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flaggermousseart · 3 months
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rambling headcanons under readmore
After rebuilding the hotel Lucifer moves in, wanting to help Charlie in whatever way he can. For Charlie’s sake, he’s going to try and get along with her friends somehow. What starts out as a trial in ‘not raising to any of that fucker’s insults’ becomes ‘alright, I can tolerate the Radio Demon’ then ‘okay, maybe Alastor is not THAT bad’ and somewhere along the line he starts to develop feelings for him.
Lucifer panics. He’s never felt anything like this since Lilith. She’s been gone for years, and he didn’t think he’d feel anything like this again. He decides that this is crazy, and if he just ignores it and pushes all these new feelings as far down as possible, they will go away.
They don’t.
And soon the whole damn hotel seems to know. This is extremely embarrassing, but the only one who’s opinion really matters to him is Charlie. Lucifer thought she’s be disappointed that he’s moving on from her mom. Charlie is not; she’s seen how depressed her father has been, how much he’s been struggling these last years, so if he can find happiness again, he should go for it! When Charlie starts pushing for him to ask Alastor out, Lucifer almost wishes she’d disapproved.
But ... perhaps he should do it. He’ll probably get a no, but maybe a humiliating rejection is what will finally snap him out of it. Maybe he can somehow move on then.
It turns out there was one person in the hotel who had not picked up on Lucifer’s feelings:
Alastor had no clue.
So, when Lucifer asks him out, his first thought is ‘is this some sort of trap?’ and the second is ‘oh. how can I use this?’
... so he says yes.
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nightislandnoveltymug · 2 months
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actually, proper answer now that i'm awake and have had some time to percolate lol. best thing armand did!
i should say this is kind of a tie for me because the person armand becomes with daniel is always going to be up there -- he didn't let him die, he gave daniel what he wanted, but more importantly he told him, and showed him, that he loved him, and just in general in their time together he allowed daniel to see so much of his real genuine vulnerability and cared for him and worried about him so much and that fucks me up!!
but!! the thing i actually wanted to mention is his homes! (this is maybe cheating a little bit because it isn't something he did, it's something he does, but whatever.) one of the things i love most about armand is that he's always creating these stable places and central points for everybody to congregate on. while a lot of the others are sort of nomadic and don't stay in touch and you don't really know where they are, he is always (as he says) "a canker in the very eye of the world". he's easy to find, he stays in one place and he uses his resources and his power to create these stable, lasting home bases and then opens his doors to others. he creates stability and then shares it in a way that really nobody else does.
and i think it's very interesting because this sort of stability is a character trait that (i think!) maybe most people would first and foremost think to associate with elders like maharet, or marius, when in actual fact, the truth is that neither of them has ever done that -- for their own disparate reasons they've always been highly reclusive, and have protected their own stability by staying out of touch with the rest of the vampire world, not opening their doors, and for the most part not helping anyone or intervening in anything in any way.
there's something fascinating and honestly poignant about like... armand, maybe subconsciously, running a household according to an ideal which (imo!) is based on marius, except that marius has never actually done that. not for vampires. and so in actual fact, this is something that armand has innovated; this actually comes from him, and is coloured by his experience with the covens (which marius has never shown anything but disdain for), and perhaps even beyond that, by his experience with the sense of community in monastic life (which really ditto).
i personally suspect that rather than praiseworthy, he probably sees this as ultimately pretty self-serving on his own part, because he has this longing for community that drives him to create these places, so he probably just sees it as something he does so that he won't have to be alone. and also, from the way he talks in late canon you get the sense that he rather sees himself as trying to atone, and as trying to emulate those who are better than him. when in fact he's doing something that nobody else is doing, and in many ways (imo) behaving more like a leader of a community than any of the characters that everyone else thinks ought to lead, like marius or lestat. not because they couldn't, but because neither of them has ever had the resources, capabilities, patience, and willingness to create something like that and then open it up.
and for a character who's been so lost, and has spent so much of his life feeling lost, feeling abandoned (and i think, right up until present day, still feels that way really), and has spent so much of his life looking for something to anchor his life to, without ever having the luxury of truly finding it, and having to just sort of go on anyway, keep living anyway -- for that character to be a stable anchor point for everybody else is something that really really gets me about him, maybe especially because i think he isn't fully aware of it himself.
