#viperofsand

[blackkatmagic]

Oh my good, slick feelings??? 10 new WIP??? Please share???? I love your mind, the ideas that grow in there are wonderful.

asdjajsdf thank you, i’m glad you enjoy the chaos. xD

1. Winter Soldier!Slick, where the Kaminoans take him after his arrest and try to enhance him even further, but wipe his mind. Slick manages to get away, but piecing together who he was is hard when there are three million people who share his face. 

2. Slick/Jon, where Jon, undercover as a bounty hunter, liberates Slick on his way to prison, hoping to use his connections to hunt down Ventress. Slick is willing, and reluctantly impressed by his new partner’s skill, but he has no idea Jon is a Jedi. 

3. Slick/Jon, where Slick gets away, manages to find Ventress, and gets sent to serve Dooku as thanks for his help. He hates it, and he hates Dooku, especially when he’s set to guard a Jedi prisoner who Dooku is trying to sway to the Dark Side. 

4. Mace/Slick with Mace surviving Order 66 and Slick being released into a galaxy that’s turned the clones into actual puppets. Slick manages to stumble over Mace, injured and half-dead, and Slick almost turns him in to the Empire but at the last moment decides to strike a deal with Mace instead: Slick will help him figure out what happened to the clones, but in return, he gets to kill Mace when they’ve undone the mind control. 

5. Slick/Ferus, where Ferus, as part of the resistance on Bellassa, frees a work camp full of Imperial prisoners, Slick among them. 

6. Slick/Agen, where Order 66 never reached Slick but he was released back into the ranks of the stormtroopers and made a Purge Trooper. On a mission, he stumbles over a pair of Jedi, a fierce little girl defending her injured Master, Agen Kolar. The easy thing to do would be to turn them in, but instead Slick hides them away from the Empire. 

7. Slick/Sinker, with Slick, out of prison after Order 66 and mostly drifting as he tries to hide that he’s a clone, coming face to face with a squad of stormtroopers about to execute a padawan. Slick grabs Cal and runs, but accidentally manages to kidnap one of the troopers, too. 

8. Tup/Padme/Slick, where after Umbara Padme and a guard from the 501st are visiting one of the Republic’s prisons when they come across Slick. Padme manages to pull strings and get him released, but between Tup and his recent experience with Krell and Slick and his betrayal of his fellow clones, Padme has her hands full, and definitely no time for the assassination attempts that seem to have started to mount now that she’s left Anakin. 

9. Jon/Slick - As a Purge Trooper, miserable and furious at the fate of the clones under the Empire, Slick finds reference to Jedi abilities that can bend space and time, and decides that he’s willing to throw everything away in a last-ditch effort to change things. Fortunately, the Empire just happens to have a Jedi on ice, waiting to be experimented on. 

10. Slick/Feral, where Palpatine sends Slick to Talzin to see if she can augment him with her magic to create a loyal assassin. Slick isn’t alone in the Nightsisters’ dungeon, though: Feral is there, backup in case Savage doesn’t manage to kill Dooku. At first Slick just sees a chance to escape, but Feral has seen the Sith Lord’s face and is desperate to save his brother and get his information to the Jedi, and Slick has to make a choice. 

[jasontoddiefor]

for the tags thing - Shmi Skywalker, time travel, Emperor Vader, aftermath of childbirth, technically there are two anakins now, so may force helps the galaxy

She’s much younger than Vader remembers, but he knows his mother. Even as she is when she appears in front of him, blood still on her thighs, holding her son (holding him) close, she seems so strong and protective.

So Vader doesn’t lie, but his mother, a slave for so long, allows him his lies of omission long enough that he can get rid of Sidious. So, Emperor Vader, Princess Shmi and baby Anakin.

Vader getting dragged back to the light side by the power of awesome moms and a little child version of himself that calls him “uncle Vay”

[aces-to-apples]

if the other clones time-traveled they are going to either freak out or laugh until they cry when they find out all that happened in the fic. Maybe both. Rex: Wait- Cody is a Force Sensitive??? - wait, he is a Sith now!?? what the hell did I miss. Well, at least Sidious is dead. Jesse: Brother, out of all possible bfs in the galaxy WHY MAUL. Fox: *poking Palpatine's mummified corpse on Mustafar (nobody bothered to move it)* Nice.

