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beatrixstonehill2 · 5 months

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"Is my punishment almost over?" Emily asked her boyfriend, Joey.

"No, not yet, baby girl..... I think you need to learn your lesson a bit longer."

"But....! The tournament is in a month. How can I perform like this?"

"Not my problem.... You should've thought of that before being such a naughty girl, Emily."

Joey wasn't wrong, in a way..... Almost a year ago he started dating an Olympic silver medalist gymnast, who was known the whole world over for her skill and dexterity. Shortly after dating her, though, he was sent something damning by a random person online.... At the time, Emily was basically flat chested, yet had a cute butt and tended to give the cameras sensual, flirty looks, often blowing kisses and winking at the camera, sometimes bending over unnecessarily to give the people filming her something to zoom in on.....

Turns out when pervy guys reblogged these clips and admitted to masturbating to her performance, she would reply, happily encouraging them. On her official account, zero shame, her with the silver medal as her avatar. She'd tell these random men to 'milk their cocks good' and 'cum real hard for her tight little ass', like some porn star. Joey saw this and was very amused..... So, he decided Emily had to be punished--badly. He told her she had to obey him and take breast growth pills, to give the next national gymnastics tournament before the Summer Olympics a good show.

"I'm sorry, Joey..... you know I can't help myself. I love to flirt."

"Which just tells me how badly you need to be punished. Look at this one I found! Some random married guy posted that he wants to throw you in his van, hogtie you, and put 'a pile of kids in your pretty gut'. Did you block him....?"

She shook her head. "No....."

"Oh wait, you went on an extended RP session in the public comments about how he was going to abduct and rape you. Damn, you're one messed up girl."

"Messed up as a guy that makes his girlfriend grow a pair of boobs that weigh 50lbs each? Knowing she's a gymnast!"

"Nah, not as bad. But hey, think of all the hot interactions you'll have on Instagram now! You're gonna step out, not in your leotard, but a bikini, these gigantic udders spilling out. And you'll do your routine.... as well as you can. Think of how many guys are gonna jerk off to that."

"Fuck.... that's so hot." Emily bit her lip, fondling her pussy and breasts. "They're so heavy.... I look like an idiot with these things....."

"Well, you are an idiot. A horny, drooling idiot, too obsessed with fondling that swollen pussy of yours to care whether or not millions see you flirt with married men and RP getting knocked up by them."

"I'm.... it's just a little addiction, is all. I could try therapy...."

"Nah, I think you deserve to be nothing but walking jerk-off fodder. You're done being a real athlete. They'll just have you on because your oversized, goofy looking udders will make so many desperate, horny men tune in. And a whole bunch of normies to make fun of you."

"Fuck you.... you find these tits sexy..... You just came so hard inside me!"

"Well, I find them less sexy than I do the fact that I made you grow them. Understand?"

She nodded obediently. "Yes, master."

"Good girl, now, isn't it going to be fun watching you balance those giant tits and a belly full of my kids at the next tournament? Damn, by the time the Olympics roll around, those tits will weigh 100lbs each. Won't that be so fitting? I can't wait to see you even try to perform..... Then your career will be sitting on OnlyFans, immobilized by those cartoonish udders, masturbating all day like the drooling, horny idiot you really are deep down. You'll be flirting with your desperate, gross fans, all of your regular fans won't want anything to do with you as you sit there ten hours a days fondling yourself, surrounded by a pair of tits too big for you to carry on your own....."

"Fuck you...."

"Don't act like you don't agree. You aren't an athlete Emily, you aspire to be nothing but walking jerk-off material. So you might as well go for gold, isn't that right?"

Emily bit her lip, rubbing her heavy breasts. "Then I better go for 200lbs each...... be totally trapped by these things...."

"Now that's the perverted little idiot I love."

"I aim to please, Master. ❤️"

#breast expansion #be #enormous breasts #immobile kink #gigantic breasts

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mothwingwritings · 8 months

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Idk if you’re into omega verse but omg I just thought of it being applied to Yujiro and poor omega reader goddamn 😭 (I think I may have gone a little bit too far on this one ngl, also I’m half asleep so sorry for any issues..)

Nasty nasty Alpha Yujiro who takes advantage of poor little you. Who would have thought he’d ever encounter such a rare beauty? Omegas were practically extinct in the baki universe, the world full of hardened alphas made no room for the sweet soft omegas. And yet here you were against all odds.

From the moment he met you, he’d made the promise that he would never spread his seed through out the world.

Nay, he was going to hammer in his children into your fertile womb as you cried out in overstimulation. You would carry all of his offspring for the rest of your life. That was a promise.

