#🍕 boi mention

[adam-apple-murray]

Indeed.. Just a question um- does he always come to the skate park for some fun?

Yeah he does most of the time! Especially after school which luckily it's the summer break! So no school

[shares-a-vest]

Pineapple Breath & Onion Boy (Read on ao3)

wc: 1.2k | Rated: T for Flirtatious Banter/Suggestive Language | cw: Mild reference to Period-Typical Homophobia (if you squint - Eddie is just conscious about being affectionate with Steve in a public space), Food Mention, Inferred Smoking (Eddie is playing with a lighter)

Tags: Eddie Munson Loves Steve Harrington, Pizza, Contemplating the Future, Side Clarkson, Pet Names, Steve Harrington is a Sweetheart, Domestic Fluff, Lightest Angst in the first half

Note: Working on my drabble yesterday had me rudely confronting myself with a Drafts. Buuut it gave me the motivation to come back to this one! Yay writing!

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Eddie leans back on one of the faded red plastic chairs outside Gino’s Pizzeria and flicks his cigarette lighter.

He then turns it off, then back on again. Then off again… Anything to distract himself from the desperate grumbling in his belly – a feeling that has grown painful now that he can smell pepperoni wafting outside.

The chair gives a warning wobble beneath him, the back legs of the thing holding his weight as he looks up at Steve, who looks all cozy in his cream-coloured corded sweater and maroon jacket. Even if he is standing there with his arms folded and a frown knitting his brows as he looks on down Main Street.

Wayne and Scott had disappeared in that direction a few minutes ago, trekking down the block to fetch their Chinese takeout, while Eddie and Steve waited for their pizzas.

Pizzas plural. Because Eddie refuses to partake in Steve’s new and frankly, disgusting preference for pineapple.

It has been their little quartet’s Friday Night routine for a couple of months now and Eddie thinks he must end up looking the same each and every time: staring up at his boyfriend. Steve looks pretty as a picture as his eyes glisten under the streetlight and his breath puffs out in a feint cloud in the crisp night air.

He looks a dream, really.

Not that he ever looks anything less, thank you very much!

Eddie knows Steve is lost in some thought, the kind that pinches his brows together and downturns his mouth into a mindless pout rather than one that is truly grumpy.

At least Eddie thinks it’s all that before Steve sucks in a breath and sighs, deep and wistful as his beautiful hazel eyes grow bigger.

That look makes Eddie tip forward in his chair with a sharp snap. He shoves his lighter back into the breast pocket of his leather jacket, frowning himself now as he tilts his head to the side, hoping to catch his boyfriend’s attention.

“What’s wrong?” he asks.

He is met with silence for a moment before Steve gives a soft and wistful sigh.

“You think when we’re old, we’ll be like Wayne and Scott?” Steve asks, still looking down the street.

“Jesus Christ, no!” Eddie scoffs, “I don’t plan on gettin’ old.”

Steve whips around and looks down at him with an even deeper frown and, yep – that’s a Worried Pout.

“What?” he near whimpers.

Eddie jumps up, groaning a little as his back pangs with deep regret over him tilting back on that stupid rickety chair. He waves a hand nonchalantly.

But Steve doesn’t budge. He looks hurt.

Eddie steps into his personal space and offers a small smile - one that he knows will showcase his dimples and make Steve melt like mozzarella cheese.

“Y’know what I mean,” he clarifies, “I do not intend to become some old fart, whose idea of a good time is going on a fishing trip while his boyfriend collects frogs.”

Steve somehow tightens the fold of his arms as he looks him over.

“Eddie, you like looking for frogs,” he retorts, his brows easing up a little, “Anyway, don’t you think they’re cute?”

Eddie rolls his eyes, “Oh, here we go.”

“I mean it,” Steve defends, “Scott gets home from school and putters about for a while. Then, he finishes up some work exactly one hour before Wayne walks in the door. And then, they go about deciding on their takeout order – even though they always get the same thing! And when we get home, they’ll eat in front of the television, Wayne will clean up and then they watch the TV until Wayne starts to doze off and they go to bed.”

He finishes up with a sigh and looks back down Main Street again, appearing a little sheepish now as if he got a little too carried away with his longing there for a moment. It’s a look that tightens something in Eddie’s chest – one that makes him step even closer.

Or at least as close as he should get to his boyfriend out on the main thoroughfare of Hawkins.

He sucks in a breath and looks ahead too, wanting to kiss that look off Steve’s face.

But for the moment, he settles for a bump to the shoulder.

“We’re gonna be all that one day, aren’t we?” he says just above a whisper.

“Yeah?” Steve asks, upbeat but nonetheless quiet.

Eddie leans in, “Follow me, sugar.”

He tugs on Steve’s jacket sleeve and promptly spins on his heel to disappear around the corner of the building. The dumpsters behind the local pizza shop aren’t the most romantic of settings – but sue him for having a Rolodex of potential public makeout spots at the ready.

Eddie can feel Steve’s warm breath on his neck as they reach the far end of the building, sending a shiver down his spine. He turns to lean against the wall and palms around for any part of Steve to come along with him.

Steve crowds him against the building and as soon as he pushes them flush together, Eddie becomes all too aware of how whisps of his hair stick to the cool brick behind him. He gasps.

“Oh, no! What if I lose my hair!” he shrieks.

Steve grumbles, insulted, “What if I lose my hair?”

“Wha-cha – Stevie!” Eddie splutters, “My hair is just as important as yours!”

Steve smirks and reaches for his hairline, brushing back his bangs. He scrunches his nose.

“Hmm,” he hums with closer inspection, “It’s looking okay… for now.”

Eddie hisses at him.

“Get your damn dirty paws off-a me,” he grouses. Eddie flicks his bangs back into place with an exaggerated hmfph before he straightens up and snakes his arms around Steve’s middle, pulling him tighter still, “Steve, I promise as I stand here before you, behind the hallowed halls of Gino’s Pizzeria – ”

“ – Eddie, the owner’s name is Frank.”

“Fine! Frank – he of bountiful cheese and delicious tomato sauce. I do declare that I will still love you, even if I turn into a balding old grump with a permanent frown and bad knees.”

“And will you still love me if I become a middle school teacher, all chipper and cheery?”

“Meh, that wouldn’t be so bad,” Eddie shrugs.

“What if I grew a moustache?” Steve grins.

“That’s taking it too far!” Eddie practically shouts, squeezing the air out of his boyfriend in the process.

Steve gives a wheezing giggle as he runs his thumb and index finger over the soft stubble he has above his plush top lip. Eddie captures the mocking digits in his own hand and bites down, earning a wicked whine.

Steve shivers and gives a warning, “Edward…”

“Now,” Eddie begins, lowering the register of his voice, “Ravish me!”

Steve leans forward and presses the most chaste of kisses to the corner of his mouth.

“I’ll ravish you later,” he pulls back and winks.

But Eddie recoils, nearly knocking his head back against the pizzeria’s brick wall.

“When you have pineapple breath?” he spits with a dramatic grimace.

“Says you, Onion Boy.”

“Fine,” Eddie relents, “We’re both stinky.”

The rusty bell of the pizza shop’s front door sounds and Eddie is sure Wayne and Scott have already made it back, always more efficient in calling ahead with their own takeout order.

