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shsl-heck · 1 year

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Pale Live Read Part 2. Lost for Words

Sorry this took a couple days, I got busy and then sick.

This girl is named Verona. So that's V presumably. Lady with the hidden face is back and not talking for some reason, but Veeona doesn't seem too freaked out. Is she who gave Verona the instructions for the awakening ritual?

Lucy doesn't seem like she'll be a good practitioner. So far in the phone call she's saying things without thinking about the consequences and that's a bad idea in this universe.

Avery is taking a long time talking to a teacher. Is this a teacher's pet surrogate parental figure deal? Or are we entering teacher's crush territory?

The girls are speculating about if the hidden face lady actually has a horrifying face. My guess is no. I feel like that idea doesn't fit. Like to my mind if an Other has a messed up face that it doesn't show people most of the time, then it's probably going to reveal that face for added dramatic flair right as it claims a victim, or something similar. The ideas tying that kind of Other mean it would probably work better narratively for it to have something like a mask it could rip off to reveal its true face imo, and that matters to the spirits. Like, it's a very well established trope with a lot of flair so I feel like this lady would have been pushed in that direction if the girls were right. It seems to me more like the woman has no face. There's the "faceless" woman in Jacob's Bell but she just lacks facial features, I think this lady's face just straight up doesn't exist, and so, because there's no way to convey that, the spirits contrive to keep her facial area hidden. This was hard to describe and I'm kinda sick so idk how much sense I made while doing it, but based on my knowledge from Pact it's my current thought on this topic that probably doesn't matter very much.

Wow! I hate Verona's dad so much it's unreal. Thank your daughter, asshole! She did the chores he asked, and then he tells her to do more while complaining the cleaning chemicals she used give him a headache.

Oh my fucking God the bra strap comment? This man is not seeing heaven. That Verona is not beating the shit out of him is proof of her restraint. Her leaving the spaghetti out as this petty little thing is amazing too. I'm also a petty person and so I appreciate this representation.

Nevermind, she's thinking badly of stoners and petty criminals. Also very funny for her to think of other people as idiots without a future when she's about to awaken. Like maybe Pact has biased me but becoming a practitioner does not seem like the best idea if you want to live a long successful happy life.

Okay the most unbelievable part of this so far is that a kid would struggle to get alcohol in a town like this. Ime it is absolutely not hard to get your hands on stuff to drink when you go to a public school in a dead end town.

Wildbow has introduced a rating app kids are using in the story? This feels like a technomancy thing or some Other fishing for victims.

It's the teacher crush thing God dammit. Wildbow I swear to all that us holy this better not be a huge plot point.

There are bloody small children in the woods. Are they related to the Carmine Beast? It made the moon bloody and was bleeding everywhere.

Charles is a real one. Like yeah it's kind of fucked up to Awaken a group of middleschoolers! Also he's forsworn but still showed up to a meeting of Others??? That seems like a frankly suicidal idea.

I'm a big fan of the murder mystery idea but these girls have no idea what they're getting into. Something like that just disappearing almost makes me think of a demon similar to Urr. I doubt that's what it actually is since I don't think Wildbow would jump back into diabolism so early in the story.

Matthew used to be a practitioner it looks like. So he's like Crone Mara or maybe Blake. He seems pretty nice and so I of course distrust him and am guessing he's closer to the Crone Mara end of the spectrum.

The fact that they all made each other's masks, hats, and capes is a cute touch. I do worry that their power might be very fragile though. Doing the ritual not just clothed but in very specific clothes they don't normally wear, plus splitting power between the three? That feels like a recipe for disaster if they're ever forced to practice when taken by surprise. Again, maybe Pact has made me unnecessarily cynical but I don't believe for a second they'll be able to avoid a situation where they are separated and put on the back foot.

Avery's explanation of her mask and why she's doing this is very emotional. Wildbow's managed to make each of the girls' problems resonate in a way lots of media fails to do in general, but especially with characters who are teenage girls. Between this scene, Verona's home life, and the one where Lucy thinks about seeing her mother crying until she noticed she was watching, he's treated their lives and problems with a sense of dignity I really appreciate.

The Hungry Choir is the most suspicious (other than Matthew). The use of the word "choir" is concerning given its connotations with demons and angels. It's something called a ritual incarnate which I don't know much about, but assume is some kind of minor Incarnate defined by very strict rules about how and when it can act. They also didn't seem to bring anything?

Matthew was listed as a host in the notebook chapter which kind of makes sense, but he just said here he trained as a Heartless, so my guess about him being like Mara looks to be correct. He's hosting the darkness from Edith/The Girl By Candlelight, but he also says it was too large and unwieldy for him which seems contradictory. If the goal was just to keep Edith stable would it not make more sense to take her as his Familiar? There's more going on here, and I feel like this relationship is not healthy.

Charles getting forsworn is objectively a very funny way to screw up. Like taking a stand against for profit prisons while drunk then a guy cuts his foot on shattered glass? Incredible.

John and the Choir are candidates for replacing the Carmine Beast apparently. That gives the already suspicious Choir a motive, and they're strong so them getting rid of the Carmine Beast seems possible. It's almost too obvious though.

Also I have to say that having heard the name so much before I started reading I assumed the Carmine Beast would be the main character's patron for a large chunk of the story and that it'd play an almost motherly nurturing role until dying part way through.

John has come dangerously close to harming the girls. I know they said it being on instinct means it might not have broken the deal, but that argument feels flimsy. If one of the girls pressed the issue I'm pretty sure they could've got him forsworn if he'd actually harmed them.

Avery using connections the way she is (even if it messed up her eye) feels like she's being set up to be an enchantress.

Miss says the Choir has no motive but that seems naive. It's a ritual incarnate which apparently means someone made with the hope that it would accrue more power than it cost to make. Could it be the weapon instead of the killer? The person who made it might have wanted the Carmine gone to either take the role themself or have the Choir do it.

Verona's dad continues to be awful. Her thoughts on boys are a fascinating insight into how she thinks about the world, and honestly it's kind of relatable. Her wanting to become Other is a little scary, I can think of one example of a protagonist doing that and it uh didn't go well for him. Granted Verona probably plans to have more control over the process, but that's easier said than done.

The girls experimenting with the gifts is delightful but is going to give me hives. Like stop wasting power like that! You're going to need it. Still, their friendship is great and I love the dynamic.

Rip Gabe I guess. I don't have a ton to say about the ritual other than "yeah, that's fucked up." It targeting people with eating disorders, or drug addictions is another layer of awfulness I didn't expect though. We need to get some practitioners on this to figure out the rules and patterns and drain it of power.

I really enjoyed this first arc! As it went on I found myself making notes less frequently because I just got so sucked into the story that it slipped my mind. The Hungry Choir is horrid even by this universe's standards. My only complaint is that it maybe felt a bit much? Like less grounded somehow than even the war for lordship in Pact or other later arcs where practitioners were really going all out. Granted as an apparently quite powerful Incarnate in its place of power it makes sense it would be able to do this kind of stuff. Also I don't trust any of these Others except maybe the Mare and that's a big maybe. If there’s something I missed or you want more thoughts on just let me know.

#pale live read #pale web serial #pale wildbow

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night-dark-woods · 10 months

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2, 7, 21, 24? :]

oooh thank uuu okay im gonna do destiny b/c thats the main one we have in common w/ a large enough fandom for these to be relevant so:

2. a compelling argument for why your fave would never top or bottom

okay so this is an unpopular opinion i think however imo sjur&mara are stone butch/femme & mara exclusively receives!!! i wont die on that hill but i AM correct.

also this is on the d/s side which is separate obvs but i also think they would be into, and imo mara is absolutely not a dom, goddamn that girl has the weight of the entire fucking human race on her scrawny little caffeine-fueled shoulders, i doubt she'd actually want to be in charge during sex too (at least w/ sjur), though im sure she'd pretend she was lol. brat extraordinaire.

7. what character did you begin to hate not because of canon but because how how the fandom acts about them?

asher... im sorry but i simply don't care about that man. only interesting to me as he is in canon which is a horribly bitchy twink who has a great wlw/mlm solidarity bond w/ eris. that post about how every dyke has a fag they are fated to be besties with? that's them. to me. everybody seems to want him to be a sad elf prince or whatever tho.

i thought abt answering cayde or crow but tbh that nathan fillion character archetype activates my fight-or-flight and the Nice-Guy-ification of crow in canon has made me hate him lol.

21. part of canon you think is overhyped

is it cheating to say cayde. im happy we'll see him again but ONLY for ikora's sake that girl deserves closure finally.

also the witness... i simply dont care. this is also bc i am a seth dickinson fan first and destiny fan second but. i Do Not Trust what they are doing with the Light & Dark saga without SD and when the Gardener and Winnower were mentioned in the seasonal cutscene i wanted to fucking bite someone.

24. topic that brings up the most rancid discourse

god u already know what im going to say but god forbid women do anything. *takes mara away from everyone and puts her back on a shelf only SD can reach* i know its not unique to d2 like this happens with any morally gray female character but the stuff about mara is truly some of the most stupid.

and the worst part is it makes it way into shit like destinypedia!!! look at this fucking line from the uldren page it makes me want to kill someone:

"Despite this, Crow is more perceptive than he appears as he was able to see that Mara Sov was attempting to manipulate him just like she would when he was Uldren. As his memory wipe freed him from Mara's psychological conditioning, he sees her for what she really is and thwarts her attempts to regain control of him, and the tunneling device Mara planned to use to groom Crow further becomes infinitely more useful as one of the Young Wolf's many weapons."

tell me you havent read a single fucking lore book without telling me that jesus fucking christ. biting and killing biting and killing biting and killing. oh yeah "wanting to prove yourself to your older* sibling" is the same thing as being groomed. shut the FUCK up.

*i know they are twins. they are not treated like it.

#asks #planet4546b #thank uuu #this wont show up in the tags will it. god i hope not. if so. *lobs a grenade into the main tag and ducks for cover*#god. honestly at this point i hope sjur stays lore-only given bungie's recent penchant for massacring (sp?) every complex woman #as gwen says. disneyfication.

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ihatethecoldalot · 3 years

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Random Idea With Ben Skywalker

Listen I doubt that a redhead skywalker won't be considered a Kenobi.

Ben Skywalker time travelled to the clone wars like a month before Satine’s murder

He panics when confronted with Obi-wan and falls back on ‘THE SKYWALKER LIST OF APPROVED NAMES’ which include Skywalker, Naberrie, Organa, Lars, Solo, Djarin, Kenobi, Kryze (via Korkie) Whitesun, Antilles, Tano, Mothma, Jinn, Darklighter, Fett, Vader Calrissian, Chewbaccason, Starkiller

With Ben doing the logical skip over the first five since Vaderkin will recognize them and the political affiliations and he swore never to call himself a Solo and being confronted with ~~OBI-WAN KENOBI~~ He jumps straight to Kryze (Djarin would have been his first choice but he blue screened)

This causes a very long debate as to how he’s Obi-wan’s son which forces Ben to save his ass by explaining he’s from the future like twenty years from then.