While many of his past devoted lovers would have been flattered by his devotion, you were anything but.

Sure Yujiro would disappear on some days but no longer than a week.

But on the days he were in your house. It’d be a constant running away and fighting off the lustful touches of Yujiro.

The dreadful “Honey~ I’m home!~” had you cringing so hard as thick muscular arms surrounded your waist.

Having to take showers with the Ogre that always ended with you pressed up against the glass mirror as Yujiro crowded you against it.

Having your favorite clothes torn to shreds as he tried to make “love to you”.

Waking up in the middle of the night to see the humongous man deep in your guts as he ruthlessly pounded into you.

And when you went in heat…oh boy.

You’re horny 24/7 and you won’t fight back at all? Just lil ol you whimpering about how much it hurts and that you need something inside? You’d let the older man kiss you and cling onto him needily. His poor little omega!

Yeah, Yujiro loves your heats.

This man keeps a track record of when your heats are around the corner. It doesn’t matter if he’s in another country or across the globe the globe away from you. If he sees you have started your heat, he’s running like a madman with the nastiest smirk that has people running away screaming. They all thought he was out to murder someone (ya ur lil meow meow)

Out of spite you decide to hook up with some random beta when your heat starts up. Which immediately back fires when Yujiro has said man tied up as he watches you get plowed down by your real alpha.

“My little omega, have I neglected you so much that you seeked out some limp dick beta to satisfy you? I guess I’ll have to you more attention to keep you satisfied, huh?”

You know Yujiro is going to show you off. I mean, who wouldn’t?

He’s pulling up to the tournaments with you sitting on his shoulder clad in a thin bikini. Your looking away from the many lustful looks directed at you, all while Yujiro basks in the jealous looks he receives.

They all look so angry at him, but yet…too intimidated to muster the courage to say anything to him. Yes this was a fine idea.

He’s got you wearing a pretty diamond collar with the letters “Property of Ogre.”

Every time you both return from such fights, it didn’t matter if he came back angry or happy both were valid reasons to fuck you in the entrance your home. After that he would ravage you on any surface in the house.

He was going to get so many babies out of you.

Me reading this ask loool

You must have read my mind anon, I was just musing the other day on how I want to some day take a stab at writing an ABO fic and the Bakiverse would be perfect fodder for it. 😌

But God... Yujiro would be the worst fucking Alpha. That man could track you down from miles away, knowing where you are at all times should he need you. And he has such intricate knowledge on basically every aspect of you and your life that it goes beyond concerning, it's downright invasive. It takes no time at all for him to claim fuck you, giving you no time to really sus him out or get to know him before you've become irrevocably his. He's now your bonded partner, and you are not at all thrilled with that.

When yujiro comes to claim you he attacks you with such a bestial, feral intensity that you are afraid one day your body won't be able to take the abuse he inflicts on it, giving you serious concerns over whether you will survive the mating process. You got lucky the first time, but what about in the future? How many pups does he plan to pump inside of you? The thought keeps you up at night. You don't even want to parent his offspring, let alone be demoted to his breeding stock to be fucked full again and again and again. You would have chosen ANY alpha other than Yujiro, but now this was your lot in life-forced to not only be his mate, but bear his children, creating new versions of this monster to roam the planet. Would they grow up to be like their father, or would you have any hope of raising them to be decent, loving people?

Also, I feel like your body will just constantly be marked up everywhere. His mating bites don't stop at the scent glands, and you usually end up looking like you just left a 12 round boxing match on the losing side instead of a mating session with your alpha. :(

And when you are in heat its the absolute fucking worst. Lusting after Yurjiro, your entire body aching for him to desecrate and destroy you, your insides burning white hot for his touch. Only your alpha can cure you of this all consuming sickness that plagues you, and you turn into a whiny blubbery mess when Yujiro is around, pleading and begging for him to claim you. It's absolutely dreadful how much you yearn for such a barbaric man, and each and every time you are disgusted with how easily you give in to him. You just roll over and become his docile little fuck mate, turned into a wanton, lusting mess from just catching his scent alone. You loath him as much as you need him, and words cannot describe the amount of hate you hold in your heart for the man that turned you into this pathetic shell of who you once were.

