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we all know and love dog coded characters but what about their cousin, falcon coded characters. characters whose loyalty is fierce, but more distant, less physically affectionate, an unspoken but mutually understood bond. whose devotion to you is a language that only the two of you understand. whose fearsome appearance never lets you forget the privilege you hold in having earned that devotion. who require careful handling and patience to bond with, so you don't slip and cut yourself on their sharp edges. whose trust is given after you place yours in them, not before. whose dependence on you is less apparent but no less real. whose power is only equal to their fragility. who can easily leave your side, but will always return when you hold out your hand and call them home.

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This post is so funny like comment subscribe if you picture your favs bloodied and coughing on the floor and flinching

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Andi also requested 8, which is Caught It by VOILA ft. Chrissy Costanza, and this is so gotdamn Kestrel and Falcon coded lol. Enjoy the fluff and heartbreak <3

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You wake first, for once. Normally their side of your bed is long cold, or you catch just a flash of their hair as they slip out of your room. But for once you wake to their hair in your face and their chest rising and falling against yours.

It’s still early. The sky outside has barely shifted lighter, a mere hint of a suggestion that dawn is coming. When it comes, they’ll be gone, and you’ll both act like this moment never existed. But for now…

You untangle yourself just enough to press your lips to their jaw. They shift and whine softly. You move down to their neck.

That gets them to open their eyes, half silver and sleepy as hell. They glance at the window, then back at you. “Early.”

You hum your agreement as you lean in to kiss them. “Not morning yet,” you mumble.

“True.” They twirl your hair around their finger and hook a leg over yours, pulling you back in. As long as the morning light doesn’t creep in you can keep pretending, and you selfishly hope you’ll never see it again.

~

You catch his eye from across the room, and the familiarity is so strong it feels like an electric shock in your chest.

The night is winding down and people are leaving when you get the chance to join him in his corner. He raises an eyebrow at your approach, but doesn’t immediately rebuff you the way you’ve seen him do to others.

He does say, “I have a flight in the morning.”

You step close, reach up, and twirl a lock of his hair around your finger. “It’s not morning yet.”

He grins, sharp and feral, and takes you by the hand.

You should talk about this, this unfamiliar familiarity, but he steals your breath all too quick, and you decide that conversation can wait for another night. For now, until the morning, you are content with your name on his lips and the taste of whiskey on his tongue.

You hear his name on the news, a while later, and the grief rips through your chest anew, tasting like cyanide and silver flame.  

~

At least you’ve found them, every time.

Passed them by in the night.

~

At least you’ve found him, every time.

Clung to him till the morning’s light.

~

And maybe one of these times you’ll get it right.

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Hi I'm a few days late (by my own standards) with this but in my defense every single day of December so far I've either been working or in school so I feel I'm justified lol

Anyways to explain what's going on here, another November has passed, and with it another of my NaNo stories turns heckin 10 years old. Who the fuck gave it the right, huh? So, in the spirit of nostalgia and cringe I'mma reread it, and since I'm now an adult with adult money who can buy herself some gotdamned alcohol, I'm also making drinking rules to deal with the inevitable cringe lmao

(Obligatory disclaimer that NaNo the org is fuckin trash and I do not endorse them, but NaNo as an event will always have a special place in my heart and I'm basically kidnapping it from the org now)

The rules are simple: 1. Drink whenever I cringe 2. Drink whenever there's a blatant case of me padding the fuckin word count (in this case, dream sequences lol)

And with that, I once again have my kitty, I have my snaccs, I unfortunately do not have my emotional support wine but I do have peach wine which'll have to do, so let's go

Time to reread Nova draft 1 for the first time since........ whenever I reread it last and sparked the eternal rewrite hell I'm in now lmao

Okay so this intro is like....... not great but also hella?? Like the whole "showing Will missing James" is *chef's kiss* but the execution is..... needs work lmao

Ah yes, the days when Aydan was hella fuckin traumatized before the events of Nova ever happened lol

Liam's gf is named after my tenor buddy from high school aaaaaah <3

LMAOOOOOO fuckin perspective change mid paragraph hell yeah *cries* we're doing so great y'all

............................. well I'm gonna take a huge ass drink bc oh lord, things that shoulda tipped me off that my brain is some form of neurospicy a long ass time ago

But also hell yeah, cute Summer Aydan moment. for fuckin once they are so mildly catty to each other now lol (Summer is overprotective and smothering and Aydan gets sassy in response and Summer gets catty back lol)

I thought he wore colored contacts in this draft. I THOUGHT HE WORE COLORED CONTACTS IN THIS DRAFT. WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

Yeah amnesiac Jay was the best fucking decision I ever made for this story bc oh lord Jay's motivations for why Will can't know his identity are tissue paper fuckin thin anyways if you need me I'll be singing Frozen bc that's the association my brain is making rn lol

CONCEAL DON'T FEEL DON'T LET THEM KNOOOOOOOOW

*ahem* anyhoot

I......... I'm fairly certain that's not vertigo, that's just shitty fuckin depth perception from having shit vision in one eye my dude

Ah yes, when Lai was an important character cause he was one of the only ones XD

Oh yeah and nobody tells Jay shit lmaoooo "oh btw she's Summer's cousin" "SERIOUSLY????" (this also happens later. something about their uncles dating. i think i've posted it before lol. we'll get there soon enough) lmaooooo and Lai calls Jay out for his lack of knowledge anyways cause he's supposed to know this shit XD

Lai isn't being an absolute gotdamned asshole and somehow this is worse

(also one of my classmates texted me for unrelated reasons anybody wanna take bets on how long before that conversation devolves because i'm already half a glass of wine in XD)

Jay being stalkery! Wahoo!!

oh antisocial bb Aydan <333 who's also a smartass <33333 and a bb <3333333

And meanwhile Jay is continuing to be creeper stalkery :P

oh bb yeah. yeah. I used to be snappy about my height lol. sorry bb that's where you're getting your snappiness from XD

fuckin Will lmao

And now is when the tissue paper motivations piss me off even more!!!!

"They never found his body" correction! y'all's mom never found his body. Baz did ;)

JAY. JAY NO. READ THE FUCKING ROOM MY BOY. ABSOFUCKINLUTELY NOT LMAO

"oh jeez i didn't mean to cause problems" says the boy who is knowingly causing problems by keeping his identity a secret

"I'm not going to make it personal" says the boy who complicates everything by making it personal i think we need to add a tally/drinking rule for every time Jay says a blatant lie XD

Oh god once again I have been smacked with the knowledge that originally Heron, Gray, and Owl were supposed to be teenagers, like barely older than Jay

And I have also been smacked with the knowledge that Seanna, Starlight-now-Sora, and Cal were always a part of the group in this version! forgot the fuck about that!

Wait. wait wait wait wait wait. Is Basil older than Heron Gray and Owl????????

WHY ARE THESE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE JAY????? WHY ARE YOUR DAMN MOTIVATIONS LIKE GOTDAMN NEWSPAPER IN THE RAIN

bb aydan <3333333

Jay now is not the time to be flirting ffs

lmaoooooo this was based off my fucking high school geometry class. fuck that weird ass project.

