#gererrin

[vegalocity]

So this year for my Birthday I decided i wanted to do something special, so I scribbled up some plans and I decided on doing a 'Hobbit Birthday' as you will

That being a Birthday where I, the one turning 26, give gifts to others

bc why the hell not amiright?

for my buddy Scribs @sibillascribbles08 I made my personal favorite disaster couple of their OCs, Io and Frigidus

Then we go into the legos (and two very specific boys among the legos at that lol)

So first for the legos we got two Red Son's from @purble-turble's stories, one being the infamous Macaque Meets Red Son comic, and my personal favorite AU, Time Traveller Red Son (Where Red goes into the future and has a Danny Phantom: Ultimate Enemy encounter with his future self and it fucks him up) Purbs has this whole thing of having au versions of the boys meet up with eachother, but because of the nature of Macaque Meets Red Son, depowered!Red is exempt from these shenanigans, so i thought it would be fun to have him thrown into the game

next here's an accompanying image to @starsfic's Eros And Psyche AU Smoke and Gold (which is a reeeeaallyy good fic you guys should read it) This shot in particular being a 'Images taken moments before distaster' setup

Then for @tanniasaurus now For Tanni i had initially wanted to do their Monkey OC, but i... can't draw furries, I'm no good at drawing animals. So I said to myself, I said 'You know what? We're both MEXICAN we both SHIP THIS THING I'M GONNA DRAW MK SERENADING RED SON IN SPANISH' bc you know getting serenaded by a pretty boy is 100% on that boy's bucket list.

Next for @tigerseye46 I thought it would be fun to do a couple of concept designs for their Red Sand/Red Shark AU (Its a Swap Au but with Rare Pairs!) Bc It's kind of... a lot of fun? In the AU Red Son stayed with Guanyin for far longer after the events of The Journey and now is Sha Wujing's successor, and Xiaotian was raised by the Spider Clan from a young age.

And finally to my Buddy Aimee @gererrin whom truly knows my passion for crossovers, and some art for our newest concept, a Kingdom Hearts/Sleepless Domain crossover with a 'Your Name' premise

Hope you guys enjoy!

[mewtwoandme]

My anxiety’s spiking but BIRTHDAY BUDDIES!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!

XD thanks

[lyonface]

In regards to RK900 (Which I think I can tell is who you meant) I think it's for exactly that reason. We know nothing about him, he never speaks, therefore he's a clean slate to do whatever you want with character/personality wise. I like to believe that the prototype Amanda showed off was already in development since he's this ready to be shown off at the end of the game, and Connor can find and "rescue" him.

I guess I can understand the potential of a character that has a blank slate, and the narrative of RK800 seeking him out and rescuing/corrupting him is an interesting story to write. For me though, Amanda’s pretty clear message of RK800 being obsolete means our Connor won’t have that opportunity, especially considering the major choice you get regarding Connor’s program stability has to be made directly in opposition to the idea that he wouldn’t follow orders and return himself to be deactivated. Since the game never shows us what Connor does as a result of RK900, you can certainly imagine he defies Cyberlife’s wishes, but it seems pretty counter to that previous decision. I guess I don’t find his impending replacement compelling beyond the possibility of his instability later on.

[pendulumprince]

Ok, so something interesting I have to make note of is that in the first episode, after it makes it seem like Ai's been spying through cameras on Yusaku (Because who else might be?), that he then makes the "OH NO I'M IN TROUBLE" comment in such a way that reminds me of whenever he's fake-acted later on. And this was after the camera blinked. Your thoughts?

Oh yeah, Ai definitely orchestrated his own capture.

The first person I saw propose this theory was @bluebeirry in their post Ai/Ignis- Playing Playmaker? I highly recommend reading it, it totally changed the way I saw Ai as a character. I won’t rehash all the evidence in support of it, but I will go into what I think it means.

If he truly did set up his own kidnapping, the bottom-line reason is because Ai wanted to get close to Yusaku. He wanted it so badly that he put himself in a position where he could also be captured by the KoH or SOL. There was no guarantee that Yusaku’s “escape” route would have materialized in time. Ai was really taking a gamble in episode 1, all in the hope that Yusaku would “catch” him.