(Ben is 19)

Obi-wan had a brief mental breakdown as to the fact that he would have a ~son~ with ~Satine~ in a ~~year~~

Anakin is broken as is swinging in between moody af or delighted af. Ahsoka is just trying to get closer to the ‘Kryze’

Ben is able to save his ass by knowing so, so much of Mandalorian customs because Mara, Luke and Din are in a Poly and you can fight me

Cody delights in a Terrifyingly Competent Kenobi who actually wore armour and didn’t try to lose it and no he isn’t crying what are you talking about?

Ben had gotten so many lectures from his buir about wearing armour and lectures from Leia about armour weave everything

He fights Dooku and beats him with just the Force because ‘My mother is a pacifist and I respect her ideals.’

He manages to have some really interesting conversions with some of the clones about the war.

Rex is his favourite because ‘You've kicked Pre Vizsla's ass’

Ben has a vicious, vicious streak that is rather terrifying and everyone assumes that he got it from Obi-Wan.

Satine learns about her son via a sheepish Obi-Wan.

[When Mandalore learns of that they hold a week-long festival celebrating Ben’s conception]

Ben never uses his lightsaber. Never. When they asked him why he uses a spear instead he scares them by saying his master fell and that the lightsaber was his.

No one ever talks about his Master ever again.

“Have a child, do you now, Master Kenobi?”

“Yes,” Obi-Wan replies, a few words away from punching Yoda.

“Meet him, I wish to. Bring him here, you shall.”

Aayla and Depa are snickering and Quinlan isn't even bothering to keep any propriety.

So I’m just thinking here is Ben just going to go like:

“Oh, hello Master Yoda, how's my brother?” Ben asks, very obliviously.

“Brother?”

“Yeah, Grogu. About yay big very green? The one my buir adopted and toted through the whole galaxy to find Luke?”

Ben is very uncomfortable calling his dad by his first name but goddamn it it was too late to give up the ruse anyway.

“Your buir, hmmn?” [Ben, oh shit]

“Yeah he rescued me after my mama’s murder.”

“SATINE DIED???!!!!” yelled literally everyone in that room.

“Yes. Maul killed my mother. Fucking asshole that buttless bitch. Don’t worry Ahsoka, Ezra and Luke get him later.”

Who’s Ezra and Luke?

Ezra is Caleb Dume’s future son- i mean padawan and Luke is a Skywalker.

Or or hear me out

“Hello, you absolute bitch.” [addressing Qui-Gon but he is in Yoda’s vicinity]

“Disrespectful, you are. Manners, were you not taught?

“OH Im SoRrY I JuSt CaMe HeRE BeCauSE I WaS FOLLOWING YOUR FUCKING FORCE GHOST!!!!

“Force Ghost?” [that was Anakin]

“WHAT ELSE IS THAT SERENE ASSHOLE WHO SAID HIS NAME WAS QUI-GON!!!” Ben cried exasperated as hell.

“Qui-Gon is dead.”

“THAT’S WHY IT'S CALLED A FORCE GHOST”

All the panic but no disco.

So this can end in

1: Ben just randomly drops information and helps out until he meets Palps and just stabs him with an angry “YOU KILLED MY FATHER BITCH” and does the same to Maul later. Meets Satine and gets rescued by Grogu

OR 2: Talks about how the ‘Sith Master’ murdered the Jedi and then killed Padmè in a bid to martyr her and how he’s in a Rebellion with the aforementioned kids and stabs Palpatine and then ‘Jaina Naberrie’ shows up and drags him home before he faces any consequences.

#ben skywalker #anakin skywalker #obi wan kenobi #obitine #star wars the clone wars #the clone wars #the absolute chaos that time travel is #luke x mara x din #star wars legends #star wars tcw #time travel

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haemosexuality · 4 years

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My reactions to s4 that I wrote while I watched it

Glimmer: do I look ok

Adora: like a queen

Ok gay

Casta is just white diamond

Whats a bouncer??

KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKPERFUMA JUST WANTS TO FLOWER

Why isn't swift wing dead yet

WINGS!!!!!!!! SHE GOT WINGS

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Oh, pertara?

HUNTARA AND ADORA HORDE BONDING

Oh my god stop licking sand

Barbed lady. Big boobs? (that nicky minaj video)

Fucking cacti

Immediately love double trouble

Holy fuck perfuma

"Ive got something more important to do. It was fun distracting you tho" WHAT A CALLBACK I MADE VERBAL NOISE

O H P E R T A R A?

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CATRA IN PAJAMAS shes so hot fuckkk

ALSO SHE HAS LITTLE HAIR TUFS IN HER FACE LOVE IT

WHY DONT THEY HAVE NOSES

Holy shit Catra's nightmare???

WAS ADORA EYING THIS LADY'S BOOBS AND MUSCLES???? SAME

yeah fluttering is double trouble and theyre aNNOYING

M E CAKE! THERESAMECAKE

ADORA STOP YOU SHOW OFF

they TOOK BOW????

A bow without a bow

"I got the idea from Shadow Weaver" oh. Oh no. Oh no oh no

Dude catra is EXTRA EVIL holy f

Toldya ab flutterina

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KSKSKSKKSKSK spinerella and netossa fighting in a married way love it. I love netossa so much. "I destroyed more bots then u" love them

Theyre a theather kid

ANGRY SPARKLE GROWL

Shadow weaver die challenge

BOW??????

oh right shera can heal

IT HIT ME IN THE ABS WHICH IS THE MOST VULNERABLE PART OF THE BODY BUT I DON'T COVER IT BC I DONT HAVE SHIRTS. I WASNT THERE TO SPARKLE. SHE RA RASPBERRY

give us a minute. Thats an order

AND DARK GLIMMER BEGINS

Oh sw is making that thing were one person suggests something and than makes it look like it was the other persons idea/choice with glimmer

ARE YOU TELLING ME DARK GLIMMER WILL BE DOUBLE TROUBLES FAULT

who names their kid double trouble tho like.

Parents: h yes this is my kid I think I'll name them *name*

Parents after finding out their kid is a little shit:actually changed my mind

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YO AKSJAKDJKSKKSKSKSKSKSK LIGHT HOPE

i LOVE everything ab the horde squad parts,,, their games their fights how they feel EVERYTHING

M A R A????

oh, mara hope??? Light mara???? I SHIP IT

I AM CATCHING FEELING FOR THE HOLOGRAM :((((((( LIGHT HOPE IM SO SORRY I EVER DOUBTED YOU I LOVE YOU

KYLE YOU ARE NOT BARBEQUE GET OUT OF THERE RIGHT NOW THEY LOVE YOU PLEASE YALL LOVE EACH OTHER :(((((((((

Rogelio. I love him

I TAKE IT ALL BACK WHAT THE FUCK DOES IT MEAN??? LIGHT HOPE??? THE HEART OF-- *HOLY FUCK THE HEART EPISODEBOH MY GOD*

THEY DID IT THEY SAID DARK MAGIC

god adora is feeling so bad ab sw

Ooo spells

DOUBLE TROUBLE STFU

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its ep6 and no sing of entrapta :(

CATRA STOP HURTING SCORPIA

As someone that stayed awake until 5am to watch shera, same catra, same

"If I can finish this off, everything, everything will have been worth it" 💔

Scorpia's on that delicious denial

The super pal trio pic,,, 💔 also catra sits like a lesbian

Think like entrapta. Hordak. Tiny food. First ones tech. Runestones

OMG IS SCORPIA GONNA CONNECT HERSELF TO THE BLACK GARNET?? YES

NO CMON SCORPIA

THE SUPER PAL TRIO VIDEO OMG 💔💔💔💔im gonna cry

YES QUESTION YOUR LOYALTY LEAVE THE ABUSIVE FRIENDHSOP

"I know a great place to hide" pls scorpia leave catra💔

DARK GLIMMER

adoras mad af lmao

SCORPION PEOPLE AND SCORPION KINGDOM LORE

shes deep into horde propaganda huh

GO SCORPIA GET OUT OF THIS ABUSIVE FRIENDSHIP

NO SCORPIA

holy shit catra. Wow. Wow I- dude that was. Dude. Yikes

"You're a bad friend" GO SCORPIA

Ugh "i hate catra shes irremeamable and toxic" discourse is gonna come up again isnt it.

"we dont need anyone. Forget them all. No one matters. Nothing matters but this mission" catra nooo💔💔💔💔💔

BEAST ISLAND

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"THERES A HORDE SPY"

Im perfuma yelling SPOILERS

Oh my god. Are things really grey right now this is serious. This is real KDKKAJDKAJDK

"But then my vision glitched.. I started to see double": )

"What has she done other than help us" GLIMMER???? ABUSE ADORA, YOUR BEST FRIEND, HER ENTIRE LIFE JUST TO START

Sea hawk PLEASE

Ye that perfuma that released sea hawk was double trouble

I CALLED IT

adora WHAT. "HOH, HOH, HOH, HOH, HOH *panting*"

WERE SPINERELLA AND NETOSSA GETTING MARRIED????

“We need you here. I need you here.”

"Are you jealous cause you arent shadow weavers favorite anymore?" GLIMMER SHADOW WEAVER ABUSED ADORA GROWING UP!!!!! GLIMMER!!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK

oh CMON I WANTED DARK GLIMMER I WANTED THAT FIGHT TO BE REAL :((

well SHIT, SALINEAS GONE. mermista :(

Wait isnt she fucked tho?? Like bc of the runestone

Horde prime has dreads????? KSKSKSKS

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Cant believe the horde attacked squiward's people :/

Mermaid mermista with her hair down 👀💗

1-sea hawk i love u and ur plan

2-oh well theyre kidnapped

Sea hawk b like what does the fox say

THEY WERE KIDNAPPED BC SEA HAWK SET STUFF ON FIRE

wait NOELLE SAID WED MEET SEA HAWK EX????? JAJSJSJSJSJDJ CONFIRMED BI ICON

"Scorpia, ill kill you if you ever tell anyone this, but… i thought winning would be different" :(

Oh theyre with the horde now. Guess they'll die

"She-ra was supposed to save us. But the rebbelion has been in a worse place than ever since you showed up."

"Im trying my best. Why cant you see that?"

"Maybe your best isnt good enought! If it was, my mother would still be here" GLIMMER I FUCKIFN HATE YOU RIGHT NOW OH MY GOD.

