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cometrose · 3 months

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Since you were talking about your thoughts on Zhongli and Azhdaha, how about your thoughts on Zhongli and Guizhong? (Please never stop yapping about Zhongli)

For Zhongli and Guizhong I always kind of imagined them as platonic soulmates. I felt like they were people who complemented each other in every way.

First they have matching hairpins! Then Guizhong has a bubbly, lively and sunny disposition while Zhongli is calm and mellow. However, Guizhong has a cold color scheme, with stars in her sleeves, grays, whites, and deep blue while Zhongli is the opposite with browns, black and gold in his outfits. Guizhong is the moon to Zhongli's sun and their personalities are inverses (you can tell i love sun moon symbolism).

Guizhong is short with billowing sleeves, Zhongli is tall with a slim sleek gown, Guizhong was an inventor the "brains" of the operation while Zhongli was the fighter, and the "brawns" of the team. Guizhong is the one getting into fights while Zhongli has to break them up. Guizhong is always smiling with lots of emotion while Zhongli is straight-faced and impassive.

Considering that it is apparently rare for two distinct gods to have the same dominion I imagine the two of them complemented each other very nicely despite their differences.

Fun fact, in Yujing Terrace you can see glaze lilies and silk flowers. Glaze lily obviously are for Guizhong but silk flowers are used to represented Rex Lapis, so I thought it was kind of cute that you can find these two flowers in the middle of Liyue Harbor.

I envisioned that Zhongli was a lot more stoic and contract-focused when they met, he had very much closed his heart off to others. I don't think it was a full on "beauty and the beast" dynamic but she opened his heart up a not necessarily to care about humanity (because i am positive morax already did) but to make him understand humans on a fundamental level as well as chip away at that stone mask he was always wearing. I believe Guizhong was someone who could share his physical and emotional burden of protecting and ruling a nation of people.

That said it kind of frustrates me when people act like Zhongli and Guizhong didn't care about each other. Like maybe not on this platform but on twitter especially when it comes to shipping, people are like "zhongli and guizhong were just acquaintances" that doesn't make any sense she gave him puzzle with all of her knowledge and wisdom and told him to have at it.

Plus like I mentioned earlier, according to Soraya (the scholar at Wangshu Inn) it was super uncommon for deities to rule together, plus it is very obvious that Morax was stronger than Guizhong so he easily could've bested her so why on earth would they work together if they weren't friends. Then like Guoba (who could forget Guoba) the god of the stove was also there too and Zhongli is like 'that's my old friend' like if Zhongli was close with Marchosius why wouldn't he be close with Guizhong.

Then it is heavily implied that Guizhong died in his arms and he heard her final words before sealing her away like they were definitely close. Zhongli clearly doesn't like talking about his past unless forced. Or the fact that Zhongli repaired the Guizhong Ballista perfectly, he knows exactly what glaze lily bloomed on your birthday or that they love sweet songs. Not to mention Zhongli's burst meteor is the exact same as Memory of Dust. Or what about Cloud Retainer's abode where there are three seats for "Cloud Retainer, Guizhong and Rex".

Fun fact, Shenhe has a voiceline for Zhongli. "Master once said: "If you see him drinking on a stone stool in front of my abode, do not disturb him. Let him sit quietly for a while." And that's precisely what I did." So it's a little sad but sweet that Zhongli will return that table and just sit with his thoughts, but regardless it definetly means he cherishes the memories of the three of them together.

Back to the point why on earth wouldn't they care about each other there is a whole region named after their messed up names "GuiLi" like what are we doing!

It is mentioned somewhere in the archaic petra lore (i think the feather) that Morax wore a stone mask during the archon war. To protect the people of the Liyue he did not allow himself to show emotion but when the dust settled her was finally able to put the mask down. The way I interpreted this passage was after Guizhong died the entire nation was at war, like Morax took all of their people, left Guili plains, moved south, founded Liyue, and then fought till the war ended. Even the other adepti imply there was no time to grieve for her because the war was that brutal. It is only when the war ended, that Morax was not only able to put done that mask but also able to grieve his friend properly.

There are many theories around Guizhong like whether Jade Cutter was meant as a gift her, or whether she had connections to Celestia but my favorite Guizhong/Zhongli theory has to be that Morax killed her. LIKE LISTEN LISTEN LISTEN

First, Morax was the only person who was there when she died he heard her final words after all. Next, Soraya says that it would've been incredibly difficult to take down a nation governed by two gods, like what god would've been able to kill Guizhong with Morax and the rest of the adepti right beside her? Then, none of the adepti really know what happened that day, Ping and Cloud Retainer imply that when they got there it was already too late, Rex Lapis had likely turned her to stone while the Yakshas sealed her away.

Soooo maybe I am just giddy for angst but imagine Guizhong getting corrupted or eroding away and Morax had to kill her to protect their people.

The story has shown many times that Zhongli would do anything for the people of Liyue even turn his back on the people he loved. It would not be out of character for him to kill her should she ever pose a threat. Then remember Memory of Dust (MoD), the puzzle containing all of Gui's knowledge? Her last words to him were along the lines of "forget about that old stone dumbbell would you". This obviously could be her telling him to move on, forget her, and continue protecting their people.

OR it could also mean that the knowledge within the dumbbell was corrupted or damaged somehow. Because there are quite a few theories about how the lady of dust perished, it could've been a foreign god it could've been Celestia but if Guizhong had forbidden knowledge, not only would killing her prevent the knowledge from spreading and essentially destroying their entire civilization but by telling Morax to forget about MoD she could protect him from getting corrupted as well.

So like long story short, my favorite theory is that Zhongli had to kill Guizhong to protect their people whether by corruption or maybe even erosion which is why the full truth of her death is a mystery. It could explain how a nation ruled by two gods fell, and maybe even suggest a reason why he is not so keen to talk about her and why he was never able to open MoD.

Then again MoD could be locked for a number of reason, like Zhongli wants to move forward with his life and unlocking MoD would be like getting stuck in the past or he was truly unable to open it as he may never match her intellect. I imagine that when Guizhong died Morax had to assume her roles and began to embody her in many ways but there are still things she was still better than him at even to this day.

Not to mention that it was said that Guizhong died in a fierce battle "black dust choked the heavens and a thousand rocks splintered" so given the usage of rocks, Morax was undoubtedly involved so maybe it was a battle in which Morax and Guizhong were isolated from the rest of the assembly and he could not protect her from whatever killed her. Not matter what happened I still get angst!

I think the issue with the genshin fandom is that they don't value balance. Its either that Guizhong was everything to Zhongli and Liyue was nothing without her or she was nothing to him and only for Ping which are two crazy extremes like omg calm down. Zhongli was not heartless before meeting her but she was also very important to him and affected him. Like come on y'all READ!!!

Nevertheless I think Zhongli and Guizhong were perfect complements, whether romantic or platonic. I think together they covered each others weaknesses yet still managed to bring the best out of each other.

I really wish I could get to see them interact or just a flashback or a memory will do I promise!

#zhongli #guizhong #genshin impact #whew!#so many things to say!!!#for the shippers hmm ive never really been super into guili but i have never disliked it either #i think it is quite neat do your own thing i like the occasional fanart and fanfic #i want to beat zhongli with a stick please talk about guizhong you cow #LIKE PLEASE #the only person i want zhongli to talk to more than azhdaha is fucking guizhong #i’m begging yall please talk about her #please please please please i must know

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teenandbeyond · 2 years

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(SPOILERS FOR THE DBZ SUPER HERO MOVIE) I left some space if you haven't seen the movie, if you have, don't mind this extra space:

Hey! Idk is this is been done (you can combine requests if need be) could you do a Gohan x Baby Reader (just like your other ones) where it's Halloween and Gohan accidentally releases his beast form, but the appearance of the beast form scares his sweet pea (the reader)? Idm I just thought I'd be adorable

Gohan x Baby. Reader [Halloween Special]

I wasn't planning on doing any Halloween one-shots, but oh well xD

Want more from me? Masterlist 2

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Cookies and Beasts (DBS)

Warning: Fluff, You making Vegeta soft

Halloween is strange...

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“Hey, you, calm down,” Gohan chuckled, tickling at your side.

At the moment, you were looking at his friends in confusion.

Piccolo and 18 were the only ones who looked normal.

The one your papa addresses as Krillin had painted his face and wore a weird outfit.

Auntie Bulma (she insists to be called) had wild hair and an even wilder outfit, her eyes were different colors, too.

Uncle Vegeta (Bulma insisted simply to annoy him) was forced to wear a beard, hat, and a dress-like thing. Papa said he was a wizard, whatever that was. Vegeta would hit people randomly with a big stick he carried.

Then Trunks and uncle Goten had strange teeth and even stranger clothes.

All the confusion caused your power-level to spike.

“Isn’t this [Name]’s first Halloween?” Auntie Bulma offered a cookie, which you gladly took.

“Yeah, I don’t think they've gotten over the costumes, yet,” he bounced his leg a little to calm you.

“Well, [Name]’s is definitely the cutest!”

You were dressed as a pumpkin, the puffy costume hiding you, the pumpkin top resting on your head.

“Videl picked it out.”

“I guess that’s why you’re dressed as a farmer? Where is Videl, anyway?”

“She wasn’t feeling well, but told us to go ahead.

Your eyes trailed to your sister, who was dressed similar to how Paw Goku dressed, things Papa called fake knives were in her hands as she made weird movements.

“Hey, Gohan. I found this weird device, I can’t seem to figure out what it does, could you take a look at it?”

“Huh? Sure.”

“Great! I’ll bring it out,” she walks off.

You offer your cookie to your father, tilting your head back until he looks down.

“You’re giving me some?”

“Yes,” you give him a small smile.

“Thank you, sweet pea.”

“Oo Welca,” you watch as he takes a bite, a little irked he takes more than you expected.

“You mean, ‘You're Welcome’? Don’t worry, you’ll get the hang of it.”

You decide to leave, so he doesn’t practically devour your cookie with another bite.

You wobble up to Vegeta, making him turn, “Oh, it’s you. The finger crusher.”

You ignore his glare, not finding it intimidating in the least, even more so with his costume.

“Hi!” you smile.

“What is it you want?”

You grasp the dress-like costume finding you like the simple material.

“Soft. Dwess?”

“What, no. It is not a dress!”

You tilt your head.

“It’s a robe.”

“Bobe?” the ‘r’ was hard to pronounce.

“Yes, not a dress,” he scowled.

You move on to the big stick, “Stick?”

“Staff,” he corrected.

“Taff?”

“Yes.”

You offer your cookie, “Wan?”

“No, thank you.”

You take the last bite, “Cookie good.”

“Is it now, would you like another?” he points back to a tray full of cookies on a decorated table.

You nod, grabbing at the air until he picks you up (after being sure no one was looking to laugh for weeks about it), you quickly grab a cookie (he doesn’t say anything when you sneak another).

“Dank you, Geta!”

“Yeah, yeah. Move along now.”

“Bye!”

You notice Paw Goku arriving with Mam Chi-Chi.

