#❛ verse: dark pit ; post-game.

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[madeimpact]

⍅🌩️⍆ ❝ I'm filing a complaint with Mistress Viridi HR about that time you threw me off the Lightning Chariot. Jerk. ❞ [[ A Phosphora for you :) ]]

Skill issue || @rage-reloaded

❝ You're still upset about that? ❞ Yes. Yes she is. Jeez, if there was one thing he would admit ( silently, to himself, never out loud ) that he envied about Pit, it was his roommate situation — that being, not really having any besides Palutena herself.

❝ You didn't get hurt when I did that, did you? Or would the whiplash of running into the Chaos Vortex have been better? ❞ Despite having the demeanor of a standoffish little brother, some of his true thinking seeps through into his words. ❝ If one of us was gonna go and do that, I wasn't about to be the one playing stablehand while Pit went off in there to have all the fun himself. ❞

[theresattrpgforthat]

i want to destroy the god king and begin an anarchist uprising. culminating in participating in the aftermath building a new world

You and me both buddy. Let’s get started.

THEME: Destroy God

Dethrone Skeleton God, by emmy verse.

DETHRONE SKELETON GOD. THAT IS ALL YOU HAVE TO DO.

In this gmless role playing game you will set out on a journey to find and dethrone the aforementioned god. You will need some d6s, a d12, and some writing materials.

This game pulls a lot of inspiration from some pretty stellar games, including No Stone Unturned, EXTRACAUSAL, Trophy, and Blades in the Dark. You will play racing against three Fallout Tracks, which track the collapse of the material world, the immaterial world, and the Skeleton God’s Power. When all tracks are full, the game is over, and you narrate how the world ends.

If nobody in your group wants the burden/responsibility of running a game, this game is an excellent option as it is both GM-less and lightweight. It’s only 16 pages long and covers creating location elements and exploring them as a group. Everything is collaborative, so if you’re interested in games that let you come up with a story together as you go, you might want to check out this game.

Dead Gods, by Trollish Delver Games.

After the Cataclysm of Heaven it all changed. Murdered gods fell from the sky, sundering the land and casting their sacred relics about the world. From the woodwork crawl Warcults, scavengers of god-relics to further their own twisted gains. The Eternal seek power over death itself. The Order of the Stars seek relics to unlock god-like omniscience. The Pale Druids imbibe relics to acquire power over nature itself. The Black Maw will create a new, hungrier god under their control. 

Pick up a lovingly-designed weird cult and pit them against your friend in a desperate effort to grab a sacred god-relic in this miniatures skirmish game. Each player will control a number of different kinds of war cult members, and there are 4 war cults to embody in the upcoming skirmish. Great for PvP and lovers of combat, but if you want narrative you’ll want to pick up something else or mostly RP it out. You can also check out Unholy Scavengers, for more relics, more scenarios, more models - more more more!

Karanduun - Make God Bleed, by makapatag.(@makapatag)

Karanduun is a modern Filipino Epic RPG about worthless heroes dismantling God, whatever cycle of oppression that must be.  Inspired by modern Filipino folklore and culture. You play as young heroes who must make their legend known and become a legendary Karanduun by making God (whichever oppressive system and tyrant that is) bleed.

Lovers of Kill Six Billion Demons will probably get a big kick out of this game. The god Batala is already dead, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for some rebellion of your own. There are demons, corrupt angels, and other Kings of the Earth to defeat, in a post-American world inspired by the Philippines. If you’re looking for some narrative play, this game has got you covered, with rules inspired by Exalted 1e and PbtA. You can check out the physical version of this game on SoulMuppet’s website!

Skorne, by Dreaming Dragonslayer.

You are renegades, part of mankind’s insurrection against SKORNE who is devil prince, commander of demon rulers and their armies, and the darkness that reigns. Overthrow the evil Tyrants. Free chained captives. Fight to the last man.

Part of the NSR movement, Skorne is inspired by media such as Berserk, MORK BORG, and games like Dark Souls and Elden Ring. The game itself is only 4 pages long, with a really interesting system for character creation. You roll for your abilities and then use their values to determine your starting kit. The language in the game is also great for putting you into the fiction, such as the instructions found for character name choice:

“In the beginning, give thy renegade a name, though it will not save them.”

You want gritty and dire circumstances? You want to kill demon princes? You wanna play a game with random tyrant generation? This is for you.

Extreme Meatpunks Forever, by Sinister Beard Games.

"In the beginning, there was meat. A decaying chunk of flesh from a dying god, hurtling through the void of space, thousands of miles wide. A million eyes, a billion hands grasping for purchase against nothingness itself.  This is where we live.”

EXTREME MEATPUNKS FOREVER is a tabletop roleplaying game where you’ll play as a gang of queer antifascists in a strange place called Meatworld. Spinning through space on the screaming corpse of a dead god under the glow of an absent sun, the people of Meatworld harvest its flesh to make their technology.

Embody your queer rage and kill fascists in meat-mechs in Extreme Meatpunks Forever. A PbtA game, this option is narrative-heavy and allows you to pick from some pretty metal weapons, including (but not limited to) Excellent Seasoning, A Bit Stick What Has Shrapnel In It, and Deathfucker Cannon. In your downtime, you can kiss your friends and work to heal and deal with your trauma. If you want a game that feels metal and also presents you with extremely punchable enemies, this is your game!

Other Recommendations

If you want some more recommendations you can also check out the Attack and Dethrone God Jam on itch.io, or my Revolution recommendation post.

If you’re interested in what happens after you end the world, then I recommend my Post-Apocalyptic Community Building recommendations!

[prodigum]

rules: if you're tagged, make a new post with links to music and/or lyrics describing the following . . .

( for leliana )

event that defines your character's past:

despite her idealistic perspective when entering the court / game of orlais, she hardens so quickly bc of lady cecilie. raised with a sharp edge and all the grace she was destined to have. "the lawn is dead" her past isn't really so far away but it is.

half return by adrianne lenker

how your character sees themselves:

this folk song sung by tia blake really does it for me tbh. ik it's almost ha ha funny bc a bit of humor in the song. but genuinely deep dive a good spread of what she feels. that she does absolutely foul but pointed things in the name of the maker. and he's sitting there smiling at her anyway. bc she's the left hand - dirt under her fingernails always and in faith.

plastic jesus by tia blake

how others view them:

i do think that by inquisiton era she really is this untouchable bird to the common eye. all of the inquisition really views her as this huge force. strong like the wind, wings like the nightingale. promising something holy. and all the while she's just a woman. weight of her dreams and past so heavy on her shoulders she bears it with some outward force.

rhiannon - fleetwood mac

their closest relationship (platonic or romantic):

her closest relationship is with divine justinia. unless !! romancing the hero of ferelden which ofc verse dependent! but her relationship with the divine is so important. "phony prophets stole the only light i knew and the darkness softly screamed. and holy visions disappeared from my view but the angels come back and laugh in my dreams i wonder what it means" this hits her fucking hard. and this cover my favorite so going w/ that.

crayon angels - robin pecknold (cover)

a major fight scene:

ik this is a scene that only happened in a doomed future scenario BUT - her fight to the death to buy the inquisitor and dorian more time to escape to the past will live in my heart FOREVER. and every word she says then. this song soooo encapsulates that.

