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I HC that Ripred is only hard on Gregor because he see's himself in that kid. Like, Ripred is a dick to everyone, I know that, but I think he keeps on putting cold, hard facts in front of Gregor, like how he's stuck with his rager abilities, because he just wants the kid to be ready and you know, not dead. I only realized this when reading this post about Ripred and Gregor's relationship, but it makes a lot of sense. Why else would Ripred tell Gregor about his disbelief in the prophecies and no-one else? Because he doesn't want his younger, human, more innocent counterpart getting caught up in that madman's bs. Ripred even promises to protect Gregor's family in the last book, because he doesn't want him to lose them the same way he lost his.
TLDR: Ripred has a tough-love thing with Gregor, but he only does it because he want's Gregor to be strong enough to handle his Warrior responsibilities (that he never asked for.) Not because he views Gregor as a political pawn, but because he sees himself in him and wants him to be happy.
gregor and ripred GREGOR AND RIPRED!!!!!!!
obviously ripred protects gregor. not in the same way he does lizzie or even luxa, but i'd say from the moment ripred saw gregor's horrified expression when henry was about to run a sword through him, he knew gregor was special. he told twitchtip to not judge gregor like she would other humans. he speaks softly when gregor is mourning. he teaches him life-or-death echolocation. he can't even tell gregor that the kid's gonna die in the prophecy of time. the "oh, tell me you didn't" to solovet after she locks gregor away. he promises to keep gregor's family safe, from one rager to another. he sees so much of himself in that kid and it's awful. the scene in cotw where ripred talks to gregor about being a rager (right after the frogs) will forever stick out to me. just. his peptalk to gregor before the final battle. ripred cares.
and so does gregor! gregor has so much respect for ripred, the rat, what has been the enemy for nearly his entire first journey in the underland, because he notices the pain in his eyes. he tells him "fly you high" when they first part ways, which is echoed by ripred when they last see each other. just the immediate relief that gregor feels any time ripred steps in. the way gregor messes with ripred, popping bubble gum after ripred insults him, joking about the prophecy at the end of book 5 ("time is turning back!" ripred - "shut up!"). in book 4, gregor sends the questers to busy themselves so ripred doesn't have to be vulnerable in front of so many. when gregor's in trouble, it's ripred's advice ("what's your plan?") that he thinks of. the section in book 5 where they all think ripred is dead and gregor is as upset by it as he is ares, that he "maybe even loved him." gregor looks up to him. just. the mentor/protege duo ever
Huh, people seem to like this idea. Might do a one-shot based off of this. I need something to clear my writers block anyways. Thoughts?
The Underland Chronicles, and everything is the same except people refer to the Underland as "down under", and everyone from the Underland has really strong Australia accents.
Gregor: *Falls into the Underland*
Multiple 5ft cockroaches: G'day mate!
Gregor: *Terrified screaming*
He may go overboard, but something about seeing him go fucking ballistic on people when he gets sick of their shit will always be the funniest thing in the series, and the fact it only happens like once every book makes it funnier.
I love that Gregor is the sweetest kid but he realistically has his moments, wears down, and gets sick of people and situations.
With literally everyone he’s such a kind and open minded little gentleman but Ripred can fuck himself because he’s a meanie.
The Underland Chronicles, and everything is the same except people refer to the Underland as "down under", and everyone from the Underland has really strong Australia accents.
Gregor: *Falls into the Underland*
Multiple 5ft cockroaches: G'day mate!
Gregor: *Terrified screaming*
I swear to god, if I wasn't a procrastinator, and also fixed all my mental problems, y'all would be drowning in cringe-ass fics I've been daydreaming about since I was like 11.5
I'm not running out of HCs or silly scenarios, Just the energy it takes to blog them.
I love you all and I love this fandom I swear, I still think about it 24/7 I'm not going anywhere.
Ok, but like
Rasputin edit of Ripred when/if a tv show or movie series comes out about TUC.
So uh, I had this story idea
Recently, I've been having a lot of fun with Character AI and making stories and stuff, but I wanted some outside opinions on my idea. Plotting and true depth aren't really feasible for my stories rn (though I do wanna develop those skill in the future), so for now I was thinking of turning conversations with Character AI into stories with OCs and putting them on AO3 to develop my general writing style. And I'm just curious, is this cool with y'all? Am I just being lazy, or do I just wanna write without the the inconvenience of having to plot stuff?
I mean it is canon bats love to sleep in big piles. With the bonding between humans and gnawers in the last book, a big sleepy pile with Ares, Aurora, Ripred, and Nike isn't impossible.
They need to be friends and take naps together right now.
Ares isn't an incel. He's just a sigma male (or just straight up depressed.)
WE ARE SO BACK! In tomorrow’s episode of Return to Regalia, Oona and Nate analyze the first three chapters of The Prophecy of Bane, in which Boots gets kidnapped by cockroaches.
Ripred establishing diplomatic relations between the Underland and the people of New York:
What's happening with KOSA?
Like I haven't heard much about it recently. People were panicking about it in August and September, but the talk seems to have died down. What happened? Are you Americans good over there?
If you think about, an adaptation would boost the series popularity massively (if done well.). So the amount and quality of the stuff the fandom makes would probably increase as well. Even if it wasn't in the show, someone, somewhere, would probably draw Ripred in a bugs bunny style drag disguise.