You giggle, dashing over to them as fast as your short legs would allow.

“Our little [Name]! You look so cute!” Chi-Chi titters picking you up.

You give her a kiss, which makes her notice the cookie crumbs and two uneaten cookies.

“How many cookies have you eaten? Have you eaten any food yet?”

You lift the cookies, “Yes.”

“That’s not food! Gohan should let you…” then you tune her out, you always do when she goes into her rambles.

“What cookies you got there?”

“Paw Goku, cookies!”

“I see. Can I try one?”

You get transferred over to him as Mam Chi-Chi looks for Papa.

“Yes,” he offer him one while eating the other.

“Yum! They are pretty good, huh?”

You brush a pinky against his green face, “Why?”

“It’s paint! I’m a Frankenstein!”

“Flank—hm,” you decided it was too hard to say.

“Mwahaha,” he tickles your neck making you giggle with a death grip on your cookie.

“Paw Goku, staph—” you screeched in laughter.

“Let’s go find, Gohan, hm?”

You sit on his shoulders as you look for your father, when you do, he seems to looked annoyed as Mam Chi- Chi chews into him.

“Mom, I know what to do with [Name].”

“But…” she rants some more.

“I’ll come back later,” Bulma looks in between them.

Gohan sighs, “No, you asked for my help. Let me see.”

“Gohan!” Mam Chi-Chi scolds.

He observes the device before turning it on, it didn’t do anything.

She reached for the device, “Don’t ignore your mother!”

Suddenly Papa’s power-level spiked and he transformed.

The power startled you, never having seen or felt anything like that before.

He growled, in irritation, “Stop telling me how to parent my child. If I want help, I’ll ask, mom.”

You cry at the scene, never seeing your Papa so upset.

“I see, it’s an emotion amplifier,” Auntie Bulma observed.

Gohan frowned at your crying, his expression dropping more when you nervously grip Paw Goku’s hair.

“Sweet Pea, it’s me,” he powered down, “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to scare you…”

You quieted, sniffing before you climbed down your grandfather, wobbling to your Pa to hug his legs.

“Hm, let’s go play some of the games, okay? Will that cheer you up?”

You nod.

#son gohan #gohan #gohan x baby. reader #fluff #anime #dragon ball super

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heloflor · 1 year

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After getting into Mario with a more “fandom” kind of mindset, and more specifically getting a bigger interest in the RPG games, something that amuses me a lot are the people in youtube comments trying to argue that the Koopalings aren’t Bowser’s children.

Like, don’t get me wrong, I know Miyamoto retconned their link to Bowser. But the funny thing is, even to this day, Nintendo themselves are still writing those kids as if they were related to Bowser !

Seriously :

- In New Super Mario Bros Wii and Wii U, the Koopalings are attacking the castle along with Junior/Bowser, thus putting them on the same level of importance as Bowser and his son. The ending cutscenes do the same thing, especially the one in Wii U that just screams “they’re a family”. Plus, all the Koopalings serve as world bosses, which was kinda Junior’s role in DS, yet again putting them on the same level.

- In New Bros U, they all have their own ship. The only character to have a ship with their face on it before had always been Bowser.

- As I’ve seen someone point out in a comment section, the Koopalings are different skins of Junior in Smash Ultimate, again putting them on the same level as Bowser’s son. They might also be skins of Junior in Mario Maker 2 but I’m not sure on this one.

- In New Bros 2, they’re using a giant clown car, which is implied to belong to Bowser as Bowser and Junior are the only ones with a recurring clown car and Junior’s is too small. I doubt Bowser would let just about anybody use his car.

- On top of that, each has their own clown car in Smash.

- You know that icon/logo of his head thing that Bowser has (the one we see in games like 64 when we die) ? Bowser Junior had had one for a while now and more recently each Koopaling were given one (I think you can see them at Nintendo World in Bowser’s castle ?).

- Since they were originally created as Bowser’s children, they’re the same type of Koopa as him, and that fact hadn’t been changed in recent years. Hell, outside of Ludwig in Mario World and the fights in Superstar Saga, the Koopalings are never shown to breath fire, yet in the remake of Superstar Saga, they chose to keep the fire breath (except for Ludwig ironically enough). They could’ve easily removed the fire breath to make them more similar to Boom Boom, especially since Boom Boom has recently been shown with spikes on his shell, but they chose to keep this ability. Granted their shell plastron is different from Boom Boom, but that’s another design change Nintendo could make to set them apart from Bowser (giving them the same shell as Boom Boom to make it seem like they’re the same species, instead of keeping them as “Royal Koopas”).

In short, the Koopalings’ design wasn’t changed after the retcon, making them, Bowser and Junior the only members of that specific type of Koopa, thus implying they might be related. It’s also not helped by them having magic (which only Magikoopas and Bowser have) + being high-ranked members of the army. They might also be the only minors in the army, which raises a few eyebrows as to how they got the job (why would Bowser hire a bunch of children/teenagers to put in charge of his army ? Granted some like Ludwig, Roy and Wendy might be adults by now but I can’t bring myself to see Lemmy and Larry as anything other than teenagers).

- Saw a video of the bosses in Paper Mario Color Splash, and the minions (paratroopas) address Ludwig as “your evilness”, which is pretty reminiscent to how Bowser is called by his army, most notably by Kamek (“you grouchiness”, stuff like this)

- Baby Bowser and Bowser Jr are referred to as “young master” by Kamek. In the RPGs, the Koopalings are sometimes called “master [name]” (and “mistress Wendy”) when talked to individually. Note that both this point and the previous one are for the English version tho, not the Japanese one (no idea how they’re called in Japan).

- There’s that one Super Mario Adventures comic made in the 90s that was apparently re-released a few years ago (something like 2017-2018 ?), aka well after Nintendo retconned the kids’ relationship with Bowser (around 2012). Yet, in this comic, at least in the English version, the Koopalings are explicitly said to be Bowser’s children, with him saying he wants to marry Peach so they can have a mom + the kids calling him dad. And I don’t think they changed this dialogue in the re-release ?

- Bowser Jr’s Journey. Just, Bowser Jr’s Journey. After seeing all the cutscenes of this game, it is a crime that those kids aren’t related ! Hell there’s literally a moment where Junior pulls out the “I’ll tell dad !” card on Roy ! And let’s not forget stuff like the interactions between Junior and most notably Ludwig/Morton/Roy, Junior saying “us Koopalings” at some point thus including himself amongst that group, or stuff like him singing “I’m the one who wears the crown” making it sound like he’s saying “I’m the one chosen amongst the eight of us”. Then there’s the “family drama” vibe in the first half, the cute moments etc (Also unpopular opinion but after seeing that game, Ludwig should still be the heir of the throne. He has what it takes to be a fantastic king ! Granted Junior is still extremely young and could learn and mature.)

- Also about Jr’s Journey, the main conflict actually works a lot better if you imagine the kids to be siblings, with the Koopalings talking down to Junior because he’s the baby of the family + they resent him for taking the throne from them, while Junior is tired of his siblings babying him + he’s that kind of kid who orders the older siblings around because he thinks he has the power to do so. Them being siblings also justifies why Junior changes his mind so easily during the beach scene and then is quickly shown to be strongly attached to the others (getting happy when Iggy gets his memories back, ordering Ludwig to stay with him from now on, that whole adorable scene with Morton etc).

Meanwhile, if you see the Koopalings as nothing more than high-ranked underlings, it’s weird why they would have such an issue with Junior, the son of their king who is also their boss, and likewise it’s weird why Junior would take such issue with them only to have such a quick change of heart. Idk, I feel like if they weren’t siblings they probably wouldn’t spend that much time together, making both their whole conflict and strong bond a bit weird. And in general their interactions in this game read more as people who are widely different and wouldn’t usually be friends yet still love each other, which is the kind of dynamic many siblings tend to have (isn’t there a poll going around about whether you’d be friends with your siblings if they weren’t your siblings, and the option winning is “we wouldn’t be friends” ?)

- According to their page on the Mario wiki, during an interview revealing them in Mario Kart 8, Miyamoto used a word that means either “underlings” or “adopted children” when mentioning their relationship to Bowser (btw I know it’s the most popular headcanon anyways but them being adoptive children is just perfect. It would explain why 1. Some might be young adults while Bowser is younger than 40 depending on how old you see him, 2. Why they look so widely different from Bowser and each other, 3. Why Junior is the rightful heir).

- Also according to the wiki, the Italian and German versions of Mario and Luigi Paper Jam has mentions of them being Bowser’s kids, which I find hilarious. The translation teams didn’t give a fuck !

So yeah, when it comes to the Koopalings not being Bowser’s kids : who’s gonna tell Nintendo ?

(Side note about the whole idea of “Bowser clearly likes Junior more and neglects his older kids” : what if instead it was just that the Koopalings are teenagers/young adults now so Bowser is giving them their space + have them busy with royal duties, hence why he doesn’t spend that much time with them ? Plus, in all the examples that put the Koopalings on the same level as Junior, it’s pretty evident that they have the same privileges)

#Super Mario #Bowser Jr #Bowser Junior #Koopalings #sorry I'm too lazy to tag all 7 kids #their names are in the post anyways so if you use the search function the post will show up #Flor talks #long post #it's kinda funny how I've been into Mario since I was a kid #yet seeing more of the fandom is giving a different perspective of those characters; it's a weird thing #anyways yes this post was entirely made due to 'Bowser Jr's Journey' and how cute the cutscenes were #I legit didn't care much about the Koopalings before seeing those cutscenes; and they made me fall in love with those gremlins #(btw I don't remember when the 'us Koopalings' is but the 'I'm the one who wears the crown' is very early on #one of the last cutscenes before they leave the tutorial at Bowser's castle)#but yeah; Bowser has 8 babies (12 if you count the Koopa Kids) and I will die on this hill #(also kinda ironic I'm posting this on fathers' day)

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disregardcanon · 4 months

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just got done watching the 50th anniversary touring production of jesus christ superstar. here are The Thoughts

i've watched either the movie or a different bootleg of jcs during the week of easter for the past 8 years. i LOVE jcs and am very familiar with the material, so this was not a first for me except for seeing it live

i'm not sure if the setup for the staging was unique, but there were 3 big parts: 2 two level bits that were set up towards the back (one that was used almost solely for the instruments) and then in the middle was a very large, elevated cross made of grated metal. it was where the smoke machine bits came through and it had bright lights that hugged the edges.

the way that the cross elevated a bit in the middle of the stage and bisected it was really cool. it let different actors (a lot of the time jesus pre-arrest) elevate themselves over the rest of the scene, and created a pretty clear divide between two different events/sides.

