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syncopein3d · 11 days ago

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Broken World II: Hurts

Part II: Bait

CW for this entire story: non-lethal but serious injuries, personal betrayal, angst, medical restraint, drugging. For this installment: implied past torture, weeping, more angst.

“I’m sorry.”

Somebody was talking. That was irritating. Its ears were ringing, and it felt like somewhere nearby somebody was going to be very sore soon. That didn’t sound like a place it wanted to be conscious in.

“C’mon, Thing, you gotta come back. Come on.” Now someone was scrubbing its breastbone with hard knuckles. It twitched away from this, flailing an arm weakly. It smacked into something that went OOF. “That’s right, hit me harder, wake up and tell me I’m an asshole.”

“You’re an asshole, Bloodless,” Ripper muttered.

“Thank God.” Oh, great, someone was hauling them into a lap now, their head flopping against a muscular shoulder.

“You better not be naked,” they said.

“I have shorts on. There was metal in my jumpsuit, too, I was in a hurry.” He grunted as they shifted position in a way that made them stop trying to move. Ripper squinted their eyes open. Being in jail obviously hadn’t stopped him from working out. Or maybe it was the regeneration that kept him from changing much physically.

From their vantage with their head on Robert’s left shoulder they could see the several scorched holes in his chest and stomach. He’d been hit more than the three times they remembered. They weren’t bullet holes. He would heal from those so fast there wouldn’t even be spatter. It was where his handle came from.

“You got shot,” they said stupidly.

“C-beams fuck up meta powers. The wounds don’t heal as fast. The drugs wore off quick, though, so you know. It hurts, if that makes you feel better. I’m sorry, Ripper. I took a plea deal and part of it was that I help them lure you in. They really want that carnite.”

The Ripper pushed at him and scooted away, then slumped back onto their elbows, head whirling. It would feel so good to just fall over and go back to sleep, but they glared at Robert over their mask instead.

“They’re coming here?”

“What, no. FUCK no, I wanted out, too,” Robert said. “They made me call you, but the lab would still find me at the minimum-security place they promised me.” He shrugged, then winced. “I figured it would work out.”

The Ripper forced itself into a sitting position, head drooping over its lap. “You bastard. You couldn’t know I wouldn’t get shot, too.”

“Hey, take it easy,” Robert said. “You’re just lucky you can’t OD on ceretol. You took like four darts.” There was a scuffing sound of flesh against carpet, and then an arm around its shoulders. It tried to push Robert off without success. A low-level strength meta like his still left him a lot stronger than Ripper even on a good day. He was wheezing as he breathed, which reminded it unpleasantly of the worse parts of last time.

“Fuck you. Is your lung punctured?”

“I dunno. It’s not important. Where are we?”

Where HAD it taken them? The Ripper turned its head slightly, squinting. They were on the floor of a bathroom with a dark red tile floor, sitting on a black rug next to a huge sunken tub. It could see the cubicle with the rain shower in the corner. The shower light was always on, soft and golden.

“My new place,” it said. “Old missile silo.”

“We’re underground?”

“Yeah. I had it renovated. Fake name. Nobody can… Can find us…” It was hard to concentrate. If it tried to stay mad at Bloodless it could stay awake, but now that it knew they were safe for now it was getting harder. They were leaning harder into Robert without meaning to. He was hurt. They shouldn’t lean on him at all, the stupid bastard. God, he was warm. Warm stupid bastard. He smelled a little like sweat and astringent soap.

“It’s okay,” he was saying. “I got you. I got you.” The earth moved. No, they were moving. Robert was carrying them, stifling a grunt of pain.

“Put me down,” they said. It sounded weaker than they intended.

“I’m gonna. Just a sec. Here we go, here.” They were dumped into something squishy – right, they’d made the bed with the big blue comforter a couple days ago, before they went to Doctor Hale. Robert was pulling their shoes off as they lay on their right side. Their field of vision right now included the new black lamp on the oak nightstand and the lighted bathroom doorway over past that. The bathroom looked fuzzy. Maybe they should try and get that fixed.

The comforter wasn’t as warm as Robert, but it was nice. They could feel themselves sinking into it even as their head tried to float off their shoulders.

“When I wake up, I’m gonna kick your ass,” they said, half-muffled by the pillow. A warm hand came to rest on the back of their neck. Robert was on the bed somewhere behind them.

“Anything you want, Thing. Just sleep it off, okay? Just go to sleep.” The big warm fingers, rough-skinned, kneaded carefully at the knot between their shoulders.

“Oh, c’mon…” Well, that wasn’t fair. They couldn’t possibly be expected to stay awake when it felt so good not to think at all. They sighed a big soft sigh and slept. At some point they must have transitioned from drugged and unconscious to actually sleeping, because when they woke up, it was from a dream. It had been running away from men with guns through a giant McDonald’s PlayPlace.

It shifted position very slightly and discovered there was an arm draped across its body from behind. Robert smelled slightly like toothpaste and teakwood body wash, so at some point he’d taken the time to freshen up while they were out. They were in their own queen-size bed in the big slice-shaped bedroom. The main support pillar of the command center stuck out of the new wall that divided the master bath from the bedroom. They’d hung some movie posters on it, mostly from old Full Moon releases. They had the full set of Puppet Master promotionals now. A set of soft display lights lit them from above, already warm and familiar after just a few months.

Everything ached, like they’d been running for hours. “Maybe I overdid it,” Ripper said into the pillow.

“Hm? Wassat?” The arm tightened around them almost spastically, squeezing hard for a second. Its protesting grunt must have gotten through to Robert eventually. He let go with an odd little wheeze. Ripper slid out and went to fumble around in the walk-in closet for a change of clothes, then limped off to shower. It locked the bathroom door pointedly. If Robert wanted to sneak off this time he’d have to pry open two sets of hydraulic doors past the outer junction, because they were currently secured with keyless entry and Ripper hadn’t told him the combinations.

It had debated building the main living space at the bottom of the missile shaft proper, where anyone who wanted to get to it had to climb down hundreds of rickety spiral stairs, but that meant it would also have to climb UP that way if Doctor Hale’s procedure hadn’t worked and it was having to avoid tearing all the time. In case it DID work, there was a half-finished space closed off down there that was technically livable if not exactly fancy.

They felt a little better when they had showered, brushed their teeth, and put on fresh sweats and a fresh mask. They did a few more little stretches in the bathroom, thinking about food. They were going on 600 calories’ worth of coffee drink over almost three days and a LOT of tearing, and that wasn’t helping their mood any, they decided.

“Hey, asshole.” They walked over in their socks to turn the bedside lamp on, then prodded him in the shoulder. “You hungry?”

“What?” He pushed up on one elbow, squinting at them in the dim light. There were still holes in his chest, black and scorched, and now red and angry-looking around the edges. He was wearing probably the biggest pair of sweat pants he’d been able to find. They were a little long, bagging up around his ankles, and they were dark blue.

“You haven’t healed,” the Ripper said.

“C-beams,” said Robert.

“I know. Don’t think that makes up for any of this.”

“I don’t,” Robert said. He raised his hands in surrender as he scooted to the edge of the bed, then almost tilted off it. Ripper had to grab at his back and chest to keep him from falling. They almost jerked their hands back. His skin was hot to the touch. He coughed into his own shoulder, face turned away from them.

“You’re burning up.” They didn’t try to sound nice about it. “Are you sick again?”

“Don’t be mad, Ripper,” Robert mumbled. “I’m not sick. I just get hot sometimes. Metabolism speeds up.”

“I’m not mad about that, idiot, I’m mad that you screwed me over! Why would I be mad about -”

“Look, you can just drop me off somewhere, you know,” Robert said. “I was fine before. I’ll be fine now.”

“No, you won’t, you got caught once already and now you’re hurt,” Ripper hissed. “Get back on the – no, I said get BACK on the fucking bed.” It dragged his legs back up, ignoring his weak protest, and then went to pile pillows behind him to prop him up. “How’d you get caught, anyway?”

“I did a job with Lupara and she rolled on me when they caught her. They shot me about fifty times and I woke up chained to a board.” He paused to breathe, watching them with his eyes half-shut. “Did you know they can legally use drugs to interrogate you when it’s over a billion dollars’ worth of carnite?”

“That’s why they knew about me,” Ripper said, sitting down on the edge of the bed. “You didn’t mean to tell. Is that what you’re claiming now?”

“It’s true,” he said, staring past them. The heat in Ripper’s belly died like fire under water. Robert was looking at something outside the room, breathing harder. They could hear the little hitch and wheeze again. “You don’t know.”

Ripper’s stomach sank. “Did they stop at drugs?”

He shrugged one shoulder. “They knew I regenerate. No marks.”

“You’re lying. You’re lying to make me feel sorry for you,” Ripper said.

“I don’t need you to feel sorry for me, dammit.” He grabbed at their shirt front, dragging them closer. For a second, they were nose to nose, his fist bunched in their tank top, their arm braced against his collarbones. Ripper could see its own reflection in his glassy half-focused eyes. His shoulders heaved. “Hit me. Drop me from the sky, cut my arm off with your damn portals. Do something - ”

They hit him in the face with the heel of their hand. Robert fell back into the pillows, wheezing, and Ripper shook their jarred wrist as they sat there glaring at him.

“That was out of line. You know it was,” Ripper said. They realized his shoulders were still twitching. “Are you – are you crying? Come on, Robert, I didn’t hit you that hard.”

He shut his eyes. Tears leaked out from under the lids. “My name.”

“What?”

“You said my name. Not Bloodless.”

“What’s wrong with you?” Ripper demanded. Robert turned his face away again. They swore softly under their breath as they scooted closer, hip to hip with him. They grabbed his chin to pull it back around. He let them. The red mark on his nose and cheek was already almost gone. “They really fucked with your head,” Ripper said quietly. “You’ve killed people for a living. You barely know me. Why d’you care if I’m angry?”

“I know a lot of people a little bit,” Robert said. “Nobody real well. Nobody who’d do what you did for me last year. You’re the very last person on earth I wanted to fuck over, Thing. But you were the only one who could get me out, too. The only one who would try.”

“Open your eyes,” Ripper said. “C’mon, Robert.”

“I can’t,” he whispered. Ripper exhaled slowly through their nostrils. Then it leaned forward to carefully slide its arms around him, trying to spare the half-healed burn wounds. It could feel his chest jerking as he tried not to sob.

“I believe you,” it said quietly into his ear.

“You can hurt me if it makes you feel better,” Robert said hoarsely, turning his cheek into their cheek. “I don’t mind.”

“I got that. But that doesn’t do anything for me. I only hit you because you scared me,” Ripper said.

“There has to be something I can do,” Robert said. “To make this right.”

“I’ll think about it. Right now, you can calm down and eat something with me. I’m starving. Just stay put, okay? Don’t try to leave.” It straightened up, hands on his shoulders. He slitted his eyes open. They were very dark, and the lashes were long, just like Ripper remembered them.

“I won’t try to leave,” he said.

“Promise.”

“Why should you believe me?” Robert asked.

“Give me a reason to. Promise.”

“I promise not to leave yet,” Robert said.

“Are you allergic to anything?” it asked.

“Nah.”

“I want to make eggs and toast,” Ripper said.

“That sounds great.”

It let him go and went to the stair down to the kitchen and living room level of the old command center. Like the bath, the kitchen was built into a big slice of one side, but there were no dividing walls, just a big island and the place where the hardwood became tile. It ate a protein bar while it was cooking, guiltily, avoiding its own reflection in the shiny avocado-colored toaster. He couldn’t go anywhere, it told itself. He would’ve had to pass through this room, and it would’ve seen him.

It wondered if its mother had a bigger kitchen now. It had sent money a lot even before the carnite, in various different ways, but it had never been able to risk checking. Robert was a risk, obviously. Everyone was. But Robert was also Bloodless. Nobody else in its family had turned up metahuman.

They came back with a loaded tray and sat down facing Robert on the edge of the bed so they could set it across his knees. He was sitting with his eyes closed, head back into the pillows, but he straightened slightly when he felt the weight land. The Ripper watched his eyes come back into focus.

“You made coffee,” he said.

“Yeah. I like coffee. You want tea?”

“Coffee’s fine, I’ll take anything.” The Ripper watched him with half its attention, but it was already eating. His hands were steady enough to eat and drink. He used the fork, even. With all his claims about being raised in a lab, they had half-expected him to eat with his hands. They piled scrambled eggs with ham into a piece of toast and folded it in half completely shamelessly, and after he’d watched this for a minute, he did, too. They ate together quietly for a while in the lamplight, little clinking and chewing noises.

“Anyway, it turned out okay,” the Ripper said grudgingly. “I got you, and they didn’t get me. So I guess you were right even if you were stupid.”

“I’m lucky like that,” Robert said.

“You don’t have some kind of surgically implanted tracking device or something, do you? They didn’t make some kind of plan for if it didn’t work?”

“I don’t think so,” Robert said. “I wasn’t all the way unconscious much while I was in custody. Takes a huge amount of drugs to make any impression at all. Liquor was a real disappointment back in the day.” He looked at the ceiling again as he chewed and swallowed. “And ah. I may have given them the wrong idea about exactly how your meta works.”

“You don’t know that anyway. Not in detail.”

“That’s right,” Robert said. “But I also told them you could only go short distances, and never through walls. Said you hacked a door code to get into the 99B base.”

“Oh.” That explained why they hadn’t taken more precautions to prevent it from getting out of the van after the darts. They’d thought they had it trapped inside a metal box. “Well, it won’t work again, but that was pretty smart for a guy high off his ass and chained to a board.”

Robert brightened slightly, grinning his lopsided grin. “Thanks. You want me to leave after breakfast?”

The Ripper poured them each another cup of coffee. It steamed faintly, little pale curls twisting lazily up toward the ceiling.

“No.”

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huffle-dork · 9 months ago

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Swap Across the CrystalVerse Chapter 20: The Rift

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"Did that guy just hang up?!" Jackie gasps, staring at his other-world counterpart with the phone in his hand. "What?!"

"He's probably rushing out to look for Alt without waiting for us," Chase says.

"I... want to blame him, but I guess I can't," Jackie says. "I'd do the same thing."

"Goddamnit, Chase!" Jackieboy yells, holding his phone tight. "He always does this! Running in head first without thinking about anything!" He sighs and pockets his phone. " I guess we need to hurry then... before Chase gets into trouble too."

Jackie nods. "You guys stay here. I'll go look around--"

And then a phone starts to ring in his pocket. "Oh, hang on." He takes it out. "It's Stacy." He picks it up.

"That fucking guy!" Henrik's voice says.

