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An old forest

After defeating the big bad Villain the Hero and their Immortal lover settle down in a cottage away from civilization. There are vast fields as far as the eye can see and they enjoy their time together after many grueling battles and horrible betrayals. The Hero plants a tree from their home village to signify the memories that they will forever carry with them. Their lover just smiles.

When the Hero eventually dies after having lived a long and fulfilling life they ask the Immortal to take care of their shared home and to please live their life to the fullest. Wanting to honor their wish the Immortal lays them to rest beneath the now-fully-grown tree and retreats back into the home.

For a long time, they don't leave. Wrapped up in grief and busying themselves with menial tasks. However eventually, they meet new people. Travelers, Adventurers who seek their help, or maybe the barkeep from the nearest village.

Wishing to honor their lost partner's wish they allow themselves to fall in love again but plant a tree next to the old one for every new person they come to cherish. Whether it is familial, platonic, or romantic love, they get a little sapling that the Immortal cares for and cultivates to signify their memories. When this person eventually dies as well the Immortal carves their name into the tree and lays them to rest beneath it.

Thousands of years later, a small village has formed next to an ancient and dark forest. Children are not allowed to enter it and their parents tell horror stories about the monsters within.

A group of adventurous children however do not care to listen, and one afternoon they sneak away to explore.

What they find is not terrifying at all. Everything is lush and green, there is a little creek that leads into a pond they can go swimming in, and no monster is in sight. Only fish and a small rabbit that jumps away from them when they near.

They find flowers that one of them points out were thought extinct and see a being, not quite deer and not quite a rabbit but something in between. When one of them points out the beautiful wings of a butterfly another is quick to realize that that is no butterfly, but a fairy. The children get caught up in the magic and wonders of the forest but dare not go deeper to explore.

Eventually, the shadows stretch longer and the sun starts to vanish behind the trees. The Children find themselves unable to see the way back as if the path they made through the underbrush had been swallowed by the forest. It is when the bird stop chirping and the bushes start rustling for no apparent reason that they truly grow afraid.

Unable to keep going in fear of getting even more lost but unwilling to stay on the ground they decide to climb one of the old trees to try and settle on its sturdy branches. They succeed and with the unsettling sounds now deep below them some of the fear abides and after making a rotation of shifts they manage to sleep.

In the morning they are awoken by a scream.

One of their friends, the one who was on shift last because they wanted to watch the sunrise is pointing at the bark of their tree with an almost manic panic in their eyes. There, illuminated by the golden morning light is the name of one of their ancestors. A name they had seen on their family tree that their father likes to trace back proudly carved in so deeply that even over centuries it had stayed as a mark on the tree.

When they look around and across to other trees, they find more names, some family names familiar from the village, others completely unknown. Some are high above, difficult to reach even for their best climbers, others not exactly fresh but younger.

With the sunlight now shining through the branches and deep fear and confusion in their hearts the children quickly find their way back home to be greeted by their panicked parents. When they try and tell the adults about the names in the trees and the wonders of the day before they are admonished: "Don't go into the forest! That was the rule. Promise you will never go back."

Their pleas to investigate are ignored and the children learn not to share what they have seen.

And if one day, many years later the now adults return to the creek and follow it upstream they might find that the trees get older the deeper they go. And if they find a small cottage at the center of the forest, and a strange being living within they will never tell a soul.

Because as children they saw the wonders of this forest and learned not to speak of them, and the now adults learned of the memories the trees hold and saw in the eyes of the being that they are not something to be shared.

Pffffff XD

SO that spell Aaravos had Viren do, the one that let the caterpillar from one side of the mirror to the other?

You might say they opened…a wormhole.

like what would you do.

Christmas with family

So the ctabb server had a little secret Santa and my santee was the lovely @smiling-anon and the prompt was a day with the todofam with Christmas shenanigans and Dabihawks. I tried to sprinkle in some Rei/Inko through Tododeku too since you wished for it.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22000981

If I may add onto this (tell me if I should take it down) :

So if dream grew up around his dad abusing drugs and alcohol and then went off to do his own independent thing only for Wilbur and Tommy to start a drug empire on his smp,,,, that would be really triggering right? And might explain why he reacted so harshly, going so far as to declaring war... especially after they roped innocent tubbo into it . . . Sorry just

Protective brother Dream

I need that in my life

Well now I just want to get some thoughts out about dadshlatt with his two kids Dream and Tubbo /rp (more in comments)

-Dream is 5 years older then Tubbo

-both Dream and Tubbo have different mothers but neither of them wanted kids so they dumped them on Shlatt

-Tubbo shows more of his mother then his father but you can see little bits of him, like the hair and ears

-Dream has Schlatts eyes and covers them with the mask

-Dream was distant to Tubbo at first but once he got use to him he became extremely protective of him

-Schlatt didn't have much money and Dream knew this so he never asked for stuff so Tubbo could get more things

-Schlatt always forgot what babies/kids can and can't do

-Something happened and they lost Tubbo when he was still quite young (resulting in Philza finding him in a box)

-After this Schlatt started to drink alot more and took out a lot of his anger on Dream

-Cause of this Dream learned fast reflexes, quiet motions, and some other useful things

-The reason Dream manipulates everyone on the server so easily is because Schlatt started to do it to him (unintentionally) and Dream now just sees what he's doing as normal. He's manipulative but its how he was raised for a lot of his life

-Dream and Schlatt know that this Tubbo is their Tubbo but Dream convinced Schlatt that telling him would be bad so they just treat him nicer then many others on the server

-Schlatt, after raising a kid and a half, still has many parental instincts which is why Fundy seems to care for him, cause he sees that father in Schlatt that he couldn't have in Wilbur

-Even though Schlatt has his...issues, he still cares for his sons but most of the time he's to messed up to do anything

-Dream still loves Schlatt but he still distanced himself

-Dream was extremely scared when Schlatt started dying but only let a little bit of that out, when he said 'Schlatt?' Right before he died.

-Dream visits Schlatts grave every once in awhile and tells him about Tubbo

-Dream still wonders if he should tell Tubbo who Schlatt is or not

So true, can we please talk about the fact that not only his wife (he by the way probably still loved) killed him!!!! But also HIS DAUGHTERS??? AND HE HAD TO WATCH IT!!!? HELP PLEASE THIS IS NOT RIGHT AND YOU KNOW IT

Team RWBY and Qrow have a right to be angry...

But that doesn’t mean….

Ganging up on Oz while he’s down on his knees after having to rewatch his own trauma.

While he’s in a very emotional and vulnerable state of mind. He’s HUMAN too just like us.

ATTACKING HIM. (OSCAR IS IN THERE TOO, I REPEAT THAT’S OSCAR’S BODY THAT’S BEING HURT RIGHT NOW)

Cornering him, telling him it was a mistake they met, and make him feel even much more guilt than he already usually does.

His worst fears are happening right in fucking front of him. That he locks himself deep within Oscar’s mind away from them.

And the worst part is that this 14 year old boy has to take the brunt of it now, looking at you Qrow…

Infinite sadness goes well with imminent sass, imho

The way the canonically "severely socially anxious" character looks like this terminates me. I can fix him.

So it's just Callum, Rayla and Zym now?

For some reason the image that comes directly to my mind is Callum and Rayla in bodyguard outfits with cool sunglasses and Zym very swaggy in the middle.

They walk through town, the people make a path for them and then:

Callum trips.

I think Marva would be incredibly happy knowing that Brasso used her funeral stone to bitchslap some stormtroopers.