“Wouldn’t have it any other way,” Steve smiles, lacing their fingers together.

[accio-victuuri]

September CPNs round-up 🔴🟡🟢

•exploring the unknown episode 1 clownery 🦴

• exploring the unknown episode 2 candy which is more explanation about tea and coffee connection

• more clues that xz helped wyb out in packing his things for the show

• 9/2 fake rumor per this weibo account :

it’s all fake. one time during work visit XZ：x jie, you can leave first, my friend will come and meet me later x jie：ok, bye xiao laoshi that friend wyb they met for about 3 hours. love means that even if it’s only 3 hours, i will still go and see you.

• someone on weibo mentioning that xz took the legend of zanghai cast to eat at a restaurant in hengdian where there are many bjyx photos on the wall. these were placed by cp fans who frequented that place. treat this as a fake rumor. lol.

• Hello to trunk weibo account who posted their GQ spreads! Oh yes! Bad boys HAHAHAHAHA! i am still hoping that their bazaar untamed spread will have a physical copy someday.

• YBO used a chongqing dialect expression in a video

• a bit of clowing with the snowy mountain drawing and how it’s a possible foreshadowing to bobo’s mountain episode in exploring the unknown

• love expert wang yibo talking about liking someone in exploring the unknown episode 3 & then yibo proceeds to share some photos that we also clowned about

• wyb draws an “x” in the snow and a throwback to bittermelon juice + acting out ( exploring the unknown episode 4 )

• the color red being prominent in jimmy choo ad

• tencent video has posted about how exploring the unknown has the highest barrage. one of their example is obviously from a cpf lol

• some minor candies 9/10 - 9/13 🍬 the most significant one being the similarity between a ybo artwork and xz’s previous ones

• IF and Dove livestream candies

• they both like snail rice noodles

• i’m just adding this here because it’s bjyx brainrot HAHAHAHAHAHA! i think the photos speak for itself. especially with bobo’s new found talent for tying ropes. 👀👀👀

i still cannot find any innocent meaning on why xz decided to use that bdsm bunny shirt. so yeah. 🤷🏻‍♀️

• georges hobeika wedding clothes match

• not really cpn but fandom is happy that cql was included in yibo’s 10 year anniversary poster there were also some noted similarities in editing from the video they posted to how xzs does it, but at this point it’s already a pattern lol. personally, what i’m eating is that CQL was 23rd on the list of works, which is ai zan ( love zhan ).

• zz’s mid autumn festival post ( 18:21 )

• The Moon Represents My Heart CPN & 9/20 things. A very busy day for cpfs!

the same night, XZ flies off to Macau and his look is similar to something wyb wore before. twins!

• pizza in Milan 🍕

• empty world / i’m so lucky i have us cpn

• they both love animals

• beijing culture forum photoshoot elements taking inspiration from wyb photos

• sparkling tom ford jackets ✨

• zz is in guangdong and wyb in zhuhai 👀 ; more clowning related to the smiling face emoji

• wyb likes sea turtles the most

• both of them promoting their hometowns!

• another lrlg clue that came true ( yibo saying he wants to go home )

• XZS 5th anniversary video sweets

-END.

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[itsangelicasworld]

*･῾ ⁺ Welcome to My Teen Titans DR 🧨 .*

💥 ˗ˏˋ DESCRIPTION .ᐟ

In 2003 Jump City, a team of six teenagers called the "Teen Titans" fight against supervillains threatening their beloved metropolis. Along the way, they must face issues even worse than superpowered antagonists who want them captured; emotions, romance, and navigating the bumpy road of impending adulthood. My DR follows the plot of the show except with my own headcanons, scenarios, etc.

Like the show, there are no secret identities; so our superhero personas are quite literally just us. WHICH MEANS WE'RE TREATED LIKE CELEBRITIES!! People ask for photos/autographs, we have merch, and there's even an entire Teen Titans fandom with forums and fanarts and theories!! Not super relevant to this reality's lore, but thought it'd be cool to mention🤭.

🔆 ˗ˏˋ ABOUT ME .ᐟ

NAME : Angelica Sterling

NICKNAMES : Quin, Angel

AGE : 16-years-old

PRONOUNS : She/her/hers

ETHNICITY : Black and Mexican

MBTI : INFP-T

PERSONALITY : Optimistic, courageous, charismatic, empathetic, humorous, witty, mature, impatient, cautious, idealistic

HERO ALIAS : Quanta

POWER : Quantum Manipulation (basically the ability to manipulate the very foundation of the universe/matter because I'm the main character actually🤭)

SUB-POWERS : Healing, telekinesis, quantum empowerment, shapeshifting

DRAWBACKS : Using too much of my power at one time can lead to fatigue; symptoms range from mild (grogginess, irritability) to severe (headaches, unconsciousness). Additionally, under incredibly high-stress situations or potent emotions, my powers may become unstable or erratic

COMBAT SKILLS : Hand-to-hand, mixed martial arts, kickboxing, and of course using my powers, which include shooting projectiles and making defense constructs

🍕 ˗ˏˋ RELATIONSHIPS .ᐟ

I made moodboards + added some quotes for all of them here, so check that out if you wanna see their aesthetics🤭

ROBIN : My s/o!! I could write 100 paragraphs about this man but I'll list our tropes instead💪

Tortured hero (on his side, he gets it from Batman ftgyhuhgtfg)

Friends to lovers

Slooowwww burn

Mutual pining

Healing together

STARFIRE : Me and her are SUUCHH girly-girls. Having sleepovers, going to the mall, exploring the city, etc. is literally all we do and I love it. She also really likes ranting about Tamaran to me. Hearing her childhood stories is so sweet🛐

RAVEN : Initially, Raven needed time to warm up to me, but now we have a really close bond. UGGHH I can't wait to meditate with this girl and talk about spirituality. AND I SCRIPTED I'M THE ONLY ONE SHE ALLOWS IN HER ROOM, SO IT'S LIKE HAVING VIP TICKETS FFGHFFG BEAST BOY : This dude is such a jokester but he's so insecure I just NEED TO HUG HIM😭😭. He's like the little brother I never had; super annoying but I couldn't imagine my life without him

CYBORG : Although I'm not as close to Cy as some of the other members, he really means a lot to me!! He's kind of like my big brother. He really likes to teach me about mechanics and I know he's always got my back, and I have his. Even though we can squabble over his attitude sometimes💀

🦇 ˗ˏˋ OUTRO .ᐟ

Feel free to send in asks about this DR (and really any of them if your curious), they'd be greatly appreciated!! Thank you for reading THIS far <333

ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗹 𝗻𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 *+:｡.｡ ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ. . . . . ╰──╮

Aesthetics inspired by @/shiftingwithjaidyn's fame DR intro | Dividers by @/strangergraphics-archive

[miyaheestar]

Hello everyone I am here simply to prove to all of you why i should be THE Guy fan 🌻🍕

@plaqying thank you for hosting this fun event!

1. My first audio is Getting Your Stolen Hoodie Back From Your Chaotic Boyfriend the Fun Way. I found Guy through tiktok and fell in love with him on the spot the moment he said "Hi! Hi baby, I love you" I immediately opened the comment sections and ran to youtube to listen to the full audio so thanks to tiktok and Guy, I managed to find redacted audio.

