Except that you'll notice that they also don't go out of their way to piss people off. Which screwing with the rare earth supply would tend to do.
Harry And The Shipgirls: Prisoner of Shipping (A HP/KanColle Snippet Collection)
- Thread starter Harry Leferts
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Except that you'll notice that they also don't go out of their way to piss people off. Which screwing with the rare earth supply would tend to do.
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- Mountains of Appalachia
A. N. -- An early-morning interlude before breakfast. Prior snip here.
The Black Goat Of The (Croat) Woods (III)
Slytherin Head Boy's Rooms, Slytherin Dungeon, Hogwarts
Friday, November 28th 2014
Eventually, he began to stir under her as they slept cuddled together.
Elspeth Crnokozic opened her eyes once more and then stared lovingly at Vincent Crabbe's face while she raised her head from his shoulder.
His eyes blinked, then focused on her smiling face.
"Dobro jutro, zlat---"
Her 'good morning' in Croatian to her betrothed became a sudden surprised shriek when his hand moved from her hip to squeeze a rather sensitive location unexpectedly.
He then effortlessly lifted her to lie atop him as her face caught fire and her smile widened.
She'd barely gotten her hormones back under control before he kissed her quite thoroughly and passionately.
"Dobro jutro, srećo" He rumbled at his blushing and breathless girlfriend. He then flipped language to English. "Sleep well?"
She nodded with a happy smile for him as she responded in English. "Better than I have in weeks, zlato. Like... what's the term? Yes! Like a baby." She shifted in his grasp to place her elbows on his shoulders so that she could rest her chin in her hands.
"Good. Good." He said, admiring the view of her posing for him while the sunlight filtering down through the Black Lake outside the windows illuminated them.
He chuckled, then pulled the bedsheets aside for a better view of her curves.
Elspeth's smile turned impish as more of her was revealed. She raised one bare foot, idly kicking it back and forth. "Like the little rusalka who shall be sharing your bed, Vince~?" She whispered teasingly and licked her lips.
In wordless answer, his blush deepened and desire grew in his eyes as his hot stare raked over her.
In return her smile grew more mischievous and her own cheeks grew hot.
"You little temptress, Elsica!" He finally got out after swallowing down his first, second, and third impulses while taking a sledgehammer to his hormones. "I can't wait for the wedding! And here I used to laugh privately about Draco having it bad with the girls interested in him!"
"You and me both can't wait to get ma~rr~ied~, Vince. And if you think I'm bad now~, just wait until I can tempt you to act on that desire we have for each other on our ho~ney~moon~~."
"Tease!!"
"You better believe it~!" Elspeth laughed out, then shifted to hug his chest and pillow her head against his neck after initiating a deep kiss.
She cuddled against him and murmured. "I don't want to get up, honestly, I'd like to stay where I am forever. Damn school."
He embraced her as her hug tightened. "Yeah. I can think of a lot better things to do than going to class today. Starting with making out with you."
"Funny, I could say the same, zlato." There was a pause. "Just 'starting with' making out with me, hmmm?"
"Point." Vincent gave a rumbling laugh as he rubbed his hands up and down her back gently. "Scratch the starting out from that suggestion. Making out with you, srećo."
"Better." Elspeth shifted on top of him to kiss her fiance once more. "Keep that in mind for next time, zlato."
"Always, srećo. Always."
The light through the window was stronger when they finally untangled themselves to get ready.
Elspeth waved her wand to magically braid back up her long hair as she sat in a chair. The light through the water made her flowing locks look an odd greenish-tinted gold, almost like a water plant that was being interwoven before fading to dirty blonde as she finished.
Then she sighed happily as Vincent grasped her shoulders from behind to kiss the nape of her neck. "Mmmm.... How'd you get so good at learning what a girl like me enjoys?"
VIncent laughed and massaged her shoulders before responding. "Study, actually. I'm no Ravenclaw looking for knowledge for knowledge's sake. However, after Father told me about making the arrangements to marry you, he also gave me a reading list of books with tips and advice on how to satisfy a woman. Which I plan to test out on you."
