THIS is the kind of content I thot FashionNova Men was gonna give us [f-slur]s. Body suits for days. Cute rompers. Curve-hugging heauxs uniforms. Bodycon fits for all seasons.
My group: *continuously fails rolls to open a giant locked wooden door* Me, A Forest Nymph: Man, we can’t get past this door! What are we gonna do? My DM: Well, you’re good with wood, you figure it out lol 😉 My group: *collective groans* Me: …I’m rolling to seduce the door My DM, elated: wait really?! Me: *rolls nat 20* My DM: The door swings wide open for you after a raunchy display that, quite frankly, traumatizes your party Our tank: ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS My DM: The door slips you it’s phone number
(They made me roll to seduce every goddamn locked door the rest of that campaign)
Back on my old shit five seconds after I said I was moving on. ANYWAY!
The voltron crew likes parallels, yeah?
So we get team Voltron defending Earth. It’s not going super great, but they succeed in the end. And as they’re landing at the garrison, a frantic message comes in for Lance from his sister, Veronica, or something, and it basically goes something like –
“Lance, Varadero was hit! Lance! Cuba…”
And like that, Lance is off, the red lion zipping cross-planet to Cuba. The other paladins are following, asking what’s going on, but Lance is too distracted to answer.
He lands on he beach, only to see that the area where he grew up and where his parents’ house is has basically been destroyed, the lasers that did the deed having set things ablaze.
But Lance… He has to do something! He has to save his parents! So he rushes into the flames just as the other lions are landing on the beach.
Keith sees him run into the fire and a cold chill encompasses him as he rushes out of the black lion. He wasn’t there when his father was killed in a fire, but he’s imagined it over and over and over again and the sight of Lance rushing into the flames sends him into a frantic sort of anxiety.
He gets it, he does. If he could have saved his father from that fire, he would have. But he’s also terrified because that fire took everything from him and now Lance has rushed into one, just as his father had.
He can’t lose Lance the same way.
Ignoring the panicked discussion all around him, he rushes forward as well, yelling into his com and hoping Lance answers. He doesn’t.
Behind Keith, Krolia calls to him, but he can’t afford to look back.
He dashes through the flames, calling Lance’s name and ignoring the way his body wants to panic, if only in response to the many nightmares he had as a child.
He does eventually find Lance. He’s standing before a large house, which is just as ablaze as everything else. And it’s only by sheer luck that Keith manages to reach Lance just before he’s about to rush in.
Lance struggles and screams, distraught, but Keith doesn’t let him go.
All within seconds, while the house before them cracks on its foundation and begins to collapse.
Lance’s sobbing screams remind Keith of his own, back when he’d first heard of the fire and the collapsing house that had taken his father’s life.
That now took Lance’s parents as well.
The house falls and it’s only because Keith was pulling Lance back that they managed to stay out of harm’s way. Maybe Keith drags him the rest of the way out, maybe he has to knock Lance out in order to do it, or maybe they’re in danger and one of the lions comes to save them. Probably Red.
Either way, Keith pulls Lance from the wreckage, knowing full well that they’d been too late.
The funeral is held a week later. It’s a rainy day and Lance, as well as all of his siblings and other family members, attend. The paladins attend as well. In the end, Lance alone remains standing at his parents’ grave, weighed down with guilt and grief.
Behind him, the paladins watch, until Keith finally steps forward.
He goes to Lance’s side and places a gentle hand on his shoulder.
“Hey, man…”
Lance is heartbroken, tears streaming down his cheeks.
Keith gets it. “You know I know exactly how you feel…” Maybe Lance, knowing this is true, nods before turning into him, maybe crying on his shoulder while Keith holds him around the back with one hand while holding an umbrella aloft with the other.
Allura comes up as well, as she also intimately understands, and all the paladins offer their own bits of support. Shiro is probably the one to say something about how his parents wouldn’t blame him, etc…
Yeah, anyway, thanks for reading about my depressing need for parallels between Keith and Lance, BYE!
Lapis is a really powerful gem, mk? regardless if you side with her or not (i know the fandom is a bit torn about her) she’s freakishly powerful she created water clones to fight the Crystal Gems, can speak through them, and can control multiple at any one time
she took the whole friggin ocean to get into Space, making a tower from the water, consistently rising up
ALL WHILE Chilling at the top of the tower, which is literally over 60 miles tall AT LEAST and Rising
NOT ONLY THAT, but she did ALL of this AT THE SAME TIME With A Cracked Gemstone
not even at full power, and fully capable of all this without even looking tired
without a cracked gem? she can fly at incredible speeds, making it back to Homeworld pretty darn fast without a ship’s capabilities flew out past the Milky Way, carrying a Barn full of stuff, in a water bubble, THEN turned back and plopped it on the moon to chill a while
but… vs a Diamond? well she’s still pretty capable at least… with someone like Blue Diamond
who can incapacitate Gems without much of a problem by sheer grief alone
completely unimpressed in the face of a Diamond and that incapacitating grief?
nah
her powers of Depression are unmatched
single handedly, chained Blue and cancelled that power
granted, it is easily broken, Blue still has to put forth the effort (even if it is a little) to use her own power to break it Blue is strong as hell too, taking a straight hit from a physical barn, (also thrown by Lapis) several hits from the Crystal Gems, (including Lion’s roar which we don’t know too much about) and having her own giant ship crash down on top of her
what happens?
upset, but pretty well unfazed
and that brings us to Yellow Diamond.
and what does Yellow Diamond have?
electricity. which brings us to why Lapis Lazuli poofed so easily
because, although I’d love to say that Lapis shouldn’t have poofed that fast because she’s INCREDIBLY powerful for the reasons listed above… shes still a Water type gem that got hit with an Electric type attack
This is like a lvl 100 Water Starter and built Pokemon, going up against a lvl 85 Electric Legendary
Some photos of my kenku costume at Anthrocon 2016, taken by @adammillerstudio! Oh boy did I ever have a lot of fun! The other raven in these photos is @qawstume and the snowy owl we are mobbing is @crystumes, who made both of the blanks that we used for our masks.
Once you realise that a game’s worth is not in its perfection, but in your ownenjoyment level, then you’re going to have a lot more fun playing video games
Ok, this goes into some research I read on the different types of gamers.
They are:
Killers- Think your competitive types, they’re going to be playing games like Modern Warfare, Halo, and other competitive games. They get enjoyment by winning over their opponent.
Achievers- Going for the 100% route, trying to get the high score, etc. Think any game with increasing difficulty and esoteric achievements. They play games to try to achieve perfection within the game.
Explorers- They just want to explore the game- think more storytelling or immersive experiences, etc. They enjoy gaming because it allows them to escape and engage in a world and really take it all in.
Socializers- Found more in MMOs, where there can be real community building, they play games to meet and work with other people.
Killers and Achievers tend to be a lot holier than thou, but they’re all valid, so long as you’re having fun in your own way.
This is by far the best addition to this post, thank you for the analysis! I honestly didnt know about these different types, it’s really interesting!
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