"Chase? Chase?" Stacy asks. "Was that guy really another version of you?"

"Yeah, apparently," Chase says.

"And he's looking for someone who came with him?"

"Yep."

"Okay, I guess we can help, then. You guys are at the flats? Henrik and I are coming in the car. Phoebe can watch the kids while they're in bed."

"Yeah, I can do that," Phoebe agrees.

"His name is Alt! He looks just like Chase but- shorter. He has tons of freckles and wears a bandana with a smiley face around his neck." Jackie comments, "H-Hopefully he should be easy to spot... he can glitch. It's pretty noticable if you know what to look for."

"Glitch?" Stacy repeats. "Like a computer program?"

"I can picture that sort of thing exactly," Henrik says.

"Alright, I'm giving the phone to you, Chase," Jackie says, handing it to him. "Just in case Stacy needs to call you. I can find you guys easily enough." He nods. "Bye. See you later." And he races out of the hotel, doors swinging. He's gone in seconds.

"... I know I shouldn't be... but I'm so fucking jealous." Jackieboy grumbles as he flops into a chair and crosses his arms.

"Oh god, yeah, I still am sometimes," Chase says. "Even after I know what he went through to get those powers. And all the rest of these guys, too."

Jackieboy sighs and looks to the side, "...my friends apparently went through something awful to get their powers too... I just... thought they were born lucky..."

Xio gives a little wave. "Hey, why don't I come with you? I'll be able to help. Does Alt's glitching make sound?"

He looks back to Xio "Mmm yeah- it's like- a zip and crackle- kinda like static but also not. ... weirdly enough you can kinda smell it? The air smells metallic when he does it- and it has a vague green light." Jackie says with a shrug.

"The sound is all I need," Xio says. "Sound is my thing."

Chase nods. "Xio can manipulate it, a-and you can sense where it's coming from, right?"

"Mm-hmm." Xio nods back. "I used to be like, a radio hub for people in the cells, cause I could hear everything in the block even with the soundproofing and could replicate noises somewhere else."

“Oh- huh. That’s why you were so freaked out that you didn’t hear me come in, huh?” Jackieboy smiles. “Cool. Yeah it just- sounds like… exactly like a video game glitch. You’ll know it when you hear it.”

"Well... guess we just gotta wait for Stacy and Hen to get here, then," Chase says.

Jackieboy sighs and leans on his thighs, glancing at the doors. “Yeah.. guess so.”

"Don't worry, there's not a lot of traffic in the city, so they'll be here soon," Chase says. "Any moment." He looks towards the doors hopefully.

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Bro is flying through the city at night, just over the rooftops. Come on, Alt, where are you?! Where could you be?! He's passing over a row of townhouses when he feels a sudden tug, like an invisible force is pulling him close to the ground.

Bro shouts out in surprise as he’s tugged and falls a good bit from the sky before he starts to try to fight the pull. “T-The fuck?!”

He’s able to stay airborne for a second, but then falls, landing on his stomach on the ground in front of a man.A man wearing a mask and cape.

“Since when can you fly?!” He shouts. “What are you, actually Twilight Sparkle?!” Then the man pauses. “No, wait, your hair is different. You’re not—but are you—? Who are you?”

Bro oofs and looks back up at the masked man and glares. “The fuck, man?! Why is twilight sparkle the first example you think of??”

“Well purple hair—except you don’t have purple hair—so who are you?” The man asks.

“I have never had purple hair in my life-“ Bro starts to argue-

Then the man suddenly gasps. “Wait… don’t tell me you’re from another universe?”

Bro pauses and pushes himself up. “Yeah I am. Guessing you know a Chase Brody?”

The man nods. “Vaguely. He’s the one with purple hair. Look, some guys appeared in my house. Someone who looked like a computer glitch, and some freak with a mask. Friends of yours? Or—is one of them a friend of yours? They didn’t… get along…”

Bro jolts at this and goes to grab the man's arm, "You saw Alt?! Please- he's my brother and im looking for him! He could be in Serious danger!"

The man jerks away from Bro’s touch. “Yeah I saw him. And… I’m afraid you’re right. He is.” The man pauses. “I told them to get out of my house. They did, and almost immediately after the weirdo with the mask attacked the other. I think he… somehow started controlling him. Th-they went north, I-I was trying to find people to talk to about this.”

Bro's eyes widen, "What?!" He growls and goes to punch the nearest thing he can, blue overpowering his eyes. "That fucking mangy cat-!" He looks back at the man and glares at him, but slowly softens. "...who were you trying to find? I.. I was worried about the psy-maniacs grabbing Alt first not- fucking Magnificent getting him! What the fuck!!"

The man flinches when Bro suddenly punches the wall, but quickly composes himself before Bro turns to look at him, seeming calm and collected. “‘Psy-maniacs’? So someone already told you about Psyode, then,” he says. “I was going to find the other Chase Brody, actually. Or maybe his Quicksilver of a twin, or that Einstein he hangs out with. Ah… that probably means nothing to you, does it? I mean—Jackie Brody and Henrik von Schneeplestein. I was going to warn them about the maniac from another universe. And tell them that ours is apparently under quarantine, and maybe enlist them to get that Alt guy back.”

Bro frowns and furrows his brow. "... quarantine...? huh... I wonder what that means." He then sighs and ruffles the back of his hair, looking embarrassed. "...I just... was with Henrik. And talking with your guys... I think this world's Jackie is starting to look too so- maybe I'll run into him but... they know. I think they're all trying to get together too I just... jumped the gun. Because... i... Alt just went through something awful I... I didn't want those Psyode guys getting to him too..."

"Nobody deserves what they do," the man mutters. He shakes his head slightly. "Look, if it's any consolation, I've mana--this world's Jackie has managed to stay away from Psyode for months, and I hear others who escaped have managed to avoid them for years. They're tough, but it's not impossible to slip beneath their notice. And if you want, I saw the direction that masked freak took Alt. We can start heading there. Maybe we'll find them."

"That... that'd be great, yeah. I don't want to get my dumbass lost trying to find him." Bro sighs. He looks at the man and tilts his head. "I'm so sorry I don't think i got your name? You know mine but honestly you can just call me Bro- or you know Chase but that can get comfusing."

"Bro?" the man laughs a little. "How overly familiar of you. But fine. They call me the Magician here." He waves his fingers a little. "I should apologize for pulling you out of the sky. I don't see people flying often. Or ever."

"That's fair. ..really though, the Magician?" Bro raises an eyebrow.

"Hey, I didn't choose it, the news did. Though I did dress like this... but they could've been more creative." Magician shrugs.

Bro shrugs back with a laugh, "Who am I to judge? I call myself Bro Fantastic- that's why I say to call me Bro, ha." He smirks then jerks his head towards the street. "Wanna get a move on, then?"

"Yes, let's go. Hopefully we'll meet Scarlet--Jackie--on the way there." He turns and hurries down the street.

Bro chuckles and then rushes to follow after him.

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Even with Jameson carrying Alt in cat form, it was slow going to get all the way across the city. Anti looks calm, but there's a constant static noise coming from everyone's phones that indicates he's more frustrated than his image appears.

Magnificent is trying his best to stay calm but- having the TRVLR stolen from them does him on edge. He used to be able to rely on Alt to have it... at least the troublesome cub wouldn't wander now. He glances over at Anti, wondering if he can read his expression.

Jameson glances over at Magnificent. He shakes his head.

No use, he signs awkwardly.

Anti disappears and reappears next to him. “What’s no use?”

Alt jolts a bit and blinks up at Anti and then hisses slightly at him.

Jameson gasps, but takes care not to make Alt cat too uncomfortable. Your face, he says.

“Hmm. What about it?”

Not you.

“Heh.” Anti smiles. “That’s true.” He turns to Magnificent. “The image you’re looking at isn’t actually me. I don’t have a body. This illusion just makes it easier for people.”

"Oh- how curious." Magnificent hums. "Then, what exactly are you then, Anti?"

Anti shrugs. “I’m Anti. There’s nothing like me out there. I’m loose thoughts, like a string of lights in a distant city. All energy, no matter.”

"Oh-! Fascinating... only energy and yet you can do things like this." Magnificent replies. "Is that why you want to come to the next universe with us? To see if you can find... something more?"

“Exactly,” Anti says. “I know there’s more out there for me. More I can do. It won’t get in the way of whatever you want—I wouldn’t do that to you after you went far enough to take me with you. But—”

Magnificent grins, "I mean... I'm quite curious to see what we can accomplish together-"

Suddenly, with a whoosh of wind, something red runs right past them, ruffling Mag’s cape and Alt’s fur. It skids to a halt down the street and turns around to look at them. A man wearing a red jumpsuit with blue highlights. It looks homemade, but neat and well-done. The man is wearing a blue eye mask on the top half of his face and a black face mask on the bottom half.

“Anti!” he gasps. “You—you’re—”

Mag holds an elbow over his face as the wind rushes past him and then he whips around to look at the man. "Oh! Well... if it isn't a superhero wannabe hm? Anti- do you know who this boy is?"

Alt narrows his eyes at the man and his hackles raise, purple pulsing in his eyes.

“The people call him the Scarlet Blur, but I know his real name. Jackie Brody.” Anti smiles. Static eats away at his face, spreading from his eyes and mouth in a creepy display until his head is just a cloud of static. “A nobody who just got lucky.”

“Lucky? Lucky?!” Jackie shouts. “Shut the fuck up!” He looks at Jameson. “You’re JJ. Jameson, right?! G-get away from them! I don’t know who that other guy is but he looks like bad news!”

The street lamps flare brighter, and the one nearest to Jackie bursts. He runs to the side, and even with his speed he barely dodged the bolt of electricity from the bulb that hits where he was just standing.

“Feel free to kill him,” Anti’s voice says. “Or whatever it is you do, Magnificent.”

Hatred flares in Magnificent's eyes at hearing this is a Jackie. He grins wide, power pulsing in his eyes. "Oh... with pleasure." He snaps, "Alt? Shift and attack the hero."

“Shift?” Jackie repeats, confused.

Alt stiffens and sits up in Jameson's arms, purple bright in his eyes again. And then, in a flicker of static the cat leaps out of his arms and shifts into a black brown wolf and lunges to try to bite Jackie.

And then the wolf attacks and Jackie yelps. He starts to turn and run backwards but he’s so shocked that he just forgets about his speed. The wolf’s teeth clamp around his arm and he screams, turning and punching the wolf in the face.

Alt manages to hang on and doesn't flinch as he's punch, digging his teeth in more with a growl.

"No no no no no!" Jackie screams, jabbing his foot into the wolf's neck.

Alt gets kicked off and skips onto the ground before shaking his head and growling at Jackie, pushing himself back up. Electricity flickers around him as his eyes glow a bit more green. Then, he glitches and tries to attack him again.

Jackie breathes heavily, checking the damage on his arm. He only glances down for a moment but it's enough of a distraction to give Alt an advantage. Jackie gets up and tries to run but this time the wolf's teeth latch onto his leg. He screams again. "Let go let go let go!" he shouts, punching and kicking wildly.

Alt tries to shake his head to latch on better and doesn't flinch at the first hit but by the others he gets knocked off and staggers back. He shakes out his head and weakly growls at Jackie, colors flickering in his eyes as he pants.

As soon as Alt lets go Jackie gets up and tries to run but cries out as he takes his first step on his injured leg. Still, he tries, but it's too much and he collapses.

Magnificent growls as he looks at Jackie and realizes he doesn't have power he can steal. He barks out at Alt, "Keep going, Alt! Kill him!"

Alt's eyes glow more and then in another flicker of glitches he shifts into a big snake and tries to lash out to wrap around Jackie.

The snake slinks around his legs and arms. "Jesus fucking shit shit!" Jackie gasps, struggling, trying to break free.

Jackie manages to break through and Alt flies back, skidding across the road. He glitches a bit more before his form breaks and he shifts back into his human form, breathing heavily, his eyes rolling in his head dazedly.

Magnificent growls in anger, "Fucking useless pup! Get back up!"

Alt groans and weakly tries to push himself back up, dazedly looking back at Jackie but not seeming like he's really able to focus on him.

Jackie scrambles to his feet as quickly as possible. He looks back at Alt and Jameson regretfully, then staggers off, quickly gaining speed.

One of the street lamps flares and bursts, lightning darting towards Jackie but missing as he speeds out of sight. Anti hisses. "Well, we'll see him again, I'm sure of that. He's the type to keep getting in people's way."

Magnificent growls and watches Jackie rush off. He snorts and crosses his arms. "Hopefully he'll stay away until we can find that annoyance that stole from us."

Jameson hurries to Alt's side to check on him.

Alt dazedly looks at Jameson and sees him through dizzying vision. "D..Doc..." He breathes and leans up against him, his eyelids fluttering. "...'m tired..."

Jameson blinks, momentarily confused, but it isn't worth thinking about. You'll be okay, he says. Alt nods against his shoulder. Then, Jameson looks over at Anti and Marvin. He needs rest.

"We don't have time to rest, who knows what the others will do in the time frame we're resting?" Anti growls.

He still needs rest, Jameson persists. He needs to recover energy.

Anti tilts his head. "Energy... Hmm." The head swivels over to Magnificent. "Do you think that if Alt gets struck by lightning, he will absorb it? Or is that not how his electricity works?"

Magnificent hums and appears to kneel down by Alt. "Hmm... he has magic left- so... he should be able to absorb some of it. I'm not sure though... he usually absorbs that stuff from outside sources. ... I am curious though." The mad magician chuckles.

"We'll test it out a little first, then," Anti says. "Jameson, back."

Jameson just stares at him, unwilling to leave Alt's side when he's in this state.

Anti growls, and suddenly Jameson jerks back, moving against his will. Once he's no longer touching Alt, the air around Alt hums, static rising, until a small bolt of lightning appears from thin air and hits him.

Alt blinks in confusion as Jameson jerks back and tries to catch himself on his hands- then he screams as the electricity hits him. He spasms slightly and crashes to the ground, gritting his teeth as the sparse electricity ripples across his skin.

Mag tilts his head in thought, hardly phased. ".. huh.. Guess not."

"Huh." Anti frowns. "That's less useful than I thought, then."

Jameson hurries forward again and grabs Alt, helping him up. He can't do much, but he hopes that the contact will help.

Alt staggers and clings to Jameson as he's helped, parts of him still jittering.

He needs rest, Jameson repeats. Especially after that. He shoots Anti a glare.

"Don't make that face," Anti demands.

Jameson just narrows his eyes more.

"Fine!" Anti snaps. "Here, I'll be nice and make up for it." Alt feels a tingling sensation all over his body... and suddenly, the lingering pain is gone.