2. It took me pretty long time to listen to other characters because I was too attached to Guy and even after months of listening to others, Guy still managed to be my number 1 and no one I MEAN NI ONE can take his place not even david shaw and asher talbot aka the two characters that is on my top 5 list of my favorite redacted boys.

3. The moment I see that his icon is a pizza and not to mention A HEART SHAPED pizza, I fell for him even more and the fact that his name is Guy is just so silly to me, no one could ever make me hate him and that's final.

4. Most of my redacted posts are about Guy.

5 . I developed a habit of saying WA-AH-WA-AH-WA-AH from Your Chaotic Boyfriend Hates Scary Movies (So You Made Him Watch one) at minute 06:45.

6. I crochet a pizza last night BECAUSE I MISSED GUY

7. I have made a custom printed totebag with me and guy's icon few months ago.

8 . My bestfriend of 8 years literally said this herself.

9. Some discord and whatsapp ss

10. I literally tried my best to color a background the art of me and guy @mhmmaybe draw on gartic phone. MANUALLY.

11. I used to only listen to japanese boyfriend asmr because I think the english ones are cringe but then the door of my heart got crashed over by a pizza delivery guy named Guy.

12. Most of my favorites are associated with either the color yellow or red WHICH IS ALSO GUY'S COLORS AND ALSO I LOVE SUNFLOWER AND SUNFLOWER IS YELLOW

13. Because of Guy and because I wasn't satisfied with my work last night.

14. I mostly act like Honey irl so YOU CAN'T DENY THAT ME AND GUY ARE MEANT TO BE PLUS WE ARE MARRIED

15. I HAVE THIS MAN'S PLAYLIST SAVED. SAVED.

16. I love Guy so much because he reminds me of my past self before I grow up and it's such a fresh air to breath to meet a character like him. I love him like a bee loves the flowers. If he told me "the moon is beautiful isn't it?" I won't hestitate to answer with "I can die happy."

17. Personally I dont think I need reasons to love him, I just love him as he is.

[gl1tchy-4rt]

A 🍕 Woman!! :D

Me: oh boy, I Think I'm finally done with the Canon x OC couples for the Spag. Family AU....

Me: OOOOHHH CRAP IM FORGETTING ABOUT HIM:

That's right everyone... Surprise Pizza GF upon ye!

"Pizzarina" Secretary at PizzaBoy's Inc.

Full/True name: Cynthia Margarita Berryl

Cynthia is a Pizza folk but she is specifically a Dessert pizza, like this one!

• Her lore and how she meet Totino:

(warning: Lots of text)

As I mentioned above, Cynthia is one of PizzaMan's Secretaries, one day he seeded her to "keep PizzaBoy entertained" she only accepted cause she didn't wanted to lose her job.

She expected a frat boy with no concept of Personal space or respect throwards woman, but instead she found Totino trying to escape through the vents in his room.

After "being caught", Totino merely offered her something to drink and a board game to play on the meantime, they quickly connected over their hatred for PizzaBoy's Inc. They quickly became friends.

But at some point, Totino just didn't wanted to see her, she felt bad believing she did something wrong... Until Totino called her, desperate and telling her that they didn't have much time and needed to evacuate as many people as she could from The Tower.

As it turns out, he knew PizzaMan's plan of fighting Peppino and (if it didn't work) exploiting The Tower with everyone in it, So Totino holding on to the last of his will before succumbing to PizzaMan's mind control: he told everything to Cynthia.

She evacuated everyone she could using the power of "having access to all of The Tower's intercoms"

After the whole Tower scandal, she settled into the town and quickly tried to find Totino, eventually contacting with him and meeting up at a cafe, eventually they realized they had feelings for each other and started dating...

Ahhhhh love, such a wonderful lil' thing :3

So yeah that's Le Pizza GF! Hope you like her

And hope you have a nice day!!

See y'all later!!!

[eemamminy-art]

🦷🍄🛼 for the ask game! 💚💚

🦷 ⇢ share some personal wisdom or a life hack you swear on

Related to creative stuff? If you find yourself getting in your head while creating (thinking too much about the fic/art, thinking too much about something else unrelated, thinking too much about how it might be received) take a break and come back. Clear your head. Do something else. Your thoughts will wander back to the thing you were making and it'll dawn on you what was missing before you run yourself down a path that wasn't working out. Don't force the creativity, let it run as a background process in your brain!

Also, when it comes to art, just keep it simple. Focus on the overall big picture first, make sure that reads well and cleanly even if it's teeny tiny, and then worry about the little details here or there that most people will miss. It will make the art so much more harmonious overall, and then there will be little treats for people who like to zoom in and enjoy the little things.

🍄 ⇢ share a headcanon for one of your favorite ships or pairings

Oh man okay pulling this one out of the back catalog of ships but I've been watching the anime for utapri so I'm thinking about Camus/Cecil again 🥺👉👈 I wrote this headcanon into the fic I wrote about them a while ago, but since Cecil's japanese is not very good, I like to headcanon that when he's flustered he just slips into his native language and can't speak japanese for a second until he regains his composure 😄 it's cute to think about... 🥺

🛼 ⇢ describe your latest wip with five emojis

💦💦💦💦💦 gdshjgkhjds KIDDING

For context, I was sprinting with my friend and I mentioned how I kept bringing up how sweaty they were and she was like "what are those boys up to" gdhjdsj

More accurate for this chapter would be: 🌞📩🤗🍕😳

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Writers truth & dare ask game

[oceanlue]

When they stare to long

Alphonse 🧁🍭

Okay you know this boy will stare at you all day if you have a choice like what can he not stare at.

You just can't help it the way how soft your hair looks how beautiful your eyes are how soft your body looks you just can't help but stare at the beauty that he has been blessed with.

He just wants to keep staring at you like you're a piece of art fancy Museum that shouldn't be touched.

He love you for who you are.

Seth🏕🍂

When you guys are out and about in the woods making a little campsite he just can't help but stare at you knowing how focused you are at building that tent.

Every time when you guys are out in the wilderness he always just loves to stare at you knowing that how much he wants you to experience what he has and so much more

But he loves it when you carry the wood back to the campsite not to mention he always stares at your @$$

But he loves that you always help him setting up camp

And when he looked at you at the perfect angle for everything he thought you were an expensive painting that should be up in a room to be looked at by other people admiring the painting from afar

He loves you

Finn🪴🌻

Sometimes when he's busy he takes a little glances at you whenever he wants Without You noticing tho

But sometimes when you help him with the bouquets in his shop just can't help but stare, seeing you organize a flowers

He even can't help it when he blushes when you put your face near the flowers to smell them

He gets really embarrassed when you catch him staring and you have to call his name twice to get him to snap out of it

But he loves to get embarrassed with you

Charlie 🍕 🐭

He like stare at you when you do tricks on your skateboard

He thinks it's so cool that he can't help but admire how long it took you to practice that and how cool you look

With your hair flowing through the wind and your eyes focusing on where to land and trying not to fall off

He just can't help but stare knowing that......... he got lucky

He loves the way you look so 😎 cool

Auron⌚🌹

You would take small glances at you when you're working seeing how you're so focused on your work that you don't even realize anything around you

And you do the same too

But when you really wants to stare so long you just wait until you guys are home and you're cooking dinner all he's on the counter Island doing some paperwork but also staring at you

If he feels a little frisky you might get up and hug your waist while you cook~

And that will lead to a whole different level of love~

But he does fancy you a lot and for him to just stare at you while you're doing something simple that's a lot coming from him

But he love you even if he doesn't admit it

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Hope you love this

Peace out

💙💙💙

[free-boundsoul]

My Top Ten Redacted Bois

1. Gavin 💜💕💜 love of my life, the incubus with his heart of gold who started it all. I don't think I would have gotten as invested in Redacted without him.

