caution

a nightmare world from which there is no waking

[oftentacles-a-blog]

[✍] “Please,” Junior brushed it aside, turning himself towards her whilst crossing his own arms to meet hers. Glares met one another separated by his round spectacles. He met her threat with his own verbal declaration of resistance - “If it’s not true, why are you getting defensive?”

"In fact, since you’re so great, I challenge you. Vampire Piggy Hunter, player verses player. My best Hunter against yours.” If he refuses to swing one across her jaw, he’ll do so in the very game they argue over. "If you win, I’ll… I’ll apologize and say that you are the greatest vampire piggy hunter in the world. You’d be a fool to turn this down."

[vampirepiggyhunter]

Finally, the guy was speaking some sense! Although his comment about Gaz getting 'defensive' was swiftly ignored; filed away, never to surface again. Which was probably for the best, considering the fact that a simple eye roll wouldn't have been enough of a satisfactory retort.

A punch in the dork's face might not have even been enough. But we're not thinking about that right now. Right now, there's only one thing that matters, and that's his proposal.

"If I win? Oh, you are so on."

[agent-cipher]

Dipper flushed. “…Right.” He was tempted to tell her he didn’t actually live in Gravity Falls, but …that’d probably be a bad idea too.

…She was really hard to talk to, wasn’t she?

After a bit of an uncomfortable silence, Dipper flipped the journal open.

"Uhh… Okay um. I’m gonna send the intro pages, the Bill pages, the "trust no one" page, the weird puzzle page, umm…"

He closed the book again. “That’s it, i guess. Those are all the influential pages. I think.”

He considered sending her the “spells” page, but he …decided against it. Bad idea. Very very bad idea. Judging by her attitude towards him, she’d probably use it to burn down the Mystery Shack, or raise the dead, or…

…Speaking of spells.

"Oh, and when I send you the Bill page, don’t summon him. Really, don’t. You don’t want his company, trust me." He shuddered from the mere thought of said demon again.

After another moment of awkward silence, Dipper got to work at scanning the pages with an old scanner Soos lent him.

"By the way, some of it’s written in invisible ink you can only see with a blacklight." He frowned. "I …don’t suppose you’d get anything from scans, though."

Once he was finished scanning and sending said pages, he refocused his attention on his new …acquaintance. If you could call her that.

"If you think you recognize anything from any of those, please tell me."

"Of course, only if you want to, you’re not obligated," he added quickly. He hoped he was staying on her good side. …If she had one.

Something clicked in Dipper’s head.

"Oh wait," he began, flipping to a certain few confusing pages. "There are a couple more pages that were kinda confusing that I completely forgot about. Here, I’ll scan them and send them over in a second."

These few pages were pretty cryptic. They were another one of those groups of pages with a bunch of weird foreign symbols on them, but it was… different, in a way. A little more foreign than usual.

Once he sent it over, he continued, “They’re mostly filled with symbols and pictures, but there are a few words in the mix. Something about a lab, some scientist called Membrane, subject 006… Weird stuff.”

[vampirepiggyhunter]

"Yeah, yeah, don't summon a demon that tricked some loser into stealing his body, whatever." Honestly, that Bill guy was the only part of this that Gaz was even mildly interested it.

And, to be frank, if the kid went through with sending her those pages, there is a very large chance that she would wind up summoning him. She wasn't as stupid as this guy was. She was sure she could work something out with him. And maybe even offer up her brother as a ritual sacrifice, or something cool like that.

Like, really, a puzzles page? Please just send her the demon one already. Puzzles really weren't her thing unless they were in video game format and she got some sort of power up or other in game reward for completing it. 

Ugh, was he still talking? At least some pages were starting to download. Hopefully one of these would be that demon one he mentioned. Maybe after Gaz was done sicking the guy on Dib, he could go off and possess this nerd again. Everyone lives happily ever after. Except Dib and this. Other guy. It was really annoying not working with a name. But she also sort of didn't want to know anything more about this guy then she had to. What a crisis.

