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kicktwine · 4 years

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*Walks up with a little jar* May I please have some Western Au lore?

*drops a coin into your jar* you may...,,,,, have a summary

lets see... what to talk about... ill give you a funky little list of fun facts, howzat!

Vanitas has ten million nicknames for Ven up to but not including Ven. so, ventus, sunshine, rich kid, dollface, this prick, baby blue, that kid... he’ll do the shawn and gus thing. New name every time they introduce themselves to someone. Yeah I’m sterling cooper and this is my partner chesterfield mcmillan how are you (ventus noise: ?????)

it’s because he never uses his real name for fear of being turned in for money. Ventus has to get used to this

Ventus also has to get used to “selling most of your stuff” and “sleeping on hay” and “now you bathe in the river” (theres fish though :(.... yes? and? catch them, you’re so smart)

Vanitas’ nice gold fiddle he traded his soul for does in fact summon lesser demons when he plays it... might want to stick to the wooden one... though his horse has been turned into a lesser demon. So built in horse whistle?

Riku, Kairi, and Sora are travelers, they often play in bars and other venues! You’d be surprised, Kairi’s the singer, but they all have voices.

Are the foretellers a crime ring because i think thats fun? yes.

are the khux kids in here with no real roles besides “transient” and do both of venvan end up with a mini crush on ephemer whom they never see again. Yes--

Aqua’s job could be described as “bounty hunter”. She has a horse named Stormfell and Terra has a GIGANTIC CLYDESDALE named Earthshaker (nicknamed Stitch............)

they knew Ven from when he was a little scrappy kid! Terra’s his adopted brother, Aqua’s their best friend.

vanitas has been on his own since he was really small. he doesn’t really do... friends (until ven MAYBE dont LOOK at me like that ventus)

Roxas and Xion are incredible at cheating at poker. Lea is incredible at playing along. He likes to set fire to the drinks he serves as a party trick and a distraction. Isa is the only one immune to poker tricks, and the kids are mad about it.

Ventus and Vanitas are not above robbing a train. For the greater good.... of..... y’know, themselves.... it’s fine. crime is fine! crime is fine. theyre surprisingly good at crime as a team.

(guns cw) its that venture that gets Vanitas shot. But it’s fine, he apparently “can’t die” because he’s “too fast... it’s cos i cheat.” “oh really?” “yeeeaahhhhh.” “...go to sleep.”

Vanitas also owns a pistol, but can’t shoot. He’s a fast talker, and likes to set things on fire. Or explode them. He has all of the intimidation, of the two, but Ventus is the sharpshooter.

he’s scarily fast and accurate. Clumsy when he’s walking, or talking, honestly, but on a horse going fast shooting at targets? bullseyes.

The only reason Ven hasn’t gone to Terra and Aqua for help is he risks their souls in doing so, not just his, on top of a huge pile of misunderstandings that might lead to both or everyone in his immediate sphere dying.

Riku gets possessed by one of those demon souls at some point, and that is one of the only times we get the whole main cast in the same room (all the trios).

getting possessed is not fun. it’s less ghost in your head and more... slime monster... in your Body........ demonic slime inside you. awful.

there is a real genuine moment where the two come across their own wanted posters, and both have incensed laughing fits, because Vanitas looks exceedingly evil and older, and Ventus looks like someone only had reference of his baby pictures. They steal those.

#kh western au #ask #anon #cowboys #cow boys...........#long post?#Anonymous #why cant i format this >:(

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inkribbon796 · 3 years

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The Marvelous Misadventures of One: S. Marvin Argentum Ch. 3: In the Pit

Summary: Marvin realizes he’s in a bit too deep as the time continues to tick on.

Chapters: 1, 2, 3, 4

Techno seemed to notice Thompson was in the club and instantly raced from the club and up the stairs, almost shouldering past people to get to the Sheriff.

“Sherman! Sherman!”

“Tech,” the huge burly man grumbled, crossing his arms in front of him. “I thought I saw yeh[1] slipping inta[2] town. What brings yah[1] over here?”

“I found a legate and it was awful!” Techno lamented, basically ignoring him, the two of them basically the same towering height.

Sherman rolled his eyes, “Let me guess, the fight lasted five seconds?”

“There wasn’t even a fight,” Techno complained. “I mean, bruhhh, he barely could defend himself. A dead leaf would have been a more satisfying fight.”

“So he’s dead?” Thompson asked.

“No, it would have been like killing a newborn puppy,” Techno huffed. “Come on, get in the pit so I can have a good fight.”

“Nah, I’m good,” Thompson scoffed and pushed Ghostbur towards the front. “Just bringin’ yer brother to yeh.”[3]

Techno looked annoyed, “Ghostbur, what are you doing here?”

“I’m helping my friends,” Ghostbur smiled.

“I’ve seen what your “help” does,” Techno rolled his eyes. “You here for Phil then?”

Ghostbur looked nervous, “I . . . uh . . . I would like to see him but I don’t know.”

“Did you bring some of the heroes with you?” Techno was looking at Marvin.

“Yah[1] know, we’ll go, we just caught yeh[1] at a bad moment,” Marvin tried to intervene.

“What are you three even doin’[4] here?” Techno leaned against the balcony railing, another fight starting up in absence of Techno.

“We were gonna[5] pick a fight with the Legionnaires’ Guildmaster, but Ghostbur here took us ta[6] see the Sheriff o’er[7] here. So we’ll just go.” Marvin jabbed his thumb at the exit.

“Taking ‘em[8] on, huh? ‘Bout[9] time someone did.” Techno hummed. Then he looked at Ghostbur and nudged him towards the other side of the balcony where the VIP area was. “Hey Ghostbur, why don’t you go say hi to Phil. He’s probably seen you already, so just head on over.”

“Wait a second,” Marvin moved to follow Ghostbur who was already moving to the VIP area.

Techno summoned and axe and moved in-between Ghostbur and Marvin.

“Look, you two make one wrong move against Phil and I’ll take your heads off,” Techno threatened.

“Not lookin’ fer a fight, I want ta get out ‘a here with Ghostbur an’ take care ‘a the hunters up north,”[10] Marvin told him firmly.

Techno braced his axe on his shoulder, “Just watch yourself.”

Ghostbur rushed over to the door and Marvin followed him, Techno opened the door for them.

“Phil!” Techno called out over the loud music. “We got company.”

Philza reached for the remote and turned the music down to a low whisper.

“Techno!” the little girl called out.

“Hey sis,” Techno smiled, walking over to her and kneeling down so the two of them could bump foreheads. “Enjoy the show?”

“You murdered them dead!” She screamed. “Blood for the Blood God!”

“That’s right, good job kid,” Techno smiled.

“Hey Ghostbur,” Philza greeted tensely. “Where’s Tommy?”

“Oh, he’s still in Brighton,” Ghostbur smiled. “He and Tubbo are having so much fun.”

“Right,” Phil kicked his feet up and stood. “Good fer[11] them.”

“You might wanna[12] know, Quackity’s here,” Techno told Philza, “I saw him when I was in the pit.”

“Okay,” Phil remarked as if he really didn’t care either way.

“I think I saw Fundy and that one slime guy with him,” Techno added.

Phil’s good wing puffed up, “Shit! Shit!”

Ghostbur gasped, clearly ecstatic, “What? Fundy? He’s here?”

Phil raced across the room and hit the intercom button, “Fundy! You furball, get yer[13] ass up here this instant! I wanna[12] know where you are!”

“Oh, Marv, have you met Fundy?” Ghostbur was floating a bit off the ground. “You have to meet him. He’s my son.”

“I think I have,” Marvin answered, more than a little surprised by that information.

Techno loudly cleared his throat. “So while we’re waiting for Fundy and probably Quackity to show up, you mind tell me what brings you to Arizona? Last I checked, Egoton was in Chicago, or something like that.”

“We were gonna[5] deal with the Legionnaires, but Ghostbur said he knew someone so we took a detour,” Marvin explained. “Really we should’a[14] stopped at the station, but we’ll go.”

“You needed allies, you two are alone,” Phil said in a way that made Marvin feel like the avian was staring through his very soul. “Why go fer[11] ‘em[15] now? The hunters have been bigger problems before?”

Marvin weighed his options. “Cause they’re workin’ with the CIA an’ Dark’s nemesis. An’ they’re gonna crash a weddin’.”[16]

Techno started bouncing on the balls of his feet, looking like a small child that had been gifted a full sized robot suit for Christmas.

Phil, however, let out an indignant, insulted huff, “Oi![17] Did that fooker[18] replace me an’[19] Tech with some other bastard? How dare he‽”

“Man, is there anyone Dark hasn’t pissed off?” Marvin chuckled.

“Seems ta[6] be a much shorter list ‘a[20] who he hasn’t,” Phil smiled. “Phantom taught him really well in that regard.”

“Huh,” Marvin commented. He realized that for being two demons of roughly the same age, supposedly, and being the same type of demon that Philza and Dark were kinda opposites. “So yeh[1] on the same hatin’[21] human trend as he is, never met a demon that was particularly nice.”

“Nah,” Phil smiled. “I love humans, they make the best things like anime, an’[19] memes, an’[19] the word: “fuck”. So I love humans.”

“How old are you?” Taylor asked.

The avian demon shrugged, “I don’t count keep anymore. 350? Almost 400? I don’t know.”

At that moment the door opened and Marvin stepped out of the line of fire as Fundy walked in, Quackity and Slime right behind him.

Quackity stiffened nervously when he locked eyes with Techno,

“Fundy,” Ghostbur smiled as he started to advance. “My little champion. How are you?”

Fundy hissed, all the hair on his head and ears standing on edge. “You touch me, and I bite you.”

“Hey, chill out fer[11] five seconds will yeh[1]?” Marvin snapped back. “He hasn’t done anythin’ ta yeh.”[22]

“Oh, he’s done more than enough,” Fundy snapped.

Techno spoke up, “Where’s Tubbo? This gonna[5] be a butcher’s army 2.0?”

“No, I just came here ta[6] catch up with some contacts, didn’t even know you two were in town,” Quackity denied, taking a step back as he glanced at Techno.

“Sides we’d need Ranboo for that,” Fundy muttered a bit too loud.

“Oi![17] You watch yerself,[23] Ranboo can do no wrong!” Phil shouted at his grandson.

“Are you kidding me?” Fundy shouted back, devolving into a series of frustrated, incoherent grumbling noises.

“Looks like a pretty important meeting up here?” Quackity smiled, looking around. “You all having fun?”

“Bruhh, these two wanna[12] take on the Legionnaires and the government,” Techno declared. “And I’m helping.”

“Wait what?” Marvin demanded before his brain could tell him that looking a gift horse in the mouth was a bad idea. “Since when have yeh[1] been in on this?”

“Since you told me that you were taking on the CIA,” Technoblade grinned. “That type of stuff is literally all I do.”

The hunter spoke up, they’d been mostly quiet up until now, mostly watching the situation fly wildly out of control, but now they interjected, “I’m going to duel the Guildmaster, take over the Guild and take them back on track to what our Guild was meant to be, protecting people and not making deals with people who are literally worse than demons.”

“So you’re saying that if you’re in control you’ll go against the government?” Technoblade said.

“If that means protecting people like we’re supposed to be doing from the start, then yes,” Taylor told him.

“Now that’s the type of thing I like to hear,” Techno grinned. “But if you back out on that, I will take care of you.”

“Right,” the hunter didn’t break eye contact.

“So, yer[24] gonna[5] help us fight them then?” Marvin asked.

“Heh,” Techno grinned. “Taking down the self-entitled discount Spanish Inquisition, and the government? You’d have to fight me not to come.”

“Get rid of the Legionnaires?” Quackity smiled. “Count me in, wish I had brought Sam and Sap, they would’a[25] made this a breeze.”

Then the casino owner turned to his two companions, “Fundy, Slime, if you two aren’t up for it, yeh[1] can go back to the hotel.”

Fundy seemed to have a fire burning in his eyes, “I can do it, I want in.”

Slime gave a huge, lopsided grin, “I will also come with Quackity from Las Nevadas.”

“You wanna[12] stay on your retirement couch, Ol’[26] Man?” Techno prodded, smiling at Phil.

“Shut!” Philza snapped, rolling his eyes when Techno laughed at him.

“I wanna[12] come with,” Techno’s little sister told them.

“No!” Thompson and Techno both told her. She pouted and deflated a little bit.

“I’ll take her back an’[19] meet you all there,” Thompson told them.

“So, kitty, you got a plan?” Quackity gave him a sharp grin.

Marvin paused for a second, “Yeah, I think I got one.”

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Accessibility Translations:

1. you

2. into

3. Just bringing your brother to you.

4. doing

5. going to

6. to

7. over

8. them

9. About

10. Not looking for a fight, I want to get out of here with Ghostbur and take care of the hunters up north

11. for

12. want to

13. your

14. should have

15. them

16. Because they’re working with the CIA and Dark’s nemesis. And they’re going to crash a wedding.

17. Hey! (or: Wait a second!)

18. fucker

19. and

20. of

21. hating

22. He hasn’t done anything to you.

23. yourself

24. you’re

25. would have

26. Old

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wr173r-8l0ck · 4 years

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What if My Hero Academia Characters were in the Riordanverse pt. 1: Students

Yeah, yeah, this is just MHA students for now, I’ll have other characters soon, okay! Anyway, here’s MHA students of 1A and 1B (including Shinso) as demigods in the Riordanverse!

Yuga Aoyama: Son of Aphrodite. Not even a good one, unless you need someone blinded by his glitter-gun. Oh yeah, he has a glitter gun with lasers for maximum flare. Is he completely over-the-top? Absolutely. But is he good in a fight? Surprisingly, yes, kind of very, turns out glitter confuses monsters very well.

Mina Ashido: Daughter of Hermes and legacy of Hecate, capable of inhuman movements and can produce a slime that magically dissolves anything. She also tattooed her eyes black and yellow for some weird masochistic reason that no one, including herself, doesn’t understand. She’s still neat though.

Tsuyu Asui: She’s a frog-turned-human by Ochako. She still has her tongue, leaps, hops, camouflage, a reversible stomach and poison that can kill a group of whales. And he can still inflate her throat like a balloon, which makes for good scares. Very good scares…

Tenya Iida: Son of Mercury, he never skips leg day. Never. Seriously, have you seen those legs? He could crush a car with those puppies! Or crush monster heads with those thunder thighs! Which he actually does quite often. He doesn’t skimp out on upper body exercises either, but LOOK AT THOSE LEGS OF THUNDER!

Ochako Uraraka: Daughter of Hecate, she specializes in a set of spells that manipulate an individual object’s or being’s gravitational pull. It’s gotten to the point where she makes anything she touches with five fingers on one hand, it will float, no matter what, which is why she wears gloves all the time. She likes floating whoever she finds particularly annoying way up into the sky.

