#izzy needs sleep

[insanescriptist]

I am but an ant, nay not even an ant, compared to your might

Iz is not Izzy the Insignificant but Izzy the Great and Terrible! (at finishing her own fics and going to sleep and getting to places without getting lost)

Izzy the Great and Terrible accepts your praise.

Umei and she have had this planned for so damn long. Finally!

Izzy shall relay your words of praise to the Magnificent and Lovely Umei.

By which Iz means a PM and possible capslock key smash

Izzy bids you a good day.

[insanescriptist]

So can I ask what the plan for Raven is? She hasn't run off already I think, based on what you said in your other posts...

Xanxus actually hadn’t truly slept despite being full and clean. He didn’t know enough about Qrow to trust him and now that he was reasonably secure it grated more and more. Mostly the fact that Qrow would have nominal legal authority over him. In a culture and under a government he had not much of a clue about.

Based on all the technology around, the world was reasonably advanced. Interactive holographic phones called scrolls were a big clue there; he hadn’t seen much more than that but it would exist. Being out in the countryside, technology would take a drop but it meant industry and government existed and explained the small airfield he’d seen in pretty much every small village.

From a guess, he suspected that these Grimm were a far larger problem for any sort of logistics and so while roads existed, they weren’t secured against the Grimm. Manpower problems, as far as he could tell. Which explained why there were turrets in that abandoned village, for all that at least reclaiming weapons would make sense to recoup a little of the investment. Turrets would be good to thin out a marauding horde.

Most of the presumed world’s transportation would be done by air, where less Grimm could bother it, lowering costs. Ships would exist, but those were far more easily armored and could be engineered enough that they could be reasonably safe. He hadn’t seen cars, but that might be a big city thing, for all that most big cities also had a train line that while limited -one direction along a track- the technology seen could easily make a flying train or something in case parts of the track were destroyed by Grimm, should the Grimm or some other possibility destroy part of a track. Depending on how it was propelled and all that.

He still wasn’t sure how things were powered, as he hadn’t seen any powerlines but that was probably because of the Grimm. An invading force would take advantage of the opportunity present and livewires were dangerous. So things were probably built sturdy and smart, fortification as part of everyone’s daily life as suited what looked like a world that was besieged by Grimm.

Xanxus had learned that the Grimm were fought by soldiers and Huntsmen; people who dedicated their life to combat and Huntsmen had special abilities. He hadn’t learned more than that but it appeared that those special abilities were called Semblances. Why and how he didn’t know, but even after Qrow had turned out the light, Xanxus had continued to finished maintenance on his weapons and returned most of them to his bag.

It was very much a pain in the ass to carry concealed knives that were accessible and would stay put without a fitted harness. Sure he had sheaths but that just meant he wasn’t cut up by his own knives. For that end, a cannibalized pair of panty hose sufficed to do so.

He currently couldn’t use his guns; not as a pair and not without a moment to make sure he didn’t shatter his wrists from the kick. So he hadn’t and thus didn’t need to do maintenance on them. He had found some supplies for doing so and kept them but he’d been using his knives more and it showed.

So instead of laying down and sleeping under the covers, he’d crouched into the corner, pulled his bed’s blanket around him and dozed.

-

Qrow hadn’t slept easily; the mattress wasn’t the best quality and he hadn’t had enough booze to shut his head up so he could go to sleep easy. Dark thoughts and self-loathing weren’t a recipe for a good night’s sleep.

Instead he had listened to Xanxus sharpen knives in the dark and knew with a certainty that not all of them had went into the pack. Hard lessons indeed to keep a pack organized enough to know where things were in the dark. Had he had some training or picked up the habit from someone who had?

Qrow eventually got to sleep and eventually woke up earlier than he wanted to, not that the call of nature would wait.

He’d noticed the way the blankets were pulled around Xanxus, the way one hand was near the sleeve of the hoody. No way to get tangled in the sheets like that. Meant he should probably not get too close upon waking Xanxus up; violence was likely and Qrow liked living. His damn luck didn’t need that sort of invitation. Sure, Qrow had aura, but the fire he had seen Xanxus use made the hairs on the back of his neck raise up.

Qrow also had noticed on his way back, that Xanxus was awake, between the sliver of daylight coming through the window and the fact that Xanxus’ red eyes were lit up like lanterns in the hazy light. Creepy. Also vaguely terrifying in an atmospheric sort of way.

He didn’t look like he hadn’t slept at all, but catnapped all night long. Qrow had a grumpy murder brat on his hands.

And it was probably too early to call his sister, who’d be all too gleeful at his situation.

