#revenant gun

[lilyblisslys]

obsessed conceptually with a fire emblem 3 houses style murder academy sim, except you’re Jedao teaching ethics to Shuos assassins. Mikodez can still turn into a dragon for some reason though

#Ninefox gambit #revenant gun #machineries of empire #lilysffposting

[chefoshawott]

Started the 3rd book in the Machineries of Empire trilogy and I just can't get this out of my brain. This is the whole series lol.

#machineries of empire #Revenant Gun #Shuos Jedao is all over the place is different ways in this series #its great #books #scifi books

[the-one-and-only-overlass]

'we need evil fucked up gays!' shut your fucking mouth y'all couldn't handle fcuking catra what makes you think you'll be able to handle shuos mikodez and shuos jedao and nirai kujen

#machineries of empire #ninefox gambit #raven stratagem #revenant gun #shuos mikodez #shuos jedao #nirai kujen

[syeniites]

Shuos Zehun: I will never name a cat after the Immolation Fox

[one book later]

Shuos Zehun: everyone meet my newest kitten Jedao :))

#to be fair there was a 9 yr time jump #but still it’s quite funny #machineries of empire #moe #raven stratagem #revenant gun #shuos zehun #shuos jedao

[captainamsel]

There's so much going on with Cheris shooting Moth Jedao in the head (the second time) but I'll put my thoughts under the cut for discussions of rape

The thing that gets me about this is that is makes clear how much they are both Jedao, and how much they see themselves in the other even if they don't want to think about it. Does Cheris empty her magazine into Moth Jedao's head because he admits to raping someone? Not solely. She hates that, it's a line Jedao draws despite all his other atrocities, but she's able to keep her cool in every other situation. Like, even when her people are under threat of genocide she makes it look like she doesn't care! One could argue that shooting Moth Jedao is consequence free, and it is, but mostly it's personal. Cheris did not pursue Khiruev, not for strategic purposes and not even when Khiruev was not chained to her anymore. (Cheris's Kel taboos empower Jedao's own even more.) What really gets her, I believe, is the suggestion that she - that Jedao - could be a rapist. This one cornerstone of morality he's trying desperately to protect. And Moth Jedao, as suicidal as the original, knows this. Yes, he's trying to protect the Revenant, but I can't help but feel that he's asking to be punished for what he did to Dhanneth. Perhaps he's even hoping she'll find a way to kill him, and this is the one transgression she would most hate him for.

#OG jedao is long past the point of being innocent on this account since he used the bodies of POWs when he was with kujen #but I think he doesn't dwell on that #machineries of empire #shuos jedao #kel cheris #ajewen cheris #revenant gun #look away annika

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

vote YES if you have finished the entire book.

vote NO if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

#scifi #books #Revenant Gun #Yoon Ha Lee #Machineries of Empire #poll #result: no #l: English

[chilled-ice-cubes]

revenant gun 42%

must protecc bby jedao

sorry but if the evil immortal mathematician is a twink then can i really be blamed for thinking he’s hot when he’s being manipulative

now wtf is cherisao up to now

BREZANNNN i find it so funny how this rando with the power of self determination became the head of state. go king go!

haha general kel innesser pls don’t die ma’am you’re so sexy

why does everyone hate dhanneth. i get the feeling the answer will be something that fucks me up real bad

i just burst out laughing every time 2.0 goes “why did i do that. why is everyone scared of me.” *makes very poor joke* “IM SUCH AN IDIOT” *decides against punching the wall in frustration*

#machineries of empire #revenant gun #anya.txt

[finalmoment]

has anyone ever drawn the mothships? i need to see mothships. i wish i could draw.

#machineries of empire #ninefox gambit #raven stratagem #revenant gun #tagging for how badly i need to see mothships #notes

[foxintheglass]

Main account is DreamsAtDusk. FoxIntheGlass is my sideblog for Machineries of Empire meta (and more! More...something!)

Want to chat about MoE? Feel free to drop me an ask, tag me in a post, etc.

The meta links below are currently to posts on my main; will get things updated over time. Fics are on AO3.