Aydan my darling with an Ed Elric-sized temper <333333333

"If you're going to be taking junior classes [as a freshman] try not to act your age so much" damn Summer what the fuck "Geometry isn't even a junior class it's a sophomore one" yeah mood lmao

Jay "sit here and look pretty" Miles you have not changed in that regard <3

Imma be honest, this scene is very what the fuck. Like, even understanding the subtext that I was trying to bury, I Do Not Get this scene. It's so fuckin disjointed and just. Will's parents have nothing to do with the unnamed past trauma. Why are they basically being equated here???? I don't fucking know!!!!! this, my friends, is why I drink when rereading ~decade old writing now XD

"I'm not stupid," says the boy who, historically, has made a lot of stupid decisions XD

LMAO "philosophy's a bitch" FUCKIN PREACH WILL I HATED THAT CLASS SO MUCH AND I ONLY TOOK IT CUZ OF A BITCH I CUT CONTACT WITH ALMOST IMMEDIATELY AFTER HIGH SCHOOL (she has a name in my storytime series. I do Not Remember it rn. nor do I care. She was a gotdamned bitch lol)

"Fuck philosphy" again gotdamn PREACH Will

HI WILLOW WHO IS FRESHLY STOLEN FROM COFAS AT THIS POINT :DDDD

Ah yes "I didn't know Summer and Aydan were related until River told me they were his nieces." "Is everybody related and I just don't know about it?" "BTW River is your uncle's ex-boyfriend" XDDDDD (ex only bc said uncle (Hayden) fuckin DIED rip in pieces Hayden you're officially ded for realsies in Nova canon nowadays)

Ah back in the ol' days when cellphones weren't ubiquitous and forgetting yours wouldn't be a gotdamn death sentence lol

THE FUCK PHILOSOPHY AGENDA CONTINUES

Jay. My dude. My buddy. Considering you know (i think) about the Past Traumas. you really shoulda maybe TOLD HER THE FUCKING TRUTH EARLIER. like i know this is rushed bc of outside circumstances (probs i was tired of writing high school shenanigans) but ma dude. pls.

Jay out here writing the "how to make your gf's cousin hate you forever" manual lol

Oh Lai now is NOT the time lmao Hell yeah Willow bitchin out Lai for being a bitch lol

oh good fucking lord i did not have the antagonists planned out well in this AT ALL

KAI!! I thought that was Baz at first and I was gonna cry bc I was confused at how old Baz is in this draft lol

Oh lord the exposition I was so terrible at it lol

"What do you want? A dramatic reunion scene where we admit our feelings to each other and shit?" lmaoooooo jokes on you Jay y'all are hella gay for each other now XDDDD (he's talking to Baz here)

Baz is 19. Jay is 17. So are Heron Gray and Owl meant to be 18 or are they even younger than Jay????? That's..... noooooo

"I left Aydan with River." "Oh yeah, they are related" "Goddammit why does everybody know this but me"

Lol this dynamic has flipflopped. Baz is now the one who freaks out when things don't go the way he plans and Jay's the one like "Babe. pls. not your fault. pls chill."

god they're so gay but like i don't even think they're exes here! it's just a bunch of homorerotic subtext that I never do shit with!!!!

OH MY GOD. HE IS WEARING COLORED CONTACTS. BUT JUST TO HIDE THE NOVA RINGS. WHAT THE FUUUUUCK DUDE SO MUCH EFFORT WOULDA BEEN AVOIDED IF YOU JUST WORE BROWN CONTACTS NOT YOUR HETEROCHROMATIC ASS

Ah yes the inability to sleep on his own. He still kinda has that trait. But more in the crossover from hell bc he's spent ages sleeping next to Baz and/or Aydan

And we come upon our first dream-sequence-added-for-word-padding folks! 15/83 pages in!!

*ahem* I accidentally fell asleep XD Day 2 shenanigans commence here

I still have no idea how old Heron Gray and Owl are supposed to be here smh

*hissssss* this is not my Basil *throws tomatoes*

But also Catnip <333333

The bones are there. The bones are so there. If they weren't I wouldn't've resurrected this from the dead and into eternal WIP hell. but gotdamn is this so painfully disjointed and cliche and aaaaaaaah

Wait does this make me a WIP necromancer? lmao ............................. GODDAMMIT I DON'T NEED ANOTHER WIP IDEA AAAAAAAAH

*ahem* anyhoot

Jay ya dramatic mothafluffa lol

Also Jay you are no doctor and those symptoms are vague enough that it might not mean shit about her nova (it does, but I'm still gonna rag on him bc it's so nonspecific lol)

Anyways bb snuggle times!!! :D

Aydan: is very blatantly told not to bring anything with her, and very clearly does not bring anything with her Also Aydan: has a book she brought with her in this scene. bc why not

Oh I thought we never went into the backstory trauma explicitly! Guess I fuckin forgot!!!! Never mind it's like bare ass bones detail lmao

God I can't believe I posted this on Figment Once again, rip Figment and also it's probably for the best since I'm a gotdamn digital packrat

Ah yes, hello Molly. I only semi-recently-ish added you back into Nova Also lmao Jay you are being so gotdamn unsubtle right now :P

Okay this is more like the Basil I know and love :D Sassing Jay and kicking his ass when he's sick <3

Awwww gay bbs <3

JAAAAAAAAY <33333333333333 I know I've been sassing this version of him hard but THAT'S MY BB RIGHT THERE

lol oh Basil jealousy never looks good on you XD (It's not even jealousy it's just. sir you've been introduced to her. Jay's probably waxing poetic in his free time. you should know her gotdamn name)

lmao still so true Jay really doesn't like making people worry about him

DREAM SEQUENCE TWO BAYBE actually this one might not've been to pad the word count, I think it was a strategically placed flashback due to Jay being sick as fuck right now

Yup, strategically placed (aka the following chapter actually acknowledges the gotdamn dream sequence)

Damn, low blow there Jay lmao

heh. heheheh. there's absolutely nothing you can imply about me from this scene. absolutely nothing regarding my love of sick-fics lmao

BASIL KICKING DOWN THE DOOR WITH THE FLIRTING LMAOOO but also yeah baz stop acting like Jay sheesh this is too damn weird lol

lolllllll Heron and Owl being gayyyyyyyyy

also lmao @ me writing fucking fight scenes :P

Basil you absolute shithead lmao

Damn Will being gotdamn sassy as shit

Ah yes, the part of Will's characterization that I eventually cut bc I was not.......... it's a sensitive topic and I did not handle it the way that i shoulda. So ultimately it got cut and it may have been slightly before this but this was def in the transition stage of me going "actually, I think I should not give Will this characterization in part bc i've been fucking it up bad" but he still had some parts of it Had to get mildly called out by somebody in a writing workshop to really start having that realization, but eh, you live n you learn and you do better the next time you create a character like that, because 15-ish-year-olds are notoriously stupid even if they think they're doing good research

Anyways moving on from that tangent

Time to silently scream about Jay's tissue paper thin motivations again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol i'm not sure if this was to pad the word count or not, but we're having a Heron-Gray-Owl intermission now!

Was Gray a Nova at this point? Or did I add that later? I def didn't have the specialties at this point so her clockwork shenanigans are just calling back to the book series I stole her from, but is she a Nova?????

LMAO Heron's upset about a book character dying whatta fuckin MOOD

lmao I'm laughing so hard that my cat just looked over at me and meowed so indignantly. sorry bb I must die over the fact I gave Heron my high-school overdramaticness about character deaths

dawwwww and now a Sora-Seanna-Cal intermission ft the best momma Cassandra!

Lol Summer you are waaaaaaaaay too late for the protective older sister/cousin talk you're trying to do here

Damn Summer really just always goes for the throat when arguing with Aydan gotdamn

lmao "I'm almost sixteen!" bb you're still just a bb <3

Will: *walks in, sees argument, immediately tries to nope outta this shit*

But hey, now we get snuggle time!!

Yeah I don't know why Jay was supposed to be a secret Nova. It's something that held on from the 0.5 draft, but even that I'm like....... why???? 0.5 draft was a fucking wild ass ride that is basically only 5 scenes long on paper and mostly lives on in my fuckin brain lol

Lmao snuggle time getting interrupted by Aydan somehow recognizing Jay's scars despite not ever actually knowing him before his nova

Lol despite it all, and despite me describing him as 2 steps from emo several times, Will's favorite color is in fact, still dark/navy blue, not black XD This is why his mask color in the Band AU is dark blue (+grey cuz of his eyes)

TISSUE! PAPER! MOTIVATIONS! FUCK YOU!!!