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nebulous-nevermore · 10 months
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ghost trick live reaction so far! spoilers for the beginning of the game ahead and all that fun stuff
ive gotten through the first two chapters so far,,,, there’s already been a kitty and a puppy. does the dog die is a yes but you bring him back so its okay. i want the black kitty that stepped on my corpse to come back like hi baby let me pet you pleeease
also i love that we’re pulling no punches with the killing people thing. there’s no beating around the bush with it which is refreshing. everyone’s dyin everywhere,,, and its not just the good guys we’re immediately right off the bat killin jeego. squashed. i would imagine tengo is in for a similar fate but like,,, man. also funny that we immediately assume that this is simply the right thing to do. not bc killing people bad or anything just bc a girl is in trouble. ik the real motivation is to find the truth and all,,, but its funny to think that sissel simply believes women can do no wrong
ray is also v interesting. the lampshade thing is really kinda cute im ngl. curious how he’s(?) gonna come back into play. he’s actin like he’s been around the block for quiiite a while,,,, but he must’ve died the same day, right? because the soul disappearing when the sun goes up stipulation,,,, that’s gotta apply to him too right? though i guess in fairness if he’s also got these ghost tricks. he may very well have been going back and forth in time and all,,,, and may very well have been around the block quiiiite a few times. cant wait to see what’s the what tbh
anyways im excited to play more tomorrow :D
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shiny-meowstics · 4 months
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yes, I think palworld could get into some legal trouble because a lot of its designs are blatantly using/copying pokemon's assets (doubly so since they're selling it). hiring artists/designers is Not Hard and "satire" is not an excuse to rip off shit. also imo it's just a cheap looking game that looks to be using a lot of pre-existing assets to begin with
but also, yes, I think it would be extremely funny if it got better review scores/reception than scarvi AND I believe pokeco CEOs should be made to sweat a little bc their cash cow franchise is easily replicated and all it'll take is One Good Competitor to threaten their spot at the top
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loverboybreakdowns · 3 months
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also. i will say i do make an effort to follow ppls dnis just bc i believe in like. basic respect. but if you make me click on more than 2 links to access it im not reading that shit
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dbphantom · 1 year
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Reddit users as soon as you say Egghead Luffy is actually wearing a dress with a cropped jacket over top
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Am I wrong tho? That's a dress. The jacket sleeves and the hood are attached to the top part which is seperate from it. And when he transforms into G5, he's just wearing shorts and no shirt which I also do when I'm wearing a dress, so I mean...
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Also, fun fact, the numbers on the back change from 163 to 5G (or SG, to fit the front) only on this panel, which I'm assuming was an error, but could also just be a G5 reference, I dunno.
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Watch next chapter have him unzip it and have a shirt underneath just bc I posted this asgdgdjssjdh
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ciphernull · 10 months
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personal grumbling re: char dev woes
hmmng i keep finding myself lacking something when it comes to developing my characters here. i guess it's like... i miss collaboration?
i'm so used to making characters for tabletop that it feels lonely doing it without other people involved. oc asks are fun and all but i really need someone to just... bounce ideas off, n discuss interactions n themes n parallels and all that good stuff! i really want to like, not necessarily even roleplay (though i do want to get back into that. eventually.) but just create something *with* someone again.
but then this also feeds back into the whole "all my ocs feel half baked" issue because how am i supposed to get someone interested enough to want to actually talk about ocs personally if i can't develop them to the point of being interesting? it's such an annoying feeling.
i know a lot of this is in my head, because i do this all the time! but it's still a Problem for me, even if it's a made up problem. and i don't mean to sound self deprecating about this or anything, m' just a bit frustrated with myself. and maybe a little lonely. idk. bleh.