costumes- most of them were what i'd expect from a jcs production, but i was impressed by how lowkey and modern jesus's civilian clothes were (the khaki shorts, the loose white top, the light gray hoodie) and then the way that the leader guy of the I BELIEVE IN YOU AND GOD SO TELLLL ME THAT I'M SAVED! has jesus's exact same outfit but with the colors of the shirt and hoodie swapped. i dunno that worked for me. judas's look, of course, SLAYED in the don't you get me wrong number. sparkling like a star, with his hair all done up in this brilliant and gorgeous updo... *chefs kiss* and then pilot's crown was good and subtle and i love love loved herod and his gang. herod had a big goofy overcoat that gave him a cartoony frame and then he took it off and was in this straight up cabaret bright gold high boots outfit with french revolution aristocracy era face paint and get up. the lackeys had on these striped outfits and harem pants and the like, big circles that surround your head kinda like a dog cone? and at the very end of the number when he's encroaching in on jesus and about to kick him out he kicks the head of every single lackey who's on the ground in a line, like waiting for a beheading? and then it like SPEWS BLOOD along their neckline and the cone. visually appealing, horrifying, and interesting, especially with the french revolution imagery.

they did this really interesting thing with guitars and microphones with the actors. so jesus had a guitar that he carried around with him a lot and peter did too. jesus took it out during emotional moments and the way that they framed the gethsemane number to start with was him just working out his emotions through song? he plays the number himself (and he and peter were playing on pilot's first little number, which is interesting symbolism) and then as he finally builds to a point where he can't keep going he unplugs the guitar from the amp and goes to cry and finish the number with no mic.... just him.

additions on gethsemane- as he was winding up to the FIIINNNNEEEEE I'LLLLLL DIIIIIIEEEEE bit, the lights started flashing from all different directions. in the divine intensity. you will be doing this. you don't have a choice. then jesus, who's mainly performed in a much more.... traditional? style than neeley's jesus finally DOES take it into that piercing, 70s rocker falsetto belt.... and to have that happen right before he finally... does give up. just collapse into a little pile of just him, no more lighting anymore but this single spotlight on this sad, tired little man... the heart. it wrenches. then judas comes in from the Super Secret Suprise Entrance Cross and everything just keeps going.

super funny when we got all the apostles looking between each other when judas and jesus have their fight and judas leaves and then peter strums a cord and restarts" ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT I'D BE AN APOOOOSTTTLLLEEEEEE"

caiphas was, unfortunately, hot.

thinking about the shift of the ensemble so quickly from We Are The Sinful Temple Fuckers to We Are The Ailing of the Earth and how the ailing surround and overwhelm jesus and the way that it just. is visually even more in person

the use of the mics was also interesting. the high priests had mic stands that they always came in with as props and the dancing with them was cool and worked well, and then jesus/judas/mary passed around a mic some, both on the mic stand and without it. and especially when it was on the stand it gave this sense of... presence and importance. a lot of the judas-mary altercations were spent moving the mic back and forth and it was +++++ especially since we saw the microphone taken away from jesus when he was arrested (taking away his power along with his guitar, his ability to express himself). the mic's cord was ALSO used in really interesting ways. the first time it really comes up is when judas is realizing that he's been duped by the narrative and he's been left with the bag... and then he stretches the bright red cord out to its full length as he climbs up to the second story and threads the cord to stage the hanging... with the microphone. the lighting in this scene was great and just UUUUUGGGGGGHHHHHH watching judas send the microphone over the edge and leaving IT hanging as the symbol of judas's death. fucking. fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

the other time that the microphone cord itself comes up is in pilot's last number, when the crowd is getting increasingly YOU HAVE NO CHOICE CRUCIFY HIMCRUCIFY HIM! and pilot's like. uh. how about i beat him? will that satisfy your blood lust? and he fucking wraps his mic cord around jesus's hands and holds him in place with it??? like oh my god. that made me feel some kind of way.

peter brought his guitar back out when he and mary magdalene were singing about how jesus should probably make things stop sucking now, please? then them on the smaller, more cut off scene watching jesus get beaten and sentenced to crucifixion. the powerlessness of that staging

jesus spends most of that number physically on the ground. he falls off the cross to the ground. he's so bloody and broken looking and it was painful.

the way the crowd shifts from being the taunting crowd to the JESUS CHRIST! SUPERSTAR! background singers. but. this staging... it had jesus. out during this number. and the chorus kept on hurting him as they KEPT DEMANDING ANSWERS? just like the way that they made every character who did that a guard (they had different roman emperor heads, it was great) and then. jesus is still there. he is still broken and beaten and Not Yet Crucified. and they're passing him around like emma perkins in inevitable.

(and his horror keeps going on)

something about how they gave judas's actor bright white hands after touching the blood money to contrast against his dark brown skin. something about how in this show he gets both pilot and jesus's symbols of being doomed by fate (pilot's bloody hands, jesus's crown of thorns).

like. they do not crucify this poor motherfucker until after the entire staging of "don't you get me wrrrroooonnnngggggg". and then we have to watch him raised onto the cross and his painful cries and everything. a few murmured notes from the crowd. then it's just a few actors helping to take jesus down off the cross and judas sitting on the edge, looking forlorn and regretful and just. so lost.

and a tattered jesus manages to move to the spot across from him, and sends him a tiny smile. he takes the crown of thorns off his own head and passes it over to judas.

the lights go down and the show is over. judas is forgiven. he's elevated! he's trapped!!!!!!! he and jesus are here together in this story that neither of them can control. they share that knowledge, and then the lights go down.

i am no longer the same. i don't want to be

#jcs #sarah watches jcs #jcs 2024 #jcs meta #jcs 50th anniversary

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thelittlebroccoli · 8 days

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A super short fic I wrote a bit ago about my little guys <3

Peter had been going headfirst into Spiderman work for a solid week the suit being worn for at least 5 hours a day. When he wasn’t in the suits he would be at his suite in the Compound, Vision popping by occasionally to bring him food and water (they have had to make a rule for Peter and Tony, if they don’t leave their office for over four hours, one of the other avengers had to bring them a snack).

On friday, Peter swung straight into his room, the window being left open from his departure earlier. The lights turned on to a low level (around 30%, thanks to Friday) which was just bright enough for him to flop on his bed safely. He had taken his mask off as soon as he landed in the room, Karen transferring over to the small spider-shaped speaker on his main work desk.

“Peter, you have a guest waiting for you in the lounge.” The little speaker spoke up quietly, Karen knowing how tired he is after his patrols.

He groaned as he rolled onto his back, looking at the slightly cracked door to the hallway, a quiet trickle of music coming from down the hall.

“Them them to come here, I don’t want to move Karen.” He was still in the suit, the heating mode on to help his aching bones. He lied therefor a solid minute or two before a soft knock pushed the door open.

“Howdy, partner.” Harry stepped into the dim bedroom, Peter keeping his eyes on the shelling, his boyfriend had started making it a habit to visit the Compound when possible, which took a lot of convincing on Tony’s end. Harry sat down near Peter’s head, his unscarred hand carding through his hair. “Wow, it’s been a week for Spidey, huh?”

Peter signed, bringing his gloved hands up to rub his face. “Harry I want to actually hibernate. Crawl into my covers, hand food and water, and not come out until next winter. My everything hurts and I don’t want to see anything Spidermand related for at least a week.” The hand in his hair stilled, a small chuckle leaving Harry’s lips.

“Funny you say that…” Peter sensed something up, moving to push into a sitting position.

“Friday, change the lights to 75% please.” And as the lights brightened, he turned to Harry and let out one of the loudest groans ever. “You’ve got to be shitting me.”

Sat in front of him was his boyfriend, Harry Osborn, decked out head-to-toe in Spiderman Merch. His head and face had more on it than Peter thought possible.

“Harry, why?” Peter was fully sat ups nd facing him, still taking the whole outfit in.

Harry held his hands in his lap, fiddling with a ring (that was, in fact( a spiderman ring) as he thought of what to say.

“Well I knew that you had a lot this week and just wanted to give you a bit of a laugh. I dunno Pete, but hey I brought a change of clothes so how about I change?”

Peter had been watching Harry talk the entire time, his eyes wandering up and down his partner’s body. He could see how bad Harry felt through the body language and the way he was talking, so he decided to go about it a different way.

“Nah I’m okay, now c’mere, I’m in desperate need of an after-patrol kiss.”

Harry immediately obliged, wrapping his hands around Peter’s neck and settling into a kiss. It was slow and both of them were in no hurry, so they enjoyed it together. When Peter tilted his head slightly to deepen it a few moments later, his hand followed with the shift and moved up to Harry’s eyes, plucking the sunglasses off, followed by the hat and the little sticker he had placed on his cheek. The one thing that stayed were the earrings (little black spiders). He kept Harry busy throughout this, swiping his tongue over his partner’s bottom lip and using his other hand to slide under the tee shirt and pull the two closer together. The other hand moved a bit down and pulled the brightly colored hoodie off his shoulders. When the hoodie was off, Peter could feel all the scars that made their way down Harry’s arm and hand, rubbing across them with a feather light touch, though he couldn’t feel too much himself through his still-gloved hand. Harry moved to try and push things a bit more but Peter pulled back, taking a moment to gather himself, before starting to talk.

“Now, as much as I would love more than anything to have hot steamy after patrol sex with my hot steamy boyfriend, I am in desperate need of a hot shower and sleep.” Peter stood from the bed as he was saying this, and he made his way to the dresser to grab some clothes to change into after the shower. “But it is your lucky day mister, because you have been chosen to be SpiderMan’s hot water bottle for the night!” He turned to Harry when he said the final bit, throwing in some jazz hands to hopefully seal the deal.

In true Harry Osborn fashion, his partner rolled his eyes at his shenanigans, flopping down onto the warm side of the bed. “I guess I’ll stay. But as long as you scrub that nasty sewer-y smell off of you, because damn Parker you smell like you wrestled with a garbage truck and lost.”

“Hey!”

After one of the best showers Peter had taken ever (solely due to the fact that he hadn’t showered in a week) and changing into a comfy pair of sweats and an MIT crewneck, Peter was lounging on his bed waiting for Harry. Said man was digging through Peter’s clothes to find a good pair of sleeper pants for himself, listening into his boyfriend talk about all the work he’d done this week.

“Yeah, and after the weird kids, which like… why would you put chameleon dna into children, stupid… Oh yeah after that Aleksi showed up. He’s the one with the giant Rhino Mech suit? Yeah he busted through the wall at JPMorgan Chase (big ol’ bank) and tried to break into their material holding vault. He threw off my chase by a whole hour and…” Harry was nodding along the entire time, and he made a small ‘aha!’ when he found the pants he wanted. Still facing away from Peter, he slid off his jeans, and went to go put the pants when Peter spoke.

“Oh come on man!” Harry jumped, turning to look at Peter.

“What? What is it?” But Peter was looking right at his crotch, a small blush gathering on his cheeks.

“You- you bought- I didn’t even know they made those!”

Peter was staring at not only Harry’s crotch, but what was covering it. All across the blue boxers was a pattern of repeating Spidey masks, his logo, and some webs. Harry joined him in blushing? His arm resting by his side still holding the sleeper pants. With no other ideas, he winked to his boyfriend. “Like what ya see?”

“Harry, I’m breaking up with you.”

“Boo, you love me too much to break up with me over boxers.” Harry crossed his arms, seeing that Peter was unashamedly still looking at his crotch. “My eyes are up here.”

