#literally she is so cool and basically improved Frankenstein

[mevekagvain]

Noblesse AU where the reasons for why the traitors betrayed Lukedonia is the stupidest shit ever

Urokai's is literally the same but he sees everything in clarity and regrets it two seconds after he does it and spends all his time internally screaming like 'oh my god im so stupid wtf im dumb as shit wtf wtf wTF WHY DO I NEVER THINK THINGS THROUGH I SHOULD JUST GO TO FRANKENSTEIN AND KNEEL AND BEG FOR HIS FORGIVENESS FOR HOW DAMN DUMB I AM. No wonder he never liked to have me around...' in the union he's just all 'Frankenstein wouldnt do this. Wtf is this shit.'and basically improves living standards and the way they treat the lower ranking officers while insisting its because he cant be seen associating with pathetic people who cant treat their own species well when in reality hes just trying to make up for being a total asswipe. Also he uses the advice of 'what would frankenstein do' but its never what frankenstein would actually do despite being a good solution lol.

Zarga just stumbled into one of the meetings and thought it was some roleplay that the mvp lord ordered and went along with it. By the time he realised it wasn't he couldn't get out of it. The worst part is this could totally happen because come on the mvp lord would totally do shit like this. Also it's hilarious because he keeps on taking the blame for everything even though he never actually does anything. Like you bet Seira's father wasn't sent into eternal sleep by him but he pretends he did. Totally was him hahahaha. He's in the union but never actually does anything because he's too busy at his jobs of daycare provider or kindergarten teacher. Let this man be in peace.

Edian is also the same but i have differences for her. Firstly lemme tell ya that i see her as having the pottiest mind ever. Like sure she speaks all politely and stuff but majority of the time shes thinking like 'bitch what the fuck you say. You wanna repeat that old man. You wanna fuckin repeat that.' like please i just want her to beat all the men up and be the coolest lady ever while cursing okay.

Gradeus. Ah how i love him. I love his canon personality of being a total asshole with no redeeming qualities but his looks. Yet. Here its gonna be different. Though i love his personality here too lol. So basically since when people say berserker mode i immediately assume that it means that the character has no control over themselves at that time (compared to a berserker which implies that the person is just wild but has control), he doesnt actually go into that mode willingly. In other words it might be some sorta mental illness of sorts (probably one that only affects nobles and perhaps just his clan which is why the other nobles dont realise that its a sickness) which causes him to lose control over his own body, be extremely violent and etc. To cover up on all the shitty stuff he's done he puts on that persona of being a douche to try and keep people away so they dont come close since ya know. Berserker mode. He still likes to fight. Just not murder for no damn reason and mutilate bodies. So his reason is basically that he wants the lord to execute him in the worst way possible since he thinks he deserves it as a punishment for all that hes done but he knows that if he just tells him why, it wont happen so he purposely pretends he hates the rules set up and betrays Lukedonia so that theyll kill him in the worst way possible. Basically he's not thinking straight (lol of course not).

Roctis has no change because his reason, though understandable, was pretty stupid anyway. Like yo im pretty sure Ignes mighta contributed to Rael being a little shit by experimenting on him but hey. Gotta protect yo daughter.

Lagus. Lol i have the funniest yet stupidest reason for him. Okay so when Claudia was like a toddler she thought the lord was really cool and said something along the lines of 'im going to be the lord when i grow up'. Being the loving father he is Lagus panicked but ultimately decided that he may as well help achieve a dream that she forgot about when she grew up. As such it led to him well. Betraying Lukedonia. When Claudia found out she just died a little inside. Like sure she was touched but goddamn if she didnt think he was the stupidest man ever. Father no. Father pls stop being so fucking stupid pls.

#noblesse #hc #au #i seriously which this was canon because of how fucking funny it would be #like especially zarga and lagus #zarga makes me crack up everytime because he looks so tired and done with everyone's shit so if this was true id understand why ahahaha

[princepestilence]

2018′s “worth it” things.