He blinks as he feels his pain disappear and looks down at himself then back at Anti, "...what did you do...?"

"You people all run on electricity," Anti says. "And pain is a signal sent through your nerves using that electricity. I recently figured out how to manipulate that."

Jameson blanches. Alt feels him shudder slightly.

Alt also shudders a bit. "Umm... t-thank you... I guess."

Magnificent snorts and rolls his eyes. "Well- if he's not in pain we should keep moving. Alt- you can find things to recharge yourself with on our walk. I'm sure there's- streetlights or displays or whatever around you can leech off of."

Alt opens up his mouth to try to argue but then stiffens and his eyes flash again. "...y-yes Magnificent..."

Jameson looks at Alt sympathetically. He wishes there was something he could do to help him, but he knows Anti will stop him. The most he can do is make sure that Alt's taken care of. That's the most he's ever been able to do. He stands up and helps Alt to his feet.

Alt looks over at Jameson with glazed eyes. But, there's a flicker of gratitude beneath his expression.

"Strange, Jackie didn't have his phone," Anti says. "He must've given it to someone else. Either way, I can still sense its movements. Let's continue on."

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The apartment building lobby has emptied out except for Jackieboy, Chase, and Xio. When suddenly, lights shine into the windows.

Xio gets to her feet and hurries over, staring out. "It's her car!" she shouts.

"Great!" Chase also stands up.

Outside, Stacy parks and Henrik gets out of the passenger seat. He hurries to the front entrance and bursts through. "Other Jackie! Hi! Hello! Oh, you look so different! But also the same."

Jackie hurries after the others and then balks at seeing Henrik. He laughs, "I could say the same thing about you! Nice to meet ya in the flesh though-"

"Yes, yes!" Henrik looks at Chase excitedly. "Can you believe this, Chase?! An actual person from another world! Here! A-and not the only one!"

Chase laughs. "This is like your wildest dreams come true, huh?"

"Of course!"

A woman enters the lobby. "Hi Chase, hey Xio. So, you're the other Jackie, then? I'm Stacy. I guess I'm your sister-in-law in this world. Nice to meet you."

Jackieboy laughs then looks at Stacy as she enters. His eyebrows raise up and then he laughs. "I guess so! Funny- my Chase only just started dating our version of you- though.. guess I could see them settling down~" He grins.

"Heh." Stacy glances at Chase, who coughs awkwardly. "We met in college. Had our twins not long after."

"Oh! Same with me and my wife!" Jackie grins. "We met 1st year of uni and got married and had our daughter not long after!"

"Y-yeah." Chase nods. "Uh... I hope your Chase will be better at finances than me. That really fucked us over for a while."

"In the past," Stacy says casually.

Jackie laughs, "I dunno how good he is with money but he's at least keeping him and Alt afloat!"

Henrik giggles. "The differences between worlds, so interesting, interesting. Your Chase told me your version of me is deaf, and an actor!"

"Really?" Chase tilts his head. "Bruh, I can't picture you as an actor at all. I can't picture you as anything but some sort of scientist."

"Imagine how we feel! You all are all- topsy turvy to us!" Jackieboy chuckles.

"No yeah, I know exactly how you feel," Chase says. "It's like you're living my life. Very weird. Jackie was never the type to settle down, they're more of a free spirit."

Jackie grins, "Yeah! It's weird huh? My Chase is more the free-spirit. He's great with kids but- can't see him being a dad."

"Which is why they went running out there, isn't it?" Stacy jerks her head back out the front doors. "We can talk about all this stuff in the car, y'know. It's kind of important that we find this guy. What was his name?"

"Alt, I think," Chase says

Jackie blinks and grins sheepishly, "Right right- let's go. God knows what trouble other me and Bro got into..."

Henrik nods. "Yes, we must find him before Psyode or, god forbid, Anti finds him. If he was interested in Jameson Jackson from another time, he will definitely be interested in this Alt Brody from another space."

The group heads outside. "Jackie can usually handle himself," Chase says. "But uh... his brain doesn't move as fast as his body sometimes. So you can surprise him and stuff. Which... isn't ideal."

"He's great, though," Xio says. "He was the second person to escape Psyode after 25 did. A real inspiration to people still stuck in there."

“Oh really? 25 was… the magician guy right?” Jackie asks.

Henrik grumbles. It's mostly in German, but there are small sound bites of "ethics board" "Jason" "fucking Ayer" and "fucking Experiment Department".

"Yeah, he was really paranoid about people knowing his name," Xio says. "So I just called him 25. Still do. We were across from each other in the cells. Nice guy... though you won't hear this Jackie agree with that."

"Oh- huh... guess that kinda true with Alt at first too. Though- he kept to calling himself Alt even after we knew." Jackie shrugs, "Oh- does this world's jackie not like him? guess that must be a constant..."

"Who wants shotgun?" Stacy asks, getting into the driver's seat.

Jackie shrugs to the question, “I’ll take anywhere!”

Xio laughs. "I'll take shotgun, Stacy, more leg room."

"The back seat for us, then," Chase says, opening it up. "Op. Evan left Pinkie Pie in here, Stacy."

"Pass her up to me, I'll remember to take her in," Stacy says, holding out her arm.

Chase puts a small plushie of a pink horse into her hand and she puts it in the spot between the two front seats.

Jackie gets inside the car and then smiles softly, "Aw pinkie! She's my daughter's favorite~"

Stacy laughs. "Evan says she's fun, but Anna says Applejack would actually be a better friend. Which is debatable."

"As for Jackie and Magician, I mean... their relationship didn't exactly start the best way," Chase says. "They were like--a hero-villain duo. The only two superheroes and villains out there. A detective and a phantom thief. And he did throw me off a roof one time--"

"Magician did what?!" Henrik gasps as he gets in the car.

"But Jackie caught me!" Chase says. "And I don't think Magician thought it through, yknow?"

"Woahhh- dude that's kinda metal though. That'd make for a fantastic book or tv series-" Jackie laughs.

Chase grins a little. "Yeah, I know, right?"

As Stacy starts the car and drives off, Henrik says, "I cannot think of Magician as a fully bad person. After all, he helped rescue Phoebe and me, even if he was mainly curious about what happened to Jameson Jackson, his friend."

"What happened to him?" Jackie asks curiously.

"To Jameson Jackson?" Henrik asks. "We are not fully sure."

"The Jackson family is like, this powerful old-money family," Chase says. "I did research in the library once and found out that Jameson Jackson was one of them who disappeared in the 1920s. But now he's definitely here in the present day. Magician knows him, clearly cares for him a lot, so I'm guessing that Jameson somehow traveled through time and found Magician and the two of them got close."

"But then Anti found him," Henrik adds. "And he took him. Anti can control people's bodies, you know. He makes Jameson do things for him, and if Jameson will not, he controls him to do it anyway." He shakes his head sadly. "I'm sure Jameson is a good man," he says quietly.

Jackie's eyes widen, "Oh... woah..." He then hums in thought and rubs at his arm. "...'m sure he is. ....Alt got treated like that by our bitch magician, Magnificent. But, despite everything that fucking cat has put him through... he still tries to do good and be kind. ...I bet Jameson is the same."

Henrik nods slowly. "Yes... He certainly seemed that way while I was there..." He trails off.

Chase leans over to gently shake Henrik. "C'mon, Hen. Stay with us for now. We got other-universe people to find."

"Yes, yes, yes." Henrik nods.

"Other Jackie, anything you know that could help us about where your guys would be?" Xio asks, turning back to look at him.

"Ummm-" Jackie makes a face and leans back in his chair. "Other than Alt's glitching? ummm look for green and purple lights- that's Mag's magic. He also just like- teleports everywhere like a big show off. And uh- Mag ususally looks for big sources of power. Something he can steal."

"A source of power?" Chase repeats. "Uh... The only place I can think of that would have 'power' like how you're implying is that compound Psyode set up."

"Let's hope you won't have to go back there," Stacy says.

"Yeah... I hope we find them before having to try there... That sounds like a place I very much want to avoid." Jackie mutters.

"We'll drive around the city for a while and see if we find anything. In retrospect, I wish Jackie kept his phone." Stacy mumbles.

Chase shrugs. "Can't undo the past... probably. So let's stick with the present."

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Magician and Bro have been walking for some time, crossing between rows and rows of townhouses, when Magician suddenly stops. "Hang on. Do you see that?"

He barely has time to say that before the thing he saw rushes at the two of them--then past them, banging into a lamp post. A man in a red jumpsuit stumbles back, falling to the ground. "Owwww," he groans.

Bro blinks and looks and then jumps into the air slightly in surprise as he's run past. He gasps and then touches down to help the man, "Oh my god?? Are you okay???"

“No, I don’t think so.” The man sits up, looking up at Bro. His eyes widen. “Y-you… you’re the other world Chase.” He’s bleeding from his arm and leg.

Bro hurriedly digs through his backpack and finds something to stop the bleeding- some of his clothes before he borrowed Chase's in the last world. He rips off parts of a shirt and then presses some to the man's arm and grabs his hand and lays it over the spot. "Put pressure there, okay?" He then rips some more and goes to put pressure on his bleeding leg.

“…Scarlet?” Magician says. “What happened?”

“There was a fucking—no one said a-anything about—about animals turning into other animals!” The man stammers.

Bro freezes slightly as he hears the last part, his face going pale. "...weird question... did that animal... glitch at all? or did you see it... turn human?"

The man—Magician called him Scarlet—does as Bro instructed. “Y-yes… it turned human at the end, turned into a guy.”

“Hold on a second, are you saying that your Alt friend can turn into animals?!” Magician gasps.

Bro closes his eyes and curses, "Y-Yes he can but he doesn't do it often! And... h-he wouldn't do it to attack someone like... like this!" He then frowns and then has a murderous expression, "...but he would if Mag forced him too. That fucking sneaky bitch...!"

"Mag...?" Scarlet repeats, looking at Magician. "Like... short for Magician?"

"No, it's short for Magnificent, which is a fucking stupid name," Magician mutters.

"Okay, but you know, calling him that makes me think--"

"Shut up, Sonic," Magician snaps.

"Oh yeah sorry- Magnificent. S'easier just to say Mag... didn't realize it'd be confusing." Bro mutters.

Scarlet laughs--then hisses as he shifts position slightly and makes his injuries hurt more. "A-anyway. Y-yeah, I think that 'Magnificent' guy must have been there. And so was Anti, a-and that man--Jameson Jackson."

Magician's expression softens slightly behind his mask. "JJ is with them...?" he whispers.

Bro’s eyes darken as Scarlet catches them up. "Of course he found this world's Anti... I bet they're up to no good... and dragged Alt into it... and Jays too. Fuckers...!" He looks down at Scarlet and frowns. "...we can't just leave Scarlet. He's really hurt... we should try to take him to the others... isn't Henrik a doctor?"

"He's not that kind of doctor," Scarlet says. "He's a scientist. Physics and shit. Loves studying other worlds and shit." He pulls down his face mask. "By the way, I-I realize I haven't formally introduced myself. I'm Jackie."

"Oh right- I guess I should have figured." Bro laughs weakly. "Nice to officially meet ya, Jackie."

"You're bleeding out, Scarlet, this isn't time for introductions," Magician says.

"Th-this is the perfect time! Before anything bad happens. Or, worse, I-I guess." Jackie hisses.

Bro frowns, "Hey don't think like that, we'll get you patched up."

"Wish I didn't give my phone to Chase... I could've called them to bring a first aid kit." Jackie looks at Bro. "Wait, do you still have your phone?"

Bro then blinks and nods, going to pull out his phone. "Yeah- I think my Jackie might be with your group... oh! And he has a first aid kit!"

"He does?! Oh good." Jackie laughs. "Go on. a-and call them, then."

Magician stands there awkwardly. "I can... put more pressure on your wounds... if you want." He straightens, and laughs haughtily. "Not that I'd get blood on my hands, that's disgusting. But my powers are very useful for situations like this~"

Jackie looks up at him. "...sure, Magician," he says, his tone a strange mix of annoyance and gentleness.

Magician nods. Nothing seems to happen visibly, but Jackie is able to lean back, Bro's clothes continuing to be pressed to the wounds even without him doing it.

"Oh- well... that's helpful... what is it that you do, Magician?" Bro asks curiously, "You don't seem to use magic like Alt or Mag does... but you have something- that's how you pulled me out of the sky and... are doing this I guess." As he says this he starts to dial Jackie's number.

"I have myself something called psychokinesis," Magician chuckles. "Moving and pushing things without physically touching them. It's quite handy, you know. I can even pick locks with the ability."

"You called me Sonic, alright, Silver," Jackie mutters.

Bro bursts into laughter, "Heh- I guess that is fitting...!"

The other end of Bro's call picks up quickly.

The call picks up and Jackieboy hurriedly answers the other line: "Chase??"

"H-Hey man... sorry for just... hanging up on you..." Bro says putting the call on speaker.

"Yeah dude that was a dick move-"

Bro winces, "Sorry sorry but- I found Magician and Jackie- other Jackie and... he's really hurt. And Mag got a hold of Alt and i... I think he used his shapeshifting to attack him."

"What?!" Chase shouts on the other end. "Jackie, are you okay?!"

"I'm fine!" Jackie yells.

"Don't let that fool you, Violet, he's bleeding and it looks like some animal bit him," Magician says.

"Jackie what the fuck?!" Henrik shouts.

"I didn't want to get attacked by wolf, dude!"

"...woah that's a whole bunch to process okay- well... we're in Stacy's car with other you, Henrik and Xio... which I guess you heard.” Jackieboy laughs. “Do you know where you are?"

"We're somewhere on Daine Street, in the neighborhoods to the north of the city," Magician relays.

"Fuck," Chase curse. "W-we can get there fast! Stacy, are there any pharmacies nearby?!"

"I can put it into Maps," Stacy says. "We can pick up anything we need. Jackie, can you move?"

"Y-yeah... I think so."

Magician sighs. "Very well, I guess I could help if you need it."

Jackie gives him a puzzled, thoughtful look.

Bro looks between Magician and Jackie with a confused expression. "...are you guys friends or do you hate each other? Cuz I genuinely cannot tell."

"Apparently its a villain vs hero thing." Jackie supplies.

"Ohhhh-"

"Oh, Scarlet totally hates me," Magician says, grinning.

"No, I don't," Jackie mutters.

"Oh by the way, I have my first aid kit but... if he got bit by stuff... we might need something more." Jackieboy mumbles worriedly.

"I'm googling what antibiotics we'd need to prevent infection," Chase says. "We can stop by a pharmacy to get them."

"Xio, look for stuff close by on my phone," Stacy says. "The password is 6232."

