Finally adding more to the sword fighter/running with scissors Marco au that I got going on. With the absolute bombshells of episodes recently, I got plenty to add the this au. *Cracks knuckles* First of all, let's just quickly brush over 'Bounce Lounge' before we get anywhere near the mess of 'All belts are off.' Now we didn't see a lot of canon Marco in the bounce lounge aside from a few brilliant moments here and there, but the whole club atmosphere made me think about SF!Marco's experience with...adult escapades, shall we say? I don't think I was the only one who noticed aged-up!Marco's suave attitude towards Hekapoo, which was a sharp difference to his awkwardness with females in his youth. It makes me think that during his travels Marco became well-versed in trawling the underworld in search of clues about Hekapoo, and thus encountered many informants. Informants who were commonly found in clubs and brothels maybe? It's not to say that Marco especially engaged in many of the illicit activities offered (until later), but he definitely grew comfortable in club scenes and sexual encounters. So instead of Marco dorkily doing some karate moves on the dance floor after prompting by Star, we get all of the bounce crew (and generally the whole club) gazing in amazement at this young teen PROWLING the dance floor. Marco just has an air of sex around him as he slides comfortably about the floor, keeping his body relaxed as he gyrates to the music; every being alike is stunned by his moves (especially Star who still can't wrap her head around this confident and self-assured Marco). Basically the money they earned for the Bounce Lounge was double of that in the show due to people texting friends about the dark-skinned God on the dance floor (every text accompanied by Marco in a tight top and jeans, the cloth sticking to his developing muscles with sweat). And then shit gets real in 'All belts are off.' Marco, the 30-odd dimension-renowned swordsman and general ass kicker, was passed over for some snot-nosed brat who he could break in a second? In this au he's not jealous or confused. He KNOWS Jeremy is basically what keeps the dojo afloat, so he can see the choice from a logical view. Doesn't mean he's not fucking PISSED. Most of the episode is spent with Marco struggling to keep his confidence as he consistently compares himself to what he once was; Jeremy wouldn't have been given a single thought if he still was strong enough. But Marco keeps his cool and trains twice as hard. However when Jeremy basically embarrasses the honour of the dojo in his little show (honestly I would've drop kicked the child away if I was there), Marco politely asks the Dojo Master dude if he would like to see a proper sparring session to see the true potential of the dodo. The man, nearly asleep with boredom at this point, agrees wholeheartedly in hope that things would get interesting. Holy shit they did. Jeremy is completely unaware of Marco's growth in skill (and physique as their loose gear hides Marco's lean muscles) and thus goes into the fight cocky and sure of his win. The crowd never forgot what an absolute hammering the little prat took at the hands of calm and confident Marco. Marco never speaks nor moves in aggression in the fight, unlike Jeremy with his trash talk and dirty tricks. Marco's used to loud mouth street 'villains' from other dimensions trying to pick on him before he became well-known. He's used to keeping a calm head and steady hands as he systematically destroys people's defences. Jeremy doesn't stand a chance. Humiliated, Jeremy challenges Marco to weaponry, thinking that the boy still hadn't touched a weapon (old Marco didn't like the thought of hurting someone that badly). Instead he gets even more soundly defeated, the wooden sword in Marco's hands moving faster than many can see, each strike hitting a deadly point with a soft tap. Needless to say the dojo gets a huge endorsement from the Dojo Master and his company, Jeremy is now terrified of Marco, and most of Exho Creek learns of Marco Diaz, strongest (sword) fighter around, through word of the mouth. Marco feels a little bit better about himself.