2. Milo 🧡🐺🩷 I love this fiesty short king.

3. Vincent 🩶🩸❤️ he's my favorite vampire (Sorry not sorry Sam & Porter)

4-6. Damien, Huxley and Lasko 🔥❤️🍃💚💨🤍 I can't pick between these three. I'm a DAMN poly shipper.

7. Regulus 💔🩷❤️‍🩹 what can I say? I love his lore and find him soothing.

8. Guy 💛🍕❤️ my favorite contemporary Boi. He's a chaotic little gremlin

9. Blake 💚💀💙 if we don't get more with him and Bestie I'm gonna riot (I'll take flashbacks at this point)

10. Ivan 💙🪢❤️ the og yandere himself. Really wish we'd gotten more Flyboi

Honorable mentions: David (I love his character development, he's such a soft grump ❤️) Hush (he's such a fucking cryptid, I can't wait for more lore on him 🤍) and Vega (again, I really want more lore on him, and can't wait to see where his relationship with Warden goes. 🖤)

[rocknrollsalad]

🚸 An awesome thing for the steddie holiday drabbles prompt "tattoo au"

Tattooing 101: We Don't Lick Our Clients (without consent)

🖋️ Eddie's school gets him to volunteer at a family night and he meets the smoothest dad in existence. single dads au, modern au, tattoo au

👅 content/trigger warnings: mentions of needles, talk of bad family dynamics, schools, kids

🍕 word count: 2150

Schools were absolute pits of non-stop energy-sucking despair. Come to this winter performance or this spring decathlon. How about a grandparents' tea? Volunteer in your kid’s class so they know you care and the teacher can get an actual bathroom break. Dress up days, reports, family trees, and the endless stream of homework and library books to lose. It was several full-time jobs on top of the one Eddie had to pay for all of this.

Thankfully, he was his own boss so if he needed to close things down for the day so he could drag Wayne to some sort of tea-drinking and kid-singing thing, he could. He also (often) took a bit of spare time to email the school and say that not every kid had a “normal” nuclear family.

Eddie wanted to be as active in his daughter’s life as he could. In part to make up for his shitty childhood and knowing what it was like to never have a parent show up but also to make up for her being stuck with him. Not that her mother was a better choice but sometimes, deep in failures, Eddie didn’t wonder if adoption would have given her a fighting chance. Selfishly, he couldn’t.

He couldn’t imagine a world without this brat and it brought on some guilt. Especially when they’d have her do a Mother’s Day craft or something similar. She was old enough now to explain “teacher just said give it to an important lady I know” but not old enough to be embarrassed by her dad when he went down to the school. Not willing to deprive himself of the chance to watch their faces when he explained Wayne was in a committed relationship with another man and Eddie was a single dad.

It’d be the same next year and for all the years she was in school. Which was why Eddie wanted to make sure he was there. She wasn’t lacking. Her family was unconventional but always there.

So when the art teacher came up to him begging and pleading for him to help with their “family reading night”, Eddie caved. Eventually, at least. Not for him, he didn’t need this but for Lulu. And boy was she excited about this one. Eddie saw her face light up finding him in the crowd mid-way through Jingle Bells or when she beat the other kids in the egg-spoon race thing but this was a whole new level of joy.

Excitement that certainly wasn’t for the puppet storytelling either. The whole event was fairy tale based, which Eddie could have gotten into. She already had fake armor, he could be a dragon, but it wasn’t a comic con. Still, if Eddie was going to go he wasn’t doing it half-assed. The request for his help wasn’t for customary or storytelling, though. They preyed upon his profession and assigned him a temporary tattoo booth. Something that had nothing to do with reading or fairy tales.

Not that it stopped Eddie from going all in. He took a trip out to the storage locker he kept and got an old chair, one he couldn’t throw away because it’d been expensive and was in great shape. One he’d still be using had he not inherited a couple of better ones so this stayed for emergencies. Or school projects, apparently.

He ordered tons of temporary tattoos off the internet, bought a few packs of those tiny lollipops, and an economy-sized pack of sponges. A couple of late nights were spent making a display board, Eddie didn’t expect a lot of new business off this but he’d be a fool not to take advantage of free advertising. That was his perk in this after all. Getting the brand out in the weirdest of ways but one that said he cared about the children, at least.

Thankfully he’d taken the initiative. The school-provided tattoos weren’t great and were likely donated by all the teachers. Heavy on the fire safety messaging and holidays. With not a single full sheet to be found. Eddie dropped all the ones for the police right in the trash and stashed the others under what he’d brought. All of which would be donated back to the teachers after tonight, they probably needed them more than Eddie would.

The label on his booth was a single 8x10 paper, Comic Sans, that was meant to advertise for him. Looking around the room, some of the other areas were making do with what they were given (and lots of butcher paper) but most had done what Eddie did and brought from home.

So he busied himself laying out black tablecloths, setting up the chair, and unpacking or assembling other bits he’d “borrowed” from his shop. After that, he ran to get Lulu from daycare, grabbed them a pizza, and came back to start the party.

After eating Lulu busied herself cutting out the tattoos and sorting them in a system unknown to Eddie. He happily left her to work, feeling a bit thankful she was old enough to be a help now and not an additional task.

Eight years old seemed to be when things really clicked. She was a tiny but independent human at this point. She didn’t need him but still desperately wanted him around, she almost fully understood how to put sarcasm to use, and she’d fully mastered bathroom usage. Eddie had a few years of this before she was a teenager and if his youth was any indication, he was going to go grayer than Wayne.

Not now though. Now they lounged together on the chair, legs propped up, squished together, and had dessert. They laughed and talked about a lot of nonsense. By far the loudest booth in the otherwise quiet commons area and cafeteria and Eddie hadn’t even put music on yet. Naturally, they spent the rest of their time covering themselves in temporary tattoos, all good artists had ink of their own.

After a bit of running through the halls to “get the wiggles out” as recommended by a few teachers, they settled down and watched the families trickle in. Admittedly, so many of these booths and areas really pulled it out with next to nothing. Still, Eddie felt the only competition was the puppets and the scooter boards.

It took five minutes to get their first “customer”. A young man with a Paw Patrol dog, which was as bad as the “yay for cops" things Eddie threw away but he knew his audience as well. Chase is on the case or whatever it was. The parents took so many pictures as Eddie treated the six-year-old like a real client. Pausing to warn about the cold water rather than the impending sting of needles, making sure he was okay, and all the things that were second nature to Eddie at this point in his career.

The show worked, too. After Eddie peeled the backing off to reveal the cartoon dog, the kid jumped up and ran to the mirror to admire his new look. Flexing his muscles and giving his parents enough Instagram-worthy content for a week. Getting wrapped up in it, Eddie felt proud of his work. He’d grumbled about giving up an evening but he turned it into something worth doing and for that, he felt proud.