Oh, hey, look, a few pages are finished downloading. Man, what a slow piece of junk, though, you'd think her brother would-

"What?" He did not just say her dad's name. No way. "Did you just say Membrane?" If anything, her voice sounded angrier at this point. No, no no. She did not want to get dragged into this. Please let this be some sort of mistake. 

[cosmicmancer]

Well, such a thing wasn’t unheard of in the conquering business. Some had devoted so much time and effort into taking over a certain world that they couldn’t afford to lose it to another. "Huh. So on a scale of ten, what would you give him in terms of actually accomplishing his job? He’s gotta be somewhat decent if he was sent out so very far away from his home. Literally the closest civilization is four million lightyears away from Earth.” 

[vampirepiggyhunter]

Really? After everything Gaz had told her, she still thought that there might be some chance of Zim being decent at his job? Honestly, at this point, she sounded almost as stupid as Zim did.

"Like. A negative two." Maybe that would finally put things into perspective.

[invxderzim]

Alien Games ( Closed RP with VampirePiggyHunter)

[invxderzim]

" Yes, yes. the Dib is boring. I can understand your distaste for his incessant BABBLING! But.. Zim’s words are full of importance AND REVENGE! Eh, but mostly of importance. "

And then, an idea,  a wonderful terrible idea. Jade lips curled in typical villianous fashion.

" Yes, thats even better than my ORIGINAL plan. " The irken grabbed the gameslave from the girl. Holding it behind his back.He must have a death wish.

, “AHAAHAHA DIB SISTER!  How would you like to help Zim get even with your annoying Dib sibling. WITH THE GIANT HEAD? I’ll eh, make it worth your while, with a  eh NEWER more advaaaanced game, hmm?”

[vampirepiggyhunter]

As should be expected, she continued to ignore the alien's little rambling session as she finished the level, a small victory tune playing before the black screen finally cut to it. The final boss. This was it. She couldn't mess up now. She was going to get that achievement and-

The next few seconds were a blur. One moment she was glaring at the boss, and the next, all she could see was the ground in front of her, hands feeling abnormally empty as- no. No.

She snapped her gaze to Zim as she heard the sound effect of the hero dying. Oh, he'd done it now. She'd put a solid thirteen hours into this run, and he's just gone and ruined the whole thing.

And what kind of nonsense was he spouting now? That she should help him? Yeah, right!

"Give me back my gameslave now, Zim." That last bit about a new gaming system had caught her attention, but if he thought ruining her chance at unlocking the last possible achievement in that game was going to get her to help? No way. "You know what, no, that's not enough. How about this: You give me back my gameslave and whatever dumb alien games you have and then maybe I'll think about getting a terrible revenge on you a little less."

[oftentacles-a-blog]

[✍] Oh that made him angry. It was rare when Junior spoke to another but when someone refused to listen to him, it got him all shades of angry. Humming a soft growl, Junior rolled his eyes at the other, murmuring “Wasn’t telling you to.”

Whatever. With a gentle stomp in his step whilst walking past her, Junior sassed “Whatever - I hope your data gets wiped. Ungrateful noob.”

[vampirepiggyhunter]

"What?" For the first time, she looked the guy dead in the eyes. "What did you just call me?" Ungrateful was fine. In fact, she wasn't even going to argue about that. She was pretty ungrateful sometimes. She was an antisocial nine year old, what do you expect? But for him to call her- Oh God, she couldn't even utter the word in her own mind.

"Look, just because I don't want your tips, that doesn't make me a noob. Call me that again, and I will make it my life purpose to destroy you. I'll plunge you into the deepest darkness you've ever known. Got it?"

[nightmargin]

Ｗ　Ｅ　Ｌ　Ｃ　Ｏ　Ｍ　Ｅ

[failmacaw]

B  E    O  U  R    G  U  E  S  T

[transhumanisticpanspermia]

these skeletons look legitimately friendly and inviting, i don’t know about you guys but i’m hella stoked to kick it with these skeletons

[invxderzim]

Alien Games ( Closed RP with VampirePiggyHunter)

vampirepiggyhunter

"—AH HA! NOW you will know the TRUE MEANING of Pain DIB! ” Zim lept  suddenly, from out of the brush. He looked burnt, or sizzling rather, from a liquid Dib attack , from out of the blue.  