Mashirao Ojiro: Son of Mars, he’s an expert martial artist and very, very good at multiple of them. He’s lost multiple sparring partners because of his profinity with a number of weapons, and his lethality without any weapons. Seriously, he once defeated a Drakon with his bare hands! And another dead drakon’s teeth!

Denki Kaminari: Legacy of Zeus and Apollo, each by about 50 generations. About as bright as his godly ancestors (not very), but he still makes one Hel of a lightning bolt, and he’s also pretty good with a guitar and lyre. And classical literature and culture, like Apollo’s Kettle, who taught him all that?!

Eijiro Kirishima: Son/creation of Vulcan, his blood and skin are pure liquid gold, bronze and diamond he can infinitely harden for a period of time. It also obtains unnaturally sharp edges, and given his tendency to go hard when excited, he has made his friends frequent the infirmary for cuts and broken ribs.

Koji Koda: Son of Actaedon, he can talk with wildlife. He’s also a Legacy of Heracles, hence his size. His hugs are nice, war and gentle. Unless you’re an enemy, his bear hugs can break spines and it’s fucking terrifying.

Rikido Sato: Son of Mars, this guy has a serious sweet tooth. He’s also surprisingly gentle for a guy that can decimate an opponent with a single hit. Oh yeah, he can one-shot a hellhound with one punch (que the epic op) to the head.

Mezo Shoji: Son of Ares, he’s surprisingly level-headed. And malicious. Seriously, this guy always has at least ten different weapons on him, on top of him knowing a variety of potentially lethal moves. His arms are known as the Anacondas for a reason. Well, he lost his two precious anacondas in battle, but now he has six bronze automaton anacondas, fuly articulated and loaded up with all kinds of weapons for maximum effectiveness in battle! Actually fuck that, he’s way more terrifying now, who let him get all that stuff?!

Kyoka Jiro: Daughter of Apollo, she’s a top-tier musician, singer and is moderate with a bow and arrow. She can whistle in the ultrasonic range, clap like thunder, sing and play like either a sweet little bird or a whole-ass heavy metal choir without ruining her vocal cords, and she gives the opposite amount of fucks that Zeus does (ie. zero).

Hanta Sero: Son of Hermes, he inherited a pair of magical tape dispensers that can dispense any tape in any amount of any properties he chooses. He uses them to swing around like Spider-Man, which made him a regular visitor of the infirmary until Momo made him a special harness to keep his joints from dislocating. Somehow, he still gets his shoulders dislocated.

Fumikage Tokoyami: Son of Erebos, he suffers from split-personality disorder, but it’s fixed nicely by his inner demon incarnate made of pure darkness he calls Dark Shadow. They have a strangely healthy and wholesome relationship for a boy and his literal inner demon, and they even help each other (or embarass, take your pick) in social interactions.

Shoto Todoroki: A Legacy, descendant of Hel and Surtr, capable of making ice that freezes fire, and fire that burns ice. He gives so little shit he’s actually oblivious to social cues, which makes for more than a few funny moments on quests with him.

Toru Hagakure: Legacy of Iris, she can manipulate light around her to turn invisible or project bright flashes. Campers often say hi to her even if she’s not there just in case.

Katsuki Bakugou: Son of Ares, with rage and instincts of combat so strong and powerful he can convert his sheer rage and passion into explosions in the palms of his hands. He generated more than one explosion with the explosive yield of a nuclear weapon in his life. How he hasn’t gone deaf yet is beyond most people, though he does still know a variety of sign languages in case he does go deaf.

Izuku Midoriya: Son of Athena that was gifted the Spartan Spirit, a powerful enchantment formed by Kratos, Nike, Bia and Zelus, to protect humanity in its greatest times of need, and bestowed upon the most well-meaning and kind-hearted individuals of an era. He ends up breaking his bones an absolute shitton, and is a regular at the infirmary. The healers and smiths absolutely loathe him by now.

Minoru Mineta: Died on a quest. His quest-mates say ‘by accident’. Everyone knows it was very deliberate, but then again, everyone hated him and is fine with him dead. Some people wanted to be the ones to kill him though.

Momo Yaoyorozu: A Legacy, granddaughter of Hephaestus and Athena, capable of making virtually any machine. She’s also very fidgety, and once made an entire army of fully autonomous grass soldiers that went on to terrorize the other campers for a bit. In thirty minutes.

Yosetsu Awase: Son of Hephaestus, he also likes to make stuff. Though mostly he combines already existing tools, gadgets and machines, and makes weird amalgamations. He once fused an automaton bull, an automaton dragon and a school bus, and it actually, somehow, despite all logic and reason, fucking works.

Sen Kaibara: Son of Ares, he’s pretty chill compared to his kin (especially Katsuki and Setsuna), mainly due to him bottling up his anger. Which he can unleash as tornadoes around his limbs, which he can use to drill through walls. Thank gods he doesn’t lose it too often.

Togaru Kamakiri: Son of Ceres, he likes farming tools. Especially ones with blades. That’s lead to him using all kinds of sickles, scythes (both farming tools and war scythes) in combat, and even axes, shovels, various lawn mowers...

Shihai Kuroiro: Son of Nyx, him and Tokoyami get along exceptionally well. Given his ability to shadow-travel and use shadows and darkness as materials to make some pretty nifty weapons only he can use, he’s strangely bright and like a Sun. At least among the two stepbrothers of darkness, and the bar for eing the sunny one is set very low.

Itsuka Kendo: Daughter of Athena, she excels in critical thinking and a variety of martial arts. And knocking out her piers with precise attacks when they start to get exceptionally annoying. Mostly Monoma. Scratch that, especially Monoma. Okay, nevermind, only Monoma.

Yui Kodai: Daughter of Trivia. She excels in potions and spells that manipulate the size of objects, so much so that she has to resort to gloves because she now naturally makes things smaller with her left hand, or bigger with her right hand. She’s the calm one of the 20 people here.

Kinoko Komori: Daughter of Demeter, she has a soft spot for fungi and mushrooms. Which she can make grow rapidly. Very rapidly. She’s fun at parties.

Ibara Shiozaki: Daughter of Demeter, she dyes her hair green with actual chlorophyll for some reason (“To feel one with the beautiful plants,” she says), but she can also grow and manipulate vines and other vine-like plants, along with trees, quite effectively, and she has some rose and poison oak (she’s immune to it) seeds in her hair. Don’t ask, her answers are just as ridiculous as the chlorophyll-dyed hair.

Jurota Shishida: Son of Mars, he’s been cursed by most likely Hera to be a humanoid boar/dog thing. He’s especially good at wrestling, and is very diplomatic in his approach. Until he gets pissed, then he charges like a boar and yes, he keeps those tusks of his sharp.

Niregeki Shoda: Legacy of Hermes, son of Hephaestus, he likes to make explosives and plant them everywhere. More than a few campers were scared. Except Katsuki, who tried to outdo the ground (Niregeki’s mine) in explosive yield and put skylight access in the roof of Bunker 9. Niregeki had to repair it.

Pony Tsunotori: Legacy of Poseidon, she can shapeshift. She likes to shapeshift into horses, bulls, deer and goats (including mooses and buffalo), and she has a nifty gadget from the Hephaestus and Vulcan campers in the shape of horns that transform with her, giving her detachable remote-control horns.

Kosei Tsuburaba: Legacy of Jupiter, son of Ares, he’s competitive and can make walls and blades out of air. Especially annoying for monsters because they can’t get to him, period, and every time they try, they don’t get past his walls of air for a whole minute before someone either cuts/hacks/slices them to bits, freezes/burns them alive, blows them up with their fists/explosives/expanding stones they previously ingested or some other way of disposing of a monster.

Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu: Son of Vulcan, capable of turning to pure steel over his entire body, also increasing his strength. Because of this, and his tendency to go hard whenever he’s excited, he’s made his friends frequent the infirmary for bruises and broken ribs. Except Kirishima.

Setsuna Tokage: Daughter of Ares, she’s actually been hurt pretty badly in one of her fights (she went on a Quest with Katsuki, and no, it wasn’t him who hurt her, and yes, no one really believes that story either) and had to have automaton grafts to replace her limbs, a part of her lower jaw, her eyes and the muscles around her spine, along with parts of the vertebrae. Which she asked to be detachable and splittable in as many pieces as possible, which she can control telepathically and uses to troll other campers. A lot. Especially two certain sons of Vulcan and her half-siblings.

Manga Fukidashi: No one knows what he is, they just know his head is a speech bubble and he can make anything he writes real.

Juzo Honenuki: Legacy of Gaia, he can virtually liquify the ground (does not work on metal or wooden floors). He trolls a lot with this ability. And I do mean a lot.

Kojiro Bondo: A golem? A person? His head makes it hard to tell whether he’s a demigod or a monster to be honest. And his glue-like spit doesn’t help much either.

Neito Monoma: Legacy of, you guessed it, Zeus! He has a superiority complex because of this, and he frequents the infirmary on the basis of Itsuka or whoever he was annoying KOing him constantly. All that brain damage probably isn’t helping his mental issues…

Reiko Yanagi: Daughter of Hecate she can make things she touches float and fly around using some sort of incantation. The biggest she can do is double her own body weight, but that doesn’t stop her from delivering high-speed flying punches and scaring other campers.

Hiryu Rin: Son of Mars and Legacy of Poseidon, he can shapeshift into various animals. Most notably a mix of human, hedgehog and a lizard. Sharp, painful and deadly precise. And also meditating. And a lot of it.

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the-a-j-universe · 3 years

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Alright, cool. I finally have a guaranteed length of time that should be long enough to go through all of these, so let’s do this. I know the plan was to have me address each ask one at a time but that didn’t work out lol so I’m just doing it all at once. I’m also turning it into a post so anyone who wants to can follow along with my journey.

I’m also gonna copy/paste the text of the other asks instead of screen capping them because copy/pasting is faster lol.

I’m gonna put a pic of each one here, give my thoughts, maybe a goofy rating (I dunno), and then pick my favorite. Just so y’all know.

* Tanawy's entry n.1 in the Dragon Quest monster showcase: the all-time classic Slime. When asked to design the Slime like the standard goop monster they usually were, Toriyama said "no" and a legend was born, now cute slimes are more popular than the disgusting goop depiction. Its cousins and variants are numerous and some are very different from one another so as a bonus here the criminally underutilized Mottle Slime and its evolution the Mottle King Slime.

See, I don’t even need to look this one up. Here it is:

But let’s be real, you guys didn’t need to see an image of this dude either. I love this thing. I never went through a period where I thought of the grosser oldschool slimes. This thing has always been what’s come to my mind when I here the word in an RPG context. Which, considering my zero experience with DQ, really speaks to this thing’s popularity. I am actually going to remove this one from consideration, though, for that reason. I just have too much of a bias towards it. I know it too well, and all variations seem to be equally great. It’s a 10/10, though. Truly iconic.

Get the rest after the cut!

* Tanawy's entry n.2: Originally a boss monster, here is the Golem. While not the sharpest tool in the shed, these brick-made guys can be quite loyal, with a child-like personality, downright adorable (I will never forget you Goldirox) but their strenght in battle must not be underestimated. And since St. Valentinus is around the corner here a Chocolate Golem variant as a gift. Friendship chocolate mind you, from a dude to another 😄

I like this guy. He reminds me of a couple oldschool Yugioh cards. They’re all bad cards, but I’m nostalgic for them so that help’s this guy’s chances. I don’t know that I buy him as a threatening boss, though. He seems more like he’d be your big stone pal.

The chocolate variant is absolutely adorable.

8.5/10 overall for both.

* Tanawy's entry n.3: Here are two members of the Machine Family, first the Killing Machine. These relentless hunters are merciless and they are constantly upgrading, so models with different modifications are plenty. They even come with garden sprinkles. Then there is the Mecha-mynah, who puts a different spin on the mechanical Cuckoo-bird motif. Careful these guys have razor-sharp wings and they selfdestruct when cornered.

Alright, not so much for the second one, but the Killing Machine also reminds me of, like, a half dozen Yugioh monsters. Did Kazuki Takahashi just like ripping this franchise off or something? Either way, these are both good designs, but they don’t really work for me that much. They’re a little...plain? I guess? I guess I like my machine creatures rougher and with more detail. 7/10.

* Tanawy's entry n.4: Next are my deepest fears (exaggeration) if they were real; the Waspion, half wasp half scorpion, and the Claw Hammer, Half hammerhead shark half metal scolopendra, all nightmare. Continuing with the caravan of creepiness, here is the Bona Constrictor, just get it away from me. This next one, when i saw it for the first time i yelled "WTF is That?!" here is the Ulcer, a walking awful pile of rotting flesh.

I am NOT a fan of the Ulcer. That thing’s ugly, and not even in a fun way. 0/10.

I like these other guys, though:

The Waspion is literally just Gligar from Pokemon, but aside from that I like animal/creature mash-ups. And the Claw Hammer is a pretty unique one. 9/10 for the whole lot.

* Tanawy's entry n.5: Beef or chicken? Why choose when you can have both? Here is a heavyweight of the Bird Family the taurine Bullfinch. But dont forget your vegetables, or else they might turn into these Plant family monsters, the eggplant Woebergine, the bellpeppers Capsichum and the cucumber Cruelcumber. Also, meet the Peahooter, these guys pelts their targets with arrows taking advantage of their higher ground.

Okay, we’ve got another mash-up creature here in the form of the Bullfinch, but I’m not feeling this one as much. It’s worth, like, a 6.5/10, maybe. The Woebergine and the Peahooter are both pretty interesting. The Peahooter is kinda cute in a weird way and the Woebergine is delightfully derpy. They both deserve approaching an 8/10. I’m not really feeling the Capsichum at all though. They get a 5 or a 6/10.

* Tanawy's entry n.6: Who doesn't like a good dog? Well maybe not these guys from the Beast family: the Chainine who will ensnare their preys with their collars, the Putrefido, who is no longer alive, the Abracadabrador, who will eat your bones, the Crocodog, a levitating (yes this thing floats in the air) dog-crocodile hybrid and finally the Jackal Ripper (long lost relative of Wolverine or just imitator? More at 11 on the news)

Hey now. That’s not really fair to the other entries. Every one of these dudes:

Is a very GOOD BOI. I think I like the Abracadabrador the least. He’s a little too un-dog-like compared to the others. 6.5/10. The Chainine and the Putrfido are both the perfect blend of cute and weird. I like them a lot. They get 7.5/10. Jackal Ripper is a badass 8/10. He’d be cooler if he was wearing jeans. I LOVE the Crocodog, though. 10/10. Perfect. He just looks like a friend, but he also looks like he could kill my enemies. Which is what I like in a monster.