I'm so conflicted with the TUC adaptation. like.
option A: The obvious answer and morally I have to take it. A somber tone overall but true to the wide range of emotions and scenes in the series. Does the books justice and everything aligns with the tone and world building of the original content.
Option B: Ripred gets a bugs bunny style drag disguise every so often
I want a rager leitmotif that plays whenever some starts raging, and whenever Ripred does it, visible fear washes over the faces of his enemies. I also want it to play during the tentacle fight in prophecy of Bane, with everyone being super confused and Twitchtip in the corner realizing "Oh shit, he's a rager".
you know what. tuc deserves a musical adaptation like lightning thief got. like i wanna see gregor open with an i want song, a regalia establishing number, a boots-and-the-cockroaches number, luxa gets a number as we get to know her, ripred gets the song that gets a million hits on youtube, henry gets an evil reprise of a previous number (probably with him and luxa), gorger gets a villain song, ares reprises maybe gregor's number??? and everyone has their own leitmotif and all the creatures would be puppets and it'd fuck so hard
I understand that this is not my usual shitpost, so look away now regulars (if you exist), but the rules on r/ocpoetry are a bit overwhelming, so here ya go:
Can you see the devil?
Can you see the devil?
He's in a row of masks
Holding a baton
Behind a wall of glass
Can you see the devil?
He's pouring himself a drink
Polluting the crowd
Pushing them to the brink
Can you see the devil?
He's sitting in a leather chair
His footstools are starving
But he really doesn't care
Can you see the devil?
He's pounding the table
Preaching blood-red hate
From the bar to the stable
Can you see the devil?
Look across the gap
Find yourself a bridge
Then simply look back
~~~~~
On the topic of Ares being the Warrior:
Our life and death are one, we two.
"I can teach you how to commit tax fraud in French."
"Please leave me alone."
The warp is a strange and uncontrollable thing, my friend
wait a minute
WAIT A MINUTE
With vampiric underlanders
*whispers* werewolf!gregor au
So there's this rat, and his name is Ripred
Y'all ever think about how fucked up it was that Nevee was executed, but Solovet was put under house arrest?
It's fucked up, but it fits in with the repeated theme of scapegoats in TUC. Gregor, Nevee, and even the Bane are all arguably scapegoats and political pawns for the people pulling the strings (Sandwich, Solovet, Twirltounge), who are used and thrown under the bus when no longer of any use or when they need a scapegoat. None of them really seemed to understand what they were doing or who they were fighting for. Gregor didn't know about the whole "killer" thing until book 4, Nevee was just following orders, and the Bane was basically an insane 1 year old. Sure, some people might care about these guys, but at the end of the day, they're just tools to the people in charge. Even Luxa and Ripred aren't above just assuming Gregor will side with them because "they're right and the other guys are wrong". And I've probably missed half of the pawns in this series.
Kellen spent the the first half of his life having complete faith in Jan'tep propaganda whilst living a privileged lifestyle.
Kellen spent the second half of his life on the run, juggling his survival with the expectations of those around him.
Kellen is usually surrounded by people who are functioning adults that know who they are, what they want (unlike Kellen who doesn't), and often demand something of him, regardless of which half of his life you are talking about.
People constantly criticise Kellen's immaturity.
What the fuck.
I'm not sorry
Ya think Collins killed Prim just cause TUC didn't sell well enough and she decided that the MC's sister needed to die for the series to sell well?
I may or may not be a sociopath.
TUC but Gregor has a gun. And he gives his friends some guns. Including Ripred.
RIPRED WITH A GUN
Please someone write a sequel to tuc, but it’s an ya style novel set 10+ years on.
The adventure involves Gregor being forced back down to help the Underland, but he’s an adult this time 21-25ish. And he has Boots with him. Somehow. And she’s a teenager.
She doesn’t remember the underland at all (at least to begin with) and is So Done with it all. Like, who are all these people and why does Gregor suddenly have anime level fighting skills?
And Gregor has to cart her around, again, while saving the world, again, and dealing with whatever mess Luxa is in.
Please feel free to add
also I wrote my first fic in two years last night :) small potatoes, definition of a gluxa trash one-shot but I hope you enjoy and it felt really good to stretch my muscles, so to speak!
The one kind of dragon no bard will fuck.
Use tax dollars to feed children/students who, by law, have to attend schools.
I have had an incredible(y heretical) idea.
Female Iron hands space marine x male tech-priest who makes their augments. Make the tech-priest flustered and worship the space marine. Make the space marine be completely clueless about their obvious attraction but internally obsessed with the tech-priest.
I don't care how much this fucks up the lore.
Let the seas boil, let the starts fall, even though it takes the last drop of my blood,
I WILL HAVE THIS, GATEKEEPERS BE DAMNED.
I like the idea of Gregor being the IT guy of the Underland.
He's an overlander, so he probably knows a bit of science stuff the underlanders have no clue about, but he's also literally just a high school student
Bloodball cannons are broken? Get Gregor.
Currents are acting up? Ask Gregor.
Ate a weird looking mushroom and now you're foaming at the mouth and seeing pink, flying leviathans? Just ask Gregor for some medicine. He's an overlander, they've got all kinds of weird medical shit up there.