#/i know crystals like what eira is holding

[witchoflegends]

@invernc cause it’s Winter’s birthday

“We heard it was your birthday!” Dawn, the youngest of the sisters, beamed excitedly as she stepped up to the serious looking military officer. Her hands held behind her back as her sisters approached at a much more acceptable pace. “So we thought we’d get you something! Though... we didn’t have time to wrap anything... Still!” Bringing her hands in front of her, she revealed a small pot full of white and blue violas of different shades.

“We weren’t terribly sure what you’d like,” Kyra, the second youngest said as she pulled out a book. It was a new romance novel that she had heard was becoming quite popular.

“So we each got you something different.” Maple, the next sister revealed a medium sized candle that would smell like a perfect fall day when lit.

“You don’t have to accept if you don’t like them,” Eira, the eldest sister assured her. She opened up her hand palm up, and presented her with a simple chain necklace with a piece of aqua aura quartz on the end. 

[botanicallyinclinednerd]

Moments that highlight Mordred and Morgana's dynamic:

1x08: Morgana meets an injured Mordred who is on the run from the guards for being a druid. Morgana makes eye contact with Mordred and there is instantly a connection there. Morgana provides sanctuary to Mordred and Merlin, who is helping him

1x08: During the execution of the druid man that was with Mordred, Morgana sits with Mordred, holding him.

1x08: Morgana tends to a sick and feverish Mordred and it is implied by what Gwen says that Morgana has been tending to him nonstop while taking little care of herself. Mordred speaks to Morgana through telepathy, surprising her.

1x08: Before leaving to try to smuggle Mordred out of Camelot, Morgana promises him she won't let anything bad happen to him. Mordred smiles at her.

1x08: Morgana and Mordred sneak through the castle hand in hand

1x08: Morgana holds Mordred close as they hide from the search party led by Arthur.

2x03: Morgana and Mordred reunite at the druid camp. Mordred sensed her duress and they were able to find and help her. Morgana seems a little on edge. Mordred tells Morgana "Now I can take care of you, like you did me" and they smile at each other (I'm sorry but this moment is so cute)

2x11: Morgana smiles and laughs when she wakes up to see Mordred, who smiles back at her. They hug and are very happy to see each other. Morgana keeps in physical contact with Mordred throughout the conversation with Alvarr, keeping her hands on his shoulders.

2x11: Morgana appears hesitant to fully commit to committing treason until Mordred begs her and she agrees. Mordred smiles at her

2x11: Mordred shouts Morgana’s name happily when she arrives at the camp and he runs to hug her. They embrace and they are both smiling. Morgana laughs happily

5x02: Morgana sees Mordred and recognizes him enough to investigate further. They both look astonished when they see and recognize each other. She says his name and reaches a hand out towards his face which she ends up landing on his neck/ shoulder. He smiles at her and she positively beams

5x02: Morgana and Mordred have dinner together. They converse and Mordred seems to be completely on board with her until she says "There'll be nothing to fear once Arthur and his kind are cleansed from the earth."

5x02: Mordred reveals to Morgana that they had Arthur and he ended up escaping. Morgana is very agitated by this. Mordred tells her to calm down.

5x02: Mordred stabs Morgana before she can complete a spell that would have presumably killed Arthur. Morgana looks up at him in pain confusion and betrayal and says Mordred's name before collapsing.

5x09: Morgana strokes Mordreds face while he is unconscious. He asks her why she doesn't kill him and she says that her argument isn't with him. She says they are the same and Mordred gets to his feet and tells her "Never" Morgana calls him naive for believing Arthur would ever tolerate magic

5x09: Mordred lies to Morgana about Emrys, saying he'd only heard of the name. Morgana decides she has no more use for mordred and raises her hand to cast a spell, though she doesn't look happy. Mordred stops her by asking "you would strike one of your own? I am not strong enough to defeat you Morgana, but know this: such hatred as yours can never triumph. I hope one day you will find the love and compassion which used to fill your heart." Morgana is visibly affected by his words, but she seems to make up her mind to go through with killing him and that is when Mordred uses his magic to knock her out.

5x11: Mordred seeks out Morgana. He is shoved to his knees before her and she looks down at him calling him old friend. She notes that last time they met he tried to kill her. Mordred says he wishes to make amends for questioning her wisdom. He tells her who Emrys is.

5x12: Mordred disapproves of Morgana riding Ari of his magic, as he was a powerful ally.