#this is some of that good shit #thank you for indulging me anon love you mwah #abo verse #abo baki #yujiro hanma x reader #yujiro x reader #yujiro hanma x y/n #mothresponse #alpha yujiro

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absolutelyinlove · 1 year

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just really fascinating how hannah is never allowed to team with the people she asks for and she gets asked to sit out events more often than men who avg top 10 to make it “easier to balance the teams” but she’s only played in 4 events (3 canon) and has an avg placement of 15th. really fascinating how whenever scott has a player he needs to “nerf” he uses low-ranking women and afab participants as fodder instead of putting them on teams where they’ll actually get a chance to improve and feel like they stand a chance. Really fascinating how when there’s a woman or afab participant who is too consistently good at the game to be used as a “nerf” teammate suddenly she’s just way too hard to balance so she’s left on the waitlist for 2 years and then even after getting into the event she can’t be expected to play every event she signs up for. surely it’s all just a coincidence! really really fascinating how hannah has spoken multiple times about how horrifically she’s treated by the mcc community just for. being a woman who is competitive and dares to care about her individual performance and tina openly talked about how demotivating it felt to be put on 10th-place-expected teams every time she signed up instead of ever having a chance to improve. and how the community REFUSED to hold jojo to the same standards as equally-well-performing men and demanded she prove herself a million times over before being allowed to be put in the same category as her male peers. but the people in charge who have the power to fix all of this see no issue with the way teams are constructed whatsoever. surely there’s no pattern!

a “for fun event” but one single participant has full control over who is and isn’t allowed to play and who is and isn’t allowed to be with the people they request to team with and instead of focusing on creating evenly matched teams the priority is ensuring no one wins TOO much. because god forbid the event be predictable. if only that was already possible because (most of) the games are already designed to prioritize a variety of different skills and therefore theoretically any given team could always win/lose. if only that was the entire point of a competitive tournament. if only someone involved would point out what an unnecessary waste of energy and cause for needless discourse and toxicity it is to make “team balancing” your end-all-be-all priority so that any and all criticism would stop being brushed off as “people complaining on twitter”. but i guess we’re just supposed to pretend all of this is necessary to keep the event “fun”. right

#m.cc discourse #<- mute this if u don’t care i probably won’t talk abt this more but if i do #genuinely just fucking infuriatinggggg most of this is copied from a rant in my twt circle #i just needed to rant More i’m just so irritated #sage.talking #negative

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deusvervewrites · 6 months

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For the ask game; rather than the LOV making their debut at the USJ, they instead attack the first-year Sports Festival for their debut.

The USJ trip goes great! Class 1-A learns a lot about rescue. Or, at least, most of them do. But if nothing goes wrong that means the Sports Festival has its normal security level. That's only 1/5 the Heroes and police, and none of the specific anti-League automated defenses.

Even with the normal security levels, Shigaraki isn't stupid enough to show up with only the one Noumu and some cannon fodder. He also brings along the three Noumu that were canonically at Hosu. He also isn't crazy enough to drop into the center of the stadium where he'd be surrounded. Not with cannon fodder as his forces. Instead he has the jammer Villain infiltrate the festival as a spectator.

In the middle of the tournament, when all the focus is on them, the Noumu are dropped into the stands. There is instant panic. Shigaraki adds to the chaos by using his Quirk to destroy a large part of the stadium.

All Might and Endeavor leap into action, at which point Kurogiri floods the field with the Villain grunts. Endeavor is limited by the crowds, and struggles to use his flames effectively.

In the end, while the League are routed, the damage is far greater than it was from the USJ, especially seeing as this was such a publicized event.

#asks #ask game #ask game series 16 #grand debut au

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ddrqoyote · 3 months

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everyone just watches baki cause lol imagination lol stupid shit and yeah that's fun sometimes but i unironically love the maximum tournament, it's one of the better anime tournaments. it and the promise of baki fighting yujiro someday was good enough to string me along all the way until that fight happened, way after i should've dropped it lmao

i wish katsumi beat retsu and fought baki in the semifinals instead of them both being used as fodder to show how badass baki is. i mean, a semifinal fight in a 5 round tournament basically got OFFSCREENED cause it was in baki's head. i've never seen that before. katsumi and baki had a genuine rivalry and sometimes the twist ending isn't the best one. but maybe if i read it again it'll be better than i remembered. and other than that i can't think of anything i didn't like.

i love the fact that it's people with real fighting styles representing real cities and places. the fight with chiharu and iron michael where they say they're here for the kids of tokyo and the kids of brooklyn felt so raw. like even if a character's not great i can see someone getting invested in him just cause he's representing THEIR country or THEIR martial art.

the rest of the series is just spinning its wheels for 30 years and early baki takes ages to get good, it's a shame most anime fans probably won't ever see the maximum tournament.