So if he’s willing to do all that, the question then becomes why? The most obvious reason is because they both had a common enemy in the KoH, and Playmaker was the only duelist successfully taking them on. He may have viewed working with Playmaker as a mutually beneficial endeavor; Ai would further Yusaku’s crusade by attracting the KoH to them, and he (Ai) would be protected all the while. 

But even before this episode it’s been clear that Ai’s feelings for Yusaku run on the personal side. He’s helped Yusaku in multiple ways, never once lashed out or hurt him (remember vore!Ai?), doesn’t hold any of his harsher comments against him, does his best to help during duels (even if much of his “advice” is incorrect), and genuinely seems to admire Playmaker. All this, on the part of someone who’s supposed to be a “hostage”.

So it isn’t like Ai orchestrated his kidnapping but later came to regret it. Hell, it’s debatable whether he ever even saw Yusaku as his “captor”. There was always something more to their relationship… and episode 41 proved it.

Several significant things were confirmed this episode:

Ai never lost his memories

Ai (#IGN006) was modeled after Yusaku (the sixth Lost Baby)

Ai remembered baby!Yusaku.

The last one is especially important, because it adds a whole new dimension to why Ai was watching Yusaku since episode 1 (and perhaps even further back). He wasn’t just following the only duelist taking on the KoH—Ai was following “his” kid. And wanted to be close to “his” kid. He wanted to have a partnership with “his” kid. Even if he had to risk being caught by his enemies. 

And even now, Ai only thinks the best of “his” Lost Baby. I’m not saying that having a common enemy in the KoH didn’t play into what Ai did in episode 1; it may have even been the deciding factor. But this is another element that just can’t be ignored.

So yes, Ai absolutely set everything up in episode 1. And we won’t really know what his motives were until he confirms them himself, but to me the decision was charged in equal parts by pragmatism and sentimentality (or as close to the feeling as an AI can get). 

[xiolette]

The SDau is really interesting!!~ Can't wait to learn more about it. Have you ever tried to design Kairi's Keyblade, or are you just keeping it vague with the papou fruit inspiration?

I am, quite frankly, horrible at keyblade design (and just... design in general) so I’m... keeping it vague

[vegalocity]

For the fic title meme, “Even If Everything Else Changes” for Miraculous Ladybug (perhaps even a crossover?)?

(finally someone goes for the Bonus Points)

Even If Everything Else Changes

Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug/Static Shock

Rating: T

Archive Warnings: No archive warnings apply

Relationships: Marinette Dupain-Cheng/Virgil Hawkins

Additional tags: Long Distance relationship, bittersweet, DC crossover, Dakotaverse crossover, I miss static shock you guys

Summary:

Change is nature, everything exists in a state of flux. what‘s in season will be out of season soon enough. People come and people go, feelings fade and are made anew in another.

Her video calls with Virgil gave her life a sense of consistency in a changing world. It wasn’t easy of course, both from the distance between Paris and Dakota, and in the reactions of her friends when she’d told them she had a boyfriend who lives in America made it... tough.

‘Why don’t you date someone here’ ‘we went through so much to get you and Adrien together and it was all a waste of time!’ ‘’boyfriend who lives in America’ right very believable Mari’

But it was worth it to listen to Virgil’s stumbling attempts at French while Marinette would respond in her rough English, and the way he’d look at her when she’d get a little too energetic with her storytelling, and the almost childlike excitement on him when he’d do the same with his own storytelling

It was difficult, but it was stable.

[vegalocity]

“I think I’m a Sugar glider, if these are any indication!”

So a very happy (if belated) birthday to @gererrin! She wanted to joint he bandwagon and have a Mew-Sona, so introducing Mew Grape!

the ribbons on her armbands can function as actual gliders, sticking to her arms and sides while midair, but they’re also her weapon, detaching from her upper arms and becoming a ‘Venus Love me Chain’ of sorts

[vegalocity]

For my buddy @gererrin‘s birthday she wanted her Spiderverse OCs, Theodore and Evelyn, AKA Spider-Monkey and Cobweb (Idk, she didn’t have a spider name for evelyn yet so i ran with what i had, so that’s likely to change)

Happy birthday Aimee!