"the maker" by daniel lanois

end credit song:

i could sit here and draw eljiah parallels all day but not gonna do that. blood and grief and the sanctity of her own soul all to serve the maker. and that pit that it leads her to. gone way too far in the name of love, regardless of its shape.

drawn to the blood by sufjan stevens

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[wuxiaphoenix]

Stray Thoughts: On Heroism and Constantine

John Constantine, that is; DC’s most conman of all blue-collar magicians, with morals that might be called dubious and so many bad habits you can barely stuff them into a trenchcoat.

I first met him through a fanfic, Sailor Hellblazer. (I should look for that again.) Given it was a crossover with Sailor Moon and Ah My Goddess, I suspect John’s behavior was toned down. A bit. Still, from what I’ve run across after - TV, movie, comics and animations - the essentials came through. John is not a nice guy. Sometimes he’s not even a good guy. But... he tries.

That’s the key part for me: he tries.

Mind, depending on the depiction you could also say that Godzilla tries.

Which is fitting. Because if you call on John Constantine - if, God help you, you have to call on John Constantine - you’ve hit your personal Godzilla Threshold. You have to be in such a state that dealing with a self-proclaimed warlock and dabbler in the Dark Arts, who cheats demons in card games, cannot make things any worse.

(Sometimes John makes things worse anyway. It’s a gift.)

Many of Constantine’s stories don’t have happy endings. He’s a flawed man, and his judgment is not always the best. On the other hand, there just aren’t that many people doing what John does. In the DC ‘verse, if you’ve got a case of demonic possession or sorcerous murder spree, unless you’re lucky enough to run into someone like Zatanna, Merlin, or Dr. Fate in a good mood, your options are limited.

So the only magical disaster care in town is a back-alley clinic where the doc’s probably downed at least one shot of whisky before he saw you, and is heading for more after. Is this a good situation? No. But no one else is stepping up.

John, at least, is trying.

(He can be very trying.)

So. Hero?

...Admittedly, open to debate. Sometimes he’s just poking out of curiosity. Sometimes he’s pulled a howler and caused the problem in the first place. Sometimes he’s landed in the blast zone of someone else dabbling in Dark Arts and is just trying to survive.

But sometimes there’s an innocent in the line of fire. Or - and this is where my respect for the character roots - there’s someone who’s realized they’ve made an awful mistake, and they need help to put it right.

A lot of heroes save innocent bystanders. It takes something extra to reach out to someone who’s committed a magical crime and say, okay, let’s see if we can fix this.

Of course there’s a cost, when you’re dealing with darkness. Of course there is.

John Constantine is a trickster, a conman, and an exploiter of loopholes to the max. He’s no paragon. Sometimes he barely even qualifies as a scoundrel. But he’s a larger than life example of how you can be an imperfect, sinful man, and still try to drag yourself out of the pit of your own bad decisions. Pick yourself up. Start again. Fix what you broke. Do better next time.

And do it knowing you’re going to fail. A lot. Because the problems are big and Evil and you’re no Superman. Just a man.

...Just a man with a bit of magic and the sheer bloody gall to drive demons to drink. And you know, you can work with that.

(Rant spawned by this mind-boggling vid clip, where the vid maker opined that heroes are only heroic because they hate themselves. Which... no. No, this vid is classic blaming the victim and whoever made that post-Apokalips animation didn’t understand Constantine or moral punishment for lawbreaking. Bleah.)

John Constantine is no shining hero. But he’s something we need just as much: the reminder that even if you’ve failed at being a decent human this time, you don’t get to quit. Come on. Pick yourself up. One more go, eh?

[madeimpact]

❝ Maybe if you weren't running full speed on the ice, you wouldn't be in this mess. ❞ And guess who got tasked with patching him up? Not because he was particularly willing...just because wing health is important for angels, and if Pit goes, so does Dark Pit. Yeah, that's it. ❝ Now quit squirming until your goddess gets back with the drink of the gods. ❞

“I officially hate ice. Unless it’s ice cream.” Poor angel slipped and fell on his wing earlier that morning. While not broken, it was bruised and that wasn’t fun.

[heartbinders]

IMPORTANT HEADCANON DIRECTORY

This is a masterpost of headcanons that are most worth knowing on this blog. Seeing as this is a multimuse, I’ll organize it by series and then by character (with general worldbuilding-type meta under the series name and character-specific meta under the character’s name). This will get updated as the blog is around for longer, and none of it is required reading, but it’s helpful if you want to learn more about my take on a character or world!

Series and muse names link to their respective worldbuilding / headcanon tags, while list items link to specific headcanon posts.

ANIMAL CROSSING

Cammie

Who were Camille and Cammie’s neighbors? ( link goes to Camille’s blog, run by Aaron! )

Why Camofrog is important to Cammie

KID ICARUS

Angels, Flight, and the Mechanics of the Power of Flight

Where do Angels Come From?

