dutifullyfuriouswerewolf
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COMMISSIONS OPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just DA Mabel yapping about what she saw in other AU or universe.
Can't wait to read this, please tell us where to read this when it comes out
Announcement: Upcoming Fanfic – Remnant Warriors: Age of Salem
Inspired by Fire Emblem Warriors, and Hyrule Warriors, what if RWBY has a spin-off story of their own?
Plot: In the future, Dr. Arthur Watts uses the four relics to merge time to undo the events since the defeat of Salem. Little did she know that Warriors of the Past, Present and Future will appear.
I'm highly confused by the people that think if Ruby had been there Adam wpuld have lived. Like...the same girl who cut Tyrians tail off for scratching her uncle would have let the guy who cut off her sister arm live? She didn't know Cordovans mech had bullet proof windows and aimed for her head. She would have cut Adam in half.
She's a lil fucked up actually
what yang sees vs what grimm see
Original clip from cxrviknight on twitter
Same
Ruby is very misunderstood in this scene because if I lost my ginger cottagecore machine goddess situationship twice there would be bodies
Inspiration struck, and I had to do this
It's 1 in the morning and I have work tomorrow but I had to do this
Providing for myself
I didn't know i needed this until now. Please i hope it happens!
The Master comes back and infiltrates the Tardis under the guise of a new companion. The Doctor knows it's them and knows they are plotting something, but doesn't say anything because going on adventures with them is the most time they have spent with their friend in a long time.
Happy Sibling's Day! "Ramen Night" an old sketch I love feat. the Branwen Twins! 🐦⬛❤️Better quality at Patreon!
This is amazing!!!
Not All Histories Are The Same
Over the course of the Loops, as Weiss gets reacquainted with her Team now that they are repeating time with her, the Heiress and Anchor notices a few details...
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It… took a while, to notice… Nagged at her, in quiet moments. Little things, small comments and behaviors. Yang… wasn’t quiet what she remembered. Both Roses—for all that Yang would likely always be Xiao Long, Weiss privately thinks of the sisters as a set only missing Summer—were just slightly not what she recalled.
Ruby was less changed than Yang; listened to Yang more than Before perhaps, was content instead of annoyed when Yang would just… sit and watch her.
Yang, though… Yang hovered, and her teasing was softer more often than not. She still had her temper, was still impulsive and liked to sass or threaten instead of putting in time to think deeply, but… Yang worried, more. She’d pick up on moods more—Weiss knew, though she never said anything, that Yang must’ve seen her breakdown beside the monument in the rain—and would try to draw them out with smiles and jokes and hugs.
But what confirmed it—that Yang and… and Ruby weren’t exactly the ones she’d lost at Castle White—was when she noticed how their stories of Taiyang changed. Changed, and became much rarer. Tai suddenly wasn’t the ever-present father who taught at Signal and took short missions nearby; instead he was constantly gone on missions, drifting back into the house maybe once a week to spend a couple days with the girls and make sure everything was stocked up, before...disappearing, from their perspective. Qrow was more reliable.
Not that either sister said anything negative about the man, but the omissions and excuses, delivered so easily and casually… Weiss stopped asking about him.
And if ignoring the existence of Taiyang Xiao Long made it easier to ignore the little changes? Made it easier to pretend there was no difference? She’d thought she had lost them forever before she started Looping. Thought she was losing them over and over, before Yang started to remember previous timelines, before Ruby started to remember too. Why should she care, if they didn’t quiet remember things from before Castle White like she did? It was still undeniably them.
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Fruit Loops is told from the perspective of several people, though Weiss and Ruby are the most common. Their ability to recall things gets better as they settle into the Loops.
But while the big details—like their time in Beacon and the couple of years that followed—all line up... little things don't, or things from before or outside Beacon.
Facts
Weiss: Normalize being an evil whore.
This has to be the best example of actual world building for a celestial making a pact with a warlock.
This intruduces so many possabilities for both players and dms. I am going to make this canon moving forwards in my campaigns.
And how you still get dark magic from a celestial could come from the fact the pact is made in the first place. It isn't the most moral thing to do for an agent of good. Or coming from the fact that nothing can be all good.
A thought I’ve always had with the celestial warlock is that …
So warlocks are mercenaries, right? They make pacts to gain power. They do things for patrons in exchange for magic. I mean, not exclusively, but bargaining is something of a core concept of the class even if you’re not focusing your roleplay on it. Warlocks are mercenaries.