He had thought he had tracked Dib back to the Membrane residence, but instead he found the female hyooman wormchild, that the irken had already deemed the “Spooky Dibsister” and she would be called accordingly. 

"Ehh.. oh wait. You’re not the Stinkboy. " he blinked, eyeing the girl and her gameslave, deciding to inquire about her brother.

"Eh, tell me Dibsister,  where is your hippo headed ANNOYING Sibling-Dib? Hmm? No doubt COWERING somewhere in TERROR from the mighty wrath of Ziiiiim, hes about to suffer!. "  He smirked, placing his hands sassily on his hips. Staying like that for a moment, or two. Until he released he hadnt be answered.

 ” Eh, Dibsister? ” he waited a few more moments. ” Dibsister! ARE you even LISTENING to me? “ 

[vampirepiggyhunter]

She was really in the groove now. A perfect run. Not a single life lost the whole game, and she was only one level away from the boss. And then that annoying voice started up in the distance. Thankfully, since it was obviously directed towards her brother, she probably didn't have anything to worry about distraction wise in the time being. Halfway done with this level now... So close.

Unfortunately, when Zim realised that Dib wasn't here, he turned his attention to her. Great. Maybe if she just ignored him he'd go away.

...Yeah, of course not.

She hesitated a moment before replying, making sure she got past the next few obstacles without dying. She remembered this next part being pretty easy, so she could probably give Zim some of her attention without screwing up.

"Not really. I'm trying to play a game. And why would I know where my stupid brother is, anyway? I don't really listen to him much either." Well, not intently enough to know where he was at every given moment, at least.

[oftentacles-a-blog]

[✍] Granting her a stare of scrutiny, he slid his hands into his own pants pockets, tilting his head down to stare at her GameSlave, and back at her rarely-wide open eyes. She was enjoying a game he enjoyed? Common ground had been found. "… You know. If you don’t want to lose health while fighting a boss, adopt the following tactics - Ditch all armor. It’s useless in a no-damage fight. You’ll move faster without it. And cheese him with a Silver Claymore infused with buffs." Junior knew his way around a video game or two, it seemed. The only reason he dared indulge this girl in information is because he wished someone did the same for him. Oh, how many hours did go down the toilet before he found out silver weapons caused more damage? Too many.

[vampirepiggyhunter]

"Excuse me?" Her annoyed expression from before she'd paused the game was nothing compared to the level of pure irritation that radiated from her now. Was he trying to tell her how to play her game? No, no no. She wasn't going to stand for that. No one told her how to play video games. No one. She barely even took any of the advice given to her in strategy guides. She did things her way, no matter how hard they might be. In fact, she rather liked the challenge.

"Look, I don't know who you think you are, but nobody tells me how to play Vampire Piggy Hunter, all right?" What was even this guy's damage.

[vampirepiggyhunter]

According to Jhonen Vasquez and a few IZ fansites, your headcanons about Gaz are not exactly accurate. It has been revealed that Gaz is around 10-12 years old in the show's timeline, and her last name is not "Membrane" since Membrane is her father's first name.

well, they’re headcanons so they dont rly need to be correct they’re just details about the way i interpret gaz and if i don’t interpret her canonically then that’s fine

(throws confetti)

[vampirepiggyhunter]

I hate Dib too. Why is he always bothering Gaz and prejudging misunderstood creatures? What do you think about this? I think karma should kick his butt.

ooc:

tbh i don’t hate dib at all!!! i talk about him negatively in my writing because gaz is well, gaz, and she’s annoyed by almost everyone. especially dib, since he’s her big brother, and honestly, what nine year old girl isn’t annoyed by their older brother, no matter what her personality.

gaz is gonna be bothered with him no matter what he does. siblings fight. they’re annoyed by each other. that doesn’t mean that either of them are bad people! most of the time when dib is “bothering gaz” he’s just doing normal big brother stuff, or doing/talking about what he’s passionate about, and there’s certainly nothing wrong with the latter!!! gaz just doesn’t share his interests, so of course she’s going to be bothered about it. again, she’s an antisocial little girl.