#FUCK i wish baki vs yujiro was better though #at the end the characters all said how good the fight was #AND THE TRANSLATOR NOTES WERE LIKE “NO IT WAS MID”#baki #grappler baki #baki the grappler #baki hanma #maximum tournament #tournament arc #yujiro hanma #retsu kaioh #katsumi orochi

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carnal-lnstinct · 2 years

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Hi! I saw the requests were finally open so I’m asking again, could you do a dying in Goku’s arms fic. Yes it is the same person and if I’m mistaken, forgive me🥰❤️🧡

Haha, I gotchu! Glad you came back ♥

☆☆ Pairing: Goku x Fem!Reader ( Human Z Fighter ) ☆☆ Rating: T ☆☆ Contents: ( RoF arc, established relationship, reader referenced as gohan & goten's mother ) ☆☆ Warning: ( canon-typical violence, blood, character death )

'If I could just hold out a little longer, then he'll show up to help win this', you repeated to help yourself stay focused for the next rush of alien fighters charging your way.

Everyone who could stand their own was already struggling in their own fight, whether outnumbered by the hoards of soldiers or overpowered by the one called Tagoma. But they didn't back down, so neither would you. Truth be told, you hadn't been much into martial arts since the Cell Games and were in over your head with a fight of this scale. Even back then things like this stopped being within your skill range, you were surpassed by your children.

An invasion by a galactic army, however, led by their malicious leader was certainly no earthbound martial arts tournament and called for everyone regardless of power to step in. There wasn't any running away, and you weren't going to let all your friends fight this alone. Especially with your sons giving their all, it wouldn't be like you to just sit back and let them fight without you.

You and the rest of the Earth's forces fought your hardest while Bulma continued to try to make contact with Whis to get Goku and Vegeta here quickly to aid the fight. You were all able to team up when you could but these guys weren't as stupid as you hoped and found ways to keep you all separated and outnumbered 10 to 1.

Being a woman at least gave you some advantage at the start as the cocky bunch of Frieza Force soldiers didn't think to take you seriously, but enough of them saw you rip through a number of their men to start getting the idea that you weren't some pushover earthling. The lot of them being a batch of chumps didn't dwindle their numbers in your favor, there were many more of them than there were earthlings. Collectively, all your allies' strengths were wearing down as well as your own and you started to get anxious about Goku's arrival.

It's Frieza you need to really be concerned with as he boasts about his vengeance over your husband. Yet rather than try to find Goku, he wants to watch you all get slaughtered for his entertainment while he waits for the saiyan to show up. This situation was going to be a massacre without Goku if it goes on any longer like this. You had to start looking into other options with no telling when the two saiyans would arrive. Even your faith in your boys' strength was shaken watching them fight—struggle unprepared for the fight for their home— as a consequence of being the sons of Goku. It was not fair, and you wouldn't forgive yourself if they died sharing the battlefield with you because of this.

As long as Frieza was willing to wait, you could try to stall some more but who knows how much longer that would be. If he was really as strong as everyone else feared, then he should be the intended target instead of this battle fodder he keeps sending out. Your focus needed to be narrowed on cutting off the head of this nasty beast to end it or at the very least buy Goku and Vegeta some more time to get here. Frieza couldn't be so strong as to withstand three super saiyans, a super namekian, and a few trained humans if Goku at his first super saiyan level was more than enough to overpower him before. And yet, the aura coming from him behind the hoard of minions set a frightful chill down your spine. It's the power he's not showing that rattles you, yet fear cannot hold you down here. If you can all muster up the strength to attack together, then you are certain you all need to share a single target.

"Hey, Frieza!" You shouted out suddenly, stilling your trembles with clenched fists and wearing a smug grin to mask your anxiousness. "You really brought your whole army to watch Goku send you off with your tail between your legs again? Was the first time not enough?" Your voice carried across the hoard of minions and while they paused, only a few actively turned to look for a response from the tyrant. "-Look at you, just floating there in your little egg carrier. How cute. My son had one when he was a toddler, too. Kinda hard to take you seriously in that thing."

"Mom, what are you doing?!"

"Mom don't!"

The two half-saiyans called out for you to back down. You know full well the difference in your strengths, but you can't keep letting everyone be outnumbered and worn out. In the worst-case scenario, Frieza simply commands the remaining masses to target you and opens himself up to everyone else to attack if they can shake that lanky alien elite. But if there was a way to get Frieza down here then your plan wouldn't be in vain.