* Tanawy's entry n.7: Here is a taste of Japan with the Boppin’ badger, the most Tanuki-like monster you will ever meet; Then these guys don't need consent to give everyone within their reach a smooch, here is the Lips. Also, beware of these horses of the underworld, the Equinox where they probably hangout with these other lovely fellows, the Hellspawn. Speaking of which here is the demon Teeny Sanguini. Cute eh? Not when it evolves in the Bloody Manguini. Thankfully not everyone of them does that.

Okay, you can’t fool me. That first one is just a regular animal.

Jokes aside, though, I’m not really feeling this bunch unfortunately. The Hellspawn just reminds me too much of mutant can Steven, the Lips is a little boring, and the Equinox, while I like the wordplay in its name, and while it’s cool in principal, is too busy. I’m just not feeling the designs of these guys overall. 4 or 5/10 for the whole lot. Though the Teeny Sanguini is closer to a 5 than a 4.

* Tanawy's entry n.8: There are two species of monsters, the Pips and their cousins the Conks, who constatly imitate the classic classes of the humans, like warriors or priests, but this time the little rascals have gone a little farther and here they are copying the DQ8 4 main heroes in the Trodainian Conklave, the DQ4 heroes in the Zenithian Conklave, the hero of DQ1 and the 3 heroes of DQ2 in the Alefgardian Conklave and the hero of DQ3 with 3 other companions in the Aliahanian Conklave. Cute.

Okay, I love the idea of these things. They’re cute, they fit right in with the general aesthetic of the franchise, and they have a ton of personality. I’m not gonna post pics of all of them because there’re so many, but they deserve ~9/10 collectively. They’re very good.

* Tanawy's entry n.9: Not enough dragons? So here's three: what do you get mixing a T-rex, a dragon and a vicious axeman? An Hacksaurus that's what! Then the Drakulard. Don't be fooled by their mole these portly fellows mean business. Another chubby dragon, the Jargon: dragonic masters of the clay containers, these guys URNed their right to use jar puns and they will make sure you remenber it, even if they have to crack your pot.

Okay now these are more what I was thinking when I heard the title Dragon Quest.

I like the Hacksaurus the best outta them. He just looks nice. They’re all good, though. They fit the art style perfectly, and resemble each other just enough that you buy them all being related creatures. 8/10 overall, though the Hacksaurus is a little above the others, with the Jargon being a barely at the bottom of the barrel. Or the jar I guess.

* Tanawy's entry n.10: The only story entry in this showcase, because just look at him, it's the only DQ big baddie (at least in english) to actually call themselves "the Demon Lord" It's Orgodemir, specifically it's true form which is the first photo you find in the gallery at almost end-page. Let me just tell you this, Orgodemir is a d*ck of the highest level. The brain it's actually an eyelid for a giant eye by the way. Happy Nightmares.

HAHAHAHA. I know there are other forms for this guy, and this is probably not the reaction that anyone who played the game would have, but I just can’t take this guy seriously. He looks like Edward Cullen with bat wings. HAHAHA. 8/10 ‘cause it made me laugh.

* Tanawy's entry n.11: And lastly, in a category i like to call "I can't belive these are real", its the Funky Ferret; yes he and his cousins do exactly what the image shows. And the almost copyright-infinging Owlbear, yes they did not even try to distance themself from D&D with this one (ok they have a variant but is not saying much). There were others in the last category, but since they REALLY did not age gracefully to the modern standards of "acceptable" i prefered not show them.

I love Owlbears, they’re just such iconic fantasy monsters at this point, so he gets a solid 8/10 rating by default. It’s a pretty original take, too, focusing on the cuteness potential of the creature over the badass potential. I like that.

The Funky Ferret, though...

With a name like that this guy coulda been so cool. But he’s just a pretty generic design blended with a fart joke. What a bummer. 3/10.

And there we have it. Probably not exactly what you were thinking but I hope you like it. I don’t hate any of these guys. Some are more boring than others, but there’s something neat about each of them. I like the ones that take badass ideas and make them cute while remaining intimidating best out of all of them, and I think the Crocodog does this best with the Hacksaurus as the runner up. Crocodog is definitely my favorite of these, though. He gets the Best Good Boi award of Bestness.

Orgodemir gets an award, too, though, the “made AJ spit out his rum and Coke laughing” award. It’s not the most coveted, but it’s something.

I know this is a long one, and y’all may not want to reblog, but what do any of my followers think of these funky dudes? Leave a comment on this post or reblog with your answer in the tags!

#long post #my dumb thoughts #dragon quest #monster showcase #trademark

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If students from class 1A and 1B were part of the Riordanverse:

Tenya Iida: Son of Mercury, he never skips leg day. Never. Seriously, have you seen those legs? He could crush a car with those puppies! Or crush monster heads! Which he does do quite often! He doesn’t skimp out on upper body exercises either, but LOOK AT THOSE LEGS OF THUNDER!

Eijiro Kirishima: Son of Vulcan, his blood and skin are pure liquid gold, bronze and diamond he can infinitely harden for a period of time. It also obtains unnaturally sharp edges, and given his tendency to go hard when excited, he has made his friends frequent the infirmary for cuts and broken ribs.

Koji Koda: Son of Actaedon, he can talk with wildlife. He’s also a Legacy of Heracles, hence his size. His hugs are nice, war and gentle.

Rikido Sato: Son of Mars, this guy has a serious sweet tooth. He’s also surprisingly gentle for a guy that can decimate an opponent with a single hit.

Fumikage Tokoyami: Son of Erebos, he suffers from split-personality disorder, but it’s fixed nicely by his inner demon incarnate made of pure darkness he calls Dark Shadow. They have a strangely healthy relationship for a boy and his literal inner demon.

Toru Hagakure: Legacy of Iris, she can manipulate light around her to turn invisible or project bright flashes

Katsuki Bakugou: Son of Ares, with rage and instincts of war so strong and powerful he can convert his sheer rage into explosions in the palms of his hands. He generated more than one explosion with the explosive yield of a nuclear weapon in his life. How he hasn’t gone deaf yet is beyond most people, though he does still know a variety of sign languages.

Izuku Midoriya: A mortal, capable of seeing through the mist, was gifted the Spartan Spirit, a spirit formed by Kratos, Nike, Bia and Zelus, to protect humanity in its greatest times of need. He ends up breaking his bones an absolute shitton, and is a regular at the infirmary.

Class 1B:

Togaru Kamakiri: Son of Ceres, he likes farming tools. Especially ones with blades. That’s lead to him using all kinds of sickles, scythes (both farming tools and war scythes) and even a few lawn mowers, shovels, axes...

Itsuka Kendo: Daughter of Athena, she excels in critical thinking and a variety of martial arts. And knocking out her piers with precise attacks when they start to get exceptionally annoying.

Kinoko Komori: Daughter of Demeter, she has a soft spot for fungi and mushrooms. Which she can make grow rapidly. Very rapidly. She’s fun at parties.

Setsuna Tokage: Daughter of Ares, she’s actually been hurt pretty badly in one of her fights (she went on a Quest with Katsuki, and no, it wasn’t him who hurt her) and had to have automaton grafts to replace her limbs, a part of her lower jaw, her eyes and the muscles around her spine, along with parts of the vertebrae. Which she asked to be detachable and splittable in as many pieces as possible, which she can control telepathically and uses to troll other campers. A lot. Especially two certain sons of Vulcan.

Manga Fukidashi: No one knows what he is, they just know his head is a speech bubble and he can make anything he writes real.

Juzo Honenuki: Legacy of Gaia, he can virtually liquify the ground (does not work on metal or wooden floors). He trolls a lot with this ability. And I do mean a lot.

Kojiro Bondo: A golem? A person? His head makes it hard to tell whether he’s a demigod or a monster to be honest. And his glue-like spit doesn’t help much either.

#my hero memes #my hero academia #riordan universe #percy jackson #heroes of olympus #magnus chase #the kane chronicles

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Fictober: Abbey

Prompt26: “How about you trust me for once?” Fandom: Runes of Magic Title: Abbey Pair: Rixa (OC) /Maur (friends OC) Rating: T I wrote this in the universe of Runes of Magic, an mmo available via steam etc. It was my friend’s bday this last week and I wanted to give her a gift. So here is an odd fandom and I don’t know if it has an equivalent on Ao3 but I will post it there as part of my series.

Rixa had begun her existence as a thief and pirate, her family rich off the misfortune of others she had come to the city looking for both redemption and challenge. For what does a thief do to rebel against the family but try and do good instead. Maur had started the other way around, coming from a good family, and wanting to stretch his wings. So they met in the middle and found each other in the midst of all that was going on in the city of Veranas.

it was a rainy day when they set out for the confines of the Abbey, tasked with retrieving several items and bringing an end to the demon spirit deep within. Neither had been there before, the dark and foreboding graveyard did not allow for people to exactly visit regularly. Inside the building, they came across two specialist priests who are keen on cleansing the place of its problems neither wanted to do this of their own accord but we're seeking adventurers such as Rixa and Maur, they gave limited instructions although they were not exactly clear on how to enter into the chambers below, but warned against certain magical doors which lead to places which were not of the present world. “Beware of the nightmare world, you want to avoid that at all costs.” “It is necessary to cleanse this place in the waking world” Agreed the other with all the learned wisdom of a sage, he placed his hands together in front of him. “Now off with you.”

Fighting their way downstairs past spiders and bats who both seemed to have taken up residence in the Abbey, they found themselves at a dead end.

"How about you trust me for once?" Rixa regarded Maur " this is not the time to be using random doors."

“Huh but it looks cool?” Maur pointed to a door covered with tentacle-like features. “Where do you think it goes?” “It screams nightmare don’t you think?” Rixa replied

“But I don't see any other door” Rixa mused “It must be hidden.” She turned her back to Maur and looked towards the altar in the center of the room she ran her fingers along the base of the altar looking for a secret door lock Maur hummed to himself a moment, then he turned to her asking “Why don't you try liking the brazier, sometimes those things open secret doors.” Rixa frowned annoyed that she hadn't thought of that herself she lit the brazier with gusto, and the secret door slid open leading them to the entrance of the cavernous below of the Abbey.

“You sure about this?” Rixa asked adjusting straps and daggers on her outfit - her clothes were covered in dust, she wrinkled her nose as she brushed it off the black wondering if there was a color which didn’t attract it. “For a rogue you sure are fussy.” Maur laughed watching her closely. He hefted his shield and sword, testing the weight and smiling when he found it to his liking. Running a hand through his hair, he made the same actions as Rixa and smoothed his outfit - although mail and plate hardly require much smoothing, and Rixa was certain it was an act of imitation and thus teasing. “Yes I am certain, this needs to be done, I have been asked to retrieve several items from in here already.” Maur paused before adding, “I can keep you safe though.”

The abbey on the surface was dark enough, down here you had ghosts and ghouls, but also the bats and spiders which seem to be common all over. The ghouls posed the biggest risk. As another zombie fell to her blades Rixa looked to see Maur watching her. “You look good when you are fighting.” He stated shrugging before turning and using his knight’s ability to smite another zombie that had ambled up. They fought side by side scrambling through the lower areas, fighting the necromancers who were masking the presence of what the priests upstairs referred to as the duke. The duke was a fierce lumbering and very large ghoul. If he had a life before this it was not evident in his presence or his clothing. “This place is crazy.” Maru offered as they watched the duke and prepared for their attack. “I am guessing he isn’t going to just let us walk past and into those doors?” “No, and I think it is going to be a good test.” “Well, don’t die on me,” Maur said with a laugh “I have gotten attached to having you around.” “Oh really?” Rixa sighed she liked Maur a lot more than she let on. “Ready to fight this … thing..?” “He’s a ghoul and like most ghoul’s he is probably going to use fear…” Rixa said analyzing the situation “I suggest we go about this with ca….” Maur had already run into the fight. It was not a short flight, the count was far from nimble but for one so big he moved at lightning speed. Twice Rixa intercepted a blow meant for Maur and regretted it as she cloaked herself in the shadows and ruefully dressed the wounds with healing herbs as fast as she could. “Well.” Maur said as his sword shattered the skull of the ‘duke’ “That was fun.” “Interesting idea of fun…” Rixa muttered sheathing her daggers and looking around “Look the door opened.” “Bricks and mortar, maybe we have made it to the Abbey proper?” “Looks that way, oh…” Rixa stopped short and Maur ran into her with a grunt of surprise. Inside the room, an apparition was pacing, as if waiting for them it turned. The ghost was that of one of the ‘Eye of Wisdom’ people, the ones who had their finger on the pulse of the magic here, and the dangers. “Did I miss something?” Rixa asked, “I feel like they should have told us that there were Eye of Wisdom people here.” “True.” Maur frowned but moved forward past Rixa to talk with the ghost who set them to collect a book from further in. “Heh, the ghost can’t get their book ok.” Rixa muttered, “I guess that is why there are piles of bones everywhere.” They made quick work of the room, the zombies there were harder to fight but the two of them were capable and in sync with each other’s fighting style by now. “Over here!” Maur called from a corner “Pile of books…” He kicked it as he said that and a person rose from behind them, his hands were still bound but he was able to use magic. “What are you doing? You will ruin it!” he screeched as they tried unsuccessfully to just free him from his bindings, the man or being said as he died “Don’t tell anyone I was here…” “Just once I wish people would be happy to be rescued or saved.” Rixa shook her head, it was always something “I mean unless he wanted to be bound up in here…” “Maybe that is his kink?” Maur muttered under his breath waiting for a reaction from Rixa who just stared at him a moment. “Perhaps it is, can’t blame him for that then.” The two of them move through dealing with a large slime, or a ghoul slime? Rixa was not sure which it was except it was large and green. Then across the hall, they fought a ghoul who summoned more small ghouls to the fight. Luckily for both of them, Maur had enough defensive abilities in his repertoire. “Shall we open the large foreboding door at the end of the room?” He asked as he cleaned his sword ready for the next fight. “Of course,” Rixa nodded “What harm could come of it.” “Heh, knew I liked you,” Maur replied pushing the door open they moved to the last battle in the Abbey with enthusiasm. To finally be done here was a definite goal, though Rixa could not help but feel it was just the beginning of the story. Through the door, two masked figures could be seen negotiating with a witch-like demon. Maur and Rixa looked at each other and surged on to defeat their enemy. “Thank you…” That was not the expected response from a ghoul having been defeated, but a ghost, not a ghoul stood in front of them. She told them she had sacrificed herself so that others could escape. Suddenly it made sense, the entire fight had been about controlling the woman’s spirit, who in life had been a powerful mage, in death had been taken over by a demon who turned that power to their ends. They returned the book to the ghost who requested it and carried on until they were outside. “So I guess we part ways?” Rixa asked “Do we have to?” “Maybe for a time.” she paused “But if you need me all you need to do is ask; and I will be around.” “Thanks. I… yes the same to you.” Maur had an honest blush on his face which made Rixa stop a second. “Never far Maur, just keep that in mind!” She mounted her horse and swinging a dark cloak around her shoulders and over her hair she rode off.