Peter smiled, glancing up quickly before looking back down. “Oh, I know, but I cannot make eye contact with you right now so I’m doing the next best thing- hey!”

Harry threw the pants dead onto Peter’s face, a satisfying thump sounding from the contact. As he walked towards his partner, who was holding the pants in his hands, he spoke up again.

“These boxers are staying on.” In response to that, Peter tipped back to land on his pillow, his arms crossed.

“You are so mean to me. Imagine if I had done this to you… oh I know what I’m getting for our anniversary.”

“Don’t you fucking dare.”

“Watch me.”

#spider man #spiderman #spiderman fanfiction #parksborn #harry osborn #peter parker #marvel #marvel fanfiction #peter x harry #harry x peter #fanfiction #one shot #TheLittleBroccoli

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sensei-venus · 2 years

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Hi! I was wondering if you could write some headcanons for Hawk dating a girl who gets bullied for being chubby/plus sized and it makes her feel insecure about herself? And she wants to wear super cute dresses and tops but is too insecure and scared to try because she thinks she'll looked bad?

Hawk Dating a Insecure Chubby! Female Reader

•He wants to act at first like he has no idea how she could feel insecure, like lol what’s that? Insecure? Nah.

•He’s secretly just pushing down and trying to repress all of the bad memories and feeling he had before he transformed into “Hawk”, back when he was just “Eli”, for a moment he doesn’t realize that he was making reader uncomfortable. But after some time he realizes that it’s not ok that he’s trying to force his bad coping mechanisms onto her.

•He starts to understand that it’s a natural feeling and he was over thinking it do to his own issues.

•He starts making more comments and compliments about her, how good she looks in her pants, how his hoodies look good on her, how pretty her makeup is (if she wears it).

•Being for real though, Hawk is definitely going to take it to a different level when it comes to comments and compliments about her body over all. At this point, he’s not afraid to say some dirty shit, no matter if it’s in private or in public. He’s going to say it.

•Reader is his girl, and no one else is allowed to look at her like he does or say the things he does about her body. Period. No one gets that option.

•”Hey babe, can you bend over again? I want to see that fat ass one more time.” “If you keep leaning over my shoulder like that, I’m going to have to start using those boobs as a pen holder or something.” “When we have PE, make sure you let me run behind you, I don’t want any of the other guys to see those thighs jiggle. Don’t want them hitting on my girl.”

•Oh yeah, and he’s definitely snatching his moms credit cards and going on a shopping bender for her. He’s down to take her to the mall when ever she wants, but as soon as they go one’s, he finds out all of her sizes, he’s buying all kinds of stuff on his own a good portion of the time.

•Dresses, flashy shirts, short skirts, tight jeans, occasionally underwear sets in her favorite colors. Yeah he’s doing all of that.

•When he finds out she’s getting bullied over it, he takes it to a different level of whoop ass. His hands are rated E for everyone, but he starts doing other shit to get back at readers bully’s.

•He definitely gets Robby involved and even Miguel (poor poor baby, he can’t say no to helping out Hawk & reader,also reader most likely has no idea that they are doing anything.) they might even get Johnny involved some how.

•The three boys cause hundreds, possibly thousands of dollars in property damage. Egging the bully’s cars, spray painting their houses, taking out their mailbox’s with bats. They even start shoving random gross shit into their lockers at school after Robby breaks into them (headcanon that Robby knows how to pick locks on just about anything). Hawk doesn’t care at this point, he will make it known that those bully’s need to step off reader real soon or things are only going to get worse.

#cobra kai #cobra kai headcanons #cobra kai imagine #cobra kai hawk #cobra kai robby #cobra kai miguel #hawk x reader #cobra kai Hawk x reader #chubby reader #x reader

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triflesandparsnips · 1 year

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coccinelf said: This was absolutely fascinating! But as someone who has been using Marseilles soap and Alleppo soap for a decade, I'm still stuck as how in the world soap made with virgin olive oil can be that white!?!?

I'm pulling this reply out from the lavender soap shenanigan post because INFORMATION IS FUN.

As you may know, there are several different kinds of olive oil -- the Romans sorted them into five categories based on how ripe the olives were and where/how they were gathered, while these days we seem to differentiate them based on the amount of refining and the acid levels found within the finished oils. For soapmaking in particular, this site leaves out the "Extra Light/Light" olive oil given by the International Olive Council, but lists the remaining four as:

Extra Virgin Olive Oil

Virgin Olive Oil

Pure Olive Oil

Pomace Olive Oil

Apparently it doesn't matter a whole lot which olive oil you use when you're making soap, aside from some fun properties related to arcane words like "trace" and "unsaponifiables", but one thing it can do is affect the color -- the "lower" the oil grade, the more green the soap, pomace olive oil soap being the greenest. Which, idk, may be a valuable thing for marketing purposes -- olives are (often) green, so it makes sense to have a green soap, right? Similarly, in America at least, white eggs are often cheaper than brown eggs (except for Easter time), because brown eggs look more "natural".

Marketing is made up by brain wizards, I am pretty sure.

ANYWAY. On the matter of white soap.

When I was originally researching the lavender soap, I kept running into recipes referencing "Venetian" soap, and trying to figure out whatever the fuck it was supposed to be is what led me toward researching the whole history of European soap-- and from there coming up with some Theories as to how maybe all the different major soap producers in Europe could've backwards-engineered the Aleppo soap they were getting via trade routes.

(Important History Note: Everyone is super fucking weird when it comes to Who Is the Originator of Really Nice Soap. Everyone. I have no idea why. Nobody is fucking reliable. I'm not reliable. Trust no one.)

Figure 1. Local soap truther.

... I should also say, now, that I have tried to write the following section thrice, and tumblr has eaten it every time. Therefore, let me instead give The Short Version:

Aleppo Soap (Syria)

Four ingredients:

olive oil

laurel berry oil

water

caustic soda (sodium hydroxide lye, made from ash of... some salt-tolerant plant, probably)

Hot process, as all these ye olde soap beauties are going to be -- cures for six months to a year -- does start green, but gets turns gold as it ages. The older the soap, the thicker the gold "rind" if you cut into the soap -- but the interior, where it hasn't dried/oxidized, is still green. (This, I suspect, is where the idea of shaving down your soaps and letting them dry for ages like that came from -- to get a uniform light color.)

Nablus Soap (Palestine)

Three ingredients:

olive oil

water

caustic soda (sodium hydroxide lye, made from barilla [a salt-tolerant marine plant] ash and lime)

Mentioned in this list because it's what I've been using in my soap experiments, as the soap closest to what would likely have been carried by Renaissance-era apothecaries. Hot process -- cures for 2 to 3 months, though I also saw up to 8 months -- starts gold and then, as it dries, turns a really bright white (and seems to turn whiter the older it ages).

Venetian Soap (Italy)

No fucking clue. It gets mentioned consistently in tons of early recipes, and I've come to the conclusion that it was an umbrella term for olive-oil soaps much the way we use Castile now, but there was also a thriving soapmaking guild system in Venice for a long time, and I don't speak enough Italian to track down and read their trade bills to try and figure out the ingredients list. Additionally, they were a major trading hub between the Middle East and the rest of Europe, so like, this bring it right back around to the idea of Venetian Soap just being an umbrella term for "the really good shit."

Castile Soap (Spain)

Three ingredients:

olive oil

water

caustic soda (sodium hydroxide lye, possibly? made from another salt-loving plant?)

I would say that aside from whatever the fuck was going on in Venice (if anything), this is the closest backwards-engineered European soap. Hot process -- 6 to 9 months to cure -- and while I didn't see anybody talking about color change in particular, you can see that in most how-tos and such, gold-to-cream-to-white is a pretty standard color range.

Marseilles Soap (France)

Here we finally start seeing some weird changes, which is why I put Marseilles Soap last (even though if you ask the French, they think they're the Original Deal). According to the 1688 Edict of Colbert, which naturally I cannot find a copy of and also, did I mention that I don't speak French, the ingredients are:

olive oil

water

salt

caustic soda (sodium hydroxide lye, possibly made from glasswort [a salt-tolerant marsh plant] ash)

The water and salt are separate here, but I've also seen local seawater being mentioned again, which would mix both. They also seem to use the saltwater to rinse the cooked soap goo, rather than have it part of the manufacture? No one else mentions doing something like that, thus making it a funky outlier. It is, once again, hot process -- it can take up to 12 months to cure -- and a color change from dark green to light beige is expected as they age (and also become longer lasting and gentler on the skin).

In conclusion:

Olive-oil soap often turns white, sometimes stays green, and either way, wow chemistry is neat.

#history #SOAP #lotta ridiculous research #trifles the amateur history enthusiast strikes again

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fantomette22 · 1 year

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Alright let’s chat!! *pours tea*

What are your ideas on who Rom was and where she came from? Who was she mostly connected to? What was she like? <3

Alright it's time !! drink tea

I can talk about the Byrgenwerth girl yeah !! (finally lol) Sorry I have lot of thoughts but also I feel I'm still missing a few things XD sorry in advance if that doesn't made any sense or if it's too long.

Ok so let's go with my main/fic interpret it will be way easier. So Rom, probably a nickname of Roma but I really like CosmicTeaCat and OfSilentThings idea that it could came from Andromeda as well (it would made sense). And she's basically Willem biological daughter. So she's been around Byrgenwerth since like forever I guess XD but maybe there's a connection/ she had family at the hamlet (you know the one 👀) idk.

Still not fully sure if she have brown/black hair so basically curly dark hair. Got glasses and her eyes are either hm green-blue? idk whatever is generally the color of a lake is pick your color between brown-green and dark blue.

And hm I'm not sure ho to talk about it I know it can be a sensible subject but it's import for me as well. In my story she's autistic or got some sorts of disability at least. (I mean, there's at least 3 other characters I hc on the spectrum XD) but Rom is more in the middle of the spectrum. She's not "Asperger"/ high potential autistic (sorry I'm not familiar with the English terms). It's in the more "moderate/lower side" of it, with much more difficulties. I mean she can talk and all, she can be a bit autonomous and don't have to be with someone 24h/24 for ex. She probably managed to talk correclty really late too but hey it's totally fine ! And she became way more autonomous while growing up. There's thing and subject she excels and do really greatly but she need the right accompaniment for it and there's thing she really can't comprehend or do by herself without someone explaining first. She probably won't have a proper doctorate or a master degree but she still managed to have a licence/baccalaureate (+3/technician level, after many hard years of works) And you can't let her all alone in the middle of Yharnam and except her to be fully autonomous for exemple O_O' and similar to Caryll she need really calm environment.She's doing quite fine really it just smt you can feel she can be really out of the norm as well. I really have no idea if I did that on purpose or not, it just feel natural to me? Crazy how your own life & experience inspire you don't you think? Yes I think i heavily based her on my own little brother as well it's bit different too, yet it's the similar we'll say.