Hovering over to a high peak of a cliff, you placed your hands on your hips and called out again. "No one here's that afraid of you, ya know! That's right, I said it! You're old news! I wouldn't waste your time throwing these chumps at us if you were really as tough as you claim. Goku beat you once and he'll wipe the floor with you again if we don't do it first!" In between your jeering at the space tyrant, you were able to share your idea with Piccolo through his telepathy, who was able to fill everyone else in and openly discouraged you from further antagonizing Frieza. Perhaps you overlooked the possibility of him just outright destroying the planet instead of being patient with you all.

You succeeded in at least ceasing that horrid laugh of his, his beady red eyes narrowing down upon you with a thoughtful finger at his chin. "Well, it seems one of the earthlings has finally lost their sanity to their fear, how unfortunate. You think you can match the power of a super saiyan and best Lord Frieza, do you?" The lop-sided smirk rose back on Frieza's dark lips, a musing finger directed towards you as he continued to humor you. "And did I hear correctly, the child of Goku referred to as his mother- You are that simian's mate, I take it. Why am I not surprised."

"I am." You confidently answered. Your heart frightfully pounded in your chest but you couldn't stop yourself now. Either he takes the bait or you really opened your mouth where you shouldn't.

But your prayers were answered. In a flash, you felt two ki signatures fill the space around you, and Goku and Vegeta had arrived just in the knick of time with the Instant Transmission technique. You were filled with relief when you turned at the sight of them, smiling with joy at the taller saiyan.

"Goku!" You shouted, waving him down. His power felt stronger than the last time you saw him. In the shock of this assault on earth, you could easily forget it had been months since you-

...Oh? There was a rush of heat shot through your back and out the left side of your chest. You lower your eyes to see the thin beam of energy disperse as it completed its passage through your body. Blood spurted from your chest and rushed up your throat causing you to stumble forward. It was so fast; you weren't able to sense it coming your way or even when he charged it up to fire at you. But its damage was clear. It went through your heart. Pain filled in the opened hole once the initial shock wore off. You swayed on your feet again, your weight pulling you backward, over and off the cliff with the distant sight of Goku making his way to you. You opened your mouth to call out for him again but it felt slow leaving your lips, almost soundless. You hear the muffled sounds of your family crying out to you with a warm ringing in your ears and the edge of your vision blurring as you sank down the high cliff side, your body picking up speed in its limp drop.

"Haha! How delightful, and not a moment too soon! It couldn't have been timed more perfectly! You've come just in time, saiyan! Any longer and I would have abandoned my patience altogether to do away with that mouthy one, but it was worth the wait after all!" Frieza's hearty laugh returned overhead.

Goku had already dove off the edge after you, catching a senzu bean thrown his way, as he flew down to increase his speed towards you. Your fingers weakly grasped at the air to reach out for him before your eyes fell shut completely. He altered to his Instant Transmission to close the gap between you and grasped you against his chest once in range, but when he caught you...

He felt it. The last of your life energy disappeared from your body. Your limp weight in his arms caused a soft, trembling "no" to escape on his breath. Goku stopped in the air and looked you over, eyes frantically jumping between your bloody chest and still face. With the senzu bean tucked against his palm, he checked you for a pulse- Even a faint one was better than nothing, and sadly nothing was all he was answered with. "(Y/n)!" Goku uttered in a panic, shaking your body enough to disturb a deep sleep. "Wake up... Answer me- Wake up!" The saiyan begged with a lump in his throat, urging for the opposite of what his senses had already told him.

He can hear Gohan and Goten over the top of the cliff calling down to him just as worried, joined by Krillin and Piccolo.

Frieza's impish grin shined, his laugh filling the atmosphere. "Look as the mighty saiyan Goku fails once again to save yet another cherished companion. It couldn't be more adequate to see the very moment you witnessed her fall" The tyrant hovered through the parting masses of his army to the front lines. "How does it feel monkey, to once again be helpless in the wake of the mighty Lord Frieza? Does it make you angry? Are you going to turn gold and scream at me?" He goaded.

Goku was still shocked, he couldn't believe what he just witnessed. Not you, anything but this. But you're gone. Just gone- No goodbye, no cushioning the blow. Your voice and smile so suddenly silenced, taken away from him, your sons, and friends and he couldn't stop it. He doesn't know how or why Frieza was here but it was the least concerning detail compared to what he was going to do to him. He was sending that monster back to hell for good. With a furrowed brow and clenched jaw, Goku held his face against yours, hands shaking as he cradled you against him rising from the cliffside.

"I-I'm sorry, (Y/n)..." He uttered lowly to your body, voice reflecting his awakened fury and broken sorrow. "Damn that Frieza. He'll pay for this. I'll...I'll make him suffer!" He slowly lifts his head from you and places a soft kiss to your forehead, whispering a final promise. "The second this is all over, I'll use the dragon balls to bring you back to us I swear it."