"Got it, man," Xio says. "Looks like the nearest place to buy medicine is on the corner of Mirylow and Kellie."

"Can you guys head that way?" Chase asks.

"I-I think so," Jackie says.

"I can help, dude, don't worry," Bro says with a sincere smile. "We'll meet you all there."

"Okay, Chase, be careful." Jackieboy says.

"Will do." Bro hangs out and quickly pockets his phone before kneeling down by Jackie and trying to see if he can help him up. "I know you just ran here but resting sometimes changes things, can you put pressure on your leg?"

"Let's see." Jackie lets Bro pull him up. He hisses a bit. "Hurts, but I think I got it." He glances at Magician.

"Can you... keep that pressure up? I think it's helping."

Magician flashes a grin. "Of course. Just remember, you owe me~"

"Ugh. Fine." Jackie shakes his head. "Let's just go."

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Anti guides the others from a residential area to a section of the city with more businesses and shops.

"If you can hide yourselves with your power, I suggest you do," he says. "If we can take them by surprise, we should."

Magnificent hums and looks around. He sees a dark alley and grins. "No problem. I'll blend into the shadows." He looks back at Alt, who's been trying to find small sources of energy here and there. He stills seems kinda drained and out of it. Regardless though, he snaps his fingers and points at Alt. "Alt, shift. You'll hide with me."

Alt stiffens quickly and then glitches back into his cat form. Mag is quick to scoop him up and pets him with an evil chuckle. Alt's hackles raise slightly but he slowly relaxes, his eyes looking a bit more slitted as Mag pets him. Mag looks to Anti and then steps back, the two of them fully blending into the shadows as if they disappeared.

"Heh... Impressive." Anti grins. His image disappears, leaving only Jameson visible.

Jameson sighs, taking out the phone from earlier.

Anti's voice continues to come from the speakers. "We're gaining on them. Keep going down this street." As they continue, Anti continues to talk. "So, Magnificent. What is your goal in traveling through worlds? Searching out power? Conquering the universes? Something more specific than that?"

There's the vague hints of movements within the shadows as they walk- the hint of static, the flicking of cat tail, the flash of a green eye. But, only while Magnificent moves to keep up.

"Oh... a little of everything. I want to taste the power and magic other universes provide~ and also... If i can crush any duplicates of me who think they're better or more powerful well... that's another plus~!" He giggles. "And making new puppets has been quite a joy as well! So many unique ways to manipulate the mind and bend it to a stronger beings will... honestly- it inspires me to look for more~"

"Fascinating," Anti's voice says. "So, I suppose it's both curiosity and control. I can understand that. After all, I'm the one seeking knowledge of how to get into other worlds. And I suppose I have some puppets of my own. Though most of them are interchangeable to me. Jameson here is an exception. I feel responsible, since I may be the one who accidentally brought him here."

Jameson rolls his eyes. He glances over every time there's an occasional flicker of movement indicating Magnificent... and Alt.

Alt's eyes find Jameson's through the shadows when he looks- sometimes more slitted, sometimes something a bit more human.

"Oh? Is that so... is he mayhaps- a person pulled from time?" Magnificent laughs,

Anti laughs. "That's exactly what he is! From ninety years ago or so.”

"We are more similar than I thought then, Anti~! I did the same to one of my puppets... though- he has stubbornly rejected his strings. Mostly useless to me now but... we have our fun occasionally."

“I never expected to find someone also able to do something like that. I'm sorry that your puppet pulled away.”

"Ha! Perhaps our puppets should meet~ it's not often I meet another who pulled someone from time." Magnificent giggles.

“I am curious as to how you make them in the first place. Your magic is unique. I can manipulate people's motor neurons, but it's difficult, and I can only focus on so many people at a time. Something like your power... I wonder if it's easier than my method." Anti says.

Mag hums, petting Alt through the shadows, the cat's eyes turning more slitted and purple as he does- pushing his influence in. "Truly- it depends fully on the mind. I often find with enough surprise and mental manipulation, most humans can fall to my magic for a bit of time. Enough for me to get my way... but it is temporary and hard to maintain. Usually its just enough to cause some chaos or damage... but Alt here~ he is a great example of long term manipulation. His mind is like putty in my hands... and I have so many ways to twist it to do my bidding~! He fights when he can, sure... but that's almost half the fun~!"

Anti laughs again. "Fascinating. Truly fascinating. Your mind manipulation would have been most helpful when I was trying to get information from someone. With your powers, he no doubt would have told me everything he knew." He sighs. "I wish I could read minds as easily as I manipulate the body, but unfortunately, I haven't quite decoded that yet. Everyone's thoughts are so different that it's hard to decipher the electrical impulses. Hmm... perhaps... no, if you are able to take me out of this world, I suppose I don't need that information anymore."

"Is that the only information you seek? To escape this world?" Magnificent asks.

"That, and any way I can use to gain power," Anti answers. "I know I am not supposed to be here. And I know that my purpose exists beyond this universe."

"Ah... we have similar goals then." Magnificent giggles. "Don't worry, Anti. With Alt this deep under... he won't remember this- and you should be able to sneak into the TRVLR with ease~"

"Yes." Anti laughs. "I can't wait."

#SATCV #SATCV The Rift #alt anti #swap magnificent #bro fantastic #jackie mann #alt is very much going through it this chapter oops ajghak #im realllly excited for tomorrow >:3c

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enbyleighlines · 1 year ago

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Leigh plays Tellius prt 9

It's time to get the knight ring from Naesala!

I love Ike's attitude here. That being said, I did make the decision to have Janaff talk to Naesala, because there's no way that I'm going to fight Naesala. I like to imagine that Janaff did it of his own volition.

This map took me waaaay too many tries, because I was determined not to kill any crows. The crows did not make this easy for me. Additionally, drawing Naesala out without him destroying any of my units proved to be... a bit of a challenge. Finally, I just used Tanith's recruitment skill to summon some nameless NPC's to do that job for me. Sorry, random pegasus knight! Your sacrifice will never be forgotten.

A man with a killer axe attempted to attack Nephenee, but I gave her vantage, and she decided to one-shot him with a crit of her own. Oh, Nephenee, you absolute bloodthirsty menace you.

Time for the big reveal! I forgot this happened so soon.

Gosh, such a powerful visual. Poor Elena and Greil. They both deserved so much better.

Some people typecast Titania as the team mom, and I have no objections against it, but I think her sass is terribly underappreciated. I love how often she beefs with Soren, who at this point in the story looks like a literal child.

Two points here:

First, I (ironically) love how Mist's medallion is stolen the morning following Ike and Volke's conversation. If only Nasir had stolen it a little earlier, Ike would have had a very different reaction. Like, yes, family heirloom, it sucks that it's gone, but it's not the end of the world.

Second, I (sincerely) love how Ike is allowed to be a bit of an asshole sometimes. Like, when he gets stressed out, he lashes out at people. He gets cranky and irritable, like in that conversation with Jeorge about battle tactics. And it makes sense. He has a lot to shoulder during PoR, and he never asked to be put into any position of leadership in the first place. He's allowed to be angry and bitter about it.

I always forget that, on top of their prejudice against laguz, Daein is also anti-immigrant. Really, the toxic patriotism of Daein feels so painfully familiar at times. I feel like someone could write an entire essay on this subject. Additionally, I wonder if Jill has experienced anything like this, or is it different because she was born in Daein?

Man, I both do and don't feel for Shiharam. Like, okay, he's a good man. But he's also a man who allowed his daughter to participate in laguz hunts. I know it was all for the purpose of gaining the king's trust, but still. He kind of made this bed for himself. I don't know. It's such a complicated matter, and I like that he's a complicated character. My feelings about him just keep flip-flopping all over the place.

Gotta love Soren's pragmatism! I love how he deeply understands how society functions, while also being critical of the systems in place. I feel like you usually see this sort of pragmatism from characters who are rich and full of themselves, blaming the underclass for their own misfortune. Soren knows why things are the way that they are, knows that, because the people rely on nobility for protection, there is a huge power imbalance between nobility and the common folk. As he says earlier in Begnion: "From the moment of our birth to our final dying gasp, we commoners know we are not allowed to defy the upper classes."

So while Soren's lecture here is extremely brutal, I don't think it comes from a place of bad intentions. In his eyes, Elincia is naive and inexperienced, and has thus far been ignorant of the true horrors that the average Crimean has had to endure. He is angry because he cares. He is angry because he's worried about the future of Crimea.

I'm just... I love Soren. As Ike says, deep down he's a big softie.

And I finally got Mist to second tier! With this, I have officially gotten all of my main units to class up.

The Talrega map was a walk in the park compared to the previous one. I basically had a small group (which included Jill, Ilyana, Rolf, and Astrid) squat by the houses in the upper left section of the map, and their only job was to destroy as many wyvern riders as possible.

Everybody else just rushed towards the boss at top speed.

Next time: time to lay siege to Daein Keep!

#leigh plays tellius #fire emblem path of radiance #path of radiance #fe9 #tellius

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andromebaa · 11 months ago

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Despair’s Legacy

A Danganronpa AU

Part 2 - The Legacy Students Here are the first half of the Legacy students!

Sid & Joey

The silly guys! Sid and Joey are the oldest kids? (I think I made them like 19 initially but I'm still calling them kids I don't care) out of the Legacy Students. Thought it would be fun to have twin characters because as we all know twins are not at all significant to the plot of DR I only had to make one sprite yey. Their main personality trait as a pair is the pretty stereotypical wacky, prank-pulling twins. Sid's technically the older twin and is a bit more aggressive and weirder. Joey is more charismatic and friendly. They dress and act the same in public-facing situations for shits and gigs but they do have distinctly different personalities. I'm not sure I'm like, entirely happy with how I initially characterised them. They just felt too similar to Leon at some points but eh. Had a mini freak out because I wasn't sure if wacky coloured hair is like....genetic in the DR universe?! Whatever.

Daiya

Oh Daiya. Daiya, Daiya, Daiya. She was the first OC I created for this thing and the one who I spent the most time on. I thought it'd be cute if Taka's daughter took one look at Mondo and was like you are my entire personality now. He's definitely a father figure to her (Ishimondo was end game in this AU btw, also on that note any father/mother pairings in this AU do not equal couples or anything. That was all done out of fulfilling the contracts. Half of them are gay/queer in some way I promise) Anyway, I always kind of pictured her as a rebel - as much as she could be in such an intimate place. Getting answers wrong in class on purpose, and hanging out in areas she's not supposed to be in. A big part of the plot of the AU hinges on her creating a club with the sole intent of escaping the school. Her dream is to travel across the land Mad Max style. Daiya ended up being the more or less 'antagonist' archetype for this AU. I still kind of flip-flop between giving her delinquent and queen bee bully personality. The twins are her lackeys.

Ren

Sad girl hours time! Ren is a jumpy, skittery mess. She knows her existence was a mistake, so she spends her time desperately trying to make up for it.

She loves being around children and is the designated babysitter for the younger Legacy Students. When she's not being mercilessly bullied by Daiya or alienating herself from others, she also likes to make toys. Another really big aspect of this AU is that Toko voluntarily locks herself away (to protect the others from Genocider), so Ren takes it upon herself to act as her caretaker. I'm still kind of working out what her relationship with Byakuya is. I definitely made it more fractured in the original concept, but I don't think he would be that cold to his own child.

Kaito

Hi I am very unhealthy about Kaito he is my favourite. Before you ask, I made him before V3 came out and I absolutely refuse to change his name even though it makes everything I write really confusing (I think he'd get along really well with V3 Kaito though) He's my favourite attempt at mixing two Danganronpa characters together and creating an amalgamation because he ended up becoming a chill and friendly surfer vibe new age one with the universe bro friend. Also he's a blind seer who kickstarts the AU story with a horrifying vision so that's always fun! He's definitely one of the most complex Legacy students because he has tons of layers to him. Something something happiest people are always y'know - not.

Yukihiko

Ah yes, gotta have the quiet, stoic guy who stands in the corner. Yuki start off a lot meaner/more sarcastic when I first made him but then I was like nah I kinda like making him the guy who says like five words a day and judges you quietly from a distance. I was also going to make him more martial arts focused but I ended up making him more into meditation once I figured out his whole thing, that being he's afraid of his own power so he tries to keep himself in a calm state as much as he can.

and that's all the older kids! If anyone ever wants to discuss them or anything I am always open lmao they've rotted my brain for like 6 - 7 years so I have some weird ass lore for all of them.

Part 1 - - - Part 3

#despair's legacy #danganronpa #danganronpa ocs #oc #au #i am not an artist

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anotherghoul666 · 2 years ago

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So good to see you back Hukka!! I've missed your presence on my dash. ♡

Would adore a vibe check from that lovely deck of yours, if you have time! And if I can be specific, l would like a two card answer to the question "will things get better for me than they are right now" since that's as specific as I'm willing to get in a public forum lol.

Miasmaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!! I've missed you too, tho we did talk some while I was batting off some waves of depression and flip flopping between work schedules. I'm happy to be back for a few weeks!

I know your energy enough you don't need to be more specific than that dearest, you're not gonna be difficult to reach so a more vague question doesn't hinder me. "Will things get better for you than they are right now" :

Shot answer? Yes.

Long answer? Yes but oh my god is it gonna hurt to get there.

So listen, there is such abundance in the ten of cups. It might be the most full, most safistied card in the whole deck. You'll be satiated, you'll be content, you'll be fed and kept full, metaphorically, physically, emotionally. Most of all, it's about community. You will get to be surrounded by people who are good for you, open minded, accepting and warm. People who will see the efforts you put in to get to them (or solidify them around you along the way) and genuenly respect you for it. This little piece of paradise, you'll have fashioned it out of almost nothing, all by yourself. Adding things, people, enrichment piece by piece until you have the safe, pleasant, fulfilling environment you so wanted and deserved.

But. To get to that heaven? You'll have to go through a tower moment my dear, and hooooo boy, prepare. I'm saying prepare, but it's not like you can even prepare for a tower moment. It will blindside you. It will completely change you. Those are life altering events that leave you reeling and gasping for air through the chaos. In hindsight, you'll look back and wonder how you didn't see it coming. From outside the building, it's easier to see the cracks on the walls, but while you're inside it? You're likely not gonna notice much, or not a thing before the storm hits. It will be a "WHAT THE FUCK?!" moment that you'll feel you didn't deserve. You'll have many questions. Why this, why now, why you. Because. Because you were ready, even if you didn't feel like it. Because that's the only way through to your eden and your peace. Step into your power and allow this chaos to become your greatest teacher. Destruction means renewal. Forest fires mean the soil is so chock full of nutrients life grows back ten times faster. Step into this even if you feel unsure, because this is your chance to break the chains that held you back before and rebuilt for what you truly want in life. You won't feel ready, but you will be. Trust the universe. This will look like a curse, but it will be a gift, and the doors that it will open for you will be so worth it. You just gotta make it through.