#fictober20 #runes of magic #OC: Rixa #Friend's OC: Maur #a little different #harder to write.#recounting the first dungeon in the game sort of.

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What Fresh Hell (pt.6)

Characters: Clyde Brenek x Katrina (oc)

Warnings: blood, gore, violence, angst, religious interpretations

Notes: my god it's been awhile since I updated this bad boy, sorry about for those of you who actually read this. The descriptions of the crab demons in this chapter are very vague because I kinda wanted you guys to have fun letting your imagination conjure up just the scariest bug/crab demons you could think of lol

And just think of this chapter as the scariest fucking rollarcoaster ride in your damn life 😂😂😂

Thank you @noodlecupcakes for helping me get this fic back on track 😘

P.S. if ya want tagged please let me know ;)

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Sitting in what looked like an abandoned subway station, Katrina and Clyde slumped down in one of the wooden benches. Clyde still had the towel pressed to his neck, his red eyes slowly dimming as he wiped the drying blood on his hands against his pants.

Katrina scooted closer to him, slowly lifting her fingers to the blood soaked towel “Let me have a look”. Clyde grimaced but let her move the soaked fabric from his skin “we need to get back on his trail… there's no sense in sitting around waiting for him to show up again”.

Katrina nodded “I might know someone who can help”.

Clyde looked at her with tired eyes, he was exhausted. “And who might that be?” he sighed touching his mostly healed wound as Katrina got to her feet. Wrapping his blood soaked towel around her fist, she dropped down onto the tracks making him stand up.

“what the hell are you doing?”

Katrina took a deep breath “getting us a ride”. Holding up her towel wrapped fist, she let out a shaky breath as blood ran down her arm “come on Charlie!”

Clyde furrowed his brow as a gust of foul smelling wind wafted up through the tunnel, the sound of disembodied screams wailing from the darkness as Katrina was suddenly bathed in bright red light. The loud roaring scream of a monstrous train bellowing from the abyss, scrambling up from the tracks as Clyde grabbed her hand they both turned to watch the jet black steel horse come to a stop.

Clyde coughed as he placed his bloody hand over his mouth, the smell was unbelievable.

Squealing to a halt, a large wave of red mist flowed up from under the machine. The train was an old Steam Engine, the rusty black steel looking odd filling up the underground rails. The large cow catcher jutting out from its front resembled that of an Angler Fishes teeth.

Clyde moved next to Katrina eyeing the mechanical monster with a look of uncertainty “is that thing breathing?” The corner of Katrina's lips quirked up as she took a step forward, her hand moving up to slide against the warm metal. The train seemed to shift beneath her, it's metal plating expanding as a low growl rumbled up from its jaws.

“Charlie is a friend, he'll help us get close to Zule”.

Clyde grimaced but followed her inside as the giant machine moved forward with a low groan of steel. Entering the train car Clyde grimaced, the whole inside was covered in slime. The seats and decor were formed from bones and innards, the sound of their steps squelching beneath them made his stomach turn.

Katrina on the other hand smiled brightly, running up into the small room the conductor would normally be sitting. Moving around the large furnace she ran her hand over a large pulsating mass of tissue.

Clyde watched in curiosity as she delved her fingers into its folds almost gently as a low hum vibrated around them, the mass of flesh glowing slightly as Katrina closed her eyes.

Clyde’s brow creased as he watched her, her expressions changing before she finally pulled her fingers from the grotesque ball “we're ready to go”. Clyde gave her a confused look “so, what...you talked to it?”

She shrugged “something like that, more like showed him my memories...he understood what I wanted”. He shook his head with a sigh “Ok so now what?”

She smiled patting his shoulder “now we wait”.

He growled softly as she moved past him, taking a seat on one of the few dry seats. Clyde pressed his hand against the nearby wall as Charlie jolted forward, his loud roar signalling his departure. The rattling of his steel wheels against the rusted tracks screaming around them as Clyde moved to lean against the wall next to Katrina.

“Your wrong you know?”

He looked down at the woman sitting next to him, her long brunette hair hanging loosely around her shoulders. “About?” he rasped, his hands running down his face before he folded them across his chest with a deep sigh. leaning his head back against the fleshy wall he rocked slightly with the demonic transport as Katrina let out a deep sigh “you said you didn't fight Abyzou, your wrong”.

Clyde frowned “I didn't know what the hell I was doin”. She looked up at him “but you fought for your daughter, if it hadn't been for you she would of been lost...your amazing Clyde”. His hazel eyes drifted open as he looked down at her as she continued “you sacrifice yourself for others without a second thought to your own safety, your completely selfless”. She shook her head in disbelief with a soft smile “that, is one of the rarest qualities you can find in a human...you scare them”.

Clyde’s face remained stoic as he looked back at the opposite wall “call it what you want, I call it having nothing to fuckin loose and just not giving a damn anymore”.

Katrina watched him with sad eyes “your not as horrible as you'd like to think Clyde…” she trailed off as he closed his eyes once more “try to get some rest, we may not get another opportunity”. She nodded leaning back in her seat, Clyde seemed so drained.

She hoped he would find a spark to light the fire in his soul again, the same iron will he found to save his daughter.

They needed that Clyde.

They needed hope.

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The loud clanging of metal against metal jolted Clyde awake as Katrina toppled to the slick floor. “What the hell was that?” he growled moving to one of the small windows as sparks rained down from the roof.

Crawling across the floor she stumbled to her feet as the loud roar of Charlie exploded around them “we're under attack!!!”

Clyde hung his head out the window narrowing his eyes as several sharp insect-leg legs scuttled across the roof, scratching against the metal. Ducking back inside as they zoomed alongside another jet black train, Clyde moved to the large motor unit climbing up the rusty ladder.

The suffocatingly hot air almost brought him to his knees as they emerged from the damp tunnel, jets of red steam shooting up from the jagged smokestacks lining the locomotives back. Charlie jolted slightly as he made a sharp turn, his wheels pushing against the tracks as he accelerated.

Crawling on top of the demonic train Clyde slowly got to his feet, his black coat whipping around him as his eyes widened at their surroundings.

A loud roaring scream echoing around the expanse of orange sky as streaks of red lightning spiderwebbed across the overcast dimension.

The sound of legs scuttling across the metal roof caught his attention as several large crab-like demons crawled up from second car. Their green-black carcapases shimmering in the sepia lighting. Drool covered mandibles twitched as they screeched in excitement, snapping their double set of barb covered claws as they cambered over one another in order to get closer to Clyde.

Baring his fangs as they dropped from his gums, Clyde held his arms from his side as his ink black claws ejected out from his bleeding fingers.

Catching the first crab demon by its claws he quickly planted his feet forcing it's large body tumbling over the edge, stumbling back away just as two more slammed into his body.

The loud crack of one's pinchers clamping down around his arm made him growl, snarling in pain he pulled the twisting creature with him as he kicked another smaller one from the train.

Swinging around as he dropped to his knees he crashed the demon attached to his arm into a nearby smokestack, it's tough shell cracking like an egg under the sanguine steel horse as it fell to the tracks.

Charlie roared once more, his body jumping slightly as the tracks winded up into another rickety tunnel. Clyde felt the shift as he continued to fight off the swarm of demon insects, punching his clawed fist through the shell of one he quickly tackled another as its wiggling mandibles reached for his blood streaked face.

Gritting his teeth as he forced the creatures sharp legs from the train Clyde’s eyes widened as he noticed the track drop away up ahead, digging his claws into the damp steel he growled as Charlie suddenly dropped off the mountain into another dark tunnel.

The long train spinning around along the rattling rails like a twisted rollercoaster as he closed his eyes, the world was spinning as they dove from the tunnel the old train twisting around another loop causing Clyde's claws to loosen their hold.

“Fuck!!” He growled as he rolled over as the track dropped once more, several crab demons falling away as Charlie twisted around onto the ceiling spinning around the tunnel as several metal panels shot out to grind against the walls, slowing his rapid decent.

Sparks rained down around the twisting locomotive as it dropped onto another set of tracks like a demonic worm.

Clyde could feel his stomach lurching as red steam bellowed up around him, the beast of a train coming to a rattling stop in front of what looked like the set of an old western. The large tunnel they had just dropped from hanging from the orange clouds like a hamster tunnel.

Clyde grimaced with a pained grunt as he looked at the old train station, the large wooden sign reading “Welcome To Limbus”.

Getting to his feet he slowly slid off the side of the train, his boots hitting the dirt in a puff of dust.

Katrina dropped off the steps looking around in confusion “why would he come here?”

Clyde’s breathing was heavy as the thunderous sound of horses could be heard coming up through the ticket tunnel. Dust and other debris twirling up around them as a large group of heavily decomposed men rode up on rusted mechanical horses, the gears creaking loudly as they pulled them to a halt.

“What's your business here?”

The spirit with a voice eyed Clyde then Katrina, his jaw attached to his skull with copper wire and a mass of rusty metal plates.

Katrina forced a what Clyde could only assume was a friendly smile “we're uh..just passing through you haven't by chance seen a demon come through have you?”

He growled flexing his jaw as a large chunk of flesh fell from his bare chest plopping to the wooden platform as his mechanical horse shifted its weight.

“No demon here!”

Clyde growled letting his eyes flash red causing the metal animals to whine in distress as their undead riders began growling and murmuring amongst themselves.

“No demon huh?” He rasped stepping forward as the leader of the posse wrinkled his rotting lips “no!”

Shifting on his steed he made a low gurgling noise before pointing toward a large castle in the distance, the monolithic structure standing out against the dead expanse of desert. It's black stone blocking out the sun as red lightning struck it's pointed towers making it look like something from Mary Shelly.

“Follow the shadows” he growled, dropping his hand back to his waist as he spurred his horse forward. The other riders turning back down the platform, their metal hooves banging against the dusted wood.

“The darkness follows, follow the shadows and you'll find the demon”.

Clyde glanced at the dark castle before looking back to the undead rider with a nod, tipping its hat the ghoul gurgled something incoherent before quickly following his group of riders.

Katrina moved in next to him as she blinked, the wind bellowing around them as they stared at the monstrous building.

“Any idea on what the hell were walking into in there?”

She looked up at him with a sad smile “it's the Citadel Of Limbo...be sure not to loose sight” she looked around her nervously “this place was made to make you feel welcome. Once we're inside your mind is going to play tricks on you, make you want to stay….like it's your own personal heaven”.

Clyde scoffed “never was too interested in heaven to be honest”.

She frowned watching as he narrowed his eyes at the castle.

“We all have something we'd rather lose ourselves in Clyde”.

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recentanimenews · 4 years

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Manga the Week of 11/4/20

SEAN: November, and there’s still a lot coming out every week.

And we start with a bang, as Dark Horse has the manga version of the highly-acclaimed series Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! (Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!). From Gekkan Spirits, it’s a fantastic look at goofy eccentrics trying to make their own anime.

ASH: I’ve definitely heard good things about the anime; hopefully the manga will be good, too!

MELINDA: That sounds kind of fun!

SEAN: J-Novel Club has a lot of print this week. Two debuts, By the Grace of the Gods (now with an anime) and I Shall Survive Using Potions! (the manga version).

Also in print: An Archdemon’s Dilemma 8, Ascendance of a Bookworm 2 (manga version), Infinite Dendrogram 9, The Magic in This Other World Is Too Far Behind! 9, and My Next Life As a Villainess! 4.

ASH: I’m really happy to see so much print coming out from J-Novel Club.

SEAN: Digitally the debut is Fushi no Kami: Rebuilding Civilization Starts With a Village (Fushi no Kami ~ Henkyou kara Hajimeru Bunmei Saiseiki ~). A young man is reincarnated in another world, but he doesn’t have cool magic or sword powers, and the world is medieval. He wants modern civilization! Can he find it?

And there’s also the 5th Marginal Operation manga.

Kodansha debuts in print That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: Trinity in Tempest, another spinoff of the popular series.

Also in print from Kodansha: Fate/Grand Order – mortalis:stella 2, Fire Force 20, O Maidens in Your Savage Season 8, That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime 14, Welcome to the Ballroom 10, and Yuri Is My Job! 6. Wait, Welcome to the Ballroom still exists?

MICHELLE: Apparently! It’s been almost three years since volume nine came out.

ASH: Wow, that has been a while! O Maidens in Your Savage Season is the series that has my attention here, though.

SEAN: Digitally the debut is Otherworldly Munchkin: Let’s Speedrun the Dungeon with Only 1 HP! (Isekai Man Chikin -HP 1 no Mama de Saikyou Saisoku Danjon Kouryaku-), a Suiyoubi no Sirius series about a brother killed protecting his sister who’s reincarnated in a fantasy world… as is his sister, who he still has to save.

Also digital: All-Rounder Meguru 17, Cells at Work: Bacteria! 5, GTO Paradise Lost 13, Magical Sempai 7, My Boss’s Kitten 7 (the final volume), My Sweet Girl 11, Our Fake Marriage 4, Shaman King: Flowers 3, Shaman King: Red Crimson 2, and Smile Down the Runway 15.

MICHELLE: I should really check back in with My Sweet Girl. It was getting kind of good when I left off.

SEAN: One Peace has a 10th volume of Hinamatsuri.

Seven Seas debuts, in print, Yes, No, or Maybe?, a BL light novel about the television industry.

ASH: I might get around to reading this now that it’s in print.

MELINDA: Okay, I might be interested in this.

SEAN: Also coming out: Fairy Tale Battle Royale 4, The Legend of Dororo and Hyakkimaru 2, Shomin Sample 13, Skeleton Knight in Another World 8 (digital version), and Who Says Warriors Can’t Be Babes? 2.

ASH: I only just recently read the first volume, but I’m interested in reading more of The Legend of Dororo and Hyakkimaru. Osama Tezuka’s original Dororo is one of my favorites.

SEAN: Tokyopop debuts Ossan Idol! (Ossan (36) ga Idol ni naru Hanashi), an adaptation of a novel that runs in Comic Pash!. A Middle-Aged Man, bullied most of his life, turns his life around and gets buff, cool and handsome… but is unaware of this. Now he’s been scouted. This looks pretty fun.

MICHELLE: It does!

SEAN: Vertical has the 5th Bakemonogatari manga and Don’t Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro 4.

No debuts for Viz, just the usual powerhouses. There’s Black Clover 23, the 2nd Bleach: Don’t Fear Your Own World light novel, Daytime Shooting Star 9, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba 18, Dr. STONE 14, Haikyu!! 41, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Arc 4 7, Kaguya-sama: Love Is War 17, Love Me Love Me Not 5, My Hero Academia: Vigilantes 8, The Promised Neverland 17, Samurai 8 4, Shortcake Cake 10, Snow White with the Red Hair 10, and World Trigger 21.

MICHELLE: Yep, I’ll definitely be reading a bunch of these. I’m probably the most excited for Haikyu!!.

ASH: I’m following quite a few of these, too!