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neurotonic · 2 months
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I looove your latest fic... I was rereading it again and it got me thinking about their entire situation. If things didn't escalate the way they did, do you think Prism would have been able to sick her robots on Phoenix after being so up close and personal? Seeing their scars and realizing they're as much of a human as the agents she was trying to save? Sure, Phoenix could have broken out at any time, but would they even need to?
Thank you so much, first of all! ;u; It really means a lot, especially since I don't...really write all that much and this one's a little more self-indulgent wuhjkhrger BUT um. yeah. If you meant without the whole agency 101 seduction stunt I still think Prism wouldn't have been able to find the strength to kill Phoenix, even with her robots. One of my earlier ideas for this had absolutely none of that making out stuff involved, and it still virtually ended the same way. If she was given the chance to really think about it, I don't think she could kill them. A bit more of my thought process under the cut :]
I wanted to toy with the idea that humanizing the legend is enough for Prism to like... doubt what she's really doing here. The proximity I think is something I wanted to keep in mind, because even in the games, she's always somewhere else or there's a barrier in between them that she couldn't interact with Phoenix directly. I could only think of two instances where Prism gets real close to Phoenix before her eventual change of sides: the Robot confrontation in Blind Spot, and the ending of Cold Shoulder (WHICH is what directly preceded her change of heart). I thought to myself mmmmmMaybe there's something I can work with here. Maybe she did have a distorted image of Phoenix in her head that only fueled her frustration and vengeance towards them............... so what if she finally meets them and they're. much realer than she anticipated? so this was born.
I call it kind of self-indulgent because. Well. There was no other reason I added the makeout thing except for me going "AH I just wanted to do it" LMAO!! Half-joking half-serious though, I just think exploring the agent's body was the tipping point for me. There was also one time where I wanted to let them have their fun and finish what they started, but that felt like I was straying a bit too far from what I originally wanted to do. That, and I feel very insecure about writing something That explicit.
.......Well I hope that answered your question KSJDFHS sorry I just used your ask as rambling grounds for this fic. I think the girlies are allowed some more yuri in the tags okay. Okay? Okay. Short answer she would've still released them, in the hopes that the distance between them will make her vengeance return again. It would've been a much shorter fic if that happened.
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lacreatricefortune · 2 years
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Fantasy Worldbuilding Idea: Vampires are actually fucked up succubi.
I've seen fantasy worldbuilding theorizing that vampires and succubi are different species that branched off from a common evolutionary ancestor:
boring, lame, overdone
CONSIDER, what if vampires and succubi only assumed they are different species, and then made the horrifying discovery that they were actually not different species, and that all the differences between them were actually the product of nurture, not nature.
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So how would that work?
Let’s go with a 'scientifical' interpretation and argue that vampires/succubi are human hosts carrying a supernatural symbiote/parasite/infection. These supernatural beings can survive on any "vital fluid" (blood, semen, vaginal secretions, lymph) as long as they consume it in sufficient quantities. In fact, they normally prefer to consume sexual fluids.
Obviously there's a lot more blood in a human body than any of those other liquids I listed. So it makes sense that a creature that can consume any of these fluids would go for blood if it were unusually hungry.
A lot of media makes a big deal of "the hunger" that vampires experience. Which begs the question,
Who fucked up a perfectly good succubus? Look at it! It's got an eating disorder.
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Consider how vampires are made.
In most western vampire media, “turning” is a two step process.
A vampire drinks a human’s blood, draining the human to the brink of death.
The vampire then feeds their own blood to the dying human.
Any person who undergoes the traditional vampiric turning process is starting their supernatural existence in a state of emergency.
