madimpossibledreamer

Wrap-up (in-story) for Echoes is now complete, so stay tuned for extras for Echoes, and then it’s back to the second half of this part.
Oh hey, London map. And the puppet guy is actually visible in one of the panorama shots, as well as the coffee shop. https://tsw-geo.theravens.cz/london-map/
It’s actually a kettle, not a pot. Desmond would make a joke about it if it’d actually come up. Shaun won’t even get it to stick if/when it comes up, partly because Desmond can occasionally be the guy pulling pigtails and thinks it’s harmless enough that bugging Shaun with it would be hilarious.
Shaun blurting out “I’ve been weird about watching you”
Desmond: “I’m kinda into that though”
Shaun (still wearing his pyjamas, as a reminder): almost walks into a door
at least the innuendo was only in his head
Desmond also being casually ableist (using lame because of course he would) because this man cannot stop being a disaster for five minutes I swear—
Yes I am prone to the occasional pun title why do you ask

Main Points: Assassin's Creed/The Secret World
Summary: Desmond gets to finally relax and breathe and hang out with Shaun and Rebecca and Chelsea. And maybe accidentally flirt with Shaun while he's at it.
Word Count: 4255
Rating: Teen
( relaxing in ealdwic )

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/X-Files (The Truth is Out There {Stranger than Fiction})
Summary: Scully and Mulder nearly have a run-in with an unpleasant individual, and Scully gives her hypothesis.
Word Count: 1135
Rating: Teen
( pushing the limits )

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: faster to read
Word Count: 15
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS

        “You were a sweet kid,” Johan says with a smile.
        Jotaro grunts. “I grew up.”

According to Beta-senpai, the fur in the Stand is otter skin

Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: Did Rush make a mistake?
Word Count: 1270
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS
( Chapter 421: Scattered Sparks )

There’s the guy we all thought was Shimano. Yeah.

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Stardust Legacy)
Summary: faster to read
Word Count: 30
Rating: Teen

        “Why are you here? You don’t even like art,” she asks him.
        “I like that one,” he states bluntly, pointing behind her. She looks. It’s a seascape below the water.

Desmond isn’t completely right here, but I’ll leave up to the imagination what he got right. Also, most of this is being written in the aftermath of not one but four migraines (mostly because I thought I was feeling better and probably pushed myself a little too hard in the aftermath of the first). If I have to suffer I’d like to petition that I get Eagle Vision out of it. (At least I figured out how to change the display colors on libreoffice writer so it’s not actively hurting my eyes just looking at it—and something about a new color combination helps me when I’m looking for stuff in previous drafts to fix, so that’s also nice.) Also note: this is not an Ao3 curse thing—I’ve had migraines for 20+ years; they’d be happening even if I wasn’t posting. Life just happens. (I just felt it was important to mention this because I’ve seen a lot of people getting worried about curses and want to reassure that life just happens, it’s just that it goes unnoticed if it’s not recorded.)
The nine leaders thing is from the founding myth; supposedly there were only 9 founding Templars (and potentially, according to legend, only ever 9). Which is when I went—that seems familiar...oh yeah, also the ‘nine names’ thing from AC1. We don’t get a lot of the idea of the structure, only that there’s the Old Guard and the New Guard, and not much of the New Guard. Dame Julia might be intended to be Old Guard, and she does like tradition, but the second you get her into the field she enjoys creativity and thinking outside of the box, so I’m thinking she’s more Old Guard that’s sympathetic to New Guard. Given that they’re traditionalists, though, I figured it’d be more like a medieval court (and technically a Grand Master but it’s gotten a whole lot more egalitarian since the old days, to the point I’m not actually clarifying which of them is the Grand Master—it’s Dame Julia in my heart though).
I had to share a pun: when I was looking up videos to get a feel for Dame Julia for writing this, Melchinafan wrote “newbee” and I think that’s neat.
Helwing started out partially based on Father Anderson and shifted a bit more while I was writing him toward Ludlum villain.

Main Points: Assassin's Creed/The Secret World
Summary: Helwing makes his move.
Word Count: 3206
Rating: Teen

( court is in session )

Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/X-Files (The Truth is Out There {Stranger than Fiction})
Summary: This is a new one for Mulder and Scully.
Word Count: 1264
Rating: Teen
Not really a warning, but Mulder being Mulder.
( in the neighborhood )

Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
Summary: faster to read
Word Count: 55
Rating: Teen

        It’s a good thing Joseph had insisted on playing cards when they were bored. This is the first time Jotaro’s ever thought those words in that specific order, but without that and the old man’s seeming compulsion to cheat the way he breathed, Jotaro would be having a lot more trouble catching D’arby’s tricks now.