As the others said, they look for a dragon-shaped birthmark to tell who is "destined" to be part of the Huntsclan and wipe out the dragons and the magical beings they protect. They then follow up by kidnapping or inducting the children in to the clan to be raised to fight and kill said dragons and magical beings.
As the others said, they look for a dragon-shaped birthmark to tell who is "destined" to be part of the Huntsclan and wipe out the dragons and the magical beings they protect. They then follow up by kidnapping or inducting the children in to the clan to be raised to fight and kill said dragons and magical beings.
That just makes me think we should start giving the families of babies born with this mark asylum in Doofania and help protect said babies from the being kidnaped and turned into child soldiers.
Wait what. Did you sing this yourself? It's actually very good. Now we just need to get involved in San Fransokyo's pop music scene to have a reason to use this.
Wait what. Did you sing this yourself? It's actually very good. Now we just need to get involved in San Fransokyo's pop music scene to have a reason to use this.
ProZD is a voice actor and youtuber (ProZD) who's totally okay with poking fun at stuff and enjoying the thing itself too.
I don't think he's here among us, but if he was and wanted to remain anonymous, I'm good with letting him remain so.
Wait what. Did you sing this yourself? It's actually very good. Now we just need to get involved in San Fransokyo's pop music scene to have a reason to use this.
You know, I've been thinking.... It might be a good idea for us to make an Orbital Death Laser or three at this point. We can just say we are "Launching Privatized Space Industries" and use them as Communication satellites when not needed. That way we get to have Death Lasers rain down upon our enemies!
What Mad scientist/dictator doesn't have Death lasers!?
joking thought aside, this is going to be quite fun. I'm looking forwards to how this rolls out next!
Oh good, someone else found it so I can vent. I got irrationally an watching that when the dude explained his method for estimating DEI's income.
Doof = Elon Musk - popularity
Ergo Doof earns 1/10 of Elon
I'm not going to pretend I understand economics but that guesstimate was a bit much when I was already planning on double checking their timeline on Charlene.
Stopped watching after that so I can't say anything more on their numbers.
It was a beautiful summer day, or it would have been if it weren't for the tear in the sky...
This was the end, and everybody knew it.
Bill had swept aside all rivalries that were still in place, everyone fought to hold him back, or died along the way. An alliance of the remaining Kings and the US government proved necessary to coordinate attempts to hold the line from the oncoming Weirdmageddon. So many had been lost; Monogram, Tobe, Fredzilla, Temujin, the list goes on, all taken by the thing who wants to turn this world into his next plaything.
Your combined forced have finally managed to make their way to Bill's innermost sanctum, it was time to end this.
"Well well, that was more fun than I thought it was going to be!" The creature said as it materialised in front of the group. "You so called 'Kings' are such a riot, I'm actually glad that barrier gave you enough time to try and stop me!"
Combined Shego and Yokai Martial Check: 63+72+82+41=258
Bill Martial Contest: 70+88+92+60=310
Shego is a blur of motion as she charges the interdimensional invader, folowed soon after by Yokai. Many Draktech soldiers and capes follow them, but it's no use. Bill's true form was too much for most of them, while Shego was able to land a few good blows in most of her forces were devastated within minutes.
"You'll need to try harder than that Green! Don't you know it's no use fighting me?"
Xanatos and Artemis Occult Check: 92+73+64+51=280
Bill Occult Contest: 83+87+73+52=295
The ritual goes off without a hitch, magical power flooded the area attempting to weaken the Dream Demon enough to hurt. But you'd apparently underestimated Bill's ability to resist magic, it seemed to just slide off of him like water from a duck!
"Sorry to burst your bubble Xanay, but if Sixer can't stop me neither can you!"
That's it, things are going badly, at this rate the plan won't work...
But there is one more option, one you didn't tell the others about, they would've tried to stop you if they knew. You leave the relative safety of your mech-suit and approach the abomination. Hand behind your back.
"Looks like it's the Doof's turn, honestly to tell you the truth you're my favorite." The thing tells you as you get closer. "I almost want to keep you, just to see what you can do!"
"What are you doing Heinz?" Xanatos asks you over the radio. "You don't stand a chance against him!"
"Get out of here!" Shego yells as she dodges another attack. "I've got this! He'll kill you!"
Doofenshmirtz Learning Check: 98+32+56+32=218
Bill Learning Contest: 31+52+45+12=140
"It's alright everyone!" You shout to your friends. "I've got this!"
You pull your latest and greatest invention out from behind your back: The End-Inator, your magnum opus. Years of research in both science and magic all to produce a simple looking headset.
"It's over Bill!" You steel yourself for a moment, and put it on. "For the both of us!"
Doofenshmirtz Learning Check: 100+32+56+32=220
Bill Occult Contest: 1+87+73+52=213
The music begins slowly, your voice seeming to enter out of nowhere as the Inator powers up.