To start, families trickled in. Eddie listened to the parents on placement and amount, it was easygoing and every customer was satisfied. What more could they ask for? But soon the floodgates opened and more families showed up. Also, customers returned with siblings now brave enough (or for themselves) and before he knew it, Eddie had a massive line.

He turned down a bit of the show but not too much, that’s what they were there for after all. Unlike his shop, these customers had plenty of other things to do, no one had to stand in line. They were all just choosing to. So Eddie didn’t feel a huge need to rush through them all.

Lulu did what she did best and found a chair to start taking clients of her own. Some kids didn’t mind, Eddie tried to pull the kids who’d been through before and send them to his apprentice. Keeping it fair. He did promise as many parents as could hear him that he’d get to everyone if they were willing to wait.

In switching customers, Eddie caught his daughter’s method and had to scramble frantically around his area for a moment. “Stop licking them!” he said under his breath. Handing her a sponge in hopes she got the hint.

“That’s how you do them, daddy.” he was sternly told.

“Not when you’re a professional,” he tried. “Sometimes you gotta follow rules an-and-and health codes and…and not lick your clients.”

“Fine-ah,” she said with unearned annoyance.

Eddie returned the attitude, trying to figure out where she’d learned this method of tattoo application and for the frustration of having to say the words “don’t lick your clients”. He watched closely as she did the next one with the sponge and water like she was supposed to. Giving kind reassurance and hyping her up, hoping he hadn't destroyed her confidence or whatever they’re always warning about with that gentle parenting stuff. Eddie supported so much in the way of weirdness but sometimes there was a line that needed drawn. Sadly, he was the adult who had to do it.

From there out he kept a close eye on her. Parents didn’t seem to mind the slightly distracted tattoo artist, they were busy enjoying their small children in a makeshift tattoo shop. Eddie worked that to his benefit and kept spinning his chair around to see what the entire booth was doing. Kids thought it was funny and Eddie got to keep his eye on Lulu the stamp collector.

They managed to survive the rush. Parents had moved on and the customers were all familiar faces now. Every so often a new family would make their way in, fresh from work or sports, and Eddie got to go through the joy all over again but it was nice to breathe easier while doing it.

Both the principal and the superintendent came over to thank Eddie for what he was doing, saying they’d never seen so many excited faces. The superintendent even got a tattoo of her own. Also for Instagram but she was honest about it, talking about what good press this would be for both of them. So Eddie let her know that nail polish remover would help get this off faster after he told her his account.

As the night neared its close, only a smattering of people left, and two booths already torn down, Eddie decided to run to the bathroom. He let the booth next to him know and left Lulu in charge. The instructions were to say the artist would be back in five minutes. Didn’t matter how long it’d been, just say five minutes. And Eddie jogged through the halls, earning hi-fives from a couple of families who were thrilled to see him away from the station. Eddie never quite made it to that rockstar life but this felt like a taste of it.

He came back to a dad and two kids, one sitting in the chair and the other asleep against the dad. Which would have been fine had Eddie’s child not had another tattoo on her tongue, getting it ready for her first major client…or victim.

“Stop right there!” Eddie called out with enough urgency he stopped half the room. Waving in apology to everyone else before tugging his daughter away from the stranger’s kid. “Use. The. Sponge! And stop licking the clients. It’s the number one rule,” he whined.

Huffing at him, Lulu stomped away and got a drink. The tattoo paper had been on her tongue too long, leaving her looking like a lizard as she tried to get rid of the taste. The constant flicking of her tongue really ruined the scowl she was trying to throw Eddie’s way.

“The number one rule, huh?” the dad said and Eddie was thankful he was already hovering over his chair because his knees went weak looking at that face making that devilish of a grin. That perfect hair and jeans that looked ironed clashed against the jokes he made. This guy looked like he knew every manager in town, not someone quick with jokes and a little eyebrow wiggle. Of course, that made it that much better and Eddie wanted to learn what else went against the waspy image.

Suddenly he felt like his daughter, sandpaper for a tongue and in desperate need of a drink. “I mean, not at my shop,” he said, immediately wincing. That wasn’t the advertisement he needed. About his shop or how smooth he was.

The dad laughed though.

Eddie turned to the kid in the chair for a distraction, to recenter himself. She looked a few years older than Lulu and not at all happy to be there. “What’d you pick out? I’m pretty sure she’s digesting it back there so I can try to find something close.”

“I told you this was stupid, dad,” the kid said, shoving off the seat and stomping to stand behind him, back turned. Arms crossed and a scowl, she was hitting all the cliches.

The dad rolled his eyes, clearly exhausted and having been through this before. “You want to go back to the girl trying to put her tongue on you? Pick another one out, it’s not that hard.”

“They’re all for babies!”

“You’re ten!”

Ten?! Jesus Christ, Eddie was in trouble. He thought Lulu would at least be twelve before she started back talking and standing around with undeserved angst. This kid was ten. He had months before he was in this boat, having a public argument over something that did not matter. Of course, Eddie’s daughter was currently trying to kill him in her mind because he made her stop licking people so, yeah, it was closer than he wanted to think about.

It was more than the tattoo to the other daughter here. A point she boiled down into one succinct point. Leaving Eddie to wonder if this was the continuation of something he missed the start of. Something that extended beyond this family fair.

“I’m not a baby!” She countered.

He turned around to check on Lulu. She was watching the whole thing, frozen with her water bottle in her mouth. Eddie wanted to stand up and cover her eyes and ears. To not let her get any ideas!

Things ended with the daughter huffing away and the dad sitting down in the chair, defeated, and looking at Eddie. “Can he get one,” he nodded down to the kid sleeping on his shoulder.

“Lu, pick something out for the guy? The coolest thing you can find,” Eddie asked as an olive branch. Looking back up at the dad, Eddie tried to soothe that situation as well. Though it wasn't a problem he'd made so humor was the way to go. “You want me to lick it?”

Without missing a beat, the dad said “Maybe not this one but I did take your business card.”

[adam-apple-murray]

Hello Young Murray, just to inform you in case if your wondering what Jonah is doing. He's in the skate park.

Oh! Thats sweet. Hope he's having fun!

[nightyslibrary]

☆ FIC LIST MASTERPOST ☆

✨️ Fandoms currently include rottmnt & animaniacs & tloz & warrior cats & pokémon

✨️ you can also read most of them on my AO3

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🐢 ROTTMNT

🧸A Friend Against Dark

Raph centric, tot Raph & Splinter, one-shot, fluff no angst, 1115 words.

Six years old Raph is afraid of the dark, so Splinter gets an idea- and a friend.

> AO3 / tumblr <

🩵Finish The Tale, Ven, Please?

Where You Belong AU, tot Leon and Venus, one-shot, fluff, 988 words.

Leon cannot sleep, so he asks his sister Ven to finish her tale about two warriors.

> AO3 / tumblr <

🌌finding your stellar association

based on ashwii's celestial au, one-shot, fluff, 2917 words. tw: referenced/implied character death (not detailed).

Moving Group, also called a Stellar Association.

A loose grouping of stars which travel together through space.