And the thing with that in the context of a celestial warlock. So often I see the concept for the patron as a celestial who rescued you, or who’s trying to redeem you, a hand of good laid upon your soul, a plaintive Jiminy Cricket in your ear.
But the question I always have is not what kind of mercenary makes deals with angels, but what kind of angel hires mercenaries?
I feel like you could do some really cool things and have a really cool and interesting relationship with an angelic patron who is … greyer than the stereotype here. Because. They are a force for good who is perfectly willing to hire agents. Not by seeking a true champion or relying on conscience, but by the simple mercenary inducement of payment. Your morals don’t come into it, your beliefs don’t come into it, the arrangement is simple. You do a service for them, you help the cause of good, and they pay you. There’s a certain amount of pragmatism in that, and subtlety, that I find fascinating to imagine in a holy being.
Also. Celestial warlocks get mostly good-seeming powers from their subclass, healing and the like, but they’re also still getting the whole warlock package from their patron as well. Your eldritch blast and your hunger of hadar are still coming from that source. What kind of angel equips someone with those powers?
What kind of relationship could you have with such a being? Is it rigid and remote, a handler towards their agent? Something more casual, you do some jobs on a freelance basis and they pay you in healing and spell slots? Or something more collegiate, warmer, conscious of the moral greys and the sometimes extremely physical horrors they’re sending you into, but knowing that it needs to be done? Do they trust you enough to let you colour outside the lines a bit, or are their instructions extremely strict? Or do they want to know the details at all? Are they so grey that they give you carte blanche, a need to know that they don’t need to know, so long as there is a net victory for good at the end of it? Or are they extremely conscious, not only of everything you do but everything that is done to you?
I don’t know, I just feel like there’s a lot of room to play around with what sort of being your celestial patron must be to even enter into the relationship you both find yourself in. The kind of celestial that is at least a little bit greyer in nature, by pure implication of the bargain itself. You could do something … very Cold War-ish there, a more pragmatic and sordid sort of relationship.
And, yes, there are also evil gods and evil celestials. But honestly I like the grey celestial idea better, a servant of a genuinely good and holy cause, who’s just that bit more pragmatic about it. Yes, yes, moral champions, but when we’re short on time, or bodies on the ground, or when we need someone to blend in that little bit more … I mean, if the job gets done, does it matter by who? We can just pay someone to go in and do the needful. It doesn’t have to be more complicated than that. And if we save a sordid soul in the process, great, and if not … it’s no overall loss? We can’t lose what we didn’t have in the first place.
Are you expendable to such a being? Are you used to save the truer champions, genuinely good and worthy souls, at least some trials here or there? If so, what does that make such a being, who would use and sacrifice you so? Do the ends justify the means? Do you have opinions on such questions, regarding both yourself and your patron? Do you hate them, as much as any fiend warlock might hate their cruel master?
Or do you live in world where the things that must be done must be done, where principle is all very well but only so long as it does get the job done, and thus you and your patron understand each other quite well. You are a mercenary, after all. So long as the jobs are reasonable and you’re getting paid up front, that’s all any mercenary can ask.
I just really like the idea of a pragmatic angel, a handler with their agents, operating in a more subtle realm than that of crusades and champions. Sometimes, if you need a job done, you just hire someone to do it. No muss, no fuss. Get your bodies on the ground, and work out the rest later.
And the question then is, what’s it like being the poor hired muggins in question?
Why is this intersting?
was reading up on silk and dagger. am i just not enlightened enough yet to understand that half of all good worldbuilding starts with the author getting really, really horny
It helps to understand that Silk & Dagger is very specifically parodying how dark elves are depicted in the Forgotten Realms, a Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting which is a. essentially a romantic fantasy setting awkwardly pretending to be high fantasy because D&D players aren't ready for that conversation, and b. principally the brainchild of Ed Greenwood, a Canadian fantasy writer who has a decent shot at claiming the title of the horniest man alive. Like, this a parody whose source material is a fictional setting whose idea of challenging villainous queer-coding is having nations ruled by buxom middle-aged sorcerer-queens with interesting ideas about rehabilitative justice spanning the entire alignment grid. What Silk & Dagger is making text was just barely subtext to begin with, is what I mean to say.
Path of Silence by Ben J
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