Ooh, so they were 6 in the dumb face flashback

BOWWWWW 💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔💔

Mermistas like rock. Shes emo

CATRA FOUND OUT ABOUT SCORPIA

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MADAME RAZZ I REPEAT MADAME RAZZ

MARA???????

WHAT THE FUCK!!!!! IS UP!!!!! WITH MADAME DAZZ

ok that ship+gigantic statue background is beautiful

madam razz is magic and tbh we been knew but yoo

also MARA MARA MARA AAAA

"The ghost is mean"USJSUSUSUSHSUSHUSJSUSHS

MARA CALLED LH "HOPE" I SHIP IT SO MUCH

SHE-RA!!!!!!!! MARA!!!!!!!!!!!!

mara as shera is so beautiful mara is so beautifil

holy shit wtf too much shera and first ones lore

I dont even know what to say about Hero

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Ep 10 and no sing of entrapta

OH MY GOD DT'S ADORA HAIRPUFF

wHERE did scorpia come from

Oh well. Catra's gone crazy

SCORPIA EATS A SALAD

SHE WAS TOLD SHE WOULDNT BELONG BUT SHE DOES AND NOW SHES CRYING IM😭😭❤

god catra looks so. tired. Someone help her

SHES WITHOUT HER MASK I REPEAT THIS IS NOT A DRILL SHES MASKLESS

dude shes just. Shes. CATRA BABY PLEASE GET A THERAPIST

i love how they dont treat frosta like a stupid ass baby bc of her age but also make her behave like a 12yro. I love it ❤

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Glimmer you are going to Fuck Up

MICAH ITS MICAH ITSSSS MICAHHHHH

ENTRAPTA

glimmer YOU ARE GOING TO FUCK UP

actually nevermind scorpia pls dont connect w ur runestone

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ooooo entrapta got her overalls up

Can i say it im obligated to say it. Shes hot

I KNEW entralta would love the island KKSKSKSK

SHE. SHE FUCKIN. SHE FUCKIN KNOWS AB THE HEART OF ETHERIA

CATRA MISSES HER OLD HORDE SQUAD💔💔💔💔

Holy shit catras just. Shes just broken. Shes just,,, catra pls in beggin u its gonna b ok bb

She's a mess.

double trouble dont touch catras face like that shes a lesbian

YES GLIMMER still mad at you but TELL SHADOW WEAVED OFF

"My friends left me" GEEZ GLIMMER I FUCKING WONDER WHY

If anyone ships bowxentrapta imma throw hands shes 30 hes 18

"Oh definitely the ship"

THANK YOU DOUBLE TROBLE NOW HORDAKS GONNA GO FERAL AND KILL CATRA

Why hordak got boobs

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OH SHIT SW AND MICAH SHITSHIT

Glimmax pinkhairton

THE HORDE SQUAD DEFECTED nice

Hordaks like * destroyes the entire fright zone cause someone lied ab his gf cheatin on him *

Holy shit you GO CATRA

I WANNA SEE PRINCESS SCORPIA SO MUCH HOLY FUCK

SHIT WE'RE FUCKED

DUDE THEY LOOK SO COOL WHEN THEYRE LIKED POSSESSED

YO sea hawk had heart eyes for mesmista when she got super powerJshlandjejd

Oh my god. Double trouble. Stop it. Stop torturing catra like this. Oh my god her voice, shes so hurt, i wanna hug her

Her face. Her body language. Her voice. Shes hurting so much. Please. Pl-HOLY SHIT PRINCESS SCORPIA HERE WE GOO

SCORPIA IS SO FUCKING BADASS I LOVE HER SO MUCH

TERRYFUNFYING

SHE RA IS SO FUCKING BADASS

Oh yeah this is rock bottom. She (finally) went from extremely feral and needing revenge and anger issues to just, depressed.

HOLY SHIT THE MOONSTONE

HOLY SHIT ITS ALL THE RUNESTONES

AAAAA ALL THE PRINCESSES

OUT OF DESPANDOS?????????KSNSKAJDJJSHDJSHDJWUFB HPJYSHUTJHKLSYSHITLHOKYSHIHOLYSHITHOJSYSHSHSHDUHEHSHWAAAAAA FUCKFUCKFUKCUFKCUFJCUJFVU

ITSGONETHESWORDBROKETSHSHJSHSBDHAHDPUTAQUEOAHSIWBDIWHIEHWUEWHHWHAAAFAYSDHSHDHUDHUDUSHFHSUEEJUDEUZUEHWYDGEYDHDHSHAJAAHWTATHECUCKXJCKKCKCKCKVKVKVKVKV

ADORA IS WITH HER HAIR DOWN I REPEAT

Well hordaks dead

oh well

#She ra #Shera #She-ra #Spop #she ra and the princesses of power #She ra season 4 #Spop spoilers #Spoilers #Im gonna post some of those separately

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naernon · 5 years

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real sorry to drag this stuff out but it’s still been on my mind. this is a sequel to the Gay/Trans Anger in my initial post before the addition.(im including the addition in the link because it’s a solid read)

I really do want anyone who thinks the altmer is homophobic to look me in the eye and say what they think of the lesbian couple in the house of reveries. wowie-- them being married sure is an awfully casual drop for two people living in a society that you think is hetero-normative and/or more overtly homophobic.

other forms of oppression in the TES universe and how they manifest are usually remarked upon in ESO-- interracial couples usually note on the troubles they face, sometimes quests are even focused on them and whatever issues arise from them being together. some characters remark on racism they face. i havent played much orsinium but i’m willing to bet there’s a lot of talk among any women orcs about the misogyny they face.

but homophobia is conveniently missing. we see gay couples in, as far as i know, most of the provinces in the game, and yet... no talk of homophobia or mistreatment over it! none at all! funny, that. i wonder what that could mean.

it’s almost as if societies in tamriel aren’t homophobic.

and yes, this all means that i don’t consider the altmer and their arranged marriage system to be heteronormative. heteronormativity to such a degree is homophobia, so i’d figure as much. i doubt all altmer couples even in summerset are arranged marriages, anyways, but if trans people are casually accepted in tamriel that throws a solid wrench and confusion into any supposed male/female-only arranged marriage system and quickly makes it so trans people are not casually accepted... meaning no, that wouldn’t make sense. it’s contradictory to what we already know.

and since a cherished headcanon of mine is trans male prince naemon (who was arranged to be married to high kinlady estre who i don’t think would be trans too and personally don’t HC as such. high kinlady cistre), altmeri arranged marriages being heteronormative and thus cisnormative-- assuming that systematic m/f marriage is based on the idea of reproductive ability even though m/m and f/f couples can very well have biological children-- fucks with me a lot and completely invalidates the idea. so ill go off about it.

you just can’t have that system be heteronormative and forcing of marriage upon a man and a woman if trans people are in it, too, and casually accepted. any man and any woman dealt with can be trans, and that quickly results in couples with the same reproductive system-- yeah, maybe they’re straight, but you run into the same argument that people may use against cis gay couples, except now it’s with a male and a female, one of which are trans, meaning a kid can’t naturally come from the union.

“well maybe they go along with it and just arrange marriages based on gender assigned at birth and the reproductive abilities that come with it” that’s stupid, makes no sense, and also means you’d find same gender couples. because that’d result in trans women getting with cis women and trans men getting with cis men. m/m couples and f/f couples.

saying a fictional society has such a heteronormative system as forcing ONLY men and women to get married runs into a lot of issues when you realize it’s supposed to NOT be homophobic, and it runs into a thousand more issues when you realize the casual acceptance of trans people and lack of transphobia is a thing, even among the same nobles (alchemy and her sister) that the arranged marriage system would likely affect somewhere down the line.

take that as you will. considering altmeri society is centuries old and is probably the most magically advanced in tamriel, i don’t think using magic to use surrogates and the like to create biologically-related children for couples who otherwise can’t produce them is beyond possibility. maybe that could be a magic connected to mara, the goddess of fertility and love. or maybe children aren’t mandatory from the union at all, whatever, i havent sorted through every single bit of information from ESO that we’ve gotten about altmeri arranged marriages. go wild :)

but either way, altmer being LGBT-accepting (read this post for a lot of elaboration on why the altmer are LGBT-accepting + how we have no evidence to the contrary) and having an arranged marriage system that only results in male and female couples is a mutually-exclusive idea.

TLDR; i wavered from my point. read the aforementioned post for a much more solid argument (as far as lore goes) against altmeri homophobia.

but essentially the altmer (!!or any societies in tamriel!!) aren’t homophobic and transphobic and as we’ve already proved time and time again, trying to say otherwise is stupid. thank you. if you hate them, hate them for more established reasons. with the altmer. there are many, let’s be real

#ramblings #long post #altmer #goode morning everyone im sorry for the long scroll ghufbdfh

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orion-disease · 4 years

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5 and 6 for anoanadisi

wow someone caring about my oc on a post mainly that i found kinda cool? extremely surprising mwah anon

5. How religious is your oc? Do they come into conflict with others over their beliefs? If their patron deity told them to do something extremely undesirable or against their moral compass, would they do it? Would your oc sell someone’s soul for a corn chip?

as of like, lets say after the whole alduin thing is the anoanadis we're talkin about

so anoanadis grew up religious, and doesnt deny that the gods exist (i mean,, hes been to Sovengarde at this point), but he doesnt like to follow any religion because running around with a band of nomads for ~12 years makes you a little,, uncaring of what the gods think.

he wont really fight over religion mostly cause in the imperial city he just grew up around a lot of cultures, so it wasnt like people worshipping kynereath over stendarr and the like was foreign, but his family almost exclusively worshipped mara but his mother was influenced by azura, being dunmer and originally from morrowind.

being as anoanadis is very No Gods No Masters i highly doubt that if mara or azura came to him and said 'blah blah kill so and so' he wouldnt do it just cause hes quite neutral and tries to rationalize before y'know, murder

anoanadis is super against necromancy, but he has dappled in it and regrets ever doing that

6. Does your oc have a family of origin? How many members of their FoO are still living? Do they have a good relationship? How much contact does your oc have with their FoO? How in-the-loop is your oc’s FoO about your oc’s being Dragonborn/HoK/Nerevarine?

of origin, i dont have this super in concrete but the answer would be no

however, his adoptive parents are basically his everything and more

most of anoanadis's immediate family is alive, save for his father who never returned from a fishing trip off the sea of ghosts in e4 188. before he went totally rogue for 12 years, he was extremely close with his brother falrion and his mom. his other 3 siblings were a little more distant in their own ways.

after the whole alduin thing anoanadis finally brought himself back to the imperial city to say. hey! im actually not dead sorry for doing drugs in a desert for 12 years. before that, total silence.

like most people, his family is completely and utterly unaware he's the dragonborn.

sorry this is totally dragged out anon, had to think ab a lot of pathos stuff but thanks for askin! forced me to think about this idiot a little more.

