#ww 28

[ckret2]

A God in a Beast's Skin (28)

Anonymous said: If you still need prompts i would like to suggest Dragon slayers and Dragon cults

This was initially a prompt submitted when I asked for Godzilla fic prompts; but like, I didn't wanna use that prompt for a Godzilla fic, but I did think of a use for it in The Elder Scrolls. So here's a Skyrim fic.

Whenever we play a game where we get to design our own player avatar we all always immediately build up an elaborate OC with an extravagantly detailed backstory and go through the game RPing that character with the backstory in mind, right? Right. This is one of my two Dovahkiin OCs, her name is Brackish Delta.

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He had been a priest to the dragons for so long that mer and men had begun dividing time up into "eras" just to keep track of it all; for so long he'd forgotten his name and what his face had looked like when there had been blood and flesh between his bones and skin; for so long that the men now alive doubted that the god-king of dragons had ever existed.

But their lord Alcuin had returned, and the priest had felt a sense of rightness deep in his withered heart as his mountainside temple trembled under the weight of a dragon—his dragon—coming home to roost.

He wasn't surprised when a dragon slayer stormed his temple, slicing down his undead supplicants and seeking the stairs up to their dragon. He was surprised that the dragon slayer looked like the impossible product of a dragon and a man breeding together. Had magic advanced so far during his millennia sequestered in this temple?

He might have recognized her sooner as Argonian, but that her face was so much more draconic than reptilian, and that she used the Voice more fluently than even him—as fluently as a true dragon.

"Dragonborn?" He called to her as she was distracted fighting his supplicants. She started as though he'd called her name. So it was true. With a dismissive wave, he called off his followed and approached her. "You are here to slay the dragon above, aren't you?"

She eyed him warily, and for a moment he thought he'd overestimated her fluency. "Of course I am." She didn't seem accustomed to being spoken to rather than fought.

"Why?" He gesture toward the temple ceiling, the dragon on the mountain peak above. "They are your kind. You have pushed us into a position where we have to fight you to defend our temple—but you are one of the gods we worship here. Why do you fight your own people, your own worshipers?"

He expected something pithy about the cruelty of dragons, the worth of mortals, the will of Akatosh—the same nonsense that rebellious nonbelievers gage thousands of years ago.

He didn't expect her to let her face cloud with turmoil (so ill-befitting such a divine visage!), slowly lower her axes, and say, "I don't know."

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[fyeahwilliammoultonmarston]

The rebels have no chance against an aroused Wonder Woman.

These two supervillains have got Wonder Woman very aroused!

And with that the last two fugitives are captured, and Marston’s last Wonder Woman story is over. The genuine end of an era.

[fyeahwilliammoultonmarston]

My. my! One does peculiar things when one is a Gorilla!

Yes one does.

I’m gonna miss HG Peter’s art. It’s such a beautiful combination of weird and gorgeous, and no artist has ever managed to match it.

[fyeahwilliammoultonmarston]

You’re certainly playful girls! Go ahead and have your fun.

So dirty, Steve. But then what do you expect with that giant phallic sword threatening imminent castration?

[fyeahwilliammoultonmarston]

Zara and Hypnota have teamed up to run a phony cult racket and they manage to capture Wonder Woman and have men weld chains to her bracelets.

Marston also uses this opportunity to bring in the Holiday Girls and send them on one of his kooky adventures for the last time. The Holiday Girls would last a few years after his death, but they would be one of the first victims of the new creative team.

[fyeahwilliammoultonmarston]

The first half of the story ends with Villainy Inc’s defeat on Reform Island. However, four villains, Zara, Hypnota, Clea, and Giganta manage to escape back to the mainland with several chests full of precious jewels looted from the treasury.The four split into two groups and go underground. The story then jumps ahead a few months to when the rogues are starting to resume their criminal beats. (Despite Eviless’s central role in the first half she completely disappears from the rest of the issue.)

[fyeahwilliammoultonmarston]

Aphrodite’s Law commands us to save lives always--enemies or not!

Look at what a violent, blood thirsty, hardass warrior Wonder Woman is.

[fyeahwilliammoultonmarston]

The first part of Eviless’s plan involves subduing Mala with Wonder Woman’s stolen magic lasso and then using the mind controlling Venus Girdles on the rest of the prison guards in order to make them do her bidding. It’s important that Eviless uses the Amazon’s own weapons of submission against them as it illustrates how much Marson’s Utopian vision depended on good and loving mistresses holding the reins. In the hands of an evil mistress (Evil+Mistress=Eviless, it took me too long to get that) the same devices that bring about peace and love are easily repurposed to cause chaos and submission becomes oppression.