and personally i dont think dib necessarily prejudges misunderstood people. like. zim is bad. he’s BAD. he’s really bad. he’s got a lotta shit going on, and i feel bad for him, but he’s trying to take over the planet that dib lives on, and no one else believes him about it even though he’s right about this one. he’s doing what he thinks is right and, in my opinion, what’s morally right. no matter how much i love zim as a character, and no matter how bad i feel for him for being like THE joke of the irken empire, he’s still a bad guy.

also, dibs just a kid. they’re all kids, so of course they’re all gonna do dumb kid things! and that might include judging people, but thats just what kids do, and i’m not gonna hate him for acting his age (altho personally i really cant think of him judging anyone w/ out reason although i could be wrong since whenever i watch zim im mostly studying gaz’s and zim’s characters since they’re the ones i rp as)

srry this got kinda long and rambly i just wanted to put my opinion out there <33

[cosmicmancer]

"How bad…?"

He would serve no use to her if he was terrible at his occupation. Despite a few minor hiccups sometimes, it was quite easy for Feara and Team Z to conquer planets. Of course they liked to challenge each other and not use super deadly weapons to threaten the world easy peasy. 

"Any various surrounding cities under his control?" 

[vampirepiggyhunter]

"Well, he's saved the earth before, so. Pretty bad." Although he did manage to destroy Mars. Too bad that wasn't what he was trying to do, right? Jeez, could he be even worse at his job? Her dorky brother managed to foil all of his "evil" plans. That was pretty sad.

[oftentacles-a-blog]

[✍] Huff. Junior crossed his arms at the purple-haired other, lowered his thin black brows down towards his emerald green eyes, and sassed in quite the irritable tone, “Listen lady, I didn’t come here to—…” Junior’s brows raised, and he tilted his head at the familiar sounds of that video game she held in her very hands.

"… Is that Vampire Piggy Hunter?"

[vampirepiggyhunter]

Victory was almost hers, now. She could see the boss's dying animation so clearly.Only a few hits left to go. That guy was saying something else, but she was too in the zone to listen to him. That is, until he mentioned the name of the game she was playing. She paused the game with lightning fast reflexes and finally took a look over at who had been talking to her this entire time.

Aaaand she immediately regretted it. What a nerd.

"Yeah, so what?" Granted, it wasn't much of a reply, but it was likely the most attention she'd put into one since beginning to speak with him.

[mongoosedogsuit-blog]

[gir’s shrill cries of absolute terror toward being held in captivity by the quite terrifying sibling of dib didn’t cease until the moment he was thrown against the wall; he scooted up against it as much as he could, hoping that, since gaz was so far away, she wouldn’t be able to see him (even though his eyes were technically the only thing lighting up the area, whoops. so much for that). for the first time in his artificial life, he felt actual fear, and it was scary! his only comfort was that she’d kinda thrown him against the wall, so surely, she couldn’t be so mad that she’d destroy him right then and there…?]

[who was he kidding. this was gaz. usually, the robot was able to maintain his reckless behavior without sensing the slightest danger, but when it came to gaz??? even a ROBOT was scared. that was pretty impressive, especially considering that it was gir that she’d managed to intimidate, yeesh.]

[oh, no—and there were his hopes of being safe becoming dashed. she was coming back over, and his eyes were definitely able to detect the incredible fury from her. she …she was going to destroy him right then and there, wasn’t she? gir actually started trembling, a definite sign that gaz had made an impression on his poor mechanical mind, but still tried desperately to retain that positive attitude. there was no way that would anger gaz even further, right?]

[what should he do?? should he be honest with her, that he didn’t have the foggiest idea as to how to fix the elevator? maybe if he just pushed some buttons he’d be able to pretend like he knew, but…….well…that might not work. and then she’d be even angrier. ohhh man…]

[nervously, the robot gave a little salute and rushed over to the controls. okay. u m. he could do this. he started pushing random buttons, and after mere seconds of that, he began enjoying himself. of course he did. that ….couldn’t possibly make his situation any worse. wow.]