#asks #AnotherGhoul's tarot booth

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ekat-fandom-blog · 2 years ago

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Here's the not-backwards fic for everyone! Hope you like it!

~*~*~*~

The portal had opened up to a rather large room with a spandex brigade on one side and a really weird mix of armored people and suited people on the other side. Makes sense that their guy is part of the suit/armor people.

"Oh shi-." They attacked before the dude could even finish his sentence so he couldn't make another escape. He was sucked into the Fenton thermos so they could interrogate him later... After they got some sleep. There is no way he's getting out before they get some sleep. If he does, Fright Knight and Walker can handle him. Probably.

Now that the fight was over though, they were tired enough to just slump onto the floor leaning on each other.

"Dani?" Danny asked, exhausted.

"Yeah, Danny?" Dani replied, equally exhausted.

"How long have we been chasing this fruitloop?" He shook the thermos a bit for emphasis.

"I don't know? 2 weeks? A month?" She made an aborted motion with her arm. "Time's Clockwork's thing, not mine. I'm so tired."

He started to tear up. "I really miss my bed. Whoever told me that I could sleep when I was dead is a liar and I hate them."

"If murder fixed problems instead of creating new ones, I'd suggest that, but we're dead and it's a problem so..." She started to try to get up, but flopped over which caused the other to also fall. "Dang it. I don't have legs right now."

"Just fly, dum dum," he mumbled, not even trying to get up.

"Who the fu-" A loud obnoxious voice started.

"Green Lantern," Another loud and obnoxious, but more serious, voice said.

"Are we supposed to capture them, or something?" Someone else asked.

"You're supposed to shut up and not anger the sleep deprived ghosts," Dani snapped.

"Can we ask who you are and where you came from?"

"Danny Phantom." Danny raised his hand before dropping it.

"Dani Phantom-" Dani swished her hand in the air slightly and yawned. "-with an 'i'."

Danny also yawned. "Infinite Realms. Need to make portal and hand off to Frighty."

Dani groaned. "Don' wanna. Too tired."

Danny groaned and attempted to get up. "Gotta."

"That's dumb." She stayed laying there.

"Ok cool. You need to leave. That's fine. What are the Infinite Realms?" A new voice asked.

"And what did you do to Klarion?" Another grumpier voice pitched in.

"Don' know a Klarion, just the idiot that threatened the Realms and most of reality," Dani stated, flopping over onto her back.

