Car In A Vet

Dragon Age

Nerdaniel Mahariel

Ronia Hawke

Lalaith Trevelyan

Will Aldwir

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Haleth Cousland

Robin Hawke

Tathren Lavellan

Bonita Thorne

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Kibil-nâla Brosca

Crétienne Caron

Liam Hawke

Turin Trevelyan

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Beleg Tabris

Crétienne Caron again

Veda Hawke

Melian Lavellan

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[default Warden]

[default Hawke]

Bergelmir Adaar

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Nicodemus Amell

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Mass Effect

Charlotte “Charlie” Shepard

Kitty Ryder

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The Arcana

Apprentice Victoria

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When the Night Comes

Hunter Devanna Nilsson

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The Untamed / Chén Qíng Lìng / Mo Dao Zu Shi

The Untamed masterpost

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Resident Evil

RE masterpost

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Miscellaneous Writing

Hope is a Dangerous Bitch

Pieces of You

hero: "When [villain attacks/traitor betrays], we'll be ready!"

hero: *does literally nothing to prevent that, makes exactly zero (0) contingency plans*

villain/traitor: *attacks/betrays*

hero: *is not ready*

Lately I've been calling that "spinning wheels". Because it's like if a car gets stuck in the mud and you just keep hitting the pedal: The wheels keep spinning but they're not going anywhere, and the longer you do that without changing something up, the more stuck you get.

It also has, like. God, I don't even know how to describe it. It's less zombie horror and more superhero comic (that happens to have zombies sometimes). Like ostensibly it's based on RE2 but there are a LOT of extra soldier characters on both sides and then they leave Raccoon City by issue 15 of 60. And now they've formed a DSO-esque organization with the former STARS members (also Chris is described by the narration as being an angry person and has stupid anime hair) and they're in a futuristic city trying to track down Umbrella bullshit but the leader of Umbrella literally calls himself God and had his nervous system and eyes removed from his body to escape when his headquarters was invaded??? and now that brain has attached itself to some random soldier -- on the outside!!! his original eyes are still the ones looking around on these, like, stems attached to the brain!!! -- and like god only knows what's coming next. I'm only on Issue 18. Of 60.

(Second biggest pet peeve: mermaids with pectoral fins on their hips.)

But I've never actually played any of the games myself. Partially because I'm a scaredy cat, and partially because I'm just bad at video games and those puzzles and stuff look obnoxious.

But at this point, I think it might actually be less bad, just because I've watched each game enough times to have an idea of where the scares are and how the puzzles work. And on top of that, at this level of obsession I really want to have hard copies of, well, everything.

So y'know how I've got my list of literally everything they've ever put out? I started at the top again, but now I want to go through it more slowly and actually buy anything that's still available to be bought, and build up an RE collection. (And also take much more detailed notes on things like the timeline in the process.) So I've ordered the very first game for my PS1. That should be coming in in the next few days. I've still got an old tube TV to play it on and everything. And again, I'm really bad at video games and that one's got the obnoxious fixed camera so it'll probably be A WHILE before I finish that and am ready to move on to the next thing.

(Unfortunately, "the next thing" is a comic book that is now a collector's item, so uuuuh I will not be buying that one. But hey, if anyone wants to spend WAY too much money buying me presents.....)

But the other thing is that I'm having so much fun with this that I actually kind of want to stream this process. Because there's plenty of streamers and plenty of video-essay people out there but how many of them are crazy enough to go THIS in depth in a franchise? And I have a friend who's into streaming and videography and technology so I'm trying to convince him to be my "producer" and help me with like the technical aspects of it, because honestly there's just no way in hell I'll be doing all that myself. But historically this guy is someone who Does Not Do Things so the chances of actually getting him on board are..... low. Even though I think this would be a really fun project for both of us. (And potentially with a slight chance of making some money off it?)

So now I've got to use the next few days before my game comes in to decide if I'm gonna start playing right away or wait and try and get my friend in on streaming with me.

I just love this moment in Underworld when Leon meets Trent and, on a hunch, asks him about Ada:

Like. Perfectly dodges the logistical question while giving Leon the answer he needs to hear.

(post Racoon City, pre Operation Javier)

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When Leon woke up, he immediately wished he hadn't.

He was lying on his stomach in an unfamiliar bed. Everything hurt, but especially his head, and for some reason his back? His mouth was dry and tasted like something had died in it. The faint light in the room hurt his eyes before he even opened them.

He groaned, but that just made his head hurt worse. Slowly, using his hand to shade them, he tried to open his eyes, but the piercing pain made him close them again. Christ, what had he done to himself?

He tried to put together the pieces of the previous night.

He and the other trainees had been given a few days' leave, and somebody had had the bright idea to spend it in New Orleans. They'd made complete asses of themselves on Bourbon St. — the "hand grenade" cocktails far too sweet a temptation for a group of young idiots learning specialized military tactics — and then… something about a bet? He remembered taking someone's money — Bruce's? — in exchange for a dare. There was a vague memory of flipping through a binder of laminated images, laughing at the pictures of… butterflies? Why would they be looking at drawings of butterflies…

It hit him all at once:

The tattoo parlor.

Oh, shit. He reached a hand around to his lower back — and hissed in pain at the contact with the bandage there.

Shit shit shit!

He dragged himself out of the bed and hurried to the bathroom, hardly taking in the trashed state of his hotel room, twisting to see his lower back in the mirror. There it was, right above his ass: a huge bandage. Wincing, he peeled it away to reveal the tribal design beneath, the skin inflamed and weeping slightly.

"Well," he said out loud, "at least it's not the butterfly."

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Original Writing:

Butterflies and Hand Grenades

"That Night"

WIP snippet

WIP snip 2

Canonical injuries lists:

Leon

Claire

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RE2 original

car crash

explosion behind her

RE2 remake

car crash (no seatbelt)

explosion, presumably

falls through floor onto right side

backhanded in mouth (right side)

in falling elevator, knocked out

hit in the head by Birkin's claw?

Code: Veronica

knocked out (unclear how)

choke-dangled and dropped

explosion behind her

in a plane crash, knocked out

snowmobile attacked (not shown), knocked out, poisoned

Degeneration

explosion, knocked out, glass in outside of left calf

Infinite Darkness

tazed (back of neck)

slapped with file (right side of face)

duct tape restraints

probably bruised something jumping on top of Leon on a hard metal catwalk to get away from acid

blown back by flying architecture

ends with left arm in sling

Revelations 2

potentially hit by shards of glass

dosed with something and knocked out

infected by T-Phobos

small explosion

in a building full of fire, explosions, and hot metal: burns on hands at LEAST; large explosion behind

hit and thrown back

falls a few stories w/ monster cushion, gets up clutching right arm and limping

slammed to ground

pinned down hard, full torso press; trapped under monster

pushed out of way of falling rubble, lands hard enough to be stunned

jumps waaaaaay too far into water

Heavenly Island

punched in gut, hard

gunshot right next to her left ear

kicked in gut

Death Island