No Seriously What Was This About Then If None Of Them Remembered/recognized Jennifer???

the emotion i just experienced is kind of indescribable

Can I just say that when poor Jennifer appeared at the start of that episode from a squid, nobody in history could’ve convinced me that THAT squid wasn’t Ben.

I was SO 100% sure that Ben died because they were on a mission on a boat and a girl fell overboard and he jumped to save her but they couldn’t swim back up so he closed his eyes and became a squid to cover her until she was back up on the surface safe and sound. WHICH is really traumatic and would explain why it’s just called the Jennifer Incident.

(Whereas Sparrow Ben reached her underwater, realised he couldn’t save them both, and swam back up alone).

Bonus points if they’d already met somehow, since they totally implied Ben KNEW Jennifer since there were drawings and shit. Maybe even only Umbrella Ben knew Jennifer which is why he made that sacrifice.

Dont get me wrong I loved fighty, deny their father, Ben and I even liked Reginald shooting him (though not in front of them and wiping their minds that felt dumb). But I didn’t like Jennifer being in a fucking squid for no reason, or Ben being treated like he’s Umbrella Ben when he’s NOTTTTT

If you're fifteen or older an still sleep with a stuffed animal please reblog this.

Necromancer AU.

Schlatt, Puffy, Dream, and Tubbo are a family descended from a long line of necromancers, and other magic users associated with death.

Schlatt and Dream got the direct Necromancer magic abilities. Raising the dead, and reviving them, and other abilties along those lines.

Puffy and Tubbo’s magic, on the other hand, revolves more around ghosts, and the like. Puffy specifically can contact and call upon those who died via the ocean.

Tubbo’s are much more varied, with him being able to do things as big as sharing his power with them to give them physical form temporarily, or as small as simply always being able to hear them.

He has a few ghosts who specifically like to stick by him. They often take the form of bees, mingling with the ones he cares for, and telling him what they learn of.

Quackity isn’t a necromancer himself, but he married into the family via Schlatt, and some magical marriage ceremony. When Schlatt died, he still stayed part of the family, and got custody over Tubbo.

You can only really marry into the family. So when Sapnap and Karl decided to get together with him, they had to ask Tubbo’s permission. Sapnap got it, Karl was a bit confused, but he’s learning. 

When Puffy found Foolish, he was injured, and had to take on a smaller form in order to heal. She mistook him for a necromancer’s child, with how his magic felt, and took him under her wing, protecting and helping him. 

The misunderstanding was cleared up soon after, but by then, Foolish was very much part of the family, and nobody had any intention of making him leave anytime soon.

There’s magical bonds between the family members. Tubbo’s bonds with both Schlatt and Dream shattered during the festival and the final control room respectively. 

Not a lot of people actually know they’re necromancers. It’s not that they’re hiding it, to be honest, it’s just that most people aren’t really magically inclined enough to know the difference, and it’s never really come up.

Surprisingly, out of all the SBI, it’s Techno who’s aware of Tubbo’s status first. Long story short, the voices are spirits that have attached themselves to his bloodline, and Techno’s spiritually sensitive enough to understand them, but not see them. They were bothering him one day, and apparently, Tubbo too, since the boy asked him if he could make them quiet down.

Tubbo knows a lot of weird things and skills from ghosts. Sometimes they offer to teach him about what they did in their lifetimes, and he’s never been one to refuse knowledge.

Magic-users can share magic between them. It’s common practice between family and spouses. Quackity isn’t an active magic user himself, but he has a pretty impressive magic store, and knows a fair bit, after marrying into the family.

He used to share magic with Schlatt a lot, when the man insisted. It’s supposed to be a give and take thing, but Schlatt was more of a taker, so Quackity never fully understood the practice, and doesn’t really get why Tubbo is so careful with how much magic he takes when they do it.

The revival book is full of dark magic. It’s what corrupted Dream and Schlatt, bringing their worst traits to the surface with a hunger for power. 

the break effect scaling dps family

it's about how jinx was always perfect in silco's eyes. it's about how jayce always loved viktor because he was imperfect. it's about jinx saying, "i thought maybe you could love me like you used to, even though i'm... different." it's about viktor saying, "i am more than i ever was." silco bringing jinx back to life after she tried to kill herself on the bridge; jayce bringing viktor back to life despite his promise to destroy the hexcore. it's about jinx's "looks like you got a couple" cutting to the core of viktor's obsession with curing himself, and viktor instantly parrying with "you have much to offer this commune, powder," a stark reminder of the child she no longer is, the child people won't stop recognizing her as.

vi accusing jinx of murdering powder. jayce snarling that his partner died in this room. vi's lesson being that she has to accept jinx for who she is now, who she has the potential to be in the future, and to stop letting her grief for powder eclipse her love for jinx in the present - jayce's lesson being that he has to experience the world through viktor's eyes to really understand him, and then he has to show viktor how he has always seen him, and everything else only gets in the way. silco telling jinx that she needs to find the strength to walk away, or the cycle will never end. jayce and viktor ending the cycle together.

i'm always with you, sis. even when we're worlds apart. // in all timelines, all possibilities... only you can show me this.

Behind your back, Bal...

Ben has been one of my favorite characters in the show since the first season and it pisses me off to no end how he’s treated in s4.

I really respected the show’s decision to have Umbrella!Ben sacrifice himself for Viktor because it made sense for his character to be ready to move on in that moment and to do that for his brother and his family. It was an end that did justice to his character.

But if Viktor dies at the end, and so does the whole family, then his sacrifice is for nothing. Ben saved his family at the expense of his own existence for what reason? So that they could live a couple more years and die anyway in the series finale?

I enjoyed the new take they did with Sparrow!Ben as a version of Ben who grew up without the mess and love of the Umbrellas and how much that changed things because it was a compelling concept—which had no pay off in s4.

Why did the show bother establishing Sparrow!Ben as an asshole that was also desperate to belong and be liked, as the guy who whined about not being invited to Luther’s bachelor party and asked Klaus why the other Ben was so much better?

Why did we go through all this story arc if he ends up exactly the same in s4? Ben is still pushing everyone away, still considering himself to have no family and no friends, still thinking of himself as a bad person.

I thought we’d get to see Sparrow!Ben clash with the others in order to show them he’s not their Ben. And it would have been so freaking satisfying to watch the siblings accept and understand he’s his own person and decide they want Sparrow!Ben in the family anyway. That would be an emotional conflict I’d care about, not the bullshit insta-love the writers pulled with Jennifer.

What was the point of Sparrow!Ben this season? He was used to being a soldier, but seemed desperate for a family last season—a family he immediately rejected when it was offered to him in s4.

He died a horrible death and had no control over his own body at the end. He didn’t even become a stupid flower in the new timeline. He just ceased to exist—all alone.

With no family or ties. No hero death. Why did the audience spend 2 seasons getting to know this new version of a well liked character if the show did absolutely nothing to take the story to any decent conclusion?

Both Umbrella and Sparrow Ben are just erased from the narrative because the show didn’t even bother including them in their stupid collective death ending. 4 seasons of Ben’s death haunting the narrative and the Hargreeves for this?

I’m ranting like a deranged madman but that’s my main takeaway. What a waste :/

Silly Clowns 🤡🎪

Brotherhood AU

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