This has been the best year of my life so far. I’ve said that most years since my twenties kicked off, I’m pretty sure, but this one is head and shoulders ahead of the pack on basically every front and in some ways I literally couldn’t fully conceptualise until it happened to me. Obviously, not everything about this year was most wonderful--this health news is going to do a lot of fucking around with next year--but I’m so grateful for 2018. Twenty-gayteen, hero of years. 

[hbomberguy voice] 2018 Was Brilliant, and Here’s Why:

remember how I got disqualified in the heats for the 3MT in 2017 and it kind of crushed me for a little bit? Well, this year, I got second... in the final, in front of a crowd of over two hundred people, on a stage with bright lights and microphones and video recording, the whole everything. I came second, even though I was the youngest person there, working in TAEM (as compared to engineering or sciences), talking about fictional monsters. It’s been long enough that I’ve sort of forgotten the rush of that feeling, but I actually did it. I went from not even getting through a little faculty heat to being off by outright winner by like a single point. Quote me, in 2017: “I’m going to look back on this year’s failure as the last time it happened to me, before I became the (exceedingly good) version of me I will be by next year and all years after.”

did my first radio appearance, the day after the 3MT. Only a few hours to prepare (emotionally, intellectually) and it went decently well, I think! I really liked it and it’s cemented that I want to do more of this whenever possible. I really like audio work; I love talking to people, with people. I want work--or projects, I don’t need money for it to be good for my soul--that lets me do that.

I met my girlfriend. She’s amazing and I love her and I’ve been able to spend a lot of time with her over the last nine months or so, and that’s brought so much to my life. My world has gotten bigger and more wonderful from knowing her, from sharing what she loves and cares about with her, and frankly I can see so many ways I’ve changed for the better since we met, because of her influence. I like to think I’ve had an equally--or perhaps almost equally? she’s really done a lot for me--positive effect on her life, and I very much intend to continue on that front. She’s so clever and kind and so goofy and I look forward to talking with her every day. When I think how closely we got to never meeting, I almost believe in fate. Last December I said, after a crush didn’t turn out: “Something else can happen now. I’m hoping someone who can return my feelings will walk into my life eventually. Soon would be nice, of course, but I can wait.”

I went overseas to Canada and the US for the first time, and I met friends I was sometimes worried I’d never get to meet--or at least not for years. It was so wonderful I don’t really have appropriate words to articulate it. The happiness I had is so much bigger than my vocabulary can manage. Getting to hang out with Kaitlin in Vancouver each evening, going to Gastown and finding magic ghost dogs in the park and discovering the wedding by the sea and, of course, Alan, Brandon, and Tori, is an experience I’ve missed ever since I left. Getting to spend time in the US with two families I care a lot about, going to Harry Potter world, and going to Soft Power and midnight ice-cream afterwards, and the tar pits, and poke in the park, and bubble tea--sorry, BOOB tea--any time of the day felt like meeting myself from a parallel universe. It suddenly felt real, how easily I could call that time and place a home. I will be back soon, I hope.  

I met Bill Moran again, but this time I was performing my first proper slam poem. He liked it a lot and we had a few words at the end. His set was, naturally, incredible and I can’t wait to see him perform again next year. I’ve done several poems since then, and they’ve been so well received by the slamily, I’m still kind of emotional thinking about it. Poetry has become a huge part of my life this year, and I’m so glad for it. 

on a similar note, less of a big deal but still neat: I set up a writing shop on a forum and accidentally out-competed the entire site. It was so fun and easy to write poems and things for people, and I really enjoyed it. It’s made me realise I actually thrive by sharing work, and I need to find more opportunities and ways to have that sort of interaction with “fans.” Also: wrote a few games for mafia, went pretty well. 

I’m getting on better with my siblings. We’ve always had rocky moments, because of age differences and personality/worldview clashes, but this year has turned out remarkably peaceful, particularly between myself and my little brother, and I’m relieved and grateful. For a few years, I was a rotten older brother, and I’ve felt a lot of guilt over that. I wanted to do better and I think slowly and cautiously things are improving between us. 

didn’t play a lot of games in general--but did play a lot of Spyro in the last few months, and it brought me so much joy, all the more excellent for being at a time when I really needed it. This little purple dragon was basically my constant companion while I recovered from my surprise hospital adventure, which made that otherwise fairly stressful, uncomfortable time not only bearable but fun. 