[vampirepiggyhunter]

Oh my god. This is hopeless. There was literally no way this could have a positive outcome. You would have thought she'd realised that sooner than now, to be honest. And it wasn't optimism that kept her from admitting to her fate before now. It was more like... An extreme dedication to not waste away here without even a single video game to play.

Honestly, though, the worst part of it was that it looked like her only chance of ever being rescued from this living nightmare was if Dib or Zim did something to get this elevator moving again. Yeah. Like that was ever gonna happen. She was the one who had to save her brother, most of the time, and Zim wasn't aware of even half of what happened in his base.

She stared at the robot for a few more moments, wondering vaguely if he was ever going to stop mashing buttons or if he'd just keep going until something else caught his attention. A few moments more, and she decided it must be the latter.

She let out an angry sigh, picking up her broken game slave and tucking it back into her pocket. Maybe she could fix it later on. If they ever actually got out of here, anyway.

"You can't fix it, can you?" While her words were voiced in the form of a question, her words were really more of a blatant statement about the other. Of course he couldn't fix it. I mean, look at him. He didn't even work properly himself. 

[cosmicmancer]

That’s strange. Why would another alien be here? Earth was on the very edge of the universe and very few actually knew of its existence. Unless, the planet’s new purpose after being conquered would serve as a secret base of some kind. Oh! How ingenious. Feara liked that idea. It’s a good thing she came up with it then.

"Really? Tell me more. That sounds kinda interesting.” Perhaps she could form an alliance with this Zim. If only to betray him in the end and take the planet for herself. 

[vampirepiggyhunter]

Well, looks like that plan was out the window. What a terrible fate she was bound to. Doomed to converse with someone by her own doing. Irony at its cruelest. But at least the girl was less annoying than Dib was. And definitely less annoying than Zim. Who knows, maybe she'd turn out to be evil and put both of those boys in their place. If only.

"Not really. He's kinda totally bad at it. Taking over the world, I mean."

[cosmicmancer]

What was this girl going on about? Feara had no clue. Nor did she really care for that matter. She was here to lay low in order to not be detected by Star Command or any galactic power.

"Excuse me? Uh, no I’m not. I don’t even know who that is." An orange eyebrow was curiously raised. She found it odd how the other wasn’t commenting on her blue skin. That was generally the first thing people asked her. She was quick to say it was argyria, which was an actual condition. The lie often worked and most humans didn’t question it further.

“Zim? What kind of a stupid name is that?” 

[vampirepiggyhunter]

Abort mission, this girl had no idea who Dib was. In other words: Gaz had initiated a conversation with a complete stranger for no good reason. This was truly the end of the world. She let out an aggravated sigh before speaking again. Hopefully that would let this girl know that Gaz really didn't want any place in this conversation. And maybe it would even drive her off. But that was likely wishful thinking.

"Well, I guess he's an alien, or whatever. My stupid brother is always trying to stop him from taking over the world, or something like that."

[oftentacles-a-blog]

[✍] “It can wait.” Of course Junior wasn’t one to ruin someone’s game. He too plays video games and knows the importance of a perfect flawless victory. So, with an understanding nod, Junior crossed his arms, awaiting for the gothic girl whom reminded him so much of Mandy, to finish. Sigh.

He then turned his head another direction, so she could feel as if she were not being watched.

[vampirepiggyhunter]

She scowled to herself as dodged a few of the boss's minions in her game. She'd only be at this a few more minutes, but... maybe she could drag it out for the sake of avoiding talking to this total loser. He almost sounded more annoying than her brother with that voice. And what did he even want with her in the first place?

"Look, it's gonna be a while, so you might as well just leave."  But the real question here is, could she drag out this boss battle with keeping to her personal goal of not losing any health? Maybe not. "What do you want, anyway?"

[vampirepiggyhunter]

iimpostor​

Blue skin? Okay, this was probably another one of Dib's stupid playmates. And if that was the case, Gaz didn't have anything to worry about except being annoyed by them. Which was probably worse than an alien taking over the world, anyway. Ugh. 

"Yeah, I think you're looking at the wrong kid. You're looking for my stupid brother, right? Well he's not home right now. He's off trying to save the world from Zim, or whatever."