5x12: Mordred and Morgana combine their magic to create the fireballs

5x12 deleted scene: Mordred is hesitant to commit to war as the only answer to accomplish what they are fighting for. Morgana says there is no other way, no reasoning with Arthur. Mordred says he still might change and he believes he is a good man. Morgana brings up Kara and asks Mordred if he is with her. He is.

5x12: Morgana gives Mordred the sword forged in Aithusa’s breath, so he can kill Arthur with it. Morgana calls Mordred her proudest warrior and Mordred smiles and takes it.

5x12: Morgana tells Mordred to be careful or Eira wouldn't be able to talk. They talk about Merlin and the crystal cave.

5x13: Morgana takes out a bunch of Camelot knights that had surrounded Mordred.

5x13: Morgana stands over Mordred's grave and drives his sword, a chunk of it missing, into the ground. She is crying and promises that the battle wasn't over and they would see their revenge.

[greensconnor]

i’m asking about your dragon age characters

molly i would KILL for u im ur personal hitman now

anyway i said my city now because the entire bioware writing team sucks shit xoxo and i’m so much smarter than all of them but also fully incapable of having a normal amount of ocs for anything (see: the time i made 20 rwby ocs in less than two weeks) so i have. five worldstates here r some assorted thoughts

uhhh so the worldstates r as follows

eira mahariel (two-handed berserk/champ spec), rhett hawke (two-handed berserk spec), alas lavellan (mage knight enchanter spec), romanced alistair/fenris/dorian respectively

shiv tabris (dual wield duelist/assassin spec), radella “rads” hawke (mage spirit healer spec), kat adaar (two-handed reaver spec), romanced morrigan/isabela/cassandra respectively because im a pc gamer and i think i should be able to date whatever video game woman i like because im infinitely better than cishet men

this world state said yeah i respect mens rights. mens rights to shut the fuck up

twins bronson (sword/shield reaver spec) & bryant cousland (archer ranger spec), carmine hawke (archer assassin spec), syracuse trevelyan (dual wield tempest spec), romanced zevran/anora/josephine/bull. if ur wondering how that works my city now and the warden, hawke and the inquisitor should all meet and so they do because i Said So

riva amell (mage arcane warrior/battlemage spec), graham “gray” hawke (mage force spec), hellathen “hela” lavellan (archer assassin spec); romanced cullen/anders and later blackwall because hawke only likes men who will break his heart. hela doesn’t have a romance because she’s literally 20. who let her lead the inquisition (me it was me). also it should be noted the version of cullen i have in my head only vaguely resembles actual cullen because i write better than dragon age writers ever could and i gave him an Actual Cohesive Narrative and he gets bullied relentlessly for being scrawnier than his mage boyfriend

malien “mal” surana (mage spirit healer/keeper spec), jules hawke (sword/shield reaver spec), ash adaar (mage rift spec), romanced leliana/merrill/krem because i should have been able to kiss krem and its a Crime that i am not allowed to

knight enchanter is a Very op specialization and by Very op i mean it makes a mage with their built-in low constitution stats able to solo the biggest baddest dragon in the game on nightmare mode in under five minutes so like. alas lavellan fist fights dragons for fun send tweet

i think lavellans should be able to hit ppl with bricks for all the shit they endure. thus solas gets pranked by mahariel and alas by which i mean they just tip buckets of water onto him from the rookery

kat might be my only competent inquisitor but she did also try to knock out the right hand of the divine and attempt to gap even tho there’s fucky magic burning up her hand so does she have a brain cell? you decide

also its fantasy land and i do what i want so kat has blue/gold sectoral heterochromia

gray “mage rights” hawke is best friends with fenris which surprises literally everyone. their friendship started because they got into a fist fight and then they were like okay i respect u now. hawke is like hey fenris give me ur sword i have a fun trick to show u [uses his sword as a foci to zap carver in the ass with lightning]

i am Always thinking abt like how cullen could have been one man anti-chantry propaganda machine if he hadn’t so blatantly been shoehorned into every game past origins so anyway bioware forgot about a wholeass moon i can write what i like. [holds up cullen by the scruff of his stupid armor] not only are you bisexual you are also a bottom

i also Hate the whole uwu mage haters get fixed by romancing a mage

unlocked secret dialogue option where my inquisitors verbally cuss out dorian’s dad instead of whatever sympathetic narrative the writers were going for cuz its bullshit.

