#research break.

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STATISTICAL CHARACTER PERSONALITY TEST. 

Take the linked quiz from the perspective of your character, then select 5 - 10 results from the complete matches list that you feel resonate with your character the most.

Charlotte Hale (Westworld)

Hans Gruber (Die Hard)

Shiv Roy (Succession)

Lena Luthor (Supergirl)

Amy Elliott Dunne (Gone Girl)

Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier (Hannibal)

Lady Macbeth (Macbeth)

Gus Fring (Breaking Bad)

Olenna Tyrell (Game of Thrones)

Azula (Avatar: The Last Airbender)

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💭+ MEMORY

SHREDS OF MEMORY | accepting!! 

I. RED LIGHT / GREEN LIGHT

(this drabble mentions the red chain experiments, just a slight disclaimer!!)

Deep within the tightly-secured confines of Veilstone’s Galactic Headquarters, something truly awful is about to take place. Despite the team’s fleeting, meaningless pledges towards the betterment of Sinnoh, everyone tangled up within Cyrus’s revolutionary plot is about to become a part of something irreconcilable. Evil.

Jupiter couldn’t care less. She watches from behind a reinforced glass pane with Mars at her side, foot tapping impatiently as Charon and Saturn scurry nervously about the secretive lab, the weight of what they’re about to do hunching the shoulders of the two brilliant scientists. 

Operation Red Chain.

Charon stands awkwardly behind the room’s control panel as Saturn connects the final bits of wiring together. In the center of the lab, the fluid-filled tubes containing the motionless figures of Azelf, Mesprit, and Uxie emit a sickly green glow. Saturn backs away from the experimental extraction and raises his hand at Charon’s side. It’s ready. An air of finality, resignation, seems to fill the foreboding space. It’s ready. Jupiter senses Mars holding her breath.

The old man nods weakly...and, with a trembling finger, presses the red button at the console’s center. In a sense, Galactic’s fate as a societal scourge is sealed then.

An angry crimson light fills the tubes, and as the Lake Trio suffer, everyone present does as well. The pounding--Arceus, the pounding!--in the Commanders’ temples is excruciating. Saturn, overwhelmed by Azelf’s sheer force of will, collapses to the floor in agony while Charon also slumps over the flashing panel, sweat dripping down his forehead as he grapples with his own mental trials. Mars is crying--Mesprit’s despair surfacing in her own emotions--and Jupiter, suddenly burdened with agonizingly brief glimpses of Uxie’s knowledge concerning Galactic’s future, struggles to remain upright in her seat. The tubes containing the Lake Trio flash brightly and the protective glass shielding Jupiter and Mars shatters, the shards cascading to the floor like raindrops. And then...all is mercifully quiet.

Ignoring the whimpering and groans of her colleagues as the pain in her head subsides, Jupiter peers over at the sinister machinery supporting this entire endeavor, amethyst eyes widening as she locates a crystalline crimson link glistening on the small collection table. A momentary success...but a single chain link is not nearly enough to shackle a deity. They will need to create more. 

Cyrus isn’t here to witness the Red Chain’s unsavory creation, of course--but he’s left the completion of the project in capable hands. Saturn and Charon are both strikingly bright intellectuals, but each of them--especially Charon--has had inexcusable moments of hesitance when it came to fulfilling Galactic’s missions. Today, Jupiter is not here to engage with the science (as much as she’d love to.) No, she’s here as an enforcer first--to drive her team forward despite their increasingly weakened resolve. 

“Press it again,” the Commander calls out, boots crunching the shattered glass as she steps into the lab and levels an impatient gaze at Charon, who is still breathing shakily at the controller’s helm. “Hurry up.”

Charon, still somewhat sensible despite his position within this insidious organization, just peers at his colleague like she’s insane to even consider the idea of another agonizing cycle. Unfortunately, his silent moment of protest is abruptly overridden when Jupiter marches over to the console and slams her palm down on the extraction button in his stead, her lip curling into a cold sneer. Once again, the room fills with red light as the Lake Trio send their captors to the floor in another show of their collective power. However, even as her mind fills with more of Uxie’s terrible visions, Jupiter knows that--with every button press--the Red Chain is closer to completion. Their vision, closer to completion.

Team Galactic’s world...it will all be worth it in the end.

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YGO deck I wanna see what you pick b/c I have idea as well

IT’S TIME TO DUEL!! (your muse’s Yu-Gi-Oh! profile) / not accepting

<determining keywords: dragon, timeless, legend...>

RED plays a BLUE-EYES deck, and his ace monster is BLUE-EYES CHAOS MAX DRAGON.

Over the lifespan of this game, no other monster has been more influential or enduring than the BLUE-EYES WHITE DRAGON. This is a perfect fit: Red, an icon of the Pokemon world, deserves mastery over this equally timeless archetype. The majestic Blue-Eyes has been crashing into worthy opponents since the beginning of time, and it's outlasted them all, still going strong with new support and adaptable strategies. A crowd favorite. Everybody knows the name. Both of their names.

Red's ace--Chaos MAX Dragon--is Blue-Eyes unleashed at its fullest, wildest power. Summoned from a ritual using both light and dark magic, MAX is an overwhelming force, breaking through any harmful card effects to absolutely crush opponents (and any defensive monsters that they dare hide behind.) The strategy to bring out this great dragon might seem old-fashioned and unwieldy at times, but when it does hit the battlefield...well, the duel is probably over for the opponent. It's that strong.