"I miss my parents" lol keep thinking that kid your mom gets so much worse in the rewrite <3

Okay back to the snuggles lol

And another dream sequence, this one definitely just for padding out that word count!!

pffft the "are we dating" convo got swapped over to Baz and Jay bc with Baz Jay is so fuckin clueless but by the time he n Ay are serious he actually knows fuckin words (bc words are very important when you're trying to do poly shit lol)

(side note my entire life is covered in glitter rn cuz i'm adding edible glitter to my wine :DDDDDDD)

Okay Jay that's goin straight to 1000% right there gotdamn my dude

Again, Summer, you are way too late to this party to be playing the overprotective card

And again she's going for the gotdamn throat jesus fuck Summer have a bit of chill huh?

Why the fuck is Will on Aydan's side in this??? I don't understand......

Baz seriously stop stealing Jay's personality I don't fluffin like it (tbh I think it was just a bit of the writer's version of same-face-syndrome where I only really knew how to write one sort of character. Maybe)

Ah yes the at-the-time reasonless "I want Jay to go nova first so dramatic powers explosion" scene (current reasoning for Jay going nova first despite Baz being older/a Nova for longer is that he uses too much magic closing the time rift at Almaraz) (sometimes it takes close to a decade to fix a plot hole lmao)

oh Baz <3333

Jay going nova in a safe environment cuz he knows he doesn't have much time left? *yawn* boring Jay sacrificing himself for Baz and Aydan cuz he knows he doesn't have much time left, then using his nova to hopefully hurt his mother/the government? motha fluffin *chef's kiss* right there (Especially with the added trauma to Baz of being the one to cause Jay's nova lol)

Group hug poly shenanigans! :DDDD

Oh I coulda made that hit so much harder if I had any sorta fuckin restraint and knew about/properly appreciated the trope of "one person says ily first and the other can't say it back but feels it so much" (I may have actually first encountered that in an OTGW/GF fic.......... lmao. The Mystery Best Friends is a great series. Go read it if anything about this ramble interests you. It's on AO3. I've seen 1 ep of GF and none of OTGW and I still love it with such a gotdamn passion)

Anyhoot lmao can you tell I've had a full ass glass of wine yet? :P My blood is turning to glitter as we speak <3

Oh my god I can't believe this is the first time Bay is getting some gotdamn real ass mention. he's gonna get his asshole characterization real fuckin soon tho!!

Oh I don't even describe his nova fuckin laaaaaaaaaaaaaaame (to be fair the only one i think I describe is in the Time Travel "AU" which is....... not the canon timeline in a way of speaking lmao) (TTAU my gotdamn beloved <333333)

This detail has stayed! The fact that Jay's goggles are so gotdamned attuned to him due to the initial nova lmao

WHY IS THAT TECHNICALLY A PART OF THE PREVIOUS PARAGRAPH JESUS FUCK okay context. I write in wall of text style. Still do. It's an awful habit i should break lmao. anyhoot. So I do full on paragraph breaks for scene changes

ya know like this, and lil shift enters like this for things that are like "continuation of the previous but but also i want a paragraph break in here for reasons" And for some fuckass reason I did the lil shift enter between a paragraph focused on Baz and Aydan and Jay's goggles and Jay waking up absofluffinlutely confused by everything and not even with his goggles yet which woulda been a very good mothafluffin transition jesus fuck my wine is too full otherwise i would drain my glass for this

Dream sequence no. I've lost count! 3?? maybe 4????? I can't math even when I'm sober lmao (which is absolutely hilarious bc I'm the best at math in my class. how. how did this happen. (engineering college is the answer tbh) my math major friend is absolutely shooketh that this is happening lol)

lollllll you can tell this was written in................... after my jaw surgery. wait was it after my jaw surgery? it's real fuckin accurate to that feeling of waking up after surgery but also was it really over a decade ago? jesus fuck i'm old (and don't remember how old/what grade i was in in 2014) Anyways mothafluffin accuracy all i wanted was some fuckin water when I was waking up after surgery and all they'd give me was gotdamn ice chips which did barely nothin (that surgery is also what gave me the knowledge that fruit punch gatorade is tasty af) (and baby food is very........ overly fruity)

Also a fuckin mood about trying to wake up and being hella unable to

Oh! by that point i'd definitely gotten my wisdom teeth out! which was probably at least part of the basis for this scene if I hadn't had the jaw surgery yet

Ah yes, back in ye olde days when Jay had fucked up eyesight (which magically got fixed after his nova bc let's be real, i kept forgetting to write that and Aydan's asthma)

Hey Bay! First time seeing you, 32 pages in! And you're immediately asserting yourself as an asshole!!!!!!

Good fucking LORD I basically swapped Jay and Basil's personalities didn't I????? Well, to be fair, maybe not really. I just... hol up lemme give you the line for context cuz I'm lazy lmao

“I never would have thought you would go nova before Basil,” Bay said, entering the room properly. “He always used his power a bit frivolously, while you… You never used your powers unless you had to, did you?”

so, in current Nova canon: 1. Baz in no way uses his power frivolously, although to Bay (who is very "no powers ever") it probably is 2. Jay is worse than Baz about using his powers. He doesn't like people healing him, but he won't fuckin hesitate to use his powers and shorten his own lifespan to protect/heal/save the people he loves 3. Bay is an asshole to Jay bc he thinks he's a liability and gonna drive Basil off the deep end into life-ending shenanigans (not entirely wrong, to be fair) 4. Basil is still probably more conservative in power usage than Jay, but that's more cuz he thinks more and can figure out ways of solving situations with minimal/no power usage, as opposed to Jay who basically goes nuclear if he has no other plan/guidance lmao

anyhoot tangent done lmao

Bay is being friendly to Jay and I am so weirded out this is worse than Baz acting like Jay

Yeah it's definitely better when Baz has the whole smackdown of his dad for running away, when his dad has been pushing him to fight his whole life vs Jay who's just a "friend" of Baz in this version I do appreciate Jay giving Bay the gotdamn snark for ditching Baz lol

Oh this is some bullshit lmao

Reunion time! <3333333

God my romance writing was Not Great back then lmao I think this was also before I ever dated somebody.................. yeah checks out (I may have had Cyrus flirting at me nonstop by this point tho) No wait I definitely did cuz Seanna is named after him! oh jeez

BRB just need to stare at the wall for a few moments contemplating what choices led to me deciding that Aydan needed this traumatic backstory (I would also say what choices led to me deciding a near sex-scene was necessary at this particular time, but let's be real I was a Cassandra Clare bitch so the reason behind the near sex-scene is the least confusing part of this)

Molly and Oliver intermission!!! Oliver is forever just a lil sweetheart <3333333

"A few weeks" YOU MEAN TO TELL ME JAY SNAGGED ANOTHER NOVA, WENT NOVA, GUILT TRIPPED BAY INTO COMING BACK, AND NEARLY BONKED AYDAN ON SCREEN WITHIN THE SPAN OF A FEW GOTDAMN WEEKS??????? BITCH TRY A FEW GOTDAMN MONTHS, MAYBE OVER HALF A GOTDAMN YEAR WHAT THE GOTDAMN FUCK?????? (not even mentioning the sick-fic arc and everything else that happened between that and Jay's explodey accident/subsequent nova)

"Jay only cares about Basil and Aydan" yeah basically lmao

Oh yeah. Definitely while Will still had the characterization I did badly. Cuz he's not in this dream sequence when he should be for plot reasons I really don't feel like explaining bc we'd be here for way too fuckin long

James the chocolate fiend has stayed! I've kept that much consistent!