Elspeth turned her head to look at him. "Smart of you to do that, and I approve of this plan. I shouldn't be so surprised that you did your homework. Forgive me for saying this, but when I saw your photograph the first time, I thought that you were a dumb brute. Especially hearing about how the Malfoys are Dark Wizards while you Crabbes are their right-hand men. Not this wonderful clever man I now am coming to know under the mask of dumb muscle. Why'd you make the decision to hide your intellect behind the facade of a tough?"
Vincent chuckled and shook his head. "There's a Chinese proverb that should be the motto of House Crabbe. 'Civilize the mind and make savage the body.' People see me, someone who isn't a fashion model, works out a lot, and is visibly ready to hex someone for the Boss as his attack dog, then they don't look any deeper generally. So we got overlooked, and since our ambition is to protect our family, just as the Malfoys by and large do, we prosper in that role."
Elspeth stood up and turned to face him. "I can see that logic. But why not take over if you're so bright? I mean, even in Croatia, we have heard tales of Lucius Malfoy's acumen and power, and from what I have seen his son Draco is going to go very far; quite an extraordinary young man that we are hitching our wagons to. But the Malfoys can't all be of that quality... can they?"
Vincent shook his head and laughed. "Not hardly no. Old Abraxus Malfoy was a real piece of work according to Father and not nearly half as clever as he thought that he was, which is why Lord Lucius took over and restored the family's fortunes. But the main reason for me is.... It's actually a quote from an amusing Muggle book I read thanks to Cleopatra recommending it: 'First-us, I am a social type who perfers workin' with people; and second, I find my sensitive nature is repelled by the ruthlessness necessitated by bein' an upper management type. I simply do not have it in me to mess up people's lives with layoffs and plant shut-downs and the like. Rather, I find it far more sociable to break an occasional leg or two or perhaps rearrange a face a little than to live with the more long-term damage inflicted by upper management for the good of their respective companies. Therefore, as I am indeed presented with the enviable position of havin' a choice in career paths, I have traditionally opted to be an order taker rather than an order giver. It's a cleaner way to make a livin'.' "
Elspeth nodded along at the quote, visibly thinking hard.
"Now, we'll have to take charge of our family affairs after I marry you and we both inherit. But I can outsource the big picture to Draco, who is good at that, and just worry about our own little pieces of it. Also, if things go bad, they gun for him and not us to assign blame, since we were just following orders and someone like me couldn't know better, right?" Vincent finished by schooling his homely features into an expression of dull stupidity before laughing.
"Clever. Very clever." Elspeth agreed.
"Thanks. Out of curiosity, when I did my homework on you and your family before you arrived, I was being told that you were a grade-A mega-bitch. Not anything like the girl I'm talking to. What gives?"
Elspeth made a sour face. "Miscalculation on my part. I didn't want to go to Durmstrang, honestly. You know the reputation it has for Dark Wizards graduating there, da?"
"Yeah, I do." Vincent agreed as he hugged her protectively.
"Thank you, zlato" Elspeth murmured then looked up at him. "But I didn't have a choice, since I had to be ICW trained. So I decided the way to survive there was to be the toughest bitch in the school. If everyone was scared of messing with me, no one would. Like an angry hedgehog with all the spikes."
"Makes sense. So you put up the tough girl front and it got seen for the real thing." Vincent said with a nod. "Just like me being apparently dumb muscle and nothing more."
"Exactly." Elspeth sighed. "Which killed any social life I hoped to have since no one wanted to be friendly with me once word got out and I made a few nasty examples of people trying to harass me. Worse, it took too long for me to figure out that I was going too far with the act, since I was terrified of some of my classmates like that bitch Kozma -- her family has an evil reputation for reasons. By the time I realized my mistake, well, the bad reputation was chiseled in stone. And since as an only child I have to marry and bear pure-blood children to carry on the pact I told you about...."
"You had to find a husband outside Durmstrang. Hence the betrothal." Vincent finished for her.
