the whole truth and nothing but the truth
would love to see the full evil vanity set it has to exist I won’t accept other wise
i do like Hypatia and Jesse is great... Hi Winston and Ari and Aratia is pretty so back to calling her this then
poor Oscar he is such a good boy
James good with words? I am not so sure
I am scared of Tatiana... but also every single time (image id: screenshot from Lion King 2 Simbas Pride song My Lullaby)
Beliel is making zombies apparently
so close yet so far... lmao Effie
308 if you spoke to your wife you’d know... I thought Letty be possessed good job me
312 Christopher deserves the world honestly. Go on Grace do the things
aww Mama Tessa, never shut up Thomas you’re great to be with. aw Mama Sona... the fear of god that Malcolm just experiences is priceless and relatable
laughing at the things like the weapons tree
parents what to do? oh chatting and we came so close. Also Esme i love you
Anna and Ari finally got that dance
FOR FUCKS SAKE this is the bad place... no its not Alistair and Thomas almost kissed but got interupted by Cecily screaming
FUCK OFF TATIANA AND EVERYONE LISTENING TO HER
it would also cast more suspicion to be honest
pick up a rock or something Cordelia, poor baby Alex and I DO NOT TRUST this
poor denzins of the Cornwall Institute
Alistair was not wrong and not to bring up lion king 2 again but not one of us? fits kinda well
FUCK YOU CHARLES!!!! FUCK OFF BRIDGESTOCK
go on Ari, Jem is bae and I love you guys
Charles might be the one being blackmailed and yes he is a pompous git
Lucie saw Edom I think
please not on the staircase think of your back it would hurt i imagine
what did the door knob do to you (reread that section oh it was jammed) still poor door knob
yeah big bath tubs for the win (dream home item big bath tub and swimming pool if i can’t live by the sea/ sea where it is private then i will have to make do)... oh no the adults are leaving
poor Effie can’t wait to see her opinions on everything
also side note last book James was pracitcally begging Cordelia to top him will that make a return?
aww Grace and here is Tatiana of course who i can’t wait to see die... what is going on
come Matthew tell them, James told them about Grace its your turn
Christopher is too good for this world
Matthew fight me (i was actually warming to him and now its two steps back)
lets go help Charlie. Go on Alistair (update i’ve been tabbing as i go and i am running out of pinks)
I love them feeling about conflicted about Grace and her actions... Grace is here and lets go zombies (or guys from black cauldron?)
there is so much kissing and so many characters
and lets go face Tatiana.. oh wow possession is every where apprently
go on Lucie do what needs to be done which is summon RUPERT buddy I missed you
Grace why are you following your “mother”... hi Lilith
CHRISTOPHER NO
I saw this picture in the run up it is really cool (side note i do like the illustrations my favourites being the blackstairs beach kiss in queen of air and darkness though- also if TWP does not start with the Clace wedding that we have two full chapters of I will sue)
Tatiana is dead? yay... but Christopher no
poor lady under the milkcart... poor people being possessed by Beliel
oh wow Beliel is... yeah this is a lot
James is going with Beliel, and Beliel took Matthew as well good grief
Lmao the title for the next chapter is Intermission: Grief
what if the escape route is a lie? what if its a trap?
new day?
490 Winston is a pretty bird, Oscar what is it puppy? oh it was planned thank god
girl talk time and James/ Matthew being in Edom is so funny to me for some reason
thomas watering the fairchild plants, watered my plants and cleared my skin
Carstair siblings rise!
Jessamine you good?
sup Lilith... if beliel dies by Cordelia’s blade this is strange wording
I love Jesse and Graces dynamic actually
yes destroy the wound
Anna what’s up?... good point
finally the truth comes about Matthew part 2/ bye Carbos it was fun I will remember you next time I read TMI
I want Christopher back (564 I ran out of pink)
They did! they got the fire messages working! I am so proud
oh Lucie, hi Filomena and are we going to be told this plan?
ahh Beliel wants to crown himself and all I can think is this image
Image id: Queen Elizabeth the 2 and text from christopher eccleston reading “parasite in chief in her idiot hat“
Go on Charlie *pumps fist*
I love you Eugenia
Statues attack and I am out of green tabs
stay safe everyone... Lucie what do?... aw Anna and Ari
Bridget is god and you can’t change my mind
I did think that wording was strange... bye Lilith see you later
herongraystairs mention... JEM YOU ARE OWED A FAVOR FROM BELIEL I have so many questions like does he still have it in SoBH? will he have it TWP? is this thing something I kinda remember being Ghosts of the Shadow Market? (its been awhile okay)
Aw Alastair I forgot you were blonde for a bit... good for you bud
oh so this is how the things got in the coffin like the gun Christopher made for James :(... I hope the locksmith recovered the bullet from it
Alastair the best big brother
(I didn’t put this in my physical notes so I don’t know where it fits in but i am so glad Matthew told his family)
666 Malcolm is here for a chat and it went well
OSCAR GOT A MEDAL!!!
Eugenia remains the best... croquet lmao yes
image id: screenshot of Pall Mall scene from Bridgerton season 2
I like the ending
bonus story: love you Jem... I cannot imagine why people would be twitchy at seeing the robes of Silent Brothers (and I wonder if they feel the same?)... the ghosts made me tear up
random thoughts
- too many characters having povs just made it not work for me? especially when a few of them know things that others don’t (like the Gracelet and the fallout)
- Matthew grew on me which surprised me with how much he irritated me during Choi heck I downright hated him. And the same goes for Grace and Anna
- I don’t think I will ever like the love triangle
- scared for Charlotte and her pregnancy is going to be fun
- I wished we could have seen the trials for Wessa and Jesse (and other random scenes)
- because of things do i think we could potentially have something in between TLH and TMI? yes yes i do (i say things because its just the vibe I got from finishing it. I’ll get a better idea when i reread)
hello people who made it to the end of this long ass post go treat yourself with something nice
#chain of thorns#chain of thorns spoilers#ellie reads#herondaisy#jordelia#james herondale#cordelia carstairs#lucie herondale#jesse blackthorn#matthew fairchild
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