(also if the typos get worse from here on out i apologize but damn my fingers are not wanting to hit the right keys and at some point i'll get too lazy to keep correcting my mistakes. the lack of capitalization should be a tipoff lmao)

This is totally not the point but the story mentions that James is the oldest son which. Is true in some universes. Not in current Nova and not in Band AU, which is where the tangent is coming from, but. that fuckin line just reminded me of the HPM AU of Band AU, where Will was the third oldest, and yet he became the oldest child and it fuckin sucks. The middle child who was never meant to be the oldest, even when his oldest brother died bc he still had his slightly older triplet brother, who then also died and absofuckinlutely ruined Will bc he was never meant to be the oldest.

Half Past Midnight is an AU that makes me cry onthe regular when I think about it!

Moving on!!

Jay you're a fucking shithead lmaooo

Oh dear. I just realized we're not even halfway through yet D: (to be fair this is 53000 words. and some of them may be notes for the rewrite/an attempt at it. but still. DDDDD:)

Ah Jay, being overly concerned with Aydan's health <3 (and overly concerned with his for the circumstances *stare*)

oh bb Oliver <3333333

Lol Molly's crush on Jay is kinda still a thing at least. or at the very least her ignoring the fuck outta Oliver following her around like a smitten puppy lol

"I'll make sure he takes care of you" I'm sorry do you actually get the opportunity to talk to Baz or are you fuckin bullshittin my dear Jay????

It is honestly so fascinating to see some of the character choices that I made. Like Boss is an active participant and not just the guy moving all the chess pieces around from his office. huh

Anyways back to the fuckin Frozen internal soundtrack lol which is funny cuz this wip definitely wasn't written to the Frozen soundtrack, unlike gotdamn CoFaS (that's a lie, when I was rewriting Nova in 2019 it was partially to the Frozen 2 soundtrack, but this is 2014 goddammit, the sequel is still 5 ish years off!!!!!!)

god this fight scene is bad *cringe*

OH THIS IS WHERE HERON DIED OMG Oh that is blatantly a quote from the series I stole them from oop

yup my love for whump definitely isn't shining through here *sarcasm*

oh poor Owl DDDD:

oh everybody is having a rough ass time rn

Ah I fuckin shared this scene with the writing club me and my selo started. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

oh that's a reference to a figment exclusive story that never got published oop lmao

OH HI HAYDEN ENJOY LIVING IN THIS DRAFT :DDDDDD

god everything was so black and white when i was a kid huh

"I don't think I'm qualified to tell you" says one of the most qualified mothafluffas on the planet lol

Yeah there is absolutely no logic for me bringing Hayden and Remus back, but ya know what? Let Kai be happy in this version at least. He gets that much still

Yeah my romance still sucks at this point in the story lol

LMAO everybody is chirping Kai for making out with Hayden first thing

feckin ;) KAI JESUS FUCK

Jay: I was trying to protect your innocence (re walking in on Kay and Hayden makin out) Aydan: what innocence?

Yup, my romance is trash lmao

Lol Jay is still a clingy ass shit <3

Goooooooooooooooooood Jay and Basil are so gay for each other in this draft they fuckin need to kiss about it already

Why is Will included? for the fuckin drama I guess lol

Oh yeah for the fuckin drama. Will's trying to dig into Jay's identity lmao

Which Jay is not helping by fucking suggesting he and Will pretend to be siblings lmaooooo

god the gotdamn age gap shenanigans smh (not as bad as CoFaS but I still made a fucking Point outta it here)

Ah yes the gotdamn mid-scene POV shifts smh

Oh I finally have an age for Gray, she's around Aydan's age here (so 15/16 ish)

BB LILY <33333333333

Ah yes, and back in the days where HP was still popular bc the author hadn't revealed herself as a piece of shit yet

BUT NEVER MIND THAT BB LILY IS BB <333333333333333

God Jay isn't supposed to be this much of a rules boi aaaaaaaaaaah

awwwww fuckin Lily and Aydan is the cutest gotdamn thing ever <3333333

[Will] followed Jay and Aydan regardless, not because he wanted to mind you, but because he had no other freaking choice.

lol fuckin classic Will XD

......... I FELL ASLEEP AGAIN GODDAMMIT I WILL FINISH THIS TONIGHT I SWEAR WE'RE LIKE 2/3 DONE I THINK

Ah Jay, why the fuck must this be your shitty person arc?

Don't mind me if you need me I'll be over here smacking this version of Jay with a newspaper for being so gotdamn shitty Like, ma dude! This is absolutely not how you're supposed to be acting! Stop being a dipshit!!

BB LILY <33333333

Lol perfectly reasonable reaction to getting attacked: "I'm gonna fuckin kill Jay the next time I see him" (To be fair, it is bc Jay's been a shithead that Aydan's even in this position in the first place. but still. Funny train of thought there babe lol)

Summer now is not the time for your gotdamn agenda lol

Okay at least now Jay's apologizing for being a shithead lol

Fuckin romance ugh lol

staaaaaaaaaaaaaaare I think the Seanna-Sora-Cal intermission ft Cassandra might've been added later. and by later i mean around when I was writing this scene. So not quite padding the word count last minute but definitely not preplanned lol Which would also make the Heron-Gray-Owl intermission also not preplanned, but added bc eh why not since I'm having a Seanna-Sora-Cal intermission

Heckin nerds

God why did I feel the need to bring up the fuckin age gap again????

"Your morals do not exist" lmao

also way too much shit has happened for it to only have been a year what the gotdamn fuck

Catnip!!! Catnip and Lily!!!!! Absolute chaos besties!!!!!!!!!!

I should add Lily back into Nova. Somehow. She's too adorable to cut completely lol

Oh hi Molly from (quite literally) left field!!!

Oh Oliver <33333333

Everything about this is outta fuckin nowhere lmao I think there was like 1.5 scenes of setup about 20 pages back and that was it lol

but anyways, poor bb Oliver <3

Lol that's the Jay I know and love (doesn't want Aydan healing him (even tho by this point he knows it ain't a death sentence))

oh bb Oliver <333333

DREAM SEQUENCE NO. I'VE MOST DEFINITELY LOST COUNT BY THIS POINT!!!!

Oh shit we're already at the reveal. I thought there was another scene of Will and Jay having a conversation but now that I think about it I think that was earlier when I was hella tipsy last night XD

Oh Will, this is such a conversation

"I was trying to protect you" Jay that was a shitty way of doing it and you fuckin know it!!!!! gotdamn tissue paper motivation bitch!!!!

damn practically back to back dream sequences :P

How the fuck are we practically at the end????? Like i know the last couple pages are dedicated to my first attempt at rewriting this but we're only at page 57/83????????? (to be fair the ending is long I'm just. shooketh lmao)

god now more than ever you can really tell I had no idea what the fuck I was doing re: climax of an urban fantasy story. This is like attempting to do the whole climatic end of LOTR battle but in urban fantasy and it just. does not fuckin work that way

Anyways lmao Will now is not the time to make Jay face his past

There had always been too much insomnia in this house.

I like this line.

Lexi!!! my darling <3

Oh this is so gotdamn awkward lmao

MID SCENE POV SHIFT ALARM

“Stay safe,” [his mother] whispered in his ear. “I will Mom,” Jay promised, lying through his teeth. “I promise.”