#not art #ask ocs #oc: anoanadis

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Play matchmaker and pair up each bts member with one of your mutuals and explain why ✨

WORM ANON IM SO SORRY I TOOK ASS NUMBER OF DAYS TO RESPOND TO THIS

seokjin— without a doubt astrid @besitojeons like!! these two radiate such chaotic energy to a point where it is Frightening. deadass;;; they’d probably argue over stupid shit just for the sake of being right or backhandedly be really soft to each other, no in between. these two probably would spend their ‘dates’ making fun of other people (and by that i mean me and yoongi) and sending each other cursed images. Actually i take it back;;;; don’t leave these two in the same room together they Will plot to destroy the planet (shjsjs but in all seriousness, these two are sweet but very… eccentric which would make them bond well because this world doesn’t have enough people like them)

yoongi— i’m gonna have to say ashley @chimchurro because these two are like;;;; closet softies :((( also not gonna lie these two both low key intimidated the hell out of me before but that’s just because they both seem really intense (?) because they seem very focused but deep down they’re both cute lil buns :(( also they both are very talented at what they enjoy doing and inspire me :((( tbh ashley is probably the most tolerable out of all the doki dokis cause she’s the least cursed but she’s super understanding of all of our crackheadery and if she can put up with us;;; she’s Indestructible

hoseok— very predictable of me to say but ness @triviamang because they both are such moodmakers like?? ness is the sweetest bun on this planet we Must protect?? she and hobi are both very caring and talented (remember when hoseok threw a banana at jungkook so he’d eat? yeah that’s ness with all her followers) UGH can you imagine how cute they’d be together like?? hmmmm 2018’s most lovable couple (they both have the highest charisma stat in the system)

namjoon— listen if you thought I was going to say anyone other than mae @namtooris then guess what!! You’re Wrong!! so she and joon are both very talented NERDS and that’s all (they both have the highest brain cell count among their associates) :(( I’ve never met mae irl but she’s probably a clumsy lil bean like joonie :( they’d also probably go on cute lil mundane dates like studying at the library or walking in the park :( someone protect 2018’s softest couple (ALSO CUTE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE BYE)

jimin— who else would be a better match than shae @gukksangel? (note: she’s a jk stan but let me rot in peace) these two are the absolute sweetest?? and you can’t help but be fond of them when they do literally a n y t h i n g (kris jenner in the thank u, next mv? that’s me with these two istg) they’re both very cute and charming which honestly makes these two Dangerous

taehyung— definitely luna @louvresdemiel because these two are the sweetest babes to exist :(( also they’re both so charismatic like??? I ain’t see either of them face to face but i’m already sweating hhhhh UH power couple but anyways they both have god tier humor level and luna seems to be very goal-oriented and wise (which probably explains why you’re never in the gc;;;; you’re the most responsible of all of us jdsjk) these two would probably be that couple that’s so uwu you just wanna yell “SHUT THE FUCK UP” at (example: luna’s shoe would be untied and tae would swoop in and tie it for her) oh would you look at that?? I’d risk it all for both of them

jungkook— difficult decision but I’m gonna have to say mara @guktwt because!! to put in the words of homer simpson, the strong (koko) must protect the sweet (mara) djfjdh these two are big ass memes/ Edgy Kiddos and probably have weird strangely endearing nicknames for each other (example: “yo coke bottle I’m hungry” “i agree marinara let’s go to denny’s to get pancakes”) and they’re talented at everything and loved by everyone because??? how can you Not love them?? also mara has a noona kink BYE

I’m so sorry if none of this makes sense sfjsjjs anyways,,,, i lov bangtan and my friendos and That’s All I Have To Say

#MY FINGERS ARE CRAMPING AND I DIDNT EDIT ANY OF THIS IM SORRY #THE INNER MACHINATIONS OF MY MIND ARE AN ENIGMA #MOOTS #ASK #ANON #DOKI DOKIS #(ft. ness)

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sassiperere · 7 years

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Sex Tape

Title: Sex Tape Pairing: Akira Kurusu/Ryuji Sakamoto Rating: M (implied sexual content) Word Count: 3712 Summary: futaba gets a hold of some compromising information and it all goes downhill from there (chatfic)

Fucking i dont even REMEMBER how we got to this conversation in the pegoryu discord server BUT WE DID and we semi rpd this whole thing at 11pm all the way through midnight and i was writing this thing based on that conversation at like 2 am so im actually very embarrassed but anyway enjoy this fucking chaos of a fanfic

READ IT ON AO3

GROUP NAME: ✨ PHANTOM THIEVES ✨

MEMBERS: Capable Leader™, -` RYUJI ´-, ANN~, Yusuke K., Makoto, [hacker voice].

TODAY 00:47 AM

[hacker voice]: Gee, futaba, what do you do with all your amazing hacking skills?

[hacker voice]: I leak government secrets, destroy anonymous organizations and hack into my old neopets account because I forgot the password and I wanted to feel nostalgic

Makoto: What’s that?

[hacker voice]: children’s website. You had to adopt a “neopet” and raise it kinda like a Tamagotchi. It had some really fun features like games and events and shit. It really kept me entertained when I was younger

[hacker voice]: comfort site, if you will.

Makoto: Sounds nice!

Capable Leader™: you played that? I thought it was really boring when I tried

[hacker voice]: with all due respect wtf is wrong with you?

Capable Leader™: I dunno, all the neopets looked kinda ugly…

[hacker voice]: you have a dick with tentacles as a persona and you’re calling neopets ugly????

Capable Leader™: I never said Mara was pretty

[hacker voice]: point taken

[hacker voice]: but like my point is

[hacker voice]: kacheeks

Capable Leader™: They were kinda cute but I abandoned one for a soy sauce or whatever was that dragon one

[hacker voice]: that’s it

[hacker voice]: that’s where I draw the line

[hacker voice]: you’re dead to me

[hacker voice]: I’m leaking your nudes

Capable Leader™: WTF?? HOW DO YOU HAVE THEM?? I DON’T EVEN HIDE THEM IN MY PHONE ANYMORE??

[hacker voice]: oh my god you actually have nudes?

Capable Leader™: oh…

Capable Leader™: woops…

ANN~: knew it

ANN~: @ -` RYUJI ´- pay the fuck up

-` RYUJI ´-: wtf? WTF??? WTF AKIRA???

-` RYUJI ´-: WHY DO YOU HAVE NUDES??

-` RYUJI ´-: ARE THEY YOURS OR LIKE NUDES YOU RECEIVED?

Capable Leader™: Listen

[hacker voice]: update I got them

Capable Leader™: do you really?

[hacker voice]: four of them were taken on the same day cause your nails were painted black and the other two are from a different angle and your underwear has paw prints on it

Capable Leader™: fuck.

-` RYUJI ´-: FOR REAL??

Makoto: Excuse me what kind of nonsense is going on right now?

[hacker voice]: I hacked into Akira’s PC and got his super secret dick pix

Makoto: I expected better from both of you

ANN~: Guys I’m heer im just slaughging so hard I cant se

-` RYUJI ´-: WHY DO YOU HAVE THESE?? WHO ARE YOU SENDING THEM TO??

Capable Leader™: does it matter who I send my genitals to?

-` RYUJI ´-: UH YEAH?? I CAN’T BE THE ONLY ONE WORRIED ABOUT THIS CAN I??

Yusuke K.: What seems to be the matter?

-` RYUJI ´-: AKIRAS BEEN SENDING NUDES TO STRANGERS AND FUTABA GOT THEM

Yusuke K.: Akira I did not know you had nude portraits of yourself

Yusuke K.: You should have informed me. I would gladly appraise them.

Yusuke K.: I would love to paint you too, if you so desire. I’m sure your form is marvelous to capture on canvas.

-` RYUJI ´-: dude…

ANN~: I FEEL BAD THAT IM LAUGHING

Makoto: @Yusuke K. it’s really not what you think…

[hacker voice]: ryuji are you

[hacker voice]: jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeealous?

PRIVATE MESSAGE: the blonde fuckboy one

the blonde fuckboy one: yo futaba

the blonde fuckboy one: do you actually for real have akiras dick there?

You: YOU ARE I CAN’T BELIEVE THIS

the blonde fuckboy one: stfu

You: yeah I do have akira’s nudes for real, here I’ll send you a sneaky preview as proof

You sent AKIRA_NUDE_1_CENSOR.jpeg

the blonde fuckboy one: oh my god

You: interested in the full, uncensored ver? For a mere fee of 400y you can have it

the blonde fuckboy one: no wtf im not gonna do that to my bro akira

the blonde fuckboy one: but how big is he

You: im speechless

the blonde fuckboy one: is he bigger than me?

You: dunno need material to compare

the blonde fuckboy one: ok

the blonde fuckboy one: wait

the blonde fuckboy one: youre gonna threaten to leak mine too fuck you

You: worth a shot

PRIVATE MESSAGE: Emo Bob Ross

Emo Bob Ross: Hello, Futaba, I am interested in Akira’s nude portraits. Are you perhaps offering them?

Emo Bob Ross: Ryuji did say Akira was sending them off to strangers so I would imagine he has no quarrel with me evaluating it.

Emo Bob Ross: Should I pick them up at Leblanc?

You: I don’t even know where to start

Emo Bob Ross: Any of them would be fine. It would be difficult to take multiple ones to the dorms regardless.

You: I feel bad now

Emo Bob Ross: ?

You: yusuke… you should go to bed…

You: you’re typing a lot please don’t make this into an art rant thing

Emo Bob Ross: Futaba must I explain once again that nude portraits have no perverted undertones and are about the portrayal of the human being stripped of all it’s factors back down to it’s core, thus revealing it’s innermost self? The true self. The self an artist so desperately seeks to represent and very few up to this date have been successful. My eternal search for the perfect and realest form has me in need of diverse- both physically and spiritually – models that are willing to bare their very souls to me. I am not looking at this experience as a lustful, carnal desire. I would never dare take advantage of someone who has been brave enough to let me gaze upon their being so intimately for the sake of art. We have been through this. I have been through this with several people, in actuality, I’m starting to get a little tired of explaining this over and over again but for the sake of deconstruction of societal standards that block my advancement in the unexplored road to artistic perfection I will gladly do so.

You: holy shit

You: im sorry yusuke but its 1 am im just skimming through this

You: the thing is not that I doubt your passion to your study of the arts

You: the thing is that what I have… is not art…

Emo Bob Ross: I’ll be the judge of that

Emo Bob Ross: Not to offend you but I have a trained eye

You: you know what

You: do you have 400y? For that much you can have the digital copy. Physical copy is gonna be at least 600 depending on the material

Emo Bob Ross: I’m low on cash but I’ll keep you in mind if I manage to rake in the money.