"Hence the betrothal." Elspeth agreed. "Now a kiss for my zlato before we get dressed once more in our uniforms and masks that we must wear for school."
The Black Goat Of The (Croat) Woods (III)
Slytherin Head Boy's Rooms, Slytherin Dungeon, Hogwarts
Friday, November 28th 2014
Eventually, he began to stir under her as they slept cuddled together.
Elspeth Crnokozic opened her eyes once more and then stared lovingly at Vincent Crabbe's face while she raised her head from his shoulder.
His eyes blinked, then focused on her smiling face.
"Dobro jutro, zlat---"
Her 'good morning' in Croatian to her betrothed became a sudden surprised shriek when his hand moved from her hip to squeeze a rather sensitive location unexpectedly.
He then effortlessly lifted her to lie atop him as her face caught fire and her smile widened.
She'd barely gotten her hormones back under control before he kissed her quite thoroughly and passionately.
"Dobro jutro, srećo" He rumbled at his blushing and breathless girlfriend. He then flipped language to English. "Sleep well?"
She nodded with a happy smile for him as she responded in English. "Better than I have in weeks, zlato. Like... what's the term? Yes! Like a baby." She shifted in his grasp to place her elbows on his shoulders so that she could rest her chin in her hands.
"Good. Good." He said, admiring the view of her posing for him while the sunlight filtering down through the Black Lake outside the windows illuminated them.
He chuckled, then pulled the bedsheets aside for a better view of her curves.
Elspeth's smile turned impish as more of her was revealed. She raised one bare foot, idly kicking it back and forth. "Like the little rusalka who shall be sharing your bed, Vince~?" She whispered teasingly and licked her lips.
In wordless answer, his blush deepened and desire grew in his eyes as his hot stare raked over her.
In return her smile grew more mischievous and her own cheeks grew hot.
"You little temptress, Elsica!" He finally got out after swallowing down his first, second, and third impulses while taking a sledgehammer to his hormones. "I can't wait for the wedding! And here I used to laugh privately about Draco having it bad with the girls interested in him!"
"You and me both can't wait to get ma~rr~ied~, Vince. And if you think I'm bad now~, just wait until I can tempt you to act on that desire we have for each other on our ho~ney~moon~~."
"Tease!!"
"You better believe it~!" Elspeth laughed out, then shifted to hug his chest and pillow her head against his neck after initiating a deep kiss.
She cuddled against him and murmured. "I don't want to get up, honestly, I'd like to stay where I am forever. Damn school."
He embraced her as her hug tightened. "Yeah. I can think of a lot better things to do than going to class today. Starting with making out with you."
"Funny, I could say the same, zlato." There was a pause. "Just 'starting with' making out with me, hmmm?"
"Point." Vincent gave a rumbling laugh as he rubbed his hands up and down her back gently. "Scratch the starting out from that suggestion. Making out with you, srećo."
"Better." Elspeth shifted on top of him to kiss her fiance once more. "Keep that in mind for next time, zlato."
"Always, srećo. Always."
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The light through the window was stronger when they finally untangled themselves to get ready.
Elspeth waved her wand to magically braid back up her long hair as she sat in a chair. The light through the water made her flowing locks look an odd greenish-tinted gold, almost like a water plant that was being interwoven before fading to dirty blonde as she finished.
Then she sighed happily as Vincent grasped her shoulders from behind to kiss the nape of her neck. "Mmmm.... How'd you get so good at learning what a girl like me enjoys?"
VIncent laughed and massaged her shoulders before responding. "Study, actually. I'm no Ravenclaw looking for knowledge for knowledge's sake. However, after Father told me about making the arrangements to marry you, he also gave me a reading list of books with tips and advice on how to satisfy a woman. Which I plan to test out on you."
Elspeth turned her head to look at him. "Smart of you to do that, and I approve of this plan. I shouldn't be so surprised that you did your homework. Forgive me for saying this, but when I saw your photograph the first time, I thought that you were a dumb brute. Especially hearing about how the Malfoys are Dark Wizards while you Crabbes are their right-hand men. Not this wonderful clever man I now am coming to know under the mask of dumb muscle. Why'd you make the decision to hide your intellect behind the facade of a tough?"