STILL A GOTDAMN MOOD

Lmao great pep talk Boss XD

OH I REMEMBER WHAT SCENE IS COMING UP ITS BAD LMAO

but hey, this is the basis for "mind controlled government Novas" that I have in the current draft lol

Y'ALL NOW IS NOT THE FUCKIN TIME TO BE MAKING OUT LMAO the Cassandra Clare influence is really showing here smh

oh bbs <3

KAI AND HAYDEN :DDDDDD

Oh we're checking in with everybody lol got some Gray and Owl battle shenanigans happening <3

Oh Seanna and Cal are such bbs lol <333333

OH RIGHT I FORGOT SORA FUCKS SHIT UP IN A GOOD WAY LOL

And here we have the bad scene So for context, last year I lol'd and cringed at the fact that none of my uwu blorbos actually ever killed people. Only unconsciousness for my uwu precious beans! And that aspect of my writing apparently did not change much between 2013 and 2014. We've had mentions of characters knocking out their opponents earlier (such as the Gray and Owl battle shenanigans just a few moments ago), but none like, explicit deaths Until now. Cuz Jay has a gun :DDDDDDDD

Jk he's being super duper fuckin angsty about using it and it's like ma dude! This should not be where the line is drawn! It should not! You either draw it way back before using your magic to potentially fatally wound people (but it's okay bc they won't die in front of him!) or you be okay with using that gun the same way you use your magic and draw your line..... somewhere else idk lol

The lines between magic pew pews and guns is very thin and covered in jellyfish (no i will not apologize for my brain forever being altered by WTNV lol)

Aydan you're very calm in this situation considering Jay literally just got knocked out in front of you lmao

SORA BB <3333333333

Oh poor Cal and Seanna. More Cal bc he's bb and also may or may not have had a crush on Sora. Idk. It just seems the type of thing my romance-obssessed-mildly-trashy-YA-novel-reading ass woulda done lol

Oh Jay you absolute dumbass lmao he just woke up from unconsciousness and his dumb ass is going back out to fight bc he's a DUMBASS

Wow you're all shook up by shooting a random unnamed dude but when it comes to Molly it's all "gotta take care of her before she hurts us" goddamn Jay okay

POOR SEANNA AND CAL DDDDDDDDDDDD:

Oh this is so stupidly cheesy :P

OLIVER <3333333

Fuckin midscene POV shift again AAAAAH

At least Oliver get his happy ending lol

oh poor Owl and Gray :(((( You're right Heron deserved better

Now the important question bc I don't remember and we didn't immediately check in on them: Did I kill off Hayden, Kai, or Remus? Or did i let them have their happy ending for once dammit? We'll hopefully find out soon enough! And if not, I'll count it as a win for them lol

Eepy bbs <3

ehehehe sick fic Jay time again :DDDDDD

Lol i love the implication that Aydan is the reason Jay stopped sleeping with a knife under his pillow. If anything Aydan is the reason there are so many knives under the pillows now XD

You know, I thought there was some aside about Baz going nova long before this, but maybe I missed it in the tipsy drunk haze

Lol grumpy ol' Will <3

lollllll so this was from the original 3rd gen story that has now been scrapped to high hell (mostly due to the Will characterization things mentioned previously)

Oh I had forgotten about that! The fact that it was canon that Liam kinda forced James into coming out to their families!!! That got scrapped so long ago omg Liam: still a pushy dork. but not the kind that pushes his cousin into coming out in front of y'alls entire extended families when he still hasn't admitted it to you/the friend group yet

LMAO WILL SASSING JAY FOR HIS PREVIOUS CHOICES IN PARTNERS

Also fun fact, I think this was the first story I wrote with bi James. Before now he was just straight up gay lol. And now he has joined my crew of bi boys with heterochromatic eyes (him, Alec, and Jake, off the top of my head) (oh and Nymar. I forgot about the non OG characters for a minute XD)

Poor stressy Jay lol Something something zombie conversation lol

FUCKIN MID SCENE POV SHIFT AGAIN AAAAAAH

Oh god they're all so baby here what the fuck. Aydan is like. 17. aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Lolllll oh Baz <3

Lol oh the petty high school drama XD

I regret the fact that my glass is so full bc I am very tempted to drain it considering how much cringe I know is coming up bc I'm bad at endings and it's so dragged the fuck out

Okay despite the cringe, I do still love the color of Sora's eyes here (insert do you love the color of the sky here) (omg that just gave me an idea for another character) (nooooooo) (before anybody says anything yes I've had that idea for hair before) (mothafluffin magical hair dye yo) (I don't remember what blog I posted that one on tho) (maybe my main)

TIME SKIPS GALORE HOLY FUCKIN SHIT

It's so fuckin weird seeing Basil so committed to his dad. Like no Bay is a piece of shit and you end up cutting ties with him bc of how shit he is (Basil and his parents are a fun tangent I may go on one day. bc oh lord. Jay gets smacked by both of them for very different reasons lol)

Anyways Lily! is back!! and as adorable as ever even though she's older now!

Side note why the fuck is my cat so zoomy?! lmao

BBS <33333333

*incomprehensible babbling* how the fuck did Lily not notice ever that Aydan was pregnant ffs??????

Anyways bb Alec is bb and I love him <33333333

"Uncle Basil" lmao no that man is your dad nowadays Alec XD

Oh I forgot Katie was a very quiet child. Checks out still considering she takes more after her dad aka the silent watchful type as opposed to her hurricane papa and wildfire mother

Nova trio is such a fun dynamic especially when they become parents <33333333

Lol Alec has his momma's last name nowadays. Makes it easier since no way in hell Jay is using his birth last name, he doesn't have much attachment to Miles, and Baz has about the same levels of attachment to his own

Lol Alec definitely still takes after his papa though XD gotdamn disaster of a child

Hello Ryder! You are Gray's kid nowadays but this was when you were Oliver and Molly's! And I specifically changed their hair/eye colors to make yours genetically possible!

Also fun fact I asked Cyrus whether I should have 2 or 3 kids in this scene and I don't remember what he said but I remember deciding 2.5 kids was the right way to go XD Pity I didn't go 3, then maybe the two youngest coulda had their names figured out a decade ago

(It's just 2 in Nova canon now. 4 in Band AU. And I think those are the only places the kids/4th gen show up nowadays) (other than random AUs lol)

78/83 and we're done with draft 1. Oh lord would i like to finish my glass but alas it is still too full lol

To be fair, I still don't think I can do endings for shit. I haven't ended a project lately enough to know for sure (the only one is Stars. And that one is the only one I know is good lol)

Bc they're funny, here's my notes for the rewrite (written around...... 2017-18 ish?)

You know what. YOU KNOW WHAT. I just reread this. And goddammit there are so many things that I could do to make this better. So idk if I’m gonna do this for nanowrimo this year or continue with the astral chronicles but in case I ever get around to redoing it here are the ideas I have (so I don’t forget lol)

Make Jay and Basil hella more gay. Like HELLA. Maybe even have them date and shit for a while idk

Also amnesiac Jay is a glorious idea XD

More time between James’s death and Jay finding Aydan

Jay taking way more time to gain Aydan’s trust like omg he actually has a normal teenager life and he falls in love with Aydan so when she goes nova he’s like “I’ll fucking protect you with my life dammit”

Oh my god if Jay could sense where Novas were then he would basically track them down and bring them back to Base

Summer and Will only come to Base after they investigate Aydan’s “death” too much

There’s not as much betrayal by Jay because “why didn’t you tell me??” “I had no fucking idea?!?!”

Jay’s sickness is way more prominent like oh man trauma lol

Maybe some poly relationship between Jay Basil and Aydan because Jay loves them both and they’re both like “welp the other person isn’t bad and we love you too so okie”

Oh man make the enemy something more than just a faceless mass lol

Patch notes as of 2024:

Jay and Basil are indeed, hella more gay XD

Amnesiac Jay is in fact, the best fuckin idea i've had for this project

I did add in that more time. It does the job lol

Jay's just oblivious so he falls in love with Aydan without realizing she's a Nova XD

He can sense Novas! It's just very itchy bc I can't let this boy have one good thing other than his relationships XD

Summer and Will and Percy! Sora's got a brother now!

No betrayal at all. Just sadness and resignation and "Why didn't you tell me?" "I only just remembered. Barely."