I love the interpretation where she's a super smart scholars but also really like the ones where Rom could be just a disable child that Byrgenwerth decided to turned into a great one ?! (I did a weird mixt of both ideas I guess)

She absolutely loves/hyperfixate on arthropods and gastropod ! And everything that came in between the nematodes and the chordata fishes (you know the ancestor of our spine) and in the Eucaryote/Metazoan side of the phylogenitc tree ! (I'm so sorry I think I just lost everyone who never did biodiversity in biology at the university XD). In short everything from worms, medusa, sponge, arthropods, gastropods, (to the simpler type of fish).

(you basically have the mushroom, yeast/levures? and plants before the metazoan. The chordata gave everything from the fish to us : mammals, marsupials, reptiles, birds, amphibians...) Hope it help 🫡 hey you know all this classification first appeared in the 17th-18th century too? :D

Anyway all of this to say she loves and is not afraid of spiders & augurs at all. 🕷️🐌

When there's big spiders everyone came find her to help them . She moves it somewhere else. And the day Gehrman and the prospectors bring back a giant spider from the labyrinth and she could come really close to it/touch it it was the best day of her life XD

She also loves the sea/ocean and the night sky, stars and plants ! She know many things about all of this too.

After the separation Byrgenwerth/Church the scholars still kinda worked a bit with the church idk it's complicated. She ended working at the research hall, mostly with Caryll, Adeline & Maria when they looked for Isz but also with Mico afterwards before going more in separate ways and end up with the choir a huge while (before ultimately returning to Byrgenwerth maybe, idk if returning at Byrgen as a spider count XD). She became the "leader" of the Choir after Caryll (I guess Laurence is the actual true leader but he's like the big boss above the choir and religious/priest/saints). She's also the first one to become a successful lumen wood kin. You know this :

(imagined with super choir clothes)

And years after /probably after the beginning of the hunter's dream more experiments were done, she might have re work a lot with Byrgen too. She went to lower pthumeru with her team (young scholars she took care of too probably)... and they turned into spiders.

Vacuous spider, that title came after she turned into a kin. They asked her question about the cosmos, they thought she had ascend ! But she couldn't really answered... she was just 😐 well vacuous but hey she did save Yharnam from the apocalypse thanks to to veil of the blood moon. Because after they summon MP every month they were a blood moon and without the veil. Yharnam would have fallen in a few years/months instead of +2 decades later (when the hunter arrive) So during the Mensis ritual, that spiraled out of control she block everything. Her physical body died (altar in ebrietas arena but here spirits lived on in the lake!)

Connection with others :

Well Willem is basically her dad. I think he tried his best but he also work a lot and it could be complicated with Rom like I said before because of her condition. (As someone who grew up knowing people with a disability it's not always easy we'll say but they managed to found a balance in the end!) He always tried to include her where she could. When she was really little and when he was on his famous rocking chair looking at the lake he had her on his knees and he told her/teach her all kind of things.

So hm to not help thing her mom passed away when she was little. I haven't 100% decide yet. In my story, 15y before the squad meet at Byrgenwerth they were a huge epidemic and it kill at least one person (if not more) close to every characters. Rom, Maria, Mico Ludwig, etc were like 5-6y old or smt? maybe a bit older. But perhaps her mother died even before that. A scholar too probably.

Laurence was kinda adopted by Willem after his parents (who were friends with the provost) passed away because of this same epidemic. He's like 6 years older or smt? compared to Rom (and the others lil students). So they're quite chill around each others. It's not the ultimate sibling besties but they're kind around one another.

So Micolash now! He got bring back to Willem too XD but way after Laurence. When he was a teen maybe. They were really great friends at Byrgen (pre-healing church) and passed lot of time together + with Damian as well. The 2 boys decided to be there to hemp Rom. Mico and Rom were really, really close at some point. I am not entirely sure in which measure and sense but...you can guess. I mean there's smt sure but I'm still hesitating right now if he saw her as family or probably smt more. (Maybe they got in a relationship too! But parted ways at some point... you know it's complicated)

Caryll and Rom understand each other on a spiritual lvl at times XD sometimes they don't even need to talk to each other. It feel like they share a brain/braincells. So don't let them work alone unsupervised doing labs together they will have no idea what they were supposed to be after 10mins of daydreaming 😂. They got better the years after. I promised they worked well at the Research Hall XD

She was good friends with Maria too. They both share common interest and Maria is super kind too. they love talking about stars, nature and science and like each other calm presence. I mean depends if you include Caryll but they're the 2 girls of the original Byrgenwerth squad too! Oh and I forgot but one day Maria bring her back a hateful maggot (dead) from the forest. Rom loves it of course.

And Rom & Adeline are such a probably hilarious pair as well XD

Ludwig is really chilled too so idk they could vibe.

Others : Of course the staff at Byrgenwerth really like her. Dores actively tried to act the more nicely (&protectively) possible around Rom. She like really feral around everyone and show a more softer sides really occasionally to the person close to her so that tell a lot.

Of course Liam( gatekeeper) and Gehrman, really find her sweet too and I haven't much ideas of for now but I guess there's quite a few subject she could talk with the groundskeeper.

I mean even Patches (who secretly hate everyone lol) find Rom really useful to take care of spiders and insects he is supposed to remove (yes he just clean the school at the beginning then managed to become scholars & prospectors lol. And he even joined Rom team in the chalice expedition and research a few times)

Choir/orphanage : she was in charge for a while so she knew many scholars/choir member / some church members but especially the children who grew up in the orphanage : Amelia, Edgar, Iosefka, Imposter Iosefka?! (maybe??), Yurie etc She passed a lot of time with them and teach them many things. (So that would explain why Yurie would protect her!!) ("She tried to protect them from Mico bad influence and Mensis too)

Ok Kos. Or say Kosm I'm not entirely sure but there's quite a big connection at some point. I mean Kos gives eyes to Rom after all. She probably had lot of research on Kos too and was possibly devastated when they found Kos dead at the Hamlet. + I guess loosing a child/ mother made them closer too so rom might had managed to communicate/connect with great one and Kos accepted her.

OMG i almost forgot the most important ! EBRIETAS ! She passed lot of times with Ebrietas they were really close !! Maybe Rom even understand her ! (language wise) and I mean Ebrietas literally mourn her and seems to wait for her indefinitely. Did she consider Rom like a sister after she turned into a kin ? Gasp or even her girlfriend/wife ! Who knows ! (sorry I find it funny and so angsty at the same time.)

And I'm going to stop here I think 😅 Hope you enjoyed ! Thank you for finally allowed me to talk about it.

So yeah love the potato kin spider ! ❤️

#bloodborne #bloodborne headcanons #rom the vacuous spider #part 1 : a scholar’s dream #hey I got the best marks in biodiversity lmao if I didn't went in geology I would have done this or evolution/paleo #I'm so sorry for the bio lesson too XD it was longer than expected but I need to talk about all of this #I hope I express myself correctly as well I knew autism & neurodiversity are really important for some persons and I can't write-#-everything in details and you will understand that I can't share all my personal life either #i don’t have much drawing with rom yet. ok i got the Christmas one too but that’s it xD #Yharnam's communion #my asks

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in-arlathan · 1 year

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Get To Know Me

Who dis? It's me! Been a hot minute, hasn't it? This year has been a pile of dung up until now, if I'm being completely honest, hence my absence from Tumblr and most social media. I had an accident in December and have been feeling like dirt ever since. But: I'm back now! Mostly thanks to my beloved @johaerys-writes and the amazing @mogwaei who tagged me for this game. Thanks to you two! ❤ It's been a please reading your posts.

And now: Let's dive in!

Share your wallpaper: I'm a very boring person who has her own artwork as a wallpaper on her phone (talking about this study I did last year). XD It reminds me that (every once in a while) I do create something that I actually enjoy without any self-doubt or regret, and I like that.

Last song you listened to: "Eyes Closed" by Ed Sheeran. I'm a very basic person, lol.

Currently reading: Let me check Goodreads real quick... Yeah, I'm reading far too many books at the same time again. So here's the top 3 of books I'm reading and enjoying the most atm:

The Blacktongue Thief by Christopher Buehlman

Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

There's also a bunch of fanfic I need to catch up on but my mind has been all over the place.

Last move: "Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves". My P&P podcast party had been invited to a preview 2 weeks ago and we had a fun time watching that movie.

Craving: Time off. I've been working non-stop for the past 8 months or so (with Christmas being the only exception) and I'm feeling super drained right now. Luckily, there are a few short trips coming up in April and July, so there is that!

What are you wearing right now: Basic black jeans and a white knitted sweater. It's spring but it's still flipping cold in my apartment. Ooph!

How tall are you: 168 cm or 5'5 feet (I guess?)

Piercings: Just the two for my earrings. As I said, I'm *very* basic. :')

Tattoos: Currently I got two but I plan on getting more later this year. Gotta save up some money first.

Glasses? Contacts? I got 3 different glasses (transparent, gold and brown frames) and contacts because I like to switch things up.

Last drink: I'm currently having some coffee with oat milk aka The breakfast of Champions. Or so I keep telling myself XD

Last thing you ate: Chicken wrap with lots of cheese. It was amazing.

Favorite color: My taste in color(s) shifts constantly but I'm currently obsessed with green in various tones. I keep getting back to like a warmer green because it makes me feel very cozy. But I also adore a good color combo of orange and violet/lilac or yellow and dark blue. It depends on my mood.

Current obsession: Truth be told, because of the current state of my mental health, I have a hard time being obsessed about anything. It's not like I can't enjoy things (I know that that feels like and I don't want to get back to *those days*) but there's not hyperfixation that lives rent-free in my head. And you know what? It feels terrible! I miss the feeling of being utterly obsessed about something. I crave that level of excitement, honestly!

Unrelated Obsession: Okay, I guess this means non-fandom obsessions. I do have one of those! A short while back, I read a book by the title "Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World" which was fascinating. I loved that it was not Euro-centric and instead focussed on the achievements of Genghis and his successors. I've been gobbling media with the same or similiar topics – including finally playing "Ghost of Tsushima" which send me reading up on the Mongol invasion of Japan. It's been an intriguing ride!

Any pets: I'm too allergic to have cats, dogs, and other animals and I hate it. I want a little doggo so badly... 💔

Do you have a crush on anyone: IRL? Not anymore. I used to have a crush for most of last year but since he started ghosting me a few months back, I decided to focus my attention elsewhere. I'm *done* with dating and have been for the past couple of years. As for fictional characters... I have to go with Solas, although (as I mentioned) my excitement has died down somewhat. I still love that boy to death but I'm not as obsessed as I used to be.

Favorite fictional character: How dare you make me chose one?! I have a trillion fave characters and they're all precious to me ;_; No, I will not pick one because I truly can't!

The last place you traveled: I went to Cologne, my hometown, three weeks ago, but I assume that doesn't count as traveling. I think my last real vacation was in 2019 when I travelled to the Leipzig Book Fair. Oh my... 😅 (And I was wondering why I felt so drained all the time, lol. Dang... what a reality check. This hurts!).