riva is a showoff and a Menace about being as good as he is because he unabashedly loves being a mage and hes like oooh look at me im sexy i dont need to use my hands to cast magic because i’m just that good ;)) and you know what. hes right.

gray, on the other hand, does Not want to be mage. he wants to be a druffalo farmer and retire in the hinterlands and be left the fuck alone. unfortunately he is gay and has one brain cell and terrible, terrible taste in men. ribbed relentlessly for this by riva (altho does he have room to talk hes been hung up on cullen since he was like 13)

shiv is trans n kieran is the result of doing the dark ritual with her wife and he looks a Lot like shiv (dark skin pointed ears, shock-white hair) and morrigan always just Assumed she dyed it or did something magic with it so seeing their kid come out like that was a WEIRD time for her

leliana almost Murdered by cassandra in worldstate 5 because the warden is Actually There The Whole Time, but its been 10 years, mal’s cut off all her hair and gotten full facial tattoos and she’s like “no one will know its me its fine” and she’s right. she gets away with it. only cullen like, Knows, because he knew her before the blight but he doesnt have a death wish n he like. will Not piss her off

shes dalish by birth n she was stolen from her clan by templars and thus is vehemently anti-circle and anti-chantry in general

uhhh the vallaslin (elf face tattoos) of my 4 dalish characters are:

eira = ghilan’nain (chose em cuz shes rlly interested in the navigation aspect of the goddess)

alas = falon’din (god of the dead n he picked them because he’s Also the god of fortune and alas is like tee hee fun but also he can and will kill u if u fuck with him so yk its fitting)

hela = june (god of the craft bc she likes to Make things but june is also the god who taught the elves 2 hunt and hela is. a hunter.)

mal = elgar’nan (allfather/god of vengeance bc. she is Vengeful. she is Angry. but yk fucking with shem politics and fucking their divine is like. mal may have little a retribution. as a treat.) yes she has the full half-face solid colour tattoo she does NOT fuck around.

bronson and bryant r not genetically identical but they Look similar enough 2 anyone who doesn’t know them well enough 2 play spot the distance. anora and bronson think this is a super fun game to play, especially when nobles realize they’ve swapped out the king but they’re too nervous to say anything

eira mahariel has two hands. one is for holding hands with alistair and the other is for throttling elven gods, apparently. she’s killed one before so solas she’s coming for your bitch ass next. watch urself.

speaking of eira and alistair are married thru dalish tradition and humans don’t recognize it n alistair loves 2 re-propose to her with random things. he’ll just pick up like. a bit of cheese and be like “marry me ;)” and she’s like GASP but whatever will the chantry say!!!! all of their friends r sick of them

“vhenan if you love me bring me a sword” “you think i could do better than a sword made out of space rock?” “:)”

eira is my youngest hero at 18 at the start of her game and kat is my oldest at 32 at the start of her game.

none of my hawkes are under six foot. rhett is the tallest (6′8″) and rads is the shortest (6′2″).

syracuse trevelyan would have been the Perfect inquisitor if he were not a pretty boy himbo and a gay bastard who does Most Things just to spite his parents.

[corypheus pointing at syracuse’s visage in his crystal orb thingo] i want that twink obliterated

i love the companions from older games return thing i truly do so i make it a point for Every companion to return in inquisition so the gang rlly is all here because i am a Slutte for found family

i lie in my keep worldstates because i dont want to choose between hawke and alistair during here lies the abyss but i never make him king and every time i play inquisition and cole has the wicked grace line it makes me Scream. alistair baby im so sorry i did this to you but i didnt actually do this to you

yes this is my everyone lives au but like. all the time. i have never left hawke in the fade and i do not intend to.

fuck whatever nonsense about wardens not being able 2 have kids. by sheer divine power (me) anora and bryant have three daughters; eleanor, sabina & cecelia n both bronson and zevran make Excellent uncles because i think anora deserves good things because i’m tired of bioware being like women bad, actually,

so like most of the time i have the warden & hawke turning up after the move to skyhold n then staying on, with the exception of bryant, carmine & mal. mal is as mentioned previously just There the whole time with her girlfriend. bryant steps in as king of ferelden w/ interests in closing the big hole in the sky spewing demons in2 his kingdom yk. carmine shows up because she wants to help & she wants protection for bethany but she outright says she’d rather die than be inquisitor so cassandra is shit out of luck.