Jay's sickness has turned into him losing his grip on his place in the fabric of time :DDDDD

HELL YEAH POLY NOVA TRIOOOOOOO

Enemy is now the government. And also Jay's mother XD

Jay picked up smoking from somewhere lol

Novas now have specializations! Jay's is time manipulation, Baz's is sniper shit, Aydan is fire babe :D, Bay is water manip, so on so forth

Alex got added, they're a Nova healer :D

Gray is now for sure a Nova

Heron-Gray-Owl got aged the fuck up

Sora had a name change and also is no longer a part of the org from the beginning

Almaraz was named and subsequently turned from a nuclear power plant into time travel experimentation facility

Jay is more dramatic

Basil is more subdued

Aydan is more nosy

Birds of Prey got added (and Nat's heart got broken by Falcon :3)

Hayden and Remus got deaded for goods :(

That's all I got off the top of my head lol

I'm gonna reread the last 4 pages of rewrite then call it lol

Lollll immediatetly starting out with sick fic Jay, I can't really blame myself tho

Ah yes, back when Boss still knew who Jay was but nobody else did

Heh, asshole Lai is back :D

Lol I was wondering about that. Yeah I basically have two attempts at a start here bc it was very aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Lol Baz is immediately so fuckin gay for Jay <3

Ah yes, the bones of current day Nova are so much clearer here lol

And that's it! 3 days, 53k words, and 2 bottles of wine later, we've finally finished the end of the Nova reread. And good fuckin lord lmao. I'm a gotdamned WIP necromancer lol

Goodnight, don't die, don't get kidnapped, hopefully I'll actually get some more Wrapped prompts done soonish. If not, see y'all in February cuz ain't no way I'm missing my baby (FebruarOC lol)

TTFN!

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this trope so silly I enjoy it lots whenever I see it

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So @andromedaexists requested a few Wrapped drabbles over discord, so here's the first one :3

88 is Raining in Toronto by In Her Own Words, so have nearly 1k of Calix being a gotdamned disaster and Viktor being absolutely no help :3

Spotify Wrapped Prompts! Send me a number and I’ll write a snippet based on the corresponding song!

“Thanks for letting me stay over,” Calix said as Viktor opened the door to his apartment.

“Of course!” Viktor beamed over his shoulder at them. “No way I’m letting you drive home in the dark and rain.”

“I am perfectly capable of making it home in less than ideal conditions,” Calix retorted even as they shrugged off their coat in the welcome warmth of Viktor’s apartment.

“Yeah, but,” Viktor booped Calix on the nose, “this way you also get cider.”

And an excuse for more time with the boy they’d had a stupid crush on for forever, but there was no way Calix was admitting that bit out loud.

“Speaking of,” Viktor continued, oblivious to Calix’s internal monologue as he spun around and kicked off his other shoe, “I’m gonna go get that started.”

“Do you—” But before Calix could take more than a step, Viktor body checked them.

“Absolutely not,” he said, his tone entirely serious except for the cute mischievous smirk he always had trouble hiding. “Rule of guests. You go get comfortable and pick something to watch if you want.”

Calix raised an eyebrow at him. Viktor stared them down, his determination unwavering despite the fact he had never gotten any taller than their shoulder.

“Fine.” Calix turned away before they got too flustered. “Let me know if you need any help.”

“Absolutely not,” Viktor laughed.

While he puttered around in the kitchen, Calix made their way through the living room to the window. One of Calix’s favorite things about Viktor’s apartment, other than Viktor himself, was the view. The neighborhood was always so bright and alive even well into the night, and Calix could spend hours just sitting curled up on the windowsill just watching the street below. Even tonight, with the rain sheeting down, there were still lights sparkling and people splashing through the puddles on the way to their destinations.

Calix was startled by Viktor laughing just behind them. “I knew I’d find you staring out that window,” he teased.

Calix dipped their head to let their hair fall over their face, covering their reddening cheeks. “The view is nice,” they said.

“Well,” Viktor said, handing Calix their mug of cider, “you could always move in with me and get that view every day.” He playfully bumped Calix with his hip as he headed for the couch.

Calix audibly scoffed, but they had to hide their face in their cider as their chest fluttered at the thought. But there was no way Viktor was serious about it, and they knew better than to ruin their friendship over taking his jokes too seriously.

Viktor laughed. “C’mere,” he said. “If you have no objections I wanna watch trashy tv.”

“Fine by me,” Calix said, sparing one last glance at the rain-soaked world outside the window before joining Viktor on the couch.

As soon as they were settled on their usual side of the couch, Viktor scooched up next to them. Before Calix could do more than blink in shock at the change in their normal routine, Viktor had tossed a blanket over the both of them and rested his head against Calix’s shoulder.

Calix’s brain unfortunately shorted out, and they stared dumbly at him for what felt like forever.

Eventually, Viktor seemed to register Calix’s lack of reaction, because he looked up. “What?” he asked. “It’s cold. Unless you don’t want to warm me up,” he added with a little pout.

Calix felt their cheeks heat up at the prospect of cuddling, but it was also too appealing and that pout was too cute. “You’re a dork,” they said. “But fine.”

Viktor gave them a smug smirk. “Good.” He snuggled more firmly into their side before turning on the tv.

~

Several hours later, Viktor was practically asleep on Calix’s shoulder, and while Calix selfishly never wanted to get up or leave this moment, their arm was starting to go numb and Viktor’s neck would almost certainly hate him in the morning. So, reluctantly, Calix nudged him.

“Hey,” they said as he sleepily blinked awake. “You should head for bed.”

“’M not sleepy,” Viktor yawned.

Calix raised a pointed eyebrow.

“Mmm don’t wanna get up.” Viktor draped himself over Calix’s shoulder, his face uncomfortably close to Calix’s if he was anybody other than himself. “Cozy.”

Calix huffed. “Dork.” Their voice was a lot quieter than they meant it to be, distracted as they were tracing every little feature of his face with their eyes.

“Mmmmaybe.” Viktor traced little nonsense patterns over Calix’s shoulder. “Just for you though.”

Oh.

Calix hesitated for a split second, then decided to stop overthinking things for once. They closed their eyes and leaned in to press their lips to Viktor’s.

And Viktor—

froze. Didn’t move. Didn’t respond.

Fuck.

Calix pulled away and opened their eyes. Viktor blinked, any trace of sleepiness wiped away by shock and confusion. “Cal…”

The moment broke. Calix felt their cheeks heat up as embarrassment flooded through them. They stood abruptly, causing Viktor to topple over with an undignified squawk.

“I’m sorry,” they said, their words tumbling over each other. “I didn’t mean—I thought—I—I just—”

They took a stumbling step back, then another. “I—I’m gonna go. Yeah. Sorry.” They turned on their heel and fled towards the door.

“Wait!” Calix heard a thud, like Viktor had either fallen off the couch or kicked the coffee table. The string of swears that followed confirmed those guesses. “Wait, Calix—”

But Calix had already shoved their boots back on and snatched their coat, and the door closed behind them with a thud before Viktor could say anything more.  

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So @andromedaexists requested a few Wrapped drabbles over discord, so here's the first one :3

88 is Raining in Toronto by In Her Own Words, so have nearly 1k of Calix being a gotdamned disaster and Viktor being absolutely no help :3

Spotify Wrapped Prompts! Send me a number and I’ll write a snippet based on the corresponding song!

“Thanks for letting me stay over,” Calix said as Viktor opened the door to his apartment.

“Of course!” Viktor beamed over his shoulder at them. “No way I’m letting you drive home in the dark and rain.”

“I am perfectly capable of making it home in less than ideal conditions,” Calix retorted even as they shrugged off their coat in the welcome warmth of Viktor’s apartment.

“Yeah, but,” Viktor booped Calix on the nose, “this way you also get cider.”

And an excuse for more time with the boy they’d had a stupid crush on for forever, but there was no way Calix was admitting that bit out loud.

“Speaking of,” Viktor continued, oblivious to Calix’s internal monologue as he spun around and kicked off his other shoe, “I’m gonna go get that started.”

“Do you—” But before Calix could take more than a step, Viktor body checked them.

“Absolutely not,” he said, his tone entirely serious except for the cute mischievous smirk he always had trouble hiding. “Rule of guests. You go get comfortable and pick something to watch if you want.”