ANNA: I am also happy about many of these ongoing series!

SEAN: Yen On has three ongoing titles: May These Leaden Battlegrounds Leave No Trace 2, A Sister’s All You Need 8, and That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime 9.

As for Yen Press, the “debut” is Sword Art Online Progressive: Barcarolle of Froth, the continuation of Progressive’s manga with a new artist, covering the series’ third novel.

There’s also Final Fantasy: Lost Stranger 5, The Royal Tutor 14, Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts 11, and That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime: The Ways of the Monster Nation 2.

ASH: I really need to catch up with Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts; I enjoyed the early volumes, but have fallen behind.

SEAN: See? That’s a lot.

By: Sean Gaffney

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gomisart · 7 years

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Headworld/Story Guide

I wrote up this sort of short introduction thingy for my original stories and worlds they happen in, but it got a bit long because there’s just a lot to say about some of them! So it’s under cut!

Ghost Syndrome World

- Setting to Ghost Syndrome, my active webcomic. Main genre is urban fantasy.

- The story focuses around Vivian, a new vampire, and a group of other people tied to magic happenings, set in the fictional town of Hexerkeep in northeast United States.

- Alternative version of our world with secret magic and supernatural stuff like vampires and werewolves and ghosts.

- Normal people don’t know magic exists, and even “magic people” don’t always know much because magic communities are scattered and poorly organized. Several pocket dimension cities exist all over the globe, and even some magic societies outside pocket dimension cities. But a lot of new vampires, werewolves and mages are just left with poor knowledge of what’s going on and might never meet others of their kind.

- Humans are the vastly major sapient species, followed by werewolves and vampires. But werewolves and vampires usually used to be human as well, though both conditions can be gained by other species as well. Werewolves can also be born hereditarily, but vampires can’t. Ghosts, also largely human, don’t count as a sapient species since they aren’t a species, but a state of an individual’s existence.

- There are some non-human sapient species, but their numbers are scarce, and they’re mostly living in pocket dimension cities. None of these species are natural shapeshifters, which hinders them a lot. Several individuals might seek shapeshifting disguises through magic in order to live outside pocket dimension cities.

- There are still a handful of magic animals like griffins and unicorns around, but they’re even rarer than magic folk.

- Dragons were sapient and capable of shapeshifting, but they are extinct, apparently. At least that’s the general consensus.

- Rumor is that fair folk are real, but they rarely interact with people anymore, and live mostly in their own pocket dimension if they are real.

- Demons and angels are real. Demons interact with real world a lot more than angels. There are also other spirits and unclassified supernatural beings that partially exist in the world and partially in pocket dimensions. Demons and such mostly interact with humans to make contracts, offering magic powers and getting stuff like souls in return.

- Potentially used as a setting for other stories too in the future, who knows? Sounds like a vast world.

Changer World

- Setting to Changer, a comic-to-be I’m working on. I used to call this setting Godrealm before the actual story started settling in. Main genre for this story is fantasy.

- The story focuses around Huuhkaja, who finds out she’s a demigod and has an important mission to fulfil. She sets out on a journey with some allies, forming a nicely balanced RPG party.

- A fantasy world based on Nordic, and especially Finnish mythology. “Timeline-wise” it’s about ancient agrarian culture fantasy Finland, with some bigger cities already formed, but since it’s a fantasy world, it’s not going to be historically accurate. Just the general gist of it. The whole story happens in just this one country, but other countries are hinted to exist.

- The main deal with this world is that gods are alive and real, and directly affect people’s lives, but people’s actions and worship can also directly affect gods.

- There are several spirits, usually directly created by the gods, but sometimes formed by places and natural phenomena. It’s a fairly animistic world.

- Magic is a fairly everyday thing, most people use everyday good luck charms and so on, but only few people can actually actively use magic to do (almost) everything they want. Most villages have at least one magic user. The way magic works in this world is mostly shamanistic, and a lot of magic users have familiars to help them, and use songs and spells. But magic, as a force, is all around people, and doesn’t come from a malevolent or benevolent source. Magic as a force is neutral. Magic users can be any kind of people they want though, from helpful healers to questionable witches.

- Just humans in this world, and spirits and gods. No magic animals or anything. Though, a lot of things can be achieved with magic…

- Currently no plans to include more than this one story in this world.

Cervid World

- Setting to Cervid, a comic series I mainly draw in 24 hour comic events, because that’s a good excuse to draw something light-hearted. Currently includes three chapters made into zines. Main genre for this one is slice of life, with a comedic take.

- The story revolves around Stan, a deertaur boy who transfers to a new high school and meets a bunch of new friends. Hilarity ensues, perhaps.

- Alternative version of our world with monster people. Your everyday modern day world, just add monsters.

- Humans are the majority of the population, around 60-70 % of people are human, the rest are something else. Non-human sapient species include pretty much any sapient monsters you could think of, more or less human-shaped. Centaurs, harpies, sphinxes, manticores, merfolk, cyclopses and so on, to name a few.

- If it’s a mythological creature and not human-based in any way, chances are it’s an animal in this world. Stuff like griffins, unicorns, wyrms, shishi, qirins, so on.

- There is really no magic in this world. There used to be magic in ancient times, but it has run out. All kinds of weird species were apparently created by magic back in the day.

- The only species that still has magic is dragons, which are sapient, and they can only really spit fire and shapeshift with their magic. Apparently they, as a species, are so ancient that their magic is too deeply entwined in their DNA to just disappear. Some dragons live in human forms, some live more animal-like lives. All are equally sapient.

- There are no other shapeshifters in this world, so no werewolves, vampires, nine-tailed foxes or anything. No magic users either.

- A few generations ago, there was a huge surge of wild magic about in the world, which caused a bunch of people to mutate into non-human species. Back then only around 5-10% of the world’s population was non-humans, but this phenomenon closed the gap to the current numbers. This also helped non-humans finally get full person rights all over the world (they already had those in most countries, fortunately). General consensus is that this was the last burst of magic the world had to offer, but some people speculate there could be another phenomenon like this happening in the future.

- A lot of species can have viable offspring together, but a lot also can’t. Most offspring from this kind of couplings are either the mother’s or the father’s species (like a cyclops and a human having both human and cyclops children), some are slightly hybrid in nature (for example an oni with dragon-like scales)

- Right now only Cervid is set in this world but honestly I could put any kind of stories here since the fate of the world is in no way tied to Stan and his antics. Who knows! Maybe there’s room for more! Modern fantasy is always fun.

”Plantings” World

- Setting to Plantings, a short comic I drew for a zine. Currently one-shot, plans for continuation are afoot. Main genre is post-apocalyptic sci-fi, and slice of life.

- The story so far follows Honka, a person with three arms, who rides around post-apocalyptic wastelands with their riding dog, and plants seeds and saplings around, hoping the world will restore itself.

- A post-apocalyptic setting, but it has been so long since the cataclysm that most people don’t really remember it anymore, and things are starting to grow again, but of course they could use a little help. This whole world is supposed to have an “overgrown abandoned place” aesthetic vibe.

- Humans mostly live in underground shelters in this world, but people are starting to move back to the surface now that things aren’t so bad anymore. Right now societies are scattered, but trade routes and contacts are being re-established.

- There are some weird mutations and stuff going on. People can just randomly have green hair and three arms and it’s normal. Horse-sized dogs are normal and specifically bred to be mounts. Most mutations are just weird but not scary and murderous. There might be some sentient blobs of more or less radioactive slime but those are, uh, probably friendly!

- There isn’t definite proof of other sapient species surfacing alongside humans after the cataclysm, just some individual creatures have achieved sapience.

- Some societies might be more effed up but most people are just really chill and honestly want to rebuild the world and get in contact with other humans again. The world was already thrown to chaos once and most people don’t want to see that again.

- The basic idea is very clear, some details need ironing out, but mainly this setting just needs more stories! The starting point is clear and a prologue of sorts has been drawn – I have to figure out what Honka does next! I’m sure they have potential for a lot of adventures..!

- Come to think of it, this project might work as an art book with a series of illustrations and short comics. Hmmm. Endless possibilities!!

”Upgrade” World

- Setting to Upgrade, a short comic I drew for a zine. Currently one-shot, hopes for continuation are around! Main genre is sci-fi, and I guess so far slice of life.

- The story so far is about a (currently nameless) robot boy who wants to buy a new head, since his old one is overheating.

- So this is a modern day or near future sci-fi world with robots! Who apparently have full person rights and can buy parts for themselves. A lot of stuff is open-ended right now, but I think robots in this world are basically, at least surface level, treated like humans and do all kinds of things humans do like go to school and have jobs and such. Despite the robot factor, I see this otherwise as a really mundane world right now. - One funny mental image I had though was that robots have more career options than humans in a way, since their AIs can be transferred to all kinds of bodies, so they could, for example, become spaceships when they grow up. Something like that!

- Well, there’s a whole lot I don’t know about this world yet, but! Let’s see if this robot boy gets more adventures. The setting doesn’t really mix with any of my other headworlds though, so it’s gotta be its own world!

Seven Suns World

- Setting to Seven Suns, a story project that’s in the backburner right now because this is a big world in need of heavy worldbuilding, and somehow it’s surprisingly hard for me to focus on. Probably going to be a comic one day, maybe? If I get to work the actual story into some sort of consumable form. Main genre of this story is sci-fi.

- The story revolves around a lovable rag-tag party of space pirates. This story needs about as much work as the world.

- Sci-fi world with seven solar systems, a bunch of habitable planets, and 14 sapient species in total. That’s a. Uh. Lot of work.

- Humans are one sapient species, and then there are 13 different sapient alien species, ranging from “these are kinda like anthro dinosaur cats” to “this species has serpentine body, ten limbs, two mouths and six eyes”.

- A lot of stuff is still up in the air with this one – I am not super knowledgeable about space, and that’s a lot of stuff to research, worldbuilding-wise. However, from a story writing perspective, a whole lot of stuff will absolutely never be touched in the story, so I’m kinda trying to tell myself there’s a whole lot of stuff I could just handwave and be done with. In any case, this one is still in such a mutable, subject-to-change place, and not the highest one on my priority list, so for now that’s just where it’ll be. I think about it occasionally and things will move at their own pace – occasionally.

I-Don’t-Have-A-Name-For-This-World High Fantasy World

- A setting and world that’s still pretty much up in the air – currently a place I have placed a lot of characters who have lacked a proper place. But I am uncertain whose story I’d want to write, or who the main character should be! Right now I’m leaning towards the story of Six. In either case, this is very much a fantasy world.

- Currently leaning towards the story revolving around Six, a chimera who starts studying magic, and Torpedo, a mercenary she meets. But there could be other stories too! Well, several stories could happen in this world too, it’s a vast world!

- A classic kitchen sink, D&D-esque high fantasy world with humans, elves, orcs, dragons, monsters and magic, all that jazz. Pretty much everything is magical or at least has the potential to be. There’s magic in the air and dirt and water and so on, it’s something you can study, and the strongest wizards can do absolutely ridiculous stuff. There are adventuring parties made up of talking dogs and magically created chimeras can go to magic college. Wild stuff!

- The main building blocks are actually there, it’s a Generic Fantasy World – right now I’m just lacking the stories to put there, or rather, I have way too many ideas! I need to trim it down, maybe make individual stories shorter, and put a bunch of stuff to happen here. A name for the world would of course be nice, so I could call it something else than “generic fantasy world”. In either case, a lot of characters, some more or less connected to each other, already call this world home.

“Spirit World”, “The One With Pyrrhos and Bacchus and co. World”

- The setting I put a couple of characters from a few years back in and started developing, but I ran into a brick wall. Fantasy something.

- Right now the story is about Pyrrhos, a wolf spirit who gets cursed because he did something stupid. And that’s it; I have a starting point, and nothing else. Also another story from this setting is focused on Jin, a shishi statue who comes to life and starts adventuring. But that’s only the starting point, too.

- Something keeps insisting that this is it’s own world with spirits and stuff in a pocket dimension existing liminally with real world, and no other supernatural elements. But that’s as far as that goes, too.

- The few characters from this world will probably be assimilated into another setting, or kept as solitary characters for now, because it feels kinda redundant to build a world with no actual stories. I could easily just rethink the characters a bit and put them in the “generic fantasy world” setting and be done with it.

#textpost #original project #ghost syndrome #mullistaja/changer #cervid #plantings #upgrade #7s

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canaliculi · 7 years

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I guess you got what you're after (if you're after a life on your knees)

Gravity Falls

Bill/Ford

M: begging

Either of them apologizes to the other, very very humbly.

“I’ve been thinking,” Bill said. Ford didn’t move, but he felt his pulse quicken, just an extra beat or two each minute. “It’s getting kinda boring around here, isn’t it?”

Ford clenched his fists. It hadn’t been until he’d gotten evicted out of his home dimension that he’d realized he could be just as much the fighting type as Stanley. Part of him wished he couldn’t be goaded so easily, but the majority of him wanted to punch Bill squarely in his stupid, smug eye. The fake muse seemed oblivious to Ford’s bubbling ire, slitted pupil revolving in shallow circular motions as he watched himself swirl some glowing pink liquid about a martini glass. Seemed being a key word in this situation, because even if Bill no longer had an open invitation to squat in his mind, the demon was almost preternaturally tuned to his emotions. And never failed to use said attunement for any purpose outside of prodding him violently.

Bill titled his glass, appearing to empty his drink onto the floor, but a mouth sprouted from the blackened grout between the tiles of the fearamid and swallowed the no doubt alcoholic ichor. Ford shifted on his knees, eying the glossy bricks he’d been forced to kneel upon, suddenly uncomfortable. Well, more uncomfortable. Bill turned to look at him, glaring, and let his glass fall to shatter on the tiles, eliciting a yelp from the apparently sentient flooring.

“Well? Aren’t you gonna ask why?” Bill continued to scowl at him, and then began laughing. “Oh yeah, I forgot!” He snapped his fingers, and the bridle-like gag that he’d personally shoved into Ford’s mouth days ago dissolved into a thick, sour slime that Ford had to spit out onto the floor, hunching over and gagging. The scientist turned dimensional hobo could feel it dripping in viscous lines down the sides of his face, gooey in his hair, coating his tongue like maple syrup. “Hey, don’t puncture a lung down there – I’m pretty sure they turn horses into glue for that offense, too!”

Fingers ran through his hair then, though they jerked back the moment they touched the trail of mystery liquid that had drenched him. An arm emerged from the floor, soft fingers wiping off his mouth that Ford immediately tried to pull away from. The various other restraints littered across his body, having not transitioned from a solid state to a liquid, held tight – he could turn his head, but it wasn’t nearly enough to escape the sardonically gentle touch.