Structure of the Underworld

Pit

Pit’s reflection after Dark Pit’s appearance

Justifying Pit knowing about other game universes, without godmodding! ( Plus an aside about divine technology )

KINGDOM HEARTS

"The World Order" - or, multiple worlds and YOU(r muse)

Telling Roxas and Ven apart

Sora

Misc Sora body headcanons

Sora's parents

MOTHER

Tazmily after the Dark Dragon

Lucas

Lucas growing up bilingual

Post-game Lucas and tech

Lucas’s relationship with Flint

Lucas, mind-reading, and empathy

Lucas fighting during-game

Lucas’s feelings about being in Smash

NEON GENESIS EVANGELION

The world after End of Evangelion

Shinji

Important people in Shinji’s life / NPCs ( cw: abuse mention, internalized biphobia )

Shinji’s upbringing in the anime and rebuild vs manga ( cw: physical abuse )

Shinji’s scars and body image ( cw: self harm, body image, implied toxic masculinity )

Post-canon Shinji and gender

POKEMON

Trainer cards

Kazuya

Kazuya's mom masterpost

Red

Public vs private knowledge about Red

Noctis ( PKMN verse )

Knowledge meme

Prompto ( PKMN verse )

Knowledge meme

SMASH BROS

How Smash works in-universe

How humans can use weapons from the Kid Icarus universe

VOCALOID

Baku / Ren

Important info about Ren’s abilities, general demeanor, and what happens to his victims ( cw: gaslighting )

[madeimpact]

IMPORTANT HEADCANON DIRECTORY

This is a masterpost of headcanons that are most worth knowing on this blog. Seeing as this is a multimuse, I’ll organize it by series and then by character (with general worldbuilding-type meta under the series name and character-specific meta under the character’s name). This will get updated as the blog is around for longer, and none of it is required reading, but it’s helpful if you want to learn more about my take on a character or world!

Series and muse names link to their respective worldbuilding / headcanon tags, while list items link to specific headcanon posts.

ANIMAL CROSSING

Cammie

Who were Camille and Cammie’s neighbors? ( link goes to Camille’s blog, run by Aaron! )

Why Camofrog is important to Cammie

BANDORI

Tomoe

Tomoe and gender

KID ICARUS

Angels, Flight, and the Mechanics of the Power of Flight

Where do Angels Come From?

Structure of the Underworld

Pit

Pit’s reflection after Dark Pit’s appearance

Justifying Pit knowing about other game universes, without godmodding! ( Plus an aside about divine technology )

KINGDOM HEARTS

Telling Roxas and Ven apart

Sora

Misc Sora body headcanons

Sora's parents

MOTHER

Tazmily after the Dark Dragon

Lucas

Lucas growing up bilingual

Post-game Lucas and tech

Lucas’s relationship with Flint

Lucas, mind-reading, and empathy

Lucas fighting during-game

Lucas’s feelings about being in Smash

NEON GENESIS EVANGELION

The world after End of Evangelion

Shinji

Important people in Shinji’s life / NPCs ( cw: abuse mention, internalized biphobia )

Shinji’s upbringing in the anime and rebuild vs manga ( cw: physical abuse )

Shinji’s scars and body image ( cw: self harm, body image, implied toxic masculinity )

Post-canon Shinji and gender

POKEMON

The world map that applies to this blog

Trainer cards

Allister

Allister’s ghostly mannerisms

Kazuya

Kazuya can’t talk about his mom

Kazuya and gender

Kyouhei

Kyouhei and Kyurem ( meta in tags )

Red

Public vs private knowledge about Red

Noctis ( PKMN verse )

Knowledge meme

Prompto ( PKMN verse )

Knowledge meme

SMASH BROS

How Smash works in-universe

VOCALOID

Rin and Len

The twins and gender

Baku / Ren

Important info about Ren’s abilities, general demeanor, and what happens to his victims ( cw: gaslighting )

[madeimpact]

earthssprout​:

🌼🐌 & the story continues from 🍄 ! // ( @madeimpact​​ )

ARI ALWAYS KNEW DARK PIT TO BE SILLY ( in truth, however, the little girl only confused bluntness and misplaced pout for silliness ), and he only proves it more with his words now. They bring out a light - hearted chuckle from the child, and then she shows him what is obvious; on her toes she rose—as high as she possibly could—holding that trusty wicker basket that little Ari was rarely ever seen without up by its handle. 

“ I … I’m gonna put the pi … pi … the pinecones in here! in my basket! ”Ari assured as if the fact wasn’t clear to Dark Pit before. Then that gaze, which held the twinkle of Ari’s spirit that found delight in Dark Pit’s silly words, turned hopeful, eyes softening and basket lowering onto one arm as the other extended out. Ari’s little fingers wiggled at a hand that rested at Dark Pit’s side. 

“ mmm … may Too - Too help me, pl — please … ? I wanna brrr … brrr— I wanna bring the pinecones to ms. Birdie, please. " 

❝ Y’know, I’m sure Viridi’s got more pinecones than she knows what to do with. This whole forest — actually, all of nature is her domain. She could probably tell you where every pinecone in the world is, if she wanted to. ❞

That is to say: it’s a little redundant to give her a basket of them... But when has that ever stopped Ari? When has that ever driven Dark Pit to stop Ari, even? At this point, he’s come to terms with the fact that children do silly things. And whenever he indulges the silly things that Ari gets up to in particular, the smile on her face is...

No, he’s not going to allow himself to finish that thought.

Dark Pit clears his throat, eyes traveling to the pinecones in that precious basket of hers, and then to Ari herself. His expression softens.

❝ But if you really want to, I can help you, I guess. How many pinecones are we talking, here? Five? Ten? A full basket? How high can you count, actually? ❞

[gryffindorkxdraws]

JACKUNZEL EXPLANATION in 0X1=LOVESONG (I Know I Love You) by Tomorrow X Together

as a MOA and a jackunzel shipper, i couldn’t help but notice that the song fits them and i can add it to my ship playlist *smashes it in LOL

and the way they keep playing with the words “freeze,” and “thaw,” as if the boy was stuck in a cold and lonely world (JACK?!) until he met a girl who melted it all with her light and warmth (RAPUNZEL??!?)

"The song’s lyrics, which expresses the emotions of a boy who is confident that his love for a special girl he met in this chaotic world is real. The title of the track is an equation representing the story of a boy with a hole (0) in his soul in a world full of zeros (0) and one (1) girl who approaches the boy."

this explanation of the song *HEAD IN HANDS and my mind immediately just went DEAR LORDE ITS JACKUNZEL STFU I’M TAKING IT

so i decided to break down the english lyrics while imagining/explaining the ship mostly in jack’s POV to go with the song

[Intro: Taehyun]

I know I love you [Verse 1: Yeonjun, Beomgyu, Huening Kai] In this world of zero I know you're my one and only In this endless darkness like Oh my god, so holy From the tip of my fingers Everything runs far away My life before you was a mess Couldn't win one round of this chess Oh we

“When Jack Frost was reborn he lost all memory of his previous life and immediately began his adventures of fun and mischief, discovering his powers. The Man in the Moon only ever told him his name, and he quickly discovers no one can see him when he enters a village and is walked through for the first time.”

he was left alone with nothing but questions as soon as he was reborn. and he had to deal with it, along with his loneliness and frustration, all by himself.

for a while at least, until he met the others. but judging from their former opinions and judgements on jack, i doubt that they formed a deep bond with each other before the movie’s current timeline.

just, 300 years?? he had to deal with everything ALONE for 300 YEARS. i’m pretty sure he hides all that negativity behind his mischief and pranks, because what else can he do besides demanding for answers from the man in the moon?

he was going in circles without progress, and he knew it

[Pre-Chorus: Yeonjun, Soobin, Taehyun] From this bottomless pit You're the only (one) shining gold Now I can't stop thinking 'bout you When I'm sinking alone Angel who one day appeared to me Take me away to your hometown I know it's real, I can feel it

but what if...

what if he meets a strange girl with an even stranger hair. and he expected nothing from it. just another curiosity to check out and that was all.

but then she proved him wrong.

with her wonderstruck eyes and excited giggles and suggestions of never ending plans for the two of them that would take them far and wide (after they got through the phase of suspicions and getting hit by a frying pan LOL). 

and he’s in shock. lost for words. because holy hell “You can see me? And you even wanna stick around with me??”