Calix raised an eyebrow at him. Viktor stared them down, his determination unwavering despite the fact he had never gotten any taller than their shoulder.

“Fine.” Calix turned away before they got too flustered. “Let me know if you need any help.”

“Absolutely not,” Viktor laughed.

While he puttered around in the kitchen, Calix made their way through the living room to the window. One of Calix’s favorite things about Viktor’s apartment, other than Viktor himself, was the view. The neighborhood was always so bright and alive even well into the night, and Calix could spend hours just sitting curled up on the windowsill just watching the street below. Even tonight, with the rain sheeting down, there were still lights sparkling and people splashing through the puddles on the way to their destinations.

Calix was startled by Viktor laughing just behind them. “I knew I’d find you staring out that window,” he teased.

Calix dipped their head to let their hair fall over their face, covering their reddening cheeks. “The view is nice,” they said.

“Well,” Viktor said, handing Calix their mug of cider, “you could always move in with me and get that view every day.” He playfully bumped Calix with his hip as he headed for the couch.

Calix audibly scoffed, but they had to hide their face in their cider as their chest fluttered at the thought. But there was no way Viktor was serious about it, and they knew better than to ruin their friendship over taking his jokes too seriously.

Viktor laughed. “C’mere,” he said. “If you have no objections I wanna watch trashy tv.”

“Fine by me,” Calix said, sparing one last glance at the rain-soaked world outside the window before joining Viktor on the couch.

As soon as they were settled on their usual side of the couch, Viktor scooched up next to them. Before Calix could do more than blink in shock at the change in their normal routine, Viktor had tossed a blanket over the both of them and rested his head against Calix’s shoulder.

Calix’s brain unfortunately shorted out, and they stared dumbly at him for what felt like forever.

Eventually, Viktor seemed to register Calix’s lack of reaction, because he looked up. “What?” he asked. “It’s cold. Unless you don’t want to warm me up,” he added with a little pout.

Calix felt their cheeks heat up at the prospect of cuddling, but it was also too appealing and that pout was too cute. “You’re a dork,” they said. “But fine.”

Viktor gave them a smug smirk. “Good.” He snuggled more firmly into their side before turning on the tv.

~

Several hours later, Viktor was practically asleep on Calix’s shoulder, and while Calix selfishly never wanted to get up or leave this moment, their arm was starting to go numb and Viktor’s neck would almost certainly hate him in the morning. So, reluctantly, Calix nudged him.

“Hey,” they said as he sleepily blinked awake. “You should head for bed.”

“’M not sleepy,” Viktor yawned.

Calix raised a pointed eyebrow.

“Mmm don’t wanna get up.” Viktor draped himself over Calix’s shoulder, his face uncomfortably close to Calix’s if he was anybody other than himself. “Cozy.”

Calix huffed. “Dork.” Their voice was a lot quieter than they meant it to be, distracted as they were tracing every little feature of his face with their eyes.

“Mmmmaybe.” Viktor traced little nonsense patterns over Calix’s shoulder. “Just for you though.”

Oh.

Calix hesitated for a split second, then decided to stop overthinking things for once. They closed their eyes and leaned in to press their lips to Viktor’s.

And Viktor—

froze. Didn’t move. Didn’t respond.

Fuck.

Calix pulled away and opened their eyes. Viktor blinked, any trace of sleepiness wiped away by shock and confusion. “Cal…”

The moment broke. Calix felt their cheeks heat up as embarrassment flooded through them. They stood abruptly, causing Viktor to topple over with an undignified squawk.

“I’m sorry,” they said, their words tumbling over each other. “I didn’t mean—I thought—I—I just—”

They took a stumbling step back, then another. “I—I’m gonna go. Yeah. Sorry.” They turned on their heel and fled towards the door.

“Wait!” Calix heard a thud, like Viktor had either fallen off the couch or kicked the coffee table. The string of swears that followed confirmed those guesses. “Wait, Calix—”

But Calix had already shoved their boots back on and snatched their coat, and the door closed behind them with a thud before Viktor could say anything more.  

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Spotify Wrapped Prompts!

I saw this floating around tumblr, and wanted to steal it myself lol

Send me a number 1-100, and I’ll write a lil snippet based on the corresponding song!

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Spotify Wrapped Prompts!

I saw this floating around tumblr, and wanted to steal it myself lol

Send me a number 1-100, and I’ll write a lil snippet based on the corresponding song!

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Anyways since I'm maybe writing a bit of this right now in case anybody is curious, the two main dragons now have names :D

Rhox, impulsive teenager of a red dragon who saves Zack and promptly decides to run away with him.

And Kaida, daughter of the Orange/Amber Queen, who likes to curl up on Rhox to either hitch a ride or take a nap, depending on the circumstances.

Trick or treat! :D ~ @ghost-town-story

Ooooh spooky anon with a name tag! 👻👻👻

TRICK! If you are who you tag, I wanna learn more about that vibes-only thing you've just started :P

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You're all good! I'm pretty sure I've answered several of these well into November in previous years XD

As for the trick, here's a little bit of the necromancer Revenant and their self proclaimed nemesis, Despereaux :D

The creature carried Despereaux through the warehouse, heading towards the back. Once it reached a certain point, it chirped, surprising Despereaux. He’d caught enough of a glimpse to determine the creature was just bones, and he hadn’t realized it could make noises.

“Well,” a familiar voice came from just ahead, “look what the cat dragged in.”

Despereaux would have groaned if he was human. Of course he’d been caught by a fucking cat.

Revenant appeared from the shadows and crouched down. They scratched the cat’s head, then gently picked Despereaux out of its jaws. “Hello there Despereaux.”

Despereaux debated playing dumb for a few moments, but Revenant set him down on the ground.

“I know it’s you. Shift back, so we can have a civilized conversation.”

Despereaux couldn’t hold back an angry squeak. He didn’t have to take orders from a villain like them! Even if they had maybe potentially saved his life, but that was beside the point.

Revenant raised an amused eyebrow. “Suit yourself, but I won’t take responsibility for what Ombre does. She is a cat after all.”

The cat settled into a crouch, eye sockets trained on Despereaux. Her butt wiggled, and Despereaux decided to cut his losses. He shifted back into a human, just in time for the cat to pounce and run into his leg.

Any plan of immediately confronting Revenant took a backseat to stumbling away from the cat as she continued to attack his legs.

Revenant just watched for a few moments before they took pity on him, scooping up the cat into their arms. “Ombre, ma chérie, calme-toi,” they murmured to the cat. The cat settled into their arms, bones rattling in what Despereaux realized was a purr.

He scowled at the necromancer. “You can’t control her, huh?”

“She’s a cat,” Revenant said, as if that explained everything. “You can’t blame her for doing her job and hunting the little mice that come sneaking around, now can you? Bonne fille,” they added, scratching the cat’s chin.

The cat chirped and rubbed her head against Revenant’s shoulder, then she jumped to the floor and trotted off.

~

(And a bonus from the end of the scene. Revenant has..... a sort of history with Lodestone)

The necromancer looked over at Despereaux, who couldn’t suppress a shiver. The bone-white of their necromancy had spread to cover their entire body, turning their eyes into dark pits in contrast. “Get out of here,” they said.

Despereaux swallowed hard. “No.”

“This doesn’t concern you,” Revenant said. “Leave now, before things get dangerous.”

“No,” Despereaux repeated.

“Then you’d better stay out of my way,” Revenant said as they turned away.

A few meters away, Lodestone was wrestling with the skeleton Revenant had summoned through the portal. Despereaux darted for him, hoping he could help somehow, but Revenant’s hand shot out and grabbed him by the collar.

“I said, stay out of my way,” they growled.

“No!” Despereaux fought against their grip. “What the fuck has he ever done to you anyways, besides be a hero?”

Revenant laughed, a sharp, broken sounding thing that held absolutely no humor. “That’s not my story to tell, little hero,” they spat. “But don’t worry, I won’t kill him.”