Throughout the years, Blue-Eyes has dabbled in spirits, machines, and summoning magic...but at its core, this archetype has always been about unmatched offensive power. Chaos MAX elevates Blue-Eyes to its most untamable, fearsome form yet, a behemoth finally ready to break its bindings and embrace its chaotic nature head-on, while hardheadedly obliterating all foes standing in its path.

Who better to wield this renowned dragon than Red, the reckless, chaos-attracting dragonhearted? A legend for a legend...

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CARD ME

IT'S TIME TO DUEL!! (your muse's Yu-Gi-Oh! profile) / accepting

<determining keywords: control, beauty, power...>

LUSAMINE DELACROIX plays a LABRYNTH deck, and their ace monster is LOVELY LABRYNTH OF THE SILVER CASTLE.

Don't let the beauty of the Labrynth Labyrinth fool you--this pristine castle is loaded down with hidden traps! The LABRYNTH archetype focuses on strategically activating powerful Trap cards to surprise and befuddle any bumbling opponents. When activated with the correct timing, a well-placed Trap can totally shut an opponent down: destroying their cards, negating their effect activations, or just...preventing them from playing the game altogether. This deck can also use its archetypal Traps and smaller monsters to summon its ace--Lovely--over and over again, from almost anywhere, and every time Lovely sees another Trap go off around her, she can destroy a card (or rip one right out of the opponent's hand) at will. She's a terrifying queen.

Playing this deck well takes a tactician's brain--when and how will you spring your Traps?--but when mastered, it can quickly drain the resources from an unprepared opponent, quickly grinding them out of the game.

There's no escape from the Labyrinth. Within this deadly, beautiful domain, Lusamine holds all the cards...

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🔮 - Favourite Pokémon type?

MUNDAY FUNDAY / accepting!!

[My favorite type since forever has been ELECTRIC!

It's a bit of a story (that's gonna date me a bit--whatever) but my first ever interaction with Pokemon period was opening a booster pack of Base Set trading cards when I was six. I was marveling at all the designs, and then I saw it. Base Set Electrode.

I don't really know why Electrode became my favorite Pokemon (and still is to this day...) I liked how it was an upside-down Pokeball. I liked how it wore a smirk on its smug orb face. I liked how fast it was in my Silver version, how it blew up in your face as a fake item, and how it was the first Pokemon mentioned in the PokeRap. So on and so on.

With Voltorb and Electrode being the faves, I started noticing how cool the other Electric types were too!! Steel-type Magnemite? Badass Electabuzz and adorable Elekid? Ampharos beaming up a whole lighthouse? Sign me up--I've been down with the thunder ever since!!

Just let me make two things clear: uneducated people without this backstory may think that I like Electric because of Pikachu, but that's not true--even though Pikachu is awesome--it's always been Electrode, don't get it twisted!! And yes, when they announced Hisuian Voltorb and gave us that super-cute short I was going crazy LMAO]

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👍 - Something you like about the Pokémon RPC?

[What I love most about this RPC--the only one I've ever known--is just the sheer amount of variety and representation across everyone's muses! I think I can comfortably say that every generation is accounted for and proudly repped by at least somebody in the RPC--from Kanto to Orre to Hisui to Paldea--I love how willing people are to pick up characters (or design their own wonderful OCs) in every region and make them their own within the wider Pokemon world.

Traditionally, I feel like GameFreak has never been one for intense character development across their Pokemon titles, but I think that's good here. As a result, I have seen so many different interpretations, worldbuilding ideas, and headcanon deep dives for characters and environments that routinely blow my mind in the best way possible. (For example, nowhere else do I feel comfortable writing a small novel on the inner workings of Team Galactic, or taking Jup on her Eris Evans route!!) GF provides the framework, and everyone in the RPC just takes it in different, fantastic directions. You all are so wonderfully creative, and I know that the collective eagerness to write different interpretations, minor characters, and OCs will never fade from this space.

In the end, I suppose I can narrow it down further to me just treasuring the sense of passion that I've always felt here! It's GREAT!!]

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What Monster from Folklore Protects You?

Succubus/Incubus

“Temptation is the sweetest of poisons, my dear. Breath it deep into your lungs and allow yourself to surrender to your desires, if only for the night.”

The incubus, or it's female counterpart, succubus, is a type of demon that tempts its prey in darkness. Though it typically is, it does not have to be sexual in nature. These demons have an uncanny grasp on manipulation. The mask of a pretty face conceals the horror lying beneath, talons curled, ready to pounce. They coerce their victims with sweet words and hollow promises, lulling them into a false sense of security. They whisper in the prey's ear, subtly guiding their movements like a seasoned puppeteer until the moment arrives to strike. Then they disappear without a trace, leaving behind their broken victims, merely a shell of the person they used to be.

You aren't necessarily evil. After all, what is good and evil but simply a construct of the human imagination? You have a way with words and a silver tongue to boot. Perhaps you are an author or a singer. Maybe the subtleties of both verbal and nonverbal communication just come naturally to you. There is no denying this: you are highly intelligent. No, I don't mean in the academic sense. Though that could be true as well. Your intelligence spurs from your guile. It is your wit that connects the incubus/succubus to you. It is intrigued by your mannerisms. It would simply be a shame to see such an interesting human go to waste. Just be careful how you treat others so you don't make unnecessary enemies. 

You never know when the hunter might become the hunted...

tagged by: @ambivalentatmosphere​ (TYSM!!) tagging: you!!