#wtf brain

[sir-big-bass-knight-of-ur-mum]

Sire, I had a bad dream. Can I join your chambers tonight?

[chio-chan2artbox]

The sudden urge to draw 🔞 perryshmirtz at midnight before a monday...

[acowardinmordor]

Hey so MK ultra style experiments plus a soulmate thing that connects to the idea of severing a daemon but also empaths.

An unconnected soulmate bond is neutral, it’s inactive, right? The possibility is there, but the switch hasn’t been flipped. But a connected, stable soulmate bond is fully active, and deeply woven into the people, so far that for a really really strong bond, killing one soulmate often kills the other. A new connection though, when it’s active but not sunk into place yet?

Those can be cut, and the possibilities it opens are extremely interesting to the scientists. The soulmate capacity isn’t destroyed by it, but the bond is disconnected. So the current of energy that would travel to the other half can now be directed to something else. Since every bond manifests in slightly different ways with sharing thoughts, emotions, health, pain, etc as primary features, that means the power that the connection can manipulate varies too.

There is greater plasticity in a bond if it’s formed when they’re children, and the scientists are fascinated by, but also pleased to learn that after a soulmate connection is split, it can impact their personality and behavior, making them more compliant and persuadable if it is done evenly.

It isn’t a well known thing, but there are groups that parents can contact if they have …concerns… about their child’s soulmate name.

The Harringtons contact one, furious when their four year old son wakes up with a boy’s name on his ribs. The group they contact explains the options, and the Harringtons don’t care about the expense, so they demand that the other boy be located and the connection split.

What good luck for Al Munson, three years later, to be offered a large payment if he’ll agree to bring his son to have his soulmate severed.

Not every split soulmate results in the kind of powers that the lab cares about. If it creates one of those, the parents are given the heartbreaking news, and the soulmates sent to different labs for training.

For Steve and Eddie, who have less than an a day of being soulmates, the lab doesn’t care.

The split was off alignment, or the timing was bad, or their connection was too weak to use. It splits, obviously, that was always certain, but the result is barely worth the paper to take the notes. An emotion based soulmate connection. Correctly done, it could give someone the ability to project or control emotions in others — once the child was taught to restrain their own, of course. The initial screening looks for an emotional outburst, and how much the scientists in the room feel from it, indicating the strength of their powers.

But after the procedure is done, neither boy does more than look at each other across the room and frown. It could have been worth more testing in the years to come, but the compliance was unbalanced. One boy was too persuadable. The other was entirely unpersuadable. Not worth the cost to keep them, especially when the Harringtons have paid an inflated cost to do this, and the money can be better spent.

Useless, so the parents are handed their children, Al Munson gets his payoff, and they’re told that under no circumstance should the boys see each other again. And they don’t, until the Harringtons have given up on their son being useful around the time he enters high school, until Wayne Munson finally gets custody of his nephew.

[desmond-the-queer-dragon]

Came up with a great story idea. Can’t wait for my brain to make it so intricate in my head yet impossible to write out.

[timetochillnow]

Wasting Time

Chapters: 10/?

Rating: Mature

Relationships: Syril Karn/Dedra Meero

Characters: Dedra Meero, Syril Karn, Eedy Karn, Lio Partagaz, Heert, Corv

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, Historical Period Drama AU

Because if love is true, it doesn't matter how many lives one leads: you always find one another again.

No matter where time takes them, do Dedra Meero and Syril Karn always return to one another?

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Chapter 10 titled Lifecycle 3 - 1720, Part 4 is out :D

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Bail Organa finds them at last. Heert mades a fateful decision. Captain Partagaz gives Dedra a lifeline.

[krauseandrickmanfan]

Did people ever talk about how Bathena roleplaying sex firefighter where Athena is the firefighter probably only happened because Bobby thought she was hot as hell saving his ass back on S4 finale?

[silvysartfulness]

I had a weird dream last, that started out a kind of cool pseudo-post-apocalypse setting, following a group of children trying to survive. Living in a house, and you had to close and curtain all doors and windows at night, or The Freaky Looming Threat would get you.

But kids kept disappearing one by one.

And then it turned out Pantalone was somehow the sinister manipulator in the shadows sacrifing kids to keep the Threat at bay.

Which - cool!

But then you had a boss fight with him, and both his model and attacks were super lame.

And then his final form was like... a loaf of bread or something?

And I was so furiously offended by this I woke up. Not dreaming this bullshit dream any longer, thank you.

So yeah. Only the most Normal™ of dreams around here. 😐

[leafwateraddict]

Ive never had a “teeth falling out” dream until last night.

Let me tell you that shit is terrifying 😭