-

Breakfast was light, but filling, so Xanxus wasn’t surprised Qrow suggested training as a way to pass the time to a more civilized hour. They easily found themselves in the clearing they had met in yesterday, their packs next to them as Qrow tried to figure out the teacher thing.

“So as you’ve clearly had your aura unlocked-”

“My what?”

“Your aura, the expression and strength of your soul.” Qrow’s tone changed from conversation to something more rote and annoyed. “Can be used for defense so you’re harder to hurt, helps you heal faster and otherwise break through human limits?”

Ah, something Xanxus could work with. The limits of what he’d have to work with or around. Which did match up to what he could do with Flames. It explained why Qrow felt so odd to his Flame sense.

So then it was onto training, where Xanxus would get to see how much readjusting to his current height went out the window when fighting a human opponent, instead of something vaguely human-shaped.

-

Qrow had heard of fighting prodigies, those smart enough to never need correcting twice and met those who had earned every sliver of their skill through hours on end of training.

Qrow had heard of the phrase of ‘right before my own eyes’ and thought it was a phrase that applied to a matter of years or something.

Not the course of a single morning

But now he knew that Xanxus was trained. As an assassin, judging by how he went for fatal points. Knives freshly sharpened came far too close for Qrow’s own comfort.

And that fire of his? Aura-breaker.

Every. Single. Time.

Now armed with knowing a bit more about how to and how not to deal with Xanxus and it having reached a more civilized hour, he pulled out his scroll and called his sister.

-

Xanxus was quite pleased with himself; he was good in hand to hand and close quarters and clearly Qrow was no slouch either.Being tiny meant he needed to be more agile in how he moved; momentum was how you made hits hurt.

Xanxus was getting tired though, so he didn’t protest Qrow signalled for a break and took out his scroll.

“Hey sis, Tai tell you anything yet? The woman must have shook her head. “Well, I’d like a pick-up for me and someone else. Yeah, you’ll see.”

Qrow had a terrible phone maner, was an idly thought.

The portal was more of a surprise.

The woman who emerged from the portal busting out with laughter because she looked at the both of us?

Yeah, wasn’t expecting that either.

—-

No headcanons, more fic. Gonna go sleep now.

[insanescriptist]

Mothers day was yesterday, but whatever: if you could pick any fictional mother or mothers to have, who would you go for? Who would you run screaming from if you got stuck with?

Hmm… avoiding dead moms and ones that just aren’t there… there’s not a lot of choices? Anime is bad like that; even the ones that live are marginalized or are Doomed to Die.

I’d probably go for Deliah Ketchem, as she seems to be a supportive mother with her heart in the right place and isn’t abusive in the least.

Compared to say, Karin the Heavy Wind who also has her heart in the right place but rules by the Rule of Steel.

Izumi Curtis however would be awesome. So would Kushina although the ninja-verse is a terrible terrible place to be a child and/or adult in.

As for mother’s I’d Nope away from?

Sawada Nana might feed people but she doesn’t seem to connect with her own kid in the least. Being her kid? I’d end up staying with friends so often my room would collect dust.

Mothers with psychopathic tendencies in general? Because if anime moms aren’t dead, dying or disappeared they’re Murder-Crazy.

Edit: Just noticed you said fictional. Izzy should go to bed now.

[insanescriptist]

Happy Three Years of Black Sky! Did you, as the Beta, expect Black Sky to go on for so long and with this amount of success?

Umei does great work; Izzy is not sure how she writes so much.

As for Black Sky being so long? We knew it was going to take over a year to start with; too much planned for their not to be. And then the writing happened… so by chapter ten or so Izzy KNEW it was going to be over a hundred chapters. And then we had to plot things out and have various events happen -which has increased chapters sometimes as a particular chapter had to get added to make things work, progress story/character arcs- and yeah… it’s gotten massive.

But we’ve still got the fallout of latest chapter (216) to cover and more up to various events, including most recently we’ve pinned down the specifics of the Future Arc in the hows and whys this or that didn’t happen. Also of course, more KHR-canon things as Black Sky isn’t planned to end when KHR did.

Anyway, if Umei’s muse stays cooperative, we will probably get up to Mukuro vs Tsuna and the reactions to that by New Year’s? Not sure if that’s the latest or earliest but that depends on how story turns out and what it needs. There’s been a few ‘we need a part focusing on this’ which sometimes turns into extra chapters. Not that the readers really mind it, except for what seems like causing perceived drag on story line; sorry for constructing a multi-facet world with history and traditions and characters being flawed people because who doesn’t want more fic?

In terms of time estimates? Izzy has no idea of projected time to finish fic. Probably two years minimum?