Vincent chuckled and shook his head. "There's a Chinese proverb that should be the motto of House Crabbe. 'Civilize the mind and make savage the body.' People see me, someone who isn't a fashion model, works out a lot, and is visibly ready to hex someone for the Boss as his attack dog, then they don't look any deeper generally. So we got overlooked, and since our ambition is to protect our family, just as the Malfoys by and large do, we prosper in that role."
Elspeth stood up and turned to face him. "I can see that logic. But why not take over if you're so bright? I mean, even in Croatia, we have heard tales of Lucius Malfoy's acumen and power, and from what I have seen his son Draco is going to go very far; quite an extraordinary young man that we are hitching our wagons to. But the Malfoys can't all be of that quality... can they?"
Vincent shook his head and laughed. "Not hardly no. Old Abraxus Malfoy was a real piece of work according to Father and not nearly half as clever as he thought that he was, which is why Lord Lucius took over and restored the family's fortunes. But the main reason for me is.... It's actually a quote from an amusing Muggle book I read thanks to Cleopatra recommending it: 'First-us, I am a social type who perfers workin' with people; and second, I find my sensitive nature is repelled by the ruthlessness necessitated by bein' an upper management type. I simply do not have it in me to mess up people's lives with layoffs and plant shut-downs and the like. Rather, I find it far more sociable to break an occasional leg or two or perhaps rearrange a face a little than to live with the more long-term damage inflicted by upper management for the good of their respective companies. Therefore, as I am indeed presented with the enviable position of havin' a choice in career paths, I have traditionally opted to be an order taker rather than an order giver. It's a cleaner way to make a livin'.' "
Elspeth nodded along at the quote, visibly thinking hard.
"Now, we'll have to take charge of our family affairs after I marry you and we both inherit. But I can outsource the big picture to Draco, who is good at that, and just worry about our own little pieces of it. Also, if things go bad, they gun for him and not us to assign blame, since we were just following orders and someone like me couldn't know better, right?" Vincent finished by schooling his homely features into an expression of dull stupidity before laughing.
"Clever. Very clever." Elspeth agreed.
"Thanks. Out of curiosity, when I did my homework on you and your family before you arrived, I was being told that you were a grade-A mega-bitch. Not anything like the girl I'm talking to. What gives?"
Elspeth made a sour face. "Miscalculation on my part. I didn't want to go to Durmstrang, honestly. You know the reputation it has for Dark Wizards graduating there, da?"
"Yeah, I do." Vincent agreed as he hugged her protectively.
"Thank you, zlato" Elspeth murmured then looked up at him. "But I didn't have a choice, since I had to be ICW trained. So I decided the way to survive there was to be the toughest bitch in the school. If everyone was scared of messing with me, no one would. Like an angry hedgehog with all the spikes."
"Makes sense. So you put up the tough girl front and it got seen for the real thing." Vincent said with a nod. "Just like me being apparently dumb muscle and nothing more."
"Exactly." Elspeth sighed. "Which killed any social life I hoped to have since no one wanted to be friendly with me once word got out and I made a few nasty examples of people trying to harass me. Worse, it took too long for me to figure out that I was going too far with the act, since I was terrified of some of my classmates like that bitch Kozma -- her family has an evil reputation for reasons. By the time I realized my mistake, well, the bad reputation was chiseled in stone. And since as an only child I have to marry and bear pure-blood children to carry on the pact I told you about...."
"You had to find a husband outside Durmstrang. Hence the betrothal." Vincent finished for her.
"Hence the betrothal." Elspeth agreed. "Now a kiss for my zlato before we get dressed once more in our uniforms and masks that we must wear for school."
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Civil war they aren't going to be trading or mining for anyone until it's settled and to hell to what the rest of the world thinks.
That will sum up the leaders on all sides of the civil war. Going to give concrete examples of how little China cares about the outside world IRL and the bodycount attributed to it would lead to real world politics getting involved.
