Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Warhammer: Vermintide
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Sienna Fuegonasus/Victor Saltzpyre
Summary:
The Day of Folly, dedicated to the trickster god, Ranald, has come to Taal’s Horn Keep. Drinking, irreverence and general revelry abound, with a twist that turns society’s conventions on their heads.
Victor Saltzpyre, stoic Templar that he is, is not one for such foolery. But a boisterous Bright Wizard may just convince him.
An excerpt under the cut to tickle your fancy...
“I should probably tell you why I came up here, darling.”
He hummed in response, which she seemed to take as a sign to continue.
“Would you like to dance?”
a really really really underrated feeling in learning a different language is when you start to hear words. as in it's no longer a string of sounds, you can parse through where words start and stop as you're hearing them. even words that you don't know what they mean yet but you can distinctly hear it as a whole word
MLP crossover with the U5 (as well as other... horse media)
more ramblings for my choices under the cut
Ok so first an foremost, Kruber and Saltzpyre are the only ponies in U5, because both are imperials and therefore represent a majority of pegasi and earth ponies (Think of Ponyville uniting with Cloudsdale - boom you get Reikland, so that Bretonia is basically Canterlot haha)((also did I warn you that these are completely unserious?)).
Victor is a pegasus with a mauled/missing wing because I thought the skaven did so besides taking his eye, BUT also because of a coooler symbolism down the line: Sigmar is a deity, right? Deities or figures of power are alicorns in the mlp usually, right? So by loosing his flight dude wants to reconnect with his faith which he later does by being converted into Sigmar's prized fridge and he gets like a manifestation of magic through a horn and a pair of wings when he does his warrior priest thingie :oD (plus i only now realised that with his wings on such a display Victor really resembles a twin tailed comet).
Kruber can be viewed both as an earth pony and a unicorn (but i like earthponyness more because i don't respect the grail knight career haha). If he is a unicorn, he just hides it under his absurd headwear, (because i think if we take into the account that he is some long descendant of mandelot then a unicorn being born on an earth pony farm sounds almost tragic, but would explain why he felt he didn't belong and left), and if he's a earth pony then it's easy - when he does get to be a grail knight, the lady just grants him a temporary "horn". So Markus and Victor somewhat match haha).
As for the rest, there isn't much to say, because their races kinda say everything for themselves. Sienna is a dragon (Still near Reikland, just different nation, so with the dragons in MLP, they lived near Ponyville as far as I remember). Breathes fire, perhaps practices magics? Bardin is a Yak (Patriotic, hold grudges and live in mountains + have a lot of gold braces on their hooves/in their manes/beards), very different (and small) from his compatriots so no wonder he is here and not in Yakistan. And Kerillian is a kirin, because they have this society based on a vow of silence to not rustle emotional demons and shit, so by breaking this vow and going on a killing spree similar to the one, alluded to in the game's lore and dialogue, letting out her edgy fiery teen because of an augury, she was exiled. Plus kirins live in far away forest lands so wood elves it is haha.
Thank you for coming to my ted talk. HRT horses are just for fun
there is something about "old people" trying things they never let themselves enjoy because they felt they missed the window of opportunity where it was acceptable for them to enjoy it that always go straight for my heart
"Feels good to be burning something, doesn't it Saltzpyre?"
"Flames do lend themselves to purification, it is true."
"You old dog! You'll make me blush."
"What... I don't... silence, witch!"
i HAVE FOUND SOME DELICIOUS WARHAMMER FANTASY-THEMED POWER METAL
IT'S WITCH HUNTER-THEMED??? EVEN BETTER!
Witches I hunt and warlocks I slay
I cleanse this world from filth and decay
Chaos sinners, they are everywhere
But I hunt them down, no one I spare
I can see the face of Chaos behind corrupted men's false smiles
They may appear good of nature, but underneath they are most vile
I say, burn them all at the stake!
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If AO3 were doing this, I feel like a lot of libraries and schools and VPNs and such would get caught up in the mess, which is something I understand the OTW would want to avoid.
Messing with your computer command line on the advice of a random anonymous internet user seems like a bad idea in general.
While I haven't transcribed the command itself, it describes going into your Documents and then removing items. That really doesn't seem like something that would protect your IP address from a site-wide ban.
There's probably more I'm missing, but those are some pretty big hints!
Shitty things about being isekaied #34; every time I use the restroom I automatically reach for my phone I left in my jacket pocket back on earth, and my hand goes exactly where I keep my knives on my belt, so I always walk out of the john with a fresh hand wound
Shitty things about being isekaied #49: dog came with me but the magic field uplifted her into an anime girl and I'm realizing our personalities just don't click (plus her sitting on my lap is weird now)
Shitty things about being isekaied #64: the town blacksmith is an elf named Gay Simpson and I couldnt explain why that made me laugh and now she won't fix my weapons anymore
Shitty things about being isekaied #83: the four dark lords of this world look almost identical to abba which cant be intentional but when they line up on horseback its so uncanny i cant help but wonder if someones fucking with me