I went to the 200 Years of Frankenstein conference! It was so cool and I got to talk to a lot of people, and make new friends. I lived with a good friend for a week and although I was exhausted by the end of it, I am so so glad I went and got to experience it all. I would have been heartbroken to miss out on this, since it won’t happen again in my lifetime. 300 Years of Frankenstein is a long way off. 

I taught a whole cohort for the first time and I loved it. I loved them. I miss teaching those classes and I wish I could go back in time and do it again. I feel so fortunate to have been given the opportunity and it really bolstered my confidence re: teaching. The students gave me the loveliest feedback afterwards, and it makes my heart glow thinking about it. 

made a D&D character, and a Blades in the Dark character! The idea of playing these kinds of games honestly really stressed me out--it feels ways to close to like, improv comedy or improv acting or literally improv anything, which I hate, I’m intimidated by spontaneity--but I made the characters and I love them both so so much. I haven’t got to use either of them yet, but it’s so... nice. Refreshing. Liberating, to actually let myself like a character I’ve made. I want to do that so much more. 2019, OCs Year. I also want to play these games, and maybe even run a few. DMing seems in my wheelhouse and I kind of want to try it?

my hair is really long and at least once every day I think about how much I love it. This was such a good decision I made in 2018, and I’m glad I stuck with it all year, even when I was tempted at times to cut it. It looks really good and, although I’m not quite sure how to articulate the thought, I feel like me. I feel I look like myself. I did not feel like this at all when my hair was short and I literally never liked it much. 

found a number of new podcasts that I adore. Made a nice habit in the winter of having a candle-lit bath and listening to an episode to relax and treat myself. 

I feel like there’s so much else to include but this year has felt so so long, January feels like two years ago. But I guess that speaks to how much good was in this year, that I can’t easily recall close to all of it. 

#2018 resolutions

[aion-rsa]

The Walking Dead: World Beyond Episode 7 Review – Truth Or Dare

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The Walking Dead: World Beyond Episode 7

This The Walking Dead: World Beyond review contains spoilers.

It didn’t take long for Silas to reach critical mass. The moment another competitor for Iris’s attention came along, the danger meter slowly began to creep higher with every passing moment. The Walking Dead: World Beyond hit that point with a hammer. Iris and Percy laughing in the foreground, Silas starting daggers at them in the background. The two making plans to meet up after dark for what sounds like a make-out session? Silas lumbering in the distance, head down and ears open. Silas was the first person to sniff out that Percy was untrustworthy, and his reward for that was to have Percy and his uncle Tony join the group as full-fledged members and for Percy to swoop in and start making time with one of the two girls in the group (and Elton has pretty clearly claimed Hope).

I remember being an angsty teenage boy who wanted to not talk to anyone. As Silas slumps through scenes like a depressed, horny Frankenstein’s monster, his character at least makes sense to me. I can’t say I’ve ever been in his situation, but I’ve been close enough to look at him and think, “Oh yeah, I know what that feels like.” So, in a sense, and in a very specific case, I’ve found a relatable character on a show in need of one. His actions, however, put that sense of camaraderie to light by the end of the episode and will definitely strain his standing with the group no matter what his explanation might be.

Like Tony and Percy, Silas has done things that flaunt the rules of normal society, but this is not a normal world, and as Tony repeatedly mentions, surviving in Campus Colony is nothing compared to surviving on the road. They ran their games and tried not to hurt anyone. For the most part, it was successful from what we found out. There are lines that Tony and Percy won’t cross; these are lines that Silas can’t see when pushed past a certain point, and that makes him far more dangerous than a close-up magician and an experienced con artist. The two wanted something different, something bigger, and throw their lot in with the Endlings and their adult chaperons, not aware that the danger from without was nothing compared to the danger within. Secrets can kill.

