#sunsetofdoom

[seashellisinmyheart]

Can I gush a little about a fantastic SW fan fic I just read? It's called 'there's a niche in his chest where a heart would fit perfectly' by SunsetOfDoom. It's so good that I consider it canon.

It's about young Savage Opress and Maul and it makes me cry every time I read it. Highly recommend.

Edit: I hooe this Hyperlink works. I've been having trouble with it (X).

[chronic-ghost]

If it’s not been clear by the May 27th explosion, I’m deep into the Horizon Zero Dawn fandom and fanfic community (heyyyyy @sunsetofdoom). That’s what is currently taking up brain space and probably will until (and maybe after) we get a release date for HFW. That being said, I thrive on my FDTD writers ( @yossariandawn , @fortysevenswrites , @myletternevercame and many others) and while I’m not deep diving myself into the fandom, I love reading some Zutara fic (@gimmezutara, @zutaraweek). And of course, I can’t do this without tagging my girl @notahotlibrarian​ because she gives me such fic blue-balls by telling me about some AMAZING GENIUS SEXY HILARIOUS FIC she’s working on and then I don’t get to read it - HAND IT OVER YOU PUNK! 

The fic that haunts my waking dreams is a Aloy/Avad fic that borrows some fun troops from Zutara, specifically a certain ruler doing secret masked vigilante things while flirting shamelessly with a headstrong lady with a heart of gold. I’ve realized I need to rewrite much of the first few chapters, so when it ever gets posted, this section might not even be a part of it *shrug*

The Shrike tilted its hood, as if considering her. Aloy grinned. “Oh yeah, I know all about you, oh mystical deity. Whoever you are, as much as I hate to admit it, you’ve been just what the people need. Inspiring them. I wish I could do that.”

Watching her as she came back around the dead Glinthawk, the Shrike hovered in a crouch until Aloy sat down on the ground next to him.

She watched the wind catch and toss sand, braiding itself between thin branches and scrub. 

“Growing up as an outcast, I didn’t have a lot of friends.” She said. “And all training with Rost, I never really had a chance to want friends. So I kind of got into the habit of talking to myself, if only to hear another human’s voice after being out in the wilds for so long.” 

Aloy sighed and finally looked at the figure she was tasked with humanizing. It was watching her and had never stopped. 

“What I’m saying is, you not talking isn’t going to be a problem for me. They want me to bring you in but I think if the problem of the machines went away, they’d be less inclined to go after you.” 

A new sort of tension ran through the lines and edges of the body across from her. It was weary, concerned, analyzing if she was worthy of being trusted. Aloy swallowed and looked at the remaining bodies of the guards their peers had not yet carted back to Day’s Height.

“I want what you want.” Her heart tightened at the sight of so many lives lost. “I want to protect these people. Save them in any way I can. And, I’m not sure why, but I think you and I would be good partners. If you’ll have me.” 

Acutely aware the Shrike’s attention never turned from her, she looked back into the dark hood where she could almost make out the dark line of a jaw, the point of a chin. Curiosity would always get the better of her, but she could respect an adherence to and preference for anonymity. 

The Shrike leaned forward and took her wrist as it lay over her knee. Slowly, he exposed her palm up to the night air.

Y E S

[tearlessrain]

✌️ - are there any gestures or touches that your character shares with a friend/team/loved one that are a type of code between them? and 🤙 - how does your character's relationship with touch change if they get tipsy or otherwise chemically unbalanced?, for Kalarros?

eey thanks!

✌️ - are there any gestures or touches that your character shares with a friend/team/loved one that are a type of code between them?

He gets way too much joy out of riling Quinn up without anyone else knowing that’s what he’s doing so absolutely. Also on a more practical level there’s generally a lot of unspoken communication between them, they’re both intuitive about subtle body language and it creates a general impression of airtight efficiency that comes in handy for intimidating people.

Also I really like the idea that he and Vette have some kind of dumb subtle sign language similar to RotS Anakin/Obi-wan specifically so they can continue to be snarky to each other in settings where it’s completely inappropriate or might endanger Vette.

🤙 - how does your character's relationship with touch change if they get tipsy or otherwise chemically unbalanced?

Honestly it doesn’t much, he’s aware that he’s both very dangerous and at least formerly held a lot of social/political power, and people aren’t necessarily going to feel like they can tell him to shove off if he’s making them uncomfortable. It’s deeply ingrained enough that being tipsy won’t really change anything. He also isn’t naturally a super touchy person, it’s just not primarily how he shows affection.