GROUP NAME: ✨ PHANTOM THIEVES ✨

[hacker voice]: @Capable Leader™ lets make a deal

[hacker voice]: give me a copy of every nude you make willingly and I wont leak these

Capable Leader™: why tf would I do that

[hacker voice]: cause your dick is magical and I’ll split the spoils 20/80

Makoto: Stop this at once. There’s no way this deal is good news. Akira knows this.

Capable Leader™: I demand at LEAST 50/50

Makoto: AKIRA

[hacker voice]: I deserve more?? I’m doing ALL the work?

Capable Leader™: It’s MY dick??

-` RYUJI ´-: he’s right tho… the dick is like 90% of a man’s identity…

ANN~: Whats the other 10%?

-` RYUJI ´-: the balls

ANN~: I’m sorry I asked

[hacker voice] 40/60 is the MAX im willing to go and that’s me being GENEROUS because I recognize you have magic juju dick pix that already fished in two possible buyers

[hacker voice]: and also youre my friend and I love you

-` RYUJI ´-: I never said I’d buy it???

[hacker voice]: sigh

Capable Leader™: Ryuji…

-` RYUJI ´-: UH

Capable Leader™: Bro…

-` RYUJI ´-: I MEAN

Capable Leader™: If you wanted my nudes…

-` RYUJI ´-: I ALSO ENVER SAID I ASKED FUTABA FOR THEM DON’T GET THE WRONG IDEA

Capable Leader™: You just had to ask…

-` RYUJI ´-: LISTEN I JUST WANTED TO KNOW IF YOU WERE BIGGER THAN ME THAT’S A MAN THING

-` RYUJI ´-: wait really

ANN~: omfg

Makoto: I feel like this conversation is about to get very intimate

Yusuke K.: I would like to request permission to ask for your nudes as well, Akira

Capable Leader™: oh

Capable Leader™: well that’s a surprising turn of events

Yusuke K.: I fail to see how that surprises you considering you know how I am a fan of the erotica genre and it’s artistic disposition to strip a human bare to it’s very core.

-` RYUJI ´-: no dude…

-` RYUJI ´-: like this is not the nude art thing you keep talking about...

-` RYUJI ´-: this is like

Capable Leader™: (implying I’m not art)

[hacker voice]: touché

-` RYUJI ´-: a dick pic

-` RYUJI ´-: like its just a picture of his dick taken with his phone camera that’s it

Yusuke K.: Well, anything can be art! Art is subjective! I would like to evaluate the photograph!

-` RYUJI ´-: LISTEN MAN, AKIRA DIDN’T TAKE THAT PICTURE TO BE ARTSY, TRUST ME.

Makoto: Yusuke I strongly advise against this

Makoto: If anyone online offers to send you “a nude” please do not accept it…

Yusuke K.: It does intrigue me why anyone would simply want a picture of someone else’s genitalia when you could get the full view…

Makoto: remain intrigued

Makoto: not everything in life needs to be understood

Capable Leader™: Hey Futaba, I accept payment in Ryuji’s nudes as well

[hacker voice]: the contract has been sealed

-` RYUJI ´-: WTF AKIRA

-` RYUJI ´-: I DIDN’T CONSENT TO THIS

Capable Leader™: Come on, Ryuji… my bro…

Capable Leader™: This is just a bro thing…

Capable Leader™: Whomst amongst us never seen their best bro’s dick?

Capable Leader™: You’re my best bro, Ryuji… I wanna get to know every part of you…

Makoto: this is a public chat

[hacker voice]: gross

Capable Leader™: The very deep and intimate connection between two bros is nothing to hide, Makoto…

ANN~: You should hang out and deepen your bond

[hacker voice]: don’t think I don’t know what youre doing ann, that’s cheating

ANN~: ;)

-` RYUJI ´-: bro…

-` RYUJI ´-: If you wanted MY nudes bro…

-` RYUJI ´-: you could have just asked, bro….

Makoto: I can’t believe this is a thing that is happening right now

ANN~: ive turned off the TV this group chat is too lit for me to take my eyes off it

Makoto: it’s 2 am we should prepare to bed

Capable Leader™: [MESSAGE DELETED]

[hacker voice]: FUCK

ANN~: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSS IM RAKING IT IN TONIIIIIIIIIIIGHT

ANN~: WAIT WHAT

Capable Leader™: what? I didn’t delete that?

ANN~: FUTABA THATS CHEATING!!

[hacker voice]: YOU CHEATED FIRST! YOU INSTIGATED HIM!

ANN~: I INSTIGATED THE IDEA BUT NOT WHO WOULD BE SAYING IT???

[hacker voice]: HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

ANN~: SAY IT AGAIN AKIRA

Capable Leader™: @ -` RYUJI ´- come over

[hacker voice]: I hate that im partially to blame for this

-` RYUJI ´-: woah akira

ANN~: no bitch no matter how this conversation went it would end the same way cause im ALWAYS RIGHT

ANN~: I’m making it rain Monday morning. I’m taking Shiho to that fancy cake place she wanted to go.

-` RYUJI ´-: isn’t it kinda late for that??

Capable Leader™: I’m alone and Boss doesn’t open shop tomorrow

Capable Leader™: I can show you the goods myself

Capable Leader™: You know?

-` RYUJI ´-: SDSDMX,X CM SALÇ DAÇSD

-` RYUJI ´-: DID YOUJUST BOOTY CALL ME??

Capable Leader™ sent MAYBESO.gif

-` RYUJI ´-: BRO

Makoto: Gross innuendos publicly aside: finally

Makoto: It was getting frustrating seeing you two obviously pinning on each other

[hacker voice]: and don’t even talk about the baton passes…

Capable Leader™: I mean he hasn’t accepted yet…

ANN~: oh he will

ANN~: he better

-` RYUJI ´-: why should you decide

ANN~: cause as your best friend I know whats best for you and I know for a damn fact you will not get a better score than akira

-` RYUJI ´-: thanks I love you too

ANN~: FUCKING LOOK AT HIM! HE’S OFFERING HIMSELF ON A SILVER PLATTER!

-` RYUJI ´-: THIS IS REALLY AWKWARD FOR ME MAN…

ANN~: don’t embarrass yourself in front of your crush like that

Capable Leader™: I like when they get shy

ANN~: oh my god youre such a slut

Capable Leader™: ;)

-` RYUJI ´-: bro…

ANN~: WHAT ARE YOU DOING STILL IN THE CHATROOM GO ANSWER THE GOD DAMNED BOOTY CALL ALREADY

-` RYUJI ´-: IM REALLY NERVOUS OK

ANN~: RYUJI YOU USELESS BISEXUAL

-` RYUJI ´-: GDI

Capable Leader™: you don’t have to come for real it was just a joke

ANN~: wait really?

Capable Leader™: @ -` RYUJI ´-

Capable Leader™: wait is he actually coming??

[hacker voice]: yeah he left 5 mins I traced his phone rn

Capable Leader™: oh fuck…..

ANN~: was it actually a joke??

Capable Leader™: No I just didn’t think I’d actually get this far??

ANN~: YOURE BOTH USELESS BISEXUALS AND I HATE YOU

Yusuke K.: Akira may I join you both? If you’re willing to model for me I will certainly not pass on this opportunity

Makoto: Please don’t.

Capable Leader™: oh my god yusuke

Capable Leader™: not today

Capable Leader™: maybe some other day

Capable Leader™: wink wink

Yusuke K.: I understand. Take all the time you need but please consider my request.

[hacker voice]: I can’t believe Ryuji’s about to get the succ

[hacker voice]: according to my gps ryuji should already be at leblanc??

Capable Leader™: oh he’s here alright. Just nervously prancing in front of my front door.

Capable Leader™: I haven’t called to him yet, let a man be ready

Capable Leader™: (I also don’t know if im fully ready so…)

ANN~: oh grl you got this

ANN~: you’ve been training all your life for this

ANN~: besides its not like hes gonna know the difference between a good bj and a bad bj lol

Capable Leader™: youre right

Capable Leader™: but I also you know, care about him a lot

Capable Leader™: I wanna make this a good experience cause I care about ryuji a lot… like in a very gay way…

ANN~: Aww!! :)

Makoto: I want to take no part in this conversation but that was adorable

ANN~: srsly im talking to ryuji rn on private and hes freaking out cause of the same thing

ANN~: wants it to be really good to you bc he loves you sm and youre so hot and hes already semi just thinking abt you

Capable Leader™: I’m flattered

ANN~: he’s super overwhelmed cause its his first time and with a boy he loves so like admsadsa damn ryuji youre so cute

ANN~: almost makes my cold blooded bitch heart feel something

Capable Leader™: I’ll give him all the time he needs!

ANN~: you should really open the door for him and at least put him inside cause its cold and there was a robbery in your street earlier this week

ANN~: and you know ryuji hell stubbornly stand in front of that store until the sun comes up if hes wallowing in nerves

Capable Leader™: youre right…

Capable Leader™: im gonna go do that…

Capable Leader™: @[hacker voice] if you have any cameras in my room turn them off!

[hacker voice]: for how much?

Capable Leader™: FUTABA, PLEASE.

[hacker voice]: calm down theyre already off. Havent been on since we became friends.

[hacker voice]: just thought youd like to have your fond memories engraved on tape for your enjoyment…

Capable Leader™: …

Capable Leader™: that’s… tempting

Makoto: are you out of your mind??

ANN~: YOU’RE SUCH A SLUT, AKIRA

Makoto: God, you’re hopeless. At least talk it over with Ryuji first.

Capable Leader™: I just did. He’s cool with it.

Makoto: Somehow I feel like this is an oversimplification of the conversation.

Capable Leader™ changed his username to Tapable Leader <3

Tapable Leader <3 changed the group name to AKIRA & RYUJI’S SEX TAPE

Makoto: I’m leaving.

Makoto: Only talk to me when you want to group up from now on.

-` RYUJI ´-: I ONLY AGREED WITH IT IF ONLY ME AND AKIRA GET A COPY!!

-` RYUJI ´-: ITS ONLY FAIR CONSIDERING YOU’RE ALREADY SELLING AKIRA’S NUDES!!

[hacker voice]: I’ll make three copies of the sex tape

[hacker voice]: 600y each

[hacker voice]: first come first serve

[hacker voice]: no reservations

[hacker voice]: you show me the money the tape is yours

[hacker voice]: those are my terms

Tapable Leader <3: even if Ryuji and I get copies there’ll still be one in the wild for someone to buy?

ANN~: isn’t that thrilling tho

ANN~: one other stranger youll never know about can be watching you

ANN~: and if futaba agrees to take down any reuploads of the tape its like your very own secret but like… shared with a stranger… that’s a kink isn’t it??