On their first trip to Earth, the brothers find a lost part of their family.

> AO3 / tumblr <

🌙so I dive straight back in the ocean

post movie, Leo centric, one-shot, hurt/comfort, 1304 words. tw: panic attacks, anxiety.

Leo goes to a lake for swimming to calm down.

> AO3 / tumblr < ☆ [playlist]

❤️Little Talks with a Big Robot Turtle

based on Cass Apocalyptic Series by somerandomdude on tumblr, Raph centric, one-shot, fluff, 2452 words.

Raph has some questions, and Casey Junior has some answers.

> AO3 / tumblr <

🌆Last Resort

Let's Grab a Slice Together AU (but can be read with no context), Mikey centric + Draxum, bad future, one-shot, angst, 1705 words. tw: implied/referenced character death

Mikey has a talk with his mentor.

> AO3 / tumblr <

🍄Last Night in Mushroom Forest

post movie, disaster twins, 2 chapters: one fic two versions, horror/comedy, 7246 words. possession and horror elements in ch1, ch1 also include unreality, anxiety, and similar events.

Leo and Donnie decide to go and explore the Mushroom Forest. Leo has a very bad case of brain fog, while Donnie has a very bad case of deja vu while trying to save his twin.

Meanwhile, in chapter 2 there's a different version where the boys have some silly adventure and it's just shenanigans and a lot of sibling banter.

> AO3 / tumblr <

🌠It's Not Always the Rabbit Who Takes the Wrong Turn

Dimension Hopper Leo AU, multichaptered, mostly Leo centric, many crossovers, ongoing. Warnings will be included in chapters.

When Leo ends up in Prison Dimension, he manages to hold onto his katana. So he does his thing and portals out... except he arrives at the wrong place.

(AKA what Leo portals himself to the wrong dimension and has to find his way back home again, and again, and again... Meanwhile his family is trying to find him.)

> AO3 / tumblr masterpost (tba) <

🍕Pizza Means Family

Where You Belong AU (Separated au), multichaptered, various povs, ongoing. Warnings will be included in chapters.

Another separated au, where Mikey is the only turtle Splinter saves. While he finds April accidentally and wastes no time to call her his sister, his siblings are raised by two of the famous bad guys. This get out of control when six of them end up at the same place, and each sibling has to decide what to do with what they learn.

aka where you belong au because I'm either too good with titles or too bad haha

>AO3 / tumblr <

💜Deep (Purple) Thoughts (and Realizations)

Donnie centric (mostly), multichaptered, ongoing, post invasion. Warnings will be included in chapters. Hurt/comfort.

As Donnie repairs Shelldon, he comes across some realizations which lead to some discoveries. It turns out there is still much unsaid about the invasion, even after weeks.

(Aka Donnie remembers he records everything all the time.)

>AO3 &lt; ◇ tumblr: Chapter 1 | Chapter 2 | Chapter 3 | Chapter 4 | Chapter 5 ◇

🍲Mystic Sickness

This is based on @/turtleblogatlast 's post about mystic sickness idea :D Hope you like it!!!

Warnings: a brief mention of throwing up, nothing else i can think of ^^

>AO3 (tba) / tumblr<

🍵Portal Bros Sickfic

a short sickfic i wrote for my friends :]

>AO3 (tba) / tumblr<

🟣(A Short Fic About) A Normal Day With Your Double Mutated Brother

A gift fic for heckitall's armageddonnie au!! Fluff. Oneshot.

>AO3 (n/a) / tumblr<

🎃 Baby's First Halloween

My @/rottmnt-secret-gifting gift for @/bambiraptorx :]

Mikey forces Draxum joining him and his family for trick and treating.

>AO3 / tumblr<

💭 A Reminder

this one is Cass Apocalyptic Future fanfic ( by @/somerandomdudelmao) written for Comfortember 2023, day 1: safe

Sometimes Donnie forgets he and his family are safe now.

>AO3 / tumblr<

❄️ Till the Cold Pass

Another fic for Comfortember 2023, this time focused on day 4: warmth.

Splinter learns something new about his sons when winter cold arrives.

>AO3 / tumblr<

💙 Leo Blues

inspired by @/tmnt-event-blog's prompt (hot cocoa)

Leon (Future Leo) realizes that his younger self is feeling a bit blue and decides to help him feel better.

>AO3 / tumblr<

🐀 ANIMANIACS

🐇Welcome Back, Doc (Space Jam: New Legacy crossover fic / multichaptered ongoing / Dad Bugs) AO3 [on hiatus but might finish it before the end of may <3 ]

👑Years Ago, A Winter Night (Wakko's Wish fic / a lot of angst & hurt/comfort / multichapter & completed / XMas fic) AO3 | Playlist

🌸Happy Allergies Dot!! (one-shot / Dot centered) AO3

🧢Guilt Is Eating Him Up (one-shot / lots of angst & hurt/comfort / Wakko centered) AO3

🎞️Toons (Storks AU / multichaptered ongoing / kinda on hiatus??) AO3

⚜️There's a Beast in There (Beauty and the Beast AU but without any romance / multichaptered ongoing / *holds it gently* this one is my fav) AO3

🗡 TLOZ

Breath of the Wild

🫕Warmth (Zelink / One-shot) AO3

🎄Christmas Together (Multichapter Modern AU Xmas Fic / Ongoing / Includes Zelink and Miphvali) AO3 [currently on hiatus]

🩸Following the Silent Princess (Modern AU / includes Zelink and Miphvali / multichaptered ongoing) AO3 [currently on hiatus]

Zines: By Your Side Zelink Zine

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity

🗻Mountain Walk (Miphvali / One-shot) AO3 | Chinease Translation (AO3)

🎶For You (Zelink / written for Fated: Through Time digital zine / one-shot) AO3

🐈‍⬛️ WARRIOR CATS

˚☽˚｡⋆One Last Night (Leafpool x Hawkfrost / one-shot) AO3 | Turkish Translation

🎮POKEMON

🌲Lost & Found

Touko gets lost in Lostlorn Forest, only to find a familiar face.

Touko x N ship fic, one shot, I headcanon Touko being 16 and N 17 in Black/White. I didn't know about their canon ages until recently, thought it would be good to add it here.

>AO3 <

ZINES:

-Your Journey Awaits! (A free digital zine focusing on the beginning of the Pokémon journey.)

-Dreams and Destinies (a Kingdom Hears x Pokemon fanzine)

[ardent-fox]

✨ Tag Game Master Post ✨

Hi, all! Catching up on these two games I was tagged in during the holidays 💖

First up, thank you to the lovely @lupeloto for creating and tagging me in this fun Tag Game! 🥰

📺 Favorite tv show? At the moment, Our Flag Means Death (shields self from tomatoes being thrown at her 😁)

🕴️ Favorite character? Oof, this is difficult. Gonna have to go with my precious baby boy, Stede

💋 Favorite relationship in the show? Blackbonnet (shocking, I know)

👯‍♂️ Fav sibling relationship in the show? No blood relations but the entire crew is chosen family, so… all of them?