“CHANGE HER MIND VARRIC” “she once doubled down on insisting amaranth was a shade of blue because she didn’t want to admit to being wrong. no one’s changing her mind seeker”

alas is the middle child of eight and is thus very good with children and also bossing around people older than him. 2 of his older siblings come to the inquisition when stuff in wycome has been settled

i left ash with the basic canon background with Some variation (he grew up under the qun and left of his own free will when his magic was discovered n he realized he couldn’t take living as a saarebas

kat on the other hand was raised tal-vashoth and has bounced around basically all over thedas and leads her own merc company when the conclave blows up. she also speaks multiple languages. is there a language she doesn’t speak? probably not

just realized how long this got so im gonna like. stop my general rambling now but lmao yeah theres some basics. waves hands.

[hillrot]

👫 Leaves this here 2 million years late

👫 and get some hcs about our muses

 bonus for their baby daughter

there came a time when haleir had been poisoned by godric’s old weapon, when the illness seemed so dire, godric very nearly considered handing himself back over to the fey in exchange for the antidote. if haleir was still cognizant, he might have been able to catch bits of godric’s early morning ‘prayers’ spent reflecting over the idea and cursing their former queen up and down. which in hindsight, might have been a catalyst for discovering his prayers were giving away their locations daily but i digress. what ultimately stops him is that in all of his distrust, he could not thing of a concrete phrasing for a deal that would not allow loopholes to take place. he didn’t trust that the antidote given would be a permanent one, or that it wouldn’t contain a worse poison. or that it would come in time. but oh, he certainly was willing to make that sacrifice.

i’m inclined to say that’s when the cracks in his crystal first started to appear, contemplating how to safely break his oath; in hiding Haleir and tending to him between fights; that he finally broke down in tears. looking for any sort of divine intervention. That is his grief, someone stumbles upon the messy, blood-soaked and hysteric tiefling and tries to comfort him and for once, he tells most of the truth. That the love of his life is sick and dying because of his mistakes, he doesn’t know how to cure him. They ask him three questions: if he would die for this love, if the love of his life would ever forgive him for dying, and what he would offer in exchange for help. hesitant on the last and jaded by the fey, he offers, “a favor, barring any that would endanger my love, of equivalent effort and time spent, and only to any singular persons who assisted.” he doesn’t think much of owing the stranger, and in fact intends to blow them off once the materials or antidote is in hand. it isn’t until quite possibly months to years later. he doesn’t even think of favor owed until he spots a familiar face soliciting assistance from able-bodied people to help a temple for the goddess, sune. 

sometime after the inevitability that is godric losing his job in the city for being late / not showing up, haleir offers that he can use the crossroads to market his cures and little fixer business. provided he cleans up his clientele. cue someone new, nervous looking soul during the day coming inside and blindly calling out: “uhhh, I was hoping to have a word in private with Mr. Ralaferin?” and Hal from the bar plus Godric from tidying up or something simultaneously asking, “Which one?”

i bet haleir gets nervous after he discovers his long lost privateer, and what he really does for a living now. (well before the moving in.) nights where things that reek of magical intervention come across the news and he thinks of higgins going overboard, but this time, worries they might show a photo of an unidentified member of the nypd. he always texts or leaves a short voicemail to make sure godric made it in okay, and godric calls him back so hal knows for certain it’s him. they take turns offering to keep talking depending on their nights and how busy it is. haleir until godric can fall asleep. godric mumbling softly until haleir can close down. 

BONUS: godric bought a journal, sometime after he finally comes to his senses and starts holding eira. every so often, he would trace her baby hand inside of hers or Haleir’s. he would write about when she started teething, keep a little scrapbook of things like a lock of her hair from her first haircut. what they did for her birthday. wishes for her - not like careers but how he hopes he’s happy and how much he believes in her, how hard they’re trying to give her everything they never had.  patches of clothes from her old favorite clothes and what she would do in them, a little scrapbook if you will. it’s a sizable journal, so there’s plenty of room left in it. besides the fact that him and haleir probably curl up with it when their nest is empty and their baby girl is grown up, he waits for something big to happen to happen when she’s older before giving it to her. maybe it’s her buying a place of her own (but she’s welcome to stay forever i bet even if that cramps her style), maybe it’s waiting to see her get serious with someone. in any case: “this is the story of you, of our baby girl. now, i don’t know what happens next. but sometimes it helps to be able to look back and see where you’ve come from, to know where you’re going. and there’s room to grow in it too, if it ever strikes your fancy.” (it of course, does not use anyone’s name, only terms of affection, your father / me etc)

[starbcrn-kids]

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Tayen couldn’t bring herself to watch. She couldn’t. She knew, she knew, that this was the safest option, that this was best for their family, because then the threat was out of the way…

… but part of her looked at Valeris, and could only see Celena…

So she kept her eyes down, just listening in silence, gripping Liam’s arm tightly.