To be clear he has done some spectacularly stupid shit while drunk (see: the shock collar incident), he just goes out of his way to make sure accidental assault isn’t one of them.

[cruelfeline]

Would you... at all Want a chipped!Entrapta story, a secret self-discovery on board Prime's ship? I have written one, but I abandoned it due to lack of attention. The idea still calls to me, though....

I mean, I want everything.

So. Yes c:

[kunoichi-ume]

3. Who would pine away in silence their entire lives without confessing their love, for Jurr/Kadu?

So funny enough it turns out that I reblogged this same ask meme over a year ago and was asked this exact thing, and @cinlat was asked it to. This was my reponse at the time:

Kadu would pine and pine, in silence and pain for his entire life if Jurr never showed a reaction to him. He has so many things conflicting with his attraction to her, being a Jedi and her dedicated healer for example. Then there is the issue of her memory and the position of trust he has been put into. He would never want her to feel like she was expected to return his feelings, or that he had someone manipulated her into them. No, if Jurr never showed an interest in him Kadu would pine for her his entire life.

Jurr on the other hand, well huge parts of her memory are lost on a fairly frequent basis and she has to save the important parts. Because there is only so much she can save, personal life stuff is often forgotten in favor of remembering what she needs to know for her occupation. This means that she would fall for Kadu over and over, never remembering that she had done it before, but never saying anything because she doesn’t expect anyone to ever want to deal with the mess that is her life. Even feels it wouldn’t be fair to ask someone to. So without him making the actual first move, Jurr would fall in love with him over and over, pining and moping over the relationship she doesn’t believe possible, until something happens to her memory and she starts the whole vicious cycle over.

So really…. both of them. These poor confused babies need one another, but it’s going to take them a while to figure that out.

I stand by this. Without something to open their eyes (or eye in Jurr’s case haha) they would pine forever. 

I also stand by this little ficlet that @cinlat​ wrote at the same time because we both got asked the same thing (apparently its obvious that one of the main pats of this ship is the intense pining before they finally find one another).

[dragonheart-swtor]

OC fact swap: my SW, Nan, was a butcher's apprentice in her only-partially-misspent youth! She uses the skill often after she goes hunting. A Sith hefting an enormous meat cleaver is not a sight to miss.

*wheeze* I imagined that and oh my gods the Fear that would be in my heart seeing that

Okay okay relevant OC fact - I’m failing to come up with anything relevant/related to the butchery part so instead I’m going to latch onto the hunting part because I’ve got stuff on hand for that: My bounty hunter, Reykal, got to go on a traditional Togruta rite of passage where she took down her first large prey when she turned thirteen, despite being raised by her Mirialan adoptive father without a Togruta in sight. This was almost solely because her dad (Alivar, my smuggler) heard about it and spent a ton of time researching it so she could have what she would’ve if she hadn’t lost her blood family; he tried very hard to let her stay connected to her species’ culture.

[legobiwan]

sunsetofdoom replied to your post “7.12 “Victory or Death”Not much to say about this one Maul continues...”

I do think the only reason Rex was ABLE to fight the chip was that he had a suspicion of what was going on. Nobody else had any clue, but because of Fives, he had just enough of a thread to grasp onto that he could struggle it out.

Ooooh, this is a good point and one I hadn’t considered!

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⭐star⭐ ⭐star⭐ ⭐star⭐ ⭐star⭐ so many starrsss (for any of your MMFR or Star Wars works, because that's what I'm most familiar with, but anything you want!)

"You seemed surprised, when you saw (Paz) this morning?"

"You mean out of the armour?" she narrows her eyes a little, like she thinks he's fishing for something.

"Yeah."

"With what I looked up on the holonet about your people, it seemed like you were mostly all pale blonde humans. I was surprised to find somebody with darker skin than mine under the armour."

I headcanon Paz as played by the gorgeous enormous Winston Duke

but it is really f’ing hard to put that in the text. You don’t see a Mando’s skin colour... but if you do it seems awkward to describe it, or at least I could’t find a good way that fit the flow without planting big flashing signs around it. Especially because the POV is Din’s, who already knew and wouldn’t take note of it.

But on the other hand, if you don’t describe skincolour then most western readers will default to ‘assumed white’ and I don’t like that. So I kind of ended up with the idea of Yala noting it as unexpected and Din seeing her take notice and mentioning it later.

An additional idea that kind of fell by the wayside was for Paz to remark on Yala wearing her hair in twists, probably with a comment about how his mother wore it that way. It just seemed too emotionally intimate for their fraught relationship at the time and I haven’t managed to fit it in since.