That's it! Hope you enjoyed the read :3

Time to forward some tags. As always, please feel free to join in or ignore the tag: @serial-chillr @faerieavalon @thebookworm0001 @ohmypawsandwhiskers @pikapeppa @oxygenforthewicked @fiadhaisteach @noire-pandora @ellie-effie. Sending all of you lots of love. I hope you're doing great!

Until next time, lovelies! <3

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Perfect.

Platonic Natasha 'Phoenix' trace x Robert 'Bob' FloydRating: E Summary: After their accident, Bob and Phoenix try to figure out what went wrong and work through their complicated feelings. warnings: a little baby tinge of angst, but that's it. words: 1.6k a/n: a short and sweet little one. i always felt like these two were nearly telepathic the instant they met. they clicked really well for never having flown before and I'd like to think they became the fastest of friends and stay in contact after TG:M is completed. Also note, I made Bob married. Because no way that man is single. Impossible. x marnie

Natasha ‘Phoenix’ Trace was never nervous. She was always cool, calm and collected; completely in control at all times. She always was the most sensible and logical of her crew even while employed under the Black Aces, but tonight, the pilot just couldn’t count sheep for the life of her. She had stared at the ceiling for almost 3 hours before grabbing a jacket and padding out of her bunk, doing her best to not wake her bunkmate, Hangman, from his beauty sleep.

Natasha couldn’t stop the pounding in her chest or the ring in her ears. Every second since she was released form the med ward, she had been replaying her bird strike accident over and over again. What could she have done to prevent it? Did she do everything she could have at the time? What would have happened if something had gone differently? What would have happened if she died? If Bob died?

The web of chaos in her head was overwhelming enough to leave static where dreams should be. She needed to let out the storm in her brain, but in a mission like this, there was no support. If you’re unsure or too weak to handle an accident, you definitely wouldn’t be fit to fly this important mission. It was 11pm, she had a 0500 wake up scheduled and couldn’t sleep a wink. She did the most logical thing she could do.

She went to Bob.

Phoenix’s fist rapped only once on the door when it opened. The sight of her WSO alive and well relaxed her shoulders. She gave a thin lipped smile. Bob looked like shit. His hair was disheveled, there was a small bruise resting underneath the side of his jaw, but the eye bags under his glasses were designer, probably Gucci level at that rate.

He sent her a small smile, a tiny breath leaving his mouth. “You must have ESP, I was just about to find you.”

“Hey, that happens when you go through a near death experience with someone,” she whispered, placing a comforting hand on his shoulder. “But uh, I can’t sleep. Can we talk? About today?”

“Yeah, yeah, come in,” he mumbled, opening the door wider for his friend. Bob, being a solo from the Screaming Eagles, was the last to arrive at base in the Dagger squad because of his long distance post. Being the odd man out, he was lucky enough to have his dorm to himself.

Bob’s bunk was neat and tidy. His bed was military made without a wrinkle to be seen, never even laid in. His desk, however, was messy and illuminated by a rickety lamp. A weapon’s service manual with too-old sticky notes and different colored highlighted portions was open to the anatomy of a Super Hornet’s F414 engine. He ushered her to sit in the empty desk chair opposite of his own.

“Good thing you came, because I wanted to talk too. I was going to text you to see if you were still awake,” the WSO uttered, his hands flat on his desk and staring hard at his textbook. “The whole situation just doesn’t make sense to me. Either that, or I just blocked it out and can’t remember.”

“Bird strike,” Natasha let out matter-of-factly. She fiddled with the cuticles on her thumbs as if they more interesting than her partner. “Dumb goose got sucked into the engine and blew us out.”

“No, no, I get that,” Bob replied. “It’s just… how did the other engine go out too? The way we were flying,” he trailed off, lost in his own head for a moment on how to word it. Pilots weren't as well versed in the science behind flying. They just needed to do it. If Phoenix was anything like his other front seater, their aerodynamic pressure force section of their physics course probably went through one ear and out the other.

A thin finger went pointing back a graph to his book, his eyebrows scrunched beneath his glasses. “Our knots and g's weren’t pulling fast enough to force the engine out, plus we emergency switched our generator on which would have jumped the system when we attempted a restart. The engine physically couldn’t have extinguished itself completely based off of that alone on the right side. It should have been alive long enough to at least get us back to base. When Techie and I went over systems checks on the ground, it was all completely green at 100% capacity. There couldn’t have been that many failures we missed.”

“But you did.” Natasha’s voice was steady. At Bob's immediate crestfallen expression from her blame, she quickly backpedaled. “No, take that face off, that's not what I mean. Bob, you guys didn’t fail. You did everything by the book. The plane did. It just happened, Bobby.”

“And that’s what’s eating me, Nat.” He collapsed back into his chair, pushing his glasses up to rub his eyes. “If system checks didn’t catch the safeguards, who else’s planes could have problems too? Who else could end up like us? Or worse?”

They were both quiet for a moment. The stare they shared was still and harrowing. It could have been Payback and Fanboy. It could have been Coyote, Rooster, or even Hangman the self proclaimed god himself. Any one of their friends could have been in their shoes, could have made different decisions and ended up in only three endpoints: alive, maimed, or dead.

Phoenix had to think of herself and her WSO. Bob was her responsibility and she would do everything in her power to bring her backseater home, no matter who they were. Bob, bless his heart, thought only mostly of their friends. He trusted Natasha explicitly and knew he never needed to worry about her decision making skills. It was everyone else, whom he couldn’t evaluate crisis situation control with, that was making his skin crawl. The 'what ifs'.

“That’s not something we can think about,” Phoenix drawled, drifting her eyes closed. “This mission is life or death, just like what we dealt with today. We have to work through it. It was a freak accident that we went down and a freak accident that we lived.”

“I disagree with that last part,” Bob replied, staring at his partner incredulously. She looked like a shadow of herself, shockingly resigned in herself. Her usually pulled back hair was down loose around her shoulders and pinned above her ears. She looked younger, and probably the most scared Bob had ever seen her. “There was no accident in our living. It’s because you took control and did everything perfectly.”

“Perfect,” she sneered, her head back in her hands. “If it was perfect, we wouldn’t have ended up in the hospital. We would have landed safe on base with everyone else.”

Bob slid towards her and knelt before his pilot. His blue eyes were stern. “We ended up in the hospital. Yeah, so what? A few scratches and bruises is pretty ok with me when we could have ended up as minced meat at the bottom of the desert, Natasha. That’s perfect for me.”

Bob wriggled his fingers at her. “Look. Ten fingers. Ten toes. All moving, barely any pain and really only a bruised face from my landing which you couldn’t control: that was all me. And look at you!” He motioned at her to look at herself. “You have barely a scratch on you. Not even a bruise from what I see. Phoenix. You were perfect.”

She was quiet for a second, tears pricking at her eyes. She was perfect, yet he was not. “You’re my responsibility, Bobby,” she whispered at the popcorn ceiling, suddenly more interesting than her partner. “All I thought about was what Maverick said: 'what would you tell their families? Would your excuse be good enough for them?'”

The silence in the room weighed heavy as they both pondered the question. Natasha leaned back into Bob with her elbows on her knees, her fingers looping through his. “If you died, Bob, my excuse would have never been good enough. Not to your wife, your sisters, your mom. You died because of a bird? I would have never been able to face them knowing that my inability to control the plane in an emergency was the reason you didn’t come home. I’d be–”. She trailed.

“A failure,” Bob finished for her. Her throat was tight, a stray tear leaving a glistening streak down her cheek.

"Yeah. That."

His brushed the tear away with the inside of his sleeve and let his hand moved to the back of her hair, forcing her forehead to his. She stiffened for a moment, but relaxed into his grip realizing he had no intention of pulling her further. They closed their eyes at the same time. He took a deep breath and she took one as well, matching his pace. Their fingers tightened on each other, feeling the ridges of their fingerprints, the peaks and valleys of each other’s knuckles. They were whole. They were here. They were still together.

Phoenix broke peace first to look up at Bob, his glasses reflecting her tired eyes. “We’re ok?”

Bob separated their heads, both of his hands on top of hers. He gave them a shake with a reassuring smile. “Yeah. Yeah, we’re ok.”

“I’ll protect you always, Bob. I swear that.”

“And I swear I’ll protect you too. It’ll get better, right?”

“Yeah. Yeah it will.”

Phoenix moved to stand from the chair, but Bob cleared his throat and stood a little too quickly with her. “You know Nat, we’re both bushed. It’s a long walk back to your dorm and it's late. You should just… stay? You’ll sleep easier without Hangman’s snoring.”

Phoenix raised her eyebrow to the bare bed across from Bob’s, her arms crossed. “Mixing genders in the dorm is usually frowned upon, Lieutenant Floyd. And besides, it's down the hall. What are you talking about?”

A flush ran across his face. “Alright, look, I’d sleep better knowing you were– here. So we can help each other if we need it, you know?” He went radio quiet, rubbing the top of his flannel sheet nervously. “I’m honestly afraid that if I try to go down, I’ll just panic.”

Natasha knew how hard that was for Bob to admit. Bob, sweet and kind nd strong in his own right, was not used to trauma. He never had a situation occur with himself that he needed to work through as hard as this. Phoenix traipsed over to Bob’s bunk, pulling out his storage container for an extra fitted sheet and quilt. She made the bed less than efficiently before scrambling up the ladder to lay down.

“I just gotta leave by sunup so Hangman doesn’t start making up rumors. You know he loves stirring the pot.”

Bob’s toothy grin was infectious as he tossed one of his pillows in her direction. She caught it with a puff of clean soap and lavender filling her nose. He turned off his desk lamp and clambered up into his own bunk. “Thanks Pheenie.”

“No problem Bobby boy. Get some rest.”

#natasha trace #phoenix top gun #robert floyd #bob top gun #phoenix x bob #top gun maverick #top gun maverick ff #top gun maverick fanfiction #phoenix top gun fanfiction #bob top gun fanfiction #phoenix top gun ff #bob top gun ff

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I’ve designed suits for the Rats, and I’ve gone into my own theories on their bionics. But I haven’t really gone into how I imagine Leo functions. A crime I wish to rectify, here’s a look at not only my take on his suit, but also his bionics as a whole

A small warning for... gore? There’s no blood or 1-1 accurate anatomy, but the lad gets peeled

Yeah that’s right we’re going CLEAN for this bad boy

So in the show, Douglas says that the doctors determined Leo would never be able to use his arm again. Which, absolutely true; getting a stone pillar dropped on you from 10+ feet isn’t something you can walk away from unscathed. It’s implied (but not explicitly said) that the arm would’ve been amputated

Key point being would’ve been. Douglas says something that I found interesting “Doctor said you'd never be able to use your arm again, and I wasn't about to let that happen. So, I used bionic components to save it.”

He saved the arm, meaning he didn’t replace it. But only so much of the original realistically could’ve survived that level of trauma. Bones shattered, muscles torn, ligaments severed, the works. So there’s gotta be quite a bit going on beneath the skin to achieve what Douglas did

It’s established that Leo doesn’t have a chip. Combine that with the bionics only being limited to his arm and the suddenness of the procedure, I’m gonna say that he doesn’t have nanobots like I theorized for the Rats. Instead, his bionics are closer to Krane’s model in the sense of relying on physical implants to support the body.