FANWORKS

Recursion Instinct How many times has Jedao learned that Kujen cannot be trusted? Written for Trick or Treat Exchange 2021.

The Lie Is the Game In the wake of a shocking betrayal that rocked the heptarchate and high calendar alike, Shuos Jedao confronts a long-awaited reunion and the weight of necessary lies.Yeren/Jedao/Ruo. Written for MachinExchange 2021.

A Moth Beats Its Wings With the mystery of the Revenant's disappearance at the Battle of Tereberg still unsolved, Cheris has been asked to investigate...with Jedao Two in tow. But another discovery proves to be waiting even closer to home.Written for Yuletide 2020.

META

Ninefox Gambit Reread (DreamsAtDusk Posts) Chapter by chapter thoughts on Ninefox Gambit. Has been on hold on and off, currently resumed. Will update this note when it’s done.

Hellspin Fortress and Ties that Bind Jedao 2 thinking he misses Kujen as a thread back to the experience of trauma and manipulation.

On Sartorial Choices  Cheris wore a festive lavender dress at one point in Raven Stratagem. But how about the fact that it ties back to Jedao and his mother in a way?

#Machineries of Empire #Ninefox Gambit #Raven Stratagem #Revenant Gun #Hexarchate Stories

[ruinconstellation]

He settled in for decades of distressingly competent leadership. Like any right-thinking person, Inesser couldn't decide if she feared the Shuos more when they were organised and all pointed in the same direction, or thrashing about in their periodic orgies of backstabbing.

Revenant Gun, Yoon Ha Lee

#yoon ha lee #revenant gun #machineries of empire #novel quotes #currently reading #shuos faction #kel inesser #op

[pettyprocrastination]

The Revenant Wife

Pairing: Joel Miller x Fem!Reader

Warnings: Mentions of grief and death. 

Summary: Ellie knows very little of Joel and even less of the wife he had before the outbreak. When she finally meets you, its just as much as shock to her as it is to your husband. 

Word count: 1.6k

Note: ficlet is based off of this previous post about Joel getting separated from his wife during the outbreak and assuming you died until you find one another years later. Reader is described to look like Sarah. Title came from the ever lovely @djarin-junk​ <3

Tagging those I think would enjoy: @pedrostories​ @thesadvampire​ @joel-mlller @softanon​ @max--phillips​ @captainsamwlsn​ @hooplahoopla​ @moondirti​ 

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Ellie didn’t know that Joel had a wife. 

Granted, she didn’t know much about his old life at all. 

She knew he built things. That he had a brother named Tommy and a daughter named Sarah, but didn’t like to talk about the latter that much. In one fleeting conversation, full of mumbles as her eyes began to close while they rested under the night sky she heard him mention you but was far too gone to truly hear what he said. Nothing more than the vague rumble of his voice saying “my wife” before her eyes opened once more. 

“You’re married?”

She asks with such incredulous shock it sounds more like “somebody married you?” but girls at her age hardly ever have filters. 

“I was.” 

There’s the same bristle in his throat and far off look in his eyes as when she first asked about his daughter. An open answer but one that carries enough unsaid to tell Ellie of your fate. To warn her that she should change the subject or simply shut her mouth and go to sleep before plucking his raw nerve one too many times until he snaps- 

“What was she like?” 

But Joel learned early on that Ellie wasn’t one to follow warnings. 

“Kind.” His breath stutters. “But not a pushover- she didn’t take shit from anybody.” He stares up at the sky, feeling his chest grow tight and fingers twitch by his side until there’s a rustling, the girl next to him rolling over to face him and he turns to find Ellie peeking out from her sleeping bag with a smile. 

Damn this girl. 

“Not even from you?” 

Joel scoffs. “Especially from me. The amount of times she gave me and Tommy and earful-” he shakes his head, Ellie watches a smile grow on his face in silence, as if worried she may frighten it away. 

“Did she cook?” 

Ellie thinks of the stories the older kids would tell her. The ones who remembered life before the Outbreak, who told her of freshly baked pies on weekend and fluffy pancakes in the morning. 