"Come on, Dani. Let's go," he said, tearing a hole in the ground and dragging himself and the girl into it like 2 (not quite) human slinkies. The portal closed after them.

~~~

"Do we do something about that, or...?" Flash asked looking around at everyone.

Dr Fate answered. "No."

"No? They just kidnapped Klarion?" Flash asked confused.

"They're from the Infinite Realms. We don't want to mess with that," Cap stated.

"Why don't we want to, as you put it, 'mess with that'?" Lex asked.

"If you took Martian Manhunter's and took away his weaknesses and then added at least one random power you get an Infinite Realms inhabitant," Cap said. "And those two didn't even use any of their powers to capture Klarion other than flight and portaling. While they were dead tired."

Dr Fate picked up again with, "The Realms Inhabitants have vastly different ideas of what is and is not considered friendly. The easiest way to describe them is headache inducing."

Cap piped back up with, "That's not to mention that the only Realms Inhabitants that willingly leave their haunts are super powerful and it's a 50/50 chance that they're friendly in a 'will hit you instead of full on murdering you' sort of way. Whatever is going to happen to Klarion, I don't envy him."

"Klarion will probably be fine," Ra's stated, getting fed up over how long the meeting had been derailed. "Let's get on with the negotiation."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Tags: @sara0055 @ver-444 @mouzerequis @screamingtofillthevoid @seraphinedemort @cyber-geist @joseph557 @mirellacoco @silverthreadedhatter976 @glacticrose

Sleep deprived danny and dani

So dani was coming to visit danny, and it was going good

Until a new threat interrupted them

Danny wanted to deal with it on his own but dani after traveling for so long had developed some new powers and skills she wanted to show off so she pestered danny until he agreed

Now the threat wasn't strong, either of them could have taken him out, buuuuuut he had a artefact that could travel the infinite realms

Now even if the threat is outside of amity park they cant just let an artefact like that still be in his possession

And because of the time difference between the infinite realms while there only gone an hour in amity park, for danny and dani they've been chasing this fucker for a week straight

So after a week the asshole finally stops in this 1 universe and has been there for a while (they've given up on time awareness) (the guys been there for a month)

So they open a portal, beat she shit out of the guy for making them chase him like scooby doo and take back the artefact

However it was after that they saw where they were, it was a weird room with the "we love spandex club" in it and on the other side there were fruitloops who called themselves "the light"

Danny and dani look at eachother, dani makes sure they have the artefact and danny puts the guy they were chasing in soup time to interrogate later

They open a portal and leave for the sweet release of sleep

The light and the Justiase league are confused

They were trying to come to an agreement on something when a Lazarus pit opened and 2 white haired children came out

Klarion only got out the words "oh shit" before the twins proceded to beat the living shit out of him

They took an artefact that klarion had recently got, and they locked him in a ...thermos?

Before leaving

WTF

#dc x dp #dp x dc #dc x dp fic #ekat wrote a thing

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punkscowardschampions · 8 months ago

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Lush pt.2

Lux: [you better finally show up girl, even with an outfit change and finding something edible, time is here and you are so much more !! than you ever intended to be]

Dash: [soz he’s so extra and down bad that he’s wearing her down always, case in point catch him waiting for her sluttily with his feet in the stream, god knows what time of year it is but regardless I’m sure said water is freezing and yet, oh lord the cinematic turn to look over his shoulder with heart eyes and a smile as she appears, we’d all fall for it sis]

Lux: [it’s the reality, soz Amber, soz Amber’s mum, we cannot help it remotely, smiling back at him so huge, pushing your own face away because you can’t stop after a point, standing over him because you still wore your heels and you’re already a giant, handing him some sort of fruit to eat before you do, in fact, sit with him, going to unstrap your shoes to put your feet in the stream too]

Dash: [less soz Hazel because ma’am you’re a bitch and it’s none of your business, handle your own first, love, but speaking of Ambah, where are you hun, you’re supposed to be keeping her away from this boy, I love that she’s a flop friend because they never really stay in one place long enough for her to be a proper one yet, but anyway, Winnie says he hopes it’s a juicy fruit like mango or a peach etc etc so he can eat that sluttily in front of her too because he absolutely will, using his free hand he’s not eating sluttily with to reach out to help her, then really sluttily holding the fruit in his mouth so he can 2 hand this, do you wanna shamelessly just touch her somehow yes, but are you actually also helping with her shoes, also yes]

Lux: [also real, yes, Winola gay you are so correct for that because the mood is already feral, gotta do everything in your power to just make you lose your mind, making a little noise, like it was ticklish but it wasn’t even and your feet are pushing into his hands rather than pulling away, if anything]

Dash: [the way he’d bite harder into that piece of fruit because of that little noise she made and the feet antics just making juice ruin down his chin a lil bit, it’s honestly borderline pornographic, we love to see it, especially because once he’s offered her a hand, without getting up, just by stretching and whatnot, the few unnecessary steps into this stream and she’s feet in and sat next to him (after he’s made her twirl in place like that vid she sent that he’s obsessed with watching over and over again, because I’m sure her outfit change needs a moment of appreciation whatever it may be) he will be offering her said fruit with said giant bite mark while finally wiping his sticky chin with the back of his hand]

Lux: [biting your lip, in a far less awkward way than you did before, far harder too, like you’ve mistaken your mouth for your own piece of fruit which remains untouched and in whatever bag you’ve brought the food in, rubbing it almost disbelievingly like you can’t believe you just did that, because you can’t believe this boy and everything about this moment, your hand would low-key be shaking as you take this fruit, determinedly so however because you have to also eat this fruit in the same manner, to show you can keep up]

Dash: [his own hand going up to touch her bottom lip as she takes this fruit and gives him a free one, just for the moment before her mouth is full of said fruit and he drops it though, and his own hand also shaking a lil as he did that gentle lip brush, it’s cinematic again baby, rubbing his sticky chin clean in the same hard and disbelieving manner but his eyes are fixed on watching her eat, accidentally on purpose lowkey playing footsie in the stream because he isn’t looking where his feet are kicking but they’re kicking more because he’s !! as he stares at her eating this fruit so they get tangled in hers because y’all are sitting close]

Lux: [trailing your fingers on your free hand dreamily in this stream, using the water to wash his face, like you don’t really need to now he’s dealt with it but are going to, obviously, just to touch him too, using the tangle of limbs in this water to pull yourself just that tiny bit closer to him again]

Dash: [the GASP is not because the water is cold, we all know, taking what’s left of this fruit from her mouth and putting it back into his before he can say anything/make any other extra sounds, taking such a dramatic bite again to coincide with her getting closer]

Lux: [doing your own GASP but managing to make it believably mocking, like how dare you, moving your face closer to his, tilting your head to the side how you do to kiss, as if you’re going to take it right out of his mouth with your mouth but you’re not close enough to actually do it, paused so you can make the glittering !! EYE CONTACT in this beat between action and inaction]

Dash: [maintaining the eye contact as he closes the gap with his own head tilted and passes her this fruit with his mouth, for what is probably the final bite so again cinematic, barely pulling away once he has given it so they’re that close for the length of time it takes her to eat it]

Lux: [pulling him closer by the shoulders, crashing contact between your mouths so the MOAN that is definitely not about how tasty this juicy fruit is is somewhat stifled by said mouthful and him, trying to share every last bit of this final bite]

Dash: [they gotta do it, messily and dramatically, and when it’s all gone he’s gotta lick her lips and down her chin in such an indecent manner, I don’t make the rules winola gay does]

Lux: [when the way you’re panting has nothing to do with the way you had to lowkey hold your breath to complete that saucy move and everything to do with his now, still holding him by the shoulders and doing a laugh of disbelief over how bad you want him, gently pushing him back into the grass and putting a leg either side of him, similar to how you ended up in the tree but more blatant]

Dash: [when you were about to start kissing her neck but you can’t even be mad she pushed you back and prevented it because it’s such a hot move and a throwback, doing your own hot lol as you LOOK at her from this new position, a hand being run through his hair in case it dares to get in his way and even remotely block his view rn, licking his own lips too obvs, simply must]

Lux: [fixing his hair with him, tangling your hands how your feet tangled in the stream, giving his hand a SQUEEZE which gently tugs the hair that is caught between your fists ‘my present’ in a far-off kind of voice, because you had forgotten/stopped giving a shit again why you were here, then you realise this makes it sound as if you’re implying he’s your present so you go bright pink and do another laugh like no wait, shaking your own hair in front of your face for a moment’s privacy before you tuck it back behind your ears]

Dash: [a lil !! noise at the hair tug, in such a quiet and breathless almost caught in his throat way that if there was any real background noise going on/y’all weren’t in such close proximity and so intent on each other’s reactions it would’ve been barely noticeable/easily brushed off, doing a breath as if he’s just trying to catch his when she blushes but really he’s blowing on her hot cheek and lowkey a lil bit into her ear accidentally on purpose to be saucy, and then into her hair even as she’s already tucking it out of the way so it’s totally unnecessary to pretend you’re helpfully moving it like that, sharing the laugh but in an even more breathless and !! way as he reaches into his pocket (of the trousers he adorably rolled up to be feets in the water, such a lewk) to get this gift, which of course is a carved fox he has whittled like we did in the OG, because I gotta bring that back and it’s something for him to have been working on while she did her fashun]

Lux: [laying down on his chest, unprompted and unceremoniously, sorry for winding you lowkey more than you are boy lol, a bold move but you have your reasons, main reason being you can’t allow him to watch your face whilst you open this present and react to it, you simply can’t because you really didn’t have many friends back home so you were not receiving gifts that weren’t from your family, which were never sentimental or what you wanted, let’s be real, down here on your stomach just stunned silence and !! you’d only know she didn’t hate it because she’s padding it gently across him like a kid]

Dash: [me imagining him in a slutty lil crop top long before we ever discussed a chubby lil wooden fox walking across him and dying at that visual, letting her do this and the silence continue, watching her instead of where this fox is walking though, trying to get the force of his LOOKING to catch her eye and bring it to his, if only for a nanosec]

Lux: [you really do love to see it, taking this fox on a whole adventure across his body here, don’t mind us, trying to process a boatload of emotions about it so we don’t just sob at you because not the mood not the moment, clearing your throat SEVERAL times before you say ‘it’s incredible’ SO sincerely even with all the feeling you have held back, it’s still obvious we love it]

Dash: [0 hesitation in wrapping his arms around her and pulling her closer to his chest because it do be obvious she’s got all those emotions and wants to sob ‘I’ve got all that inside me about you’ meaning not just that he thinks she’s incredible but everything she’s holding back from letting out rn because he really is having some massive emotions himself to try and process too that wasn’t all just fuckboy talk]

Lux: [allowing it with ease that shocks you but also doesn’t, snuggling into him in a way you weren’t before, you were just lying on him, now you’re actively holding onto him and doing the imperceptible micro-movements to stay ever closer to his body, the tiniest ‘oh’ with the hugest !! behind it because you feel totally speechless about him feeling the way you do, the possibility of it even being true]

Dash: [she’ll be able to hear his heart going harder because they are snuggling for the first time and it’s getting to him, these soft hours and the closeness that isn’t grabbing each other and wanting to fuck which was their vibe before and is usually his vibe ‘I’ve missed you, baby’ also soft, he hasn’t called her baby before as far as I’m aware but I shall go and quickly skim check lol because important info]

Lux: [tapping the rhythm of his heart out, doing it down one of his arms until you can do it on the palm of his hand, intertwining your fingers how they were in his hair but with far more intention, ending up properly holding his hand this time, LOOKING up at him reflexively with the baby mic drop, like you’re checking he really said it, that he meant to say it now, to you, which obviously he did so manoeuvering so you’re laid directly on top of him instead of kind of nestled in one side in a snuggle position because you need to fully face him and kiss him now ‘I’ve missed you too’ shared between your mouths like fruit]

Dash: [have a deserved in the grass makeout sesh because knowing this place god knows when some hippies could appear out of nowhere to faff in this stream, gotta make the most of your aloneness while you can, especially because he is MOANING into her mouth with so much !! because there was a part of him that thought she was gonna hardcore stick to her no kissing rule, for longer at least if not completely on this day, and he couldn’t be more thrilled she isn’t]

Lux: [is embarrassing how quickly you entirely abandon your rules and principles but that’s the point and in this moment you are not concerning yourself with it AT ALL lmao, also made a promise to yourself that you won’t run this time if someone comes but you also don’t want to be caught being really saucy with it, the one eye out you would need to keep but aren’t, whoops]

Dash: [my boo says we’re all second hand embarrassed for you hun haha but it’s okay because it’s embarrassing how quickly he’s turned on by her to such a ridiculous and obvious degree, has not remotely learnt a lesson from having to converse with those orchard peeps while the most horny he’s ever been and clearly will not, me like be careful you don’t literally roll into the stream because of how !! he’s rolling her around in this grass as they makeout because clearly needs to be on top of her immediately but then also back to vice versa as immediately because wants the best of all worlds and positions, also don’t lose that chobby fox in the grass please]

Lux: [it wouldn’t be deep but it would be like throwing cold water on fighting cats for your horniness, which, whilst practical, is not what either of you wants lol, I promise we will not lose the chobby fox boo, don’t you worry, throw him absentmindedly in the direction of your bag for safety and also because you need to have both hands in this boy’s hair right now]

Dash: [like, will I probably have him throw her in the water at some point, yes, but is now the time, absolutely not, they have kissing to be doing and doing it they TRULY are because this boy is DYING about these hair antics, the noises he’s making about it, unholy so thank god y’all are still alone for now, meanwhile both his hands are on her waist for that throwback]

Lux: [shhing him with and into a kiss, teasingly and happily ‘I want to stay’ like he’s trying to get y’all caught here, pushing him back down again so you’re on top, giving playfight but barely because you are MAKING OUT hardcore ‘I want you’ like it’s a clarification you need to make]

Dash: [likewise kissing her back SO hard to match this playfight but really just hardcore makeout vibe (and to try and shh because you wanna stay too obvs), his hands on her hips now, to give yeah stay here exactly where you are because INTO it, moving her specifically as he’s moving, to give that she’s such a tiny tiny girl once again and to fully be dryhumping here in a shamelessly !! rhythm on this grass in response to what she said]

Lux: [you will get the full force of the 🥺 from this angle, putting your hands over his so he can’t take them away, as if he was about to, slowly grinding against his movements with your own GASP, unaware and unbothered how loud you may be being ‘I’ve never done anything like this’]

Dash: [hitting her with an irl ‘that’s my girl’ for all of it, he’s gotta, said so indecently especially because it’s said so quietly that it’d be like they’re the only 2 peeps in the world nevermind alone here, basically whispered into her skin as he starts to kiss her neck the way he was denied earlier, continuing to move her and move in sync ‘me either’ cos in this moment it really feels like you have never, the other times you’ve done this have left your mind or feel so incomparable to what’s happening here]

Lux: [PRESSING your face into his hair and breathing so heavily and dramatically when he’s kissing your neck, doing almost silent but obviously audible to him due to proximity whimpers, his name being the loudest you do, your hands running over your body, creating just enough space between you that he can see and watch you move under the waistband of your skirt, just slightly]

Dash: [out here treating her neck like that piece of fruit, licking and sucking on it like his life depends on it, but only biting when he hears his name, v gently compared to how hard he bit the fruit but it would feel !! to you both because it’s the first time, obvs watching INTENTLY everywhere her hands go and then actually biting her harder when it’s apparent where they’re going, but it’s more like her shoulder cos that’s where he was looking from]

Lux: [‘tell me I’m sweeter’ fully MOANED there is no chill, obsessed with this energy, the ‘baby’ you give him to the shoulder bite being even louder about it, prompting you to run your other hand over him in a similar path, stopping at the same spot with all the !! energy in the world]

Dash: [‘sweetest’ slightly muffled by these antics that haven’t been paused but still very coherent he’s making sure, moaning her name in response to the baby she called him because he hasn’t said it yet and it’s vital, but then said, indecently but definitely said not moaned, again, in response to what she’s doing like a yes to the question she hasn’t technically asked, almost exactly like before they kissed for the first time except more !! and he’s answering instead this time]

Lux: [any hesitation you had is going out the window with the way he says your name, twisting your skirt up to your waist so he can see the knickers you have on and that’s the only fabric between your body and the layers he has on, which you’re carefully pushing down to make him as equally unclothed, shaky hands pressing you together, rubbing the silky fabric between your dicks and using the rhythm of the dry humping to guide you]

Dash: [we all know he didn’t have any hesitation anyway, not for himself only for going too fast for her and she’s setting the pace here so it’s fine by him, his breathing is as shaky as her hands are, chest literally heaving at this contact, his hands moving to her arse to gently hold it in both hands and further guide her movements for her, going slowly deliberately not just because she’s never done this before but to prolong everything]

Lux: [STARING at what you’re achieving here, shamelessly and frantically fighting the slowness without intending to, just needing to, pushing your booty back into his hands ‘yours’ with such feral sincerity, letting yourself slip out the top of your knickers and your bare skin touch his, unclear if it’s accidental but the reaction is everything]

Dash: [grabbing her booty with the same feral energy so it’s likewise unclear if it’s accidental or not at first that when the cheeks inevitably spread wide apart he touches her booty hole but then he’s deliberately rubbing it with his finger, through her underwear, very much giving a girlie fingering experience which is why he’s keeping it up before finally asking, when their bare skin touches ‘can I touch you too?’ because meaning more than this and without the clothes in his way but still like this]

Lux: [BEAMING at him, ceasing what you’re doing momentarily to grab his chin and kiss him so passionately on the lips, sucking the full bottom lip into your mouth and biting it like the fruit, moaning and letting your eyes flutter back as you release his lip but are immediately back to tracing his whole dick in his pants, nodding dramatically ‘please, and everywhere’ like I don’t mind any sexual touch because not the kind that doesn’t like to acknowledge their dick, clearly]