The replacement bones are metal and rigged more or less as clunkier chips that send the necessary signals throughout his arm. And the plating is an extra layer of protection for what remains of this poor kid’s muscles, along with guiding the muscle into the correct positions. My rendition is loose at best, but there’s only so far I’m willing to go before it looks like a completely different style

A note for the skin, it played a big part in me giving Leo freckles! The synthetic skin would theoretically be “perfect” and free of blemish, so post-incident, Leo would have a visual nod to it that’s subtle, but distinct

Now the HAND is where the fun is. The base material is different for flexibility and rigged with the conductors. There’s also a plate with conductors on the back of the hand as well, ‘cause I wanted to give his ability more range

My logic is this: If Douglas wanted to give Leo a way to fend for himself, why limit him to throwing stuff? Kid’s not super athletic; we see that if (and when) someone catches up to him, he’s toast. So I dipped into Chase’s pool and gave him a baton and shield that he can generate. Due to the limitation of his bionics, he can’t form anything larger than shown above, but it gives him an edge in close quarters

Fun fact: Chase’s staff is canonically called a laser bo, while Leo’s ability is referred to as laser spheres. So hey, all the more reason to overlap

And finally the suit. This one’s short ‘cause honestly? His canon suit was kinda fire. I really didn’t change much outside of simplifying it. Gave him a few more pops of color to break up the black and leaned into a more casual look. I had fun with his jacket, leaned into the asymmetry. He doesn’t need heavy padding on that arm, so the sleeve’s been shortened. Add the crooked hood/zipper and he’s got his own flare!

And to end on a bonus. Ormge :)

#Lab Rats #Leo Dooley #Amazed at how much cleaner he came out than the Rats. That wasn't on purpose but I'm giddy about it #Anyway. WORDS #I am not educated in the ways of implants or robotics as a whole so I did my tried and true method #Light research and stringing words together that SOUND sensible #Which I think is very sexy of me

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Pop Culture Builds 12: Wence the Wanderer (Magi-Nation Duel)

It’s these pop culture build specials that really make me realize how important data preservation really is. Sure, well-known characters will have oodles of resources for them both in the real space and digital spaces for ages to come. However, when it comes to obscure media, something that is someone’s favorite but didn’t get a lot of attention back in the day… How long will all-digtal resources for such things last without anyone to maintain them? Whether it be fan wikis or the increasingly rare fansites, such information can be exceedingly hard to find, and even then, those resources can be incomplete or leave out details that only fans would already know.

Which is why I’m so grateful that the original person who suggested this character reached out to me about them! Thank you again!

In any case, let’s get right down to it. Magi-Nation Duel was a short-lived CCG which centered around the denizens of the Moonlands and the Dream Creatures they summon to do battle. (It’s probably not lost on you how close “Magi-Nation” is to the word “imagination”)

In any case, today’s subject is Wence, a Naroomese Eliwan magus. The Eliwan are the descendants of the ancients who settled on the Moonlands after being driven from the surface of their homeworld by the “Invaders”. The Eliwans appear to be able to adapt heavily to the various environments they settle in, giving each regional subspecies drastically different appearances.

In any case, Wence lives apart from other Naroomese, and seems to be something of a wandering magus who travels about righting wrongs and even befriending eliwan of different regions, as noted by his friendship with the Underling Eliwan siblings Gruk and Ulk.

While Wence plays a relatively minor role in the Gameboy Color tie-in game, he does also exist in card form as well within the card game itself.

In any case, we’ll try our best to replicate his abilities here in Pathfinder!

The first hurtle I had to overcome was what ancestry to translate the Eliwan into, but this actually proved very easy, all things considered. Both Elves and the Eliwan are noted for their ability to adapt heavily to whatever environment they are in while still being the same species, so I decided to use elf as the base for him. I would also recommend the Woodcraft alternate trait to give him an edge as a woodsman, however.

Class was a bit harder, given most fighting is done by summons in Magi-Nation. However, I settled on a cross-class build. The first being the Wild Caller archetype for summoner (the Heroes of the Wild version), granting him a plantlike eidolon which can shift in base form depending on the local terrain, and access to summon nature’s ally instead of summon monster, which better fits with the themes of a Naroom deck, especially with one of the feats we’ll talk about later.

Meanwhile, his eidolon should be based on either the Bungaloo (humanoid grass monster) or the Arboll (a spherical leafy plant monster with two gnarled wooden arms)

The other class, which I recommend at least four levels of, is the guide archetype for ranger, granting Wence some better woodcraft, the ability to aid others in traversing terrain, and even some minor nature-based spells.

As both a summoner and a ranger, feats that let you bolster your summons or eidolon are important, as well as those that buff your ranged and outdoorsy skills. A super important one to take, however, is Summon Plant Ally, which adds a large number of plant creatures to your summon nature’s ally list, ranging from mighty treants to leshies and carnivorous plants!

The Naroom deck style revolves around transferring energy between summons and their magus, and since this represents both buffing and healing, that informs some of the spells for this build, such as rejuvenate eidolon and instant restoration to keep both your eidolon and summons in the fight, as well as summon nature’s ally to be able to have both your eidolon and summons out at the same time. Other buffing spells are also a very good choice as well, bolstering their abilities. Naroom also has some plant-manipulation cards in the set, so I’d also recommend spells that can be reflavored as monstrous vines, such as black tentacles, as well as those that conjure plant matter wholesale, as well as entangle from your ranger levels.

The only bit of equipment I was able to confirm Wence having was a bow and arrow, but given the nature of Naroom relic cards, we can assume for this build that he would probably prefer items that boost vitality and allow one to travel stealthily.

If summoner/ranger doesn’t appeal to you, you could perhaps go for a plant master hunter to focus on the combination of being a far-ranging wanderer with a plant companion and access to summon nature’s ally. If you’re playing Pathfinder second edition you could just play a straight-up summoner with a plant eidolon, since you get access to the primal spell list with that anyway, possibly with the ranger multiclass archetype as well.

This was a fun and challenging build for me to come up with, but hardly limited to replicating wence, focusing on supporting your monsters both with spells as well as ranged attacks.

#pathfinder #pop culture #pop culture builds #pop culture characters #wence #magi-nation duel #summoner #ranger #elf

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rainbowmurderhorse · 1 year

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Do you mind explaining why this hasn't been posted yet? (At least as far as I've seen, my phone keeps glitching when I scroll too far on peoples accounts).

If you say you have a handful of Naga OC's, do they have names? Are they all based off different types of snakes? Which one is your favorite if you have one? (Bonus questions: Do you have any lore with them, or world at which they come from?) HAVE A SUPER DUPER DAY, FRIENDO!~

hello there! Thank you very much for the ask!! Plz forgive me though this might get a lil long! As for the answer to the first question the simplest answer is that I'm a mix of scared,embarrassed, a lot of low motivation levels and my mental health being quite bad as of late but I'm gonna be trying to change that this year and post more even if it's just something small like writing some lore tidbits about my OCs or if I'm feeling brave and I like a picture or two I make I'll post it!

Putting this under a read more cause it did get long!

Now onto the next question which is Yes! They do! 5 of them have names one of them sadly do not and only three of them are based off of real life snakes in a sense.

Mike is my oldest one (I.E. I made him when I was much younger) and while I need to heavily revamp or retire him he was based off a small green snake that I once saw in a picture.

Sakura and Alto meanwhile are somewhat newer and based of an albino snake that I also once saw in a picture this one wore cute lil hats if I remember correctly. Alto is pure white with red eyes Sakura on the other hand has pink eyes and splotches/markings on his tail (I need to draw my snakes more often tbh but I do have this for reference for Sakura)

The other three aren't really based on anything i iust went with what colors i thought I'd like the unnamed one's scales are red,Basil's scales are blue(they used to have red diamonds on the back but I need to redesign him a bit so idk if I'm gonna keep that or not)and for Kota I still need to come up with his color scheme.

For question Three I do love all my OCs don't get me wrong but sometimes I hyperfixate on two or three depending on my mood but if I had to Pick a favorite It'd probably be Basil as he's been the most used to RPs with my friends. He's followed Closely though by Sakura and Alto. I need to find more time to work on the other three.

As for Lore here's what I got for my boys (I'll try to keep it to a short version):

Basil: He lives by himself deep within the jungle and he works as a healer for all who need his help and can use magic (he can give himself legs if he needs too as an example). He tries his best to live a quiet and peaceful life but sometimes he does get dragged into things Depending on the universe he's in. He's an oc I that can fit into many different AUs. Basil can also be a little bit of a grump but he's really kind and you're close enough with him he'll gladly let you rest in his coils and he'll try to keep you as warm as he can.

Sakura: He is the butler/Right hand of Demon Lord/King Luna and takes care of his Master's home and affairs while his master is busy with other things. The two live in a town that mostly populated by monsters n the like and it's Luna's job to protect the town. Sakura was hired by Luna and he's been happily serving him for years, He's usually a cheerful and sweet guy who does his best to be friendly and welcoming to all their guests but he does have a hidden dark side that Luna is slightly intimidated by when it comes out as Luna is more used to the chill side of Sakura.

Alto: The Demon King of Medicine and Alchemy as a man(or well Naga) of Science he lives in a somewhat dis/gaea-esce world (aka the Netherworld or demon land) and is one of the many kings in this world. He is one of the most peaceful kings and due to him being a neutral party his kingdom is one of the largest and safest to be in because the last time someone tried to start a war with him all of the offending Kingdom's crops mysterious died and the water supply was poisoned to the point that if you stuck your finger in it you'd be dead in the next hour. That was all of Alto's doing and he threatened that he can and would do much worse than that if the war efforts persisted, needless to say all the Kings and Queens agreed that day to never go to war with his kingdom again. But don't worry he helped the offending get back on it's feet and returned the water back to normal.most of his followers and subjects are students of Alchemy,Medicine,Magic,etc and he is usually welcoming of beings of all shapes and sizes ranging from demons to humans and even angels as well.

The most surprising thing about Alto is also one of the most Ironic things about him he's incredibly shy especially around new people and is almost always internally freaking out(think Tam/aki from M/y He/ro or Sto/rk from Sto/rm Haw/ks((who I slightly based him off of)) ) People don't know this about him though unless they're incredibly close to Alto as there are very few people that work with daily with him and even fewer kings n queens who know what the true Alto is like as he almost always has a resting bitch face to put it bluntly and his glare tends to come off rather intense because of it(once he's in a safe, more relaxed environment or around his three closest friends he smiles more and he actually acts and looks quite soft). He does listen to his subjects though and does his best to fix any major problems that crop up and if his schedule isn't swamped he'll teach some classes at the local colleges plus much to his citizens surprise he's rather patient and kind when teaching.

Kota: is a captured specimen and was being experimented on by an evil corporation and that's sadly I have for him

Mike and the Unnamed Naga oc sadly don't have a sold story either but they will one day.

