many thanks @twobeesornottwobees for helping me out with the theodosius biography!! at long last, agrippa makes a reappearance on my blog! and additionally octavian because it feels wrong to draw agrippa without him
he's just some guy until he's made his way into your heart with his perfect curls and perfect smile and his pretty brown eyes that tend to do that sexy squinty thing when a camera is around and his beautiful voice and his mesmerising irish accent and his sense of humour and his acting and his tendency to unbutton his shirt and expose his chest and his fucking wink
everytime I think about purple duo in season 3 in comparison to season 4 I go a little bit more crazy
vitalasy asking/making subz kill him because he was convinced his job was done, he saved the server and there was nothing left for him to do (in denial that lifesteal would not and could not be saved)
vs
subz asking/making vitalasy kill him because he had given up, and was convinced his life was only hurting the people he cared about
subz killed vitalasy very reluctantly but did it because he cared
vitalasy only killed subz after begging, bargaining and pleading for subz to promise to return to the server, return to him
subz was asked to do something he did not want to do both times (kill vitalasy, promise to return to the server) but agreed because he cared. because he knew what vitalasy is like as a person. he did not ask for anything in return, killing vitalasy was something he probably knew was coming. because that's just who vitalasy is.
vitalasy can't stand to lose people. he is selfish in the way that he wants to die first, so he doesn't have to bear living without the people he cares about
subz doesn't have grand goals or desires, he'll go along with whatever his teammates (vitalasy) wants because he cares about them more than anything. this, i think, stems from when subz tried to hold onto vitalasy's ideals after vitalasy's death in s3, but ultimately failed; ending the series in a truce and mass suicide pact. he learns that conflicts on the server are futile and will result in some semblance of peace at the end of the day. all that matters is that you have your allies by your side. something he lacked during the end of season 3. something he desperately wanted during season 4. he is selfish in the way that he'd rather look away than face conflict head on. dying in season 4 means he didn't have to look at the people he loved fight with each other, because what is the end of the server if he can't hold both his allies close to him. what is the end of a season if he can't hold their hands while they all plunge to their deaths.
the only way purple duo could get a happy ending is if they get banned side by side in a battle they both want to fight. vitalasy for the good of the server. subz for the good of vitalasy against a foe he does not care about.
HELLO TUMBLR, PLEASE ACCEPT THIS POST ALIENS WEARING NO CLOTHES...
Ahem, anyways.
I barely touched tumblr so here's some more silly MD bs.
This is based off of a dream where i watched an ep of MD where TURNS OUT Uzi is an alien the whole time?? and N too?? idk.
For now i call them Axolites, and here's a bit of info about them.
-They're kind of a mix between Axolotls and Fish (Uzi is a deep sea one)
-The bright areas on their bodies glow in the dark
-They're a lot like tardigrades/water bears when it comes to handling the harshest of climates, and can breathe through toxic air like a pro.
-They're semi-aquatic and social creatures, which means that they can both swim underwater AND walk on land!
-The 'visors' are not actually visors at all, rather than a bubble created by their own secretions to cover their extremely sensitive eyes from even a speck of dust. (Try not to pop them.)
!!!! some VERY intriguing titles in your wip folder!!!! okay okay okay if I have to choose one let's go wiiiiith Shen Yuan Arrives Five Years Late With Starbucks (or if someone's already chosen that then pre-Youre Somebody Else transmigrator reveal)
working summary: Shen Yuan is determined to institute a fix-it situation on the shit show that was Proud Immortal Demon Way. He's not going to let that hack author drag him down with the plot and all character integrity!
It would maybe be easier if he'd been dropped in a little earlier. But that's no reason not to try.
Or,
Shen Yuan gets placed into Proud Immortal Demon Way in his own body once the plot is already well underway. Liu Qingge is dead, Shen Qingqiu is sealed in the water prison, that scum traitor Shang Qinghua has yet to be exposed for the scum he is, and Luo Binghe is four wives deep and already being corrupted by the Xin Mo sword.
And all of this is fine. It's not too late for Shen Yuan to make a difference, he just has to be smart about it.
Shen Yuan woke up.
This was notable for a number of reasons, chief among them being that he was pretty sure he had never gone to sleep— but, rather, that he had died. Died from eating expired yogurt, which, as a way to go, just didn’t bear thinking about.
But there he was. Awake.
He was laid out on his back on what felt like bare stone. He blinked his eyes open, for some reason feeling sleepy and weighed down all over. Panic emerged at the edges of his senses, but it didn’t permeate the strange, sleepy calm turning his thoughts into syrup. Above him looked like the roof of a cave of some kind, and all around him was the sound of rushing water. Most of his view was obscured by a large, semi-transparent blue screen hovering over him. Blue screen in the literal and non-literal sense, as in, an enormous error message.
transmigration into intended host: failed
Shen Yuan blinked up at it. Transmigration, huh?
recalibrating…
error: file corrupted
reconfiguring target body…
The screen jerked, and for a moment was replaced by a cheery blue-green graphic with pops of digital confetti raining over it.
Congratulations! Congratulations! Congratulations! Important things must be said—
[loading icon]
[loading icon]
error: unable to reach source drive
system corrupted: unable to reconfigure
shutdown in 3… 2… 1…
And then the screen blinked out of existence, the only sign that it had ever been there the motes that its sudden absence left in Shen Yuan’s vision.