[Chorus: Huening Kai, Taehyun] I'm full of problems, love sick No way to go I was fine to die I'm a loser in this game The only (one) rule of this world Save me Take my hand Please use me like a drug (I know I love you)

and everything falls together as they embark on adventures together

with them pushing and pulling each other out of their comfort zones. their trust in each other growing as time goes by. showing the other a world that they never knew of, or maybe they did but they never got to experience it until now. and simply reminding the other to live (directly or not).

just live.

for themselves and no one else.

[Post-Chorus: Seori, Taehyun] Say you love me, say you love me Till the end of the world All or nothing, I want all of you I know I love you Say you love me, say you love me Till the end of the world All or nothing, I give all of you I know I love you

jack is well aware of their differences. that perhaps maybe she's too good for him. that she's definitely someone way out of his league.

and those thoughts brought something lurking in the back of his mind. telling him to prep himself always when the time comes. when rapunzel sees him for who he is and leaves him in disappointment

he’d even tell himself that he wouldn’t blame her if ever she did

[Verse 2: Soobin, Taehyun, Yeonjun]

I'm not going to make it I won't be able to get into heaven I don't belong there No place for me in heaven At the tips of my feet Everything turned pitch black My life before you was trash Could never even light a single match Oh we

but god, he’d do anything for her.

if she asked him to, he’d write her name on the stars for everyone to see. he’d take every bit he can think of to change the tides of her life. he’d freeze everyone who’d go against her. he’d turn the world upside down for her if he has to.

but also, he’d bear himself open to her. he’d let her in his secret world that hasn’t seen light for years. he’d trust her with his delicate heart, something he made sure was kept hidden from everyone all the time.

just one word from her and he’d do it.

[Pre-Chorus: Beomgyu, Soobin, Taehyun] In this world of ice You're the only (one) shining glow Now I can't stop thinking 'bout you When I'm sinking alone But angel who somehow appeared to me Take me away to your hometown I know it's real, I can feel it

and rapunzel doesn’t know it. not yet at least. about how much she meant to him. their shared laughter. their light hearted banters. their friendship. their connection. everything

while jack teases her a lot to either mess with her or get a reaction from her, he adores her dearly. treasures her wholeheartedly. and maybe even he wasn’t aware of it at first. after all, it grew slowly, surely, dancing along with them in the wind

once he caught up with his heart, he knew without a doubt that it’s real and no one else can tell him otherwise

[Chorus: Huening Kai, Taehyun] I'm full of problems, love sick No way to go I was fine to die I'm a loser in this game The only (one) rule of this world Save me Take my hand Please use me like a drug (I know I love you)

jack rises with the moon. with a side hidden from the world. wearing a mask to show only what he wants to be shown. bottling things up and leaving them in the dark corners, wishing they’d go away. but they don’t

and rapunzel rises with the sun. bright and full of honesty. unafraid to face the world with her heart on her sleeves. running in full speed. reaching out for her dreams and not even thinking of giving up as a choice.

or at least that’s how he sees it. this poor boy who didn’t have as much confidence from the start

[Bridge: Soobin, Yeonjun] The hole in my soul begins to mend Frigid air starts to thaw In this world of zero I found warmth that's you Take all of me Girl, I need you

this alone

i don’t need to explain it

it screams jackunzel all over

[Chorus: Huening Kai, Taehyun] I'm full of problems, love sick (Oh) No way to go I was fine to die (Oh) I'm a loser in this game (Game) The only (one) rule of this world Save me Take my hand Please use me like a drug (I know I love you)

but while jack was caught up in all that

rapunzel. i can see her telling him that if she’s the sun who lights up his life full of zeros, then he’s her moon who brightens her life even in the darkest hours

that if he keeps bringing himself down, then she’ll slap him out of it

because they both matter

in their own ways

to each other and to everyone else

and she’d defend him with all her might against those who think otherwise

[Post-Chorus: Seori, Huening Kai, Taehyun] Say you love me, say you love me Till the end of the world (I love you) All or nothing, I want all of you I know I love you (You) Say you love me, say you love me Till the end of the world (Till the end of the world) All or nothing, I give all of you I know I love you

I JUST LOVE JACKUNZEL AND TXT LET ME HAVE THIS *SHAKES

[jcmorrigan]

blakeworther- I personally I love your hc’s so much- any au’s or anything ya got for them? I really wanna know more about what goes on.

This was once again a BAD QUESTION TO ASK

Aside from the Skyward Sword AU, which I never went back to again, there’s only one AU that I like for Blakeworther, which is the AU that I like for everything ever. I’m not even sure I consider it a true AU, even though it absolutely is. So, okay, I have this thing called the WHAM ARMY, which is a massive crossover group of my favorite villains (led by the eight who make up the acronym but this ain’t about them). Obviously, because Victor, Vincent, and Albert are all pretty firmly villains (even if they lean “those weird morally bereft people we end up being friends with somehow”), I want them to join the WHAM ARMY. So my thoughts for them here are pretty much how they’d react in a multicrossover setting, which of my other villain loves they’d get along with, and what the intro arc is for them. Keep in mind I haven’t gotten here in the fanfic yet, so some of this could change in practice, but here are my plans right now.

Cringe ahead.

-They aren’t the originals. I want to make something that doesn’t trip over canon’s current trajectory, even though I don’t know exactly where canon is going, so what happens is that Vexen (Kingdom Hearts) is going to rebuild the three of them as replicas, since he can easily find memory cores for Victor and Vincent in Myers’ storage rooms and there’s just going to be an Albert core there for no reason.

