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From the remaster of our first ever Korps short - Mel wins, but at what cost? A cool scar, probably. #wipsnips #fiction #korps

They got to their feet and immediately staggered into Balance’s lap as the adrenaline wore off. They pulled the shard of metal out of their muzzle, blood oozing from the wound. “Oh, I think I'm injured."

Balance couldn't help but smile, holding her friend in her arms. "Yes, duck, I know. Hold still while I get you more medi-gel."

They looked over themself and winced as they tried to move their digits. "Also I broke my paws punching the floor. Can you sort that out for me too, Evvy? Second thought, gonna have a lie down,” they said, voice trembling as they slid out of the greyhound's grasp and fainted into blackness.

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 30/09/2026

CW: Stone cold murder. Niko Kovac's 9 to 5, just doing some Skunkwork stuff. #wipsnips #fiction #fabulaultima

“Draga, on your mark.”

Kaya dived prone, adjusting the scope of her rifle to cover the camp.

Endless anxious moments later, the comms rasped - “MARK.”

Niko sprinted out of the treeline, the sleek lines of his outfit making no noise as the fabrics rubbed together, yet another ‘miracle’ the Arch-Tectoneer had produced. Draga’s info was on point as always, one guard directly in front of his position looking away from where he was running. He kept his approach low and quiet, pulling the dagger from his belt and flicking the switch on, purple glow lighting his form. He leapt, bracing his knee against the spine of the guard and wrapping a claw around their mouth to stifle their scream. He jammed the knife into the guard’s windpipe before he could stutter a sound, and it glided like a hot knife through mlekovita. There was a gurgling noise as the unfortunate elf’s throat started to powder away as though the blade was sucking the matter out of it.

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 27/09/2026

The kind of trolling that only loved ones can get away with. #writesky #WIPsnips #korps

Mel turned to the wolf who lagged behind them, putting on a fake whinging tone. “Come onnnnn, hurry up! It’s terrible out here, and the shop will be warm!”

Epoxy grinned, clearly holding things up for her own personal amusement. “I don’t see any reason to move any faster than I am, Blaster. Anyone would think you had something special planned, instead of just a shopping trip.”

“You know I do. I literally explained everything to you, twice! Now you're just being obstinate because you think it's funny!”

“It is funny, love.”

Mel growled with exasperation as they rounded the corner, spying an antique shop right where they expected it.

“Finally,” they cried, running up to the door and holding it open for their partner, the bell above it jingling quietly. “In you come!”

To Mel's despair, there was no added urgency - Epoxy sauntered over the road slowly before slipping past the sergal into the store.

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 19/09/2026

Oh, shock horror. You have no place to comment then. Bonus award for being pro-Brexit then taking your money abroad anyway like the world's worst dad abandoning his kid at a party they didn't want to go to. Shit off.

Sir Jim, whose wealth is estimated to be around £15bn, has prompted controversy in the past with his comments on immigration. He was a supporter of Brexit but has been a tax resident in Monaco since 2020.

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 19/09/2026

🟪 Fuckity bye then, take your billions elsewhere. I will put good money on the fact you don't fucking pay tax on it anyway. Oh, you've threatened to leave before and you're still here? Also you have a history of being a racist arsehole? Sounds like Britain is still exactly the country you want.

Billionaire Man United owner says he has lost confidence in the UK

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 12/09/2026

🟥 Mel wants a bad-ass cybernetic arm, but maybe it's bad to ask someone to remove one of your arms? Who knows? @autumnreynsford.bsky.social might! #korps #wipsnip

>> I have a cybernetics expert in the next room to talk to you about what you’re going to be going through. Maybe teach you a bit of tact, if possible.

“Good luck to whoever you’re giving that task to, but send ‘em on in I guess.”

>> Miss Reynsford?

The door slowly opened to the room, a fennec with round glasses poking her head around the door.

“Uh, howdy? Someone was needing a cybernetic expert?” The black and white furred vixen drawled, with a noticeably Southern accent. “I’m usually the flygirl though sooo… what’s up?”

Mel rolled their eyes. “Did you send me a nerd?”

>> Yes, now please button your wedge for a moment. Autumn, would you mind giving our friend here a run-down of upkeep and maintenance? If you have time, too, how to discuss this kind of thing with those members of the Korps who didn’t decide to have work like this done on a whim?

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 07/09/2026

Later they tear one of the jacket's arms off. CHARACTER. #WIPSnips #korps

Eva left the scarlet-faced badger in the office, with Mel giving him a wink and following her to the store room. She opened the walk-in fridge to reveal an elevator, doors opening smoothly so the two could walk inside.

A tinny voice came over the speaker, “Welcome, Havoc and Balance. Have a villainous day!” followed by the lift humming into life and speeding down.

Mel grinned. “Okay, I love that you stole that from the Evil Mall.”

“Couldn’t resist! We don’t have anything as good as the EM, sadly, just an Evil Shopping Centre. We’ve got a tailor, though. I'll get you a new jacket.”