Sorry this got so long but thank you reading this if you did I deeply appreciate it!! And I hope that you have a super awesome day too!!!~^^

#Rainbow Unicorn's menagerie of OCs #The tired Unicorn answers #Sakura the Naga #Basil the Naga #Alto The Demon King of Medicine and Alchemy #Rain talks about their OCs #Kota the Naga

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Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back (1997) Review

Yesterday, I spent a good amount of time discussing the classic Playstation game Crash Bandicoot. I talked about my thoughts on the game, the Playstation brand as a whole, and what became of the Crash Bandicoot intellectual property after the game was released. Rather than fully repeat myself, I highly recommend reading that review before this one. However something I glossed over in all of that was perhaps the most important part: the fact that sequels were indeed made. Crash Bandicoot is a game that's just as much defined by itself as it is defined by the games that came after. So let's talk about those games, starting with the sequel. A year after Crash Bandicoot, Sony published Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back. (Is that a Star Wars pun? Uh, anyway...) This game is generally regarded as better than the first. So what do I think? Well, I’m not sure honestly, but we’ll get to that.

First, the story. Beginning immediately after the normal ending of Crash 1, we see Dr. Neo Cortex fall into a cave with crystals. He gets an evil idea and we cut to Crash, alongside a new character: Coco. Coco is a strange character. She’s Crash’s sister. I know that doesn’t sound weird, but remember that Crash wasn’t born- he was MADE. He was a normal bandicoot who got experimented on. I guess that implies Cortex made her too? It was never explained. She’s just kinda here now. I like her design at least. On that note, that other bandicoot, Tawna, is missing in this game. It’s almost like Coco is intended to replace Tawna. Well actually, that’s exactly the case. Apparently, Sony Japan didn’t like Crash being accompanied by a “super sexy” character. When combined with the marketing director’s aforementioned complaints and Sony Japan’s desire for a more “girlish” (whatever that means) supporting character we end up with Tawna being cut and Coco inexplicably taking her place. As an aside, Coco is also just a better character in general. She’s not terribly interesting, but at least she has a personality beyond “love interest”. Overall, it’s a good change in my book, especially considering this story isn’t a damsel in distress plot like the first game. Oh yeah, I should probably finish explaining that plot huh?

After we take control of Crash, we play a very short level as Cortex warps Crash to our hub area. Cortex tells Crash that he needs him to collect every crystal so that he can save the world or something. As such, it’s mandatory to collect every single crystal in the game. That may sound bad, but they’re basically impossible to miss in the majority of stages. Only like once or twice are they even a little tricky to find. Crash, or rather you, collects them all then shock and awe Cortex is lying and is still completely evil. He wants to use the crystals you just collected to use a mind control beam on the planet. (Isn't this the plot of Sonic Colors?) Crash stops Cortex and saves the day, but Cortex’s space laser, which is an improved Cortex Vortex, is still intact up in space. Is this a teaser for the next game? Nope! It’s actually the bad ending. Yep, we have good and bad endings in this game. How do you get the good ending? Well… let’s just move on.

The structure of the game is very different. In Crash 1, it was level by level and that’s it. Beat one and move to the next. In this game, five levels of roughly the same difficulty will all open at once and you can play them in any order. This is certainly a change that they made. I'm not sure what the point of that change was, but they certainly made it. Gameplay wise, it’s essentially the same but with a few big differences. Firstly, the game now supports analog sticks. However even though the game supports them, I don't really recommend them. I find that the dpad plays better with the fixed camera. Now the second immediate change hit me like a truck of cement: the new jump physics. They’re HEAVY, and in my opinion they're a lot worse. Crash now falls to the ground much faster than the first game. It’s jarring. I understand some gamers like heavy jumps, but I hate them. I like light, floaty, and nimble jumps. It allows for better control. I thought the original’s jump physics were perfect. Why feel the need to change it?

On the topic of Crash’s moveset, they added a lot of moves. Firstly there’s the crawl. Hold down the circle button to crawl on the ground. You will almost never use this. Secondly, there’s a belly flop. It’s a ground pound that can break certain crates and open a single extra path on one of the levels. I never tried using it on enemies because of how slow it is. I rarely used it. Thirdly, we have a slide. The slide is used occasionally to slide under things, but it’s mostly good as an attack. In this game, a lot of enemies can only be killed efficiently by sliding, and it’s hard to tell which ones they are. I ended up using the slide as an attack far more often than the spin as an attack. The slide can also give you a little bit of hangtime if you slide off a platform, which is important for the final move: the slide jump. The slide jump is a much higher jump than your standard jump, and when combined with the hang time you can get, it’s no wonder that this move is iconic. Other than that, I don’t have much to say about it though. Crash also has some contextual moves, such as hanging from metal grates or the awful jetpack from the final world. Can I talk about that real quick? Can I talk about how two levels and the entire final boss revolves around you piloting a jetpack using the most unfathomable controls imaginable? No? Ok, well let’s move on to the collectables.

We’ve already mentioned the main collectables, crystals. Like I said, they’re near impossible to miss. There’s honestly no real point in them actually being a collectible if I’m being honest. They may as well have just made the crystal the star at the end of the level, so to speak. It’d make a lot more sense honestly. They are the reason we’re exploring these levels to begin with. Anyway, we also have gems, just like Crash 1. Now if you remember from Crash 1, I didn’t collect the gems. They were an optional challenge that rewarded you with a joke ending. However with Crash 2, the gems are required to get the good ending. So I guess I should collect them then, huh? I suppose it only makes sense considering that Crash Bandicoot games are known for their 100% challenge. Break all the boxes and grab all the gems. How bad could it be?

Very bad.

I’m honestly not quite sure how people enjoy this. I was genuinely miserable as I played through this game. Honestly, the box breaking part wasn’t that bad. Break all the boxes in a level, and you get a gem. I can understand liking that, at least for most levels. Most weren’t too bad. Some levels are really annoying to break all the boxes, though. Sometimes they hide them in awful ways, like Cold Hard Crash. Sometimes you’ll find a split path in a level and you have to walk backwards to break them all as you pray that you don’t walk into any of the hazards that you can’t see. One time you had to stop in the middle of a boulder chase to slowly belly flop as you pray Crash gets his ass up in time. One time they made you jump into a fucking bottomless pit to find a secret area. Sometimes they even put crates on death routes, forcing you to do some real fuckery to get all the crates on the death or colored gem route as well as the crates on the main route. In the worst cases, they even have crates that are impossible to get unless you find a secret entrance into the level.

Hey, wait let’s back up a second. Death routes? Secret entrances? Colored gems? Well for death routes, the thing about this game is that there are a bunch of gems hidden around that have nothing to do with box breaking. While it depends on the gem, the majority of the time they’re on death routes. If you get to a certain point in a level without dying, you get to go to a secret route that’s extra hard with a gem at the end. Honestly, I didn’t have much difficulty with the platforming in them. While there were some tough moments, for the most part they weren't really that difficult. They often weren’t even that much harder than the rest of the stage. The real challenge was the endurance test of having to reset the level if you died and didn’t find a checkpoint within the death route. Very fun stuff.

As for secret level entrances, there are 5 secret warps in the game. They’re found in the main levels by doing.. something. It depends on the warp. They’re invisible. You only know you’ve found one when you get suddenly whisked away. There’s no way to know what levels they’re hidden in to my knowledge. I guess Naughty Dog expects you to stand literally everywhere you possibly can on the chance of finding one of these things. As for the secret levels themselves, three of the five are recycled. They simply act as an alternate way to enter the stage, except you have to enter this way or else you won’t be able to find all the boxes hidden in the secret route. You probably won’t even know the stage has an alternate entrance and you’ll pull your hair out trying to find those boxes. The first two recycled levels aren’t too bad because you have a good section of new content and only have to replay the ending of the level. The final one, Road to Ruin, is the worst offender because you only get like 3 seconds of new content before having to replay the entire level. This is just padding. The other two secret warps are actually new levels, so I don’t mind them.

And as for colored gems, there’s five of them. They’re hidden around, sometimes in dumb places like on a stack of fake nitro crates. A colored gem unlocks a colored gem path in a different level, which are similar to death routes. Overall, they’re just another fucking thing to keep track of. I had to keep a walkthrough open constantly throughout my playthrough so I could know what level had what gem or what secret warp on top of already having to make sure I break every single box while also knowing which levels I can’t get the boxes from yet and all while being careful to never die and it’s all just TOO MUCH!

This is overwhelming. There’s too much to keep track of at once. There’s never a moment of reprieve because I always had to be on guard for more wacky bullshit to get in my way. Not to mention that for a lot of these levels you have to replay them like three or four times in all. It took me forever to get through this game, and I was miserable. Which is a shame because the core platforming gameplay, despite some of my gripes, was still fun. But this was an awful experience. Going for 100% ruined this game for me, and I know I would have liked it a lot more if I would’ve played through the game ignoring the gems. But hey, it was all worth it for that ending, right?

After collecting your first gem, Dr. Nitrus Brio, Cortex’s former second in command, tells Crash to not obey Cortex and to grab the gems instead. After collecting all of them and after beating Cortex, we get to watch a short cutscene of Crash, Coco, and Brio using the gems to power a laser beam that destroys Cortex’s space station. Roll credits. That was worth it, right guys? I hope it was worth it anyway. At least I can say I’m done with this game. I’m not sure if I’m ever coming back. Honestly, I was pretty disappointed by this endeavor. I thought this experience would be fun and worth it based on how Crash fans describe how fun 100% is. I was looking forward to this and I left crushed. And apparently 100% for the later games is even worse? I heard games like the recent Crash 4 are apparently a complete fucking nightmare to 100%. God. Yeah, no thanks. I’m done trying to 100% these games. I beat Crash 2 100%, and you know what I had my fill. I’ll admit I get overwhelmed easily. It’s a general character flaw I have. But ultimately damn it this is a review going over my experience with a game, not anyone else's.

Now as for looking at the game from a casual non-100% perspective, I still don't really like Crash 2 as much as the original. I felt like the heavier jumps and overall easier platforming made the game feel shorter than the first game, despite the same amount of levels. The game's new structure also kinda spat in the face of a natural difficulty curve. Rather than every level getting incrementally harder than the last, levels get harder based solely based on what warp room you're on. There's also a good handful of gimmicky non-platforming levels where you're riding on an awkward jetboard or using the aforementioned annoying jetpack. Combine that with having to use a less convenient slide jump to get past the game's heavy feeling normal jump and the fact that many enemies require the less satisfying slide attack instead of the spin, and Crash 2 kinda just feels like a downgrade overall. At least they fixed the saving system. Now it's just a normal save and load screen, like it always should've been.

I'm sorry everyone, I really did want to like this game better. This may be a bit of a spoiler alert for my thoughts on the next game, but I personally find Crash 2 to be the most skippable one of the original PS1 trilogy. It's still a decent game, but it's not something I can recommend you go out of your way to play, at least when it comes to the PS1 version anyway. This is the kind of game I can only recommend if you already own it. It's not really worth hunting down it's old PS1 disc for.

That's all for now.

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