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The thought of other series as sky and rainbow makes my imagination itch. It does make me wonder about my current obsession series of Assassination Classroom. If you know the series, who would you map the elements too?

I blitzed through the manga about ten chapters before it ended and read all those as it ended so I’ve only read it once. So I had to go to the wiki for names. And then I gave up in that.

The Teachers:

Kuro-sensei is hard to place. The easy-going, sweet-loving tentacle monster is what he becomes by choice -not what he was naturally or by circumstance. Add in the whimsy that he’s always been and the dedication to knowledge and his craft… Probably Lightning. A Sunny Lightning, with enough Mist to make head-games amusing and fun. To want to be weak, to want to be flawed because he had realized he life as it was, was pointless and had no purpose and no meaning and still enjoy the challenge of it all.

Karasuma is a Storm, probably Cloud secondary if weak-ish. He’s a Storm who is disciplined, knows what he’s doing and why and expects it from others. Also, extra bloodlust while smiling and only smiles while fighting; sounds familiar…

Irina aka Bitch-sensei is a Sun. She’s a Sun due to persistence in her goals in learning a language or other skill, a need to be noticed and admired as is her due.

The Students:

Nagisa is proof that some things are color coded. Rain. More to the point, a Rain that keeps things peaceful by bending to others’ whims. His hair length, where he goes to school and so on. A large part of his growth as a character was not bending to random strangers. Not that Nagisa shows it often, but that level of bloodlust that shows up every so often? Nagisa’s got Cloud too.

Kaede is proof that some things are not color coded. Misty Sun -her behavior in class was fabricated yes, she’s an actor like that but it later became real after she actually dealt with her emotional baggage and isn’t in constant pain due; if you’re in pain and you don’t want people to know, you fake normality. She doesn’t take the spot light unless she wants to and sometimes stands out anyway, which was intentional and remains so in some ways.

Karma’s a trouble maker and doesn’t listen to rules, attacks without mercy and has a knack for manipulation and deceit. Stormy Mist or Misty Storm, either is about equal. Not that he doesn’t also have a solid streak of Cloud.

Itona Horibe is hard to figure out. He wants to be strong, he wants to not have to worry about money/work, yet later he’s working in his father’s factory, apparently not caring much about what would happen if it failed again. Lightning, probably Rain secondary.

Rio Nakamura - Mist. Such a Mist. A cheerful one, but such a Mist… only a Mist would purposefully bomb tests to be a ‘normal student’ and ‘forget how to study’ because they were lonely.

Hinata Okano -Sun. More classic in the prefers physical combat but still Sun. Probably weak secondary Storm.

Hiroto Maehara - Rain with strongly Sun tendencies aka physical work and a higher libido. Have you not seen his dating history?

Sniper guy - Socially awkward Cloud. Rainy as he’s easy-going and grew out his hair because his gaze apparently intimidated people.

Gun girl - Sunny Lightning. She’s stoic, not distant.

Seducer girl - Misty Sun. Stunning, knows it, acknowledges it as a fact and then plans to use it in her favor in the future.

Gloomy girl -Rainy Mist. Fond of horror, writes it and is proud of making people losing their appetites from it? We should be glad she’s Rainy, since it keeps her to he background and more mellow.

Bug girl -Sun and Too Pure for this World. Probably Misty as the wiki mentions confusion on if she has older brothers or not.

Pretty game girl - Stormy Rain, or maybe Sunny Rain. Look, when she rebelled against her father she went all out which could be a Sun thing. But also, Double Kill in Red vs Blue.

….

Izzy is done for now and needs sleep -ask for specific characters not mentioned in another ask. Inventory is a special sort of retail hell.

[insanescriptist]

Things I want to write about:

Xanxus’ mother having Wrath Flames; also not crazy delusional

Bel at Takusushi being Bel

That steamy, ‘oh, god that’s so hot, I’m a puddle of sexually-charged goo’ X00 fic

The‘Chrome decides to seduce Mukuro’ fic

That time that Mukuro and Squalo were braiding each other’s hair -obviously they say that Chrome was possessing Mukuro; clearly long-hair alliance in the work to bring sexy to the next level

The fic where people think that Vongola Decimo is a puppet -as are the rest of the Decimo Generation... just wrong puppetmaster; Chrome is a benevolent tyrant. We blame you Mukuro.

 Bel deciding that Chrome is interesting; Mukuro is in denial of feelings

Some more femslash, because the boys are blind to how hot we are

The ‘beware the feline overlord Enma’ fic, where Enma has too many cats and that is not a cat, what is that doing here?!