Dash: [love how feral the girls are being in public today as if nobody is likely to rock up ever, and I also love this boy not knowing if she is that bitch and hence being like we’re going for euphoria instead of dysphoria today sis, trying to do the most to make her feel like a girl always and rn with his ideas of fingering and treating prostates like clits, we stan, touch this booty hole, like you did with her underwear on at first, just rubbing it, but then gently and carefully put a finger inside of her after sucking it (in an almost exact parallel to when his finger was bleeding in the orchard coincidentally and he wanted to stop it, but don’t worry everyone we’ll make sure it’s not that injured one) god bless]

Lux: [when we said we were trying, did not know you’d take it this far but pop off, here doing the biggest heart eyes at him sucking his finger, going to tell him how cute he looks but being cut off by the moan you have to do, low and continuous whilst your brain explodes over this sensation ‘I’m so yours now’ like you don’t even understand, boy]

Dash: [but he does understand though because almost cumming himself right there and then about it, as per in such an OBVIOUS way lol, and it’s not even happening to him it’s purely her reactions ‘forever’ because when he said he’d be 🤯😳🥵 about her forever cos of what they’d already done he meant that and we’re really cementing that thought here and now and taking it further]

Lux: [‘we’re both going to squirt all over my pants’ because neither of you is lasting forever in this exact moment however much you want it and you know it ‘push it inside me, then it’s real’]

Dash: [‘should’ve let me throw you in the water’ cos the clean up would’ve been easier, rolling a lil playfully as if he’s gonna fr roll them in like I feared earlier but it’s just to do the most with his every move and continued antics really before he’s LOOKING at her like are you sure]

Lux: [doing a grumpy face ‘I want to keep it’ like how dare you suggest such a thing but you’re making happy noises when he’s rolling you about in the grass, pulling his forehead to yours when you stop, by some necklace I’m sure he has on ‘make us cum together, just use both hands instead of one’ demonstrating jerking y’all off touching your full bare dicks together and shuddering, being unable to stop doing it yourself for him to take over, looking at him with the biggest eyes]

Dash: [taking a sec to kiss her grumpy face when she makes it exactly like she did to him earlier, complete with biting her bottom lip and everything, it has gotta be done, until the only thing he can do is give her the BIGGEST heart eyes he’s yet done at what she says and what she’s then doing, unable to stop STARING at this lil scene, almost panting at how !! you are at the contact and at the idea she’s put out there, he will never survive to do it bless him haha]

Lux: [‘I can feel you throbbing against me, you’re so close, Dash’ almost encouraging tone with how much you are loving how into this he also is ‘I’m ready for more of you, another’ straining to get this out with the readiness, truly]

Dash: [doing his own whimper at her because she’s so right, he is and his brain and body are both nearly short circuiting about it, gotta do what she says though, however embarrassingly fast it’ll then be over with when you do follow these instructions, it’s okay you’re not your gross dad in a hammock, kiss her again SO dramatically and then go for it, boy]

Lux: [you need to be kissing because the sounds you’re about to make when you both start cumming, covering both of you in jizz and making his fingers so much slippier that they fuck into you faster is going to be louder than you thought you had ability to be, full stop, so it’s gotta be dampened somehow as you are squeezing every last drop, spasming on his fingers]

Dash: [me like imagine if this was the moment some kids decided to play in the water, thank god it isn’t, because truly what a scene that’s unfolding here, this boy absolutely shook to his core because he has never had an experience like this for all his slaggy ways]

Lux: [stay away stay away, there’d be no running even if you wanted to at this point, it’s giving stunned silence after the pure NOISE of that makeout, twisting your skirt back down in an absolute daze, doing your best to catch your breath]

Dash: [mhmmm catch this boy found DEAD, lying on his back in the grass winded and stunned, staring up at the sky in complete shock and awe, no notes]

Lux: [getting up to straighten all your clothes out, patting your body like it belongs to someone else, wandering to stand in the stream, like the cold water might snap you out of the fog that’s come from total pleasure overload like you’ve never experienced ‘I don’t feel real now…’ getting the chobby fox from his safe place and sitting, stroking him top to tail ‘what have you done?’ which sounds way more accusatory written than it sounds coming from her mouth, like she genuinely just wants to know]

Dash: [still lying in the grass but in a slightly more casual and less shooketh manner, watching her wander to the stream and giving hearteyes as if to say cos she’s unreal without verbally saying it, pulling her to him when she sits (assumedly near enough to him) so that her head’s on his chest again and she can hear how insane his heartbeat still is because hasn’t recovered remotely, as if to say, what have YOU done, stroking her hair in an accidental parallel to her stroking the chobby fox, he just has to be soft in this aftermath moment, not realising that there is still some lingering jizz on his hand, despite him trying to wipe them off on the grass while he was watching her I’m sure, because it truly was lowkey everywhere (in an unintentional parallel to when he got blood on her in the orchard) so putting his mouth to the side of her head when he feels it there on a new stroke like oops lemme get that for you and kissing her hair clean essentially, if she’s looking at him she’d be able to see the cogs in his head turning trying to work out whether it’s hers or his or a mix of theirs both but he won’t really know because jizz tends to not have a strong taste unless you’re eating wild shit or being really gross, soz sir, btw I would like to point out he has not sorted his clothes, get re-dressed you heathen, anyone could arrive at any time and you’re trousers down at the gig lol but he is unphased]

Lux: [leaning against his chest still as out of it, this part feeling even less familiar because the vibe was very much secret meetings with the gay guy back home that were just about messing around and then not acknowledging each other, that vibe, so this softness is making you feel less real by the second; turning to face him, furrowing your brow at the sensation of your hair being nibbled on like that, like hello ??? shaking your head at him and combing your fingers through the patch of hair to make sure it’s all out ‘I hate showering here’ because I’m sure the hot water situation is always precarious and the bathrooms need cleaning before you feel like you can get clean yourself]

Dash: [oh god the bathrooms would be a nightmare and there definitely aren’t enough of them for how many peeps are always at this gaff because there’s gonna be 2 max and literally could be just the 1 if this is an af old farmhouse vibe, the queues, imagine it! Hence him saying ‘use the one at my house’ like that’s nbd because he has defs let other people in the past including Amber when she came over that time, getting up (finally getting dressed, thank god, so he doesn’t trip) heading towards the stream himself with the intention of washing his hands in the water so he doesn’t cover her with more jizz by accident but deciding to just get in, cue him lying on his back looking up at the sky again in this cold af shallow water]

Lux: [watching him do all this quietly, not replying until he’s looking at the sky again and not at you, shivering and rubbing the goose-pimpled skin of your biceps in response to him being laid in the freezing water ‘I’m obviously not going to do that’ with the scoff half-laugh at the idea because you think that’s beyond rude, not to mention if you did have jizz in your hair you don’t want to traipse through town to deal with it, thank you ‘I’ll get used to it’ said SO uncertainly because you don’t particularly want to get used to these living conditions if you’re being honest with yourself but you’re in your trying era so you’re putting a bright smile on your face in case he looks over]

Dash: [excuse this boy floating along like he’s not fully clothed, such silliness, ‘what’s obvious about it?’ with your own kind of half laugh at the fact she’s so quickly dismissing what’s a good idea in your opinion and defs no big deal, splashing about to get up so you’re sitting and can look over at her with a raised eyebrow like um why no]

Lux: [we are wondering why you got dressed to do this but not about to ask in this moment because he’ll only act like that’s obvious too is the feeling ‘your family doesn’t want random strays using their facilities’ as if this is the most obvious thing in the world like hello but pairing it with a shrug like it’s also no biggie and you don’t feel akin to homeless because you are ‘besides, that’s not how I want to meet your mammy’ a verbal nudge like boy, what sort of first impression, get with it]

Dash: [‘you’re not’ with too much !! to be casual because he’s hurt and offended she’d call herself a random stray when she means SO much to him obvs, running a hand through the wet wurls and doing the kind of back of neck scratch so many boys do and don’t realise when they’re feeling awks because of the !! not being chill ‘and we can head there when she ain’t’ like you don’t have to meet her coming out of the shower, it’s fine, as if that’s remotely feasible because I doubt this paralysed woman who needs her son to be her carer has a full time job getting her out of the house but pop off, Amber clearly didn’t run into her so she must be out sometimes if only for doctor’s appointments and things like that, me knowing damn well you’d tell your mum to hide if you had to and she would, don’t love that]

Lux: [doing the small, appreciative smile at him as he’s scratching his neck, leaning slightly towards him to show you hear as well as see him in this moment but it is still very thank you, but- because ‘I am to your family though’ reaching to your bag again because this is awkward and you can attempt to lessen it by distraction, getting some food out and taking a bite, even if you’re sat here chewing forever because you can’t seem to swallow, just shaking your head at the persistent offer because it’s not happening, guise of your mouth being full to stop you needing to provide any further answer]

Dash: [likewise scooting forward slightly in this water he’s still sat pissing about in to be closer to her, shaking his head SO big like nope remember I told her all about you she knows exactly who you are but not verbalising it because you don’t wanna start being extra about your feelings while she’s eating some picnic, shrugging it off like it’s again casual and you aren’t slightly upset she didn’t jump at the chance to let you be the shower hero you wanted to be]

Lux: [jokingly recoiling a bit like he just covered you in water droplets like a dog out the bath there, I’m sure there were some from his curls but we’re trying to lighten the mood more than anything, wiping one drop from the back of our hand, forcing your swallow, at last]

Dash: [reaching out a hand like he did in the orchard to help her up a tree, deliberately being unclear from his smile if he wants her to help him up out of the stream or if he’s planning to pull her into this water with him because there’s lowkey always mischief on his face unless he’s heart eyes or grumpy so that doesn’t give her as big of a clue as it should]

Lux: [we clearly do not trust you as you have mentioned multiple times a desire to pull us into this water so we’re recoiling even further back but grinning at you with it, shaking your head like your hair is wet too and can cover him in similar fashion]

Dash: [spring out of this water your hippo self with your own grin and shamelessly grab her so that she gets wet from how closely and tightly you pull her into your body from behind in this like bear hug you have going on, lifting her up off the floor slightly with the !! of it and as if you’re gonna fully like throw her over your shoulder and then into this water, shamelessly playfighting about trying to do that in a more flirty manner than a practical one because he is a skinny boy and I’m not sure he could actually pick her up like that v easily, tis simply the flirty threat your honour]

Lux: [the girly kind of shrieking and threats to not back, obviously, pulling at the clothes that are now sticking to you with dampness and pulling at his in the same manner, like you intend to pull them off but not actually doing it, shaking your head again ‘it’s going to take forever for you to dry’ like what are you like sir]

Dash: [laughing at her shrieks and walking backwards and pulling her towards this stream with him with both hands, dragging her basically but in a more flirty way than that suggests lol, but as they get to the edge she says that so he stops and answers as if she did ask wtf he’s doing, with much more sincerity and !! ‘I’m keeping me from overheating while you’re being so hot’ standing there holding both her hands in his for a beat while he LOOKS at her, before using them to pull her into him again]

Lux: [wrapping your arms around his shoulder again, tilting your head to one side with heart eyes that give way to affectionate eye-rolling, batting his face gently away like ew shh ‘what a line’ looking down at your now clasped hands as you go pink from his LOOK though ‘I’m trying’ in the tiniest voice from within this embrace]

Dash: [getting his face all up in hers when she bats it away, even going as far as to rub his cheek against hers which we can all pretend is just because it’s wet and a playful move but it’s actually an orchard throwback and the way he’s doing it is giving no feel me I’m actually burning up because hot and bothered is the way he always feels around her all the time we know, watching hers go pink when he’s moved back and she’s looking at their clasped hands but then they’re in this embrace and he’s holding her like I know girl, stroking her back like she is the chobby fox because it’s not even in a there there comforting kind of way it’s like I’m gonna take a sec to count all of your vertebrae, just being intense on the low yet again but it’s really giving let’s see if and then yep I think you’re strong enough to carry this all]

Lux: [looking up at him in this proximity as he bumps down your spine, watching the cogs whirring in his mind again, like you can tell what he’s thinking already and like that means something greater and romantic about you two and your connection, freeing one hand from his to lay it on his cheek and feel the heat again, checking it’s still there and not a trick]

Dash: [his own hand LINGERING on her lower back when he’s done counting, remembering y’all’s feral antics not very long ago, leaving it there while he leans in to kiss her because feels like he must rn immediately or he will simply die]

Lux: [going from pink to deepest, darkest red when you understand why he’s lingering, the noise of protest, small yet !!, needs to be muffled by this kiss ASAP, both hands now on either side of his face]

Dash: [his hand going down to her arse as they kiss, to be joined by the other one, cupping it like earlier, thankfully he isn’t ending up being as feral as then because y’all gotta be on borrowed time as far as not being interrupted goes, just holding onto her via there thank you]

Lux: [jumping at the contact, the memory it brings flooding back, now somehow closer, further into his grasp, deepening the kiss, wrapping your own arms around his waist, pulling him into your push slightly but with an insistence born of frustration, also thinking of how someone is bound to show soon, clearly]

Dash: [likewise being flooded by mems rn so as she’s deepening the kiss his hands are doing more of a grab, trying to pick her up via this booty hold so that she can wrap her legs around him and they can be that close, actually managing to when he feels her frustration, if y’all nonexistent as yet peeps can see her flashing in her skirt during any of this, no you cannot, bye]

Lux: [GASPING happily, breath caught with the force of him lifting you up like this, kissing his cheek and down his jawline feverishly, rubbing the back of his neck, where he self-consciously did earlier ‘I love kissing you’ before you can realise what you’re saying, purely because you do and it came into your head]

Dash: [stumbling back a step when you hear the L word because you think she’s gonna say ily for a hot sec and almost falling into the water cos bitch I said they were right on the edge and they are, but managing to keep hold of her and stay upright so you’re just standing in said stream making out like your life depends on it, I imagine she does kinda drop a bit so he has to put her down and they are both standing then but nobody falls in and the makeout continues the entire time as if he’s trying to pull out all the stops so she REALLY loves kissing him]

Lux: [about to break another one of your rules by BOLTING when you think he’s about to freak out himself, half paranoid you did say you loved him instead of what you actually did, thank god he’s not leaving you enough room to truly freak out/get to running, enjoy your mid-stream makeout lads, until you inevitably getting stopped by someone or other coming to do whatever they plan to do in said stream]

Dash: [we should say it’s the gaggle of kids, all together and unaccompanied which is so dangerous but so typical, because then it’ll be less awkward than if it’s someone your ages or god forbid the judgy terf ladies, because they know Lux from school and they’re friends with Dash because he’s a big kid still, you can actually have some fun with these children together instead of having to run away]

Lux: [we’re being kind today lol]

Dash: [I can’t be evil after her first sexual experience, the poor girl deserves a nice day]

Lux: [ya welcome]

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piracytheorist · 4 years ago

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Strike our colours, Mr. Onus!

#Treasure Planet #treasureplanetedit #animationedit #disneyedit #TP John Silver #mine #pirate flag #you know what really went on here #d!$ney saw that and went like #''Oh no. It's too powerful. We gotta make it flop.''

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recklesseeker-x · 2 years ago

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moonxshadowx:

“I am so happy that this amuses you.” Sage says in a grumpy fashion as Maddy then flops down onto the couch, while Sage doesn’t slouch in the seat she is sitting in, but huffs quietly to herself. “I did not teach you to out play me. You’re supposed to use these tricks on others, not play my own hand against me. That is not how things work.” Sage says as a smile then appears upon her face. Of course Sage couldn’t be mad at Maddy, despite everything that happened, despite what she was feeling, Maddy was like a daughter to Sage, and though at times the older witch didn’t know how to really be there for the girl, she tried her best. Just like she tried to be there for everyone in the coven, but Sage had never been nurtured before, cared for. That was where she had trouble. With everything that happened at the masquarade, Sage couldn’t handle it. Not like how she handled the New Years Eve party of course. But that was easy, that was her relying on her magic, and the coven to rely on theirs to bring down a barrier. But to help others through their own issues? How could she do that when she couldn’t help her own self through her own demons? She was trying, she just needed a little patience, from herself more so than others. “I’m laughing on the inside if that counts. Talk about what? Your discovery?” Oh if Maddy wanted Sage to talk, then Sage was going to make sure the younger witch talked also.

“I’ve gotta keep you on your toes, make sure your skills are still sharp -- I think you’re slipping a bit.” Perfectly painted eyebrows were wiggled in a playful fashion, a smile beginning to tug the edges of her glossed lips upwards as she sank back into the couch, relaxing even as the conversation at hand turned towards her -- she was never all that keen to talk about herself, anxiety usually spiking when having to delve too much into herself. “Okay, good try with the whole deflecting thing but it’s tit for tat in this household.” A singular eyebrow was then raised at Sage, it being made clear that she would feel more comfortable if Sage opened herself up to the young witch, just like Sage wanted from her. “It’s not much of a discovery yet, is it? We always knew I could do magic, we still don’t know what, but.. --” Her usual nothing phases me attitude seemingly faltered, if only for a minute, eyebrows slightly knotting together as gaze moved from Sage to a random spot on the wall. “When Ariel died I felt.. I don’t know -- power, I guess.. I thought that was weird.”

#( chats x sage )#( chats x maddy )#moonxshadowx

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zi-i-think · 3 years ago

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Sparks after the Burn

Pairing: Xu Shang-Chi x Reader

Rating: SFW

Word Count: 600+

Warnings: Curse words; Burns; Karen's; incorrect science (?)

Request: yes

Prompt: Gen-Z and Fluff

23. “Will you be my emotional support himbo?”

9. Y/n going off into a rant and character just stares in admiration.