[hacker voice]: yure right…

Tapable Leader <3: holy shit

Makoto: This is so irresponsible…

[hacker voice]: thought you wanted no part in this?

Makoto: I can’t simply not take part. You guys are worse unsupervised…

Tapable Leader <3: Futaba, it’s a deal if mine and Ryuji’s copies are free of charge

[hacker voice]: fair enough

Tapable Leader <3: nice. We’re going upstairs now.

[hacker voice]: camera’s ready!

ANN~: lmao I cant believe this is actually happening

Makoto: so much for reputable thieves…

Makoto: I swear if this sex tape leaks and we get found out because of it…

Makoto: What’s worse! Akira’s on probation! That will most definitely spell trouble for him depending on who gets their hands on this tape!

ANN~: Guess we have no choice but to buy it ourselves!

Makoto: Or don’t do the sex tape?! At all?!

ANN~: Nothing’s gonna happen, Makoto! Chillax!

ANN~: How can they possibly trace a video of Akira sucking Ryuji off back to the phantom thieves?

ANN~: What kind of evidence even is this?

[hacker voice]: Akira’s jacked??? I didn’t know he worked out that much??

ANN~: he looks really skinny right?

ANN~: did ryuji come with his stupid neon pink and green watermelon bullshit panties?

[hacker voice]: they stopped to talk rn

[hacker voice]: ryujis like flipping

[hacker voice]: asking if akira had done this before

[hacker voice]: apparently akira has sucked “some dicks”

[hacker voice]: AT LEAST TWO ARE FROM HIS CLASS

Makoto: Do you really need to keep us updated?

ANN~: yes

Makoto: sigh

[hacker voice]: @ANN~ ryuji’s wearing the pink underwear

ANN~: god I hate those

ANN~: @Tapable Leader <3 burn them when youre done

[hacker voice]: I hate doing this. This is just like when you’re watching a movie and there’s a unnecessary kissing scene and the entire scene is like 3 minutes of uncomfortable schlepping kissing noises.

ANN~: yeah that must be pretty awkward

[hacker voice]: it is super awkward. Akira owes me one

[hacker voice]: oh my god

[hacker voice]: ryuji scared the crap outta me he legit screamed right now

[hacker voice]: I don’t even need mics for this ryuji’s so loud

ANN~: whaaat? Ryuji? Loud?? Who would have thought…

-` RYUJI ´-: IM SORRY OK IM REALLY LIVID HERE

ANN~: WTF???? WHAT AR EYOU DOING TEXTING US???

-` RYUJI ´-: IDK WHAT TO DO WITH MY HANDS!!

ANN~: YOURE USELESS. I CANT BELIEVE YOU.

Tapable Leader <3: you can pull my hair, its fine

ANN~: HOW ARE YOU TEXTING EVEN??

Makoto: It’s been a while since we got an update.

[hacker voice]: do you want em?

Makoto: No, I simply worry how long this is lasting.

[hacker voice]: it’s gotten to a really graphic point. I’m not even watching anymore, its really really awkward… if you want the full juice you’ll have to buy the tape!

[hacker voice]: oh theyre done

[hacker voice]: they just threw the dirty clothes on the floor and went straight to sleep

[hacker voice]: orgasming must be really tiring…

ANN~: @Tapable Leader <3 @-` RYUJI ´- CONGRATS ON THE SECS!! We’re all really happy for you!! You guys deserve each other, really! If anyone says otherwise I’ll punch them!

Makoto: @Tapable Leader <3 @-` RYUJI ´- regardless of how reckless and utterly stupid this whole thing was, I’m genuinely glad you guys worked it out and are finally being honest with each other. It was awfully unhealthy for the team dynamic to watch you two dance around the issue of your attraction so, congratulations!

[hacker voice]: @Tapable Leader <3 @-` RYUJI ´- im not as good with expressing things as the other girls but im also happy I somehow brought you two together. Don’t worry I wont actually sell the sex tapes to anyone btw

[hacker voice]: (or will i)

ANN~: omfg

[hacker voice]: Yusuke’s typing a lot im concerned

Yusuke K.: I did not fully grasp the concept of what was truly going on in this chat tonight but after extensive research and questioning Ann on certain topics I now understand. Futaba’s attempts at prostituting Akira have somehow led into a nuptial encounter between Akira and Ryuji, the kind of which both parties have been secretly interested in for a long time. I also congratulate you both in your achievement for the act of intimacy born from fondness and admiration is one of the truest forms of adoration our kind have come across. I only wish for more of these enjoyable moments and if any of you would be so kind as to model for me the most beautiful sensation of your endless love I would be very thankful.

[hacker voice]: holy shit

[hacker voice]: just looking at this is making my eyes heavy

[hacker voice]: im going to sleep folks

ANN~: same

ANN~: we have to wake up before ryuji and akira to surprise them at leblanc

ANN~: we’ll bring a congrats on the sex cake

[hacker voice]: I’m in

Makoto: guess it won’t hurt to check on them

Yusuke K.: I would love to discuss this over some cake!

ANN~: deal, then! Good night, thieves <3

-` RYUJI ´-: you fuckers are gonna see some dicks

ANN~: that’s the plan dapper dan

ANN~: now go to bed!

thx for your time i hope you enjoyed it ideas that we did in the rp and i couldnt find a way to put here: > futaba leaks the nudes on the phan site > mishima warns akira of the thing and says he has a nice package > akira gets arrested for publicly posting pornography and akechi recognized him by the dick > "whats wrong with a little dick pic" "its not little" > makoto buys a copy of the akira/ryuji sex tape and resells it at school > mishima buys a copy

#pegoryu #akiji #p5 #persona 5 #akira kurusu #takamaki ann #niijima makoto #yusuke kitagawa #akira/ryuji #futaba sakura #sassi do the write

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LEVIATHAN | 7. The Chase | MASTERLIST

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A/N: just a heads up i'll be leaving for a short vacation this friday which means the next chapter is gonna be posted on thursday !! and im coming back monday so next week's update might be a little late anyway thank u for reading!!

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Elena sat in her quarters, a metallic shock blanket draped over her shoulders.

The past few hours had been rife with shouting and tears - on both ends. Madison and Elena at odds with Emma and the Controller. If not for their irreplaceable abilities, she was sure he would've ordered them shot dead. After being dropped back into the cramped dorms in the ship by an oddly sullen Regulator, Elena and Madison had been alone for what felt like ages.

The kid sat alone on her cot, facing a wall with her knees drawn up to her chest. She could only imagine what was going through her mind. Madison hadn't spoken much since Antarctica, but no one on the ship were exactly in a talking mood after...that.

It was painful to think about. Though she had been put under for a majority of the ordeal, she had spent nearly all of it wrestling with the split consciousness of a megalomaniacal dragon, trying with all her might not to get swallowed by their all-encompassing will. If control was nearly impossible with the titans she encountered in the past, it was unthinkable with them.

Then there was her mother, Emma, who had been escorted out of the room by the Controller's men a while ago. Her excuse was that she needed to make "tweaks" to the ORCA, but she doubted that. It was still hard for Elena to understand what exactly went down back at the base (even after both side's admittedly biased explanations) but from what she could gather, there had been some sort of betrayal. Madison's attitude said that much. And from the way that scaly bastard was acting after their release, she doubted anything good could come from that ORCA. She scowled.

That was another problem entirely. The Controller had said they only wanted to "take back their property" but they seemed to be doing the opposite. They were following them - that monster - from a safe distance. Though, there was no such thing in Elena's mind.

She could still hear them, their cackling. They weren't exactly the happiest about their welcoming party, but their giddiness over their newfound freedom wasn't comforting either. Anything that made that thing feel the slightest hint of joy was bound to be something awful for everyone else. Before Madison's intervention, she had just begun to glimpse their forms manifesting within the headspace, adorned with lightning and sickly yellow storm clouds. The image of their eyes - burning with malice and staring at her like she was some sort of plaything - would be branded in the back of her mind for the rest of her life.

"Do you..um," Madison shifted in her seat, turning to look at Elena. "You knew what that place was, right?"

She knew she wasn't talking about Outpost 32. She nodded. "I'm sorry you had to experience it like that." She looked down at her hands, at the lines that ran through her palms. "If done right, it can be amazing. Beautiful, even."

She found a slight, nostalgic smile growing on her face. It took her back to her childhood, when she innocently held hours-long conversations with the radioactive lizards and giant insects under Monarch supervision. She wasn't used to remembering when going into the headspace was fun, when it didn't hurt. "But if done wrong..."

Madison looked at the floor, resting her chin on her knees.

"I don't know what I saw. It was..scary." she said, shifting her head to the side so that she could look at Elena. "But it also felt familiar? Like someone had dropped me in the middle of the ocean, but I just kept sinking until I hit the bottom."

"There was a voice too," Madison outstretched her arms before her, looking at her hands as well. "It wasn't as scary as that sinking feeling, it helped bring me out of it actually. But I couldn't really tell who it belonged to. It didn't sound like my mom. Or you."

A small, barely noticeable smile appeared on Elena's face. "I think I might have an idea."

Madison cocked her head to the side in confusion, brows scrunching together before realization dawned on her face. "No way."

Elena nodded.

"But he's supposed to be one of the good ones right? Why did I feel so...out of control?"

"Control doesn't depend on whether a titan meets our standards of 'good' or not. I wouldn't even call it control, really. It's more of a two-way street. In that place, you're on equal ground. At least, that's how it's supposed to be."

Elena pulled the blanket closer around her.

"These people don't understand..they never will." she leaned back, resting her head against the wall behind her. "It's not like your mom's ORCA, can't be used like some machine - can't use others like a machine. That's not the point, never has been."

"It's something you feel. A connection." Without realizing, her hand hovered over her heart.

Madison considered her words, becoming deep in thought.

"You keep using that word."

"It's the only way I know how to describe it. That's what that place is for - connecting. But I guess it's just human nature to twist something like that into something ugly."

_____

Keeping track of Godzilla wasn't much of a problem.

In the past he hadn't been bothered by the submarines and drones in his wake, trailing after him like a school of remoras. And he didn't seem to mind now. Jodie often found herself wondering how they fit into his world. Did he think of them as part of his pod, like a whale? Or did he think of them the way sailors thought of seabirds circling their boats like bothersome scavengers?

Whatever it was, she didn't have time to dwell on it before Graham pulled up a global map and traced a path depicted on it with her finger.

"Godzilla appears to be following the same path as Emma's Osprey, heading north over South America to here." she zoomed in to a small island. "Outpost 56 in Isla de Mara, Mexico. We touch down in ten minutes."

It was a small island in the Gulf of Mexico, not far from the mainland. The satellite map depicted a dormant volcano with what appeared to be a base built near its mouth.