-Vexen then pulls some Chain of Memories magic and restricts the memories they have access to. They will only remember things we have literally seen in VTSOM/TWDAK, and then I can have him release more of their memory banks to them as we get more chapters. (Even if they all three get redemption arcs, my replica versions can stay little shits!)

-He DOES NOT tell them that they’re not the originals! For all they know, they fell asleep at the last day they remember and woke up here. But they figure it out on their own despite his best efforts. They still want to get their memories back anyway so they know what the people they were replicated from were like and have a framework to build their personalities from.

-Yes, of course they’re cyborgs! Cyborg replicas. Since they’re operating by KH rules, they prooooobably don’t need to eat human meat? But also I like when villains do fucked-up things and I have jokes about the others packaging “cyborg chow” to embarrass them so maybe they still do engage in a little cannibalism, as a treat

-Each was engineered with a different specialty. Vincent’s is raw physical strength; he can walk into a gunfight without even needing a weapon and still have a chance of winning. Victor’s arms have been upgraded to hold a variety of cannons; he’s the team sniper. Albert is the team “mage”; he can conjure Dream Eaters. In this AU, TWDAK Dream Eaters and KH Dream Eaters are basically the same thing. Albert has mastered a strange art of being able to draw Dream Pieces out of the Realm of Sleep and implant them in physical forms of creatures in the waking world, creating his army. They look like they do because he hates the pastel aesthetic of KH Dream Eaters and redesigned his personal ones to look more fitting with his aesthetic. He’s also a speedster.

-The intro mission involves Vexen attempting to track down a newly-rebuilt Xion (this AU is divergent from KHIII) in Radiant Garden so he can bring her back under his control with some brainwashing. I’m also bringing in the Tsviets as past experiments of Vexen’s, so he’s basically pitting his newer models of experiment against his old ones.

-The party he already has built by this point is going to be Demyx, Simon Laurent (Infinity Train), Tsumugi Shirogane (DanganRonpa), skekSil (The Dark Crystal), and a couple other people I haven’t hinted at instory yet and don’t quite want to spoil. But Simon, Tsumugi, and skekSil will all also be Vexen’s creations - Simon and skekSil are replicas and Tsumugi is an android.

-Vincent, Victor, and Albert wake up for the first time, and while Vincent and Victor remember each other as friends, they’re just like “And why is our nemesis from RMU also here?”

-Albert probably fights with Vincent for dominance of the trio and I’m not sure which one of them is the trio leader at this point.

-I moved Nine Bean Hill from World of Final Fantasy to Radiant Garden because Radiant Garden needs a coffee shop and first of all, thanks to Hunger Games Simulator fuckery, my friends and I have an in-joke about Vincent Edgeworth having an eternal grudge against Dunkacino, so I’m going to use the coffee shop to reference this somehow without having to put actual Corporate Brainwashed Al Pacino in this ‘verse

-But also I like to think Lann and Reynn play a lot of bubblegum pop, so catch Victor and Albert dancing to the PA like idiots and then getting Demyx, skekSil, and Simon in on it while Vincent and Vexen are like “Oh God why are these our friends”

-(There are reasons this particular Demyx goes by a different name instory and it’s weirding me out to type “Demyx” for this post)

-Without spoiling too much of the arc, there IS a part where Blakeworther beats up the Tsviets, there IS a part where they battle the Anima summon from FFX and win, and there IS a part where despite all of this, Xion kicks their asses across the city

-They go through this mission seeing each other as partners and friends (though Vincent and Albert are reluctant to use the “friend” word at first), but after they all get back to base, they’re just...suddenly overwhelmed with the fact that they’re strangers in a strange land missing half their memories.

-They room together, and they end up crawling into the same bed for solidarity reasons. This is actually where I first envisioned the “rough day” sleeping position - Vincent and Victor are chest-to-chest, then Albert just snuggles in behind Victor and the other two are like “Okay, we’re gonna just let this happen” and Vincent and Albert touch at one tangent point where their arms cross.

-The days might get a little rougher after they realize they aren’t even the originals.

-Eventually they assimilate into the chaos house with no problem.

-Vincent tends to hang out with the party poopers of the house. Especially Mozenrath (Aladdin: The Animated Series). (P.S. If there are any VTSOM fans out there who also know the 90s Aladdin TV series...I CAN’T be the only one who noticed the surface similarities here, right?)

-Victor Blake and Roman Torchwick (RWBY). Oh, God, this is the hell duo. They’re party animals who love to dance and drink and dance drunk. It was not a good idea to let these two redheads meet.

-Albert and Neopolitan (RWBY)! They both love stabbing people and Victorian button boots! I actually kinda have this idea that they would pick up more fucked-up serial killer types to hang out with them - Mad Madam Mim (The Sword in the Stone) is their patron despite being a much tamer example, but Albert also decides he really likes Scaramouche (Samurai Jack), Junko Enoshima (DanganRonpa), and Jerome Valeska (Gotham).

-For a real deep cut, Albert also opens up a joint Dream Therapy office with Dr. Cheshire Broach (Crypt TV). It’s either called “Krueger & Broach” or “Broach & Krueger” depending on how long it takes either to notice that the other moved his name to the front of the sign again. You should ABSOLUTELY not trust either of these men to give you legitimate therapy (though if you’re good friends with them, they can and will use their dreamon powers to help you best your nightmares in a bloody fashion).

-Actually this ‘verse is the entire reason I thought of them doing drag karaoke to “United We Stand” by Amberian Dawn because the WHAM ARMY is all about karaoke, drag, and any combination of the two

-I haven’t decided yet if their romance will be a slow burn or a faster affair. I’m expecting them to tell me as I write out the fic. But I think in a lot of respects, it’s going to be more of a friends-to-lovers story than their original forms had. The three of them are forced to become an elite cyborg warrior unit created by the same mad scientist, they had a big bonding mission together where they became ride or die (whether or not they want to admit it), and eventually...we can start revealing that they’re CATCHING FEELINGS.

-The WHAM ARMY has many, many power couples and ships of various numbers of people but Blakeworther ends up becoming yet another POWER THROUPLE around base, and it’s understood that messing with one of them will earn the wrath of the other two

-They go on to assist in many, many missions with the purpose of taking over various worlds and kingdoms and just fucking them up

-Vincent Edgeworth will kill the TBTC equivalent of Dunkacino

You have to understand that TBTC is my hyperfixation to end all hyperfixations. Every piece of fiction I touch ends up related to it in some way. At some point the majority of how I interact with Blakeworther is going to be through this AU. I’m just a sucker for crossovers and villains having a place to be bros and party.