Alright, so I had to instantly make a continuation of my mildly angsty sword fighter au post on what would happen to Marco after being reverted back to his young self. First of all, this kid is LITERALLY 30 YEARS OLD MENTALLY!! He remembers every single moment he spent away from earth's dimension, so it's canon that Marco is mentally and probably emotionally a hell of a lot older than all of his current friends. Talking to people just a few years younger than you is hard enough as you both struggle to relate, so imagine the struggle Marco is going to go through as he tries to interact with people who he hazily remembers were his friends. 16 years have passed since he last saw Janna, Jackie and even Star; his relationships with them are going to be vastly different to what they were before. Would Marco even be interested in Jackie anymore after spending 16 years away from her??? He's mentally 30, liking someone that you will be so weird to him, and he's probably long since grown out of his school kid crush. That lack of romantic affection will be jarring to Jackie, as to her she's just started developing a tentative romantic relationship with Marco, whose now just not interested. Furthermorw, this Marco is going to lose his A+ streak at school as he cant even remember covering any of the topics at school. He's going to forget people's birthdays, their interests and even his own old ones. This Marco will be a stranger; a mature and serious kid that lacks any of Marco's old dorky charm as he's long since outgrown his social awkwardness. Don't even get me started on how Star will suffer as she watches her best friend run himself into the ground in order to build himself back up into the amazing sword master and hero he once was. Or the sense of awkwardness between them as Marco forgets simple facts about Star, or gets lost in his head over things that happened while he was away. Star will be constantly worried over whether Marco wants to go back to the other dimensions, back to being impressive and important once more. On the bright side, soon Marco would begin to grow used to his body and train it up to a decent level of strength so he can do all of the amazing stunts he used to do, including wielding the sword he kept from his travels. Cue most of the kids at his school getting ridiculous crushes on Marco with his intense and mature personality, his vast knowledge about cool tricks like Motorbike stunts and crazy sword wielding skills, and his rocking bod. Additionally, think about his amazing friendship with HP, who often pops into his dimension to simply chat, give moral support or help him train. (Maybe even a jealous Star in the background because did no one else pick up that flirtatious tone Marco and HP between one another? Those two have so much history)
I know we're all hella excited over aged up Marco's hot bod in 'Running With Scissors' (I know I was), but honestly when you step back and look at Marco's situation at the end, the episode takes an almost disturbing tone. Don't get me wrong, I'd love some dorky scenes of Marco attempting to get used to his now tiny body, tripping over his feet and whatnot. But I'd also like to see the angsty stuff hashed out on screen. Give me Marco trying to go through some of his sword katas and getting increasingly frustrated as his form slips constantly and his sword wavers because he doesn't have the muscle memory or strength anymore. He used to basically be a sword master, and now he can barely pick a sword up at swing it. Suddenly all the crazy stunts he got used to doing are out of his reach, and the people around him are cobstantly having to stop him from pushing himself too hard, or patching him up after he goes too hard in a fight. If the show does go down this route instead of ignoring it altogether, I wanna see Marco getting angry as he struggles to fight monsters he once would've taken out in a second. His self-esteem takes a MAJOR hit as he realises all the stuff he can't do anymore; he's just some kid with a few mediocre karate skills, he's not a hero anymore. Then we can see Marco training his body to the limit everyday instead of going to a few karate sessions and just getting by. Since he knows what to do to strengthen his body as he went through it before, everyone can see the difference pretty quickly. Just give me a frustrated Marco who's serious about getting stronger and we get to see the results. Even if we don't get this done in the show, it'd make a hella fine AU; tentatively dubbed sword fighter! Marco au?? I'll probably also make an extra post about the mental/emotional repercussions because this episode has given me way too much to talk about in terms of Marco's character development!
I was kinda wondering why you abandoned your fics? I just discovered your account and I've read a few of your story's. They are really good, with funny jokes and well played plots! But if the answer is something personal I understand and I'm sorry for asking.
I don't mind you asking at all, love! I have stopped writing for my stories mainly because I'm not involved with the Fairy Tail or Naruto fandom anymore. Rather, I don't find any enjoyment within those worlds, and my stories began to reflect that to me personally. Also, I work a lot now while juggling the last year of high school and what not. Writing became more of a chore unfortunately.
I'm glad you enjoyed my stories so, but unfortunately I won't be writing anything else for them. Sorry!
In wake of (SPOILERS!!) galra!Keith being a real thing, and the incredibly nice non-racist attitude Keith promotes towards galra because of it, I'd like to propose some hcs of activist galra Keith. Despite the half comedic and half angsty tone of Keith's interactions with the other Paladins and Alteans, he does eventually (with patience Keith never knew he had) wear the other Paladins and Alteans down to a less racist outlook. They don't just accept Keith but also accept other galra can be good. Galra prisoners of Voltron learn that they can be treated fairly in their presence, but they don't take it for granted or use it to help themselves as they realise how much that red paladin is fighting for them. They learn to respect the red paladin for his strength and fairness, as well as the other Paladins for showing mercy when they hadn't needed to. Cue prisoners becoming more sympathetic towards Voltron, and eventually swearing themselves to the new red Voltron leader. The word spreads and people learn that not all galra are bad from the mouth of the galra's sworn enemies, and this change in outlook begins to sway reluctant members of the galra empire to voltron's favour as they realise they have someone to turn to in order to escape the horrors of others of their race. Basically in S3 I wanna see Zarkon not only fighting physically with Voltron, but also members of his own race who stand against him, swayed by the powerful and fair presence of the red paladin.