Honestly if any other clones time-traveled then I doubt they did it as, like, a cohesive group, so stumbling across such a dark version of their marshal commander (my headcanon is that the cody of “never knowing where we’re going” has already gone through Order 66 and that’s at least part of why he’s Like That) would be very extremely jarring. but you’re absolutely correct that if jesse or fox ended up face to face with this disaster, that would be their respective reactions. “WHY” and “HA”

[maul-antics]

Jangomaul is such... a galaxy-brain idea... never thought of it. Daaaaamn.

My friend gave me the idea of them last summer where I then proceeded to write Jango meeting Dragon!Maul bc I couldn't resist lol. I am interested in writing a different fic with those two where Maul travels back in time and alters the timeline for his own gain (and eventually Jango’s as well.)

[breezeinmonochromenight]

Have you seen Lindsay Ellis's video 'Why is Cats?'. I was wondering about which Cats review would the SOLDIERs be. (the reviews are a DELIGHT and go from 2:53 to 4:36 in Youtube)

I haven’t lol. Because I made fun of Cats until I was dragged to see it, and now I just get war flashbacks if I try to make a joke. 😔

Anyway!

Edit: Tumblr blurred the shit out of these photos, even when I reuploaded them. I’m sorry. :/

Angeal:

Genesis:

Sephiroth:

Zack:

Cloud:

Kunsel:

Lazard:

[goldenkamuyhunting]

Boutarou saying 'i want tons of kids' caught me completely off guard, even as part of a childish dream. 99,9% of the characters are dudes, and yeah they are mostly criminals/soldiers/etc looking for the gold, but none of them as ever said anything remotely similar, not even as a joke. Some are already dads (kirokanke, asirpa's uncle), or have dadness thurst upon them (tanigaki, shinpei), but none of want to achieve dadness (Tsurumi doesn't count because he uses his dad powers for evil) (1/?)

You raise an interesting point!

Yes, Boutarou's positive outlook and wish for a family is pretty unique in the story.

Even when a character wishes for something that would make him happy or a family they have something very vague in mind, like Sugimoto’s idea he’ll get the money to cure Umeko (which was Toraji’s idea).

Boutarou sees having children as something positive, something he wants, not something that just happens and he wants them to be happy with them, not to entrust them the honour of the family or some great goal of liberation.

Koito senior undoubtedly loves his children... but he also had expectatives on them, they aren’t born just because he wanted to be a dad.

As for Tanigaki, although it’s clear he lvoes his daughter, it’s also clear he never planned to be a father, it just happened. Probably he expected one day he would become a father but it wasn’t something he wanted to pursue.

Kiro loved his children but didn’t hesitate to leave them behind, although it’s clear he believed his noble goal would benefit them as well.

Wilk wanted Asirpa to be basically in charge of his dream. Sure, he was sure it would be a good dream for her as well but his happiness was in the fulfillment of his wish through her, not in just being with her.

Sugimoto longs to go back with Umeko but, although I’m pretty sure he would adopt Toraji’s child without the slightest hesitation, that’s not part of his dream, his dream is just to cure Umeko and be back to her.

Tsurumi should have loved his child but, without realizing, ended up sacrificing it to his work. He did a poor job in sending away Fina and put her and his daughter in danger.

Hanazawa... I tend to wave him off as a jerk, sure, maybe we lack info but what we know about him right now doesn’t promise good. He used Yuusaku as a symbol and left behind Ogata.

Boutarou is the only one who wants fatherhood and wants to live his life with his children, because they would be part of his happiness. Well, maybe Sakamoto and O-gin too felt something symilar although O-gin and Sakamoto felt much more tied to themselves to the point that when Sakamoto dies O-gin doesn’t think she can live with her baby, or tries to save him but decides that the three of them have to die together.

I wonder if Boutarou had a very loving and unite family which managed to pass him the right values about how a family has to be so that yes, he’s ready to sacrifice other people, because other people sacrificed his family, but not who’s part of his family.

I definitely hope we will see more of Boutarou, hopefully Vasily won’t snipe him when he’ll reach again the group thinking he’s an enemy.

He can bring a different outlook to the group, making them finally look at the future, at planning it, not just at going on hoping it’ll be all for the best.

Honestly I’ll love it if he joins the cast!

So really, thank you for your ask!

[hamliet]

I noticed mdzs in your blog and I am considering giving it a chance, can you tell me which of the characters has similarities with ogata?

Ahhhh I highly recommend it! 

I think our main character, Wei WuXian, and two other characters, Xue Yang and Jin GuangYao, have similarities, as does Jiang Cheng for that matter. It’s hard to say too much without spoilers, but they are all treated with empathy and have similar struggles with parental figures and insecurities masked in maladaptive ways. They are people in pain who don’t know where else to turn, and no one will listen (at various moments). If you like that type of character, as I do, I think it’s a good series for you! 