A fleeting whisper crosses his thoughts, leaving hope to coddle his ire.

'I believe in you, Goku. When you kick his ass, don't keep me waiting long on the other side.'

#♚ ;; [ requests ]#son goku x reader #goku x reader #goku imagine #goku #dbz imagine #dbz fics #my writing #♚ ;; [ asks ]#*cries in dos oruguitas*

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cursed-40k-thoughts · 10 months

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Starting an FEC army, just waiting on the box coming in. Any suggestions for making their lore interesting? Most I've got so far is the Ghoul king is convinced a vampire lord (will bring some gravelords units in, soupy) is his beloved gwynevere-esque love when he's a disgusting Ghoul and she's just hanging around for the cannon fodder and doesn't even register he thinks of her that way

Have him convinced all the Terrorgheists/Zombie Dragons are horses. He keeps hiring stable hands (a mixture of zombies and actual kidnapped people) to feed them carrots and brush them. This, coincidentally, does keep the cavalry well fed. Not because they like carrots (they don't), but because they keep eating all of the stable hands. Ironically, this keeps them quite mollified, so they're far more tolerant of taking part in royal parades and tournaments than one would expect.

#ask #AoS #Age of Sigmar #Flesh-eater Courts

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elgaberino-mcoc · 1 year

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spreadsheet cleanup series: wishlist requests BATWING

requested

ComicVine: 89 issues Fandom: 45 appearances, 3 variants 0 video games (?)

old Spidey foe/friend was Butterball's crimefighting partner post-Initiative

medium-low priority for @MCOCwishlist obscurity level: Masacre+

- Other Gabe

#spreadsheet cleanup #wishlist requests #batwing #James Santini #mcoc class science #Spider-Man frienemy #Spider-Man rogue #initiative #medium-low priority #tournament fodder

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bestworstcase · 1 year

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we see a lot of mistrali citizens listening to ruby’s broadcast in 8.5: jaune’s sister and in-laws + the crowds in the transit station. it has been months since haven academy closed, but—even more so than vale, which gets the subtle glimpse of the dust shop open for business as usual—it’s made clear that mistral is weathering the storm. in fact, for ordinary civilians, it really seems like not much has significantly changed at all.

with that context, i think it becomes profoundly interesting that 1. ruby doesn’t mention mistral in her broadcast at all—admittedly, in part because there’s no one ozpin trusted left in the kingdom—and 2. the kids direct the evacuation to vacuo, an impoverished state they know to be salem’s next target, instead of mistral, the much larger and more prosperous kingdom that they left behind in perfectly good working order after salem’s forces departed. now in one sense, this was a short-term tactical decision in that the kids have an urgent need to get to vacuo before salem does and, with less than an hour to plan a city-wide evacuation, some longer term strategic thinking obviously fell by the wayside. because, yanno, crisis mode.

but! there’s also a beat in before the dawn where jax thinks “with the global cct disabled, vale in ruin, haven leaderless, and atlas closed off, vacuo was theirs for the taking.” and conversely at another point theodore refers to haven as “mistral academy.” so there is a consistent pattern here—across the full spectrum from villain to corrupt old guard to hero—of equating haven academy to the kingdom of mistral and vice versa. ruby gives a shoutout to glynda (who as far as she knows is still actively fighting to reclaim beacon) but says nothing about surviving haven faculty—or about her other allies, like the belladonnas, who presumably got looped in and earned some serious goodwill from the mistrali public by showing up to prevent another beacon from happening at haven.

the conflation of the academies/the huntsmen with the whole world or humanity itself is nothing new—the entire “salem wants to destroy the world/salem wants to destroy the academies” blurriness can only exist because the civilian world is so invisible from within the huntsmen institution—but this feels like it might be the most important occurrence, because there were explicitly thousands of people in mistral watching this broadcast and hearing this huntress mention BEACON but not haven or mistral.

and most of those people would have heard cinder’s broadcast during the vytal festival tournament. the broadcast where she identified herself as mistrali and specifically gestured toward the “undesirable” situation with the huntsmen institution there. what does ruby’s broadcast tell these people?

- the powerful, malevolent entity responsible for the horrific fall of beacon intends to “destroy the huntsman academies”

- this entity already attacked haven, forced the academy to close, and then left. they weathered the storm. they’re safe.