Yesterday
I was saddened that my reality
Was nothing but an false illusion
Seen from the eyes of an evil perspective
A bright beam of light comes from the Inator, slowly building and swirling into a vortex from deep in your mind. Bill looks amused until he notices some of his body being pulled into the vortex.
"Wa-wait! What the Hell are you doing? What is this!"
"The only thing I can do right!" You shouted as your friends and allies looked onward. "Making it up as I go!"
Loneliness
Instead of trying to find solace
I decided to give up
Depression took its hold, until that fateful day
"Heinz stop it!" Shego shouts from nearby, you can't even see her anymore in the bright light. "I don't know what you're doing but stop!"
"Listen to her Heinz!" Xanatos screams in your ear. "You don't need to do this, we can win without you doing this!"
"And how many of you would die along the way? I can't..." You begin to cry. "I can't lose anyone else!"
A bright light shined into my hole, it gleamed like an inator
I had always wondered what was the meaning to my life
Bill is pulled further and further into the spiral, struggling against its pull but it's no use, this is the purpose of the End-Inator, it takes Bill's ability to enter people's minds and uses it against him...
By forcing him into yours.
If you can see it, please tell me that you can
Tell me I'm not alone anymore
I am out of the veil of despair
I now know the meaning of shining hope
You can see your children amongst the crowd of onlookers, you didn't want them to come but there was no stopping it this time, it's a shame they'll have to see this.
The soldiers have put down their weapons, unsure of what to do.
Heavenly
Those loud and noisy days would never end
I can't describe the connection, like spending time with old pals, and even older friends
As the song continues on some of your closer allies come closer, risking something going wrong just to see what's going to happen to you. Russ stops and salutes, Goofy looks to be poorly holding back tears, one by one you see the people you've come to love in the crowd. You smile, you've led a good life after all haven't you?
Our determination dazzled on, like an Inator
No matter what is coming my way, I will face onward
"No stop! Let me outta here! Let me OUT!" He attempts to break free only for the blue flames that represent his power are caught and pulled in too. "Why isn't this working?"
"Look at me, LOOK AT ME BILL!" You shout to him. "You're truly the most dangerous nemesis I've ever beheld, but you made one mistake!"
The vortex grows even brighter as the End-Inator reaches full power.
"You messed with my family!"
I'll risk my very life, fighting our common foe
I do not regret any action
And I swear to you, that will not return
To the old Painful Fool that I used to be
"You're making a mistake! I'll give you anything! Money! Fame! Riches! Infinite power! Your own galaxy! Please!" His begging falls on deaf ears, perhaps if you were evil but... You were never truly evil now were you? "No! What's happening to me?! Raen gniward si dne ym raef I! Raeh uoy t'nac yhw! L-T-O-L-O-X-A!"
As he screams Bill is sucked fully into the vortex and trapped forever as part of your mind. You fall to your knees, Shego is the closest to you so she moves to help you up, before you stop her. It's still not over, you can still feel him...
I will protect this broken world, till the very end
I do this not for myself, not for my own, but for the ones
That I call family
You turn to the crowd, one of your eyes turning yellow as Bill desperately tries to take control, anything to prevent the end. You can only hold him off for a short time, but it's enough.
Shego seems to understand what you're doing and backs away, she looks sad... Looks like you managed to get passed that harsh exterior after all, even Xanatos is showing emotion...
As I lay here and die, I have few to no regrets
I am thankful for the time we had
And I think that this, is exactly how it should end
I am grateful for protecting you my friends
You take one last look at the group, to the people who saved you as you're about to save them. You think back on everything they've done for you, before you think of one last friend, the one who started it all. I'll be there soon Perry...
You smile through the pain, joyful tears flowing freely...
Then you pull out the gun you had prepared for this...
You place it against your chin...
The summer sun breaks out from behind the clouds.
Goodbye
And you pull the trigger.
Another sad song omake, I just keep thinking of them, this song is by the band coda called Goodbye Nostalgia, and the English Cover I used for the base lyrics, edited slightly. And yes, this is a Jojo reference.
If true, that raises the question of in which book, exactly, the bad guys won.
(I'm deliberately avoiding spoilers here, so feel free to read on without fear.)
My first thought is #3, The Infinity Code. TL;DR - a rich douchebag steals a device which can hack anything with a wireless connection from almost anywhere on Earth, but its functions are locked behind encryption that self-adapts to be unsolvable by any means other than knowing the actual code. Which, if the bad guys won here, was only known by Artemis Fowl, who was killed in the process of said douchebag stealing the device. Which means that nothing short of technomancy or a miracle is going to unlock the thing before the Sun burns out, and thus its successful theft would go largely unnoticed because the thief can't actually use it.