Despereaux blinked in surprise.

“I’ll leave that honor for somebody else,” they continued darkly.

Trick or treat! :D ~ @ghost-town-story

Trick! >:D

Happy Halloween (even though it's November now T~T sorry for the late reply)

also an extra because I found this when I was figuring out how to answer, lol and it reminded me of your username

Photo by Alexandra on Unsplash

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bruh don't call me out like this 😿

Shout out to anyone else that should be writing instead of booping

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Happy Halloween! I might as well complete the trio with the least surface-level spoopy character, Kizali

Initially inspired by the Rito of BOTW/TOTK, now more inspired by DnD aarakocra

Child of the god of winds (Oseri) and a mortal (Khima) who began to ascend to godhood when Kizali was still very young

Ae is very reserved *cough* repressed

Tends to happen when you grow up with everybody putting you on a pedestal because of their expectations of you

Including your own parent, who you see once in a blue moon and they spend the entire time training you to ascend to godhood after them

(Khima believes it's love, helping aer with the start of a difficult but rewarding journey)

(Kizali isn't too sure about that, but this is all ae has ever known)

From the outside, ae is the perfect chick, the perfect soldier, the perfect candidate for godhood

But that's just because ae is very good at hiding aer tiny rebellions

(Well. Mostly)

Including the fact that ae is really too softhearted for all the expectations forced upon aer

Ae has no problem fighting a fair fight, to protect those ae cares about

Too bad the Eternal War between the gods, the one that ae is being trained for, has never been particularly fair

Trick or treat! :D ~ @ghost-town-story

THE COIN TOSS HAS SPOKEN

T R I C K

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

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Trick or treat! :D ~ @ghost-town-story

A treat for You!!

A series of incorrect quotes :D

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Quin: So are we flirting right now? Nyrra: I AM LITERALLY STABBING YOU Quin: That doesn’t answer my question

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Mal: Stop buying plastic skeletons for Halloween! It's terrible for the environment! Sen: Yeah! Locally sourced, all natural skeletons are much more environmentally friendly!

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Aldon: What do you think Sylpha will do for a distraction? Gallus: They’ll probably, like, make a noise or throw a rock. That’s what I would do. Building explodes and several car alarms go off Gallus: … or they could do that.

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Aldon: Schrödinger’s cat is overrated. If you wanna see something that’s both dead and alive you can talk to me any time of the day.

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Aldon: Violence isn't the answer. Sylpha: You’re right. Aldon: sighs in relief Sylpha: Violence is the question. Aldon: What? Sylpha, bolting away: And the answer is yes. Aldon, running after them: NO-

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Alim: “Struggle with depression” would seem to imply that I am bad at being depressed when I am, in fact, very proficient at being depressed.

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Sen: Wakey Wakey Eggs and Bakey! Mal: But I'm a vegan. Sen: Wakey Wakey Vegetables and Sadness.

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Valda: I don’t think we can mansplain, manipulate, or malewife our way out of it this time. Sylpha: *cracks knuckles* Manslaughter it is!

[ghost-town-story]

Yup, the tagging myself is so I can see when you respond since this is a side blog lol

Alright, no-name dragon vibes WIP let's go! Since Zack is a lil pain in the ass about giving me information about himself, let's go with the dragons :D (also I apologize in advance for the rambling. Have a read more for y'all's dash's sake)

So this is a low fantasy story with Zack and Bee living in some random mundane suburbia with no idea that any sort of magic is real. So where the hell are the dragons hiding?

Pocket dimensions! :D

(side note I'm obsessed with otters and their lil pockets and now I'm like "omg what if the pocket dimensions were created by otter dragons" :DDDDDD)

*ahem* Anyhoot lol

So the dragons are living in various pocket dimensions to hide away from the mundane world, but there's various portals that go between the pockets and the "real" world.

Now onto the dragons themselves, there are a few different types of dragons, each with their own powers, characteristics, and color. There also might be some gem magic going on, like the dragons got their magic from gems and such on, but I'm not 100% sold on that yet.

So the types of dragons!

Red: Ruby or garnet, if I do the gem typing. Most versatile looking of all the dragons, considering their powers of shapeshifting. On average the largest dragons. They live alone in their pocket dimension.

Orange/yellow: I haven't decided if I want a yellow dragon type yet. If so, this one is gonna be orange. If not, they'll be like an ambery color. Tiny dragons. Like, palm of your hand size, maybe like the size of a 5 lb cat. Glass manipulation powers. Their vibe is very much inspired by honeybees.

Green: Emerald, probably. I do love that color. As for everything else....... Do I know they exist? yes. Do I know much more than that? These guys can manipulate plants! (probably. unless I decide that's too cliche and change it lol). This is about the level of detail I have for the rest of the dragons on this list lol

Cyan: Not 100% sold on this one, but tbh this entire idea is based off a dream I had and the kid with cyan powers (I'll elaborate more on that in a hot second) was very chaotic and fun. Tech powers. If they get to exist.

Blue: Lapis lazuli or sapphire for potential gem typing. Fabric manipulation.

Purple: Amethyst or alexandrite. Unfortunately these dudes don't have powers figured out yet.

??????: Time powers. Potentially only one dragon alive with these powers. I also can't decide what frickin color I want 'em lol

While I'm at it otter dragon would also be one-of-a-kind deity dragon. It's what she deserves <3

Now to loop back around to that offhanded comment about the cyan kid, dragons can choose to bond with humans and share their powers with them. That's how Bee gets her glass manipulation powers (bonded with the daughter of the Orange/Amber Queen), and Zack ends up bonded with an impulsive teenage-equivalent red dragon. (There's also more kids that join their apocalypse-stopping group but I have. nothing on them yet. Except for dragon colors lol)

It's also possible for these powers to be stolen, but don't ask how I have no idea yet. But somehow, Zack's brother (Jesse) has shapeshifting powers that come from a red dragon, but there are absolutely no dragons involved with him. Eventually I'll parse out how that's gonna work exactly lol

I hope you enjoyed the rambling!

Trick or treat! :D ~ @ghost-town-story

Ooooh spooky anon with a name tag! 👻👻👻

TRICK! If you are who you tag, I wanna learn more about that vibes-only thing you've just started :P

[ghost-town-story]

Andi I fuckin see your bet on the OC alphabet soup post I will make this unnecessarily hard <3

Q, U, and/or X (with a bonus I if you want/don't have the others)

bb i don't think you know what can of worms ur opening

Q - Quincy

Quincy's one of the older town residents in D'Jeet? WIP. He's a regular at the tavern and mostly keeps to himself, I don't know much about him yet but I do know that he's one of the narrative voices in the story

U - Uncle Bobby

Uncle Bobby is that old old geezer in town that everyone calls Uncle but that no one's actually related to. He's the town drunkard more or less in D'Jeet? WIP. Doesn't trust Kodi at all when he shows up.

X - Xavier

The town doctor in D'Jeet? WIP, you can tell by his fancy name and his fancy degree from the nearest big city (probably OSU let's be real). I'm debating making him a vet instead of a human doc but we haven't made it that far yet

I - Isaac

Father Isaac beloved. He has a last name but i'm in bed rn and too lazy to look it up in my notes on my phone. Kit's friend and the fature fugure of Kit & Benny. Literal physical embodiment of a teddy bear. Mom once said he looks like the laughing Buddha, do with that what you will.

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Trick or treat! :D ~ @ghost-town-story

Thanks for the ask, friend! Here's a treat for you, a snippet from a marinating WIP of mine currently titled Cemetery Sisters!

The smell of incense mingled with the croaking of cicadas and frogs. How many insects and small creatures were in the cemetery right now with them, unseen? Madeleine closed her eyes and imagined herself perched on a blade of quivering grass. Upside down in a tree. Soaring overhead, looking down at the tiny pinpricks of stone that dotted the hillside.