They’ve been drained of nearly all their blood prior to being turned. This would put their body in extreme starvation mode. They’d awaken ravenously hungry, with the taste of their maker’s blood still in their mouths.
Of course they’d have uncontrollable bloodlust.
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Now imagine there's another way to turn a vampire. One that doesn't cause the vampire to wake up starving.
You're trying to get a human body to host a supernatural symbiote. The first step of the turning process prepares the host for the symbiote, and the second step transmits the symbiote into the host.
Why drain the human of blood? What does that accomplish?
Extreme blood loss does two things:
it compromises the host’s immune system (hardly any blood means hardly any white blood cells to fight off the invading supernatural entity)
it lowers the host’s body temperature dramatically (presumably making it a more hospitable environment for the symbiote)
Following this logic, a human doesn’t actually need to be drained of blood in order to be turned. They just need to be immunocompromised and hypothermic.
A human doesn’t necessarily need to drink blood either. Any “vital fluid” would get the job done. A person could conceivably achieve supernatural symbiosis via unprotected sex.
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A “succubus” who was turned via sexual transmission would never have to experience the ravenous bloodlust that a newly turned “vampire” experiences.
Because their turning process didn’t involve extreme blood loss, they don’t start their supernatural existence in extreme starvation mode. Furthermore, they were never fed blood by their maker, so it probably won’t occur to them to view blood as food.
When they do eventually get hungry, they won’t necessarily know what it is they’re hungry for. All vital fluids will smell equally appetizing to their new, enhanced demonic senses.
They’ll figure out on their own that sexual fluids can sustain them the next time they have sex.
They’ll probably never resort to drinking blood unless a desperate situation (a long period of starvation, a grievous injury resulting in extreme blood loss, etc.) forces them to go into survival mode .
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If vampires are fucked up succubi, that means someone invented the vampiric turning process. It wasn't the normal method of turning. It has a lot of undesirable consequences that "normal" turning lacks.
Unless they weren't undesirable consequences.
Unless someone had a really good (evil) reason for wanting to create a ravenous destructive beast that is too hungry and desperate to think clearly and therefore easy to manipulate.
Perhaps someone discovered it while running morally dubious experiments on succubi in the interests of turning them into weapons for the military.
Perhaps succubi invented it themselves in a desperate bid for survival when human society turned on succubi and tried to wipe them out.
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sunsage · 7 months
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🕯️ sup
send me 🕯️to hear my character's inner thoughts about your character.
He really doesn't get it.
Sun Wukong isn't new to forgiveness, having granted it many times and occasionally (though not very often) being offered it in turn. And he's not... new to the concept of forgiving someone you loved who hurt you greatly either.
(But there is a wide gap between being forgiven and having what they once had.)
But he just can't see why Macaque keeps coming back to him. Back in their world, he could always assume it was mostly because of MK, since the kid was first to make an offer of friendship. Amidst the constant threats to the realm's stability, the safest place to be is among the people you could trust to protect you.
(And if Macaque can trust MK but not him, that's fine.)
But why does he still cling to Monkey King's side here? In this place that seems to thrive on change and new experiences, where none of their (his, mostly) enemies were trying to end the world and death was temporary, why would Macaque need to trail him all over the city, spend so much time in his house and sleep in his bed?
That's what he doesn't get.
Macaque is strong, smart and capable. He is handsome and charming and, once you get used to his acerbic sense of humor, quite funny. He can dazzle any audience and get himself out of any situation, death included. He is (despite whatever image he is trying to project) a kind, brave and extremely loyal person. He doesn't need to be anyone's shadow anymore. He can be anywhere he wanted, doing anything he wanted.
So why would he want to be here? With him?..
Wukong doesn't know if Macaque wants to be friends (he doesn't even dare to wish for anything more, not in a thousand years at least). He doesn't know if he just wants to pretend none of that ever happened (they are not going to do that). He doesn't know what he can say or do or give to make things between them better.
