Agent B52

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Agreed. Even IC Marcus is about to reach the point where he throws his hands in the air and goes 'fuck this I don't even care any more unless it helps kill Grimm.'

Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

Name: Marcus Goldstein Location: Armoury class Status: Good At the start of the squabble, Marcus was too absorbed in the lecture to step in. When it finally did come to his attention, roughly around when Oswald made his intervention, he stared at the clusterfuck with a morbid curiosity normally reserved for massive disasters in progress. This was supposed to be Beacon right? The best school for hunters, pride of the nation, etcetera etcetera. Not exactly the place he anticipated deep philosophical debates about what measured the worth of a sentient or some such tripe. _{“And now they’re fokking about to tear each other a new one like the raging scrotum sucking spunk trumpets they are. Glorious, ten outta ten, best school evar, now can we please get the fock out? I miss me old homestead.”} Marcus leaned on one elbow and palmed his face. Other than actively suppress a chortle when Geni challenged him to a head on duel with Unsubtle, he was content to just sit there and let the others handle this. _{“You fokken wot mate I’ll shiv ya I swear on me pops!”} For one Marcus was without a weapon or useful combat semblance. For another, there was a teacher right there. And lastly, the whole argument here was just plain stupid as far as he was concerned. There were still plenty of Grimm out there, and the schism between ‘pure’ humans and faunus was just stupid in the face of that. Yes, the faunus were discriminated against inside kingdoms. This was neither the time nor place to have a frank exchange of ideas about the issue. Especially not with bullet and blade. All in all he was glad it was over. He texted Ivan, just to hopefully take the boy’s mind off the matter as well. Something about moving forwards rather than dwelling on the past and all that. To: Oakley, Ivan From: Goldstein, Marcus Subject: Mechanics I wish to exchange ideas given that we both use large firearms. First off, how much harder can you make a gun or cannon hit? We could compare notes on thermal warping too, I still cannot push the rate of fire too high without outright melting some components. For a second Marcus thought on some social niceties to add, failed to come up with any and then sent the message.

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<Snipped quote by Agent B52> ...Do you want to know what a Marine sounds like?...xD By the way, hello everyone from Georgia! Fuckin' 9+ hours of straight driving. And still a fuck ton more ahead of us...;_;

@harinezumikouken

I've been told this was an accurate portrayal.

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I'm too bloody tired to finish my post tonight, it just won't come out right. Even breaking it up by typing the OOC rant above didn't help, so I'll try again tomorrow.

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The devil opened up his case and he said "I'll start this show" and fire flew from his fingertips as he rosined up his bow and he pulled the bow across the strings and it made an evil hiss and a band of demons joined in and it sounded something like this.

@Prince of Seraphs

When the devil finished, Johnny said: "Well you're pretty good ol' son. "But sit down in that chair, right there, and let me show you how its done."

You do know that the original version of that Muppets act used the regular version of the song right? Muppets - The Devil went Down to Georgia

@Prince of Seraphs

Huh. Learn something new everyday. EDIT: Because I don't want to double post. I have come to the conclusion I took the Unsubtle's personality too far. This is not what a marine sounds like, not in such a calm environment as a classroom. What I wrote IC sounds like a 12 to 14 year old gamer trying to sound hardcore. I did think about changing what I wrote but then I got a far better idea. She is currently only a year old or so at best. Because it is a machine we are talking about years do not translate 1:1 but still, she's young. Now building a tank is neither simple nor cheap. Marcus had to cut corners somewhere so he built the Unsubtle in a chopshop in a run down corner of the kingdom. Remember that his 'family' did not really condone his activities and gave him marginal support at best. That is basically where she 'grew up' if you will. Next door to the shop there were a couple of bored pre teens playing the Remnant version of CoD, and that is really where she learned most of her languages from. Marcus is not exactly stellar at conversations even at things that don't usually talk back. Ergo all of these curses are just Unsubtle repeating stuff she heard with little to no regard for context or meaning. All she knows is that they're thing to say when you're angry... or scared. As a tank, she is pretty much okay with killing and violence, that is her purpose after all. However this ties back to the subplot I had about Marcus' family. Marcus got some praise in his early years before it was expected to kill at least one reisen before breakfast etcetera. Unsubtle does not have that positive base to work from. All she has ever known is people looking down on her or indifference. All this positive attention is completely new and smells like a ruse. Beacon is some strange new place full of bright lights and people getting close and complimenting her and poking around underneath the engine cover and whatnot. The whole experience is utterly terrifying to the poor thing. This fear plus the apex predator instincts result in her attacking in the only way she can at the moment, namely violent swearing. It is like a dog baring it's teeth and growling, or a cat raising it's hackles.

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"I'm the best there ever was!" ((I always preferred the Muppet version of that song, if only because I have no idea how that the producers ever got this past the censors.))

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I'm back, what did I miss? Side note working with heavy metals is somehow a good way to get my creative juices flowing... for a totally unrelated fanfic I was toying with.

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Fair warning I am starting at an internship tomorrow morning at earlyasfuck o'clock so I am not gonna be able to post for the next 24 hours.

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Given that this is RWBY, our ships need more creative names than two character names roughly glued together. Fair warning I am NOT good at these. Mokuren x Shiro: Hyperactive, Crazy For You Mokuren x Geni: Fast Food, Lion Queen, Rip 'n Tear(?) Mokuren x Tail: Touch Fluffy Tail Priscilla x Robert: Pink Dreams, Sakura Arrow Priscilla x Greyson: Castle (because they both have defensive semblances)

Lonely greetings from the Land of the Rising Sun!

First off, welcome welcome. Have a hug, hope you're doing fine out there. Second, do not take the Japanese behaviour personal, Japan is generally a bit infamous for the subtle racism they got going on there. You've just had the shit luck of experiencing it first hand. Lastly,

Welcome to the Guild. You might try Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth series (Wizard's First Rule is the first book.)

@Tearstone

Counter-recommending, it turns into a political bashfest in later books and the author has a weird obsession with rape. That said it did make me laugh out loud even when it's quality tanked (For those in the know, chicken of EVIL) and the first two books were flat out enjoyable.

Terry Brooks' Shannara Series is an excellent choice. Right now, after a few decades, it is being filmed into a live-action movie, so it has gained a lot of popularity. I would recommend starting with Sword of Shannara, and following up with The Elfstones of Shannara and The Wishsong of Shannara. This is the original trilogy, and how many come to discover Mr Brooks' works.

@Tearstone

No comment, have not yet read them.

For something more modern urban fantasy, combined with mystery I would recommend Jim Butcher's Dresden Files with Storm Front leading off the series. Mr. Butcher will also be kicking off a steampunk series The Cinder Spires starting with The Aeronaut's Windlass: The Cinder Spires, Book One. Just some quick recommendations for fantasy that might be enjoyable.

@Tearstone

Seconding Jim Butcher's Dresden Files if only because the main protagonist is, and I quote an in-universe character directly 'Gandalf on crack and an IV of Redbull'. Go read it, it's great.