AN: Yay! 2 requests done in less than 24 hours! Hope you guys enjoy!

“Gah!” You grounded loudly, getting Shang-Chi’s attention in the living room of the Avengers facility. He was new to the team whereas you had been an Avenger since Sokovia.

The man raised a concerned brow at you while you flopped on your back safely on top of the couch. He noted the brown stain on your white work shirt, part of the uniform that you wore while helping your aunt at her cafe. There was a bit of an outline of where your apron was before, so he figured you must have taken it off.

“Are you okay?” He asked.

“Will you be my emotional support himbo?” You rub your hands over your face in exasperation. “I know we’ve only known each other for a while but Wanda’s not here and a girl’s gotta rant.”

“Go for it.”

“Good, cause I wasn’t giving you much of an option. So, I'm working and this lady comes up, orders a coffee, typical coffee things.” You told him about the crazy lady who called you incompetent because the coffee was too strong.

“She asked for a fucking macchiato!” You stressed the words. You continued on about how you offered to remake it, but that espresso is strong, you could get them something else. “She said that she always got the macchiato and it was never that strong, but lady, we don’t change the way we make drinks.”

You told him a few more details and repeated some colorful words the lady used. “Then she threw her still burning hot coffee on me.” You gestured to your strained shirt.

“What a bitch.” He scoffed.

“I know!” You exclaimed. You giggled a little bit. It wasn’t funny at the time, but now telling the story, it was ridiculous that there were actually people like this. “So I called her an entitled bitch and that she needed to leave. She told me ‘not without a properly made coffee’ to which I said ‘lady, the next time you get a properly made coffee is in jail cause that’s where you’ll be if you don’t get thee fuck out.”

“Are you okay, though? Like the coffee didn’t burn you?” He asked, now concerned.

“Oh, I got burnt. But you know, my regenerative healing factor and all. Here look.” You sat up and unbuttoned one of your buttons and pulled it down enough to show him that your skin was completely healed. “My skin was peeling like an hour ago.”

“Oh wow, that’s cool.” He said, his eyes looking over it. He thought it was incredible, he knew about your power, obviously, but he never actually witnessed it.

“Yeah, but what’s cooler is the science behind it.” You pointed and your eyes lit up. “Banner and I have actually been running some tests, and it’s not only my cells that repair my body at an incredibly, seemingly impossible rate, but we’re also theorizing that my white blood cells are stronger. Potentially, making me immune to diseases. I won’t get into the specifics.

“I don’t mind hearing it.” He shrugged.

“You’re going to regret greenlighting me.” You laughed, you adjusted the way you were sitting to get more comfortable, unconsciously scooting closer to him.

He was fond of the way your eyes lit up, your passion, the way you stood up for yourself. You found it easy to confide in him and to talk to him. The roles were reversed in your next conversation with him. He told you about his love for martial arts and even opened up about his past.

Neither of you realized it, but this was the moment that sparked your relationship. From co-workers to friends, to eventually lovers.

#xu shang chi #shang chi x y/n #shang chi x reader #shang chi imagine #shang chi fanfiction #marvel x reader #marvel imagine

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sutimetravelau · 3 years ago

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[Steven:]

Breakfast!

MC Bear Bear!

Lion!

Let’s go!

This is our home, I’ve got a dozen iterations

So full of music, a quirk of the flow of time

This is my family, a perfect constellation

So many stars and everybody gets to shine

Whoa (Oh-oh-oh-oh), let's be clear, my mother runs this show

Whoa (Oh-oh-oh-oh), she came here so many years ago

Whoa (Oh-oh-oh-oh), and every year our family powers grow!

There's just a lot you've simply got to know, SO…

Welcome to the Family Universe!

The home of the Family Universe!

We're on our way!

Where all the people are fantastical and magical

I'm part of the Family Universe

[Children:]

Oh my gosh, it's them!

[Child 1:]

What are the powers?

[Child 2:]

I can't remember all the powers

[Child 3:]

But I don't know who is who?

[Steven:]

Mm-mm-,alright, alright, relax!

[Child 1:]

It is physically impossible to relax!

[Child 2:]

Tell us everything! What are your powers?

[Child 3:]

JuSt TeLL uS wHAt EvEryOnE cAn dO!

[Steven:]

…And that's why coffee's for grown-ups

My brother Pink, his mood changes like the weather

When he’s unhappy, well, that teenager gets scary

My brother Diamond—

(We don't talk about Diamond!)

—They say he was captured, one day he disappeared

Oh (Oh-oh-oh-oh), and that's my bro Denim, here's his deal

Whoa! (Oh-oh-oh-oh), the truth is, he’s genteel and always keeps it real

Whoa! (Oh-oh-oh-oh), his melodies are happinesses, so ideal

If you're impressed, imagine how I feel—Denim?!

Welcome to the Family Universe!

The home of the Family Universe!

Hey, coming through!

I know it sounds a bit fantastical and magical

But I'm part of the Family Universe!

Two gems fell in love in the Family Universe

And now they're part of the Family Universe

So, yeah, Ruby saved her love, heck yeah!

They fused and didn’t care, aw yeah!

That's how Garnet became a Fusion Universe!

Let's go, let's go!

[Crystal Gems:]

We swear to always help those around us

And earn the power that somehow found us

The town keeps growing, the world keeps turning

But work and dedication will keep the power burning

And each new iteration must keep the power burning

[Child 1:]

Wait... How many brothers?

[Child 2:]

There's so many people!

[Child 3:]

How do you keep them all straight?

[Steven:]

Okay, okay, okay, okay

So many kids in our house, so let's turn the sound up!

You know why? I think it’s time for a sibling round-up!

(Sibling round-up!)

Brother Twoie always in his flip flops

Forest shape shifts, Strawberry; his powers he’d rather not display!

My older brothers: Hero and Tats

One strong, one graceful, perfect in every way!

(Hero!)

Shows his power, the town goes wild

(Hero!)

He’s a perfect golden child

(Tats! Tats! Tats! Tats!)

And Tats is super strong

The glory and the brawn do no wrong!

That's life in the Family Universe!

(Oh-oh-oh-oh)

Now you know the Family Universe

(Oh-oh-oh-oh)

Where all the people are fantastical and magical

(Oh-oh-oh-oh)

That's who we are in the Family Universe!

¡Adiós!

[Child 1:]

But what about your powers?

[Steven:]

…Well, I gotta go, the life of a Universe!

(Oh-oh-oh-oh)

But now you all know the Family Universe! (Oh-oh-oh-oh)

I never meant this to get autobiographical

(Oh-oh-oh-oh)

So just to review the Family Universe

Let's go!

[ Steven(Children):]

(But what about Steven?)

It starts with Mom, and then Brother Pink, from angel to danger

(But what about Steven?)

My bro Denim can make you feel better with just his orchestra

(But what about Steven?)

My brother strawberry, well, he's accident-prone but he means well

(But what about Steven?)

Hey, you said you wanna know what everyone does, I got brothers upon brothers and—

(Steven!)

My bro Forest won't stop until he makes you smile today!

(Steven!)

My brother Twoie prefers Hero and Forest to stay far away!

(Steven!)

Look! It's not like I want ‘em, hey

powers are just way too much drama

And between you and me, I don’t love my mom like I oughta.

Yo, I've said too much, and thank you but I really gotta go!

(Steven!)

My family's amazing!

(Steven!)

And I'm in my family, so…

(Steven!)

Well...

[Crystal Gems:]

Steven!

THANK YOU YESSSS IM SO HAPPY SOMEONE MADE THE PARODY

also bonus:

#THAT LYRIC ABOUT TWOIE MADE ME LAUGH SO HARD #'my brother twoie fucking hates them!!!!! lol'#save #fave #twoies

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lonely-lost-soul · 4 years ago

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Since I've Been Gone

Request: what if...Platonic fluff things with reader and bench trio?... Like they're all in a flower field chilling then Tommy is like, "You guys wanna make flower crowns?" And reader, ranboo, and tubbo just look at him like 👁👁 what, Turns out Tommy picked up flower crown making from his big brothers techno and Wilbur so now he does it when he's either bored or stressed. Anyways hope this inspires you <3 -🐱 Anon

(Platonic!Bench Trio x Gn!Reader)

The server had been through a lot, Tommy was just recently revived and was coming off of finding out his two best friends were married. The young boy had a white streak in his blonde hair and was still trying to adjust to the life he missed. Especially when it came to his longtime friend and roommate (y/n). Tommy had recently found out they were off living with Karl and Sapnap in the Kinoko Kingdom...the bitch. After Tommy had disappeared after he...died Karl had found them hiding out in his old library. You had scared the time-traveler half to death when he found you camping out in a corner of the room. However, after seeing as you had nothing, no weapons or armor he concluded you weren’t much of a threat, especially after you told him your sob story. You told him you lived with Tommy and you couldn’t go back there now that he was dead, Ranboo and Tubbo were off doing married things and you had felt so alone. Karl decided at that moment he would take you in, no matter what the cost. Sapnap had a bit more trouble adjusting to your presence, but as soon as he saw you had some fire within your belly he began to warm up to you. It only took a few days for Karl to practically adopt you and since he was engaged to Sapnap the fire demon was stuck with you for a child.

Not that he minded, you weren’t a loud kid, very pleasant to be around hell even his dad took a liking to you. Sapnap was baffled when Karl told him you had previously lived with Tommy, the most obnoxious child on the server. The two of you couldn’t be more different, and when Tommy was revived, he and Karl weren’t enthused. Karl was worried he’d lose you to the trouble maker and it was well known Tommy and Sapnap didn’t have the greatest history. Their worries were quelled the moment you introduced them as your dads to Tommy, Karl burst into tears and Sapnap put you in a headlock much to your protest. Tommy stood by awkwardly, he had missed a lot, he hated the fact that he felt like his friends were happier without him in their lives.

He was brought back to the present by the idle chatter of Tubbo and Ranboo by his side Tubbo was on Ranboo’s back declaring walking was way too much work for him. You snickered nudging Ranboo in the ribs, he let out a yelp and glared down at you halfheartedly. Tommy watched you turn towards him a smile on his features,

“What do you think Tommy?” He blinked a few times at you, not wanting to admit he wasn’t listening to the conversation next to him.

“I don’t fucking know,” He scoffed “This conversation is bullshit anyway who cares.” You had a smirk on your lips that he was all too familiar with, he narrowed his eyes at you.

“You weren’t listening were you?”

“Of course I was listening bitch!”

“Oh really? What did she ask then big man?” Tubbo mused resting his chin on his husband’s shoulder. Hair covering his vibrant, green eyes, horns peeking from beneath his shaggy hair. Tommy glared at his long time friend flipping him off eloquently,

“Probably something stupid and useless.”

“She asked if you knew where we were going,” Ranboo piped up with a casual hum, bouncing in his step. “Cause we’ve been walking for a while, I know Tubbo’s tired.”

“Yeah Tommy, I’m tired.”

“You’re not even walking!” You argued as Tubbo stuck his tongue out at you, lifting his hair from his eyes to wink at you. His one eye glowing with a yellow nuclear symbol, “Put that symbol away! You’re not cool.”

“Says the person who doesn’t own nukes,” He mused letting his hair fall back into place while grabbing onto Ranboo’s horns. “Or who doesn’t have any cool powers,”

“Ow! Low blow! Just cause Tommy and I are the only two humans in the group doesn’t mean you can pick on us! Right, Tommy!”

“Yeah! Exactly! Fuck you guys!” Tommy agreed linking your arms together, “Plus, I know exactly where we’re going. We’re almost there, Wilbur used to take me here all the time when I was little.” Tommy said almost in an afterthought, the kids around him grew quiet, each one knew Wilbur was a touchy subject for Tommy especially after his time in the afterlife. Yet, people seemed to forget that Wilbur wasn’t always crazy, wasn’t always a manipulator, once he was an older brother. Once he cared for Tommy and wanted to protect him from some of Phil’s neglect, protect him from Technoblade’s voices. Tommy wanted to remember that Wilbur, not the one stuck in purgatory who blew up the country they all fought so hard to retain. He felt your hand squeeze his arm,

“I’m excited to see where Wilbur decided to take you, hopefully, it’s not a fish pond.”

“Oh gross.” Ranboo groaned pinching the bridge of his nose as Tubbo laughed loudly from above him. Tommy made a disgusted face,

“Stop talking about all the fish who fucked my brother!”

“I didn’t you did.” You hummed skipping ahead of the group feet crunching on the leaves on the ground.

“YOU BASTARD!” Tommy shrieked running after you,

“Onward steed!” Tubbo pointed at his two friends who ran off, Ranboo grumbled but trotted after the duo.

It only took a few more arguments and a few more minutes of walking before the quartet came to the destination Tommy was eager to show them. You stopped on your heels jaw-dropping in awe,

“Holy shit…” You murmured, in front of all of you was a gorgeous field of flowers a giant dark oak tree sat in the middle. It was giant spanning up far into the sky but it created a nice shade to keep all of you cooled off. Tommy had a rare peaceful smile on his lips as he let the sun touch his face, he slid off his boots and ran into the field of flowers.

“Take your shoes off so you don’t crush them or I’ll crush you!” Tommy snickered falling back, letting the flowers tickle his cheeks. He opened his eyes just a crack to see you sliding off your boots and joining him in the field, you didn’t lay beside him instead he watched your form head to the tree. Meanwhile, Tubbo kicked off his boots, Ranboo wasn’t far behind his husband. Tubbo laughed running over and flopping next to Tommy, holding his arm close much to the blonde’s displeasure.

“Ranboo! Help me reach the taller branches!” You called to the tallest member of your friend group. He nodded walking over to you, grabbing your waist gently he lifted you into the air. You grabbed onto the nearest branch and hoisted yourself into the air, Ranboo was always shocked at your upper body strength, but then again you trained on your own for years. Ranboo hovered at the base of the tree nervously, both of his tails flicking side to side.

“Don’t climb too high!” He called watching you slip and cling onto the trunk to steady yourself. “(Y/n) CAREFUL!”

“I’m fine, mom!” You stuck your tongue out at him from above, “I’ve fallen out of taller trees!”

“If you get hurt Sapnap would literally burn me alive! So PLEASE try not to fall!”

“Boo calm down a little!” Tubbo snickered, “if they fall I’ll film it.”

“Tubbo has the right idea,” you agreed as Tommy laughed from beside Tubbo. Ranboo frowned ears twitching in distress, you only continued to climb higher to his dismay. Eventually, you came down falling elegantly into the arms of Ranboo who caught you easily. He was breathing heavily, recovering from the shock of your sudden drop. His long nails dug into your skin as he clutched onto you like a lifeline, “Ranboo let go!” You huffed trying to wiggle out of his tight grip.

“Absolutely not! Are you a lunatic!” His voice broke, “I could’ve missed! You could’ve broken an ankle!”

“But I didn’t,” You poked his nose with a teasing hum. Ranboo groaned louder placing his head in the crook of your neck, you snickered as he finally let you onto the ground. You walked over to Tommy and Tubbo and sat down next to them, you leaned against Tommy’s back who grunted in distaste. “Deal with it gremlin, be my backrest,”

“Fuck you bitch!” He snarled but didn’t move or push them off, you smiled teasingly winking in the direction of Tubbo. He snickered into his palm as Ranboo pulled Tubbo into his lap, and the young goat hybrid got comfortable. The four of you sat in peaceful silence, letting the sun beat down around you all. A nice breeze blew through the area causing the leaves of the nearby trees to shake, a few animals rustled around in the bushes.

“We should make flower crowns,” Tommy spoke up suddenly his nails digging into the dirt. You titled your head in confusion and Raboo looked equally as baffled, the only person who didn’t seem surprised was Tubbo.

“Sure man but you gotta collect the flowers,” Tubbo said tiredly Tommy clicked his tongue stubbornly.

“We’re surrounded by flowers you’re just lazy.”

“Yeah obviously.”

You gave Tubbo a look and sat up on your knees, “What do you need to get started?”

“Can you grab me some of those daisy’s, tulips, and some bluebells?” You nodded standing up and popping your knees before heading off in that direction. Meanwhile, Tommy grabbed some lilacs and began stringing those together, his tongue poked out from his bottom lip as he gave his full concentration to the task in front of him. Ranboo watched curiously ears flicking every time Tommy let out a mumble, you came back and dumped the flowers beside him. He grunted out thanks making the final knot in the crown, “Done!” He declared looking over at Ranboo, he flushed a little under Tommy’s gaze.

“Didn’t mean to stare.” Tommy huffed holding out the crown to the halfling, he pointed at himself and Tommy rolled his eyes.

“Take it. If you don’t want it I’ll just give it to (Y/n)-”

“I want it!” Ranboo reached out to snatch the crown from Tommy, he placed it gently on his head mindful of the horns. Tommy’s eyes widened and he flushed red, he quickly turned back to the pile of flowers. “Teach us how to make them,” Ranboo offered to try to ease the awkward tension. Tommy huffed but nodded, a smile spread across your lips,

“Teach us your ways oh wise one.” You teased picking up the daisy’s spinning the stem between your fingers.

“Yeah! I am wise! Call me master innit!”

“I’d rather choke,”

“Fuck you!”

You snicked as Tommy punched you hard in the shoulder, you doubled over falling into the flowers. Tommy growled pulling you up by the shirt, “Pay attention bitch! I’m only telling you this once!” Sitting back up you nodded and followed his instructions carefully, he ended up taking the daisies and you the tulips. Ranboo grabbed the bluebells reaching over Tubbo to follow Tommy’s instructions as well, by the end Tommy’s was pristine. The one you made was decent but Ranboo’s looked worse for wear considering he was trying to put it together with claws. He put the crown on top of a snoozing Tubbo, he was proud of his work nonetheless, his husband smiled tiredly nuzzling against his chest. You on the other hand placed the tulip crown you made atop of Tommy’s blonde hair, he flushed and rolled his eyes. He brushed his fingers over the daisies and placed them on top of your head, you looked up at the crown and smiled warmly.

“Thank’s Big T,” you hummed falling back into the flowers and Tommy joined you in laying down. Both your fingers interlocked and Ranboo shuffled to the ground as well, although he didn’t reach out to take Tommy’s hand, Tommy reached out to take Tubbo’s. The four of you stayed in that field until your walkie-talkie screeched cutting through the quiet atmosphere, it was the gruff voice of Sapnap’s. One of your fathers

“Earth to (Y/n), come in (y/n). Your dad wants you here for dinner, George is joining us tonight. I grilled!”

“Ugh. Buzzkill,” Tommy sneered kicking the dirt with his barefoot. You shushed him and pressed the button in to speak,

“Yeah papa, I’ll make my way back soon. Give papa a big kiss for me and if you see Quackirty tell him hello!”

“Don’t have to tell me twice. Karl come here honey~” You snickered as Tommy gagged, you heard your dad meow before your walkie cut off then and you sat up. You stretched your arms above your head and popped your arms into place, you kissed your teeth hopping to your feet.

“I gotta head back unless I want dad to beat my ass. Thank you for today boys and Tommy thank you for sharing your place with us. I’m glad we were trusted with this special secret.” You winked wiggling your toes in the long grass, “we should do this again yeah?”

“Yeah!” Ranboo agreed as Tubbo gave a sleepy thumbs up, your smile only widened. Tommy nodded giving a thumbs-up as well, he watched you head off to collect your boots and head back home. Head to a family, a family who cares about your wellbeing, or if you’re staying out too late. Hell, even who cared about who you were hanging out with, Tommy couldn’t help but wonder what that was like, he didn’t think he’d be very good at listening to any parental figures. He didn’t have that, he would never have that, he looked at your retreating figure, then back over at Tubbo and Ranboo. They both were half asleep and he couldn’t help but glance at the golden rings on each one of their fingers.

He missed so much since he’s been gone.

But maybe all wasn’t bad, he touched the tulips on his head, thinking for a moment.

Maybe he didn’t need a normal family with a mom and a dad, or two dads or moms, he had a family right here. He brought his hand to the scarf on his neck and squeezed it in his fist, who needed that shit when he had everyone he loved in this field with him today.

For once in his life, Tommy was happy.

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