[questionsonislam]

What is the benefit of believing? What is the use of believing for an individual who is living in comfort without any worry and distress? Why should he believe? How can we make him believe?

- “Believing” means to be convinced for sure of something’s trueness. A person who believes in something which is proved by certain proofs cannot have a luxury of preferring to believe or not. For example, it is impossible for a person to overlook the sun he sees in an unclouded midday; He cannot have a hesitation such as, “should I believe it or not?” Like this, hesitating to believe in an illuminating truth like the sun and which is also seen by the eye of reasoning is a sign of ignorance.

The belief of Islam is based on believing in God and the hereafter. Truly believing in them only comes to fruition by believing in that the prophet Muhammad is the apostle of God and the Qur’an is the true word of God. According to this, the primary resource is the Qur’an because’ the Qur’an is both a book that we can touch and see with our bodily eyes and also a treasure of miracles that we perceive His heavenly, divine identity with the eye of reasoning and heart. In that case, believing in Islam means believing in what the Qur’an says.

- When a student who ignores the importance of studying and the bitter consequences of failing the class, he spends his days with his friends by amusement and entertainment.

Overlooking the truths and forgetting the phases of accounting and torture starting after by death may give temporary pleasures in this transient world. They are like “poisonous honey”.

-The Qur’an informs the following many times in its hundreds of verses with certainty and clearly: if a person who believes in the religion of Islam acts according to his/her belief, he/she will have an immortal happy life in Paradise, which is a realm of the hereafter, and will never die and have any sorrow. On the other hand, he who does not believe in the truths that Islam puts forth will be imprisoned in Hell forever.

Is it possible for a really believing person to overlook these two truths: that is, the result of believing is going to Paradise and the result of disbelief is eternal torture and to say, “I do not care, never mind; these things do not interest me; I enjoy my life; I do not want myself to be disturbed by thinking these things”.

Is it not incredible of a person to fear from a two-day imprisonment and finding it necessary to leave the important pleasures and joys of his soul aside but to remain insensitive in the face of the imprisonment of Hell? Whose reasoning makes it possible for a person to work for this very short life by day and night and meet challenges but not to walk on the way that gains an eternal realm like Paradise?

It is an unchanging principle of human nature to evaluate and perceive events according to the judgment that rule in his heart and mind. For example, a pessimistic individual evaluates and perceives everything from a pessimistic point of view and his life is shaped according to it. On the other hand, an optimistic individual looks at everything from an optimistic point of view and evaluates the life according to it. Red glasses let us see the environment as red; similarly, black glasses also let us see the environment as black.

Since an unbeliever sees the universe as meaningless, null and as a game of coincidence, everything seems gloomy and painful to him. And since a believer knows that everything is meaningful, beneficial and under the control of God’s care and command, everything is seems lovable and peaceful to him.

If there had not been the light of belief brought by Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) and Islam, humanity would not have been able to analyze and understand the events take place in the universe. Thus, humanity would have been in extreme darkness and despair.

For example, an individual who has no belief in the hereafter sees the death as nullity and nonexistence. He also sees the grave as pit of nonexistence. On the other hand, an individual who has light of belief sees the death as a beginning of an eternal realm and the grave as an entrance of an eternal happiness. He does not see death as a terrific source of separation but as a means of rejoining with friends and relatives.

An unbeliever sees unpleasant things and poverty, which is valid in the entire universe, like a funeral house where there is mourning and grieving. He perceives everything and every creation as a hostile person and a stranger. The eye of the heart which is illuminated with the light of belief sees the universe not as a grieving and mourning funeral house but a happy soldier of a military post who has completed its duty and returning to his native land. He sees every creation as a soldier of God and an official servant but not as a stranger or a hostile person.

Besides, human is selfless by his nature. That is, human is a social creature who becomes happy with other’s pleasures and suffers by other’s torture. While everyone is in torture, it is impossible for him/her to get pleasure from life.

However, a faithless person sees everything as meaningless and poor things that are doomed to nonexistence; therefore, from his point of view, the universe is like a house of mourning. He sees everybody as crying orphans. In order to be happy in such a psychological mood, it is necessary to silence the mind and the feelings like an animal or to have a cold heart that does not heed the painful people around. Since both cases are impossible, it is not possible to reach real happiness through denial and faithlessness.

A person who feels disturbed by the sparkling lights and colors of the sun and closes his eyes, causes it to be a night only for himself.

- We should not forget that Hazrat Prophet, who could not make Abu Talib, his uncle, be a believer, was warned and consoled by Allah through the following verse: ”It is true thou wilt not be able to guide everyone whom thou lovest: but Allah guides those whom He will and He knows best those who receive guidance.” (al-Qasas, 28/56)

It is true that Paradise needs people and Hell also needs people. Paradise is not cheap; Hell is not unnecessary. We will do our best but we should not forget that it is Allah who will give people guidance.

[xkuja]

|| WISHLIST 2020 ||

      Verses

Kingdom Hearts Verse: Kuja assists a muse in obtaining their heart’s desire, or perhaps he just sells them a potion or two. Either way, Pandemonium Apothecary is open for business! VERSE INFO HERE!

Pre / During IX: Exploring interactions and filling in blanks before and during the main game of Final Fantasy IX, e.g. what happened during the destruction of Madain Sari, Kuja making absolutely no friends in Castle Alexandria, so on~.

Crescendo Verse: Interactions in my post game verse, where Kuja hides out in Treno and decides that the only way he’ll get the cure he needs to keep living is to take over and force all of Gaia to place their resources toward doing so. VERSE INFO HERE!

Dissidia Verse: Interactions with many FF characters in the one setting. Building an interesting ( read: better than the games gave us ) ongoing storyline would be nice. Tired of being used as a pawn, Kuja’s main goal in this verse is to find out more about the cycle and thus find a way to escape it.

      Subjects

Conflict: I love battle threads. Whether our muses work together to defeat a threat ( willingly or unwillingly ) or are pitted against one another, just *chef kiss*

Wherein Kuja gets knocked off his high horse: Dissidia is a lovely one for this, as he’s thrown from a situation where he is the biggest threat to being looked down at by his ‘allies’. Anything which involves him stewing over his circumstance and lack of being able to prove himself is delicious.

Trance: Kuja’s trance is bizarre and exploitable. He trances using the souls of others. So what if he were to feed off a soul stronger than his own? Or one too strong for his body to handle? 

Kidnapping: He likes to entertain his worthy guests and is a very gracious host. Honest. Tea included. Manipulation optional.

Obligatory beach episode: what it says on the tin.