"Hey, fuck off, this jacket has character."

"It has bullet holes, duck."

"It's irreplaceable!"

"Only because you won't replace it!"

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 06/09/2026

Sam takes Eva to task for her poor career decisions.

“Why did you join the force anyway? I mean, you’re gay, you’re in a wheelchair, you’re a woman - did you really think you’d get anywhere?”

The greyhound sighed. “I’m a stubborn cow, is why. I told my dad I wanted to do it, he was a supportive dad and said I could be a great officer, and I believed him. Bit naive, t’ be honest, and I didn’t think it was goin’ to be as bad as all that. What a load of bollocks it turned out to be, eh?”

Sam nodded. “Most of my experience is with US cops but uh, I don’t think law enforcement anywhere has a spotless record when it comes to LGBT folks, let alone women…”

“Yeah. For the record though, I’m not an L, duck, I’m a B. That part I could have gotten away with, at least.”

The mouse frowned. “You get away with it, sure. But you’re still helping a group of people that has killed my girlfriend, nearly killed me, and fucked over pretty much everyone I know.”

Another sigh escaped Eva’s muzzle. “Gonna have to find a new job, aren't I?”

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 06/09/2026

CW: Vore First piece of vore art we've ever gotten, as well as it being a long time since we got anything sexy at all! Luckily @roxannarachnid.bsky.social is around to make something amazing as always. #vore

Three stage picture of a red kobold, Meph, being eaten by a blue wyrm, Esk. The first part has Meph climbing into Esk's mouth, the second Esk is holding Meph in its throat while the kobold looks very happy, then finally the wyrm snaps its jaws shut.

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 01/09/2026

Post something random or you'll have an awful september

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 30/08/2026

🟥 Most of the fanfics are based on Goethe rather than Marlowe so I feel justified >:( Also you're right about languages and we already wrote that into canon!

“What if you have to shapeshift into someone who doesn’t speak English?”

“Oh, I speak every language.”

The serval looked intrigued. “What do you mean, every language?”

“Literally all languages. If a language gets made up in the next ten minutes, I’ll be able to speak it. Part of the package of being a dealmaker for the devil, I think, is to tap into the planar ‘gestalt’, the world-consciousness, to understand what they're saying.”

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 29/08/2026

We're British and we all use "y'all", Mel especially. Not sure how this weird hill to die on would cope with that.

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 26/08/2026

🟪 New ref done! Thanks so much @louraccoon.bsky.social for your patience and hard work 💜

Reference for Mel Corrin, a sergal and Korps agent. They have purple fur, a dark jacket with one sleeve ripped off to show a cybernetic arm. The arm has a bladewhip wrapped around it that they can deploy as a weapon.

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 22/08/2026

if you see this, we implore you to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 13/08/2026

🟪 A very stylish YCH by @shezathesergal.bsky.social! Thank you, it's amazing!

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 09/08/2026

Forgot to post this! Sketch of LLM-turned-supervillain Orla! @roxannarachnid.bsky.social smashed it again.

A synthetic bipedal lizard in green and light blue. She is tapping away at a holographic display with her right hand.

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 02/08/2026

Zero being a thorn in Sam's side as he tries to nudge her out of a rut. (also made a little snip template thing, feedback welcome) #WIPSnip #writesky #korps

Well I’m hopefully heading to another base now, so there’s no point in starting anything, is there?

His paw rested caringly on her head, the interface giving her the feeling of reassurance that came with the familial gesture, as she wrestled with the controller inputs.

>> We both know that’s not true, but I'll change the subject anyway - can I convince you at least to go out tonight to get some fresh air? Otherwise this’ll be the fifth night of Heroclash labbing you’ve done in a row, and we both know Oni’s LP->HP->QCF LK is basically impossible unless you’re me.

Sam stared at the visage of Oni in front of her, the smirk on the white fox’s model almost baiting her to try one more time.

FINE, you prickly prick. I’ll go out and get some sushi.

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 31/07/2026

Not particularly surprised...

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 31/07/2026

Mel gets some tips from an expert on how not to fuck up her cybernetics. #wipsnips #writesky #korps

“Good place to start!” The fox bobbed her head a little, ears swiveling back and forth in another apparent sign that she was thinking. “So, first things first: You have to remember that these are mechanical. They don’t heal on their own, they have hard limits on durability, and they will break if you aren’t careful. There is nothing worse than literally breaking off two or three fingers because you decided punching through a wall was cooler than shouldering through a door.”
“You see, that’s good advice. I’m definitely the wall-punching type. I did ask them to make it as durable as possible, but… I guess there’s always gonna be a limit, huh.”
“Yep! Always a limit. Good thing to remember is that whatever tolerance they give you… that’s the breaking point, not the starting point.” She answered as she peeled a bit of the remaining synthetic hide from her parts. “Steel and ceramic are not as forgiving as flesh. You can break a knuckle or twist an ankle and keep fighting, but if you rip a fiber-bundle, or crush a servo? Yep, you’ll be down until you get to maintenance. ‘Cept if you are me. I know how to do field repairs.”