🎨 Favorite art form? Music, with a heavy focus on lyrics/words

⚡️ A talent you wish you had? Being able to draw would be cool

☀️ What is one thing that can always make your day better? My toddler nephew saying the most hilarious things, he's barely 3 and already the funniest person I know

🎬 Favorite fictional character of all time? Atticus Finch (any works he appears in besides To Kill a Mockingbird do not count)

🌅 Dream place to travel to? Thailand or Ireland (either "land" would do, get it? 🧍‍♀️ ...I'll see myself out)

🎈 You’re planning a huge party, what’s the theme? The Masque of the Red Death, get fancy and spooky, bitches 🎭💀

🍕 Favorite pizza topping of all time? All kinds of cheese and extra mushrooms

🥂 You can pick ONE celebrity to have dinner with… Who? Andrew Garfield, {Marge Simpson voice} I just think he's neat

🎥 Favorite movie that you kinda know is bad but you still love? Rocky Horror Picture Show 👄

👖 How would you describe your style? The "I gained a substantial amount of weight in the past 5 years and haven't bought anything new since, so I now wear whatever I can fit into and lots of dresses and skirts cause pants are uncomfortable and shopping for them is a nightmare" style 😬

🖤 Finally, something making you smile this week? My mom's reaction to a present she really wanted, seeing her that touched was soul ascending ✨

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Next, I got tagged by @deedala, @tanktopgallavich, @suzy-queued and @lupeloto to complete this round of Weekly Tag Wednesday, thank you my darlings! 💙

Name: Lyds

Location: Unknown location in Europe

Astrological Sign: Taurus squaaaad ♉

What's a TV show or movie you plan to re-watch this year? Hubby has never seen Giant, so I'll be rewatching it soon as well as some other classics like Some Like It Hot and Philadelphia Story, I'm sure I'll rewatch Frankie and Johnny for the umpteenth time as well. As far as shows go, I rewatch Our Flag Means Death at least once a month since it's my comfort show, and might do a Shameless rewatch since I've only seen the whole thing once (excluding all the Gallavich scenes)

What's a book or fic you will probably re-read this year? The entirety or The Menagerie by @crossmydna and Honeycomb by @metalheadmickey with artwork by @heymrspatel 💕

What is a song you will likely continue to play on repeat? I've been replaying One Of Your Girls by Troye Sivan for days and don't plan on stopping anytime soon, also still listening to Hozier's entire Unreal Unearth album whenever I'm chilling

What's a tasty treat you look forward to eating more of this year? Gonna steal Ri's answer here and say cinnamon buns, as well as my husband's homemade pizza rolls that I previously mentioned, as they're our favorite thing to eat while binge-watching

What's a time sink that you will continue to sink time into this year? Scrolling this beloved hellsite

Did you pick up any habits in 2023 that you plan to continue? Only unhealthy ones that I plan on ridding myself of in 2024 👋

What's your toxic trait? Inflexibility and freaking out when things don't turn out the way I've planned

What is a coping mechanism you will continue to indulge in this year? Staying in my burrow with my hyperfixations

Tell me something you like about how you look! My full, rosy lips against my smooth, pale skin

Give me at least three adjectives describing things you like about yourself. Honest, open-minded, creative 🌸

I'm out of the loop (which is about to change since I celebrated the last of the festivities today) and haven't been keeping up with the tags lately, but am still going to tag some peeps if you want to do either or both of these: @heymrspatel, @stocious, @too-schoolforcool, @xninetiestrendx, @krysmiss, @sleepyfacetoughguy, @michellemisfit, @whatwouldmickeydo, @vintagelacerosette, @metalheadmickey, @rereadanon, @francesrose3, @darlingian and anyone who sees this and wants to play! ✨

[the-goblin-cat]

hog from left field, but,

CASPER

Casper, my sweet little pumpkin boy imp from the ISEKAI! ttrpg campaign

✨- How did you come up with the OC’s name?

It's fully just a reference to Casper the friendly ghost, cause I originally envisioned him as pale blue

🌼 - How old are they? (Or approximate age range)

Casper is currently 13

🌺- Do they have any love interest(s)?

I jokingly ship him with an extremely minor npc simply called Tenturik Girl. Tenturiks are bearcat-like beasts that fill the same role as dogs in Areatam, the game's setting. However, some of them can grow to massive size. A random human girl around Casper's age joined in a race riding on one such creature.

🍕 - What is their favorite food?

pizza, but especially the concoction the party members invented by cooking flatbread dough on the coals with various herbs and toppings.

💼 - What do they do for a living?

He is a destined hero and a kid, so on the spectrum between "unemployed" and "mercenary".

🎹 - Do they have any hobbies?

Casper loves games, both video games and physical board and card games. His particular favorite is a game played with cards and figures called Knights of the Spiral.

🎯 -What do they do best?

He's great at picking up new forms of magic and has the highest number of elemental spells of the group, though his physical abilities are lacking as a result.

🥊 -What do they love to do? What do they hate to do?

He loves the aforementioned games, and learning new things. He hates being sad or thinking about home.

❤️ - What is one of your OC’s best memories?

Going to Navy Pier with his older cousin Kay and friend Xochitl. At the time Kay and Xochitl were dating and it was all very happy.

✂️ - What is one of your OC’s worst memories?

The day his mother died, though subsequently trying to run away from home and getting caught in the rain was very close.

🧊 - Is their current design the first one?

As mentioned before, I originally wanted him to be blue. He also originally had glasses. I love his current design tho

🍀 - What originally inspired the OC?

I wanted to create a delightful childish character to foist on the other players, as an homage to @fvriva's Ellie character.

🌂 - What genre do they belong in?

They were made for Isekai babey

💚 - What is your OC’s gender identity and sexuality?

cishet probably.

🙌 - How many sibling does your OC have?

no true siblings, though he and Kay have grown to see each other s such.

🍎 - What is the OC’s relationship w/their parents like?

Casper loved them both very much. However, after his mother's death, his relationship with his father became strained, as the grief left him unable to properly care for his son. Eventually Casper's father checked himself into a facility and sent him to live with his mother's side of the family. Csper's aunt and uncle certainly provide adequate care physically and financially, but have a strained marriage themselves and can't provide emotionally for neither Casper nor Kay.

🧠 - What do you like most about the OC?

In addition to his adorable design I like how the dice tends to fall in his favor. The world is awed by the feats of this very strong little boy

✏️ - How often do you draw/write about the OC?

the game is play by post and moves at a leisurely pace so a few times a week on average.

💎 - Do you ever see yourself killing off the OC?

absolutely not

💀 - Does your OC have any phobias?

being abandoned

🍩 -Who is your OC’s arch-nemesis or rival?

None so far, though he and His Holiness the Patriarch Puranmas has a heated debate over whether Shrek was anime

🎓 - How long have you had the OC?

Conceptualized bout two years ago, though the game began last year

[butterfleyequeen]

Sooooo I decided to stop being shy and show off my Pizza Tower OC, loosely inspired by the titular character from the 1970s sitcom "Alice" (and myself kinda). 👉👈

🍕🥤🍨 Story and other details under the cut (TW for mentions of ab*se and s*lf-h*rm)🍨🥤🍕

-Story-

Allison grew up under the care of her parents in the quiet suburbs. Her mom was decent, but her dad was emotionally negligent workaholic, leaving her mom to do the "dirty work" in raising her. He never really spoke to his daughter unless it was to put her to work in some way, and would verbally and emotionally abuse when she refused, instilling her with the sense that she was being an ungrateful, useless freeloader. It was so bad that as soon as she turned 18, fresh out of high school, she moved out and left her old life behind. But where was she going to get a job to support herself?