- this person—or someone connected to her, at least—claimed to act out of resistance to, as she saw it, the corrupt and tyrannical huntsmen institution, especially in mistral, and the huntress on the broadcast effectively confirmed that claim

- the huntress in the broadcast also doesn’t acknowledge that mistral even exists

- ???

talk about planting seeds of doubt.

and ordinarily i’d stick this in the headcanon/fic fodder pile because the narrative is clearly headed to vacuo, but… a decent chunk of the major supporting cast is stranded in atlas now. with a falling communications satellite and what amounts to a flying pickup truck as their only resources, meaning that basically the only place they can reasonably escape to is argus.

oh. and anima already has a fairly sizable population of people who don’t like how the kingdom runs things enough to take their chances with the grimm and rampant banditry rather than live within the kingdom’s protection

#ruby tried to be honest without losing control over the narrative #and maybe she did—for vale and vacuo and mantle #but for mistral?#what do the people of mistral make of all this #without a huntress to guide them?

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fuck-you-upmusicbracket · 5 months

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Side Character (Cloud Fodder)

I'm just the side character in your main plotline/Always pay the check and pick up your hotline/You were nicer to me/When you barely knew me/But you won't wake up to that til I'm gone

"I correlate it strongly to c!jack manifold and his feelings of abandonment and being pushed aside constantly. he is such a side character that he literally died of screen. I project onto him so much I just want him to be loved but he never is."

North to Alaska (Johnny Horton)

Where the river is windin', big nuggets they're findin'/North to Alaska, go north, the rush is on

"It’s a story song and I love those, but also depending on how I’m listening the “go north the rush is on” part”sounds more like “go north to Russia's home” and it gets me every time because the us bought Alaska from Russia and for a while we thought it was useless but nope! It’s not!"

Side Character submitted by @figurativelystupid

#fuck you up bracket #tournament #polls #cloud fodder #johnny horton

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thoughts-of-loyalty · 5 months

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9th Nitpick November time, and here's a bit of a quicker one I felt compelled to touch on after talking about weird Semblance stuff: why do so many side characters not have a Semblance named or identified at all, even in various fan events or the like?

I mean, I know it's presumptuous to assume every character has one, given that it's noted Semblances don't always awaken in folks (for example, Roman), but it feels like there are characters who should have Semblances, that the CRW/BY never bothered to even try to explore.

Here are at least a good handful of characters I think *should* have Semblances but for some reason don't have theirs identified:

The teachers we've met at the various schools. My reasoning is that, if they're going to teach students who have Semblances, it would be expected for them to have a Semblance. In particular, to my knowledge, Oobleck, Port (having been a part of the early Beacon Academy days) and Lionheart (who was the head of an academy) are standouts who you'd think could or would have had a Semblance but it's never identified if they do.

While he is a teacher, so he'd normally go in the above list, Taiyang is also a pretty big "This guy should have a Semblance" magnet in general, so I'm putting him separate. We know both his kids have one, and he was on a team with three other very skilled fighters (presumably so in Summer's case), so why have they never even hinted at him having one or namedropped it in a Q&A?

Sage. I admit I'm reading from the wiki because I will not be buying any RWBY books, so i can't confirm if it's mentioned in one and a fan wiki just ignored it (but I doubt it); but why is he the *only* one among his team to *not* have his Semblance namedropped in any official source?

And many, many others. There was a whole cast of characters introduced in Volume 3 alone for the Vytal Tournament, and yet only a few have actually had theirs revealed? Tournament Arc 101 is giving opponents all kinds of gimmicky cool abilities to play around with, and yet outside of FNKI (or just FN, even), almost nobody identifiably used their Semblance during it (i know Scarlet and Octavia did, but neither were identifiably indicated as such during their fight - heck, until i checked the wiki, i didn't even think it might be a Semblance, i thought it might've just been a movement skill unique to her, like using Dust in her shoes to propel her).

It's just such a waste, you've got a system of "most Semblances are unique to the individual" as prime real estate for fun fights, or can even make for Q&A fodder if they're bit characters, but nah, those characters never get their Semblances identified. Just such wasted potential.