Actually I have and it was a far more awful experience than the one painted in glee. Ice up your nose is probably one of the worst things I've ever experienced.
Has anyone actually ever had a slushee thrown at them or did the writers of Glee just like assume that was a universal experience all Teens could relate to
Is no one going to talk about how good these boys are at dancing? I get that they do dance practice for their routines but these are some sick as breakdance moves that really have no place on the ice.
Is no one going to talk about how good these boys are at dancing? I get that they do dance practice for their routines but these are some sick as breakdance moves that really have no place on the ice.
my school: NO TOUCHING BOYS WHILE ON SCHOOL PROPERTY
me, a raging bisexual: *maniacal laughter*
Harry Potter: Obliviate is a highly powerful spell that can only be slightly mended by years of mental and magical therapy under highly practiced med-witches/wizards. Fantastic Beasts: TRUE LOVE BREAKS ALL SPELLS!
Every time I watch the Haikyuu stage play I always laugh at the ridiculous amounts of pushing around and generally fighting like toddlers the Karasuno members do. Then I watch the show. Within one episode you get either Hinata or Noya thrown around like a messed up game of catch, Kageyama beating up Hinata in creative new ways, and several creative death threats floating around (either at outsiders or at each other -- Tsukishima I'm looking at you ya salty crow). I swear to the fucking gods I love my fucked up baby birds. Squawking and fighting and all.
Holy shit I was just making a mild observation. I didn't expect to get such an extensive answer. Nice!
The best thing about Blue Exorcist is that the True Cross Academy literally lets a demon that they CLEARLY don’t trust be in charge of the entire school. Just like…they don’t trust Mephisto at all yet they let him take care of the next gen of exorcists???? Who the hell let this flamboyant sinner take control???
Okay so it gets even more ridiculous as after they LITERALLY ARREST THIS ASSHOLE and the whole 'Satan's big fuck up' they just appoint him as principal again. They just ignored the whole plotting and other bullshit this sinner did??? Additionally why the fuck does no one draw attention to the fact that the demon prick they had so much trouble with is now a hamster?? Mephisto literally feeds the plush dickhead in front of the students and they're all like..."Ah Mephisto has got a new pet now? How sweet." This whole situation is almost as stupid as people not realising Rin and Mephisto are demons with their huge ass teeth and oversized elf ears. Honestly!
The best thing about Blue Exorcist is that the True Cross Academy literally lets a demon that they CLEARLY don’t trust be in charge of the entire school. Just like…they don’t trust Mephisto at all yet they let him take care of the next gen of exorcists???? Who the hell let this flamboyant sinner take control???
Give me more scenes where Rin unknowingly uses his demonic strength. I'm not meaning in times of violence or anger, but in everyday aspects. Like his so used to his strength that he forgets it's on a whole other level. When someone has dropped something underneath some heavy piece of furniture he just...lifts the damn thing casually with one hand and just grabs the object. Everyone around him is just internally screaming in surprise like 'how the fuck is he doing that?? What did this damn boy eat when he was younger??' He does it all the time. Someone trips?? He just picks them up single-handily before they fall before setting them on their feet and asking if they're okay. He picks all of the grocery bags up in one go and carries them up flights of stairs no problem. He's accidentally broken off door knobs. Often. More than once at least. There's not a single jar this boy cannot open. Give me more demon powered Rin without the usual violence!!
The best thing about Blue Exorcist is that the True Cross Academy literally lets a demon that they CLEARLY don't trust be in charge of the entire school. Just like...they don't trust Mephisto at all yet they let him take care of the next gen of exorcists???? Who the hell let this flamboyant sinner take control???
Watching the newest Bungou Stray Dogs ending is like watching some dramatic drama of two Dazai's two lovers fighting over who gets to claim the crazy, gorgeous, suicidal asshole. clearly it isn't going so well for Akutagawa.
Episode 1: what the-? What's going on? Why is there no weather it's just music!! I'm so confused. Cecil's voice is so nice tho...aw he has a crush so cute. I hope he can talk to this Carlos. A few episodes later: WHY ARE ALL THE INTERNS DYING THEY DIDNT DESERVE IT!!! Why is everyone so calm about this huge ass cloud that drops dead animals everywhere??? Why are so many things not real? Why is there no weather??? Will Cecil ever talk to Carlos where we can hear?? Now: ALL HAIL THE GLOW CLOUD!! Fuck yeah I wonder what weather is coming up today? What's the death toll in this episode? 20? Nice that's less than usual. Carlos and Cecil are perfect and I would fight anyone who disrespects a single one of these characters! I have no idea what happened the past few weeks but it was fucking wild...