The flirtation, and the traumatic truth-or-dare game organized by Percy, is amusingly handled in Eddie Guzelian’s script. Percy might have been on the road, but he’s far less sheltered than Aliyah Royale’s Iris, and that shows in their interactions, and her completely inability to pick up on the hints Ted Sutherland’s Percy is throwing in front of her until he basically has to invite her to sneak off and fool around in exactly that many words. For all her competence and big words, Iris is just a child, and Percy has had to grow up much faster by comparison. From the looks of the truck-cum-art-gallery he set up in less than an hour, he’s done this kind of thing before. Kudos to the set designers for making the art gallery look both hurried and beautiful at the same time; it’s good, but it’s not so good that a teenager with drop cloths and candles couldn’t do the same thing with enough art books and adhesive.

Iris and Percy have a cute first love set-up happening, Hope has her lingering guilt over killing Elton’s mother, and both plot threads dovetail nicely with the expanded, illuminated back story offered up for Huck this week. Duty and love clash head-on in her flashback tale of woe, as she negotiates her way through the fall of humanity and has to choose between doing the right thing and following unlawful orders in a literal life-or-death situation for the people she worked very hard to save. It’s a necessary glimpse into who Huck is and why she goes off into her own head when she sees something that reminds her of her days as a member of the Marine Corps during Operation Cobalt/The Night the Sky Fell and its immediate aftermath.

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Huck carries her burden in silence, like Silas (Hal Cumpston) and Hope, and the flashbacks give Annet Mahendru an opportunity to show more range and emotion in Huck than she previously has been. The character makes a lot more sense with her back story revealed, and her counsel to Hope (Alexa Mansour) resonates more knowing just what secrets she was carrying around, like the mysterious scar on her face. Mansour seems to be finding her way in her role, and her scenes with Mahendru are strong by the standards of The Walking Dead: World Beyond. (Her brief scene with Nicolas Cantu’s Elton on the stairs is another necessary bit of levity, and both play it off well in an otherwise heavy episode.) Scott Adsit and Nico Tortorella’s scenes together, talking about giving the kids freedom to be kids, also work very well, and Adsit’s take on the character is appreciated, because he’s a big, expressive personality who livens up the proceedings when given an audience of appreciative Elton (Cantu’s ability to express sheer delight is impressive).

Michael Cudlitz’s second episode as director in as many weeks, “Truth or Dare” showcases a lot of what he’s good at as a performer. He can do deep character stuff, and find a balance between laughter and tears. Abraham was always a bit of a troubled clown, and Huck is no different. However, he’s growing as a director of action sequences. He made great use of thermal imaging as a concept, with the scope-lit firefight in the access tunnels underneath the city very well done. It’s a cool look, and a cool idea that dovetails nicely as part of her muddled dream/flashback at the beginning of the episode. He does a good job of giving life to more talk-centric scenes, too, particularly the montage of the group talking to one another while offloading the truck and the transitions between the adults talking and drinking and the kids summoning up the liquid courage to play a game of truth or dare. It has the expected outcome, but it’s at least lively and shot well.

After a lull in the earlier stage of the season, World Beyond seems to be rounding into shape a bit, with the performances from the younger actors improving as they find their feet and the chemistry between characters growing more evident. There are still issues with the show, but it’s improving, week over week. There’s a certain ceiling on what the show can do given its short run and focus on being a single story, but there’s room for that in television, and there’s plenty of room for that in the episodic world of The Walking Dead. The setting is a proven winner, and that allows for leeway in the format and plot of the tale in question. A teen drama won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but at least there’s novelty and the potential for a beginning, middle, and end this way.

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As Tony would probably agree, an act needs a beginning, middle, end, and transitions. After a rocky beginning, World Beyond seems to be transitioning into something not great, but good for what it is trying to be. A teen drama can’t be held to the standards of an adult drama, and it wouldn’t be fair to hold World Beyond to the standards of The Walking Dead or Fear The Walking Dead. It may never be the best example of what it’s trying to be, but I’d settle happily for a pretty good version, and it seems as though World Beyond might have found the key to the map leading in that direction.

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