Liam looked around when he heard that thud. What…? That… No, something was off. He looked over at Eira, who was obviously on edge for more than one reason. She glanced at him, then looked around the crowd, trying to keep an eye out for something, to make herself useful for once.

Aoife tensed and straightened, the crystal in her chest pulsing with her heartbeat as it slowly picked up pace. She looked over at Ginger, at Jocelyn, at Mackenzie, the Romulan and the hybrid both shaking their heads. Something was off. They all felt it.

Emala nodded silently, slowly spreading her fingers and holding her hand slightly out, ready to call her sword if she needed to, ready to fight, ready to defend her family.

Levi held his breath, glancing at Jackie. “Jacks, what the hell is going on?”

Thud.

Talla and Alara glance to their security officers, knowing those looks, knowing they both have one themselves. Something was really, really wrong.

Thud.

Alara looks to her sister, sees the way Rebecca's face has pulled in from that blank, broken expression she'd walked in with to a tight line. If she's learned one thing... it's to trust Rebecca's gut.

Thud.

Freddy straightens up on his crutch a bit, glancing around nervously. He felt it. He definitely felt it. This was like those moments where the superheroes think the villain was defeated and--

Thud.

Darla looks up at her brothers and sisters and her mom and grandpa and all of the family and chews her lip.

Thud.

Saavik has pulled her face out of her mother's back, glancing around, uneasy.

Thud.

Jackie shakes her head, looking around. "I have one answer and I'm not sure I like it."

Boom.

A hole in the back wall and Valeris' smirk tells them everything. Six voices chorus an immediate, "Shazam!" as the building quickly descends into anarchy, with Valeris' supporters, the ones who had been working to convince Vulcan to leave the Federation--

Brandon shoots laser eyebeams at someone who makes a beeline straight to Valeris as he takes off behind his other siblings in flight--

But before Rebecca can follow, someone grabs her arm and pulls her back. Shit, there were assholes in the crowd. She glares and slams her heel into the would-be captor's foot, wrenching herself free.

Ginger draws her phaser without missing a beat, turning and firing on the Vulcan she'd felt watching her sister and her niece since they'd gotten in here. Fuck. Shit!

Jackie growls, a fire in her eyes-- but in all the mess, she sees--

"NO THE FUCK YOU DON'T!"

Her voice echoes even amongst the chaos and without even thinking about it, Jackie assumes control from across the room, holding out her hand properly and with an easy move of her fingers forces Valeris down to the ground. "You're not going anywhere, bitch."

[myselfinserts]

❝ I bet you could catch bullets. ❞

"What were you thinking?!"

"Do you realize how much danger you put her in?!"

"And not only that, but now the girl got away and we have no ideawhere she is!!!"

Aizawa watched as Eira sighed, listening to everyone yell atthe heroes. Bakugou was foaming at the mouth in anger from the mirror, while Midoriyawinced at the scolding. Ms. Joke seemed to be exhausted. The plan had wentbadly. And not only that, but channels had been crossed that really should havebeen left alone.

Though he'd be lying if he said it wasn't even a littlefunny watching Joke get chewed out.

"How dare you?!" Regi bellowed at Vlad. "Youhad no right to sign off on Eira being used as bait!"

"I'm her uncle," Vlad said coldly. "Andaccording to your hero programs, that allows me to sign off on her trainingunder other heroes for certain tasks."

"You put my daughter in danger!"

"She's old enough to make her own choices on missions!"

"You could have gotten her killed!"

Ms. Joke stepped in. "I asked Nezu  to ask Vlad for permission to ask for Eira'sassistance in this. And didn't tell her we'd have two other heroes on board. Ifyou want to be angry at someone, be angry at me."

Regi snarled, eyes glowing as every piece of tech from hispacks started spinning around him. "I am. Angry. At all of you."

"You know, I bet you could use a laugh-"

"And I bet youcould catch bullets!"

"Dad," Eira groaned. "Come on. We shouldn'tbe internally fighting! We should be celebrating!"

Aizawa raised an eyebrow. "Celebrating? You nearly gottrapped in a mirror. Bakugou and several civilians did get trapped. That's hardly anything to celebrate."