...He does know that they need to talk about it. All of it. Except every time he opens his mouth he says something wrong and Macaque scowls at him or fires back with one of his favourite cutting remarks or leaves. So he backs down (like a coward), because Wukong would rather keep them in this weird neither here nor there place than risk actually hurting Macaque again.
(It scares him to think that maybe he just doesn't know how to not hurt him again. Sometimes he wishes Macaque would really just leave so he doesn't have this hope that maybe-)
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It's not his place to push or to rush things, not this time. Sun Wukong is a patient man, these days. If there is one thing he can do it's to let Macaque figure it out on his own terms. And if he needs to stay close while he does that, that's fine too. He can wait for Macaque to make up his mind even if takes another five hundred years. And he will. He will be right here, always, waiting for it.
Because someone you love is always worth waiting for.
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grendelsmilf · 2 years
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Personally I think the lowest point of the entire series was 'breezy' like I kind of got what they were going for but it implied lsp pressured Finn into sleeping with her and then his disability is magically cured like WHAT a mess. They did fix it later and everything, but no boring side episode came close to how mad that one made me. And AT never felt the same after with the new magic lore...I still liked the ending but there was def a change
ok well you’re wrong, but that episode does make me deeply uncomfortable to watch (which doesn’t mean it’s bad!) and I understand why it’s so controversial, so I was expecting someone to say this sooner or later. I will attempt to address all your concerns now:
first of all, I don’t see how lsp sexually assaulting finn is remotely a bad writing decision, since lsp’s entire character revolves around her being a horrible, entitled, selfish person who does what she wants at the expense of the people around her, and the idea that she wouldn’t rape (or murder) despite her established value system is weird because like. of course she would?? the one episode where she even seems to consider being a good person is in “princess day,” and it’s pretty clear she doesn’t actually care about being a good person, but whether she can be perceived as a good person. she is deeply shallow, and since it’s obvious that finn doesn’t even have the language to express his discomfort with what she did to him, she has no qualms about taking advantage of him for her own gain. I know this is probably the most fucked up thing she does in the whole series, so a lot of people take issue with it because yknow. sexually assaulting our protagonist without compunction is such a shockingly reprehensible thing for a character to do, but it’s actually very consistent with her character, and an important part of the episode and of finn’s arc that should not be ignored.
secondly, the implications, possibilities, and ramifications of magic has been a theme since the very beginning of the show, and expanding on that lore isn’t contradictory to anything previously established, especially considering finn as our pov character has a very limited scope into the nature of his world. the idea that his magical injury that he got from a magical curse is healed with magic is not remotely unreasonable. especially considering that it is, in fact, a metaphor.
when finn (first) loses an arm, it specifically represents his father’s abandonment. he feels like a piece of him is missing. it’s why he can’t just use a prosthetic, even though pb could obviously make him one in her sleep. after martin escapes from the citadel, finn goes through a grieving process, first in denial, then anger and bargaining (“baby’s building a tower into space”), and in this episode, he’s experiencing depression. he copes with his depression through self-harm, but it doesn’t actually seem like self-harm because asking girls for a quick peck on the lips seems pretty innocuous. it’s only because we know how intensely finn feels about romance up until this point (he later matures & grows out of this mentality) that we are concerned for his behavior in this episode. and it is only when this behavior leads to him being sexually assaulted that we are truly met with the gravity of the consequences.
as for finn’s arm growing back, this specifically represents finn beginning to accept that his dad’s own severe issues don’t reflect on finn as a person. finn must learn to detach his own self-worth from the harm people cause him, and obviously it’s not like this problem is immediately solved overnight, but that’s what he’s in the process of learning here. that’s why the harm lsp causes him is so important to this episode, because it shows that he’s both seeking that out because he wants more violence inflicted upon him, and because the fact that he continues to take her as she is (a fucking horrible person) and understand that what she did isn’t a reflection of him after the fact is so important to who finn is as a character, especially as his capacity for empathy and tolerance continue to develop.