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 30/07/2026

🟥 10) This might be self-indulgent, but the scene where my character is freed from servitude. The joy he has in that scene is something I felt to my core when I became real.

Meph stood still for a full minute, processing what was happening, before he bolted out of the backroom. Rith, shocked, followed him out as quickly as it could, watching him sprint across the shop and out of the front door.

Rith sped after him, out the door and down the road. It finally caught up with him several hundred metres down the street under a street lamp, looking at its own claws, rain pouring down his snout. He turned back to Rith, his face the picture of joy, the rain mixing with his tears.

“I feel… fine. I’m actually free.”

Rith nodded, wiping its own eyes with the back of its claw. “You are.”

“I can go anywhere.”

“Anywhere you please.”

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 29/07/2026

Without downloading any pics, where are you mentally

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 27/07/2026

Rith finally tries to resolve a recurring nightmare.

Drip.

She was here again.

She tried to hold the dream in her mind, to stop herself from waking up. The longer she could stay here, the less time she would have to deal with the void of numbness that awaited her outside of this place. It was terrifying here, but it was worse out there.

A strangled scream, and then… a familiar voice, crying.

“Oh Great Worm, save us!”

She looked around. She could almost tell which direction it was coming from… She floated in the darkness, shouting out in every direction, panic rising.

“Hello? Where are you?”

The voice came again. “Heed the call of your most dedicated follower, take my life if you must but save our family!”

“I don’t want your life! I don’t want any of your lives! Please, just tell me where you are!”

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 25/07/2026

🟦 I don't even know why I did this template

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 24/07/2026

The latest in the "I'm helping!" pics - today I've read at least three different books so I definitely know how to repair @renamon.club's Sniperbot... Art by @roxannarachnid.bsky.social who has knocked it out of the park as usual!

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 22/07/2026

Got an underground base? Don't worry about it, just get an enormous lizard wizard to enchant the ceiling! Nobody will ever know! #wipsnips #writesky #korps

They came up to a second door that slid to the side with a pneumatic hiss and the two walked into the outpost proper. The sergal looked up, and their face lit up with a genuine smile.

The ceiling of the new outpost of Meadowhall had been hollowed out, and overlaid on it was one of their sibling’s new illusions. It’d been working on images that could replace wallpaper in its shop (for “the atmos”, it had said, proving that Mel needed to stop it using Meph’s phone), and it had taken all that knowledge and let it shine here. Glowing in the roof was a grand representation of the Yorkshire sky, and at the edges, peaks that maintained correct perspective no matter how much Mel moved their head.

“Oh Rith… You fucking outdid yourself this time.”

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 21/07/2026

Meph poking a little too hard into a demon's past. Chill friend, get to know them first and then ask them what kind of arsehole they had to torture? #wipsnips #writesky #korps

Meph cast his mind back to his research - he'd looked into the Buddhist hot hells as a potential escape route from his contract, but it was the rakshasa that specifically made that a non-starter, being hell wardens whose job was to torture anyone who entered the realms. They were inescapable - specifically bound to each denizen and manifesting directly from their perception. To escape…

“You must have been bound to someone who escaped, somehow?”

“And it took me many years to dissolve that binding. But I exist here now, and my host does not. The less said about him, the better.”

“Then I should consider myself lucky-”

“Maybe! But like I said, we're not here to dig into the past, especially not mine.”

Meph put his claws up. “Sorry. I didn’t mean to pry.”

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 15/07/2026

Man discovers the wonder of reading books.

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 13/07/2026

Sam has got better things to do than go out and meet new people, obviously. Won't stop her hedgehog AI from trying, though. #WIPSnips #Writesky #Korps

>> I’m sorry, Sammy. It’s just we both know what you’ve been through in the last 3 years, and it’s more than enough for most people’s entire life. I’m grateful you finally decided to let me help you, but there’s still a long road and you’re trying so hard not to walk it.

Well I’m hopefully heading to KDARC now, so there’s no point in starting anything now, is there?

His paw rested caringly on her head, the interface giving her the feeling of reassurance that came with the familial gesture, as she wrestled with the controller inputs.

>> We both know that’s not true, but I'll change the subject anyway - can I convince you at least to go out tonight to get some fresh air? Otherwise this’ll be the fifth night of Heroclash labbing you’ve done in a row, and we both know Oni’s LP->HP->QCF LK is basically impossible unless you’re me.

Sam stared at the visage of Oni in front of her, the smirk on the white fox’s model almost baiting her to try one more time.

FINE, you prickly prick. I’ll go out and get some sushi.

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The Scalebound @scalebound.scot · 12/07/2026

Another member of the Hindsight cast gets a design - it's Eva! Thanks as always to @roxannarachnid.bsky.social who seems to be psychic. She absolutely nailed Eva's no shit given, no shit taken attitude.