Cue the discovery of the Tower.

She was directed to a meeting with Pizzahead, who offered her a job as a waitress with a rotating shift between five different eating establishments throughout the week. He seemed affable enough, so she gladly accepted, only to find that she made a horrible mistake. Her boss was rude and dismissive of her, punished her for making mistakes, instilled her with the fear of having her tips taken away if she didn't do a well enough job, mocked her when she tried to express her feelings, and constantly dangled the fact that he didn't have to hire her over her head. Her only respite, since she didn't talk to her mom anymore, was the friends she made with the other denizens of the Tower during her time working there.

Then, a little over a year later, Peppino arrives.

-Personality-

She is very bright, hard-working, and kind to others. However, this worker-bee mentality is ultimately a trauma response, as it causes her to become unhealthily quiet, submissive, and reluctant to speak her mind. Another trauma response is when she apologizes profusely due to making a mistake, as she was often punished harshly for them. Over the years, she learned to keep her head down, her mouth shut, and not to expect anything. Peppino, Gus, and Brick have been working hard to get her out of her shell, but because of how extensive this emotional trauma is, it is going to take much time--and most importantly, patience.

-Relationships-

🍕Peppino Spaghetti🍝

Having met Fakey first, she didn't realize initially that this dude was the real deal. She was kind of scared of him at first knowing what he did to her friends and co-workers, as well as being scared of losing her job if she didn't do anything (cue boss concept). When they finally met, though, he was surprised by how young she was and didn't seem comfortable with causing her harm (and boy, he did not take kindly to finding out how horribly Pizzahead treated her). He was even nice enough to hire her after the Tower collapsed. Dude seriously took one look at this high school graduate and was like

👨‍🍳Gustavo and Brick (the Rat)🐭

She didn't really see them during Peppino's siege on the Tower, only after its collapse and her subsequent employment at Peppino's Pizza. They get along really well, and she absolutely adores Brick. The duo play a major role in helping Peppino wean her off of her trauma responses towards authority figures.

🌶Pepperman🎨

Saw him every once in a while during her Monday shift. Kind of put off by his narcissism, but admired his dedication to his work nonetheless. He eventually decided to thank her for her diligent service with a portrait of her in a Sailor Moon-esque pose (since he knew she was into magical-girl stuff), which currently hangs in the living room of her apartment.

🧀The Vigilante🐄

Saw him on occasion during her Tuesday (and sometimes Thursday) shift, when he stopped in for a drink. He greets her with a well-appreciated tip of the hat when he sees her, and seems to be very respectful and patient towards wait staff in general. What he doesn't tolerate, however, are people who don't respect their servers--even moreso, women. So needless to say, those few male customers who were brave enough to give the girl a passing spank on the ass in his vicinity won't be feeling inclined to come back. (*click*)

👅The Noise🔊

She's one of the few people he isn't a wily, insufferable prick to. Often saw him during her Wednesday shift while he was on break from filming. He likes to call her "Allie-Cat" and tips her quite handsomely.

🍞Noisette☕

Besties!! The two of them are really close and like to do girly stuff together on their time off, like painting each other's nails or baking sweets! In fact, out of all the places the young waitress had to work at in the Tower, Noisette's café was probably her favorite (her uniform made her feel hella cute too).

🫠Fake Peppino🧠

They met a few months into her employment at the Tower, when she stumbled upon his pizzeria after her Thursday shift one evening and explored it out of morbid curiosity. He scared her a little at first, but after getting to know him and his circumstances, she couldn't help but feel sorry for the guy. She even tried to notify Pizzahead about the giant OSHA violation that her strange new friend occupied, but her plea fell on deaf ears and nothing was done--it was a dead establishment, after all. So in an attempt to make up for her helplessness, she figured that the least she could do was spend her free time every Thursday visiting the goofy goober to ease his loneliness. He really seemed to appreciate her gentle, down-to-earth presence. But once he found the solidarity they had in their abusive boss, however, it soon became clear that there was one thing that was successfully copied from Peppino: his papa-wolf instinct.

🍕Pizzaface/head🍅

Ah, her abusive dick of a (now ex-) boss. He never seemed like he treated his employees very nicely in general, but holy shit. Yeah, maybe he was "too classy" to hit a woman, but that didn't mean he couldn't abuse her in other ways to keep her in line. She doesn't like to talk about him.

🗿Gerome🪣

They don't see each other that often, but there's a general sense of respect between them as laborers. She felt horrible about the John situation while they were in the Tower and for being helpless to do anything.

🍕Pizza Granny👄

Granny thinks she's just the sweetest little peach, completely undeserving of all the horrible treatment from her grandson. Likes to bake/knit things for her "honorary granddaughter" from time to time.

-Misc.-

- Height-wise, she's roughly a head taller than Peppino.

- She's got wicked-good balance and amazing customer service skills, fueling Pizzahead's confidence in making her a slave waitress.

- She loves animals! Cats are her favorite.

- Her favorite thing to do with Fakey is playfully smushing his cheeks and calling him a "squishy boy" (he absolutely loves it).

- The quickest way to make her laugh? Show her this video (thanks, Noisette).

- Was constantly exhausted and got sick easily during her time at the Tower due to how overworked she was.

- Has severe major depressive disorder and is a huge atychiphobe thanks to the mental and emotional suffering she endured throughout her life. It really sucks, since she's on too tight of a budget to afford a therapist.

- Has several scars on her upper arms and legs from self-inflicted burns, high enough where they can be easily hidden. She treats this pain as her "personal penance" for not being "good enough" or brave enough to take a stand for someone being mistreated. She doesn't like wearing tanktops, shorts that go above her knees, or any other garments that expose her scarred areas, as she doesn't want anyone to find out in fear of being shamed for it.

- Her favorite therapeutic pastimes include collecting cutesy stuff like stickers and stuffed animals, watching her favorite childhood shows/movies, and journaling with novelty pens.

- The uniform pictured above is after being hired by Peppino post-collapse (I'll have to draw her Tower uniforms at some point, LOL).

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and I'm sure it's not a prompt on the list but here let's share a pot of fondue! 🫕

Eeeeeeee you picked some good ones

🌺- Do they have any love interest(s)?

Yes! Lasya is the love interest of Adrin 💜 but we all know my boy is nowhere near ready for a serious commitment, so their story will be about Lasya teaching Adrin to love himself first and reassuring him that he is deserving of love.

🍕answered here!

🍩 -Who is your OC’s arch-nemesis or rival?

I mentioned before that Lasya is a bandit, so her enemy is basically all of Hollowglen—but really her rival is Captain Hollowar, who likes to cause problems for the Forsaken simply because she can.

🫕 -I’ve never had fondue before? Now I want some. Instead I’ll share a teeny spoiler that doesn’t majorly affect anything:

“Lucie” is a nickname given to her by Hettie when the two of them were girls and Lasya was still living in Rothar/Hollowglen. Lucie��s mother was best friends with Hettie’s parents—but she was also the first to betray them. (Little throwback to ToL Ch. 11).

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