“Aww, what’s wrong? You used to like it when I pet you! Remember?” Bill’s eye went fuzzy like an old TV set, and then light poured out of it like a projector. Instead of displaying anywhere in front of the demon, the ground beneath Ford’s hands – that was liberally splattered with the disgusting ooze he’d heaved out – lit up. Ford was still long enough to watch a grainy image of himself appear. An image of himself that was obviously moaning, writhing in a tangle of pitch black limbs. Heat rose to his face, in much the same way bile rose in the back of his throat, and he shut his eyes.

“And do you know what else I remember?” Ford felt a small weight settle on his head. “Come on, this one should be a fond memory for you!” Fingers alighted on his face, bracketing his eyes, and they peeled his eyelids apart, so he was forced to watch as the floor lit itself up again with a new image. Bill was on his head, diminutive in a way he hadn’t bothered to be in so long, fluffing up his hair as though they were back in the mindscape.

On the ground, like an old home video, Ford watched himself burst into the nightmare dimension, guns blazing. The camera panned to linger on the smoldering remains of one of the nameless monsters Ford had slain on his final visit to that shifting, in between world, and a sad cascade of violins began playing. He rolled his eyes.

“Hey, hey, what’s with the attitude! Trevor – wait, or was it Travis? Maybe Terrorizer? Anyway, he was an integral part of both my plans and my crew! This is a stirring memorial to his lifetime of achievements! I’d pour some out, but getting the monolithic nightmare castle you’re currently residing in drunk is against most interdimensional construction laws!” Ford didn’t even need to see Bill to know that the sudden silence was Bill realizing A) something was illegal and, therefore, B) that he should do it. The hands that had been holding him captive let go, sinking back into the floor.

“Bill,” Ford said, mostly because he didn’t want to see what a drunk fearamid was like. His voice was scratchy and rough, either from the recent disuse or the not-so-recent constant, agonized screaming. He’d actually had to make multiple attempts before any sound would come out at all. “What’s your point?” The movie playing below had finally focused back on him, diving heroically into the Quadrangle of Qonfusion, but at his words the image of Ford on the screen stopped dead in his tracks, instead turning to the camera to look outraged.

“Fordsy! Why, I’m shocked! I’m stunned! Absolutely flabbergasted!” Bill hopped off his head to float in front of him instead. Ford craned his neck up to watch him, irritated because he knew, just knew, that was what Bill wanted to him to do. “I’ve never seen you be so cold – well, except to your brother, your family, and basically anyone that has ever mistakenly put their trust in you! But to me? It hurts, IQ!”

Being reminded of his family just reminded him that they were here, somewhere, just as caught as he was, though hopefully without the personal attentions of a megalomania-riddled demon. Ford swallowed around a stone in his throat, in his chest, and focused instead on the annoyance Bill provided, a constant burr jammed into the soft flesh of his side. Bill drew closer to him, and laid a small hand on either side of his face. A light pressure in his fingertips that encouraged Ford to lean forward, to come nearer. It felt surprisingly insidious for such an innocuous gesture, and left heat curling through his body that was entirely unwelcome.

“Why are you bored, Bill?” Best to just get this out of the way. Bill no doubt wanted to play some infuriating and humiliating game, and was trying to let out enough lead for Ford to get himself tangled up in. Swallow the bait whole, and it at least took some of the sport out of it.

“I’m touched you asked, Sixer! And here I was, thinking you didn’t care about me anymore!” Ford almost leapt out of his skin when another hand emerged from the ground and ran up the midline of his chest, trailed a finger across his heavy collar before fading away again. “Silly me! I mean, you’ve managed to alienate or disappoint everyone else in your life, who else do you have but me?”

Ford’s gaze dropped to the floor that, thankfully, was no longer acting as a video screen. He wasn’t sure if he could bear to look at himself just this moment. Bill’s hands dropped away from him. An opportunity would come, he knew. An opportunity to put an end to all of this, once and for all. He just had to be patient. He had to endure. For Stanley. For the kids. For the entirety of Gravity Falls. The edge of Bill’s cane tapped against the crown of his head and he grit his teeth. Endure.

“Anyway, back to the topic at hand!” Ford got to watch a hand sprout out from dark cracks in the bricks this time, disgusted at the way it blossomed and unfurled. It took his chin between its fingers and redirected his gaze upwards again. “Me! You! Now I’m not one to ruin a good thing, and let me tell you, the martyred victim, bravely suffering Stanford Pines: Special Edition is a real treat!” Bill ruffled his hair while Ford clenched his jaw so hard a weird buzzing filled his ears. “But I have to be honest, things were more a lot fun when there was a real challenge to the whole forceful dimensional takeover spiel!”

It was like a bolt of lightning had struck him. This was it! Could it really be? It had to be! Bill was letting his arrogance, his utter assurance he’d won blind him, and Ford was going to leap at this chance, whatever it may be. Ford tried to clamp down on his excitement, but Bill’s eye was curving like he was in on a private joke.

“You’re interested, right? Don’t try to pretend you’re not, I know that look, Fordsy!” A sudden weight was lifted off him, and Ford thought it was metaphorical for a moment until he realized that literal weights had dropped off him. He swallowed and the collar was still in place, evidenced by the way his Adam’s apple bobbed roughly against the tight metal, but the others – manacles around his wrists, his ankles, strange chains that wrapped around his thighs to force him into a bent position, crisscrossing restraints that constricted his lungs and connected to the floor at his sternum by a short shackle, kept him pulled down like a groveling, subservient beast – all gone. There was a moment where he remained frozen, inches off the ground, a deer trapped in one-eyed headlights, and then apparently Ford remembered how to move himself. He cleared his throat as he straightened.

“I have to admit, Bill,” he began, somehow managing to drift into his lecturer voice. He even adjusted his eyeglasses. “I am intrigued. What did you have in mind?” It was simple, somehow, to ignore all the context surrounding this conversation.

“Well, as far as this dimension goes, you Pines have been the only real challenge I’ve faced! Not that that has amounted to much, but you take what you can get, am I right?” Bill drifted to his side and propped an elbow up on Ford’s shoulder, gesturing in circles with his free hand. “Now of all the Pines, you’ve been the most, uh, formidable! But I can’t just let you go, after all the trouble I’ve gone through to get you back here again!”

Ford took a deep breath. He didn’t want to spoil whatever mood Bill had gotten into, but this conversation wasn’t going quite the way he had hoped it would. Bill floated off his shoulder, blinking out of sight from his periphery and into his direct line of vision.

“So here’s my offer! I willing to let ONE of the Mystery Twins 2.0 go free!” Ford couldn’t even try to hold in his excitement. Dipper or Mabel – he would be able to get one of them out of this hellhole! And certainly, they weren’t comparable to himself in terms of capability, and it was wholly cruel and unfair to heap such a responsibility on them, but they had a better chance than anyone else to figure out a way to free Ford. Allow him the time to fix all this. “Yeah yeah, but you have to do something for me, first!”

“What do you want me to do?” Even to his own ears, he sounded eager and it made him cringe inside. But what wouldn’t he do for those kids?

“Oh, it’s easy enough! I just want one little thing from you,” Bill said, sounding uncharacteristically charming. “An apology!”

Now, for whatever reason, Ford felt the beginning of apprehension drawing in. Like he could see the sharp angled jaws of a trap cinching closed around him. It galled him to no end. He could pull his head back, and get nothing – back in chains, the status quo maintained. Safe and sound and mired in the same swamp he’d been in before. Or he could bare his neck to poisoned fangs and hope that, somehow, he survived the impact. Bill had the upper hand, as he always managed to have, and the demon was currently examining his nails, like he had all the time in multiverse. Which Ford supposed he had, considering time was dead. For the time being.

There was nothing more to be done, really.

“I’m sorry,” Ford said. It sounded like his mother had a hold of his ear, pinching it brutally while Stan huffed and crossed his arms over his chest.

“Good start, but that wasn’t super believable, was it?” Bill had dropped his hand down, and was smirking at him. Ford cleared his throat again.

“I mean it. I’m sorry, Bill.”

“Oh, I don’t know Fordsy, do you really mean it?”

Ford clenched his jaw tight. “I don’t know how else to put it, Bill. If you don’t believe me, what’s the point in this exercise?”

“There are ways you could convince me!” That was exactly what he’d feared. Ford let out a long suffering sigh.

“And what could I do to convince you that I’m sincere?” A brief silence stretched between them, fragile and vulnerable. Ford broke it first. “I am sorry, Bill.”

“Hmmm,” Bill said, looking upwards. He tapped a finger against his surface, pretending to give hard thought to Ford’s words. “Nah, I’m not buying it - you’re the genius here, you should be able to figure something out!”

With that, Bill snapped his fingers and a fresh drink appeared in his outstretched hand. The demon settled upon a throne that seemed to have appeared in the brief span of a blink. His eye warped into a mouth, which opened showing off white and curving fangs, and a bruise mottled tongue dripped out, its tip running along the edge of his glass. And then Bill tossed the drink back, ending with a broad grin.

Ford remained where he stood, his spine feeling like steel rebar. His fists were clenched so tightly that he could feel the bite of his fingernails digging into the soft flesh of his palms. He walked a few steps closer to the throne, looking down on Bill from his slightly elevated position. Bill blinked, his eye coming back out, almost a challenge. Waiting for Ford to choose. He sucked in another deep breath, and his eyes dropped to the base of the throne. And then Ford dropped down to one knee, crouched for a moment in the mocking mimicry of a proposal, and then he fell further to his other knee, and bowed his head. It burned all along his core, to be back on his knees without chains dragging him down.

“I’m sorry, Bill – truly,” he managed to murmur, around the disgust for himself that threatened to tie his tongue. The demon said nothing, and Ford kept his eyes glued to the almost ground. He watched in a distant manner the way Bill’s sticklike legs kicked in thought. The muscles between his shoulderblades quivered and ached, as he tried to keep his posture firm, and the silence stretched on. Ford finally risked a glance upwards.

“I dunno Fordsy,” Bill said, inspiring a heavy, sinking feeling in his gut. “It’s just not coming out sincere!”

There were at least a hundred things Ford had the urge to call Bill, but he bit his tongue quite literally, and focused on the firm feeling of the ground under his knees. He looked back down, staring at his six fingered hands resting on his thighs, and shuddered. And then lowered himself even further, placing his hands palm down and flat against the smooth tile, bending over until his head was hovering over the scant space stretching between his fingers.

“Bill,” Ford began, and swallowed, and forced himself to continue, “my muse.” It felt like the world around them jolted to a halt, a deadly and thrumming potential energy filling up the air. Ford thought of staring down a snake about to lunge, but it didn’t clear the distaste from his mouth as he went on. “I am not worthy of your leniency.”

“No, you really aren’t, are you?” Bill sounded different, but Ford was hard pressed to say what quality, precisely, had slipped into his tormentor’s affect. He could only hope that the change, whatever it signaled, meant he was doing something right.

“I’m not.” He wanted to vomit. “You gave me- so much, and I-” Ford swallowed again, his mouth feeling dry “-I spurned all your gifts.” His fingers had curled, to dig and scratch at the ground. He tried to focus on the pain in their tips. It didn’t help for long, as soon he felt just the slightest weight on the back of his head, and it only took him a moment to piece two and two together and realize that Bill had kicked his feet up on him, was using him like a foot stool while Ford shamed himself for his amusement. Heat burned in his face, down his neck, across the top of his chest. And disgustingly, pooled somewhere lower, in the pit of his stomach, and was only stoked as Bill applied pressure and forced him down even further, closer to the ground.

“You’re getting closer – I almost believed that one! But there’s just some level of contriteness I’m not getting here, a certain I don’t know what!” Anger threatened to overwhelm him at Bill’s blatant stubbornness, and like a mantra, he had to remind himself again and again that he was doing this for Dipper. Or Mabel. Bill’s feet were still on his head, and one of them had transitioned to tapping lightly against his skull. Swallow the bait, Ford thought, and sunk down even lower, until his forehead came in contact with the cool tiles of the fearamid. It felt like he was prostrating himself, exposing himself, baring himself to the world, which he supposed was the point of the whole exercise, but he arched his back as he did so, and he felt a minute tremble shaking down his spine.

“I beg you, Bill,” Ford said, aware of how close his lips were to brushing the ground. “Forgive me.” It sounded contrite. It sounded like – did he mean it? Silence spread thick between them again.

“Wow.” Hope squirmed inside his chest like a thick and wriggling worm. “That sounded really heartfelt, Fordsy. I dunno, though – what do you guys think?”

The muscles along his stomach clenched violently, and Ford felt very cold. All around him, very abruptly, he could hear loud voices laughing, jeering, every high school bully, every scholar that had turned their nose up at him combined into one. And the worst part was, Ford was still in control of himself. When his body twitched and jerked, it was of his own volition and will. Nothing was holding him down, nothing was forcing him to remain where he was, groveling at the feet of the monster who continued to find new things to strip away from him. His breathing was coming quick and shallow, and he couldn’t even understand the individual words of the monsters around him. He concentrated on Bill, his demeaning touch a lifeline in the maelstrom.

“I’m sorry, Bill,” Ford said, his voice quivering. The backs of his eyes were stinging.

“Oh, I know you are, Fordsy,” Bill replied. “I know you are.”

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Egotober Day 16: Runaway Rail Line

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Prompt: Train

Summary: One train. One trio of heroes. One hour before they reach the city.

A/N: this story takes place at the same time that Day 14. So forgive the break tomorrow it was how the prompts and plot bunnies worked. This is kinda like a part two of Day 14.

Also the big blocks of italicized paragraphs are Abe’s greyscale monologues.

Warnings: body horror, minor gore, dead bodies

Trains, steel racing along iron rails. The backbone of the country had been laid on lines like this.

I should have known when I boarded the train that this ride was dangerous, but I was without a detective partner since my last’s rather unfortunate demise. Without backup or aid. But I was hunting down a killer, a monster on the loose and I couldn’t just afford to let this opportunity pass me by. It was—

Abe was suddenly violently shaken from his inner monologue by J.J who looked concerned and relieved to see him. Cautiously, he signed, “Abe?”

“Jay?” Abe asked before he stood up, “great, I’m in need of some help. So I guess you’re my new partner.”

“No,” J.J told him.

“It’ll be fine,” Abe promised, waved him off, clapping his hand on J.J’s shoulder. “Come on partner.”

“I’m not your partner,” J.J informed, his hands moving quickly in exasperation. “I need to show you something.”

“Lead the way,” Abe motioned and J.J led him along the length of the train. During their entire trek down the length of the carriages. They didn’t see a single soul. There were overhead luggages, dinner placements in the dining carriage that had various states of consumption. There were even wine glasses left on the tables and the bar counter. Where someone had been there and eaten but no one was there now.

But the passengers and train crew were gone.

Abe looked as worried as J.J. Then with a slow, soft lurch the behemoth of metal let out its horn and began moving.

“Shit!” Abe said, turning towards the front of the car, “that means there has to be a driver.”