But Isla de Mara wasn't the only outpost Monarch was worried about. At least 6 other outposts seemed to be compromised. Thailand, Sudan, Brazil, Germany, North America, the list went on. Even Skull Island wasn't immune from the chaos.

Was Emma really about to release the titans in those outposts too? Sure, she'd always had a great deal of respect for them - liked them, even. Jodie could relate. But she wasn't a terrorist. She knew in the back of her mind that if she was doing something like this, she had to have a damn good reason.

"What about the people?" Mark asked.

"I-I'm sorry?" Graham said.

He pointed to the sleepy coastal village near the volcano. "The people - the ones in that town down there who don't realize they're gonna be the special of the day."

"Foster's already sent G-Team to evacuate as many as they can." Jodie said.

Suddenly, a bridge officer's voice cut through the conversation. "Dr. Serizawa, we have a call on the emergency channel - from Isla de Mara."

"Answer it." he said.

Emma Russell filled the screen, standing alone in what looked like a plain white room. Every pair of eyes in the bridge was trained on her, the air was heavy with trepidation.

"I suppose I should go first," she said.

"Where's Madison?" Mark snapped.

After briefly closing her eyes and taking a deep breath, she glanced somewhere beyond the screen. "She's fine, Mark. Trust me."

"Trust is a little hard to come by, Dr. Russell," Foster interjected. "Especially after what you pulled."

"I know," she tiredly rubbed her eyes. "And I can only imagine what you're all thinking. But if there were any other way to do this, I would."

"Do what, Emma?" Mark demanded.

Jodie couldn't understand how she could remain so calm knowing she had all that blood on her hands. It took all of her self-control not to interrupt the discussion.

"I'm saving the world." she said, not a hint of irony in her voice.

"By releasing those monsters? That doesn't make sense!"

"As impossible as it seems, it does. Hear me out." she said. The Argo was silent.

"After we lost Andrew, I swore his death would not be in vain. That I would find an answer. A solution to why the titans were rising. But as I dug deeper, I realized that they were here for a reason and that despite all the years we spent trying to stop them, we never dared to confront the truth."

"What truth?"

"Humans have been the dominant species for thousands of years and look what's happened - overpopulation, pollution, war. The mass extinction we feared has already begun. And we are the cause. We are the infection."

Jodie turned away from the screen, crossing her arms. Despite her gut instinct telling her she shouldn't believe a word, she found herself agreeing with her.

"But like all living organisms, the Earth unleashed a fever to fight this infection - its original and rightful rulers - the titans. They're part of the Earth's natural defense system, a way to protect the planet. To maintain its balance. But if governments are allowed to contain them, destroy them, or use them for war, the human infection will only continue to spread. And within our lifetime, our planet will perish, and so will we. Unless we restore balance."

"And what's gonna be left?" Jodie finally interrupted. "A dead world overrun by titans?"

"No, Mrs. Lennox, the exact opposite."

The feed cut to a time-lapse video of the ruins of Honolulu, San Francisco and Las Vegas, transforming from desolate wastelands to sanctuaries overrun by plant life.

"Just like how a forest fire replenishes the soil, or a volcano creates new land, we've seen signs that these creatures will do the same. Wherever the titans go, life follows - triggered by their radiation. They are the only thing that can reverse the destruction that we started. They are they only guarantee that life will carry on. But for that to happen, we have to set them free. We have to reconnect."

"You're murdering the world." Chen said, anger evident in her voice.

"No." Emma said. "Because as difficult as this will be, I promise humanity will not go extinct. Using the ORCA and..." for a brief moment she looked away from the screen. Jodie could probably guess what else (or rather, who else) she was using in her scheme.

"If we hadn't forgotten our connection to the world around us, none of this would have to happen. But using the ORCA, we can return to a natural order. A forgotten order where we coexisted in peace with the titans. The first gods."

"This is a dangerous path," Serizawa said. "You are meddling with forces beyond our comprehension, gambling with the lives of billions!"

"And what are you gambling with, Serizawa? Monarch is broken. It's on the verge of being shut down by a government whose only objective is to eradicate these creatures and when that happens, what will our chances be?"

"You are out of your goddamn mind!" Mark snapped. "First you put our daughter's life in danger, now you get to decide the fate of the world? That's rich, Emma."

"I couldn't be more sane, and Madison couldn't be stronger. After we lost Andrew, I trained her to survive and at least now she'll have a fighting chance. You don't know how crucial she is to all thi -"

"Is that what she is? A pawn in your little game!?" Mark shouted. "There's some things you can't control."

"And there are some things you can't run from!" she retaliated, voice cracking for a brief second.

"This won't bring him back to us."

That got her, rendering her silent for what felt like a long stretch of time. But eventually she shook it off.

"I can only urge you to take refuge." she said. "Over the last sixty years Monarch has prepared bunkers around the world for situations such as this. I suggest you find them."

And with that, the screen went black.

Everyone was speechless. What could they say? As wild as it sounded, she made some good points. Too good. Looking around the room, there were hints of doubt seeded throughout everyone's faces. It frightened Jodie, how she found herself almost agreeing with her. But what scared her more was how serious she sounded. After everything that she said, it was obvious that she had been planning this right under their noses for a while. Using her high clearance to smuggle the necessary information to those extremists. Odds were good that she had even managed to plant some of them in different outposts, waiting for the call to unleash hell. Jodie felt sick to her stomach.

But then Chen broke the spell.

"That bitch."

Took the words right out of my mouth, Jodie thought.

"How long until this thing lands?" Mark asked.

"Three minutes." Foster answered.

"You might wanna rethink that." Stanton said.

"Why?" Foster asked, irritated.

"Something's not right. Check this out." he replied, pulling up security footage from Isla de Mara's containment facility. Bodies donning Monarch uniforms littered the floor in nearly every room.

"Emma's not here," he continued. "I mean, the signal's strong enough that we could pick it up but it's - it's moving."

On the tracking screen showed a dot - the ORCA's latent signal - flickering before shooting away, disappearing altogether.

"What the hell.." Mark muttered.

"She could be anywhere.." Graham commented, brows furrowed deep in thought.

Jodie groaned. "Well, this is the pits."

Suddenly, an alarm began blaring.

"What now?" Mark asked.

"Oh, jesus," Coleman said. "The containment system is shutting down."

"How much time do we have?" Serizawa asked.

_____

At least dad is okay, Madison thought. For now.

But nothing else was, everything else was going to shit. None of this was happening the way her mother explained it. Growing up, she remembered being told that she was special, that she was a crucial part in helping to ensure that humanity and titans could live together. She always thought her mother was being dramatic not this. She had never asked for any of this. There were a lot of things in her life she didn't ask for.

It sounded like a good thing, saving the world. But she had left a lot of things out. Like how many people were going to die, what it was like to see someone die, thinking your own father was among the dead. She wanted to scream.

Her mother didn't have the right to decide who lived and who didn't. She didn't have the right to use her - and Elena - as a means to an awful end. She glared daggers at her mother and the Controller, who stood a fair distance away.

She wasn't supposed to be here (and neither was Elena, who stood close behind her, keeping an eye out for any of the strange humanoids), peeking around a corner in the ship's control room. Though escape was nearly impossible, the Controller and his goons were being more lenient around her and Elena after what happened in Antarctica - which is to say they left the door to their dorms open. Though it seemed like they were trying to make them feel comfortable with their situation, to Madison, it felt more like being mocked.

"Containment system bypassed. We're ready to broadcast the ORCA." said one of the men seated at the ship's controls.

The Controller looked over at her mother. She walked toward the ORCA, opening the case. She seemed a little hesitant, something Madison hadn't anticipated. She didn't have that hesitation after blasting Monster Zero free from the ice. Madison couldn't stand it, running into the control room with no hesitation.

"Madi - pinche madre -" Elena muttered under her breath before following the girl in the room.

"Mom. Don't."

Her mother was shaken, not expecting the sudden appearance.

"I'm sorry, did a child just tell you what to do?" the Controller sneered.

"Maybe dad's right, maybe this isn't -"

"By all means, Dr. Russell, let's reconsider our entire plan now. Especially after telling your friends all about it."

"Madison, we talked about this."

"About what? Using me - both of us," she looked over her shoulder at Elena. "As - As tools?"

"Maddie, that's not -"

"No, you said we were doing this to help people. The least you can do is give them the chance to get to safety, plea -"

The Controller snapped, banging the top of a table with his hand so hard it echoed throughout the room.

"We don't have time for this," he said, voice low and impatient. "Did you think this would be easy? Painless?"

He sent her a malicious look, and Elena stepped in front of her.

"Is that what you told her?" he continued, directing his rage at her mother. "That she'd magically conjure some grand utopia? Man and monster living together in blissful harmony?"

He was right, but the condescension in his voice was more than she could handle.

"Bite me, dickhead." Madison growled.

The room was silent. The Controller's cold gaze bored into hers, but she refused to waver. Until she saw his hand reach for the handle of the gun in his pocket, then the hairs on the back of her neck stood straight up. Elena blocked her view of the Controller.

"Don't you dare."

Sending her a glare, he relaxed. "If I were you," he said softly. "I would save that attitude for the monsters."

"And if I were you," her mother finally spoke up, fury just barely contained. "I'd learn how to talk to titans myself before doing something as stupid as threatening my daughter."

Elena took a step forward. "And I could just as easily sic that three-headed demon on anyone in this ship. Remember that."

She knew Elena was lying, but the fact she would even think about saying something like that made Madison feel better. Safer. The Controller was the most terrifying person she had ever met, but right now, there was nothing about her mother or Elena that suggested they could be screwed around with.

"Sir?" one of the men at the controls said. "They're attempting to lock us out. It's now or never."

"Emma." the Controller said. "You came to us. The ORCA would've been nothing but scraps without our technology. We needed each other to achieve our goals, but everything will fall apart if you don't see it through."

"Emma, think about what you're doing." Elena said softly.

"Ma'am? Our window is closing."

Madison saw her mother's hand tremble. Her hand hovered over the activation button for another moment before turning on the ORCA.

"I'm sorry," her mother said. "But this is bigger than just you and me."

Elena was shaking her head in disbelief. Madison felt nauseous.

"Signal's good. Patching us into the next containment site -"

"No." her mother said. "Not yet. We'll take it slow. One at a time." she looked at Madison as if that was supposed to be reassuring.

Feeling tears forming at the edge of her eyes, she fled the room. She'd rather drop dead than have the Controller see her cry.

Shortly after, she heard Elena's footsteps follow her.

_____

Jodie watched the evacuation unfold on the Argo's monitors.

G-Team was making quick work of filing all those civilians away in airlifts but there were hundreds left to go, and the crowd was in a panic. That only grew worse when the ground began to tremble, the volcano just outside the town rumbling in response.