PB? Personal Best? No you mean Personal Bawling. I'm going for my record tonight.
(OMG, this is the longest I’ve done, but I had so much fun doing it xD. Sorry, I didn’t include the Marichat bit: it’d be hilarious, but that’d be breaking the 4th wall… and it’d be even longer lol).
It’s been a while since I did one of these.
Miraculous Ladybug + Textposts: Featuring Chloe being….Chloe. (9/?)
What a great week for Adrinette! Also, yes to Adrien using Mandarin to say stuff he’s too shy to say in French.
Such beauty
Such grace
Such dorks
His tongue… >///< ♡ ♡ ♡
Such beauty
Such grace
Such dorks
Me: *constantly worries about whether or not I'm truly bisexual*
Me: *Stresses about the fact that I could be enforcing a bisexual mindset upon myself out of a desire to be different*
Me: *Thinks about my sexuality WAY too often*
Me: *Finally asks friends about what they think about my sexuality from an outsiders point of view*
Friends: Lmao we thought you were either lesbian or bisexual as hell as soon as you stepped foot into this group. You're so gay at times we're all surprised you don't spew rainbows.
Cute male workmate my age who I'm still getting to know: Haha, so when you going to start liking guys? Lol. I'm so funny.
Me: When they become more mature and not so awkward around me. For now, I think I'd prefer to date a female. We're much prettier and WAY more brilliant.
Workmate: Wait, are you gay?
Me: No. I'm pretty sure I like both girls AND guys. Is there a problem?
Workmate: ...Are you saying that you can date both guys and girls?
Me: If I want to, yeah.
Workmate: AW FUCK YEAH! GO YOU FOR GETTING TWICE THE PEOPLE I COULD EVER GET!
So I had a lot of feelings about the bubble changing Mabel, especially after reading this and of course this awesome post here, and then I began to wonder how it would fit in TAU. Also @marypsue helped too!
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Mabel coming out of that bubble changed and Bill made a big mistake, using her mind to fuel his apocalypse. Mabel who is chaos personified, Mabel and Dipper who thought the reality warping would stop once they were out of the bubble but it…doesn’t look like it? Eek. But then there are more important things going on to worry about; that Mabel’s eyes are still glowing white, flowers that smell of macaroni and cheese follow in her footsteps, that there’s a herd of kittencorns springing into existence just at her mention-that all can wait.
Here the Transcendence happens in the wake of Weirdmageddon, and the tear is repaired and the damage undone but nothing will ever be the same again and there is no hiding magic anymore. Here Bill still gets the shit beat out of him, still he tries to possess Dipper as he dies, still Dipper fights him and wins.
And yet as Mabel watches, Dipper’s chest falls still, stops moving. She runs to him and puts her head on his chest, but there’s no beat, no sound. He’s dead, her twin is dead and no, no no.
Mabel, eyes so bright white looking at them is like looking at the sun and encased in a bubble that swirls with a million colors. Mabel who tears reality apart, ripping into the very fabric of existence, shattering and reforming reality so that Dipper lives.
The demon thing is kind of unexpected, she admits to herself afterwards, but at least Dipper is alive, is still with them, and that’s what counts.
After pulling that stunt Mabel returns to normal, her power spent in keeping Dipper alive, in helping him transcend. Or at least, that’s what it seems.
Because Dipper can’t see any trace of power left on his sister, doesn’t see anything out of the norm in her aura, in her soul, and yet sometimes it rains when she cries and one day snadgers are just, suddenly a Thing. Like, been around for all of human knowledge, in the history and science textbooks, yes of course snakes and badgers can make snadgers just like mules, duh. He has no idea what Mabel can do or how he does it and it terrifies him a bit (if he’s not the smart guy, then who is he?)
Dipper who still possesses Mabel to do Mystery Twin cult-bashing shenanigans but he doesn’t peek into her Mindscape any more, not after the last time left him on the floor staring at the ceiling dazedly and wondering what the fucking fuck he just saw. Dipper who eons from now will have the might to destroy the world (he knows this, feels it in his bones), but he looks at his sister and knows with that same bone deep certainty that if she wanted to, Mabel could destroy it all now without a second thought. Because he is still bound by rules and deals and wards but there is nothing constraining Mabel, nothing that can hold her back other than herself. Dipper and the day he realizes he holds not just Bill’s power within him, but Mabel’s as well and then he goes and stares at the wall for a bit.