Some invisible force rolled over both him and J.J made an abrupt heel turn and raced for the back of the train at full speed as Abe ran for the front.

Little did I know the horrors that awaited us. The unfathomable, unspeakable horrors of death that awaited to swallow us whole. And the fate that J.J had saved us from.

The Detective raced through train after train empty, without a soul or ticket taker in sight. But despite his hopes, the front car was empty. Instead of trying to turn the train off and make it worse, Abe headed back down the train to find J.J.

Abe walked out of the conductor’s car to see J.J walking in from the opposite door with Roman.

“How long have you been here?” Abe asked Roman.

“Just got here,” Roman told him, looking around. “J.J helped me get on, Wil’s been chasing me all day.”

“Is he on the train?” Abe demanded.

“No,” Roman reached up to touch the side of his face, the one with a slightly burnt scratch on it. He hissed in pain a bit. “No, I think we lost him.”

He looked at the empty seats, “Hey, I’m going to get some rest.”

“I’ll comb the train for clues,” Abe told them, turning to J.J, “partner you’re with me.”

J.J rolled his eyes, but as Roman laid down on a group of seats, the mute hero looked around the room, but walked out with Abe, watching Roman as he walked out.

tkk tkk tkk tkk

Went a noise somewhere along the ceiling of Roman’s train car.

Evil lives not just in the heart of humanity, but in the world around it. I’ve seen a madman kill and maim, a demon corrupt towns from the inside out. And a herd of maniacs in horse masks stampeding through a cornfield.

But I shouldn’t bore you with the details.

Evil lives, it breathes, it sinks its claws into its unwilling victims. Today it had burrowed and crawled its retched way into a train.

Roman was peacefully napping on the chairs as the train roof seemed to bulge out right above Roman. A low pitched, almost infrasound hiss let out as the camouflage began to drop and what looked like a huge insect that resembled a spider but had too many legs and body segments to be a spider. The face looked like a melted, bloated, pale doll’s face. A liquid dripping from its face and when it contacted the cotton seats it hissed and burned holes into the fabric.

That was that sound that woke Roman up, he blinked awake and when he saw the monster in front of him, Roman let out a scream and summoned his sword as the creature lunged at him, jaws splitting open like a snake.

J.J seemingly came out of nowhere and hit the creature with a crowbar, the two weapons able to knock the creature fell against the floor as Abe burst in with his gun in hand.

“What’s going on in here?” Abe demanded before he looked at the monster. “Sweet fuck what is that?”

It hissed at them, “Feed!”

“Sweet severed heads of the hydra!” Roman exclaimed. “How long has this monster been here?”

The beast turned its head and charged for the door, it was faster than expected but not faster enough that Abe couldn’t easily dodge out of the way.

The chitterious creature surged through the door and towards the end of train.

“What is that thing?” Roman demanded.

J.J pulled out some of his premise cards, the first one read: “Train heading towards Egoton. Have to stop it beforehand.”

He passed the cards to Roman and they quickly lined out some information. But the warning on one of the cards came a bit late when the three of them ran into the dining cart and found some of the missing passengers. They were stuck to the walls and the ceiling and there seemed to be some pulsing egg sack stuck to the corner.

All the passengers were dead, their faces not melted or warped but completely missing. Roman immediately got sick to his stomach. Their skin a chalky pale.

The creature turned back to hiss at them, sharp fangs bared at them.

Roman was readying his sword. “You fiend!”

Abe readied his gun, “Please tell me it dies.”

J.J signaled yes.

Roman jumped at the beast, easily rolling out of the way when the creature tried to snap at him. Abe took aim at the monster from a distance as Roman kept slashing at it until it fell over and was just a twitching mass.

J.J took care of the egg sack.

The creative Side stepped away from the beast, burnt and hole patches on his clothing and other parts splashed with a viscous slime. “Ugh,” Roman complained. “My fabulous uniform.”

“We need to stop this train before it crashes into something,” Abe reminded. “Then we can worry about everything else.”

“There is no need for the heroes to worry,” the Host announced himself. “The Host has already ensured that the train will stop safely.”

“Did you have anything to do with this?” Abe holstered his gun and stomped over to the Host, Roman rushing to get out of the car with the bodies. The other three followed him.

“No,” the Host said. “The events here are the product of a new direction. A changing of hands, of sorts. The Host didn’t know the extent of the action until he realized that the Detective, Creativity, and J.J were in danger.”

“So it was you,” Abe accused.

The Host smiled at them, “No, the Host would never do something off-page that no one could witness in the hopes that a third party wouldn’t realize they were being deceived.”

“Can you stop speaking in riddles,” Abe demanded.

The Host looked down the corridor, “Well whatever happened, that the Host was certainly not present for, it shuffled both the League and the Coalition around.”

“Well what were you doing then?” Roman demanded.

With a smile, the Host pulled out a headset with a small microphone attached to it from his coat. “The Host was merely getting this microphone. It is quite convenient.”

“Well I hope it was worth it,” Abe told him. “You frustrating maniac.”

“It was, things should return to normal now that nothing was happened,” the Host promised

“Right,” Abe grumbled in frustration. “As long as I don’t fight another face monster.”

“That is not in the plans for the Detective, but the Host does have something to tell him,” the Host leaned in close to Abe and whispered, “The Host does not like to be interrupted.”

“I didn’t interrupt you,” Abe responded.

“The Detective interrupted the Host three times,” the Host corrected. “Do not do so again.”

Rolling his eyes, Abe told him, “Taking a nap, have fun being cryptic.”

In a half-hour’s time, the train would pull into the closest Egoton train station. Police and other heroes flooding the area as the train was searched and investigated.

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Manga the Week of 10/7/20

SEAN: It’s October, and we are all having pumpkin spice something!

Dark Horse debuts Blade of the Immortal!… again. Deluxe hardcover this time, 576 pages, even has a bookmark ribbon to show it’s class.

ASH: Blade of the Immortal holds a very special place in my heart. While I didn’t double-dip for the paperback omnibus edition, I will be picking up these new deluxe hardcovers; Dark Horse has been doing a beautiful job with them.

ANNA: I’m sort of tempted but I also have such limited bookshelf space!

SEAN: J-Novel Club has some print titles for us. Ascendance of a Bookworm 6, How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord 12, I Shall Survive Using Potions! 2, In Another World with My Smartphone 12, and the 4th Marginal Operation manga.

ASH: Ascendance of a Bookworm is the one catching my eye here.

The digital debut is A Lily Blooms in Another World, a one-shot light novel by the author of Sexiled. It’s an “otome game villainess” story (where our heroine, once again, loves the villainess – see two weeks ago for more of this), but I loved Sexiled, so will definitely be giving this a chance.

ASH: Oh! I hadn’t made the author connection yet! Sexiled is indeed great, so I may need to add this one to my list, too. (If/when it is released in print.)

SEAN: Also, Discommunication’s 5th manga volume, I Shall Survive Using Potions! 5, the 5th Infinite Dendrogram manga, and Slayers 2.

Kodansha… let’s see. In print, we get Granblue Fantasy 5 and Maga-Tsuki 11-13 (which ends the series, a series that started so long ago I forget what it’s about. It has brides on the cover, though.)

Digitally, the debut is Four Kisses, in Secret (Kisu wa Kossori to). This is a one-shot short story collection of four one-shots that appeared in Dessert. Expect romance.

And 35 volumes of Shaman King. We discussed this before, but the delay has finished, and they’re due out next week.

And we get Cells at Work: Bacteria! 4, Chihayafuru 22, A Condition Called Love 6, Grand Blue Dreaming 11, Our Precious Conversations 7 (the final volume), Smile Down the Runway 14, Star⇄Crossed!! 3, That Time I Got Reincarnated (Again!) as a Workaholic Slime 2 (also a final volume), To Be Next to You 10 (also also a final volume), and You Got Me, Sempai! 9.

MICHELLE: Of course, I must cheer for more Chihayafuru but am also happy for the conclusion of To Be Next to You, which I’ve really enjoyed. I also need to read Our Precious Conversations at some point, as it’s by the creator of My Little Monster, which I liked.

ANNA: One of these days I need to catch up on Chihayafuru, I have a few digital volumes stockpiled.

SEAN: Seven Seas has only one print release next week, Made in Abyss Official Anthology – Layer 1: Irredeemable Cave Raiders. As noted, this is a doujinshi anthology of the popular manga.

ASH: I haven’t read much of Made in Abyss yet myself, but I do still like seeing these sorts of anthologies released.

SEAN: Digitally we see a 7th volume of Reincarnated As a Sword.

This is the one-month anniversary of my saying “Tokyopop has the 6th omnibus volume of Aria the Masterpiece.” And it’s still true! Ah, 2020, truly the most delay-filled year…

Vertical gives us a 6th Kino’s Journey, and also wants to let you know that Dissolving Classroom and Velveteen and Mandala are out digitally now.

Viz knows that this first week of the month belongs to them, and has pulled out all the stops. We start with Chainsaw Man, a highly acclaimed fan favorite… from the author of Fire Punch. Somehow those two things go together. I’ve been told it’s a lot of fun, but also really defines the “black” in “black comedy”.

ASH: I’ve likewise heard some great things about Chainsaw Man! I wasn’t a huge fan of Fire Punch, but I plan on checking this series out.

ANNA: I thought it was fun.

SEAN: Moriarty the Patriot (Yuukoku no Moriarty) is the other debut, a Jump Square series reimagining Moriarty from Sherlock Holmes as a protagonist.

ASH: Another one about which I am curious.

MICHELLE: Me too!

ANNA: This was not on my radar before but this sounds interesting.

SEAN: And there’s Revolutionary Girl Utena: After the Revolution, a one-shot manga volume from the Utena manga creator. The Utena manga and I do not get on, but I’ve heard that there are things to like about this.

ASH: I really liked The Adolescence of Utena manga, but I haven’t actually read the manga series. (Shocking, I know!!) I’ll be fixing that in the near future, and will be picking up After the Revolution, too.

MICHELLE: I’ve read the original and The Adolescence of Utena, but it was in 2006, right before I started reviewing. I remember a little. In general, I don’t have a lot of patience with narratives that don’t make complete sense, but I will still probably check out After the Revolution.

SEAN: Ao Haru Ride has its 13th and final volume, and The Demon Prince of Momochi House has its 16th and final volume.

ASH: I’m a couple volume behind with The Demon Prince of Momochi House, but as a whole I’ve been enjoying it.

MICHELLE: So many final volumes this week!

ANNA: Ah! I didn’t realize these series were concluding! Both very good.

SEAN: We also see An Incurable Case of Love 5, Jujutsu Kaisen 6, My Hero Academia 25, Naruto: Sasuke’s Story (a novel), One-Punch Man 21, Prince Freya 3, We Never Learn 12, and Yona of the Dawn 26.

ASH: Oooh, some other good titles from Viz, too.

MICHELLE: Forsooth!

ANNA: This is a happy week for me!

SEAN: Meanwhile, no one woke Yen when September ended, as they still have some releases that slid to next week. Including a debut… well, sequel… ACCA-13 PS. As you can imagine, this is an epilogue to the original.

ASH: Natsume Ono is one of the creators whose work I will always make a point to read.

SEAN: There’s also the 3rd Combatants Will Be Dispatched! manga, Hatsu*Haru 12, and Triage X 20.

What manga is in the autumn of your year?

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Manga the Week of 8/23/17

SEAN: I can’t. I just can’t. How on earth is this much stuff coming out?

MICHELLE: And still none of it is 7SEEDS or Silver Diamond!

ANNA: Or Demon Sacred!

SEAN: Dark Horse gives us the 26th volume of the Vampire Hunter D novels.

ASH: I somehow managed to forget that the novel series was still ongoing.

SEAN: J-Novel Club has a 2nd volume of adorable family series If It’s For My Daughter, I’d Even Defeat a Demon Lord. Oh please stay an adorable family series…

Yes, there’s still more Del Rey rescues, with Princess Resurrection 17.

Somehow there is a new Animal Land out, Vol. 12. Only 9 months after 11! Is the series back on track?

ASH: Maybe?! The ending seems so close and yet so far away.

SEAN: Kodansha gives us a 4th volume of Chihayafura digitally. Will our ragtag bunch of karuta misfits get it together?

MICHELLE: Yay!!!!

ANNA: So excited!

SEAN: And there’s a 4th manga volume of Clockwork Planet, whose novel I enjoyed more than I did the adaptation.

Domestic Girlfriend hits Vol. 5 digitally as well.

As does Fire Force, which is print, and still not as good as Soul Eater, IMO.

Inuyashiki 8 comes out in print as well. It’s ended in Japan recently.

And Land of the Lustrous hopes to make slightly more sense with Vol. 2, but it will look gorgeous no matter what.

ASH: I’m looking forward to the beautiful mess.

ANNA: Maybe I’ll check it out from the library just for the pretty….

SEAN: The first debut next week is Love & Lies, which North American readers may find slightly familiar if they read it on the Mangabox app. It’s also got an anime coming out. The premise involves a Japan where everyone automatically gets an arranged marriage at 16.

Kodansha has a 2nd volume of Real Girl, meaning I should read the first, but TOO MUCH MANGA.

MICHELLE: I missed the first one, as well.

SEAN: The second debut next week is another of THOSE isekai adaptations. That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime is based on a novel Yen will be starting this December, and Kodansha’s adaptation runs in Shonen Sirius. The premise is… what the plot says.

ANNA: We live in interesting times.

SEAN: Lastly (for Kodansha), we get a 2nd digital volume of Tzuredure Children.

On to Seven Seas, who blissfully only have two releases next week. A Centaur’s Life has its own anime adaptation going on, which seems to be adapting a lot more than I expected, including scenes I was sure it would cut. This is the 12th volume.

There’s also a 6th volume of yuri potboiler Citrus.

Vertical has reached a dozen volumes of What Did You Eat Yesterday?. Will there be egg dishes? (Do eggs come in dozens in Japan?)

MICHELLE: !!!!!! I love when there are surprise things that weren’t on my radar.

ASH: I’m always read for more What Did You Eat Yesterday!

ANNA: Woo hoo!

SEAN: The rest of the list is Yen. They have a bunch of light novels. The 4th Asterisk War may not be the best of them, but my guess is that it’s the shortest.

A Certain Magical Index’s 12th volume is a ‘downtime’ book, with much of it taken up by wacky shenanigans. I suspect the cliffhanger will be less wacky, though.

The Devil Is a Part-Timer! has an 8th volume, and may finally be returning to Enta Isla for a bit.

Goblin Slayer’s 3rd volume features goblins being slayed.

The Irregular at Magic High School has a 5th volume that I would also classify as ‘downtime’, but we do get a Beach Episode out of it.

KonoSuba’s 3rd volume will, one hopes, be completely ridiculous.

Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers has a 2nd volume, where we see how long they can extend the “one of us is a traitor” plotline.