The air was heavy with silence, everyone holding their breath as the ground groaned, the quaking growing stronger. Her heart sank further when the top of the volcano burst open, throwing up flames and black ash into the sky. A few seconds later, the noise arrived, like a thousand eagle cries amplified to a thousand.

Jodie had only heard about the bare minimum of this titan, only that it was bird-like, almost like a pterodactyl straight out of the Jurassic period. And amidst the smoldering haze that covered the mountain, a silhouette rose from the volcano and spread its wings. They were bigger than the Argo, and they looked like they were made from half-cooled lava.

As the smoke cleared, she could make out its figure. The titan had two crests spearing out from the back of its skull like two devilish horns and a beak sharper than any existing avian's on the planet. But that wasn't what caught her attention. It was on fire. Like a phoenix, shedding ash and lava, it reached for the sky. But it didn't fly. It seemed to be yawning, like the previous explosion was just an alarm clock waking it up from its thousand-year nap. Its yellow eyes warily scanned the horizon, zeroing in on the town below and the jets screaming past it.

Mark was terrified. "Got a catchy name for this one?"

"Local legends call it Rodan, el Demonio Fuego." Chen answered.

"The Fire Demon.." Jodie whispered under her breath.

"That's comforting." Mark muttered.

"I'm picking up the ORCA." Stanton said. "Looks like she's tapping into the base remotely."

"Record it," Mark said. "I need a sample."

Stanton gave him a thumbs up.

"Guys?" Coleman spoke up, a nervous lilt in his voice as his eyes were glued to a screen. "Remember that tropical storm where we lost Monster Zero? Well, it's changing direction. Guess where it's headed now."

Jodie looked at the tracker. Not only had its direction changed, but it was speeding up. And it was heading right for them. Shit.

"Th-That's not possible." Graham stuttered.

"Unless it's not a storm." Chen said.

"O-Oh, man." Coleman said, realization striking him.

"But the evacuation -" Jodie chimed in.

"They better hurry it up, because it's closing in fast." Stanton said.

If a fight broke out between the two titans here, the town would surely be wiped off the map. Then, she too had a realization.

"Serizawa," Jodie said. "Let Rodan go."

Stanton groaned. "Don't tell me Emma got to your head."

"Shut up, Rick, if Rodan stays here, so will Monster Zero. Then there won't be an island to come back to."

"She's right." Mark said, pointing to a radar image of the approaching storm. "I think that thing's responding to Big Bird's cries. That only means it's coming here for food, a fight, or to f - something more intimate."

"What are you suggesting?" Serizawa asked.

Outside, jets streaked past them, unloading missiles at Rodan. Jodie doubted they would do anything other than piss him off. But he definitely noticed them. His angered gaze searched the skies, dismissing the smaller aircraft whizzing by and focusing his glare on the Argo.

It had been Mark's idea to attempt to challenge Rodan, hoping that he would see the craft as an invasion of his territory. Surely, no self-respecting giant bird-thing would let something like that slide, could he?

"I think we got his attention." Jodie commented.

"Everyone strap in." Foster said. "All ships, follow our lead."

The Argo banked hard, jets following right behind them. Pissed, Rodan pushed himself free of his nest, spreading his wings and taking to the air - lava spilling from his form and onto the town below.

The chase was on.

It didn't take long for Rodan to catch up with the fleet, hell-bent on disposing of the threat to his domain. The Argo's jet escort tried to slow the titan's advance, but they were paying an awful price. As Jodie watched, Rodan snatched jets from the sky with his talons, sending them spiraling to the ocean below.

We don't have to outrun him forever, Jodie reassured herself. Just hang on a little longer.

Even that would be a challenge.

As she looked out one of the Argo's windows, she saw Rodan quickly gaining on them. He was still burning, trailing smoke and lava like a walking volcano. He really was a fire demon, carrying the blaze with him just as Godzilla had his blue radiation and Monster Zero with his golden lightning.

And speak of the devil, the storm that blotted out the horizon was rapidly approaching. The mass of copper-colored clouds, hearts burning with lightning, struck a deep feeling of dread within her.

If we don't make it out of here alive, I'm coming back and strangling you myself, Jodie thought, looking at Mark.

"Argo to Gold Squad, let's get this turkey away from the mainland and straight to Monster Zero - ETA two minutes." Stanton broadcast.

"Copy." the reply came back.

The jets doubled back and fired at Rodan. A few missiles hit him, but it didn't faze him much. With a flap of his wings, he lifted above the barrage of jets, clapping with such force that three of them were slapped out of the sky by the shock wave. The same beat of his wings propelled him straight up, like a blazing spear aimed at heaven. In the next second he came shrieking back down from a different angle, like a raptor swooping in on its prey, catching the jets completely off guard. Crushing two of them with his talons and biting one as it exploded, the wreckage spun down to the ocean.

"Two-two-three, on your six!" Foster shouted into her earpiece. "Get out of there!"

Jodie watched as the pilot ejected from the doomed jet. Only to be swallowed by Rodan, seat and all.

"ETA to Monster Zero, sixty seconds." Stanton announced, frantic.

Then, Rodan rolled, his flaming wings spinning through the air as if he were drilling a hole through the sky. It almost seemed to happen in slow motion as Jodie watched in horror as the titan's wings swatted jets out of his way like bugs. When Rodan finished his roll, Gold Squad no longer existed. One by one, the pilot feeds winked out until there were none. The Argo was alone.

"ETA to Monster Zero, thirty seconds!" Stanton shouted.

The Argo rattled as they raced into the hurricane, the sun vanishing as they became engulfed in Monster Zero's tempest. The aircraft shuddered as lightning struck on and around them.

For a moment, Jodie shut her eyes. Rodan had caught up with them. Looking out one of the Argo's windows, all she could see was his massive talons quickly encroaching on them.

Sorry, Gill, she thought. Guess my luck's run out.

Lightning struck again, and right in front of them was a massive three-headed silhouette, appearing through the clouds. In that moment, Jodie was sure she would die. Behind them, Rodan veered away with a frightened screech, abandoning the Argo completely.

"Dive!" Foster commanded.

Jodie felt her insides caught in her throat as the ship lost altitude, dropping past Monster Zero as the two titans crashed into each other, their cries mixing into one angry scream. Claws and talons locking together as they dove into a free-fall, writhing and twisting, biting and clawing as if it was all they knew.

"Jesus, they're killing each other." Stanton commented.

"Better them than us." Mark said.

Thankfully, gravity returned as the Argo leveled out, scraping the surface of the water. The engines whirred as the pilot kicked them into high gear, trying to get as far from the battle as possible.

Jodie sighed in disbelief.

But the relief didn't last when the radio crackled with static, the voice of Chief Officer Barnes patching into the Argo's speakers.

"Mayday - come in, Argo, this is Raptor One, do you read?"

"Copy," Foster replied. "What's your status?"

"We're screwed, that's what. And we have civilians on board. We're gonna need immediate midair retrieval."

"Lock onto their position and prepare the hangar for emergency landing."

"Hangar doors are unresponsive." Stanton said.

"Manual override?"

"They're stuck." he clarified.

"Which way to the hangar?" Mark asked impatiently, itching to be more useful than just expressing his glee at the thought of two titans murdering each other.

"I can show you," Jodie replied.

"Anyone else?"

"I know the way, come on." Coleman cut in. Jodie rolled her eyes, going back to observing the fight behind them.

Meanwhile, Rodan and Monster Zero were still going at it. As they fought their way across the sky, flames and lightning painted the clouds with their fury.

Monster Zero didn't look like a fan of competition, but it didn't seem as though the dragon was trying to kill Rodan so much as dominate him. This fight was much different than the one in Antarctica, and if this was any indication, the dragon was trying to build his strength for a bigger fight - a bigger challenger.

Hearing their cries just outside the Argo, Jodie was never more certain of Godzilla's place in the world. Thinking back to all those times Serizawa alluded to him as nature's balance, she found herself agreeing with him more and more. Monster Zero, however, was something else entirely. Though she hated placing such concepts on animals, Monster Zero radiated evil. She knew that the titans were simply a fact of life, had been long before humans were even a concept. A carnivore wasn't evil because it sought out living prey, that's just how the circle of life worked. But remembering Antarctica, how the dragon played with their prey, targeted her of all things, Jodie thought that maybe the mind of Monster Zero was capable of more than just simple instincts.

Just then, Monster Zero's right and left heads pinned Rodan in midair, stretching his wings to their limit. Although they had nearly been knocked out of the sky by him, it was hard to watch. He was completely helpless. His situation only worsened when the center head raised itself, considering the struggling titan with a cruel, apathetic gaze. He could do nothing as the dragon unleashed a beam of energy directly into his chest. Rodan, as fierce as he was, limply fell into the water below like a screeching ragdoll. And like that, the fight was over. Once more, Jodie could swear she saw spite in their faces as the monster turned their attention toward them.

Suddenly, the control panel beeped. Another call was coming in.

"It's Admiral Stenz." Stanton said.

Great, just what they needed. He had worked with Monarch in the past, but he refused to even make an attempt at understanding the titans. But more importantly, he was an instrument of the government, and that was never good.

Stenz was patched on screen, looking solemn.

"Admiral." Serizawa nodded.

He quickly cut to the chase. "Dr. Serizawa, Colonel Foster, I need you and the rest of your forces to immediately disengage and withdraw to a safe distance."

"I don't understand -" Foster started.

"Over the past five years, we've been developing a prototype for a new weapon," he said, looking more than a little weary. "Designated as Project O, we call it the Oxygen Destroyer, designed to exterminate all life forms within a two-mile radius."

Jodie's mouth hung limp in disbelief.

"With any luck it will kill these things and this nightmare will finally be over."

"Admiral," Serizawa said. "We must keep our faith in Gojira -"

"I'm sorry, doctor." Stenz said. "You had your chance."

"Admiral, there must be a -" Graham spoke before she was cut off.

"The missile is already on its way...may god have mercy on us all."

The screen went dark, and the bridge was silent.

"He's not lying," Stanton said, staring at a beeping radar. "It's coming in hot."

Outside the Argo, they had something else to look out for. Something much closer. Rising overhead, a familiar high-pitched roar trilled over the wind. Monster Zero was nearly on top of them, skimming low across the waves. On all three heads their teeth were bared in wicked grins. If the Oxygen Destroyer didn't reach them first, that thing definitely would.

Damn it, Jodie thought.

Taking a deep breath, waiting for impact, she braced herself. Only to hear the ocean below spray water into the air, lifting and smashing into the dragon. It wasn't a rogue wave, but a mountain-sized lizard. Godzilla.

Snatching the dragon in mid-flight and slamming them into the water, everyone on the bridge cheered to themselves. Jodie wanted to feel relieved, but she couldn't. Not with that man-made abomination heading straight for him.

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