(He laughs when people call him the Lord of Chaos. He’s no ruler, only its servant and subject. Mabel, though. Mabel is the Empress of Chaos, the embodiment of madness and sheer possibility.)
Mabel doesn’t tell Henry at first because honestly, it’s almost never a big deal or issue and she isn’t sure how to explain and there’s the whole “my brother is a demon” thing and dating moves to getting married and it never comes up. Then Mabel gets pregnant and suddenly everything is going haywire. All the cartons of ice cream at the supermarket turn to pickle flavor, she cries and it rains frogs and kittens and bowties. And one day Mabel leans up to kiss Henry and burps madness bubbles in his face on complete accident oh my god. Henry gets a bubble full in the face and afterwards coughs up some fur and feathers and just Looks at Mabel. They end up on the couch, Mabel curled up in his lap, and murmuring into his shirt because she’s so scared and she fucked up and she doesn’t know where to start or how to explain and and-
Henry just gives her a gentle hug, and “It’s okay, you told me now, that’s the most important thing.” Then he looks at her stomach and asks “Um, are the babies going to do that burping thing?” and she laughs because everything is okay again.
(She makes him feel like the hero of all his favorite stories, the books where the brave adventurer stumbles into a world stranger and vaster and far more magical than their own. When they kiss sometimes his mind explodes into a riot of color and sound, madness on her lips. She’s disorder and bedlam incarnate and the kindest, sweetest woman he knew and every day he felt so privileged to be loved by one such as her.)
Dipper telling the kids bedtime stories about how Mom saved the world; he just did the cleaning up afterwards. Willow looks at her mother and Mabel in Willow’s eyes are the swirling colors of madness bubbles, a thousand flashing swirling maelstrom of color. It should hurt her eyes, hurt her brain but it doesn’t because, well, it’s Mom (and if Mabel is Chaos, then the triplets are the children of Chaos. There’s a bit of madness in all three of them.) Triplets and the shenanigans they get into because like attracts like, and weird attracts weird.
Willow still almost drowns when she’s fourteen, and Henry still becomes the Woodsman, but the difference here is that when they call Mabel, they don’t get thirty seconds into the call before there’s a feeling of plib and Mabel spilling out on the floor of the living room, the thousands of miles from Australia to Gravity Falls nothing to her will. Dipper can see the tear in reality his sister made mending itself. (He can see what would have happened if it had been him and her that rescued Willow. Sees eyes glow a cleansing, horrifying white and a pink haze rise around her. Sees her raise a hand and clench it into a fist and every soul in the room is obliterated, gone completely from the cycle of reincarnation, completely and utterly dead and gone in a way that no demon, no god, not even him can do. His sister glows and blazes before his eyes and she is utterly terrifying.)
It’s easier, in this timeline, for Henry to accept the Woodsman. How can he not, when he looks at his wife and there’s something beyond human comprehension hiding in her skin, sometimes he holds her at night and the world goes mad around him and he loses all sense of time and place and self. But she’s more than that, she’s love and sweetness and distractability and maybe there’s something a little (a lot) Wyrd about her but that’s not all of who she is, just like the Woodsman is not all of who he is. And maybe he’s not quite human any more, but neither is she, and together they make a perfect pair.
Just.
Literal Goddess of Chaos and Destruction Mabel Pines.
A lot of love (and freeze frame bonuses) went into this video. The replay button and pause button are your friends. ;)
Credits in order of appearance:
• chrisis-averted
• Me!
• milesofsweets
• triangulumkel
• Me! Again!
• callmegallifreya
• yurix-a
• citrusapples
• mareliini
• avemflamma (the hourglass)
• clockworksinger
• this-book-has-been-loved
• Me, a third time!
• Mareliini, a second time!
• drops-of-gravity
And lastly, shoutout to trickstersgambit for helping with effects!
*Takes off disguise* Yes…
I am the person who had the problem with the post about Dipper messing with abusing Pacifica’s parents!
I was staying anon but then I decided fuck it.
I feel like Pacifica would have definite problem with Dipper’s actions as well, so I decided to make a comic out of it. Pacifica and Dipper are a bit older, around 15-16.
For Gravity Falls fans who don’t follow Transcendence AU, all you need to know to read this comic is the premise Dipper has Bill’s powers and is growing ever-more demon-like due to that. I feel the message is important to everyone.
‘I think Dipper was there making faces at them’ yeah right I’m pretty sure we all know what kind of faces he was making
(from chapter 2 of The Hunt by seiya234)