Joel remembers the first time you tried to bake him a cake for his birthday back when he was sixteen. How he opened the door to your forlorn face and a store bought sheet cake in your hands because as your mother told him over the phone, you damn near burned the whole house down trying to bake for him as a surprise. 

“From time to time.” 

There was only so much she could get out of him before his voice became clipped and eyes full of an emotion she didn’t quite know the name of that he told her to get some rest. Leaving her with nothing to do but to stare at the sky and wonder about these stories in the shape of a woman who unveiled a little bit more about the mysterious man she traveled with. 

Of all the silence and secrets that made up the man that protected her, she created stories to fill them. Stories of Joel Miller, husband, father, brother and badass contractor that everybody loved.   Of his soldier brother, of his wife and their smiling daughter between them both. 

In Ellie’s mind, you didn’t work. 

But not in a ditzy lame way like some boring housewife. But just because you didn’t have to. 

Joel said that everybody loved contractors so that means he probably got paid like, a ton of money to build stuff for people so you got to stay at home all day. Ellie imagined your house to be ginormous. Maybe Joel made it himself for you when you guys first got married. It was big enough that when Joel came home everyday he’d call out your name and it’d echo through  the hall as you called him into the kitchen, where your daughter sat reading as you set dinner on the table. Sometimes you’d get upset if he came home late but then he’d kiss your cheek and you would roll your eyes but smile before you all sat down and ate as a family. 

Ellie imagines Joel’s daughter, she wonders if Sarah looks more like her mother than her father. 

Ellie wonders as the sleep takes over her body, if they could have been friends. 

When it happens, months later after she’s come to think of Joel as something akin to family and he thinks of her as something he can’t say out loud just yet, she’s shocked. She’s face to face with a woman holding her at gunpoint that looks nothing like the smiling mother she dreamt of during cold nights. 

You don’t match the stories Ellie made up in your head.

You’re mean. 

No. Mean isn’t the right word. 

Cold. Yes. you're very cold. 

Ellie watches in shock as you ask where they're headed, gun focused on the center of her chest while the two boys at your side point their own at Joel, who has yet to speak. 

She waits for him to answer, but he just stares at you in awe. The same man she’s seen kill and threaten to keep her safe day in and day out is rendered speechless until all he can do is utter your name and she realizes that he knows you. More than that, judging by the way he surrenders his gun to you with no fight, something she had never seen him do. 

You lift your head to look at him, the brim of your hat raises just enough to clear the shadow cast over your face and Ellie can finally see your eyes and the snarl on your face. 

You’re also very pretty.

“I won’t ask again.” 

The two boys standing on either side of you have your eyes. Same color and intensity, narrowed into slits like guard dogs waiting for an order and Ellie sees the way Joel stares at them. 

She wonders if Sarah had brothers. 

“Out west.” He manages. “Takin’ her to her family.” 

Your eyes move to her and she holds her hands higher in the air. 

“That true?” “What?” 

“Is he telling the truth?” 

The taller one, Duke, she had heard you call him, had already ripped the bag from her back and emptied its contents onto the ground, she had nothing else to hide from you. 

But then she sees something in your eyes. A concern for her that she hadn’t seen since Tess or Marlene. 

And she understands. 

“He’s telling the truth.” Ellie forces out. 

You watch her for a moment and there’s a moment of panic where she thinks you can see right through her lie. 

But then you lower your gun and jerk your head over your shoulder. 

“C’mon.” is all you say before you begin to walk away. The boys gawk at you for a moment before you give them a look of warning and they follow in your step, occasionally casting glances behind them at Joel and Ellie who follow suit. 

She’s quick to grab onto the sleeve of Joel’s jacket and pull with a harsh whisper as the other’s march forward. 

“You know this psycho?” 

Joel flinches at her voice as it pitches up. If any of you heard her, which he gathered you did because Ellie didn’t have an inside voice to save her fucking life, you didn’t care enough to react. 