#nitpick november #rwde #rwde nitpicks

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cagliostrohq · 9 months

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Sunlight glints off the silver tickets fluttering down from a zeppelin that coasts through the Selphian skies. The curious crowds gathering below catch the paper slips in their hands. Its magical ink scrolls across the ticket like words on a teleprompter, inviting them to a combat tournament known as The Glitz Blitz. The competition had ceased running following the disappearance of Princess Calista nearly a century ago. Now, the royal family is holding the tournament to celebrate her miraculous return. ( With a furious scowl, Murray Wheatbelly pokes his head out from the windows of The Daily Grail’s editing room. What perfect timing to bring on the bread and circuses, isn’t it? Soon after his paper leaks the news about sacrifices, a distraction with royal backing is trotted out to appease the public? He’s already made his move, and now it seems the palace is countering it. ) On Whale Island, a gladiatorial colosseum has been built overnight with the help of friendly golems, gargoyles, and dragons. It is inside this arena where the magical battles will be held, knockout tournament style over the course of two weeks. The updated elimination bracket will be posted in the Selphia Plaza by an officiant after each day of battle. Anyone is welcome to sign up, though the competition has been historically dominated by spirit warriors. To enter, you must officially represent either one of the three houses or your hometown from within the kingdom. Unofficial betting on the island already has strong contenders from Roytale, Selphia, and Orre as frontrunners. They have historically produced the best warriors for the tournament, to the point the jeering gamblers call anyone representing elsewhere in the kingdom as mere fodder. The winner is promised a one-of-a-kind, magical weapon of rare materials to be forged by Rizzetheus, The Blacksmith of Orre. In addition, the royals are offering a small fortune that could be life-changing for the tournament’s winner. Battles are fairly simple: the flashier the combat, the more engaged the crowd becomes which may feed into your personal fame should you have a business or cause to promote. If a fighter is on the ground or out of the ring for more than ten seconds, they lose the match. The count only begins for those with gifts of flight if they are touching a solid surface outside of the ring. Enchanting your opponent into an animal or object incapable of combat is an automatic disqualification. All is well, until trumpets sound through the town square. A public announcement decrees: “To celebrate The Glitz Blitz’s return after over a century, a new rule has been added to the games. For the very first time in the tournament’s history…contestants are now able to be nominated by others to compete! If the tournament officials approve of the nomination, you will automatically be entered into the running and are required to pay the one billion phil penalty for cancellation. <3 Suddenly, a show of magical sportsmanship becomes a way to ruin the lives of your enemies. Nobody has ever been punished for an accidental death inside The Glitz Blitz, of course. And with the hefty penalty fee, there are few outside the royalty family who can afford not to fight. (LEGAL DISCLAIMER: The royal family is not responsible for any injuries or damages The Glitz Blitz tournament may incur. Submitting the name or the name of your nominee into the enchanted entry boxes located around the capital means you agree to these terms.)

OOC: The Glitz Blitz is an event which is held in-game for two weeks, with multiple battles occurring each day. The first phase of this event will conclude IRL on August 6th!

Read below the cut for instructions on how to participate!

Comment below the names of which muses are participating! Please use the following format: "Seymour Beasts (Paul Rudd FC), representing Rigbarth City"

Create a self-para where your muse either wins or loses against an NPC. This is your character's chance to become a crowd favorite, so please showcase your muse's combat style, personality, tactical prowess, personal storyline to win the public's favor (similar to storyline in wrestling!) and so forth. This will be their in-game first round (round #1) of the competition and therefore, the most memorable way to introduce themselves to the public! These self-paras will be used later in a "survivor" style voting game to determine who the public finds deserving of a second chance at victory, even if they are knocked out.

If you decide your muse will win against the NPC, they can move on to the next round! They may have up to TWO optional fights with other muses within the roleplay! These are rounds #2 and #3. When plotting out these match-ups, please make sure both parties are on the same page about the planned victors/winners before moving onto the dash.

Comment below the victor/loser of each round below in the following format: "Round #3, Seymour Beasts (Paul Rudd FC) VS Nicholas North (Danny Devito FC), Winner: NICHOLAS NORTH"

Everyone still in the running will be placed into a hunger games generator. We will post the computer randomized match-ups/results of the tournament! the outcomes will be posted, which will allow muns to contact each other & write the aftermath should they desire! Once these results are posted, we will provide instructions on how to participate in the voting game!

Names and any round outcomes MUST be given BEFORE August 5th to be put into the generator. Character names or matchup outcomes not commented by this time will NOT be put into the generator. Once the generator has gone through, we cannot change the results.

Please tag any event posts as "cag: event 003"!

HOW VOTING WILL WORK: More details to come later! To make it fair, we will announce a voting period where each muse must post themselves writing a name they’d like to save from elimination and a short, in-character explanation as to why. The minimum amount of content required will only be one or two sentences, but you may write more if you feel muse! This will come later, so you don’t need to worry about this just yet! In addition to the public vote, the in-game royal family will also select their own favorite underdogs to be given a second chance at victory. Have fun!

#cag: event 003 #the glitz blitz #fantasy rp #oc rp #skeleton rp

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