Skull being awesome in general

Squalo’s perfect day; and how much it freaks him out

‘I didn’t know you read as a hobby,’ ‘Of course I read, I’m fluent in more languages than you know. Are you going to ask me to quote Moby Dick?’ ‘Isn’t Shakespeare or Churchill the guy that’s got all those English quotes?’ ‘Yes, but I’ve got a line I’ve been waiting to used on Squalo from there for ages, so I remember a lot more than I want to of that.’

Hibird deciding that Tsuna’s head is a fine birdnest; things get more complicated from there

‘I wish I had the excuse to say I was exceeding drunk, but I did this stone cold sober and I can’t say I regret it too much - I am still going to die later though, but at least it’ll be quick? No, that’s too optimistic, my dying shall last a year’

[insanescriptist]

Thanks for the fast answer,after finishing your story I'm even more happy to hear that it's not abonded. But I'm a bit curiuos did you plan to keep Rouge around from the beginning,because it sounded like she died in the summary or was that just a misinterpretation from me? And I'm really excited about what they plan to do about Garp, in the planning season it wasn't really metioned beside that he was going to be there soon. Therefore I'm hoping that you get your needed information soon from Oda.

Yeah, I try to answer fast but sometimes other things come up like general life things, work, beta-ing for Umei, sleep and food. Also cooking, as Izzy needs food sometimes.

As if Izzy puts off answering things for too long, Izzy is likely to forget and it’ll languish in inbox indefinitely. It’s only happened twice so far on tumblr, so that’s good? This inbox is a lot better maintained than my e-mail inbox… ehehehe…

I really hope I get some more hints about the working of the OP world too; I mean the Reverie aka meeting of all the countries part of the World Government is due to happen soon and that means world-wide politics, which would dictate national politics and thus influence local politics and the populace there of. Plus various political systems at work, from dictators to kings and tyrants.

I mean there’s already examples of WG dictating policy elsewhere see: South Blue’s genocide of children and their mothers on the possibility of them being Roger’s child? Yeah, lots of power, little accountability from the common populace and so on due to dispersed, untrained and under-educated populace. Further example would be the massacre of Law’s home island due to the amber-lead syndrome as a government order. Furthermore there’s examples of military policy dictating civilian policy, to various degrees such as immunity to various laws aka Shichibukai. Any act of piracy/crime by the Shichibukai is government sanctioned. The Shichibukai are supposed to tithe part of the loot to the WG but a pirate give up treasure? When they’ve already got immunity to laws? Like tax laws? Bwahahahah! Also why the marines didn’t investigate Baroque Workds too much even though it was an organization of note within the Grand Line; even if Crocodile’s subordinates were committing a crime, it was on his order, so immunity. It is why Crocodile had to first be stripped of being a Shichibukai title, before sentenced and tossed into Impel Down.

So yes, I’ve got a few hints on what’s already established, but nothing on how things are supposed to work in theory vs how things actually work, the history of the WG and how the Tenryuubito remain in power, to the extent that they can call an admiral down on a whim. Doflamingo’s implied to know something so that he can force the WG’s highest to obey him to a degree.

The Gremma 66 being considered a nation is interesting in that regard as it lacks land and everything but human resources, as it’s still got a voice at the Reverie until knowledge of an alliance between because it’s powerful and has a reputation. When the Gremma 66 Big Mom and the WG is official and confirmed aka Sanji’s wedding happens. This also implies that the Yonkous could be considered enemy alliances nearly on the level of the WG. If nothing else, look at the War of the Best and while it wasn’t everyone the marines could bring to bear, it certainly had the best in the military that could be spared, could arrive on time and so on. Which says that unless serious aggravation happens the WG is in a cold war with all of the Yonkous, and the Yonkous with everyone else resulting in a stalemate of power.

Of course power has to be kept and maintained, so the Yonkou have various ruling styles. Whitebeard adopted everyone he thought could work with his people; those that couldn’t and wouldn’t were either kicked out or killed, as implied by the fact that it wasn’t seen as out of the ordinary for a Whitebeard Division leader to hunt down a traitor. Kaido seems to rule more with brute strength and fear, but he’s certainly cunning about it if only because of the deal we know about with Doflamingo. Big Mom seems to be abusing marriage as a way to create a dynasty, although I’m not sure how those are all her children but I suspect we’ll find out. Shanks is likely going to be a wildcard as a ruling Yonkou, if only because he’s the man that’s actually friends with Mihawk.

So anyway, that’s a long ramble about what’s known and what can be speculated so far based on what little we got. Izzy can do a lot more with actual information, instead of mere speculations. In regards to story, things shall not be spoiled, as a good story answers most questions in time.

[insanescriptist]

Cats you need to catch more mice. I would like to sleep.