Ellie whispers his name again. Insistent and angry for answers but he just keeps looking forward. He can’t take his eyes off of you or the boys ahead and it fills her with worry but she doesn’t know why. 

“She’s my wife.”

You lead them to a cottage. Its paint is chipping and the fence is reinforced with wiring around the perimeter but it looks like a home. She can vaguely hear the soft clucking of chickens nearby and there's a flash of fur behind the fence with a pair of pointed ears that duck away just as fast as she saw them. 

Ellie has seen the remnants of homes before the outbreak. The plates still stacked in the sink and the jacket still hung up on the hook. A story telling a family that once lived within its walls and is now nothing more than memories that ghosts along its foundation. 

But this one is real. It’s yours. 

 There is a rickety wooden table in the dining room. Each chair around it seems to have been brought from a different house and is varying shades of faded brown. You kick the leg of one and nod toward it.“Sit, both of you.”

Ellie looks to Joel before sitting. He follows suit, choosing the chair closest to her. 

“I’m gonna get some bandages for that leg-” 

Joel shifts forward. “I don’t need-” 

“I wasn’t fucking asking, Joel.” 

You’re not stronger than Joel, if she had to guess. You both look the same age, but she’s seen his strength, his violence, all done for her safety and knows if it came down to it, you might not win in a fight against him. 

But at your order, he sits back in his chair. 

You turn and set a shoulder on your son’s shoulder. 

At least. She thinks he’s your son. 

Softly spoken words are exchanged while the other keeps his eyes on Joel and his hand on his holster. The boy says something back in insistence, but you tilt your head and he nods. 

“If either of them try moving or taking anything.” You offer them one final look over your shoulder before slipping out of the room. “Shoot them.” 

They listen to your footsteps slowly retreat until there’s nothing but the subtle creak and groan of the wood floor beneath them. Ellie leans forward to look at Joel, setting her hands firmly on the dinner table in announcement. 

“Dude-” The young girl breathes out. “Your wife is a bitch.”

#revenant wife tag #joel miller x reader #joel miller x you #this is just a little blurb because I havent written in a hot minute #mostly from ellies third pov so i hope the sort of juvenile internal thoughts make sense #joels wife is a sort of scary badass gal with a lil farm #joel miller x female reader #@ the blogs who asked to be tagged but had zero header or age in their bio: do better #tumblr please dont rearrange the order of this again im BEGGING #not pictured in the fic: joel punching duke in the face and wrestling the gun from his hands before the other twin shows up followed by you #and now joel has to grapple with the fact that 1. his wife is alive 2. she had children 3. he just sucker punched his own kid

[yagamimi-aka-mimi]

#nova #blood #gun #revenant #vampire #vampires #vampire girl #vampire hunter #dhampir

[miyaneatworld]

why does this game have two people who can silence now lmfao

#apex legends #apex legends fanart #apex seer #apex revenant #seer's silence feels better to hit though ngl #ballistic should've been here too but his gun overheat probably didnt count as a silence

[scuddish]

DOMHNALL GLEESON as ANDREW HENRY THE REVENANT 2015 | dir. Alejandro González Iñárritu

#rough looking domhnall gleeson... yummy #domhnall gleeson #domhnallgleesonedit #the revenant 2015 #*scuddish.gif #mine #tw gun #cw gun #characters #andrew henry #2022 favorites

[syeniites]

🌱 vs 🦋 flavor of genetically-alien humanoid construct

#no proper moth emoji unfortunately :( #vash the stampede #shuos jedao #jedao2 #garach jedao shkan #trigun #machineries of empire #revenant gun

[fuwafuwashi]

I just think I just think I just think that in the beginning she wanted to be a part of something larger than herself so badly, she wanted to conform in the matrix of the larger Us and even through all that she was still so human she couldn’t help but listen to the ghost in her head and realized he was human too. in the end she again gave up who she was for the hope of something greater

she was such a good Kel but god she was a better Person

#ajewen cheris #she went into the kel knowing that the odds were that she would die for a cause #and boy is she good at math #and I know. how revenant gun ends. she deserved it so badly #machineries of empire #ninefox gambit