Well, I'm back from my self-imposed vacation from the thread (sorry to anyone who's was hoping I wouldn't come back)! I also found out why I had such an… "unpleasant" mindset a few days ago
And that was a Harry boggle at the start.
Also, what would "Casual Geographic" as he currently calls himself on YouTube have to say about certain magical life forms? And what would he refer to them as instead of their name (Hippos are referred to as "Homicidal Water Horses", "Water Bundys" and other things like that, Rhinos are often called "forbidden unicorns", Etc.)?
I need to take meds in the morning/day and before bed, some of which are to help regulate my emotions (Asperger's Syndrome, remember?). The thing is, if I don't take them before it's time to take the other ones, I need to skip on some of them to avoid double dosing. This is what happened a few days or so before my little… "episode"; I had to skip out on two of my meds that were out during the day and the resulting "dip" meant that well… things happened… this almost NEVER happens. So it's unlikely that such an event is going to happen a second time. Especially since I don't want it to.
This was some nice worldbuilding. And it had some extra WAFF put in.
So it wasn't just "Some undying scumbag gathered up a bunch of people to take over China or raze it to the ground out of revenge"? Well, he probably needed a way to convince people to join up.
…Yeah if he was wanting to commit suicide, he could have just explained how from what I remember, he was going to take over Japan and control the emperor/imperial family via magic. TO THE IMPERIAL FAMILY.
And that was a Harry boggle at the start.
This is nice. And Ishikari is opening up to Harry more.
Wouldn't it be "does this feel good?" I think you had an extra "this" before the "does"
Same here. Hopefully the get dissolved by the UN once the SoS collapses.
And now these two meet Nobu. And Nobu is quite happy about that.
That's a rare boggle right there.
Also, what would "Casual Geographic" as he currently calls himself on YouTube have to say about certain magical life forms? And what would he refer to them as instead of their name (Hippos are referred to as "Homicidal Water Horses", "Water Bundys" and other things like that, Rhinos are often called "forbidden unicorns", Etc.)?
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Going.
Phew. This might be another snippet that requires the SB mods to be asked to review it, because that beginning might be a little too steamy in its current form.
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- Mountains of Appalachia
And fixed.
Yeah, probably better safe than sorry for the start, although I tried my best to keep it clean.
Wolf470
USS Exeter (Millenium Falcon class scout)
- Location
- East o' the Sun, West o' the Moon
Well, a bit of proof that the Crabbe's are not brutes... I like that in this thread the would-be villains of another story are all very likable. A lot of thinking goes into making a flat 2D character an understandable 3D person who you may or may not like. For the record that goes for the 'Heroes' as well as the 'Villains'.... Moldy on the other paw doesn't seem to have enough wisdom to look at the world and say 'Y'know what I don't want the King's Army looking for me, I'll leave the muggles alone' I mean the guy grew up during WWII, and should have learned not to mess with things that go boom.
Ah. Yeah, when I don't take my ADHD medications, I can be a right asshole. (If anybody is wondering, the reason avoiding a double dose is important is that the medications involved affect your actual brain chemistry, and too much is as bad as none at all.)
Well...that wasn't the motive of everybody involved on the magical side. Like with a lot of things, the motives of the leader are not necessarily the motives of the others.
The scary thing is I don't think he was trying to. He was just insane enough that he felt the entire world should work the way he needed to. So, if he needed to be able to invade the US via Alaska, then it should be possible to invade the US via Alaska.
He thinks that if he can unite the magical world, he can win a clash with the non-magical world. He also thinks he can ally with the Abyssals. To be fair, if he really could unite the magical world and the Abyssals, then he probably could. Of course, if he was charismatic enough to pull that off, then he would already be being hailed as Emperor Voldemort of the world, so...
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- Mountains of Appalachia
Thank you very much! I had to do some thinking to square the HP Crabbe with this fellow and explain why he's doign what he's doing to put up this facade. (It helps that HP Crabbe used Fiendfyre (in Book Seven) and Unforgivables, both of which are noted as being extremely powerful and difficult spells to cast, ergo he can't be just a dumb bruiser).