the fact that pb is the one he sees giving him his arm back is interesting, because she’s probably the most complicated relationship he has with anyone in his life, and her image/voice comes to him in moments of great emotional clarity and breakthrough, such as in “hall of egress.” finn’s relationship to pb is inextricable from his arc as a whole, and the way he views her in every iteration is crucial to understanding his psyche and his emotional development.
now, as you say, finn’s disability arc doesn’t just end there. because, I agree, if it did, it would suck. but like, I once saw someone say that finn being so chill about having lost an arm in “james II” is good disability representation because they just treat it like a normal thing that doesn’t matter, and then a bunch of people got mad that he was shown to be severely traumatized from this in “breezy” and like. no??? in that episode, finn is still in denial. he’s just straight up pretending that nothing is wrong and that his body is fine. by the time we get to “breezy,” he has reached (and exceeded) his breaking point. but the idea that “good disability representation” is showing someone be fine with losing their literal arm is absolutely ridiculous. if the main character of your show, who has up until this point been a very active, healthy, able-bodied, energetic kid were to be totally chill with suddenly losing their arm, I would consider you a terrible writer, for obvious reasons. no human being is “chill” about suddenly becoming physically disabled, especially when the circumstances surrounding that newfound disability are extremely traumatic! ok, mini-rant over. ANYWAY.
I’ve written before on why finn’s disability is actually really well-handled (bite me losers), but i will also say that specifically with regards to breezy, it’s important to note that finn doesn’t actually resolve his trauma in this episode. you know why? because if he had, then fern wouldn’t exist. fern is a manifestation of finn at his lowest psychologically, finn during his ptsd depression maladaptive coping era. finn loses his arm, and then it grows back, and then he loses his arm again, but this time he’s less upset about it because he’s experienced this before, so now he’s able to wear a prosthetic, but then he loses his prosthetic in the stomach of golb and becomes the most authentic version of himself, and he lives with no arm and no prosthetic, finally, actually, fine with it, because he is truly mature now. fern is born, finn kills fern, fern comes back, fern dies holding finn’s hand. healing isn’t linear. finn’s growth does not follow a straight path, because he is a human being. sometimes what seems like a fix is just deciding to ignore a problem until it inevitably resurfaces. you really think they were just gonna let finn walk around with two whole arms for the rest of the series? after they established that every single version of finn throughout space, time, and multiverse is, ontologically, armless? no, for finn, losing an arm is part of growing up. but here, in this episode, he is growing up too soon, and he’s coping poorly, so his solution is to just repress all of it, shove it into the back of the Vault. but in a few years, he’ll open that door again. and then, he’ll be ready for it.
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cauaullection · 11 months
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I know reclassing Wrys to Swordmaster in FE11 is a meme because his stats and growths will be fucked, but you cannot look at this art
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and tell me the concept isn’t cool as fuck.
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ambalambs · 1 year
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So ive been really musing on miko's childhood stuff lately. Just fleshing out a lot of it since I think ive finally settled on some major keypoints lately after all these years lol and a thought came to me of little teenaged miko being raised by a gridanian hyur family and how that would be difficult at times given his previous keeper of the moon upbringing. So like being a teen and at the age when he'd probably finally get the chance to go on his first hunt had he still been with his tribe, and so he'd take it upon himself to actually just go out into the forest on his own one day and finally get his first deer. He'd bring it back home all proud of himself and happy to share his spoils only for him to be scolded for it. Gridanian rules about hunting and all that and the fear of the elementals weighing heavy on his new family. We dont have much to go on about why the miqo'te tribes dont seem to be affected by the elementals so it just seems like something he'd never had to think about and be a big learning experience for him as a kid
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so the resident evil animated movies are Not Good and Death Island was no exception. tbh in some ways the plot was worse than several of the others because frankly the villain actually has a legitimate grievance but just decided to kill a bunch of people about it instead of having any sort of interesting morality or backstory. however this movie DOES have:
leon s. kennedy being beat up and thrown around in multiple different scenes
jill fucking up a big nasty meat man with her plasma gun
chris wearing a silly little hawaiian shirt (that gets ripped off him during the first fight)
the redfield siblings! interacting for like the second time in the entire franchise! they didn't do anything interesting together but they were both there!