Second up is Artemis Fowl, the first book. If that's the one, then basically the entire cast got taken out by a fairy wetworks op carried out within a bubble of frozen time. You'd have to comb through ailing Irish 1%er families just to notice that they were gone, and tracing it all back to the source would be pretty much impossible given that 'the source' is an arcology suspended within the Earth's mantle.
I don't remember enough about the second book to really gauge its likelihood as the point of failure. Something about a coup going down in said arcology? I don't think it'd make too many waves that we could detect, so it might well have happened.
Then there's the fifth book, which was the last one in the series that I've read. Again, a solid "maybe". The villain's plans were kind of the opposite of making a scene and attracting international attention, and didn't involve anything that would be noticed unless you were already elbow-deep in occult conspiracy nonsense. If it did happen, then Xanatos and/or Toffee probably have at least an inkling about it.
About the only one that's definitely out of the running is The Opal Deception. The bad guy winning there would have resulted in a mid-turn emergency vote at minimum, and very likely smashed the Masquerade to pieces.
...Of course, this is all secondary to the fact that if Artemis Fowl is part of the setting, then Dr. Doofenshmirtz is in for something of an existential crisis when he finds out, because it means that not only are non-lawn gnomes real, there's an entire goddamn city worth of them running around in invisible sci-fi stealth hovercraft.
If true, that raises the question of in which book, exactly, the bad guys won.
(I'm deliberately avoiding spoilers here, so feel free to read on without fear.)
My first thought is #3, The Infinity Code. TL;DR - a rich douchebag steals a device which can hack anything with a wireless connection from almost anywhere on Earth, but its functions are locked behind encryption that self-adapts to be unsolvable by any means other than knowing the actual code. Which, if the bad guys won here, was only known by Artemis Fowl, who was killed in the process of said douchebag stealing the device. Which means that nothing short of technomancy or a miracle is going to unlock the thing before the Sun burns out, and thus its successful theft would go largely unnoticed because the thief can't actually use it.
Second up is Artemis Fowl, the first book. If that's the one, then basically the entire cast got taken out by a fairy wetworks op carried out within a bubble of frozen time. You'd have to comb through ailing Irish 1%er families just to notice that they were gone, and tracing it all back to the source would be pretty much impossible given that 'the source' is an arcology suspended within the Earth's mantle.
I don't remember enough about the second book to really gauge its likelihood as the point of failure. Something about a coup going down in said arcology? I don't think it'd make too many waves that we could detect, so it might well have happened.
Then there's the fifth book, which was the last one in the series that I've read. Again, a solid "maybe". The villain's plans were kind of the opposite of making a scene and attracting international attention, and didn't involve anything that would be noticed unless you were already elbow-deep in occult conspiracy nonsense. If it did happen, then Xanatos and/or Toffee probably have at least an inkling about it.
About the only one that's definitely out of the running is The Opal Deception. The bad guy winning there would have resulted in a mid-turn emergency vote at minimum, and very likely smashed the Masquerade to pieces.
...Of course, this is all secondary to the fact that if Artemis Fowl is part of the setting, then Dr. Doofenshmirtz is in for something of an existential crisis when he finds out, because it means that not only are non-lawn gnomes real, there's an entire goddamn city worth of them running around in invisible sci-fi stealth hovercraft.
The Arctic Incident, the second book, or The Atlantis Complex, the seventh, seem like the most likely contenders. The 3rd wouldn't really be a villains 'victorious' setting, and also, if any villain is going to be victorious, it'd likely be Opal Koboi, who's the overarching villain. Of her plots, only the 2nd and the 6th don't break the masquerade (and we'd notice if the 8th book happened), and the 6th book involves massive amounts of time travel, and seems to be a stable time loop.
However, it's also just barely possible that the victorious villain is Artemis himself, from the first book. If he never undergoes his redemption arc proper, and the series either ends with the 1st book or hasn't had the succeeding books happen yet, the ending of the 1st book has him, the villain of that book, as the victor.
I think that MiH may be playing a bit fast and loose with "the villains won" here, because Artemis Fowl is himself kind of a villain protagonist.
It's like how there are people much worse than Xanatos in Gargoyles, and that these people have even clashed with Xanatos, but Xanatos himself is still powerful and active. It is similarly plausible that Artemis Fowl is still active and powerful and has so far foiled any attacks on his person, because he's not one of the "hero" characters who always lose out in (the backstory of) DVV.
...Of course, this is all secondary to the fact that if Artemis Fowl is part of the setting, then Dr. Doofenshmirtz is in for something of an existential crisis when he finds out, because it means that not only are non-lawn gnomes real, there's an entire goddamn city worth of them running around in invisible sci-fi stealth hovercraft.
...Of course, this is all secondary to the fact that if Artemis Fowl is part of the setting, then Dr. Doofenshmirtz is in for something of an existential crisis when he finds out, because it means that not only are non-lawn gnomes real, there's an entire goddamn city worth of them running around in invisible sci-fi stealth hovercraft.