And Sword Art Online’s 11th volume shows the ongoing adventures of Kirito and Eugeo training to become knights, this time complete with cute squire girls.

Yen manga also has one or two or twenty titles. Anne Happy has a 6th volume, and may be caught up with Japan by now.

Aoharu x Machinegun also gives us a 6th print volume.

ASH: The first volume was fun and I’ve been meaning to read more, I just haven’t gotten around to it yet.

SEAN: We have reached the final Blood Lad! You can tell it’s the final one as it’s not an omnibus, ending with a single-sized 9th volume. I will miss this underrated series.

BTOOOM! has an 18th volume, and I haven’t missed it at all, but it’s not going anywhere yet.

Delicious in Dungeon’s first volume was enjoyable enough, though I worry it will leave me with very little to review. Definitely getting its 2nd volume, though.

MICHELLE: I kept meaning to read the first, but now I’ll just have to review the first two together.

ASH: I loved the first volume and am looking forward to the next a great deal.

SEAN: There is also a 3rd Demonizer Zilch, which I keep forgetting Yen puts out.

More series whose premise I just couldn’t get past, we have a 7th First Love Monster.

Girls’ Last Tour will have an adorable post-apocalypse in Volume 2.

ASH: I didn’t find the characters overly compelling, but I did really like world and environment of the series.

SEAN: High School DxD is not dead, it merely seems like it after this recent hiatus. It returns with Vol. 9.

Kiss and White Lily for My Dearest Girl has a 3rd volume of what will no doubt be adorable yuri stories.

Log Horizon: The West Wind Brigade does not have yuri, but it does have Soujiro, so there’s a tradeoff. This is Volume 6.

Murcielago’s 3rd volume will no doubt have yuri, but if you see “If you liked Murcielago, you may also like Kiss And White Lily for My Dearest Girl”, something is screwy with Amazon’s algorithms.

ASH: HA! Someone may be in for a surprise.

SEAN: Re: Zero’s 2nd arc has its 2nd manga volume, and no doubt features Subaru dying.

Rokka also has a manga adaptation, and it’s up to Vol. 3.

Vol. 3s are popular these days! We also have a 3rd Spirits & Cat Ears.

And double digits for Trinity Ten… um, I mean Seven.

Ubel Blatt also hits double digits with its 9th omnibus. If that makes no sense, you don’t know Ubel Blatt.

Lastly (thank GOD), a 6th omnibus for Yowamushi Pedal.

MICHELLE: Yay! This is a good week!

ASH: Yay, indeed! Yowamushi Pedal isn’t released nearly as often as I wish it was.

SEAN: You must be getting SOMETHING from this morass. What is it?

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Manga the Week of 1/29/20

SEAN: The end of the month, and it’s time for lots and lots of stuff. What have we got?

First of all, jumping to the front of the queue because of what it is, we have Udon’s debut of The Rose of Versailles. You should know this one. One of the most influential manga ever. It’s hardcover. It’s almost 500 pages. You will all read it. It’s definitely Pick of the Week, so you’ll have to pardon the double pictures.

MICHELLE: *Kermit flailing*

ANNA: Back before there was an actual industry for translated manga in the United States, I read the excerptr of The Rose of Versailles that was translated in Frederik R. Schodt’s Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics. I am so excited to read this.

ASH: I’ve read that excerpt, too! (It’s a great book.) I am absolutely thrilled The Rose of Versailles is finally becoming a reality in English.

MELINDA: I’m so excited, I can barely type. This release has taken a while, and I have no doubt it will be worth the wait!

SEAN: Cross Infinite World has another shoujo light novel, this one called The Misfortune Devouring Witch is Actually a Vampire?! (Ijippari na Majo Dono e). You can tell the title has been Westernized as it’s a ?!, not a !?.

ASH: Ha!

SEAN: Dark Horse has the 3rd Elfen Lied omnibus.

Ghost Ship has three titles, one a debut. Saki the Succubus Hungers Tonight (Saki-chan wa Konya mo Peko Peko) runs in Houbunsha’s Weekly Manga Times, and features a young and innocent succubus who is trying to get… male bodily fluids from a guy without doing anything really dirty. It’s sort of cute in a “not quite porn” way.

MELINDA: This is… not what I’m looking for in manga. Or really anything at all. I kind of regret reading this description.

SEAN: They’ve also got Yokai Girls 9 and Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs 8.

J-Novel Club has two new light novel series debuting. By the Grace of the Gods (Kami-tachi ni Hirowareta Otoko) is another reincarnation isekai series from Hobby Japan, but this one seems to involve very nice people. The hero is nice, the gods are nice, the slimes are nice… it seems nice. Expect “slice of life”.

The other title comes from the PASH! Books imprint, and is The World’s Least Interesting Master Swordsman (Jimi na Kensei wa Soredemo Saikyou desu). The plot really, really sounds like One-Punch Man to me… a reincarnated guy who swings his sword to get stronger… for 500 years… suddenly finds he’s super strong. But his swordsmanship is boring. I suspect this one will live and die by the supporting cast.

Also from J-Novel Club is How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord 12, Kokoro Connect 8, and Record of Wortenia War 4.

On the manga side, J-Novel Club has a 2nd Discommunication and the 3rd How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom.

Kodansha’s print debut has already come out digitally: Living-Room Matsunaga-san, a shoujo series from Dessert. A young woman moves into a boarding house filled with oddballs, and finds herself looked after by an older man.

MICHELLE: I’d been meaning to read this one!

ASH: I’m curious, too.

MELINDA: This sounds interesting! Or possibly creepy? It seems like it could go either way!

SEAN: Also out in print is The Quintessential Quintuplets 7.

No digital debuts for Kodansha, but we do get Altair: A Record of Battles 14, Boarding School Juliet 14, DAYS 16, Drowning Love 16, Guilty 4, and Watari-kun’s ****** Is about to Collapse 2.

MICHELLE: Huzzah for more DAYS!

SEAN: Seven Seas has two debut light novels, one print and one digital. The print we saw before digitally: SCP Foundation: Iris Through the Looking Glass. It tied into the SCP Foundation universe.

The digital-first debut is At Night, I Become a Monster (Yoru no Bakemono). It’s from the author of I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, so expect good writing and melancholy. A boy turns into a monster during the evenings, and runs into a classmate.

MICHELLE: Hm, interesting!

ASH: I’m waiting for the print, but I am intrigued.

MELINDA: Interested.

SEAN: Also out from Seven Seas: The Dungeon of Black Company 4, Magika Swordsman and Summoner 12, My Monster Secret 19, and Toradora! light novel 9.

For Udon, see The Rose of Versailles above. Just thought I’d mention it again. The Rose of Versailles. Officially out in English. And looking amazing.

MICHELLE: I still can’t really believe it, honestly. I’ll believe it when I’m holding it in my hands.

ANNA: I’m trying to mentally prepare.

ASH: One of my most anticipated releases of the current and past several years.

MELINDA: What everyone else said. I mean. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

SEAN: Vertical has a 4th APOSIMZ.

The rest of Yen Press, but we’re not close to done. Yen On’s debut is Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina (Majo no Tabitabi). A Softbank Creative series about, well, a wandering witch. The premise makes it sound like a happier, more positive version of Kino’s Journey.

Yen On also has A Sister’s All You Need 6, Goblin Slayer 9, and Torture Princess 3.

Also, in an effort to make all their books available digitally, Yen On now has digital debuts of two older series that were print-only. Rokka: Braves of the Six Flowers Vols. 1-6, and the standalone The Hero and His Elf Bride Open a Pizza Parlor in Another World.

Three debuts… sort of… in the manga department. Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun is a digital-only series now making its print debut. It also has an anime running now. It runs in GFantasy, so expect it to be a shonen series for girls.

ASH: I’m here for it! Looking forward to giving the series a try.

MELINDA: Did you say GFantasy? You know I’m here for that.

SEAN: The other debuts are adaptations of light novels. I’ve Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years (and Maxed Out My Level) runs in Gangan Online, and The World’s Strongest Rearguard runs in Kadokawa’s Comic Walker. The former is cute fluff, the latter is bad but fun.

We also get Aoharu x Machinegun 16, Final Fantasy: Lost Stranger 4, High School Prodigies Have It Easy Even in Another World 6, Horimiya 13, Murcielago 13, No Matter How I Look at It It’s You Guys’ Fault I’m Not Popular! 15, and The Saga of Tanya the Evil 9.

Again, and I cannot emphasize it enough, Rose of Versailles. Anything apart from that?

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Manga the Week of 7/31/19

SEAN: Most of the rest of Yen is next week, though some got delayed to August. And lots of other publishers as well.

Dark Horse has the 3rd volume of Mob Psycho 100. Actually, that may have come out this week. Dark Horse release dates are ephemeral things.

MICHELLE: This is a pretty fun series.

ASH: I really like it so far!

SEAN: Ghost Ship gives us To-Love-Ru Darkness 11.

J-Novel Club only has one release next week, but its title is so long it counts as three. Seriously Seeking Sister! Ultimate Vampire Princess Just Wants Little Sister – Plenty of Service Will Be Provided! (Tonikaku Imouto ga Hoshii Saikyou no Kyuuketsuki wa Mujikaku Gohoushichuu) is a one-volume light novel about a vampire princess and her desire for a cute little sister. It sounds dire, but who knows?

MICHELLE: Dire, indeed.

ANNA: I feel confident about forgetting this exists.

SEAN: Kodansha, in print, has UQ Holder 17.

Kodansha, digitally, has much much more. First, we have a debut, The Slime Diaries. This is a comedy spinoff of the Reincarnated as a Slime series.

ASH: I did enjoy much of the original series more than expected.

SEAN: Also debuting in volume form (individual chapters have been released previously) is Farewell, My Dear Cramer. A sports manga that’s a sequel to Sayonara Football (which got no attention over here) and by the creator of Your Lie in April (which certainly did), I’ve heard good things about it. Girls’ soccer, in case you were wondering.

MICHELLE: I hadn’t realized the history of this series or its creator. I was just, all, “Ooh, sports manga.”

ANNA: Did someone say sports manga?

ASH: Indeed!

SEAN: And we have new volumes for Asahi-sempai’s Favorite (5), Back Street Girls (12 and final), Domestic Girlfriend (19), Drowning Love (13), Hotaru’s Way (10), Kakafukaka (8), and My Boy in Blue (11). Kakafukaka is hard to read but highly underrated.

MICHELLE: Hooray for more digital josei!

ANNA: One day I might catch up….one day…..

SEAN: Seven Seas makes up for barely having any releases at the start of the month. Debuting is the manga version of My Next Life as a Villainess! All Routes Lead to Doom!, based on the light novel. I love Katarina, and want to see her in any format. (Also, anime next year!)

We also see D-Frag! 13, Fairy Tale Battle Royale 3, Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash 10 (print version), Harukana Receive 4, Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid 8, Mushoku Tensei’s light novel 2 (print) and 3 (digital), and the 4th Precarious Woman Executive Miss Black General.

Sol Press announced something that’s out this week, but I wasn’t able to get it into last week’s MtWo so here it is. Two manga titles. How to Treat a Lady Knight Right (Ima made Ichido mo Onna Atsukaisareta Koto ga nai Jokishi wo Onna Atsukai Suru) runs in Kodansha’s Suiyoubi no Sirius, and is about a knight who’s always been seen as a muscley sort getting treated as an attractive women. She spends the next 3+ volumes of the manga looking shy and blushing heavily, from what I can tell. This screams “not for me”.

ASH: I mean, I’m definitely a fan of knights who are women, but…

SEAN: They also have The Ride-On King, from the creator of Golosseum, which is about a Putin with the serial numbers filed off and his adventures being awesome. It’s for those who want more titles like Golosseum or those who think Russia is awesome.

Vertical has the novel version of Voices of a Distant Star, subtitled Words of Love/Across the Stars. I seem to recall this wasn’t as depressing as the creator’s other movies. Slightly.

JY, Yen’s young adult line, has the Little Witch Academia light novel. Enjoy Akko being Akko in prose form as well!

ASH: I somehow missed or completely forgot that Yen has a young adult line???

SEAN: They also have the 4th Zo Zo Zombie.

Yen On gives us three new debuts. Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki is for all those who want gaming but without the fantasy isekai aspect. Tomozaki is an awesome gamer, but fails at real life, which he describes as a horrible game. Then he meets a girl who’s not only as good a gamer as he is, but explains how to win at life too. Fans of My Youth Romantic Comedy Etc. should like this.

The Dirty Way to Destroy the Goddess’s Heroes is not as naughty as the title makes it sound. A demon King, who wants to live in peace but heroes keep attacking him, hires a Japanese boy to take care of them. This proves to be a mistake, as the boy goes a bit overboard.

ASH: That could be entertaining.

SEAN: Last Round Arthurs: Scum Arthur and Heretic Merlin has a very Magical Index feel, possibly as they share the same artist. Our hero is tired of his boring life, so teams up with a girl to become the next successor to King Arthur.

There’s also another Final Fantasy tie-in novel, Final Fantasy XIII-2: Fragments Before, as well as The Saga of Tanya the Evil 6 and Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online 4, which starts a new arc.

Print manga debuts. There’s The Alchemist Who Survived Now Dreams of a Quiet City Life (Ikinokori Renkinjutsushi wa Machi de Shizuka ni Kurashitai), whose light novel is out in September. It’s about a run-of-the-mill alchemist who ends up in stasis to save herself, and after coming out of it finds there aren’t any more alchemists in the world! How will she live her quiet, boring life? Sounds like it’s for fans of Killing Slimes for 300 Years. It runs in B’S LOG Gomic.

ASH: This could be interesting, too.

SEAN: Secretly I’ve Been Suffering About Being Sexless (Jitsu wa Watashi Sexless de Nayandemashita) is done in one, and ran in Comic Flapper. It’s about a married woman trying to figure out what to do when her libido is much larger than her husband’s.

ASH: I’ll admit, I’m curious to see how this premise is handled.

Manga Bookshelf’s Pick of the Week (OK, I’m just guessing, but pretty sure I’m right) is debuting next week as well. Skull-Faced Bookseller Honda-san (Gaikotsu Shotenin Honda-san) already has a cult classic anime, and this is the manga, which ran in Gene Pixiv. It’s about… well, the title says it all. This looks fantastic.

MICHELLE: Well, your guess is right on my end, at least. I’ve only seen a little of the anime, but it is charming and I’m really looking forward to reading this.

ANNA: Me too!

ASH: I am so, so looking forward to this series!!

SEAN: We also get first volumes of light novel adaptations with Torture Princess (an omnibus, done in one) and Woof Woof Story.

A lot of ongoing titles moved to August, but we do see Interspecies Reviewers 2 (bleah) and Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts 6 (yay!).

ASH: Shoujo fantasy for the win!

SEAN: Lots of new series next week. Perhaps you could ask a skull-faced bookseller what works for you?

By: Sean Gaffney

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