“A wonderful admin. Xisuma didn’t particularly feel like one today.” OUCH. We started this fic so light-heartedly that this caught me off guard. Like daydreaming about sunshine and music and warmth before being bludgeoned with a block of ice (…poor Scar)
“Skizz glanced at Jimmy, then back at Tango, and bit his lip. Visibly steeling himself, he nodded. “Sure. C’mon, Jimmy.”” Aww good job Skizz <3. You’re doing great.
“For one thing, that arm needs to go.” Is it horrible that my first reaction is to cackle and say ‘L’
“I can do my best to fill in the gaps of his code, but every player’s code is different. It’s not going to exactly match… and he’s going to feel that intimately.” Oh. Oh dang. Oh gosh. Oh that’s— OOF. Poor Tango. That’s gonna be rough. Really rough. And he’s got no warning and no way to consent. He’s gonna need a lot of hugs.
“They would wake up every day and know, in the depths of their soul, that something was wrong, and they’d never be able to shake it. Never be able to fix it.” Oh gosh. Yup. That’s gonna suck. Tango’s gonna need many many hugs and a weighted blanket. Also therapy
“Kristen took a deep breath, opened her ink-black eyes and, after muttering a quick “be ready,” swung it down hard. The blade bit deeply into Tango’s arm, just outside of the shoulder.” I WASNT READY
“The skin that remained behind from the closed wounds was a pale, silvery color” Oooooooo at least he gets some fancy shmancy scars out of this
“His blaze rods are broken.” Oh shoot I kinda forgot about that. Das not good 😬. He deserves flowers and a get well soon card.
“A couple centuries ago we came up with this joke about her being the Goddess of Death and it stuck. End of story.” That’s hilarious and I love it
“It must have been excruciating for Lizzie to not be here by Fwhip’s side, waiting for Joel to come out of surgery. But she’d chosen to comfort Joel’s child instead of listening to her own desires.” Awww good job Lizzie. She deserves a hug and maybe an award because what she’s doing here is definitely very difficult, very selfless, and very brave.
“I can’t even bring them home, Fwhip.” Xisuma rasped, tears filling his eyes. “I can’t bring them back to our server. They can’t even have that kind of comfort.” 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺😭😭😭😭😭
“Get some rest, Xisuma.” He reached out and rested one arm on Xisuma’s helmet, effectively pinning his head back against the wall in a limp, resting position. “You’ve earned it.” Oh good job Fwhip. Yes, he’s definitely earned some rest and he really needs it too, so this is excellent, thank you.
“Normally this was a tone reserved for someone like Doc and Tango. Or Grian.” Our stubborn idiots <3 /affectionate /lh
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH ITS THE RECOVERY FIC!!! WEVE WAITED SO LONG FOR THIS
And might I say, I absolutely adore how right off the bat we start with fresh hardcore angst. Chef’s kiss.
Super excited to see how everyone is doing— they all need hugs. Lots of hugs. Luckily they all have lots of friends and found family to receive said hugs from. Hopefully they’ll all soon be alive enough to enjoy hugs.
AMAZING start to the sequel— I am absolutely thrilled to be here and so incredibly excited to read more
As always, don’t rush, take care of yourself, live life, and THANK YOU for this spectacular SERIES
1: Ah yes the writing device of emotional manipulation /j 2: Skizz always ends up being the comforter in my fics I swear 3: HA I mean, somebody should 4: It’s reeeaaalllly bad. Like so bad that I couldn’t have thought this up - this was me realizing the consequences of my previous actions regarding Tango’s code dissolution 5: The poor guys is in for a really, REALLY rough awakening 6: :) 7: We gotta make him look cool after his trauma XD I’m sure those scar’s won’t affect his mental health in any way whenever he looks at them, nope /supersarcastic 8: So many things are wrong with this guy 9: This concept highly amuses me lol. 10: Lizzie needs the “best wife of the century” award, although Kristen is right up there too… 11: :( 12: Fwhip thank you for forcing this extremely exhausted and stressed out man to sleep, thank you very much 13: We love our stubborn idiots WE’RE FINALLY HERE!!!! So excited, dude!! I’m so happy to go along the journey with you!! As for living life… the brainrot is SO REAL with this fic so I need those reminders, lol. It’s hard to remember to do other things than write XD and also it’s hard to not stress over it when I can’t due to work, sleep, other responsibilities, etc
1. Okay but the contrast is actually a good writing device and if you look closely, ‘contrast’ is actually spelled ‘emotional manipulation’ so really there’s no need for the ‘/j’ /hj 2. AS HE— and I cannot emphasize this enough— AS HE SHOULD BE!! Skizz is the perfect comforter character 4. Oh DANGGG… I think this is my favorite piece of trivia from you for this series. He wasn’t even meant to be this traumatized, it just happened naturally. Wow. 7. Imagine, you make me giggle in the most evil ways 10. Normally, I’d be heavily biased towards Kristen, but Lizzie is being insanely selfless here, so at the very least she’s best wife of the year. Spread it out over a century and my Mumza bias might take over again \_o_/
1. That is true, contrast and emotional manipulation are synonyms… /hj 2. Skizz is actually the most perfect comforter character ever 4. Many evil things just sort of happened in this fic 😂 10. Lizzie has def suffered more than Mumza in this story so far so I think she deserves that win. But Mumza is certainly amazing and we live her
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