[linkspooky]

One of the things I am going to miss about TG is your wonderful tg metas. I haven't even seen Pandora Hearts but read you posts anyway bc they are so interesting. You even got me to read The Promised Neverland! Your last two post about Shiki make me thing for the first time "wow, Shiki has a lot of parallels with Arima, even out-of-universe ones like 'lost an arm and lived' and 'a fan theory had him lost an arm and live', how didn't I realize that?" Do you have anything else to add to that?

I remember that old fan theory, it makes me sad just remembering it especially when we had Kaneki thinking things like this towards the end of their fight. That Arima might lose an arm just like the violinist he was compared to and instead move on to be a teacher eventually when the conflict is over. 

However, while it turned out to be false the theory itself highlights an important part about Arima, that even he dying as he was still had a chance to live out his final days. He did not need to martyr himself, nor did Kaneki want him to in the end. However, Arima was unable to accept that fact about himself that even somebody as far gone as he still could have had a chance. 

It’s not for lack of love that Arima is unable to love himself or find anything redeemable in himself either. Definitely during his childhood years and his time with the Washuu he was raised entirely without love, and as a tool, but through Zero squad and his connection to Ui, Take, and the others Arima found love alter in his life.

However, he was too warped by his raising, too empty to ever realize it. Arima hates himself so much for all of the killing he had done in life that he could never accept any love that anybody gave him. Despite how much he meant to Take, to the garden, all of their love never reached him.

That is how Arima is described, barely-mortal, distant from others, unable to be reached at all. The tragedy is that Arima was not able to forgive himself in the end, so instead of grasping for life he spent the rest of his waning years waiting for death. 

Of course how was Arima supposed to learn how to forgive himself and develop as a human though? He was never treated as one, never raised as one. Even in his place among the CCG, he was idealized or envied never treated as a human being. When Arima’s story is one of the most human of all, he just like everybody else was a child raised without love and mistreated by the world, and a child who longed for better than what he was given in life. 

So finally we have the connection to Ryougi Shiki, both of them are raised as weapons. Both of them come from old families who traditionally raise them in this manner for the sake of fighting inhuman monsters (ghouls, demons) and both of these families see these traditions as completely justified.

Despite Shiki’s two personalities most likely having a magic origin, the fact that Shiki herself can barely come to terms with herself and did not see herself as human heavily indicates the family mistreated her. If you were to remove the magic from the equation than Shiki’s family basically abused her until she developed a split personality. If you keep the magic in they forced her to develop a second personality as a child without her consent to fuel the family’s purposes.

Shiki and Arima also see themselves as people only capable of killing. Despite being exceptional killers, they also both see killing as a completely irredeemable act. The story of Shiki’s grandfather is the most backstory we get from Shiki as the rest is kept vague until the point she meets Mikiya, but it goes a lot in illustrating how similar her mindset is to Arima’s. 

When Shiki was young, her father took her to meet her dying grandfather. He told Shiki that people can only truly kill someone once in their lifetime, elaborating that those whom had killed many times are no longer human, fated to live with their guilt until their death. It is at this moment that Shiki learns to value the notion surrounding the weight and responsibility that comes with murder. Before passing away, he wished Shiki to have a peaceful death.

She’s raised to kill, but the moment she kills she’ll become completely unforgivable and the best her own grandfather can wish her is a peaceful death. Both Arima and Shiki are raised in environments completely surrounded by the concept of death, to the point where their own personalities wither away in the face of it and they only come to see themselves as killers.

The difference in the end is not that Shiki never became a killer like Arima. It’s in fact the opposite because the final note in Shiki’s story is her snapping and killing Leo at the end of their confrontation. Despite being unable to save Leo, and unable to stop herself from becoming a murderer this time around, acknowledging that killing was wrong even though it was a cannibal like Leo who only existed to devour others, Shiki was able to keep living. 

The reason why is that Shiki had developed to a point then that she was able to forgive herself and accept herself for what she was. She was able to bear that responsibility for being a killer rather than be consumed by it and her own self loathing for what she was and what she had done, and part of that was Shiki finally opening up and not only being able to view herself as a person outside of her ability to fight and kill others what her family raised her for, but also to accept the love of the others around her which helped her to define herself for who she was. 

My point is not to say that Shiki developed in a way Arima didn’t and therefore she was better, but that they both had a chance to become like this, but Arima’s ending is tragic and Shiki’s represents growth.