jill and leon meeting for the actual first time in the entire franchise (i think) and they even get to do some cool stuff!
that one cool scene from the trailer when they all jump over a tentacle
and i mean. i can't be mad about all that tbh
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theradicalace · 1 year
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the obligatory thunderstorm fic
(crossposted from ao3)
fandoms: friday night funkin
pairing: boyfriend/pico
summary: it's literally just pico comforting boyfriend during a thunderstorm idk what to tell you
Of all the things that could have happened tonight, Blake would probably put "a freak thunderstorm" as one of the worst.
It was ridiculous, really. Up and coming musician, known for handling demons and rap battling on top of cars and in active miliary zones, all with a grin and a peace sign...
And he's reduced to a trembling mess, hiding under the covers from a little bit of thunder. Could he possibly get more childish?
The rain against the windows was loud enough that he nearly missed the sound of the front door being opened, but there was no mistaking the knock at his bedroom door, or the voice that called out afterwards.
"You doin' alright in there, Morse Code?"
Storm be damned, that cheesy nickname would never fail to warm his heart. He wanted to say something, to tell him that everything was just fine, but all he managed was a vague sort of squeak.
"Yeah, I guess that was a dumb question."
The door swung open quietly as Pico let himself in. He crossed the room in a few long strides, and slid under the blankets to pull his shaking partner close to him. Blake curled up against him instinctively, laying his head against his chest.
"Guessing you're probably not verbal at all right now, huh?"
Blake gave a half hearted wave of his hand. He could talk right now, it just... wouldn't be easy.
Pico just raised an unimpressed eyebrow at him.
"Yeah, well, don't push yourself. You know you're gonna regret it later."
Before he could bring himself to respond, lightning flashed outside, and Blake tensed, clinging to Pico like a lifeline. The anticipation of the thunder was almost worse than the thunder itself sometimes.
Then the actual thunder hit, and holy shit, nevermind, the anticipation was absolutely not worse.
"Take it easy there, you're gonna break my ribs at this rate."
Pico was only joking. He knew that, of course he knew that. But he still couldn't help the distressed whine he let out.
"Woah, I'm kidding! I'm just giving you shit, babe."
A moment passed where the only sounds Blake could were the howling wind outside, and Pico's steady heartbeat, before he spoke up again.
"Hey... You know it's okay to be scared, right?"
As always, he'd managed to zero in on the deeper problem without needing to be told.
"You're always so damn hard on yourself. Nobody's gonna think less of you for being afraid."
Blake pulled his hands free for just long enough to sign a quick phrase.
"Don't want to talk about this. Please."
Pico tilted his head to the side, the way he always did when he was lost in thought. Then, without saying another word he started humming a familiar melody.
It was a lullaby from when they both were younger. Blake was honestly surprised that he still remembered it at all. He could feel the notes as they reverberated through his chest, soothing and soft.
They stayed like that for a time, one song giving way the next. Eventually, it was hard to tell where one ended and another began.
The storm raged on outside. But inside the darkened apartment, Blake was comfortable in his lover's arms. Pico was still humming an aimless tune, hand rubbing slow circles on his back. Slowly, he relaxed enough to finally get some rest.
He trusted Pico to keep him safe.
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in the wake of recent events, i would like to reassure everyone that i will Not be making any of my personal posts unrebloggable, in keeping with my mission to make sure that as wide an audience as possible may be forced to see the accursed sentences i devise in my mind and then share via this website. thank you
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