Good, good. Sorry for the inconvenience. Hope that you enjoyed it, after all!
And the motives of one leader are not necessarily the same as another (IE Akiko and Kamo) in the same faction.
Yeah. He's ambitious enough but he doesn't realize that it is impractical.
Wolf470
USS Exeter (Millenium Falcon class scout)
- Location
- East o' the Sun, West o' the Moon
It's been noted that splitting your soul (Horcrux, anyone) impairs your judgement. So he was half-baked before he ever graduated... also there is the problem that even in a perfect universe (for him) the British Wizarding World is not the magical world plus there would be the little fact that just because one Ministry falls doesn't mean the others wouldn't band together. I can see him winning Britain and stopping simply because every time he moves out of England his forces get curbstomped.
But that assumes a perfect world where the Statute isn't tottering from crisis to crisis and normal governments don't generally know about magic or how to fight it (tip: casting your best shield spell and thinking that the 'gon' will only fire one shot and then spend 30-40 seconds reloading while you shoot spells hasn't worked since the late 1600's)
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Vincent crabb if that is the vincent mentioned is the same age as draco 14.
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- Mountains of Appalachia
17-18 for Elspeth (Seventh Year in Durmstrang), 15 for Vince.
15. September birthday, so he had a birthday right AFTER arriving in Hogwarts at 11 (which justifies how big he is, he's basically a year older than Draco and Harry who have summer birthdays so became 11 right before entering Hogwarts).
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General rule of thumb for Harry potter is add a decade to the year they are in if you don't know the exact birthday.
Works just fine for OC and other characters that Rowlings didn't give that information on example Sally Anne perks who is in harry's year.
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- The Hub
I wouldn't be surprised if he could grok the ability to Cast Fist from first principles then.
Probably not going to allow it at 15, though it might squeak past. (IIRC SB would likely allow it if Crabbe was 16, but 15 is probably still too young. Then again, Natsumi and Harry have done as much before IIRC-or not far off- so...)
Or, as Crabbe's birthday isn't given in canon, then SJ can assign one.
Or, as Crabbe's birthday isn't given in canon, then SJ can assign one.
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- Mountains of Appalachia
Which I did. Since he's explicitly REPEATEDLY described as 'large', 'hulking', and the like consistently (as is Goyle), I'm justifying that through the combination of being 'old' for Hogwarts with a early September birthday (hence barely missing the age cut for First Years the year before Draco/Harry/etc.) and a early puberty entrance (which hit him very hard, the boy has serious testosterone and lifts). So they are closer to each other than one might think (actually closer than Draco (14 born in June) is to Ehren ('born' in February, avatar is 18-19) in fact).
Nice to see that I'm not the only person here that has problems when they don't take their meds (note about me: I have ADHD as well as Asperger's). As an apology for mother's issues I've caused because I was off my pills, here's a cute picture of Wanko and Hoppou.
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- Somewhere
I feel like once the statute falls (or maybe sooner) someone needs to get him this:
Wolf470
USS Exeter (Millenium Falcon class scout)
- Location
- East o' the Sun, West o' the Moon
Most of us don't have Pancreas problems, Sandy River is a DL so she has Boiler, steam pressure and crew problems, while I being a exploratory starship have to regulate my primary fusion feed tank... and deal with excess power, crew difficulties and heating said primary feed tank to keep the caramel from solidifying... Nice pic and heating up said primary feed now while I lower the power regulator due to a very rich mix.
Broken Mirror
Very Strange Person
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- Space
Think you @'d the wrong person
@Lord Khuzdul, The Battleship('s sister) is coming to World of Warships:
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- Mountains of Appalachia
Incidentally, I hope that people are enjoying the Elspeth/Vincent romance too.
I'd appreciate any feedback people have on them (too WAFFy? for instance).
I'd appreciate any feedback people have on them (too WAFFy? for instance).
It's adorable, and a part of me is praying that the zeptograms known as Pansy and Kamilla try to cause trouble just so we can see Vincent in Protective Boyfriend Mode.