Experimentation: Be used by him, or use him, For science!

Dead doves in a paper bag: So. Dark topics. I cant list them all because it would make the post too long. Just.. Just look at all these dead doves, don’t eat them. Inquire within or ask about specific doves.

     Misc

Help with verses: Any help with plotting Dissidia stories or other game verses ( XV, VII ) appreciated~.

[facemypast]

Verse List

So this was a thing a few months ago but I gotta post a new one since I deleted my old blog like a dumbass

MCU

A Place I Once Knew- Bucky as a teen/young adult in Brooklyn

Soldier On- Takes place during WWII

Ready to Comply- Any time between his fall and the events of TWS

Hell of a Mess- Any time between TWS and CA:CW

Slowly but Surely- After Civil War, Bucky goes to Wakanda to rehabilitate, and then comes back to New York to live and work with the Avengers [Main Verse]

MCU AU:

Nobody Wants to Die- Takes place during/after the Snap, when Bucky was in the Soul Stone or in the aftermath (since it’s not canon on this blog)

I’m Always by Your Side- Bucky went down in the Valkyrie with Steve and woke up alongside him in 2012

Mission Complete- Steve is dead now, and Bucky must take up the mantle of Captain America

The Longest Distance- Bucky survived his fall, and was honorably discharged from the army in 1944

Time Reveals All Things- Bucky was defrosted in the 90′s, rescued from HYDRA over a decade earlier

The Summer Soldier- Steve fell off the train, and Bucky went down with the Valkyrie and woke up to be Captain America

Don’t Tame Your Demons- After the events of TWS, Bucky decides to use his skills for personal benefit, and becomes a mercenary [Based off of The Murder Ballads]

A Little Unsteady- Agreeing to be taken in by SHIELD, Bucky is put to work in some sort of suicide squad instead

Modern AU:

The Simple Life- Bucky is a regular guy, a veteran who works as an engineer in research and development for Stark Industries

Like No One’s Watching- In order to pay his school bills, Bucky becomes a stripper

Books and Other Hardships- College AU, where Bucky studies Engineering with a minor in Russian

Sweet as Cherry Wine- HYDRA was actually drawing power from the Supernatural, and turned Bucky into a vampire [Main Verse]

Play Me a Tune- Bucky is a rockstar, neck deep in drugs and alcohol [based off my story People Live Here]

The Price of Justice- Wrongfully accused of being a serial killer, Bucky spent almost 12 years of solitary confinement before being released

Test of a Man’s Character- Bucky is the head of the New York mob

Victory in Unity- Orphan Black AU; Bucky is one of many clones running around New York

Misc AU:

No Room in Hell- Zombie apocalypse AU (or really any apocalypse)

Avenging Angels- Bucky is a guardian Angel [based off of my story Sehnsucht]

Birds in a Cage- Maximum Ride AU; during his time in HYDRA, Bucky was outfitted with huge, working wings 

Up to No Good- Harry Potter AU; Bucky is a Hufflepuff

What a Fearful Thing- Bucky was once a soldier, but now must serve as an executioner

Home is Behind- Lord of the Rings AU; Bucky was a captain of Gondor until he was captured by men serving the Witch King of Angmar and put under spells to do their bidding

Ghosts in the Dark- Game of Thrones AU; Bucky was a Mereneese pit fighter until the loss of his arm forced him out, and he came to Westeros and joined the Brothers Without Banners

The Sky Was Hollow- Inheritance Cycle AU; Bucky is a dragon-rider

Have Violent Ends- WestWorld AU; Bucky is a host that started remembering too much

All You’ve Known is Winter- Witcher AU; Bucky was taken by the Wild Hunt years ago, but after the spell was broken he was lost and alone

[madeimpact]

“What is that? What is that music?” (From Triandra, to Dark Pit!)

More like Chairem Anime || @brxtalsimulation

Oh, gods, he couldn’t tell Triandra that he made up and was playing a theme song for himself. As cool as it was turning out to be, he was going to laughed to the Underworld and back if he explained it that much. So he settled for a mostly-truth, pausing to look up from the tabs of the guitar.

❝ Nothing too crazy. ❞ Still, that’s definitely some false modesty he’s putting on. ❝ ...Just something I came up with. ❞

[justaramblingromantic]

promise

Characters/Pairing: Kobayashi Rindou and Tsukasa Eishi/EiRin

Type: Canon compliant, Post-series, Canon-divergent AU, Peerless-verse, Freestyle

Word Count: 1657

A/N #01: Been dreaming of Sicily again, and this was what came out of it. 

This is also a continuation of ‘mine’ and ‘favorite wild thing.’ Reckon there will be another three or four more loosely connected drabbles in this mini-series before I’m done. This couple just won’t leave me be, I swear.  

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That morning, she was all disgruntled and grumpy as they set off from Palermo. Wearing an oversized pair of shades and hunkered down on the passenger seat in an oversized hoodie, dark red hair tumbling down her back that was still not completely dry from her shower earlier, she looked rather miserable for someone who was on vacation.

Beside her, taking the wheel of the SUV that they had rented, Eishi briefly took his gaze off the road to glance at the miserable lump that was his girlfriend.

“Still hungover?”

She responded with an unintelligible mumble, hunching even further into her seat like an upset turtle.

“This is why you shouldn’t have drunk so much last night,” he scolded lightly, not entirely sympathetic with her misery since it wasn’t as if she was dying or anything of that sort. She turned towards him and sent him what was probably a gimlet stare from behind the darkened lens of her shades, but his response to her crankiness was to grab a baseball cap sitting on the dashboard of the car and place it on the top of her head, further shading her sensitive eyes from the bright morning sun.

“Rest. I’ll wake you at a pit stop.”

She was feeling a lot more like herself a couple of hours later, though still a bit quieter than usual. He had made sure that she was properly watered down and also had some food in her, so she was a lot less irritable, and was even beginning to gaze at their surroundings with renewed interest. Soon, they would arrive at the sprawling olive grove and vineyard where they would be spending the majority of this trip, nestled in the charming, rustic countryside of southeastern Sicily. As they got closer and closer to their destination, so grew Rindou’s interest and anticipation, and by the time they pulled into the massive, eighty-hectare farm of Pianogrillo, the redhead was already vibrating uncontrollably, beside herself with excitement.

“Tsukasa, look!” She turned to him with sparkling eyes and a giddy smile stretched across her face. “Isn’t this awesome? I can just smell all the adventures to be had here, already!!” She wound down the side window and stuck her head out of the car, taking deep lungfuls of the crisp country air as they drove past neat lines of olive groves and fruit orchards on a graveled road, an irrepressible grin growing.