Eira nodded. "That's all true. But we learned somethingabout our target. That she, like her brother, can put people into the lookingglass." She smiled. "But also, that there's an important otherfactor. You need to be looking into the light to get caught in the mirror. Notcovering your eyes with anything."

Bakugou grumbled. "I was looking right into thatfucking light…"

"I covered my eyes with my arms," Midoriya addedsheepishly.

"And I was wearing the purple contacts." Eira tookher contacts off, pulling her glasses out of their case. "She's naturallystronger than her villainous brother. I had a suspicion that this might be thecase, and I was planning on testing the theory on this mission using myself asbait but things kind of…changed."

Luci's eyes went wide. "Eira, that's dangerous!"

Vlad was taken aback. "You had a theory and you didn'ttell us? You can't pull that!"

Eira shrugged. "We still don't know the full extent ofthese mirror quirks yet. It's worth looking at things from every angle, right?And I'm willing to risk myself if it means we know exactly what we're dealingwith."

"What?!" Regi gasped. All the tech fell to thefloor, all new and ready for a good fight. "You can't just put yourself inthe line of fire like that! What if things went wrong-"

"Which they did."

"-and you got trapped in the mirror?!"

"Then I'd be trapped until we find the girl." Shecrossed her arms, leaning against the wall. "I don't see what's so wrongwith this. Isn't it my job as a hero to stop crime? How am I supposed to dothat without all the information?"

Before everyone could start arguing again, Aizawa steppedinto the center of the group. "As bad as the situation is, everyone herehas a point." He looked at Regi, eyes narrowed in warning. "Vlad isright. You can't just baby her forever. If she’s going to be a hero, she needs to learn to handle things without you." He looked at Joke, the sternannoyance he'd always made explicit still burning even now. "You shouldn'thave left Eira in the dark that these two former students of mine were also on yourteam. And don’t ask Nezu to go behind our backs on things." He focused on Eira,his 'dad' voice firm. "And you. If you have a theory or inquiry involvinga case, you tell the others you're working with unless in a situation involvinga mole." He pointed to the mirror. "That way we can avoid this."Everyone seemed to calm down. "Now. Any other secrets we want to sharebefore we release Renegade into the obstacle course?"

Everyone said no. Good. He was tired. This kind of bullshitshould not be happening during the sports festival. And he had to put up with aclass of third years that he regretted letting get this far. The last thing heneeded was to deal with was internal affairs.

And yet, best to keep it as internal as possible.

"Alright," he sighed. "Joke, we'll need totalk. I think it's best I take over the investigation." Joke was shockedbut just nodded in agreement. "Now, we all need to-"

BAM!

Everyone nearly jumped as the door was kicked down. Standingin the frame was the school nurse, who was seething with rage as she stormedover to Nezu. Everyone parted like the Red Sea to let her get to the desk.

"If you ever pull a stunt like that again," shewarned, "I will flood your school to the point where nothing will remain themoment the students are sent home for break. And I have the strength to keep itwithin the school. So don't you dare test me. Are. We. Clear?"

Nezu smiled fondly. "Crystal clear, Dr. Gladstone. Thiswon't happen again. You have my word."

"I should hope so. I'm the only thing keeping you froma lawsuit with the J.H.A. and the public." She relaxed, looked over to Vlad, and said assweetly as possible. "Please don't step into our niece's training withoutasking Regi and Luci, okay dear?"

Everyone shivered. Aizawa felt sick to his stomach. Hearing'Luci' come out of her mouth felt wrong.

"Yes dear," Vlad mumbled.

"Thank you." She turned to Ms. Joke, salt fillingthe air. "You ever come near my family again I will gut you like afish." Marianne looked to Midoriya and Bakugou. "I'm sorry you bothgot caught up in all this." Finally, she looked to Eira, all the angergone and sorrow taking its place. She walked up to her niece and hugged hertightly. "I'm so glad you're safe…"

Aizawa watched closely, taking note of how the tension inthe room finally began to fade. In the corner, Luci had begun to absorb as muchof the negativity as they could, while Regi hesitantly walked over to hissister.

My cue to leave.

"We should go talk," he said, motioning for Vladand Joke to follow. "Midoriya, bring Bakugou."

"Yes, Aizawa-sensei."

Aizawa took the others and left Nezu's office. The lastthing he saw before the door closed was Regi and Marianne holding Eira close,his own wife standing by the door out of their sight and giving him a thumbsup.

Once again, they were on the same wavelength.