A friend of a friend had recommended this place for a farmstay when Rindou had been researching for things to do in this region, and she was glad that she had taken up that suggestion and made a booking – the farm was even more gorgeous than what she had seen in the photos, with its sprawling vineyards that stretched out as far as the eye could see and that beautiful view of the majestic Sicilian mountain range in the distance. She could not wait to get out of the car and start exploring the grounds.

Eishi was bemused by her rousing enthusiasm. Undoubtedly she had been to even more exotic places than this for her work, but no matter where they went, she was always excited and happily marveling at the sights and, of course, exclaiming over the food. No wonder she was so well suited for her role on screen; she was so infectiously bubbly, he wanted to smile.

“Are you really that excited about this trip?” he asked.

She turned to him and peered at him incredulously, as if surprised that he even had to ask. “Of course, duh! I’m here and you’re here and we’re both at this very same place looking at the same views and sharing the same experiences! Don’t you think that’s special? I wonder what fun we’re gonna have here; we should go on more trips together, Tsukasa!”

He glanced briefly at her, lips twitching at her palpable exuberance as she chattered away a mile a minute. Her mood was definitely fully revived now, and it made him happy too, knowing that she wanted to visit all these faraway and foreign places with him and share her pleasure and delight with him.

“Yeah. Let’s travel together more from now on.”

They pulled into the front yard of the guesthouse and Rindou wasted no time climbing out of the car, grinning from ear to ear as she turned in a circle and gazed all around her. The actual working farmstead was a fair distance away and she thought that she could also see the stables just partially hidden up ahead along the road. There was even an infinity pool nestled right beside the guesthouse, and the 17th century architecture of all the holdings on the property had been painstakingly preserved and restored to exactly how they used to look in the past.

Eishi got out of the driver’s seat as well, pulling his shades up to rest on the top of his head as he looked curiously around too. There was farmland stretched out all the way to the horizon no matter which direction he turned; endless plots of orchards and vineyards cultivated upon gently undulating hills and rolling knolls, and it was almost disconcerting, all this amount of vast wide space that were utterly devoid of crowds and people, nothing but nature, flora and fauna all abound. It would take a bit of getting used to, but the white-haired man thought that it was already starting to feel like a peaceful, stress-free kind of vacation. Hopefully.

He turned to head to the back of the car to unload their bags when Rindou loped back to him and grabbed his hand, pulling him along in an entirely random direction.

“C’mon minion number two, let’s venture upon these virgin lands and go explore!”

“But our stuff-”

“Do that later, let’s go, let’s gooo! Ah! That’s the pig pasture over there, isn’t it! I’m pretty sure they are rearing free range Sicilian Black Pigs here; don’t you wanna go see-”

She was already salivating at the thought of those delicious, organic pork chops rooting about the woodlands, happy and plump. Eishi’s wilted determination was no match for that sort of motivation fueling her, and so he was promptly dragged along. They didn’t get too far though, for a horse with a rider approached them at leisurely canter from the farm, waving them to a stop as he neared. The steed was a tall, handsome equine with a sleek chestnut coat though Eishi was not familiar enough with horses to determine its breed, and its rider was a dark haired, goateed, middle aged man dressed casually in jeans, a plaid shirt and dusty riding boots.

“Bon vinutu! Welcome to Pianogrillo!” he called out in a heavily accented English as he drew to a halt in front of them. Flashing a smile, his gleaming white teeth stood out against his tanned, olive complexion.  

“Ciau~!” Rindou greeted back cheerfully, her ears perking at the familiar voice. “Are you signore Lorenzo?”

The man dismounted from his horse and turned to them. “Se, I most certainly am! And you must be the newlyweds! Congratulations, my dears. How was your drive here? I hope it was nice and uneventful.” Lorenzo unhooked a ring of keys from his belt loop and jingled them merrily. “Come; let us go first to the guest house and then I’ll show you around. We’ve prepared the most beautiful honeymoon suite for you lovebirds, I promise you’ll fall in love here all over again! Then we shall open a nice bottle of sweet wine to toast to your happiness!”

Eishi did a small, gaping double take as Lorenzo herded them back towards the guesthouse. Then he stared at Rindou, bewildered.

…Newlyweds…?

To his wonder, Rindou happily, gamely, accepted the offer. “Thanks for the hospitality, Lorenzo-san! We’re in your care!”

“So. We’re…married now?” Eishi asked his beaming ‘wife’ drolly while they were waiting for their gregarious host to tether his horse to a nearby hitching post.

The redhead grinned. “Why not? You don’t wanna?”

“I did not say that,” he was quick to refute. “Though it’d be nice if you can give me some warning next time since apparently I’ve missed my own wedding.”

She petted his arm consolingly, amused that he was playing along. “S’okay! Your beautiful, patient and considerate bride understands that you were busy with work. But feel free to make it up to me during our honeymoon…or I may just run off with some handsome Italian stallion when you aren’t looking~”

He gave her a deadpan stare…and then he glanced pointedly at their surroundings, where there was nothing but farmland all around.

“…Where in this countryside, pray tell, are you planning to wrangle a ‘handsome Italian stallion,’ my wayward, runaway bride?” he asked politely.

She coughed to mask a laugh at his deceptively mild question. She widened her eyes earnestly. “When there’s a will, there’s a way. And I’m a very determined woman, as you know!”

“I’ll paddle your backside,” he muttered in response, and she snickered.

“Is that a bribe~?” she asked innocuously, gold slit gaze sparkling with mirth and anticipation, and he groaned.

“You’re terribly unruly,” he chided.

“But you married me anyway,” she reminded him cheekily. “S’too late for returns now~!”  

He grabbed her hand and tugged her close before she could skip off in her excitement like she tended to do sometimes. “Who says I’m returning you?” he retorted. “You may be a handful but I know how to handle you.”

His bossiness was intriguing to her, and so she obediently stayed close, also partially pleased by his confidence when it came to being with her. She sidled over, tiptoed, and pecked his cheek, pleased to enjoy the thrilling luxury of his undivided attention, especially since they had both been so busy with work lately.

“Is that a threat?”

His lavender gaze settled on her, quietly darkening at her happy affection.  

“It’s a promise.”

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A/N #02: Pianogrillo Organic Winery and Olive Groves is a legit farmstay in Sicily and you can check their listing out on Airbnb. Yah, sometimes when I have nothing to do I like to go and look at listings on Airbnb in different countries, haha.